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Aug. 30
Romney accepts the presidential nomination
at the Republican National Convention in
Tampa, Fla.
Aug. 31
Paul Ryan campaigns at East Carolina University in
Greenville, N.C.
Sept. 6
Obama accepts the presidential nomination
at the Democratic National Convention in
Charlotte, N.C.
Sept. 11
The U.S. embassy in Benghazi is attacked,
leaving the ambassador and three other
Americans dead.}Oct. 3
The first presidential debate on domestic
policy at the University of Denver in Denver, Colo.
Oct. 11
The vice-presidential debate on foreign and
domestic policy at Centre College in Danville, Ky.
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campaign headquarters in Asheville, N.C.
Nov. 4
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Obama at Pullen Park in Raleigh, N.C.
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Election Day
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Hassan DurantDeputy Features Editor
Pat McCrory, the republican can-didate for North Carolina governor, has won the gubernatorial election. This marks the first time in 20 years that a republican has been elected as governor of North Carolina.
With 32 percent of the precincts reporting, McCrory had 54 percent of the vote compared to the 44 per-cent won by Democratic candidate Walter Dalton. The Libertarian can-didate, Barbara Howe, earned a little less than 2 percent of the vote.
This is the second time McCrory has run for governor — he narrowly lost to Bev Perdue in the 2008 elec-tions. McCrory also served as mayor of Charlotte for 14 years from 1995-2009.
McCrory opened up his victory speech last night by thanking Dal-ton and Perdue for their service to North Carolina as governor and lieutenant governor respectively. McCrory said he received calls from both Dalton and Perdue. McCrory said he sympathized with Dalton, and that he greatly appreciated Per-due’s willingness to help with the transition of gubernatorial power.
McCrory went on to express his pride in the “positive campaign” he ran this year.
“Running for elected office can be honorable,” McCrory said. “You don’t have to tear down another per-son to make that happen ... we won the right way.”
Education is one of McCrory’s major platforms — he intends to reform the North Carolina educa-tion system to be more effective and cost-efficient.
On his official website, McCrory hosts a 2-and-a-half-page document entitled “A Passion for Education.” In the document, McCrory outlines his plan for the future of North Car-olina schools.
McCrory says that he favors more options for high school students
who do not plan to go onto college — specifically, separate diplomas that designate a student as being either “college ready” or “career ready”. McCrory also supports a wider variety of virtual education courses and hand-held educational technology to improve the learning experience.
“Teaching and education can no longer be limited to lectures, chalkboards and brick buildings,” McCrory said.
McCrory favors more charter schools, and said that last year’s legislative vote to end the 100 char-ter-school limit is a step in the right direction. McCrory fears that a slow approval rate for charter schools will hinder the progress he envisions, however. “We must implement a process to ensure that parents and students are not left in limbo on their school options,” McCrory said; however, he does not give specific details on such a process.
McCrory also wants to put an end to social promotions for third graders. Social promotions occur when a student fails a grade, but is promoted to the next grade anyway in order to protect the child’s psy-chological well-being. McCrory says that third grade is a critical step in a child’s education, and should not be subject to social promotions.
Some criticize McCrory for put-ting such an importance on edu-cation, yet standing by legislature that has cut funding to education in North Carolina within the past few years.
McCrory purports to have for higher education as well; however, many of the statements on his web-site concerning higher education are vague. According to his campaign site, the McCrory administration will: 1. Help students find the path to success that is right for them; 2. Ensure students are attaining mar-ketable skills to enter the workforce; 3. Encourage degree completion and 4. Integrate resources across campuses and expand the use of technology to improve educational quality and drive down costs.
In time, we will hopefully get a fuller picture of what McCrory plans to do to improve North Caro-lina colleges and universities.
On the Democratic side of the race, Dalton delivered a conces-sion speech last night in which he conceded defeat in the election, but refused to give up for future cam-paigns.
“It looks like time has run out on this campaign,” Dalton said, “but we have not lost.”
GovernorCandidate Percentage
Pat McCrory - R 54.7%
Walter Dalton - D 43.2%
Lt. GovernorCandidate Percentage
Dan Forest - R 50.1%
Linda Coleman - D 49.9%
Four more yearsIncumbents dominate Congressional races
2nd DistrictCandidate Percentage
Ellimers - R 55.9%
Wilkins - D 41.4%
4th DistrictCandidate Percentage
Price - D 74.4%
D’Annunzio - R 25.6%
13th DistrictCandidate Percentage
Holding - R 57.1%
Malone - D 42.9%
Laura WilkinsonDeputy News Editoe
Barack Obama will have another four years in office as president after winning the election with more than 270 electoral votes. As of midnight, Obama had ac-crued 281 electoral votes, though official numbers are pending.
Obama won the key state of Ohio to secure a victory over Republican ri-val and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. California, Florida and New York — which have high electoral vote counts — all leaned Democrat while Romney’s largest electoral vote acquisi-tion came from Texas.
Obama gained the majority of the Northeast, west coast and Great Lakes-area states. Romney won the majority of the South and Southeast — the major exception being Florida — as well as the Midwest.
Shortly after winning the Ohio votes, Obama tweeted his followers.
“This happened because of you. Thank you. We’re all in this together. That’s how we campaigned, and that’s who we are. Thank you. –bo.”
According to the Federal Election Com-mission, President Barack Obama won 49.7 percent of votes in the 2008 election, while Republican candidate John McCain won 49.38 percent.
Preliminary results Tuesday night showed Obama winning the majority of the electoral votes but Romney in close contention for the popular vote.
This year, Romney took North Caro-lina’s 15 electoral votes. Although the
state swung red, Wake, Durham, Orange and Mecklenburg counties all swung in Obama’s favor. In the 2008 presidential election, North Carolina went blue for the first time since 1976, though the race in the state was extremely close.
Early voting in North Carolina was higher this election year than in 2008, according to the Charlotte Observer. Af-ter Saturday, the State Board of Elections reported that 2.55 million in-person bal-lots were cast, more than the 2.4 million early ballots cast in the 2008 election.
Alex Parker, president of Students for Obama on campus, said the country saw the youth vote come out and it showed that President Obama fought for students and fought for keeping college affordable.
“What we saw tonight was a decisive victory for President Obama, the policies he has enacted, and the trust that voters in America have for him and his ability to pull us forward,” Parker said.
