FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENTS: “We invite you to join us today, in Parkway Ballroom (4th floor, Plemmons Student Union) as we deal with the tremendous loss our campus has suffered in the last few weeks and months.”
Thursday, Feb. 5 5 p.m. Parkway Ballroom
The Appalachian Thursday, February 5, 2015
The search for a president Appalachian faculty wonders what the UNC presidency search means for the future
by Laney Ruckstuhl News Editor
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has not announced when the search for a new system president will begin, though the process is already raising questions and may change. The resignation of current UNC-system president Tom Ross was unexpectedly announced last month during a regular BOG meeting. Ross said during a press conference following the announcement that he wasn’t planning on leaving just yet, but the BOG had a different timeline in mind. According to the resignation statement, Ross will continue to serve until Jan. 3, 2016 while the board begins the search. As is under the UNC Policy Manual, the procedure for the selection of a system president states that the search committee shall consist of 20 individuals, including four system chancellors, three faculty members, four BOG members, one student and eight others. However, the Board of Governors proposed a few possible changes to the search process in a meeting Jan. 24, though none of these proposals will be approved or denied until the BOG votes on the policy. The search is confidential,
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Tom Ross, president of the Univesity of North Carolina system, addresses the chancellor search committee at a meeting at Appalachian State University in August 2013.
but rumors have arisen of possible candidates. The leading rumor is Art Pope, North Carolina’s former budget director, as noted by The News & Observer and The Daily Tar Heel. Pope is also the state’s largest political donor, a known ally of conservative politicians such as the Koch brothers. On Jan. 20, Pope appeared on Time Warner Cable News’
Capital Tonight and denied that he was planning on running for the presidency, but said if asked, he would consider the position. “I would never flat rule out an opportunity to serve the public,” Pope told Tim Boyum during the interview. According to the policy manuals’ conflict of interest chapter, the BOG will not consider any person who
was a member of the BOG at any time during the twoyear period immediately preceding an appointment to any position. This provision would apply to BOG members who resigned from their posts, such as Fred Eshelman, who resigned June 30, 2014. Eshelman did not give reason for leaving, but could be considered for the presiden-
cy despite the provision if he were to be officially installed on or after June 30, 2016. Eshelman is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company and the primary financial supporter of a conservative 527 political action committee. He is the only member of the BOG to recently retire before his term limit expired,
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Wellness District to expand College of Health Sciences by Thomas Culkin News Reporter
In conjunction with Appalachian State University, the town of Boone has proposed a plan to turn part of the town into a Wellness District, which would improve quality of the area and add two facilities to the College of Health Sciences. The proposed district would consist of all the land between the middle fork of the South Fork New River and U.S. Highway 321 to the north and south as well as the Watauga Medical Center and Winkler Creek to the east and west. The total area is roughly 101 acres. There is currently no timeframe for
when construction on the district will begin. However, Carole Acquesta, director of Design and Construction at Appalachian, said construction could begin by late 2015 if the project gets fully funded. It is expected to take roughly two years to complete. According to the proposal, the plan’s intention is to create a more urban, pedestrian-friendly environment with a concentration on creating academic, wellness, residential, support and commercial buildings. To make the land more pedestrianfriendly, Bill Bailey, the director of Boone Planning and Inspections department, said renovations such as clearly delineated bicycle lanes and crosswalks of stamped asphalt and
concrete, rather than standard asphalt and larger sidewalks, will be implemented. “We want to create an atmosphere where people actually want to walk from place to place,” Bailey said. A key component of the plan is the addition of two buildings that will be a part of Appalachian’s College of Health Sciences, including a proposed office building. “You’ll see doctors’ offices in substandard buildings move into this nice new hi-tech building,” Bailey said. When the doctors move into the office building, Bailey said, the vacant lots created will become targets for developers looking to purchase land,
which would greatly benefit the town. The other building will be an academic building of classrooms and labs. The complex would consolidate all of the departments within the College of Health Sciences into a single building. Acquesta said putting all the departments together could be beneficial to both the students and faculty. “I believe it helps the students to access the facilities and the faculty as well more easily facilitate their learning,” Acquesta said. “It would also be close to the hospital, which would provide opportunities for collaboration.”
