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UNCA Parking Deck Closes
WALTER FVXER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The closing of the parking deck outside of the dining hall aifects not only students, but also dining
Keith Cromwell
Investigative Reporter
UNCA officials plan to close
both levels of the parking deck
under the cafeteria due to con
struction to renovate the upper-
level section. Level two of the
parking deck will house student
organizations and the bookstore
until the completion of the new
Highsmith Center in 2004.
“It would be a safety factor for
us to stay in the building, and it
costs more money to move us
around,” said Sharyn
McDonald Groh, director of
student development
The second level of the park
ing deck will be closed perma
nently. However, the lower level
will close temporarily until reno
vations of the upper level are
complete in October.
“We need to close both levels
(of the parking deck) to add
some columns on the first level
to support the added load on
the second level,” said Ronald
Reagan, university architect.
UNCA will loose about 45
spaces on each level of the park
ing deck, according to Reagan.
However, UNCA is building a
parking deck across from Zagier
hall with about 48 spaces for
residential student parking:
“We are building the other
parking deck because we knew
we would have to close the park
ing deck under the caferateria,”
said Reagan.
There is no place on campus
to put all the people and organi
zations in the center now, ac-
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Black Feminist Author Visits UNCA
)ell hooks hosts a workshop and lecture in Asheville
Claire O’Brien
'^ews Reporter
Feminist author bell hooks spoke
:o a large crowd on Mirch 30.
UNCA students who attended the
Presentation said they were largely
receptive to hooks.
“She’s bringing up a lot of beauti-
ul issues that really need to be
widespread,” said Andi Lombardo,
sophomore sociology major.
'What I heard was love and justice
and how they are hand in hand.
She’ s very revolutionary.”
Hooks spoke in the Lipinsky Hall
auditorium on the eveningof March
30, and hosted a workshop March
31.
Hooks has written numerous
books and articles since 1981, when
she first became prominent via her
book “Ain’t I a Woman: Black
Women and Feminism.”
Hooks taught at Oberlin College
as well as New York’s City College.
Although best known for her writ
ings, hooks has also provided sev
eral interviews with magazines.
“I thought it was very informa
tive,” said Jamal Mullen, an unde
clared sophomore, on hooks’ pre
sentation. Mullen added that he
had heard of hooks before she came
to UNCA.
“She brought an insight as far as
how the civil rights movement
didn’t really accomplish everything
that it set out to be,” said Stephen
Catherwood, an undeclared jun
ior. “Everything that it set out to be
was kind of lost. The ideals were
lost.”
Hooks made a strong point when
she said that because black people
are making more money and are
accepted as free now, many people
don’t see the oppression and insti
tutionalized racism, according to
Catherwood.
Hooks was born under the name
ofGloriajean Watkins, but changed
her name to that of her great-grand
mother.
She lowercased the name, and
made it prominent in feminist
theory circles, according to the Web
site, altculture.com.
Some of hooks’ works include col-
Serving UNCA Since 1982
"What I heard was love and jus
tice, and how they are hand in
hand. She’s very revolutionary.”
-Andi Lombardo
Sophomore, Sociology
umns for the Shambhala Sun, a
Buddhist publication and articles
with titles such as “Misogyny,
Gansta Rap and The Piano," ac
cording to the Web site.
Her book “Ain’t I a Woman” was
ranked as “one of the 20 most im
portant women’s books of the last
20 years” hy Publisher’s Weekly, ac
cording to the Web site.
Hooks’ spoke for nearly two hours
March 30, addressing both her pre
vious writings and some of her more
recent publications.
The audience was comprised of
many UNCA students and faculty,
but also included several Asheville
High School students and Western
Carolina University students.
PHOTO COURTESY OF bell liooks
bell hooks said she plans to
return to Asheville in a year.
April 5, 2001
Survey Reveals
Financial Aid
Concerns
Thad Eckard
News Reporter
A recent survey of incoming
UNCA students indicates that of
new transfer students, 22 percent
said that finding money to pay for
college was a major concern. Half
of all new freshmen said paying for
school caused them some concern.
Chancellor Jim Mullen recently
said the planned tuition increase
will “hold harmless” students who
already receive financial aid.
“It’s misleading to say we will not
be affected,” said Nikki Young, a
senior biology major. “If they are
going to increase tuition, they need
to increase grants rather than give
students more loans, because that
doesn’t help people in the long
run.”
However, students who receive
their primary financial aid in loans
will pay back whatever they must
borrow to cover the $150 per se
mester tuition increase Mullen sup
ports.
Last year’s Student Government
Association unanimously approved
the tuition increase.
“I’m tired ofSGA being robots for
the administration and supporting
the administration,” said Matt Deal,
a senior classics major. “I feel as if I
do not have an advocate. No one
wants to support a financially strug
gling student, and I’m tired of it.”
Margaret Goodson, a junior art
major, said she did not qualify for
any grants, so all her financial aid
came in the form of loans.
“I know I will graduate with debt,
but I don’t like thinking about it.
It’s depressing,” said Goodson.
Of new transfer students who re
ceive financial aid, 42 percent get
their help in loans. Of new fresh
men who receive financial aid, 39
percent receive loans, according to
institutional research statistics.
“Perhaps some athletic funds could
be diverted to recruiting people
from socio-economically deprived
backgrounds,” said Seth Smith, a
senior philosophy major.
The typical new student comes
from a family that makes $50,000
to $60,000 a year. Of these stu
dents, 67 percent have at least one
parent with a four-year college de-
gree.
“I’d rather not disclose my parent’s
income, but both my parents never
pursued any education beyond high
school,” said Jason Miller, a senior
history major and SGA senator. “I
don’t doubt the statistics. That’s
why I think it’s a sad commentary
on the static nature of socio-eco
nomic classes in our country.”
The North Carolina Department
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Permitted Graffiti
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Stephanie Rodevjck, a sophomore education major, spray
paints Swain Hall before the building is torn down.
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