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CLARION
Brevard College, Brevard, N.C.
Volume 55 Number 7
Wednesday, January 27,1988
Snow greets BC students
on first day of classes
by Melanie Ramseur
On the first day of classes, the big snow
came rushing down. Everyone was digg
ing their way to first period. Playing in the
snow was the favorite pasttime, but it
wasn’t so much fun when the injuries came
rolling around. Two students were hurt in
a sledding accident. Nancy Fox broke her
collarbone and dislocated her shoulder,
and Susie Pash bruised her hip.
Visitation violations up
during fall trial period
by April Woods
Because 126 individuals abused the
rights of the 600 students at Brevard Col
lege, extended visitation privileges have
been lost, according to Dean of Student Af
fairs Norm Witek.
Some of the standard thesaurus
synonymous for the word “visitation” are
calamity and disaster, and according to
Dean Witek, a disaster is just exactly what
last semester’s trial period for extended
visitation hours turned out to be.
“Visitations,” said Witek, “overtook
alcohol as the number one discipline pro
blem on campus.”
Witek points out that the increase in
visitation violations seems to correlate
with an equal increase in alcohol-related
violations and dorm noise pollution.
Witek said, “Increased visitation hours
compound the other problems. Ten o’clock
visitation gives the student two more hours
to sit back and have a beer.”
Witek does not feel the administration is
in any way responsible for the failure of
the trial period. He says it is student
apathy which causes problems. “What I
don’t understand,” he says, “is why can’t
students have enough class, for example,
to walk up to someone who’s just smashed
a hole in the wall and say something. I
mean, this is their home.”
Witek feels the administration did its
part. He asks, “If students can’t abide by
ten o’clock visitation, then what is the solu
tion? To change it to twelve o’clock?”
The permanence of the present hours
seems final. According to Witek, it is the
administration’s responsibility to provide
students with enough quiet hours to ensure
each and every BC student ample study
time to meet his individual needs.
“Somewhere along the line,” he says, “the
dorm has to belong to whoever lives in it
rather than everyone else.”
As to the question of where to take your/
personal life after 8 p.m. on weeknights,
Witek suggests that the SGA address the
problem. He says, “The students were
given the extra time in the dorms, but they
abused it.”
On a lighter note, President Greer took a
group of students on a ski trip Saturday,
Jan. 9.
“It was wonderful. We had a ball!” said
Greer. Greer has planned another ski trip
on Saturday, Jan. 23, Greer plans to leave
that Saturday after lunch. Then, he plans
to head to Boone, and ski the following day.
Greer plans on allowing his group to stay
overnight; that way they will have all day
Sunday to ski.
Jones Residence Hall is handling the
weather in its own way. Right before the
snow came, two maintenance men, with
their arms full of kindling, came to Sharon
Waggy’s room informing her that Presi
dent Greer suggested they build a fire.
After the maintenance men cleaned out
the fireplace and built the fire, Jones had
its first dorm meeting in the lobby by the
fire. Following the meeting, Greer entered
the lobby to see how things were going.
The girls all thanked him for his
thoughtfulness.
While Jones was warming by the fire,
the Floridians were chilling from their
first reactions to the snow.
“It was absolutely breath-taking; just
like the movies,” said Andrea Henry, a
freshman from Lakeland, Florida.
Last weekend Andrea participated in
her first snowball fight and tasted snow
cream for the first time.
Marjorie Hawk of Daytona, Fla. says
when she woke up and looked outside she
was stunned. “Walking in the snow was
like walking on the sand of the beach,” she
said.
(From top to bottom)Louis Rosen
and Stephan Paul-Hus ambush
President Billy Greer outside the
administration building and then
roll Hizzonoer in the snow. But
the Prez got even, zapping Rosen
the following day with a snowball
Greer described as the size of a
volleyball.
T ransfer College
Day is today
TRANSFER COLLEGE DAY will be
held in the library on Tuesday, January
26th from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. At least 50
senior college institutions from NC, SC,
GA, VA, FL and other states will be
represented. Students are encouraged to
drop by the representatives’ tables to
discuss the transfer process, admissions
procedures, etc. Sponsored by the Office of
Admissions.