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Vol. 9 No. 6 The University of North Carolina at Asheville September 28, 1973
Energy Crisis Strikes Campus
Morrison and Swann in Concert
Morrison and Swann Plus, a folic group from Asheville provided the enter
tainment at last Friday night’s Coffeehouse performance. (Staff Photo by Sam
Ferguson)
SGA Reverts, Plans
To Serve Beer
Social Science
Building OK’d,
Construction Set
Construction on a
new social science
building, costing in
excess of one million
dollars, is scheduled
to begin in a few
days.
On Sept. 21 the Ad
visory Budget Commis
sion in Raleigh, ap
proved final plans
for the $1,048,000
building to be locat
ed in the wooded area
beside the Infirmary
across from the ten
nis courts.
The structure will
house the economics,
sociology, political
science, psychology
and education depart
ments. The building
will also provide
psychology labora
tories a comupter
center, provisions
for social science
work, seminar rooms
and office space.
The Learning Re
sources Center, pre
sently located in the
basement of Ramsey
Library will be moved
from the library to
the new building.
The building was
originally proposed
in June 1971, at the
cost of $950,000.
However, delays in ob-
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index
Editorials 2
Classifieds 6
Debate Team 5
Financial Aid 4
Features 3
Pollution 4
Senate Report 2
Student Leaders 5
Sports 6
After a week without
beer, SGA has decided
to serve beer on a
limited basis at the
Coffeehouse this year.
It was only a
couple of weeks ago
that SGA declared that
no beer would be serv
ed at Coffeehouse per
formances. The change
in policy regarding
By PAULA TINSLEY
Staff Writer
Have you ever want
ed to take a course
which incorporates
all the fields of
study? "America and
the Future of Man" is
such a course.
This is a college
level course offered
by newspaper. It will
focus on the effects
of change in society,
the implications of
advances in medicine
and genetics and how
the serving of beer
was bought about by
student sentiment,
according to Ssu^i
Ferguson, social
commissioner.
Beginning with the
next performance,
this Saturday night,
one keg of beer,
accounting for approx
imately 250 cups of
technology will in
fluence life in the
future.
Unusual in more
than its content,
only two class meet
ings will be held and
two exams given in the
course.
The course is com
prised of 20 news
paper articles, all
of which will appear
in the Asheville Cit
izen Times on consec
utive Sundays.
In addition to the
beer will be served.
The cost of beer
will be approximately
$20 per performance
and will be served on
a first come first
serve basis.
Speaking of the new
change, Ferguson said
the beer drinking
crowd had better come
early.
Offered
lectures students
must purchase an ad
ditional kit.
The additional kit
is to be used as a
study aid by the stu
dent. The kit in
cludes contributions
from the authors of
newspaper lectures,
a study guide, and a
recording.
The lectures will
be written by scho
lars from various
universities includ-
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Students Told
To Expect
Cooler Buildings
For the past few
months the news and
broadcast medias have
been swamped with
stories of gasoline
and fuel oil short
ages along with stor
ies of electrical
blackouts, now the
energy crisis has hit
home.
Campus maintenance
engineer, Sam Millar
has 30,000 gallons of
fuel oil on campus,
with no guarantee of
receiving any more.
Chancellor William
Highsmith has issued
a warning that stu
dents and faculty
members may have to
wear heavier clothing
this winter and be
prepared to work in
cooler buildings.
"There's no indi
cation that we will
have to shut down,
but we are going to
have to learn to do
without some of the
necessities of life
that we have become
used to," Highsmith
said.
All the buildings
on ceunpus, with the
exception of the dor
mitories and the In
firmary, are heated by
fuel oil. Last year
these buildings used
166,000 gallons of
fuel oil which cost
$21,950,000. An aver
age of 13 cents a gal
lon.
The price of fuel
oil has increased by
70 per cent in the
past year. Last year,
fuel oil was selling
for 11.84 cents a
gallon, compared to
20.4 cents a gallon
this year.
Millar having anti
cipated the shortage
as early as last A-
pril, has taken mea
sures to conserve
fuel oil.
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