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Delving

Into the Ashe-Hole

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NEWS

Section Editor: Emma Alexander nalexand@unca.edu

The Blue Banner Fall 2015 Editorial Board Editor-In-Chief Timbi Shepherd, jshephe3@unca.edu Enterprising Editor James Neal, jneal@unca.edu News Editor Emma Alexander, nalexand@unca.edu Sports Editor Harrison Slaughter, jslaught@unca.edu Arts & Features Editor Larisa Karr, lakarr@unca.edu Copy Desk Chief Tamsen Todisco, ttodisco@unca.edu Layout & Design Editor Makeda Sandford, msandfor@unca.edu Photography Editor Johnny Condon, jcondon@unca.edu Multimedia Editor Maddie Stagnaro, mstagnar@unca.edu Social Media Editor Michael O’Hearn, mohearn@unca.edu Opinion Editor June Bunch, kbunch@unca.edu Copy Editors Devric Lefevre, dkiyota@unca.edu Kathryn Gambill, agambill@unca.edu Katelyn Northrup, knorthru@unca.edu Advertising Manager Amber Abunassar, aabunass@unca.edu Faculty Adviser Michael Gouge, mgouge@unca.edu Staff

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Ashe-Hole controversy calls smokers’rights into question The Ashe-Hole occupies the northeast ground-level corner of the Ridges parking deck.

TIMBI SHEPHERD Editor-In-Chief jshephe3@unca.edu

The future of the Ashe-Hole remains unknown.

A news article in last week’s issue of The Blue Banner featured the perspectives of students anticipating the administration’s removal of the popular smoking area in the Ridges parking deck.

The article sparked controversy in the UNC Asheville community. Students used social media platforms like Yik Yak to share their reactions to

the piece. Some commented on the quality of the reporting, while others took a stance on smokers’ rights.

But, according to Student Affairs and the Student Government Association, the issue of the Ashe-Hole is presently a moot point, because officials say speculations about its removal are unfounded.

Bill Haggard, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said a student brought the article to his attention on Wednesday.

“I just really couldn’t figure it out,” Haggard said, “because it

went on and on about the outrage over closing the smoking area, and there was never a plan to do so.”

Administrative focus is on cleaning up the Ashe-Hole and increasing police patrols to cut down on illegal activity such as underage drinking, drug use and vandalism, Haggard said.

According to the campus crime log, there have been several reports of illegal drug use or possession and one report of civil disobedience in the Ridges parking deck since the start of the school year.

In addition to these concerns, Haggard said it is important to consider the detrimental health effects of smoking. He said it is a personal choice to smoke, but a choice that can have a negative impact on others through secondhand smoke.

“I think it’s inconsistent with our health and wellness values,” Haggard said.

UNCA goes as far as state law allows in its efforts to curb smoking on campus, he said.

The school even provides a smoking cessation program to Read more on page 18

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Convict leasing leaves legacy weather in mass incarceration CODY JONES Contributor

Racial disparity in prison populations is directly related to slavery and post-Civil War convict leasing, a UNC Asheville professor said at a screening of the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name on Oct. 14.

“This process did not start out of the blue,” said Agya Boakye-Boaten, chair and associate professor of Africana studies. “In our system, we’ve always moved toward the process of making sure we can control our labor. Convict leasing, the peonage system, the process of renting out human beings is a direct correlation to what we used to experience in slavery.”

Even though the United States contains just 5 percentof the world’s population, it accounts for over 25 percent of worldwide incarcerations, Boakye-Boaten said.

“I call the United States incarceration central,” Boakye-Boaten said.

He said approximately 2.5 million people are incarcerat-

ed in the United States. Of that 2.5 million, about one million are African-American.

“There is a huge disparity.

Every single state in the United States has an underrepresentation of white prisoners and an overrepresentation of African-American prisoners,” Boakye-Boaten said. “In some states where there are larger populations of Hispanics and Native Americans, they are also overrepresented.”

In 1865, slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the Amendment contains an important exception: slavery and involuntary servitude are allowed when used as punishment for a crime. Prior to 1865, the criminal justice system was often handled by private people or enterprises, usually by the slave owners themselves. After slavery was abolished, the states were saddled with dealing with incarceration.

“Where is the state going to get the money? They had a very bright idea called convict leasing,” Boakye-Boaten said.

“The state would incarcerate

people, but someone else had to pay for it. They’re going to lease or rent you out to private people or private corporations.

Corporations were going to pay for incarceration and also pay for court fees.”

Around this time, laws called the Black Codes were passed. A defining law of the Black Codes was in regard to vagrancy, which stated that African-Americans were not permitted to walk around without permission, particularly those who were homeless or unemployed. If arrested and convicted, African-Americans were forced into labor.

“What this disparity of incarceration has done is what I call economic deprivation, or social disenfranchisement,” Boakye-Boaten said. “When they come out of jail, they cannot be fully functioning. If you are African-American, finding a job is very difficult. You can’t vote.”

According to the 2010 census, there are approximately 350 incarcerated per 100,000 of the white population. For every 100,000

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Anxiety and mental health disorders on the rise for students CARSON WALL

Opinion/News Staff Writer cwall1@unca.edu

The prevalence of anxiety and other mental health disorders is increasing, changing how universities approach mental health disorders and assist students with balancing stress, university officials say.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines anxiety disorders as excessive and unrealistic worry about everyday events. Psychologists use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to

diagnose mental disorders. According to the manual, significant distress and impairment within the individual’s life are criteria for diagnosis.

“What we like as humans is stability, routine, and as a college student, their life does not lend itself to that,” said Jay Cutspec, director of the Health and Counseling Center at UNC Asheville.

Cutspec said considering the demand placed on students, the rising anxiety rate on college campuses is unsurprising.

Cutspec said the Internet contributes to rising anxiety

because it serves as a source of stress and knowledge about mental health disorders. He said social media leads students to compare themselves to the perceived perfection of others, feeding anxiety. One positive aspect of the Internet, he said, is the reduced stigma of mental health disorders because students possess increased information.

Pamela Laughon, associate professor and head of the UNCA psychology department, agrees that the social stigma of anxiety and other disorders has decreased, and the modern

willingness to discuss disorders is beneficial. She said she finds the lack of stigma encouraging.

“It’s better than our days when you wouldn’t breathe a word of any of this to anyone,” Laughon said. “People wouldn’t even tell people outside of their families.”

Cutspec disagreed and said national literature published by college health and counseling centers shows an increase in anxiety and depression related incidents.

Melissa Himelein, professor of psychology at UNCA and the Director of the Center for

Teaching and Learning, said college demographics have changed drastically in the past decade. She said that comparing college populations and their anxiety rates may not be accurate due to this difference.

Himelein said the perceived rise in rates may also be due to modern therapies which allow students who could not previously attend college to function in a university setting. Laughon agreed with the possibility, as the type of person who is able to attend college has changed.

Himelein said that stressors Read more on page 12

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NEWS

Technology increases excitement, UNCA students and faculty address efficiency in classrooms trigger warnings

ERIK STRATTON

Contributing Writer

Technology has proven to be a fast-evolving aspect of daily life, especially on college campuses.

How do colleges keep up with the next best techniques for studying and teaching with new technological tools?

Students and professors alike are changing the way they act in classrooms. Many professors at UNC Asheville use technology as a way to better engage their students. Michael Stratton, professor and management department chair, said he has started to assign videos, animations and Internet memes to enhance students’ engagement and creativity.

“That will really allow students to be not just the consumers of the content,” Stratton said, “but actually creators of the content, which I think has been pretty powerful.”

Within the business department, Stratton has incorporated technology into his class as a way to not distract but promote learning. He finds that most of his students are thriving with the new techniques he has applied in the classroom.

Some students said they see this integration of technology as a positive for their classroom experience.

“I don’t think it is really too much of a distraction,” said Jordan Loud, senior psychology student and ITS worker at UNCA. “You can organize things differently and make it more visually appealing, so that they’re more attention grabbing.”

