The Reporter, September 1990

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The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues. Reporter News for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University September 7,1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina Those animal attitudes A campus psychologist says the way we think of animals reveals much about our humanness. N early everyone who has waited in line at a grocery checkout counter has seen the sensational headlines. "My Pet Parrot is My Dead Husband," the tabloid screams. "Lion- Hearted Kitty Attacks Pit Bull and Saves Poodle's Life," another claims. The tabloids' penchant for stories about animals as terrorists or saviors may actually say something about us. This preoccupation reflects the archetypal roles animals play in American life, says Dr. Hal Herzog, associate professor of psychology. Herzog's look at the tabloid press actually is a lighthearted offshoot from a ten-year research interest in human/animal relations and animal rights, and from current work he is doing as WCU's Hunter Scholar. Herzog, with graduate assistant Shelley Kaplan, is surveying recent literature in the areas of ethical philosophy, moral thinking, and animal rights. He also has been interviewing animal rights activists throughout the Southeast. And he has several pub­lications under way concerning how people make moral decisions about animals. (The tabloid project with Kaplan has a database of 800 articles, and they've found there's a remark­able average of 9.4 animal stories per tabloid.) Dr. Hal He rzog and assistant Shelley Kaplan survey literature on ethical philosophy and animal rights. The animal rights movement—especially how it affects activists' lives—has fascinated Herzog for years. He calls it one of the most visible and effective grassroots movements in the country. "People underestimate the implications of the animal rights movement, and they underestimate the commitment of its members. The implications are profound, possibly affecting research, health, how we keep pets, what we wear, what we eat" In personal interviews with animal rights activ­ists, Herzog generally has found people striving for consistency between their ideals and behavior. They are vegetarians, buyers of "cruelty-free" products that haven't been tested on or made from animals, and are fervent about their cause. The majority are women. For some, the movement's appeal was philosophical or logical; for some it was emotional. Which underscores Herzog's point. As an animal behaviorist, he contends that human beings, although they can think and reason, aren't any more logical when it comes to making moral decisions than chimpanzees. "There are two ways of making a moral deci­sion— by your head and by your guts. Humans are caught in a continuous conflicting dialogue," he says. "To struggle with issues is the essence of what it means to be human. My point transcends animals. It has to do with our burden of responsi­bility and making moral decisions. "That is what's fascinating about animal rights people—they struggle with a huge moral burden. In a sense, they are existential heroes the way they bear up and change their lives." The beauty of his current work is that he crosses into both camps. As a scientist, Herzog conducts research with reptiles. He is a frequent speaker at scientific gatherings. Yet he interviews animal rights proponents at length. And this summer with Kaplan he attended a national ani­mal rights rally to distribute ethics questionnaires that will be used for further research and writing. "I can deal with moral ambiguities on both sides," he says. Herzog "translates the animal rights message" and tries to overcome stereotypes of activists as crazed zealots. 'This is not a single issue, and it can't be viewed in black and white," he says. "The animal rights movement has a powerful and important message." - Karen Anderson News briefs THE WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE of T he University of North Carolina will send its newsletter, the WRRI News, free to any University of North Carolina system faculty or staff member who requests it The newsletter reviews legislative, regulatory, scientific, and technical activities related to water resources in particular and environmental issues in general, focusing on North Carolina. To be added to the mailing list, write the Water Resources Research Institute, Box 7912, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. 27695-7912. Send your name, campus address, and phone number. Or call Eva Tew at [phone]. THE 1990- 91 FILM AND VIDEO GUIDE ISSUED BY SASASAAS (Southern Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies) is available for faculty to use at the University Media Center in Hunter Library. Since Western Carolina is a member of SASASAAS, a large number of films and videos relating to Asia and Africa can be checked out by faculty members at no cost to the borrower. Check-out procedures are outlined in the guide. For more informa­tion, call Dr. Jeff Neff in the Department of Geosciences and Anthropology at 227-7268. THE HOST FAMILY ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS at Western Carolina will hold its annual Fall Welcoming Dinner for international students on Sunday, September 23. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. Host families from the university commu­nity volunteer to include WCU students from other countries in family activities in order to help the students better under­stand American traditions, customs, and values. To make reservations for the welcoming dinner or for more information on the Host Family Association, call Mary Kay Cooley at 293-3124. WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Monday 10 Tuesday n Wednesday 12 Luncheon seminar, "Germany: A Threat to World Peace?" with Dr. Cliff Lovin, dean of the School of . __ _ Arts and = IlkiF Sciences. | ^|§F Hospitality j 1 |I §f Room, I M § RAC, noon- 2 p.m. $12 per person. Reserve a seat by Monday, September 10, by calling the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School at 227-7397. Computer workshop, "Introduction to the VAX and Edit." For faculty and staff members. Forsyth B- 15,3-5 p.m. Registration required at 227-7282. Key HFR H.F. Robinson Administration Building MHC Mountain Heritage Center MRH Music Recital Hall RAC Ramsey Activity Center UC University Center September 7, 1990 The Reporter ember 10=1 Thursday 13 Two movies, The Sense of Wonder and The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson. Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Free. Fund-raising auction for the World Gallery, an art show-place in Asheville admini­stered by the Department of Art. Magnolia's Raw Bar and Grille, 26 Walnut Street, Asheville, 6 p.m. $15 advance, $20 at the door. For more information, call the Depart­ment of Art at 227-7210. Friday 14 Short course, "Orff- Schulwerk with the Young Child," with Marilyn Wood, clinician from Shawnee, Okla. Through Saturday, September 15. $25 per person. For more information, call Dr. Eva Adcock in the Department of Music at 227-7242. Exhibits Photographs of mountain scenes by Larry Tucker, photographs of Southern Appalachian wildflowers by Dr. James Wallace, and "Diversity Endangered," a poster exhibit. Natural Sciences Building, 7:30 a.m.