Baxter Hunter Wells III, a senior in criminology, cited many reasons to be thankful for Obama’s victory.
“I no longer have to worry about my student interest rates being doubled. I no longer have to worry about my mother’s health insurance becoming a voucher program. I no longer have to worry about how much someone makes being a true gauge of their personal worth,” Wells said. “You mad, bro?”
In his next term, Obama
wants to focus on job growth, eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs overseas and provide incentives for companies that create jobs in America. He wishes to double exports and create one million new manufacturing jobs, ac-cording to his campaign site.
Obama has set a goal of cutting foreign oil imports in half by 2020 and wishes to invest in clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power.
He has also set a goal to cut tuition growth in half over the next decade, an issue
KELSEY KREMER/IOWA STATE DAILYRepublican candidate Mitt Romney won North Carolina with 51 percent of the vote, but came up short in the electoral college.
1st DistrictCandidate Percentage
Butterfield - D 75.2%
DiLauro - R 41.4%
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Responses from around the TriangleReps celebrate NC win, mourn US lossDems wait with baited breath for results
CAM hosts non-partisan partyLibertarians celebrate growth
Jeniece JamisonSports Editor
The North Carolina Liber-tarian Party held a watch par-ty at the Crabtree Holiday Inn on election night. Gubernato-rial candidate Barbara Howe attended the event and gave a speech on the growth of the party through the election season.
The party must gain 2 per-cent of the popular vote in the gubernatorial or presidential election to stay a legally-qualified party on the ballot without petitioning in North Carolina. It had continuous ballot status from 1996-2004. The party was decertified by the state in 2005 and regained
its continuous ballot status in 2008. Libertarians received 2.8 percent of the vote in the 2008 gubernatorial election. At the time of her speech Tuesday night, Howe had received 2.12 percent of the vote.
Howe said the popularity of former presidential can-didate Ron Paul helped the party gain traction in the local and national elections.
“We’ve seen a lot of en-thusiasm from former Ron Paul supporters,” Howe said. “They’re still Ron Paul sup-porters, but since he’s not in the race they’ve tracked to the Libertarian Party as the more fiscally responsible and socially tolerant party.
They don’t find that in the Republicans or the Demo-crats, and they see that in the Libertarian Party.”
The Libertarian Party has grown from 13,000 registered voters in North Carolina in 2008 to 19,000 registered in the 2012 elec-tion. It is also active in 50 counties in North Carolina. Jason Melehani, co-direc-tor for North Carolina for Johnson and a medical stu-dent at UNC-Chapel Hill, said the Libertarian Party is active in the most urban counties out of the 100 in North Carolina.
Howe said these numbers show some promise for the growth of the party.
“It shows an incredible growth and interest in the ideas of the Libertarian Party. We’re just going to keep moving forward,” Howe said.
Howe also said she is ex-cited about the amount of young people that have been drawn to the party’s beliefs.
According to Melehani, the average age range of a registered Libertarian is 36-38 years old, and there are many college-aged Lib-ertarians that exhibit a high level of involvement and en-thusiasm in the party.
Howe said presidential candidates don’t have a large following. The Liber-tarian presidential candi-date, Gary Johnson, gained 1 percent of the popular vote in North Carolina.
John WallStaff Writer
Four fully-stocked bars were open at the North Ra-leigh Hilton for Republi-cans to drown their sorrows Tuesday night at the Repub-lican election night party. Talk amongst those in attendance — which num-bered at least 500, although party organizers would not release an exact number — f lowed smoothly until CBS announced Obama’s victory over Romney on a large screen in the corner of the room. Obama’s win was displayed on two screens: one tuned to CBS, and the other tuned to FOX News. Ali Duffy, who gradu-ated N.C. State in 2011,
was a full-time employee for the Republican head-quarters of the state. She said she did not donate any money to the campaign, but donated a lot of her time. “Hopefully I’ ll get on boa rd w it h G over nor McCror y,” Duf f y sa id. As results from around the country trickled in, attend-ees began to lose hope in Romney’s chances of win-ning. Outside the hotel, in a cigarette smoking section, talk revolved around the necessity of Romney’s win-ning all of the swing states. Justin Taylor, a student at U NC-Charlot te and three-time Iraq War vet-eran, was in the smoking area at 11:07 p.m., before CBS’s 11:14 announce-
ment that Obama had won. “It’s not looking good,” Taylor said to a friend of h is who work s for the NR A in Charlot te. Balloons in a net hung above the ballroom where the party was being held. North Caro-lina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis consoled at-tendees by telling them that Republicans had maintained majority in the House of Representatives three min-utes after the announce-ment of Obama’s win when the balloons were released. As the gleeful children of the attending parents jumped on balloons intended for celebra-tion, trying to pop as many as they could, smiles among the adults watching the balloons were few and far between.
Nicky VaughtStaff Writer
A crowd comprised of people of all ages sat, stood, and laid down to watch two screens, one streaming local election results, one playing MSNBC’s coverage of the presidential election. Among them were various local can-didates and their families.
The Wake County Demo-crats hosted an election night watch party at the Marriott City Center in downtown Raleigh last night. Before the speakers began, optimism ran low.
“I’m a litt le nervous,” David McDonald, a Duke University a lumn sa id. “Romney may have busi-ness, but he doesn’t have the foreign policy Obama has. He doesn’t have experience
either. Obama is somewhat seasoned, not perfectly, but somewhat.”
Bessie Elmore, the owner of Turning Corners Alliance in Raleigh-Durham, admitted to being a strong Obama sup-porter. She also pointed out a sense of diversity amongst Democrats and the lack of it amongst Republicans.
“I don’t like the way the election goes with the racial stuff,” Elmore said. “If the president is elected again we will be unified regardless of ethnicity.”
Once states’ senate results came, the crowd began cheer-ing for every Democratic vic-tory. On seeing Obama win various states, the crowd did the same. Even the “too close to call” and “too early to call” reports, the crowd remained optimistic.
“We know that at the end of the night, we’re going to have a lot to celebrate in North Carolina,” Deborah Ross, the North Carolina House Representative said.
Other speakers met her enthusiasm. Officials Roy Cooper, David Price, June Atkinson, and a few more also spoke, most frequently emphasizing the need for growth in the middle class.
The crowd became more enthusiastic as more Demo-cratic senators gained victo-ry and as Obama won more states. They did, however, boo for North Carolina’s voting for Romney.
