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TICKETED AGAIN - Parking on campus is becoming an
increasingly acute problem as the tickets on these
cars attest. Kaleidoscope will report on plans for a
new parking lot in next week's issue.
Photo by Pam Walker
The great debate:
Korean airline incident
By Leigh Kelley
"The shooting down of a
Korean jet liner doesn't
make any sense in terms of
Soviet objectives," said
UNCA poUtical science
professor Dr. Ted Ulricks,
in a debate Sept.14 with
UNCA political science
professor, Dr. Gene Rainey.
The American public is
frustrated at trying to
find an explanation for the
Soviet action, he said. "No
one in the West has any
knowledge of why this hap
pened ."
Uldricks said he rejected
the theories that the down
ing was an attempt to "get"
Georgia congressman Mac
Donald or part of a master
plan in a Soviet quest for
world dominance.
A plausible scenario is
that shooting the plane
down was a way of keeping
information from getting
into enemy hands, said
Uldricks.
He said it is not unheard
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serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Asheville
I Volume 3. Number 5
Thursday, September 22, 1983
Botany center construction nearly complete
By Ramona Huggins
The new Botany Center
under construction in the
Botanical Gardens just
southwest of UNCA's campus
is close to completion,
said Dr. Robert Kemp,
chairman of the funding
committee for the center.
The exhibit and lobby
areas, receptionist's off
ice , library, conference
room, restrooms and base
ment apartment are complete
and wiU open to the public
in a few weeks. "There wiU
be an opening ceremony soon
after," said Kemp.
The apartment is for the
caretaker who will clean
the center and be security
guard, said Kemp.
"The gardens are
maintained by volunteers,"
Kemp said. "The reception
ist at the center will also
be a volunteer," he said.
The center will be open
seven days a week. The
volunteers manning it wiU
work on a half-day basis,
said Kemp. Two people wUl
work together each shift,
he added.
"The volunteers will be
largely from local garden
clubs," said Kemp. He said
students may participate
cdso.
"I'd like to see more as
sociation between the Bo^
tanical Garens and the
coUege," Kemp said.
Funding for the Botany
Center came from individui
contributions and from
organizational donations,
said Kemp.
He said over $170,000 is
already in but $10,000 more
is needed to complete the
buUding.
"We still need furnish
ings for the center," said
Kemp. "We need books,
chairs, fUing cabinets,
and other things," he said.
"To raise money, several
women made a wUdflower
quUt and raffled it off
this spring," Kemp said.
"They sold 3240 raffle
tickets for $1.00 each.
Next spring they'U make
another one."
He scid the North
Carolina State legislature
donated $10,000 to the
project and the U.S.
Department of Energy gave
another $5,800.
The energy department
donated the money with the
stipulation that the Botany
Center wiU educate the
public about solar energy.
"The building is heated by
solar energy with a backup
heat pump," he said.
Kemp said the center wUl
house a greenhouse con
structed four feet below
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ROAD BLOCK - Bulldozer and workmen bkxdted the road in
front of the highrise dorm last week as construction
and renovations in the Botannical Gardens continue.
Photo by Pam Walker
the ground surface. "This
is because the earth holds
a constant temperature of
55 degrees," said Kemp.
Heat from the greenhouse
and from the thick cement
floors in the exhibition
area that recieve sunshine
all day wUl radiate into
the buUding, Kemp said.
When the Botany Center is
completed it wUl contain a
lecture haU accomodating
about 60 people, Kemp said.