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REMATCH AT THE BIG HOUSE

Justin Perry Former App State quarterback Jamal Londry-Jackson mentally prepares himself for a play in a football game for the Mountaineers during the 2013 season.

The Mountaineers will play Michigan for the second time in seven years Saturday. See page 6 for gameday coverage.

Tentative date is set for the opening of future Boone IHOP restaurant

Condom delivery service comes to an end

by Nicole Caporaso

by Carl Blankenship

News Reporter

News Reporter

The IHOP restaurant on Highway 321 in Boone could possibly open to the public at the end of October, an IHOP spokesman said.

IHOP spokesman Craig Hoffman said the tentative opening date is Oct. 28, but that it could change depending on construction. The restaurant is being built where the previous Blockbuster Video store was located, using the same building.

Todd Miller, the building inspector for the Town of Boone, said construction started about six weeks ago.

“The property owner is a corporation called SE BB Boone Inc.,” Miller said. “All of their mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems are done and they’re currently putting up drywall.”

Hoffman disclosed that the restaurant will seat 172 customers and that the location will be open 24/7.

“The franchisee expects to

Busy Bee’s Condom Delivery Service was shut down in February after student and co-operator Dylan Brown received a cease and desist order from Appalachian State University.

Busy Bee’s was a door-todoor residence hall condom delivery business started in January by Brown and friends Mike Hebert, Ross Joyner and Luke Pascall. The service charged $1 per condom plus an additional $2 delivery fee.

Brown, a sophomore theatre arts major, said approximately two weeks after a story on the delivery service ran in The Appalachian on Feb. 11, 2014, he received a call from an attorney delivering a cease and desist order from the university.

“He asked if I was familiar with section H of the residence hall policy which states that a student can not own or operate a business on campus without the consent of the university,” Brown said. “He said that unless we got the approval of the

Cara Croom Construction of Boone’s upcoming IHOP restaurant has begun at the former Blockbuster Video store on Highway 321.

bring about 65 new jobs to the area, and is planning to offer [child], college and senior discounts on specific nights to be decided closer to open,”

Hoffman said. “They are very excited to be opening in Boone and look forward to welcoming guests and being an active participant in the community.”

university and written consent forms that it would be considered illegal solicitation for us to operate on campus.”

According to section IX, item H of Appalachian’s Residence Hall License Contract, or the Solicitation Policy, door-to-door solicitation is prohibited.

The policy states, “Nonuniversity solicitation is not allowed in the residence halls.

No student may operate a business or other commercial enterprise from his or her residence hall room or any other part of the campus without express written consent of the University.”

“Recently, more of these sort of businesses have been starting on campuses and I think there’s a decent precedent to justify a condom delivery service on campus,” Brown said.

Despite Brown saying that there is a slight possibility of an attempt to restart Busy Bee’s, it was made clear that the business was not wanted on campus when he tried to obtain approval to operate.

Red Flag Campaign to hold 25th annual Walk for Awareness

by Kaitlan Morehouse Intern News Reporter

The Red Flag Campaign will hold the 25th anniversary of its annual Walk for Awareness on Sept. 2.

The event will begin with a video screening and speakers at 8 p.m. in Belk Library Room 114 and move to Sanford Mall for the walk at 9 p.m.

The walk was started in 1989 after Jeni Gray, an Appalachian State University employee, was abducted and raped on Sept.

24th after going for a walk. Her body was found 15 days later.

Five days after Gray’s body was found, Leigh Cooper Wal-

lace, an Appalachian alumna, went for a run on campus when she was abducted and raped by the same man. Wallace survived to share her story until she passed away in December 2012 from pneumonia.

Dean of Students Emeritus Barbara Daye was the one who first initiated the walk 25 years ago.

The event’s scheduled speakers include Suzette Patterson, assistant director of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership, who will introduce the walk. Daye will then speak of the history of the walk and Chancellor Sheri N. Everts will speak of the event’s future.

“Twenty-five years later, we continue to walk together as we know members of our community continue to be victimized,” said Ellen Hartman, an advisor to the Red Flag Campaign and teaching assistant in the department of student conduct.

“We walk together, both victims and advocates, in support of our commitment to a violence free campus. As an Appalachian Family, we walk together in acknowledgement of our responsibility of being active bystanders. Appalachian knows we can prevent interpersonal violence, but we need our entire Appalachian community to be active in this cause.”

Hartman was a graduate assistant in the Women’s Center in 2007 where she first got involved in the walk.

“It’s a well-organized, peaceful event – well-attended,” Hartman said. “This is my fourth walk, and each year I have been encouraged by the increase in attendance of students, faculty, staff and community members.”

