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T h e st u d en t vo i c e o f U N C As h ev i lle | s i n g i n g i n t h e r a i n s i n c e 1 9 82 | t h eb lu eba n n er.n et

Black Mountain College comes back to life

UNCA chancellor announces historic agreement with BMC Museum

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tour de falls pg. 3 pope's address pg. 4

SPORTS slacklining pg. 6

FEATURES she's the first pg. 10

coping with deployment pg. 11

opinion

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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

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Visitors take a tour of Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden campus, now Camp Rockmont.

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A new unity

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UNCA and Black Mountain College Museum enter into MoU TIMBI SHEPHERD Editor-In-Chief jshephe3@unca.edu

Chancellor Mary Grant announced in an address at the seventh-annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference that UNC Asheville and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center had only minutes earlier entered into a memorandum of understanding.

The two institutions share many ideals with regard to arts and liberal arts education, and have worked together on past projects and events, but the MoU will strengthen this bond.

“To commit to deepening the partnership around scholarship, research, service and creativity,” Grant said, are the goals of the agreement.

In addition to signing the MoU, Grant announced Friday evening that UNCA received a $180,000 grant from the Wingate Foundation. The grant will

support several faculty fellows and two student interns who will explore the history, people, art and legacy of Black Mountain College through their own creative and scholarly work.

The Wingate grant, along with the MoU, will foster a deeper discussion between two important educational institutions, and thus represents a momentous step forward for UNCA, BMCM+AC and the greater Asheville community, Grant said.

“When we think about the way we are going to solve problems — no matter what we do, whether they’re social problems, economic problems, civic problems — we’re going to do that through innovation and creativity,” she explained.

“Coming together to have these discussions is essential to that.

Having innovation and creativity at the heart of a liberal arts education is essential to the

work that we do through the way we educate our students.”

Brian Butler, Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities at UNCA and co-chair of BMCM+AC, said he has been working to facilitate a more engaged discussion between the two institutions for years, especially since UNCA and Black Mountain College have such similar missions as ventures into the liberal arts.

As these institutions have so much in common, and so much to gain from each other, Butler said he seeks to establish a literal common ground where the two ventures can collide in a physical space. His vision for the museum is to house it at UNCA. He said he hopes the university will agree, as this would present a tremendous learning opportunity to students and faculty.

“I want part of the museum, at the very least, to be on cam-

pus,” Butler said. “We should grab it.”

This development may be far off, but, for now, Grant and Butler said they are proud to host the ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference at UNCA. This year’s iteration, which took place Friday through Sunday, attracted one of the conference’s largest-ever Read more on page 9

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Tour de Falls prevailed despite rain at DuPont State Forest

to live in a gated community.” turing site at its peak had 1,260 Steinberg said she came to employees in the late ’70s.

Western North Carolina in 1963 “This was a 24/7 operation Visitors brought their rain and fell in love with the forest. because manufacturing the gear during a bus tour of Du“It belonged to the people,” polyester could not be easily Pont State Forest this weekend. she said. “And so we fought for turned off and on,” he said.

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We also had an additional year, once in May and again in On Oct. 23, 2000, Steinberg 400 people with food services, September or October, thanks said the council of the state de- housekeeping and construction to a group of volunteers called cided to take DuPont property crew, he said, and there was Friends of DuPont Forest. The by eminent domain. even a Credit Union building. tour begins at Triple Falls, conThere are a lot of people who “We essentially had a small tinues to High Falls then to can’t hike there, Steinberg said, city here,” he said.

Bridal Veil Falls and concludes due to issues with mobility. So, “DuPont Corporation is rewith a stop at Lake Julia. in October 2001 a few of them sponsible for site clean up and According to volunteers, the banded together, rented vans they have spent several years tour had 150 visitors on Satur- and set up shop in the unfin- demolishing building and sellday, and the total reached 330 ished visitor center. ing off surplus equipment, even

by Sunday afternoon.

“We brought a Bunsen burn- digging up old landfills and reAt 81, Dick Thompson said er and heated up cider and got cycling materials that were burhe still volunteers for Friends of people to bring in cookies and ied in the ’70s and early ’80s,” DuPont Forest regularly at the cake,” she said.

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High school Pope’s address brings together to higher education:

NEWS

and inspires community BECCA ANDREWS News Staff Writer randrew1@unca.edu

Over 100 people gathered at St. Eugene’s to watch Pope Francis address Congress during his first visit to the states.

Until the recording of the speech froze, the Pope with a hand raised in mid-sentence.

Deacon Mike Zboyovski took over, standing in front of the TV with a still-motionless Pope, reading from a transcript of the speech.

“I’ll try to continue in my best Argentinian accent,” he joked.

The Pope spoke on a wide variety of issues, including religious extremism, immigration and refugee crises, and the imbalance of wealth.

“All of us are quite aware of, and deeply worried by, the disturbing social and political situation of the world today,” the Pope said. “Our world is increasingly a place of violent conflict, hatred and brutal atrocities, committed even in the name of God and of religion.”

People from many different churches were welcome at this interfaith event, to build connections and hopefully bring about change.

The Creation Care Alliance, a program of Mountain True, partnered with St. Eugene’s to host the event, said Jane Laping, a member of the steering committee.

“There is an organization called NC Interfaith Power and Light. We partner with them,” Laping said. “It was their suggestion that we wait until the Pope was in the U.S. to hold the event to give people a chance to read the encyclical. We were creative and this is what we came up with.”

After the speech concluded, Steve Runholt, the pastor of Warren Wilson Presbyterian

Church, held a service. In keeping with the themes of Pope Francis’ speech, Runholt invited two speakers during the service to tell their stories.

“The way forward on these issues is not debate, the way forward on these issues I believe is through story, and through relationship. Meeting people who differ from me has changed my life, hearing their stories has changed my experience and my perspective,” Runholt said.

“We created some space tonight to hear some stories from people whose lives are touched by these issues, especially climate change and environmental issues.”

The first speaker, Ernestino Martinez, told the audience of his childhood in El Salvador and how the landscape of his home country was torn apart by war.

“Before the war, everything was really pretty, it was a beautiful life. We were fishing in the river, we played in the sand by the riverside, beautiful times.

But everything changed when the war started,” Martinez said.

“The mountains and the valleys, they mined all the land around it. You couldn’t go back to the mountains, the mines will kill you, or at least take a part of your body.”

Throughout the 12-year war, 5,000 pounds of bombs and gases were dropped. It greatly affected the fish population and the soil quality. Previously, no chemicals were needed to grow corn, but now the land won’t produce any crops without the help of chemicals, Martinez said “We live now in a country with a lot of land, a lot of mountains, beautiful scenery, but we have to take care of it, of what we are going to leave behind to our generations,” Martinez

said, “I’m very happy knowing that there are people who stand up and illuminate the torch for others in this world.”

The next speaker, Deke Arndt, a climatologist originally from Oklahoma, spoke about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and how it continues to affect the people of Oklahoma, generations later.

“There was brokenness on several levels, brokenness with an angry climate system, brokenness in the way we treated the world around us, and brokenness in the way we treated each other.” Arndt said. “This event happened before climate change, so why am I telling a story from 80 years ago? It’s because this same story is going on right now in Syria. The Syrian issue has all the same elements.”

The Pope also spoke about the Syrian refugee crisis in his speech.

“Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions. We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation,” the Pope said, “To respond in a way which is always humane, just and fraternal. We need to avoid a common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome.”

Arndt related the refugee crisis to issues in the climate system.

