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ACC makes additions Jeniece Jamison Senior Staff Writer
The Atlantic Coast Conference officially extended formal invitations to Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh to join the conference from the Big East Conference Sunday, bringing the amount of schools in the conference to 14. This is not the first time that the Big East and ACC have had relations in terms of membership. Boston College
and Virginia Tech left the Big East to join the ACC in 2004. The University of Miami joined in 2005. “This was a very difficult decision for both Syracuse and Pittsburgh,” Nancy Kanter, chancellor of Syracuse University, said. “The two schools that have tremendous connections and long history with the Big East. Although our university has conference realignment and some instability in the landscape, we look forward to wonderful stability in the ACC and nurturing that stability.” Friday afternoon, the two schools officially applied for membership to the conference. Syracuse was one of the founding schools of the Big East.
Pittsburgh was added to the conference in 1982. Syracuse will bring 13 total national championships in the school’s team sports. “The Big East has been Pitt’s conference home for nearly 30 years,” Mark Nortinberg, University of Pittsburgh chancellor, said. “It has been a good home that we will leave with many fond memories and many great friendships.” According to ACC Commissioner John Swofford, the move to the ACC is the best long-term solution for maintaining the strength of the conference.
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Sophomore in English Weston Suggs cheers “USA” from the stands at Carter Finley Stadium Saturday. Suggs and his friends wore body paint in honor of Military Appreciation Day at N.C. State’s home game against South Alabama. The game’s activities included military tug of war, honoring veterans and messages from alumni in service.
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Chancellor Randy Woodson announced the official budget reduction plan for the University to the UNC General Administration amid legislature-mandated budget cuts of 15.1 percent. This funding deficiency equates to difficult changes affecting University students, faculty, and staff. “It’s not an overstatement to say that this is the most difficult budget challenge the state of North Carolina and the University have faced since the Great Depression,” Woodson said in a public message. Despite these major cuts, the University has acted early to minimize the impact of the budget cuts through effective planning. “We are very fortunate to have had such strong leadership at N.C. State. As a result of the chancellor’s planning, the University was able to offset some of the budget reduction by holding back some funds ahead of the actual legislated reduction,” Nate DeGraff, marketing and media relations coordinator for the College of Engineering, said. According to Dr. Johnny Wynne, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, “of the 16 percent reduction allocated to N.C. State by the Board of Governors, the provost only allocated a seven percent budget cut to the academic budget of the colleges.” The colleges within the University have taken meticulous approaches to
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Operation Thrive reaches out to campus organizations Non-profit volunteer organization, Operation Thrive, reaches out to campus organizations for new members.
There are four meetings per semester for Thrive. Students who are interested in joining the organization are encouraged to attend meetings, follow the group on Facebook and join the email list. It is free to join Operation Thrive. ”What we think is going to make Jatin Bhatia Operation Thrive attractive to stuStaff Writer dents is the fact that there are no Operation Thrive, a charity and member dues, we are not asking our voluntary non-profit organization members to pay to be apart of our orformed in February, is dedicated to ganization,” Hampson said. The future meetings of operation spreading awareness and raising money for local non-profit orga- thrive will be held on Oct. 11, Nov. 8 and Nov. 29 from 7-8 p.m. in Withers nizations. The organization is currently 120 aiming to give a brief overview tr ying to raise membership. of what it means to be affiliated with Operation Thrive James Hampand give detailed s on , ju n ior information of in biological upcoming events. sciences and Currently the president of organization is the organizaplanning to raise tion, said they funds by working are looking to on an event that partner with involves skating other smaller at Jellybeans super University orskate center. ganizations. Patrick Washington, senior in “We are cur“To get our mechanical engineering rently in the profeet of f t he cess of planning ground, we are looking to partner up with smaller our first fundraising event, ‘Skate 2 NCSU organizations to help them Thrive.’ We are still in the process fundraise and spread their own of working out all of the kinks and logistical aspects of the event,” Hampawareness,” Hampson said. Hampson said Operation Thrive son said. The Manager of Jellybeans super is a good organization because it reaches out to other organizations skate center, Mr. Eddie Earp, said that to come together and work to make they are proud to support Operation Thrive and will continue to support things happen. “What makes Operation Thrive them. “Operation Thrive is set up to supunique is that instead of functioning as a normal organization that port local charitable organizations has our own members, Operation that spread awareness about Autism Thrive will function as more of Spectrum Disorder, Breast Cancer, an outreach group and will work and a number of other types of cancers with other organizations and their and diseases/disorders that affect peomembers. Operation Thrive, in a ple’s lives on a daily basis. Jellybeans sense, serves as a liaison between those in need and those who want to help,” Hampson said. thrive continued page 3
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“You get to get involved with those things which aren’t much in the limelight.”
