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Volume 19, Number 12
TTie University of North Carolina at Asheville
Thurs., Dec. 5,1991
Administration Pleased With
Spring Term Pre-Registration
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
Staff Photo By Loren Stephens
Freshmen filed into Lipinsky Hall last week for spring 1992 pre-registration. Although many major
courses closed early, general education classes remained open for most underclassmen.
Better planning, rigid scheduling of
appointments, and stand-by signup
sheets helped make registration for
spring term one of the smoothest in
years, said Joanne Garrett, UNCAreg-
istrar.
"For the spring semester there was a
more appropriate number of sections
to meet the demand of students," said
Garrett. "It was good planning on the
part of the departments."
Garrett said "interest lists" cut down
on the amount of students who had to
run back and forth between registra
tion and instructors. "Once all sections
of a course were closed, then students
signed up on a special "interest list,"
said Garrett She said the lists will
allow course instructors to know who
isinterestedinaparlicular class, should
openings occur during drop/add.
The interestliststoppedstudents from
having to return to the registration line
with an instructor's permission to add
a class. That, said Garrett, kept lines
short and moving quickly.
UNCA offered more courses during
pre-registration forspring 1992 than it
did in the fall of 1991, according to
Lauren Wilson, vice chancellor for
academic affairs.
“We had far fewer closed classes
than in some previous registrations,”
Wilson said. “We're trying to add sec
tions for some of the more requested
courses.”
Some students said they got the
courees but not the seaions that they
wanted. “I had no problem at all ex
cept for ARTS 310,” said Mardy
Murphy, a junior arts major. “The one
I wanted was full. So I had to take
another seaion. But that may have
been because I am a junior. I’m going
to the teacher and beg to get in.”
Several students said they did have
problems getting courses. “I could not
get everything I needed,” said Joe
Martin, a sophomore majoring in eco
nomics. “ECON 210 was closed, and
I need that in my major.”
In some cases, courses that students
wanted were not being offered for the
spring semester. Naseem Ostovar, a
freshman who has riot declared a ma
jor, said she did not get the foreign
language class she needed. “I could
not get SPAN 120 because they were
only offering fast-track.”
In a fast-track foreign language
course, a student can meet the gen
eral education requirement by sign
ing up for Term I and Term II courses
for six hours of credit in one semes
ter.
“We do still offer some of the regu
lar courses, but what we are finding is
that people are coming up with the
background in foreign languages,
which puts them ahead of the lower
level courses,” said Henry Stem, head
of the foreign languages department
Another student said she could not
get a philosophy course she wanted.
“We were told to take inductive and
deductive philosophy courses forpre-
law,” Rebecca Miller, a sophomore
majoring in literature and pre-law.
“Usually they offer one in the spring
and one in the fall, but they totally
wiped out the one I wanted this time.
So I will have to wait a year to take
it.”
Geology
Student,
Advisor
Mistaken For
Consuitants
Leslie Bell
Staff Writer
Katherine Potter, a UNCA geology
student, and her advisor Bill Miller
had to appear before the Buncombe
County Board of Commissioners and
a local citizens’ group last month to
prove what Potter was doing during
her field work as part of an internship
with a geological survey.
According to Miller, assistant pro
fessor of environmental studies, Pot
ter is working toward an individual
ized degree in environmental geol
ogy, which includes collecting heavy
mineral sediments and mapping con
tacts.
Mapping contacts means to deter
mine the boundary between two dif
ferent rock types in order to make a
geologic map.
Potter hasbeencollectinghersamples
in the northern part of Buncombe
Coimty for a statewide geological sur
vey. Potter told the Asheville Citizen-
Tim^, “During the first part of my
project I had to collect heavy mineral
sediments out of streams in a six- mile
square area just due west of
Schuman Ranks
UNCA High Among
Competing Schools
Potter
Weaverville,” she said.
Miller said Potter needed to find
streams in an isolated area to avoid
contamination of her samples. While
Potter and Gary Miller, professor of
environmental studies, were in the six-
mile radius of the Woodfin-
Weaverville area, they had to cross the
property of a landowner who was not
home at the time.
Because they were on a limited time
scale, they proceeded to the stream
and started their sampling. When the
woman returned she became upset and
mistook Potter and her advisor as con
sultants on the landfill issue and
thought they were working for the
state. Potter has Florida tags on her car
which confused the woman evenmore.
B. Miller said the state brought in
outside consultants from Florida to
work on the landfill issue. “This is a
good idea because you want to get as
objective advice as possible,” said
Miller. The Alexander and Weaverville
areas are some of the prime sites at this
time, said Miller.
Mia Anderson
Staff Writer
Chancellor Samuel Schuman spoke
about the future of UNCA from a
marketing perspective at the UNCA
Society for the Advancement of
Management’s Nov. 12 meeting in
Owen Hall.
“The most important thing is to es
tablish a stature of distinctiveness and
uniqueness.” The chancellor said
UNCA is lucky because it is a small,
selective, high quality, liberal arts pub
lic university, the only one of its kind
in North Carolina.