“The drought in Syria has been exacerbated over the past five years by temperatures that have not been seen in the Middle East,” Arndt said. “That causes more water to evaporate, Read more on page 8

High schools unable to prepare students adequately for university MOLLY JABEN Contributing Writer

Alex Quevedo, like many students, said she struggles with study skills and financial management in college.

“It was a little rough first year,” said Quevedo, a sophomore student at UNC Asheville.

“I was more trying to figure what I’m actually learning, and on top of that learning how to actually study. It’s not like how it was for me in high school, where I didn’t have to do anything to do well. So I was in for a shock at the end of the year when I realized my GPA sucked.”

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that more than 65 percent of graduating seniors enroll in college immediately after completing high school.

“For a lot of us it was just showing up to school and sitting in class,” she said. “Things moved fairly slow. We could’ve gotten more out of the time we had, but since teachers had to focus on the students who were struggling, we didn’t have to.”

According to research from Peter D. Hart Research Associates, college instructors estimate that 42 percent of incoming public high school graduates are inadequately prepared for university coursework.

“I wish they would’ve evaluated students’ needs based on where they were academically rather than grade-wise,” Quevedo said. “They catered more to the students in the lower-end of the classroom. There’s an issue when you put so many different levels of students into the same class. Whereas in college, classes are generally divided by your

abilities.”

According to the academic organization Achieve Inc., more than 80 percent of both college and non-college students report that if their high school demanded more, they would have worked harder, even if it meant less time for non-academic pursuits.

Jessica Browning is a college counselor at Carolina Day School, an independent high school in Asheville.

“I do not want to blame our schools,” Browning said. “Our schools are doing a lot and they’re trying, but it’s a combination with the community.

It’s a challenge because of what happens when they’re not at school.”

Data from the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research indicates that one-third of interviewees who left college did so because of challenging academic workloads.

“For a lot of students, there is no time for homework. Some of them work, some of them watch siblings, some of them get towed around by their parents. They do not have control over what is happening,” said Browning, who previously worked with public school students at North Buncombe High School and Asheville High School.

More than 60 percent of white high-school graduates entered college immediately upon graduation in 2010. In comparison, only 66 percent of African-American and 60 percent of Hispanic graduates did the same, according to the National High School Center at Read more on page 7

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SPORTS

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

"Whatever it took to get more" Why addiction in WNC continues to be a problem HARRISON SLAUGHTER

Sports Editor jslaught@unca.edu

Drug-related deaths and overdoses are becoming a weekly occurrence in Asheville.

Kim Hazlett, West Asheville Police Department senior patrol officer, said when the police make up ground shutting down distribution of one drug, another seems to make a comeback.

“Every time we seem to combat one, like oxycodone, and control the prescription writing, something else comes back. Heroin has made a huge comeback. We’re seeing probably five to six overdoses a week,” Hazlett said. “We’re losing a lot of young people. We’re probably having one to two deaths at least a week from heroin.”

Paul Gaither, recovering addict for nine years, said when it comes to using drugs, anything will do.

“If it was hard to find what I really wanted, then I would substitute something else for it. I wasn’t going to go without. When an addict is in desperate need of a fix, then it doesn’t matter what it is,” Gaither said. “The disease of addiction makes people not care. It makes them sloppy when it comes to getting high because all they can think about is getting that next one. I have seen a lot of people die as a direct result of using drugs.”

Most of the time, people overdose because they aren’t paying attention to how much they are using, said Kylie Brown, former resident at New Life Recovery halfway house.

“Addicts have no sense of reality. The only thing they can think about is using drugs and finding ways and means to get more,” Brown said. “This pattern of thinking distorts their perception of reality. They think everything is fine and can’t see the damage they are causing to

themselves and people around them.”

Sarah Kirkpatrick, Buncombe County family drug treatment court coordinator, said an addict’s instinct is only to get more drugs, no matter what.

“An addict in active addiction’s brain has undergone a change. When it comes to addiction, their number one priority over eating, breathing and certainly over any morals or values is the drugs,” Kirkpatrick said. “If getting the drug comes over your natural tendency to protect or feed yourself, then you’re really not going to have a lot of capacity for following social norms or the law.”

About 75 percent of arrests made in Buncombe County are directly or indirectly related to drugs, whether it be drug possession or breaking and entering, Hazlett said.

“Doing drugs removes guilt and conscience. I believe wholeheartedly that drugs manage to remove any kind of immediate consequence in the mind of an addict. What you get is a false sense of bravado or you’re braver than you should be and it is all based around the drugs,” Gaither said. “You also don’t care about the people that it affects because most of those emotions have been dulled to the point of nonexistence. You don’t care who you’re fucking over.”

Brown said she started with pawning her things, then moved to stealing checks from her family and cashing them to get more.

“I would steal my friends and families’ things. I would break into people’s houses and steal their valuables and steal money. I would break into people’s cars,” Brown said. “I worked a lot and tried to keep a job, but sometimes that became difficult when the drugs took hold. I would beat people for their money and tell them I would get them drugs.”

Selling drugs is a crime. Gaither said

he usually ended up using more than he sold, but it was something he got caught up in.

“In my experience, there is a direct correlation with using drugs and criminal activity. My drug addiction led me to the depths where I needed to find a means to get more of what I needed and I was willing to do whatever it took to get more,” said Devin Lindberg, recovering addict for three years. “I ended up getting caught up in selling drugs to support my habit. I was doing a lot of stuff that could have got me a lot of time in prison.”

One hundred percent of prostitution charges are a result of drug use, Hazlett said. Maud Boleman, recovering addict of 30 years and owner of Black Mountain Studios, said she experienced something similar to prostitution.

“When I was using, I was ‘dating’ a doctor. I was ‘dating’ a pharmacist. I was also ‘dating’ a dentist, although we never went to a restaurant together,” Boleman said. “I had all the professions covered. I was a professional woman and that’s how I got my drugs.”

Brown said she slept with people in order to get drugs, not realizing she was essentially prostituting herself.

When the addict is ready, the answer is available.

Addicts who are using will not stop until they have hit their rock bottom and had enough of the way they are living their lives, Brown said.

“I lived in a halfway house for a little under a year and I saw countless people come in and out of there, lots of times more than once. Most of the time, the people living there have gotten into trouble with the law or their families and they are there to get out of trouble,” Brown said. “Sometimes this is enough to keep them clean, but most of the time if they arRead more on page 8

Campus group supports students dealing with substance abuse JOHN MALLOW Contributing Writer

UNC Asheville students seeking help for addiction have effective resources at their disposal, according to the Collegiate Recovery Community.

“There is a core group of collegiate recovery students who are forming a student organization, which is really exciting,” said Barbara Galloway, Collegiate Recovery program coordinator and counselor at UNCA. “As a student organization, their goal is to share the good news that recovery is possible.”

Among full-time college students in 2011, the rate of illegal drug use was 22 percent, according to a study by Drs. Brandon Johnson and Jeffrey H. Newcorn of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Additionally, college students show significantly higher rates of binge alcohol use compared to similarly-aged adults.

“If they’re still using substances, and they have been abusing substances before they come to college and they’re a traditionally-aged student, it is one of their primary coping skills,” Galloway said. “It’s a way of socializing, managing stress and dealing with the world.

Their skills are not well developed.”

Not all incoming students begin the semester with substance abuse issues, Galloway said.

“There are students who have dabbled and experimented with both alcohol and drugs in high school and, for whatever reason, it hasn’t gone too far,” Galloway said. “They get here and social anxiety kicks in.”

Recovering students transitioning to college face a huge hurdle in maintaining sobriety. Students face expectations to Read more on page15

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Photo by Matt McGregor, A&F Asst. Editor

Sydney McGary and Patrick Green attempt a daring stunt while slacklining.

