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The Appalachian

The Student News Site of Appalachian State University

The Appalachian

The lobby of the Standard. The apartments are off campus and located on Blowing Rock road.

OPINION: Town council seeks to repeal Boone 2030 Plan.

Q February 28, 2018

The Boone town council voted on Feb. 15 to postpone consideration to repeal the Boone 2030 Land Use Plan until the March 19 regular meeting. Originally, the town council had planned to vote on the repeal...

Food Services and limited or restricted diets

Food Services and limited or restricted diets

Q February 22, 2018

According to Food Allergy Research & Education, around 15 million Americans suffer from some sort of food allergy. Additionally, Forbes reports that around 3.1 million Americans follow a gluten-free...

GMOs: an incredible tool to advance humanity

GMOs: an incredible tool to advance humanity

Eric Cunningham February 21, 2018

From serious issues like opposition to vaccines to more trivial ones, like a bizarre increase in flat-earther conspiracy theories, it seems in recent years that skepticism of science has been on the rise. One...

Bass Lake is one of the coolest spaces in the Boone area and has some of the best views for sunsets.

The Falcon Heavy launch sparks a new era of exploration

Eric Cunningham February 16, 2018

America was recently treated to a special occasion - the first successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, currently the world’s most powerful rocket, and the first rocket of its kind to be...

Dueling Opinions: Elon Musk

Dueling Opinions: Elon Musk

Q February 15, 2018

The real life Tony Stark I am not saying that Elon Musk is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I am saying that Elon Musk could probably revolutionize the way we sliced bread if he wanted to. Musk,...

Loot boxes are an unfortunate side-effect of modern gaming practices

Loot boxes are an unfortunate side-effect of modern gaming practices

Joshua Baldwin February 8, 2018

One major goal in many video games is to progress far enough to unlock new items or upgrades to make the player stronger or to make the game easier to play. These unlockables have long been tied to gameplay...

Why the Nunes memo is a dud

Why the Nunes memo is a dud

Q February 7, 2018

The memo written by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, was released on Friday after weeks of being hyped up by the Grand Old Party. Only four pages long, the memo was conceived by...

Patriots are the empire

Patriots are the empire

Moss Brennan, Reporter February 4, 2018

The Patriots always win, and they have been to the Super Bowl eight times since 2001, according to Sports Illustrated. Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, five of their past eight...

Dalton Smith enjoys his “iCare 2”, a popular portable electronic cigarette

E-Cigarettes: a dangerous trend among American youth

Nate Fordyce, Staffer February 1, 2018

Walking through campus it is not uncommon to see fellow students or even faculty exhaling large white clouds. In the past five years the tobacco industry has seen an explosion in the use of portable e-cigarette...

Fox News or CNN: biases impact news

Fox News or CNN: biases impact news

Moss Brennan, Reporter January 31, 2018

According to the 2016 Gallup News poll on trust in the media, only 32 percent of Americans say they trust the media, which is down from 40 percent in 2015. The Gallup News poll on trust in media has...

Eminem remains on top

Eminem remains on top

Moss Brennan, Reporter January 25, 2018

“It’s the curse of the standard, that the first of the Mathers discs set/Always in search of the verse I haven’t spit yet/Will this step just be another misstep/To tarnish whatever legacy, love or...

Boone Saloon is open to people under 21 during the day but at night even if there is a concert people under 21 are not allowed to watch the show.

Age restrictions and music venues

Q January 25, 2018

One of the first things that comes to mind when thinking of college towns is the underground music scene, and Boone is no different. With bars and venues such as Black Cat, Boone Saloon, The Local and...

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