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student body smaller, more
masculine this year
by Joseph Chilton
Managing Editor
This year’s Brevard College
student body is slightly smaller
in number, with a higher
percentage of males than last
year, according to numbers
released this week by Joretta
Nelson, the school’s Vice
President for Enrollment
Management.
The fall of 2006 saw the
Brevard College enrollment
jump to 684, with 55% of the
students being males. This
year, the total number of
students has fallen to 675, while
the male to female ratio has
skewed more towards the
masculine, with males now
making up 57% of the student
body.
According to Joretta Nelson,
dechne in enrollment is not just
an issue at Brevard College.
“We have already heard of
several other North Carolina
private
colleges,
smaller in size,
that
experienced a
dip in
enrollment
this year,”
Nelson said.
Nelson also
points out
that last year
was the
inaugural
year for
football,
which spiked enrollment
significantly. Now that the
program is no longer new,
enrollment is beginning to level
off.
“The addition of the football
team last year (was) an
anomaly,” Nelson said.
The football team is also part
of the reason for the imbalance
of men to women on campus.
According to Nelson, the
school understands that the
Student Gender Ratios at Brevard College
male to female ratio at the
school is an issue, and plans
to take steps towards resolving
the issue.
“BC has a very unique place
in the higher ed statistical
landscape in that we have more
men attending than women,”
Nelson said.
“The College has some very
specific strategic plans in place
to balance that out in the next
several years.”
SGA Beat
This week's SGA meeting was a senate meeting. Please note
that there will be another senate meeting on Tuesday, Septem
ber 25*'^. If you would like to join us next week, we are going to
be approving new club ideas. There was a motion for 65% of
SGA's budget to go to clubs; speaking of which, budgets are
overdue! Please turn them in to the SGA as soon as possible!
Other SGA news:
SGA conference is leaving on September 2T*', and will be
returning September 29*'^.
The Leadership retreat is October 6*'^.
The Clarion | September 21, 2007
Vandalism
Shocks NV
residents
by Ben Goff
News Editor
Last weekend residents of the
North Village were shocked by
an act of vandalism. According
reports, students were relaxing
on the porch of the North
Village and were confronted by
several other students who
appeared intoxicated. These
students behaved in a highly
offensive and inappropriate
maimer towards the students
sitting on the porcL
The NV residents went inside
to avoid any confrontation with
the intoxicated individuals, but
later that night, several of the
NV residents returned to the
porch and found that a table
they had constructed was
missing.
The owners of the table
located it in the fire pit in the
village quad, and found that it
had been broken into several
pieces. One of the residents
that had helped make the table
expressed his displeasure at
seeing his work stolen and
destroyed.
As the NV residents were
taking their broken table back
to their unit the intoxicated
individuals from earlier in the
evening approached them and
again began verbally
assaulting them and attempted
to instigate physical violence.
According to eyewitnesses
the same individuals appeared
to have been involved in the
destruction of the table. The
owners of the table feel
strongly that the people who
harassed them earlier in the
evening were also responsible
for the vandalism, and have
notified campus life about the
incident.