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CAMPUS OCT. 23

OCT. 21

3:12 a.m. | Underage consumption of alcohol

8:17 p.m. | Drug Violation

Newland Hall

A student was arrested for possession of marijuana

OCT. 22 9:48 p.m. | Underage consumption of alcohol

Rivers Street East Tunnel

OCT. 21 4:59 p.m. | Larceny Summit Hall Under investigation

Kidd Brewer Stadium A student was arrested for underage consumption of alcohol.

OCT. 22

OCT. 21 3:06 p.m. | Vandalism Rankin Science Rock Garden

10:50 p.m. | Underage consumption of alcohol

Leads exhausted

Bowie Hall

11:30 p.m. | Drug Violation Gardner Hall

A student was arrested for underage consumption of alcohol.

OCT. 22 9:43 p.m. | Vandalism Frank Hall Under investigation

Alex Gates @theappalachian PHOTO EDITOR Samantha Cordialini @samcordialini GRAPHICS EDITOR Jennifer Rhodes @theappalachian VIDEO EDITOR Dylan Dow @theappalachian WEB MANAGER

CRIME LOG A student was arrested for underage consumption of alcohol

Justin Perry @justincperry VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR

OCT. 20 A student was arrested for possession of marijuana

OCT. 19 11:58 p.m. | Vandalism Appalachian Heights Parking Lot Under investigation

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RAVE SAFETY APP

APP GIVES STUDENTS A NEW WAY TO BE SAFE

BY TOMMY CULKIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

ppalachian State University Police recently began using a phone app to help increase safety on campus. Rave Guardian is a mobile app that allows people to quickly contact emergency personnel. A key feature is a timer users can set if they feel unsafe walking somewhere. You set the timer for however long it will take you to reach your destination and the University Police receive a notification. Once you reach your destination safely, you manually turn off the timer. If an emergency arises, you can alert the police by touching a button and they’ll be dispatched to your location. If the timer runs out, the police will respond to assess the situation. “If the timer expires, we’ll first call you to check in,” said Sandra Evans, the support services manager for University Police. “If we can’t get ahold of you by phone, we treat it like an emergency call and will immediately send officers to your location on our map.” Kendrick Dawson, the Student Government Association director of health and campus safety, believes this feature will drastically improve the safety on Appalachian State’s campus. “This specific part of [the app] can really make students feel safer walking across campus late at night,” Dawson said. Users can fill out a profile and provide information such as medical history, emergency contacts and a photo of themselves to aid police. Jason Marshburn, the director of environmental health, safety and emergency management, encourages people to give as much information as they’re comfortable with. “Your information is completely confidential until there’s an emergency, at which point we can access it to help you to the best of our abilities,” Marshburn said. The feature can still be used off campus as long as you set a guardian other than the police. However these guardians won’t be able to access all the information the police can. “You can make your guardian a friend, family member or whoever,” Marshburn said. “They won’t be able to see the full profile you provided, but they’ll still be able to see your destination and that sort of thing.” Your guardian doesn’t have to be a member of the university. “If you want to invite a friend who maybe isn’t a university student, you can do that,” Marshburn said. “It connects to your contacts, so you can select them from your phone or text or email them, and you can send them an invite, and they can download the app for free.” Another feature of the app is that it can directly connect you with the nearest 911 operator. The advantage over simply dialing 911 is that, if you call through the app, your personal profile can be utilized. The final benefit the app provides is that now, even without a smartphone to download the app with, people can text the University Police and they’ll be able to provide assistance. The Rave Guardian app is free to download on all mobile devices, and can be used by anybody with a university email address. “I think this is a huge step in making this campus a safer place,” Dawson said. “With it, any student can have quick access to the police, and they can make sure they get from one place to another safely.”

Rave Guardian app is free to download on all mobile devices.

Lindsey Honkomp

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APPALACHIAN STUDENTS PLACE SECOND IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BY TOMMY CULKIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

wo students placed second in an international industrial design competition earlier this year. Last year, as part of their intro to design studio class, Garrett Peebles and Elizabeth Foster were assigned to submit an entry into an industrial design competition held by the company Nimble Bee. The objective was to improve the packaging design for a beverage company. “We chose Budweiser because it’s just a standard drink that everyone’s familiar with,” Foster said. At the beginning of the project, Peebles and Foster sent out online surveys to determine what people identified as the biggest design problems with the packaging. Through their research, the duo was able to determine what aspects to work on. “One of the major things we did with six-packs was improve the handle to make it easier to carry,” Foster said. “We also made it easier to get the bottles out.” Because their design is now copyrighted by Anheuser-Busch, they are forbidden from discussing the specific details of their design. They submitted their design to the competition in early December and were notified that they were a finalist a few weeks later. Michael Rall, the assistant professor of the class they submitted the design for, said he was not surprised that they were finalists. “When I saw their submission I knew it had the potential [to be a finalist],” Rall said. “Whenever you enter this type

