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News
SGA
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“This semester we are encourag
ing senators to approach students
in order to find out their concerns,”
said Drummond.
SGA comprises 18 annually-
elected senators: three senators per
class, three senators to represent the
resident student body, and three
senators to represent UNCA’s com
muter population.
“Every student has six people that
are a direct link to SGA. It is just a
matter of utilizing those people,”
Tatum said. “Students need to real
ize that the senators are there to
listen to their concerns and to act
upon those concerns.”
A vice president and a president
are also elected each year, and the
positions of executive for the inter
nal (which handles affairs such as
officially recognizing campus orga
nizations) and executive for the ex
ternal (which involves coordinat
ing activities such as blood drives
and Greenfest, in which the cam
pus community participates) are
appointed.
All senators have office hours dur
ing the week in which they are
available for the students, Tatum
said.
“To have somebody in the office
is an essential thing because you
never know when a student or fac
ulty member’s going to come in
and need the help of SGA,”
Donaldson said. Donaldson worked
five hours per week in the SGA
office last year, when he served as a
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sophomore senator.
In addition to protecting stu
dents’ concerns, SGA exists to help
turn student ideas and suggestions
into actual improvements on cam
pus.
Past SGA actions have resulted in
the addition of the walkway across
the quad and the new stop sign near
the Humanities Lecture Hall, as
well as the presence of more stu
dents at campus commissions hear
ings, in vvhich student fee alloca
tion is decided.
“SGA is...the place for students to
have a governing body that can
work with administration to fur
ther develop our campus commu
nity,” said Drummond.
Despite its small student body
population in comparison to other,
larger universities in the UNO sys
tem, the size of UNCA’s SGA re
mains comparable to those of other
UNC schools.
UNCA elects 23 officials to SGA
positions annually, compared to
around 25 at UNC-CH.
In fact, some officials view
UNCA’s small size as a plus in
terms of SGA.
“The fact that UNCA is a small
university with a large number of
SGA officials benefits the students.
Due to a small community of stu
dents, SGA is able to have a greater
knowledge of what the students
want,” Drummond said.
The power of UNCA’s SGA sur
passes that of other schools’ student
government organizations, accord
ing to Tatum.
“We have a close relationship with
the general administration, which
means that we have more power as
a body to approach the administra
tion on issues and get a response
quicker than other schools,” Tatum
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days at 9 p.m. in the Side Door, ars
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SGA (meetings) and take a part ii,
what is going on,” Tatum said.
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that SGA is here to help makt
changes that are necessary ai
UNCA,” Drummond said.
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Name: Adrian Tatum
Position: President
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Phone: 251-6685
Email: adtatum@unca.edu
Name:Tiffany Drummond
Position; Vice President
Address: 207 MillsHall
Phone: 255-7169
Email: tgdrummo@bulldog
Name: Emily Freeburg
Position: Executive Assistant
Address: Sevier Street Apts.
Phone: 281-0055
Email: ejfreebu@bulldog
Name: Zach Petersen
Position: Freshman Senator
Address: 104 Mills Hall
Phone: 255-7151
Email: zjpeters@bulldog
Name: Jessica Weiss
Position: Sophomore Senator
Address: 109 Highrise Hall
Phone: 255-7008
Email: jsweiss@bulldog
Name: Eric Winters
Position: Sophomore Senator
Address: 104 Mills Hall
Phone: 255-7151
Email: edwinter@bulldog
Name: Alphonse Donaldson Name: Stephan Horvorth
Position: Junior Senator Position: Junior Senator
Address: 101 South Ridge Hall Address: 201 South Ridge Hall
Phone: 255-7435 Phone: 255-7447
Email: adonaldson@unca Email: szhorvorth@unca
Name: Jason Colinger
Position: Senior Senator
Address: 108 Mills Hall
Phone: 255 7153
Email: jacolinger@unca
Name: Adrienne Kruse
Position; Senior Senator
Address; 280 Edgewood Rd.
