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NEWS BIOFeedback Greek life pg. 3

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"The shape of things" play review pg. 11

Purity ring

opinion

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NEWS

Section Editor: Emma Alexander nalexand@unca.edu

Asheville wakes up to

PHILLIP WYATT

A&F Staff Writer pwyatt@unca.edu Owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens of Waking Life Espresso in West Asheville are under attack after it was revealed they published podcasts, a blog and a Twitter account expressing misogynist and sexist viewpoints concerning their sexual conquests in Asheville.

The news first broke on AshevilleBlog.com from an anonymous source, including screen caps of the offending Twitter account and blog, as well as recordings of their podcasts.

Under the pseudonym “Holistic Game,” both men published graphic descriptions of consensual and nonconsensual sex acts.

“Putting the sweet D in the tender V since 2013” is the title used for their online blog.

Other tweets included a yearly count of sexual encounters with women.

Local businesses began pulling Waking Life’s iced coffee from shelves Sunday, less than 24 hours after the blog’s creators were revealed.

At French Broad Food CoOp, four male staff members made a unanimous decision to remove Waking Life products from shelves before board members came to their own conclusion, General Manager Bobby Sullivan said.

“I listened to part of a podcast. They were talking about women within the age group of my four daughters,” Sullivan said. “As a man, it’s alarming to me there’s men out there promoting this type of behavior.”

Two of Sullivan’s daughters are currently applying for jobs and potentially could have secured employment at Waking

Editor-In-Chief Timbi Shepherd, jshephe3@unca.edu

BITTER BREW

Photo by Phillip Wyatt

Protesters gather outside of Waking Life Espresso.

Life, he said.

In order to sell the remaining Waking Life iced coffees from their store, Orbit DVD in West Asheville donated $50 to OurVoice for every $4 spent on a bottle, Marc McCloud said, Orbit general manager.

OurVoice provides counseling services to individuals affected by sexual abuse and assault.

After selling out, Orbit approached West Village Market for more bottles to sale. The store raised around $750 for OurVoice.

Other businesses are following suit, donating at least ten percent of their sales from Monday or the entire week to

Photo by Phillip Wyatt

OurVoice, including Battlecat Coffee Bar, Patton Avenue Pet Company, Business 420 Screenprinting and Harvest Records, McCloud said.

“I have a professional rela-

The Blue Banner Fall 2015 Editorial Board

Enterprising Editor James Neal, jneal@unca.edu

tionship with these guys,” he said. “I was just shocked they would flush a good business away.”

McCloud has a 21-year-old daughter, and he said the social media posts hit close to home for him.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Jay Weatherly and Kim Hunt of High Five Coffee said they are donating all profits from sales this week of a special beverage, the Barista’s Choice, to OurVoice.

Some patrons of High Five have agreed to match total sales of the drink.

“We are appalled by Jared and Jacob’s dehumanization, violence, and lack of respect for women, even further their general reflections on humanity and definitions of what it means to ‘be a man’,” the statement from High Five said. “There is no place for this in our, or any community, and only serves to perpetuate a rape culture.”

With signs in tow, protesters have lined up outside of Waking Life since news broke Saturday of the blog and podcasts. Most of the participants are members of West Asheville Exchange, a Facebook group created by Mikki Fox. “This isn’t a witch hunt. We don’t have our pitchforks out,” Fox said. “I was so incensed when I read what they had said that I immediately grabbed some signs and my kids and came up here.”

Fox did not anticipate such a huge community outcry, she said.

“I didn’t expect all their stuff to be pulled,” Fox said. “This has really brought a lot of people together.”

Asheville resident Simeon Cogswell, who started pro-

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Bad publicity threatens Greek life nationwide CHLOE BANKSON

Contributor Some college students view media coverage of controversies surrounding Greek life as inaccurate. Sororities and fraternities around the country have been accused of misconduct including racism, sexual assault and hazing.

UNC Asheville Senior Ross Adams said the stigma attached to Greek life is different between schools because of a lack of diversity at some institutions.

“At Chapel Hill, there is a problem with racism because almost 75 percent of the students are white,” Adams said.

“When that happens it almost becomes a cultural norm. The diversity and stigma attached to Greek Life depends on the school.”

UNCA has four Greek life chapters, two fraternities, and two sororities, compared to a UNC Chapel Hill report of 3,300 students involved in the campus’ 56 chapters. Chapel Hill officials said 18 percent of the undergraduate class is involved in Greek life on the campus.

Adams said the stigma surrounding Greek life has become worse because of the advance in

Photo by Nelson Leonard - Contributor Nelson Leonard, Ben McClure, Christopher Cowart, Louie Edelstein, Andrew Lee, Cody Marosz, and Niles Reinhardt assist in packaging food for school lunches. social media.

“I think with social media we are getting more of an inside look at what happens in some Greek life, and so it is easier for news stories to gain traction when everyone has a phone in their hand. I do think things are getting worse,” he said. “Al-

though, I think our school is getting more progressive, tolerant and racially aware.”

Sigma Nu President Timothy Daniel said Greek life receives negative attention because it makes a good story and sells papers.

“I think the problem is they

Biofeedback provides alternative treatment to neurological disorders CARSON WALL

Opinion/News Staff Writer

cwall1@unca.edu Biofeedback - An Alternative Treatment to Neurological Disorders As diagnosis rates for mental disorders such as autism and ADHD are continuing to rise, alternative medical treatments are becoming a popular method to treat patients without medication.

“I believe that all noninvasive therapies and modalities should be tried first, before reaching for medications or other more noninvasive treatments that

always, eventually, have side effects,” said Dr. Jojo Yonce, owner of Asheville Brain Training, when explaining why he believes biofeedback should be at least tried, due to the treatment’s flexibility.

Biofeedback, Yonce said, is a process in which the patient’s brain is able to consciously become aware of bodily functions, such as heart rate, and begin to change them in response.

“Sensors applied to the trainee’s scalp record the brain waves, which are converted into feedback signals by a human/machine interface using advanced computer software,”

said Dr. Ashley Stewart of the Human Performance Institute in Asheville.

Dr. Barry Sterman of UCLos Angeles discovered the treatment in 1965, before other doctors used it to treat seizures in epileptic patients. The recent increase in technology has allowed for more precise medical equipment to be used, a point Steward said was definitely a strength in the field.

She said biofeedback can be used as an alternative treatment, but can also be used as a complementary method of treatment alongside other methods such

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use a small sample size to generalize a large population, he said. “It’s generalizing a very large group of people.”

Jay Cutspec, the academic adviser for Alpha Sigma Phi, said Greek life makes the news because of the media focus on sexual assault.

“There is a national focus on sexual assault on college campuses, and I think many times the fraternity folks are involved in that,” Cutspec said.

Cutspec said sexually suggestive signs hung by the Sigma Nu chapter at Old Dominion University in Virginia hurt the Read more on page 9

Happenings Wednesday, Sept. 23 Early Human Populations in the New World A Biased Perspective Sherrill Center 417 Mountain View Room 7:30 - 9 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24 Moral Challenges Series Ambassador Johnnie Carson Humanities Lecture Hall 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Opening Reception with Daniel Nevin With a Mighty Hand: Torah Paintings + Abstraction Owen Hall 101 - S. Tucker Cooke Gallery 6 - 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25 Fab Friday Lecture Alice Sebrell on Black Mountain College

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Reuter Center 102 The Manheimer Room 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26 Goodman Lecture Series Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Bragg Sherrill Center 417 Mountain View Room 3 - 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 29 STEM Lecture Oulipo: Mathematics and Creative Writing Reuter Center 102 The Manheimer Room 4:30 - 6 p.m.

Quraysh Ali Lansana, Poetry Across the Fields Karpen Hall 139 - Laurel Forum 7 - 9 p.m.

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NEWS

UNCA community wary of declining honeybee populations LIAM BAGLIVO

Contributor The UNC Asheville community joins the fight to help local pollinators by establishing pollinator meadows on campus. This is possible with funding provided by Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation, the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership and Bee City USA, according to university officials.

“There are a lot of parasites and pathogens that affect bees and being affected by one makes you more vulnerable to others,” said Rebecca Hale, assistant professor of biology at UNCA and Weaverville resident.

According to the USDA, the total number of managed honeybee colonies

dropped by half since the 1940s with numbers now below 2.5 million.

The pollinators’ populations are under duress from a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, in addition to environmental stresses such as mites, pathogens, fungi, neonicotinoid pesticides and more, according to the USDA. Colony collapse disorder occurs when most worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen, plenty of food and a few nurse bees, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

David Clarke, professor of biology at UNCA and Asheville resident, said there is no one specific cause for the declining honeybee population, but multiple causes.

