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APPS brings Cherub back to Legends on Friday for a show that sold out in just 24 days. Doors open at 8 p.m.
App State football takes on longtime rival Georgia Southern on the road Thursday night. Check out how they can win on our game day infographic.
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App State faces Georgia Southern in first Sun Belt match by Bryant Barbery Sports Reporter
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he Georgia Southern Eagles and the App State Mountaineers meet once again on the gridiron. Except this time, things are different. The game marks the first Sun Belt contest for the Mountaineers and is to be broadcast on national television on ESPNU. The meeting is the 29th between the two rivals dating back to 1934. The Eagles and Mountaineers first started to play on a regular basis when Georgia Southern joined the Southern Conference in 1993. App State holds a 1512-1 advantage in the all-time series and has won eight of the last eleven matchups. Thursday’s game will be the first time the rivalry will be nationally televised. Last season, App State came into the matchup with Georgia Southern at home on Black Saturday with only one win while the Eagles were 4-2. The Mountaineers dismantled the Eagles, winning 38-14 after which things began to click for App State. The Mountaineers would win two more games on the season under then first-year head coach Scott Satterfield. Since then, the Eagles have had success and some changes. At the end of last season, the Eagles defeated the Florida Gators 26-20 on the road in argu-
ably the biggest win in school history. After the season finished, Georgia Southern head coach Jeff Monken left the program to take the head coaching job for Army. The Eagles wasted no time in bringing in a replacement, adding Willie Fritz as their new head coach. Fritz had his share of success at the FCS level leading Sam Houston State to several championship game appearances in recent years. Coming into tonight’s game, the Eagles are 2-2 in their first FBS season with a blowout 83-9 victory at home against Savannah State and a 28-6 conference win at South Alabama. The Eagles two losses came against ACC foes N.C. State and Georgia Tech. In both games Georgia Southern had the lead with only minutes to go in the fourth quarter but could not finish out the game. Quarterback Kevin Ellison starts against the Mountaineers and comes into the matchup with 500 passing yards and three touchdowns helping his offense to be the second-most potent in the Sun Belt. Another standout for the Eagles is sophomore running back Matt Breida, who was just named the Sun Belt’s offensive player of the week after amassing 187 yards and two touchdowns in their win at South Alabama. He is averaging 8.9 yards
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The Appalachian State University football team storms the field before its 66-0 victory over the Campbell University Camels.
per carry which is good for sixth in the FBS. He also has the most touchdowns in the conference with seven in just four games. For the Mountaineers, redshirt-freshman quarterback Taylor Lamb will get his second career start with his first coming in last week’s 21-20 loss at Southern Mississippi. Lamb completed 28 of 40 pass attempts, throwing for 264 yards and two touchdowns. “Lamb has been more consistent with throwing the football,
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managing the offense a little better and a little bit more on time with the routes delivering the ball a little quicker,” quarterbacks coach Frank Ponce said. “The coaching staff felt that we needed to make the change last game. We felt good about the decision of starting him last game and how he performed out there.” On the ground, sophomore running back Marcus Cox has 280 rushing yards on the season with four touchdowns. The
other side of the two-pronged ground attack is redshirt-freshman Terrence Upshaw who has 183 rushing yards and one touchdown on the season. In the receiving corps, junior receivers Simms McElfresh and Malachi Jones will provide deep options for Lamb. McElfresh has four touchdowns on the season to Jones’ lone touchdown which came in the loss at Southern Miss. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Looking Glass Gallery hosts ‘Extinct Art’ exhibit by Kelsey Hamm Intern A&E Reporter
The Looking Glass Gallery in Plemmons Student Union will feature “Extinct Life” Sept. 23 through Oct. 10, an art exhibition and ongoing project collaboration between multidisciplinary undergraduate students working to shed new light on very old secrets. The exhibit consists of 17 laser scanner images, topography prints, macro photography, 3D prints created with Appalachian State University’s 3D printing resources and a video of a 3D reconstruction. The gallery is part of a much larger research project headed by Johnny Waters, a geology professor at Appalachian State Univer-
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Research grant offered to students to create a sustainable society by Nicole Caporaso News Reporter
