UNCA wants yearbook
Staff photo by Sylvia Hawkins
Pat Cabe hopes to edit DNCA's future yearbook.
By Anna Wilson
An important question
going around campus these
days is "Will UNCA have a
yearbook?" The fate of the
yearbook will be settled
Thursday at 5 p.m. in the
Humanities Lecture Hall.
"The response we get
then will determine whe
ther or not we have a
yearbook," said Pat Cabe,
who plans to edit the
proposed book.
"It involves a lot of
work and time, but it can
be fun," she said.
"It’s kind of sad that we
had a national chan5>i-
onship team last year and
no way to record it," said
Doug Miller, vice
president of the SGA and
supportor of the yearbock.
According to an informal
survey taken by Miller, 96
percent of the students
surveyed said they wanted i-hing is the meeting
a yearbook and out of that ••
96 oercent 43 oercent Thursday.
^0 percenc, hj percent Riirvpv Mlllpr fook
said they would be inter- Mliier tooK,
ested in working on the
Staff . Continued on page 7
Cabe hopes that 43 per
cent and more will show up
Thursday for a meeting on
the subject.
The annual staff sponsor
will be Liz Williams, an
analyst programmer for the
Con5>uter Center. She said,
"I’m hoping this meeting
will generate enough in
terest. The key to the
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Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Volume V, Number VI
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1984
Dorm students evicted over fall break
By Penny Kramp
On Oct. 19, UNCA will be
the scene of a mass evacu
ation.
Don't panic! It’s not
due to plague, nuclear at
tack, or hurricane.
It is fall break at UNCA
and the university is
forcing dorm students to
leave their "homes away
from home" for the dura
tion of the five day
break.
The exodus from the dor
mitories is infuriating to
many students, especially
those who live long dis
tances away.
John Hoopingamer is one
student who feels the sit
uation is unfair.
Hoopingamer, a native
of Pensacola, Fla., said
the trip is too far and
too expensive to return
home.
"I have friends I can
stay with but it isn’t
something I can depend on.
This is totally unreason
able. I’ve never heard of
any other school who
forced students to leave,"
said Hoopingamer
Even dorm residents who
don’t live so far away say
the move causes problems.
Leah Weirick of Hayesville
said, "Moving out is a
pain. I have a job in
Asheville so I wasn’t
planning on going home."
The issue is further
complicated by the fact
that evening and Saturday
classes will continue to
meet over the break,
Cindy Lanm, director of
housing and residence
life, said it is not un
usual for a can^us to
close during fall break.
It is necessary for stu
dents to leave because of
the absence of staff and
the high cost of maintain
ing facilities for a smal
ler number of students,
according to Lamm.
"We can’t ask the staff
to give up their vaca
tion," said Lanm.
Doug Griffith, student
government senior senator,
said there is no reason
for students to leave.
"Administration wants to
have a break, not the stu
dents. It is a complete
C.E. requirements debate
waste of time," said Grif
fith.
"Students are getting
forced out of their homes.
students paid to live in
the dorms for a complete
semester. If you were
renting an apartment you
wouldn’t be in this sit
uation," elaborated Grif
fith,
Administration is not
the only cause of the pro
blem, according to Grif
fith. Students need to
stand up for their rights.
Continued on page 12
By Chris Streppa
Diverse and conflicting
opinions filled UNCA’s
Owen Conference Center
Thursday during the sec
ond General Education
Hearing attended by ap
proximately 45 faculty
and students.
The purpose of the
hearings is to allow fac
ulty to air their opin
ions on the proposed re
quirements before the
Faculty Senate votes on
the resolution.
At the heart of the
debate is the proposal to
alter the general educa
tion requirements, those
courses all UNCA students
mast pass to graduate.
While Literature Pro
fessor Michael Gillum
maintained that too many
requirements would "con
strain" students. Associ
ate Professor of Classics
Guy Cooper argued that a
strong general education
program would "put mean
ing back into the B.A."
"The proposal is not a
finalized document," says
Alan Comer, associate
professor of biology, and
chairman of the Faculty
Senate.
Semimonthly public
hearings will provide a
forum for faculty reac
tion and discussion. Co
mer said the final pro
posal will reflect their
viewpoints.
Comer predicts the
public hearings will con
tinue "through this sem
ester and beyond," and
says that each one will
spotlight different is
sues.
Thursday's hearing fo
cused on two issues: the
required number of gener
al education hours, and
the inclusion of a physi
cal education require
ment.
In line with current
requirements, the propos
al calls for a "core cur
riculum" of 47 hours.
However William Thur
man, professor of clas
sics and ancient history,
advocated an increase to
60 hours.
"This alone would have
hope of undoing the dam
age of nearly two decades
of pablum-pushing, and
turn commencement into a
more meaningful exer
cise," insisted Thurman.
Many faculty members a-
greed that the trend to
relax or eliminate re
quirements has been det
rimental to students* ed
ucation.
"There is a widespread
feeling that there are
are^ of education and
experience that students
graduate without know-
Goatinued cm page 12.
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Staff photo by Phil Rosi