November 17, 1972
THE CLARION
Page Three
Tornadoes Rank As Pre-Season Favorites In WCJCC B'Ball
Brevard College basketball
opened its second year under
Coach Larry Burch last Wed
nesday night when they hosted
Palmer College of Columbia, S.
C The Tornadoes rank as one
of the pre - season favorites to
cop the Western Carolina Jun
ior College Conference Champ
ionship.
A strong nucleus of sopho
more talent seems to strengthen
the early prediction. Mike
Coles, a 6’3” forward from
Lynchburg, Va., was the team’s
leading scorer and rebounder
with a 18.0 scoring average and
11.0 rebounds per game. Ricky
McClure, a graduate of Pisgah
High School, was the second
leading scorer with a 17.0 av
erage and the MVP in the con
ference tournament.
“Two of the most pleasant
surprises to me have been Bob
by Miller from Enka High and
Frank Blount, a 6’2” leaper
from New York City. Bobby has
made great improvement over
the summer. He has always
been an excellent shooter, but
his defense and ball handling
have made him a much better
ball player. Blount has added
dimension to our front line. His
tremendous jumping ability
matched with his quickness
should give us a real strength
at the forward positions.”
Burch stated.
Two other sophomores who
will be seeing a great deal of
. action are Bill Miller and
George Hester. Miller, a 6’5”
center from Greensboro, N. C.,
saw abbreviated action last
season due to an early severe
ankle injury. The sixth sopho
more, George Hester, a strong
6’3” guard from Morehead
City, N. C., is serving a six-
month obligation with the Air
Force Reserves, but will re
turn after the Christmas holi
days.
The freshmen have just not
performed well early. “The
sophomores have not been
pushed for the positions. It is
hurting us, but they (the
freshmen) have seemingly
caught fire recently.” Burch
commented.
The freshman roster includes:
Melvn Scales and Ronnie
Jones, Winston - Salem; David
Ballenger and David Pruit,
Greenville, S. C.; Rockney Per
ry, Graham; Rich Sizemore,
Skyland; Bill Bradley, Gasto
nia; and Art Williams, Lynch
burg. Va.
“Our team will be extremely
small again this year, but there
are several leapers and our
over - all quickness is excel
lent. We should be able to
match our scoring efforts of
last year which netted 3 points
a game. Hopefully, with the ex
perienced sophomores, we will
be able to cut down the mis
takes and improve our defense.
I’m looking, for another good
year from the team,” com
mented the Brevard mentor.
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Seated (Front) - Jay Norris, manager,
First row (1 to r) - Art Williams,
Bob Miller, Rich Sizemore, Bill Bradley,
Rock Perry, Rick McClure.
Standing (1 to r) - Coach Larry Burch,
Mike Coles, David Ballenger,
Melvin Scales, Larry Hooper,
Bill Miller, Ronnie Jones,
David Pruitt, Frank Bolunt.
No One Flunks At Yale University
(Continued from Page Two)
ent editor of the Yale Daily
News, distinguished in an edi
torial between the ‘grade-con
scious” and the “grade-obli
vious” student, but concluded
that “it is blunt reality that
Yale students would be placed
at a disadvantage in getting
into graduate schools if the
grading system were abolished,
and it is the ultimate in self-
centured tlitism to believe
that the entire graduate ad
missions process would change
if Yale were to adopt a pass-
fail system.”
Dean Horace Taft noted that—
though there is no “F” grade as
far as the public transcript is
concerned, faculty members will
still hand in their grades as if
the F grade existed.
Dean Taft believes that even
for the least grade - conscious
student, the system affects be
havior in class. He notes that at
another Ivy League College
(Princeton) where two grading
systems operate together — a
standard system and a Pass-
Fail plan — faculty members
could tell by a student’s atti
tude under which method he
was being graded. And at a
Vermont institution where
most courses are under a Pass-
Fail plan, the educators there
told liim frankly that their
students did more work in the
traditionally graded courses.
The A-B-C-D system is the
11th change in the grading
system in Yale College in this
century. From 1902 to 1918, for
example, students were grad
ed on a 0 to 400 scale in units
of 5, with 200 passing. That
system was replaced for nine
years with the 0 to 100 point
scale, with 60 as passing, but
then returned from 1927 to
1932. Then, back to the 100-
point system for 1933 to 1939.
At that point a letter grad
ing system — A-plus, A,B,C,D,
F and X — was begun which
lasted only until 1943 when the
100 point scale took over again
for essentially a 24-year reign.
Green Leads
Intramurals
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over in the Men’s Intramurals.
Since Green beat Taylor for the
football championship, it mov
ed them in the lead with 300
points to Taylor’s 200, Beam;
150, and the Townies; 50. Since
soccer season had begun; how
ever, Taylor had been winless.
Therefore, now there is a bat
tle for the lead between Green
and Beam with Green holding
the slight edge. The soccer sea
son will close this week and
volleyball will begin on Mon
day. This will be a very short
season and as in football, the
dorms will have both a “blue”
and a “white” team.
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