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BOONE ELECTS NEXT MAYOR

Vol. 88, No. 19

Unofficial Election Results - Town of Boone Mayor

Andy Ball John Menna Jenny Church Brad Harmon

Unofficial Election Results - Boone Town Council

Paul Heckert | The Appalachian

Boone mayoral elect Andy Ball (right) receives an emotional hug from his mother Amy Edelberg after his win was confirmed Tuesday night.

by Chelsey Fisher Senior News Reporter

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own Councilman Andy Ball won the 2013 election for mayor of Boone on Tuesday night on his 31st birthday.

Ball won with almost 60 percent of the votes, 1,066 votes out of a total 1,839, according to unofficial results from the Watauga County Board of Elections.

When the results were

announced, Ball was with his sister, mother, girlfriend and two members from the Young Democrats of North Carolina, with which Ball has worked closely, at the Watauga County Courthouse.

“I was elated and very excited to have the support and confidence of the people of Boone,” Ball said.

Ball will officially be sworn in as mayor Dec. 17 and will begin his du-

ties that night during a council meeting, he said.

Prior to being elected mayor, Ball served on town council for four years. Ball said he enjoyed his time on town council, but is excited about the members on the council.

“The next council is going to be quite diverse,” he said. “They have diverse backgrounds and diverse focus areas. You have a couple of expeSEE ELECTION PAGE 2

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IHOP to replace former Boone Blockbuster on Blowing Rock Road

Mark Templeton Ryan Freeze | The Appalachian

High number of provisional ballots cast on campus

by Stephanie Sansoucy News Editor

Kim Reynolds | The Appalachian

This empty building on Blowing Rock Road, formerly a Blockbuster, has been purchased by The Ardent Companies in preparation for its conversion into an IHOP.

by Chelsey Fisher Senior News Reporter

An IHOP restaurant will be built on Blowing Rock Road where a Blockbuster store used to be, said Craig Hoffman, a member of media relations for IHOP. Hoffman said there is no set

time for the start of construction.

The Blockbuster closed May 30 after the building was purchased, according to the Watauga Democrat. The building deed was transferred June 21 to The Ardent Companies, under the name SE BB Boone, LLC, according to the

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Watauga County Register of Deeds.

IHOP has not applied for any permits through the Town of Boone, said Bill Bailey, director of planning and inspection.

“We are looking forward to being a part of the community,” Hoffman said.

SPORTS

Voters cast 108 provisional ballots at the Legends polling place Tuesday, a high number for a municipal election, said Jane Anne Hodges, director of the Watauga County Board of Elections.

The total number of provisional ballots that will be counted has not been determined yet because of the process it takes to validate every provisional ballot, Hodges said.

“It takes a long time just to do one,” Hodges said. “We have to input a lot of information just for one ballot.”

The unofficial results of the election, which excluded the provisional votes, were released Tuesday night.

Andy Ball won the Boone mayoral race with 1,066 votes, the candidate with the second highest number of votes was John Mena with 502.

The provisional ballots could make a difference in the Boone Town Council race.

The number of votes a town council candidate gets affects how long their term will be. The top two spots in this election will get four year terms, Ball said.

In the results, excluding provisional ballots, Rennie Brantz leads the race with 1,127 votes and Jennifer Peña has the second highest number of votes with 1,126. Quint David has 1,028 votes, which would make him the third candidate to win a seat on the council.

The provisional votes will be counted by Tuesday.

Legends became an on-campus voting site after the Watauga County Board of elections voted to move on-campus voting from Plemmons Student Union to the nightclub, according to an article published in The Appalachian on Sept. 4.

The only on-campus voting location was not made a transfer site by Luke Eggers, board of elections chairman, which meant that anyone who was not assigned to vote at Legends would have to fill out a provisional ballot if they chose to vote there.

Being a transfer site would have made Legends a place where any person in the county could have voted, according to an article published in The Appalachian on Oct. 23.

Hodges said that even with the high number of provisional votes, the count will be done on time.

