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Appalachian State University’s 2014 Football Schedule is Taking Shape After Recent Move to the FBS Ranks

May 3, 2013. Appalachian State University’s 2014 football schedule is taking shape with the addition of a home game versus Campbell and the cancellation of a previously scheduled trip to McNeese State. In a deal originally struck last fall, Appalachian State will host Campbell on Sept. 6, 2014, one week after the Mountaineers’ previously announced season opener at Michigan. The Aug. 30, 2014 contest at Michigan is a rematch of the Appalachian’s historic 34-32 victory over the No. 5-ranked Wolverines in 2007 and will serve as the Mountaineers’ first game as members of the NCAA Division I FBS Sun Belt Conference. Appalachian officially joins the Sun Belt on July 1, 2014. Due to Appalachian State’s move to the FBS ranks, the Mountaineers and McNeese State have cancelled their home-and-home series, which included games in Lake Charles, La. in 2014 and at Kidd Brewer Stadium in 2015. When the schools entered the agreement in 2009, the contract included a stipulation that either party could cancel the series without penalty if one of the programs made the move from NCAA Division I FCS to FBS. With the contests versus Michigan and Campbell and eight Sun Belt conference games already on tap for …

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Lee Brice to Perform at Appalachian Dec. 2

Nov. 13, 2012. Lee Brice will bring the national tour of his Deep South, heavy-hitting country music to Appalachian State University Sunday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. at Legends nightclub on campus. Local band Blue Country will open the show. Tickets are $15 for students in advance and $20 for the public and at the door.

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Crocker Receives Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence

Nov. 6, 2012. Dr. Deborah A. Crocker of Appalachian State University has received the W. W. Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education. The award was presented by the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics at its 42nd Annual State Mathematics Conference held in Greensboro Oct. 25-26.

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Delegation From Ecuador Visits ASU’s NCRC Facility

Nov. 6, 2012. Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, recently visited Appalachian State University’s Human Performance Lab located at the N.C. Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis to learn more about the facility’s work to improve athletes’ and the general population’s fitness.

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Peacock to Participate in Sustainability Symposium

Nov. 6, 2012. Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock from Appalachian State University and other higher education sustainability champions from across the region will meet at Agnes Scott College in Georgia Nov. 7 to kick off the ACUPCC Southeast Regional Collaborative Symposium.

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Boom One Records Brings Out The ‘Bass Culture’

Nov. 5, 2012. Two Appalachian State University Alumni have turned their passion into an enterprise. Boom One Records, launched in Jan. 2012, is the brainchild of Justin Butler and Peter Brown, two former Appalachian State students who have been playing music in the High Country for quite some time.
BY MADISON V. FISLER

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Electro-Acoustic Concert Nov. 14 at ASU

Nov. 5, 2012. A Nov. 14 electro-acoustic “Sculpture Concert” features student performers from Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. The free performance begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Recital Hall. The performance is based on recorded samples which were collected by composition and theory students.

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Fourth Annual Black Saturday 5k Race is Back at ASU

Oct. 29, 2012. The Appalachian State University’s Recreation Management program is hosting its fourth annual Black Saturday 5k on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 from 8 a.m. to raise money for its academic scholarship fund. The race starts and ends at the Holmes Convocation Center, leading participants through the heart of Appalachian State’s beautiful campus.

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Local Author Releases Newest Crime Story

Oct. 24, 2012 Blowing Rock crime writer and Appalachian State faculty member Glenn A. Bruce has released his fourth book, and this one is his darkest one yet. “Rubric” is the story of the events that “send fictional Homicide Detective Mark Young into a spiraling free fall of change and self-examination” after a series of killings in his community.
BY MADISON FISLER

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Toubab Krewe Hits the High Country on Halloween

Oct. 23, 2012. Toubab Krewe will be hitting up the high country this Halloween. On Oct. 31, 2012, the Asheville-based band will be appearing at Legends in Boone hosted by the Stage Shows Council of the Appalachian State Popular Programming Society.
BY MADISON FISLER

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Community Candlelight Vigil Oct. 22 Focuses on Bullying

Oct. 19, 2012. The LGBT Center at Appalachian State University will sponsor the Third Annual Community Candlelight Vigil Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. on Sanford Mall on campus. The public is invited to attend. Free parking is available within walking distance of the mall.

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Chamber Music for Woodwinds Performed Oct. 23

Oct. 10, 2012. Enjoy an evening of woodwind chamber music Oct. 23 at Appalachian State University. Student musicians from the Hayes School of Music will perform works from the 18th to 20th centuries written or adapted for wind instruments.

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