who Wonts To Coll
The Poper Nomes?
We confess to some disappoint
ment. The request for other sug
gested names for "The Paper" pro
duced exactly one. One vote for "The
Barker."
No opinions, yea or nay, about
"The Paper" as a more or less perma
nent name. That leaves us to assume
either that it suits most people vy/ho
sav^ it or that nobody cares. There is
one other possibility. With a new
semester just starting, everybody
may be too busy to bother.
One more time. Any opinions or
suggestions? Going, going. . .
The first issue of "The Paper"
managed to get printed with a
minimum of typographical trouble,
which was remarkable considering
the speed with which it was put
together. One of those little gremlins
which garble words when you are
looking the other way managed to
get to "University" in our masthead.
Liberal Arts
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None of these patterns is wrong.
Each fulfills its responsibility in a par
ticular way and enjoys the support of
large numbers of people.
The most consistent factor among
the various educational patterns,
however, is the nearly universal
agreement that regardless of the kind
of school there are certain basic
understandings, skills and apprecia
tions which are fundamental to the
educated person.
These capacities are essential to
the further educational development
of students who plan to attend
graduate or professional schools.
Understandings of art, music,
literature, languages, mathematics,
science, philosophy and history, and
the ability to think critically have
been determined to be the common
characteristics of successful leaders
in every field.
Out of these characteristics comes
the ability to adapt to any situation
with the confidence that whatever
needs to be learned can be learned.
Knowing where and how to find
knowledge may be the single most
important result of education. This,
then, is the argument for a "liberal
arts" education.
making us the "Univesity" of North
Carolina at Asheville. We think we
fixed his wagon this time.
The regulations for the infirmary
mistakenly announced that resident
students must be accompanied to the
infirmary by "a doctor" or a campus
police officer. "Doctor" should have
been "proctor." Now you know.
Two other changes this time.
Unless and until somebody comes up
with a better name than "The Paper,"
we're adding "for UNCA" to the
masthead. Just so there's no mistake
whether its theirs or ours.
The calendar of events will be
printed every week with the addition
of a mimeographed supplement. The
UNC-A Calendar will be distributed in
alternate weeks when The Paper is
not published. It quickly became ob
vious that a two-week calendar in The
Paper would raise too many prob
lems. (The Editor)
Be it labeled "liberal arts" or
"general" education, the point is
made, in practice, by virtue of the fact
that most collegiate programs evolve
from at least some exposure to the
"liberal arts."
"Liberal arts colleges" hold to the
belief that general education pro
vides the basics upon which the
educated person will draw to adjust
to the problems of life, regardless of
social or technological change.
This type of education was de
signed, as the name implies, to
liberate man from the constrictions of
ignorance of the world in which he
lives.
Student Guide —
1979-80
Copies of the Student Guide may be
obtained by going by the Office of
Student Activities, Lipinsky First
Floor. This student handbook has con
cise information that students can use
easily.
Remington
Bakes
Cleanest
Cake
Assistant Professor Paul Sweeney
of the Drama Department sent The
Paper a short note titled in proper
schoolboy fashion "What I Did On My
Summer Vacation," which was quite a
lot.
To catch up with AAr. Sweeney and
other faculty members, here is a brief
summary of several short summer
sabbaticals.
Sweeney designed six operas and a
musical at the Brevard Music Center.
One of them was a restaging of Col
ley Cibber's "Flora, or Hob in the
Well," the first opera performed,in
the United States. It was produced in
Charles Town, (Charleston, South
Carolina) in 1735. The Music Center
restaged the production at the Dock
Street Theatre in Charleston for the
National Federation of Music Clubs
1979 convention August 10.
Dr. Lloyd Remington, associate pro
fessor in the Chemistry Department,
went to Waterloo, Ontario, to put
some zip in a conference of Canadian
chemistry teachers at Waterloo
University.
Said Remington, "There is a very
enthusiastic group of high school
teachers in that area who use a lot of
imagination in concocting homespun
illustrations for the principles and
practices of science. That is right up
my alley."
Besides showing his teaching
students how to bake the cleanest
cake in town using a dishwashing
detergent instead of egg, Dr. Rem
ington demonstrated his "Nuts and
Bolts of Chemistry" and "Dimensional
Analysis Gin Rummy."
Assistant Professor Francis Coyle of
the Mathematics Department was
selected to attend the National
Science Foundation short course in
Educational Computer-based Models
for Socio-Economic-Technological
Situations, or ECOMSETS, at the
Sinclair Conference Center at Lehigh
University.
Robert Hayner, assistant professor
of education and coordinator of learn-
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