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The Western Carolinian Serving the students and the Western Carolina University community since 1933 Volume 56, Number 6 Thursday, September 20, 1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina Mud volleyball, raft race highlight Greek weekend Jennifer Mann Staff writer Western Carolina University's Greek organizations frequently hold fundraisers and community service events. Last weekend was filled with a river raft race and a mud volleyball tournament. Fraternities and sororities shoved their rafts into the Tuck- asegee River on Friday, September 14th, to see who would be the champion of the Lambda Chi/ Phi Mu fourth annual raft race. Kelly Har- agdon, Tom Lench and Shay Brown were the driving force behind putting the race together. All of the money raised will go to The Children's Miracle Network. The race course ran from East Laporte to the Lambda Chi house. Zeta Tau Alpha's raft finished first place, Theta Xi took the title for the best design, and Pi Kappa Alpha's tube won first place. One Phi Mu said the race was a huge success even though she almost drowned! Sigma Phi Epsilon held their third annual mud volleyball tournament off highway 107, across from the Ramsey Center. The team entry fee was thirty-five dollars, and the money will go to the SCAAR organization and the Cullowhee fire department. The games were Satur- Participants in the Sig Ep's3rd annual mud volleyball tournament are seen here getting down and dirty. day from 12 to 6, and Sunday from 12 until.... Muddyelevatorsinallofthe residence halls were a common sight during the weekend. McDonald's made sure the participants were well fed by donating $250.00 for food. Parker Farms also donated the pump, the bulldozer, and they dug the pits. People took home souvenir t-shirts for ten dollars. Zeta Tau Alpha won first place for the women's division. The Dirty 1/2 Dozen (WCU's basketball team) took first place for the second year in a row for the men's division. First place prizes were free t-shirts for all winning team members and $75 for each winning team. According to one Sig Ep, Norm Anderson, "everyone simply got down and dirty to have a good time". Anderaon and Jerry Smith were responsible for all of the sponsors and Smith was able to get McDonald's involved. JeffBranham was the chairman and set up everything for the event. On October 20th, Pi Lambda Phi will have The Cat's Trek. Pi Lam brothers will take turns running the game football from Western's football stadium to the game at Appalachian. The sponsors will donate money per mile to the Bob Waters Fund and Muscular Dystrophy Association. Support Pi Lambda Phi and sponsor them in the Cat's Trek on October 20! Committee report outlines Western's mission for the future As reported by WCU's Office of Public Information, fourteen new degree programs, including two at the doctoral level, are among proposals being advanced in a "role and mission" study nearing completion at Western Carolina University. A preliminary report by a committee preparing role and mission recommendations was given to the WCU board of trustees on Saturday, September 8. The new degree programs are in two categories: those that WCU is "currently developing or implementing," and those it is "continuing to work toward." In the first category are a doctorate in educational leadership, master's in physical therapy, and bachelor's degrees in international business and philosophy. In the other category are bachelor's degrees in dance, communications, gerontology, resort/hospitality management; master's degrees in accounting, nursing, environmental studies; and "terminal" level degrees in social work (master's), art (master of fine arts) and applied psychology (doctoral). Terminal-level degrees are those considered to be the highest degree awarded in an academic discipline. The "role and mission" study was begun after UNC President CD. Spangler last February asked all UNC chancellors to prepare plans outlining changes they believe will be needed in their institutions' educational missions and program structures during the next decade. In 1976, the UNC Board of Governors adopted a long-range plan that defined the role and educational mission of each UNC campus. The only major changes made in institutional missions since that time occurred in 1985 when Fayetteville State and UNC-Wilmington were allowed to add master's degree pro grams to their curriculums. Spangler has suggested that the Board of Governors consider creating a commission of nationally renowned educators to advise and assist in evaluating the institutional recommendations and in developing a new system-wide educational plan. The institutional reports are due in early 1991. Richard A. Wood Jr., board chairman and a member of the role and mission committee, said some of the most important language in the report concerns Western Carolina's role in Asheville. In part, the draft statement says: "Western Carolina University will continue to develop academic programs appropriate to our mission in order to supply the unmet educational needs of people in the Asheville area at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. "While we will continue to meet our responsibilities for undergraduate instruction in Asheville in the areas of criminal justice and technology and in a cooperative program in nursing with the University of North Carolina at Asheville, we will be especially diligent to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts and resources as we bring needed academic programs currently within our program inventory to the Asheville area. "The UNC Graduate Center has proven to be an effective mechanism for identifying regional needs, responding to those needs, and preventing unnecessary program duplication at the graduate level. Therefore, as we expand our responsibilities for graduate instruction in the Asheville area, we will continue our close cooperation with the center and with UNC-A to identify educational needs and to coordinate academic calendars, scheduling, and the use of facilities and general support services." The draft report calls for efforts to strengthen educational offerings through the WCU center on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, and for an expansion of partnership arrangements with two-year and four-year institutions, public schools, communities, business and industrial organizations, the medical community and local centers for culture and the arts. It says that Western Carolina, in trying to meet professional education needs in a largely rural region, will explore "the possibility of instruction at a distance through modem technology" for both regular curriculum and continuing education offerings. Orville D. Coward of Sylva, board of trustees vice-chairman, and other board members called for a strong declaration of the university's commitment to regional economic development in the statement. Final action on the state ment is expected at the board's December meeting, after which the statement will be submitted to Spangler. Wood, Coward, and Mrs. Deborah Strum of Franklin, secretary of the board, all were re-elected to their board offices at last week's meeting. In a series of personnel actions, the board: — Approved appointment of Anne F. Rogers, associate