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m mrimsm or rorih OAHOLm at ashivzx.u Sll!UDEN?3 HECMVE NSF GBAUl The University of North Carolina at Asheville will receive an $18,170 National. Science Foundation grant to study na tural reclamation of abandoned strip mines in the Spruce Pine area. Announcement of the NSF award, the third in five years to UNC-A, was made Tuesday by Dr. James D. Perry, . associate professor of biology, and Dr. Roy A. Riggs, Vice Chancellor of Academ ic affairs. Gene Spears, a senior biology major from Canton, has been named student project director for UNC-A's Student originated Studies (SOS) pro ject, one of two going this year to North Carolina"insti tutions of higher learning. UNC-Chapel Hill received a $21, 550 SOS grant for zoology research. Spears will direct a 12-member student research team with Dr. Perry serving as faculty project advisor. Plans call for a 12-week study this summer. The UNC-A grant was one of 81 totaling $1.1 million awarded to student-initiated palnned and directed studies, aimed at exploring national problems, accordincr to NSF. Already named to serve vrith vSpears on the UNC-A research team are Joe Bailey, Alice Jackson, Tim Galloway, Rick Da vis, Jim Baker, Otto Tysland, Russ Varner, Vicki Cassada, Lane Buckner. "Our study will be of plant succession in abandoned strip mines in the Spruce Pine district of the Appalachian Mountains^" Spears said. "Mining has been carried out on an industrial scale for almost a century, offering a unique opportunity to study the natural succession of plants over different time intervals." The study will con sist of a two-fold approach to the prob lem. Spears said that the team will first gather chemical and physical data from six abandoned min ing areas, including soil analyses, rain fall, prevailing winds and temperature. NIMOY SURPRISES FANS Grover The posters v/ere up. '•ir. Spock is coining. IIo use worrying about most colleae people saying "V/ho?" We know who. And these hints were confirmed when the formal posters announcina the vixit of Leonard Nimoy soon appeared on the bulletin boards and walls about campus. !Ir. Spock is fundamental. Mr. Spock is an aquantance of 95% of colleae students and intimately known (as intimately as he can be known) by numerous Star Trek freaks. Spock is important to us for many reasons. The character of Mr. Spock in the Star Trek series was a fascinating one, tangible in all respects to what scientific advancement we see growing about and over us» a conbination of eugenic breeding and some human "corruption". But for the uninformed, for the Pul'ilic At Large, for cognizant parents of children who noticed their kids watching animated Star Trek on Saturdays, for the one or two Who recognized the face from the last shov/s of the Mission Impossible series, the posters, and finally, the radio, newspapers, and television people told then Leonard Nimoy was coming to Lipinsky to give a lecture,or talk, entitled "Odyssey to the Borders of the Mind". Odyssey-yes. 2001; A Space odyssey.Science fiction,space travel, time V7arp, dilithium crystals ,phasers, Clingon ships, and Lieutenant Uhura.Spock was cominq. There were about thirty people milling around the administration building just shortly before the scheduled 3:30 press conference with Leonard Nimoy. Most of us who Kl'IEW were walking about and chatting excitedly. The press conference room on the ROTA RY A MB AsTaDO R S AT UNC-A planned, in many cases, to include such fields as automotive mechanics AWARDS ASSSMBLY KBLP On April 16, the awards assembly was held in Lipinsky Auditorium. Recog nized were outstand ing students from all walks of campus life,from academics to sports. The oldest award given at UNC-A,the A.C.Reynolds Citizen ship award, was won by Pat Hickey.Criteria for selecting the winning student for this involves superior academic wnd extra curricular standing. It is the highest award presented by UNC-A. (ont p.2) [OQl UNC-MERRIMON: art dept, expands Each year the Rotary Foundation sponsors a group exchange program designed to send out standing businessmen to a district in another county for study of pro blems and solutions in each man's field of in terest. April 11, UNC-A was the sight of one of their visits, members District 269 in Austra lia. As they took a brief tour of campus, I was privileged to be able to explain part- in the regular plan of study at the terciary level, though the course ^ may not always be given for credit. He also sensed a difference in expression of attitudes concerning careers here in the states. The stu dents in Australia seem ed more informed and verbose on career pos sibilities than here. After I explained the particular difficulties UNC-A has expanded somewhat, and now has an off-Ccimpus addi tion to the art de partment. Located in the formerly Gold Stamps Store on Merri- mon Avenue, the new building is used ex clusively for three dimensional work, with the two dimen sional classes and labs remaining on the second floor of the Humanities buil ding. V/hereas the three dimensional section of the art depart ment previously had under 1700 square feet, they now have 9,000. This allows for separate sections for the different types of work being done. There is nov; separate floor space for the ceramics, sculpture, weaving, and jev;elry work being done, and for the first time no one has to bo chased out in order for someone else to be able to work or for a class to bo held. icular problems and ch- aracteristios within the experiences with campus life in general (large commuter popul ation that already has university complex in North Carolina, as well as , ask my own questions , . . V *. ^ - lobs, few students from about the nature of ter- , outside the area), as ciary education in Aus tralia. Mr. Paul Raker, a governmant youth admin istrative officer from Caleramatta, N.S.W., had sensed a differance in attitudes towards career opportunities between American and Australian students. In Australia, he explained, there se emed to be a different emphasis on skills tra ining than here. It was well as the perspective UNC-A should be viewed in with respect to other campuses in North Caro lina (they have not seen Chapel Hill or sights of some of the larger scho ols ), I was able to shed a little more light on the basis for the VKPBHfiRADUArS REVIBW NOW AVAILABLE BOOKS rORB The Political Science Association has published the Undergraduate Re view, first of its kind for the asso ciation. Editors of the' journal included Pcumela Thompson, Political Theory editor, Frank Do- sier and Mike Hugh ey, Ttoerican Poli tics edotors, Ed Sheary, Interna tional Relations editor, Charles Campbell, editor of Comparative Poli tics, and Jcimes A. Jones as Editor-in- Chief. The first issue included a work by Dosier and Hughey which received the first place award as Best Undergradu ate research paper in Political Science in 1974 by the N.C. Political Science Association. Sub ject of the paper was "Civic Education, Political Recruit ment and Democratic Values." Kim Manning, vice president of the [JNC-A Political Sci ence association is in charge of the lack of interest that he had sensed. Mr. Baker® distribu- was particularly inter- tion;at UNC-A, the ested in discovering on Undergraduate Review his trip any actions be- available in the (corit. ..) bookstore.
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