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SGA Affairs Beat
Crowded field forms as SGA election season gets underway
Six tickets enter race for highest student offices

Sarah Newell - Staff Writer

Editor’s Note: The sequence of candidates featured in this election overview appear in no particular order.

The race for Student Government Association president and vice president will feature six tickets, two times the number of candidates that pursued the organization’s top two offices one year ago.


In Focus
Battling poverty and pride
Low salaries, insurance switch create financial strains in North Carolina’s third-most expensive area

April Klaassen - Staff Writer

Students and their families may be financially burdened by a proposed $150 tuition increase, but possibly no one understands their stress more than the staff members who are rallying in favor of the plan.


Paul Sherar - Chief Photographer

ASU ROTC members pull a rope used to pull themselves across Duck Pond during the Polar Plunge last Thursday afternoon.

Police Beat
Polar Plunge exceeds county fund-raising
goal by over $4,000

Becky DiVerniero - Staff Writer

The fourth annual Polar Plunge raised over $14,000 for the Watauga County Special Olympics last Thursday, exceeding the $10,000 goal and last year’s total of $5,800, said University Police Chief Gunther Doerr.


 

Special Report: Proposed Tuition Increase

Nate Grubbs - The Appalachian

Sharon Taylor takes a break from her duties as a housekeeper in Rankin Science Building.

Academic Affairs Beat
Booklet change saves $2,900
Consolidation of two books a prelude to online listings

Chirs Bohle - Staff Writer

The ever-present budget cuts, as well as the need to answer the call of more advanced technology, have caused a complete redesign of the Summer 2002 Schedule of Classes booklet, a move officials say saved Appalachian State University $2,920.


Business Affairs Beat
Jump in sales due to opening of new lots
Director: Rates lower than other UNC schools

Carrie Baker - Staff Writer

The four largest parking construction projects on campus will be paid for with money generated from citations and permits, said Barry Sauls, director of University Parking and Traffic.

Multicultural Beat
Magazine’s third issue in development

David Forbes - Staff Writer

The Summit, Appalachian State University’s student literary and visual arts magazine, is accepting submissions until next Friday.

“There are a lot of talented people on campus that wouldn’t be seen if not for this magazine,” said Diana Cejas, who has worked as editor-in-chief of The Summit for all three issues.

 


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