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People In The News - Page 5 Congratulations December Graduates! The CIA, American Terrorists? Perspective s- Page 2 The Western Carolinian VOICE OF THE STUDENTS Volume Fifty Three Number F ifteen Thursday, December 10, 1987 (704) 227-7267 P.O. Box 66 Cullowhee, NC 28723 CQLJLEGES~1 Three wcu Students ONTAP Arrested In County's Largest STUDENTS SAVE THEIR 'A.' Arizona State U students' vandalism of the big gold "A" JSr PraCed a butte next to th© football rS^'Um+ °r 50 years 'ed a Tempe city councilman to threaten to seek its removal. But me threat apparently worked and the big vowel has kept its shine for over a month. I ne symbol and the butte are city property, but it s the Student Athletic Board's responsibility to keep the emblem painted gold. PARENTS OF U. OF OKLAHOMA STUDENTS can helptheirsons ana daughters adjust to college through the OU Parents Representative Program. In each of 36 cities, an OU representative serves to channel the questions from local parents to an OU official who's been selected to deal with that community. The program gives parents a direct line to an OU official, and should eliminate the frustration of having to make a dozen phone calls. A SIGN OF THE TIMES? A returning adult student at Pennsylvania State U. plans to ask the university to establish housing for older students. The program calls for a dormitory floor for about 35 adult students as well as a daycare center in the basement. During informal interviews of his peers, the student who proposes the idea found that most adult students move off campus because of the noise in the dormitories. THE PARTY RULES KICKED IN forthe U of Utah fraternities and sororities, and surprisingly, many Greeks say they like the new city ordinance. Passed this summer by the city council, the ordinance requires that Greek funds cannot be used to buy alcohol (mixes are okay), all parties must end by midnight on weekends, and parties with more than 60 people must have a uniformed security guard. AND A LACK OF SECURITY is the basis behind a $1 million lawsuit filed by a U. of California-Santa Barbara student against the school after she was raped by several members of the football team. The suit claimsthe university failed to provide forthe victim's safety and security. She's also suing the five men involved, the UCSB chancellor, ar d several other school officials. TESTS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL DRUG at the U. of Tennessee went sour when the subjects, UT dental and medical students, developed severe side effects, according to an $11 million suit filed by the students against the drug's manufacturer. Twelve students joined the suit against Beecham Laboratories, claiming that they were warned of possible mild side effects from the experimental antidepressant, but they experienced vomiting, cramps, anxiety, and muscle tremors bad enough to land eight of them in the hospital overnight. A WITCHHUNT? Nine student governments affiliated with the Florida Students Association have taken the initiative in identifying instructors who don't speak English clearly. They've set up telephone hotlines distributed classroom surveys, and moSared instruction. At the U. of Florida ihA student government distributed- and net, rtors who may be English-deficient. nZ.of UF professors has compared the student government tactics to Nazi Germany's Gestapo. PORNOGRAPHY FOR WOMEN is the vnoo behind Crowbar, a magazine being lde Sbv a group of feminist students ievafu"Mos?e9roticart or porn is aimed a!Ipn "says one of the magazine sfound- °cfand women don't enjoy looking at ° Jimnaes Porn can be made with a er° ilmfod and can go beyond sexism female m'™ bi «The first issue should be and homophobia out later this month. Cocaine Bust By EDWARD WATSON Staff Writer Three WCU students were arrested last Tuesday night In Jackson County's largest single cocaine seizure in history. The students were charged with trafficking 17.5 ounces of cocaine, with a street value of $50,000. David Hall, a narcotics detective with the sheriff's department identified the students as Mark Alan Messel, Mark Monarrez , and James Garrett Aucamp. Messel, 19, is a freshman from Cullowhee majoring in pre-medi- cine. Senior Mark Monarrez, 23, of Brasstown is currently living in Cullowhee and majoring in sports management. Aucamp, a 20- year-old sophomore from Murphy majoring in marketing, lives in Cullowhee. Mark Messel and James Aucamp are roommates. i Mark Monarrez, along with two other students arrested Tuesday,awaits arraignment on charges of trafficking cocaine. A bond of $100,000 has been set 'or Messel and Monarrez's original $750,000 bond was reduced to $250,000. Aucamp's bond is $250,000, reduced from $500,000. No arraignment date has been set and the tnree remain in jail, according tc Dr. Stillion, Vice-Chancellor of Stucent Development. The arrests, made at a local fast food restaurant, were the result of an undercover State Bureau of Investigations operation. Detective Jim Woodard, SBI narcotics division, stated that the students were defmately part of a much larger drug ring as indicated by the large amount of uncut cocaine. "Hopefully there will be more arrests . but that is yet to be seen," said Woodard, adding that agents of U.S. Customs and the Drug Enforcement Agency would be involved in the continuing Investigation. Detective Woodard also stated that he hopes this will send a message to the students that they are taking a chance dealing drugs. Dr. Stillion said that the students have been suspended and if convicted would be expelled without possible reinstatement. This rulling is a result of a new University of North Carolina system policy concerning the action taken againststudentsarrested for poses- sion, intent to sell, or trafficking of narcotics. 