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KKC makes changes to improve timing, publicity of race Krispy Kreme Challenge registration numbers up from last year
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Women’s basketball coach Kay Yow passed away early Saturday morning af ter 22 years of battling breast cancer. Yow coached the Wolfpack for 34 years. She left behind a legacy of being a great coach and an even better person. Yow encouraged many people
as she battled cancer. F r o m Ho o p s 4 Ho p e to personal words of exhortation, Yow was a lways k ind, gent le, loving and encouraging. As one observer put it, “No matter how much cancer took away from her, she a lways had something else to give
away.” Yow stepped aw ay f rom t he team in early Jan. bec au se of fat ig ue. Un for t u nately, Yow continued to deteriate. She was hospitalized at
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Wake Medical in Cary, where she passed away as the best coach in N.C. State women’s basketball
“When life kicks you, let it kick you forward” — Coach Kay Yow
“Remembering Kay Yow” special insert on pages 7 & 8 Task force requests a board to change campus values Campus Climate Subcommittee of the Campus Culture Task Force recommends advisory board to review University values and ethics
CAMPUS CLIMATE SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Samuel T.O. Branch
r Identify and appoint a campus unit or organization to implement, maintain, and assess the University’s values and ethics engagement process
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r Identify and codify a set of University values and ethical principles r Write and widely distribute a University Creed or Code of Values
r Enhance the existing University values engagement process and implement a more comprehensive and strategic socialization process for encouraging the entire campus community to embrace the University’s values and ethical principles
r Provide institutional oversight of the University’s values engagement process.
The Campus Climate Subcommittee of the Campus Culture Task force, in its initial recommendations to Chancellor James Oblinger, proposed that Oblinger “establish and appoint an administrative advisory com-
SOURCE: CAMPUS CULTURE TASK FORCE
mittee on University Values and Ethics,” according to a release from the task force. The task force has designed the
proposed committee to improve the campus atmosphere by doing several things, according to Jose Picart, the vice provost for
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Diversity and Inclusion. “One of the things this means is that there [will be] a University values and ethics committee. that committee would be charged with looking at [improving campus culture,]” Picart said. One of the most important points of these recommendations is having some sort of creed or code of values which the committee will determine, Picart said. “I would like to identify a set of University goals and values to work toward. HavCAMPUS continued page 3
Jan. 27, 2009: Registration event in the Brickyard 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 29, 2009: Registration event in the Brickyard 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Preston Boyles
In memory of women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, people placed flowers like these outside Yow’s office in Reynolds Coliseum Saturday. Yow, an icon for many has had 737 wins overall, coached for 34 years at N.C. State. Yow lost her battle to breast cancer Saturday morning.
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The fifth annual Krispy Kreme Challenge has acquired 1,851 participants with 10 days left to register. According to Justin Carey, senior in nuclear engineering and one of the coordinators for this year’s race, the numbers at this point are slightly higher than last year’s total. “Last year we had 3,000 people total,” Carey said. “ This year our goal is to reach 5,000 registrants.” A few changes have been made for the upcoming Challenge, including a chip timing system to help monitor runner’s times, according to Carey. “We have had problems in the past with times and getting results in quickly,” Carey said. “Every runner will be given an electronic chip to put on their shoe. It will time them and show how long it takes them to run the race and how long they took at Krispy Kreme.” Cameron Cooper, a senior in textile engineering, said when he ran the race his sophomore year, it was difficult to get the timing in. The coordinators for the event said the chip system should show how fast each runner is moving more accurately. The new chip contributed to a $1 increase in the registration price, Carey said. He also said the current economic conditions have slightly bumped up all costs. Organizers are shooting to raise $30,000 to $40,000 for the
Feb. 3, 2009: Online registration deadline Feb. 6, 2009: Pre-race check-in: Brickyard 2 to 4:30 p.m Krispy Kreme 5 to 9 p.m. Feb. 7, 2009: Krispy Kreme Challenge- Belltower Check-in begins at 6 a.m. Race time 9:30 a.m. SOURCE: KKC
North Carolina Children’s Hospital, which will greatly offset the extra expenses for the hospital. The more exciting change, in the opinion of some registered runners, is the projected ESPN coverage. Carey said after sending out a general press release to the public, ESPN contacted the coordinators and expressed interested in shooting special footage for Sports Center. Dasha Karelov, a junior in paper science and engineering, said ESPN is great publicity for the University. “Us being doughnut eating and running kids may not be the best image, but hopefully the publicity will make more people want to come and visit the school,” she said. The doughnut eating is a major concern for Chris Blackwell, a sophomore in physics, and Rita Beard, a freshman in criminology, who are both returning to the Challenge for the second year. KKC continued page 3
Student Government will hold third appropriation information session Appropriation process running smoother than last semester
to groups, which is an increase in available funds, compared to last semester. “It’s rare to see an increase. Usually we give James Cox out more money Staff Writer in the fall semesters,” Rogers, a T he St udent junior in political Senate Approscience, said. priations ComAppropriations mittee will hold is Student Gova third informaernment’s most Kelli Rogers, chair of tion session on important role, appropriations committee Monday for those according to Rogstudent organizaers. tions that would like help filling “We take money from student out their appropriation applica- fees and give it back out,” she tion. said. Kelli Rogers, the chair of the Rogers said last semester apcommittee, said Student Gov- plicants asked for more money ernment has $46,000.00 to give SENATE continued page 3
“We received requests for about $120,000 last semester.”
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