Photo by Matt McGregor, A&F Asst. Editor

Jesse Goldman brings mindfulness to slacklining.

Slackers of a different sort: Slack-Librium achieves positive balance in Asheville MATT MCGREGOR

A&F Asst. Editor mmcgrego@unca.edu

Jesse Goldman knew he could calm the wobble.

The first few times he tried standing on the slackline, the frenetic sway knocked him off.

Eventually, Goldman found an inward solution to standing on the two-inch nylon webbing tied between two trees.

He drew parallels. The unpredictable, side-to-side sway resembled life.

He breathed deeply and found a center. In an uncertain, wobbly world, Goldman achieved a little stillness.

After more practice, he shed the noise of thought and pursued quietness of focus.

The slackline beneath his foot became a barometer of clarity in his mind.

Eventually, slacklining made sense.

“Slacklining is a physical manifestation of the meditative process,” says Goldman, political science student at UNC Asheville. “You get on a slackline,

and many of the same principles apply.

You find that balance point, even if it’s just for a second. Your mind starts to wander, you lose your balance and you fall. The same as your mind wandering in meditation and coming back to the breath, your focal point is staying balanced on the slackline.”

Goldman says he felt a calling to share this stillness with others. His friend Patrick Green taught him how to slackline behind Mills Hall their freshman year at UNCA. The two were inspired to start a slacklining company after attending the Kinnection Campout, a four-day community building festival organized by a group called the Tribal Council.

“Everyone at the Tribal Council was encouraged to give a workshop,” Goldman says. “Patrick and I set up a bunch of slacklines and left them up.

People used them all weekend. It was awesome. We realized we had created a space for people to come and interact with each other.”

They called their company Slack-Librium.

Goldman and Green came up with the concept of connecting mindfulness to slacklining, started a Facebook page, designed a logo and sent out emails applying to different festivals.

Goldman says the more festivals they workshopped slacklining, the more their resume grew.

Sydney McGary was a health and wellness major at UNCA when she encountered Slack-Librium at the Three Days of Light Gathering, a community-building festival.

“There was something about the environment they created,” McGary says. “I got on and fell off and got on again and eventually something clicked.

I experienced an awareness of my body within space.”

Though she had never wanted to commit to a team, she says Slack-Librium gave her a sense of purpose, and she wanted to contribute.

“I recognized what I could bring to

the table from an artistic standpoint,” McGary says. “I painted signs, added some decoration and have helped to facilitate the spatial aspect of it. What sets Slack-Librium apart in so many senses is we create this space where people can come and it’s like a playground, or an impermanent home. We walk into a space and use our creative process and see how we can transform it into a playground.”

From behind Mills Hall, the UNCA Quad and later to the festival circuit, Slack-Librium found itself in Asheville Middle School with a grant from the North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness.

“I was taking a service learning class taught by Dr. Ameena Batada which required community service,” Goldman says. “I went to Ameena and said I wanted to teach slacklining in public schools.”

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Higher ed From page 4

By Harrison Slaughter, Sports Editor

Photo by CHris jones

Staff Writer

Volleyball Sept. 25 Gardner-Webb University UNC Asheville

Final 1 3

Men’s Soccer Sept. 27 High Point UNC Asheville

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calendar Sept. 30 Women’s Soccer vs.

Presbyterian College Greenwood Field 7 p.m.

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Oct. 1 Abs Blast Sherrill Center Room 351 12 p.m.

Oct. 2 Wake-Up Yoga

Meditation Room 468 Sherrill Center 7 a.m.

Oct. 3 Women’s Soccer vs.

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the American Institutes for Research.

“Research has found that the key to student learning and retention, especially diverse students, is active learning,” said Jerad Crave, an Advancement Via Individual Determination lecturer at UNCA. Diverse students include first generation students, under represented groups and low-income students.

AVID was developed at the high school level. Instructors set goals that include higher engagement, active learning strategies and strategic activities that enhance student learning.

“It’s all about having a critical connection to readings and ideas presented. You need to analyze the reading, rather than just highlighting,” Crave said.

“Life is not about four different choices, it’s about analyzing the choices you have and choosing the best one based on evidence.”

Quevedo said she wishes her high school offered a life-skills class to prepare her for the economic aspects of college.

“I think we should offer a class that’s required for all students about finances,” Brown-

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ing said. “But how do you require it in public schools when, honestly, you’re just trying to get kids through algebra one?”

A 2012 study by the National Center for Education Statistics showed that after inflation adjustment, the cost of public institutions rose 42 percent, compared to a 31 percent increase at private institutions.

“What’s reasonable? How do you work 30 hours a week and go to school full time? It’s a really good question, because students are doing it and they’re fried, and they’re stressed, and they’re not able to do it all.

They’re burning themselves out in ways that are not healthy in the long run,” Browning said.

Nearly 70 percent of graduating college seniors have student loans to repay and 60 percent worry about their ability to repay their loans, according to a survey by Capital One. “It’s not going to reach all of them, no matter what you do,” Browning said. “Students have to be ready for what they’re learning, when they’re learning it.”

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Interfaith

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precious water from the Euphrates, which feeds the streams and farms of eastern Syria.”

When the flow of the Euphrates was cut off by the Turkish dam system it deprived thousands of young Syrians of water and work, Arndt said.

He also brought up multiple other issues of climate change.

Many Bangladeshi farmers have moved away from the coast because rising sea levels are destroying their crops. Alaskan villages are being evacuated because the ground beneath them is thawing.

“We have an environment with which our relationship is breaking. At the same time we have a relationship with those who we haven’t met that we are connected to through our actions on the climate system,” Arndt said. “Those who haven’t been born, the decisions we make today, the things we do today, the things we observe today, will affect people that we will never meet or be born long

after we die.”

The people in attendance were encouraged to try to make change in their own organizations.

Irma Howorth, who was in attendance, said she is committed to doing what needs to be done.

“We can’t have healthy people on a sick planet,” Howorth said. “I believe in doing my share. Carpooling, eating vegetarian, growing your own food, recycling, buying bulk and taking short showers.”

Steve Runholt said he just hopes that the Pope’s visit and the meeting at St. Eugene’s have sparked inspiration for action.

“I hope it’s a game changer, I hope it changes the conversation about climate change,” Runholt said. “I hope that people, especially politicians who insist on denying the reality of it are no longer able to do that convincingly. I hope this event builds bridges of relationship and cooperation.”

Addiction From page 5

en’t going to put in the extra work and just want to get out of trouble then they will just go back to using. It is one of the sad realizations of this disease.”

People who have gotten in trouble with the police because of drug-related incidents often get the opportunity to go to rehab, Hazlett said. She said rehab is great if a person wants it.

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. I can put somebody in rehab and if they don’t want to be there and they don’t want to honestly change their life then it’s not going to stop because it’s hard. There’s nothing easy about it,” Hazlett said. “If you send them to prison then they can still get ahold of some of the drugs. They might be clean when they get out, but then they go right back because there is no change in their behavior, their circumstance and their associates. There’s just no change there so they might be clean when they get out but then they go right back to it.”

When Lindberg was arrested for selling drugs, it is what ultimately led him to get clean, he said.

“Getting caught selling pills saved my life. I speak to my old friends on occasion who I used to run with and I can’t imagine myself still being in that lifestyle. I thought I had it all figured out,” Lindberg said. “It took a lot of work and a complete overhaul of my thinking to get where I am today, but I wouldn’t trade my worst day clean for my best day using.”

ness department, and, with all of his professors’ permission, skipped a week of classes to orchestrate Slack-Librium in the Asheville Middle School gym.

Goldman says they arranged slacklining, meditation and yoga groups, as well as a history and math curriculum.

