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iume 38 Issue 8
Adam Pollock
News Reporter
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The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Sports
Bulldogs defeat LIU in double over
time
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Features
Mnim, beer. Get your buzz on at Bier
Garden
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Campus
Mark Gibney sits down with The Blue
Banner
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Lifestyle
Pint-sized problems in the Caf
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November 6, 2003
UNCA
fJCA students and faculty at-
Icd the lecture Abuse and Vio-
tin Dating Relationships Oct.
n observance of Domestic Vio-
:c Awareness Month. The
fcrsity’s Women’s Resource
Iter and the women’s studies
utment co-sponsored the event,
iihor and local psychotherapist
laDeWeese spoke on the issues
ate rape on and off college cam-
s, warning signs of abusive re-
inships and the legal difficulty
ims of sexual assault often face,
fese said that she speaks on
!ge campuses “to tell people
they need to speak out” oii the
ts of sexual assault and abusive
lionships. Date rape now ranks
md to petty larceny as the most
imitted crime in the United
es, according to DeWeese.
terape accounts for 78 percent
1 rape offenses committed in
lu.s.
CAMPUS CRIME
|lice have arrested three people
jeparate occasions at the UNCA
ling Hall since the middle of
[ober. The.three individuals il-
illy obtained food from the
lersity’s cafeteria, according to
f us Police. A UNCA Campus
ice officer warned that students
their guests should understand
1 obtaining food from the
jvcrsity’s dining hall without
iient constitutes a real and pun-
Ible crime.
’olice charged Sidney Joseph
|itin with larceny and drug vio-
ins Oct. 14. Police charged a
year-old minor with obtaining
:y or property by false pretense
17. Police also charged Lind-
'f.Clewell with larceny Oct. 20.
NORTH CAROLINA
-■NCA’s Student Government
uation will try to prevent fur-
tuition increases at public
"th Carolina post-secondary
itional institutions by assem-
personal stories of tuition-
ed financial hardship from each
Jtution in the N.C. University
.'^Tuition at public universities
N.C. rose by an average of
percent during the past year
rding to the Raleigh News and
? The state’s legislature has
”'ved the increases in tuition in
^onse to growing budget short-
t Many students across the state
c experienced, economic hard-
related to the increase. Al-
W-gh the increase has caused some
f'culty, N.C. students fared bet-
'han other students have across
nation.
I'ution rose an average of 14 per-
nationwide last year. Students
participate in this program by
ting www.personalstories.org.
UNITED STATES
'leaked internal memorandum
Jiby Secretary of Defense Donald
r^feld, dated Oct. 16, which
1‘Uppeared in USA Today, ques-
'nd the U.S.’s effectiveness in
t-H,
Former baseball player charged with felony
Erin Bereit
News Reporter
COURTESY OF THE UNCA ATHLETICS WEB SITE
UNCA graduate Robert Rudder has been ac
cused of abusing his caretaker responsibilities
while serving as a teacher at Erwin High School.
A UNCA graduate and former
baseball player was charged
with a felony act of sexual ac
tivity with a student by a
teacher.
Robert Wayne Rudder, Jr.,
23, allegedly had intercourse
with a female student enrolled
at Erwin High School where
Rudder served as special-edu
cation teacher andliassistant JV
football coach.
“Mr. Rudder has been sus
pended without pay and the
superintendent will recom
mend to the Board (of Educa
tion) that his contract be ter
minated,” said Gerry Kovach,
public relations director for
Buncombe County Schools.
“The State Department of Pub
lic Instruction has also been
notified of this issue and, in all
probability, his certification will
be revoked.”
Cliff Dodson, superintendent
of Buncombe County Schools,
was unable to comment on the
situation any further saying it
was a personnel matter.
The student is not a member
of Rudder’s special education
class. Oct. 7 marked the date of
the alleged offense. The war
rant was issued Oct. 20. Since
his initial court hearing Oct.
21, Rudder has been waiting to
go to Superior Court, accord
ing to Sgt. George Sprinkle,
detective of the criminal inves
tigations division at the Bun
combe County Sheriff s Office.
“He was released on an unse
cured bond where he won’t
have to pay any money as long
as he shows up (to court) when
he is supposed to,” said
Sprinkle.
If he is found guilty of charges
brought against him. Rudder
will probably be put on proba
tion since he has no other crimi
nal records.
“With no record they would
probably give him probation,”
said Sprinkle. “He would be
under supervised probation for
a length of time. He would be
asked to do community service
for so many hours and that he
not commit any crime in the
state of North Carolina for so
long. If he violates that proba
tion he would go to jail.”
Although the charges brought
against Rudder were not for
rape, a person who is a school
administrator then engages in
a sexual act with a student may
be charged with sexual a.ssault.
Consent is not a defense, ac
cording to the law.
“It is a sexual as.sault but it is
not rape or indecent liberties,”
said Sprinkle. “He was in charge
of her well-being while she was
in school. He was there to be a
teacher, not to be her boy-
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HILARY MCVICKER/STAff photograher
The Fine Arts Theatre (above)
kicks off the festival with the short
“Alone.” The Asheville Commu
nity Theatre (right) will feature
the documentary “Greater
Southbridge” Nov. 7 at 5:30 p.m.
