Well what people need to know as this world grows
and country grows and the specific knowledge
to solve these problems, NC State is at the forefront of that.
I strongly believe, and we have strong liberal arts at NC State, but when you get into
engineering and people say like textiles, well we may not have the plants but remember everybody's wearing something,
so we're doing a whole lot of research in new products there. But just in the evolving technological
world NC State is perfectly positioned
and it's become really the place to be.
Used to be that some of our friends at UNC used to call us "Cow College"
but I haven't heard that much lately, you know, with all the research in agricultural products and in textiles,
and the technology and math and physics, and all that it is positioned, and it's in a great
community and a great city. So you think an urban campus
with the initiative of the Centennial Campus and the school of veterinary medicine;
it's so well positioned. And we've got a great leader in Randy Woodson,
so I wouldn't put my money on any other university.
But I think NC State has come up tremendously
relative to all the universities in terms of perception and reality,
but it was a good engineering school and the agricultural and textiles
but it was not the diversity and the total picture like it is today.
It doesn't seem like that long ago when I was there, but it was.
Time moves on, doesn't it?