He Clarion
Volume 77, Issue 2 Web Edition
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SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
10 years later, BC
community reflects on
the tragedy that changed
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Sept. 9, 2011
Multimedia art project helps save lives
By Park Baker
Editor in Chief
There’s an app that could help save the life
of someone you love.
Post Secret, the art project of Maryland-
based multimedia artist and psychologist
Frank Warren, released its application for mo
bile devices this week, and in three days it has
become the fourth most downloaded app.
I am sure many students, staff and faculty
have at least heard of Post Secret and the
international accolades it has received. If
you have not, the project began as an experi
ment in 2005 when Warren started leaving
blank postcards in coffee shops, on campuses
regionally and anywhere he thought people
would respond. The instructions were simple:
mail in a secret, anonymously, and decorate
the blank post card as you saw fit. The caveat
was that it had to be something that you had
never told anyone before: your deepest dark
est fear, a childhood experience, witness to a
crime, a sexual foray, anything.
The postcards started to come in and War
ren began his blog: Post Secret. I remember
when I first started reading the blog in 2005:
a postcard was mailed in about a boy who
had put a brown recluse spider in his sister’s
bed. It bit her, and she had to have her leg
amputated. He had lived with that secret his
entire life and never told anyone.
The secrets range from happy thoughts
that aren’t really secrets, to witnesses to rape
and murder and everything in between. The
weight lifted off of some of these people’s
'Parallel Explorations' in Spiers Gallery
ByThea Dunn
Layout and Design
“I like clay, I like form, I like gesture; that’s
why I’m here,” artist Rob Pulleyn said as he
introduced himself and his ceramics work to
the attendees of the Spiers Gallery opening of
“Parallel Explorations” in the Sims Art Center
last Friday, Sept. 2.
Walking into the gallery, David Sheldon,
instructor of art in drawing, describes the
exhibit as “wonderfully diverse, interesting, and
full of energy with dynamic line and color There
is dialog between all pieces in both 3 dimensions
and 2 dimensions.”
People throughout the community came to
see the art and to support the artists. Interim
President Charles Teague and his wife attended
the opening, along with many students of the
college. Freshman art major Elizabeth Graham
said, “It was well planned out and it really
touched on the artists’ best work.”
“Parallel Explorations” showcases Joyce
Blunk, Rob Pulleyn and Gayle Paul. Joyce
Blunk is showing her assemblage pieces, Rob
Pulleyn has his ceramics, and Gayle Paul is
displaying her paintings. There are also a few
joint pieces created by the artists.
All of the pieces come together to create a
truly worthwhile showcase. The exhibition runs
through Sept. 30. The Spiers Gallery is open
Monday- Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
shoulders is immense, and the idea that they
can do so anonymously without embarrassing
their families, themselves, or ruining their
professional lives is powerfully cathartic.
Saturday marks the end of National Suicide
Prevention and Awareness Week, and in 2008,
Warren teamed up with 1-800-SUICIDE.
The partnership has helped save many lives.
People who would not normally seek help
have done so, and readers of the website
have reached out to those who have posted
their secrets and need help. This project
gives me hope for community and the human
potential.
Post Secret is just building steam. Warren
has been touring college campuses for the past
several years giving speeches and encourag
ing people to release, and help each other His
tour is scheduled to stop at UNC-Asheville
on Nov. 15. More information about Frank
Warren, his tour—and of course, the secrets
themselves—can be found on the Web at
www.postsecret.com.
Joyce Blunk, Gayle Paul, and Rob Pulleyn
In this issue...
Campus News:
Faculty profile
2
CAB
3
Campus News:
GRE test
4
Clubs
4
Arts & Life:
Music review
9
Video game review
10
Photo contest
10
Comic by Karam Boeshaar
10
Sports:
Cycling team schedule
11
Women's soccer
11
Football
11
Odds and Ends:
This day in history
12