| Tax battle continues for local apartments |
by Anna Oakes
Staff Writer
University Highlands Student Apartments, home to about
768 Appalachian State University students and faculty members,
continues to fight for exemption from county property taxes.
Highlands is located on N.C. Highway 105 in Boone. According
to Highlands’ Web site, the apartments are owned by
the Appalachian Student Housing Corporation, a non-profit
corporation established to benefit Appalachian State.
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| Beating the Winter Blues |
by Jessica
Hines
Associate Editor
High Country residents expect to watch the skies for snow
during the winter, but for many who experience the winter
blues, the sky may hold the answer.
Known to the medical world as seasonal affective disorder,
SAD is the chemical imbalance caused by a lack of adequate
sunlight in the winter.
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| Campus survey complete |
Campus
Climate survey results to be announced Feb. 2-3
by Elizabeth Ashford
Staff Writer
The Campus Climate survey results are back and the facilitators
of the survey are inviting students and faculty to come and
hear the results.
“Three and a half years
ago, Dr. Greg Blimling, the Vice Chancellor for Student Development,
appointed a group of us to create a Student Development Committee
for diversity,” Director of Multicultural Student Development
Tracey L. Wright said.
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| Faculty Senate clears up office hour misconceptions |
by Justin
Boulmay
Staff Writer
Representatives of the Faculty Senate addressed the Student
Government Association Tuesday night to clear up what they
called “misconceptions” regarding faculty office
hours.
The two senators, Dr. Edwin T. Arnold and Dr. Kenneth B.
Muir, said the Faculty Senate voted last fall to make the
number of office hours faculty members held more flexible
without abolishing time in the office at all. Each department
would be responsible for determining its own policies, he
said.
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| Completion of new SRC slated for fall 2005 |
by Jason
Secrest
Intern Writer
Construction on the new Student Recreation Center on Bodenheimer
Drive next to Walker Hall is scheduled for completion late
in fall semester 2005.
Construction on the project began Nov. 4, 2003, after many
delays.
Construction on the new SRC took so long to get started due
to questions concerning what would be included in the center
and finalizing contracts with architects.
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| Committee meets to decide finalists |
by Justin
Boulmay
Staff Writer
Hours after the last Chancellor Search Forum Tuesday, the
members of the Chancellor Search Committee met to determine
which candidates of the six who have attended campus in the
last two weeks would be recommended for chancellor.
The meeting started after 6 p.m. and did not dismiss until
after 1 a.m., Faculty Senate Chair and Search Committee member
Paul H. Gates Jr. said.
The next step in the process is for the Board of Trustees
to approve the committee’s recommendation, Committee
Chair Robert M. Fox, Jr. said.
“We have formulated
our report which I will take to the Board of Trustees,”
Fox said.
If the BOT approves, the recommendations will be taken to
University of North Carolina President Molly C. Broad. Broad
will have a chance to conduct interviews of her own and choose
a candidate and present her selection to the Board of Governors,
Fox said.
The names cannot be disclosed due to North Carolina State
law because it is a confidential personnel matter, Fox said.
Gates said the committee used different criteria for determining
which candidates they would recommend. The two personal interviews
conducted by the committee with each candidate played a role,
as well as the evaluations completed by students, faculty
and staff who attended the forums.
“We were
considering them in light of our own expectations of what
a chancellor needs to bring with them,” Fox said.
“There was a huge range of factors that went into
the decision. What you’re looking for in picking a
campus leader is a complete package, someone who provides
a variety of strengths, because the job requires a variety
of talents,” Fox said.
The BOG will meet Feb. 13 to accept or decline the finalist.
Their decision will be announced that afternoon in Chapel
Hill, Gates said.
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| Borkowski wins leadership award |
by Jennifer
Schneider
Staff Writer
Former Appalachian State University Chancellor Francis T.
Borkowski received the Distinguished Leadership Award from
the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission
on Colleges.
“The Distinguished Leadership
Award is the highest public recognition given by the commission
and is reserved for extraordinarily distinctive and effective
leadership,” Chair of the Commissions on College Linwood
H. Rose said.
At an annual meeting, held at the Opryland Resort and Convention
Center in Nashville, Tenn., early last December, SACS presented
Borkowski with an inscribed clock in recognition of his years
of work. The theme of the conference was “promoting
educational excellence: leadership for change.”
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| University Police statistics: Larceny,
drug violations rise in 2003 |
by Tiffany
King
Staff Writer
Compared to 2002, crime on campus decreased in most categories
in 2003 according to an annual crime report published by
the Appalachian State University Police Department.
According to the crime report, robbery, aggravated assault,
rape, burglary and arson were all down from 2002.
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