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Several campus groups hosted the 24-Hour Play Festival where 18 writers created 20 plays over the course of seven hours. A panel of students and professors chose between the 20 plays and those selected were performed the following day. The sold-out event took place Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
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Minorities look to educate majority by Nicole Caporaso Senior News Reporter
Campus organizations plan on educating majority students about life as a minority and the occurrence of microaggressions with a film showing and panel event next week. The office of Multicultural Student Development and the Cultural Awareness and Student Engagement council – a sector of Appalachian Popular Programming Society – are partnering together on Feb. 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. in I.G. Greer Super Cinema to present the film “Dear White People.” The panel discussion following the film will involve “seven or eight student leaders of minority groups on cam-
pus,” said Karissa Goff, chair of CASE and senior psychology major. The film, according to www.dearwhitepeoplemovie.com, is a satirical and comical portrayal of race relations at a predominantly white institution. Appalachian State University constitutes as a predominantly white institution, with white students making up approximately 86 percent of the student body, according to www.irap.appstate.edu. Goff said the panel will begin with predetermined questions from CASE, but audience members will be permitted to submit additional questions. Everette Nichols, vice chancellor of student development, said he is
proud of CASE for bringing the film to campus and he recognizes the educational value of the event for non-minority students. “This will show them that there are such things as microaggressions towards minority students and racial battle fatigue that minority students face on a daily basis,” Nichols said. “The film brings light to that in sort of a comedic way, but the second part of that event, the panel, shows that these things happen on Appalachian’s campus. Goff said she wants students of the majority to not feel like they have to walk on eggshells or avoid asking questions, but to learn to be conscious of daily behavior.
The target audience is majority students, who may not realize what minorities experience. Goff said the goal of the film and panel is not to make majority students feel guilty, but to give them the opportunity to gain awareness of this reality. “As much as a family that we are here, these things do happen to our students and they have become more of an issue with recent events that have happened,” Nichols said. Both Nichols and Goff agreed it is important not only for organizations to come together to host events like these, but also for events of similar nature to be held year-round and not only during Black History Month.
“It’s important for events to continue happening because it keeps the conversation going, it doesn’t let it sit still and it pushes the conversation to audiences that may not otherwise see it or be prompted to have the conversation about race and ethnicities,” Nichols said. Goff mentioned the idea of white privilege and said it is something she recently learned about. “I think the biggest thing I learned about it is that just because you have a privilege doesn’t mean you have to feel guilty and I think that turns a lot of people off about the discussion,” Goff said. “Things that white people miss, people in the minority are conscious of every day.”
Appalachian Voices advocates for energy efficiency by Chamian Cruz Intern News Reporter
Appalachian Voices, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting the southern Appalachian region’s environment, has taken the community’s energy efficiency issue into their own hands by providing the High Country Energy Makeover Contest. The contest is aimed to create awareness on the need for energy efficiency and to provide three customers of Blue Ridge Electric Corporation with energy efficiency makeovers to improve their commodity, reduce energy bills, improve the value of their homes, reduce the community’s impact on the environment and improve the local economic status. “It really came apparent to us when we dove into this community-based outreach that there really is a high need for an energy efficiency program,” said Eliza Laubach, AmeriCorps education outreach associate at Appalachian Voices. The contest received more than 50 applications from BRE customers, Laubach said. The contest was financed from donations and sponsors and local contractors provided their service to start fixing the homes
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of the winners. To participate in the contest, people had to fill out an application and send in photos of their home, copies of their monthly electricity and, if applicable, gas bills for the last 12 months. Winners were chosen based on need. Appalachian Voices gave a grand total of $4,850 for the contest – one grand prizewinner was awarded $3,350 and two runner-up winners were awarded $800 for home energy efficiency improvements, according to a press release from Appalachian Voices. “The reason why we had to narrow it down to three people is because we wanted to make a big impact, and in order to make a big impact, it costs money,” Laubach said. “Our campaign is all about creating financial means for people to upgrade their homes to be more energy efficient.” BRE, New River Light and Power and Mountain Electric serve residents of the High Country, but none of theses companies offer their members comprehensive financial support for home efficiency improvements, according to www.appvoices.org. Appalachian Voices concentrated on BRE customers specifically, because they are
know in advance since it’s laid out in the plan,” Bailey said. Bailey predicts many of the buildings in the area would have to be demolished and rebuilt rather than renovated. “Many of the buildings are so old that you’ll have to remove them,” Bailey said. “They no longer function [and] they’re not efficient or sustainable.”
