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The Blue Banner
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.' — Vice President Dan Quayle
Volume 19, Number 8
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Thursday, October 31,1991
Schuman Seeks Funding For New Construction
N.C. Universities Lobby General Assembly To Approve Bond Issue
Leslie Bell
Staff Writer
Chancellor Samuel Schuman and
more than 120 other trustees and offi
cials &om the University of North
Carolina’s system’s 16 public univer
sities lobbied the N. C. General As
sembly to pass a $300 million bond
issue at a recent Wrightsville Beach
meeting.
According to Schiaman, the legisla
ture must approve the bond issue in
order to finance new constructionsince
state money has not funded any new
buildings within the last couple of
years. “This was a big opening salvo in
the campaign to get the bond issue
passed and approved,” said Schuman.
Schuman said the UNC Board of
Halloween Not
Frightening To
Campus Police
Officers Expect Good
Behavior From Students
Mia Anderson
Staff Writer
UNCA is one of the few schools that
has students who can enjoy the Hal
loween holiday without being destruc
tive and inffii^ng on others’ rights,
said Dennis Gregory, campus police
investigator.
Gregory said most of the problems
associated with Halloween he has wit
nessed during his 10 years at UNCA
are “minor vandahsm.” People will
cut the shrubbery or roll the quad with
toilet paper. Occasionally someone
will hang a dummy from the flag pole.
Gregory said Halloween seems to
give people a reason to do things they
would not ordinarily do and an in
crease in the number of problems is
normal. Fifty percent of the Hallow
een cases security encounters are
caused by off-campus visitors.
Gregory does not anticipate any ma-
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Governors would divide the money
according to each university’s needs
and its costs. He also said UNCA
would notget l/16of the money. How
ever, this was not due to the size of the
campus or the number of students at
tending UNCA.
“The distribution will be based more
on the assessment of the needs of one
campus weighed against some of the
others,” Schuman said.
Schuman explained there are three
sources of money for campus^ like
UNCA. One is the annual operating
budget granted by legislature. A sec
ond would be funds such as the bond
issue proposal. A third source of money
is non-state money which comes from
corporations, foundations and private
businesses or other outside govern
mental channels.
The chancellor is not sure exactly
what kinds of projects the bond money
would cover. “We are in the process of
drafting a prioritized list of all UNCA’s
major facilities’ needs that would in
clude both brand new facilities and
major renovations,” said Schuman.
The top priority will vary depending
upon what exactly the bond will fund.
Schuman said if it is to fund major
fecilities’ renovations, then complet
ing the renovations of the older part of
D. Hiden Ramsey library is at the top
of the list. If the money is raised for
new projects, then the physical educa
tion center is top priority.
Both the renovations on the library
and the new physical education center
are multi-million dollar proj ects. Schu
man also mentioned the Justice Sports
Center Complex which needs consid
erable work, as well as the need for
additional square footage.
Schuman said, “We are trying to sort
through these complex issues and cer
tainly long before the question comes
iq) concerning where we want to spend
our chunk of the bond money.
“The bond issue is still a relatively
new possibility on the horizon. This
thing has not had time enough to per
colate on campus yet.”
The chancellor has an idea for a new
arts building although he stressed that
is was in the first stages of people
starting to think about it.
“I have observed some serious space
needs of both the art department in
Owen Hall and the drama department
in Carol BelkTheatre,” said Schuman.
He explained some of the drama
teachers have their offices in
Carmichael Hall. The art department
needs more gallery and exhibit space,
as well as some classroom and office
shortages, said Schuman.
The chancellor pointed out Owen
Hall and Carol Belk Theatre are right
next to each other which suggests the
possibility of building something be
tween them.
This would solve the needs of both
departments and would also allow the
music department to move out of the
basement of Lipinsky Auditorium and
over with the other fine arts depart
ments.
Schuman said although this is a very
interesting and attractive possibility,
it is only a dream and a number of
projects are ahead of it at this point
The chancellor said at the top of his
listofmajor facilities’ needs at UNCA,
a number of significant repair, renova
tion and building completion projects
are ahead of any new state-funded
facilities.
Other new construction projects
include completing the $16.5 mil
lion campus conference center to
house the Center for Creative Re
tirement and a new central heating
plant to replace individual building
units.
“We certainly could use these new
fecilities,” said Schuman, “but I think
completing the library and Karpen
Hall and renovating Justice Gymna
sium are all absolutely essential
proj ects which come before starting
a brand new building.”
According to Schuman, two cur
rent non-state funded building
projects which people are going to
be seeing started within the next
year are a new dining hall and 100 to
125 newbeds in the residential halls.
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Photo By Bob Thompson
Nightmare Nuptials
Susan Ramsey presides at the pulpit of the "Chapel of Hate" at
Underdog Production's "Unde Phlegm's Halloween Shindig"
Oct. 25. The party took place in the Highsmith Center.
UNCA Biology Researchers
Receive Television Coverage
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
North Carolina State University (NCSU) Broadcast Ser
vices filmed a segment of a show in UNCA’s biology
department on Sept 17, according to Michael Stuart,
associate professor of biology.
The segment is part of the half-hour show, “Search,”
scheduled for broadcast by North Carolina Public Televi
sion in January 1992, according to Stuart
Stuart said he was pleased UNCA’s part of the show will
be seven minutes long. He said he thought the show would
be exposure for UNCA Stuart said, “NCSU, Chapel Hill,
and Duke are more or less the flagship schools in the area.
Here UNCA is being recognized along with them on the
show.”
Stuart said the show covers research that he and his fellow
research team members are doing on parasites of howling
monkeys in Costa Rica.
