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Lady Bulldogs capture
vitiiry, Pi^ 6.
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to IrN(A, Pages.
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Loans on the rise
There is a national trend in
higher education of shifting
Hnancial aid from grants to
loans, according to the United
States Student Association,
making it harder for students
to pay for schooling over the
long term.
Marianne McKiernan,
University of South Dakota
Financial Aid Office associate
director, said loans promote
the work ethic, but saddling
students with an all loan
package is unrealistic. She said
some students’ salaries will
never match the debt they
incur by taking out loans.
An appropriations bill passed
by the U.S. House of
Representatives may reduce
the federally funded Pell Grant
awards for undergraduates.
Students do have the chance to
oppose the bill during the
reauthorization of Higher
Education Act of 1965. The
Act will go to Congress in
1991.
Fraternity suspended
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
at Georgia Tech, which has
been on social probation since
the spring of last year, has
been placed on a 45-day
suspension by the province
chief of the national ATO
fraternity.
The suspension came after
ATO held a lake baptism
involving three blindfolded and
bound fraternity brothers. One
of the three apparently slipped
or was thrown into Lake
Lanier before he was untied.
There was no report of any
serious injuries sustained by
the student. Bill Barnes,
assistant vice president of
student affairs, said the Lanier
lake incident was not hazing.
"It did not involve hazing of
any sort, and in noway did it
violate Georgia state law or
Georgia Tech law," said
Barnes.
Rape crisis training
The Rape Crisis Center of
Buncombe County, in
conjunction with A-B Technical
College will conduct a 30 hour
training course entitled, "A
Community Response to
Sexual Assault."
The course will begin Jan. 8
and will be held from 9 a.m. to
noon, Tuesdays and Thursdays
through Feb. 8.
The course is designed to
expand the knowledge and
awareness of sexual assault
among community
professionals and to train
volunteers for work with the
Rape Crisis Center.
Male and female volunteers
are needed to provide support
and information for victims of
sexual assault and also to
provide crisis intervention
services for friends and family
members of the victims.
For more information call
252-0562. Registration deadline
is Dec. 31. Spaces are limited,
so early registration is
encouraged.
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The extended forecast for
Friday through Sunday calls for
a chance of rain Friday,
possibly changing to snow
before ending late Friday.
Saturday will be partly
cloudy, windy and cold
becoming fair and not quite as
cold Sunday.
Highs Friday and Saturday
will only reach the 30s,
warming to the 40s by Sunday.
Lows are expected to drop
into the 20s Friday and down
into the teens on Saturday and
Sunday.
Jim Owen
Atmospheric Sciences
The Blue Banner
Volume XV, Number 13
Serving the students and faculty of UNCA
December 7, 1989
Nativity scene
These pictures are part
of tbe nativity scene on
display outside St.
Joseph’s Hospital on
Biltmore Avenue. This
is the famous night in
Bethlehem as seen by
UNCA art department
Chairman Tucker
Cooke. UNCA students
served as models for the
life-sized characters,
painted in 1988.
Clockwise from top
center, the characters
gather around the child,
the angel Gabriel
heralds the news and a
wise man from the East
brings gifts.
Photos by Stacey Higdon
UNCA
among
‘little
gems’
by Lee Pearson
Staff Writer
UNCA, along with
Warren Wilson College and
Guilford College, is cited in
this month’s issue of
Changing Times magazine
as a "Little-known Gem in
Higher Education."
The article, written by
associate editor Nancy
Henderson, named 13
colleges nationwide for their
solid educational value. It
listed UNCA for its
interdisciplinary, four-
semester Humanities
Program covering topics
from the "Odyssey" to
Freud.
The university was also
singled out for its location.
The article called Asheville
"both scenic and
cosmopolitan, with plenty of
cultural and arts-oriented
activity."
The article also noted the
UNCA requirement of a
course in "The Physical
Self," which covers
nutritional and emotional
well-being and assesses
students’ fitness levels.
John White, UNCA
admissions director, said
that such national
recognition helps attract
more students who are
better-suited for the special
offerings at each campus. "It
also speaks well of North
Carolina’s commitment to
quality undergraduate
education that we are the
only state with three
colleges named to this
See GEM, Page 12
After 6 1/2 years
Cameron leaves admissions office
by Kimberly Cooley
Staff Writer
After six-and-a-half years of service
to the UNCA admissions office, Lois
Chamberlain Cameron, department
receptionist, will be leaving Dec. 12.
She will take on receptionist
resposibilities at Consumer Credit
Counseling Service of Western North
Carolina on Dec. 15, according to
department officals.
Cameron has been with UNCA since
1980, when she started working with
the Western Carolina University
Nursing Program. In the spring of
1983, Cameron came to the admissions
department.
Cameron said she would miss the
contact with the students the most.
"I’m a student advocate; I really enjoy
the people." Cameron said that
students and families are often scared
and lonely when they first come to
school. "I think it’s important for them
to hear a friendly and caring voice and
to be as responsive to their needs as
possible."
Diane Maney, a junior environmental
studies major, said Cameron was
always very nice to her. "She always
was very sweet and seemed like she
knew everything I needed to know
before entering UNCA," said Maney.
Cameron said working with UNCA
and the students has taught her that
people are her life. "It’s a great feeling
being able to help the students. It’s
real interesting to see them come in as
freshmen and watch how they
blossom," said Cameron.
Cameron said she got a lot of
satisfaction from getting to know the
students, but she feels honored to be
asked to work for the Consumer
Credit Counseling Service. Cameron
will take over the receptionist position
at the service. "I will still be in contact
with people and helping them. People
are very important to me."
"She always seemed so willing to
help me with anything. And she was
also so polite to everyone she talked
See CAMERON, Page 12
Lois
Chamberlain
Cameron
Top profs draw top dollar
by Mike McQueen
USA Today/Apple College Network
William Glenn, an expert
in high-definition television,
finds that universities covet
him like they would a
golden-armed quarterback
or a 7-footer with a
silky-smooth jump shot.
"I’m constantly getting job
offers - one every two
months, it seems," said
Glenn, one of the superstar
professors suddenly
benefiting from a brain
boom on college campuses.
Even little-known
universities seem willing to
fork out up to $150,000 a
year to academics who will
set up nationally recognized
programs. The offer that
lured Glenn away from New
Y ork Institute of
Technology came from tiny
state-run Florida Atlantic
University in Boca Raton.
They agreed to pay him
$114,550 to head a
high-definition TV research
team. That means Glenn
will pull down three times
the average of his FAU
teaching colleagues.
"It seems like a dream
offer - the warm climate,
the university was aggressive
about beefing up its
electrical engineering
program, and they had
bright graduate students to
work with," he says.
The demand for these
professors - who typically
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Schools paying top talent well
Top rated professors often command salaries of $100,000 when recruited to
work at the nation's top research-oriented universities. For example,
technology wizard William Glenn made $114,550 last year at Florida
Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. On average, college professors
earn $39,410. Below are some well-known schools and the average salaries
of professors there:
Average salary, institution
$67,700, Calif. Institute of Technology, Pasadena
$64,500, Stanford (Calif.)
$60,000, Univ. of Calif .-Berkeley
$59,500, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.
$55,500, Univ. of Chicago
$55,300, Princeton, (N.J.)
$54,500, Yale, New Haven, Conn.
$54,100, Duke, Durham, N.C. ^
$50,800, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
$50,600, Rutgers, New Brunswick, N.J.
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