The Blue Banner
"Progress robs us of past delights." - Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Volume 22, Number 24
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Thurs., April 14, 1994
UNC Board of Governors selects Reed to be new chancellor
The Northern Arizona administrator will take office as UNCA's seventh chancellor on June 15
Teri Smith
Staff Writer
Patsy Bostick Reed was elected to
the position of UNCA chancellor by
the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors last week. Reed
will be UNCA’s seventh chancellor
and the first woman appointed to the
position when she takes office on June
15.
Reed was back on the UNCA campus
earlier this week. She attended a
performance of "Candide" and several
other campus events.
“I am truly delighted and pleased to
be coming here. Dewitt [her husband]
and I are looking forward to coming
to the community and becoming a
part of it,” said Reed.
Reed said that her primary focus
upon arrival will be to get to know the
campus.
“I need to get to know people. That
includes faculty, administration,
students, and staff,” she said. “I also
need to get to know the state.”
“r m not coming in with an agenda or
with a particular orientation,” said
Reed. “I believe this is a very strong
university, and I want to work with
people to make it even stronger. In
order to do that, I must gel to know the
people I work with.”
Reed said she did not have the
background at this point to comment
on the future size of UNCA.
“I purposefully chose this university
for its size,” she said. “I wanted to
move from a larger to a smaller
university. I have no intention of
trying to make this university into the
image of the institution I left.”
UNCA Board of Trustees Chairman
James Banks said the board is pleased
with the outcome of the chancellor
search.
“The UNCA Board of Trustees looks
forward to working with Dr. Reed in
moving the university forward in its
mission to serve the region and the
state asNorth Carolina’s public liberal
arts university,” Banks said.
“Dr. Reed’s vision and energy.
has been serving as interim UNCA
chancellor, feels Reed’s skills and
experience will fit well with UNCA’s
goals, according to a campus press
release.
“Dr. Reed’s solid experience at a strong
public university, her background in
“I'm not coming in with an agenda or with a particular
orientation, ” said Reed. “I believe this is a very strong
university and I want to work with people to make it even
stronger In order to do that I must get to know the people
I work with. ”
combined with her considerable
experience, make for a dynamic
combination, one that promises a
strong relationship with the campus
and the wider community,” he said.
Larry Wilson, the UNCA vice
chancellor for academic affairs who
science, and her commitment to the
liberal arts will aid UNCA in its public
liberal arts mission.” Wilson said.
“Dr. Reed brings a depth in
administrative talent and an
understanding of the relationship of an
institution in the public sector,” said
Shirley Browning, chair of the Faculty
Senate and a member of the search
committee. “Her commitment to
undergraduate education and teaching
excellence within the liberal arts and
sciences environment is consistent with
UNCA and its mission and should
serve the university well.”
“I look forward to her arrival on
campus and to working with her," he
said.
Reed, 57, has been the vice president
for academic affairs at Northern
Arizona University in Flagstaff since
1987, and served as that university’s
interim president from July 1993 to
March 1994.
She has also served at Northern
Arizona as assistant/associate vice
president from academic affairs from
1985-87 and as dean of the School of
Applied Sciences, College of Design
and Technology from 1981-1984. She
has been a professor of nutrition at
Northern Arizona since 1979.
Reed replaces Samuel Schuman who
stepped down as UNCA Chancellor in
December 1993.
She was selected through an extensive
search process.
A 15-member UNCA Chancellor
Search Committee, made up of
representatives from the UNCA
faculty, administration, student body,
board of trustees and alumni, received
more than 240 applications and
nominations.
' The pool was narrowed through
resume review, personal interview,
team visits to candidates’ campuses,
and candidate visits to UNCA.
The committee submitted the names
of two final candidates, Reed and
Barbara Hetrick of Hood College in
Frederick, Md., to UNC PresidentC.D.
Spangler, who then selected one
candidate to nominate to the UNC
Board of Governors for election.
SGA scholarships questioned
Rebekah Stivers
Staff Writer
A motion for a university student defender and an assistant student defender
not to receive their Student Government Association (SGA) scholarships was
made at the SGA meeting on March 30. The SGA Senate vote reached a tie on
both motions, and the tie was brolcen by Vice President Gerard Moses.
“I had no idea. I didn’t know the scholarships were coming up. Nobody told
me anything about this at all,” said University Student Defender W. Ross
Bryan, whose scholarship was one in question. “Nobody warned me about
anything. Nobody said anything that I was doing a bad job. Nobody criticized
me at all. I had nothing to go on at all.” Bryan said he plans to have no further
involvement with SGA after this semester.
Assistant Student Defender Ben Leonard, whose scholarship was also
discussed, said he, too, had no idea his scholarship would be in question.
Leonard said he was called into the meeting after some discussion of his
scholarship had occurred.
“There was some testimony being given about my [job] performance by
several individuals, and as soon as I walked in, they just basically shut up, said
Leonard. He said he and Bryan were “completely misrepresented.”
Moses said the scholarship amounts for SGA members were approved during
the middle of last semester, but that the discussions of whether members should
receive those full amounts usually occur around this time.
