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2015
Raleigh, North Carolina
IN BRIEF Ty Dolla $ign late, kicked off stage University of Missouri football team goes on strike
About 30 University of Missouri football players have gone on strike, saying they will not play another game until University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe steps down. The players said they were standing in solidarity with the Concerned Student 1950 movement, which has been calling on the university and Wolfe to address systemic racism on campus for months. The University of Missouri football team tweeted a photo of the student athletes linking arms with the caption, “We are no longer taking it. It’s time to fight.” Wolfe gave no indication he has any intention of stepping down but agreed in a statement Sunday that “change is needed” and said the university is working to draw up a plan by April 2016 that promotes diversity and tolerance. SOURCE: NPR
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Right as he began performing his hit single “Blasé,” Ty Dolla $ign’s anticipated concert at The Ritz was cut short Friday night after the rapper started encouraging the crowd to yell “f--- the police.” Ty was performing as the Union Activity Board’s PackHowl After Show artist. The artist, whose show began at 8 p.m., did not come on stage until 10:28 p.m. due to a delayed f light. Ty’s disc jockey hyped up the crowd by asking, “Who’s ready for Ty Dolla?” periodically for more than an hour before Ty finally appeared. The rapper performed about 10 songs before the venue turned off his mic and turned the lights on. Without realizing the venue was deliberately cutting him off, Ty yelled for them to turn the lights back off.
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A crowd of NC State students and other fans sing along with rapper Ty Dolla $ign at The Ritz concert venue for the Pack Howl concert hosted by the NC State Union Activities Board Friday. Maria Arfeen, a senior studying nutrition science, got to the venue early with her friends to get a front-row spot for the show. She said that she has “been a fan of Ty Dolla $ign since [his song] ‘Paranoid’ was released.”
Unarmed missile fired off California coast causes panic, confusion
The bright and colorful light that streaked across California’s sky Saturday night turned out to be an unarmed missile that was test-fired from a Navy submarine off the coast, officials said. The lack of information regarding the streak of light just after sunset led to a number of panicked calls to police and lit up social media as people posted photos and video of the celestial sight. Launches such as this are conducted on a frequent basis according to Cmdr. Ryan Perry, a Navy spokesperson. Information regarding such tests is classified prior to the launch, Perry said. SOURCE: WRAL
SouthPark mall to use Christmas tree in display after all
After hearing feedback from customers, SouthPark Mall in Charlotte announced Saturday it will now include a traditional Christmas tree in its holiday display. In a tweet Saturday, the mall said, “We’re adding key elements to the Santa set this week & listening to our customer feedback, we will now include a traditional Christmas tree.” SouthPark Mall initially announced that when children visited Santa at the mall this year, they would be doing so under a faux glacier, instead of a Christmas tree. The shopping center said the change was an effort to make the Santavisiting experience “fresh and exciting.” SOURCE: The News & Observer
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OPINION First Impressions, Part XVI
State Professor talks immigration patterns, American assimilation Conor Kennedy Staff Writer
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY VICTORIA CROCKER
NC State’s Student Government banned smoking within 100 feet of the buildings on campus. Previously smoking was banned within 25 feet of buildings.
Student Government expands smoking ban Conor Kennedy Staff Writer
NC State’s Student Senate passed a new No Smoking Bill Wednesday that extends the ban on smoking from 25 feet away from all buildings on campus to 100 feet—but the Senate doesn’t know how it will enforce the rule. The motion passed with a vote of 32 senators in favor and seven in opposition. But several senators raised questions about how the new regulation would be enforced. While it was determined enforcement through a fine would be impossible, some suggested the use of signs and public accountability might be the best available alternative. Students have expressed concerns about secondhand smoke from cigarettes and vaporizers on campus. Several schools in the area, including UNC-Chapel Hill, have already set a
Staff Report
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“To be an American is to, in essence, accept the very promise that there is a rule of law that applies to everyone equally”
precedent by extending their ban to 100 feet, which is the furthest North Carolina regulations will allow a ban. “[UNC-CH] is effectively a no-smoking school now because of how their buildings are spaced, and that is what I am trying to do with this bill,” said Sen. Mick Sugar, the bill’s sponsor and a senior studying zoology. “This is a bill to promote a cleaner campus environment.” At the meeting the Student Senate also voted on continuing to fund the new Coach’s Corner Project to help produce a statue of four distinguished NC State coaches to be placed outside a newly refurbished Reynolds Coliseum. The statue would feature Everett Case, Norman Sloan, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow. The project’s overall budget is slated at $220,000. The additional funds would bring the Senate’s contribution
contextual issues and debates associated with immigration. To understand immigration in the United States, Khater said we must consider the idea that at one point there were no restrictions that applied to the number of people who could immigrate to the U.S. One of the first regulations to concern immigration came about in the 1880s in the form of racial quotas. These limitations were part of the beginning of a process that would create a sense of alienation among Americans, according to Khater. “To be an American is to, in essence, accept the very promise that there is a rule of law that applies to everyone equally,” Khater said. Khater explained that, through the implementation of racial quotas, a sense of “other” was created among nonnorthern European white immigrants. With these laws, race and ethnicity became central arguments that qualified a person’s “Americanness.” White Irish-Catholic immigrants also once faced dis-
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- Akram Khater, university faculty scholar and director of the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Dispora
North Carolina legalizes industrial hemp
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Men’s basketball cruises in first exhibition game
The NC State Executive Education program hosted a “Wolf Pack Your Lunch” discussion about the facts and myths commonly associated with immigration Friday. The monthly event, “WolfPack Your Lunch,” is an hourlong interactive event where students and faculty can learn about topics critical to growth and innovation in the Research Triangle and North Carolina. This month’s speaker was Akram Khater, university faculty scholar and director of the newly named Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at NC State. Khater presented on the outreach programs of the center and his research, as well as the
Industrial hemp was made legal in North Carolina last week as a result of Gov. Pat McCrory not vetoing or signing the bill after allowing it to sit on his desk for weeks. The text of Senate Bill 313 states: “The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the citizens of North Carolina to promote and encourage the development of an industrial hemp industry in the State in order to expand employment, promote economic activity, and provide opportunities to small farmers for an environmentally sustainable and profitable use of crop lands that might otherwise be lost to agricultural
production.” The bill also mandates the creation of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Commission. This entity will have the responsibility to “establish procedures for reporting to the Commission … for agricultural or academic research and to collaborate and coordinate research efforts with the appropriate departments or programs of North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University.” Lee Edwards, a farmer from Kinston, North Carolina, told The Charlotte Observer he is eager to begin producing hemp. “Hemp really gives us a crop during the summertime that is a viable
cash crop to us,” Edwards said. “We’re in a perfect geographical location for the production of hemp with our climate.” Hemp can be used in a wide range of products from clothing and medicine to a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete. As a result of the 2014 Farm Bill, it is legal for individual states to produce hemp for academic research, but any other use of hemp still falls under the same classification with marijuana, heroin, DMT, LSD and ecstasy as part of Schedule I of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which still determines the actions of the DEA. Hemp contains only 0.3 percent
THC, the psychoactive chemical in Cannabis, whereas recreational marijuana can contain up to 30 percent, according to a recent study of Colorado’s pot market. Despite this fact, many lawmakers still consider hemp to be synonymous with marijuana, or at least the first step toward full marijuana legalization in North Carolina. The N.C. Sheriff’s Association supports the legislation because industrial hemp farmers would need a permit, administered by the new Industrial Hemp Commission under federal rules, which would allow authorities to know where the legitimate growers are, according to The Charlotte Observer.