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CRIME LOG CAMPUS OCT. 23

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1:06 a.m. | Welfare Check Outside Justice Hall Closed

1:14 a.m. | Underage Consumption of Alcohol East Hall Closed

OCT. 23 4:44 p.m. | Welfare Check East Hall Closed

OCT. 23 9:03 p.m. | Disorderly Conduct Belk Hall Closed

OCT. 22 8:29 p.m. | Welfare Check Newland Hall Closed

OCT. 21 10:35 p.m. | Lost Wallet Safe Ride Further Investigation

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3:32 p.m. | Harassment Frank Hall Further Investigation

2:52 a.m. | Assault on a Female Outside Valborg Theater Further Investigation

OCT. 23 4:04 p.m. | Larceny - From Buildings Trivette Hall Further Investigation

OCT. 12 2:57 p.m. | Larceny of Laptop Anne Belk Hall Further Investigation

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Rose McGowan. Ambra Battilana. Emily Nestor. Lauren O’Connor.

Laura Madden. These are just a few of the women who have said Harvey Weinstein has sexaully assualted or harrased them.

On Oct. 5, a New York Times story by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey revealed allegations that led to the resignation of four members of the Weinstein Company’s board, and called for Weinstein to be fired.

The Weinstein Company board was all male.

In a 10-month investigative article for The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow, 13 women came forward about Weinstein’s sexual harassment or said that he sexually assaulted them.

Three of the women told Farrow that Weinstein “had raped them, forcibly performing or receiving oral sex or forcing vaginal sex.” Four of the women told Farrow that “they had experienced unwanted touching that could be

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Four of the women also stated that Weinstein had “exposed himself or masturbated in front of them.”

Weinstein admitted to groping a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez and said that he was “used to” that behavior in a recording during a New York Police Department sting operation.

Sixteen former and current executives and assistants told Farrow that they “witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching at events associated with

Weinstein’s films and in the workplace.”

They also said that the behavior was well known in Miramax, a production and distribution company that Weinstein helped co-found, and in the Weinstein Company.

One thing that almost all of the people Farrow talked to had in common was that they were afraid of retaliation from Weinstein. They feared that they would have information planted in the media about them as Weinstein had bragged about doing that to those who spoke against him.

In an interview with The New York Post Weinstein said, “I’ve got to deal with my personality, I’ve got to work on my temper, I have got to dig deep. I know a lot of people would like me to go into a facility, and I may well just do that—I will go anywhere I can learn more about myself.” He continued, “In the past I used to compliment people, and some took it as me being sexual, I won’t do that again.”

Weinstein also said in a statement for The New York Times that he knew that his be-

havior in the past caused a lot of pain and that he apologizes for it. He also said, “I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go.”

In a statement by spokesperson Sallie Hofmeister, Weinstein unequivocally denied “any allegations of nonconsensual sex” from those who spoke on record and that he “believes that all of these relationships were consensual.”

The statement also said that Weinstein has begun going to counseling to pursue a better path and that if he makes enough progress, he hopes to be given a second chance.

According to a report done

by The Hill, Weinstein completed a week-long therapy program in Arizona. He will remain in Arizona for a month and continue working with the doctors.

The full statement, along with more details on the accusations, can be found in the article by Farrow.

On Oct. 19, a report by CNN said that Los Angeles police had opened an investigation into Weinstein after someone came forward alleging sex-

ual assault.

The person wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation but told the Los Angeles Times the assault took place in February 2013 at Mr. C Beverly Hills hotel.

After The New York Times report, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosanna Arquette, Angelina Jolie, Judith Godrèche and others also came out saying that Weinstein had made unwanted sexual advances on them.

Many people both in and out of Hollywood reacted to the accusations leveled against Weinstein.

Benedict Cumberbatch said in a statement that he was utterly disgusted by the revelations and that “we need to collectively stand up and support victims of abuse such as the brave and inspiring women who have spoken out against him and say we hear you and believe you.”

Barack Obama released a statement which said, “Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein. Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status.”

Many people came out against the revelations of Weinstein. Many were not surprised and some who were disgusted by the acts had a past of their own.

Ben Affleck released a statement via Twitter which said he was saddened and angry that Weinstein used his power to “intimidate, sexually harass, and manipulate many women over decades.” He also said that he was asking himself what he could do to make sure this would not happen to others and how to do a better job protecting “sisters, friends, co-workers and daughters.”

According to Vox, Affleck faced immediate backlash as women came out saying he had sexually harassed them on and off camera.

In a segment for MTV TRL, he wrapped his arm around One Tree Hill actress Hilarie Burton and grabbed her breast.

He told the camera it was “a move” while Burton laughed uncomfortably.

He was 31 at the time.

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2005 Lauren Sivan, 2007 Lousiette Geiss, 2008 Sarah Ann Masse, 2008 Rambo, 2008 Vu Thu Phuong, 2008 2010 2015

the accusations against Weinstein go back as far as the 1980s.

Weinstein’s early victims were too afraid to call him out because he was so powerful and they didn’t want to lose their jobs.

Men have to do better. Not just men in Hollywood. Not just famous men. Men everywhere need to do better. I have to do better.

When women are too afraid to speak out about sexual harassment or sexual assault, what does that say about society?

When a woman is too afraid to lose their job by saying someone sexually assaulted or harassed her it shows that we as a society are failing.

We have a sitting president who was elected after outright admitting to sexual assault and said, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”

College athletes get less than a year in prison after being caught raping women with people like Brock Turner’s father saying that his son’s life had been ruined by “20 minutes of action.”

Society is perpetuating a system where men can get away with sexual assault and women can not come forward without fear of losing credibility.

A campaign of #MeToo began to trend on twitter, and after only 24 hours it had been tweeted nearly half a million times.

The movement started when actress Alyssa Milano used her twitter account to encourage women to tweet the words #MeToo if they had been sexually harassed, according to The Atlantic.

According to CBS News, there were 12 million posts, comments and reactions in less than 24 hours.

The #MeToo campaign started in 2007 when Tarana Burke, a youth activist, created it to let other sexual abuse survivors know that they were not alone.

We as men need to do better in helping create a society where women do not have to fear being sexually assaulted and, if they are, they do not have to fear speaking out.

Until we reach that point, men have to step up. Men have to stop being blind to the assault that goes on in Hollywood and nationally.

When it does happen, men need to speak up. No more being complicit in the patriarchal system of our society that keeps women down.

No more turning a blind eye.

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true. This type of predation happens behind closed doors, and out of public view.”

That statement from Damon is not true as he told Good Morning America on Monday that he and Affleck knew of the harassment of Paltrow. Damon, like others, knew but did not do anything about it.

In an article by The New York Times, Quentin Tarantino admitted that he had known about Weinstein’s behavior for decades.

“There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things,” Tarantino told The Times.

Tarantino’s former girlfriend, Mira Sorvino, told him of Weinstein’s behavior.

In The Times story, Tarantino said the stories told in the articles were familiar to him.

“Everyone who was close to Harvey had heard of at least one of those incidents. It was impossible they didn’t,” Tarantino said.

He acknowledged the almost father-son type relationship Weinstein and he had after working together for many years. Tarantino condemned Weinstein and said he was sorry that he marginalized the women who told him of Weinstein’s behavior.

How widespread Weinstein and the allegations against him are was proven even more by a joke made by Seth MacFarlane during the 2013 Academy Awards.

He was announcing the awards for best supporting actress when he joked, “Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.”

The joke has darker implications with the allegations against Weinstein that have come to light. In an interview MacFarlane said that the joke was prompted by a friend telling him of an encounter she had with Weinstein.

“It was with this account in mind that, when I hosted the Oscars in 2013, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to take a hard swing in his direction,” he tweeted. “Make no mistake, this came from a place of loathing and anger. There is nothing more abhorrent and indefensible than abuse of power such as this.”

To say that it happens behind closed doors and that it is not known about is simply not true. If anything, actresses get blackballed and threatened in the industry if they speak out against assault or harassment.

