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By Lorin Mallorie Staff Writer

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The Asheville Initiative for Math, the department’s community outreach program, received funding for an innovative math tutoring certification program aimed at creating new standards for math tutors across the local landscape.

“We see mathematics as a tool,” said Sam Kaplan, UNC Asheville associate mathematics professor and director of AIM. “Whatever you’re doing, with mathematics, you can do it even better.”

Sam Kaplan According to Kaplan, the university math department undertook an active role in the community.

In 2006, the department included all their Lorin Mallorie - Staff Writer community outreach programs under Math professors help students in the math lab in Rhoades Hall.

AIM’s umbrella.

The advisory group enrolls not only uni- to AIM and the tutoring project proposal, if you make the person feel like there is versity professors, but the county school Kaplan said. something wrong with them, it’s not going system, A-B Technical Institute and MisResearch shows that math education is to work,” he said. “But once you’ve got sion Hospitals, as well. related to high school dropout rates; stu- it, there’s something kind of pleasant about Now, with the new $25,000 grant from dents become frustrated with math and offering help in math.” the AT&T Foundation, AIM launched the quit school altogether, Kaplan said.

Scarlett College, 19, a sophomore mathMath Tutor Certification Program, ensurWith N.C. schools adopting a 4-year ematics major and N.C. Teaching Fellows ing the highest level of local math tutor math requirement, dropout rates may in- Scholarship recipient, is currently a tutor competency. Comprised of three phases, crease because students are not prepared at Asheville Middle School. the new grant covers funding for the first for this curriculum, a major concern for Using phrases like “we’ll figure this out stage. city government. together” and “can you tell me how you In the initial phase, researchers create According to a recent American Insti- got to this answer” is important in math tua standardized math-tutoring manual and tute of Research study, students who pass toring, she said. certification program for the first time, Ka- Algebra II are more than twice as likely Kendrick encourages all university plan said. The manual teaches tutors how to graduate from college as their less pre- students to take advantage of the free, onto mentor and build problem-solving skills pared peers. campus math lab which, he added, prowhile reflecting local school board poli“It is human nature for people to need vides a study oasis with solution manuals, cies. help in this subject,” said Peter Kendrick, textbooks, coffee and a nice view.

“This needs to be in place to build the 60, UNCA’s math lab director since its cre“We serve a lot of students across camarmy of tutors needed in the community to ation in 1985. pus who have any issue with math,” Kagenerate a shift of thinking about math and According to Kendrick, the lab gener- plan said. “Then, if a student gets stuck, math education,” said the 10-year faculty ates more than 6,000 hours of student use they can raise their hands and the tutors member and Western North Carolina na- per semester, and the tutors should strive help them do it right.” tive. to make the teaching experience a positive Off-campus, there is a remarkable comWhen AT&T wanted to give to the com- one.

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A UNC Asheville alumnus anticipated a short backpacking trip through Pisgah National Forest, but ended up lost for more than 20 hours.

“I got going, and I kept going and going,” Lindsey Pfundstein said. “I started hiking last Sunday afternoon and got done Monday morning.”

Pfundstein began at the Turkey Pen Gap trailhead forking into three different directions.

“Supposedly, it’s a very easy area to get lost in,” she said. “Either trails aren’t marked that well, or the blaze marks go in and out, which are the markings on the trees that let you know what trail you’re on.”

A friend of Pfundstein’s informed her about a short looping trail that provided a fairly easy hike.

“I was thinking it was only going to take two hours, maybe three at the very most,” the 22-year-old said. “I had packed somewhat of a light backpack because I knew it was going to be a short hike. I put some extra jackets, food and water in there.”

She started her hike around 2 p.m. and grew concerned as the sun began to set. Pfundstein took a trail that she thought led back to her car.

“I switched trails, and the sun was setting on me. Finally, it was dark. I was hiking down this mountain, and it was really steep — there were a lot of rocks,” she said.

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Students travel to Washington for conference

By Rhys Baker Staff Writer

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More than 50 UNC Asheville students visit Washington, D.C. this month for Power Shift, a climate change conference attracting youth from all over the country.

“Power Shift ’09 will be the largest youth gathering ever on the issue of climate change,” said Jessy Tolkan, executive director of the Energy Action Coalition.

According to Russell Anderson, the Southern Energy Network’s North Carolina organizer, UNCA had the most students registered in the state, beating UNC Chapel Hill by one registrant. Power Shift organizers anticipate more than 10,000 attendees for this year’s conference.

The Energy Action Coalition, a partnership of 48 U.S. and Canadian organizaBy Michelle Peck 100 years. tions, sponsored the first Power Shift two Staff Writer Safety Tips Hampson suggested storing food up years ago. Coalition organizers said they mwpeck@unca.edu high or separating the cook site from the wanted to face issues of social and envi- Plan ahead More than one-third of the camp site as precautions while hiking in ronmental justice together by organizing - Bring plenty of water U.S. population hiked last year, bear country. youth in campaigns to protect the environaccording to the American “One time I was with a group of people ment and promote social responsiblity.

- Know the environment Sulkiro Song - Staff Photographer Hiking Society, but despite its on UNCA’s wilderness trip, and I saw a “Power Shift is a bunch of youth from - Start small Kasey Baker, a junior, gives thumbs up wearing his Power Shift T-shirt at a meeting where Power Shift ’09 gathered at popularity, UNC Asheville hiksnake on the trail,” said Anna Mills, a mul- around the country getting up to go to difKnow basic first aid Swannanoa Room.

Jonah Freedman,right, a junior, plans to attend the Power Shift conference, holds a plastic hat ers encourage people to take timedia arts and science major. “It was just ferent workshops and panels,” said freshfrom the Power Shift conference held in 2007.

Pack first aid kit precautions while enjoying the a black snake, so it probably wasn’t danger- man and Power Shift attendee Azaria - Never hike along outdoors. ous, but I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Miller. “I want to be aware of issues and around to see thousands of youth with Collar Economy: How One Solution Can “Go hiking with someone My gut reaction was to run and push the bring everything I learned back to campus signs and banners and with the Washington “Power Shift ’09 will be Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.”

- Watch where you step experienced, who knows the two people in front of me out of my way.” to educate people who weren’t able to go. Monument in the background,” Johnston “Van Jones as a speaker is really em- Take regular breaks area, the trail, where water Many students said that hiking served I want to be less sedentary and more ac- said. “Then we dispersed to meet with the largest youth gathering powering because of his commitment to - Stick to the trail sources are located and any as a break from regular day-to-day stress. tive.” our respective congressman to tell them of leading the green jobs movement,” said - Share plans with reliable other potential hazards that may “I go hiking by myself. It is peaceful for Conference participants will attend our support for any effort they put toward ever on the issue of climate Johnston, who saw him speak at Power person arise during the trip,” said Chris me and a good de-stressor,” Gilbert said. “I workshops with a wide variety of topics clean energy and climate change.”

Shift ’07 and at the Association for the Hampson, a history major and just got a dog and I can’t wait to take him such as gender, sexism, climate change The lobby day is a crucial part of Power change.”

Advancement of Sustainability in Higher - Check weather UNC Asheville Outdoors trip with me.” and event planning.

The workshops focus Shift, Johnston said.

Education conference in 2008.

- Carry trail map supervisor said. “Always look For many hikers, including Gilbert, on anti-oppression, corporate accountabil“It made me feel like I was a part of Johnston said utilizing the skills from at a weather report before leavcompleting the vast Appalachian Trail is ity, education, environmental justice and something that really had the possibility to - Jessy Tolkan, executive director Power Shift on campus was the most eming so that you can prepare for potential storms. Always the ultimate goal. international impact, according to the En- make a difference.” of the energy action coalition powering part of Power Shift. pack plenty of water, approximately 2 liters, and have a

“I really want to hike the entire Appalachian ergy Action Coalition.

The conference attendants choose be“Power Shift showed me there are thoumap. Let someone know where you are going and when Trail one day. Next summer I’m going with my uncle “We need to repower our nation and the tween lobby training or non-violent direct sands of people across the nation who are you expect to return, especially for overnight trips. Most to hike part of the Continental Divide,” he said. “I also world with 100% clean, just energy,” said action training. Participants either attend a vival. It is the survival of peoples, species, equally concerned with the direction our importantly, have fun.” want to go to Mount Rogers in Roanoke because I hear Brianna Cayo Cotter, Power Shift com- lobby day on Capitol Hill, or a direct ac- entire countries, and of our planet that is at nature and world are headed in terms of the Running out of water may be the least of hiking haz- you can walk up and pet the wild ponies.” munications director. “We need a political tion protest known as the Capitol Climate stake here. We don’t have time to wait or impacts of climate change, environmental ards.