For the second consecutive year, the Office of Student Research and the Research Institute for the Environment, Energy and Economics are offering students or student groups research grants for initiatives focused on creating a more healthy and sustainable society. The grant makes $500 available for undergraduate students or graduate students and $1,000 for groups. Grace Plummer, the program associate for the Appalachian Energy Center and the Research Institute for the Environment, Energy and Economics, said the purpose of the grant is primarily to support data collection or travel related to data collection, or instruments and materials used for research. Plummer said the research is related to not just environmental sustainability, but also economic and social. According to osr.appstate. edu, examples of possible projects, problems or questions that can be assessed with these grants include, “exploring factors that impact conservation practices on ASU, a city or county or state, projects that examine energy conservation
practices, art forms that convey messages and the interaction of natural and human systems.” John Pine, the Director of the Research Institute for the Environment, Energy, and Economics, said that last year the grant funded 20 students or student groups, but that there is not a limit to the number of grants. Pine said he hopes that the number for grants awarded this year is far greater than the 20 last year. “Appalachian students have a very rare opportunity to be engaged in research efforts with our faculty and student engagement in research is a part of our goal to build a strong research culture at Appalachian,” Pine said. “I believe that faculty can inspire students to be a part of a strong research culture in higher education and these grants are a way to make this possible.” Last year, research projects came from the College of Education, College of Health Sciences, College of Business, College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine and Applied Arts. “I think the concept of creating a healthy, just and sustainable society can address many problems our society faces and it is beyond a single discipline,” Pine said. “This is very broad grant and there is lots of room
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Sophomore biology major Tony Lieng in the Office of Student Research last week. The Office of Student Research is offering a grant to students looking into sustainability research.
for students to get some experience and it really prepares them to show employers what they are capable of doing.” Pine said with the grants awarded, students were able to cover a wide variety of topics. He provided the example of a student in the College of Edu-
cation who examined the value in teaching preschoolers the values of gardens. He also said students in the College of Arts and Sciences researched using remote controlled aircraft in data collection. “I am quite proud of the contribution that our students
make in student research, and I believe that our faculty feel the same way,” he said. The deadline to apply for this grant is Nov. 14. Anyone who wishes to apply must have a faculty mentor complete a recommendation form and must also submit a grant application.
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Rock-the-Vote event encourages student voter registration by Madison Barlow Intern News Reporter
In celebration of National Voter Registration Day, Rockthe-Vote partnered with bands Les Racquet and The Nude Party to host a concert at Duck Pond on Tuesday evening. Rock-the-Vote is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to get young people politically active. The free collaborative event began at 6:30 p.m. and included partnerships with the Watauga County chapter of the NAACP, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), Miss World United States Eliz-
abeth Safrit and the mayor of Boone, Andy Ball. Ball said Appalachian State University was selected for the event at a state Board of Elections meeting after national light had been shed on Boone via The Rachel Maddow Show. “This is an important event because it reiterates and reminds students of the Oct. 10 deadline for voting registration,” Ball said. “Voting in N.C. has become much more transient with various new restrictions, so it’s a very good thing that Rock-the-Vote and Les Racquet could come to Boone to honor the right to vote and continue to encour-
age student-voter registration.” In 2012, voter ID laws were passed by the state legislature that require voters to present a government-issued ID, excluding college IDs as an acceptable form of identification at the polls. The law also ended same-day registration, and cuts the early-voting period by a week. On-campus early voting sites were also denied by the state BOE last month with a 4-to-1 bipartisan vote. Special Projects coordinator for Rock-the-Vote Sara Tabatabaie said she was surprised so many students at the con-
cert had already registered to vote. “There are tons of Rock-theVote events going on across the nation today for National Voter Registration Day, and I’m so glad I got to come to Boone,” Tabatabaie said. “A lot of students have stopped by to enjoy the music and double check that they are registered. Overall, it’s been a positive night. I think it’s important to encourage students to participate in the world around them.” As the night went on, Les Racquet, an indie band from Brooklyn, New York, and Boone-based band The Nude Party were joined by speakers
Safrit, Executive Director of the SCJC Anita Earls and president of the Watauga County branch of the NAACP, Mary Lyons. Freshman advertising major Tyler Bizjack said he heard about the event from a friend, and made a last minute decision to attend. “At first I was just excited about the live music, but I hadn’t registered to vote yet so it was helpful that there were volunteers there to guide me through that,” Bizjack said. “Registering wasn’t a long process, and I got to enjoy the music for the rest of the night with friends.”
