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NEWS

Section Editor: Emma Alexander nalexand@unca.edu

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

Photo by Lee Elliott, Contributor.

Colorful graffiti covers a Riverside Drive warehouse in Asheville.

Graffiti artists persist despite harsher penalties LEE ELLIOTT

Contributor Asheville’s graffiti taggers continue vandalizing the city despite facing stiff fines and severe legal consequences, according to the Asheville Police Department.

“I don’t think anything will stop them,” said artist and graffiti advocate Kyle Lechner.

“I see it as art, as some unheard people making their mark.”

Lechner, who expresses himself through more traditional forms of art, said graffiti practitioners view tagging as a way of life, channeling their feelings into art for the masses to see.

“There is a difference between vandalism and graffiti writing,” Lechner said.

Zen Sutherland runs a photo blog dedicated to documenting the Asheville graffiti scene,

following some of the most prolific underground painters since he moved to the city 12 years ago. Sutherland said he maintains good rapport with the local graffiti writers.

“When I started out, I wasn’t intending to be the photojournalist for graffiti artists, but it was so fascinating,” Sutherland said. “It’s something that changes constantly. It’s colorful, it’s amazing and it

federal funding for one year, according to Congress.

The bill’s passage was assisted by an activist video claiming to show Planned Parenthood breaking federal law by selling fetal tissue for profit. The oneyear moratorium would allow for investigation of their practices, Republicans argued.

“It’s completely absurd, and the one created this summer have been proven already to be fabricated,” said Paige Johnson, vice president of Planned

Parenthood South Atlantic in Chapel Hill. “At the congressional hearing, they’ve had to issue a report saying that there is no evidence that Planned Parenthood has broken any laws.”

Women sign a consent form prior to the procedure, which includes agreeing to giving blood or tissue to research.

Fetal tissue has been used in research for diabetes, Alzheimer’s, AIDS and cancer.

might not last forever. You can see a great piece and tomorrow it’s gone.”

Sutherland said as graffiti artists become increasingly bold, the graffiti becomes a part of the city, and Asheville business owners want to hire street artists to paint murals on their buildings.

“If you’re doing an actual work of art and putting effort

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Defunding Planned Parenthood could be too costly BECCA ANDREWS News Staff Writer randrew1@unca.edu

With government shutdown an imminent possibility, the House passed a bill in September to defund Planned Parenthood.

The bill, called the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 (HR 3134), passed in the House with a 241-187 vote and will be considered by the Senate soon. It would take away

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ALLANA ANSBRO Contributor aansbro@unca.edu Campus officials say assault is an underreported issue In order to properly address issues of violence, the country needs to put more thought into why people commit violent acts. Peter Haschke, assistant professor of political science, said society needs to first deal with root causes.

Haschke said domestic violence has become more common in society.

“More and more people are becoming aware of domestic abuse,” Haschke said.

Even with increased awareness, there remains a lot of underreporting, he said. The country needs to more actively prevent assault and violence.

“It’s not a reasonable solution to tell women to dress a certain way,” Haschke said.

“That’s not dealing with the problem.”

Violence will always be a societal issue, he said. Haschke said he has not heard anything indicating a decrease in sexual assault. Simply reporting assault does not solve the problem.

“Other than the typical, physical assault, fight, we don’t have those often on this campus,” Boyce said. “Sexual assault is underreported and so we don’t have a really good sense of the frequency of it.”

Charges for assault cases may take place even if the victim is uninjured, Boyce said.

He said the university works with OurVoice and HelpMate to provide resources and advocacy to victims.

“There’s always university police, there’s also always resources available through Title IX, health and counseling provides resources,” Boyce said.

Boyce said Rocky Shield includes a friend watch where students can add three friends

as contacts. If a friend stops responding, contacts receive a Google Maps text message showing their friend’s location.

According to the UNC Asheville Health and Wellness Center’s officials, the campus Health and Counseling Center offers a rape aggression defense class to both women faculty and students.

Lauren Shell, a health and wellness student, said she took a class at the health center during the spring semester.

Courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

According to Shell, the class lasted six weeks and taught awareness and self-defense techniques.

Shell said she heard about the class while taking a women studies course. One of the instructors, Anna Goddard, came to their class and told them about the classes offered.

“Unfortunately, we live in a world where there are a lot of predators and people that prey on women,” Shell said.

Students learned simple

techniques, such as clicking a car remote once instead of twice at night, Shell said.

Shell said she feels confident that she would instinctively know how to react in a dangerous situation, thanks to the class.

“I really encourage everybody to take it, and honestly incoming freshmen should be required to,” Shell said.

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UNC Asheville staff reports effects of underage drinking on campus ELIZABETH WALKER

Contributor Between the 2013 and 2014 school years, arrests and disciplinary referrals on campus relating to liquor law violations decreased, improving UNC Asheville campus life, according to UNCA’s 2015 Security and Fire Safety Report.

“I don’t necessarily think that we have more underage drinking than any other college campus,” said Jay Cutspec, director of the UNCA Health and Counseling Center. “I don’t think it’s an unusually high problem for us, but yes we certainly have it.”

According to the 2013 report, 22 arrests and 82 disciplinary referrals occurred on campus, with those numbers dropping to one arrest and 51 disciplinary referrals on campus in 2014.

“I think that our students are improving at being responsible people,” said Jackie McHargue, UNCA dean of students. “We have an amnesty policy, and that has helped students when they’ve been concerned about their own consumption or the consumption of others, that they have more personal agency in getting more help for themselves or someone else.”

Cutspec said some students use alcohol as a social initiator because it helps them lose inhibitions and become more relaxed.

“I think if your parents drink, it’s something you see your parents do growing up, and then you get older and people start talking about drinking and you want to know what it’s like,” said Grace Van Dyk, a junior political science student from Raleigh. “When you’re younger it’s half experimenting, and as you get older, it’s a lot more social once you realize it’s something you go out and do.”

Van Dyk, 20, said at a younger age, students drink to experiment with boundaries, but as they get older it becomes a social activity to connect people.

“A lot of times students will use alcohol or drugs as coping mechanisms for either personal crises, emotional crises or mental health crises,” McHargue said.

Students often forget they can get caught for violating school policy while absorbed in the party life, McHargue said.

“It depends on how they’re found.

Normally for a first offense we don’t start state citations. They’ll go through an effective decision making class,” McHargue said. “There’s a financial sanction a student will have, and that actually helps fund all of our alcohol and drug programming.”

According to McHargue, if the student was caught previously or causes harm to the community, state citations ensue. She said the more disruptive a student’s behavior, the more likely they are to receive more outreach.

“I think the major impact, obviously, of the alcohol consumption would be that it gets in the way of the student’s academics,” Cutspec said. “That doesn’t even necessarily mean that you have an alcohol problem, it just means if you’re going out and drinking every night or drinking to the point where you’re getting drunk and then hungover, that’s really going to affect your ability to concentrate and your focus on your studies.”

McHargue said students will also drive drunk, not realizing how inebriated they remain until getting in a car accident that can prove fatal to themselves or others.

“The other thing that people don’t often associate with alcohol and binge drinking is the number of injuries that students have,” Cutspec said. “So, on a Monday it’s not uncommon for the Health and Counseling Center to have a fair amount of injuries with people who are really drunk and either tripped or fell out of their bed.”

McHargue said underage drinking doesn’t just affect the students choosing to drink, but their inner circle as well.

“If a student is getting intoxicated frequently, their roommate or suitemates tend to worry, and that worry starts impacting their ability to have a successful time here,” McHargue said.

Cutspec said while concern for their

fellow students shows how much the community cares, it can be unfair for those students not drinking. Instead of dealing with their own problems, they end up sacrificing a major part of their lives to helping their friends when they come home wasted.

“I don’t see it as a huge problem on this campus as I do when I go visit Chapel Hill or somewhere like that, and it’s every night there’s mass amounts of underage drinking,” Van Dyk said. “From my experience, people do it and it obviously has negative effects if it’s not used responsibly.”

There are many programs UNCA staff utilize to spread awareness against underage drinking, which include Brick on the Wall. where students write stories on paper bricks about experiences with alcohol, Responsible Alcohol Decisions Pledges and other non-drinking alternative activities, according to the 2013 Fire and Safety report.

“We try to do a lot of active and passive programming. Student activities do a lot of alternative programming, so you don’t necessarily feel like you have to go out and drink,” said McHargue, an Asheville native. “Asheville is a great town and we have an incredible get-out-and-do-stuff culture that has nothing to do with alcohol, which is awesome.”

