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GLBT Center names new director UNIVERSITY HIRES NEW DIRECTOR AFTER FORMER DIRECTOR PROMOTED Casey Oldham Correspondent
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Renee Wells recently replaced Justine Hollingshead as the Director of the GLBT Center at N.C. State. Hollingshead has been the director since January 2008.
Carpool parkingpass reduction to reduce congestion Sasha Afanasieva Staff Writer
Starting this semester, NC State has implemented a new policy restricting carpool passes for students located within half a mile of a Wolfline stop or campus. Michael Ousdahl, transportation planner for NCSU Transportation, said that the policy was implemented to reduce traffic congestion on campus. “If you live across the street from campus and you and your roommate are driving alone, that’s two cars to campus,” Ousdahl said. “If you are carpooling, that’s one car to campus, and if you are taking the Wolfline that’s zero cars to campus. The idea is to reduce cars to campus.” Six new buses were also added to Wolfine at the start of the semester to address crowding problems. “We added six new buses this year,” said Christine Klein, public communication specialist for NCSU Transportation. “Normally, the first couple of days are very full, and our transit manager always cautions folks to not wait until the very last bus.” Additionally, NCSU Transportation regularly collects data on transportation usage. “We have staff that ride the busses on regular bases, especially these first few days,” Klein said. “Our director, actually, Kathy Reeve was on the buses yesterday.” The new buses will be added to some of the most congested routes. “We look at the bus ridership and performance monthly,” Ousdahl
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said. “We are able to be very deliberate on where to roll out the buses. We rolled these buses on where we saw the highest demand and capacity concerns: Avent Ferry, the Engineering route, the Southeast loop and Gorman route.” Some students reacted favorably to the changes while others voiced other transportation-related concerns. “The main issue is availability of parking spaces for commuter passes, as is the issue with all parking passes,” said Catherine Konieczny, a junior in economics. “The pacing of the Wolfline buses could be improved, especially for those that are running to student apartments where there are varied periods of demand.” Andrew Thomson, a senior in electrical engineering who commutes by car daily to class, saw the new carpool policy as a positive change. “It doesn’t affect me, but I do like the idea of having a carpool parking policy,” Thomson said. “That way, if you live with a couple of people, you can drive together instead of separately and save on gas.” Ousdahl explained that in addition to reducing congestion on campus, the new carpool policy is intended to increase sustainability by encouraging more people to take the bus, bike, or walk. “This impacts students with congestion on campus and increases NC State’s national profile
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Beginning this semester, Renee Wells will be the new director at the GLBT Center. Her predecessor, Justine Hollingshead, has taken a new position as the assistant to the vice chancellor and dean of the Division of Academic and Student Affairs. Wells, having studied and completed degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Miami and Illinois, said that she was drawn to NC State because she liked the structure of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. OIED serves as the umbrella office for all cultural centers at NC State, including the GLBT Center. Wells said she is excited to be working on a large campus again. Before coming to NC State, she spent the majority of her time teaching literature courses at the University of Alabama. Although it is only her third week at NC State, Wells said she already has plans to better collaborate with the other centers that are part of OIED. Wells said her top priorities for the GLBT Center are student develop-
ment, figuring out how she and the department can support students and forming strong relationships across campus. Both Wells and the GLBT Center will be working to accomplish these goals with campus administration. They plan to host events on campus that are designed to promote GLBT awareness and make sure that the policies and practices are inclusive to members of GLBT community. Actress Lavern Cox from Orange is the New Black is scheduled to visit and give a speech on Nov. 11, 2014. Cox’s speech will discuss identity and what it means to be part of the GLBT community, specifically with transsexual issues. Hollingshead has recently accepted a position newly-made by Michael “Mike” Mullen, Dean of Academic and Student Affairs. Hollingshead said she has been working for NC State for 18 years. She began as an employee for University Housing and then spent the last seven years working as the director of the GLBT Center. Hollingshead said her new position is a sort of “chief-of-staff” for DASA and a new addition to what Mullen calls his “cabinet.”
A major part of her current work is communicating with the student body in the most effective manner possible on matters such as crime reports and other emergencies. Hollingshead also said that increasing awareness about standard intervention is a top priority in her work. In addition to these tasks, Hollingshead says that another part of her day-to-day work is to manage the “marketing and communications between DASA and other departments here at NCSU.” When asked on her thoughts about the new director, Hollingshead said, “I think she’ll be able to take the GLBT center to the next level to what we want to do on campus. She’s very passionate and capable.” Cassie Peele, a sophomore in computer science, said she has been involved with the GLBT community at NC State and praised Hollingshead for her contributions. “I think a lot of people looked up to Hollingshead because she held everything together through coordination,” Peele said. “She helped keep things structured and was always there if you needed advice or
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NCSU Bookstores to move back to Talley, rebrand
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The NC State bookstore currently located in Harrelson Hall will be moving to Talley Student Union in the spring as part of Phase II. In Talley, the bookstore will go by a new name, Wolfpack Outfitters.
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Between April and June 2015, the NCSU Bookstore will be moving from its current location in Harrelson to the Talley Student Building. Delays in construction prevented the original plan of transitioning in late 2014. The Talley project is now scheduled
to be completed in Spring 2015. In addition to a change in inventory, the new store will also be getting a redesign, operating under the new name Wolfpack Outfitters. The new bookstore will contain “new and exciting expansions of our merchandise offerings,” according to Pat Hofmeister, director of NC
State Student Bookstores. The renovations to Harrelson were completed during June of 2011, only three months after construction began in March. The old bookstore was desmolished in August 2011 with the rest of Talley to make way for the new building. Three years later, the new Talley building is almost ready to take back
the bookstore with greater square footage than its predecessor or the current 19,630 square foot location in Harrelson. The bookstore, along with other student services, was relocated to the bottom floor of Harrelson in the summer of 2011. The transition to Talley
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