In Color
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Bulldog
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To Retire
Room Opens
p. 7
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p. 8
The
Blue Banner
Vol. VIII, Number 2
Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Thursday, Jan. 30, 1986
Citizens
protest
Waste dump
% Scott Luckadoo
Area residents seemed over-
'vhelmingly against a nuclear
^epositoT»v site in the state
Wednesday, but they also
seemed divided on their
stance toward the use of nuc
lear
energy,
State officials met with an
overflow audience in Lipinsky
^^iditorium Wednesday Night to
discuss the possibility of a
repository to be lo-
cated in Western North Car
olina,
Officials said the site,
^^ich reaches into parts of
'Jnoombe, Madison and Haywood
^ounties, is one of twelve
finalists in the U.S. Depart-
*^^nt of Energy’s search for
repository in the eastern
portion of the nation.
The Department of Energy
lower the number of can
didates for the site from 12
Jo three in 1991, according
o Lynn Muchmore, assistant
Secretary of the state De
partment of Natural Resources
^hd Community Development
(Nrcd).
Enwright offers
ideas for chanqe
By John Ford Leon
STATE OFFICIALS U.S. Rep.
Bill Hendon and David Spain
review plans for the proposed
nuclear dump site in WNC.
"This is a significant
long-range threat and we’re
not dealing with amateurs at
the federal level.
’’Our oppposition must be
both technical and politi
cal," Muchmore said.
Calling public outcry
vital, he said, ’’The public
should rise up to the man and
say as we would down on the
farm,,’Stay the hell out of
North Carolina.”’
U.S. Rep. Bill Hendon
revealed his 10-point plan to
prevent the nuclear waste
dump from being located in
WNC at the hearing.
continued on pg. 12
Students react to tragedy
David Proffitt
Students at UNCA reacted to
Tuesday morning explosion
space shuttle Challenger
niuch the same manner as
*^inions of other Americans—
®nock, disbelief and dismay.
They remarked on how com-
J^Ohpiace the shuttle flights
become, so much so that
people took more than
^Ursory note of the 24th
^ght. The flights were so
outine that the national
^tworks had stopped carrying
®aeh flight live.
’’Everyone had iust gotten
to hearing it and it
wasn’t a big deal, then this
happens,” said Jeff Huey, a
computer science major. ”I
was at home watching TV I
think it was Scrabble—when
they interrupted the pro
gram,” he said.
Huey noted, as many others
did, that Christa McAuliffe’s
part in the flight brought
the tragedy even closer to
home. "Everyone felt like
they’d gotten to know her
because of all the coverage
she’d gotten,” he said.
The presence of a teacher
on the mission piqued Sheila
continued on pg. 10
By
Enwright Associates of
Greenville, S.C., presented
its 1986 Master Land Use Plan
to Chancellor David Brown,
board of trustee members, and
faculty last Thursday in the
Owen Conference Center.
Enwright offered no total
cost figures at the presen
tation, but Brown received
most of Enwright’s sugges
tions enthusiastically, cal
ling the plan "financially
realistic" and one that "can
be implemented."
He did point out that the
proposal is not final. ”We
will have an opportunity to
react to the plan. Enwright’s
advice will not lock us in,”
said Brown.
Some faculty members ex
pressed dissatisfaction with
certain proposals, such as
demolition of the present
Humanities lecture hall and
the use of water features to
enhance campus landscaping.
Enwright’s Project Director
Richard Pace described the
following proposed campus
changes:
• addition of 600 more dor
mitory beds to accomodate the
anticipated increase in resi
dent students:
• demolition of the Humani
ties Lecture Hall with a new
fine arts building as a re
placement;
• a well-defined campus en
trance at Broadway Street and
W. T. Weaver Boulevard;
• an "identity symbol" vi
sible from downtown Ashe
ville, such as a tower on the
main quad;
• landscaping and elimina
tion of the present loop road
to encourage walking to shift
away from a car^oriented cam
pus ;
• a lake bordering Weaver
Boulevard;
• an indoor recreation
building behind the tennis
courts;
continued on pg. 10
Photo by Leslie McCullough
mm LWKSTON CU and atobna
FOX (R) seU sweaters at the
Alpha Xi Delta sorority sale
in the Highsmith Center.
WEEKEND WEATHER: The UNCA Atmospheric Science department
provides this information to the campus community each
week in the Blue Banner.
Friday: Fair with a high near 50 and lows in the upper
20s.
Saturday: Partly cloudy with highs in the low 50s and
lows near 30.
Sunday: Slightly warmer than Saturday. Partly cloudy
with highs in the mid 50s and lows near 30.