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N.C. State student leaders lobby for hate crime act RALEIGH, N.C. — There was a call for change Wednesday evening night at North Carolina State University. Student leaders came together to talk about passing the "Free Expression Tunnel Hate Crime Act" after classmates admitted to painting racist remarks about President-elect Barack Obama on the night of Nov. 4. Two of the messages in N.C. State's "Free Expression Tunnel" said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head" and "Hang Obama by a noose."

The most telling thing lately is that Bill Cowher is discussing his future publicly. It's time. That's what Chuck Noll told me when I asked why he was retiring as Steelers coach in December 1991. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's time." Now it's Bill Cowher's time. I have the same feeling now as I had near the end of the 1991 season when I believed Noll was ready to hang it up. I think Cowher will "retire" soon after this season ends. First, here's some history on Noll's retirement, the only end to a head coach's career with...

Having seen Texas’ Rick Barnes and Memphis’ John Calipari spurn their offers in recent weeks to take over NC State’s basketball team, the school has turned to an unorthodox – but no doubt brilliant – tactic to lure the new face of the program. “We’re willing to pay top dollar for a new coach to replace Herb Sendek,” said NC State athletics director Lee Fowler, “but so far that hasn’t been enough. So now we’re offering season tickets for both Duke and North Carolina basketball. We’re pretty sure that will do the trick.” College basketball analysts say NC State’s decision...

DENVER The victim of a shooting early Saturday morning has been identified as Denver Nugget player Julius Hodge, authorities said. Adams County deputies received a call of a shooting in the area of eastbound I-76 over I-25. Upon arrival, deputies found an unoccupied vehicle that appeared to be involved in the middle of the road. Witnesses informed deputies that a second motorist stopped and Hodge and his passenger got into the second vehicle. The Good Samaritan transported Hodge to the hospital, authorities said. Detectives with the Adams County Sheriff's Office are investigating the incident and are in the process of...

The pornography that once characterized Times Square in Manhattan and 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D. C. has virtually disappeared from those neighborhoods and moved to college campuses, sometimes literally.

NCAA Tournament Games TIME (ET) 12:10 PM ET No. 13 Bradley at No. 5 Pittsburgh 2:15 PM ET No. 9 Bucknell at No. 1 Memphis 2:20 PM ET No. 11 George Mason at No. 3 UNC 2:30 PM ET No. 8 Kentucky at No. 1 Connecticut 2:40 PM ET No. 14 Northwestern St. at No. 6 WV 4:45 PM ET No. 10 N.C. State at No. 2 Texas 4:50 PM ET No. 7 Georgetown at No. 2 Ohio State 5:00 PM ET No. 8 Arizona at No. 1 Villanova

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Ticker) - North Carolina State football coach Chuck Amato made a sexist remark to a female reporter during a halftime interview Saturday. Amato was leaving the field at Doak Campbell Stadium with his team tied with Florida State, 10-10, when he was stopped by ABC sideline reporter Suzie Shuster, who asked a pair of questions. Shuster's second question was, "What are you seeing in their offense that you can attack?" "You," Amato replied.

Remarks made recently by Kamau Kambon have received widespread coverage on various websites, blogs and in the media. In some cases, it has been incorrectly reported that Kambon is an employee of North Carolina State University. Kambon sporadically taught at NC State on an as-needed basis. He has not been employed by the university since June 30, 2005. Informed of the comments, NC State Provost Larry Nielsen released the following statement: " The remarks recently attributed to one of our former employees do not in any way represent the values and standards of the university. This type of speech is...

Kamau Kambon, an author who taught in NCSU's Africana Studies program as recently as last spring, made the comments Oct. 14 during a conference at Howard University in Washington. The conference was televised nationally by C-SPAN, and bloggers picked up on the comments immediately. But it wasn't until Thursday that his links to NCSU were discussed directly in The Locker Room, a site run by the John Locke Foundation of Raleigh. NCSU Provost Larry Nielsen, who oversees academic programs at the university, said Friday that Kambon taught there occasionally between the spring of 2001 and the spring of 2005. The...