According to Business Insider’s article naming all of Weinstein’s accusers to date,

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Affleck spent much of last year campaigning to help his brother, Casey Affleck, win an Oscar after a story came out that said Casey Affleck faced two sexual harassment lawsuits.

According to a tweet from Rose McGowan, Affleck knew exactly what Weinstein was doing and even told McGowan, “Goddamit I told him to stop doing that!” before the press conference she had to attend.

Bill Cosby had over a dozen women accuse him of sexual assault. The accusations went as far back as 1965.

Kesha was not allowed to break her contract with Sony after she accused her producer, Dr. Luke, of being physically, emotionally and sexually abusive toward her. The New York Supreme Court ruled that she had to remain under contract but did not have to work with Dr. Luke.

In a speech to ELLE’s Women in Hollywood event, Jennifer Lawrence told of an experience where a female film producer asked her to lose weight. She said that a female producer made her and five other women who were “much, much thinner than [her]” line up nude with “paste-ons covering [their] privates.”

“After that degrading and humiliating lineup, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,” Lawrence said.

She asked to speak to a producer about the unrealistic diet that she was to go on and he said “he didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was perfectly ‘f----able.’”

Lawrence said that she felt trapped and that she had to let the demeaning treatment occur in order for her career to survive.

Weinstein is not the only Hollywood director to be accused of seual assault or harassment.

The Los Angeles Times reported that 38 women have come forward to claim that Director James Toback sexually harassed or assaulted them.

Toback denied the claims and said he never met any of the women who accused him or if he did he only was with them for five minutes and he had no recollection.

Toback is another case of men abusing their power sexually assault or harass women.

Matt Damon in a interview with deadline.com said, “I think a lot of actors have come out and said everybody’s saying we all knew. That’s not

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Movies produced Alleged Victims

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Hatchet Coffee’s shelf displays the different blends available. The coffee shop shares the space with Center 45 Climbing and Fitness off of Bamboo Road.

HATCHET COFFEE: MORE THAN JUST A LOCAL COFFEE SHOP Caroline Clucas│

ucked away in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from Appalachian State University’s campus, is a coffee shop that is serving more to the Boone community than just coffee.

Hatchet Coffee began as a dream fostered in the kitchen of Stick Boy Bread Company by former bakers and co-founders Jeremy Bollman and Jeremy Parnell. The two friends shared a mutual love for West Coast-styled coffee and wanted to share this style of roast to the community of Boone. What started out as playing around with a small roaster bloomed into a demand for retail bags, resulting in time spent roasting in Bollman’s basement. In August 2015, after purchasing Chattanooga’s Velo Coffee Roaster, Bollman and Parnell started to sell wholesale in a warehouse in Boone.

“This has all been an organic-type growth,” Parnell said.

“It began as small thing, just an interest.”

This interest, now Hatchet Coffee, provides coffee to many local businesses such as

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Melanie’s and Ransom Café in Boone, New Public House and The Speckled Trout in Blowing Rock, Mountain Grounds in Banner Elk and Bohemia in West Jefferson, with around 30 wholesale accounts.

Hatchet recently celebrated its one-year anniversary in September, and though Bollman and Parnell’s dream has been transformed into a reality, the duo are still dreaming of bigger things. Around the beginning of 2018, the pair plans to buy and move a larger roaster into its own roasting facility, while expanding the retail section to forage both a café atmosphere and a place of community.

In the past, Hatchet was heavily involved in the Triple Crown Bouldering Series, a competitive event that promotes the sport of bouldering and the climbing community, while also raising funds for the Southeastern Climbers’ Coalition and the Carolina Climbers’ Coalition. Being a climber himself, Parnell expressed his personal love for the outdoors and his plans for Hatchet to make another appearance at the event this year.

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Along with being heavily active in the climbing community, Parnell said he plans for Hatchet to continue being involved in the cyclist community. In the past, Hatchet has participated in events such as Blood, Sweat and Gears. This desire for involvement within the cycling community was started by Hatchet employee Alan Garvick, a Boone local who serves the company with roasting and photography and is also an active cyclist.

“Any time there is an [outdoor] event around Boone, we try to be there,” Parnell said.

In addition to pursuing plans to connect coffee to the outdoor community, Hatchet Coffee has made an outreach throughout the Boone community as well by collaborating with Foggy Pine Books and creating the program Hatchet Coffee Book Club. The book club meets the last Saturday of each month; coffee is provided by Hatchet Coffee and book lovers review and talk about the book assigned for that month.

Hatchet Coffee also has plans for a free coffee education class to occur every Satur-

day at 11 a.m., where members of the community can come to learn anything from brewing techniques and roasting styles to coffee tastings.

Hatchet Coffee’s desire for community is not only prevalent outside of its doors; it is located within the shop as well. Madison Steele, a barista for Hatchet Coffee, said that her customers and the sense of community she feels are her favorite parts about working at Hatchet Coffee.

“Working at Hatchet Coffee has been life changing,” Steele said. “Hatchet opened up a different sense of community in the town that I wouldn’t change for the world.”

Vincent Perez-Huet, a junior at Appalachian State University majoring in criminal justice and first-time Hatchet Coffee customer, said he already felt at home at Hatchet Coffee and that there is a sense of belonging as soon as you walk in.

“I loved the cappuccino, you can taste the roast in the espresso,” Perez-Huet said and added that the cappuccino was “very well done.”

Hatchet Coffee is focused

on wholesome ingredients, leaning away from sugary syrups and additives and stressing on the flavors of the roast.

“For people in the App State community that like coffee,” Perez-Huet said, “the coffee here is way better than what I have had in Boone so far.”

Hatchet Coffee is located at 200 Den Mac Drive in Boone, and is open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. To see what Hatchet Coffee is up to, or to see future events, check out their website and Instagram page.

Use this QR code to watch the video on Hatchet Coffee made by our Video Editor, Jamie Patel.

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Ashton LeBlanc’s cake titled “Trick or Treat Pumpkin” is displayed. Ashton entered the cake into the 2017 Cake Buffet organized by The Appalachian Nerd Network on Sunday.

NERD NETWORK HOSTS SEVENTH ANNUAL CAKE COMPETITION AND BUFFET T Ashley Goodman│

he members of The Appalachian Nerd Network spent Sunday night piping bags of frosting, aligning candy decorations and carefully carrying almost a dozen cakes to the fourth floor of the student union, readying their cakes to be judged by the public in Nerd Network’s seventh annual cake competition and buffet.

The competitors made Halloween-themed cakes which were judged by Nerd Network officers and then by the public before winners were declared in six categories: best zombie-themed cake, most colorful cake, nerdiest cake, best tasting cake, best “trick or eat” candy themed cake and best cake overall.

The event was open to all students, and many came just to sample the cakes in what the club referred to as a “cake buffet.” Students mounded paper plates over with samplings of a variety of cakes, from a gluten-free pumpkin patch cake to a bundt cake decorated like a jack-o’- lantern, overflowing with candy.

Winners were awarded with a selection of post-

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ers and nerdy aprons featuring logos from popular video games, with junior English major Madison Howell taking the titles of best tasting cake and best cake overall.

Howell had intended to serve a spooky, Halloween-themed mirror glaze cake, but kitchen complications left the cake looking differently than she’d hoped. Not expecting to win, Howell only hoped that people would like her cake.

“I was super surprised that I’d won,” Howell said. “I hadn’t gotten a chance to taste it beforehand, so I just hoped it would go well. Once I tasted it, I felt really satisfied with what I was able to make.”

Howell’s “Zombie Dinner” cake featured white chocolate mousse and strawberry jam her family had made this past summer, complete with homemade toffee bones and raspberry jello brains on the side.

Other notable winners included senior English major Collin Townsend and his “Overwatch”-themed cake, and sophomore communication major Caitlin Hallee’s “Gothic Surprise,” whose dark

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exterior, black with red frosting blood and gray fondant roses, revealed a multi-layered rainbow cake when cut.

