e did
ofes-
insis-
ibia’s
stern
nting
ity in
mis-
most
with
iliza-
eat?”
cor-
if set-
good
ly by
don’t
cperi-
ti one
ce her
to go
ice of
in the
le, he
clubs
: best
ics.
k as a
‘King
n if it
/n the
media
1 viev
id th
11
lurston
)ing to
1 bring
; of the
lates.
:d an(
awed,
Special election issue
4-5
Weekend Weather: Say goodbye fo Indian Summer Check the weather on page 12..
The Blue
Banner
Womens soccer beats
Wake Forest 8
The Samhain story
6
Rewew of 'JSirfcy Vdenftje’ pei^ 7
Volume 25, Number 9 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE October 31, 1996
Campus Highlights
■ If you haven’t noticed,
there’s an election coming up on
Tuesday, Nov. 5. While this isn’t a
“Campus Highlight,” the event de
serves a lot of everyone’s attention.
1996 is a big election year for both
North Carolina and the United
States as offices from state senate to
the presidency of the United States
are up for grabs. If you are unsure
where you need to go to vote, call
the Board of Elections in the county
that you are registered to vote. The
Buncombe County Board of Elec
tions telephone number is 255-
5123.
■ The trees have changed and
the weather has grown much colder.
Baseball is over, and summer is just
a memory. What does this all mean?
Basketball season is right around
the corner. While men’s and
women’s soccer prepare for tourna
ment play, the men’s basketball team
will have their annual Blue-White
scrimmage on Monday, Nov. 4 at
7:30 p.m. This will be the first op
portunity for the campus to get a
look at the 1996-97 team, as well as
new coach Eddie Biedenbach. While
the regular season will not begin
until Nov. 23 against East Tennes
see State University, the scrimmage
will hopefully quench your appe
tites until then. The scrimmage is
free to all faculty, staff, and students
with ID.
• Ever wondered what 30 sing
ing French middle school students
look like? The opportunity to find
out comes to UNCA on Monday,
Nov. 4, when the students will be
performing a multi-ethnic song and
dance revue at 3:45 p.m. in Lipinsky
Auditorium. The group is touring
it’s “French Spectacle,” complete
with native costumes, throughout
the eastern U.S. The hour-long
peformance is free and open to the
public, and would make an excel
lent cultural event for all you hu
manities students that don’t realize
that there are only a few weeks left
of school. The performance is co
sponsored by UNCA’s Education
Department and St. Joseph’s
Franco-American Exchange in
Dijon, France.
■ Being nestled in the moun
tains has its advantages, but one is
not local access to a professional
sports team. Luckily, Charlotte is
right down the road, and the Hor
nets are preparing for a new NBA
season. Tickets for all home games
are for sale in Highsmith Center.
There are a limited number of tick
ets available to students, faculty,
and staff, but the priority goes to
the students. If any tickets remain
24 hours before the games, then
faculty and staff may purchase them.
If interested, call Sharyn McDonald
at 6669 for more information.
■ Visiting filmmaker Richard
Breyer will present his film “Esta
Esperanza” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday,
Nov. 8 in the Humanities Lecture
Hall. Tickets, available at the door,
are free to students and $4 for gen
eral admission. He will also conduct
a brown bag lunch conversation on
“Becoming a Documentarian” from
noon-1:15 p.m.
Counselor says marijuana use by students probably up
Monica Williams
Staff Writer
Despite a week of event that the
Peer Education Class held to present
alternatives to drinking and drug
use, some students feel that sub
stance use cannot be curbed on cam
pus. National Alcohol Awareness
week was Oct. 21-25.
“With all these on-campus frater
nities and sororities throwing par
ties all the time, alcohol abuse will
never go down,” said a student who
asked to remain anonymous. “I am
sure that they don’t want anyone to
be aware of the abuses of alcohol and
or drugs, because then they wouldn’t
have anyone attend their dumb ‘let’s
get drunk’ parties. It is really sicken
ing that they' make a profit from
people vomiting all over themselves. ”
Vicki Brunnick, counselor and ad
junct instructor in health promotion,
said that the purpose of National Al
cohol Awareness week was to inform
the student body.
“This is an annual event that has
been held on college campuses for
over ten years,” said Brunnick. “It is
just to bring awareness to the campus,
not to be preachy. We just want to
make people aware that we are aware
that abuses happen and to have some
alternative activities for students. We
wanted to show them that partying is
not the only option that they have.”
Brunnick said the events held dur
ing the week had a really good re
sponse, and it showed that people
would enjoy having on-campus ac
tivities on the weekends.
“We put on the Bouncing Pump
kins basketball tournament last Fri
day night, and over 125 students at
tended,” said Brunnick. “We had a
comedian Monday night and over 50
people attended that. There was also
good attendance at our other events.
We were very pleased.”
Some on-campus organizations said
they practice alcohol awareness
throughout the year.
“We are always acknowledging al
cohol awareness, along with the other
fraternities on this campus,” said
sophomore Ian Jones, president of
Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. “Any
time we throw a party, we rent out
shuttle buses to and from the party to
make sure that there are no drunk
drivers getting themselves and other
people hurt. So, every week is Na
tional Alcohol Awareness Week for
)>
US.