Chief of University Police Gunther Doerr said Appalachian police has several staff members, including himself, participating in support of the event, as well as on-duty officers assisting.

“Our on-duty police offi-

cers, along with several Parking & Traffic officers provide traffic control on Rivers Street to ensure all walk participants cross Rivers Street going to the Holmes [Convocation] Center safely,” Doerr said.

Community member Melissa Reeves and campus a cappella groups will perform throughout the evening.

“I encourage every student, every faculty member, staff member and community member to join us on Sept. 2 at 9 p.m. on Sanford Mall to learn, to support, to empower those who have been affected by violence,” Hartman said.

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Appalachian on track with system safety initiative

by Carl Blankenship News Reporter

In 2013, the University of North Carolina system launched an initiative to reform campus security in all of its universities.

The initiative released a final, 120-page report which included a series of 26 findings and 36 recommendations to campuses in July 2014.

According to a letter from Chancellor Sheri N. Everts, of the 23 recommendations specific to college campuses, Appalachian State University was already in compliance with 17 before the report was released.

The Appalachian State Security Council deals with security reform on campus.

Cindy Wallace, the council co-chair and Vice Chancellor for Student Development, said major security reform on cam-

pus came in response to the Virginia Tech University shooting in 2007.

“We spent five years examining and changing most of our safety response on our campus,” Wallace said. “In that wave of response which escalated recently, a lot of our safety directives were added as a response to a crisis situation.”

Wallace said as part of that reform, the university hired an emergency manager, case manager, referral coordinator and a psychiatrist.

“In those few years, we formed the early intervention team, care team and threat assessment team in response to the ’07-’08 needs of college campuses to look at our protocols,” Wallace said. “This particular initiative focused on some of our high-risk behaviors.”

Wallace said the initiative focuses have primarily been

Morgan Cook A campus police vehicle Wednesday in the Rivers Street Parking Deck. University Police is located in the Rivers Street Parking Deck building.

addressing sexual assault, high-risk drug use and suicide prevention.

“As a campus we’re looking at our reporting methods and creating a culture of care and concern,” Wallace said. ”We’re trying to change cultural expectations.”

According to a report by the UNC system, only a small percentage of students within the system participate in high-risk drinking, but the effects of this behavior have an impact on others on campus.

“Someone could have gotten into a fight after drinking

too much that otherwise never would have and that has collateral effects on other students,” Wallace said.

Wallace said a small minority of individuals on campus engage in intentionally sexually predatory behavior.

“The vast majority of students negotiate their time here well,” Wallace said. “It can be a pretty dangerous minority.”

University Police Chief Gunther Doerr said he believes the university is ahead on complying with all the recommendations.

“A few recommendations we have to do a bit more work on, but we’re mostly in good shape,” Doerr said.

Doerr said in the past, a few campuses in the system experienced safety issues and the initiative was designed to ensure more universal safety standards between universities.

BOG approves Appalachian major program revisions

by Kaitlan Morehouse Intern News Reporter

The program revisions completed by Appalachian State University’s Academic Affairs in spring 2012 were approved by the UNC Board of Governors on Aug. 1.

The BOG approved the recommendation of the various programs being consolidated or cut, but the revisions will not affect student enrollment in the programs.

In the final report from the Dec. 16, 2013 review and prioritization, there were seven programs recommended for consolidation, nine recommended for elimination due to insufficient demand, 11 programs recommended for further review, one recommended to move from the Reich College of Education to the College of Health Sciences and one name change.

The programs up for consolidation included the undergraduate programs of Appalachian studies, women’s studies, global studies, mathematics-secondary education, languages, literatures and cultures-secondary education, apparel

design and merchandising, biology/ ecology, evolution and environmental biology and art management, as well as the graduate program for middle grades education.

The nine programs recommended for elimination include three undergraduate programs: business education, family and consumer sciences–secondary education and technology education.

The six graduate programs recommended for elimination include: music education, history education, child development-birth to kindergarten, romance languages, gerontology, and criminal justice and criminology.

According to irap.appstate.edu, faculty and academic leaders met in the spring of 2012 to define a review and prioritization process for programs that were set to move toward national excellence, had capacity to increase research funding or scholarly productivity, had capacity to increase the service mission, were set to add additional degrees and had insufficient enrollments.

Carl Eby, chairperson of English department, said this will affect the structure of the program.

“A lot of it came down to low enrollment and cost-cutting” Eby said. “There was some pressure to consolidate CIP codes [under one degree program].”

CIP codes, also known as the classification of instructional programs codes, are area classifications that support the accurate tracking and reporting of fields of study, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. “[It was] more consolidation than outright cancellation,” Eby said. “Some classes thrive, and some don’t. These classes were easy to consolidate.”

