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  • The Western Carolinian Serving the students and the Western Carolina University community since 1933 Volume 56, Number 12 Thursday, November 8, 1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina Career Day offers students a look into the future Lisa Majors News Editor Western Carolina University's first Career Day in fourteen years was a success, according to Susie Ray, director of Co-op Education and Placement. "The student turnout has been just great, and there is over an hour before I expect it to slow down any," Ray said. The entire length of the Ramsey Center concourse held almost 60 different company representatives invited to Career Day. Fewer of these will remain in Cullowhee today to conduct job interviews at the Job Fair. "I've walked around and there's not a single booth where students are not talking to the people," Ray said. She also pointed out that a few of the representatives of the companies attending Career Day were Western Carolina graduates. The student turnout was expected to be 1,500, and Ray said she believed it was reached. BethSoles.aseniorEnglish "I think it's been very helpful. I talked to PricelMcNabb and Whittle. That's something I would not have been able to do if I had to travel to Ashville or Knox- ville." Beth Soles Senior, English Major major, attended Career Day to talk with representatives about how her major and career plans might be met with their companies. "I think it's been very helpful. I talked to Price/McNabb and Whittle. That's something I would not have been able to do if I had to travel to Asheville or Knox- ville," Soles said. Another student, Joye St.Clair, a senior computer information systems major, seemed a little disappointed by what she was discovering at Career Day. "I think this [Career Day] is very helpful for seniors especially, but I'm not having much luck. People seem to want only management backgrounds, not computer," St. Clair said. But the student turnout was the key to possible future Career Days, said Ray. "I'm feeling great about the turnout," she said. Faculty support for the event went a long way in ensuring the numbers at Career Day. One professor even sent his entire class, Ray said. . Carolinian photo by Jonathan Fondow Lille Tidewell (foreground) discusses career opportunities with representatives from N.C. Environmental Health and Natural Resource Management during Career Day. NCCAT moves into new facility; seminars scheduled Stacy Allen Staff Writer The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) has a new home. The center recently moved from Madison Hall to its new location across from the campus on Long Branch road. On April 17, 1988, ground was broken for the new NCCAT buildings. Two years and $7.3 million later the new center is finished. Seminars are planned to begin in January and are offered to outstanding teachers who have taught in North Carolina for at least three years and are recognized by their colleagues for their excellence. At present, NCCAT is caapable of housing 50 teachers. There are scheduled to be two seminars a week with 24 teachers in each seminar. The purpose of NCCAT is *" ■k A-mWm^.' jflE Hk ffl _a\ * S& E9 Pflljal %:' ' JET, - Carolinian photo by Jonathan Fondow An interior view of the new NCCAT building to give the teachers a chance to relax and rejuvenate so they may return to work with a fresh oudook. A wide variety of subjects is offered for teachers to study during their week long stays. Many decide to attend sessions in their fields of concentration, according to Shirley Roberson, NCCAT public information official, but many choose to attend seminars outside their fields. Several guests use the facilities to finish personal projects such as books and paintings. "NCCAT is a state program that is dedicated excclusively to the advancement of teaching as an art and a profession," said Roberson. Other benefits offered to teachers are paid travel expenses and substitutes for the time they miss class. When not studying they may choose to use the workout room or train with an aerobics instructor located on the premises. NCCAT also has a complete kitchen. Teachers also receive access to facilities on the main campus while attending the seminar. The NCCAT has a staff of 45 individuals which is divided into Annual Madrigal dinners set for Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 Christmas is just around the corner at Western Carolina University, where plans are in the works for the annual Madrigal Christmas Dinners. Western's yearly yuletide feasts will be held Thursday, November 29 through Saturday, December 1, in the Grand Room of the A.K. Hinds University Center. Tickets for the holiday extravaganza go on sale at 9:00 a.m. Monday, November 5 in theUniversity Center office. The dinners feature a feast fit for royalty, along with the music and pageantry of 16th-century England. An annual event at Western since 1970, the dinners have become a holiday tradition. The Grand Room will be transformed into a great dining hall in the style of Elizabethan England, with costumed lords and ladies, strolling minstrels, a brass concert and a court jester. Highlights of the candlelit program are the procession of the boar's head, authentic madrigal entertainment and Christmas carols. The menu includes Cornish hens, wild rice, beets, snow peas, pear salad and loaves of bread. The traditional beverage, wassail, will be served, along with figgy pudding for dessert. Tickets for the dinners are $17 for the public and $12 for WCU students. All tables seat eight people, and group reservations are accepted. