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The Blue
BANNER
Volume 24, Number 6 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
October 5, 1995
Students fall short on recycling Students protest construction noise
James Hertsch
Staff Writer
People at UNCA did not re
cycle all of their recyclable trash
in the past year, according to a
study conducted last semester
by recycling program person
nel.
“We still have a lot of paper
waste and there’s still a lot of
plastic and aluminum and card
board still going into the land
fills,” said Robyn Hansen,
physical plant maintenance and
safety manager and adminis
trator of the UNCA recycling
program.
According to the study, white
paper from mail, copy ma
chines, and discarded files of
ten were not recycled. Also,
aluminum cans were often dis
carded, as were recyclable plas
tic bottles.
“I definitely would like to see
more participation, not only
from the students, but from
faculty and staff also,” Hansen
said.
To help boost participation
bypeopleatUNCA, individual
recycling coordinators have
been appointed for dorm halls
as well as for academic build
ings, said Hansen.
There are aluminum recycling
containers near lobbies, eleva
tors, and restrooms. Paper con
tainers are typically near copy
ing machines, and in computer
labs, Hansen said.
Additionally, students in
dorm halls are issued blue recy
cling bins, and students are sup
posed to sort materials from
their bins when they take them
to larger recycling containers,
said Hansen.
The Housing office has had
problems in the past with keep
ing the students' recycling bins,
said Pete Williams, director of
housing.
“Oftentimes, at the end of a
semester or at the end of a
school year, some of the blue
(recycling) bins disappear,” said
Williams.
During checkout at the end of
this year, resident students will
be charged a fee if recycling
bins are missing from their
rooms, said Williams.
UNCA began implementing
its recycling program in 1990,
according to Chris Bell, assis
tant professor of economics.
“There were a group of us
who started getting together for
lunch and brainstorming on
how we could get a recycling
program goingat UNCA,” Bell
said. “We started talking about
starting a recycling program j us t
believing the university ought
to have one. But, within a year
or two after we started our own
little program, the General As
sembly in Raleigh passed a law
that dictated that public insti
tutions including universities
were to reduce the amount of
solid waste they were generat-
ing.”
According to Bell, after this
law was passed, the recycling
program began to grow to its
current size.
“When that law was passed, it
became no longer just a group
of individuals at the university
who were interested in getting
recycling going as an example.
It had the force of law behind
it, and the administration just
got on full-gun,” Bell said.
Bell said UNCA has received
two grants from the Commu
nity Foundation of Western
North Carolina, one for build
ing a recycling area in the physi
cal plant, and one for recycling
bins.
“I think that it’s really impor
tant that the Community
Foundation (be recognized) for
all the help that they’ve given
us, because we wouldn’t havea
recycling program that’s as vi
tal as our program is now if it
weren’t for the Community
Foundation,” Bell said.
During last fiscal year, from
July 1, 1994 through June 30,
1995, UNCA saved an esti
mated $4,000 in waste-disposal
fees, including landfill-use
charges, and costs for employ
ing waste-disposal personnel at
UNCA, said Hansen.
According to Hansen, no per
manent employees were hired
specifically for the maintenance
of the program, and students
do much of the work of pickup
and packaging recyclables.
“Typically, we have two part-
time students, and as many
work-study students as we can
get,” Hansen said.
RECYCLE cont. on pg. 8
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Residents of Hoey Hall showed ttieir opposition to early-morning gym construction by posting signs in their windows.
Sexual Harassment Myths
and Facts
MYTH: Sexual harassment is net a
problem at a business or university
because no complaints have been filed.
MYTH: Sexual harassment occurs
more frequently in blue-collar work
place than in a white-collar workplace.
MYTH; Sexual harassment is usually
caused by the recipient's clothing.
MYTH: Sexual harassment is not a
management problem. It's a woman s
problem
FACT: The lack of complaints is the
most inaccurate indicator that can be
used to determine if sexual harass
ment exists.
FACT: Sexual harassment is an issue
of power. People are sexually harassed
by persons who have greater power by
virtue of their position, seniority,
physical size, etc.
FACT: There are no stereotypical re
cipients of sexual harassment. Women
who work in male-dominated jobs are
usually vulnerable to being sexually
harassed by their peers.
Controversy spurs consideration of policy
Tracy Singleton
Staff Writer
dance instructor seduced him while he lovacchini sajd that UNCA does
UNCA does not have a policy con
cerning dating relationships between
faculty, staff, and students, according
to the vice chancellor for student af
fairs.
“I do not have a problem with saying
to a faculty member, staff member, or
coach, ‘You don’t date students’,” said
Eric lovacchini. “It is an ethical issue
as opposed to a legal issue. It is not
appropriate in the classroom.”