“Certainly any of those things, the parasites and neonicotinoids,” Clarke said, “would need addressing if you want to save the honeybees.”

Bee pollination is responsible for more than $15 billion in crops each year, according to the USDA. “Honeybees are the biggest pollinator of crops that need to be pollinated,” said Hale, a practicing beekeeper since 2008. “Anything that produces a nice, yummy fruit needs to be pollinated, and the way we do our agriculture nationally doesn’t allow natural pollinators to be as abundant around those crop fields. We rely on honeybees to do a lot of that.”

Bees pollinate various crops, some of which include apples, avocados,

Photos by Kelly Norris - Contributor

peaches, broccoli, onions, pumpkin and more, according to the National Resources Defense Council.

Many people are unaware of the importance of honeybees and the dangers they face. Kelly Norris, a sophomore environmental studies student at UNCA, said the decline of honeybee populations is alarming.

“I think the honeybees are ultimately important in a lot of aspects of life,” Norris said. “Pollinators are critically important to our well-being. They’re a part of our environment just as much as Read more on page 9

Student inventors work to prevent sexual assault

PHILLIP WYATT A&F Staff Writer pwyatt@unca.edu

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 confer-

ence 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

Photo contributed by Madison Eddings Ben Eisdorfer and Madison Eddings pose with Philip Gary.

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The Struggle is real, but hopeful:

Being LGBT+ in the South MOLLY JABEN Contributing Writer

Auslyn Davis appears to be just like every other college-aged woman, except for one thing. Auslyn used to be Austin.

“When I was attending Mars Hill, people there are a little bit more close-minded, so I was treated by professors and students kind of like an ‘other,’” said Davis, who attended the

Photo by Molly Jaben

Auslyn Davis

Baptist university in Madison County from 2011-2013.

Roughly 38 percent of LGBT+ youth report suffering physical violence from their parents as a result of their sexual identity, according to the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network. A Lambda Legal study shows 26 percent of youth must leave home due to their sexual or gender identity.

“One day I came back from math, and I went to my door and there was a used condom

stretched over the doorknob, and they had written ‘fag’ on my door in chalk,” said the 23-year-old student.

A study by GLSEN reveals 90 percent of LGBT+ students hear anti-LGBT+ remarks at school.

“There is more general opposition to LGBT rights in Southern states compared to the rest of the country. You don’t have to look any further than polling numbers to see that that’s true,” said Lindsey Simerly, campaign manager of Campaign for Southern Equality.

The Campaign for Southern Equality focuses mainly on Western North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.

“In Alabama, for example, it is still illegal to talk about homosexuality in any way at all in the public school system, especially in sex education” Simerly said. “There are still several states that allow reparative therapy.”

Reparative therapy refers to a psychotherapy aimed at changing a person’s homosexuality based on the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder.

“A lot of stuff for youth is much more in the home. Do they get kicked out when they come out? Do they have a good support network around them?

Are they in a school system that supports them or where it’s banned for them to talk about homosexuality?” the Asheville City Council candidate said.

According to GLSEN, 84 percent of transgender youth Read more on page 22

Photo by Rebecca Andrews - Staff Writer

Solar panels stand in stacks waiting to be installed.

Church responds to Pope’s call for sustainable living BECCA ANDREWS News Staff Writer randrew1@unca.edu

In June, Pope Francis raised the topic of climate change to people all over the world with his encyclical document, Laudato Si. “The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” he said. “In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once-beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.”

He called for action on issues like pollution, chemical waste and global warming.

One local church took this message to heart. Saint Eugene’s Catholic Church on Merrimon is installing solar panels on its roof in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. Installation of the 146 solar panels began Sept. 8.

MB Haynes Energy Solutions of Asheville will install the panels. The panels will cover about 22 percent of the church’s electricity needs.

The project began in March 2014 when a group of parishioners called the Care of Creation Committee approached Father Pat Cahill and the diocese of Charlotte with the idea.

Bill Maloney, a member of Care of Creation and the project coordinator, said they were nervous of being turned down

because, as far as they know, St. Eugene’s is the first Catholic church in North Carolina to install solar panels.

“When you get into these things you really rely on prayer and the Holy Spirit to come through, because it really isn’t our work. It’s God’s work,” Maloney said. “With the diocese and the attorney and the financial officer, I thought those guys might just say no. In fact, the one guy told me they look at a lot of these and turn them down.”

However, the diocese has been very supportive and started fundraising for the $142,500 project in March 2015, Maloney said.

Six months and one day later, they reached their goal when the St. Eugene’s Women’s Guild donated $4,000.

The fundraising process was unique in that anyone, parishioner or not, could donate any amount of money to the project and get a 35 percent tax credit and a 30 percent federal tax deduction.

“We were initially looking at an LLC, Limited Liability Company, that would be a group of maybe 10 parishioners on the project that would rent the roof and they would sell back the electricity and get all the tax credits,” Maloney said.

“We’d have to have an attorney,

it’d be hugely expensive, really difficult and it’s not going to be the people’s panels, it would be rich guy’s panels. So I found that there is a thing called Senate Bill Three of 2007.”

Photo by Rebecca Andrews - Staff Writer

Robin Steeples, UNCA senior and president of the Catholic Campus Ministry, signs the back of a solar panel to be installed on St. Eugene’s.

North Carolina Senate Bill Three gives a 35 percent tax credit and a federal charitable tax deduction for anyone who donates to a non-profit for renewable energy before Jan. 1, 2016. This, Maloney said, allowed the project to be funded Read more on page 22

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SPORTS

Section Editor: Harrison Slaughter jslaught@unca.edu

Ready to take off

Dare to Fly Trapeze swings into Asheville MATT MCGREGOR

A&F Asst. Editor mmcgrego@unca.edu

Letting go is the hardest part about learning to fly.

Climbing the ladder to the narrow pedestal at Dare to Fly Trapeze, my heart gains a fearful weight as nervous hands question the logic of reaching for the next rung.

Luckily, a friendly face awaits. Sadye Osterloh stands on the pedestal singing an impromptu song with the explicit lyrics, “coming up the ladder.”

Her enthusiastic singing speaks to how much she loves her job.

“I’m up there with people when they come up the ladder and with them when they take their first, second and third leap,” Sayde says. “It’s really neat to just watch people go through the process of just com-

ing up the ladder experiencing the range of emotions they feel when they get up there.”

Sayde handles my fear and excitement nonchalantly, singing to these emotions like a chanteuse psychologist.

“If they’re excited I get excited with them. If they’re scared I talk them through their fears and help them hop off,” Sayde says.

“It’s cool to see them when they experience their first swing and then come back up feeling more and more confident.”

Dari Layne, co-owner of Dare to Fly Trapeze at 456 Broadway in Asheville, stands beside the net guiding the swing, pulling safety lines and giving instructions.

“The two things people find the scariest initially are the ladder and taking off from the board,” Dari says. “We do have

a saying: first time for fear, second time for fun, third time’s a charm. First time, you will be scared. Everybody is.”

For a basic class at Dare to Fly Trapeze, instructions are legs up, hook your knees, hands off, arch your back and reach, hands up, legs down. Following this recipe of movements result in the exhilarating basic swing and knee hang. The final set of instructions may produce a backflip off the bar with a cannonball landing on the net.

Of course, this is what takes place if I can follow the instructions.

“I will expect you not to do anything I tell you because most people have a hard time listening when they are that scared,” Dari says. “Some people pick it right up, but nine times out of 10, people are in sensory overRead more on page 16

Photo by Alysha Harris - Contributor

Matt McGregor dares to fly.

Men’s and women’s cross country teams push forward JASON PERRY A&F Staff Writer jperry1@unca.edu

The Bulldogs leave their opponents in the dust.

Photo by Jason Perry - Staff Writer

Runners swept along the woods at Asheville Christian Academy for UNC Asheville’s home cross country meet this past Saturday.

The meet consisted of a men’s 8k race and a women’s 5k. After the college races were finished, two high school 5ks followed.

The course was mostly flat and snaked along the woods and farm behind the academy.

The whole area is surrounded by the Appalachian Mountains, and the view was just as good as the racing conditions being 65 degrees with little to no wind.

Overall, the men’s team placed second, with a third place finish from Dominic Collichio, 25:32.66, who was seven seconds off the top pace. Andy Thornburg placed sixth with 26:09.36, and Nathan Kirse finished seventh with a time of 26:13.19.

Adam Puett, head men’s distance coach, was hoping for the win, but he was pleased with his top three runners.

“I thought that our front three guys did a great job of sticking to the game plan and racing hard,” Puett says. “I think what happened is our 4, 5, 6 and 7 runners didn’t push hard enough in the middle miles.

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Sydney VandenBerg and teammates dive into the pool.