Upon seeing Obama sur-pass the needed 270 Elector-al College votes, attendees cheered, hugged, danced, and sang.
Joseph CabanissStaff Writer
The Contemporary Arts Museum in downtown Raleigh hosted a unique exhibition Tuesday night: a living, feeling sample of American politics.
Across the glass walls of the Contemporary Arts Museum, which exposed the white walls and hang-ing art inside to the urban streets outside were the words “My Land” and “Your Land”, re-ferring to a political lounge, present-i n g r e d and blue carpets to separate people by political beliefs, with joined televisions at the center, broadcasting MSNBC to the blue car-pet, and Fox News to the red carpet, with President Obama’s portrait hanging high above.
The blue carpet filled fast when the gallery opened its doors and tuned the televi-sions to the election broad-casts. Free beer was passed out to all patrons, to make up for the $5 door charge. Hopes were high, as was stress. People sat around the
television, packing in close. Each elected Democratic
senator brought out a big burst of clapping, and no voices were raised in protest. Some patrons circled the tele-vision, watching both Fox News and MSNBC, trying to find differences, holes to poke, but none were found.
As it got later, and the elec-tion grew closer (around 9 p.m., Florida was at a stagger-ing 50 percent to 50 percent, at approximately 3,393,000 votes each) and tension grew.
However, it was eased by a nearby ice-pail of beer a nd w ine. Expectations were all over the place as the race got
down to sparks.“I don’t know what to ex-
pect, I thought Obama had it. But … it seems to be a strong lead,” said Gregory Roche, an important member of Apjet, an applications engineer-ing company working out of Centennial Campus.
“I expect at least North Carolina to go Obama,” said another attendee, Jason Fos-ter. “I hope our guy wins.”
Patrons were encouraged, during the long wait, to ex-plore the open gallery, of which this election party was
a part. Put together by Jona-than Horowitz, a New York-based artist with experience in sculpture and soundscap-ing with art featuring in gal-leries around the world. The exhibition was originally shown in New York, for the 2008 election, and is now be-ing held in eight Contempo-rary Arts Museums around the country.
When both MSNBC and Fox News declared Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States, the crowd here erupted into cheers. Peo-ple circled around the televi-sion, grazing for information with big smiles, texting and tweeting. A computer hub in the middle of this gallery connected this gallery with galleries in Texas, Utah, Cali-fornia, New York and other places via Twitter.
Not all patrons were mem-bers or citizens. For Dan Spenzer, from the UK, it was a first time seeing American politics in action. “I don’t like Mitt Romney, so I’m quite happy to be in a country led by Barack Obama.”
For the more democratic patrons, the general consen-sus was “relief”, according to attendees Marvin Johns and Andrew DePompa.
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“I expect at least
North Carolina
to go Obama.”Jason Foster
NewsGov. Mitt Romney won
North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes, claiming the contested state soon in the race, lead-ing with about 90,000 votes, according to the State Board of Elections. In the weeks leading up to the elections, pollsters took North Carolina off the list of swing states, and many surveys, including Ras-mussen Reporting and Real Clear Politics.
President Barack Obama won North Carolina by 13,000 votes in 2008, mak-ing it the closest race in the nation.
Romney claimed Republi-can strongholds in Western North Carolina, with excep-tion to Buncombe County, home to UNC-Ashvi l le. Obama won other counties with universities, including Wake, Durham, Guilford, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, Robe-son and Pasquotank counties.
In the beginning of the race, Romney led Wake County until the 90 percent count, until Obama reclaimed the county with 54.5 percent of the votes.
Romney won the state with 50.6 percent of the popular vote, beating Obama by 2.2 points, a closer margin than what Rasmussen, and Gravis Marketing polls.
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President Barack Obama became the first sitting pres-ident to support equality of all individuals regardless of their sexual orientation. The statement came in May, one day after North Carolina changed its constitution to ban same-sex marriage via Amendment One.
Justine Hollingshead, di-rector of the GLBT Center, was shocked when she heard the news. However, she said it showed that “I matter and members of the GLBT com-
munity matter.”While control l ing the
White House, Obama has repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a policy that barred openly gay, lesbian or bisex-ual persons from military service. He said the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman, was unconsti-tutional.
He also passed the Mat-thew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act, extending hate crimes to include attacks based on the victim’s actual and per-ceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Obama was also the first to structure a portion of his party platform on gay rights.
Because of the legislation Obama has put into place, Adam Ward, a graduate stu-dent in comparative biomedi-cal sciences and GLBT Center assistant, has “felt very sup-ported by the Obama admin-istration.”
Rachel Turner, a senior in human biology and Student Government chief of staff, said Obama “gave the com-munity hope that change is
on the way.” Turner is an ally of the GLBT community.
M a ny h ave t hou g ht Obama’s support is a reflec-tion of the younger genera-tion’s desires.
Alex Parker, Students for Obama president and soph-omore in Spanish, said stu-dents have responded to his support.
“College students have said that it made it easier to sup-port him,” Parker said.
A mid-October Pack Poll stated that 70 percent of N.C. State students favored allow-ing gays and lesbians to legal-ly form civil unions, and 65 percent favor allowing gays and lesbians to legally marry.
A Gallup poll shows the im-pact age can have, stating that 65 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of Republicans supported the legalization of same sex marriage.
Parker believes the presi-dent did not want GLBT rights to be a political matter.
“I did not think that it was supposed to be an impactful moment for the election,” Parker said.
Hollingshead and Turner think every decision Obama makes is a political one, but the support could have hindered his chances of re-election.
“Most people would [say] ‘don’t say [you support the GLBT community],’ but at a certain point, you have to say ‘enough is enough,’” Hol-lingshead said.
“It could have hurt him re-ally bad, but he still took a chance and came out as an ally,” Turner said.
Kyle Vey, president of the GLBT Community Alliance and junior in biomedical en-gineering, believes electing Mitt Romney would certainly set the accomplishments
back, because he “certainly isn’t for the GLBT commu-nity.”
But Vey doesn’t think the community will go down without a fight. Vey, a Cana-dian citizen, finds it frustrat-ing that he cannot vote, es-pecially because it is legal for same-sex couples to marry in Canada.
The timing of the presi-dent’s support was a relief for the GLBT Center, which was “down in the dumps” after Amendment One passed.
“It helped push the con-versation and [remove] the elephant in the room,” Hol-lingshead said.
