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Dec. 7, 2018

Operation Christmas Child: 157 million boxes in 25 years

Operation Christmas Child sends shoeboxes to kids all over the world. // Photo

by Rachel Greenland

Rachel Greenland ‫@ ׀‬rach_greenland ‫ ׀‬News Reporter In the 25 years since the launch of the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child ministry, children from over 150 countries have received over 157 million shoeboxes filled with hygiene products, toys, school supplies, notes and Bibles, many of which passed through the OCC processing center in Boone.

“Every time a shoebox is given, before the children receive the boxes now, they’re always going to hear a very clear gospel presentation by a trained minister that we have in every country,” Izabella McMillon, Samaritan’s Purse Speakers Bureau Manager for Operation Christmas Child, said.

OCC’s founder, Franklin Graham, began the ministry to help children in war zones and orphanages in countries like Bosnia and Romania, but OCC has grown to be more intentional, including eight different processing centers across the globe, McMillon said.

Samaritan’s Purse has developed a 12-week discipleship program led by pastors in each country called The Greatest Journey.

“This ministry wouldn’t be anything more than a humanitarian aid unless we attach the gospel to it,” McMillon said.

Having pastors from the child’s own area provides them with guidance and support long after they receive the shoebox.

“This could not work with just headquarters, people running in and teaching the lesson and then leaving and coming back home,” McMillon said.

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McMillon and other OCC volunteers, workers and donors have celebrated the 25th year and attributed the ministries success to God’s faithfulness.

“Even though we are growing every year, and we are delivering more and more shoeboxes, we are hardly scratching the surface with the children that need to be reached,” McMillon said. “There’s still a lot of work to get done.”

In addition to the Evangelical work done in over 100 countries that will receive boxes this year, a lot is done on the front half of distribution in churches and the processing centers around the world. The Samaritan’s Purse office and the processing center in Boone will host volunteers until Dec. 15.

Isabella Barker, junior accounting major, has made shoeboxes for OCC with her family every Christmas season since she was young, but this year she decided to be a seasonal employee at the OCC processing center.

She said it has been a lifelong dream of hers to hand-deliver a shoebox to a child.

“Those little things that you put in the boxes mean so much more to them than anything you give to a friend,” Barker said.

Barker said what has been special to her is when the volunteers will stop packaging to pray over the boxes and the children who will receive them.

“So many people have come to know the Lord through shoeboxes, through the disaster relief system. It’s really incredible,” Barker said.

Six freshmen to serve in Costa Rica through Wilson scholarship Emily Broyles ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬News Reporter From 2014 to 2018, the Wilson Scholars Program, founded by App State alumni Brad and Carole Wilson, has awarded four to six freshmen a scholarship for four full years at App State, along with stipends to study abroad. Scholars who graduated at the top of their high school class, demonstrated service, leadership and held a passion for learning were selected.

The first-year scholars will jet for their fifth annual Costa Rica trip in January to study Nicaraguan immigration and to serve local communities, but hope to expand their minds in sustainable and ethical ways and set an example for others.

“There’s something about studying abroad that to me is really vital to my education because it’s being able to expand your mental map of reality,” Mollie Donovan, freshman scholar and sociocultural anthropology major, said. “It’s getting out and seeing things from a totally different cultural perspective.”

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there because we think that they need an American touch, that they need our help,” Manges said. “We’re looking at this trip more as an opportunity to grow and learn from them.”

Three of the past Wilson Scholars trips have been to Costa Rica due to its dry season, proximity and applicability to all focuses of the scholars, Mike Mayfield, faculty director of Wilson Scholars and geography professor, said.

Mayfield said the scholars studied the immigration and labor issues of Costa Rica in their weekly seminars. Nicaraguans are immigrating to Costa Rica due to Nicaragua’s election results last spring and are working long hours in the Costa Rican coffee fields. Mayfield said this can be mirrored not only in the U.S. with the caravan, but in Boone as well.

“Whether it’s the Christmas tree industry here in Watauga County, or restaurants, or the folks who are out here trying to seal up some water leaks in Rankin North, many of those heavy labor, low-wage jobs are held

There’s something about studying abroad that to me is really vital to my education because it’s being able to expand your mental map of reality. first-time academic traveler, said she is grateful for the trips’ themes of leadership and service, as well as adaptation to her own interests and studies.

Although the scholars are participating in service abroad, they want to be more focused on learning and engaging with the Costa Rican community, Annie Manges, freshman scholar and global studies major, said.

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by immigrants from Latin American countries,” Mayfield said.

On the trip, the scholars will participate in replanting trees to ease carbon dioxide amounts, helping with the turtle conservation movement, and picking up trash in communities and nature.

Mayfield and the scholars said they are eager to tackle service projects, yet are aware of the time they have to leave a small footprint of Mountaineer pride in Costa Rica.

“With 10 days in a country, we recognize that you really can’t expect to affect significant change as a short-term visitor to another country,” Mayfield said. “My feeling about it is, it’s us who will be impacted far more than any communities we might serve.”

“It’s not about making an impact by standing up, like ‘I have all these titles,’” Donovan said. “Honestly, I’m just a student. My goal is to just be as friendly as possible and to encourage people to be leaders of their own lives.”

Manges, who has traveled to Costa Rica and South Africa, said she’s learned that there are many scholarship opportunities for travel abroad experiences by serving on the business committee of International Appalachian.

Mayfield said taking freshman Wilson Scholars will be different traveling because they will travel so early in their college life.

“In some ways, it provides much greater potential for them to seek places they want to go, topics they want to study, and they’ve been doing some great research in preparation for that,” Mayfield said. “It opens doors.”

Freshman or senior, study abroad moments still manage to heavily impact students’ careers and lives, Mayfield said.

“I love doing this,” Mayfield said, remembering a former student eventually moving to Costa Rica due to the impact it had on them. “It’s an eye-opening trip.”

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Physical plant employees explore the membrane filtration facility at its dedication on Aug. 15, 2006. // Courtesy of Appalachian State University Archives

Don Lusk gazes at the sedimentation basin after more than 20 years of work at the App State water treatment plant. // Photo by Patrick McCabe

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Headwaters and higher standards App State’s water treatment plant grapples with new regulation Patrick McCabe ‫@ ׀‬pat_mccabe ‫ ׀‬In-Depth Editor

On a Friday morning at App State’s water treatment plant, two operators sit by the computer as a sink runs in the next room for daily water testing. The plant, situated on Rainbow Trail Road, has provided water to App State’s campus for over 40 years. Although the drinking water it produces is safe and clean, the plant’s relationship with North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has been contentious.

