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The Blue Banner
’Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier— Kettering
Volume XVII, Number 6
The University of North Carolina Asheville
October 4, 1990
UNCA best of
both worlds
Vicki McCoy
Editor
After a three-day eissessment of
UNCA, Richard Moll, author of
The Public Ivy, called UNCA "an
institution with a split personality."
"You can have the best of both
worlds, and I think you have the
makings of a public Ivy [League
school]," he said. "You need to re
state and define liberal arts and
professionalism."
Moll gave his impressions of
UNCA to a small group of faculty,
staff, administration and students
last Thursday, saying the university
is "less purely liberal arts than
announced."
"There’s a lot of job readiness
here, but somehow your
commitment hasn’t rubbed off on
your students," he said. "They
know they are supposed to say it
(that UNCA is a liberal arts
school), but they don’t feel it."
Moll said UNCA needs to
work on its first impressions.
"As we came up the drive, the
Greek signs on the road were the
first signs of life," he said. "I saw
the cars parked on the grass on
both sides of the road, and I
thought, ’We’ve arrived at the
county fair.”'
MoU was impressed by the New
Classroom Building and the
additions to D. Hiden R.amsey
Library.
"They are the best I’ve seen in
terms of warmth and dignity. I
would work with what you have,"
he said.
Also, according to Moll, a
school’s bulletin boards say a lot
about the intellectual community
of the university.
"Your bulletin boards say nothing
about intellect. Are you talking
about things?" he said.
Moll used the senate race
between Jesse Helms and Harvey
Gantt as an example.
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Blood drive
exceeds goal
Kimberly Cooley
News Editor
The annual fall blood drive sponsored by the Student Government
Association and the Asheville Red Cross was held SepC 28 in the
Highsmith Center.
"The response was great," according to the blood drive student
coordinator Maria Dickerson.
Dickerson said 102 people turned out to give blood and the Red
Cross acquired 86 good units of blood.
Although 102 people wanted to give blood, 14 were deferred
because of past illnesses or some other complications which didn’t
make them a good candidate for giving blood. Two people were
unsuccessful bleeders which means their blood would not flow to
equal a pint.
"We’re 16 over our goal. Our goal was only 70," said Dickerson.
The goals are determined by previous standards, she said.
SGA gave two prizes of $75 apiece to the organizations with the
highest turnout and to the organization with the highest percentage
of turnout.
"Theta Chi fraternity won $150, since they were the organization
with the highest turnout and the highest percentage of people giving
blood from any organization," Dickerson said.
Eighteen members of Theta Chi gave blood, which averaged out to
83.3 percent of their fraternity giving blood.
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Animal rights activists picket McDonalds
Leslie Gilliam
Staff Writer
Photo by LeeAnne Donnelly
Animal rights protesters observe National Farm
Animal's Day Tuesday at McDonalds in Biltmore.
Gays need
visibility
Tuesday was World Farm
Animals Day and in response, a
local animal rights group protested
at the Biltmore Avenue
McDonald’s. The group. Western
North Carolina Animal Rights
Coalition (WNCRC) carried signs
saying "McDeath Burgers" and
"Meat Kills The Earth, The
Animals and You."
WNCRC was demonstrating
against McDonald’s for purchasing
factory farmed beef and poultry.
Factory farming is the mass-
quantity production of animals and
animal products for food purposes,
according to a recent article in a
Greenpeace newsletter. It has
recently come under attack for
alleged inhumane treatment and
conditions of the animals farmed.
Michael Rosko, president of
WNCRC said while McDonald’s is
not the only restaurant to purchase
factory farmed beef and poultry, it
is one of the biggest meat-selling
food chains in America, if not the
world.
Rosko also criticized the
Lane Hollifield
Asst. News Editor
"October 11 is National Coming Out Day," says Charlotte Goedsche,
Ph.D., president of the Community Liaison Organization for Support
Education and Reform, and assistant professor of German at UNCA.
National Coming Out Day is a day set aside for gay men and
lesbians to let their family, friends and colleagues know of their
sexual orientation.
Goedsche said the rationale behind National Coming Out Day is
that minority groups need to be visible in order to have their civil
rights protected.
"National Coming Out Day is the third anniversary of the 1987 Gay
and Lesbian March on Washington. Over half a million gay men and
lesbians, and their friends, marched on Washington in a march which
most of the media, including national news magazines, did not
report," said Goedsebe.
