THE
CLARION
THE
VOICE
OF BREVARD COLLEGE
Volume 44
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1977
Number 5
You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!
The Rev. Tom Price, Jr. keynote speaker.
Christian Encounter
Week About To Begin
Christian Encounter Week will Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Rap
be observed at Brevard College Session: “The Disappointment of
March 9-11. This period of special Realized Expectations”
study and personal rededication Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Rap
is sponsored each year by the Session: “The Need for Dr^ms
Brevard College Christian Friday, 7:00 a^. Prayer
Council. This student group ® Recovery o
works throughout the school year AuJ^enticity”
■tu 11 rru 1 • /-. j The convocation wiU be held in
with College Chaplam C. Edward „ v, „ a
D t j- t XU X- •*; f Dunham Auditorium, the Rap
Roy to coordinate the activities of m the Sims Student
the several religious
organizations on campus. ^
rru D J a, T Throughout Ws Stay at Brevard
The Reverend Tom be
Pastor of the First Umt^ counseling and
r loriaa, nas oeen seieciea as me indeed fortunate to have such
keynote speaker ^d r^ource ^ to
director for the week. A native of ^ ^^^ring Christian
G^esviUe, Florida Mr. Price is g^^ounter Week,
a graduate of the Univer^y of has been
norida where he majored m the past
^tory Follov^g hjs several years to have the
Si Tv f 1 „ ^ assistance of the Thomas F.
^ndler School of Theology, at ^ Foundation in bringing to
IZIr o^XiS y iSr^
Master of Divinity D^ree. services during
rw, • r T^- . Christian Encounter Week. Since
One major focus of Mr. Price s Distinguished
preaching has b^n the Old Scholar Lecturers at
Testament, which he feels g^evard College have included
contams a richness and vitoancy personages as Methodist
many Christians have not ap-gishop Ole E. Borgen, Episcopal
preciat^. “You can^t m-g^^e 43,000 United
derstand Jesus Christ Himself, jyigthodists in Northern Europe;
without understanding the roots ^ Huffman Jr., pastor
from which these sprang,” he First Presbyterian
says. During this week he will be in Pittsburgh, Penn-
seeking to make selected por- g a„d many others. “The
tions of the Old Testamait come F Staley Foundation is
alive and to show how they persuaded that the
contribute to our understanding ^ggsage of the Christian Gospel
of who we are, and, thus, whose proclaimed in its historic
we are. Mr. Price’s theme for the jg contemporary,
week will be “Foreshadowings of and meaningful to any
Faith”.
According to Mark « |Xd1tion site to briS to tte
^pl^ore ai^ Co^r^ident of university campuses
the Christian Counal, the week s America distinguished
activities WiU be broken down as Relieve and
^ who can clearly communicate to
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. Con- ..
vocation: “A Faith with Wings” '
Women residents at Brevard
College have come a long way in
the past few years in relation to
the rules regulating their
movement on and off campus.
As late as 1974, a woman had to
sign out if she left campus any
time after 7:30, even if she was
just walking across the street to
the store. This was changed in
the following semester to signing
out only if she was to be out of the
town of Brevard after 7:30 p.m.
In 1975 the rules were changed
once again. Now sign out was
mandatory for overnight leaves
only. It was still a great deal of
trouble because a woman had to
place on the card her destination,
its address or telephone number,
what time she was leaving, what
time she expected to be back and
her signature. Upon returning to
the dorm, she had to sign in with
her signature and time of arrival.
During the spring semester, sign
out included simply putting the
destination in a seded envelope
with the girl’s name and the date
on the outside. This was placed in
a certain box and could only be
opened in case of emereencv. It
was retrieved when she
returned. Then in 1976 sign out
became voluntary (which meant
that hardly anyone would sign
out) for everyone.
Until 1976, there were certain
people who could have special
late hours. These were, for the
most part, sophomores with a
certain grade point average. In
1976, the rules were rdaxed so
that everyone had the same
hours after their first semester at
Brevard College. In the fall
semester, closing hours for
freshmen were 11:15 Monday
through Thursday, 2:00 am
Friday and Saturday, and 12:00
on ^days. The hours for
sophomores were the same with
the exception of their week night
hours being 12:00. These hours
became the main bone of con
tention between students and
administration, not only because
of the times, but also because of
legislation passed in the fall of ’76
which prohibited any
discrimination between men and
women by schools receiving
government funds. Since the men
did not have curfew hours, the
women felt that they should not
have any either.
