We obviously were busy last week and didn’t have a lot of time to post things on the blog.
(Calling all people who have author access out there!?!?!? Anyone home?)
But, we wouldn’t really be following NC State appropriately if we didn’t at least provide one entry about this Mary Easley mess going on in Raleigh. There are so many articles on the story in the local papers that I don’t know which one to link. (Feel free to link insightful perspectives that you find).
NC State has announced that it will review over 800 employee contracts in the aftermatch of the fiasco.
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Why the secrecy? Public left out of search for UNC-CH Chancellor.
Today is a big day for North Carolina’s flagship public university. The UNC Board of Governors may give its OK to hire the next chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill.
Who’s in the running? Nobody knows except a handful of insiders.
That’s because this search has been top secret. An appointed search committee hired a professional search firm that specializes in recruiting chancellors. The firm recommended names to the search committee, which in turn recommended finalists to UNC system President Erskine Bowles for a decision. Mr. Bowles could have — and should have — made those names public. But he didn’t.
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In light of the fact that so many of our readers are pushing for this NC State Athletics blog to NOT discuss NC State Athletics, we wanted to try to find something of interest.
So, we went back into our archives and found this interesting story from Technician that will bring us up to speed on developments on campus.
Private developers have plans to bring a 10-story apartment complex and parking deck west of the N.C. State campus to aid the growing student population.
(Tim) Luckadoo has no doubt as to why Capstone Development is choosing to build student housing facilities near the University.
This is a preview of 40,000 in 2017
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“This is the adult equivalent of when ALL the kids got a ribbon in PE”
– Friend of SFN
We do not want to take away from the important entry below, but we wanted to chronicle this dumbfounding news as reported at gopack.com.
Maybe it isn’t so dumbfounding, afterall. Lee Fowler would represent EXACTLY what James Oblinger would view as excellence - he doesn’t rock any boats because he doesn’t do anything. He’s a PERFECT FIT for NC State, where failure is not only tolerated…it is celebrated!!
Comments not allowed in this article. Please make them in the Fowler-related entry from earlier today.
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The policeman with a history of controversy who attacked NC State assistant basketball coach Larry Harris during a traffic stop in April will not face criminal charges but could still face disciplinary action, the N&O reported.
A Raleigh police officer who pepper-sprayed an N.C. State University coach during a traffic stop will not be charged criminally.
The decision not to charge Officer Robert W. King was made this week by Colon Willoughby, Wake district attorney, after his staff reviewed an internal investigation conducted by the Raleigh Police Department.
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One good announcement; one bad announcement.
First, the good news. NC State has entered the 21st century of FM radio coverage.
NC State officials announced today that an agreement has been reached involving its rights holder, Wolfpack Sports Marketing, and Capitol Broadcasting Corporation to partner with CBC station Mix 101.5 WRAL-FM. The agreement moves Wolfpack sports programming to the FM side of the dial and solidifies NC State’s flagship radio partnership through the 2016-2017 seasons.
This is a preview of Two Big Administrative Announcements: Fowler Gets Extension, Radio Switches to 101.5FM
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Fortune magazine announced on its website Tuesday its first set of MBA rankings in “Fifty Best B-schools for Getting Hired 2007.”
NC State’s (relatively new) MBA was ranked a whopping #25 in the country, tied with Babson, Notre Dame, Boston College, UC-Irvine and Indiana.
The top five were Wharton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Kellogg.
Of local interest, Duke was #8 and Wake Forest was #49.
UNC-Chapel Hill was not listed.
WOW!! Congratulations to Dean Ira Weiss and all of the amazing things that are going on at the College of Management.
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When I was at State in the late 1980s and early 1990s I had two fraternity brothers from West Jefferson, NC that became two of my closest friends in the world. (Even today these gentlemen and their families live just a couple of miles around the corner from my family).
These two guys were notorious for being consistently late to EVERYTHING. It wasn’t a fashion statement. It wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t a big deal. But, it was constant. You name the event - other than tip-off of an intramural sporting event - and these guys were rolling up late. It was so consistent that we termed acts of arriving late as being on “West Jefferson time”.
To March, or not to March?
It isn’t much of a question.
Technician ran two opposing views on the Student Wolfpack Club’s recent behavior of “marching in” to their seats in the RBC Center today.
For those of you not familiar with what I am talking about, here is a quick rundown: before the basketball games against Duke and UNC, the Student Wolfpack Club remained in the RBC Center concourse area until about five minutes before tip-off.
They then marched down to their seats, getting the crowd pumped up and being filmed by ESPN cameras the entire way.
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Please DO NOT disregard this blog entry as some non-sports entry in which you don’t have any interest. If you are, were, or may be a student at NC State at some point in your life, then the topic of “The Student Experience” at NC State should be of extreme importance to you.
Unfortunately, the quality of “The Student Experience” has not been of extreme importance to the ‘good folks’ at NC State for quite a long time and Technician is writing about the topic in a must read piece.
This is a preview of Technician to Stafford: Improve or Retire
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An old one that we’ve had in our drafts forever. A good fit for a Friday afternoon change of pace. Link to Most & Least Affordable College Towns.
We just missed it at $203,012.00
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Read ‘em and weep. Could you get into NC State today? Don’t short yourself too much…the SAT was recalibrated a more than a decade ago where you should add approximately 100 points to scores achieved before the change.
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