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w % Quote of the week ... "Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always paradise: so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents.ff -Friedrich Nietzsche The Western Carolinian MMtoaoottttOtooowaaaooAOMedeodMAA WHATS INSIDE ^^BB.^BBS^^B.^B3SStt Public Safety 2 Counselor's Corner..! Calendar of Evente....7 pick of the Flicks S Classifieds 10 HJIMJI] Sports Scoreboard....9 Letters to Editor 3 From The Pressbox..8 Volume 58, Number 19 Thursday, February 11, 1993 Cullowhee, North Carolina THURSDAY, Feb. 11,1993 Briefly Asheville Symphony performs The Asheville Symphony Orchestra will present "Orchestra Showcase" on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 8:15 pm in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. The program features Judith Glixon Kutt, a cellist, who will perform Saint-Saens* Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33. Robert Hart Baker, Music Director, will conduct the orchestra perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K.297b in E-flat major featuring Asheville Symphony players. Other music includes Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite Op. 66a, and Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op. 28. Tickets are available at the Asheville Civic Center Box Office (251-9999) and at the Asheville Symphony Office. For more information call 704- 254-7046. Mini book fair Feb. 13 Jackson County Friends of the library announce a mini book fair to be held Saturday, Feb. 13 from 10 am until 4 pm at the library annex. Proceeds will be used to purchase new books and videos. Donations will be gratefully received. For more information call Donna or Tracy at 586-4497. Many books will be available as well as some audio-visual materials and lots of magazines. Camps offer student employment Camp Counselors USA, which operates in 24 countries, allows students to work at summer camps in the USA, Europe or Russia. As a counselor, you are a teacher, a leader and a friend to children ages 5 through 16. You are responsible for the safety of campers. Opportunities are also available for support staff, including kitchen, laundry, office and general maintenance. Camp Counselors USA works with over 600 camps, such as YMCA Camps, camps for the underprivileged and inner city children, religious camps, special needs camps, private and family camps. For more information, stop by the career center on your campus or call 800-999-CAMP. Chelsea Gallery shows photography Photographs by Mark Wood, instructor at Chattanooga State Community College, went on display Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Chelsea Gallery. Chelsea Gallery is open from 8 am until 11 pm Monday through Friday and from 10 am until 11 pm Saturday and Sunday. For more information, contact the gallery at (704) 227-7206. WCU Board of Trustees holds meeting The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 10 am. Friday.Feb. 26, in the board room of H.F. Robinson Adminsitration Building. Fellowship accepting applications The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation is accepting applications for its annual fellowship. The Z. Smith Reynolds fellow will serve as a program staff member at the foundation's office in Winston-Salem for one year. The fellowship will begin in mid-July. The position is salaried and includes benefits. To be eligible, applicants must be native to North Carolina and/or must be recent graduates from an institution of higher learning in the state. Applications may be obtained from college placement offices or by writing to the foundation at 101 Reynolds Village, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27106-5199. Applications must be postmarked by March 1,1993. The foundation focuses its grant-making on precollegiate education, minority issues, women's issues, community economic development, criminal justice, and the environment. For more information on the Z. Smith Reynolds Fellowship or Foundation, call Kristen Bargeron at (919) 725-7541. Men's head coach Blatt resigns Derek Smolik Sports Editor Greg B latt, the WCU men' s basketball head coach, announced his resignation on Tuesday, after weeks of speculation regarding his return next season. Blatt, who was in his fourth season at Western, announced that he will stay on to coach the team for it's last seven games and the Southern Conference Tournament. Blatt has a 35-68 record during his time at Western. Before coming to Western, he was the head coach at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, where he had an 89-35 record. "With the best interests of my players and Western Carolina University in mind, I announce my resignation as head basketball coach, effective at the end of this season," said Blatt. "I hope this announcement will put an end to undue pressures and rumors, and thereby enable our team to concentrate on its remaining games. With six of our seven at home and the conference tournament ahead of us, there remains much we can accomplish. This announcement should also allow Western Carolina to lay groundwork for selecting its new coach immediately following the season." Athletic Director Larry Travis, who is in his first year at WCU, said that he has not had time to set a timetable for hiring a new head coach. "I am sincerely sorry it didn't work out for Greg. He is a fine person and I wish him the best in whatever he chooses to do," Travis said. In 1991, Blatt's second season, he led the team out of the cellar for the first time in four years. The following season, he led the team to its best conference finish since 1986, with a 5-9 record and fifth place finish. "Coming into the season, I felt we had made some progress with our basketball program," Blatt said. "Western had finished last in the Southern Conference the two years prior to my arrival, and we were able to move from OPl photo by Mark Harkett Men's Basketball Head Coach Greg Blatt discusses strategy with Terry Boyd during the 1991-92 Catamount basketball season. eighth to fifth in successive years. However, this year that he was pleased with their