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(From left to right) Sara Dahbour, Danyah Dahbour, and Khadija Ewais shout at passing cars on Morgan St. in support of the liberation of Palestine at the State Capitol Building Saturday afternoon.
Protesters call for end to U.S. aid to Israel Katherine Kehoe News Editor
Pedestrians and motorists traveling down Fayetteville Street toward the North Carolina State Capitol in the hot hours of the early afternoon Saturday would have a hard
time ignoring the crowd of about 200 demonstrators displaying posters and chanting to protest ongoing violence in the Gaza strip and the billions of dollars in United States military aid given to Israel annually.
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The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a member of the N.C. State Board of Trustees Wednesday after it found a loaded 9 mm handgun in his bag as he tried to enter a congressional office building at the U.S. Capitol, the Washington Post reported. Ronald William Prestage, 59, of Camden, S.C., was charged with carrying a handgun outside a home or office, a felony. Prestage’s attorney said he forgot he had the handgun in his bag. Officer Shennell S. Antrobus, a spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police, said police conducted a routine search and found the loaded gun in Prestage’s bag at about 9:20 a.m. Prestage is president of Prestage Farms, which has a significant relationship with N.C. State. N.C. State named its poultry science department after the Prestage
family after it announced a $10 million gift to department in 2012. Prestage Farms employs 100 people and has contracts with 90 farmers, according to its website. It is headquartered in Clinton, N.C. Since 2013, Prestage has served as one of the 13 members of the University’s Board of Trustees, according to the University’s website. In addition to serving as a member of the Board of Trustees, he is also the president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council, a lobbying group for the pork industry. Prestage was detained at Central Cell Block and was in custody as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, The News & Observer reported. He was due in court Thursday morning, according to The News & Observer. A spokesperson for the Central Cell Block declined to comment. Fred Hartman, director of Public Relations for N.C. State, Summer Lanier, a spokeswoman for Prestage did not respond by press time.
Student Health dissolves promotion branch Katherine Kehoe News Editor
Effective July 10, the Division of Academic and Student Affairs removed the department of Health Promotion
from Student Health Services due to the need to redistribute financial resources, resulting in one lay-off and the addition of four new positions in other departments. Justin Hammond, t he
director of Marketing and Communications for DASA, said the University has limited resources, so DASA decided to try and combine and rearrange positions where it made sense to do so.
“This was simply an opportunity to leverage our strengths and use our funding to address our top priorities,” Hammond said. Stephanie Sobol, the previous associate director of
Health Promotion, was laidoff from her position and the two dietitians previously housed in Health Promotion have been moved to the medical clinic. The University created
four new positions related to health promotion in various departments to fill the gaps created by dissolving the Department of Health Pro-
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Challenging immigration law Staff Report
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A variety of rare organisms, such as this octopus, inhabit the sea floor surrounding cold seeps.
Deep-sea research seeks to learn more about rare sea life Katherine Waller Staff Writer
N.C. State students and staff members recently traveled to the Gulf of Mexico for a multi-year project in partnership with Oregon State University and Duke University to explore the mysteries of cold seeps at the bottom of the ocean. A cold seep is a shallow area on the ocean floor where gases can accumulate, often in the form of a pool. David Eggleston, N.C. State biologist and director of the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, said the scientific community knows very little about cold seeps, and there are so many questions that
scientists want answered regarding the rare life-forms in the communities. Doreen McVeigh, a graduate student at N.C. State, added that it is vital to learn more about the cold seeps because they are often the site of mining and drilling operations, and there still so much to learn about them. Cold-seep communities are unique in that they do not rely on photosynthesis for the base of their food web because they are located where there is no exposure to sun rays. Instead, these communities
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About 30 anti-illegal immigration demonstrators lined the street in front of Raleigh’s Mexican consulate on Saturday joining in on a nationwide, weekend-long event that has been dubbed the “National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge.” According to the organizer’s website, the national demonstration, with about 321 protests taking place nationwide, is “the largest coordinated protest against all forms of amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, and the government’s failure to enforce immigration laws and secure our borders.” Some pro-immigration protests were held over the weekend to counter the widespread protests against undocumented immigrants, but they received significantly less media attention. The protests arose as part of a backlash against the Obama ad-
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Protesters line E. Six Forks Rd. in from of the Raleigh Mexican Consulate building Saturday afternoon.
ministration’s attempts to temporarily house migrant children being detained at the Texas border in nonprofit shelters in other states. More than 50,000 undocumented immigrant children have passed into the United States via the southwestern border since October. Many of the children were fleeing violent and unsafe conditions in many South and Central American countries creating what is now being called a humanitarian crisis, according to NBC News.
In an effort to assist the overwhelmed U.S. Immigration system, President Barack Obama requested close to $4 billion from Congress, which has been met by resistance and opposition by House Republicans. “I can’t imagine our members are going to want to send more money down there without attempting to mitigate the problem at the border,” House Speaker John Boehner said at a Capitol Hill briefing.
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