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Volume 24, Number 15 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
February 1, 1996
NEWS IN BRIEF
Administration allows convicted student to remain at UNCA
■ Recycling changed
Jeanette Webb
UNCA students and faculty can now
recycle paper products that previously
contaminated other recyclables.
The recycling industry has expanded
to recycle materials such as magazines,
telephone books, fax paper, unopened
mail, and envelopes with cellophane
windows, said Robyn Hansen, Physi
cal Plant maintenance manager.
Many students who currently recycle
seem to be pleased with this addition
to UNCA’s recycling program.
“It’s very good progress,” said Melanie
Lott, a UNCA junior.
“I think it’s great, because I used to
have to take my magazines home or
just throw them away,” said Molly
Zink, a UNCA sophomore.
This new development in recycling
may make students, like sophomore
Katherine Lewis, more likely to re
cycle what would otherwise be gar
bage.
“I think it’s great that the recycling
industry has expanded to include more
types ofpaper. It makes recycling easier
so that more people are willing to
participate,” said Lewis.
Although pleased with the advance
ment, some students still have con
cerns about the recycling program.
“I think there needs to be more recy
cling bins on campus so that people
will be more apt to participate,” said
Lott.
“I wish we could recycle cardboard
in all the dorms,” added Zink.
Students with concerns like these
can e-mail Mike Chase, student recy
cling coordinator, at the address RE
CYCLE.
■ Lecture series begins
Andrea Lawson
The Great Decisions Lecture Series
will begin Feb. 5. The series will ex
plore international issues and will be
held at UNCA and Isothermal Com
munity College, as well as locations in
Black Mountain, Hendersonville,
Brevard .
Speakers in the series will include
George Olmstead, retired colonel with
the U.S. Army Special Forces, Charles
McGill, economics consultant, and
faculty members from Mars Hill Col-
lege.
The series is sponsored by the Center
for Creative Retirement, the Asheville/
Buncombe County League ofWomen
Voters, the Blue Ridge Center for Life
long Education, the American Asso
ciation of University Women's Brevard
chapter, and Isothermal Community
College.
The first lecture, "Foreign Policy and
the U.S. Political System," will be held
at the Owen Conference Center Feb. 5
and will be given by Larry Stern from
the Mars Hill political science depart
ment.
Stern will present the same lecture at
the other locations during the week.
■ Film series continues
Andrea Lawson
The Latin American Womanhood
film and lecture series will present "I is
a Long-Memoried Woman" Feb. 8.
The film depicts the history of slavery
and the experiences of Caribbean
'vomen. The series is sponsored by
UNCA international programs and the
Women's studies department.
Jennifer Thurston
Staff Writer
UNCA administration will take no
disciplinary or punitive measures against
a UNCA student who pled guilty to a
rape charge last fall.
Chancellor Patsy Reed has determined
that sophomore Lucas Reid shall re
main at UNCA as a “regular student”
after considering a recommendation
made by the student court. The details
of both the student court hearing and
the actual recommendation made by
the court were closed.
“My decision was to permit Lucas to
remain as a regular student,” Chancel
lor Reed said. “We can’t talk about it.
I really would prefer to, but the matter
is closed.”
. According to the Oct. 26 issue of the
Blue Banner, Reid was convicted of one
count of second-degree rape and four
counts of second-degree sexual offense
in Oct. 1995. Reid pled guilty under
the Fair Sentencing Act, which allows
defendants to enter a guilty plea with
out admitting actual guilt. Reid was
sentenced to 45 days active imprison
ment and 25 years suspended sentence
with probation. Four other men were
convicted in the case, in which a re
tarded Statesville woman was pen
etrated by objects while being video
taped on the nights of Dec. 31, 1992
and Jan. 1, 1993.
According to the UNCA Judicial
Code, the university “reserves the right
STUDENT cont. on pg. 8
Master plan consultants to gain input from campus
community on future construction and renovations
Kenneth Corn
Staff Writer
Master planning consultants will hold their
last series of presentations to the campus
community starting on Mar. 5.
During the three-day series, the consult
ants will present their ideas on how the
growth of the university should progress for
the next ten years. They will also ask for
reactions to their plan from students, fac
ulty, and staff
The consultants for the project are from the
Florida-based planning and design firm
Wallace Roberts & Todd.
The group came to UNCA in November
to gather information on the needs of the
university to begin planning. A visit in
January confirmed information they had
previously gathered.
After the sessions in March, the consultants
will have enough information to make a final
plan, which will cost the university $ 125,000.
“The November meetings were for the
master planning consultants to get input
about what we have got and what our con
cerns are,” said Tom Byers, special assistant
to the chancellor.
