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Volume XVI, Number 9
April 5,1990
Farrell accepts position at UTC
Photo by Miranda Wyatt
Atheltic Director Ed Farrell announces decision
to leave UNCA for a job at UT- Chattanooga.
Computer
virus infects
campus
UNCA will
conduct
nationwide
search to
fill AD position
By Michelle Newton
Sports Editor
UNCA athletic director Ed
Farrell has accepted the job of
athletic director at UT-
Chattanooga.
Farrell, who has been at UNCA
five years, was among several
candidates for the AD position.
He was notified Tuesday of UT’s
decision.
Chancellor David Brown said in
a press conference Wednesday
that Farrell is the greatest
innovator in intercollegiate
athletics in the country today.
"Ed Farrell is an athletic director
absolutely supreme. Ed’s legacy to
UNCA and to the Asheville
community is that UNCA has
become known as a place where
academic integrity and athletic
excellence can truly co-exist," said
Brown.
According to Brown, plans have
been made to establish a
committee that will identify
Farrell’s successor. The committee
will be chaired by Bob Yearout
who is the chairman of the faculty
advisory committee, and will
include faculty members, students,
and members of the community.
Brown expects to begin
interviewing candidates the first
week in May. A national search
will be conducted emd the target
dale for a new AD is July 1.
"I think it’s very unlikely that
we’ll go to an interim athletic
director," said Brown. "This
happens to be one of those fields
where people move pretty quickly
when they spot an opening. We
feel that Ed has built the kind of
program that will allow us to
attract a truly superb successor."
Farrell said he owes UNCA a
great deal for the time he has
spent here.
"I arrived here looking for an
opportunity to start a career and I
was given great support and a
chance to do. If I’m any good at
athletic administration it’s because
of what I’ve learned in five years
working at UNCA," said Farrell.
"I’m leavi'jig a pretty city, too,"
said Farrell. "Asheville is an easy
place to move to and a tough,
place to m ove away from."
Farrell said he was attracted to
the job at UT-Chattanooga
because i t is an established
program that has arrived at a
particular 1 tjvel.
"They hti.ve already done the
things that ‘ we’re working to do.
They have more staff, and I’m not
adverse tc being involved in a
football jirogram again," said
Farrell.
"I see this as an opportunity to
take a program that is already at a
certain of stability and move
it to a hig;her level. It’s a great
place and  i great job."
Before hiaving UNCA, Farrell
will help ill the search for a new
AD. Accoi’ding to Brown, Farrell
has developed a list of possible
replacements. Brown has not seen
the list, blit he says Farrell will
play an acti ve part in choosing his
successor a.s a nationwide search is
conducted.
Brown sacid the committee will
be looking for someone to
continue w'hat Farrell has started
at UNCA. "We’re looking for an
individual who thinks that
academics -lire the first priority at
By Angela Minor
Staff Writer
Several students in recent weeks
have found the message, "This disk
is .stoned" on their computer
monitors. "Stoned" is one of the
computer viruses which have
infected many of the computers in
the UNCA computer labs,
according to Irving Wiswall,
manager of academic computing.
This message does not always
appear on the screen right after a
disk is infected, said Wiswall. He
said the message only appears
after every few times the user uses
the infected disk.
According to Wiswall, students
with disks of computer games
which are infected, most likely are
using those disks on the lab
computers and infecting the
computer system. Students later
using the same computer then
have a liklihood of the virus
infecting their disk.
These viruses reproduce within
the computer systems, said
Wiswall; that is why they are
referred to as viruses. When a
virus infects a computer system,
the virus looks for any other disks
in the machine. It then, according
to Wiswall, infects those disks. The
virus will eventually work its way
into the operating system of the
computer.
Problems occur when the virus
infects the hard disk in the lab,
said Wiswall. The software of the
hard disk is programmed to
"quarantine" the virus, much as a
person with certain kinds of
diseases must be quarantined to
prevent the disease from
spreading.
When the hard disk is infected,
to prevent the virus from
spreading to other disks in the lab,
the operating system of the
computer prevents the user from
using the computer and spreading
the virus. Because of thi.s software,
the computer user cannot use the
computer until the computer
center can "clean up" the hard disk
and erase the virus, said Wiswall.
The computer center has
attempted to solve the problem
created by the \irus. However,
according to Wiswall, "The only
thing we’ve been able to do is to
go around to the labs every day
and disinfect the systems." Wiswall
said having to take this step is a
and institution and someone who
believes an interest in athletics can
be used as a means for bringing
students into a university that has
academics as it’s number one
priority," said Brown.
"We’re looking for someone who
sees this integration as Ed has
seen it. Secondly we’re looking for
a person who is intrigued by
emphasis on the placement of
students in a career after
graduation," Brown said.
Most importantly Brown said the
university needs someone who is
interested in carrying on the ACE
Program and SAIL Program which
are unmatched by any other
college in the United States.
