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Credit CARD Act takes effect New legislation designed to prevent people under 21 from getting into debt enacted Arth Pandya Staff Writer
Under the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which took effect yesterday, no one under the age of 21 will be approved for a credit card offer unless a parent, guardian or spouse is willing to co-sign, or the young adult shows proof of sufficient income to cover the
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“Teens typically don’t understand all the potential pitfalls and responsibilities associated with credit cards...” Ben Woosley, director of marketing and consumer research for CreditCards.com
credit obligation. The new law also requires credit card companies to significantly cut back on their marketing efforts to college students. According to a recent study by Sallie Mae, a site which helps students
plan their financial future, the average amount of debt carried by college cardholders is $3,173. The average number of cards per student is 4.6. “The law should benefit most under 21 students by restricting access to credit at a time before most have
achieved financial literacy or can afford to manage the potential debt load,” Ben Woolsey, director of marketing and consumer research for CreditCards.com, said. Woolsey said restricting students’ access to credit will prevent large amounts of student debt. “Teens typically don’t understand all the potential pitfalls and responsibilities associated with credit cards and rarely have the income required to pay off balances
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Board of Trustees welcomes chancellor Woodward introduced to Board of Trustees, endowment campaign discussed Rachel Port Staff Writer
Chancellor William R. Woodson was warmly welcomed at the Board of Trustees meeting Feb. 18, held at the Dorothy Park Alumni Center, Student Body President Jim Ceresnak said. “It was really an introduction for [Woodson],” Ceresnak said. According to Ceresnak, this was the first time Woodson was able to interact with the trustees and he attended every single meeting in a series which spanned two days. Ceresnak said this served as an introduction for Woodson to the functions of the University. “[Woodson is] beginning the process of understanding the grand scope of the University,” he said. According to Ceresnak, one of the most significant topics discussed by the board, aside from Woodson’s introduction, was the next University fundraising campaign, which is being headed by Vice Chancellor Nevin Kessler. Kessler’s presentation to the Board of Trustees, entitled “Funding N.C. State’s Aspirations: The Next Campaign,” indicated there is an annual funding gap of $4 to $5 million between what schools similar to NCSU, like Texas A&M, raise and what NCSU raises. Kessler’s presentation said N.C. State has never had a long-term plan for funding advancement. Ceresnak said this next fundraising campaign would change that. The presentation gave a rough timeline for the campaign and the goals the board is hoping to meet. The campaign will begin with a silent phase to raise $1.5 to 2 billion for the school between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2021 with a different focus on building endowment than the previous campaign, “Achieve,” which raised $1.3 billion. Kessler’s presentation said a goal for the campaign was to double the amount given to the school by donors from $90 million to at least $180 million. The campaign also seeks to actively engage deans, faculty, staff and volunteers in participating in the effort to raise money and in developing fund-
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A guest of the School of Public and International Affairs in their American Values speaker series Jon Cohn discusses the need for American health care reform on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. “This is probably the make or break week for health care reform” Cohn states. He goes on to explain that although President Obama’s new bill announced on Monday is a “pretty then piece of legislation...we [must] go step by step.”
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Insect Museum’s annual Haiku Challenge returns Insect poetry competition increases awareness of importance of insects in everyday life Mahmudul Islam Staff Writer
Submissions are open for the Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge. The challenge encourages participants to write Japanese poetry with a thematic focus on insects. The challenge will accept poetry in the forms of haiku, haiga, or senryu. A haiku is an unrhymed poem broken into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables that has a nature theme. A haiga is a haiku that includes a picture or graphic. A senryu is typically
Veteran duo climbs rankings a satirical poem on humanity. According to Andy Dean, an assistant professor in entomology, the haiku style was chosen because of its short and somewhat standardized format. Dean also chose the style because most people are familiar with it and it would be easier for the judges to critique them. Dean said that hexapods, an insect species including springtails, diplurans and proturans, deserve recognition for their impact on the ecosystem. One of the main reasons for this contest is that hexapods are going unnoticed, according to Dean. “My hope was that a poetry contest would get people thinking about how they, and how nature interacts with in-
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Accepted forms of poetry: •
Haiku: an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively
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Haiga: a haiku painting including an ink-brush or watercolor painting, a poem, and calligraqhy characterized by a fresh and spontaneous rendering of everyday life
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Senryu: a three-lined unrhymed Japanese poem structurally similar to haiku but treating human nature usually in an ironic or satiric vein Sources: reedscontemporaryhaiga.com, merriam-webster.com
sects. I also wanted to raise awareness of the NCSU Insect Museum which maintains a vast and important collection of insect specimens from around the world,” he said. “People are too quick to fear or
loathe insects. Someone remembers the one time a bee stung him or her back in fifth grade but forgets all the thousands of times bees
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