one of the largest electric cooperatives in the area, serving approximately 73,700 people in counties such as Watauga, Ashe, Caldwell, Alleghany and others, according to www.blueridgeemc.com Appalachian Voices said some BRE members come from low-income households with high-energy bills due to the energy that is wasted every day from their homes, because they serve an area with an average poverty rate of 23 percent. To improve the situation further, Appalachian Voices is asking BRE to offer on-bill financing, a loan program for residential electricity customers that can be received from their electric utility to pay for comprehensive energy efficient improvements and upgrades, which is then repaid over time through their monthly electric bill. “On-bill financing would allow people that don’t otherwise have the extra income to make these energy efficiency upgrades for their home, because they are really expensive to labor and [pay for] the material,” Laubach said. Due to the low-income or unemployment of many residents in Watauga County, residents lack funds to improve
their homes. “Most homes around here don’t have sufficient insulation [and] they have a lot of air leaks, so the people are paying their utilities for energy that they don’t get to see the benefit from,” Laubach said. In 2013, an estimated value of $80 billion was wasted due to not implementing the best available technologies and solutions in network-enabled devices, such as set-up boxes, modems, printers and game consoles, according to the International Energy Agency. Laubach also encourages people in the community to sign the petition for BRE to offer an energy efficiency program and to get involved in March by canvassing from door-to-door to educate homeowners about energy efficiency. The petition can be found at www.appvoices.org/eepetition. “Here at Appalachian Voices, we are very thankful to our sponsors who helped make this contest possible,” Laubach said. “We hope [BRE] will see through this contest the great need that there is for energy efficiency programs in the High Country and will offer on-bill finance in the near future.”
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Sigma Alpha Omega to spread love through service work by Nicole Caporaso Senior News Reporter
Sigma Alpha Omega, a Christian sorority at Appalachian State University, is seeking to aid the community while sharing their love of Christ. The sorority’s national service week will begin Feb. 9 and end Feb. 13. Each day has an individual service-based event, as well as a week-long clothing drive collection. Clothing collection will occur in Plemmons Student Union during the week from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day except Wednesday, when it will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. There will additionally be a collection box in the Child Development Center. Allison Whitaker, SAO’s fundraising chair and junior elementary education major, said the sisters will be volun-
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 but has not made a statement regarding intention to run for the presidency. It is important to note that these are just rumors and no candidates have been identified. Appalachian’s Faculty Senate Vice Chair Paul Gates said he thinks the criteria for hiring the next president should include actual classroom and university administrative experience “I think it would be a huge mistake to hire somebody who is not an academic,” Gates said. “Public education needs
teering at the food pantry of Boone’s First Baptist Church, F.A.R.M. Cafe and the Watauga County Humane Society, respectively, Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday, their goal is to buy a stranger a cup of coffee. The week will end with a craft night for making Valentine’s Day cards for the residents of Glenbridge Health and Rehabilitation on Friday, and Saturday will be spent delivering the cards and clothes from the clothing drive to Goodwill. Emily Carter, public relations chair and senior psychology major said the sorority is not so different from other panhellenic organizations on campus. “We’re a social sorority founded in Christian ideals,” Carter said. “All of our events are sober, but we still have formals and mixers and social events. We also have bible study every week,
we have a devotion during chapter, but we have a big and little, we have everything.” Alexa Roseman, service chair and junior social work major said SAO has been doing a national service week since 2007. “As a Christian sorority in general, we want to love others well by serving Christ and not rub it in people’s faces and not push religion on them, but show them the love of Christ and be able to serve people regardless of their differences,” Roseman said. Roseman said she is most excited for the clothing drive and the impact it could have. “I’ve worked in a homeless shelter before and I’ve seen the look on people’s faces when they get a new outfit or a voucher,” Roseman said. “It’s a small thing, but has just such big effects.”
Roseman said by donating the clothes to Goodwill, residents of the Hospitality House will receive vouchers to select new clothing. Whitaker said she is most looking forward to the food pantry organization on Monday. “It doesn’t feel like it’s much, just organizing and sorting cans, but in the long run it’s providing meals for someone who otherwise might not get one,” Whitaker said. “It goes farther and it’s just really cool, I’ve seen how it affects peoples’ lives.” Carter said the sorority will be asking campus for help, especially with the clothing drive. “This is important to us, especially with everything that’s happened on campus and throughout the community lately,” Carter said. “We want to spread God’s joy – it’s a precious gift.”
a friend, not an enemy. I fear that we’re not going to get that.” Andy Koch, Faculty Senate chair, member of the UNC-system’s Faculty Assembly and of no relation to the Koch brothers said he is reluctant to believe any rumors surrounding possible candidacy, but also hopes they will look for someone with academic experience. Andy Koch said the Faculty Assembly, made up of the chairs from every UNCsystem school’s faculty senate, is apprehensive about the search. “Ross had a pretty good relationship with the faculty assembly and his sudden removal has raised a lot of concerns and unanswered questions,” Koch said.
