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thursday november
19 2015
Raleigh, North Carolina
IN BRIEF Chapel Hill bar gets punishments after deadly accident The North Carolina ABC Commission approved a new punishment Wednesday for the bar in Chapel Hill that served alcohol to an underage UNCChapel Hill student, who killed three people in a drunken car accident. La Residence, the bar and restaurant, will pay a $5,000 fine and serve a 14-day suspension. It will lose its alcohol license Dec. 18 and get it back Jan. 1. The ABC Commission gave La Residence the option to have its alcohol license revoked for 50 days or have it revoked for 14 days with a $5,000 fine. ABC Commissioner Chair Jim Gardner voted on 123 alcohol-related cases Wednesday, 67 percent dealt with underage drinking. SOURCE: WNCN
NC State Fair is working to establish a permanent sky ride NC State Fair is trying to find a company that would be willing to construct and operate a permanent sky ride on the fairgrounds. The State Fair tried to have a sky ride at this year’s fair, but it proved to be too complicated. The plan for the sky ride would include 1,400 feet of cables that would have either chairlift-style seats or enclosed gondolas. The sky ride would provide fair goers a pleasant view of the fair and carry crowds from one side of the fairgrounds to the other, according to Kent Yelverton, director of property and construction for the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The company that builds the airlift would have to give North Carolina 15 percent of gross ticket revenue, going up to 25 percent by the sixth year. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Rachel Sheffield, a then-freshman studying arts applications, reads one of the posters decrying “hate speech” in the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5, 2008. The posters, accompanied by a completely white tunnel, were endorsed by more than 30 student leaders including then-Student Body President Jay Dawkins. The painting of the tunnel and posters were in reaction to derogatory graffiti targeting President elect Barack Obama.
Library tour walks through NC State’s history Katherine Kehoe Projects Manager
When Irwin Holmes, the first A f rica n-A merica n student to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from NC State, first began taking classes at the university, he refused to live on campus. If a riot or anything else broke out on campus, he wanted a direct route home. Fortunately, that riot never came like it had on other campuses in the South during the first years of integration, but that didn’t stop Holmes from wanting to be careful. Toni Thorpe, the program coordinator of the African American Cultural Center, told this story to students standing on the steps of Watauga Hall, the first NC State residence hall to house a black student. About 50 students and visitors toured Main Campus Wednesday afternoon to listen to Thorpe and
other speakers reminisce about buildings and spaces that have had a historical impact on the lives of black students at NC State. The Red, White & Black walking tour, which is held twice a year, was created in 2011 as a collaboration between the African American Cultural Center and NCSU Libraries, with assistance from the Department of History. The tour began in the Yarborough Courtyard behind Holladay Hall and ended at the African American Cultural Center in Witherspoon Student Center. Tsharre Sanders, a senior studying psychology and an AYA ambassador at the African American Cultural Center, said events like these are important for students to care about, especially now when college campuses across the country are having serious discussions about race. “In order to know where you are it is important to know where you come from,” Sanders said. “In
NCSU adds first AsianAmerican culture course Katherine Hughes Correspondent
Starting next semester, NC State will offer its first course, FL 394, focused on Asian-American culture and literature. Taught by Nathaniel Isaacson, AsianAmerican Literature aims to bring awareness to topics of the Asian-American experience both throughout history and current events in the United States. Isaacson is an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature with a Ph.D. in Asian languages and cultures from University of California-Los Angeles. He said that often while teaching his classes, he was approached by Asian-American students who said there was a need for a class that discussed Asian-American culture at NC State. “Students felt that they wanted to see classes that addressed some of their issues as Asian-Americans rather than just classes that address Asian studies within Asia,”
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Irwin Holmes was one of the first AfricanAmericans to enroll as an undergraduate student at North Carolina State University. He enrolled in 1956 and was the first African-American to earn an undergraduate degree from NC State in 1960.
Isaacson said. When Natalie Nguyen, assistant director of the GLBT Center, also reached out to Isaacson about the possibility of creating this course, Isaacson said he knew that now was the right time to officially get it started. Nguyen said she spoke to students who expressed that they felt NC State was lacking in curriculum of AsianAmerican culture. She said students wanted to see a class that was a representation of their experience and wanted the opportunity to learn more about Asian-American history. “When you look at diversity awareness and education, there is a lot of discussion about seeing curriculum that ref lects you,” Nguyen said. “That helps to give you a better understanding of your identity and the things you’re experiencing.” According to the Forbes 2015 ranking, 5 percent of NC State students are Asian-American. Nguyen said these students often do
not have an outlet to express their struggles as AsianAmerican students in the same way other groups do. Nguyen said that from talking to students, she has noticed that students who are first, second and third generation each have different experiences of being incorporated into American society. She said that often their parents can’t be a good resource for students because the conditions are always changing, and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant is such a different experience than being born and raised in the U.S. Nguyen also explained that Asian-Americans were a more prevalent part of American history, especially in the mid-late 1900s, in which many people were unaware. The hope is that this course will allow students to see another perspective of history in the U.S. that people are often unaware of or that they have not heard
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light of all the recent events in other places, I think it is important as NC State students to know where we are and how far we have come.” Craig Brookins, an associate professor of psychology, began the tour with a libation in the Yarbrough Courtyard, an African ritual or heritage. “People without knowledge of their past are like trees without roots,” Brookins said. At the tour’s first stop in front of Watauga Hall, Brookins and Thorpe shared the stories of the first black students admitted to the university. The first two were graduate students: Robert Clemons and Hardy Liston, who were admitted in 1953. Clemons was the first African-American student to graduate with a degree from what was then called NC State College. The first four African-American undergraduates — Irwin Holmes, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett and Walter Holmes — enrolled a few years later in 1956.
T hese students’ ad missions didn’t stir any riots at NC State like they had some schools in South Carolina and A labama. However, Thorpe said the transition was by no means f lawless. Social lives on campus were all but nonexistent for AfricanAmericans in the first years after integration, Thorpe said. The few black students were not allowed to be involved in Greek Life or oncampus clubs and organizations. While there were no mobs and few people were hostile, Clemons and Listen were largely overlooked during their first year. “Most people ignored them,” Thorpe said. The tour continued to Brooks Hall, which is where black students used to get together on campus in what became the university’s first unofficial African American Cultural Center. Thompson Hall followed. Todd
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Freshman wide receiver Nyheim Hines attempts to throw the ball, decides not to, then scrambles outside of the pocket against the Clemson defense. Hines finished with two receptions for 26 yards and a touchdown from the kickoff return. The Wolfpack fell to the Tigers 56-41 in Carter-Finley Stadium at NC State Oct. 31.
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