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The Blue
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its size, but its spirit—that is its
responsiblity to report the newsfully,
accurately, and fairly—Arthur Hays
Sulzberger
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INER
WEA THER: Mostly sunny
this weekend, with some clouds
on Saturday. Highs in mid 60s.
Lows in mid 40s.
VOLUME 23
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
NUMBER 23
ONE OF THE LARGEST FffiES IN
RECENT ASHEVILLE HISTORY BURNED
JUST OVER TWO MILES FROM UNCA
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Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 2, a fire tliat originated in the Earle Chesterfield Mill occurred near UNCA. The fire was not
)contained until nearly 7 p.m.
Photo by Lot Ray
Officials Discuss Issues Of Campus Safely
Chris Small
Staff Writer
A public forum was held kst week in the new
Private Dining Room, for students and adminis
tration to interact and voice their concerns about
security issues at UNCA.
The discussion was led by panelists: Patsy B.
Reed, chancellor, Larry Wilson, vice chancellor
for academic affairs, Eric lovacchini, vice chancel
lor for student affairs, Arthur Foley, vice chancel
lor for financial affairs and Jeffrey VanSlyke,
director of public safety. Besides the panelists,
eleven others attended the forum.
“I believe, strongly, that people here [at UNCA]
do not feel safe. There is a perception that this is
not a safe place,” said lovacchini.
UNCA’s public safety department is in charge of
both service and security roles on campus, said
VanSlyke.
“We try and have two officers on each shift, 24
hours a day, except for the weekend. We just can t
do it [on weekends],” said VanSlyke.
“I think the students would like to see more of a
presence of security officers,” said Jay Jordan, a
student government representative. “There are
fewer students [on campus] during the weekend,
however, this campus has grown in involvement in
the sense that there are enough students to justify
that concern.”
Despite the concern for more officers on duty
during the weekends. Chancellor Reed said that
the money is just not there (in the state budget) to
use.
“Given the political climate right now in the
state, the likelihood that we can add officers is nil,
said Reed.
“I think that if there is a feeling that we need to
have more presence [of security] on campus, then
we need to look at all of the things that our security
officers do,” said Karen Brinson, a junior mass
communication major
Reed pointed to the fact that security may not be
visibly present when helping to do things like
jump-start cars, escorting a student, or providing
service roles for students.
“I think there is an idea that we need to be
proactive in having things like emergency phones,
and good lighting on the quad,” said one student
at the meeting.
“I think sometimes we [as students] feel there is
more of a goal to have aesthetically pleasing views
than safety. Just because the light posts are ugly,
I’d rather be safe than have a beautiful campus,”
said Brinson.
Foley reported that, based on the information he
had, security phones cost about $5,000 a piece,
and there is no revenue source for it now. “I think
it [security phones] is a priority, but we don’t have
the means to pay Iror it," he said.
Another concern seems to be that, given the
responsibilities of security officers, there is not
always someone available to answer the phone in
case of emergency.
“We know to expect that there is going to be an
officer called to jump-start a car, and if there is not
an officer on duty, then there’s no back up there,
and there may be a crisis that occurs while that
officer is out jump-starting a car,” said one stu
dent.
This student suggested that resident assistants
start locking up buildings, instead of the officers.
The responsibility oflocking up buildings at night,
and any reports of stolen goods or break-ins falls
under the UNCA Security Department, accord
ing to VanSlyke.
It was suggested by Reed that other groups on
campus possibly could be used to help with es
corts, etc. to free the officers more. Until security
phones can be installed in the future, it was sug
gested by a student that there be more education
on the part of students, and more of an effort to get
to know the security officers by name.
Orientation was suggested as a place to educate
students about security, and to let them see the
officers. “There are two pages of sexual assault
policy statements that go out [to students]. To
actually hear it verbatim from somebody that’s an
official representative to the university would help,
I think, to make it more positive,” said VanSlyke.
“I think we join in collective concern about the
safety of our students and about the safety of both
students, and about the safety of both students
properties a;jd state’s properties,” said Reed.
Actor Hospitalized; Play Goes On
Greg Deal
Staff Writer
“Love’s Labour’s Lost,” a Shakespearean play
that will be performed at UNCA,, opened last
night without one of its professional actors, who
was hospitalized with a cardiac arrest.
Jay Allen Ginsberg, the actor, said that he was in
good condition and was without pain on Wednes
day afternoon. He said that he was upset that he
would miss the performance, but felt that the cast
would fill in for him. “They’ll do fine,” he said.
Arnold Wengrow, professor of drama, said that
an understudy would be used in place of Ginsberg.
Wengrow declined to comment further.
“One of the guys in the show is going to move
up,” said Ginsberg.
Ginsberg is an actor with Equity who was hired
for this performance, said one of the cast members.