Vice president and senior sociology major Helen Koeval said that the cake competition is simply a fun way to bring Nerd Network together, and hopefully attract new members as well. Advertising free cake, Koeval said, would hopefully sweeten the pot and get interested participants involved with the club.

The competition chooses a different theme every year, from anime to video games to this year’s Halloween-themed feast, seeking to attract a variety of people each year and encouraging members with different interests to compete.

“It’s fun just to see what people can do,” Koeval said.

“People put so much effort into these cakes and work so hard making and decorating them, and it’s really cool to see the fruits of their labor come to fruition.”

The cake buffet is just the first of multiple large events Nerd Network hosts each year.

On top of its biweekly meetings and game nights, Nerd Network also holds the cake

buffet, a Fall Bash in November and NerdCon, the club’s largest event by far, which occurs each April.

“NerdCon is a huge convention,” Koeval said. “We rent out most of the student union. We have vendors, panels and cosplay contests, and it’s absolutely free.”

Appalachian State graduate Ashton LeBlanc appreciates the connection the club’s events provide. Nerd Network hosts its many events in an attempt to bring self-proclaimed “nerds” together over anythi ng from movies and cartoons to video games and manga.

“We are a networking club,” LeBlanc said. “We get nerds together and share interests.”

LeBlanc and Howell both said that “nerd” is not an exclusive term, however. The club embraces a large number of interests and welcomes anyone who is passionate about their hobbies to come and share.

“I feel like a lot of people have a nerdy side,” LeBlanc said.

Although LeBlanc graduated in 2015, she was a member through her entire college career and upon gradu-

ating decided to stick around to help her boyfriend, an officer at Nerd Network, coordinate events.

Koeval, too, said she stays with the club not just for the free cake, but to enjoy the sense of connection it brings.

Koeval has been in the club for three years now and has made many of her friends through Nerd Network’s meetings and events.

“Clubs like this are a chance to make friends. When I was a freshman, Nerd Network was how I made my really close friends, and I’m still friends with a lot of those people now.”

Koeval said she hopes that Nerd Network can bring other nerds together as well, and that friendship and connection is ultimately the goal of the club.

“I just hope that people will be able to come to our club and connect with people who have similar interests,” Koeval said, “and that they’ll be able to create lasting friendships through us.”

Nerd Network meets every other Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the student union’s MacRae Peak Room.

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Hayley Hughes modeling a denim skirt titled “Upcycled Moon Cloud Skirt.” This skirt was designed by the Raining Sunshine Co.

Hayley Hughes modeling the jeans titled “Upcycled Loft Flares.”

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Hayley Hughes modeling a denim skirt titled “Upcycled Moon Cloud Skirt.”

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TURNING TEXTILE WASTE INTO SUSTAINABLE FASHION Collin Jewel modeling the “Upcycled Acid Wash Party Print Elbow Patched Blouse.” This blouse was designed by the Raining Sunshine Co.

Julianne Blaylock│ aining Sunshine Co. is an upcycled clothing company created by two best friends, Sarah Grace Paul and Montana Goldsmith, who have a passion for thrifting and upscaling. They have been friends since Paul’s 13th birthday party.

Paul, a sophomore at Appalachian State, was homeschooled until her freshman year of high school.

Her mother never bought her clothes that she liked. Instead, she received handme-downs from her cousins or siblings, which led her to learn how to sew.

“I got a sewing machine for my 11th birthday,” Paul said. “I always really wanted to look like Nancy Drew, so I would always sew my clothes to look like her.”

Her mother and aunt were always super supportive of how she made clothes, even if they were not the best, Paul said. With time and practice, Paul perfected sewing, designing and making clothes.

“So I wanted to start an art store for upcycled art, and I wanted to be an art therapist and teach classes, specifically for kids with autism,” Paul said.

Once Paul got to college, she switched to pursuing speech pathology with

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a concentration in art and a minor in Spanish.

This past summer, Paul called Goldsmith, a sophomore exercise science major, about her idea of buying old things and making them new again. When Paul enlisted Goldsmith, she was happy to help.

“Sarah Grace will tell me what to do and I’ll just do it,” Goldsmith said.

For the creative process, Paul and Goldsmith go to Goodwill and ask themselves if they can do anything with the clothes they find. Paul also gets many clothes from her grandma.

“It’s a mad frenzy of creativity. It hits you all at once,” Paul said.

Their company, Raining Sunshine Co., is different than others because they take old textiles and make them new again.

“Recycling is breaking something down and making it new again. Upcycling is building something up and making it into something new without breaking it down,” Paul said.

Their fashion influence comes from whatever is trending at the moment and from family. Paul and Goldsmith also are inspired by clothes at Anthropologie.

“To me, fashion would be what makes you feel the most yourself and the most

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comfortable,” Paul said.

“It’s also a way of expressing yourself,” Goldsmith said.

Fashion goes in and out of style constantly. Paul and Goldsmith try to stay at the forefront of fashion. Their favorite brands include Anthropologie, Free People and Boden.

As a goal, Raining Sunshine Co. said they would love to be able to sell things so that Paul and Goldsmith can use their creativity to bless other people, do something they enjoy and make extra money through college.

Their company is different, Paul said, because they often get girls of all different shapes and sizes to model their clothing.

“Whenever our models wear our clothes and get photographed, oftentimes they say they aren’t photogenic,” Paul said. “It’s really cool watching girls who do not think they are beautiful come alive and feel beautiful with what they are wearing and how the pictures turn out. It’s a really cool experience. Our clothes make people feel beautiful, which is more important than the way you look.”

As far as finding models, Paul and Goldsmith think about who they know fits the size of the clothing. Some-

times, people message them and ask if they can model their clothes.

Hayley Hughes, a sophomore exercise science major, has modeled for Raining Sunshine Co. “It was cool to model the clothes because they are truly one of a kind and they made me feel so beautiful,” Hughes said.

According to Paul and Goldsmith, Appalachian State students’ style is Birkenstocks, wool socks, T-shirts, flannels, headbands and Nike shorts or high-waisted shorts.

“Appalachian style is incredibly freeing because I feel like there is not a lot of hate for the way you look, which is so nice. That says a lot about Appalachian State University,” Paul said.

In Paul’s opinion, the next big thing in fashion is Dansko nurse clogs, but according to Goldsmith, the early 2000s are coming back.

“We are dressing like the ‘90s right now and we are slowly progressing to the 2000s,” Goldsmith said.

Paul and Goldsmith stay up-to-date on fashion by looking on Pinterest, Instagram and on campus.

“In some ways I follow fashion, but a lot of the things that I make are classic pieces. These pieces are not necessarily in one gen-

eration or another. They are just classic,” Paul said.

One of the reasons Paul and Goldsmith work well together is because Goldsmith follows trends and Paul is the opposite.

“If this continues and becomes a good way of sourcing my creativity, I would love to try to work out a way to use speech pathology with creating things regardless of whether it is clothes or not.

I want to connect different worlds— brain, hands and speech,” Paul said.

Their clothes can be found on their Etsy shop called Raining Sunshine Co. and on Poshmark. They also have an Instagram account, which can also be found under Raining Sunshine Co. Raining Sunshine Co. often sells crop tops and anything denim. Paul and Goldsmith use all platforms to promote their work.

“We both have a lot of Instagram followers and we post about it. We also send the pictures to the models and then they will post about it and tag us,” Goldsmith said.

Soon, Raining Sunshine Co. will be putting business cards up in Crossroads and will also start selling headbands there.

“I hope that wherever our clothes go, that it is raining sunshine,” Paul said.

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Angela Ruiz posing for a picture during ROTC lab on Thursday October 5, 2017.

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WONDER WOMEN OF THE ROTC Anna Muckenfuss│

ppalachian State offers many different programs and clubs for students to participate in to find their home in the High Country. One of the programs with a deep history at Appalachian is the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or the ROTC. “The ROTC teaches many things like leadership, time and stress management, wellness, Army values and ethics and Army officer history,” freshman ROTC instructor D.J. Weatherford said.

