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• UNCA police cite woman for driving after drinking

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:07

  UNC Asheville campus police cited Tierney Oberhammer, 19, of Spruce Pine for driving after consuming alcohol under the age of 21 at 2:44 a.m. Nov. 19....

• Marc Mullinax: Fundamentalists come from all across the spectrum of thought

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:04

  Marc Mullinax?®Pray thee, has it occurred to you that you might be wrong??∆                  ??Oliver Cromwell?ÿMARS HILL ?±?± Asheville sports two kinds of fundamentalists...

• Asheville Police granted re-accreditation for 3 years

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:02

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. ?? The Asheville Police Department earned re-accreditation   for the next three years, effective Nov. 19, from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. ...

• Bear taken to safer home after capture on Merrimon

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:00

  A black bear cub who stayed for three weeks on a wooded hillside next to Merrimon Avenue before being captured by wildlife authorities last Monday will have a new home at a state-owned facility north of Raleigh. ...

• Meg Hale: 'Everything is Illuminated' luminous in meaning, but vague in motive

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:36

  Meg HaleI am so proud of Liev Schreiber! He is this great, little-known actor ?±?± little-known because the films in which he is great are the ones that nobody sees. For instance, he was amazing playing legendary director Orson Welles in the 1999 film...

• Protestors to Taylor: Oppose Cuts to Social Programs

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:32

  Protestors gather in Pack Place last Wednesday to voice their opposition to proposed, federal budget cuts. Organized by MoveOn.org, the protestors urged Congressman Charles Taylor to vote against the cutsBy DAVID FORBESHolding signs and voicing their op...

• Karate Kids

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:56

  Staff Photo by Meg HaleMartial arts students Joshua Heetderks (14) and Claire Holland (16)practice Nakamura No Sai at the Center for Martial Arts on MerrimonAvenue. This form of karate-kobudo is say kata, which means "withouta bow." Earlier on...

• Council gives go-ahead to bank building on Merrimon

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:42

  By DAVID FORBESInstead of a vacant Burger King, those driving along Merrimon Avenue can expect to see a new office building with a bank drive-through at the intersection with Fenner Avenue in the coming year.Asheville City Council on Nov. 22 unanimously a...

• UNCA staff panel to push salaries as No. 1 concern

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:39

  Members of UNC Asheville??s Chancellor??s Staff Advisory Committee decided last Monday to voice their concerns about lagging staff salaries and the need for an ombudsman to address management issues to UNC system President-elect Erskine Bowles during a pl...

• Ancient Roman ideas have modern influence, prof says

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:35

  By DAVID FORBESThe Roman Empire may have ended more than a thousand years ago, but its ideas and images remain alive in today??s culture and politics, Dr. Brian Hook, a history professor at UNC Asheville, said in a Nov. 14 lecture in UNCA??s Humanities Le...

• Daily Planet: New City Council should appoint Freeborn to fill vacant seat

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:38

  Bryan Freeborn should fill Mayor-elect Terry Bellamy??s soon-to-be vacant seat on Asheville City Council. This is not a matter of political preference or an endorsement of Freeborn??s campaign for council. By making this statement, we are not indicating...

• John North: Bobs' show uneven, but vocal pyrotechnics prove memorable

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:33

  John NorthEditor & Publisher?®In the white room, with black curtains, near the station.Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.Silver horses, ran down moonbeams, in your dark eyes.Dawnlight smiles, on you leaving, my contentment...?â...

• David Forbes: What's so wise about the East? All 'wisdom' must be questioned

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:26

  David ForbesWisdom has to consist of more than simply flipping a traditional belief on its head.Sadly, since coming to Asheville, I have met countless souls who seem to think it means exactly that.This is nothing exclusive to this fair city, of course. ...

• Mark West: Reagan 'legacy' based more on hype than truth

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:18

  Mark WestThe greatest propaganda success of the Republican propaganda machine has been the notion that Ronald Reagan was a great president. The widening gap between rich and poor, the dismantling of the public safety net and the other changes he wrought...

• Seamus McNerney: No music education? No real conversation

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:09

  Seamus McNerneyMusic education is in the toilet. Funding has been drastically cut and, more disturbingly, interest among students and teachers (as well as administrators) alike is at an all-time low. I??m not speaking about any level of private or publi...

• Marc Mullinax: Fundamentalism? An addictive distrust of God and democracy

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:56

  Marc Mullinax?®I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God ?± and I hope you??ll quote me on that.?∆?±?± Arthur Hertzberg?ÿMARS HILL ?? This is the first in a series of essays on the ...

• Janese Johnson: Eastern, Western philosophies both contribute in great ways

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:50

  Janese JohnsonOver the past few months, I have heard a number of times how superior Western philosophy is to Eastern philosophy. I am not an expert or scholar in philosophy, but I am a life-long student of ideas. Therefore, my point of view will be comi...

• Brad Norman: New Major League baseball steroid tests? Step in right direction

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:38

  Brad NormanBOONE ?? Major League Baseball finally ?? finally! ?? realized the seriousness of steroid usage in the sport. Accordingly, officials have reacted.It was announced on Nov.15 that major league players and owners agreed on a new steroid policy, ...

• Meg Hale: 'A Little House Christmas' brings an early bit of holiday joy to Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:18

  Meg HaleThere is just something about Christmas that makes you want to watch all of those arguably cheesy holiday episodes of television shows that you watched as a child. It just is not Christmas until you have seen Charlie Brown decorate the stic...

• UNCA student found dead in dorm, police investigating

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:01

  Shelton Elizabeth Sanders, 19, a sophomore at UNC Asheville from Lumberton, was found dead in her room in Hoey Residence Hall around 11:40 a.m. last Friday.The cause of death remains unknown, but according to UNCA campus police on Monday morning, no foul ...