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Oct 7, 2015

Workout anyway

  Threa  | Almontaser Freaking out about that exam next week? Have you already been flunking the quizzes and have no idea how you’ll make it through the actual exam, so you’re seriously contemplating the most outrageous scenarios like making a (wolf) pact with your fellow classmates to all fail and go down together? Or…

Sep 26, 2015

YOUR VOICE: Words of Dr. Ben Carson

The only identifying African-American running for President, retired neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson trails behind television personality and real estate developer Donald Trump in the polls. Carson continues to turn heads with his use of divisive language and controversial comments. Among Republican voters in North Carolina Trump leads Carson by only 1 point, according to an…

Sep 23, 2015

There’s no ‘We’ in ‘Ben’

Stephanie Tate | Staff Writer The time in which we will have to say our goodbyes to the Obama family as our first family is approaching rapidly. Although we may want to mourn the removal of the Obama’s boldness, it has become critical that we start thinking about the future of our country. With former…

Sep 23, 2015

Recap: Multicultural Recognition Ceremony

Quianne Holmes | Staff Writer Multicultural students were recognized last Thursday for their academic efforts in the Spring semester as well as students of the W.E.B. DuBois Honor Society’s newest class. The Multicultural Recognition Ceremony took place the Talley Student Union Ballroom on Sept. 10.   Assistant Director for Hispanic Affairs in the Office of…

Sep 23, 2015

Immersive technology creator, Toyota intern student Joshua Ndon

Jillian Smith | Staff Writer Joshua Ndon, a junior in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Design Studies has taken a cooperative education opportunity to a whole new level by designing and discovering ways to implement the Immersive Reality Imaging System (IRIS). Ndon came upon the co-op with Toyota through the National Society…

Sep 23, 2015

Helicopter Parents: How close are they hovering?

Threa Almontaser | Correspondent A strange play-on-words to describe a parent figure that constantly ‘hovers’ over you. We’ve all faced them at some point in our lives. If not, you most likely have that one friend that isn’t able to spontaneously go out because they have to practically set up a business meeting a week…

Sep 23, 2015

“Ain’t nothing but a Talley Party”

Taari Coleman | Staff Writer The time of year has come for another Talley Party. Thrown by the the Society of Afrikan American Culture, SAAC, the parties used to be a long-standing tradition on campus in the old Talley Student Union building. In 2011, the final Talley Party was held as the building shut down for…

Sep 23, 2015

Your Voice

Question: What do you think of Dr. Carson as a presidential candidate? Do you think he’s fit to lead this nation? Danielle Schmidt: Senior in Communication “From what I’ve seen on social media and through the debates that I’ve watched, I do not believe he is fit because I don’t see eye to eye with…

Sep 23, 2015

How to get away with excellence

Jillian Smith | Staff Writer On September 20, history was made as Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to take home an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Davis won for her role in “How to Get Away With Murder,” an ABC drama in which she plays Annalise Keating, a brilliant…

Sep 23, 2015

Artist Synthia Saint James exhibit opens in the AACC’s gallery

Chris Hart-Williams | Editor-in-Chief   In the the art gallery of the African American Cultural Center, AACC now holds the artwork of international award winning multicultural visual artist Synthia Saint James. The center partnered with the Women’s Center, the College of Design, University Housing and Arts NC State to host Saint James and her art. The…

Sep 23, 2015

Talley Party tunes: 90s Music

Alfred Anderson | Staff Writer Classic moments, clothes and music make the 1990s one of the most popular yet controversial decades of all time. On Saturday, September 26, the Society of Afrikan American Culture (SAAC), the Kappa Lambda Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Gamma Sigma Chapter of Lambda Theta Phi Fraternity,…

Sep 10, 2015

BLACK LIVES MATTER EXPLAINED

Former student Seth Reavis holds a sign in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the student led demonstration at D..H. Hill Library on December 5, 2015.  Hundreds acted in protest to raise awareness and voice disappointment in the justice system regarding the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner and countless others at the…