According to Cutspec, one program the Health and Counseling Center uses, HALT-BS, helps to prevent underage drinking. He said certain feelings exist that lead some students to drink, which are hungry, angry, lonely, tired, bored or scared, and that HALT-BS helps students to control the urge to drink when experiencing these feelings.

“It’s really more than offering a specific program on alcohol,” Cutspec said. “It’s creating a community where people are involved and connected so that they don’t necessarily feel like they have to binge drink, that there are other ways to have fun and meet people.”

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SPORTS

Section Editor: Harrison Slaughter jslaught@unca.edu

UNCA vs. Blue Hose

Photo by Chris Jones - Sports Writer

Caroline Houser pushes forward against Presbyterian.

Women’s soccer team stands victorious over Blue Hose CHRIS JONES

Sports Staff Writer cjones5@unca.edu The UNC Asheville women’s soccer team put together great offense and defense on a rainy night Sept. 30 to earn their way to a 3-0 Big South Conference victory over the visiting Blue Hose of Presbyterian College.

With the win, UNCA moves to 2-1 in Big South conference play.

Michelle Demko, in her fifth

year as the head coach of the UNCA women’s soccer team, said her players played well in the rain.

“It was a hard-fought game tonight and we pulled off the win in conference play against a good team,” Demko said.

“We played to the game plan and we moved the ball well.

We communicated well and our lines were consistent. That was a really big part of why we were successful tonight against Presbyterian. Thanks to everyone on the team for giv-

ing energy, playing hard, and the fans for coming and giving support tonight.”

The Bulldogs controlled the game from the start, when Courtney Naber, sophomore midfielder, netted in a goal in the ninth minute. Caroline Houser, sophomore forward, scored a goal in the 30th minute of the first half, Houser’s fourth of the year. Paige Trent, junior forward, assisted on both of the first half goals.

“I just got the ball to my great teammates and they put

the ball in the net, simple as that,” Trent said.

The second half of the game went much of the same, as the Bulldogs controlled the ball on both sides. In the 69th minute of the game Justine James, Asheville freshman forward, knocked the ball into the net for a goal from an assist by teammate Naber. This was James’ sixth goal of the season, and she leads the team in goals.

“Tough game tonight. All in all, our team played hard and played hard till the end. We

played a good team tonight, they played a great game and we couldn’t replicate what they did. We just have to sure up some things on offense and defense and attempt to do better the next game and the game after,” said Brian Purcell, Presbyterian College women’s soccer head coach.

UNCA moves to 8-3 and 2-1 in Big South Conference play.

Presbyterian moves to 5-6 and 1-2 in the Big South Conference play.

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Bulldog goes Globetrotting JASON PERRY A&F Staff Writer jperry1@unca.edu

At this point in time, it all seemed to come to an end.

“I had to come to terms with the fact that I may not play again or even be able to walk, run and jump normally,” said John Williams with a tone that contrasted his globetrotter, happy-go-lucky personality.

Basketball had shaped Williams’s whole life. He has won championships, received countless awards, broke school records and traveled the world playing basketball.

Discoveries are made when one seems to lose everything.

“This was my time where I got to know God again,” said Williams, eyes focused, voice calm, confident.

Everything got better.

Williams said basketball has

always been in his life. He is a coach’s son who grew up with a ball in his hands.

“It is home for me,” Williams said. “It is something I have loved ever since I was a little boy, and I can’t keep away from it.”

Williams went to a college-preparatory boarding school, Christchurch, in Virginia, for his last two years of high school. He said it was one of the best boarding schools in the nation.

According to Williams’ official biography for UNC Asheville, he was named Virginia Prep League MVP while attending Christchurch.

“It really wasn’t a big deal to me as much as it was for us to get a Prep League Championship,” Williams said. “That was much more important to me than individual awards.”

Photo courtesy of UNC Asheville Athletics.

Globetrotter John Williams used to play for the Bulldogs.

Williams said it was all about buying into the coach’s training program, a theme he kept through college.

Omar Ahmad, strength and

conditioning coach at UNCA, recalls Williams’s attitude towards training.

“I would say one of the biggest things was that he bought

Volleyball team puts up fight against Eagles CHRIS JONES

Sports Staff Writer cjones5@unca.edu The UNC Asheville women’s volleyball team rallied back to win the third set after dropping the first two Friday night, but the Eagles came right back and snatched up the fourth set to stop any hopes of another comeback in Asheville.

“Tonight was a very exciting match to watch and was very competitive, lots of back and forth action tonight,” said Frederico Santos, Asheville women’s volleyball head coach. “We started the match pretty slow and lost the first couple sets. So we had to play catch up and we came back to win the third, but couldn’t get another set to bring it to a fifth set. We weren’t consistent and that’s what eluded us from a victory, and Winthrop’s great play tonight. The fans tonight were great, and are always fantastic here at the Justice Center.

That’s why its a hard place to play and

it gives us an advantage and we would like to keep it that way.”

Asheville has dropped the opening two sets in their past two matches. They forced a fifth set as they rallied down from 0-2 before falling in the fifth set and losing the match against the Liberty Flames Saturday. On Friday night, Winthrop ran up to a two set to zero lead over the Bulldogs, winning the sets 25-18 and 25-16 respectively.

Asheville won the third set in convincing fashion 25-17 and looked like they regained their confidence and were ready to turn things, but Winthrop had other plans.

The fourth set was a back-and-forth affair as both teams battled to capture the set, Asheville trying to even up the sets and take it to a fifth set, and Winthrop trying to close to game out early.

There were 12 tied scores and three lead changes in the fourth set. In the end, Winthrop’s attack was too much and the Eagles were victorious and won the fourth and final set 25-20 and winning

the match three sets to one.

“Great game tonight, very proud of the effort brought tonight by our girls.

They were very resilient, communicated and displayed great teamwork and were aggressive and that was the key tonight for our team. We started off the match well and that is always a good thing and also preferred, because it causes us to stay on the game-plan and not deviate and have to change things on the fly to make a quick comeback. UNC Asheville played a great game tonight, and it was very competitive, like always,” said Bruce Atkinson, Winthrop women’s head volleyball coach.

Asheville senior Katie Davis had 19 assists today in the game. Cameron Pryor and Madison Vaughn had three block assists each and Asheville had 12 total in the match. Christine Lakatos had a team-high nine kills and Catherine Fischer collected eight.

Lourdes Rosario, Winthrop freshman, posted a career-high 23 kills, seven digs and three blocks. Nikki Drost

into the program,” Ahmad said.

“That led him to become the athlete that he was as far as the sustainability of his talent.”

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scored 16 kills and Emma Weakland had 11. Maria Volstad tallied a teamhigh 19 digs, while Madilyn McCarty posted a double-double in the match with 52 assists and 11 digs.

“We had a lot of impressive performances tonight out of our team, and overall our whole team played great.

Madilyn played awesome tonight and she helped us big time with her production and was a big part of the reason we came out with the victory tonight in Asheville,” said Roberta Santos, Winthrop women’s assistant volleyball coach.

With the win, Winthrop moved to 8-11 and 3-1 in the Big South Conference. UNCA moved to 9-7 and 2-2 in Big South Conference play on the season.

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SPORTS stats

By Harrison Slaughter, Sports Editor

Katie Tuorto maneuvers the ball through rainy conditions at a game against Presbyterian.

Photo by CHris jones, Sports Staff Writer

Volleyball Oct. 2 UNC Asheville Radford University

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Women’s Soccer Oct. 2 Goals by Period Liberty University 1-0 UNC Asheville 0-0

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Oct. 7 Goals by Period Final UNC Asheville 1-0 1 Charleston Southern University 0-0 0 Oct. 10 Goals by Period Radford University 1-0 UNC Asheville 1-1

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into it, then it’s definitely art,” said Michael Evola, UNC Asheville art student.

Evola said Asheville’s graffiti enhances the city’s aesthetic and provides a brilliant backdrop. He also understands how it might irk local property owners.

Not everyone appreciates the illegal artwork. Fed up with the amount of graffiti in the city, the Asheville city government set up a program aimed at stopping what it sees as a wave of rampant vandalism, according to Department of Public Works officials.

The anti-vandalism program, 1-2-3 Graffiti, commenced in 2014 with a $300,000 budget from the city and an anonymous donor. It established stricter fines for offenders, temporarily funded vandalism

“I’m a big proponent of free walls. I work with businesses to offer free walls for a month, if the wall is fixed at the end.”

Zen Sutherland cleanup and connected property owners with licensed graffiti removal contractors, according to the Asheville city government.

During the course of the program, 1-2-3 Graffiti funded contractors to remove 259 graffiti tags from area businesses and properties, according to the Department of Public Works.