As App State grew, its well water system became inadequate. Construction began on the water treatment plant around 1970, and it was operational by 1974. App State’s water treatment plant is one of only two state-owned plants in North Carolina. The plot came to the state through eminent domain, so some residents had their houses moved as a result. Substantial changes made

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at the site in 2006 replaced the conventional chemical treatment process with membrane filtration technology.

The plant sits next to the manmade ASU Lake, which is also referred to as Norris Branch reservoir.

The lake is fed by the watershed on the backside of Howard’s Knob.

Surface water is brought from the lake up to the water treatment plant, pre-chlorinated, and then pumped through membrane filters.

The tall, cylindrical filters are not dissimilar in makeup and appearance to cellulose acetate cigarette filters. “(The water) doesn’t have any fecal coliform or anything that sewage would have in it. It’s just got dirt,” Don Lusk, water treatment plant supervisor, said.

While the pre-chlorinated water

is pumped through the membrane filters, the pressure drop increases.

Anything caught by the filters, including tiny particulates, are then backwashed or reversed and sent to a holding tank. In App State’s case, the holding tank is the site’s former sedimentation basin. Sedimentation basins are open-air, and they house dirty, chlorinated water, like a pool.

Before the membrane filtration process was implemented, the site pumped water from the lake into the sedimentation basin, where operators released chemicals like aluminum sulfate to help separate out particulates, which decreases turbidity, a measure of the haziness of water.

This conventional process is still the norm—the town of Boone’s water treatment facility uses it.

“This membrane filtration is new technology,” Jeremy Johnson,

water treatment plant operator, said.

“It’s still new, even though it’s 10 years old.”

The $3.2 million investment has paid dividends.

“In the long run you actually save money,” Johnson said. “We’re not buying all the chemicals and things that we used to put in the water.”

Lusk and Johnson are full-time plant operators and work in App State’s Physical Plant department.

Lusk has been an operator at the water treatment plant for more than 20 years. A native of the area, he started work at App State in residence hall maintenance. Johnson has worked at the plant for more than eight years.

Overseeing them is Patrick Brittain, a mechanical engineer and assistant director of facilities operations and maintenance.

In September 2017, they received a letter with the subject “Notice of violation” from the state environmental regulatory body, NC DEQ. The plant’s discharge monitoring report for June showed the dissolved oxygen level below the minimum limit set under the administration of the Clean Water Act. Dissolved oxygen is necessary for aquatic life. The next month, the same violation letter came in, addressing low DO readings in July.

By January, the subject of the letter changed to “Notice of violation & intent to assess civil penalty.”

The violations came after the plant updated its discharge permit in February 2017. NC DEQ imposed a new DO limit “consistent with requirements for Trout waters,” according to the permit. “Trout waters” refer to Norris Branch stream,

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which ASU Lake flows into.

“They designated it as a trout stream and there’s not trout in the stream,” Johnson said.

After encountering these discharge monitoring issues, the Physical Plant engaged the professional consulting firm Dewberry.

“They have regulatory experts that really know the ins and outs of the laws and that work full time on getting permitting, so they basically facilitated the discussion with DEQ ,” Brittain said.

What they found was a sampling issue. The plant had been monitoring discharges at the sedimentation basin, when monitoring at the outflow into the lake would be more reflective of its impact on the waterway.

“We didn’t have a dissolved oxygen problem where it goes back into the lake because of all the aeration between the two points,” Brittain said.

Regulations change, and responding can be cumbersome. NC DEQ’s Division of Water Resources oversees the treatment plant. Separate Winston-Salem-based departments handle inspections for water and wastewater treatment.

When Lusk became supervisor, his surface water treatment license

designation with NC DEQ was Grade A-Surface, the highest possible. His wastewater treatment license designation was the second-highest possible at Grade II Waste Water.

Operators conduct daily testing and monitoring while shoring up maintenance on pumps and plumbing.

Successive certifications are based on education and experience.

In recent years, NC DEQ created a new wastewater treatment license designation called physical chemical wastewater treatment. The classification of App State’s water treatment plant was then changed to physical chemical.

“At the time I didn’t question it,” Lusk said.

But he later found that the state wouldn’t accept his Class II wastewater treatment license as equivalent to the necessary physical chemical license, even with his years of experience.

“Everyone I’ve talked to agrees with me except the guy who was issuing the permit,” Lusk said. “I’m going to retire next year so I’m not going back to school to get another damn license that I have to get six contact hours for every year.”

When Johnson went to receive wastewater treatment training, Lusk had him work towards a physical

chemical certification. The certification process is long; it can take more than three years. Johnson is now the operator in charge under the wastewater treatment permit, while Lusk remains the operator in charge for the plant’s water treatment permit.

Friction between the water treatment plant and NC DEQ contrasts Lusk’s prior experiences.

“In the past, they’ve been really good to work with, but there’s been such a turnover down there,” Lusk said. “We’ve got new people coming in that don’t really have the field experience.”

While Pat McCrory was governor, NC DEQ , which was then called the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources, was restructured and faced significant budget cuts.

“Water quality regulation shed 70 positions in just the last four years,” Gov. Roy Cooper said in 2017, according to the News & Observer.

Kelli Park is a water discharge inspector for the Winston-Salem regional office of NC DEQ. She joined the agency in June after completing her masters degree at App State.

“Overall the WTP was compliant and in good condition,” Park said in an email, after visiting the

water treatment plant in August.

With DO violations rectified, and licensure squared away, there are new regulatory hurdles on the horizon, which will start going into effect next year. Because the plant sources from the relatively clean headwaters of Howard’s Knob, NC DEQ imposes stricter standards on wastewater discharges. Limits introduced in 2017 on the amount of zinc and copper that App State’s plant can release into ASU Lake will be difficult to meet. Lusk, Johnson and Brittain said that the plant may not be equipped to filter these minerals to the extent the permit requires.

“It’s becoming more and more strenuous as far as the limits and levels that they have put on us on this water,” Lusk said.

The plant is running voluntary tests to learn more about how zinc and copper factor into the water.

This includes testing the lake, the raw water, the backwash and the water flowing into nearby creeks.

Upgrading fixed infrastructure facilities like the plant would be expensive.

“It’s kind of like playing a baseball game and in the fifth inning the umpires come out and say, ‘Well, we’re going to let you have four outs to finish the game on out with,’”

Lusk said. “They like to change the rules in the middle of the game sometimes.”

A main point of contention in the permit discussions with regulators are the natural characteristics of the water running down the mountain.

“DEQ allows more copper in the drinking water than they’ll allow in the wastewater,” Brittain said.