ACE stands for
"Academics,Competition, and^
Employment." The program
recognizes that the demands on a
student athlete’s time calls for
extra care and attention in
monitoring the student’s classroom
progress.
ACE provides UNCA’s student
athletes with g. variety of study
skills workshops and career
directed experiences designed to
help them in their college
education.
Freshman student athletes enter
the ACE program in their first
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Visitors
envision
world
peace
By Jamie Steele
Staff Writer
nuisance but is the only thing the Two Cultures meet as Markus Roeders, SGA president and Pa
computer center can do at this /- * i i r > -
point. Czechoslovakian team member, converse over their meal
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c5to by Miranda Wyatt
vel Kolinsky,
UNCA broke through geographic
and political boundaries last week
when the Czechoslovakian and
Russian rafting teams assembled
in the Owen Conference Center to
exchange questions and answers
with the. audience Wednesday
night.
"Structures have political
problems. But these aren’t our
(the people’s) struggles," said
Pavel Kolinsky, a Czechoslovakian
team member. "Countries’
differences are not struggles
between human beings, but
struggles between structures."
The teams’ members came from
various professional backgrounds.
The professions represented
ranged from chemical engineering
to technical design, from
mathematics to nuclear s^ety, and
from business to physiology.
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Inside
Bus service
for UNCA
4
Club forms
on campus
5
Healthbeat
6
Bretz coaches
in N.Y.
8
Celebration
of the Arts
11
Life in Hell
12
Students sample international cuisine
By Michelle Franklin
Staff Writer
Githeri, Getowero, and Falafel.
This may not sound like the
ordinary menu of burgers and fries
served in the Highsmith cafeteria,
but it was a part of Wednesday
night’s International Food Festivid
menu sponsored by the
International Student Association.
About 70 people turned out
Tuesday night to try foreign foods
made by ISA members. The
festival included foods from eleven
countries such as Africa, Iceland,
Palestine, and Thailand.
"The food was extremely good,"
said sophomore Kevin Frazier.
"The whole thing has been an
imressive set-up."
The food festival is only one of
the activities occuring on campus
for UNCA’s first International
Awareness Week. It is an attempt
to make people aware of our
international students and ISA.
"I feel it’s important to have an
International Awareness Week at
UNCA because we have quite a
few international students at
UNCA and we don’t have an
international studies curriculum
here," said Supatai Inpirom,
president of the ISA. "It gives
international students a chance to
share their cultures with American
students."
At present approximately 56
international students attend
UNCA.
The ISA started three years ago
according to Impirom, and consists
of nineteen active members,
including three American students.
The club has two advisors,
assistant professor of economics,
Kofi Aprako and Carolyn Briggs,
coordinator of Minority Affairs.
"ISA is really like a supportive
group for our international
students," said Inpirom. "Our
organization is also open to
American students so they can
learn more about other countries."
Devery L. Taylor, an American
student of Scottish descent, said he
joined ISA to learn about new
cultures of other people.
"I’ve always wanted to
experience other cultures and
broaden my views past Asheville"
said Taylor. "My mother is a
direct descendent of the Menzies,
a Scottish clan who has a castle
near the Tay River in Scotland."
Taylor says he hasn’t visited
Scotland yet, but unites with his
Scottish relatives each summer for
a clan reunion. "I get to see my
Scottish relatives once a year and
I’ve learned quite a lot about my
heritage through this," said Taylor.
Another ISA member, Yoshi
Numata, left his home in
Yokoham’a, Japan four years ago
to attend U NCA. "I closed my
eyes and piclccd out a place on the
map, and it just happened to be
Asheville, North Carolina!" said
Numata. "No, actually I wanted to
visit the Unit ed States and a friend
told me aboiJit UNCA."
Another reason Numata chose
Asheville was; because the climate
is very similar to the climate he
was accustomed to in Japan. "This
part of North Carolina has a mild
climate and I'our seasons just as
Yokohama di.ies," said Numata. "I
think it is a viery beautiful state."
Although similarities exist
between his past home and the
United State.s, it hasn’t always
been easy for Numata to adjust to
the American culture. "1 arrived
in Los Angeles before flying to
North Carolin a and couldn’t speak
English," said Numata. "In Japan,
I learned English grammar, but
not how to speak the language
very well." He also finds that
Japanese people do not
communicate in the same manner
as Americans do. "The Japanese
don’t speak directly to people,"
said Numata. "The are shy, where
American people are very open-
minded and say what they think."
Schools in Japan are very
different from American schools
according to Numata. "Getting
into college in Japan is totally
opposite from getting into an
American college," said Numata.
"You have to take an exam that
covers five subjects, and you only
have one chance a year to pass it.
Once you get in though it is easy,
but in American colleges is is easy
to get in and then you have to take
very hard classes."
According to Numata, the
Humanities series have been hard
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