Photo courtey of Anheuser-Busch

of competition, it’s always up in the air because you’re never quite sure whatt the judges want to focus on, but I definitely ely knew it was good enough.” After being named a finalist, the pair air was able to work on their design with h Rall before resubmitting it. “We really just worked to refine it,” ,” Rall said. “Working towards that final al deliverable product, I think that they pinpointed a couple specifics that were re the most important and tried to emphaasize those.” During the refining process they also lso created to-scale prototypes to validatee their design concepts. In March, Peebles and Foster found nd out they placed second overall in the international competition. “It felt really great that all our hard d work had paid off,” Peebles said. “We We worked on it for so long.” Foster said the experience also taught ught them some skills that will be applicable ble in the workplace. “I learned that working as a team really helps with the ideation process of things,” Foster said. “There were times es where one of us would have an idea, and the other one would argue against it and come up with something better.” Rall believes their achievement will have a big impact on their careers after they graduate. “This is incredibly important for them,” Rall said. “There are more people graduating with industrial design degrees now than ever before, and as a winner of a big competition like this, it allows you to have an extra bullet point on your resume, and validates all of your hard work.”

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ONE WORD MIGHT ATHLETIC SYSTEM HAVE SAVED TRUMP INTERFERES WITH MISSION

BY JUSTIN CHANDLER OPINION

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s the campaign trail for the 2016 Republican candidates heats up amidst controversial comments, divisive topical issues and an abundance of media coverage, two representatives of the GOP stand at the top of the collective heap: Real estate mogul Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Recently, polls in Iowa asking the public who would be the more ideal candidate showed Carson ahead of Trump 28 to 20, according to a Quinnipiac University poll, and 28 to 19, according to the Des Moines Register. This is momentarily disrupting the near-definite hold Trump had over the voting public since he announced his bid for office early this summer. While normally this could be seen as a fluctuation of public opinion, the results from Iowa may have greater significance than originally anticipated from the Iowa caucus, one of the main factors towards deciding the Republican party's representative and a pseudo-representative of the nation's overall thoughts. One of the main issues Republican detractors of Trump have had about his bid for candidacy that Carson supposedly maintains throughout, is whether or not he is really conservative. When Trump initially announced his political intentions, radio host Glenn Beck denounced him as “not a true conservative,” citing his overall rhetoric and his nature in the past to continually switch stances on key issues, such as abortion and tax reform. By contrast, the former neurosurgeon has garnered a plethora of support from the Christian community for his theology and his willingness to defend it in public areas, such as on the morning talk show, “The View.” Consider his rough upbringing and rise to prominence overnight through sheer word of mouth against a playing field of candidates who, for the most part, have been figureheads in the government, and you have a candidate who appeals to a wide generation of conservatives. With so much confusion as to where Trump lies on the liberal-conservative spectrum, one has to ask, “How could he have appealed to the Republican audience greater?” His slogan, perhaps, would have been a start. Trump's slogan for his candidacy, "Make America Great Again," is a slogan that is short, sweet, and to the point, yet it could have been better. His slogan brings a rather pessimistic view of current America, depicting it as a nation that needs a reconfiguration or overhaul. In short, a nation that is not "great." Contrast it with Carson's slogan, "Heal. Inspire. Revive." and you get a sense for who this man is, his ideals (whether you agree with them or not) and his intent, which is to rejuvenate our country while inspiring for greater and loftier goals. It keeps a sense of optimism that is made better by the fact that the man behind it is considered to be a true Republican. So, what could Trump have changed? One word: Keep. If Trump had changed his slogan to "Keep America Great" (or if he fancies four word phrases, "Keep America Great Again"), then there would have been less ambiguity about where he lies on the conservative scale. It now becomes a slogan about preservation, about maintenance rather than remodeling. It also becomes a metaphorical tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, the former president who fought to preserve our nation's forests and lands and battled for a “square deal for every man.” Now, while a well-informed voter could still look at his past political views and still deride him as a pseudo-Republican, the slogan itself would have appealed to a wide array of patriotic Republicans who have unwavering support for our nation and want to see the best out of it, even with its occasional peaks and valleys. It's simple, yet effective, and could have garnered Trump even more support in a race that has now become close. It's interesting to see how one word could have made a difference in Iowa, and possibly the entire presidential race. Chandler, a middle grades education major from Icard, is an opinion writer.

