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The Raleigh City Council will vote today whether or not to close Hillsborough Street for the Hillsborough Street Renaissance in March. The Renaissance is a studentorganized event, which Joe Heil, a senior in textile engineering, said would showcase renewable energies and technologies. “If the City Council doesn’t give us approval, we will very quickly decide whether or not we can take any alternative venue, but we’re not excited about that prospect,� Heil said. Legacy Event Planners, a student-led group, is organizing the event, and Heil said several members of the council have already expressed interest in supporting the event. The Renaissance will be focused on tents set up on Hillsborough Street that display students’ renewable energy projects. “Engineers without Borders is working on solar panels and wind turbines,� he said. Students are creating an elec-
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City Council to vote on Hillsborough St. Renaissance event Student-organized event would showcase renewable energy technology
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“I’m pro-life and I thought it was over the top and unnecessary. If I was pro-choice, I would have thought it was nasty and walked away.� R.J. Turner, sophomore in engineering
trical engineering senior design project to redesign filaments inside lanterns, according to Heil. Heil and other organizers are still relatively new to event planning, and Matt Stevenson, a sophomore in technology education who is doing web design for the event, said this could inspire other students to plan large events. “It’s just a big start for what’s to come hopefully,� he said. “If this goes really well it can lead the way for a lot of other projects.� Heil helped organize a Guitar Hero tournament last year for Engineers Without Borders, and he said it helped show him how successful certain events could be. “We got a little over 1,000 people to come through,� he said. “We were definitely excited about this one. There was plenty of room to grow.� There were thoughts to repeat that event this year, but Heil said the group thought it could do something bigger. “When summer started, we realized that we could just blow the lid off and do something crazy,� he said. “Hillsborough Street STREET continued page 3
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Standing in front of Students for Life’s billboards, Theresa Burch, an ASU alumni and volunteer for Justice for All, talks with Brittney Kelly, a senior in civil engineering, in the Brickyard Oct. 20. The billboards were graphic displays of abortions, portraying the practice as an atrosity. “We’re just seeing where we all are coming from,� Burch said.
Anti-abortion group sponsors display STUDENTS FOR LIFE WILL HAVE ‘JUSTICE FOR ALL’ IN THE BRICKYARD AGAIN TODAY, STUDENTS HAVE MIXED REACTIONS Courtney Bolin
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Dr. Denis Marcellin-Little, an associate professor in orthopedics and veterinary medicine; Sloann Elliot, a senior in veterinary medicine and Steve Posovsky hold down Cassidy to fit the prosthetic leg. “We just want to see him walk,� Posovsky said. The machined aluminum leg is made with a rubber foot to replicate a dog’s natural limb.
Students for Life, an anti-abortion organization, sponsored a 20-by-40 foot display in the Brickyard to change people’s perspectives on abortion issues, according to Sarah Hardin, a sophomore in communication and the group’s events coordinator. “The display comes from Students for Bioethical Equality,� Hardin said. “The name of the display is Justice for All.� One side of the display was about the humanity of the unborn child, which
CASSIDY’S LEG TO BE REFITTED TODAY The dog, part of an animal prosthetics experiment, tried a new leg Monday
Alison Harman Features Editor When Cassidy Posovsky stood up after a day-long procedure Monday, the German shepherd mix fell back down. The movement had displaced the temporary leg, an aluminum rod with a rubber end, where three years ago there was nothing. Cassidy, who is part of a surgical experiment in animal prosthetics, tried to walk again, but the same thing happened. According to Denis Marcellin-Little, a professor of veterinary medicine and an orthopedic surgeon, the leg was too long. He and Ola Harrysson, an assistant professor
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for help. “I think the third side is the most graphic,� Hardin said. “It shows reasons that women get abortions, as well as the side effects.� Some of the side effects listed on the display are problems with later pregnancies, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. The Students for Life want to further the movement of the Students for Bioethical Equality, and Hardin said its mission is “to train thousands, to make LIFE continued page 3
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Hardin said “had facts about fetal development, and photos of fetuses at different points in development.� Genocide, deliberate killing of a group of people, is defined on another portion of the display, which also contained very graphic photos of aborted fetuses, Hardin said. According to Hardin, it was made to display what is happening to the unborn children in America. The display also lists alternatives to abortion, such as, adoption. It explains where women who are pregnant can go
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Members of Army ROTC are training for the upcoming Ranger Challenge, taking place Oct. 24 to 26. The Ranger Challenge is like a varsity sport within ROTC, according to Capt. Patrick Preston, in which students compete against other schools’ ROTC members in various events. One of the group’s recent training sessions took place last Friday. Mitchell Robinson, a senior in business, was in charge of a portion of last week’s exercise.
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The cadets “did pretty good, despite it being cold, wet and miserable outside,� Robinson said. Robinson was in charge of the land navigation portion of the training, in which students locate points with a compass and map. “Most cadets found three out of the four navigation points that they were supposed to find,� Robinson said. There were two groups of competitors, one which will participate in the Ranger Challenge, and those that will not participate, according to Robinson. Not all the cadets utilized the training session equally, Robinson said, and those cadets that will be taking part in the competition faced different challenges. The cadets not participating
in the Challenge had two threehour sessions of land navigation, he said. One session took place during the day, with another at night. During the day session most cadets found about three or four of the five navigational points assigned to them, Robinson said. Scott Kincaid, a senior in political science, was in charge of the Challenge training. He said that the cadets not training for the Challenge impressed him because most cadets identified more locations than expected, he said. The cadets that will be participating in the Challenge faced much tighter time constraints to find their navigation points, Kincaid said. They had 75 minutes and found at least four of the five points given to them.
The cadets that won’t be participating this weekend are training to take their LDAT, or Leadership Developement and Assesment Test, at the end of the spring semester. These training sessions also have a practical purpose, according to Robinson. “As an officer, you need to know maps and you cant always rely on a GPS for guidance,� he said. Officers must be able to read maps and use a compass because in combat, they may not be able to describe their locations to others, Robinson said. “Everything you do in the field requires that you know where you are,� he said. “For example when you call in support, you don’t want to call it in on your
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