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The detention hearing for seven men, including one current student and one former student, accused of plotting terrorist activities to be carried out overseas has been delayed until Tuesday to give the lawyers more time to prepare. FBI agents arrested the seven men, including former student Dylan B oyd , 2 2 , and Mohammad Omar Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Aly Hassan a 22-year-old sophomore in sociology, Monday on charges of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder abroad. The indictment, unsealed in a Raleigh federal court Monday, named Boyd’s father, Daniel, 39, as the leader of the group, and Hysen Sherifi, 24; Anes Subasic, 33; Zakariya Boyd, 20; and Ziyad Yaghi, a 21-year-old Cary High School graduate, all of whom were also arrested Monday. The indictment also stated that the group travelled to Israel and Pakistan and they believed the men meant to carry out “violent jihad” but returned after their efforts were unsuccessful. Federal off icials are still searching for an eighth person in the case, Jude Mohammad, who authorities think is in Pakistan, according to the Associated Press. Capt. Jon Barnwell said Campus Police was not involved in any way with the investigation prior to the arrests because everything occurred off campus. He also said now that charges were filed, there is no reason to believe its assistance would be needed as the case moves forward. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said he was shocked when he found out students were involved in the charges. “It’s certainly of concern to read in the news that former students or students have been charged with something of this significance,” Stafford said. “Of course they haven’t been convicted yet, but the fact that they have been charged is a concern. TERRORISM continued page 3
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Obama addresses NC President addresses small business owners, locals Saja Hindi Senior staff writer
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About one in three young adults didn’t have health insurance in 2007, according to the Commonwealth Fund, and President Barack Obama is proposing health care reforms to change that. Obama spoke at Needham B. Broughton High School in Raleigh Wednesday and answered audience questions in a town hall forum, specifically addressing North Carolina’s concerns. “Unemployment in North Carolina is over 10 percent today ...So we know the tough times aren’t over, but we also know that without the steps we have already taken, our troubled economy — and the pain it’s inflicting on North Carolina families — would be much worse,” he said in the speech. But, Obama said, the Recovery Act is going to combat that and the ever-growing dilemma of health insurance coverage, among several other issues. “If you’re one of the 46 [mil-
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President Barack Obama hands a microphone to Patty Briguglio, owner of MMI Public Relations. Obama visited Broughton High School Wednesday to discuss his health care reform plan in a town hall meeting.
lion] Americans who don’t have coverage today, or you’ve got that coverage where you got a $10,000 deductible, so it’s basically house insurance, it’s not health insurance — you pay the premiums so you won’t lose your house if you get hit by a bus, heaven forbid — then you’ll finally be able to get quality, affordable coverage,” he said.
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And for students like Logan Mintz, a junior in political science who plans to go into D.C. politics after graduation, this
news is a relief. “My mom owns a small business and my father is a state employee,” Mintz said. “Soon, I won’t be on my parents’ health insurance.” Although Mintz said she has been keeping up with Obama’s proposed reforms, she was glad she had the opportunity to hear it directly from the president
himself and not from different media perspectives to ease her concerns for the future. “I was a little worried that when I found a job, that it would offer health care, but it would cost so much, there wouldn’t be so many positions available because they have to offer health care,” she said. From Obama’s speech, Mintz said she really appreciated that the president directly addressed issues that affect the state, not just talked about health care for the nation, which would have been more distant. “He talked about the community effects,” she said. Obama told the audience that the money from the Recovery Act going to investments is not being wasted, rather employing people and creating a more sturdy economy, even in North Carolina. “We’re seeing the results of these investments here in Raleigh and across North Carolina. The Beltline is being resurfaced between Wake Forest Road and Wade Avenue,” he said. “The Raleigh Durham Airport is renovating its runways. The City of Raleigh’s transit system is building a new operations and OBAMA continued page 3
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John Deere excavators site idle while other sections of Hillsborough Street are being worked on. The construction is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2010.
