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COLLEGIATE RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPED ON CAMPUS PAGE 5

DANCE MARATHON DANCE MARATHON, A CHARITY EVENT ORGANIZED BY APPALACHIAN AND THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, WAS HELD ON SATURDAY AT LEGENDS. PAGES 8-9

SOLAR TABLES INSTALLED IN FRONT OF PEACOCK HALL PAGE 11

OPED: TOWN COUNCIL’S PLANS TO REPEAL BOONE 2030 PLAN PAGE 14

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THE TEAM Sydney Spann @spannooo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Olivia Wilkes @theappalachian ADVISER

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SPORTS EDITOR Dance Marathon is an annual charity event organized by Appalachian and the Commu-

T H E COV E R: nity Together that took place Staturday in Legends.

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CRIME LOG

Scholarly Thinking

CAMPUS FEB. 25

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2 a.m. | Underage Consumption of Alcohol Hoey Hall Closed

6 p.m. | Underage Consumption of Alcohol Bowie Hall Closed

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4:30 a.m. | Burglary — Non-Forced Entry Newland Hall Closed

12 a.m. | Drug Violations Equipment / Paraphernalia Mountaineer Hall Closed

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2:45 a.m. | Underage Consumption of Alcohol Cannon Hall Closed

11:25 p.m. | Possession of Marijuana Appalachian Heights Closed

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Undisclosed Time | Rape (Reported to Campus Security (CSA)) Campus Residence Hall Undisclosed

6 p.m. | Possessing / Concealing Weapons ASU Police Department / Justice Hall Closed

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8 p.m. | Lost Property Rivers Street Cafe Further Investigation

10 a.m. | Communicating Threats Student Union Graduate Lounge Undisclosed Status

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BLACK STUDENT ASSOCIATION AND MINORITY WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE PARTNER TO DISCUSS COLORISM Mack Foley│

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he Black Student Association and Minority Women’s Leadership Circle partnered with the Rho Theta chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority to present a discussion on colorism at Plemmons Student Union on Thursday night.

The discussion, which focused on colorism in the black community, was presented by public relations major Drew Wilson and biology major Naomi Ruchugo. The talk covered the history of colorism, how it manifests itself in the digital age and how it can be addressed.

The Oxford Dictionary defines colorism as, “Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.”

In America, colorism acts as a sort of internalized racism

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that appears in the forms of implicit bias, stereotypes, microaggressions and media that have repercussions in interactions with strangers, friends and family alike, Wilson and Ruchugo said.

“Colorism penetrates every facet of our society, just like many other systematic, oppressive systems work in our lives,” Wilson said. “There was a study done at the University of Georgia that found that employers prefer lightskinned black men to darkskinned black men, regardless of their qualifications.”

The presentation contained a poll where attendees texted stereotypes they had heard about light and dark-skinned people. The texts were collected in a server that compiled the results and entered them into a word cloud that highlighted the frequency of the most common stereotypes.

The flyer for Intro to Colorism, an event held by the Black Student Association on Feb. 22.

@atkinson_macon│Intern Reporter “There are obvious differences in the ways dark-skinned people are received and lightskinned people are received,” Ruchugo said.

Men are often subject to colorism through means like the Brute Caricature, which characterizes black men as animalistic, violent and threatening to society. The Brute Caricature was prevalent during Jim Crow and the Reconstruction Era, but is still often seen today. However, women face the brunt of the mistreatment, Ruchugo said.

“Colorism is enacted against black men, but it’s not on the same scale,” Ruchugo said. “And often times, we see colorism enacted against black women by black men.

The intersection of colorism, misogyny and misogynoir where it pertains to black women is something I see a lot more, and that black men

have the privilege of being men, meaning they still benefit from a patriarchal system as well.”

Colorism can also be particularly harmful in predominantly white areas like Boone, where there are fewer black people in general, but even fewer dark-skinned people, Wilson said.

“Usually, there’s power in numbers,” Wilson said.

“But it’s hard to have power in numbers when there are such few numbers. Considering the fact that there’s 3.7 percent black people at this school, imagine the number of darker-skinned people who come here. It makes it harder for us to get by.”

Dark-skinned people are also often pushed aside in the media in favor of lighter-skinned people in order to appeal to whiter audiences, Ruchugo said.

“I think white people are more comfortable, when it comes to things concerning blackness, with lighter-skinned black people,” Ruchugo said. “Beyonce is a huge star, but we can’t deny the fact that Beyonce was in Destiny’s Child with two darker-skinned women, and she was the only person to go solo and be as big as she is.”

The talk ended with suggestions for addressing colorism in the black community, with ideas like starting a dialogue, making spaces for voices of dark-skinned people to be heard and rejecting the notion that light skin is better on any platform.

For those that are interested in learning about colorism but did not attend Thursday’s presentation, Wilson and Ruchugo will be leading the discussion again at Equity in Action on April 13 and 14.

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An Appalcart employee taking out the NextBus equipment from an old bus to put into a new one.

APPALCART ADDS 10 NEW BUSES TO ITS FLEET A Angela McLinton│

nticipating record-setting ridership, AppalCart is set to replace a total of nine buses and add another bus to Red Route for the fall 2018 semester.

AppalCart is replacing the 2004 versions of the buses.