- 10 p.m. weekdays. "Bells in the Valley," a historical slide show on WCU; and "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit. Mountain Heritage Center, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. "Contemporary Realism," drawings and paintings by Edith Neff. Belk Building Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment (227-7210), through September 21. "Woodturners," works by Robyn Horn and Stoney Lamar. Chelsea Gallery, 8 a.m.-ll p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-l 1 p.m. Saturday, and Noon-11 p.m. Sunday, through September 21. Saturday 15 Short course, "Orff- Schulwerk with the Young Child," with Marilyn Wood, clinician from Shawnee, Okla. Concludes today. $25 per person. For more information, call Dr. Eva Adcock in the Department of Music at 227- 7242. Short course, "Advanced Cardiac Life Support," sponsored by Continuing Education, School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Moore Hall, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (Enroll­ment closed.) Football, Cats vs. North Carolina A & T State. Greens­boro, 1:30 p.m. Sunday 16 The Reporter September 7. 1990 The Reporters published by the Office of Public Information. Mail notices and changes of address to the Reporter, 1601 Ramsey Center. 1,450 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $152.37, or $.11 per copy. Western Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. September 7. 1990 Deaths sadden university community The university community was saddened by the deaths of several current or former colleagues in recent months. • Lawrence Glenn Arbaugh, retired associate professor of accounting, died July 4 in Chandler, Ariz. Arbaugh, who was sixty-seven years old, taught accounting at Western Carolina from 1963 to 1980. • Tyson Cathey, retired professor of geography, died August 1 in Sylva. He was 78 years old. Cathey, who came to Western Carolina in 1944, was on the university faculty for thirty years. Memorials may be made to Cullowhee United Methodist Church or C.J. Harris Home Health in Sylva. • Martin Dean Martin, associate professor of management and marketing, died July 11. He was fifty-five years old. He came to Western Carolina in 1981 after retiring from a twenty-two-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Memorials may be made to Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Va. • Jim Painter, staff coordinator in the Coopera­tive Education program, died May 10. Painter, who was forty-three years old, came to WCU in 1982. Memorials may be made to Jordan Ward of Duke University Hospital South in Durham. • Floyd T. Siewert, retired head of the Depart­ment of Health and Physical Education, died August 1 in Sylva. He was eighty years old. Siewert, who came to the university in 1949, was a faculty member here for thirty-seven years. • Walter Williams, retired director of athletics, died August 8. He had lived in Cullowhee for 21 years and served as the university's athletic director 1969-71. Memorials may be made to East LaPorte Masonic Lodge 358. Papers, presentations, and publications • Dr. H. Edward Price (Social Work and Sociology) is the author of a chapter entitled "Historical Generations in Freeze Member Mobilization" in Peace Action in the Eighties, a new book published by Rutgers University Press. Price also presented a paper entitled "Maintaining a Decentralized Social Movement Organization: the Formalization and Merger of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign" at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington, D.C. While in Washington, he also attended the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. • Dr. Bob Rigdon (Human Services) has received new copies of his book Discovering Yourself, which was translated into German by a company called Editians Trobisch, Kehl/Rein. • Dr. Keith A. Robinson (Health, Physical Edu­cation, and Recreation) published an article entitled "Adjuvant Therapy for Intracoronary Stents: Investigations in Atherosclerotic Swine" in a recent issue of Circulation, a medical journal. The article described work Robinson performed as a research associate at the Emory University School of Medicine, concerning the development of a medical prosthesis for use with coronary angioplasty. Through a faculty research grant, Robinson is also studying fine structures in the lungs of rats. • Dr. Susan Smith (Center for Improving Moun­tain Living) made a presentation at "Protecting the Mountains," a conference held in July by the Piedmont Environmental Council in Madison County, Va. Smith works with local governments and citizens groups to implement North Carolina's Mountain Ridge Protection Act. She received the doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in December. Other activities • Beth Baxley, Linda Bowers, Mary Ann Edwards, Anne Nicholson, Yvonne Saddler, Dr. David Shapiro, and Dr. Michael Smith (Program in Communication Disorders), along with sixteen Western Carolina students, attended the annual convention of the North Carolina Speech Hearing Language Association in Asheville in the spring. Shapiro addressed meetings of the organization's executive board and general membership. Smith was recognized for arranging and directing at the convention a lecture entided "The Meaning of and Use of Least Restrictive Environments in Pre­school Programs," which was presented by Dr. Lee Snyder-McLean of the University of Kansas. • Dr. Tyler Blethen (History, Mountain Heritage Center) was selected to participate in the Ameri­can Museum Professor's Study Tour, which will visit history museums in Northern Ireland Septem­ber 3-14. The tour is sponsored by the British Council, a British governmental agency that promotes educational, cultural, and technical cooperation between Britain and other countries. • Nan Haberland (Hunter Library) was featured in the cover story in the summer issue of the NCFLC Quarterly, the newsletter of the North Carolina Foreign Language Center. The article describes services of Hunter Library that Haber­land coordinates for international students. The Reporter Reporter News for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University September 1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina Mission study includes new degree proposals F UNC President C.D. Spangler last February asked all UNC chancellors to prepare plans outlining changes they believe will be needed ourteen new degree programs, including two at the doctoral level, are among proposals being advanced in a "role and mission" study nearing completion on campus. A preliminary report by a committee preparing role and mission recommendations was given the board of trustees on September 8. The new degree programs are in two categories: those that WCU is "currently developing or implementing," and those it is "continuing to work toward." In the first category are a doctorate in educa­tional leadership, master's in physical therapy, and bachelor's degrees in international business and philosophy. In the other category