Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Volume VI, Number XIII
Thursday, April 25,1985
Nazi huntei^s visit
sparks threats, posters
By Penny Kramp
Today's visit of famed
Nazi hunter Beate Klars-
feld has sparked a rash of
Neo-Nazi literature and
threats on campus this
week.
Klarsfeld, who exposed
Forn^r SS Captain KLaus
Barbie, "the butcher of
Lyon", and other war cri
minals, will speak tonight
at 8 p.m. in the Humani
ties Lecture Hall.
Dr. Milton Ready, pro
fessor of history and head
of the UNCA Jewish Studies
Center, received a phone
call last week from a man
saying Klarsfeld should
not visit campus.
According to Ready, a
male voice asked him if
Klarsfeld would appear on
campus and said "You real
ly shouldn’t have her
here. All she does is stir
up trouble."
Ready said the man ac
cused Klarsfeld of being a
witchhunter and hung up.
The Blue Banner received
a letter to the editor
from the New Order, a Neo-
Nazi group in Arlington,
Va., expressing similar
sentiments Monday.
The letter stated "...for
Beate Klarsfeld, and her
witch hunters, the time
has come to end the Six
Million Myth!" which sug
gests the Holocaust never
occurred.
Other anti-Jewish propa
ganda began hitting campus
last Wednesday when people
attending Theatre U^^CA’s
production of Good, a play
dealing with the Nazi
movement, left the theatre
to find posters papering
their windshields.
The sheet, titled "the
Witch Hunt”, compared the
current Nazi hunters to
the Salem witch hunters of
1692.
The next morning more
Neo-Nazi posters appeared
next to flyers announcing
Klarsfeld*s visit. This
poster asked, "What is
National Socialism?" and
was also signed by the New
Order.
It states: "National So-
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STUMKTS NEIL ME JONG, Rudy Schuab, CLlnt Osborne, Ayteklii Tlldlz (L-41), and
Byron Saanels (F) mag before the camsra at last Wednesday’s Mod 500
Party* Staff photo by Betsy Phillips
Blue Banners trashed
Blue Banners were in
short supply last week af
ter someone dumped the ap
proximately 200 copies in
the Highsmith Center in
trashcans and then filled
the containers with water.
According to Sharyn Mc
Donald, student center di
rector, she began to be
come suspicious when she
could not find a paper on
Thursday.
The next morning the
janitor found the papers
stuffed in trashcans in
both the men’s and ladies'
bathrooms in the student
center.
"We were shocked that
anyone would be so imma
ture as to try to censor
the press by trashing the
paper," said Anna Witt,
Blue Banner editor.
Moreover, student fees
largely pay for the Blue
Banner, so when people de
stroy the newspaper, they
are destroying student
property.
"If students wanted to
interrupt the free flow of
information, then throwing
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Memorial tree
UONARD HARKS}, superlntendant of caapus grounds, and
Dr. Janes Perry, associate professor of biology, check
the progress of the ginkgo tree planted beside Rhoades
Science Building Friday.
The tree, which Is a memorial to the late Dr. Harry
Johnson, professor of biology, irLLL be dedicated In a
ceremony May 14. Johnston died in a tractor accident
June 12, 1984. Staff photo by Sylvia Hawkins
Fire suspects arrested
Two UNCA students will
go to trial May 7 on
charges of burning a pub
lic building, a felony
punishable by fine or up
to 30 years in prison.
Campus police arrested
James Barringer, 20, and
Augustine "Gus" Tucker,
20, last week in connec
tion with the April 5
Hlghrise fire.
The magistrate charged
both men with burning a
public building and placed
them under $1000 bond.
Officials released Bar
ringer Friday after a
state bonding company
posted his $1000 bond.
Tucker was released Satur
day on $1000 unsecured
bond.
Both men appeared in
District Court Monday at
which time officials sche
duled their trial date for
May 7.
The magistrate issued
warrants for both men's
arrests last Wednesday
after Barringer allegedly
admitted to UNCA Depart
ment of Security and Ser
vices that he and TYicker
took part in setting the
fires.
Trivia Tfap Playoff
The three weekly witmers of the HLue Banner 'Tri
via Trap' will corapete for a $50 prize in a decisive
game of Trivial Pursuit tbid Sunday afternoon in the
lobby of the Highsmith Center.
Linda Hoffman, Kurt Ehrsam, and Tracy Thompson
1^11 eiagage 6ach Other in a battle of frivolous, but
potentially' profitable, knowledge.
Each 6f the three will be allowed, if they wish,
to cfcose a partner to assist them.