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{The Blue Banner}
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time into the station since her fresh
man year at no pay.
She said she hopes the Blue Echo
can be a social medium for everyone
at UNCA.
“We want the Blue Echo to be the fo
rum for the campus community,” Hal-
loran said.
Duncan Belew, a sophomore who
also works with the Blue Echo, said
he thought the station could be a good
tool to help students stay informed
about campus events and activites.
“During my freshman year, I really
didn’t know about campus events ex
cept through word of mouth. I wished
there was a place to hear about those
things, and hopefully the Blue Echo
can do that,” Belew said.
To find out what their audience want
ed, the Blue Echo posted an online sur
vey for listeners to fill out. The results
of that survey were used to determine
formatting as well as content. Halloran
said more than 80 people filled out the
survey during the past few months.
“From what we’ve been getting back
so far, people really want to hear local
acts, indie, things that you can’t get on
your everyday station,” Halloran said.
Halloran also said a political talk pro
gram is currently on the table, as well
as smaller segments that would focus
on world, local and campus news.
The station is now funded through
the university with a budget of a
couple thousand dollars, but Halloran
said once the station gets established,
they hope to rely on just cpmmunity
funding. Halloran also said other than
promotional items and equipment, the
operating costs for the station were
relatively low.
Besides selecting music and format
ting, students had to work to drum up
interest in the Blue Echo, both on cam
pus and in the community.
Maren McGlashan, a sophomore.
has been working to bring the Blue
Echo back to the public light and to
introduce students to the station for
the first time.
“I’ve mostly been doing promotion
al work so far. I’ve just been trying
to stir up interest in the Blue Echo,
especially among students who have
never heard of it before,” McGlashan
said.
The hard work seems to be paying
off. According to Halloran, the Blue
Echo’s Facebook page jumped from
around 100 to more than 250 friends
in one month.
Hayes said he felt there was excite
ment building around the launch of
the Blue Echo.
“There’s been anticipation on my
end. There’s anticipation from the
DJs that want to join in. We’ve been
getting lots of e-mails from listeners
who are really anxious to see what we
can do,” Hayes said.
Author
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so long that it seems like a Southern
thing, and she really capitalizes on
that,” Abrams Locklear said.
Though Reinhardt has been writing
for most of her life, her initial career
path involved nursing school, a deci
sion prompted by her father’s com
ment that she needed a career to fall
back on since finding a husband was
unlikely.
“I worked in hospitals, and one day
I walked in, and this was a pivotal mo
ment, I furiously tried to get the blood
pressure of a woman,” Reinhardt said.
“And the head nurse said to me, ‘Hon
ey, that woman has been dead for four
hours.’”
That experience, followed by the
more traumatic task of unexpectedly
arousing a comatose patient with a
sponge bath, motivated Reinhardt to
strive for a career in writing instead.
The mother of two, who has been
with the Asheville Citizen-Times for
23 years and is proud to call Asheville
her home, has published three humor
books with a New York agent and is in
the process of trying to publish a fourth
novel with a regional publisher.
“If you want to write, you have to
write every day, even if it’s crap,” Re
inhardt said. “It’s a matter of, ‘Are you
willing to do the work, and are you
willing to face the rejections?”’
Jasmine Kimmel, an adjunct
research librarian at Ramsey Li
brary who hosted the regional author
talk, said the event was a success and
elicited only positive feedback.
“She has managed to carve out a
piece of the publishing world and
leave her mark nationally,” Kimmel
said about Reinhardt. “She entertains
her audience, enrages some and in
spires others. I think the audience that
attended our Tuesday night reception
thoroughly enjoyed her presenta
tion.”
Drugs
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dents a break on simple drug charges
in definitely a good thing.
“It does help with the transition pe
riod, especially freshmen. Really they
(campus police) are doing students a
really big favor by not giving out a lot
of state citations,” he said.
Herring said he also supported the
Effective Decision Making course.
“The school is really doing a job
with kids who have actual dmg prob
lems by providing free substance abuse
counselors,” he said.
However, the number of incidents
on campus involving possession or use
of illegal substances is declining. On-
campus arrests due to drug law viola
tions fell from 26 in 2005 to eight in
2008, according to Campus Police.
This decline could be due to any
number of factors, though students’ at
titudes about dmg use could influence
this.
“I feel like if any student, adminis
trator, or faculty member caught with
an illegal substance should be held ac
countable and receive the appropriate
punishment. The university’s policy
on illegal dmgs is clearly stated on
line, so there should be no excuse for
anyone saying ‘I didn’t know,”’ said
UNCA education student Sarah
Parks.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Music
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it,” Kuhlman said. “It doesn’t matter
whether you charge for it or give i1
away if it’s in that shared folder.”
It is at this point the university blocks
a computer’s access to the Internet.
“So the first time a person who has
that computer with that MAC address
tries to sign on to the network, they
get a screen that says, ‘Your access
has been blocked,’ and it asks for their
name and e-mail address,” Kuhlman
said. “Then I get a message back tell
ing me who it is and it also tells them
to contact me.”
He said, once that has happened, the
student whose computer the file was
found on has two choices, either to
state that the claim was a misidentifi-
cation or accept the charges.
If the student chooses to say the
claim was a misidentification, then
their computer must be kept off the
network for 10 working days.
“What that does is give the people
who sent the complaint two weeks in
which to go to court, get a subpoena
and come back and say, ‘OK, who’s
the person that owns this computer?'
in which case we’d have to tell,” Kuhl
man said. “Then it becomes between
the complainant and whoever owns the
computer.”
Millions of people don’t find illegal
ly obtaining media an issue.
“Most of the time people seem not
concerned because it’s so common
and nonchalant. Most people can do
it without being caught,” said junior
music technology student Calvin Bev-
eridege.
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examples of bias to have their sen
tence changed to life without parole,”
said Alex Holsten, president of the
UNCA chapter of the ACLU and an
other speaker at the local press confer
ence.
Holsten criticized the state govern
ment for their failures and hypocrisies,
He demanded the crime labs become
their own organization, completely
independent of the SBI, but still ac
knowledged the success of the Racial
Justice Act.
“It is at this time we must achieve
consensus and recognition that the
death penalty is archaic, and is only
useful as a tool of political oppression
-unfit for any democracy, and especial
ly unfit for the United States,” Holsten
said.