the CLARION
THE VOICI or BREVARP COI.LECE STUDENTS
edition 2
Tuesday, September 26,1979
Volume 47
Monroe Pleases Crowd
BILL MUNROE
Minister and Mentalist
To Work Their Magic
by Donna Mulford
The two upcoming Life and
Culture Series are Reverend Jim
Gilland and Preston the Miracle-
ist. Reverend Gilland will speak
September 26th at 10:00 a.m.
Preston the Miracle-ist will
"appear” October 2nd at 8:15
pm. Both of these will be held in
Dunham Auditorium.
Reverend Jim Gilland is the
pastor of First United Methodist
Church. Last year Reverend
Gilland spoke on women, saying
never underestimate the power
of a woman.” With wisdom like
™s, it is no wonder that the
Clarion reviewer said, he “put
“e students at ease with his
’asual and humorous manner
his un-sermon-like ap
proach.”
by Nancy Ennis
Bill Monroe, anchorman and
executive producer of the award-
winning news show Meet the
Press, kicked off the Life and
Culture series September 11th by
delivering his views on the
government and the upcoming
1980 election.
Touching on those
“Republicans fumbling out of the
starting gate by the dozens” and
mentioning that Governor Jerry
Brown and Senator Ted Kennedy
were ready and waiting at the
gate, he spoke mainly of the
“embattled presidency of Jimmy
Carter” and the long term
prospects for the third American
century.
He continued that, “I don’t see
Jimmy Carter either as a
brilliant, inspired man whose
leadership at a tumultuous time
is the absolute best that this
country can produce, nor do I see
him as a bumbling, inept, in
decisive executive whose every
act and policy have let this
country ddown I see him as a
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human being of superior ability
and commitment. And at the
same time, a man of defects,
particularly in his relationship
with people. Defects that are
deeply troubling his presidency”.
He spoke of the years ahead of
us and said that, “the years
ahead are obviously going to be
thick with troubles and
frustrations. But those dif
ficulties may be like those of
climbing a mountian, difficulties
containing the promise of
triumph and exhiliration.
Because we have the wealth,
know-how, and democratic vigor
to provide more constructive
leadership from one nation than
this world has ever seen. ’ ’
He add that the noted
American architect Phillip
Johnson recently expressed a
sense of excitement Tn the coming
years when he said, “We are
entering an era that I don’t know
the name of, and even those that
say they know the name of don’t
know the name of. But it’s a great
adventurist, pluralist future. I
would offer the predication that a
Preston the Miracle-ist has
performed at many colleges and
universities. Close to home,
Clemson College says he was
“spectacular and highly en
tertaining to six thousand
people,” so he should do well in
the six hundreds. The first part of
the show will be magic and
secondly, hypnotism. In the past,
Preston’s show has been so well
received that he has been asked
back by one university for
twenty-three performances for
twenty-three years. He must
work magic with G.P.A.’s!
Both of those upcoming
Humanities programs promise to
be entertaining; Reverend
Gilland, as an interesting
speaker and Preston the Miracle-
ist as a magician.
See Football
Contest
Page 4
B.C. Enrollment Up
By Alan Odom
Brevard College’s fiscal year of
9-1980 has the largest
ewollment since 1853, with a
Pulus of 708 students as op-
^sed to 648 in the fall of 1978. The
eturnmg Class of 1978-79 was the
®'"®''ard’s history. The
students
also mcreased
amatically since^ last year.
B foreign students at
■ ■ irty of those are Japanese.
® mean SAT scores for
enrolling students were nineteen
points higher than last year.
The top five states in
enrollment are North Carolina,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
and Virginia.
Due to the increase in boarding
students, Brevard has had to
initiate temporary housing for
approximately twenty-five
students at the Ross Hall
Duplexes. The residents will
hopefully be moved to dor
mitories within the near future.
hundred years from now
historians will look back on the
period we are now about to enter
and they will call it America’s
great century.”
The majority of the audience
was well pleased with what he
had to say, as was indicated by
their frequent, applause during
his speech.
After his speech, he had a few
words of advice for the jour
nalism students. “Going into the
field of journalism, I would study
political science, history, and
economics. There’s a lot of
dealing with government and
pohtics in journalism. Economics
is increasingly important.”
He went on to say, “The
journahsm students I had a
chance to talk with-including you-
ask interesting, good questions. I
had a feeling that there was a lot
of character and jive among
them. And I had a feeling that
most of these people I was talking
to, who probably felt nervous now
;.bout how to get into journalism
and what they would do — that
they would do well. ”
Adult Education Classes
Offered
Cast Is
Announced
by Chris Pustorino
Auditions were held and
rehearsals have been underway
for the upcoming production of
the comedy, A FUNNY THING
HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO
THE FORUM, by Steven Son
dheim.
The story is set in old Rome and
the main roles include Steve
Collins as Sennex, a Roman
citizen; Elizabeth Mongiovi as
his wife, Domina; Marty Nichols
as their son, Hero, and Loren
Mott as Pseudolus, slave to Hero.
Performances of the musical-
comedy are scheduled for
November 1-4 and again
November 8-10 in the Barn
Theater.
Because of the enthusiastic
response of Brevard citizens to
the previous series of LIFE mini
courses, Brevard College is of
fering another series of non
credit classes to adults wishing to
enlarge their learning ex
perience.
Two fall courses will be offered
beginning Monday, October 1 and
continuing through November 19.
Registration will take place
September 26, 27, 28, McLarty-
Goodson Building, Office 105.
Registration fee is $10.00 for each
course.
Dr. Howard Boyd, who gave a
spring class on flowers of the
area, will conduct a fall class on
“The Forest: A Miracle of Life”.
The first session will meet in the
Library Seminar Room at one
o’clock, October 1. Remaining
sessions will be held at Gwyn
Valley Camp. Those par
ticipating, if they wish, may have
lunch in the college cafeteria
before going to class.
Dr. Clarke Wellborne, acting
Head of the Department of
Mathematics and Natural
Sciences, will be coordinator for
the general topic “Frontiers of
Science”. Members of the
department will present various
apprcpriate subjects in scientific
fields. This class will meet
beginning Monday, October 1, at
3:30p.m., in the Library Seminar
Freshman Reps Elected
by Greg Bare
Two freshmen representatives
from each dormitory and four
freshman Day Students have
been elected to fulfill the 16
positions on the Social Board.
One position has not yet been
filled by East Beam.
Freshmen representing Taylor
Hall are Ted Price and Jay
Southerland, Eric PhiUips and
Bobby Knowles from Green
Dorm. Representing West Beam
are Steve Moore and Donny
Rabbs.
Old Jones’ representatives are
Laura Estep and Laura An
derson. Pam “Boo” Blalock and
Carolyn Welsh will represent
new Jones. East Beam’b
representative is Wendy Jensen.
The four freshman students
representing Day Students are
Kevin Lusk, Lisa Beebe, Scott
Plemmons, and Richard Rowe.
Kevin Herron has been selected
by the Social Board to hold the
office of vice-president in Green,
Kevin will also be serving on the
Judicial Board.