“Higher copper levels are safer for you to drink supposedly than they are for the fish to deal with.”

Mike Mickey, an environmental program consultant at NC DEQ , wants to see more evidence that the minerals are naturally occurring.

“It may be that the stream coming in there has background levels that are as high as what their limit is,” Mickey said. “If that’s the case and they provide data after about a year’s worth of sampling, then we’ll sit down and talk with them again.”

Regardless of the higher-than-average mineral content of the lake, Brittain, Lusk and Johnson affirm its quality and health.

“Our lake is one of the cleanest water sources in the whole state,” Brittain said.

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Boone refunds Satterfield leaves for Louisville coaching position $1 million in Brooks Maynard ‫@ ׀‬BrooksMaynard ‫ ׀‬Sports Reporter water impact Now former-head coach of App Assistant head coach and defen- University,” App State athletic director defensive coordinator Bryan Brown fees State football Scott Satterfield was sive line coach Mark Ivey was named Doug Gillin said in a released state- and Auburn running backs coach Tim Anna Dollar ‫@ ׀‬anna_carrr News Reporter The town of Boone refunded over $1 million in water impact fees to developers of recent projects.

“Impact fees are fees imposed on property developers by municipalities for new infrastructure that must be built or increased due to new property development,” according to Investopedia, a website that focuses on finance education.

The Standard of Boone, Clement Blowing Rock Road, LLC, King Street Construction of Boone, The Winkler Organization and Howard Street Ventures had claims disclosed in the agenda at the Nov. 13 Boone Town Council meeting.

These claims were stated against the town for the recovery of water availability fees because similar fees are considered illegal impact fees under the N.C. Supreme Court’s decision in the Quality Built Homes, Inc. v. Town of Carthage case in December 2016, according to court documents.

“When you do new construction they charge this impact fee, which is the impact of that building on the system, so they charge you a fee,” vice chancellor of business affairs Paul Forte said.

Back in 2013, developers sued Carthridge, because they did not want to pay these fees, Forte said.

“The fees that were required to be refunded were to developers and not to general water and sewer customers,” Boone town manager John Ward said in an email. “This was a result of a case that involved Carthridge.”

“Refunds were only provided to developers who paid the fee as part of new construction,” Ward said.

Because App State has its own water department, this does not impact the university.

“We have our own water department. We’d be more impacted if it had to do with uses of sewerage,” Forte said.

The refund is more about impact fees and making changes within the places charged on new construction, Forte said.

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introduced as the new head football coach at the University of Louisville on Dec. 4.

Satterfield was the head coach of the Mountaineers for six seasons, claiming three Sun Belt championships and three bowl game victories. He oversaw App State’s transition from the FCS to FBS levels during the 2014 season.

interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Satterfield said during his press conference at Louisville that the Mountaineers will have no problem in the New Orleans Bowl because of the culture of the program.

“Please join me in thanking Scott Satterfield and his staff for their many years of service to Appalachian State

ment. “What Scott has helped our program accomplish as head coach is remarkable.”

Rumors about who will be the next coach of the Mountaineers have already begun to surface, including North Carolina State offensive line coach and run game coordinator Dwayne Ledford, current App State

Horton.

“We have already commenced a national search to find the next leader of App State football,” Gillin said. “I can assure you that we have a plan for this search process to find the right fit.”

will be able to come up with a plan of action,” Wood said in an email.

Brown acknowledged the Student Government Association, Women’s Center, Health Services and the student union have worked to support available menstrual products over the years, but he is open to discussing an increase in the supply.

On AppSync, the Women’s Center advertises free menstrual products, free condoms and says the office is a safe space for breast pumping.

Senior criminal justice major Angela Eccles is a Women’s Center volunteer.

“In our center, we always have menstrual products available to students for free any time we’re open,” Eccles said. “Our SGA representative is

working on a bill to have them placed in unisex bathrooms, as well.”

Eccles said menstrual products were not available in women’s bathrooms in the student union until the end of spring.

Menstrual products are only available for free in student union bathrooms.

“Improving the quality of the products are important, and personally I want to see them available in bathrooms campus-wide, not just the student union,” Eccles said.

Manges said she hopes the meeting will result in more acknowledgment and resources for menstrual products on the health services website and lower prices in campus marketplaces.

Students advocate for improved access to menstrual products on campus Christina Beals ‫@ ׀‬Christinalala_ ‫ ׀‬News Reporter Four students are using their contemporary global studies group project as an opportunity to advocate for a global issue with a presence on App State’s campus: accessible and affordable menstrual products.

Freshman global studies major Annie Manges, sophomore psychology major Virginia Wood, freshman political science major Mikaela Torres and junior global studies major Samantha Cobo-Rodriguez were assigned to choose a global issue and advocate for it locally by contacting an authority figure or publicizing a charity.

The project idea was inspired after the class read “A Path Appears”

by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. One of the main global issues in the book was the lack of menstrual products available to people in Mozambique, South Africa.

“We picked women’s empowerment and accessibility to feminine hygiene products, which is a big problem worldwide,” Manges said. “We were pretty surprised at how relevant that was on campus as well.”

After searching the App State women’s health services page, Manges said her group grew more passionate about the lack of acknowledgment for

available menstrual products.

The group emailed Chancellor Sheri Everts on Nov. 27 to advocate for an increase in available menstrual products on campus.

“When looking at the health services website, we were somewhat surprised to find immediate tabs and resources for things such as contraceptives and STD testing, yet nothing addressing menstrual issues,” the email read.

Wood said the group also submitted a suggestion to the health services suggestion box and are waiting to hear back from them.

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs J.J. Brown replied to the group’s email on Nov. 30, thanking them for their concern, and copied Dean of Students Jonathon Hyde and Director of Wellness and Prevention Alex Howard to the email.

“I have asked them both if they would meet with you and the other students you reference to talk about how we can support increasing free feminine products for students,” Brown wrote in the email.

Wood said they will meet with Hyde and Howard before winter break to discuss the issue.

“We hope that, in this meeting, we

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GAME DAY

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 / 9:00 p.m. / ESPN / Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA

Appalachian State (10-2, 7-1 Sun Belt)

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Middle Tennessee State (8-5, 7-1 C-USA)

Game Notes: The Mountaineers are on a five-game winning streak and have won 10 of their last 11 games, most recently defeating the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in the first Sun Belt championship game. Three of the Blue Raiders’ losses came against SEC opponents but their most recent loss was against the UAB Blazers in the Conference-USA championship game, where Middle Tennessee allowed 21 points in the second quarter.

