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McCrory lays out future plans during State of the State
Gov. Pat McCrory presented his plan for the future of North Carolina in his State of the State address Wednesday night. McCrory emphasized five guiding principles in his message: job creation, making sure North Carolina citizens have the education they need to be productive citizens, connecting small and rural North Carolina cities with urban cities through improving infrastructure, improving health and safety and reducing government waste. McCrory’s address was unusually long at about 90 minutes and addressed his own challenges that he has faced the past year, notably the coal ash spill. McCrory also promised to raise the base salary for teachers to $35,000 and bring Wi-Fi into classrooms. SOURCE: The News and Observer
FCC declares Internet a public utility and promises to ensure net neutrality
Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission unveiled new rules Wednesday proposing to regulate consumer Internet service as a public utility. Wheeler will ask the FCC to reclassify highspeed internet service as a telecommunications service rather than an information service under Title II of the Telecommunications act. Net neutrality ensures that more profitable companies such as Google and Netflix are not able to pay higher rates to ensure higher speeds than more underdeveloped websites, and the concept that the internet should be a level-playing field. The debate has pitted many social activists alongside major companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Netflix against cable companies such as Comcast and Time Warner, which would stand to make a profit. The movement for net neutrality has gained significant outcry during the past few years with big names such as John Oliver entering the debate on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” President Barack Obama promised to ask the FCC to make such provisions while he was still a presidential candidate, and in November formally asked Wheeler to reclassify highspeed Internet service. SOURCE: The New York Times
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UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS AVOID DISCUSSING POTENTIAL NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK public relations at NC State, said the students are exhibiting symptoms that are consistent with the stomach flu, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. The sorority hosted an event Sunday night, and the university became aware that students had developed stomach ailments by Monday night, according to Hartman. No new cases were reported as of 5 p.m. Wednedsay. The severity of the symptoms
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About 20 students in NC State’s chapters of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity are exhibiting severe stomach flu-like symptoms in an outbreak that is being traced to a social function between the two groups that took place Sunday. Fred Hartman, the director of
varied on a case-to-case basis, and many of the students sought offcampus treatment. The Student Health Center posted a notification to its website indicating the stomach flu had appeared on NC State’s campus on Tuesday. According to the post, symptoms of the virus include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain/cramping, fever and/or headaches. The virus is spread by touching contaminated surfaces before
A STOMACH FLU IS PRESENT ON CAMPUS. If you display any of the flowing symptoms you may be contagious. • • • • •
nausea vomiting diarrhea abdominal pain/cramping fever and/or headache SOURCE: STUDENT HEALTH CENTER
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DeSimone Lab tackles pancreatic cancer
Joseph DeSimone and a team of researchers have created a new method of combating pancreatic cancer. DeSimone, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State, is attempting to create a device that can be personalized for every patient using 3-D printing. Pancreatic tumors are notoriously difficult to reach. The technique will use electrical fields to push traditional chemotherapy drugs directly into tumors. The technique is a new approach to pancreatic cancer, which has a 75 percent mortality rate a year after diagnosis. That statistic hasn’t changed in 40 years. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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clicker-counters. The current record is 277 people. Before the world record can be officially confirmed, Guinness must analyze evidence of the event and officially confirm that the world record was successfully broken.
Student orga ni z at ions packed the Talley Governance Chambers Wednesday evening for a Student Senate meeting addressing several controversial bills, including Resolution 42, which calls for a petition to change Columbus Day at NC State to an Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Act. Resolution 42 was passed af ter heavy debate for approximately 40 minutes. The bill passed with 27 votes in the affirmative, seven in the negative, five absences and five abstentions. The 27 votes met the simple majority needed to pass a bill in the Student Senate. The Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Act resolves that the Student Senate will write a letter to the university addressing the Student Governments concern with keeping Columbus Day as a university holiday. The letter will ask the university
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Jason Suttles (left),a senior studying philosophy and computer science; Angel Ngo (middle), a sophomore studying biological sciences and Mitchell Martin (right), a freshmen studying microbiology, participate in the Roomopoly event hosted by University Housing. The event took place in the Talley Student Union Mountains-Piedmont Ballroom.
Students attempt to break Monopoly world record Coleen Kinen-Ferguson Staff Writer
University Housing and University Dining hosted a world record-breaking Monopoly game Wednesday, celebrating the 80th anniversary of the game’s cre-
ation, at which students and staff members attempted to break the world record for the most people playing Monopoly in a single venue. About 316 people were in attendance and playing the game, according to the event’s official
Students walk through Tunnel of Oppression
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The Tunnel of Oppression, which aimed to address and raise awareness to social justice issues, returned to NC State Wednesday in the Talley Ballroom. The Tunnel of Oppression was organized by Multicultural Student Affairs, CSLEPS, University Recreation, PCOM, TRiO Student Services, Greek Life, the Counseling Center and the GLBT Center. The groups were led from station to station, beginning in a room with facts about different forms of oppression spread throughout the event. The participants were then given a personal assessment and a form to fill out which allowed people to record their personal opinions about different oppressive systems before going through
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cott Chapman, a senior studying environmental engineering, talks with president of Withers & Ravenel Jim Camfield about possible full-time employment opportunities with his company at the Engineering Career Fair in the McKimmon Center Wednesday. Brian Koehler, the director of Student Engagement for the College of Engineering said 3,954 students attended the fair on Wednesday. Koehler said students came to the fair from across the country, including a student who flew in from Colorado and one who drove in from Michigan Technological University. This year, 201 companies are set to attend the two-day event, making it the second largest of its kind, behind Texas A&M. Last spring, 3,272 students attended. “This is the fourth career fair I’ve attended. Now that I’m approaching graduation it’s becoming a lot easier to talk to employers,” Chapman said.