2008 Woodie Awards
Lead Stories
Bulldogs crush Liberty on ESPN
Freshman J.P. Primm scores 21 as men's basketball improves to 3-0 record with 84-56 win over Liberty
After rolling to a 2-0 start to open the season, the Justice center went prime time Tuesday afternoon, as sports broadcasting giant ESPN came to town to televise UNC Asheville's 84-56 rout against Liberty University.
"I couldn't be happier right now," Head Coach Eddie Biedenbach said.…
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Holy back issues, Batman!
New comic book store opens in East Asheville
Even with a not-quite-fully stocked store, Darrin Williams is not impressed by the competition.
The comic collector moved to Asheville with his wife and 6-year-old son four months ago from Kennesaw, Ga., and decided to open his own comic book store after he scoped out the local stores.…
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Mountain Highlights
Mike Gore interviews UNCA sports director Janet Cone in the Mountain Highlights studio about the future of the Bulldogs.
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Storyville
'Tis the season for Slow Foods
A fire rages in the middle of Barbara Swell's kitchen and she has no intention to
put it out. In fact, she slowly and methodically keeps adding wood to it.
She is searching for the right temperature, poking and prodding the conflagration
into a symphony of cracks and ticks, waving flame and smoldering wrought iron. Why
would someone build a fire in the middle of their kitchen with such care and precision?
Why, to bake a pie, of course.…
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Parasocial interaction plagues mediaMichael Eisenstadt, a policy advisor for John McCain, is not real.
I don't mean this in a philosophical sense. It's not his soul that's absent, nor are his mental faculties. It's not a jab at the Republican Party; they're alive and active as ever.
The physical man behind the blog does not exist.
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Negative advertisements lose electionMany political ads from the 2008 election were utterly ineffectual.
There was Mike Gravel's three-minute-long ad in which he tossed a rock into a lake and looked longingly into the camera without saying a word. Gravel struggled to reach half a percent in the primaries, and if you're asking who Mike Gravel is, you're not alone.
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Media bias damages news credibilityMost reporters and others involved with the production of the mass media will swear their job is to share information with the masses and to tell the truth.
However, is it possible for the mass media to share information without bias?
Can people really trust the information they obtain from it to make important decisions?
Here in North Carolina, it was hard to avoid Elizabeth Dole's political attack advertising during the last election.
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Narration grounds eclectic band
Breaking from electronic rock to romantic serenades to folksy storytelling, Blitzen Trapper's eclectic stylings bridge musical genres.
"The songs go from full six-piece to a guitar and three-part harmony to a piano ballad with a harmonica to kind of pavement, hard rock stuff," guitarist and vocalist Eric Easley said.
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Grails attract new type of audience
Grails brought a mix of brooding ambience and classic rock riffs to Asheville's Emerald Lounge on Sunday with opening support from the reformed 1960s electronic pioneer band, Silver Apples.
"We were shocked to see a bunch of teenage girls dancing around," said Alex Hall, one of Grails' three guitar players.
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Student fee forum stirs debate
Increasing student fees may burden students in the current economic situation, but they support a higher quality of student life, according to officials.
Student fees fund student activities, student health services, athletics, computer equipment and scientific equipment needs.
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Conference focuses on campus diversityParticipants in the "Living in, Living with, Diversity" conference, on Friday and Saturday in the Highsmith University Union, will take part in panel and round table discussions focusing on how to increase diversity at UNC Asheville.
"We want to find out more about what has been done, what is being done and what should be done for diversity at UNC Asheville," said Volker Frank, sociology chair and conference organizer.
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Students kick-start cooperative housing effortStudents for Cooperative Housing raises money toward down payment on a future home for UNCA students interested in community living
UNCA students Katie Bachmeyer and Allison Schad are looking for more than just cheap rent and a way out of vacating campus over summer and winter breaks. Together they formed Students for Cooperative Living, a campus group that wants to beat the system and buy its own shared house for students only.
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BasketballThe UNC Asheville men's basketball team jump-started their season with a 75-63 win over Belmont-Abbey Friday night.
"We started to play with more structure, but then we got careless by either giving up turnovers, not rebounding or giving them open shots," Head Coach Eddie Biedenbach said.
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Out and AboutCommentary on UNC Asheville Campus Recreation Outdoors Program
The Flitternouse Grotto consists of passionate cavers dedicated to conserving and educating people about caves.
They meet to discuss different caves as well as to discuss how to better preserve the caves in the local area.
They focus on preventing the caves from damage due to overuse.
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Timely tips in tough timesMoney management tips courtesy of Asheville Savings BankMoney Management
• Begin saving today. A small amount of money in a savings account will grow quickly with compounded interest.
• Pay with cash. Avoid racking up credit card debt unrelated to school by paying with cash from savings.
• Always pay bills on time.
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U.N. questions Taiwan's futureTaiwan is a pterodactyl in the United States' creationist view. We do not believe it exists, yet will deal with it as if it does.
Ideologically, the United States stands up for democracy and freedom.
We go to war to defend it, and we go to war to promote it, but not for Taiwan.
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A Letter from Student GovernmentRepresentatives of the Student Government Association met last Tuesday to discuss the proposals for raises in student fees and tuition which would be assessed in the fall of 2009.
Student fees may be raised 6.5 percent for students next year, and almost twice as much for out-of-state students.
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Socially conscious rock group stops in Charlotte
The crowd screamed as Anberlin played the opening cords of "Paperthin Hymn."
"We've been playing for about five or six years now," said Nathan Young, the band's drummer.
The five-piece alternative rock band came together in Florida and took off at a run in 2003 with their debut album "Blueprints for the Black Market.
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There's no place like home for KreweToubab Krewe, an instrumental afro-beat quintet, stops in their hometown of Asheville during their U.S. tour this fall.
"They have extremely high energy and inspirational tones, with a really raw organic perspective of world music and afro-beats in general," said Justin Heter, drummer for the band Sci-Fi, which played with the group multiple times.
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