March 7, 1996
The Blue Banner
Page 3
Vulgarify dismisses any talent
Dear Editor,
Recently, as a requirement
for Humanities 124, I saw the
stage presentation of
Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata.”
The intended meaning of the
presentation was to satirize the
power of sex and to show that
women of the time had the
abihty to think, contrary to
what the men believed.
I was pretty much appalled at
what I saw. The stage show was
in very poor taste. Aristophanes’
intended message was totally
lost in the crudeness of it all.
It’s hard to pick a good place
to start, but I think the 18-
inch penises are a good place. I
don’t care what kind of satire
you are trying to put on, but
the 18-inch, fuzzy, multi-col-
ored penises were too much of
an exaggeration.
One of the male actors in one
of the scenes actually licked his
penis in front of the audience.
There is nothing artistic about
licking your penis.
The ladies of the play wore
multi-colored breast look-a
likes instead of regular flesh-
An admission of guilt
Dear Editor,
My name is David Chase and
I’m a thief, but aren’t we all?
On Sunday March 3, 1996, I
was caught red-handed steal
ing a map of the world from a
bulletin board in the
Highsmith center.
I had plans of decorating my
naked bathroom. My internal
justification for stealing was
(1) being a romantic, I was
stealing the world to “hang it “
next to my toilet. (2) having a
Robin Hood complex, I wanted
to take back some worth of my
money that this school wastes
on certain organizations.
Organizations that I have no
interest in supporting and other
in
play
A modest proposal for a radio station on UNCA's campus
colored ones, which would have
been adequate.
The profanity that I heard in
the play was way out of line.
The constant use of the f-word
had no artistic value at all. The
use of excess profanity shows a
weakness in a person’s ability
to express himself using more
educated words.
The idea that the sexually de
prived men and women
couldn’t live without sex is a
reckless and promiscuous atti
tude.
The absurd content of the play
was a real shame because the
participants in the play have
real talent. The singing voice
of the lady who played
Lysistrata was fantastic.
I hope that profanity and a
promiscuous attitude toward
sex aren’t embodiments of what
a liberal arts education is sup
posed to be.
If that’s the case, why does
UNCA promote itself as a lib
eral arts university?
Stephan Horvath
Freshman, Political Science
wise could be private.
These were my j ustifications.
They failed due to my igno
rance. The map had been pur
chased privately, not by the
school. I took away my
victim’s private means of mak
ing his work area a more pleas
ant place.
So, to the faithless readers
of the “Blue Boner” and to
other revolutionaries out
there, be informed of your
actions. To my victim, my
apologies.
“Try living in the real world,
instead of a shell”—Morrissey
David Chase
Dear Editor,
I am writing this proposal be
cause I strongly believe that
having a radio station on cam
pus of UNCA will be very ben
eficial to the student body and
the surrounding community.
Though at first the initial
amount ofwork involved might
seem great, in the long term the
investment would pay for itself
with the added opportunities
for student involvement and
community interaction.
The main focus of a radio sta
tion at UNCA would be to im
prove campus communications
while being both informative
and entertaining.
The station would comple
ment the “ultimate aim of the
University, which is to provide
students the best possible op
portunity to acquire the skills,
knowledge, and understanding
necessary to pursue their goals,
to find meaning in their lives,
and to take their place as con
tributing citizens of a changing
society.”
The station would educate its
broadcast community about a
variety of music genres and dif
ferent topics that are of impor
tance to the students and the
community.
The radio station would re
flect the varied interests of stu
dents and the surrounding com
munity.
The radio station would allow
for a learning environment for
the UNCA students and indi
viduals in the community who
are interested in radio broad
casting.
This station would provide a
goal-oriented extra curricular
activity which could prove to
be a valuable social and cultural
experience.
Since those involved would
be working together to main
tain the station, they would
gain insight into organiza
tional functions, the beauty
of a wide range of music and
ideas, exposure to an even
wider range of UNCA stu
dents and individuals from the
community with varying in
terests and backgrounds, and
an understanding of the value
of community service.
The radio station would be
encouraging and beneficial to
those who decide to enter into
the professional media field.
Because of their exposure to
radio broadcasting at UNCA,
those who go on into the work
force will have a firm founda
tion in knowledge, skill, ap
preciation and teamwork.
Having a radio station at
UNCA would have advantages
for many different depart
ments. Some examples of the
benefits would be:
Mass Communications—
Students will receive hands-
on experience with radio
equipment. Writing and re
porting of local/national news
events on a daily basis. Op
portunity to add additional
courses in radio broadcasting.
Business management--
Managing the day-to-day op
erations of the station, experi
ence with marketing of the
station.
Music—Audio Engineering
students would be able to do
production for live broadcast.
Those students who have re
corded material will have the
opportunity to have their
works played on the station.
Athletics—The athletic teams
will receive greater exposure
such as broadcasting and ad
vertisement of their games.
Atmospheric Sciences—Stu-
dents involved in Meteorology
will provide the station with
weather updates throughout
the day.
Arts—Art students could be
involved in designing promo
tional material for the station,
such as t-shirts or bumper stick
ers.
Humanities—Humanities lec
tures can be broadcast, an
nouncements of upcoming cul
tural events.
Student organizations—Stu-
dent organizations such as
Underdog Productions,
Multicultural Student Affairs,
SGA, and others will have
greater publicity for their orga
nizations and events.
One of the most important
advantages to the whole school
is that by having a radio station
it might attract more students
to UNCA. Some students who
are thinking of majoring in
mass Communications may
decide to attend elsewhere be
cause they feel the program is
inadequate without some kind
of station to experience what
they learn in the classroom.
The radio station will be able
to provide UNCA students and
the community with announce
ments of school closings and
other emergencies. Also the
station could be used to an
nounce the offering of new
courses for the upcoming se
mester and give brief descrip
tions.
