10 YEARS AGOJanuary 22, 1997
City council rejects large arena
Julie P. MurphyAssistant News Editor
Bigger isn’t always better.That’s the message the Raleigh City Council sent when it told the Centennial Authority to go back to the drawing board on Tuesday. Council members deemed the authority’s proposal for a 21,000 seat arena, to be built on the land adjacent to Carter-Finley Stadium, too large and too expensive.”The last time we met, you [the authority] agreed to carefully consider plans for a smaller, less expensive arena,” said Mayor Tom Fetzer. “What we have in your proposal is an arena that is still larger and more costly than the majority of the sports arenas in that nation.”
Residence halls to be air conditioned
Mark McCrawStaff Writer
N.C. State students should be getting much cooler in the coming years.Within three years, students who want air conditioning for their on-campus housing should be able to have it.Over the course of the 1997-98 academic year and the summers surrounding it, Lee, Sullivan, Bowen, Carroll and Metcalf residence halls will have both air conditioning and sprinklers installed.
25 YEARS AGOJanuary 22, 1982
Finance Committee has $20,000 to allocate to student organizations
Gina BlackwoodAssistant News Editor
A total of $20,672 is available to recognize student organizations this semester, according to Student Body Treasurer Sandi Long.Examples of what these funds have been appropriated for in the past are:-Partial funding of trips.-Funding for professional trips abroad.-Funding for emergency medical equiptment for Trained Emergency Medical Personnel.-Funding for the Personal Programmers Club’s calculator programming contest.”We just want students to know that this money is here if they want to come forward and ask for it,” Long said. “Each student at the University pays $2.65 to Student Government in the form of tuition and fees. Therefore, it belongs to the students, and we would like them to ask for it.”
Daniels Hall in renovation process to provide microelectronics facility
Eiman KhalilStaff Writer
The renovation of Daniels Hall, which is currently taking place, will create areas for teaching and research in the microelectronics field, according to John Hauser, a professor in the department of electrical engineering.”It is going to be a microelectronics lab,” Hauser said. “It will be an interim lab facility for the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina until new lab facilities are built in the Research Triangle Area.”Once State acquires the plant for teaching and research it will instruct State students in crucial aspects of microelectronics.