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Student’s campaign works to ban plastic water bottles on campus

by Gerrit Van Genderen News Reporter

An Appalachian State University student has started the ASU Think Outside the Bottle Campaign to ban plastic water bottles on campus.

Katelynn Mudgett, a sophomore sustainable development major, started the campaign through the Sustainable Development Student Alliance, which allows students to bring their own sustainable project ideas to the table and make them happen.

The overall goal of the ASU Think Outside the Bottle Campaign is for Appalachian to go free of bottled water, specifically bottles such as Aquafina, Fiji and the Appalachian branded bottled water, Mudgett said.

“We are trying to focus on creating student awareness of the issue and gain student support through events such as documentaries and petition signing to show the university that a majority of students want this to happen,” Mudgett said.

The campaign officially started Oct. 9 when Mudgett gathered a few people to help

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rienced members and a couple of fresh faces, so I’m really excited to work with them to improve the quality of life here.”

As mayor, Ball’s first goal is to improve the relationship between the town and county. He also wants to gain support from local legislatures and gain the necessary permits for the water intake program.

“The water intake project was commissioned six years ago now and we are still waiting on a couple of permits,” Ball

get ready for the National Day of Action with Corporate Accountability’s Think Outside the Bottle Campaign.

Corporate Accountability is a non-profit organization that protects human rights, public health and the environment by waging and winning campaigns that challenge the abuses of some of the world’s most powerful corporations, according to its website, stopcorporateabuse.org.

“Part of their [Corporate Accountability] campaign is set up to support students who want their schools to go bottled water free,” Mudgett said.

“I have a person that I Skype with once a week to help support the campaign on campus.”

Mudgett said she became interested in the idea after learning about bottled water’s harmful effects on the earth.

“I had already learned a great deal about how the bottles are harmful to the earth and had recently discovered that buying bottled water also supports the larger issue of global water privatization where water has become a commodity to be bought and sold,” she said.

Mudgett said she was also

said. “We need to receive a public show of support from our legislatures.

They have shown some opposition, but we need to get them on board.”

Ball said town communications is also something he wants to improve. He plans to revamp the town’s website and add social media for the town so citizens can know what’s going on in Boone.

“The public should have better, easier, more open access to all of our council business and all of our town business,” he said.

Ball said he also looks forward to working with

angered by the Appalachian branded bottled water, which she said is bottled spring water from 16 minutes away in Deep Gap. “Selling water back to us is ridiculous and means that Appalachian is paying to have the water put in plastic bottles that are made of oil, which may or may not get recycled,” Mudgett said.

Mudgett said she conducted research to see if any other universities in the United States were banning bottled water and found that many were, including Western Washington University, the largest public university to do so.

The plan is for Appalachian to provide plenty of reusable bottles for students to purchase and have more water bottle filling stations to make it easier to refill, she said.

The campaign has been working with International Justice Mission and the sustainability committee of the Student Government Association to bring awareness to the issue.

“We want to work with the campaign and do as much as we can to help their cause,” said Carson Rich, SGA director

both Appalachian State University administrators and the Student Government Association.

“I really look forward to… working with them on ways we can involve students more directly with town governance,” he said.

Local politics affect students’ lives daily, so Ball said he hopes to see more students interested.

Ball wants to mandate that at least one Appalachian student be on each committee. He said he also wants to expand the town’s internship program for the university

Paul Heckert | The Appalachian

Sophomore sustainable development major Katelynn Mudgett has started the ASU Think Outside the Bottle campaign to ban one-time use water bottles on Appalachian’s campus.

of sustainability. “We are obviously trying to cut down on the amount of plastic water bottles on campus and encourage students to use refillable bottles more.”

The ASU Think Outside the Bottle Campaign meets every Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. in Edwin Duncan Hall, Room 317.

A film screening of “TAPPED,” a documentary about bottled water in the

students to all departments in the town, if possible.

Sitting Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson said she feels comfortable retiring in December knowing that Ball will take over.

“I find him to be an incredibly smart person, and I think he will make a wonderful mayor,” she said.

Ball said that as mayor, he wants to be open to the citizens of Boone. “[I want people to] stop by my office in town hall,” he said. “I welcome everyone to stop by, starting in December, when I officially start.”

