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THE APPALACHIAN March 1, 2019

Chancellor addresses faculty salary concerns Chancellor Sheri Everts spoke at a special Faculty Senate meeting to answer questions about lack of raises for faculty in 2019. Everts said during the meeting that merit-based raises were a “No. 1 priority.”

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News March 1, 2019 SGA bill pressures university to accept AppCards as voter ID Moss Brennan ‫@ ׀‬mosbren ‫ ׀‬News Editor

Emily Hogan presents her bill “The AppCard Voting Identification Act” during Senate on Feb. 26. // Photo Moss Brennan

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he Student Government Association passed a bill urging Chancellor Sheri Everts to sign the North Carolina State Board of Elections Student Identification Attestation Form on or before the date given by the State Board of Elections, which is March 13.

The AppCard Voting Identification Act “fully endorses the use of AppCards as voting identification.”

If the March 13 deadline passes without Everts signing the abstention form, App State students cannot use AppCards as a voter ID in the 2020 election.

Megan Hayes, chief communications officer, wrote in an email that as of Feb. 22, the State Board of Elections had not provided an attestation form to App State.

The form states, under penalty of perjury, that AppCards meet eligibility requirements to count as a voter ID. Some of the eligibility requirements for a student ID card include:

• An expiration date beginning January 2021.

• A photograph of the student taken by the university or its contractors.

• Equipment for creating the cards kept in a secure location.

“I personally think that Sheri Everts will sign this form because it’s what’s right for students and I believe that she’ll do what is right for students,” Hogan said.

A survey of 728 constituents contacted by senators found that 79.1 percent answered “Yes” to “Would you use your AppCard as your ID to vote if eligible?”

Rep. Ray Russell, former computer science professor and representative for the 93rd District, is co-sponsoring a bill to extend the March 13 deadline for universities.

WRAL reported on Feb. 25 that none of the state’s public universities have completed the form.

Voters passed a constitutional

amendment in November requiring voters to show an ID to vote.

Student ID cards from UNC System schools, community colleges or private universities are accepted forms of voter ID if they meet the requirements.

Everts sent out an email to students on Feb. 22 explaining that many staff members are working to ensure students have legally recognized identification to vote.

“I have engaged in many discussions—with legal counsel, members of the Student Government Association, faculty, staff and my colleagues in the system—about the legal aspects and responsibilities presented by this law,” Everts wrote.

Everts also wrote that she is working with the county and state board of elections so students can “assert their legal right to vote.”

The full AppCard Voting Identification Act can be found on the SGA website.

President vetoes two SGA bills, Senate overrides

Moss Brennan ‫@ ׀‬mosbren ‫ ׀‬News Editor

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he Student Government Association Senate voted to override two bills vetoed by Student Body President DeJon Milbourne.

The Standing Committee Statements Act allows standing committees to draft statements for the Senate to release with the heading “The Appalachian State Student Senate formally adopts the following statement.”

The Senate Business Program Reform Act streamlines the process for changing the Senate agenda.

Milbourne, senior accounting major, vetoed The Standing Committee Statements Act and The Sen-

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ate Business Program Reform Act on Feb. 8.

Devin Mullins, sophomore political science major, sent out a statement to senators prior to the Senate’s override vote.

“Our primary responsibility as student leaders is to represent our constituents without regard to our personal agendas or biases,” Mullins wrote. “I am writing you, as a fellow SGA senator, with one simple request: join me in representing our constituents with integrity and purpose by voting to override the veto.”

Vice President Brigitte Kelly, junior political science major, read statements from Milbourne as to

why he vetoed the bills. One of Milbourne’s concerns for The Standing Committee Statements Act was that the Senate may not retract or delete statements without passing a bill of retraction.

The Standing Committee Statements Act originally passed with 25 “Aye” votes, one “No” and two abstentions. The Senate needed twothirds majority to override a veto.

The Senate Business Program Reform Act originally passed with 23 “Aye” votes, four “No” and three abstentions.

Milbourne said after the meeting that the Senate did what was in its right when overriding the vetoes.

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March 1, 2019

(Left) Chancellor Sheri Everts addresses faculty at a special Faculty Senate meeting called to discuss the stagnation of salaries. Everts said her three main goals are merit increases, academic facilities and support for students. (Right) Board of Governors member Phillip Byers addresses the questions of App State faculty. Byers said he is “the first to admit” faculty are underpaid. // Photos by Anna Muckenfuss

Everts: Faculty and staff merit increases are ‘No. 1 priority’

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hancellor Sheri Everts and a member of the Board of Governors met with faculty at a special Faculty Senate meeting called due to concerns about the administration’s decision to deny faculty pay raises.

Faculty directed questions and grievances to Everts, Board of Governor member Philip Byers and Provost Darrell Kruger at the meeting on Feb. 25.

The Senate Budget Committee presented its research, which ranked App State seventh overall in faculty salary and 15th in state funding.

Everts and Byers spoke to over 300 faculty members who attended the meeting, before faculty commented and asked questions.

“I can assure you that merit faculty increases have been and continue to be among my top priorities,” Everts said during the meeting. “I would have

Moss Brennan ‫@ ׀‬mosbren ‫ ׀‬News Editor Anna Muckenfuss ‫@ ׀‬noel1122 ‫ ׀‬News Reporter very much liked to give a merit salary increase for the fifth year in a row.”

Faculty received a salary increase from 2015-2018 before receiving no increase in 2019.

“I have three priorities for that additional funding. The No. 1 priority is faculty and staff merit increases,” Everts said during the meeting. “That has not changed as a result of this meeting or any other conversation.”

She said her other top priorities were academic facilities and support for students.

Everts declined an interview after the meeting.

Many faculty were emotional as they spoke about their struggles caused by low salaries.

Jeanie Mercer-Ballard, associate professor in the applied design department, spoke about how she had a major health scare she will pay for until the end of 2019.

“My goal was to come here and listen, and to hear what the status was and to learn more about the status of what we can do having been here for over 15 years,” Mercer-Ballard said.

Byers, who has been on the Board of Governors since 2015, said the funding for mountain schools has always been less than ideal.

“I’ll be the first to admit they are underpaid,” Byers said. “We’ve got to change that model of where the people doing the work are receiving a fair pay and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

Kruger also said he thought the meeting was successful.

“I think there was good dialogue,” Kruger said. “I think information exchange when you have an organization with 3,000 employees and 19,108 students, these sorts of meetings are beneficial.”

Barbara Howard, chair of the Faculty Senate and professor in the

Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, said this was the first time she felt faculty were heard.

“My hope was it would give faculty a chance to be heard and I pulled together the people who needed to hear them,” Howard said. “I think some good points were raised. I think there were good things that will come out of this.”

Howard works on the Faculty Senate Chair Committee and said no other university in the UNC System has had a meeting like this.

“They’re all waiting to hear how this meeting went and then they’re going to ask their chancellors,” Howard said. “So we’ll see if other chancellors have the courage to sit and listen to faculty.”

