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Volume 43, Issue 5
Founders
Day
celebration
today
By Paige Reinhard
Staff Writer
This year Founders Day will
allow students to celebrate their
school’s history and the people
who influenced it.
“It is a day to celebrate all of the
men and women who have made
UNC-Asheville one of the
nation’s great liberal arts col
leges,” said Kevan Frazier,
Director of Student Activities.
Founders Day will be celebrated
Thursday and will include activi
ties such as the Founders Day
Dinner and the State of the
[ University Address.
Some students say there is not
enough publicity leading up to the
event.
“I would really appreciate it if
we knew about Founders Day so
that we could appreciate our
founders,” said Aarika Converse,
a sophomore literature student.
Converse said she did not attend
Founders Day last year because
she was not aware there was one
and has not heard any information
about this year’s cel^ration either.
In fact, Converse is not quite
Isure she even knows what
Founders Day commemorates.
“I’m guessing it’s a celebration
of the people who founded our
school. Or who founded the
United States of America,”
Converse said.
Founders Day commemorates
both Sept. 12, 1927, the school’s
founding as Buncombe County
Junior College, and July 1, 1969,
the day the school joined the UNC
system.
“Founders Day is also about
recognizing that the success we
have today is because of the hard
work of those who came before us
and realizing that our support of
the University, now and for years
to come, will lead to its success in
the fumre,” Frazier said.
This year, the University’s sixth
chancellor, Anne Ponder, will be
giving her first State of the
University Address.
The address will take place dur
ing the Founders Day Celebration
at 12:15 p.m. in Lipinsky
Auditorium.
“It is exciting that her first
address to the university as our
new chancellor will occur on
Founders Day this year,” Frazier
said.
In addition to the chancellor’s
address, the celebration will
include recognition of the recipi
ents of National Alumni Awards
University Awards and Athletics
Hall of Fame Inductees.
“There will also be a brief
address by one of the award recip
ients, Brian Byrd,” Frazier said.
After the Founders Day
Celebration, cupcakes will be
available on the Quad.at 6:30 the
school will hold the Founders Day
Dinner, available only by invita
tion.
“The National Alumni Awards
and Athletics Hall of Fame are
actually presented and all of the
recipients make brief speeches,”
Frazier said.
According to Converse, she has
found one piece of intriguing
information that has her excited
about this year’s Founder’s Day
celebration.
“Most definitely the cupcakes,”
Converse said.
Many departments play a part in
organizing Founders Day.
“Founders Day is coordinated
by the Office of the Chancellor,
the Division of Alumni and
Development and the Department
of Athletics. Numerous other
offices also have a role,” Frazier
said.
Serving the University of North Carolina at Asheville since 1982
September 29, 2005
Peeping Tom keeps Village residents on alert
By Shannon Roberts
Staff Writer
Reports of a “peeping Tom” in
Governor’s Village have students
concerned for their safety, and
some questioning the handling of
the situation by campus police.
“I don’t thirik they resize how
serious this is,” said Lia
Mandelbaum, sophomore stu
dent. “At this point, if I was them,
I would just be more aggressive.”
Police detained three students
near the Governor’s Hall bus stop
on Sept. 15 at approximately 9
p.m. According to police, a resi
dent of Governor’s Village identi
fied one of these students,
Edmund McEntyre, as the peep
ing Tom.
Mai Xiong, senior French and
political science student, one of
the students police detained, said
she did not believe the identifica
tion was accurate.
“I’ve known him for a long
time,” Xiong said. “We spend a
lot of time together.”
According to Xiong, Officer
Douglas Green was extremely
disrespectful to her during the
incident.
“He consistently told me to
keep my mouth shut,” Xiong
said. “He also did hand gestures
mimicking my mouth. Perhaps
my Enghsh wasn't good enough.”
Xiong said McEntyre was taken
for questioning, but released later
that night. According to police,
there was not enough evidence to
hold McEntyre.
Meanwhile, Governor’s Village
residents remain concerned.
“I would have to say since
August, I don’t feel safe in my
room,” Mandelbaum said. “I feel
more on edge.”
Some students have expressed
concern that campus police are
out of touch with the simation.
“I believe that they’re trying to
help,” said Gregory Bliss, senior
multimedia arts and sciences stu
dent. “They just don’t seem to
know what’s going on.”
Several Village residents have
reported a male peering into their
room at night.
“I look over, and there's this
Brian Davis - Photography Editor
Governors Village residents have been more aware recently due to the incoming reports of a “peeping Tom.’
/ know that they’ve only got
so many men working there,
and 1 know that they’ve got
other duties on campus. But,
the Village is right there
near the police station.
