THE
Volume 40
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Brevard College, Brevard, N. C., November 17, 1972
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A„tuL„ comes to the Brevard College Campus. The Ban, is shown above in a picture^ue ^tting.
ACUliS^PIans To Be Announced
. Piirnnp to Ktiidents who are members ol
The fourth annual Graz Cen
ter, the 1972 version of the in
ternational study program spon
sored by 36 colleges and uni
versities, attracted some 150
students, faculty members, and
affiliates this summer in Graz,
Austria.
The program is open to stud
ents from non-member colleges,
who have completed one year of
studies, and to selected stud
ents from all member colleges
Plans for the 1973 Graz Center
will be announced within a
short time to give students and
faculty members an opportun
ity to plan for next summer.
This year’s program featur
ed three week - long field trips
into Eastern Europe, the focus
of studies for the program. One
Lyric Quartet
Perforins At BC ^
the new YORK LYRIC
quartet performed at Bre-
vard College on Tuesday, No
vember 14, 1972. with musical
J^angements and direction by
^ famed Robert De Cormier.
■Lne quartet included Cynthia
soprano, Phyllis Bash,
ffiezzo - soprano, Arthur Wil-
a®s, tenor, and Cortez Frank-
iin, baritone.
of' the field trips went to Mos
cow and Leningrad in Russia;
the second, to Vienna,
and Budapest, and he third
traveled throughout Yugoslava.
The courses are designed to
add to the curriculum of the
local campus without duplicat
coiTses already offered on
clrses already offered on
these campuses, Executiv
rector Dr. Richard Bender point
ed out. ACUIIS also sponsors
several on - campus
tional programs, regional mj
tutes on international studie .
and several other programs.
This year’s Graz Center was
directed by Dean Fred Blumer,
provost of Nebraska Wesleyan
University. Dean of Students
was Bill Gibson, chaplain at
Edolph - Macon college in
Virginia. The faculty each year
includes persons from bot^
Europe and the United S >
with European .“ger-
bers coming from England, Ger
many, and Austria.
students attend dasses fo^
gr'Ausr-sw.
city with 250,000 residents, IS a
ton convenient to Ea
S c° y *
and 60 mUes from the
garian border.
Course work, as mentioned,
centers on Eastern Europe to
ps c ' iwe perspectives not avail
able on the individual camp
uses Courses include Sociology
of the Balkans Christianity and
Marxism, History of East Cen
tral Europe, the Hapsburg Mon
archy, Comparative European
Educational Systems, Interna-
tional Ecology, Austrian Psy
choanalysts, and four courses
in the “Russian block — sov
iet Economy, Soviet Intern^
tional Law, Russian Art, and
Russian Literature.
Students are free to choose
their way to Europe, either
through individual travel or by
joining the charter arranged
through the ACUIIS office- For
the past two seasons, the Amer
ican Institute of Musical Stud
ies of DaUas, Texas, an opera-
tically - oriented music pro
gram with many unique fea-
toes, has shared the residence
hall facility with the Graz Cen
ter.
Group and indvidual sight
seeing is also available, with
5up trips to Salzburg and to
ieveral local areas near Graz
Individual sightseeing trips to
Venice and Vienna, as well as
to other points in eastern and
central Europe, taken each
year by the students on their
free weekends.
students who are members of
ACUIIS colleges and through
ACUIIS colleges for those stud
ents wha are not members.
An additional plus factor is
that each year a number of
European students attend the
program, the majority from Aus
tria and Germany, but with
others coming from Turkey and
Israel in recent years as well.
Students desiring further in
formation about the program
can see their Dean or campus
representative, or write to Dr.
Richard N. Bender, Executive
Director, ACUIIS, Box 871,
Nashville, Tennessee 37202, for
further details.
Generally speaking, sjx ho^s
credit is the normal load tak
en during the summer ^ont^^
although some students nave
Sen fdmitted for " ne «
Credit is arranged directly fo
In the 1972 program the fol
lowing students were enrolled
from Brevard: Pamela K.
Boyce, Robert B. Hill, Solomon
B. Kennedy and Marjorie Lynn
Pickelsimer.
Chapman's Prints
Now On Display
A show is now on exhibit in
the Coltrane Art Building fea
turing seriographs (sQkscreens)
by Mr. Curtis Chapman. Mr.
Chapman is a professor of art
at Rinehart College in Weles-
ka, Georgia. All are invited to
come and see these colorful
prints, many of which are ar
tist’s proofs. All of them are
on sale upon request.
Number 6
Annual Retreat
To Be Held
Christian Council and Kap
pa Chi will hold their annual
retreat, Saturday November 18
from 3:00 until 10:00. It will
be held at English Chapel,
which is the only organired
church within the boundaries
of Pisgah National Forest.
A discussion concerning the
purposes and objectives of
Christian Council and Kappa
Chi will highlight the program.
It wUl be led by Bob Crump,
Kathy Forbes, and Debra Hin
son. It will be complemented
by several recreational activi
ties.
Brevard Students
Attend Meet
Two Brevard CoUege stud
ents attended the state Baptist
Student Convention held at the
Ridgecrest Baptist Conference
Center in Ridgecrest, North
Carolina, November 3-5
Also attending the conven
tion were 400 Baptist Student
Union members and advisors
from colleges and universities
tliroughout North Carolina.
The theme of the three day
event was “Responding to His
Love.” This theme was develop
ed through speakers, small in
formal group sessions, and an
impressive Sunday morning
communion service.
The speakers included Dr.
Charles Bodie, President of the
American Baptist Seminary in
Nashville, Tennessee; Ken
Bragg, a Baptist missionary to
Japan, currently on furlough
and living at Campbell CoUege
near Raleigh; and Ed Christ
man, University Chaplain at
Wake Forest University.
Those attending the conven
tion reported feeling a strong
bond of Christian love and
brotherhood for their feUow
Christians and convention go
ers. This sentiment was es
pecially expressed by Debbie
Frye and Mary Helen Huggins
who attended from the Bre
vard College Baptist Student
Union. They were accompanied
by Mrs. Jo Ann Bryson, the lo
cal B.S.U. sponsor, and her
husband.
Notice
Thanksgiving holidays will
begin on November 22 at 1;00
p. m. Students are requested
to vacate the residence hall by
7:00 p. m. Please clear excep
tions to this departure time with
Dean Howk or Dean Moran.
Residence halls will re-open
on Sunday, November 26 at
2:00 p. m.
Anyone wh» wishes to r^
main on campus during the holi
days must check with Dean Mo
ran no later than Friday, No
vember 17.
Lock all doors and windows
in residence halls. Have a niC8
vacation.