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  • November 1,2000 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WESTERN CAROLINIAN Robinson and Bardo Destroy Spirit of the Bond Dear Editor, The $3.1 billion bond referendum concerning higher education will stare you straight in the face as you enter the polls next Tuesday. It is perhaps the most politicized and fundamentally corrupt issue ever passed on to the voters of North Carolina. With great pride, last week I filled in the "Against" oval below the referendum language prior to sending my absentee ballot back to the Old North State. Holly Rhodarmer's point on the bond (Carolinian, Oct. 11) regarding a university's unnecessary spending in the absence of real fiscal responsibility goes to the heart of the issue and my vote—not to mention a key reason why you should fill in the "Against" oval next Tuesday. These flighty fiscal follies are prevalent across the university system, but no where are they more prevalent than in Cullowhee. You can blame Chancellor John Bardo and NC Senator Dan Robinson (D- 29) for this dubious honor. In the summer of 1999, Sen. Robinson and Chancellor Bardo called a press conference on the second floor of the University Center to discuss the General Assembly's upcoming vote on the bond referendum that now confronts the voters in the 2000 election. The fertilizer was piled high as Sen. Robinson, the self-proclaimed "Education Senator", tip-toed around the issues as to why the referendum had such a hard time getting approved by the General Assembly. At the time, the legislators thought the general public was not educated enough to vote on the issue. The political hogwash continued when Chancellor Bardo spoke to the need of the bond, especially for completion of the Fine and Performing Arts Center that will take up a large chunk of WCU's money if the bond passes. "We are trying to get tourists to spend one more night in western North Carolina," said Bardo, championing the Fine and Performing Arts Center as a vehicle to accomplish this. Tourists? Here was a press conference to discuss educational needs at and all the Chancellor can boast about is tourism? Maybe his ties to Smoky Mountain Host are running a little too deep. Sorry, Bardo, universities are not meant to be tourist traps. We have Dillsboro and Cherokee for those purposes. Speaking of Cherokee, I then asked the Chancellor how the Fine and Performing Arts Center would be able to compete for tourism dollars with Harrah's Casino and its similar entertainment center just over the mountain. To my surprise, and the surprise of the other press members and at least one of the community college presidents on hand, Bardo and C.J. Carter, vice-chancellor for business affairs, simultaneously piped up with "Harrah's does not have the facilities [like the proposed Fine and Performing Arts Center will have]." Once again education plays second fiddle to tourism and the almighty dollar. With their reply, Bardo and Carter had just bolstered this presupposition without a mention of educational utility. Where was the Education Senator, who could have interjected and rallied his political troops back to the education front? Like a tranquilized musk ox, he sat to the side in utter silence, leaving us to wonder if his heart was still pumping or if he too had become starry-eyed over tourism dollars. A community college president in attendance chased me down following the press conference and told me "Good question." Why should you vote for the bond referendum next Tuesday? Good question. Don Costello WCU '99 fl Word From Dr. J. Bardo, Chancellor To the Editor, November 7 stands out as a date on which North Carolinians have an opportunity to reaffirm their historic commitment to higher education. It is a commitment dating back more than 200 years, to the creation of The University of North Carolina, the first public university in the nation, and it is a commitment strengthened over 40 years ago with the establishment of the state's community college system. North Carolina voters are being asked to renew that commitment by approving a $3.1 billion bond issue that would provide funds for substantial and much-needed renovation, repair and new construction at all 59 community colleges and at all 16 campuses of the UNC system. This reaffirmation would guarantee that future generations will continue to have access to a top-quality and affordable higher education. The condition of facilities across the university and community college systems is beginning to impede our ability to provide the people of this state with the type of high- quality education they deserve. We must address woefully outdated classrooms and laboratories, serious deferred maintenance needs, and an impending critical shortage of science, technology and study space. At Western Carolina, our chemistry and biology professors are trying to teach 21st-century science in laboratories built in the 1950s. The science of today cannot be taught as it was a half century ago. Factor in an anticipated growth in enrollment of more than 100,000 students over the next decade, and the need to begin these projects now becomes imperative. If we do not begin to address these serious inadequacies immediately, our institutions of higher education will be ill- equipped to deliver the high- skill, high-technology academic programs our current enrollment requires, let alone accommodate the education and training needs of another 100,000-plus. That's why it is so critically important to the economic and social future of North Carolina that voters remember the higher education bond referendum, which will appear at the bottom of the ballot. A "yes" vote for the bonds will allow our community colleges and universities to grow and improve without a state or county tax increase. The bonds are so much more than bricks and mortar. Approval means educational opportunity for the next generation of North Carolinians and benefits to accrue for generations to come. Sincerely, John W. Bardo Chancellor Student Disappointed Ouer Political Debate: Dear Editor, I'm sure many North Carolina citizens were as disappointed as I was by the debate performance Thursday night (10/26) of the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates, Mike Easley and Richard Vinroot. With all their arm-grabbing and ad hominem attacks, I was frankly embarrassed at the prospect that one of these men will very likely become our governor. While these prepubescent antics were being acted out in the state Capitol, the Libertarian candidate Barbara Howe was online in WNCN- NBC17's chat room, answering the concerns of real North Carolina citizens. So Western Carolina students I ask you this: Who do you want crafting North Carolina's public policy? I want Barbara Howe, not two ill-tempered mental juveniles, which is who Vinroot and Easley demonstrated they were Thursday night. Regards, Dave Williams
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