Consolidation sometimes means programs are moved into other areas of study, such as women’s studies.

“For instance, women’s studies used to be a concentration in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, but years ago when the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies was eliminated, its academic programs moved to University College,” said Kim Hall, director of women’s studies and professor of philosophy.

Some biology programs have also been consolidated, moving several programs to one CIP code to prevent total elimination.

“This is not a discontinued program – all three tracks of the biology degree are now under one code, that is the extent of it,” said Susan Edwards, chairperson of the Department of Biology.

Students can still get a degree in biology, ecology, evolutionary and environmental biology, cell/molecular biology and biology in secondary education.

The programs up for further review include the three undergrad programs of community and regional planning, philosophy and religious studies.

The nine graduate programs recommended for further review include computer science, higher educationspecialist, middle grades education and elementary education, english, psychology-general experimental/clinical, industrial-organization psychology and human resource management and nutrition.

Health education-secondary education was recommended to move from the college of education to the college of health sciences and cell/molecular biology was recommended to change to biology.

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Turchin Center yoga class gives students time to breathe

by Casey Suglia Intern A&E Reporter

Yoga mats were scattered across the floor in place of gallery spectators at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on Saturday as instructor Vicki Rodiguez-Peltz greeted the class attendees with “namaste,” a formal salutation common in yoga practice.

For the past three years, Rodiguez-Peltz has been teaching a Saturday morning yoga class in the Mayer Gallery of the Turchin Center, which is located on King Street on Appalachian State University’s campus. Rodiguez-Peltz said the class, Healing Arts Yoga, is part of the Turchin Center’s community outreach program. This semester classes will be held on random Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. until Dec. 13.

“I think that it’s important to practice yoga to live so we give ourselves an opportunity to be with life’s experiences without having preconceived notions of what is going to happen,” Rodiguez-Peltz said.

The class is hosted in the Mayer Gallery, which is located on the first floor of the Turchin Center, has large windows facing King Street and is the

home of various art exhibitions throughout the school year, allowing these yoga regulars to interact with the art.

The current installation, “Indivisible,” features the work of award-winning sculptor Travis Graves, a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at East Tennessee State University.

“It is really inspiring to be around art,” Rodiguez-Peltz said. “People are walking by and staring into the gallery and we’re part of the exhibition. We’re putting ourselves into these different positions and creating shapes and art. We are making sculptures with our bodies and we are coming into these different postures and it really feels like we are art as well.”

Evan White, a junior graphic design major, took the class for the first time Saturday.

“I think it’s definitely important to take some time out and remain flexible with the semester coming up and breathe,” White said.

Diana Godwin, head of visitor services for the Turchin Center, said she believes students should take advantage of the programs the center hosts.

“We offer a lot of things for

students that are dedicated to students,” Godwin said. “Our outreach program is really important to us and we received subsidies from student fees, so we want to make sure we give something back to the students.”

Despite the early time on Saturday, approximately 12 students and community members attended the class.

“Yoga is detoxing and might clear your head, and who knows what you do the night before,” Rodiguez-Peltz said. “You might get into trouble sometimes in little ways or big ways, and it’s a good opportunity to let go and have compassion for yourself.”

Rodiguez-Peltz believes that yoga can help students with their upcoming semester.

“We as humans tend to create stories on what is going to happen and respond to them before they actually happen, and we go about life with anxiety and holding,” Rodiguez-Peltz said.

“So yoga is an opportunity for people to just let go and be present.”

Registration for the class begins at 10:15 a.m. and costs $5 for students and $10 for nonstudents. Yoga mats are provided, and the class caters to all skill levels.

Rachel Krauza Instructor Vicki Rodiguez-Peltz teaches Healing Arts Yoga in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in a gallery room that overlooks King Street.

Community

Local gypsy band Bootstrap Slick experiments with sound

Tim Hobert Bootstrap Slick plays at Black Cat. Band members include Lindsey Willis (left) Hayes Cummings (middle left), Seth Jarrett (middle right) and Jackie Barnes. (right).

by Aleah Warner Intern A&E Reporter

Since forming in January, Boonebased band Bootstrap Slick has strived to make a name for themselves in the High Country with a unique alternative folk sound by playing at local venues in-

cluding Galileo’s and Black Cat. The band was formed by Appalachian State University students Hayes Cummings and Seth Jarrett.

The band’s lineup, in addition to Jarrett, the vocalist and mandolin player, and Cummings, the guitarist, consists of two new members, Jackie Barnes

on violin and Lindsey Willis on percussions.