The new buses have the new fuel diesel requirements for low sulfur fuels with more filters on the emissions.

“Since the new emissions requirements came into place since 2004, things have gotten a lot stricter since there’s a bunch of pollutants that have gotten into the air,” AppalCart Transportation Director Craig Hughes said.

Plans for the replacements have been going on for a few years, with the request for the grant application going back to 2015 that asked for three buses. In 2016, AppalCart asked for three more. AppalCart at that point could not order the buses yet, as they did not have a contract in place with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).

“We have to have a contract in place before we can place the order of them that says ‘we want buses equipped with this equipment,’ and they give us a price and how much they

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wield,” Hughes said.

NCDOT has a prioritization process in which they pick projects that they want funded. Hughes said theirs scored high enough in the process to get funding for that extra bus.

“We actually have two seats on the Board of Directors at AppalCart. I have one of those seats,” Director of Parking and Traffic Services Barry Sauls said. “So we’re tied to the board and the decisions made by the board.”

The university is the primary funding source locally for AppalCart, the rest split between various levels of government. Watauga County and the Town of Boone also contribute locally while the federal and state government, in the form of the NCDOT, fund projects as well.

Sauls said that every year they have to apply for a grant and that the submission has to go in far enough ahead of time in order to actually receive funding when it is needed.

“If we wanted a bus today, it’ll probably be two years before we get it,” Sauls said.

The new buses externally have the same design as the old ones. Internally, there are a few changes. Hughes said they will look similar but will be easier to clean. The

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seating is now black leather, as opposed to cloth, which is easier to sanitize.

Currently, AppalCart is taking radios and NextBus equipment out of the old buses and transferring them into the new ones. Four more new buses that will be coming in next year will have analog displays for the drivers. The dashboards will be digital panels as opposed to gauges.

Buses can be eligible for replacement if they are 12 years old or reach 350,000 miles.

“We usually hit the age limit first just because there are short routes, but they take a lot of time,” Hughes said.

Sauls said that it would be difficult in terms of logistics to function without AppalCart, as there is not a place for off-campus students to park.

“I don’t think we want all those people driving to campus anyway,” Sauls said.

“There’s enough gridlock in this town as it is.”

Sauls said it is also in students’ best interest to utilize the service, as a parking pass does not guarantee a spot.

“I think it’s a good money-saver,” sophomore nursing major Kalli Rose said. “If you’re living off campus you don’t have to pay for gas or parking close to school. So I

think it’s a nice option for students who don’t have that extra money.”

The construction of the Beaver College of Health Sciences was considered when the extra bus was granted several years ago, as the Red Route is the only one that serves that area.

“It does fortunately go between that building and campus so that part was nice, but we felt like a bus every 30 minutes could be problematic so adding that second bus will have a bus every 15 minutes,” Sauls said.

A route that serves the Beaver College of Health Sciences building with two buses serving it is a resource to students who will attend classes there.

“It’s a little stress relieving, just because I didn’t know how I was going to get to the Health Sciences building,” Rose said. “I didn’t know what the parking situation would be and everything, so it’s nice to know there’s going to be a bus that goes there and that I can get there.”

The replacement in the fleet is expected to boost ridership for AppalCart. They predict that they will make a record-breaking 2 million trips by the end of the fiscal year, eclipsing the past record of 1.4 million.

“We’re setting these ridership records … It’s kind of a good problem to have,” Sauls said. “Wherever we can’t park we need AppalCart to fill that void. And they do to a higher and higher degree every year.”

Hughes said he is pushing for local ridership when the university lets out for the summer to help reach the goal of 2 million trips. Ridership dips during the summer when most students vacate and when the 19 routes are cut down to seven.

Hughes said he wants people to practice mindfulness as AppalCart can help sustainability efforts.

“If ASU and students and faculty are serious about sustainability, there’s one thing they could do right now that will do more for the environment than anything else … and that’s to take AppalCart,” Hughes said. “You don’t have to pay for it; it’s already taken care of with student fees, and tax dollars are already there to keep it free, so why not take advantage of it?”

Three of the new buses are already in use. AppalCart will introduce the rest over the course of the coming semesters.

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The Collegiate Recovery Community is a program that offers support for students that are getting through any type of addiction or mental illness. The meetings are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m to 7 p.m.

WELLNESS AND PREVENTION SERVICES STARTS COLLEGIATE RECOVERY COMMUNITY Ashley Goodman│

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he Wellness and Prevention Services center is currently developing a collegiate recovery community for App State students.

Multiple UNC schools, including N.C. State University, UNC-Wilmington and N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University, have already instituted collegiate recovery communities, and now App State is doing the same.

Collegiate recovery communities are organized spaces designed to offer emotional and social support to students who are recovering from addiction and mental illness.

The wellness center’s plan to create a collegiate recovery community has been a topic of discussion for some time, but most of the work has taken place this year, Assistant Director and substance abuse counselor Ben Asma said.

“We’ve had the goal of creating one, but because of staff limitations and lack of time and availability, it’s been tough to do that,” Asma said.

“However, we kind of got to

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this place of it becoming a priority and us really seeing an opportunity to support our students in a manner that was not currently existing.”

Wellness center staff and interns started organizing and advertising for the recovery community last fall, but most of its development has occurred this semester. The community also received a small grant this semester, which Asma hopes to put toward paying interns and providing the recovery community with additional resources.

