April 12, 2019

THE APPALACHIAN April 12, 2019

Practice leads to victory.

App State women’s basketball wins second Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament championship after losing 21 games in the 2018 season.

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UNIVERSITY TO BORROW $200 MILLION FOR P3 PROJECT

NEW FESTIVAL AIMS TO IGNITE PASSION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

BASKETBALL PLAYER GOES FROM ACADEMIC REVIEW TO HONOR ROLL

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News Progress made on West Campus parking deck

April 12, 2019

Emily Broyles ‫@ ׀‬em_broyles ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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amouflaged by cranes and semitrucks, the P3 project is showing glimpses of progress on West Campus.

Matt Dull, assistant vice chancellor for finance and operations, addressed recent movements of the project, including the parking deck activity next to Eggers and Bowie halls.

“It’s coming along nicely,” Dull said. “If you’ve been over by the site, you’ve seen a lot of underground work and foundation kind of work happening.”

Foundation work has wrapped up, so workers will focus on putting the deck pieces together. Subcontractor Metromont will pour concrete panels and design other components of the deck off-site.

Dull said the subcontractor will deliver individual pieces of the parking deck to the site in the coming weeks. Trucks will deliver individual pieces daily, which workers will install as they arrive.

“It will look like a parking deck over the next six to eight weeks, so it should be exciting on

Brendan Hoekstra | @brendanhoekstra A parking deck is in beginning stages between Frank and Eggers Residence Halls. The deck will contain close to 500 spots and is set to open by the end of 2020.

campus as students are wrapping up classes and moving into exams and graduation,” Dull said.

Dull said the parking deck will have 477 parking spaces.

Dull also said nice weather has allowed the companies to make progress on Building 100 and Building 200 on the former Duck Pond Field, which will serve as the new tailgating spot in fall 2020. Workers are moving fill around and preparing for installa-

tion of building pads to meet the elevation needed for foundation construction.

Because Building 200 has met its proper elevation and geopiers, which are substructures in the deep earth that hold up the building, it is ready for installation. Dull said workers will construct foundations for these buildings over the next three to four weeks, starting with Building 200.

Along with developing foun-

dations, workers will also install deep-water storm drains to pull stormwater off the building site.

“All of these underground utilities are getting ready to start, if they haven’t started already, over the next few weeks,” Dull said.

“That way, we’ve got all of the stuff below the ground taken care of before we start building up.”

Besides preparing building sites for above-ground construction in the summer, Dull said the

P3 funding to come from $200 million bank loan Anna Muckenfuss ‫@ ׀‬MuckenfussAnna ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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pp State plans to complete four new residence halls by September 2022, which will add 300 new beds and a parking deck to campus.

To complete the project, University Housing needs a $200 million loan.

Director of University Housing Tom Kane said App State will also use $30 million previously allocated for a new building after the 2014 demolition of Winkler Hall.

“We had hired an architect that said for about $8 million we could turn (Winkler Hall) from apartments to suites,” Kane said. “The low bid

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was $12 million. So at that point, we decided to implode the building.”

Kane said University Housing asked the UNC board of governors if the project should include multiple buildings or a single building. The board of governors decided on multiple buildings, but University Housing did not have enough money for new construction at the time.

“We decided we want to demolish six buildings,” Kane said. “The decision was instead of building five buildings, we would build four buildings.”

The university will tear down

East, Bowie, Eggers, Gardner, Justice and Coltrane halls.

“The issue had to do with how would we tear down 1,800 beds and build 2,100 beds,” Kane said. “We won’t ever go backward, we’ll only go forward with our building plan.”

Kane said construction is starting now so beds available for students will not decrease, and the money to pay for the project will come from housing fees students pay to live in residence halls. Kane said the process is “the same thing as when you do a mortgage.”

“The contractor has said this is

our guaranteed price,” Kane said. “If they take longer, we will not tear anything down until we know it’s going to open on time. The contractor will be held responsible.”

If a building does not open on time, Kane said costs will not increase for the university.

Two buildings are expected to open in August 2020. The third residence hall is expected to open in August 2021, and the fourth building is scheduled to open in August 2022.

design process is in the works for Building 300. Dull said designers rely on the conceptual design from the master plan RISE developed for the site.

Dull said this process consists of deciding how many suite-style units and apartment units to install along with common space, kitchen space, lounges and study rooms.

Designs for Building 400 will start in 2020 after learning from the first three designs.

“It’s really exciting to be able to apply lessons learned to future parts of this project,” Dull said.

“We’ll continue the design process throughout the rest of the calendar year, so we can start construction on that building in 2020.”

Dull was interviewed by Dave Blanks of University Communications through the Campus Construction Podcast of Appalachian Magazine. The weekly podcast provides updates on West Campus construction to news organizations.

Correction: Last weeks story “ASUREI plans for greenhouse partnership with sustainable development program and wind turbines for research and energy” said that a partnership with the Department of Sustainable Development and Food Services will form after the solar greenhouse is completed.

The partnership with the Department of Sustainable Development and Food Services started in January 2018, and an outside contractor will be selected for the construction of the greenhouse, Meghan McCandless, communications director for the College of Fine and Applied Arts, wrote in an email. The project will begin after a contractor is selected. We regret the error.

News

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Boone Town Council to address need for affordable housing Anna Muckenfuss ‫@ ׀‬MuckenfussAnna ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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he cost of housing burdens 81.5% of Boone residents, according to the town planning and inspections department, prompting the Boone Town Council to inquire about affordable housing options.

Town planner Marty Little said cost-burdened households pay more than 30% of their income on housing.

The annual median income for Boone residents is $13,149, according to the 2018 Housing Study Update, which the planning and inspections department presented to the town council. An income of $37,000 is needed to afford a two-bedroom home in Watauga

County, according to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency Town council member Lynne Mason said she knows housing is a problem for people in Watauga County because of low-wage jobs.

The most common jobs in Boone are in educational services, healthcare and social assistance, arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, food services, and retail trade, according to the housing study.

“We’re looking at creating a zoning district that would help with the affordability aspect and creating multifamily options designed for working households,” Mason said.

