The Appalachian • 18th October 2024

‘That’s Politics’: App State election seasons through the decades

From President Richard Nixon to the Boone Town Council and from front-cover cartoons to interactive online graphics, The Appalachian has provided election coverage throughout its rich history.
In honor of its 90th anniversary and the upcoming 2024 presidential election, The Appalachian compiled highlights from various decades of the paper’s election coverage. The  way The Appalachian reported election results and trends offers glimpses into the past of App State’s political landscape. 
One of th...

The Appalachian • 11th September 2024

Lost in translation: Spanish-speaking residents lacking access, equity

Every day after school, 6-year-old Rubí Escobar would come home to her parents, younger brother Carlos and newborn sister Lucero. As she told her parents about her day, she would tell them what she learned, translating everything into Spanish so they could understand.
“All the pressure was on me as the oldest child who could speak English,” Escobar, now 24, said. “So I would translate everything I was told in school.”
Currently, two staff members offer services as Spanish interpreters and transl...

The Appalachian • 29th April 2024

Graduating international students say farewell to Mountaineer lifestyle – The Appalachian

On Aug. 22, 2022, Silva Keohulian packed her bags, said goodbye to her family and left her home in Lebanon to go to a place she had never heard of before: Boone, North Carolina.

Keohulian is a 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar who is graduating with a master’s degree in mathematics from App State in May.

In the 2023-24 academic year, App State had 110 international students studying at the university, according to the international student and scholar services and outreach.

Fifty-eight of these s

The Appalachian • 1st March 2024

Meet Sophie Mead: The student who sued the General Assembly – The Appalachian

When Sophie Mead walked into Plemmons Student Union to vote in the primary election on Feb. 19, she said she had a new perspective. She showed her ID to the poll worker, double-checking her personal information when receiving her ballot.

“As I’m going to vote, I’m looking at everything very closely and making sure my address is right, my date of birth is right, my name is spelled right,” Mead said.

Mead, a senior digital marketing major, knew these were important things to do, but she views th

The Appalachian • 10th March 2023

Club Ice Hockey looks for rink, recognition – The Appalachian

Every Wednesday, sophomore exercise science major Luke Miller finds himself in either Greensboro or Winston-Salem until 1 a.m. practicing for App State’s Club Ice Hockey team.

Miller, who plays center on the team, said he finds the practice schedule for the team “challenging” as he balances it with a class schedule that he is “barely able to get up for.”

“We were practicing at 12:15 in the morning in Greensboro,” Miller said. “I mean we weren’t getting home until four-ish in the morning.”

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The Appalachian • 14th February 2023

Historically Black community looks to preserve, educate community – The Appalachian

unaluska, Watauga County’s single standing African American community, is ensuring they are remembered in the history books.

The Junaluska Heritage Association, founded in 2011, is a “community-based organization formed to preserve cultural heritage and assist in community growth” for Junaluska according to their

Before the association was formed, however, members of the Junaluska community had been around for years preserving their history and trying to keep records. Once the JHA was establis

The Appalachian • 16th September 2022

Authors offer new perspectives as Boone turns 150 – The Appalachian

Boone celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. To commemorate this milestone, the Town of Boone has planned many events throughout 2022 recognizing Boone’s uniqueness in the last 150 years, including a summer concert series at the Jones House, nightly summer performances at Horn in the West and “Boone Reads Together;” a reading program focusing on a celebration of local history and the stories of Boone.

Throughout the year, the program has featured numerous local authors, with books focusing

The Appalachian • 18th August 2022

An Appal a day: Guide to commuting with AppalCart – The Appalachian

With 14 different bus routes around the High Country, AppalCart has been the official provider of public transportation for students and residents of Boone since 1981. The transportation company’s recent update, released Aug. 15, is one students new and old can familiarize themselves with below.

Routes on the AppalCart system run throughout popular campus destinations, residential communities and other popular areas in Boone. According to their website, AppalCart started services in 1980 until

The Appalachian • 14th April 2022

App State graduate students: inside a small, hardworking community

As of August 2020, graduate students at the university numbered 1,962 of 20,023 enrolled students or 9% of the overall student population, according to a report from Appalachian Today.

According to the university website, there are more than 80 graduate degrees offered at the university. Degrees can range from programs of study like student affairs to pollinator health in the Department of Biology.

Grad student Lacey Ballard is completing her second year of her master’s in student affairs admi...