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November 9, 2006
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Internal
struggles
hinder SGA
By Caity Pelliccia
Staff Writer
While the Student Government
Association deals with their first
impeachment in nearly a decade,
rumors of favoritism and a fight for
power plague the student leaders.
“SGA is trying very hard to
achieve a mission, and it’s a period
of transition with the student gov
ernment,” said Tim Laughlin, com
muter senator and chair of the
finance committee. “The student
government is trying to find out
where they fit into the equation of
student affairs. What direction
we’re going in, how our meetings
are run and what actually is occur
ring isn’t what I think SGA should
be doing or what I feel SGA has
been able to do in the past.”
Investigation brings up
dirty laundry
Controversy surrounding sopho
more Senator Greg Goddard’s pos
sible impeachment is causing trou
ble for SGA, according to
Laughlin.
When Goddard claimed responsi
bility for writing offensive state
ments on the Socialist Unity
League’s wall, which stood on the
Quad last month to symbolize the
wall on the West Bank in Palestine,
he added fuel to an impeachment
procedure which began in response
to his numerous absences from
meetings.
“Me, Devon Sanchez-Ossario
and Greg Goddard were all on aca
demic affairs,” said Andrew
Johnson, freshman senator. “Greg
(Goddard) is now being
impeached. Devon (Sanchez-
Ossario) stepped down. So now
I’m standing by myself in academ
ic affairs. I am temporarily the head
of that committee.”
Johnson never met Greg Goddard
and now sits on the impeachment
conunittee for the senator.
The committee, formed by Vice
President Anna Lange, analyzed
the factors involved in the process
of removing a member of SGA.
“The impeachment process is
somewhat complicated,” Laughlin
said. “It initially starts by a com
mittee being formed by the vice
president and the Senate approv
ing the committee to investigate
whether or not proceedings
should be brought and the charges
are valid. When she announced
that committee, it was comprised
of three freshmen senators, a
newly appointed sophomore sena
tor, a recently appointed senior
senator and the chair of the com
mittee.”
Lange carefully selected individ
uals for Goddard’s impeachment
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Courtesy of the Athletic Department
Women’s soccer team prepares to confront the Carolina Tarheels Friday after winning the Big South Tournament in penalty kicks against Liberty.
By Jessica Short
Staff Writer
The women’s soccer team won
the Big South title claiming the first
UNC Asheville women’s team bid
to the NCAA tournament. The
Bulldogs play the nationally ranked
Carohna Tarheels on Friday at 5
p.m. in Chapel Hill.
“It’s something, as a coach, that
I’ve wanted for long time,’’said
head coach Michele Cornish.
“We’ve made school history, and
with a very young team at that,”
“I’m pleased for the university and
for everyone involved in getting us
where we are right now. The
NCAA Division I tournament is a
big deal. It has not been an easy
road to get there, lots of road trips,
late nights, missed classes and long
days. Tmst me, we plan to enjoy
every moment we can.”
UNC Asheville defeated No. 1
seed Winthrop and No. 4 seed
Birmingham-Southern to play
Liberty Sunday. The Bulldogs won
Friday against Winthrop 2-1 after
Thursday’s win against
Birmingham-Southern in double
overtime. In overtime the first team
to score wins.
The Bulldogs went into the Big
South tournament as a No. 5 seed
and defeated Liberty, the No. 3
seed, Sunday. The game went into
double overtime and then into
penalty kicks, where the Bulldogs
outscored the Flames 4-2.
“I have enjoyed coaching this
team very much. I know my assis
tant coaches feel the same way.
I’m simply proud of them for
accomplishing what we all want
ed and for making
school history in the process.
I’m thankful to plan a few more
practices this week as well,”
Cornish said.
The Bulldogs practiced penalty
kicks Saturday. The team battled
sprinklers on the field during their
practice according to Cornish.
“Our keeper Ronnie was nearly
blasted with water in the middle
of the goal while
she waited to save a shot,”
Cornish said. “Everyone thought
it was pretty funny actually. As
coaches we can only help the con
fidence level by practicing penal
ty kicks, though not usually with
sprinklers running.”
Liberty nearly doubled UNC
Asheville’s shots on goal during
regulation time.
‘They came at us with high
intensity, really strong. They were
going really fast, a hundred miles
an hour, and we just were caught
off guard,” Kate Barrow said.
