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Catamounts travel to Georgia for football opener WCU nurses correspond with nurses in Zambia The Western Carolinian ■tTOSllM iraTTHM ■yjw» [yjmjyjj Calendar of Events...2 Nursing News 4 Public Forum 5 Student on the Street..5 Letters to the Editor 5 Counselor's Corner....6 M|tymi Sports Schedule 9 Intramural Info 9 "Out of Bounds" 8 Volume 57, Number 3 Thursday, August 29, 1991 Cullowhee, North Carolina THURSDAY, August 29, 1991 Briefly Campus Watch Public Safety Reports Director of Public Safety Gene McAbee reminds freshmen of parking rules and offers helpful tips for crime prevention. Public Safety Report on page 2. Welcome new students! Student Government Association President John ConnetandSGA Vice- President Cole Wildman welcome everyone back to school and encourage everyone to support Catamount Athletics. State of the Campus olumn on page 2. The Political Forum The first of a weekly sound-off between College Democrats and Republicans. This week's question deals with pay raises for professors. See Voices page 5. "Rainwalker" finishes Appalachian Trail Dr. Donald O'Neal has just recently finished hiking the Appalachian Trail. The story of his adventures on page 4. Keith LeClair named new baseball coach Keith LeClair replaces Jack Leggett as head coach for baseball. Leggett has taken a position with Clemson. Story on page 8. Bonnie and Clyde Those two notorious gangsters are coming to Cullowhee with Tommy guns, spitting hot lede and they're coming at you. Look out for their debut next week on the Voices page. Intramurals Scene - A list of the bulletin, calendar and instructions for softball,bowling, and stay fit events that begin the semester. See box on page 9. Best Sellers List Find out the latest New York Times Best Sellers for fiction and non- fiction. Authors, prices and publishers listed, along with a short description of the books. See Entertainment page 7. Counselor's Corner Counseling and Psychological services help keep your feet on the ground during difficult times and situations. See page 6 for a complete list of services offered at no charge. New license allows sale of malt beverages Melissa Richardson News Writer On July 9, an election was held by the town of Sylva regarding the sale of malt beverages in restaurants. Wine sales have been permitted in these establishments, but the sale of beer has just recently been allowed. According to Tommy Thompson, Town Clerk, "The idea is to permit the on-premiscs sale of malt beverages by Class A motels, hotels and restaurants." Class A establishments have Grade A health certificates, thirty- six seats, and at least 60% of revenues brought inby food sales. One of the restaurants which this affects is Meatballs Pizzeria. Owner Karen Traper says that the beer sales will help increase business, but that all employees have strict orders to check all identification. "We don't want to lose our new li cense, so no ID, no beer," stated Traper. Another restaurant that can now serve malt beverages is Andretti's Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant. According to Nick Andretti, "The new law has helped our business pick up." Lulu's Cafe started serv ing beer on July 29. According to one Lulu's employee, there has been no trouble so far. Customers dining in some of Sylva's restaurants may find that the addition of beer sales makes dining out more of a pleasurable experience. Enrollment up Student/teacher ratio still healthy Mischa Baker News Writer Western CarolinaUniversity is not as large, in population, as other state supported universities, but growth is the plan. The student/teacher ratio is very important to student expansion at WCU. "Western's primary goal is to grow, not stagnate, but a planned steady growth," says Mike Malone of Academic Services. "We don't feel that a university of 10,000 students is right for Western because that high of a student population would injure the student/teacher ratio." Western promotes itself as a university where the student is not just a number. "From our received surveys from incoming students, the personal attention attribute is one of the top attractions," Malone added. The small campus atmosphere adds to Western's appeal. Steady growth has been aplus for Western from 1985 to 1990, with the exception of 1986. The total headcount (Asheville, Cherokee, Cullowhee) has increased from 5935 (1985) to 6222 (1990). Western's steady incline has been on track with the scheduled plan of Academic Services and it should continue to be successful. Carolinian photo by Stephanie Metttr Returning students Darin Morrow (left) and Brad Dellacqua moved a sofa, among other things, into newly renovated Reynolds dorm this past Sunday. Renovated Reynolds reopens in time for fall term Western Carolina University will hold an open house Wednesday, Scptember4, to show off nearly $2 million in renovations to newly reopened Reynolds Hall, a 38-ycar-old residence hall that will again be home-away- from-home for some 250 men. The open house, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., will give the campus and surrounding community an opportunity to see improvements to Reynolds Hall, which has been closed since December 1990 for a major renovation project, said Randy Rice, WCU Director of Housing. Someone sure to be in attendance for the festivities is Moe Johnston of Charlotte, who lived in the hall from 1975 to 1981. Johnston, a former resident assistant in the hall, recently returned to WCU after completing a stint with the U.S. military in Egypt, training medics who served in Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia. Johnston, 34, received his bachelor's degree in marketing and management in 1979 and his master's degree in business in 1981. He is now seeking a degree in medical record administration, and he is on the waiting list to get back into the residence hall he called "home" for six years. After getting a "sneak preview" of the newly