While there is no fat in the school budgets, and education is showing advanced signs of starvation for lack of money . . . The Mountain Times has prepared a feature on the research of a professor at Appalachian State University. The professor has discovered a correlation between success and the names a baseball player will mention in acceptance speeches.

He’s always been fascinated with the idea of how human capital and social capital intersect in the form of a network to help people to be successful.

Appalachian State is one of sixteen universities in the UNC system.