“After the first half we came back
together as a team and took a deep
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breath together, and we re
focused. After that, the second
half was ours we played our game
on the ground instead of just kick
ing it over, from then on I think
everyone knew that that was it.”
The Liberty game went into two
10 minute overtimes and resulted
in a tie. The game then went to
penalty kicks.
“I was ready for it. I’m like ‘just
bring it’,” said goal keeper Veronica
Lazar.
A save from freshman Lazar
secured UNC Asheville’s win.
“I told Ronnie and everyone
else that if she could save one
penalty kick we would win,”
Cornish said. “Ronnie pushed one
wide of the goal and Meagan sank
the fifth penalty kick, we won,
and we got our NCAA bid.”
Juliana Duncan, Robyn Busha
and Ashleigh Carter also scored
for the Bulldogs in the shootout.
“Ronnie came up huge, bril
liant, brilliant saves,” said senior
and captain Carter.
Cornish asks her players to step
up and volunteer instead of desig
nating which members of the
team take the kicks, according to
Carter.
“I was one of the first. I made
the decision awhile ago just being
a senior and just being injured and
stuff like that,” Carter said. “If it
came down to penalty kicks then I
wanted to take one. That was how
I was going out whether I missed
it or made it.”
The Bulldogs celebrated the
announcement of their NCAA
pairing at Wild Wing Caf6 on
Monday. The NCAA Champion
is determined by a 64-team tour
nament with single elimination.
Cornish, Carter and UNC
Asheville Athletic Director Janet
Cone spoke at the event Monday.
“I said this will be the year we
win it because we’re not the num
ber one team. Sometimes when
you don’t have that much pressure
on you, you just go in there and
give it everything you have. I’m
really excited for the seniors on
this team. Like Ashleigh said,
they’ve been there and been so
close before,” Cone said.
The Bulldogs went into the past
two Big South Tournaments as the
No. 1 seed.
“We’re just going to play hard.
We’ll let everyone get in and have
a chance to play,” Carter said.
“It’s not every day you get to play
a Chapel Hill or somebody like
that. We got to play Duke my
freshmen year which was great
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Students get dressed up for a good cause
By Christa Chappelle
Staff Writer
Megan Wildman - Staff Photographer
Students spent the evening of Halloween raising money for the Amani
Children’s Foundation, a charity in Kenya that works to increase the
chance of survival for many infants in Africa.
While ghosts and ghouls haunt
ed the night, many students cele
brated Halloween by raising
money for a charity in Africa.
“It was very good to see the
local community taking a part in a
school event where it was for a
good cause,” said Kee Hwan
Jang, sophomore student and
president of the Asian Students in
Asheville Club. “Half the profits
were donated to the Amani
Children’s Foundation, basically
for children suffering from AIDS
in Africa.”
Student organizations and com
munity businesses came together
on Oct. 31 to raise money for the
Amani Children’s Foundation,
located in Kenya. With music and
dancing in the background, 13
organizations sold goods, donat
ing half of their final proceeds to
the foundation, according to Jang.
Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co.
and Starbucks Coffee also partici
pated in the event. The Roteract
Club, ASIA and the Student
Global AIDS Campaign spon
sored the Night Market.
“UNC Asheville has really
embraced us, and I think that all
of us feel a great debt of gratitude
to UNC Asheville and other stu
dent organizations,” said John
Stephens, junior literature student
and founder of SGAC. “I think
one of the most significant things
about the Asian Night Market is
that it was a collaborative effort
with a shared vision.”
During the event, Stephens gave
a presentation on the Amani
Children’s Foundation. This
served to tell students the details
about the charity, according to
Kendra Dagg, junior biology stu
dent and member of the Roteract
Club.
“I thought it was important,
because even though everyone
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through their first year of life.
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knew part of the proceeds were
going to a nonprofit organization,
it would be a good idea to let them
know exactly where their money
is going,” Dagg said. “Instead of
just saying, ‘AIDS and HIV’ and
everyone thinks you’re doing a
good cause, it’s explaining exact
ly what organization we are put
ting this into.”
Because of the AIDS and HIV
epidemic, many countries in
Africa struggle with an orphan
crisis. The Amani Children’s
Foundation rescues abandoned
infants in Kenya, nurtures them
back to health and raises the
infants in orphanages until a fam
ily adopts them, according to
Stephens.
“What the Amani Children’s
Foundation tries to do is support
these children until they can find
adoptive parents,” Stephens said.
“One of our main goals is to try to
get these children through their
first year of life. One orphanage
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