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Volume Xn, Number 9
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March 31, 1987
Students
present
research
From Staff
Reports
Helen Carroll
leaves UNCA
By Julie Ball ’
Editor
UNCA will be well represen
ted at the Second Annual Na
tional Conference on Under
graduate Research to be held
here this spring, said Charles
Prokop, chairman of the Un
dergraduate Research Program
Committee and associate pro
fessor of psychology at UNCA.
There were about 500 papers
accepted from 40 states around
the country, and 23 of these
papers came from UNCA stu
dents.
Twenty-three is a good num
ber in comparison to other
universities that are partici
pating, said Prokop.
The papers were chosen by
the Undergraduate Research
Program Committee, and two
means of selection were used.
"Some of the papers were cho
sen in-house by the Program
Committee of the Conference.
Some other papers were dis
tributed to UNCA faculty mem
bers with expertise in the pa
per’s particular discipline," said
Prokop.
The total number of papers
at the Conference is about 2
1/2 times the number of papers
at the conference last year,
according to Prokop.
The Undergraduate Research
Conference involves participa-
Please see PAPERS page 10
Staff Photo—Sarah Gottfried
This untitled work created by art major Carla Betz is currently on display in the gallery
of the Owen Conference Center.
Inside
Money is available for women who want to continue
their educations, according to Carolyn McElrath, director
of financial aid.
Tliere are scholarships available for women that they do
not even realize exist, said McElrath.
In addition to the general scholarships most women
know about, there are "all kinds of scholarships in all
subject areas" that most woman are unaware of, said
McElrath.
A project done in 1986 on the status and education of
women states that, for the first time since World War II,
women are outnumbering men at colleges and universities.
The report, "The Status of Education of Women," finds
this to be true because of the great number of women
becoming interested in careers and also older women who
are returning to school.
Weather*
Friday:
Partly cloudy. Morning lows in
40s. Afternoon highs in the low 70s.
the upper
Saturday:
Partly cloudy. Morning lows
Afternoon highs in the mid 70s.
near 50.
Sunday:
Partly cloudy, warm and breezy.
Morning
lows in the low 50s. Afternoon highs in the
upper 70s.
Announcements _9
Classifieds. 9
Comics 8
Crossword 9
Editorial 2
Entertainment. 4
Letters. 2
Sports 6
The woman who coached the
1984 NAIA national champion
ship women’s basketball team is
leaving UNCA.
Helen Carroll, associate di
rector of athletics and former
women’s basketball coach said
yesterday that she is conside
ring offers ffom other univer
sities.
"I’ve grown as much as wo
men’s athletics in the seven or
eight years I’ve been here,"
said Carroll.
In 1984 Carroll coached the
UNCA women’s basketball team
that won the NAIA national
championship. That same year
she won the NAIA coach of the
year.
Carroll said her decision had
nothing to do with the recent
problems within the athletic
department including the con
troversy which followed a de
cision to eliminate the women’s
soccer program.
The decision was recently
reversed after a faculty com
mittee reviewed the decision
and made a recommendation to
Chancellor David Brown that
the program be aUi^^ed to con
tinue.
"It’s a career move for me,"
said Carroll. Carroll said she
prefers working for a smaller
school and that UNCA has
"outgrown Helen Carroll pro
fessionally."
"I, myself, like to be in a
smaller division," said Carroll.
UNCA Athletic Director, Ed
Farrell, said of Carroll "We
have made dramatic strides,
and a good deal of that is be
cause of Helen’s contribution."
UNCA moved to Division I in
1986. As a result the school
added six sports over several
years including three women’s
sports in 1986, according to
Farrell.
Carroll said the main differ
ence between Division I and
smaller divisions is money.
"Money means success in Divi
sion I. Finance is what it’s all
about," she said.
"You don’t have to have mil
lions to be successful in a
small division," said Carroll.
