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One in five women
Nearly one in five women are
forced to have sex or are
victims of attempted rape while
going to college in New York,
Cornell University researcher
Andrea Parrot has found.
She released her findings,
based on a survey of officials
and 215 students at 15 New
York colleges, at the end of
October during an Albany
conference on sexual assault.
Survey results involving 30
colleges and 1,000 students will
be available in December.
Parrot’s figures are consistent
with national figures.
In a 1987 survey of 6,000
students on 32 campuses, one
in six female students reported
being the victim of rape or
attempted rape in the
preceding year. Most women
knew their assailant.
In the same study, one of
every 15 men said he had
committed rape or had
attempted rape in the same
period.
Hostile Republicans
Student leaders who were
ousted from office by a College
Republican hostile takeover
have been reinstated by a
student group governing board.
In early November, about 15
students, including College
Republican leaders, showed up
for a regular meeting of the
Campus Awareness
Organization (CAO) at UNC-
Wilmington when the group’s
president was out of town. The
newcomers signed on as
members, quickly impeached
the CAO’s officers, elected
themselves as the new officers,
changed the group’s
constitution, and resolved, in
effect, to destroy the CAO by
cutting off its funding.
Many of the group’s original
members accused the College
Republicans of trying to shut
down CAO because the
group’s president, Denny Best,
is a socialist.
In a closed hearing Nov. 16,
the Student Organization
Committee, comprised of
students and administrators,
ruled the charges used to
impeach the original officers
were false, and reinstated
them.
The students who
orchestrated the overthrow
reportedly are now planning an
appeal, but did not return
CPS’s phone calls
‘Toys for Tots’
Asheville Cablevision has a
yearly tradition of providing
toys for hundreds of needy
children in the Asheville area.
The project is called "Toys
for Tots." New customers
ordering cable between
Thanksgiving and Christmas
Eve are given free standard
installation in they donate a
new unwrapped toy worth $10
or more.
The installer visiting the
home will collect the toy at the
lime of installation.
Asheville Cablevision and
Asheville Buncombe
Community Christian Ministry
will distribute the toys by
Christmas Eve.
Also if a customer orders the
Disney Channel and donates a
new toy, they will receive a
Pluto doll free.
Weekend Weather
The extended forecast for the
weekend calls for fair weather
Friday with highs in the 40s
and lows in the 30s.
Saturday will be cloudy with
a chance of rain possibly mixed
with snow. Highs will be in the
Upper 30s with lows in near 30.
Fair turning colder Sunday
with highs in the low 30s and
lows in the teens.
Jim Owen
Atmospheric Sciences
The Blue Banner
Volume XV, Number 12
Serving the students and faculty of UNCA
November 30, 1989
Group linked to cult activities
by Vicki McCoy
Assistant News Editor
Religious groups on
campus must follow a
number of rules before they
can meet on campus.
However, despite these
regulations, cult-like groups
can meet and recruit
student members.
The Transcendental
Meditation (TM)
organization recently held
its first meeting on campus,
and according to David
Smith, director of religious
affairs, TM is a religious
group. However, directors
of the group say that it is
not.
In the Nov. 2 issue of The
Blue Banner, Tom Ball,
director of the first TM
meeting, said,
"Transcendental Meditation
is not a philosophy or a
religion. It is a technique
where the mind settles
down to a more creative
state in preparation for an
activity. TTiere are no
underlying belief systems
involved."
Even though Ball insists
that it is not religious in
nature, TM was founded by
a Hindu guru named
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
who claimed to receive
divine inspiration from a
mentor named Guru Dev.
Maharishi brought TM to
the United States in 1959.
But according to UNCA
student Steve Schmidt, TM
is something much more
than just a relaxation
technique.
"1 think TM is a cult.
What they sell is a
meditation system," Schmidt
said. "It is possible to get
hooked into that, and then
it takes on the elements of
thought control."
Schmidt, a senior
psychology major, was a
member of the Hare
Krishna movement from
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Sale of furs protested
by LeeAnn Donnelly
Staff Writer
Photo by Stacey Higdon
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
along with others, marched outside two area fur
retailers last week crusading for animal rights.
Last Saturday a group of people,
including several UNCA students,
gathered in downtown Asheville to
picket the sale of furs by Enman’s
Furs and John Carroll, two of
Asheville’s oldest businesses.
