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Our Perspective
... Prevention keeps ASU from floating up creek
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 With
the exception of incoming freshmen, Appalachian State University
students expect the High Country to throw rough weather toward
them. Boone weather is a fickle beast that gives residents
a taste of the winter bite.
However, the mountains are not the first place people would
expect to flood.
According to Dr. Ray Russell’s booneweather.com, Boone
received 5.14 inches of rain yesterday.
Low-lying areas flooded, and the weak links of this university’s
chain were tested.
Appalachian awakened Wednesday morning to find newly-created
streams, creeks and ponds in unwanted areas, such as Rivers
Street.
The Appalachian applauds the work of the Physical Plant crew.
They responded to the flooding quickly and efficiently.
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| Neo-hippies relax in nostalgia, parents'
ideals |
 To
borrow a worn-out cliche, the more things change the more
they stay the same.
Well, I’ve noticed a trend among a good deal of my
fellow students that follows a more skewed take on that principle.
Apparently, the more we stay the same, the more things will
change.
OK, there are going to be some nay-sayers, there will be
a lot of huffing and puffing, and I’ll probably lose
any street cred I had and be labeled part of whatever fascist
regime that “The Man” belongs to, but here we
go.
What is up with all the neo-hippies at Appalachian State
University?
Hippies? What hippies? You haven’t seen any hippies
around campus? Oh, you’re expecting this to be another
accidental mislabeling of kids drenched in patchouli, sporting
the garb of their parents circa age 20, or purchasing wall-sized
posters of Mr. Marley puffing on a joint? Sorry, none of
that here.
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| True curves are better than eating disorders |
One in every four college women has an eating disorder.
Such a statistic is mind-blowing when considering that many
women you know may suffer from an eating disorder, and you
don’t even know it.
I wonder where it all began and how the pressures of the
world to be thin, beautiful and perfect collapsed on a population
of women that look in the mirror and are never satisfied.
When considering college women in particular, I believe the
pressures begin with the famous “Freshman 15.”
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