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I 3-i vol. 8 no. 4 the university of north Carolina at asheville thursday, october 19,1972 SUMMIT WILL CONTINUE The special investigating committee appointed by Student Government Association Pres ident Ray Gasperson, reported on October 1 their desires to have the UNC-A’s yearbook, the Summit, continued. Controversy arose this fall over the contents of the 1971-1972 publication of the Summit. On September 17, by presidental order Ray Gasperson suspended all funds which go to the support of the Summit, pending an in vestigation into the matter. Mr. Gasperson appointed a committee headed by Deborah Grier to investigate the matter. Other committee members ap pointed were; Nancy Horak, Howard Ballou, Jim Shields, Kathy Worrall, Rena Wyatt, Liberal Arts Definition is Broadened Victor Workman, Paul Deason and Chuck Campbell. Between September 17 and October 1, the committee held both open and closed door dis cussions on the Summit. On September 28, there was an opinion poll taken to find out how the student body felt with regard to the Summit issue. The poll re vealed that 86% of the students favored the continuance of the Summit, 10% of the students wanted the yearbook abolished and 4% had no opinion at all. The poll also revealed that the traditional yearbook was favored over the non-traditional one. Following two weeks of open and closed door discussions on October 1, the committee report ed to the senate their desires to have the Summit continued. During the following week the committee worked on the policy statement for the Summit, re viewed the budget for 1972, and made recommendations concern ing the operation of the Summit. These recommendations were submitted to the senate for appro val on October 8. A decision on th:this policy was made at the last >ct senate meeting on October 15. This year’s staff began work on the yearbook this summer and have continued to work even though their funds have been suspended. Rena Wyatt, this year’s editor, promises to have ;nore student and faculty pic tures in this year’s publication and to cover more organizations and activities. The Chancellor’s Committee for Curicular Reform has broad ened the definition of liberal arts education that most students are familiar with. The Nature and Goals of a Liberal Education The Statement of Aims and Objectives of UNC-A says, among other things, that we want to provide a “liberal education of high quality”. It is of the utmost importance that we achieve a consensus of the whole Uni versity community on the mean ing of that phrase in the face of the challenges which we shall have to meet in the 1970’s and 80’s. The Chancellor’s Commission for Undergraduate Curricular Re form has concluded that “liberal education” miist be defined in terms of the goals of the learning process. What should happen to the persons who are “liberally educated?” What ought they to be like when they finish? When the question is put this way it becomes clear that a liberal education is broadly concerned with the development of the huntan self. It should help stu dents become autonomous, free and humane persons capable of coping with their world. Such an education will have an intel lectual focus but not exclusively so. It must also pursue the ancient Socratic maxim “know thyself’ continued — P. 4 In a light voter turn out David Ramseur (center) won a run off election over Howard Ballou for the presidency of the freshmen class. Jerry Johnson (left) was elected vice president and Ed Carlyle (right) was elected secretary. That Wednesday! Report Made of All Campus Conference A Report and Review of the 1972 All-Campus Conference and Some Effects. On Wednesday, May 10, 1972, something different, something exciting, something hopeful happened at U.N.C.A. For one day, classes were cancelled; ^student-faculty-administration battle flags were lowered to half staff and we (over one third of the student body, faculty and ad ministration) came together to discuss and plan how we might better achieve the goals of our University. It was a day filled with assemblies, workshops, beer, music, frisbies and honest- to-god thinking. The following report on two of the workshops which were held on ‘that Wednes day’ is presented in the hope that ‘Wednesday’ will remain alive for all of us! Workshop on “New Directions for Liberal Arts” The ‘New Directions’ workshop met under the ^guidance of Mary Kruszewski. The questions to which the participants addressed themselves were 1) What is meant by ‘experimental’ and ‘innovative’ in the U.N.C.A. catalog? and 2) What can be done to give prac tical effect to these concepts. Ma jor proposals which came out of | this workshop are the following: 1) There should be reform of] the curriculum to include occu pational degree programs; 2) That a more active recruit ing program be designed to at tract students from more distant areas of this state and from other states; purpose, to break down the provincial basis of the student body. Such a program should continued — P. 4 MISS MURIEL BOWEN, longtime writer for the London Times, will speak at UNC-Asheville on Thursday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m., in Lipinsky Auditorium. Miss Bowen, formerly on the staffs of the Lord Beaverbrook’s London Express and the Wash ington Post, will discuss “The Irish Problem from the British Viewpoint.” Her talk here is sponsored by the Asheville Branch of the English-Speaking Union and UNC-A’s Special Programs Committee and is open to the public without charge. IN S Simulation is Scheduled Repeating its tremendous success of last year, the Political Science Department is again making plans to conduct an Inter-Nation Simu lation (INS) in high schools in and around the Asheville area. INS is a computer assisted “game” involving teams of students who actually run countries in a world situation, reacting in what has been found to be a close imitation of real life. Faced with the same liabilities and advantages that real nations deal with, including areas such as weapons capabilities (conventional and nuclear), basic resources, and manpower, the students gain a vast insight into world politics not normally realiz ed in the classroom. The em phasis of INS is not on the “fun” aspect of the game; rather, it is a means by which students dis co verthe importance ofdiplomacy, the hardship of making decisions under the pressure of time, the ability to work for a common goal — all the factors that contri bute to behind-the-scenes politics that are the basis of international politics today. In the spring of this year, six high schools were invited to U.N. C.-A. for a day-long INS run, the prize being a one year scho larship. Project INS substantially proved that students could readily understand the concepts and ob jectives of the INS method, so much so that teams of U.N.C.-A. students will be running simula tions in area schools once again, under the supervision of Dr. Bob Farzanegan, in the hopes that INS can become more widely known and used in secondary school systems as well as colleges. Dr. Farzanegan is in need of political science majors to help with the simulation in local scho ols, offering three semester hours of credit for participation. Other students are welcome also. Project INS for this academic year will begin sometime in the early part of Term II, covered in full in one of the upcoming RIDGERUNNER issues. dln.sl.cl.G= lAIl Campus Conference Page 1 Gemini Speaks Page 3 Elephants and Butterflies Page 3 A Look at the Oxford Program Page 6 Trustees Meet at UNC-A Page 6 Sports Page 10 [Loser Page 9 •PLUS . . . SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT ELECTION RESULTS - Inside
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