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where they are going,” said Weast.
“The state forbids us from having
race-based scholarships, so what we
do [at UNCA] is talk about award
ing scholarships to improve the di
versity of our campus.”
In 1998, the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives voted 249-171 to reject a
proposed nationwide ban on the
use of racial or gender preferences
in college admissions, according to
an Aug. 26 Los Angales Times ar
ticle. Both Texas and California
currently have bans of admissions
policy based on race.
Under a 1996 Texas court ruling
in the Hopwood case, won by
Cheryl Hopwood and three other
white students who challenged ad
missions policy at the University of
Texas law school, Texas colleges
cannot consider an applicant’s race
or ethnicity as grounds for admis
sion, according to the article.
In California, colleges are operat
ing with a similar rule under the
voter-approved Proposition 209,
according to the article.
"We ought to do away with pref
erences,” said Bob Dole, former
U.S. Senator in the article. Admis
sions to colleges “ought to be based
on merit. This is America.”
According to Weast, the same stan
dards for admissions at UNCA are
used for both minority and white
students.
Some students said they agreed
with laws such as the ones in Texas
and California, which prohibited
colleges and universities from ad
mitting students based on race.
“To spend so much time and
money on the recruitment of mi
nority students is unfair, and in
some ways, also racist,” said Justin
Lawlor, a sophomore computer sci
ence major. “When applying for
admissions, students should not be
asked their race.”
Having a diverse campus is an
important factor in a liberal arts
education, according to Weast.
“Diversity is not just racial, it’s a
fairly broad definition,” said Eric
lavacchini, vice chancellor for stu-
"To spend so much time and money on
the recruitment of minority students
is unfair. When applying for admis
sions, students should not be asked
their race.”
-Justin Lawlor
Sophomore, Computer Science
dent affairs. “It’s also age, gender,
sexual preference and even geogra
phy.”
“We have 500 to 700 non-tradi-
tional students that enrich UNCA,”
said lavncchini. “They bring a life
experience that the 18 to 22 year
olds don’t have.”
According to lovacchini, UNCA
does have some problems recruit
ing minority students.
Enrollment of minority students
“is not where we want it to be,” said
lovacchini. “We work hard trying
to enroll students that are different
then your typical white Anglo-
Saxon student.”
Many minority students who at
tend a high school comprised of
mainly minority students will look
for a college with the same compo
sition, according to Weast.
Part of the problem is that UNCA
is in an area that has a small minor
ity population. To combat this
problem, university officials do a
lot of recruitment in the bigger
cities such as Charlotte, Raleigh/
Durham and Wilmington, accord
ing to lovacchini.
The number of students from
WNC “is not going down,” said
lovacchini. “Since we are the state’s
liberal arts college, we should be
reflecting the state’s demographics.”
In 1999, UNCA had a total en
rollment of 3,226 students, out of
which 2,934 were white, 112 were
black, 14 were American Indian,
35 were Asian and 44 were His
panic, according to UNC-system
data.
UNCA had the highest percent
age of white students, 90.9 percent
of the total population, than any
UNC public university, according
to UNC-system data.
N.C. A & T University had the
highest percentageofblackstudents,
with 88 percent of the student body
being black.
“You have to look at the area, and
WNC just does not have a large
amount of minorities,” said
lovacchini.
In addition to attracting a more
racially diverse student body, there
needs to be diversity within the
faculty, according to Melissa
Burchard, assistant professor of
philosophy.
“I think our students of color
don’t see many (role) models that
make it look possible to them that
they can be (educators),” said
Burchard in a Dec 2, 1999 article in
The Blue Banner.
UNCA faculty has already started
diversifying their curricula by show
ing the value of diversity in the
classes that they’re teaching, ac
cording to Burchard in the article.
“We show the value of diversity,
how important it is to value the
thinking and the experiences of
those who are different from one
self,” said Burchard in the article.
“Our goal is to broaden the base of
our student and faculty population
and the appreciation for the differ
ences that those groups bring to
UNCA,” said lavacchini.
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glasses, a red T-shirt, a blue denim
jacket, blue jeans and white tennis
shoes, according to the victim in
the email. He also was holding a
few books or magazines to perhaps
shield his exposed privates, accord
ing to teh student.
