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Thursday, Oct. 7, 1982/Kaleidoscope/8 Biden - from page one UMCA TV PREMIERES should “deal with it” [the Helms amendment]. He added, “Fm so tired of Jesse Helms and others ty ing up the Senate, while we are go ing to hell in a handbasket." Biden concluded that, “While the economy is going over the cliff, our foreign relations are in deep trouble, we spend hours and hours on issues that, while important, are not nearly as important as these big issues.” Senator Biden rose to national prominence in 1979, when, at age 29, he was elected to the U. S. Senate. He was the second-youngest person ever elected to that office, ousting an established Delaware politician in his election bid. Named to the prestigious steering committee [which determines all other committee appointments], Biden was able to secure positions in some of the most important Senatorial committees. He is now the ranking Democrat on the judiciary committee, second ranking Democrat on the foreign affairs and intelligence committees, and third ranking Democrat on the budget committee. Thurman -from page 2 campus incredible. These include such things as being defamed [legal libel] in a front page article of the Citizen-Times; threatened with a cut in salary for winning election to a place of great service; threatened with a lawsuit [under lying pretenses] for informing the fire department of a blaring alarm; threatened with dismissal over a parking fine, when it had to be in curred to reach a scheduled teaching assignment; and threatened with loss of a job for sympathizing with professor,? targeted by the ad ministration. To me as a citizen and taxpayer, however, certain larger trends seem even more disconcerting than such cheap tactics. First, too little specific information about finances has ever been made public to this campus for me to feel secure as a taxpayer where or how certain amounts are being spent. Second, each year the size and wealth of cer tain administrative personnel ex pands disproportionately to the faculty. [When the list of ad ministration and staff became longer than the full time faculty, it was dropped from the catalog.] And last but not least, the traditional tenure track has been undermined by adding scores of full and part time lecturers [who are more easily manipulated, because many of them perpetually want in]. The savings is used to swell the budget for ad ministration ahd staff. My proposal would only seem im modest because it is so drastic: con cede real power to the faculty and the students. [No faculty committee or group that I have ever been ap pointed to or elected to on this cam pus ever had the freedom to act as a decision making group apart from administrative pressures. In the celebrated case of Dr. Mechthild Cranston, to whom the chancellor paid an out of court settlement of $51,000 in state money, before we ever deliberated on her case, the desired conclusion was revealed to us in not too subtle terms. Those who did not “knuckle under” met with instant disfavor.] My view of UNCA could be sum marized like this: the law that con cedes autocratic power over budget and personnel can be largely blamed for an atmosphere that seems less enlightened than pseudo-liberal and militaristic. As a result of “un natural selection” we find plenty of Doctors Yellow, Blue and Green on our faculty and not many bold dissenters like Dr. Hoyer. Further more, an even greater danger can be seen in the disposition of funds and personnel, so that traditional freedoms would be among the last interests to be served. One possible cure would be the concession of real power and responsibility to those who carry out the vital functions of the institution, the students and the faculty. Classifieds BIOLOGY grades got you down? Experienced tutor with BA [distinc tion in biology award]. Have also done work on Ph.D. in physiology. Call 298-1103; ask for Ray. Mobile Home - 1982 Carolina 14’ by 70’ 3 bedroom, 2 bath, underpinned with 2 decks. Mobile home is located in a mobile home park, but can be moved. Call 627-8648 after 4 p.m. Wanted: Male commuters daring to For Sale - television antenna and come out and expose their unique rotor. Both in good condition, style and talent. Please call: $45.00 Call 254-S -B-3 p.fter ' . r. '.25S-G116 bstwe'sii 4.-11) p.ni. The first UNCA television produc tion airs Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. on Thoms Cablevision, channel 9. A spontaneous discussion format featuring Val McComie, deputy secretary general of the Organiza tion of American States, is the first offering in the series, UNCA Public Affairs Forum. The topic is U.S. relations to Latin America after the Faulklands crisis. In addition to McComie, the panel consists of: Juan DeOnis, former New York Times correspondent; Peter Vaky, former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs; and Lawrence Pezzullo, former ambassador to Nicaragua and Uruguay and this year’s Breman professor of social relations at UNCA. Dr. Jeff Rackham, chairman of the department of literature, said, “We have tried to bring together three or four knowledgeable individuals who wiU have an open ended give and take discussion of a contemporary problem. There will be no moderator and no previously agreed upon set of questions.” Flu shots The infirmary will give Trivalent In fluenza vaccine from now until Christmas vacation at a cost of $3.00 per injection. Only one is re quired for anyone immunized in 1978 or later. The doctor must be at the Infirmary when injections are given. He is here Monday, Wednes day, Friday, 9 A.M.-l P.M., and Tuesday, Thursday, 11 A.M.-3 P.M. r WORRIED ABOUT BEIMG PREGNANT? The Western Carolina Medical Clinic is a facility for per forming therapeutic abortions in problem pregnancies, WE CARE! rREE PREGPiAriCY TESTIf^Q Call for answers...ACTIOPi on • Pregnancy • Birth Control • Abortion HOURS 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Mon. - Sat. • Blood Serum Pregnancy Test (Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.) 900 Hendersonville Road-P.O. Box 5962 Asheville, NC 28813 Telephone 704 /274-7460
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