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Leaders announce name change to help overcome stereotypes
july
28 2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Cru to replace Campus Crusade
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Hillsborough Street: Ever-changing Redevelopment extends West of campus on Hillsborough Street.
Allie Beckett Staff Writer
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Campus Crusade for Christ, an international Christian organization, has decided to change its name to Cru in an effort to eliminate some of the issues they faced with the original title. Mike Mehaffie, campus director for Campus Crusade for Christ at N.C. State, said the organization’s original name was given when they were primarily a campus ministry, but they have since added many types of ministries ranging from prison to military to athletes. “Our leadership decided it was time to change the name and brand to better represent the scope of who we really are,” Mehaffie said. Mehaffie also noted the term “crusade” was off-putting because some have tried to associate their organization with the religious crusades that occurred between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. “Over the years the word ‘crusade’ has carried a negative overtone,” Mehaffie said. “Our name never had any ties to the crusades of old.” Some may question whether the new name, Cru, will still bear the connotations associated with the term “crusade”, but Mehaffie says the new name is not short for anything. “The branding process of who we are would be like Google, FedEx, or Starbucks; their names represent their company, but the meaning of the word is neutral,” Mehaffie said. “Cru is our new name in a similar fashion. It’s not short for anything. It’s just Cru.” Several locations outside the U.S. have already changed the name to better represent their ministries, according to Mehaffie. “Worldwide, some countries have long ago changed the name,” Mehaffie said, “For example, in Slovakia we are ‘Students Voice for Christ,’ and in England we are ‘Agape.’” According to Mehaffie, though the
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Forty-five years in the making, a construction project is underway on Hillsborough Street that will include a parking deck, apartments, retail, healthcare and more. The project will envelop land between where the restaurant Time Out and the recently closed comic book store currently stand. Demolition of buildings on that block began with the bar Farm House last week. The Brewery will be torn down Monday. Developer and landowner Val Valentine has been working to acquire the land necessary for decades. Up until last month, he owned all of the property on the block except for the land that The Brewery sits on. ValPark, a student parking lot formerly located on the property, bares Valentine’s name. All building on the site is contingent upon state zoning apconstruction data: proval. Kerr Drug will have a flagship Project has been in the works for location on the site, according to 45 years Valentine and Mark Berger, forParking spaces in deck: 1,100 mer Farm House owner. Square feet of first building: “I have no hard feelings,” Berg82,000 er said. “Val is a smart businessPrice of retail per squre foot: $30 Number of apartment units: 225 man, and he is doing the students a good service.” Compiled by John Wall Berger said he heard about the project when he first moved to Raleigh seven years ago. He also A proposed 82,000 square feet of said the remaining buildings – Time Out, Katmandu, Pantana space will occupy the area where Bob’s, and the comic book store Time Out, Katmandu and The Brew– should be demolished by Sep- ery reside at the corner of Hillsborough Street and Friendly Drive. Totember. With downtown revitalization mYountz, an N.C. State architecture focused more on the east end of school graduate, designed the buildcampus and Raleigh as a whole, ing and a walkway that will connect N.C. State alumnus and East Vil- the parking deck to the space. The building is planned to house lage Bar and Grill employee Wes Gibson said the project will bring a healthcare facility for N.C. State business to the West end of Hills- students and faculty, as well as classrooms for students borough Street. of Wake Tech and Gibson worked Phoenix Univerat Farm House sity. for “four or five “We have years.” thought this thing “It used to out entirely. It’s be a lot busier meant to last and dow n here ,” be built upon for Gibson sa id. the next 100 years,” “The project is Val Valentine, Valentine said. a good thing developer and landowner Atop the fiveas long as the story building will lot doesn’t stay be a restaurant similar to Top of the vacant.” And it will not stay vacant for Hill, a Chapel Hill restaurant that long. The proposed parking deck sits three stories above Franklin located near the back of the lot, Street. Valentine plans on letting which is planned to house 1,100 students vote on what to name the parking spaces, will begin con- Hillsborough Street restaurant. “I got the idea [to build the fivestruction soon, Valentine said. A capacity of over 1,00 spaces is story restaurant] while eating at the more than what is required by Capital City Club,” Valentine said. “Patrons will be able to see much of building codes. “We have been working week- N.C. State’s campus and downtown days and weekends, too,” Val- from the vantage point. We want to entine said. “Parking has held Hillsborough Street back for more than 60 years.” changes continued page 3
“It’s meant to last and be built upon for the next 100 years.”
