The University of North CaroUna at Asheviile
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V'olume 28 Issue 11
November 19, 1998
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By Samantha Hartmann
staff Writer
Students will no longer receive a
paper copy of tlieir end of term
grades through the mail. Beginning
this semester, they will have to ob
tain their grades through the Web
for Students, UNCA’s Internet reg
istration service!
We wanted the web product be
cause it provides so many services
for the students,” said Rebecca
Sensabaugh, registrar. “Hopefully,
students will be able to work with
it.”
Sensabaugh said students may sub
mit a written request for a mailed
paper copy of their grades, but they
won’t receive their grades until Janu
ary.
“For the people who can only get
; paper copy, it will be a little later
for them to get their grades,” said
Sensabaugh. “We won’t be able to
get them mailed out until we come
back in January. If students go to a
local library, or if they have a com
puter at home with a web browser
(such as Netscape or Internet Ex
plorer), they can get their grades as
Isoon as we enter them.”
1 Breandan Dezendorf, a member
lof the student support staff for the
[computer center and a sophomore
mass communication major, said
students will get their grades
quicker, but computer availability
could be a concern.
The computer labs will be closed
during the holiday break beginning
Dec. 23, according to Robin
Daugherty, manager of adminis
trative computing services.
See GRADES page 9
Division I benefits
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PHOTO BY KYLE PHIPPS
Sophomore forward Ben Ezell blocks a shot during the game on Nov. 16 against St.
Johns University in New York City during the Chase National Invitational Tourna
ment .
Suspect facing
charges in
campus thefts
Arrested for probation violation
By Mat Peery
staff Writer
An Asheville man was arrested
Sunday night by the Buncombe
County Sheriffs Department for a
probation violation after a UNCA
student reported a stolen credit card
to the Public Safety Department.
Following his arrest, the sheriffs
department brought James Roy
Foyles Jr. to UNCA “for follow-up
investigation,” according to the ar
rest report obtained from public
safety.
In addition to the violation,
UNCA’s Public Safety Department
filed these charges against Foyles:
three counts of breaking and enter
ing, three counts of larceny after
breaking and entering, and one
count of forgery of instrument from
a stolen check, according to inves
tigation reports.
Foyles was denied bail because of
the violation of his probation, said
Sergeant Steve Lewis, a UNCA
public safety officer. All seven
charges filed against Foyles by
UNCA are felony offenses, accord
ing to the reports.
Lewis said that more charges from
the university against Foyles are
likely.
“I think by Monday or Tuesday
of next week we should have com
pleted our charges,” said Lewis. The
investigation does not involve any
other witnesses or subjects, said
Lewis, who added that public safety
was “awaiting statements of finan
cial transactions” before closing
their investigation.
Foyles was arrested at the Shoney’s
Inn off of Interstate 26 in Arden,
where he attempted to use a credit
card stolen from a UNCA student
earlier that day, according to the
arrest report. He was initially ar
rested for violating his probation
and was transported to UNCA by
the sheriff s department.
Shannon Sams, senior math ma
jor, said that she received a call
from her mother on Sunday re
garding “unusual activity” on her
credit card. Sams said she discov
ered the card was missing and called
public safety. Sams also said that
$30 was stolen from her room in
Governors Village.
“The investigation was initiated
by a stolen credit card, and that
card was used,” said Lewis.
Sams said that public safety then
contacted the credit card company
and was told where the card had
been used that day, including a
transaction that came through while
the officer was on the phone.
“The credit card was canceled.
We canceled it, and that is how
they caught him,” said Sams. “He
tried to use it that night.”
Public safety went to the location
given to them by the credit card
company, said Sams.
Once there, the officers verified
the suspect’s name and ran a back
ground check. At this time, the
Buncombe County Sheriff’s De
partment was called to make the
arrest on the charge of probation
violation.
A search conducted after Foyles
was arrested turned up several
checks belonging to another UNCA
student, Bryan Farr, a senior atmo
spheric sciences major. Farr was
notified of the theft and came down
to file a report with public safety
Sunday night.