Turner said Obama being an ally helped others come out in support of the GLBT community, which she feels is needed.
“The community itself can’t fight this on their own,” Turner said. “It’s okay to fight for other people’s rights.”
“I have met a lot of people that were tentative to come out as an ally or come out in general, and this has helped,” Vey said.
The president has shown his opposition against states denying gays to marry. On March 16, Obama stated he was against Amendment One. In 2008, he spoke out as a candidate against Cali-fornia’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Proposi-tion 8 is set to go to the Su-preme Court this month.
Some states have already legalized same-sex marriage, like Massachusetts, Iowa and Vermont. Same-sex marriage is on the ballot for Maryland, Washington, Maine and Minnesota.
Obama takes step forward for gay rights
JONATHAN STOUT/TECHNICIANRep. Tammy Baldwin (D) speaks to the LGBT Caucus at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
OBAMA RECLAIMS THE PRESIDENCY BY SLIM MARGIN IN NATION, STATE
COLLEGE COUNTY VOTES:Wake: 54.5 % Obama, 44.2% RomneyDurham: 75.9 % Obama, 23.2% RomneyOrange: 70.4 % Obama, 28.2% Romney New Hanover: 51.9 % Romney, 46.9% ObamaBuncombe: 55.5% Obama, 43.1% RomneyMecklenburg: 60.8% Obama,
38.3% RomneyRobeson: 57.9% Obama, 41.3% RomneyPitt: 53.0% Obama, 46.3% Romney Pasquotank: 57.5% Obama, 41.6% RomneyCumberland: 59.5% Obama, 39.8% Romney
SOURCE: N.C. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
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I’ll give you an exer-cise. Try and think about how many
pictures you took recently that were for the sake of recording memories and not for uploading on Face-
book?I a m
talking about “change” in those times. It was slow. It had the inertia of
a tortoise.Personal change still
had to take express per-mission of one’s con-science. Thinking and spending time on one’s own self was punctuated by work pressure and not the other way around. In-teraction between strang-ers still needed to cross the barrier of formality and eye contact. Makeup has been taken over by Photoshop.
Concepts about life were still learnt during long walks with Grandpa. Tradition did not need UNESCO’s certificate to be kept alive. Newspa-pers were kaleidoscopes for looking at the world. There was a sentiment of exploration in visiting new cities. Decisions were based on personal calcu-lation and the referee was still the last call on the football field.
I could go on. But in-formation revolution has become a boring term. This article is not about information revolution. It is about how in con-necting with others, one has learnt to lose himself.
I want to outline two things: first, a conscious d i s t i nc t ion bet ween the goals and means of achieving those goals. Do not lose this distinction. Let the means not shape your ends. Don’t let the Internet determine what you learn.
Second, use the tool actively in all its grace. A hammer needs to be held and struck at a certain angle, power and base to yield maximum result.
Use the internet and not drag away in it.
What we read on the In-ternet shapes our thoughts. Earlier, your own living expe-riences shaped your thoughts. Experience, it seems, has lost its touch as a teacher. Mind you, I do not consider in-formation networks hostile. I am merely lamenting the weak immune system of our character.
One of the most important things in life is continued learning. It saddens me as to how malleable our learning curves have become. Infor-mation is so easy and over-whelming that our filters are not keeping up. The struggle to knowledge is crucial in determining how valuable it is for us. Perhaps, we need to see the negative side of easy information and the positive side of the lack of it.
You see, Facebook is like TV. Although it helps you stay connected, it also has the addictive and passive nature that makes the TV an idiot box. The feed just keeps on coming. A more intelligent way to use it would be to ac-tively use the ‘unsubscribe’ button.
Shape the way you use your Internet. Clear the clutter on your feed. Look out for the © symbol. This will mean that someone is ready to take name for what is written. Ask the “why”. Answer the “why not”. Don’t leave your brains at the coffee machine while you log onto the Internet.
Look at opinions for what they are: only opinions. Not the gospel of truth. Check with your own “habits-I-can’t-afford-to-lose” chart before you imbibe something cool you read on the Internet. Email back authors of articles citing your criticism. If he’s a true author, he will appreci-ate your difference of opin-ion and debate. Argue, don’t blindly accept. Read, evaluate and imbibe.
Technology is a tool. The Internet should, no doubt, be used to enhance one’s life. Enhance, not shape.
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
Rachel Jordan, junior in architecture
Let us not forget
As of my writing this – since I am writing this on
Tuesday – I don’t know who will be the next Presi-dent of the United States.
However, I do know that half o f y o u reading this are pleased with last night’s election
results, and the other half you, well, not so much.
Despite what any nay-sayers think, let us not forget that whoever is taking the reins of our government this January is not going to ruin the country. As pointed out by Gil Troy, a professor of history at McGill Univer-sity, in a recent New York Times article, most pres-idents have swayed from the extremes of their cam-paign platforms towards a more neutral middle once in office.
Let us not forget that both George W. Bush and Barack Obama approved massive economic stimu-lus plans when in office. Party lines meant little to them when it came to the rapidly plummeting state of our economy. Let us not forget that both of these men reacted to for-eign attacks, Bush toward 9/11 and Obama toward the Libya attack, by seek-ing out the attacker and taking precautions to
keep the rest of our country safe.
There are disagreements over hot-button issues such as abortion and healthcare, but let us not forget that our next man in office sincerely has the intention of better-ing our country. Issues such as what to do about Iran and how to fix the economy have different paths towards suc-cess. The two major politi-cal parties disagree on what those paths are, but each has the same end goal in sight.
It’s easy to get caught up on focusing on the wrong things. This applies to every single area of life, well beyond the outcome of Election Day. If your can-didate lost last night, I am sure that you are now very nervous for t he future o f o u r country. What will happen to your job possibilities af-ter you graduate? Will you be able to afford healthcare? Are we going to be able to stop catastrophically send-ing ourselves into national debt? Questions like these are completely understand-able, and I’m sure that I will be thinking the same ones on Wednesday as well, regardless of who won.
Let us not forget that Ron-ald Reagan, despite all of the cliches about the Republican Party sending women back in
time, appointed the first fe-male Supreme Court justice. Dwight D. Eisenhower kept the extremely Democratic Social Security Program. Let us not forget that Bush went back on his word when he, in fact, did raise taxes to help ease the rate at which the deficit was rising. Romney in-stated the healthcare plan in Massachusetts, the plan that Obamacare was based upon. Clinton encouraged private expression of religion inside public schools saying that we “need not leave religion at the schoolhouse door.”