are bachelor's degrees in dance, communications, gerontology, resort/hospi­tality management; master's degrees in account­ancy, nursing, environmental studies; and "termi­nal" level degrees in social work (master's), art (master of fine arts), and applied psychology (doctoral). Terminal-level degrees are those con­sidered to be the highest degree awarded in an academic discipline. The "role and mission" study was begun after UNC President C.D. Spangler last February asked all UNC chancellors to prepare plans outlining changes they believe will be needed in their institutions' educational missions and program structures during the next decade. In 1976, the UNC Board of Governors adopted a long-range plan that defined the role and educa­tional mission of each UNC campus. The only major changes made in institutional missions since that time occurred in 1985 when Fayetteville State and UNC-Wilmington were allowed to add master's degree programs to their curriculum. Spangler has suggested that the Board of Governors consider creating a commission of na­tionally renowned educators to advise and assist in evaluating the institutional recommendations and in developing a new systemwide education plan. The institutional reports are due in early 1991. Richard A. Wood, Jr., board chairman and a member of the role and mission committee, said some of the most important language in the report concerns Western Carolina's role in Asheville. In part, the draft statement says: "Western Carolina University will continue to develop academic programs appropriate to our mission in order to supply the unmet educational needs of people in the Asheville area at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. "While we will continue to meet our responsi­bilities for undergraduate instruction in Asheville in the areas of criminal justice and technology and in a cooperative program in nursing with the University of North Carolina at Asheville, we will be especially diligent to avoid unnecessary dupli­cation of efforts and resources as we bring needed academic programs currently within our program inventory to the Asheville area. "The UNC Graduate Center has proven to be an effective mechanism for identifying regional needs, responding to those needs, and preventing unnecessary program duplication at the graduate level. Therefore, as we expand our responsibilities for graduate instruction in the Asheville area, we will continue our close cooperation with the center and with UNC-A to identify educational needs and to coordinate academic calendars, scheduling, and the use of facilities and general support services." The draft report calls for efforts to strengthen educational offerings through the WCU center on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, and for an expansion of partnership arrangements with two-year and four-year institutions, public schools, communities, business and industrial organiza­tions, the medical community, and local centers for culture and the arts. It says that Western Carolina, in trying to meet professional education needs in a largely rural region, will explore "the possibility of instruction at a distance through modern technology" for both regular curriculum and continuing education offerings. Orville D. Coward of Sylva, board of trustees cont'd last page News briefs WCU'S OVERALL ENROLLMENT IS UP, along with a sixteen-point rise in the average Scholastic Aptitude Test score for entering freshmen, according to figures compiled after the first week of fall semester classes. Western's total resident headcount to date is 6,369 students, up about two percent from last year's 6,218 students recorded during the first week of classes. The increase primar­ily resulted from increases in new transfer students and returning undergraduates that offset a smaller freshman class, according to Dr. Michael Malone, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. Western Carolina's 1990 freshman class, after the first week of classes is 1,028. Western Carolina had a total of 1,284 freshmen last year. The number of black freshmen enrolling at WCU increased eleven percent over last year. There are sixty-two black students in the freshman class. The average SAT score for 1990 incoming freshmen is 852, up sixteen points from last year and about eleven points above North Carolina's average SAT score. THREE UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBERS AND SEVERAL STUDENTS were called to active military duty September 11 when the North Carolina National Guard's 210th Military Police Company, headquartered in Sylva, was mobilized as a result of the Persian Gulf crisis. Dan Cogdill of Housing, Kenneth Dills of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Bill Williams of the Physical Plant were called to duty. Also called were Tom Dowell, husband of Judy Dowell of the Chancellor's Office, and Max Cook, husband of Carolyn Cook of the Regis­trar's Office. The 210th MP unit was to report for active duty at 8 a.m., September 11. The unit was scheduled to move to a mobilization station at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville to await further assignment or deployment. Several students who were reservists with either the Sylva unit or other reserve units have been called to active duty since President Bush began mobilizing the National Guard. WESTERN CAROL Monday NA UNIVERSTY r 17 Golf, Maggie Valley- WCU Fall Invitational Tournament. Maggie Valley Resort and Country Club. Volleyball, Cats vs. Mercer University. Reid Gym, 7 p.m. Tuesday 18 State Employee Appreciation Day. Golf, Maggie Valley- WCU Fall Invitational Tournament. Maggie Valley Resort and Country Club. Combination Classroom Conference, sponsored by the Department of Elementary Education and Reading and the Office for Rural Education. Hospitality Room, RAC, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Council of Deans meet­ing. 510 Robinson Building, 9:30 a.m. English Proficiency Exam. 118 Forsyth Building, 6 p.m. Wednesday 19 Faculty Senate. 104 Killian Building, 3:30 p.m. Telephone etiquette workshop, "Putting an Effective Smile in Your Voice,"with Vanessa Broadie, assistant man­ager- forecasting for Southern Bell of Asheville. Cherokee Room, UC, 9 and 11 a.m. Free. Sponsored by the Personnel Office and the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School. Computer workshop, "SPSSx on the VAX." For faculty and staff members. B-15 Forsyth Building, 3-5 p.m. Registration required at 227-7282. Volleyball, Cats vs. Appalachian State University. Boone, 7 p.m. State Employee Appreciation Week S E P T EMBE R 1 7 - 2 1 September 14. 1990 The Reporter tennb©r 17 Thursday 20 Teleconference, "Rain Forest Management in the New World." Hospitality Room, RAC, 10 a.m. For more information, call Malcolm Loughlin at 227-7397. Movie, Shootout at Rio Lobo, with John Wayne. Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Free. Computer short course, "Macintosh System Funda­mentals." For faculty and staff members and students. University Media Center, Hunter Library, 1-4:30 p.m. Enrollment is limited. To register, call 227-7341. Performance by Aman Folk Ensemble (international music and dance). RAC, 8 p.m. $10 adults, $8 senior citizens and WCU employees, $3 youths and WCU students. A Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions series event Friday 21 Volleyball, Cats vs. Marshall University. Huntington, W.Va., 5 p.m. Reception (by invitation) for Athletic Hall of Fame partici­pants. Hospitality Room, RAC, 6 p.m. Induction banquet, Athletic Hall of Fame. Main arena, RAC, 7 p.m. $15 per person. Movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show. RAC, 11 p.m.-3 a.m. $1 WCU students, $3 others. A Last Minute Productions event Key HFR H.F. Robinson Administration Building MHC Mountain Heritage Center MRH Music Recital Hall RAC Ramsey Activity Center UC University Center Saturday 22 Football, Cats vs. East Tennessee State University. Whitmire Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Sunday 23 Fall Welcoming Dinner for international students, sponsored by the Host Family Association for International Students. Grandroom, UC, 6:30 p.m. For more informa­tion, call Mary Kay Cooley at 227-7370. Exhibits Photographs of mountain scenes by Larry Tucker, photographs of Southern Appalachian wildflowers by Dr. James Wallace, and "Diversity Endangered," a poster exhibit. Natural Sciences Building, 7:30 a.m.- 10 p.m. weekdays. "Bells in the Valley," a historical slide show on WCU; and "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit Mountain Heritage Center, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. "Contemporary Realism," drawings and paintings by Edith Neff. Belk Building Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-4 pm. Monday-Friday and by appointment (227-7210), through September 21. "Woodturners," works by Robyn Horn and Stoney Lamar. Chelsea Gallery, 8 a.m.-ll p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-ll pm. Saturday, and Noon-11 pm. Sunday, through September 21. The Reporter September 14. 1990 Degree programs cont'd vice chairman, and other board members called for a strong declaration of the university's commit­ment to regional economic development in the statement. Final action on the statement is expected at the board's December meeting, after which the statement will be submitted to Spangler. Wood, Coward, and Mrs. Deborah Strum of Franklin, secretary of the board, all were re-elected to their board offices at last week's meeting. In a series of personnel actions, the board: • Approved appointment of Dr. Anne F. Rogers, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences and Anthropology, as the new director of the Honors Program, succeeding Dr. Karl Nicholas, who has been named head of the English Department • Approved appointment of Dr. Judith A. Fran-son, formerly assistant professor of education at Valparaiso University, as acting head of the Reading Center. • Authorized forty-seven other faculty and staff appointments. - Doug Reed The Reporter is published by the Office of Public Information. Mall notices and changes of address to the Reporter 1601 Ramsey Center. 1,450 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $152.37, or $.11 per copy. Western Carolina University Is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Media center will offer Macintosh courses Beginning this month, the University Media Center will offer for the university community a series of short courses on Macintosh computers and related programs. Faculty and staff members, as well as students, may sign up for the courses, which will take place 1-4:30 p.m. on Thursdays. They are offered free of charge as part of the Higher Education Purchase Plan that came to WCU in 1988. The courses will be taught in the media center's "Faculty Sandbox" workroom by representatives from Electronic Office of Asheville. Upcoming courses will include Macintosh System Fundamen­tals, September 20; Microsoft Works for the Macintosh (Part One), October 18; and Microsoft Works for the Macintosh (Part Two), October 25. Other courses will follow. Enrollment for each course will be limited to ten people, so register early by calling Bob Orr or Candace Benson in the University Media Center at 227-7341. Papers, presentations, and publications • Dr. Marilyn Feldmann (Education and Psychology) made a presentation entitled "Preparing for State and National Accreditation" to approximately 100 teacher-education faculty members at North Carolina A & T University on August 25. • Dr. Robin Kowalski (Psychology), with Mark Leary of Wake Forest University, recently pub­lished two articles in professional journals. "The Two Components of Impression Management: A Literature Review and Theoretical Integration" appeared in the Psychological Bulletin, and "Impression Management and the Avoidance of Aversive Events" appeared in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. • Dr. Glenn Liming (Chemistry and Physics) published an article entitled "A Graduate Research Model for Talented High-School Students" in the September issue of The Physics Teacher, a profes­sional journal. • Dr. Scott Minor (Psychology) presented two papers at the Congres International Du Rorschach Et Des Methodes Projectives, a conference held in Paris, France, in July. The papers were entitled "Rorschach Response Selection" and "Hemi­spheric Allocation in Comprehending Movement on the Rorschach." Minor coauthored the latter paper with Dr. Hedy White (Psychology) and Janice Merrell and William Ballew. Merrell and Ballew are Western Carolina alumni now seeking doctoral degrees at the University of Kansas. Other activities • Dr. Susan C. Brown (Sport Management) was named in July to the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Management for 1990-92. • Shirley Kool (Financial Aid) attended the annual conference of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators in Boston, Mass., July 25-28. She currently serves as newsletter editor for the state association. • Dr. Gene F. Morris (Chemistry and Physics) received $13,340 from the National Science Foundation for project titled "U.S .-Swaziland Cooperative Research on Synthetic Routes to Thiophospholipids." As principal investigator, Morris will visit Swaziland during the project, and Dr. Themba Tyobeka of Swaziland will visit WCU. September I A. 7990 The Reporter RepNoKewl*s fCorr fo/et /tFMaceu ilftfyi / anrd CSf^tar l ff of Western Carolina University September 21, 1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina In praise of the core curriculum T ake another look at Western Carolina University's core curriculm, says Dr. Fred Hinson, associate professor of biology. There's much more in those general education courses than a block of study for students to plow through in the rush to declare a major. "Here's the chance for students to be exposed to some new ideas. They may never have thought about works of art or musical compositions or religious issues. This is how general education can have life-changing effects," Hinson said. He chaired the general education committee from 1988 until last spring and began duties in August as WCU's first director of general education. Exposure to various academic fields in the early college years may also help students know better what major best suits their interests or talents, he