The ROTC is broken up into two parts: basic training for a cadet’s freshman and sophomore year and advanced training for their junior and senior year. Advanced training is when a cadet is given the option to become an officer in the Army.

“ASU ROTC first commissioned officers in 1971,” Weatherford said. “Since that time it has produced 918 officers. One hundred and one of them have been female. The first female officer was commissioned in 1977. Over the history of the program we average three females per commissioning class.”

In the Army as a whole, 18 percent of the force are female officers. In the current ROTC class, there are 19 female cadets in the basic training course and three female cadets in the advanced training course.

“I’ve always wanted to be in the military,” freshman Lydia Pearson said. “The military fits my mindset.”

Others, like sophomore cadet Heidi Robinson, became interested in the ROTC through experiences in high school.

“In high school, I did JROTC and really liked the atmosphere. I like being active and ROTC keeps me active. I never thought I would go into the military and then I started researching Army ROTC,” Robinson said.

Sophomore ROTC member Angela Ruiz said she was impacted greatly by her experience in the JROTC and that it helped build her into the person she is today.

“That class introduced me to a different culture and I loved it,” Ruiz said. “I felt like I could really contribute to the military, and so it lead me to pursue ROTC.” Junior Kylie Mattingly and

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sophomore Taylor Guiles tied their start in the ROTC to familial influences.

“I got involved with ROTC because both of my parents have served in the Army,” Mattingly said. “Growing up in a military family caused me to want to pursue a military career.”

“I got into ROTC because my mother and brother are both in the Army,” Guiles said. “They have set a high standard of integrity and selflessness in our household growing up, a standard I want to follow and continue to set for my future family.”

Each of the five cadets in ROTC have decided to pursue different career paths in the Army, with many jobs available to them after they graduate.

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to aid them.”

Mattingly and Ruiz both said they envision a career as active duty officers in the military with hopes to maintain that career for most of their lives.

“I hope to see myself become an active duty officer and would like to be involved with military intelligence,” Mattingly said. “I hope to maintain a career in the Army for many years if possible.”

The courses in ROTC create many beneficial challenges for students and the different clubs within ROTC offer opportunities for extracurricular group activities.

“There’s a club called Commandos in ROTC. Last semester, I was the only female in the club,” Robinson said. “When I got to the event, it was hard because I was sur-

“Coming off of basic training and then coming here, I really miss the family I made over the summer,” Pearson said, “but now that I’m here, I’ve created a new family. If you surround yourself with people you care about, then you’ll be successful. That’s what I like about ROTC. Even in the month I’ve been here, I feel like I’ve done a lot of growing.”

Junior economics and Spanish major and former ROTC cadet Destiny Rider said she enjoyed the family atmosphere.

“I liked feeling a part of the team that was working toward a common goal. I loved how competitive it was and that you had to create a name for yourself through your display of skills and ability to grow,” Rider said.

Last semester I was the only female in the [Commandos] club. When I got to the event, it was hard because I was surrounded by guys. It was a different atmosphere, but I got through it.

from the ROTC program they are Army officers,” Weatherford said. “We usually take on 20 cadets each year. There are all sorts of different jobs available for cadets once they graduate.”

Pearson said that she plans to go into aviation once she graduates from the ROTC. “I would like to get into aviation because I want to learn to fly and when I was younger I wanted to join the Air Force,” Pearson said.

Robinson and Guiles are both pursuing a career in nursing. Robinson said that she hopes to work with children, while Guiles said that she would like to provide aid to disaster-ridden countries.

“I want to be a pediatric nurse, but I don’t know how long I’ll be in the military,” Robinson said. “I’ll do my first three years and then see if I want to continue.”

“I hope to be a nurse in the Army and would like to get deployed on humanitarian efforts more than to hostile territories,” Guiles said, “such as when Pakistan had an earthquake a few years back, a CSH unit was set up

rounded by guys. It was a different atmosphere, but I got through it. I like Ranger Challenge and Mountain Man because we compete at both.

You train each morning with the people in the groups and you bond together. We had an all female team last year and it was great because we built this friendship. It’s challenging but rewarding.”

Ruiz also enjoys the clubs the ROTC offers and said, “The extracurriculars offer a way for us to get to know each other and grow to work close with each other, learning our strengths and weaknesses. Overall, it helps improve our comradery and grow together as a team.”

“Most cadets love the labs and hands-on training. Being with individuals that are like-minded is also enjoyable,” Weatherford said. “We do the extracurricular activities to help give cadets an idea if this program is something they want to continue.”

Besides offering club opportunities and hands-on training, the ROTC offers cadets a chance to create a community within the program.

While the ROTC may have enjoyable moments, there are challenges within the program. Cadets must pass grueling physical training tests and organize their schedules around the ROTC and academics.

“I’d say the time management is the hardest part of ROTC,” Weatherford said.

“The difficulty would probably differ from student to student. The first two years aren’t that overwhelming.”

“Time management and balancing my responsibilities has to be the hardest thing for me to deal with while being in ROTC,” Mattingly said.

“I have to balance working around 30 hours per week at my job, going to school full time, going to the gym multiple days a week, putting effort into my relationship and participating in events related to ROTC. There’s a lot of things I can’t do sometimes because of how busy I am.”

Over the past several years, women in the Army have made great steps to overcome gender discrimination. Female cadets in the ROTC continue this

trend fighting back against stereotypes.

“The Army is more forward leaning than most institutions across the chain,” Weatherford said. “I don’t think there are any institutional biases, at least none that I’ve seen. We’ve gone towards a gender-neutral route, where if anyone, male or female, fits the requirements for a position, they can have that position.”

Weatherford claimed that, in the ROTC at App State, if a cadet was discriminatory toward a female cadet in the program they would be handled according to protocol.

“There’s a process to deal with discrimination, and a process for sexual assault,” Weatherford said. “If someone came to me and told me they’d been discriminated against, I’d sit down and talk with the individual. If a cadet is discriminating another cadet, they are distracted from the mission. We identify as soldiers, not as male or female. Confrontation is how we stop discrimination.”

As a female in a male dominant field, Ruiz said she leads by example in the ROTC by being herself.

“Representing females in a minority group, I can be a role model for young girls to see that it’s okay to be different and go down different paths,” Ruiz said. “I want them to feel like they can achieve anything and that their gender should not hold them back. I will lead by example and demonstrate that even though I am a female in a male dominant organization, I can still get far in my career and be successful.”

Overall, the ROTC on campus helps provide students with a view into the military.

With a combination of physical training, hands-on courses, clubs and a community of like-minded individuals, the ROTC prepares powerful women for the world of the military and all it has to offer.

“You want to lead from the front,” Pearson said. “You want to work harder to motivate people. I have the mentality that if you think one way, that’s what you’re going to become. I don’t think it has anything to do with me being female. I work just as hard as everyone else in the program.

Hard work is hard work and that is what is going to help me succeed.”

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The outside of Miles Annas Student Support which is alternatively known as the Wellness Center. The building contains both the counseling center and health services.

THE IMPORTANCE OF APP STATE’S WELLNESS ASSESSMENT Christina Beals│

ccording to App State’s Wellness and Prevention Services’ website, the overall mission of the organization is to serve the student body through the promotion of healthy behaviors, modification services for risk behavior and advocacy for campus-wide health policies that facilitate student success and holistic well-being.

One of the ways in which Wellness and Prevention Services reaches out to the student body is through its wellness assessment.

The wellness assessment is a survey created by the campus organization and sent out to students via email to fill out.

Alex Howard, director of Wellness and Prevention Services, has been at his position since the organization’s beginning in 2015.

“The premise for conducting the assessment is to better understand the overall condition of the community that you

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serve,” Howard said.

During the same year in which Wellness and Prevention Services started, the first student-wide wellness assessment did as well.

Howard said the assessment is administered to cater to each individual student who is a part of a bigger, eclectic student body.

“The assessment that launched in 2015 was a shorter assessment by about 15 items and it wasn’t as inclusive as the current one,” Howard said.

