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w tij Quote of the week ... "An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance." - Laurence J. Peter The Western Carolinian What's Inside News | Features Public Safety, 2 Save the planet 3 Calendar of Events 5 Pick of the Flicks 4 Classifieds 8 ENTERTAINMENTi From The Pressbox..6 Comics & Crossword..5 Sports Briefs 7 Volume 58, Number 26 Thursday, April 22, 1993 Cullowhee, North Carolina THURSDAY, April 22, 1993 Briefly One-Act Festival plays at Niggli Theatre April 21-24 Western's Annual One-Act Festival will come to the Niggli Theatre stage April 21 -24, with two different one-act plays to be produced on alternating nights. Curtain time is 7:30 pm all four nights of the festival. "Death and the Maiden" and "The Lottery" will be presented on Wednesday, April 21, and Friday, April 23, while "The Wager" and "An Act of Friendship" are set for Thursday, April 22, and Saturday, April 25. Western will present the world premiere of a powerful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic "The Wager," directed by Allison Cameron. WCU student Larissa Forsy the will team up with her mother, Deborah Forsy the, to simultaneously make their debuts as director and playwright in "An Act of Friendship." Tickets, which are good for both shows offered on any one night, will cost $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. For reservations or information, call 227-7491. "All Together Now" benefits WNC educational programs All Together Now' will occur Friday, April 23 in Forsythe Auditorium at 8 pm. Tickets are $8.00 for Adults (14 years and over), $5.00 for Children, Students and Seniors. Proceeds will benefit CSA's educational programs throughout Western North Carolina ad the CSA Folk Art Center in Tuckaseegee', North Carolina. CSA's mission is to honor native traditions through the arts and to create a place for people to realize their own sense of belonging and *belief in themselves regardless of social status and background. For more information about CSA and 'All Together Now,' call 293-5753. Spring Book Fair to be held Jackson County Friends of the Library announce the spring book fair on Saturday, April 24 from 10 am until 4 pm at the library annex. Hardbacks, paperbacks, magazines and some recordings will be sold at bargain rates. Proceeds will benefit Friends projects such as buying new books and videos for the library. Human Resource Development retreat to be held in Hendersonville WCU's human resource development retreat will be held on Saturday, April 24, at Kim- berly Clark Corp.'s Berkeley Mills in Hendersonville. Berkeley Mills staff members will conduct the workshop. The annual retreat provides information on the master's degree program in human resource development at WCU, and it offers professional development programs for those already working in the field. Registration will be held from 9:30 to 10 am at Berkeley Mills. Programs on the human resource development profession run from 10:15 am until noon, when participants will take a tour of Berkeley Mills. Lunch will follow. Cost is $15 for adults. Spouses and children may attend for $7 and $6 each, respectively. For more information or to register, call James Kirk, department of human services, WCU at 227-7310, or Bob Anderson in Hendersonville at (704) 697-0464. Conference on NAFTA, International Day to he held A special conference on the North American Free Trade Agreement will be held at WCU on Monday, April 26, in conjunction with the university's annual International Day celebration. Registration for the conference will be from 11:30 am until 12:15 pm, followed by the opening address and luncheon. Sessions will continue until 4:15 pm and a closing reception is scheduled for 4:15 pm. Cost of the conference, including lunch, all sessions and the reception is $25. A limited registration for the sessions and reception only is available for $10. Parking lot offers 125 new spaces Office of Public Information A new campus parking lot has opened on WCU's Central Drive, adding 125 spaces for commuters and residents. The new parking lot is across the Central Drive from the WCU Alumni House and behind Harrill Hall, a men's residence hall. It will be designated for residents' parking. Also, the Upper Harrill Lot has been redesignated Zone C (commuter), except for 17 spaces in the northeast corner that will remain Zone R (resident) to help meet the parking need of residents in Buchanan Hall. The new lot and the redesignation of the Upper Harrill lot offer a net gain of 125 spaces—92 spaces for commuters and 33 for residence hall occupants. Several spaces will be restricted for the handicapped. Signs will mark thenew parking area, located on the right side of Central Drive about 400 yards from the intersection with Centennial Drive. Signs also will direct commuting students to the new parking spaces. The Upper Harrill Lot also provide additional parking for commuters at the Brown Cafeteria. The Upper Harrill Lot will still be available for parking by resident students between 5 pm and 7 am weekdays and throughout the weekends. "The number of registered commuter vehicles has increased beyond our expectations over the last four or five years," said Gene McAbee, director of public safety at Western. "Now we have more nontraditional students, graduate students and others who don't live on campus. The resident population has not decreased, so there has been no possibility of trading out spaces." The new parking lot is just under 500 yards and a five- minute walk from the McKee Building, McAbee said. "This was the logical, expedient way to expand parking. There was no land in the center of campus to provide more spaces, and the cost of building a deck would be prohibitive." more convenient for commut- The new lot is closer to ing students who are attending classroom buildings and may be classes, he said. Meigs is new director of Honors Program Office of Public Information Western Carolina University English professor Joseph Meigs is the new director of the University Honors Program. Among Meigs' goals as director are to expand the University Honors Program to include more courses disciplines and WCU faculty, to aggressively recruit qualified students, and to raise additional funds. Meigs's teaching specialties include film as literature,. Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. A finalist for the last four years for Western's Distinguished Teaching Award, Meigs has won that award and the Outstanding Professor Award from WCU's Stu dent Government Association. His numerous publications and presentations are on subjects ranging from medieval literature to modern films. Meigs helped establish an honors residence hall and a film club at Western, and he has coached the men's tennis team. He joined the WCU English department fac ulty in 1970 after completing his doctorate at the University of Florida. The University Honors Program offers seminars and independent study of research that go beyond the scope of regular WCU course requirements. Outstanding students are admitted to the program based on grades, SAT scores and class rank. Professor receives doctorate after six years Peggy Belsha Staff Intern Radio and television professor Paul Gold passed his final examination and received his doctorate after preparing for it for over six years. Gold has spent over 30 years in radio and television before becoming a professor at Western. "(Radio) is my first love, next to my cat," said Gold. For two years at the University of Kentucky to prepare for the "doctoral defense," Gold took courses in communication theory, research methods and several others. When asked what being a "doctor" meant to him, Gold said, "If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't be at my age." Gold likes to joke around with and get involved with his they're supposed to be here, not be- students. He wants them to love communications as much as he does. "I want students to feel the excitement I do involving telecommunications," he said. He worked with many high school and college students while employed at radio stations. Gold feels one of the main reasons that students fail at learning is maturity. "They haven't reached the level of maturity that much of college requires," he said. "Too many are here because they feel "(Radio) is my first love, next to my cat.." - Dr. Paul Gold, RTV professor cause they want to be." Gold's advice to those students is to "work for a couple of years, then you will appreciate it." Gold knows of what he speaks since he himself took fifteen years to complete his undergraduate school. He had to alternate taking classes with work. Gold feels the key to success in radio or television is "understanding its changing nature and realizing that it is above all business. There is an old saying in radio," he said," don't unpack your bags when you get a job." When asked what he thinks students like about him and his teaching, Gold said, "I have no idea." He feels that his students don't like, "that I had to neglect so much of my teaching duties because of my dissertation. I regret it ,but it had to be done." Gold has taught at the University of Kentucky, among many other jobs. He believes that the students .there and everywhere, "are not that much different." When asked how he wants the students on campus to view him, Gold first answered jokingly, "as thin." He then stated, "I'm just me, and sometimes that gets me into trouble." Non-smokers group being organized in WNC Sheila Pratt Contributing Writer A new chapter of the national volunteer organization, GASP (Group Against Smokers' Pollution), is being organized in western North Carolina by a group of concerned citizens in the Asheville area. G AS P was endorsed last month by Willard K. Morris, National Secretary of GASP, at its headquarters in College Park, MD. The organizational meeting of this new chapter will be held at 7 pm, Tuesday, April 20, at the Warren Wilson College Library in Swannanoa. The public is invited. GASP was founded in 1971 by Clara Gouin, current president. It became a Maryland nonstock corporation on February 24, 1975. Articles of incor poration are entered in the public records of Prince George's County, Maryland, and the State of Maryland. The board of directors and staff workers are all unpaid volunteers. GASP is a people program whose mission is to support the rights of the non-smoker. It works to inform the public about the health hazards and physical discomfort caused by environmental smoke, to encourage non- smokers as individuals and as groups to assert their right to breathe clean air, and to support the enactment and enforcement of public policy measures to reduce the hazard of environmental tobacco smoke. "Everyone has the right to breathe clean air, but some people chose not to do so, and others have no choice. Why should the only choice be the smoker's? Laws and regulations to limit smoking in public places are helping to give everyone a choice. Smokers may still choose to smoke in designated smoking areas, and non-smokers may choose to breathe clean air. Only where there are alternatives can there be choices," Gouin said. Western North Carolina GASP is being organized and coordinated by Shelia Pratt of Black Mountain. A former smoker, Pratt says she remembers very clearly when she quit. "It was on January 11, 1964, the date of the first Surgeon General's report proving that tobacco smoke causes cancer," she says. She states she was content to leave it at that, until all the evidence surfaced proving that second-hand smoke is just as deadly. The Environmental Protection Agency's January, 1993, report labeling second-hand smoke as a Class A Carcinogen, has fueled her determination to organize the Western North Carolina chapter. This is the third GASP chapter in North Carolina working for the rights of non-smokers. Greensboro GASP, coordinated by Ms. Carla Fried, has been very effective in their area. Winston- Salem GASP, coordinated by Rita Greene, is still on the organizational stage. Pratt invites all interested citizens in Western North Carolina to join the group and to attend meetings of Western North Carolina GASP, or "to become mail order/telephone members if distance is a problem. There is much work to do and all hands are needed to ensure that we, our children and our grandchildren can breathe clean air without fear of disease and death-wherever they choose to go." WrandPterfect Day will be April 26 Office of Public Information WordPerfect Day at Western Carolina University will be held Monday, April 26, featuring demonstrations of die company's primary products. The event will be from TO am until 4 pmon the mezzanine of WCU's H unier iihrary. Ktespousoredbythe WCU Computer Center. WCU Media Center, WCU WordPerfect Users Group and Total Data Systems of Sylva. Ihe sessions include demonstrations of products for MS-DOS (IBM and com- patiblesXMacintoshandWin- dows. Mickey Jacobs, WordPerfect represen tali ve of Western North Carolina, will demonstrate WordPerfect products for the Macintosh at 11 a.m. He will demonstrate the company's newest product, Presentations version 2.0 for DOS, at 3 pm. Computers will be available to work with the latest versions of all major WordPerfect products, including WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows. WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, DalaPerfect, Office, PlanPerfect, and WordPerfect for the Macintosh. WordPerfect Day is open to the public as well as the mu versity community at no charge. For more information, call Debbie J ustice al the WCU Computer Center, 227- 7282, or Lewis Sutton, 227- 7633.

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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