You really know you’ve made an ‘impact’ in the fabric of NC State when a predominantly sports-related blog decides to highlight and celebrate the retirement of a Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. Link to announcement Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford has announced his retirement after more than 40 years with the University. Stafford, […]
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Lee’s Last Shot at an ACCeptable Achievement?
Since the beginning of the 1992-1993 athletics season, NC State University is the only full-time BCS affiliated institution that has failed to win single conference championship in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball or baseball. Today marks the start of the 57th Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament, and perhaps the last of almost 57 attempts for […]
Maybe the lightning strike can help finish the Belltower?
Lightning struck NC State’s Memorial Belltower this week. (Link) With graduation two days away, N.C. State University is scrambling to fix the crown on a campus jewel. It’s bringing in a platform lift to hoist a 1,500-pound hunk of granite back into place atop the bell tower after a bolt of lightning knocked it loose. […]
Newsflash – Paying Customers Don’t Like Being Treated Like Naughty 8-Year Olds
We saw this nugget from The Technician a few weeks ago, but didn’t have the time to express our thoughts at the time. In a finding which no doubt caused Bob Kennel to close his eyes and shake his head disapprovingly: The WITH program has not received as much positive feedback as Student Government would […]
Campout Fiasco (Updated)
‘Crisis’ averted. Friday morning update – “After much consideration and work by student leaders, specifically Jay Dawkins, an agreement was reached with Dr. Tom Stafford. The agreement was reached that all 2,847 tickets will be allotted to Campout.” The following was our original entry on the topic as of Thursday night: For the years that […]
If Tom Stafford Worked at Penn State….
….wonder what his solution would be for this! * Link to related entry #1 * Link to related entry #2
Fans Voice Ticketing And Entry Concerns (Updated 10:15 am)
First, you need to read this previous entry as a de facto “part one” to today’s entry. We wanted to thank Pack Pride for continuing to focus on the issues of simple game-day execution at Carter-Finley. On Sunday, PP ran a great entry from Scott Vogelsburg (formerly of The Wolfpacker) and in today’s “Observations” from […]
Tailgating Talk: Another Hour
Last year NC State institued a poorly crafted “tailgating policy” that we described as “the worst kind of administrative nonsense – a solution in search of a problem.” We discussed it in this entry that definitely deserves your time. Later in the year, this (really good) entry discussed the topic framed against a very approprite […]
Technician to Stafford: Improve or Retire
Please DO NOT disregard this blog entry as some non-sports entry in which you don’t have any interest. If you are, were, or may be a student at NC State at some point in your life, then the topic of “The Student Experience” at NC State should be of extreme importance to you. Unfortunately, the […]
Thank You, Clemson
What was it about NC State’s game with Clemson last week that was so eye-opening to Wolfpackers? First, Brett Jensen went from being a below-average hack to a superstar in this awesome piece about NC State’s Athletics Administration. (SFN feels like that piece got lost in the shuffle over the weekend so we encourage you […]