History/Details of the Game: App State and Middle Tennessee State have met three times before but not since 1992, according to winsipedia.com. The Blue Raiders hold the series advantage 2-1, with the Mountaineers only victory coming in 1974. App State’s .641 win percentage ranks No. 15 in the country while Middle Tennessee State’s .572 win percentage ranks No. 46 out of 130 teams.

PLAYER TO WATCH Points per game

36.67 - 29.15

Darrynton Evans #3 Running Back

Yards per game

429.6 - 388.5

Has 1,079 rushing yards on the season, No. 3 in the Sun Belt

Points allowed per game

15.67 - 25.31

Rushed for 111 yards and had a 97-yard kickoff return in the Sun Belt championship game MVP of the Sun Belt championship game

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3 KEY POINTS Defend the Air:

Establish the passing game:

The Blue Raiders average over 250 passing yards per game while rushing for only 130, so they the Mountaineers can expect them to attack through the air. Middle Tennessee State averages nearly 30 points per game and its passing touchdowns nearly double its rushing touchdowns, so stopping the air raid will be key to victory.

While the Mountaineers are certainly a run-first offense, they have great weapons at quarterback and wide receiver to utilize and running the ball becomes easier when the passing attack can balance it out. App State had success passing the ball this season but had trouble getting the air raid going against Louisiana, completing only 45 percent of their passes for 85 yards and no scores. To beat the Blue Raiders, the Mountaineers will need to get their passing game going again.

Play clean: The Mountaineers have had troubles with penalties this year, averaging nearly 60 yards lost per game. The penalties are reflected in some of their final scores from this season, such as when they had over 100 yards lost in penalties against Troy, a narrow 11-point victory. To defeat the Blue Raiders, App State will have to keep mistakes to a minimum.

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LEAD WRESTLING TEAM Garrett World ‫@ ׀‬G_dub ‫ ׀‬Sports Reporter

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ead wrestling coach John Mark Bentley has a young team this season. Of his 30-man roster, there are five active seniors, including two possible All-Americans.

Senior Irvin Enriquez was a preseason All-Southern Conference wrestler for 2018 after his impressive 2017-18 performance. The Aberdeen, North Carolina, native finished 1713 with a victory at the Southern Conference Tournament for the 141-pound weight class.

Enriquez has been a consistent member of the starting roster since his debut in 2015. With a victory at the Southern Conference Tournament, Enriquez has his sights set on national achievements.

“I want to be an All-American,” Enriquez said. “We’ve won the Southern Conference, it’s time to think forward.”

Senior Randall Diabe is another preseason All-Southern Conference wrestler who hopes for national recognition this year. He has been another key member of Bentley’s wrestling team since he graduated from Dudley High School in Greensboro.

Diabe finished 2018 20-9 overall at 191 pounds while also earning third place at the Southern Conference tournament and his first invite to the NCAA tournament.

Diabe’s nine losses all came out of conference, meaning he finished his 2018 season perfect in conference play. His consistency at 191-pound weight class helped App State stay competitive in its conference matches.

“We need to work on our identity as a team,” co-head assistant coach Ryan Leblanc said.

“Our seniors are important to helping establishing that identity.”

Senior Michael Elliot comes from Jefferson as a former 2-A state champion at the 152-pound weight class. Elliot finished his senior year of high school 36-2 before coming to App State in 2015.

Since making his Mountaineer debut in 2016, Elliot has a career record of 10-12 overall, including a seventh place finish last year at the Keystone Classic.

Senior Angel Najar rounds out Bentley’s roster as the final senior wrestler.

Najar is originally from Bethel and made his debut in 2015 after an impressive high school career at North Pitt High.

Najar was a four-time state qualifier and the 2-A state champion at 160 pounds as a senior. That victory capped off a 59-1 season overall.

Since 2015, Najar has a 23-17 record with the Mountaineers, including an 18-win season in 2017 at both the 157 and 165-pound weight class.

“We have a lot of leaders on this team,” Bentley said. “We want some All-Americans; we’ve become a program that expects them at this point.”

App State’s seniors look to lead their young team back to the Southern Conference Tournament. Further ahead, some of the seniors hope to earn All-American honors in their final year at App State.

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App State senior Randall Diabe takes on UT Chattanooga in SoCon wrestling action at Varsity Gym during the 2017 season. // Courtesy of Appalachian State Athletics

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van heertum and stegen named to all-mac tournament team

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Silas Albright ‫@ ׀‬silasalbright ‫ ׀‬Sports Reporter

fter finishing the year with a 7-14 record and 1-5 in regular season Mid-American Conference play, the App State field hockey team didn’t have quite the season they would have liked. But two players stood out and helped lead the team to the MAC tournament semifinals after beating No. 7 seed Central Michigan 5-2 and No. 3 seed Longwood 2-0.

“Being able to get two out of three wins in our conference tournament was huge,” head coach Meghan Dawson said.

“We dominated every single game that we were in.”

Sophomore midfielder Veerle Van Heertum and freshman midfielder Friederike Stegen finished first and second in both goals and total points while Stegen also finished first in assists for the Mountaineers in 2018.

“It might not have gone all the way as we wanted, but we had a lot of ups,” Dawson said. “We had a lot of really close games and I think for both of those guys being a sophomore and a freshman and experiencing those is only going to help our future.”

Van Heertum and Stegen were both named to the MAC All-Tournament team for their contributions to the Mountaineers’ run. Van Heertum finished the tournament with two goals and an assist while Stegen recorded five points and two goals in the win over Central Michigan.

App State started the year hot and won four of its first five games before falling in 12 of the next 13.

After the Mountaineers started losing, it took them a while to find their groove in the MAC tournament.

“In the beginning, we struggled as a team a bit,” Van Heertum said. “We lost three key players, our center back and two of our center mids who were really important, so we lost those because they were seniors, and we had to figure out how to do it without them.”

Stegen said the team showed improvement in different areas over the course of the season.

“I think that throughout the sea-

son, we improved our connections, the inside and out passes,” Stegen said. “I think our corners also improved a lot.”

Dawson said she was blown away by how much improvement the duo showed from the start of the year to the finish.

“It’s really amazing to see over a short three-month period how much they can improve,” Dawson said. “I think for them it was really just getting the connectivity down.

They had never played with each other before and then there was a lot of people in new positions all over the field.”

Even though both players are midfielders, they work well together and play selflessly to help the team be successful.

“They’ve got different skill sets and different strengths, and so I think they realized how they could work together and make the best out of each other,” Dawson said. “One might be better at something and the other one picked them up and then put them in a position where they could really excel and be successful.”

Van Heertum was also named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association South Region Second Team for her standout sophomore season.

