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I I ^ Bi-weekly news University of North Carolina at Asheville
^ Volume Number 2, September 10, 1979
North Carolina
Symphony Tickets
Available for
Sept. 12 Concert
Student discount tickets are still
available for the NC Symphony con
cert Wednesday, Sept. 12th. Come by
the Office of Student Activities 8:30
am to 5:00 pm for tickets. Faculty and
Staff may purchase discount tickets
on the day of the concert if there are
tickets left.
Liberal Arts—Basic To Education
By Dr. Thomas C. Duio
Director, University Relations
(Editor's note: The following essay
on the value of a "liberal" education
was published as a guest editorial in
The Asheville Citizen-Times on June
17. We believe it is worth reprinting
here.)
For generations,
educators have
argued the real
meaning, purpose
and value of
education. They
hove further
debated the dif
ference between
education and
training, the prac
tical and the philosophical, mind and
matter, preparation for life versus
preparation for work, and a myriad of
other considerations designed to pro
vide an educational climate which
would insure-the proper education of
students.
A constant plague to those who
hove contemplated educational pro
grams has been the consistent ques
tion as to whether education would
be designed to meet the needs of the
present or the problems of the future.
There are about as many ap
proaches to the problems of educa
tion as there are colleges in the land.
In a sense, prospective students have
a veritable "supermarket" of educa
tional opportunity. "Universities,"
"liberal arts" colleges, "Technical"
schools, "community" colleges,
public, private, independent, church-
related, and so on, each offers higher
education according to its own
philosophical dictates.
Thinking about your future?
So are we!
The University of North Carolina.
Asheville
UBERAL ARTS - CONTINUING EDUCATION - CAREER PREPARATION
WRITE or CALL ADMISSIONS 258-0200
For The Readers On Wheels
Potations, viands and hostelries aren't the only subjects that need to be
published for readers puttering down the pike. Education is a commodity for
every means of communication, including those 21-foot wide signs the trade now
calls "posters." So here is your old alma mater spreading the good word with the
help of a billboard above the Pizza Hut on Merrimon Avenue. The message seems
clear enough—even for a slow reader or a fast driver. (UNC-A Photo)
Relaxation Found Right Here
By Mike Ochsenreiter
Student Editor
A poll of gloom has descended
upon our campus, and I am seizing
this opportunity to make a signal an
nouncement of its arrival. I first
sensed something somber in the air
on registration day. That is natural
enough, I suppose, given the
anything but uplifting nature of the
registration rigamarole. However,
when the gloomy presence prospered
after registration day, I decided a
closer investigation was warranted.
The results of my sleuthing I respect
fully proffer below.
I deduced the root cause of sagging
student spirits to be the incipient
onslaught of assignments, tests,
reports, papers, projects, and such—
the bane of deligent and slothful
students all. Further, I discovered to
my distress, the anxiety level tends to
increase as the school year pro
gresses and the work piles up, until it
is finally dispatched (usually in a last-
minute weekend frenzy of cerebra
tion).
Additionally, a burden of guilt
weighs increasingly heavy on those,
or more precisely all, of us who so
regularly practice procrastination. It
is an irony of collegiate life that in the
hierarchy of student priorities eating,
sleeping, partying and procrastina
tion all rank at the very top, while
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