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tinued the program Sept. 30 and after more than a year of graffiti removal, the city allocated roughly $70,000 toward vandalism cleanup, according to 1-2-3 Graffiti officials.

Aside from harsh municipal fines and mandatory community service, the North Carolina state legislature recently passed a bill specifically criminalizing graffiti, meaning repeat taggers may face felony charges.

Under the bill, first-time offenders would be charged with a class one misdemeanor for small-scale graffiti, while large-scale graffiti writers or repeat offenders would be charged with a class H felony and face mandatory minimum jail sentences.

“I don’t think that graffiti writers are going to be scared off by felony charges and

facing jail time, but it will probably mess up some of their lives,” Lechner said.

Under federal law, anyone found guilty of a felony loses the right to vote, hold public office or become an elector in the Electoral College. Felons are also prevented from attending major universities and colleges and from owning firearms.

Sutherland said felony charges may dissuade a potential graffiti artist, but there are other more proactive ways to channel their artistic energy.

He suggests free walls provided by local property owners as blank canvasses and legal outlets for graffiti writers are a smarter solution to the city’s graffiti problem. With open mural space available, Sutherland said, graffiti writers

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have a place to practice their art without trespassing and vandalizing.

“I’m a big proponent of free walls. I work with businesses to offer free walls for a month, if the wall is fixed at the end,” Sutherland said.

According to Graffiti Hurts, an organization dedicated to stopping graffiti, most graffiti taggers consist of young teenage males seeking a creative outlet not provided to them through traditional means, such as the art classes that turned Kyle Lechner into a professional artist.

“I never believed that tagging someone else’s property was the right thing to do, but if it’s the only place to get your message out, then you’ve got to do whatever to get it out there,” Lechner said.

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Planned Parenthood Fetal tissue donations to medical programs are common in Washington State, California and Oregon, Johnson said.

The bill defunds health clinics unless they certify that they will cease performing abortions during that year’s time, according to Congress. Marcia Ghidina, an associate professor of sociology, said she disagrees with this policy.

“It just seems punitive, we don’t like abortions so we’re going to wipe out the funding,” Ghidina said, “when the aftereffects of that could be more unplanned pregnancies and then more need for abortion.

There could be more children born who have to go up for adoption.”

Some of the bill’s supporters say Planned Parenthood profits off of the procedure. Tax dollars should not be funding it, according to Susan B. Anthony List, an organization for prolife women. They believe that Planned Parenthood lacks regulation and women have other

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options for testing, contraception and general care.

Planned Parenthood receives an estimated $450 million in annual funds from the government. Medicaid provides $390 million, less than $1 million comes from the Children’s Health Institution Program and Medicare, and the remainder comes from the National Family Planning Program under Title X, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates $235 million will be saved if the bill passes, but the number depends heavily on what Planned Parenthood patients would do. If they use Medicaid coverage elsewhere, the amount saved would decrease. There is also a possibility that Planned Parenthood would replace the funding with nonfederal sources.

“We’ve never rolled back our education programs. We will continue to fund education programs,” Johnson said. “We will find organizations that

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Williams grabbed UNCA’s attention early. He said former head coach, Eddie Biedenbach, would come watch his high school games.

Williams said Asheville’s team felt like a family, so it was an easy decision for him.

Success followed in Asheville.

“You knew he was a different level athlete than what we would typically see, physically,” Ahmad said, recalling watching Williams play for the first time.

“I would do anything the coaches asked me do,” Williams said. “I trusted wholeheartedly in our system, and we got a Big South Conference Championship.”

Brett Carey, assistant basketball coach at UNCA, said he

knew from the beginning that Williams had the ability to go far in basketball.

“John was good. He always listened, he was coachable, never had a problem with him,” Carey said. “He always did what he was asked to do, and he always did it with a great attitude.”

Williams has not only won a Big South Conference Championship, but he said he was also invited to the Final Four slam dunk competition.

Williams said he finished second and got national attention.

“I got over a dozen phone calls from agents that were trying to see what I wanted to do after college and represent me,” said Williams.

Williams received offers to

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step up and support the work that we do. We’re not going to stop providing our effective programs.”

Johnson said an attempt at defunding in North Carolina happened in 2011, but the court ruled in their favor.

Amy Lanou, chair and associate professor of health and wellness, said she sees flaws with the reasoning behind the bill.

“It’s so short-sighted. We aren’t willing as a culture to sufficiently fund single parents with children whether they wanted them or not. If we’re not willing to fund birth control and we’re not willing to fund abortions and we’re not willing to fund parents who don’t have enough money to support themselves and their children, to me those pieces don’t fit together,” Lanou said. “We’ve got to go one way or the other.

We either have to fund birth control, or abortions, or babies.

My preference would be all three.”

Lanou said she also supports Planned Parenthood because of their support of transgender and gender-nonconforming in-

dividuals. Planned Parenthood can provide hormone therapy for those who are transitioning. In her own experience as a queer-identified person, Lanou said she thinks Planned Parenthood provides more considerate care for those who are queer-identified, compared to privately-owned clinics.

“When I was in Washington D.C., I went to a large medical clinic there just for a yearly Pap smear and exam. They asked me three questions, ‘Are you sexually active, yes, are you using birth control, no, do you want to be pregnant, no.’

And they didn’t ask anything else,” Lanou said. “I’m just like, ‘All right, three red flags, not a single one of them followed up on. No attention paid to the needs of people who might be sexually active who aren’t in the realm of worried about pregnancy prevention.’

They didn’t even ask about sexually transmitted disease or safer sex.”

Planned Parenthood offers mostly preventive care, in the form of birth control methods and sex education. Johnson said two programs are offered

in North Carolina, with 96 percent effectiveness. One, in Wilmington, focuses on helping teen moms finish high school before having a second child. The other, in Fayetteville, is a primary prevention program that provides education on abstinence, birth control, STDs and effective communication.

Ghidina said she thinks the bill against Planned Parenthood is representative of how the government has become largely ideological.

“A lot of the public isn’t very informed,” Ghidina said.

“Ideology rules politics more than any reasonable assessment and negotiation about what the common good is.”

Lanou, who teaches a health and sexuality class, said the legislation has a lot to do with a general fear of reproductive processes.

“Think about all of the jokes and sort of paranoia around menstrual cycles, or with pregnancy,” Lanou said. “There’s a fear of the power of it and what’s seen as unpredictability and emotionality.”

play overseas, but he said his choice fell with the Harlem Globetrotters.

“It was a family type of environment, and I just didn’t see that, from my experience, with the teams that wanted me to play for them overseas,” Williams said. “It was an easy choice.”

Williams said he toured over 40 different countries, visited all 50 states, and played for three and a half years.

“For me, travelling around the world, the world is a secular place,” Williams said. “I was a part of that world.”

Midway through Williams’ career, he said he was invited to compete in American Ninja Warrior.

Williams said this was his crucible.

He tore his ankle on the show, and the doctor told him there was a 95 percent chance he could never play again.

Williams said this was when he got to know God. He realized basketball is not everything.

“I had lost sight of that, and I started to have conversations with God, and it didn’t drive

me crazy anymore,” Williams said with a smile on his face.

“I understood that it is not everything, God is everything to me.”

Sidebar Small things in life often lead to great things.

It started with a game of basketball for John Williams, and it led to him discover what it meant to be free.

Williams had been traveling the world as a Harlem Globetrotter, but the one tour that stood out for him was the military tour.

“We would play for the troops, and it definitely gives you a perspective on things to realize how free we are here and how we take that for granted sometimes,” Williams said. “Just how all the things we hold dear here on our soil is overlooked.”

Williams said it was eye-opening going to the base hospitals.

He recalls making a wounded soldier smile. The soldier was recovering from having a leg blown off in an explosion.

Williams said the hospitals would have the American flag hanging from the ceiling, so soldiers would be able to wake up and know they were safe.

“We actually saw a guy come in and he was hysterical,” Williams said. “When he came in and saw that flag everything came back to grips. He knew he was home.”

The game of basketball was able to take John Williams all over the world and see first-hand the sacrifices it takes to be free.

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Section Editor: Larisa Karr lakarr@unca.edu

The best pulp prom you’ve never been to: Shannon and the Clams review

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

Oakland, California garage-punk trio Shannon and the Clams brought their lo-fi, doo-wop inspired sound to the Mothlight in West Asheville Thursday night.

The band features Shannon Shaw on bass and vocals, Cody Blanchard on guitar and vocals and Nate Mahan on drums and vocals. The tour was in support of this year’s full-length effort Gone by the Dawn.