For now, Asma said, much of the community’s work is put into advertising the recovery community to students.

“Right now we’re really just trying to reach out to students to spark interest and to let students know that we exist,” Asma said.

“Students in recovery exist at every college campus across America. We just want to reach out to those students and let them know we exist.”

The collegiate recovery community meets at the wellness center on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Wednesdays are dedicated to more social opportunities; the group recent-

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ly came together to spray paint the expression tunnel together. Thursday nights are more structured, with more educational, therapeutic and discussion-based sessions.

Asma said his hope for the meetings is that students find a space to socialize and develop a sense of community.

“Particularly when you talk about the disease of addiction and how it exists, one of the basic cures that we have determined for this challenge is connection,” Asma said. “When we aren’t connected and supported, it’s very hard to succeed and to heal. This community is an opportunity for connection and building connection between like-minded people.”

Post-graduate trainee Yasmin Ramadan said that it is important to know that the program is flexible and will grow to meet students’ diverse needs.

“We’re at a place where we just talk to the students and see what they want and make it a community that they find enjoyable,” Ramadan said.

“We’re still in the very beginning stages, but we are growing and developing, and it’s

been a lot of fun.”

While the community is still developing, Ramadan said the community’s purpose as a safe, sober space is pivotal.

“Really our purpose is to allow people in recovery to have a space where they can get to know one another, where they can feel safe and be who they truly are,” Ramadan said.

“They don’t have to feel like they’re hiding a part of them.”

Jennifer Kline, a mental health counseling graduate student and an intern with Wellness and Prevention Services, said that the social events coordinated by the recovery community are also important in providing a sober, social atmosphere to students.

“If someone is suffering from substance abuse disorder or addiction, it is very hard to find a group that is sober,” Kline said. “That can be very scary and isolating; it can cause a lot of loneliness, depression and anxiety. By offering that space here, our goal is really just to show that there are people on campus who are going through similar things, so it normalizes it in a way.”

Jeff Hunsucker, a graduate student majoring in social work, helps coordinate the program and said that the opportunity to socialize and serve others helped his own recovery.

Hunsucker said he started using substances problematically at the age of 18. At the age of 42, Hunsucker has now been sober since 2010.

“Come and bring your voice and let us know what you need, because as a student in recovery, what I needed was an environment where I could socialize. What I found even more than that is that I could possibly make a difference, and that’s important,” Hunsucker said.

Hunsucker said he also hopes the collegiate recovery community will help to reduce stigma against people in recovery.

“People with addiction are misunderstood folks,” Hunsucker said. “People with addiction, in my experience, are some of the smartest, funniest, most dedicated and most compassionate that I know. It’s a shame that we don’t recognize those things, we only recognize the behaviors attached to the addiction.”

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The umbrella of a solar picnic table outside of Kenneth E. Peacock Hall. The tables were a collaboration between the Appalachian State Renewable Energy Initiative, the Office of Sustainability and the Walker College of Business.

REI AND OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY UNVEIL NEW SOLAR PICNIC TABLES

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hree solar-powered picnic tables were installed on the first floor patio of Appalachian State University’s Kenneth E. Peacock Hall in January.

The tables were a collaboration between the Appalachian State Renewable Energy Initiative, the Office of Sustainability and the Walker College of Business, Jim Dees, an REI staff adviser and Office of Sustainability Data and Assessment specialist, said.

The Office of Sustainability invited the REI to collaborate and research solar companies shortly after the spring 2017 semes-

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ter, Dees said. The organizations worked together to fund the tables, purchased from EnerFusion, Inc., and the Walker College of Business donated space and advertising.

Office of Sustainability graduate assistant and REI vice chair Sierra Milosh said she hoped the project would increase visibility of renewable energy projects on campus.

Although their other renewable energy initiatives, like the solar thermal systems on Summit Hall and the Plemmons Student Union which help heat the buildings’ water, are saving money and energy at App State, projects like this one

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encourage students to directly interact with the technology.

“I think being able to touch the technology brings it from more of a concept to something that people want to be directly involved with,” Milosh said.

By pressing buttons on the umbrellas’ bases, students can turn on LED lights installed in the umbrella or charge their phones, computers and other devices via power outlets and USB ports.

According to the REI, the organization receives $5 of every student’s tuition each semester. The REI board, which this semester is composed of nine student board

members and seven faculty and staff advisers, uses this budget to plan and implement renewable energy projects on campus.

Paul Matney, senior business management major and student chair of the REI, said he believes the project will encourage further collaboration with academic departments at App State.

“It’s actually looking like we’re going to be putting more of these up now,” Matney said. “After they went up at the College of Business, multiple other academic departments have asked to put them in their courtyards or wherever, so it looks like we’re going to be putting them up all over

campus eventually.”

Matney said installing projects like these across campus will help represent the university’s dedication to sustainability.

“I think it really just backs up the environmental mission of the university to have this on campus and have it visible and have it be something that people see everyday,” Matney said. “I think it’s important that this gets into the norm of people’s days and habits and lives.”

The picnic tables’ official ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled to take place in April as part of the university’s Earth Month celebration.