Photo by Johnny Condon - Staff Photographer

Swim team splits into blue and white teams for intersquad meet ASHLEY ELDER News Staff Writer aelder@unca.edu

The start of women’s swimming season at UNC Asheville began on Friday with a team divided, but only in the pool, Ale Sanchez said.

“It was amazing watching the team cheer for each other regardless of the team they were on,” said Sanchez, a sophomore.

UNCA’s swim coach, Elizabeth Lykins said she is proud of the newcomers on the team.

“I am excited to see our freshmen get their first taste of collegiate swimming,” Lykins said.

Lykins said the Blue team kicked off the meet with a win in the 200 Medley Relay

by Reid Jackson, Alessandra Troncoso, Emily Werth and Elizabeth Murray.

The second race resulted in a win for the White team by Galen Broido in the 500 Free, but the Blue team took second through fourth place, leaving the score

close at 10-9.

The score remained close until Sanchez won the 200 Fly and the 200 Back during the middle of the meet, allowing the White team to take the lead and never look back.

Freshman Morgan Rulevich won the 200 breast, 100 Free and 100 Breast. Lykins said she ended the meet with another win in the 800 Freestyle Relay.

A number of other swimmers also placed first according to Lykins, including Alexandra van Dorsten, Stephanie Smith, Rachel Van Noordt and Jessica Woolfe.

Lykins said she is happy with the progress the team has made in five short weeks.

“They are starting to learn to apply the stroke improvements we practice daily to their racing,” she said. “The entire team is working well together and learning to race.”

Sanchez said this meet goes to show all the hard work we put into every practice.

“The future is looking bright for the Bulldogs,” she said.

Photo by Johnny Condon - Staff Photographer

Sydney VandenBerg, a freshman from Concord, NC, and other lady Bulldogs prepare to race.

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SPORTS stats

Biofeedback From page 3

By Harrison Slaughter, Sports Editor

Photo by Jason Perry Staff Writer

Volleyball Sept. 19 UNC Asheville Citadel

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Sept. 19 UNC Asheville Wright State

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as medication. Due to this flexibility, it can be used to treat a large range of ailments, Yonce said, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and autism.

Heather Ulrich, associate psychology professor at UNC Asheville, noted the same benefits of the treatments. She said a strength of biofeedback was the ability for the awareness of bodily functions and responses to be tightened. Ulrich said it would be beneficial as a secondary treatment in conjunction with more traditional treatment methods. She noted the use of biofeedback should be considered on an individual case basis.

Stewart said the treatment is best used with adults, as self-regulation is fully established in older individuals.

However, she said certain forms of biofeedback can be used with younger children to improve cognition. Yonce noted a March 2014 study by the American Academy of Pediatrics on biofeedback as treatment for hyperactivity which found biofeedback as effective as medication.

Ulrich agreed there may be lessened effectiveness for adolescents and said there may be more stress involved for some children due to the training of systems that are still maturing.

Ulrich said the use of the treatment was increasing, however, long term effects require regular practice of the techniques.

Yonce said a problem with the treatment was the frequency of visits, several times a week for an average of 30 visits. Stewart said the problems

Sept. 27 Mindful Flow Yoga Meditation Room 468 Sherrill Center 4 p.m.

Sept. 28 Wake-Up Yoga Meditation Room 468

within the field include the cost of biofeedback, as the coverage by insurers varies by plan. She said for many insurance companies, biofeedback is considered experimental. However, the increase in precise biomedical instrumentation available is helping to show the benefits of the treatment.

Both Stewart and Yonce said there was underutilization of the noninvasive treatment by the public. However, the public is becoming increasingly aware and knowledgeable, and both see the biofeedback field expanding as public access becomes available.

Stewart said while the benefits vary by individual, the treatment is safe, effective and beneficial in some way for everyone.

Ulrich said any treatment used should be with the patient in mind. She said there are benefits to biofeedback, especially as an adjunct therapy, and that there are individuals whose conditions could be improved with its use. The priority of a treatment is to have a low level of risk to the individual, past which the benefits should be addressed in a case-by-case basis.

Stewart said finding a highly trained practitioner is important and that the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance website is a good place to start searching. She looks forward to the future for this medical field.

“I believe, and know that I speak for others in this field, that we have only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible to attain here,” Stewart said.

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Greek

Waking Life

From page 3

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Photo by Phillip Wyatt - News Staff Writer

Protestors gathered outside of Waking Life Espresso. testing outside the coffee shop Monday, is also proud of the community’s response to the scandal.

“I think it’s been really great the community was quick to react,” Cogswell said. “I’m pretty happy everyone came together to deal with a really shitty situation.”

Fellow protester Pamela Lalik is also proud of local businesses reaction to Rutledge and Owens’ comments.

“I feel like I have justifiable feelings of displeasure about the situation,” Lalik said. “All the places around town are dumping their stuff and cutting ties, sending a message that our community is not going to tolerate this.”

Sonya DiPalma, assistant professor of mass communication at UNC Asheville, said an online persona must be in sync with one’s life, considering anonymity no longer exists within social media.

“You can’t post under any alias; it’s traceable and it all comes back to you,” she said.

Rutledge and Owens believed their content was posted anonymously and unassociated with Waking Life, an assertion that is

incongruent, Dipalma said.

“At the end of the day, it has a permanency to it, and this follows them. They will need some really good people to help them clean up their image online and that’s going to have to start with them from the inside out.’

DiPalma believes Rutledge and Owens should remove themselves from the community and take time to reflect on their actions before returning to offer heartfelt aid and support.

“With social media, we are about authenticity and transparency, and people will find you out if you’re not,” she said.

Both men have issues apologies via online press releases and a letter posted on the door of Waking Life, which closed on Monday.

The owners offered to donate their business profits from the rest of the year to OurVoice, but the organization is not accepting donations from Waking Life.

A Facebook group titled “We Like Our Coffee Like We Like Our Women. Not at Waking Life” is organizing protests outside of Waking Life everyday this week from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m.

public opinion of Greek life.

“I think generally there is a negative perception of fraternities, even before all this happened,” Cutspec said, “so I think that the more of these negative stories that come out, the more that is perpetuated.”

Cutspec said news outlets are only telling people about the negatives of Greek life.

“Looking at The Blue Banner yesterday, there was a comment that promotes a bunch of stereotypes,” Daniel said. “It essentially shows these fraternity members drinking and having fun, and it basically says, ‘Gah, there are a lot of assholes at college.’”

Daniel said they realized the Greek symbols used in the comic resembled closely to Sigma Nu’s. ”We took offense because it looks like us,” Daniel said.

Daniel said much of what his fraternity does goes unnoticed because it is behind the scenes.

“A lot of people do not realize this, but Greek life as a whole across the United States is the largest chain of volunteers,” Daniel said. “We board at least 10 hours a person a year of community service here, and across 20 members that is 200 hours easily.”

Daniel said the lack of issues with Greek life at UNCA is linked to the lack of on-campus housing for fraternities and so-

rorities.

“We do not have housing, which eliminates a lot of the issues you would see in the media, because we do not rage or throw any big parties or anything like that,” Daniel said.

“We are mostly service-based and fundraising.”

Cutspec said the fraternities focus on philanthropy within the community.

“We focus on community service projects, going into the community and doing river cleanup, as well as doing ‘Walk in her shoes,’ which is a walk against sexual assault,” Cutspec said.

Daniel said the guilty Sigma Nu students at Old Dominion were promoting rape culture.

“At Old Dominion the investigation is still ongoing. There were four members doing it at an unofficial off-campus house.

That is representing Sigma Nu, and they obviously should not have a chapter right now,” he said.

Daniel said the media fail to highlight the fact Greek life members attend required trainings to combat sexual assault.

“The media are perpetuating the stigma that Greek culture is this big sexual assault machine, when in fact we go through multiple trainings a semester,” Daniel said.

Daniel said the survey reporting fraternity members are 300

percent more likely to commit a sexual assault presented inaccuracies.

“It was in 2007 at one college not using any actual instances. They surveyed one college freshmen class,” Daniel said, “and they gave them a questionnaire, and used their answers to make patterns out of that.”

Daniel said developing a judgment about Greek life based on that survey is unfair, and does not believe recent events have affected recruiting at UNCA. “The type of people that take those to heart, that would not realize it was not this chapter and not what we stand for, and not realize the community service we do,” Daniel said. “We do not want those type of people.”

Daniel said he disagrees with people who think Greek life should cease to exist.

“There are always going to be bad apples, and it is unfortunate. But I do not think the actions of a few are reason to kill the whole,” he said. “There are so many good things fraternities and sororities do every year.”

Adams said UNCA is leading with a good example.

