Dr. Friday was right in the middle of that, and he talked with me.
We did not want to be the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
The University of North Carolina, I have to say, was a bad connotation to NC State.
We didn't want to be the University of North Carolina at anything.
As I recall the student council had a lot to do with that, and a lot of people [were] involved much more than me,
but we were pretty united that we didn't want to be called the University of North Carolina at Raleigh
because there was a University of North Carolina somewhere else that had already been known as the University of North Carolina. [Laughs]
So we became North Carolina State University, of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh,
and we thought, well, that's better than being the University of North Carolina at Raleigh. [Laughs]
But I remember there were a lot of people active in student government and there were some strong feelings about that.