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APPALACHIAN ROLLER DERBY BRINGS HARD HITS AND OPEN ARMS IN SEASON OPENER Mack Foley│

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he parking lot of the Youth Outreach Skating Rink in West Jefferson was entirely filled by 3:25 p.m. on Saturday by skaters and audience members for a double-header held by Appalachian Roller Derby.

Skaters and spectators alike mulled around outside enjoying the overcast but unusually mild weather. A group of skaters sat in the back of a van in the lot, its doors and trunk open, allowing the breeze to blow through. The door to the venue was propped open, encouraging visitors to wander in.

Through the door, past where tickets were being sold, was a small arcade with an air hockey table and a snack bar that opened up into a skating rink with a track made of yellow duct tape. Novelty lights such as black lights and strings of multicolored Christmas lights adorned the walls of the dimly lit track, and a disco ball and strobe lights danced across the ceiling as the home teams took to the track. The space between the rink and bar was occupied by chairs that slowly filled up with attendees.

The double header Saturday featured the Boone Shiners taking on the Red Stick Capital Defenders

from Baton Rouge, Louisiana in a B-team bout, and the traveling team, the Appalachian All-Stars, opened their season against the Red Stick All-Stars.

As the first match began, the buzzing of the crowd gave way to a symphony of whistles and skates, narrated by an announcer duo who stood next to the scorer’s table, explaining the match and quipping backand-forth over potted-down house music.

In one of the middle rows of the crowd sat longtime supporters and sponsors of Appalachian Roller Derby, Kathleen Rowell and John Rowell, cheering on the cast of Appalachian jammers that were coming and going between jams.

“We were sponsors one of the first years they started,” Kathleen Rowell said.

John Rowell estimated that the couple had been sponsors of the team for about eight years.

“We had a lot of friends that were rolling,” Kathleen Rowell said.

“We didn’t bout until 2011, though,” former Appalachian Roller Derby skater Jennifer Pillow, who skated under the name Rolli Cannoli, said.

Through their eight years as sponsors, the Rowells said they had found that the team was tight-knit in and

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of itself but was not always lucky in building its presence in the area.

“I think they struggle with trying to build their community,” Kathleen Rowell said. “I mean, they’ve got their fans, but it’s tough. Within the team, they have a lot of community, though.”

Pillow, who has been with the team from the beginning, told a similar story.

“When the league started, there was 40 to 60 women that showed up at the first practice,” Pillow said.

“But it soon trickled down to about 20, and it’s gotten as to as little as I think like 10.”

The team has seen more attention recently though, Pillow said, through a combination of a newly formed Roller Derby Club at Appalachian State and a lot of word-of-mouth.

“We started a club at App,” Pillow said. “It’s the Roller Derby Club. That really helped to let college students know that there’s roller derby, and we’ve had quite a few skaters from Appalachian State. Other than that, it’s a lot of shameless recruitment. You see somebody somewhere and you’re like, ‘Hey, do you skate?

Come check this out.’”

ARD also took steps to allow the audience to participate in and learn about

Roller Derby 101 Jam: a two-minute period during which the teams race around the circuit track.

Bout: one roller derby match, which lasts 60 minutes and is divided into two 30 minute periods.

Grand Slam: when a jammer succeeds in lapping the opposing team’s jammer.

Pack: the mass of blockers from both teams skating around the track together. The jammer’s goal is to get through or around

roller derby on Saturday. The team sent different skaters around with a sign that said “Ask Me a Question” throughout the match, ensuring that newcomers had a way to have their questions answered.

This year, the team also changed their name from Appalachian Roller Girls to Appalachian Roller Derby to include all people, whether they identify as female, male or nonbinary.

“We allow any kind of gender identity,” Pillow said.

According to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, “An individual who identifies as a trans woman, intersex woman, and/or gender expansive may skate with a WFTDA charter team if women’s flat track roller derby is the version and composition of roller derby with which they most closely identify.”

Part of the name change was also in consideration for the referees and announcers associated with Appalachian Roller Derby, many of whom are male.

“You can also see that there’s plenty of men here at this game. Some of them are a part of our team as well, so we didn’t want to pigeonhole ourselves with ‘girls,’” Pillow said.

The idea of increased diversity is sweeping across

the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, the league ARD plays in, and teams are changing their names to reflect it all over America, Pillow said.

“All of these skaters come from different backgrounds and all different walks of life,” Pillow said.

“And there really is no judgement in roller derby.”

When it was all said and done, ARD split their games with Red Stick Roller Derby. The Boone Shiners came away with a commanding victory over the Red Stick Capital Defenders, winning by a score of 285 to 146, while the Appalachian Roller Derby All-Stars lost to the Red Stick All-Stars by a score of 194-185.

Regardless of a win or loss, though, the teams hosted an event that Pillow hoped young people in Boone could look up to.

“I think in this day and age, it’s a really good place where there is inclusion and diversity and shows women in power and empowering each other,” Pillow said. “I think they would be an excellent role model for the youth in this community.”

Appalachian Roller Derby’s next bout will be in Athens, Georgia, on March 17, where the ARD AllStars will be taking on the Classic City Rollergirls.

Jammer The jammer is the scoring member of the team. Their objective is to score points by passing opposing blockers. There is one jammer per jam.

Pivot The pivot serves as the leader of the team. They are the last line of defense to stop the opposing jammer from escaping the pack. There is one pivot per jam.

