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The University of North Caroiina at Asheviile
Thursday, October 10, 1991
Couple Leaves Donation In Will
UNCA Revives Amnesty Chapter
Sonya Pepper
Staff Writer
Amnesty International, a human rights organization, has
recognized a renewed chapter at UNCA along with a
$700,000 endowment check donated by a local coi,q)le.
At a presentation held in Highsmith University Center,
John and Edna Bachrach, both deceased, left the bulk of
their estate to Amnesty International. Although the money
will not go directly into the chapter at UNCA, the thrust of
the donation money will go toward student training and
education, according to Kenneth Betsalel, professor of
political science.
“We talk about having interdisciplinary programs and
activities on campus and we talk about having an interna
tional thrust to our campus,” Betsalel said. “This organiza
tion does both of these things. No matter what your major
is, whether it is business and marketing, literature, history,
physical science, or the natural sciences, human rights cuts
across every discipline.”
Part of a planned Amnesty headquarters building will be
named after the Bachrachs as a memorial to their generos
ity, according to their attorney Bob Deutsch. The Bachrachs
also made small donations to the Blue Ridge Community
College Foundation, Pardee Hospital, TREND Commu
nity Mental Health Center in Transylvania and Henderson
counties, Friends of the Henderson County library, and a
medical school in Nashville, Term.
The UNCA chapter of Amnesty International was dor
mant for several years and eventually faded out, according
to Charity Evans, head of the present UNCA chapter. The
Asheville chapter is also presently inactive. The UNCA
chapter will not only be open to students, faculty and staff,
but also citizens of Asheville and the surrounding areas.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, Oct 15 at 4:30p.m. in
room 37 of Highsmith Center.
Chancellor Samuel Schuman advised the Amnesty Inter
national chapterwhile at Guilford College, Evans said. He
is a personal member of Amnesty International.
The purpose of Amnesty, stated in the Amnesty Intema-
tional-USA Constitution is, “the release of prisoners of
conscience - men, women and children imprisoned for
their beliefs, color, sex, ethnic origin, language or religion,
provided they have neither used nor advocated violence.
Fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners, and an end
to torture and execution in all cases.”
According to both Betsalel and Evans, Amnesty Interna
tional bases it definition of human rights on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Na
tions General Assembly in 1948.
“Human rights abuses can be rather straightforward,”
Betsalel said. “They include things like someone being
denied a fair trial or someone denied access to leave a
country. The complexities of these countries are some
thing we (members of Amnesty) like to educate ourselves
about.”
Evans says the UNCA Amnesty chapter will work closely
with Warren Wilson College in the safeguarding of human
rights. Amnesty International is open to all people with a
genuine interest in upholding the organization’s beliefs and
values. Amnesty International was instrumental in the
release of Nelson Mandela and is best known for its fund
raising rock concerts featuring performers like Sting, Tracy
Chapman and Sinead O’Connor.
“Amnesty is a nonpartisan organization,” Betsalel said.
“It is not associated with any political party of any kind. In
a sense, Amnesty gives all governments trouble.”
“As a whole, Amnesty is a non-profit organization, en
tirely funded by fxmdraisers, private donations and corpo
rate donations,” Evans said.
i^proximately 80 countries have organized Amnesty
chapters, Evans said. In 1961, Amnesty International was
created by a British lawyer who won a Nobel Peace Prize
in 1977 for his work concerning human rights. Jack Healy
is the executive director for Amnesty Intemational-USA.
Photo By Benjamin Porter
The Bachrach Endowment check was presented to Amnesty International at a ceremony on the UNCA
campus Sept. 26. Kenneth Betsalel (left) and UNCA students Charity Evans, (head of the campus
chapter of Amnesty), Emily Ardnt, Gawain Mainwaring, David McConville and Mark Hop! attended.
Greenfest Organizers Say
Event Will “Beautify Campus"
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
And They’re Off staff Photo By Loren Stephens
The 6th annual UNCA Run in the Gardens attracted close to 300 participants in the 5K walk and 5K run.
Oxford Program: Opportunity
For "Safe World Travel"
The second semi-annual Greenfest
is scheduled for OcL 14 from 1 to 4
p.m., according to Keith Goode,
excutive for external relations for the
Student Government Association
(SGA).
According to Goode, Greenfest is an
event held to beautify the campus, and
is a joint effort of SGA and the student
affairs office.
Goode said students who want to
take part should be at Highsmith Cen-
terat 1 p.m. thatday. “This (academic)
year we are going to be planting de
ciduous trees,” Goode said,
“lovacchini (vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs) and I will be sitting at a
table,” Goode said. “We will have the
assignments set out and send them
off.”
Goode said Greenfest is not limited
to students. “The whole idea behind
Greenfest is campus beautification.
It’s a joint effort from students and
faculty,” Goode said.
Greenfest was designed as a campus-
uniting project students, faculty and
staff can be involved in Goode said. “It
is just a way for students to work with
faculty rather than working for them.”
Besides the cooperation between stu
dents and faculty during the event,
Goode said there were other reasons
for planning Greenfest. “We were try
ing to come up with ways to bring the
campus a little bit closer together to
get the students involved in commu
nity services,” Goode said.
“The students are getting in contact
with beautifying their own campus
instead of walking through it every
day,” Goode said. “So it is reward
ing.”
Goode said activities will include
several different tasks for the volun
teers.
“We are going to assign groups to do
certain tasks like digging holes, filling
in holes, or actually putting the trees
in, or if there is enough people we have
other projects in which they can go
around the campus picking up trash, or
down at the creek and clean up the
creek bed,” Goode said.
