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Volume XVII, Number 5
The University of North Carolina Asheville
September 27, 1990
CBS sportscaster to kick off fund-raiser
Guy Stuart
Sports Editor
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Packer
At a press conference and booster dinner Tuesday night, UNCA
athletic director (AD) Tim Dillon announced that sports personality
Billy Packer will be the keynote speaker at this year’s basketball
season ticket kickoff.
The event will take place on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Deerpark
Restaurant. According to Dillon, tickets for the night will be $50 and
can be obtained through the athletic department.
Packer, a Wake Forest graduate, has been in sports broadcasting
since 1972 when he was a fill-in analyst for an Atlantic Coast
Conference (ACC) game. The following year, he became a regular
staff member for ACC broadcasting.
Later, Packer joined Al McGuire and Dick Enberg to form the
regular season and tournament-coverage team for NBC. For the past
nine years, Packer has covered college basketball for CBS, and the
1991 NCAA tournament will mark the 17th consecutive year he has
covered the event for television.
Before he began as an analyst, Packer was both a player and a
coach for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. From 1960-62 he was
the starting guard for the team and made the All-ACC team all three
years. In 1962, he helped lead Wake to a Final Four appearance
where they defeated the John Wooden coached UCLA Bruins and
finished third. From 1965-1969, Packer served as an assistant coach
at Wake Forest.
"We are delighted to have a national personality like Billy Packer
come to Asheville and help kick off our season ticket drive," said
Dillon. "It speaks volumes about where our basketball program is
headed when we can attract people like Billy to help recognize our
basketball program."
UNCA basketball coach Don Doucette agreed wath Dillon. "Billy
Packer is asked to do hundreds of speaking engagements and he
turns down about a third of them. We’re ecstatic that he is impressed
enough with our program that he is going to speak for us."
Doucette also said that a high-visibility personality, like Packer
would be a major plus for the future of the basketball program.
On Oct. 23, Packer will arrive at UNCA about noon and then have
lunch with several students in the mass communication department.
According to Dillon, Packer will share his experience in the business
with these students. Dillon said this will give the students a chance to
interact with Packer and gain something from his visit.
After lunch, Dillon said Packer will play golf with several
contributors to the Bulldog program.
Dillon said two of the men who were instrumental in getting Packer
to UNCA were Dick Lowe and Jim Stickney. Lowe, the owner of
Appletree Honda, said Packer’s visit is a major boost for UNCA.
"Everybody in the ACC knows him. He is well known and in this
area he is probably more popular than Vince Scully or Dick Vitale or
really anybody."
Lowe said he expected a lot of interest from alumni from Duke,
UNC, NC State and, of course, Wake Forest. "This is a real class
deal."
Please see PACKER, page 5
New projects
funded
Lane HoHifidd
Asst- News Editor
UNCA currently has two projects near completion and two others
in the design phase, all of which are funded by capital improvement
funds, said Markus Vess, university facility planner.
"Capital improvement is a generic term for all funds we get
periodically for various projects," said Vess.
Vess said UNCA has a number of projects in various stages of
funding.
"Obviously, the two that are in the completion stages are the new
classroom building and the library addition," said Vess.
"We have two self-liquidating projects that are, in effect, internally
funded. That is, the revenue that the building generates pays for itself.
These are the additions to the Highsmith Student Center and a new
dormitory.
Vess said the Conference Center is another project in design, but
on hold.
"Part of the Conference Center was out to bid and then, because of
the budget situation where they froze funds on projects all across the
state, they told us that, basically, we couldn’t bid it. So we put that
project on hold,"
Vess said almost every institution has experienced that.
"The Conference Center is a commitment to the university, not
Chancellor Brown," said Vess.
Vess said the university has another project under design, the
Kellogg Retreat Center, on a piece of property in Hendersonville
that UNCA owns. That new addition is being designed to house
conference activities.
Please see CAPITAL, page 10
Students educate others
on animal rights issues
Vicki McCoy
Editor
Animal rights activists gathered
Tuesday in Highsmith Center to
educate UNCA students about
vegetarianism and animal testing
in cosmetics, household products,
and biological research.
