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Dccciubcr 3, 1998\
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Elizabeth Dole
may run for
presidential
nomination
Former Senator and presidential
candidate Bob Dole said there is
a possibility that his wife, Eliza
beth Dole, will run for the Re
publican presidential nomination
in 2000, whilespeakingtoagroup
of200 students at Western Caro
lina University Tuesday after
noon.
Christmas offi
cially returns to
Cuba
Tlie Communist Party in Cuba
has recommended that Dec. 25
be a permanent holiday in Cuba.
Christmas was an official holiday
until 1969, when the government
argued that holidays interfered
with harvest. Thegovernmentalso
canceled the New Year’s Day holi
day. The New Year’s Day holiday
soon returned, but Christmas was
aworkday until recently. Thegov-
ernment granted a Christmas holi
day last year as a one-time favor
when Pope John Paul II visited,
but didn’t declare it permanent
until this year.
N.C. schools are
getting safer
North Carolina public schools
are getting safer. During the 1997-
98 school year, reports of stu
dents carrying drugs, guns, and
other weapons, or assaulting
school employees dropped for the
third consecutive year.
Supreme Court
rules on privacy
The Supreme Court decided
Tuesday that people who visit
someone’s house for a short time
don’t have the same protection
against a police search as the resi
de nts. An overnight guest may
claim protection of the Fourth
Amendment, but one who is only a
temporary' guest, present with the
consent of the resident, may not.
Issues forum
discusses best
selling book
UNCA Alumnus Lanny Haas, a
specialist in human resource
management and internation
ally recognized speaker, will dis
cuss the best-selling book by
Steven Covey, “Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People,” at
7:30 p.m. on Dec. 7 in Laurel
Forum.
Cambridge
study abroad
program holds
info session
The Cambridge Fellows Pro
gram will have an information
meeting on Dec. 8 in Laurel
Forum. The program will take
approximately 20 UNCA stu
dents to study in Cambridge,
England for a month this sum
mer. Participating students can
receive credit for Arts 310 or
Humanities 324. David Peifer,
assistant professor of mathemat
ics, will be available to answer
Commission visits to review funding b
By Mat Peery
Staff Writer
Representatives, from the North
Carolina Advisory Budget Com
mission came to campus Monday
to meet with the administration
and discuss UNCA’s use of current
and future state funds.
Chancellor Patsy Reed welcomed
the group and expressed gratitude
on behalf of the university for fund
ing appropriated during the state’s
budget session. UNCA “is appre
ciative of funding” from the state,
Reed said.
Reed detailed how the monies for
various projects around campus are
being used and said she felt the
members of the assembled group
were “partners in supporting edu
cation in North Carolina.” She
added that she wan ted the adminis
tration to be “good stewards of funds
given to UNCA.”
Funds to create a four-year engi
neering program through distance
education with N.C. State, expand
UNCA’s fiber optic network sys
tem, and begin the renovation of
the Highsmith University Center
were included in the budget.
UNCA requested $12 million in
state funding for Highsmith reno
vations, and in the state’s recently
passed budget, legislators commit
ted an initial $1 million to the
project.
Highsmith was built in 1982,
when only 400 students lived on
campus and less than 30 student
organizations existed.
According to university fact sheets,
the residential population will ex
ceed 1,000 and more than 80 stu
dent organizations will operate in
the 1999-2000 school year. In ad
dition, 630 students ofthe Asheville
Graduate Center and more than
900 members of the College for
Seniors use “campus facilities each
year," according to a fact sheet.
Reed said that the university needs
to have a “bustling, exciting, and
interesting” student center so that
students could enjoy a better cam
pus atmosphere.
“We have already recognized what
a vibrant campus this can be and
how important” the proposed reno
vations are to UNCA, said Reed.
The recently installed fiber optic
network system was also mentioned
as a necessary improvement to the
university.
Reed said that the system will be
expanded and the goal “is for every
one who has a desk on campus” to
have an Internet connection so “they
can get out into the world.”
The state budget also included
money to start a four-year engi
neering program that will alio w stu
dents in the area a chance to earn a
degree without having to go to N.C.
State, in the current 2+2 Program,
students spend their first two years
at UNCA before moving on to
N.C. Stare to finish their degrees.
Reed said she felt that this was the
best option for UNCA because of
the university’s status as a liberal
Faithful fan
PHOTO BY SCOT WARING
A fan endures the exciting and the not-so-exciting moments during the Big South
Conference VolleybafI Tournament hosted at UNCA Nov. 20 and 21.
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The referendum was supposed to
determine if a mandate existed
among students to implement such
a policy at UNCA. Jones said that
part of the information he lacked
regarded the proper coinse to take
in order to make the policy active,
should the students wish to enact
the proposed code. The student
referendum has not yet been re
scheduled. “There’s red tape at
tached to a lot of this," said jones.
Parking shortages have been an
other source for concern among
students this semester, and SGA
responded by passing a resolution
to open several spots to residential
students at certain times.
Fifteen residential parking spots
were opened in Lot 9A following
the passage of a bill by the SGA.
Those spots are located across from
Zageir Hall and are designated as
residential spaces from 4 p.m. until
10 a.m. daily. Because these spots
have been approved as residential
during those times, any appeals “will
be taken care of,” said Donaldson.
“We’ve set it up with them so that
if they do forget” and ticket during
the time when the spots are open to
residents, the ticket will be coun
termanded, Donaldson said.
An ad-hoc committee was created
by an SGA resolution to take up the
issue of childcare on campus.
UNCA currently has no system that
would take care of a student’s child
while that student attends class.
SGA has been working on this
issue for the past year. Currently,
the SGA committee has no chair,
although Donaldson said that one
will be appointed soon.