Blocker The blockers switch between offensive and defensive roles. They protect their jammer and attempt to interfere the opposing jammer.

There are three blockers per jam.

Source: Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Graphic by Nora Smith

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The Dance Marathon commitee posing with the director of Parent to Parent Kaaren Hayes and the check for the Western Youth Network and Parent to Parent.

The 15-hour event raised over $42,000 for both of the organizations.

Callie Scher, senior psychology major, showing her moves during Dance Marathon with her futuristic inspired costume.

The dance captains performing a line dance during the last hours of the night.

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Megan Fox, junior psychology major, and Victoria Redmon, senior social work major, dancing and singing on the Legends stage. The two were on the committee for Dance Marathon and helped coordinate the 15-hour event.

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Participants of Dance Marathon busting out their movies for the 15-hour event.

DANCE MARATHON SUPPORTS LOCAL NONPROFITS

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ance Marathon is an annual charity event organized by Appalachian and the Community Together that took place Saturday in Legends. It lasted 15 hours and consisted of dancing, face painting, food and more.

The intent of the Dance Marathon is to raise money for two local nonprofits, Western Youth Network and Parent to Parent Family Support Network. Both of these organizations provide assistance to families in the High Country of Western North Carolina.

Participants of the Dance Marathon registered online and pledged to raise a minimum of $150, or $10 per hour of dancing, according to a press release issued by the Appalachian and the Community Together office.

Dance Marathon co-chair and senior psychology major Alyson Graham said the entertainment provided included DJ Hammy, performances

by App State’s Dance Team and skits from the improvisation group NouN. “There’s a lot of different stuff to keep people entertained and on their feet,” Graham said.

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Graham said that Appalachian and the Community Together has a huge focus on supporting local organizations, and that is one of the reasons they chose to fundraise for these particular nonprofits.

“We transitioned into Parent to Parent and Western Youth because dance marathons throughout the country are really focused on supporting kids and youth,” Graham said. “Those are two important organizations in the community that do that really extensively.”

Parent to Parent is a grant and donors community organization that is a part of App’s College of Education Department, Director of Parent to Parent, Kaaren Hayes, said.

The program serves seven counties in the High Country, Graham said. They exist to support and help families who have children with a variety of special needs or significant health problems and families dealing with the death of a child.

“We’re really about making connections,” Hayes said.

“Connecting families to each other, to resources, to information and just trying to fill that void if they’re feeling alone or don’t know where to

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turn to find the information they need.”

The other nonprofit that Dance Marathon fund raises for is Western Youth Network. This organization strives to provide support for youth and their families during the pivotal years of growing up. Some programs they provide are prevention programs, after school programs and service learning, according to a press release issued by the group.

Hayes said that Dance Marathon first began when one of the former directors of Western Youth Network presented the idea of beginning a Dance Marathon to the people who were in charge of ACT at the time.

“It finally took hold and was something they decided to try, and it’s been around ever since,” Hayes said.

Dance Marathon celebrated its 15th anniversary this year. Parent to Parent will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in January.

During the event’s lunch, Parent to Parent brought in families of the organization to interact with participants of the marathon. While the dancers were having their lunch, families of Parent to Parent sat

and talked to everyone about their experiences with their own children and life.

“It’s important for us to try to always connect what we’re doing on that personal level,” Hayes said.

Hayes said that this is a way of making a personal connection between individuals and helping educate participants on why the nonprofit exists.

“It’s a way to connect the students personally to the event so that they really know why they’re dancing,” Hayes said.

Parent to Parent also had a station set up where poster boards stood with pictures of families and written blurbs about them, Hayes said. With each family there was an envelope taped underneath, where people could leave the family notes of encouragement.

Hayes said that one child insisted on taking her envelope before she left for the day because she was so excited about the notes inside. Hayes said that this is one example of the importance of connections made between Dance Marathon participants and Parent to Parent members.

Teresa Williams, a member of Parent to Parent, said that she has been with the organi-

zation for a month, but it has already given her many opportunities in this area.

She said that learning about the organization “opened up a huge door” into other related nonprofits such as this one.

Dance Marathon raised $42,696.46 at this year’s event, with over 200 dancers participating.

The money will be split halfway between both nonprofits, Graham said.

“One of the things that I am consistently impressed by is the students and how much they truly care,” Hayes said.

She said that the program has continued to exist because of these individuals who come out and support the event.

“They truly do an amazing job of representing the university and fulfilling that larger mission,” Hayes said.

“And I think they’re heroes in that way.”

Graham said that Dance Marathon would not have the same opportunities to reach out to students if Parent to Parent was not involved.

“Those interactions that the Appalachian students have with Parent to Parent are really meaningful and that’s what gets us to have people return year after year,” Graham said.

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Freshman Kieran Smith setting up a scene for one of the Tunnel of Oppression skits. The event was in the Blue Ridge Ballroom on Monday.

APPS PRESENTS TUNNEL OF OPPRESSION TO DISCUSS MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES T Dylan Austin│

he Cultural Awareness and Student Engagement council presented their annual Tunnel of Oppression event on Monday in a collaboration with 12 other campus organizations.

The Tunnel of Oppression featured a series of interactive exhibits discussing social issues faced by students on campus.

