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1927—UNCA—Serving Asheville
and WNC for 50 years—1977
April 28, 1977
Asheville, N.C. 28804
Vol. XII, Number 17
TRUSTEES REMOVE
TEAM SPENDING LIMIT
The Board of Trustees voted on
Wednesday April 20 to remove the 30%
spending limit on any one sport. The
action came as the result of a request by
Vice-Chancellor for Finance William Pott
and Chancellor William E. Highsmith.
The Trustees also voted to increase the $20
athletic fee to $24.
The 30% limit was passed several years
ago on the initiative of the student govem-
ment, during the Aiken administration.
The limit prevents more than 30% of the
athletic funds collected from student fees
from being spent on any one sport.
Complaints had been made that other
sports could not be adequately funded
because of the expenditures made for the
men’s basketball team. In particular, the
women’s basketball and volleyball teams
have found funding difficult. The
women’s basketball team uniforms were
bought by the student government during
the Aiken administration.
Pott and Highsmith stated in the meet
ing on April 20 that the men’s basketball
team could not operate on the 30% from
student fees and the outside funds which
they eceive. S.G. President Pete Austin
questioned the need and timing of the
request to remove the limit, and recom
mended that a committee of the Trustees
study the expenditures. The Trustees re
sponded that the Athletics Committee,
composed of faculty, students, and Coach
Hartman, could oversee the expenditures.
According to the records in the business
office, the men’s basketball team was
already receiving over 40% of the $38,863
WUNF-FM Manager Selected
John Covey, a senior drama major from
Charlotte, was selected as radio station
manager in the April 14 meeting of the
Radio Station Executive Board. Covey has
been manager of the station since the
resignation of Dave Anderson in Febmary.
Covey’s selection was the reason cited
by the Chief Technical Operator Kevin
Douglass in his resignation effective April
21. Douglass stated that he could not be
responsible for violations of the FFCC
regulations. He later stated to the Ridge-
runner that his license as a second-class
operator could be lost as a result of viola
tions of those regulations.
The station went offf the air for two days
after the resignation became effective, be
cause a station cannot operate without an
engineer. Karl Liebmann was hired as the
engineer later in the week pending ap
proval by the Executive Board and the
station resumed broadcasting.
Covey has appointed Robert “T” Can
field as assistant manager. Canfield is a
sophomore political science major from
Clearwater, Florida.
Covey transferred to UNC-A from
Brevard College in 1975. He has been a
D.J. for the station, as well as assistant
manager and production manager. He is a
member of the student senate, and states
that he is “second in line for the presi
dency.” He writes poetry, is an avid Star
Trek fan, and has organized a jump-rope
society, which promotes rope-jumping
with a chair, as well as crossing-the-loop.
allocated to athletics from student fees.
Mr. Neuse, of the business office, stated to
the Ridgerunner reporter that the accounts
are balanced in June, at which time the
30% limit is imposed. He did not say
where the funds would have come from to
balance the accounts at the end of the year.
The outside donations for men’s basket
ball have fallen considerably in the last
few years, and game receipts do not cover
the costs of paying the officials and ticket
sellers. The home games have lost money
during this year’s season, and only the
game guarantees from away games have
resulted in any intake of money, of which
some is spent on travel to the games.
Of the $16,318 spent on men’s basket
ball, $12,291 went for scholarships. In
addition to the scholarships, about ten of
the players are allowed $11.50 on week
ends to eat at Athens Restaurant on Merri-
mon Avenue. When questioned, both
Coach Hartman and Chancellor Highsmith
seemed unaware that UNC-A’s cafeteria is
open in the evening on week-ends. Coach
Hartman explained that the $11.50 a week
is part of a grant-in-aid, which is in ad
dition to the scholarships received by the
players. Part of this money comes from
non-student funds.
Students over the last several years have
questioned the apparent conflict of interest
involved in the athletic director and man’s
basketball coach being the same person.
Expenditures of all sports must be ap
proved by Coach Hartman, and unspent
funds from other sports may be diverted to
men’s basketball.
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Ethnic Arts Festival. Article on p. 3. Photo by Gene Jones.
Students to Graduate May 13
May 13, 1977
Bachelor of Arts
David Glynn Anderson, Clay Thomas Amngton,
Sharon Lxiraine Ballard, Ann Wilson Barnett, Timo
thy Lee Barnwell, Sarah Ann Black, Mark Davis
Botto, Deborah W. Brackens, Robert Ward Bresler,
Joyce Hardin Brown, Paulette Washington Brown
lee.
Also, Ruby Jean Chandley, Michael David Cog-
bum, Charlotte Renay Connor, D. Davkl Cook,
Richard Bruce Councell, Delmar Dan Crawford,
Nancy Wesson Dale, Dennis Mark Deal, Nancy
Marie Deason, Lisa Ellen Dixon, David Miller>
Dunn.
Also, Debra Jeane Blackwell fields, Keith L.
