Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1.982
Volume VI, Number II
Thursday, January 31,1985
Students protest snow policy
KISS mix-up
causes confusion
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lot to the Ubcaiy Mond^.
By Donna Obrecht
Mother nature, the wea
therman, and a prankster
threw UNCA a curve ball
creating controversy and
confusion for the second
Monday In a row.
When Vice Chancellor of
Academic Affairs Laurence
Dorr rose at 5:30 a.m.
Monday morning, to decide
lather school should o-
pen, the weather report
predicted mild conditions.
Around 8 a.m. an "older
sounding man called an ex
clusive hotline” at KISS-
to report that UNCA
cancelled classes, said
Dick Cullom, the station's
news director.
The station broadcast
the message two or three
times between 8 and 9 a.m.
Around the time the sta
tion discovered the error,
snow began falling heavily
and road and weather con
ditions deteriorated for
the reminder of the day.
The mlx^p outraged many
students.
"I'm really angry. Does
Dr. Dorr know that over
half the student popula
tion are connnuters?" asked
sophonore Celeste Plpl-
tone.
Commuters make up 84
percent of UNCA*s student
body.
"I think this whole
thing is a power play on
the part of Dorr," said
student Jerry Vess.
Weather conditions
stranded Vess on campus
because the roads were too
dangerous for him to re
turn to his home in Falr-
vlew.
Dorr received complaints
frcHa several irate stu
dents.
"Some were really mad,
including one guy who had
slid into a ditch," he
^Id.
Dr. William Thurman,
professor of classics and
ancient history, agreed
with the irate students.
'*'1 can scarcely conceive
of any reason for DNCA to
ever announce the closing
of school, short of global
war or an earthquake, if
conditions of trit
roads Monday morning did
not warrant such an £[h-
nouncement," he said.
Jim Fayssoux thinks the
school should do more for
students with children. He
had to bring his two chil
dren to school with him
Monday and Tuesday.
On Wednesday administra
tion issued a poster to
Racist newspaper infiltrates campus
The incident
By Penny Kramp
A racist newspaper pro
claiming white siq>remacy
and anti-Jewish doctrine
stunned the UNCA commmity
last week.
The tabloid titled "Ra
cial Loyalty" declared
"It*s great to be White!"
and e:iq)lain^ it was dedi
cated to the survival, ex
pansion, and advancement
of the white race."
"I've never seen any
thing like this in ny 15
years in Western North
Carolina," said Dr. Marcel
Andrade, professor of
Spanish.
The source of the ma
terial is the Church of
the Creator at Its World
Center located in Otto, a
small comunlty near
The instigator
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Franklin in Macon County,
N.C.
According to the paper,
its editor is Ben Klassen.
Klassen, a Russian imml-
grant(see related story).
Two men stuck the papers
on car windshields last
Tuesday shortly after they
struck the Asheville-Bun-
combe Technical College
can5>us, according to
Charles Carreno, director
Staff photo by Sylvia Hawkins
of UNCA department of se
curity and services.
Chief Bruce Cline of AB-
Tech security said he saw
two men about 30 to 35
years old placing papers
on cars about 2 p.m.
"We have an university
policy against distribu
tion of unauthorized ma
terial so I told them to
stop. One of the men hand-
By Penny Kramp
The ghost of racism
walked the campus of UNCA
last week in the form of a
newspaper edited by Rus
sian immigrant Ben Klas
sen.
The Anti-Defamation
League described the
editor of Racial Loyalty
as a "kook" in an Ashe
ville Citizen article in
May, 1982.
Klassen said his philos
ophy is not pro-Nazi, only
pro-white, according to
the article by Bob Scott,
western bureau chief for
the Asheville Cltizen-
Times.
Klassen founded the
Church of the Creator at
its World Center about
three years ago In Macon
county, N.C., according to
Scott McRae, editor of the
Franklin Press.
"There was an initial
uproar when he arrived.
There was even an attempt
to firebomb his house one
time," said McRae.
Klassen, 65, is a Rus
sian immigrant who said
the Russian revolution
"greatly influenced his
life."
Klassen, with his Men-
nonite parents, migrated
to Mexico and then to Can
ada where he earned an un
dergraduate degree in e-
lectrlcal engineering at
the University of Sasket-
chawan.
"He is a very polite,
soft-spoken man. It's
shocking that he is put-