“Greek life should not be done away with. It should just continue to become more progressive,” Adams said. “I think UNCA is doing a great job at that.”

Bees From page 4

we are, and they deserve a fighting chance.”

If losses continue at the 33 percent level annually, it could threaten the economic viability of the bee pollination industry, USDA officials said.

While commercial beekeepers may experience losses, local beekeepers can still prosper, Clarke said.

“There may be some serious challenges for commercial bee-

keepers, but I’m hopeful that by eliminating some of the stresses on the bees, local beekeepers can keep their bees relatively healthy,” Clarke said. “It might not work on the commercial scale anymore, but hopefully there may still be local beekeepers that can do it.”

Hale said those interested in supporting local honeybees and staying educated about their population have many options.

“It’s important to not just have a few flowers in the spring that pollinators can visit,” Hale said, “but offering food to those pollinators for as much of the growing season as possible is really good.”

She said planting native plants, education on types of local pollinators and keeping pesticide levels down are ways to help the population.

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Arts & Features

Section Editor: Larisa Karr lakarr@unca.edu

Don’t dream it, be it:

rocky horror KATIE CROOKS A&F Staff Writer kcrooks@unca.edu

Musical is now here!

In a risqué, yet completely accurate simile, Jacob Walas compares the rituals of Rocky Horror to that of Communion.

“I always compare it to Communion,” said Walas, a 26-year-old actor from Asheville, “when you take Communion, you know the exact ritual, you know the exact call and response, you know when to take the bread and the wine and all of that stuff- it’s ingrained in you. It’s kind of like that for the Rocky Horror too.”

Walas will co-direct and act as Riff Raff in LW Fantastique and Asheville Ballet’s upcoming production of the stage play, Rocky Horror. The play is scheduled to run in collaboration with the Color Ball this Halloween weekend at the Masonic temple in downtown.

While many audiences are familiar with the Picture Show -- campy performances carried out under the eyes of Tim Curry, the cast insists the stage show will be a completely different experience.

“It’s more muscular, is the way I would describe it, a little bit leaner on the dialogue, but you still have all of the same songs,” said Lyle Laney, a UNCA alum who is a producer, co-director and co-choreographer for this production.

Luke Haynes, a 28-year-old actor who plays Brad, “the asshole,” compares the atmosphere of the stage play to a rock concert.

Despite having only a month of rehearsals, the cast seems confident in their ability to bring Rocky Horror to stage. Taylor Aldrich, who plays Janet, cites audience participation as the reason for a seemingly short rehearsal time.

“Honestly, you just need to get the choreography,” Aldrich said, “get the music, get your lines, be able to run it a couple times and see what happens when you get an audience.”

You’re invited: Wednesday Critique Sessions 2 - 3:10 p.m.

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For non-thespians, a month seems like a brief amount of rehearsal time, but co-director Laney credits this to a talented cast.

“Quite simply, in my eyes, this is the best cast in Asheville, and they can handle this in a month, easily,” said Laney. “I have no concerns about that, I trust them.”

The interactive aspects of Rocky Horror are arguably what make it such a cult classic. It remains to be seen if all of the customs will translate from Picture Show to stage, Laney said, as audience members will be in charge of determining the amount of interaction.

“In terms of the throwing of the toilet paper, the use of the squirt guns, and the Styrofoam penis, and all that stuff, we want to encourage that,” said Laney, “and of course the big thing is, we want to encourage them to be there, to be in the space.”

Audience props for the picture show range from rubber to toast, the latter of which is meant to be thrown into the air.

Walas and Laney agree that theater is experiencing a period of “sanitation,” and said they hope this fourth-wall-breaking performance will bring fun back to theater.

“You’re not encouraged to hoot and holler and laugh and enjoy and support [in today’s theater],” said Walas.

“But in this show, I think we’ll definitely see that,” said Laney.

Tickets will be sold in three different pricing tiers -- $30, $20, and $15. Student rush tickets will be honored with a valid college ID. They plan to donate a portion of each sale to Youth Outright. For ticket information, visit rockyhorrorasheville.com.

Photo courtesy of LW Fantastique Productions

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PLAY REVIEW

“The Shape of Things”

leaves a tangible impression at the Bebe Theatre Commentary LARISA KARR A&F Editor lakarr@unca.edu

Frenetic, twisted and completely untraditional.

In essence, these are three words, among many others, that come to mind upon thinking about how to describe The Shape of Things, a play that ran Sept. 3-19 at the Bebe Theatre in downtown Asheville.

Famed American playwright Neil LaBute wrote The Shape of Things to shed a new light on human relationships by showing how people often change to fit the mold their partners cast for them.

For Stephanie Hickling Beckman, co-founder of the Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and director of the play, LaBute’s script could be experimented with even further in a live context.

She chose to develop two different performances of The Shape of Things, one following the other, featuring two different casts. In the first interpretation, there is a festering crush between Adam (Nathan Singer), the protagonist, and Jamie, who is marrying his best friend, Phyl. In the second interpretation, Adam is crushing on Phyl. However, on the night of Sept. 11, the actor who normally plays Phyl in the second play (Maximilian Koger), was absent, and so Devyn Ray played Evelyn, making the relationship between herself and Jenny (Emily Crock).

For Stephanie Hickling Beckman, having two performances of the same show back-to-back was a perfect way to bring out the malleability of the characters by showcasing different actors.

“The fluidity of the sexuality is why I decided to have two different shows. In the first cast, the way it comes off is as premature love, and the second cast plays with sexuality a little bit more, even though there were lesbians tonight,” Beckman said. “There’s some sexual tension between Phyl and Adam, because Phyl’s so bitchy.

From the first time I read it, I got the impression he was in love with Adam.”

Celebrating the fluidity and diversity of human relationships is the ethos of Different Strokes! As a col-

Photo by Iris Cheung Tsi Yuen - Contributor Cast members of The Shape of Things pose for a photo. From left: Allen Law, Meg Hale Brunton, Nathan Singer and Devyn Ray. lective that seeks to actively work against the lack of From this point forward, Evelyn shows an uncandiversity in Western North Carolina, they are at the cut- ny interest in Adam, who wears very frumpy clothes ting edge of experimental theater and work actively to and displays a humble sense of inadequacy. Adam is raise eyebrows and elicit questions. shocked that a confident, attractive person would actuIn her director’s note, Beckman states that different ally want to be in a relationship with him, but decides productions of The Shape of Things ask one question: to go along with it. It is when Adam introduces Evelyn “Do artists have a responsibility to establish and toe a to his good friends Jamie and Phyl, who are soon to be line between art and morality?” When placed inside the engaged, that the social dynamics of the play become framework of the actors performing in the play, this even more interesting. question then becomes intricately meta.

Phyl, played by the fiery, dynamic Ray, takes an imIn the first performance of the play, Adam, played mediate dislike to Evelyn, getting in a screaming match

by UNC Asheville senior drama student Nathan Sing- with her over, of course, the point of art. This tense ener, is jumpy and neurotic, almost like a combination vironment between the two women does not really get of Kramer and George from Seinfeld. He is a college better, and surprisingly, it is Adam’s relationship with student listlessly working in a museum. The first scene Evelyn’s fiance, Phyl, that divides the two further. She of the play is in this museum, where he meets a person jokingly accuses Adam of liking Phyl in the beginning who will dramatically shake his life and baffle the audi- of the play, but when the two have a romantic encounence, Evelyn (Meg Hale Brunton). ter that she finds out about, their relationship crumbles Evelyn lives, breathes and drinks art, and is intent on from that point forward. vandalizing, with graffiti, the sculpture of a man whose In the second performance, Desmond Zampella regenitals are covered up in order to prove she doesn’t tains Adam’s awkward air, but infuses it with a sense of believe in censorship of art. comfortability, almost like he has accepted how awk“I don’t like art that isn’t true,” she declares defiantly ward he is. There are quite a few differences with the as to what would be on the report if Adam were to write second cast, and with the substitution of Ray as Phyl, her up. these differences were Read more on page 16

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PURITY RING Highly-anticipated band Purity Ring bring pure, energetic fun to the Peel

By Phillip Wyatt, News Writer Review

Photo by Phillip Wyatt - Staff Writer

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Megan James, singer of Purity Ring. Photo by Blake Willis.

Future-pop duo Purity Ring brought their Another Eternity tour to the Orange Peel, sharing Megan James’ ominous, wispy vocals and Corin Roddick’s futuristic, dubbedout beats with a sold-out crowd.

The Sept. 15 show opened with Los Angeles artist HANA, whose trip-hop inspired beats and airy vocals are akin to other performers like fellow 4AD labelmate Grimes and Fever Ray. The raucous crowd of 1,050 welcomed HANA as she alternated from playing worldly, tribal synthesizer riffs to whipping her long hair braid back and forth above the hyped audience.

