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2/Thursday, February 14,1985/THE BLUE BANNER Traditionally speaking Happy Valentines! Today we celebrate that time- honored tradition of which greeting card and choco- late-makers (and fanciers) are exceedingly fond — the giving of sweets and sweet messages to our sweet hearts for St. Valentine’s Day. Probably most of us enjoy this tradition. It gives some of the shyer ones among us the possibly long-awaited opportunity, the little extra incentive, needed to tell someone we care. And it gives the rest of us, the bolder half, the chance to say it again. The world needs more such loving traditions. Pleasant traditions enhance the quality of our frag- mBnted modem lives by adding to them a modicum of consistency and dollop of expectation. They are something we can count on. However we react to them, traditions, or at least the events surrounding them, keep being there; keep coming along; keep happening. Soon, in a little more than six weeks, UNCA will celebrate another time-hodored tradition, the instal’- lation of a new chancellor. Dr. David Brown isi,''of- course, alreafy our duly appointed chancellor; but his title becomes truly official March 31 during the enactment of forms and ceremonies that have their origins in the distant past. Every chancellor in every university is installed according to similar medieval rituals. It*s just the way things are done. It*s been done this way for centuries, both in Europe and in America. It's some thing for which institutions of higher learning always plan when electing a new chancellor, dean or president. Plans to participate in this ritual have revealed sodiething missinjg at UNCA. That something is tradi tion, student tradition. Possibly because we, as a student boty, are approximately 80 percent coiumiters, we have not developed the cohesiveness that breeds canq>us-wide traditions. For whatever reason we have not, it would seem appropriate to begin rectifying the matter by having our student government plan scxae event, to take place in conjunction with our chancellor’s installation, which could become a special-occasion traditon for all of mCA. There are heartening rumors that such an event is in the works. Ifey it be the beginning of a tradition of establishing like traditions on our canqnis. ©[Lai Editor Anna Paulette Witt News Editor Penny Kramp Sports Editor DaleMcElrath Features Editor David Proffitt Arts/Entertainment Editor Chris Streppa Photography Editor Sylvia Hawkins Promotions Mana^r Debbie Weeks Circulation Manager Donna Jarrett Advisor Cathy Mitchell STAFF Phil Alexander Jennifer Heglar Cathy James Leslie AAcCullough Donna Obrecht Betsy Phillips Joan Sterk Cheryl Walker Anna Wilson THE BLUE BANNER Is the University of North Carolina at Asheville student newspaper. We publish each Thursday except during summer sessions, finals week, and holiday breaks. Office: Carmichael Humanities Building, 208-A. Phone: (704) 258-6586 or 258-6591. Nothing in the editorial or opinion sections necessarily represents the position of the entire BANNER staff, the staff advisor, or UNCA's Student Government Association, administration or faculty. Editorials represent the opinion of a majority of the editorial board. Letters, columns, cartoons and reviews represent only the views of their authors. The editorial board makes the final decision about v/hatthe BANNER prints. This newspaper represents a public forum for debate at UNCA. The BANNER welcomes letters to the editor and articles, and considers them for publication on the basis of interest, space, tastefulness and timeliness. Letters and articles should be typed double-spaced, or printed legibly. They should be signed with the writer's name, followed by year in school, major, or other relationship to UI^CA. Please include a telephone number to aid in verification. All submitted articles are subject to editing. The BANNER regrets it cannot guarantee the return of any article submitted. Deadline for submissions is Friday noon. Hocrow! IWBeeN NieRND ■ ItHSFftM? College Press Service faim Who is Ken Cagle? Dear Editor: I have liHit one question: exactly who is Ken Cagle? Well, sure, he is the SGA president; everybody knows old Ken, the budding politician! So what? That is not i^t I*m asking. Actually f what I would like to know is why this particular character writes something of little to no im portance every week in the school paper? Recently he wrote about campus vandalism. What is this guy doing? Writing a student handbook with weekly editions? What this school needs is a presi dent who represents the students, not the administration. Afterall, is Ken Cagle not a student himself? Or is he just a cute, young Ron Reagan, brown- nosing his way to the top? Come on! Let’s start worrying about the real probleBS going on in the world. I can't see where writing on bathroom walls will cause anyone great suffering - unless of course Ken Cagle is elected to scrub them. Marina Brenke Junior, German major Nominees needed for SGA offices By Phil Ross Lately it has become apparent to us at SGA that many students do not know what we do here. It is the pur pose of this column to inform the stu dent body of our activities. We hope awareness of ^^t we do will encourage ym to become involved with Student Govemoient. The SGA elections are qtiickly ap proaching, but we have received very few nominations for the available positions. Nominations end Mon., Feb. 18. If a student plans to run for an office for next year, he or she must have a nomination form turned in in duplicate by 4:30 p.m. Monday. The UNCASG meeting that UNCA hosted last weekend was a huge success. The most io^ortant result of the meeting was the adoption of a resolution calling for open hearings on the cam puses of the UNC system, before the state considers raising the drinking age to 21. UNCASG recommends leaving the drinking age at 19. The SGA Senate will consider a re solution calling for a student reading day, to be held,between the last day of class and the first day of finals. We think that a day off before finals will help everyone through exams and besides, we deserve it. Other projects: We are finishing up the work on obtaining ice machines for both the Highrise and the Village. We hope to have them the end of the semester. See what a difference stu dent input makes? Watch for our "victory bell" pro ject—it will become very apparent within the next several weeks. Watch this column for details. Since our Tuesday meeting was snow ed out, the agenda will be moved to our next formal meetipg, Tues., Feb. 19. Come check us out—we're on the move!
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