Theresa Redmond, an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, said during the meeting that she received guidance

in the past to not go to a full position because she would be more marketable as an associate professor.

“I can leave and seek the support to grow the next generation of students to be the very best leaders,” Redmond said. “We’re not only asking for your support for ourselves, but for our students.”

Byers and Everts left the meeting after one hour for other meetings, but the provost and other vice chancellors stayed to take more questions.

Howard said she would make sure Everts responded to the faculty members who asked questions.

“I am going to follow up with them and make sure everyone who asked a question will be contacted,” Howard said. “I will make sure the minutes of this meeting will be written up and distributed widely.”

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News

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Sheriff’s office implements pre-arrest program to reduce repeat offenses Anna Muckenfuss ‫@ ׀‬noel1122 ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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n 2015, 32 percent of offenders who committed a crime in North Carolina became repeat offenders. The Watauga County Sheriff’s Office is considering a new program to reduce the county’s rate of recidivism, or repeat offenders.

Len Hagaman, Watauga County sheriff, said substance abuse in Boone has changed since he became sheriff in 2006.

“Earlier on in my career, things were less complicated. The narcotics of choice were mushrooms, marijuana and alcohol,” Hagaman said. “Watauga is still very high in use of meth.

Those have had a serious impact on the families of folks that have substance abuse.”

Hagaman said the sheriff’s office is looking into a pre-arrest program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion to reduce the number of offenders in the detention center.

Robert Childs, former director of

the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, said LEAD’s goal is to give offenders options besides incarceration.

“We know we cannot arrest our way out of poverty, drug dependency or mental health,” Childs said. “The LEAD program is a pre-arrest initiative that works to connect our most atrisk people with support services.”

The NCHRC is an organization that encourages law enforcement to use pre-arrest programs like LEAD. “We have helped start up multiple pre-arrest programs across the state. North Carolina has more LEAD programs more than any other state,” Childs said.

Childs said the LEAD program works to reduce racial inequalities in arrests and repeat offenders, and decrease drug overdoses by connecting offenders with social services and support systems.

“We know the underlying cause is

often associated with trauma, poverty, mental illness,” Childs said.

Childs said criteria for the program varies based on jurisdiction.

“It’s basically people who are dependent on drugs and people who, at the time, have what equates to personal possession of drugs and paraphernalia, but you can also be referred into the program,” Childs said.

Participants in the LEAD program go through drug testing and are required to find employment.

“If they do what they’re told and they go to rehab, or work with social services, or work with the courts to be clean, then those charges don’t go through,” Hagaman said. “If they stumble they may get some time back in or they can get arrested.”

Fayetteville, Wilmington, Waynesville, Statesville and Mooresville police departments use the LEAD program, according to NCHRC.

Len Hagaman has been the sheriff of Watauga County since 2006. Hagaman said the county is looking in the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion to reduce the number of repeat offenders in the detention center. // Photo

by Mickey Hutchings

Reported health services flu cases down from 2017-2018 season

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etween October and March, M.S. Shook Student Health Service is often jam-packed with students who smell of hand sanitizer and are sporting face masks. Sam Griffith was one of these students only three weeks ago.

Griffith, junior special education major, said she and her boyfriend both got the flu after visiting Colorado.

“I started feeling funny, like achy and didn’t want to do anything,” Griffith said.

A doctor gave Griffith an anti-nausea medication and Tamiflu to pair with rest.

Griffith was out of school for a week and had to coordinate assignments with her professors.

By March 2018, App State’s

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health services saw 470 cases of “influenza-like illness.” In the 2019 season, health services has only seen 166.

“It’s been very much a different picture, thank goodness,” administrative director of health services Margaret Bumgarner said.

Bumgarner said she thinks there were some “really different strains” in 2018, because her previous job, in Hawaii, had a bad flu season.

For the week of Feb. 10-16, there were 1,070 positive results of the flu in North Carolina, according to a report by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Bumgarner said in most cases, doctors recommend “self-care” for treatment, like drinking water and resting.

“If flu is diagnosed in the first 48 hours, Tamiflu, a prescription antiviral that can lessen the severity and decrease the duration of the virus, can be offered,” medical director Taylor Rushing said.

Bumgarner said doctors are more likely to formally test for the flu in October, but normally by late February “everybody has it.”

Bumgarner said manufacturers make the flu vaccine far in advance of the actual flu season, but the virus often mutates before the season even begins.

“We have had a few people who had the flu shot and still had the flu,” Bumgarner said. “That’s what you don’t want to see.”

Bumgarner also said it’s not too

late to get a flu shot.

Students can get a flu shot at health services through its immunization clinic Monday through Friday from 8-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-3 p.m. except for Wednesdays, when the clinic opens at 9 a.m.

Bumgarner said health services has only had one employee call out of work with the flu so far.

“We use a lot of hand sanitizer,” Bumgarner said. “If you’ve been in this industry for very long, you have very good hand hygiene.”

While this is one of the busiest times of year, Bumgarner said health services does its best to see everyone who comes in, even if it’s just with a nurse.

North Carolina DHHS lists the following as flu symptoms: •

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A 100-degree or higher fever or feeling feverish (not everyone with the flu has a fever) A cough and/or sore throat A runny or stuffy nose Headaches and/or body aches Chills Fatigue Nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea (most common in children)

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Program brings water resources education to county schools

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Olivia Bouzigard ‫@ ׀‬oliviabouzi ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

new outreach program is in its first phase of educating local teachers and students about hydrology and water resources.

The Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences started “Water on the Move” and received a National Science Foundation grant in fall 2018. With the program in full gear, it will educate teachers and students of Watauga County schools about local water issues, data and research.

“Teaching other children, especially about geology, which is not normally taught in public schools, will allow children to realize there are more options than just looking at rocks,” said Marta Toran, the department’s lead outreach coordinator.

The first phase is to see which teaching strategies are effective in target schools. The program will work with teachers to develop lesson plans and teach students. Once the program is finalized, the goal is to package the department’s models, figures and resources and make them available online as lesson plans. One goal is to develop kits for teachers to borrow from the department.

One of Toran’s goals is to improve outreach in the department. She said the department reaches around 4,000 people per semester through outreach programs like field trips for local schools, resources for teachers and family science nights.. Toran tries to get undergraduate students involved in all programs.

Toran selected Carly Maas and Brandon Yokeley, both senior quantitative geology majors, to work as “Water on the Move” interns. They will travel in the Geobago, the outreach vehicle used as a traveling classroom.

Maas said teaching others children about geology is a rewarding experience.

Maas and Yokeley take skills they learned within their major and apply them outside the classroom for “Water on the Move.”

“I enjoy teaching the surrounding communities about science, not a lot of them have the background and it is nice to expand knowledge outside of the classroom,” Yokeley said.

The program will reach third and eighth grades and high school levels because of their water science curriculum. The program has met with teachers to understand what resources they need. Toran said most do not have the resources and supplies to teach children about water science. She also said others think they do not have enough background knowledge because of the many subjects elementary school teachers teach.

