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State employees can pay their admission to the fair with four cans of Food Lion brand food on Thursday, Oct. 22.

State Employee Appreciation Day at the Fair

The State Fair (motto: a whole lotta happy) opens its gates today. And during the fair's 11-day run, a whole lotta NC State faculty, staff and students get involved.

They make decisions on the blue ribbon winners, care for animals and serve up ice cream, milk and steak sandwiches, among many other duties. New places to find Extension and College of Life Sciences folks this year are the Green NC tent and the new outside rain garden.

If you visit the fair on Thursday, Oct. 22, state employee appreciation day, here’s some happy news: You can get in by donating four cans of Food Lion brand food. Be sure to stop by the Office of State Personnel and NC State Flex programs booth in the Kerr Scott Building. They'll appreciate seeing you. The fair ends on Sunday, Oct. 25.

Wolfline State Fair Service

Wolfline buses will not serve stops for Centennial Biomedical Campus/College of Veterinary Medicine from today through Friday, Oct. 23, due to heavy traffic at the adjacent state fair.

Route 6 (Carter-Finley) will not serve Hillsborough Street stops west of Faircloth. Instead, the bus will make a detour before following its regular route to campus. To see the route change, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/wolfline. Check the transit visualization system (TVS) for real-time bus location.

The Carter-Finley park and ride lot will be temporarily moved to the northwest corner of the current park and ride lot: Westchase at the bottom of the steps. Directional signs to the temporary location will be posted. Questions? Contact Kim Paylor, Wolfline transit manager, at  kim_paylor@ncsu.edu or 515-3424.

Want to leave the driving to someone else? Here's how to take a CAT bus or Amtrak train to the fairgrounds. 

Open House

NC State will hold its annual Open House for prospective students, families and high school counselors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. More than 7,000 people are expected to attend. Students can tour the campus and learn about specific majors, admissions, housing, dining, arts, athletics and more. Student groups will entertain the crowd. For more information or to register, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/openhouse.

If you’ll be parking on campus during Open House, remember that traffic will be routed around street closures of Morrill Drive at Cates Avenue from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also, the "C" spaces in front of the Talley Student Center will not be available for parking.

Bring your family film to Home Movie Day.

Home Movie Day

Take a trip back in time this Saturday. It's Home Movie Day, sponsored by the film studies program. Bring a movie in 8mm, 16mm or Super 8 format to share during the screening from 1 to 4 p.m. in the North Carolina Archives auditorium, 109 E. Jones Street.

You can learn how to preserve your home movies and enjoy everyone else’s. For details, contact Dr. Marsha Orgeron at mgorgero@unity.ncsu.edu or visit Home Movie Day Raleigh 2009.

Short Story Contests

If you’ve written a short (or short-short) story, make your final edits. Monday, Oct. 19, is the postmark deadline to enter your work of fiction in the creative writing program’s short story competition, open to North Carolina residents.

The competition will be judged by science fiction author Samuel Delany. Delany, professor of English and creative writing at Temple University, has written memoir, criticism and essays as well as science fiction.

Wachovia Lecture Series

Alexander Cutler, CEO of Eaton Corporation, will speak on organizational transformation and leadership at 4:30 p.m. on Monday in the College of Management auditorium, 3400 Nelson Hall. Admission is free and free parking is available in the Dan Allen Parking Deck.

Architecture Lecture

Matt Noblett will present "Integrated Design: Towards an Architecture of Content" at 7 p.m. on Monday in Burns Auditorium.

Golf Classic

Play golf without guilt when the Office for Diversity and Inclusion hosts the 2009 NC State Golf Classic on Monday at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course. Proceeds will benefit diversity programs at NC State. The tournament format, which features an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, allows both experienced and inexperienced players to have a fun-filled day at the links. The $100 rate for faculty, staff and students covers cart/green fees, range balls, breakfast, snacks, lunch and registration. You could win a prize for longest drive, most accurate drive or ball closest to the pin. Raffles, auction items and special hole-in-one prizes will be offered. For details, visit http://www.ncsu.edu/diversity/Golf.php.Golf scholarships are available. For information, contact Jo-Ann Robinson, assistant vice provost for student diversity, at 513-3222 or  joann_robinson@ncsu.edu.

Guest Poet Patricia Smith

Meet award-winning  poet Patricia Smith at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, in the Caldwell Hall lounge. Smith’s Teahouse of the Almighty was a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com, and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize honoree. Her fifth book of poetry, Blood Dazzler, chronicles the human, physical, and emotional toll of Hurricane Katrina.

Wolfpack Service Day

Join NC State alumni across the country who will volunteer in their communities for Wolfpack Service Day, Oct. 24. Preregister to work at one of six sites in Wake County, and you’ll receive a T-shirt and lunch.

• Pullen Park
• Yates Mill
• Lake Crabtree
• Harris Lake
• Blue Jay Point
• Habit ReStore

Jeff Crume of IBM will give the keynote address for Computer Security Day.

IBM Expert at Computer Security Day

Jeff Crume of IBM will deliver the keynote address for Computer Security Day on Monday, Oct. 26. Faculty, staff and students are invited to hear Crume’s speech, “Secure Thinking,” and learn cybersecurity self-defense during the event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Talley Student Center.

Crume, a distinguished engineer and IT security architect for IBM's World Wide Tivoli Tiger Team, is the author of  Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know. He has written articles on cryptography, virtual private networking and identity management. Computer Security Day activities include general and technical discussions about social networking, current privacy issues in legislation, Web application security, antivirus protection, disk encryption, mobile device security, tools for desktop security, identity theft prevention, identity management and access control. For details, visit the Computer Security Day 2009 Web site.

Metaphysics Lecture

Philosophy professor Kit Fine, of New York University and the National Humanities Center, will speak at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in Withers Hall, Room 344. His presentation is part of the Philosophy Colloquium Series.

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