He said the show was produced over a year’s time with
the crew filming the individual work of each researcher.
In the UNCA segment of the show, Stuart said he asked
two of his students to take part.
“We basically were demonstrating some of the tech
niques used in the parasitology lab, like viewing through
the microscope and preparing slides,” said Tracy Organ,
senior biology major.
“Dr. Stuart helped demonstrate taking fecal samples,
and prepared fecal material in a solution so it could be
looked at properly,” Organ said. “Then we looked for
parasites.” The film crew had the microscope hooked
up to a television screen so the television screen would
show what was under the microscope, she said.
“We looked for parasitic worms, eggs and cysts,
which would be passed out in fecal material,” Organ
said. “Usually the other kinds of parasites like flagel
lates and protozoans are a little bit harder to see. Victor
Burgess fotmd a worm on his shde.”
In addition to giving UNCA exposure, Stuart said the
program would also be publicity for UNCA’s under
graduate research program.
“Really, the whole purpose of the film was to give
everyone an insight into the undergraduate research
program, because most schools don’t offer that,” Otgan
said.
“The undergraduate research program is very unique,”
Stuart said. “It focuses on giving students experience
that will put them ahead in graduate school. It gives
them a chance to learn advanced techniques that aren’t
always available for undergraduates at other schools. It
gives the student a chance to excel, show what they can
do.”
Stuart said he takes his students on tours to visit
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Pan Pagan Association Recognizes
Ancestors In Halloween Ceremony
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
The UNCA Pan Pagan Association
plans to celebrate Samhain, a Pagan
holiday for ancestor worship, with a
spiral dance on the quad onHalloween
night, according to Terri Owen, group
coordinator.
“Samhain is the festival of the dead,”
Owen said. “It is the end of the Keltic
year and Nov. 1 is the beginning of the
new year. So, that is the time we deal
with the subject of life and death.”
While different Pagan groups cel
ebrate Samhain differently, the im
portance of Samhain is to honor one’s
ancestors with some sort of ritual or
ceremony, Owen said. Traditionally,
the ceremonies take place around a
large bonfire, and include a spiritual
dance accompanied by chanting, with
participants often in costumes.
In a compilation of files fi-om The
Institute for the Study of American
Rehgions, entitled “Magic, Witchcraft,
and Paganism in America,” J. Gordon
Melton said, “The line between Pagan
and Witch is vague in the extreme, but
within the larger Neo-Pagan commu
nity many individuals consider them
selves Pagans but notwitches.”Melton
added that most Neo-Pagans are of the
Norse, Greek, Egyptian and Druidic
traditions.
Owen describes being a Pagan as a
way of life rather than an organized
religion. “I think organized religion
makes you a bit of a puppet,” she said.
“Paganism is not about priests and
mass, and it is not about going to
church on Sunday morning. Paganism
is not something you have to be ac
cepted into, or indoctrinated in, in or
der to worship.”
However, according to Melton,
“Houston Roberts, better known by
his Pagan name, Cyprian, has begun
the process of producing a Pagan the
ology.”
“Pagans do not believe in Satan,”
Owen said. “We can not say, 'The
devil made us do it.’”
Pagans are polytheistic, but accord
ing to Owen, there is no embodiment
of evil to punish, or an embodiment of
goodness to reward. Therefore, she
says Pagans are responsible for their
own actions. Most Pagans worship
Mother Earth, but there are different
gods within the different sects of Pa-
gaitism. Almost all Pagans believe in
reincarnation, Owen added.
Pagan religions are the oldest forms
of religion according to Owen, and
they have been “bastardized” by orga-
iiized religions.
“The Catholic church stole the cos
tumes, robes and jewelry of the Druids
and used them as a means to control
people,” Owen said. “The Ku Klux
Klan, of all people, stole Druidic titles
like the Grand Wizard and the Grand
Dragon and turned them into some
thing horrible.”
One of the laws in Pagan theology,
according to Owen, states that Pagans
should not commit any emotional or
physical harm to anyone. “The nature
of man is basically naive,” Owen said.
“The best we can do is to seek the truth
and truth is what we can tangibly con
firm.”
The turn-out for the first meeting of
the Pan Pagan Association numbered
at about 35 people, Owen said. For the
second meeting, the Pan Pagan Asso
ciation held a forum on Satanism and
45-50 people attended. “We are curi
ous about Satanism because people
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PHILLIPS HALL
HAM
Take A Second Look
The top photo shows a campus sign with the mountains correctly placed within the right side of the
UNCA logo. The bottom photo shows a different campus sign with the mountains mysteriously reversed.
Vandals Leave Trail Of Paint In Frat Prank
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
Campus police officials investigat
ing two incidents of vandalism, both
involving white paint dumped over
fraternity logos on Highrise Service
Road, said the act was probably the
culmination of a conflict between fra
ternities.
According to a police report, on Oct.
21 in the pre-dawn hours, a campus
security officer on routine patrol no
ticed white paint poured over the Sigma
Pi fraternity letters. In a second police
report, dated Oct. 24, officers reported
that the Mud 500 Club logo had also
been painted. In both instances, offic
ers found paint cans left on the scene.
Dennis Gregory, investigator for the
Campus Police Department, said the
second incident was probably a retali
ation. However, in Gregory’s opinion,
the conflict began at the Mud 500
Club’s rock, located close to the soc-
cerfield, where an incident between
members of the Mud 500 Qub and
members of the Sigma Pi fraternity
supposedly took place.
“The rock, painted red with the
Mud 500 Club logo, is aplace where
members of Mud 500 Club occa
sionally drink,” Gregory said.
On Oct 24, Gregory reported to
The Blue Banner that finger prints
would be taken from the confiscated
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