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Volume 27 Issue 5
February 19, 1998
Student fees, tuition will increase in 1998-99
By Gene Zaleski
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Tuition, student fees, housing
costs, and the price of meal plans
are all expected to rise in the 1998-
99 academic year, according to
university officials.
Vice Chancellor of Student Af
fairs Eric lovacchini said that stu
dent fees at UNCA, which are the
highest in the 16-school UNC sys
tem, are scheduled to rise nearly
four percent, from $541 per semes
ter for a full-time student to $562.
The revenue generated from the
increases will be used to cover man
datory salary increases for state
employees whose salary is taken
from student fees, and to increase
certain operating budgets,
lovacchini said.
A 20 percent rise in the parking
and safety fees are part of the overall
student fee increase, along with a
14.1 percent increase in recreation
fees, which will be used to cover
staffing needs of the Justice Health
and Fitness Center. There will be
an 8.5 percent increase in educa
tion and technology fees, with the
extra revenue slated to pay for class
room and lab materials. A 3.9 per
cent increase in the fees used for
operation of the Highsmith Center
is also planned.
lovacchini said that the fee in
creases were recommended in De
cember by the student fee commit
tee, which is responsible for mak
ing recommendations for fee in
creases and decreases to the chan
cellor. The chancellor then takes
the recommendations of the com
mittee to the UNCA Board of
Trustees, who ultimately recom
mends a fee structure to the UNC
system Board of Governors.
“We are in the stage where the
Board of Trustees in January rec
ommended to the Board of
Governor’s for a fee structure for
next year,” said lovacchini. “The
guidelines proposed by the finan
cial staff and general admission is
that we should not request an in
crease of greater than five percent,
which we did not do.”
According to Arthur Foley, vice
chancellor of financial affairs, tu
ition costs will increase by two per
cent next year. They will rise from
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Robin Williams was in the Asheville area last week to shoot his new film, Patch
Adams. Scenes of the movie were filmed on Murdock Avenue (pictured above),
Annandale Avenue, and at the Biltmore House.
Proposed UNCA Student Fee Distribution, 1998-99
B Athletics 34%
H Student Center Expansion 18%
FI Health Services 9%
I I Recreation 9%
I Student Center Operations 8%
^ Campus Commission 7%
n Educational & Technology 6%
^Parking/Safety 5%
IB Student Center Special 2%
^ Cultural/Special Events 2%
SOURCE: UNCA FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
GRAPHIC BY ERIN KING
SGA addresses
immediate cliild
care concerns
Will hold forum to inform parents of
current child care opportunities
By Chris Brooker
News Editor
The Student Government Asso
ciation has teamed up with the
Office of Student Development to
address the immediate child care
needs of the UNCA community.
The organizations are sponsoring
“Family Friendly Week” on Feb.
23-27, where information on cur
rent child care opportunities will
be made available to all interested
parents.
“We are looking for short-term
solutions'to a problem that has
been endemic,” said Residential
Senator Doug Jones. “We are try
ing to help UNCA parents find
the resources already available
within the community.”
The Buncombe County Office
of Child Development (BCCD)
will be on campus during the week
to provide counseling to students
and faculty at UNCA with child
care needs.
According to David Marshall, a
commuter senator who resigned his
post on Feb. 11 due to personal
reasons, low-income students with
children are often eligible to receive
financial assistance for child care
from the BCCD in the form of
vouchers. However, Marshall is
afraid that parents at UNCA are
unaware that such assistance is avail
able.
“The vouchers allow working par
ents to go to school full-time,”
Marshall said. “They allow some-
“We are looking for
short-term solu
tions to a problem
that has been en
demic.”
- SGA Residential
Senator Doug
Jones
body to get their schooling out of
the way.”
While at UNCA, the BCCD will
also provide information on how to
find the best child care facilities in
the area,
“They will be advising where the
different child care centers are in
town, provide information on
whether the centers are licensed or
not, and whether they are licensed
A or AA, which are the two differ
ent ratings given to child care cen
ters,” said Marshall.
A public forum will be held on the
night of Feb.25 in which parents at
UNCA can learn about various child
care opportunities already available
in the community. With the help
of the Alpha Xi Delta women’s
fraternity, SGA will provide child
care for parents who want to attend
the forum.
“We will probably have two or
three child care providers give a
three or four minute spiel,” Jones
said. “We will give some general
information on what our objectives
are, and then take calls from the
floor.”
Jones said that he hopes to recruit
a number of individuals at the fo
rum who are highly interested in
the child care issue to become part
of the SGA child care committee.
During Family Friendly Week,
both SGA and BCCD will conduct
independent surveys to assess the
actual child care needs of the UNCA
community.
See CHILD on page 8
Changes in humanities program considered
By Amelia Morrison
staff Writer
The UNCA Faculty Senate is considering
a number of modifications to the humani
ties program in an effort to more accurately
reflect the types of humanities courses of
fered at UNCA.
“There is a mismatch between what the
program goals are right now, unchanged,
ind what each of the courses are doing,
said Dwight Mullen, department chair.
associate professor of political science, and
teacher of Humanities 224.
The issue of whether the humanities pro
gram covers the development of all civiliza
tions, or is just focused on the Western
civilizations was the focus of the meeting of
the Academic Policy Committee (APC) of
the Faculty Senate on Feb. 5.
The APC has proposed changes in Hu
manities course numbers and descriptions
in an attempt to more accurately portray
the current Humanities offerings.
The proposed alterations include chang
ing the tide of Humanities 214 from “The
Rise of European Civilization” to “The
Medieval and Renaissance World,” the title
of Humanities 224 from “The Modern
World” to “The Modern World; Mid 17th
to Mid 20th Century,” and Humanities
414 from “The Future and the Individual”
to “The Individual in the Contemporary
World.”
Another change proposed by the APC in
response to the perceived lack of global
perspective in the humanities curriculum
is the deletion ofa sentence from the UNCA
catalog which reads, “The four course hu
manities sequence follows the development
of human civilizations.”
“Since we don’t do that, it is a promise
that is not fulfilled. Since the catalog is a
contract with the students, we ended up
knocking that sentence out,” said Margaret
Downes, director of the humanities pro
gram and professor of literature and lan-
gtiage.
“The deletion is not going to turn back
the clock or make the courses more
Eurocentric,” Downes said.
Mullen said that the deletion of the sen
tence from the catalog will not have a
significant impact on the focus of the hu
manities program.
“Because of the deletion of the sentence,
you can go either way with it now. It just
kind of avoids the whole point,” said
Mullen. “For me, it does not really alter
much. It still allows for a global approach.”
Mullen said that the humanities program
needs to develop a more expansive ap
proach to history.
“We need to change the course descrip
tions, change the program description, and
change the humanities progra/n so that it
includes all of humanity,” said Mullen.
“We need to understand the rest of the
world.
“I don’t think we have a choice about
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