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Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
^ol- VII, Number 1
Thursday, August 29, 1985
UNCA awarded $25.9 million
for major improvements
Penny Kramp
UNCA will soon undergo a
•^ajor facelift — to tte
tune of $25.9 million.
Thanks to North Carolina
" General Assembly funds ap-
P^^cpriated over the past
‘ year, unCA will gain
everything from a $338,000
baseball field to a $6.7
•million addition to the
^oades Science Building.
> "This is an outstanding
y^ai. xwi. uo, OTiariceiior-
I^avid Brown. "It’s diffi-
*^ult to conceive our ac
tually getting any more
than we have in this cy
cle."
Included in the $25.9
®^illion total is $13.4
'Million doled out by the
during this summer’s
Session.
"Special credit is due
our legislative dele
gation and House Speaker
piston Ramsey," said
°^^own.
It's clear that there’s
a recognition on the part
of our legislators, and
the UNC general adminis
trators, that it*s time
for this campus to catch
up, and we're moving
quickly.’'
Allocated to UNCA during
the summer session were a
$6.8 million addition to
Ramsey Library; a $5.6
million link to the micro-,
electronics center of
North Carolina and $1 mil-
for Che purchase of
60 additional acres.
The new library addition
will double the current
building's space.
We are in the process
of selecting an architect
this month,*' Brown said.
Construction will start
at the earliest the summer
of 1986."
The microwave link will
create a two-way video
classroom between UNCA and
and the Research Triangle
Park near Chapel Hill.
The link will make pos
sible a two-way video
classrocwi on the Asheville
campus plus a high-speed
"data-path" for research.
"It will allow a profes
sor in Chapel Hill to be
heard and seen in a class
room in Asheville," Brown
said. "And the professor
can simultaneously hear
and see the class."
The new addition to
the Rhoades building will
house the conmunicatlons
system, and officials ex
pect the project to take
at least two years.
Brown said UNCA is "cui^
rently in the process of
negotiating for 60 additi
onal acres of land worth
roughly $1 million."
"This will make the cam
pus a beehive of construc
tion activity in the com
ing months," said Brown.
Other projects currently
on the drawing board in
clude ;
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Parking woes again
H
IN: Tfo problem!"
pins sexdor Pat I^ncaster
* wrestles with an
I piece of fumi-
certain to turn any
^*311 room into hoMe.
By Dovid Proffitt
Students returning to
fall classes Wednesday
morning faced a parking
situation that makes suc
cessful business owners
rub their hands together
gleefully, but causes cus
tomers to grumble and
curse.
UNCA*s overflowing lots
are a very visible indica
tion of the growing pains
the university is experi
encing.
"The parking situation
here seems to get progres
sively worse," said Rod
Morton, a student who has
attended UNCA for two
years.
The administration in
stituted some new policies
this semester designed to
improve the situation int-
mediately, and a new 125-
150 space parking lot is
in the works.
Student parking has now
been divided into two
areas: Zone "C" for cchh-
muters and Zone "R" for
residents, said Charles
Carreno, chief of campus
police.
The expected crowd also
prompted the hiring of two
traffic directors to as
sist drivers in locating a
* IS AMOSr OWR: Students Siidl
^ Pfeifer uiaoad the car. preparing for
another fall semp^fer at flNriA pk + u ^
an UNCA. Photos by Caroline Brown
space.
.hfKX SGA nominations
. The Student Government
Association will accept
nominations for freshman
senate positions this
week.
Candidates will campaign
this week and elections
for the three senate posi
tions will take place
Sept. 6 and Sept. 9 from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the
Hlghsmlth Student Center.
^oml-
I tuaent center•
couple of weeks, said John
Coutlakis, the director
stationed Wednesday morn
ing in a bright orange
vest at the entrance to
the first parking lot stu
dents encountered as they
drove up University Hts.
"I just try to wave them
on around to the Zagelr
parking lot where they
might possibly find a
space, said Coutlakis.
"After that fills up,
we'll just park them on
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