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Volume 25, Number 11 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE November 14, 1996
Snow no longer means automatic day off, according to new policy
Alex Self
Staff Writer
The “Late Start Schedule,” UNCA’s
answer to inclement weather, goes
into effect this fall. The schedule calls
for an hour and 40 minute delay of
classes and shorter individual session
times, according to the vice chancel
lor for enrollment management.
Commuter students saw the changes
as an inconvenience, not a help, be
cause it interfered with obligations
outside of school, and required travel
in treacherous roads.
“I think it’s rotten,” said commuter
Teneal Messer, a junior at UNCA.
“I’m a commuter, and I also have a
job.
“If I have to be at my job at a certain
time, then that’s going to mess up my
schedule,” Messer said. “What am I
supposed to do, tell them I can’t come
in because the school messed up the
schedule?”
Vice Chancellor for Enrollment
Management Caroline Miller said the
Academic Policies Committee (APC)
and the Faculty Senate passed the
schedule last year.
They designed it to aid students in
the early classes who were held re
sponsible for new material even though
class was canceled for snow.
“The scheduling change was really
brought on by a recognition on our
part that our present policy causes us
to miss entirely too much time in the
early class blocks,”
said Miller. “We al
ways cancel the 8
a.m. or the eights
and nines, and so
students that were
enrolled in those
classes missed, par
ticularly last win
ter, an inordinate
amount of class
time.
“They (the stu
dents) were still
held responsible for
the material in the
course,” Miller
said. “I think we
missed somewhere
in the neighbor
hood of nine Mon
day, Wednesday,
Friday early-morn
ing classes, and six
or seven Tuesday,
Thursday early
mornings.
“That’s difficult
for the students en
rolled in those
classes,” said
Miller.
Miller said the
new snow schedule
would also help fac
ulty who previously
had to cope with
their morning sections getting be
hind their afternoon sections of the
Photo by St, Claire Ready
The new snow schedule delays all classes, rattier ttian canceling tlie early ones. The steep grade of ttie
back entrance moy provide trouble to commuting students during inclement weather.
same class.
“From a faculty perspective, ifyou’re
teaching two sections of something.
and one of them is
at eight or nine, and
one of them is at
one o’clock in the
afternoon, you’re
one place with one
class, and you’re an
other place with an
other class,” said
Miller. “It makes
that process a little
bit more difficult.
“It also makes the
testing process a
little bit more diffi
cult,” Miller said.
“You give a test to
one group 10 days
before you give a test
to another group.
Junior Karen
Presnell said the new
policy, although logi
cal, would be an im
possible adjustment
to students who have
to work after school.
“Theoretically, I
think it’s a good
policy,” said Presnell.
“But realistically, for
people who have jobs
or other commit
ments outside of class,
it’s hard to schedule
those things around
classes.
“I think everyone will have to make
some adjustments, but those adjust
ments may be impossible for some
people,” Presnell said.
Miller said classes will be delayed
almost two hours, and the individual
class time will also be shortened in the
new schedule. However, by the end of
the day, there will not be any “signifi
cant difference in terms of times when
classes are actually meeting.”
Hopefully, the Late Start Schedule
will “equalize the impact” of delaying
school over all classes, instead of pe
nalizing early morning sessions.
“You’ll have 40 minutes of class in
stead of 50 minutes of class,” said
Miller. “So every class gets penalized a
little bit, but it will prevent some
classes from being totally destroyed.”
Some students said the Late Start
Schedule was flawed because it short
ened classes too much to learn new
material.
“It takes us 15-30 minutes to review
from the last session (of classes). That
means 5-10 minutes of new material
with 5-10 minutes of wrapping up,
which means you don’t learn any
thing,” said junior Darkarai Bryant.
Junior Tom Bushe said some class
time was better than none, if for no
other reason than to get an assign
ment for new material.
“I think the whole purpose is so you
can go in there and do part of the
class, and maybe get the assignment
so you’re not totally behind,” said
Bushe, a mathematics major. “Last
SNOW cont. on pg. 10
worn LOSE CHAMPIONSHIP IN HEARTBREAKER
Kyle S. Phipps
Staff Writer
The UNCA women’s soccer team tied UNC-
Greensboro 1-1 through 150 minutes of play
before falling to the Spartans 4-3 in a penalty
kick shootout in the Big South Tournament
Championship. The Bulldogs advanced to the
title game, played at UNCG, by defeating the
University of Maryland-Baltimore County 3-0
in the tournament semifinals.
