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Volume 43, Issue 10
Serving the University of North Carolina at Asheville since 1982
November 10, 2005
UNCA brings Beehive Collective to campus
By Kella Zaic
Staff Writer
Members of the Beehive
;!ollective, otherwise known as
lees, are fleeing their hive in order
0 pollinate students and the com-
nunity with knowledge about trade
ind human rights in other countries.
“(Amnesty International is)
iringing the Beehive Collective to
ampus,” said Kristin Erhard,
Amnesty International member.
senior art and Spanish student.
“They are coming to help inform
and educate about the effects of
U.S. foreign pohey abroad, espe
cially in Latin American countries.”
Based in Machias, ME, the
Beehive Collective banded togeth
er to keep agriculture local, work
more cooperatively and stave off
corporate monopolies.
‘Their home base is in Machias,
Maine,” Erhard said. “At no time
a
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They are coming to help inform
and educate about the effects of
U.S. foreign policy abroad.
Kristin Erhard
Amnesty International member
are all the bees in their ‘hive’ in
Maine. They are out in the field, in
various countries such as Panama,
Colombia and Nicaragua collect
ing ‘pollen.’ Pollen is analogous to
information attained by research
ing trade and human rights issues.”
The mission of the Beehive
Collective is to “cross-pollinate”
with vocal activists with activists
that communicate through graph
ics, according to the Beehive
Collective’s Web site.
“The campaigns are teaching
tools designed to disseminate
information,” said an anonymous
worker bee.
According to this anonymous
source, “bees” wish to remain
anonymous as they’re trying to
take the “who made it” out of the
art realm.
“It’s a way that’s not text or lec
ture-heavy, and is something that
applies to visual learners. Our
posters are essentially tapestries of
stories, created by weaving togeth
er the product of many interviews
from people that live in areas
affected by resource extraction,
militarism and globalization.”
Current graphics projects the
bees focus on are anti-copyright
material on issues specific to
Maine, but with worldwide
effects. Other issues include urban
sprawl, domestic violence, sus-
SEE Beehive page 101
Istudents show concern about civil rights Construction
By Allie Haake
Staff Writer
Students voiced concern about
heir rights on Monday at the
JNCA American Civil Liberties
Jnion forum, a meeting where
irofessionals answered questions
rom students about laws on cam-
)US.
“I think that now, more than
;ver, our civil rights are under
Ittack,” said Elizabeth
loldsworth, campus ACLU presi-
lent. “In the past, the ACLU exist-
;d to protect the rights of the
lansmen to march or the separa-
ion of church and state. Now they
re needed more than ever to pro-
;ct those rights we hold so dear
id keep them intact.”
Executive Director of the ACLU
if North Carolina Jennifer
lodinger said many students
icross the nation are struggling
ith privacy issues on campus.
“The right to privacy comes up
in so many different contexts,”
odinger said. “I often hear about
concerns of privacy during search-
les.”
I Students have certain privacy
[rights that they need to be aware
of, according to Rodinger.
“The Fourth Amendment guaran
tees you the right to be free from an
unreasonable search of person or
property,” Rodinger said. “The ques
tion here is what is unreasonable.”
Tom Lawton, UNCA general
counsel member, said there are
four instances in which campus
police can enter a dorm room.
Incidents include entering during
regular inspection, if the resident
consents, if the officer has a war
rant and during an emergency
search.
Nothing will change around
campus if victims do not try to fix
what they think is unjust, accord
ing to Lawton.
‘The only way it’s going to get
limits parking
New building
changes parking
availabilty
on campus
By Becky Rinas
Staff Writer
Rachel Wright — Copy Editor
Elizabeth Holdsworth, campus ACLU president, PJ. Roth, attorney in Asheville, and Tom Lawton, UNCA
general councel, discuss students’ civil liberties. Students voiced the most concerns with Campus Police.
addressed is if someone comes for
ward with specific, factual infor
mation,” Lawton said.
Holdsworth said she decided to
hold a session about student rights
because everyone on campus is
somewhat engaged in the subject.
“We all have a story about some
thing crazy that Campus Police
have done to us, or that happened
to somebody else, where we didn’t
quite know the law,” Holdsworth
said. “We were confused, so we
figured everyone else would have
that problem.”