Mills plans to hike part of the Appalachian Trail power shift that refuses to be dominated Action on the last day of the conference. be patient and polite any longer.” degradation and the disparity between the Approximately 11,000 black bears inhabit 10 million with her boyfriend this summer through the Blue Ridge and dictated by big, dirty business interest Last year the students dressed in bioThis year demonstrators will gather at rich and the poor,” Johnston said. acres of land spread mainly across western and eastern Mountains in Virginia. for a minute longer and starts investing in hazard suits and shoveled coal onto the the Capitol Coal Plant, which provides North Carolina, according to North Carolina Wildlife.

“It seems so mentally and physically challenging to us, in our future, and in survival.” street in front of Citi-Bank, a coal support- Capitol Hill with energy. A Facebook “While hiking in Linville Gorge, in Pisgah, I thought I do the Appalachian Trail,” Mills said. “I’ve been read- Senior Ellie Johnston, the executive of er according to the coalition. Participants group for the demonstration contains more saw a bear. I slowly turned around and just walked in the ing books and articles about people who have hiked the sustainability for the Student Government laid down in front of the bank blockading than 2,000 people who plan to attend.

For more information other direction,” Ben Gilbert, an economics major, said. trail before, and it seems so tough. I heard 15 percent of Association, attended Power Shift ’07 and the entrance.

Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibabout Power Shift, visit “That is the most scared I’ve been while hiking.” the people who attempt it quit after the first week.” worked on the Power Vote campaign.

“We have said for a long time in the ben and NASA scientist James Hansen enwww.powershift09.org According to Appalachian Bears Rescue, bears rarely The Appalachian Trail extends 2,175 miles long.

“On the lobby day there was a big stage youth climate movement, that our future is dorse Power Shift, according to conference attack humans. that the Energy Action Coalition set up on at stake,” Cotter said. “It is more than our officials. Van Jones is currently the main See Safety Page 6 the lawn of our nation’s capital. I turned future that is at stake. It is our basic sur- speaker this year. He wrote “The Green Only 57 people died from bear attacks during the last

Safety precautions and stories of the trail

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Teaching to the test, law leaves students behind

By Pamela Stringer News Editor

pdstring@unca.edu

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 altered students’ testing procedures, teachers’ hiring qualifications and college students’ preparation for teaching.

“No Child Left Behind is a really good first attempt,” said Emily Gustafson, junior psychology student at UNC Asheville with an elementary school licensure. “But we need to revamp it. We need to get some educators, some retired teachers, some new teachers and college students, and in some way, shape or form try to get them involved, because they’re the ones out here trying to do it. The idea was good; it’s just not realistic.”

NCLB requires a certain number of students in each grouping to pass an end-of-grade test and end-of-course test, which was implemented in the 2005-06 school year, according to Maggie Hatling, a UNCA junior history student with a middle school licensure.

“If the school doesn’t reach that goal, then they’re put on probation where they lose resources and money,” Hatling said.

“If they don’t pass again the next year, the school is completely taken apart, and the kids have to go to a new place to go, overcrowding other schools.”

Due to the probation system, schools that need money don’t receive it because

the school doesn’t make their annual progress reports. Meanwhile, the schools that do well get the money and continue to meet standards, often surpassing them easily, Gustafson said.

Emily Gustafson “Students should be able to choose what school they want to go to,” she said. “All of the gifted students go to good schools, so schools just continually die.”

States make their own testing limits, allowing them to lower the bar so everyone passes and receives the money, Hatling said.

“You have to make the decision between letting all of your creativeness fall to the side, and you’re going to get all your students to pass, and you’re just going to teach the test,” Gustafson said. “Or you’re going to spend a lot of time trying to integrate math into science and social studies to get it all taught.”

According to Gustafson, NCLB implemented new standards for teachers.

Teaching requires a subject major and grade specific licensure, whereas before, a degree in education would suffice, which puts parents at ease. But the requirement doesn’t come without its drawbacks.

“Unfortunately we just don’t have enough teachers,” Gustafson said.

“Schools are having 28 kids in a classroom.

Some of those teachers that aren’t highly qualified are good teachers. They’ve been teaching 10 or 15 years, and they just don’t fit standards.”

Frustrations of NCLB run to afterschool tutoring programs, according to Christina Stringer, a tutor for a company geared toward the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which is funded by NCLB. “This is definitely an imperfect system in all aspects,” she said. “The kids really need tutoring, but only some of the kids whose names are submitted to the county for tutoring receive it. They only allow so many kids to get it, and there doesn’t seem to be all that much reasoning behind who gets it and who doesn’t.”

According to Gustafson, administrative pressure forces teachers to teach only for the test and to leave out important aspects of education because of a lack of time.

“They’re leaving out the fun,” Hatling said. “Students aren’t learning how to learn, they’re learning how to memorize.

They’re learning how to fill in circles.

They aren’t writing well. If you teach it right, you can teach kids how to read between the lines and infer things. If you’re teaching for the test, they’re learning dates, which won’t help them. A teacher has to work extra hard to get that all in.”

The focus on annual progress wears down on teacher’s morals, Hatling said.

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Republicans, Democrats and independents stress the importance of local politics in the day-to-day lives of citizens. This fact resonates with older members of the community, but falls short with younger voters who tend to get mesmerized by the glitz and glamour of national politics.

“The problem that we have in our country is that most young people can tell you who was running for president but can’t tell you who was running for U.S. Senate, can’t tell you who was running for Congress and definitely can’t tell you who was running for House or county commissioner,” said Timothy Johnson, chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party.

“That’s sad, because at the end of the day the things that affect you and I the most

are the decisions “At the end of the day the things cal issues trump nathat are made at the tional. that affect you and I the most county level.”

“It is the BunJohnson, 44, are the decisions that are made combe County stressed the imcommissioners that at the county level.” portance of local regulate what taxes issues to voters. you pay, what type - Timothy Johnson, chairman of the While striving to of development you keep party memcan have in the comBuncombe County Republican Party bers connected munity and how with national policlean our drinking tics, real change happens at the local level, water is going to be. All those issues come he said. down to local politics,” Cogburn said.

“My first and foremost responsibility is Both Republican and Democratic parto galvanize our base, to communicate our ties want to energize young voters into principles to the general population and to making a difference. Despite ideology, get our candidates elected or advocate for both parties see local politics as the ideal their election,” he said. place to start.

Kyle Cogburn, community liaison for The BCYD consists of about 15 core the Buncombe County Young Democrats, members ages 18 to 35, and honorary and said when it comes to quality of life, lo- affiliate members, which brings the total

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“You get broken. Especially first-year “Granted, I’m not trying to do the whole teachers. For most first-year teachers, thing, so I guess it’s different. Mostly I’d there’s hope,” she said. “You’re going like to prove to myself that I’m able to do to want to use all of the stuff you learned it. It will be lovely to be away from everyin college and implement all these cool thing, in the wilderness, carrying everyideas. But when it comes down to it, you thing I need on my back and fending for just have to get the material taught.” myself,” she said.

The teachers’ relationship with the tu- Many students said an early introductors isn’t respectful, according to Stringer. tion to hiking keeps them exploring trails “While the teachers acknowledge that as adults. Hampson hiked in high school the students need help, they often aren’t with The American Adventure Service that supportive in helping the tutoring go- Corps, a youth outdoor program. ing as well as possible,” she said. “Some He trekked parts of the Appalachian of the teachers seem to resent the need Trail and the Sierra Nevada during breaks for outside tutoring and not really respect from school. what I do.”

“With UNCA Outdoors, I typically lead The end-of-course tests require teach- kayaking, canoeing and climbing trips,” he ers to fit a large amount of material into an said. “I have led a few ‘Night Hikes’ and a inadequate time period, Hatling said. backpack trip with our Wilderness Experi“You don’t have time to get into depth ence Program for incoming freshmen and into the details,” Hatling said. “You have transfer students.” to teach world history in a year - 180 days Mills said hiking in the local mountains to learn every single country, everything attracted her family to western North Carthat happened. But you can’t, so you have olina. to pick and choose.”

“My family used to go on hikes all Hatling and Gustafson agree the new the time. My sister calls the Blue Ridge standards aren’t deterring students’ desires Mountains ‘daddy’s mountains’ because to become educators. The hesitation to be- my dad liked going there so much,” Mills come a teacher isn’t new. said. “I’ve been on a bunch of trails since “A lot of people get into it and are like, I’ve been in school here.”

‘I cannot do this,’” Gustafson said. “And Hampson said there are many places to a lot of people are like, ‘I want to teach. I explore in the area besides the parkway. want be different. I want to find a way to “I would recommend the Art Loeb Trail teach the test and have fun.’” up to Cold Mountain in Shining Rock Wilderness,” Hampson said. “This trail would be good for a long day hike.”

Mayor who? Students’ knowledge of local politics insufficient

By Aaron Dahlstrom

Thursday, February 12, 2009

closer to 50. The organization promotes local Democrats during election cycles in efforts to elect them to local offices.

