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Voice of the Students
Vol. 9 No. 8
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
October 12, 1973
Federal Funding for Ramsey Library Cut
mn^rrdrty
Camnus maintenance ennineer and soccer coach San Millar, is shov/n at
the v/heel of his famous industrial cart, better knov/n now da vs as "^’il-
lar's Follv.” (Staff Photo by Jane Nicholson)
Millar’s Folly
Whal Will It Do For UNC-A?
One of the great
debates occuring on
campus is whether or
not Millar's Folly
v;ill do for UNC-A
what Seward's Folly
did for the United
States.
In the late 1800's,
then Secretary of
State William Henry
Seward, purchased the
undeveloped Alaskan
territory from Russia,
At the time of the
purchase Seward was
ridiculed and laughed
at by the American
public. Alaska soon
became known as "be-
ward's Folly."
Since then Alaska
has been accepted in
to the union as the
49th state, and the
rest is history.
Now in 1973, ano
ther folly surfaces-
Millar's Folly. Mil
lar's Folly is an e-
lectrically operated
industrial Y:art, re
sembling a golf cart,
and is named after
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Trustees Select Committees
Members of the UNC-A
Board of Trustees re
ceived standing as
signments to Trustee
committees at an all
day orientation meet
ing held last Thurs
day.
At the meeting.
Chairman George H.
Blanton outlined com
mittee responsibili
ties and appointments.
Named to the execu
tive committee were
Blanton as chairman;
Dr. Francis A. Buch
anan, vice chairman;
and Bernard R. Smith,
secretary.
The committee on
finance and real pro
perty is to work with
William Pott, vice-
chancellor for fin
ance, in fiscal and
plant responsibili
ties.
Named to this com
mittee were trustees
Garza Baldwin, Bruce
A. Elmore, Mrs. Char
les D. Owen Jr., and
Dr. Francis A. Buch-
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‘‘There Will Be Fewer
Old and New Books^^
AINSLEY WHITMAN
UNC-A LIBRARIAN
By KAREN KLUTZ
Staff Writer
Whitman summed up
his feeling by saying,
- , , "I'm so discouraged
Due to a lack of ^
^ ^ ^ ^ over the whole situa-
federal funds to pur- I don't be-
chase new books and lieve even writing to
to replace old ones, congressman would
there will be fewer j^'s very sad,
books at Ramsey Li- ^he whole situation
brary this year. ^ cause."
For the fiscal 1973-
1974 year, Reumsey Li-
brary will receive ClueS FOUnd
only $5,000 in feder- .
al funds, compared IH v./lSOri
to the $7,500 the li- MUfCler CdS0
brary usually re
ceives .
The reason for the walking along
cutback in federal Broadway be-
fundinq was caused by tween Woodfin and
President Nixon's Asheville on Sunday
failure to request ^prii 15, the day
money from Congress to unc-A coed Miss Vir-
■buy books for public ginia Marie Olson was
schools, college li- brutally murdered and
braries and public raped on a hill across
libraries, according from the University
to UNC-A librarian, Botanical Gardens,
Ainsley Whitman. ^aid he saw Miss 01-
There seems to be goj^ get into a car
no way out of this and drive away with
situation, Whitman two young men.
said. It is thought That was the story
there will be zero an unidentified man
funds available for told Asheville Citi-
libraries in fiscal zen-Times columnist
^^74," Bob Terrell last week.
The only possible
solution to the pro- Turn to pane four
blem would have to
come from Congress, «
but there is always
the chance that the III U
President would veto
the action, Whitman PS/' 3
said. j
"This means there Editorials 2
will be fewer current
books, fewer copies «lassifieds 6
of the books we now
have, and little pro- Kent State 6
gress will be made in
starting a library NC-A-Oxford 4
loan program with o-
ther schools, since ^snate Report 3
they are in much the
same situation," ^ norts 5
Whitman said.
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