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| Lowest paid staff to get one-time pay raise |
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| Jacque Lenz | Chief Photographer |
Appalachian Food Services employee
Margaret Matlin swipes a student's AppCard in
Cascades Cafe Monday. Permanent and full-time
staff making less than $18,312 per year will
receive a one-time pay increase this month, Director
of Human Resource Services Leonard W. Johnson
said.
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by Leslie Rasimas
Staff
Writer
Sixty-four full-time Appalachian State University staff members
will receive a one-time permanent pay raise this month.
Director of Human Resource Services Leonard W. Johnson said
the pay raise would help those employees making less than
$18,312.
“This will affect those employees
who are permanent and full-time making less than $18,312.
The one-time salary adjustment will bring their current salary
to $18,312,” Johnson said.
The salary increase will appear in the Feb. 27 paycheck,
he said.
Staff members who work in housing, building services and
food services will be the recipients of the salary increase,
he said.
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| Job Fair comes to campus |
by Jennifer
Schneider
Staff Writer
Appalachian State University will host the annual Summer
Camp Jobs Fair in Plemmons Student Union Feb. 10. The fair
provides an opportunity for students to learn about the benefits
of working in summer camps.
“Camps allow
Appalachian State University students the opportunity to
be a leader and the participants to mature,” health,
leisure and exercise professor Dr. Kevin W. Riley said.
According to a publicity flyer, the fair, sponsored by the
Recreation Management Association, Career Development Center
and the Office of Conferences and Institutes, is held to
provide students the opportunity to find summer and year-round
employment with camps, conference centers, outfitters, recreation
departments, resorts and more.
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| Students Speak Out |
by Justin
Boulmay
Staff Writer
A recent poll conducted by The Appalachian revealed a lack
of attendance on the part of students during the Chancellor
Search Forums held in Plemmons Student Union Jan. 17-26.
There survey polled 113 students who completed questions
such as whether they attended the forums, the quality of
the forums themselves and the most pressing university issues
facing students.
When asked if they attended the forums, only three students
said they were in attendance, while the other 110 students
polled said they did not.
Reasons for not attending included lack of knowledge, scheduling
and lack of interest.
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| Police: illegal to pass buses on Rivers
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by Tiffany
King
Staff Writer
An increased number of stopped school buses is being passed
on Rivers Street, posing a dangerous threat to the young
children, University Police Crime Prevention Officer, Sgt.
Jeremy Jones said.
“Passing stopped school
busses is becoming a huge problem. I have written a couple
of tickets recently myself. I don’t think that people
don’t think that students know that you can’t
pass a stopped school bus even if you are on the other side
of the road, because there are probably medians where they
come from, and they would not have to worry about it,”
Jones said.
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| MLK Day 'kicks butt' |
ACT
picks up cigarette butts for MLK Challenge
by Alison Fosbenner
Intern
Writer
A cigarette butt is the most frequently littered item in the United States and the entire world,
according to litterbutt.com.
To combat this statistic. Appalachian and the Community Together kicked
off its Martin Luther King Day Challenge with
the “Kick Butt” Campaign, Jan. 19.
More than 200 individuals divided into 15 groups participated in the service events.
Through the sponsorship of the MountainKeepers and their “Stop the Litter Campaign,” ACT began its “Kick Butt Campaign” to clean up campus and the surrounding areas.
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| The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People will hold its first NAACP
Week Feb. 9-12. |
by Elizabeth
Ashford
Staff Writer
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
will hold its first NAACP Week Feb. 9-12.
Feb. 12 is the 95th birthday of the NAACP, President of Appalachian
State University’s chapter of the NAACP Tenina Stallings
said.
“We’re trying to get people to understand what
the NAACP is, the things that have happened in the past and
how we’re moving forward as individuals,” Stallings
said.
The opening forum on Feb. 9 will be held in Grandfather Mountain
Ballroom of Plemmons Student Union at 6 p.m. It is open for
anybody who wants to attend and will be for open discussion,
BSA Advisory Board member Erica M. Copeland said.
“I’m looking forward to the forum on the n-word.
I think there’s a lot of hidden racism and use of the
n-word with out people knowing the context of it,”
NAACP member Monica Sanders said.
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