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March 1, 2001 FEAIURES BC Advocates Give Back To Nature Todd Schaerer With the formation of the Brevard College Environmental Coa lition (BCEC) last semester, our cam pus is w^ell on its way to becoming an outstandingly healthy and a rather pleasant place. Of course, we all love Brevard, yet there are matters that need attention, thought and work. The BCEC has taken a huge hand in sup port of environmental ethics and prac tices alongside the Environmental Ad vocates. This semester we will see growing action. Much to the liking of Linda Hekns, more and more students are becoming involved in community service. The BCEC and the advocates Phonathon Update Kelly Brandon The student callers put in most of the hard work that goes into the Phonathon. Please congratulate them and thank them if you see them on cam pus. They are: Jackie Speers, Jarvis Broom, Kristy Mayfield, Lenzy Slater, Mamie Larson, Meghan MacDonald, Melanie Dunn, Sean Murphy, Stephanie Connolly, Carlisle Bean, Eric Saliba, Julie Robbins, Jamar Bryson, Jesse Janicula, Katie Ahrens, Kiwi Chinaka, Kristen Weaver, Letitia Bromell, T asha Bell, Bobby F ish, Colin Watkins, Davida Rector, Hany Fields, Kelly Caulfield, Linda Stanfield, Lind say Shields, Stacey Hrdlicka, Tara Brazeale, & Taylor Suggs. This is tmly the most talented and enthusiastic group of students I have ever had the plea sure of working with. Thank you all!!! have kept busy so far, but the battle for a clean and healthy environment is far fi"om over. The BCEC and the Environ mental Advocates have undertaken a slew of causes. Here are some of the issues on, off and all around the table: recycled pa per for campus, presentations to First Year Forum groups, discontinu ing use of styrofoam (it takes an unreal number of years for it to breakdown), composting for the caf eteria food, creation of non-smoking areas, getting more bike racks (so you don’t have to chain them to the toliet), making the flowerbeds organic (stop ping the use of seriously unfiiendly chemicals), Adopt-a-Trail in the forest (mainte- nance on Slick rock Trail that runs to the South Wall of Looking Glass), undertak ing an environ mental audit, en couraging the-re- pair of the pool (good to see the college fixing things that really need it), construction of the worm boxes (special praise to Chris Maxwell), creating an efficient system of recycling for all of the cam pus, recycling of packaging materials (some think the bins need a bit of mus tard and ketchup to fix them up, but really, all they need is styrofoam pea nuts and plastic bubbles). Borrow Our Bikes program (the beautifiil bikes with the yellow band of paint), the posting of an awareness bulletin, improvement of cafeteria and food (anyone dis agree?), and the involvement of Earth Day planning. That’s a general overview of what’s up with the tree-hugging, peace- loving, air-breathing, life-living environ mental activists that seek to improve this lovely place. All we have is one big wish for one big environmental wash. Cupid Strikes Again (Photo by Jarvis Broom) Our overall totals are stagger ing. We raised $30,976 from 688 people in 3 weeks. The way we can best compare our success is to com pare it to spring semester’s 3 week phonathon of last year. We are up over $5,000 (20%) and had an additional 200 pledges (70%). We also added over 300 first-time donors to our pool, (over 200 alumni and 100 parents.) Ty Harbour Every year, millions of people around the world spend hundreds of dollars on cards, chocolates in the shapes of hearts, and red roses to im press that special someone that they have devoted them selves to. This ritual is known as Valentines Day. On this day, for one shining moment we seem to for get every negative thing that our loved ones have ever said or done to us so cupid can shoot his arrow of love into our hearts. Do you ever wonder why we celebrate this holi day? It doesn’t have thej authority of Thanksgiving or Christmas. You can’t compare it to Independence Day, so where does Valentines Day derive fi-om? Well, for some of you that are just as curious as I am, Valentine’s Day probably originated from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercallia. The holi day of Valentine’s Day probably de rives its origins from the ancient Ro man feast of LuperCalia. In the early days of Rome, fierce wol.es roamed the woods nearby. The Romans called upon one of their gods, Lupercus, to keep the wolves away. A festival held in honor of Lupercus was celebrated Febmary 15th as a spring festival. Their calendar was different at that time, with February falling in early springtime. One n a m e - the eve of Lupercalia Roman girls ten on o f the customs of the young people was drawing. On the festival of the names of were writ- slips of pa per and placed into jars. Each young man drew a slip. The girl whose name was chosen was to be his sweet heart for the year. Legend has it that the holiday became Valentine’s Day af ter a priest named Valentine. Valentine was a priest in Rome at the time Chris- tianity was a new religion. The Em- peror at that time, Claudius II, ordered the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius believed that as married men, his soldiers would want to stay home with their families rather than fight his wars. Val entine defied the Emperor’s decree and secretly married the young couples. He was eventually arrested, impris oned, and put to death. Val entine was beheaded on February 14th, the eve of the Roman holiday Lupercalia. After his death, Valentine named a saint. As Rome became more Christian, the priests moved the spring holiday fi'om the 15th of February to the 14th - Valentine’s Day. Today, the holiday honors Saint Valentine instead of Lupercus. So, the next time that you are about to give a rose or box of choco lates to that special someone, remem ber Saint Valentine and what he did to bring the millions of people around the world one day of warmth and passion. We at The Clarion hope all | of you had a Happy ^ Valentine’s Day!! I
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