“I heard it from coach. I got a text from her and I didn’t know at all,” Van Heertum said. “She said, ‘You saw that you got named to that?’ and I was like, ‘No, I hadn’t seen that!’ I was really surprised.”

Because both Van Heertum and Stegen are underclassmen, they along with many other impact players will be back at App State next year. The six-player incoming recruiting class is also a talented group that will contribute to the Mountaineers in 2019.

“We hope to step up our game, to get better and just do better each year,” Van Heertum said. “Just to improve as a group and help the incoming players to get up to our level.”

“I’m pumped to have them back next year,” Dawson said. “I think they’re both really good people first off, and I also think they are really good hockey players. When you have that combination, it’s really important.”

Mountaineers’ field hockey player Veerle Van Heertrum tries to stop Longwood from getting the ball. // Photo by Megan McCulloh

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sun belt championship game Megan McCulloh ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬Staff Photographer

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1. Players pose for photos after being declared victors of the 2018 Sun Belt Championship. 2. Myquon Stout embraces a fellow teammate in celebration. 3.

Linebacker Anthony Flory cheers after App State scores a touchdown. 4. Ecstatic players celebrate as Sun Belt champions. 5. Confetti flies as the Sun Belt Championship trophy is lifted by the Mountaineers. 6. Quarterback Zac Thomas secures a touchdown for the Mountaineers.

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Running back Darrynton Evans zooms down the field with the football. // Photo by Megan McCulloh

Quarterback Zac Thomas prepares for the snap against Penn State. // Photo by Brendan Hoekstra

Bowl Bound

Football to appear in R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Brooks Maynard ‫@ ׀‬brooksmaynard ‫ ׀‬Sports Editor

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or the fourth consecutive season, the App State football team will appear in a postseason bowl after winning double-digit games for the third time in four years.

On Dec. 1, the Mountaineers defeated the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in the inaugural Sun Belt Conference championship game to claim their third straight Sun Belt title. As conference champions, they earn the right to appear in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 15 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.

App State’s opponent in the New Orleans Bowl will be the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders, the runners-up in the Conference-USA. The Blue Raiders finished their regular season schedule with an 8-4 record, including a win over fellow App State opponent Charlotte, before losing to the UAB Blazers 27-25 in the Conference-USA championship game.

The Mountaineers and Blue Raiders have met three times in previous years, but not since 1992, according to winsipedia.com. Middle Tennessee owns the series record 2-1, with the Mountaineers’ only win coming in 1974. The Blue Raiders’ .572 all-time win percentage ranks No. 46 in the nation, while App State’s .641 win percentage ranks No. 15 of 130 teams.

This season, the Mountaineers seem to have the edge. They won 10 games this season while Blue Raiders won eight. App State averaged 36.67 points per game, which is over seven more than the Blue Raiders’ average. App State rushes for an average of 241 yards per game, over 100 more than Middle Tennessee, and also averages over 30 more yards in total offense, according to App State Athletics.

On defense, the Mountaineers average 15.67 points per game and have held teams to 10 points or less seven times this season. Against non-Power Five opponents,

the Mountaineers have allowed 143 points this season, an average of 13 per game. The Blue Raiders average 25.31 points allowed per game and have allowed opponents to score 30 points or more five times this season.

“I think why we’ve been so successful is staying in the moment,” former App State head coach Scott Satterfield said. “‘What can we do today to get better? Who do we have this week?’ and that’s all our focus is.”

In bowl games, App State has come away victorious in all three of its previous bowl matchups, including holding the Toledo Rockets to 0 points scored in the 2017 Dollar General Bowl.

Middle Tennessee has appeared in seven bowl games, posting a 2-5 record, according to winsipedia.com. The Blue Raiders are coming off a victory in the 2017 Camellia Bowl against Sun Belt member Arkansas State, and this will be their second appearance in the New Orleans Bowl, where they defeated Southern Miss in 2006.

“They’ve kind of slipped over us the past few years for going to play in New Orleans,” Satterfield said. “Once our guys found out, ‘If you win the championship this year, you’re going to New Orleans,’ I think that kind of fired everybody up.”

Not every factor can be measured on a statistics sheet and when talking about the prospect of going to New Orleans, Satterfield jokingly implied his staff’s biggest concern may live off the field rather than on it.

“Maybe a handful of our guys have been to New Orleans. So that’s a little scary,” Satterfield said, chuckling. “But they deserve it. Part of playing college football is experiencing new cities and that’s their reward. Not get too crazy, but just see it, and then come back to the hotel and get ready to go play a football game.”

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Arts and Entertainment

Moses Cone Manor’s historical building techniques and Blue Ridge backdrops attract tourists

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F Mericlaire Williams @TheAppalachian A&E Columnist

Photo by Hayley Canal

Catt Todd’s fun and expressive fashion incorporates certain colors to represent their mood for the day.

Todd, a Boone local and experimental musician, wears clothes to establish a sense of identity.

Todd attended a Catholic school for their entire childhood and could never express themselves through clothing. After being restricted by uniforms until the 12th grade, Todd’s style comes from wearing what they want and being who they want to be.

They want to be the person who can have fun with what they wear. They have messed around calling their style “militant robbo-femme” or even “rat-tail femme.”

When Todd first got out of Catholic school, they craved a creative outlet. Thinking back on that time, they remember outfits with three skirts and other outrageous pieces.

Upon reflection of their restrictive childhood, Todd has discovered a clear idea of who they do not want to be when it comes to dressing. They are an expressionistic person, and that’s exactly what they want to do through clothes.

Todd said they don’t use fashion to fit in. They are perfectly happy standing out, but “at least now I’m glad people think it’s cool,” Todd said.

Todd’s favorite piece, given to them by their mother, is a Russian Czar jacket.

“It’s completely illogical,” Todd said. “This is not a survival jacket.”

Todd simply finds fashion fun. Their creative side doesn’t have to be held back any longer, and they have found a new type of uniform.

Todd said usually they are feeling purple because of the balance of aggressive red and calming blue.

Todd has been experimenting with hairstyles, and their current style is a shaved head with a rat tail. They show that self-expression shouldn’t be taken too seriously, and it’s important to experiment.

“I don’t know what my message through fashion is,” Todd said. “It’s just so much fun.”

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Dec. 7, 2018

Macon Atkinson ‫@ ׀‬atkinson_macon ‫ ׀‬A&E Reporter

lat Top Manor towers over a rolling mountain view where carriage trails wind through trees and around a scenic lake below. The green-framed screen door on the porch, reluctant from age and weather, creaks loudly as visitors pour in and out of the house. Here you’ll enter one of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s most popular historical sites: Moses Cone Park.

