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BC's newest club: The Sesquipedalians
by Ryan Fiffick
Staff Writer
Under the faculty guidance of Dr. Tina
Holland, junior Jay Moore has successfully
spearheaded the creation of the Sesquipe
dalians.
Designed to celebrate and investigate all
things literary, the club is by no means just
a gathering of wordsmiths poets, songwrit
ers, budding novelists, and bookworms
although they are present in force.
Open to every student on campus of any
by Joseph Chilton
Editor in Chief
Stan Jacobsen will be moving his office
from upstairs in Stamey to Beam Admin
istration next year, as his role on campus
will change in the midst of a shift in the
way campus security will operate.
“I don’t really know what my job title
will be, but I’m going to be deahng with
risk management, EPA audits, worker’s
compensation, the implementation of
an emergency contact program...I’ll be
working with a lot of different programs,”
Jacobsen said.
According to Jacobsen, who has held
the title of Campus Security Director for
the last eight years, his new job will be a
relief because he will be able to focus on
risk management issues without having to
deal with parking tickets all day.
“I’m really looking forward to this. It’s
an opportunity to develop and implement
programs campus-wide that are directly
major, the club hopes to bring the Enghsh
language, in all of its variant forms to
greater notoriety and deeper levels of ap
preciation.
With plans to bring authors and poets to
campus and the already forming Literary
Picnic, the roster of scheduled events is
rapidly filling with unique and engaging
learning opportunities. The formative
meeting of the club also revealed numerous
service projects that promise to help raise
literacy rates and literacy awareness in the
greater Brevard community.
It seems that the formation of the Sesqui-
pedahans is long overdue, with scores of
related to the safety and well-being of the
BC community.”
Dan Wood will serve as Security Supervi
sor next year and will report to staff mem
bers in the Department of Campus Life.
In issues involving parking and facilities,
security will report to Robert Minton, and if
police action is involved security will report
to Dean of Campus Life Chris Holland.
“I don’t think students will see much of an
impact out of this in an overt way,” Holland
said. “They will see some policy changes,
but that happens every year.”
According to Holland, security staff will
now go through training with Campus Life
in order to work more closely with campus
life in building a community that puts more
personal responsibility on students.
“ Stan’s role will be based more on liability
issues for the college, and mine will focus
more on student rights. We have a good
working relationship and will continue to
do so,” Holland said.
“I want to stress that Campus Life will
not have a ‘let’s go get them’ mentality. We
want to be seen as community builders.”
students majoring and minoring in English,
Journalism and Education. Jay and Dr Hol
land are to be congratulated on filling a gap
ing hole in campus extracurricular life.
So, if you’ve a yearning to enlarge a utili
tarian lexicon or to learn how to eschew or
subsume rampant obfuscation or you find
joy in generisms (or you would just like to
learn what those words mean...including
Sesquipedahans) and have any interest in
ANY of the ways that the English language
brings meaning to our lives, contact Dr
Holland or Jay Moore, let them know of
your interest and get involved! Thesaurus
optional.
Obama's first 100 days
Continued from Page 1
“I don’t know how he does it, but I think
it’s great that he has been so active in com
municating with the rest of the world,” said
Eric Marsh, president of Iowa State Uni
versity Democrats in an Iowa State Daily
article. “It is extremely important to work
together with them for the common good.
In this day and age, isolation certainly isn’t
going to get us anywhere.”
“People are reahzing there is a big differ
ence between campaign rhetoric and what
is occurring,” Perm State College Republi
cans member Sam Settle said to The Daily
Collegian. “The policies forced through
were so unlike what was promised.”
“We are ruiming up the bills,” said Ashley
Barbera, the national communications di
rector for the College Republicans National
Committee, in a Daily Free Press story. “We
are going to pay the bulk of the debt. As
young people we should be worried about
the economy.”
“When it comes to young people we see a
new direction that we are excited about and
we have a seat at the table,” Katie Maranjo,
president of the College Democrats of
America, told the Daily Free Press. “What
the president has been able to do in his first
100 days has been thoughtful and forward
thinking.”
Campus security to become
integrated into Campus Life
Stan Jacobsen moving to job in Beam Administration
focusing on risk management