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Serving The Students Of The University of North Carolina at Asheville siooe 1982 Volume 3. Number 12 Thursday, November 10, 1983 m m M ■ Detour or bypass?: Bulldog soccer player Frank Seidl reacts with sur prise as a UNCA shot sails wide of the goal in Thursday's playoff game with Elon. Despite the loss, UNGA finished the season with it's best record ever and a first place finish in the district. For a complete account of the game see page 4. Photo by David LaPour Will Reagan dare to draft? By Anna Paulette Witt With U.S. Marines "keeping peace" in Leb anon and fighting in Granada; with American troops protecting U.S. interests in South Korea, West Germany and other world hot spots, the question is being asked—wUl Uncle Sam soon run out of volun teers for his jobs a- round the world and decide to draft more workers? "If a draft does take place, the 18-24 year- olds would be those taken," said Army re cruiter Sgt. Lynn Davis. Davis said the 24- year-olds would be called first, then the 23-year-olds, and so forth, with the 18 year-olds being called last. Dr. Dennis Hengstler, UNCA director of insti tutional research, said that this semester UNCA has approximately 750 male students between the ages of 18 and 24. A Western North Ca rolina Army recruiter, who asked that his name not be used, told Kaleidoscope that in his personal opinion "if Reagan is re-elect ed one of his first acts will be to rein state the draft." Reagan may well de cide for the draft, however, "he won't re instate it before the 1984 elections," said William Sabo, lecturer in political science at UNCA. "It's hard to tell if the draft will be rein stated ," said Marine Sgt. Roy Bruce, non commissioned officer in charge of Marine re cruitment in Western North Carolina. "It depends on the needs of the U.S. In a national crisis they could do it right away," Bruce said. So far at least, the army seems to be get ting enough volunteers to meet demands. The yearly Army en listment quota for WNC is 500, while national ly it is 140,000, said Sgt. Curtis Lane of the Asheville Army recruit ment office. "The Army's year ends in September. Last Sep tember ended the third successive year in which we surpassed our quotas," Lane said. Lane noted that the U.S. is the only major world power that does not presently have com pulsory military ser vice. Some students are al ready getting nervous about the possibility of a draft. "Probably a lot of students should be getting nervous about it," said Sabo. "My husband is 21 and he is terrified of be ing drafted," said one senior. Continued on page 8 Parking lot patrons bitten by crime By CoUn White Highrise residents may be having more problems getting to sleep lately, not be cause of a increase in dorm noise level, but because of worries about the safety of their vehicles. So far this semester Highrise residents report three vehicle vandalisms and five attempted car thefts in the dorm's parking lot. Sophomore Dean Ed wards' said that on the morning of Oct. 27, he discovered that two of the tires on his 1968 Ford station wagon had been slashed. The slashing had apparently taken place the previous night. The car was parked in the Highrise lot. Chris Keith, a fresh man, was a victim of attempted car theft three weeks ago. "A friend told me at about 11:30 (a.m.) that my car window had been busted into," he said. "The window on the driver's side was shat tered," said Keith. He said he noticed two marks on the side of the door frame that ap peared to be the pro duct of a crowbar. "The thieves appar ently attempted to pry the door open with a crowbar before busting the window," Keith said. Keith said nothing was stolen from his red 1983 Nissan Sentra, but others who parked atong the side of the High- rise service road that night, just as he did, were not as lucky. Keith said that at least two other cars near his were broken into that same evening and robbed of stereo equipment. Chief of Campus Po lice Charles Carreno questioned whether there is an actual increase in theft at the Highrise parking lot, or whether more thefts are just getting reported. "In the past," said Carreno, "students very rarely reported acts of crime." "If you don't report it," he said, "then we (the campus police) don't know what's happening." Carreno said that one student reported an in cident recently in which some males in a brown Pontiac with no license tag threw a golf ball at his car while he was sitting in it. Carreno said that the population increase at Continued on page 8 lA/ ^ PI T h ^ I' toward Saturday and **^^^**^* Sunday. Lows in the mM Increasing cloudi- to upper 20s. ^ * Forecast courtesy of ness o y. . , the Atmospheric Science day. For the weekend, „ ^ the forecast calls for clearing and fair weather with cooler INSIDE temperatures. Highs Editorial.... 2 Thursday and Friday in Features 3 the mid 60's dropping Sports 4 8 5 to the 50's and 40's Entertainment.... 6 5 7
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