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App offers new experience for old tradition Jason Katz Deputy News Editor

There is a new way to get connected to what’s happening with N.C. State’s homecoming festivities this year.

The N.C. State Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program developed a new app meant to make participating in homecoming easier and more intuitive. It’s free and currently available for iPhone and Android smartphones.

Nicklaus Hynson, vice president of AASAP and a senior in accounting, said connecting and staying current with all the events of homecoming is one of the new software’s greatest features.

“On the app, you can connect with your Twitter or Facebook accounts so you can get up-to-date right away,” Hynson said.

The app has seven links on its homepage

that allow easy access to the homecoming schedule, news related to homecoming events and information about campus partners, parking and athletics.

Included in the app is a map that allows users to click on locations around N.C. State and view what events will be held in each location and when take place.

Starting Sunday, the calendar will be filled with homecoming events for both students and the businesses surrounding the University. For example, Paint the Town Red, an event in which students and participating businesses paint their windows to promote N.C. State, is on Monday at 6 p.m.

With the new app, students can easily find which businesses chose to participate in Homecoming.

“Any restaurants or businesses that are in Paint the Town Red—you can pinpoint

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them on the map,” said Homecoming Director Kathryn Howie, a senior in business administration.

Information on the app is current and can be updated easily and quickly, according to Howie.

“It’s just a nice resource to have, not only for the people attending, but it’s nice for us too,” Howie said.

Designing the new app wasn’t an easy undertaking, Hynson said.

According to Hynson, this year’s app has a completely new design and layout compared to its predecessor.

“It was kind of complicated,” Collier said.

Hyson said that last year, the AASAP used a different mobile software program that was far less effective than the new app introduced this year.

“Last year, it was an app within an app,” Hynson said. “The layout really wasn’t professional.”

Howie, Collier and Hynson each said they were very impressed with the upgrade, but said that even with a new partner and more control, there were still a lot of difficult decisions to be made.

“We started working on it in June,” Howie said.

Hynson said that a lot of the work stemmed from getting the design perfect for the new product, even concerning the placement of the block “S” on the background screen.

He said that he feels that the product has really come out well.

“We really like the look and the feel of the layout,” Hynson said.

Hynson said this year the ASSAP partnered with Aloompa, a mobile app developer from Nashville, Tenn.

“We really like the look and the feel of the layout,” Hynson said.

Homecoming events begin Sunday and run through next Saturday.

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Leader of the Pack Candidates What is your year and major?

Could you describe the extracurricular activities with which you’re involved?

What are they/how are you involved with them, etc.

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Junior. Business Administration & International Studies

Senior in electrical and computer engineering

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Member of the Entrepreneurship Garage, Caldwell Fellow, Hamilton Scholar, Member of the Honors Program, Member of Catholic Campus Ministries, Director of the N.C. State World Record Food Drive

Student Vice President, Member of College of Engineering Ambassadors, Recording secretary for Eta Kappa Nu, honors engineering society

How do you think you’ve made an impact at N.C. State?

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Why do you think are you the best candidate?

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What’s one tradition at N.C. State that you haven’t done yet, but want to do before you graduate?

Launching Pennies 4 Progress has given me the opportunity to help students learn about and work for a business that exists to make a social impact. Since coming to campus, I have led our school in the fight against hunger by working on the Stop Hunger Now Meal Packaging Event, the state-wide university hunger conferences, and in leading our World Record Food Drive.

I am passionate about fighting hunger in N.C. and around the world. Since I am studying business, I wanted to apply what I was learning in the classroom to solve social problems like hunger. Being a leader for me is about humbly serving the community you live in, leading by example, and living each day purposely.

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Leader of the Pack is a Homecoming competition that seeks to elect the N.C. State student who most exemplifies leadership, scholarship and service.

The Technician interviewed each candidate about their experience and why they think they should win.

Students can vote for candidates at ncsu.votenet.com from noon Oct. 28, till noon Oct. 29. The winner will be recognized at half-time during the homecoming football game Nov. 2.

Painting the free expression tunnel is a tradition I can’t wait to do. I’m so excited to finally leave my mark on that tunnel even if someone paints over it 30 minutes later.

Ryan O’Donnell

My biggest impact, from a college-career wise perspective, would have to be through the appropriations committee in Student Government. Over the past year and a half I’ve really worked hard to make the experience easier for groups and make sure they’ve understood what’s been happening. We actually have started going through the budget beforehand. We used to go through the during the interview and now we go through budgets beforehand and advise the groups on what is wrong with their budgets and help them with the budgets.

All the people in my classes ... know that I can find information for them. Whenever I hear about an event or opportunity that is exciting I send an email to the students so that they know. I’m also try- ing to always help my fellow student senators and my committee members.

I haven’t done the K r i s py K re me Cha llenge because I’m a n awful runner, but I would like to do it before I graduate.

Kelsey Mills

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Questions & Answers Junior in biochemistry

Member of Delta Sigma Iota, Rush Chari, PR Chair, Planning South Asian Awareness Week, President of Multicultural Greek Council, Member of pre-health club Teaching assistant for Intro to Biochemistry, University Ambassador, Park Scholar

I think I’ve made my impact through my leadership. I have really emphasized firm leadership. Through my leadership goal and service is the way I’ve impacted N.C. State.

I think I am the best leader of the pack candidate because I have a very diverse portfolio of things I do, ranging from leadership roles, like the MGC, and academic roles, such as being a teaching assistant. I think, as a candidate, I best embody the areas that the leader of the pack committee is looking for.

One tradition that I have not done yet is running the Krispy Kreme Challenge.