According to student Stacey Higdon,
who was dressed in a silver fox
costume, the day-long protest on
Battery Park Avenue marked the first
time a group has picketed Asheville’s
hirriers.
"The animal rights movement has
seen picketing grow over the last
couple of years," she said.
Higdon said the Asheville protest
was one of many demonstrations held
around the country this week to
promote animal rights.
Higdon, a member of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA),
helped to organize the march. "We’re
a group of concerned citizens. We
hope to educate people about the
tragedy of fur. I think we’ve
accomplished this today. I truly do,"
she said.
The group, which divided to march
in front of both stores, carried signs
bearing such slogans as "Furs don’t
grow on trees," and "Don’t buy fur."
They also chanted "It’s their world,
too" and handed out information about
PETA.
Two large moving vans were parked
in front of Enman’s, blocking the view
of the store from the street. Higdon
said they were there before she arrived
early in the morning-.'"They were here
before I got here. I think they did this
to offend us," she said. A smell
permeated the air which led Higdon to
believe there may have been a
decomposing animal in one of the
vans. "I think there’s something dead
inside to offend us," she said.
Higdon said they hadn’t been able
to stop customers from entering the
stores, but felt several were disgraced
as they walked into the stores.
"Customers have said, ’keep your
opinions to yourselves.’ One woman
said to help the hurricane victims,"
said Higdon.
Higdon feels fur is useless in today’s
world. "Fur is unnecessary in a modern
technological society. We take more
than we need. Some animals die for
no reason except to hang on a rack.
One waist-length mink coat takes 29
pelts. That’s a little extreme for
vanity’s sake," she said.
Higdon said she is especially
concerned with the treatment of
animals which are farmed for fur.
"Most people think the animals have
room to roam until they are killed, but
they don’t. Most are gassed or
electrocuted," she said.
A salesman for Enman’s declined to
discuss the picketers. "I have a lot of
information about the fur industry I
could share with you, but on another
day. No comment," he said.
Weber speaks at local pro-choice rally
by Jerri Henderson
Staff Writer
Members of the UNCA
community participated in a
pro-choice rally held Nov.
12 at the All Souls Church
in Biltmore.
Ann Weber, associate,
professor of psychology, was
one of the speakers at the
rally. She attended the rally,
even though she said that
groups and movements
aren’t really her "style."
"This is one issue that we
can’t afford to let go. We’re
dealing with basic human
rights," said Weber. "You
don’t have to be a group
person to be a part of this
movement."
In her speech, Weber
pointed out that pro-choice
people are both male and
female, young and old,
liberal and conservative.
"We don’t have to have
anything else in common
besides our pro-choice
convictions," said Weber.
"This isn’t a private club!"
One view Weber
expressed was that choice is
freedom and that freedom
should not be taken away.
She also said that pro-
choice doesn’t mean pro
abortion.
"Choice is the generous
option, the fairer direction,
the human position. Within
choice there is room for
personal defection, for
individual crisis of
conscience, for
disagreement. Freedom to
choose includes freedom to
choose not to have an
$4 million allotted
to begin building
conference center
by Pam Guthrie
Staff Writer
Last summer’s state
legislative session granted
UNCA $4 million in fund
ing to begin construction on
a Intergenerationab
Conference Center,
according to Ron
Manheimer, the director of
the Center for Creative
Retirement (CCR).
The center will be built
near the top of Lookout
Mountain, 300 feet above
the existing tennis courts.
$2.9 million had been
granted in a previous
session to begin planning
and site preparation for the
project. The new funds will
allow construction on the
road to the building site to
begin in the spring of 1990,
Manheimer said.
This semester the college
for seniors had 16 classes
and 330 students enrolled.
"We could take more
people and have more
classes, but we simply don’t
have the space to accom
modate new people," Man
heimer said.
Construction on the first
phase is scheduled to begin
in the spring of 1991. Phase
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abortion, tool But there is
no freedom without choice,"
said Weber. "If we are not
free to choose responsibly
for our own bodies, we are
not free at all."
According to Weber, the
rally was "very upbeat."
"There were a whole lot
more people than we
expected, and people who
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Sharing the news
Olivia Chiavaras and Daune Valentine share a newspaper outside Mills
Hall on a warm afternoon this week.