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56 years of change AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH COMES TO AN END, THE COMMUNITY REFLECTS ON THE EVENTS THAT CHANGED RALEIGH, N.C. STATE
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This section of Hillsborough Street will be filled with green arts and music during the Renassiance Festival on March 14th.
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“Everyone was coming in with not enough money because they were not used to the new prices.�
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It began in July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas; the first planned sit-in to encourage the integration of segregated businesses. The movement quickly spread to Oklahoma City, where NAACP leaders, teachers and students formed a national sit-in that would lead to a surge of antisegregation protests across the South. In Greensboro, North Carolina A&T students visited a Woolworth’s store and sat from open to close. Word spread quickly to
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First black N.C. State students look back
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Hard times reach Hillsborough Street LocoPops, Global Village among others express decline in sales
Locals remember Cameron Village sit-in
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Raleigh, N.C., where Shaw and St. Augustine students decided to take a stand for equal treatment, according to Robert John Davis Jr., a Shaw student at the time. The planning process was intricate. Several meetings outlined acceptable and non-acceptable practices, including keeping the sit-in protests non-violent. Students were told not to respond to any remarks that were hurled at them, good or bad. “We organized the sit-in CAMERON
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In fall 1953, two students named Robert Lee Clemons and Hardy Liston, Jr. enrolled at what was then known as North Carolina State College, as graduate students. However, something set them apart from the other students that made up their class. Like their fellow peers, they had undergraduate degrees. They were eager to learn and continue their education, but they were black. Three years later, four other black men — Ed Carson, Irwin Holmes, Walter Holmes,
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and Manuel Crockett — followed suit by enrolling as the school’s first black undergraduates. “To me, their legacy is one that will always live on,� Tracey Ray, Director of Multicultural Student Affairs, said. “The most amazing thing, however, is something that any of those six men will tell you. They didn’t come to N.C. State to make a statement or to change the world. They came here to get an education.� To some, this humbleness is what made their actual STUDENTS continued page 5
Veterans working to assimilate students Group is hoping to help accommodate veterans into the University environment Sonya Deulina Staff Writer
safe way to get downtown,� Adonis said. Adonis said she will rely on the Wolfprowl for transportation to the downtown area, which might otherwise be hard to reach safely on a weekend night. The Wolfprowl can also be tracked on the Wolfline Web site, just like any other Wolfline bus. Pablo Cabrara, a junior studying abroad at the University, said the Wolfprowl will spark the nightlife in downtown Raleigh. “I think the Wolfprowl will increase the amount of downtown activity and influx of young people,� he said. Cabrara believes this new surge of students into the downtown area might encourage bars and other places of interest to shift the way they do business in order to attract the young people. “I think the Wolfprowl will
During the last five years, an increasing number of war veterans have been using G.I. bills to earn their degrees. N.C. State has long been involved in the process of producing a better environment for military veterans, but not until recently have larger steps been taken to further the cause. The Military Veterans Working Group, a military task force group on campus comprised of 35 on-campus members as well as many off-campus veteran affiliated organizations, is working together toward producing more benefits for veteran students. Jose Picart, vice provost for Diversity and Inclusion and chairman of the task force, said he proposed a list of recommendations for better accommodating war veterans entering the University. Picart said he is hoping the school will implement these recommendations as soon as possible “to make N.C. State more accessible and more welcoming to military veterans that decide they want to use their G.I. benefits to get a degree.� Some of the recommendations Picart proposed include a centralized military office on-campus to review as a “onestop shop� for veterans, a comprehensive veterans’ Web site to inform and facilitate access to veterans’ services and programs and developing sensitivity and awareness training programs for veteran and military dependent issues from the entire campus community. Picart said there are three spe-
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SYDNEY DOTTERER/TECHNICIAN
Everett Wilson, a freshman in chemical engineering, Skye Sullivan, freshman in political science, and Anthony Watson, a freshman in civi engineering, sit outside of Carroll Hall and eat lunch Thursday afternoon. Many students took advantage of the warmer weather Thursday afternoon. Wilson said “life is good in weather above 50 degrees.�
New WolfProwl bus route receives praise from students Route debut successful, organizers eye improvements Grayson Parks Correspondent
The Wolfprowl got off to a successful start last Thursday, beginning with the Student Government-led commencement ceremony to kick off the new Wolf line route to the downtown area. Students and balloons completely filled the first bus, which provided students safe, affordable access to downtown Raleigh for the first time. Maritza Adonis, a junior here from the Dominican Republic, was one of the students that gathered outside Talley just before the new bus made its first stop there. She said she was thrilled at the prospect of being able to go downtown. “I love it. It’s so convenient for me, and I can use my
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phone to track the bus because the map is provided online,� she said. Adonis continued by saying the Wolfprowl provided a new way to get downtown that didn’t involve driving or calling an cab, which would be expensive for her, as she lives off-campus. “I didn’t use to go downtown, but now I do. I don’t have a car, so the Wolfprowl provides a
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