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Volume XI, Number^/o
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November s', 1987
News in brief
Consultants visit UNCA
The UNCA Board of Visitors will have their annual
meeting here, on campus tomorrow and Saturday. The
group consists of consultants to the university whose role
is to assure that UNCA’s resources are (hose of a
nationally-distinctive university.
Members of the group are nominated by faculty, staff
and friends of the university and are elected by the Board
of Trustees.
The meeting will include group sessions, presentations
by the visitors, a banquet and an informal discussion with
faculty at breakfast.
Groups silent on hazing
AUSTIN, TEXAS (CPS) — The University of Texas can’t
break down a "conspiracy of silence" among greek pledges
long enough to curb hazing on the campus, an Ill-page
report issued last month stated.
The report suggested Texas — as well as several other
schools trying to stop fraternity and sorority hazing of
their own members — is going to have a tough time
succeeding until student attitudes change.
"Hazing is like prostitution or pornography. It is a
consensual activity, and this makes it extremely difficult
to deal with," said John Ratliff, a UT law professor and
chairman of the commission which issued the report.
"Normally, it does not come to light until someone gets
badly hurt.
"As long as the participants (of the fraternities) elect
to have this done to themselves and want to maintain this
secrecy, there’s not a whole lot the university can do,"
said Ratliff.
Mercer takeover fails
ATLANTA, GA (CPS) — Mercer University’s president won
a unanimous vote of confidence from (he school’s trustees
recently, surviving an attempted ouster by fundamentalists
upset by Mercer’s appearance in a Playboy magazine
listing of top party schools.
A similar conflict between religious fundamentalists and
moderates over control of a college has developed at Wake
Forest.
The effort to oust R. Kirby Godsey, Mercer s president,
began in early October, when Atlanta businessman and
Baptist layman Lee Roberts sent letters to students’
parents, faculty members and pastors to complain that
Mercer no longer followed Baptist principles.
Roberts cited a 1986 Playboy magazine ranking Mercer
as a top party school and other "dramatic evidence of
filthy language, lewd photographs, heresies, student
drunkenness and sexually explicit material" around campus
as proof of his contention.
Godsey charged the fundamentalists were "trying to
force every person and every institution to adhere to a
particular set of doctrines and nothing else."
Inside. ..
Winter is quickly approaching, and no one knows it
better than the members of UNCA’s men’s and women's
basketball teams.
With the season-openers just weeks away, practice for
both squads is in high gear as men’s coach Jerry Green
and women’s coach Mary Ann Myers attempt to blend a
mix of veterans and newcomers into a winning team.
Two starters, Milton Moore and Ricky Chatman, rehim
from Green’s 15-11 club of a year ago, while Myers has
all five starters back in uniform from last season’s 6-20
squad. Expectations for both clubs are running high as the
Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs look to make their mark on
the Big South Conference.
Weather
Friday: Increasing cloudiness. Morning lows around 30.
Afternoon highs 60 - 65.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Morning lows in the the 30s. Afternoon
highs 55 - 60.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Morning lows around 30. Afternoon highs
around 60.
The UNCA Atmospheric Science department provides
this information to the campus community weekly in
the Banner. The 24-hour weatherline service is also
available at 251-6435.
Squirrel causes registration delay
By Maria tiorton
Staff Writer
What does a squirrel have to
do with pre-registration this
week? Plenty, at least on
Monday, as a squirrel landed
on a transformer outside the
physical plant and caused a
major power failure on campus,
according to Jo Presley,
administrative secretary to the
director of the UNCA Physical
Plant.
"The transformer was
damaged and Carolina Power
and Light Co. had to repair the
damage," said Presley. "We cut
the power to all the buildings
so that nothing else would be
damaged when (he main power
was restored."
The incident occurred around
1 p.m. and power was restored
by 2:30 p.m.
Registrar Joanne Garrett said
they tried to overcome the
problem by sending the
paperwork for pre-registration
through the proper channels
manually.
"We lost about one hour
computer time, but we took up
the schedules and will process
them just as we normally
would," she explained. "Students
aren’t suffering over it. If the
classes are closed, they would
have been any way."
Garrett said that all the
students had been very
cooperative and would return
on Tuesday to receive their
new schedules.
Tempers may have been a
little frayed by Tuesday,
however, when a second power
failure caused long lines.
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Staff Photo—Joan Schnydcr
Students waited in line outside Lipinsky Hall to pre-register earlier this week.
