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Volume 41, Issue 9
NEWS
NRIEFS
by Justin Wagner
Stajf Reporter
Campus Crime
Campus Police continues to
Svestigate two incidents of
I vandalism that occurred last
leekend. Police found a van-
Blized vehicle on campus
nil 2 and received a report of
ndalism at Phillips Hall on
pril 3.
^ocal
federal court found an
feheville resident guilty and a
Jan from Tucson, Ariz. for par-
[dcipating in a drug ring that
[brought at least 440 pounds of
Icocaine from Tucson into North
iQarolina. Both men pleaded
[guilty to a drug-conspiracy
barge, and 12 other people
Isociated with the drug ring
pleaded guilty to similar
barges, which involved the
[muggling of around $4.5 mil-
|l#)P worth of cocaine into the
(state
[House Speaker Jim Black,
[inently involved in North
olina State Government
kbales over a proposed state
|ttery bill said he would sup-
011 the bill, only if legislators
bpose limits on advertising
[sociated with the proposed
ary. Black cited poor people
Iwho cannot afford to spend
|money on improbable dreams of
Tinning the lottery. Politicians
[sociated with the bill said any
ate lottery in North Carolina
1 involve financing state edu-
^tional institutions. A third of
l^c revenue generated by the
ptcry will finance education in
[flu state. The vote on the lottery
may come as soon as this
leek.
iNation
Police arrested the 16-year-
I old son of a Chippewa Indian
tribal leader March 28 in con-
t eiion with a March 21 school
’ting that killed 10 people
1 an Indian reservation in Red
t ke, Minn. Officials said
liise Jourdain helped deter-
i ie targets inside Red Lake
i; ' School with gunman Jeff
fuse, coordinating the nation’s
deadly school shooting
^ce the 1999 attacks at
Columbine High School. Weise
murdered his grandfather, a
|servation police officer, along
"ith his grandfather’s girlfriend
before taking his grandfather’s
police-issue .22-caliber gun, a
E lletproof vest and squad car to
I Lake High School. Weise
urdered an unarmed security
|a'd. a teacher and five stu-
euts before committing sui-
Online postings made by
%ise indicated that the 16-
y|ar-old Chippewa youth
mired Adolf Hitler and con-
leered himself a Nazi.
Vorld
^ope John Paul II, 84, died
^ril 2 in his Vatican City apart-
’•'ont amid street-side vigils
Attended by tens of thousands of
S|ople. The Vatican announced
•he long-ailing pope’s cause of
|arii as a collapse of blood
Pssure.
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Keynote speaker offers new definitions of “queer'
by Leah Shellberg
Staff Reporter
UNCA’s sixth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer studies eonference
began March 31 with conferences and a
banquet and ended April 2 with the
Progressive Prom.
“The eonference has been absolutly bril
liant,” said Judith Halberstam, keynote
speaker.
The conference featured various seminars
addressing queer studies themes.
Halberstam kicked off the event with an
unorthodox comparison of the Disney
movie “Finding Nemo,” and the idea of
“queer forgetting.”
“The conference has been absolutly bril
liant,” said Halberstam.
Halberstam said her point was for the
queer community to recognize new ideas of
what “queer” embodies without eompletely
discarding the old, hence the term “queer
forgetting.”
She used the example of Ellen
DeGeneres’ character Dory in “Finding
Nemo” as an example of how goals can
change and shift as someone re-estab
lishes themselves, and how it is impos
sible to be confined to heteronormativity
when one consistently forgets from where
they came.
Halberstam’s dissertation centered on the
idea of heteronormativity, and urged the
queer community to create its own ideas of
what is orderly and functional.
“Hetereonormativity is the system within
which it seems obvious that heterosexuality
is normal and homosexuality is deviant,”
said Halberstam.
Lorena Russell, associate professor of lit
erature and language, who planned the con
ference with the help of Helen Snyder and
Melissa Burchard, said Halberstam’s
speech impressed her.
“I suppose the keynote address was a
highlight for me. She accomplished what I
was hoping she could do,” said Russell.
“It’s not an easy thing to do, to present that
kind of complex theoretical information in a
form that outsiders to the field could under
stand.
“It was interesting, I think, for those of us
who have theoretical academic backgrounds
KIM BARTO/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Laura Friederich, senior chemistry and environmentai science student, and Amy
Degiralamo, senior drama student, ceiebrate the sixth GLBTQ studies confer
ence at the Progressive Prom.
in queer studies. In other words. I’ve studied
this stuff for years and years and years, and
I found myself challenged as a thinker.”
Many people outside the field, academics
or even working at an undergraduate level
found her talk understandable, aecording to
Russell.
Jared McGee, sophomore music student,
attended the keynote address and said he
was concerned with the humor surrounding
forgetfulness.
“All of the movies today make fun of how
“People inlieril these
passive roles just because
they think they’re a part
of that gender, or
because of who they
are.”
Stephanie Jones
junior psyhcology student
we’re so forgetful,” said McGee. “It’s really
not something that should be taken humor
ously, that people can forget and not even
know why.”
Halberstam also commented on the con
ference itself and how she felt about UNCA.
“This campus just seems really queer—
friendly to me,” said Halber.stam.