“Water on the Move” has worked in Raleigh, where participants taught lessons, held workshops for teachers over the region and provided teachers with mineral samples, games and books. The program wants to bring their previous work to the first phase, teaching schools around the county.

For more information about “Water on the Move,” visit https://water. appstate.edu/.

Senior quantitative geology majors Carly Maas and Brandon Yokeley are interns for the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences’ “Water on the Move” program. The program educates teachers and students of Watauga County schools about local water issues, data and research. // Photo by Olivia Bouzigard

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Sports

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Local climber wins youth nationals

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Caldwell Community College student climber from Valle Crucis won the USA Climbing: Bouldering Youth National Championship on Feb. 10. Elijah Kiser started climbing three years ago and has since accomplished goals that have taken other climbers a lifetime.

Elijah Kiser traveled to Redmond, Oregon, alongside his coach and climbing mentor Jeffrey Verner and his family to try his hand at his first National Finals competition.

After placing fifth in qualifiers and ninth in semifinals, Elijah Kiser’s goal was to simply “climb to the best of his abilities” in the final round of the competition. Not only did Elijah Kiser have what he qualified as his best day of the competition, but he brought home first place for himself and the local climbing gym, Center 45.

“Winning was just downright weird,” Elijah Kiser said. “I was just like, ‘Dang it, I didn’t mean to win. I was just trying to climb well,’ and it happened.”

The first time Elijah Kiser climbed on holds was in downtown Boone. Soon after that, he began attending Center 45 and his addiction for climbing kicked off.

“I don’t know of anybody who has progressed to V13 and winning Nationals in three years,” Elijah Kiser’s brother Aidan Kiser said.

Since his start, Elijah Kiser has climbed a V13 outside, an advanced grade for any climber, and took big name climber Alex Puccio 12 years to accomplish.

“It’s a lot about approaching things with confidence and not having super strong expectations...but needing to do the best that you can,” Elijah Kiser said.

Aidan Kiser said the attitude Elijah Kiser brings to climbing is what sets him apart from others, along with his humble demeanor.

“I’ve never cared about winning, ever,” Elijah Kiser said. “The thing that is success for me is knowing that you did what you could do...and if you place last that’s fine.

That’s just what happens.”

Local climber, photographer and App State student Daniel Gajda has climbed with Elijah Kiser at Center 45 and traveled to competitions, where he photographed him.

“One of the things that makes him special is he climbs almost the exact same in competition as he does for fun,” Gajda said. “He just goes out there, has a great time and puts all of his effort into it.”

Next up in Elijah Kiser’s athletic career is training for Worlds. He also plans to project some boulders in the next year, take time to finish his associate’s degree at Caldwell Community College and work on his novel and music.

Photo Courtesy of Daniel Gajda

Mountaineers wrap up regular season, capture fourth straight conference championship

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ith its victory over The Citadel on senior day, the App State wrestling team secured its share of a fourth straight Southern Conference Championship.

The Mountaineers have gone 25-2 in SoCon dual matches the past four years. Seniors Irvine Enriquez, Angel Najar, Randall Diabe, Thierry Washington and Michael Elliott will finish their careers at App State with a perfect four championships in four years.

“To win championships and stay competitive, you have to have strong leaders on your team,” head coach JohnMark Bentley said.

“Our seniors this year have done a great job being those leaders, and it shows in their record.”

The Mountaineers will share their conference championship with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and possibly Campbell University.

In his senior day match, Enriquez defeated his opponent 18-2 for a technical fall. Najar won in a 5-0 decision, while Elliott won in an 8-2 decision.

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Diabe was rested ahead of the SoCon tournament and instead supported his fellow teammate junior Demazio Samuel as he made his SoCon duals debut at the 197-pound weight class. Samuel defeated Citadel senior Sawyer Root in an 18-3 technical fall.

“We always promote the idea of working hard, going after your goals and never taking a back seat to anyone,” Enriquez said. “The most important thing to us is hard work, doing what it takes to be successful.”

In their final match of the season, the Mountaineers split a dual match with Bloomsburg and Lock Haven University. They defeated Bloomsburg by a final score of 32-6 and lost their following match 31-7.

“It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice to wrestle on this level,” Diabe said. “We won a championship my freshman year, so I knew what it took to get there again. You have to keep that same mentality and push the new guys to work hard so the team can get there again.”

App State will host the SoCon Championship tournament March 10 at Holmes Convocation Center. Five of App State’s wrestlers are ranked in the top 33 of the NCAA Coaches’ Panel, including Diabe, Enriquez and Elliott.

Senior wrestler Irvin Enriquez goes for the pin during a SoCon match in the 141-pound division. // File Photo

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or everything from birthday cards to labels for Food Services, Mountaineer Printing has members of the App State community covered.

The student-run print lab located on campus provides graphic arts and imaging technology students in the advanced printing and finishing course hands-on experience by printing the needs of App State students and beyond.

All students who take the course must work at the shop for four hours per week, production supervisor Charles Perkins said.

Perkins and two other employees serve as leaders for the students and train students on all of the equipment, junior graphic arts and imaging technology major Lana Jackson said.

Jackson said although working in the print shop is a class requirement, she thinks of it as a positive experience that helps the students, most of whom are seniors, gain real-world experience for future careers.

“Pretty much everyone that goes through this program usually works in a print place when they graduate, so it’s pretty much a perfect experience of exactly what we’ll be doing when you graduate for most people,” Jackson said.

Perkins said working in the shop also helps students understand the process of print production.

Jackson added that Mountaineer Printing is “just like a regular print shop” and serves as a resource available to meet the printing needs for almost any project.

“If it’s on paper, we pretty much print it,”

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Print shop class prepares students for careers in graphic arts Erin O’Neill ‫@ ׀‬erinmoneill ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

(Left) Lana Jackson, junior graphic arts and imaging technology student, works in the Mountaineer Printing lab in Katherine Harper Hall. (Right) Zach Byrd, senior graphic arts and imaging technology student, operates a printing machine. Byrd works for Mountaineer Printing, a student-run print lab located on campus that provides graphic arts and imaging technology in the advanced printing and finishing course hands-on experience. // Photos

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Perkins said.

Prices for the print shop are based on the cost of materials and the number of items needed, according to Mountaineer Printing.

Mountaineer Printing also offers printing services that include design, digital, offset, flexography, screen printing and finishing.

Jackson said that although some students may not know about the print shop, people definitely use the resource.

“I think for the size that it is, it gets used the perfect amount.

We’re pretty much busy all the time,” Jackson said.

Mountaineer Printing is located in Katherine Harper Hall.

Those interested in using the shop should contact Perkins to determine prices.

Students practice strategic communication in new advertising firm class

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hat if students could get real-world experience in their fields and have it be a course credit?

