College basketball writers Andrew Carter and J.P. Giglio chatted online at noon today to discuss tonight's UNC-N.C. State matchup.
Replay our live chat about tonight's N.C. State-UNC game
Submitted by kkeister on 01/26/2012 - 17:32
Sanderson end switches from UNC to N.C. State
Submitted by timstevens on 01/18/2012 - 09:55Sanderson High football defensive end Desmond Owino has switched his college choice from the University of North Carolina to N.C. State.
Tudor: Depth issue trips Pack
Submitted by caultontudor on 01/12/2012 - 01:20RALEIGH -- N.C. State’s basketball team has been able to deal with its lack of depth most of this first season under Mark Gottfried, but that trend changed in a big, bad way Wednesday.
Against a Georgia Tech outfit that looked to be hopelessly thin when Brian Gregory opened his first Yellow Jacket camp in October, the Wolfpack got roundly outnumbered and outmanned in the RBC Center.
Georgia Tech humbles Wolfpack with 82-71 win
Submitted by joegiglio on 01/11/2012 - 23:04
RALEIGH — With eight losses in its first 15 games, including the nonsensical variety to Mercer and Fordham, Georgia Tech isn't the kind of team a resurgent N.C. State was expected to lose to in ACC play.
Shouldas and couldas don't count in the standings, though, only the results. With 22 points from Glen Rice, the Yellow Jackets handed the Wolfpack a humbling 82-71 defeat on Wednesday night at the RBC Center, in one of the first setbacks of an otherwise relatively smooth first season for coach Mark Gottfried.
After win in Belk Bowl, hungry Wolfpack players look to 2012
Submitted by joegiglio on 12/28/2011 - 22:38
CHARLOTTE -- Shortly after Terrell Manning put a black "Belk Bowl Champions" hat on his head to commemorate N.C. State's 31-24 bowl win over Louisville on Tuesday night, the junior linebacker started talking about next season.
Seven starters on each side of the ball, including defensive stars in Manning and cornerback David Amerson, and quarterback Mike Glennon, are scheduled to return for a Wolfpack team that won six of its final eight games to finish 8-5 in 2011.
“We’ve got a lot of good guys coming back, and we’ve got a big opening game with Tennessee, so we’ve got a lot to look forward to,” said Manning, who had an interception and five tackles against the Cardinals.
Wolfpack holds on for 31-24 win over Louisville in Belk Bowl
Submitted by joegiglio on 12/27/2011 - 22:31
Updated 12:17 a.m.
CHARLOTTE — There was no such thing as the easy way for N.C. State's football team in the 2011 season.
So when it took a 21-point lead in the third quarter, you got the feeling Louisville would make the Belk Bowl interesting.
The Wolfpack held on for a 31-24 win over the Cardinals in front of 58,427 fans at Bank of America Stadium on Tuesday night.
Wolfpack routs Northeastern 88-59
Submitted by joegiglio on 12/22/2011 - 20:57
RALEIGH — N.C. State needed a drama-free game on Thursday night and Northeastern willingly played its role in a 88-59 win for the Wolfpack.
Playing for the third time in six days, and 48 hours after a dramatic last-second win over St. Bonaventure, the Wolfpack dominated the Huskies early and got a chance to stretch its legs in the second half.
Pack escapes with 67-65 win over Bonnies
Submitted by joegiglio on 12/20/2011 - 20:53ROCHESTER, N.Y. — N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said before the Wolfpack's trip to Upstate New York on Tuesday, that he was "crazy" to schedule St. Bonaventure on the road.
Crazy? Maybe but also relieved, and happy, after the Wolfpack escaped with a 67-65 win over a tough Atlantic 10 team. Scott Wood scored 20 points and had a career-high six assists in giving the Wolfpack its first road win of the season.
The Pack improved to 7-4 on the season but not without a fight from the Bonnies (5-5) and major drama.
Women on campus
Submitted by tleonard on 11/23/2011 - 10:06
In 1946, NC State College documented a record number of students, and a record number of those were women.
The registrar of the college estimated that the class of 100 co-eds would have been closer to 1,500 if dormitory space were provided, yet "no suggestion is made for the construction of a women's dormitory at State in the college request ... for $7,948,000 in permanent improvements during the next biennium."
Courtesy Special Collections Digital Resources, Special Collections Research Center, NC State University Libraries
This uphill battle for acceptance at NC State had a long history.
After extended debate, the "liberal-minded" State College ... Board of Trustees voted nine to six on July 5, 1899, to let down the institution's bars and admit women.