Stephanie Jones, junior psychology stu
dent, attended the classic sex seminar and
discussed things she said she found as points
of interest.
“The Greeks actually practiced pedophil
ia,” said Jones. “It was considered a norm
for boys to engage in sexual acts with older
men.”
The Greeks considered homosexuality a
normal way of living. Younger men were
considered apprentices to older men, and
they were supposed to develop a friendship
and have sex. They saw this social norm as
a positive. Young children, mostly male,
didn’t feel any type of stigma, according to
Jones.
Jones expressed concern about the
American view of love and sexuality.
“It’s opposites attract,” said Jones.
Where there’s a light, there’s a dark.
Where there’s a woman, there’s a man.”
“We’re too focused in on how that expres
sion of one and then another, it’s a part of
what we think will make us happy.
People inherit these passive roles just
because they think they’re a part of that gen
der, or they inheerit certain qualities and
they can’t fall in love with who they want to,
according to Jones.
Annual 5K Human Race
raises money for nonprofits
by Angele Mainhart
Staff Reporter
United Way hosts the 5K Human
Race at UNCA on April 16 to raise
money for non
profit organiza
tions.
“United Way
raises money for
the whole com
munity and dis
tributes it out to
a broad range of
organizations to
try to meet com
munity needs,”
said Robin
Grubb, commu
nity services
director for
United Way.
“There is not
enough money
to go around,
period,” said
Grubb.
So, anytime we can make some
thing fun and raise money for a
broad range of organizations, it’s
important for us to do that. There
are so many needs in the commu
nity, and they’re getting greater.”
This fundraiser will allow the
organizations to use the money
raised however they like for their
eompany. The organizations will
receive 100 percent of the money,
according to Grubb.
“As we all know, the govern
ment funding to all types of pro
grams is getting harder and harder
to get access to,” said Grubb.
There is a lot of competition for
funds. This type of money is dis
cretionary. There
are no strings
attached, giving
organizations the
ability to do
things that often
times they can’t
with grants.
Grants are specif
ically committed
to a certain thing,
^ to
Grubb.
More than 40
non-profit organi
zations will par
ticipate in the
Human Race
event, including
the Lewis
Rathbun Center.
It provides free lodging and servic
es for patients coming to Asheville
for medical treatment.
“The Rathbun Center participat
ed last year for the first time
because it was our 10th anniver
sary, and we thought it was a great
way to celebrate, as well as get our
volunteers and staff involved in a
different kind of helping,” said
Ann Whisenhunt, house director
“As ’we all kno’w,
the government
funding to all types
of programs is get
ting harder and
harder to get access
to.”
Robin Grubb
United Way community services
director
Students voice opinions over transportation
by Sarah Schmidt
Staff Reporter
Due to a parking cost increase and plans for no
freshmen parking next semester the
UNCA Campus Operations hosted a
publie forum April 1, encouraging
students to voice their opinions on
improving transportation.
“The purpose of today’s fonim is
to give the campus community a
chance to see what ideas we’re
coming up with,” said Yuri Kolsen,
UNCA transportation planner.
Through these forums, campus
operations wants to give stu
dents a chance to voice their
opinions about improving trans
portation of UNCA, according
to Kolsen. “
We’re looking to both inform
and seek participation,” said Kolsen.
Most of the issues raised at the public forum cen
tered on the availability of different transportation
options and on how to increase parking space
through various financial incen-
fives.
“Right now, the parking system
on campus encourages people to
drive,” said Koslen. “If you buy a
parking pass for a year, you might
as well drive every day. I’m sure
there will be some students that are
not excited about the plan of sepa
rating parking fees from student
fees, but we need to look at what’s
best for everyone.”
Parking fees will rise in order to
“The price of
parking will go up,
but we’re trying to
make it so that it’s
not so drastic.”
Yuri Kolsen
UNCA transportation planner
help pay for the maintenance of the parking spaces,
according to Kolsen.
“The cost of parking is really expensive,” said
Kolsen. “Basically, the fees pay for the cost of main
taining the parking lots.”
“If all we’re doing is planning for parking, then we
need to build more parking spaces, and that’s very
expensive.”
For example, Asheville is building a $20,000-per-
parking- space parking deck.
Parking fees can be kept down if
extra parking is avoided, accord
ing to Kolsen
“The price of parking will go
up, but we’re trying to make it so
that it’s not so drastic,” said
Kolsen.
During the forum, Koslen
asked for suggestions from stu
dents on what UNCA could do to
improve other forms of trans
portation.
Suggestions from students
included extended hours for the
transit system, the installation of
^ covered bicycle raeks and
increased carpooling options.
“1 don’t have a car, so, if 1 have to go somewhere,
1 pretty much have to take the bus,” said undeclared
sophomore Lisa Berg. “Later hours for transporta-
___________ tion would be good.”
For students without cars and
for incoming freshmen who will
not be permitted to bring cars,
Koslen suggested carpooling as
one method that students could
use to get around.
A program for freshmen to use
for going home will be available
in fall 2005.
“If you’re really interested
in carpooling, you can go
online right now and enter in
Share the Ride N.C.,” Koslen said.
“It’s a UNCA site, started by a state institu-
SEE FORUM, PAGE 12
“I think we need
to have covered
bicycle racks.”
Alison Reeves
undeclared sophomore