The Univsersityol North CkroBaa at AslicwUc
Volume 25, Number 24
April 3,1997
NEWS
BRIEFS
Suspension
allegations
come to light
Ray Ingram, UNCA’s head
women’s basketball coach, was sus
pended because two players made
allegations of sexual harassment
against him, the Asheville Citizen
Times reported on April 2.
Ingram was suspended with pay
on Feb. 17. UNCA officials are
unable to comment about the case
because of state laws.
The newspaper reported that
Chancellor Patsy Reed had deter
mined the allegations were “vahd,”
but did not suspend Ingram until
after he verbally retaliated against a
player after a complaint was made.
The two players complained that
Ingram “initiated discussions of a
sexual nature” with them and that
Reed sent Ingram a letter in which
she stated the school’s investigation
had found “an uncomfortable en
vironment due to comments that
were construed by the recipients as
having sexual overtones,” the Citi
zen Times reported.
Ingram provided the newspaper
with documents and letters relating
to his case, including a letter from
Reed that stipulated behavioral
guidelines he should follow and
that he would be subject to dis-
' missal if he did not undergo a psy
chiatric evaluation.
In another story detailing Ingram’s
relationship with Tom Hunnicutt,
director of athletics, Ingram admit
ted to filing a discrimination com
plaint against the university with
the federal Office of Civil Rights.
The investigation that resulted from
the complaint found UNCA in vio
lation of Title IX, the federal law
that requires equal funding and
treatment for male and female ath
letes.
Ingram also filed a harassment
complaint against Hunnicutt last
year with the UNCA hupian re
sources department. On Feb. 12,
1997, Hunnicutt filed a complaint
with the UNCA department of
public safety alleging that Ingram
had threatened his life.
Doc Holladay
Quartet to visit
The UNCA campus will receive a
visit from jazz musician Doc
Holladay this weekend. Holladay
has played with jazz legends Duke
Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy
Gillespie, and Charlie Mingus in
his distinguished career, sponsored
by the Baha’i Student Association.
The Doc Holladay Quartet will
give a free concert at 8 p.m. on
Friday, April 4 in Lipinsky Hall
Auditorium. Seats will be available
on a first-come, first-served basis.
At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5
In the Highsmith Center Lounge,
Doc Holladay will give a discus
sion/performance entitled “The
Roots of Jazz.” Holladay will dis
cuss the evolution of the jazz genre,
play selections of pieces from a va
riety of styles, and discuss jazz inno
vations.
“Take Back tiie
Night” march
A “Take Back the Night” march
will take place at 8:30 p.m. on
Thursday, April 3 on the UNCA
quad. Sponsored by W.A.I.L., the
campus women’s organization, the
march will protest violence against
women and will include music,
poetry, and remarks by Chancellor
Patsy Reed, and professors Keith
Bramlett and Dolly Mullen. The
rain location will be Lipinsky Hall
Auditorium.
Spring is here
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PHOTO BY IRISH JOHNSON
Spring has arrived on the UNCA campus, and the flow
ers that were planted before the season have finally
burst into bloom.
Summer housing
Residents lose air-conditioning to visitors
By Stephanie Hunter
staff Writer
The summer term schedule means
new adjustments concerning hous
ing and residence life at UNCA. If
a student chooses to stay on cam
pus during the summer, the stu
dent will either stay in Highrise
Residence Hall or Governors Vil
lage, without the benefit of air-
conditioning, according to the di
rector of housing and residence life.
Instead, students who come to
UNCA with conferences and work
shops are housed in air-conditioned
buildings.
When asked why UNCA only of
fers summer school students the
dorms that do not have air condi
tioning, Pete Williams said the
money from the conferences and
workshops that come to UNCA
during the summer help alleviate
the cost of housing for students
during the fall and spring semes
ters. In return, they are housed in
air-conditioned buildings.
The conferences at UNCA dur
ing the summer range from aca
demics to sports, said Williams.
For example, a running camp and a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
camp all come to UNCA over the
summer, said Williams.
One student who has stayed in
Highrise for a summer term felt the
hot summers were unbearable to
live in with no air conditioning. “It
was pretty bad,” said Meg Pur
chase, a junior history major.
“In Highrise, people were having
three or four fans in their room
because it was so incredibly hot. I
think if they put some air condi
tioning in they would probably save
money because of the electric bill,”
said Purchase.
“We only took up one wing—one
hall of Highrise, We took up the
second floor of Highrise with some
rooms left empty,” said Purchase.
Because of the low number of
people, these students could have
taken up very few rooms in Mills
Hall, said Purchase. “That’s only
four suites in Mills with four people
to a room,” said Purchase. If the
students only used four suites in
Mills, then they would have about
200 rooms left in Mills Hall alone
to use for conferences and work
shops, said Purchase.
Williams said UNCA will install
air conditioning in Highrise Resi
dence Hall by 1998. In the mean
time, the housing office tries to put
students on the bottom floors of
Highrise during the summer be
cause the bottom floors are cooler,
said Williams.
Not only have summer adjust
ments had to be made, but recently
another problem has occurred with
the residence life at UNCA, said
Williams.
Subterranean termites were found
on the first floor of Highrise Resi-
See HOUSING page 8
Six hundred enrolled in College for Seniors
By Shelley Eller
staff Writer
Over ten years ago UNCA created
the North Carolina Center for Cre
ative Retirement, a program that
currently has an enrollment of 600
non-degree seeking students aged
55 or older.