“Now what I’m doing is structuring the class around a history and culture of slacklining,” Goldman says. “We’re doing slacklining math and science, such as knowing your center of mass, examining the conditions for equilibrium and things like that.”

The program is successful, Goldman says, and he has a vision of its expansion.

“I would love to see a slacklining and mindfulness program in every school in the country,” Goldman says. “The kids like it. Introducing mindfulness through slacklining in the public school system could be transformative.”

Green, co-owner of Slack-Librium, agrees, praising the benefits of slacklining for kids.

“This is a great download of your body into time and space,” Green says. “Slacklining is a great way to force yourself to shut down, initiate

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body awareness and to get a moment of freedom from distraction and stress. That’s why we are at Asheville Middle School. We just feel that it is good for them.”

Green admits one of the many joys of teaching slacklining is seeing everyone start from the same uncertain place and gaining confidence over time.

“No matter where you are coming from, if you are a 5-year-old, a professional athlete, a ballerina, you all start out exactly the same the first time you step on the slackline,” Green says. “There is that wobble, then they start to tame the wobble. They start to believe they can do this. There is engagement throughout the body.

Taking those tiny successes and building from there, they figure it out.”

Goldman wants to see slacklining at UNCA continue long after he graduates. He says the campus recreation department plans on purchasing slacklines for the school for students to rent, or students can come to the slackline gym where there will be instructors from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

“I don’t want slacklining here to die,” Goldman says.

“My hope is eventually this

will develop into a club and other people can lead it.”

At an evening Slack-Librium class, Goldman stands on the slackline on his right leg, sliding his left leg back along the line, lowering his body into a lunge and, from there, sinking into a meditative, cross-legged seated position while maintaining balance on the calm, steady line.

He maintains a low-wobble frequency.

Green later makes a noble attempt at piggybacking McGary on the slackline, but he can only sustain the feat for a few seconds.

They tumble off, laughing.

Looking back at those early days of Slack-Librium, Green says he knew they had something valuable, but he didn’t know exactly where it would go. He and Goldman talked and dreamed together, bouncing ideas back and forth.

“The stuff we talked about is all happening,” Green says.

“Now I feel like we’ve created a stable organization that is committed to being active in the community, and I feel like we are making a positive impact in the city and with the kids.”

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Black Mountain crowds.

Scholars and students came from all over the world to discuss the theme “Bauhaus + USA,” examining the connections and lines of influence between the Bauhaus, a Weimar-era German art school, and Black Mountain College.

The opening of Black Mountain College coincided with the closing of the Bauhaus. Among BMC’s faculty were several Bauhaus émigrés, including Josef Albers, who emerged as the the school’s most influential pedagogue. Black Mountain College was, in this sense, an outgrowth of the Bauhaus.

Margret Kentgens-Craig, associate professor of architectural practice at the NC State College of Design, spoke of the connections between the two schools in her lecture “The Bauhaus Vorkurs: At the Intersection of Design and Liberal Arts.”

“Both schools were experimental and risk-taking, and shared an atmosphere of courageous inquiry into a new and better educational envi-

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ronment,” Kentgens-Craig said. “Both radiated the spirit of freshness in modernity, and attracted diverse faculty and students, many of whom would eventually belong to the creative avant-gardes. Most notably, both addressed the necessity to educate the whole human being.”

Butler said he suspects this line of influence extends, however loosely, to UNCA. One has only to read over an early letter by the university’s first chancellor, William Highsmith, to get a sense that the spirit of the now-defunct Black Mountain College transmigrated to UNCA. “We must think of higher learning as being primarily for the purpose of increasing one’s knowledge of the world he lives in and his capacity to live in it purposefully and effectively,” Highsmith wrote.

“Higher learning should make it possible for all of us to add new dimensions to the total life experience.”

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Section Editor: Larisa Karr lakarr@unca.edu

She's the First helps girls across the world, one cupcake at a time SAMANTHA SAVERY Contributing Writer

Outside Brown Hall on the UNC Asheville campus, a few students are having a bake sale.

They’re part of She’s the First, a club dedicated to helping girls in low-income countries get an education.

Their table is covered with cupcakes, all brightly decorated, a sight to hungry students. Slowly, they start making sales when a professor approaches. He doesn’t want a cupcake, but offers $20 to the cause.

Every dollar counts for She’s the First, whose UNCA chapter sponsors four to five girls a year. The cupcake sales help the members buy uniforms and books for the girls, along with paying their tuition.

Still, Vice President Amber Abunassar, a senior Spanish and mass communication student, says she thinks quality over quantity is more important.

“We could sponsor hundreds of girls,” says Abunassar, from Tryon. “But we want to make sure we aren’t sending a girl to school for only a year. That wouldn’t make sense. We want to do it until she graduates and she’s the first to go to school and the first to graduate.

We want to be with her every step of the way.”

The national organization She’s the First was founded in 2009. In 2011, it came to UNCA, thanks to the help of Becca Wertheim, an alumna with a degree in education.

Abunassar says Wertheim is still incredibly driven, working at Claxton Elementary now.

The club was only a year old when Abunassar and Michelle Dubé, a senior psychology student from Cary, both joined. They were transfer students, and have been in the club almost three years now.

Helping girls get educated is what draws most members to the club, including co-president Meredith McLain of Matthews, N.C. A sophomore political science student, McLain says she thinks the work She’s the First does is important.

“I think it’s just great to be able to pass on what I’m getting the chance to do for somebody else who maybe wouldn’t have the chance to do that,” McLain says.

In one of the executive suites in Highsmith Union, the group, full of personality, spends the first 10 minutes of the meeting talking and laughing. McLain

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finally gets the group to focus after joining in the conversation herself.

The plan is to discuss fundraising and events for the fall semester. Baking is number one on the list.

This fall will consist of a handful of bake sales, most notably Tie-Dye Cupcake Week. The tie-dye cupcake is the club’s signature creation, Abunassar says, and she always looks forward to making them with others.

Along with the bake sales, the biggest event of the fall is the International Celebration of the Girl, a week dedicated to teaching and holding discussions with the community about She’s the First’s mission. The group is planning two panels along with a few workshops to take place that week in Highsmith Union. The date has yet to be decided.

“I think it’s just great to be able to pass on what I’m getting the chance to do for somebody else who maybe wouldn’t have the chance to do that.”

Meredith McLain

Abunassar says a big focus for this year is the club’s discussion panels. The ideas for each panel include professors speaking on how they raise their daughters compared to their sons and on the international experiences of faculty and community members.

Treasurer Maggie Daum, a sophomore women, gender and sexuality studies and anthropology student, is excited to get to know the new group members. Daum, a Chapel Hill native, says making friends is what got her to join She’s the First her freshman year.

However, helping others can sometimes become frustrating. Daum’s favorite memory demonstrates this.

“One funny slash sad thing was that the first time we all did baking together,” Daum says. “We kept burning all of the cupcakes. And, I don’t know, it was really frustrating, but we kept on eating them to be like, ‘Oh, we didn’t waste them.’ We just ate a bunch of burnt cupcakes.”

When asked about role models, the club officers all speak of people they know. Daum says the found-

What is the impact of She’s the First? number of countries 10 STF scholars 555 number of chapters 125 years of education 1,524 total student body reach 1,300,000+ social media reach 35,000+ er, Tammy Tibbetts, inspires her with her passion.

McLain and Dubé say they both have role models from the UNCA chapter who have now graduated or transferred.

As fall goes on, the members of She’s the First will be seen around campus, their table of colorful cupcakes in tow. Abunassar thinks their cause is different than that of other student organizations, partially because of their mindset.