Students and professors find this accessibility makes communicating assignments easier. According to “The Internet

BECCA ANDREWS News Staff Writer randrew1@unca.edu

Throughout their college education, students are expected to encounter new and difficult ideas. But occasionally for students who have been through trauma, these difficult ideas can be harmful.

Professors use trigger warnings to preface material containing topics like racism,

Photo illustration by Makeda Sandford - L&D Editor

Goes to College,” a Pew study, 85 percent of students say the Internet is the most efficient and easy way to communicate with professors and classmates.

But what are students doing with their personal devices in the classroom?

Many bring laptops into class as a way to take notes.

But research has shown students who do score 11 percent worse on tests than those who handwrite their notes, according to a University of Colorado study.

With this information, why are more students deciding to rely on their laptops for notes?

Will this downward trend continue for laptop using students? Matthew Warren, the Apple Systems administrator at UNCA, said he believes it remains to be seen.

“I think we have an over-re-

liance on technology as the only thing we could/should be using in a classroom, just because it’s a thing that’s available,” Warren said. “I think that people naturally gravitate towards technology because of course it’s cool and it’s fun to use.”

Still, Warren said he does not believe this is a final solution for how students should be communicating and studying.

“There are a lot of distractions, of course,” Warren said, as he motioned toward his computer, which was full of Internet windows. “I mean you sit in class every day and you look over to your left and right and see people jumping on Facebook and watching YouTube videos when they are ‘taking notes.’ But there again, you can really, and I’d hate to Read more on page 13

“We’ve got to give students more credit.

Yes, we do have students with trigger issues, but even the ones with trigger issues are able to take it as long as you prepare them for it.”

Christopher Oakley violence and sexual assault that could be distressing to students who have experienced those topics. UNC Asheville hosted a panel to discuss the value of trigger warnings in the class room.

“It was really student driven,” said Jill Moffitt, Title IX administrator and associate vice chancellor for student affairs. “But it also came about because last year we started talking about the topic.”

The conversation about trigger warnings was initiated last year by Melissa Himelein, professor of psychology, who directed a discussion on triggers for faculty at the Center for Teaching and Learning, UNCA’s faculty development center.

“This panel discussion really

was just the natural next portion of the conversation that was intended to involve both students and staff,” Moffitt said. “It became student-driven because students started really voicing concerns about content warnings, so their voice really was what drove the timing of the panel and the conversation.”

The panel was headed by two student moderators, Sam Singer and Razel Foster, and included two student panelists, Riley Howard and Beck Martens.

“Content warnings have a very important place in this school and education, before any content that is loaded with emotional implications,” said Martens, co-manager of the Hyannis House and Trans Student Union. “There are certain topics that are loaded regardless of your audience.”

Howard, a junior sociology and gender studies student, said having a content warning allows students to cope with the material better.

“I have PTSD, and for me being triggered brings up similar feelings that I experienced when I experienced trauma,” Howard said. “My brain goes into survival mode and it’s pretty much impossible for me to intake more info. If I’m in a class that brings up, unprecedented, anything to do with sexual assault I just kind of go into this sort of shut down.”

Karin Peterson, professor and department chair of sociology and anthropology, was a panelist. She said she often utilizes trigger warnings when lecturing about subjects like Read more on page 113

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renters' rights

Asheville residents experience renting problems PHILLIP WYATT A&F Staff Writer pwyatt@unca.edu

Asheville is experiencing a moderate surge in population growth with its recent rise to fame with accolades including “Beer City, USA” and Good Morning America’s top travel destination of 2015.

Its vibrant downtown life, lush with breweries and buskers, is attracting tourists and new residents alike.

Asheville saw a 5.4 percent increase in population from 2010 to 2014, totaling 87,882 people, according to the 2014 United States Census.

In 2014, 34 percent of housing units in Asheville were rentals with 12.6 percent of renters between ages 20 and 29.

Steven White, UNC Asheville alumnus, said he rented an apartment from local real estate agency Leslie and Associates with two friends in 2012.

During his year-long lease, White said his relationship with the agency was cordial, until it was time for him to move out.

White said he and his roommates mailed the last month’s rent to Leslie and Associates and called them to confirm its arrival and to inform the company of their plans to leave the apartment and not renew their lease.

The secretary confirmed their payment was delivered and approved their move-out. After White and his roommates vacated the apartment and relocated elsewhere, one of them revisited the apartment to retrieve some mail. In the box, he said, was a notice from Leslie and Associates stating they were late paying their rent.

White said he called the company to discuss the letter.

“They were just completely dismissive,” White said. “ They

actually denied that we called and talked to someone about us moving out.”

White said Leslie and Associates informed him rent plus late fees were due for a second month since they did not provide a written notice 30 days prior to their move-out date.

Cleaning charges totaling $200 were added to White’s account for removal of trash and a dirty refrigerator. The charges were not split between all three tenants, leaving the financial burden solely for White, he said.

White said the company kept the $745 security deposit.

“There wasn’t even trash in the apartment,” White said.

“They said the fridge was a mess, but we cleaned that fridge from head to toe.”

White could not afford an attorney to dispute the charges in court and decided not to pay the debt he owed. Leslie and Associates turned his debts over to collections, ultimately ruining his credit, he said.

White moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina with his girlfriend this past summer.

His application to their current apartment was denied, leaving his girlfriend to sign the lease alone and list White as an occupant, he said.

“I’ve got to take care of it one way or another but I’m sure as hell not paying them,” White said.

UNCA alumna Maggie Daily has lived in a home off Barnard Avenue with her fiancé for two years. They rent their home from ARC Agency.

The couple’s heat stopped working last winter and it took ARC more than a month to remedy the issue, Daily said.

Their air conditioning and refrigerator malfunctioned mid-September. The air condi-

Photo illustration by Phillip Wyatt -A&F Staff Writer

tioner was fixed last week while the refrigerator remains defective, she said.

“I have seriously been sick from all of the mold and sewage and inability to keep fresh food in my house,” Daily said.

A plumbing pipe burst in the basement, leaving six inches of raw, stagnant sewage for almost

three weeks, she said.

“The plumbers made it worse and said they would be back the next day and our landlord just told us not to use the bathroom,” Daily said. “The plumbers came back four days later.

Needless to say, our slumlords have been allowing us to live in a decrepit house where barely

anything works and still expect full rent.”

Daily said she is in constant contact with ARC via email, personal visits and phone.

“I even have the personal number of the lady who runs the front office,” Dailey said.

She said she is considering Read more on page 15

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SPORTS Hornets off to uneasy start

Section Editor: Harrison Slaughter jslaught@unca.edu

Commentary

CHRIS JONES

Sports Staff Writer cjones5@unca.edu

After finishing the preseason with a 7-1 record, the Charlotte Hornets 2015-2016 upcoming regular season looked to be a promising one for Buzz City.

But as they say, preseason is just preseason.

After the hot start in preseason when the Hornets won every game and dropped the final game to the Pacers, Charlotte has started the season 0-3, not exactly what owner Michael Jordan and company were hoping for.

A positive, for the most part, is that the games have been competitive and haven’t lost by more than 10 points in the season. During the opening game versus the Miami Heat, the Hornets struggled with shooting and running plays correctly.

Charlotte shot under 40 percent and 25 percent from three.

The second and third game of the season was against conference rival Atlanta Hawks, where they dropped both games 92-94 and 94-97. Both were close games and showed that the Hornets can compete, but didn’t show that they could win these close games.

With no true go-to star player, the Hornets are scoring by committee so far during the season, as they are distributing shots and looks evenly among their players. Charlotte picked up five new players during the offseason. The new players are

“Charlotte needs to improve, either by free-agent acquisition, trade or just simply finding a way to gel and play well together.”

former Trailblazer Nicolas Batum, Mr.Linsanity himself, Jeremy Lin, former Tar Heel standout Tyler Hansbrough, big man Spencer Hawes, three-point shooting ace Troy Daniels, shooting guard Jeremy Lamb and former Wisconsin star and rookie Frank Kaminsky III. Hansbrough has seen limited action during the season and has scored a total of one point.