Some students feel providing shuttle
buses is just a superficial attempt to
show the campus that they care.
“They should check IDs when people
get on those shuttles,” said the anony
mous student. “I know many under
age students that go to those parties
and get drunk off their asses.
“Those fraternities do not practice
alcohol awareness and don’t care about
it either. If they did, they would look
inside people’s book bags when they
got on the bus.
“I sincerely doubt that they are go
ing to those parties to study. Those
bags are filled with alcohol. You would
have to be really stupid not to realize
that.
“I have thought of calling the
Asheville Police Department many
times to raid their parties, but some of
MARIJUANA cont. on pg. 12
Photo by Jennifer Thurston
About ten students took ttie campus lighting tour last Tuesday night. Eric lovacchini (for left) led the tour, and SGA president Sergio Mariaca also
attended.
Students help administration identify
problem areas in need of lighting
John Hodges
Staff Writer
The vice-chancellor of student affairs conducted
a lighting tour on UNCA’s campuslast Tuesday
night to survey the street lights and walk-way
lights.The tour determined whether or not people
walking on the campus at night have ample light,
and to identify the areas that do not have suffi
cient lighting.
“Tuesday night, we traveled around campus
looking for lighting problems,” said Eric
lovacchini, vice-chancellor of student affairs. “We
(the group) identified areas that could have im
proved lighting. We identified some areas that
need new lights, some places that need vegetation
pruning, and some lights that are in need of
repair.”
“We do a lighting tour annually and try to bring
members of the community that have an interest
in campus safety,” said lovacchini. “We have
several people join us on the tour including the
housing director, the facilities manager, and we
also ask students to join us. The tour is open to
the public and we like to hear the input from
everyone, including members of the community
to see what they think about the light on campus.”
Some students said they feel the lighting on
campus is sufficient in some areas, but lacking in
others. They also said they hope those who were
on the lighting tour made note of those specific
places and that lights will be installed there soon.
“I think that most of the campus has pretty good
lighting,” said sophomore Tiffany Drummond. “I
really don’t have a problem walking alone at night.
But I do have meetings in Owen Hall every Wednes
day at 9 p.m. and I always ask someone to walk
with me.
“I think that the lighting around Zagier Hall and
Owen Hall can be improved,” said Drummond.
“There, the lighting isn’t really good and many
places are very dark.”
lovacchini said walkways around Owen Hall and
Zagier Hall and some places on the quad were
places that do need some improved lighting.
“We found in the years past that new lights are
not always the solution to the problem of dark
ness,” said lovacchini. “Sometimes branches and
trees need to be pruned, or the light just needs to
be spread out more or angled in a different way.
“We saw that the main problem of the sidewalks
around Owen and Zagier was the growth of some
of the vegetation,” said lovacchini. “It was taken
down on a list, and workers from the physical plant
will be pruning, not cutting anything down, there
very shortly. We also noticed that some lights
could be added to the quad area, not really big
lights that light everything up, but some landscape
UGHTING cont. on pg. 10
Tensions rise at
weekend forum
Aimee Campbell
Staff Writer
A forum sponsored by UNCA Out! held last
weekend addressed the issues of Christianity and
homosexuality. However, some students that at
tended said the forum didn’t adequately address
the issues and was basically just a “shouting match”
between various Christian groups and UNCA
Out!.
“The reaction to the forum was generally favor
able, but unfavorable in how it took shape,” said
panelist Adrian Tatum. “There was a progression
of people being disrespectful and not listening.”
Tracy Wilson, co-president of UNCA Out!,
said that the forum was held in response to the
Christian-based discussions that were recently
held on campus.
“After the Veritas Forum a couple of weeks ago,
we had a desire to have another forum on similar
issues, religion and diversity, to show that there is
more than one viewpoint on the issue, and that
there is no one opinion that is the standard,” said
Wilson.
“Our goal was not to find ‘the answer’ because
we knew that wouldn’t be possible, but to initiate
discussion, which we did and did well,” Wilson
continued.
Wilson says she believes the forum addressed the
issues well and at least partially achieved its pur
pose.
“We had several panelists who were gay or les
bian and Christian, as well as two panelists who
were Christian, but not gay or lesbian, who were
coming from a more conservative viewpoint,”
said Wilson.
“What we did not want to do was set up what is
‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’,’” said Wilson. “We
wanted instead to have a discussion where people
could bring forward different points and things to
think about and talk about.”
“I think if our goal had been to make everybody
like each other, that wouldn’t have been a reason
able goal,” said Wilson. “Our goal was conversa
tion , and we achieved that goal.
Some of the panelists said that the discussion
topics needed more variation.
“If it’s going to be done, give it a proper title,”
said Tatum. “ If it’s going to be on religion and
diversity, say so. If it’s going to be on homosexu
ality and Christianity, say so.”
“If it’s about religion, I want to see Christians,
Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, whatever,”
continued Tatum. “And if it’s about diversity, I
want to see homosexuals, heterosexuals, African-
Americans, white Americans, Native Americans,
everyone who makes up a diverse population.”
“If you’re going to give a forum on religion and
diversity, you need to address religion and diver
sity,” said Tatum. ■*
Some of the organizers feared that the forum
would insigate a lot of conflict.
FORUM cont. on pg. 10
i