Mimi Perreault, a lecturer in the Department of Communication, decided to start the public relations and advertising agency class to give public relations and advertising students a place to work with real clients. This class will give students an internship experience, not a classroom one.

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Anna Dollar ‫@ ׀‬Anna_Carr ‫ ׀‬News Reporter “We have lots of media inside the Department of Communication,” Perreault said, referring to student media. “A lot of universities our size have an agency class.”

Perreault decided to offer the agency class after talking to some of her friends who work at other universities, such as the University of South Carolina, and heard that their schools had these classes or other organizations.

Perreault is on maternity leave,

so the class is supervised by Laura Brittain, an advertising lecturer.

Olivia Remsberg, senior public relations major, is enrolled in the class.

“I would say it’s like a club because it is more collaborative,” Remsberg said. “But it is a class and we are all taking it for credit. You have to apply to be in it so it is more selective than a club.”

The class currently has 20 students enrolled and is almost equally

composed of public relations students and advertising students.

Some of the requirements include teacher recommendations and creative thinking, Remsberg said.

For the first semesters, the class will work with community nonprofits.

“We are doing anything from PR campaigns for them to doing event advertising,” Remsberg said.

“It’s whatever they want. They’re going to come to us and basically fill

out an application. The process isn’t defined yet.”

As of right now, the class is busy trying to create its “brand” so it can promote itself, Remsberg said.

Along with establishing a brand, the class is working on its structure.

“We are starting from scratch and creating our own syllabus, creating our own jobs, creating services, creating our own website and branding,” Remsberg said.

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Seminar partners with schools across the world to teach collaborative art Mariah Reneau ‫@ ׀‬reneau2 ‫ ׀‬A&C Editor

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rom South Korea to Washington and back to Boone again, college students around the world are participating in one App State seminar this semester.

Cara Gelber, an assistant professor of theatre and dance at App State, created the junior honors seminar My Place or Yours? in partnership with Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and Yongin University in Yongin, South Korea, to show students the process of creating collaborative art.

Students have worked with Gonzaga students, but the professors are still organizing what working with Yongin will look like, Gelber said.

As for the collaboration with Gonzaga, each App State student is partnered with at least one Gonzaga student. These students take turns providing material that inspires each other. The students at Gonzaga are in a dance composition class and will perform the final project live, sending the video of the finished product to Boone.

The first transaction between the partners was a piece of music that Gonzaga students wanted to choreograph with a sentence about the piece. The App State students collected objects that reminded them of the song and sent them in a care package to Washington. These objects ranged from fire exit signs to Band-Aids. Now, Gonzaga students are using these objects as inspiration for choreographing the final piece.

“I think the first Zoom conversation was a little awkward because no one knew each other, but as we have discussed this and received the packages of inspiration, they have really enjoyed it,” assistant professor at Gonzaga Suzanne Ostersmith wrote in an email. “In class yesterday, they all spoke of their partners at App State as though they knew them somehow.”

Along with large-scale collaborations, the students were required to pick a personal partner such as a friend at another school or a sibling who lives in another state.

Students in the My Place of Yours? junior honors seminar work on an art project in class. Assistant professor Cara Gelber designed the seminar to show students what working on collaborative art looks like. This semester they are working with students from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and Yongin University in Yongin, South Korea. // Photo courtesy of Cara Gelber

Assistant professor Cara Gelber asks students in her My Place or Yours? junior honors seminar to look around the room and observe things they haven't noticed before. Students in the collaborative art class aren't required to have an art background. // Photo courtesy of Cara Gelber

“What I hope is that through working with their partners at these institutions and with their personal partners, they realize that they have very few parameters about what they could do and that in the limitation they may find a lot of freedom,” Gelber said.

Because the class meets once a week for two and a half hours, the students also have time to work on small projects in class such as deconstructed poems from Goodwill books or a three-part musical suite using objects that aren’t normally considered instruments.

“One of the things I’ve learned from this class is respecting everyone’s abilities and opinions and use that to your advantage,” sophomore global studies major Erica-Grace Lubamba said.

What makes this experience even more unique is that because the class is a junior honors seminar, students aren’t required to come from an arts background.

“Everyone in the class brings so much to the table,” Gelber said. “They’re coming from all different disciplines like computer programming and sustainability, so they already have a lot of tools to work with.”

The seminar also fulfills the international education requirement for honors college students, according to the honors college. This allows students with tight schedules to graduate with honors without having to study abroad.

The My Place or Yours? curriculum is built around a line of research that Hagan discovered herself called “artistic surrogacy,” a method of sharing artistic concepts with another so that the ideas can be executed without the originator’s presence.

“This process of artistic surrogacy is about bringing voices to the floor that would not have the opportunity to otherwise,” Gelber said. “Through these artist collaborations where most of these artists have never and will never meet each other before in person, we hope to start a dialogue about these things and democratize the experience of the arts for artists, presenters and audiences.”

As another example of artistic surrogacy, Gelber is guest curating an exhibition at the Turchin Center starting in July under the same name, “My Place or Yours?” The exhibition will feature 20 artists in collaborative pairs from all around the world, demonstrating artistic surrogacy, Gelber said.

“The exhibition looks at whose voice gets to be heard and whose does not, and why,” Gelber said.

“What are the implications of artists needing to show up with their work and what kinds of limitations does that put on people who may be caretakers or geographically isolated or don’t have the finances to travel, let alone the environmental impact of long distance travel?”

The exhibition opens July 5 and will run through the fall semester.

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March 1, 2019

Old hobby, young hands

Knitting and Crocheting club welcomes students to learn about the fiber arts Camryn Collier ‫@ ׀‬camrynecollier ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter

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haring secretive smiles and finishing each other’s sentences, the president and vice president of the Knitting and Crocheting Club have more than friendship on their side. They share a bond that’s more tight-knit with their love for fiber arts.

Senior psychology major Martha Bennett, president of the club, has knitted for most of her life, accumulating over 20 years of experience.

She carries her needle and yarn everywhere, a habit she picked up at a young age. Vice president junior psychology major Willa Papanikolas has less experience and prefers crocheting.

Even so, both enjoy the fiber arts for its community and lessons learned.

A lot of people assume that knitting and crocheting is an ‘old lady craft’, said Bennett, so finding other people who enjoy the fiber arts can be hard. That is part of the reason the club is important to her.

“When you are a knitter or crocheter and you come onto a college campus for the first time, you think that no one else understands this thing that you do. We try to let people know that, ‘Hey, we’re old ladies and men too!’”

The Knitting and Crocheting Club began in 2009 with the help of theatre and dance professor Martha Marking. Starting with lessons from her neighbor and mom, Marking has knitted for most of her life.

One of the things she enjoys the most is knitting pieces that take the stage. She has created pieces for productions at App State and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Marking is in the process of making hats for the upcoming Department of Theatre and Dance production of “A Midsum-

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mer Night’s Dream.”

“I have a great affinity for doing it,” Marking said. “The practice is stress relieving, and it’s great that people can even make things for themselves.”

