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wednesday september
28 2011
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Red Hat’s future location uncertain Red Hat is still in negotiations with Progress Energy as they plan to move from Centennial Campus. John Wall News Editor
Red Hat’s plan to move to the Progress Energy building in downtown Raleigh is not 100 percent certain. Red Hat, currently located on Centennial Campus, is in the process of negotiating with Progress Energy. For the moment, Progress Energy employees occupy the building. “We have got a non-binding letter of intent. We are continuing to negotiate with Red Hat, but we don’t have a signed contract yet,” Mike Hughes, a spokesman for Progress Energy, said. There is no time limit on the letter of intent, according to Hughes. Red Hat can take all the time they want to negotiate the deal. “We are very optimistic that we will be able to reach an agreement,” Hughes said. “We know it is very important to downtown Raleigh to have those jobs and have that office space filled, so we are doing everything we can to make that happen.” The building has 120,000 square feet of office space, Hughes said. Red Hat employs 3,700 people, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As of the market close Tuesday, the company has a market capitalization of $9 billion, according to Forbes. Progress Energy does not own the building — they are involved in a
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Red Hat, a Linux software company, stands on the northeast corner of the Main Campus Drive and Varsity Drive intersection on Centenniel Campus Aug. 30, 2010. The company announced they were moving off of Centennial Campus in Aug. 2011.
long-term lease. With the announcement of a possible merger with Duke Energy, the company is scouting suitors to sublease the entire building. “There will be a number of jobs eliminated as part of the merger with Duke Energy in the next couple of years. We anticipate that building to be available, and we will consolidate
all of our remaining employees in a single building or in some other facilities that we will be able to lease on a shorter timeframe,” Hughes said. Red Hat has been a staple on campus since 2002. They provide their Linuxbased computer system to the campus, according to the University website. Red Hat was contacted by phone
and email for comment, but did not respond. Hunter Ross, a freshman in biological sciences, said he anticipates the move will detract from the University’s ability to recruit students. “Red Hat adds an element of business and employment to the University. People won’t be able to find as much
opportunity here, so fewer people will want to come here,” Ross said. Resources that the University will lose will also make N.C. State less appealing, according to Ross. “There won’t be as many resources available, and even if there were, people would have no motivation to use them,” Ross said. Patel Kumar, a freshman in chemical engineering, did not comment on whether the move would be positive for the University, but did say a move to downtown would be a positive move for Red Hat. “[The move] would publicize the company even more,” Kumar said. “A larger number of other companies would be aware of them if they were to move downtown because it’s a more popular area.” Kumar also pointed out that although the company may soon move off campus, the fact that they were on campus in the first place shows past, present and future students there are opportunities available in Raleigh and at the University. “It will show that N.C. State students have potential. It will also show that we have somewhere to go from here – in a positive direction,” Kumar said. Entrepreneur and land developer Val Valentine, who is taking the lead on the Hillsborough Street project behind Timeout, Katmandu and Pantana Bob’s, commented over the summer that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is one of the top five smartest people in the world. Whitehurst will make the best business decision, according to Valentine.
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Alun Lloyd, director of the biomathematics graduate program, works on his research for dengue fever in his office, Sept. 22.
Adios to the deadly dengue fever Researchers tag team to attack dengue fever on the microbiological and the epidemiological level. Ameya Kulkarni Correspondent
Dengue fever has been prevalent in the world since the 4th century A.D., but researchers of the Eliminate Dengue Program are looking to get rid of the historical killer in the near future. The first cases of dengue fever were
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observed in China, but the fever simultaneously appeared in Asia, Africa and North America. This virus claims the life of around 100 million people annually, according to the World Health Organization. But soon, this will no longer be the case. Mathematical biologist Alun Lloyd, along with other scientists from the U.S. and Australia, was involved in the Eliminate Dengue Program.
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Tracing its roots back to 1908, N.C. State’s fight song possesses a relatively unrecognized history. See page 8.
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Dave Ramsey, famous radio personality, speaks with fans at his book signing held on Tuesday in Raleigh. Ramsey spoke in Raleigh about business strategies and mistakes he has made as a business man in the past.
Dave Ramsey visits Raleigh Ramsey speaks about business strategies and mistakes to an excited audience. Andrew Branch Staff Writer
Pumping his fists and shouting with enthusiasm, nationally syndicated talk show host and best-selling author Dave Ramsey took the stage Tuesday at a crowded Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh to promote the principles in his week-old book EntreLeadership. As Ramsey shared his experiences and strategies of running and building his business from his living room to a national brand, local business leaders and students said they found the principles practical for business and for personal life. “Businesses need more than lead-
ers,” Ramsey said in an email ex- en Rule from Luke 6:31, “Do to others change with the Technician before the as you would have them do to you.” “This is our HR manual,” Ramsey show. “They need the personal power of an entrepreneur combined with the told the audience Tuesday. “Treat people as you would passion to be a qualiwant to be treated. ty leader. EntreLeadPeople matter.” ership is the process Ultimately, of leading to cause a Ramsey said, most venture to grow and problems go back to prosper.” a weakness or a deT he pr i nc iple s cision made by the of being an “entreleader. leader” begin with “When I realized practical lessons of Dave Ramsey, the problems in my Ramsey’s Christian radio personality organization were faith. my fault, it was a “My faith plays a role in every part of my life. There are breakthrough,” Ramsey said. Ramsey said he has learned to recmany biblical principles that apply to business,” Ramsey said in an email. ognize 90 percent of his ideas are bad. “I have an idea every morning in“Because I am Christian, I know that my company is run by someone much larger than me.” Among those principles is the Goldramsey continued page 3
“Treat people as you would want to be treated. People matter.”
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