Although most of the time offi
cials use correct enforcement, stu
dents’ civil liberties are always at
risk of abuse, according to
Lawton.
“I got involved with civU rights
back in the Reagan administration,
and I thought that administration had
a terrible record of the abuse of civil
liberties,” Lawton said. “I see now.
I think that now, more than
ever, our civil rights are under
attack.
Elizabeth Holdsworth
campus ACLU president
in retrospect, that they were ama
teurs compared to what the Bush
administration is doing today.”
The inbalance in government is a
major reason rights suffer abuse,
according to Lawton.
“We’re supposed to have a bal
ance between all the branches of
government, and we have this
huge concentration of power in the
executive branch,” Lawton said.
“We have Rumsfeld and Cheney,
and maybe two other people mak
ing decisions that affect all of us.”
Lawton said the only way we
can make a difference is to become
active.
“I think the antidote to that is to
get involved, become activists and
use loud voices to our legislatures
in our state and in Capitol Hill,”
Lawton said.
During the forum, students
seemed mostly concerned with the
actions of Campus Police, accord
ing to Holdsworth.
Other issues came up as well,
including free speech zones, the
use of Social Security numbers for
student identification and laws
concerning protesting.
“I suppose that most of the peo
ple who came to the forum were
resident students and that would be
a concern to them, but I think
some of the other issues brought
up were very important as well,”
Holdsworth said.
Holdsworth said the university is
SEE ACLU PAGE 101
Growing up in Nazi Germany: One professor’s story
By Rebecca Taylor
Staff Writer
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A UNCA professor recently
published his autobiography on
his stmggle to survive as a 6-year-
old boy during the rise of Nazism
in Germany.
Hal Marienthal, 82, teaches
screenwriting as an adjunct pro
fessor for the mass communica
tion department.
He recently published the
English translation of his autobi
ography titled “Good Germans: A
Fateful Journey Through Hitler’s
Third Reich.”
“It is profoundly important to
understand the reasons why the
movement began in the first place
and what made it possible for a
whole nation to be swayed toward
this kind of ugly behavior,”
Marienthal said.
In “Good Germans,” Marienthal
describes his placement into and
escape from an orphanage and the
sometimes painful adventures he
Went through as a young boy
searching for refuge from the
growing hatred in Germany.
“I think kids are particularly
It is profoundly important to
understand the reasons why the
movement began in the first
place.
Hal Marienthal
mass communication professor
sensitive to circumstances that
take their safety away from
them,” Marienthal said. “I
watched from the age of six these
things grow and this kind of
hatred descend.”
Marienthal said it is hard for him
to comprehend the idea of a young
boy being forced to take care of
himself in today’s hostile environ
ment.
“Maybe from family upbringing
or by genetics. I’m not sure which
way it works, I was a wild kid,”
Marienthal said. “I was a freedom-
loving, tough kid. At this point in
my life it’s hard for me to imag
ine.”
During Marienthal’s fight for
survived, he came to know a par
ticular group of people who were
almost always willing to help him.
“I found bakers, and have had a
great love for them ever since,”
Marienthal said. “The place was
always warm, there was always
something to eat and sleep, and
there was always work to do.
They always needed a helping
hand.”
First published in Germany,
Marienthal’s autobiography sold
about 60,000 copies and received
profound reactions from German
students.
“The German students were sin
cerely and deeply and almost pas
sionately interested in finding out
how to make their world different
than the one they found them
selves in,” Marienthal said.
In writing the autobiography, it
was important to help people gain
an educated viewpoint on the rise
of World War II, according to
Marienthal.
“I am one of the few living souls
that has a story to tell from that
period,” Marienthal said. “I’m
equipped to evoke my own past
and my historical connection to
this because I grew up in it. The
post-war generation of America
has never really understood what
happened before the so-called
Holocaust.”
Writing the autobiography
served as a form of therapy to help
overcome the past and its hard
ships, according to Marienthal.
“It took a year to write,”
Marienthal said. “I read the book
sometimes when I’m feeling low
or sad or blue about something. I
pick up my own novel and find out
that I get a lot of courage from
having lived this life.”
The process of writing “Good
Germans” became especially
painful when he had to recount
death or physical abuse.
