Getting Involved
Ed Stack discusses his motivation for being involved in various campus organizations, from the Textile Student Council, to Student Government, to Greek Life.
Interview on 2011-04-26 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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I was a textile management major
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and actually
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got involved with textiles on the textile student council
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when I was a freshman.
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I came to State having been very involved in high school in everything,
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sports, student government, every club that you could think of, just like a lot of high school kids,
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and coming to State from a small community,
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not really knowing much about college,
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it was such a big place,
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but fortunately the textile school is a very
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fostering and encouraging place to be. I really enjoyed my time in textiles
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and fortunately got on the textile student council
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and started being involved through the textile student council
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and had a lot of fun with that.
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I mean I certainly didn’t come to State
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with the mindset that I was going to run for student body president, although I had always been involved in student government.
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hen I was in junior high we didn’t have a normal student government
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so we started one and at least for that era I was the first student body president at my junior high school,
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really student government, the fraternity, anything that I got involved in
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was really an effort to try to make NC State a smaller place.
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So I got the opportunity to do the textile student council,
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met a ton of people doing that, got to be friends with several people in all different classes,
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and that sort of whet my appetite I guess for running
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for student body president a couple of years down the line,
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but even at that time that wasn’t what I was thinking.
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