Besides knitting and crocheting, the club also welcomes people who practice needlework, weaving, quilting and more. The club regularly has 15-20 people come to meetings.

“Fiber arts definitely have a different reputation for having a strong community aspect,” Papanikolas said.

“I also paint a lot, and I never go to groups for that. But with fiber arts

it’s really easy to have conversations and have groups that compare crafts, teach new skills and show what they have created for the past months or so.”

The club accepts people of all skill levels, including those with no experience at all. People who come for the first time are typically not sure how much money and commitment actually goes into projects, so the club is prepared to help the inexperienced, Bennett said. Every week the club provides free supplies for people who come to meetings.

Besides working on personal

projects during the meetings, the club also shows movies, eats home-baked desserts, gives to charities and organizations and has fiber art sales for what the members have created. It usually hosts two big sales per semester, including a booth at the Old-Time Fiddler’s Convention.

Bennett and Papanikolas said that knitting and crocheting is an evolving art form.

“It’s a thing that you pick up from your mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts that are willing to teach it,” Bennett said. “It’s not as popular these days because people don’t want

to spend money on yarn and a lot of time to make a pair of socks where I can just go to Walmart and buy socks.”

The Knitting and Crocheting Club meets every Monday in New River room located in the Plemmons Student Union from 7:30-8:30 p.m.

“If you can’t make the formal meetings on Mondays, email us. We will be happy to meet you at Crossroads or meet you at the dining halls,” Bennett said. “If you’re learning and you need help, look us up. It’s not a problem. If we don’t know how to help, we can hook you up with people who can.”

This Charmander Pokemon figure is a creation made by a member of the Knitting and Crotcheting Club. Besides knitting and crocheting, the club also welcomes people who practice needlework, weaving, quilting and more. // Photo by Michelle Hausman

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Students start businesses with help of App State entrepreneurship center

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hile at App State, addressable problems may come into view for students, a simultaneously exciting and paralyzing feeling. Fortunately for these students, App State has the Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship.

“The Center for Entrepreneurship exists to help students take ideas out of their head and put them to work,” director of the center Erich Schlenker said in a video on the center’s website.

Schlenker said students who come into the center typically fall into one of three categories: those who don’t have any ideas, but want to own their own business someday; those who have an idea, but need help growing and expanding on it; and those who have an idea laid out with a business plan and are ready to start researching and implementing it.

For students without an idea, Schlenker recommends the Association of Student Entrepreneurs.

The Association of Student Entrepreneurs holds workshops and teaches students about running a business, while giving them an opportunity to work in a real business environment at The Beans 2 Brew coffee shop on the second floor of Peacock Hall.

Beans 2 Brew started when members of the Association of Student Entrepreneurs were tired of having to stop for coffee on the way to class. They began making coffee in a Mr. Coffee machine in the Center for Entrepreneurship conference room and selling it for $1 per cup by the elevators in Peacock Hall. Demand grew, and the group expanded to more and better machines.

In 2016, Heather Norris, dean of Walker College of Business, gave Beans 2 Brew a permanent location on the second floor of the building. The shop, which is entirely run by the Association for Student Entrepreneurs, now works with other clubs to help fund activities, said Megan Wilkinson, director of marketing for Beans 2 Brew.

“We work with student volunteers within the Walker College of Business clubs to provide them funding for their clubs for any sort of events or trips they want to host,” said Wilkinson, senior psychology major. “The way that we fund them is having them volunteer one shift a week maybe, and they’ll earn $5 toward their club.”

Beans 2 Brew, like the rest of the Center for Entrepreneurship, is all about supporting businesses in and around App State.

Beans 2 Brew is the student-employed coffee shop inside of Peacock Hall. The shop is one example of the businesses run by students who have used the Center for Entrepreneurship. // Photo by Paola Bula

Inside Peacock Hall, students can find the Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship. The center is part of the Walker College of Business. // Photo by Paola Bula

“One thing that we really focus on is making sure that we work with our community like students, faculty and staff as well as local businesses,” Wilkinson said. “We only use local businesses when it comes to getting products.”

For students who have an idea, but no plan, the center can help them do market research and come up with a business model. Those who have a plan laid out, however, are given space to work and help starting their business. Students in this phase can receive 24/7 access to Peacock Hall, and the center will help them acquire funding or provide services like printing and legal counseling.

Cameron Nelms, sophomore computer information systems major, started following YouTube tutorials to replace broken screens on phones of friends and family. With the help of the Center for Entrepreneurship, he transformed that into ASAP Repair, and now offers his services to App State.

Last semester, ASAP Repair was so successful that he’s looking to expand the business.

“I’m thinking about starting something up in the student union,” Nelms said. “Something like a little pop-up shop, where I’ll just have a stock of screens and students can come by and I’ll fix their phones while they’re going to class.”

The center provided Nelms a space to work and host workshops during Association of Student Entrepreneurs meetings.

“Entrepreneurs will come in and talk about their experiences, and it really helps out,” Nelms said.

Nelms said a presentation on hashtags by App State marketing alumna Joanna Faith Williams was particularly helpful for him.

“Even though they’re kind of tacky, they actually work out,” Nelms said. “I noticed that when I started using hashtags on my posts, they’d get a little more traffic.”

Regardless of where students are in their business plans, and even if they don’t have any at all, the center is open to them.

“What I want people to understand is that, if at some point in their lives, they would like to be their own boss, run their own company or take their talent and operate as an independent contractor, they should come by and get involved,” Schlenker said.

From new students to fully grown businesses that have come out of the center like Appalachia Cookie Co., there’s never a lack of passion.

“You need to know that the oxygen is a little different in the center for entrepreneurship,” Schlenker said. “When you walk in and go, ‘What is that?’ That’s entrepreneurship, buddy.”

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UNC-TV docuseries highlights local business owners’ contribution to community

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new docuseries coming to local screens will feature Boone business owners and how they give back to the com-

munity.

Boone media agency Artemis Independent is behind “Boonies,” the three-episode docuseries, which will spotlight one local entrepreneur per episode.

The featured entrepreneurs include Proper chef and owner Angela Kelly, auctioneer and First Security Insurance agent Jesse Miller and Anna Banana’s owner Anna Roseman.

Artemis Independent president Selena Lauterer said she stumbled upon the idea for “Boonies” while walking by an auction in front of Espresso News.

“I made a beeline toward the voice. I was so captivated,” Lauterer said. “It turns out it was Jesse Miller auctioneering for benefit for an employee of the coffee shop who was having

Christina Beals ‫@ ׀‬Christinalala_ ‫ ׀‬WASU Coordinator to undergo brain surgery and needed funds.”

Lauterer said she and her husband began following Miller to his other nonprofit auctions.

“He is an insurance man by day but does volunteer auctioneering for nonprofits in the area at night and has raised over $1 million for those nonprofits in the past few years,” Lauterer said.

When Lauterer thought of “Boonies,” she immediately wanted the pilot episode to spotlight Miller.