The man has not yet been identi
fied or caught, but the student said
she urges anyone who might know
who he is to contact the Asheville
Death
Police Department.
“I’ll be damned if this guy will stay
free to do this to another girl,” said
the student in the email. “Obvi
ously, this guy needs some help,
and he needs to be caught.”
The student has filed an incident
report with the Asheville Police
Department, and is currently work
ing on a composite sketch of the
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Bramlett.
“Death penalty states, as a group,
do not have lower rates of criminal
homicide than non-death penalty
states,” said Bramlett. “If you look
at neighboring states, one with the
death penalty and the other with
out, the one with the death penalty
does not show significantly lower
rates of criminal homicide.”
The death penalty has become a
widely discussed topic, both na
tionally and internationally, and
Ethnic
The humanities courses have im
proved, but some other courses on
campus could be more culturally
diverse, according to Wright.
“We do have a good bit of diverse
events on campus,” said Chris
Vanderford, a senior music major.
“However, people rarely show up
to the events that are not main
stream, i.e. white (students). This is
because the campus is primarily
white.”
Vanderford said UNCA does
needs more diversity among its stu
dents.
“I was on the chancellor’s student
diversity committee last spring, and
I found that many faculty members
were seriously interested in diversi-
fyingour campus,” said Vanderford.
However, groups such as AASA
and the International Student As
sociation help minorities feel wel-
the United States has received criti
cisms from industrialized counter
parts that have abolished this prac
tice, according to Hastay.
“I believe the death penalty will
eventually be abolished,” said
Hastay. “It is a basic human rights
violation, and I have now come to
think that the death penalty will be
something generations ahead of us
look back on and say that did not
really happen, like the way we now
look at slavery.”
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come and provide a support net
work for each other, according to
Phillip Weast, vice chancellor for
enrollment services.
“Students who are under-repre
sented on the campus need that
place where they can just be with
their own,” said Greene. “That is
not segregation, that is not being
racist, that’s just the way it is,” said
Greene.
“People always ask ‘Why do all
the black kids sit together in the
cafeteria?’ Well, it’s like water sinks
to its own level,” said Greene. “No
body ever turns that finger back
and says ‘Look where everyone else
is sitting.”
This year, the university has added
another member to the staff to re
cruit minorities. The new member
is a Hispanic UNCA graduate, ac
cording to Weast.
Producer to Present the Documentary,“From Swastika to Jim Crow,” March 26
The Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring "From Swastika to Jinn Crow,” an hour-long documentary using
interviews, news footage and home videos, produced by Steven Fischler. The documentary focuses on Jewish persons
who fled to American from Nazi Europe.
The film will be shown March 26 in Lipinsky auditorium at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the general public.
For more information, contact Richard Chess, Center for Jewish Studies Director at 251-6576.
The Blue Banner WEATHER
March 15, 2001
Thursday
3/15
Friday
3/16
C-
Saturday
3/17
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Sunday
3/18
Monday
3/19
Tuesday
3/20
Wednesday
3/21
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Showers
High: 56
Low: 42
Partly Cloudy
High: 55
Low: 40
Partly Cloudy
High; 56
Low: 35
PM Showers
High: 53
Low: 35
Rain
High: 52
Low: 37
Rain
High: 55
Low: 35
Partly Cloudy
High: 55
Low: 37
National Weather: A system will move out of the Southwest into the Southeast by late week brining with it a chance of
much needed rain for the region. That storm will then affect the Northeast, while another system begins to take shape in
the Southwest by early in the weekend. This storm will track eastward along the Gulf Coast and bring more rain to the
Southeast part of the country by early next week.
Western North Carolina Weather: Closer to home, rain enters the forecast Thursday, but skies should clear out by
Friday as high pressure filters into our area. Another system will approach the region by late Sunday. The best chance of
precipitation will be on Monday and Tuesday. Skies will clear out by the end of the forecast period. Temperatures will
remain near normal through the middle of next week.