said. About 110 faculty members—better than thirty Dr. Fred Hins on (center), director of general education, discus­ses laboratory procedures with students Stephanie Brasington and Andre Huie. percent of the entire faculty—are involved with teaching general education, which dates back more than forty years at Western Carolina. Most of the current program requirements have been in place since 1983. The program has two "prongs," or overall areas, in which students take a total of forty-one credit hours of courses. These are designed to introduce students to skills, attitudes, and ap­proaches to knowledge that faculty members agree are indispensable to educated people in today's world. "Foundations," the first area, covers the basic competencies of written communication; mathe­matics; computer literacy; leisure and fitness; and thinking, reasoning, and expressing. In "Perspectives," the program's other major component, students deal largely with philosophi­cal issues in history, science, social science, and comparative cultures. The Perspectives area also includes six hours of course woik in the humani­ties or the fine or performing arts. Students are en­couraged to complete all general education re­quirements within their first two years at the university. Three elements combine to make WCU's general education program one of the best in the UNC system, Hinson said. First, many members of the general education faculty, Hinson among them, also work with the university's strong advisement system, set up through the Career and Academic Planning (CAP) Center. According to Hinson, individual advise­ment appointments with faculty members are the first steps in helping students realize that general education offers options and opportunities, rather than mandates. Second, members of the general education faculty in individual areas of the program, such as comparative cultures, meet periodically in "focus groups" to discuss their work. The groups are particularly concerned this semester with defining the common elements of the sometimes divergent courses they teach under a single area heading. Comparative cultures, for example, includes courses from departments as varied as English, cont'd last page News briefs SIXTY-SIX FELLOWSHIPS FOR FULL­TIME STUDY toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D. in the biological sciences will be awarded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Awards are for three years, with extension possible for two additional years of full support. Stipends will be $13,500 annually, effective June 1991, and an $11,700 annual cost-of-education allow­ance will be provided to the fellowship institution on behalf of each fellow. The fellowships are intended for students who have completed less than one year of graduate study in biological sciences. Students who hold or are pursuing medical or dental degrees may also be eligible to apply for fellowship support for study toward the Ph.D. or Sc.D. The application deadline is Friday, November 9. For more information or an application, write to Hughes Predoctoral Fellowships, The Fellowhsip Office, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418, or call [phone]. BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT KEFYN CATLEY RECEIVED $700 recently from the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund in order to make a research trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, N.Y. In June he presented a paper entitled "Super- Cooling in the Spider Coelotes atropos and Its Ecological Implications" at the international meeting of the American Arachnological Society in Ottawa, Canada. The paper earned the award for runner-up "Best Student Paper." HUNTER L IBRARY I S ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS from graduate students who would like to use study rooms in the library during spring semester. Applica­tion forms are available from department heads. Completed applications should be sent to William Kirwan, university librarian, in Hunter Library by Friday, September 28. WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Monday 24 Tuesday 25 ROTC Catamount Battalion fall awards ceremony. Reid Field, 2:15 p.m. (Rain site: Reid auxiliary gym). Volleyball, Cats vs. Furman University. Reid Gym, 7 p.m. Faculty Recital, with Paul Basler, horn, and Brad Ulrich, trumpet. Music Recital Hall, 8 p.m. $5 adults, $2 students, free to children twelve and under. Exhibits Photographs of mountain scenes by Larry Tucker, photographs of Southern Appalachian wildflowers by Dr. James Wallace, and "Diversity Endangered," a poster exhibit Natural Sciences Building, 7:30 a.m.- 10 p.m. weekdays. "Irons in the Fire," an exhibit on blacksmithing, and "A Picture Postcard from Earth," a slide-tape presentation on mountain scenery (both opening September 29); "Bells in the Valley," a historical slide show on WCU; and "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit Mountain Heritage Center, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. "Faculty Show: Early Work/New Work," works by Art Department faculty members. Belk Building Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment (227- 7210), through October 26. "In the Wild," landscape paintings by Jeremiah Miller. Chelsea Gallery, 8 a.m.-ll p.m. Monday-Friday, and noon-11 p.m. weekends, through October 26. Wednesday 26 Graduate Council meeting. 510 HFR, 11 a.m. Computer workshop, "Macintosh Basics." For faculty and staff members. Faculty Sandbox work­room, University Media Center, Hunter Library, 3-5 p.m. Registration required with the Univer­sity Computer Center at 227-7282. Computer workshop, "MS-DOS Basics." For faculty and staff members. B-15 Forsyth Building, 3-5 p.m. Registration required with the Univer­sity Computer Center at 227-7282. Opening reception for Jeremiah Miller exhibit. Chelsea Gallery, UC, 7:30 p.m. Free. Opening reception for Art Department faculty show. Belk Building Art Gallery, 8 p.m. Free. September 21, 1990 The Reporter Thursday 27 Free lunch for interested faculty members, with Dr. G. Roger Sell of the Center for Teaching Excellence at The Ohio State University. Brown Cafeteria, 11:30 a.m. Presentation, "Student Evaluations of Instruction: Uses and Abuses," with Dr. G. Roger Sell of the Center for Teaching Excellence at The Ohio State University. Open to campus community. East Wing, Brown Cafeteria, 12:30-2 p.m. Department heads work­shop. Hospitality Room, RAC, 2-5 p.m. Movie, Doc and Merle. Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Free. Presentation, "Meeting the Challenges for Improving Undergraduate Teaching," with Dr. G. Roger Sell of the Center for Teaching Excel­lence at The Ohio State University. Open to the public. Cherokee Room, UC, 7:30 p.m. Friday 28 Volleyball, Cats at tourna­ment at UNC Charlotte. Through Saturday. Luncheon and presentation for interested department heads, "Resources for Evalu­ating Teaching," with Dr. G. Roger Sell of the Center for Teaching Excellence at The Ohio State University. Mary Will Mitchell Room, Brown Cafeteria, 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Reception (by invitation) for Industrial Distribution Advisory Board. Hospitality Room, RAC, 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday 29 Volleyball tournament continues, Cats at tournament at UNC Charlotte. Cross country, Mountain Heritage Day Classic. Begins at university track. Women's race, 9 a.m.; men's race, 9:30 a.m. Book and Supply Store open special hours. