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Volume 24, Number 16 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE February 8, 1996
Professor’s unexpected death stuns campus community
■ Race/Religion talk show
As part of Black History Month, a race
and religion talk show will be held
tonight at the Highsmith Center Stu
dent Lounge.
The panel discussion will be held in a
talk-show format. The moderator for
the event will be Darcel Grimes, news
anchor for WLOS-TV.
The event will explore answers to the
questions, "Has the utilization of reli
gion been a mechanism to justify rac
ism and discrimination? Has religion
acted as a safe haven and defense for
those who have been discriminated
against?"
Panel members will include Keith
Bramlett, lecturer in sociology; Shmuel
Birnham, rabbi of Congregation Beth
Israel; Carl Arrington, pastor of Berry
Temple United Methodist Church;
Bob Smith, Asheville-Buncombe Com
munity Relations Council director;
John Hayes, Hillcrest Enrichment Pro
gram director; and several UNCA stu
dents.
The program is sponsored by Stu
dent Development and is a Humani
ties cultural event.
■ Classes offered
The Continuing Education Program
at UNCA will offer beginning and
intermediate German classes this
month.
The beginning course will be taught
Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Feb. 8
through April 11. The class will teach
German phrases, sentences, and idi
oms most useful for travel abroad.
The Intermediate I course will be
taught on Thursdays from 7:30 to 9
p.m.,Feb. 8 through April 11. The
course will focus on additional lan
guage skills and German culture.
The Intermediate II course will be
taught Tuesdays form 7:30 to 9 p.m.,
Feb. 13 through April 16 and will
study conversation, simple stories,
grammar, and key situations in every
day German life.
The course will be taught by Chris
tine Gullickson, a former UNCA Ger
man professor and native of Switzer
land.
■ Lecture series continues
Andrea Lawson "We are deeply saddened to hear of
News Editor Dr. Howard’s death," said Chancellor
Members of the campus community Reed, in a published letter to the cam-
said they were shocked after the death of pus community. "In his long tenure at
a UNCA professor on Tuesday. UNCA, he has been a respected teacher
and scholar, and a valued colleague and
friend. His passing is a profound loss to
this campus and to higher education in
North Carolina."
Howard served as chair of the philoso
phy department from 1978 to the
present. He joined UNCA in 1972.
His areas of scholarship were philoso-
PROFESSOR cont. on pg. 10
Campus hit by snow storm
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Semester starts with
three car break-ins
Andrea Lawson
News Editor
Three cars were broken into on the UNCA campus Jan. 15,
causing over $870 worth of damage to the students’ cars.
Officials at the public safety office said incidents such as this one
were not uncommon, because of crime groups and the inad
equate number of officers on staff
“I wish that they had a lot more parking nearer the campus and
also to let the rules be known, because I didn’t know you could
park anywhere on the weekends,” said Ashley Graham, a student
whose car
in to. “Ac-
officer'
himself
was only
person,
if they
get more
trolling
help, too.”
The first
break-in
Graham’s
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there v/as only one
patrol person^ and I
thnic if they worked
to get more people
patrolling that would
help, too. "—Ashley
Graham, student.
was broken
tually, the
mentioned
that there
one patrol
and I think
worked to
people pa-
that would
report of a
was V on
car, accord-
public safety
Graham
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Ptiolos by William Davis
A winter storm hit Asheville Friday night, causing the cancellation of afternoon classes Friday and day and
evening classes Monday. Snow plows (above) helped clear icy campus roads for Tuesday classes.
Students (above) enjoyed a long weekend and the opportunity to play in the snow.
reports.
said she received a phone call at around 3:30 a.m. from the public
safety office. She was taken to her car, which was parked in the
lower lot behind South Ridge Hall. Graham said she found the
window broken and her radar detector missing.
“I thought they (public safety) did a good job,” Graham said.
