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
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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
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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.
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