Ralph Fickel's notes on rock climbing in the Southern Appalachians in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1979 the Faculty Development Fund was created by the ASU Foundation allowing for much more funding for faculty research and projects. An emission spectrograph was bought for the Geology Department and the New York Loft continued to be improved. There were many improvements to the campus such as the re-roofing of I.G. Greer and the completion of the stadium.

President William Friday's report of the University of North Carolina and the development of its 16 campuses over the school year 1979-80.