April 27, 2007 \
The Clarion
NEWS
Page 3
New core
curriculum
for the fall
by Matt Rutherford
Editor in Chief
Some changes to the current cur
riculum were passed by the
Brevard College Faculty on March
30, 2007.
Students who enter in fall of
2007 will take the new BCE 111
course. This course will combine
both First Year Forum and First
Year Seminar into one three-hour
credit course—BCE 111 Perspec
tives. Many of the students who
took the original two courses will
come back as sophomore teaching
assistants.
In addition to the BCE alter
ations, there are three additional
changes. Area IV of the core re
quirements is meant to help stu
dents understand human experi
ence through music, literature,
drama, and the visual arts. Litera
ture courses are being moved from
Area I.C. to the new Area IV B.
This will require every student to
take a literature course. However,
these courses are not restricted to
English. Students may opt for a
class such as Mythology or Exis
tential Literature.
Introduction to Communica
tions or COM 110 and Business
Communications (ORG 205), will
be moved to the Area I.C. Area
1 .C. is now defined as meeting the
goals of effective communication
and critical thinking. Students may
also opt to take other classes such
as ORG 103, PHI 105, MAT 200,
and others.
Health and Wellness courses,
which are in Area V, will now only
require two credits instead of three.
This was done in order to help
reduce the total number of hours
within the core. One of these
courses must have physical activ
ity in order to count.
Overall, the new core will re
quire one more credit hour than
the previous core.
Face painters decorate each otiier
Tree pianting crew celebrates a new tree.
Aii Earthfest photos by John Biiiingsiey.
SGA Report;
Tom Collins
addresses gym hours
by Lauren Fortner
Staff Writer
Athletic Director Tom Collins
came to SGA this week to discuss
some issues about the gym’s op
erating hours. Collins said that he
was open to people’s opinions
and welcomed any concerns of
students. Collins reported that the
reason for the weight room’s cur
rent hours is because of problems
finding supervision.
Students suggested using work
study to fill this position and
Collins stated that this had been
attempted but no reliable work
study students had been found
yet. Collins stated that now that
he knows this is a problem that
students care about he will at
tempt to address it.
Collins explained the athletic
department is going through a pro
cess of major transformation and
the hours of the gym have been
overlooked because of a matter of
priorities. Collins assured SGA
that he will come up with a plan.
Dean Yowell is making a task
force to review the BCE 410 Se
nior Capstone course over the
summer SGA recently found out
that to build a patio outside of
Myers Dining Hall a ramp will be
needed for adequate access. This
ramp will cost $4000, further de
laying the patio project.
President Van Horn rocls out!
Earthfest
continued from page 1
Driven Train. DJ Sticky Fingers
was basically a DJ that played
mainly rap and hip hop music.
Cletus Baltimore was made up by
our current and former Brevard
College students, and the type of
music they played was more of a
j am band per se, for example Wide
Spread Panic and Phish. Intellec
tual Telepathy was made up by
members of the Brevard commu
nity and played hip hop and rap
music. Soul Driven Train is a jazz
blues mix with some rock and roll
music. I liked them the best, be
sides the Present’s band, because
I’m a big fan of jazz and blues
music. This band was more of a
Dixie jazz blues band.
At one and three o’clock in the
afternoon there were tree plantings
where members of the community
planted two different types of
trees. The trees were planted in
the area along the creek where two
big willow trees were recently
uprooted. The Brevard College
Recycling Club was responsible
for his activity. There were many
students from different majors and
from all places from campus that
came out to help plant the trees.
I’ve never seen students get so
excited about planting a tree be
fore.
Earth Fest was a very success
ful event this year I had a lot of
fun. I learned some new things
and I hope all of you that were
there had fun and learned some new
stuff like me. Hopefully next year
Earth Fest will be ten times better
than it was this year