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Studio uses gaming, media to teach Casey Oldham Correspondent
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It will be crucial for members of future generations to have more extensive education in various forms of multimedia, including gaming, according to one communication professor. Nicholas Taylor, an assistant professor of communication, talked about the incorporation of videogame production in education Monday in Ricks Hall. “Kids are already playing games,” Taylor said “So why shouldn’t they understand how they work too?” Taylor said he believes the population needs more “producers than consumers” when it comes to technology in response to the increasing gap between the general public’s understanding of technology and the complexity of the material consumed.
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Red Hat to hire 800 employees Joseph Havey Staff Writer
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Nick Taylor, associate professor of communication, speaks with faculty members and graduate students about self expression through video game media Monday at the CIRCUIT Research Studio in Ricks Hall.
Red Hat, an open-software firm headquartered in Raleigh, announced earlier this month it will hire 800 people in the coming fiscal year. Job openings will include a variety of positions, from sales to research and development, in both the company’s national and international offices. There will be about 50 openings in the Raleigh office. “Since around half of our associates work outside the United States, it’s safe to assume that around half of the new jobs will be outside of the U.S., while the other half will likely be in the U.S.,” said Kim Jokisch, director of employment
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New BOG agreement to help community-college transfers Estefania Castro-Vazquez Assistant News Editor
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the State Board of Community Colleges recently signed the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement allowing students transferring to a UNCSystem school to retain the credits they earned at a community college. The agreement will make it easier for students at community colleges to decide which courses to take that will be fully transferable to the university system. This will allow students to attend community college for a year or two and then transfer to a university without losing the credits they’ve already earned, according to Thomas Harrelson, the secretary of the University Governance Committee for the UNC-System. Harrelson said this agreement is something that the board has been working toward for several years, as it is something needed to ensure the success of all students. About two years ago, the Com-
munity-College System began a strategic plan called Success North Carolina to advocate “success and completion,” Harrelson said. Though completion could indicate that a community college student successfully earned his or her associates degree, it could also mean that a student hoping to transfer to a university would be able to do so without the loss of credits. However, this did not apply to the UNC-System because the initial articulation agreement put in place in 1997 remained unchanged, according to Megen Hoenk, the director of marketing and external affairs for N.C. Community College System. “We had to revisit the agreement as GEP courses changed over time,” Hoenk said. “It took a considerable effort from both the CommunityCollege System and the UNC-System working together, too.” According to Hoenk, the agreement was set in motion after the number of transfer students increased during the start of the recession, as community college became
an affordable option compared to attending a four-year university. Currently, about 24,000 of students who started at a community college are on one of the UNC campuses. That’s more than 50 percent of the UNC transfer-student population, Hoenk said. “Anecdotally, we heard from students who were having situations in which their credits weren’t transferring, and this can be frustrating because they could be relying on some form of financial aid, and they were having to take some classes again,” Hoenk said. “We decided to review the articulation agreement and through the new agreement, we hope to save students and their families time and money.” Starting this fall, students entering the Community-College System will have the ability to enroll as college transfer students in an effort to clearly determine the classes they need to register for to leave the community college with an associates
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Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno, an N.C. State alumnus speaks at the Pentagon.
Army chief of staff, NCSU alumnus to speak at Duke Staff Report
Raymond Odierno, a four-star general, the Army Chief of Staff and an N.C. State alumnus, will visit Duke University Friday to give a lecture about military affairs and national security. Odierno graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1976 before earning a degree in nuclear engineering from N.C. State.
Odierno will speak with Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy at Duke, according to The News and Observer. Discussion topics will include military challenges in the near future and using the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a lesson to the military. The talk, scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and is free and open to the public. Parking will be available at the Bryan Center parking deck.
Students and administrators meet to move forward after canceled concert Jake Moser News Editor
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A new satellite telescope has allowed researchers at N.C. State to study the composition of supernovae, such as the one shown above.
Researchers study supernovae Staff Report
A team of researchers from N.C. State is working with a satellite telescope, put into orbit by NASA, to examine the inside of supernovae, or massive-exploding stars. Scientists have been unable to research the inner mechanisms of supernovae due to the limitations of earlier telescopes, according to Stephen Reynolds, professor of physics and lead researcher.
“Traditional satellites have been making beautiful images with lowenergy X-rays, but the NuSTAR satellite is the first with focusing optics that can tell us exactly where the high-energy rays are coming from,” Reynolds told The News & Observer. With the use of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope satellite, researchers will now be able to detect what materials make up super novae.
Students from the Afrikan American Student Advisory Council and the Union Activities Board met with Chancellor Randy Woodson and other administrators for a closed meeting regarding the cancellation of the Pan-Afrikan concert. The meeting served as an “initial conversation” about moving forward with the concert cancellation,
according to Justine Hollingshead, assistant to the vice chancellor and dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, and Dean of Academic and Student Affairs Mike Mullen. Students and administrators planned Monday’s meeting because Woodson, Provost Warwick Arden and other leaders weren’t available during a similar meeting Thursday, said Marshall Anthony, AASAC chairperson and senior in business. Lauryn Collier, UAB treasurer
and senior in animal science, said she appreciated the administration listening to students’ concerns. “I thought the meeting went well for what it was, [and] I appreciated the senior leadership listening to everything that the students had to say and to hear how their experiences on campus have been, specifically in the African American community,” Collier said. “I know there’s a concern that there’s a lack
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