While local politics are the focus, national issues matter, too. In 2007, the BCYD arranged a visit from presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich and helped staff the regional Barack Obama offices.

For their part, Johnson and fellow Republicans employ many of the same tools – such as social networking and online donations – that helped fuel Obama’s successful presidential bid. These innovations make communication quicker, easier and timelier than in the past.

“No longer do you have to wait for the newspaper or the 6 o’clock or 11 o’clock news to find out what is going on in your community. It has become closer,” Johnson said. “When used effectively, (the InSee Politics Page 2

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munity benefit in public math education, said the AIM director.

According to Kaplan, years ago Mission Hospital officials realized a growing need for more trained technicians. They worked with AB Tech to create the necessary college degrees, to generate local jobs for students.

As the first students entered the new classes, around half dropped out because of the math involved, Kaplan said; students entered college ill-equipped in math proficiency.

The hospital then joined with AIM to help improve student math skills.

The goal is to help Asheville high school graduates obtain those two-year AB Tech degrees, then go on to local hospital jobs, which can offer $60,000 a year starting salaries, Kaplan said.

Last year, AIM received a $900,000 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Grant for kindergarten to 12th grade city and county math teacher’s professional development.

AIM used the money to sponsor programs like Math Teacher Circles for elementary, middle and high school teachers.

The course teaches them how to model problem-solving skills in their classrooms.

The grant also funds a two-day workshop for middle and high school teachers.

The teachers visit local businesses where the owners discuss math’s importance in daily tasks.

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posed to be, and it’s not; it’s five separate trails and they’re all going in different directions.”

Pfundstein came across an Adirondack shelter, a three-sided refuge, with bunk beds. Settling down for the night, she wrapped herself in jackets and her hammock.

“It was really funny looking; I looked like this huge brightly colored creature because of my hammock,” the UNCA graduate said.

She started out again the next morning with a small amount of water and an apple to sustain her.

“Supposedly they started to search for me around eight o’clock that night and stopped around 3 a.m.,” Pfundstein said.

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“I was hiking on my last mile or two, and I saw this search helicopter that kept circling me.”

When the Winston-Salem native got to her caution-taped car, a reporter stood waiting.

“The reporter was like, ‘Who are you?

Are you participating in the search?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m Lindsey. I think I’m the girl they’re searching for.’ Their mouths just dropped.”

Pfundstein said she knew she was going to get out of the woods.

“My biggest concern was my family; I got emotional when I saw my parents,” she said. “I think staying positive and calm allowed me to do it so quickly and not panic.”

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ternet) can become a great resource, but it can also hurt you if you are doing the things that you are not supposed to be doing because people can find out a lot quicker.”

These new tools, combined with an open attitude, helped the Buncombe County Republican Party attract newer and younger members.

“We are reaching out to our young people to get them engaged and keep them engaged. We are seeing a changing of the guards as it relates to those that are in their 60s and 70s and trying to bring more people in that are from 18 to 45,” Johnson said.

“There is a sea of change that is happening in our nation, and that same change is being advocated here in Buncombe County to get more people engaged and make them feel successful.”

The Republican Party always possessed this spirit of inclusion, but it often falls short of its fullest potential, according to Johnson. To address this on the local level, the Buncombe Republicans stress issues over partisan ideology.

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“The words of conservative, liberal and moderate have become tainted and most people can’t define them,” Johnson said.

“We’re focusing on fiscal responsibility.

We recognize the economy is tight and that we have got to be smart about how we utilize the dollars that are given to our legislators or that we as tax payers offer up to our legislators to use for the betterment of our society.”

Apart from fiscal responsibility, Johnson wants to make sure the Republican Party looks after the best interests of the people.

“We believe that the government that governs best is the government that is closest to the people. “Over time, I think we have seen our party has not necessarily done its best to be a representative of the people. We have lost connectivity with the common man,” Johnson said.

Local author and 2009 Asheville City Council candidate Cecil Bothwell, said he believes local politics gets forced out of the spotlight because much of it is mundane.

Correction In the Feb. 5 issue, The Blue Banner printed an incorrect attribute to a quote.

“Currently, the university is developing an initiative encouraging faculty to submit grant proposals for the available funding,” was said by John Pierce, vice chancellor of finances and operations, not by J. William Miller.

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Multicultural center fosters cooperation

By Toliver Pollock Staff Writer

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The new Intercultural Center, intended to attract more interest in the area of cultural diversity opens its doors in Highsmith at the end of February.

“The Center will offer a unique opportunity to co-locate Multicultural Student Programs and the Center for Diversity Education,” said Rory James, director of the Intercultural Center/Multicultural Student Programs. “It reinforces our commitment to diversity and inclusion, an integral part of the campus’ strategic plan.”

The Intercultural Center uses MSP to represent what those involved are trying to achieve.

“Multicultural Student Programs is a department in the Division of Student Affairs with responsibility for delivering programs and services to the under-represented student population at UNCA,” James said. “(We) develop programs that enhance and promote diversity, provide programs that educate the campus on issues of diversity and multiculturalism and prepare students to be productive members of a global society,” While UNCA has a wide array of oncampus affiliations allowing students to engage and learn within each individual group, the Intercultural Center gives students the opportunity to associate with

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Rory James and intern Jewell Gist discuss Black History week in James’ current office. A new multicultural center opens at the end of February.

groups they have yet to discover.

“The center will be open for students to discuss social justice issues and collab-

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UNCA student writes book on grass roots music promotion

By Alyssa Spencer Staff Writer afspence@unca.edu

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orate on community outreach initiates,” James said. “I also envision student or-

Brad Lovejoy, senior UNCA management/marketing student, used his love for the music industry to co-write a “how-to” book called the Guerrilla Street Team Guide, which helps aspiring Photo courtesy of Brad Lovejoy entertainers promote their work.

“My book explains the fundamental Brad Lovejoy used a meeting with AC/ DC as inspiration for writing a book. strategies of guerrilla marketing and is

geared towards bands, festivals, concert promoters and businesses,” said Lovejoy, 28. “In the ever-changing entertainment industry, low-cost grassroots promotions, such as bulletin board posters and fliers, are some of the only ways beginning bands have a chance at making it.”

Lovejoy wrote the book with bestselling marketing author Jay Conrad Levinson and said his goal was to blend

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Lovejoy’s book provides tips for music marketing and grass roots promotion.

business tactics with his desire to help beginning bands in one easy- tounderstand book.

Lovejoy said he always wanted to do something epic in life and obtained part of his ambition from rock band AC/DC. “I grew up idolizing counterculture icons such as Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison,” Lovejoy said. “The

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ganizations such as HOLA, BSA, Alliance, ASIA and Hillel using the space for receptions, meetings and other organizational business.”

The Intercultural Center plans to be a support system for students who are not part of an organization, but are looking for a way to share their cultural diversity with the university.

“The Intercultural Center will serve as a ‘safe haven’ for all under-represented students at UNCA,” James said.

“It is my hope that students will socialize, study and interact with students from an array of ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions and cultures,” James said.

The Intercultural Center is not only a great place to broaden their horizons, but also an ideal area for students to relax and escape from daily rituals, said James.

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real tipping point where rock ‘n roll blurred into an attainable reality was when I met the members of AC/DC at age 16. We partied and they were very empowering, telling me to never give up - and I haven’t.”

A transfer student from West Virginia University, Lovejoy took a break after high school to play in bands, work festival productions and do some traveling before realizing he could use his passion and talents to generate an income.

“I was inspired to write the book while working at Harmonized Records in 2006, when I realized there was little information on street team management,” Lovejoy said. “I saw an opportunity to be a pioneer in the field of street team marketing and I went for it. I’ve been working in the entertainment industry for the last 10 years and I love helping fellow musicians succeed; it just made sense to write a book on the subject.”

Lovejoy worked with Levinson to complete the Guerrilla Street Team Guide in the span of a year and acknowledges the difficulty of balancing school with a rigorous business schedule and upcoming book tour.

“My current schedule is beyond challenging and difficult,” Lovejoy said.

“It’s nearly impossible, and I work long hours and most weekends. But now that James Brown has passed, I want to

be the hardest working (or at least the wealthiest) man in show business.”

Since his book hit stores June 28, 2008, Lovejoy has accumulated a large fan base.

At his latest business seminar, the IBMA World of Bluegrass Music Business Conference, he had to turn people away because he sold out of books.

“The Guerrilla Street Team Guide is a fantastic book, especially for people majoring in or interested in business or advertising,” said UNCA junior, Robin Pesko. “I think it has enough useful information that professors could use it in classes.”

Lovejoy’s “2009 Guerrilla Street Team Guide Book-Signing Motorcycle Tour” begins in March in Charlotte, NC and continues to Greenville and Columbia, SC, and Atlanta, GA. The tour ends in Asheville, where Books-A-Million on Tunnel Road marks the last stop.

