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VOLUME 23
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
NUMBER 21
UNCAPays $126,000 For Property In Residential Area Adjacent To Campus
Will Rothschild
Staff Writer
UNCA recently acquired a 2,530-
square foot house, and the .42-acres
where is located at 24 Hyannis Drive,
just one block from campus off
Edgewood Road.
According to the deed filed with the
Buncombe County Register of Deeds,
the residential property was purchased
for $ 126,000 from Robert Earl Bryenton
and his wife, Debra Ann Motz-
Bryenton. The deed was entered Feb.
27 and filed with the county office
March 3.
The Hyannis purchase comes just two
months after school officials announced
the $450,000 purchase of a nearby 1.36-
acre plot of land, formerly owned by
North Asheville Baptist Church.
James Banks, chairman of UNCA’s
board of trustees, said Wednesday the
Hyannis purchase, because of its prox
imity to campus, made sense for the
university.
“I think most universities are always
looking at their immediate surround
ings to be sure that for the long-term,
they don’t close out any opportunities
for the university,” Banks said. “It
doesn’t mean that they are out buying
land willy-nilly. It does mean that if it
makes sense you have to take advantage
of it.”
“I understand that in the last master-
planning process, that the campus and
people helping with the plan identified
the principle that if the university is
going to expand, then it would be ben
eficial for the university to acquire adja
cent land as it became available,” UNCA
Chancellor Patsy Reed said.
Arthur P. Foley, UNCA vice chancel
lor for financial affairs, said the trustees
has been interested in potentially ac
quiring Hyannis Drive property for some
time.
“From what I understand, Hyannis
Drive has been in the Board ofTrustees’
long-range plans for awhile,” Foley said.
“It is a piece of land on the university’s
boundaries, and that is why it has been
of interest.”
Reed said this purchase does not nec
essarily indicate a desire on UNCA’s
part for immediate expansion.
“I think that what we’re doing is look
ing to the future,” Reed said. “We do
have some capital improvement requests
that we sent to the state for the construc
tion of some new buildings, but we
realize that is not going to happen this
year. Just because we’ve acquired land
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UNCA recently purchased the property located at 24 Hyannis Drive. The purchase price for the house
and .42 acres was $126,000. . ,
Photo by Lot Ray
Wilson Is One Of Three
Finalists For Top Job In Ohio
Teri Smith
News Editor
Larry Wilson, UNCA vice
diancellor for academic affairs,
is one of three finalists for the
position of president at Marietta
College, located in southern
Ohio.
Wilson and the two other final
ists, who are both women, have
been selected from a field of more
than 100 applicants, according
to Jennifer Pesci, editor-in-chief
of The Marcolian, Marietta
College’s student newspaper.
“He [Wilson] is a fine adminis
trator who has served this insti
tution well for a long time,” said
UNCA Chancellor Patsy B.
Reed. “I think this move is a
natural professional progression
and it’s my understanding that
he has been interesteed in mak
ing this sort of step for a good
while.
“I think it is a sign of their good
judgement that they have identi
fied him as a finalist,” said Reed.
“I think it would be a major loss
for this campus.”
Marietta College has an enroll
ment of about 1200 students
and is also a liberal arts college,
according to Pesci.
The other finalists for the posi
tion are Gwendolyn Jensen, who
is currently president of Wilson
College in Pennsylvania and
Elizabeth Ivey, a professor of
physics at Macalester College in
St. Paul Minnesota.
Wilson has been with UNCA
since July 1987. He served as
interim chancellor in 1994 until
Reed wai named as chancellor.
Marietta College President
Patrick D. McDonough is leav
ing in June. Marietta’s board of
trustees plan to select his succes
sor in April.
Recent Cases Of Violence Heighten Fears Among Women
Chris Small
Staff Writer
A member of Wild Mountain
Thyme, the Asheville Women’s
Chorus, is circulating a letter on
campus to gain support in creat
ing lasting change, to make the
community safe from crime.
Karyn DeHart, a sophomore
psychology major, is currently
gathering names of people on
campus who would be willing to
work with others to brainstorm
ways to make change. She en
courages men and women to sign
up.
“Women have been working
for years and years and years to
make change, and not much has
changed, said DeHart.
“Until men put pressure on each
other, they (men) are going to
continue to be violent and com
petitive.”
Lasting change cannot happen,
DeHart says, until both men and
women work together on the
issues of crime.
“We (women) need to learn
self-defense skills, street smarts,
we need to support each other
when we are assaulted, but we
are not the ones who are per
petuating the violence, therefore
we cannot make the primary last
ing change,” said DeHart.
DeHart said that Wild Moun
tain Thyme was especially af
fected by the violence against
women taking place so close to
home.
“We had talked about Karen
Styles and Kelli Froemke, but
when we heard about Kathy
Allen, we were hurt ,and we were
outraged,” said DeHart.
“Her ex-husband was in jail for
six days (for shooting her six
times). She was in the hospital
longer recovering from her
woundsthenhewasinjail. There
was a restraining order, but he
just went back and shot her, and
killed her.”
