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New division takes off Campus Enterprises hopes to maximize how money is spent Ty Johnson News Editor
A model showing off the “Garnish Delight� collection of Courtney Hummel walks down the runway during the 2009 Art To Wear show in Reynolds Coliseum.
MIchelle Ko, a junior in art and design, shows off the “Rapture, A Masquerade� collection of sophomore Adrienne McKenzie during the 2009 Art To Wear show in Reynolds Coliseum.
A model showing off the “Le Danse des Desserts� collection of Amy Quinn poses on the runway during the 2009 Art To Wear show in Reynolds Coliseum.
Lights, camera, fashion ART TO WEAR SHOWS OFF CANDY FOR THE BODY STORY BY SARAH EWALD | PHOTOS BY MATT MOORE
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ashion-Turn to the left/Fashion-Turn to the right,� David Bowie instructed the models of the day in his 1980 hit.
The models at the Art to Wear fashion show did that and then some at the annual event organized by the College of Textiles and the College of Design. It was held Thursday night at Reynolds Coliseum, and marked the first time that the event was housed at its new venue. Differences between the old venues -– the Design School brick Pit, the Court of the Carolinas — and the new were readily apparent on first glance.
The stadium seating provided more space and a better angle for audience members who didn’t wish to pay for a floor seat. On the floor, folding chairs were able to accommodate many more VIPs than usual, as well as people instrumental in working lighting and sound. The stage itself had also transformed to better fit its new home. Previously a mere T-shape, it had blossomed into an X, where models criss-crossed each other in mid-
Budget strategy outlines job losses, class impacts Staff Report Chancellor James Oblinger, Provost Larry Nielsen and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business Charles Leffler developed a budget reduction strategy for 2009-10, outlining job losses, classroom impacts, program reductions and increased efficiency. According to a memo released April 16, Oblinger directed all budget managers to enact their parts of a 5 percent overall budget reduction. Based on guidelines established by the University Budget Advisory Committee in 2006, which included the protection of undergraduate academic programs, administrative units received a 13 percent reduction, while academic colleges received a 2.7 percent reduction. The Colleges of Humanities and Social Sciences, Agricultural and Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine will also make additional budget cuts. Decreases in the Academic Affairs, Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative Extension Service budgets will force the elimination of up to 317 jobs, including 99 faculty jobs,
strut. The center area, where the two lines converged, was used by many designers to highlight a garment or to stage a dramatic pantomime. Prior to the start of the show, certain textiles and design classes highlighted certain students’ work. Students showed off individual garments, and in the case of the advanced classes, capsule collections. Garments submitted for the pre-show were included from the Fashion Product Analysis class to the Textile Senior Project, as well as work from the Prague Institute. Two levels of the Fibers and Surface Design studios represented the College of Design classes. ART TO WEAR continued page 5
Freshmen charged in pharmacy burglary
REDUCTION ASSIGNMENTS:
Students suspected of breaking in Rite Aid, bagging prescription drugs
The University Budget Advisory Committee aimed to protect departments in the following order: r Undergraduate academic programs r Graduate academic programs r Financial aid (needbased) r Libraries r Essential campus infrastructure r Campus safety and security r Classroom conditions and services r Student services r Campus aesthetics
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94 EPA non-faculty jobs and 124 SPA jobs. In addition, some course offerings are being cut. The University will eliminate a total of 2,865 seats, an estimated 1.1 percent of total offerings. Nielsen and Leff ler worked closely with their senior staffs and University Planning and Analysis to discuss with students and faculty and develop a Web site that allows for budget suggestions.
Police arrested two N.C. State students, Tamyka Steinbeck, a freshman in biochemistry, and Christopher Proctor, also a freshman in biochemistry, and Jacob Lockerman, who is not affiliated with State, yesterday in response to an alarm at 4 a.m. from the Rite Aid in a Chapel Hill shopping center. Steinbeck, Proctor and Lockerman are suspected of breaking in the store. The Chapel Hill Police Department could not comment on the arrests outside of normal business hours. However, according to a WRAL report, police found both Lockerman and Proctor inside the store with bags filled of prescription drugs. Officers also found a handgun. Campus Police Captain Jon Barnwell said since it was in Chapel Hill, they assisted in the execution of search warrants for the on-campus residents. The suspects were charged with felony breaking and entering, damage to real property, conspiracy to commit a felony and possession of burglary tools. They were all held under bond in the Orange County jail Thursday. “As students they will face the consequences of their actions from the University,� Barnwell said.
