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The University of North Carolina Asheville
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Forum addresses mission of university
Lynne Delk
Staff Writer
The Student Government Association
ij sponsored a forum on Oct. 6 about the
Staff Photo By Karen Brinson
and the UNCA chapter of the North Carolina Student Legislature
mission of the university.
Memtiers of UNCA’s administration,
faculty, and student txxly addressed
concerns al)out the university’s mission
statement and future growthinapublic
discussion on Oct. 6 in Lipinsky
Auditorium.
Panel memt)ers voiced support for tlie
current UNCA primary mission to offer
an undergraduate, liberal arts education
of superior quality for serious and able
students.
“I believe that UNCA is a small gem in
one of the large educational systems in
the country and I would like, very much,
to see that uniqueness preserved,” said
Lisa Henshaw, president of the UNCA
Alumni Association.
Concern about future changes in the
university surfaced afterC.D. Spangler,
president of the UNC system, asked for
Chancellor Samuel Schuman’s
resignation on Aug. 12.
Spangler reportedly wanted to see
UNCA, the only liberal arts campus in
the UNC system, double its size in the
next several years.
Spangler later modified his statement
to say that he wanted the university’s
enrolhnent to grow by 50 students per
year for the next five years, said
Schuman.
Schuman spoke freely in the first of
two forums sponsored by the Student
Government Association (SGA), and
the North Carolina StudentLegislature
(NCSL).
“One of the very few attractions alx)ut
my current situation is that I feel
absolutely free to say just about
anything I want,” Schuman said.
Spangler’s goal to see the university
grow by 50 students per year is not an
insignificant change, said Schuman.
“It is inconceivable to me tfiat this
institution could maintain the kind of
quality and special class ithas achieved
and see thatkindof growth,” Schuman
said.
UNCA needs to grow in areas of life
outside the classroom by providing
more central space where faculty and
students can interact, said Eric
lovacchini, vice chancellorfor student
affairs.
“Areas like this will encourage people
to gather and enhance the sense of
community,” said lovacchini.
Some panel members were not
opposed to speculative changes in
UNCA’s size.
“I l)eUeve that size of a school does
not matter,” said Charity Evans, UNCA
student and NCSL member. “If we do
not ctiange, we’ll stagnate."
Other panel members recognized
areas of needed change.
“One of the concerns I have is the
lack of diversity,” said DwightMullin,
associate professor of political science.
SGA and NCSL members organized
the forum to give students and faculty
a chance to clear the air conceming
future university changes, said Lesa
Trey, organizer of the forum. “It was a
time wlien students could come ask
questions, voice their opinion, offer
suggestions, and have their questions
answered,” she said.
The university sometimes makes
changes in policy during the summer
when students are not on campus and
liave Uttle chance to give input.
“Students are really kept in the dark,”
Trey said.
A referendum took place together
with the forum. Organizers designed
the ballot to analyze student support
for UNCA’s current mission.
“The referendum was to get a numtxr
from the student body to see just how
many people support the mission of
the university,” Trey said.
{Students take trip to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
I Dan Gilmore
I Staff Writer
The UNCA Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring a Uip to the U.S.
I Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The Uip is scheduled for
I Oct. 17-19.
The Weekend Student Life Program is co-sponsoring the trip and has given
a “very generous” grant to help underwrite this activity, said Richard Chess,
I assistant professor of literature.
“We decided last spring, after the opening of the museum, that it would be a
I good idea for the Center For Jewish S tudies to sponsor atriptothemuseum...it’s
1 really wonderful educational experience for anyone to go tlirough that
I museum and know that there’s a great deal of student interest in the Holocaust,”
I said Chess.
The student enthusiasm for the trip has teen overwhelming and the trip is
I oversubscritjed as a result, said Chess.
Chess says he hopes that this will be the first of an annual or biannual visit to
I the museum.
“I’ve been to the museum twice and I think that it’s a very fascinating and
I moving place,” said Chess.
“Some of the questions that we might explore together with the group of
I students include the question of why there is a Holocaust museum on the mall
in Washington, D.C. and, why did the United States Government authorize this
project and no government funds went into this project?” said Chess.
Funds for the project originated entirely from private sources, said Chess.
“Nevertheless, in the same environment as the Washington Monument, the
Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian, the White House, and the Capitol tniilding
do we have a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum?” said Chess.
Another question to be explored is the relationship between the architecture
ofthemuseum“whichis fascinating and intended to create a certain experience”
and content, said Chess.
“We’ll probably talk a little about Holocaust revisionism. We’ll probably
explore together with the group why they wanted to go on ttiis trip. 1 have a
feeling that there is a wide range of reasons motivating people to give up their
fall break to go to D.C. to visit the museum,” said Chess.
The group will meet with museum representatives, said Chess, and that he will
meet with the museum director to talk about future projects that the Center for
Jewish Studies can do in relation to the museum.
“1 know that there are a few Jewish students who are going, some of whom we
weren’t aware of prior to this trip,” said Chess.
The awareness of the presence of Jewish students at UNCA helps the center
“reach out to other Jewish students and let them know that it is safe to be a
Jewish person at UNC A... that they can identify themselves openly,” said
Chess.
The center can provide some services to them as Jewish students, said chess,
but the mission of the center is “to reach all students, Jewish and non-Jewish,
to offer them some more education and background ;n terms of Jewish
historical experience, cultural life, religious life and values.”
Part of that mission is Holocaust education, said Chess.
The center also provides “materials and resource people, not only to enhance
Holocaust education studies on campus, but also to provide some resources to
public school teachers throughout the region of Western North Carolina,” said
Chess.