The manor house hosts an average of 900 to 1,000 visitors per day during October. Some people, however, never go inside the home; the park attracts horseback riders, hikers, runners and tourists who come to take in views on the old carriage trails while the trees blaze with fall color.

Dan and Fay Ross, a couple from Philadelphia read an article about Moses Cone Manor in 2002 in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Fay Ross said she saved the article and ever since then the couple wanted to visit the property.

“Without all these people, sitting and looking out over the lake from the rocking chairs is lovely, I imagine,” Fay Ross said. “It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful.”

Completed in 1901, the manor served as the summer home of Moses and Bertha Cone: philanthropists, business and community leaders, and naturalists. A retreat from the heat and sickness of summer in Baltimore, the property offered 3,650 acres of breathing room.

“He didn’t just treat it as a vacation, he improved so many of the surroundings,” Rita White, president of Blowing Rock Historical Society, said.

“He was so interested in conservation and I don’t think he came here with that in mind, but I think he fell in love and it grew from there.”

The property had 57 buildings total, including a one-lane bowling alley and the county’s first permanent

The Moses H. Cone Manor, a 23-room mansion. The estate is a popular Blue Ridge Parkway attraction with hiking trails and horseback riding. // Courtesy of Blue Ridge Parkway

school. Chuck Robertson, a national park ranger, said about 30 families lived and worked permanently on the estate, either on the farm or in the house. Seven to 10 black servants also traveled from Baltimore each summer with the Cone family to work as maids, drivers and butlers. Faison said the staff were generally treated well.

“Mrs. Cone was always concerned about the physical and spiritual well-being of their staff,” Faison said. “These were people who gave back into the community.”

The Cones didn’t have much time to enjoy their home together.

Moses Cone died in 1908 when he was 51 years old. Robertson said Bertha Cone, who outlived him by 39 years, never truly recovered from his death. Because the couple did not have children, she brought family from both sides to stay with her at the estate. Bertha Cone died in 1947 and left the land to Moses’ namesake hospital in Greensboro. The hospital gave the land to the National Park Service in 1949.

“I suspect that the hospital was in contact with us almost as soon as we had started planning all of this, because they weren’t going to be able to do what she wanted done,” Faison said.

The front of the house has been

converted into a gift shop, and most of the family’s personal items have been given away. There is no original furniture in the house; only ancient plumbing remains, along with original tiles in the bathrooms. On the second floor, wooden floorboards are bathed in light from large, dusty windows which overlook rolling hills.

Faison said maintaining the property is a daunting task.

“People aren’t trained in old techniques, they’re all trained in modern building construction and it is just so different from the way it used to be,” Faison said.

She said that preserving the carriage trails, once the Cones’ pride and joy, is easier for the maintenance crew.

“It’s not to Mrs. Cone’s standards anymore, but I think they do a fairly good job,” Faison said.

More people are trained in routine trail work, and there is less technical difficulty with materials and design.

Willa Mays, chief development officer of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, said maintaining the estate was about more than just historical preservation.

“We’re not just interested in maintaining the estate, but investing into the hearts and minds of everyone who comes to visit,”Mays said.

Arts and Entertainment

Dec. 7, 2018

Family-owned Carolina Pizza Co. creates eclectic atmosphere

Cadesha Clarke | @TheAppalachian | A&E Reporter

At first glance Carolina Pizza Co. looks like a standard pizza place.

The exterior of the building is brick and stone with a chest-high wall serving as a place to eat and a buffer between the restaurant and the street.

The restaurant usually has between three and four people who work in the kitchen at a time, and you’ll see them whistling, joking and often singing along to the music playing in the background.

For Chad Duncan, who owns Carolina Pizza Co. with his wife Leah Duncan, the music is an integral part of creating said atmosphere.

“I was a music major in college. I dropped out of college, joined a rock band and traveled up and down the East Coast for five, six, seven years,” Chad Duncan said.

Having worked in a restaurant since he was 15, Chad Duncan, now 47, said he has worked a “little bit of everything.”

Chad Duncan said each item is made with the same level of care.

Carolina Pizza Co. prides itself in its beer selection. It offers a $2 drink special every day.

Before opening the original Carolina Pizza Co. location in Lake Hartwell, South Carolina, he and Leah ran a franchise in Georgia. Although they closed the original South Carolina location, the Duncans split their time between their Boone location and a second restaurant in Walhalla, South Carolina.

The Duncans have multiple locations, Chad Duncan said, because of their quality staff. Between the two stores, he said he has 12-13 employ-

ees. Most of these employees have been around for years.

Justin Martin has worked with the Duncans for over 10 years. He came with the couple to Boone to help them open Carolina Pizza Co. He works with Virginia Baggett, Leah Duncan’s daughter and Chad Duncans’ step-daughter, who has worked in the store since she was a teenager.

The two of them run the day-to-day operations, especially when the Duncans are at the other location.

“It’s a good atmosphere, we all get along,” Martin said. “We’ve all been doing it for so long and half the people who work here are related, so you have the family aspect. It’s good.”

Nate Kelly, junior political science major, is a recent hire. The Duncans brought him on four months ago. Kelly said he was a regular at the restaurant before he was hired.

“This is one of my favorite places I’ve ever worked,” Kelly said. “It’s super relaxed. At the same time, we get everything done and make sure everything is super clean.”

The dining area’s decorations range from pictures of the outdoors to random hangings found in antique stores and hole-in-the-wall shops around town.

“We just kind of collect things, dating as far back as my great-grandmother or even further, my mom and my grandmother and my great-grandmother all have a serious love for antiques and just super eclectic-looking things,” Baggett said. “A lot of the stuff in here is reflective of us and what you’d find in our home.”

Chad Duncan said his priority

for Carolina Pizza Co. is “good food, a super laid-back atmosphere, good music, being just somewhere to hang out and good beer.”

Chad Duncan said he and his employees go out of their way to make people feel comfortable.

To open the space, Chad Duncan lowered the wall that used to separate the kitchen and the dining area and pulled out the booths he said used to crowd the space. Now, it’s easy for customers to see into the kitchen to watch the staff make their pizza.

Baggett said that at first the restaurant struggled with people expecting Capone’s, but she said that after eating their food they managed to win them over.

Chad Duncan said he goes out of his way to source his ingredients locally and holds his menu items to a high standard.

“I would put my quality of food and what we have on our menu up against anyone’s menu here in Boone,” Chad Duncan said.

He also said he makes sure the meat is cooked in the kitchen, never frozen and that their produce is prepared fresh each day.

Carolina Pizza Co. also works with the community by hosting fraternity and sorority events and partnering with local charities Local First and Silicon Hollar.

