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Volume 24, Number 5
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE September 28, 1995
NEWS IN BRIEF
■ Masterplanning underway
Renee Slaydon
UNCA is preparing to compile a
master land use plan that will include
input from students, faculty, and staff
members. The project, which admin
istrators hope to begin in November,
will focus on looking at the entire
campus as well as sketching out future
building sites.
“We expect to meet with the master
planners for the first time sometime
in November to kind of start that
project,” said Ron Reagan, director of
facilities planing. Those involved in
the planning will look at designated
open spaces on campus, utilities,
phone lines, and drainage. The plan
will also plot out areas for potential
building sites, such as new adminis
tration buildings and prospective
dorms.
The master land use plan will map
out any major structural changes that
will occur on the campus in the fu
ture. The plan will be a guide to give
administrators will a good idea of
where to put new buildings, accord
ing to Reagan.
In addition, project planners will
study walking time from different parts
of the campus, as well as traffic circu
lation. Planners will mark areas for
future parking spaces and examine
specific traffic problems around the
university.
“It’s like a comprehensive plan that
will hopefully guide our planning ef
forts in the future,” said Reagan.
The project will offer several oppor
tunities for the student body to in
clude their own input in the planning
process.
“I’m not sure if all the committees
have been put together. They’ll be
made up of students, faculty, and
staff,” said Reagan.
UNCA’s last master planning project
was drawn up in 1986. “It’s really
good to do one 10 to 15 years in
advance, and upgrade it every five
years. We hope to complete it by next
summer,” said Reagan.
According to Tom Byers, special as
sistant to the chancellor, UNCA is
currently in the process of selecting a
contracting firm to work on the
project. Funding for the project has to
be negotiated by the state of North
Carolina. The project will not actu
ally begin until there is a successful
negotiation with the firm and the
state, Byers said.
■ Marijuana found in student's
dorm room
Amy Cannon
Campus security charged a student
with possession ofmarij uana and drug
paraphernalia after searching his
Highrise room Sept. 11.
Security searched David Jason
Davies’ room after having reason to
believe that he was keeping marijuana
there, according to a campus police
report. Davies signed a search consent
form, and the officers asked him if he
had any drugs in his room.
According to the police report,
Davies told campus security officers
that he had marijuana in his safe, but
the key was at his parent's home.
Davies agreed to let the officers take
the safe to the security office until he
could get the key.
After Davies located the key, the
officers opened the safe and found
“some green leafy substance, brown
ish-green seeds, plastic tube, cigarette
paper roller, and a wooden tube pipe,”
according to the police report.
Multi-million dollar gym only partially accessible
Planning director says swimming pool
will not be accessible, blames funding
Paul Buttles
Staff Writer
In 1991, UNCA agreed to make
modifications to the university after
the Office of Civil Rights(OCR) found
UNCA in violation of a section of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, according
to the vice chancellor for student af
fairs. The violation regarded accessi
bility of activities and programs to the
handicapped.
However, Ron Reagan, director of
facilities planning said that some sec
tions of the Justice Center will not be
accessible to disabled students, even
after completion of a multi-million
dollar renovation project.
“I don’t know how much we spent,
but I would guess that it was in the
$100,000 to $250,000 range to meet
the requirements that the OCR placed
on us at that time,” said Ericlovacchini.
UNCA agreed in 1992 to remedy all
violations by completing all modifica
tions necessary to make its programs
and activities accessible, as required by
law, and stated that the Justice Center
renovations would make all programs
housed in that facility accessible.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states
that handicapped persons can not be
excluded from, or denied the benefits
of any program or activity which re
ceives federal financial assistance. The
Rehabilitation Act was replaced in
1992 by the Americans with Disabili
ties Act, which extends the stipula
tions of the Rehabilitation Act to in
clude all public and private businesses.
Reagan said the new $5.2 million
renovation to the Justice Center, which
will feature North Carolina’s longest
indoor track, three new basketball
courts, four new racquetball courts,
and a large weight room, will not have
a pool that is accessible to the mobil
ity-impaired. “It will not make the
pool accessible,” said Reagan.
Blaming the pool’s inaccessibility on
lack of funding, Reagan said mobility-
impaired students would be able to
access the building housing the pool
and watch swim meets, but would not
be able to use the pool themselves.
“I don’t understand that,” said
lovacchini. “I didn’t know about the
pool. You’re telling me something I
have not heard. Cost is not one of
those things you need to look at. What
you look at is how can you get it done,
and how can you make the facility
accessible.”
“I swear, these guys (UNCA admin
istrators) get themselves in such
trouble,” said Ken Franklin, coordi
nator of the North Carolina office on
Americans with Disabilities. “If all
other students have access to the pool,
then it’s a very serious problem. The
fact is that the U.S. Justice Depart
ment has made it clear that there would
be almost no circumstances that they
could conceive of where a government
entity would be able to justify an un
due financial burden. If they can solve
the accessibility problem now, they’re
going to be a whole lot better off than
if a complaint is filed.”
