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Editor Bonnie Davis
Business Manager and
Advertising Sales Director Lynn Heater
Arts Editor ...David Moody
Photographer Eric Klingensmith
Staff Reporters Cathy Haynie, Sandy Rogers
Mark Weekley, Kerry Wells, Mitsy Phillips,
Kimberly Belanger, Laura Hannah, Lynn
Heater, Melissa Miles, April Woods, Chris Har
ris, Rebecca Russ, Kirsten Reed, Julie Thomp
son
F'aculty Advisor Jock Lauterer
Circle K Club learning and teaching
by Mark Weekley
This year, Brevard College members of
Circle K will be teaching as well as learn
ing.
During September, the Brevard College
Circle K Club began a tutoring program at
Brevard Elementary School. About 15
Circl K members volunteer each week to
assist with instruction in math or reading,
PE, music or theater, and computers.
This tutoring program will run until the
end of spring semester.
Other projects sponsored by Circle K on
the BC campus include helping with the
Red Cross Bloodmobile, the Jaycees'
haunted house, the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce Christmas parade, and
distributing food gifts from the Brevard
College Christmas program.
This November, Circle K will sponsor a
Sports Hall of
Fame coming
by Mitsy Phillips
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
exhibit will be on display in the Jones
library on Friday, Oct. 17, as part of its
three-year trip around the state.
The exhibit features a selection of items
from the Sports Hall of Fame. Some of the
Items to be shown include “Choo Choo”
■lustice s UNC football jersey, Jim
Beatty's track shoes and Richard Petty’s
acing boots. The exhibit also includes
history of North Carolina sports and
utlines the criteria for admission to the
'■ports Hall of Fame.
The exhibit also includes a three-minute
udio portion of real broadcast tapes of
vents such as a Petty victory, Beatty’s
ecord breaking four-minute mile, and N.C
'tate University’s 1974 national basketball
hampionship win. According to Mike Mc-
abe, library director, the audio portion of
le exhibit may not be shown because of
ossible interference with the library's
ormal routine.
After its three-year trip around the
ate, the Sports Hall of Fame will have ex-
ibit space in the new North Carolina
iuseum of History building.
The exhibit will be set up on Thursday,
ct. 16 and will be on display that evening
id all day Fnday. Admission is free.
turkey walk. People participating will be
asked to find sponsors for each mile they
walk. The proceeds from this walk will go
to the American Heart Association.
Circle K is the world’s largest collegiate
organization including almost 800 clubs.
On the national level, Circle K is sponsored
by Kiwanis International. The Brevard
College Circle K Club is sponsored by the
local Kiwanis Club, which pays Circle K’s
annual sponsorship fee. Circle K also gets
funds from the SGA and from fund raising
projects.
Walt Kuentzel, the Circle K advisor,
welcomes anyone who would like to join.
The next Circle K meeting will be at 8 p.m.
on Oct. 24 in the private dining room of the
cafeteria. “Circle K gives students a break
from the college routine,” says Kuentzel,
“and provides them with a good way to
become involved with the community.”
The editor’s opinion
Our turn is coming
by Bonnie Davis
The good ’ol U.S. of A. has been built on the idea of Tlw Amencan
Dream-“Lite, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness^ This famous
Srom the Declaration of Independence is often heard and epitomizes
whafAmerTca and its people are all about. But that was 200 years ago
when life was much more basic, simple, and uncluttered with the pro-
^IrxiTomarJeto could be brought forward to the twentieth-
century, could he have written that famous line above and really believ-
^^When are Americans going to STOP being so disillusioned with the
world*^ Sure we’ve got things a lot better than other countries, but
we’re still not’so great as we like to think. We’re so darned busy concer
ning ourselves with everyone else’s problems that we’re overlooking
problems within our own border lines.
We have our own poor and hungry on the streets, yet we seem more
concerned with those of other countries like Ethiopia. America s
farmers are losing their lands, not to mention their heritages. And who
helped build this country with The American Dream in mind? Yes,
farmers! Our crime rate is one of the highest and more people die from
gun-related deaths than in any other country.
We’re probably the only nation around that has its own unique form of
“terrorists”-civilian Rambos carrying legal fire arms in self-defense.
We may not be fighting an enemy on the forefronts, but “wars” are
fought daily in the streets.
And people die.
What is there to look forward to in these last years of the ’80s? We, and
that’s you and I, live in what seems to be a “Jaded Age.” Nuclear war
hangs over our heads like a dark, ominous cloud giving cause for
speculation over the future—if we have one to speculate on at all. Well
life is no bowl of cherries, especially if you stop to take off the rose-
colored glasses for a good look.
But back to the original question. What is there to look forward to?
First of all, we’re alive, we’re free, and we have within us the ability to
change this world and make it a better place to live in. No other nation
can claim that same power. And what’s more? We have the desire to
change our world to keep The American Dream alive. Let’s just hope
we remember how to do that when its our turn.
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Costanza’s World
by Chris Costanza