Koch listed possible fears among the Faculty Senate as less respect for faculty governance, lowered funding for research, higher teaching loads and lack of tenure, among others. “There is fear that the new president won’t be as respectful of having a faculty voice in participating in the decision making at the highest level of the system,” he said.
However, Koch said he doesn’t want to speculate until the BOG gives a clear signal as to what they are planning for the future of the system. “These are nothing but fears,” Koch said. “We have no reason to believe that they’re going to do anything because we don’t know what the policies will be. There are not just potential dangers, there are potential benefits.”
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5 Submit Announcements App News is a service of the Division of Student Development. Email dycheab@appstate.edu. Submissions should not exceed 100 words and must include the event title, date/time, location and cost, and a contact email, phone and/or URL. Announcements will be edited as needed and will run as space allows. Preference given for events that are free or have a nominal cost. Student Leadership Awards Nominations are open for Student Leadership Awards through Feb. 23. Nominations are requested for students who provide significant leadership and service and go beyond what would normally be expected of them in their particular leader or service role. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Development. Two forms (nomation and student data form) are required for a complete nomination, and are available at studentdev.appstate.edu/leadership-and-service-awards. Each year, Appalachian State University recognizes Student Leaders for their service and leadership to the university at a Student Leadership Award Ceremony sponsored by the Office of Student Development. The ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m. April 24, Parkway Ballroom, PSU. Career Development Center Workshops • LinkedIn Presentations, 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. Feb. 5-6, Three Top Mountain, PSU • CareerFest, noon-4 p.m. Feb. 19, Holmes Convocation Center Free tax assistance ASU’s Walker College of Business will provide free tax assistance for individuals or families with a combined household income of $60,000 or less. Anyone can prepare and e-file their own federal and state income taxes for free using www.myfreetaxes.com. The Free Tax Help Lab, will be held 5-7 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, through April 15, room 2014, Peacock Hall. Email hofmannma@ appstate.edu. Transfer Connect Open to transfer students, and presented by the ASU Counseling Center. Call 828-262-3180 or visit counseling.appstate.edu. • Speed-Friending: Get to Know Other Transfer Students! 5:306:30 p.m. Feb. 5 (Rough Ridge), 9 (Three Top Mountain) and 24 (Table Rock), PSU • Ask a Question/Save a Life: Suicide Prevention Training, 5:307:30 p.m. March 4, Rough Ridge, PSU • Stress Management: Finish the Semester on a Strong Note, 5:306:30 p.m. April 8 and 9, Rough Ridge, PSU Ski specials ASU’s Outdoor Programs partnered with Appalachian Ski Mountain to offer ASU deals for the Midnight Blast sessions, 5 p.m.midnight Feb. 6 and 27. Lift tickets
are $15; rentals, group lessons are discounted. Show your ASU student ID to to receive discounts. DIY with IDS The Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies will hold an information session on the Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Feb. 9, Price Lake, PSU. Email goodmantk@appstate.edu. Find out how you can design your own major through the IDS program of study: create your own rigorous curriculum; combine coursework from across multiple disciplines; develop depth and breadth as you prepare for a career path, profession, or graduate studies. Campus safety concerns The Appalachian Student Chapter of the American Correctional Association will host Campus Safety Concerns: Active Shooters and Other Threats, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10, room 110, Anne Belk Hall. The event will feature Chief Gunther Doerr, Director of Public Safety & Risk Management at ASU. Free and open to the ASU community. Expressive Arts Group for Veterans Open to any faculty, staff and student veterans at Appalachian State University. The group’s purpose is to allow for the establishment of community amongst veterans and to offer creative outlets to explore through multiple modes of expression. Email falckms@appstate.edu or call 828-262-2696.
All sessions will be held at 5:45 p.m. in room 306, College of Education. The dates are: Feb. 10, Feb. 24, March 17, March 31, April 14 and April 28.