Let us not forget that, de-spite the trends in recent years, politics is still about
govern-ing our country, and the men and women that have been elected under-stand that. It’s
quite easy to become cynical and claim that our system is broken, but let us not forget that no one sincerely goes into politics for the fame and fortune. While you may be frustrated and annoyed, es-pecially if you actually went out and voted, I don’t think that we are going to cease to exist as a country four years from now.
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Good morning, AmericaToday is a new day — we know whom
we have elected to be in the White House for the next four years. The
verdict has been made, and the word is out. We have chosen whom we want to be president. So, as a preview to the next four years, here’s a
sneak peak at what this presi-dent is going to do:
This man is going to con-tinue tapping your phone and building massive databases of information about all citi-zens. He’s going to put drones into the American sky to keep track of the people. He’s going to try and turn the Internet
against us, limiting our ability to utilize it for creative means and use it to spy on us.
He supports the newly-instituted presiden-tial powers giving him the ability to order the U.S. military to indefinitely and extrajudi-cially detain American citizens on American soil if suspected of “terrorism.” Terrorism, the enemy-of-choice in post-Cold War America,
is broadly and repressively defined, and will remain this way under his presidency and the regime of fear-mongering that will be persist in it. As the law stands, besides by killing civil-ians to an ideological end, you can be a ter-rorist if you dissent against the government, or even, ridiculously, if you have more than a week’s worth of food in your house. And the president will continue to believe “terrorist networks” pose the greatest national security threat to our country. Since there are blood-thirsty Islamic terrorists out there scheming to kill us, he will stand by a firm foreign policy to take this enemy down, and indiscriminately bomb entire villages in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries in the process. All this, of course, while taking away the freedoms they hate us for.
Because of his perception of what our na-tion’s priorities are, he will not be interested in taking down the people from the financial in-dustry that are wreaking havoc on this coun-try. He will protect Wall Street from criminal liability, and will support rules that will allow
the financial institutions to grow even bigger (they already have, since 2008) and even more prone to risky behavior. Just because he relied on the banksters’ money to get elected, he will not stop them from gambling on the country’s future, and will thus keep alive and distinct the possibility of another financial meltdown.
To be fair to him, he doesn’t think that it’s solely a serpentine network of terrorists that’s out there to destroy our nation, though that may be the biggest enemy in his mind. He also thinks there are plenty of people nearer to us that our country is best detached from as well, and so he will support the expansion of the prison-industrial complex. Immigrants will continue to be jailed in for-profit prisons, and will be sent back in record numbers. To fill the labor those immigrants would have provided, he will continue the war on drugs. This way, young, mainly black, people of color will be put in more private jails, and will be made to work below minimum wage where the im-migrants would have otherwise slaved away.
The matter of our planet’s future inhabit-
ability, finally, is not a priority of his — unlike “fighting the terrorists” and maintaining the GDP. So, the president will likely try to avoid any potential international agreements on climate change that would lead to some con-structive, cooperative action on the issue. He will advocate for offshore drilling, and will hold Big Oil and Big Gas unaccountable for their crimes against future generations, hu-man and non-human individuals and under-privileged communities. He believes that coal can be “clean,” and he will generally not take firm, necessary action against the challenges posed by multiple ecological crises.
And as all of this happens, we’re all going to go about our lives thinking how good, or how bad the other option would have been. We’re going to rack our brains over how this presi-dent is making things different, and which president we should elect after this one to af-fect a profoundly significant change in our society.
Good morning, America — it’s just another day.
Ishan RavalDeputy Viewpoint Editor
Joseph HaveyStaff Columnist
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Coming off an unexpected NCAA tournament run last season, the preseason No. 6 N.C. State Wolfpack men’s basketball team is favored to win the ACC. It will play its home opener this Friday night at PNC Arena against Miami of Ohio.
Head coach Mark Gott-fried and his staff has un-questionably put together the most talented, hungry and most importantly, struc-tured Wolfpack team the program has seen in years. Last year, State led the ACC in multiple individual sta-tistical categories. Senior forward Scott Wood was the most proficient three-point shooter in the conference, making more than 40 per-cent of his attempts. Junior guard Lorenzo Brown led the conference in steals, averag-ing 1.8 per game, and second in assists with an average of 6.3 per game. Junior forward C.J. Leslie was third in field goal percentage, and Richard Howell was second in offen-sive rebounding and third in overall rebounding, aver-
aging 9.2 per game. Throw in a couple All-American freshmen, and both State’s frontcourt and backcourt are looking pretty impressive.
A schedule breakdown will preview the Wolfpack’s jour-ney through the 2012-2013 men’s basketball season, and answer questions about our competition.
State’s schedule starts off lightly, as is tradition for pow-er-conference schools. After this week’s season-opener against Miami of Ohio, the Pack will travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico to play in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off tour-nament. There, it will first face Penn State, one of the bottom-feeders of the Big Ten this season, and then, if vic-torious, will navigate through the round-robin style tourna-ment. State is favored to win the tournament, but must be weary of teams such as Ten-nessee or even Massachusetts who have adequate size and hope to play spoiler.
Upon returning to the U.S., the Pack will travel to Anne Arbor, Mich. to play the No. 5 Michigan Wolverines. By far, this will be State’s toughest test in the early portion of the
season. Michigan, who went into last year’s tournament as a No. 4 seed, was bounced in the first round by Ohio, and is sure to come out hungry in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Standouts for the Wolverines are guards Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr., so watch for Brown, Wood, Leslie and Howel l to have their hands fu l l defensively.
Following the ACC/Big Ten Cha l-lenge , t he Pack will re-turn home to play a string of games at PNC Arena. It will face Cleveland State Dec. 8, who is consistently near the top of the Hori-zon League, then Stanford Dec.18, who defeated the Pack by a narrow margin last season.
To round up non-confer-ence play, the Pack will host St. Bonaventure Dec. 22, who came close to beating Flori-da State in last year’s NCAA tournament, then Western Michigan and UNC-Greens-
boro. Besides the Michigan game, the Pack will be heavily favored in all of its non-con-ference games leading up to the ACC opener against Bos-ton College Jan. 5. However, one loss could drop the Pack significantly back from its elite ranking, forcing an up-hill climb to stay relevant in
the nation’s eyes.