“It isn’t a degree-seeking program
for seniors,” said Carolyn Williams,
a staff member at the Center for
Creative Retirement who is respon
sible for coordinating the efforts of
older volunteers in area schools.
“It is a peer- taught program taught
by students, many who are profes
sors or experts in their field. We
have a wealth of people to teach the
courses. Many people volunteer
their time to keep the program qual
ity,” said Williams.
“When Chancellor David Brown
came to campus, he asked for pro
posals to help UNCA excel,” said
Bill Haas, department chair and
professor of sociology and one of
the founders of the center.
“ I helped write a proposal intro
ducing the Center for Creative Re
tirement to UNCA,” said Haas. A
task force was then put together to
get to work on establishing the
center on campus.”
UNCA student tuition and fees
are not applied to the costs of the
College for Seniors program. In
stead, a membership fee of $90 is
applied to the expenses.
“The College for Seniors is fee-
driven,” said Williams. “Some of
the staff positions in the center are
funded by the state of North Caro
lina, but no money is taken from
student fees and tuition to help pay
costs.”
In fact, the most recent informa
tion shows that in the 1994-95
school year, $150,000 in funds
were provided by the state, and
$120,000 was contributed by the
College for Seniors.
As the Center for Creative Retire
ment began to establish itself on
campus, the idea of the College for
Seniors was conceived.
A 20-member task force of older
adults representing a balance of
gender, race, religion, education,
and location in the area was chosen
by Chancellor Brown,
Under the direction of Lin Brown,
the wife of the chancellor at that
time, the task force established the
goals and guidelines for the College
for Seniors.
“I was the only homemaker on the
task force made up of all walks of
life,” said Julienne Wuniner, a
member on UNCA’s Board of
Trustees and member of the Col
lege for Seniors task force. “When
we created it, we didn’t realize that
it would be successful beyond our
wildest dreams. We started the pro
gram with six or seven courses and
now we have around 30.”
Courses are taught by peer se
niors, but at least one course is
taught by a UNCA faculty mem
ber. “The World of the Cherokee,”
taught by Peggy Millin, and “The
Journey of Life,” taught by Ron
Manheimer, director for the Cen
ter for Creative Retirement, are
some of the classes offered.
“‘The Journey of Life’ is an hon
ors course made up of a group of
younger and older students rang
ing from the ages of 19 to the mid-
70s,” said Manheimer. “The course
examines the metaphor of life as a
journey through literature, philoso
phy, historical, and psychological
perspectives. “We have studied the
psychology of the different stages
See CENTER on page 8
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PHOTO BY TRISH JOHNSON
Mack and Marion Johnson are two members of the College
for Seniors, a program that currently has an enrollment of
600 students at UNCA.
Artist commissioned to paint mural in library
ART COURTESY OF RAMSEY LIBRARY
Burnsville artist Robert Johnson will present his mural
“Eight Views of Mt. Pisgah” on April 4. The project was
sponsored by the North Carolina Artworks for State Build
ings Program.
By Catharine Sutherland
staff Writer
The unveiling of a 23-foot mural
for D. Hiden Ramsey Library will
take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on April
4 in the library lobby. Burnsville
artist Robert Johnson’s mural, “8
Views of Mt. Pisgah,” will be pre
sented on the wall above the library’s
reference desk.
The North Carolina Artworks for
State Buildings program allocated
one-half of one percent of all state-
appropriated buildings’ construc
tion budgets to the commission or
purchase of artwork for the build
ing.
In the case of D. Hiden Ramsey
Library, the 60,000-square-foot
expansion of the building com
pleted in the fall of 1995 resulted in
a $15,847 allocation of the budget
toward artwork.
The mural, a series of eight 30-
by-30 inch wooden panels mounted
on a 6-by -23 foot silhouette of Mt.
Pisgah, depicts Johnson’s visions of
the future of the natural world as
represented by the Mt. Pisgah area.
“The Mt. Pisgah idea came from
the focus of a lot of my work, which
is how people relate to the natural
environment,” said Johnson, one
of four finalists who submitted ideas
for the library project. “I’m inter
ested in bringing the outside into
the inside of the building,” he said.
Since Mt. Pisgah dominates the
view of the outside from the steps of
the library, it became the natural
focus for the inside artwork, said
Johnson.
“The [library] is oriented in such
a way as to offer a view down the
main quadrangle of the university
and on out to Mt. Pisgah,” Johnson
said. “The silhouette of the moun
tains one sees behind the arched
panels is a mirror image of the view
one would see if one were to turn
around and walk in a straight line
out the front door.”
The library spent part of the fund
ing on a smaller piece of artwork
that also focuses on Mt. Pisgah, a
metal sculpture in the shape of the
mountain’s silhouette, which hangs
on the wall to the right of the li
brary entrance, said Malcolm Blow
ers, university librarian.
A committee of faculty, staff, and
one art student selected Johnson’s
idea for the library artwork, said
Blowers, university librarian.
“It seemed as if Robert’s proposal
was more fitting for the spaces and
the library’s need for art,” said Blow
ers. “We were very impressed with
the way he conceptualized it.”
The earliest model of North
Carolina’s Artworks for State Build
ings program originated in Phila
delphia in 1959, said Jean
McLaughlin from the North Caro
lina Arts Council, the administra
tor of the program. Since then, 26
other states have adopted similar
programs.
“North Carolina is a relative new
comer to the whole concept (of
‘percent-for-art legislation),” she
said. However, North Carolina’s
recent involvement with “percent-
for-art legislation” proved short
lived. The state legislature repealed
the Artworks for State Buildings
See ART page 8