Asheville punkabilly outfit Charlie Megira and the Bet She’an Valley Hillbillies opened the show in an exciting fashion, sharing their sporadic, writhing guitar riffs and upbeat snare hits in front of an enthusiastic crowd.

The band is comprised of Charlie Megira on guitar and vocals, Lance Willie on drums and The Dead Girl on bass.

Megira grew up in the Bet She’an Valley in Israel near the Jordan River.

“Charlie Megira was a really solid surf band,” said Alex Smith, literature student at UNC Asheville.

A friend of Smith’s was planning to open for Shannon and the Clams, but that fell through. Smith said he was glad he decided to attend the show anyway.

Megira and Clams front woman Shannon Shaw became acquainted via MySpace after they both appeared on an Italian compilation CD, Shaw said. Willie and Shaw previ-

ously played music with Philip Sambol and Ty Segall in a rock ’n’ roll cover band called The Togas in 2012.

According to an official biography, the band was created for The Bruise Cruise, a garage rock theme cruise.

Sixties psycho-rock four piece Cool Ghouls from San Francisco also opened for Shannon and the Clams. Their influences include “tall cans, 40s, blunts, parties, guns, 40s and crime,” according to the band.

During the Hillbillies’ set, my eyes fixated on the blonde, pin-up style half-bob hairstyle in front of me.

I quickly realized this was Shaw herself and became plagued by internal turmoil -- should I shower Shaw with words of praise in a total fangirl moment or professionally request a quick interview? I did both.

To my complete and utter shock, Shaw obliged.

We met up after the Hillbillies’ set in the back of the Mothlight near the restrooms.

Shaw said she became mesmerized by Asheville’s beauty when the band played a show in 2013 at the defunct Emerald Lounge, now the location of Tiger Mountain.

“It’s a small town but is well balanced with culture and art,” Shaw said. “That’s why I like it.”

Shaw also sings, plays bass and writes for queercore punk band Hunx and His Punx and explained how much more of an intimate experience Shan-

non and the Clams is.

“Hunx was a space where I could be more of a character and I felt more comfortable experimenting with an onstage persona,” she said. “It felt more like performance and humor, whereas this is deeply personal.”

A very intense breakup inspired most of the new album’s lyrical content, she said.

“It’s hard for me to do Shannon and the Clams; it’s just draining and scary and I get anxiety before every show and really stress about it because it is so personal,” Shaw said.

“But, I like doing it and it’s very fulfilling. It feels like a shared experience with the audience.”

“Gone by the Dawn” is filled with metaphors to ‘the dawn,’ interpreting whether or not dawn is a beginning or an ending, Shaw said.

The band’s van blew up days before their tour was set to begin, stranding them in Washington until they could purchase a new one, Shaw said.

They drove the new van to Oakland and had a mechanic check it out, who informed the band the van needed $9,000 worth of repairs.

“So we dumped all this money that we really didn’t have, we had to borrow it, into fixing the van,” Shaw said. “Our mechanic was like ‘don’t worry; this van is good for years now.’ We drove five hours and it blew up on the Grapevine, which is this notorious highway on the way to Los Angeles.”

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Toy store owner and skilled yo-yo Locals find escape aficionado runs a sanctuary in Black Mountain for the imagination “We have lots of arts KATIE CROOKS

MATT MCGREGOR

A&F Staff Writer kcrooks@unca.edu

A&F Asst. Editor mmcgrego@unca.edu

An upright bass keeps up with the random off-beat of percussion instruments backing scat singing set to a story about a 9-foot dragon and a 4-foot boy.

The dragon threatens to eat the boy, and the boy must defend himself.

In this age-old story of the underdog, the boy’s only weapon is his imagination.

“The dragon is big and mean and scary. The boy has the advantage: dragon is imaginary,” sings local musician Billy Jonas through the store speakers. “Be-dop-bop.”

The afternoon music of choice plays at The Toy Box on Merrimon Avenue, where inanimate toys come to life in the secret world of the playful mind.

“It’s hard to get kids to use their imaginations today. They are funneled from one program to another, whether it be sports or dancing or music. And they don’t have the opportunity to use that imagination,” said The Toy Box owner Gary Green.

“In their down time they play with electronics. If they have a toy it is an action figure based on a movie. The electronics they get today aren’t geared toward the imagination; they are geared toward immediate response. It’s OK for occupying time but it does not utilize your mind’s ability to create something.”

The significant lack of technologically-advanced toys and video games creates a sense of emerging from a time machine built with Legos and into a toy store in the 1950s.

“Kids aren’t learning anything from video games other than hand-eye coordination.

They’re also training their mind in a very fast response

Photo by Matt McGregor, A&F Asst. Editor.

The Toy Box owner Gary Green practices his yo-yo skills.

in which human life does not reflect,” Green said. “For example, if a child plays video games at an early age when his or her brain is adapting to the environment, their brain is adapting to a fast-paced video and life doesn’t work like that, so when they get to school they can’t sit still. They create more

problems than they solve.”

Larissa Matthews said she comes here because she appreciates the selection of toys.

Her son searches for a space costume to put on their soonto-be traumatized speckled hunting dog.

“They have carefully chosen toys that are good for the imag-

Outside of the Black Mountain Visitor’s center, a white banner boasts the slogan, this little town rocks.

But instead of rocking like a Rolling Stone, Black Mountain rocks like a rocking chair. In front of the banner, an oversized red rocking chair rests like a monument to the town’s quirky, laid-back vibe.

The slogan is a perfect fit, the atmosphere of the town somehow emulates the relaxing, reliable, back and forth of a rocking chair.

“Black Mountain is still a small community, so people like the small town charm,” says Craig Cooley, executive director of the Black Mountain Visitor’s Center. “We have lots of arts and crafts, we have music venues, we have three breweries out here; so you’ll find everything in Black Mountain that you’ll find in Asheville, just on a smaller scale.”

The quaint mountain town, located approximately 20 minutes east of Asheville, is a destination in its own right.

Black Mountain has managed to retain a Mayberry-like quality that seems to be rare these days. But don’t get the impression that Black Mountain is completely stuck in time, new businesses such as Czech chain Dobrá tea and numerous art galleries help to maintain the town’s balance of old fashioned and modern.

“The general nature of the town has not changed much at all,” says Ann Lamb, who has lived in the area for twenty years. “It’s still very cozy and warm, and lots of people that know each other.”

On a cloudy fall day, Black Mountain is a refreshing break from Asheville. While it may be small, Black Mountain offers enough new scenery,

and crafts, we have music venues, we have three breweries out here; so you’ll find everything in Black Mountain that you’ll find in Asheville, just on a smaller scale.”

Craig Cooley

shops and restaurants to cure any stir-crazy mind, making it a popular destination for day trips.

Around town, colorful, mismatched benches sprinkle the sidewalks, like little reminders that this town was made for relaxation. Old, well-kept brick buildings are nearly enveloped by the mountain scenery. It looks more like a Thomas Kinkade painting than a town only 30 minutes east of UNCA, but that’s just part of its charm.

According to Cooley, a Black Mountain native, the architecture of the town hasn’t changed much.

“In Black Mountain you feel like you’re in the mountains, in Asheville, you feel like the mountains are way out there,” Cooley says. “We really feel like we’re in the mountains in Black Mountain, and that’s one reason why people like to come here.”

At the Black Mountain Visitor’s center, a small silver hand clicker ticks off every single tourist that enters the building.

While there’s a case in the corner stuffed with pamphlets, the local volunteers who work in the Visitor’s Center seem eager to offer advice and share their town with guests.

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Turning of the Maples

By Megan Authement, Contributor - mautheme@unca.edu

The Turning of the Maples will take place on the UNC Asheville Quad in October to celebrate the changing of the seasons.

Every fall, the Alumni Association hosts the event to usher in the arrival of fall on campus.

Kevan Frazier, former associate vice chancellor for Alumni Relations and creator of the event, said this tradition began in 2005 after stunning fall foliage the previous year, which featured bright orange sugar maples.

In order to choose the best possible day for the seasonal tradition, the event can be put on with a day’s notice so all weather conditions can be closely monitored as the leaves change, Frazier said.

“In October, I would definitely go out every morning on my way into the office to look at the Quad to gauge when the leaves were going to

be at their peak,” said Brian Davis, director of university events.

The event provides a way for all members of the UNCA campus community to socialize while enjoying nature, Davis said. Those in attendance receive leaf-shaped cookies and apple cider, hot or cold depending on the weather. This year, apples are on to the menu, incorporating the campus emphasis on healthy living.

