Heavy rain showers cause campus flooding,
problems
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Carrie Baker
Associate Editor |
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| Jacque Lenz | The Appalachian |
| University Police vehicles parked
in the Rivers Street Parking Deck were immersed
in water Wednesday. |
Unexpected, persistent rainfall Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning left Appalachian State University Parking and Traffic
Department up a creek in the Rivers Street Parking Deck.
Constant rains dumped almost 2 feet of water into the first
level of the parking deck by 10 a.m. Wednesday, ASU Traffic
Officer Curtis Moore said.
Moore said Parking and Traffic began work early Wednesday
morning, pumping water out of the flooded bottom level and
calling owners of vehicles parked in the first level.
“We woke a lot of people up this morning and surprised
them,” Moore said.
Moore said the Parking and Traffic Department guided drivers
out of the first level and closed the level until the flooding
could be alleviated.
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| SGA cabinet members resign due to obligations,
transfer |
by Justin
Boulmay
Staff Writer |
The Student Government Association
planned to make changes within the organization as a whole
before the end of the academic year, and its cabinet has
changed in the last two months.
Secretary Joshua M. Walker resigned last month and Director
of External Affairs April M. Stewart will leave after this
semester.
SGA chose last Thursday to replace Walker with Appalachian
Heights Apartments Senator Michael E. C. Schroeder.
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| Campus creates difficulties for disabilities |
by Elizabeth
Ashford
Staff Writer
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Imagine trying to navigate around
Appalachian State University and find your way through the
maze of construction on campus without eyesight.
Stacie D. Harris, a sophomore communication disorders major,
faces that challenge every day.
Harris, who is legally blind since birth, said she encountered
several accessibility problems around campus.
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| Fundraiser sends Sigma Nu, football to
Charlotte |
by Jennifer Schneider
Staff Writer |
Sigma Nu hosts its 19th annual
“Game Ball Run” Nov. 21 and 22 to raise money
for the American Cancer society.
The roughly 100-mile trip from Boone to Ericsson Stadium
in Charlotte will take two days and will be run by about
30 Sigma Nu brothers. The runners will be split into three
teams. Each team member will take turns running followed
by a van carrying the other brothers.
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AppCard thefts rise, create cause for alarm
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by Tiffany King
Staff Writer |
Maj. Larry Foster, University
Police Chief Investigator, said AppCard theft has been on
the rise the past few weeks. Since every student living on
campus is required to have a meal plan on their AppCard,
the University Police is worried about this rise in crime
Sgt. Phil Minton, assistant investigator, said he is working
on several meal plan money cases.
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| Weapons charge unconstitutional |
by Anna Oakes
Intern Writer |
The manufacturing of methamphetamine
does not create a weapon of mass destruction, Superior Court
Judge James L. Baker ruled Nov. 7.
Baker dismissed 15 cases against Watauga County individuals
charged with the manufacture of a chemical weapon of mass
destruction, and said that North Carolina General Statute
14-288.21 is unconstitutional on its face and unconstitutionally
applied to methamphetamine manufacturers.
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