fc. Cagle and Miller claim victory . V 2't' V.P.: Doug Miller. PhdlD by Candiiie Brown By Anne Snuffer The highest voter turnout in UNCA's his tory brought in new student leadership in this year's SGA elec tions. Incumbent president Ken Cagle won again by a wide margin, while junior senator Doug Miller narrowly defeat ed David Muszynski for the office of vice president. According to elec tions commissioner Mike Hagarty, last week's elections resulted in a total voter turnout of 477 students, the high est in UNCA history. However, Hagarty ad ded he "was still ter ribly disappointed that less than 20 percent of the student population voted." He said polls were Continued on page 8 SGA President: Kenneth Cagle was re-elected to a second term last week, Plunkett Kaleidoscope Volume IV, Number XI Serving the Students of UNC-Asheville Since 1982 Thursday, April 5, 1984 Campus policeman suing lovacchini By David Proffitt A campus police of ficer has filed a law suit against Dr. Eric lovachinni, vice chan cellor for student af fairs, for blatant discrimination and ha rassment, said Kenneth McDaniels, attorney for the plaintiff. The officer involved, Victor Fulp, said lova chinni placed a letter recommending his dis missal in his personnel file after he lost some — Vs ■tr* ‘ .V - -.-■f Now it's official: Before several hundred guests Sunday, Thomas Arnold, chairman of UNCA's Board of Trustees, unveiled a bronze plaque emblazoned with William E. Highsmith University Center, the Student Center's new name. The renaming took place at a ceremony honoring retiring UNCA Chancellor Highsmith and his wife. Photo by David Plunkett departmental keys. The keys were for the main entrances of campus buildings and a campus police vehicle. "Other departmental heads and staff members have lost keys and even loaned them out, and nothing was ever said about it," said Fulp. "Names will be men tioned when the case is heard by the State Per sonnel Commission." Furthermore, Fulp said, lovachinni did not tell him about the letter. "1 found the letter only when I looked through my file," said Fulp. Personnel officer Mary Miller said she has no knowledge of any rule that requires no tification of an em ployee when a letter is placed in his/her file. "1 would certainly notify the employee if we (the personnel of fice) put a letter from us in his file, but it is not our responsibi lity to notify him when some other administra tor places something in his file. It's up to the administrator. "We put many things in the fUes, but they are always open to the employees," said Miller. lovachinni refused to comment when asked if he told Fulp about the letter. Fulp said, "Other campus officers have had problems dealing with lovachinni, and two of them, Lillian Lampros and Jim Hughes, left because of the problems. Lampros had been here about six or seven years and Hughes had been here ten years." Campus Police Chief Charles Carreno refused to comment on any al leged problems that the officers have between either himself or lova chinni. "lovachinni is also trying to bring up a prior incident which the grievance board here at UNCA has al ready cleared up," said Fulp. That incident, in which administrators asked Fulp to drop charges of trespassing and drunk and disorder ly against some stu dents, occurred in Aug ust of 1982. Fulp was accused of insubordination when he refused to drop the charges. "To drop charges we (campus policemen) have made is a lot of trou ble and makes us look foolish," said Fulp. "The grievance board (then headed by Dr. Continued on page 8

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