The Clarion February 28, 1989 Page 5
BC's Mexico work team leaves March 3
from B(' News Bureau
With the Bush Administration setting the
national tone of volunteerism and Senator
Sam Nunn suggesting a bill requiring na
tional service of college students, Brevard
College is already implementing its own
“service component” with a spring break
trip to Mexico.
Brevard College President Dr. William
T. Greer originated the scrvice program
last summer out of his desire, he says, to
bridge the gap between the classroom
and reality.”
Dr. Greer began by hiring veteran
volunteer coordinator Sybil Dodson as the
school s new Community Service Program
Coordinator. Dodson, who for 15 years ran
a community center for the disadvantaged
m Columbus, Ga., is also a deaconess of
the United Methodist Church. It was her
contact with missionary friend Marcella
Mathys in Durango, Mexico, that led to the
upcoming work trip over Spring Break.
With Dr. Greer’s blessing, Dodson
designed the college’s first international
News of Note. •.
Band premieres Whatley’s work
by Russ Evans
Clarion Reporter
“Different,” says one student.
“I like it,” says another.
“A bit rambunctious,” says Dr. Larry
Whatley.
By now you are probably wondering
what this is all about. I know I would be.
Dr. Whatley, a music professor professor
here at BC,recently completed his com
position for this years BC concert band.
Dr. Whatley started over a year ago on this
piece, and finally completed it in
December.
According to Dr. Whatley, this was a
major work and a major project for him. A
lot of hours went into the making of Sym
phonic Essay for Band, as it is titled.
It is a conservative, modern contem
porary piece in mixed meter. The piece
starts out slowly, then livens to a quick
tempo. Dr. Whatley is excited about this
composition, especially since it is his first
one written for band in 20 years.
Steve Kelley, chairman of the Music
Department here at BC, asked Dr.
Whatley to write a piece, so he started out
with a single idea, and built from there,
putting various ideas together. Dr.
Whatley says that this is written in his
style of composing. He has had plenty of
time to develop this style, he has been
composing since he was 15 years old. He
actively composed during his college
years at the University of Alabama, and
has had his compositions performed by the
University of Alabama Bands, the
Asheville Symphony Orchestra, the
Brevard High School Band, the BC Concert
Band, and at various other places.
Dr. Whatley is excited about the
premiere of this piece on April 13 at the
Spring Concert by the BC Concert Band,
and is looking forward to hearing it for the
first time.
work mission and called it “Project Inside-
Out” to represent a real educaiton exten
ding “from inside the classroom to outside
- to the real world,” Dodson says.
It’s that connection between classroom
and “real world” that excited Dodson and
Greer. “That’s what’s going to turn kids on
to learning — when they see what they’re
learning in the classroom and how it’s ap
plied outside — and that ties right into
their growth and development — that to
me is the exciting part of this program,”
says Dodson.
A work team of a dozen highly-qualified
and motivated students was selected in
December. Their job will be to do repair
work on a 100-year old mission school in
Durango. Students will be working also
with the elementary school age children,
according to Dodson, who has served on
such work teams in the past.
The six men and six women (six
freshman and six sophomores) chosen to
go on the pilot project include: Daniel
Miller, a freshman from Baker, La.; Bob
by Ortiz, a freshman from Dalton, Ga.;
Anthony West, a freshman from Griffin,
Ga.; Robin Wicker, a freshman from Con
over, N.C.; Ted Fort, a sophomore from
Jonesboro, Ga.; James Fredere, a
sophomore from Macon, Ga.; Penni Todd,
a freshman from Hendersonville; Joan
Gregory, a freshman from Plantation,
Fla.; Ann Whitmire, a sophomore from
Brevard; and Debra Lucenti, a sophomore
from Brevard.
Also, Jennifer Wells, a sophomore from
Boca Raton, Fla.; and Alecia Andrews, a
sophomore from Williamsburg, Va.
In addition, three members of the BC
faculty-administration are also going on
the work trip along with Project Coor
dinator Dodson: Resident Director Sharon
Waggy, Director of Public Information
Jock Lauterer, and Maintenance
“Wizard” Mike Dodson (no relation).
BC Mexico work team member Ted Fort
displays a stereo, four-square bail and
volleyball set bouglit witii over tlOO raised
by Brevard Elementary Sclioolchildren as
gifts for the Durango, Mexico,
schoolchildren with wliom the BC team
will be working during Spring Break.
