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  • Possible Merger With Asheville-Biltmore Is Asked Western Carolina University yesterday proposed a cooperative pooling of facilities and resources with Asheville-Biltmore College—or an outright merger of the two state-supported institutions—as the best way to expand and develope educational opportunities in western North Carolina. The proposal was announced as an alternate to a recommendation made December 2, 1968, by the Consolidated University of North Carolina for establishment of a new branch campus in Asheville through a consolidated university merger with Asheville-Biltmore. In a statement adopted by the board of trustees and presented by Dr. Alex S. Pow, president, Western Carolina said the proposed addition of a UNC campus in Asheville, coupled with the proposed for yet another in Wilmington, "would be a proliferation more apt to impoverish than profit the system of higher education in the mountains." It said "one of the most pressing problems faced by Western North Carolina is an inadequacy of support for tis institutions of higher education. There is a concern on our part for the entire state, and for Western North Carolina in particular, that such funds for higher education as are available not be dissipated by the authorization of too many units to do too many things at too many levels." Copies of the WCU proposel were filed Wednesday afternoon with the North Carolina Board of Higher Education in Raleigh and the Governor. The board now has under study the UNC recommendation for the two new campuses. The WCU proposel calls for the joint provision of "more extensive educational opportunities for all of Western North Carolina, particularly in Asheville, through the common use of faculties and staffs, facilities, administrative services, financial support, and other resources." Such a cooperation- or an outright merger^—would pro- vide, it said "a n expanded, improved, better-supported, more prestigious, two campus regional university. All of Western North Carolina, in- eluding Asheville . . . would benefit; and so would North Carolina, and its system of higher education. "The economy and efficiency of a cooperative arrangement of this nature, or of such a merger, commend this propo sal for the most serious study and consideration. "Both Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina urgently need more by way of general education, professional education, graduate education and continuing education than could be expected from the modest undergraduate liberal arts and sciences program" proposed for Asheville by UNC. Referring to earlier statements by UNC officials that only an undergraduate campus would be established in Asheville for the foreseeable future the WCU statement said that "Western North Carolinais entitled to more than a small- scale branch of the Consolidated University, devoted primarily to the liberal arts and sciences, and the poorly supported regional universities" in Cullwhee and Boone. a combining of the two mountain institutions would be more consistent with the regional universities established two years ago, Dr. Pow said, Noting that the 1967 General Assembly provided for and evaluation of the system at the end of five years, he added, "this period of time should expire and the necessary evaluation be made before North Carolina defeats or discards the plan further extension of the Consolidated University." Combining Asheville-Biltmore with Western Carolina University would create a University of Western North Carolina, "Dr. Pow said, and full- fill the "cherished and legitimate asperations of all Western North Carolinians, held for many years, to establish in the mountains an institution of magnitude and excellence. TheWESTERN CAROLINIAN Due to a special request by President Pow, we have devoted the majority of the news section of this issue of the Western Carolinian to the proposal issued yesterday by Dr. Pow. We urge all students to read this statement in as much as it may effect his or her education greatly. VOICE OF THE STUDENTS VOLXXXIV NO.25 Thursday , January 23, 1969 CULLOWHEE, N.C. WWOO Is Off The Air But Should Return Soon BY KAKI HOWARD WWOO radio station will return to the air "in the near furture," says Spenecr Moore, general manager. The station has been off since the beginning of winter quarter due to equipment failure. About $140 of parts replacements are needed ot repair the audio-control consloe. One- third of its parts must be replaced. These parts have been ordered from Asheville and the WWOO staff will do the repair work. Since most of the station's appropriations money has been used, the $140 will come from advertising sales. The console, or board, is now 11 years old and has 30, 000 hours of use. The repair work will put WWOO barely on the air continues Moore. "We need a new board, or else we'll end up replacing the old one piece by piece." Once the station returns it will fowwlw a new schedule: 4pm to midnight daily except lunday. Moore says this will allow the staff to prepare more specialzed programing rather than just offering ail music. Important Notice Anyone who may have attended a Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity party at Lenoir Rhyne College, January 18, or knows of anyone from this campus who may have atteended, please contact Dr. Davis at once. You may have been exposed to infectious spinal meningitis. Dr. Pow Issues Statement On December 2, 1968, the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina recommended that the Board of Higher Education and the General Assembly approve the establishment of additional campuses of the University of North Carolina in Asheville and Wilmington, to be created through mergers with Asheville-Biltmore and Wilmington colleges. Western Carolina University recognizes and is supportive of the aspirations of A'Aaville- Biltmore College and tie Consolidated University for extensive and improved educational opportunities in Asheville. AH of Western Northc Carolina snares those aspirations, both for Asheville and for the entire western region of the state. Indeed, the establishment of a state-supported regional uni= versity in Western North Carolina by the 1967 General Assembly was to provide now in the West, through Western Carolina University, many of the exact services which, in the long range, might be expected some day to result from the proposed mergers. Better Idea We at Western Carolina University believe there is a better way—academically and economically—than that proposed by the Consolidated University for the development of educational opportunities in Western North Carolina. We believe this alternative has not been but should be studied carefully by the proper state authorities and the Lnsti- titutions and citizens of Asheville and the region. We propose that Western Carolina University and Asheville-Biltmore College provide on a joint basis, more extensive educational opportunities for all of Western North Carolina, particularly in Asheville, through the common use of faculties and staffs, facilities, administrative services, financial support, and other resources. Cooperation We propose a cooperation between Asheville - Biltmore and Western Carolina University, or a merger of these two institutions to provide an expanded, improved, better supported, more prestigious, two- campus regional university, AH Western North Carolina—including Asheville, which derives its support from the region—would benefit; and so would North Carolina and its system of higher education. The economy and efficiency of a cooperative arrangement of this nature, or of such a merger, commend this proposal for the most serious study and consideration. Western Carolina University for many years has been providing quality education, at the graduate and the undergraduate and professional levels through out the western part of the state. In Buncombe County alone, for example, it enrolled more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students in classes taught in its Asheville and Buncombe County centers during the fall of 1968. Additionally, there were 479 undergraduate and graduate students from Buncombe County enrolled as on-campus students at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. A survey of this county— which is only one of many from which large numbers of students come to our university—re« veals that there are more students from Buncombe enrolled in Western Carolina University classes than there are in the entire student body at Asheville-Biltmore. The relevance of Western Carolina University to the entire western section of the state, and to the state as a whole, also should be considered. In the fall quarter of 1968, our university enrolled students from every one of the 32 counties west of Greensboro and south of Winston-Salem. The enrollment from these counties totaled 3,455. Ninety of the state's 100 counties are represented in our student body; and we are serving students, literally, from Manteo to Murphy. In the fall quarter just completed, 4,312 North Carolina residents were enrolled in our classes out of a total registration of 4,822. Big Investment The State of North Carolina now has an investment approaching $30million in the capital assets at Western Carolina University. The yearly operating budget, although greatly in need of strengthening, is now $7.3miHion. These funds help to support a program of quality and quantity which is even now providing, and can provide, the sort of service desired in Asheville and elsewhere throughout the region. This institution of value and worth needs nurturing, to be sure, but there should be no CONTINUED Page 3. . ..
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