Dr. David A. Lockmiller, former State College professor and author of "History of the North Carolina State College," said in his book that the Board of Trustees "decided to admit women in all departments on a basis of equality with men. Despite this liberal stand, it was 28 years before a woman received a degree from State College and in this instance it was delayed two years while the trustees debated again the rights of women at the college." -- The News & Observer 10/20/1946
This woman who fought so hard to receive her degree was Jane S. McKimmon.
For those who don't know the woman behind the name on NCSU's McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education, Jane McKimmon became the first state home demonstration agent in 1911 and developed the home extension program at NC State. Eventually, home demonstration clubs were founded in each of the 100 counties.
Dr. McKimmon, known as "Miss Jennie," was already in her 50s when she earned her degree from NC State. She retired from home demonstration work in 1937 but continued to serve as assistant director of the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service from 1924 to1946.
In 1949, Dr. McKimmon's work was the "star" of NBC's Cavalcade of America radio program. At age 81, she took her first airplane ride to attend the broadcast in New York. The dramatization of the growth of the home demonstration program (as well as an interesting take on New York's idea of North Carolina accents) is available here.
NC students joined in protest
Submitted by tleonard on 11/15/2011 - 14:19
The days following the 1970 Kent State shootings saw student protests on college campuses across the country.
In response, President Richard Nixon held a conference with eight university presidents, including UNC's William Friday. According to Friday, "...we had rallies on all our campuses, ranging from 6,000 at Chapel Hill to three or four hundred on the smaller campuses, where there was no violence..."
On May 8, protesters gathered in Washington and San Francisco, and 4,500 students marched to the capitol in Raleigh.
The students marched to the Capitol, 20 abreast with arms linked, in a column that stretched down Hillsborough Street for five blocks.
The marchers, who were orderly and well-behaved throughout the demonstration, included students from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, East Carolina University, Wake Forest University, Shaw University, St. Augustine's College, Meredith College and St. Mary's college.
Major H. T. Bailey of the Raleigh Police Department estimated 4,500 students and others participated in the march. "They were very orderly, well-behaved and appeared to be well-organized," Bailey said. "There were no violations observed and no arrests were made."
As the students marched from N. C. State University behind American and peace flag, they shouted, "Join Us! Join Us!" to workers and businessmen who came out of their offices along Hillsborough Street to watch.
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Above Capitol Square the students looked like a sea of flailing arms waiving the two-finger peace sign beneath the Capitol oaks and magnolias."I'm here to give my two cents while I'm still a free man," said Lee Baker of Rocky Mount, who will be drafted on Thursday.
The giant march on the Capitol was organized on the various campuses earlier this week after (Governor Bob) Scott's support of Nixon's action in Cambodia had been announced.
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There were approximately 400 student marshals from N. C. State and other colleges and universities keeping order during the march.
Raleigh police accompanied the students as they marched the two miles from the N. C. State campus to the Capitol down half of Hillsborough Street.
The students began organizing at about 11 a. m. and the march began shortly after 2 p. m. when a 400-car motorcade of students arrived from Chapel Hill.
Before leaving State campus, march organizers cautioned the students that "everything depends upon our remaining peaceful" and led the students in singing the national anthem.
The march was greeted by onlookers along the route, both supporters and detractors.
In the 1000 block of Hillsborough Street, a middle-aged lady stood stern-faced on the porch of her sedate residence. She observed the bobbing heads of long hair, the sandals, the bell-bottom trousers and the gaudy shirts and occasional broad ties and she said, "I wish they were mine ... I'd go out there and wring their necks ... I don't like war, but we've got our leaders ... They're (the students) not capable of leading themselves."
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As the marchers passed the cylindrical Holiday Inn, from a high balcony two women wearing hair curlers and apparently night gowns waved and gave peace signs. -- The News & Observer 5/8/1970
The purpose of the march was to convince Governor Bob Scott to withdraw his support of Nixon's decision to send troops to Cambodia and to promise not to use National Guard troops on NC campuses. While Governor Scott expressed appreciation for their concerns, he did not agree to their demands. In response, student leaders at NCSU called for a class boycott.
Cathy Sterling, president-elect of the NCSU student body, called the strike Sunday. "The response from Gov. Scott, while it was more than expected, still is not enough." Miss Sterling said in a statement. "More can be done.
"I am calling for a general strike of the University as an extension of the march Friday," she said.
Later, Miss Sterling changed the wording of her statement so that, she said, it would not seem she was calling for the closing of the university. She changed the words "general strike" to "peace retreat." -- The News & Observer 5/11/1970
A similar strike was underway at UNC-CH, but classes continued at Duke, ECU and Wake Forest. ECU students had demanded that the American flag on campus be lowered to half-mast in memory of the Kent State students. After a three-hour confrontation with university administrators and police, the flag was lowered. At Duke University Law School, a portrait of Richard Nixon that hung in the school's moot courtroom, was removed to a "safe place."
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