A visiting professor at North Carolina State University says the solution to the problems faced by many blacks is the extermination of "white people off the face of the planet." Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies at the Raleigh school last spring, told a panel at Howard University Law School Oct. 14 this action must be taken "because white people want to kill us," the Carolina Journal reported. Kambon, a Raleigh activist and bookstore owner, was addressing a panel on "Hurricane Katrina Media Coverage," broadcast on C-SPAN. Excerpts of the speech can be heard here and the entire event is...

By Mike Adams FrontPageMagazine.com | October 21, 2005 Columnist Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, NC, has written a blog entry that reveals just how easy it is to get a job teaching Africana Studies at North Carolina State University. It also demonstrates how the diversity movement is bringing people together in the great state of North Carolina. Sanders’ recent blog directs readers to C-SPAN online, where they can click on the recent archives and scroll down until they find the “Black Media Forum on the Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media.” This was a program...

Columnist Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, NC has written a blog entry that reveals just how easy it is to get a job teaching Africana Studies at N.C. State University. It also demonstrates how the diversity movement is bringing people together in the great state of North Carolina. Sanders’ recent blog directs readers to C-SPAN online, where they can click on the recent archives and scroll down until they find the "Black Media Forum on the Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media." This was a program presented on October 14th at Howard University. Dr. Kamau...

Mike Adams blows the whistle on a murder-minded liberal racist in academia. His name is Dr. Kamau Kambon, an affiliated faculty instructor at NC State University.

The biochemist detained in Cairo in connection with the London bombings is an intelligent, quiet young man who advanced to one of Egypt's most prestigious research centers and whose lower middle-class family spent heavily for him to study abroad, neighbors say. Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, 33, had been teaching chemistry at Leeds University in northern England, and returned to Egypt a week before the deadly July 7 bombings in the British capital. He was arrested four or five days ago in Cairo after British officials supplied his name to Egyptian authorities over the weekend, a government official said, speaking on...

By The Associated Press 38 minutes ago An Egyptian biochemist arrested in Cairo in connection with the London subway and bus bombings taught at a British university after taking graduate courses in North Carolina. Magdy el-Nashar, 33, has denied any role in the attacks during questioning by Egyptian authorities, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. A government official said el-Nashar was detained in Cairo between July 7, when the bombings occurred, and Wednesday. U.S., British and Egyptian officials had been in contact concerning el-Nashar following the attacks, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he...

LONDON - British and FBI officials investigating the London terror attacks focused Thursday on an Egyptian-born chemist who studied in the United States and an 18-year-old Briton of Pakistani descent believed to have set off the bomb aboard a red double-decker bus. Security forces in camouflage searched the Beeston area of the northern city of Leeds as police tried to crack the network thought to have given the dead suspects planning, logistical and bomb-making support. "We don't know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man, or an eighth man," London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir...

One of the individuals sought for questioning in the investigation of last week's London terrorist attacks was previously an N.C. State student. According to a report from the Times of London, detectives are now interested in locating Magdy el-Nashar, a former graduate student who attending classes in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering during the 2000 spring semester. The Egyptian-born El-Nashar left NCSU that fall to seek a doctorate from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. According to a statement from the University of Leeds Thursday, el-Nashar was involved in biochemical research, sponsered by the National Research...

George Mason University EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper analyzes Fall 2003 admissions data for University of Virginia undergraduates, North Carolina State undergraduates, and William and Mary Law School. Odds ratios indicate that black applicants receive very strong preference over equally qualified white applicants at UVA and W&M Law (and over equally qualified Hispanics and Asians), and moderate preference at NCS. At NCS and W&M Law, white students are preferred over equally-qualified Asian students. At UVA and NCS, Hispanic students are also preferred over white students, but the degree of preference is much less than for black students. The results for UVA...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards will bring their presidential campaign to Raleigh this weekend. Both senators will hold a rally Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at the Court of the Carolinas on the campus of North Carolina State University near the Bell Tower. Gates open at 1 p.m. Parking is available in the campus garages and lots. Around 3 p.m., Kerry and Edwards are scheduled to arrive at RDU International. Meanwhile, free tickets to Saturday's rally in Raleigh are available on the North Carolina Democratic Party's Web site. Tickets are also available at several distribution centers...