Hawes has contributed nicely off the bench in a backup forward/center role and is averaging 5.7 points, two assists and 3.7 rebounds per game. Kaminsky has struggled finding his flow so far and is only averaging 2.7 points and is shooting under 40 percent. Lamb missed the first game of the season recovering from injury and has averaged 10 points in the two games since returning.

Nicolas Batum has played decently during the season by posting a nice all around stat sheet, averaging 13 points, over 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game. The Hornets are hoping with the Batum addition to add great defense and solid scoring from the guard/forward spot that they desperately need, but will need to see if him playing the shooting guard position will work out.

Lastly, coming off the bench in a backup point role for the Hornets, Lin has saw his point drop every game this season

after a 17 point performance in the opener against the Heat. Lin is struggling with finding his shots and finding his flow on the Hornets team so far.

The starting lineup this season has been Kemba Walker, P.J. Hairston, Nicolas Batum, Marvin Williams and Big Al Jefferson. Walker has put up nice numbers this season, but has been inefficient in shooting under 40 percent. Hairston has not been producing much at all, only averaging 4 points and shooting at a 25 percent clip.

Williams has been the Hornets’ most reliable and consistent player this season, scoring in the double-digits in each game and collecting two double-doubles in only three games.

With upcoming games versus tough teams in Chicago, Dallas and San Antonio, the Hornets could see a 0-6 start in their future.

They could possibly have their first win against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the seventh game of the season, but that’s not a foregone conclusion. Ricky Rubio and the Wolves have been playing well this season going 2-1 and have wins over the Lakers and the Nuggets.

The Hornets need to get a win sometime soon, because no team wants to start out the season 0-6. Out of the three games versus San Antonio, Chicago

and Dallas, the Hornets’ best bet at a victory is against an injury-depleted but still good Mavericks team.

The East has improved this year and is better this season than previous ones before, so the Hornets cannot rely on being mediocre to make the playoffs like they did in the 2013-

2014 season. In that season, they went 43-39 and earned the seventh seed, then got smashed by the Miami Heat in the playoffs.

Charlotte needs to improve, either by free-agent acquisition, trade or just simply finding a way to gel and play well together.

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Men’s and women’s cross country teams make strides forward Men’s cross country team sprints ahead of the crowd at the start of Saturday’s meet.

JASON PERRY

A&F Staff Writer jperry1@unca.edu

On October 31, UNC Asheville’s cross country team traveled to University of South Carolina Upstate for the Big South cross country championship. The meet was hosted by Presbyterian College in Spartanburg, S.C. The course featured rolling hills with a grueling incline right before the finish.

Still, this did not stop several Bulldogs from running a personal best.

Sarah Heisner ran her fastest 5k with

a time of 18:08.12 in the women’s race.

Heisner was UNCA’s highest finisher with eighth place, earning her Big South All-Conference honors for the third consecutive season.

In a written statement, head coach Jesse Norman said he was extremely proud of Heisner stating that a three-time All-Conference performer is rare in the conference.

Kasey Briggs was another female performer Norman said he was proud of. Briggs finished 14th with a time of

18:39.96, setting a new cross country personal best. Erin Dalton was able to slide into the top 25 finishing 24th with a time 19:01.14.

The women finished fourth overall.

In the men’s race, Dominic Collichio led the Bulldogs with a 25:50.49 time to finish 17th overall. Collichio had one of the highest individual performances UNCA has seen in years.

Nathan Kirse has continued to have a breakthrough season finishing 24th with a time of 26:33.44.

Photo by Katie Gamble - Contributor

Following Kirse was Patrick Osborne in 27th place, Blanton Gillespie 33rd, and Ryan Catrine 36th.

The men finished fifth overall.

“Overall, I was happy with how we executed our race plan at conference,” Norman said. “For both teams, we just came up short of our team goals and had some things not fall our way, which happens in our sport. As a coaching staff, we have some things to work on for the future but overall I felt like we made some progressions this season.”

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SPORTS stats

By Harrison Slaughter, Sports Editor

Nathan Kirse runs for the Bulldogs at Saturday’s meet.

Photo by Katie Gamble, Contributor

Volleyball Oct. 30 High Point University UNC Asheville

Final 2 3

Oct. 31 Coastal Carolina UNC Asheville

Final 1 3

Women’s swimming Oct. 24 UNC Asheville Brenau

Final 143 118

Men’s Soccer Oct. 24 Goals by Period UNC Asheville 2-0 Longwood University 1-2

Final 2 3

Women’s Soccer Nov. 1 Goals by Period Final UNC Asheville 0-0 0 Campbell University 0-1 1

Photo by Katie Gamble - Contributor Sarah Heisner stands on winner’s row after Saturday’s meet.

Women’s Swimming Oct. 24 UNC Asheville Brenau

Final 143 118

Photo by Katie Gamble - Contributor Women’s cross country team poses for photo.

NOV. 4 - 10

calendar

Nov. 4 Men’s Soccer vs.

Presbyterian College Greenwood Field 7 p.m.

Nov. 5 Abs Blast Sherrill Center Room 351 12 p.m.

Nov. 6 Wake Up Yoga Meditation Room 468 7 a.m.

Nov. 7 Women’s Swimming vs.

University of North Florida Justice Center Pool 11 a.m.

Men’s Basketball vs.

Brevard (Exibition) Kimmel Arena 2 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs.

Campbell University Greenwood Field 7 p.m.

Nov. 8 Mindful Flow Yoga Meditation Room 468 Sherrill Center 4 p.m.

Nov. 9 Spin Class Student Recreation Center 213-B 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Men’s Soccer Big South Quarterfinal TBA

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Arts & Features

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Section Editor: Larisa Karr lakarr@unca.edu

"Counting how many likes you get is kind of gross":

One mom's struggle to understand her kids' social media addiction JESSICA WILLIAMSON Contributing Writer

The best way to entertain a child is by sitting them in front of a TV or iPad for hours on end, right?

Wrong.

An associate professor of mass communication at UNC Asheville said using a tablet or phone as a babysitter can be a convenient way of occupying the child’s attention, similar to setting them in front of a TV. “So what do we know from that?”

Sonya DiPalma said. “The same things that we know about studies for children who consume high amounts of television - it’s cognitively not so good.

They’re not going to be ahead of their peers in class, you’re lucky if they are at the same level of their kids in class.”

Emerging research suggests children ages 7 through 11 spend 30 minutes a day using social media sites, while children ages 13 through 17 may spend two hours a day, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

DiPalma said due to heavy usage of social media by children and teenagers, students coming into colleges lack communication qualities such as eye contact and comfortability with adults.

Nancy McClinton, a mother from Asheville, said she agrees social media is hindering the development of these soft skills in children.

“They can’t talk on the phone,” McClinton said, throwing her hands in the air. “I mean they can’t actually have a conversation on the phone, because they just text and Snapchat.”

McClinton has three girls. Josie is 9, Ava is 11 and Ruby is 14. All three girls have social media accounts.

Josie said she likes to look at her friends’ photos on Instagram, and she has a couple of videos posted to her old YouTube account. She said her mother

is not entirely comfortable with her social media presence. Her mother has drawn the line when it comes to certain photo- and video-sharing apps like Snapchat, Josie explained. In addition, Josie said her mother tells her to get off of her iPad when she thinks she is on it too long.

McClinton said Josie has had Snapchat in the past, but doesn’t have mature decision-making skills or enough friends her own age who have the app.

When it comes to monitoring the social media sites, McClinton said she is friends with her daughters on Instagram, and with many of their friends as well.

“That’s all, so I’m not checking Snapchat, and I’m not checking Ruby’s Twitter, and I didn’t even know she had a Facebook account,” McClinton said.

According to a study by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, bullying, overexposure and oversharing are all reasons why parents should be involved in their children’s social media presence.

