by JEFF KOEHLER
News Reporter

The Appalachian State University Student Government Association has distributed discount cards to the student body, providing them with savings at a variety of local businesses.

One card was distributed to each student in University Post Office boxes Friday.

Stacy C. Covington, director of SGA External Affairs, said the discounts range from a $1 discount to 50 percent off discounts.

She said a wide variety of local businesses provide discounts to students who present the card.

The card offers discounts at restaurants, ski shops, bookstores, art supply shops, bicycle shops, copiers and Appalachian Ski Mountain.

All businesses included in the discount program are listed on SGA’s Web site, sga.appstate.edu, Covington said.

For these businesses, presenting an AppCard is not enough to receive a discount.

Covington said students must present the discount card itself to actually receive a discount at the participating businesses.

The cards remain valid until August 2009.

Covington said the project took SGA members a week to complete and distribute the cards and attached letters.

The attachments give students instructions for the card’s usage.

The discount card program began in 1992.

Covington said SGA decided to send the cards out later in the semester compared to previous years.

“We opted to send them out later this year, thinking that students would be more receptive now that they’ve been in school for a little while,” she said.

Covington said in past years, she has seen students discarding the cards in the post office.

“We really don’t want that to happen,” she said.  “We want [students] to use it."

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