“My favorite part in general, I guess, is how we get things done here,” Abunassar says. “The way we influence students with delicious cupcakes and also -- we educate people here. Not only are we helping people abroad, but we’re also educating people here and helping them recognize the issues that are occurring. We’re doing that in a positive way.”

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The silence that blinds

How to cope with the deployment of a loved one JASON PERRY A&F Staff Writer jperry1@unca.edu

Commentary

My vision was blurry, and I could taste the salt on my face.

My family and I waited for the bus.

I prayed it wouldn’t come.

Sad, confused, angry, helpless. The look on my face said it all. Why is this happening?

Why can’t I stop it? I don’t like this. Make it stop. I had never felt that way in the short seven years of my life.

Surrounding us were countless families, all of them with the same expressions on their faces. Everywhere I looked, I saw camouflage.

I knew the basics of what was happening, but I was not old enough to fully comprehend the whole situation.

According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, by the end of 2008, 1.7 million American service members had served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Forty-three percent of active-duty service members have children.

These children face the challenges inherent in having a parent deployed. Many of them must also cope with living with a parent profoundly changed by war.

As I watched my dad board the bus, I didn’t know when I would see him again. It made me angry. No one could give me the answer because the length of his deployment was unknown.

“Make sure you have a support system,” says Rodolfo Ramos, a veteran of the Marine Corps and current student at UNC Asheville. “Not just from other military spouses, but

from your own family as well.”

Families who understand how to cope with a loved one’s deployment are more likely to overcome emotional adversities.

The VA website on post-traumatic stress disorder reports that parents need to take time to talk about war and deployment. Talking can strengthen a family’s bond. Children tend to understand when something is being hidden from them, and it is good to be honest without overburdening them.

Ramos recalls explaining to his five-year-old stepdaughter he was being deployed.

“You have to explain to her that you are going to work,” Ramos says. “She understood that, but I don’t think she understood the whole six month thing. She probably thought I was going to be gone for a month.”

Ramos says explaining it as work makes it easier because children just look at it as a job.

Still, I don’t remember how my parents told me. I can’t imagine being the bearer of such news, but I do remember the tone of their voice. It was somber but sweet. Deep inside I felt comfort from the caring sound of their voices.

Tammy Walsh is a mother of two whose husband has undergone two deployments.

“I think a lot of it is dictated by the parents,” Walsh says, “and what kind of stress you bring into the house is what they will pick up on.”

Walsh tried turning a negative into a positive. She invited families over to her house to pack care-packages. People would bring food and socialize, and her children looked at it as a party.

Ramos suggests that staying busy is the best way to get through a deployment.

“That’s what a lot of spouses forget,” Ramos says. “If you

Jason and his dad play together. sit around moping that your spouse is gone, your day is going to go really long. If you go out and do something for yourself and your family then your day will go by fast.”

Walsh says she took a similar approach.

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do,” Walsh says. “I just kept myself so busy I didn’t have time to think about it.”

There were days where I sat in my room and stared at a picture of my dad. All I wanted was for him to be home.

My mom would take my sister and me out to eat, to the mall or to the pet store. We

would wake up early, and my mom would go walking, and I would ride my bike. Every day was tough, but the busy days were easier.

Operation Purple, an organization that provides free camp to children of veterans, states that one-third of children report symptoms of anxiety when a

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Arts & Features TV SHOW Review

A modern spin on James Bond: Why Chuck continues to captivate its cult fan base

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

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

Review

Short-lived TV shows are always lamented because, upon viewing them a second time, audience members cannot help but wish there were more episodes.

Shows like Firefly and now Chuck come to mind.

Chuck premiered on NBC in 2007 and featured an interesting concept: a computer technician gains access to “The Intersect,” a computer program which is downloaded into his brain and holds all of the National Security Agency and CIA’s secrets.

From there, the show’s protagonist, Chuck Bartowski, embarks with the duo of veteran CIA spy Sarah Walker and stoic NSA Major John Casey on a crusade against the world’s terrorists What I loved about this show is how unabashedly silly the series was willing to go throughout the five-season run.

Examples include Chuck being stripped of the Intersect and his quirky best friend, Morgan Grimes, obtaining it. That was a both risky and brilliant move to keep the series running in

season five.

Chuck, at one point in the series, gains access to the Intersect 2.0, which allows him to instantly think of anything and just as easily be a master at it. Dancing, playing poker or breaking into prisons -- you name it, he could understand and excel in it instantaneously.

Even the guest stars NBC managed to cram into the series were superb.

Timothy Dalton, of James Bond fame, plays one of the series’ main villains.

Scott Bakula and Linda Hamilton of the Terminator saga come on board as Chuck’s parents.

Even Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker and the Joker (in the Batman: Arkham video game series) himself, shows up to play a small villain role in season five.

And Superman himself, actor Brandon Routh, made his debut on the small screen by playing a CIA-agent-turned-rogue and becoming a recurring nemesis on the series.

Routh had just finished playing Superman in Superman Returns in 2006. Say what you will about the movie, but I think Routh is a fine actor in anything he does.

Like Firefly (which also stars Adam Baldwin AKA John Casey in Chuck), the series gained a cult following towards the latter half of the

series when NBC threatened to cancel it more than once due to lukewarm ratings and declining viewership.

Which is a shame, because this series is like if The A-Team had a love child with Mission: Impossible with a hint of Austin Powers added for good measure.

While throwing every spy thriller trope you can imagine into bed with it, Chuck is able to put a modern spin on the spy genre.

Pitting it against Heroes on Monday nights may have had something to do with the lack of viewership, and when the series moved to Friday nights for its final season, the hammer was getting ready to fall by that point.

It even established the downto-earth actor Zachary Levi as a likable persona. If you don’t know who that is upon the mention of his name, he also plays a side character in Thor: The Dark World and the antagonist in the newly rebooted Heroes: Reborn.

Oh, I nearly forgot. Levi immediately transitioned from the small screen to film by voicing Flynn Rider in Tangled after Chuck ended.

Levi even spearheads the Nerd HQ and The Nerd Machine campaigns, which spreads the “nerd” culture across the globe.

The campaigns notably make

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

Folge 16: Deutschland und Germany Die Engländer sagen Germany. Warum?

Die Römer nannten die Gebiete nördlich der Alpen Germania. Die Bezeichnung kommt also aus dem Lateinischen. Die Franzosen sagen Allemagne. Warum? Es war das Land der Alemannen, einem germanischen Volk, das zwischen Rhein und Donau angesiedelt war. Die Deutschen nennen ihr Land Deutschland. Warum?

Das althochdeutsche Wort diutisc mit der Bedeutung „zum Volke gehörig“ ist eine Selbstbezeichnung der deutschen Völker.

Die Namensvielfalt ist auf die lange und uneinheitliche Geschichte der deutschen Völker zurückzuführen sowie auf die zentrale Lage Deutschlands: Das Land kam mit vielen anderen Völkern in Berührung, die teilweise eigene Bezeichnungen entwickelten.

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beat from the Street

(From left to right: Giacomo Riva, Rebecca Stowe, and Lindsey Cline are out on the town in style.

By Larisa Karr | Features Editor | lakarr@unca.edu Many stories lurk throughout Asheville, whether they are behind the Vaudevillian jazz-folk played by buskers around Pritchard Park, the colorful businesses decorated with funky, hand-made crafts or the laughter echoing from a patio as locals and tourists alike enjoy delicious beer.

Photos by Jordyn Key | Staff Photographer

Vijay, Hare Krishna, originally from Szczecin, Poland

What are you doing here today?

