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Administrators explain student fee distribution at forum

Academic departments received the same amount of funds that are allocated from student fees, meaning department cuts were a shortcoming of the state budget, not student fees, Pat Catterfeld, director of budgets for academic affairs, said at a student fees forum last Monday.

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UNCA hosts third annual Math Literacy Summit

Keynote speaker focuses on teaching math skills to Spanish-speaking students

Saturday, UNC Asheville hosted its third annual Math Literacy Summit, inviting professor William Vélez of the University of Arizona to give the keynote speech.

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Men's basketball voted second in Big South poll

High expectations generally bring one of two things: a high amount of success or a high amount of disappointment. With his team picked to finish second in the Big South preseason poll, men’s basketball coach Eddie Biedenbach pays no attention the latter.

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UNCA student-athletes place student first

With more than 50 percent of its athletes on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll, UNC Asheville emphasizes the student in student-athlete.

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Violinist plays 'the sounds of being alive'

A voracious hunger for life and chronic curiosity grant violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain a complex relationship with the world, he said, a relationship he shared with Asheville last weekend.

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'Haunted Maize' anticipates Halloween

UNC Asheville’s United States Institute of Theater Technology chapter incorporates a scary movie theme with its annual “Haunted Corn Maze” at Eliada Homes.

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Canton church plans Bible burning

A 14-member congregation will destroy Bibles, books and music despite negative international coverage and thousands of e-mails, Pastor Marc Grizzard said. Full story

Recession cuts campus safety funding and services

With the economy in a recession, lack of funding limits Campus Police, leaving it up to UNCA students to help with campus security, Campus Police Chief Steve Lewis said. Full story

City Council candidates hurl childish insults

At a forum held last Thursday for Asheville City Council candidates, contenders threw the word ‘socialist’ at each other, the Asheville-Citizen Times reported. Whether or not some of the candidates are socialists has little bearing on the lives of city residents struggling to survive in a devastated economy. Full story

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Education is the first step in breast cancer prevention

Breast cancer never concerned me until my best friend from college, Kitty Gretsch, told me her cancer had returned. That was January 2001; she died before the year’s end at the age of 34.

Early detection key in fight to reduce deaths

My mother lost her battle with breast cancer in 1995, when she was 47 and I was 6.

It is still hard to understand why she was the one woman in eight diagnosed with breast cancer, but her experience has blessed my life.

Positivity and proper diet help with treatment

I bought my mom her first headscarf when I visited her during fall break.

When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August, three days after her 52nd birthday, some of the first words out of her mouth were, “If I lose my hair, I’m not wearing a wig. It’s too damn hot in Texas.”