academic performance. our program has regressed and, as head basketball coach, I bear that responsibility. Western's students and fans deserve a winner. I am sorry that we hadn't been able to provide them with that" Despite the Cats' record this season, Blatt said "However, I am proud that in the area of academics, there has been substantial progress. Progress is relative to the state of affairs when one assumes his "Blatt resigns" See pg. 2 Carolmim f*oft> by Ha Hall Congressman Charles Taylor accepts a letter of complaint from a Jackson County resident during the Town Meeting held in the Sylva Courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Foundations course offered Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, and Wake Forest University, will present the twenty-seventh anniversary of American Foundations, a summer course correlating American works of art, literature, June 28 - July 28,1993. The four-week course held at Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, will include a study trip to New York City to view museums and galleries, attend concerts and plays, and meet curators and dealers. American Foundations is for participants of varying ages, interests and backgrounds. The course is excellent for teachers. Applicants from fields other than liberal arts who are prepared to be challenged and exposed to new ways of thinking are welcomed. American Foundations is listed in the Wake Forest University catalogue as History 463- 464 and offers six hours of graduate credit and eight hours of undergraduate credit. The faculty will consist of Gloria J. Fitzgibbon, history; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Robert Hobbs; art, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Robert Mielke, literature; Ph.D. Duke University. In 1983, American "Foundation" See pg. 2 Bailey's nightclub holds grand opening tonight Melissa Richardson News Editor Bailey's, anew club that was planning to open on February 4, will open tonight at 8 pm. Two local bands, Disco Enchantment Orchestra and Jupiter's Eye, will play for the grand opening. According toco-owners Robert Miller and John Primm, the delay is due to their decision to include a kitchen in order to expand the business. "We chose to expand and put in a kitchen, so that we would have a more well-rounded type of atmosphere," said Miller, who is also a graduate student at WCU. Bailey's will be open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 3 pm for lunch, and between 5 pm and 8 pm for dinner. Appetizers will also be served from 8 pm until midnight. Bailey's will remain open until 2:30 am. Although it is not necessary to be a member to get in, memberships for one year are only $10, and members will be able to get in free until the end of February. After February, those with memberships will be charged a lower cover than those without memberships. This Friday night, Bailey's will hostCornbread with The Stand-ins. On Saturday night, House of Usher will be playing. What brings Bailey's to Sylva? "We saw that there's a lot of people that need something to do (in Cullowhee), and decided to open a place for them to go," Miller said. SCA seeks interns for resource assistant positions Blake Frizzell Staff Writer The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is currently looking for dedicated volunteer interns who wish to make a difference. Last year, over 1,100 college students and other adults participated in the Resource Assistant Program, an expense-paid internship which allows participants to live and work with professionals in the conservation and natural resource field. This experience enhances their prospects for future employment in conservation/resource management fields. Participants can even arrange to receive academic credit for their involvement in SCA programs. Jobs with SCA are available starting between May 1,1993 and September 30,1993. SCA is a non-profit, educational organization that provides high school, college students, and persons who are out of school with the opportunity to volunteer their services for the better management and conservationofournation'sparks, public lands and natural resources. Resource Assistants work individually in a professional capacity for approximately 12 weeks, completing a variety of resource management duties as a staff member. The National Park Service, U.S. Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bu reau of Land Management, along with other agencies, work with SCA to hire Resource Assistants. While all the RA positions offer a variety of tasks, each position has a main theme or subject matter in which the volunteer participates. Some of the subjects are Wildlife & Fisheries, Forestry, Recreation Management, Geology, Archaeology, Engineering & Surveying, Environmental Education, and Interpretation & Visitor Assistance. The SCA places about 900 Resource Assistants in the field each year in about 250 resource areas in over 35 states (including Alaska and Hawaii). "SCA" See pg. 2 Health Science Career Day planned for Thursday, Feb. 18 James B. Bryan Staff Writer Health Science Career Day will be held Thursday, February 18, 1993. Twenty employers will gather on the Ramsey Center concourse, from 4 pm to 7:30 pm to interview students who are majoring in Health Science. Dinner will be served for the employers and students in the hospitality room. Students who are majoring in Emergency Medical Care, Health Information Management, Clinical Laboratory Science, Environmental Health, and Speech Language Pathology are invited to attend. Health Science Career Day is sponsored by the C.A.P. center.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina University
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  • Date original: 1993-02-11
  • Date digitized: 2019-10-23
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 14.25"
  • Pages: 10 pages
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  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
  • Western Carolina University -- Periodicals
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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