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Cats Baseball 5-1 in conference, Georgia Southern on tap. Sportspg. 8 The Hand that Rocks the Cradle; A matter of trust. Features page 5 The Western Carolinian nam SGA Reports 3. Public Safety .2 Calendar of Events...7 Letters to Editor 4 Student on Street......4 Counselor1* Comer.. .5 Out of Bounds...- 8 Sports Scoreboard—9 Intramural Scene 9 Volume 57, Number 21 Thursday, March 19, 1992 Cullowhee, North Carolina THURSDAY, Mar. 19, 1992 Briefly Campus Watch The gift of life It's time again for the Western Carolina University community to roll up its sleeve as the American Red Cross Bloodmobile returns to campus for a three-day blood drive beginning Monday, Mar. 30. The drive, sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, will continue Tuesday, Mar. 31, and Wednesday, April 1. Blood will be collected from 1 to 6 p.m. each day. The blood drive will be held in the Grand Room of the A.K. Hinds University Center. Pizza Hut of Cullowhee will provide refreshments. Be a winner Some sound advice for seniors graduating and entering the job market. How to get ahead and stay ahead. See Features page 5. Appalachia The 15th annual Appalachian Studies Conference is this weekend at the Radisson Hotel in Asheville. This year's theme is "Diversity in Appalachia: Images and Realities." For more information see News page 3. Early Registration Early registration for the summer sessions and fall semester will begin Mar. 30. See News page 2 for more information. State of the Campus Student government urges students to vote in the upcoming elections. Clubs and organizations also need to take note. See News page 2. Graduating Fellows Twenty graduating Teaching Fellows will be honored Saturday at a luncheon at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. The graduating Fellows will invite the teachers who have most influenced them in education. See News page. 3 for more information. Herbs and Spices David Giannasi, associate professor of botany at the University of Georgia will lecture on herbs and spices at WCU Mar. 23-27. See Features page 6. WCU to host political science meeting Topics ranging from the 1992 elections, the Middle East and Gulf War, the politics of the environment, and post-Cold War Europe will be up for discussion Mar. 20-21 as Western Carolina University hosts the 22nd annual meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association. More that 75 members of the NCPSA are expected to gather for the two-day confer ence which will feature concurrent sessions on several of today' s top political subjects, moderated by N.C. political science professors. The roundtable sessions will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, Mar. 20, in A.K. Hinds University Center and continue through early afternoon Saturday. Sessions scheduled for the annual meeting include: THE 1992 ELECTIONS — Friday, 1-2:45 p.m., Catamount Room. A roundtable discussion chaired by Don Livingston of WCU, with John Aldrich of Duke University, Robert Dorff of N.C. State University, William Keech of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William Latimer of WCU, and Sue Hamerick, WCU master of public affairs graduate. U.S. POLICY AND THE MIDDLE EAST; THE GULF WAR, PEACE AND FUTURE TRENDS—Friday, l-2;45 p.m., Balsam Room. A roundtable discussion chaired by Hatem Hussaini of Shaw University, with Robert Jones of Belmont Abbey College, Roy Melbourne and Herbert Bodman of UNC-Chapel Hill, Kenneth Memkhaus of Davidson College and Larry Goodson of Campbell University. PUBLIC LAW —Friday, 1-2:45 p.m., Dogwood Room. A panel discussion chaired by James Dixon of UNC- Wilmington, with Traciel Reed and Robert Moog of N.C. State and Joseph A. Aicher Jr. of NC Central University. PUBLIC OPINION AND MEDIA — Friday, 3- See" Politics" Pg. 3 SME envisions bright future Jennifer Mann News Editor Now is the time if you have ever considered a major in manufacturing because WCU's Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is here to give students a head-start in the career world. Members of SME speak highly of their organization and of the Department of Technology and Applied Science. "We have some highly sophisticated labs on campus like Polymers," said Sherard Wanigasekera, SME's newly elected President. Wanigasekera and three other officers were swom into office last week during an SME dinner meeting with their parent chapter out of Asheville. These new officers include: Sherard Wanigasekera, President; Bill Hawkins, Vice President; Gerard Lyda, Secretary; and Heath Dalton, Treasurer. The advisor for for SME is Kurt Whitely, Assistant Professor for Industrial Engineering and Technology. Dean Pounds and the Department Head for Technology and Applied Science, Dr. Desain, areeach involved in the activities of SME. RecentactivitiesofSME include touring plants in the See "SME" Pg. 2 UPMMM f>W WJ flMMrnpi SME membership: L-R: Sherard Wanigasekera, Kurt Whitley, Bill Hawkins, George Desain, Gerard Lyda, Dale Pounds, and Heath Dalton. New Geography course to focus on Japan Jennifer Mann News Editor Controversy is increasing between the United States and Japan, and WCU is responding by offering a new geography course which will focus solely on the country of Japan. Jeff Neff, associate professor of Geography at WCU, will teach the course. Neff has taught courses on Japan at WCU in the past, but he said this time will be different because Geography 440/550 (Topics in Regional Geography: Japan) will deal with current issues. "This time around we thought it might be timely to focus on Japan," said Neff. Neff said it is impossible to predict how quickly the course will fill. It is open to undergraduate and graduate-level students and will be offered both summer and fall terms at WCU. Neff helped develop a 1979 interdisciplinary course on Japan, and later taught several courses on Japan as regular course offerings and through the Elderhostel programs. The course will provide a broad examination of the Japanese realm-environment, culture, history, economy, international trade and behavior. It will also include some