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Volume XVI, Number 1
Striving for excellence
January 25,1990
King’s memory sparks
civil rights celebration
Photo by Sandra Sigmon
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Dixie Sommerville helps Teri Thomas with schedule changes during
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UNCA physician saves
heart attack victim
By Benny Smith
Staff Writer
UNCA celebrated the memory
of slain civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King with speeches,
musical selections and a dramatic
reading Jan. 18 in Lipinsky
Auditorium.
Sponsored by the Office of
Multicultural Affairs and the
UNCA Minority Commission
Committee, this evening of
celebration attracted not only
UNCA students, faculty and staff
but community members also,
according to Valeria Sinclair,
president of the African American
Student Association (AASA).
The celebration’s theme, entitled
"To struggle together," focused on
Americans living Martin Luther
King’s dream in the 1990s, said
Delacy Bradsher, vice-president of
AASA.
Student speakers Darrin
Germany, Rosalee Hart and
Sinclair gave their own opinions of
what America can do to help keep
the dream alive in the 1990s.
One main focus coming from the
celebration called for awareness of
other cultural achievements.
To keep the dream alive in the
1990s, "people have to make it a
point to recognize that we live in a
multi-cultural society and must
respect the diversity that this
brings," said Sinclair.
"Dr. King would ask us to put
the shoe on the other foot and
open the locked doors in our
minds."
Looking into the decade of the
90s, "I think people need to open
their minds and ask the question
‘Am I willing to learn about and
appreciate culture’s achievements
and behaviors that are outside of
my own accepted culture?”' said
Sinclair.
Smith.
Bradsher said, "The dramatic
interpretation, ‘Weep for the
Living Dead’ by Eric Lincoln, is a
very powerful piece and therefore
was appropriate for this type of
celebration."
"Basically, this dramatic piece
was divided up into six parts so
that there would be more student
involvement in the program," said
’/ think people need to open their minds and ask
the question 'Am I willing to learn about and ap
preciate culture’s achievements and behaviors out
side of my own accepted culture'.’
Valeria Sinclair
"Overall, some other important
issues that we face in the 1990s
are overwhelming drug abuse
problems, homelessness, poverty,
and the increasing crisis in
education."
In the future, "America needs to
educate people about the
importance or even the existence
of cultural diversity," said Sinclair.
Musical selections were given by
the UNCA Ebony Choir, directed
by Kym White, and the Living the
Dream Choir, directed by Leonard
Pyeritz says
everyone
should learn
CPR
"When we got there, we found a
woman in full cardiac arrest lying
in the floor of the pharmacy," said
Pyeritz.
Along \dth Dr. Melissa Hicks,
Pyeritz performed two-person
CPR on the woman until the
ambulance arrived, which took
B)' Jerri Henderson
Staff Writer
Everyone should know the basics
of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
because no one knows when the
need for it will arise, according to
Rick Pyeritz, director and
physician of Student Health
Services.
Pyeritz recently helped save the
life of a woman who had gone into
cardiac arrest at Kenilworth Drug
Store on Biltmore Ave.
Pyeritz said he was standing in
the MAHEC (Mountain Area
Health Education Center) Family
Practice Residency talking to
another physician when the
pharmacist from the drug store
ran in to tell them there was a
problem.
Eric Pyeritz
about 10 minutes, according to
Pyeritz.
The woman had just been
released from the Cardiac Care
Unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital that
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Weekend Weather
Partly cloudy during the weekend with a chance of
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40’s Friday cooling to the 30’s Saturday and Sunday.
day, said Pyeritz. Pyeritz, however,
never found out her name.
"A name in that instance isn’t
important. It’s just something you
do," Pyeritz said.
This was the first time Pyeritz
performed CPR outside of a
hospital setting, but he said it
didn’t feel any different, except
that there was less equipment
around.
Even though Pyeritz is a doctor,
he stressed the fact that anyone
can do CPR, and that everyone
should learn the technique.
"There is a lesson to learn here,"
said Pyeritz. "There might not
have been a family practice
residency next door. It can happen
any place, any time."