Little said the new zoning district would increase the available housing in Boone. The town council will vote on the new district’s location.

“This would create a 4,000-square-foot lot,” Little said.

Mason said if more people wanted to live in Boone, the town would need additional housing.

“Affordable housing is a major need,” Mason said. “I think people resort to having to live farther out to find affordable housing. People should not spend more than 30% of their income on housing and utilities and housing-related costs.”

Boone housing report Status of housing units Vacant (16.8%)

Occupied (83.2%)

% of Renters Cost burdened Not cost burdened (18.5%)

Cost burdened (81.5%)

Faculty salary report shows overall decline in faculty salaries Jackie Park ‫@ ׀‬jackiempark ‫ ׀‬Associate News Editor

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he App State Faculty Senate Budget Committee commissioned a report to study faculty salaries in March and found changes in the priorities of App State’s budget over recent years.

Todd Cherry, chair of the Department of Economics, wrote in an email that the report aimed to add to the discussion about App State faculty salaries.

“There were no preconceived ideas, but the numbers indicate that academics has not been a priority for the campus. This is a problem because it is the core function of a university,” Cherry wrote in an email.

Salaries for App State pro-

fessors have declined relative to institutional peers and the cost of living in Boone, according to the report.

“In actual numerical terms, our purchasing power—which is what you can do with the money you get—is declining,” history professor and UNC Faculty Assembly delegate Michael Behrent said.

According to the report, before 2013, the academic budget grew faster than support budgets for the institution and students.

The report stated that “in the most recent five-year period, funding for each of the three support budgets grew considerably faster than funding for the academic budget.”

“That does sort of suggest priorities that many of us think are inconsistent with the primary mission of the university,” Behrent said.

Behrent said this shift would not be a problem if faculty salaries were not struggling.

“University leadership recognizes that providing competitive faculty salaries is not only ethical but also vital to the health of the university as a whole,” chief communications officer Megan Hayes wrote in an email.

The report also recommended setting goals to raise faculty salaries, reviewing where funds are spent and reallocating those funds to agree with the university’s mis-

sion and learning from peer institutions.

Behrent said Faculty Senate has encouraged professors to ask their department chairs to prioritize faculty salaries and attend campus budget presentations on April 12.

“Because the issue of prioritizing salaries is such a big issue, we intend to encourage as many faculty to show up at those, really as a way of holding the administration accountable to what it claims is its commitment to dealing with faculty salaries,” Behrent said.

Hayes wrote in an email that faculty who attend the budget presentations will notice a request for “merit-based faculty increases” in

the deans’ budgets.

“This represents an important shift in Academic Affairs budget prioritization, and one that is separate and apart from the Chancellor’s advocacy for a new funding model for the university,” Hayes wrote in an email.

Cherry wrote that the Faculty Senate Budget Committee commissioned the report, but he has not taken any steps to present it to anyone else.

“The report provides a general summary of our current budget priorities. It doesn’t answer all the questions, but it should help us make better decisions in the future,” Cherry wrote in an email.

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News

April 12, 2019

Coffee Buzz 5K raises money for study abroad scholarship Erin O’Neill ‫@ ׀‬erinnmoneill ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

Paola Bula Blanco Gerard Ramos blows the starting whistle and the participants begin the 5K. With this event, International Appalachian raises money for students to study abroad.

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offee, traveling and running were three of Landon Hill’s favorite things. After he died while studying abroad in 2011,

International Appalachian and the Office of International Education and Development created the Landon Hill Memorial Scholarship and Coffee Buzz 5K

to honor Hill, a member of INTAPP. The seventh annual Coffee Buzz 5K took place on April 7, but the event was more than just donuts and coffee. The purpose of the 5K was to raise money for the Landon Hill Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is funded by the race and donations. It typically allows one to three App State students to travel abroad each year.

“We truly prioritize giving an international experience to every student here at Appalachian, so sometimes that means sending students abroad, and that’s what the Landon Hill Memorial Scholarship does,” INTAPP business chair and senior English major Emily Sedlacek said.

Many students don’t consider studying abroad because of

their financial situation, INTAPP outreach chair and senior marketing major Gerard Ramos said.

“I do understand that there are a lot of factors that go into studying abroad, but definitely look into it,” Ramos said. “You won’t be able to be young, travel and get class credit at this time ever again.”

INTAPP adviser Karen Marshall said she encourages students who think they would benefit from studying abroad to apply for the scholarship.

“I think it’s hard to meet a student who has had that experience that doesn’t think it’s just so life changing and they are so amazingly glad that they did it,” Marshall said.

Sedlacek said INTAPP hosts events throughout the year to give students an international ex-

perience without leaving campus.

INTAPP brings different cultural experiences to students and gathers the community through events like International Meet and Greet and partnerships with the Asian Student Association and Hispanic Student Association.

The Coffee Buzz 5K gives INTAPP the opportunity to get out into the community, connect with businesses, acquire sponsorships and encourage people to come and run at the event, Sedlacek said.

“It’s great to see community members and students across campus coming out to support this, and it’s a good time and the money that they raise is going to go to the scholarship,” Marshall said.

App State elementary lab school nears end of first year, test scores increase Emily Broyles ‫@ ׀‬em_broyles ‫ ׀‬News Reporter

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cademy at Middle Fork, the App State state-mandated lab school, is nearing the end of its first year in which elementary students have boosted their test scores and learned about App State in the process.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation in 2016 that mandated nine colleges of education in the state to establish laboratory schools. Reich College of Education partnered with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools to create the lab school, Academy at Middle Fork.

Lab schools are located in low-performing districts, where a certain percentage of students have not met expected growth

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and performance in the classroom.

“They asked us to work with Middle Fork Elementary School, which at that time was the fifth-lowest performing school in the state,” assistant dean for the Academy at Middle Fork Robin Groce said.

Groce said RCOE and Middle Fork hired a principal and 29 faculty members, including eight App State graduates, for the 2018-19 academic year.

RCOE directors and faculty created a curriculum for the school with an emphasis on improving literacy.

“Reading is a big part of that curriculum,” Groce said.