BY KEVIN GRIFFIN

OPINION WRITER

ith the student and faculty protest Thursday, we saw a collision between two of North Carolina’s most valued traditions: Sports and education. Look, sports are great, and there are certainly legitimate reasons why students should enjoy them. The constitution of our state, however, does not require that the general assembly work to provide cheap sports to the people of North Carolina. The constitution does require that for higher education, however, and the current system of sports is a major factor interfering with that mission. The picture for higher education has been bleak lately, both in the state and nationally. A December 2014 Government Accountability Office report found that, for the first time in years, tuition made up a larger percentage of public college revenues than state support did. We were certainly affected this year when the board of governors voted to raise tuition from $3,772-$3,961. Yet, in a time when more of the burden for the cost of higher education was falling on students, we have the additional expense of student athletic fees going to support our programs. Currently, athletic fees stand at $713 and are scheduled to reach $738 next school year. Collectively, the university sports programs cost $19,414,754, according to a 2014 NCAA data compilation in USA Today. Of the total revenue, student fees and other general fund money make up nearly 53 percent of that amount. If the data of the costs was not enough, the controversy brought on by the parking policies are emblematic of the place we are at with education. Here we had the two groups who were most essential to this university’s mission, the faculty and the students, pushed aside to accommodate a football game. I do not know exactly where we go from here, but this has to change. I still believe we can find a way to maintain some version of college sports that does not so drastically interfere with the functioning of the university system. Why is there such an appeal to having highly commercialized, quasi-professional sports teams associated with universities? That should be the purpose of professional sports. To maintain the legitimate reasons for college sports – institutional pride, sportsmanship, and collegiate solidarity – we do not need these massive entities. I believe we could likely satisfy those needs with a much more scaled down system than we currently have. This is not an indictment of people who love their team and are proud of the hard work players put in. It is an indictment of a system that is actively contributing to the educational inequities in this state. Griffin, a senior journalism major from Madison, is an opinion writer.

Malik Rahili

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WHAT TO DO WIND DOWN WEDNESDAYS 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday (except Nov. 25) through Dec. 2, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Free and only open to App State students. Students will participate in a short guided meditation (20 minutes) followed by the opportunity to create an artistic response to the mediation experience. All art supplies will be provided. Class size is limited to 25, on a firstcome basis. No registration required. Sponsored by Active Minds and Yes Plus, in collaboration with The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.

THE GOBBLER 5K Hosted by the ACT Office, The Gobbler is open to all runners and walkers. The race benefits the ACT Office’s scholarship for international service learning: the Leigh Lane Edwards Scholarship Fund. The race begins at 8 a.m. Nov. 14, Duckpond Field. Registration: $15-$16. Go to http://thegobblerboone.weebly.com to register, or email wolschlager@appstate.edu for information.

HUGHLENE BOSTIAN FRANK VISITING WRITERS SERIES Black Mountain College literary historians William C. Rice and Katherine Chaddock will read from their works at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Parkway Ballroom, PSU. Free.

STUDENT FLU SHOTS The Mary S. Shook Student Health Service is offering a student flu shot clinic, 5-7:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Roess Dining Hall. Open to full- and

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

part-time students. No appointment necessary. Bring a valid AppCard, and $15 will be charged to your student account and appear on your next tuition bill.

BOONE CREEK CLEAN-UP Meet at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at AMB, 163 Boone Creek Drive. The ASU Sustainability Council has adopted the section of Boone Creek that flows past Appalachian Mountain Brewery and Boone Mall. ASU faculty, staff and students are invited to participate. Volunteers will receive a 10 percent discount on purchases at Appalachian Mountain Brewery for the rest of the night. The group provides gloves and other supplies. Participants should wear old clothes and sturdy shoes—rubber knee boots are especially helpful. Email englandle@appstate.edu to sign up in advance.

Biblical Texts on Final Judgment,” Rodney Duke

TURCHIN FALL LECTURE SERIES All lectures are at 7 p.m. in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall. For information, go to http:// tcva.org/exhibitions. • Nov. 11: “Beth Hetland” • 2 p.m. Nov. 6: “Cartoon College,” film screening in conjunction with the exhibition At the Junction of Words and Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies,” followed by a panel discussion with Alec Longstreth and Jen Vaughn.

BELIZE INTEREST GROUP

Ash Beckham, known for her TEDx talk “Coming Out Of Your Closet,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at Legends. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the event is free and open to the public. The talk is sponsored by APPS. Beckham speaks about empathy, respect, and the power of having real conversations.