U.S., will take place Nov. 19 from 7-8:30 p.m. in Belk Library, Room 114 as well.

“Recycling a plastic water bottle is better than throwing it away, but in the end, it is not ‘good enough,’” Mudgett said.

“As Appalachian students, one way we can take action against water privatization where it has become a commodity like running shoes or a car, is having Appalachian go bottled water free.”

Paul Heckert | The Appalachian

Boone mayoral elect Andy Ball (left) looks over preliminary election results with Justin Conley (middle) and Marcie Ownbey (right) Tuesday night outside the Board of Elections office.

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Earthquake in Taiwan caught on camera in Appalachian classroom

by Carl Blankenship Intern News Reporter

An Appalachian State University class was on a Skype call with a class of students at Ching Yun University in Zhongli City, Taiwan, when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near the Taiwan university Oct. 31.

When the earthquake hit, the Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies professor Ray Miller’s global understanding class was in the middle of video chatting with students in Taiwanese professor Kuei-Min’s class.

Miller and his students witnessed the tremors in Taiwan on the live video feed.

“It was about five minutes into the call and we thought it was the camera at first,” Miller said. “It became clear by their facial expressions that it was not the camera, and they had just experienced an earthquake while our class was going on.”

Miller said Kuei-Min gave her students the option to stay or leave but assured them they were in the safest part of the building.

Miller said that at that moment he hoped the students

and their professor were not harmed.

“I was thinking about how do I communicate with that professor there in a responsible way,” Miller said. “Most of the students chose to stay and we had a great conversation about stereotypes between Taiwanese and Americans.”

Freshman management major Nathan Moore was in Miller’s class during the event.

“I didn’t know what to think,” Moore said. “I wasn’t sure whether to feel scared for their safety or not because I have never experienced a severe earthquake. After the shaking

of the camera stopped, I was glad that no damage was done to the classroom or building that they were in. It was even more remarkable with how the Taiwanese students continued to speak with the global understandings class after the earthquake.”

Freshman criminal justice major Katherin Castillo said the students on the other end of the call began to shout, but she didn’t know what was happening until one student on the other end of the call yelled “earthquake.”

“The students began to duck and their professor told them

to calm down,” Castillo said.

“When it all stopped, many students wanted to go home, but their professor thought it would be safer if everyone stayed just in case there was an aftershock. I appreciate that even after the earthquake the Taiwanese students stayed to talk to our class.”

Miller was not surprised that so many students stayed.

“The students were initially shocked, then concerned, then appeared to be comfortable to stay,” he said. “A lot of times young people are more resilient when things like this happen.”

Yesplus at Appalachian teaches meditation, yoga to combat stress

by Jordan Pifer Intern News Reporter

The national organization Yesplus now has a chapter at Appalachian State University.

Yesplus offers yoga and meditation as a stress-coping mechanism and a relief from everyday anxieties, said Pankaj Desai, founding president of Yesplus at Appalachian and graduate student.

One of the fundamental goals of Yesplus is to “help students realize their true potential to live their own true carefree nature.”

“So that your own potential can be achieved naturally, making you self reliant and beautiful in your own eyes,” Desai said.

The principles taught allow students to self-learn and practice self-dependency as they focus on inner beauty and connection within themselves, Desai said.

Yesplus strives to inspire students to seek bliss and a greater responsibility in the world around them while advocating calmness and clarity, Desai said.

“It’s interesting that so many people seek out alternative experiences while preserving wellbeing,” senior nutrition and preventative health major Maggie Gartman said.

A free on-campus retreat is being hosted by Yesplus Nov. 14-18. Area teachers will lead the workshop from the International Center for Meditation and Well-Being, which is located in Boone and has been a support and partnership to Yesplus at Appalachian.

“Witnessing the meditation is what drew me in, but the benefits of yoga have left me exhilarated and happy after every session,” Kyle Moye, senior geography and community and regional planning major, said.

The club has a $20 membership fee each semester and donates proceeds toward the Yesplus seed fund that works toward community service projects.

The club meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Attic Window Room of Plemmons Student Union.