“It was very hard to write about
the violent death of people with
whom I was connected with,”
Marienthal said. “It’s hard to write
about physical pain.”
“Good Germans” is a book for
children to enjoy as well, accord
ing to Marienth^.
“It’s an adventure story,”
Marienthal said. “I think parents
could read this book to their chil
dren.”
Construction of the new
Science and Multimedia Building
on campus raises questions on the
availability of parking as changes
take place.
“People are tired because they
work all day or go to school all
day and these parking changes
are something else to add to their
day,” said Yuri Koslen, trans
portation planner. “People aren’t
happy about it and who could
blame them, but we are all stuck
in the situation together and we
have to make the best of it.”
The project is set to begin with
in the next few months and finish
in the summer of 2007, causing
changes in parking zones as well
as pedestrian and vehicular traf
fic patterns, for the next two
years.
“It’s been in the works for the
last five years or so and there’s a
lot of work being done to get it
started, but it will probably start
when we get back from
Thanksgiving break or winter
break,” Koslen said.
The science building construc
tion will take over University
Heights, rerouting traffic through
lower lot seven. For the next two
years during construction, UNCA
looses 157 parking spaces.
“The loss of spaces will be in
lots two and seven,” Koslen said.
“Once building is complete, lot
seven will be available again.”
At a campus forum to discuss
parking issues, staff members
expressed concern over the
already tight parking situation.
“The parking situation is bad
enough because we really don’t
have any place to park already,”
said Anita Beatty, cafe attendant
at Cafe Ramsey. “Now we are
going to have to find alternate
parking and it’s probably going to
be even farther away.”
Changes to staff parking
include the loss of parking near
the Dining Hall, which will
switch to commuter parking.
“In order to make the most
egalitarian decision with what is
available to us, we have to desig
nate the Dining Hall parking to
commuter students,” Koslen said.
“The faculty are only losing, in
total, 11 parking spaces. Parking
might just be a little farther
away.”
Other staff members expressed
a different opinion of the parking
situation.
“I feel like, as a society, we are
very comfort and convenience-
i oriented,” said Leith Tate, access
services librarian at Ramsey
Library. “I don’t think people
think of being slightly inconve
nienced for the sake of the greater
good. It’s an awareness issue as
well as a benevolence issue.”
Resident students face the
largest changes with a loss of 158
parking spaces. Moving resident
parking farther away from the
dorms raises safety issues in rela
tion to students walking longer
distances to and from their cars at
night.
Founders Hall resident Kristen
Marshall commutes 30 minutes .
to work and often does not return
to campus until late at night.
“It’s understandable and I know
they have to make changes, but
that moves me to an even farther
away lot which will be a 15
minute walk,” Marshall said. “I
come home late at night and I
have to sit out there waiting for
public safety to come. It’s a safe
ty issue and I don’t want to be
attacked when I’m sitting out
there.”
Campus administration is tak
ing initiative to confront these
issues.
“We are putting another patrol
officer on duty to cut down on
response time,” said Stephen
Baxley, associate vice chancellor
of Campus Operations. “We also
encourage you to, if possible, call
(Campus Police) ahead of time.”
In addition to safety issues, res
idents expressed concern over the
fairness of having to park farther
away.
“I feel like I’ve paid my dues to
live here,” Marshall said.
“Parking at the bottom of the hill
is fine compared to this, but this,
forget it, nobody living on cam
pus is happy about this.”
Losses to commuter parking
are minimal, but parking will be
farther away, according to
Koslen.
“Currently there are 200 to 3(X)
unused parking spaces on cam
pus,” Koslen said. “We don’t
foresee commuter parking getting
tighter or that all the space will
ever be taken up.”
Ian Dennis, senior art student,
commutes to school on a regular
basis. Dennis said he is con
cerned the parking situation will
interfere with his work obliga
tions.
“There are times I get out of the
class or the studio and literally
have to run to my car and speed
to work,” Dennis said. “They
already took away parking from
'around Owen, and now I hear
more parking is going. I don’t
understand why I have to consis
tently continue parking further
away from where I need to go. It
just doesn’t make sense.”
Additionally, commuter stu
dents expressed concern over
having to carry heavy books far
ther distances.
“A service is being provided
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