If UNCA truly feels that it has
a broad educational mission, it
will give serious thought to pro
viding a vital service to the
campus and community.
Alex Wieczoreck
Homecoming a success
Dear Editor:
I want to congratulate the
student organizations that
sponsored Homecoming.
They did an outstanding job!
Many may not realize how
much planning and organiz
ing these student groups did to
make sure the weekend was a
success.
As a member of the alumni
association, I was pleased to
see so many students and
alumni at all of the events.
I hope eveyone had a good
time and will want to come
“home” year after year.
Again, congratulations and
thanks to ail those who made
Homecoming 1996 possible!
Renee Rallos
Knoxville, Tenn.
UNCA Alumni Association
Board of Directors
UNCA Class of 1993
Remember, if you
plan on drinking
over spring ijreak,
DOm DRIVE!
Have a safe and
happy vacation!
t
THE
/nquisitor
Greg Burrus
Columnist
Fraternities. The very word
brings about thoughts of Greek
letters and frat houses. UNCA
Greek organizations have the
letters, but lack on-campus
houses.
Lorrie Johnson, a sophomore
history major asks, “Why are
there not fraternity and soror
ity houses on campus at UNC-
Asheville?” To find out why
that is, I met and spoke with
Nina East, director of student
development.
Basically, according to East,
there are no fraternity and so
rority houses on campus, like
at Chapel Hill, because there
are just no houses on UNCA s
property. When the school was
initially planned out, such
buildings were never designed
into the plans, so it’s the fault
of the original construction.
The idea of on-campus Greek
housing is not frowned upon,
it’s just not something the
UNCA campus has been built
to support. Some houses could
be built, she stated, but it prob
ably “wouldn’t be a very cost
effective allocation of square
footage.”
She did mention that it is
possible for groups, such as
frats, sororities, or co-ed ser
vice frats to petition to get a
residence hall just for that spe
cific group.
Most recently that happened
with Sigma Nu in Moore Hall
in the Governor’s Village. Plans
have been made to open Vil
lage dorms to other organiza
tions, which must submit a
proposal for special interest liv
ing.
Sigma Nu, according to East,
was the only organization that
acted on this opportunity, and
they did “an excellent job.”
Their year went well, and it
was a good experience for the
fraternity and the community,
for which Sigma Nu carried
out activities for, as part of their
housing agreement.
However, she warned that or
ganizations, once they have a
building, should avoid think
ing they have that specific loca
tion forever. This, in past years,
where a group had a whole floor
in a resident hall, resulted in
the slacking off of their respon
sibilities.
They stopped working hard
on community projects, and
eventually the whole situation
resulted in everyone involved
being upset with everyone else,
effectively stopping such living
conditions for several years.
Because student leadershi
so transitional. East sai
hard to say how views o.
living arrangements will
from year to year.
Another student had a
lar question, this one dealing
with the Greek letters on
UNCA’s main entrance road.
Quentin Cavanagh, a senior
business administration majc
asks “Why are some of the Gre
letters around campus com-’
pletely painted over and others
are just filled in so that the
letters still show? Are the ones
completely covered no longer
campus organizations? Also,
why was paint used that is fad
ing away and is very slippery
when wet?”
To answer these questions, I
spoke- by phone with Eric
lovacchini, vice chancellor for
student affairs.
The stretch of road starting at
UNCA’s main entrance to
where it meets Edgewood Road
is a part of Asheville’s city street,
and is the only part of the city’s
property on campus.
A few years ago, the city of
Asheville reminded UNCA
painting wasn’t allowed
bystreets and they asked if
would clean up what
allowed or ignored
ome time, the large
tters (five sets of vari-
faternities and sororities,
as Theta Chi, Sigma Pi,
Tnd Alpha Xi Delta) were
j |inted over.
;his reminder to paint out
letters from the city oc-
^rred at roughly the same time
a racial incident that involved
Theta Chi happened, so the
“removal” of the letters solved
both problems at once.
However, the letters have a
habit of reappearing every year.
The letters have been painted
over three separate times with
three different types of paint,
according to lovacchini. The
current type of paint covering
the letters is an oil-based one.
which was ordered through the
Physical Plant and would sup
posedly better stand the test of
time.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t. In
addition to the paint wearing
off every year at the same time,
allowing the letters to resurface
due to the sheer volume of traf
fic that road receives, the sec
tions are extremely slippery,
making walking difficult, as
well as braking or accelerating
for automobiles very danger
ous.
Every year UNCA attempts
to eradicate all signs of the
Greek letters, but the proper
paint has not yet been found.
However, it may be time it
self that acts as the final remov
ers of the letters, for some of
the older letters are barely vis
ible today.
After the new dining hall was
finished, UNCA wished to pro
vide a location on campus for
Greek organizations to paint
their letters. The road to the
parking deck was chosen, and
if groups want to paint there,
they will be permitted.
Any Greek group will be al
lowed to use a three-foot by
eight-foot block on the road.
All the group has to do is sign
up for one and then paint away.
If an organization leaves cam
pus, another group will be al
lowed to paint over the old
letters.
As for the Mud 500 Club’s
letters on the road in front of
Owen Hall, they will be painted
over this summer at the time
the Greek letters are removed.
I asked if M5C will be al
lowed to paint their letters in a
block near the new caf.
lovacchini didn’t know, but
said that since they’re not rec
ognized on campus, they may
not be able to.
Removing the Greek letters
has been something on
UNCA’s list of things to do for
several years now, but j ust seems
not to be done, due to im
proper paint and high volumes
of cars. But next semester, an
other paint will be tried and
once again, UNCA’s main-road
Greek letters will be covered
“for good.”