The Clarion
November 5, 1990 Page 9
Derrick Briggs organizes
campus Escort Service
by Derek Bauer
Clarion Reporter
When walking alone at night,
whether it is admitted or not, there is a
fear which touches people -- that maybe
fate has chosen them to play the starring
role as victim in a brutal tragedy.
"You never know when someone
may be hiding," says BC sophomore
Jessica Miller, "just waiting behind a
bush. And there is always someone who
thinks it won't happen to them."
What can be done? Derrick Briggs, a
BC sophomore, has come up with a
solution: an escort service.
Derrick explains how it all got
started. A number of music students
have to practice late hours and walk out
to the Complex or Duplex alone. Many,
including Jessica, asked Derrick to walk
them home, which he did. Derrick
realized that he would not always be
there, so he wanted to try to set up the
escort service so that someone could be
there at all times.
What exactly is the escort service?
Its purpose is to "keep people walking
around campus safe," says Derrick. He
also adds that the escort service is a
preventive service. There is not as much
danger here as at a bigger campus, but
"It's better safe than sorry," says
Derrick. The escort service itself is still
in the pnxess of getting organized.
Ideally, when it is set up, the
service's office will be perhaps in Jones
lobby. The service will have its own
phone number. Whenever an escort is
needed, one could be reached at the
number. The escort will come to the
student and walk them to their
destination. Also, if it is required, he or
she will be back at a specified time to
walk the student back to their dorm or
Complex/Duplex.
However, they will not be walking
anyone to Ingle's this is strictly an on-
campus service. The escorts will be
wearing a vest with some reflectors and
a logo which would read "Brevard
College Escort Service."
Volunteers are still needed. Derrick
says, "A lot of people keep telling me
it's a good idea, but more is needed than
that. We need people to volunteer and
work."
People who work as escorts will
receive training from Steve Woodson,
the director of security, who will
actually supervise the Escort Service.
Jessica Miller says,"It's a great idea,
and could help a lot of people, but the
students have to be willing to work at
it."
According to Derrick, this is the key
factor. If this service is going to work,
the students have got to support it and
be willing to volunteer for work. This
campus can be a safer place, but only if
students make it that way, he says.
If you are interested in helping, give
your name and box number to Derrick
Briggs at 310 Green.
Video Yearbook underway
by James McArthur
Clarion Reporter
Dan Cumow has got Brevard
College's first-evCT video yearbook under
way along with many new ideas.
Curnow, a sophomore from
Chats worth, Calif., and his crew
consisting of camera department,
marketing and production staff, have
already began filming calendar events for
the video yearbook.
He says that all social events that
are on the BC calendar will be covered.
Also, camera interviews at certain
events, such as a soccer game, as well
as candid interviews, will be in the
video. Prominent news events will also
be in the video and a campus life
section.
Cumow explains this effort is in
now way meant to compete with the
traditional printed yearbook. "This goes
way beyond the printed yearbook, he
says.
When Cumow leaves for BC s
Semester in Austria program this
spring, sophomore Danny Fogle will be
taking over for him. Cumow says he
plans to take a camcorder with him to
Austria to give the video a little "inter
national flavor."
The video yearbook will be
professionally published by Yearlook
Enterprises. The cost will be $39.95
plus $3 for shipping and handling.
Cumow says the video will be similar
to a music video including special
effects. The video yearbook will be BO
AS minutes long. Yearlook Enterprises
will have a promotional video available
in January for people who would like to
get a preview.
This is the second year Cumow has
been involved with such a project. Last
spring, when the idea emerged, Cumow
produced a video in just one month,
chronicling April events.
The video yearbook is sponsored by
The Clarion, with Director of Public
Information Jock Uuterer serving as
faculty advisor.
Derrick Briggs, who played the role of defendant Mark Garrison in
the Mock Rape Trial, accompanies Tara Harding across campus.
Briggs is the founder of BC's new Escort Service.
(Clarion photo by Rachel Moore)
Mock Rape Trial: A mockery for some?
by Libby Enloe
Clarion Co-Editor
Brevard College's second annual
Mock Rape Trial was meant to portray
to students the very real horrors of date
rape. But instead, according to some
instructors and students, it made a
"mockery" of the issue.
Kathy Meehan, instructor of
psychology at BC, asked her students to
write essays in reaction to the trial.
"The papers I got from students," she
says, "said, because of what they saw at
the trial, they would not report a rape."
Meehan says this year's trial did not
accurately portray the facts and realities
of an actual rape trial. "If we’re going to
do this," she says, "We need to increase
awareness that sex and rape are two
totally different things." She pointed out
that the jury didn't understand the
medical examiner's report
"It's not the verdict I'm worried
about, it's the message we've put out,"
Meehan says. She, along with College
Nurse Barbara White, win ncip coor
dinate next year’s Mock Rape Trial.
While agrees. "I don't really think
some students in the jury really
understand what rape is," she says.
According to White, next year’s trial
will be a bit different "Wc may even re
write parts of the Uial. It is meant to
make people think." She says that this
year's jury didn't understand much of the
testimony.
White also says many students who
are upset about the outcomc of the trial
do not understand that the defendant,
Mark Garrison (portrayed by BC
sophomore Derrick Briggs), did not go
free. "In a real court he would have been
re-tried by another jury," she says. "It's
important they know he did not really
get off free. A lot of people think that's
what happened."
Meehan concludes. "What wc have
to get across to the students is, this is
real. This is not a Life and Culture
event"
*
BC's Project Inside -Out spent a recent Saturday uncovering artifacts
at the Deavor House, a local historical site. Here, archaeologist
Ruth Wetmore, center, Solange Wilson, left, and Angela Capon.t.,
right, examine an Indian Stone that they've just found.
* (Clarion photo Lin Redmond)