Fields, Anthony Lee Fisher, Susan Celeste Forester,
Elaine Franklin, Mark Preston Fromuth, Robert
Bailie Fudge, Joycee Lind Gaines, Timothy John
Gallaway, Debra Lee Gentry, Mary Ellen Green,
Ramona Pace Griffin, James Paul Grigsby, Kathleen
Marie Gulley.
Also, Robert Durham Hamby, Frances Elaine
Hamlin, Dolores Anita Harrington, Karen Brett Hart
man, Kermeth Alan Johns, George Henry Johnson
III, Vickie Diane Phillips Johnson, David Nicholas
Karan, Brenda Cranford Kirton.
Also, Judith Trevvett Lair, Mary Ann McGettrick
Lampley, Kathy Elaine Lance, Robert Harry
McCall, Marilyn Elizabeth McLain, Mary Yvonne
McLeod, Kim Lee Manning, Lucia Hudson Mar-
tone, David Keenan Massey, Patricia Elaine May
nard, Terry Lee Mills, Ilsa Dubinsky Myers.
Also, Charles William Neal, Barbara Jo Newman,
Allen Ray O’Briant, Thomas Edwin Partiam, Jr.,
Debora Kay Brinkley Pinkleton, Meri Robin Suhart
Poirier, Herbert Michael Pomfrey, Sharon Leigh
Presnell, Terry Lee Price, Rose Marie Sellers
Pritchard, Mark Carter Puckett.
Also, Kelly Brook Reath, Bernice Delora Rhodes,
Patricia Marie Rix, Terry lee Roberts, Larry Thomas
Smith, Ronald Cameron Smith, Sharon Joy Smith,
Saralyn Souter Spradling, Paul Roberts Stoney,
Deborah Kay Thompson Szymanski, Anne Elizabeth
Thrasher, Elizabeth Whitman Toland.
Also Robert Reese Underwood, Theresa Michelle
Vest, IDouglas Edward Walker, Sheila Loretta
Walker, John Fritz Wheeler, Jane Lynn Young,
Laura Anne Young, Thomas Frederick Zumberge.
Bachelor of Science
Joseph Raymond Bly, Kenneth Edwin Boyd, Tru
man H. Brown, Jr. Harvey Everette Com, Jr.
William Ernest Crisp, Roger Earl Holcombe, Patricia
Ann Hyldburg, Samuel Don Nave, Shirley B.
Rardin, Tracey Wheeler Rector, Marion Judson
Whitaker.
December 17, 1977
Bachelor of Arts
Sharon Elizabeth Adams, Gaiy Wayne Aiken,
Fred Keith Anders, David Grayson Bobo, Clinton
Luther Border III, James Franklin Buchanan, Ruth
Anne Chapman, Laura Anne Davis, Edward Joseph
Ensley, Larry Michael Ernst.
Also, Nancy Feinstein, Victoria P. Fletcher, Ed
ward Bruce Gilbert III, Glenn M. Gleghom, James
Steven Head, Philip Wilson Holbert, Marta L.
Leone, Phillip Joseph Loughmiller.
Also, Patricia Ann McCraw, Phillip Allen
McKay, Stephen Walter Miller, Ernest Richard Mor
ton, Lanny R. Morton, Douglas Elliott Murray,
Daniel Avery Nix, Sarah Elizabeth Pedley, Charles
Samuel Pinkerton, David Lee Ponder.
Also, Mary Lee Siler Ransmeier, John Bowman
Sloan, Joyce Ann Craine Stiles, Anne Spencer
Stokes, Lawrence Van Der Vliet, Jr., Joan McClure
Ward.
Bachelor of Science
Jonas Barry Bundy, Jack D. Lee, Janet Elizabeth
Kerr Mohnkem, Clarence Nolan Owenby, John
Frederick Tone, Leonard Wilson West, Joseph
See GRADUATES, p. 3.
Luquire Chosen 77-78 RR Editor
Randy Luquire was selected as Ridge
runner editor for 1977-78, in the April 6
meeting of the Publications Board.
Luquire, a senior history major was
managing editor of the Ridgerunner last
semester, and business manager last term.
He has served as a student senator, as
elections commissioner of the S. G., and as
assistant manager of WUNF-FM.
The other two candidates for the posi
tion were Gary Stone, present business
manager, and Steve Eller, a writer for the
Ridgerunner,
Luquire’s plans for next year’s paper
include continuation of the present bi
weekly format, with a supplemental spec
ial edition of two pages which would be
printed the day after important events. He
also plans to provide free classified ads for
members of the university community.
In his resumd, Luquire stated that an
editor “cannot merely know how to write,
or how to spell, or how to attract and
maintain a large staff, but must be familiar
with all of these things as well as... lay
out, photography, public relations, ad
sales, campus activities and student con
cerns. My three years at UNC-A have
enabled me to meet these qualifications.”