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As I look back at that in retrospect it was kind of a design problem, looking at student government as a design problem:

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how do you design something that works better? We would call that design thinking today. It’s popular in business circles.

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I mean at Stanford they have, within the business school, the D school where they try to use design thinking to solve business problems, for instance.

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Even though you’re working with words and concepts it’s still a design problem. You have to come up with a structure and so on.

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Yeah, we had to kind of wander a little bit before it settled down, but I think ultimately what we chose to do is to reinforce that which is unique to this campus,

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which is that the academic components of the campus are the real core and strength of it,

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because even then at ten thousand students many more students lived off campus than on campus, and I’m sure that’s even more the case today.

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So having a residentially-based system of government, which is the way, say, UNC was organized, or Duke, or institutions like that, kind of more or less based on the British precedents,

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really wasn’t a proper functioning structure for NC State. So we really relied very heavily on a structure that built on the academic units of the university,

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but then also dealt with student life because there is, on campus, residential life, fraternity life, the student union and publications and other organizations,

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so that became the design of a structure that would be appropriate to an institution like this. 

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so that became the design of a structure that would be appropriate to an institution like this.