“We had vetted it with students as well as different campus partners, such as the dean of students, the Office of Student Conduct, as well as the Multicultural Student Development Office. We did the same thing this year, and we’re able to refine it and make it more inclusive as well as add additional items that would be beneficial to our understanding of experiences of our students on campus.”

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partners that have taken part in striving to make the wellness assessment inclusive, a group working under the Wellness and Prevention Services has as well.

WE CAN, or Wellness Educators for Change, Advocacy and Student Needs, is a peer educator group.

WE CAN primarily educates the student body on various topics relating to personal wellness, such as student health and well-being.

Sydney Hobart, president of WE CAN, along with the rest of their executive board is in charge of any presentations, events and contact tables that are presented on campus for the wellness education of fellow students.

“In reference to the Campus Wellness Assessment, WE CAN had two roles: share the assessment link with any and all students through social media, classroom announcements, club meetings and any other avenues possible and staff the

contact table that was located either inside or outside the union on a given day with prizes for students that completed the assessment,” Hobart said.

Hobart and her team can be seen throughout main areas of campus, promoting the assessment with a table of Wellness and Prevention merchandise.

“My fellow WE CAN members and even the WPS staff that are alongside me at the table will tell you that I have no shame in calling out to people as they walk by and may even be a little aggressive at times to first attract their attention with the prizes at the table and then convince them to complete the assessment,” Hobart said. “In reference to any positive effects the assessment has had on the student body, I think the most obvious effect has been its ability to start a dialogue regarding what wellness is and the work of Wellness and Prevention Services as a department.”

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member of App State’s Student Government Association, serving as the director of health and safety.

In her position, Patterson’s responsibility is to advocate for the overall health and wellness of the student body as well as for any ways in which it can be checked on.

“The Campus Wellness Assessment is a critical resource for Wellness and Prevention to use in ensuring that students’ health and wellness needs are being met,” Patterson said.

“The survey is easy and relatively short, but vitally important to the safety and wellbeing of our student body.”

Wellness and Prevention Services, located past the post office on campus, offers several different services from therapy to helping students get in touch with other health resources.

To take the wellness assessment, students can search for it in their Appalachian State email inbox.

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Oct. 26, 2017

HAUNTED CAMPUS HOTSPOTS

The Living Learning Center is located on the west side of campus. It is home to the Watauga Residential College and the building itself is known to be haunted.

Anna Muckenfuss│ s Halloween approaches, spooky stories passed around campus put favorite campus hang-outs and residence halls in a terrifying new light.

As a school with a deep history, many buildings have become home to several different haunts. Students and staff have reported encounters with ghosts, demons and even a terrifying black shadow that stalks night assistants in Belk Hall.

The Living Learning Center was built in 2003 and houses Watauga Residential College, Appalachian Community of Education Scholars and the Language Learning Community.

The fourth floor of the LLC is notoriously known for its hauntings. Many rooms on the fourth floor are rumored to be haunted, but none are so infamous as the library.

“The fourth floor is 100 percent haunted,” Mariah Hydzik, a sophomore exercise science major and a resident assistant in the LLC, said. “The lights flicker, it’s definitely a ghost. The older Wataugans say someone used a Ouija board up on the fourth floor a few years ago and that’s why it’s so haunted.”

Sophie Zapf and Jennifer Mcgrouther, two sophomores who lived in the LLC last year, said that their room on the fourth floor became haunted after they removed a portrait from the library in the LLC. “Last year we lived in 412.

We were messing around and we said, ‘What if we just grabbed a

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picture?’” Zapf, a theater education major, said.

“So we grabbed the portrait of Lavinia,” Mcgrouther, a public health major, said. “We referred to her as our ‘third roommate.’ One night we had a friend over, and they were joking around, sitting in front of our refrigerator.”

Zapf said that after their friend started insulting the portrait, the flower vase that was sitting on top of the fridge fell over and almost hit her on the head.

“She didn’t bump the fridge,” Zapf said. “It just fell off. We’d be talking about her (Lavinia) and the lights would fall and something would get knocked over. ” Another notable haunting in the LLC would be the shower in suite 265-267. Chloe Hudock, a sophomore psychology major, said there are many stories of mysterious marks she would sustain after taking a shower.

“These weren’t your typical lights flickering, cold spots kind of occurrences,” Hudock said.

“Most of the time, we came across physical wounds that we had no explanation for. The first time, I found what closely resembled a bite mark on my hip - the right shape, accurate proportions and little indentations caused by teeth. My suitemates had different interactions, but mine were mostly physical wounds.”

Sam Burnett, a sophomore theater education major and Hudock’s suitemate from the previous year, said she experi-

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enced similar occurrences.

“We would come out of the shower with scratches,” Burnett said. “It affected my suitemates more. One time I had gotten scratches on my back.

I didn’t feel anything happen.

Another time I had a random bruise on my body.”

Carlee Pierce, a freshman psychology major and current resident of room 265, said she has not experienced any activity.

“Our injuries were never fresh,” Hudock said. “They always looked as if they had been present for a few days.

My bite mark had already bruised over and her scratch was partially healed.”

Besides the LLC, East Hall has a deep history rooted within Appalachian State and is reported to be one of the most haunted dorms on campus.

In the 1960s, a female student supposedly committed suicide down in the basement. Students who live in East have reported being shoved by invisible forces, seeing strange blue lights and hearing voices. Student Health Services also keeps a close watch on students in dormitory because the building has a high rate of mental health problems. Students on campus call this “going East.”

Lexie Nix, a gap-year freshman global studies major who lives in East Hall, reported four different encounters with the ghost that resides in the building.

“When I was moving in, I knew the building was supposedly haunted, but I told myself

that it was all a bunch of b.s.,” Nix said. “My first encounter, I was in the shower washing my face and I heard the door open.

Someone came into the shower next to me and said, ‘Hey, Lex’ and started the shower. I replied ‘Hey’ back, and when I rinsed my face and opened my eyes, the shower was off and no one was in the bathroom.”

Nix’s second encounter with the ghost spooked her and her roommate, who were both in their dorm room when pictures fell off the wall along with a tapestry. Nix said the door and window were closed and that no fans were turned on.

Nix’s third encounter occurred when she was alone, watching Netflix and an invisible force pushed her bed hard.

That last encounter with the ghost terrified Nix to such an extreme that she ran out of her room and has not slept in her room since Oct. 19.

East Hall has built up such a reputation over the years that the Office of Sustainability is hosting a haunted house on Oct. 26 in East’s basement. To be admitted to the haunted house, attendants are to bring either their “mortal soul” or a non-perishable food item.

While East Hall and the LLC’s haunting reputations have gained momentum over the years, Belk Hall’s spooks have recently started to be noticed by the night assistants.

Bethany Kinsey, a sophomore education major who is a night assistant in Belk Hall, said she has seen a shadowy figure

wander the halls at night.

“I do rounds on the hour,” Kinsey said. “On Tuesday, Oct. 17, I started my 1 o’clock round, checked all of the first floor, went upstairs and came back in the kitchen and made some food in the microwave. When I did my 2 o’clock rounds an hour later and came into the kitchen, the oven was on.”

Nathaniel Glasgow, a sophomore archeology major and another night assistant in Belk, said he has also seen the shadow entity.

“I have seen this shadow at my desk in the stairwell door,” Glasgow said. “It gets completely dark. There’s no way a person’s shadow could do that. You’ll want to look behind you because sometimes it could be following you around the hallway.”

“I’ll open the door to the lounges and the lights will be off,” Kinsey said. “I swear I’ll see someone sitting on the couch, but when I flip the lights on no one is there.”

“I’m unnerved but not afraid of it,” Glasgow said. “It’s weird because when I think about it, I’ve seen it about five or six times. It should terrify me, but it doesn’t.”

“It’s not isolated,” Kinsey said. “It’s not that a lot of stuff will happen in one night, it happens over time.”

