Kaleidoscope
Thursday, September 29, 19831
Volume 3, Number 6
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Sunspiration: Student Jill Shuler finds the warm
September sunshine helps her get in the stud5dng groove.
UNCA students may be concentrating on their books even
more next year when the new academic policies go into
effect.
Photo by David LaPour
Parking lot planned
By Ramona Huggins
Architects are studying
plans now for a new 100
space parking lot that will
help ease the parking crush
at UNCA, said Sam Millar,
UNCA plant engineer.
The new lighted lot will
be located below the exist
ing parking lot across the
road from the Carmichael Hu
manities Building, said
Millar.
"The project should have
begun this month," said
Millar, "but the contractors
delayed in returning the
plans."
"Construction should begin
in a few weeks," he said.
The "wrap-around" style
lot, similar to the present
humanities parking lot, will
cost $100,000 and will take
from 30 to 40 days to com
plete, said Millar.
"A new parking lot will be
the best thing that's hap
pened to this place in a
long time," said commuting
student, Dick Reed of Black
Mountain.
"I don't see why we don't
just put another level below
the faculty parking lot be
tween Zageir and Carmichael
he said. "Or we could ask
the faculty to park in the
new lower parking area. The
faculty parking areas are
usually only half full."
Another commuter, Scott
Lundy of Asheville, said,
"If it's late and I have to
get to class I park in the
first place available."
"A lot of the cars don't
have stickers on them any
way, said Lundy. "I always
look for parking in the stu
dent area. But if none is
available I am not going to
leave my car in the middle
of the road!"
"Why don't they build a
centrally located parking
garage maybe below ground
level?" questioned Lundy.
"The new lot won't effect
the campus police in any
way," said officer Victor
Fulp of the UNCA campus
police.
"It will just give us more
area to write tickets in,"
he said.
By Ramona Huggins and
Anna Paulette Witt
UNCA students with shaky
GPA's have something new to
worry about besides whether
they will get into law or
medical school.
Starting Aug. 15, 1984,
they need to be concerned
about maintaining higher
minimum GPA's just to stay
in UNCA.
Also, according to the
UNCA Catalog 83/84,"A stu
dent whose cumulative grade
point average is less than
a 2.000 at the end of any
semester wiU be placed on
Academic Probation."
"Under the present policy
you don't have to hit a 2.0
until the day you grad
uate," said Dr. Laurence
Dorr, UNCA vice chancellor
for academic affairs."
"The new policy should
have gone into effect this
fall," said Dorr. However,
he said, the administration
decided to delay its imple
mentation because it would
cause several hundred
students to be placed on
academic probation this
year.
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"The policy applies to
everybody enrolled now,"
said Dorr. "It does not
effect students who will
apply for admittance next
year.
Dorr said the new policy
states that if you haven't
reached a 2.0 by the end of
your sophomore year, or
when you have acquired 60
or more attempted hours,
you will be dismissed from
the university.
The policy, as stated in
the Catalog, says that "at
the end of any semester, a
student on probation" whose
GPA falls below the minimum
GPA guidelines spelled out
in the Catalog, will be
dismissed from UNCA.
"Chancellor Highsmith
suggested one year to bring
the new academic regula
tions into effect," said
Dorr. "The effective date
is now Aug. 15, 1984," he
said.
This decision was made in
part because about 45 per
cent of the approximately
2,650 students enrolled at
UNCA this semester are
part-time students, said
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