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College Democrats Lose SGA Funding Story Page 2- Halloween Features '•Entertainment Page 5 NFL Players and Owners A Perspective -- Page 4 The Western Carolinian THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS Volume Fifty Three Number Eleven Thursday, October 29, 1987 (704) 227-7267 P.O. Box 66 Cullowhee, NC 28723 COLLEGES ON TAP r POLITICAL LUNCHEON. About 250 Villa Julie College (MD) instructors recently lunched in a temporarily renamed "Fawn Hall," feasting on Contra salad, bank- or hard-liner rolls, olive-rs, and shredded cheese. During the meal, they were serenaded by the sounds of a computer room shredder. The scnool wasn't making a political statement, says its president — only showing that "Villa Julie College has a sense of humor." PARKING PERMITS OUTNUMBER PARKING STALLS at the U. of Kansas. So far, officials have sold 4,515 permits for 3,671 spaces — and no cap sales is in sight. But officials say that it's necessary to oversell permits because not everyone is on campus every day or at the same time. Says one student who couldn't find a place to park:" I wouldn't have bought a permit if I had known I had to park in a metered stall. THE "BUDDY" SYSTEM is being use most unlikely setting: the women's bathrooms in a U. of Wisconsin dormitory. A "peeping torn" hid in the shower room three times in two weeks, and another man grabbeda woman while she was showering and pushed her down. Campus police say they're hindered in their investigation because women have waited as long as 24 rt incidents. In response, some women have taken to wearing whistles and forming groups to go to the bathroom. FEES, FEES EVERYWHERE. A while back, we reported that U. of Illinois students will have to start paying a $20-a-semester computer fee (April 6, 1987). Now, officials want to raise it, saying the original fee was "artificially low." If that isn't enough, Ul students may have to shell out another fee, one that'd combine a freshman orientation fee with a graduation fee to be paid before students begin their freshman year. Graduating seniors now pay a $15 fee their last semester. They're calling the combined fee matriculation" fee. IO-PAY PHONE. The U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor is the test site for the nation's first cash- card phones. The disposable cards, which eliminate the need for carrying coins, can be purchased in denominations of $2, $5, and $ 10. When a card is inserted in a phone, a display panel indicates the value left on the card. A HOUSE IS WHERE THE BROTHERS ARE. Alpha Epsilon Pi brothers are the only Penn State fraternity members who live in an apartment building. Forty-six of the 58- memberfrat have rented apartments in the same building. Benefits include individualized kitchens and bathrooms as well as the campus's only air-conditioned fraternity party rooms. MAKE FRIENDS , NOT WAR. Norwich U. (VT) has started the nation's first college Peace Corps training program. Norwich hopes to recruit students with loan incentives up to $5X00. The loans would be forgiven for students who went on to serve two years in the Peace Corps. The program includes courses in the politics and economics of the Third World, community service, and a week-long Outward Bound class. Students will also take a summer internship in a developing nation following their junior year. ORIST TACTICS EARN JAIL TERMS. 'welve U. of Texas-Austin activists have received three- to six-month jail terms for taking over the UT president's office as part of Homecoming '87 By MARTHA MCAFEE Entertainment Editor It was in front of a record crowd of 13,460 that Ms. Toni Jackson was crowned the 1987 Homecoming Queen. Jackson, a sophmore RTV major was presented with her crown by the 1986 queen - Selina Johnson. Did ycu get in on early enthusiasm and attend the Cat's Prowl Pep Rally? Did you enter your jam box in the BOOM BOX PARADE? Were you able to drive through campus without sloshing through nervous horse manure? If any of these incidents don't sound familiar, then you missed out on some of the Homecoming '87 events. You had to be there to experience the thousands of people tail- gating In the parking lots with coolers and buckets of chicken. It was incredible to note how many fans wore their shades to block the sun on this warm October day. WCU crowned its new Homecoming Queen, Toni Jackson, at half-time. Miss Jackson Is a Radio and Television major. Her escort was Skip Nelloms. The Parade winners were as follows: Best non- float entry — Baptist Student ...Continued Page 13 Lake Junaluska: Burdened By Pollution By NANCY BRYANT Staff Writer In recent months, Lake Junaluska has been the focus of a great deal of attention. The 250-acre body of water was drained six weeks ago in preparation for the installment of a new hydroelectric project to modify the lake's present dam. But many feel that another equally important aspect of the lake has been virtually ignored. Lake Junaluska, located on the grounds of Lake Junaluska Assembly in Maggie Valley, has long been burdened by pollution. According to Mr. Barry Rogers, executive director of the assembly, both chemicals and raw sewage may be cited as the causes of the lake's pollution. Richland Creek, which feeds Lake Junaluska, also brings into the lake a constant flow of pollutants and literally tons of silt. Rogers said that five-hundred-thousand cubic yards of silt have accumulated In the lake over the last eight to ten years. Sedimentation, which causes the lake to have very little depth, has developed as a result of the dirt and mud from Richland Creek settling into the lake. Draining the lake has uncovered an enormous amount of litter that has accumulated over the years. Discarded tires and other items which have made their way into Lake Junaluska along with many other Richland Creek pollutants, rest at the bottom of the now empty lake. Rogers believes that people living near the creek inadvertently dispose of old or unwanted items near the creek, and the litter eventuality ends up a part of Richland Creek's water flow. .. .Continued Page 2 Hunter Library Towards Taking Steps By EDWARD WATSON Staff Writer Western Carolina's Hunter Library is in the process of computerizing all books, periodicals, and other materials in preperation for the new Data General LS-2000 computer