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I’d like to take a moment to address the students, alumni, and unaffiliated fans that somehow have managed to find it in their hearts to shell out the cash for lifetime rights to seats in Carter-Finley Stadium. I know it’s difficult. As...

Gather ’round, my children, and hear this slightly meandering tale with not much of a payoff, but it’s Friday afternoon and this is reasonably amusing. It’s October 2004, and times were so much simpler, weren’t they? White ...

Ah, the end of summer, and with it, the end of summer vacation. We are back, officially, and to mark that happy occasion, we hopped into the Chevy News Lumina and hit the campuses of UNC and Duke to meet and greet the Class of 2013.

Already working on his admissions essay for the Class of 2014. (Flickr user aye_shamus) Let’s keep it rolling back-to-school style! ...

It’s the perfect storm of personal business and busy-ness — Ben and I are both moving, and then I’m going off to get married (with Ben officiating, to keep it in the family). In light of that, updates will be sporadic, unpredictable, and ultimately unfulfilling until we come back in late July. Stay...

Obviously this was the biggest crime going on at NC State this week, and obviously everyone involved has nothing better to do, so let’s make sure we get criminal larceny charges pinned all over artist Joe Carnevale, the man responsible for the delightful Barrel Monster on Hillsborough Street. ...

Despite the “best” efforts of Hagan and Burr, the US Senate voted to give the FDA the power to regulate tobacco. [WRAL] So, shut my mouth: Mary Easley got jack squat from NC State, not even the customary 30 days notice for such a termination. Oh...

There’s not much to do after the explosion of the ConAgra plant in Garner but pray for the families of the two workers who lost their lives, and then pick up the pieces and work to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again. An...

Well, only if you count Henderson as “right up the road.” Still if you need a little hit of nostalgia, or if you’re too young to remember piling into the car for a movie under the stars but want to experience what us old people are talking about, Henderson’s got it for you. The Ra...

Mary Easley released a very short, very polite open letter to the NC State community today, to say farewell and take one last swing at keeping it classy. Naturally, we did a little digging and got our hands on an early draft of this letter. As you can see, the final version was heavily edited...

James Oblinger became the former chancellor at NC State this morning, stepping down in the face of increased scrutiny over the hiring of Mary Easley. Pretty soon, the only person left employed after the Mary Easley scandal resolves itself will be Mary Easley...

The N.C. State Board of Trustees finally sacked up and fired Mary Easley, after she made it clear that she had no idea that “we urge her to resign” means she should go ahead and resign. But the headline says the trustees “eliminated” Mrs. Easley...

I’m sure somewhere, there’s a stringy-haired eyeliner-wearing person of ambiguous gender crying into their webcam, “LEAVE EASLEY ALOOOOOOONE!” But not today, as a House panel voted to eliminate the NC State Millennium Speaker series, saving the state $105,000 (score!) and eliminating a good chunk o...