According to T^e Charlotte Observer,
sex scandals at the North Carolina
School of the Arts and UNC-Chapel
Hill have spurred the UNC system to
consider a policy limiting faculty-stu-
dent sexual relations on all 16 cam
puses.
A North Carolina School of the Arts
student filed a lawsuit in J uly saying a
was a student in 1984, according to
the Observer. Two weeks later, a UNC-
Chapel Hill professor resigned after
admitting he had sex with two female
students.
According to lovacchini, only a
few campuses in the North Carolina
university system have some kind of
policy regarding dating relationships
between faculty and students.
“UNCA has not addressed that yet,”
said lovacchini. “The chancellors were
given a charge by the president of the
university to look into that.”
lovacchini said UNCA is waiting on
the faculty assembly, comprised of rep
resentatives from the 16 North Caro
lina universities in the system, to make
a “common law” for all campuses.
“I would think at a campus like ours,
that (sexual harassment) is less of a
problem than at a place like the School
of the Arts,” lovacchini said.
have a sexual harassment policy.
“(The sexual harassment policy) is
set-up so that there is an opportunity
for resolution of a problem before it
gets to a hearing,” said lovacchini.
UNCA and the State of North Caro
lina define sexual harassment as “de
liberate, unsolicited, and unwelcome
verbal and/or physical conduct of a
sexual nature with sexual implications
by a supervisor or co-worker.” Harass
ment may have direct employment
consequences based on acceptance or
rejection of the action and creates an
intimidating working environment.
lovacchini said he has not been in
volved in a case. He is currently one of
the university’s sexual harassment ad
visors. He said the other sexual harass
ment advisors are Kristie Childress,
Linda Franklin, Cheryl McClary,
HARASSMENT cont. on pg 10
Student requests prompt health services to offer HIV tests in October
Paul Buttles
Staff Writer
UNCA Health Services an
nounced last week that it will
begin offering confidential HIV
screening and counseling to all
students in late October.
Also, the Student Government
Association (SGA) said that it
will hold an AIDS awareness
week in December. The AIDS
awareness week will start Dec.
4.
“I feel it’s necessary to educate
our campus about the dangers
of sexually transmitted diseases,”
said Mary Ann Ralph, an SGA
member. “I know two or three
people who have died of AIDS.
It’s more important to educate
people our age about safe sex
and AIDS than it is to educate
them about cancer, because you
can’t really prevent cancer, but
AIDS you can prevent.”
Ralph said SGA plans to dis
tribute free condoms, run the
movie “And the Band Played
On,” and have an AIDS educa
tor and an HIV panelist speak
to students on campus.
Karen Weinberg, nurse practi
tioner at Weizenblatt Health
Center, said students requested
that the HIV test be available to
them.
“Students have been asking for
it,” said Weinberg. “They like
to go to the (Buncombe
County) Health Department
and get it done for free, but the
Health Department is having
to do so many of them that
they’re asking people to get it
done elsewhere, and so we’re
trying to meet that demand.”
Two HIV tests will be of
fered.
“The $20 test is a basic screen
ing test, and if somebody has a
positive result from that (indi
cating) they might have HIV,
then there’s another test which
will cost $36 that confirms that
positive report,” said Weinberg.
Weinberg said students would
be required to go through coun
seling before taking the HIV
test, and would receive further
counseling if the test results
were positive.
“Some people have (sex while
intoxicated) the night before,
and then want to be tested for
HIV,” Weinberg said. “They
need to know, through coun
seling, what HIV testing will
pick up. If you were just ex
posed to HIV, a test isn’t going
to help at all.”
It takes three to six months for
the antibodies that identify HIV
to develop, according to
Weinberg.
Weinberg said women make
up the fastest growing segment
of the population with newly
diagnosed cases of AIDS. Ac
cording to the Surgeon
General’s report on AIDS and
HIV, 39 percent of reported
AIDS cases in women were at
tributable to heterosexual con
tact, and AIDS is one of the
three main causes of death for
women and men 25 to 44 years
old in the United States.
Records show 3,574 people
died from AIDS-related ill
nesses in North Carolina last
year, and 68 percent ofall AIDS
cases in North Carolina strike
people between the ages of 20
and 39, according to reports
from the N.C. Department of
Health and Natural Resources
( D E H N R ). While
AfricanAmericans represent 22
percent of North Carolina’s
population, whey acc6unt for
77 percent of reported HIV
infections, 91 percent of all
syphilis infections, 88 percent
ofall gonorrhea infections, and
68 percent of chlamydia infec-
AIDS cont on pg 10