The Ridgenmner
February 3,1967
Editorials
School Spirit? We Got It!
A lot of people were skeptical at first.
When an enthusiastic few students met and pledged to work for
the first full-scale Homecoming Celebration Ih AshevlUe-Blltmore
College’s history, most of the rest sat back and waited.
Student enthusiasm has not been a common-occiirance atA-B
in the past and those few flashes of rabid school spirit have been
short-lived.
The skepticism is understandable. But it appears to have dis
appeared from one and all, student or faculty or friend of the
college.
And as the movement toward homecoming gathered steam, it
also gathered support. This wasn't any flash-in-the-pan, brief
burst of exuberance and it’s doubtful if many citizens of the
Asheville area still don’t realize Homecoming at A-B is today
and tomorrow.
Bumper stickers on cars — even police cars, a banner across
Tunnel Road, a downtown parade, letters, posters and buttons,
a campus alive with displays.
All this had to come in time and most figured it would be a
natural course of events after the dormitories opened this August.
But why wait for the dorms?
Credit for the move?
It should go to students like Charlie Medd, Lynda Reighard,
Tom Harbin, yes and even to SGA President Jim Day who threw
the weight of Student Government behind the event.
And Just mayt>e, if there are a few orchids left over, there’ll
be one for you and for you — the unsung students who may have
followed the leaders but who threw their shoulders to the wheel
when the all-out effort was needed.
To all Involved in the Homecoming fete, The Rldgerunner says
thanks — and congratulations.
Let’s keep it up.
The Rldgerunner
The Rldgerunner is the official student publication of Ashevllle-
Biltmore College.
Founded in 1965, the Rldgerunner is a member of theXIoUegiate
Press Association.
The Rldgerunner is published twice monthly by the Canton
Enterprise of Canton, North Carolina.
The news office is located on the second floor of the student
Center — telephone 254-7415, extension 24. Business and feature
offices are located on the second floor of the Humanities Building
— telephone 254-1026.
Subscription rates are $2.75 per year. Mailing address is The
Ridgenmner, AshevlUe-Blltmore CoUege, AshevlUe, North Caro
lina 2880L
Editor Ginger King
Acting Business Manager Tim Medlln
Feature Editor Roger wicker
Cartoonist .Mike Blaine
Photographer George Macatu
Faculty Advisor Dr* Roy A, Riggs
A Forty Year Struggle
A-B College Nears Goal
Nearly 40 years ago the moun
tain people began building an in
stitution of higher learning for
the young people of Western
North Carolina,
The struggle is nearing Its
goal.
In the fall of 1967, Asheville
will boast a residential college
which will serve not only area
young people but also students
from across the coimtry. The
college, presently a candidate
lor senior status accreditation,
is unlike any college in the state.
This proves that it isn’t enough
to have an ordinary dream, A
dream must be bold, adventu
rous, and perserverlng,
Di 1927, the Buncombe County-
Junior College for men and wo
men was established by the coun
ty school board as part of the pub
lic school system. Bi 1928, the
College of the City of Asheville
was similarly established, fii
1930, due to financial difficulties,
the two institutions were suc
ceeded by Biltmore Junior Col
lege, which operated on a tuition
basis.
It wasn’t until 1936 that the in
stitution became AshevlUe-BUt-
more College. For ten years, un
til 1946, the college continued to
be called “Biltmore College.”
From 1934 until 1961, the col
lege wai^ a nomad. For 4 years,
the college was housed in the
south wing of the David Millard
High School for the next four
In Asheville College. In 1942,
the college moved to Merrimon
Avenue, a location formerly oc
cupied by a part of the Children’s
Home. The college remained
there until the fall of 1949 when
the campus was moved to the
Overlook estate on Sunset Moun
tain. Its last move was in 1961
when the first two buildings of
the present plant were completed
on the 157 acre campus in North
Asheville, east of Broadway.
Under the Community College
Act of 1957, Asheville-BUtmore
became the first institution to
qualify as a State-supported
community college.
m 1963 the college took a new
step. Effective July 1, AshevlUe-
Blltmore became a state senior
coUege under the Omnibus High
er Education BUI passed In May
of 1963 by the General Assembly.
