serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Asheville since 1982
IVolume 3, Number 7
Thursday. October 6, 1983
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Decisions, decisions: Ann Flynn looks on as
Danny Young and Kelly Davis consider their
candidate options in last week's SG election.
Photo by David L^our
SGA election results
Robinson VP
By Leigh Kelley
In an election showing
a 20 percent Increase in
voter participation from
last year's election,
senior Kris Robinson won
UNCA's student govern
ment vice president seat
Thursday.
Student government
president Ken Cagle said
over 300 students voted.
"I'm real pleased with
the turnout," said
Cagle. "It's a good
sign of more student in
terest ."
Robinson was a fresh
man senator and was el
ections commissioner in
last year's GuUmartin
administration.
Cagle said this exper
ience will help Robinson
do a good job. "He
knows a lot about whafs
going on and that will
be important," said
Cagle.
UNCA students decided
a number of SG senate
seats as well as the
vice presidential seat
Thursday.
Elected were: senior
senator, Ann Flynn;
junior senator, Doug
Miller; sophomore sena
tors , Kenneth Harris and
Mike Norris; freshman
senators, JoAnn Akrivos,
Kenneth Hardy and Angela
McElvine; oommutor sena
tors, Kathy Guthrie and
Larry Johnson; and dorm
senator, Steve Magoon.
Flynn won the senior
senator seat as a write
in. She said she does
not know whether or not
she will accept the of
fice because of time
conflicts in her sche
dule.
Since only one dorm
senator and one junior
senator were elected and
there should be two of
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By Lee Hinebaugh
"Single person exhib
its are nearly always
the lifetime goal of an
artist," said UNCA art
instructor Dianne Cable,
last week.
UNCA art student Sonia
Arnold is now achieving
that goal. Her senior
exhibition, "Combined
Images," opened with a
reception in the Owen
Art BuUding gallery
Sept. 30.
The exhibition con
tinues through Nov. 16.
The title, "Combined
Images," has its origin
in the fact that "the
paintings begin as a
collage, or cut-out
work, having disparate
scenes in succession
without transition,"
said Arnold.
These scenes then
serve eis a model for the
painting, she said.
Arnold noted that
"sometimes the painting
stays the same as the
collage and sometimes it
changes as work progres
ses."
Air-brushing is an
other technique employed
by Arnold in creating
these works.
She said that air-
brushing blends one
color into another co
lor, sometimes creating
an entirely new color.
These techniques along
with Arnold's more than
10 years of art training
and work, serve to cre
ate "surreal paintings
of color and beauty,"
said UNCA junior art
student Scott Lowery.
One couple at the
opening remarked that
Arnold "has entitled the
paintings in an intrigu
ing and revealing man
ner."
The titles include:
"Quiescence," "Neo-
-Paradigm Shift,"
"Transformative Rela
tionships," "The Joining
11," "Another Place, An
other Time," "Assimila
tion," and "Aqueous Vis
ions ."
"The first thing one
sees in the works is
technical proficiency,"
said UNCA senior art
student Leslie Shaw.
"Then, upon closer
study, one begins to see
the artist, the person
behind the technique."
"It is impossible to
describe what a success
ful senior exhibit means
to me, other than to say
there is an immense per
sonal satisfaction,"
said Arnold.
The senior exhibiton
for Arnold and for near
ly all senior exhibit
ors, is "the first one
person show in a life
time of artistic pur
suit," said Cable.
"It is like the very
young adult starting the
maturation process that
later develops the adult
into a mature person or
the artist into a well-
balanced , mature paint
er," she continued.
Arnold taught at Bre
vard Middle School for
five years before begin
ning her studies at
UNCA.
"I would like to re
turn to teaching again,"
she said,, "partly be-
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To drink or not to drink: The drinking issue looms larger this week than
last week since the governor's Safe Roads Act went into effect at mid
night Oct. 1. Students Charles Smith. Melinda Hammond, Susan Elliott and
Harold Alston don't seem too concerned yet as they enjoy beer, Bejae
Fleming and Jim Ritchey at the Cafe Potpourri. For a discussion of the
constitutional aspects of the law, see this week's editorial.
Photo by Pam Walker