Jarrett, a junior sustainable development major, originally began playing piano and trombone at a young age. It wasn’t until college that he switched his focus primarily to the mandolin. Cummings is a senior classical guitar performance major and started playing guitar at age 12. Jarrett and Cummings were roommates when they began playing music and writing songs together.

“I really got interested in this kind of music within the last couple of years, and we started playing and going from there,” Cummings said.

Looking to appeal to a larger crowd, the band added Barnes a few months later, and Willis, a senior art performance major with a decade of experience with percussions, joined early this summer.

The band uses each individual’s talents to incorporate elements of bluegrass, classical and jazz influences into their music. Jarrett said they jokingly consider themselves “gypsy-folk-jamgrass.”

Barnes, a senior classical violin performance major, began playing violin in high school and decided to pursue it in college.

“I got kind of bored playing music by dead people,” Barnes said. “So I kind of

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I got kind of bored playing music by dead people. So, I kind of wanted to do my own thing and started improvising with them, and that’s where I am now.

- Bootstrap Slick violinist Jackie Barnes

wanted to do my own thing and started improvising with them, and that’s where I am now.”

Bootstrap Slick identifies with the gypsy genre in order to give themselves the freedom to experiment with their sound.

“You call it gypsy, and you can add anything you want,” Barnes said. “Like Lindsey, she plays with a skillet. You can really add whatever influence you want when you call it gypsy music.”

Jarrett said he hopes to move forward with the group and play in locations outside of North Carolina in years to come.

Bootstrap Slick’s upcoming performances include a show in Boone at a 5K race hosted by Split Rail Records on Sept. 27.

Community

Boone acts as hub for lo-fi art experience through cassettes

by Lovey Cooper Senior A&E Reporter

Billed on the label’s Tumblr page as a “smorgasbord of sounds,” New Body Tapes released their first recording locally as part of 2013 Record Store Day. The band featured on the hand-lettered cassette tape was Hats, highlighting recent Appalachian State University graduate Devon Tuttle and senior art major Alex Swing, the two and only producers behind New Body Tapes – a now flourishing local brand of art piece music releases.

The label’s Tumblr now sports an order form for that and six other cassette releases by the same number of artists, some also from Boone, but others from Baltimore, Maryland Asheville and Athens, Georgia.

“It was kind of quick, which was an awesome way to start it – just pull the trigger,” Swing said of their first release, which the two put together mostly for fun, but also for the sake of tacking a local act onto the stores’

releases.

“I thought people might respond well to it,” Tuttle said. “I don’t know if they did, but some people liked it.”

In the year and a half since, the two have slowly gained momentum with their musical releases, growing to become a somewhat well-established regional feature amongst friends looking for exposure and an excuse to put music out, but also traveling acts in need of a physical album behind which to tour.

“There are so many cycles of music, or anything really, in Boone, and we felt like there was this cool little time this past year where a bunch of mutual friends were doing several projects at the same time,” Swing said. “We were both involved with our buddies anyway so we thought we might as well take advantage of that and put it out while its still happening – which is funny now – I don’t think it’s correlated, but now that we’re trying to put out more music some of our friends aren’t here anymore.”

With that said, the pair have no immediate plans to relocate

from Boone, which serves as a central point for many artistfriends, and a small hub for traveling musicians in the same scene.

“The coolest thing about Boone and the worst thing about Boone is there’s not a whole lot going on unless you’re the one doing it,” Swing said.

Unlike bigger cities, where labels have to compete for more visibility, Boone allows artists to play the part of big fish in a small pond, although due to constantly shifting populations, it’s hard to predict anything past the next year, Swing said.

For the time being, New Body functions on a paycheck-topaycheck basis, with the two investors breaking even between batches of tapes, but it’s not so much about the money, Tuttle said, as much as it is about the “curatorial spirit” of producing an art form – hand cut, translucent and stamped intimate objects – and using it to reach out to traveling bands.

“The bottom line is that we are trying to curate an aesthetic, with music at the forefront,”

Swing said.

With both sharing background in visual arts and music, Swing sees the label as an opportunity to disseminate a local culture of creativity and intertwined artists, although both want to eventually put out printed material along with the tapes.

“It’s a highly curated thing,” Tuttle said. “We definitely want people to take their time with each release, listen to it and look at it.”

In a sense, the tapes themselves also serve to perpetuate a lo-fi culture of sharing physical objects that serve as art and music, but also an experience, Swing said – like an art book.

“It requires you to actively participate, look at it, pop it in, flip it over,” Swing said. “You understand how it works.”

Plus, they’re cheap.