network. Located at Appalaclan State, the network's mini-computer ties together Hunter Library with the libraries of ASU and UNC-Asheville. Eventually, all sixteen universities in the North Carolina system will be connected through Line Net, the University of North Carolina Computing Service. The computer system will have the ability to search for a book by author, title, key word, or subject and notify the user if the book has been checked out or not. Susan Hutto said "students will find the on-line system to be a much easier way to locate materials than the card catalogue - much more flexible." The library staff will use the system to maintain data on overdue books, complete statistical reports and most other library functions. A courier network between WCU, ASU, and UNC-A is in the planning stages and could quickly supply WCU students with material located at the other schools. With the state picking up most of the cost, the three universities are sharing the remaining cost which will use a minimum little of Hunter's opperating budget, according to Susan Hutto.The system has been In the planning stages for five years and Hunter has been converting materials to machine readable status since 1980. Bar codes have been placed on books and will be used in conjuction with bar coded student I.D.s to make checking out books easier and faster.Thls method will also ensure reader privacy because no name will appear in the book and after returning the book, their name will be removed from the system. The LS-2000 was chosen because of it's reputation as a user friendly system and public training sessions will be offered next fall. A training session will be added to English 101's library introduction session. New WCU Research Facilities The Mountain Aquaculture Center By JEFF BATTLE WCU is getting a new addition to its biological research facilities. The Biology Department and the Center for Improved Mountain Living are cooperatively sponsoring the new research feature: The Mountain Aquaculture Center. The center will be housed in the Biology Department. Administratively it is housed in the Natural Sciences Building Offices 332-333. Dr. Jerry West has been named as the acting Director of the Mountain Aquaculture Center. According to Dr. West, the experimental facilities or wet lab for the center will be in room G0- 2 of the Natural Science Building also known as the fisheries lab, but the sponsors of the center are hoping it will serve its functions well enough to merit the construction of an area or facility with some room for extensive experimental raceways in which to breed fish. ...Continued Page 13 Cats Tumble From Perch But Hope Remains For The Rest of The Team's Season By CHRIS GEIS Sports Editor J That crash you heard late last Saturday afternoon was the Western Carolina football team falling from a lofty perch. After a four-game victory ride had taken the Catamounts to the No. 9 spot in the Division l-AA national rankings — Western's highest ranking since the almost-champioship year of 1983 — the Catamounts were rudely kicked off their Cloud Nine by a rough-and-tumble group of Eagles last weekend in a 37-16 homecoming thumping to Georgia Southern. Western fumbled all the way to 18th in the national poll and dropped to 4-3 on the year. Now they must come back to the Southern Conference wars with what should be four very difficult games to end the season. The good news is, despite the shellacking by two-time defending national champion Georgia Southern, the Catamounts are still in control of their own destiny. They are 2-0 in the conference — they haven't played a league game since winning at East Tennessee on Sept. 26 — and trail Appalachian State (3-0) in the league standings by just a half game. The bad news is the Catamounts probably have to win every game on the schedule if they want to make the l-AA playoffs. The loss to Georgia Southern makes it unlikely that the Catamounts can receive a playoff bid unless they win the Southern Conference championship, which would provide them with automatic qualification. But there's more bad news. In addition the injury that took quarterback Todd Cottrell down for the year in the Mars Hill victory Oct. 10, the Catamounts are suffering from a mysterious injury jinx that has thus far sidelined a total of eight Catamount starters, four of them (Cottrell, tailback David May- field, inside linebacker Billy Shepard and outside linebacker Wayne Parker) for the year. Three other Catamounts (fullback David Jones, cornerback Kenny Peeples, defensive tackle Chris Spach and defensive end Scott Arant) are listed as possible for the Catamounts' next few games. And punt return man Lee Shaw is also out for the year It's a freaky set of injuries that is seeking to deprive Western head coach Bob Waters of his first Southern Conference championship. The Catamounts are forced to head into the crunch time portion of their league schedule playing with a freshman quarterback in Mark Smith and, in essence, a second-team defense. Waters still remains optimistic. "We've got a lot to play for from here on out," he said. "We've got an opportunity — as good as anyone in the confernence and a lot better than most — to win the conference champiosnhip. . . . There is no reason ... to keep us from concentrating on our original goal of winning the Southern Conference championship." The Catamounts will travel to Charleston, S.C, this weekend to play The Citadel, a team that which hasn't won a league game since mid-1985 but which has traditionally given Western fits. The ^ay Young of Georgia Southern climbs the back of Cats host Tennessee-Chattanooga on Nov. 14, fol- Western's Earl Bates. Interference was not called on the low that with a road game at Marshall and wind up p|ay; GSC won 37-See related story, page 9. (Mark the season Nov. 21 at home against Appalachian Masker! Photo) State. Catamounts not only must beat the Mountaineers, but Defending conference champion Appa- |p order fQ keep from finisnjng a ha|f game back of Ap- lachian State, ranked No. 2 in the nation, plays one ^^^^ _ barring an upset - the Cats must u ;n all more league game than Western. That means the four conf-erence games.

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: 1987-10-29
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-11
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