“You guys are so crazy!” HANA said.

Pulsating hip-hop inspired beats complemented by organic, wavering vocals and whimsical xylophone notes acted as a perfect soundtrack to the ultimate ‘80s dance party we’ve never been to.

“I’m so excited to be here in North Carolina with my friends Pu-

rity Ring,” HANA said. “It’s going to be such a good night.”

James’ ominous whispers immediately captivated the crowd when Purity Ring took stage, while vertical strands of lights simultaneously hypnotized with pulsating flashes of white, blue and purple.

Sporting a chic mushroom mullet and a skin-tight, white, shoulder-horned jumpsuit, James commanded the crowd through the Canadian duo’s futuristic and extraterrestrial interpretation of pop and dance music.

Her haunting harmonies led viewers into a mystical, dream-like trance of darkness and uncertainty.

According to a Pitchfork interview, James designs and sews the duo’s stage and video fashions while Roddick designed the lightup MIDI drumming system he uses on stage.

“It’s so nice to be back; thank you,” James said. “We’re on tour with our good friend HANA. She’s so beautiful and we love her songs.

HANA opened up for Purity Ring. Photo by Blake Willis.

It’s so good playing with her every night.”

A large moon was displayed above the stage, reminiscent of the band’s cover art for their second album, this year’s Another Eternity.

James ascended up a staircase, pounding the moon with a mallet

as it emitted a beam of white light onto the crowd.

Purity Ring played a well-balanced mix of both their albums, performing songs such as “Obedear,” “Loftricies,” “Crawlersout” and “Fineshrine” from 2012’s Shrines.

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Arts & Features The band ended the show with “bodyache,” the lead single of Another Eternity.

Emma Drake, anthropology student at UNC Asheville, said the show was her first time seeing Purity Ring.

“One of my friends had previously seen them and he said the show was kind of mellow, not something super upbeat,” Drake said. “It was a lot livelier than I thought it was going to be. Definitely a lot more energetic and a lot louder.”

Drake said her favorite aspect of the show was Roddick’s visual performance.

“Having those little balloon lights with him hitting them, I definitely had a better appreciation for how they make their music versus just listening to it,” she said. “Seeing it live was definitely really cool and added a whole new perspective.”

John Hansen, a UNCA music technology alumnus, was introduced to Purity Ring two years ago at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville.

“Musically, the show was pretty spot on with the records,” Hansen said. “It had to have been the best light show I’ve seen at the Peel.”

Hansen, an audio engineer, appreciates the calming and atmospheric production value of the band’s music and plans to attend future Purity Ring shows in Asheville.

Photo by Blake Willis.

TV SHOW Review

They’ll be there for me Why Friends is my favorite TV series of all time

By Michael O’Hearn, Social Media Editor - mohearn@unca.edu

Back in the 1990s, before social media permeated our culture and Google had yet to be invented, television viewers saw some of our generation’s best network shows to date.

From more mature series like Friends and Boy Meets World to all of the classic cartoons like Rocket Power and Hey Arnold, television was at the pinnacle of pop culture. For 10 years, people tuned into the adventures of six friends in New York City.

Chandler and Joey became their new best friends, the on-and-off-again relationship between Ross and Rachel has been documented for the ages, and every time Janice appeared on the screen, a collective, “Oh my God” resounded across the world.

On New Year’s Day this year, Netflix unveiled the entire Friends series to audiences across the globe.

For nine months, I watched this series on Netflix and, like Boy Meets World, the series has inspired me to find my “squad” and stick with them for years to come. Because, whenever they need me, I’ll be there for them.

Here, I examine each of the six friends and tell you what I believe is their best episode.

Starting with Ross and ending with Phoebe, I chose each episode based on its significance or comedic value by focusing on the nature of each character and his or her impact on the series as a whole.

1) Ross Geller - “The One Where Ross is Fine”/”The One With All the Resolutions” (Season 10, Episode 2; Season 5, Episode 11) I’m cheating, I know, but David Schwimmer as Ross Geller could not have been a more perfect match between actor and character. As the series progressed, he got funnier as Ross due to his string of divorces, and the freedom given to him as an actor to branch out with his character.

His “We were on a break!” line goes down in television history as a great running joke. In this episode, the way he plays off seeing Rachel and Joey kissing was hilarious. The party he threw for them and his then-girlfriend was both awkward and gut-busting thanks to him getting plastered from a whole pitcher of margaritas. I’ll never forget the leather pants and the pivoting up the stairwell. Unagi.

2) Joey Tribbiani - “The One With the Late Thanksgiving” (Season 10, Episode 8) Another season 10 pick goes to Matt LeBlanc, the actor who played Joey for the series.

Usually, in a series that runs for 10 years, the

actors begin to phone in their performances for a number of reasons. Either the series has overstayed its welcome, the writing begins to fall flat during the later years or something else comes along to deteriorate the show. This is not the case with Friends because LeBlanc solidified the audience’s love for Joey by turning up the charm and comedic relief of his character for the show’s final season. In this episode, not only does Joey manage to tear up Ross’s favorite shirt to make him look like he got mugged, but he also gets his head stuck in the door after four of the friends try to apologize for being late to Monica and Chandler’s Thanksgiving dinner.

Joey, thank you for your comedic naivete and meatball-sub-loving humor. You earned those three lasagnas Monica made you before moving out of the apartment.

3) Chandler Bing - “The One With the Proposal” (Season 5, Episode 25) If I were to make this decision based on Chandler’s sarcastic wit, we would be here all day because it knows no bounds. Instead, I’m going to pick the episode where Chandler shows his affectionate side and makes his proposal speech to Monica in a candlelit room. Putting my feelings that Chandler and Monica were ultimately not right for each other aside, the proposal speech made me well up with tears of happiness. It’s hard for a series to make me cry, but Friends made me do so on more than one occasion. Notwithstanding, Chandler has become my spirit animal, and whenever there’s a moment for a sarcastic comment at hand, I begin to channel his wit. Bing is king in these situations.

4) Monica Geller-Bing - “The One in Barbados” (Season 9, Episode 23) If I have to be honest here, which I have to be, I will tell you that I found Monica increasingly annoying as the series continued. Please tell me I’m not the only one who became turned off

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beat from the Street Akua Adisa, community organizer/healing artist/writer, originally from Milwaukee “I’m 28. When I was 18, I moved to Atlanta, and then five years ago, I moved here from Atlanta. Now I live here and Atlanta.

I’m living bi-local.”

What would you say inspires your style?

“My style is inspired by, first and foremost, what I’m feeling and working with that in a medicinal way. So, if I’m feeling that I need to be coddled and I need Mariah Thomas, originally from Arizona, and Jeremiah Armstrong, originally from Oregon, rock miners T: “We mine gems and minerals, quartz, aquamarines, things like that and we sell them to rock shops.”

Have you been here a long time?

M: “We’ve been here for, like, a week.”

T: “One week today, actually” M: “We definitely dig Asheville, though, a lot.

It’s a really cool city.

It’s been really good to us. People are really nice and everybody loves Rosco.”

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.

to be comforted, I’ll wear clothes that are very comfortable. If I’m feeling bogged down by the white dominance of Asheville, then I’ll wear big Africa on my shirt, red black and green, just to make me feel more powerful in my identity. The red, black and green flag is the Pan-African flag but I would say it’s totally beyond Marcus Garvey.

It’s embraced by Pan-Africans all over the world.”

If you were to say three words that would describe your style, what would you say?

“Cozy, queer African.”

If you were to cite someone of inspiration, like a writer or a political activist that gives you life and inspire you on a daily basis,

Have you found the rocks and gems here have been pretty good?

M: “Yeah, I just learning about it a couple of months ago. I’ve been lucky enough to meet him and he’s been teaching me all about it. Basically, we go to different mines and different places where the pretty stones are and go digging for them and it usually works out pretty well for us. He takes them into the stores and works out deals with the owners of rock shops and stuff. We just traded for some clothes for a couple racks that we had.”

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Mariah Thomas and Jeremiah Armstrong

what would you say?

“I would say Audre Lorde, Jessica Care Moore, who is a really good poet, Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter,who has given me life right now. I would say Erykah Badu.

Oh, Andre 3000.”

Do you have a personal philosophy that you live by?

“My mantra would be ‘everything is unfolding perfectly.’”

What do you think of Asheville?

“Asheville is a challenging place to live for me as a queer woman of African descent. I’m trying to bring a community around that where I can bring my whole self forward but I love this place. The place itself is really healing, the mountains, the materials, minerals, the plant life. This place feels like a home. I’m making a home here,

Akua Adisa with child.