Last week, David Bornman, a mobil
ity-impaired UNCAstudent, met with
campus officials to discuss accessibil-
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on pg. 10
Plioto by Marti Parson
Mobilily-impaired student David Bornman cannot access the basketball court in his wheelchair. Although Bornman will be
able get to the court after the renovations, the swimming pool will still be inaccessible to him.
Record number of students run for SGA freshman senate
James Hertsch
Staff writer
A record number of stu
dents are running for stu
dent senate positions in this
semester’s October fresh
man senator elections, ac
cording to election organiz-
Eleven freshmen have ap
plied to run for the vacant
seats, said Robbie Combs,
SGA vice president.
“This is the most people we’ve
had running for senator that I
can remember in a long time,”
said Wes Morrison, a junior
senator.
According to Combs, the
freshmen running for senator
are Joshua Littlejohn, Kevin
Briggs, William Matthews,
Alisha Jackson, Hillary Leon,
Derek Edwards, Tiffany
Drummond, Alphonso
Donaldson, James Bunn,
ManzoTiya, andjohn Hodges.
“They seem like they really
want to make a difference, be
cause none of them knew they
were going to get paid (a schol
arship) for the job,” Combs
said. “I think it shows just how
interested the freshman class is
in SGA.”
Currently, the post of elec
tions commissioner is vacant,
but Combs is in charge of run
ning the freshman elections.
Jonathan Byers, a sophomore
chemistry major, was former
president Denise Tomlinson’s
appointee, but declined the
post, according to Dhaval
“Doc” Patel, student body
president.
Patel appointed Combs to run
the freshman senatorial elec
tion, citing Comb’s previous
experience as elections com
missioner two years ago.
“He (Combs) has experience
in running an election, and I
have given that job to him as of
right now,” said Patel. “People
within SGA will help during the
polling on Oct. 3 and 4, and sit
at the polling sites.”
Byers said because he is trying
to obtain an open sophomore
senator position in the student
senate, SGA rules do not permit
him to hold the position of elec
tions commissioner.
Patel said other vacancies in
SGA include commuter and se
nior senator positions in the sen-
SGA cont. on
pg-
10
UNCA acquires archival property, prepares to renovate
Renee Slaydon
Staff Writer
UNCA could soon begin renova
tions on the Kellogg Center, a 48-acre
piece ofproperty in Horse Shoe, N.C.,
which will be used for a multi-purpose
meeting space.
According to Tom Byers, special as
sistant to the chancellor, UNCA will
use 1995 appropriation funds to reno
vate the facility.
Currently, UNCA is in the process
of having negotiations signed with
contractors. Construction should be
gin around November, according to
Ron Reagan, director of facilities plan
ning, and will be about an eight-to-
ten-month project, depending on
weather conditions. UNCA plans to
add about 2500 square feet to the
existing2000 square feet of the Kellogg
home.
The house on the Kellogg property is
a one story wood frame house with a
living room, dining room, kitchen, two
bedrooms, two bathrooms, and laun
dry facilities. The existing two bed
rooms will become meeting rooms,
and the living room area will be turned
into a large meeting room.
“The addition will have an even larger
meeting space for up to about 80 people
for small retreats and small confer
ences,” said Reagan.
According to a recent article in the
Asheville Citizen-Times, Michigan na
tive Kathryn Kellogg left her vacation
home for public use after her death 26
years ago. Kellogg at first left her home
and grounds to Wake Forest Univer
sity.
However, university officials thought
that the property was too far from its
Winston-Salem campus to be of any
use. North Carolina State University
later gained control of the land, giving
it up in the mid-1980s.
“The property was given to N.C.
State for use as a 4-H club installation
and a center for related activities,” said
Reagan.
When the land came under control
of the UNC Board of Governors,
chairman Sam Neill began planning
for UNCA to take over in September
of 1986.
“I know that Mr. Neill was a leader in
saying ‘This is state property. We ought
to make effective use of it. We ought to
do something for the public with this
great public resource’,” said Byers.
Plans for the Kellogg Center include
a separate area for UNCA’s College
for Seniors, as well as meeting spaces
for various community projects. “The
idea is that we could use it for some
university programs to be offered in
that area,” said Byers.
The proposed Kellogg Center will
include a large meeting room, a small
food preparation area, and dining and
office areas for conferences, meetings,
and retreats. The state approved funds
for the center in 1991, but took them
back because of a budget deficit, ac
cording to Byers.
In addition to conference facilities,
UNCA hopes to open up a separate
area displaying regional crafts on the
Kellogg property. According to the
article in the Citizen-Times, the craft
museum could display talents of local
artists in the Asheville area.
UNCA will not be directly respon
sible for the facility, but the university’s
name will’be associated with it.
“The archival facility is intended to
have an affiliate status with the univer
sity,” said Byers.
The property’s location should ben
efit members of the communities sur
rounding Hendersonville. “This is
located on the west side of
KELLOGG cont. on pg. 10