The Wellness Workshops Presented by the Counseling Center, The Wellness Workshops: Feelin’ Good in the Neighborhood. Call 828-262-3180 or visit counseling.appstate.edu • Bored and Brilliant: The Lost Art of Spacing Out, 11 a.m.-noon Feb. 11, Three Top Mountain, PSU • Survive and Thrive: Suicide Prevention Training, noon-2 p.m. Feb. 23, Three Top Mountain, PSU • It’s NOT all about the BASE: Crafting a Compassionate Sense of Self, 4:15-5:15 p.m. March 3, Rough Ridge, PSU • Talk to the Paw: Come Destress with Allstar, the Dog, 4-5 p.m. March 26, Three Top Mountain, PSU • Reducing Stress with Mindfulness, 12:30-1:30 p.m. April 15, Three Top Mountain, PSU
Expressive Arts (EXA) Studio The studio seeks to engage Appalachian faculty, staff and graduate students in exploring how art-making can sustain individuals and communities. Will be held 3-5:30 p.m. in room 301 in the College of Education. Email platok@appstate.edu. • Feb. 13: EXA Soul Collage • Feb. 20: EXA Open Studio • Feb. 27: EXA Studio TBA
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8 Drew Leslie, Trombone, and Bernard Flythe, Tuba Faculty Recital, 2 p.m., Rosen Concert Hall, free
9 Green Chemical Processing of Biodiesel using Microwaves and Ultrasound, 5 p.m., room 114, Belk Library DIY with IDS, 3:30 p.m., Price Lake, PSU
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Fracking: Facts and Fiction, 3:30 p.m., Parkway Ballroom, PSU
“Thoroughly Modern Millie” screening, 7 p.m., Greenbriar, PSU, $1
“Dear White People” Bored and Brilliant: The Lost Art screening, 7 p.m., of Spacing Out, 11 I.G. Greer, free a.m., Three Top Mountain, PSU Campus safety concerns, 5:30 p.m., room 110, Anne Belk Hall, free
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Healing our Soils: True Sustainabilp.m., I.G. Greer, $2 ity for Field, Farm, and Forest, 9 Samantha Frye Stu- a.m., Cooperative dent Voice Recital, Extension Confer6 p.m., Recital Hall, ence Center free Healing Arts Todd Wright’s ValYoga, 10:30 a.m., entine Evening, 8 Turchin Center, p.m., Rosen Concert $5-$10 Hall, free
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Horn in the West begins search for talent at home by Lovey Cooper Senior A&E Reporter
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erformers sung, danced and recited monologues outdoors in the cold Saturday in hopes of doing the same all summer this year for Horn in the West’s annual auditions. The outdoor Revolutionary War drama, now in its 64th year of production, is looking to fill around 40 spots in their cast this year overall. Last year the drama cast around 16 locals and Appalachian State University students from the 60 to 80 people who show up to this first of three mass auditions. “The local people have a couple of advantages – for one, they’re from this place, their heart is in it and we know them – they’re not strangers to us,” said second-year director Theresa Lee. She and other organizers are above all looking for talent and stage presence – and the strength needed to light up an outdoor amphitheater in all sorts of weather, six days a week, all summer long. Singers and speakers must be able to sustain their voices above cicadas, and all performers must wear several layers of period-accurate clothing in the heat on a sand stage. “If you’ve never done it before, there’s really no way to convey what it’s like,” said senior theater major Jake Dailey. “When I first auditioned for it two summers ago, I remember everyone told me all these things and
I said, ‘Yeah sure, whatever,’ but once I got there it hit me.” Dailey first auditioned on a whim two years ago in hopes of finding relevant summer work that would last the whole summer. He was cast as a dancer the first year and landed a principle speaking role the following while also serving as fight captain. “First of all, you want to show the technical abilities of being loud and clear and physically capable of doing things, then you just have to show that you’re dedicated,” Dailey said. “In these things it’s very easy to get frustrated or overwhelmed and I’ve seen people come very close to breakdowns.” That said, he does acknowledge that Horn in the West serves as one of the best places to make connections and network in the theater world with other actors of all levels of experience, in and out of the state. “It’s a really wonderful first or second or third job for theater students,” Lee said. Lee first got involved with the Southern Appalachian Historical Association, which puts on the show, in 1989 after she moved to Boone and started the Daniel Boone Theater for Youth. Five years ago she trained with the stage combat fight master for Horn in the West, although she was not involved with the show yet, in hopes of building her own training for use in her theater classes at the university. Last year, after she re-
turned to work with the cast, the position opened up and she was chosen to replace the long-running director. First on her list was to make changes to the existing scripts in hopes of bringing the story and its characters more into the 21st century, namely by correcting some historical inaccuracies and misrepresentations of the Cherokee characters in the original script. This has been done in part through the help of a Nancy Ward descendent and reenactor to help with portrayals, as well as Cherokee representatives from Hickory Ridge living museum, said Alice Neff, costumer for the show who has taken this advice to heart even down to the techniques used to dye her fabric. “I think we have all learned to love history even more than we did, and I think it’s a great way for the audience to learn it too,” Neff said. The show depicts a battle that many think of as the turning point of the revolution. Senior theater major Emily Candelario will be returning for her second year as a performer after first being hired to help with some costume stitching three years ago. She has since performed dual roles of costumer and actor, sometimes filling many roles on stage in one night, necessitating several costume changes each. “It’s a different experience than you can get with any other form of educational theater,” Candelario said.