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and guests must be seated by 6:25 p.m. Reservations may be made by calling the University Center at (704) 227-7206. Telephone orders will be held for 72 hours. Mail order re quests must be accompanied by check or MasterCharge or Visa number. Tickets will be delivered by return mail. The event is sponsored by the University Center, the department of music, the department of speech and theatre arts and WCU Food Services. For more information or to request ticket reservations, contact the University Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723; telephone (704) 227- 7206. LMP to host 'Battle of the Bands' tonight in Ramsey Jeffrey H. Sykes Staff writer In case you have not noticed the bright yellow posters floating through campus, with the hard-core rockers drawn on them, Last Minute Productions is having a Battle of the Bands tonight, November 8. This should be a fun, rockin' evening for those of you who go. Just so you know what to expect, here is a brief rundown of the bands. First there is Tantrum, a hard rock band in the heavy distortion mode that placed third in last year's battle of the bands. From what has been said around campus, Tantrum seems to be everybody's favorite. Next, for you southern rockers, is the band Basement Boys. Not too much is known about these guys, but they may be worth checking out. For a change of pace comes the band Cycles 60, who, according to Karen Watkins, L.M.P.'s music chairperson, are in the alternative groove. Progressive, but not too progressive. The Need is another band that not too many people know about, including me. NEWS Public Safety reports Campus Corner The last band in the batUe is Riquoche'. They play WCU's favorite music, the same jammin' tunes one is likely to hear on Z91. Yes, pop, top forty, and dance music. Now if you have never heard of these bands do not worry, neither has anyone else. A good reason might be that these bands are only loosely associated with WCU, according to Ms. Watkins. "We never said it was a local competition; it has always been regional. However, some of the members of the bands we did choose do go to school here.' PEOPLE / ENTERTAINMENT Ms. Watkins said that L.M.P received thirteen demo tapes from bands. At the music committee meeting they listened to each band for three minutes, then listened a second time and voted on the top eight bands. Next they reviewed the top eight and chose the five they felt to be the best. "It was done fairly," said Ms. Watkins. The Battle of the Bands starts tonight at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey Center. Cost is two dollars for students. Each band will play a twenty minute set, then the judges will decide who gets the $200 first prize. three sections: faculty, doctorate level educators known as Center Fellows; facility personnel who actually run the building, and support staff such as cooks, maintenance and housekeeping. Future projects planned for the new facilities include building three more dorms that would add 150 rooms. This would enable the center to run more seminars at the same time. Berlin Wall exhibit features fragments, maps from Germany Lisa Majors News Editor Western Carolina University's history department has a piece of the rock. Three pieces actually, and they're cement. A display on exhibit now through Dec. 1 in the main stairwell of Hunter Library shows off three pieces of the fallen Berlin Wall. On the anniversary of the wall's downfall, the history department, under the direction of Dr. David Dorondo, assistant professor of history, has acquired not only part of the wall but a strip of East German barbed wire as well. Assisting the history department and Dorondo with the display, which is tided "The Berlin Wall: 1961-1989," areSuzanne McDowell, a graduate student in history with prior experience in display building at the Mountain Heritage Center, and Bryan Mathney, a history major. McDowell explained that she wrote labels and discriptions for the various pictures used in the exhibit. The display also features maps of Eastern Europe and in the city of Berlin. "A Western alumnus who The new Berlin Wall exhibit on the ground floor of Hunter Library is in the Army and stationed in Germany sent the pieces to Dr. [John] Bell in the history department," Dorondo said. "We've been working on the display about a month now." Dorondo explained that the pieces of the wall on display in the library came from Check Point Charlie, an entrance to East Germany for American citizens and all other Westerners. The Wall, which went up August 13,1961, was an attempt by the East German government to stop the flood of citizens who were See 'Wall' Page Two Profile of Dr. Stephen Ayers 'Katmandu' 4 5 Letters to the Editor SPORTS Basketball preview Sports scoreboard Student of the Street
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