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Volume Fifty-two Number Sixteen Thursday, January 29, 1987 (704) 227-7267 P.O. Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 287?.T CO ON TAP Newspapers Are Hiring More Minorities, according to a new study by the Institute for Journalism Education. An average 17 percent of new entry-level hires were blacks or other racial minorities. For newspapers with more than 150,000 circulation, the figure rose to 40 percent. Syracuse U. Has Given Amnesty To Fake I.D. Holders. Many students had the false identifications, allegedly forged by a SU freshman. Officials offered not to punish anyone who turned in a fake card by the end of the week. The Homecoming Queen Is A Mom at Marshall U. Mrs. Wheila Mullarky Dailey entered the contest "to represent the fastest growing population on campus, the older, returning student." Tuck-in Services have raised money for a residence hall at the U. of Illinois and for a fraternity at Western Kentucky U. At Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus, Luscious Lana and Wicked Wanda read bedtime stories and sang lullabies to fellow dorm residents. Bethel College (Minn.) gave the, fundraiser a new twist: Students paid $4 to have administrators or faculty members tuck them in. The money finance overseas missions. Duke U/s Office Of Student Activities has found a creative way to circumvent money and staffing crunches: recruit student volunteers through its Career Apprenticeship Program. Students learn marketable skills working jobs pertaining to their majors — like finance, business management, publications, and retail operations - and student services offices get extra help for free. An Off-Campus Housing Fair at West Virginia U. helps students learn about the realities of IMng off-campus. Representatives from the local housing Inspection office, U.S. postal service, utility companies, and university residence halls, as well as landlords, are on hand to answer student's questions in a relaxed, informal setting. A Projected Teacher Shortage has prompted the U. of Southern California's school of education to form a new organization of future teachers - Alpha Delta Pheta. Students considering a teaching career can learn more about the profession and meet others in the field. The Commission on Teacher Credentiality says more than 88,000 elementary and secondary teaching jobs will open in the next five years. Kappa Alpha Has Bought A Breathalyzer to help prevent intoxicated party-goers from driving home. The Western Kentucky U. fraternity measures the blood-alcohol level of everyone leaving their parties and takes the car keys of anyone who's intoxicated. At a recent party, a Ford dealer provided a van to carry those unable fo drive. Another Racial Barrier Has Fallen. A u. of Alabama black sorority, Zeta Phi Beta, has inducted a white pledge. Joab Thomas, UA's president, said the move was significant but meaningless unless further integration occurs. A Student Operator of Don Juan Escorts has been ejected from Phi Gamma Delta at Arizona State U. And Tempe police are investigating prostitution allegations against the service, which reportedly employed ASU coeds. Arizona State U. Police Arrested A Vagabond Preacher for disturbing the peace. A student made a citizen's arrest after the preacher, Michael Woroniecki of Michigan, interrupted an Associated Students' rally against tuition increases. SPECIAL SNOW EDITION! With Apologies for the Delay in Publication This was due to circumstances beyond our immediate control. Thank you for your patience. I ,—,—_ '. 1 —— Gasque Confused, Quits Team Western Carolina Basketball Star Goes Home After 2-9 Start By CHRIS GEIS SPORTS WRITER The story of why Leroy Gasq ue, an all-Southern Conference basketball player, left the Western Carolina team on Jan. 13 is a confusing puzzle that perhaps even Gasque has yet to figure out. Gasque, who had led the team in scoring and rebounding this season and last, packed up and inexplicably went home to Andrews, S.C., after the Catamounts blew a 13-point lead and lost 61 -57 to Davidson to drop to 2-9 on the year. Gasque did not notify Western Carolina coach Steve Cottrell or any of his teammates, and he did not respond to an offer by Cottrell to return to the team within 24 hours after Cottrell had heard about the junior forward's departure. "We were all shocked and suprised," Cottrell told The Westrn Carolinian. "Leroy was very upbeat after the game Monday night and had been one of our more positive-thinking players. . .. Leroy left without a word to anyone." (A second plpyer, reserve guard John Cunningham, quit the team on Monday, citing a lack of playing team. Cottrell said the two were not related, however. "The public, in general, might think our team is in turmoil because of our personnel problems of the last two weeks, but that is not the true picture," he said in a press statement Tuesday. "We have a group of fine young men who are coping with adversity and working hard to improve. . ..") Gasque was averaging 14.6 points per game this season and was leading the Southern Conference in rebounding at 8.6 per game, a year after finishing second in the league's player-of- the-year balloting. Although the team has not lived up to preseason expectations, it played the Leroy Gasque, forward was an this year. flte Photo here in the Southern Conference tournament last year. The junior all-conference selection last season, and the league's leading rebounder well against Davidson, defending conference tournament champion, and Gasque seemed encouraged in a Monday night television interview. Gasque, reached last week at his home by The Western Carolinian, said he left because he was "fed up with it," meaning the losing season, and because he felt he "was letting the team down. __^wasn't responding to the pressure." Although he said this and the team's problems on the court were the main reason he left the squad, he added,"... I don't ever want to say the real reason I left." Cottrell said it was not the first time that Gasuqe had decided to quit the team and go home, and although he declined to say how many time before, one source said it might have been as many as four in the last two and a half years. Cottrell, who was out of town on a recruiting trip the day after Gasque left and who had not spoken to Gasque, speculated that the player's personal problems had a good deal to do with it. Other sources confirmed this, and added that Gasque did not have academic problems. "He has had personal problems in the past unrelated to basketball," Cottrell said. "I thought he had weathered the storm. I was shocked. That's just not like him. There's more to life than basketball. I hate to see him throw everything away. ... I feel terrible about it. I feel bad for Leroy." On one occasion, Cottrell said, he had offered that Gasque return and deal witr, his problems without playing basketball and just be a student. "He never