Campus Enterprises, a new division of the University which oversees the Campus bookstores, University Dining, campus convenience stores and the AllCampus card, began with an announcement March 26 that the new division of departments would begin April 1. The announcement and realignment of campus entities surprised Randy Lait, director of University Dining, but Lait said the day-to-day operations of Dining won’t be affected at all. “It came as news to me,� Lait said. “But University Dining will continue to operate as it has, we’ve just been grouped with other functions of similar purpose.� Lait said Dining’s purpose was to serve students and he had no doubts it would continue to, even as the creation of the division pulled dining from student affairs and placed into the new division which is beneath the Office of Business and Finance. “Dining’s mission was accomplished successfully under Student Affairs and under the office of Business and Finance there may be opportunities for growth,� Lait said. “Dining and the other departments now under Enterprises are not programs but auxiliary services. Lait said the new organizational structure will allow the departments to work more closely together and to support scholarships. “It brings together the parts of the University that sell services to the campus,� Lait said. “It’s putting people with similar missions together.� Lait said he wasn’t a part of the decision-making process and couldn’t speak for the motives of his superiors, but had no issues with the uncertainty of the situation. “[The decision] came from above and I can’t speak for their motivations,� he said. “I don’t know what the future holds for us, but I’m not anxious about it.� Lait said regardless of changes his department may face after the realignment, they will better the University. “The people working in Enterprises have a vision for N.C. State,� Lait said. ‘There will be changes, but it’s not necessarily up to me, and I’ll continue to do what’s right for the University and what’s asked of me.� Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises Bob Wood said while the decision was made without informing the department heads, that isn’t always necessary or even appropriate. “That’s not always the best way to proceed in everything you do and every decision you make,� Wood said. “In a business environment, it’s not customary to ask people to move things from A to B.� Wood also said the decision wasn’t made because of the eco-
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nomic crisis facing the state and the University, but that it will help the departments operate at a more fiscally efficient rate. “It’s been considered for quite a while,� Wood said. “But because of the financial crisis it seems to be a good time to put these things into play and a great time to put students in place to save money.� Wood said he wasn’t involved in the decision-making either, and also couldn’t put into perspective how departments now under the Enterprise division operated under their previous divisions. “I can’t speak to the way it was,� Wood said, adding he offered his opinion on the new division at the end of the process. “I was asked ‘here’s what were gonna do’ and I said it sounds like a good idea to me. I kind of came in at the end of the process.� Wood said the purpose of his division was to redirect resources to use them more efficiently and to maximize how money is spent. He will also be available to help departments plan new projects and to consult with departments if they need to make cuts. “We have to pepper the ideas with the reality of how much money we have,� Wood said. “If anybody in Campus Enterprises feels they need to cut back on the staff, we would talk about it. If a department starts to run into a problem we need to look at what the problem is. It’s not consulting, its managing.� Wood said keeping the businesses together in a single division will help them to be fiscally responsible. “The feeling is that Dining is more of an enterprise, it’s a business,� Wood said. “We could probably squeeze more out of it, more for the students if Dining is surrounded by more businesses.� Peter Barnes, a sophomore in natural resources policy and administration, met with Wood to discuss the new division’s implications on student life and was pleased with the ideas Campus Enterprises will allow the departments to pursue. “I’m all the way on board with this,� Barnes said, referring to the plan to consolidate student cards into one, all-inclusive AllCampus card. “At the end of the day it’ll save everyone money, both taxpayers and students.� Wood said this fall students will be able to use their AllCampus card to purchase food and beverages at football games in Carter-Finley Stadium. Still, Wood said there will always be those who disagree with decisions that bring about change. “In the governmental process there are going to be people who have issues with how decisions are made,� Wood said. “When we revisit this topic in two years I bet students will say things are working out a little better.� Barnes said Campus Enterprises will continue to make students its priority. “There may have been some missteps, but at the end of the day they make the decisions for students,� Barnes said.
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