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by Jaime Ellingsen
Staff Reporter
lampus Crime
lampus Police escorted
laishall Mason IV off campus
I'll 8 after discovering drug
aphemalia.
lampus Police responded to a
from a night assistant who
iticed a man asleep in the
Hall computer lab. After
awakening the man, Campus
(lice reported that they noticed
ulge in Mason’s pocket, lead-
; to a search of Mason,
rhe search led to the discov-
1} of a glass pipe with marijua
na residue in it. Further search
ing revealed six more glass
pipes.
fter banning Mason from
pus April 8, Campus Police
fjund the 21-year-old from
ham outside the Dining Hall
on April 14.
{Officer on duty, Doug Green,
reported that he saw Mason
’ ffing items into his backpack,
c officer arrested Mason for
^passing. Green transported
'Mason to Buncombe County
etention Center.
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The first person in the United
[States to undergo a newly-
fproved procedure to repair
l^ortic aneurysm resides in
puwah, N.C. Malcom
angston, 72, received the pro-
^dure just two hours after the
llpod and Drug Administration
feve its approval March 24.
procedure is less invasive
Jan traditional surgery and lasts
nly two hours.
{Langston spent three days
^covering in Charlottesville
l&spital before returning to his
lliome. Langston said he is ready
[to return to his part-time job at
jie Etowah Ingles and feels as
did before having the proce-
State
iNorth Carolina media groups
followed the passing of state
record bills over the past
ifew weeks.
The recently-passed public
^cord bills takes large chunks
: of the public’s right to know
.fiiformation, according to John
Bussian, lobbyist for the North
Qarolina Press Association.
(Public record law secures the
press and general public’s rights
to access public documents and
records without question or
Pfinecessary delay. Recent leg-
mature redefined public record.
JOne such change to the defini
tion is preliminary research per-
4>rmed in the UNC system.
Some faculty members have
\oiced concerns that their work
*ay be stolen and published by
tomeone else. With the new
pll. this research is not public
jeord until an opportunity for
publication, patent protection or
Jresentation in academic forum
curs.
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'ur separate incidents of bomb-
f togs April 14. The attacks
duded the 1996 Olympics, an
ortion clinic in 1997, a gay
dub in 1997, and an Alabama
dinic in 1998. Rudolph’s
“Ombings killed two people and
tojured 150.
.(Rudolph gave his pleas in
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April 21,2005
Chancellor Mullen says farewell to UNCA
by Sarah Schmidt
Staff Reporter
In a parting interview. Chancellor James
Mullen discussed his accomplishments at
UNCA and his thoughts on the direction of
the university in the future
As Chancellor of UNCA, what are your
major duties?
I function in effect as the campus presi
dent. There's a president of the university
system, and then each of the 16 campuses
has a chancellor who is the chief administra
tive officer of that campus, who reports to
the university president, the Board of
Trustees and also the Board of Governors.
How long have you served at UNCA?
As amazing as it is to think about, it'll be
six years in May. It has been a wonderful
experience for me and for my family. It's
been a real privilege, a highlight of my
life—not just my professional life, but in my
life—in that I've had a chance to meet so
many wonderful people.
How did you first learn about UNCA,
before you became Chancellor?
Well, there was a search process, similar
to the one that is going on right now. I was
lucky enough to be identified through that
process, have a chance to come here and
visit with the search committee and the cam
pus community. It didn’t take me but a cou
ple of minutes to realize not only what a
special place Asheville is, but what an
extraordinary liberal arts environment
UNCA is.
Where did you live and work before com
ing to UNCA ?
Before UNCA, I went to tfie College of
the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where I
was an undergraduate majoring in history. I
did my master’s degree in Kennedy School
at Harvard in public policy, and my doctor
ate at the University of Massachusetts in
higher education. I had been in administra
tion as senior vice president in Trinity
College at Harvard, and also, early in my
career, I was president of a community col
lege in Massachusetts. Wherever I have
been, I have tried not only to be an adminis
trator, but someone who connects into the
community and the academic cultural life of
the campus.
SHERRY DALE/ staff photographer
Chancellor Jim Mullen will leave UNCA in July to work for the College of Our
Lady of the Elms, where he will also serve as chancellor.
