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Volume XVI, Number 12
Striving for Excellence
April 26.1990
Photo by Miranda Wyatt
On your mark...
The women’s track team practice starting off the blocks, anticipating a win this
weekend.
Student arrest raises
legal questions
By Scarlet Bell
Editor
A confrontation between a
UNCA security officer and a
student on April 12, which
stemmed from a handicapped
parking violation, resulted in the
student’s arrest and eventual
"unarrest," according to a security
incident report.
The incident report, composed
by Assistant Security Chief Arnold
Jones, states that Steven Bass,
UNCA student, parked in a
handicapped parking space around
7:30 p.m. (directly in front of Scott
Dormitory in the Governor’s
Village).
While Officer Jones was
informing Bass of his parking
violation, the report states, Bass
became very abusive in his
language, told Jones to "kiss his
white ass," and continued toward
the dorms. Bass said he would
only be in the dorms a few
minutes, according to the report.
At that time, Officer Jones
placed a call to Officer Lou
Caliendo to bring a citation book
to the scene so that Jones could
write Bass a dtation for parking in
a handicapped space, the report
states.
When Bass returned to his car,
he attempted to move the car, only
to be informed by Jones that he
would be cited for obstruct and
delay of the duties of an officer if
he did so, according to the report.
The report states that at that
time, "Bass interfered and was
placed under arrest, handcuffed,
and transported to the
Magistrate’s office. Enroute my
(Jones’) discretion was not to
charge him at this time and return
to campus."
In a telephone conversation,
Jones said Bass was arrested for
assault.
"He raised his hand in an effort
to push me away from the door of
the car, and to me, a law
enforcement officer, that’s assault.
And when he did that, I took him
down and put the cuffs on him.
That’s what he got arrested for -
assault on me," Jones said.
However, in the actual incident
report, there is no mention of
assault charges, nor any specific
charges brought against Bass.
In addition, according to N.C.
General Statute 15A-501
concerning police processing and
duties upon arrest, a law
enforcement officer upon the
arrest of a person:
• must inform the person
arrested of the charge against him
or the cause for the arrest,
• must, wth respect to any
person arrested without a warrant
for purpose of setting bail, with
respect to any person arrested
upon a warrant or order for arrest,
take the person arrested before a
judicial official without
unnecessary delay,
• must without unnecessary delay
advise the person arrested of his
right to communicate with counsel
and friends and must allow him
reasonable time and reasonable
opportunity to do so.
Jones said that at the time of the
arrest, he did not state the charges
against Bass, nor did he advise
him of his right to communicate
with counsel or friends. In
addition, Jones enroute to the
Magistrate’s office decided
through his discretion not to bring
charges against Bass to a judicial
Please see Security, page 5 1
Mud 500 Club reunion invades Asheville
By Kim Cooley
Asst. News Editor
The oldest fraternal organization on UNCA’s campus is
reuniting its new and old members for a "weekend filled with
corporei pleasures" this weekend, according to Rob Rusnak
reunion coordinator for the Mud 500 Club.
"We are expecting 400-600 people to come in for the
reunion over the course of the weekend," said Jim Dills,
reunion coordinator.
The M5C started having reunions every two years, but
since 1985 they have had them every year. Dills said their
first reunions had around 50 people attending, but now its up
into the hundreds.
The M5C existed on campus for several years unofficially.
They were recognized as an organization by the University
in 1978. Joseph Sulock is the advisor.
Though the M5C has not had a favorable reputation in the
past, its members feel they have come a long way from the
earlier days of the club and have made a very good name for
themselves at UNCA. "The club is doing more* for the
community. They are more concerned with faculty and
community relationships," said Rusnak.
The M5C is involved with many organizations on and off
campus. They volunteer Big Brothers/Big Sisters, blood
and organ donor drives, C.R.O.P, which is an organization to
fight world hunger and they have collected for the homeless
on many occasions.
"Overcoming the initial reputation was the hardest obstacle
we faced. We are the most active group with community
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Photo courtesy of Jim Dills
The M5C rock will be a familiar sight this weekend for
hundreds of mud alumni gathering for their reunion.
