Ford
Passes
2,000
By Dale McElxath
It was inevitable. UNCA center
Sheila Ford, the nation's lead
ing rebounder, was destined to
become the first woman basket
ball player in collegiate
history to pass the 2,000 mark
in both points scored and
rebounds.
Ford fulfilled her destiny on
Monday night in UNCA's 63-61
loss to Knoxville College in
Knoxville.
Ford, averaging over 17
rebounds per game this year,
entered the contest needing only
14 rebounds to pass the 2,000
mark.
Ford responded by pulling down
21 rebounds to give her a total
of 2,007 for her career.
She passed the 2,000 point
mark on Feb. 4 in UNCA's victory
over Lenoir-Rhyne.
Last week. Ford was named the
national player of the week by
the NAIA.
She now has 2,189 points in
her caxeer.
SwTTrtng The Students Of The Umveraity of North Carolina at Ashevilte sinoe 1982
Volume IV, Number VI
Thursday,Febuary 23,1984
Rape
focus
By Penny Kramp
and violence
of forum
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Paintings in Progress: Tucker Cooke, chairman
of UNCA's art department, and eight other art
faculty members, invite viewing of in pro
gress works in the Owen Building lobby.
Photo by Caroline Brown
Rape is the most ra
pidly growing and the
most frequently occur-
ing crime in the United
States.
Asheville citizens
reported 275 rapes last
year, which averages one
rape every other day.
Why is this happening
and what can be one
about it? This was the
subject of discussion
at the Feb. 17 forum,
"Violence Against Wo
men: Images and Reali
ty," at the Pack
Library in Asheville.
"Every day the media
bombards us with derog
atory images of women.
Movies, television, ma
gazines and advertising
sho-w women as orna-
By Anne Snuffer
"Pigmentation has no
thing to do with brain
capacity," said Lucy
Herring, former high
school and elementar y
teacher, principal, and
adviser, in a talk Feb.
18 in the Owen Confer
ence Center.
Herring, the keynote
speaker for UNCA's Mi
nority Education Day,
told a group of pro
spective black college
students that "this is
a new day. Doors are
not closed as they once
were."
She added that "suc
iV
Lucy Herring.
Photo by C. Brown
cessful people are just
ordinary people with a
lot of determination."
Herring said that to
day's youth "are our
hope." She encouraged
students to "aim high"
and not be ashamed to
work.
"Sometimes people die
from trying so hard to
keep from doing work,"
she added.
Herring spoke of
growing up in Union,
S.C. 83 years ago.
"I came up in an era
of back doors, back
seats, and back
streets," she said.
She added that the
ments, victims, witch
es, vamps; or as mama,
housewife, and the lit
tle woman," said Dr.
Ann Weber UNCA assis
tant professor of the
psychology.
Kim Duckett, graduate
student in women's stu
dies at Appalachian
State University, open
ed the forum with a
shocking slide show.
The slides illustra
ted depictions of women
in advertising, bill
boards, album covers
and hard-core porno
graphy.
Pornography is no
thing more than a cele
bration of male power
and male fantasies
about women, said
Duckett.
"Pornography's pur
pose is to sell, and
what is being sold is a
lot of lies about wo
men," she continued.
The slides showed wo
men repeatedly portray
ed as sexual objects or
as victims of violent,
sadistic acts.
What are these images
telling us?
"The message we get
is that violence is
O.K. in modern America.
It's the American way,"
said Weber.
The more people ab-
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Educator challenges youth
They love Lucy: Audience members sit enthral
led as Lucy Herring tells about her life and
encourages the pursuit of excellence .
Photo by Caroline Brown
Her father told her
libraries in her town
"were closed to the
minds of black youth,"
and that she never had
books in her own home.
Herring went on to
say that she worried
about what she could do
to improve this situa
tion.
"the best way to help
your people is to get a
good education, and he
placed emphasis on the
word good," she added.
Herring started
teaching on the day she
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