DiPalma said people have not changed over time, but rather, bullying that used to happen through fights in a schoolyard is now done over social media, like Snapchat.

McClinton said, particularly with 14-year-olds, it is easy to intentionally or unintentionally hurt their peers’ feelings through Snapchat and Instagram pictures. She also said these sites promote judgment and false self-image for young girls.

“Posting a picture of yourself and just counting how many likes you get is kind of gross,” McClinton said.

“And then all of the comments: ‘You look beautiful,’ ‘You are awesome,’ ‘Can I be you,’ you know, ‘You’re so-’ whatever. Perfection, that’s kind of disgusting.”

McClinton said she sees adults and kids working hard to portray this ideal image of themselves and their life in order to receive positive feedback. The comments don’t reflect the person as a whole, but rather just one picture they consciously planned or posed.

DiPalma said people reinforce the happy moments through these posts, but research cannot yet determine how this will impact the younger generation when they are adults.

According to a study from the University of Amsterdam, developing technology will increasingly become a significant part of children’s lives at a younger age, and it’s crucial to continue research to know the positive and negative effects of this infiltration and its effect on society.

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TV SHOW Review

Second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fizzles as Marvel continues their slate review

MICHAEL O’HEARN Social Media Editor mohearn@unca.edu

Two years ago, after Disney bought Marvel studios in a groundbreaking deal, the first thing the House of Mouse decided to do was to launch a new TV series based on behind-the-scenes work of the adventures beloved superheroes like Iron Man and Captain America.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was born. This centralized on the secret agents of the even-more -mysterious government organization set in writer Stan Lee’s comic books.

At the center of this organization is Phil Coulson, who fans of The Avengers know as the agent under director Nick Fury, who, after being stabbed by a godly weapon, becomes fully healed and is thrust into the perilous dangers of their world with a team of spies behind him in the 2012 film.

The second season kicks off in spectacular fashion, with Coulson and his team on the prowl for an alien artifact known as the Obelisk, after receiving intelligence that their enemies HYDRA are after the same object.

When HYDRA retrieves the artifact and begins using the powers locked inside to run experiments on debriefed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they enlisting the help of rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Grant Ward. It is now up to Coulson and his protege Skye to put an end to the torture.

The story the screenwriters were building upon wrapped up almost too quickly and the transition to the bigger arc seemed forced.

Skye, the hacker Coulson came across in the pilot episode and now a bona fide agent, is propped up as an Inhuman. This was ultimately a wasted opportunity as it had little impact on her character during the second half.

Inhumans, for those not familiar with comic book lore, are set up similar to the X-Men because they have

mutant powers from the Obelisk. They cannot be trusted and must be exterminated in order to protect mankind.

The Inhuman powers vary. Skye can cause earthquakes with her hands, her friend Lincoln has static electricity within him and electrocution power, and their leader, Gordon, can teleport with a shield draped around him.

A few years down the road, an Inhumans movie was going to happen with Marvel’s Phase Three cinematic slate. Due to unforeseen circumstances, however, the movie has been delayed indefinitely and will most likely be scrapped.

This is disappointing if an ABC show is the only venue in which I will see what the Inhumans are and how they interact with S.H.I.E.L.D. Skye rarely used her newfound abilities because she viewed them as a curse. The only sanctuary willing to take her in, the “Afterlife” inhabited by all Inhumans in Nepal, ultimately turned on her when she brought her S.H.I.E.L.D. friends to visit.

Essentially, Skye pulled an MTV moment, saying, “Welcome to my crib,” and caused an all-out war between the humans and Inhumans over trust between the two races.

To cause more tension than necessary, Coulson has to deal with more rogue spies within his base who claim to work for “the real S.H.I.E.L.D.,” a grassroots organization made up of top agents who do not trust Coulson.

He also must act as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. following the disappearance of Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The plotline with Edward James Olmos as Robert Gonzalez, the leader of this faction, ended up being another wasted opportunity. The Inhumans began sneaking into their base to eradicate them after they turned on Gonzalez.

The dynamic between Coulson and Gonzalez and their ideologies as both factions were forced to fight against the Inhumans was fun to watch, similar to

watching a Jedi Master (Gonzalez) teaching a Padawan how to navigate the world.

It sounds as if I am ripping on this season its shortcomings, but this is not completely true. The season did not collapse on itself here.

Kyle MacLachlan as the season’s main antagonist is a shining aspect of the series. His character, who hates S.H.I.E.L.D. for ripping his family apart years ago (including his daughter Skye), ranges from a lost, pitied puppy dog to the Hulk on steroids, insane and frothing at the mouth for the taste of blood.

The wrap-up of this character’s storyline did bring a few tears to my eyes when viewers learn who is in control, driving him to madness and murder in the name of his family.

I also enjoyed the two new additions to the cast, Nick Blood as Lance Hunter and Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse, divorcees who come together and end up fighting on the same team in the face of disaster and the Inhumans crisis.

Palicki is fun to watch in whatever role she plays.

She was even considered for the role of Wonder Woman in a series once destined for the small screen in 2011.

With the success of Supergirl last week on CBS, maybe another shot should be given to Palicki for the superheroine.

The Internet would not like Palicki, as Wonder Woman is a DC character, and would brand her a traitor to Marvel fans, but I could live with it if the opportunity presented itself.

Blood also brings an aura of charisma to his character, taking note of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man on the big screen for his role as the mercenary-turned-agent alongside Coulson’s established members.

The third season of this series, serving as the backdrop for the Marvel Cinematic Universe since its inception in 2012, will further dive into the tension between the Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D. and now the rest of the world as they find out about the existence of the superpowered beings.

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Conservationists raise awareness to help wildlife ALLANA ANSBRO Contributing Writer

Wildlife increasingly struggles to find uninhabited land as the human population grows and takes over natural habitats, wildlife specialists say.

The Western North Carolina Nature Center covers 40 acres and contains more than 140 animal species. Animals at the WNC Nature Center are non-releasable due to injury or prolonged habituation to humans, said Eli Strull, an education specialist at the center.

“Our primary goal is education,” Strull said. “You have to understand it to care.”

There are two main groups of animals at the WNC Nature Center, Strull said. The center has domestic livestock and wildlife native to the southern Appalachians.

The center does not typically handle animal rehabilitation itself, Strull said, instead working with veterinarians and rehabilitators to treat injuries.

The center had a record-breaking attendance rate of over 100,000 visitors last year, Strull said.

The nature center also participates in wildlife conservation efforts, Strull said. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums accredits the center and it offers programs including Trout in the Classroom and Frog Watch.

“Most animals in the center live significantly longer than their wild counterparts,” Strull said.

The oldest animal at the center is a 20-year-old female great horned owl named Scruff, Strull said.

The center offers animal feeding and enrichment programs two times per day. The enrichment of an animal involves introducing something new to an animal, Strull said.

Friends of the WNC Nature Center is a nonprofit organization run by the city of Asheville. Suzanne Mwengi, membership and outreach coordinator for Friends of the Nature Center, said the organization aids in fundraising and marketing.

People can adopt animals through the organization, Mwengi said. Their money supports the animal they choose and they receive a certificate, fact sheet and photo of the animal.

There is a Wild Parents Day event that adopters attend for a more personal visit with their animal, Mwengi said.

Mwengi said, the group has an office near the nature center and an office to work from in the nature center. They have around 48,000 members in their program.

Friends of the WNC Nature Center host several fundraising events at restaurants, Mwengi said.

“Educating and exposing people to native wildlife allows people to feel a connection to these species, which inspires appreciation for wildlife, helps people learn the intrinsic value of wildlife and advances conservation in our region,” Mwengi said.

Susie Wright, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization Wild for Life, has over 25 years of experience as a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Some of the common injuries they see involve animals caught on barbed wire, hit by cars, gunshot wounds and birds that flew into windows.

“Our goal is to rehabilitate wildlife and return them back to their main habitats,” Wright said.

