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  • SERVING THE CULLOWHEE AREA SINCE Valume 76, Issue 13 oy us at www.westerncarolinian.com 1933 October 28, 2010 Sidewalk from Sylva. to | Pride of the Mountains band director steps down after 19 years Dillsboro complete | The new sidewalk constructed along US-Business 23.lier this year. Lex Menz | News Editor Construction of a side- walk connecting the towns of Sylva and Dillsboro has been completed. The side- walk lines US-Business 23 in Sylva and into Dillsboro, Beginning on July 6, the sidewalk construction has cost an estimated $72,000. During construction, traffic patterns were not interrupt- ed and everything was on schedule. In charge was the Department of Transporta- tion (DOT) with Jonathan Woodard at the helm. - Overall, the construc- tion went well... [ve no- ticed a lot of people walking along the sidewalks, Wo- odard said. Adrienne Isenhower, Town Manger of Sylva, also _ noticed a positive reaction and excitement from citi- zens and students with the sidewalks. : Western Carolina soph- omore Curtis Thompson said, Yes, 1 would use the sidewalks. Thompson fre- quently visits Dillsboro about once a week... eat. Senior Jasmine Morris, however, said she prefers to drive. L would not use them but [ actually know some _ people that would... I rare- ly go to Dillsboro... I was car-less it would be awesome! Car or no car, Woodard said the project was a tri- umph and added, I hope everyone gets the pi but if Shelby Harrell | A&E Editor Ef you once thought that the infamous WCU march- ing band director Bob Buck- ner would never retire, think again. After the recent boom- ing success the Pride of the Mountains marching band has experienced, first the receiving the Sudler Trophy then the invitation to march in the 2011 Tournament of Roses parade, the last thing WCU expected was the re- tirement of the man behind Halloween festivities to take place in, around Cullowhee Katelyn Cooper | Staff Writer Halloween weekend, be- ing right around the corner, will be filled with haunted trails, parties, costumes, and of course trick-or-treating. Many events will be held on Western Carolinas Cam- pus. Last Minute Produc- tions is hosting a Halloween and video dance party in the Brown Building on Friday Oct. 29 starting at 9 p.m. The event will cost $5 and the Balsam Range Bluegrass will provide music for the event. Greek Life is also host- ing Hall-O-Ween trick or treating in the Village. Ev- eryone in the Village will dress up in kid friendly cos- tumes and host the event for the kids in the community. There are also many Halloween themed events happening off campus. The Boneshack, the new restaurant and bar located on Main Street, will host a costume party on Friday, Oct. 29, The bar will feature drink specials and prices for that night. You can find the Boneshack on Facebook to get the information as it is released. Also downtown, Trick or Treat on Treat Street Kids at Treat Street in 2009. will take las in Sylva on October, 30. The Down- town Sylva Association and downtown merchants will celebrate Halloween from 2-5 p.m. with trick or treat- ing and other fun activities in downtown Sylva. They are inviting everyone to come out and enjoy an afternoon in the community filled with fall colors, festive costumes, spooky stories, loads of can- dy, and much more. If you are looking for an event to send chills up your spine, Saunooke Village in Cherokee can do just that. There is an old abandoned mine shaft that was owned iy a eos money hae man who never let his min- ers come out of the mine. When the mine collapsed over 100 years ago, the miners, as well as the owner were killed. The owners still haunts the mine protecting his treasure. } There are two tunnels in the mind people can visit. One tunnel, puppy dogs and rainbows, is a treasure hunt for kids. The second tunnel, enter at your own risk, puts the willing visitor in an elevator and drops 588 ft. below the earths surface. Student tickets are $5 and regular tickets are $6. Check out the ~ Bob Bucker directs his band at a practice earlier this year. consideration, Mr. Buckner and his wife Donna Buck- ner have decided that now is the perfect time to leave the Pride of the Mountains scene. They will officially step down in June 2011. Pve been thinking about retiring for a year, and I de- cided this was a good time to do it, said Buckner. The band program is in good shape and | wanted to leave at a time when I knew the band could be maintained. Buckner admits to mak- ing this mutual decision ith his wife Donna, who salso worked a -oordina- tor of the Pride of the Moun- tains auxiliary for many years, Buckner still plans to be around WCU from time to time, to work when he wants to work, as he put it. Buckner never expected that the band would become so successful, but at the same time understands why it has come so far. The Chancellor origi- nally had a vision for how he thought we could be, said Buckner, and we have made that happen for a lot of reasons, like our Alumni _band, our show planning, i ane "car meron visi Feerite ing. Buckner recalls a time as band director when he thought he would never reach 200 members. Today, the Pride of the Mountains is pushing to double that number with around 390 members, all of which will be attending the 2011 Tour- nament of Roses parade this December. When leaving such an enormous band, both enor- mous in stature and size, the question on everyones mind is whats going to happen to eae ne ~ antinued on Page 3 N.C. puts a stop to end-of- grade testing requirements Justin Caudell | Editor-in-Chief A decade-old policy that required N.C. students to pass a standardized test to advance to the next grade was eliminated by the State Board of Education at their monthly meeting in Raleigh on Oct. 7. The board agreed to ne the testing requirements effective immediately for the gateway gradesthird, fifth, and eighth grades. Stu- dents in those grades previ- ously had to score a three or a four on end-of-grade tests to b promoted to the next grade. Also at the meeting, the board decided to end a requirement that stated stu- dents had to pass an end- of-course test in five high school subjects (Algebra |, Biology, Civics and Eco- nomics, English I, and U.S. . History) with a 70 or higher to graduate high school. The vote was unanimous on both occasions, In place of the tests, the board agreed to approve five broad standards in which schools and teachers would | be judged in coming years for student performance. The testing requirements, which initially took effect in late 1999, were supposed to reduce social promo- tionstudents moving on to the next grade even if they hadnt mastered their grade-level subjects or high school students moving into college unprepared. But board chairman Bill Har- rison said in an interview that the testing policy didnt work, in part because ex- ceptions still allowed local school principals to pro- mote children who failed the tests. We simply had very few students being retained and they did not match up or correlate with the end- of-grade and end-of-course. data that we had, Harrison said. I dont want to apply what turned out to be an ar- tificial gateway. State superintendent June Atkinson echoed his sediments. The gateways were ini- tially put in place with good intentions to address the problem of students being promoted before they were ready, but the policy has not had the intended effect, Atkinson said in. a news release to the media. The new accountability model being developed and imple- mented over the next few years has a much stronger focus on early diagnostic assessments. Our goal is to make sure that teachers spot student learning problems early when there is plenty of time to make a mu Sourse correction. With the old came Continued onPaue a | {
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