March 3-11. Roses got involved with the
project, too, by discounting the $100 stereo
to a sale price minus another 10 percent,
according to Fort.
The students themselves are excited
about the pilot project to Mexico. Says Jen
nifer Wells, “It gives me the opportunity to
better myself as a person by working with
people who are less fortunate than many of
us.” Penni Todd is looking forward to the
trip too. “It will build character,” she
says, “and it will also bring a special
awareness for sharing and helping
others.”
Cries for overall improvmenttops SGA deliberation
by Brian Howell
Clarion Reporter
Better food service and a more func
tional campus, are on their way, if not here
already, according to those taking the
floor at the Feb. 6 SGA meeting.
First Floor West Beam Freshman
Representive Lora Woodrum, chairperson
on the Food Committee, recruited new-
volunteers for the committee at the
meeting after expressing frustration at the
lack of participation by former members
of the committee.
The new Food Committee includes Lora
Woodrum, Cottage Sophomore President
Jeff Pajak, Second Floor West Beam
reshman Representative Charlotte
^frit. Cottage Freshman Representive
Shawn Young, Third Floor West Jones
Freshman Representative Raisan Russo,
ird Floor Green Sophomore Resident
p ^tant Duane Moore, Ross President
reshman Robin Wicker, Second Floor
ast Jones Freshman Representative
raziella Allen, Taylor Basement
SrT Representative Jeff Angelo,
Vice President Ann Whitmire, and
^ Freshman Representative Brian
*nomas.
Woodrum said that a meeting between
the new committee and Jerry Jackson,
director of dining services, is yielding cur
rent progress and plans for future im
provements, such as a bigger salad bar
and two choices of soup. The new cereal
containers are being used to keep bugs out
of cereal, said Woodrum, and unconfirmed
reports say that added salt and butter are
being omitted from the vegetables.
Jackson told the committee that when
days occur between requests and their im
plementation, the delays are sometimes
due to the limitations of menu planning,
which is done three weeks in advance. But,
Woodrum emphasized,“(Jackson) is real
ly willing to work with (the committee)
and ...the students.”
On another subject. Dean of Student Af
fairs Norm Witek listed several student-
requested maintenance jobs accomplished
by the Maintenance Department, i.e., a
ground level window in a Jones stairway
being welded shut for security reasons,
and parts of the interior of SUmey being
upgraded for repair.
Witek said that the kitchen stove in Jones
has been fixed, and he is now working with
housekeeping, which is presently using the
kitchen as a lounge, to allow residents of
Jones to use the kitchen as well.
Other student requests may have to wait
until next fall, however. The addition of
functional water fountains throughout
Jones, the pavement of the parking lot and
driveway l)ehind Taylor and the ap
pearance of coin machines on campus will
be considered for next year’s budget, ac
cording to Witek. The coin machines will
cost about $1,700 each, excluding probable
mandatory insurance coverage and the
money supply to fill the machine initially,
said SGA President Juan Kincaid. Witeic
said he will investigate an offer made by
arcade game vendor to supply coin
machines free to the college if the college
agrees to give its arcade business ex
clusively to the vendor in return.
The largest new addition to Brevard Col
lege next year should l)e the new $895,000
Student Union, an expanded version of the
Coltrane Art Building. Construction on the
building should have started by February
and be finished by January of 1990.
SGA President Kincaid reported that
elections for about 10 SGA representatives
will be held after Spring Break to replace
th(«e who had not met the attendance re
quirements adopted on Dec. 7 of 1988. “We
need people who want to participate in the
student government,” said SGA Vice
President Jennifer Wells. Kincaid said
that since resident assistants are no longer
required to attend SGA meetings,
representatives are “the main source for
getting information back to the dorms and
the halls.”
Ann Whitmire, chairperson on the
Judicial Board, asked ^A members to
stress the seriousness of the Judicial
Board and its function, noting the frequen
cy of lying that takes place in the judicial
hearings. This corruption has grown in
spite of the oath signed by all students
bearing witness at hearings to be truthful,
said Whitmire.
She then answered charges questioning
the right of a community student to be on
the judicial board. Whitmire, a commuting
student, deiended her position, saying that
many commuting students spend time out
of class on campus. Although commuters
admittedly experience less of the daily
temptations of dorm life. Whitmire said,
“There are instances of commuting
student® coming before the board ”