By: Associated Press (RALEIGH) -- Presidential candidate Ralph Nader says he believes he can beat George Bush, enhance the political agenda and inspire young Americans to restore democracy. Nader told about 200 people at North Carolina State University on Thursday that he wants voters to be as shrewd with politics as they are about sports. He denounced corporate power and says outsourcing will only increase until people declare their independence from the far reach of corporations. On Iraq, Nader says a multinational military force is needed, along with elections and continuing humanitarian aid. Nader is also speaking Thursday night in...

N.C. law enforcement seize drug-related items from stores GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. - The federal government is going on the offensive against drug paraphernalia, seizing pipes, clips and other items from a half-dozen stores in eastern North Carolina. Federal prosecutors said Monday the searches and seizures are the first in a new campaign designed to make it harder to find materials that could entice teenagers to begin smoking marijuana. "The distribution of drug paraphernalia is a federal felony," U.S. Attorney Frank Whitney said at a news conference in Raleigh. "If we can cut down on the demand...

GE Foundation Makes $500,000 Grant to North Carolina State University to Help Diverse Students Realize Math Potential 1/12/04 4:30:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: State Desk, Education Reporter Contact: Terry Souers of Public Relations of GE Mortgage Insurance, 919-846-4459 or terry.souers@ge.com; Tim Lucas of NC State University News Services, 919-515-3470 or 515-7159, tim_lucas@ncsu.edu RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the help of a $500,000 grant from the GE Foundation, North Carolina State University today launched a joint effort with Wake County Public Schools to strengthen the math skills of middle and high school students and increase their opportunities to...

From now on, anyone planning a college commencement will have to consider the Chris Hedges problem. Hedges is an antiwar activist and New York Times reporter who gave an unusually grating antiwar speech May 17 at the Rockford College commencement in Illinois. Few speakers aggravate a crowd as quickly as Hedges did in his 18-minute speech. Some in the audience turned their backs on him. Others booed, screamed at Hedges, or blew foghorns. A few rushed up the aisle to protest, and one new graduate threw his cap and gown onto the stage. Twice, somebody in the audience pulled the...

Fallout Continues From Donahue Commencement Speech POSTED: 11:42 a.m. EDT May 26, 2003 RALEIGH -- North Carolina State University continues buzzing about the politics-laced graduation speech given by former talk-show host Phil Donahue. Several students and audience members walked out May 17, and Donahue was heckled during his talk about his search for liberals. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox has been receiving e-mail messages about it, responding in part to those who disliked the speech: "I share your disappointment in Phil Donahue's address to our graduates on Saturday. Invited by our chair of the faculty to provide an inspirational message to...

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- Talk show pioneer Phil Donahue heard boos and catcalls Saturday during a politically tinged commencement address at North Carolina State University.</p> <p>Donahue's speech was peppered with his political opinions. It was met with boos that rained down like confetti.</p>

Saturday, May 17, 2003 5:45PM EDT Donahue gets cheers, boos at N.C. State commencement The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Talk show pioneer Phil Donahue got catcalls and cheers Saturday for a politically tinged commencement address at North Carolina State University. A handful of the nearly 4,000 new N.C. State graduates walked out of the ceremony at the RBC Center when Donahue began listing "what liberals believe." Donahue said constitutional rights and privileges have been eroded and he made a backhanded reference to the war in Iraq. "Only Congress can declare war," he said to some cheers and boos,...

Are You Ready for Some Football! A move to expand the ACC makes the dream of an NCAA playoff in football a real possibility. Here's how it should work. by Fred Barnes 05/08/2003 12:00:00 AM THE GOOD NEWS in college athletics is the Atlantic Coast Conference is considering expanding from 9 teams to 12. The better news is that this would give the mid-Atlantic and East a premier conference to match the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Big 12, and PAC 10. The best news is that a bigger, stronger ACC that reaches into New York, New England and south Florida...

A move to expand the ACC makes the dream of an NCAA playoff in football a real possibility. Here's how it should work. THE GOOD NEWS in college athletics is the Atlantic Coast Conference is considering expanding from 9 teams to 12. The better news is that this would give the mid-Atlantic and East a premier conference to match the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Big 12, and PAC 10. The best news is that a bigger, stronger ACC that reaches into New York, New England and south Florida would make possible what all America wants: a playoff series to determine...