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Well the scandal with Mary Easley happened while Jim [Ceresnak] was student body president

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and that really defined his tenure

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and that's kind of my main memory because he was on WRAL talking as the sole representative of the university for a week, almost.

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They were calling him for interviews and he just had to step up to the plate because of that turmoil that the whole campus went through,

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and for student government we didn't really know what to do because many of has had spent so long trying to implement a few projects

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that were just now making their way up to the chancellor, the original chancellor,

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so when the new chancellor came in I think you have two sets of feelings.

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One is: Is he going to see the projects that we've already been working on, and that's probably not going to be a priority.

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I mean the poor guy has so many things he has to do when he first comes in.

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What happens to all the things we'd set in motion that would need to be approved by the chancellor, funded by, hopefully, the university, etcetera?

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But on the other hand I think you'd see it as a huge opportunity,

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and we definitely saw it as an opportunity because here is a new chancellor that Jim was on the search committee for,

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so he helped select that chancellor and he clearly was excited about NC State.

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He had a different demeanor, not necessarily better or worse just different,

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and in a good way I think for what student government wanted to do student wise.

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I mean he came in and as any chancellor probably would he came in wanting to do great things for students,

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wanting to hear student concerns, wanting to work with us on these projects and introduce new media, new avenues of communication, and so we saw it, and it was, a great opportunity.

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He certainly right off the bat came to the meetings, came and met us all, hosted dinners, hosted socials,

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hosted big Brickyard events, Ice Cream Dream, all these things that helped engage the student body

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and we got to kind of be his main foundation for what the students expect from [him] as a chancellor.

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So it was a great opportunity for me and everybody on student government and the student body as a whole.