The event’s organizer, Ana Dell, said that orchestrating and holding Tunnel of Oppression was important in bringing awareness to all social issues, and especially those that are overlooked such as mental health, persons with physical disabilities and anti-Semitism.

Dell is a junior music indus-

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try studies major and the chairperson of Cultural Awareness and Student Engagement, one of the eight student councils of the Appalachian Popular Programming Society.

“I wanted to take part in this event because immigration and (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was a heavy topic when we were talking about it,” Dell said.

Dell also recruited her sorority Chi Upsilon Sigma, Appalachian’s Latinx House, to help with or be a part of the event.

A total of 12 student clubs participated in the tunnel. including Chi Upsilon Sigma, Hillel, AHO Women’s Rugby, Native American Student As-

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sociation, Peace and Genocide Education, Autism Speaks, Support Bloom Recover, Active Minds, and Accessibility Council.

Before the event, volunteers taped black-out paper over the windows of Blue Ridge Ballroom, across from Greenbriar Theater in the Plemmons Student Union.

Event organizers also interviewed individual students prior to the event. Photos and quotes of Appalachian students were displayed to show tunnel viewers that oppression and discrimination exists everywhere, even in one’s own home.

As the event began, the ballroom lights were turned off and

voices fell hushed as the tunnel became real. Each group of students were brought into the room and greeted by their guide, flashlight in hand.

Groups walked between interactive exhibits to catch small glimpses into the experiences of marginalized classmates.

The women’s rugby team adorned their room with words and stereotypes women face.

A video projection depicted testimonials from the players.

Accounts spoke of workplace practices where women are not promoted and ballet instructors told hopeful dancers that they are “too big.”

But in person, the players invited attendees to write words of strength and kindness

and to use these words to cover up the messages of animosity.

Hillel, a group for students of Jewish faith and those that want to learn about Judaism, had the next room, where walls plastered with anti-Semitic media clippings and illustrations, pictures and articles showed victims that were killed for being Jewish. A male student dressed as Hitler yelled for the “Christ-killers” to step forward before explaining that there are individuals that deny the occurrence of the Holocaust.

“An 8-year-old boy wrote on his paper that he was not proud to be Jewish because people at his school tell him to get back in an oven,” Maddie Lippy said of a child she

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A board on display in the tunnel of oppression with anonymous people holding white boards with personal statements written on them. taught at her temple.

Lippy is a senior nutrition major and member of Appalachian State University’s chapter of Hillel.

Another member recounted that Appalachian has been the site of anti-Semitism in recent years. Stickers with anti-Jewish rhetoric have been posted around campus during Jewish holidays. The words “Hitler did nothing wrong” were etched into the mud on a student’s vehicle.

Native American students played a video showing tribal practices of their indigenous ancestors and living families.

The students stepped towards guests and said “Wow, I’ve never met an Indian before!”

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“You’re mixed, so you’re not actually Indian, right?” and “If you’re a real Indian, do you get an Indian card?”

A young woman read a self-written poem that told the history of her people, which described thousands of native people killed and not legally recognized by the government.

Another room, presented by Peace and Genocide Education, listed the groups subjugated or killed by Nazis. They said people didn’t advocate for those being persecuted because they were not of that group. The students said that whatever groups were currently being persecuted, any other group could later be victim-

ized. Televised images transitioned from images of concentration camps to pictures of white nationalists flying the Nazi swastika.

The next room, presented by Autism Speaks, did not have any people telling their experiences. Rather, the walls had words like “stupid” and “weird” written on paper, as well as a poster board presenting statistics and facts about people with autism.

The next room was also uninhabited, although a speaker played testimonies from young women in recovery from eating disorders. Support Bloom Recover, Appalachian State’s club dedicated to sharing experiences among

students with eating disorders, presented magazine cutouts of stereotypically “beautiful” women, while the audio talked about “hearing your parents whisper their concern one room over,” and other common phrases those with eating disorders hear.

The students of Active Minds spoke of how their diagnoses of depression, anxiety and Tourette’s syndrome followed them daily as others began seeing the stigma of mental illness instead of the person.

In the last performed presentation, members of the Accessibility Council asked participants to walk forward along a line.

Before the first person could take two steps, a young wom-

an screamed, “Start over. You’re doing it wrong,” and, “Are you trying to embarrass me?”

The students told the crowd that people with physical disabilities are often reprimanded by their families because they cannot look or do what is “normal.”

As they stepped out of the tunnel and into the light, groups were led to debriefing rooms where students were led in discussions about how the experience affected them and ways in which they could help combat discrimination.

Organizers said that while this was the first Tunnel of Oppression in recent years, they hope to return to presenting it annually.

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O’KEEFE ENJOYS ANOTHER STRONG RECRUITING PERIOD

The App State men’s soccer team playing a home game durng the 2017 season.

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uilding a successful soccer program is like putting together a puzzle. But instead of being given the pieces in advance, a coach and their staff must search far and wide to find players that fit the picture that they want to create. The App State men’s soccer coaching staff has done an excellent job in the past at bringing in talented players, and are continuing this trend as they recently announced their 2018 class.

After already signing 10 players for the upcoming season they still are not done yet, and are preparing to bring in a diverse class with an international perspective, winning experience and strong character.