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Auditions for Horn in the West’s revolutionary war outdoor drama were held Jan. 31. Last year the show cast 16 locals and Appalachian students. The show is looking to cast 40 spots this year for the revolutionary war outdoor drama based on Daniel Boone’s involvement in the war.
“Any professional theater company is going to be different, especially since this is outdoors, and it presents a different slew of problems.” Especially given Boone’s summer rain, heat, changing humidifies and shifting temperatures even just over the course of a single night, returning to the show year after year proves to other companies that beginning actors have the wherewithal to stay loyal to a theatre – and that the theatre wants them back. “You wouldn’t go back to Horn if you didn’t love it,” Candelario said. “You have to love it to put up with the long hours and long days.” Following this weekend’s auditions, Lee will travel to Memphis, Tennessee for Unified Professional Theater auditions at the end of this week, where she anticipates 850 people will try out for parts – and expects to see around the same number at
the Southeastern Theater Conference auditions the first weekend in March. The show’s cast in the past has featured everyone from 5-year-old twin girls to 40-year-old men, all of varying experience. “The people that come to see the show – even though the story takes place in the Revolutionary War era – what appeals to audiences is that they can see themselves on stage,” Lee said. “They see their own lives.” Casting will be finalized after all the paperwork is finished in mid-March. Technicians will show up June 5 and actors start June 12. Horn in the West’s final show, which has been in the works since last August, opens June 26th, and runs Tuesday through Sunday at 8 p.m. until mid-August. For more information visit www.horninthewest.com.
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“Check out Holy Ghost for some ASU alumni and Old Buck followed by Whatever Brains...they couldn’t be more different.” MERRICK MARQUIE, President of the Appalachian Popular Programming Society “[Whatever Brains] magnetic art-punk, intricate electronicsdrenched noisey rock… they are triumphantly unclassifiable. Vitamin Pets and Homework Mountain [respectively] concoct emphatic garage rock and roll.” DEVON TUTTLE, Local booking agent and cultural curator
“If you aren’t seeing Whatever Brains, you probably don’t like music. Be at Black Cat on Friday for all-over-the-place excellent ‘rawk.’” RUSSEL BOMER, Fat Cats Employee and Drummer of local band Way Das
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are the dog, the members of society who don’t have a voice and who can’t do anything about the decisions being made by people in power.” The festival was sold out, Lawrence said.
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White said the next on-campus student production will be the Playcrafter’s New Play Festival, Feb. 1921 at 7 p.m. in the I.G. Greer studio theater. The festival will include four plays that are student-directed and -acted. Admission is $5.
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RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE WITH SENSATION OF FALLING
Progressive funk / fusion with lots of horns 10:30 p.m. @ Boone Indie/Alternative Rock Saloon 10 p.m. @ Murphy’s $5 / 21+ $5 / 21+
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The 24-Hour Play Festival ran last weekend from Saturday evening to Sunday at 3 p.m., with a final performance in I.G. Greer’s studio theater. Participating Appalachian State University students were challenged to write, cast, direct and design plays in a 24-hour period, said Carmen Lawrence, stage manager for the production and senior theatre performance major. The Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Honors Society, Playcrafters, the Musical Theatre Club, the Appalachian Women’s Theatre Troupe and the Technical Theater Club collaborated to make the event possible. “We tried to come up with something all the clubs could do together, and this was a great solution,” said Lawrence, who is also the president of the Women’s Theatre Troupe. Eighteen writers created 20 plays over the course of seven hours, Lawrence said. Seven were chosen for the following day’s performance. A panel of students and professors chose between the 20 plays in a 45-minute period. “A lot of different theatre club presidents were on the panel, and we looked at a lot of factors when choosing what to present,” Lawrence said. “We wanted the plays to be PG-13 and not monologue intensive. We had to message a lot of the writers to apologize for not putting their play in, but we asked them to flush it out and submit again next time. It was a hard task in 45 minutes.” After choosing the plays, directors moved on to casting, said sophomore theatre education major Breanna Glosson, who starred in a play called “Ten Minutes to Save
the World.” “Casting took place over a twoand-half-hour process,” Glosson said. “All the directors sat in a room and the actors sat behind them. Each read the same monologue individually in turn, before they called in the dancers and then the men to read for their parts. Everyone got a part, which is good, but they had to debate and argue over who would get what person.” The most difficult part of acting in the play was remembering the lines, and deciding what to wear for the play at 5 a.m., Glosson said. “For the costuming, me and the girl in the play with me ran to my dorm at five in the morning and silently went to my closet before tossing all my clothes around,” Glosson said. “I needed to wear something businesslike and she needed to wear something flowery, tasteful and expensive-looking.” Senior theatre major and Playcrafters president Luke White wrote “Ten Minutes to Save the World” about two women forced to solve the world’s problems after being deemed Earth’s smartest people. “The idea for my play came out with a drunken conversation with a friend,” White said. “We were talking about all the problems of the world and how we could solve them, and how we could inevitably just look out for ourselves.” White’s play featured a comic relief character – a dog who commented on the character’s actions throughout the play. “We needed an objective voice of reason to differentiate between the people who were looking out for themselves,” White said. “Since the two main characters are affluent members of society looking out for themselves, to them the people
