15 Years Ago
January 29, 1982
Federal funding cutbacks leave no financial supportCutbacks will affect benefits to studentsBy Eiman KhalilStaff WriterSocial Security payments to students may undergo substantial changes as a result of the Reagan administration’s cutbacks, according to Rose Marie Downing, field representative for the Department of Social Security.”Because of the new laws,” Downing said, “students began getting phased out in 1981.”Previously Social Security benefits were paid to a student until he was 22. Now a student who meets certain criteria can only receive money until the age of 19.
Carmichael Gymnasium expansion will rely on student fee increaseBy Karen FreitasNews EditorA new addition to Carmichael Gymnasium is being proposed by the Department of Physical Education and will be dependent on student fees.The addition is planned to be constructed in 1983. According to Richard Lauffer, head of the Physical Education Department, the plans will include 18 months to develop bids in the planning stages and 24 months of construction. The completion is estimated for 1985.An addition of 105,000 square feet is planned to be constructed to the now existing building of 196,000 square feet.
10 Years Ago
January 29, 1997
Faculty Senate endorses on-line evaluationsBy April HarrisonStaff WriterYears of student nagging may have finally paid off — teacher evaluations may soon be available to students via the World Wide Web.In yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting, a motion was passed to accept the concept of on-line evaluations.Last semester, Provost Philip Stiles said if the senate agreed to the on-line evaluations, “we’ll go ahead and do it.”
Professor develops unusual recycling techniqueBy Lea DelicioStaff WriterAn answer to the imminent problem of tree shortage for the production of paper products may be close at hand.According to Medwick V. Byrd, director of applied research at N.C. State, advances are being made in the conversion of non-wood fibers, like corn stalks, rice straw and industrial hemp, into paper products.Byrd said the reason for the growth of research in the production of paper products from non-wood fibers is due in part to concern over rapid population growth.
5 Years Ago
January 29, 2002Student-Athletes make the gradeby Jeremy AshtonGrades for the N.C. State Athletics department are in, and with the exception of a few incompletes, the university’s student athletes receive high marks.Philip Moses, the director of the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, announced the academic results for the Athletics Department from the fall semester Friday at the monthly Council on Athletics meeting.Out of approximately 500 student-athletes, Moses said 228 were recognized as scholar athletes, meaning their grade-point averages for the semester were 3.00 or better. Moses also reported that 109 student athletes were named to the Dean’s List.
January 29, 2002Vice chancellor for research and graduate studies to retireby Phillip BrenneisAfter influencing countless young minds and guiding research at N.C. State University for more than 36 years, Charles Moreland, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, is set to retire in July.Moreland, 65, of Raleigh, puts at the top of his list of achievements at NCSU his part in a restructuring and general attitude change that began taking place around the same time period in which he began his work in the administrative end of research.”In the late ’80s and early ’90s, NCSU was making the transition from a reasonably well-funded university to an extremely well-funded university,” said Moreland. This change called for an infrastructure that NCSU had never needed in the past. It is this infrastructure that Moreland has spent the last decade developing and maintaining.
