| Athletics increase may
negatively affect current student activites |
Carrie Baker
Business Affairs Beat
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Student on-campus workers may
suffer if a 5 percent increase is taken from general fees for
the Football Opportunities Committee’s varsity athletic enhancement
recommendation.
General Fees encompass student fees for education
and technology, Health Services, athletics, recreational programs,
cultural affairs, the student union, book rentals and transportation.
Under the plan recommended to the Board of Trustees (BOT) by the
Football Opportunities Committee, a 5 percent increase that would
have benefited these areas would go to expand and improve varsity
athletics.
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| Mance elected to national
board of SSDP |
David Forbes
SGA Beat
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Peter Larkins | The Appalachian Senior Ian Mance, an off-campus
Student Government Association senator and recently elected SSDP
national board of directors member from Charleston, S.C., talks
to Judy Hass, director of Judicial Affairs at Appalachian State
University, about new drug legislation
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Off-campus Student
Government Association (SGA) senator Ian A. Mance has worked on
issues ranging from free speech “zones” to student fee
increases, but it was one topic in particular that got him into
student government in the first place.
This topic was drug policy, in particular repealing
the drug provision of the Higher Education Act (HEA), which prevents
students with a drug conviction from getting financial aid.
“That was the one thing that motivated me
to join SGA. Then after that I liked what we were able to accomplish
in senate and felt it was a good avenue to get things done,”
Mance said Thursday.
Now, Mance has the opportunity to work on this
issue at a national level. He was recently elected to the national
board of directors for Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP),
a large, growing student group with over 200 chapters nationwide.
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Faculty unhappy about
House, Loft
Senate cites safety, lack of resources as areas
of concern |
Jennifer
Brannock
Faculty Senate Beat |
Inadequate
housing conditions and lack of assistance at Appalachian State University’s
Washington, D.C., App House and New York City Loft facilities met
with disapproval among senators at the Nov. 11 Faculty Senate meeting.
Dr. C. Mick Kreszock spoke to the Faculty Senate
about their concerns about the two facilities, which included poor
resource availability and a lack of free time for faculty supervisors
of the facilities to pursue their own outside research.
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| Women’s Center
sponsors toy drive |
Hugh
Kellenberger
Chancellor/ Student Development Beat
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Students,
faculty and staff wishing to spread some holiday cheer and good
fortune should look toward the Women’s Center of Appalachian
State University.
The Women’s Center is currently sponsoring
a toy and money drive, running until the end of the fall semester.
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| Body aims to improve
graduate programs |
Jana
Nordstrand
Clubs / Organizations Beat |
The Graduate
Student Association Senate (GSAS) was put in place to represent
the views of graduate students and their needs.
“As an organization we are working to improve
the education of graduate students and the quality of life in and
outside of the institution,” GSAS President Brad C. Miller
said Thursday.
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