The Ridgerunner
The Students’ Right to Information and Expression
Vol. 1 No. 2
Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina
October 11, 1965
HUMANITIES
BUILDING
PROGRESSES
With the formal dedication of
the D. Hiden Ramsey Library ex
actly two weeks ago, Asheville-
Biltmore College witnessed the
completion of another step forward
in its goal of establishing a first-
rate liberal arts college.
The next step forward in this
goal will be the completion of the
new Humanities Building, expected
to be ready for occupancy around
the beginning of the third term.
Here will be brought together un
der one roof the entire Humanities
Division — all the academic activ
ities associated with the departments
of Art and Music, Foreign Lan
guages, History, Literature and
Language, and Philosophy.
The Humanities Building, locat
ed adjacent to the new library, on
a knoll overlooking the approaches
of the campus, is composed of the
building proper and an offset lec
ture hall which will be used pri
marily in the freshman sequence of
Humanities courses required of all
students. The lecture hall, with a
seating capacity of 330, has been
designed for maximum effectiveness
in the teaching of large classes. The
floor will be sloped. The seats will
be arranged in a semi-circle so that
all students are reasonably close to
uie iustiuctor, who will have at hiii
disposal a wide variety of the most
modern audio-visual equipment,
with push-button controls. There
are no internal pillars to obstruct
vision. The concrete roof is sus
pended from outside supports.
The main building will have a
medium-sized lecture room with a
seating capacity of 90, a choral
room for the use of the music fac
ulty and students, 6 regular class
rooms seating from 30 to 40 stu
dents, and 10 seminar rooms where
small, informal classes and discus
sion groups will meet.
The building will have a spacious
second-floor art studio with sky
lights and a ceramic room with a
kiln for the firing of ceramic pot
tery.
Also on the second floor will be
a learning laboratory with 30 stu
dent positions at the outset, bur
with built-in room for expansion.
This laboratory is planned for max
imum flexibility. It will be used
not only in the teaching of foreign
languages but in the teaching of
linguistics, speech, music, and liter-
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STUDENT APATHY A
PERSONAL PROBLEM
JUDICIAL BOARD
APPOINTED
With the selection of two fresh
men, the Judicial Board of SGA has
reached its full membership.
The Judicial Board is an official
organ of SGA. Its membership
and duties are defined in the by
laws (Article III) as follows; The
duties of the Judicial Board shall
be; to rule on questions and prob
lems arising under the Constitution
and By-Laws, to administer student
discipline as regards SGA rules and
regulations, to hear and rule upon
the protests of any individual stu
dents or organizations pertaining to
their relationship with any facet of
the SGA. The Judicial Board shall
consist of seven (7) members ap
pointed by the President of SGA,
with approval of a majority of the
Executive Council. The members of
the Judicial Boards shall serve for
the duration of the school year. Of
these seven members there shall be
three (3 ) Seniors, two (2 ) Juniors,
and two (2) Freshmen.
see related picture on page 4
READ THE
IMPORTANT
EDITORIAL
ON PAGE 2
SGA BUDGET
APPROVED
At their weekly meeting on Sep
tember 21, the Executive Council
of the Student Government Associ
ation approved the budget for the
first term, August 2 3-November 2.
Student activity fees were re
ceived from 504 students; at $6.00
per student this came to $3,024. Of
the $6.00, $1.50 or $756 went to
athletics, $L75 or $882 to the Sum
mit, and $.40 to Images. The re
maining $2.35 or Si,184.40 went
to the SGA to cover operating ex
penses.
The $1,184.40 was added to the
$601.59 balance of September first
to give a total operating capital of
$1,785.99. From this, the Assembly
Committee received $250, $213 was
set aside to help start the newspa
per (this to be paid back), $800
for the Social Commission, $28.50
for the Sports Commission, and $50
for miscellaneous expenses. This
leaves a balance of $444.49.
The budget was formulated and
presented to the Executive Council
by the Finance Commission, chair
maned by Jim Day and including
Joe Lanford and Rita Edmonds.
TWENTY
LITTLE
ANGELS,
(Editor’s Note; Linda Lee was one
of six Asheville-Biltmore students
working with Project Head Start
this past summer; others were
Carolyn Baldwin, Francine De
laney, Ray Elinburg, Reed John
son, and Yvonne Scroggs.)
Offset Lecture Hally New Humanities Building
After hearing much publicity on
the Head Start program late this
spring, I decided that it would be
a marvelous contribution to my
knowledge and professional train
ing as well as a means of alleviat
ing worry; the flat summer’s pocket-
book of a school-counselor’s wife.
With this in mind, I took a job as
a Teacher-Aide in a local elemen
tary school.