“I needed funds for that, so I started fundraising like mad and I got a lot of demoralizing rejections,” Lauterer said. “Fortunately the Watauga Economic Development Commission was my bright and shining star of a sponsor.”

Lauterer also received funding from First Security Insurance and a crowdfunding campaign.

Lauterer raised enough money to have a professional crew shoot Roseman and Kelly’s episode during fall 2018.

Lauterer said she featured Roseman and Kelly in “Boonies” because they are humble.

“They never go for the spotlight,” Lauterer said. “They are constantly behind the scenes doing extraordinary work for everybody in this community.

I wanted to celebrate that.”

Roseman opened Anna Banana’s in 2010 after leaving her Charlotte radio sales job.

“Looking back, I really didn’t have any idea what I was doing,” Roseman said.

Roseman said she was inspired to start a consignment shop while thrifting with her friend in 2010.

“Finally, all of these thoughts of what I wanted to do next came together, and I’m like, ‘That’s exactly what I

do, I sell’ because I knew I could sell things,” Roseman said. “I was really big on wanting to do something that was very local.”

Roseman said Lauterer has consigned with Anna Banana’s for years, and they bond over their appreciation for the High Country.

“People have no idea how great this area is,” Roseman said. “I think we’re both advocates of the High Country, and Boone’s a small town.

You get to know your people.”

Lauterer’s husband and co-manager of Hog Wild Films Kelly Davis directed the series, helped write the script, ran the production sets, conducted interviews and made sure all necessary footage was captured.

Davis said he hopes “Boonies” will inspire people to open more small businesses in Boone.

“We have a wonderful community of entrepreneurs in Boone, but more is

better for the local economy, for tourism, for Boone’s livability and for those shops already open,” Davis said. “At minimum, though, the series is a celebration of some of the wonderful people in this town.”

Davis said Boone has strong tourism, but he would love if “Boonies” helped spread the word about the best part of Boone: a thriving, exciting community that spends its time making it a better place.

Lauterer said she hopes “Boonies” will create more jobs and small businesses.

“I hope that if there are people sitting at home thinking they can’t start their own business, but they’ve always wanted to, that they will see the people in the stories and feel inspired,” Lauterer said.

Lauterer said UNC-TV will air and stream “Boonies” episodes in the spring.

Printmaking club fosters free expression in art students

M A print made by a member of the App State Printmaking Club. The club hopes to not only showcase student-made art to Boone, but hopes to provide a space for all to create freely. // Photo by Jaina Lewis

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ost students don’t want their work copied, but some art students take pride in it everyday through printmaking. The App State Printmaking Club hopes to not only showcase student-made art, but to provide a space for all to create freely.

April Flounders, a professor in the art department who teaches printmaking, said a former student founded the club as an outreach printmaking project and for art students in the printmaking field to have a stronger voice. Since then, outreach and exposure has been one of the club’s primary goals.

“The kind of community outreach that we’re interested in both allows people to see printmaking live

and to understand what it is and to get products from that,” Flounders said.

Students learn from live demonstrations, hands-on experience and other projects during club meetings, and then display them in galleries or festivals. The club hosted PrintFest in the fall, an event in which people experienced live etching, T-shirt screen printing and created their own prints.

Luna Jareo, senior studio art major and club president, said auctioning off pieces at community events prepares her for the world of art beyond App State. Jareo also mentioned that it gives art students a voice and the ability to stand out in the art department.

“It’s really weird to go and see the same artists featured every time,”

Jareo said. “I think there’s so many people who don’t get exposed (in art shows) just because they may be quiet or they might not know as many professors or other students.”

The club provides all supplies, enabling all students in the art field to participate.

“Art, especially printmaking, can sometimes feel really inaccessible because it’s a lot of supplies and money,” Jareo said. “I think it’s really nice to have a space where people can kind of get together and experience this thing that might be kind of hard to get into otherwise.”

Jareo said she embraces the professionalism and opportunity of the club, but also wants students to know that Printmaking Club is a space for

free expression, not for deadlines and critiques.

“I’ve really tried to keep it this open place where whether you’re even an art major or not, you can come in and say what you’re doing,” Jareo said. “I think that’s really important.”

Flounders said that in the long run, the Printing Club offers a sense of work gain and pleasure for students.

“Even if they’re not doing it directly or watching others do it, they’re being a part of a process and it can be really rewarding,” Flounders said.

“This is a place where people just come and play.”

The Printmaking Club meets every Monday from 6-7 p.m. in Room 130 of Wey Hall.

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Appalachian Musical Theatre Club lets students sing to hearts’ content Cameron Stuart ‫@ ׀‬cameronlstuart ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter

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Despite the lack of a theatre performance major at App State, members of Appalachian Musical Theatre Club still love to perform in its annual shows. AMTC public relations officer and media coordinator Parker Hallman said the club, "focuses on providing performance opportunities and production opportunities to all Appalachian State students who are interested in musical theater." // Photo Courtesy of Avalon Liscio

tudents who aren’t afraid to break a leg and are looking for a group of like-minded individuals who are passionate about musicals are in luck, thanks to the Appalachian Musical Theatre Club.

During the year, AMTC puts on musicals like “The Drowsy Chaperone” and “Legally Blonde.”

“Appalachian’s Musical Theatre Club is a club that focuses on providing performance opportunities and production opportunities to all Appalachian State students who are interested in musical theater,” said Parker Hallman, freshman theatre education major and AMTC media coordinator.

Derek Davidson, an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, advises the club.

“They love musicals. They love to perform them,” Davidson said. “Their service events and other things they do are really an opportunity for them to sing songs.”

Davidson said he mostly deals with the club’s finances, helps organize the Halloween Ball, sits in on auditions and acts as a liaison for service organizations, including the Hunger and Health Coalition.

Hallman said the club does three full-length shows each year, one musical and two benefit shows.

In the fall, AMTC works in coordination with the Hunger and Health Coalition for the Halloween Ball, where they provide an entertainment show and help raise money for the coalition.

In the spring, Hallman said the club puts on “Miscast,” a musical cabaret of selections from musicals where students perform in roles they would normally not be cast, based on race, sex or gender.

Hallman said AMTC obtained the rights to perform “Mamma Mia” in 2020.

Hallman said this club is beneficial to App State because although a theatre performance major is offered, there is no musical theatre major, and therefore can give students interested in musicals experience.

“It’s honestly just a wonderful community,” Hallman said. “There’s just not a lot of drama within the club; everyone’s there because they love musical theater.”

Davidson said the club is made up of a group of people who care about musical theater working with other service groups.

“Going into a room of people whose age I was once, loving musicals as much as I always have, is just really great fun,” Davidson said. “It’s really great to share that love.”

During meetings, Hallman said the club likes to play musical theater games, do crafts and keep updated on musical theater. Rehearsals for performances take place outside of meetings. The club meets every other Sunday.

