THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1920 «— TUESDAY SEPT. TECH. www.technicianonlinecom Incoming students find problems Events to beheld byNC.Stateandstudent organizations this week. NCSU vs.WFU block seating on on—campus housing Block seating forms for the football game with Sept. 14 are due today. Online not inform University Housing that they forms must be submitted by 8:00 pm. N C. State dorms that are over- Tues,8:30 a.m.to 10:30 am. booked this year include Wood, are not coming, so their rooms are re— served and held. When the new students Reynolds Coliseum Lee and Sullivan. who do want housing arrive, rooms are forum not available because of rooms being CHASS Mary Garrison ”Presidents, National Security and StaffReporter held for people who have chosen anoth— Foreign Policy.” er school. Wed, 7:30 pm. Imagine applying for residence on—cam- The problem can be complicated be— N.C.l\/luseum oinstory - downtown pus and being told that you would not re— cause it becomes what Gobble would call Free event ceive a room. Visualize having to find “a judgment call.” University Housing your own residence, your own apart- does not want to tell those students plan— Senate Meeting ment, and simply not being able to reside ning to live on—campus that they have to First reading oftheTicket Distribution Act on campus. This is the reality for some find somewhere else to reside, nor do Wed,7:30 pm. ofNC. State’s incoming freshmen, who they want to take another student’s room Witherspoon Student Center would agree that being part ofthe largest from them before they arrive. university in the state is not always easy. The problem is not as bad this year as The Parents and Families Services Program According to vice president of Uni— it was in past years. This is due, in part, 2002 Family ofthe Year Award versity Housing, Rena Gobble, “NCSU because the university has cut down the Currently accepting applications is overbooked every year.” number of accepted applicants. In the Talley Student Center . When overbooking occurs, the excess 2001—02 school year, there were more amounts of students are assigned to live students assigned temporary housing. Sullivan Residence Hall, built in 1966, is one ofthree overbooked NC. State dorms in hall lobbies or other vacant areas un- Last year, both males and females were in in the fall 2002 semester. Staffphoto by Matt Huffman til further vacancies arise. temporary housing areas. This year, the CHASS holds Overbooking is the annual process in problem has only affected some males. tating for some students, the rooms have live in temporary housing usually choose which more students apply for housing Even though the situation has been re- generally been quickly assigned to those to stay at home with parents, get an forum on than are rooms available. This happens current in the past, Susan Grant, head living in temporary housing as the se- apartment or get a room at University because many students sign up for resi- of University Housing, says, “it has nev— mester progresses. After vacancies are Towers. dence and then do not come to NCSU or er been a major problem for the univer~ discovered, these rooms are then assigned Dorms with temporary residents this security and decide not to live on campus. sity.” to those on the waiting lists. year include Wood, Lee and Sullivan. The problem is that these students do Though the process can be quite irri— Those students who do not agree to foreign policy Panelists will include experts on national security, foreign relations NC. State students sweep and presidential decision making. News StaffReport Disney competition This summer, design students this July are: Jackson Floyd Brown III, « With the current discussions in Con- competedfor cash rewards and an art and design student; Gabriela Fer— gress and the White House regarding the internship opportunities. ro, an architecture student; and Nick next step in foreign affairs, particularly Hobson, an industrial design student. with Iraq, many people in the United Brigid Ransome Brown won in the individual category, States are trying to understand what Stafl‘Reporter While both Ferro and Hobson won in these discussions could mean for them. the team category. In hopes to spawn some type of local The annual Imagi-Nations program cre~ Elena Page, a Disney programmer and discussion, NC. State and the College an NCSU alumna, joined the team of ated, produced and hosted by Walt Dis— of Humanities and Social Sciences will ney Imagineering is an avenue for NC. students. In a news report on Aug. 21, Page said, “We are looking for new ideas, be hosting a panel discussion Wednes— State design students to showcase their innovation and out—of—the-box think— day. The panel, “Presidents, National Se- talent on a national level. The universi— ing; it’s very competitive to receive an curity and Foreign Policy,” will begin at competition is notjust a schol- ty design internship here, but thejudges were high— 7:30 pm. at the North Carolina Muse— Students with umbrellas wait for the bus as rain blankets Hillsborough Street for arship opportunity; it promotes diver- um of History located downtown. sity and a healthy aspect ofcompetition ly impressed with the caliber of these the first time in weeks. Staffphoto by Rob Bradley winnings.” This forum will be discussed and mod- all participants. among Brown, Ferro and Hobson each re— Imagineers are responsible for the cre- erated by various government, nation- ceived $2,000 toward their education expansion of all elements at al security and US. foreign policy ex— Recent rains don’t ation and and an opportunity for an internship at the Disney theme parks. perts from NCSU. The individuals that represented NCSU The event, which is free and open to the See DISNEY page public, is in conjunction with the Na- end drought tional Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian In- stitution’s “Portraits of the Presidents NC. State Climatologist says the Therefore, Raleigh residents should re— Veggie tales from the National Portrait Gallery,” cur— state can expect member that when it comes to relieving at least six more rently on display at the NC. Museum months ofdrought conditions. the drought, the recent rainfall hasn’t even scratched the surface. of History. Panelists will include Linda P. Brady, Ayren Jackson “It will take at lease six months ofabove average rainfall for the state to be out of professor ofpolitical science and clean of News Editor a drought situation,” said Boyles. “ [The NCSU’s College ofHumanities and So- area] can even have flooding and still cial Sciences; Bruce Ientleson, director After several weeks of dry weather, last have drought.” of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public week’s rainy forecast may have enticed According to The Weather Channel’s many Raleigh homeowners to spray off Policy at Duke University; Nancy Web site, www.weather.com, drought is Mitchell, assistant professor of history their driveway or water their lawn. The “abnormal dry weather for a specific area rain may have even at NCSU; William Boettcher, assistant cleared the conscious that is sufficiently prolonged for the lack of professor of political science at NCSU; many NC. State students who con- water to cause serious hydrological . of sistently, out ofhabit, take long showers imbalance.” and Andrew Taylor, associate professor in campus residence halls. But Boyles suggests that there is no sin— of political science at NCSU. Together, But according to Ryan Boyles, an as- gle definition of drought because there these individuals have garnered various sociate state Climatologist at NCSU and are various levels ofdrought and an area’s expertise to include US. national secu- a representative from the NC. Drought already established water supply plays a rity and defense policies, globalization, Monitoring Council, the rain that the large part in the severity ofdrought. He military intervention, U‘lS' foreign rela- area experienced last week only keeps Edna Lee of Newton Grove closes her stand at the Raleigh Farmer’s Market late tions, presidential decision making and the drought situation from getting worse. See RAIN page 2 Thursday afternoon. 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These regulations in- fall affects a community.” Some communities further west, clude methods on cutting back Approximately every 30 years, such as Statesville and Shelby, are frivolous use ofwater, such as wa- a unique phenomenon encour— in a drought emergency. Because tering lawns every other day, not we’ll 911511 311111 ta ages equatorial waters in the cen— ofthis condition, these areas must filling up residential swimming tral and eastern Pacific Ocean to rely on creeks and streams for wa— pools, not washing or cleanings cool down. This, in turn, has 11111 [eI" ter.