Technician
wendesday november
18 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina
Market a success for vendors, student board Market wraps up for the season, looks ahead for improvements next semester
Greek Village experiences spike in suspicious activities
Jessica Neville Staff Writer
As the first semester of the Campus Farmers Market comes to a close, the market’s vendors and student board are evaluating the response of the University and considering ways they can improve in the spring. Ariel Fugate, a sophomore in fisheries and wildlife science and the market manager, said she believes the Farmers Market made an impact on the University this semester. “Students are starting to think about where their food comes from and where the money they spend on food goes to,” Fugate said. “But there are still a lot more people we hope to reach.” Next semester the student board will focus on recruiting more vendors and getting student groups related to agriculture and food involved, according to Fugate. Michelle Schroeder-Moreno, director of the University agro-ecology program, serves as the faculty adviser for the Farmers Market. She helped write the market’s handbook and now advises the market’s student board. “This has been a students’ grassroots effort from the ground up; I just facilitate,” Schroeder-Moreno said. “I wanted to get involved because I teach students about sustainable production and food systems.” Schroeder-Moreno said the market is a way of implementing many of the University’s goals. “As an educational institution, we need to educate students about the importance of sustainable foods and agricultural processes,” SchroederMoreno said. “And as a land grand institution, we need to support farmers by giving them a place to sell products.” S&L Farms, owned by Linda Maggio and Steven Kosko, started a booth in the market at the end of September. “It is important to us to show people they can eat well and not have to purchase food that travels from the other side of the country,” Maggio said. “We do not use any chemicals on our farm and our animals are all free-range.” S&L farms sells pasture-raised chickens, free-range animal welfare approved eggs, lamb and organic vegetables. Maggio said S&L Farms’ experience has been well worth its time, and it plans to return next semester. “The students involved have done
Campus Police increase safety measures Caroline Barfield Staff Writer
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Liona Hill, a junior in business administration, came out to the Farmers Market in the Brickyard in search of fresh vegetables Sept. 2. “I heard about it last year and looked it up on their Web site. It’s a whole lot closer than on Centennial, much easier to get to,” Hill said.
a phenomenal job and we have been very successful,” Maggio said. “The one improvement I would like to see would be more participation by faculty and staff members, because they are our target audience.” Susie and Mike Jones of Mae Farms have been selling meat, chicken eggs and dairy products at the Farmers
Market since the beginning of the semester. “We really appreciate the opportunity to come to the University,” Susie Jones said. “We have been more successful than we expected and we definitely plan on coming back next semester.” Schroeder-Moreno said the mar-
ket’s main priorities in planning for next semester are advertizing and promotion. “At the end of the semester we will discuss how we want to expand next year,” Schroeder-Moreno said. “We want to have more
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Proposal to extend voting hours shot down Extension to 96-hour voting period voted down, though 2-day period may be considered in future meetings Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief
After a vote last week, students won’t be enduring a four-day voting period when student body elections open this spring. A proposal to extend Student Government voting hours to 96 hours was voted down in last Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting. Sen. Sam Daughtry, a lifelong education student and the sponsor of the bill, said he intended for the proposal to be amended to extend the voting period to 48 hours, but it was the Government Operations Committee that discussed it left the proposal as he originally wrote it at 96 hours. Daughtry said the committee has since admitted it was at fault for not correctly amending the proposal. “By the time it got to the floor of the Senate, it was still reading 96,” Daughtry, who voted down the proposal, said. Daughtry said after speaking to students, he felt the period needed to be