basic study of the Japanese language, said Neff. Lectures will be supplemented by videotape documentaries, and the course will include several feature-length films, including The Seven Samurai and Shogun. Neff said there will be increasing differences between the US and Japan for the next several years. "By the year 2,000 we will have resolved many of our differences. Once you understand the culture, geography, and history of Japan, you cannot dislike them. That is the importance of education; it's like understanding the Russians," said Neff. On a more local scale, Neff said he has not experienced or been made aware of any ten sion toward Japanese students on this campus. "We do not have an extremely visible population of Japanese students; there are only a few on this campus," said Neff. The underlying purpose of this course is to build a solid foundation for more positive relations between Americans and the Japanese. "I hope the people coming out of this course view the Japanese as our friends, not as our enemies. That is certainly going to be my attempt," said Neff. The summer schedule for the course is Monday, June 15 through Friday, July 10, from 8 until 10 a.m. daily. Because July 7-10 meetings overlap with the beginning of the second session of summer school, that week will be devoted to independent study so that students will be able to attend other second-session morning classes. The fall semester schedule is 11 until 11:50 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. For more information, contactNeff at the WCU Department of Geosciences and Anthropology at 227- 7268. Mar. 25 is Wordperfect Day Pi Gamma Mu to sponsor rape awareness program Melissa Richardson News Writer WCU's chapter of The Social Sciences National Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu, will be sponsoring "Campus Rape At WCU - Incidence, Awareness, and Prevention" on Tuesday, March 24, at 11:00 a.m. in the Music-English Auditorium. This program will be a scholastic forum which will give students a better understanding of rape issues. "One of the purposes of the conference is to set up a forum so that students might understand rape on campuses nationally," said Dr. Gordon Mercer.advisorofPiGammaMu. Gene McAbee will be discussing date rape and its prevention. He will also be giving a perspective of rape on campus. Dr. Robin Marie Kowalski of the Psychology Department will be speaking to students about rape on college campuses across the country. She has spoken on this subject at Wake Forest University. "Students on campus should take this program seriously because it is important," said Randy Hunsucker, President of Pi Gamma Mu. Students will be encouraged to ask questions. The program will be less of a lecture and more of a discussion. March 25 will be WordPerfect Day at the Western Carolina University Media Center. WordPerfect's primary products for the three major environments the company serves, DOS (IBM and compatibles), Macintosh, and Windows, will be featured. The event is being co- sponsored by the WCU Computer Center, the WCU Media Center, Total Data Systems of Sylva (an official WordPerfect dealer), and the WCU WordPerfect Users Group. It will take place on the Media Center's mezzanine in WCU's Hunter Library between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. This event is open to the general public as well as to all segments of WCU community, students, faculty and staff. There is no charge for participation in any facet of the program. The day's activities will feature demonstrations by a WordPerfect representative of the latest release of WordPerfect for the Macintosh at 11:00 a.m. and the new WordPerfect for Windows at 3:00 p.m. The latter program is WordPerfect's newest product, having culminated the efforts of hundreds of individuals at work over the past two years. It is a word processor, employing some of the industry' s latest technologies and features, created to operate under Microsoft Windows 3.0 and subsequent releases. In addition, computers will be set up for hands-on evaluation of the latest versions of all major WordPerfect products. These products include WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, the industry's number one best-selling word processor, DataPerfect, a data processing program; DrawPerfect, a drawing, graphics, and presentation program; Office, a product designed for local area networks (LAN) with versions for both DOS and Macintosh environments; PlanPerfect, WordPerfect's spreadsheet; and WordPerfect for the Macintosh. For more information, call Debbie Justice of the WCU Computer Center (227-7282) or Lewis Sutton (227-7633) of the WCU WordPerfect UsersGroup, who are coordinating WordPerfect Day activities. Benzyne: two years later Jon Mayhew News Writer A little over two years ago, the Cullowhee area was effected by benzyne contamination caused by decaying underground gasoline storage tanks. Now, two years later, only a small portion of the problem has been rectified. According to Mac Dindy of the Jackson County Health Department, the Health, Department did not directly do anything to solve the water contamination. "At the time of the discovery, Pizza Hut was closed immediately," admits Dindy. 'The state went in and drilled monitoring wells all over the Cullowhee area to determine where the contamination is." "Once the contamination was detected, the businesses were notified. One station went so far as to dig up their tanks and replace them with new ones. Furthermore, they removed soil contamination by benzyme." Area businesses took action as well. Pizza Hut closed for one day. Now Pizza Hut shares a well with El Gatos. "But the contamination put a mark on our business," says Mike Moses of the Cullowhee Pizza Hut. "Even though everything was cleared up in about a week, our business was affected negatively for several weeks." "We dug a new well shortly after everything happened. That includes new wa- terlines," added Moses. See "Benzyne" Pg. 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: 1992-03-19
  • Date digitized: 2019-10-07
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