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2014
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Chelsey Winstead
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About 100 business representatives, students and Triangle residents attended a fundraiser on Sunday in honor of former N.C. State student Ian Peterson, who died of lymphoma last year at the age of 21. Shelten Media, the company sponsoring the event, will donate the proceeds to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of North Carolina at the Hemlock Plaza in Cary. In October 2012, Peterson was diagnosed with advanced Burkitt’s lymphoma, a cancer of B-lymphocyte white-blood cells of the immune system. Known to his friends as “the guy who did everything,” Peterson continued to work hard at several jobs and served as president of the Grains of Time.
members elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Despite these accomplishments, Woodson said N.C. State was not getting the attention it deserved, and it was having trouble keeping its best faculty members. Because of this, Woodson said he has been especially interested in improving N.C. State’s brand, because although it may seem trivial, maintaining a strong brand name is critical in keeping the best fac-
The inaugural Triangle Campus Film Festival w ill ta ke place Wednesday 7-9 p.m. in the James B. Hunt Library Auditorium. The Festival is sponsored and organized by the Video Production Society at N.C. State. Formerly known as the N.C. State Film Club, the Video Production Society became an official club this year. The club offers students a place to find fellow film production enthusiasts and a chance to make a project idea come to life. Sam Mazany, a senior in communication and president of the Video Production Society, said the name change has helped define the group. Instead of people coming in to watch movies, the group has helped members expand their film-production resumes. Rather than work on one project as a group, members present ideas and find partners to produce a project, Mazany said. “We meet up and help work on each other’s projects,” Mazany said. “No one person can make a really good film. You need to be working with a lot of people.” Mazany said she wanted to
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“This is about survivorship, and it’s also about honor.” Kevin Snyder, Team Cure Leader
“We put on this event to raise money and awareness for cancer research, and we did it to honor Ian,” said Shelli Dallacqua, president of Shelten Media. Dallacqua declined to state exactly how much money had been raised, but she said Shelten Media had “met its goals.” Dallacqua said the money will be donated to the leukemia and lymphoma society of North Carolina on behalf of Team Cure, a fundraising group seeking to raise $131,500 for LLS in 2014. “It’s not just about us, and it’s definitely not about me,” said Kevin Snyder, Team Cure leader. “It’s about leukemia and lymphoma and helping to do something today that could impact change tomorrow. I’m here today because my sister’s alive because somebody did something in the past. What we do today can make a change for tomorrow.” Total Concepts Salon sponsored a “Shave-a-Thon,” and attendees could purchase raffle tickets from a variety of vendors. The Grains of Time performed several numbers, and each soloist paused to say something special about Peterson. Luke Miller, the Grains of Time choreographer, said the group enjoys doing events in honor of
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Chancellor Randy Woodson speaks to a small group of students on Friday in Berry Residence Hall Lounge. The question-and-answer-styled talk covered the future of N.C. State and also touched on some concerns the students expressed. Thomas Nguyen, a freshman in engineering, listens to Woodson speak.
Woodson talks about NCSU brand potential Ravi Chittilla Assistant News Editor
Chancellor Randy Woodson spoke to about 30 students and faculty members about the future and brand potential of N.C. State on Friday in the lounge of Berry Residence Hall. The discussion was part of the Research Unplugged lecture series, which is hosted by the University Honors Program. Woodson said when he arrived at N.C. State after working in vari-
ous capacities at Purdue University for more than 25 years, he said he knew this university was “world class and had real strengths,” but said he saw it as a case of “where the sum of the parts weren’t greater than the whole.” Woodson said the accomplishments of the faculty members at N.C. State were astounding, and unlike Purdue, which had three elected members to the National Academy of Sciences at the time when he left that institution, N.C. State had 11 elected members of the NAS, and 11
Students celebrate Native-American culture Staff Report
The Native American Student Association hosted its 24th-annual Powwow at Miller Fields Saturday to celebrate traditional Native-American activities. NASA has been planning the event since November, which included drum and dance competitions as well as games and authentic food and art, according to president-elect of NASA and sophomore in engineering, Jacob Jacobs. “We didn’t change a lot of things from last year’s Pow-Wow, but everyone thought it ran a lot more smoothly than the one last year,” Jacobs said. “Based on other Pow-Wows, it went very well in my opinion. Jacobs said his goal for next year’s Pow-Wow is for it to be more educational and involve more of the campus community. “I would like for it to be more educational for people who don’t know a Pow-Wow is,” Jacobs said. “I want to make next year’s PowWow bigger in the sense that more people experience the culture.”
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A young girl dances in celebration with others from neighboring tribes in a Pow Wow this past Saturday. This event was the 24th-annual Powwow hosted by the Native American Student Association on Miller Fields Saturday.
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Polls will reopen for positions not filled in last week’s Student Government election at noon today and close at noon Tuesday. Because of a problem with ballot-filter settings, elections for senior class president and College of Agriculture and Life Science senate seats have to be re-run, Brian Parks, a senior in accounting and vice chair of the Student Government told the Technician last week. Candidates for senior class president include Shreye Saxena, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, and Molly Basdeo, a junior in middle grades education. Candidates for the three CALS senate seats are Lindsey Reedy, a freshman in animal science, Jonathan Riggs, a sophomore in animal science, Peter Kane, a junior in animal science, and Deans Eatman, a sophomore in agricultural science.