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With the Raleigh Police Department’s approval in the fall of Hillsborough Street having six annual hikes, merchants are gearing up for tonight’s St. Patrick’s Day Pajama Hike.
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Merchants aim to revitalize street post-Renaissance Hillsborough Street to host St. Patrick’s Day Pajama Hike as part of new slate of annual festivals Ty Johnson News Editor
Three days after the street closed for the Hillsborough Renaissance, Hillsborough Street merchants are hoping for another big day of sales as the street hosts a St. Patrick’s Day Pajama hike. According to Alan Lovette, owner of Melvin’s and Five O’Clock Sports Bar, the addi-
“Business will be much better overall in the future.” Alan Lovette, owner of Melvin’s and Five O’Clock sports bar tion of the pajama hike came on the heels of this fall’s Haunted Hillsborough Hike. The six “festivals” include the fall and spring hikes, the Taste of Hillsborough, Haunted Hillsborough Hike, the Renaissance, and the St. Patrick’s Day Pajama hike. “It’ll be great for business,” Lovette said. Merchants will be offering incentives tonight, including
bar golf. Customers can pick up score cards at several locations on Hillsborough street, including Katmandu, East Village, Red Hot & Blues, and Sadlack’s. Lovette said the addition of the golf activity is intended to include those who may shy away from wearing pajamas out in public. “In case people don’t want to wear pajamas, they can wear golf clothing,” Lovette said. “Golfers
can wear just about anything.” Lovette said RPD’s approval of six festivals a year should help out the businesses and clean up what he called “the front door of [N.C. State’s] campus.” “The past couple years, the street has been at its all time low,” Lovette said. “But there are several things that will make it better.” Lovette said Hillsborough Street merchants are looking to create a 100 foot buffer around campus to keep beggars away. They are also trying to persuade establishments to allow payment through an on-campus meal plan and increase parking
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awareness. One of the plans that will especially effect Melvin’s and Five O’Clock is the city of Raleigh’s facade grant assistance program. The program will pay 50 percent of businesses’ investment into their entrances. “We’re putting in garage doors so it’ll be open,” Lovette said. Lovette said the open doors will allow customers to sit outside in the street and allow passers by to hear the live music coming from inside the restaurant. The restaurant has already purchased special bistro tables with heaters inside to keep patrons warm while they sit outside.
Vandalism returns to campaigning Candidates have signs damaged, plan to distribute more this week James Cox Staff Writer
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Brian England, a sophomore in engineering, advances on the opposition force in the downed pilot Army ROTC field training simulation in Schenck Forest Friday.
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he Army ROTC held field training Friday to educate its members and give them opportunities to compete in drills and mock missions to prepare them for actual missions they may be assigned to in the future. The training was held in Schenck Forest
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“They make it ten degrees warmer,” Lovette said. Lovette said the street’s future is dependent on the festivals, but said the revitalization of the area is very much connected with the renovations as well. “Business will be much better overall in the future if the street is improved,” Lovette said. “[Hillsborough Street should be] a place where alumni, residents and students can congregate.” And although rain kept many away during Saturday’s Renaissance, Lovette has kept a close watch on today’s forecast. “65 and sunny,” Lovette said.
Friday, despite constant rainfall and muddy conditions. The participants had to rescue an injured pilot in enemy territory while holding back advancing opposition, and get the pilot safely evacuated from the area on a stretcher.
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Other missions included reconnaissance missions in order to gauge enemy positions. The training followed a pancake breakfast prepared in the field using materials that would be available to soldiers in an actual conflict.
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As candidates for student body president enter the second week of campaigning, sandwich-board signs are littered about campus, though vandalism and staggered campaigning starts have limited the amount of visible signs. So far, Jim Ceresnak, a junior in political science, and Anup Engineer, a senior in business administration, said they both have about 80 signs arranged around campus and Kornelius Bascombe, a sophomore in criminology, said he has about 30 signs up. Already there has been controversy concerning candidate supporters damaging the campaign materials of opponents. Bascombe said Ceresnak’s supporters are tearing down his campaign signs. “Jim is a good, honest guy,” Baracomb said, but he said Ceresnak’s supporters are being disrespectful. “It is dirty politics,” Bascombe said. Bascombe said he talked with Andrew Tucker, chairman of the Elections Commission, about the vandalism, but Tucker said without names, there was nothing he could do. Candidate Amber Joyner, a senior in political science, said all the candidates need to realize signs get broken. “You plan for that to happen,” she said. Engineer echoed Joyner’s sentiments.
“Those things are fair game,” he said. Engineer said he understands that to some on campus, signs make good skateboard jumps but denied not caring about the welfare of his signs. “I’m a realist,” he said. “Ideally, I would place my signs wherever I wish.” Adam Cloninger, a junior in international studies, said he would be angry if his signs were damaged but lamented that damaged signs are just the a part of the campaigning process. “Skateboards tear stuff up and there’s nothing to do about it,” Cloninger said. Another reason for the lack of signs around campus has been varying ideas on how to campaign. Ceresnak said signs were his “number one priority” and Cloninger said his signs will be “popping up” all over campus this week. Joyner, however, is running her campaign with a focus on word of mouth rather than visible advertisements. Both views are different from Engineer’s. “There’s a lot of people on campus, even if we had 500 signs, there would still be people who didn’t know who we are,” Engineer said. Ceresnak said there may be more signs outside today, whereas Engineer said he was done placing signs unless it was necessary for him to put up more. Cloninger and Joyner said they were planning to have more signs up today. “I didn’t want to be in the first wave,” Cloninger said, adding he felt people get sick of seeing signs throughout the campaign.