Jan. 12 will be the first re a l AC C test for the Pack, when it will match up against No. 8 Duke at PNC Are-n a . He a d coach Mike
Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils are once again loaded with young talent, including freshman forward Marshall Plumlee, the last of the three Plum-lee brothers to go through the program after both his All-ACC brothers went pro. Watch for a battle down low in this game, and keep an eye on three-point shooters An-dre Dawkins and Seth Curry for Duke, and Scott Wood for State.
Moving forward, the Pack will face Maryland, Clem-son and Wake Forest be-fore it gets a crack at No. 11 North Carolina Jan. 26. For the first time ever, ESPN’s College Gameday will be in Raleigh to showcase a highly anticipated game. The Wolf-pack will surely be hungry to avenge their last meeting in the ACC tournament, when it suffered a devastating two-point loss that may have been influenced by a controversial no-call at the end of regula-tion.
Following the UNC game, State will face Virginia and Miami to wrap up the first half of conference play. Both teams are expected to improve their standing in ACC this season, as their new coaches are settling in and rebuilding their respec-tive programs. Look for a rebounding battle down low against Miami. With Mike Scott now gone for Virginia, the Cavaliers should be much more manageable this season given State’s own explosive guards.
The Pack will play each ACC team once more in the second half of the season.
For now, the Pack must take it one game at a time, and head coach Mark Gottfried is known for not allowing his team to get ahead of it-self. Excitement has been building, College Gameday is coming and analysts are high on N.C. State. Now the stage is set for the highest ex-pectations the school has had in decades. All that’s left to do is play.
2012-13 MEN’S BASKETBALL HOME SCHEDULE:11/9: Miami (OH)
11/23: UNC-Asheville12/8: Cleveland State 12/15: Norfolk State12/18: Stanford12/22: St. Bonaventure12/29: Western Michigan12/31: UNC-Greensboro1/9: Georgia Tech1/12: Duke1/20: Clemson1/26: North Carolina2/2: Miami 2/16: Virginia Tech2/19: Florida State2/27: Boston College3/6: Wake Forest
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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La música latina e hispana se caracteriza por sonidos tropicales, alegres y diverti-dos para bailar y disfrutar, pero eso no significa que sea el único tipo de música latina. El rock en español ha expandido con nuevas ban-das de jóvenes dispuesto a darlo todo, y esto se observa en las nominaciones a los Latin Grammy. Dos de esas bandas son Los Mesoneros y Viniloversus, ambas proveni-entes de Venezuela.
MÚSICA EXTRACURRICULARLos Mesoneros es un quin-
teto de jóvenes con una sola misión: llevar el rock a cada lugar donde toquen. Confor-mado por Luis Jiménez (gui-tarra y voz principal), Andrés Belloso (bajo), Juan Sucre (guitarra líder y voces), Ig-nacio Sucre (batería) y Carlos Sardi (teclados), estos chicos de 21 años ya han conseguido el sueño de muchas bandas hispanas de ser nominados a los Latin Grammy.
Más bien, lo han logrado cuatro veces (solo superados por Juan Luis Guerra y Jesse & Joy), en que han sido nomi-nados como mejor canción de rock, mejor álbum de rock, mejor banda nueva y mejor empaque todo por su prim-era producción Indeleble . Aún pese a su edad ya han tocado y compartido tarima con artistas como Zoé, El Canto del Loco, Simple Plan y Hombres G.
Todos los miembros se en-cuentran estudiando carreras universitarias.
“Es extremadamente rudo, y aún más difícil ahora que estamos más ocupados des-de que nos informaron de la nominación. Es difícil, pero aun así se puede hacer, con mis amigos y los profe-sores que entienden nuestras ausencias se puede lograr, aunque no deja de ser difícil,” dijo Luis Jiménez.
Indeleble, el primer disco y además nombre del sencillo nominado a mejor canción rock fue publicado en la pá-gina web del grupo para que la gente pudiera descargarlo gratuitamente.
“En Venezuela y en Latino-américa no hay muchas dis-
queras y es difícil distribuir tus discos, por lo que aprove-chamos el Internet para que cualquier persona pueda ten-er el disco a la mano, además preferimos que si ya la gente lo puede conseguir ilegal-mente, ya seamos nosotros mismos quienes se las ofrez-camos,” dijo Jiménez.
VINILOVERSUS…Viniloversus tiene una abu-
dancia de experiencia en la industria música y vuelve as los Grammy con otra nomi-nación. Rodrigo Gonsalves (cantante y guitarra) empe-zó el grupo con Adrián Salas (bajo), Juan Belisario (bajo) y Orlando Martínez “Mangan” (batería). Este grupo de rock ha sido nominado dos veces a los Latin Grammy como mejor álbum de rock y me-jor empaque. Ya han compar-tido tarima con bandas como Franz Ferdinand, Nine Inch Nails, Babasónicos y Zoé.
El disco nominado es su última producción llamada Cambié de Nombre, una mez-cla de Rock fuerte y canciones con mensajes cercanos a la realidad como en la canción titulada “Ares.” La canción ha sido una sensación en Vene-zuela debido a que en el video la banda se graba a sí misma haciendo una expresión grá-fica en contra de la violencia en las paredes del Palacio Presidencial en Venezuela.
“Ares siempre ha sido un himno por la paz, nosotros formamos parte de la orga-nización Paz con Todos, y no es un secreto los hechos violentos en Venezuela por lo que quisimos hacer pensar a la gente que tiene el dedo detrás del gatillo,” dijo Mar-tínez. “Hicimos los grafitis en entes gubernamentales porque creemos que son los que tienen la fuerza y son los
encargados de que la gente no dispare.”
Una de las nominaciones es por el empaque y diseño del arte del disco.
“Son 16 portadas diferen-tes, diseñadas por Miguel Vázquez, un diseñador venezolano. La verdad es que estamos agradecidos por el arte de la producción, y creemos que la nomi-nación es para él. Estamos súper contentos y emocio-nados,” dijo Martínez.
LAS DOS BANDASAl final ambas bandas son
muy jóvenes y se observa cómo hay una tendencia en un resurgimiento del rock en Venezuela y países de Sudamérica. Incluso es muy común ver cómo se unen entre ellas a la hora de hacer canciones y con-ciertos. Luis Jiménez por ejemplo aparece en la can-ción “Implosión” del disco Cambié de Nombre, dem-ostrando que ambas bandas se apoyan mutuamente.
