September 17, 2014

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Groups empower, aid female Aggies MijA GARy

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It has been a very busy start to the school year for organizations from planning interest meetings, to creating a yearly calendar and agenda, or collecting dues. Amongst the many organizations on campus are Ladies of Excellence, 100 Collegiate Women, and Bombshells in Business that plan to have their interest meetings in the next coming weeks. All three of these organizations target one thing: women’s empowerment. There has been a lot of speculation about whether

the three organizations are in competition with one another, leaving many students to question the differences between the Crawford three. Ladies of Excellence was founded on N.C. A&T’s campus in 2001 by a group of women who were interested in gathering women to help them be the best they can be professionally. L.O.E.’s mission is to promote business etiquette and professionalism among college

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women. “We are here to help provide the tools to be as well-rounded as possible in a professional manner,” said Jasmine Davis, president of L.O.E. “We do a lot of career building workshops. We do resume workshops, interviewing skills, anything that

is necessary to help women succeed when it comes to getting a job, keeping a job, and how to perform successfully. We are also here to try to break those stereotypes that women think when it comes to the business world or whatever field they decide they want to be in. We really want to show them that they have the tools and have the power to be as successful as anybody else,” said Davis. “We talk about all of the professional stuff, but we want to talk about what’s going on personally with women too,” Davis said. Whatever we think is important to women and developing as a woman, we will discuss

it no matter what,” she said. Founded in the 2013-14 academic school year, Bombshells in Business is an organization to equip women with the necessary skills and experience to step into their dream careers and cultivates creativity, innovation, and professionalism in a fresh and modern way. Bombshells advocates for professionalism and presenting its members with internship opportunities to get them ready and make them more competitive when they step out into the global career market. “We advocate for entrepreneurship, ownership, and career readiness, but we’ve updated

it,” said Shelby Christie, founder and president of Bombshells. “Older organizations and more traditional professional organizations will do things like dinner etiquette, how to have dinner with your bosses and things like that. We’ve updated that to social media etiquette and how to interact with other professionals on social media sites in order to represent your brand and your business the best way.” The mission of Bombshells on campus is to encourage women empowerment and sisterhood.  See WoMEn on Page 2

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Fall elections came and went without much notice. Fall elections were Thursday, Sept. 11. Most students were not aware of elections until the day before when an email was sent to the entire student body with instructions on how to vote. Spring elections are pretty popular amongst the student body because they are generally expected. Fall elections are for positions to be filled within SGA and SUAB that were not previously filled during the spring. They are also for the incoming freshmen class to be able vote for their class executive board. During this election alongside freshmen candidates were SGA elections committee, SGA judicial Council, senior and junior class treasurer, and sophomore secretary. Many vacancies are still open in the judicial council, elections committee, and senate. Students are still able to apply for these positions. Since the spring, SUAB elections have been electronic and combined with SGA. Denise Iverson-Payne, assistant vice chancellor for student development, expressed how the elections committee was asked to add SUAB candidates on the ballot. The entire population is now able to vote conveniently for SUAB until further notice. This addition made a huge difference with elections last spring 2,021 students voted. This fall, only 8,927 students were eligible to vote. Eligibility is based off of student status.

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Visions of Pride, Greensboro’s Urban LGBT Community group partnered with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s P.R.O.U.D and Multicultural Center, for Saturday’s PRIDE festival at Aggie Stadium. The event, which was originally in the Holland Bowl, was moved to the stadium due to inclement weather. Free HIV testing, food, and games were provided for families and friends to enjoy as well as educational opportunities regarding LGBT awareness, which

was the main focus. “It’s really about bridging the gap,” Gerald Spates, director of the multicultural student center. Spates wants to help improve diversity on campus, and wants to “make sure the LGBT community is respected, and the campus understands there is a presence.” Last year’s Visions of Pride was in Center City Park downtown, sponsored by a grant from Guilford County Public Health Department and Moses Cone Hospital. N.C. A&T’s fairly new LGBT organization P.R.O.U.D., (People Recognizing Our Underlying

Differences), partnered with Visions of Pride providing the location along with A&T’s Multicultural Student Center. According to Secretary James Blackburn, P.R.O.U.D. is a “safe place,” serving as a special interest organization that is LGBT friendly and open for transgender students. The organization is pushing for N.C. A&T to implement transgender bathrooms on campus. P.R.O.U.D. however is not only geared to students who identify within the LGBT community, but allies as well. “We are working on how to improve. We have the community but we are only as strong as our al-

lies,” said Spates. By 2015 the organization hopes to achieve their goal in having a resource center for students. Spates and Ferreli McGilvary, both co-advisors of P.R.O.U.D were very proud of Saturday’s outcome. “AIDS or STD testing should be done at every event,” said Spates, who does not want those who do not identify with the LGBT community to think that sexually transmitted diseases are only limited to those within that community. Vendors who are involved with LGBT were  See pRidE on Page 3

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In lieu of world Alzheimer’s month, students, faculty, family, and friends participated in the Alzheimer’s Walk on Saturday morning to show their love and respect for those who are impacted by the disease. Malcolm Hodge, a junior, architectural engineering student attended the Alzheimer’s Walk in memory of his grandfather. “I never really got the chance to talk to my grandfather as much because he’s a really quiet person, but just knowing that my grandmother didn’t have him in her life anymore, as long as they’ve been together, bothered me a lot because I knew that he was a lot of her happiness and I knew without him, a lot of that would be gone. They were really close,” said Hodge. “I chose to do the Alzheimer’s walk because ever since my grandfather passed away, I haven’t really had any other things that I could do to really recognize Alzheimer’s or be able to recognize him besides his funeral,” said Hodge. “So the Alzheimer’s walk, I felt like it was something special that I could do just to pay my homage and my respects to my grandfather and my family.” Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia that gradually gets worse over time. It affects memory thinking, and behavior. Hodge’s grandfather, Leroy

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