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Funnyman Alston

Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston  appeared in peak form during a tour of the High Point University campus Thursday.

The commissioners met at the university instead of the Old County Courthouse for their regular meeting.

Serious as he can be in political situations, Alston also has a goofier side he shows sometimes.

He brought that along as he rode around campus with Commissioner Bruce Davis , County Manager Brenda Jones Fox , assistant manager Sharisse Fuller  and facilities director Fred Jones  on a eight-person golf cart.

“I don’t like being on a golf cart without my clubs,” he said as he got on board, to which Fox and Fuller replied with peals of laughter.

He carried the mood into the university’s student center, which has game systems, an arcade, billiards table and an air hockey table. There are also a series of fun house mirrors on a wall next to the message, “Choose to be extraordinary.”

Alston made a point to stop before two mirrors as the tour shuffled by. After seeing that, numerous libraries, renovated classrooms and top technology around the well-landscaped campus, Alston appeared impressed.

“For those who have not had the opportunity to come out and tour the campus in the last couple of years,” he said, “it would be good to come out and see and tour and see what makes this university one of the state of the art in the entire country, bar none.”