The Office of International Education and Development (OIED) is organizing a Belize Interest Group meeting at 2 p.m. Nov. 16, in Beacon Heights, PSU. The meeting will be held to meet face-to-face with campus colleagues engaged in and/or with interest in Belize, share with different campus colleagues the nature of work people are doing in Belize; and develop a “united” strategy for Appalachian to engage with Belize. Faculty interested in Belize or doing work in that country are encouraged to attend. For more information, email lutabingwajl@appstate.edu.

LECTURE SERIES

FACULTY/STAFF BOOK CLUB

The Fall 2015 Lecture/Seminar Series: Philosophy and Religion in the Contemporary World is presented by the Philosophy and Religion Department. Presentations begin at 5:30 p.m. in room 114, Belk Library. • Nov. 10: “What the Hell? How to Interpret

The fall book club will read and discuss the themes in “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel Pink. The book club will meet at 10 a.m. Nov. 24 in Belk Library. Book club members will be expected to se-

ASH BECKHAM TALK

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

cure their own copy to read. The book is available in the library system and for sale online. Email maidenev3@appstate.edu.

TUTORING CENTER OPEN Visit room 208 in D.D. Dougherty and fill out a tutor request form. The tutoring lab is open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Call 828-262-3060 or email apputs@ appstate.edu. Go to lap.appstate.edu/tutoring.

FREE GUIDED MEDITATION Held noon-12:30 p.m. in Attic Window (room 137C), PSU. Hosted by Wellness and Prevention Services. No meditation experience necessary. Drop-ins welcome. Benefits of meditation can include a decrease in anxiety and stress, an increase in emotional stability and creativity, increased ability to focus and concentrate, lower blood pressure, a decrease in tension related pain, and improved immune system.

NAVIGATING COLLEGE The group will explore healthy lifestyle choices and the impact of alcohol and other drug use in college. Students are invited to the Wellness and Prevention Services office to join a mindfulness-based group focused on the impact of alcohol and other drug use while in college, incorporating resilience building, high risk substance use prevention and harm reduction strategies by way of stress reduction, healthy decision-making and group support to assist in personal growth and success as a college student.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

“Lawless” screening

“The Shining” screening

“The Gift” screening

7 p.m. Greenbriar Theater, PSU Free

7 p.m. Greenbriar Theater, PSU $1

7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. I.G. Greer $1 advance, $2 door

7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door

Visiting Writers Series: Book Reading with William C. Rice and Katherine Chaddock

Student Flu Shots

RMI Career Fair

“The Shining” screening

7:30 p.m. Parkway Ballroom, PSU Free

6th Annual Community Candlelight Vigil Hosted by the LGBT Center 7 p.m. Sanford Mall Free

5-7:30 p.m. Roess Dining Hall $15, charged to AppCard

Behind the Scenes Tour 2 p.m. Roess Dining Hall Free

Genus Dance Crew Auditions 7 p.m. Varsity Gym

1-4 p.m. Boyles Lobby, second ﬂoor, Peacock Hall

7 p.m. Greenbriar Theater, PSU $1

Trick-or-Treat for Tots

Employee Health Fair

5-7 p.m. East Campus Residence Halls (check in at East Hall parking lot) Bring one canned good/non-perishable item

8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, PSU

Costume Contra 7:30 p.m.-midnight Legends $3-$5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Football: Appalachian State Mountaineers vs. Troy University

Friction Quartet Guest Concert

AppSits Meditation Club Meeting

“This Changes Everything” screening

6 p.m. Recital Hall Free

6:30 p.m. Tater Hill, PSU Free

7 p.m. I.G. Greer Free

7:30 p.m. Kidd Brewer Stadium Tickets required

“The Gift” screening 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. I.G. Greer $1 advance, $2 door

Halloween Monster Concert 8 p.m. Rosen Concert Hall Free

Landon Bratt Student Voice Recital

Tai Chi

2 p.m. Recital Hall Free

5 p.m. Turchin Center Free (students only)

iASE (International Alternative Service Experience) Spring Break Info Session Hosted by the ACT Oﬃce 7 p.m. Rough Ridge, PSU Free

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HIGH COUNTRY JAZZ ‘GHOULECTIVE’ HOSTS SPOOKY SHINDIG AT CROSSROADS BY KATIE MURAWSKI

A&E REPORTER

n Monday Oct. 26, the High Country Jazz “GHOULective” at the Devil’s Crossroads provided an alternative experience from the usual jazz night held at Crossroads coffee in the Plemmons Student Union from 8-10 p.m. on Monday nights. The Jazz Collective performed classic Halloween tunes and jazz renditions of other “spooky” songs. The core collective is composed of Chris Pope, on “piercing piano,” Nic Pressley on “trumpet tricky treat,” Tyler Piette on “ghostly guitar,” Jay Dineen on “bloodcurdling bass,” and John Hargett on “dastardly drums.” The band specially featured Grant Smith on the “tromBONE” and professor Todd Wright on the “sickening saxophone.”

