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The Appalachian

The Student News Site of Appalachian State University

The Appalachian

Letter to the Editor: Generation Z Will Go Down as The Dumbest Generation

Letter to the Editor: Generation Z Will Go Down as The Dumbest Generation

John Moncrieff July 30, 2020

I am a member of Generation Z currently in college. I graduated high school without taking a single online class from kindergarten to 12th grade. Currently, with COVID-19, schools are closing, and classes...

Opinion: Learning suffers in an online environment

Opinion: Learning suffers in an online environment

Jean Holman July 28, 2020

App State recently updated class schedules regarding whether some classes will be online, hybrid, or in-person only. In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, App is building a strong online foundation...

OPINION: How Antique Shops are Evolving

OPINION: How Antique Shops are Evolving

Ethan Murphy, Reporter July 24, 2020

Antique shops preserve the past in some of the most tangible, sentimental ways possible. So why do people think the industry is dying? Well, in a way, it is. The items once sold in these shops have...

Opinion: Changing Campus Facility Names is Justified

Opinion: Changing Campus Facility Names is Justified

Ricky Barker, Columnist July 18, 2020

In the wake of events that have massively affected the country, a wave is passing through North Carolina. That wave, while certainly divisive to some, is good for the state as a whole. A wave that has...

Opinion: Why Students Shouldn't Return to Campus

Opinion: Why Students Shouldn’t Return to Campus

Stephen C. Leverton II, Opinion Writer July 4, 2020

App State announced it plans to start classes again on Aug. 17 and end Nov. 24. While this will help protect students from a second outbreak that may happen this fall and winter, it won’t protect students...

Opinion: Bolton's most damning claim

Opinion: Bolton’s most damning claim

Ricky Barker, Columnist July 4, 2020

The president has been in a legal dance over the last week attempting to block a book from being sold to the general public. It’s John Bolton, the previous national security adviser’s book, and is...

Opinion: Never Ending Winter

Opinion: Never Ending Winter

Adam Zebzda, Reporter June 29, 2020

The ideological, geopolitical, and economic conflict between the United States and USSR during the Cold War reformed global politics. Today, an underlying tension has the potential to spark a new type...

EDITORIAL: Black lives matter in Spanish

EDITORIAL: Black lives matter in Spanish

The Appalachian Consejo Editorial envía sus condolencias a los afectados por la brutalidad policial y el racismo sistémico dirigido hacia los afroamericanos. Estos problemas se han perpetuado en los...

EDITORIAL: Black lives matter

EDITORIAL: Black lives matter

The Editorial Board June 6, 2020

The Appalachian Editorial Board sends its condolences to those affected by police brutality and systemic racism directed toward black people. These issues have perpetuated in the U.S. for generations and...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:30 a.m. EST on Jan. 19, 2020, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test

OPINION: A love letter to space and how it restored my faith

Mickey Hutchings, Reporter June 4, 2020

On May 30 at 3:22 p.m., two astronauts launched off the Florida coast, ushering in a new generation of human space travel for the U.S.  Tightly stowed atop SpaceX’s revolutionary Falcon 9 rocket...

OPINION: What the march down King Street meant to me

OPINION: What the march down King Street meant to me

Kaiden Smith, Senior Reporter June 3, 2020

It’s no secret that App State is a predominantly white university, which led to a predominantly white turn out as hundreds marched peacefully down King Street to fight against racism and police injustice...

OPINION: Protest your life away.

OPINION: Protest your life away.

Ricky Barker, Columnist May 2, 2020

We are living in uncertain times. Many states have now created mandatory stay-at-home orders to prevent more citizens from being infected with COVID-19. It’s been hard for many of us, unable to see family...

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