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J now I volume 31 Issue 11
April 20, 2000
bate-rape case
goes unsolved
By Sarah Wilkins
News Editor
By Emma Jones
Editor-In-Chief
J A female student was allegedly
II date-raped on April 17, 1999 by a
I male student in Founders Hall. The
I alleged victim brought the story to
I The Banner in April of 2000 after
■ bringing the case to the Student
||Conduct Board inNovember 1999.
“If I was just going to forget
II about it and move on, I wouldn’t
jihave brought it to the board any-
Iway,” said the student, who asked
■to remain anonymous. “I want
■something done.”
J The case was closed without a
■ decision, citing an inability to de-
Itermine the truth based upon the
■written and verbal testimony, ac-
Icording to a letter from Eric
llovacchini, vice chancellor of stu
dent affairs, to the accused.
“I wouldn’t close a case without
■ bowing the truth,” said the al-
lleged victim.
Since there were not any wit-
esses “it was the alleged victim’s
:rsus the accused person’s word,”
_said lovacchini.
“It’s been before the conduct
jboard, it was a great ordeal and, as
I’m concerned, it’s closed,”
■said the accused male student, who
lalso asked to remain anonymous.
I The incident allegedly occurred
n the accused’s bedroom around
i:30 a.m. They were lying on the
■bed making out when he began
■pulling down her pants. At that
Ipoint, she said no. He then put on
lacondom and she told him that she
■did not want him to penetrate her,
liccbrding to the alleged victim in a
Ifollow-up report written by Vicki
iHarris, public safety victim/witness
lofFicer.
Before she realized what was hap
pening, he had penetrated her and
his hands were holding her down,
according to the report.
At this point, she began to cry. He
asked her why she was crying and
then tried to console her. She pushed
him away and said that she felt
‘dirty and bad,’ according to the
“He told me to get dressed,” she
said. “I was clammed up into a little
ball (and) I didn’t know what to
do.”
Once she reached her room she
took a shower.
The next week, the alleged victim
went to the Rape Crisis Center in
Asheville and filed a blind report,
which states the crime and the ac
cused, but does not include the
victim’s name. This was sent to
public safety in case anothef inci
dent involving the same person
occured on campus.
She also went to the Buncombe
County Health Department for
medical attention and to the coun
seling services at UNCA, according
to the report by Harris.
Taking a shower after the alleged
incident erased any evidence that
could have been used in the case,
according to Harris.
At the time of the alleged inci
dent, she did not file a public safety
incident report, because she felt
that, with time, she would recover
from the trauma, according to the
student.
However, after five months, she said
that she had still not recovered from
the alleged incident.
In November of 1999, Sexual
Crimes, Abuse and Rape Survivors
(SCARS) pamphlets were being
handed out around campus. After
receiving a pamphlet, she attended a
SCARS meeting to “see if it would
help to try and talk to some people
See CASE page 9
UNCA recognizes
Nat. Poetry Month
Campaign meets with success
$5.1 million raised for scholarships and improvements
PHOTO BY JUSTIN MECKES
Michael Ruiz, chair of physics, entertains guests at the comprehensive campaign on April 12. The campaign has
raised $5.1 million for student scholarships, faculty initiatives and technology improvements.
By Devon Heath
UNCA officials and supporters
kicked off a comprehensive cam
paign to raise $8 million for schol
arships, technology improvements
and faculty initiatives at the Grove
Park Inn on April 12.
“This campaign is about the
future of this university, its stu
dents and its community,” said
Chancellor Jim Mullen in a press
release. “The growing pressures
on the state budget and our at
tempt to control the level of tu
ition increases are lirriiting our
resources.”
The campaign started in early
1998, with a goal of $8 million.
The effort has already raised $5.1
million, according to Alex Com
fort, assistant vice chancellor for
development.
“Interest in the university is at
an all time high,” said Comfort.
“(The campaign) has turned out
to be a great success. I hope in
two years we will have the whole
$8 million.”
“UNCA has unveiled an ambi
tious plan for becoming the pre
mier public liberal arts university
in the nation,” according to the
campaign objectives outline.
“Our goal is bold, yet it is based
on solid strengths and extraordi
nary opportunities.”
People were amazed that the
campaign has already raised $5.1
million, according to Comfort.
“We should be energized by the
future that we have together,”
said Mullen. “A future that will
this university’s com-
to academic excellence
and create an intergenerational
community of learning that will
be the standard against which all
universities are measured.”
