2 NEWS The Clarion Faculty Research Award Winners Named VP/Dean Bauslaugh The five Division Chairs, acting as a selection committee, have sent to the Academic Affairs Office their recommendations for awarding the Pendleton and Sprinkle research awards. More than the usual number of awards could be made this year, because no compe tition was held in 1999/2000 and the endowments have done well during the past year. The Pendleton award winners are; MARGARET BROWN (History) for presenting a paper and serving as organizer and moderator of a panel at the American Society of Environmental History meeting in Durham, NC. Prof Brown’s paper is titled “Tourism vs. Preservation in the Battle to Save the Brook Trout.” JOHN GUDMUNDSON (Music) for attending the Interna tional Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York City in or der to learn about publishing in the Jazz Educators Journal and to ex pand efforts to target music recruit ment. The Sprinkle aw'ard winners are: ANNE CHAPIN (Art His tory) for presenting a paper at the Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Prof. Chapin’s paper is titled “Power, Privilege, and Landscape Art in Minoan Society.” PAUL ELWOOD (Music) for attending the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano and Percus sion at the New England Conserva tory, Boston, MA, as an invited guest composer. Prof Elwood will hold master classes in contemporary composition. BOB GLESENER (Biology) for presenting the results of his re search on the white squirrel popula tion in Brevard and the water qual ity in King’s Creek at the 2001 NC Academy of Science meeting in Greensboro, NC. Prof Glesener may also offer a presentation on the un dergraduate salamander laboratory. JIM REYNOLDS (Geology) for presenting a paper and chairing a theme session on the geology of Argentina at the joint meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Pacific Division of the Geo logical Society of America, in Northridge, CA. Prof Reynolds’ paper is titled “Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Pena Colorada and Las Manzanas Sections: Refining the Tectonic Model for the Sierras Subandinas, NW Argentina.” The selection committee was impressed with all of the applications and particularly with stated advantages in teaching that the Pendleton and Sprinkle award winners would provide. Congratu lations to the recipients and thanks to the Division Chairs! Military Mail Program Continues [ Vandalism Fayetteville, NC (Home of Fort Bragg and the 82nd Airborne) - All across the nation, individuals and groups of all kinds, including stu dents and campus groups, are al ready writing fan mail to our troops at home and abroad for Christmas 2000 “We know that U.S. troops across the nation and around the world appreciate the fan mail they receive,” said G.B. Wiser, executive director of the program. “Mail from students may be especially wel comed, as many of the young men and women in uniform are college- age.” Mail from all over the nation is sent to Friends of Our Troops headquarters, where it is thoroughly mixed, then made up into well over 1,000 packages of mail to be sent out. “The packages range in size from just a handful for small units up to several thousand for an entire base or one of the Navy’s large ships,” said Wiser. “This helps to get an appropriate amount of fan mail to all those places.” As the continuation of the Vietnam Mail Call program estab lished in 1965, there have now been 35 years of service to and support of our soldiers, sailors, Marines, air men, and coast guardsmen. A vi sual overview of how the campaign functions has been posted in the online photo album at http:// www.militarymail.org/album.htm. In addition, there are special schools, colleges, churches, veterans groups, youth groups, and Catholic pages. To learn how to help boost morale by writing fan mail for U.S. troops all across the U.S. and around the world, write to Friends of Our Troops, P.O. Box 65408, Fayetteville, NC 28306. (And men tion where you read about the Mili tary Mail campaign.) THE ClJ\RION Editor-in-Chief p .. Shannon McGuigan J Assistant Fditnr Michelle Crabtree - Features Lilly R. Scarpinito Jessika Rodriquez - Sports Advisor Jill English Photographer Eric Hinson Guest Wrifpr VP/Dean Bauslaugh Graphic by Jake Feather aff Writers Isaac Bradley Eric Hinson Kelly A. Sisley Knsten Weaver Kate Wiley Summer Worley HALLOWEEN Continued from page 1 cakes attained, the more prayers for the donors’ dead relatives were of fered up. It was believed at this time that after prayer for the dead rela tive that it could expedite a souls passage to heaven. The “trick” of trick-or-treating came from the 16th and 17th Century Europeans. Old women went from door to door begging for coins or food. People believed that the women were witches and that if they failed to pro vide the treats, the witches would curse their families. With all of the legends and traditions surrounding the “evil day”, in reality it is simply a celebra tion giving acknowledgment to the Celtic ritual celebrating a new year, and medieval prayer rituals of the Europeans. Halloween is only as evil as one chooses it to be. Isaac Bradley With Halloween comes vandahsm. Halloween is an en joyable holiday in which people, can dress up in costumes and at tend social gatherings. But, to some people Halloween is also a time to engage in mischief Those of us here at Brevard College are fortunate that we do not have a great increase in vandalism during Halloween. Steve Woodson, Director of Pub lic Safety, said that the main types of vandalism are things like roll ing the trees with toilet paper. Woodson said that since he be came Director of Public Safety in 1989 there has been a decrease in vandalism on campus. Students today seem to be more mature and do not do as much damage to property as they once did. Students who do engage in vandalism during Halloween or any other time are usually required to pay reimbursements for dam ages and may face other punish ments as well. Woodson said that there will be more people on the lookout for vandalism and trouble during Halloween. Students are encouraged to keep their eyes and ears open and report any vandal ism they witness and to make people be held accountable for heir actions. It is everyone’s re sponsibility to look out for each other and our school.