Wild for Life rehabilitates birds of prey, including, hawks, owls, turkey vultures and black vultures, Wright said. The hawk varieties the organization regularly sees are redtailed, red-shouldered, broad-winged, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks.

Wild for Life also rehabilitates eastern screech, great horned and barred owls, Wright said. Sometimes they treat barn owls, but not often because they are is declining due to habitat loss.

“We are encroaching on their habitat and reducing the areas that they can survive,” Wright said.

Eastern screech are the owls they work with the most, Wright said, while red-tailed, broad-shouldered and broad-winged are the most common hawks.

Some of the mammals Wild for Life rehabilitates include squirrels, rabbits, opossums and groundhogs, Wright said. Bats, foxes, skunks and raccoons cannot be rehabilitated in North Carolina due to the threat of rabies.

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Modern-Day Slavery African-Americans, there are over 2,300 incarcerated.

Deborah James, professor of literature and language at UNCA, said prisoners today are marginalized and considered replaceable.

“Once people are confined to prison, they’re considered throwaway people,” James said. “Even in A Mercy by Toni Morrison, there is this notion that some people’s lives don’t matter, so we can dispense with them because we can find others to replace them. They’re just replaceable parts.”

In his last speech to the abolitionist societies as they were being disbanded, Frederick Douglass warned that even though it looks like their goals had been achieved, they should beware of the “hydra-headed monster” that is slavery.

“You cut off one head, and a dozen grow back,” James said.

“I think what we witness in convict leasing, in tenant farming, in redlining and in the prison population is the way in which those who have wealth and power continue to have wealth and power.”

James said racism can be handled through multiple strategies and it is too complex to use only one.

“On the other hand, I am an eternal optimist. When we talk about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, I believe that both work,” James said.

“I believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X work.

The situations of racism are so complex that we can’t afford to only employ one strategy.”

James said indirect action is just as useful as direct action, even though people tend to focus on highly-publicized, visible events, like protests or riots.

“Everybody has to do the work in every way they can,” James said. “While the more dramatic effects seem to occur from direct action and aggressive behavior, I know that some work gets done by indirection

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“The biggest problem is not conscious racism, it’s not even the aggressive police brutality, it’s indifference and ignorance. So if we are not indifferent to other people’s pain, if we are able to stand and face other people and make connections, I think that has greater impact.” as well.”

As for what might be done to improve this complex problem, James said everyone has to take action and be aware of these issues in everyday life.

“We have to realize that there is no silver bullet, there is no one thing or one action we can all do to fix everything,” James said. “I’m reminded of this quote, ‘we don’t have to do everything, we have to do something.’ Everybody has to do at least one thing, you have to find a thing you can do.”

James said ignorance and indifference hinder people from connecting with and helping others.

“The biggest problem is not conscious racism, it’s not even the aggressive police brutality, it’s indifference and ignorance,” James said. “So if we are not indifferent to other people’s pain, if we are able to stand and face other people and make connections, I think that has greater impact.”

Darin Waters, professor of history at UNCA, said the convict leasing system was meant to replace slavery.

“It was almost like a way to re-enslave African-Americans after they had been emancipated after the Civil War,” Waters said.

Waters said slavery provided an incentive to keep individuals alive and able to work, whereas the convict leasing system removed that incentive and made workers easily replaceable.

“Convict leasing was worse

than slavery itself because a slave owner at least had an economic interest in their slave property,” Waters said. “In the convict leasing system that developed after slavery, there was no real master who had an economic interest in the individuals trapped in that system.”

Because of the lack of an economic interest in those that were incarcerated in the convict leasing system, they were not considered important and could be replaced.

“The only interest was extracting as much labor as possible,” Waters said. “Because you had this huge population of African-Americans who could now be entrapped in this leasing system, they were not important.”

Waters said the prison system in the United States is a self-perpetuating one, and that once someone is in the system, it is difficult to get out.

“Before I went to graduate school, I worked as an adult probation and parole officer,” Waters said. “I was constantly going into prisons and seeing how the system was set up in such a way that once you become involved in it, it becomes very difficult to extract yourself from it.”

Waters said the growing use of private prisons is moving our penal system away from attempting to rehabilitate people.

“The country has been moving more and more toward private prisons,” Waters said.

“When capitalism becomes involved in this process, there’s

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no real incentive to use the penal system as an institution to rehabilitate people.”

As a historian, Waters said his outlook is more pessimistic.

“You have the lessons of history in front of you, and you have to look at it,” Waters said.

“Many times people don’t want to, they don’t want to face those truths. As Americans, we don’t tend to deal with tragedy, we like to have a very triumphant story. Anything that seems to muddy that picture, we have a tendency to react negatively to it. Historians are always bringing up the tragedy and people don’t necessarily like that.”

Waters, like James, said he encourages people to not be indifferent, but instead to be aware and politically active.

“One of the answers for us, as citizens of the country, is to not close our eyes to what is really going on here,” Waters said.

“It’s easy to close your eyes to this when it doesn’t seem that it’s impacting you directly.”

Waters said being actively involved in the political process is key to making an impact.

“I think that active citizenship in the country calls for us to not be that way, we have to take this seriously,” Waters said. “We have to remain engaged in this process by voting, by taking it seriously, by listening to what is going on and finding out more information about these issues.

But that calls for being actively engaged in the process.”

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on college students have risen, primarily when it comes to financial concerns.

Laughon said a $60,000 student debt after graduation can be very stressful.

One way UNCA is trying to combat anxiety on campus, and teach the skills to do so, is by facilitating events on campus. Cutspec said the Health and Counseling Center held around 77 events last year to spread information about the center and its services. He said he wishes to see this number increase, but the events led to more students visiting the center, causing higher demand on the limited staff.

He said the possibility of expanding the staff was dependent on the resources the university and state allocate to the center. Cutspec said the health center is not equipped to do everything and attempts to maximize resources in the best way possible, such as providing walk-in hours to allow students scheduling flexibility.

The most important thing, he said, is for students with anxiety or other disorders to reach out to someone they trust for support.

“The ability to seek help is one of the greatest characteristics anybody can have,” Laughon said. “It alone can help you get through life.”

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Trigger Warning Trayvon Martin or Emmet Till, a black man who was lynched.

“As a sociologist, I’m having my students studying horrible things, all the times human cruelty, suffering, violence, crimes, grief are all part of the human experience,” Peterson said. “And to not talk about Trayvon Martin’s images when they’ve been everywhere in our culture seems to me to do a disservice to the issue that many students want to have a space to talk about.”

Christopher Oakley, an assistant professor of new media, said he teaches a class on the history of animation, often showing material that is potentially triggering due to the racist or sexual content of older animations.

“The first time it happened was, I think I was showing a segment from Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, which was a very racist Warner Brothers cartoon, and it was very over the top for someone. Another time I was showing South Park: The Movie and somebody asked to be excused and I let them,” Oakley said.

“The last time it happened was during an anime discussion where some of the anime being discussed was a little rough.

Well not a little, a lot rough. Some of the students asked if they could go.”

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The only material Oakley said he omits from his course is explicitly sexual anime material. However, he said he still talks about it and shows many other types of objectionable material, because without it, he wouldn’t be showing an honest history of animation.

“A lot of what I show and discuss push those buttons for a lot of people,” Oakley said. “It doesn’t mean I don’t push them, I just have to be careful how I push them. I have to let them know those buttons are going to be pushed.”

Part of the controversy surrounding trigger warnings in the classroom is its possibility of limiting academic freedom when it comes to teaching hard subjects.

Martens said they don’t think warnings are limiting.

“That implies that there is censorship involved and removal of material. Content warnings are literally just adding, there’s nothing that’s being taken away, you’re just giving a preface to something that is potentially triggering,” Martens said. “You are not taking away that material, you are giving students a chance to process that or to be able to opt out.”

