Nov. 5, 2002 Online Since 1996 Vol 77 No. 18
Our Perspective . . . Add housing to list of growing pains
    Appalachian State University is experiencing growing pains.
    If it isn’t already evident by the large amount of construction on campus, the increasing number of students returning to live in residence halls should be a good indication.
    With the number of students in the UNC system expected to exceed 100,000 students over the next decade, housing problems on all system campuses must be addressed.
    The department of Housing and Residence Life has been posed with the problem of increasing student numbers while having no increase in the number of rooms on campus.
Uninformed students not an issue of apathy

COMMENTARY

April Klaassen
Multicultural Beat
   If knowledge really is power, then we, students, are seriously weak in the areas of domestic and world affairs.
   Conversations with fellow students lead me to believe they’re not really paying attention to the news. A handful of students strive to inform themselves, but the majority admits they do not. Over the past few months, several editorials and commentaries appeared in The Appalachian, speaking out against student apathy. I do not think students are necessarily apathetic but distracted or deluded. Most students I talked with want to inform themselves and claim they plan to when they’re in “the real word.”
War on Iraq: Ill-advised from any perspective

COMMENTARY

David Forbes
SGA Beat
     “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
   -Theodore Roosevelt
   Question: What do the director of the CIA, Jesse Jackson, four retired top-ranking generals, most of our allied nations, many of the American people and the late Senator Paul Wellstone have in common?
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