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 continued on page 8 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 -- lui a or caj 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. __ HYPNOTIZING... MAGNETIZING... MESMERIZING... ENERGIZING. He’s Tom DeLuca.’”See related story, page 6

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