Sounds and interviews from the Live It Up on Hillsborough Street Festival, behind the scenes of recycling, Evan’s viewpoint about Renee Ellmers, flooding rains in the forecast, campus events, a breakdown of the 4-0 start to the football season, cooking Ribollita with Mark, and the WKNC Mailbag.
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EOT42 Shack-A-Thon 9/21/10
The Eye on the Triangle team went out to cover the annual Shack-A-Thon fundraiser on the NCSU Brickyard. Also in this episode: An interview with student body president Kelly Hook, the Gardening Minute, Restaurant Review, and analysis of NCSU’s 3-0 start to the football season.
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WKNC @ Shack-A-Thon
For those of you unfamiliar with the Habitat for Humanity annual tradition, Shack-a-Thon, it is a week-long fundraising event for Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. Campus organizations build a shack and live in it all week, 24/7, panhandling for donations to Habitat.
WKNC is present this year at Shack-a-Thon, providing publicity, T-shirt making, cornhole, and a concert by Durham local Brett Harris. He will be performing September 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the WKNC Shack/Stage.
Come and check out the awesome shack in The Brickyard near Bostian Hall!
Pictures will be up soon. Stay tuned to hear about all the shenanigans occurring this week. As always, listen to WKNC for updates, live streaming from Shack-a-Thon, and the best in independent music!
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EOT41 Bedbugs 9/14/10
This week we talked with NCSU urban entomology experts, featured our Wolfpacker of the Week, talked NCSU Football, and heard another installment of the Gardening Minute and the Restaurant Review.
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EOT40 The Record 9/7/10
Jacob takes us to Duke University’s Nasher Museum to tour their new exhibit on the record.
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EOT39 Campus Safety 8/31/10
This week features an interview with John Barnwell of Campus Police about campus safety. Our Wolfpacker of the Week is Amber Smith, founder of the non-profit ME3.
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EOT38 Service N.C. State 8/24/10
This week features an interview with members of the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service about Service N.C. State. Our Wolfpacker of the Week is Chandler Thompson from the NCSU Traditions committee.
Local deejays Elly May, DJ Goof, DJ Kligz, The Voice of Reason, and myself gave back to the community this Saturday at the yearly event, Service NC State. As in years past, NC State worked with Stop Hunger Now in hopes of packaging 400,000 meals for children in Haiti. Many campus organizations came out Saturday, August 21 to help package food from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. New this year was the blood drive for which about a dozen members of WKNC staff gave blood to help reach the goal of 500 pints of blood in one huge blood drive on Friday.
The number of meals our small group of five packaged during our two-hour shift is enough to feed a 32-child orphanage for seven months. The meals are full of essential vitamins and minerals and are actually quite tasty. The experience was described as “inspiring,” “exhilarating,” “fun,” “organized,” and “fulfilling"—and totally worth waking up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday. WKNC hopes to have a presence at other on-campus service events to further instate our relationship with our campus and our community as a whole.
I would like to personally thank everyone who helped by giving blood or donating their time and energy to any aspect of Service NC State.
Our Wolfpacker of the Week is Megan Caine, an NCSU senior working to make the Hopscotch Music Festival a green event.
As the first week of school begins in just a few hours, on-campus organizations have been working to get their name out to new and old students alike. On Monday, August 16, WKNC and other facets of NCSU Student Media participated in Cates Crawl, one of many fun and informative events of Wolfpack Welcome Week. Thanks to many DJs and a swanky promotions team, the Student Media table was a hit of this yearly tradition down our beloved Cates Avenue. WKNC, The Technician, Nubian Message, Wolf TV, Agromeck, Windhover, and the up and coming photography club work under the umbrella of Student Media– entirely student run and entirely awesome ways to become involved at NC State. Students could partake in a tour of Student Media offices, or take advantage of the WKNC stickers, coozies, information about the aforementioned organizations, and even delicious freezie pops all while listening to the jams being pumped from our studio on the third floor of Witherspoon.
Look for WKNC and other groups in Student Media this Friday and Saturday at Friday Fest and Service NC State!