| Class sizes increase with budget cuts |
By Leslie
Rasimas
Staff Writer
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| Jacque Lenz| The Appalachian |
| Classrooms such as this economics course
are filled to capacity as budget cuts force classes to expand. |
As Appalachian State University’s budget slowly
dwindles each year, class size increases with the growing number
of students on campus.
“For the past three years the state continuation
budget has reduced an average of $2.6 million each year while [money
from] enrollment growth has increased an average $2.5 million each
year to offset funding cuts,” budget director Betsy P. Payne
said.
With compensation from students’ tuition
come the student bodies.
There are approximately 13,000 students on campus
this year and classrooms are filled to capacity.
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| Students stretch limits with booze |
By Andy Ferguson
Staff Writer |
In the first weeks
of classes, incidents of underage drinking became more common on
the Appalachian State University campus.
“Usually the first weekend [students] come
in, they party quite a bit,” said Major Larry C. Foster of
the University Police. “You have to accept that and deal with
it.”
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| MTV revisits Appalachian |
By Kevin DeLury
Senior Staff Writer |
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| Josh Brown | Chief Photographer |
| MTV’s “Road Rules: Campus Crawl”
visited Appalachian State University two years ago. Cast members
participated in missions including the Polar Plunge at Duck
Pond and crossing a tight rope between Coltrane and Gardner
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Representatives from MTV arrived Wednesday and
will begin interviews today in the Grandfather Mountain Ballroom
located in Plemmons Student Union.
Interviews will last from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
continue throughout Friday and Saturday in the Blue Ridge Ballroom
“The intent is to meet students and talk
to them about ideas for a storyline that will make it an interesting
segment of their special,” David L. Robertson, Director of
Student Programs, said Tuesday.
According to MTV’s press release, they are
looking for “the most interesting people, the most unique stories
and the most bizarre events of the year.”
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| Bankruptcy, architectural problems further delays |
By David Forbes
Senior Staff Writer |
 Construction
at several areas in the center of campus is behind schedule, making
travel more difficult.
Building projects, including the solarium on
Plemmons Student Union and the University Bookstore construction,
are running behind due to a variety of problems, including the bankruptcy
of one of the mechanical contractors, said Clyde D. Robbins, director
of design and construction.
“We’re behind schedule on the student
union and the bookstore, and we have very little leverage, these
are low-bid contractors,” Robbins said.
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| Impact sought by Staff Council |
By Justin
Boulmay
Staff Writer |
The Appalachian State
University Staff Council is working to have a greater influence
on campus, while continuing activities from past years.
“Staff Council is a group of staff members
who have been elected or volunteered to represent staff in their
building,” Staff Council president Terri L. Miller said Thursday.
The Staff Council tries to have at least one
representative per on-campus building, Miller said.
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| Why Appalachian students need to
read ‘Nickel and Dimed’ |
 Most
people at Appalachian State University, as well as many others in
the country, think that they’re invisible. They wait tables,
clean houses, work at K-Mart, Wal-Mart, or a thousand other retail
stores. They’re the working poor, and they struggle to make
ends meet and make some sort of living.
Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, “Nickle and Dimed,” focuses
on such people. Ehrenreich took a variety of low paying jobs and
tried to see if she could make ends meet.
Long story short, she couldn’t. Despite all myths to the contrary,
hard work by itself is no longer enough to get by in America.
‘Nickle and Dimed’ was chosen for Appalachian’s
summer reading book, and for good reason..
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