Head coach Jason O’Keefe has had tremendous success

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in recruiting at previous national powerhouses such as Wake Forest, St. Louis and most recently, UNC-Chapel Hill, where he signed the No. 1 ranked class in 2016.

“It’s the bloodline of any program that’s successful. Outside of developing the current players, it’s probably the next most important thing to do,” O’Keefe said. “First and foremost we’re looking for talent, and what we’ve been looking for are guys who come from a winning environment or gone and created a winning environment wherever they were at.”

The coaching staff is not too shy when it comes to recruiting international players, with seven players on the current roster listed as coming from countries outside of the United States. Their latest interna-

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tional recruit, Charlie Baird, is a forward hailing from Nottinghamshire, England.

“The experience they have is a little bit different coming from overseas. It adds a perspective that our kids from America aren’t used to and it blends different cultures, and I think that builds the team’s chemistry,” O’Keefe said.

O’Keefe also emphasizes signing and developing local talent as well. North Carolina is one of the best states to be in to play college soccer, which is mostly due to the the high amount of talent in areas such as the Triangle, Charlotte and the Greensboro area.

Six out of the 10 newly signed recruits are from North Carolina, with several of them playing youth soccer either together or against one other at

some point in their early careers. They are also more than likely connected with current roster members as well.

“I’ve got a lot of great connections in North Carolina, and I’ve had a lot of success as well. In North Carolina, a lot of kids growing up in the state know the landscape of colleges in the state,” O’Keefe said. “I like to think 50 percent of our roster is from North Carolina at all times.”

Even though skill and location are both important factors for O’Keefe while attempting to build recruiting classes, it is instead character that is most important. This is evident with his current roster members.

He will look to seniors like defender Felix Kollmanthaller and midfielder Ian Bennett to help the younger players ad-

just to college soccer, and is confident in their ability to be strong role models for their younger teammates.

“Felix and Ice (Bennett) are rising seniors and they’re both pillars in the community. They lead by example and I think it’s going to be easy for them to transition,” O’Keefe said.

“This spring we’re focusing on the gap between our sophomores and those guys.”

Even though the 2018 team may be younger than previous App State teams, they are still poised to have an exciting season and are preparing to build a strong foundation for the next four years they are in Boone, as well as usher in a new class of young, talented players to ensure that the program’s success continues to increase.

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A FRESH START FOR WALTERS Michael Pigg│

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hile Appalachian State’s softball team is transitioning to a new coach this year, they are hoping one thing will stay the same: the productivity of junior utility player Ally Walters.

Walters is a career .204 hitter with a total of 26 runs batted in (RBI) in just two seasons with the Mountaineers.

Being a junior, Walters has picked up a leadership role, whether that be softball related or school related.

“I try to help the younger players out as much as I can, off or on the field,” Walters said. “I am not the most vocal leader on my team, but I try to lead by example.”

For Walters, this season is different from the other two with the hiring of the new head coach Shelly Hoerner, who previously

coached at Georgia Tech.

“We are all learning because it is new to us,” Walters said. “It was different. You had to adjust to this coach’s mentality, and it has been a breath of fresh air.”

Hoerner has been impressed with Walters, and they seemed to hit it off from the very first interaction they had at a team picnic.

“She seemed really laid back and composed. She wasn’t too outgoing, but I have come to learn that is just her personality,” Hoerner said.

“The first time I saw her actually practice I was impressed about how fundamental she was.”

Because of Walters’ laid back personality, Hoerner has been trying to get her to come out of her shell a little bit more.

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“Our first outfielders practice I saw her going through the motions nonchalantly and with no emotions,” Hoerner said. “For me I am so intense, I just thought it was too laid back, and we have had a couple conversations about that.”

Walters is listed as a utility player, meaning she floats around from position to position to wherever Hoerner needs her to be.

“Right now for our team her strength for us is in the outfield, and she has done a terrific job improving in the outfield, such as tracking down balls,” Hoerner said. “Anytime during the season if I need her to play infield I know she can do it because she is so smooth at playing those positions.”

While she improved her batting average by 33 points

from 2016 to 2017, Walters still wants to see improvements this season, and said she believes she can take her game to the next level.

“During the offseason I focused primarily on my swing,” Walters said. “I made sure it was ready for the season by practicing my hitting on both sides of the plate.”

Teammates of Walters have seen her get better every year, and they are looking forward to seeing what her junior year has to offer.

“She looks more confident every year and you can tell that by the way she swings the bat,” senior utility player Heather Josey said. “When Ally gets on one of those hitting streaks, it’s fun just to sit back and watch her at the plate.”

Most players drive them-

selves crazy trying to be perfect at every aspect of their game and for Walters this sometimes can get in her way.

“Ally is definitely a perfectionist at the plate, and sometimes she can be too hard on herself,” Hoerner said. “When she gets down on herself it takes away from everything else she does on the field.”

Walters was described as the ultimate teammate by Josey.

“Ally is always doing something to help the team win. She is so selfless,” Josey said. “She does whatever it takes from hitting a clutch hit to even cleaning up after practice.”

With the softball season just beginning, Walters is excited to see where this team ends up and what she can accomplish individually as well.

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TOWN COUNCIL SEEKS TO REPEAL BOONE 2030 PLAN

The lobby of The Standard. The apartments are off campus and are located on Blowing Rock Road.