Often the perception of trigger warnings is that they are meant to coddle millennials who can’t handle difficult

topics. Jay Cutspec, director of health and counseling and a panelist, said they are meant to help those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I think where the controversy comes from today with content warnings have evolved into we need them if they make people uncomfortable,” Cutspec said, “and people feeling uncomfortable, to me, is very different than people having a physiological or psychological reaction to content. We can’t prevent people from feeling uncomfortable and I think our culture has evolved content warnings into that.”

Howard said they think the best thing that can be done is to have professors be willing to talk to about the subject and be willing to provide trigger warnings.

“I think there it’s the job of the professors to make themselves readily available for students to approach them. I’ve had some professors who have made me feel like they are unapproachable and I can’t come to them about these topics,” Howard said. “In the end it affects my learning, it affects my grade, and I’m sure that these professors would agree that I deserve the right to safe education.

I think the answer lies in creating safe space for individual level conversations

to happen.”

Students struggling with triggers can go to their department chair, the dean or to the professor themselves, Moffitt said.

She said she is also a possible resource.

“Trigger warnings in and of themselves is not a Title IX issue unless it is a survivor or someone who has already been through this process and is telling me that this remedy isn’t being met, then that’s a Title IX issue,” Moffitt said.

“Even though it’s not something that is under Title IX in and of itself I will always advocate for students, that’s part of my job.”

Oakley said he suggests, when presenting objectionable material, to think about how you would want it presented to yourself, and if still unsure ask colleagues and students how they feel about the material.

He said he often asks his students after showing rough material if it is the sort of thing he should show again. Often the answer is yes.

“We’ve got to give students more credit. Yes, we do have students with trigger issues,” Oakley said, “but even the ones with trigger issues are able to take it as long as you prepare them for it.”

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use the corporate douche term ‘synergize,’ but you can synergize a lot of different sources of information just by having the Internet available for you to jump on and reference something.”

Technology in the classroom has potential to be engaging or distracting, Warren said. It is up to the students and professors to be conscious, and understand how they use it, in order to be effective.

“They’re tools, laptops are just tools, it’s like a hammer,” Warren said. “And if it’s the right tool that you are trying to do for you, then it’s great.”

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• It was beloved British crime novelist Agatha Christie who made the following sage observation: “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

• If you’ve ever yelled out a warning in panic — “Stop!,” “Run!,” “Don’t!”

— you’ve used a monepic sentence, one that is complete with just a single word. Of course, at the time you probably weren’t concerned about the grammatical nature of your utterance.

• When in New Jersey, you’d best mind your manners at the table. In that state, it’s illegal to slurp your soup.

• If you’re a sky-watcher, you may already know that the center star of the constellation Orion’s sword isn’t actually a star; it’s a nebula — the only one visible from Earth with the naked eye.

In fact, the Orion Nebula is so large that if the distance between the Earth and the sun were 1 inch, the relative size of the nebula would be 12 miles.

• If you were to create a rope out of one full head of human hair, that rope would be able to support 12 tons.

• It’s a well-worn trope that men refuse to stop and ask for directions when they’re lost. That point of view might seem to be supported by the results of a survey conducted by the American Automobile Association, which found that 34 percent of male drivers admit to stopping to ask for directions. However, the same survey found that only 37 percent of women did the same.

• By the time he was 5 years old, 19th-century French composer Camille Saint-Saens was already composing waltzes. *** Thought for the Day: “Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.” — Arthur Helps

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1. TELEVISION: In what 1990s television series did the character of The Log Lady appear?

2. ANATOMY: What organ in the human body produces bile?

3. SCIENCE: What is the science of classifying things called?

4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first U.S. president to lose a re-election bid?

5. HISTORY: Who was the first African-American to be elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction and later appointed ambassador to the United Nations?

6. GEOGRAPHY: What country’s capital is Addis Ababa?

7. MATH: In geometry, what is a perfectly round ball called?

8. AD SLOGANS: What product was claimed in advertisements to be “good to the last drop”?

9. MOVIES: Who was the oldest performer to receive an Oscar for Best Actor?

10. FAMOUS QUOTES: What 20th-century humorist once said, “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

Answers 1. “Twin Peaks” 2. Liver 3. Taxonomy 4. John Adams 5. Andrew Young 6. Ethiopia 7. A sphere 8. Maxwell House coffee 9. Henry Fonda 10. Mark Twain

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Renter’s Rights keeping November’s rent in escrow until the home is livable again.

“Everyone related to the landlord agency treated us like we’re shitty, replaceable youth.

I mean, it’s not like you find a two-bedroom, one bath with a full basement and hardwood floors five minutes from campus,” Daily said. “They know they can get that house back in the market ASAP.” Daily said she and her fiancé are now under a month-tomonth lease and are currently looking for a new, dog-friendly place to move to.

Erin Joines said she has lived in Asheville for eight years, currently residing in West Asheville.

In 2013, Joines said she and her roommates received a 30day notice from their landlord to vacate their home. Their landlord decided she wanted to renovate the home and list it for sale.

During Joines’ three-year rental stint at the Morningside Drive home in West Asheville, her relationship with her landlord was fantastic and problem-free, Joines said.

Joines said she and her roommates thoroughly cleaned the home and performed a final walk-through of the property

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with the landlord, who said she needed to repaint the walls and replace some window screens where Joines’ cats clawed some holes through.

Shortly after moving out, Joines received a letter in the mail from her previous landlord stating she would not be receiving any of her $1,000 deposit back because damages and renovations in the home exceeded the deposit amount, Joines said.

An itemized list of costs was included, including $20 an hour for four hours of cleaning, $233 for window screens and $200 for a new cabinet, Joines said.

She was also charged for the installation of new smoke detectors.

“We had a good relationship with her and I really just wanted to leave it looking good anyway and get the deposit back,” Joines said. “I knew a few things would be deducted, but for her to say it was filthy dirty is just ridiculous.”

The bathroom cabinet Joines was charged for was broken when she moved in. Joines took pictures of the move-in condition of the home but said she lost them after her computer’s hard drive crashed.

Joines said she met with a volunteer lawyer at Pisgah Legal Services, a nonprofit law

firm in Asheville providing legal assistance for people with no access to a private attorney.

The lawyer told Joines he frequently receives cases similar to hers and helped her pen a letter to her landlord to dispute the charges, Joines said.

Joines said her landlord responded to her letter via email, informing Joines she was responsible for thousands of dollars in repairs after failing to tell her the downstairs toilet was leaking.

No one knew the toilet was leaking considering the tenants had no visible proof of pooling water, Joines said.

Mold issues developed in the home, causing one roommate to have severe asthma and allergy problems. An inspector found black mold in the walls, Joines said.

“She mentioned other charges never mentioned in previous emails and she said she let a lot of things fly and could have charged us more,” Joines said.

Joines never received any of her deposit back and has not contacted her past landlord since. She believes the ordeal is more than it’s worth at this point, Joines said.

Joines has noticed a trend in Asheville with many of her friends not receiving their de-

posit back in a market where housing is scarce, she said.

Asheville attorney Maria Longshore said a landlord is basically giving a tenant a portion of their land for a period of time.

A landlord can only evict someone if they desire to move into their rental property or if the tenant has accumulated severe back rent, Longshore said.

“The reason it’s so difficult to evict people is because they actually have ownership of your property for a period of time as long as they’re paying rent,” Longshore said.

In North Carolina, most judges are going to follow what is explicitly stated and agreed to in a lease agreement, Longshore said.

“It’s always really important for any tenant to really look over what their lease has to say,” she said.

Longshore said an ambiguous gray area exists with latefees in North Carolina.

“You can’t charge someone a flat late-fee, even it it’s in the contract, but some judges will allow that,” she said.

In North Carolina, a tenant security deposit act exists, placing a burden on a landlord to prove why they are keeping a

security deposit.

“This is actually a very tenant-friendly act,” she said.

Longshore said repainting and recarpeting cannot be deducted from a security deposit unless it’s been destroyed and replacements in a home have to be comparable in price to existing supplies.

“If a single-pane window is busted, you just can’t replace it with a double-pane, energy-efficient window and charge the tenant for that,” she said.

