Wednesday, October 31, 1984
The Clarion
Page Three
How T o CopeWith Homesickness
By Troy Hughes
Does anyone have a spare car
he can lend me? Or maybe $200
for a plane ticket? It’s tough liv
ing 700 miles away from home
sometimes, especially when
you’re broke and your car doesn’t
run.
Homesickness is a disease that
strikes everyone, I think, to some
degree or another while they are
at college. (You day students can
stop reading now-go home for
lunch or something.)
It could be just missing
something trivial like your room
at home, or a favorite radio sta
tion, or your family. Or it could
be something important like a
boyfriend or a girlfriend, or the
beach (for you Floridians...).
I’m sure everyone misses
something back home, and that’s
a symptom of homesickness.
We’re now entering that time of
year when cases of homesickness
really become acute. It’s sort of
like the flu-it has something to do
with the cold weather.
Cold weather brings memories
of staying warm with that special
someone at high school football
games, of your first snowball
fight (for you non-Floridians...)
Spend Spring Break
In Sunny Jamaica
Would you like to spend spring
break snorkeling over spec
tacular coral reefs, observing
vividly colored reef fishes, learn
ing about the varied marine and
terrestrial environments and the
organisms that populate them,
while seeing the “real”
Jamaica? If so, maybe you
should consider enrolling in
Biology 289, Marine and Tropical
Ecology, which will be offered
spring semester.
Dr. Bill Brower will be return
ing to Hofstra University’s
Marine Lab in Jamaica with a
small group of students, follow
ing last year’s very successful
trip. Dr. Bill Alexander will also
Creeking:
OldBC
Tradition
By Andrea Braymiller
The creek in all its innocence
and beauty, banked by weeping
willows blowing gently in the
wind is party to an old Brevard
tradition. What is this tradition
which familiarizes Brevard Col
lege students with its icy yet
refreshing water? The answer is
“creeking” which each student
will experience at least once in
Ms or her career at Brevard Col
lege.
The student is generally for
mally introduced to the creek on
Ms birthday; however, there are
some people who can not wait
that long. The student never
quite knows when the “creeking”
time will be. The morning, noon,
Minutes before the cafeteria
stops serving dinner, and even in
the dead of night are all excellent
Possibilites.
The lucky person is given “a
free lift” to the creek by generous
®nd caring friends. Once
■■eaching the creek, the student is
carried across the bridge and
*ith the blessing of the water, he
is thrown in. He may splash
around to make it look good
and of Christmas, all memories
you associate with home.
So what can you do? It’s bound
to happen sometime--
homesickness strikes the har
diest of souls (usually when they
least expect it). What’s the best
treatment for homesickness?
Probably the best thing you can
do is simply go home. If you don’t
live too far away and you have
transportation, you can go home
every weekend. Problem solved.
But, for those of us who live a
good distance from home
(anywhere from 800 miles to half
way around the world) or don’t
have a car, we re lucky to get
home once a year.
People who can’t go home
every time they get homesick
have to settle for substitutes. The
best substitute there is is mail.
Mail can bring all kinds of things
to help you get over the away-
from-home blues, or at least
make them more bearable.
Things like cards from
sweethearts, news from friends,
and money from Mom and Dad.
Especially money from Mom and
Dad.
be helping teach this combination
field trip/lecture course, which
will emphasize an introduction to
marine plants, animals, and
tropical ecosystems of Jamaica.
Approximate trip cost is $800-850
dollars for the 8 night stay.
If you are interested in obtain
ing more information about the
trip, please attend an organiza
tional and informational meeting
on Thursday, November 1, at 7:00
p.m. in room 201 in the Moore
Science Building. Slides from
last year’s trip will be shown. If
you are unable to attend, please
contact Dr. Brower or Dr. Alex
ander in the Mpore Science
Building for further information.
This”year’s Ambassador Singers are: (row 1) Lynda
Lambeth, Christopher Mann, Ann Kirby, (row 2) Tim
'Wall, Lynley Todd, Susie Head, Daryll 'Williams, (row
3) Donnie Shiftlet, Caryn Claus, Joel Rogers, and Tina
Taylor.
Ambassador Singers Selected
By Susan Rogers
Thirteen outstanding members
of the Brevard College Collegiate
Singers have been selected to
make up the 1984-85 Ambassador
Singers.
The group made their debut in
a salute to Broadway during “An
Afternoon in the Park,” a recent
Life and Culture presentation.