“The checks were in the top drawer
See ARREST page 10
Alumni rate UNCA in survey of campuses
Alumni poorest, yet most satisfied with instruction at UNCA
By Shaun Cashman
staff Writer
A recent survey found that UNCA alumni
rank among the lowest paid college gradu
ates in the UNC system. However, in the
survey UNCA ranked first of the 16 cam
puses for the quality of the instruction
alumni felt they received.
“We’re a little disappointed in the income
reportedly earned by our graduates, but at
the same time, they felt good about the
quality of their education, and those who
went to graduate school felt really good,”
said Archer Gravely, director of institu
tional research at UNCA.
During May and June of 1997, the alumni
survey was administered by telephone to
the 1995-96 graduates of the 16 campuses
in the UNC system at the request of the
UNC General Assembly (GA).
“The GA and the Board of Governors
want to have a mandate to assess the quality
of the education that they’re supporting,”
said Gravely. “They want to know how our
students are doing with their careers, with
their jobs, and their incomes.”
The survey found that UNCA alumni
evaluate their off-campus work lowest in
terms of offering valuable training, career
potential, salary, and in-job satisfaction.
“We have a much higher percentage of
graduates in the traditional liberal arts.
said Gravely. “It is a well-known fact that
liberal arts majors struggle in that first job.
They’re not prepared directly for the mar
ketplace.”
The survey determined that the highest
paying fields included engineering, com
puter science, and health care. Only
UN CA’s computer sci
ence majors have sala
ries that are competi
tive with the other
schools.
“We have a high per
centage of students who
stay in the area, and
that can cause some
problems” in finding a
high-payingjob imme
diately after graduation
with something like a
literature major, said
Gravely.
In the survey, UNCA
ranked second of the
16 universities for pre
paring students for an
advanced degree. Ap
proximately 30 percent
of the UNCA graduates surveyed took a
graduate school admissions test.
Although UNCA ranked well in terms of
preparing students for graduate school, the
alumni reported relatively low satisfaction
with the job-placement services on cam
pus. Only about 15 percent considered the
“It is a well-
known fact that
liberal arts ma
jors struggle In
that first job.
They are not pre
pared directly
for the market
place.”
-Archer Gravely,
director of institutional
research.
job services very helpful, giving it the low
est rating of the 16 schools.
UNCA alumni also rated their current
jobs lowest in offering valuable training,
allowing for career potential, and in utiliz
ing the skills and knowledge learned in
college.
“We need to look at
career revising, and we
need to look at intern
ships,” said Gravely.
Some schools require al
most every student to go
through at least one in
ternship for most ma
jors. “We need to better
connect career advising
through active pro
grams,” said Gravely.
Alumni surveys have
been conducted once
every four years since the
early 1970s. However,
the GA will soon require
the survey to be admin
istered every two years.
“The survey is unique
in that it is the first time
they did a telephone survey,” said Gravely.
“All previous survey projects like this by
the GA have been flawed by non-response
bias.”
Non-response bias means that theamount
of response was relatively low compared to
the needed number of surveys for an accu
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Before, “UNCA particularly did pretty
well. We would get a response as low as 50
percent to as high as 75 percent, but the
other schools would have about a 20 per
cent response, so you didn’t know how to
interpret the results,” said Gravely.
In the most recent survey, 36 percent of
the graduates from each of the 16 UNC
system schools were surveyed, including
325 UNCA graduates.
“This is the best response we’ve had so
far,” said Gravely.
GRAPH COURTESY OF ARCHER GRAVELY
Although UNCA ranked low for job qual
ity, 95.1 percent of UNCA alumni rated
the overall quality of their instruction as
excellent or good. This was the highest rating
of the UNC system. According to the survey,
89 percent said they wotJd attend UNCA
again if they had to do it over again, and 75
percent would choose the same major.
“It would be interesting to see where our
graduates are five to 10 years from now,” said
Gravely.
The current survey only looks at the aver
age salary for the first 12 months after
graduation.