Nov. 7, 2002 Online Since 1996 Vol 77 No. 19
Our Perspective . . . Mountaineers stand a chance for playoffs
   There is still hope for the Appalachian State University football team.
    With a 6-3 overall record and a 4-2 Southern Conference record, the Mountaineers still can hope to play in the post season and make a title run.
    Appalachian has only lost three games. Only two of those were conference loses, both to teams in the top of the SoCon standings.
    The team opened the season with a loss to Marshall University. With quarterback Joe Burchette injured at the time, it didn’t come as that big of a surprise when the Herd’s Heisman Trophy candidate Byron Leftwich threw for over 400 yards and toppled ASU 50-17.
    Three weekends ago in Statesboro, Ga., ASU suffered its first conference loss to Georgia Southern University; then two weekends ago Wofford College pulled off the upset in Boone.
   
Uninformed students not an issue of apathy

COMMENTARY

Becky DiVerniero
Features Beat
   The world of journalism is a great place. News is constantly changing, and no two days are the same.
   Through my journalism classes at Appalachian State University and working at the student newspaper, I’ve learned that the best stories can come from questioning something that doesn’t even seem important.
Does truth have meaning to musicians now?

COMMENTARY

Hugh Kellenberger
CRSA / Housing Beat
     The music world has lost another icon. Jam Master Jay, founding member of Run DMC, was murdered inside his recording studio last Wednesday.
   His death means the loss of another great rap icon.
   Run DMC was what hip-hop was supposed to be about. They rapped about things that mattered. The subject matter was not guns, .40s and ‘hoes.’
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