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he Boone Town Council voted on Feb. 15 to postpone consideration to repeal the Boone 2030 Land Use Plan until the March 19 regular meeting.

Originally, the town council had planned to vote on the repeal at the Feb. 15 meeting at 11:40 p.m. They chose to do otherwise after the large amount of public outcry that occurred before the meeting.

Quint David, a former member of the town council, sent an email to a number of students at Appalachian State which detailed the council’s plans and encouraged the students who received it to attend the meeting and make their voices heard.

The 2030 plan, adopted in 2009, details an overall plan that would serve as a guideline for the town in order to encourage growth and improve sustainability, while maintaining the town’s natural beauty.

The action request to repeal the plan was submitted

by Jane Shook, the director of the Town of Boone Planning and Inspections Department. John Ward, the town manager, said in a face-toface meeting that Shook had been directed to do so by the town council after their Jan. 8 planning retreat.

According to an as-yet unreleased draft of the minutes from the retreat, the council came to a unanimous vote to vote to consider the repeal of the plan. The council opted to hold a public session to discuss the repeal after town attorney Allison Meade “questioned repealing a document

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You can follow him on Twitter at @Q_M_Russell. that had so much public input in the beginning without providing an opportunity for public input now.”

This public comment period was scheduled to take place at 11:40 p.m. the night of the vote. Obviously, the council considered this to be the best time to gather as much of the public’s input on this as they could. It could not be that they were trying to keep this quiet, could it?

Town council member Sam Furgiuele seemed to have the most concerns with the plan, having been the member to submit the action request form to discuss the planning of the vote to repeal the plan. At the meeting, he claimed that the plan should be repealed due to the loss of the ETJ zone, or the extraterritorial jurisdiction zone, and for the fact that development could be forced on the town that it may not want.

The ETJ zone was formerly the area that extended one mile outside of the town limits that was not a formal part of Boone. However, the town still maintained the ability to regulate the area, but the people

there did not have to pay taxes, nor could they vote in town elections. This was stripped from the town in 2016 after the North Carolina Supreme Court declared that the North Carolina General Assembly’s “Boone Act” did in fact have the power to take the area from the town.

According to the minutes taken from the retreat, “Council Member Furgiuele stated that the 2030 Plan described a town that no longer existed due to the ETJ and felt the town was taking a legal risk by keeping the document on the table.”

However, in response to Furgiuele’s claim that the town could face unwanted development, council member Lynne Mason “stated she had used the 2030 Land Use Plan to turn down projects and much as she had used it to approve projects,” according to the minutes from the retreat.

Furthermore, Furgiuele’s reasons for repealing the 2030 plan may go beyond just the loss of the ETJ. In his action request form to consider the repeal of the plan, Furgiuele wrote that “The Standard, a development that most town residents are unhappy with, is the direct fulfillment of the 2030 Plan and does not represent the future citizens want for this community.”

What is interesting about The Standard, aside from the length of time it took to build it, is the fact that it is one of the few buildings in Boone that exceeds two to three stories in height.

Aside from university buildings, business offices out near the greenway and the apart-

ment complexes around town, most of the buildings in Boone are two stories tall, and it seems that Furgiuele and other members of the council would like to keep it this way.

All throughout the minutes of the retreat, Furgiuele and Mason display a sense of displeasure at buildings being too tall. According to the minutes, “Council member Furgiuele felt building height limitations were too high in the B1 and suggested height limitations of 34’ and 3 stories.”

Additionally, earlier in the meeting Mason “questioned if five stories were too much for Boone.” Several other times in the meeting they, Furgiuele in particular, made several such statements as this.

Had Furgiuele not mentioned The Standard by name then his desire to repeal the 2030 plan would have been understandable. The plan does rely on the town having the ETJ to develop land and install new properties. However, Furgiuele did mention The Standard, and he has expressed a desire to not have the town allow any more buildings like it.

It seems that both Furgiuele and Mason are trying to steer the town in the direction that they feel is best and not necessarily in the direction that would be best for the town.

According to the official university website, as of fall 2017, Appalachian State University had 18,811 students enrolled. Further, as of 2016, Boone boasted a population of 18,834. Appalachian State students literally double the population of Boone during

the school year.

It is no secret that Appalachian does not have enough housing for the students they enroll, as each semester housing sends out email after email asking students if they would be willing to give up their on-campus housing to house new students.

Boone is not a large town.

Students looking to find off-campus housing have a difficult time finding places to live. This will continue to compound as the university continues to grow, and eventually housing will become rather elusive.

The only place for Boone to develop is up, but Furgiuele and the town council seem intent on preventing that. Well, at least Furgiuele and Mason, some of the town council do not seem to care, or, in the case of council member Connie Ulmer, they have not even read the plan, according to the minutes from the retreat.

That is right, one of the most important documents in the town and one of the people voting to repeal it has not even read it. That, combined with the fact that they wanted to hold a public comment session late at night and the fact that they still have not published the minutes of the meeting from the Jan 8. retreat over a month later is worrying.

Why not just repeal the parts of the plan that no longer apply? It is obvious that whatever the council wants to do with the plan is not on the up-and-up, and whatever public comment they make on the matter should be taken with a grain of salt.

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