T
Tae Kwon Do Club
Taiji Club
Tar Heel
teaching assistant — TA is acceptable on second and subsequent references; may be a proper title and therefore would be capitalized before a name; also research assistant which should not be abbreviated to avoid confusion with resident adviser or resident assistant.
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry — TAPPI on second reference
Technician — NCSU’s student newspaper, established in 1920. Note the is not a formal part of title. Offices are 323 Witherspoon Student Center. www.technicianonline.com
teepee — not tipi; a conical tent originally made of animal skins or birch bark and popularized by the Native Americans of the Great Plains. Tepees are stereotypically associated with Native Americans in general, but Native Americans from places other than the Great Plains used different types of dwellings. The term wigwam (a domed structure) is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to tepees.
television shows — see composition titles
Textile Association of Graduate Students — TAGS on second reference
Thomas Jefferson Scholars — dual degree program in agriculture and the humanities
Thurman Drive
titled, entitled — entitled means to have a right to or to own; titled refers to the name by which something is known.
town hall meeting
Toxicology Graduate Student Association — Toxicology GSA on second reference
trespass — commonly used by campus police as a verb to describe the act of banning the individual from a certain area. Stevens was trespassed from campus.
Transportation, NCSU — official name for NCSU department. Not Department of Transportation.
Tri-Towers — capitalized as a reference to the proper area; three residence halls, including Bowen Residence Hall, Metcalf Residence Hall and Carroll Residence Hall
Triangle — refers to the area between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Research Triangle refers to the area between N.C. State, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Trinity Road
trustee — a person to whom another’s property or the management of another’s property is entrusted. Do not capitalize when used before a name. Refer to members of the NCSU Board of Trustees as board members, not trustees.
U
Ultimate — not Ultimate Frisbee; game with rules similar to football. NCSU has men?s and women?s club teams. Women?s team is Jaga on second reference. Men?s team is Jinx on second reference. While originally called Ultimate Frisbee, it is now officially called Ultimate because Frisbee is the trademark for the line of discs made by the Wham-O toy company. In fact, discs made by Wham-O competitor Discraft are the standard discs for the sport.
UNC System — made up of 16 schools, with second references in parentheses: Appalachian State University (ASU), East Carolina University (ECU), Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), Fayetteville State University (spell out on second reference; FSU is Florida State University), North Carolina School of the Arts (N.C. School of the Arts), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T), North Carolina State University (NCSU), North Carolina Central University (NCCU), UNC-Asheville (UNC-A), UNC-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), UNC-Charlotte (UNC-C), UNC-Greensboro (UNC-G), UNC-Pembroke (UNC-P), UNC-Wilmington (UNC-W), Western Carolina University (WCU) and Winston-Salem State University (WSSU). Hyphenate when used as a modifier, i.e. UNC-System schools.
Union Activities Board — student fee funded organization that serves as the main programming body on campus. UAB on second reference.
Union Board of Directors — body that oversees the Union Activities Board and makes recommendations to the University administration regarding campus Student Centers. Refer to as the board or the board of directors on second reference
University, the — acceptable second reference for North Carolina State University; lowercase the
University Graduate Student Association — University GSA on second reference
University Theatre — not theater; University Theatre is the volunteer student theatre and part of Arts N.C. State within the Division of Student Affairs; includes the Titmus Theatre and Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre in the Frank Thompson Building and Stewart Theatre located in Talley Student Center; http://www.ncsu.edu/theatre/
University Housing — not Department of Housing. Housing is acceptable on second reference.
V
The V Foundation — a charitable foundation dedicated to helping cancer research in honor of former N.C. State basketball coach Jim Valvano.
Varsity Drive
video games — see composition titles
Volunteers in Service to America — VISTA on second reference
vulgarities — refer to ‘Guidelines for use of profanity‘ for more information
W
WakeMed
Warren Carroll Drive
Watauga Club Drive
WE Recycle — no periods in this non-acronym; WE Recycle is N.C. State’s Stadium Tailgate Recycling Program. Started in 2003 by freshman Paul Mobley as ‘Chuck It’ Recycling, the program recycles nearly 20 tons of beverage containers each season. It is a collaboration between N.C. State Waste Reduction and Recycling, Waste Industries and the Department of Athletics.
