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9{ezus Author George Garrett Visits WCU Campus OPI-- Award-winning author and editor George P. Garrett, Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, visited the campus of Western Carolina University from Monday October 23, through Thursday October 26. On Wednesday, October 25, Garrett read from his work and delivered a lecture entitled "A Writer's Life" in Hoey Auditorium, as part of WCU's Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Program and the Visiting Writers Series. Professor Garrett, director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Virginia since 1984, is the second writer this semester to participate in this, the second year of WCU's Visiting Writers Series. His visit is sponsored by LCE, the Department of English, the English Club, Nomad, the Visiting Scholars Program, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Professor Garrett has authored some two dozen books, including seven novels, seven short story collections, six collections of poetry, and two plays. His work has ranged from Renaissance-era scholarship in Death of the Fox and The Succession to off-beat satire in his novel Poison Pen. The New York Times Book Review described Garrett's Elizabethan romances as "Brilliant, sensuously detailed, and politically acute," and "a major achievement in fiction." His works include the biography of James James, and the novels The Finished Man, Entered From the Sun, Which Ones are the Enemy? and Do, Lord, Remember Me, the story of a tent revivalist's visit to a small southern town. Garrett has served as an editor for The Transatlantic Review, Contempora, The Film Journal, The Hollins Critic, and the University of North Carolina Press. He has also worked as a writer for CBS and as a screenwriter for MGM. Garrett's first poetry and short story collections were Cullowhee's Favorite Place To Be iw rtjiw one MEXICAN -"H FOOD Cullowhee, NC Old Cullowhee Road 293-3332 Franklin, NC 103 Highlands Road 524-9300 GO ORDERS HOT STUFF & MILD Patio Dining Overlooking The Beautiful Tuckasegee River Lunch 11am-2pm Monday thru Friday 12pm - 10pm Saturday Dinner 5pm - 10pm Nightly Including Sunday Deer and Wine Permitted. I.D. Required published in 1957. His first novel, The Finished Man, appeared the following year. Garrett quickly won acclaim as an important new Southern writer. His best critical reception came with the publication of Death of the Fox, which Newsweek hailed as "surely the best historical novel in years" and Publishers' Weekly called " one of the finest novels we have ever read." For his historical work on this book and on The Succession, Garrett was granted his Ph. D. by Princeton University. Garrett has earned numerous writing awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry, the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation Grant in Drama, and the Sabbatical Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts. His most recent recognition came from the Ingersoll Foundation of Rockford, Illinois, which honored Garrett with its prestigious T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing and labeled Garrett "one of the most inventive and artistic writers of his generation." Previous recipients of the award, which carries a $20,000 cash prize, include Walker Percy, Octavio Paz, Anthony Powell, and Jorge Luis Borges. Garrett earned both his MA and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. Since then, he has taught at many universities across the country, including the University of Michigan, the University of South Carolina, Wesleyan University, Columbia University, and Princeton, where he was a Resident Fellow in Creative Writing. He has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for Wer.Humanities, and the Dou- Hteday publishing company. According to Dr. Philip Paradis, of WCU's Department of ■ English and coordinator of the Visiting Writers Series, "George Garrett is a majortalent. We were delighted to have him visit our campus and our Creative Writing classes. His contributions to American letters are many; a prolific writer, Garrett is one of those accomplished and rare writers who has made his mark in more than one literary genre. He does it all: novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screen writing, nonfiction. He's simply amazing." The Writing Center, located on Hunter Library's second floor, offers free assistance to all students. Services include: Brainstorming Rough Draft preparation Organizational techniques Paragraph development Bibliography preparation For more information or to make an appointment call 227-7197 ctticoat eJllIJCtion "fcverytljiijg froiq degaijt cottoi?s to luxurious silks" Coiqe by aijd sec us ii? our ijew locatiorj! (across from The Sylva Herald) Ii?ez Willis - 0wi?cr 27 £. Mail? St. 588-8803 Svlva Stiffer Cocaine, Grade-Fixing Penalties Passed in NC Legislature's '89 Session Lemon Law, Moped Helmet Law pass; Liquor Limit raised ^^ r ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™. im Gene McAbee, David Lange Staff Writer The North Carolina Legislature's 1989 session passed several bills that should interest WCU students. Included were harsher cocaine laws, more explicit anti-grade fixing laws, and mandatory helmet laws for "Moped" drivers. According to State Senate Bill #77, it is now a felony to possess any amount of cocaine or phencyclidine. In the past, it was only a misdemeanor if someone was caught with less than a gram of either substance. Another Bill, #961, "amends General Statute #14-17 to make a death that results from the distribution of cocaine punishable as second degree murder." This means that if someone dies from using cocaine, the person who sold it to the victim will be charged with second degree murder. Other drug-related laws include the reclassification of amphetamine trafficking (the sale, manufacture, transport, delivery, or possession of 1,000 or more doses) as a class "G" felony with a mandatory sentence of seven years and a $25,000 fine. Also, the trafficking of methamphetamines (28 grams or more) is a class G