“I feel that our experiences prove that the supernatural is real,” Burnett said. “We can’t disprove it so why not believe in it? What else could be responsible?”

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GAME DAY GAME 8│SATURDAY, OCT. 28│3:30 P.M.│WARREN MCGUIRK ALUMNI STADIUM│AMHERST, M.A.

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2 TOUCHDOWNS AGAINST COASTAL CAROLINA

83 YARD TOUCHDOWN RECEPTION AGAINST COASTAL

SILENCING THE MINUTEMEN The Mountaineers eventually came out on top in a hard fought game last week against Coastal Carolina on family weekend. Within Kidd Brewer Stadium, 30,179 fans witnessed Appalachian State claim a 37-29 victory over the Chanticleers. In fact, it was the ninth time that at least 30,000 fans had attended a game at The Rock. Early in the game, senior quarterback Taylor Lamb surpassed Armanti Edwards for career passing touchdowns, throwing the record-breaking touchdown in the first quarter. The Mountaineers now sit atop the conference as one of the only two remaining unbeaten teams in Sun Belt play. The other squad happens to be Arkansas State. Yet, App State does not get a chance to face off against the Red Wolves this year for the outright Sun Belt conference title. Therefore, the Mountaineers control their own destiny in pursuit of a conference crown.

NEED OFFENSIVE CONSISTENCY: The Mountaineers have recently been competing similar to that of the Atlanta Falcons. Either they allow a lead to slip away or fail to compete for the whole 60-minute duration. Most of the blame for this issue can be placed solely on the coaching staff. Last week, App State allowed a (1-5) Coastal team to score 19 consecutive points to take a 22-17 lead. Complacency in the play calling allowed such a comeback. Although the Mountaineers went on to win 37-29 against the Chanticleers, more effective run plays should have been executed to kill the dwindling clock. The failure to do such produced a one score game with an ensuing onside kick. If the offense consistently does not improve, another loss will eventually be added to the loss column.

LIMIT THE BIG PLAY:

SPECIAL TEAMS MATTER:

Coastal Carolina crept back into the game last week by utilizing the big-play threat. Speedy slot receivers gashed the Mountaineer defense in the middle of the field. App State gave up a total of 332 yards through the air. The Chanticleers struggled to sustain drives early but ultimately scored on a 73-yard touchdown pass to cut the deficit to 17-9. The long scoring play provided life to the Coastal sideline.The Chanticleers went on to take a 22-17 lead after a field goal early in the third quarter. App State must limit these confidence-building plays to cease any miraculous comeback because momentum can play a huge role in the outcome of a football game.

Sophomore placekicker Michael Rubino missed three field goals against Coastal Carolina last week. Kickers are a vital asset when a drive stalls in the red zone.

Missed field goals as well as extra points can come back to haunt any team. Does the Wake Forest game or even last year’s Tennessee game ring a bell? The offense must be able to rely on special teams. If it is late within a closely contested battle, it most often comes down to any offense trying their best to reach the range of their kicker to tie or even the win game. Teams want somebody that they can trust trotting out there to attempt such a field goal and the Mountaineers must make a switch or at least solve the problem in a hurry.

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Oct. 26, 2017

APP STATE’S MOST WICKED SPORT Mariah Reneau│

f someone were to walk across the stadium parking lot and happen to glance at Duck Pond Field, they might notice a group of students running around with PVC pipes between their legs, attempting to throw balls into hoops. If they look closer, however, they might see the resemblance to a game in the wizarding world of Harry Potter: Quidditch.

Although Quidditch may seem somewhat difficult to play without magic since it is usually played on flying brooms, this college sport is actually named “Muggle Quidditch.” Students are not in the air, but there are many of the same principles of the enchanted game.

“One of the questions we get all the time is ‘Do you fly?’” junior biology major and commissioner of the Appalachian State Apparators Riley Visser said. “I always say no, but some people jump really high.”

Instead, students run around the field with rounded off PVC pipes between their legs and are penalized if the pipe is lost during the game.

“If the broom comes out from between your legs, you have to run back to your own side and tag into your hoops,” Visser said.

The sport of Quidditch is played with six players on each side: two Chasers, two Beaters,

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one Keeper and one Seeker.

The Chasers’ job is to get the “Quaffle,” or a deflated volleyball, through one of the three hoops on the opposite end of the field.

The Beaters are the equivalent of a team’s defense.

“The main goal of the Beaters is to hit the other team with dodgeballs to eliminate their chance of scoring and getting close to your hoops,” Visser said.

The Keeper tries to block the actual hoops themselves.

They also, however, still have the ability to score on the other team’s hoops.

“Chasers and Keepers are essentially the same thing except that Keepers can stick their hands through the hoop to block them,” Visser said.

The Seeker’s role is very different from the rest of the positions.

“The Seeker’s objective is to catch the Snitch, similar to Harry Potter, except that the Snitch is a person with a tail,” Visser said.

However, it is more than just trying to pull off a person’s tail.

“The Snitch can pretty much do whatever they want to the Seeker,” Visser said. “He can pull their brooms and then they have to go back to the hoops.”

On top of all of the positions’ assigned roles, there is also the fact that each of the positions

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can tackle since Quidditch is a full-contact sport.

“It’s full tackle regardless of gender,” Visser said. “You can get tackled, you can tackle.”

This full-contact sport actually creates a lot of injuries since the only protective equipment worn is a mouth guard.

In her three years of playing Quidditch, Visser has broken both her foot and her kneecap.

“If you look at it in the movies there’s no contact, but when you’re watching it live action there is lot of tackling and everyone is getting physical,” sophomore accounting major Andrew Howard said.

Overall, the game has many rules that makes it relatively tricky to play. Even more so than that, the game is extremely new, meaning that there are new rules every year.

“They change the rule book every single year depending on what happens the year prior,” sophomore biochemistry major Josh Bartlett said.

This popular college sport has been in Boone since 2011, but is now officially an Appalachian State special interest club.

“In the past we still had a Quidditch club on campus, but it technically wasn’t affiliated with the team in any way even though all of the members played on the team,” Visser said. “This year because we did become Appalachian State

Quidditch, the club and the team are officially together and the school officially recognizes the Appalachian State Apparators.”

The team this year is quite young with the oldest students being juniors.

“We had a lot of members graduate and with this last graduating class, we not only lost all of our previous seniors, but also our juniors because all of their friends graduated and they kind of moved on too,” Visser said.

The team still practices every Tuesday and Thursday and plays as much as they possibly can to help the younger players learn.

“We’ve had teams contact us about playing Red Robins, which isn’t exactly a tournament but you just play to gain experience,” Visser said. “We contact teams we’re on good terms with and just play.”

The team also plays in official tournaments put on by various schools.

Quidditch does not really have a season. In fact, most players play it year-round with the Apparators. In the summer, however, students will play in fantasy tournaments.

“Fantasy tournaments are where you don’t sign up as a team, but you sign up as an individual player and you’re placed on team,” Visser said.

Quidditch has actually be-

come an international phenomenon on college campuses around the world.

“When I first joined Quidditch, I didn’t realize that there was a national conference for it and that it’s now international,” Bartlett said.

Overall, Quidditch has a lot of appeal to college students for various reasons.

For one, Quidditch prides itself on being an extremely inclusive sport, especially when it comes to gender.

“You have seven people on the pitch and at least two people have to be of the non-majority gender,” Bartlett said. “For example, you can have five guys, two girls or you can have four guys, two girls and one non-binary.”

Another appeal is that Quidditch is a new sport, so everyone is on relatively similar skill levels.

“With Quidditch, most people start in college so I have the choice to play and everyone else is either starting out or only has two or three years of experience,” Bartlett said.

Either way, the Appalachian State Apparators are extremely close friends who all share the love of this sport.

“They’re my family,” Howard said. “We’re a community; we communicate together and we constantly just build bonds together.”

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Oct. 26, 2017

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PREPARING TO TIP-OFF THE SEASON

Guard Armani Hampton attempts to score a layup during a game against UT Arlington last season. The Mountaineers lost to the Mavericks with the final score being 73-62.