All members of the campus community are invited to the Turning of the Maples. Davis said the event is advertised largely via email and, to increase attendance, takes place during class transitions in the afternoon.

“This year, we’re predicting a really beautiful fall,” Frazier said with a smile. “This could be the year of the translucent sugar maples.”

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beat from the Street Erica Lauren Jones

Colt

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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.

Erica Lauren Jones, biology student/artist/ ukulele player, originally from Colorado Springs

How would you describe your style?

“Sort of folk-punk, I guess, whatever the fuck, $10 boots. I just got them on sale.”

You have voodoo dolls attached to you. Do they have any significance?

“This is Mini-Me. I mean, you know, check it. It’s got the mohawk and everything. I used to have a zombie and it fell off. He’s lost in the void somewhere and I don’t know where he is. This guy’s got headphones so I thought that was pretty rad. I just pick them up places.”

“I kind of like the whole idea of impermanence and the fact that nothing lasts forever, so if I lose something, I’m just like, you

Colt, busker, originally from Texas

How would you describe your style?

“I got this patch at a rainbow gathering, the A-cola Rainbow Gathering. It’s in the Florida, Appalachia A-cola area.”

Do you go to a lot of Rainbow Gatherings?

“Yeah. I got off the rainbow trail though so I haven’t gone to any recent ones but this year I’ve been to six or seven different Rainbow Gatherings.

The Rainbow Gathering is very spiritual. It’s a spiritual event with drum circles.”

So usually people just travel from Rainbow to Rainbow? “Yeah, because I like being in the woods myself. It gives me a chance

know, fuck it. It’s kind of the whole point, right?”

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

“Punk rock bitch. OK, I think that’s my final answer. I’m walking that in right now. I just want to be a punk rock bitch. Fuck being a millionaire. Fuck money, in general.”

If you were to cite any inspiration, any musician, writer, artist, anything really that inspires you, what would you say?

“Days N’ Daze. They are a folkpunk, homeless, travelling band. I don’t know much about them biowise. I just like their music a lot.”

What are you doing in Asheville? Are you just hanging out for a few days?

“No. I kind of live here. I go to UNCA, actually, but I prefer to travel around. We’re actually going to California for the summer.

We’re going to hitchhike back

to play music without having to worry about eating because they have kitchens that feed you.”

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

“Well, everybody says that I look like Jack Sparrow, so I’ll be Jack Sparrow, schwaggy Sparrow. Schwaggy Jack Sparrow.”

If you were to cite an inspiration, like a writer, artist or movement that you look up to and that influences you in your daily life, what would you say?

“I would say it would actually be The Devil Makes Three. I’m actually going to stay in Asheville until they play and then I’m going to leave and go somewhere else.

I play music wherever I go so I’m just going to be playing

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music here for the next couple of weeks.”

What would you say is next for you?

“Just travel around. I don’t like staying anywhere. I feel like I’ve stayed here too long because I don’t usually stay in a place for two weeks unless it’s at a gathering in the woods. I’m always going somewhere.”

What’s been the craziest experience on the road so far for you?

“The fact that the cops really don’t like people not having jobs and they like to harass me, you know.”

Have you had any run-ins with the Asheville PD? “Yeah, I just had a run-in last night. I was just with a friend and they said, ‘We want to see who you are,’ try to keep tabs on me like I was

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Arts & Features TV SHOW Review

Once Upon A Time Once Upon a Time conjures a sprawling epic for all fairy tale lovers review

grew older. The lessons they taught us

MICHAEL O’HEARN resonated within our souls as children Social Media Editor mohearn@unca.edu

As children, each one of us was exposed to the library of fascinating stories involving charming princes, rebellious children never wanting to grow up and a princess who just wanted to go to a ball.

These stories stuck with us as we

and inspired us to emulate the heroes of these fairy tales in later years.

Five years ago, the creators of ABC’s Lost were coming off the success of the island series and wanted to play their hand at another genre-bending series.

In comes the intriguing saga of all our childhood fairy tales combined. On this show, Hook could run into Rumplestiltskin. Maleficent could have a run-in with Ursula and the Little Mermaid.

The possibilities were endless with

the birth of Once Upon a Time, so long as ABC owned the rights to the characters. Because ABC is the offspring of Disney, no problem with that.

However, like the books this show is inspired by, Once Upon a Time is starting to run into a problem of its own.

The show has a shelf life and the end is approaching fast. The show’s fifth season has taken an interesting twist, changing the main protagonist to a villain to drive the plot forward, but I feel like even that could send the series into a nose-dive.

This became evident to me during the Frozen run of episodes during last season. Yes, Disney capitalized on their massive profit from the hit movie and relayed it to fit their TV show.

But it got boring, and quickly. No amount of references to the movie in the form of lines ripped from the animated film’s script could save it.

Yes, I chuckled every time a line was mentioned, but it got me worried this show would become lazy.

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Student finds success and self in Asheville KAYTEE WEIDENFELD Contributor

At a young age, Christiana Deloach considered herself the weird girl.

She never felt like she fit in.

Around five years old was when she knew she liked girls.

From a strong Christian family, she wasn’t able to be herself, and felt the need to hide her true identity.

“I always thought there was something wrong with me,” she said. “And that’s why people don’t like me, even my family.”

She was bullied in school for it.

Several cousins she went to school with didn’t even want

her telling people they were related.

She had no one.

In her 20s, she says she turned to alcohol for acceptance. She was shy at the time, and drinking helped her loosen up.

Christiana joined the Air Force when she was 18 years old. But she says the desire to be accepted led to buying friendships and lovers.

While in the military, she says she would drink, party, dress provocatively, giving her friends money, even buying them things just so they would like her. She was able to hide her bad habit for a while, but not forever.

She was asked to go to

rehab.

Christiana says she learned about the 12-step process and other tools to fight her addiction. She also participated in group therapy, her least favorite.

But Christiana says she was still drinking. She says she was kicked out of rehab twice because of it.

Also during her service the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, instituted by Bill Clinton’s regime, was the United States policy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender service members.

“Back when I was in, if someone suspected you of being gay, bisexual, homosexual, whatever, all they

had to do was tell someone,” Christiana said. “All they had to do was gather evidence and you were out.”

She says at the time she was living with her girlfriend, and a guy she worked with saw them together one day and threatened to tell their commanding officer.

She didn’t know what to do.

If they had questioned any of their friends, she says they would have found out. She was worried about getting a dishonorable discharge, but he never told.

Christiana served in the Air Force for 10 years.

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Photo courtesy of Christiana Deloach.

Christiana Deloach says she maintains an optimistic outlook on life.

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Shannon and the Clams The band caught a ride with a tow truck for the final two hours of their trip to Los Angeles and ended up having to rent an expensive van.

Two days later, the van was broken into while parked in a secured lot in Las Vegas.

“They smashed a huge window and stole anything personal we left behind,” Shaw said. “I guess we were naïve.

We fuck up all the time. We’re constantly getting into pickles like this.”

The band spent their only day off so far this tour replacing stolen items, talking with their insurance company, getting the van window replaced and cleaning out glass, Shaw said.

“Since then, somebody saged the inside of our van, and all of our shows have sold out,” Shaw said. “Out of 17 shows, 15 have sold out. I’m gonna knock on wood, but things feel really good right now.”

Thursday’s show at the Mothlight was no different,

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adding to their list of sell-outs this tour.

Shannon and the Clams were met with screams and applause as they finally took stage.

Shaw rocked a black nylon apron over a black shirt, skirt and tights. She accessorized with white flats and glittering gold suspenders while sporting her signature cat eye makeup.

She slapped her matching glittering gold bass with fiery fervor, sliding her fingers down the bass neck in an effortless display of pure talent.

Blanchard donned a blue Oxford button-down shirt paired with a sparkling gold bowtie and blazer and a pencil moustache worthy of making even Freddie Mercury jealous.

Shaw’s raw and powerful vocals were complemented

by Blanchard’s raspy croons, creating harmonies reminiscent of ‘60s doo-wop girl groups the Supremes and the Ronettes but with a touch of grimy garage punk.

The band created an

atmosphere perfect for a ‘60s punk prom, even provoking a few couples in the audience to cut a rug together in a sea of dance moshing.

“I enjoyed their set,” Smith said. “I could tell they really enjoy performing.”

Erika Kuntar, server at Heiwa Shokudo in downtown Asheville, said she first saw Shannon and the Clams four or five years ago at a house show in her hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona.

The show was in a friend’s “crowded, black mold-ridden, dark and damp, claustrophobia-inducing basement,” Kuntar said.

She said she has been a fan ever since.

