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THEBLUEBANNER.NET NEWS SEPT. 20,2016 3 SEPT. 20-26 HAPPENINGS 'niesday 11 a.m. Build Your Own Pet Rock Garden Highsmith Union Plaza Wednesday "FI a.m. Waldemar Januszczak's Paradise Found: Wonders of Islamic Art Lipinsky Hall Auditorium 7 p.m. Ron Rash presents The Risen Humanities Lecture Hall 8 p.m. Peace Day movie: Inside Peace Highsmith Union Grotto Thursday Noon Live at Lunch Series Highmith Union Grotto 7 p.m. A Cultural Genocide: ISIS and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East Humanities Lecture Hall Friday 11:30 a.m. Fab Friday Lecture: The 2016 Election and the Future of Our Country Reuter Center 102 8 p.m. Movie:'Room Highsmith Union Grotto Saturday 9 p.m. Unveiled: A One Woman Show Highsmith Union Grotto Monday 7 p.m. Annual Squibb Lecture Highsmith Union 159 r Photo by Audra Goforth Students cut the ribbon in celebration of the Bee Hotel Ribbon Cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Bee Hotel sustains independent pollinators AUDRA GOFORTH News Staff Writer agoforth@unca.edu UNC Asheville community members gathered around the pollinator garden in celebration of UNCA’s Bee Hotel Ribbon Cutting ceremony. “I hope we use this opportu nity as a teaching space, a gath ering space, as a place to build community and a way to visu alize our values,” said Mary K. Grant, UNCA’s chancellor. “I think that this can do a whole lot over time and we can use this project for on-going research.” The ' Bee Hotel, a unique structure of wooden boxes be tween University Heights and UNCA’s pollinator garden, was a collaboration between UNCA and the Asheville Design Cen ter. After a series of meetings and interviews, ADC select ed the Bee Hotel as its annual Asheville DesignBuild Studio program. The official unveiling was on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Chancellor Grant said she thought the Bee Hotel was a wonderful idea and she support ed it from the ground up. “I loved it when they brought it to me. I thought that it was a really wonderful idea,” said Chancellor Grant. “I loved the fact that it was a visual repre sentation of the important work that has gone on in this institu tion and this campus for years around sustainability. I loved the partnership of this project and I am grateful for those in volved.” Sonia Marcus, UNCA’s direc tor of sustainability said the Bee Hotel was a $5,000 project, but additional contributions were donated. “I would have to check the exact amount of money invest ed, but basically there were a lot of sponsoring businesses that gave us materials to use for the project,” Marcus said. “But the whole thing, kit and caboodle, was $5,000. That was the limit of what we could spend. Es sentially people donated them selves to put the project togeth er.” Jennifer Ward, a UNCA bi ology associate professor who worked alongside the Bee Ho tel, said the biggest challenge the members of the project faced was picking a proper lo cation. “The location for this project was one of the most controver sial things because the ADC needed it somewhere that would be visible to people, but we did not want to place it somewhere too public,” Ward said. “This place made for a good compromise,” Ward said. “Bees are relatively insensitive to noise so the traffic disruptions will not disturb them, unlike having people touch and both er them. In addition, the plants from the pollinator garden pro vide a great food source for them.” UNCA’s Bee Hotel was con structed of mostly reclaimed and recycled materials. Some ol the lumber and cement blocks were left over from past build ing and remodeling projects, while other materials used were higher grade. “The structure is made up of mostly steel and wood,” said Jackie Hamstead, environmen tal specialist at UNCA. “The pros of this is that the struc- Continued on page 16 LGBTQ+ population at higher risk-for addiction BAILEY WORKMAN News Staff Writer bworkman@unca. edu According to research ref erenced in the Textbook of Ad diction Treatment: Internation al Perspectives, the LGBTQ-h addiction rate falls around 30 percent, while the heterosexual population suffers an addiction rate of around 10 percent. The same research found the LGBTQ+ community suffers unique stressors, such as rejec tion. violence, harassment and discrimination. Some students such as Jus tin Day, a senior drama student from Greensboro, believe so cial circumstances play a large role in the increased amount of LGBTQ-h addiction. “A lot of people turn to ad diction in times of mental and emotional crisis, or at least start using things, not to. mention the high rate of queer poverty. Not only queer poverty, but the high rates of mental illness, the high rates of homelessness and finding means to make money, a lot of times that’s where a lot of things turn to,” said Day, who identifies as homosexual and transgender, specifically nonbi nary. According to a study pub lished in the 2009 edition of Addiction, being a target of dis crimination increases the risk of addiction and legal protection of the LGBTQ-h community does not extend far. Lorena Russell, an associate professor in the English depart ment, identifies as a lesbian and said she agrees the legality of discrimination contributes as a stressor. “Well I think these problems are societal. They’re created by our society and could be cor rected by our society and I think we need to change things on multiple levels,” said Russell. “Bills such as HB2, North Car olina’s recent ruling on limiting access to bathrooms of one’s Continued on page 16
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