UNCA offers the kind of education
“offered by small, selective, extraor
dinarily, high-priced, elite, private in
stitutions,” said Schumaa
When comparing UNCA to Guilford
College, where Schxunan was previ
ously vice president of academic af
fairs, the students’ SAT scores, high
school class rank, the curriculum and
the distribution among majors were
very similar, he said.
"Eighty-five percent of the faculty at
both UNCA and Guilford have the
desired advanced education and adoc-
torate in their field," Schuman said.
The difference is in the tuition price.
Guilford’s tuition is 10 times as much
as UNCA tuition. “We are selling a
comparable product, in terms of the
educational experience, for a tenth of
the price.” Schuman said people can’t
believe the product (a UNCA educa
tion) is that good for such a low price.
UNCA must sell itself to potential
students. UNCA has a number of cli
ents ranging from the 18-year-oldjust
graduated from high school to the 40-
year-old full-time worker to the 65-
year-old retiree, Schuman said.
There has been a steady increase of
about two percent in the number of
out-of-state students coming to UNCA
There will never be a great number of
out-of-state students because of the
large difference in the tuition price.
UNCA’s market will always be North
Carolina, said Schuman
Over the past several years there has
been a steep increase in the number of
students coming from outside West
ern North Carolina, he said.
The sales message is being accepted
by the public, said Schuman. UNCA
has accepted 151 students for next fall,
compared to the 90 accepted last year
Please See 'Compete,” Page 8
staff Photo By Loron Stephens
Standing Tall
UNCA Cheerleaders try to rally support from the home crowd
during the Nov. 23 game against Union College. The
Bulldogs eventually lost the game, 65-60. See related story, page 5.
For Your Information.
From staff reports
Campus Get-Together
The final all-campus Chancellor’s Get-Together of the semester will take
place Tues., Dec. 10 at 3 p.m. in the lobby of Lipinsky Hall. All students,
faculty and staff are encouraged to come out for this social gathering.
As a special feature of the get-together, members of several student
groups will be singled out for recognition. Students to be honored include
those chosen for the next edition of Who's Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities, those being inducted into Phi Eta
Sigma, the freshman honorary society; those who serve as ambassadors
through the admissions department, and those who voluntarily assist with
registration. Refreshments will be served
Pisgah Players To Stage Paradise Lost
The Pisgah Players will stage David Hopes' adaptation of John Milton's
epic poem. Paradise Lost, Dec. 5,6 and 7 at Lipinsky Hall. Curtain time
will be 8 p.m. Admission is $5.
Animal-Rights Activists Picket Local Furrier
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Network for
Animals, an animal rights group, pro
tested the fur industry in front of
Enman’s Furriers on Battery Park
Avenue Nov. 29, according to Kayla
Rosko.UNCAstudentand Asheville’s
NCNA chapter coordinator.
Rosko said the Asheville protest was
part of “Fur-Free Friday,” an annual
event in which animal-rightst groups
across the country protest the fur in
dustry.
“Animal-rights groups have made
tremendous progress against the fur
industry over the past decade,” Rosko
said. “In fact, countless large fur stores
have filed for bankruptcy.”
However, Leann Enman of Enman’s
Furriers said, “The fur industry is suf
fering from many of the same down
ward trends in sales as other retailers
are. Unless the animal extremist would
like to take credit for the recession as
a whole, I don’t think they are causing
any undue stress to furriers,” Enman
said.
Michael Rosko, also of NCNA, said,
“If we let these types of businesses
exploit animals, endanger animals
and torture animals in the name of the
dollar, we don’t feel that we are good
citizens.”
The protesters said that the ladders
and workers stationed outside of
Erunan’s was a ploy on the part of the
furrier to inhibit their march.
“We j\ist started some building reno
vations,” Enman said. “It just so hap
pened that we contracted these gentle
men to work on the sign a while back
and they contacted us when they had
their first available day. It just hap
pened to be Friday.
“It was unfortunate that the two
clashed, but by the same token, I don’t
feel obligated to rearrange my sched
ule just because these people were
having whatever it was they were hav
ing,” Enman said. "At this point, it
(protesting) is kind of passe. It is kind
of a non-issue and not something I am
all that concerned about.”
K. Rosko said, “Many of the animals
are trapped, shot, drowned, or stomped
on for their fuis. Ecologically there is
less energy spent (making synthetic
furs) than there is to actually process
animal pelts.”
According to Enman, 75 percent of
the fur they use is “U.S. bred, ranch-
raised mink” and 90 percent of the fur
farms in the U.S. are certified by the
Fur Farm Animal Welfare Coalition.
“Some furs do come from trappers,”
Enman said. “Animals like the coyote
need to be killed because they destroy
sheep in the Midwest Trapping is still
a viable means of wildlife manage
ment.”
In a news release put out by the
NCNA, M. Rosko said that many of
the animals on ranches die from elec
trocution or suffocation. “If Enman’s
wants to be in the fur business, let
them make fake furs,” M. Rosko said.
“This (using animal pelts) is a form of
barbarism.”