“I want to be involved as much as possible. I feel like that was one of my goals coming up here. There’s just so much going on,” Baggett said.

Photo by Brendan Hoekstra

Q Russell ‫@ ׀‬Q_M_Russell ‫ ׀‬Opinion Editor

Darcy Darcy is a 5-year-old mixed breed that is available for adoption at the Watauga Humane Society.

She was transferred in from a rural shelter in Ashe County. The staff at Watauga Humane Society do not know much about Darcy’s past, but they love having her. “We are happy to be taking care of Darcy until the right family comes along,” Christy Powell, director of shelter operations, said. The kennel staff describes Darcy as calm, affectionate and she gets along with other dogs. You can visit Darcy and the other animals that are up for adoption at the Watauga Humane Society or visit their website at wataugahumane.org.

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Dec. 7, 2018

Socializing with animals

Student volunteers help at the Watauga Humane Society Cameron Stuart ‫@ ׀‬cameronlstuart ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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Squirt gets a feel for Cat Room A's visitors and fellow cats. // Photo by Brenden Hoekstra

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tudents at App State are making a difference, one animal at a time.

The Watauga Humane Society has a program that allows students and the public to make a positive impact on themselves and local animals by volunteering to spend time with the animals.

“Just serving the community and doing all the different aspects of what we do here. It’s very beneficial,” Mari Sommers, volunteer trainer at the humane society, said.

The volunteer trainer’s responsibilities include hosting orientation for new volunteers, and assisting volunteers by answering any questions that they might have.

Sommers said the humane society has had the volunteer program for at least 10 years.

The humane society has around 300 volunteers in its program, and a majority of them are App State students, Sommers said.

“I look at it from the aspect that it’s beneficial for the animals, but it’s beneficial for the people, too,” Sommers said. “I like to see people come in and really get involved in the program and stick with it.”

There are many ways volunteering can benefit people, specifically college students.

“It gives us better social experiences, and different environments,” Bailey Koepke, sophomore sustainable development major, said. “I did want to get involved with animals in Boone, because I miss mine at home. I wanted to be able to do something better.”

People can become volunteers by applying online, then attending an orientation to learn about the organization.

Socializing animals is a rewarding part of volunteering, Sommers said.

Socializing animals helps them get used to people, as well as makes them more adoptable, Koepke said.

Sommers said socialization helps the animals feel loved because it combats the isolation they feel from constantly being in kennels.

After becoming volunteers, Sommer said there are many other ways people can help from working with dogs, adoption events, an annual rummage sale and a thrift store, where the money made is donated to low-cost spay and neuter.

“There’s something for everybody,” Sommers said. “We can pretty much steer someone into a direction that they’re interested in.”

Training can run from one to three months, depending on the type of volunteering.

Though people mainly volunteer with cats and dogs, Sommers said there are many other animals the humane society takes in.

“Right now we have rabbits. We’ve had minks, chinchillas, ferrets, hamsters.

One time we had a pot-bellied pig,” Sommers said.

Koepke has volunteered at the humane society once per week for six weeks.

She brushes and socializes cats and said she will continue in the spring.

“Being around animals is really good.

People come in just to pet the cats or take the dogs on a walk,” Koepke said. “Mental health-wise, I feel like that can help a lot.”

Sommers retired from her career in the medical field, and after frequently volunteering at the humane society, she took the position of volunteer trainer.

“This position came open and I thought, ‘Why not?’ I like people, and I like the animals, and it just seemed like a good idea,” Sommers said.

“I think it’s very rewarding,” Sommers said. “I think that people would really enjoy it if they came in.”

New volunteers begin the volunteer process by filling out an application on the Watauga Humane Society website.

Arts and Entertainment

Dec. 7, 2018

Brendan Hoekstra ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬Staff Photographer

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1. Rapunzel gnaws on a bone in solitude. 2. Macy barks softly as visitors pass by her cage. 3. Corbin Butts, senior construction management major, enjoys time with a friendly dog among many in the facility’s kennels. 4. Pepper takes advantage of this wooden perch to hide and scout the rest of the room. 5. Joelle falls asleep on its shelf space in Cat Room B.

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Opinion

Dec. 7, 2018

Community Economy and Deep Democracy in Boone CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS Q Russell । @Q_M_Russell । Opinion Editor Unfortunately, Silent Sam is coming back to the UNC-Chapel Hill. This news comes after a group of student protesters gathered on Aug. 20 to remove the Confederate monument.

On Dec. 3, UNC-Chapel Hill presented a plan to relocate the Confederate monument to a new location, this time indoors due to “public safety concerns.”

These public safety concerns are that if it were returned to its original location, students would tear it down again.

The statue is going back up, despite a massive amount of protest, because of a 2015 state law passed by the North Carolina State Legislature that makes it nearly impossible for anything but a state law to remove “objects of remembrance.”

This applies to over 100 Confederate statues littered throughout the state.

“The reason it was passed was to protect history,” Sen. Tommy Tucker, a co-sponsor of the bill, said in an interview with the News and Observer. “I don’t have any misgivings about having the bill passed.

Monuments can stand where they have been for 150 years or more.”

The problem with trying to protect this history is that the South lost the war. The Confederate States of America was little more than an

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organized rebellion against the lawful government of the U.S. In other words: treason.

In the U.S. Constitution, it is written: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them.” The Confederates took up arms against the government and killed U.S. soldiers in an attempt to destroy the U.S. That should reasonably constitute levying war.

“Confederate monument building was the culmination of a deliberate campaign to write the history of the Civil War from the Southern point of view,” Sarah Gardner, professor of history at Mercer University, wrote in her article “What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments.” “This Southern version portrayed the Confederate cause as just and slavery as a benevolent institution.”

Deliberately rewriting history is called propaganda. Confederate monuments are little more than treasonous propaganda displayed prominently for all to see. It’s vile, it’s disgusting and it shouldn’t be tolerated.

The students of UNC-Chapel Hill were right to tear down Silent Sam, and the Board of Trustees is wrong to propose relocating it on campus, state law or not.

Letter to the Editor By: Dustin Hicks sustainable development major By: Leigh Siracusano biology major Political parties have become contentious and contemptuous, with one side inevitably winning the vote at the expense of the other, leaving voters in a perpetual blame game as they vie for the few opportunities to be heard.

Our governmental system is built around winning and losing, not compromise and consensus. Thus, political parties or not, it is not surprising that this structure has led to the massive polarization we see today.

Boone is no exception to this rule.

With the university’s influence alone, Boone shifts the overall red demographics of Watauga into a decidedly purple district, further entrenching polarization. The current avenues for political participation leave little room to break free of the mentality of competition and profit-driven growth.