Part of determining which areas
would be targeted came when we
sat down with a lot of faculty
members and tried to figure out
exactly what we needed, accord
ing to Comfort.
The campaign objectives are to
raise $3 million for student schol
arships, especially endowed schol
arships. An additional $2 million
Two million would be used for
technology, including multimedia
classrooms, upgraded computer
laboratories, expanded distance
learning and fiber optics. The re
maining $ 1 million would be split.
There will be $500,000 used to
enrich educational experience
through service-learning and com
munity partnerships and the other
$500,000 would be used to accel
erate creative initiatives, according
to the campaign objectives outline.
“The core of our vision for the
future rests on that which is already
our greatest strength, our outstand
ing faculty and staff and our na-
for faculty initiatives, including tional reputation for academic ex
named university professorships, cellence,” said Mullen.
curriculum renewal and faculty
development endowment, ac
cording to the campaign objec
tives outline.
Dozens of faculty, staff and si
See CAMPAIGN page 9
By Kathryn Krouse
staff Writerr
J UNCA’s literary arts magazine,
■ “Headwaters,” sent poems to cam-
Ipus e-mail addresses for National
BPoetry Month,
BaccordingtoRick
■Chess, associate
|professoroflitera-
_ “ Headwaters’ is
iBleading thewayto
Hdo things for Na-
Mtional Poetry
BMonth here on
iBcampus,” said
■Chess.
I “Headwaters” is
n annual publi-
Bcation which fea-
■tures literary and
Bvisual arts con-
Btributed from
iUNCA students, during April,
IBfaculty and some
Bmembers of the Asheville commu-
|nity, according to Monica Fauble,
la junior literature major.
I “We haven’t made a big deal out
lof National Poetry Month until
^Headwaters” came up with this
Binnovative idea, though I m realiz-
Nmionai
PHOTO BY JASON GRAHAM
National Poetry Month is
being celebrated at UNCA
ing now' that we need to do some
thing bigger to draw attention and
take advantage of the opportunity
to share poetry,” said Chess.
“Headwaters” will hold their pub
lication reception in the Laurel Fo
rum on April 30 as part of poetry
month, according to Fauble.
“It will be a good chance to hear
poetry, and also
see some of the
visual arts that
will be featured in
the magazine,”
said Fauble.
UNCA’s first
literary arts maga
zine was pub
lished in 1929,
according to
Fauble.
Also linked to
the celebration is
the Writers at
Home series pre
sented by the
Great Smokies
Students protest campus plan
By Alison Watson
staff Writerr
Wri
gram, according
to Chess.
On April 30, Scott Lattimore,
whose work appeared in The Char
lotte Poetry Review and the
See POETRY page 10
The plan for UNCA’s new en
trance has yielded concerns from
students, faculty and members of
the Asheville community.
“People are expressing concerns
about the environmental impact of
a new entrance. We are trying to
listen very carefully to these con
cerns,” said Tom Byers, special as
sistant to the chancellor.
Active Students for a Healthy
Environment (ASHE) met with the
Chancellor on April 13 and pre
sented him with a petition of over
600 names opposed to the new
entrance. They will meet again on
April 21.
The proposed new entrance would
cross the stream that runs alongside
W.T. Weaver Boulevard. ASHE
believes the proposed road would
cause considerable harm to the
stream and the habitat surrounding
“So many different groups have
spent their time and money to
remediate the stream and the exist
ing urban wild-spaces used as an
outdoor classroom. I feel it would
be a detriment to educational qual
ity,” said Beth Fogleman. a senior
chemistry and environmental
science major and leader of ASHE.
UNCA does not have a definite
entry that allows a visitor to know
they have arrived at the university,
according to Byers.
“There is no place that says, ‘Wel
come. You are here,”’ said Byers.
The new entrance would aestheti
cally create a more distinct entry. It
would also help with the flew of
traffic and address future growth
issues, according to Byers.
UNCA is expecting the Depart
ment of Transportation (DOT) to
pay for the entrance, according to
Byers.
The DOT offered four alterna
tives to the master plan. According
to Byers, three of the alternatives
would actually work.
Students from ASHE believe that
remedying the existing entrance
would havea less detrimental effect
the environment, according to
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTHUR VONLEHE
— Part of the site for the proposed new entrance to UNCA
See ENTRANCE page 10 involves the creek along W.T. Weaver Boulevard.