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Volume XVIII Number 7
The University of North Carolina Asheville
March 7, 1991
Student Government announces election winners
Steve Peake
Staff Writer
Kevan Frazier, junior history
major, won election to the office
of Student Government
Association (SGA) president for
1991-1992 on Wednesday,
according to results released by
Ken Gray, SGA elections
commissioner. Brian Corbin
defeated two announced
candidates for the office of vice
president. UNCA voters also
elected 12 other students to fill
senatorial offices next year.
The new legislators will take
office April 10.
Frazier ran unopposed. He has
served in the SGA twice as a
senator. He also ran unsuccessfully
for the office of SGA vice
president last year. Currently,
Frazier serves the SGA as
executive assistant for internal
affairs. John Schoultz, current
SGA president, appointed Frazier
to that post last year.
Corbin has held positions in
SGA as both a freshman and a
sophomore senator.
Frazier said voter turnout
surprised him. "I was extremely
pleased," he said. "Unofficial
turnout exceeded 500 voters.
That’s about 20% turnout. That’s
at or above normal turnout for
other North Carolina colleges."
Frazier said he hopes to address
campus issues that concern both
commuter and resident students.
"Two-thirds of our student body
commute," said Frazier. "We need
to address their needs. Day care is
a big concern, for instance.
"More importantly, I want all
students to know the SGA, and to
know what it does for them."
John Schoultz, outgoing SGA
president, said he expects the new
administration to perform its
duties well. "The people coming in
are extremely competent. Aside
from a personal sense of sadness
that it’s time for me to step aside,
I’ll have no problem whatsoever in
passing the stick to them."
Frazier was complimentary of
Schoultz’s leadership. "He and
(SGA vice president) Gigi Leaks
have left me with a very stable
ship," said Frazier. "What I’m
inheriting from them would be
welcome for anyone to take over."
Mark T. Johnson, Christopher
Lawing, and Darren Poupore all
won election to fill three upcoming
vacancies in the office of senior
senator. The three ran in a field of
four contestants. Gawain
Mainwaring also ran for the office.
In the contest for three junior
senator positions. Clay Lawson,
Haywood Spangler, and Angie
Atwood won office for the coming
year. Lawson had announced his
candidacy, while Spangler and
Atwood won by write-in vote.
Jason Gus Adams, Stephen Bass,
and Michelle L. Fox won the
contests for sophomore senator,
each claiming one of three
available seats, in a field of four
announced contenders.
In the race for three residential
senator positions, Mark Williams,
Marlene Metzger, and Edwin
Manning-Tano all won. Eric
"Coolray" Madison had also
announced his candidacy for one
of the positions.
Aaron Thompson, Heather
Zanzig, and J. McClung won
election as commuter senators for
next year.
UNCA students voted at two
campus polls Monday and
Tuesday, with election results
verified early Wednesday
afternoon. Students also had the
opportunity to register absentee
ballots earlier in the week.
Before the election, Frazier said
he hoped to address diverse issues
•if elected president. "I want to
continue to better the
communication between student
Kevan Frazier
government and the student body,"
Frazier said. "I feel increased
effort needs to be placed on the
needs and concerns of the
commuter population."
Corbin said before the election
Brian Corbin
that he was qualified for the office. •
"It is not just an office that one
should want because of a fancy
title," said Corbin. "I believe that I
have the heart, drive,
determination, and attitude to hold
Che office of vice president."
Workshop
promotes
women
leaders
Davey Ramsey
Staff Writer
"Goldilocks Grows Up: Women
and Leadership" was the title of a
lecture Mar. 5 in the Highsmith
Center. The workshop was the
second in a series of four lectures
called "Impact: A Leadership
Series." The lecture also coincided
with Women’s History Month.
There are two goals for this
program, said Nina East, director
of Student Development and
sponsor of the Impact workshop at
UNCA.
"One goal is to supplement the
leadership class taught by myself,
and the second is to help
participants to look at leadership
in a more in-depth and advanced
level,"
Please see Women, page 4
Patrick Oliver-Kelly speaks
Decisions lecture,
U. S. economy addressed
in Great Decisions series
Susanne Roper
Staff Writer
Photo by Diane Maney
at the 5th Great
The economic future of the
United States will move to the top
of the nation’s agenda once the
Gulf War issues are resolved, said
Patrick Oliver-Kelley, an
investment banker and the speaker
at the fifth Great Decisions lecture
on Mar. 4 in the Owen
Conference Center.
