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Baseball team ends losing streak page 6 ‘The Dybbuk’ preview 5 The Banner Volume Xn, Number 8 Proudly serving the UNCA community since 1982. March 24, 1988 Decision to end women’s soccer program reversed By Andy JWunehart Staff Writer mittee," Brown said. There will be a women’s soccer program next year. At the same time, we do intend to start a women’s track program next UNCA will have a Women’s Soccer program year. This will be the addition of a seventh wo- next year. men’s sport." Chancellor David Brown announced Wednesday In committee recommendation, the three- his acceptance and approval of a Faculty Ath- member faculty panel called for a review of all letic Committee recommendation that the two- varsity athletic programs on campus with the year-old program be allowed to remain in the intent of establishing a long-range plan for the athletic department structure, reversing an ear- athletic department. The goals of the plan, ac- lier decision by athletic director Ed Farrell, that cording to the recommendation, would be: the sport be dropped. I- 'I'® professionalize the UNCA coaching staff In announcing the decision. Brown said that a eliminating part-time coaching jobs. The long- women’s track program would be added to the plan should include a schedule and budget athletic offerings, giving the school seven wo- eliminating part-time positions and conduc- men’s sports. ling searches to fill full-time positions. ■Ed Farrell and I jointly believe it would be 2. To establish an athletic program which will wise to follow the recommendations of the com- maintain women’s program parity with men’s pro- Broadway construction date set for October By Jerri Henderson Staff Writer The long awaited project of broadening Broadway is scheduled to begin in October of this year, according to Gene Edmonds, division engineer for the Department of Transporta tion (DOT). The project includes widening the road from highway 19-23 to the intersection of Weaver Boulevard and could possibly reach Catawba Street. It will be a four lane highway, two lanes in each direction divided with a median, according to Edmonds. "We’ve been working for a couple of years to get this project a top priority," said Tom Byers, special assistant to the chancellor. Please see BROADWAY page 10 grams in terms of budget, scholarship and num- currently enrolled, ber of participants recommendation came about after a meeting 3. To establish an athletic program which will Monday of Cohen, Farell several players and bring pnblicity to UNCA while also maintaining athletic committee. In that meeting. Farrell varsity sports which fulfill the traditional scho: “‘aWtsItad lar-athlete ideal elimination of a program, his decision to ■I guess the 'important thing for me to convey *»PP‘”8 of the program three is that the decision is to continue with women's O'® one. soccer for next year," Brown said. "No decision ™"P«‘ P”*”' ” '“O' "'O P'°- has been made beyond that. That awaits the findings of the long-range committee." "I presume that the (long-range) committee will begin acting in the fall as suggested, and a report will come in at the end of the fall semes ter that will include a long-range recommenda tion as indicated," he continued. Brown added that the amount of women’s soc cer scholarships will be continued for those pla- — cedure could have been done a little differently, like getting together with this committee and some folks before," Farrell said. "There is no written policy. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do something about it and write one. We should. The program was initiated in exactly the same way I went about in discontinu ing it. There v^as just no precedent to follow," he Please see SOCCER page 3 EPA overlooks Maas’ solution By Joan Sclmyder News Editor Staff Photo—Stacey Higdon Some Asheville residents celebrated St. Patrick’s day this year by parading down Patton Avenue. The parade, which was sponsored by Cinjades was held last Sunday. Dr. Richard Maas, UNCA environmental scientist who believes he has the answer to the Champion waste water pro blem, tried for an entire week to let the Environmental Pro tection Agency (EPA) know about his proposal before they issued the current draft of the waste water • permit, according to the associate professor. 