2/The Blue Banner/Thursday, April 17, 1986
Cheers: To Reagan’s administration for try
ing to make an example out of Khadafy and
show the world that callous acts of terror
ism accomplish nothing and only lead to fur
ther bloodshed.
Jeers: To the transfer trucks parked in the
Highrise parking lot that block students’
cars.
Cheers: To the workers involved in the reg
istration process. The organization made the
procedure less painful.
Jeers: To the illegal giant bonfire on the
construction site behind the track during a
statewide burning ban. Why didn’t they
advertise the available wood and give people
a few days to cut it up and haul it off?
They might even have made a few dollars.
Cheers: To the men’s tennis team for a great
season and finishing top in the conference.
First-year coach Doug Maynard has started a
tradition UNCA’s tennis program could get
used to.
Jeers: To the oversight of not holding a
post-season tournament for the women’s ten
nis team.
Cheers: To the athletic department for fi
nally planning to resurface the track in the
process of building the new complex. Not
many high schools have a track in such dire
need of repair as UNCA’s.
Jeers: To the fuzzbuster thief who has sto
len two fuzzbusters in the last few weeks in
broad daylight. Any good citizens reporting
the crimes would be appreciated. Security?
Cheers: To the construction of the kitchen
downstairs in Vance Hall. The Village People
are certainly moving up.
Jeers: To the creation of specialized halls
for next year’s dorm students. Part of the
"college experience’’ should involve interac
tion with students of different backgrounds,
not a cloning environment. What a ridiculous
idea!
The
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Editor, the Blue Banner,
estimated 50 cords of wood were burned at a construction site on
UNCA campus on Friday, April 11. The Ecology Club and environmentalists
Forestry Service and the fire department didn’t show up-
and WLOS didnt feel it was newsworthy. No one protested that a winter’s
^ more houses was being wasted; that the air was beif’l
polluted; or that a ban on burning was being violated.
This disinterest in our environment could be interpreted as an
invitation to locate a nuclear waste dump here. Why not? No one really
csirss •
Barbara CIO
UNCA studeJi'
contacted Assistant Fire Marshall John Queen*'
sheville Fire Department, which came to investigate the April 11 fire-
Grading company workers lit the fire to burn trees felled in order to deaf
the site of the new athletic fields. Queen said a worker on the
construction site had a burning permit from the Air Pollution Control Boar^'
The worker also told the city firemen that the site is out of city limits,
K "O authority _to operate out of their jurisdiction. The statewide
burning ban had been reinstated at 10 a.m. April 11, but the city fire
department could not act.
of the N.C. Forest Service said the burning was illegal bec^^'
the ban was in effect, but he found no fault with the action of the city
Tire department. ^
Editor, The Blue Banner,
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading about education and the way /
trends are going. Many educators, such as Dr. Walter Kaufmann of Princet^f
Philosophv Department and Dr. Alexander Heard, ex-chancellor of VandertJ^^
University believe that the future of education lies in the study of ’’the
humanities” which, they believe, are drifting away.
Moveover. it seems that according to the aforementioned educators and
others, unless the humanities are reinstituted into the curricular of
American liberal arts colleges and universities, humanity itself will drift
away.
I think I’ll go back to college and study only the humanities because j
seems that this age of educational specialization is making conversation of I
anything other than the weather and football scores almost impossible.
Marilyn B. Pow^
UNCA Student