Silas Albright│ pp State women’s basketball will tip off the 2017-2018 season on Oct. 31 with a home exhibition against Tusculum College at 3 p.m. before hosting Georgia Tech on Nov. 10 to open the regular season.

“Opening up with a BCS opponent on our home court is a great opportunity for us,” head coach Angel Elderkin said. “Then, in less than 48 hours we go down to Radford, another postseason opponent, so right out of the gate we’re going to test our young team with two teams that have postseason experience.”

The Yellow Jackets finished 22-15 last season out of the ACC and were the Women’s National Invitation Tournament runner up, falling to Michigan after three overtime periods in the title game.

The Highlanders compiled a 24-9 record last year that earned them a spot in the WNIT. They were also a perfect 13-0 at home, where App State will face them in the second game of the year.

The new-look Mountaineers are returning just one starter out of five players overall from last years squad that finished with a 12-19 overall record and a 6-12 mark in Sun Belt play.

“Every year is an opportunity for a fresh start and we had an opportunity this summer to re-

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ally collaborate, re-think and reteach the standards and culture of our program,” Elderkin said. “It’s been a really exciting journey so far.”

App State has eight newcomers to the program, five of which are freshmen, along with two junior college transfers and one Division 1 transfer that is ineligible for the 2017-2018 season due to NCAA transfer rules.

Both junior college transfers have something else in common: neither guard Nicola Mathews nor Anna Perez Gomez are from America, so they each have had to adjust to the changes a little more than the average newcomer.

Mathews came to the United States from Adelaide, Australia and to App State by way of the College of Central Florida. Gomez is originally from Canet De Mar, Spain and previously attended Eastern Wyoming College before coming to App. “Coming from a different country is a bit of an adjustment because it’s a different style of game, it’s more controlled back in Australia, whereas here it’s a bit more fast paced and up-anddown,” Mathews said. “Being at junior college helped me a lot to get adjusted to the type of practices and everything.”

Not only do foreign players have a lot to learn about how the game is played here, American

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players and coaches can learn a lot from the styles and nuances that foreign players bring with them.

“For Anna, we’re playing a different kind of style [than she’s used to] so she’s kind of finally settling down,” Elderkin said.

“She’s got high energy, she plays hard, she’s athletic. She’s just a competitor. Nic comes from an Australian background, they play with a 24-second clock. She’s another player that plays the point guard position who can stretch the D [defense] and I think she brings a sense of mental toughness to our team. She’s the type of kid whenever you walk in here, she’s in the gym.”

A team that has so many newcomers could be tough to work with right away and might take some time to get fully acclimated, but Elderkin and her staff worked hard to try and overcome those circumstances. And their efforts have worked.

“Our newcomers have really bought in, they don’t know anything else and that’s what I think has been great,” Elderkin said.

“When you have a team that buys in, it makes for great practices, great energy and just an overall great foundation to our culture.”

While it’s true that the Mountaineers have a lot of new faces, not all of them are new.

Returning are senior leaders Madi Story and Katelyn Doub,

both of whom came to Appalachian in Elderkin’s first year in Boone.

“It’s been tough, I really have had to step up in my leadership position because they are so young,” Story said, “but what’s great about our team is that everyone has really bought in, everyone has a great attitude about stuff. Even though they might not know a set or they might mess up on something as far as the system, they all really wanna win so I think that’s exciting.”

Story is the leader of the team and the lone returning starter for the Mountaineers. Last season, in her junior campaign, she started all 31 games and was the team’s leading scorer (13.3 points per game), rebounder (6.9 rebounds per game) and three-point shooter (38 threes made) and finished second on the team in assists (2.5 assists per game). The 5-foot-10inch guard out of Maiden, North Carolina, recorded seven 20-point performances on the year, five double-doubles and was a thirdteam all-Sun Belt selection.

Another key returner is Sophomore Forward Bayley Plummer. Plummer appeared in all 31 games a season ago and averaged 4.3 points and 5.5 rebounds as a true freshman.

“Bayley is a completely different player than she was last season,” Elderkin said. “She has re-

ally shown a lot of improvement from freshman to sophomore year. She’s really dominated the paint so she’s definitely a big piece right now.”

There is a lot to look forward to this season for the Mountaineers and it provides a fresh start for the program as they will look to build off of their positives from last year.

One of the biggest positives for Elderkin, her players and everyone else involved with the program is the simple fact that she is there to coach. A season ago at this time, Elderkin was locked in a battle with endometrial cancer.

“I wake up every day with a different gratefulness. Some days when I’m writing the practice plan, I go back and think about a year ago,” Elderkin said. “The practice after fall break I remember how sick I was, but I also remember how bad practice was.

This year I was just thinking ‘I don’t care how bad practice is, I’m just so happy to be able to be at practice and to be able to yell at them after because I have so much energy.’ I feel really good.”

Put all the talented young players, the returning leaders, along with a healthy head coach together and the outcome will be at the very least a basketball team that will be fun to keep up with as the season progresses.

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Sophomore third baseman Keri White in the field for the Mountaineers. White started 47 games last season as a freshman.

A NEW START FOR THE MOUNTAINEERS’ SOFTBALL TEAM Grayson Rice│

he 2018 season of softball at Appalachian State marks a new beginning for the softball community with Shelly Hoerner beginning her position as the new head coach.

Hoerner came from Georgia Tech and has over 500 career wins under her belt and 18 years of coaching experience.

Starting her softball coaching career at Barry University in Miami, Hoerner served as an assistant coach from 19961999.

Getting her first nod as a head coach in 2000 at Valdosta State, Hoerner quickly returned to Barry University for the head coaching job. Staying for five years, she helped the team win back-to-back conference championships in 2002 and 2003, earning her the conference’s coach of the year award in both campaigns.

Moving on to coach at the College of Charleston, Hoerner led her team to a 254206 record, including a 3720 season in 2007. Follow-

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ing her time there, she continued to climb the coaching ladder, accepting the job at Georgia Tech.

Transitioning to the Mountaineers, who had a previous overall season record of 1434, Hoerner looks to transform the culture surrounding the struggling App State program.

“The whole community has just welcomed myself and my family,” Hoerner said. “It has been a pretty cool environment and everyone has just made us feel like we have been here for longer than a few months.”

Coming into a new atmosphere, Hoerner and the rest of the softball community immediately found a way to create a sense of family behind their program.

The Appalachian State softball team gave back to the community of Boone, where they held a free softball clinic and shared their specialty with over 100 girls from the area.

“Our team did a great job and I have to give them a lot of credit with just the inter-

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action that they had with all the campers,” Hoerner said.

“If we want the community to support us, we have to support them.”

Bringing in aspects of a community to unite the team is part of the mindset Hoerner wants to instill into her team and pushing them to be the best they can be in all aspects of life.

Coming from Georgia Tech, Hoerner’s team had the highest GPA across the athletic department for the 2016 and 2017 seasons, averaging an impressive 3.2 over her fouryear tenure in Atlanta.

“You can be successful in the classroom, in life and on the field,” Hoerner said.

“When you are able to take that all in and make sure that you are being able to prioritize your life, you become a more well-rounded, successful person. When you get to the field, be in the moment of the field.

When you are in the classroom, be in the moment of the classroom.”

This attentiveness to all as-

pects of coaching is creating a strong morale for the softball team. This morale transfers to the team and has helped them find a drive to make this season one of their best yet.

“I want us to move up in the conference, as in not being last but being top three,” sophomore third baseman Keri White said. “We are all a lot closer with our coaches and each other compared to last year which is going to help us a lot.”

The refreshing new faces seen in the Appalachian softball community means some positive news for the upcoming season. With a new sense of drive behind the team, the softball community is ready for a big season.

“I believe that the team has done a great job buying into myself and our coaching staff,” Hoerner said. “It has been a blessing just to be here and I feel that the team has been very responsive.

They want to be out there; they want to win.”

