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tuesday april
24 2012
Raleigh, North Carolina
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University says goodbye to Stafford Tom Stafford’s long University career was celebrated Monday afternoon.
Club honors wildlife expert The Wildlife Club screened a documentary focusing on environmentalist Aldo Leopold.
Elise Heglar
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A retirement party was held Monday afternoon in honor of Thomas Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, who will officially step down from his position July 1. Stafford has worked at the University as the vice chancellor for student affairs since Oct. 1, 1983. He has served in administrative and research positions since 1971 and also received his master’s degree from N.C. State. The celebration was an opportunity for various people to speak in honor of Stafford and the work he has done at the University. Chancellor Randy Woodson, Provost Warwick Arden, Alex Miller and Justine Hollingshead were a few of the many guest speakers to talk about Stafford and his work. “This is a great turnout for this event. Honestly, it didn’t surprise me, because he’s done so much for so many people,” Arden said. The University is honoring Stafford by naming the green space around the renovated Talley Student Center after him. Some of the people at the event presented Stafford with gifts. Representatives from the University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps presented Stafford with military coins as a thank you for all of his work with the program. Stafford has worked very closely with ROTC; 12,000 officers have been commissioned through ROTC while Stafford was at the University. “[Working with ROTC] has been a very special part of my job at N.C. State,” Stafford said. Andy Walsh, student body president, attended the event to honor Stafford because of how studentcentric Stafford’s agenda has always been.
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Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Dr. Tom Stafford walks off stage after giving a final speech at his retirement banquet, held in McKimmon Center on Monday, April 23, 2012. Stafford has been a part of N.C. State for 40 years, and has spearheaded many student groups, activities, and meetings with his motto “Students First.” Stafford’s legacy was honored at his retirement banquet with speeches and awards given out by numerous groups, including the GLBT Center, Student Government and the NCSU Army ROTC.
When Stafford rose to give his fi“The amount he did for the student body is incredible. Forty-one nal speech, he glanced at the crowd years of service with a students first with a smile on his face. During mentality is just incredible,” Walsh his speech, Stafford told stories of his time on campus and discussed said. Even the food at the event honored what the University has meant to him throughout the Stafford’s commityears. ment to the Univer“How do you resity; a cookie tower flect on 41 years in was constructed to just a few minutes? look like the Bell [My wife] said, don’t Tower, and a watertell the whole story; melon was engraved just say what it is all with Mr. Wuf’s likeabout. So that’s what ness. I’ll be doing,” StafPhotos of Stafford Andy Walsh, student ford said. at various University body president St a f ford s poke events were places about seei ng a around the room at the McKimmon Center where streaker at graduation, watching the event was held. You could see Pullen Hall burn down, and parhim enjoying graduation, cheering ticipating in the Homecoming paat football games, and standing in rade. Before he left the stage, Staffront of the bell tower with students. ford asked all of the students in the
“Forty-one years of service with a students first mentality is just incredible.”
crowd to stand and addressed them directly. “This is why I have done this the last 41 years. [The students] are wonderful to work with and I have enjoyed that relationship so much,” Stafford said. As he closed his speech, Stafford encouraged the audience to look forward with the University. “As you move forward, embrace change and use it to make N.C. State a better place. Continue to put students first at N.C. State. Continue to make this a place that welcomes everyone who comes here,” Stafford said. Right before he left the stage, Stafford addressed the students directly once again. “N.C. State University is in great hands with Randy Woodson and Provost Warwick Arden,” Stafford said.
For their last meeting of the semester, N.C. State’s Leopold Wildlife Club held a documentary screening and discussion of Green Fire, the biographical story of their namesake Aldo Leopold. Leopold has strongly influenced the modern environmental movement. He developed the first comprehensive management plan for the Grand Canyon and proposed the Gila Wilderness Area, the first national wilderness area in the Forest Service system. He also helped found the Wilderness Society. The film is named after a quote from Leopold’s book. “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain,” Leopold said in A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949 after his death. The film was made through a partnership between the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service. It aims to highlight his idea of land ethic for the ecological challenges of today. Leopold defines land ethic as the conservation of nature through the harmony of men and land. The Wildlife Club hoped to fuel discussion on Leopold’s influence in the field and his ideas on conservation. “I had to read the Sand County Almanac for two different classes, and it was, it would be too cliche to say it was life-changing, but it definitely
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Student donations benefit non-profits Third annual Wolf Pack-NGive donation drive held on campus until May 13.
tronics, small home goods, clothing, shoes and non-perishable foods are all possible items for donation. “Students have a lot that they can’t pack up in the car while they’re Elise Heglar moving out, so we usually get a lot News Editor of stuff,” Fulghum said. The event used to be a sale of the University Housing and N.C. State Waste Reduction and Recycling are donated items, with proceeds bencollaborating to make use of items efiting a sustainable student group students discard while moving out and the Howl for Haiti program. The donated materials are going and reduce waste. Wolf Pack-N-Give is an event, directly to two nonprofits. Dorcas Ministries and the Green originally called Wolf Pack-N-Go, created to collect unwanted items Chair Project are the two organistudents are getting rid of during zations working with the program this year. Dorcas will the move out. The be collecting clothes name of the event and food from the was changed in an donation stations, effort to make the and the Green Chair purpose more obProject is helping vious according to sort all of the doAnalis Fulghum, nations once the educ at ion a nd stations are full, acoutreach coordicording to Fulghum. nator for waste Analis Fulghum, education “Going directly reduction and reand outreach coordinator to the non-profits cycling. is saving us a lot of There are various donation stations around cam- staff and money this year,” Fulghum pus, called PackRat storage contain- said. The Green Chair Project gives ers, where students can drop off a variety of items. Furniture, elec- people who are trying to restart
“Going directly to the nonprofits is saving us a lot of staff and money...”
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A Wolf Pack-N-Give container outside of the Honors Village Commons building on Dunn Avenue April 23. The containers are available for students to donate items they would otherwise throw out when moving out of their dorms.
their lives access to basic necessities like furniture and appliances. Jackie Craig, co-founder of the organization, said it is very important for students to consider how their unused items could benefit someone in need.
“Everything [the Green Chair Project] has has been discarded at some point. Students have a lot of things that they may not need that can be very useful to others who are working on rebuilding their homes,” Craig said.
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A wide variety of people come to the Green Chair Project for help rebuilding their homes, according to Craig. Women coming from
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