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STUDENT DISCOUNTS COMING
The Student Consumer Program is coming to the U.N.C.-A
campus soon. This is a program designed to offer various goods and
services to the student at sizeable discounts. It is a relatively new
idea which has been initiated at several other universities in the area.
Merchants in such. cities as Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro,
Charlotte and Raleigh are now participating, just to mention a few.
Greg Riggs is the Executive Vice-President of the Student
Consumer Program and also a student at U.N.C.-A. he is now
soliciting the support of the Asheville merchants in order to begin
the program here. The range of goods and services available depends
upon the number of merchants involved and the student response to
the offer.
Discounts of up to 20% have been given on a wide range of items
including food, clothing, dry-cleaning, gasoline and lodging.
Membership cards will be available soon to issue to the students.
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A word of warning before you park by that yellow curb! Because
of a state decision, UNC-A’s traffic problem is now regulated by
statewide motor vehicle laws.
The framework for the new rules came from Chapel Hill which
Administrative Assistant to the Chancellor, Ed Harris then drafted
for UNC-A use. The SGA no longer handles ticketing and fines. A
paid security officer gives tickets and fines and court costs are to be
paid at the traffic court downtown.
One convenience the school has provided is that if the ticket is
paid within 5 days in the business office, one can save the trouble of
going to court and paying court costs.
In the near future, a joint student-administrative reveiw panel will
be set up to hear appeals if a person thinks he has been charged
unjustly. If found innocent, the ticket can be voided and will not go
on the court record.
Another rule to be well aware of is the 20 mph law for UNC-A
roads. All service roads are 15 mph. Parking stickers are available at
the Business Office.
Bill Coonanj SGA President recently announced that Freshman
elections are slated for the end of October.
Nominations for the Freshman Class offices will be open from
Oct. 14 to the 16th during the hours of 12:00 to 3:00. Posters will
go up October 18 and speeches will be made on October 19 at
12:00.
The elections will be held October 21 from 9:00 to 5:00 in front
of the Lipinsky Student Center.
Crisis Intervention
The Asheville Hotline is a
crisis intervention center. By
using youth counselling, an
emergency telephone syste, and
other social agencies in our city.
Hotline will be in the best
position to prevent drug abuse
and overdose, and to be a
referral agency to young people
with other problems.
Increased drug arrests in
Buncombe County, coupled
with the alienation of young
people, clearly present an urgent
need for this facility. The trust
placed in the staff by people
needing help is the obvious
reason for this type community
service.
One of six crew-chiefs will be
present during Hotline’s 24-hour
day. Other volunteers, as well as
the paid crew-chiefs, will be
trained in first aid, telephone
role-playing techniques, sucicide
prevention, and available local
social agencies.
Help has already been
obtained from physicians and
psychiatrists, and local clubs and
agencies have pledged their
support. An adult backup
committee has been formed to
aid in fund raising and publicity.
Application has been made to
the N. C. Committee on Law
and Orders for $8,000. $4,500
in local matching funds must be
raised by July I, 1971, when
this funding begins. Police Chief
Hall recommended that Hotline
be the number one priority from
a field of ten applicants.
Operating costs until July 1 are
estimated at $900 per month.
The Asheville Jaycess have
pledged a substantial amount for
rent and telephone bills and over
$400 has been raised by Hotline
at a carnival. However, much
much more will be needed.
Non-profit incoropration
procedures are underway and
will be complete by November.
For further information call
254-7206 (the YWCA) and ask
to speak with Frank Parker,
David Wright, or Eddie Gunn.
All financial contributions are
welcome. Please make checks
payable to the YWCA-Asheville
community Workshop-Hotline.
Keniston-
Revolution at UNC-A: Don't Hold Your Breath
by Paula Schmidt
It may be safe to say that we
will see neither a student
revolution-or counterviolence by
the estabhshment agents on our
campus this year. A mere study
of demographic characteristics
of UNC-A’s student body could
tell us that. Such is the
supposition to be obtained from
a discussion of campus unrest by
sociologist ' Kenneth Keniston
(The New York Review of
Books, September 24, 1970). We
may also perdict that the recent
decision to place student
representatives on institutional
committees will do nothing to
forestall or further the
revolution, and that when the
revolution, large or small, comes
* ■» these hills the Chancellor will
,ave at least three types of
precedent cases with which to
se,x guidance in keeping or
losing his job.
The first senario, played at
Yale, is the responsive one of
co-opting the protest by exerting
a dramatic trust in the ideals of
the protestors, giving individual
redress, letting people talk, and
making beau gests by appointing
study committees with a minor
representation given to the
dissatisfied. The president
thereby prevents any heavy
action, appeasing his bosses if
they are not conservative
disiplinarians. Or he might sit it
out like the University of
Chicago, moving his offices to an
unliberated building, appointing
investigating committees, and
declaring that no troops will be
called. If, though, open warfare
of faculty against faculty,
student against student,
bureaucrat against bureaucrat,
and politician against the media
breaks out, someone calls the
troops and a new president will
have to re-dress the wounded.
The third precedent, staged at
Columbia, Berkeley and
Harvard, is the bloody,
Shakesperian freak-out where
the president could “become
convinced that unless the
occupiers ... are immediately
expelled, the University, the
Higher Learning, and ultimately
Western Civilization will
crumble.” The bust happens and
Kent-Jackson State is instantly
replayed.
We know we may breathe
easy here at UNC-A, though, by
picking up Keniston’s advice to
look at the research studies. “A
‘good’ student body, as defined
by high aptitude scores,
intellectual motivation, and
plans to complete college and
graduate school makes student
unrest more likely. Conversely,
the best way not to have student
protest is to congregate in a
small college a homogeneous
group of extremely pious, dumb,
conservative students who view
higher education as vocational
training and come from
politically inactive working-class
or lower middle-class families.”
Furthermore, Keniston holds
that the causes of percipitated
unrest may be explained by
objections “to the University's
collusion with the war in
Southeast Asia and/or its
insensitivity to our collaboration
with the prevalent racism of
American society.”
The psychological needs of
the students and the lack of
institudonal democratic forms
may play a role. “But,”
Keniston says, “this role is not
to ‘cause’ unrest, but to open
the eyes and ears of students to
real issues.” That the issues exist
on all campuses cannot be
doubted, but little action on the
issues happens with students
who for one reason, or another,
have trouble opening their eyes
and ears. Thus, the educatability
of the student body is used as
the locus of student unrest.
October u,
CSIP Conference - N. C. Dept, of
Public Instructions SSII3 9-4
it’s the
real thing
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16 Dyslexia Workshop
HI33 4-7 p.m.
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October 15
Movie: Cat Ballou
8 p.m. Lipinsky Auditorium
17 Asheville Art Museum
Films HLH 7 p.m.
American College Testing
Library - all morning
Dance — 8 p.m. — see Don Rice!
Dyslexia Workshop
HI33 4-7 p.m.
Movies 6 p.m. — The Alphabet Conspiracy
7 p.m. - The Boston Strangler
Humanities Lecture Hall
E- A1
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19-24
Group in Coffehouse all week
See Bob Kelso
22-24
Foreigh Language film: The Hui..
by Carlos Saura, For Spanish work,
English subtitles.
Play:
(See page 3) Tickets at door.
8 p.m. Lipinsky Auditorium.