THE
Volume 43
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Friday, February 6, 1976
Annual Fund
Raising Begins
Brevard College — The 1975-76
Brevard College Annual Fund
has begun in Transylvania
County, according to an an
nouncement by Dr. Milton V.
Massey, Transylvania County
chairman for the Fund.
The campaign got under way
officially with a kick off dinner at
the College for executive com
mittee members and captains of
the Brevard College Tran
sylvania County Fund.
Purposes of the 1975-76 Brevard
College Fund are; To help
Brevard College maintain and
enhance the quality of its
teaching and learning; to un
dergird and expand funds for
student aid; to underwrite and
expand funds for the library; to
help make campus im
provements; and to help Brevard
operate in the black.
To keep the cost of attending
college within the reach of many,
tuition at Brevard is held well
below what it actually costs to
operate the College. Tuition in
come generated by the College’s
endowment, and appropriations
of the United Methodist Church
meet more than 75 per cent of
operating expense. To this are
added gifts from business firms
and private foundations, as well
as contributions from trustees,
alumni and friends. The faculty
and staff also share in this un
dertaking.
A $30,tK)0 goal has been set for
the Transylvania County Fund
which is part of the overall 1975-
76 Brevard College Fund, headed
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Pep Band
Is It Going From Here?
Brevard College has had a lot
of controversy concerning a pep
band and the expenses it would
take for ti to perform at the home
basketball games. The Clarion
thinks that this controversy
should be brought before the
student’s eyes for examination of
the situation.
Brevard College does not have
a so called “pep” band by name,
but the music department tries to
work in the concert band and the
76 Brevard College Fund, headed ^„rk in the concert oana anu
by the College’s Development stage band to perform at a
Council of which Ray Simmons is couple of the home soccer an
Chairman. ~
“An excellent case can be
made, Simmons said, “that
economic and cultural returns to
Transylvania County far out
weigh the investment we must
make.” He indicated that at the
basketball games. The stage
band, which consists mosUy of
brass and percussion in
struments, is an academic class
and the students get credit for
taking this ensemble.
terpret it. Coach Meyerhoff went
personally to one of the S.U.L.
meetings to get something going
on the order of a pep band at the
home basketball games. As far as
we can determine, it fell through
and was not passed through the
SUL much less mentioned
again^ Why????? The best
conclusion we can come up with
is that it was not the music
department’s fault and it was not
the athletic departments faui^t.
So the only thing that is left is the
student’s interest. This is the
main reason why the basketball
and soccer games, during in
termission, are so, shall we say,
“uninteresting.”
Now, why can’t a few music
students on their own ge
together and make some noise a
some of the home basketball
students to go to the S.U.L. and
tell them that they want “such-n-
such” song as our fight song and
for them to pass it into the con
stitution.
And what about school
spirit??????? Well, just like the
rest of the things that have
happened, the students’ interest
has let everything that makes
school spirit go down the drain;
so there is hardly any school
atmosphere on campus.
Student involvement. . . that’s
the answer and where has it gone
and where is it going????????
You say - Why can’t S.U.L. do
anything??? The answer is quite
simple; the S.U.L. cannot do
anything or try to accomplish
anything unless it has the support
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weigh the investment we must the home basketoaii / So whv haven’t
make.” He indicated that at the According to the games? It would make the game ° to jhe S.U.L. to
Tuesday evening dinner meeting department, the music as^^ be good for ^
full information regarding this woueht for the stage niavprs and fans. . q fioht sone at
bought for the stage band to
make some noise, and the
did not pass the budget for the
expense to play
games. Between classes and
Serving on the executive scheduled concerts, ®
committee of the Transylvania ^and tries to “pep-up tne -
1 nrto iT'iinH during ®
information regarding this
was presented to the many
persons who have volunteered to
work in the 1975-76 Fund.
County Brevard College Fund
with Chairman Milton Massey
are: Donald R. Blankinship, Gil
Coan, Sr., Dr. W. A. Davis,
Charles B. Eggleston, Charles F.
Himes, Charles L. Russell,
lermLionforacoupleofahome
games.
Last year there was a proposal
to pass a budget for the stage
harles L. Kusseii, pass a Duugci. ^
William L. Scarborough, Ralph band to play so it coiJd
C. Williams, Henry McDonald, little “pep” ^ jjj.
and Dr. Robert F. Tuttle. basketball games. As
livelier and be good
players and fans.
What about the alma mater or
a fight song? Our records show
that there might have been an
alma mater a long time ago, but
what happened to it? After years
and years, the students must
have let it fall through, and now
?his generation at Brevard
Coolege does not have an a ma
mater. What about a fight
sons’’''’ It is not up to the music
“ athletic departments to come
up with one. It IS -P •*«
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the students gone to the S.U.L. to
say we want this and that and a
pep band to play a fight song at
the basketball games. Could it be
that the students don’t want to get
involved or are they too afraid to
come before the S.U.L. (or
whoever) and say what they
think should be done? Instead of
our asking the question “Why,”
we think that each student who
reads this article should ask
himself, “Why doesn’t Brevard
College have a “pep” band at the
games??????????”
Senior College
Day For
Sophomores
Graduating sophomores will
have opportunity to meet with a
selected number of four-year
college representatives on
Wednesday, February 25. The
Senior College Day will begin at
1:30 p.m. and continue until 5:00
p.m., according to Dr. Branson
Thurston, Dean of the College.
Each of the participating colleges
will have a table in the Sims
Student Union Building.
Invitations have been sent to all
colleges holding a Direct
Transfer Agreement with
Brevard College. These schools
would provide Brevard College
A. A. graduates special
assurances of transfer of credit
and possible preferences
regarding housing and financial
aid. As the CLARION goes to
press, the following Direct
Transfer colleges have indicated
their plans for one or more
representatives to be on campus
on February 25: Bennett, Camp
bell, Carson-Newman, Coker,
Elon, Florida Southern,
Greensboro, High Point,
LaGrange, Limestone, Mars Hill,
Methodist Pfeiffer, Shenandoah
College and Conservatory of
Music, Tusculum, Wesleyan,
Wofford.
In addition the following
regional universities have ac
cepted the special invitations
extended to them: Appalachian
State, Duke, North Carolina
State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-
Charlotte, USC-Columbia, UT-
Knoxville, Western Carolina.