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First Year Student Showcase invites comedy and new talent by Liz Flamming
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he 2014 First Year Student Showcase, presented by Appalachian’s Department of Theatre and Dance, will take place in the I.G. Greer Studio Theatre from Sept. 25 to 27 at 7:30 p.m. and on Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. The showcase is a chance for freshman and transfer students to experience first-hand the exhilaration of a college-level production, meet new people and get to know the department, said Shayne Henkel, a freshman theatre arts major and production stage manager. “It really is a unique experience,” said Trimella Chaney, the theatre director of the event. “The performers bond with people in their ensemble and they get a taste of performance at the college level.” Not only does the show allow the Department of Theatre
Freshmen dance majors who are members of the Appalachian Department of Dance and Theatre and are to be included in the First Year Student Showcase beginning on Thursday in the I.G. Greer Studio Theatre.
and Dance to get a look at fresh talent, but it allows for new students to get an idea of the chaos and magic that is theatre and dance. Henkel said she thinks the showcase is a great learning experience for those interested in theatre and dance. “It’s really helpful because
you get an insight on how the department works,” Henkel said. The showcase, which is titled “Too Much Knowledge Makes the Baby Dumb,” is an innovative show that combines theatre, dance ensembles and audience participation. “We are borrowing from the
neo-futurists’ philosophy and style of theatre to craft improvisational sketches relating to first year experiences,” Chaney said. Stage manager and senior theatre arts education major Christian Underwood said he encourages spectators to arrive early as the showcase is predict-
ed to be a major hit. “It’s tough to get a seat,” Underwood said. “You won’t get one if you don’t jump on it quickly.” Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for the public. For more information contact the box office at 828-262-4046, or visit www.theatre.appstate.edu.
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‘Champagne Showers’ tour brings Cherub back to Boone by Aleah Warner Intern A&E Reporter
Nashville-based Cherub will return to Appalachian State University on Friday for a soldout show as part of their “Champagne Showers” tour. This will be Cherub’s third performance at Legends and has been highly anticipated by students, with the concert selling out only 24 days after tickets became available to the public. Cherub debuted at Appalachian as an opening act for Gramatik in April 2013, gaining such a positive reaction from the students that they were invited back to headline their own show. Founding members Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber met while they were studying at Middle Tennessee State University. Huber was performing in a band and Kelley was making music on his own when they decided to combine their talents and form Cherub. The group first reached success when their hit single, “Doses and Mimosas,” went viral. The music video now has over 4 million views on YouTube and the duo has gone on to perform at widely recognized music festivals such as Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. “They’ve just gotten bigger and bigger every year,” said Maggie Sherwood, a junior graphic design major and chairperson for Appalachian Popular Programming Society’s Stage Shows.
“They definitely have an incredible future ahead of them.” Cherub is considered to be electronic dance music, though they differentiate themselves from other artists with their upbeat pop influences and falsetto vocals. “It’s different, it’s not your typical pop music,” sophomore exercise science major Hannah Michels said. “They don’t sound like any other band I’ve ever heard before.” APPS Program Coordinator Randy Kelly said Cherub is a great act for Legends. “Cherub has become a favorite,” Kelly said. “They have ascended to that top echelon of EDM acts and everyone just thinks they’re great fun.” Cherub has been described as interactive on stage, doing whatever they can to make sure the audience is having a good time. were engaging and got the crowd really excited,” said undeclared sophomore Morgan Walliser. “I am mostly looking forward to the energy of the crowd at the show; everybody having a good time together and enjoying the music and dancing.” Doors open at 8 p.m. with opening acts Ghost Beach and Gibbz performing shortly after.