Goedsche explained that coming out is a process, the first step is
realising one’s sexual orientation and accepting it oneself.
"Then many people choose to tell a few close friends. Later they
may choose to tell their parents, their co-workers, and finally one may
simply may be as open about their sexual orientation as they are
about any personal aspect of their life," said Goedsche.
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McDonald's corporation for
purchasing beef grazed on clear-
cut land in Costa Rica and the
non-biodegradable packaging
McDonald’s uses.
Karl Brady, operations manager
of McDonald’s in Asheville, said,
"McDonald’s has never purchased
outside the continental United
States for United States stores. It
makes no sense to buy beef
outside the country."
Brady further said, "McDonald’s
uses 100 percent government-
inspected lean beef. It is better
than what you can buy in the
store."
Rosko said Brady was wrong. "A
UNCA professor told us it’s not
really true the meat is 100 percent
USDA." Rosko said the UNCA
professor also told him
McDonald’s had meat imported
from South America where over
one-fourth of the rain forest is
being cut for the beef industry.
Brady said it is a McDonald’s
policy to not purchase any beef
from any clear-cut land that has
been cut in less than 30 years.
Brady also pointed out
McDonald’s was recycling their
packaging as recyding plants
became available. Around 500
stores in the Northeast are test
marketing customer participation
in recycling. The restaurants have
bins set up for the customers to
separate packaging, food and
paper.
Brady said he had no problem
with the WNCRC’s right to
boycott meat, but felt everyone
had a right to choose.
"People should have a choice,"
Brady said. "We offer a wide
variety and we’re the only
restaurant to fully publish a
nutritional guide."
Rosko said McDonald’s does not
offer a choice to vegetarians. "Our
goal is for them to have
alternatives." He criticized the
meat products found in
McDonald’s salads and suggested
they have a fresh salad bar and
incorporate vegetarian meals.
"Why don’t they have veggie
burgers or tofu dogs?" he said.
Rosko believes McDonald’s is
abusing their rights to free
enterprise. "Their free enterprise
damages our health and
environment," he said. "They care
about money and living rich lives."
He also said if they did care, they
would phase out bad products and
phase in good ones.
Brady said the WNCRC is
merely trying to create publicity,
whether or not their facts are
accurate.
Rosko said attention is not the
goal. He emphasized WNCRC is
non-profit. "I receive no money for
what I do. I only get satisfaction.
All they (McDonald’s) get is
money. I’m doing it because it’s
right," he said.
Rosko hopes the demonstration
will help "chip at the stone" and
McDonald’s will get the message
relayed to headquarters.
Brady said he spoke to Rosko
last week about the WNCRC
allegations. Brady said after asking
Rosko why the group chose to
picket McDonald’s, Rosko
responded, "We have to pick on
someone. It might as well be you."
Students praise
Oxford trip
Steve Peake
Staff Writer
"It was just fantastic," said Pat
Snoyer, assistant professor of
drama, recalling her trip this past
summer to Oxford University at
Oxford, England.
Snoyer served as scholar-in
residence at the annual Summer
At Oxford program in July. The
program attracts students and
faculty from UNCA, who get the
chance to spend a month exploring
the culture and history of England.
Snoyer and five of the eight
UNCA students who also made
the trip last summer, gathered in
her office this week to reminisce
about their journey. They agreed
the month had passed too quickly.
"We still had stuff we wanted
to do," said Stacey Carter, a senior
political science major. "It’s hard,
even with 4 weeks, to see
everything." Carter said she plans
to return one day to see the sights
she missed.
Christine Wesley, a senior
history major, said the English tell
a joke about American tourists
who visit England, spend a couple
of weeks on a whirlwind tour of
the continent, then tell their
friends back home they’ve seen
Europe. "There’s no way to see
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Students who participated in the 1990 summer at Ox
ford program were, (top, left to right) Stacey Carter,
David Roberts, Valeria Sinclair, Christine Wesley,
(front) John Smith, Jeanette Emerick, Rhonda Creas-
man and Anissa Kennedy.
and do everything in that short a anyway. Rhonda Creasman, a
time span," she said. senior literature major, said she
The students said the did a great deal of touring while at
impossibility of seeing everything “
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