Tyler Piette of the High Country Jazz “GHOULective” performs at Crossroads on Monday. 8

Photos by Alex Gates

"Monday night jazz is a place for musicians to practice because people wouldn't really notice if you were not on your game. It works both ways – if you are on your game people will notice that and would enjoy it." Tyler Piette

Tyler Piette, a junior music industry major, felt happy to play Halloween tunes and promote the Jazz Collective. The collective is mainly composed of music majors in the jazz concentration, Piette said. The jazz night at Crossroads started in 2011 and has been passed down by music majors and jazz concentrations ever since. Piette said this jazz night is “the first of its kind” because of the Halloween themed set list. The set list included songs like “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder, “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from Monsters Inc., “Monster Mash” by Bobby Picket, “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and “Blues for Donnie,” one of Piette’s own arrangements. Piette said Crossroads is a great venue for the Jazz Collective. “It is great for musicians to be able to play for their professors and for an audience. It is really a winwin situation. Monday night jazz is a place for musicians to practice because people wouldn’t really notice if you were not on your game. It works both ways – if you are on your game people will notice that and would enjoy it,” Piette said. The swing dance club accompanied the performance. Gina McDaniel is a member of the club and dressed as “hipster Snow White.” McDaniel “loved” the spooky shindig. “I really liked that I could wear my costume and be able to dance as well,” she said. Asher Daniels dressed as Ryu, his favorite character from the video game “Street Fighter,” and gave a shoutout to Piette for “rocking the Avatar ghost mask.” Jessica Feldman and Madison Kennedy are roommates that came out to the event to drink hot chocolate and get in the Halloween spirit. “It is nice to start off the week with Halloween festivities, this is my first jazz night and the Halloween theme is the reason I came,” Feldman said. For music majors this concert was considered “concert credit” to be counted towards the 10 performances music majors have to attend each semester, Piette said. There will also be another themed jazz night coming soon for Christmas to be tentatively held on Nov. 30 from 8-10 p.m. The Jazz Collective is open to any musicians who wish to sit in and play.

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HAUNTED HOUSING

STORIES OF SPOOKS FROM EAST HALL AND THE LLC

BY KELSEY HAMM

A&E EDITOR

he rumored ghost of East Residence Hall is famous enough across the state to have a personal page on northcarolinaghosts.com, a website dedicated to North Carolina legends of haunted areas. East Hall, established in Appalachian’s early years as a teachers college, is the original dorm on campus and considered the spookiest by many students who inhabit its walls. The basement hosts the Office of Sustainability, where paranormal activity stems from, freshman Haley Bennett said. “There’s a bricked-in door downstairs and it seems like the kind of place you would hide bodies,” Bennett said. “I’ve heard plenty of stories – my friend’s mirror shattered when she wasn’t in the room and another friend’s water bottle flew of the desk.” The hauntings may be linked to the suicide of a student in the 1970s, according to northcarolinaghosts.com. While the death of a student is not confirmed in Appalachian State’s archives, freshman Hayley Perusek said the hauntings are likely the work of multiple ghosts. “The first week of school I could feel a ghost’s presence and the first two weeks of school the ghost was in my room,” Perusek said. “I know because I woke up at two or three in the morning and I could feel something. I was really freaked out and I asked it to go away before I went back to sleep and had a nightmare – I never have nightmares.” The incidents in East Hall seem harmless, Perusek said. Often, her sink cuts on and off. “One night my sink full turned on, and I was so freaked out I started yelling at my roommates, ‘The ghost is here!’” She got up to turn it off, but then 15 minutes later it did it again. East Hall is not the only dorm on campus rumored to be haunted. Sophomore Katie Pate reports continuous paranormal activity in her dorm at the Living Learning Center. “I’m not entirely sure why the LLC is said to be haunted – many call it Hogwarts so maybe that has something to do with it,” she said. “Everyone who has a story says they hear strange things or that things in their room will move when no one is there. One of the resident assistants told me that during her training, before any of the residents moved in, she would hear something tapping on the wall in the next room.” Pate has lived in the LLC for two years. During her freshman year, Pate said her Zippo lighter disappeared and reappeared only to fall on her head from the top shelf of her closet. “This year I live in the suite above the archway and things have been getting weirder and weirder by the day,” she said. “Things have been falling off of our desks. I hear doors open in the middle of the night when no one is coming or going, and my suitemate saw the door handle to the bathroom be pushed down and pop back up while it was empty.” The scariest encounters, Pate said, stem from opening and closing closet doors and nightmares that plague her suitemate. The nightmares result in an encounter more corporeal than most students are used to. “My suitemate has had dreams where she is talking to a ghost and wakes up sitting up in her bed, holding its hands. She will sleep walk out of the room,” she said. “This week a guy who lives on my hall had a white board come off of his wall. I went to go look at it and it looked like it had been thrown from the wall and was flipped upside down.” Summit Hall, the honors dorm on campus, opened four years ago. Despite the relative newness of the dorm, junior Dagan Danevic reports haunted happenings from the start of the semester. Since then, the ghost has not returned. “My roommate and I have bed rails for the bed that’s now bunked and we walked in and everything was fine,” he said. “They were leaning against the wall next to my bathroom, and when my roommate and I turned around it was perfectly positioned against the door, flush. It was like bars on the door. We were locked in for a minute and freaked out. My 10

