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Walk with a Doc highlights health challenges for college students, community

Written by Sidney Setzer - ssetzer@unca.edu. Posted in News

On Saturday morning at UNC Asheville, the Sherrill Center was filled with something other than basketball fans. Members of the community and a local doctor walked around the top floor of the center to promote heart healthy lives. Information about heart health was provided as well free blood pressure screenings.

It’s an awesome opportunity for people to come out and get exercise as well as interact with cardiologist. They can ask any question about their heart health,” Leslie Council, event coordinator, said.

Walk with a Doc was created by David Sabgir and originated in Ohio. The program’s goal is to encourage healthy physical activity for all ages in order to prevent coronary heart disease, improve blood pressure and reduce the risk of diabetes.

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Headphone-related accidents on the rise, study finds

Written by Ian MacKlin - imacklin@unca.edu. Posted in News

Fatal accidents involving pedestrians wearing headphones have tripled since 2004, according to a study published by Richard Lichenstein, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland.

“I see it everywhere, everyday,” said Mary Henson, 45, local Asheville taxi cab driver “Honestly, it scares me how oblivious to the rest of the world these people seem to be.”

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Ayo critiques school policy, ideas about racism at UNCA events

Written by Sidney Setzer - ssetzer@unca.edu. Posted in News

Activist and artist Damali Ayo criticized UNC Asheville programs and perceptions about racism in a lecture and afternoon tea discussion last Thursday.

We have this perception, which is really, really crazy, that this doesn’t apply to me,” Ayo said. “What major are you that it doesn’t apply? Where are actual human beings irrelevant?”

UNCA held multiple events throughout the week, including Ayo, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day.

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Ball team creates revenue, exposure

Written by Ian MacKlin - imacklin@unca.edu. Posted in News

The UNC Asheville Bulldogs men’s basketball team fills multiple roles for the school and community, according to the athletics department.

“It helps build a foundation for the future as Alumni,” head coach Eddie Beidenbach said.  “The team is something to rally around.  The exposure we get through athletics is beyond the amount of dollars you can spend.”

For the 2010-11 basketball season, the UNCA Bulldogs pulled in $425,000 for the university. The amount spent on the team’s uniforms, equipment and travel was $69,000, according to Judith Bohan, the UNCA athletic department’s administrative assistant of budget and finance.

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Scholarship recepeint to explore Chinese language, culture

Written by Ted Kendrick - tkendric@unca.edu. Posted in News

Erin Litke received a full scholarship for the Fudan University Summer Program in China for Summer 2012. Fudan University offered the UNC system four scholarships.

This summer program scholarship is part of a larger relationship the UNC system has with Fudan. The UNC Exchange Program is working toward offering a semester exchange for UNC students to Fudan University in the near future.

“Erin was competitive for this system-wide scholarship because of her background in international and Asian studies, as well as having taken two semesters of Mandarin at UNC Asheville,” said interdisciplinary studies Program Director Dr. Surain Subramaniam.

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