59 WCU Students Named To Who's Who List Fifty-nine Western Carolina University students recently were named to the 1988 edition of "Who's Who Among Students In American Universities and Colleges" as national outstanding campus leaders. A WCU nominating committee and editors of the annual directory selected the students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. They join a group of students selected from more than 1,400 institutions of higher learning in the United States and several foreign countries. The WCU students are: Tina Ruth Bailey, of Augusta, Ga., a clothing textiles and merchandising major; Alesia Dawn Barnettes, Hickory, finance; Angela Hope Benson, Cullowhee, clothing, textilesand merchandising; Holly Marie Bridges, White Pine, Tenn., emergency medical care; Kim L. Brown, Sylva, English; Angela Michelle Burns, Cleveland, accounting; Michael David Carson, Greenville, S.C, finance; Judy Carol ...Continued Page 2 Students braved the cold evenings last weekend to enjoy the first of theskating seasone heralded by the opening of the Ramsey skating rink last Saturday night. (Edwin Carlton Photo) Sylva Drugstore Purchases Local Supermarket By Scott Stalmasek Staff Writer On New Year's Day, Hooper's Drugstore, a retailing landmark In downtown Sylva, will move into its new home - a building that has been known to Jackson County shoppers as Potts Supermarket for the past 26 years. This move, brought on by the decision of Potts Supermarket owner, Bobby Potts, that it was time to sell, will make the Hooper operation the largest independent drugstore in Sylva. Bob Kelley, who has owned Hooper's Drugstore since 1966, jumped at the opportunity to purchase "a piece of prime real estate" and to overcome his store's current parking problem. Kelley will also be taking advantage of the 10,000 square feet of merchandising space that the Pott's building has to offer. "We plan on expanding and remodeling on January 1," Kelley said. The new Hooper's will be much larger and have a larger variety of merchandise, which will include baby, hardware, and auto parts departments. The store will also have books, magazines, and jewelry selections, which will include costume and 14 karat jewelry. A larger selection of health and beauty items, snack foods, health foods and gifts will be added. After the remodeling, which is expected to last until the . ...Continued Page 2 Highly Respected Head Basketball Coach Resigns; Interim Named By CHRIS GEIS Sports Editor Western Carolina head basketball coach Steve Cottrell, who brought the Catamounts' program from NCAA probation to a spot among the Southern Conference's best, unexpectedly resigned Nov. 22, just eight days before his team was to open its 11th season under his guidance. Assistant coach Herb Krusen, a former assistant at East Carolina and Wake Forest, was named temporary interim head coach in a Nov. 23 press conference that announced Cottrell's resignation. Krusen's interim status was upgraded to interim for the entire 1987-88 season by athletic director Terry Wanless on Nov. 30. Wanless made the announcement of Cottrell's resignation in a hastily called morning press conference. Cottrell had informed Wanless and the basketball team of the decision the day before, and Wanless had asked Krusen to take over the head coaching reigns immediately. Cottrell was not available for comment, leaving open a wide realm of possibilities for why he would just suddenly step down after expressing excitement over how his team would do this season. He said only in a press release that it was "not an emotional, quick decision." Among his reasons for leaving, he said, were the fact that several players had dropped off the team in the last three seasonsand that "the program was not making the progress I felt it should have been making. I think it is in the best interest of Western Carolina University, the basketball program, me and my family that I resign." (Cottrell's son Mike, one of the top high school basketball players in North Carolina last year, also left the team, on Nov. 30. See Sports Page.) University chancellor Myron Coufler was in New Orleans when Cottrell resigned, but upon returning he said he was quite suprised and dis- sapointed with Cottrell's departure. "I sincerely appreciate all that Steve Cottrell has done for this university through the basketball program," Coulter said in a statement." He has run a clas operation that all of us have been proud of. I deeply regret his decision to resign." Wanless said essentially the same thing. "It was a personal decision on coach Cottrell's part," Wanless told reporters. "There are no skeletons in the closet. I have a tremendous respect for coach Cottrell. There had been no discussion. It was a total suprise." Said Krusen: "This situation caught all of us off guard. It's something we didn't expect. All we can do is work hard and make the best of this situation." No answers have seemed to surface since the announcement was made for why Cottrell was just suddenly leave a post he had held for more than a decade. Cottrell was the second winningest head basketball coach in . .Continued Page 2 NCCAT Moving Closer To New Center Sealed bids on construction contracts for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) at WCU will be opened Thursday, Dec. 10 and 17, in Founders Auditorium of WCU's Robinson Administration Building. Bids on plumbing, water and sewer, mechanical, and electrical contracts will be opened at 3 p.m., Dec. 10. General contract bids will be opened at 3 p.m., Dec. 17. A ground breaking ceremony will be scheduled soon after the award of contracts, according to C.J. Carter, WCU vice chancellor for business affairs. The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $7.3 million in 1987-88 for design, equipment and construction of NCCAT, a unit of the University of North Carolina system. Currently housed in Madison Hall at WCU, the center operates a year-round program of seminars for outstanding public-school teachers. The center will be built on 20 acres across N.C. 107 from WCU. Construction drawings by the Waynesville architectural firm Foy and Lee Associates have been approved by the boards of trustees of Western Carolina and the NCCAT. The plans have been reviewed by appropriate state agencies and are being examined by interested bidders. The NCCAT core facility will be a 41,000- square-foot, two-story building containing meeting rooms, reception area, dining room, amphitheater and offices. Two residential buildings totaling 21,000 square feet also will be constructed. $6,000 In Funding Received For Faculty Research Grants Western Carolina University's Graduate School has received extra funding for the current year and is accepting applications for Faculty Research Grants to support projects started in January, 1988 and completed by June 30. The additional $6,000 was provided by WCU Chancellor Myron L. Coulter. Faculty Research Grants are intended as "seed grants," supporting initial research, creative activities or independent scholarly work that has not received funding outside the . ..Continued Page 2

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: 1987-12-10
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-11
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