UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE
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'I'hursday, September 11, 2008
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Vol. 49, Issue 2
First-time delegates
Photo courtesy of Bradley hardy
Junior student Bradley Hardy poses at the Democratic National
Convention, representing North Carolina and UNC Asheville.
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Junior student, second-youngest
N.C. Democratic delegate
Jonathan Waiczak
News Editor
JMWALCZA@UNCA.EDU
Junior student Bradley
Hardy walked onto Invesco
Field on the evening of Aug.
28 to hundreds of flashing
cameras and an energetic
crowd of 85,000 waiting for
Sen. Barack Obama to ac
cept the Democratic nomi
nation for president.
“When you’re looking
around and seeing all these
people, all 85,000 of these
people, you can’t help but
think ‘This is an incredible
movement,’ said Hardy, 20,
the second youngest dele
gate from North Carolina to
attend the Democratic Na
tional Convention this year.
A series of entertainers
and speakers kicked the eve
ning off, but crowd members
kept quietly talking amongst
themselves. That changed
when Obama took stage, ac
cording to Hardy.
“Everything was quiet.
You could hear a pin drop
in the stadium of 85,000
people,’’ he said. “Then the
crowd was just so turned on
by him, so excited. 1 think
everyone realized at that
point that he was giving the
most historic speech of this
election.’’
Obama’s speech finished
a busy week for Hardy, who
arrived in Denver early to at
tend the national convention
of the College Democrats of
America, which took place
the weekend before the
Democratic National Con
vention.
Hardy became involved
in politics his freshman year
of high school and traveled
across North Carolina on be
half of several Democratic
organizations in the years
that followed, striking a bal
ance between school and
politics.
In June, while Hardy was
studying abroad in England,
he made use of his connec
tions and hard work to win
an election as an at-large
statewide delegate.
“Instead of having to an
swer to my congressional
district, I was answering to
every single person in the
state of North Carolina who
wanted Barack Obama to be
See hardy Page 2 |
Sophomore student Nelia Hamby, right, poses with NBC Political
Director Chuck Todd at the Republican National Convention.
Sophomore student, youngest
N.C. Republican delegate
Annika Reinert
Staff Writer
ANNIKA.REINERT@GMAIL.COM
Sophomore student Ne
lia Hamby attended her first
political meeting before her
first birthday, and this year,
she is the youngest delegate
from North Carolina to at
tend the Republican National
Convention in Minnesota.
Hamby was one of the
three delegates to represent
the Eighth Congressional
District at the convention
last week.
“I have been involved in
politics longer than I can re
member,” she said. “The old
er I got, the more interested 1
became.”
Hamby’s mother, Vichele,
took her daughter to politi
cal meetings when she was a
baby because of health con
cerns that made it impossible
to leave her with a baby sit
ter.
Hamby first considered
running as a delegate four
years ago as she followed the
2004 presidential election.
“1 was only 14 years old,
but I could understand what
was going on,” Hamby said.
“1 thought that it would be a
fun adventure to get involved
in the next election.”
Hamby’s mother said she
is proud of her daughter’s
appearance in a close-up
spot on television shortly
before Sen. John McCain of
ficially accepted the Repub
lican Party’s nomination for
president.
“On Tuesday, I was inter
viewed 16 times. I talked to
Japanese and Italian journal
ists, Reuters and of course
a lot of media from North
Carolina,” Hamby said. “On
Thursday, 1 was on the Daily
Show; the first time I was on
television in such a spot.”
Hamby said she is unsure
whether she wants to enter
a career in politics after she
graduates.
“I like to keep my options
open,” she said.
For now, Hamby said she
hopes to inspire more young
people to get involved in
politics.
“We can have our say,
too,” she said. “Our opinion
counts just as much as that of
older delegates.”
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Asheville’s LAAFF keeps it local
Sam Hunt
Staff Writer
SCHUNT@UNCA.EDU
The seventh annual Lex
ington Avenue Arts and Fun
Festival (LAAFF) hosted
more than 30 bands from the
Asheville area on Sunday
amid dozens of other locals
in the visual and perfor
mance arts.