Of women’s soccer, Carroll
said. "The resources are not
there for that program to be
competitive in Division I. So
what happens is we have our
women athletes out there year
after year not having the op
portunity to be successful.
"Pretty soon the game is not
fun. It begins defeating the
philosophy of athletes because
those young women out there
start to feel defeated."
"The move to Division 1 has
been a difficult one. But I have
never seen a group of people
work so hard to make that
move successful for the student
athlete," said Carroll.
Carroll said of women’s ath
letics, "As a whole, I think
that the base of a pyramid is
being built right now for wo-
Please see CARROLL
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SGA forum plagued with apathy
By Sharon Joyce
Staff Writer
Of the 23 candidates vying
for SOA office, 12 showed up
to speak at the North Carolina
Student Legislature’s Candidates
Forum Tuesday evening.
Seventeen students attended
the forum, but there were no
faculty or administrators in the
audience.
Students were disappointed
that the candidates who are
uncontested did not attend the
forum. "If they don’t have the
respect to show up. to say,
’My name is. . .’ and ’I believe
in this. . .’ then why should I
bother to vote?" one student
asked.
Another angry student said,
"For the title, they will show
up at the meetings, but by not
showing up, they’re showing
that they want the title, not
the work." he continued.
"At least this time, the stu
dents outnumbered the people
running," one student remarked.
The three candidates for SGA
president, Rosalee Hart. Lynda
Kroeger, and Vivienne Lackey
all attended, as did vice presi
dential candidates Donna Hud
gins, Karla Jacobson, Markus
Roeders, and Hara Sitnick.
However. Shawn Fitzpatrick,
unopposed candidate for SGA
treasurer, did not attend the
forum.
In the class senatorial races,
where three students will be
elected unopposed, only one
from each class spoke. Of the
three seniors who will be elec
ted to senatorial positions,
Sharon Lance, Jerry Buckner,
and Tom Nye, only Buckner
was present at Tuesday’s
forum. From Michael Todd,
Russell Ratcliff, and Richard
Disser. junior candidates for
senator, Todd was the only
candidate in attendance.
Cynthia Fox, candidate for so-
nhomor^senator^pok^a^he
The three candidates for the
SGA presidency would like to
"get started" on the following
issues:
Hart: improving campus se
curity, improving parking, in-
volving students with SGA, and
"If they don't have the respect to show up,
to say, My name is. .. 'and 7 believe in
this. . then why should I bother to vote?"
UNCA student
forum, but neither Tommy
Dewar nor Josh Bernstein were
there.
Of the three students nm-
ning for dorm senator, one,
Rob Young, attended the forum.
The same was true of the com
muter senator candidates, of
which only Robert Straub was
present. Commuter senator
Amy Jones was unable to at
tend but sent a statement to
be read in her absence.
"Showing up here is a cour
tesy, if nothing else," one stu
dent said. "The reason that
faculty did not show up is be
cause they know that we, as a
student body, don’t care."
A second student said, "Stu
dent apathy is on every campus
but not as bad as it is here."
He spoke of another college he
had attended, where the SGA
president was the most influen
tial student on campus. "She
was always in the administra
tion’s face," he said, "and she
knew how to get things ac
complished."
"I don’t think that these
students will change the cam
pus in one semester, or even in
one year," one student com
mented. "But they can get
started."
diminishing apathy. She said,
"The time has come for
SGA...to start working with the
students."
Kroeger: making students
aware of administrative deci
sions. She would like to turn
SGA into a "viable, self-gover
ning body that is able to speak
for all students with dignity."
Lackey: improving student
body/administrative relations,
listening to the wants and
needs of students. Lackey is
running under the slogan "ex
perience arid enthusiasm."
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
Itmchroom and Friday at 11:30
in Carmichael lobby.
I ' . .v-'L .. Stall Pliutu—Crystal SmitI
SGA vice-presidential candidate, Donna Hudgins, was one
of the speakers at the North Carolina Student
Legislature’s Candidates forum Tuesday night.
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