elongated. What’s the legislation? “People were missing the voting or forgetting the voting was taking The voting hours extension proposal, sponsored by Sen. Sam Daughtry was place,” Daughtry said. “Forty-eight first read Oct. 28, 2009 and suggested student body voting hours be increased hours would kind of give a little more by 96 hours. It was referred to the Government Operations Committee for time and extension for students.” consideration. Daughtry, who said he is resigning from the Senate, said there will be anIn the proposal’s second reading Nov. 11, it received no votes in the positive and was voted down by a count of 39 opposed with 9 senators abstaining. (15 other submission of a similar proposal were absent). at an undisclosed date. “Other senators have voiced to me in confidence and also on the Senate Source: students.ncsu.edu floor that they would like to reintroduce it at another time,” he said. Rogers said, adding the change was in ers said. “There was hesitation to The voting period for student body response to students. “At the time it go back.” elections was a two-day window unThough the 96-hour proposal was a reaction to students who wanted til 2007 when a bill limited it to 24 it to be 24 hours and were frustrated at was shot down, Sen. Stephen hours along with setting limitations the annoyance and the undue litera- Kouba, a senior in political science, on campaigning and ture around campus. said there may be more discussion other regulations. Rogers said the over a 48-hour concept. Student Senate “If a two-day vote comes up I’m same reasons that President Kelli Rogled to the hours be- sure there will be more debate,” ers, who was a senaing cut in 2007 were he said. tor when the new And, according to Rogers, the largely the reasons procedure was apwhy the proposal discussion will be welcome. proved, said students “It’s important that we make wasn’t approved last were annoyed by the sure to fully discuss the issue and week. lengthy process. Stephen Kouba “The debate in to review and ask students again, “When the voting Senate that was go- especially those who were here for days were 48 hours, ing back and forth the 48-hour voting, which one they candidates would be out there for all was over the point that we changed it prefer,” she said. 48 hours and students would get asked in response to students initially,” Rogmultiple times if they had voted yet,”
“If a two-day vote comes up I’m sure there will be more debate.”
There have been two incidents involving unauthorized individuals at sorority houses over the past three weeks and Campus Police is increasing its efforts to keep Greek Village safe. According to Natalie Bradick, junior in mathematics education and Tri Delta house manager, a man came to the house Oct. 25 at about 9:20 p.m. asking to speak to the chapter about security. He said he was an alumnus and also a Pi Kappa Alpha alumni and had been on the PGA tour, and followed a sister into the house despite being asked to wait outside. “He waited in the parlor while our president came down to speak with him,” she said. “He said his name was Scott Saunders.” Bradick said the president told the man to contact her through e-mail and, feeling the chapter was unsafe, immediately notified campus police, the director of Greek Life and the chapter resident advisor. She said the man contacted the chapter president through email and she immediately notified Campus Police again. The police asked the man to end all contact with Tri Delta. According to Tom Younce, director of Campus Police, the intruder wasn’t who he claimed to be. The individual was trespassed and if he is seen on campus or near Greek Village for the matter, he will be arrested. Younce said those who violate University regulations or governmental laws are trespassed from campus. “Campus Police are pretty aggressive towards people who are on campus that don’t have a legitimate reason for being on campus. Though it is a public campus and many people are on campus for various reasons,” he said. “We do encourage students, on campus or in the Greek Village to contact us if they see a suspicious looking individual lurking around.” Younce said another instance of an unauthorized individual at Greek Village occurred Nov. 7 when a man was seen lurking outside of the Delta Gamma house. No police reports were filed against the man because he technically did not trespass, but still caused a sense of unease within the house. According to Younce, Campus Police is increasing the number of patrols to help the village feel safer and are even considering establishing random check-points in hope of decreasing the number of appearances by suspicious non-university affiliated individuals. Blair Cannon, junior in business administration and vice president of administration of Tri Delta, said she’s unsure if she feels safer because she believes this could have been prevented. “I’m not sure that I feel safer since there have been several incidents on Greek Court and the security should have stepped up after the first incident,” she said. The girls in the house have taken their own precautions. “We no longer allow anyone in the house that is not a Tri Delta unless personally escorted by a sister. If they are asking for a sister, we ask them to remain outside until she comes down,” Cannon said. “Also, if we know someone is coming to the house to either pick up something or drop something off for someone we notify the other sisters so no one is to be alarmed. Everyone in our chapter now has Campus Police in their phone and know to report any suspicious activity.”