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Trapeze From page 6

load, and there is so much going on that it’s hard to focus on what I’m telling you. But the next time you go up, it becomes easier.”

Dari would know. She’s been performing in aerial arts since she was a 13-year-old dancer and gymnast. She became entranced by the circus performances on vacation at Club Med with her parents, then started working for Club Med as a flying trapeze artist in 1996.

“My love of trapeze, the pure flying, the pure adrenaline rush and just that feeling of flying through the air became a massive passion for me,” Dari says.

“I love getting other people as excited about this as I am.”

She points upward to the fear-inducing platform.

“That is my favorite place in the world,” Dari declares. “To sit up on that pedestal board. I just love being up there.”

She started Dare to Fly Trapeze with Christine Aiken, who also has a background in flying trapeze. They set up in July, and their official grand opening took place on Sept. 22.

Their basic classes take place on Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 11:45 a.m. and 3 p.m.

“It’s taken a lot of hard work to get here,” Dari says. “Once this thing takes off, we have a feeling it will really take off.

We hope to have the locals who will fall in love with it and want

to do it all the time, and then the tourists. There aren’t that many cities you can do this in.”

Keli Keach attended a class in June and got hooked. She now comes to assist and learn the art.

“For me it’s very playful,” Keli says. “The feeling of gravity with the swing of being able to move your body according to the timing is a good feeling.”

Keli learns to set up the rig which includes a complicated hour and a half of tying knots, pulling slack out of rope, tightening the net and angling poles so that they lean in just the right way when someone lands on the net, and extending the ladder of fear up against the platform of trepidation.

This is where Alysha Harris will eventually stand waiting to jump and swing, fulfilling her mother’s dream.

“She passed away five years ago,” Alysha says. “I asked her if there was anything you could do, what would it be? She said she always wanted to be a trapeze artist. But there was nothing like this around.”

Dare to Fly Trapeze is the last stop for Alysha before she and her son, Benny, leave Asheville.

“The trapeze is a metaphor for my new leap and for letting go of the past,” Alysha says.

Alysha jumps off the platform and swings into a knee hang. She proceeds to forward kick into a back flip, letting the

“The Shape of Things” curiously augmented.

Equality is something that Evelyn maybe does not see when she seeks to change Adam, or does she? That is the question that remains hanging, when at the end, it is revealed that she only showed interest in him to turn him into the focus of her thesis project. Entitled The Shape of Things, the proj-

ect, which showcases his old clothes and sneakers, focuses on how people are able to consciously and subconsciously change to please the people they are in relationships with.

Singer’s stage design also played an important part in the symbolism of the play.

“There are stories that are told on the stage and there are

bar slip from her fingers and lands onto the net, laughing.

Later Alysha says letting go was the hardest part, though she performed the action gracefully.

Even Sadye admits, though she’s worked with a Russian circus trainer and the Runaway Circus, her biggest challenge is turning off her brain and listening.

“There’s this trick I’ve been working on and each time at the end when I’m supposed to let go and do this flip, I always release the bar on my own instead of waiting for Dari’s instruction to let go,” Sayde says.

Participating in Dare to Fly Trapeze, Dari says, takes little coordination, and strength is not a requirement.

“The most important thing you can do is listen,” Dari says.

“If you try to bring your legs up too early you are fighting gravity the whole time so you really have to wait until I tell you to do things in the correct time.”

I reach the top of the ladder and stand on the platform as Sadye positions my body to jump off, toes over the the edge, left arm stretched out holding the side bar. I lean forward with my right hand reaching for the swing. My mind races faster than the adrenaline as I await the command to jump.

How does one let go?

“There is a certain timing to everything,” Dari says.

Photo by Alysha Harris - Contributor Dare to Fly is located on Broadway across from the Eblen Short Stop convenience store.

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different kinds of lighting and scenery,” Emily Crock, a sophomore drama student, said. “For The Shape of Things, we had blocks. That was very symbolic about the psychology they were talking about.”

For Singer, the experiment on his character had harmful but also helpful effects.

“He starts to drop the chame-

leon act, at least consciously, and starts to take on the negative aspects of what it means to be a confident person to the point where eventually, he feels like he doesn’t need anyone,” Singer says. “He can do things by himself. So, it’s like the Icarus effect: go too high to the sun and then you fall down real hard.”

It is, in fact, not really “the shape of things,” or the image we see of someone else, that is the most tangible, but the emotional scars we leave behind underneath that image.

“What’s the big deal about scars anyway?” Evelyn asks Adam during the play. “They signify experience, like rings on a tree.”

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OPINION

Supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders get together at New Mountain to rally, share stories and perform music to unite the people.

Feeling the

B E R N

MATT JOYCE Contributor

This past Sunday, I joined hundreds of others at the New Mountain AVL Bernie Bash to support the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.

People came together to enjoy the musical talents of Free Radio, Josh Phillips, and the Fireside Collective, among others. They ate delicious food at Out of the Blue Peruvian Fusion Cuisine. They informed themselves on the new voting rules at the Democracy Now tent and registered to vote. The primary purpose, however, was Sanders.

Sanders says that he can’t do it alone. He is simply the messenger representing the ideas he feels help everyone but the 1%.

I think what I like most about Sanders is he’s changing what we expect in a politician. For too long, the strategy of establishment politicians has been to make the opponent look bad.

Sanders’ strength is that he

doesn’t need to run negative campaign ads - his ideas speak for themselves.

He focuses on issues such as raising the minimum wage to a livable wage and making corporations pay their fair share.

He wants to end failed, racist mass-incarceration along with drug policies disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic communities. Sanders also strives to end perpetual warfare, getting money out of politics to provide free college tuition to everyone.

His beliefs are also held by a majority of Americans.

For decades, people have had to choose between the lesser of two evils. There’s been the perception that no matter who gets elected, nothing is ever really going to change. Sadly, young people have grown apathetic to a system that neither represents us nor the issues we care most about.

While I have sympathized with this apathy in the past,

Bernie Sanders is different. He has been running on a consistent platform for 30+ years. He isn’t beholden to greedy corporations and reckless banks because he doesn’t want, much less accept, their money. He speaks his mind freely and openly.

No one can deny his authenticity and genuine nature, whether or not they agree with his ideas. He only represents the American people and their collective interests. As a result, he is a threat to the system.

The corporate media, banks, corporations, establishment politicians - they all lose if Bernie changes the system that benefits them.

It’s no secret this 1% disproportionately controls our country. The truth is, they are terribly scared of Bernie Sanders. Not because of him, but because of us. Bernie Sanders is a vessel for the American people.

He’s the medium through which our voice has a place

in Washington, free from the corrupting influence of money.

Only when informed citizens demand change from their politicians will anything get done.

When we the people elect leaders that only represent us, we have a larger voice in our democracy.

There’s no denying our country faces mounting problems.

Climate change, institutional racism, big money in politics and wealth inequality are issues that need to be tackled immediately.

We can’t afford more empty rhetoric and more of the status quo, we need real change now.

I have been encouraged by the rise of Bernie Sanders in such a short time. A grassroots rise that has happened through the internet, through people like you and me – without the support of big money.

If you haven’t done so already, I implore you to critically assess what Bernie Sanders represents (at feelthebern.org)

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OPINION

Love letter to my piece of dirt automobile JUNE BUNCH

Opinion Editor kbunch@unca.edu

Dear Stella, you piece of dirt automobile, You’re the longest relationship I’ve ever been in, don’t give out on me now.

I know I’ve given you troubles, maybe forgotten to change your oil or vacuum your seats, but you’re my adventure comrade.

Come on, sweet seats, take me back.

I can’t stand seeing you with someone else, namely, the mechanic. He can fix you, sure, but he can’t love you like I can. I know every inch and scratch and temperament about you.

I know your side mirror, dangerously held onto the driver’s door with wire, super glue and dried-up pens, and I even know how it got there - because you liked to live on the edge.

Only I can tell that story with you, about how we saved a squirrel’s life but hit a pole as a result.

Or what about your dented, half-functional rims? Scarred from those times that you went off the edge and drove gracefully into the curb? You always thought you were a Jeep in Saturn’s clothing. You are. At least I know that.

I even memorized your scent; burnt coffee, cigarettes and spilt mysteries.

What else do you want from me? What do I have to do to win you back?

We’ve seen America together by now, about 187,563 miles of it, according to you. And you know me better than any non-machine outside in this town. I just want to work things out.

After all, you were my first. Admittedly, once or twice I drove dad’s Mustang, but you’ve been the apple of my eye since I traded in that pesky permit for a license.

You helped me advance from stalling at stoplights to finally taking freeways and long, curvy roads.

