INSIDE
Over 65 Years of Reporting
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Issue 3
BREVARD COLLEGE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
December 9, 199^
Campus Voice touches on Millennium ... page 2
Info Series accesses the facts... page 6
Holiday Announcements... pages 8 -15
Omega Code a coming epidemic ... page 16
Men’s Basketball leaps and bound ... page 20
Rising tuition costs fight inflation
BY MICHELLE CRABTREE
The Administration released a
memo on Nov. 18 entitled “The Deal
of the Century,” connecting Brevard’s
2000 tuition rise to inflation, but indi
cated the rise “against national trends”
due to the “overall” four percent in
crease.
For 1999, according to the Col
lege Board, college tuition and fees rose
by an average of 4.7 percent at four-
year private institutions. And, the rate
of increase reflected the lowest rise
in 12 years.
The tuition and fees for next year,
August 2000-May 2001, include a five
percent cut in room fees for the older
residence halls, a minimal increase for
meal plans limited to two percent and
a “reasonable” increase in tuition lim
ited to six percent. This all together in
cludes an overall increase of four per
cent, “well below the national average”
for colleges and universities.
“The Chronicle of Higher
Education’s” October 15, 1999 issue
indicated average college costs for
1999-2000:
• Tuition and Fees at $15,380 for
a resident and $15,380 for a commuter
■ Books and Supplies at $700 for
a resident and $700 for a commuter
• Room and board at $5,959 for
a resident and $2,324 for a commuter
• Transportation at $558 for a
resident and $907 for a commuter
• And Other Personal fees at
$1,054 for a resident and $1,189 for a
Library stacks electronic
shelves, improving access
BY CHRIS FREDRICKSON
J.A. Jones Library, since 1967, has
helped students find books and has al
lowed students to have access to the
Internet. Now students will be able to
log on to the Internet program NC Live
off campus from their dorm or from the
various computer labs on campus.
New programs have been added
to NC Live to help music, English and
outdoor education students. The new
additions include an online catalog of
the Mountain College Library or
MCLN, which includes titles of books
from Brevard College, Lees-McRae,
Lenoir-Rhyne, Mars Hill, Montreat and
Warren Wilson. For music students, the
library now has The New Grove Dic
tionary of Opera, which contains 11,000
award-winning articles and 550 images.
NC Live also has added on the
Periodical Contents Index. PCI finds
articles that have been written all the
way back to 1770. According to PCI,
“PCI will eventually encompass 3,500
journals and 15,000,000 articles. Many
articles on this program will include the
subjects of Law, Education, Psychol
ogy, African American Studies and
many other areas.
For musicians, the library has
also added to NC Live the Interna
tional Index to Music Periodicals,
IIMP. This features an analysis of dif
ferent styles used by great compos-
Pholo of J.A. Jones Library by Mindi Hockenberry
ers from many of the classical music
periods. IIMP also goes into in-depth
studies on the therapeutic effects of
music.
New CD-ROM programs are also
available in the library for check out.
One is “Hiking on The Appalachian
Trail,” which has the elevations on vari
ous points of the trail and tells about
geographic locations on the trail. This
specific program details only the South
ern Region of the Appalachian Trail,
Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Students now also have access to
an updated version of Infotrac, a search
engine which helps find online infor
mation for student reports and projects.
Mike McCabe, library director
of J.A. Jones Library said, “We’ve
had it for years but it is now a differ
ent product. However, many students
do not use the library electronic re
sources.”
“Out of the whole time I’ve been
here I’ve been in the library twice. Right
now many students probably agree the
student who said, ‘What is NC Live,
said Jason Henley.
Many students are not aware of
new things being consistently added to
the library such as books, videos, CDs,
records and computer resources. The
J.A. Jones Library offers many refer
ences for the students.
commuter.
These averages total to $23,651
for a resident and $20,500 for a com
muter.
Other North Carolinian Schools
similar to Brevard College also experi
enced rises in tuition this year, as noted
in the accompanying graph. Brevard
College has fought inflation or stayed
within the ranks when compared to
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Bi^istination
advances
to spring
BY LENORA MOODY
Time arrived once again for the
“notorious” pre-registration. New stu
dents struggled for the first time to fit
“this class here and that class there,”
while upper-level students gritted
their teeth and pulled their hair try
ing to find the right class to fulfill re
quirements.
Pre-registration started the first
of November when seniors reviewed
how many hours they needed to
graduate. The day progressed when
juniors sought their next require
ments. The following days involved
sophomores struggling with time slots
and freshman deciding what would
be the best class to take. A total of
577 students pre-registered for spring
of 2000.
Registrar Adelaide Kersh said,
“The college expects to exceed an
enrollment of 580,” she said, “The
college feels positive about meeting
their goal.” According to a recent ad
ministrative memo, a record 75 stu
dents from other colleges will trans
fer, and 383 students have declared
majors, a 70 percent increase.
Kersh began pre-registration
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