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No more brew from Brewery brewers stage reminiscing about times past. Paul Huffman, singer of Embracing Goodbye, will play with his band in their final show Friday – and it will be at the Brewery. Six years and three John Wall albums later, the band decided to end Staff Writer its career at the Hillsborough Street Hillsborough Street landmark the venue. Huffman was huddled around Brewery is tentatively planned to be the stage Wednesday. “The Brewery is home. We have demolished Monday morning at 6 been playing here since we started. a.m. after 28 years of business. The bar and concert venue, which We have known Tom for years, and has hosted acts ranging from Black he has always taken care of us,” HuffFlag to Cheryl Crow, will have its last man said. Land developer Val Valentine, show Saturday. Outrage and loathing emanated from Brewery management who bought the lot, had nothing to and employees – they were given nine do with evicting the Brewery owner days to vacate the premises so that a without a thirty-day notice. It was the responsibility large-scale buildof previous owners ing project could to abide by the contake its place. tract agreed upon Seven-year Brewby themselves and er y ow ner Tom Taylor. Taylor said the situThe Brewery has ation was handled shows booked for the inappropriately. next four months. Taylor owns the Orga ni zers have Brewery, but not been scrambling to the land it sits on. inform bands that As outlined in his they no longer have lease, his landlord a place to play. was required to W h i le t a l k i ng give him 30 days Tom Taylor, Brewery owner around the stage, notice. Taylor said Taylor brought up his landlord gave him no monetary compensation for an ironic story. Two years before he bought the Brewery, his car was being displaced. “This is all very sudden for us,” towed from ValPark – a lot owned by Valentine. He had driven two and a Taylor said. Taylor, Brewery employees and half hours from the coast to see the friends were at the bar Wednesday show. The band playing that night preparing for the inevitable. Al- gave him the $100 they made to get though they had been moving things such as coolers out of the building all day, at 4 p.m. they sat around the brewery continued page 3
Tradition to be replaced by urban redevelopment.
“It’s cool to know that this place has touched so many lives, but it’s tough to know that’s being taken away from us.”
Peace College to become co-ed beginning 2012 Along with a name change, Peace plans to begin admitting men
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The Peace College Board of Trustees has recently announced that the college plans to be renamed William Peace University and will begin admitting male students in the fall of 2012. Though men are currently allowed to participate in some eve-
ning and online courses, this is the first time in the 154-year history that Peace College will be admitting male students to their day-time undergraduate programs. “Becoming William Peace University reflects our growth as an institution and will deepen and broaden our ability to help our students succeed,” Beth Cherry, vice chair of the Board of Trustees, said. “The needs of our students are always changing, and Peace is changing with them,” Cherry said. “This is a great day for our school.” However, not everyone shares the
same enthusiasm for the intended changes. Several alumnae of Peace College gathered to protest the plans to make the college co-ed. Christopher Goyette, a senior in mechanical engineering at N.C. State, said that he can understand the hesitation of some, but he thought the change to co-ed was necessary. “Although it will take away from their traditions, I think it’s good for colleges to admit both sexes because it adds to the overall college experience,” said Goyette. Some male students may feel hesitant to be one of the first men to attend
William Peace University in this fall, but Goyette said he would find the opportunity exciting. “I think it would be fun to be one of the first few guys,” said Goyette, “It would be cool to be there first rather than later on.” According to Cherry, although the University will become co-ed with classes accessible to all students, they still intend to offer select singlegender courses in targeted disciplines where research shows that women and
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