A playground area included in the
proposed renovations to the
Highsmith University Center was
planned before SGA began advo
cating a childcare program, said
Tiffany Drummond, senior sena
tor. That playground, when com
pleted, would not offer childcare,
but would be an unstaffed area
where parents could watch their
children play between classes.
The SGA s childcare initiative may
be merged somehow with the play
ground area in Highsmith, said
Drum mond.
The creation of six task forces that
will be used to gauge student con
cerns in each of the six student
constituencies has also been an SGA
priority. Each classification of stu
dents is an SGA constituency, and
the other two are comprised of resi
dential students and commuter stu
dents.
Surveys for members of the fresh
man class have been finished and will
be sent out to freshman students soon,
and other surveys will be sent out next
semester, said Donaldson.
‘ We are planning on really pushing
forward (with the task forces),” said
Donaldson. He also said that he felt
that student government could be
come more effective if more stu
dents were involved in the process.
A bill was also passed to create a
“media commission” that would
hold any student publications ac
countable if they receive any money
from student fees.
A media commission “would help
to encourage a higher standard of
professionalism and objectivity in
these publications that are produced
at students' expense," said Jones.
it is probably going to happen
next year, and not in the spring.
The thinking behind that is that
there needs to be a separate com
mission to help hold our publica-.
tions accountable,” said Jones.
Jones said that money for student
publications, including The Ban
ner , th.cSGN s Issues Forum, HEAD-
WA TERS, and organizational news
letters comes from student fees dis
tributed through Campus Com
mission should be subject to review
by a commission that would be part
of the Campus Commission.
The idea for the media commis
sion came from a conversation with
a faculty member who said that
such a commission existed at a col
lege he attended, said Jones.
I think you misunderstood
when I said “ Wear a nice
suit to court”.
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arts school. Beginning a self-con-
tained engineering program here at
UNCA would not be feasible for
many reasons, Reed said.
Reed said that this program was
more economical than trying to
begin a program at UNCA, be
cause starting up an engineering
program can cost as much as $30
million. The new degree will take
advantage of technological advances
in distance learning, Reed said.
“It is N.C. State’s program, but it
is offered on this campus and can
be taken in the evening by people
who hold full-time jobs,” said
Reed.
In the meeting, Reed said some
of UN CA’s strong poi n ts as a small
liberal arts university are low class
sizes and a high number of full
professors. UNCA “does not have
ail)' teaching assistants,' Reed .said.
With a low class size, students and
professors get to know each other
better, which is different from larger
universities and is particularly im
portant for this school, Reed said.
“1 wanted to give you a picture of
the kind of university we are,” Reed
said to the group.
UNCA’s appearance in both “The
Fiske Guide to Colleges” and The
Princeton Review’s “The Best 311
Colleges” was another item Reed
mentioned. “There are around
4,000 (colleges) in the United
States, so that 311 cut is good com
pany,” Reed said.
Reed said UNCA’s “national ac
colades” are due to the university
“having a niche” with regard to
class sizes and its emphasis on pro
viding an affordable liberal arts edu
cation at a state school.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion visits state agencies regularly to
determine needs for the next bien
nium. The Commission is a bipar
tisan group formed from members
of the North C^arolina House of
Representatives and Senate.
Sara Jones contributed
to this article
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alcohol intervention, that is fine. I
just don’t like having my name
involved in this incident.”
“Charles has come up to us,” said
Wilson. “He said he has no prob
lem with me and never mentioned
me and Matt to public safety, and
he doesn’t understand why we’re in
trouble. That’s what gets me. I don’t
see how they can punish us. I’ve
typed two appeals now, but I don’t
think (the University Conduct
Board) is considering them.”
Schabel said Hobday and Jordan’s
involvement was much more seri
ous.
Wilson said Jordan and Hobday
are getting more criticism about
the incident than he and Matt.
“People have to realize these guys
have feelings too. They make mis
takes and are getting hurt by all of
this,” said Wilson.
Hobday said he received harass
ment from other students after the
story was released.
“The first day or two, we go t phone
calls,” said Hobday. “People just
got drunk and decided to call and
harass us.”
According to Schabel, Jordan
agreed to replace his bookbag. “He
hasn’tgivenmeanewbookbagyet. It
is way past the Nov. 20 deadline,”
said Schabel.
Jordan declined comment on the
incident and the consequences of his
behavior.
Hobday said he has not had any
contact with Schabel since the inci
dent occurred.
“I was told not to (by the conduct
board),” said Hobday. “1 have no
reason to talk to him. 1 just don’t
want him to get any wrong impres
sions of anything else.”
The investigation report filed with
public safety reported that Hobday
exposed himself in the Mills Hall
dorm room.
“I really don’t know where that
came from,” said Hobday. “I don’t
remember doing that, and nobody
else saw it. The girls in the room said
the same thing.”
Wilson said he did not see any type
of indecent exposure in the room that
evening.
“I did not see him do anything like
expose his genitals in the room I was
in,” said Wilson.
However, Schabel maintains that
the exposure did take place.
“I swear he exposed his penis to me
and tried to shove my face in his groin
area,” said Schabel. Schabel added
that one of the girls apparently saw
what happened in the room because
she said that he did not have to put up
with Hobday’s behavior.
“David was required to sit out of one
ofthe track meets,” said Wilson.
The registrar’s office confirmed class
enrollment for next semester for ev
eryone involved except Jordan.
Hobday said he regrets ever ap
proaching Schabel in the study room
that evening. '
“Looking back on it, we shouldn’t
have talked to hi mat all, "said Hobday.
“He was sitting there by himself and
we w'ere jtisr tn-ing to be nice and
friendly tohim. 1 havenorhitigagainst
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