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Volume Xn, Number 11
Proudly serving the UNCA community since 1982
April 14, 1988
Student
wages
increase
By Kris Beddingiield
Assistant News Editor
UNCA work-study students
will get a 12 percent raise in
July, according to Beth Bartlett
of the UNCA Financial Aid
Office.
Beginning July 1, UNCA
work-study students will re
ceive an increase in pay from
$3.35 to $3.75.
There are two reasons for
the increase in salary, said
Bartlett. The first is an in
crease in federal funding for
the work-study program, and
the second is the competition
for employees that the program
faces with outside businesses.
Many students are opting not
to take work-study jobs be
cause of changes in federal
student aid qualifications.
Often, a student now has a
choice of a guaranteed students
loan or a work-study award,
instead of receiving both. Stu
dents who need money for tui
tion or residence hall pa3Tnents
up front choose the loan, ac
cording to the College Press
Service.
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Please see RAISE page 3
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Students turn out
to save courses
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Staff Photos—Sarah Gottfried
Sherri Wishon enjoys the sunny weather by spending time outside with her dog, Molly.
By Joan Schnyder
News Editor
A group of close to 50 stu
dents and faculty members
packed the Whitman Room of
the library last Thursday to let
the Academic Policies Commit
tee (APC) know how they felt
about the math department’s
proposal to discontinue the
remedial math courses.
The department’s proposal
recommended the discontinua
tion of Math 102. 103. 104. 105
and 151. The APC voted to
drop 102 and 103 which are,
according to Dorothy Sulock,
lecturer in mathematics, a slow
track version of Math 104.
However, a motion was never
made by the committee to drop
the rest of the courses sug
gested by the math department,
and, therefore, the committee
did not vote on that part of
the proposal.
Members of the math depart
ment disagreed about the
acceptability of the proposal.
The APC members listened to
the arguments for and against
the proposal from different
members of the department.
Dropping the remedial
courses would lessen the qua
lity of education provided to
students by UNCA’s mathema
tics department, said Sulock.
"To legitimately meet the
needs of the student is the
reason for education. If these
courses are removed, it would
make us look better on paper,
but we would lower the level
of education. If a student has
been admitted, we should serve
their needs," said Sulock.
Several math professors at
the meeting disagree with this
position and argued to discon
tinue the courses.
Remedial courses are "de
meaning to the people involved;
students should be here de
manding that we drop these
courses and give them a better
education," said Dr. Jack Wil
son, professor of mathematics.
'We have to think about the
university. We don’t do this
type of remediation in other
departments on campus. Math
105 is 9th grade Algebra," said
Thomas Deason, lecturer in
mathematics.
Although several faculty
members argued that remedial
courses are merely repeats of
high school courses, Sulock and
other faculty members stressed
the their importance.
Remedial math courses ' are
not just a restatement of
things learned in a high school
Please see MATH page 10
Dr. Laurila files discrimination suit
By Julie Ball
Editor
For the second time in 11 years, members of
the UNCA foreign language department face a
sexual discrimination lawsuit.
UNCA assistant professor of Spanish, Dr.
Marketla Laurila has filed a suit against two
members of the UNCA foreign language
department.
The suit was filed in federal court last week
against Dr. Marcel Andrade, professor of
Spanish and Dr. Henry Stern, associate
professor of German and chairman of the
foreign language department.
The suit charges Stern and Andrade violated
a civil rights statute (42 U.S.C. 1983) which
prohibits sexual discrimination.
The suit alleges that Stern and Andrade 'have
acted in concert to deprive plaintiff (Laurila) of
her rights to be free from discrimination on
account of her gender."
The suit also charges that "Defendant Stern
has recommended that plaintiff (Laurila) not be
offered a second three-year contract. Defendant
Stern has thus seriously jeopardized any
opportunity for plaintiffs (Laurila’s) continued
employment at UNCA."
Neither Stern nor Andrade would comment on
the suit. Laurila would not comment but
referred questions to her attorney, Robert
Dungan.
Although UNCA is not named in the suit, the
North Carolina Attorney General’s office will
defend Stern and Andrade because they were
"sued in their capacities as employees of the
article
the .
university," according t(
Asheville Times.
In 1977, a similar sexual discrimination suit
was filed by Dr. Mechthild Cranston, who was '
at the time of the suit an assistant professor of
French, and who is currently a faculty member 1
at Clemson University.
Andrade, who was then head of the foreign
language department, was also named as a
Please see SUIT page 10
Weather
Friday: Partly cloudy, breezy and cool. Morning lows in
the upper 30’s. Afternoon highs in the 60’s.
Saturday: Sunny but quite cool and breezy. Morning lows
in the upper 30’s. Afternoon highs around 60.
Sunday: Sunny and a little warmer. Morning lows in
the 30’s. Afternoon highs in the 60’s.and
warmer. Morning lows in the upper 30s to low
40s. Afternoon highs in the 60s.
The UNCA Atmospheric Sciences department provides
this information to the campus community weekly in The
Banner. The 24-hour weatherline is also available at 251-
6435.
Inside
Playing and succeeding in college sports as a freshman
can be a difficult chore under any circumstances.
However, when a person has to live in the heightened
shadow of a relatiye that has gone before him, that same
task can become much harder to achieve.
UNC freshman tennis player Jeff Duncan, the brother of
1983 NCAA singles runner-up Lawson Duncan, knows all
a^out those kinds of pressures.
Announcements ,9
Classifieds. 9
Comics 8
Crossword 9
Editorial 2
Entertainment 4
Letters 2
Sports e
Parking
fee hikes
proposed
By Kassi Day
Staff Writer
An increase in the cost of
parking at UNCA has been pro
posed by the University Plan
ning Council (UPC) to the gen
eral administration of the Uni
versity system, said William
Pott, vice chancellor of
finance.
With the prospect of new
parking lots on the campus of
UNCA, money for these will
' have to come from somewhere,
said Pott.
After a recent parking lot
study done by the UPC, a re
commendation was made that
the annual parking decal fee be
raised to thirty-four dollars, he
said.
This will be a four dollar
increase over the thirty dollars
full-time students and facul
ty/staff now pay, he continued.
The UPC recommended the
increase because the parking
facilities are supported entirely
Please see PARKING page 3
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