Thursday 3/15
Sunrise: 6:41a
Sunset: 6:38p
Moonrise: 12:12a
Moonset: 10:38a
Friday 3/16
Sunrise: 6:39a
Sunset: 6:39p
Moonrise: 1:11a
Moonset: 11:21a
Last Quarter
Saturday 3/17
Sunrise: 6:38a
Sunset: 6:40p
Moonrise: 2:07a
Moonset: 12:07p
Sunday 3/18
Sunrise: 6:37a
Sunset: 6:40p
Moonrise: 2:58a
Moonset: 12:57p
Monday 3/19
Sunrise: 6:35a
Sunset: 6:41p
Moonrise: 3:44a
Moonset: l:50p
Tuesday 3/20
Sunrise: 6:34a
Sunset: 6:42p
Moonrise: 4:25a
Moonset: 2:24p
Vernal Equinox
Wednesday 3/21
Sunrise: 6:32a
Sunset: 6:43p
Moonrise: 5:03a
Moonset: 3:40p
Forecasts provided by Meteorology Majors:
Jesse Dail, Marcus Smith, Eric Law, & Brian Lovem.
Faculty: Dr. Alex Huang
Department of Atmospheric
Sciences (ATMS), UNCA Y j
www.atms.unca.edu
UNCA Weatherline: 251-6435
Historical Weather Events
March 18,1925: The Tri-State Tornado occurred, the most deadly
tornado in U.S. history. The tomado claimed 695 lives in MO/IL/EN.
March 19, 2000: High winds downed trees and power lines across
western North Carolina. Winds gusted as high as 135 mph on Beech Mtn.
March 20, 2000: 2 to 4 inches of rain fell across WNC causing Small
stream flooding.
Humanities
To Host
Workshop
The humanities
program will host a
workshop on China
March 16 and 17
from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Visitors from vari
ous universities
around the nation
will come to UNCA
to help incorporate
more non-Western
material into the
humanities curricu
lum.
For more informa
tion on the event,
contact Bill
Spellman at 251-
6809.
NEWS
from the
U.S. Bombing
Actident Kills Six
An American investigation board
went to Kuwait to examine how a
United States jet on exercises
bombed an observation post. The
accident killed five American sol
diers and a New Zealander.
U.S. officials in Washington said
the F/A-18 Hornet dropped its load
of 500-pound bombs, two to three
of which hit the area where air
controllers operated.
The accident occurred a month
after a U.S. Navy submarine sank a
Japanese trawler by mistake, killing
nine civilians on board.
Tainted Meat may
Be Found in Pork
and Lamb
The meat scare now includes pork
and lamb. Foot-and-mouth disease
has spread to France. Officials im
mediately set up a 1 1/2 -mile secu
rity perimeter, and a further sur
veillance perimeter of six miles.
Mainland Europe has been taking
steps in an attempt to prevent the
disease from crossing the Channel
from Britain, where the outbreak
was discovered Feb. 19.
Lucas Dies From
Heart Attack
Henry Lee Lucas, who inspired
the 1986 film “Henry: Portrait of a
Serial Killer,” died in prison March
12 after a heart attack.
Lucas, 64, complained of chest
pains, and was taken from his cell to
a prison infirmary where medical
personnel attempted unsuccessfully
to save him.
Sex-Offenders,
Beware of ads
A weekly newspaper targeted by a
proposed law that would require
some papers to run sex-offendei
notices has agreed to include the
information in advertisements.
The Shelton-Mason County Jour
nal near Seattle, Wash, has refused
several requests by authorities to
print notices in news columns noti
fying readers of any sex offenders
who live in their area.
An amendment by state Sen. Tim
Sheldon to an unrelated newspaper
bill would require community
“newspapers of record” like theJour
nal., which receives paid legal no
tices from government agencies, to
run sex-offender notices as stories
or ads.
Nuclear Power
May be Good
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has
introduced a bill promoting nuclear
power as the best solution for a host
of problems, ranging from energy
shortages to global warming. How
ever, environmental groups and
nuclear watchdog groups say that
nuclear energy is still a risky propo
sition.
The Nuclear Energy Electricity
Assurance Act of Nuclear Energy
Electricity Assurance Act of 2001
contains a set of provisions aimed
at fostering greater use of nuclear
energy, while supporting advanced
research into technologies to mini
mize radioactive wastes.
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