There is no doubt that the

Mountaineers have been putting in the hours during the fall, looking to use a group of upperclassmen to lead them to a successful season.

Returning eight juniors and a pair of seniors, App’s veterans are helping create a smooth transition, hoping to have their first winning season since 2013.

“We want a winning season,” junior pitcher Katie Williford said. “So far the fall has been great and we want to keep energy in us and keep moving forward.”

Looking forward to a new season with a new coach, the Mountaineers are ready to take on any upcoming challenges. The work is definitely not done, but the team is off to their desired start.

“We have to work to get out of the bottom of the Sun Belt, and that is not a secret,” Hoerner said. “But by what they are putting in time wise in the weight room, conditioning, putting in extra work, it shows a lot. Good things will happen when you continue to work.”

Courtesy of Todd Drexler

SUBMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS

App News is a service of the Division of Student Affairs. Email wilkeso@appstate.edu for submissions with subject line: APP NEWS PAGE. Submissions should not exceed 100 words and must include the event title, date/time, location and cost, and a contact email, phone and/or URL. Announcements will be edited as needed and will run as space allows. Preference is given for events that are free or have a nominal cost.

WHAT TO DO NEEDED! POLITICAL CARTOONISTS The Appalachian student newspaper is looking for students interested in getting their political cartoons and illustrations published.

Use your illustration talents to express your opinions and commentary on current events.

Email adviser@theappalachianonline.com for questions or interest.

GET YOUR CREATIVITY PUBLISHED The Peel Literature and Arts Review is looking for student submissions of design, photography, fashion, poetry, prose, music, short stories and more! Our final deadline is Nov. 3 at midnight. Visit thepeelreview.submittable.com and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @thepeelreview. Email any questions or concerns to adviser@theappalachianonline.com

STUDY ABROAD The application deadline for many spring 2018 programs has been extended until the end of September. We are also accepting applications for many 2017-2018 faculty-led programs, as well as Summer 2018, Fall/AY 2018 and Spring 2019 programs. Get started on your application today at international.appstate.edu.

today! This will take place Wednesdays at the Habitat for Humanity - Watauga County/ReStore, 1200 Archie Carroll Road, Boone, North Carolina 28607.

FAFSA DAY Students are invited to FAFSA DAY and to receive help and information on completing the FAFSA. The staff will be providing free help to students and families from 9 a.m. to noon on October 28 in the Office of Student Financial Aid, second floor, John Thomas Hall. Register at www.cfnc.org.

IASE LOTTERY This Spring Break, consider going on an International Alternative Service Experience (iASE) and explore a variety of social issues while working with communities across the globe! Spend a week meeting and creating deeper connections with other Appalachian State students while serving in a different country and engaging in thoughtful dialogue that will create lasting impressions throughout your academic career. In order to sign up, come to the, iASE Lottery on Nov. 6 @ 9:00pm in Table Rock room of PSU. All international service programs are worth 1 school credit** a perfect way to earn credit and gain a new experience!

Children of all age groups are encouraged to dress in their Halloween costumes to go trickor-treating through Hoey, Cannon, Lovill, East, Doughton, White, Summit and Cone residence halls. ASU students will be handing out candy and the hall lobbies will have fun activities designed for all ages. Parents and children will need to check-in at the East Hall parking lot (between East Hall and Hwy. 321) to receive a map and further instructions for the evening festivities. Parking is available in any campus faculty/staff parking lot.

HAVE YOUR ARTWORK DOCUMENTED The Peel Literature and Arts Review will be having another Doc Shop on Oct. 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Doc Shop is an opportunity for visual artists to have their work professionally documented in order to start building a professional portfolio. Do not let poor documentation affect your chance for getting published for the Peel! Photos will be taken in Wey Hall on the third floor in the photo studio 340. Please email hawkinsjg@ appstate.edu to schedule a time slot.

DESIGN THE APPALACHIAN Want to design this paper? Email adviser@ theappalachianonline.com to express interest!

Legion is 333 Wallingford Rd, Blowing Rock, N.C. 28605. Register online at hcbcf.org.

QUINN’S 30TH BIRTHDAY! Did you know that the Quinn Recreation Center is the oldest recreation center in the state of North Carolina? Did you also know that it is turning 30 years old this month? Join us on Oct. 26 from 6-10 p.m. at the Quinn Recreation Center as we celebrate with a fun filled 80’s throwback night!

ETIQUETTE DINNER Whether you are applying for an internship, part-time or full-time employment, we are here to help and make it fun in the process! Learn professional etiquette skills and network with employer sponsors while enjoying an evening of fellowship with your peers and a complimentary meal provided by event sponsors. Space is limited and is on a first come, first serve basis. Registration is open!

Register through your account on Career Gear in the Events/Workshops tab. Attire: Professional. Nov. 1 - 5:30-:30 p.m. Parkway Ballroom, Plemmons Student Union.

ETIQUETTE DINNER

Join us as we continue building the 5th home on our neighborhood, GreenWood, for the Love family. You can choose to volunteer from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, or 9 a.m. to 4 p.m each Wednesday. All you need to bring is a water bottle, your lunch and a willingness to learn while helping others! We will provide the tools, materials and instructions!

Be sure to wear old clothes and old closed-toe shoes. Please call us to schedule your time

TRICK OR TREAT FOR TOTS Appalachian State University Housing would like to invite you into our East Campus residence halls for our annual Trick-or-Treat for Tots event, Oct. 26 from 5-7 pm. This event is open to ASU Faculty and Staff as well as community families. Admission is one canned good or non-perishable food item.

All donations will be given to a local charity.

The first annual High Country Walk/Run for Breast Cancer is the Kickoff event for the High Country Breast Cancer Foundation. It will be held Oct. 28 at 9:00 am in downtown Blowing Rock. The walk/run will be a 5K fun event, with turnoffs for a 1K, 2K and 3K walk beginning at the American Legion Building.

The walk will start and finish at the American Legion Building. The address of the American

Lawrence Ross is a bestselling author, lecturer, writer, filmmaker, social media and consumer trends expert. On Nov. 6 from 7-9 p.m. in the Schaefer Center he will be giving his KNOW BETTER, DO BETTER lecture.

This hour and a half multimedia lecture is entertaining, educational and thought-provoking.

Talking about racism is challenging, but Ross believes that students are more than mature enough to meet that challenge. “The goal of this lecture is not to develop non-racists, but ANTI-RACIST.”

THURSDAY, OCT. 26

FRIDAY, OCT. 27

SATURDAY, OCT. 28

SUNDAY, OCT. 29

Club Council Interest Meeting

Flu Clinic

High Country 5K for Breast Cancer

Much Ado About Nothing

Quinn’s 30th Birthday!

The Peel Documentation Shop

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

5 p.m.

Rough Ridge Room, PSU free 6-10 p.m.

Quinn Recreation Center free

9 a.m.-noon Rotunda, Reich COE free

10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Room 340, Wey Hall free

The Peel Presents Spooky Bonfire

Fitness Spooktacular

6:30-9 p.m.

Quinn Recreation Center free

Foundations of Black Male Research and Practice 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Room 124, Reich COE free

Woodwind Chamber Ensemble 8-9:30 p.m.

Rosen Concert Hall free

9 a.m.

American Legion Blowing Rock, N.C. $20

Fall Park Work Day

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

3896 Big Hill Road, Todd, NC free

2-4 p.m.

I.G. Greer Hall $7 students, $12 non-students

Rodney Reynerson Piano Recital 4-5 p.m.

Rosen Concert Hall free

The Peel Documentation Shop

8 p.m.

Hippie Hill across from TCVA free

MONDAY, OCT. 30

HCBFC WALK/RUN FOR BREAST CANCER

10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Room 340, Wey Hall free

TUESDAY, OCT. 31

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1 Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Habitat for Humanity - Watauga County/ ReStore 1200 Archie Carroll Road, Boone, NC 28607

Education Abroad Fair

11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Grandfather Ballroom, PSU free

Leadership 101

5-6 p.m.

Tater Hill Room, PSU free

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