“They’re reading in science;

they’re reading in social studies; they read in math. It’s just a big huge part of the school focus.”

During a winter check-in test for reading and comprehension, individual test scores for fifth graders improved 81% from their individual fourth-grade scores, Groce said.

Along with improving literacy, RCOE strives to provide a learning environment that goes beyond textbooks and into the community. Director of curriculum and instruction, Amie Snow, said she believes this is critical.

“We’ve been able to put in a really positive school culture,” Snow said. “Our classrooms every single day meet together and talk about how to build their

community, how to support one another, how to treat each other with kindness and integrity.”

Middle Fork also provides education majors a chance to observe and train with teachers.

“That kind of real life, hands-on experience is critical for new educators,” Snow said.

“It’s important for new teachers to really understand that there’s a lot to being a public school teacher.”

Students at the Academy at Middle Fork not only connect and learn from education majors, but they also see a glimpse of life as a college student from a range of department representatives.

Snow said throughout the year, App State sustainability

majors came to speak about recycling, and nutrition majors talked about eating healthy. A cappella groups and student leadership organizations also encouraged Middle Fork students to join clubs like theirs.

“There’s been so many great opportunities like that for the university to be a really important part of what we’re trying to create and for us to give opportunities back to students just as much as they’re giving opportunities to our little Mountaineers,” Snow said.

RCOE plans on developing more growth and opportunity for App State students and Middle Fork students through the school in the years to come.

Arts and Culture

April 12, 2019

Mericlaire Williams ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter

App State club competes in national poetry slam Camryn Collier ‫@ ׀‬camrynecollier ‫ ׀‬Senior A&C Reporter

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Kevin Nguyen After struggling with his identity when he was younger, Kevin Nguyen has journeyed toward an authentic, colorful style.

Nguyen, sophomore marketing major, found fun in life by refusing to put a label on his style and not boxing himself into how society has traditionally defined men’s fashion.

Nguyen started experimenting with fashion to better express himself. Boys picked on him in elementary school for trying to fit in, but he found acceptance embracing jewelry, primary colors and platform shoes.

“It’s worse when you’re unhappy about yourself and what you’re wearing,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen first experimented with different colored jeans in seventh grade. He said many people hated the jeans, but the people who loved them encouraged him to explore bright colors and non-traditional men’s fashion. High school teachers criticized Nguyen’s fashion, calling it “too much,” like his bright red American Apparel trench coat and short shorts. No criticism was enough to hold him back from expressing himself. Nguyen’s authenticity helped inspire boys at his high school to try experimental styles.

“If you’re confident, and you’re wearing what you want and you don’t have an issue with it, then people see that you’re being true to yourself,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen started trying simple makeup looks around the same time he got interested in fashion. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” inspired him to practice complex looks by applying eyeshadow and contour. Fashion and makeup contribute to his confidence in showing his true self and exploring his feminine side.

“I wouldn’t be experimental if I didn’t have a solid base of confidence,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen doesn’t plan on toning down his style, and he continues to revolutionize it with new fashion trends.

“My fashion is a reflection of who I am,” Nguyen said.

our App State poets will take on Julliard, Harvard, New York University and other university spoken word teams from across the nation in the four-day annual College Union Poetry Slam Invitational which started on April 10.

Advancing Campus Community established CUPSI in 2001 to bring poets from all campuses together. Art colleges and universities, including teams from the United Kingdom and India, compete.

Members of Lyric, a spoken word poetry club, make up the App State team. The club “focuses on writing workshops, storytelling and bonding among poets,” according to its AppSync page.

CUPSI is a well-known, formal competition, Lyric publicity chair and senior anthropology major Liv Winnicki said. To create the team, Lyric held four poetry slams as a vetting process in the fall. The top three scorers from the first three slams compete for the top five spots in a grand slam to make the CUPSI team.

Lyric’s slams are not as professional as CUPSI slams, previous competitor for the App State CUPSI team and senior social studies education major Charles Clarke said.

“I remember being terrified the first time I went, and I was in this room and all these poets were going up and doing really heartfelt pieces about traumatic events they’ve been through,” Clarke said.

To compete, the team has to meet requirements, pay an entry fee, and pay for travel expenses, meals and accommodations. Altogether, the trip could cost upward of $400.

During the competition, the teams go through

preliminary bouts, in which poets perform their pieces for judges, who rank the pieces on a scale from 0-10. The number of teams that go to semi-finals and finals changes every year, as the numbers are based on how many teams sign up.

The rules of CUPSI state that poets have to perform original material of any subject matter, but they cannot use props, outside music or costumes, and the poem cannot exceed 5 minutes.

“When you’re picking your poems for CUPSI, you definitely have to think about it a lot differently,” Winnicki said. “It’s less about what you like and which poems are your favorite, and more about thinking what is going to be good for this conference, for the audience, and if it is a competitive piece.”

Often, a poet will have their team members included in their performance either by singing, dancing or other expressions.

To prepare for competition, members of the App State team print out their poems, have a teammate read a line of the poem and the poet recites the remainder of the poem after that point, Clarke said.

Despite all the excitement and pressure of facing top schools, the team isn’t nervous, App State team member and freshman mathematics major Eloisa Sanchez said.

“I’m really interested to see how it is,” Sanchez said. “I didn’t really get into poetry until coming here, and I thought, ‘Let me try something new.’ So, I decided to join this club, and I have really enjoyed it.”

In addition to the competition, workshops and non-competitive slams take place during CUPSI. The competition will go through April 13.

Arts and Culture

April 12, 2019

Q Russell ‫@ ׀‬Q_M_Russell ‫ ׀‬Opinion Editor

PEOPLE OF

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Local band hosts Tapp Room Open Mic Night

Q Russell Sergio Grossi (left) and Jacob Smith (right) perform in the house band for The Tapp Room's Open Mic Night.

The establishment hosts this event Tuesday nights every week.

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t’s Tuesday night at The Tapp Room, and the crowd is dead. The waitstaff stands listlessly behind the bar waiting on three or four people littered throughout the tables. The Annex next to the bar is devoid of life except for three men unpacking their instruments.

