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The candidates speak: Video of the League of Women Voters Forum ***UPDATED***
The League of Women Voters just celebrated its 90th birthday, and here in Asheville, celebrating means doing what they always do at election time: host a candidate forum. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, that’s just what happened. This post contains video of the entire forum and Twitter dispatches from Xpress staffers Jake Frankel and Michael Muller.
Concerts on the Quad at UNCA
Bring the family, pack a picnic and enjoy live music at UNCA’s annual Concerts on the Quad Summer Music Series, held on Monday evenings starting June 14. The festivities kick off with a performance by R&B and funk musician Cool John Ferguson.
Civil Rights leader, freedom singer Bernice Johnson Reagon will deliver UNCA commencement address
Noted Civil Rights leader and Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon will give this year’s commencement address at UNCA. Chancellor Anne Ponder will confer honorary degrees on Reagon and legendary UNC-Chapel Hill Coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams at the university’s spring commencement. The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 15, on UNC Asheville’s Quad.
UNCA opens Pisgah House; part shelter, part showcase
UNC-Asheville officials on Thursday showed off a new $2.9 million building on campus that will serve as home for Chancellor Anne Ponder, as well as a public space for the university to hold special events and woo potential donors.
2009 UNC system cuts
This is a summary approved by the N.C. Board of Governors that discusses 2009 legislative cuts to UNC system schools, including centers and institutions. Click here to download a PDF of the report. This is a budget reduction plan dated June from the UNC General Administration. Note the mention of the 10 percent reduction. UNCA […]
Director responds to water-quality testing center closing
In an e-mail to Xpress, the director of the Environmental Quality Institute challenges numbers supplied by UNC-Asheville, and says the university profits from the center.
UNC Asheville announces layoffs
UNCA responds to a 10 percent budget reduction throughout the UNC system.
Summer concerts at Biltmore and UNCA’s quad
Two very different venues; two sets of summertime mainstays. The Biltmore Estate and UNCA have quite the lineup for their summer concert series, from crooners to Piedmont blues.
Robots descend on UNCA!
Robotics engineers and their creations gather at The Robot Rally this weekend.
UNCA captures Quiz Bowl title
Quick: Name the geological feature known as a thin band of sediment that marks what many believe was a mass-extinction event more than 65 million years ago.
Graffitist expelled from UNCA ***UPDATE***
A UNC Asheville student caught in an Asheville Police Department graffiti investigation has been expelled, police report.
N.C. colleges looking good in Kiplinger’s latest rankings
UNC Chapel Hill took first place for in-state public universities and Davidson College ranked fourth for private colleges in the latest Kiplinger ratings.
UNCA acquires green oasis
UNC Asheville has acquired 10 acres of tree-studded land at the corner of W.T. Weaver Boulevard and Merrimon Avenue, the school announced Dec. 31. Between them, the Weaver and Rhoades families have owned the old homestead for more than 100 years. Green oasis: UNCA has acquired the 10 acres of land at the corner of […]
UNCA adds ‘green oasis’ to its holdings
UNC Asheville announced Wednesday that it has acquired 10 acres of tree-studded land at the intersection of W.T. Weaver Boulevard and Merrimon Avenue that might one day serve as an eco-village for students and faculty.
The Other Side of the Mountain
All of a sudden it seems to some, if not to those of us who are older, that we have an “energy crisis.” We’ve been living on the edge for years, driving larger and larger cars, building larger and larger homes, and pretending the supply of oil and especially gasoline was unlimited. Oops: Now the […]
Welcome to Wellville
Asheville and environs has a rich history as a health haven, ranging from 19th- and early 20th-century resorts and tuberculosis care to today’s diverse healing arts. And that focus seems likely to grow in years to come, thanks partly to the N.C. Center for Health & Wellness. About 100 people braved a brisk spring wind […]
UNCA Graduate Center asks “What do YOU want?”
The Asheville Graduate Center is conducting a study to assess the needs of the local community for graduate classes.
UNCA ranked a bargain — again
Asheville campus named one of nation’s top 50 “Best Values” by Consumers Digest.
Love makes a family
Time was, the term “nuclear family” brought to mind mommy, daddy and the proverbial 2.5 kids. Of course, in reality, families come in many different configurations, a fact borne out in a photography exhibition hosted at UNCA. All in the family: Photo from the Love Makes a Family exhibit. From left to right, Michael Elsasser […]
Despair and hope
photo by Jonathan Welch Mark Gibney is an ambitious man. When he’s 85, he says, he’s going to be the No. 1 tennis player in the world. But at 53, he’s pretty busy doing his bit to make sure there’ll still be a world by then, through such efforts as his forthcoming book, Ending the […]