Phone: 285-8871
Email: aekruse@unca
Name; Hilary Russell
Position: Senior Senator
Legislative Librarian
Address: 280 Edgewood Rd
Phone: 285-8871
Officers not pictured:
Name: David Marshall
Position: Commuter Senator
Address; 333 Gouges Branch
Leicester, NC 28748
Phone: 259-9972
Email; ddmarsha.bulldog
Name; Marc Villegas
Position; Commuter Senator
Address: 600 Merrimon Ave.
Apt. 4A
Phorie; 281-1773
Email: jmvkeeper@hotmail.com
Name: Jennifer Ernst
Position: Parliamentarian
Address: 32 Chippendale Dr.
Horse Shoe, NC 28742
Phone: 891-9727
Email: jlernst@bulldog
Name: Kenya Smith
Position: Elections
Commissioner
Address: 217 Mills Hall
Phone: 255-7178
Email: kmsmith@bulldog
Name: Kevin Briggs
Position: Residential Senator
Address: 704 Highrise Hall
Phone: 255-7129
Email; ksbriggs@unca
Name: Jonathan Freeze
Position: Legislative Liaison
Address: 313 South Ridge Hall
Phone: 255-7479
Email: jefreeze@unca
Name: Claudia
Perez-Hurtado
Position; Exec, for External
Address: 40 E. Sevier St.
Phone: 236-0598
Email: perezhurtado@unca
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Position; Resident Senator
Address: 118 Mills Hall
Phone: 255-7160
Email: wdjones@unca
Name; F. C. Johnson
Position; Exec, for Internal
Address; 205 Gardner Hall
Phone: 255-7375
Email: fcjohnson@unca
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Best Buy
program. As a nontraditional student, he
said he appreciates that UNCA’s professors
are open-minded. DuVall attended an
other local college after high school gradu
ation that did not offer a liberal arts educa
tion.
It was not just the quality of education his
last two years at UNC-CH.
The Fiske Guide uses certain guidelines
to rank the schools including their loca
tions. Whether a school be in a small or
large city, in the suburbs, or on the out-
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skirts of a city is noted in the guide.
Other factors taken into consideration
include enrollment numbers, male/female
ratios, financial aid recipients, graduation
rates, numbers of returning freshmen, and
extra expenses.
Fiske listed UNCA’s strongest programs
as accounting, environmental studies, edu
cation, pre-med and engineering, though
the report mentioned management and
biology as the “most popular” majors.
According to Fiske, UNCA’s strengths lie
for a large part in the hard sciences.
“Students sing praises about environmen
tal science, chemistry and psychology. The
location of the campus within a national
forest provides an abundant laboratory for
students interested in the environment and
other natural sciences concerned with eco
logical issues,” Fiske stated.
The guide noted that the history depart
ment has produced several Fulbright schol
ars and called mass communications “an
other bright spot.”
“Literature and music elicit strong opin
ions, but mixed reviews, and mathematics
is a definite downer,” the guide stated.
As far as campus culture, “environmental
causes, gay and lesbian issues, various cam
pus issues, such as parking and
multiculturalism are a few of the buzzwords
on campus,” stated the guide’s review.
Mary Washington College in
Fredericksburg, Va., stands as a “best buy”
similar to UNCA in size and structure.
Also located in a small city, Mary Wash
ington college’s “core curriculum empha
sizes its strong liberal bent,” according to
Fiske. The school boasts an 85 percent
freshman return rate, comparable to
UNCA’s 80 percent rate. Both schools
received the same high quality of life rating.
Other North Carolina colleges to make
Fiske’s overall listings were Davidson,
Duke, Guilford, N.C. State, Wake Fori
and UNC-Greensboro.
In addition to earning a “best buy” listii
in 1996 and 1997 from Fiske, UNCA"]
named one of the nation’s 10 best libel
arts institiitions in its 1993 edition.
Other N. C. colleges and universiti
named among the Princeton Review’s t(
311 included Warren Wilson, Davidsol
Guilford and Catawba colleges, Duke Ui
versity, N. C. State University, N.C. Schi
of the Arts, the UNC-Chapel Hill
Wake Forest University.
The 1998 edition of the Fiske guide
edited by Edward Fiske, former educati®
editor at The New York Times,, and
designed to help potential students
about institutions across the country.
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