Serving The Students Of The University of North Carolina at AsheviDe anoe 198^
iVolume 3. Number 9
Thursday, October 20, 19831
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"Stm Life With...":
UNCA art student Scott
Lowery won the $500
first prize for his
pastel abstract entry
in the Asheville Art
Museum's Annual Octo
ber Show on Monday.
Fifty-three other
Western North Carolina
artists competed for
the honor. Ann Shen-
gold , director of the
Knight Gallery of Spi
rit Square Art Center
in Charlotte, judged
the 61—work exhibit
which remains at the
gallery until Nov. 20.
The Asheville Art Mu
seum in the lower
level of the Asheville
Civic Center is open
Tuesday through Friday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Saturday and Sun
day from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m.
Photo by Pam Walker
Inadequate lighting makes campus frightening
By Ramona Huggins
The North Carolina
Crime Commission esti
mates a rape occurs in
the state every three
hours and nationwide
every six minutes.
"Last year the Ashe-
ville-Buncombe Law
Enforcement department
said 38 rapes were re
ported," said Cassandra
Pavone, director of the
Rape Crisis Center of
Asheville-
Pavone is concerned
with the lighting on
the UNCA campus. "I was
a student there until
last semester and I
felt uncomfortable be
cause of the inadequate
lighting where I
parked."
She said she also
felt uncomfortable in
the wcxxled areas of the
campus, especially in
the area around the li
brary.
"I had someone men
tion something about
presenting a petition
to the school board,
but I don't know what
became of it," said
Pavone.
Chancellor William
Highsmith said, "We
can't put lighting up
with a petition. We
have to havo money. It
takes several years for
something to pass
through the legislative
process necessary to
get appropriations."
"I'd like to know
where the problems are
and we c:an see what (»n
be done about it."
Pavone said one per
son reported being ap
proached recently on
campus in a violent
manner, but she didn't
say whether there was
sufficient light in the
area or not.
Charles J. Carreno,
chief of UNCA campus
police, explained, "No
rapes or muggings have
been reported to us,
but we have had a fight
reported. We've had no
thing directly associ
ated with the light
ing."
However, he added, "I
hope you get your
lights."
Pavone said the
Asheville City Police
Department received
reports of six rapes
this year. Twenty-two
were reported to the
Buncombe County Sher
iffs Department.
Sheriff Tom Morrissey
is concerned. He says
rape is going up at a
rate outstripping other
crimes.
"We feel that women
are becoming more apt
to report rapes, so the
crime may not be in
creasing, just the num
ber of reports," Pavone
said.
"The Rape Crisis Cen
ter is a 24-hour ser
vice that can be reach
ed through a hotline,"
said Pavone.
An answering service
takes the name and num
ber of the victim. "A
counselor then contacts
that person," Pavone
said.
Bditor's Note: The
Rape Crisis Center
offers information to a
rape victim regarding
alternatives and op
tions and will support
a victim in her deci
sions. In an emergency,
the center provides
temporary clothing,
food and transportatkHr
for a victim.
The Rape Crisis Cent
er also deals in cases
of incest and other
sexual offenses.