"We had a brown out this
morning just long enough to
knock out the computers,"
Garrett said. "We only lost
about 25 minutes of computer
time."
Garrett said the long lines
on Tuesday were also caused by
people who should have
registered the day before and
failed to.
"People who should have come
yesterday are still getting an
opportunity to register today
and that’s causing the lines to
back up somewhat," she said.
Linda Gilbert, a psychology
major, was caught in the long
lines. 'Tve been here for about
40 minutes and I’m still only
half way through," she said.
"Everything is moving along
slowly, but it looks as though
there is a holdup at the
computer terminals. They need
more people working in this
area," she said.
Kristina Beddingfield, a
communications major, was also
waiting for her turn to pre
register. "I’ve been here about
an hour and still haven’t
passed the computer station,"
she said.
Pre-registration was held in
Lipinsky once again since the
recent renovation was complete.
Doris Harmon, administrative
assistant to the registrar, said
that things had been moving
very smoothly until the power
went out.
"Its easier to have it here
because we don’t have to pack
up and take everything to the
gym the way we do for a
general registration." Harmon
said.
Survey examines humanities program
By Andy Rhinehart
Assistant News Editor
When the National Endowment tor the
Humanities (NEH) bestowed a $94,840
grant on UNCA’s Humanities Core
Curriculum last semester, faculty members
noted that in the end, the students would
reap the benefits of their reward.
Since that time, money from the grant
has been used to fund projects such as a
current study group consisting of almost
40 members of UNCA’s faculty, in which
key texts from the four-sequence
curriculum are being studied.
Yet the question remains as to whether
students are noticing, and benefiting
fiom, the effects of the grant-related
projects. To determine such information,
the members of the Humanities faculty
recently conducted a survey of students
enrolled in the Hxunanities 214 and 414
classes.
At the top of the student questionnaire,
survey-takers were told, "UNCA has
received a faculty development grant to
help improve the Humanities program.
Your honest anonymous answers...will help
us to gauge student opinion about the
Humanities Program at the start of the
grant."
This is exactly what the survey hopes
to determine, according to Dr. Anthony
Coyne, associate professor of philosophy.
"We surveyed the Humanities 214 and
414 classes earlier this semester," Coyne
said. "The same questions will be given
out to students in the 124 and 224
classes late in the spring.
"The purpose for doing this is to see if
anything being done by the faculty with
the NEH grant is being noticed by the
students. One thing we’^ are supposed to
be doing with the grant is making the
program more coherent, so we are asking
the students how coherent they think the
program is."
The survey focuses on current and
previous experiences with the Humanities
program, asking questions such as;
•Do you understand the role of the
Humanities in General Education?
•Do you feel that the Humanities
Program fits together?
•Do the instructors seem to understand
Please see HUMANITIES page 8
Bundled up staff Photo—Joan Schnyder
James, Yvonne and Rhonda Bardon enjoy the sudden
appearance of winter weather. Snow made driving
treacherous yesterday.
Students protest
parking problems
ByjfsneTakT'
Staff Writer
Students organized Friday to
protest campus parking policies
by parking in a facuity/staff
designated lot.
Protestors made their point
in the demonstration, according
to Dr. Eric lovacchini, vice
chancellor of student affairs.
"They (students) have an issue
with the way we’re developing
parking," said lovacchini.
He said administrators and
students alike are coming to
the same conclusion; UNCA
needs a more flexible parking
policy.
lovacchini talked to students
involved in the protest at the
parking lot Friday for about
(wo hours. One student
suggestion made at the protest
will be adopted into university
parking policy. Next semester
all student parking will be
open. In other words, there
will not be any commuter or
resident designated areas.
Brian Linkous, a protest
organizer and senior
atmospheric science major, said
protestors wanted to stage a
visible protest Friday morning.
About 15 students parked
their cars in the - faculty slots.
Students also pasted up signs
objecting to parking policies.
Several of the protestors
stayed at the lot for a while
Friday morning and then spoke
with lovacchini in the
afternoon.
"I thought the parking
problem was a good way to get
students out," said Linkous.
WLOS-TV visited the protest
site Friday morning and showed
interviews with both faculty
and students on their nightly
newscast.
A major complaint by the
group centers around the
recent addition of University
Hall, the new 300-rooni
dormitory without a
corresponding lot to
accommodate the extra
students, according to Linkous.
Student Government President
Monica Bonikowski said, "I’ve
already told the chancellor and
Please see PROTEST page 8