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Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Vol. VII, Numbers
Thursday, Oct. 31, 1985
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Financial aid checks slow
in getting to students
Photo by Jonna McGrath
t^esireforROTC: Do students
^ndfacultj; think it*s needed?
By West Tucker
By Michele Samuel
For the past two years, the
UNCA student government has
submitted a resolution to the
financial aid and business of
fices suggesting that they look
Into ways to speed up the dis
bursement of financial aid funds
to recipients.
Currently, financial aid mo
nies are not usually distributed
until about 30 days after the
beginning of classes.
The administration is now con
sidering distributing 50 percent
of the aid due full-time stu
dents at registration, said
William Pott, vice chancellor
for finance.
According to Marthe Fletcher,
the SGA. senator who sponsored
the latest resolution, at least
five other state universities
disburse financial aid funds
within at least three days of
the^beginning of classes.
We*d like to do something,"
said Dr. Douglas lyfcConkey, new
assistant vice chancellor for
enrollment services, "but it
just takes a while.
"We have an extensive reliance
on the computer and we are cur
rently implementing a new, more
automated system," said McCon-
key.
This should make it easier in
the future, he said,
Fletcher said late distribu
tion of the financial aid monies
can cause hardships to some stu
dents, especially since 80 per
cent of the UNCA student body
commutes and about half of those
maintain their own households.
Pott said the administration
continued on pg. 4
The issue of whether to work
*^0 bring the Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC) to UNCA is
of popular support, or per-
^Ps the lack of it.
Chancellor David Brown said
discussion about the matter is
•• •
Just another example of the
Power of the press to create an
issue where there isn't one,"
but at least one faculty member
disagrees.
Dr. Walter Boland, sociology
professor, said bringing the
ROTC to the campus would gene
rate much needed financial aid
“monies and said the notion that
the presence of the ROTC would
fit into a liberal arts cur-
rlculim is "hogwash."
He said there are many other
®®all liberal arts colleges that
^ve Incorporated the ROTC into
their programs with great suc
cess. Brown agreed that Incom-
Patabillty was not the problem.
’We lose a lot of potentially
8ood students due to- the cut
backs in federal aid. The scho
larships and aid associated with
the ROTC program would be a
great asset," said Boland.
He said the issue is not one
of sensitivity to the student
body, but rather one of practi
cality. He said this is just one
more avenue to obtain scholar
ship money. The ROTC could be
used "to try and draw some stu
dents here that presently think
they may get a more reasonable
education elsewhere," said
Boland.
Not only is there a lack of
knowledge about how faculty
members and students feel about
bringing the ROTC to UNCA, but
just how many students the pro
gram would draw if Installed is
also in question.
Although Chancellor Brown said
he does not consider the matter
a major topic of discussion, and
did not wish to "pre-empt any
future discussion," he raised
some practical considerations.
"It's an issue of size, demand
and economic feasibility," said
Brown. The hesitancy of tlje ad-
continued on pg. 5
Faculty Senate changes deadline
for teachers to give first grade
ByScottluckadoo
UNCA*s Faculty Senate approved
a plan last Thursday that will
force faculty members to give
students some kind of grade one
week before the withdrawal date
deadline each semester, accord
ing to Dr. Anthony Coyne, facul
ty senate president.
The previous rule required
professors to give students the
results of at least one evalua
tion by the midpoint (eight
weeks) of the semester.
Neither the old rule nor the
new specifies that the evalua
tion be a major test grade.
Coyne, who is also an associ
ate professor of philosophy,
said the new rule reads as fol
lows:
The student will receive the
results of at least one evalua
tion by the end of the fifth
week of the semester.
Thus the new rule specifies
each student an evaluation
before the withdrawal deadline,
which is at the end of the sixth
week, according to Coyne.
Coyne also clarified the mean
ing of evaluation.
"The evaluation does not have
to be a whole test. It may be
grades from weekly quizzes given
by the Instructor," he said.
The deadline for withdrawing
this semester was Oct. 8. Under
the old rule, instructors had to
give the student an evaluation
by fall break, the midpoint of
the semester*
Had an instructor not given an
evaluation before Oct. 8, the
student may not have been aware
of his progress in a particular
course.
As a result of the new rule,
next semester the instructor
will be required to give an
evaluation by Feb. 28 instead of
by spring break.