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The band Cherub representing their tour "Champagne Showers." Cherub will be performing at Legends on Friday, doors opening at 8 p.m.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 sity. Three undergraduate students collected the imaging and 3D reconstruction of extinct fossil specimens from all over the world, including lost classes of echinoderms, or a marine animal phylum encompassing sand dollars, star fish and sea urchins. Waters recruited the students by placing an ad in the student paper. “When I put the ad in the paper, I knew I wouldn’t have time to learn the software necessary for this project,” Waters said. “I said I would need students that could do 3D imaging and 3D constructions. I wasn’t looking for someone with a specific major. I was looking for someone with a specific skill set.” Senior exercise science major Bonnie Nguyen joined Waters in December 2013 and created the video for the project, while senior studio art major Carmen Gonzalez focused on photography and lighting. Lyndsie White, a junior industrial design major, worked on computer generated 3D constructions and rapid prototyping. Waters said the team used a variety of softwares to complete their models, including Rhinoceros 3D modeling software, Solidworks design software, Spears technical software and widely used programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. “Learning to use 3D modeling software was frustrating and complicated,” Nguyen said. “I often contacted the customer support of the people who made the software, and they had to walk me through a lot of specifics. This software isn’t popular like [Adobe] Photoshop or [Adobe] Illustrator, and it’s not as user friendly.” White noted that 3D printing is a very difficult process in addition to the mod-
eling aspects. “Creating a graphic 3D model does not automatically mean 3D printing capability and it takes a lot of tweaking to make sure that the specimens won’t fall apart after the process,” White said. The art gallery is an extension of Waters’ research with the University of Tennessee and the Paul Scherrer Institute, of which the latter is the largest research center for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. Waters, while abroad in Switzerland for research, imaged extinct specimens in the institute’s synchrotron machine. “This is about a $5 million machine, and in the machine the fossil specimen sits in the path of a high energy set of X-rays,” Waters said. “It takes views at about five micron slices. For one particular fossil Bonnie worked with, the one you see in the video, we have over 2,500 layers. [The research team] brought the data from those experiments, and [Nguyen] took the 2,500 layers from the software and constructed 3D models of it.” The group has traveled to two scientific meetings to present their work, and at the end of October, Waters, Nguyen and White will attend a meeting in Canada to conduct further presentations. The team will also travel to Spain in the coming months and collectively write papers on the results, which will contribute to a Ph.D. program at the University of Tennessee. “This can be art or science, depending on what your goal is,” Waters said. “Scientists will be able to look at these specimens to see what their morphology is, and some of photographs will be part of a scientific paper. Everything we’ve imaged will appear in scientific publications, but [the images] stand in their own right as exquisite photographs.” Waters said because of the under-
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Senior psychology major Christine Lee peruses the new exhibition at the Looking Glass Gallery. The exhibition, Extinct Life, displays scanned specimens of extinct ancient lifeforms in an artistic style and is the result of a collaboration between three students and paleontology professor Dr. Johnny Waters.
graduates’ work, the scientific community can more easily figure out how an extinct class of echinoderms, one of which is shown in the video, relate to each other on an evolutionary basis. Their research documents the first evidence of soft tissue found in a number of the specimens. The students spent over 150 hours recreating, constructing and imaging certain individual fossils. “Not only are [these students] very talented, but they are very hardworking, and the attention to detail that they have is spectacular,” Waters said. “Many students getting a Ph.D. couldn’t do this. This is incredibly meticulous work with an enormous amount of tech-
nical detail, finesse and artistry.” Overall, Waters has received student assistant money totaling almost $50,000, which is used to pay the students’ salaries, travel and 3D modeling expenses. The project has received support from National Science Foundation, the Office of Student Research at Appalachian and the Department of Geology. Gonzalez said she encourages students of every academic background to visit the exhibit. “All of this is cool to look at whether or not you know something about what these are,” Gonzalez said. “We relied on Dr. Waters to know the geology side of a lot of this, and we learned along the way.”
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App News is a service of the Division of Student Development. Email dycheab@appstate.edu at least two weeks in advance. Submissions should not exceed 100 words and must include the event title, date/ time, location and cost, other pertinent information and a contact(s) (email, phone and/ or URL). Announcements will be edited as needed and will run as space allows. Benefit craft sale Appalachian’s chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars will host a craft sale for Watauga Humane Society, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. through Sept. 26 in the Solarium foyer of Plemmons Student Union. Everything is priced from 50 cents to $9, and all proceeds will benefit the WHS community assistance spayneuter programs. MAP-Works Survey New freshmen and transfer students are reminded to take the MAP-Works survey and view the Student Outcome Report. The survey is open through Sept. 30. Students to complete the survey and review their individual Student Outcome Report. Students who complete the survey and review their Student Outcome Report enjoy higher GPAs, better retention rates, and many report the chance to think reflectively about their personal behaviors and habits, as they relate to academic success. Fall ASE programs Fall ASE (Alternative Service Experience) programs
provide a 4-day service and learning experience Oct. 1619 in the southeast. Experiences are led and created by trained student Peer Leaders and involve direct service to a community. Required pre-travel and post-travel meetings. Total cost: $100 (includes: food, housing and transportation). Sign-up date at the ACT Outreach Center, Plemmons Student Union. Henry A. Giroux lecture “Disposable Futures: Neoliberalism’s Assault on Higher Education,” 7 p.m. Sept. 25, Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. The noted scholar, public intellectual, educational theorist and alumnus of ASU will speak on the issue, which is of vital contemporary concern on ASU’s campus, across the state of NC, and throughout the nation. For information, email behrentmc@appstate.edu.