“The idea is for everyone
to create and be rewarded
from that creation,” said
Kitty Love, co-founder of
LAAFF and executive di
rector of non-profit arts pro
moter Arts2People. “Culture
inspired by personal expres
sion can be an economic en
gine. Amassing to the maxi
mum number of dollars for
personal equity is the goal of
life.”
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Katie Bachmeyer - Staff Photlxirapher
Saxophonist Greg Hollowell and trombonist Derek Johnson of
the Asheville horns played a nighttime set on the main stage.
The all-local street fes
tival blocked off Lexington
Avenue from beneath the
1-240 bridge to the Col
lege Street intersection. The
street was packed with lo
cal artists, fans and families,
some of whom wore zombie
and circus costumes.
“It’s great to see 400 or
so artists come together be
cause all of their work is
weird, quirky and unique to
A.sheville,” 21-year-old Mo-
raea June said,
Joel Hutcheson, owner of
Static Age Records on Lex
ington Avenue, said the festi
val is healthy for Asheville’s
music scene and record
stores.
“It’s a response to the Bele
Chere festival in the sense that
it spotlights local Asheville
bands only,” Hutcheson said.
“(LAAFF) also helps the re
cord stores out. We don’t sell
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Jason Howell
Staff Writer
jdhowell@unca.edu
Sophomore music
student Casey Sellarole
stands on top of the Zageir
parking deck and points at
the fenced-off gravel lot
across Campus Drive. This
construction area (former
ly commuter parking lot
E) is where the 20-year-
old used to park.
“1 was so mad when I
came back this semester
and saw that,” Sellarole
said.
This fall, Sellarole,
who commutes to UNC
Asheville, says it can take
five to ten minutes to find a
free space in the remaining
commuter lots.
“It’s like fighting for
parking downtown,” she
says. “Then, I have to walk
to class and carry my trum
pet, my backpack and my
bag. That’s another five or
ten minutes.”
Sellarole says she is
skeptical of using alternate
transportation, wondering
how she will adapt.
“I don’t have a bike,”
Sellarole said. “So what
can I do?”
Chris Miller, the safe
ty officer with Campus
Operations-Facilities
management, works with
associate Vice Chancellor
for Campus Operations
C. Stephen Baxley on
transportation issues for
UNCA.
They face questions
like these as the schtwl
introduces new transporta
tion programs, new incen
tives to go green and the
older problem of parking
on campus, according to
Miller.
Baxley says the big
gest change this year is the
separate parking fees. This
semester, students can pay
$70 for parking permits,
valid until next spring.
They can also buy parking
passes on a daily basis, for
$1 each, an approximate
$240 expense for both se
mesters.
Baxley said he fees go
toward paying for other
transportation programs..
“We also have a Face-
book site where students
can get online with each
other in order to carpool,”
Miller said.
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New fitness program
energizes UNCA
Katie Bachmeyer - Staff Photxxiraphhr
Dominique Ennis, who supervises the Health and Fitness
Center staff, leads an Ah Blast class.
Moveabout pushes students
to make exercise a habit
Cassidy Culbertson
Staff Writer
CJCULBER@UNCA.EDU
UNC Asheville teams
up with the Worksite Ac
tion Team of Healthy Bun
combe for Moveabout, a
program to facilitate physi
cal activity and exercise
as a weekly habit through
providing incentives.
Moveabout participants
are encouraged to aim for
the recommended 150
minutes of physical activ
ity weekly at least three
days a week for about 30 to
50 minutes a day, accord
ing to Leigh Wright, senior
health and wellness student
and coordinator of UNCA’s
Moveabout program.
The program empha
sizes breaking up workouts
into manageable incre
ments, like taking ten-
minute walks during lunch
breaks, not shooting for
one 150-minute workout
every Sunday afternoon.
“It seems like a good
idea, but really, it’s going
to be hard for regular non
active students to keep up
with, even though it said
only 30 minutes most days
a week,” freshman student,
Trevor Hall said.
Approximately half
of young adults in North
Carolina (ages 18 to 24) re
ceive the proper amount of
physical activity and exer
cise, more than other adult
age groups, according to
2007 Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention re
search.
After tracking activity
for ten weeks, participants
become eligible for prizes
related to healthy, active
living, like water bottles,
sports apparel and mas
sages.
“Tracking workouts
would make exercising
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