Asheville artists Will Isenogle, who plays under the name Merryl, and Abe Leonard have been in contact with both producers since before college, and call themselves friends to Swing and Tuttle above all else. The four didn’t collaborate together until

Tuttle began hosting shows for them to play in Boone in the mid 2000s. The two were among the first to release music onto New Body cassettes, and they both cite cost as one additional factor that played into helping out their friends, calling CDs “tired office supplies” and tapes “totally cool and cheap”.

For them and other artists, the music comes to the label pre-recorded on home computers.

“Some of this music doesn’t really need to be all slick sounding, some of it sounds better raw and noisy,” Tuttle said.

For the immediate future, New Body is a priority until Swing graduates, with plans of continuing the label remotely if the need arises, with at least two releases in the works at any given time. A split between Drippy Inputs, Swing’s one-man electronic act, and local band Mall Prowler is up next on the docket after being set aside for the summer to make room for more immediate traveling acts.

For more information, visit newbodytapes.tumblr.com.

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App Submit announcements

App News is a service of the Division of Student Development. Email dycheab@appstate.edu at least two weeks in advance.

Entries should not exceed 100 words and must include the event title, date/time, location and cost, other pertinent information and a contact(s) (email, phone and/ or URL). Announcements will be edited as needed and will run as space allows.

ASE Domestic Peer Leader Applications Alternative Service Experience Spring Break Domestic Peer Leader applications are available now in the ACT Outreach Center, PSU. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Sept.

5. Email masonak@appstate. edu with questions.

Suicide prevention training In this game-based simulation, learn how to determine when someone needs help, how to talk to them, and where to turn to for help. To access the course, visit kognitocampus.com/login and create a new account. Students should enter the enrollment key: appstate828 and employees should enter the enrollment key: appstate592.

Free for App State students and employees.

It’s Up to Me Safety Week trainings All trainings are free.

• Interpersonal Violence Prevention Training, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sept. 2; 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 3; PSU • High-Risk Drinking Prevention Training: 1 p.m. Sept.

2; 1 p.m. Sept. 3; 10 a.m. Sept.

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• Suicide Prevention Training: 3 p.m. Sept. 2, 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3, PSU Walk for Awareness The silent walk will begin at 9 p.m. Sept 2 on Sanford Mall through campus to the Convocation Center. Suzette Patterson will introduce the Walk. Barbara Daye (Dean of Students Emeritus) will speak on the history of the event, and Chancellor Sheri Everts will speak on the future of the event.

Apply for Emerging Leaders The Emerging Leaders Program is a 10-week experience designed for first- and second-year students interested in personal growth and leadership development. The program introduces leadership through meaningful discussions, activities, adventures and a retreat. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Sept. 3. For information, session times and to apply, go to csil.appstate.edu/emerging-leaders.

Oudoor Education Certifications The certifications begin in September. For more information, go to https:// op.appstate.edu/certifications--trainings.

• Sept. 3 and Feb. 5, Epinephrine Administration • Sept. 13-14 and Feb. 2122, Wilderness First Aid • Oct. 17-19 and April 10-12, Wilderness First Responder Re-Certification • Nov. 1-2, Leave No Trace Trainer • Dec. 5-7, American Mountain Guide Association, Climbing Wall Instructor • Dec. 14-22 and March 7-15, Wilderness First Responder

News • Leave No Trace Master Educator, Aug. 10-14, 2015 AppHack2 Scheduled for Sept. 5, the Hackathon allows students from multiple disciplines to get together to build software that is then put to use for the good of the community.

For more information, go to http://cs.appstate.edu/apphack/.

The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writer Series Allen St. John will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4, Blue Ridge Ballroom, PSU. St. John is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist.

He writes the By the Numbers column for the Wall Street Journal, and has written for a wide variety of publications including the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and Maxim.

Winter ASE Use your long holiday to explore and serve a different community with a Winter Alternative Service Experience program. Programs vary in dates and cost, but provide the same components of service, learning, and exploration whether you travel to the Dominican Republic, San Francisco, or St. John, USVI. Sign-up to participate at Winter Lottery at 8 p.m. Sept. 8, Table Rock, PSU. Visit act.appstate.edu/ase-winter or the ACT Office in PSU. Tom Robbins Week Sponsored by Appalachian State University Libraries.

Internationally-renowned novelist and Blowing Rock native Tom Robbins returns home with a new book, “Ti-

betan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life.” For more information on the events and the Instagram contest, go to http:// www.library.appstate.edu/ news/2014/06/tom-robbins.

• Screening of “Even Cow Girls Get the Blues,” 10 p.m.

Sept. 9, room 114, Belk Library. First three people get free popcorn and free copies of Robbins’ new book • Talk with Tom Robbins on his new book, 7 p.m. Sept.