"The first week of school I could feel a ghost's presence and the first two weeks of school the ghost was in my room. I know because I woke up at two or three in the morning and I could feel something."

Hayley Perusek

East Residence Hall is fabled to have a resident ghost wandering its corridors. only guess is it somehow got hung on the door, but that explanation doesn’t make sense.” Despite reports from the LLC and Summit, the most intense encounters still occur in East. “My second day or third day at East, I was sleeping and my roommate was coughing,” alumna Alexa Smith said. “I thought she was dying, and then I heard the words ‘No, I need a psychiatrist.’ It did not sound like my roommate. I turned around and there was this thing, this figure right in front of me, and it came right at me. I could feel myself screaming but I could not physically move.” After the encounter, Smith called her mom but did not report the incident to her roommate until later. Smith’s roommate did not want to stay in the dorm Monique Rivera

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after hearing her story. “I don’t really know what happened to it,” she said. “My purpose was to physically move and I couldn’t. I just felt paralyzed from the shock. I didn’t tell anyone but my mom until three months afterward. I didn’t know how to talk about it.” Sophomores Lainey Triplett and Maura Macchia lived in East for the 2014-15 school year and both witnessed the ghost traveling in the hallways. The two did not immediately confide in each other about the sightings. Triplett noticed an unidentified female while packing up to leave home for one weekend. “I was going down the steps and up to pack up our cars and I saw this girl walking down the hall,” she said. “There was a light emerging from her, I couldn’t tell who it was so I tried to identify her. She was wearing white pajamas and was really pale, I didn’t get close enough to see who it was and then later I saw her again and I mentioned it to [Macchia].” Macchia felt shocked to discover her roommate also saw the figure. Macchia once encountered a “pale girl with red hair” standing by the sink in the sub level bathroom. She was not a person from the dorm or a friend of anyone on the floor, Macchia said. “I was trying see who it was, and this sounds weird, but when I looked in the mirror I couldn’t see her face or make out her features. To this day I can’t tell you what her face looks like. I saw her again walking into my room and I saw her turn the corner and I knew it was her because she was so pale – I never saw her with anyone else.” At the beginning of the year, the girls kept a ghost encounter tally sheet on the front of their door. The floor collectively kept track of ghostly happenings. “We were bringing it on ourselves, and once we took the counter down everything stopped until we started seeing the girl,” Triplett said. The encounters intensify as Halloween approaches, Pate said. Although she never considered leaving the LLC because of paranormal activity, she and her friends have taken other measures to avoid encounters. “Honestly, we have said prayers, we have salted the rooms and I sleep with an amethyst under my pillow, but maybe it is all just superstitious,” she said. Like all superstitions, the ghost of East Hall has its skeptics. In the spirit of Halloween, The Rotten Appal, Appalachian State’s unaffiliated parody news source, published an article titled “East Hall Ghost Actually Kind of Hot.” Perusek sticks by her story that ghosts haunt the residence hall. “There are definitely ghosts here. Everyone thinks it’s a joke but they’re here,” Perusek said. “Nothing really super scary happens, it’s just scary because it’s ghosts. They’re just terrifying because you can’t see them but you can feel them.”