“We are Hare Krishnas. Our main job is to distribute knowledge about Krishna to the public because we believe that nowadays, there is a big lack of understanding between who is God, who we are, what’s the purpose of life. So by chanting these holy names, we can easily understand that we are not this body, but we are soul. We are living in this body like we are like a passenger in the car and we pass through different kinds of bodies according to our consciousness.”

How would you describe the way your clothing coincides to what you do?

“We want to be recognized as Hare Krishnas so we believe that when you wear clothes like that it helps you with meditation, with feeling peaceful. You can see that clothes have an impact on how you feel and how you live. On a daily basis, I’m a professional. I go to work nicely-dressed to show that I am a professional. I dress this way to show that I am a person who is pursuing a spiritual path and that’s how lots of people dress, especially in the eastern countries, like India. People dedicate their lives to spiritual knowledge. I personally took initiation and I vowed that I would follow a certain district in my life, including chanting, meditating and reading scriptures. So it’s the code of

Giacomo Riva, philosophy and classics student, originally from Milan, Italy Rebecca Stowe, chemistry student, originally from CharlotteLindsey Cline, English, teacher licensure and religious studies student, originally from Charlotte What inspired this outfit today?

Rebecca: “It’s cute and since it was going to rain, I couldn’t wear a fancier

conduct if we want to be recognized as Hare Krishnas.”

If you were to have a personal motto that you live by on a day-to-day basis, what would it be?

“My personal motto would be to always remember Krishna and never forget him because it’s like association.

If you associate with people who drink, you’re going to start drinking. If you associate with people who have money, you have money. If you associate with God or with members of God, you are going to go back to God and develop godly qualities, so our motto is, ‘Always remember God.’ Always remember that you are just a part of God, that here is temporary, you’re just traveling. The goal of the journey is to realize that there is God and I have a deep, loving relationship with God. “We want to be conscious. We want to live to full extent and the scripture says that the only way to do it is realizing that we are spirit. Our body is limited but spirits are not limited. Our body is temporary but the spirit is permanent. So, we also play instruments like you see. These are old instruments from India. This Idakka was invented thousands of years ago. The best way to express your love is through music.

You have romantic movies where the guy goes and sings, and we do the same. We just sing and chant.

“It’s interesting for Krishna consciousness because we invite everybody. Whatever the color of your skin, whatever beliefs you have.”

one because they would bleed, so I went with whales.”

Lindsey: “I’m trying to go to the Renaissance festival this weekend so I was thinking of trying this out and seeing how it would go, so like fairy, earthy type of things.”

Giacomo: “I find that I like Italian style usually. I like looking cute and I love scarves. Scarves are a good thing. Every kind of knot on a scarf is interesting. You can play with them.

Vijay (holding drum) performs on the streets of Asheville with fellow Hare Krishnas.

They give you style and they give you stature.”

If you were to have an individual style motto/inspiration, what would it be?

Lindsey: “Dress for an adventure.”

Giacomo: “I like the Victorian age period as a dressing moment.”

Rebecca: “Do what you want. Don’t let time stop you.”

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Arts & Features Punks, Pinups and PBR: Hellbilly Hootenanny riles Asheville for seventh year Review LARISA KARR L’Assassins perform at Hellbilly Hootenanny 2015.

Photos by Larissa Karr, A&F Editor

It is easy to drive past the gray industrial warehouses, automobile repair shacks and churches of Woodfin without glancing or giving much distinction to any event happening, as the area usually appears quiet and isolated. This Saturday, however, one of the coolest and most unusual parties in Asheville took place behind one of these non-descript warehouse-like structures, and it attracted an unconventional crowd of onlookers and participants.

A small but steady stream of contestants looking like versions of Betty Page and women in 1940s Life magazine photographs, were stepping confidently down the uneven, gravelly slope toward The Broken Spoke Motorcycle Repair, Parts and Maintenance.

At the base of the hill, older men and women fitted in leather, and tattooed hipsters clutching their Pabst Blue Ribbon beers, strolled around the parking lot, scoping out the cars and the motorcycles as the sky, pregnant with gray anticipation, loomed overhead.

One might think this was a gathering of a very specific club with exclusive members. But no, Hellbilly Hootenanny is open to everyone and has been rocking steady for seven years.

Although the word “hootenanny” might imply that folk music was being played, the music attacking the audience’s ears was meant to do just that.

Bands with names associated with death, including the Koffin Kats and the Nek Romantix, drew the remains of Asheville’s sleepy punk scene from the cracks in the pavement. One band in particular stood out on this dreary day, mainly because of their

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striking lineup.

“Hey! Did you hear that? There’s an all-female group about to play!” shouted one attendee to another, standing close to the ticket booth.

“All-female? Really?” shouted the other man.

“Let’s go see them play!”

“I think the inspiration for our band pretty much boils down to wanting to see not only women up front, but also women on stage,” said Tea Simpson, lead singer/sorceress of the bewitching quartet L’Assassins. “Quentin Tarantino, The Cramps, B movies: we like the idea of women being bigger and badder.”

Consisting of Monet Wong on guitar, Angela Clark on drums, and Ariel Dornbush on bass, the group members, originally hailing from Minneapolis, were bedecked in corsets, leather and fishnets and are indeed the ultimate embodiment of females at their most ferocious.

The band is known for their stage presence and theatrical shows, involving dialogues amongst the band members to accompany the songs.

“Psycho Beach,” from their latest album Kill Kill Kill! Bang Bang Bang! is a ditty about a rumor that a butcher is stalking the beach grounds where a group of girls want to go party.

“Party till we drop dead!” shouted Simpson, tongue-in-cheek, as she taunted the audience with her commanding stage presence.

One of the subjects that the group talked most energetically about was how important it was to maintain a strong attitude and a ruthless performance energy in order to be taken seriously.

“It’s always a fun little challenge when we get to a

The crowd at the Hootenanny attracted bikers and hipsters alike.

Photos by Larissa Karr, A&F Editor

venue and we see the other bands who are playing.

They look at you ‘cause we’re all dressed up and whatever and are like ‘Yeah, I don’t know about that.’ And then we start playing, and then afterwards they’re like, ‘Oh my God!,’” Clark said. “So that’s almost more of a challenge too, because you want to push yourself in order to be good. It’s going to be a good show. Trust us. Put your preconceptions and whatever aside.”

Although the classic car and motorcycle show is the primary draw of the Hootenanny, the audience is not restricted to a single demographic.

“We primarily are looking to showcase pre-traditional and custom hot rods,” said Chuck Kinney, one of the organizers of the event. “But this event is for the car lover, the motorcycle lover/enthusiast, rockabilly music, and people who are into that scene.”

One of the attendees at the event, Jamie Kelly, was eager to diversify the selection of vehicles on display.

Kelly, wearing a bull horn mask over a bandana on his face along with a spiky collar on his neck, stood just south of the stage, pressing a button that lifted the back of his 1989 Chevrolet S-10 into the air. He had designed the vehicle so that individual sections of the back shifted disjointedly from each other, so as to create a zig-zag effect.

“I like to think of it as not just a car show, but mechanical art,” Kelly said.

The other aspects of the show included a series of contests, including one for pinups, best mustache, best tattoo and worst tattoo.

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Substance abuse participate in the full college experience, Galloway said.

These situations threaten the recovery of students.

“I’m a real believer that they shouldn’t have to choose. They should be able to come to college and have a full experience and be in recovery at the same time,” Galloway said.

The Collegiate Recovery Community provides resources to newly recovering students, such as information about meetings and assistance with transportation, said Keith Chichester, UNCA senior and one of the founding members of the CRC. “It began by two people in recovery coming here from A-B Tech and contacting Barbara and asking if anything exists.