11, Rosen Concert Hall. Tickets are free and available on a first come, first served basis.

Call the Schaefer Center box office at 828-262-4046.

MAP-Works Survey New freshmen and transfer students are reminded to take the MAP-Works survey and view the Student Outcome Report. The survey is open Sept. 10-30.

Educational Media Master’s Degree or Certificate Appalachian State offers an Educational Media Master’s Degree and Certificate programs. The program is entirely online and includes a range of courses involving media and technology.

Students develop the technical, aesthetic, and intellectual expertise and perspectives needed to analyze and develop online environments using new media and online networks.

For more information, go to http://edtech.appstate. edu/.

Film screening Filmmaker Lily Keber will present a free screening of “Bayou Maharajah” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10, room 114, Belk Library.

The film explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker.

For more informatio, go to news.appstate. edu/2014/08/19/bayou-maharajah/.

Creative Writing welcome party 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 17, third floor Faculty Lounge, Sanford Hall.

Open to new and returning transfer and non-traditional students interested in Creative Writing.

Meet creative writing faculty and other transfer student writers and learn more about writing course offerings in the English Department.

Find a student writing partner, enjoy conversation and refreshments from Stickboy Bread Co., hear a short reading by recent NC Poet Laureate and Creative Writing professor Joseph Bathanti, and win door prizes donated by the University Bookstore and Stickboy Bread Co. Family members and children are also welcome. RSVP to weinbergsc@appstate. edu.

Fall ASE programs Fall ASE (Alternative Service Experience) programs provide a 4-day service and learning experience Oct. 1619 in the southeast. Experiences are led and created by trained student Peer Leaders and involve direct service to a community.

Required pre-travel and post-travel meetings. Total cost: $100 (includes: food, housing and transportation).

Sign-up date beginning 7 a.m. Sept. 17, ACT Outreach Center.

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“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” screening, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door

30 “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” screening, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door

Styles and Complete “Stripes” screening, DJ Party, 9 p.m., 7 p.m., Greenbriar, Legends, $6 PSU, $1 Commercial Photography program model call, 9-11 a.m., room 153 Katherine Harper Hall Latin American Film Festival: “The Violin,” 7 p.m., Greenbriar, PSU, free

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Tai Chi, 5 Meditation/ p.m., Turchin Center, Touch Drawings free with Lori Esposito, 6 p.m., room 3200, Painting Class (stu- Turchin Center, free dents only), 7 p.m., Turchin Center, free Comedy Night, 8 p.m., Legends, $1 Walk for Awareness, 9 p.m., begins at “Groundhog Day” Sanford Mall screening, 7 p.m., Greenbriar, PSU, $1

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Fall 2014 Convocation, 10 a.m., Convocation Center

Inkalicious, 9 a.m., Turchin Center, free for students, $10-$15 non-students

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” screening, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door

Jim Pivarnik presents “Research Ethics and Misconduct,” 3 p.m., room 417, PSU “Groundhog Day” screening, 7 p.m., Greenbriar, PSU, $1 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” screening, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door

6 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” screening, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., I.G. Greer, $1 advance, $2 door App State Football v. Campbell University, 7 p.m. kick-off, Kidd Brewer Stadium, admission charged

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Staff Opinion

Video of beheading plays into terrorists’ hands What looks like something similar to a medieval reenactment is unfortunately no dramatization in the least.

Perhaps equally as unfortunate has been the media and public’s fascination with viewing such graphic and unforgiving material. I, myself, have not viewed nor have the intention of viewing such tragic and obscene acts of violence.

The gruesome account was uploaded to YouTube, reposted all over Twitter and devoured by news sites around the world in a matter of minutes. In Beijing, passers-by could view a continuous loop of the execution on a bus station JumboTron, according to

Dewey Mullis Opinion Writer

On Aug. 19, graphic images and video of journalist James Foley’s execution saturated news and social media outlets.

The content depicts a bald, straight-faced Foley, dressed in a prison-orange jumpsuit.

Behind him stands his blackrobed captor, a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

Quartz News.

What we have at our disposal is a time to understand how not to use social media, and how to instead make the conscious effort to increase our social and cultural awareness.

We must first understand that ISIS made the video public for one very specific reason: fear.

When millions of people flock to news and media hotspots to engage with the material, raw emotions then become fuel for the ISIS fire.

Take the events of Sept. 11, 2001 for example. Following the attacks, fears of uncertainty and security rose through the roof, according to an arti-

cle by Psychology Today. The attackers’ plan worked flawlessly. We lived in constant concern, and our entire way of life was altered. Nations were rocked by terror because the instigators had our full attention.

