Serving The Students Of The University of North Carolina at Asheville siooe 1982
Volume 3. Number 12
Thursday, November 10, 1983
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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.
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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
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