felony with a mandatory sentence of seven years and a fine of not less than $50,000. On the lighter side, the liquor purchase limit has been increased to five liters. Previously, the limit was four liters without a permit. There is a new law that any car returned to a dealer under the auspices of the Lemon Law may be resold only if the dealer makes it clear that it was returned as a lemon, and what repairs have been made to correct the problems. As of October 1, Moped riders must wear safety helmets like the ones required for motorcycles. Director of Campus Security, said that there would be some leniency in enforcing this law for the first month, so riders have a chance to learn about the new regulation. Hunters should be aware that there are stiffer penalties for unlawful bear and cougar hunting. It is now illegal to hunt any bear under 100 pounds. In addition, there is a fine of no less than $2,000 and a sentence of no more than two years for the possession, sale, or transport of any illegally killed bear, plus any other punishment the court wishes to impose. The same goes for cougars, except the fine would be no less than $10,000. Finally, the laws against grade fixing were expanded to include school officials as well as teachers. The law states that it is illegal to change a student's grades in exchange for money or any other favors. / Art Dept at Work on Traveling Graphics Show OPI- Western Carolina University's Art Department will create a traveling exhibition of graphic design, thanks in part to a $4,500 grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. The exhibition, to be designed and constructed during the 1989-90 academic year, will travel to secondary schools, public and private schools, community colleges, and institutions of higher learning across the Southeast. The purpose of the exhibit is to inform and educate the general public about graphic design and how it Is utilized in contemporary culture, said Jon Jicha, WCU associate professor of art. "The exhibition will focus on aspects of graphic design aesthetics and graphic design theory," Jicha said. "One of the most common myths about graphic design is that it is commercial art. That is simply not true. Our exhibition will attempt to educate and inform the public about what graphic design does, as opposed to the stereotypes of commercial art." The exhibition will feature displays in three categories: contributions from individual graphic designers, historical analysis of the way design works, and examples from the leading edge of experimental design. It will contain visual displays from pioneers in graphic design as well as from contemporary graphic designers, Jicha said. Four ttonfrttouUng consultants will help plan and design the exhibition: David Burney, of Burney Design in Raleigh; Elaine Meier, of Biltmore Press in Asheville; Adam Kallish, assistant professor of art at North Carolina State University; and Dan Gottlieb, chief exhibit designer at Charlotte's Mint Museum. WCU students will help assemble the exhibition. I "One of the most exciting things about this is that it is a relatively new idea," Jicha said. "Issues in graphic design have never really been targeted as a pertinent aesthetic issue. This is a way to focus on graphic design as a specific discipline and educate the public about the general parameters of this discipline: to break the stereotype of graphic design." The exhibition will break new ground in North Carolina, he 'said- MThis is the first time that a public display specifically pertaining to graphic design has been developed in this state." Work on the traveling exhibition, which will be be of a folding modular design, should begin in late September and be completed in time for the display to be on the road by the Fall of 1990. Molecular Biology Professor to Lecture at WCU OPI-- Carol Brenner, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, will give a public lecture Thursday, October 26, at Western Carolina University on the use of new molecular biology techniques to study disease. The 8 pm lecture, entitled "Human Diseases: Diagnosis and Study of Diseases Using New Ultrasensitive Techniques," will take place in the Natural Sciences Auditorium at WCU. The talk is open to the public free of charge. Brenner, who works in the University of Tennessee Medical Center's Department of Immunology and Oncology, is on the WCU campus Oct. 1 through Nov. 1 as part of the university's Visiting Scholars Program. At Western, she has' been giving a series of seminars on her research into new ultrasensitive molecular biology techniques to study gene expression during embryo genesis and within the human immune system. Brenner is working with Richard Adler, WCU Assistant Professor of Biology, on his research into the impact of hormone levels on the successful implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterine wall. When working at the University of California at San Francisco and at Genelabs in Redwood City, CA, Brenner helped develop a technique which can allow scientists to monitor and study gene expression on a scale as small as one cell, Adler said. Brenner has most recently used that technique to study autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and to study how inflammatory response is controlled in the normal immune system. For more information on Brenner's lectures and other activities, contact Richard Adler at telephone 227-7244. r His and Her World of Hair 586-2899 ■^ $500 off all Perms with ad 1 i \Yi Open 8:00 am - 6:00 pm 6 days a week ! 409 East Main St. ^. 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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 Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina University
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
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• Date
  • Date original: 1989-10-26
  • Date digitized: 2019-09-18
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 14.25"
  • Pages: 16 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1989-10-26_Vol55_No08
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library