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Volume 24, Number 24 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
April 11, 1996
Student legislature group wins awards at regional level
Kenneth Corn
Staff Writer
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Plioto by Del J. Delorm
NCSL members tiold the awards they won during the Annual Legislative Session held on March 23 in Raleigh. Their honors include Best Delegation
for a Small School and Best Scrapbook.
Campus Events
Today
■ Pre-registration for Summer/Fall
Semesters continues, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
(appointment card only), Lipinsky
Hall.
■Vice Chancellor for Academic Af
fairs candidate James P. Pitts: Pre
sentation to Faculty Senate (Open
Session), 2:30-3:15 p.m., Red Oak
Conference Room, Ramsey Library.
The presentation is open to faculty
and campus and will be held from
3:30 to 4:30 in the Owen Confer
ence Center.
■The UNCA Community Forum
will present “Undergraduate Chem-
istry--An Equipment-Dependent
Discipline” by John Gupton at 4:15
p.m. in the Laurel Forum.
■ “The Threepenny Opera” will be
performed tonight at 8 p.m. in the
Carol Belk Theatre.
Friday
I Pre-registration continues for S um-
mer/Fall, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Lipinsky
Hall.
■ Martin Holmes, lecturer in politics
at Mansfield College, Oxford, and
a faculty member in UNCA’s Sum
mer at Oxford Program, will present
“Effective Lecturing,” a Faculty De
velopment Brown Bag Lunch, at
12:15 p.m. in Karpen Hall 127.
Holmes will also visit classes and
meet with students going to Ox
ford and Cambridge.
■ The Southern Conference on Slavic
Studies will present, “Contempo
rary Russia: Prospects and Prob
lems,” with a panel discussion by
Dr. Leonid Dobrokhotov, former
Counsellor of Embassy, Soviet
Embassy, Washington D.C.; Dr.
Sergei Porshakov, from the Insti
tute of World Economy and Inter
national Relations, Russian Acad
emy of Sciences, Moscow; and Dr.
George Enteen, from the history
department of Penn State Univer
sity and a specialist on 20th cen
tury Russia. The moderator for the
event will be Dr. James Harr, from
the Center for Russian and East
European Studies, University of
Virginia.
• The UNCA Percussion Ensemble
will present a concert tonight at 8
p.m. in Lipinsky 018. The concert
is free to UNCA students and fac
ulty/staff with ID.
* “The Threepenny Opera” will be
performed in Carol Belk Theatre at
8 p.m.
Saturday
■A grantwriting workshop will be
held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the
Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.
This event is sponsored by Special
Academic Programs.
i Wendy Liebman, stand-up comic,
will perform in the Highsmith Cen
ter at 9 p.m. The event is free to
UNCA students and staff with ID.
The UNCA delegation of the North
Carolina Student Legislature (NCSL)
won the Best Delegation for a Small
School Award during the Annual Leg
islative Session on March 23 in Ra
leigh. The delegation also won three
other awards including Best Scrap
book, Best Bill in the Senate, and Best
New Delegate.
“It is very nice to get that recogni
tion and the pat on the back from the
rest of the state,” said Eric Becker,
president pro tempore for the senate.
“It makes all the work through the
year and the stress worth it.”
“NCSL is a highly-recognized stu
dent organization, statewide as well
as at UNCA,” said Shawn McKee,
delegation chairperson. The delega
tion travels to six Interim Councils
(IC) at different host universities
throughout the state.
At these IC’s, the delegation debates
with other delegations on resolutions
about current state issues. Students in
the organization research and write
the resolutions debated, said McKee.
“At our Annual Legislative Session,
we debate bills that are written by
members of NCSL in much the same
way the (North Carolina) General
Assembly does,” said McKee. UNCA
students wrote four of the bills de
bated at this year’s session.
Peter Franklin, vice delegation chair
person, said his bill on preemption of
local authority on gun control will be
up for review by the general assembly.
He also said the assembly will review
two bills written by UNCA delegate
James Hertsch about electronic crimes
and revisions to peeping laws.
McKee said it was the effort by
every single person in the delegation
that won the award. She said the keys
to winning were having a large num
ber of members involved in commit
tees, holding high positions, writing
quality bills, and giving quality de
bates.
“We had quality and quantity work
ing together,” said McKee. “It made
the group stand out a whole lot more. ”
Becker said this was the fourth year
in a row the UNCA delegation has
received the award. Becker held the
highest position on the senate during
the annual legislative session this year.
“We are one of the hardest working,
and apparently the best, delegations,”
said Becker. “When we put our minds
together, we show the others (delega
tions) how to work.”
GROUP conf. on pg.8
Speech contest started by former senator to he held this month
Denise Sizemore
Staff Writer
UNCA’s drama department will sponsor the
24th annual Roy Taylor Public Speaking Contest
on April 28 at 3 p.m. in the Owen Conference
Center.
The contest is open to the public and high school
and college students are encouraged to enter. This
year one contestant is a 9-year-old. “We’ve had
older people, postgrads, come in, but we’ve never
had anyone younger,” said Rob Storrs, adjunct
professor in drama and coordinator of the contest.
“I figure this is what Senator Taylor wanted,” he
said. “He saw a need for people to be able to stand up
on their own two feet and make a good accounting of
themselves.”
“Students currently enrolled in the public speaking
class may participate in place of their final,” said Pat
Snoyer, chairman and associate professor of drama.
The deadline for registration is April 15.
A faculty representative, a student representative,
and someone from the community will judge the
contest, she said. Storrs said he selects the judges based
on their public speaking experience.
This year the representative from the community is
the postmaster of Asheville, said Storrs. “He has to get
up in front of people and make himself understood.
He also has to persuade people,” he said.
The faculty representative is Charles James,
associate professor of chemistry, said Storrs.
“He is a member of the senate, so he has to listen
to a lot of speeches and he gives a lot of lectures,”
he said.
The student representative is Dhaval “Doc”
Patel, president of the Student Government
Association (SGA), according to Storrs. “He
obviously had to get elected somehow, so he had
to make speeches,” he said. “I believe these
people have speech communication skills and
CONTEST conf. on pg. 10
SGA president-elect says 24-hour
facilities are goals, not promises
Ptiolo by Miclrael Taylor
The Highsmith Center is one of the buildings that students want open 24 hours.
Christine Treodaway
Staff Writer
The newly elected SGA president and vice
president posted more than 300 fliers during
elections on the need for 24-hour facilities.
However, university officials said most of
the options presented by the two candidates
would require extra staffing and more money.
“I think in general you have to look at 24-
hour computer centers, 24-hour library, and
a 24-hour Highsmith as being real student
concerns. These issues are just what I heard
a lot of, so that’s what I promised I’d work
for,” said Sergio Mariaca, president-elect.
Mariaca said that the issues on his “Top Ten
List” were goals, not promises, that he would
work his best to achieve.
Mariaca said making these ideas a reality
would bring up serious concern of the
logistics of operating such facilities.
“Students have unlimited wants, but we
are faced with scarce resources,” said
Mariaca. “Certainly if the money isn’t
there, ic’s just a dream.”
Mariaca said that his primary intention
now was to figure out exactly what stu
dent needs and wants are. “They (stu
dents) might have said they want 24 hour
everything, when they really just need
extended hours for facilities,” he said.
Mariaca’s hope is to find realistic options
that will please the greatest number of
students.
The dream of having Ramsey Library
open 24 hours a day is the most unrealis-
FACILiTIES conf. on ,pg-8