“This time we are going to plant
some deciduous trees,” Goode said.
“We are going to be planting along the
side of Mills Hall next to University
Heights where they are digging it up.
We are going to try to beautify that
area and make it tree-lined for Mills
Hall.”
According to Goode, Oct. 17 has
been set as the rain date if heavy rain
occurs on Monday. “If it looks like it is
going to clear up or just sprinkle all
day, if it is going to be dreary all day
andjust be kind of damp, just tell them
to come anyway,” Goode said.
Goode said he hoped the event would
be as successful as the first Greenfest
in the spring of 1991 when 30 students
participated.
Goode said he thought the April
Greenfest was a-success even though
it rained. “We did not set a rain date,”
Goode said. “We worked in the raiiu”
“We had quite a successful work
day,” Goode said. “If you want to see
the results of that, just go to Humani
ties Lecture Hall, and all the plants
around there are basically what we
planted that day,” Goode said.
According to Goode, the Ecology
Qub contributed to the success of the
spring evenL “Last year, the Ecology
Qub really made it happen,” Goode
said. “They came out early in the morr-
ing. I mean early, before anybody else
got there, and started digging, digging
the holes. They dug the holes so people
wouldn’t have to mess with that when
they (the others) got there. They were
great, and I would like to stress that”
Goode said the last Greenfest was
supported by off-campus sponsors.
“This year we are not going to have as
many sponsors,” Goode said. He said
outside sponsors included Asheville
Federal, Dinner for the Earth, and
Quality Forward.
According to Goode, campus spon
sors for last April’s effort included
student organizations and several cam
pus offices.
“We raised roughly $2,800 last se
mester,” Goode said. He said part of
that money was raised by letting stu
dent organizations give money to have
the organizations’ names on T-shirts.
Cynthia Robbins
Guest Writer
For the past 16 years, students from
UNCA and N.C. State have experi
enced living at Oxford during a four-
week summer program. Bob Farza-
negan, director of international stud
ies, said the program’s intention was
to “bring together a diversity of stu
dents to live in an Oxford college and
to study in a way which exemplifies
the Oxford traditionof academic life.”
Students interested in studying at
Oxford next summer may attend a tea
Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. in the Owen Confer
ence Center. Professors Merritt
Moseley of the literature department
and William Spellman of the history
department will give presentations to
introduce students to the program.
Cathy Mitchell, associate professor
of mass communication, went to Ox
ford with the program in1988. Mitchell
said, “Going to Oxford is a safe way to
begin world travel.”
She thought the program was a good
idea and said all past participants she
had spoken to thought the program
was worth the effort. One student said,
“I highly recommend this course and
study program”
In 1988, seven UNCA students and
23 N.C State students participated.
Mitchell and two faculty members
fi’om N.C State also went to England.
This year, there are 10 spaces for
UNCA students and 20 for N.C. State
students. Faculty members will be
chosen in the spring.
Mitchell said she went three days
early and visited London with a par
ticipating student before meeting with
the group. Students can also take a
group flight together.
Students may take one or two classes
at Oxford University. The program
offers three, but Mitchell recom
mended that participants take only one.
The trip should be a total experience,
both culturally and academically, so
taking only one class leaves time for
exploring England, Mitchell said.
Classes meet four times a week. All
classes transfer to UNCA as electives,
unless the courses are in the student’s
major field of study.
The courses vary within the disci
plines of art, history and literature.
“Art Treasures of Oxford,” taught by
John Whiteley, focuses on European
art from about 1300 to 1900. It stresses
the works available for study at the
Oxford colleges, the Ashmolean Mu
seum in Oxford, the National Gallery
in London and the Fitzwilliam Mu
seum in Cambridge.
“Britain And World War II,” in
structed by Martin Holmes, will focus
on the causes of World War II and
Britain’s involvement in the war. Stu
dents will visit war museums and other
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Workshop Explains Strategies For
Successful Job Interviewing
Leslie Bell
staff Writer
Interviewing is the ultimate first im
pression, said Elaine Thompson, ca
reer center assistant director, Sept. 30
at the Highsmith Center.
This was the first lecture of Impact:
A Leadership Series 1991 on business
protocol. Thompson discussed how to
make a good first impression during
interviews, business meetings ormeet-
ing people out in public.
According to Thompson, people gen
erally make up their minds about oth
ers during the first two to six minutes
of conversation. A recent survey
among college recmiters reported at
least 75 percent of the people they
hired within the last two years were
hired on a decision made within the
first six minutes of the interview,
Thompson said.
Thompson explained four aspects of
making a good impression and gave
some general tips for use in the busi
ness world. She gave examples for
both corporate America and for inter
views on campus such as scholarship
or recruiter interviews.
“When you first meet someone, you
want to make them feel comfortable
with you. The easiest way to do that is
to smile, because smil^, like yawns,
are contagious,” said Thompson.
Thompson said facial expressions,
especially eye contact, is very impor
tant to use because people equate hon-
Mty with eye contact. Students should
use eye contact 75 percent of the time
but should avoid a constant stare and
looking away or at their hands and
feet.
“Once students get nervous, they
lose enough self-confidence that they
tend to do things they are not aware
of,” said Thompson.
Next, according to Thompson,
standing and sitting up straight with
the shoulders back and the head up
conveys enthusiasm. Slouching
shows boredom or fright
Thompsonexplained how to present
an appropriate appearance at any in
terview. “Your gestures, non-verbal
communication and your movements
should convey attentiveness to the
person you are meeting with. Lean
forward slightly, nod occasionally,
smile when appropriate, pay atten-
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