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The Blue Banner
"It stinks from the Garden of Eden to Watergate." -- William S. Burroughs
Volume 19, Number 7
The University of North Caroiina at Asheviile
Thursday, October 17,1991
Van Slyke Calls Case "Really Strong"
Summit Investigation Goes
To D.A.'s Office This Week
Photo By Eric Connor
Making An Environmentai Impact
Over 100 Greenfest participants planted trees in front of Mills Hall Oct. 14, The group also cleared
brush and litter from the creek near the main university entrace.
UNCA Advances In U.S. News
Ranking Of Top Southern Schools
The investigation of a former UNCA student suspeaed of
diverting money from the account of the now-defunct
Summit yearbook, then passing bad checks drawn on that
account, will go to the office of the district attorney this
week, according to Dennis Gregory, investigator for cam
pus security.
Meanwhile, The Blue Banner has obtained a copy of
one of the bounced Summit checks, written to Run-Li, a
convenience store in Lewisville, N.C The check, drawn
on an account at First Union National Bank, bears the
printed name, "The Summit, c/o Lee Angel." The signature
on the check also reads, "Lee Angel."
Jeff Van Slyke, chief of campus security, declined to
confirm that the person under investigation goes by the
name "Lee Angel."
The Blue Banner has also obtained a letter from the debt
collectioncenter of Lowes/Run-In Stores, parent company
of the Lewisville store, to The Summit, asking for reim
bursement for the alleged bad check.
The letter says, in part, “Our records indicate that a
check from your account, cashed at our Lowes Foods
Store in Lewisville, NC, was returned to us by your bank.”
The letter asks for reimbursement of the $24.52, as well
as a $15 service charge.
The Blue Banner immediately turned the original letter
from Lowes/Run-In, Inc. over to Eric lovacchini, vice
chancellor for student affairs.
Gregory said the district attorney may choose to either
call for criminal warrants against the suspect, or seek
indictments of the individual from a grand jury. Gregory
declined to identify the person under investigation, say
ing he did not wish to jeopardize the case before the
district attorney acts on it
Gregory said the investigation of the case has yielded a
great deal of information. "We have upwards of 30 pages
of information," Gregory said. He said the dollar amo unt
Please See "Summit,” Page 10
Leslie Bell
Staff Writer
U.S. News and WorldReport ranked
UNCA 14th out of the top regional
universities in the South. The fifth
annual U.S. News survey of higher
education appeared in the Sept. 30
issue.
Among the top-ranked schools in the
regional categories, UNCA has the
third lowest current-year tuition. The
article lists tuition as $4,284, but ex
cludes the costs of room and board and
the cost for required books. The report
also lists the total spending per student
at UNCA as $7,980.
Berea College in Kentucky ranked
first, with the University of Alabama
in Huntsville coming in second.
The magazine reported the method
ology for the rankings as a combina
tion of a school’s academic reputation
with data on its students, faculty and
finances. U.S. News divided the
schools into 14 categories using the
standard guidelines of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching.
The survey ranked 1,373 four-year
schools by combining statistics from
2,425 college presidents, deans and
admissions directors.
Caroline Miller, assistant vice chan
cellor for enrollment management, said
the continuing improvement of the
student body within the last couple of
years qualified UNCA as a top re
gional university, thus allowing UNCA
to make the U.S. News list.
“We have some things that rank us
very high, like the numbers of doctor
ate degrees and terminal degrees in the
feculty and where our faculty comes
from in terms of their disciplines. Our
humanities program, for instance, has
always had us right there on the edge,”
said Miller. The article states 79 per
cent of the faculty hold doctorate de
grees (Ph.D).
According to Miller, our ranking
Please See "Survey," Page 10
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Administration To Preserve
Classics And German Programs
Mia Anderson
Staff Writer
Larry Wilson, vice chancellor for academic affairs,
learned Wednesday the UNC General Administration
has granted UNCA’s request to continue the university’s
classics and German majors.
The request came after a routine review of the UNC
university system’s “low productivity” courses and pro
grams, said Wilson. Each of the 16 univeisities had until
Oct. 1 to recommend the continuation of classes with
low enrollment.
