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October 8, 1976
Asheville, NC 28804
Volume XII No, 4
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ELECTIONS Budget Cut Threat
RESULTS:
Senators chosen,
Carter wins.
On Sept. 22, the following students
were elected to th6 Student Senate: Rose
Sellers, unopposed as Senior Senator;
Joseph G. Young, Jr. and Becky Gooding
as the two Junior Senators; and Garrett
Allen Stone, Sophmore Senator. The
freshman class will be represented by
William D. Gardner, Linda Sue Williams,
and Jerry Lee Hampton. Glenda Marlene
Buchanan and William MacElrath
Branham, Jr., were elected as the two
Dorm Senators. Mary Beth Penland and
Christopher Follanshee Smith were voted
in again as Commuter Senators.
Probably the most interesting out
come, however, was the other ballot
selections, in which 128 people they were
registered to vote in the general elections,
and 71 said no. Those who registered to
vote and those who will register before
October 4 revealed that if they voted
today for the presidency, 100 would vote
for Carter, 69 for For, none for Maddox,
7 for McCarthy, and one vote apeice
for Pat Paulson and Flo Kennedy.
In the gubernatorial elections, 116
Three UNC A
Faculty Not
Contracted
For 1977-78
Three faculty members were
promoted to associate professor, with
tenure, and three received terminating
appointments last spring. The promoted
faculty members included Dr. William
Bruce in psychology, Dr. Arnold Wengrow
in drama, and Dr. Marcel Andrade in
Spanish. Those receiving terminating
appointments were Dr. Phillip Hartman
in math. Dr. George Stein in political
science, and Dr. Mechthild Cranston in
French.
Dr. Hartman is now teaching at
Mars Hill College. Dr. Cranston has
appealed the decision and a re-hearing will
be scheduled. In her previous appeal, an
informal hearings committee resolved tlutt
she had not presented evidence for a case
of discrimination. Non-reappointed
faculty are allowed counsel, and to
examine records and question witnesses.
All faculty with terminal degree are
evaluated for tenure before their sixth year
of service. Tenure is granted on the basis
of “demonstrated professional competence,
the potential for future contributions, and
the needs and resources of the institution.?
A risk is involved when all faculty
members of a department are tenured
smce the department may not contmue to
grow, which would result in a
disproportion of faculty to the number of
students majoring in that subject.
said they’d vote for Hunt and 37
preferred Flaherty. Green took the Lt.
Govemor position with 91 votes to
Hiatt’s 41. The last question on the
ballot, “Do you approve of S.G.
purchasing beer for social events?” was
answered with an obvious majority of
159 saying yes, and 36 saying no.
The elections were inefficiently
done and so poorly publicized that many
full-time students didn’t even know about
them. Those that did vote found that
the names of the candidates were just
that — names. The candidates’ platforms
were unknown.
The responsibility for the confusion
lies with others in the Student Govern
ment, since the Elections Commissioner,
Milton Crowe, was selected only two
weeks before the elections were held.
If the last question on the ballot
had been, “Do you know what each of the
candidates stands for?”, it would have
resulted in a majority saying “No.” Maybe
in the next election, the voter will be
able to say yes to this important question.
James Gray, director of Herald
Communications and agent of Claude
DeBruhl, threatened UNC-A with budget
cuts when the Faculty Senate moved to
call executive session in the meeting on
Oct. 4. The Senate nevertheless called a
closed session, and two hours later
emerged with a resolution concerning the
travel funds controversy.
Gray demanded a written reason for
the closure, to be reviewed by the
Attorney General for the State of North
Carolina and the Chairman of the State
Personnel Committee.
Prior to the executive session, the
Senate heard reports from the Committee
on Institutional Development, which is
planning to present a panel to discuss the
pro’s and con’s of collective bargaining by
university professors. The Faculty
Welfare Committee also reported on a
retirement plan for senior professors. A
resolution was passed concerning the use
of tape recorders in Senate meetings. The
resolution requires a five day written
notice of the intent to record, and a 2/3
majority vote of the Senate, The
ubhcations Board selections will be
onsidered in the next Senate meeting on
Oct. 14.
The decision to call executive session
was preceded by discussion as to whether
the issue of the travel funds controversy
was actually a personnel matter, which is
exempted from General Statute 143 (The
Freedom of Information Act). Several
professors expressed cqncern that the
closure is severe, restricting the presence
of concerned faculty who are not members
of the Senate. In the last Senate meeting,
non-Senate members of the facuhy were
allowed to remain in the closed session.
Gray requested permission to
address the Senate, since “I am the alien
factor which is the cause of concern and
resentment.” He identified himself as the
director of Herald Communications, a
research organization which had been
contracted by DeBruhl to investigate the
institution’s “politics and underenrollment
of veterans and Buncombe County
students.” He stated that DeBruhl had
said UNC-A’s attitude of “Little Harvard
on'the Hill has gone as far as it can go.”
While conducting his investigation,
Gray learned that a professor was to be
questioned at the Senate meeting. He
approached the professor, who told him
that it would be “unethical and
unprofessional” to discuss it. Gray then
contacted Chancellor Highsmith to express
his intent to sit in on the meeting. The
Chancellor said it was a matter for the
Senate, and that he had “faith and
confidence in the Senate.”
The minutes of the meeting have
not been released, pending approval of the
next meeting.
Festival Draws Crowds
Woodcrafts, enamels, metal
scultpure, paintings and dulcimers were
among the items being sold Saturday and
Sunday, Sept. 25-26, in the Second
Annual Alumni Arts and Crafts Festival.
The majority of the artists were
associated with High Country Crafters,
which is located on Haywood Street in
Asheville.
An outstanding exhibit was the
enamel on copper by Don Andrick, who
recently moved here from Massachusettes
His sow included jewelry of abstract
design and “Miracle” key chains that
require some ingenuity to use. Mr.
Andrick will be appearing on WBTV from
Charlotte Oct. 28, discussing the ancient
Japanese of cloisonne. Cloisonne is a
process of forming outlines with thin
silver wire and filling them in with colored
glass particles.
Marketry, which uses wood inlays
of various colors to create pictures, was
shown by Mr. Frank Statum, a ret ired Air
Force officer. Statum uses surgical
scalpels to cut the veneers, which are
about 1/40” thick.
The Art Show featured music by
Jerry Read Smith, playing his hammered
dulcimers. He was joined Saturday
afternoon by Jeff Chemiss, playing the
fiddle and Tad Wright with his guitar, in
an impromptu performance.
Sparky Rucker, blues singer
and folklorist from Knox
ville, pauses beside a
dulcimer in the Arts and
Crafts Show Sept. 25.
Photo by Everette Corn