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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008 • PAGE 3
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Apex Steel employees Emanuel Tabron, Richard Menard, Juan Chavez and Timothy Parrish work on the main theater seats in the Thompson Theater renovation Aug. 22. “It is going to be a nice renovation. It is well worth the money they put into it,” Parrish said.
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CAMPAIGN SUMMARY Capital Expansion and Renovations: $15,000,000 Provided by Student Fees: $10,000,000
f loor underneath looked like ripples of an ocean current and no one could have predicted that. CAMPAIGN GOALS Having to design a new plan so Total Private Support Needed: that the f loor was level was a $5,000,000 large issue that pushed back our deadline.” ARTS NC STATE also wishes to After the renovation team tackbuild a $1 million endowment to provide for the ongoing upkeep led the flooring, they moved to of the renovated Thompson the raft Center to begin renovaBuilding. tions there. Miller said the team wanted to examine the steel supSOURCE: THE CAMPAIGN FOR ports for the building which were THOMPSON THEATRE housed in concrete. “We had to tear away the lay- making a lot of technological ers of concrete around the struc- advances to it so people can extures, which took some time,” perience it better. There’s going he said. “Once we actually got to be LED lighting and flat screen to the steel structures, we found TVs that see into the Craft Centhat most of the steel on most of ter and sometimes the theater.” the support structures had corThe architect is an alumnus roded.” and Laws said he wants to imDespite delays in the plan, prove the building but still preMiller said he feels the renova- serve its historical integrity. tion team tackled every issue that Laws said the new renovations came up. w i l l prov ide “It’s been dealt opportunities with pretty darn for d if ferent quickly and the art programs contractors to share ideas, have handled which will crethe unforeseen ate a stronger circumstances community of very well,” he ar t students. said. “First of She also said all, the original she hopes the date for complebuilding’s rention was schedovations will uled for the end draw in more of December. students to the [The new date] arts program. is now Feb. 19, “It’ll be nice Alex Miller, associate vice which is about chancellor for Student Affairs to have t he six weeks after c r a f t c e nt e r our initial tarand the theater get date. While there is some there,” she said. “It’ll be really delay, it’s not particularly long convenient. I’m hoping with it for renovations on an 82-year- being new that people will have old building.” more chances to participate in After renovations on the build- the arts.” ing are completed, Miller said Jason Cooper, a freshman in it will take another six to eight the transition program, said the weeks to install all the lighting renovations will allow the theater and audiovisual equipment. to put on more performances. “They can put on more shows Expectations more often,” Cooper said. “StewCameron Laws, a sophomore art Theatre is always packed bein English who accompanies cause a lot of stuff goes on and Arts Village residents on tours people are always trying to get of Thompson, said she feels the into it. Thompson has two thenew technological advances will aters and two shows could go on add to the character of the the- at the same time. Students get atre without taking attention more exposure from different away from the history of the groups.” building. Laws said she is excited about “Even in the past few months the renovations and hopes many the transformations have been students will come out to enjoy amazing,” Laws said. “They’re the building.
“If you go into an 82-year-old building that has been converted from a gym, you’re going to have things surprise you.”
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“Drubner” paints the Free Expression Tunnel as co-host Kristen Aldridge talks to the camera while filming a segment for ESPN’s “Road Trip” before the game against Florida State Thursday. The show, which runs on ESPN.com, is in its first season. “Every week they send us to the best college football game in the country,” Drubner said.
Pack the Polls short almost 80% of goal Group registered 1,000 voters, with goal of 10,000 James Cox Staff Writer
The recent efforts of Pack the Polls, a student-run initiative to register students to vote, have led to 1,000 new registrations, chair Ches McDowell said. This is 9,000 less than Pack the Poll’s original goal, but Student Body President Jay Dawkins said that number
“I really think every voter who’s going to vote is already registered,” said Ches McDowell, a sophomore in political science and one of the organizers of Pack the Polls. “Or they’re just going to do the one stop voting.” Seventy-eight percent of students responded that they are registered to vote. McDowell said that the organization had made some brochures to place on Wolfline buses. These brochures, he said, tell voters the time of voting and what each voter needs in order to vote. In addition to brochures, Pack
WHAT IS PACK THE POLLS? Pack the Polls is a voting initiative to register new voters. Student volunteers within Pack the Polls go to classrooms to register other students, as it may be easier to get more registrations complete while students are stationary. SOURCE: CHES MCDOWELL, CHAIR AND SOPHOMORE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
did not include registration from aiding groups, which he estimates registered around several hundred more students.
the Polls is going to be stationing vans around campus on election day to transport students to polling centers. “We’re going to have one going to [the voting center on] Method road, and two or three going to Pullen Park,” McDowell said. Pack the Polls helped Aja Daniels, a sophomore in business management, change her voting district, Daniels said. According to McDowell, the influence of students trying to register others has a limit, as those who do not want to vote won’t want to register.
ACORN’s registrations under suspicion of fraud Organization employees falsify registration forms James Layman Deputy News Editor
The community activist group Associations of Community Organizations for Reform Now is currently under investigation by the FBI for suspicion of fraud. ACORN employees are falsifying voter registration forms, signing the same name several times or signing the names of popular Disney characters. Statewide, more than 100 fake forms — 30 in Wake County and 104 in Durham County — are the focus of the state investigation. Erika Pobee-Mensah, a freshman in English, said she thinks this kind of behavior
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is disgraceful and can put a bad Though she doesn’t believe taste in people’s mouths about the organization promoted this the election. behavior, Pobee-Mensah said “I think it’s kind of ridiculous employees are giving ACORN a for them to be doing that,” Po- bad reputation in spite of all the bee-Mensah said. “If they’re real- good it does. ly that desperate “ACORN for money they goes a rou nd just need to get getting people a real job. This registered to could freak out vote,” she said. a lot of voters.” “In this day Pobee-Menand age, when sah also said people aren’t this could prescoming out to ent a problem if the polls, it’s voters associate really imporACORN with a tant for someparticular canone to be dodidate. ing this. If you “If people have employees Erika Pobee-Mensah, think ACORN going around freshman in English employees are and giving the trying to proorganization a mote a particular candidate, it’s bad name, people aren’t going going to make the people think to register and they’re not going that candidate is crooked,” she to come out and vote.” said. “People are going to think ACORN said they are required the candidate is dishonest and to turn in all voter registration they’re going to vote for the op- forms including ones they susposition.” pect are fake. The forms are
“These people should face federal prosecution from the FBI for lying on a federal document.”
TOP TEN STATES FOR ACORN VOTER REGISTRATION Ohio: 247,335 Michigan: 215,470 Pennsylvania: 153,898 Florida: 151,812 Nevade: 87,968 New Mexico: 77,432 Colorado: 65,969 Montana: 47,362 Texas: 42,695 Minnesota: 42,581 SOURCE: ACORN.ORG
tagged and officials examine them further before processing the registration. Any employee found falsifying registration forms is fired, but Pobee-Mensah said stricter punishments should be put in place. “Obviously firing people isn’t working because people are still doing it,” she said. “These people should face federal prosecution from the FBI for lying on a federal document.”
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