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Colleges at the University have made changes to work with loss of funding.
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help offset budget cuts and minimize expenses, which means reduced serthe impact on students and the quality vices to students and researchers. We do have some reserves in our Founof education. “The leadership in each college and dation, and we are judiciously using unit has made decisions on where to those to plug some holes, particucut back with the ultimate goal of larly when it comes to student supprotecting the academic programs port, such as scholarships, support for and services to students to the extent Study Abroad courses, TAs, etc,” Dr. Robert Brown, the dean for the Colpossible,” DeGraff said. Jeffrey Braden, dean of the College lege of Natural Resources, said. The College of Veterinary Medicine of Humanities and Social Sciences, explained that 98 percent of CHASS’s strives to keep as many positions as expenses are people, rather than utili- possible. “We did eliminate several support ties or equipment, and 90 percent of those people are faculty. He stated staff positions we would usually have that, where legally possible, non- refilled, including support staff in the appropriated funds, such as grants, dean’s office and department offices. alumni donations, and scholarships, In some cases we have moved staff are used to cover expenses, reducing from one office to another where there the spending of limited state-appro- was a more critical need. Loss of staff positions means that faculty members priated funds. The College of Physical and Math- have to do some of the tasks that used ematical Sciences has taken similar to be done by staff,” David Bristol, dean of the Colaction. lege of Veterinary “Like a lot of Medicine, said. other areas in Some jobs were the University, inevitably lost we have consolidue to budget dated some sercuts. However, vices so that they most of these could be carried losses were due out with fewer to voluntary vapeople,” Dr. Dan Nate DeGraff, marketing and media relations coordinator for the cancies, such as Solomon, dean of College of Engineering retirement and PAMS, said. reductions in fiThe College of nancial support, Natural Resources has also shifted staff and faculty re- and not termination. “We did not fire anybody. We did sponsibilities, and will rely on reserve lose state support for 6.29 faculty pofunds to help offset deficits. “We’ve adjusted to [other aspects sitions, 0.85 non-faculty EPA profesof our budget] in the same way we’ve sional positions, and 20.26 staff poadjusted to the state budget cuts – by sitions. Some of the positions were eliminating open positions, cutting vacant and were eliminated. Others some staff back to [three-quarters were filled and were moved to other of the] time, and reducing operating sources of revenue,” Bristol said.
“The leadership in each college and unit has made decisions on where to cut back...”
By the Numbers percent reduction to 16 NCSU 7
percent cut to academic budgets
15.1
percent legislaturemandated cuts total
6.29
number of faculty positions that no longer receive state support
20.26
number of staff positions that no longer receive state support
0.85
number of non-faculty EPA professional positions that no longer receive state support
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According to Wynne, the CALS face unique challenges. “The budget reductions in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are more complicated than in most other colleges since there are three appropriated budget lines instead of the normal one,” Wynne said. Woodson acknowledges the university’s cooperation and assistance during this difficult economic situation. “I appreciate the way everyone on campus has embraced the strategic plan, organizational realignment and budget conversations. They have been interactive processes built on the contributions of hundreds of students, faculty and staff who were directly and indirectly involved, ” Woodson said.
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