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The Institute for Emerging Issues, a public policy and “think-and-do tank” at NC State, has a live video stream of the 25th Emerging Issues Forum. Check out Tuesday’s schedule here. The program runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Audio, video and slides from past Forums are available here.
Six NC State alumni learn the workings of a 30-caliber light machine gun during a U.S. Army weapons instruction course at Ft. Lee in Virginia in 1954. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Update: Go to the bottom of the post for a wrap-up of the Wolfpack’s win over Virginia Tech. On their bus trip to Clemson for their Jan. 31 game against the Tigers, NC State women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper showed her team a vintage commercial for Weeble Wobbles, a toy popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The tagline: “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down.” Then, she passed a bag filled with the toys around and asked each player to pick out one. Harper’s message? Sophomore forward Bonae Holston, the Pack’s leading scorer, says:
She said that we have been playing so good in the first half, but whenever the other team makes their run in the second half, we fall. But the Weeble Wobble, if it falls over, it gets right back. And that’s what she was trying to get us to see that we need to do. When we fall down, we need to get right back. It was cute, and I appreciate Coach Kellie’s effort to try to get us to see that when we get knocked over, we have to get up.
The Pack lost to Clemson 69-56 Sunday after leading at halftime, giving them their third lost in a row and five losses in their past six games, but Harper’s message is sticking, says Holston, who has carried her Weeble Wobble — a blue chicken — in her book bag throughout the week. They’ll get another chance to bounce back Sunday when they host Virginia Tech at 4 p.m. in Reynolds.
Leading up to the game, as part of our ongoing series “A Coach’s First Season,” after the jump, we have
NC State center Warren Cartier '50 hauls in a rebound against Georgia Tech on Dec. 29, 1949. The Wolfpack won 57-34. NC State takes on Georgia Tech at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Atlanta. Raycom is scheduled to carry the game. Go Pack!
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NC State students trudge through the snow, past the Quonset huts that were used as temporary classrooms after World War II. This photo was taken on the Court of North Carolina in 1948. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Last Thursday, Jeffery Braden, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, switched places with Margaux Novak, a junior English major at NC State. He did everything she would do on a typical Thursday (including a swim class . . . nice water wings, Dean Braden), and she took his schedule. Both wrote about the experience for Technician.
A couple of my favorite notes from Dean Braden’s day:
6:56 a.m. - I get dropped off at the IHOP on Park and Hillsborough, where I go in, order a cup of coffee, fire up my laptop and prepare to open the envelope titled “Detailed Schedule” Margaux handed to me on Monday. The first line of my instructions for this morning says: “Think about going to IHOP for a well-rounded breakfast — and then remind yourself it is not in your price range and that the rent is due in three days.” I close the menu with a mixture of disappointment and relief — disappointment that I won’t get a hot breakfast and relief that I won’t have to “out” myself by ordering from the senior menu.
And at Carmichael…
1:25 p.m. - I am prepared — I have a bathing cap, mask, snorkels, water wings, inflatable Snoopy ring and diving fins on and in place. Kimberly, the photographer from the Technician, is there to capture the spectacle. The instructor comes by and vows that I’ll actually have to wear all that in the pool. Happily, she doesn’t follow through on her threat. We stretch, and then jump in the pool for more stretching and eventually for our workout. During the stretching, I introduce myself to a guy standing in the pool next to me. He asks me to repeat my last name, and then says, “Yeah, I thought so.” I ask, “What do you mean?” He smiles and tells me that he took Psychology 200 (Intro) from me a couple of years ago. We both laugh at the probability that we’d end up in the pool together for class. Since I know a lot of people will ask, let me say I was neither the best nor the worst student in the class — but I was definitely the best AARP member in the pool!
Look for an interview with Dean Braden in the spring issue of NC State magazine.
These are pictures from last Friday night’s annual Evening of Stars gala. Eighteen NC State alumni and friends were honored by the Alumni Association, individual NC State colleges and the Wolfpack Club for their career accomplishments and their contributions to their communities and NC State.
You can see a list of winners and read about them here, and you can read comments from the winners here.
ROTC cadets with their dates at a dance in the 1950s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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WRAL found these NC State students on the Court of North Carolina today, having a ball in the snow.
We’ve told you before about Doc Hendley ’04, the founder of the nonprofit Wine to Water, a faith-based aid organization that provides clean water and sanitation systems to people around the world. He’s now in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, working to distribute 500 filters that can provide 5,000 people with clean water for more than five years. He’s tweeting at @wine_to_water and reported this on Jan. 25:
In Port-au-Prince now. I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. But I’ve never seen anything like this.
Like Hendley, Michael Maximilien ’02, PhD ’05, saw the quake as an opportunity to help. A computer scientist at IBM in San Jose, Calif., he designed the Haiti Quake People Finder, a Facebook application with continuously updated features that allows Facebook users to exchange information on friends and family who may have been caught in the quake. He tells the computer science department:
“With my background in computer science, I thought the best thing I could do was to help people communicate and collect information. That night [of the earthquake], I realized most of the information I had was from Facebook friends explaining, ‘This person is fine,’ or ‘This person is trapped.’ By the next day, I had a simple application ready for release.”
If you know of NC State alumni, faculty or students who are doing something to help with the Haiti relief effort, let us know. We’d love to hear their stories.
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