If any students, faculty or staff
are interested in learning CPR,
Pyeritz said they can call the
Student Health Center for
information on CPR courses. They
can also contact the MAHEC
Family Practice Residency, which
handles UNCA services when the
Student Health Center is closed.
As Pyeritz has proven, knowing
the basics of CPR could mean
saving somebody’s life.
The year 2000
Try Out Photo by Sandra Sigmon
Carowinds is recruiting college students for
summer employment. Garvin Anton
concentrates on his music as he tries to land
a job.
Carolyn Briggs, director of
multicultural student affairs.
During the opening of the
program. Tucker Cooke, chairman
of the art department, dedicated a
life-size drawing of the Rev. Dr.
King to UNCA.
"Jill Stowe, who is a UNCA
student artist, drew the life-size
portrait, which is just one of
several to be dedicated to the
snack bar in the Highsmith
Center," said Cooke.
$4800
Stolen
B>’ Kim Cooley
Asst News Editor
The Asheville Police Department
is investigating two suspects in a
Nov. 14 larceny in which $4,800
was stolen from Marriott
Corporation, UNCA’s food
service.
However, a UNCA food service
official and the investigating officer
in the case disagree on facts
surrounding the incident.
According to a police report filed
Nov. 15 by officer B.R. Martin,
Aubrey Wooten, director of
UNCA’s food service, said "the
money was inside a First Union
deposit bag which had been placed
inside a safe in the office
sometime after 1 p.m. on Nov. 14."
There was $2,600 worth of
checks and $2,200 in cash stolen
from the safe. Wooten said that
normally the safe would be locked,
but on this occasion the safe door
was just pushed shut.
According to Martin’s police
report, the only people with access
to the safe besides Wooten are
Teresa Holcombe and Kenny
Please see Suspects, page 10
Technology brings changes in education
(CPS) — The year is 2000, and
you’ve just retrurned to campus.
You’ll start your school year by
picking up your class schedule,
buying books and checking on
your loan. Chances are you won’t
even leave your dorm room to do
it, however. You’ll be able to do
all of those things by using various
electronic gadgets at your
fingertips.
And once classes start, you’ll
probably be able to view some of
your lectures on your room
monitor. Need to do some
research? With your computer,
you’ll be able to scan the card
catalogue at your library, or for
that matter, almost any library in
the world.
American campuses in general
will be populated by more
minority and older students who,
in turn, will find most of the
mundane tasks of attending school
taken care of by technology,
various observers predicted when
asked to envision what college life
will be like at the start of the new
millenium, now 10 short years
away.
"Technology is going to be
serving students in ways we can’t
even conceive of now," said
Martha Church, president of Hood
College in Maryland.
Some of the conceivable
innovations include satellite
technology for interactive lectures
and seminars, and fiber optic cable
wiring that lets schools relay video,
audio and data into dorm rooms,
said Paul Bowers, a mass
communication professor at Buena
Vista College in Iowa.
"A student in a dorm ought to be
able to access databases anywhere
in the world," Church prophesied.
"We won’t have to keep expanding
libraries."
Just how such changes will affect
students is open to question.
At already-wired Mansfield
University in Pennsyvania, for
example, vice president for student
affairs Joseph Maresco, found that
the lure of in-room technology has
turned more students into "room
rats" who have forsaken normal
campus social life.
Most college observers
nevertheless see the wiring of
campus continuing unabated,
regardless of the effect on
students’ personal development.
Soon students even will be able
to get their financial aid processed
electronically.
"What we’re going to see is more
done through automated
procedures" with push-button
telephones and computer
terminals, predicted Dallas Martin,
head of the National Association
of Student Financial Aid
Administrators, headquartered in
Washington, D.C. "We’re going to
get rid of the paperwork."
The other big change in higher
education will be the makeup of
its students, both in terms of
cultural backgrounds and of age.
One reason the average age on
campus will rise is that today’s
students will have to return to
classes in the future just to keep
abreast of scientific knowledge,
which is growing at an exponential
rate, Church said.
Added Robert Atwell, head of
the American Council on
Education (ACE), . the college
presidents’ group in Washington,
D.C., the student body of the next
century "will be much more
international in character and less
ethnocentric."
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Please see 2000, page 10