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opinion
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UNC protest addresses vital questions of history, race Kevin Griffin Opinion Writer
Editor’s note: This is a first in a two-part series on race and history and their impact. For all the bad news surrounding the numerous deaths of minorities at the hands of law enforcement, there was the positive development of renewed public discourse on fundamental questions of race and privilege. Unfortunately, this subject seemed to have slipped out of media attention. Still, there are plenty of indications that the spirit these incidents aroused is very much alive. Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are currently engaged in a
movement to rename Saunders Hall, a building named for William Saunders, a 19th century North Carolina politician and Colonial-records compiler who was involved with the Ku Klux Klan. The push to rename the building is occurring as part of a larger movement called #KickOutTheKKK, which works to give context to racial history at the university, according to a group Facebook post. A movement such as this is important in that it addresses the critical issue of how we understand our racial history. It is absolutely right and necessary to have uncomfortable conversations. Americans generally have a difficult time facing the reality of our history and the frequently troubling implications that history has for American society. Yet we should have the conversation and become
involved in movements precisely because those conversations are so uncomfortable. As uncomfortable as conversations of race are for most white Americans, not addressing these issues is directly harmful to members of society who must live daily with the consequences of our unwillingness to engage the subject. To not speak up or get involved is to put in jeopardy essential values like freedom, justice and equality before the law. I know from personal experience with this issue the depths to which conversations on historical landmarks can devolve. In 2011, not far from my home in the town of Reidsville, controversy erupted surrounding a Confederate soldier statue that had been damaged in a car wreck. The ensuing debate addressed the issue of where the statute should be and what its
meaning was. I see many of the same points that were raised in the Confederate statue debate being raised in the movement to rename the building, particularly points about Southern heritage and the suppression of Southern history. The Southern heritage argument is rendered hollow when we consider the dishonest, simplistic and self-protective view many Southerners prefer to take on their history. As for suppression of history, all historical narratives contain distortions and exclusions. This is certainly true of the idealized view of Southern history. Acknowledging previous marginalized groups and more critically examining history only helps us better understand it, as well as our current situation. Griffin, a junior journalism major from Madison, is an opinion writer.
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Patriots’ duo is most dominant tandem in NFL history Chris Warner Sports Reporter
For 14 years, the New England Patriots have continued to defy conventional wisdom. When the NFL adopted the current unrestricted free agency model in 1992, experts claimed that the turnover of team rosters resulting from this system would curtail the creation of dynasties, killing the perennial powerhouses that dominated the league for so long. But in 2001, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick teamed up to do the impossible: build a dy-
nasty. Brady, a former sixth round pick out of Michigan, replaced incumbent quarterback Drew Bledsoe after his season ended because of a hit that caused internal bleeding. He has been the starter, excluding injury, every game since. In that time, the Patriots have won 181 games, including 21 in the postseason. More impressively, they’ve managed to play in six Super Bowls, tying Belichick with Hall of Fame coach Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins for most appearances. From 2001-2005, they managed to win three out of four Super Bowls, becoming only the second team in NFL history to do so, the other being the Dallas Cowboys. The difference is Belichick is the first head coach to do it, as the Cowboys had two coaches
during their streak, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer. The Patriots won their fourth title Sunday over the Seattle Seahawks in Brady’s best Super Bowl performance of his career, one that secured him his third Super Bowl MVP, tying Joe Montana for most all-time. The victory also tied Belichick with Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll of the Steelers for most Super Bowl wins, and increased Belichick’s record of postseason wins to 22, two ahead of Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry who coached the Cowboys. The craziest part is, were it not for arguably the greatest catch in Super Bowl history by Giants’ wide receiver David Tyree in 2007, and another improbable catch by Giants’ wide receiver Mario Manningham in 2011, the Patriots title total might be
higher. Brady and Belichick have never had a losing season together. From 2003-2013, they won a record 126 games, including a record 21 straight in 2003-2004. In 2007, they went undefeated in the regular season – the first to do so in the 16game format. They’ve also been in nine total AFC Championships, including the previous four seasons consecutively. The craziest part of it all is that Brady told reporters Sunday that he’s not done yet. As a Buffalo Bills fan, I can’t say I’m happy for the news, but I’m appreciative to have been alive to witness the best quartback-coach combination the NFL has ever seen. Warner, a junior journalism major from Waxhaw, is an intern sports reporter.