“We will be having a book signing April 18 from 2 to 4 p.m., where Brad will be speaking and answering questions,” Ben Adams, General Manager of BooksA-Million on Tunnel Road, said. “I have a feeling it’ll be a good turnout.”

Lovejoy has not written any other books but said he plans on writing many more.

“Concentrating on producing the book’s second edition is my main focus,” Lovejoy said.

“I have traveled everywhere from Israel to Africa, and I have found that one of my main passions is learning about different ethnicities,” said junior mass communication student, Maureen McManus.

“I feel that the opening of this center is going to be a very positive asset to our campus life.”

The center will include comfortable furniture, artwork and a multicultural resource library with diverse literature and periodicals geared toward specific demographics such as Jet, Ebony, Latina and The Advocate, according to James.

The Intercultural Center plans to get Asheville locals involved in order to create a strong relationship between them and the university.

“I visited Asheville High School last semester and spoke to AVID students,” James said. “AVID (Advancement Via

Individual Determination) is a college preparatory program designed to aid economically disadvantaged and academically average first-generation students of both elementary and high schools into college.”

James also works with Erika Germer, the Coordinator for the City of Asheville Youth Leadership Academy (CAYLA), in order to create new opportunities at UNCA for local teenagers.

“Recruitment and retention of students of color, particularly local students, is a concern of mine and other UNCA staff,” James said. “I want the Intercultural Center to be a portal for local youth to experience what UNCA has to offer.”

The establishment of the center’s foremost goal is to assist students and their interactions, helping the university as a whole, James said.

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Mills Hall fire alarm malfunctions persist

By Nick Robinson Staff Writer

nhrobins@unca.edu

The fire alarms plaguing Mills Hall remain a nuisance this semester, disrupting students and forcing evacuations at random hours of the day.

“I was in the shower once when it went off,” said Jake Strunin, a sophomore at UNC Asheville in his second year in Mills. “It’s not exactly warm outside yet, so having to interrupt my shower and come outside is really not the most convenient thing I’ve ever done. They haven’t made me late to class yet, but I can totally see that happening.”

The community director of Mills Hall, Mark McNalley said the alarms go off for legitimate reasons about 50 percent of the time.

“Sometimes, it’s students trying to smoke in the rooms; sometimes it’s students cooking in the kitchens,” he said.

“To be fair, some of them are cooking for themselves for the first time in their lives.

I can tell you for certain that as far as kitchen accidents go, it’s never been the same person twice. They generally learn their lesson.”

Other alarm malfunctions stem from non-fire-related issues, McNalley said.

“Not a lot of students know that putting pressure on the alarms or sprinklers can sometimes cause them to go off,” he said.

“Sometimes students hang laundry from them without knowing better.”

Faulty equipment or misuse of the equipment attribute to other reported instances.

Regardless of the causes, they inconvenience the residents of Mills when they go off, according to McNalley.

“I remember they were going off all the time last year,” Strunin said. “They were going off more in the middle of the night then though.”

Rebecca Abide, a freshman living in Mills, has mixed feelings about the

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Book stores open in Montford and Battery Park

By Erin McWhorter Staff Writer

emmcwhor@unca.edu

Asheville book lovers and bargain shoppers may delight in the opening of two new bookstore locations offering variety, quality and values rivaling that of the existing established downtown book retailers.

Montford Books and More and the Battery Park Book Exchange are the newest contenders in the popular local market. However, each of the store’s owners offer unique angles differentiating their independent bookstores.

“The best thing you can have as a retailer, in my humble opinion, is to have all your competitors as close to you as possible, so when you go to look for books you think about going to downtown Asheville,” Thomas Wright, owner of the Battery Park Book Exchange, said.

Book Exchange presents a new twist in a competitive market.

Located on the corner of Battle Square, the Battery Park Book Exchange, owned

by Wright and his wife Donna, offers the distinct dynamic of being a bookstore as well as a champagne bar.

“The best description of it is a bookstore that serves beverages, which also includes wines and champagnes,” Wright said. “Used books are so much better in price than new books that I think the whole market has shifted over to shop-

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A-B Tech instructor, Chris Franklin, chats with Montford Books and More owner, Kay Manly. The book store opened in mid-January, but Manly plans a grand opening celebration for her store on Valentine’s Day.

ping in less expensive venues.”

Housing an extensive selection of used, new and rare books, Battery Park Book Exchange aims to stock between 50,000 and 60,000 titles.

“We’re trying to make it very commodious as a bookstore, for people who

enjoy books and some other place to go,” Wright said. “If you get a reputation of being a book town, you’ll start getting more people and the pie will grow larger, so your share of the pie will grow proportionately. Competition in that aspect is very good.”

The selection of champagnes and wines is as diverse as the books neatly organized around the welcoming shop.

Including sparkling wines from as far away as New Zealand and as close as

dles nor liquor and his addiction presents no legal conflict. Bill suffers from sexual addiction.

Public reaction affected him so negatively before he moved to Asheville that he only agreed to discuss it anonymously.

His name has been changed for this article.

Before he began the recovery process, Bill engaged in continuous extramarital affairs.

“It was like smoking. I swore it off, and I swore it off, and I swore it off, and I’d be back at it again in a day or a week or a month,” Bill said. “It’s just chaos. I had kids and a wife and a successful business,

and I felt terribly guilty and ashamed. I was just absolutely powerless to stop.”

In Asheville and across the country, support groups for sex addiction welcome addicts who wish to recover. However, the stigma associated with sexual addiction inhibits many individuals’ recoveries, according to Mildred Williams, a psychology professor at Webster University and West University.

“There was a time where you actually would have to call a phone number, and they’d have to call you back and kind of screen you before they even allowed you to go to the meeting, because it’s such a shame-based illness,” Williams said.

The stigma affects sex addicts more powerfully than alcoholics or narcotics addicts because there are fewer members, according to Williams.

However, despite their smaller number, sex addicts’ issues vary. Sexual addiction runs the gamut from masturbation to fantasy and from cheating to engaging in anonymous sex, according to Williams.

When a practitioner recovers from their compulsive behavior, the community terms the addict “sober,” reflecting alcoholism terminology.

“Having sober sex with my wife is dif-

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Sex addicts receive little sympathy from the community

By Meredi Wagner-Hoehn Contributing Writer savvy_mer@yahoo.com

Bill suffered from an addiction. When the public found out, he lost everything.

“It took about six months to lose my job, a year to lose my license and about two-and-a-half years of civil court,” Bill said. “I don’t regret any of that now because it all got me into recovery, and my recovery is more important than any of my professional life. I didn’t have a spiritual life before, and now I do and that’s worth whatever the cost.”

Bill’s addiction involves neither nee-

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Ohio natives find home in Asheville music scene

By Sam Hunt

Assistant Arts & Features Editor schunt@unca.edu

King Tut’s uplifting instrumental rock has expanded the sound of UNC Asheville’s diverse music scene since the band relocated from Bay Village, Ohio, in fall 2007.

Inspired by math rock, indie rock and jazz, King Tut brings together a wide variety of tastes and styles, both obscure and mainstream. King Tut’s guitarist, Mark Boyd, said the band’s live shows have not always appealed to dancers.

“People just started dancing at our shows recently, which is probably directly correlated with the increasing number of UNCA student attendees,” said Boyd, 21, a UNCA environmental science student.

“UNCA kids know the how and when of cutting a rug.”

Before forming King Tut, Boyd played in two bands, a post-rock band called Sit By Us & Moan and the free-improv, drum-heavy band, Neematoad.

“Drew and I went to high school together in Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland. Drew went through a slew of music programs, including jazz band and marching band,” Boyd said. “At our first concert in someone’s basement back home, Drew came up to me and asked if he could be in the band. We’ve clicked as musicians and friends ever since.”

Boyd and drummer Drew Veres moved to Asheville to take a year off from school and reinvent their music base. By mid-2008 the two-piece had prepared a full-length album, and Boyd and Veres Photos courtesy of King Tut enrolled in local universities for the Above, King Tut performs at Charlotte’s Milestone.

Mark Boyd, left, and Drew 2008-09 academic year.

Veres perform at Fred’s Speak Easy in downtown Asheville.

“We spent a summer in Kent, Ohio, playing shows and living on our own, made too much money, but giving our keeps you rooted in reality,” Boyd said.

Boyd said King Tut’s guitar influences honing in on our live sound. Then we music away for free has helped us reach spent about two months in Cashiers, liv- thousands of people that we’ll probably range from vocal-based electronica to instrumental post-rock. Boyd had an early ing with Drew’s grandparents. That’s never hear from.”

While several recordings feature admiration for such popular instrumental where I wrote the song that would eventually make it into the top 20 of the BBC’s Boyd on vocals, King Tut plays in- acts as Explosions in the Sky and Mogstrumental live shows. An intense wai, but learned technique from folk artist ‘Next Big Thing’ contest.”