“They (UNCA) played well. They gave it their
heart and soul. We talked a lot about the fact
that they (UNCG) are a better team than we are,
but I think we had a lot more emotion than they
did,” said Head Coach Michele Cornish about
the championship game.
Alison Gehringer, a junior midfielder, scored
two goals in the semifinal matchup with UMBC
on Friday night. Her first goal came in the 22nd
minute on a directJdck. Gehringer scored her
second goal late in the second half on a
breakaway. Lynae King, a senior midfielder,
scored a goal shortly before the end of the first
half, and senior goalkeeper Jill Young had six
iaves for her sixth shutout of the season.
In the championship game on Sunday, UNCA
fell behind 1-0, with 28 seconds remaining in
the first half Ralia Maisonlahti scored on a
corner kick from Stephanie Dearlove. Her shot
from 20 yards out found the lower left corner of
the net.
Young stopped a UNCG penalty kick early in
the second half with a diving save to keep the
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game within reach for the Bulldogs at 1-0.
Gehringer evened the game at 1-1 on a direct
kick from just outside the penalty box when she
ripped a shot into the left side of the goal. The
goal came with just over five minutes remain
ing in regulation time as a result of a foul by
Maisonlahti.
UNCA played the majority of the four over
time periods on defense, unable to generate
much offense. UNCA had seven shots in the
first half, but only three more for the next 105
minutes of the game.
In the penalty kick shootout, Amanda Huston,
Kristi Cummings, and King connected for the
Bulldogs. However, UNCG was able to score
four penalty kicks for the victory.
The game started with snow showers, and the
temperature didn’t climb above the
mid 30s for the entire game.
“We had a very good game (and)
played hard the whole time,” said
Young. “We didn’t back down, and
they didn’t intimidate us like they
usually do. We came out with some
thing to prove, and I think we did
just that. It’s just an unfortunate
way to end a great season.”
Several UNCA players expressed
regret that the game ended in a
shootout.
“I think we played with our hearts,
and we played as hard as we possi
bly could. There eventually has to
be some sort of an outcome, and
it’s always a pity to have to judge it
on a shootout, but that’s just what
happens. I don’t think that we could
have played any harder,” said
Huston, a sophomore defender.
“We played awesome today. It’s
always hard to lose on PKs (penalty
kicks), but I think we played well,”
said King.
Cornish had nothing but praise
for the Bulldogs, and their effort in
the championship game against the
fifteenth ranked Spartans.
Kara Strehle (riglit) attempts to gain control of llie ball witfi a UNCG player in last Sunda/s Big Soutfi championship match.
Photo by Del Delorm
WOMEN cont. on pg. 6
Nudes stolen from
Owen darkroom
Trish Johnson
Staff Writer
Several rolls of negatives were stolen from the
darkroom in Owen Hall earlier this semester,
according to a UNCA police report. According
to campus security, this is the first reported
incident of this type of theft at UNCA. The
complaint was filed on Oct. I 0.
The negatives contained female nudes on them,
therefore it is a good possibility that the same
person stole all the negatives, according to Den
nis Gregory, UNCA department investigator.
The thefts occurred despite limited access to
the area where the negatives were stolen from.
The door to the darkroom in Owen Hall has a
combination on it that only photography stu
dents have access to.
“It is a good bet that someone who knows the
combination stole the negatives because the
lock was not tampered with or damaged,” said
■ Bruce Martin, UNCA police officer. “All pho
tography students probably know the combina
tion to the room, plus whoever they give it to.”
None of the students involved wished to be
interviewed about the thefts because of the
sensitivity of the material.
One set of negatives was returned and slipped
under the door of Larry White, UNCA photog
raphy instructor, with a note attached to them.
“There were fingerprints on the negatives, but
we don’t have a suspect to match up with the
prints or with the writing,” said Gregory. “There
aren’t any really strong leads. It hasn’t been a
high profile-type crime, so we only work on it at
various times.”
Campus security added that a problem with
solving this particular crime is the number of
students that knew the combination to the
darkroom.
“The problem is that there are an awful lot of
people that have access to the combination,”
said Martin. “A more controlled environment
NEGATIVES cont. on pg. 10