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Feed the Pack in need of leaders Alex Petercuskie Staff Writer
Feed the Pack, a new University food pantry that benefits members of the N.C. State community, is now accepting applications for student leadership positions. The Feed the Pack food pantry was recently designed by N.C. State faculty and students in order to assist members of the Wolfpack family who experience food insecurity, according to the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service. While a group of committed University faculty, staff and students have worked together to make the initiative into a reality, PJ Adams, staff psychologist for the N.C. State Counseling Center, said he first pitched the idea to upper administration when he realized the numEMILY WHITE/TECHNICIAN ber of students who were visiting Administrative Assistant and NC State Alum Pattie Hoffland works at her desk for the Raleigh sector of Stop the center hungry. Inspired by the Hunger Now on Hillsborough Street Friday, August 26. Along with Stop Hunger Now, CSLEPS houses various University of Central Florida’s food programs like the new Feed the Pack food pantry. CSLEPS is just one campus orga- ence and help them cultivate profespantry initiative, Adams said he State staff, faculty and students.” Unlike many campus and CSLEPS nization involved in the initiative. sional skills that apply to the real received approval from Lisa Zapata Adams said the committee consists world,” Adams said. organizations and Lee Salter and Jessica Rose, a junior in engineert h at ad vo c at e of about ten members and works a small number of awareness a nd with departments such as Student ing and director for the CSLEPS University staff work toward im- Government, the Counseling Cen- Hungry Advocacy committee, said united around the proving local or ter, Union Activities Board and the that although she was not part of issue. the initial committee, she became a global issues, such Women’s Center. “From t here, Adams said in addition to the di- member of the advisory board this as education and I reached out to hunger, Feed the rect benefits of the food pantry, Feed semester, and has seen the progress Mi ke Gia ncola Pack food pan- the Pack also provides students with of the project come full circle. from CSLEPS and “We have been finalizing our try is different a means of experiential learning. we really got the PJ Adams, staff psychologist “A secondary goal of Feed the Pack room, as well as the layout of the because it centers ball rolling,” Adexclusively on im- is to provide students with service ams said. “This dream wouldn’t have been a reality proving the lives of those who work and leadership opportunities that enhance their educational experiif it wasn’t for the hard work of N.C. for and attend the University. FEED continued page 3
“...Feed the Pack is to provide students with service and leadership opportunities...”
Daniel Schwindt News Editor Old Gold & Black
With Election Day less than six weeks away, the battle over the Republican and Democratic budget proposals has turned into a hot button issue. And no two people understand the complexity of the budget issue quite like the chairpersons of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform — Alan Simpson, former Senator of Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, former chancellor of the North Carolina University System — both of whom delivered a Voices
of Our Time lecture on the debt crisis in Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel on Sept. 25. While the two men began each of their speeches with jokes, both Bowles and Simpson became quite serious when emphasizing the urgency of the fiscal situation. The men admitted that even they had not been fully aware of the severity of the situation until they began gathering facts for the commission. “When President Obama called and asked us to chair this commission, we thought we were doing
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Christine Urbowicz, senior in communications, picks up excess candy and condoms from a piñata. The resident adviser hosted a safe sex jeopardy event titled “Spunky Monkey” at Tucker Hall. “The event was the first of the year,” Urbowicz said, “and we wanted to educate people about safe sex and STDs.”
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Student Senate does not back Sustainability Fee; other fees granted Megan Dunton Staff Writer
N.C. State’s Student Government Senate approved recommendations for several student fee increases Wednesday night, but some organizations were left with significantly lower amounts than what they requested, and the Sustainability Fee was not recommended. All of the amounts approved Wednesday night are recommendations and not final. The first fee passed was the Student Health Services Fee was increased by $9.38 for a total of $277 a year for students. $4.08 of increase will go toward state mandated salary increases for employees, $2.44 of the increase will go toward the hiring of an additional physical therapist, and $2.87 of the increase will go toward the hiring of a new counselor. State mandated salary increases for employees is not being funded and must come out student fees. A new physical therapist is being hired because of a 37 percent increase in January and 35 percent increase in February in physical therapy appointments over last fiscal year. A new counselor is being hired because of an excessive wait time of up to two weeks for a counseling appointment. The new Sustainability Fee of $5 per semester will not be recommended. The Sustainability Fee would have gone toward creating educational opportunities through projects, grants, peerto-peer networks and research. This highly debated bill was amended twice and debated numerous times among student senators. Jason Cockrell, senator for
the College of Physical and Mathemetical Sciences, said, “You don’t need new money to save money. Groups should do things voluntarily.” Many senators agreed with Cockrell. But many others advocated for the fee, saying that N.C. State needed to stay ahead of the curve of innovation. Caroline Hansley, a junior in biological sciences, said, “N.C. State needs to be the leaders we want to be. This is a land grant university, and we need to walk the walk.” The Student Centers Operations Fee recommended increase was $20.04 for a total of $286.02 a year. The Department of Academic and Student Affairs will benefit from $6.45 of the increase. Offices under the Department of Academic and Student Affairs include ARTS N.C. State, Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service, and the Student Organization Resource Center. This increase would offset mandatory salary increases in these offices. Of the total increase, $2.59 will go to the Office for Equity & Diversity for an assistant director in the GLBT Center. Lastly, $11 of this will benefit Campus Enterprises to hire new staff for Talley. The Student Publications Fee was increased by $3.66 for a total of $19.16 a year. The increase will go toward maintaining WKNC operations including purchasing materials to extend the life of the current radio transmitter and convert to HD radio in future years, funding a production assistant for the Technician and the Nubian Message, and to off-
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AFROTC to receive appropriations after clerical conundrum Mark Herring Editor-in-Chief
Mix ups in last week’s Student Government appropriations meeting left the Wolfpack Warriors Booster Club blacklisted from Student Government funding, due to claims the club didn’t account for its funding. After protest from students in the club, a proxy organization for N.C. State Air Force ROTC, Student Government Treasurer Joe Murray found the source of the problem: misfiled receipts. Air Force ROTC has a long history of applying for appropriations from Student Government, and historically, it applied under the Wolfpack Warriors Booster Club, according to Murray. Last year, the group filed under Air Force ROTC and returned receipts. Organizations frequently file appropriation requests under different names, Murray said. “The organization had filed for appropriations under varying names and since past officers in SG did not pay close enough attention to this — although the group provided sufficient infor-
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