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October 29, 1998
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Chancellor retires to pursue new business
By Samantha Hartmann
staff Writer
Amelia Morrison
News Editor
UNCA Chancellor Patsy Reed has
plans to pursue business interests as
a partner in a corporation after she
retires from the university.
“My husband is starting a family
business, and I want to be a full
partner in that business,” said Reed.
“He and I will be owners of the
corporation. It will involve some
travel, and I want to travel with
him. Isimplywanttoenjoyadiffer-
ent pace of life.”
Reed’s husband, F. Dewitt Reed
Jr., recently developed and patented
a new fillable dermal patch they
hope to have on the market this
spring, said Reed.
According to an abstract found on
the international patent applica
tion available on the Internet, the
new patch, a “fdlable dermal and
transdermal delivery device,” at
taches to the skin by means of an
adhesive layer.
Absorption
takes place
through a po
rous film that
allows the in
jected sub
stance to pass
through the
skin. The patch
maybe filled by
using a needle to inject the desired
substance into the interior of the
fillable reservoir.
“Currently, you can use a patch
Patsy Reed
for blood pressure medications, car
diac medications, and even hor
mones,” saidShirley Kindley, astaff
nurse in UNCA’s Health Services.
“Drug companies are now produc
ing individual medications on
patches that are used and thrown
away. I could see how it could be
used as a cost -saving device. It
would be a great delivery for people
who need insulin and do not want
to be punctured by needles. You
need to use caution with what you
put in there.”
Reed said the patch had a wide
range of uses, but it would be up to
the user to decide what was impor
tant and to do background research.
According to Reed, the patch can
be placed on the septum of the nose
to allow vapors to be delivered di
rectly into the nose. “It is one that
can be filled,” said Reed. “It relates
to an aromatherapy patch. For
example, Vicks Vapor Rub has eu
calyptus oil in it, and people use it
to relieve congestion, so you could
put eucalyptus oil in the patch.”
According to Reed, her husband
has both a domestic and interna
tional patent on the patch. “Global
communications are such that, if
you hope to market internation
ally, then you need to have it pat
ented,” said Reed.
Reed said she will be retiring June
30, 1999. “1 think everyone gets to
a time in their life where they feel
like the professional years should
draw to a close and they need to
restructure,” said Reed. “I don’t
know if it would be different if (my
husband’s) work wasn’t bearing
See PATENT page 9
Power fails
due to old
wires
By John Stanier
staff Writer
Failure of aging under
ground electrical wires caused
campus-wide power outage
on Oct. 10 and damaged
UNCA’s overall electrical sys
tem. The power went out at
approximately 5 a.m., and was
restored to campus buildings
[hroughout the afternoon and
tvening.
rhe outage was caused by an
electrical fault of a section of
the underground electrical
feeder that supplies power to
Lipinsky Hall. The cable failed
because it was old. “Electrical
cable does fail with age,” said
Stephen Baxley, UNCA di
rector of facilities manage
ment and engineering.
“You can’t bury it in the
ground and expect it to last
1,000.years. It has a life ex
pectancy,” said Baxley. The
electrical cable that shorted
out at Lipinsky Hall was bur
ied in 1968 and had a life
expectancy of 23 years, Baxley
said.
According to that life ex
pectancy, the cable was ex
pected to last until 1993, but
was not replaced.
UNCA was aware of the po
tential problems with the wir
ing.
“We’ve known that the cur
rent system was aging,” said
Baxley.
There are now approxi
mately 3,000 linear feet, or a
little over a half a mile, of the
old wiring from 1968. The
wiring is spread out sporadi
cally across the campus be
cause construction and reno
vation projects over the years
have replaced segments of the
old system area-by-area, said
Baxley.
“It’s a very expensive propo
sition to go in and replace all
of it,” said Baxley, “but it’s
something the university
started looking into even be
fore this cable went out.”
There are no current plans
for an extensive overhaul of
the wiring system, he said.
The wiring problem at
Lipinsky Hall caused further
damage to UNCA’s overall
electrical system.
“The campus electrical sys
tem has four feeders,” Baxley
said. “One handles just the
lights down on the recreational
fields by the Health and Fit
ness Center, but the other
three handle all of the electric
ity on campus.”
The cable failure on Oct. 10
caused problems with the elec
trical switch gear regulating
the four feeders.
“We’re not at full capacity,”
Baxley said. “Right now, we
are only able to use two of the
three main feeders.” As a re
sult of the decreased power
capacity, most buildings on
campus are without air condi-
tioning.