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‘IT’S ABOUT CHANGING LIVES’

ALLEN CURTIS CREATES LOCAL FOOD AND SUPPORT HUB

BY ALEAH WARNER INTERN A&E REPORTER

llen Curtis considered becoming a preacher. Like a preacher, Curtis is motivated to make a positive difference in the lives of others through his career. Instead of working for a church, Curtis owns Veggies, Fruits and More, a produce and dry goods store located at 362 W. King St. in downtown Boone. Set across from the “gateway to ASU,” Curtis aims for the shop to serve as a vehicle for impacting students’ lives in a positive way, he said. Money is not the driving force behind the business – customers are. “It’s not for money, it’s not for the riches or fame, it’s to make a difference in the students’ lives,” Curtis said. “I love my business, but I love the students more. They have my heart.” Curtis was born into a farming family in Morganton and moved to Boone after marrying his wife, Susan Curtis. The two have been married for 29 years and have three children and four grandchildren. Faith guided Curtis to start selling produce and local goods with his son four years ago at his first store on the NC-105 Extension. Though the family struggled financially, they started the store with the help and support of the community. The day the original store opened, Curtis had only had one dollar to his name, he said. “I didn’t have a dime and this man and woman comes to me and hands me a check for $500 and said, ‘This is our gift, we want to be part of what you’re doing,’” Curtis said. “So there are people who believe in what I’m doing, they believe in what I stand for and they know my heart. Do I wish I had more money? Sure I do, everybody does. But it’s not about the money, it’s about changing lives.” In January of 2014, the town of Boone informed Curtis of his eviction due to upcoming construction of the franchise restaurant Zaxby’s. For several months, Curtis searched for a new location and sold goods on the side of the road, he said. Curtis did not want to move too far out of town for fear App State students would no longer be able to reach the store. After facing resistance from the Town of Boone on commercial guidelines, he found a new location on King Street. Immediately, Curtis contacted the owner and leased the space. The building was previously abandoned for two years due to faulty plumbing on the second floor, Curtis said. After two months of renovating, painting and improvements to the ceiling and floor, Veggies, Fruits and More opened for business last November. Since the move, his customers have changed, Curtis said. The locals in the community avoid the store due to traffic congestion and so business is almost completely generated by students. “One thing I do is respect these kids and they respect me,” Curtis said. “Here’s the thing I realize: Even if they don’t change now, sometime or another they’re going to remember an old, fat ugly man that loved them and showed them great respect. They’ll remember some of the things I told them.”

The students are loyal to him, Curtis said. One day when the store’s credit card machine broke, he encouraged customers to sign their tickets and come back when the machine started working. Every student came back to pay what they owed. “I remember when the machine was broken,” said local waitress Alex Garcia. “At first I thought [Curtis] was joking when he let me walk out without paying – of course I was going to go back and pay him. What a nice thing to do.” Customers provide Curtis with validation of his positive influence over their lives, Curtis said. On more than one occasion students have told him that they love him and appreciate the work he is doing. Mary-Catherine Duffer has supported Curtis’ business for over two years. While Curtis searched for a new store, Duffer continued to shop at his stand and offered to help him, earning herself a position as an employee at the new location. “Allen is a character, I never know what to expect from him,” Duffer said. “He has had a great influence on my experience here in Boone, he is a strong member of our community and I would say that Allen has a great relationship with the students. He loves talking to people.” Curtis said now more than ever it is important to become involved in student life with the alarming number of student deaths occurring in recent months. Last year alone, Appalachian State University faced nine student deaths relating to suicide, drug overdose and various accidents. This semester, there has been one death of a student due to drug overdose, reported in September. “That should not be,” Curtis said. “It really bothers me.” Since the deaths, the counseling center on campus has increased staff levels and appointed a director of wellness and prevention. Curtis hopes to help by making himself available for students to come to with their problems. He enjoys speaking with the students because they, like him, are driven to make a difference in their community. “How would you describe me in one word?” Curtis asked a student from Appalachian State. The student replied, “Wholesome.” “Wholesome?” Curtis said. “I was going to say caring – but I’ll agree with that.” In return for their respect, Curtis treats his students the same way he treats his children. In the months in which Veggies, Fruits and More has been open, Curtis has succeeded in his mission of establishing a positive relationship with the students of ASU. “If it’s all for self-gain, you could die a millionaire, but when you die you’re just like everybody else,” Curtis said. “You can’t take it with you. I can’t tell you I don’t want to make money, that’s not what I’m saying, but I’m saying there’s more to it than a George Washington or an Abraham Lincoln.”

