2008 Woodie Awards
News Articles
'We can win North Carolina'
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Sen. Barack Obama spoke Sunday at Asheville High School to an estimated crowd of 28,000 people, a day after telling The Blue Banner he thinks he can win North Carolina and young voters may decide the election. "It's going to be a hard-fought contest. Western North Carolina is traditionally more Republican, but I think that people are looking at the catastrophic situation on Wall Street and how it's spilling onto Main Street," Obama said when questioned by the Banner on a conference call for student journalists.
UNCA loses $1 million in funding
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Significant state-mandated spending cuts slashed nearly $1 million from UNC Asheville's budget this year Chancellor Anne Ponder met with the Student Government Association on Oct. 1 to explain the budget changes. "We are managing this with as much kindness and compassion as possible," Ponder said.
Economic turmoil causes concern
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As stock markets around the world plunged over the past two weeks and 60 percent of respondents to a CNN poll said Tuesday another economic depression is likely, UNC Asheville students are among millions watching the economy with a fearful eye. "I'm not an economist," junior student CeCe Hue said.
Group fights the death penalty
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Troy Davis received a stay of execution on Sept. 30, less than two hours before his scheduled execution. A jury convicted him in 1991 on charges of murder for the killing of Mark Allen MacPhail, a police officer from Savannah, Georgia. Davis maintains his innocence in the face of execution.
Hidden "green" features dot campus
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UNC Asheville's campus holds dozens of underground wells dug as deep into the ground as the lower limit of a skyscraper is tall. Completely hidden under tons of soil, the wells are geothermal heat pumps that heat and cool campus buildings using the ambient temperature of the soil beneath students' feet.