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Well what people need to know as this world grows

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and country grows and the specific knowledge

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to solve these problems, NC State is at the forefront of that.

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I strongly believe, and we have strong liberal arts at NC State, but when you get into

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engineering and people say like textiles, well we may not have the plants but remember everybody's wearing something,

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so we're doing a whole lot of research in new products there. But just in the evolving technological

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world NC State is perfectly positioned

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and it's become really the place to be.

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Used to be that some of our friends at UNC used to call us "Cow College"

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but I haven't heard that much lately, you know, with all the research in agricultural products and in textiles,

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and the technology and math and physics, and all that it is positioned, and it's in a great

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community and a great city. So you think an urban campus

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with the initiative of the Centennial Campus and the school of veterinary medicine;

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it's so well positioned. And we've got a great leader in Randy Woodson,

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so I wouldn't put my money on any other university.

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But I think NC State has come up tremendously

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relative to all the universities in terms of perception and reality,

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but it was a good engineering school and the agricultural and textiles

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but it was not the diversity and the total picture like it is today.

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It doesn't seem like that long ago when I was there, but it was.

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Time moves on, doesn't it?