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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." — G.K. Chesterton
Volume 19, Number 8
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Thursday, November 7, 1991
Committee Examines UNCA
Foreign Language Courses
Mia Anderson
Staff Writer
staff Photo By Loren Stephens
Representatives from the National Institute of En\nronmental Health Services participated in UNCA's
annual fall semester Career Day '91, held Nov, 1. Students had the opportunity to speak with potential
employers and graduate schools about career options after graduation. The UNCA Career Center sponsored
Career Day '91.
Career Day '91: Employment
Market Flat; Prospects Slim
The UNCA Academic Policies Com
mittee (APC) met Oct. 31 to discuss a
possible revision of the foreign lan
guage general education requirement.
William Sabo, chairman of the com
mittee and associate professor of po
litical science, said the purpose of the
committee is not to change the goals of
the general education requirements but
to “determine if the courses are achiev
ing their ends.”
The committee will examine every
general education requirement within
the next four to five years. When re
viewing the courses, APC will ask,
“Are the guiding principles being trans
lated into reality,” said Sabo.
Sabo said he did not foresee any
major reforms in the general educa
tion requirements, but there will be
some changes.
“General education means more to
the faculty than the number of hours.”
Through the general education courses,
the faculty wants to help their students
understand other cultures, said Sabo.
This foreign language hearing was
the second of the general education
requirement reviews. During the pre
vious meeting, APC made changes in
the bibliography requirement
The purpose of the bibliography re
quirement is to teach students how to
use the library. Sabo said there are too
many juniors and seniors who do not
know how to use the library efficiently.
As a result, the bibliography require
ment will be stricter in the future.
The committee did not make any
definite changes in the foreign lan
guage requirement. However, the
members questioned the professors’
objectives in their classes and asked if
the students were fulfilling these ob
jectives.
Lauren Wilson, vice-chancellor for
academic affairs, said there are disad
vantages for the students when the
faculty doesn’t agree and each profes
sor has a different objective.
William Thurman of the classics de
partment said the professors must “look
in vain to find a common denomina
tor in the course,” because the stu
dents come into the classes with dif
ferent levels of learning and knowl
edge.
Thurman said learning a foreign lan
guage requires the student to learn
self-discipline.
Guy Cooper, chairman of the clas
sics department, said the objective of
the course was “to teach a language
system not discipline.”
Larry Dorr, professor of philosophy
and a member of the committee, noted
it was important to remember APC
was not evaluating a particular
professor’s course. “The committee
is looking at the degree to which the
actual teaching of the courses meets
the general education requirement,”
said Dorr.
The one issue the committee and the
majority of the foreign language and
classics departments agreed on was
the effectiveness of the fast-track pro
grams. These classes allow the stu-
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
Representatives from over 30 com
panies, government agencies, and
graduate schools took part in Career
Day 91 on Nov. 1 in the Highsmith
Center lobby.
According to UNCA’s Career Cen
ter, the annual event is held in the fall
semester to give students a chance to
talk with prospective employers and
to get information about what qualifi
cations jobs may require.
In addition to giving out literature,
some representatives said they have
job vacancies they and are accepting
applications. Government representa
tives fiom Buncombe County, Na
tional Institute of Environmental
Health Services, and the U.S. Navy’s
Office of the Comptroller said they
have jobs available.
According to Susan Byrd, the Black
Mountain Center, a state facility for
the mentally retarded, has positions it
wants to fill.
The National Park Service said there
are summer j obs open for park rangers
and maintenance workers, but the ap
plication deadline is Jan. 15,1992.
Robert Thomberry, Jr., personnel
director for Buncombe County, said
the coimty is the second largest em
ployer in the area, with the school
systems being the first. He said his
office updates the list of jobs available
every week and sends it out to the
Employment Security Commission
and 52 other offices in the area, includ
ing UNCA,
He said the lists of job vacancies are
usually posted on bulletin boards by
the offices that receive them. Accord
ing to Thomberry, he carmot predict
what vacancies might occur, so he said
students should check the list on the
bulletin board each week to see if
Buncombe County has a job open in
their field of specialty.
In addition to the government agen
cies that have job openings, several
company representatives said they also
have vacancies. Representatives for
Harris Teeter, Wendy’s, and Norwest
Financial, Inc., said they have man
agement trainee positions available.
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Sprucing Up Photo By Eric Connor
Two grants totaling $7,916 are financing the addition of more than 90 trees to the UNCA grounds.