“Traditionally, the Center for Jewish Studies has offered a one day seminar
for publicichool teachers...on the subject of the Holocaust, offering them a
curriculum, as well as some lectures and information about the Holocaust
itself,” said Chess.
The center is also exploring other ways to reach out to the Western North
Carolina region conceming the study of the Holocaust, added Chess.
“We’ve sent three or four teachers to participate in week long seminars
sponsored by a group called Facing History and Ourselves,” said Chess.
This group explores the issue of prejudice and how the teaching of prejudice
occurs in the public school setting, said Chess, “and in a particular case study
they focus on the case of the Holocaust. They look at how one can teach the
Holocaust in a public school environment and then use that particular historical
experience as a kind of model for reflecting on other experiences having to do
with prejudice and oppression.” ^
The trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is another way to enhance
Holocaust education throughout the Western North Carolina region, said
Chess.
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Kent Thompson
Staff Writer
Rotiert Moog, inventor of the Moog
S ynthesizer, gave a lecture on the work
of Raymond Scott, last Sunday, in
Lipinsky Auditorium.
Scott’s music accompanies the antics
of cartoon characters such as Bugs
Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many of the
Sesame Street characters. Scott was
also the leader of the Raymond Scott
Quintet and the Lucky Strike Hit
Parade Orchestra.
The main focus of the lecture was to
show the two sides of Scott. “Raymond
Scott, in addition to being a very
talented musician, was a prolific
inventor,” said Moog.
Moog began by discussing Scott’s
work in the early 1930s, when Scott
worked for CBS Radio.
A few years into his radio career,
Scott founded the Lucky Strike Hit
Parade Orchestra, which became very
successful in the late 1930s, prxxlucing
“highly descriptive instrumentals,”
said Moog.
In the mid-1930s, Carl Stalhng and
Warner Brothers began using Scott’s
music in cartoons. Moog showed
several recordings of these cartoons,
and explained that some of Scott’s
music is still used in cartoons that are
produced today.
According to Moog, the cartoon
music was never officially credited to
Scott, and Scott, who never watched
cartoons, may have never realized that
his music was so widely us^.
After World War II, Scott f)egan
composing background music for
commercials. Moog showed recorded
examples of commercials that used
Scott’s compositions, including
advertisements for Scott Tissue,
Mercury, and AutoUte.
“The musical compositions
themselves, could stand alone, but
also fit perfectly with the commercial
material,” said Moog.
Moog explained how Scott adapted
the Theremin, a musical instrument
that uses radio waves and hand
movements, with an octave of keys
from a piano.
He gave a demonstration, projecting
a live, close-up video shot of the
“crude” workings of the keyboard
and the Theremin.
Scott later added two additional
octaves to the instrument, said Moog,
and announced his invention of the
Scott Clavivox, a keyboard-
controlled Theremin.
Moog played an audio recording of
the only piece of music ever written
for the Clavivox. He said Scott
became bored with the instrument,
and the Clavivox never went into
production.
Today, Scott is 84 and is ^ing a
“very modest” retirement, said Moog.
“He left a legacy of ideas behind,
andmanyofhis inventions were way
ahead of their time,” Moog said in
closing.
All students enrolled in the audio
technology courses in the music
department are required to attend
Moog’s lectures, said Wayne Kiiby,
chairman and associate professor of
music.
“The lectures are serving as an
integral part of the music technology
curriculum," Kirby said.
Moog’s lecture on Scott was the
second lecture in a four-part series
entitled, “Titans of Music
Technology.” The series explores the
work of early inventors and composers
of elecU'onic music.
Moog’s fu-st lecture in this series, given
on Sept. 12, intfoduced a new feature-
length film based on the life of Leon"
Theremin, cellist, physicist, and
inventor.
In this lecture, Moog showed several
video clips from the film, and gave a
demonstration of the Theremin.
The next lecture in the “Titans of Music
Technology” series is scheduled for
Feb. 13, at 4 p.m., in the Lipinsky
Auditorium. Moog is scheduled to speak
about Vladimir Ussachevsky, aRussian
vaudeville pianist, who became the
founding father of the tape music
medium in the United States.
Moog will demonstrate the basic
processes of tape music which
Ussachevsky developed.
In the final lecture of the “Titans”
series, Moog will discuss the work of
Alwin Nikolais, a world-famous
choreographer. Nikolais was among the
first to create his own dance scores with
electronic instruments and tape
recorders.
Moog will demonstrate the techniques
Nikolais used to compose a score using
several electronic instruments.
Admission to the lectures is free to
UNCA students. College for Seniors
membership card holders, and 1993-94
UNCA Friends of Music members.
Moog is currently working on a
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
(MIDI)-controlledTheremin. Theterm
MIDI is known as a language between
musical instruments.
“It will enable a performer’s gestures
to be recorded, edited, and used to play
back any electronic sound in a MIDI
system,” he said.
Photo Coutesty of the UNCA music department
Robert Moog, inventer of the Moog Synthesizer, presented a
lecture on Oct. 10 about composer Raymond Scott, whose Works
appear in some animated cartoons.
Correction
In the Oct. 7 issue of The Blue Banner, a story entitled
"Volleyball team wins 20th straight conference match"
contained some incorrect figures. The article stated that
UNCA defeated East Tennessee State University 15-12,10-
15, 15-12,16-14. Actually, ETSU defeated UNCA. In
addition, some quotes given by head coach Lisa Rhodes
were fabricated. The Blue Banner regrets this error.