Yeah, we started out lazy on flat lands, but we both slowly made our way up mountains. It was always a journey, you, with your horrible mountain pick-up chugging on, and I, with my sweaty fits, running downhill to find you coolant when you were in need of car Gatorade.

Admit it, I’ve always tried to be good to you.

And sometimes, I’d even take you out to the premium gas pump, get you that top-shelf octane.

Even when I wasn’t so great, loving someone else, asking you to chauffeur me to them, you knew you were the only one for me. And I’m sorry for that, by the way, I’m so thankful you’re the forgiving type.

All-in-all, I like to think we’ve perfected the art of partnership: I deal with it when you get heated.

You deal with my spouts of road rage, my disgusting trash storage habits and my panics to escape.

I’ve learned to quench your constant thirst for oil.

You’ve learned to indulge my constant hunger for your gas pedal.

Let’s keep learning things about each other, let’s keep seeing things.

Let’s leave our lives in the dust.

Stop trying to get with the mechanic, get along with me instead.

Here’s to another 100,000 miles.

Love, June.

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ADVICE

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ROAN FARB

Opinion Staff Writer rfarb@unca.edu

You’re always told to treasure being young.

No matter how hard I tried to enjoy childhood, there were always things I wasn’t old enough to do.

I couldn’t wait to grow up -- I’d be able to go wherever I wanted and stay up until whenever. That’s right, once I grew up, I’d have it all.

Because what more is adulthood in the eyes of a nine-year-old than a free pass to make your own rules?

I was excited to micromanage myself, to be my own boss and fully, no, properly immerse myself in the human experience.

Well, time went on and I began a slow and surreal immigration into adult society.

Life isn’t as easy as I’d decided it would be all those years ago.

I constantly have deadlines to meet.

I am consistently exhausted from playing trial and error with my bedtime.

Some days I can’t even tell whether I’m lonely or content.

Sometimes I spend three weeks paying for mistakes that took three seconds to make.

I’m two years into living on my own and I’m still figuring out how to feed myself.

Not one place I’ve applied to in the last month wants to hire me.

I’m expected to write two papers a week thoroughly explaining my informed opinion on random facets of society without offending anyone.

You could argue that I encounter stress pretty often.

One of the first bits of advice I was given during my first semester at UNC Asheville was to, “find a vice and stick to it, whatever

it is.”

During my first semester of college, I struggled a lot with stress management.

I would procrastinate massive assignments until the day before they were due, rush through them, and set myself up to get as anxious as humanly possible.

I took no pride in my work. Assignments became impossibly long-winded, and I was slowly starting to drown in them as the semester progressed.

My biggest obstacle was unloading the accumulated stress from the school week.

I was moving from one procrastinated frustration to the next without blowing off any steam in-between.

I needed something to make me forget about the stress of the week, something that was going to get me through chaining assignments back-to-back.

A vice, as I define it, is a bad or unhealthy habit that brings an effective form of satisfaction.

Vices comes in all shapes and sizes.

My roommate likes to drink energy drinks, particularly NOS and Monster, when he’s stressed out.

My neighbor prefers to chew and spit tobacco after a long day at work.

My mother obsessively cleans and vacuums the house when she’s about to blow.

A girl down the hall from me in the dorms last year had to eat ice cream every time she finished studying.

We all have some weird little tics that help us get by, and I can’t stress how important it is for every college student to find theirs.

There’s much to be said about the art of discovering yourself. You’re not always going to like what you find, and quite often, it’s hard to step out of your initial comfort zone in order to learn more.

Approaching new experiences with open-mindedness and curiosity can truly lead to self-discovery in the right environment.

Try writing a poem about your shitty coworker today.

Create a poorly-drawn comic strip about falling asleep in humanities today.

Pick up a sketchbook and see if it makes you forget about the group assignment you’ve been ignoring all week.

Go for a long drive after your exam.

Even running can become a vice. Anything that helps clear your head and get your mind off of reality can be a vice.

With all this being said, it’s important to indulge in vices with moderation.

Some people pick up high-risk high-reward gambling as their way to blow off steam, using adrenaline from victory streaks to justify higher stakes as their vice gets a better hold of them.

Others turn to alcohol or drugs to escape their duties in society. While the occasional drink doesn’t lead to catastrophe, it’s important to realize how damaging depending on substances to function can be to your body.

Some vices, like stress-eating, are both immediately damaging and harmful down the road.

No matter what kind of person you are or what you happen to do for a living, a vice is a crucial coping mechanism for the adult world.

Many people who don’t blow off steam wind up with heart and health conditions later due to high blood pressure and stress.

While bad habits can’t necessarily be declared good, some can be practiced in a healthy way.

If you’re struggling to find your vice, don’t be discouraged to keep on searching.

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Sustainable living

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Russell Blevins, project manager from MB Haynes, said the installation should be done by mid-October, with the meter change done by Nov. 1. The system will be net-metered, meaning if the panels produce more electricity than needed by the church, it will sell the extra back to Duke Power.

“It makes economic sense to do it,” Blevins said. “The building will be saving a lot on electricity, the parishioners get the advantage of tax credits as part of their donation. Obviously there are environmental benefits, preventing carbon dioxide pollution and stuff like that long term.”

Deke Arndt, a climatologist and parishioner, said he is inspired by the local response to the Pope’s call to action.

“The more power that we can take from renewable sources like solar panels or less power that we consume from fossil fuels,” Arndt said. “We are seeing pretty rapid changes, not just with temperature but changes in the ocean and in the natural ecosystems that make up our planet. It’s going to be challenging to keep up with it and equally challenging to try and slow it down. That’s why it’s a big deal that we did take action.”

The Pope’s encyclical stresses this point, Arndt said. Our actions in our homes and institutions have worldwide consequences.

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“We are evacuating villages in coastal parts of Alaska because the ground has fallen and the wave action is literally eating the shoreline. In the Philippines a lot of our Catholic brothers and sisters have had typhoon after typhoon,” Ardnt said, “and those are occurring over waters that have never been this warm, those are pushing storm surges from oceans that have never been so high. They are affecting people that are poor and don’t have the resources to get out of the way.”

Maloney said he believes that if every church was to do something, it would make a huge difference.

“You got so many churches and schools in the Catholic church,” Maloney said. “What if each one of them just pick something and did it? The difference between make for our kids and the next generation, and the whole world. What a difference it would make.”

St. Eugene’s Care of Creation is hosting other events in honor of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. on Sept. 22, said Bruce Cahoon, a parishioner and adjunct humanities lecturer at UNCA. On Thursday, St. Eugene’s is hosting an event sponsored by Mountain True, where everyone is invited to watch the Pope address the U.S. They will hold a discussion afterward, Cahoon said. On Sept. 28, they will host Grace Campbell, UNCA humanities lecturer, as a guest

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Friends by her character around season seven when her main priority became having babies. From her competitive nature to her OCD, actress Courteney Cox’s character became unlikable and aggravating at times. However, in this episode from the ninth season, she uses her competitive powers for good to defeat her opponent Mike in a game of Ping-Pong. With her frizzy hair and determined attitude, she (and Chandler, who filled in due to her injury in the last set) conquered the table and the island of Barbados with her balls of fury. I would never deny Monica’s cooking, but Chandler went wrong somewhere in marrying her.

5) Rachel Green - “The Last One, Part Two” (Season 10, Episode 18) Of course, I chose the series finale for Jennifer Aniston’s character Rachel. I was screaming for her to get off the plane throughout the second half of

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the last episode like Ross, and the series would not have ended without Ross and Rachel finally getting back together for the last time. I also decided, after finishing the series, that I would never again say anything against Aniston like I had prior to watching Friends.

I only knew Aniston from her string of romantic comedies, and those usually left me feeling like there was something more to be desired. I changed my mind after watching this series because, like Topanga on Boy Meets World, Rachel Green was America’s sweetheart in the 1990s. I officially take back every “Fa va Napoli” I’ve said about her now.

6) Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan - “The One after the Superbowl” (Season 2, Episode 13) If Phoebe, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow, hadn’t married Mike, it should have been Joey and Phoebe getting together by series’ end. It would have been fit-

ting for three pairs of friends to marry each other. I digress, as we’re here for another purpose.

In my mind, that’s how the series really ends, with Joey and Phoebe getting married. JeanClaude van Damme guest stars in this episode (by the way, this show has the best cameo appearances), driving a wedge between Monica and Rachel, who they fight over who gets to date him. Phoebe, using a trick she learned from her past, forces Rachel and Monica to their knees in submission and the fight is over. The line she delivers right after her forceful victory was brilliant. Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is perhaps my favorite of the three female friends, as she is charming in her own unique way and one of the most loyal friends in the group. Although her singing career never quite got off the ground, I’ll always remember the smelly cat.