President Jacob Martinson and
Dean Mary Margret Houk came
to full dorm meetings in both of
the women’s dorms where a vote
was held to see how the girls felt
about the curfew hours. The final
vote was 125 to 65 in favor of
abolishing them altogether. Dean
Houk then got together with
r^resentatives from the
women’s dorms and worked out a
proposal whidi would allow the
women their freedom while at the
same time maintaining security.
The proposal was submitted to
President Martinson and was
approved.
The result of this was the in
troduction of the Card Key
Security System into Jones and
East Bean Dorms. It consists of
an electric lock with a
magnetized coding system which
can be opened only by a specially
designed and coded card. Any
girl wishing to do so may buy a
card from the dorm director for
$5.00 ($3.00 is refunded at the end
of the semester). This allows her
to return to the dorm at any time
she pleases and at the same time
maintains security for those in
the building. The doors to the
dorms are locked at midnight
every night, but if a girl wants to
come in later and needs a card
for THAT NIGHT ONLY she may
check one out from the dorm
director to use and then she must
return it later. A $25 fee is
charged for any card lost or
damaged beyond use. This will
help pay for the cost of having the
code cartridge in the lock and the
cards changed to a different
code. The $2.00 kept from the
deposit fee will go toward
changing the code it the end of
each semester as well as the
initial cost.
Many problems were en
countered in the installation of
the system. These ranged from
having to order it from California
to delays in transportation to
problems in getting the people to
come out and install it. Finally, it
was ready to install, but, in
Jones, the wire connecting the
unit to its power source was cut
and had to be replaced. It was
installed, though, and on
February 12, Brevard College
women gained the right to
establish their own hours.
The majority of the students at
BC seem to appreciate the efforts
of President MartinK)n, Dean
Houk, and the student
r^resentatives, but some don’t.
The wire that was cut did not cut
itself. Someone had to have cut it.
If something like this happens
again, those girls who are out
after the doors are locked are out
of luck. The privileges that we
have worked so hard to get
should not be abused or we might
end up where we were before.
Some care should be taken with
the cards since they are
magnetically treated. Magnets
should be kept away from them
because there is the chance that
the code would be altered and the
card be useless. Any holes that
are drilled in the cards (so that
they might be placed on key
rings) should be drilled at the
office of the Director of Security
or, if you want to do it yourself,
it should be placed at the opposite
end of the card from the one
marked insert.
The card keys designed for
Jones Dorm will not work on the
lock in East Beam and visa
versa. Neither can the cards be
duplicated except by the
manufacturer.
You’ve come a long way, Baby,
so let’s keep it that way!
TREND COMMUNITY CENTER
The Trend Community Sffvice
Building here in Brevard is fast
becoming a Mecca for Brevard
College students. Brevard
students have become aware of
the many services which the
Trend Center offers.
On the first floor of the Center
one will find the department of
Social Services, the Mental
Health Department, and the
Public Health Department.
The Department of Social
Services will help persons
wishing information on Medicaid
and Food Stamps.
The Mental Health Department
can and has been of great help to
Brevard’s students. This
department provides services to
people who abuse drugs or
alcohol or who have more serious
emotional problems. The Mental
Health Department has trained
counselors willing to help in
psychotherapy, group coun
seling, and mental retardation.
There is a “Hot Line” service
available twenty-four hours a
day at 884-2027 day and 883-3311
night.
The cost of the Mental Health
Department’s services can be
geared to the individual’s own
£indnc6S»
The Public Health Departinent
provides health care for aU
Transylvania county residents
(including Brevard College
Students). This health care in
cludes innoculations against
various diseases, birth control
and family planning, a venereal
disease clinic, a child health
program, an orthopedic clinic, an
eye clinic, screening for diabetes
and hypertension, and chest x-
rays with a follow-up on positive
TB skin tests and chronic lung
disease. All of these services may
be reached by calling 884-2114.
The second floor of the Com
munity Services Building houses
the North Carolina Security
Security Commission, the Child
Development Program,
Agricultural Service, the
H.S.D.A. office, the F.H.A. office,
the A.S.C.S. offices, the North
Carolina Forestry Services, and
H. S. Army and Navy recruiting
Offices.