Banner announces Trivia Trap' winner
Several UNCA students correctly answered last week’s three Banner Trivia Trap questions* The winner^
the first to turn m the right answers to The Bim Banner office^ was Lmda Hoffman, a 19'year-old math major
from Asheville* She won $5 and a chance to, win $50 more in the up-commg play-offs.
Answers to last week^s questions are: 1) Calcium and phosphorous; 2) The Great Cat$by‘, and 3) Five.
This week’s $5 winner will be drawn from among all corrcct student answers to the following trivial
questions^ deposited at The Blue Banner office by noon Monday.
1. If an unfair coin is Bipped and the prohability of bea{is is ,7 (7/10)^ what is the probability of getting two
heads in two flips of the coin I
2* Name the language of the Aryan people who in vaded India some3000 years ago.
3, Who were CurrerfBUis, and Acton Beil^
USGQ^ H»THAN, 19 year
old UNCA. Bath Bajor, was
the first person to cor
rectly ansper last week's
three Trivia Trap ques-
tloos.
Hoffaan won $5 and a
chance to cGBfiete for $50
in the Blue Bai^r Trivia
Trap playoffs.
I
Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Volume VI, Number VI
Thursday, February 28, 1985
False alarms disturb Highrise
Firebug strikes dorm
KEITH HEGE, gives hinself
last lieek's Hi^irlse fire.
a pat for putting out
Staff photo by Cathy James
By Jennifer Heglar
A prankster most likely
started the Feb. 21 trash
can fire in a Highrise
elevator, according to
Malinda Graves^ senior
resident assistant (RA).
More than 30 false fire
alarms have disturbed
Highrise residents at all
times of the day and night
this school year, said
Graves•
Graves said someone ap
parently deliberately set
the trash can afire on the
seventh floor, then put
the can on the elevator,
which automatically goes
GE debate burning again
By Chris Streppa
It’s highly likely by
fall of 1986 incoming UNCA
students will be subject
to new general education
requirements, those cours**
es all students must take
before graduating.
The Faculty Senate met
Saturday to begin deliber
ating the individual re
quirements that will com
prise the general educa
tion curriculum.
They focused on the nat-
'ural sciences component•
While Chairman Alan Comer
says the "new requirement
was adopted almost unani
mously," dissatisfaction
and division persists a-
mong the science faculty.
All students must now
pass a two-course sequence
in one of the "fundamental
sciences" in order to gra
duate: six credits in bio
logy (which does not in
clude a lab), eight cre
dits in chemistry, or
eight credits in physics.
The new natural sciences
requirement adopted by the
Faculty Senate consists of
two parts.
Students will be able to
choose from biology, chem
istry or physics to ful
fill a five credit-hour
segment of the new re
quirement.
An additional three cre-
dit-hour interdisciplinary
course will complete the
requirement.
Portrait of a
Gay Student
seepages
Comer says classes will
combine laboratory exper
ience with lectures that
"will cover interdiscip
linary connections when
ever feasible, and empha
size the historical de
velopment of the dis
cipline."
Comer points out exist
ing courses like atmos
pheric and environmental
sciences will fulfill this
part of the requirement.
"They are interdisci
plinary by their very-na
ture because they combine
elements of biology, chem
istry, and physics."
He also anticipates the
various science depart
ments will soon be design
ing more new courses for
the requirement.
But Dr. Ed Brotak, as
sociate professor of at
mospheric sciences, argues
that "many people in the
building [Rhoades Science
continued on page 8
to first floor when the
alarm sounds.
There, according to
Keith Hege, ^irst floor
fire marshall, is where he
found the fire.
"When I first heard the
alarm, I thought, *Dum,
we’ve got to go outside
again,*" he said, "but
then I went out into the
hall and saw smoke coming
out of the elevator."
Hege said he then grabb
ed the trashcan and threw
it outside.
Both Housing and UNCA
Department of Security and
Services are investigating
the incident. However, ac
cording to Graves, neither
has any substantial leads
as to who started the
fire.
continued on page 8
SUSAN MASSEY and Saa take advantage of the week's warn
weather • staff photo by Sylviu Hawkins