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  • The^stern CQidinian THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1977 Vol. XLII, No. 64 CULLOWHEE, N.C. Controversy surrounds proposed four-1 airing Gorge area threatened The prot. ed construction of a four-lane highway in the Nantahala Gorge area will be the subject of a public meeting at the Andrews Community Center August 16th at 7:30 p.m. A similar meeting was held concerning the construction last March, where public sentiment was expressed against building the road through the gorge itself, but rather through the surrounding mountain area. A Department of Transportation preliminary study has resulted in six possible routes for the highway, which is the last leg of a four lane corridor between Chattanooga ^ and Johnson City, Tennessee. The road is a part of the federal Appalachian Region Commission project to upgrade the area through improving commerce and transportation systems. Of the six possible routes originally described by the DOT, four go directly through the gorge for some ^ distance, one of which follows existing highway 19/129. The other two possible routes would take the highway out of the gorge and into the mountains east of the Nantahala river. After the six orignal routes were proposed, two additional routes were outlined which would also take the project out of the Nantahala Gorge, and well into Graham County northwest of the gorge. Citizens of Robbinsville have expressed approval of this plan, which would bring increased trade into their area. Opposition to construction of the highway in the gorge itself has come from several sources. Ms. Dot Mason of' the Chamber of Commerce in Murphy, North Carolina said, "under no circumstances do the people of Cherokee, Clay, or Graham Counties want the highway > to go through the Nantahala Gorge." According I Mason, the citizens of Graham county and the^ Robbinsville area are very concerned about the environ-' mental aspects of the gorge, but also acknowledge the need for such a highway for economic reasons. Graham county is about 75 percent government owned land and has no tourist trade to speak of, even though neighboring Macon county is much richer because of "4 % their better roads which facilitate a good tourist industry. U At present, citizens of Graham county have excessively 1V<i high trucking rates, and the severe winters make emergency travel on the existing roads nearly impossible. There is no air ambulance service at this time in Graham county. Death and dying Opposition to the gorge project also comes from WCU biology professor Dr. Dan Pittillo, who is concerned with possible harm to endangered or threatened species of plant and animal life in the area. Accroding to Dr. Pittillo, all of the six proposed routes are environmentally damaging, but the sixth line, which runs farthest east of the gorge, would have the least harmful effect. This line would be the one least opted for by the leaders of Graham and Cherokee counties, since it takes the road still further from their areas. Dr. Pittillo also stated that any road work done in the area will be damaging due to the necessity of tunnels—as many as five along one route—and excavation of hillsides to provide level surfaces which would disrupt delicate cavern ecosystems and surface vegetation alike. Turn to Page 4 Even teacher had problems What do five nurses, one doctor, one hospital chaplain, two Methodist ministers, five clinical psychologists, two social workers, two homemakers, one health educator, two guidance counselors, and one aspiring young journalist have in common? They all wanted, for various personal and professional reasons, to learn more about death and dying. And they all did something about it. They attended the Death and Dying Workshop, taught by JDr. Hannelore Wass, professor of educational psychology at the University of Florida at Gainesville. The workshop, which was sponsored by the WCU educational psychology department, consisted of two one-week seminars. The class met for three hours each morning and afternoon, and discussed such topics as the dying process, grief and bereavement, children and dying, helping and counseling, and funerals. Each group visited Moody's Funeral Home in Sylva, and besides a vast amount of excellent literature which each student could pick and choose from, there were also many films and filmstrips to enhance the lectures and readings. Dr. Wass, who received the equivalent of a B.A. degree from the Heidelberg Teachers' College in Heidelberg, Germany, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is the editor of the international quarterly. Death Education. She has a book in progress entitled The Facts of Death, and has appeared on both TV and radio. Dr. Wass first became interested in the death and dying field while teaching educational psychology at the University of Florida. Students would come to her with personal problems, and she always had advice or words jf comfort, until someone came to her after a death in his family. "That's what triggered the whole thing," Dr. Wass Turn to Page 11
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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 Carolin...

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