BOT approves athletic
fee
Plan to improve athletic facilities moves forward |
Adam
Bennett
Editor-in Chief |
A $75 annual student fee and proposal to expand
the capabilities of varsity athletics at Appalachian State University
was approved with one opposing vote by the Board of Trustees (BOT)
Friday.
Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs Jane P.
Helm said the student fee will be comprised of an annual $55 general
fee increase and $20 from the current debt service fee for W.H.
Plemmons Student Union, no longer needed for the building.
The project, to be completed in phases, will
require $30-$32 million for renovations and additions to Varsity
Gymnasium, Owens Field House and Kidd Brewer Stadium.
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| Protestors disheartened
by BOT desicion |
David Forbes
SGA Beat
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Adam Bennett| The AppalachianJunior music education major Wendi
A. Barber from Weddington studies Wednesday on the rear entrance
steps of B.B. Dougherty.
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Sitting in the small
crowd at the Broyhill Inn & Conference Center among journalists,
police and other observers, were eight students who had come to
the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting in protest.
In the end, the students watched as the BOT voted
in favor of the athletic fee proposal they had come out to oppose.
The reaction among many of the student protestors was anger and
disappointment.
“[The Board] says it cares about students,
but students are saying ‘I don’t want this, we don’t
want this, we don’t need this,’ then that means don’t
increase it for that reason,” said Jennifer Johnson, a freshman
from Ashe County.
“I’m disheartened that the board didn’t
listen to students at all,” said Alison L. Laffin, a Student
Government Association (SGA) off-campus senator and one of the organizers
of the protest.
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| Chief adds twist to
freshman class |
Sam Calhoun
Academic Affairs Beat
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Investigating
unsolved murders with a State Bureau of Investigation detective
and being taught by the chief of police does not fit the norm for
a Freshman Seminar class at many schools, but that’s the case
here at Appalachian State University.
Furthering this university’s mission to provide
quality orientation programs, University Police Chief Gunther E.
Doerr made his teaching debut in fall 2002, acting as the freshman
seminar leader as part of the Forensic Science Learning Community.
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| BSA exceeds drive goal
by 3 units |
Sarah Howell
Features Beat
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During
the Black Student Association-sponsored blood drive last Wednesday,
the group collected 138 units of blood, exceeding their goal of
135 units.
And because every one pint of blood saves three
lives, the association, along with the 164 students that came out,
saved over 410 lives. They also had 34 first time donors.
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