realty felt like he fit in here at Western Carolina," Cottrell said. "We wanted him to see that there were other things here worth coming for besides playing basketball." See QUITS TEAM Page Fourteen AIDS: Moving Much Closer Home By ERIN MIUNER NEWS EDITOR It is estimated that over 1.5 million Americans have been infected with the deadly AIDS virus and 25-50 percent of these persons will develop the symptoms of this disease which will ultimately result in their death. These facts, which are frightening enough, are magnified when one realizes that these are conservative estimates with some experts claiming that there are up to 4 million Americans harboring this disease within their bodies: Most of these persons do not even know that they have been infected and are unknowingly spreading AIDS to countless innocent victims. AIDS is no longer a disease restricted to homosexuals and drug users. An increasing number of sexually active heterosexuals are now becoming victims of the ravages of this disease. AIDS is moving out of the large metropolises of New York and San Francisco (where over 80 percent of the AIDS cases have been reported and into middle-America. While the number of AIDS cases for these new groups remain relatively small, the~ incomprehensible speed at which this disease spreads is deservedly attracting attention from medical experts and educators around the nation. The medical profession, through research, is feverishly working on an AIDS vaccine, but one is not expected to be found until the 1990's. While drugs such as AZT (still experimental) have been developed which ease the effects of the disease, they are not cures and these drugs have extreme side effects which restrict their use to treating only the most seriously ill. Currently, education is being seen as the most effective deterrent to the spread of the disease. AIDS education, which has proved effective in the Gay community (through extensive education in San Francisco the reported number of AIDS cases has dropped dramatically), is now being directed to America's "straight" society and is even reaching into the classrooms of our junior and senior high schools. While this subject has not yet been included in standard school cirriculums, many state and local health departments are instituting AIDS education programs. The Buncombe County Health Department in Asheville. has such a program entitled "Beyond Fear." This program is currently being presented at area junior and senior high schools to students who have parental permission to attend. Many experts involved in AIDS education believe that ignorance and indifference is a potent fuel for the AIDS epidemic and that such information is necessary for even younger school age children. However, there is much debate as to how such material is to be approached in our schools since the subject is seen as being closely related to homosexuality, drugs and the sexual activity of young adults. Many educators expect some resistence to their efforts from communities who would see such instruction as acceptance and condonement of See MOVING CLOSER Page Fourteen Coulter Proclaims MLK Day at WCU By WILLIAM THORPE STAFF WRITER On January 15, 1987, Western Carolina University held its second annual observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The program commemorated the life and accomplishments of the slain civil and human rights leader who challenged America to live up to her democratic principles and to win freedom for Black Americans. Most seats were filled in the recital hall of the Music/English Building for the memorial service. Reverend Joseph Yelton, pastor of the Cullowhee Baptist Church delivered an inspiring invocation to lead the ceremony. Brothers of WCU's chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Inc., honored the fraternity's most famous member by harmonizing the Alpha Hymn. Kim Morris, vice-president of the Organization of Ebony Students, recieved a standing ovation as she accepted the proclamation from WCU Chancellor, Myron Coulter, which declared January 15, 1987 as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Western Carolina University. "He showed and inspired great courage in his followers, and his leadership initiated a new consciousness in the nation and changes in its iws th' . have opened new opportunities to Black people," Coulter said in his proclamation. "Martin Luther King's vision of a just society still stands before us as a dream to be fully accomplished," the proclamation continued. Chancellor Coulter also delivered the •tribute to honor the man who was born .on January 15, fifty-eight years ago. He praised King as "a moral leader on a plane with the founding fathers." Coulter went onto say; "In remembering Dr. King today, let's dedicate ourselves again to doing whatever we can to fulfill the dream he gave us. What are we doing to make the dream come true?" he charged. As he concluded the tribute, the Chancellor reminded those gathered that Western was the first among the traditionally white UNC institutions to admit a Black student, and the first to have a Black athlete play on a varsity team Chancellor Coulter himself was at Western Michigan University when King was assassinated in 1968. He was responsable for organizing a Martin Luther King program, which included a Black studies program, a Black scholarship program and a Martin Luther King Room with wainscoting materials from a barn on Dr. King's birthplace. Special music for the ceremony was provided by WCU's Inspirational choir. Al Wiggins, a professor in the Speech and Theatre Arts department, touched everyone in the audience with a stirring rendition of "Sermonette" by Cannonball Adderley. Starlett Craig, assistant to the vice- chancellor for Student Development, presided and also gave a profile of Dr. King. In an interveiw after the program she expressed the opinion that the evening's proceedings constituted a "very momentous occasion." She added that Western Carolina University "is one of just a few universities to have had such a program; one in which the chancellor gave me main address." She See MARTIN OBSERVANCE Page Fourteen Western Carolina University Chancellor Myron Coulter (right)presents* proclamation declaring Jan. 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day at WCU to Kim Morris (canter) vice president ol the Organization of Ebony Students, while Starlett Craig assistant to the vice chancellor lor student development, looks on. The Western Carolinian Striving to be the best we can be. "I'vo doddod to mick wth lov»...Hat« «loo green a bunion 10 nta. -Of. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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  • Date original: 1987-01-29
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-09
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  • Pages: 14 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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