tE^fje Eitigerunner
Voice of the Students
Vol. IX No. XIII
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
November 16, 1973
Duplication of Services
Inter-dorm Cookout
The thermometer was hovering around freezing
and the wind was cold and biting, but the fire
was warm and food tasty, at an Inter-dorm
sponsored cookout held last Saturday on campus
(Staff Photo by Jane Nicholson)
Area Health Center
Planned for Asheville
Plans are currently
underway for the es
tablishment of an Area
Health Education Cen
ter (AHEC) in Ashe
ville which will have
great impact upon the
future of UNC-A, ac
cording to Chancellor
William E. Highsmith.
The AHEC center
will be located be
tween St. Joseph's
Hospital and Memorial
Mission Hospital, on
Biltmore Avenue. The
center will offer con
tinuing education pro
grams for doctors,
nurses, and other pub
lic health personnel.
The center hopes to
be underway shortly
after the beginning of
the year.
Last spring, the
UNC-A Board of Trust
ees passed a resolu
tion asking the UNC
Board of Governors to
approve the establish
ment of a school of
nursing and health
sciences at UNC •‘•A, as
part of the Chancel
WCU’s Oteen Program
Attacked by Highsmith
lor's new programs.
If the UNC Board of
Governors approves the
school of nursing and
health sciences and
if the AHEA is built
as scheduled, it would
be possible for a
student interested in
nursing or public
health training to do
his undergraduate
work at UNC-A and
graduate work at AHEC,
all withoug leaving
the western end of the
state.
In 1970, the Car
negie Commission on
Higher Education pub
lished a report on
higher education and
the nation's health in
which it stated, "Des
pite America's vast
wealth there are still
severe health problems.
The Commission re
commended that medical
schools be expanded
into medical centers
for research and for
training physicians.
(Continued on P-3)
Chancellor William
E. Highsmith called
Monday for a policy
decision by the UNC
Board of Governors on
the operation of the
extension program at
Oteen by Western Car
olina University.
Highsmith told the
UNC-A Board of Trus
tees that a dupli
cation of progrsuns
offered in the Ashe
ville area by the two
institutions is an un
realistic burden to
the taxpayers of the
state.
"We need to develop
with the board of gov
ernors a basic policy
statement as to what
this institution (UNC-
A) is supposed to be,
where it is supposed
to go, what level it
is supposed to work
at—and the board is
going to have to make
some decisions in re
ference to what Western
is supposed to be doing
over here in Ashe
ville," Highsmith said.
The WCU extension
program at Oteen, it
was pointed out, was
started at the request
of industry in this
area while UNC-A was
still a junior college.
But now in Addition
to prograuns in educa
tion and business ad
ministration, WCU is
offering courses "as
part of their program
which is a direct du
plication of what we
are offering over
here," Highsmith
said.
And the Cullowhee
institution, he said,
does not have ade
quate library support,
classrooms or labora
tories in the Asheville
area for those pro
grams. The WCU classes
at Oteen are held at
night.
"And yet over here
on our campus at
night, the library and
classrooms and labor
atories are empty,"
he said. "Whether we
are UNC-A people or
Western Carolina people
we are all taxpayers
of North Carolina,
and that doesn't make
any sense at all."
Highsmith told the
trustees that the en
rollment at UNC-A is
stabilizing, and that
budgets are now being
developed as a direct
retiection of the num
ber of students enrol
led rather than the
types of programs of
fered.
"In order to protect
what we have already
(Continued on P-4)
Trustees Lower
In-state Tuition
The Committee on
Finance and Real Pro
perty of the UNC-A
Board of Trustees Mon
day unanimously ap
proved a reduction of
in-state tuition by
$17 per semester.
Meeting in the ad
ministrative confer
ence room prior to the
regular meeting of the
Board of Trustees, it
was decided that this
change would become
effective next semes
ter.
The $17 tuition re
duction will be reap
plied to student ac
tivity and athletic
fees. Students will
now pay an additional
$8.50 activity fee,
and an additional $8.50
athletic fee per semes
ter.
The Committee also
redefined its defini
tion of who should pay
activity and athletic
fees. The Committee
ruled that any student
taking more than 10
hours per semester
shall be required to
pay activity and ath
letic fees.
Chancellor William
E. Highsmith told the
Committee he was con
cerned about the free
riders on campus who
don't pay activity
fees but yet attend
campus functions.
Highsmith said there
were over 100 students
on c£unpus who are
taking 10 or 11 hours
per semester and not
paying activity fees.
The Committee will
pass the resolution
on tuition changes to
the UNC Board of Gov
ernors who have juris
diction on any and all
tuition changes.
In other action,
the Committee unani
mously voted that no
one intercollegiate
athletic sport could
receive more than 30
per cent of athletic
fees paid by students.
Index
Editorials 2
Dance Theater 3
Jack Anderson 2
Kazoo Band 4
Land Purchase 4
Sports............. 4