Looking back on the six years that you I don’t look at any accomplishment here
have spent here, what is the accomplishment as being something that I did. 1 think during
that you are most proud of or has had the my time here, I became very proud of the
greatest effect? connections we’ve built with the communi
ty beyond the campus, ihe prutnerships, the
sense of connection that we liave built
between the life on this campus and the cul
tural and economic life of the city and
region beyond us. I'm very, very proud of
this campus for in many ways creating a
paradigm of liberal arts education that
reaches out beyond the campus. I’m also
proud of the kind of people that we have
coming to UNCA as faculty and administra
tion. I think it builds on a proud tradition.
I’m finally most proud and honored by the
relationship I've had with the students. The
students here have really been my inspira
tion from day one. They have been like fam
ily.
Where will you be going now?
I’m going home, in a sense, to
Massachusetts at the College of Our Lady of
the Elms. I wasn’t looking for another pres
idency. 1, like many in this arena, found that
one is dominated from presidencies, and 1
really had decided not to pur sue any more.
But, when one receives a call i'rorn their
hometown, particularly when it's rooted in
their faith, it becomes hard to say no. The
Elms College is very much like UNCA. It’s
smaller, but it’s grounded in the liberal- arts
tradition. It’s about giving opportunity to
young people to reach their full potential,
and I’m very excited about that. I also feel
great emotional attachment to all of you,
and I hope that the students and the faculty
know how very much my family and I
appreciate everything that has been done to
make us feel at home here, and how much
affection we genuinely feel for people here.
What do you hope to accomplish at the
College of Our Lady of the Elms ?
I hope the accomplishments are sirniku-.
It’s a great place, and I hope that 1 can carry
the message of how great a place it is to the
world around us. 1 hope that I can be a part
of inspiring every student out there to know
how special they are, and the potential they
hold in their lives, and to doing what college
presidents do. Identifying and securing
resources to strengthen programs and build
ing those connections to the community just
as we’ve done here. I think too many col
leges around the country are insular and try
to be islands, and that’s not right.
SEE CHANCELLOR, PAGE 12
Dumpster Diving provides dirty fun at Greenfest
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by Maribeth Kiser
Mews Editor
UNCA promotes environmental
consciousness and conservation-
ism throughout spring semester
with a variety of activities focus
ing on campus and community
environments.
Students and faculty volunteered
their time for the annual, week-
long Greenfest April 4 to April 8.
Greenfest offers a number of proj
ects that get campus members
involved in
cleaning up
UNCA.
“Students get a
chance to work
with the facilities
on campus,” said
Liz Wilcox, jun
ior environmen
tal science stu
dent. “People do
landscaping or
pick up trash. It
depends on what
the facilities need
them to do.”
The physical
plant, trash pick-
up and landscaping crew make up
the facilities on campus for which
students volunteered.
“It gives students a chance to get
involved with their campus and
make it better looking,” said
Wilcox.
During the weeklong celebra
tion, students participated in envi
ronmental activities to make the
campus more sustainable.
“We collected the trash from the
academic buildings and dorms and
calculated the amount that could
have been recycled,” said Wilcox.
During the Dumpster Dive,
Greenfest volunteers collected and
weighed trash from all dormitories
and Rhoades-Robinson Hall.
They found 41.9 percent of trash
in Founders Hall recyclable and
52.4 percent of Mills Hall trash
recyclable, according to Wilcox.
In addition to
the campus
—Dumpster Dive,
It aives students a volunteers dis-
® played hybrid
chance to get
involved "with their
campus and make it
better looking.”
Liz Wilcox
junior enviornmental science
student
cars on the quad
to promote a
more environ
mentally sound
vehicle.
“The cars had
labels with sta
tistics on miles
to the gallon and
alternative fuel
sources the car
could use,” said
Laura Walton,
senior psychology student.
Residents, students and teachers
donated their hybrid vehicles to
display. Land of Sky Regional
Council also helped lend cars for
the event.
“Blue Ridge Bio-Fuels also
donated a bio-diesel car that runs
PHOTO COURTESY OF LIZ WILCOX
Students and campus facility employees collect garbage from dorms and academic buildings
during Greenfest’s Dumpster Dive to calculate the amount of recyclable trash.
on vegetable oil,” said James
Wood, senior environmental sci
ence student. “Blue Ridge also
helps develop cars for people that
run off vegetable oil.”
Greenfest is just one of the many
activities students can participate
in this spring. Beginning Friday,
community members will cele
brate the 15th anniversary of
Strive Not to Drive, a week-long
event encouraging people to avoid
driving their cars.
SEE GREENFEST, PAGE 12