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The reopening of Sanford Hall was celebrated on March 25. The elevator column on the front of the building was a centerpiece of the renovation.

“Good bones”: Sanford Hall revamped after 53 years

Ethan Hunt, Reporter April 27, 2021

Sanford Hall’s dimly lit corridors, hot stuffy classrooms and broken elevator are a thing of the past. The renovation of Sanford Hall is almost complete and the building is open for use.  The building...

LGBTQ+ supporters looked on as a group of Trump supporters calling themselves "Today is America" counter protested the post-election solidarity event held by Young Revolutionaries of Boone and Black in Boone on Sanford Mall on Friday afternoon.

LGBTQ+ students at App State: A Timeline of their history and progress made

Xanayra Marin-Lopez, Reporter April 25, 2021

LGBTQ+ students first saw an official safe space on App State's campus in 1972 with Human Sexuality Day. Oct. 25 of that year was filled with discussion groups, information booths, panels, films and special...

Students share their COVID-19 experience through a display on Sanford Mall. Small pieces of cloth voice student reflections.

“Dear COVID” project helps community voice pandemic thoughts

Abi Pepin, Reporter April 25, 2021

App State students, faculty and community members can anticipate seeing fabric displaying experiences throughout the pandemic on Sanford Mall in the next few weeks. Students in associate professor Greg...

The Body Positive AppState program was designed to foster a culture of body positivity at App State.

Women’s Center program fosters discussions about body image

Cameron Stuart, Associate News Editor April 24, 2021

https://youtu.be/_OucnsaJIxE The Women’s Center is bringing a program to campus to provide a safe space for body image discussions. Called Body Positive AppState, the program stems from The Body...

Students able to use excess meal plan money in bookstore

Students able to use excess meal plan money in bookstore

Hollie Moore, Associate News Editor April 24, 2021

https://youtu.be/qJmnMUmGGcg Students with excess meal plan money have once again been given the chance to use their money toward bookstore purchases just like the fall semester.  Campus Dining,...

On Tuesday nights, the trumpet studio hosts a “master class,” now offered virtually, where students can show up with pieces they are working on and receive additional feedback from professors and other students. Lipsette and two other students often reserve a practice room in Hayes School of Music to attend the virtual master class in a small, socially distanced group.

Changing the Tune: Music Student Seniors in the Age of COVID-19

Kara Haselton, Photojournalist April 23, 2021

Music education has suddenly become dangerous like never before. When COVID-19 halted life in March of 2020, music students adapted to an online, virtual format. An audience-based education was forced...

Freedom of speech and secrecy: sorority sees struggles in leadership

Freedom of speech and secrecy: sorority sees struggles in leadership

Emily Broyles, Reporter April 23, 2021

In November 2020, one App State student was voted as her sorority’s president. Four months into her term, she has self-suspended from the organization. So have 15 other women, including two advisers.  Junior...

App State junior wrestler Jonathan Millner slams Chattanooga's Tanner Smith in the 2020 Southern Conference title match. Millner is the reigning back-to-back SoCon champ at 149 pounds, and is a combined 20-0 in conference duals the past two seasons. This year, he also became the fourth All-American under App State head coach JohnMark Bentley's leadership.

“I want to be the first to win it all for App State”

Silas Albright, Reporter April 22, 2021

When App State junior wrestler Jonathan Millner walked off the mat at this year’s NCAA championship after earning prestigious All-American honors, he said the emotion that first overcame him was disappointment.  Wait,...

The Office of the Provost officially announced that pass/no credit will not be offered for the spring 2021 semester.

Pass/no credit officially not offered for spring 2021

Jake Markland, Reporter April 21, 2021

The pass/no credit policy will not be offered to students for the spring 2021 semester. The provost announced in an email Wednesday, this decision comes weeks after SGA and faculty senate passed resolutions...

Cooper anticipates to lift most COVID-19 restrictions by June 1

Cooper anticipates to lift most COVID-19 restrictions by June 1

Jake Markland, Reporter April 21, 2021

Gov. Roy Cooper announced most COVID-19 restrictions should be lifted by June 1 in a press conference Wednesday.  If two-thirds of the adults in North Carolina are vaccinated, Cooper believes the state...

Maddie Armstrong, an App State alumna, now attends the University of Arizona. She is the author of a gun violence op-ed in the New York Times after studying mass shootings.

Alumna co-authors New York Times op-ed on gun violence

Hollie Moore, Associate News Editor April 21, 2021

An App State alumna went into graduate school expecting to focus primarily on the incarceration of queer and transgender people. Today, she is the author of a gun violence op-ed in the New York Times. Madison...

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