Globally, but also in Boone, the societal and environmental well-being of communities are threatened in the face of intensifying climatic conditions, such as increasing storm events and flooding, less reliable agricultural production, and the increasingly favorable conditions for disease vectors and invasive species. Meanwhile, in the current capitalist economy, our consumption of resources outpaces the regeneration of resources, amplifying human vulnerability to scarcity amidst the uncertainty of a changing climate. At the same time, community decision-making powers are being undermined both culturally and legislatively. The image of true sustainability

must be questioned. The solution to these global problems lies within the way that the decision-making systems we rely on are designed, for they depict not only how we interact with one another, but also how we use resources to create a collective well-being.

We would argue that social conflict and environmental degradation are results of how the current paradigm of decision-making systems discourages authentic, productive discussion and compromise. A reworking of the system is needed toward a system that is centered on our interdependence with each other and the environment we inhabit.

We envision a community economy, an economic structure with the well-being of all community members as its driving force.

Boone is in a perfect position to be a leader in rethinking these governmental systems and testing what it would mean to build a system around discussion and compromise, rather than simply voting. This would mean a deep level of involvement in decision making, a deep democracy, if you will.

The App State community’s response to the urgent call for action from the recent IPCC Report on climate change is one example. Through the newly formed Climate Action Collaborative, spaces are being created that foster discussion and the necessary conversations in allowing all voices to be heard and imagining alternative ways of organizing with de-

mocracy as a core tenant. The Climate Action Collaborative is united under the common goal of achieving social and environmental well-being, with the intentions to create connections, learn, become informed together and practice transparency through open discussion, debate and compromise.

As we are not the first community to attempt a transition to a more participatory democracy, there are many experiences we can draw from in thinking about potential pathways out of polarization and disempowerment.

One of the most effective pathways to deepening democracy in Boone would be an online direct-democracy platform like pol.is, a polling software successfully being used currently by the government of Taiwan.

The online system does not simply poll on whether participants agree or disagree with pre-written statements, but instead allows users to upload new proposals; it crowd-sources the decision-making process and allows for multiple perspectives to come into the conservation from across wide distances and times.

In Taiwan, this has been used to foster compromise around political issues that might otherwise remain represented by polarized “sides” bickering with one another. Although pol.is is not the final deciding factor, legislators regularly look to it as a way to see what the populous might agree on overall.

To read the full letter, visit www. theappalachianonline.com.

SENIOR GOODBYE

Dec. 7, 2018

v i c t o r i a h ay n e s So, I guess, I’m leaving. I’ve been here a long time, and this feels warranted. It’s no joke that the past (almost) four years of The Appalachian has taken a part of my life and given much more back.

Here’s my brief timeline. First semester of freshman year in college, I joined the paper...for three weeks.

Cue conversation about irresponsible, noncommittal Victoria. It took two semesters before I realized that college was actually worth the effort and that I needed to find my place. Then I came back.

Fast forward through a year of copy editing, a year of copy editing even harder, and another year and a half of managing (with a third help-

ing of copy editing). At least I know one unshakeable, set-in-stone skill that sits firmly at the top of my resume. That isn’t the point, though.

Resumes and professional experience and maturity all come secondary to what happened here. What’s primary is how exhausting, how inspiring, how complicating, but most of all, how ultimately gratifying, it’s been to be on this paper.

Recently I’ve been thinking about how, because of The Appalachian, my feet have never felt more firmly planted—yet I’m about to have shaky footing all over again. But if leaving here has taught me anything, it’s that with the right friends, and the right amount of support, I can level

out again.

Sitting in an office for 10-plus hours every week and churning out a product that we all can be proud of has never been easy. What makes it doable, though, are the people who are there with you. Without them to give me the push I need (and for me, sometimes, to give them that in return), I would’ve never learned how to handle it all.

I’m not planning on making my eulogy too terribly drawn out. Here’s the most important part.

To Sydney, you’ve been one of the best friends I’ve ever had, and at a time when I feel pretty unsure about most things, of that I’m certain.

You’re the only person who could

simultaneously contribute to my latenight office outbursts, while also yelling at me to, for the love of god, edit the stories on the page. We had this whole world thrown into our hands at the same time, and without you, I can’t imagine having been able to hold it up. I guess Maleek is okay, too.

To Nora, I see everything I’ve wanted to be since I came to college in you, and even more. You showed up and fit so well into the fabric of my life it’s hard to remember a time when you weren’t in it. You’ve been a really wonderful leader. Remember that your skin is always thicker than it sometimes feels.

To Adrienne Fouts, Ashley Goodman and Mariah Reneau,

there’s nothing like the distinct tenacity of an A&E editor. You are all so deserving of love.

To Reilly and Jules, thank you, in advance, for picking up where I’m leaving off. You’re both incredibly capable women, and there is never going to be a time when we don’t need that.

If you’re reading this despite knowing nothing about me, know this: joining this place may feel daunting, and the hours here might not seem worth it, but I promise they will be. If you don’t find a love for journalism, you’ll find a love for your friends. You might even find a temporary home.

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Et cetera TOTAL RECALL

BY NEIL AGNEW

Dec. 7, 2018

Across 1. NY pro football team 5. Grammy award-winning American violinist to call?* 9. French cold?

11. Snack co. with Snyder’s of Hanover and Frito-Lay 12. Frozen celebrity to give a buzz?* 13. Commission overseeing hiring practices: Abbr.

14. With 20-across, sound familiar?... or what you do in all of the starred clues 19. Ingested 20. See 14-Across 22. Stack 24. Throat doc 26. Famous inventor of telephone?* 30. In good shape 31. “There’s no I in ___” (We need to work together) 32. Green-suited fairy to contact?*

Down 1. NY Airport 2. Goof up, formally 3. “You,” in French 4. Sibling opposite bro 6. Lewis and his News?

7. Colorado tribe member 8. Archipelago vacation hot spot owned by Portugal 10. Alcoholic’s scourge 14. When repeated, a cheer 15. Chemical ending 16. Org. that represents teachers 17. Japan Prime Minister Shinzo 18. Rock or country genre prefix 21. English children’s writer Blyton 23. “A ___ on both your houses!” (“Romeo and Juliet”) 25. Fantastic superhero film?

26. Toward the back of the ship 27. Fib 28. “What’s your ___” (How soon are you coming?)

29. Long, long time

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T H E C OV E R : Rapunzel gnaws on a bone in solitude. // Photo by Brendan Hoekstra

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Watagua Community Band Concert Rosen Concert Hall 7 p.m.-8 p.m.

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