Kaleidoscope
Volume 3, Number 2
September 1, 1983
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Cagle calls for student involvement
By Dana Murdock
The UNCA Student Government
Association, under the direction of
president Ken Cagle, has planned a
multitude of activities and services
for the 1983-84 school year, but
Cagle stresses the need for student
involvement in order for the plans to
be carried out.
“I predict that the Student
Government Association will have
one of the most productive and suc
cessful years ever, but we have to
have student support,” said Cagle.
Cagle said there are many commit
tees that need members, including
the Campus Commission, Publica
tions Board, Faculty Senate,
Judicial Court and the traffic ap-
|}eals committee along with many
others.
This year, the SGA will start a
computer committee, headed by stu
dent Doug Miller.
“We hope to have a computer ter
minal set up in the Student Govern
ment office. We will document
membership rosters, the various
committee budgets, the SGA con-
sitution, and have the mailing list in
the computer,” Cagle said.
“We have to have student involve
ment in order to carry out aU we
need to do,” said Cagle. “In the
past, we have not had enough stu
dent participation, but this is the
students’ organization. They
become members when they pay
their student fees.”
Cagle said he wants students in
put on issues that affect all
students. Two of these are the
alcohol policy scheduled to go into
effect Oct. 1, and the tuition hike in
the North Carolina university
system.
“The alcohol policy basically
states that no one under 19 years of
age will be allowed to drink alcohol
on campus, and there will be certain
areas on campus where alcohol will
be prohibited,” said Cagle.
Bcesiclent Ken Cfeigle calls for
students to get involved in
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Staff photo by Pam Walker
Cagle said he supports the proposal
in part, but does not want students
who are under 19 years old en
couraged to go off campus to drink.
“I would rather bring them back on
campus than risk them being in an
accident.”
Upcoming SGA-sponsored ac
tivities include a “last Chance
Dance” on Sept. 30 (before the
edcohol poUcy goes into effect), elec
tions for the homecoming queen and
king, the homecoming dance at the
Hilton Iim on Oct. 22, a career day
in cooperation with mea businesses
and a Health Day in November.
“There is so much we can do this
year, but we (the SGA) can’t do it by
ourselves. We need student
support.”
Cagle and his staff have worked
throughout the summer planning
this year’s agenda. “I couldn’t have
done it without the help of my vice
president, Mike Dombrowski, and
the secretaries. Heather Hamilton
and Ann Bowlin,” Cagle said.
This year, Hamilton will head a
newly-formed spirit committee to
promote school spirit on campus.
Cagle is also the president of the
University of North Carolina Stu
dent Government, an organization
composed of student government
representatives from the 16 North
Carolina Universities. He is plann
ing a trip in early September to
Chapel Hill and UNC-WUmington to
represent UNCA. “UNCA is lucky
to be involved in this organization.”
“We want to encourage students
as well as people in the community
to get involved with UNCA and stu
dent government.” said Cagle.
There are two positions, financial
commissioner and social commis
sioner, now open in the SGA. These
are appointed positions.
Elections for freshman, dormitory
and commuter senators will be in
two weeks. The Kaleidoscope will
announce details.
Highsmith
highlights
1983-84
By Anna Paulette Witt
With an ever-growing campus
family, UNCA is in dire need of addi
tional housing. However, because of
lack of funds, no new construction
will be start^ during the 1983-84
school year', said Chancellor William
E. Highsmith, Thursday.
“We are devoting this year to
repairs and maintenance,” he said.
Predominate among the campus
needs are, according to Highsmith: a
60,000 square feet addition to the
Rhoades science building; a 100 per
cent increase in library space; a new
general classroom bulling; more
dormitories and a new wing to the
Phillips administration building.
Project number one, the science
building addition, is slated to begin
during the 1984-85 school year, pro-
■vided the funds become available.
“We have already applied to the
North Carolina General Assembly
for $4,175,000 for the project,” said
Highsmith.
He pointed out, however, that this
sum will barely cover the cost of a
40,000 square feet addition, while
UNCA’s growth calls for at least
60,000 square feet. “So we are ask
ing for as much additional funding
as we cem possibly acquire,” he said.
According to UNCA physical
plant office figures, the present
science building, including the
science tower, contains 41,313
square feet. It was constructed in
1961, the same year as the Phillips
administration building. That year
there were only 500 students enroll
ed.
“The new science wing will be
L-shaped and will house a very
modem computer center, a large lec
ture amphitheater, laboritories,
classrooms and offices,” said
Highsmith. He said this addition
“M(dll greatly strengthen UNCA’s
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