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| Our Perspective ... Feasible, fair parking
plans were ignored |
 Parking
at Appalachian State University is now an excessive tax on students
and lower income faculty and staff members.
The $204 parking permit, approved by the Board of Trustees in June,
takes a large bite out of everyone’s budget, no matter how
large it may be.
To the lowest paid staff members and students who can barely afford
their education, the 85 percent increase in parking is a daunting
burden.
The parking and traffic committee presented a feasible and fair
solution for Appalachian State University to keep parking prices
lower last spring.Their plan to charge one-half of 1 percent of
a salary was ignored in favor of a flat fee everyone must pay.
Vice chancellor for Business Affairs Jane Helm told The Appalachian
there are no other goods or services on campus based on income.
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| Lessons from the storm: Isabel hits home |
 It’s
Monday night, there’s a storm coming, and for once I have no
idea what to write.
Usually, I’m never short of opinions or reasons to back them
up. Usually I have no trouble putting those words to paper, but
this night was different.
While the storm, Hurricane Isabel, will probably only subject Boone
to some heavier-than-usual winds and rain, the coast is a different
story.
Isabel is heading right for the northeast coast area, which happens
to be where my family lives.
Currituck County, where my mother teaches, was nearly emptied by
an evacuation order. The same goes for Dare County, where I spent
the summer working at K-Mart. Very possibly some of the houses along
the beach will be kindling by the end of the week.
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| Ways to procrastinate: homestarrunner.com |
 If
you, the reader, are anything like me, then at some point either
today or tomorrow, you’re going to be faced with having to
do homework that you do not want to do.
So, in honor of the tradition of putting it off until the last minute,
allow me to introduce one of many other things you could be doing
instead of what you should be doing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you www.homestarrunner.com.
This Web site is filled with random humor, the kind that separates
the sheep, who see it and die from laughter, and the goats that
just stare at the screen with a why-am-I-watching-this look and
possibly write a mean letter to me for recommending the site in
the first place.
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