I tell you what happened is
there was a movement afoot that went across several years to change the name of North Carolina State,
which was North Carolina State College, to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh,
and this was just a foreign proposition.
I got caught up in that as a student senator and felt very strongly about it,
in fact I had bumper stickers made that just said "Save NC State"
so it was going to be UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Wilmington, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Asheville, and it was going to be UNC-Raleigh.
We were known as North Carolina State, State College,
so we're going to take this brand and we're going to make it the University of North Carolina at Raleigh?
So it was very emotional,
and so I decided to run for student body president because I wanted to do everything I could to do my part,
to make sure that we didn't lose the identity of North Carolina State.
So in doing that I visited with Governor Sanford numerous times
and that was obviously, because of the connection I made earlier, very easy to do.
In fact I'd go down and meet with him. This was a different day. He'd send a limousine out, he'd pick me up,
I'd be driven to the mansion, we'd eat a sandwich,
I'd be treated extremely well, more so than any student would ever think you'd be treated,
and we'd sit there and have a great conversation almost about nothing, what was going on and so forth,
and then he'd look at me and he'd say, "I'll tell you what I want you to do."
He said, "I want you to go back out to that campus and I want you to tell them you came down here and you told me we weren't going to put up with this name change,
and that you stood right up to me," and he said, "You tell them as strongly as you want to tell them,"
and then he said, "Now there's the car. It'll take you on back." And of course
university general administration finally realized there were more important things to go worry with
than to try to fight a battle of changing this distinguished university's name and the brand that it had established.
So we're North Carolina State today.