News palachian. The service this year will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 27 in the lobby of B. B. Dougherty Administration Building. Homecoming Kickoff Party The Office of Alumni Affairs & Annual Giving will host a Homecoming 2014 Kickoff Party, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 8, Sanford Mall. Free hotdogs and homecoming T-shirts will be given to the first 300 students. For more information, contact Tammy McCullars in the Alumni Affairs Office at mccullarstm@appstate.edu or 828-262-2038. ASU Women’s Theatre Troupe performance The troupe put on a production of “Decision Height,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 10 and 12, IG Greer Studio Theatre.
Fitness instructor training Students are invited to information sessions next week for URec’s personal trainer prep and group fitness instructor prep classes. • Personal trainer prep info session, 6 p.m. Sept. 25, SRC room 202, limited to first 20 student participants • Group fitness instructor prep info session, 7:30 Sept. 25, SRC room 202, limited to first 12 student participants
The Wellness Workshops Presented by the Counseling Center presents the series of workshops with the theme “Feelin’ Good in the Neighborhood.” • 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 9, Test Your Mood: Mental Health Screening Day, Calloway Peak room, PSU • 12:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Survive and Thrive: Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper, Three Top Mountain room, PSU • 7 p.m. Nov. 5, Being Real: The Value of Vulnerability, Three Top Mountain Room, PSU
Student Memorial Service Each year the Office of Student Development holds a Student Memorial Service for students who have passed away while attending Ap-
Oudoor Education Certifications The certifications begin in September. • Oct. 17-19 and April 10-12, Wilderness First Responder Re-Certification
• Nov. 1-2, Leave No Trace Trainer • Dec. 5-7, American Mountain Guide Association, Climbing Wall Instructor • Dec. 14-22 and March 7-15, Wilderness First Responder • Feb. 5, Epinephrine Administration • Feb. 21-22, Wilderness First Aid • Leave No Trace Master Educator, Aug. 10-14, 2015
a program of study that reflects their interests: • Town, City, and County Management • Administration of Justice / Criminal Justice • Not-For-Profit Management Enrollment is open for fall and spring semesters. For more information, email bradburymd@appstate.edu and visit http://mpa.appstate.edu.
Spooky Duke Race & Costume March The 4th Annual Charles R. Duke Race for Families will be held beginning at 8 a.m Oct. 25 at the Raley/Peacock parking lot. On-site registration & packet pickup at 8 a.m. day of race. The 10K begins at 9 a.m.; $30 advance registation and $35 day of race. The 5K race begins at 9 a.m.; $20 advance registration and $25 day of race. The free costume march begins at 10 a.m., and free children’s activities will be held 8-10 a.m. Parent to Parent FSN-HC provides caring connections & support to families who have a premature baby, child with a physical, behavioral, or emotional disability, chronic health condition, or who are grieving a child’s death. To register, go to racingtoes.com/pages/ Events.html.
Educational Media Master’s Degree or Certificate Appalachian State offers an Educational Media Master’s Degree and Certificate programs. The program is entirely online and includes a range of courses involving media and technology. Students develop the technical, aesthetic, and intellectual expertise and perspectives needed to analyze and develop online environments using new media and online networks. For more information, go to http://edtech.appstate. edu/.
Master of Public Administration Program Appalachian State offers the Master of Public Administration Degree Program (MPA), for students looking to become leaders in public and nonprofit organizations. The three distinct concentrations allow students to craft
Policy updates The University of North Carolina has adopted theFostering Undergraduate Student Success policy to be implemented fall 2014. The policy includes several changes that affect all new, continuing and returning undergraduate students. The updates are to the Course/Repeat/ Grade Forgiveness policy, the Academic Standing policy, and the Course Withdrawal policy. For more information, go to http://registrar.appstate.edu/records/fosteringstudentsuccess.html.