These three are Sergio Grossi, senior psychology major, Will Whitehurst, junior music industry studies major and Jacob Smith, sophomore music performance major. They are the house band behind Tapp Room’s Open Mic Night.

The house band consists of Grossi picking the music and playing keyboard, Whitehurst playing drums, and Smith singing and playing bass guitar.

Whitehurst joined the band after Grossi sent him a Facebook message with an invitation to play. He plays in several other bands including Electric Jelly Funk, and first met Grossi in 2016 when they played in a jazz ensemble class together.

Smith, a fellow member of EJF, has known Whitehurst for a long time.

“We started playing together when we were 10 years old.

We went to the same schools,” Smith said.

Smith said the band plays songs that strike its fancy. The band has a list of songs in its pocket, Whitehurst said, and these songs include “Chameleon” by Herbie Hancock, “Moanin’” by Art Blakey and “Stitched Up” by John Mayer.

Each week, Grossi texts Smith and Whitehurst about new songs for their repertoire.

Open Mic Night is the brainchild of Grossi and Joshua Keranovic, the assistant kitchen manager for The Tapp Room and booking manager for events in The Annex, The Tapp Room’s offshoot building where it hosts events. Grossi and Keranovic initially tried to host a similar event in summer 2018, but it didn’t work out as they would have liked, Keranovic said.

Grossi said although he would rather have Open Mic

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Night at Boone Saloon, it already has a Tuesday night crowd, and The Tapp Room has the proper equipment.

Some weeks there is a large turnout, and other weeks are completely dead, but nevertheless, the band plays and hosts Open Mic Night.

“It was something that Boone just needed,” Keranovic said. “I mean, what else is there to do on a Tuesday? Go to Saloon, eat a cheap taco, drink cheap beer? Or, you can go here, watch your friends play music and get a chance yourself to play music.”

Grossi came up with the idea from playing at an open mic night at a bar in Greenville.

“There were a few times when I started that I thought I did great, but there were other times where I’d go up there and forget the lyrics and just bomb and completely embarrass myself,” Grossi said. “But the people in the band, they were disappointed in me, and they let me know, and it was because they loved me and saw that potential in me that they were hard on me.”

Grossi said he wants the house band to provide a similar experience for Boone. He said he hopes people can perform without having to worry about the stage fright of playing alone.

“There’s a lot of repeat people that came out one night and weren’t the best they could’ve been potentially, but they had that little bit of confidence, so it builds on that,” Keranovic said.

People can give a variety of performances, but Grossi hopes that eventually the night will be so packed that it will be music only, he said.

The band is unsure of the turnout going forward, but whatever happens, Grossi, Whitehurst and Smith will be at The Tapp Room at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays playing music and providing a space for people to perform.

Sarah Martin Christine Dudley @TheAppalachian Senior A&C Reporter I started an internship with (OASIS) last January, but in July, I officially started working full time for them. My title is children’s program coordinator, but what I do is mostly client services. We’ll meet with walk-ins that come in, we’ll do crisis counseling, we’ll meet people at the hospital if they need medical advocacy or we’ll go to court with them if they need to get a (domestic violence protection order) or something from a magistrate. Any sort of crisis response, I do that, and then I also work in our shelter, which is in a confidential location, but I’ll do case management for people in our shelter that have kids.

I have always been drawn to working with people who have been through interpersonal violence just because I grew up with just my mom and my sister, and all of my close friends are women, and knowing that out of that group, so many of them have been affected by either sexual assault or domestic violence, it definitely showed that it was a major problem in our society. I think that definitely drove me to do something about it and be part of the movement to stop it.

Arts and Culture

April 12, 2019

Ransom hosts Sugar Stomp dance party to promote local fashion Georgia Privott ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter “(The idea) originated from juke joints down south where people would get together and dance all night,” Jefski said.

Juke joints were bars popular in the mid20th century that provided a safe place for African American plantation workers and sharecroppers to socialize and dance during the era of Jim Crow laws and white-only establishments. This eventually led to the creation of the jukebox and present-day dance clubs.

In Boone, few spaces exist where the community can dance, and Pineda and Jefski Hayley Canal ‫@ ׀‬hayley_abigail wanted to bring the magic of dancing to the area. Jefski said he sees dancing as a spiritual Local fashion designers showcased their upcycled clothing at Sugar Stomp's first dance party, Rebeat. The party will take place at Ransom April 13 at 8 p.m. experience and found his love for dance parties when he went to raves in Philadelphia. ugar Stomp’s first dance party, Rebeat, gives local “Through dancing, I learned about myself and also fashion artists a chance to promote their upcycled connected with other people through something that is clothing at Ransom. Each month, Sugar Stomp will outside of ourselves,” Jefski said. showcase different artists in hopes of bringing the Pineda and Jefski want to create an environment where community together to dance. everyone is welcome to dance freely and support different Boone real estate agent Melody Pineda had the idea local artists each month.

In April’s show, Rebeat will focus of hosting a family-friendly dance party, and after meeton clothing from five student fashion stylists: Len Sanqui, ing Boone artist Jeff ‘Jefski’ Martin, the two created Sugar Cass Andrews, Ilyssa Pachao, Valentina Barber-Hurtado Stomp.

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and Jasper Yoke. Each stylist is unique, but they still inspire each other, Sanqui said.

Sanqui, freshman commercial photography major, said she wanted to symbolize rebirth in her looks with Christian motifs like the Virgin Mary and a winged angel.

Andrews, sophomore commercial photography major, focused on natural colors and elements of spring.

“I want to make it look like moss is growing out of people’s bodies and faces, like they were asleep in the woods and now spring is here,” Andrews said.

Pachao, sophomore nursing major, created vintage and personalized looks for each model because she said fashion supplements personality. She also wants to emphasize sexuality and power structures by designing assless chaps and suits for women.

Jefski will showcase some of his accessories, but hopes to shine a light on emerging artists around Boone.

“My experience in Boone with my art is being supported 100%, so it is exciting to see these artists get a chance to feel what that is like,” Jefski said.

The 30-minute runway and a pop-up shop will display the stylists’ looks before the dance party begins.