The BBC nominated “What You’re focus on guitar effects leaves little Iron and Wine.

“The biggest influences for me as far After” for 2007’s “Next Big Thing.” room for singing, according to Boyd.

The song does not appear on King Tut’s “I already have to concentrate enough as songwriting goes are Iron & Wine, The debut full-length, Chopping Wood & on my guitar pedals, I don’t have time to Books and Do Make Say Think,” Boyd Carrying Water, but all of King Tut’s sing. We have songs that have singing in said. “Iron & Wine inspired me to play songs are available for free download them, but I have to record and re-record guitar in the first place and also got me fingerpicking, which is an integral part of on the band’s Reverbnation webpage. those parts to get them right.

“At the same time, I think instrumen- our sound.

“We let people download over 55 songs “I love the orchestration and calm off our site,” Boyd said. “We haven’t tal music can take you places that lyrical music can’t, simply because the language intensity of The Books and hope to one

day add more vocal samples to our live shows.”

Veres, 19, an A-B Tech student who plans to pursue a music technology degree at UNCA, has a great interest in jazz and the New York band Battles, who influenced King Tut’s time signature range, according to Boyd.

Coupled with Veres’ interest in math rock and jazz, the duo bridges many subgenres within the indie rock style.

Although Veres was not a founding member, Boyd said he contributes an equal amount of songwriting on the band’s more recent material. However, King Tut’s musical communication is minimal, both on stage and in the songwriting process.

“In the past, Drew would write drum parts to already existing guitar parts.

Now, Drew gives me advice sometimes as to what specific melody I should be playing,” Boyd said.

“Our communication while we’re playing generally extends to ‘keep going on this part,’ ‘next time around play the new part’ and ‘what the fuck was that?’”

Despite a solid student and local cult following, Boyd said he is not pleased with the Asheville music scene.

“Ken, the owner of the Rocket Club, has been one of the biggest and best supporters of our music as well as a friend,” Boyd said. “But I’m not too impressed with the Asheville music scene. It’s probably because UNCA students don’t have a place to practice, and it’s hard for the under-21 to play at venues around here.

“It’s cool that so many people feel creative and have the initiative to play out, but a lot of them aren’t doing anything original. I guess I expected Asheville to be more experimental rather than jam bandy and full of watered down indie rock,” Boyd said.

King Tut has four Asheville concerts lined up until spring break. On Friday, King Tut headlines at West Asheville’s Rocket Club with Vertigo Jazz Project, and on the following Friday, King Tut will play at Bobo Gallery on Lexington Ave. Asheville’s crowd at local venues is supportive, according to Boyd “It’s nice to have a vote of confidence from your friends and total strangers,” Boyd said. “On Feb. 19, we’re playing at Stella Blue downtown, and there’ll be 50-cent PBRs.”

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Addicts

ferent from having obsessive, addictive sex,” Bill said. “It may look exactly the same from the outside, but it’s what’s going on in my head. Before I got sober, I wasn’t necessarily here. I was off in some fantasy.”

The obsession occasionally manifests through an addict taking “indecent liberties,” a term Williams explained as physically rubbing against another person’s body and fantasizing, often culminating in chronic masturbation.

However, symptoms only reflect the externalization of the root cause, he said.

“They’ve taken something that, as we know, is a wonderful, natural act, and they’ve made it something that they have to engage in to deal with emotional pain,” said Williams, who also worked as an addictions counselor for 22 years.

Psychologist Robert McDonald, Ph.D., explained the official collection of psychological diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, excludes sex addiction.

“I help people change their behavior to ways that work for them,” McDonald said. “If they identify their behavior as a problem, it is a problem, so I see it as a legitimate problem.”

That issue often remains untreated, while the addict rationalizes their behavior as normal, according to McDonald.

“Sexual arousal and orgasm are so inherently pleasurable that there usually has to be an external problem before the individual identifies it as a problem: you have to get arrested for soliciting a prostitute, or run up the credit cards really high or the person you’re in a relationship with gets really ticked off,” said McDonald, an Oklahoma native.

Since sex addiction often stems from feelings of shame and anxiety, support groups encourage members to find their “higher power” and put their faith in spirituality.

Eric B., a member of the Asheville chapter of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous who wished to exclude his last name, explained that, to reach intimacy with another individual, he first learned to reach intimacy with himself and his “higher power.”

“What is not spiritual? To me, it all is, and especially sexuality. Sexuality is sensuality, which is all of the senses. And what is not sensual?” Eric said.

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“It took about six months to lose my job, a year to lose my license and about two-and-a-half years of civil court. I don’t regret any of that now because it all got me into recovery, and my recovery is more important than any of my professional life. I didn’t have a spiritual life before, and now I do and that’s worth whatever the cost.”

—Anonymous sex addict

liams.

“There’s a saying around those recovery zones: a person doesn’t fall in love; they take people hostage. They become a kind of leech to the person they fall in love with,” Williams explained of addictive relationships. “It’s more of that need to be needed, need for romance, need to be loved.”

“The partner becomes the person’s ‘higher power,’” Eric said.

For Sexaholics Anonymous, membership only requires a genuine commitment to stop lusting obsessively and pursue sexual health and sobriety. This universal urge unites all types of individuals on a common front, said Bill.

As another alternative, individual therapy offers more personalized benefits, according to McDonald.

“I have the luxury of tailoring everything to the individual’s needs, as closely as I can figure that out. I try to figure out what led to that maladaptive behavior, what maintains it, what kind of intervention might be helpful for the individual to gain more control over it,” McDonald said.

Internet pornography and sexually explicit photographs serve as tools which sex addicts tend to employ frequently, according to Bill.

“When you have to go to a grimy store in a bad part of town and pay somebody face to face to get sexual material, there are a lot of hurdles there. But if you can press a couple of buttons on a computer in the privacy of your apartment or bedroom, there are virtually no hurdles,” McDonald said.

McDonald often receives female clients who feel discomfort because their

male partner spends great quantities of time with a virtual woman through a computer screen.

“Women feel threatened by the men paying a lot of attention to abnormally attractive women,” McDonald said. “If they were male, and she was looking at the Chippendale Strippers with the ripped stomachs, we’d be kind of uncomfortable just from the perspective of, ‘is that what I have to live up to? Is my flabby stomach a real bummer for her?’”

In most cases, the men insist they intend to stop. However, McDonald estimates that 99 percent of the time, they cannot stop themselves.

“It (Internet pornography) kills intimacy,” Eric said.

Sex addicts who ask for help tend to be middle-aged males, according to Williams.

“The meetings definitely have more men in them, but my own personal belief is that it’s harder for a woman to come out of the closet with this in our culture,” Bill said of the 12- step support programs. “If a man’s having a lot of sex, he’s a man; if a woman’s having a lot of sex, she’s a slut.

Our society just looks at it differently.”

Biological growth offers another explanation, according to McDonald.

“At the point when the fetus gets the message to become a male, a portion of the brain that would develop into empathy and the ability to socially understand situations – females, empathy and social understanding, those things can be tested – for men, it develops into sexual interest and aggression,” McDonald said.

Although people tend to get help later in life, sex addiction affects every age group. Younger individuals manage to

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Extra: For more information on sex addiction, visit the Sex Addicts Anonymous Web site at:

www.sexaa.org

or www.sexaddict.com For counseling information, call UNC Asheville’s Counseling Center at:

(828)-251-6517 The counseling services are located on the first floor of Weizenblatt Health Center and provides three major programs of service, free of charge, to all registered UNCA students; individual counseling, group counseling and outreach programs. copulate frequently without the label “addicts” because society expects it of them, said McDonald.

“One of the challenges in that period, 17 to 25 or so, is to learn to manage our feelings, of stress or attraction or whatever, in ways that are not too problematic,” McDonald said. “At 30, using sex becomes more problematic than it does at 18 to 22.”

However, young addicts can experience the same strains of symptoms, such as compulsive sexual dispositions and using sex as an emotional outlet.

“The middle-aged sex addicts I’ve dealt with seem to have had a lifelong course: they were hypersexual in their teens and twenties and then on into their adulthood,” McDonald said. “But when they get married, after a period of time, she (their spouse) is going to find something going whacky.”

Despite obsessive mentalities, addicts still manage to pursue sobriety successfully. Bill uses prayer to curb potential fantasies.

“That puts the power between my ears, not between my legs,” Bill said.

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Fire alarms in Mills Hall are reported to have been going off since 2007.

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Left, Battery Park Book Exchange supports a dog-friendly environment and accepts donations for local animal rescue agencies. UNCA alum and Enka High School teacher, Stuart Annard browses books at Montford Books and More.

the Biltmore Estate, the assortment represents the best of many regions known for producing fine products, according to Wright.

“We expect most of the reading and buying to be during the day, and most of the selling of wines and champagnes to be at night,” he said With Sante Wine Bar located just around the corner, Wright’s store will not only see retail competition in books but in beverages as well.