More than 20 flowering trees are being planted on the quad this fall, including those at the entrance to
Karpen Hall (above).
Campus Food Drive
Aims For 2,000 Cans
Leslie Bell
Staff Writer
The Student Government Associa
tion, along with organizations and de
partments on campus, is sponsoring a
food drive to assist community service
organizations in the Asheville area,
scheduled to end Nov. 22.
The SGA will give the food to some
of the organizations here in Asheville,
including the Asheville-Buncombe
Community' Christian Ministry
(ABCCM).
According to Stephen Alexander,
executive to the president, the SGA
has set a campus goal of 2,000 cans.
The deadline for turning in cans is
Nov. 22.
The best way to go about reaching
this goal is to involve everyone on
campus. “This cause needs the help of
each individual, organization and de
partment to be successful,” said
Alexander.
SGA is providing drop-off boxes in
the resident assistant’s rooms and in
the SGA office in the Highsmith Cen
ter.
In order to be able to reach the cam
pus-wide goal of 2,000 cans, SGA
assigned eachgroiqi anindividual goal.
According to Alexander, the lowest
goal set was five cans, which was for
Chancellor Samuel Schuman. The
highest goal set was 50 cans and that
goal was set for a couple of the sorori
ties and fraternities and for SGA
Each resident hall also has a goal to
meet. The hallway collecting the most
cans will win free pizza.
Aexander suggested some ways to
promote the collecting of cans. One
way is to collect a can from each
person on the hall in each of the dorms.
Anotherway is to go the grocery store
and buy a few cans of food, or by
bringing a few cans from home when
returning from the weekend.
“People think of 2,000 cans as being
a lot of cans. But when you break that
down, you can go to the store and buy
about three cans of food for around a
dollar. If everyone spent a dollar, then
our goal could easily be reached,” said
Aexander.
Aexander said the SGA is trying to
stick to canned food only, rather than
collecting money. The canned food is
non-perishable and has a long storage
time.
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Photo By Marc KivnIemI
Karpen Climbers
Freshman Kayet Lavate (above) climbs the rock wall outside
Karpen Hail at the "Kickoff to the November Climbing Season."
According to Marjorie Meares, the rock wall will be open for climbing
from 3 to 6 p.m. Nov. 8,14 and 22; climbing trips are scheduled for
Nov. 9 and 17. For more information about UNCA outdoor recreation
activities contact Meares at 251-6678 between 9 a.m. and noon.
Visitation Day Focuses On
Minority Student Enrollment
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
The African-American Student Visi
tation Day, held Nov. 2 in Karpen
Hall, interested only four prospective
students but was still viewed as a suc
cess, according to Richard White, mi
nority recruiting coordinator.
“I don’t think students are very aware
of what Asheville is like,” White said.
“When you mention mountains, stu
dents have connotations of cow pas
tures and hillbillies. UNCA is also
fairly new across the state and not that
well-known yet.
The number of African-American
students who participated in the open
house on OcL 26 was also low, accord
ing to White. “Many African-Ameri
cans tudents are looking for much more
populated areas like Greensboro and
Charlotte,” White said.
Lauren Wilson, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said the number of
African-American students was larger
during the Oct. 26 open house than the
open house specifically for African-
Americans. Out of 172 students, he
estimated thatsixwereAfiican-Ameri-
cans. However, according to both
Whiteand Wilson, the African-Ameri
can Student Visitation day was a suc
cess.
The Office of Institutional Re
search reported that out of UNCA’s
total student enrollment, 3,085 stu
dents are white, 101 students are
Black and 75 students are classified
as “other.” The breakdown of fac
ulty members, according to the Of
fice of Institutional Research, in
cluding full and part-time employ
ees, is; 218 white, seven Black, one
Native American, two Asian and
three Hispanic.
“We recruit all across the state of
North Carolina,” White said. “I spe
cifically go to the cities that have
large numbers of African-Ameri
can students.” UNCA also recruits
from Georgia, Florida, Virginia,
Tennessee and South Carolina, and
according to White, hopes to set up
programs farther north in the spring.
The r^ponsibility of recruiting
minority students lies on the admis
sions office as a whole. White said.
“Just like I recruit white students,
the other officers are equally charged
to recruit Black students,” he added.
UNCA is operating tmder a pro
gram handed down by the General
Administration of the UNC-system
to further increase minority enroll-
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