The leaders encourage students and faculty to come participate in two free sessions to experience the club.

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On Stage

Appalachian professor explores family history through dance

Molly Cogburn | The Appalachian

Assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance Sherone Price was recently awarded the 2013 N.C. Dance Alliance Choreography Fellowship.

by Lovey Cooper Senior A&E Reporter

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ssistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance Sherone Price has incorporated creative elements of modern and African dance in his extensive choreography work throughout his career at Appalachian State University and other universities.

But he takes a more personally reflective note with a new piece.

“Skedman’s Inn,” a

work in progress, explores and chronicles the cultural significance of prior generations of Price’s family in North Carolina, for which he was awarded the 2013 N.C. Dance Alliance Choreography Fellowship earlier this month.

The competitive fellowship is given each year to notable choreographers in the state, awarding the recipient $1,000 to put toward the creation of a new work.

“Skedman’s Inn” is named for the gas sta-

tion and general store that Price’s grandfather, nicknamed Skedman, owned and operated in the 1930s and 1940s in Pittsboro. The store served as a cultural hub where community members gathered to dance and consume bootlegged alcohol – an illegal activity that Price sees as a positive aspect of his grandfather’s stake in the community.

“They told me that everyone sold something like that back then – it was a way of life,” Price

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piece began in May, but Price was unable to work with students until this semester.

“We did not have the months to prepare like we do for the Appalachian dance concert, so we really pulled together and helped each other along the way and I think we developed a unique bond that formed over a short period of time working on this dance,” Jennings said.

Price’s usual work combines modern choreography with elements of African dance.

“Working with Sherone is different than working with other choreographers,” junior exercise science major and dancer Arianna Steffen said. “He likes to create work with the dancers in front of him instead of just throwing choreography on the dancers.”

The performance is currently 10 minutes long, but Price hopes to expand on it, using this grant in order to present a more complete version at Appalachian’s spring dance concert.

“When you look at your family history like this, it’s an unending situation,” Price said.

“You get bits and pieces of information over time, so it’s like trying to open up the books that aren’t there, and you kind of go back in time.”

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M.I.A. names album after herself, Hindu goddess with ‘Matangi’ English-Sri Lankan pop star Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., fell slightly from public favor in 2010 due to her album “Maya,” which was an aggressive, paranoid screed that got critically panned.

It had more to do with a small smear campaign in The New York Times, when a reporter painted M.I.A. as a pandering opportunist who appropriated politically provocative themes to sell albums.

M.I.A. was quick to sound off about the reporter, making her feelings known when she published the journalist’s phone number online. But for all her antics, the attention attracted to “Maya” was still incredibly negative.

It’s true that, from her star-making appearance with Diplo on the “Piracy Funds Terrorism” mixtape, M.I.A. has been about succinctly packaged provocation. Yet, she’s almost always done so to cultivate a distinct, arresting style.

This style – rhythmically dense, sonically adventurous and dance-floor ready – has fueled all of her releases.

While “Maya” took her to darker places, it was a necessary experiment to pave the way for “Matangi,” M.I.A.’s first studio album since 2010.

Named after both the Hindu goddess of music and learning and M.I.A. herself, “Matangi” is a bizarre collection of pop songs formed out of digital shrapnel. At times challenging and chameleonic, it ends up being both confrontational and immensely enjoyable.

Granted, “Matangi” gets off to a bit of a slow start. The title track attempts to serve as a manifesto by way of parodying manifestos, but it lacks the taut production and sequencing that characterizes her successful songs.

The album’s early fumbles end up being in service to M.I.A.’s ambition for the album. She seems committed to keeping listeners on their toes and making them wait for powerful, catchy payoffs.

Some tracks plunge through four or more violent stylistic diversions, such as the ballad turned dancehall freak-out “Come Walk With Me.” Others stick to more comfortable styles, such as the reggae-meets-hip-hop tune “Double Bubble Trouble.”

said. “If you wanted to handle yourself, jobs were hard to find and it was just a way to make a living and obtain land.”

His grandparents’ business was extremely successful, and the two were the first African Americans in the county to sell gas, Price said.