Secondly, just because something is blowing up personal news feeds doesn’t mean it is to be used for personal entertainment or excitement value.

Death, especially in this instance, is not something with which the general public should visually concern themselves. It should be grieved by the family and friends of James Foley and responded

to only by those charged with foreign policy responsibility.

We should be collectively supportive of those at home and abroad who are desperately fighting for innocent lives.

We should be desperately hopeful that the lives of both captives and captors will depart to their own paths of peace and understanding.

The general public and media outlets alike should remove the images of death and destruction from the foreground of our entertainment.

Mullis, a senior criminal justice major from Wallburg, is an opinion writer.

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Police militarization hampers citizens’ trust in law enforcement Kevin Griffin Opinion Writer

In the wake of police activities in Ferguson, Missouri, many Americans have been made truly aware of the phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common: police militarization.

Thanks to the Defense Department’s 1033 program, local police departments can acquire military surplus equipment at little or no cost.

Numerous police forces all over the country have gained assault weapons, helmets and even Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected or MRAP vehicles, according to The New York Times.

College campuses have even gotten in on the fun. The Ohio State University received an MRAP in 2013, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte established a SWAT team in 2011.

Appalachian State University Police have acquired four assault rifles and about ten helmets from the program, Lt. K.C. Mitchell said.

A group known as the Special Response Team is trained to deal with active shooter or crowd control situations, including casualty care, which is emergency care for individuals who have been victims of mass violence until medical authorities can arrive.

Officers do have access to tear gas, though it is to be used only as a last resort and at the orders of the police chief, Mitchell said in an email.

Mitchell stressed that the use

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of these tactics and this equipment was only for emergency situations.

Unfortunately, throughout the country, the new militarized form of policing has become more popular.

SWAT raids have become commonplace, with many police forces using SWAT raids to arrest drug offenders. On occassion, the teams will end up in the wrong houses or will barge into homes that show no evidence of drugs based on anonymous tips, according to a 2006 report by the Cato Institute.

A June 2014 study by the American Civil Liberties Union of SWAT raids in 2011-2012 turned up many of the same conclusions as the Cato Institute study, which shows that the problem of unnecessary raids is a continuing one.

Militarized policing fundamentally changes the relation-

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ship between citizens and the police. The role of police should be to gain trust within a community, de-escalate conflict and only use violence when absolutely necessary.

Instead of trust, many people, particularly members of minority groups, have come to fear or distrust police.

A June 2014 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of Americans had quite a lot or a great deal of confidence in police – the lowest number in a decade.

A Gallup poll released Aug. 20 highlighted the significant disparities between how blacks and whites view police.

What is responsible for this increased militarization of police? A big culprit of the are the two wars that have consumed American life over the past several decades: The War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

Using war as metaphor for

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what are essentially domestic problems, with even the war on terror having a significant domestic components, leads to an overly-violent, aggressive way of dealing with citizens.

Militarized policing runs contrary to our best traditions regarding domestic use of military or quasi-military force and the protection of civil liberties.

As a nation, we can and should work to demilitarizing police forces in the short term by closing off the ability of police departments to get these types of military weapons.

In the long term, we have to return to a sense of proportion in our views toward drugs and terrorism. We cannot if we are using war as an acceptable model for domestic policy.

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

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The Matchup The Michigan Wolverines and App State Mountaineers will meet for the first time since the historic upset in 2007 that saw Armanti Edwards lead App State to a 34-32 win in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Fast forwarding seven years, a lot has changed for both programs. The game will be App State’s first in the FBS as a member of the Sun Belt Conference, and rather than the success it was enjoying the last time these two teams met, the Mountaineers are fresh off of a 4-8 campaign, including a 2-4 mark away from home.

On the other side, Michigan, which was ranked No. 5 overall in 2007, enters this season unranked after an underwhelming 7-6 finish last season including a 3-5 mark against conference opponents and a 1-2 record against FBS top 25 teams.

How App State can win The Mountaineers will undoubtedly have to endure an early push from the Wolverines. Michigan will be hoping to take an early lead and take any momentum away from App State from the opening kickoff.

Redshirt junior quarterback Kameron Bryant will have his work cut out for him against a stout Michigan defense that is very deep, particularly in the secondary.

The Wolverines have been rotating several players at the cornerback position during fall practices in the hopes that the competition will help the unit play better. Included in that group is sophomore defensive back Jourdan Lewis, who has impressed coaches with his offseason practices.