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Study finds SSRI drugs not worth the risk cological interventions, but the implications of this study are already worth noting. If changes in neural architecture are present after only a few hours in one chemical-altering drug, can we expand the view to other chemical-altering drugs, as well? The first that comes to mind is the all-too-familiar Adderall. Adderall is used primarily in the treatment of narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. College students are notorious for Adderall usage, even if these diagnoses are not present. Other prescription ADHD medications include Vyvanse and Ritalin. ADHD medications alter the brain by increasing the amount of neurotransmitters like dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine. Changing the chemical structure invites the brain to alter its own chemical construction, becoming dependent
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Turns out, drugs like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are changing the chemistry of your brain, and are doing so very quickly. In a recent limited study reviewed by Tech Times, researchers found healthy brain exposure to antidepressant selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, produced changes that encompassed the whole brain after only three hours. Most people that are prescribed SSRI treatments usually do not report major mood changes for at least two weeks, indicating a precursor to longterm alteration. Researchers hope to eventually expand to all medications and non-pharma-
on the increased neurotransmitters. ADHD medications are highly addictive and, for the right populations, should be taken in small, controlled doses. Don’t believe that? ADHD medications are classified as Schedule II drugs by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Schedule II drugs are highly susceptible for abuse and dependence. This Schedule II classification is also given to drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and oxycodone. In a 2012 study produced by the Journal of American College Health, it was estimated that 31 percent of college students use ADHD medications non-medically. Most students might claim they use these drugs to concentrate, and while hyper-focusing is indeed a result of stimulant usage, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s illegal drug abuse. Avoiding illegal misuse is
simple, but is it okay? It is easy to fake self-reports for ADHD evaluation, just as it is to get medications from a friend. However, the long-term neural effects of using a drug intended for medical treatment outweigh the pros of short-term results. There are better ways to create an ideal concentrating environment. Try to mimic the environment in which you will take a test or in which you feel most comfortable. Know when your peak hours of productivity are. Eliminate as many distractions as possible. Don’t immediately turn to brain-altering drugs for success. I know that we all wish there were magic pills we could use to get work done. Stimulant drugs might seem like viable options, but their side effects are too dangerous to ignore.
Griffin, a junior journalism major from Madison, is an opinion writer.
College textbooks put students in a bind Dewey Mullis Opinion Writer
As high school juniors and seniors, we were suffocated with lectures and seminars, field trips and extra credit pertaining to visiting, researching and applying to the college of our dreams. We worked hard to get that acceptance letter. Now we are paying for it – literally. The U.S. General Accountability Office reports college textbook prices have increased over 80 percent during the past 10 years. To put that into another framework, the cost of textbooks has increased over 800 percent during the past 35 years – a rate four times faster than the rate of inflation.
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ment, and churns out a product that looks eerily identical to the one before and after it on the assembly line. In reality that comparison may be a stretch, but what draws the model together is the desire for profit. Appalachian State University, our wonderful home, provides the most affordable textbook rental system in the UNC system. The ASU textbook rental program began in 1938, when the now-university was known as Appalachian State Teachers College, according to the rental program website. Students could rent books for a small fee of $5 per quarter. Today, the program costs only $135, is already figured into tuition, and saves students hundreds, if not thousands of dollars over the course of their education.
Kevin Griffin
More schools need to implement a rental program like the one here at Appalachian. Perhaps they should even find ways to go a step or two further. The astronomical prices for required texts further squeezes the breath out of students and families in search of the most affordable yet worthwhile educational opportunities. It isn’t encouraging, nor is it a helpful start to years of debt. We are always hearing about the importance of an education. It’s a marketing tool. Sure, education is inarguably valuable and a worthwhile experience. But when will it reach the tipping point of no longer being a feasible dream?
