A-B College Budget Requests OKd By Governor
A total of $2,061,000 has been
recommended for capital Im
provements at Asheville - Bilt-
more College.
The Governor and Advisory
Budget Commission shaved
$80,000 from the proposed bud
get of $2,562,000. The recom
mended budget, including
$421,000 in self-liquidating funds
is $2,482,000.
Western Carolina College at
Cullowhee received recommen
dation for $2,233,000 and Appala
chian State Teachers College at
Boone, $2,685,000 for capital im
provement.
A record of $179.7 million was
requested for various capital im
provements in the state, most of
the amount for higher education.
Western North Carolina campus
es received recommendation for
nearly $7 million in capital im
provements.
Additions to the physical edu
cation buildings, Including an
Olympic-size indoor swimming
pool, will account for $556,000.
Five-hundred thousand dollars
will be' used for an addition
to the science building, $70,000
for expansion of the Student Cen
ter, $100,000 for physical edu
cation playing fields,$100,000for
underground conduit lighting,
$11,000 for sidewallcs and land
scaping, $95,000 for paving
streets and parking areas, and
$30,000 for an addition to plant
maintenance.
The University of North Car
olina at Chapel Hill won appro
val of less than a tenth of its
$66.7 million requests for capi
tal improvements. Recommen
dations for the campus include a
new wing on the dental school
and three new classroom build
ings.
“After examining the budget
recommendations of the Gover
nor and the Advisory Budget
Commission, I am highly pleas
ed,” Dr. William Highsmith, A-
B's president said. The facilities
which were recommended, upon
completion, will provide for the
college all of the f£icilities that
are necessary for the building of
a first-rate liberal arts college.
The lion’s share of the A-B
budget will go to build dormitor
ies for an additional 300 students.
The college has proposed to house
350 students, but received dormi-
350 students, but received
recommendation for 300 students
and a $30,000 cut in dormitory
construction funds. Two new dor
mitories will cost $1,020,000.
Other schools within the Con
solidated University fared bet
ter.
North Carolina State Univer
sity at Raleigh received recom
mendation for a new $3 million
school of education and $8.7 mil
lion for renovation of buildings
and other improvements.
The two smaller campuses of
the Consolidated University re
ceived budget recommendations
for about half of their requests.
The University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte is earmarked
for 10.4 million while UNC at
Greensboro is recommended for
$6.5 million.
East Carolhia College will get
a $1.2 million science building.
East Carolina, whose bid for
university status will figure per
tinently in the current session
of the General Assembly, was
refused its request for three new
classroom buildings, a teaching
laboratory, and one dormitory.
The Ridgerunner
The Students^ Right to Information and Expression
Vol. 2 — No. 11
Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina
February 24, 1967
Batsel,
LIndley
Honored
Two Bulldog basketball stars
were honored during halftime ce
remonies of the A-B - St. Leo
game Thursday night.
Tom Lindley’s selection as
captain of the 1966-67 team was
announced. He was chosen by
player vot.e.
Guy Batsel was named Most
Valuable Player by his team
mates and, in addition, received
the Circle K Trophy as A-B*s
Most Oustanding Varsity Athlete
this year.
Batsel now holds the senior
college record for the most
points scored in a season and he
still has Saturday night's game
against Maryville to add to this
record. He also now has the
record in Most Field Goals.
The Ocala and St. Augustine,
Fla., sharpshooter Is averaging
21.3 points per game for a total
of 490 through 23 games this
season. He has hit 203 of 381
field goal attempts for a 53 per
cent record of success and has
connected on 76 per cent of his
free throws (84-111).
He Ls the team leader in field
goals, fr*^e throws and total
points, ranks third in rebounding.
Veteran guard Tom Lindley has
been a team leader through most
of the season. He is one of two
seniors on the squad.
Lindley suffered a badly twist
ed knee .just before the Christ
mas holidays and has only re
cently returned to full speed
on the court.
He has contributed 57 points
and 34 rebounds to the Bulldogs'
cause, but his chief value lies
in his playmaking ability.
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BULLDOG BASKETBALL aces Guy Batsel and Tonji Linoiey were
honored during halftime ceremonies Thursday night of the A-B-
St. Leo game. Batsel was named Most Valuable Player by his
teammates and Lindley was chosen captain. Circle K also award
ed its Most Oustanding Varsity Athlete Trophy to Batsel.
Juan Serrano Wins Friends
Witt Flamenco Concert
By Gall Lunsford
It Is said that you can Judge
the ability of an artist by the ease
which he performs his work.
If this is true, Spanish-bom
Juan Serrano is a veritable gen
ius.
There was no apparent strain
as he captivated a standing room-
only audience in the Asheville -
Biltmore Auditorium with sounds
that should have been produced
by two or more guitars.
Though few people in the au
dience understood the techniques
or difficulties of Flamenco, no
one misunderstood the feelings
conveyed by the gypsy music.
A very definite raj^rt was set
up between the world famous gui
tarist and his audience as soon as
he struck the first of his opening
number, Zapateado.
For two hours Serrano put his
listeners into a world of Spanish
gypsies and with perfect control
he would set a wildly Joyous mood
only to then plunge the audience
into the depths of melancholy.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Bus Trip
Sclieduled
To IVl’Ville
It won’t be the last train to Clarksville.
Nor the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.
There’ll be a chartered bus to Maryville leaving the Ashe-
ville-Biltmore College campus early Saturday afternoon.
Destination: Maryville, Tenn.
Reason; The final game of the 1966-67 basketball season for
A-B’s scrappy cagers.
On board will be Bulldog Coach Bob Hartman, his cagers,
many of A-B’s cheerleaders and as many fans as can squeeze
aboard.
The price is $3 a head for a round trip ticket.
All seats have been sold out but other transportation will be
provided, according to Becky Sherman.
As THE RIDGERUNNER’S deadline neared, it looked like the
bus would roll barring an unforeseen slump in sales or heavy
snows.
It would be the first chartered bus trip of the season although
Bulldog &ns have journeyed on their own to games in Augusta,
Pembroke, Mars Hill and Milligan during the season.
The Bulldogs will be meeting the Maryville College Scots, a
team A-B beat at Homecoming 94-76.
But Marryville will have a couple of things going for it --
r’irst its home court and second the desire to win its first game
against a team that has beaten it in every outing since A-B be
came a senior college.
The game will also be the last college one for seniors Tom
Lindley and Larry Roland,
The Snow Deniers
It's frozen precipitation.
Not snow.
And classes shouldn’t be disrupted by a little frozen rain.
Or two accidents involving A-B students.
Or seven students present for an 8 a.m. class.
. None of these reasons prevail upon the snow deniers.
But the Chief Denier who called regular classes yesterday
arrived at school at 9:15. After the frozen rain had begun to melt.
What really burns, though, is that President Highsmith is In
Florida.
If he doesn't return soon, he may get snowed out. And we mean
snow.