Con esto se demuestra que los latinos e hispanos no sólo se dedican a tocar merengue, bachata o salsa, sino también son expertos en grupos de rock, y esta es una pieza escrita que va dedicada a aquellas bandas que representan este estilo de música y quieren darse a conocer.
Para mayor información sobre las bandas se pueden visitar sus páginas web los-mesoneros.com y vinilover-sus.com así como seguirlos en Twitter @LOSMESONE-ROS y @VINILOVERSUS. Así como ir a technicianon-line.com/Bienvenidos para ver las entrevistas con Luis Jiménez y Orlando Mar-tínez.
Kenneth SmithCorrespondent
Latin music has been characterized for having tropical, cheerful and “easy-to-dance-to” rhythms, but that doesn’t mean that is the only kind of Latin music. Rock in Spanish has been expanding with new young bands willing to give it all, which is apparent just by looking at the Latin Gram-mys nominations. Two of those bands are Los Me-soneros (“The Waiters” in English) and Viniloversus, both originating from Ven-ezuela.
EXTRACURRICULAR MUSICLos Mesoneros is a quin-
tet of young fellows with only one mission: to take rock to every place they play. Founded by Luis Jimé-nez (guitar and lead singer), Andrés Belloso (bass), Juan Sucre (lead guitar and back-ground voices), Ignacio Sucre (drums) and Carlos Sardi (keyboards), all 21 years old, have achieved the dream of many Hispanic bands of being nominated for the Latin Grammys.
Even more, they did it four times (only outdueled by Juan Luis Guerra and Jesse & Joy), nominated for best rock song, best rock al-bum, best new band y best recording package for their first production Indeleble (Indelible). Even despite their young age, the mem-bers of Los Mesoneros have already played with bands like Zoé, El Canto del Loco, Simple Plan and Hombres G.
On top of the bands ac-complishments, al l the members of the band are college students.
“It is extremely hard, and even more difficult now that we are busier since they informed us of the nomination. It’s dif-ficult, but you can still do
it, with the help from friends and teachers that understand our absences, it is possible it can be achieved, although it is still difficult,” lead singer Luis Jiménez said.
Indeleble, the first album and also the name of the sin-gle nominated for best rock song was published in the band’s website for listeners to download it for free.
“In Venezuela and in Latin America there are not a lot of record labels and it is hard to distribute your work; for this reason we used the Inter-net to our advantage, so that anyone can have access to the music. We also preferred to give it free instead of people illegally downloading it, since it is better if we ourselves are the ones who offer it,” Jimé-nez said.
VINILOVERSUSViniloversus has a wealth
of experience in the music industry and returns to the Latin Grammys with an-other nomination. Rodrigo Gonsalves (singer and guitar) started the band with Adrian Salas (bass), Juan Belisario (bass) and Orlando “Man-gan” Martinez (drums). This rock group has been nominated for two categories in this year Latin Grammys for best rock album and best recording package for its pro-duction Cambié de Nombre (I Changed my Name in Eng-lish). They have also shared the stage with bands like Franz Ferdinand, Nine Inch Nails, Babasónicos and Zoé.
This album is a mix be-tween hard rock and songs and lyrics with messages that comment on the reali-ties facing the country. The song “Ares” has been a sensa-tion in Venezuela ever since in the music video was pub-licized, with the band taping itself doing a graphic expres-sion against the violence on the walls of the Presidential Palace.
“Ares has always been a
peace anthem for us, we also make up part of the organi-zation Paz con Todos, and it is not a secret that there is a lot of violence going on right now in Venezuela, so we wanted to make all those people with a finger behind the trigger think,” Martinez said. “We did the graffiti on governmental entities be-cause we think that they are the ones that have the power and are the ones in charge of making sure the people don’t shoot.”
One of the nominations is for the recording package and design of the album cover.
“There are 16 different covers, designed by Miguel Velazquez, a Venezuelan de-signer,” Martinez said. “We are thankful for the art of this production, but we think this nomination is for him. We are extremely happy and excited.”
THE TWO BANDSIn the end, both bands
are young and it is possible to notice a new tendency in resurgence in Venezuela and Latin America’s rock. Also it is more common to see how bands get together to support each other at the moment of making concerts or creat-ing songs. For example, Luis Jimenez appears in “Implo-sion” in Cambié de Nombre, showing how they get togeth-er to help each other.
This shows that Latin peo-ple and Hispanics not only listen to or play merengue, salsa or bachata, but can also play rock, and this writing piece is dedicated to that genre and all the bands that represent this style of music.
For more information about the bands visit losme-soneros.com and vinilover-sus.com, follow them on twit-ter at @LOSMESONEROS and @VINILOVERSUS. And watch the full interviews with Luis Jimenez and Orlando “Mangan” Martinez online at Technician’s website.
CONTRIBUIDO POR VINILOVERSUS15 de las portadas de “Cambié de Nombre” de la banda Viniloversus, nominada a 2 Latin Grammys
CONTRIBUIDO POR LOS MESONEROS Banda Los Mesoneros, nominados a 4 Latin Grammys
ROCK SERVED ON A SILVER TRAY
Jesse HalpernNews Editor
Congressman David Price (D) was re-elected Tuesday night and will continue rep-resenting North Carolina’s Fourth District, which in-cludes Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Price defeated Republican candidate Tim D’Annunzio by more than 50 percent of the votes, ac-cording to unofficial polling data from the N.C. Board of Elections.
Price, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, has served 12 terms since his original election to Congress in 1986. He is also a member of the Appropria-tions Committee.
P r i c e t o l d T h e News&Observer that he has felt honored to work with President Obama.
“Together, we’ve reformed the health insurance system, reined in Wall Street, ex-panded access to higher ed-ucation and begun a recover that has seen millions of new jobs created,” Price stated.
According to his platform, Price plans to strengthen eco-
nomic growth by supporting the middle class, investing in public education and com-munity college training, and helping research and startup companies that he said have been a “blueprint for success in our state.”
In addition to these short-term goals, Price told The News&Observer that he has a plan for North Carolina’s long-term development that would “achieve fiscal bal-ance.”
Students familiar with the congressman may remem-ber his June 25, 2012 visit to campus, when he spoke about potential increases to student loan interest rates.