Since the training session and
visitations began before Asheville-
Biltmore was out, I crammed and
To many persons at Asheville-
Biltmore, the most pressing prob
lems on this campus might be the
overburdenmg of Humanities class
es, the noises of constant construc
tion work, or an insufficient means
of communication within the stu
dent community. However there
are two even more pressing prob
lems which this student body, its
formal Student Government, and its
cohorts in the administration must
face sooner or later. The more per
sonal nature of these problems
transfers them from the realm of
everyday triviality to one of far
more urgent proportions. This is
augmented by the indifferent atti
tude of the aforementioned parties.
Awareness without action never
produces results.
To have to use up space in this
publication to deal with a plague
of dirty tables in our cafeteria and
the annoying violation of common
sense in the use of campus parking
areas could be considered ironic.
We, however, prefer to consider it
a pathetic insult to the students to
whom this paper belongs. It would
be a simple thing to place the blame
for our conduct on some isolated,
immature, uneducated, uncivilized,
and undefendable scapegoat faction
of the student body. But such is not
the case. Such basic things as a col
lective lack of personal standards of
neatness and a blatant disregard for
fundamental courtesies due others
are difficult to excuse as finding
birth in one small section of this
supposedly intellectual community.
There is no excuse.
For over a year the Student Gov
ernment Association has been at
tuned to the problem of a "messy
cafeteria" in our Student Union.
Even this hardworking body has
been at a loss to solve the problem.
They may take their mandate from
the students as a sign of destiny
that dictates a year of unreserved,
fervent leadership. Perhaps when
one of them rushes off to a late
class and leaves his coffee cup sit
ting on the table he should remind
himself of the example set for his
flock to follow. This is not to trans
fer responsibility from the individ
ual to the institution, though, for
die problem is stiU of a basically
individual nature.
took exams a week early. Now I
could relax all summer, or so I
thought. Actually, the work was just
beginning.
The training sessions were not
too bad except that every session
meant more work later on, more
government forms, more tidbits of
information. We were also coun
seled on how to visit and interview
parents. But no one told me what
to do if a ferocious little dog de
cided to sample my ankle. Of
course, one should remain calm, un
perturbed. Of course, I didn’t.
Both of us lived, anyway.
After the parent interviews were
over and permission obtained for
their little ones to attend our won
derful, cultural, and enlightening
program, the teaching was to begin.
Since school was to start at 8; 30,
the teachers had to be there at 8; 00.
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To many students who have not
yet been out in the world enough
to find that there are bigger cam
puses than A-B’s, the idea of hav
ing to walk more than a hundred
feet from car to classroom seems
absurd. The necessity of parking at
the doorstep of Econ 13A or Chem
14B is one more unique way that
A-B is setting itself apart from like
institutions of higher learning. We
may have, in the near future, the
world’s first “drive-in college.”
Contrary to popular opinion, the
parking lots do hold more cars than
die driveways. It could never be
proved at nine in the morning
though. "Come on now, a Yamaha
doesn’t really need two spaces!”
There was a rumor last year that
A-B would at last have its very own
"campus cop,” If he is here, we
believe he must be a plain clothes
detective, his presence is so unob
trusive, Why not buy him a uni
form and a ticket book,?
"Don’t forget to wash behind
your ears Johnny.
Don’t forget to wear your scarf
Johrmy,
Hang up your coat Johnny,
Clean up your room Johnny.
Get your bicycle out of the drive
Johrmy.”
Tlie preceding statements would
logically belong to a mother who
must daily remind her five year old
son of life’s simpler duties. Such
words would seem insulting to the
modern "avant garde” college stu
dent. However, it also seems that
this paper has maternal duty to re
mind her eager young sophisticates,
in a gentle, but firm manner, . .
"Pick up your dirty dishes in the
cafeteria Johnny. Don’t park in
the driveway Johnny, Don’t
write on the furniture Johnny,”
FRATERNITIES
ON SOUND
FOOTING
This past Friday marked the end
of Asheville-Biltmore’s first formal
Rush Week,
At the present time, Asheville-
Biltmore College has two recog
nized campus social fraternities for
men. Sigma Delta Upsilon and Sig
ma Lambda Chi. Sigma Delta Up
silon was organized by seven stu
dents in the fall of 1964 and re
ceived official recognition by the
Student Government Association on
December 15, 1964; there are now
twenty active members.
Among the services performed
by the fraternity were the presen
tation to the school of a flag for
use in the gymnasium, volunteer
ing to keep the library open on
Sundays last spring, and sponsoring
a "Welcome” dance at the first of
this year.
Sigma Delta Upsilon’s officers
include Larry Roberts, President;
Bill Adams, Vice-President; Den
Ross, Secretary; and Nick Paulos,
Treasurer,
Sigma Lambda Chi was first con
ceived in September, 1964 by a
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