AMTC’s next performance is “Miscast” on March 30-31 in I.G. Greer. The event is free, but donations are accepted.

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Clarissa Gradus It’s hard to overlook Clarissa Gradus when she wears outfits as bold as her personality.

Gradus, freshman physics major, experiments with fashion, making her outer appearance match her inner confidence.

Gradus expresses her attitude by channeling Riot grrrl, an underground feminist punk movement that began in the ‘90s. It combines feminist consciousness and punk style with politics. Gradus’ inspiration from this movement is the pioneer of the Riot grrrl movement, Kathleen Hanna, who dressed with loud colors and leopard print.

“I want to reflect in my style that I have a voice and that I am loud,” Gradus said.

Gradus’ signature outfit is a tank top layered over a long-sleeve shirt paired with her variety of colored Dickies pants and a double grommet belt. Gradus said her piercings and jewelry complete her looks and make her feel more like herself. They give her an edge when she decides to wear a more feminine look.

Gradus refuses to fit in or follow the status quo, making her a true example of punk. Punk fashion gives her the freedom to express herself, and her outfits give her the platform to show it off.

“Fashion is what sets me apart from everyone else,” Gradus said.

While Gradus has many inspirations, she feels that her fashion is still unique to her. She uses fashion to stand out from others and be unapologetically herself.

“I love to do things a little different than the norm and just challenge the norm,” Gradus said.

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Softball vs. Georgia Southern University Sywassink/Lloyd Family Stadium 1-3 p.m.

Softball vs. Georgia Southern University Sywassink/Lloyd Family Stadium 2-4 p.m.

Wrestling vs. Southern Conference Championships Varsity Gym 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.

Bike App! Rivers Street Skywalk 1-4:30 p.m.

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University of Kentucky Jazzet Rosen Concert Hall 8-9 p.m.

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CRC Social Check-ins Wellness and Prevention Services 12-2 p.m. and 4-6 p.m.

Speak Up! How to Be Assertive While Maintaining Important Relationships Plemmons Student Union 5:30-6:30 p.m.

“Good Will Hunting” ($1) Greenbriar Theatre 7-9 p.m.

“A Star is Born” ($2) I.G. Greer 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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Podcast-inspired story slam gives locals space to perform personal stories Daisy Tucker ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter

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n January, a speaker stood in Noble Kava and told a story of his first time being tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. By the end, the audience was feeling the same joy he felt after accomplishing this feat. This is the power of storytelling, and the creators of Boone Story Slam hope for a community event based on people’s own stories.

Boone Story Slam is a monthly event hosted at Noble Kava with Foggy Pine Books in which storytellers get up on a stage and tell personal stories based on the theme for each month.

Jacey Hale, sophomore philosophy major, created the event in January. The first theme was “Firsts.”

“The Boone Story Slam is actually a riff on a podcast event that I’ve been interested in for a long time,” Hale said. “It’s called ‘The Moth’ and their slogan is ‘Stories told live.’ I became really interested in that concept, and I realized there was nothing quite like this anywhere around here. I decided I wanted to try and create a recurring event like this in Boone.”

Hale said she believes storytelling is a lost art, and that it is a human tradition that has an enormous effect on society.

“Storytelling is a part of human culture as a whole,” Hale said. “It’s a very raw experience, sitting in front of people, looking them in the eye, telling them your personal truths, and them

listening to you.”

Storytelling has a deep-rooted history in Appalachia, and the creators of Boone Story Slam said they believe oral tradition played a huge part in building the local community and transforming the area into what it is today.

Mary Ruthless, owner of Foggy Pine Books, said she feels that honoring oral tradition is an important reason for the bookstore’s involvement in Boone Story Slam.

“Stories help establish tradition, develop community and are a template from which we can learn to grow and develop, both as individuals and as a society,” Ruthless said. “Also, sharing stories orally within our community is an Appalachian tradition that we feel is important to stay in touch with and to promote, especially as a southern-focused bookstore.”

Boone Story Slam aims to provide a safe and open space for anyone to share their personal experiences. Anyone who tells a story is received with attentive ears, maybe a few laughs and a definite applause at the end.

Caleb McRorie, senior graphic design major, told a story about breaking up with his first girlfriend when he was 13 years old at February’s “heartburned”-themed event.

“It’s really nice to share personal stories with people that don’t

know you or your story,” McRorie said. “It’s a great way to connect with people — telling your experiences to others that would normally not come up in regular conversation.”

Boone Story Slam offers a chance to perform in front of an audience, something most people don’t get the opportunity to do often.

“There is a rush of being on stage and performing for an audience; there’s something exciting about it that’s hard to pin down,” Hale said.

Hale is already seeking ways to expand the story slam’s reach to a greater audience. “‘The Moth’ also has a podcast, and I think that it’d be really neat to start putting out a podcast based on the stories told at Boone Story Slam,” Hale said. “We could start recording the stories and releasing them on some platform.”

Hale said the goal for the Boone Story Slam is to continue having monthly events, establishing a place for storytellers to practice their craft and fostering relationships within the Boone community through the sharing of personal experiences.

Boone Story Slam happens on the second Saturday of each month at Noble Kava.

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Opinion

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Increasing partisan divide calls for increase in executive power

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he U.S., a country founded with checks and balances to prevent the exclusive consolidation of power, now needs a strong unitary executive branch to serve its needs.

Article I, Section I of the Constitution prescribes Congress as the sole chamber with legislative authority.

Article II empowers the president as the chief lawmaker to enforce law, giving any presidential decree the force of law. A president may use this tool, known as an executive order, to bypass Congress to create new laws. Executive orders are not absolute and the Supreme Court may strike them down if deemed unconstitutional. Congress may also pass legislation, canceling out the executive order. This rarely happens because the presidential veto requires a two-thirds majority from both the House and Senate for a bill to become law.

Historically, executive orders are used to protect vulnerable groups. In 1957, former President Dwight Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10730, sending the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black high school students into all-white Central High School. In 2014, former President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13672, protecting LGBTQ workers from discrimination because the Civil Rights Bill was not yet updated by Congress.

Although executive authority is a force for good, critics have pointed to

instances where presidential authority was used for evil. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 110,000 Japanese American citizens into Internment Camps without due process of law. The Constitution does suspend the right to trial during times of war, making this order constitutional, albeit immoral.

Obama was criticized for his use of executive authority when he enacted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Republicans refused to consider this proposal because they controlled the House. History shows us that once institutions gain power, they seldom return it. Based on this premise, President Donald Trump is expanding upon his predecessors’ use of executive authority to make good on campaign promises.

Although it is dangerous to expand the executive branch, worse consequences will follow if presidential authority is not expanded. The Founding Fathers intended the House of Representatives to mirror our nation’s population. They argued that through this system the people would ultimately control the laws being passed. However, political polarization does not allow compromise with those on the opposite end of the spectrum.

As Abraham Lincoln noted during the Gettysburg Address, government is for the people, by the people. This begs the questions: How can a government function if the people it serves cannot find a middle ground? If

we cannot compromise with one another as individuals, how can a legislative body representative of us accomplish any reforms?

