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Opinion
The Clarion — November 18,2005
BC SWAT team needed
It seems this year has had
more than an average amount of
incidents involving violence and
vandalism involving students.
In the last couple of months,
there has been hazing, harass
ment, verbal threats, assault, nu
merous weapons violations, as
sault and battery, a DUI, vandal
ism, motor vehicle break-ins and
vehicular vandalism just to name
a few. Have the culture and atti
tude of Brevard College changed
so much that these incidents are
occuring more often?
Has Brevard College been
recruiting, signing, and enrolling
students who have a blatent dis
regard for campus expectations,
the student code of conduct,
and local laws?
It seems that the college
might be more interested in the
number of student than the qual
ity of students enrolled.
Recruiting a beer drinking
testosterone driven rowdy foot
ball fanbase and team will only
serve to intensify this problem.
Perhaps the school should
stop worrying about hiring a
football coach and start looking
into finding members for a BC
SWAT team.
In other news, Jing Zhao,
the student that injured her back
in a fall in a window-well, is back
on campus, but the most that the
school has done so far has been
to put up a plastic fence and a
removable cheap spotlight over
the area. We're glad that Jing is
back on campus, we'd just like
to warn everyone to be on the
lookout while on campus, since
a plastic fence wouldn't do much
to cushion a fall. And please,
nobody take the clip on light for
personal use.
Some of the college's sports
teams have been doing well. The
volleyball team made it to the
regional tournament and a num
ber of the players received con
ference awards. The golf team
is currently 25th in the nation and
first in conference and region.
Cross country runner Emily
Hulse has qualified for the NAIA
National Cross Country Cham
pionship in Louisville, KY. Con
gratulations to the student
athelets and coaches.
Your parents received a
postcard from the school lately,
notifying them that midterm
grades have been issued. While
some students might be ok with
this, according to the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy
Act, students 18 years or older
have to give permission for the
school to send grades out to
their parents. The college might
not have sent your grades home
but they might have sent your
parents a note saying grades are
out.
it seems like almost a loop
hole to the federal law that pro
tects our student privacy.
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Corrections
•Michael Collins was incorrectly listed as arrested in the Mercy
Seat article. He was not arrested, and is now running the Mercy
Seat.
•In the article “BC student suffers spine injury near Dunham
Music Center, the student's last name, Zhao, was misspelled as
“Zhoa.”
•The squirrel on page 5 was drawn by Taylor Cottingham, not
Thomas Adams.
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