Sugar Stomp is on April 13 at 8 p.m. The cover fee is $5, which will help fund Sugar Stomp’s next event on May 18.

Students hope to ignite passion for sustainability with Flame Festival

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n the first days of April, bright red and yellow blossoms begin to bud on the branches of the flame azalea bushes that line Appalachia. Flame azaleas are native to the Blue Ridge Parkway, and two App State students are promoting sustainability to protect their natural habitat through the influence of photography and film.

Paige Steimel and Victoria Shukis, sophomore sustainable development students, hosted Filming Life and Advocating for Mother Earth, or Flame Fest at 3rd Place on April 11.

Flame Fest showcased photography depicting Appalachia from local photographers and short films about sustainability, social justice and recreation in the region.

Three films featured regions outside of Appalachia because Steimel and Shukis want to extend the learning to other communities.

“We love everything that we are learning,” Shukis

Mericlaire Williams ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬A&C Reporter said. “People who aren’t sustainable development majors might not get the chance to be invited in that sort of talk, so we wanted to extend that invitation to be inclusive into sustainability.”

Planning for Flame Fest started in September with Steimel and Shukis watching sustainability short films.

They hoped to break down the hierarchy of professionals lecturing on sustainability by bringing conversation and encouraging change directly to the members of the community. They said they believe giving voices to community members will unify Boone and create an inclusive environment that sparks passion in protecting the environment.

“A big goal is seeing new faces come out,” Shukis said. “I think it’s really cool when people break barriers, and there’s that opportunity to build more relationships, especially in terms of growing as a community.”

An interactive corner will allow people to express their feelings about the event.

“We didn’t want to be preaching at people; we just wanted it to be these things that are already available in photography and films from Vimeo, and a place for us to gather and enjoy it together,” Shukis said.

Shukis and Steimel said everyone can promote sustainability, which makes it important to incorporate local artists like photographer Nick Fiori, sophomore environmental science major. Fiori started photography so he could go outside and take advantage of nature. “(Coming to Boone) has connected me to like-minded people who want to get outside and see the pretty things,” Fiori said.

After the premiere, Shukis and Steimel will plan a second event in August to experiment with more ideas.

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Sports

April 12, 2019

Practice makes perfect for App State women’s basketball Silas Albright ‫@ ׀‬SilasAlbright ‫ ׀‬Associate Sports Editor

Head coach Angel Elderkin and the women’s basketball team celebrate after they defeated North Texas to win the WBI Championship on April 3.

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n April 3, the App State women’s basketball team defeated North Texas 76-59 in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament championship for its 22nd win of the year and its eighth win of the last nine games.

On Feb. 24, 2018, App State lost at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock 61-35, which allowed the Trojans to clinch the Sun Belt regular season championship. It was the Mountaineers’ 21st loss of the season. App State head coach Angel Elderkin didn’t want her team to forget the experience.

“I made our team walk out and watch the Sun Belt Championship ceremony,” Elderkin said. “We got back in the locker room, and they were really hurt, and they were really angry. And I just told them, ‘That’s my vision for our program.’ I did it to let them know exactly what we wanted to do someday.”

Four hundred and three days after watching another team cut down the nets, Elderkin’s vision finally came to fruition as the Mountaineers cut down nets of their own.

Although the team members were upset with their coach for putting them through that experience, sophomore forward Lainey Gosnell said she understood Elderkin’s reasoning.

“I think she kind of did it to put a chip on our shoulder,” Gosnell said. “Before we came out to this game, she was like, ‘Just remember what it felt like to sit there and see the other team cut the net down.’”

“To just go out like we did, on our home court, win

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by 20 (points) in the championship with these people, it’s incredible,” redshirt senior guard Madi Story said. “I’m so blessed, so glad I took my fifth year.”

This was the first time since the 2010 WBI Tournament championship that the Mountaineers finished their season with a win, and they had plenty of practice cutting down nets.

“When we got back (from the game at Little Rock), obviously we had only won eight games last year. So everything we did was always with a championship at the end,” Elderkin said. “Three on three, everything was a competition, and so at the end, we always cut down the nets, so they would know how it feels.”

“It seemed really silly, but it was like a focus thing, like a vision thing,” junior center Bayley Plummer said. “You know, we can see these nets in our hands, we can actually do it to make that come true.”

In the championship game, four Mountaineers scored in double figures, with junior point guard Ashley Polacek putting up a team-high 21 points on 9-12 shooting from the floor. Sophomore guard Pre Stanley finished with 19 points and was named MVP of the tournament after averaging 19.3 points per game on 51.9% shooting. Story capped off her career with 17 points and Gosnell added 10 points.

Plummer scored eight points, but her biggest contribution to the win was her work on the glass. Plummer grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds in the game.

Along with Stanley’s tournament MVP honor, Story

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and Plummer were named to the all-tournament team.

In the first round, App State played its only road game of the tournament, picking up a close 57-55 win over UNC-Asheville on March 20. On March 25, the Mountaineers beat Marshall University 83-71 and then knocked off Campbell University 70-57 in the semifinals on March 30 to reach the championship game.

The Mountaineers finished the season with a 22-14 record, their best win total since the 2011-12 season, when they finished 27-7. They went 10-8 in Sun Belt play, which earned them the fifth seed for the conference tournament.

The 10 wins are the most Sun Belt wins for the Mountaineers since joining the conference in 2014.

Although the end of the season means the departure of senior leader and career 1,000-point scorer Madi Story, four talented starters in Plummer, Stanley, Polacek and Gosnell and the rest of the bench will return in the 2020 season. Story is one of just two seniors on the team and was the only one to log minutes on the court, as guard Anna Perez Gomez was sidelined with a knee injury for the entire season.

Improving their win total by 14 games and ending the season with a win, the Mountaineers showed how far they came in one season. At the end of the 2017-18 season, not many people expected to see App State have a net-cutting ceremony of its own anytime in the near future.

“I’ve made them cut down nets all preseason, postseason. I’ve made them do so many things to believe that we could do it,” Elderkin said. “And we did it.”