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SENIOR CLASS LEAVES A LEGACY OF UNITY

BY JESS LYONS SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER

he womens soccer team's class of nine seniors has successfully finished their season with a 5-3-1 conference record and a 9-6-3 overall record. Senior Day was held Sunday during the last game of the season against Georgia State University before the Sun Belt Conference tournament. Fans gathered at the front of the bleachers with large printouts of the seniors faces to commemorate all they’ve done during their careers. Despite all of the emphasis put on the seniors through celebratory days and gestures from the team, members of the senior class stressed that this season has never really been about them. “Summing it up I think our senior class has always been more about the team than it has been about the seniors,” senior midfielder Jenni Loveless said. “The season has been about the team and never about the seniors, because if it was about us the team wouldn’t be where it is right now.” Loveless also mentioned it matters more what role everyone on the team plays and not what year they are or how long they’ve been a member of the Mountaineers. Senior forward Jenn Bass stressed the importance of individual roles on the team. She emphasized that by playing as a unit, and not by class, has allowed the team to work out their kinks from years prior and create a strong program. The senior class for the Mountaineers as a whole stressed that playing for their team has brought them so much farther than playing for a senior legacy. “We’ve definitely implemented the idea of playing for each other and coming together and knowing that we’re playing for something so much bigger than ourselves,” senior defender Merlin Beckwith said. “It’s been a great season because we’ve overcome adversity. We’ve gone up and down, but we’ve pushed through it and we’re always ready for the next game.” Throughout the season the senior class has put in impressive amounts of minutes, goals and shutouts during their last season. Senior goalkeeper Megan Roberson has played 1,402 minutes out of the 1,680 minute total in the season and boasted an overall save percentage of 75.3 in goal. She also pitched four shutouts. The entire senior class has played in all 18 games this season, and with three goals apiece, senior forward Sam Childress and Beckwith tied for the lead in goal count for seniors. Beckwith also led the senior class in assists with a total of four. Even with so much success on the field, the senior class stresses it’s some of the off-the-field comradery with the team that they’ll miss the most. “The singing, the bus rides, those are memories you look back on. It’s going to different places and having new experiences with a team you love,” Beckwith said. Seniors Carrie Taylor and Abbey Nolte also mentioned how much they’ll miss the bus rides that didn’t always make it to their destination and the practices with the team. “We make everyone feel really comfortable, which hasn’t always been a thing in

Header photo by Krista Gilbert

Kebrina Keys dribbles past a UNCW defender this season.

Courtesy of Tim Cowie the past. That’s something that our class has really wanted to set in because we want everyone to feel comfortable with the team and that if you’re a freshman you can feel comfortable talking to a senior,” Nolte said. “I think that’s something the other classes have really gotten from us and it will continue to apply even when we leave.” With a legacy of unity, comfort and success to leave behind for the rest of their teammates, the seniors prepare to take on their last tournament games starting Nov. 4 in Atlanta, Georgia, before ending their program-changing undergraduate soccer careers at Appalachian State University. 13

TROUNCING theTROJANS

APP STATE FACES TROY ON SATURDAY, OCT. 31

BY CHIRS WARNER SPORTS EDITOR

orment Teddy While Troy may not be the most prolific scoring team in the Sun Belt Conference, averaging a little under 25 points per game, they certainly have a dynamic weapon in senior wide receiver Teddy Ruben, who leads the team in receiving yards, kick return yards and punt return yards, among other categories. Ruben has already accumulated 468 yards on 33 receptions, five of which were touchdowns. Combine that with his 422 total return yards and a return touchdown, and you can see why he’s not someone that App State can allow to fly under the radar. I expect Ruben will see a heavy dose of cornerback Latrell Gibbs, who, after averaging an interception a game through his first five, hasn’t seen many passes come his way lately. If the Mountaineers can neutralize Ruben’s big-play ability, Troy’s offense has little to fall back on. IT’S A TRAP Coming off a week in which App State dominated rival Georgia Southern in a nationally televised game, received six AP Top 25 votes and became bowl-eligible for the first time, the stage has been set for a potential Troy upset. Add in the fact that the Mountaineers play in another nationally televised game next Thursday against Arkansas State in a conference deciding game and you can see why it would be easy for App State to look ahead. Especially against a struggling 2-5 Trojan team. But the path to a conference championship is paved one step at a time and a loss to Troy, while it wouldn’t completely crush the Mountaineers season, would remove App from the driver’s seat in securing a Sun Belt title. LET LAMB LEAD In case you’ve missed it, quarterback Taylor Lamb’s play, both through the air and on the ground, has been exceptional over the last three weeks. He’s racked up almost 1,000 total yards and nine total touchdowns, while only turning the ball over once during that same span. Plain and simple: That’s winning football. If Lamb continues this hot streak of play, not a single opponent on App State’s remaining schedule will top them.

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