He said several opinions were voiced as to the reasons why the two should not
receive their scholarships. Moses said those who voiced opinions felt Leonard
See "Scholarships," page 8
Telling stories
staff Photo By Chan Carter
An Appalachian Storytelling Festival was held on April 12 in
the Laurel Forum.
UNCA students to establish record
company under new music program
Alex EastMfood
Staff Writer
This fall, students enrolled in a new program at UNCA will be performing,
engineering, and marketing their own music. Wayne Kirby, associate professor
of music, is offering a program that combines academia with practical
experience to produce and market student recordings for credit.
“Students enrolled in these courses will write, perform, arrange, engineer, and
produce a record album,” said Kirby. “They will also establish an actual record
production company, record label and publishing company.”
The new program combines the courses of music industry and business, studio
ensemble, audio engineering technology, and recording studio practicum.
Students will perform different duties toward production in each of the courses
and may take any or all of the series.
“This course will be important in the liberal arts environment in that it will be
open to non-music majors. "Students will interact with all the facets of the
music industry, and 1 would love to see interaction between, say, biology
students and management students, brought together through a mutual desire
to perform,” he said.
“There are so many talented people on campus,” said Kirby. “And part of the
nature of a liberal arts college is exploration of goals. Many students don’t
know what they want to do, and I feel it’s essential to give them a variety of
outlets through which to decide. They might just decide they want to be here.”
See “Program," page 8
Inside
Opinions 2
Politics vs. education
Susan Hanley Lane
Perspectives 3
No more lectures
Whipping no good
Features 4
Celebration of the arts
Sitcom review
Sports 5
Columnist needed
Bulldog baseball
Comics 6
Falstaff
Chaos
Announcements 7
Job opportunities
Events
Professor to discuss
boundaries in society
Robin Burris
Staff Writer
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A philosophy professor will discuss self boundaries on April 24 and April
25 at 4 p.m. in the Laurel Forum. Ileana Grams, associate professor of
philosophy, said she will be discussing how society can have different views,
based on the different boundaries they present.The lectures will be based on
her research for her first book, which has not yet been published, according
to Grams.
Grams received an award from the David Baumgardt Memorial Lectureship
Committee of the American Philosophical Association in pai^al support of
her research according to an announcement. Grams said that Baumgardt was
a20th century American philosopher who believed in utilitariani.sm and how
that theory gives a person a way to decide what the best choice to make, said
Grams. Utilitarianism is the theory that choices should be made by the
greatest good for the greatest number.
Grams said she will talk about the way we look at our boundaries. “If we
think of ourselves as very, very separate from other people, in other words,
very, very tight boundaries between us and others, then we’re going to make
ethical decisions in a completely different way from if we see ourselves
closely connected to others. My lectures are going to explore how we see
ourselves [and] how we see our boundaries,” said Grams.
“Whether we see ourselves as very separate from or connected to other
people or our society or the environment makes a huge difference in how we
formulate problems,” said Grams.
Grams said one of the reasons she became interested in how people looked
at boundaries was by listening to the way people talked about environmental
issues. She said people “talked about environmental issues as though it's jobs
or the environment or people or the environment, and that s always seemed
to me sort of insane because if we don’t have an environment, then there aren’t
any jobs, and there aren’t any people,” said Grams.
“So I started thinking, well, what would make people think of it this way, and
that connected with some other issues that 1 had when I was teaching ethics.
People often treat ethical problems as though there’s always achoice between
difficult alternatives, said Grams.
“As though every ethical problem is a dilemma, either I do this, in which
case it's good forme, but bad for you, or do something else, in which case that’s
See "Grams," page 8
Staff Photo By Annemarie Riley
Anthony Thomas, assistant director of admissions for minority requirement, UNCA's new
chancellor. Dr. Patsy Bostick Reed, and her husband Dr. F. Dewitt Reed attended a reception at
the YMI Cultural Center on April 9.
Program aimed at recruiting African-Americans
Kevin Ellis
Staff Writer
UNCA’sminorily recruitmenloffice
held an African-Amcrican Preview
Weekend on April 9-10 in an effort to
get more black students to attend the
university. Seventeen students
attended the event and most expressed
an interest in coming to UNCA next
fall, said Anthony Thomas, assistant
director of admissions for minority
recruitment.
By holding a special weekend
recruitment event, administration
hopes to introduce UNCA and the
surrounding community to black
students, said Thomas.
Thomas judged the weekend a
success.
“I think the university is on its way
toward improving the number of black
students,” Thomas said. “It’s just a
matter of establishing a foundation of
African-American students.”
The few number of black students
already on campus makes it difficult
for UNCA to sell itself to potential
black students, Thomas said. Of the
3,049 students at UNCA, Thomas
estimated less than 125 are black.
An estimated 25 percent of the
state’s population is black,
't.'ared to 15 percent of
’s population, Thomas
on a recruiting trip
witk Mup, one of the first
quest ask is the current
perce black students,”
Tho....- ...lo. “If there are none
here now it becomes difficult to get
others to come.
See "Preview," page 8