According to UNCA students
Kayla Rosko, Erin McNees,
Keirsten Pasoff, and Kathryn
Grooms, who are members of the
Western North Carolina Animal
Rights Coalition (WNCARC),
their goal of Tuesday’s exhibit was
to increase awareness on campus
of animal issues.
"People are getting the message
about fur. It is no longer a
glamorous industry," Rosko said.
Rosko also said animal testing
for cosmetics is an area where
students can get involved.
"There are over 300 companies
that do not test on animals. Avon,
Revlon, and Max Factor are
companies that do not test on
animals," she said. "There are a lot
of options for students."
According to a pamphlet
sponsored by People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA), there are several tests
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Kiersten Persoff, left, and Kathryn Grooms promote animal rights issues. A
demonstration will be held Tuesday at McDonalds in Biltmore.
that companies can use that do not
include animals.
"Human skin patch tests, tests than 150 companies already
using tissue cultures or egg produce cruelty-free products"
membranes, and computer models Persoff, a psychology major, said
are all cheaper and more reliable her classes discussed a number of
tests," the pamphlet reads. "More animal experiments.
Please see ANIMALS, page 10
Dole questions work force
LeeAnn Donnelly
Staff Writer
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Elizabeth Dole spoke at the first
annual Western North Carolina
Jobs Conference Saturday at Blue
Ridge Community College.
The WNC Environmental
Coimcil sponsored the event.
Dole, a Salisbury native and
Duke University graduate, said the
national work force is growing at
its slowest rate in 40 years, at a
rate of nearly one percent a year.
"If we’re going to remain
competitive in this very complex
global market, we must have a
quality work force," she said.
Dole said that when she took
office at the Department of Labor
two years ago, she became aware
of the increasing level of skUl
needed for a good job. At the
same time, she said, the high
school drop-out rate was growing
at the same rate.
"As a result, 20 percent of our
work force is functionally
illiterate," she said. "This group is
going to need a great deal of
retraining. We have a work force
crisis right now."
She appointed a committee
made up of business, labor, and
education leaders to determine
specific skills needed for various
jobs. The committee will report to
her in May with its findings.
"From there, we hope to
combine the results into a generic
set of skills to be taken into the
classroom for curriculum
development for promotion of
graduation," she said.
Dole said about half of the
students graduating from high
school don’t go on to college. They
get dead-end jobs with poor pay
and little or no benefits.
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"Many of them are going from
low paying job to low paying job
with not mu'h hope of a career
that will be very productive," she
said:
To provide some hope. Dole
organized a group conference
which looked into developing a
school-to-work program.
"We met with educators and
laborers to help us focus on how
we can set up demonstration
projects that will combine the last
two years of high school with two
years of community college," she
said.
Dole said this will benefit
young people in that they may gam
academic skills and work
experience at the same time,
making the school-to-work
transition easier.
Economical andhumanitarian
reasons exist for implementing
these programs, according to Dole.
"I want to inspire the business
community to realize they’re going
to need these young people. With
Please see DOLE, nane r
Research journal
in jeopardy
Lane Hollifield
Asst. News Editor
UNCA’s Undergraduate
Research Program has become the
latest victim of the statewide
budget cuts which are plaguing
campuses statewide.
Due to budget cuts, the future of
the UNCA Journal of
Undergraduate Research is
uncertain.
"We were cut from our funding
for last year to this year for
probably two reasons," said John
Stevens of the Undergraduate
Research Program Advisory
Council.
"One is we are moving out of
being a thrust program and into
being a regular university program.
And two, as the state’s budgets
have been hit throughout the state,
including our institution, those
budgets that are in a change
situation, as ours is, are going to
get hit along with library budgets
and so on."
"The funding cuts will impact a
couple of areas, the Journal being
one," said Stevens.
"We are trying to work out an
intermediate solution by seeking
funding from faculty, alumni and
other interested people to be able
to put together enough funding to
get the Journal published this
year."
On Sept. 14, UNCA faculty and
administration received a letter
from the Undergraduate Research
Please see RESEARCH, page in