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...helped his son Rich move into his dorm at Appalachian State University last month, Bruce Withrow, 52, remembered how he and his classmates were greeted at another North Carolina university 33 years earlier, when baby boomers were swelling enrollments. "We've got too many of you here," an administrator told them. "And we're going to get rid of a bunch of you." That's a far cry from the message that Rich and other incoming students get at Appalachian. "All of you have the ability to do well here," Joe Watts, an associate vice chancellor, assured a group...
Consider Sarah Jusiewicz, now a sophomore. After becoming hooked as a teenager on such crime dramas as Dragnet and Diagnosis Murder, Jusiewicz knew she wanted to work in an FBI lab specializing in fingerprint analysis, ballistics and fiber comparison. So the New Jersey teenager applied to Appalachian, which offers a chemistry major with a forensic science concentration. The university's picturesque setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains didn't hurt its appeal...
...Shoutin', Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying devotion from his wife, Ava, and unabashed love and awe from his large extended family....Bragg delivers, with deep affection, fierce familial pride, and keen, vivid prose that's as sharp...
...Appalachian bluegrass, tango and the jazz stylings of Bobby McFerrin are just a few of the musical genres that Ma has explored over the years...
Middle-school principal Stephen Smith, 53, initially wanted laptops just for teachers. But the teachers urged him to find ways to buy computers for students as well. The federally funded Appalachian Regional Commission contributed nearly 80% of the $500,000 cost of wiring the middle school. Smith raised the rest from local donations. Towns decided to start by wiring the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders because, Smith says, "they want to know everything and do everything." Smith hopes that by 2002, every high school student will also have a laptop...