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Teddy Roosevelt impersonator to visit McKimmon Center Actor Joe Wiegand, a renowned Teddy Roosevelt impersonator, will relive Roosevelt’s adventures as a rancher, Rough Rider and the 26th president of the United States. Wiegand has performed across the country and at the White House multiple times. This one-man show will run today 7-8 p.m. at the McKimmon Center. The show is part of the College of Natural Resources 85th anniversary celebration. Admission is free. Teddy Roosevelt visited the NC State Fair on Oct. 19, 1905, which at the time was located on the other side of Hillsboro Street (correct spelling at the time) near NC State’s campus. SOURCE: NC STATE NEWS
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Hip-Hop and R&B artist Jeremih holds hands with a fan Thursday at the annual PackHowl Homecoming Concert in Reynolds Coliseum. The sold-out concert featured a performance by Big Sean with opening acts by Jeremih and T-Pain.
Thousands of students and fans packed Reynolds Coliseum to see rap artist Big Sean with openers T-Pain and Jeremih at Thursday’s sold-out PackHowl homecoming concert organized by the Union Activities Board. This is the first year the annual homecoming concert has ever sold out, according to Wesley Grant Rhodes, the Union Activities Board vice president and a senior studying nutrition science. Tickets for the concert sold out 72 hours prior to the show, topping the concert’s capacity at 3,700 people, according to Assistant Director of Student Involvement Jermisha Dodson.
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Junior runningback Shadrach Thornton gets group tackled by a strong Georgia Tech defense that held the Pack to no rushing touchdowns in the final three quarters of the game. The Wolfpack struggled against Georgia Tech but failed to stop the triple option during the rest of the game leading to a 23-56 loss on Saturday.
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Headliner Sean Anderson, better known by his stage name Big Sean, is considered one of the music industry’s most popular up-and-coming rappers. Following the show, the rapper answered questions about his choice not to attend college and about his journey to fame. A nderson had col lege on his radar while in high school, but the 3.7-GPA student changed his mind. “I had scholarships and everything,” Anderson said. “I was on my way to Michigan State. I had my roommate and my classes. At the last minute, I didn’t go. I decided that I’m doing what I want to do—whether I get paid for it or not.” Though he didn’t choose college, he said he supports
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Multiple campus IT systems and services experienced intermittent interruption Wednesday night due to excessive heat in Data Center 2. The chilled watercooling system for Data Center 2 failed at about 7:45 p.m., and a switchover to the backup cooling system that should have occurred automatically did not occur. The center’s internal temperature rose well above 100 degrees before the backup cooling system could be manually activated. As a result, many campus IT services went offline or were degraded, including the primary ncsu.edu Web servers and access to ResNet, the campus residential network. Most major services were restored by approximately 1 a.m. Thursday morning. SOURCE: OIT
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A shooting late Saturday night injured one man near North Carolina Central University in Durham, causing a campus-wide lockdown. NCCU officials issued an active-shooter alert to the campus after the shooting of a 23-year-old man at a home on 2210 Fayetteville Street. The man was taken to a nearby hospital and a spokeswoman from the Durham Police Department said the man sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was reported in stable condition. NCCU lifted the lockdown at 1:09 a.m., approximately one hour after the shooting. SOURCE: THE NEWS & OBSERVER
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Emmy award-winning actor Tony Hale, most famous for his role as the 30-year-old momma’s boy Buster Bluth in the critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development, joked about his life and career during a discussion and book signing in Hunt Library Saturday evening. Hale’s sister, Kimberly Hale Andreaus, is a professor of social work at NC State and helped bring the event to the Hunt Library auditorium as part of homecoming weekend. “Social workers, social work educators, celebrities—tonight, in all seriousness, our paths do intersect,” Andreaus said. “And it is not because many of the characters he portrays need social workers.” Andreaus said the values Hale deals with in his children’s book Archibald’s Next Big Thing, such as mindfulness, appreciation for the present and self-awareness, are some of
the same values at the core of social work. In addition to being relevant to the work of social workers, Hale said the moral of his story is also relevant to the lives of many college students. In his children’s book, a chicken named Archibald receives a card telling him that his “big thing is here,” which spurs him to go on a fantastic journey looking for that big thing he thinks he is going to find. Hale said many college students can learn something from Archibald, who is unable to appreciate all the great adventures he has throughout the story because he is looking for his mysterious big thing. “You have tremendous value right where you are right now,” Hale said. “It’s not always about that next big thing.” Hale answered a series of questions from a moderator before he opened the floor up
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The homecoming pep rally organized by LiveIt Up! on Hillsborough Street spent only $5,000 of its $8,000 budget, according to David Dean, director of programs for Live It Up! on Hillsborough Street. The homecoming parade and pep rally pumped students up for the homecoming game on Hillsborough Street Friday evening. and the pep rally was set in front of Groucho’s Deli on the corner of Horne Street and Hillsborough Street. The homecoming parade and pep rally was sponsorsed by the NC State Alumni Association and Live It Up! on Hillsborough Street, and was supported by Groucho’s Deli and Bluetique, according to Dean. The Raleigh Police Department was also present to assist with the parade. To get students out to the rally, the vendors provided gift packages for the first 300 students to check in with their student ID. Bluetique gave $1,500 away in gift cards and Groucho’s Deli gave out $3,000 in food and passed out “Groucho’s Swag Bags” with $5 gift cards and drink Koozies. “The event was a great way to come together with my peers and fellow students from other colleges,” said Maurice Goldston, a freshman studying political science. “There wasn’t anything not to enjoy besides the weather,” Goldston said. “The event could have gotten a larger turnout if there was more wordof-mouth broadcasting of the event and schedules posted.” Both head football coach Dave Doeren and men’s basketball coach Mark Gottfried spoke at the pep rally. Performers included the Ladies in Red, the university’s all-female a cappella group, Sube Ritmo, a student Latin Dance team, and the band Barleycorn & Rye. “Just from what we saw along the parade route on Hillsborough Street, it was a much bigger crowd than what we’ve seen in years past,” Dean said. “It’s really starting to take root. Every year, more and more people come out to the parade.”
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