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Well it's just like being an athlete.

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Student athletes have to balance going to class with playing sports.

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Well student leaders have to balance going to class and getting their education,

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which is their primary mission of being at an institution like NC State,

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with their student leadership responsibilities,

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and so I was not permitted to cut classes, and in my day when I was at NC State

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you were only allowed a certain number of class cuts regardless of what the reason was, unless it was a death in the family.

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So I had to attend class and I had to study and I had to do all those things so I could graduate when I was supposed to graduate.

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I was also in ROTC so I was a student officer at the time as well.

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All of those things were healthy for me in that it forced me to discipline my time,

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and that's been a really good learning experience from my NC State experience because even today I'm a very disciplined person.

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I know things that have to be done and I work hard to make sure that I maintain some kind of a schedule and that kind of stuff.

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So I can't recall it ever being a burden, although I'm sure there were times when there were conflicts,

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I had some kind of student responsibility and I also had a class.

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Well class came first, and by the way that's what Dr. Caldwell used to say.

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Chancellor Caldwell would say: You remember, classes come first.

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If I ask you to do something and you've got class or you've got an exam or you've got to study that comes first.

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So I don't recall it being a burden.