When the Constitution was written, rival coalitions discussed ideas and compromised for the greater good.

Now, Republicans and Democrats blame their opponents for the wrongs within the country, which takes political compromise off the table. As 20th century novelist Ayn Rand wrote: “In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

Failure to resolve historical issues such as slavery led to the Civil War, which resulted in the deaths of 620,000 Americans. The war ended and the barbaric institution of slavery was disbanded thanks to Lincoln’s willpower.

Whether you agree with his policies or not, Trump is upholding the law. He is removing Congress’ operation lag through enforcing the laws his constituents chose. We have the freedom to elect a president who represents us should a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s actions. His replacement could declare a National Emergency and reform issues such as healthcare, poverty, discrimination and environmental reforms. Congress will not pass these ideas, but the president can. The office of the president should be expanded because it is the next step in the evolution of our nation’s democracy.

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eople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an organization that purports to support animal rights, but is actually more like an animal hate group intent on eradicating the living beings it claims to protect.

The organization was in the news for releasing a tweet on Feb. 22 criticizing Google for creating a Google Doodle in honor of the late Steve Irwin’s 57th birthday.

What’s worse is that PETA didn’t just stop at that one tweet, it kept going with several more tweets attacking Irwin; the organization was determined to further dig the hole it seems to have made its home in.

Irwin was a wildlife conservationist and host of the popular TV series “The Crocodile Hunter,” which ran from 1996-2007 after Irwin’s death in 2006. Irwin was known for his liberal use of the word “crikey” and for getting up close and personal with the wildlife he exhibited in his show. Irwin was extremely passionate about wildlife, and he devoted his life to preserving it and bringing knowledge and understanding of it into the homes of people in over 100 countries through his show.

“The Crocodile Hunter” was an advocate for wildlife preservation, which is why it’s so infuriating that PETA, an organization that kidnaps beloved family pets from their homes and murders them, according to Huffington Post, would have the gall to criticize him. In November 2014, two PETA employees were caught on video removing a family’s dog from their porch and then euthanizing it later that day. PETA later settled with the family on behalf of its employees in August 2017.

The organization has no redeeming value. PETA operates a socalled “shelter” out of Virginia, but what they call a shelter would be better described as a slaughterhouse. In 2018, PETA euthanized 71.7 percent of the animals placed there. The organization killed nearly 1,800 animals in one year alone.

Since 1998, this shelter has murdered 39,961 animals, and that’s just from official records. A former employee revealed that the organization encourages its employees to steal and kill pets and then falsify records of said actions.

PETA also attempts to actively stifle journalists who seek to expose and criticize the actions of the organization and its employees.

In honor of Irwin and other great conservationists and the good of all animals, PETA needs to be shut down permanently and with great prejudice.

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Opinion

March 1, 2019

Number of Woman Candidates rising as a result of Trump presidency P Tommy Mozier ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬Opinion Writer

resident Donald Trump was correct about one thing during the State of the Union address to Congress in early February: He is largely responsible for the record 110 women elected to Congress, most of whom sat in front of him dressed in white.

Trump taking credit for women in Congress is like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam taking credit for starting a discussion about the history of blackface, but it appears he will also be partially responsible for the election of the first woman president of the U.S., 101 years after Woodrow Wilson signed the 19th Amendment and finally enfranchised women.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates argued in The Atlantic magazine, Trump’s election was a direct backlash of the Barack Obama presidency by a group of white Americans, many men of lower income, who perceived they were disenfranchised by eight years of an African-American president. In turn, a backlash that roots back to the founding of the U.S. will characterize the 2020 election. In 1776, Abigail Adams implored her husband John Adams to “remember the ladies” as he drafted the Declaration of Independence.

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound to any laws in which we have no voice or representation,” Adams said.

Adams’ plea did not work; the inalienable rights of the Declaration, and subsequent Constitution, were only applied to white men with land.

American women spent the first 150 years of the newly formed country without the vote and the next

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101 with extremely unequal opportunities, discrimination and prejudice in the workplace and in politics continuing to the present day.

Now, Senators Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, three exceptionally qualified candidates, are poised to break the ultimate glass ceiling of U.S. politics.

The Democrats risk missing a significant moment in U.S. history if they do not nominate another woman for president, a woman without the multitude of issues that plagued Hillary Clinton.

To be clear, none of these candidates are perfect, but no candidate is. However, each woman running, including others not mentioned previously, represent another milestone in the path toward the American ideal that every man and woman is created equal and toward descriptive representation, where the government looks like the citizens.

As always, women face an uphill battle. Democratic women have a more difficult time fundraising than Democratic men. The media will undoubtedly portray trivial details as serious character flaws and will brand women candidates as “bossy” or “unlikable.” The news will run exposes on past relationships as if they give some insight into a candidate’s personality or how they became successful. Pragmatists will argue that a woman is not electable and Democrats should nominate a safe candidate like Joe Biden, but 2020 is a unique election.

The sitting president is one of the most unpopular in recent history. He is a misogynist and is struggling to come to terms with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a woman with almost equal power to him. The country is coming off a historic election where wom-

en almost single-handedly delivered Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives.

Just as African-American people voted in record numbers to help elect Obama and working-class white people voted in record numbers to help elect Trump, women will elect the best candidate. Men have to not only come to terms with inevitable woman presidents, but also actively fight for it.

Descriptive representation is closer than it appears. Forty-five consecutive woman presidents will not happen. An all-woman Supreme Court, while more plausible, is also very unlikely. But, Congress may see 51 percent of woman representatives in our lifetime if the trends of 2018 continue.

The inevitable cries that people cannot elect someone purely based on their gender will come loud and clear. Luckily for us, each is a better candidate than the sitting president.

They are also women, representing 51 percent of our population who have spent the entirety of U.S. history facing some form of oppression, to whom the presidency is owed. This is not to say, however, that this is the nation’s one chance to elect a woman as president. Regardless of the outcome in 2020, multiple strong woman candidates running for office at every level of government will become the new normal.

What Abigail Adams started does not end with a single woman president. Until the possibility of a woman winning at every election is completely normal, if not expected, as a country we are not living up to our founding ideals.

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MADAM, I’M ADAM

BY NEIL AGNEW

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15. Inmate, for short 16. “____ being too loud?”

18. Residue for stringed instruments 20. Mixed horse color 23. Defunct record co.

25. Killer whale 26. Furor 27. Slangy decline 28. Poetic before 29. It may follow beta or gamma 30. App buttons, on a phone 32. “____ a film today, oh boy” (Beatles song lyric) 34. Sailboat with one mast 35. 2018’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ Idris 36. Not tidy 37. Airport checkpoint agency.

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22. [Sneezes] 24. Hard sea skeletons prolific in warm waters 26. Outdoor gear co.

28. Glimpse 31. Negatives 33. “I’m all ___” (no more for me)

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