The Paper
I IK.I/^A Bi-weekly news University of North Carolina at Asheville
^ Volume 1, Number 3, September 24, 1979
The Elusive Grail and Wilted Salad
Old Spark - New Flame
Arnolphe^ a fading bachelor with young ideas^ courts youth in the form of
Agnes, a lovely young thing with ideas of her own, in Moliere's classic comedy,
"The School for Wives." The play will be the first offering of the season from
Theatre UNC-Asheville. Senior drama major Al Myers is Arnolphe. Junior
drama major Melanie Johnson is Agnes. The production, in the Carol Belk
Theatre, will be staged Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 11-13. Curtain time is
8:30 each evening, with a Saturday matinee at 2:30. A special campus preview
will be given Oct. 10. (Photo by Arnold Wengrow)
NEW ALTERNATIVES
CLUB FORMED
The Alternatives Club is a new
organization being started on campus
to help its members "be a part of the
solution" to the problems people have
created in the environment.
President Chuck Hooper said, "We
are concerned with the state of our
world as it exists today. There are
viable alternatives to the pollution and
waste our society is being mired in.
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UNC-A PICNIC
Everybody is invited to the UNC-A
Community Picnic next Sunday after
noon at Lake Julian Park at Skyland.
The picnic is being put on by the
UNC-A Women's Club. It will start at
3 p.m. There is no admission charge,
but Pat Williams will collect dues of $4
from Women's Club members or
those who want to join.
Those who come are asked to bring
one large covered dish. Beverages will
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By Mike Ochsenreiter
Student Editor
I have a theory: I think an in
dividual's first impressions, of a given
subject such as university life, can be
remarkably revealing in both content
and candor. But initial impressions
can also be short-lived and elusive en
tities. They must be gathered, if at all,
from those in the throes of youth,
freshness, and inexperience; in short,
jfrom those in their "salad days."
But where, on this typical American
college campus, might one locate in
dividuals to interview that fit such a
triple-bill of innocence? Certainly not
among the jaded upper classes, where
too much heavy drinking ... burp!...
I mean thinking, has ruined them for
all practical present purposes. That
leaves the freshman class as the only
possible repository of innocence ex
tant on our campus. So out amongst
freshstudents I ventured, in search of
the hopefully enlightening grail of
pristine perspectives.
And what do you suppose I found?
Well, most important of all, not much
innocence! The callow youths of the
1960s pale by comparison with the
cool "sophistos" of the 1970s. I
discovered quite a few prematurely
wilted salads out there, incidentally.
On the few occasions when I
managed to secure a relatively un
tainted specimen, I quickly commenc
ed to interview. Realizing the import
of food in any student's scheme of
things, I asked S. Moore what she
thought of campus food service? "Not
much," was her ambiguous response
- an answer I felt was diplomatic, if
nothing else.
Another respondent to the same
query was less equivocal, but more
voluble: "I think the food is tasty, it's
served warm, and always of sufficient
variety and quantity to satisfy the most
discerning of palates." However, the
objectivity of this interviewee was call
ed into serious doubt when I learned
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