“I am so stoked that she is still just as enthusiastic as she was all those years ago, playing tiny punk houses and probably not making a ton of money,” Kuntar said.

Photo by Megan authement, winner of fall photography landscape cover contest

Black Mountain tourists are from larger cities within 2-4 hours of Black Mountain who are coming for day trips.

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“People like the town, the stores, the friendliness,” says Lamb.

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

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

Folge 17: Die Alpen Die Alpen sind das höchste Gebirge in Europa.

Sie sind 1200 Kilometer lang und zwischen 150 und 250 Kilometer breit. Alpenländer sind Österreich, Italien, Frankreich, Schweiz, Deutschland, Slowenien, Liechtenstein und Monaco (geordnet nach ihrem Anteil an der Gesamtfläche). Ab dem 12. Jahrhundert liefen über die Alpen wichtige Handelsrouten, die Salzstraßen, auf denen, wie der Name sagt, Salz befördert wurde. 1475 wurde dann der erste Tunnel gebaut um die Überquerung zu vereinfachen. Die berühmteste Alpenüberquerung war 218 v. Chr. durch Hannibal im Zweiten Punischen Krieg. Er hatte auch 37 Elefanten mit sich. Heute gibt es für Wanderer und Fahrradfahrer eine Vielzahl an Wegen über die Alpen. Die TOUR Transalp ist seit 2003 ein jährliches Rennrad-Etappenrennen für Zweierteams über die Alpen. Das Rennen zählt zu den härtesten Etappenrennen der Welt für ambitionierte Hobby-Rennradfahrer.

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Toy store ination,” Matthews said. “And we don’t want to support big box corporations, though it’s sometimes more convenient.”

With the agility and swiftness of a ninja, Green manipulates a yo-yo from the basic vertical movement into a triangle, in which the yo-yo swings back and forth.

“When I was growing up we had Duncan Imperials and Butterflies. That was pretty much the yo-yo world. In those the string wraps around a metal axial. So the tighter the string winds up, the less it will spin. If it’s really loose then it won’t come back up, so it’s hours of frustration trying to get the string untwisted,” Green said. “But now you have yo-yos with a clutch system in it that makes it bounce back easily so it gets the initial frustration out of using a yo-yo.”

The variety of yo-yos range from classic Duncan to competitive yo-yos.

“Basically, yo-yos are skill toys,” Green said. “Skill toys teach that if you work at something hard enough, you can accomplish it.”

Along with Green showing off his yo-yo tricks to the tunes of Billy Jonas, a customer of

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The Toy Box may find 23-yearold employee Carissa Cryer playing with dolls.

“Sometimes when I’m setting up the doll house after kids have destroyed it, a little girl will come up and play dolls with me for a bit. It’s fun,” Cryer said.

Cryer recommends the Spirograph, a stenciling kit, and Playmobil to customers who want to stimulate their child’s creativity.

“The Spirograph is very mathematically precise. It gets kids to create beautiful designs. When I was a kid I used the Spirograph to make my own stationary to write letters and make pictures for my mom to put on the refrigerator,” Cryer said. “Playmobil is another imaginative play toy.

It doesn’t tell kids how to play.

They can act out their own stories or they can mix dragons with the fairies and have them all be friends, or battle. Really, the kids are only limited by their imagination according to how they use it.”

Three-inch tall knights with tiny horses, crossbows and swords happily guard a Playmobil display of a castle from the threat of dragons. The

smiles on their tiny round faces suggest they enjoy their duty.

“I like helping people find the perfect toy that will bring a little joy into their kid’s life,” Cryer said, smiling.

Meanwhile, Green maintains a boyish smile as he makes his yo-yo perform a trapeze act of circular motions around the intricate web of string he spun between his hands.

Then the yo-yo rises back into his palm where it rests.

“You can’t be around a kid having fun and not have fun yourself. It’s just impossible to do. They have a way of transferring that energy and enthusiasm to you,” Green said. “It’s wonderful to watch.”

The random plucks of the upright bass carry Billy Jonas’ heroic epic to its exciting conclusion.

The boy defeats the dragon with a paper cup. However, in his imagination, the paper cup becomes a magic hat which he puts on the dragon’s snout. He then proceeds to tie the dragon up with string.

The dragon begs to be released, but the boy refuses.

He has conquered the dragon.

FRENch Corner Le petit déjeuner Parisien

Ah, le petit déjeuner : c’est un peu le mal-aimé de la famille culinaire française.

On commence toujours – enfin presque toujours -- avec un café noir, que les français appellent : « un express », « un kawa ». Le café au lait c’est « un crème » (grand ou petit). Voilà, maintenant vous pouvez commander un café dans un café français !

Pour ceux qui mangent quelque chose pendant le p’tit déjeuner il y a le fameux croissant (qu’on peut tremper dans le café). Hier il y en avait deux sortes : l’ordinaire ou celui au beurre, aujourd’hui il est aux amandes ou… au chocolat. Décidemment, on n’arrête pas le progrès. Le dimanche, dans certaines familles on achète une brioche.

C’est bon, c’est doux, c’est riche. Pendant la semaine, souvent on avale une tartine beurrée, avec de la confiture ou sans. De temps en temps quand on a vraiment faim, on fait un œuf à la coque avec des mouillettes (tranches de pain beurré coupées verticalement) que l’on fait tremper dans le jaune. Dans un Paris souvent grisâtre, ce jaune d’œuf est parfois le seul soleil de la journée !

Beat from the street Erica:

here and find a place to live eventually. You know, if we don’t, that’s OK.” Do you guys travel together?

“We’ve been dating on and off for like, five years. I met him on the side of the road.

It’s pretty rad but that’s just kind of the person I am. I just pick people up, take them places, you know, whatever.

I’m probably going to drop out of school and all that.”

What do you study?

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“Currently I’m in cellular and molecular biology, switching over to chemistry because biology’s way too boring and chemistry is more where I’m at but, you know, fuck school, really. I mean, I just don’t want to be sheltered, you know? I want to be experienced. I want to live. I feel like you can’t really do that when you’re going to school, so we’re both just dropping out and living on the streets. Fuck it.”

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Deloach worked with security forces she says, then took training classes with the medical department at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio.

There she became a certified Emergency Medical Technician. She says her duties included performing physical exams, checking vital signs, drawing blood, medical exercises, and preparing individuals for deployment.

After serving in the military for a decade, Christiana says she decided to leave in order to

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live a lifestyle that was more her own.

She says she just wanted to be herself.

She wasn’t a fan of having to wear her hair and nails a certain way. She wanted to show her creative side and be comfortable in her own skin.

After moving to Asheville, Christiana says she has started working on creating a better life for herself, and hopes to stop drinking completely.

“I haven’t completely stopped, but only having four

drinks out of eights months is pretty good for me,” she said.

“I think eventually I want to stop all together.”

Now 34 years old, Christiana says she attends AB Technical Community College. She’s taking several Spanish and music classes.

After she graduates from AB Tech, Christiana says she wants to transfer to UNC Asheville and study Spanish.

She wants to teach English as a second language.

She says her biggest goal

is to land a job abroad with the Department of Defense Dependents Schools after she graduates.

When Christiana isn’t focused on school, she loves to read. She says her big Saturday night out is going to Battery Park Book Exchange with her friend Erica Gunnison.

Erica says they go downtown every once and awhile, but not too often because they’re both busy.

She says Christiana is very motivated and career focused, and never noticed drinking to have a huge effect on her.

“Maybe she has some internal conflict,” Erica said, “but she’s one of the most put together people I’ve ever met.”

Christiana says drinking is one of the biggest challenges in her life and she still struggles with it every day.

But she says learning how to overcome it has made her a much stronger person.

“I think it’s made me stronger, maybe be more me, embrace my uniqueness,” she says. “Everything I was ashamed of before like being a bookworm, being different; now I’m just like, ‘I’m me.’”

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Arts & Features

Emancipator

Photos by Makeda Sandford

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Orange Peel nearly sizzles (literally) during Wax Tailor and Emancipator concert Review LARISA KARR A&F Editor lakarr@unca.edu

wax tailor Photo by Larisa Karr, Arts & Features Editor It’s dark and empty inside the concert hall, aside from a few lighting and sound technicians hastily rushing back and forth, attempting to ensure that everything sensory will be in its proper place when the audience floods in. On the stage, a shadowed man in a fedora is thoughtfully pushing buttons up and down while making visual contact with the sound technician sitting on the opposite end of the floor. After a few minutes, the beats begin, and the man in the fedora comes alive, yearning and jumping into each of the pulsing beats that gently shake the music hall’s speaker system.

