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Interim Coach Stephanie Glance watches a tribute to Kay Yow while on the floor of the RBC Center before the men’s game against Miami.
Kay Yow memorialization continue on, off campus Students, citizens look for different ways to honor late coach Derek Medlin Managing Editor
Four days after the death of women’s basketball coach Kay Yow Saturday morning, students on campus and citizens in the area have continued to find ways to remember her. Hundreds of students on campus wore pink to remember Yow and her fight against breast cancer Monday. Members of Student Government painted the Free Expression Tunnel pink and white Tuesday afternoon and pledged to keep it that way the rest of the week. The University will host a program in Reynolds Coliseum to honor Kay Yow today. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the program is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Members of University and Athletics administration and the women’s basketball coaching staff will speak. A video tribute to Yow will also be shown. Community members have also come up with different ways to honor Yow and her memory. Thomas Allen, a Raleigh resident and N.C. State alumnus, said he has written to Mayor Charles Meeker to attempt to develop an official day to remember Kay Yow. “I wrote a letter about it and we were trying to put together a day or even a week for coach Yow,” he said. “I wrote before coach
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The Select Committee on Elections Reforms met to discuss the proposed Elections Reforms Act, Tuesday night. The proposed bill aims to amend Student Government election statutes, such as student candidate spending limits. Sarah Lindh, a senator for first year college, said she doesn’t think candidates need much money. “No candidate tells the truth of what they really spent,” she said.
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The Transportation Departr Will take students from campus ment, in response to requests and Hillsborough Street downtown to Glenwood Avenue from students, will begin offerand the Warehouse District ing a new Wolfline bus service r Requires students to show to take students from campus student IDs to the downtown entertainment r Will allow each student two district near Glenwood Avenue guests depending on how busy the buses are Feb. 19. The service, called WolfProwl, SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights each week, Brian O’Sullivan, assistant director want everyone to get to downof planning and operations for town and back safe and sound.” Transportation, said. Other new services Transpor“This is in response to requests tation is unveiling, scheduled for an entertainment district to begin in the fall of 2009, will bus,” O’Sullivan said of the change the way students buy addition of the new program. parking permits and will also “There was a desire for students allow students to purchase carto get safely pool park ing from campus permits. to downtown The parking and back.” p e r m i t pu rT he Wol fchase system, prowl bus seraccord i ng to v ice, which O’Sullivan, will student fees are make students paying for, will ability to purtake students chase permits from areas on based on several Kelli Rogers, a junior in c a mpu s a nd political science and Student requirements, Hillsborough Senate President pro tempore most notably Street to two credit hours. stops, one on The new sysGlenwood Avenue and one tem will also be completely onnear the Warehouse District, line. O’Sullivan said. “This coming year the permit O’Sullivan said the service will system will be more of an allocabegin Thursday nights at 9 p.m. tion system,” he said. “We will and run until 3 a.m. with no set allocate a certain number of perschedule for pickup and drop off. mits in each zone with certain “There will be nonstop service requirements. We will actually on Hillsborough Street from be putting credit hour requirecampus to a couple stops in ments on certain zones.” the vicinity of Glenwood South O’Sullivan said a student group and the Warehouse District,” doing a class project began lookO’Sullivan said. ing at this type of permit purStudents will be required to chasing system two to three years show bus drivers student IDs in ago. order to board the Wolfprowl “This is something we’ve been bus. putting pieces into place for “This is not open to the pub- about three years now,” he said. lic,” O’Sullivan said. “But we “We had kind of been talking understand students will have about it here and then a student guests. Each student will be al- group looked at it. Now all the lowed to have up to two guests pieces have fallen into place.” depending on how crowded the The other potential feature to buses are.” be added in the fall of this year Students will also be subject is a carpool permit system to alto University Honor Code pol- low students to save money on icy while using the WolfProwl permits by traveling to campus service. with other students. “If a bus operator needs to call Greg Cain, the assistant direcCampus Police or Raleigh police, PROWL continued page 3 they can,” O’Sullivan said. “We
“Students should take advantage of it. Parking is going to keep getting worse.”
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Alum Len Hill gives money to James Lamb, a graduate in accounting, for the Kay Yow/ WBCA Cancer Fund. According to Lamb “the fund is to support breast cancer research and awareness.”
Yow passed so I don’t know what the plans are now.” Allen said he also wrote Gov. Bev Perdue and even the President Barack Obama to try and continue to commemorate Yow. “I wanted to see what anyone can do,” Allen said. “When I went to Hoops for Hope last year, I got a chance to meet coach Yow. She
means a whole lot to me.” Allen said Yow’s story hits home for him. “Kay Yow just stands out to me as a person that never looked at herself but that was always trying to help other,” he said. YOW continued page 3
Spending limits in SG elections could change Student Senate will vote on whether to remove the spending limits for candidates
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In return, Adam Compton, the lows them?” she asked. senior class president, proposed She said if the bill is passed, to remove the current spending there will be no more reason for limits. students to lie about finances. “By removing spending limits, “If we see questionable records, we can institute a more account- we will question them,” Donnelable system ly said about the that doesn’t bill if the Student encourage Senate passes the dishonest bill. students,” he This stance is a said. change from the Under the current policy, current sysCompton said. tem, Morgan “In the past, the Sarah Lindh, student senator Donnel ly, a elections comsenior in pomission hasn’t litical science, had the clout to and Student Senate Campus break down and enforce these Community Chair said, students rules,” he said. don’t follow the limits. Compton, a senior in man“Why have them if no one fol- agement, said this fact comes
“No candidate tells the truth of what they really spent.”
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through by candidates being open about breaking the rules and not being disqualified. Jay Dawkins, student body president, said the problem of dishonest candidates isn’t going to be easy to fix. “It will take a lot of willing individuals to fix this problem,” he said. Dawkins, a junior in civil engineering said if the problem isn’t fixed, students with money could buy their seats in Student Government. “For the right price, I could veto the bill,” he joked referring to Illinois governor Blagojevich. Lindh, a junior in political ELECTIONS continued page 3
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