Renters should take pictures of rooms in their home when moving in to keep on file, always correspond with a landlord via email or writing and ask for receipts concerning their security deposit, Longshore said.

A landlord cannot raise rent during a current lease and must provide a 30-day notice of an increase before a new lease is signed, she said.

Longshore said she believes younger and older tenants are more vulnerable to landlords, especially if they do not have funds to pay for an attorney.

“Don’t be afraid to exercise your right,” Longshore said. “If you’re not getting your security deposit back, don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself.”

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Skye has fully adjusted to her abilities, no longer viewing them as weapons of mass destruction, and a hunt is underway for the mutated beings now inhabiting the civilized societies of the world.

This series has proven one thing: the show has potential to grow and get better as the cinematic universe continues to grace the silver screen. As the movies change directions, so does Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

What keeps the show popular, though, is connections between the entities. Viewers who watched this season as it aired on ABC can keep up with the events of the Avengers following Age of Ultron or discover how S.H.I.E.L.D. reacted to the heist pulled off in the following film, Ant-Man. As long as the cinematic universe thrives, so will Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., like the big sibling leading the way.

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Junior, a female broad-winged hawk hit by a car, received permanent brain damage. She joined the Wild for Life team of educational birds in 2005.

Wildlife Wright said Wild for Life receives animals from the general public, veterinarian offices, the Wildlife Resources Commission, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Western North Carolina Nature Center and the Asheville Humane Society.

“The human population is growing so much and we’re encroaching on their habitat so much that we as humans are coming more in contact with wildlife,” Wright said.

People who bring in wildlife file a receiving report while rehabilitators bring the animal into the facility’s nursery and let it calm down for at least half an hour, Wright said. Before bringing the animal into the nursery, rehabilitators check to make sure the animal has no fatal injuries or emergencies.

“We do a full-body examination starting at the head and working to the tail, and if you find an injury you don’t stop, you do the full body,” Wright said. “You have to assess the whole

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animal.”

After examination, rehabilitators treat whatever injuries the animal has and decide how to care for them, Wright said.

“There’s a huge need for Wild for Life to grow because we’re not meeting the demands that there are of wild animals,” Wright said.

There are regulations to protect wildlife, but it can be difficult to enforce them, Wright said.

“When you hit an opossum, if it’s a female, she’s a marsupial. There’s a very good chance that she could have 10, 12, 13 babies in her pouch. So you’re not just taking that one life, but you’re taking a lot,” Wright said.

Wild for Life houses 12 non-releasable birds and takes them to schools and events for fundraising and educating the public, Wright said.

“We try to educate people about the importance of these species in the environment and the role that they play and potentially keep them from being

harmed,” Wright said. “It’s not a resource to be misused, it’s a resource to be treasured.”

Junior, a female broad-winged hawk hit by a car, received permanent brain damage. She joined the Wild for Life team of educational birds in 2005.

Wild for Life gives wild animals another chance According to Susie Wright, co-founder and executive director for Wild for Life, the wildlife rehabilitation facility occupies 15 acres and contains separate enclosures for their education and rehabilitation animals.

“You cannot get your federal permit without showing that you have the proper housing for the animals that you want to care for,” Wright said.

Wild for Life mainly focuses on birds of prey, but the nonprofit obtained a federal permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services to reha-

bilitate birds and a state license from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for the rehabilitation of mammals, according to Wright.

“You can’t get the federal permit unless you have the state permit,” Wright said.

Wild for Life maintains a release rate between 70 and 80 percent and has been a nonprofit since 2000.

Willow, a 15-year-old red-tailed hawk, received permanent brain damage from being hit by a car. She became the first educational bird at Wild for Life in 2000.

Red-tailed hawks typically live in captivity for 20-25 years, while in the wild they only live for 8-10.

According to Wright, Wild for Life funds itself through trust funds, grants, and donations. The Hop hosts an event with Wild for Life and allows some of the birds to visit.

“That’s what people love to see.

People don’t get to see wildlife close up,” Wright said.

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Ashe-Hole students who would like to quit.

“There has been a lot of research showing that policy change can affect behavior when it comes to smoking,” Haggard said. “So, as soon as the law allows, I expect the university will move toward a smoke-free position.”

Haggard said he feels most of the administration wants the campus to become smoke-free.

Mark Flack, vice president of SGA, said he sympathizes with the administration’s position.

He said he feels the arguments presented in the Blue Banner article misrepresented how the administration and SGA work to serve student interests.

“It is fine to criticize. It is fine to disagree. I disagree frequently with policies or proposed policies on this campus, but at least I am informed enough to give a fair critique,” Flack said.

“Reading the article, I felt there was an enormous ignorance as to what goes on at the administrative level and the reasons behind certain policies.”

If the administration were to move the Ashe-Hole, Flack said it would not be an attack on substance use, but a measure to address more practical concerns. The Ashe-Hole takes up parking spaces and forces the university to pay to repair defaced property.

“People often say they have a right to smoke. I believe you do, but the university and the state have the ability to regulate the areas in which you exercise that right,” Flack said. “If officials were to create an area -- this campus -- where you couldn’t smoke, I would be OK with that.”

Flack said he sees no conflict between the students’ right to smoke and the university’s right to control where that takes

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place, and this applies to the Ashe-Hole.

“Personally and as a student, I feel they should move the spot,” Flack said.

He said his view does not necessarily reflect the views of SGA. SGA has not arrived at a unified position on the AsheHole, Flack said, but the issue has come up in meetings.

“Conversations have gone both ways,” Flack said. “These conversations have been about what the logistics would be of moving certain smoking areas, and about exploring the benefits and consequences of that.”

Former SGA Freshman Senator Connor Colson, now a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, said he felt SGA’s conversations about smoking areas were more one-sided.

“There were a lot of SGA officials in favor of repealing smoking zones on campus,” Colson said. “The idea was that they’d be all phased out within the next couple of years.”

Colson said he is not a smoker, but he sees any attempt to curtail smoking areas as a threat to an established subculture on campus.

“The unwelcoming attitude toward smokers and the smoking subculture is a socially allowable form of discrimination,” Colson said. “It is totally against the ethos of Asheville, an ethos that respects personal decisions and personal choice.”

Colson said he would advise people to consider that smokers are invested in social gathering areas like the Ashe-Hole because they foster a sense of community.

“I don’t necessarily think smoking areas have to stay,” Colson said, “but they should be dealt with respectfully.”

Photo by Roan Farb - Asst. Opinion Editor

Litter and vandalism are two of the administration’s concerns about the Ashe-Hole.

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You’re invited to the 1st annual Psych Club/Psi Chi:

Drive to Benefit Homeless Youth Collecting clothing, school supplies, and toiletries for the homeless students within Buncombe County Schools, grades K-12. Collection boxes are spread throughout the UNCA campus, large boxes located in Carmichael and Zageir Halls on the 2nd floor.

If you would like to make a monetary donation which would be used to purchase new supplies, please contact us at psychclb@unca.edu.

Corrections In last week’s issue, an incorrect caption appeared under the centerpiece photo that ran with Phillip Wyatt’s article on photographer Isaiah Rice. The man pictured was an unnamed milkman, not Rice. In addition, Wyatt’s article misspelled the name of Rice’s grandmother.

Her name is Jeroline, not Geraldine.

The Blue Banner apologizes for these errors.

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German corner About the Germans, in German, for our German students.

By Jana Mader, Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Literature

Folge 19: Ein Gedicht “November” von Heinrich Seidel

Solchen Monat muss man loben; Keiner kann wie dieser toben, keiner so verdrießlich sein, und so ohne Sonnenschein!

Keiner so in Wolken maulen, keiner so mit Sturmwind graulen!

Und wie nass er alles macht!

Ja, es ist ´ne wahre Pracht.

Seht das schöne Schlackerwetter!

Und die armen welken Blätter, wie sie tanzen in dem Wind und so ganz verloren sind!