'We knew about the idea for one week before the EPA is sued the draft permit to Cham pion, and I tried for that en tire time to let them know about the idea," said Maas. "I called the EPA several times a day during that entire week and left pages of notes with the secretary that inclu ded my credentials as a water chemist, as well as a summary if it is financially feasible and return Maas’ telephone calls, however, she did say that the permit was only a proposed draft and that the organization is still open to suggestions about the problem. We put a draft permit out and opened it for public com ment. That is part of the pur pose - tb get help in addres sing the problems and new in formation that is available,” said Charlis Thompson, the spokesperson for the EPA. However, "everyone (North Carolina, Tennessee, Champion) is on the record as being com fortable with the draft permit as it is written today," accord ing to Max Haner, environmen tal chemist with the water quality section of the division of envirorunental management. "The key is economics/ and. News In Brief The dangers of alcoholism will be dramatized Thursday, March 24 at UNCA in a one-man show portraying Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s unsuccessful struggle with drinking. Set for UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall, the 7p.m. and 9p.m. shows will be performed by Tom Murray, the Asheville-based writer and actor who overcame alcoholism and now shares his insight into the problem with college students nationwide. Admission is free. Inside There are a number of incorrect listings in the Fall 1988 class schedules. Corrections for the humanities and mass communication departments can be found on page 10 of this issue. A review conducted last fall by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights found the LWC-Ashe- ville athletic department lacking in the amount of fi nancial aid offered to its women athletes in comparison with funds being offered to the men. In 1987-88, each male athlete at UNCA recevied an average of $1,018.55 more in financial aid than did female athletes for the Bulldogs. Following a random check made at the school, the OCO in Atlanta notified Athletic Director Ed Farrell in Decem ber that its Title IX compliance review had found a dis- proportional amount of aid being offered to male athletes, according to Louis Bryson, director of post secondary education in the OCO Atlanta office. (Please see story on page 6) Announcementi^. .9 Classifiedi^. 9 Comics 8 Crossword 9 Editorial, Entertainment.. Letters Sports 8 4 8 0 SGA organizes second election of the idea," he continued. "However, no one from the EPA would return the calls," he said. An EPA spokesperson was unable to find out the parti cular reason for this failure to technically achievable for Champion, they have expressed their willingness to do anything." said Haner. Maas and an anonymous Bun- Please see MAAS p^e 10 By Sharon Joyce Asst. News Editor UNCA’s Student Goverrunent Association (SGA) is staging another election for 1988. The posters are back up and the candidates are campaigning again. The lack of planning and the rushed nature of the first elec tion was the reason for its failure, said both Geoff Cabe, the election commissioner for the first election and Athena Fox, the current elections com mittee commissioner. The Senate decided to get the first election out of the way quickly, and the price the student body had to pay was a shabby and defunct election, said Geoff Cabe, who resigned after the first election. "It was a rush job. It wasn’t planned very well," said Fox. There were a number of spe cific problems with the first election, said Fox. The two main problems in the first election were that the polling places weren’t open for the proper amount of hours as specified in the SGA Constitu tion and students who voted were not marked off of the registrar’s list of students when they voted. Therefore, it is possible that some people could have voted more than once, said Pox. It is also "very possible" that nomination forms for the first election could have been lost, she said. This election is somewhat "better because there are more people running for office," she said. The election will be held March 30-31. There will be opportunity to hear the can didates speak on Thursday at 11:30 in the Highsmith lobby or lunchroom and Friday at 11:30 in Carmichael lobby. In addition, the North Caro lina Student Legislature is sponsoring forum of the can didates on Tuesday, March 29 at the Owen Conference Center (third floor). Another problem with the first election was the lack of an absentee ballot. The problem has been rectified this time and absentee ballots will be offered, according to Fox. Cabe said that he warned the Senate of the problems that would result from rushing the election, but they didn’t listen. "I told them going in that, if you rush the election like this, you’re going to have a terrible election. And what did they end up with? A terrible elec tion," he said. "I had everything set up for the middle of March, and the Senate wanted to go ahead and Please see SGA page 10 Staff Photo—Stacey Higdon Bill Stanley announced last week that he was closing his restaurant last week because of an outbreak of hepatitis that was linked to the establishment.
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