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DECEMBER 11, 2008 Issue

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‘That Doesn’t Mean It’s All Over’
ASU Football Season Ends With Painful Loss to Richmond

This isn’t a eulogy for the Appalachian State University football team, and Saturday wasn’t its funeral.

Despite the Mountaineers’ painful loss to the Richmond Spiders in the second round playoff game this year, the team is poised to continue the successes of the past four years. Next season’s team returns a majority of this year’s starters, and head coach Jerry Moore said the staff has made a commitment to work harder than ever before. Read More »

ASU Breaks Ground for College of Ed Building

The weather was cold and blustery and a frigid rain began to fall during the ceremony, but spirits were high inside a large tent erected on the corner of College and Howard streets last Thursday, December 4, where representatives from the UNC Board of Governors, the ASU Board of Trustees, ASU administration, a host of elected officials, students and others gathered for the formal groundbreaking on the new Reich College of Education building at Appalachian State University.
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The View Stories

‘Christmas Is Doing The Nutcracker’—Studio K Dance Workshop Presents Classic Ballet Saturday and Sunday

More than 300 dancers, 400 costumes, five sets and a bouquet of bright colors and pastels make for a spectacular production of The Nutcracker every holiday season in Boone. Studio K Dance Workshop presents its annual production of Tchaikovsky’s captivating ballet on Saturday and Sunday, December 13 and 14, at Farthing Auditorium.

The event has become a bona fide Christmas tradition in the High Country, with dancers returning year after year to participate and families sharing the ballet together—both on the stage and from the audience. Read More »

Shelter Stories

Designing a Greener Greenhouse—Two ASU Student Teams Implement EPA P3 Award-Winning Sustainability Projects at Watauga County Landfill

The Environmental Protection Agency’s P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability is only four years old, yet five teams from ASU have applied and won grants in the competition since its inception. Two of those ASU teams are preparing to embark on projects funded from the EPA P3 competition at the Watauga County Landfill in early 2009—the Affordable Bioshelter Project is building a greenhouse that will test innovative greenhouse technologies, and the Algae to Biodiesel Project will grow algae in the greenhouse to create biodiesel.
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