TECHNICIAN
friday october
26 2012
Raleigh, North Carolina
technicianonline.com
AllCampus fees cause upset Jake Moser Staff Writer
The AllCampus merger with Wolf Print has students upset over the fee for online credit or debit account money transfers for printing. The transfer fee has been part of the AllCampus card for several years, according to director of technology and support programs, Susan West. This year, it became a problem when students were charged the same transfer fee when adding small amounts to their printing account. The AllCampus card is used to buy books, concessions at Carter Finley stadium, tickets from ticket central and campus cinema, snacks from vending machines, and almost everything on campus. At many of these places, the fee goes unnoticed because it is a small percentage of the actual purchase. For example, many students use their AllCampus account to pay for books, so a $2 fee out of a payment of several hundred dollars is not seen as an issue, according to West. Likewise, students tend to transfer a lot of money into their AllCampus account at one time for tickets, or a semester’s worth of money for vending machines. This year, students took notice of the fee. According to West, a $2 fee is a “huge percentage” relative to how much money the average student adds to their print quota, so it is easy to see why this would upset them. West said students can add money to their AllCampus account free of charge in-person at the One Card office at Talley Student Center, by check, or in the mail. “I can understand that students might need to immediately add money to their print quota at 2 a.m. in the library to print something off, but one key message to
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N.C. State students gathered in the Wolf Plaza area near the Free Expression Tunnel to celebrate their support the University’s sports teams at the alumni association’s Ram Roast. If all goes well, the Wolfpack will bring home their sixth victory in a row against the Tarheels this Saturday.
Rams roasted before game Weston Suggs Staff Writer
The Alumni Association held the eighth annual Ram Roast Thursday night in Wolf Plaza to pep up students for another installment of the Tobacco Road rivalry football game between N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday. The Power Sound of the South, cheerleaders and the University’s dance team came together to pump up hundreds of students in
hope of a sixth consecutive victory over the UNC-Chapel Hill football team. Perhaps the most appealing attraction for die-hard Wolfpack fans was the appearance of the football team’s head coach, Tom O’Brien, and players Mike Glennon, Sterling Lucas and Camden Wentz. “We’ve been excited about this thing since we walked off the field at Maryland last week,” O’Brien said. “We did it for the class of ’11, we did it for the class of ’12, now we’re going
to try do it for the class of ’13, that you will never have lost to Carolina in football.” O’Brien’s appearance ended as students locked arms and sang the University’s Alma Mater with the marching band. The Ram Roast included performances from various student groups such as Ladies in Red, The Grains of Time, DanceVisions, Fusion Dance Crew, the N.C. State Clogging Team and Sube Ritmo. The student groups performed on
CSLEPS extends outreach programs Alex Petercuskie Staff Writer
The Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service will soon begin its pen pal initiative and Harvesting for the Hungry programs, connecting N.C. State students, faculty and staff to the local community. CSLEP’s former community outreach director, Amanda Antono, a senior in biological sciences, created the program last year. This year’s outreach committee decided to continue the project. Mandy Scott, a junior in business administration and current community outreach director, said because of the excellent response rate, registration to become a pen pal filled up in a day and a half. Scott said an assessment of last year’s program was conducted to improve this year’s program. In the past, Bertie Middle School partnered with N.C. State to match students in a sixth grade class to University students. This year, the program expanded to two classes
to include both sixth and seventh graders. Scott said the decision to write to sixth and seventh grade students was dependent upon the enthusiasm of the middle school teacher. “[The teacher] loves what the program does for her students,” Scott said. “Through last year’s program she was able to spread the word and get seventh grade on board.” Throughout the course of the fall semester, about 260 N.C. State students and faculty will each write between two and three letters to Bertie Middle School students. Scott said the program has a few primary goals, such as connecting members of the N.C. State community to youth in the community, providing positive role models for middle school students and encouraging youth to pursue their passions and continue their education. Participants in the program will follow writing prompts provided by the middle school teacher, Scott said. The matching process for the program presents some unique chal-
lenges. The project is designed to connect the career paths of N.C. State students with interests of the middle school students. “One wants to be a hunter, another a football player, so that makes the matching process a little more difficult,” Scott said. Scott said the program is doing something a little more personal this year by recommending that N.C. State student and faculty representatives find something symbolic of themselves, or where they come from, and send it along with their letters. Though this isn’t required, Scott said it is highly recommended. The pen pal program is just one of several projects put on by the CSLEPS community outreach committee. In November, the group plans to organize and participate in “Harvesting for the Hungry,” an event where volunteers visit local farms and glean, according to Scott. Gleaning entails walking around a farm collecting leftover crops. “The crops may not be the right weight or appearance for the commercial market, but they are still
good crops,” Scott said. “Our committee is going to launch a program to go out on Saturday for two hours and go through as a mass and glean. I believe we will be doing sweet potatoes or collard greens,” Scott said. Scott said the crops will then be given to a local food bank or soup kitchen the weekend before Thanksgiving in order to give back during the Holiday season. This spring, Scott and her committee will be launching a program called “Love the skin you’re in” to target the Girls Club of Raleigh. According to Scott, the program is about accepting diversity, appreciating oneself and promoting bullying awareness. Scott said the N.C. State Women’s Center will also help with the initiative. Girls will participate in self-esteem boosting exercises as well as other activities, according to Scott.
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a large stage, which was added this year in hopes of increasing the status of the event. A 16-seed cornhole tournament was among the list of activities. The winners of the tournament received two floor seats to next Thursday’s homecoming concert featuring Gloriana and Wale. A historical scavenger hunt called “The Traditions Run” engaged students who ran around campus and
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Student turns his war experience into a book See page 6.
Football goes for six-straight See page 8.
Soccer finishes season last in ACC See page 8.
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