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Bryan Perlmutter, Program Coordinator of IgniteNC and 2013 graduate of N.C. State, advocates for the addition of N.C. State as an early voting station for the fall election at the Wake County Board of Elections meeting Tuesday afternoon in downtown Raleigh.
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Students hoping to cast their ballots in November for Midterm elections won’t be able to vote with the convenience that they had in the 2012 election, as N.C. State will not be hosting an early voting site
this fall. On Tuesday, the Wake County Board of Elections held a public hearing in the WNBC center in downtown Raleigh to pick eight early-voting sites. The three-man board unanimously voted to approve five voting sites and selected the last three
sites by a 2-1 margin. In addition, Wake County is required by law to use the Board of Elections office, which is located downtown. There were 40 speakers at the meeting, which lasted for about three hours, including students
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Chancellor Randy Woodson, alumni, and friends and family of Hondros gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to honor N.C. State alum Chris Hondros, who was killed on assignment for Getty Images as a war photojournalist in Libya on April 20, 2011. Hondros and his colleague Tim Hetherington, the director of the Oscar-nominated film Restrepo, were killed in Misurata, Libya during an attack by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces against rebels in the city during the Arab Spring uprising. Hondros died several hours after suffering a head wound from a mortar attack. An award-winning photojournalist, Hondros covered many of the world’s major conflicts after graduating from the University in 1993. He covered wars and the struggles of daily life in Kosovo and Macedonia/Albania, Angola,
Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, Cuba, Pakistan, Nigeria, Liberia and ultimately Libya for more than a decade, his work featured on the covers of acclaimed publications such as The New York Times and the Washington Post. Because of his work in Liberia, Hondros was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography in 2004, and in 2005 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, which is awarded to the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise,” according to the Overseas Press Club of America. He was nominated posthumously for a Pulitzer Prize again in 2012 for his coverage of the Arab Spring. Greg Campbell, a friend and colleague of Hondros, spoke Monday about Hondros’ effect on the profession of war photojournalism and about the lives Hondros touched
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GLBT Center seeks new director Antivirus software requires updates Staff Report
The University has begun its search to find a new director of the GLBT Center. The first of three candidates visited campus Wednesday. Justine Hollingshead, director of the N.C. State GLBT Center since January 2008, stepped down from her position at the GLBT Center to assume a new role as assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs onMay 19. The search for a candidate to fill Hollingshead’s old position is currently in progress. The search committee for the position, led by Associate Vice Provost for Equal Opportunity and Equity Amy Circosta, has narrowed the applicants down to three potential candidates. The three candidates must come to campus and give a presentation before the final hiring decision is made. The first can-
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North Carolina at Greensboro, currently serves as the LGBTQA Coordinator/Director of the Bayard Rustin Center at Guilford College as well as the Deputy Directory of the Trans People of
On June 29, the Univerdity will replace its current free antivirus software, Trend Micro, with the Russian antivirus software Kaspersky. If students currently using Trend Micro do not change to Kaspersky, they will lose the license to use Trend Micro and will no longer be protected by the software. Kaspersky, just like Trend Micro, will be free for students, faculty members and staff to keep both personal and university data secure from cyberattacks. Mardecia Bell, director of Security and Compliance in the Office of Information Technology, said the three year contract
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Justine Hollingshead, the former director of the GLBT Center, addresses the student Senate March 19, 2014.
didate, Parker Hurley, visited campus Wednesday. The last two candidates, Renee Wells and Jenny Kurtz, will visit the week after the Fourth of July. Wells will speak on July 8, and Kurtz will speak on July 11. Both presentations will take place
from 1 to 2 p.m. in 100 Winslow Hall. Circosta said the presentations are open to the public, and students are encouraged to attend. Hurley, who is enrolled in a Ph.D. program for Higher Education at the University of
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For the past few years, researchers and professors from N.C. State partnered with Bayer CropScience to restore Golf Course Two at Pinehurst Resort, the location for
the 2014 U.S. Open. Danesha Seth Carley, coordinator for CALS Sustainability Programs, said N.C. State was asked to work with the United States Golf Association team as well as Bob Farren, who is in charge of all the golf courses at Pinehurst Resort. Farren and
the USGA were preparing for the U.S. Open when they undertook the renovation of Golf Course Two. N.C. State was asked to help manage the areas of the course where about 40 acres of Bermuda grass,
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