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The Clarion \ April 2, 2010
Paddlesports teach college students the
value of competition
categories including men’s and women’s Emory & Henry College, Montreal College
by Travis Festa
Contributor
Last weekend, students and faculty
members from Brevard College participated
in the American Canoe Association’s (ACA)
Southeast Collegiate Canoe & Kayak
Championship, which was held on the
Tuckaseegee River near Dillsboro, NC.
The ACA Southeast Collegiate Canoe
& Kayak Championship is designed for
paddlers of all skill levels and abilities.
“The American Canoe Association (ACA) is
proud to provide collegiate students with the
opportunity to compete with other schools
in a sport which promotes camaraderie and
a healthy outdoor lifestyle, “ said ACA Chief
Operating Manager, Chris Stec.
Saturday’s events were comprised of
individual downriver races spaiming over
2 miles of the Tuckaseegee River with
multiple rapids for the racers to navigate.
The races were broken down into different
kayak, open canoe and
open canoe mixed gender,
and the team relay race.
Preparation for this
event began in early
January for both the ACA
and Brevard College
students. In conjunction
with the ACA, Brevard
College’s Outdoor
Program Administration
class participated in the
service learning project
to help recruit colleges,
universities and sponsors
throughout the Southeast
and United States to attend this year’s
event.
Due to the students’ success, over 70
competitors participated from colleges,
including Albion College, Brevard College,
Warren Wilson College, Davidson College,
Brevard College paddler Brian
Randall ponders the upcoming
race.
and University of North
Carolina Charlotte.
At the end of Saturday’s
events, Albion College from
Michigan was in first place,
Warren Wilson College was
in second with Brevard
College close behind them
in third.
As racers congregated
along the river early
Sunday morning, the cooler
temperatures and light
rains reminded everyone of
spring’s recent arrival. The
team relay race, the last even
in the Championship started out with a bang
as 7 canoes began their head to head race
down the Tuckaseegee River
The course for the team relay was longer
See ACA Race, p. 3
Google, continued from page 1
Guide,” which explains the process in
some detail. A separate E-mail message
includes the user’s new password to login
to Google—^which can be changed once you
have logged in for the first time. Users are
urged to read both messages carefully to
prepare for the change—and especially to
make note of the new password, since it will
be necessary to login to the new system.
By Tuesday morning, the transition will
be complete and no new messages will
be sent to the old Outlook or Webmail
platforms. All your personal contacts and
calendar items will be imported into your
Google account, as will all E-mail that has
not been deleted or moved to an Outlook
personal folder or “pst” file.
Beginning Tuesday, users will have to use
Brevard Gmail to send and receive E-mail,
and calendar items will become part of
your Google Calendar More Google apps
will be made available once the transition
to E-mail and calendar has been achieved
successfully—such as Google Docs, which
allows users to create, edit, save, and share
documents from any computer having
access to the Internet.
Of course, the new system will take
some getting used to. Probably the biggest
change has to do with the end of folders
and subfolders in which mail can be stored.
In place of folders, Google Apps uses a
“label” feature—one benefit of which is
that messages can have multiple labels.
During the transition, messages stored in
folders and subfolders will automatically
be assigned labels equivalent to the original
folder name or path.
Another difference is in how Google
groups and sorts mail. In its current form,
Google only sorts mail chronologically—
rather than offering the choice to sort
by size, sender, and so forth—and it
groups related messages into what it calls
“conversations.” Several messages back and
forth between two or more senders would
be grouped into a single conversation in
the inbox, which allows easier viewing and
printing of related messages.
As you might expect, one significant
advantage that Google affords is a robust
search engine—meaning, it is easier than
ever to locate that one important E-mail
message from two months ago. If a simple
search doesn’t yield what you are looking
for, you may use “advanced search” features
to refine your results.
Some users on campus are already using
the new Google system, and the transition
has been smooth so far, Fuiks said. One
such early user is Michael Oliphant, a
professor of Business and Organizational
Leadership and a member of the Academic
and Information Technology Committee.
Oliphant is especially fond of the power
of Gmail’s search function—which more
than offsets what some might perceive
as hmitations of the new system. “I have
never bothered to put labels on e-mails or
do much of anything to manage my E-mail,”
he said. “Even so, I am always able to
find old E-mails instantly using the search
function.”
By far, though, the feature that users of
Brevard Gmail will immediately start to
notice is the immense size of the storage
space that it affords users—a selling point
that Oliphant touts.
“I have used Gmail for my personal
E-mail for over 5 years and have over 10,000
E-mails stored,” he said. “Google says I am
using 16 percent of my hmit, so that should
give me another 25 years before I need to
get rid of old E-mail.”