Alcohol Awareness Week offers a variety of events
By Elise Henshaw
A clogging dance, a Moonshine
Run and a video tape of a Carol
Burnette movie are some of the
highlights of Alcohol Awareness
Week beginning March 25 at
UNCA.
Linda Jernigan, of the adult stu
dent office, who is coordinating the
week as part of student affairs said,
“This is not a move to stop con
sumption of alcohol, but we would
like to make people aware of their
responsibilities when they do use
alcohol-”
Jernigan added, “We accept it
(alcohol) as a natural part of events.
We don’t need to do that. It can be a
natural part of events, but it’s not a
necessity. What we’re trying to do
is just make people aware of its ex
istence and its affects. We will have
some things that are fun to do and
still meet our objectives,” she said.
Alcohol Awareness Week opens
March 25 with a clogging dance at
the Student Center. Encore
Anonymous will operate a non-
alcoholic bar. They will serve drinks
such as “dry dock Manhattans” and
“pineapple pick-ups.”
The dance is sponsored by the
Health Promotions Program. Jer
nigan said there are several Encore
members in the new health promo
tions course, Psychology 173.
Hours for the dance are 8 to 10
p.m. Admission is free to UNCA
students and aerobic clogging
students, $1.50 for senior citizens,
and $3.00 for others.
A St. Patrick’s Day celebration is
scheduled for March 26 in the snack
bar from 9 p.m. to midnight. Hot
Shandy will perform and someone
from the Asheville Police Depart
ment will be present from 9 to 11
p.m. with a breathalyzer so “people
can get an idea in a non-threatening
atmosphere what a breathalyzer is,
and what affect drinking has on
them,” Jernigan said. “I think peo
ple will be amazed,” she added.
Jernigan said anyone interested
can try the breathalyzer and/or talk
to the police representative who is
volunteering his time. “We also will
have volunteers to drive people
home if they want,” she said.
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serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Volume 2, Number 8
Thursday, March 24, 1983
Mossbauer Journal puts GNCA on the map
By EUse Henshaw
A fact probably unknown to much
of this university community is that
a scientific journal that goes to over
40 countries, and helps to attract
visiting scientists from some of
those countries is being published at
UNCA.
The Mossbauer Effect Reference
and Data Journal, housed in
cramped quarters outside Dr. John
Stevens’ office in the Rhoades
Science Building, is edited by
Stevens, his wife Virginia, Richard
M. White, and Janet L. Gibson. The
journal is self-supporting, receiving
no money from the university, but
serving, Virgima Stevens said, as
“good PR for the university.”
To understand the significance of
the journal, it is necessary to know
just what the Mossbauer effect is.
Virginia Stevens explained it in as
simple terms as possible as “a non
destructive way of examining how
matter is held together.”
A graduate student in Germany
named Mossbauer discovered the ef
fect right after World Wm II and
won the Nobel Prize. Stevens said,
“He put the whole thing together
with safety pins because there were
a lot of restrictions on Germany
after the war about what kind of
research they could do.”
She said, “Ordinarily when you
take something apart chemically
Uke is done in a lab, you have to take
it physically apart in order to see
what it is. You don’t end up with
the same thing again. With the
Mossbauer effect, the sample is not
destroyed.”
Stevens said the Mossbauer effect
“has a wide range of apphcations.
People use it in studying chemicals,
minerals (for instance, moonrocks),
blood, anything that has iron it it.”
She said it is also used for dating in
archaeology by studying the firing
techniques in pottery.
The Mossbauer scientific, com
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The Mossbauer Effect Reference and Data Journal is published by (L-R)
Janet Gibson, Richard White, Dr. John Stevens, and. Virginia Stevens. 'The
Mossbauer effect center is in the Rhoades Science Building.
munity is unusual, Stevens said,
“because it’s one technique that
bonds together a lot of different peo
ple from a lot of different disciplines:
mineralogists, metalurgists,
chemists, physicists, biologists, and
even as I said, occasionally arch
aeologists.
“For some reason, from the very
beginning, they all began to unite
under the one umbrella of Moss
bauer spectroscopy (the use of an op-
ticed device to observe spectrum),”
she said. “We have international
meetings every other year and at
those meetings we find many dif
ferent kinds of people in many dif
ferent areas of research from many
different parts of the world.”
Stevens said people in developing
countries can use Mossbauer be
cause it is a fairly inexpensive
research technique. “We don’t have
just high powered government labs
in Europe and the United States be
ing involved in this. We have small
labs in India and Africa. It is very
popular in China where they are try
ing to get their science community
moving.”
“And that’s why a small place like
UNCA can have a very high
powered research lab at very little
Cost,” she said. “The lab here has
received several grants and is one
drawing card that brings people like
Li Zhe (visiting Chinese scientist)
here. People have come, and will
continue to come, from other parts
of the world to use this equipment.”
Some of the countries represented
by scientists who have come to
UNCA to work in the lab are France,
the Netherlands, West Germany,
Sweden, and Africa (Zaire). “We
have a program where one student
from UNCA goes to work in the
Netherlands every summer,” she
said. “Three have gone and the
fourth goes this summer.”
Stevens said one of the features of
the lab setup at UNCA is that
undergraduates are able to do
original research. “At most schools
they are doing cookbook kinds of
chemistry. Here they actually take
a project that no one else has done
and produce something that is
publishable.”
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Schultz accepts nominations
for outstanding teacher award
By Anna Paulette Witt
“My chemistry teacher. Dr. Beeker,
is reaDy dynamite! If I could. I’d
give her a dozen roses, a thousand
dollars and a big hug for being so
helpful and patient with me. She
really cares about us and I think she
deserves some recognition!”
If similar thoughts have been
shding through your mind about one
of your professors, now is your
chance to express them. Nominate
him/her for the UNCA Distin
guished Teacher Award to be given
at graduation.
The deadline for entries is April
15, says Dr. Eugene Schultz, assis
tant professor of psychology and
chairman of the Distinguished
Teacher Award selection committee.
“Nominate your selection by giv
ing a signed letter to someone on the
selection committee,” says Schultz.
The selection committee members
are faculty members: Gereld
Gullickson, literature; Lloyd Rem
ington, chemistry; Deryl Howard,
philosophy; Jeff Rackham,
literature; Gene Schultz,
psychology; Phyllis Otti, sociology;
John Bernhardt, biology; Dexter
Squibb, chemistry; and Verna
Bergemann, education.
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