“We sell a lot of still wine or table wine,” he said. “The amount of champagne and the amount of wine we have is almost equal, sparkling to flat wines.

But, we’re definitely in the wine business and so are they.”

Taking credit for the novel idea of a bookstore with a champagne bar, Wright recognizes that in order to pay the rent in a downtown location, it helps to know how to make use of competition and create a business with a distinction.

“To be in certain retail venues you need to be able to take a look outside the box, and everybody is selling books,” he said. “In the book business you want to find readers, people who have an interest and respect for books and that comes with the power of pricing,” he said. “At night, our champagne bar is going to be commodious, but sedate. It all helps add up to make a bookstore viable.”

Wright plans on easing the store into business so any kinks along the way can be worked out. Officially, he hopes to be open by Feb. 11.

“I have a lot more books than wine, by a factor of tenfold,” he said. “So, I’m always a bookstore that serves wine.”

Montford Books offers a home away from home Less than a half-mile away from Battery Park Book Exchange, Kay Manly, owner of Montford Books and More, offers readers a comfortable and warm setting in which to browse.

“Here, what we’re trying to do is have a place for people to have a little retreat from the outside world; it can be like a second living room,” she said.

Opened since mid-January, Manly’s new store utilizes the space that previously housed The Reader’s Corner. She purchased the business in December.

“With the recession, it’s a bit of a risk, but I think one thing that is most likely true is that each of the bookstores in the Asheville area is a little bit unique, or has something unique to offer,” Manly said.

Montford Books carries two floors worth of titles, as well as vinyls, CDs and DVDs. “We know that Asheville and this area is a place where there are a lot of readers, which is different than some communities,” Manly said. “But Asheville is a reading community, so this gives people a lot of choices.”

As the store progresses, Manly also wants to carry local pottery and artwork for sale.

“I think there is a lot of support in this area for independent and small businesses. There’s a lot of support from the consumers,” she said.

In addition to Montford Books, Manly works full-time at A-B Tech in the adult education program. She admits seeing

some great changes affect the downtown area in her 30 years in Asheville.

Manly believes Montford Books will attract a wide variety of people because of the quality and affordability her bookstore offers.

She plans to have an official grand opening on Valentine’s Day. “It’s been interesting piecing together things,” she said.

New book stores give back to the community One thing Montford Books and Battery Park Book Exchange share are plans to embrace the community in various ways.

With 10 percent of all sales being donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina, Manly’s official grand opening on Valentine’s Day is scheduled to include door prizes, sweets and hot cocoa.

In memory of a beloved pet, Book Exchange, supporting a dog-friendly environment, asks for contributions to local animal rescue agencies in return for a small discount on purchases at the store, according to Wright.

“We will be asking people, if they’re willing to make a contribution to some of the areas Life Guards for dogs and we will give them a discount in the book store,” he said.

Since Wright’s store is located in the historic Battery Park Hotel building, his future plans include revisiting famous authors of historic and literary relevance to the Asheville area.

alarms.

“I understand the necessity for them, but it’s pretty frustrating early in the morning, especially when you hear it’s just faulty equipment,” she said.

Students began taking issue with the faulty fire alarms in Mills last semester.

At one point, SGA senator candidate Austin Mack sent an e-mail to the entire student body with the subject line, “Who is PISSED about these alarms in Mills?”

Mack, a Founders resident, reported he experienced excessive false alarms during a trip to Mills.

“I was thinking,” Mack said. “If they go off when not suppose (sic) to, will they even go off when there is a real fire?”

“It’s pretty frustrating early in the morning, especially when you hear it’s just faulty equipment.”

— Rebecca Abide

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By Randi Kitts Staff Writer

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UNC Asheville’s Lady Bulldogs (8-14, 5-4) rallied back for a thrilling 87-83 overtime win Saturday at home against Charleston Southern (8-14, 2-7).

“This was a good win, well-earned and greatly needed,” sophomore guard Chioma Okoli said.

Senior guard Ana Baker broke Vicki Griffin’s (1993-1997) school record of 245 career steals as she scored 22 points and grabbed four steals, bringing her career total to 247.

The Lady Bulldogs collected two doubledoubles as freshman forward Linda Aughburns Ana Baker scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while sophomore forward Lindsey Montgomery added 13 points and 13 rebounds.

“A lot of different people stepped up and played hard. We stuck together as a Ian Shannon - Staff Photographer team,” sophomore forward Arescia Moore Lindsey Thompson stretches out to snatch a rebound against the Lady Bucs. said.

The Lady Bucs were led by senior guard UNCA freshman guard Lindsey Pam Tolbert who scored a career-high 30 “Our determination to Thompson sparked the Lady Bulldogs points. with a 3-pointer at the start of overtime.

The Lady Bulldogs defense struggled win, our ability to compete UNCA held the lead and Baker sealed as Charleston Southern took a 42-32 halfthe victory on a free throw with just three and the coaching from time lead. left to play. our coaches motivates us seconds UNCA came out strong in the second “This was a really big win, and it’s half and capped an 11-0 run with a layup important for us to try and get every win as a team to come back from Montgomery to take the lead at the the stretch so that we can end up in and fight for the win when down 16:11 mark. the top half of our conference,” Moore “Our determination to win, our abilsaid. “We worked hard and executed the we’re down.” ity to compete and the coaching from our game plan as a team and that’s why we coaches motivates us as a team to come won this game.” back and fight for the win when we’re Okoli said the team’s work ethic –Arescia Moore down,” Moore said. boosts their confidence in winning their Charleston Southern answered back remaining games before the conference and went up 61-53 on a layup from fresh- Okoli said. tournament. man forward Ali Schwagmeyer with just The game went into overtime as neither “I’m confident that if we rebound well over eight minutes left to play. team mustered enough points to pull away and play good, consistent defense for 40 The Lady Bulldogs rallied back on an in the closing minutes. minutes in the upcoming game,” Okoli 11-3 run to tie the game at 64-64 at the “The game was really intense, and the said. “We definitely have a great chance 5:43 mark. crowd was really excited when the game of winning,” “We played good defense in the second went into overtime,” sophomore dance The Lady Bulldogs start a two-game half and out-rebounded our opponent, and team member Sarah Maldonado said. road trip this Saturday against the Presthose were key in keeping us in the game,” “Those are always exciting.” byterian Blue Hose.

Sports Calendar Today Women’s Tennis v. Western Friday Track and Field at Dick Taylor Carolina Invitational Saturday Men’s Tennis at Lees-McRae Women’s Basketball at Presbyterian Men’s Basketball v. Radford Sunday Men’s Tennis v. UNCG Monday Women’s Basketball at Gardner-Webb Tuesday Men’s Basketball at High Point Feb. 20 Baseball at Courtyard by Marriott Baseball Classic

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Augst sets record as Bulldogs blow past Buccaneers

By Dan Weller Staff Writer

djweller@unca.edu

UNC Asheville (11-13, 7-6) defeated the Charleston Southern Buccaneers (7-15, 2-9) 80-71 Saturday at the Justice Center.

UNCA senior forward Reid Augst scored 19 points and shot a school record 5-of-5 from beyond the arch. Augst pushed his total to 1,008 points for his career. He is only the 24th player in school history and the 91st player in Big South history to reach the century Reid Augst mark.

“It felt good to reach this accomplishment,” Augst said. “I couldn’t have done it without my teammates.”

The Bulldogs placed five players in double figures, including Augst. Freshman guard John Primm came off the bench to score 13 points and gave four assists.

Red-shirt sophomore forward John Williams contributed 14 points. Junior guard Sean Smith added 10 points and now has scored at least 10 points in his past four games.

Freshman guard Matt Dickey led the backcourt as he scored 15 points and shot 45 percent from the field and a perfect 7-of-7 from the charity stripe.

“I’m feeling a lot more comfortable now,” Dickey said. “And I’m just letting the game come to me. I have to be ready when I’m called on to come in at any time.”

Sophomore guards Jamarco Warren and Tovi Baileywho led the Buccaneers with 20 and 13 points respectively.

Senior center Giedrius Knysas collected his second double-double of the season with 11 points and 13 rebounds.

UNCA fell behind early as they shot just 2-9 from the field and went down 18-6 in the opening seven minutes.

The Bulldogs rallied back with two 3-pointers and finished the first half shooting 62 percent. Primm’s 3-pointers led the Bulldogs on a 24-10 run to take a 30-28 lead at halftime.

The Bulldogs’ second-half defense stymied CSU as they shot under 50 percent from the field and only 21 percent from behind the arch.

