Volume 83, Issue 26 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
^pril 4, 2018
Students embark on field
trip to learn more about
Holocaust, Jewish Culture
By Zach Dickerson
Campus News Editor
On March 19, Professor Jessie Tucker’s ENG
208: Holocaust Literature class took a field trip
to Asheville to learn more about the Holocaust
and the Jewish culture in general.
According to the Brevard College Academic
Catalog the ENG 208: Holocaust Literature
course is a study of multiple genres including
memoir/autobiography, poetry, short story,
essay, graphic novel and film. It seeks to increase
students understanding of the Holocaust
and modern genocide through the lenses of
survivors, victims, bystanders, witnesses,
rescuers and perpetrators. Most importantly,
it addresses issues of personal and collective
responsibility as well as social action.
“We have read about multiple Holocaust
survivors, and it was the chance of a lifetime to
meet a survivor in person at the University of
North Carolina at Asheville,” said Tucker. The
class went hear from Dr. Walter Ziffer who had
survived multiple Nazi concentration camps.
Dr. Ziffer described his experiences in a
lecture followed by a time for question and
answer. “We particularly enjoyed about twenty-
five minutes afterward during which he talked
with just a few Brevard College students,” said
Tucker.
Dr. Ziffer is 91 years old and remains
exceptionally wise and interesting. “Multiple
students said that they would never have guessed
his age,” said Tucker. “He was inspiring, honest,
and even funny at times!”
“The Brevard College Pedagogies committees
offered to pay for our lunch at the Jerusalem
See 'Holocaust field trip,' page 1
Students looking at the sacred text of the Jewish
reiigion, The Torah, at the Beth HaTephiia
Synagogue and Schooi in Asheviile.
The ENG 208 ciass posing with Holocast survivor, Dr. Waiter Ziffer, in Asheviiie.
National Alcohol
Screening Day
Campus Counseling
holds screening event
By Mary Lewe
staff Writer
Coordinator for Counseling Services Dee
Dasburg and counseling intern Mary Grace
Bigelow held an alcoholism screening event last
Thursday, March 29 in the Myers Dining Hall.
At the event, students were able to confidentially
and anonymously participate by filling out a
self-report survey which assesses their risk for
becoming alcohol dependent.
“We think it is important for [students] to take
time out of their life and think about how often
they’re drinking and how much,” Dasburg said.
Dasburg said in addition to the yearly screening,
it is required for every new student to complete
Alcohol EDU online training, which teaches
students about the dangers of binge drinking,
signs of alcohol dependence, as well as offering
good techniques for what to do if you or a friend
has become too intoxicated.
According to the counseling team, few
students come forward asking for help with
alcohol dependence. Instead, the bigger issue
is binge drinking.
Following the completion of the alcohol
See 'Alcohol Screening' on page 4
NewSGA
executive board
members elected
Associate Dean of Students Michael Cohen
announced the results of the SGA election on
Tuesday. The SGA executive board forFall 2018
will consist of:
•President - Bliss Joseph
• 'V'ice President - Caitlyn Cloud-Morton
• Speaker of the Clubs - Audrey Cardwell
•Secretary - Rebeccah Rojas
Congratulations to the newly elected members
of the SGA executive board!
—Mary Lewe