Wilson said the classics program, which includes Latin
and Greek, and the German program were “core subject
areas” that were compatible with the “mainstream mis
sion” of UNCA as a liberal arts college.
Students who graduate from these majors are “excep
tionally strong students,” said Wilson. Ten of these
graduates have won Fulbright awards.
It would be cost-effective for the university to keep the
German and classics programs, said Wilson. Most of the
major courses in these programs are small and it would
cost little to keep these majors, he added.
Had the administration eliminated the majors, there
would still be a need to have people to teach the require
ment level courses, said Wilson.
There are two professors in the German program and
two in the Latin program. These professors “teach so
heavily in the 100 and 200 level” classes that the univer
sity “wouldn’t have saved anything” by eliminating the
Please See "Classics," Page 10
A check draw/n on the account of the now-defunct university yearbook, Summit, allegedly passed
Sept. 9 at a convenience store in Lewisville, N.C. The check bears the signature, "Lee Angel."
Who’s Watching The Money?
Summit Case
Raises The
Question Of
Controls
Steve Peake
Editor
How could a person who was not
enrolled at UNCA walk into a bank
and open a checking account in the
name of the UNCA yearbook, listing
himself as the only person eligible to
draw checks on that account?
Without much difficulty, said Diane
GALA Seeks
To Eliminate
Intolerance
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
UNCA’s Gay and Lesbian
Association (GALA) celebrated its’
first National Coming Out Day on
Friday, Oct. 11 in remembrance of an
Oct. 11,1987 gay and lesbian march in
Washington DC, according to
Charlotte Goedsche, GALA’S faculty
advisor and assistant professor of
German.
Please See "Gala,” Page 10
Robinson, customer service represen
tative at the north Asheville branch of
First Uiuon National Bank. “We do so
muchbusiness with UNCA,” she said,
“that it’s impossible for us to stop and
verify every transaction and every ac
count.”
Robinson said almost anyone could
open an account in the name of a
UNCA organization without drawing
too much attention from the bank.
“Yes, they probably could. As a mat
ter of fact, I think club-type accounts
wouldn’t be questioned at any
Merrimon Ave. bank that does much
business with UNCA,” she said.
Robinsonsaid First Union moniwred
the Summit account at the time it was
opened in August She said the bank
forced the account closed Sept. 20.
The Blue Banner first reported the
alleged bounced checks and subse
quent investigation in its Sept. 12
issue.
According to Eric lovacchini, vice
chancellorforstiidentaffairs, UNCA
has accounts of varying sizes and
purposes at nearly all the banks rep
resented onMerrimon Ave. “We keep
accounts at many of the banks,” he
said, “for a number of financial rea
sons. It’s just a good idea not to keep
all your accounts at the same hank.”
Robinson said the man who opened
an accoimt last summer in the name
of the Summit yearbook satisfied the
bank’s requirements for that type of
account. “He presented a valid N.C.
driver’s license,” she said, “and he
also gave us his social security num
ber.” Robinsonadded the mansigned
a resolution promising he was who
Please See "Money," Page 10
Asheville City Council
Applauds UNCA Center
For Creative Retirement
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
Alcohol Awareness Week Kick-off Photo By Eric Connor
The UNCA bulldog joined UNCA students, faculty and staff at the "BYOB" (Bring Your Own Banana)
ice cream social Oct. 13. The social kicked off a week of activities emphasizing safe use of alcohol.
The Asheville City Council named
UNCA’s Center for Creative Retire
ment (CCR) in a proclamation during
the coimcil meeting on Sept. 10 ac
cording to Ronald Manheimer, direc
tor of CCR.
According to Manheimer, the proc
lamation said, “The center was recog
nized for its many contributions to the
community through its innovative edu
cational and community services pro
vided for older retirees.”
Manheimer said the council’s ac
tion was partly a result of a “Parade”
article about the center in the
magazine’s July 14,1991 issue.
According to Manheimer, the city
council was not the only group that
paid attention to the center as a result
of the article. According to the July
31, 1991 Congressional Record,
North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms gave
a speech in the Senate about the cen
ter. Helms asked that the magazine
article be published in the Congres-
Please See "Retire," Page 10