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tuesday november
11
2014
Raleigh, North Carolina
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IN BRIEF Roosevelt impersonator Laverne Cox to visit NC State today
Actress and transgender advocate Laverne Cox, most well-known for her role as Sophia on the hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black, will speak on campus at 7 p.m. today in the Talley Ballroom. Cox is the first openly transgender woman to appear on the cover of TIME magazine, and to be nominated for an Emmy award. Cox is also the first transgender woman to produce and star in her own TV show, a show called TRANSform Me. Cox’s presentation is titled “Ain’t I a Woman: My Journey to Womanhood.” Among the event’s sponsors are the GLBT Center, the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Women’s Center. SOURCE: OIED
Run and ceremony honors veterans at Belltower Each year since 2008, Raleigh Sister Cities and the ROTC units at NC State have held a run that ends at the Belltower and is followed by a sunrise ceremony in remembrance of those who died in WWI, and of all Veterans who have served their country through military service. The ceremony is occurring today at 6:30 a.m. The Armistice was signed in Compiegne, France 96 years ago. The hostilities of WWI ended on Nov. 11, 1918. NC State’s Belltower was built as a memorial to the 35 Raleigh citizens who died in France during WWI. SOURCE: LiveItUp! Hillsborough Street
shares words of wisdom Rachel Smith Correspondent PHOTO COURTESY OF THE STATE ARCHIVES OF NORTH CAROLINA
Acclaimed impersonator of President Theodore Roosevelt, Joe Wiegand, performed for a crowd of about 200 Monday night in the McKimmon Center, offering words of wisdom and advice from the perspective of the 26th president of the United States.
President Theodore Roosevelt speaks at the NC State Fair in 1905 located near Hillsborough Street.
Roosevelt returns to NC State
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Joe Wiegand, Theodore Roosevelt impersonator
Wiegand, who was invited to speak to the NC State community in celebration of the College of Natural Resource’s 85th anniversary, is known nationwide for his reprisal of President Roosevelt. Wiegand
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Joe Wiegand entertains and educates a crowd as he impersonates President Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. The College of Natural Resources invited Wiegand in celebration of its 85th anniversary.
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More minority students signing up for AP courses The Wake County Public school system earned national recognition Monday because an increasing number of students, especially those in minority groups, signed up for advanced placement courses and exams during the past three years. The school system earned a spot on the national AP District Honor Roll presented by the College Board. Wake County showed a 21.4 percent increase among AfricanAmerican students, a 22.6 percent among Hispanics and 82.8 percent among American Indians in the number of AP exams taken by students. SOURCE: News & Observer
Author speaks about NC education policy Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession, discussed North Carolina education policy and American values with students, faculty and guest in Park Shops Monday evening. Goldstein was the School of Public and International Affairs’ 2014 American Values Public Lecture speaker. Goldstein has been reporting on public education since 2007 and is a staff writer at The Marshall Project. She has been published in the The Atlantic and Slate. SOUCE: CHASS News
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PHOTO COURTSEY OF UNIVERSITY THEATERE
Thomas Bouchard (Left) & Izzy Burger (Right) play as Dr. Fogg and Passportout in the play Around The World in 80 Days. The second play of the 2014-2015 University Theatre season will run until Nov. 23.
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting president to speak within shadow of NC State during his visit to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, at the time located just across Hillsborough Street from NC State’s main campus, on Oct. 19, 1905. The 26th president’s remarks were given less than a mile from where Roosevelt impersonator Joe Wiegand performed Monday evening in the McKimmon Center. “The extraordinary development of industrialism during the last half century has been due to several causes, but above all to the revolution in the methods of transportation and communication; that is, to steam and to electricity, to the railroad and the telegraph,” Roosevelt said at the fair. Roosevelt visited the fair to call for a stronger Interstate Commerce Commission, which was later occurred through the landmark Hepburn Act of 1906. In an effort to increase regulation for private railroad companies using public railroad tracks, Roosevelt said private railroad companies should cape their rates and stop giving free passes to the company’s biggest customers. “Transport by water has wholly lost its old position of superiority over transport by land,” Roosevelt said. “The old laws and old customs which were adequate and proper to meet the old conditions need radical readjustment in order to meet these new conditions.” SOUCE: NC State News
Yard Show celebrates culture in Greek life Kevin Schafer Associate Features Editor
A crowd of students gathered in Wolf Plaza in celebration of NC State’s multicultural Greek life Monday evening. Organizations set up tables and a string of performers, including belly dancers and hip-hop artists, provided a high energy atmosphere for students and guests. The first Multicultural Greek Council Yard Show was comprised of 12 organizations dedicated to highlighting the university’s diverse Greek life. Leah Chevis, a senior studying fashion and textile management and member of Theta Nu Xi, said she and the rest of the MGC intend to make this festival annual.
“Theta Nu Xi has been here since 1990, and we are one of the least known Greek organizations on campus,” Chevis said. “So my idea for this was really just to get the campus to know who we are as an organization.” The MGC has been wanting to make this event happen for several years now, according to Chevis. She said she pitched the idea for it over the summer and oversaw the planning process. “I feel like in the growingly globalized world we live in, getting to know other cultures is important, and that’s what we foster,” Chevis said. “We’re trying to get people to understand different cultures.” Prior to the entertainment
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Kappa Phi Lambda performing at the Multicultural Greek Council Yard Show at Wolf Plaza on Monday night.
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