Hillsborough renovations construction on schedule With first summer of renovation work almost completed, students react to street’s status Joanna Banegas Correspondent
From the barrel monster to the busy traffic flow, the progress of the $9.9 million Hillsborough Street Project, scheduled for completion by fall 2010, has been hard to judge. Jayne Kirkpatrick, the City of Raleigh public affairs director, said everything is going as scheduled. “The community is acting very well about the construction on Hillsborough Street,” Kirkpatrick said. “We’re going to have to get through this and it’ll be worth the wait.” Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker and city council members Thomas Crowder and Mary Anne Baldwin led a group of volunteers on a walk through the Hillsborough Street neighborhoods. The
group distributed coupons fliers, maps and project updates. Adrianna Cardinal-De Casas, a freshman in biological sciences, said the effort probably helped the community and local businesses. “I’m always down by State so seeing this made me realize that there are people who do want Hillsborough to still stay active, even with the construction going on,” Cardinal-De Casas said. Italo Leiva, a junior in biological sciences said he believes the project is going pretty efficiently but avoids Hillsborough Street, only taking it when he wants to go to a certain business. “I would normally always take Hillsborough Street when I went to school and stuff. Now I take Western and try to find parking there,” Leiva said. “ It causes a lot of stress in my life.” Rupesh Prajapati, a senior in philosophy, said he thinks the construction on Hillsborough Street is not making as much progress as everybody wants it to. TRAFFIC continued page 3
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t’s been a busy summer for Warwick Arden. After Larry Nielsen’s resignation as provost, he was named interim provost. Chancellor James Oblinger’s resignation left Arden with a new supervisor in interim Chancellor Jim Woodward. July 13, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges named Arden president. Technician staff writer Christopher Frederick sat down with Arden Monday to discuss how he is adapting to his new position and how the University is adapting to budget cuts and a search for a new chancellor.
Technician : How did you become president of this association? Arden: I have a background in veterinary surgery and research. I actually began my career in Australia. I’m a graduate of the University of Sydney in Australia. After that I moved to the U.S. and trained in surgery and did a surgery residency, after that I received a masters degree in vascular physiology, and a PhD. I really came up through the ranks as a faculty teacher and researcher, so I’ve been involved in veterinary education most of my career. I have spent a few years outside of veterinary medicine as a medical researcher at the University of Kentucky. The experience made me realize that I really missed being an educator and focusing on education as well as research, so I went to the University of Illinois as head of the clinical department after which I came to N.C. State as dean of the college of veterinary medicine in 2004. I got very involved with the Association
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Interim Provost Warwick Arden, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, speaks to reporters at a press conference May 14.
of Accredited American Veteri- in the country. I think in some nary Colleges when I became disciplines it is regarded as one dean here at N.C. State years of the best in the world. And that ago. The association oversees in itself reflects well on not just veterinary colleges in six coun- my role in that college but on the tries and is becoming more and AAVMC as a whole. I think by more international. I served for being in a leadership role nationtwo years on the board of direc- ally the position will bring attentors. Last year tion to some of I was named the great things president-elect we doing here and will serve at N.C. State. as president this We have a very year, so for me innovative facit’s been kind ulty who are alof a progresways looking at sion through the curriculum Interim Provost Warwick the years as a trying to find teacher and renew and better Arden searcher. It’s a ways to present great way for me to give back to the information to students. I the profession I care very much always tell students the amount about. of data they have available to learn is probably 2 or 3 times Technician: How do you think greater than it was when I was the new appointment will help in school. So trying to figure out you in relation to your work with how to present that data in the N.C. State’s veterinary program? most interesting, competitive, Arden: I think the benefit can go and dynamic way is a challenge. both ways, meaning that I think Being involved in the veterinary N.C. State is regarded highly as conversation on a national level a veterinary school in the U.S. through the AAVMC and at the There’s no official ranking of col- N.C. State level will create a natleges, but in certain reports the college is rated as one of the top ARDEN continued page 3
“N.C. State is regarded highly as a veterinary school in the U.S.”
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