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Volume XII, No. 10
Asheville, N.C. 28804
December 16, 1976
FILES, MAIL TAKEN
FROM SG OFFICES
Curriculum
Proposals
Aired
Phys Ed,
Environmental
Education and
Drama Programs
To Be Offered
Chancellor William E. Highsmith pre
sented several proposals to the Board of
Trustees in their regular meeting on Dec.
8, in which curriculum changes and new
degrees were outlined. A degree program
in Physical Education, a Bachelor of Sci
ence in Environmental Studies, and a new
track for drama, Drama in Education in the
Community, were passed by the Board
and will go to the Board of Ctovemors for
approval and budgeting.
Three graduate programs in education
were considered, one in management, one
in education with an emphasis on the
teaching of reading, and one in social
science. A community psychology grauate
program was also proposed, which will
train students for fields in mental health
and rehabilitation.
In addition to graduate and undergradu
ate programs, a proposal was made for
continuing adult education, aimed toward
professionals but without degree status.
Highsmith emphasized the need for a med
ical and managerial program, which will
be a response to the area’s increasing level
of medical facilities which are inefficiently
operated due to a lack of managerial skills
among the medically trained personnel.
Approval was given for the Drama
Dept, at UNC-A to be officially removed
from the Dept, of Literature and Lan
guages, since it has developed to the point
of having a separate building.
The Student Government office and the
Finance Commissioner’s office were
broken into Thursday morning, Dec. 2,
and all the files taken, along with approxi
mately $140, and some mail.
Raye Brown, ex-Finance Commission
er, confessed Friday morning to having
taken the items, after a Maintenance man,
Mr. Robert Minton, made a statement that
he had seen a “blond young man carrying
a bunch of papers” coming out of the
Finance Commissioner’s office at about
6A.M. Thursday morning.
Brown led Mr. Don Kirchner of the
Campus Police to the items, which were
hidden in the small closet behind the piano
in the Coffeehouse. Brown has presently
withdrawn from school, but according to
Dean of Students, Paul T. Deason, he will
have to face charges in Campus Court if he
The Campus Commission on Student
Services Funds was accepted in the Dec. 8
meeting of the Board of Tmstees, with
some question being raised as to their
jurisdiction in the matter. An appeal to the
Board was presented by S.G. President
Kindley after a progress report was heard
from Chancellor William E. Highsmith,
outlining various changes made in student
services, curriculum, and projected pro
grams.
Kindley’s appeal was based on a paper
by William Dees, Chairman of the Board
of Governors, in 1972, which discussed
the powers of the Board of Trustees.
Kindley stated that the Board of Trustees
established policy in student activities and
conduct, acted as an appeal route, and as
an advisor in budgetary matters.
returns to UNC-A.
The theft was discovered by S.G. Secre
tary Gail Smith when she came to woric
Thursday morning. Chief Ray was calld,
and he notified the city police. Detectives
were sent to fingerprint the filing cabinet
in the Finance Commissioner office. The
SBI was also notified, although some
question has been raised as to procedure in
calling them, so at present their investiga
tion is considered unofficial.
According to S.G. Attorney General
Thomas Zumberge, he and Clay Hutchin
son were studying late Thursday night in
the Attorney General’s office, when Mr.
Kirchner informed Zumberge that there
was an eye-witness to the break-in. Zum
berge talked with Minton, and then called
Chief Ray, who told him to take a state
ment and have it signed. Minton had been
informed of the theft by Campus Police-
The Trustees were in doubt nevertheless
concerning their jurisdiction in the matter,
and referred it to the Student Affairs Com
mittee, which will oversee theCommission
next spring, evaluate its operation, and
investigate the question of jurisdiction.
The Campus Commission on Student
Services Funds is a proposal by the Chan
cellor which sets up a commission to
allocate student activity fees ($30 a semes
ter) according to prearranged prcentages
of the total fee. Highsmith stated that the
Commission would not affect Student
Government, but would provide for
“credibility and accountability,” and
would allow student organizations more
stability of funding.
The Student Government, according to
Kindley’s statement during his appeal, is
man Elmer Jevedon, and later realized that
what he had seen was the break-in.
After Chief Ray arrived, he and Zum
berge called Deason and then went to the
Magistrate’s office to swear out a warrant.
Deason called them at the Magistrate’s
office and requested that they first discuss
the matter with Brown.
Brown, who was in the Radio Station
when they returned, was summoned to the
S.G. office, where he was read his rights
by Chief Ray and then questioned. Brown
at first denied that he had taken the files,
but later confessed after being told of
Minton’s statement; the files were taken
to Chief Ray’s office, to be held as evi
dence until it was decided whether to take
out a warrant. The files were returned to
the S.G. last week. Some of the money,
however, is still unaccounted for.
opposed to the Commission. He stated that
the ability of the S.G. to “keep control or
oversight of funds is diminished,” and
that although ‘ ‘the duty of the University is
to promote responsibility in students, the
Chancellor feels that the greater account
ability, the greaer management.” He also
said that he had other ideas about the
Commission and why it was brought
about.
After some discussion, S.G. Attorney
General Thomas Zumberge requested per
mission to address the Board. He stated
that according to the Code of the Univer
sity, the Chancellor does have the author
ity to institute the Commission. It was later
decided that the Board should accept the
report as information only, and not bring it
to a vote until the Commission has been
evaluated.
TRUSTEES ACCEPT COMMISSION;
KINDLEY PRESENTS APPEAL
WENGROW PLAYS
By ALISON PHILLIPS
Arnold Wengrow, chairman of the De
partment of Drama, has been investigating
a murder mystery. His involvement began
nine years ago when he was the assistant
curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection.
It was during this time that he discovered
several boxes of unusual drawings that
dated from the 1920’s and had been ap
parently overlooked for years among Har
vard’s extensive archives of original man
uscripts and documents on the history of
the theatre.
The drawings were scene designs by
Robert Redington Sharpe and little was
known about him other than that he had
designed the original production of To
bacco Road on Broadway in 1933 and was
murdered in 1934. Wengrow became in
terested in Sharpe and began to investigate
his life and career by obtaining reports
from the New Yoric Police Dq)artment and
by writing friends and relatives of Sharpe.
One coincidence was an association in
Asheville. An addressbook given to Wen
grow by a Sharpe cousin listed the names
of Rachel and Francisca Howland at the
Asheville School. Wengrow learned that
SLEUTH
the Howland sisters, now Mrs. Walter
Hinman of Stanton, New Jersey, and Mrs.
William J. Cocke of Biltmore, had met
Sharpe on an ocean voyage to Paris in
1926, and their memories are attributed in
the biographical article that Wengrow was
writing.
On November 18, Wengrow presented
this and other information about Sharpe’s
career in theatre designs for the American
Society for Theatre Research at the Har
vard’s Hasty Pudding Institute. This was
the first recognition for Robert Redington
Sharpe’s life and work in over forty years.