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Comic series by katelyn schubel

Beat from the street So if you were to describe your personal sense of style, what would you say?

T:“I like to dress in neutral colors. I like to be comfortable and neutral because then anything is open for conversations with everyone. You’re more approachable. I like blacks and white, tan, brown, beige, earthy tones. It’s open for any variety of people to be open and communicate with me. I don’t close off and categorize people.”

M: “I like just to be comfortable, and I like bright colors, just the opposite.”

Do you feel that colors have an energy about them?

T: “I would say most definitely.”

M: “I met this kid once who dressed according to what his color of the day was. He had this almanac that told him all the colors, like one day he wore all blue. I thought that was pretty cool. Farmer’s Almanac, I think, is actually what tells you what your color is that day. If you go to a New Age section in a bookstore, like Spiritualism, I’ve gotten a witches’ Almanac before. They’re pretty cool. They’ve got little spells in them. I’ve had regular farmer’s Almanacs too that I get there. They have crystal Almanacs, which are pretty cool too.

“We went to Downtown Books & News on Lexington, and that was really chill. That’s what we like about here so much, the really relaxed vibes, and everybody’s just really welcome and opening here.

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“That’s kind of how my old town was, Flagstaff.

I met so many who were travelling who were doing it and I thought that would be a really great idea.

That’s so rad, the way people are travelling, I really liked it. I met him and he was a good person, I felt like, to travel with.”

Where did you guys meet?

M: “In that town, Flagstaff. He was downtown in the square, kind of doing this. I was smoking a cigarette, pretty much doing what we’re doing here.”

What would you say inspires you both?

M: “Definitely artists, man, they blow my mind.

Of any kind, musicians, painters, stuff like that. I’m really interested heavily in the creative arts. I paint a lot. He plays music.”

T: “A lot of music. I also like philosophy speakers, like Alan Watts. They inspire me a lot to use my words better.”

M: “Writers are a big influence too, I feel, writers of books, like Ram Dass and Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac, definitely. Jack Kerouac made me want to start travelling in high school, and I didn’t even know what it was then. On the Road and The Dharma Bums are two of my favorite books. They’re really good. I read this book also that I haven’t read before. It’s a prelude to On the Road that he wrote later after The Dharma Bums. It’s, like, Angels in the Fire or something like that. It’s really interesting.

You’ll have to check it out. I saw it at that bookstore actually. Allen Ginsberg is my favorite, man. Allen

Ginsberg can bring me to tears. He’s just heavy.”

“I felt like I was really heavily inspired by the Merry Pranksters and that whole group too, early ‘60s influences. I love Ken Kesey and everything he’s done, their whole group, Jerry Garcia, Stark Naked and Mountain Girl. Then there’s a real-life book about them, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, that is really rad. That’s really cool. They actually put together a film with all the footage they had.

They had taken a video camera with them on the trip but they were unable to put the film and sound together for so many years. About five years ago, they made a documentary that was all footage from the trip. It’s really cool. I think it’s actually called The Magic Trip. It was on Netflix for a really long time. You get to see even Neal Cassidy. He’s driving the bus and going crazy on methamphetamine, just being that guy who’s driving the bus all night long.

You get to see all the different sides to the characters pretty much. I think he’s been romanticized in On the Road as Dean Moriarty.”

What’s next for you guys?

M: “We’re going to a gathering from here, the Rainbow Gathering, that’s going to be in Tennessee.

After that, we should make our way West for winter where it’s warmer and we can find more stones. We actually came here originally to go gem hunting around for blue kyanite but we haven’t had so much luck with really good spots. They’ve just got little mica mines.”

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I have some work to do with them to get them mentally prepared to cover moves and race people.”

Puett said he saw some of his runners really step up their game this race.

“The person who I was most proud of today was Nathan,” Puett says. “He is a walk-on guy who worked his tail off for the past three years and worked really hard over the summer. He had really bought into the program, and I’m really proud of him for that. He stepped into a role that maybe someone a few years ago would not expect of him.”

Collichio, Asheville’s highest finisher, was another person who Puett says impressed him in this race.

Collichio ran his first 8k in almost two years. Collichio red-shirted his freshman year, and last year found himself injured throughout the whole cross country season.

This year, Collichio is back, and stronger and healthier than ever. He is normally known for his strong finishes, but Puett says Collichio’s strong push in the middle miles is what made his race so successful.

LGBT report verbal harassment at school due to their sexual orientation or gender preference.

“My kindergarten teacher is the one who brought it up. She was showing concern,” Davis said. “My parents were accepting, but behind closed doors I heard my mom say that I should probably go see a psychiatrist, but this isn’t something that can’t be changed.”

Davis identifies as a demisexual, intersex individual, she says.

“A demisexual is an individual that seeks out emotional attachment to others rather than a physical one. Intersex means that externally I have a penis, but internally I have a cervix, uterus and ovaries.”

The Youth Suicide Preven-

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“I went out pretty conservative through the first mile,” Collichio says. “I think we hit about 5:04, and then I felt good through the second and third miles, kind of relaxed behind Western Carolina’s first and second guys. After three miles, it seemed like the guy leading the race fell back a lot, and then the guy in second really turned on the jets. It started to string out by the fourth mile, and then there were two A&T guys who made a good push home through the last two miles. Once I saw the finish line I started sprinting, and I finished third.”

On the women’s side, the Bulldogs dominated the meet, finishing first overall.

Sarah Heisner,18:38.30 placed second followed by Kelsie Rubino in third, 18:51.74.

Erin Dalton, 18:54.76, and Casey Greenwalt, 18:58.89, finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Jesse Norman, head women’s distance coach, says he strategized a plan for his runners.

He organized three groups of runners to stay together for the first mile, ensuring they go out at a good pace. After the second mile, the girls split up and ran From page 5

tion estimates nine percent of high school students identify as transgender or actively question their gender preference.

“There is always going to be a certain percentage of the community who oppose equality, and unfortunately youth are perceived as fairly easy targets,” said Jim Faucett, the executive director of Youth Outright, a LGBT+ youth outreach program located in Asheville.

LGBT+ youth account for 30 percent of suicides each year in the United States, according to studies at the University of New Hampshire.

“The biggest problems we see facing queer youth are bullying, isolation, and the lack of support from adults,” Faucett said. “The transsexual commu-

in pairs of two pushing each other to stay together and finish strong.

“It seemed to work pretty well,” Norman says. “It may be something we will stick with.

It’s always nice to get a win.”

Heisner, Asheville’s highest finisher, says she thinks Norman’s plan worked very well.

She was paired with Rubino.

“Kelsie and I worked together and pushed each other to the end,” Heisner says. “I’m really happy I finished second, and I wasn’t expecting it.”

Norman says the women’s training is just getting started, and he is going to start incorporating more speed.

“We still have some work to do,” Norman says. “We are coming out of our base phase right now and we plan to transition into some faster stuff. They ran what they did today off of some tempo’s and 200m hills.”

Norman says he was very proud to see the women’s team finish first, and he is excited for the future.

The next race for the Bulldogs will be at the USC Upstate Invitational, which is the Big South Preview race in Spartanburg, S.C. on Oct. 3. nity has an even harder road to hoe and an even greater need for a safe place.”

Discrimination remains prevalent in our communities, but it is changing.

“My little girl, who just turned two last weekend,” said the 31-year-old. “That means when she is in elementary school it’s not going to be like, your mom and her partner, there won’t be any questions, we’ll just be her parents. We will just be a family, as boring as anyone else’s family.”

Currently, almost 3 million LGBT+ couples have children, according to studies by The Williams Institute.

“When it comes down to it, I only get this life. So it doesn’t matter if I’m nervous or not, I’m going to do what I want to do,” Davis said. “That’s my motto: there is always a sense

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Clarification

Due to concerns expressed about Larisa Karr’s article on transgender equality in Issue 2, the staff of The Blue Banner wanted to offer a clarification. In the article, Beck Martens provided the following quote: “Transgender is a term that encompasses people who get sex change surgery and get top or bottom surgery, then come the people who don’t undergo top or bottom surgery. It is a big umbrella term that encompasses a lot of things.” This is a verbatim transcription of a recorded interview with Martens. The phrase “then come” is the point of contention. We feel Martens’ words, read in context, were not at all meant to suggest a hierarchy of trans individuals. Rather, where Martens said “then come,” we understand they simply meant “and.”

Corrections

In last week’s issue, several photos appeared with incorrect credits. We would like to acknowledge Maddy Swims for her photo of Hyannis House, Ashley Elder for her photo of a synchronized swimming exercise and Larisa Karr for her photo of “Beer Man” in Beat from the Street.

The Blue Banner apologizes for these errors.

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