Does UNCA need a stronger physics and pre-med program? Or is it after all hauling excess programming supportive of philosophies less aligned with empiricism and rational thought and more into the marketing of junk science and superstition.

A commentary still up on the UNCA Blue Banner’s web site tells how Asheville’s status as a New Age mecca stems from quartz deposits exerting piezoelectric forces to form twenty-four vortices, which balance the human body, bringing health, with high-energy.

Granted, this piece represents just one student’s findings. However, the front page of the Blue Banner leads one to believe embracing diversity could play a greater role in education these days than teaching discernment and pragmatism.