Repairing the electrical
feeder system and the switch
gear will be a larger project
that will require a scheduled
power outage on campus, said
Baxley.
The switch gear, located next
to Governors Village, also
dates back to 1968. Baxley
has located the parts to fix the
aging system and will deter
mine the best time to black
out the campus. This work
will likely be scheduled over
the break between semesters
See POWER page 10
Twelve Tribes' public defense
PHOTO BY TRAVIS BARKER
Members from the Twelve Tribes community visited the quad oh Oct. 14 to hand out invitation fliers, play music, and dance.
Group addresses accusations at forum
By Sara Jones
staff Writer
The Twelve I ribes, a coninuinal group
interested in starting a community in
Asheville, responded to local concerns at an
open forum on Oct, 1 5 at the Asheville Civic
Center, where the group received mixed
reactions.
“Our only reason for being here is to answer
the questions of those who have come against
us. (We want) to clear things up that may
have been misrepresented,” said Ed Wiseman,
a member of the Twelve T ribes and leader of
the discussion.
The group met on the UNCA quad on Oct.
14 for the purpose of “ministering to people,
and reaching people who are looking for
something like this,” said Aharon, a member
of the community for approximately 13 years.
After playing Hebrew music, dancing, and
passing out invitational fliers about the open
forum on the following night, Eric lovacchini,
vice chancellor for student affairs, asked them
to move to the free speech area in front of the
Dining Hall. “They were very cooperative,
very nice people, said lovacchini.
“1 haven't heard much about them, just
that they’re crazy and they beat their kids,”
said Rhiannon Dundee, senior management
major.
At the open forum, children who had been
raised in the community responded to this,
accusation,
“The Bible says ‘train your children in the
way they should go, and when they are older
they will not depart from it.’ My parents
disciplined me and developed in me a respect
for other people, and I love them for that,”
said Luke, a teenage member of the commu
nity.
Another young member of the community
See TWELVE page 9
PHOTO BY TRAVIS BARKER
A Twelve Tribes spokesman answers questions
and defends the community’s beliefs at an
open forum held in the Asheville Civic Center.
SGA attempts to stall student fee increases
By Mat Peery
staff Writer
Anticipating another increase in
student fees for the 1999-2000
school year, the Student Govern
ment Association passed a Student
Fees Omnibus Act that covers sev
eral aspects of student fees.
Doug Jones, SGA senator, intro
duced the legislation during an SGA
meeting held Oct. 7. The legisla
tion calls for a moratorium on “new
fees or fee increases” in the coming
year. The action “is also in response
to consistent increases, and to the
burdensome expense of UNCA’s
, student fee schedule over the last
five academic years,” according to
Section One of the bill. The bill
aims to keep the total fee amount
from increasing, but would allow
the administration to make changes
to line items.
Other sections of the bill include
a student fee information act that
would require the line items that
student fees support be listed, and a
student recourse act that would send
proposed fee increases to the Stu
dent Senate for approval.
Student fees have increased an
average of7 percent since the 1993-
94 school year, and have increased
a cumulative amount of 35 percent
in that same time period. Fees have
increased 3 to 4 percent each of the
last four years. This year, UNCA’s
2,337 full-time students will each
pay $562 per semester. The 838
part-time students will also pay fees,
adjusted for their part-time status,
according to figures from the Of
fice of Institutional Research.
The amounts are determined by a
committee that meets each year to
determine the amount that students
must pay in fees.
The General Administration (GA)
sends UNCA a set of guidelines
that includes both requ irements for
the committee and limits on fee
increases for that year.
“The GA kind of limits how much
we can ask for,” said Tom Cochran,
associate vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs. “Typically, from what
I understand. University General
Administration, through the Board
of Governors, will tell us we can ask
for a 4 percent increase in fees, and
that is it. And then it’s up to us to
decide how to increase it.”
The committee guidelines from
the General Administration usu
ally call for two students and mem
bers of the faculty who have had
experience with the process in some
way, said Eric lovacchini, vice chan
cellor for student affairs. The stu
dents serving on the committee are
often SGA members, said Jones.
Student fees exist to cover costs on
projects and activities that cannot
be funded properly in other ways,
said lovacchini.
“The things that we fund by stu
dent fees are things that the state
does not provide the resources for.
Strange as it might seem, they don’t
provide us parking lots. So, in order
to build them or maintain them,
we’ve got to charge money for park
ing,” said lovacchini. Currently-,
each full-time student pays $30 per
semester in fees that help fund the
cost of parking.
lovacchini also said that a school
UNCA’s size should not be pun
ished for not having enough stu
dents to lessen the amount of fees.
See FEES page 9
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