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Volume 24, Number 8
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
October 26, 1995
Residents continue to protest against construction noise
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Photo by Marti Parson
Julie Lamberth, left, said she does not feel that the administration has been responsive in addressing the needs of Hoey residents. Michael MacKenzie,
above, placed a sign in his dorm window to protest construction noise.
James Hertsch
Staff Writer
Frustrated by noise from the adjacent
Justice Gym construction site, students
in Hoey Hall have placed signs protest
ing the sounds in windows facing the
work area.
“The day that I put that (a sign in her
window) up was the day I woke up at
7:30 (a.m.), and there was a horn right
outside my window, and there were
men standing on that big yellow pipe
about six feet outside my window yell
ing at each other, and that made me a
little bit angry. It made me a little bit
upset,” said Julie Lamberth, a fresh
man mathematics major. “There were
other people who suggested things to
put in their windows. I think we also
decided that a lot of things we put up,
(such as) ‘right to sleep,’ (and) ‘right to
study,’ would be more legitimate, (and)
would be taken more seriously, but
when I put mine up, I was mad. I was
mad as hell.”
Hoey cont on pg. 9
Dog owner petitions to keep pets on campus UNCA student pleads guilty to rape
Amy Cannon
Staff Writer
A UNCA student is writing a
petition and will go before the
Asheville City Council in an
attempt to change the leash law
and make our campus a “safe
haven” for dogs.
Shannon Bianchi, a sopho
more in sociology, thought of
the petition after the vice-chan
cellor of student affairs. Dr.
Eric V. lovacchini, recently
published a copy of the leash
law in the school newspaper
asking students to comply with
the city leash law in order that
complaining students might be
satisfied.
“My dog will get hauled off,”
said Bianchi. “They’ll call ani
mal control even though she
doesn’t bother anyone.”
Bianchi said his dog, Uma,
runs freely on campus and has
learnedherway around. Hesaid
Uma has always roamed freely
wherever he has taken her, and
he will continue to let her run
on campus unleashed.
“She knows where I’m in class.
she meets me outside of my
classes, she walks me to my class
door, and she walks my friends
to their classes. She just knows
where she is,” said Bianchi.
“She’s a really good people dog. ”
Bianchi said he thinks the leash
laws are very reasonable for the
city of Asheville, but feels
UNCA’s campus is more like a
park where dogs should able to
be safe and have fun.
“I’m going to continue to let
her (the dog) run free,” said
DOGS cont. on pg. 12
Kristi Hamby
Features Editor
UNCA sophomore Lucas
Reid pled guilty to one count of
second-degree rape and four
counts of second-degree sexual
offense last week in a case in
volving a Statesville woman
who is described as “retarded.”
Reid faced a possible 200-year
imprisonment, but was given a
45-day active sentence and 25
consecutive years suspended
with probation.
Reid, along with four other
Iredell County men, was
charged with raping the woman
and penetrating her with a
broomstick, plastic pipe, and
candle, and videotaping the in
cidents, according to The Char-
lotte Observer.
Second-degree rape commit
ted "if a person engages in vagi
nal intercourse with another
person by force and against the
will of the other person" or a
person "who is mentally defec
tive, mentally incapacitated, or
physically helpless, and the other
person performing the act knows
or should reasonably know that
the person is mentally defec
tive, mentally incapacitated, or
physically helpless," according
to North Carolina state stat
utes.-
Evaluations revealed “the
woman has an IQ of 62 and
functions at the level of a 10-
year-old child,” according to
The Charlotte Observer. The
article stated that a psycholo
gist testified that people with
IQs of70 or below are retarded.
RAPE cont. on pg. 9
Student participates in Million Man March
Renee Siaydon
Staff Writer
A UNCA student participated
in the Million Man March in
the nation’s capital on Oct. 16.
The march was intended to
bring together black men in
order to unite racially, de
nounce violence, and to im
prove the overall structure of
their lives, according to an ar
ticle in the Asheville Citizen-
Times
The march was organized by
Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan.
Ray Williams, a senior major
ing in psychology, took the
seven-hour trip with a frater
nity brother . He first learned
about the march in July, and
said he immediately knew he
was going. According to Wil
liams, the crowd was made up
of people oi all ages. In addi
tion to black men, the audi
ence also consisted of black
women, white men and
women, some people of the
Jewish faith, and several Na
tive Americans. “I saw some
Chinese people there, but I
think they were more like tour
ists,” said Williams.
In addition, several prosti
tutes worked their way into
the crowd as the speeches were
being given. Williams said
some men from the Nation of
Islam circled the women and
tried to make them aware that
the devil was trying to use them
to keep the men from receiv
ing the message of the march.
“That was really amazing to
me. I just couldn’t believe that
they gathered those women
like that and tried to set them
straight,” said Williams.
Williams said the march was
not a chauvinistic gathering.
He said he believes the prob
lem in most black families, or
any families, begins with the
male role model. In some fami
lies, he said, the male in the
family is in jail, on the streets
dealing drugs, or simply just
not around. “Maybe the next
step is to bring the families out
next year,” said Williams.
There were mixed opinions
on Farrakhan’s involvement in
the march. At a speech in Aus
tin, Texas, President Clinton
praised the rally as an event for
black men taking responsibil
ity for their families and com
munities. However, without
actually naming the Nation of
Islam leader, he .criticized
Farrakhan’s speech that gave
an impression ofanti-semitism,
sexism, and bigotry, according
to the Citiz£n-Times zTnc\t.
Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole also voiced his disapproval
in the article. “Farrakhan is a
racist and anti-semite, un
hinged by hate. He has no place
in American public life, and all
who would lead must say so,”
said Dole.
However, Williams said he
believes that Farrakhan
preaches awareness, rather than
hatred of whites or any other
race or religion. He said the
treatment black people faced
in America is what everyone is
reallyso sensitive about. Rather
than being angry at Farrakhan’s
“racist” remarks, people are re-
MARCH cont. on pg. 12
Plioto by Robert Klein
Student Ray Williams attended the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.