The dance piece, an unfinished version of which premiered Oct. 12 at the N.C. Dance Alliance Choreographer’s showcase, is the direct result of Price’s own interest and research into

his personal history.

Through personal interviews and archived photos, Price and his wife, Tandrea Carter, are slowly piecing together accounts of life during that time period.

Research has been a slow process, however, because of a courthouse fire years ago that destroyed a number of significant documents and photographs.

“I’m still working with the dancers to reenact the time period and understand that they have to become characters in a certain time,” Price said.

“It isn’t really a theatrical piece, but it’s got lots of theatrical elements.”

While the piece does not tell a direct narrative story, it presents an account of history, featuring period-appropriate costumes and props.

“Every piece I have performed in has always been very different from the previous, but what made ‘Skedman’s Inn’ so interesting was that it was set during a time period that none of my fellow dancers or myself had experienced,” said Tanashe Jennings, one of the dancers in the piece.

Jennings graduated from the university in the spring, but at Price’s request commuted weekly to work on the project.

The concept for the

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M.I.A.

‘Mantangi’

The production is at once mechanical and colorful. Every distorted drum hit and chopped up vocal is cut up and arranged carefully, even if the end result is chaotic and slippery.

These sonic diversions are plainly similar to Kanye West’s “Yeezus,” another album that arranged cold, steely sounds into pounding, aesthetically fascinating forms.

“Matangi” doesn’t always approach the same level of inventiveness that Kanye does, but M.I.A. does reach a number of career highlights here.

Chief among them are the fantastic singles “Bad Girls” and “Bring the Noize.” The former projects deadpan, almost apathetic boasting while the latter projects the passion and courage of her early work.

“Exodus,” a collaboration with The Weeknd, is also quite good, reinventing M.I.A. as an existential crooner over a skittering, beautiful beat.

Some parts of the album grate, notably when Auto-Tune and repetitive rhyming bring otherwise interesting “aTENTion” to a grinding halt.

In the end, however, “Matangi” comes across as the most genuine the artist has been in a while.

For all its detours and constant trickery, it’s first and foremost a sprawling, playful pop album.

- Colin Moore, Senior A&E Reporter

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Junior graphics arts and imaging technology and sustainable development major Avery Pippin participates in the Tai Chi class during Tuesdays at Turchin. The class, which was led by Tim Winecoff, is meant to help Appalachian State University students escape the pressures of the daily college routine and learn a new art of relaxation and focus. The Tai Chi class is every Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.

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Staff Opinion

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Which modern issues are really being promoted?

New student housing project is problematic Erica Badenchini Opinion Writer

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Staff Opinion

Republicans’ economic development plan raises concerns Kevin Griffin Opinion Writer

In our political system, there has long been a train of thought that Republicans are the party of business and are to be trusted to get the economy going.

That they are a party of business no one can deny, but their claims to superior economic stewardship should be drastically reconsidered.

One Republican idea that will soon be appearing in North Carolina is the N.C. Partnership for Prosperity, an idea Gov. Pat McCrory proposed in April.

This is a plan to combat unemployment by transferring certain economic development functions, such as tourism and marketing, into a public-private partnership, according to the News & Observer.

Its objective is to transition

to “a more coordinated, more nimble approach to recruiting new businesses and aiding existing businesses looking to expand, as well as helping to boost state imports,” according to the News & Observer.

Despite this optimistic description, the information available on similar plans in other states points to less heartening outcomes.

Creating Scandals Instead of Jobs: The Failure of State Economic Development Programs, a 2013 report put out by the organization Good Jobs First, shows that these types of arrangements have been problematic in other states. Among the issues the report finds with similar programs implemented in other states, there’s corruption, inefficiency and questionable effectiveness.

The study concludes that these partnerships are “costly failures.”

Why then are we attempting to start one of our own? It

seems logical to assume that North Carolina will be subject to many of the same negative results.

It makes me nervous to imagine that possibility, but there are some who insist that the outcome for North Carolina will not be as negative as it has been for other states.