Since then the dream has drawn
close to complete reaUty. Seven
buUdings of the A-B dormitory
vUlage open next August and wlU
house 250 students. Flans for two
additional dorms to house 350
students are underway. An Olym
pic - sized swimming pool, a
planetarium (the only one In Wes
tern North Carolina), additional
space for science labs and equip
ment, expansion of the cafeteria
and airconditlonlng for the Stu
dent CeiiAer, underground con
duits for campus lighting, and ad
ditional physical education play-,
Ing fields head the list of capital
Improvement requests.
Alumtfl of six years won't re
cognize AshevUle-Blltmore Col
lege. But neither wlU the alumni
six years from now who wiU be
’67 graduates.
Alumni Set
Receptien
Saturday
All of Homecoming is alum-
ni-oriented.
But at least one event wUl be
strictly fbr the exes of junior
college days as weU as mem
bers of the Class of 1966.
That is the 4 p.m. Saturday
reception and coffee in the Stu
dent Center Cafeteria.
Coeds will be on hand to act
as guides for visiting alumni
who have not taken a close look
at the present campus.
Also scheduled, according to
Alumni Association President
George Bryan Jr., wiU be a
discussion on forming out-of-
town chapters of the alumni.
Alumni directors are partic
ularly interested in forming
chapters in Haywood, Hender
son, McDowell and Yancey-Mad
ison counties.
“We also want to consider
chapters in South Carolina, for
the Greenville - Spartanburg
area, and Tennessee, either In
KnoxvUle or Johnson City,” Bry
an said. “We hope several alum
ni from each of these areas wiU
be on hand to assist in this plan
ning.”
Other 1967 officers of the
Alumni Association include BIU
Plyler, vice president; Mrs.
Doris Sanders, secretary and
Mrs. Dorothy Carter, treasurer.
Directors Include Bryan, Con
gressman Roy A. Taylor, James
M. Hall Jr., Dr. Joseph Schand-
ler and Attorney Tom Walton.
Government Majors Specialize
Additional specialization for
Government majors has become
available at AshevlUe-Blltmore
College.
The new program calls for a
multi - disciplinary approach,
bringing together courses of
fered In the departments of go
vernment, history, economics,
geography, literature and philo
sophy.
Recommended for men and wo
men contemplating advanced
work in the fields of political
science, economics and history,
the program Involves subject
matter essential to a broad un
derstanding of world affolrs. The
program wUl also provide a
broad background for those in
terested in professional careers
In law, journalism, diplomatic
service, international business,
or international brganizations.
A Certificate in Education can
be obtained and is recomiViended
with the Government major.
The major consists of thirty
or thirty-one hours from the
courses listed below. Twelve
hours must be taken from those
listed under government; six
from those listed under econo
mics; six from those under his
tory; three from geography; and
three or four from those listed
imder literature and philosophy.
GOVERNMENT:
23B American Foreign Policy
23F intematlonal Relations
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23C Major European Govern
ments
33C History of PoUtical Theory:
Benth^ to Present SocM
Sciences Seminar
ECONOMICS:
33C International Trade
33S Comparative Economic
Systems
HISTORY:
33A United States Since 1918
33C Foreign Relations of the
United states
33K Soviet Russia
33L Europe 1848 - 1918
33M Recent European History
33N Economic History of Europe
GEOGRAPHY:
23A WorW Geography
LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY:
24C World Literature 1700 to
1880
24D World Literature 1880 to
Present
23J Social and PoUtical PhUo-
sophy
For further Information, stu
dents should contact Mr. Doug
las A. Stutsman, Dr. Sidney
T, Matthews, or Dr. Bahram
Farzanegan.
AU members of the Ridgerun-
ner staff wUl meet Monday, FEB.
6, at 12 noon.
The Rldgerunner needs ad
salesmen and general news re
porters. Interested students are
urged to attend the meeting which
will be held on the balcony In
front of the RR news office.
* * * « *
The Jon Gleurs, a coUege fblk
trio, will perform Tuesday, Feb.
7 in the student Center audi
torium at U a. m.
m July, the group wiU appear
at the Newport Folk Festival
as the guests of Peter, Paul,
and Mary.