The Great Decisions 1991 series
focuses on important world affairs
that affect the foreign policy of the
United States.
Oliver-Kelley discussed Japan in
the specific context of its trade
relationship with the United States
and its potential for participation
in a future global economic
transformation.
"Three global transformations
are well underway. The reforms
underway in the U.S.S.R. and
Eastern Europe have ended the
Cold War, and will allow
substantial reductions in military
arsenals," he said.
"Security issues, with the end of
the Gulf War, will decline sharply.
Economics and the new world
order will move to the top of the
agenda," he said, adding the
prediction, "international positions
will derive from economic
prowess."
"The world economy will evolve
into a tri-polarity of U.S.,
Japanese, and European
influence," he explained. A central
question the world of the 1990s
must consider is whether the new
international framework would
reduce conflict over economic
issues, or whether it would create
a healthy combination of
competition and cooperation, he
said.
"Ironically, ending the Cold War
could heighten the prospect of a
trade war, as well as erode
security ties," Oliver-Kelley said,
"One possible source of concern
could be the emergence of blocks,
each centered in one of the ’Big
Three.’ One thing is for sure, the
U.S. must begin to see itself more
as part of a integrated, globed
economy.
"Also, the mind-set of Japan, a
huge creditor country that is
confident of its ability to compete
throughout the world," must
change its perception of itself as a
vulnerable island and recognize its
potential as an important part of
the new economic world
community, Oliver-Kelley said.
"Europe, by maintaining an
outward local orientation, is
operating as a unit in the world
arena while undertaking the
enormously complicated task of
forging a truly unified regional
economy. German unification will
speed that process. Thus, a newly
competitive America, a newly
internationalized Japan, and an
economically integrated Europe
will go far to maintain a stable
Please see Economy, page 12
Artists to display
work in NCB
Susan Woody
Staff Writer
Artists from Western North
Carolina and the counties of Surry,
Yadkin, Iredell, and Mecklenburg
are eligible to submit artwork to a
project sponsored by UNCA.
The artwork will become a
permanent collection displayed in
the lobbies, halls and courtyards of
the New Classroom Building
(N.C.B.), completed in 1990.
"This is a very important step in
completing a new building because
art is an essential human method
for stimulating thinking and
creativity, especially in a university
environment," said Tucker Cooke,
chair of the department of art.
"Seeing things that are creative
reminds you of the reason we are
in a liberal arts institution," said
Cooke.
The competition requires artists
to provide UNCA with a portfolio
no later than March 29, 1991.
A committee will return slide
submissions and artists’
notifications April 17. The final
decision on chosen work will be
made on April 24.
The committee choosing the art
consists of Cooke, another art
faculty member, Jeff Rackham,
professor of literature, Sharyn
McDonald, student center
director, and the director of the'
Asheville Art Museum.
"The building committee of the
New Classroom Building set aside
$21,000 for the purchase of art to
hang on the walls," said Cooke.
Cooke said the New Classroom
Building will be the first building
on campus that bought art for
itself. "It should be a real exciting
Please see Art, page 4
Kwanzaa
celebrates
cultural
jheritage
Renee Rallos
Staff Writer
What's in here? photo by LoeAnn Donnelly
Page Jerzak and Supatai Inpirom browse through an Undergraduate
Research journal.
On Feb. 28, some UNCA students participated in
Kwanzaa during dinner hours in the cafeteria.
"Kwanzaa is a unique American holiday that pays
tribute to the rich cultural roots of Americans of
African descent," said Carolyn Briggs, assistant
director of Student Development and coordinator of
Multicultural Student Affairs.
Kwanzaa was the final event planned for African-
American History Month (AAHM).
"That’s (Kwanzaa) when everybody comes together
for fellowship, and to eat and give gifts. So we just
end the month with this because it’s a good way to
end the month with fellowship and eating an African
meal together," said Briggs.
Marriott Dining Services served the food including
baked chicken with red peppers and onions, beef
Please see Kwanzaa. page 12