At App State, Sanford Mall is where many students bask in the sun, do school work or just hang out and enjoy the wonderful weather and surrounding mountains at any time. In the K-12 school system, students are not as lucky to have the same outdoor time. On average, K-12 students have an allotted 30 minutes of recess time. In middle schools, recess is extremely rare and in high school, the idea of recess...

Sheri Everts is resigning after a contentious, unresponsive and uncommunicative career as chancellor. We are not done with this fight, however. This is not the time for apathy. Now more than ever, students must fight to preserve the values and legacy of App State. We must learn lessons from our sister institutions, specifically UNC-Chapel Hill. Lee Roberts replaced former UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz...

Area 51 and the Illuminati. Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne. Princess Diana and Princess Catherine. While seemingly unrelated, each of these topics have one thing in common: the forefront of some of the most popular conspiracy theories to date.  Conspiracy theories have always been entertaining but proven to be bogus. However, with the current state of the world, it leaves you wondering: why do...

Editor's Note: The Faculty Senate passed this resolution on Monday with a unanimous vote. The resolution was submitted to The Appalachian for publication as a Letter to the Editor. WHEREAS the Student Government Association at Appalachian State University recently passed resolutions related to 1) the treatment of the LGBTQ+ community on campus, 2) the treatment and safety of students during Wey...

The U.S. government has proven itself time and time again to be a contradictory, self-serving institution uninterested in the “by the people, for the people” ideology upon which its foundations were built. These words have garnered an air of hilarity about them rather than the integrity intended in their initial recording. Politicians are more associated with the superficial nature of cheap infomercials...

For years, App State has been a university in which students who identify as LGBTQ+ feel safe and can freely express themselves. It has been an inclusive environment for all, providing a nonjudgmental space full of like minded individuals. At least, until now.  Whether it be the renaming of Pride Week, drag artists no longer being able to perform at university events or the mysterious termination...

Andrew David Cox is an App State alumnus and was an editorial cartoonist for The Appalachian. Cox graduated cum laude with departmental honors in 2014 with a B.F.A. in studio art. During his time on The Appalachian, Cox received the John Locher Memorial Award. His opinion was submitted in the form of an editorial cartoon as shown above. 

I want to follow up on the opinion piece and discussions on the freedom expression tunnels. As an alumni who walked through those tunnels daily, I find Chancellor Everts’ push to redesignate the tunnels with no community input and subsequent flippant dismissal of the pushback to be abhorrent and against the spirit of App State. Everts spoke to the Board of Trustees on March 15.   “While...