Stacks of films gathered from Reynolds Coliseum's basement this summer.
(Photograph by Amanda Karst, NC State Student Media)
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NC State paleontologist Mary Schweitzer was on 60 Minutes on Sunday, in a story about her colleague Jack Horner. It’s a fascinating look at the work they’re doing on dinosaur bones and how it has shaken up their field.
The tricky thing about Schweitzer’s work is that she needs to get her hands on the insides of dinosaur bones, which means literally breaking the bones apart and sometimes dissolving pieces of them in acid. Most paleontologists won’t let her near their precious finds.
“Jack [Horner] is the only paleontologist out there who lets me dissolve his dinosaurs,” she told Stahl.
Wired magazine wrote about Schweitzer and her work earlier this year, and we talked with her in 2005.
US News & World Report recently recognized Gen. Ray Odierno ’86 MSE as one of America’s Best Leaders for 2009. He’s the commanding general of Multi-National Force-Iraq and, as Time wrote in late 2008, “helped develop the military’s surge strategy — which contributed hugely to the reduction of violence in much of the country.” He also led the soldiers who captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in late 2003. US News writes:
Odierno has also scrutinized the career of George Marshall. “He understood fighting” as well as politics. “Those qualities were something I wanted.” In Iraq, he applies them. “The military solution cannot solve our problems,” he says. “It must be a civil-military solution.”
The Washington Post had an excellent piece on Gen. Odierno earlier this year; 60 Minutes interviewed him after he took over U.S. forces in Iraq about a year ago; and we talked to him in 2003, three days after Saddam Hussein’s capture. Here’s the 60 Minutes interview:
UNC System President Emeritus Bill Friday '41, right, during his student days at NC State. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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The Wolfpack women’s basketball team struggled against Vermont’s zone defense and lost 52-47 Saturday night in the finals of the Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational at Reynolds Coliseum. Junior point guard Amber White talks about the loss in the video above. The result gives Coach Kellie Harper her first career loss at NC State.
“Well, I’m quite disappointed. I don’t take losing very well,” said Harper, who picked up her first career victory, in her first game, at NC State Friday night when her team beat Florida International 87-71. “Vermont is a very, very good basketball team. . . . It [was] a tough matchup for us right now.”
The Wolfpack women’s basketball team opened its season Friday night with an 87-71 victory over Florida International (FIU), giving Coach Kellie Harper her first victory at NC State. “I think I just had my first great Reynolds atmosphere experience at NC State,” Harper said after the game. “That was an exciting basketball game. It was a lot of fun.”
What made it exciting? After the jump we’ve got quotes and notes from the game, from the pre-game to the post-game, to help answer that question. At the bottom of the entry, we’ve also got a narrative of the locker room scene before the game and observations from the Wolfpack Women’s Basketball radio crew. In the video above is one of the members of the crew, Patrick Kinas, interviewing Coach Harper immediately after the game. If you want the traditional game recap and box score, go to GoPack.com. For photos, check out The N&O’s photo gallery. We hope to add our own photos soon. It’s all part of NC State magazine’s latest installment of “A Coach’s First Season.”
Tomorrow’s football game against Clemson will be the 400th consecutive game that Dewey Corn ’49, ’53 MS has attended. “I never really had a goal of reaching a certain number of games until I got to about 380,” he says. Tim Peeler ’87 of GoPack has the story:
The last time High Point’s Dewey Corn missed an NC State football game, his young neighbor, Johnny Evans, kicked an 81-yard punt that helped the Wolfpack beat Penn State, 15-14, in Beaver Stadium.
That was on Nov. 8, 1975, and he hasn’t missed a play since.
The 86-year-old Corn has witnessed 209 victories, 185 defeats and five ties during the 35-year streak. He’s been to 18 bowl games, including six trips to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl and a lone trip to Tucson, Ariz., for the long-defunct Copper Bowl, where he met Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Now that’s dedication to the Pack.
(Photograph courtesy of NC State Student Media)
The Wolfpack women’s basketball team opens its season tonight at 8 p.m. against Florida International in the Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational at Reynolds Coliseum. It’ll also mark the first official game of Kellie Harper’s tenure as head coach of the team. Is she nervous? She told Wolfpack Sports Radio yesterday pretty much the same thing she told us after the Nov. 2 exhibition game against North Greenville (which NC State won 87-44):
I rarely get nervous before games. I might have [some butterflies] at first, but once we tip off, it’ll be gone because I’m very task-oriented and focused on what’s happening on the court.
And here’s what she said last week about the first game during a press conference:
There will be that “Whoa!” feeling before I walk out on the court. I had a little bit of it at the exhibition, standing in the tunnel waiting to walk out. I cracked myself up a few times thinking about what I was doing and where I was. “This is pretty cool.” And I’m sure I’ll have that moment again several times this year.
We’ll have interviews, notes and a photo gallery after the opening game, so be sure to check that out. We’ll also have notes and interviews following the Wolfpack’s second game of the season, which will be Saturday either 4 p.m. (if they’re in the invitational’s consolation game) or 6 p.m. (if they’re in the invitational’s championship game). Go to GoPack.com for a full game preview and for a story on freshman guard Marissa Kastanek. (Update at 9:34 a.m.: The Wolfpack will play Saturday at 6 p.m. regardless of what they do tonight. So if you’re heading to the football game against Clemson, stop by Reynolds afterward.)
Before the game tonight, though, we’ve got a short Q&A with senior forward Lucy Ellison and a highlight from yesterday’s two-hour practice. It’s our latest installment in “A Coach’s First Season,” in which we’re following Coach Harper and her team for the season for a feature that will appear in the spring issue of NC State magazine.
The notes on the back of this photograph from 1965 include: "Airborne - Both North Carolina State quarterback Charlie Noggle (19) and the ball are airborne in the State-Clemson game." (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Tune in to 60 Minutes this Sunday. Lesley Stahl reports on Jack Horner, the Montana State University paleontologist, and the work he has done with NC State paleontologist Mary Schweitzer. She’s the researcher who has attracted attention for her discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur fossils.
Wired magazine wrote about Schweitzer earlier this year, and we wrote about her in a 2005 cover story.
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