One such proponent of the new plan, Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker believes that the Partnership to Prosperity will avoid the problems seen in other states, but the report mentions that the version of the bill that passed “contains none of the accountability safeguards” than the original did.

The reasoning behind this planned policy could either be strong commitment to ideology to overlook facts, or a fairly cynical attempt to transform who holds power in the state.

We still have much work to do in improving economic conditions, but I do hope we can learn at least one thing: That

Republican policies are not the type of answers that we need.

We should instead consider other plans that could improve the economy, and go beyond the Republican ideals.

This is the party that passed high-end tax cuts for the wealthy a decade ago that, despite some modest gains for the middle class, were largely responsible for increasing the deficit and income inequality while primarily benefiting the wealthy, according to The Washington Post Wonkblog.

Just last month, Republican politicians trivialized the raising of the debt ceiling, and seem to be gearing up to do the same in a few months.

Their policies have discredited them on economic matters, and they deserve any credit they still may receive for their positions on the economy.

Griffin, a sophomore journalism major from Madison, is an opinion writer.

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School censorship is checking literature at the door

Stonegate Developers is planning to turn the Scottish Inn and Red Carpet Inn on Blowing Rock Road into a “mixed-use project,” which would include student housing, said Dale Tweedy, a partner for Stonegate, in an interview with The Appalachian.

However, the project is facing some serious issues, Tweedy told The Appalachian.

If anything can be learned from construction debacles such as the one that transpired with The Cottages earlier this year, it is that construction companies should be completely sure about all parameters of a project before they make grand plans.

One thing that needs to be considered is the piping underneath Blowing Rock Road, and what construction will do to Kraut Creek.

Kraut Creek runs down Blowing Rock Road and is piped underground at the Scottish Inn and the Red Carpet Inn. It will have to be relocated and opened while this new project is being developed. As if this was not a big enough challenge, Kraut Creek is considered a trout stream, which means federal, state and local agencies will have to make sure that the creek is still livable for the trout that make their home there.

Tweedy hopes that the stream will be created into a habitat where the trout can live happily, but it seems to me that this is a major roadblock on the pathway to construction.

If this was the only problem Stonegate was facing, perhaps it could tackle it head-on.

Unfortunately, there’s more.

The Boone Town Council voted to condemn the Scottish Inn in April 2012 after inspection violations including a meth lab in Room 107. Tweedy told The Appalachian that the demolition crew will dismantle the building with possible hazardous materials in mind.

This certainly appears like a lot for a budding company to handle. Perhaps it could rise to the challenge, but I am not sure such major issues could be dealt with smoothly, especially since the property has not yet been approved for development, Jane Shook, the development coordinator for Boone Planning and Inspections, told The Appalachian.

Stonegate seems to be jumping the gun on this project. The company is facing a series of complicated issues that may be far more problematic than it is worth for the sake of a housing development.

Badenchini, a freshman journalism major from Apex, is an opinion writer.

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IN PHOTOS: APPALFEST 2013

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The Appalachian Popular Programming Society hosted its annual AppalFest event Friday on Sanford Mall. Students were invited out for a day of free fall festivities, which included wax hand making, a bungee trampoline, a petting zoo and a large inflatable slide.

Photos by Carson Hager, Intern Photographer (Immediate Right) Senior French major Melissa Kouaho creates a wax hand at the 2013 AppalFest.

(Below) Freshman criminal justice major Brandon Doole fixes himself some caramel apples at the annual AppalFest event Friday.

(Above) Sophomore communications major Tyler Peterson swings on the bungee swing at the 2013 AppalFest.

(Right) Students slide down the giant inflatable slide provided by the Appalachian Popular Programming Society on Friday.

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Basketball

Athletics has plans for basketball, wants fans to ‘get rowdy’

by Andrew Clausen Sports Editor

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he Appalachian State University Athletics Department is implementing several new promotions during and relating to the men’s and women’s basketball games.

The first of which will come Tuesday at the home-opening doubleheader in the Holmes Convocation Center at 5:30 p.m.

Free shuttle buses will run from the Kidd Brewer Stadium Lot and the Belk Library Circle to the Holmes Center and back.