Wie der Sturm sie jagt und zwirbelt und sie durcheinanderwirbelt und sie hetzt ohn´ Unterlaß; Ja, das ist Novemberspaß!

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OPINION

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Section Editor: June Bunch kbunch@unca.edu

The growing pains of living with a best friend

ROAN FARB

Asst. Opinion Editor rfarb@unca.edu

It’s difficult for me to let go of things at their end.

Countless times, I’ve held onto all sorts of relationships until they hit a snapping point.

It isn’t always impossible to tell when a relationship is reaching a conclusion but it is, more often than not, a hard thing to accept.

How do you deal with someone you have grown to depend on, coexist with looking for a cancellation for your pact?

What’s the next move when it’s you looking for a way to get off the friendship-train?

Over the summer, I moved in with one of my closest friends since ninth grade, and it really destroyed our relationship.

It wasn’t just the fact that we were constantly dealing with each other, having to hear the same recycled jokes seven times over, or that she was constantly, accidentally locking me out. It built up to so much more than all that.

Over the course of two months, I witnessed every quality of my friend I had admired and prized, defended to others, strived to replicate all be used like masks. I began to see one of my best friends as a hollow shell of a person.

Ultimately, I had to accept that we had outgrown each other as friends.

It was eventually to the point where we could hardly stand to be in the same room with each other for

more than a few minutes at a time.

Everything became a confrontation and I soon wasn’t living with a friend anymore, but rather with someone who generally no longer enjoyed my presence.

And now here I am, six months later, and you figured I would’ve learned something from that.

My best friend since the beginning of 2009 moved into The Grove apartment complex across from UNC Asheville’s campus with me, same unit number and all.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s incredible having one of my favorite people live literally ten feet from where I wake up in the morning, but living with my roommate has taken a toll on me, as well as our friendship.

He doesn’t clean.

He was scared of the dishes the first month we were here.

There are Cook Out trays everywhere in our apartment.

He’s befriended two people across the hall that aren’t the best influences on him.

I feel like I’m slowly losing one of the most important people in my life, partially because we’re sharing a living space.

I’m growing to accept that you can’t always have a sense of control over the things that are happening in your life.

I may have to watch my constant and unavoidable presence in my best friend’s life slowly destroy our relationship, and I may have to accept that our friendship is on its way out the door.

There’s not always a way to slam the brakes on stuff like this, and I think that makes this particular chapter of growing up so much more painful and difficult.

It’s not so much that college really changes the relationships you see value in, but rather that your early

20s seem to carry with them a theme of shrugging off the things you’re killing yourself to hold onto.

And who’s to say some parts of you aren’t worth burying, leaving in the dust?

After all, we all have regrets about relationships we’ve poured too much into or spent too much time dwelling on.

It’s not always a negative thing to outgrow someone.

Often, we’re taught that loyalty is one of the greatest qualities someone can exhibit.

This is done to such a degree that we sometimes question, doubt and berate ourselves for dropping relationships, even when they’ve become toxic or one-sided.

Unfortunately, my relationship with him has become fairly toxic for both of us in the last few months.

I distract him with friends and social invitations, he never makes time to look for a job.

When the weekend comes, we enable each other to spend too much money on food, social outings and gas.

Hell, half the time I’m working on an assignment he invites me to go somewhere with him for the day.

I can’t focus and he has no direction, and I’m starting to realize that’s because of the situation I’ve helped create.

We no longer mesh well together. When we aren’t at each other’s throats, we’re enabling each other and it’s become unhealthy and regressive for the both of us.

I think for the first time in my life I’m able to recognize when something has run its course, and it’s a shame that it has to be such an important person in my life.

I think sometimes reality keeps us on our toes with the way things play out.

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A clean, well-lighted place MARK WEST Contributing Writer Mass Comm. Professor

Do smokers have a right to smoke?

And do they have a right to be accommodated in public spaces? Does a publicly-funded institution, or the entities it sponsors, have the right to curtail the ability of individuals to engage in a legal activity on state property?

The questions proposed by the anti-smoking movement are serious, and imply far-reaching questions not only dealing with health issues but of ethical, scientific and legal concern.

What is not in question, of course, is that the use of cigarettes, water pipes and the like leads to adverse health outcomes.

It may be the case that the combustion of tobacco is what leads to the carcinogenic effects, since cannabis is at least as significant a cause of lung cancer as tobacco. This fear has led to the development of “e-cigs” and related technologies.

But tobacco consumption, by means of standard cigarettes, is a fact of life, even on college campuses.

Considering the amount of negative publicity that smoking has received in the United States, it is little surprise that everyone, smoker or not, believes it to be dangerous.

What is surprising is that almost everyone overestimates how dangerous smoking is. A heavy smoker can expect to run about a 7 percent risk of getting lung cancer, which is a grim enough statistic. But in repeated surveys, non-smokers and smokers alike estimate the risk smokers run of getting lung cancer as about 47 percent. People do not underestimate the risk of smoking. They tend to vastly overestimate it.

So why do people smoke? Nicotine may be the most addictive substance available to humans, and the lung-based delivery system the most potent.

And in a society where smokers usually start smoking at age 16, and over a third of those who start become addicted, the question facing our nation is how to treat a substantial body of addicts whose

drug is legal and whose addiction has substantive health consequences.

All these questions face universities, which provide not only a learning environment but a residential community and a workplace.

For many students, the university is not only school but home. And for some of those students, the addiction to tobacco was acquired years before their entrance to the university.

The university can, or at least should, have been aware that some percentage of any year’s incoming student body was already addicted to a legally-available narcotic. We might well concern ourselves, as I think we have, with our responsibilities to the non-smokers whose health is imperiled by second-hand smoke.

But the students who smoke – and whose ability to choose whether to smoke or not has long since been lost to addiction – are paying for the right to attend the university as well.

Might we spend time thinking of their rights, and our responsibilities to them, as well?

At the point at which a university admits a group of students without inquiring as to the status of their addiction to tobacco, has it not taken on a set of responsibilities, both to the addicted and not-addicted students to whom it provides residential facilities?

Laws sensibly prohibit smoking indoors, where concentrations of second-hand smoke can reach levels which can harm those who are not smokers.

But the data concerning concentrations of smoke in unenclosed outdoor areas is sparse.

A study in Australia showed that, in an unenclosed and uncovered smoking area, the concentration of airborne pollutants averaged 17.5 mg/m3. The observed level of such materials inside restaurants where smoking was allowed was about three times that.

Clearly, exterior smoking areas are better for all concerned.

Fifteen mg/m3 is the concentration of pollutants at which the U.S. EPA recommends that “unusually sensitive” individuals take action. This implies that the commonly reported notion that all second-hand smoke is a cancer risk is incorrect, and that an al fresco smoking area is not a significant danger to passers-by.

In any event, state intervention to limit the rights of individuals is clearly justified in order to limit harm to others.

But, once smokers are moved outdoors to uncovered areas, the Australian studies suggest that passers-by suffer no harm, particularly if the smoking areas are sufficiently remote from buildings.

The intervention of removing all smoking areas might be justified if there were some evidence that such a move would stop smoking. But where is such data?

Pope (2000) cites the curious historical fact that, at the beginning of the 20th century, some 14 states had enacted constitutional amendments prohibiting the sale or manufacture of cigarettes within their boundaries. Such legislation failed to make much of a dent in smoking.

It is a mystery why we imagine that similarly paternalistic measures will work now, when they failed in the past.

Research suggests that what works with treating addiction to nicotine is the same thing that works with other addictions – 12-step programs, acceptance and commitment therapy, and the other sorts of sensible therapeutic modalities that are in use every day in thousands of clinics across the nation.

Techniques which do not work are shaming, name-calling and hiding the problem. Surely the people on campus who are struggling with an addiction with some of the most deleterious health outcomes imaginable at least deserve a clean, well-lighted place – the equivalent of a needle exchange for heroin addicts.

I hope this simple act of kindness is one we can manage, and that charity, in this case, can begin at home.

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