They performed a number of
well-known show tunes and
received their first standing ova
tion.
This special group was chosen
to participate in several extra
curricular activities that,
because of its small size, it it
more suited to than the Collegiate
Waite’s “No Brakes
Promises Success
Singers would be. They plan to
perform in various places around
the state in the spring.
According to soprano Tina
Taylor, “This group is an ideal
size for performing and touring
and all the voices blend together
very well.”
The Ambassador Singers is
made up of ten sophomores and
three freshmen.. They are Caryn
Claus, Tina Taylor, Ann Kirby,
Susie Head, Lynley Todd,
Chikako Yamaguchi, Sara
Carter, Lynda Lambeth, Daryll
Williams, Christopher Mann,
Tim Wall, Joel Rogers, and Don
nie Shiftlet.
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because if the spectators are not
satisfied, they will push him in
again.
Clad in soaked clothing, the stu
dent is escorted back to his dorm
room to change clothes. Wet
clothes are the only problem
because they have to be washed,
but that’s life!
So if your birthday is fast ap
proaching, here is some simple
advice: beware, wear old clothes,
and don’t worry about doing a
bang-up job on your hair. Happy
Creeking!
By Robin Thomas
“No Brakes” the newly releas
ed album by singer-songwriter
John Waite, containing the hit
“Missing You,” can be easily en
joyed by those who want to hear
good rock-n-roll and by listeners
who appreciate a variety of well
written, well arranged songs.
“Missing You,” written by
Waite and the slowest song on the
album, is definately one of the
album’s high points. Waite’s
smooth, clear singing voice can
easily be heard and understood.
Other songs written by Waite
are “Saturday Night,” an ex
cellent upbeat opening song.
“Restless Heart,” “Love Colli
sion,” and “Dreamtime/Shake It
Up.’’
“Euroshima” and “For Your
Love,” also written by Waite, are
both good contrasts to “Missing
You” and since his next release
should be different, either of the
songs would be favored.
Players Gary Myrick
(guitars), Curly Smith (drum
kit), Donnie Nossov (electric
bass guitar), Bruce Brody
(keyboards), and Steve Scales
(percussion), all help make John
Waite’s “No Brakes” a promis
ing success.
But if all else fails (and it has to
be a severe case of homesickness
is money doesn’t help...) there is
one more thing you can do. It
takes a lot of effort, and it isn’t by
any means a sure thing, but it
might work. It’s simply this: try
to think of college as sort of a
home away from home.
I know it sounds corny, and it
is. I tried it and it didn’t help
much. See, it doesn’t look like I’ll
be going home until Christmas.
Unless of course someone has an
extra car or $200 they don’t need.
Movies
“Teachers”
Disappointing
By Robin Thomas
“Teachers,” starring Nick
Nolte, Judd Hirsch, and JoBeth
Williams, despite its talented
cast, is a predictable and very
disappointing movie.
The movie begins as a comedy
set at J.F.K. High School. It deals
with a school psychologist who
goes crazy, a teacher who is real
ly an escaped mental patient, and
another who snores through all
his classes. Eventually, however,
the movie becomes very serious.
JoBeth Williams (“The Big
Chill”) plays an attorney who is
handling a suit involving a stu
dent who graduated from the
school without learning how to
read or write.
Nick Nolte (“48 Hours”), the
brightest spot in the movie, plays
the most believable character.
He portrays a social studies
teacher willing to fight the school
system and falls in love with his
former student, the attorney
(Williams). This romance is not
only hard to believe, but it hap
pens much too fast and then
never seems to go "nywhere,
leaving tin:, audience not really
caring about either character.
Judd Hirsch, (“Taxi”) plays
the school vice-principal who is
torn between the school system
with Nolte, his close friend, or
giving in to demands for a cover-
up.
Ralph Macchio (“The Karate
Kid”) and Richard Mulligan
(“Soap”) add some humor and
sensitivity to the story but over
all most movie-goers should pass
this one by.
Parents’ Day Schedule
Nov.2-parents may attend
classes
-8:15 presentation of
Oklahoma”
Nov.3-9:30 a.m. parents may
meet faculty
-1:00 p.m. women’s blue-
white basketball game
-3:00 p.m. men’s blue-
white basketball game
—8:15 presentation of
“Oklahoma”
Nov.4-10:00 a.m. special college
worship service