The man in the fedora, French disc jockey and producer Jean-Christophe Le Saoût, aka Wax Tailor, is as lively in a silent room as he is performing in a huge crowd. Sunday night, Tailor performed a solo set at the Orange Peel, opening for Portland-based electronic producer Emancipator. Although he is used to performing as the headliner, Tailor decided to do what he termed a “summer break tour” before he releases his new album next fall, a tour that has taken him to fairly off-the-beaten-path destinations like Asheville.

“People in the big cities have seen a lot of things, so they’re like, ‘Go ahead, show me, impress me.’ I think in a small town people are like, ‘Let’s have some fun.’

So the vibe is better, usually,” Tailor says. “Four years ago I’ve been in the U.S. but only the express tour, like New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Two years ago, I said I wanted to do a real tour in the U.S. I wanted to go to New Orleans and Kansas.”

Tailor’s music is characterized by blending hip-hop

and jazz beats, amongst many other types of music, with cinematic sound bites. His distinctively hip and recognizable version of “Que Sera” was the initial song that shot him to fame in 2005 when he released his first album, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies.

Prior to adopting his onstage persona, Tailor was master of ceremonies in a French hip-hop band that was very outspoken about various social and political issues like the death penalty. Now, although he says his music isn’t as blatantly political, he maintains his rebel yell by letting his communication with his fans influence the musical moves he makes next.

He cites an example of people in the industry telling him to make music that generated mass sales instead of making concept albums that attract a smaller audience, like 2013’s Dusty Rainbow from the Dark.

“I’m not a Miley Cyrus or whatever,” Tailor said.

“You only try to sell things to people if you create what they are supposed to think. I do it because I think it’s a lot about the people and I’m not sure you’re so free if people don’t send you some support.”

On this night, the audience reciprocated Tailor’s warmth, shouting his name as he grooved from song to song.

“Asheville, are you prepared to be hypnotized?” he shouted just after beginning his set.

The spell, however, would never begin. A fire alarm that did not belong to his music unleashed sonic havoc on the building, prompting the guards to get up and state, “Yes, this is a real fire alarm. We need everybody out of the building.”

This was the true intermission. A sea of people

stranded outside, huffing cigarette smoke and looking annoyed but amused, lingered while the fire department took their sweet time.

Upon returning indoors after 15 minutes, Wax Tailor was not permitted to continue his set, and as such, bid the audience a sad but heartfelt farewell.

Before too long, Emancipator came out, and the audience became electric yet again.

Lauren Debuke, a quality assurance coordinator, appreciated the layered and dynamic instrumentals that Douglas Appling, aka Emancipator, brought to the stage.

“Honestly, one of the things that I like is that they don’t really do vocals,” Debuke said.

Appling was accompanied by three other musicians on this evening, one of whom was violinist Ilia Goldberg, and this added an additional textured element to the music. They observed that the normally-uptight Orange Peel had perhaps turned into New Mountain for the evening, as there were live art installations being created by dancing audience members flailing about.

Each song flowed into the other smoothly, so the two-hour-long set had a characteristic of a languid but lively wave. Toward the end, audience members seemed peacefully dazed as they filtered out amongst the tourists and hawkers selling Grateful Dead pins.

Tyler Klefot, a computer repair technician originally from Louisville, Kentucky, described it in decidedly unique terms.

“It was amazing,” Klefot said, “It was a journey through the sonic universe.”

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OPINION

Section Editor: June Bunch kbunch@unca.edu

The streak of stubbornness that landed me in the middle of a hurricane

By June Bunch, Opinion Editor kbunch@unca.edu

No number of news reports or closed-intersection signs could convince me that my nonrefundable Greyhound trip to Columbia, South Carolina was going to go unfulfilled.

My toothbrush was packed, my rain boots were on and I already bought enough Scotchgard spray to envelop my entire luggage in a cloud of rain resistance.

Besides, I was still getting over the unpacked bags from a cancelled trip two weeks prior.

Erik Bullock insisted his east side house remained unflooded and saw no need to follow in Noah’s footsteps to build an obnoxious ark. It was only bad on the main strip and besides, he said, he knew plenty of back roads.

So I took the bus to Columbia.

The problem with that plan, however, was that the back roads he chose were slowly, street by street, flooding over with cones, cops and detours.

When Erik made this safe-trip assumption, he had not yet been through downtown Columbia.

Erik eventually picked me up after his so-called 30-minute drive took an hour and a half and every ounce of patience any sane-minded man could scrounge.

By the time he snuck through the initial roadblocks, the streets flooded further and created all the more dead ends for the trip back.

A particular stretch of road looked like a chocolate milk rapid, fast and dangerous. We were stuck in a whole new labyrinth.

There was no reason to arrive under these conditions.

Hurricane Joaquin was no joke.

Folks were watching roads sweep away and here I was, by choice.

I could’ve just bitten the money and bought new tickets, but I was not about to flake out on my frugality.

In my backwards logic, if I didn’t go, I would be paying for the second non-existent vacation within the month. I spent upwards of $200 on a trip two weeks prior which sizzled out last minute (probably for the best) and left me aching to ditch town.

I was going anyway. Out of spite, if nothing else.

This would not be another Mississippi misadventure.

Extensive Mississippi Backstory: Two weeks prior to Columbia, my Boston bartender friend and previous co-worker, Nicole Neal, decided to embark on a cathartic road trip after she cancelled her wedding.

She was turning 30, a landmark year for a ripe-witted, tattoo-painted nomad. Her intentions were to remain 23 for as long as possible, but she embraced the idea of her thirties after meeting a man with her same birthday.

They would turn 30 together, on a Tuesday, and move to a farm outside Black Mountain. All the invites were sent, rings sized and catering finalized.

The only thing left was to say “I do.”

However, after a slew of poorly-picked words and aggressively-thrown furniture, the man of her dreams left her aching to wake up alone. Nicole’s man-of-honor sent a cancellation notice to the wedding attendees.

I, being the newly-certified reverend for the wedding, received a call immediately after the notification.

Nicole said she was packing her bags and driving to Mississippi, solo. She sought distraction through route of substance-filled fanny-packs and her favorite band, The Weeks, who just released an album for a home state tour.

Her flurry of drug-driven distraction methods required a designated driver. Nicole knew I was no stranger to holding her hair back, and asked that I accompany her.

This is where those wasted tickets came in.

I already purchased a series of hotel lodgings and general admission tickets to a bunch of shows all requiring that I skip school and work.

She called my boss, our mutual friend, and explained I wouldn’t be coming in. I had the awkward conversation with each of my professors announcing my unexcusable absences after I packed my bags to friend-sit.

Then, Mississippi fell through.

First, Nicole’s wedding went awry, then, without warning, her paycheck.

Now without a job, Nicole had to use trip cash for bills. Hence, Mississippi was off.

And there I was, one vacation and a chunk of

change down the hole in my wallet.

When the news of Columbia’s storm hit, I took my chances.

While Erik and I drove around, the president issued a state of emergency. Half a year’s worth of rain was aiming to hit within two days. Flash flood warnings sprang up every hour.

Fourteen people died before the storm’s decline.

Charleston was underwater. Columbia was following suit.

A city curfew was put in place - no driving from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. - but that didn’t stop a South Carolina Department of Transportation worker from dying, driving in the floods. He made an example for all the people ignoring traffic blocks.

What would we do? All of our previous plans diminished but we had plenty of bottled waters and storm supplies. We watched the news while firefighters pumped a water supply into hospitals from fire hydrants, allowing them to operate normally.

The two eastern dams broke, flooding Erik’s favorite brewery.

Caskets surfaced, floating away with the flood’s current like morbid islands.

Houses submerged revealing only rain-soaked shingles.

We spent the entire fall break inside, keeping in touch with folks to ensure all his Columbia friends were unscathed. We drank whiskey and watched Westerns, perfecting Clint Eastwood’s signature squint.

By the time Sunday rolled around, hours passed between raindrops. We sat on his roof, drinking final coffees before my bus ride back to Asheville.

When we drove back, some roads were cracked like crème brûlée, mud sweeping over dozens of them.

Stories of cars swept away in the storm hovered around the bus station.

This was Columbia before my Greyhound trip back home.

And albeit, the city I saw mainly consisted of Erik’s living room, it was worth it.

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Once Upon A Time

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King Arthur charging in this season intermingled with a back story about the legendary stone with the sword lodged into it is appealing enough, but I’ve noticed a storytelling device used in a few shows already this fall.

This element may either bring the show down or amp it up by keeping viewers anticipating the twist.

By adding the element of the “flash forward” in time, in which viewers get to see what ultimately unfolds many episodes into the season, viewers have something to wait for later on in the year.

