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DISCUSSING TABOO TOPICS
Campus Culture Task Force Committee to present initial recommendations at meeting this week
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Dorian Solot, sex and relationship educator, talked to approximately 500 people in the Campus Cinema Monday night along with her husband Marshall Miller, also a sex and relationship educator. In their program titled, “I Heart Female Orgasm,” they discussed taboo topics ranging from orgasms to vibrators.
Festival to showcase sustainability Event to bring ‘community together’ James Cox Staff Writer
The Hillsborough Street Renaissance Festival, a green arts and music festival, is in the planning stages to be held on March 14, 2009 from noon to 10:30 p.m. Some of the events will include bands playing all day, an organic Iron Chef Cook-off, a barbecue cook-off between the fraternities and a ‘pie-off’ between the sororities. William McGuire, a senior in aerospace engineering and one of the organizers, said the festival will also benefit the community through charity. “Initially, we were trying to raise money for one group but then we found out just how in depth it could go and we expanded,” he said. Engineers without Borders, MorLove and Sole4Souls are the three main charities that will split the proceeds of the festival. Akeem Robinson, a senior in chemical engineering and the president of Engineers without Borders said his organization is participating in the Renaissance to raise money for its projects in Bolivia and Sierra Leone. “Each project will receive water purification system and Sierra Leone will receive a solar-wind hybrid system to benefit communities,” Robinson said. Moran Aframian, a senior in textiles, and president of the non-profit organization Morlove said that MorLove is putting on a fashion show at the festival. “Morlove partnered with American Vintage and Energy Greem Builders together we’re putting together an eco-friendly fashion show and its called Redress Raleigh,” she said. But the event isn’t just about charity, McGuire said. “One of the things were trying to do is make the street a place where everyone meets together,” he said. Daniel Tebo, a freshman at Wake Tech and media director for the Renaissance said that
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Brooks Wood, a 2006 alumnus, sings and plays guitar at the Hillsborough Street Renaissance community meeting Monday at the Pullen Arts Center. The meeting took place to help plan and promote the March 14 event that aims to revitalize the Hillsborough Street area. The event will feature live music including Wood’s band — the Brook Woods Band, and a hip-hop band called Inflowential, both of which played a demo at the meeting. “Everybody in the band graduated from N.C. State,” Wood said. “There’s lots of bands they could have asked, but we grew up here and understand the cause. It’ an incredible privilege and honor.”
there will be a wide variety of Guire said. Robinson said he thinks the music for a lot of age groups. “We’re going to have the Am- festival is a great event for him ateurs, Brookswood, Murphy’s to raise money and also spread Kids, Joco, Old Regime, Wreck- the word about his organization. “It pertains to us because ing Season and Chime Carolina the whole foin concert,” he cus of this is said. to bu i ld up Tebo said the Hillsborough c onc er t w i l l Street and show bri ng people off green techtogether. nology,” Rob“People who inson said. wou ld ne ver Engineers hang out will be Without Borout there partyders, Robinson ing together,” said, is all about Tebo said. developing new The festival is technology and also about sushelping out the tainability. world. “We’re strong Alexander believers that Akeem Robinson, senior in Joyce, a senior you can’t just chemical engineering in communicahave environtion, said he is mental sustainability - you also need financial new to the organizing team. “It’s something I want to be a sustainability,” McGuire said. The festival is really showcas- part of,” he said. Aframian said she wants to ing companies that demonstrate show people it’s easy to be ecothat, according to McGuire. “It should be a good time,” Mc- friendly and also stylish and
“It pertains to us because the whole focus of this is to build up Hillsborough Street and show off green technology.”
fashionable. “I don’t think people realize how much money you waste on clothes that are massproduced and aren’t really good for the environment,” Aframian said. She said she is involved in the festival to get involved in the community. “It takes a while for a non-profit to get name recognized and joining in the Hillsborough Street Renaissance is a way to touch 15,00 people that I may not have been able to reach on my own,” Afraimi said. Robinson isn’t sure exactly what his organization will be displaying at the festival. “We have a couple of options,” he said. Aframian also said that the businesses on Hillsborough aren’t doing as well as they should. “It’s something fun and I thinks its good for students to support other students,” she said.
do to discourage people from doing things that are completely irrational but to a certain extent free speech is free speech,” he said. “Sometimes free speech includes stupid speech.” Since the creation of the task Derek Medlin Managing Editor force, members have been meeting in subcommittees focused on Members of the Campus Cul- three separate areas: campus culture Task Force Committee will ture, the student conduct code meet for a second time this Fri- and Brickyard and Free Expresday to discuss preliminary rec- sion Tunnel Practices. ommendations about how to Dawkins, who serves on the improve the campus atmosphere Brickyard and Free Expression regarding diversity. Tunnel subcommittee, said his Chancellor James Oblinger particular subcommittee has a created the task force in No- difficult task. vember 2008 following the hate “There is so much tradition speech and racand history in i s t me s s a ge s the Free Expreswritten on the sion tunnel as it Free Expression is,” he said. “If Tunnel about one were to try President-elect to change the Barack Obama. nature of the Student Body Free Expression President Jay Tunnel it would Dawkins said face resistance the work of the but that doesn’t committee is mean there important for aren’t ways to Jay Dawkins, the culture on better approach student body president campus to ima controversial prove. issue.” “We learned that there are a lot On Friday, the entire task force of campuses that have similar will meet to discuss the initial issues and fight similar battles,” recommendations of the smaller Dawkins said of the initial work groups. of the committee. “On Friday, the subcommitThe messages threatening tees will present initial findings Obama prompted the U.S. Se- to the full committee and we’ll cret Service to investigate to de- have a chance to discuss them,” termine if any credible threat had Dawkins said. been made. Dawkins said he believes the While no students faced crimi- Free Expression Tunnel incident nal charges, the University did in November provides an oppordiscipline the four students who tunity for the campus to talk took responsibility for painting about sensitive issues like race. the tunnel. “In a lot of ways speech in the Dawkins said the issue of free way we saw it Nov. 5 can awaken speech is difficult to deal with society to issues that still exist despite the threatening nature of that need to be addressed,” he messages like those found Nov. said. 5, 2008. “There are some things we can
“We learned that there are a lot of campuses that have similar issues and fight similar battles.”
21 days remaining to register for KKC Staff Report The fifth annual Krispy Kreme Challenge — a two mile run from the Bell Tower to the Krispy Kreme in downtown Raleigh where participants eat a dozen doughnuts and have to run back to the Bell Tower in under an hour — will take place Feb. 7 this year. The race, which a group of friends started for fun, has now become an N.C. State tradition with last year’s run attracting 3,000 participants. Participants pay a registration fee for a free T-shirt, the doughnuts and any extra money goes to benefit the N.C. Children’s Hospital. There are 21 days left to register, and organizers expect 5,000 registrants this year. For more information on the run or to see photos of previous runs, check out www.krispykremechallenge. com. SOURCE: WWW.KRISPYKREMECHALLENGE.ORG GRAPHICS: SUSANNAH BRINKLEY
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