Then she started to get the gears going and coining it a ‘Collegiate Recovery Community,’” Chichester said of the CRC’s creation.

Chichester, 24, participates in recovery groups outside of UNCA as well.

“I sponsor people and occasionally attend Narcotics Anonymous,” Chichester said. “On the whole, a lot of my social group is people in recovery and it’s nice to have the CRC on campus as an extension of that and something to integrate and connect people who might not know how many people in recovery there are.”

Chichester, sober for four

Deployment parent is deployed overseas.

Brittany Parker, daughter of a medical doctor who is deployed every 14 months, says she recalls her brother acting out.

“My mom would yell at my brother,” Parker says. “My brother would just be like, ‘Nope, sorry, Dad is not here, I do not have to do it.’”

Walsh says her daughter had bed-wetting issues when her husband was away.

The VA reports common symptoms such as bad temper, tearfulness, change in sleep

From page 5

years, revealed his reasoning for quitting drugs.

“I got sober when I was 20.

I think the nature of drugs and alcohol is just that you get to a point where you have to get sober or you’ll die, or end up in prison,” Chichester said.

Maren Boehm, a senior sociology student, also spoke about her experiences with addiction and recovery.

“When I came back to school last summer, summer of 2014, I wasn’t sober but I was better than I had been for a long time,” Boehm said. “This is my first semester back, in recovery, sober and involved with the CRC, which I’m super thankful for.”

Boehm agreed to an interview but also said the CRC has an anonymity policy.

“I’m happy to be on record and publicly identified as being in recovery and involved with the CRC, but that’s by no means a requirement of going to CRC. We recognize that a lot of people want their recovery journey, their life in recovery, to be somewhat private.”

Students seeking discreet help can complete an intake at the Health and Counseling Center. They shouldn’t worry about being carted off to a treatment center due to the information disclosed, Boehm said.

“They’re not going to drag you away and put you somewhere. They’re not going to

make you do anything,” Boehm said.

Boehm, sober since June, said she prepared for the trials of college by focusing intently on recovery.

“I knew that it was going to be risky and I knew it was going to be edgy, so to preempt that I just threw myself into recovery as much as possible,” Boehm said. “I got super-involved with the friends I have who are in recovery and with the recovery program I am involved in.”

Chichester said students new to recovery shouldn’t feel out of place at UNCA. “Just since I’ve been going to UNCA, either by recognizing people in a meeting and then seeing them in class, or vice versa, you realize how many there are around you,” Chichester said.

When a student considers entering recovery, they’re not enjoying their lifestyle anymore.

Addiction becomes strictly chemical, mental and emotional dependency, Chichester .

“Knowing that that’s the case, there’s sort of a ‘what do you have to lose’ moment, I would say, and at the same time, recovery has so much more to offer than people expect,” Chichester said. “It’s really just healthy living, on a spiritual, emotional and mental basis, and the enrichment in life that comes from that is incomparable.”

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patterns and not wanting to go to school.

Having a support system is one of the best ways to cope with a loved one being deployed. Surround yourself with family members, other military spouses and friends. Their job is not to mourn with you, but to help you stay busy and positive.

Ramos says not to expect a phone call or an email every day, but to know that the loved one will contact you when they can.

My mom, sister and grand-

ma always surrounded me. No other kids my age understood what I was going through, but being with family who did helped.

The day my dad came home was the best day of my life. My anxiety melted away. It remains the toughest thing I have ever had to go through.

My eyes are still blurry, and my face still tastes like salt, but it’s now because I feel pride for my dad, and I see the courage in my family.

Chuck

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appearances at the San Diego Comic-Con every year.

Levi has discussed a Chuck movie to continue the series, but complications still remain with trying to get it off the ground.

Although he has commitments from the cast, financing and the right script are the missing puzzle pieces, Levi said in an interview with Hollywood Life by Bonnie Fuller in June.

The show is a diamond in the rough and a series that can easily be overlooked if someone were to just browse through Netflix’s ever-growing collection of TV shows.

Until a movie hits the big screen, I’m going to rewatch the series for a third time since it’s on Netflix.

The series also managed to get me hooked on the ’90s grunge-rock band Cake with its catchy theme song about a girl with a short skirt and long jacket.

Chuck is a love letter to the spy genre popularized by James Bond and showcases a balance between comedy, action and drama as Bartowski and his crew take down international criminals with the computer program containing the world’s top secrets installed

Hellbilly From page 14

The worst tattoo contest was fairly unsurprising until a woman walked on stage and the throng of about 50 people lurched forward, intent on seeing the horrific tattoo supposedly scratched on her arm. A person who travels the country entering “worst tattoo competitions,” the woman’s unidentifiable tattoo was infected, and elicited a huge “Ooooooooh”

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OPINION

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This place is a hipster safe haven and I just bought gauges ROAN FARB

Opinion Staff Writer rfarb@unca.edu

Living in Asheville isn’t as easy a choice as it may seem.

Asheville, for as long as I can recall, has boasted acceptance of all walks of life, and it’s often been described to me as a “port in a storm” to alternative lifestyles.

I think that’s a beautiful thing, to know that I can be as weird as I’d like to be in this place.

After all, much of North Carolina shuns things like gender-neutrality, homosexuality and polyamory, to name a few. So it’s comforting to know I’m free to be myself, living in Asheville.

While this city offers a safe and open environment for those leading alternative lifestyles, what does that mean for those who choose to take the “roads more traveled by”?

When I first moved to Asheville in August 2014, I must admit I experienced about 10 times as much culture shock as I expected.

I moved from Waxhaw, North Carolina, a town 15 minutes outside Charlotte.

Moving three hours away, I didn’t expect much to be different up in the mountains.

At UNC Asheville’s freshman orientation, it had been stressed that discrimination on campus and around town was met with an astounding resistance.

I thought that was great, to hear just how safe the administration wanted you to feel on their campus.

As the fall semester kicked into gear, I started to meet an overwhelming, and I really do mean overwhelming amount, of talented and unique people.

Perhaps that’s just a part of integrating to a university atmosphere -- getting used to a bunch of young talent around you.

It didn’t feel good.

It was exciting to meet so many amazing kids my age, especially after being

surrounded by, well, less captivating peers for years beforehand.

But there was a sour taste to meeting all these new artists, musicians, poets, writers, drag performers, actors, skateboarders, professional gamers, athletes, kids on scholarships, hell, even kids particularly good at doing drugs.

Conversations around campus began to make me self-conscious of what I brought to the table in the big scheme of things, and that’s something I think a lot of students on our campus experience at one point or another.

In my opinion, a bit of self-criticism brought on by peers every once in a while is healthy for the soul, but this was more than that.

In a sense, the UNCA campus became more than just a place for weird talents to fester, it became a pissing match for who could appear most interesting at any given time.

I found myself in a weird and uncomfortable predicament, often feeling flung into situations not unlike a talent show, fighting one-by-one for attention of the crowd we first-year students so often felt the need to travel in.

I’m not saying every social encounter of my freshman year was essentially a competition, but quite a few left me feeling inadequate.

There seems to be an atmosphere of trading skill and abnormality for acceptance on this campus, to a much higher degree than others I’ve visited.

While that’s not necessarily a negative side effect of the general attitude here, it can make anyone here feel bad about being tied to generic hobbies, habits or passions.

I think living here can make you feel horrible about not being cultured enough.

I don’t mean to paint myself as a dull or forgettable individual; my voice is unforgivably loud, I walk in quite the goofy manner, and I can often be caught wearing pajamas to serious obligations.

Though, as far as flashy skills go, I can (maybe) fix your computer and teach you how to frequently fall off a longboard.