Nicole Davis
freshman student
guy standing as clear as day,” said
one Village resident who wishes
to remain annomous. “He must
have been watching me.”
Campus police gave affected
residents some safety tips for pre
venting peeping toms.
‘They told me to open the win
dow, instead of from the bottom,
from the top down, and close my
blinds” said Mandelbaum. ‘They
told me they were going to do
rounds.”
Some students expressed dis
satisfaction that they have not
been informed of the situation.
“They really should have let us
know about it, especially if it's
been going on this long,” said
Nicole Davis, freshman student.
Students are aware of the limi
tations of campus police, but still
feel that something more should
be done.
“I know that they've only got so
many men working there, and I
know that they've got other duties
on campus,” Davis said. “But the
Village is right there near the
police station.”
Increased patrols might
increase residents sense of securi
ty, Davis said.
Governor’s Village Resident
Assistant have not been informed
of the situation.
I’ve never heard a thing about
said one Village R.A.
According to this R.A., it seemed
odd that he was not notified of a
potential safety issue.
According to police, several
reports from Governor’s Village
residents have been received, dat
ing back to August. The matter is
still under investigation.
it
Student organization aims to stem global AIDS crisis
By Anna Lee
Staff Writer
UNCA students recently started a campus
chapter of the Student Global AIDS
Campaign (SGAC), a national student
movement to advocates for solving the
global AIDS epidemic.
“It is the largest pandemic in the world,”
said John Stephens, sophomore literature
student and one of the original founders of
UNCA’s SGAC. “The bubonic plague pales
in comparison to the number of people who
are dying of HIV or AIDS.”
UNCA’s chapter of SGAC primarily
focuses on fundraising and advocacy for
children orphaned as a result of AIDS.
“You can’t argue with children, and
they’re infants,” Stephens said. “The world
has a responsibility to them and to acknowl
edge what’s happening to them and the dev
astating reality of HIV and AIDS.”
Stephens and Ben Cox, sophomore liter
ature student, initiated SGAC after a trip to
Kenya with an educational program by the
Amani Children’s Foundation, a Winston-
Salem-based organization that supports
orphanages in Kenya.
“In 2010, there are going to be 20 million
orphans from HIV or AIDS in Africa
alone,” Stephens said. “When people say,
‘It’s too big, it’s too late. Why didn’t some
one do something earlier?’ Hopefully we’re
going to be able to say we were trying, we
did do what we could.”
SGAC has 85 chapters on campuses
across the country.
“Wake Forest is being active now; UNC
Chapel Hill is being active now; Elon
University is being active now. High Point
University is being active now, and UNCA
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We ’re getting people aware; We ’re
informing people about the issue,
and we’re making people think
about it. We have only a matter of
time before it become much more
than a third world issue.
Ben Cox
sophomore literature student
is being active now,” Stephens said.
Stephens and Cox, along with sophomore
student Tracy Bradel, have hosted three
SGAC meetings since the start of the
semester. The first two were informational.
“We’re getting people aware, and we’re
informing people about the issue, and mak
ing people think about it,” Cox said. “We
have only a matter of time before it
becomes much more than a third world
issue.”
Some students at the third meeting were
making jewelry out of Kisuri beads made
by HIV-positive women in Kenya and
bought by the Amani Foundation. UNCA
students will then sell the jewelry and send
the money to an orphanage in Kenya.
SGAC is also planning a music event.
“We’re going to get a couple of bands,
and we’re going to raise awareness, try to
raise the funds, display the jewelry, get
more people involved and just have a good
time, kind of like the Live 8,” Dradel said.
SGAC hopes to raise campus awareness
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Junior students, Ben Cox, left, Andrew Eckenrode, and John Stephens sit and
discuss topics that concern the new student organization.
by joining the campaign.
“We’ve got documentaries, speakers and
ideas for campus workshops,” Cox said.
“We’re going to set up tables out on the
quad and just do open forums.”
These workshops will encompass various
topics related to AIDS, according to
Stephens.
“One of the issues would be stigma, one
would be how HIV and AIDS specifically
affects orphans, one would be how HIV or
AIDS specifically affects women, one
would be international politics and policy,
one would be treatment, medicine and care,
one would be about culmral AIDS and how
AIDS is a culture in itself and can be stud
ied that way in some interesting sense,”
Stephens said.
About 60 people showed up for the first
two meetings, according to Dradel.
“A lot of people are seeing that we need to
do something about it. I think this is really
cool because people are finally having an
opportunity to do something,” Dradel said.
Students at Harvard University and the
Kennedy School of Government founded
the original SGAC organization in February
2001. More than 4,000 students attended
the Student March against AIDS in
Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, 2005. It was
the largest mobilization in HIV and AIDS
history, according to the SGAC Web site.