More
security
officers
resign
service on campus and we have
shown people we are serious
students and social leaders," said
Dills.
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Members from as far away as
Japan, California, New York,
Florida, as well as some
neighboring stales such as:
Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Washington D.C. will be invading Asheville for the first ever
four day M5C reunion.
Many people may wonder what M5C men do when they
grow up. Some of the ones coming into town this weekend
are doctors, lawyers, prominent businessmen, entrepreneur,
published authors, prominent actors and award winning
journalists, just to name a few. Dills said the M5C enjoy s
having fun but in the club you have great friendships and you
also learn a lot of responsibility.
Though the club may not have as many members on
campus as other fraternal organizations, they do have the
largest alumni from UNCA of any other fraternal
organization on camp s. "We stress quality over quantity,"
said Dills.
"We take the best traditions, add new and innovative ideas
of our own to become the most unique and dynamic
organization at UNCA today," said Tommy Tsiros, former
president of the M5C.
The M5C reunion is a chance to see old friends and let the
new guys meet the old guys, according to Rusnak. The
reunion is also used as a type of networking, he said. At the
reunion you can get job references or housing references.
"Mud members are friends you can count on for the rest of
your life."
The eighth M5C reunion gets underway Thursday night at
the Hawaiian Party at 45 Cherry and continues through
Sunday
"We want to have a reunion every year. We hope it lasts
forever," Dills said. The motto of the M5C is "We believe
that whatever you do in life you should always try to do it to
the best of your ability. Never second rate." Yet to some
degree Dills said, "a little reputation never hurt anyone."
Berry speaks about
fate of the Earth
By Vicki McCoy
News Editor
Two additional security officers
have resigned from UNCA’s
department of Security and
Services.
The resignation of Bert
Alexander and Debra McFalls
brings the total to five since Jeff
Van Slyke was hired as chief of
the department last fall.
Alexander and McFalls are both
leaving to take security positions at
the Western North Carolina
Arboretum, Alexander said.
"I’m not overly enthused about
leaving. I hate leaving my friends
and the students, as well as the
faculty," he said.
McFalls said she, too, was sad
because of her resignation.
"I’m leaving because of the
pressure and stress over the past
few months," she said. "I don’t
want to leave because I have a lots
■.of' friends, faculty, staff and
students."
McFalls said the move to the
WNC Arboretum would be a good
change for both herself and
Alexander.
"Pm looking forward to making
the move," she said. "I need a
Please see Officers, page 6
By Cindy Dotson
Staff Writer
Last Friday night, people of the
UNCA community expressed their
concerns about the future and the
environment and heard the views
of Thomas Berry, a person who
has devoted the last ten years to
the interpretation of human-earth
relations.
Berry’s speech, "The Fate of the
Earth: A Spiritual Responsibility,"
not only consisted of discussions of
the current issues, but also
contained propositions for helping
alleviate these problems.
Earth Week "is really an
incredible time because it seems to
have gone beyond the superficial
recognition of the planet to a
really deep inner reflection and
public reflection on Earth as our
home," said Mamie Muller, who
introduced Berry.
Muller, in her introduction,
quoted Berry as saying "The
natural world is the larger sacred
community in which we all belong.
It is abstract to consider our
human community apart from the
natural community."
According to Berry, people are
only concerned with their own
individual segments of society and
not with society as a whole. "The
planet Earth is a single life
community. What happens to any
part of that community happens to
the total community," said Berry.
Society’s thinking "is so confined
that we don’t even see what’s
happening. We’re in the situation
of the boiled frog syndrome," said
Berry.
A frog placed in a pot full of
boiling water will immediately
jump out, but a frog put into a pot
of cool water that is gradually
raised to the boiling point will stay
there until he is cooked. The same
thing is happening to our society,
according to Berry. "We don’t
know what’s happening to us," he
said.
As reflected in the title of his
speech, Berry tied in spirituality
with physical environmental
concerns. "If we lose the grandeur
of the natural world we even lose
our sense of the divine because if
we have a wonderful sense of the
divine it is because we have a
wonderful natural world," said
gQQ Berry, page 6
Photo by Miranda Wyatt
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