HILARY MCVICKER/STAFF PHOTOGRAHER
Asheville’s first film festival begins
Cindy Steele
News Reporter
The first Asheville Film Fes
tival will feature the work of
more than 50 filmmakers,
including notable producer
Ang Lee as well as UNCA
student Hilary McVicker,
with screenings in several
downtown venues Nov. 6-9.
“It’s going to be big,” said
Alison Watson, a local film
maker who helped organize
the festival with the Asheville
Film Commission. “Our goal
is for it to be along the lines of
Cannes and Sundance.
Lee’s film “One Last Ride”
will make its world premiere
■at the festival and compete in
the features category. His
other films include “The
Hulk” and “Crouching Ti
ger, Hidden Dragon.”
“We have a coy enough
downtown that filmmakers
and festival goers are likely to
mingle,” said Anne Watkins,
film producer and co-chair of
the festival’s acquisition com
mittee. “We also have a very
eclectic set of films.”
Filmmakers will compete in
four categories: features,
shorts, documentaries and
student films. There will also
be non-competition special
invitation films, including
“The Cooler” which stars
William H. Macy and is de
buting in Asheville one week
before it opens in New York
and Los Angeles.
“Student films are not con
sidered a big part of most
festivals, but in our festival
they are,” said Watson. “We
have some really, really good
films. When I say ‘good,’ I
mean a lot of them are just as
good as the independent fea
tures that were submitted. In
my experience going to film
festivals. I’ve seen a lot of
student films that just blew
Cannes or Sundance winners
out of the water.”
McVicker is one of the 12
student filmmakers compet
ing in the festival.
“The film is a project I did
for a directing class,” said
McVicker, a senior mass com-
munications major. “It’s
called ‘A Boy and His Cam
era.’ It’s a story about a little
boy who’s shy in school. His
teacher gives him a camera,
and he starts playing around
with it and cutting up the
images to change the situa
tions in his life.”
The student category in
cludes films from schools all
over the country, including
New York Film Academy,
University of Southern Cali
fornia, Academy of Art Col
lege, University of Texas at
Austin and North Carolina
Guilford College
student faces fed
eral charges for
weapons scare
Kristen Ruggeri
News Reporter
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Flection results for Buncombe County races
Asheville City CouncU Woodfin Sanitary Water &
Sewer District Trustee
Terry M. Bellamy
Jan Davis
Jim Ellis
Brownie Newman
Chris Pelly
.Rod A. Whiteside
Write-In
8,241
6,252
5,204
7,130
5,380
3,365
90
23.11%
17.53%
14.59%
19.99%
15.09%
9.44%
0.25%
Henry Chandler
James Latimore
Russell R. Rhodes
Hugh Roberson
Danny R. Tolar
Write-In (Robin Cape)
618
23.78%
586
22.55%
351
13.51%
330
12.70%
270
10.39%
444
17.08%
Total
35,662
100% Total
2,599
100%
The Guilford College student who pointed out the
lack of airport security by smuggling contraband
onto planes now faces federal charges and a maxi
mum of 10 years in prison.
“I think this was a good thing for him to do. It makes
people realize security is not as good as it’s made out
to be,” said Kimberly Worlund, a sophomore biology
major at UNCA.
Federal authorities charged Nathaniel Hearwole, a
junior at Guilford College, with a felony after he
admirted to planting weapons aboard several South
west Airlines (SWA) jetliners. The weapons included
box cutters, bleach, strike-anywhere matches and
modeling clay resembling plastic explosives, accord
ing to the CNN Web
site.
More than a month
passed before SWA em
ployees found the items.
Boxcutters and other
items lay undetected
until SWA employees
found the contraband
during maintenance
checks Oct. 21. Accord
ing to the FBI affidavit,
Heatwole left the items
on the planes Sept. 12
and Sept. 14, accord
ing to the CNN Web
site.
Heatwole sent e-mail
messages to the Trans
portation Security Administration (TSA), alerting
them of weapons he hid along with the dates, times
and flight numbers of the planes he hid them on. He
also gave them his name and telephone number.
Heatwole told the TSA in the e-mail that he was
aware of the consequences for his actions, but com
mitted them as an act of civil disobedience aimed at
improving the safety of aircraft passengers, according
to the CNN Web site.
Heatwole now faces a difficult case, especially if he
is using civil disobedience to defend himself In fact,
this may not even be a case of civil disobedience, and
he could possibly go to jail, according to Volker
Frank, associate professor of sociology at UNCA.
“Usually people make cases about civil disobedi
ence if they feel something is unfair or unjust going
on in society,” said Frank. “Most Americans and
most judges, while they don’t like to take off their
shoes (at the airport), they may not think it’s unfair.
“He proved this
almost-obvious
point (lax secu
rity) by shocking
an already fearful
public and em
barrassing the
Transporation
Security Admin
istration.”
Carl Willis
Guilford College graduate
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