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BOONE – Appalachian State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents its annual Freshman Showcase Nov. 4 through 7 in I.G. Greer Studio Theatre. Performances begin at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students.  The box office is open Monday-Friday 2-5 p.m. and one hour prior to show time.  Patrons can purchase tickets in person, by phone at 828-262-3063, or online at www.theatre.appstate.edu/performances.

“Nothing Serious” includes five of playwright Rich Orloff’s most popular short comedies, including two affectionate dissections of theater itself:  “Playwriting 101” and “Oh My God, It’s Another Play!” Orloff’s quirky vignettes include such off-the-wall characters as penguins, babies, and God Herself, which are set in imaginative and hilarious worlds, from the Garden of Eden to Antarctica.  The show highlights original dance pieces choreographed by Appalachian faculty Marianne Adams, Susan Lutz and Rebecca Quin.

DAVIDSON, N.C. - J.J. Elder scored the game-winner in the 54th minute to give Appalachian State University men’s soccer a 1-0 win over No. 21 Davidson Wednesday night in Davidson.

The win improves ASU to 4-7-1 overall and their first conference win of the season, are now at 1-3 in the SoCon, while the Wildcats drop to 9-3 overall and 2-2 in the SoCon and have dropped two-straight.

The win is the first ASU win over a nationally ranked team since a 4-3 win over No. 15 Furman in 1992.

BOONE, N.C. - Appalachian State University quarterback Armanti Edwards can add another prestigious distinction to his ever-growing list of accolades this week by becoming the first player in NCAA Division I FCS history to amass 8,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career.

Edwards, who went over the 8,000-yard passing plateau last Saturday versus North Carolina Central, comes into this Saturday's game at Wofford (3 p.m. - SportSouth) with 3,948 career rushing yards. With 52 rushing yards versus the Terriers (he has averaged nearly 92 rushing yards per game in his career), he would become the first FCS player in the 8,000/4,000 club and only the second player in all of Division I (FCS or FBS) history to accomplish the feat. Missouri's Brad Smith passed for 8,799 yards and rushed for 4,289 from 2002-05.

Here’s an interesting tidbit from Dr. David Nieman, the Human Performance Lab director at Appalachian State University.

After conducting about 50 studies on marathoners who are 6 times more likely to get sick after a race–Nieman found this combo to combat oxidative stress & ward off illness:

1. Quercetin (see Gretchen’s column last week)–the antioxidant in apples, berries, grapes, cranberries.

2. Green tea extract EGCG

3. Fish oil

My own remedy is serious sleep, handwashing, vitamin D, plenty of green smoothies, & my trusty neti pot!

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— The Healthy Librarian

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded 43 grants to teams of college and university students across the country who will design creative technologies to sustainability challenges in the developed and developing world. The People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition for Sustainability Phase I awards for the 2009-2010 competition challenges students, working together on interdisciplinary teams, to design and build sustainable technologies that improve quality of life, promote economic development, and protect the environment.

The competition begins in Phase I with the award of $10,000 grants to student teams who submit applications that focus on a wide range of categories, including water, energy, agriculture, built environment, materials and chemicals, and information technology. After working on the project, the teams will bring their designs in April to the 6th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. At the Expo, the projects will be judged by a panel of experts and a select few will be awarded P3 Awards and Phase II grants up to $75,000 for students to further their designs, implement them in the field, or move them to the marketplace.

This year’s teams and projects come from Appalachian State University, Brigham Young University, Clarkson University, Clemson University, Cornell University, Drexel University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Humboldt state University, Jacksonville University, John Brown University, Michigan State University, Michigan Technologies University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Ohio State University, Oklahoma State University, Pennsylvania State University, Pierce College, Purdue University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Roger Williams University, South Dakota state University, Texas A&M Research Foundation, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Riverside, University of Delaware, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Champaign, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Wellesley College.

BOONE—As part of the state’s plastic bottle ban, the Town of Boone is installing a recycling center that will include plastic recycling at the Horn in the West parking lot.

The recycling drop site will operate for two months during the pilot project and provide a convenient location for recyclables from Appalachian State University students and Boone citizens who live in multi-family complexes that do not provide a plastic bottle recycling option.

BOONE—An evening of woodwind chamber music will be presented by Oct. 26 by students in Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music.

The free performance begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall.

Mr. Reece is a member of the Departmental Advisory Board for Finance, Banking and Insurance Degreed Programs at Appalachian State University and serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Institute for CPCU and Insurance Institute of America, where he is on the Executive Committee.

When I was 12 years old, I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life figure skating. Just after mastering my axel and double flip, I was sure I would make it to the Olympics, win the gold and then retire to become a full-time instructor.

Then a year later, I got the lead in my school play, The Diary of Anne Frank. That’s it, plans changed; I was headed to acting school and then straight to Hollywood or Broadway. Next time you would see me, I would be sitting next to Oprah Winfrey or Ellen DeGeneres being interviewed for my movie debut.

Over the next couple of years, at some point or another, my career choices varied from the next big pop singer, hip-hop dance sensation, cancer researcher, talk show host, or finder to the cure to AIDS.

Then, as I was entering college, the thought finally hit me. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life. All of my prior career choices were categorized as those glitzy jobs that a rare percentage of the population actually ends up in. As much as I wanted to take that mission to Mars or attempt to win a Nobel Peace Prize, the odds were that those careers choices probably would not work out.

It was at this time, I was filling out my AppalNet account, and had to put down my “intended major.” I just could not find the answer to the 13-letter phrase. So, I chose something I was comfortable with: journalism. I was editor of my high school newspaper and it was the only subject I felt at ease when considering as a career.

New band director Chris Serina, who graduated with from Appalachian State University and led bands in Rocky Mount and Johnston County, was officially hired a week before band camp was slated to begin. According to Principal Drew Cook, Serina has worked long hours to prepare the Mighty Trojans Marching Band for the fall season and instill mutual respect among the musicians.