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Football, Cats vs. Mars Hill College. Whitmire Stadium, 7 p.m. ^Apun tajf, Sunday 30 Baseball, Cats vs. Carson- Newman College, a double-header. Childress Field, noon. Key HFR H.F. Robinson Administration Building MHC Mountain Heritage Center MRH Music Recital Hall RAC Ramsey Activity Center UC University Center The Reporter September 21.1990 The Reporters published by the Office of Public Information. Mail notices and changes of address to the Reporter, 1601 Ramsey Center. 1 >450 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $152.37, or $.11 per copy. Western Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Core curriculum cont'd Geosciences and Anthropology, and Economics and Finance. The commitment of the faculty to general education is particularly evident, Hinson said, in the fact that Dr. Cliff Lovin, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, is teaching a general educa­tion course this semester in modern American institutions. And finally, the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, itself gaining a name as a leader in faculty development among UNC schools, gives the faculty at Western Carolina additional insight into learning and teaching styles, a fact that greatly benefits general education, according to Hinson. A twenty-four-year veteran of teaching in Cullowhee, Hinson is well-known for service to WCU and The University of North Carolina. He recently completed six years on the UNC Faculty Assembly (two years as chairman) and is WCU's only faculty member ever to receive both the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Award. Hinson receives one-half release time from teaching in order to maintain and oversee the general education program. The duties of his new position include administrative responsibilities such as making certain that enough sections of each required course are offered to allow all students to complete requirements within the allotted time. And, of course, his half-time teaching load will continue to include general education biology classes. Ultimately, general education teaches self-reliance, Hinson said, a quality more necessary than ever before in today's changing world. "We teach students how to identify a problem, analyze it, and find a way to go about solving it. If we let kids get out of here without that, then we don't need to be in business in the first place," he said. - Joey Price Activities • Wilburn Hayden, Jr. (Social Work and Sociology), presented a paper entitled "Black Ap­palachians: A Minority Within a Minority" at the fall meeting of the Appalachian Consortium on September 7 at Gardner Webb College. His photo­essay exhibit, entitled "Voices from Black Appalachia," will be on display at Gardner Webb until November. • Dr. Laura J. Moriarity (Criminal Justice) coauthored an article entitled "Domestic Violence and Local Law Enforcement in Texas: Examining Awareness of Legislation and Attitudes Which Affect Enforcement," which was accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. • Dr. Steven D. Owens (Accounting, Computer Information Systems, and Management) presented a paper entitled "A Cultural Analysis Methodology for Project Managers" at the INTERNET World Congress of Project Management in Vienna, Austria, in July. The paper was coauthored by the late Dr. M. Dean Martin. While in Europe, Owens also delivered lectures at the Hoogschool Drenthe, a college in Emmen, the Netherlands. Mountain Heritage Day is September 29 The annual Mountain Heritage Day festival, selected this year as one of the Southeast's top twenty events by the Southeast Tourism Society, will take place Saturday, September 29. The day-long event features mountain music and dance, skills, crafts, food, and contests. As in previous years, Mountain Heritage Day will begin around 8 a.m. and continue into late afternoon. The Catamount football team will play at 7:30 p.m. in Whitmire Stadium against Mars Hill College. There is no cost for admission to the Moun­tain Heritage Day midway. In the event of rain, festival events will take place in the Ramsey Center. Visiting scholar will discuss evaluation of teaching Dr. G. Roger Sell, senior program director for organizational development at the Center for Teaching Excellence at The Ohio State University, will visit Western Carolina University for a two-day program on the evaluation of college teaching. The event, which will take place Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28, will be sponsored by the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence and the Department of Human Services. Sell's visit will include several presentations, as well as consultations with faculty and staff members. On September 27, there will be a session on "Student Evaluations of Instruction: Uses and Abuses," open to the campus community, 12:30- 2 p.m. in Brown Cafeteria, and a session entitled "Meeting the Challenges for Improving Under­graduate Teaching," open to the public, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cherokee Room of the University Center. For more information, call the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence at 227-7196. September 21, 1990 The Reporter Reporter News for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University September 28, 1990 Cullowhee, North Carolina Announcing Sylva-WCU 'Catamount Week' o Intended as an annual event, Catamount Week will emphasize Sylva's identity as a university town, WCU's closest neighbor and shopping center. ctober 1-6 will be "Catamount Week" in Sylva, the first major event of a joint Sylva and Western Carolina University initiative to bring the university and the town closer together and provide a Sylva dimension to Western Carolina's big annual Homecoming Day celebration. Re-emphasizing Sylva's identity as a university town and Western Carolina's recognition of Sylva as its closest neighbor and hometown shopping center are objectives of the new effort. Intended to be an annual event, this year's observance will start after Mountain Heritage Day and lead into pre-Home-coming and Homecoming Day festivities on Saturday, October 6. The appreciation week has been officially proclaimed as "Cata­mount Week" by Mayor John Bunn and the Sylva town board of commissioners. The board of county commissioners is joining in supporting the observance. Chancellor Myron L. Coulter and Andy Lambert, student body president, have urged the university community to give the week enthusiastic support and participation. Sylva merchants will display WCU window decals and posters with the university's familiar purple and gold colors throughout the week. Merchants will also offer discounts, sales, and special giveaways during the week. Discoun t sales prize drawings for everyone—and special cash drawings for WCU students—will take place. Kicking off the observance Monday, October 