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Construction for a new practice facility near Carter-Finley stadium will cause tailgaters in the Southeast lot to relocate. The university is planning to add even more parking when construction is finished.
Indoor sports complex to displace Red-lot tailgaters Assistant News Editor
Due to the construction of a new $14 million indoor practice facility, about 700 parking spaces in the Stadium Southeast Red Lot at CarterFinley Stadium will be unavailable for use during the 2014 N.C. State football season. N.C. State Athletics has offset the loss of spots caused by the new facility by identifying additional parking inventory around the stadium complex to accommodate the displaced tailgaters, according to Michael Lipitz, senior associate athletics director at N.C. State, though they might not be as close to the stadium. “It’s a net-zero loss with respect to parking,” Lipitz said. “There are no short-term or long-term impacts to parking. It’s just different locations where folks are going to have
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to park.” The indoor practice facility will begin this June and be completed in March 2015. Funded by private donors to the Wolfpack Club, the complex will include a full-length indoor football field, training and conditioning space beyond both end zones, four 120-yard sprint lanes, an in-ground pit and above-ground pad for track disciplines. The facility will be located in what is now the Southeast Lot at the corner of Westchase Boulevard and the outer loop road next to CarterFinley Stadium. The Stadium Southeast Red Lot is a parking lot for Wolfpack Club members and season-ticket holders. The parking locations are assigned in priority order according to Wolfpack Club donor ranking and are also based on the specific requests of individual donors, Lipitz said.
However, donors who park in the Southeast Red Lot are not the only people whose parking locations will be affected. All lots around the stadium complex are expected to be affected in some way by the construction of the Indoor Facility, according to N.C. State Athletics. People with lower donor rankings who originally parked in the Southeast Lot will be moved to different lots. However, the donors whose rankings qualify them for other lots will placed there, causing people who park in these lots to be displaced in a similar way. Zac Tart, an N.C. State alum and seasons ticket holder since 2011, said he attended every home football game with a group of 10 or 12 cars full of people who all park and tailgate together in the Trinity Lot.
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NCSU Libraries to drop more than 700 journal subscriptions Staff Report
Due to a $750,000 budget reduction, NCSU Libraries will be forced to discontinue hundreds of academic journals, some of which are viewed 200-300 times annually, according to Greg Raschke, associate director for Collections and Scholarly Communication. So far, the department has compiled a list of 709 journal subscriptions that could be cancelled after receiving input from students, faculty members and staff. The cuts will go into effect January 2015, according to Raschke. “The biggest impact is on research and learning,” Raschke said. “Faculty and students can’t access the journals they’re used to using. We have a high usage and demand, and we’re not going to be able to fulfill all that. It’s really going to slow down research and learning. Once they’re gone, they’re going to
be hard to get back.” The journals included in NCSU Libraries list have been used 40-50 times during the past year, while others have an annual usage of about 200-300 times. The cuts are similar in scope to those made in 2008-2009, when NCSU Libraries did a large-scale journal review, Raschke said. The system also considered overall usage to determine the list of proposed titles that could be cut. Projected budget reductions from the University are combined with expected inflation for journals and databases of $550,000 and necessitate preparations for steep reductions to the collection, according to the NCSU Libraries webpage. NCSU Libraries was forced to reduce its budget this year by almost 5 percent, or $1.3 million, due to state-appropriated cuts handed down by the state legislature.
Prof discusses collective animal, insect behavior Casey Oldham Correspondent
A researcher from Princeton University spoke about the behavior of organisms as individual units and as groups Monday in SAS Auditorium. Iain Couzin, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, spoke at the third annual Kwangil Koh lecture. Koh was a professor of mathematics at N.C. State from 1968 until 2009. In the lecture, Couzin discussed behavioral characteristics of animals that primarily move in groups
including birds, ants, other insects and fish. In recent years, Couzin said his research has led him through the subconscious aspect of social behavior in animals. Couzin said he studied locusts while traveling in West Africa and analyzed their migratory patterns in lab settings. Couzin said he did this from both the perspective of the single organism and from the perspective of the entire group of traveling organisms, which he called the “collective mind.” Couzin said his research conclud-
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CHASS Fest introduces students to majors, programs Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer
Faculty members and students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences gathered in front of the 1911 building Monday afternoon for CHASS Fest to play games, learn about majors offered by the college and connect with its faculty. “It’s about bringing more faculty and students together and to enjoy time together before final exams, and to have fun learning through games,” said Vicki Gallagher, associate dean of Academic Affairs of CHASS. Other event attendees saw the CHASS Fest as an opportunity to introduce other people to their major.
“CHASS Fest is designed to introduce students at N.C. State to the possibility of becoming one of the various majors in CHASS and for students in CHASS to show what possibilities there are,” said Jonathan Ocko, department head of history, who operated one of the activity tables. Each department had its own table at the event, featuring a game or activity designed to introduce people to CHASS. The event was very positively received, both by students and faculty members alike. “We have a great turnout from students and faculty who have worked together to develop these games,” Gallagher said. “We have the DJ from campus radio station, and I am enjoying seeing the stu-
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Students at CHASS fest had the opportunity to learn about different majors offered by the college and play educational games.
dents and faculty learn and have fun together.”
Though windy conditions sometimes made it difficult for people to
participate in games, they did not get in the way of the event. “It is a great opportunity for people to come in and get a quick glimpse of what CHASS has to offer, and I hope some people change their mind about their ideas of what CHASS is,” said Raven Lauer, a sophomore in history and aerospace engineering who hosted a game at the history table. Winning a game at any table allowed attendees to enter into a raffle for a $50 book-store gift certificate. Lauer’s and Ocko’s game at the history department table was one of the most popular. “We had three games,” Ocko said. “You could put eight U.S. presidents in the right order, you could put
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