Sports

April 12, 2019

From academic review to mvp, stanley leads mountaineers Zack Antrum ‫@ ׀‬zantrum17 ‫ ׀‬Sports Reporter

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ince arriving at App State, Lapresha Stanley has been rock solid for the women’s basketball team.

Head coach Angel Elderkin has continued to see her program grow over the past few years, and said Stanley has played a huge part in that process.

Affectionately known as “Pre” by her teammates and friends, the sophomore guard made an instant impact on the court during her freshman campaign.

Averaging 11.2 points per game, she became the first freshman to lead the team in scoring since the 2009-10 season. Stanley led the team in steals with 1.1 per game and was second in rebounds after grabbing 5.2 boards per game. She also shot over 40% from behind the 3-point line.

Even though her game went well on the court straight away, Stanley faced adversity at App State before the season even began.

She arrived to school with her scholarship on academic review and during her recruitment process, several interested schools didn’t offer her a scholarship because of academics.

Stanley didn’t let the academic review and finished her freshman year on the Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll. She has a 3.08 GPA. “A lot of schools turned her down, because they didn’t think academically she could make it,” Elderkin said. “We took a chance on her.”

As a sophomore, Stanley maintained her status as a key player for the Mountaineers, finishing second in scoring only behind redshirt senior guard Madi Story and also ranked second in steals and in the top five in rebounding for the team.

Stanley saved her best basketball for when it counted the most as App State captured its second Women’s Basketball Invitational championship with a 76-59 win over North Texas.

She averaged 19.3 points per game during the tournament and was named Tournament MVP. “I have to give thanks to God first and my teammates,” Stanley said.

“Especially to let Madi (Story) out with a ring was amazing, and I’m just proud that I could do it with this team.”

Along with the rest of her team, Stanley will enjoy the success earned over the course of the year, but will also use the experience as motivation to get better in the off-season so the team can achieve similar goals.

“We’re just going to go hard every day,” Stanley said. “The goal is to get a Sun Belt Conference Championship and just keep working hard.”

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Sophomore guard Pre Stanley scans the court during the WBI championship against North Texas.

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23 NFL teams attend 2019 App State Pro Day Brooks Maynard ‫@ ׀‬BrooksMaynard ‫ ׀‬Sports Editor

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App State's Pro Day took place at Sofield Family Indoor Practice Facility on April 4. The event's attendees included senior running back Jalin Moore and senior safety Austin Exford, who put up impressive numbers in their time on the field.

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ight NFL hopefuls showcased their skills at App State’s Pro Day on April 4 at the Sofield Indoor Practice Facility. Scouts and coaches from over 20 NFL teams came to watch the event, including the Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers.

Senior running back Jalin Moore participated in his first organized football activity in App State gear since breaking and dislocating his right ankle against Arkansas State in October. He said being back around his teammates helped give him an edge during pro day. “(Myquon Stout’s) voice, he has this unique voice,” Moore said. “I can hear him out of a crowd. It brought back old memories of all the fall camps we’ve been through. I’ve been away for five months, and I hadn’t heard that in a long time. That gave me an extra kick, like, I’m home. Let’s do this. I’m with my boys right now.”

Moore ran a 20-yard shuttle in 4.39 seconds and posted a 33-inch vertical leap before participating in running back

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and wide receiver drills. At the NFL combine in March, he managed 27 reps in the 225-pound bench press, the second-highest of all running backs at the combine.

His efforts at pro day and the combine earned him interviews with several NFL teams.

“I felt real good,” Moore said. “Felt better as it went on and started getting confidence in my ankle more and more.”

Junior cornerback Clifton Duck also participated in pro day activities after announcing in January that he would forgo his senior season to enter the NFL draft. He put up 16 reps in the 225-pound bench press before participating in defensive back drills, but said he felt like his weigh-in was the most important.

“I weighed in today at 180 (pounds),” Duck said. “I just wanted to hit 180 or anything above just to get that 11 to 12 pounds up and still be able to run.”

The average NFL cornerback weighs between 185 and 200 pounds, so Duck said proving he’s at a pro-level weight was an important factor for him. Duck was listed as weighing

170 pounds his junior year at App State. He also met with NFL representatives after his activities.

Seniors inside linebacker Anthony Flory, wide receiver Dominique Heath and long snapper Elias McMurry all participated in the bench press, lifting 19, 13 and 19 reps respectively.

Senior cornerback Tae Hayes ran his 20-yard shuttle in 4.19 seconds while senior safety Austin Exford ran a 40-yard dash in 4.46 seconds and had a 36.5-inch vertical leap.

Senior defensive tackle Stout reached 28 reps on the bench press and had a 32-inch vertical. Flory joined Stout for defensive line drills after finishing his linebacker workout.

“I feel like I’m versatile and I can play whatever,” Flory said. “I just wanted to show them that I can do whatever they need me to do.”

Local pro days hosted by NFL teams and individual visits still stand in the way of signing with a professional team for these prospects. The NFL draft is from April 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Graduate transfer tennis player thrives at app state Franklin Bogle ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬Sports Reporter

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eannez Daniel started her collegiate tennis career at the University of Texas-El Paso in 2015. She transferred to the University of Colorado Boulder as a sophomore where, in three seasons as a Buffalo, she had 25 singles wins and 29 doubles wins, including a 23-win sophomore season. After four years at two schools, Daniel is finishing her collegiate career at App State, where she not only brings her talent, but her leadership as well.

“I don’t have a problem with being a transfer; this is my third school and I enjoy changing environments,” Daniel said. “I think being a fifth-year offers me a different perspective I can use to help my teammates.”

She noted the vast differences between UTEP compared to Colorado and App State. She said Boulder and Boone had many similarities, such as the weather and the kind of students that attend both universities, which made the move to App State easier.

At App State, Daniel has posted nine singles wins and 10 doubles wins to start the season.

“It always helps to add experience.

I coached her at Colorado, and I knew what she brought to the table,” women’s tennis head coach Blake Mosley said.

Mosley began his career in 1998 as an assistant coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and concluded his years as an assistant coach at Colorado, where he

coached Daniel early in her career. Mosley recruited Daniel to App State.