Three shows on the CW network tried this too, hoping fans will keep coming back week after week to check in with the progress.

Arrow did it by hinting at a character death, The Flash did it by hinting at the inclusion of a major game changer this season and Supernatural even did so, not by incorporating the “flash forward” scenes but flashbacks to provide insight and foreshadowing into the overarching fight with this season’s big enemy.

So while we know what will eventually transpire on Once Upon a Time after seeing the season premiere, we don’t exactly know how or even when things will change.

Which is exactly the kind of kick this

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series needed. After a great second half of their fourth season, how would Horowitz and Kitsis be able to infuse Once with storytelling that would top what they did months ago?

By laying out every aspect of their intended story arc immediately with the season premiere, the duo is not looking to top their previous efforts but they want to simply keep viewers and fans tuned in.

At least, that’s what I think. Just like in the movies or in books, these little tricks where the authors or directors clue viewers into what is going to come further on down the road keep viewers interested and, hopefully, hungry for more.

I know what’s going to happen later on Once Upon a Time and the other three shows aforementioned above, but I want to see how or why. Giving me just a taste won’t do, as we live in an on-demand society where it has to happen now.

I can wait until the rest of the story happens to know what’s going on and trying to figure out the rest of the puzzle won’t keep me up at night, no, but by including hints of what’s going to occur moving forward, viewers will either be sorely disappointed or thrilled to see what’s next.

Because, as Leonardo DiCaprio from The Wolf of Wall Street quipped, “you had my interest, but now you’ve gotten my attention.” If these show runners can live up to the promises unveiled in their season premieres, then good on them.

Corrections In the previous issue, Timbi Shepherd’s article on Black Mountain College misspelled the name of the organization issuing a grant to UNC Asheville. It is the Windgate Foundation, not the Wingate Foundation. The closing paragraphs of Michael O’Hearn’s review of Chuck and Larisa Karr’s feature on Hellbilly Hootenanny were cut off.

The Blue Banner apologizes for these errors.

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Columbusted: Your teacher lied to you about Christopher Columbus

By Makeda Sandford, Layout & Design Editor - msandfor@unca.edu

“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.”

-- James Baldwin

October 12, 1937, marked the first official celebration of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the Americas.

Nowadays, this holiday, celebrated on the second Monday of October, has been capitalized and used as a vehicle for many blow-out sales by our favorite suppliers of home goods and trendy clothing.

Not many towns or even states yield celebration or time to put up one’s feet in respect to the Italian explorer and colonizer who hastily grabbed the term “discoverer of the Free World.” In public school classrooms across the nation, the impressionable ears of today’s youth have been taught verbatim that Christopher Columbus in 1492 sailed the ocean blue, and stumbled upon a nation fresh for the taking.

But today, let us remember this holiday as what it really is -- not as a day to celebrate in American history.

Christopher Columbus was many things -- but he was most certainly not the one to discover North America. Actually, there were millions of Native Americans living there when he arrived, who had traveled from Asia to North America by a land bridge connecting the two during the last Ice Age. Columbus wasn’t even the first European to arrive in North America. Leif Erickson, an Icelandic explorer, arrived in America 500 years prior.

In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen describes just how Columbus did revolutionize and set a platform for Western ideals.

“Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world,” Loewen said, “the taking of land, wealth, and labor from

indigenous peoples, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.”

Loewen writes that the incarceration of so many Indians led to the Spanish government, who commissioned Columbus to look elsewhere and punish the resistant Natives left on the land.

Columbus’ son led the beginning of the slave trade in Haiti in 1505, according to Lies.

The journal entries Columbus kept during his four trips to the Americas were very inconsistent in describing the Native Americans. Columbus’ descriptions are relied on heavily because they weren’t documented by many before being virtually erased from written history.

Loewen said when Columbus was trying to sell the beauty of America to Queen Isabella of Spain, he described natives as “well-built” and “quick of intelligence,” but when Columbus wanted to justify his wars against

the natives, he described them as “cruel” and “stupid.”

This all goes to say that the idealized heroes and heroines in American curriculum could be critically questioned and analyzed to learn more from their endeavors. Columbus Day has since been criticized by many and seen as an Italian culture appreciation day for others. Last year in Seattle, Columbus Day was unanimously replaced with a holiday called “Indigenous People Day,” recognizing the people that came before us and who were victim to not-so-heroic heroes.

In a liberal arts university, students can use this day to critically think about why American society can learn more than what is comfortable about the history of this land, and why it’s OK to think of even the loftiest of figures as mere humans, with prejudices and flaws… and mass murdering capabilities.

Happy belated Columbus Day.

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Breaking up with societal expectation, over coffee ROAN FARB

Asst. Opinion Editor rfarb@unca.edu After the age of about five or six, people began to ask me “what I wanted to do when I grew up.”

Ever since then, it’s like I’ve started this never-ending conversation with myself.

Don’t get me wrong, wanting children to develop a sense of what sect of capitalism they’d prefer to buy into from an early age is nothing short of a noble cause for parents to have.

That being said, it’s a bizarre concept to initially wrap your head around as a kid; to realize there are expectations of you to (eventually) do something with yourself.

You have to constantly hatch a blueprint for your existence.

That seems to be a central hinge of this whole ‘society thing’ we’ve all bought into.

Nobody can just go through life as they please; we as a species have developed an expectation for desire and ambition out of every single human being to bust out the womb swinging.

It’s hilariously unrealistic, to expect every single one of us to have a sense of direction.

Yet, that’s a dominant part of not only American culture but others as well.

There’s a reason so many prisons are packed.

The same goes for the waves of drug addicts we constantly see stumble through and eventually drop society.

While it’s not always the cause of incarceration or addiction, we tend to punish people for having a lack of direction, and severely at that.

Perhaps not by locking them up, but often by looking down on those who aren’t working, those who haven’t gotten a job, and those who seem to have no drive to work, or do much of anything at all.

We eternally expect those around us to have ideas about how to flourish in society, how to make money, how to live a happy life and how we want to accomplish it.

There’s this brand of negativity and inferiority we’ve labeled those with tiny or blurry dreams in society across the globe today.

There’s this attitude that a 28-year-old who hasn’t done anything but work an uneventful, minimum wage job since he turned 17 is kind of not doing it right.

And I’m not saying that working a gas station job for 11 years straight is exactly an admirable career path, I’m saying that we look on stagnation as a negative and sloppy quality.

You’re expected to always keep the ball rolling, to be making moves towards bettering your position in life every step of the way.

And it’s bullshit, really, to assume

every kid’s going to eventually figure out something to do with their life.

We may be an advanced species, but at our core we’re still animals.

The way modern day society has been constructed insists you essentially figure out a (hopefully) enjoyable, if not bearable use for yourself in the cogs of humanity or you lead at the very least, a sub-par existence.

And what’s worse is it’s ingrained in our minds from childhood; that if you don’t find some sort of way to stand out, you’ll fall behind while your peers shine.

We, even from an early age, teach each other that not wanting to advance, grow, and accomplish is not okay.

It’s all a game and you have to know what card you’re going to play next, even in elementary school.

By simply coexisting, we endlessly challenge each other to evolve and develop better insight of the human experience.

And if someone can’t do that, we often perceive them as lazy or boring.

We as a society are taught to shun those who aren’t able to adapt when their plans crash and burn.

We don’t account for people feeling defeat.

We often forget that not everyone is capable of contributing or producing, or that not everyone wants to.

Society doesn’t let people get caught up in the pain or loneliness of failure, yet it’s certainly not a new aspect of being alive.

So why is such an obvious part of

the human experience just ignored by modern day society?

We look down on college dropouts, homeless people, criminals, drug addicts, and people who drop out of high school.

Rather, we don’t simply look down on them but we make examples out of them.

We turn a blind eye to their misdirection, to their failed climb to the top, and we point, and we laugh, and we exclaim to our kids: “Don’t turn out like these assholes!”

You’re raised from an early age to fear winding up in jail, addicted, unemployed or homeless, and instead of explaining that those are all results of losing your way in life, we tell children it’s because these people were stupid, crazy, or didn’t want to succeed badly enough.

We unavoidably teach each other that lack of both ambition and a drive to advance are unacceptable, that to fail to adapt to society and change successfully makes you inferior.

And how is anybody supposed to recover from failure lightly, when we as a society have demonized both feeling lost and giving up to such a horrifying degree?

In a way, we’ve built ourselves to self-destruct.

We wonder why there’s such a rise in anxiety disorders yet we as a planet enslave every human being that comes into creation into a perpetual and predatory game of sink or swim.

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