Sharing too much
can have negative
effect on career
Heidi Krick
hkrick@unca.eau -
Staff Writer
Today’s gen
eration lives life
through a four-
inch cell phone screen and their
future employers are well aware
of that.
Social media networks like
Facebook, Twitter and Insta-
gram track everything from mo
mentous occasions to mundane
events. Network users docu
ment everything from birthdays
and vacations to meals, hair
styles and daily outfit choices.
In today’s always on mentality,
people and students should be
aware that it is possible to share
too much.
If an employer asked 20
years ago for eligible job can
didates to document their daily
activities in order to gain a bet
ter perspective of the applicant s
character, the applicant would
have looked at the interviewer
like they had grown a second
head and walked right out the
door, on to the next interview.
Employers today, though,
are well aware of the amount of
personal information available
to them, and most of that infor
mation is just a few clicks away.
As the trends to post, update
and document nearly every as
pect of one’s daily life continues
to grow, social media pres
ence will play a bigger role in
companies’ hiring decisions and
those looking to hire are unim
pressed by the number of beers
applicants are able to bong.
Nearly 50 percent of employ
ers use social media to research
potential employees, according
to a survey performed last year
by Harris International. Anoth
er survey by the career website
Jobvite shows 92 percent of em
ployers use or plan to use social
media to help recruit potential
applicants.
Maryland, in 2012, became
the first state to ban companies
from requesting employees’
Facebook passwords and other
states quickly followed.
see
CAREER on page 12
Demolished ice house can be positive change for Asheville
Asheville ice house rebuilding could include frivolous taxpayer spending
Max Miller
nmiller@unca.edu -
Staff Writer
Only in Asheville could
a dilapidated, graffiti-
eovered, asbestos-infested
warehouse become a
cherished landmark.
It may be a crime-ridden haven for the
homeless that is surrounded in asbestos,
but the ice house, an abandoned building
in the River Arts District known for its
iconic chimney, has many fans in this
city, and they are upset the Asheville
City Council voted for its demolition in
January. ”
If people could look past their
romanticizing ways, they would see why
demolishing the ruins of Asheville’s
past could prove a boon for its future.
Attempting to make use of the land the
ice house stands on would benefit the city
more financially than leaving it standing.
The only member to vote against
the ice house’s demolition was Cecil
Bothwell, who has a history in building
trades. He said the ice house should be
preserved until there is a solid plan for
the use of the 50,000 square feet of land
the building occupies.
“Existing structures embody a great
deal of energy and material,” Bothwell
said via email. “We are entering an era
of resource scarcity. It seems to me that
we should ‘measure twice and cut once’-
that is, stop and think hard before we
demolish large structures.
Regarding the area’s crime and the
homeless who have made a camp out
of the abandoned structure, Bothwell
believes there are cheaper alternatives to
demolition.
“What appears too costly today may
not seem too costly a few years down
the road,” Bothwell said. “It would be
cheaper to seal entrances with masonry
than to demolish the building.”
While Bothwell’s desire to wait is
logical and seeks to avoid risk, it is not
very proactive.
The Council appears to agree
renovation of the ice house is too costly
to pursue, but leaving it standing does not
offer the city an opportunity to properly
benefit from the space. Even if sealing
the entrances is cheap and could reduce
the crime and homeless problems that
plague the plot, it leaves the building
useless, just a crumbling stmcture
preserved for its own sake.
The Council’s vote allotted $145,000
for the demolition, and Bothwell said
the space will be used for parking and
eventually be sold for redevelopment.
Instead of trying to sell a wreck of
a building that would require costly
renovations or trying to undertake those
renovations to preserve the building for
historical purposes, the city now can offer
up a large plot in the heart of the River
Arts District, an area loved by locals and
tourists alike.
The ice house is within walking
distance from popular barbecue
restaurant, 12 Bones, as well as the
many art studios the area is famous
for. It is a prime piece of real estate
for developers looking to cash in on
the area’s popularity, which will likely
continue to climb as the city undergoes
its massive ongoing redesign of the River
Arts District.
Furthermore, the Council decided to
preserve the towering smokestack that
serves as one of the site’s most impactful
visual draws. The historic chimney could
prove enticing to potential developers
who could use the landmark as a means
of attracting attention to whatever project
the space is used for. The presence of the
familiar structure would give whatever
new building occupies the space a
sense of history while still allowing for
progress.
After all, it is mostly history that has
inspired locals to oppose the decision
for demolition. Residents of the River
Arts District who attended the Council
meeting in January asked the Council
to preserve as much of the ice house as
possible, and suggested the city erect
historical placards around the building
or even to convert the structure into a
museum dedicated to the area’s rich
history.
see ICE HOUSE on page 12
Beyonce: female power symbol blurred by negative remarks post-Superbowl
Caltlln Donovan
cadonova@unca.edu -
•' % Staff Writer
^ Beyonce Knowles-Carter
took the Superbowl by
storm with her halftime
performance featuring her
10-piece all female band,
the Sugar Mamas.
The problem is discussion of the half
time show rarely focuses on the rare sight
of an all female musical performance, but
is centers more on whether Beyonce’s at
tire was too provocative. This discussion
shows society needs to shift its focus to
the substance and statement of a woman’s
performance rather than focusing on con
demning her sexuality.
Beyonce told Jorge Riveras, a reporter
from the online publication ColorLines,
she specifically put together her all
woman band in hopes of inspiring young
women. She said she was aware young
The problem is discussion of the halftime show does not
focus on the rare sight of an all female
musical performance.
girls do not have many women who play
instruments to look up to in the media and
she wanted to rectify the situation.
The media said Beyonce and the other
women wore skimpy outfits and said the
formance was too sexualized.
“The kinds of representations” (that
represent) “bodies without brains, only for
the pleasure of male viewers...and in the
meantime, the female viewers could feel
crappy about themselves because they
don’t look anything like those women
who might have starved themselves to get
that thin, and, what the hell, maybe had a
little plastic surgery to add a breast size
or two,” said Lori Horvitz, an associate
professor of women, gender and sexuality
studies at UNC Asheville.
Beyonce’s performance at the Super
Bowl was far from the sort of display
that presented women as simply bodies
without brains. Beyonce made several de
liberate choices to stage her performance
in a way that demonstrated the power
and intelligence of women, particularly
women of color. One of the choices Be
yonce made was having women of several
different
see BEYONCE on page 12