The shuttles begin running at 5 p.m. and run until 30 minutes following the conclusion of the men’s game.

Other promotions include Tshirts for the first 1,000 Appalachian students that enter the arena and dinner provided for students by Appalachian Food Services in between the two games, however students’ App Card IDs are required.

These promotions are all a part of a new strategy to get

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more student involvement in basketball events, said Patrick Meiburg, director of marketing.

“We want students to be involved in the promotions,” Meiburg said. “We want students to come and have fun. I think [Holmes is] a terrific arena to have a ton of students come out to because during my time at N.C. State as a student, there was assigned seating and you kind of got lost in the crowd.

Here it’s a very intimate arena.”

Meiburg said that since App State has basketball games Tuesday and Thursday nights, when away teams are less able to travel with their team, there’s an opportunity for students and fans to fill the stadium.

“We really want to get student involvement at games,” he said. “That takes us getting the message out there to get students to get rowdy, to enjoy the game, to dance, to cheer.”

Part of getting the message out will come with an attendance incentive program for fraternities and sororities called the App State Hoops Greek Life Challenge.

The participating games for the challenge are the Tuesday double-header, the Nov. 15 women’s basketball game against Lees-McRae, the Dec. 8 men’s game against UNC Charlotte, the Feb. 1 double-header and the Feb. 15 double-header.

“One of the groups on campus that is about 1,000 people is the Greek community,” Meiburg said. “I think that’s a community that we can tap into. We’re trying to get them to come back to the Holmes Center.”

However, there is the caveat to promote an “even playing field” among organizations.

Each person will be a part of a percentage of the overall population of their fraternity or sorority. That way, if 50 members of a smaller organization show up, that means more than 50 individuals from a larger organization.

“At the end of the program, the fraternity/sorority with the most points will have an opportunity to hold an event on the Fifth Floor of the Athletics Center,” Meiburg said. “Other awards include cash prizes and

an award from the bookstore.”

Other students won’t be left out of promotions, however, as Athletics has many things planned for non-Greek organizations, too.

There will be two half-court shots at the Charlotte game and the Feb. 15 double-header. For the Charlotte game, the prize for hitting the shot is $5,000 tuition credit and for the double-header, it’s a $5,000 cash prize.

There will also be other, unannounced “significant contests” at the aforementioned home game dates.

The TApp Room is doing promotions for games that will be indicated on the T-shirts that the first 1,000 fans will receive Tuesday, where there will be specials before and after the game.

“We want people to eat, drink, be merry at the TApp Room beforehand and then you and your friends come over to the basketball game,” Meiburg said. “And then afterward, if you want to go have more fun, you’ll go back. “

Meiburg, who stepped in as marketing director at the end of last December, said he is excited for the season.

“I know that the teams will play well,” he said. “It’s just a matter of can we create that environment that will help them score 10 more points or play better defense on a crucial play.

That’s what we need to create, that environment: To be loud, for students to be excited. Because, with the Holmes Center, the structure provides that.”

Meiburg thinks that one of the things they have to battle in attendance is the wintertime weather in Boone.

“I know it’s not that far of a walk, but when you’re walking from Stadium Lot to the Holmes Center and the wind is blowing 30 miles per hour and it feels like 20 degrees outside, it’s hard to get students to come to a basketball and sacrifice their bodies,” he said. “But we want to create an energy and a great environment for both men’s and women’s because we have a great product and we have a great space.”

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Appalachian State sets up for another ‘homecoming’ against Georgia

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Appalachian State Mountaineers vs.

Georgia Bulldogs 12:30 p.m. - Athens, Ga. Sanford Stadium

by Andrew Clausen Sports Editor

How App State Can Win: If Appalachian State is going to pull off its second miracle in the FBS in the past decade, they’re going to need the type of game they had against Georgia Southern, but double that effort.

It’s hard to narrow the game down to one or two things that the Mountaineers will have to do well against the Bulldogs. They’ll need the best they can possibly get from Kam Bryant, Marcus Cox, Andrew Peacock, Tony Washington, Malachi Jones, Simms McElfresh, Deuce Robinson, John Law, Ronald Blair III, Karl Anderson, Adam Scott, their offensive line, their defensive line, their secondary, their special teams and their fans.

