The Blue Banner
Thurs., Sept. 9,1993
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Students continued from page one
“I know we have students who have
financial need and, either because we
are out of money or because of their
circumstances, tlie only thing they are
eligible for is a loan. And while we
offer loans we have students that turn
that down because they don’t want to
borrow,” said Miller.
Students are awarded financial aid on
a first-come, first-serve basis. “The
government rules are the neediest
families are awarded first. But if you
were the neediest in March (completed
the application in March) then you
were the neediest in that group in
March, then the neediest in July could
be adifferent, different set of students
and figures income,” said McEb^th.
“We ask students to at least begin
the process after January 1. We ask
that they fmish the process by March
1. This is in order to be considered
for scholarship. That’s the deadline
for scholarship. It is also our priority
filing date for getting all of the
financial aid,” said McEhath.
The financial aid office considers
applicants throughout the year. “Even
if they begin the process right now
they can still get financial aid for this
semester if they are eligible,”
McEh^th said.
One of the mistakes students make
that slows down the fmancial aid
p'ocess is not including all the sheets
of the smdent aid report. Another
mistake is not including both pages
of the cover letter. It has special
meaning for financial aid officials.
“I can not award you if you haven’t
given us everything,” said McElrath.
The most common mistake is
excluding the earned income credit
from the tax return that has to be on
the application.
Seriescontinued fronn page one
Bolshakov to speak at WAC
Dan Gilmore
Staff Writer
The World Affairs Council of Western
North Carolina will hold the fu"st lecture
of a four part series on “Global
Relations in the Year 2000: Russia,
Latin America, United States, Japan”
on Sept. 13,1993at7p.m.intheOwen
Conference Center.
Speakers will discuss the social,
political and economic attitudes in
global relationships as they pertain to
theircountries and regions. Othertopics
to be discussed will be the coming
changes in those attitudes and how
those changes will affect the global
relations of his country apd region in
the year 2000.
“The social, economic and political
ties between major countries continue
to expand and to exert a growing
influence in our daily lives. To be able
to understand what our part of the
world is about, we need to understand
what the rest of the world is about. The
World Affairs Council consistently
brings to Western North Carolina
lectures on international topics by noted
experts,” said George Yates, professor
of management in a UNCA news
release.
The first speaker in the series is Boris
Bolshakov, deputy chair. Supreme
Soviet Committee on Defense and
Security Issues.
Bolshakov served, according to a
biographical pamphlet supplied by
Bolshakov, as Boris Yeltsin’s
campaign manager in the Ivanovo
region about 120 miles from
Moscow.
He is an elected Peoples’ Deputy of
the Ivanovo region and was elected
at the same time Yeltsin was. The
Bolshakov lecture will be followed
by “45 minutes of question and
answer,” said Yates.
Bolshakov also serves on the
Constitution Committee, This
committee was established to prepare
a new constitution for the Russian
Republic.
Bolshakov was bom in 1950 in
Siberia “where his father was a
professional trapper,” the pamphlet
said. “After graduating from
technical school at age 19 he went to
Siberia to work in coal mining.”
“He entered the military and served
two years in the East,” in 1969. After
leaving military service in 1971, he
entered the university at Ivanovo.
“During this time he became
Comsomol Secretary of the Ivanovo
region in which capacity his specific
duties included being responsible for
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people 15-28 years old. He earned his
degree in physics and continued to
work with young people,” the
pamphlet said.
Bolshakov was invited in 1977 to
join the KGB where his specialty was
security. He obtained the rank of
colonel and was a unit leader in
Ivanovo,
He now “divides his time between
Ivanovo and Moscow where he lives
during the week on the 22nd floor of
the parliament building housing
complex,” the pamphlet says.
Bolshakov “was in charge of security
during the coup attempt, one of the
people in the Russian Parliament
Building (Russian White House)
when the special KGB troops were
ordered to storm it.”
Bolshakov was the individual who
placed the call to the commander of
the KGB troops to inform him that to
conduct such an attack would be a
“Big mistake,” the pamphlet said.
Bolshakov “frequently travels to
European countries (often Brussels,
Belgium) to discuss security and/or
defense issues.”