Truly, I’m capable of a bit more than that, but I don’t have much to whip out at parties.

I identify as a cisgender male and lead a

generally generic existence, I have a few piercings, which on occasion earn me a compliment or two I would otherwise forego.

The same goes for the only tattoo I have, which I got seven months into living in Asheville, perhaps partially due to the subculture.

Other than that, I’m pretty unexciting.

I dyed the top of hair bright blonde recently, an action that’s netted me at least one compliment every time I walk downtown.

And perhaps that says something about the city I live in.

It seems the more time I spend in Asheville, the more I pick up on the attitude of breaking social norms these city streets stashes between its buskers.

This place always sings of accepting different styles of living, but what about the dull approaches?

What about mainstream culture in a place like this?

What can be said about the way cities like Asheville treat popular trends and fads?

Perhaps the way alternative lifestyles are welcomed and encouraged affect the way people perceive and interpret being boring, unexciting, predictable.

Has this city accidentally created an air of hostility towards the mundane?

Earlier I had said moving to Asheville entails confronting a certain “pressure” to be interesting, exciting, weird, different and most of all memorable.

I was incorrect in saying so; it’s not a pressure to be bizarre so much as it is an expectation to excite.

Asheville is a progressive place, and perhaps there’s not enough room for boring personalities in the mess of all the new creation happening in this city.

Living here teaches you that being different is something to strive for, and while I think that’s beautiful, there’s something to be said about how fearful I’ve become of being perceived as ordinary, this last year and a half.

In a place which praises non-conformity to the absolute highest degree, we’ve somehow managed to conform to not conforming.

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Dear Fellow Sinner Human,

JAMES NEAL

Enterprising Editor jneal@unca.edu

Our “tolerance” has made us as intolerant as those whom we presume to judge.

Worse, our refusal—not inability—to listen to the defense of those we condemn under the assumption that our own truth is the one truth, makes us the monsters.

I, too, am guilty of the sin of narrow-mindedness, and attempts at self-justification (it should be self-condemnation) are insufficient excuses for considering myself better than those who violate my morality.

The protests at Waking Life, the shaming of the owners over their actions and the resulting ruin of their business (the loss of which will affect innocents) is a fresh example of intolerance in the name of tolerance and progress. The owners’ actions and the reasons behind them are inexcusable, but part of another problem that will remain unresolved so long as we hyper-focus a blind crusade to oust and demonize.

In the blind march to progress, we leave behind the very sections of society we claim to stand for. Partial victories ease the guilt of the crimes of previous centuries while providing enough feel-good in the present to allow us to ignore a lack of real accomplishment.

The vaunted fourth estate, once a rallying ground for progress, has betrayed its purpose and become the most-active peddler of divisive distractions. That leaves only you to seek answers, then question them.

There remain a dedicated few who struggle against the economic and social hurdles of trying to deliver truth to a population drunk on sensationalism, but often the only people who listen are the few already awakened to the reality of a system of subtle abuses that maintains itself by contenting the majority.

These awakened are often those who progress left behind, notyet-dead but nonetheless abandoned as catch-22 carrion to feed post-Progressive society. Refusing to suffer alienation in passive silence is labeled as angry and unrealistic, accused of imagining systems based on cronyism and familiarism, when the reality of those systems can only be seen from the victim’s perspective.

Victims come both from traditional minority groups and from the lost wolves who were formerly oppressors, abandoned by their pack because they have become marked as intolerant. Prejudice, even as self-defense, is a reactionary response.

Instead, listen to and be willing to forgive those who victimized you, lest you victimize yourself. Parity can only come when one person is willing to attempt to understand the other, to correct the weaknesses and reinforce the strengths, of every side.

I might be wrong. This is as much an act of ego as it is a confession, a plea and self-reminder that the answer lies somewhere in the gray fog between our war camp and and the camp of our would-be enemy.

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Two students’ idea to create a technology capable of preventing sexual assault is finally coming to fruition.

Madison Eddings, cellular and molecular biology student, and Ben Eisdorfer, management student, invented a wearable bracelet called Pro(tech)t.

Using cellular-based data, the bracelet alerts campus police, at the touch of a button, in the event someone feels endangered.

“We’ve both always had a passion about rape culture and sexual assault in general, as well as the issues it causes,” Eddings said. “Sexual assault is such a big issue and it has so many pieces to it. It really does come down to the need for a cultural change for it to be lasting. It also needs an immediate fix and solution..”

The UNC Asheville students said they thought of the idea in a social entrepreneurship class.

“We were thinking, ‘What does a potential victim need in that moment when things become not okay? What would be the easiest way for someone to alert someone else?’” Eddings said.

After winning UNC’s 2015 Social Entrepreneurship Conference in February, the duo raised around $20,000 to manufacture their product, Eddings said. This amount includes

anonymous donations, personal funds and the $3,000 conference prize.

Eisdorfer said a provisional patent was issued for the product, the name is now trademarked and the students obtained Limited Liability Company authorization.

The duo said they chose their favorite company, Eventys, to aid with developing and manufacturing Pro(tech)t.

The company, based in Charlotte, is a full-service product development firm that takes pride in their quality products, according to the Eventys website. With over a decade of experience in its industry, Eventys has worked with companies like Colgate, Clorox, Rubbermaid, Mattel and Coca-Cola.

“It’s so frustrating sometimes because it does feel like a slow process. We just want it to be done,” Eddings said.

The creators said they hope to begin beta testing at UNCA within six months and manufacturing a first generation wristband within the year.

They hope to sell the bracelet for $75 or lower, Eddings said.

The bracelet is cellular-based and requires a $5 to $10 data plan to operate.

Eddings and Eisdorfer said they hope colleges will purchase the wristbands for students. Budgetary restrictions in state schools may prove problematic for distribution, but they believe private universities with more funding can purchase

in bulk.

“We want to make it accessible to as many people as possible. We don’t want cost to be the reason that somebody can’t use it,” Eddings said.

A sliding-scale payment option will be available to students.

Bluetooth capabilities are planned for future generations of Pro(tech)t in order to alleviate the data fee, Eisdorfer said.

“Our go-to phrase for this band is it’s going to be fashionable, durable and comfortable,” he said.

A fail-safe mechanism to prevent false alarms is planned, featuring a switch and hold button. The waterproof band will be less than an inch and a quarter thick, equipped with a specialized clasp so it cannot be ripped off, Eddings said.

Potential investors contacted Eddings and Eisdorfer to make a profit, but the students said they desire a partnership opposed to an investment opportunity.

“We are really protective over what we’re doing. Our goal isn’t to make money, it’s to make a difference,” Eddings said. “It has the potential to be very lucrative, and when presenting it, people hear that a lot instead of the impact it can make.”

The university’s response has been extremely positive, they explained.

“The school has been super supportive in connecting

Photo contributed by Madison Eddings Ben Eisdorfer and Madison Eddings pose with Philip Gary. us with people, getting us into the right conversations with the right kind of people,” Eddings said.

Philip Gary, temporary project coordinator of university programs, said he realized Eddings and Eisdorfer’s potential in executing their idea upon hearing their pitch in the entrepreneurship course he advised.

“One of the things that impressed me immediately was their intensity and focus,” Gary said. “Virtually any idea they undertake, you have to expect they will take it to a theological,

possible conclusion. That’s why they won the contest.”

Eisdorfer said Gary provided contacts and offered great advice to steer the students in the right direction.

“Philip Gary has been our number one advisor and cheerleader,” Eisdorfer said. “He’s been with us from the very beginning and is always the guy we talk to when we have a question.”

The team said they hope to turn Pro(tech)t into a full-time career upon graduation.

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