Technician
december
2
2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Centennial housing project underway The official ground breaking ceremony for the Centennial housing project was held yesterday morning.
Sports author debuts book to student body The Campus Bookstore is hosting a meet and greet for author Bethany Bradsher who wrote a book about the Dixie Classic.
Elise Heglar News Editor
Though the ground has technically been broken for some time now, the official groundbreaking ceremony for the Centennial Campus housing project was held yesterday. The project has been discussed for about four years but no official work had been done until this year. The project, called Entrepreneurs Village, will include housing for 1,200 students as well as more dining options and a bookstore on Centennial Campus. The new buildings will be directly across from Hunt Library on Centennial Oval. “We’re very excited about the scope for this project, especially when you combine it with Hunt Library,” Chancellor Randy Woodson said. The dining operation alone cost $9 million, according to Tim Luckadoo, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs. “This is a day we have been waiting on for four years,” Luckadoo said. When the original plans for Centennial Campus were created in the 1980s, there were no plans at all for any housing or dining options. As the student body grew, this changed and plans were made to add both options to the campus. Woodson said he hopes the project will bring a sense of community to Centennial. This is the first housing project to take place on Centennial. “This really completes the circle of getting campus to be a living and
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Council, students have been involved in a lot of the processes of the project. “There have been a lot of students engaged in this process. It’s really important that we include students so that we can meet the needs of students,” Skully said. Skully has been involved with some of the interior design elements of the project, such as choosing paint colors and assisting with
The Bookstore will be hosting a book signing on Friday afternoon to promote Bethany Bradsher’s new novel, The Classic: How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South. Bradsher is the author of several sports history books, including the biography of ECU baseball coach Keith LeClair and former Cincinnati player and Dixie Classic veteran Oscar Roberson. She will be signing copies of her book, which will be on sale at the bookstore. “I recommend it to any N.C. State fan,” Ben Van Ooyen, online ordering manager for the Bookstore, said. According to Van Ooyen, the Campus Bookstore decided to host the event because the book is about the Dixie Classic, an integral part of the University’s history. The Classic was held at Reynolds Coliseum annually from 1949 to 1960, until the dissolution of the tournament due to a pointshaving scandal in 1961. N.C. State won the tournament seven times. Everett Case, the University’s previous head coach, thought up the original idea for the Classic at the time. “There’s all sorts of interesting stuff
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Chancellor Randy Woodson finagles a reflective orange vest prior to breaking ground at the site of the future Centennial Campus dining halls Thursday, Dec. 1. The ceremony took place at the Oval on Centennial Campus, and featured speeches from Woodson and others.
learning community. To organize a campus community you need to have residents to complete the community,” Woodson said. Woodson, who recently moved to a new house on Centennial Campus, commented that he is excited to have students living in his vicinity once again. “As a recent resident of Centennial Campus, I’m excited to have 1,200 new neighbors. Sort of,” Woodson said. Thomas Stafford, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, commented that Woodson should be proud to call Uni-
versity students his neighbors. “From my point of view, you couldn’t find better neighbors than N.C. State students,” Stafford said. “Usually when you go to a groundbreaking, you’re the first people to break the ground. I guess another way to say that would be that I’ve never been to a groundbreaking where so much ground has already been broken,” Stafford said. Various people have been involved in the process, including some students. According to Lindsay Skully, president of the Inter-Residence
Cotton Couture runway show displays fashion innovation A fashion show hosted by Cotton Inc. utilized designs by students, both beginner and experienced. Jessie Halpern Staff Writer tyler adnrews/Technician
Transportation planner Allison Carpenter presents on the proposed “Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan” at a Physical Environment meeting in Winslow Hall on Thursday, Dec. 1. The plan would benefit bicyclist and pedestrians of the N.C. State community by offering amenities like safer bicycle lanes and improved crosswalks.
Committee discusses new bicycle safety plans The Physical and Environmental Planning Committee discussed plans to improve campus bike safety. Mikala Holmgreen Staff Writer
Two committees presented their proposals for improving our campus for students and faculty at the Physical Environment Committee. The Parking and Transportation Committee proposed their Bicycle and Pedestrian plan. The goals of this plan include engaging campus community, increasing safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, as well as improving campus green space environment and identifying important opportunities for improvement. Proposed improvements for bicyclists included widening bike lanes, building bike stations throughout
campus, increasing bike parking and lowering curbs on sidewalks. Bike lanes have recently been installed on Hillsborough Street, but members of the committee felt they have not been used because they are too narrow and are not safe. “I’m terrified of the bike lanes on Hillsborough street,” Hayden Brislin, sophomore in plant biology, said. “Either I hit a parked car on my right, or I get hit by a moving car on my left. There’s simply not enough space.” Members of the Physical Environment Committee debated petitioning for the removal of paid parking along Hillsborough Street in order to widen the bike lanes, but fear the opposition of faculty and students. Another solution for University bikers is to build “cycle tracks” - a track for bikes slightly elevated above the road but below the sidewalk - between
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NC STATE BOOKSTORE HARRELSON HALL
The third annual Cotton Couture fashion show showcased various students’ creativity and point of view in fashion. As students from the Apex Saxophone Quartet welcomed in guests, the seats of RBC Center’s Fletcher Opera Theater filled up with audience members. Included amongst the crowd was a large group of design students, who sat together in the back waiting to see their designs walk across the stage. Cotton Couture, a fashion show in its third year, offers students a forum to display their designs for audiences. While participating students are free to design pieces of any style, their only restraint is the material, which must be at least 60 percent cotton. Among the group of fashion and textile students seated together was beginning designer Samantha Burdett. A sophomore in the University’s new fashion textiles design program, she was excited to participate in a fashion show with a unique twist. “I think I learned a lot from this. I felt it a little bit challenging because I’m not used to looking at the cotton percentage of fabric and having to manipulate the fabric to get the desired color and texture I want, but it was really fun,” Burdett said. The show organized itself by level of designer, beginning with
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A model shows senior in fashion and textile management Roxanne Ejlali’s Marie Antoinette-inspired collection at the Cotton Couture design exhibit and competition in the Fletcher Opera Theater Thursday, Dec. 1.
undergraduate beginners and moving upwards through intermediate designers to advanced designers, both at the undergraduate and graduate
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levels. Among the many designers present
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