CJNCA proposes
By Elise Henshaw
The UNCA board of trustees
agreed last week to request
authorization to plan a degree pro
gram in industrial engineering.
The board of trustees will submit
the request to the general ad
ministration of the Board of Govern
ors of the state university system.
“No program can be started or
cancelled without their approval,”
said William E. Highsmith, UNCA
chancellor.
Highsmith said this is only the
first step in a long process, to be
followed before the program
becomes a reality. This original re
quest “is a concept, and gives only
broad general information,’’ said
Highsmith. If approved, the second
stage, a request for authorization to
establish the program, involves sub-
engineering program
UNCA presented N.C. Governor
Jim Hunt with a proposal for a
school of engineering last week.
Staff photo by Carol Whitener
mitting a specific plan with cost
figures, equipment needs and facul
ty requirements.
The industrial engineering pro
gram was chosen, Highsmith said,
because, “first, there is a substan
tial demand for industrial engineer
ing in Western North Carolina, and
second, it is the degree program that
has the smallest requirement for
equipment. It is oriented toward
management, personnel manage
ment and design. Industrial
engineers design and develop the
productive system. They are skilled
in math, statistics, cost analysis and
work flow.”
Using the available facilities on
campus, plus other sites in the area,
the program could be facilitated
without further building according
to Highsmith. “By starting with an
industrial engineering program, we
can start without too great dif
ficulties. What it will lead to (an
eventual school of engineering) we
will just have to see in the future,”
he said.
UNCA did not initiate the idea of
the program,said Highsmith. “In
dustrialists of the area began to
recognize several years ago the im
portance engineering in this area
would have.” Community support
of the program has come from the
Asheville City Council, Buncombe
County Board of Commissioners,
Chamber of Commerce, Land of Sky
Regional Council and the Manufac
turing Executives Association.
Vice Mayor Norma Price said she
sees the proposed program as “an
economic opportunity to improve
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serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Asheville
Volume 2, Number y
Thursday, January 27, 1983
Sociology major offered
By Elise Henshaw
In response to numerous student
requests. Dr. Phyllis Otti of the
sociology department has developed
a program option in social welfare.
The program, which was approved
by the Faculty Senate last spring, is
based on recommendations from the
National Council on Social Work
Education.
Students in the program earn a
bachelor’s degree in sociology with a
concentration in social work
methods courses and a directed in
ternship in local human services
agencies.
The program requires completion
of the regular core courses for
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Assault reported
by ONCA student
sociology major, as well as the
special social welfare sequence for a
total of 36 hours. In addition to
these courses, students would select
24 hours of correlate courses from
the departments of psychology,
economics, political science,
management, and philosophy. Cor
relate courses are chosen in an effort
to meet student’s individual in
terests, and perhaps enable a stu
dent to minor in a second discipline.
For additional information on the
program or employment opportuni
ties in the social welfare and human
services field, contact Dr. Otti in
ZSS109 or call 258-6421.
Asheville police are in
vestingating a rape reported Jan. 25
at UNCA.
Detective Nancy Penland said the
incident occurred on the night of
Jan. 20 in the high-rise dormitory
after the victim, a 22-year-old female
dorm resident, attended a UNCA
basketball game.
“The victim had been to a party
on campus,” Penland said. “Drink
ing and partying” were involved;
after the party the victim was
allegedly raped, according to
Penland.
It appears that more than one per
son participated in the assault accor
ding to sources close to the in
vestigation.
When asked about the incident.
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs,
Eric lovacchini, said that the UNCA
campus police are investigating a
reported assault.
Penland said that after the in
vestigation was completed, police in
tend to turn the case over to District
Attorney Ronald Brown to consider
filing charges.
A male friend of the victim was
charged with assaulting one of the
suspects with a deadly weapon after
hearing of the incident.
The victim’s male friend said that
according to the police warrant, the
deadly weapon was a pair of boots.
However, he told Kaleidoscope that
he was not wearing boots at the
time.
He also said that after the in
vestigation was completed, he would
release a statement to the
Kaleidoscope. __
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