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NEWS
BRIEFS
By Cindy Steele
News Reporter
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
Cherokee Nation swaps land
By Adam Pollock
News Reporter
UNCA
A lecture entitled “The Sublimi-
I nal Mind: Yogocara Buddhism and
I Freud” by Dr. Tao Jiang of South-
I ern Illinois University will take place
I in the Red Oak conference room in
I Ramsey Library at 6:30 p.m. Nov.
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CAMPUS CRIME
A UNCA student was arrested
I and charged with DWI Nov. 15.
Eleven students were charged on
I student conduct citation for under-
: possession of alcohol Nov. 11
I through Nov. 15.
ASHEVILLE
Asheville Regional Airport offi-
Idals are negotiating with U.S. Air-
I ways to offer two nonstop flights a
I day to New York’s LaGuardia Air-
Iport. Continental Airlines is cur-
I rently the only airline to fly non-
Istop from Asheville to New York.
[Ticket prices range from $373 to
I $663.
Police are investigating a series of
I shootings that have occurred in the
I past month at the Depot Club in
I downtown Asheville. Investigations
have led to the arrest of one man on
unrelated drug charges, but police
are still looking for those respon
sible for gunshot injuries to two
people.
NORTH CAROLINA
The U.S. Department of Home-
I land Security awarded North Caro-
I lina $7.4 million to upgrade terror
ism readiness in the Charlotte re-
Igion. Fifty urban areas received
1 money during this round of fund-
I ing.
“We are a terrorist target because
we are America’s second largest fi-
I nancial city,” said N.C. congress-
I woman Sue Myrick of Charlotte.
I “We are the only major city in the
I country with two nuclear power
I plants within a 30-mile radius.
North Carolina’s economy has
I suffered more than any other state
since 2000, according to a report by
I the AFL-CIO. The report based its
findings on factors such as North
Carolina’s increased unemploy
ment rate and decreased median
1 household income.
UNITED STATES
Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy S.
Moore was removed from the bench
Nov. 13 after a special court found
that he had committed ethical
breaches by defying a federal court
order. Moore was suspended in
A^ugust after refusing to remove the
Ten Commandments from the
State Supreme Court building.
God is the basis of our law and
our government,” Moore testified,
I cannot and will not violate my
Conscience.”
WORLD
Mexico’s ambassador to the
United Nations was dismissed from
bis position after making comments
criticizing U.S. policy towards his
country. Adolfo Aguilar Zinser re
portedly said in a speech on Mon
day that the United -States regards
Mexico as a second-class country.
The U.S. Senate approved a
Nov. 3 bill that included lan
guage to allow the Eastern Band
of Cherokee Indians to acquire a
portion of land on the Blue Ridge
Parkway, within the Smoky
Mountains National Park.
“We feel real good about where
we stand right now with the land
transfer and we feel like we have a
lot of good support from our
friends in D.C.,” said future prin
ciple chiefMichell Hicks, accord
ing to th.t Asheville Citizen-Times.
Rep. Charles Taylor added land
swap provisions to an appropria
tions bill for the U.S. Depart
ment of the Interior at the last
moment, during negotiations be
tween the U.S. House and Senate
over other portions of the spend
ing bill. The bill passed with an
87-2 vote in the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. House of Representa
tives already approved the legisla
tion on Sep. 23, amid intense
controversy. If President Bush
signs the Department of the Inte
rior appropriations bill into law,
the land swap deal can legally
move forward. If it does, the trade
will involve the 168-acre
Ravensford tract, owned by the
U.S. National Park Service, and
the 218-acre Yellow Face tract,
owned by the Cherokee.
Rep. Taylor said that he viewed
the exchange as a “win, win situ
ation for all parties,” according to
Axz Asheville Citizen-Times.
Dan Pierce, assistant professor
of history at UNCA, believes that
the Cherokee have probably re
ceived the best of the land swap.
Pierce said that tribal revenues
have grown in recent years due to
casino gaming enterprises and he
believes that this revenue could
contribute to greater regional in
fluence for the Cherokee.
“The big winners here are the
Cherokee,” said Pierce. “This has
demonstrated a really important
change in terms of the growing
political power of the Cherokee.”
The Cherokee want to relocate
all of their schools to the
Ravensford area. They also want
to build six athletic fields and two
parking lots on the land, accord
ing to Alt Asheville Citizen-Times.
Despite Rep. Taylor’s recent suc
cesses regarding the land swap,
many criticize his decision to in
sert the land swap provisions into
other legislation at the last minute.