professor in the department of geosciences and anthropology, as the new director of the Honors Program, succeeding Karl Nicholas who has been named head of the English department. — Approved appointment of Judith A. Franson, formerly assistant professor of education at Valparaiso University, as acting head of the Reading Center. — Authorized 47 other faculty and staff appointments. College students' environmental awareness remains strong College Press Service The University of Maryland, like all campuses, has its share of troubles following up on the environmental enthusiasm generated by last April's Earth Day. A fraternity's aluminum can recycling contest, for example, prompted members of rival frats to try to win by stealing cans from a recycling center. Another fraternity helpfully deposited 15 tons of newspaper at a recycling center during the middle of the night so that workers had to dig through the dumped fjaper to get into the building the next morning. "We tried to get the sororities and fraternities on the bandwagon," recalled campus activist Terry Lunn, "but we've had some problems with the fraternities." Added Marcia Carter, an environmental movement organizer at Texas Southern University, converting student interest in the cause into progress is "a never-ending job." In part to figure out how to do it, more than 3,000 collegians from around the country are expected to gather at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 5-7. The meeting promises to be not only the biggest student environmental conference ever, but also a pivotal moment in the movement's efforts to keep campus interest in the issue alive. "Outside of the student world, a lot of people saw (Earth Day) as big hype," Will Toor, co- chairman of CATALYST, the group organizing the conference. ...70 percent of students believed strongly that a candidate's stand on environmental protection would be an important factor in their voting decisions. The conference was planned during last April's Earth Day as a way to unify the movement, said CATALYST co-chair Jeremy Hays. "The movement is definitely going," Hays maintained. So far, most post-Earth Day campus efforts have consisted of recycling campaigns and efforts to rid schools of eating utensils made of polystyrene. There is other evidence that environmental concerns are influencing student thought more broadly, however. A February, 1990, survey done by the National Wildlife Federation found that 70 percent of students believed strongly that a candidate's stand on environmental protection would be an important factor in their voting decisions. Moreover, 94 percent said they'd be willing to pay more for products that protect the environment. Moreover, the occasional campus opposition to the U.S. military build-up in the Persian Gulf thus far generally follows an environmental line, suggesting that Americans would do better to develop alternative energies and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels than to go to war over oil. Such things suggest Earth Day did in fact have a long-term impact on students. "I think it's still growing since Earth Day," Toor added. Toor wants to use the conference, sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), to broaden the movement and set up ways for supporters in different parts of the country to coordinate their efforts. He'll also try to launch a "national corporate accountability campaign." The campaign, he said, will use hardball tactics like boycotts, divestment campaigns and civil disobedience to influence big business policies. Cool It!, a SEAC offshoot student group devoted to ending global warming, hopes to use the conference to show campus environmental groups how to include minority students in the campaign. "On a large scale, you don't see students of color" involved in environmental campaigns, said Ye- wande Dada, a Cool It! organizer. "Maybe (campus environmental) groups that organize don't seek their (minority students') input," Dada speculated. "Other issues may have priority" among minorities. Carter's efforts at Texas Southern, where :t majority of students are black, have produced one of the most notable recycling programs in the movement, Dada said. "It was hard (to get started)," said Carter. "A lot of students were ignorant of the different things we (humans) do to the environment." With work, Carter managed to increase her group's membership from 15 to 35 students, although she worries what will happen to it once she graduates next spring. At Maryland, too, "awareness (of the environmental movement) has definitely increased among the entire student body," Lunn said. "I don't think it will be as hard to get people involved as before (Earth Day)." Yet, as some critics complain, many of them will be involved in efforts that can't see the trees for the forest. Unbeknownst to Lunn and her group, a local union has leveled serious charges that their university has exposed campus workers and students to unsafe levels of lead dust, asbestos and weatherproofing chemicals containing suspected carcinogens. "We've filed between 300 and 400 complaints with the university, and they run the gamut," said Thomas Barrett, health and safety director for Local 1072 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. Maryland's Occupational Safety and Health Association has issued at least 36 citations against the university. Robert Ryan, the campus' acting director of environmental safety, said the school "is assessing the citations" and has made an effort to meet with union representatives and address their concerns. "We don't believe they (the students) have been in any imminent danger," Ryan added. Neither Ryan nor Barrett had received any calls from students about the matter. The occasional campus opposition to the U.S. military build-up in the Persian Gulf thus far generally follows an environmental line... In fact, Lunn had not heard about the citations, though she said they didn't surprise her. "They're (university officials) just flagrant in violating everything. They planted two trees for Earth Day, and proceeded to tear down about 50 this summer," Lunn exclaimed. "We have so much work to do it's unbelievable." The following is a list of addresses of die military units presently stationed in Saudi Arabia. Anyone desiring to'write to a service member couklraddress the letter to any one of these specific branches of the Army. Armor American Service (Man/Woman) B Company 3/73rd Armor APO NY 09656 Infantry American Service (Man/Wonum) B Company l/505thlnf(P!R) APO NY 09656 Signal American Service (Man/Woman) B Company 50th Signal Bn APO NY 09656 Field Artillery American Service (Man/Woman) A Battery 3/27th FA APO NY 09656 Medical American Service (Man/Woman) C Company 307th Med Bn APO NY 09656 The following address can be used to write to any Army, Navy, or Marine service man/woman: Any Army, Navy, or Marine % APO NY 09848-0006 NEWS PEOPLE / ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS Campus Corner Ribbon distribution 2 2 "Outland" 5 Student Profile - Tammie Cavan 4 Box scores Eleven inductees 9 8 Letters to the Editor 3 Student On The Street 3

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: 1990-09-20
  • Date digitized: 2019-09-30
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