It was after this incident that
the Asheville Women’s Chorus
had a community concert to
speak out against the violence. It
was held last Valentine’s Day to
call attention to the fact that
domestic violence occurs every
day, said DeHart.
Part of the letter being circu
lated says:
“Violence acts against women
are everyday, yet unpublicized
occurrences. We are not satis
fied with the status quo and we
demand change. We want- our
homes, neighborhoods, and
communities to be safe for our
daughters, mothers, wives,
friends, and ourselves.”
Dr. Melissa Himelein, an assis
tant professor of psychology at
UNCA, was especially affected
by the murder of Karen Styles in
the Bent Creek area, where she
“It’s definitely changed my run
ning life considerably. I think
this incident just heightens my
awareness that anything could
happen anytime, anywhere, and
it’s not something that I’ve ac
cepted easily,” said Himelein.
Himelein said that there is a
committee planning to have a
road, bike, and walk-a-thon in
the Bent Creek area in May or
June, with profits going to the
Rape Crisis Center in town, in
commemoration ofKaren Styles.
Himelein does still run in Bent
Creek, but would encourage
people to take precautions.
“There were people up and
down thejnain path to the lake
(in the afternoon), so I felt for
the first time safe running. I
wouldn’t ever run in the more
obscure or isolated spots,” said
Himelein.
Some students on campus had
strong opinions about safety.
See "Fear," page 8
SGA Election Is Clouded By Controversy; Some Students Call For New Election
Andreo Lawson
Staff Writer
Students and candidates are petitioning for a new
SGA election, to replace the results of the one held
Mar. 7-8. Among the reasons cited is the alleged
unfair behavior of the elections commission in
dealing with write-in candidates.
“I can’t stop them from petitioning. That s their
right to do so,” said Lesa Trey, elections commis
sioner.
The petition followed the disqualification of
several presidential candidates and one senatorial
candidate. Ben Leonard, a student running as a
write-in candidate for president, was disqualified
from the race because he broke rules established by
Trey and the elections commission, stating that a
write-in candidate cannot campaign except by
word-of-mouth when the campaign slate is full.
Leonard said that he was not aware that he was
breaking rules, and did not feel that the student
body as a whole was properly notified concerning
election procedures.
“The rules were not posted when the campaign
began,” Leonard said. “It’s not really a law [the
rule that a write-in candidate cannot have a print
campaign] because the Senate never passed it. I
Was never officially notified [of the disqualifica
tion] . The rule was so arbitrary.
According to Denise Tomlinson, president-elect
of SGA, Leonard was notified that he was
breaking the rules by posting campaign
flyers and would be disqualified if he con
tinued to put up the flyers.
“He [Ben] was told, ‘You can’t put it [the
flyers] up or you will be disqualified , said
Tomlinson. “They gave him the chance to
take them down. Then, he told Lesa
[Trey] that he wasn’t following these rules,
and he could put up flyers if he wanted to.
Members of the election committee took i-
down his flyers, and they were put back up »
by someone. Then, the elections commis
sion voted to disqualify Ben for not follow
ing election rules. He was given the chance,
and he turned it down.”
According to Tomlinson, the rule con
cerning write-in candidates was established
by the elections commission and was not
required to be voted on by the Senate. However,
Leonard said that some members of the elections
commission were not in favor of the rule.
“I’ve talked to at least four individuals on the
elections commission who said they were dead set
against this rule, and they were very vocal about it,
and she [Trey] ignored it,” said Leonard. “That s
also the general consensus of all the senators I ve
talked to as well.”
Leonard said that he started the petition in order
to bring a referendum before the Senate to ask the
Chris Blake and Sharmell Miller manned the voting station located in Highsmith Center
during recent SGA elections. Photo by Kara Merz
student body for a new election. In order to
accomplish this, 10 percent of the student popu
lation (306 students) must sign the petition, which
calls for a new election and a new elections com
missioner.
“I started this petition five minutes after I found
out the election results,” said Leonard. “We
started circulating it at around two o’clock, and by
five o’clock, we had close to 306 signatures. Ac
cording to my information, if we get 20 percent of
the students to sign, which is 612 signatures, we
can order a completely new election without hav
ing to go through the senate.”
Other presidential and senatorial write-
in candidates were also disqualified.
Charles Yeganian was disqualified from
the presidential race because he is an
associate justice in student court, and
according to judicial code of ethics, jus
tices are not allowed to campaign.
Yeganian said that he resigned from his
position, but was still disqualified be
cause the Senate did not consider his
resignation until after the elections had
taken place.
“As a write-in candidate, I wasn’t al
lowed to actively campaign,” said
Yeganian. “Therefore, I didn’t think it
was a violation of the judicial code of
ethics for me to have to resign my spot [in
court] if I wasn’t actively campaigning.”
Yeganian said that on the day of elections he was
informed that he needed to resign.
“I immediately did so,” said Yeganian. “How
ever, the next Senate session was after the election
results had been tallied, and they determined that
it would be wrong to accept my resignation, and
I was disqualified. If you want to resign from
something, that should be your prerogative. They
shouldn’t be able to tell you that you can’t resign.
See "SGA", page 8'