“We came out kind of flat in the beginning, but we did a nice job of bouncing back at the end of the first half and played much better in the second half,” said Head

Big South Conference Standings Men’s Basketball Team

Big South Overall

VMI

11-2

20-4

Radford

11-2

14-10

Liberty

9-5

18-8

Gardner-Webb

7-6

11-12

UNC Asheville

7-6

11-13

Presbyterian

7-6

10-14

Winthrop

5-8

10-15

Coastal Carolina

4-9

10-15

Charleston Southern

2-10

7-16

High Point

2-11

6-17

Women’s Basketball

Ian Shannon - Staff Photographer

John Primm topples Charleston Southern defenders for a second half layup.

“It felt good to reach this accomplishment.

I couldn’t have done it without my teammates.”

–Reid Augst Coach Eddie Biedenbach.

UNCA maintained the offensive momentum from the first half as Augst scored all of his 19 points in the second half, and went 5-of-5 from the 3-point line to lift UNCA. The Buccaneers kept the game close until the final minutes. CSU shot only 53 percent from the free throw line and just

27 percent in the first half.

“It was a great win for us,” Biedenbach said. “Charleston Southern has a lot of good talent, a lot of young talent, and I feel like we are getting better and better as the season goes on.”

The Bulldogs are now tied for 5th in the Big South Conference and have just four games left on their regular season schedule, including Saturday against Radford at home.

Their regular season ends Feb. 28 at Presbyterian and the conference tournament begins March 3.

John Primm is the first freshman since Josh Kohn (1992-1993) to record 100 assists in a season.

Team

Big South Overall

Liberty

9-0

15-7

High Point

7-3

11-12

Radford

5-4

6-14

Winthrop

5-4

10-11

Coastal Carolina

5-5

13-10

UNC Asheville

5-5

8-15

Gardner-Webb

4-6

12-11

Charleston Southern

3-7

9-14

Presbyterian

0-9

3-18

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A roadside wake-up call

In the blink of an eye, hit 90’s Safety behind the wheel is the driver’s responsibility band returns Everywhere you look you see people talking on cell phones while driving, and while this may distract you, a nationwide ban won’t stop it.

Recently, the National Safety Council, a group focused on preventing accidental injuries and deaths, called on legislators across the country to ban cell phone use and text messaging while driving.

While the NSC certainly watches out for the livelihood of America’s citizens, such a ban runs contrary to our country’s ideal of freedom.

America prides itself on freedom. We pay for this freedom by being responsible for our actions. If a person uses a cell phone while driving and causes an accident, the responsibility falls on that person.

If legislators pass such a law, this assumes people can’t make decisions for themselves. Unlike a drinking law, which makes it illegal for people to have their blood-alcohol content above a certain level, a complete ban on cell phone use has no middle ground. Cell phones can be turned off in an instant while alcohol must run its course before a person can focus again.

A person who drinks a beer or two can drive home legally, so a person getting home late should be allowed to call from the road. Legislation should focus on moderation rather than a total ban for all because of a few extreme cases.

In North Carolina, the current law prohibits cell phone use for bus drivers and anyone under 18 years old while driving, according to the Governor’s Highway Safety Association.

In addition to the law above, a text ban also exists for the same group of drivers.

Naturally, teenagers listen and abide by these laws.

Well, not quite.

A few years after the law passed for teenagers, a study in North Carolina found little change in cell phone use in cars before and after lawmakers crafted the law, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Roughly 11 percent used cell phones before the law, compared to 12 percent after the law, according to a study cited by the IIHS. Laws try to change behavior, but the teens in the study didn’t stop using cell

all the angst about cell phone use in cars?

Cell phones only entered mainstream

By Tom McLean society in the last decade or so. They still Staff Writer remain a novelty and because so many tjmclean@unca.edu people use cell phones while driving, they receive the attention.

Other distractions, although problematic when first noticed, remain an accepted part of American-driving culture.

Make no mistake, using a cell phone phones. And if the laws didn’t change while driving remains dangerous and teens, then what makes the NSC sure it risky. We can only learn and educate othwill work for adults? ers if someone becomes hurt from using a The kind of law the NSC wants to pass cell phone in a car. anticipates car wrecks caused by cell phone If drivers want to use cell phones, they use while driving, incorrectly assuming need to understand their driving abilities. cell phones are most distracting to a driver.

A 16-year-old does not have the experiWould it make sense to outlaw all other ence of a 50-year-old, and younger drivers behaviors in a car just because something should realize this. Similarly, if an older might happen? driver starts using a phone while driving, No one could justify the passing of they should take the time to learn the new such laws and feel right about doing so. habit.

Because we do enjoy our freedom and If the ban passes, the enforcement of responsibility in this country, we don’t the law becomes more need groups pressuring important than the law itlawmakers into regulating self. And if enforcement We don’t need our behavior. If we want reduces the number of legislators to be our pargroups pressuring accidents caused by cell ents, we’ll let them know. phone use while driving, lawmakers into “There’s a host of other then maybe other bans things that cause people on distractions might not regulating our beto be distracted,” said havior. If we want hurt.Bans on other distracChief Bill Hogan of the Asheville Police Departlegislators to be tions must always take ment. the middle ground. It’s our parents, we’ll ridiculous to think a ban People eat, fix their hair and change radio staworks with every person let them know. tions while driving, addin every situation every ing to the distractions on time, and by focusing on the road. the middle ground, legis“I’ve seen on numerous occasions, at a lators keep things in balance. traffic light, people reading newspapers,” As it stands, the ban doesn’t exist. said Hogan.

Since the NSC cares about driver safety, These arguments against the ban don’t they might consider focusing more of their sit well with the NSC or anyone else push- effort on educating drivers on the dangers ing for a nationwide ban. The big push for of cell phone use in cars. If they think the ban results from the distraction cell laws stop all behavior, the group needs to phones cause while driving, according to take a look around.

Every American should decide on their the NSC. Rubbernecking and tailgating distract own whether or not to use a cell phone drivers today just like yesterday. No- while driving. By making up our own where on the highways of America does minds about the issue, we become more a distraction-free zone exist. So then why responsible citizens.

By Cassidy Culbertson Photography Editor cjculber@unca.edu

The phrase “indefinite hiatus” conjures particularly agonizing memories for diehard Blink-182 fans.

And Mark Hoppus’ comment “Blink-182 is back,” incites frenzied hope and absolutely overwhelming excitement.

In 2005, the prolific ’90s pop-punk group disbanded – a bitter personal breakup and sudden halt that shocked and depressed fans.

Blink-182 took the stage together for the first time in four years on Sunday at the Grammys, announcing their full-scale return. Within seconds, the band’s Web site transformed from dated 2006 blog posts to a bold new image, affirming the group’s summer 2009 reunion.

“I’m shaking. I’m crying. I can’t breathe.

It was the most epic thing I’ve seen in my entire life,” Shonna Bell, a Blink-182 fan said Sunday night, echoing the sentiments of many.

I didn’t resort to tear-streaked hyperventilation, but the announcement filled me with a bubbly energy.

Something about the reunion of these three guys, who wrote the first parentaladvisory CD I ever purchased, reuniting motivates me to do crazy things, like go to the gym and do laundry.

Blink insists the reunion wasn’t about money, but one based on forgiveness and friendship. Blink-182 is, again, simply best friends making music.

“Mark, Tom and Travis,” the energetic trio fueling Blink-182’s career, united in 1998. “Enema of the State,” the first to include all three members, rocketed the band from punk obscurity to worldwide

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Asheville trades its soul for steel Every day developers clear cut another small forest, put up 10 metal beams at some construction site, close off another street downtown and present another 13-story condominium unit to the Asheville City Council.

Those sure seem like signs of a growing town.

Well, yes and no.

It is hard to deny that Asheville is certainly growing, but whether or not any of this new construction is actually useful or practical for Asheville’s citizens is up for debate.

By focusing on new development, the city delays work on other, years-old projects still unfinished In case anyone has not noticed, the road work choking the downtown city streets has not improved traffic or the quality of the streets, and the Pack Square Park construction that began nearly four years ago continues with no end in sight. Dirt fills the old fountain and the Vance monument is inaccessible. Beyond that, though, there is no observable progress at the site.

Recently, the Asheville Downtown Association said construction is moving so slowly that downtown businesses volunteered to help build the park. That is pretty bad when regular citizens feel they need to volunteer in order to finish construction on what amounts to a 6.5-acre glorified backyard.

Asheville’s itch to change has run into problems with the Pack Square Park issue.

On the other hand, Biltmore Village in South Asheville is having relative success with their improvements.

Last summer, a new addition to Biltmore Village opened and now Asheville is home to such stores as J. Crew, Williams-

Blink

Indigo, a boutique hotel chain, both open next year. On top of the Indigo will be The Residences which consist of 12 conBy Patrick Zarcone Staff Writer dominiums units that occupy the top four pwzarcon@unca.edu floors.

