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NCSU, Gale Force Holdings resolve PNC scheduling dispute Deputy Sports Editor
After more than a year of contention, N.C. State University and Gale Force Holdings have reached an agreement regarding PNC Arena scheduling policies. On Friday, Chancellor Randy Woodson and Carolina Hurricanes President and General Manager Jim Rutherford announced that the two parties have developed a formalized process for scheduling events at PNC Arena. The arena currently serves as the home of N.C. State men’s basketball and Carolina Hurricanes hockey and hosts numerous ma-
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jor events such as concerts and pro wrestling. “We had done the scheduling a certain way for a number of years,” Rutherford said at the press conference. “We got to a point, as any long relationship would, where you have to make adjustments.” The agreement’s guidelines state that Gale Force will not schedule Hurricanes games or other events on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays during the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball season until the ACC releases its final schedule. The ACC primarily uses those three weekdays to schedule basketball games.
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North Carolinians gathered at Raleigh’s 28th annual International Festival at the Raleigh Convention Center. They visited booths, each representing various countries.
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N.C. State forfeits stake in student startups in lieu of education Joseph Havey Deputy News Editor
For-profit startup incubators are becoming commonplace on college campuses across the United States. N.C. State, however, has chosen to take a hands-off approach to this educational endeavor by providing resources for students without asking for a cut of their profits. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, several large universities, such as the University of Pennsylvania,
are creating startup incubators to encourage students to start education-center companies. The universities will provide the advice and monetary resources, but if the startup is successful, they will also get a chunk of the profits. “This is a potentially large revenue stream if the companies do well,” Bobbi L. Kurshan, executive director of academic innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s school of education, told the Chronicle. N.C. State also has a startup
incubator called the Garage, which is located on Centennial Campus. Megan Greer, the associate director of external relations for the Entrepreneurship Initiative at NC State, said the Garage is different than the University of Pennsylvania’s model because it’s an education program. “If a startup comes out of [a student’s] experience in the Garage, then we celebrate that,” Greer said. “But they own their idea.” Greer said students can use the Garage as a place to
come together and collaborate with others, as a way to experience creating a startup. It’s all about education. “[The Garage] is not an incubator per say,” Greer said. “It’s a place where students with ideas can come and put ideas into practice. And if they don’t work out, then they can leave it and move onto another idea.” Greer also said that she does see startups and higher education increasingly influencing each other, for-profit or not.
“I think that we’ve seen an increase in entrepreneurship education programs,” Greer said. “They might have different organization structures, but we have seen more of these incubator type spaces opening on campuses in the UNC-System, as well as the private colleges in North Carolina.” Burlington-based Elon University, for example, offers a degree in entrepreneurship. One example of a Garage member directly inf luenc-
ing N.C. State is Heather Troutman, a senior in environmental sciences and selfdeclared social entrepreneur. Her campaign, Plastic Propaganda, seeks to eliminate single-use plastic on N.C. State’s campus through the help of large-scale artistic demonstrations. “Rather than telling people information that they may or may not want to hear, the idea is to build something to peak their curiosity through some-
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Student organization hosts wine-tasting fundraiser
Cyber security awareness month starts with online privacy lecture
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One of N.C. State’s newest student organizations, 4 the World N.C. State Chapter, hosted a wine tasting for its fundraising event Friday. The event was held at Uncorked, a wine bar and restaurant located in North Raleigh, and tastings were offered for $5 per person. The organization sold raffle tickets for gourmet wine and cheese baskets. Uncorked donated 100 percent of the proceeds to 4 the World. 4 the World is a nonprofit organization that works with volunteers to help suppress global issues in needy communities, primarily health and education. Robert Keith Froom, the founder of 4 the World, started the N.C. State chapter. “I started the N.C. State Chapter with help from a young lady looking to do an internship,” Froom said. “That was her project, to get the chapter started.” After working on the project for a year, there was officially a chapter at N.C. State by the beginning of the 2012 academic year. The
organization had presidents, copresidents, vice-presidents and secretaries but Froom said it was not very well known on campus during its first year. According to Froom, that changed at the 2013 N.C. State Campus Crawl when more than 100 members signed up for the organization. “It’s a really popular organization when students see the pictures and hear about all the things we do,” Froom said. Froom, who just got back from spending a month in Guatemala and Belize, said 4 the World works both in the U.S. and abroad, with the foreign efforts taking place in Belize, Guatemala, Africa and Philippines. Teams of volunteers go on location to do health or education projects, and sometimes volunteers work to build schools and deliver school supplies, other times they put electricity in schools that don’t have power. “Sometimes when our teams go to these communities
we’re the closet things to medical people,” Froom said. “It’s really amazing.” Shea Kerkhoff Vessa is the education director of 4 the World. She began working for the organiza-
About 40 people attended N.C. State’s kick-off event for Cyber Security Awareness Month — a lecture sponsored by the Office of Information Technology. The lecture, titled “How to Take Control of Your Digital Life,” provided faculty, staff and students tips on securing their privacy online. Tim Gurganus, an information technology security officer for OIT and Friday’s lecturer, said he thought the
event went well. “I think our role is to raise awareness of the attacks and scams that are out there,” Gurganus said. “There is a risk, and there are things the students can do to reduce it. That’s how we help the campus in general with these presentations.” Gurganus said this is the fifth year he’s helped with Cyber Security Awareness Month, which is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Se-
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ham Bulls. According to allaboutbeer.com, this Study Abroad Fair showcasesiseducathe 18th year World Beer Festival On Saturday, tional destinations All About Beer Mag- occurred in Durham. azine hosted its World Beer Festival Adam Hayes, who attended the sesin Durham, offering unlimited two sion beginning at noon, is an alumounce servings of more than 300 craft nus of N.C. State and said he enjoyed beers. There were two sessions on the his first ever beer festival for obvious day, one from noon to 4:00 p.m., and reasons. the next from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The “We hadn’t been there before, and I event was held at Durham Athletic Park, the former home of the DurBEER continued page 3 Deputy News Editor
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