Westchase Boulevard
Web Assign — Created in 1997, WebAssign is a registered service mark of North Carolina State University under license to Advanced Instructional Systems, Inc. Headquarters is in Venture 4 building on Centennial Campus.
Webmail
Webshots — proper name for the Web site that allows users to post photos. Do not refer to these photos as Webshots; instead refer to them as photos of pictures on an individual’s Webshots account.
West Dunn Avenue
Western Boulevard
William Moore Drive
Windhover — literary and arts publication
WKNC — student radio station. 88.1fm
Wolf Aides — leadership development program for first-year students affiliated with N.C. State?s Student Government
Wolf TV — two words; became part of the NCSU Student Media in 2009
The Wolf Web — ‘The’ is capitalized as part of the proper name. A student blog located online at http://thewolfweb.com/ not affiliated with the University. Jake Morgan conceived the idea in April of 2000 as ‘NCSU Forum. Also uses the URL http://brentroad.com/. Had about 33,000 registered users in the spring of 2009, up from about 80 in the spring of 2000.
Wolfgang — coed a cappella singing group at NCSU
Wolfline — mass transportation system, operated by the NCSU Transportation
Wolfpack — Takes a singular verb as in these actually published examples in accordance with the AP Stylebook rule on collective nouns. This is an exception to a new rule adopted by the Associated Press in 2008 that allows team names to take plural verbs. It is also the style for the Raleigh News & Observer. As former Technician sports writer Joe Overby, now a writer with the Cary News and S&A Cheorokee Publishing, said, Òjust sounds better, and it is what readers have become accustomed to, so it would look out of place as ‘Wolfpack are.’ As former Technician Editor Tyler Dukes said, ‘This would be a good reason to break with AP style, because it would seem like a grammatical error to the reader to say Òthe Wolfpack are.’ And former Technician Managing Editor Ben McNeely, now a reporter with the Concord Independent Tribune, said, ‘Wolfpack’ is derived from the prepositional phrase ‘a pack of wolves.’ So if you analyze that sentence, you would use ‘is’ instead of ‘are.’ Use it in a sentence, ‘A pack of wolves is following us’ and take out ‘of wolves,’ what do you have left? It sounds weird, but like much in the English language, what sounds right is often not correct.? And former Technician sports reporter Andrew Carter, now a reporter with the Orlando Sentinel, said, ‘Should be singular.’ as did News and Observer sports reporter Chip Alexander: ‘singular.’
ex: The Wolfpack is raking in in-state football spoils
ex: The Wolfpack is in line for a second bowl trip to Birmingham
ex: Wolfpack is still all show and no go.
ex: The Wolfpack is still in the running for Raleigh guard John Wall
Wolfpack Club and Student Wolfpack Club — The N.C. State Student Aid Association, Inc., more commonly known as the Wolfpack Club, is a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships for N.C. State student athletes. The Wolfpack Club was founded in 1936. The Wolfpack Club is made up of donors whose contributions range from $100 to more than $18,000 annually. The Wolfpack Club is not affiliated with the Alumni Association, N.C. State athletics or the University.
Wolfpack Sports Marketing — Wolfpack Sports Marketing is the sales and marketing organization for N.C. State Athletics. A division of Capitol Radio Network under the CBC umbrella, Wolfpack Sports Marketing handles all corporate marketing and sponsorship sales for the N.C. State University Department of Athletics. WSM produces radio play-by-play coverage of football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball, television and radio coaches shows, the Game Day program and the Official Web site for the department of athletics, www.gopack.com. In 2003, the business partnership with N.C. State is extended until 2013.
Wolves’ Den — located in the basement of Talley Student Center
Women’s Center — Officially The North Carolina State Women’s Center or the Women’s Center in short, it was founded in 1991 and is located in Talley Student Center.
words as words — the meaning is best illustrated by example: In this sentence, man appears solely as a word, not as the means of representing the concept normally associated with the word. Put words used as words in italics.
works of art — see composition titles.
XYZ
yam — not related to sweet potatoes, although in some parts of the United States, several varieties of sweet potatoes are popularly called yams.
Yarbrough Drive
YouTube — Founded in February 2005, YouTube is a leader in online video. http://www.youtube.com/ncstate
Zoology Graduate Student Association — Zoology GSA on second reference
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