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One game at a time by Cory Spiers Sports Editor
Forgetting last game The Mountaineers (8-11, 5-5) were rolling along after ripping off four-straight wins before being brought back down to Earth by a talented Georgia Southern squad on the road Jan. 29. App State struggled to make baskets against the Eagles in the 83-46 loss. That game marked the third time this season that the Mountaineers were held to under 50 points. When this App State team struggles to score early, it seems as if they start forcing shots, losing confidence and as a result, struggle to make open shots later in the game. The matchup with Georgia Southern wasn’t the first time this season that the Mountaineers have had shooting woes, but during their fourgame winning streak, the offense was doing just enough to win and the team has to reach that point once again to get back into the win column. Setting up for a strong finish The Mountaineers have 10 games remaining and six of them are home games, including a stretch of four straight at home to close out the regular season. If the Mountaineers can generate some momentum going down the stretch, they have a chance to match last year’s win total of nine and expand on it even more in head coach Jim Fox’s first season at the helm.
App State M E N ‘ S
B A S K E T B A L L
Feb. 5 @ Louisiana (12-10, 6-5 Sun Belt) Lafayette, Louisiana @ 8:15 p.m. Feb. 7 vs. Troy (8-12, 3-8 Sun Belt) Boone @ 3:30 p.m.
LAST GAME
FIRST MATCH
46-83
of the season against
Louisiana and Troy
vs. Georgia Southern The Mountaineers had a four-game winning streak SNAPPED in their last game against Georgia Southern.
App State's 46 points against the Eagles ties their lowest single-game point total of the season and marks the third time the team has been held to under 50 points. AVG POINTS ALLOWED
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
70 POINTS PER GAME
63.4
PLAYER TO WATCH
JACOB LAWSON
Junior forward Jacob Lawson was one of the few bright spots for App State against the Eagles. Lawson led the team in blocks with four and finished just behind junior guard Frank Eaves for the scoring lead with eight points. Lawson also added an assist and three rebounds. If the big forward is gaining confidence, App State could look to rely on that to create momentum.
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W O M E N ‘ S
B A S K E T B A L L
Feb. 5 @ Louisiana (14-6, 6-5 Sun Belt) Lafayette, Louisiana @ 6 p.m. Feb. 7 vs. Troy (12-8, 7-4 Sun Belt) Boone @ 1 p.m.
LAST GAME
FIRST MATCH
77-74
of the season against
vs. Georgia Southern
Louisiana and Troy
The Mountaineers have won two of their last three games. The Mountaineers finished the month of January with a 5-5 record. AVG POINTS ALLOWED
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
70.8 POINTS PER GAME
70.8
PLAYER TO WATCH
BRIA CARTER
Sophomore guard Bria Carter has been playing well as of late. Carter could be a differ ence maker for the Mountaineers after gaining confidence by leading the team in rebounds against Georgia Southern with 11. Carter also tied with junior guard Bria Huffman for the scoring lead in that game with 16 points.
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App State looks to sustain success by Cory Spiers Sports Editor
Winning close ones App State’s last four wins have all come by four points or less. The Mountaineers (10-9, 5-5) have shown a propensity for closing out games and have won two of their last three. Head coach Angel Elderkin has seen some new faces emerge to make a difference after senior forward Maryah Sydnor suffered an injury. Sophomore guard Bria Carter has been a difference maker for the Mountaineers, particularly defensively.
Home cooking App State has 10 games remaining and six of them are home games, including the last four games of the season. That is great news for the Mountaineers, who are 7-2 at home this season. With so many home games left, the Mountaineers can still make a statement with their first-year head coach at the helm.