In 2019, the women’s tennis team is 12-5 overall and 6-1 in the Sun Belt Conference. The team stumbled on March 31 in a loss to the University of Louisiana-Monroe, but bounced back on April 5 in a 4-1 win over Sun Belt-rival Georgia Southern.

Daniel and her partner, senior Rebecca Morse, led the team to a victory in a doubles win in the Georgia Southern match. The duo has won six doubles matches in a row and is 7-1 in the 2019 season.

“I have known Rebecca since junior tennis. We grew up playing together,” Daniel said. “We are friends off the court as well. I think all those factors brought together make us work really well.”

Daniel and Mosley said they believe the squad can compete for a title in the Sun Belt Conference.

“The school really wants to see us have success, and that is something that really helps any program,” Mosley said.

Daniel said she enjoyed the program and was happy her career was ending at such a good place.

“It was tough playing that first match, knowing this is my last first match. I bet I’ll get emotional on senior day, as well, but for now, I’m enjoying every part of it,” Daniel said.

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Opinion

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Living with ADHD is not what you may think Q Russell | @Q_M_Russell | Opinion Editor

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rom 2016-17, 10.6% of children between the ages 5-17 were diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed in children that may last into adulthood and is commonly characterized by trouble paying attention, poor impulse control and an excess of energy.

I have ADHD, and while all of those are true, reducing it to those characteristics diminishes the experiences of people with the disorder.

Most people’s understanding of ADHD is lacking and hold a lot of misconceptions. I know I was ignorant before I was diagnosed and began researching my condition.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that ADHD is a mental illness, instead of a developmental disorder. The brain of someone with ADHD is biologically different than someone without.

An ADHD brain produces less norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter directly linked to dopamine, which helps control the reward and pleasure center of the brain.

In February 2017, researchers at Radboud University found that five areas of the brain, the caudate nucleus, putamen, nucleus accumbens, amygdala and hippocampus, were smaller in the brains of people with ADHD. The researchers found this by examining the brain volumes of 1,713 people with ADHD and 1,529 without ADHD using a MRI scanner.

Another misconception of ADHD is that everyone with the disorder experiences the same symptoms and that lesser versions are called ADD, or attention deficit disorder. ADD does not exist, and three kinds of ADHD exist: inattentive, hyperactivity-impulsive and combined.

Inattentive type, formerly known as ADD, is more common in girls and adults. It’s characterized by forgetfulness, a lack of attention to detail and inattention. Hyperactive-impulsive type is more common in children and men; it’s characterized by an excess of energy and a lack of self-control. Combined type, which is what I have, is a mix of both.

These types of ADHD function less as concrete divi-

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sions and more as labels applied to the spectrum of school, but that’s as much a result of my intelligence the developing ADHD brain. as my parents’ attentiveness and making sure I didn’t A little-known aspect of ADHD that affects the fail. After I was diagnosed and started medication, I lives of many is executive dysfunction, which I strugcould concentrate and apply myself. My grades went gle with the most. Executive functioning is the cogniup drastically because I could study and do my work tive and mental ability to enact goal-oriented action. on time. I still struggle, but my quality of life has People without ADHD can transition seamlessly beimproved. tween wanting to do something and doing it. For me, I can’t imagine a life without ADHD. I can’t there’s a wide divide between the two. For example, imagine a life where my imagination isn’t filled with I may want to do something as simple as eating, but countless words that I can’t describe because of the can’t do it for hours without an outside influence indisconnect ADHD has created. It’s bittersweet beterrupting my trance like a friend inviting me out cause without ADHD, I could describe them, but I or a telemarketer calling me. Although I want to, I also wouldn’t have them. can’t. My brain literally cannot execute the task.

ADHD is complicated, and this is by no means Another lesser-known aspect of ADHD is hya comprehensive explanation of the disorder, but perfocus. Hyperfocus is sustained, intense concenhopefully it’s enough for people to gain a basic untration on a single interest or subject for a period of derstanding so they can better relate to and undertime. This might seem out of place because a major stand people with ADHD. symptom of ADHD is the inability to focus, but it has to do with the reduced levels of dopamine in the brain.

Because ADHD brains produce less dopamine, it’s harder for people with the disorder to “shift gears” and move their fo1 Prefrontal Cortex Basal Ganglia 3 cus to more boring tasks. GenFunctions as an Neural circuit system that erally, people with ADHD will intersection for attention, regulates communication hyperfocus on media, creative behavior and emotional within the brain. In the projects and activities they find responses.

For people ADHD brain, a “shortpleasurable. with ADHD, circuit” can cause It isn’t all bad for people attention is diagnosed. People with ADHD inattention or switched easily. are, on average, more creative impulsivity. than people without ADHD, according to a 2006 study pub2 Limbic System lished in the journal “Child Reticular 4 Neuropsychology.”

Regulates emotions.

Activating System Like most people with Deficiency of dopamine The major relay system ADHD, my experience has in the ADHD limbic between the brain’s been a mixed bag. I wasn’t system may result in pathways. A dopamine formally diagnosed until Derestlessness, inattention deficiency may cause cember 2017. Growing up, my or emotional volatility. impulsivity and hyperactivity. teachers would tell me I was smart, but I didn’t apply myself. I did all right in primary

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Opinion

April 12, 2019

App State is acting more like a corporation than a school

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Tommy Mozier ‫@ ׀‬TheAppalachian ‫ ׀‬Opinion Writer

ike many schools in North Carolina, my high school had a problem. Every year, experienced, well-liked teachers left in droves, replaced by less-talented candidates. The best chemistry teacher we had decided it was worth it to drive an hour to Virginia every day instead of living on a North Carolina teacher’s salary.

I did not expect this problem to follow me to college. When deciding on schools, App State’s average class size caught my eye.

I heard from alumni and students about the personal relationships they developed with professors. They met professors who cared for their students and wanted to see them succeed. It became a deciding factor in my college decision; those people were largely correct.

Unfortunately, it seems a university whose reputation is built on training educators does not want to pay its own educators what they deserve.

App State is running less like an educational institution and more like a corporation, according to the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis report on faculty pay. Upper and middle level administrator pay is rising, and the professors, adjuncts and lecturers struggle to keep up with the rising cost of living in Boone.