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But now, students are finding cheap and easy ways around the financial fiasco: illegal downloads. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on one-timeuse textbooks, students are wisely finding a free version and continuing on their merry ways. If getting caught is a concern, bail from the local jail is probably a smaller fee than a few years worth of over-priced books. What is this all about? The extraordinarily high cost of textbooks aids in highlighting the financial hole that is higher education. It is beginning to resemble a warehouse of the industrial era. The education industry collects millions of individuals, places large groups of those people in small spaces, generalizes them via standardized test scores, financial ruin and repeated words of encourage-
UNC system online ed. revamp a good start
The UNC system is taking initiative to improve access to online education. The system has made changes to its website to allow users to learn about the online programs offered through the system, including the comparison of programs and cost. The UNC system’s interest in improving its online education is a welcome and overdue development. According to a report commissioned by the UNC system in December 2012, North Carolina has fallen behind many states in the region for online enrollment. Online education offers a number of benefits for students and the system. Access to education is a primary reason for incorporating online courses into a larger education strategy. Those people who might encounter numerous barriers to higher education, from ability to physically attend classes to financial obstacles, can look to online courses as a means of furthering their educations. Part of the reason for emphasizing online education is to help with the system’s five-year plan of increasing the percentage of graduates from 26 to 32. The issue of quality, however, is an even more crucial reason the UNC system needs to work to increase online course availability. A 2010 Education Department review of more than 1,000 studies on aspects of online learning written between 1996 and 2008 reveal online learning can be a useful educational component. The best method involved a combination of online and traditional teaching methods, but online education on its own can be just as effective as the traditional classroom. Even more than the generic upside to online education is the specific benefit of having the UNC system take part in it. Increasingly, questionable for-profit colleges are using online courses to appeal to individuals who might have trouble accessing education through the more traditional route. Having an established, respected educational system like UNC that gives students the ability to access high quality makes things better for students. The benefits of online education are so great that it must be a priority for the UNC system. It is good to see we are taking steps in a positive direction.
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GAME D Y
Thursday, September 25, 2014
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The Matchup App State opens up Sun Belt play Thursday night against a familiar foe: former SoCon rival Georgia Southern. Georgia Southern is off to a solid start, most recently beating South Alabama on the road 28-6 for its first Sun Belt win ever. The Eagles also defeated Savannah State 83-9, and its two losses came on the road at the hands of ACC programs – N.C. State and Georgia Tech. Thursday’s game is Georgia Southern’s second home game of the season and is App State’s third road game this year. The Mountaineers were edged 21-20 by Southern Mississippi in its last game and have won only one game in a 66-0 thumping of Campbell in Boone. How App State can win The Mountaineers have a tough road test Thursday night and will have to rely heavily on their two-pronged attack at running back. Sophomore Marcus Cox and redshirt freshman Terrence Upshaw will have to hope for good blocking from their offensive line to open up running lanes. App State has announced that redshirt freshman Taylor Lamb will start at quarterback for the second consecutive game. Lamb made his first-career start against Southern Miss. and went 28-40 through the air for 264 yards and two touchdowns in the loss. Lamb’s 28 completions were the most ever by an App State quarterback in his first career start and his 264 yards ranked him second in program history among quarterbacks in their first start. Lamb will be playing in another hostile environment and will have to stay composed. The App State defense will have to be strong up front as the Georgia Southern rushing attack is ranked second in the FBS with an average of 357 yards per game. Georgia Southern’s sophomore running back Matt Breida has 50 carries on the season while starting sophomore quarterback Kevin Ellison has run 47 times. Sophomore linebacker John Law and the rest of the App State linebacking corps will have to keep an eye on Ellison is they hope to slide out of Georgia with a win. How GA Southern can win The Eagles are playing good football and they will look to stick to what has worked so far for them – running the ball well and holding the opposing offense down. Georgia Southern outscored Savannah State and South Alabama by a combined 111-15 in its two wins this season. Conversely, the Eagles two losses, both of which came to ACC programs, were by a combined five points. Ellison will look to keep the Mountaineers unbalanced. He has thrown three touchdown passes and found the endzone on the ground twice this season. App State is still searching for its first road win and Paulson Stadium is a place the Mountaineers know well. Georgia Southern leads the series against App State 9-4 in Statesboro, so the Eagles know what it takes to win at home. The Eagles won’t pull any punches as they look to jump out to a 2-0 start in the conference. The bottom line When the Eagles and Mountaineers meet, it’s always a special occasion. The Mountaineers are hungry for a road win after dropping a close one against Southern Miss., and Thursday night is a great opportunity to notch a big win.
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