The second incident was reported at 5:02 a.m., according to
reports. Jesse Knight, a student, reported that his driver’s side
window had been broken and a portable compact disc player had
been stolen. The third incident was reported at 1:30 p.m. and
also involved the breaking of a student’s car window and theft of
a compact disc container and 20 compact discs.
In all three cases, the weapon used to break the windows was
unknown. According to Dennis Gregory, investigation/crime
prevention officer, it is not unusual for officers to report up to ten
break-ins in one evening, and that UNCA has about 30 break-
ins per year.
“It was probably the same person that night,” Gregory said. He
also said he thinks there are probably two or three groups that
break into cars on campus.
Gregory said the students can try to get their stolen property
back by allowing officers to enter the serial numbers of their
stolen property into the police information computer.
BREAK-INS cont. on pg. 10
Celebration underway for African-American Heritage Month
The Great Decisions Lecture Series
will continue Feb. 12 with the presen
tation of "The Intelligence Commu
nity: Time for Reform."
The lecture will be held at Owen
Conference Center and will be given
by George Olmsted, an international
banker and retired colonel from the
U.S. Army Special Forces. It is the
second in a series of eight talks target
ing U.S. foreign policy issues.
Olmsted will give the same talk at
four other Western North Carolina
sites, including Hendersonville and
Black Mountain, the week of Feb. 12.
■ VCAA status report
The Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs Search Committee began inter
viewing candidates for the off-campus
stage of the search Jan. 26.
The off-campus interviews will be held
in February. Afterwards, members of
the committee will visit the institutions
where the candidates are currently em
ployed. The visits are scheduled for
February and early March.
Christine Treadaway
Staff Writer
UNCA’s African-American Student
Development is coordinating various
events for the African-American Heri
tage Month Celebration. Throughout
the month of February, various events
will focus on African-American history
and culture.
“We hope that we challenge everyone
to learn more about African-American
history and to take part in these activi
ties,” said Carolyn Briggs, coordinator
of African-American Student Devel
opment. We need to be celebrating
African-American history not only in
February, but all year, everyday,” said
Briggs- , , , ,
Most of the nine scheduled events are
free and all are open to UNCA stu
dents, staff and faculty.
One of the events will be an eight-part
series called “Opening Doors: A Dia
logue on Racism” that involves not
only UNCA, but also Memorial Mis
sion Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital,
and MAHEC. Students who attend
this series may receive one hour of
credit, on a pass/fail basis.
“The focus is to break down the bar
riers and ‘open doors’ that are closed of
people’s awareness and perception. We
want to get those misconceptions out
of the way, so that we’re able to have
open dialogue,” said Adrian Tatum,
president of UNCA’s African-Ameri-
can Student Association.
The “Opening Doors” program will
bring together people from four major
Asheville institutions and attempt to
offer “real world” questions and an
swers about race relations in educa
tional and workplace settings.
Tatum said because the “Opening
Doors” series is ongoing and will have
participants from UNCA as well as
people outside the university, it can
help build community relations and
improve communication.
“Racism on this campus is hard to
pickout. It’s not so much overt, but the
covert kind. Little things that people
do and little things that people say that
make you think, ‘Hmmm, what are
they trying to get at? What are they
trying to prove?’” said Tatum.
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson first
began observing Black History week.
He viewed it as a time to “celebrate and
focus on the contributions and achieve
ments of Black Americans.” It is now a
month long event that is nationally
observed.
UNCA’s African-American Student
Association has a similar objective to
Woodson’s about why these African-
American Heritage Month events need
to take place.
“(We hope) to not only show the
accomplishments (made by) African-
Americans throughout history, but
what we are doing now. This is very
important for people to understand
that we are here and we’ve made contri
butions and continue to make contri
butions to this country and to the
world,” said Tatum.
Tatum said he also thinks that since
the spotlight is on African-Americans
this month, it is a good opportunity to
promote African-American contribu
tions. The various events are designed
to widen perspectives, eliminate nar
row-mindedness, and enable people to
MONTH cont. on pg. 10