The condominiums will be very expensive, as will the hotel. The Web site for the Residences states, “In Art in nature and in Zen there is simple beauty. In Asheville, Sonoma, Coldwater Creek and White there is your Residence.” While the buildHouse/Black Market. While they may be ing may be beautiful, much like the situalovely stores, they cater to the residents of tion with the Grand Bohemian Hotel, the Biltmore Forest and the wealthy tourists location is not ideal. and not to the general population here in Guests and residents alike will enjoy Asheville. beautiful views of downtown Asheville In addition to the new set against a backstores, there is also a new drop of the Blue Ridge hotel under construction Asheville is expe- Mountains, if they hapin another part of Biltmore pen to be on the good Village. The Grand Bohe- riencing an identity side. The other three mian Hotel, slated to open crisis. The city needs sides offers folks a view in April, looks as though of Three Brothers Resit may actually open on its to think about where taurant, The Salvation targeted date. The Web and what they want to Army, the Buncombe site describes the hotel County Sheriff’s Office as: “Just steps away from build and if it makes and Interstate 240. gates of the famous BiltAsheville is not Assense for the city. more Estate lies the aupen, Colo. Asheville thentic Old-World, rustic is Asheville and the ambiance of this Tudor inspired boutique people who live here know that and the hotel…” people they expect to move here will figSounds fancy, and it is. What they fail ure it out rather quickly. to mention is that while they charge $200+ The city built its reputation as the per night (for the standard room), the folksy, little liberal city in the sea of “red” views will be a bit more Motel 6. McDonthat is much of Western North Carolina. ald’s sits across the street from the hotel.

Directly next to it is a Hardee’s. Behind Right now, Asheville is experiencing an it is a road with railroad tracks that leads identity crisis. The city needs to think to a City Stop gas station and a Long John about where and what they want to build and if it makes sense for the city.

Silver’s/A&W combination restaurant.

Three-quarters of Asheville (north, Construction moves along at an expedieast and west) is full of affordable shoptious pace in other parts of Asheville.

The Residences at 151 and the Hotel ping, popular and award winning restau-

They drew in thousands of devoted fans, revamping the pop-punk subculC o n t i n u e d f r o m P a g e 1 7 ture of the ‘90s. Blink’s unruly comingof-age anthems fueled a generation approaching the new millennium. success.

You didn’t grow out of Blink. They The hit “All the Small Things” off their album Enema of the State reached grew with you. out to a diverse group, from rebellious Tom Delonge acrimoniously split with high school kids to their mainstream- Travis Barker and Hoppus in 2005. Derock-listening parents. The video poked longe barely spoke to his former bandfun at ’90s boy-band antics, establishing mates during the hiatus, instead focusing Blink not only as talented rockers, but as on his new band Angels and Airwaves. goofballs intent on having fun.

Hoppus and Barker channeled their cre The group continued cranking ative energy into +44. out hits and laughs, soon becoming reBoth post-Blink bands experienced nowned for dirty jokes and immaturity. success reached Blink-182’s acclaim or No topic was taboo. influence.

After drummer Barker’s near-fatal airplane crash last year, the former bandmates realized life was too short and quickly mended their friendship.

Skeptics, including a few of my friends who still consider themselves Blink fans, think these guys are just cranking out a new record and going on some half-hearted reunion tour to fund glamorous rock star lives. But I can’t help but find the reunion inspiring.

Watching friends reunite and anticipating the creative energy sure to ensue absolutely thrills me.

I’m not ashamed to be among those eternally stoked about the reunion.

rants, funky art and sculptures and beautiful Art Deco architecture. It’s silly to base the city’s future development on the one-quarter of the city that is home to the wealthiest citizens and the wealthiest tourists. Catering to a few wealthy people and ignoring the general populace of the town is not in the best interests of Asheville’s 71,000 citizens.

The economy remains in shambles and many people can’t pay a couple million dollars for a condo. Investing in the belief that people will pay for those condos is riskier than fixing the old, decrepit Asheville Civic Center, opening a new club or restaurant downtown or even constructing a large music venue in order to lure popular touring acts to town.

All of those things would bring money to Asheville, perhaps more than a new and expensive high-rise might.

The majority of the people that can afford the Grand Bohemian, The Residences, the new Biltmore Village shops and the $3 million condos that City Council is discussing plans for are the same people who will no longer come to Asheville when the last patch of tree-covered mountain is razed for more senseless, overpriced and poorly thought out development.

The people living and working in Asheville will still be here. The city should think about their needs rather than tourists or retirees, who contribute little to the city’s future.

It is not just expensive hotels and restaurants that people come to Asheville for; it is also the natural beauty and the offbeat, artistic vibe reverberating through downtown, West Asheville and the River Arts District. Forgetting that fact might be this city’s downfall.

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University seeks to limit effects of budget cuts This Valentine’s Day, put your

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money where your heart is Valentine’s Day conjures up dozens of images of hearts, chocolates, Cupids and roses, but one thing seem lacking from the holiday: Originality.

Every Valentine’s Day, men and women pack restaurants and consume gratuitous amounts of chocolate. Credit cards get maxed out and wallets get emptied, often for things that won’t be around tomorrow, except maybe in the love handles.

Instead of embracing the romantic spirit of the holiday, couples bicker about where to eat, what to do and how much to spend. Finding thoughtful and personal ways to express love often means picking a greeting card, where the thinking has been done for you.

Valentine’s Day is so riddled with clichés, even being jaded has become cliché.

The

Instead of spending money, couples should invest time and thought into making the day something special. Scrapbooks, mix CDs and love letters have value impossible to price. All of these gifts involve actually knowing someone and trying to figure out what makes them truly happy, something Hallmark and Godiva can never do.

Finding things to say to the ones we love should not be difficult, and yet it often is. We worry about being rejected or saying the wrong thing. Not everyone is a born poet or a hopeless romantic.

But speaking from the heart is something every individual needs more practice at doing. Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to cast all inhibitions to the side and tell your partner how you truly feel. Odd are, if you are speaking from the heart, you will say the right thing.

Blue Banner Editorial Board

Karpen Hall 019 (828) 251-6586 banner@unca.edu www.thebluebanner.net Aaron Dahlstrom, Editor-in-Chief

Emily Gray, Business Manager

Jonathan Walczak, Managing Editor

Cassidy Culbertson, Photo Editor

Pam Stringer, News Editor

Cassady Sharp, Assistant News Editor

Dylan Schepps, Arts&Features Editor Sam Hunt, Assistant Arts&Features Editor Greg Hicks, Sports Editor

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Jason Herring, Design&Web Editor

Michael Gouge, Faculty Adviser

The Blue Banner is UNC Asheville’s student newspaper. We publish each Thursday except during summer sessions, finals week and holiday breaks. Our office is located in Karpen Hall 019.

The Blue Banner is a designated forum for free speech and welcomes letters to the editor, considering them on basis of interest, space and timeliness. Letters and articles should be e-mailed to banner@unca.edu. They should be signed with the writer’s name, followed by year in school, major or other relationship to UNCA. Include a telephone number to aid in verification. All articles are subject to editing.

As the student body president, I am privy to many facets of the campus and its differing constituencies. Typically, there are many responses to any given scenario or obstacle that may arise to challenge our university. These variations are explained by the different interest groups at our school.

Such diversity puts UNC Asheville in a better place to deal with the current economic climate than most. Students remain insulated from the majority of the effects of the recent belt-tightening at the university.

The looming beast of the poor economy can easily seem to be nothing more than a distant fairy tale, and yet it is real.

Those in need are all around us, from the administrators who are working to cut 6 percent out of a shoestring budget to the non-traditional student next to you laid off from work. This caused the university to determine its core essentials and caused others to consider whether further education is still possible.

You can reach out to both groups and to many others in the larger Asheville community who are not as fortunate as some.

We can increase our level of appreciation and respect for the university.

Preserve lab equipment with the understanding that it won’t be so easily replaceable; when in the computer labs, print double sided and only what you really need; when coming to school on these cold winter mornings see if you can carpool with a neighbor; go to the Key Center to volunteer to help others. And when you see some way that you think the school could save money, let me know. We have already put some great student-initiated ideas into action and researched new ones as part of

undergraduate research.

The administration wants to shelter you from the cuts so that you may focus on continuing your education, but they do not experience their policies the way you do.

If you start to feel the pinch of a decreased budget, let me know so we can see what aspects of this campus are the most important to the students.

Beyond ensuring the success of UNCA, you must also ensure your own success.

With the tight job market, it is imperative that you have a plan for when you graduate. Whether it is further insulating yourself by going into higher education, joining the Peace Corps or going directly into a career, have a plan. To help you determine the best plan for you and turn this potential into a reality, the university provides you with vast resources in the Career Center.

No matter your situation, know that you have a community of support around you and that you are not alone. Though we are a smaller school without the history of some other colleges, we are a school built for difficult times. As an institution equipped with the creativity and ingenuity of so many great minds, this time of hardship will only make us strong and more focused on our mission to maintain the standard of excellence in public liberal arts education.

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