“At a time when Americans owe more on their student loans than on their credit cards — and that’s saying something — it means an ad-ditional $1,000 every year on the average of interest costs, about $127 million per year in total for those North Car-olina students,” Price said at the event.
Price’s legislat ive acts have often echoed President Obama’s platform, which
supports both aid to stu-dents and protection of the environment.
Price has held the position
since 1986 with the exception of a two-year period between 1994-1996.
Sara Awad Staff Writer
To combat the effects of Superstorm Sandy, the Cen-ter for Student Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service is partnering with Student Government and other orga-nizations on campus to raise money for the American Red Cross, one of the agencies in-volved in disaster relief.
Director of Global Aware-ness for CSLEPS’ Service Leadership Team Alexan-der Parker said members of CSLEPS carried around buckets and asked students for spare change during Homecoming Week events. Donations could be made at the tunnel painting event, the Homecoming Parade, the National Pan-Hellenic Council Homecoming Stroll Off, the Alumni Association’s Homecoming tailgate and the homecoming football game.
CSLEPS is also encouraging students and the surrounding community to text $10 to the Red Cross, Parker said.
Relief for storm victims will take time, Parker said. Though many may want to donate canned foods and clothing, the Red Cross pri-marily needs monetary do-nations, allowing them to “purchase supplies as they need it,” Parker said.
According to CSLEPS rep-resentative Tonia Salas, the organization has exceeded its goal of $500 solely through donations of spare change.
Salas said CSLEPS’ biggest focus in response to Super-storm Sandy is “awareness,” something she said our com-munity has excelled at, judg-ing by the immediate queries from staff members.
“Our goal is to keep the campus posted as time elaps-es,” Salas said.
According to Salas, CSLEPS is also working to promote upcoming Red Cross blood drives, after so many were
canceled due to the storm.Students can donate blood
Thursday at North Hall from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Salas said. Two more blood drives will be held Nov. 15 at Talley Stu-dent Center from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and at Wolf Vil-lage from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Salas said.
At first, Parker said his mo-tivation came from “what I’ve seen [and] the aftermath,” but later he said this changed after witnessing the sense of community the storm brought to campus and how it “brings it all home for us.”
“It is important to recog-nize that a good majority of students in addition to staff members either have family or different connections to the areas that have been af-fected by [the storm],” Salas said.
North Carolina Emergency Management spokesperson Julia Jarema said North Car-olina was “very lucky” in re-gard to the minimal damage wrought by the superstorm compared to other states.
According to the National Hurricane Center’s website, “Post-Tropical Cyclone San-dy” made landfall in New Jersey Oct. 29, with state of emergencies declared for many states along the eastern seaboard, including North Carolina.
According to Jarema, crews had been pre-positioned on the east coast to prepare for Superstorm Sandy’s arrival. Throughout the superstorm, the state Emergency Re-sponse Team talked to resi-dents to identify their needs, which turned out to be very minor, Jarema said.
There were some “minis-cule power outages, down trees and limbs,” Jarema said. Traffic concerns were another issue, Jarema said.
There were two fatalities in North Carolina, accord-ing to Jarema. One involved a vehicle crash in which a
man drove into a tree, while the other occurred in inter-national waters, but had as-sistance crews from North Carolina sent to the area, Jarema said.
National Public Radio said Sunday that at least 97 people were killed in the wake of the storm, while a CNN report said Sunday that total fatali-ties reached 110.
According to a Huffington Post report, more than 1 mil-lion people were still without power Tuesday.
ABC News said Saturday that the superstorm might
have cost the American econ-omy as much as $50 billion due in part to thousands of flight cancellations and the temporary shutdown of Am-trak train service.
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University reaches out to storm victims
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HOW YOU CAN HELP SUPERSTORM SANDY VICTIMS• Donate spare change to the Red Cross through CSLEPS.• Text a $10 donation to the Red Cross• Donate blood to the Red Cross at one of the upcoming blood
drives on campus.• Help CSLEPS by telling people to donate.• Volunteer to collect donations.• Volunteer at the blood drive.
SOURCE: CSLEPS
PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM STAFFORD
A MESSAGE FROM TOM STAFFORD, FORMER VICE CHANCELLOR FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS
StaffordisnowInterimVicePresidentofStudentAffairsatJohnJayCollegeinNewYorkCity.HeretiredasViceChancelloratN.C.StateinJuly.
I’vehadinquiriesaboutmystatusinthestormthatjusthitNYC.PleasesharethispictureandthisreportwiththeDivisionandanyotherswhomighthaveaninterest.I’llstartmyreportbysayingthatwhenIbeganthisjob,IneverimaginedthatIwouldlivethroughahurricanerightinthemiddleofNYC.JohnJayCollegewasclosedMondayandIwasspendingthedayinmyapartmentonthetop(17thfloor)ofmyapartmentbuildingon58thStreet,between6and7thAvenueswatchingcoverageofthestorm.Around3p.m.thenewsreportindicatedthethewindgustshadblowntheboomofacraneoverthebodyofthecraneandtheboomwasdanglingover57thStreet.Thebuildingwherethiscraneislocatedwillbethetallest
residentialbuildinginthecitywhenconstructionisfinished—90stories.Allofasuddenithitme.Icanseethetopofthisbuildingfromoneofmywindows.Andit’srightnexttome.By8p.m.Ihadtoevacuateandspentthenightinashelterinahighschoolon84thStreet.TonightI’mstayingontheJohnJaycampus.I’mfine,butIwon’tbeabletogetbackintomyapartmentuntiltheboomissecured.Meanwhile,allCUNYcampuseswillbeclosedagaintomorrowandprobablyfortherestoftheweek,sincemostofourstudentsridethesubwayswhichremainclosed.Ourcampushadnosignificantdamage.Thestormhascreatedtremendousdamage,anditwilltakealongtimefortheareatorecover.So,I’vehad(amhaving)anadventure,butI’mfineandcontinuetobechallengedbymyworkhere.Theattachedphotowastakenthisafternoonandshowsthecraneandboomabove57thStreet.Mybestwishestoall.
BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANCongressman David Price speaks at Cree, Inc. in Durham, N.C. Monday, June 13, 2011.
Re-election routine for David Price students will evaluate over the next four years.
Oba m a’s p l at for m regarding issues such as healthcare, foreign policy
and immigrat ion rel ied heavily on what he has done during his first term.
President Obama will be sworn in during a private ceremony Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, in Washington, D.C., with a public ceremony following the next day.
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