The Clarion April 25, 1989 Page 11
Artist’s conception of the new auditorium and civic center planned for Brevard College.
Ingle announces $3 million BC auditorium
Construction projects changing the face of BC
from BC News Bureau
Brevard College has announced plans to
build a $3 million auditorium and civic
center.
Breaking the news at a March 21 ground
breaking for the new Coltrane Student
Center, Robert P. Ingle, chairman of the
board of Ingles Markets, told a gathering
of students, faculty, BC trustees, and
friends that he had “accepted the
challenge” of raising the funds for a “ver
satile, 1,100 seat auditorium.”
Ingle, who called BC “a school with
great vision,” told reporters he became in
terested in Brevard College during his re
cent negotiations with the school to pur
chase approximately 15 acres for a new
shopping center.
Although he declined to be specific, Ingle
said he planned to make a significant gift
toward the auditorium project. Director of
Development Don Scarborough said that
Ingle is aiming to have the funds raised
within two years.
No construction timetable has been an
nounced yet but Scarborough said he
would like to see the building ready for use
within three years at the outside.
As to the location of the new facility. Col
lege officials have picked the open space
between the current SU and Pizza Hut.
Displaced athletic fields will be moved to
the cornfield, according to the office of
public information.
The new auditorium will triple the size of
Dunham auditorium, which seats only 350,
and can’t contain the school’s enrollment
of 700, which is expected to be even higher
this fall with another record freshman
class anticipated.
The new auditorium building will be
available for community use, such as
plays, productions, meetings, and conven
tions, The facility will be the largest indoor
auditorium in the county.
The surprise announcment came after
the groundbreaking for the Coltrane Stu
dent Center project, which is already
under construction. The target date for
that project’s completion is January or
February of next year.
In the dual project, the existing Coltrane
Art Building is being renovated and ex
panded by 7,000 square feet into a
centrally-located student center with an
outdoor patio, enlarged game room, snack
bar, lounge, commuting student lounge,
bookstore, conference rooms and offices
for the Student Affairs staff.
In the other half of the project, the Sims
Building, currently the Student Center,
will be converted into the new Sims Art
Building to house the College’s expanding
art department and provide easy public
access and increased exhibition space.
The groundbreaking signalled the first
major construction project in 19 years at
BC. President Billy Greer said it signalled
“a new vitality” at BC, which he said is a
“small college doing big things.”
The new auditorium will “shape the
quality of life for this campus and for this
community and region for years to come,”
he said.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Robert I Dalton of Charlotte told
reporters, “I don’t think we’ll wait another
19 years to see another building spring up.
Things are starting to happen here fast.”
Letters to the Editor: BC students speak out on variety of issues
continued from Page 3
To the Editor:
How much more are the professors who
live the Complex/Duplex area being paid
to compensate for their inevitably increas
ed renthousing costs next year? This lack
of salary seems to me highly presump
tuous of an administration that pays scant
sums of money to professors who are doc
tors in their fields to instruct 101 and 102
courses.
Where are the research courses? Those
higher level courses in specific fields can
aid the student who majors in one these ap
plicable fields invaluably and certainly
provide a closer interaction with his/her
major that Brevard, at present doesn’t of
fer. Yes, this is a two-year institution, and
the need for such courses may not yet be
realized, but what about the professors?
The concern for their well-being seems to
have been forgotten.
Yes, Brevard’s commitment is to
students, but for that commitment to be
perpetuated — and also wholehearted and
beneficial — for the students. Doesn’t a
consideration need to be given to the doc
toral and other faculty — displaced from
housing as the supreme in consideration —
or simply those receiving an insufferable
amount of salary for compensation of their
work with students? To me there is
something inherently wrong with a system
that doesn’t even take care of its own (the
faculty), for the care of its own (the
students). Am I wrong? Or, fi#ally, is it
wrong to think there is also an inherent
problem with an admissions board that ad
mits more students that it can house?
Seun Pru7.i»T
Freshman
To the Editor:
The other day I was in the cafeteria and l
happened to notice a very interesting shirt
a student was wearing. As explicit as it
was, I do not feel that it was offensive.
Others have worn similar slogans but
because of the graphic detail of this par
ticular shirt, many people were annoyed
I believe it’s time we open our eyes to
reality This student’s shirt expressed a
view that has been drummed into us
through all forms of media and propagan
da since AIDS and other forms of venereal
diseases have become more eminent.
I don’t think the student’s shirt offended
anyone unless they are just looking for
something to be offended by. Everyone
should exercise their first amendment
Kuryn OIm liesky
Fresh man
To the Editor
Brevard is becoming an uninviting place
to be now days. I came to the school and I
ended up having a lot of good friends. The
first weekend back from Christmas break
one of my better friends was kicked out of
school. Now on the first weekend bacn
from spring another one of my close
friends is getting kicked out. Many of my
close friends are also on the verge of get
ting kicked out. What I would like to know
is when is the maddness going to stop? The
students make up the school and if you
kick enough kids out then there won’t be a
school. The students being kicked out are
not bad students. Staying in school these
days is not a matter of getting grades yet
is a matter of whether or not you are in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
A lot of these students get in trouble
because of alcohol consumption. The root
of the problem does not lie with the school
or this country. When a person turns 18 a
person is considered an adult with one ex
ception. The exception is that the person
cannot legally drink. I ask you why not? A
young man can die for his country, yet he
cannot drink a beer. To me this is
ridiculous. In most countries in Europe no
drinking age even edists. When the drink
ing age ceases, the dangerous element of
drinking also ceases to exist. If the danger
lay in people thinking they are getting
away with a social taboo, cut out the
danger, and possibly fewer people will
pie would drink. Nevertheless with or
without the drinking age, people under 21
are going to drink anyway. After a hard
week of school, I believe that a student
should have the right to get hammered in
the privacy of his dorm room if that per
son so wishes. The majority of the points at
this school seem to come from alcohol
violations. 1 am not suggesting that the
school break the law, yet 1 am suggesting
that maybe a revision in school policy
towards drinking offenses. Reduced points
or no points for drinking on weekends
might be a solution.
Finally some serious thought needs to be
given to the problems of students getting
kicked out. I miss my friends terribly. And
my only consolation for them getting kick
ed out is that something good might come
out of it. Twenty years from now I hope
people will not have the need to still write
letters to the editor about their friend get
ting kicked out of school You see, I have
faith in the future and faith in social evolu
tion. I feel that people will grow and open
their minds to see certain drugs, and per
sonal liberties. Without this growth
stagnation will occur, and stagnation leads
to eventual death. I feel that my genera
tion will remember and rise to the call for
social change . You might ask what can
we do about this here at Brevard? We can
start by stopping the kicking out of good
students. I hope something good comes to
this.
Sincerely,
CharU-H Koory
Frvnhman