He was scheduled to perform the part of Armado.
The play will be performed April 5-9 at Carol
Belk Theater. Ginsberg did not say when he would
be released from the hospital, or when he would be
able to resume his acting career.
An emergency rehearsal was called at 4 p.m. on
Wednesday.
Faculty Members’ Trip To Ecuador Is Ex
pected To Enhance UNCA Curriculum
Andrea Lawson
Staff Writer
Thirteen UNCA faculty members will visit
Cuenca, Ecuador for one month this summer as
part of a two-year grant to sensitize UNCA to
Latin American culture and languages.
“The purpose of the grant program is to help
universities to develop, increase, and improve their
international studies and foreign language pro
grams,” said Heidi Kelley, professor of sociology
and director of the international studies program.
“We’re looking for ways to increase the amount of
international material that’s covered in courses all
across the curriculum.”
Kelley wrote the grant proposal, which was sub
mitted to the Undergraduate International Stud
ies and Foreign Language program of the U.S.
Department of Education in November 1993.
Kelley said the grant, titled “Exploring New Ho
rizons .in Latin America: Sensitizing UNCA to
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity,” was designed
to aid faculty members to include material on
Latin America in their courses. The grant will
award $77,031 to UNCA for 1994-1995, and
$71,727 for 1995-1996.
“We started with Latin America because it’s close
to home, and it’s an area that’s relatively familiar to
most students and faculty,” Kelley said. “The idea
of the grant is really to develop the expertise of the
faculty so that [they] will include more material in
the courses and get more students interested.”
Kelley said the professors, who will travel to
Ecuador, are taking a seminar focusing on Andean
cultures in preparation for the trip. This area was
chosen because
ofUNCA’s con
nection with the
region.
“UNCA has an
exchange rela
tionship with
the university in
Ecuador, the
Universidad del
Azuay in
Cuenca,” Kelley
said. “Also, pro
fessor Marcel
Andrade in the
Spanish depart
ment is from Ec
uador. He has agreed to be the trip director.”
Kelley said the seminar has brought in outside
scholars in anthropology, history, and political
science to discuss Andean culture. According to
Kelley, the seminar is like “the professors taking a
class.”
Kelley said the Ecuador trip is being funded
partly by the grant and partly by UNCA. While in
Cuenca, each professor will plan their own project,
and the entire group will design a unit on Latin
American or Andean culture to incorporate into
different courses and fields of study.
Marcel Andrade, UNCA professor of Spanish, will be the trip director
when faculty members travel to Cuenca Ecuador this summer.
f^hoto by Tonya Melton
“Some of us are designing new courses as well,”
said Kelley. “I’m teaching a course on women in
Latin America in the fall. Ken Betsalel in political
science is developing a course on comparative legal
systems. Melissa Himelein in psychology is devel
oping a new course called ‘Advanced Personality’
that’s going to look at personality variables across
cultures.”
The 10 faculty members who will be working on
projects in Ecuador are Ken Betsalel, Tom Dickens,
Melissa Himelein, Cynthia Ho, Heidi Kelley,
Joan Lance, Jeanne McGUnn, Gary Miller, Bar
bara Rhymes, and Larry Wilson. The projects
being developed will impact the Humanities, psy
chology, environmental studies, political science,
literature, education, Spanish, economics, sociol
ogy, chemistry, and management departments.
According to Kelley, the projects being devel
oped by the faculty will include a unit on the Incas
for Humanities 124, a unit on the protection of
indigenous peoples and environment of the Ama
zon, and cultural units to supplement existing
Spanish programs.
Kelley said while the trip is designed for faculty,
one student, Evelyne Prall, has been hired as an
assistant. Prall plans to do research with help from
the Undergraduate Research office.
“This particular program does not cover any
student travel, and it’s really more focused on
curriculum development, but it’s anticipated that
one of the effects of this would be increasing
[student] interest,” said Kelley. “I think that there
is a lot of student interest in studying abroad, but
one major impediment is financial. So, we’ve also
been working very hard on increasing the informa
tion we have about affordable programs, trying to
work with the needs
of students.”
According to the
grant abstract, the
scope of foreign lan
guage instruction
will be enhanced
through the use of a
“portable Spanish
language module.”
This module will be
used to give students
in other disciplines
experience with the
Spanish language.
Kelley said the sec
ond year of the grant
project will focus on the French Caribbean and
Brazil. T o extend the benefits of the grant, a course
on Francophonic Caribbean literature and a
French-language section of the Humanities pro
gram will be implemented.
“We picked those areas, first of all, because of the
French in the French Caribbean, and also because
of the new Africana Studies program,” said Kelley.
“We are interested in touching upon the African
[influence] in Latin America.”
See "Ecuador," page 10