1, WCU cheerleaders will visit throughout the down­town business district They'll hand out Catamount buttons, window decals, pompons, bumper stick­ers, and similar items for display by merchants. The big events of the week are planned for Wednesday, October 3, starting at 4:30 p.m. The WCU band will perform on Main Street at the First Citizens Bank parking lot. Mayor Bunn will present the ceremonial key of the Town of Sylva to Chancellor Coulter. Participating merchants will hold drawings for the prizes they have offered. Names of Western Carolina students who have registered for cash prizes will be drawn for win­ners of two $25 cash prizes, one $50 cash award, and a grand prize of $100. Winners must be present at the drawing to collect the cash awards. The cash prize drawings will be conducted by the Catamount Kittens mascots. The Catamount mascot will be available during the Wednesday activities for photographs with children. Radio station WRGC is planning to broadcast live from the First Citizens parking lot 4-6 p.m. Discounts at participating restaurants will be offered Wednesday night after the downtown celebration to Western Carolina faculty, staff, and students who display WCU identification cards. - Doug Reed Homecoming will conclude centennial celebration Several events during the university's Homecom­ing celebration, which will take place the week­end of October 6, will complete the 1989-90 cen­tennial celebration. The Homecoming celebra­tion's theme is "The '90s Revolution: Making Tracks into a Second Century." During a dinner on the lawn at the University Center 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 4, a drawing will be held to select a student identifi­cation card and a parking ticket for placement in the time capsule that will be buried in the Alumni Tower. Visitors may sign a "sesquicentennial register" at the University Center beginning at 9 a.m. on Homecoming Day, Saturday, October 6. An 11 a.m. ceremony at the Alumni Tower will feature the hanging of the university's historic Victory Bell and burial of the time capsule, which was a centennial gift from the Alumni Association The time capsule is expected to be opened and the sesquicentennial register to be used as part of the university's 150th anniversary celebration. For more information on Homecoming events, call Tim Jacobs at 227-7206. News briefs THE ASHEVILLE AREA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS will have its bloodmobile unit at WCU for a blood drive Monday-Wednesday, October 8-10. Red Cross officials hope to collect 425 units of blood during the three-day event, which will be sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and the Cullowhee Lions Club. The drive will take place 1-6 p.m. each day in the Uni­versity Center Grandroom and will be open to the public. Refreshments will be provided by Pizza Hut. For more infor­mation, call Ann Hargrove at (704) 258- 3888. CHARTER MEMBERS ARE STILL BEING ACCEPTED by Friends of Hunter Library, a new organization formed to strengthen and sustain the university's library. Members will receive special materials and services, including a special borrower's card, invitations to annual dinners featuring noted authors or speak­ers, and a subscription to the library's newsletter. The organization is open to all persons over sixteen years of age and "will afford interested individuals or or­ganizations the opportunity to come together out of a common interest in Hunter Library," according to William J. Kirwan, university librarian. To join, mail to the library a check for $15, made payable to Friends of Hunter Library. For more information, call 227-7307. EMORY UNIVERSITY NURSING PROFESSOR CLAIR MARTIN will speak Wednesday, October 3, at WCU and in Waynesville as part of the Visiting Scholars Program. Martin, who was head of WCU's Department of Nursing 1970- 73, will hold a discussion session for interested faculty members 2:30-4 p.m. in 107 Moore Building. He will address "Future Issues in Nursing: Hospital and Community Concerns" at 7:30 p.m. at Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville. For more information, call the Department of Nursing at 227-7467. WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Monday i Last day to drop a course with "W." Golf, Cats at Hargrove B. Davis tournament. Keith Hills Golf Club, Buies Creek, through Tuesday. HFR Key H.F. Robinson Admini­stration Building MHC Mountain Heritage Center MRH Music Recital Hall RAC Ramsey Activity Center UC University Center Tuesday 2 Golf tournament continues, Cats at Har­grove B. Davis tourna­ment. Keith Hills Golf Club, Buies Creek. Council of Deans meeting. 510 HFR, 9:30 a.m. Colloquium on teaching and learning, with Dr. Robbie Pittman, professor of education. Sponsored by the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence. 104 Killian Building, 3:30- 5 p.m. Performance, Chestnut Brass Company. A Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions series event. MRH, 8 p.m. $9 adults, $5 others. Theatre, "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 senior citizens and students. Wednesday 3 Teleconference,"Nuclear Power." Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School. Cherokee Room, UC, 1:30-4 p.m. Discussion session, for interested faculty mem­bers, with Clair Martin, dean of nursing at Emory University. 107 Moore Building, 2:30-4 p.m. Computer workshop, "Electronic Mail on the VAX." For faculty and staff members. B-15 Forsyth Building, 3-5 p.m. Registration required with the University Computer Center at 227-7282. Theatre, "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" Hoey Audito­rium, 7:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 senior citizens and students. Presentation, "Future Issues in Nursing: Hospi­tal and Community Con­cerns," with Clair Martin, dean of nursing at Emory University. Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville, 7:30 p.m. September 28, 1990 The Reporter "A Chat with the Chancellor" A new show on Radio Station WRGC Beginning Monday, October 1, 1990, Tony Childress will present a new segment of his radio program, "Anything Goes," in which he engages in a conversation with Chancellor Coulter about the university. This program will air at 8:05 a.m. on the first and third Monday of each month. The program is an outgrowth of an initiative developed in recent weeks by the univer­sity and the leadership of Sylva and Jackson County to encourage a new sense of community between the town, the county, and Western Carolina University. "A Chat with the Chancellor" 8:05 a.m. First and third Monday of each month Radio Station WRGC 680 AM OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ] Thursday 4 Computer "how-to" discus­sion, "Access the World: Using BITNET and the Internet." B-15 Forsyth Building, 11 a.m.-noon. Registration required with the University Computer Center at 227-7282. Movie, Fall of the House of Usher. Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Free. Volleyball, Cats vs. East Tennessee State. Reid Gym, 7 p.m. Theatre, "When You ComhT Back, Red Ryder?" Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 senior citizens and students. Friday 5 Volleyball, Cats vs. Augusta College. Reid Gym, 6 p.m. Theatre, "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 senior citizens and students. Dance for Alumni and Catamount Club. Catamount Inn, Sylva, 9 p.m. FERRANTE and Bravura Brass in concert Sunday, October 7 4 p.m. Saturday 6 Homecoming Day Law School Admission Test. Natural Sciences Auditorium, 8 a.m. Book and Supply Store open special hours. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Homecoming parade. Begins between Hunter Library and Cullowhee Baptist Church, 10 a.m. Alumni Tower events: hanging of the victory bell, planting of the time capsule, and presentation of the Homecoming court. Alumni Tower, 11 a.m. For more information, call the Office of Alumni Affairs at 227-7335. Football (Homecoming game), Cats vs. The Citadel. Whitmire Stadium, 2 p.m. Theatre, "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $9 adults, $5 senior citizens and students. Dance for Alumni and Catamount Club. Catamount Inn, Sylva, 9 p.m. Sunday 7 Baseball, Cats vs. Clemson. A doubleheader. Childress Field, noon. Performance, with Art Ferrante, pianist, and Bravura Brass. A Horizons series event. RAC, 4 p.m. $10 adults, $6 students. Exhibits Photographs of mountain scenes by Larry Tucker, photographs of Southern Appalachian wildflow-ers by Dr. James Wallace, and "Diversity Endangered," a poster exhibit Natural Sciences Build­ing, 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. weekdays. "Irons in the Fire," an exhibit on blacksmithing; "A Picture Postcard from Earth," a slide-tape presentation on mountain scenery; "Bells in the Valley," a historical slide show on WCU; and "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit. Mountain Heritage Center, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday-friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. "Faculty Show: Early Work/New Work," works by Art Department faculty members. Belk Building Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon­day- Friday and by appointment (227-7210), through October 26. "Forged Steel," a large-scale sculpture by Art Oakes. Belk Building, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday- Friday, through December 5. "In the Wild," landscape paintings by Jeremiah Miller. Chelsea Gallery, 8 a.m.-ll p.m. Monday- Friday, and noon-11 p.m. week­ends, through October 26. The Reporter September28.1990 The Reporter Is published by the Office of Public Information. Mall notices and changes of address to Ihe Reporter. 1601 Ramsey Center. 1450 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $152.37, or $.11 per copy. Western Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. September 28. 1990 'Horizons' premiere will feature pianist Ferrante Tickets are still available for a concert on campus featuring renowned pianist Art Ferrante in an all-new show. The performance, which will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, October 7, in the Ramsey Center, will be the premiere of Ferrante and Bravura Brass and of the show's sponsors, "Horizons for the '90s." Bravura Brass is a group of musicians from Western North Carolina, directed by Richard Trevarthen, Jr., professor of music. Ferrante is widely known as part of the piano duo Ferrante and Teicher, which sold more than 33 million records in the past forty years. Horizons is a new WCU regional initiative in education, cultural arts, information, and entertain­ment. Its advisory committee is chaired by A. Hampton Frady, Jr., retired chief executive of the Asheville office of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith. Tickets for the October 7 concert are $10 each; $8 in groups of twenty-five or more; and $6 for students and youth. For more information, call the Ramsey Center at 227-7722. Publications • Kathryn Stripling Byer (English) has published several poems recently in literary journals and in an anthology of poems from American university presses. Her publications include "Jericho's," in the spring issue of Southern Poetry Review; "Circuit Ryder," in the spring/summer issue of the Georgia Review; "When the Wind," in the summer issue of the Georgia Journal; and two poems in the anthol­ogy Vital Signs, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. • Dr. Paul Haberland (Modern Foreign Lan­guages) published an article entitled "Literary Censorship in Austria Since 1945" in the spring issue of Germanic Review. He published a review of the book Major Figures of Modern Austrian Literature in the May issue of the South Atlantic Review. Energy teleconferences begin in October The Division of Continuing Education and Summer School will sponsor a new series of tele­conferences from the Public Broadcasting System, entitled "Man, Energy, and the Environment: The Balance of Survival," beginning in October. The series will feature debates on current energy sources, including future choices and environmental and national concerns. Each live segment will be broadcast from one of ten sites around the United States and will be moderated by Hodding Carter III, former State Department spokesman for the Carter administration. "Nuclear Power," the first installment, will be offered 1:30-4 p.m. Wednesday, October 3, in the Cherokee Room of the University Center. The broadcast will originate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, call Malcolm Loughlin at 227-7397. Listening skills workshop will help sharpen concentration The University Personnel Office, in cooperation with the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School, will offer a workshop on "Listen­ing Skills" for university employees on Wednes­day, October 10. Two sessions of the workshop are scheduled, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., in t he Hospitality Room of the Ramsey Center. Kathie Garrett Pieper of Pieper Associates in Waynesville will conduct the sessions, which will include topics such as sharpening concentration and skills to reduce mistakes. The cost is $42.50 per participant. The workshop is an installment of the staff develop­ment training schedule for 1990-91. For more information, call the Personnel Office at 227-7218. 'Red Ryder' will open 1990-91 theatre season The Department of Speech and Theatre Arts will open its 1990-91 theatre season with a production of the award-winning drama, When You Comin Back, Red Ryder? Seating is limited for the show, which will take place in Hoey Audito rium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, October 2-6. The play's action occurs in a southwestern United States city, in an all-night diner where a young man terrorizes patrons early one morning. Because of the show's adult language and subject matter, viewers must be at least 18 years old. When You Comin Back, Red Ryder? was written by Mark Medoff, whose other works include the play Children of a Lesser God. Directed by Dr. Stephen Ayers, the Western Carolina production will have the audience seated on stage with the action. Admission is $9 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Season tickets for 1990-91 productions are available. For more information, call the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts at 227-7491. The Reporter