If App State is to make history once more with an upset, it’ll take all of the above. If there’s one game that the team can win that can make up for the record of this season, it’s this one.

How Georgia Can Win: This will be the first meeting between the Bulldogs and the Mountaineers, but one thing remains clear, Georgia is tough.

The Bulldogs are certainly a powerhouse and they can defend the run game, allowing just 137.8 rushing yards per game.

They have to know that App State is going to come out with a push and they have to make sure they aren’t caught up in that. They have to continue to play their game like they have all year and they should come away with the win.

Both teams have a 3-4 defense and are very familiar with the scheme.

Passing will be harder than it should; however, that shouldn’t limit them from getting on a run.

The Bottom Line: It’s going to be tough for App State to go into Athens and pull off the upset. A tough game was predicted in 2007 before the Mountaineers walked into Michigan and solidified their place in history, so it’s possible that history can repeat itself.

Sports is the place where miracles happen, perhaps Georgia will be the next victim.

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Senior wide receiver Tony Washington charges past the Charleston Southern defense in a game earlier this season. After a 35-28 loss to Chattanooga on Saturday, the Mountaineers will move on to face Georgia this weekend.

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ppalachian State will travel to Athens, Ga., on Saturday to take on one of the country’s powerhouse football programs, the Georgia Bulldogs.

Georgia (5-3, 4-2 SEC) already has two home victories over then-top-10 teams in the FBS, defeating No. 6 South Carolina 41-30 and LSU 44-41.

The Bulldogs are averaging 34.4 points per game and have a team featuring several players heading into the NFL. “It’s going to be a huge challenge for us to try to slow those guys down,” head coach Scott Satterfield said in his SoCon weekly teleconference.

“Georgia’s coming off a big win against Florida.

They obviously have great talent [and are] very well coached, so it will be a huge challenge for us this week.”

The Mountaineers will

look to knock off an SEC opponent for only the second time in school history.

The first came in 1975, when App State traveled to South Carolina and came away with a 39-34 win over the Gamecocks.

“Everybody knows the SEC is one of the best conferences out here in the country,” Satterfield said.

“There is no question about it, it’s the best players in the country coming out of high school that are getting recruited to these [SEC] schools. They’re big, they’re fast and they look extremely strong. When you look at the competition in the SEC, you know all those teams all look the same.”

Currently, 21 players on the App State roster are Georgia natives, so this weekend’s game might mean a little more to some of the guys heading back home.

The young Mountaineers include freshmen starting on both sides of the ball.

Inside linebacker John Law

and running back Marcus Cox are both out of the state of Georgia.

“For me, there’s always motivation any time you play against a team that’s in the same state you are from,” Law said. “Whether it’s Georgia [or] Georgia Southern, all those Georgia teams always have an extra something.”

Cox, like Law, is also anxious for a chance to play back home.

“It’s a homecoming game for us, we’re going to have a lot of family and friends at the game, so that’s always exciting,” he said. “Against a big school like Georgia, all the pressure is on them, so you just have to play your game and execute your game plan. So we just go out there, ball out and enjoy the atmosphere.”

For a chance at a win in front of more than 90,000 screaming Bulldog fans in Sanford Stadium this weekend, App State obviously needs to play well on offense and defense, but also special

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teams, an often-overlooked facet of the game.

“No doubt about it, in special teams, we’re always looking to make a big play,” special teams coordinator Mark Ivey said. “We would love to get a kickoff return, a punt return, something like that. But it’s not just a matter of making big plays and getting points, but it’s being solid and winning the battle of field position, too.”

Defeating the Bulldogs would mark the first victory over an FBS opponent since the historic 34-32 win over the Michigan Wolverines in 2007.

Satterfield has his players thinking confidently this week, in hopes of recording the team’s third victory of the season.

“They put on their pants just like we do,” he said.

“We’ve never shied away from playing the bigger schools here at App.” Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ESPN Gameplan and ESPN3.

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