renovated hall, Johnston says he has his fingers crossed that he'll be able to return to Reynolds. "It's ironic that during my freshman year here back in 1975, they had just fin ished a renovation project then, too," he said. "But this is the best I've seen this place look." Work crews have restored the building's interior, bringing its plumbing, electrical and healing systems up to current codes. The bathrooms have been completely refitted, with new fixtures and tile now in place, said Billy Norton, Assistant Director for Housing Facilities. Another highlight of the renovation project is a new heating system, replacing the hall's old cast iron, steam radiators, Norton said. "Each room now has its own heating control unit," he said. "The building is part of a new energy management system like all the other residence halls on campus, ex- See "Reynolds" Page 7 Paperback exchange promotes reading Mischa Baker NewsWriter Do you like to read for leisure? Hunter's Paperback Exchange will soon be in service, just outside the snackbar at Hunter Library. The purpose of the Paperback Exchange is to create a collection of popular reading material for the students, faculty, and the surrounding community. Angela Murphy-Wa ters, librarian in charge of the Paperback Exchange, says that the suggestions from the campus and the surrounding community are being put into action. "The Paperback Exchange is one way to meet the need for leisure reading and is inexpensive to the readers," she said. Hunter's Paperback Exchange will begin with donations by the Library staff and then by donations by the campus and community. If you are interested in contributing paperback books (no hardcover books, magazines, comic books, pamphlets, etc.) to the Exchange, bring them to the Circulation Desk in Hunter Library and they will be processed and put on the Exchange shelf as soon as possible. Once the Paperback Exchange is fully operational, students, faculty, spouses, and chil dren can borrow books at their leisure and then return them to theExchange without the hassle of checking the books in or out And if you enjoyed a certain book, you can keep it, but the Hunter Library staff asks that you replace that book with another title. Hunter's Paperback Exchange can provide readers See "Books" Page 7 High percentage of nurses at WCU pass NCLEX-RN Barrett Nichols News Writer Ninety-six percent of Western Carolina University nursing graduates passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). This was WCU's highest percentage in the nursing program and the highest passing rate among schools in the University of North Carolina system. Western placed third among the 12 North Carolina universities with baccalaureate nursing programs and firstamong universities in the UNC system. Western also exceeded the instate average pass rate of 92.5 percent. Vivian Deitz attributes the motivation of the graduates for the high percentage. The quality of the faculty played a part in "Waiting for Godot" auditions to be held for f91-f92 season Western Carolina University has issued a casting call for the first theatrical production of the 1991-92 season, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Auditions will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug.29, and 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, in WCU's Hoey Auditorium. All those auditioning should prepare a two- to three- minute demonstration of their comic skills. Audition material may include monologues from Noel Coward, David Mamct, Ionesco, Durang or Albee. A movement audition is required and will be held at the end of each audition day. There is no preparation necessary for the movement audition. Newcomers are welcome and selected readings will be available for beginners. Some roles are not gender specific. "Waiting for Godot" will be directed by Lawrence J. Hill, head of the WCU theatre program. The play will be produced Oct. 1- 5 in Hoey Auditorium. Call 227-7491 for more information. Symposiums organized about learning disorders An estimated 4,100 students in Western North Carolina have some type of learning disability, and may face problems adjusting to life as adults. That is according to Arlcne Stewart, director of West ern Carolina University's Southern Appalachian Transition Education Project (S ATEP), which is one of four WNC agencies organizing an upcoming symposium on learning disabilities and related disorders. "Nationwide, seven to 10 percent of school children are identified as having these problems," said Stewart. "Literature now shows that individuals identified as having these problems as children do not outgrow them and must deal with these disabilities as adults." The second annual WNC Symposium on Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit See " Learning" page 2 the rate also. "We are super-pleased with the results," Deitz said. "We are very proud of our program, and we are very proud of our graduates. This is the highest passing percentage in the history of the department, and this continues our steady improvement in our graduates' performance on the exam." This is due to the improving curriculum that has been implemented into the program. In 1989, a eighty-nine percent passing rate was followed by a ninety-four percent in 1990. Local agencies have also helped in the improvement of this program. Each student spends at least 2 days a week at hospitals, health departments, and clinics in the area. The students use this as gaining practical knowledge furthering their education. The results listed above are for nursing graduates taking the NCLEX-RN for the first. The exam was administered July 9-10.

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: 1991-08-29
  • Date digitized: 2019-10-02
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  • Pages: 10 pages
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  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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