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Upcoming electrical work, as well as Highsmith Center (above), is part of recent construction efforts.
Campus schedules blackout
Power upgrade accompanies continued Highsmith work
By Ryan Sniatecki
News Reporter
Maintenance staff wilT cut power to the campus
Nov. 28 in order to complete a major electrical
upgrade that may prevent campus-wide blackouts
and save the university money.
The outage is the third phase in a campus-wide
electrical upgrade that began three years ago with
funds from the Highex Education Improvement
Bond passed in 2000.
The university will upgrade the point of delivery
(POD) that connects the campus with the power
grid, install new software that can monitor power
usage across campus, and make it possible to avoid
campus-wide blackouts in the future.
“The system that we had was entirely antiquated,
and based on its configuration and its old style of
providing power to this campus. Squirrels could
cause a complete power outage across campus,” said
Peter Nielsen, director of design and construction.
“We now have the ability to reroute electricity on
campus. (We can) keep power on all our other
facilities without interrupting everybody else’s ser-
The physical plant informed faculty and staff of
the impending outage in order to prepare sensitive
equipment. The plant can’t send mass e-mails to
students, but the message is being sent through
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Features
“The Music Lesson” highlights
Bosnian conflict
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Sports
Men’s soccer defeats High Point
1-0
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COURTE.SY OE VIRGINIA OERRYBERRY
Virginia Derrberry’s painting, “Wilderness.”
UNCA art
professor takes
conference prize
By Suzanne Aubel
News Reporter
JAY ADKINS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Founders Hall side of Highsmith indicates
the months of work still ahead, as UNCA pre
pares for a blackout to upgrade electrical systems.
A UNCA professor and four col
leagues took home one of the top
prizes at the Southeastern College
Art Conference in Raleigh Oct. 29
through Nov. 1.
“It was very exciting,” said Vir
ginia Derryberry, associate profes
sor of painting and drawing at
UNCA. “I didn’t findout (wewon)
until the next day because I didn’t
come until Friday and the awards
were given out Thursday night.
People kept coming up to me and
sayingTt really was agood catalog,’
and I thought ‘Thanks,’ then I
found out that we had won.”
The prize was for Outstanding
Exhibition and Catalog of Con
temporary Materials
for their exhibition
entitled “Conver
gence.” The exhibi
tion was created by
Derryberry and four
other women artists
in 2001 and has been
traveling around to
galleries, museums
and universities for
about a year.
“We (the artists in
volved) were in a panel presenta
tion two years ago at the same con
ference,” said Derryberry. “We were
called together because they thought
there were common denominators
in our work. Usually you talk about
your own work, but in that particu
lar panel we were asked to talk
about everybody else’s work. So,
the way that came together was
intriguing and after the panel was
over we got together and said
‘Maybe we should do a show.’”
The show features several pieces
from each artist, and the catalog
highlights some of the pieces and
provides in-depth information
about each of the artists. The exhi
bition is an eclectic mix since three
of the women work in sculpture
and the other two, including
Derryberry, are painters. However,
it hints at a common interest or
coming together, according to the
catalog introduction written by
UNCA professor Ginger Spivey.
“Convergence brings together five
artists, all women with established
careers working in different media
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Professor Virginia Derryberry
“My work has
always been
about duality
and extremes. ”
Virginia Derryberry
associate professor,
painting and drawing
express their individual concerns
and artistic interests,” wrote Spivey.
Derryberry has known a couple of
the other artists for close to 20
years, and the other women knew
each other from graduate school.
The group has formed a close friend
ship over the years. That friendship
became the basis for
the show, according
to Derryberry.
“1 think the cen
tral theme was more
(about) their friend
ship and that they
were educators and
they had made art
all their lives,” said
Cindy Walton, a
BFA student who
went to see the ex
hibit with Derryberry’s advanced
art class. “I felt it was very much
about art in the sense of making
things versus conceptual or instal
lation-type pieces.”
The paintings that Derryberry
submitted to the exhibition are all
large-scale oil on canvas works that
she created about a year and a half
ago. Several of them were featured
in a separate exhibition that was
shown in Owen Hall.
“They deal with fire and water,
and more specifically destructive,
chaotic events in nature such as
forest fires and floods and things
like that,” said Derryberry. “In the
images there are scenes of things
burning, but there are afso insets
and these are more serene places.
My work has always been about
duality and extremes.”
Dertyberry’s more recent work has
moved in a more simple direction,
but she feels that the complexity of
those pieces was appropriate for
“Convergence.”
“It worked out that those particu
lar works fit with everything else,”
and finding different methods to said Derryberry.
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