Bryant will have to be a game manager and be careful not to gamble, particularly early in the game. The Mountaineers, with the help of Marcus Cox, Eric Davidson, Ricky Fergerson and Terrence Upshaw, are very deep at the running back position – an advantage they should take to early by working to establish the ground game to get the pressure off of Bryant.

Defensively, the Mountaineers will have to show some physicality of their own if they are to shut down the Wolverines. Michigan struggled to run the ball last year, finishing 104th in the nation in rushing yards last season with 125.7 per game.

App State should look to commit to making the Wolverines one-dimensional by shutting down the ground game.

How Michigan can win The Wolverines will have to take advantage of the energy in The Big House and jump out to an early lead.

If Michigan can grab the momentum and put the Mountaineers behind, Bryant will be forced into using the passing attack to keep up. Michigan’s experienced secondary should have the advantage on an App State wide receiving corps that features no seniors.

The Wolverines have not named their captains at this point. Hoke said in an interview with Michigan.scout. com that they would be voted on after their matchup with Ohio State Nov. 29. If Michigan starts off the season with a win, leadership will still come from somewhere, or at least the Wolverines should hope.

The bottom line App State does have its hands full dealing with a talented Michigan squad, but head coach Scott Satterfield will have his team ready to play Saturday.

Paul Heckert App State football players take the field before a game last season. The Mountaineers open FBS play Saturday at Michigan. App State will look to improve upon a 4-8 record last season.

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On Sept. 1, 2007, a goalpost from Kidd-Brewer stadium was marched across campus by students and tossed onto the front lawn of former chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock. That was the day App State shocked the world, defeating the winningest program in college football history: Michigan.

This Saturday, App State returns to The Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan to take on the Wolverines in a rematch of the historic 34-32 victory.

“It was great that they got that win and we [the team] have watched the game plenty of times,” senior defensive lineman Deuce Robinson said. “But now it's our turn, we can't live from the past, we’ve got to go out there and make a name for ourselves.”

Throughout practice, constant reminders of Michigan keep the team focused on the gigantic task in front of them.

“We’ve got the fight song playing every day throughout the locker room, the equipment room, even out here on the field,” Robinson said.

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Scott Satterfield aims to improve on the team’s 4-8 record from last year as App State transitions into the Sun Belt Conference. Saturday will mark the first ever game App State will play as a Division I FBS member.

“We're excited about this opportunity to go back to Ann Arbor,” Satterfield said.

“We're obviously picked as a big time underdog again.”

Satterfield said that despite the hostile environment App State will be playing in, the team’s ability to make big plays, limit turnovers and come up with stops will still determine the outcome.

“What we're trying to do is just prepare them for anything and everything that could happen there,” Satterfield said. “We know it's a big and loud stadium, but the size of the football field is the same size in Boone, North Carolina as it is in Ann Arbor, Michigan.”

App State returns 20 starters from last year’s squad, including nine on offense, seven on defense and four specialists.

Experience, though, may not play as big a role once both teams step onto the field at Michigan Stadium.

The Wolverines official depth chart lists a freshman

and two sophomores among the five starting offensive lineman for this weekend’s matchup.

“On paper these guy's look young, but I already know those coaches will have them coached up to be a seasoned veteran line,” junior defensive lineman Ronald Blair said. “When we go there it's going to seem like we're going against all fifth-year seniors.”

The Michigan offense is led by senior quarterback Devin Gardner, a dual-threat signal-caller capable of beating defense’s with his arm or his legs. Slowing down Gardner will be a huge factor for the game’s outcome, Blair said. “[Gardner is] a great player and is probably going to go into the big leagues next year,” Blair said. “We know if we contain him we have a good chance in this game.”

Opposing Gardner at the quarterback position will be App State’s junior quarterback Kameron Bryant. After taking the position over midway through the team’s 2013 campaign, Bryant shattered Armanti Edwards’ school record in completion percentage, converting over 71 percent of his passes last season.

Rebounding from eight losses a season ago is what Kameron Bryant said he cares about most, not the individual records.

“We just want to bounce back, we owe it to Coach Satterfield,” Bryant said. “The coaching staff has been fighting for us, trying to get us prepared for games and we owe it to them and the fans not to have a season like last year.”

That rebounding process starts Saturday in Michigan.

The victory over Michigan opened the nation’s eyes to App State football seven years ago. Now, that game serves as a reminder of what could happen, Blair said.

“In the weight room they got the game going, so when we go in there to lift, we see the game,” Blair said. We're trying to repeat history, but at the same time we're a different team. We're going to go and do it our own way.”

App State and Michigan kick off at noon Saturday, and will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2 and WatchESPN. With a victory on Saturday, the Mountaineers would become the first team the Wolverines have played more than once and never defeated in the program’s 135-season history.

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