The Clarion
March 26, 1990 Page 9
BC students from spring break '89 walk through the central square
of Durango. The College is planning a return trip to Mexico this
summer and students may still sign up for the June language study
trip. (Clarion photo by Jock Lauterer)
Students benefit from new TV microscope
What's happening
I
' this weekend
Friday, March 30
I Spring Drama Production;
: "Summer and Smoke" Bam Theatre,
i 8:15 p.m. Starts Thursday and runs
I through Saturday night. Reserve tickets
( required; free to students at receptionist's
desk at Beam Ad. Bldg.
Saturday, March 31
Spring Formal, Deer Park Inn, 9
p.m. until. Tickets required.
Community Campaign Auction
and Dance, cafeteria, 7-11 p.m.
Outdoor Track; Clemson
Invitational, away, 9 a.m.
Sunday, April 1
"BC to DC"; campus-wide slide
show, 6 p.m. MG 125. Free.
Game Show; We Can Make You
Laugh," 7 p.m. Dunham. Free.
BC announcements
from Student Affairs
The SGA spring elections will
begin the second week of April,
according to Student Activities Director
Jeff Battle. Watch for further
information in the Clarion, on the
cafeteria matrix board and on posters
around campus.
Also, RA selection for next year
will begin soon, says Assistant Dean of
Student Affairs Sharon Waggy. RD's
will have diat information available for
applicants soon.
Barry Tadlock reports that a
Grievance Board has been formed to help
reduce some of the caseload handled by
Dean Witek and the Judicial Board. The
new Grievance Board is designed ONLY
for those who have been issued points
and are trying to decide whether or not
to appeal their points to the Judicial
Board.
The new board will be made up on
one Judicial Board member. Judicial
Board recorder John Kanipe and the
Judicial Board Advisor Barry Tadlock.
The new board will issue advice
only; it will not make decisions,
Tadlock explains. Dean Witek's
secretary, Susan Chappell, will
coordinate sign-ups for the semi-weekly
meetings.
Community Service Coordinator
Sybil Dodson reports that the Jail-a-
Thon will be held at BC on Wednesday,
March 28. She urges students to help
the American Cancer Society by
incarcerating their favorite, or least-
favorite, professor/administrator. Also,
April 7 is the date of a joint service
project with Young-Harris College.
I BC goes south
of the border:
Apply now
for summer
exchange ’90
What are you doing this summer?
How about an unforgettable month in
Mexico with your friends while you
learn Spanish and earn three hours of
college credit?
Brevard College is offering a
language and cultural exchange program
and service study experience to Durango,
Mexico, May 31-June 25, under the
guidance of Spanish Assistant Professor
Judy Pascale, campus Community
Service Coordinator Sybil Dodson and
Director of Public Information Jock
Lauterer.
The trip is an expanded version of
the Spring Break '89 experience taken
by Project Inside-Out's first work team
south of the border. This trip is different
in that it is offered to BC students of
Spanish.
Pascale says the uip is open to
students who have had one year of
college Spanish or three years of high
school Spanish. Students will live in
the homes of Mexican host families.
According to Lauterer, "On our
first trip to Durango last spring break,
this intercultural exchange proved to be
the most fun. You just learn things
about a culture by living with a family
that you'd never learn in the classroom."
The Spanish classes will be taught
by a native Mexican instructor. After
classes every day, students will have
ample time for such activities as
shopping in the native marketplaces,
eating in the local restaurants, hearing
local Mariachi bands and visiting the
scenic sights of the historic 400-year-old
city.
The study-service project to
Durango will be a return trip for Dodson
and Lauterer. "I really encourage
students to take advantage of this unique
opportunity," says Lauterer. "It will be
the trip of a lifetime, and I guarantee it
will change your life. And besides, it s
great fun."
Every effort has been made to keep
the cost at a minimum, according to
Dodson. She says the cost of $1,000 is
greatly below what most trips would
cost. Interested students should pick up
aRjlication forms from faculty secretary
Betty Tipton in the faculty office, MG
101. The deadline for trip applications is
Monday, April 2.
! Vamos muchachos a Durango!
- BC News Bureau
by Lisa Macaulay
Clarion Reporter
Brevard College's Science
Department has a new television micros
cope that enables students to view
objects much more clearly and quickly.
It is hoped that this new high tech
microscope will enhance students'
interest in science because it allows
them to see tiny objects on the TV
screen so easily.
According to science professor Bob
Glesener it has taken the science
department three years to acquire /'ill tlie
equipment needed. The microscope
retires a TV monitor, a VCR and two
different kinds of cameras that attach to
the top of the microscope.
One camera allows students at their
desks and the teacher to view on the
monitor what is going on under the lens
of the scope.
According to students, there are
many benefits frotn having this new TV
microscope. Freshman Sharon Young
says, "You can see the cel! much
clearer." Todd Dominy says, "It enables
the whole class to view a specific
specimen stronger than the view
through a normal microscope."
Other benefits are that when a
teacher is giving a test, he/she can
project the slide on the screen for the
students to label.
In the future, the science
department hopes to add to the
microscope. They would like to buy
two monitors to attach to the comers of
the room so all students can see clearly.
Also, other types of cameras might be
added to expand the utility of tl>e TV
microscope.
The new piece of equipment will
aid the teaching of science in many
ways. Lin Redmond, a sophomore
science student, says she wishes that she
had more time here at BC to study and
use the new TV microscope nKxe.