In my freshman year, I was on the PR committee for it, but I did not run. Sophmore year I was busy. I’ve been thinking about it, and I really want to do it before I graduate.

Charan Mohan

Senior, materials science engineering and mathematics

President of the Quad Area Council for two years, Drum major for N.C. State Marching Band Member of the National Residence Hall Honorary, Member of the Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society, Member of the Honors Program

I think I’ve made an impact in inspiring other people to go out and reach their full potential. For example, two people on my executive board last year went to the IRC executive board and six became RAs [resident advisors] and four became Honors Village Fellows ... I’m very proud of that. By influencing those people, by inspiring those people and encouraging those people, I have reached the larger N.C. State community.

I don’t want to simply just be — to have the title — leader of the pack. I really want to use the influence I get with it to help others and give back to the community what I’ve gotten, particularly in leadership. I would really like the community to understand that they can get passionate.

Before I graduate, I really think it would be the class ring, or a ring that gets to sleep in the bell tower. I think that would be awesome.

Katherine Freeman

Junior in human biology

Junior in middle grades language arts and social students education

Works in a research lab on campus in the biology department, Works with Open Door Medical Clinic, where he translates for Spanish-speaking patients , Member of VOLAR, which helps students learn Spanish, Park Scholar, Member of Stop Hunger Now meal packaging committee, Philanthropy Chair and Chaplain of Kappa Alpha Order

Executive Assistant in Student Government, Member of the Service Leadership Team in CSLEPS, Planned “Bee the Change” campaign, Orientation Leader this summer, North Carolina Teaching Fellow, Charter class member of Kappa Alpha Theta

“I like to think I’ve made a positive impact through service work that I’ve done through leading my fraternity as Philanthropy chair, and being a part Stop Hunger Now meal packaging that I served on.”

I believe I have made an impact at N.C. State by being a servant leader. By being a servant leader in the campus organizations I am a part of and in my everyday life I believe I have inspired others to lead and pursue their highest potential and they, in turn, have helped me to pursue mine.

“I think I am the best candidate because I have connections with many different diverse groups on campus. I don’t think I can be confined to one subset of people. I’d like to think that I can represent the University as a whole because of my connection to all the student groups on campus.”

“I have not yet ridden in the Homecoming Parade, but I will be with the group on Friday, Nov. 1. That’s something that I haven’t been able to do yet that I’m really looking forward to.”

Austin Bath

I think you should vote for me because I am committed to the three things that Leader of the Pack awards: leadership, scholarship and service. I can write all day about things that I’ve done, am doing and will do. But in the end, if I am not committed to doing those things for the right reasons and learning and growing as a leader, scholar and servant, than it isn’t worth anything.

I cannot wait to participate in the ring ceremony. I just ordered my class ring last week and I am so excited to have it spend the night in the Memorial Belltower.

Molly Basdeo

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Homecoming earns green certification Will E. Brooks Features Editor

Homecoming is one of N.C. State’s oldest traditions, but members of the Homecoming Committee are letting modernity, not old age, define the way business will run on Sunday.

Homecoming Week will receive a Wolfpack Green Certification from the N.C. State Sustainability Office for their efforts to make its events more sustainable this year.

Emily Collier, co-director of homecoming and junior in parks, recreation and tourism management, said it all started with a little bit of school spirit.

Collier said the prospect of receiving Green Certification first came to organizers’ minds when they

began planning the Homecoming Parade, which will feature a most-sustainablefloat competition.

“That’s where it all started,” Collier said. “We’re going to have people from the sustainability office judge how sustainable their floats are.”

The sustainability competition led Collier to research N.C. State’s sustainability certification. Collier said that is when she made Green Certification her goal.

“I was looking at [N.C. State Sustainability’s] form online about how to become certified and the criteria,” Collier said. “I was glancing at it and thought, ‘we fit some of these, we really should look into it.’”

Collier said she brought the idea to the committee, and they began planning

sustainably from there forward.

“I met with the rest of the committee and we just talked about options of what we could do to become more sustainable,” Collier said.

Collier said the most important piece in that certification was the Homecoming smart phone application.

“This is the first year we’ve had an app dedicated just to homecoming,” Collier said. “That kind of ties into why we were able to get certified.”

Collier said the phone application contains a schedule of the week ’s events—previously passed out via paper flyers—and a link to the Wolfline application. The Homecoming Committee is saving paper and hoping to pro-

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Floats line up on Varsity Dr. before the Homecoming Parade Nov. 2, 2012.

mote bus-use, which might reduce the amount of a gas used during Homecoming.

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On Halloween, students will “prep Hillsborough Street to host ghouls, ghosts and goblins,” and “scare away debris and trash before a night of frightful festivities,” according to the Homecoming website.

In reality, students will be cleaning Hillsborough Street as just another part of its Green Certification Thursday.

In addition to the app, Collier said there will be a “Green and Blue Machine” on Sunday’s 5k that dispenses water so students can reuse an refill water bottles.

“That eliminates [the use of] plastic bottles,” Collier said.

For Wear Red, Get Fed,

an event where students simply wear red to get free food in the Brickyard, Homecoming will be providing healthy vegan and vegetarian options from Zoe’s Kitchen and Moe’s, another step in their Green Certification.

Collier said Homecoming will also hold a blood drive and a canned food drive, which both factor into the green specifications.

Green-influenced events will be hard to miss at next week’s homecoming, and Collier said she’s proud of this.

“We’re always thinking about ways we can improve [Homecoming] because it’s our longest lasting tradition,” Collier said. “We’re just really excited we were able to attain this goal.”

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