“When they came back in January, they
were verifying the impressions they formed
during the initial fact finding. The March
sessions are what I think they call alternative
concepts,” he said.
The upcoming sessions are an opportunity
for the entire campus to see the plan the
consultants have formulated. It will also be
chance for everyone to voice their opinions
of the proposed plan, Byers said.
Byers gave an example of how the sessions
will work. He said the consultants may pro
pose that the flat area between Carol Belk
Theater and Ramsey Library would be a
good site for a building or an addition to
Carmichael Hall.
The participants in the sessions will have a
chance to say whether or not they agree with
the proposed changes.
Byers emphasized the university has made
the planning sessions open to students and
encourages everyone to come. After the
March sessions conclude, Byers expects that
the university should have a “coherent” plan
for future development.
According to the Jan. 18 Asheville Citizen-
Times , the planners expect the enrollment
to increase by about 350 students over the
next ten years and about 600 more beds
should be available for resident students.
UNCA currently has 900 beds for resident
students.
This semester not all of the beds were filled
by students.
“The university is by no means rushing
ahead and saying that we have to have an
other building,” said Byers. He said when
the new South Ridge Residence Hall opened,
it filled up immediately and the university
had to find off-campus housing for some
students.
The university has taken the decline in
enrollment into consideration and in the
process of evaluating its possible effects on
plans.
“We would hate to be in a position where
students would be turned away and not have
places to live,” said Byers. “We have been
very close to that in the recent past.”
UNCA has one new dormitory in the
CONSULTANTS cont.
on pg.
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Master planning consultants are proposing renovations to Carmicliael Hall (top) and
Owen Hall (bottom).
UNCA one of two schools to escape system-wide cuts in degree programs
Denise Sizemore
Staff Writer
UNCA was one of two campuses of
the 16 in the UNC system to escape a
degree program cut by the Board of
Governors. Last fall, UNCA was noti
fied to give extensive justification as to
why four of its degree programs should
not be eliminated. Those four pro
grams were philosophy, classics, in
dustrial and engineering management,
and master of liberal arts.
UNCA spent several weeks writing
up justifications as to why those pro
grams should be continued. Programs
were justified by their service to the
community, their support provided to
other degree programs, and student
interest. Each department was asked to
prepare a three or four page narrative
which responded to certain questions
asked by the Board of Governors. The
justifications for each program were
sent to the general administration in
Chapel Hill.
“I was confident that ours would not
likely be eliminated,” said Thomas
Cochran, vice chancellor for academic
affairs. Several of UNCA’s programs
are core programs within the institu
tion. Also, within the last 10 years,
UNCA has added master of liberal arts
and industrial and engineering man
agement to its curriculum.
Cochran said he thinks it is a good
strategy for a school to look at its pro
grams and see if it has one it might want
to eliminate. Over the years, UNCA
has eliminated programs that did not
have much student interest. Those pro
grams were mostly interdisciplinary
ones such as sociology and political
science.
Cochran said he believes the Board of
Governors’ decisions depended upon
the institution and the extent to which
a program was key to that institution.
“For us, philosophy (and classics are)
in our core,” he said.
However, the industrial and engi
neering management program is not a
core program to UNCA and could
have been eliminated. The program
was initiated in 1987 because of strong
community interest to have some type
of engineering-related program.
Cochran said he did not believe the
general administration would cancel
that program since it could cause prob
lems within the community.
UNCA created the program as a re
sponse to a survey of 100 plant and
personnel managers in Western North
Carolina. Respondents expressed a de
sire for the program to be included.
Other justifications included the edu
cational opportunity for students in
this area and the program’s degree of
curriculum difficulty and interdiscipli
nary approach. Also, the elimination of
this program would not realize any
dollar savings and would have had a
serious impact on classes with tradi
tionally low enrollment.
With 23 graduates “this is the biggest
year ever for graduates in this pro
gram,” said Robert Yearout, associate
professor of management. Since 1988,
21 students have graduated from the
industrial and engineering management
program. At this time all graduates
from the program are either employed
in their field or are attending graduate
school.
The master of liberal arts is also a
community outreach program that
Cochran said he feels serves its purpose.
Ted Uldricks, the director of the mas
ter of liberal arts program, said the
program is intricately connected with
the core of the university. The program
“sprang from, builds on, and reinforces
the humanities program,” said Uldricks.
UNCA gets extra library funding from
the program. Everything the master of
liberal arts program orders for the li
brary is also useful to the humanities
program and several other academic
departments. Uldricks said he also be
lieves faculty members are able to launch
experimental new courses in new sub
jects, or subjects they have taught be
fore, with more ease because of the
program.
No one at UNCA knew how sweep
ing the cuts would be or on vvhat basis
the cuts would be made. Uldricks was
CUTS cont. on pg. 8