His only visit to the United States
was in Oct. 1992 “at the invitation of
Senator Nunn, to discuss security
issues,” according to the pamphlet.
like they didn’t get it.”
Thfc audience dispersed quickly after
the films ended. Organizers promised
an opportunity for discussion after
future films to promote greater
understanding. They plan to have a
facilitator available to mediate the
discussion.
“The community has been invited,
because we feel like that’s an area
where we can help generate some
discussion,” said Hopkins. “We hope
we’re not preaching to the choir. We
hope to have some people there who
will oppose the view maybe.
“I think you don’t ever learn anything
unless you have both sides of the issue,”
said Hopkins.
‘To have just one side represented,
just the gay, lesbian and bisexual side
and not to have the heterosexual or
even homophobic side represented,
then I think you are missing out on
something," he said.
Representatives of UP and the
officers of GAL A were pleased with
the turn-out for the first night.
They expect an even larger
audience for the better known films
in the series and for the ones that are
more controversial.
Organizers consider ‘Tongues
Untied,” an account of black gay
life by Emmy Award-winning
Marlon Riggs, to be one of the most
controversial fihns in the series.
“We did not screen any of the
films. We used written descriptions
of the films to decide which ones
we wanted and tried to come up
with a broad-based series of films
on gay and lesbian lifestyles,” said
Hopkins.
“Tongues Untied' did not show
on our public television in North
Carolina because of the extreme
use of profanity and some of the
graphic nature of the film.”
Loftin expects a big crowd for
both “Torch Song Trilogy” and
“Desert Hearts.” “Torch Song
Trilogy” is the next film to be shown
on September 9.
The series will end November 11
with a critical issues symposium,
featuring a panel discussion by
UNCA faculty, staff and students.
“The lofty goal of the series is
edification,” said Loftin. “But the
primary purpose is to provide
pleasure.”
“‘Images in Film’ is going to be a
series that we do every year,” said
Hopkins.
“Next year images might be on
women’s issues, w it might be on
African-American culture, or it
might be on the environment. This
is just the very first one.”
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Apraku returns from Ghana
Brenda Webster
Staff Writer
An assistant professor of economics
returned to UNCA after a 2-year
absence and a bid for parliamentary
office in his homeland of Ghana.
“When I made the decision to go in
1991,1 was fulfilling a responsibility
that I felt I had,” said Kofi K. Apraku.
“I felt that I could mdke a contribution
to the country of Ghana. I also felt that
society had invested so much in me I
had an obligation to go and make a
contribution, but I was disappointed.”
Apraku met with Adu Boahen, a
visiting professor of history at Cornell
University, upon his arrival in Ghana.
Boahen asked him to outline a policy
that would stop Ghana’s economic
decline but would also enhance its
prospects for economic development.
He also asked Apraku to manage his
campaign for presidential candidacy
of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), said
Apraku.
Boahen won his party’s nomination,
and appointed Apraku as his principle
aid, personal spokesman, and
economic spokesman of their party.
Apraku also was nominated as a
parliament constituency candidate of
the NPP, according the Apraku.
Apraku received his education in the
United States and is accustomed to
free expression of speech and iwess.
When he returned to Ghana, he was
expected to keep silent about
government oppression and only give
economic advice to the masses that
perpetuated the ruling party’s agenda.
Apraku said political and economic
conditions are extremely bad in
Ghana, and he was forced to return to
the United States as a matter of
survival. “The Ghanaian govemmeni
espouses the ideology of democracy,
but it actually exists in the form of a
dictatorship,” said Apraku.
“On the economic front, there are
tremendous opportunities in terms ol
advancement,” said Apraku. “Africi
still lacks a lot of professional people
and the economy is very weak. You
can have a very responsible, a verj
powerful position, but the economic
situation is such that you cannot liv(
or survive on your salary.
Apraku and Boahen toured much oi
the country, denouncing the economic
and political oi^ressicjn of the New
Demcx:ratic Congress (NDC) whicl
is headed by Retired First Lieutenan
Jerry Rahlings. They were wel
received by the masses, but highlj
despised by the government
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