That sounds more like Amazon than a university that prides itself on a 16-1 student-to-faculty ratio.

Students interact with professors, adjuncts and lecturers every day. They are the people who dictate our college experiences.

Professors are more influential to students than any administrator or chancellor will ever be. Chancellor Sheri Everts could take another job tomorrow and the daily lives of students would not change. Just ask any student at UNC-Chapel Hill how different their lives are since Chancellor Carol Folt resigned in January. But if a professor with whom you have built a strong relationship leaves because they cannot afford mortgage payments or cannot be fully present for their students because they are forced to work a second job, the student’s college experience fundamentally changes.

This is not to say administrators are not vital to running App State, but if the university markets itself on its website as a place that “prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all,” the university should place more emphasis on the people who actually prepare the students.

It is true that the North Carolina General Assembly is not doing any favors with funding for App State and other universities, but that argument lost most of its validity with the CERPA report. University administration has sent a clear message: the priority is not so much education as it is money.

In my three years at App State, I have met many professors who go out of their way to connect with and support students.

Passionate professors who genuinely care for the well-being of their students and who are always available to give extra help to a struggling student. Professors who understand the stress college puts on students and do their best to curb that while still providing quality education.

App State risks losing one of its main draws, the one that ultimately kept me here after initially planning to transfer. A parent sending their child to App State to get an education may think twice if the university isn’t valuing educators like it should. A student paying their way through college or racking up student debt, may wonder why their tuition dollars are helping fund raises for administrators, but not professors.

App State may not see a mass faculty exodus like my high school did, but should faculty decide to leave, the blame is squarely on the administration. If the administration truly believes that “an outstanding faculty is the foundation of a great university,” as it stated in the 2008-12 strategic plan, and wants to continue to push our academics out from under the shadow of the football team, it cannot treat professors, adjuncts and lecturers like just another employee in a corporation.

MUELLER REPORT REDACTIONS

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Q Russell ‫@ ׀‬Q_M_Russell ‫ ׀‬Opinion Editor

ttorney General William Barr told lawmakers on April 5 that he plans to release the Mueller report in mid-April after redacting it.

Barr, who helped cover up for and protect the guilty parties involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal, wrote to Congress that he wouldn’t submit the report to the White House before publication, but “the president would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report,” he wrote.

President Donald “the Mueller report is a witch hunt” Trump tweeted on April 2, “Robert Mueller was a God-like figure to the Democrats, until he ruled No Collusion in the long awaited $30,000,000 Mueller Report. Now the Dems don’t even acknowledge his name, have become totally unhinged, and would like to go through the whole process again. It won’t happen!” That man will have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the 400-page report focused on investigating his presidential campaign.

Before Barr’s appointment, he sent the Department of Justice an unsolicited letter in which he wrote that the department couldn’t prosecute a sitting president for obstruction of justice.

That, combined with Barr’s letter to Congress on March 24 in which he summarized a 400-page report in three and a half pages and all but claimed Trump was innocent, the letter raises the implication that Barr might not be entirely forthcoming.

It’s not inconceivable that the report submitted to Congress might be more thoroughly sanitized than an operating room.

It almost seems like Trump appointed Barr as attorney general to work the same magic for him that he worked in the ‘80s after the Iran-Contra Scandal.

The Iran-Contra Scandal was the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was under an arms embargo, to fund the Contras, a Nicaraguan terrorist group dedicated to overthrowing the government.

Barr’s resume and the letter he wrote to the Department of Justice sure seems like a cover letter for the vacancy Jeff Sessions left.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) was right when he said Barr was not a “fair broker” of the Mueller report in an interview with PBS. “It is not the job of the attorney general, who, is after all, a political appointee of the president, who was hired for the job in order to protect the president personally,” Nadler said. “We know that this president fired the previous attorney general because he wouldn’t protect him personally.”

Watching this is like watching a car accident in slow motion, but instead of watching from a distance, the U.S. is in the backseat with the driver saying there isn’t an accident, they can’t smell gasoline and the car isn’t on fire.

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Friday, April 12

Saturday, April 13

Sunday, April 14

Monday, April 15

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare 7-10 p.m.

Valborg Theatre

Acapocalypse 7-9 p.m.

Schaefer Center

Softball vs. Louisiana 12-2 p.m.

Sywaasink/Lloyd Family Stadium

Bike App! 1-4:30 p.m.

Rivers Street Skywalk

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare Gala Performance 8-11 p.m.

Valborg Theatre

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare 2-5 p.m.

Valborg Theatre

Officer Transition Workshop 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union

“Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse” 7-9 p.m.

IG Greer Treble Choir and Glee Club 8-9:30 p.m.

Rosen Concert Hall

Club Tennis vs. UNC Charlotte 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Varsity Tennis Courts

Tuesday, April 16

Wednesday, April 17

Finding Peace in Panic 6-7 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union

De-Stress Fest 12-3 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union

Taste of Dialogue: Conversation on “The Laramie Project” 6-8 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union

“La Dolce Vita” 7-9 p.m.

Greenbriar Theatre

String Chamber Ensembles 8-9:30 p.m.

Rosen Concert Hall

Watauga Lyceum Series, a Reading with Poet Richard Blanco 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union

Saxophone Chamber Ensembles 8-9 p.m.

Rosen Concert Hall

Thursday, April 18 Cooking on Sunshine: The Physics of Solar Cooking 6-8 p.m.

Reich College of Education Way of Council 7-9 p.m.

Plemmons Student Union Saba 9-11:30 p.m.

Legends

Student Composers Recital 8-9:30 p.m.

Broyhill Recital Hall

Friday, April 19 Volunteer at The Latino Fair 3:30-6 p.m.

Watauga High School “La Dolce Vita” 7-9 p.m.

Greenbriar Theatre

Et cetera

April 12, 2019

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30. ___ Maria (Schubert composition)

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Head coach Angel Elderkin led the App State women’s basketball team to a 76-59 victory over University of North Texas in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament championship. This was the team’s 22nd win for the 2018-19 season, and eighth win in its last nine games.

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