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BREVARD COLLEGE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
March 31, 2000
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Baseball... page 12
Gift donates music
to students’ future
BY LAURA FERRELL
In February, President J. Tho
mas Bertrand announced this over
$1 million gift contributed by Rob
ert D. Coleman Jr. and his wife Ruth
Kirkpatrick for the gift of music.
The gift will work to fund an
organ for the Paul Porter Center for
Performing Arts. The organ will be
designed and crafted by a master
American organ builder, Daniel J.
Jaeckel of Duluth, Minnesota.
The organ is being specially
made for the Porter Center, due to
its physical and technically advanced
acoustics. The organ will become
the largest “tracker” organ in the re
gion, with pipes completely cover
ing the rear wall of the main concert
hall. The anticipated installation date
will be February 2003.
The design may allow the or
gan to flow over the existing balcony
and balustrade and consist of three
manual divisions, 53 stops, 69 ranks
and 3,323 pipes allowing for the au
thentic performance of the entire
range of organ literature from the
Baroque masters to Maurice Durufle.
The music department views the
organ as an incentive for new classes
and the recruitment of church music
students at the college. In addition,
the Center hopes to attract the best
organ recitals from around the world.
In accordance with the
Colemans’ requests, the wooden case-
Staff Photo
The organ supported by the Coleman-West
gift will be built to cater to the Porter Center’s
special acoustical design.
work and cabinetry will use only lo
cal hardwoods from the Southern
Appalachians. The donors believe
“the performers, students and audi
ences will develop a stronger attach
ment to the organ knowing it is made
of that much native wood.”
Contributions to this story were
made by Brad Kiinzey, News Bureau
Director.
BC Choir
serenades
two states
BY WENDY BYERLY
Saturday, March 25, Spring
Moving Mountains Day put stu
dents to work for the community.
Julie Robbins, Head of the
Community Service Committee of
Student Government, put together
two exciting trips with assistance
from Linda Helms, director of in
ternships and volunteer services.
One group of students will
be going to work with Habitat for
Humanity.
“They will mainly be dry
walling a new house,” said
Robbins.
Green River Preserve, a lo
cal environmental summer camp
for youth, is the destination of the
second group of students. They
will be helping to maintain a place
where students come to learn
about the environment and pres
ervation efforts.
Over the last two years,
Robbins and Helms have worked
to make every Moving Mountains
Day count. The idea first came to
get the freshman involved in the
community and orient them with
the people surrounding them for
the years to come.
Anyone is welcome to help
set-up community service trips. If
someone wants to participate in an
activity, contact Linda Helms.
Hands help
community
BY LAURA FERRELL
Spring Break was not about fun
in the sun for the Brevard College
Chamber Choir.
March 12 through March 17, the
group initiated its first tour in coordi
nation with college recruitment. The
experience helped increase recogni
tion of the Brevard College Chamber
Choir and offer more performance
experience for the students.
“All around it was a successful
first tour for Brevard College,” said
Kristina Todd.
Having to pay only a small fee
to help cover some of the small ex
penses, they traveled on a tour bus to
Lexington, Virginia; Richmond, Vir
ginia; and Raleigh, NC. They per
formed at Trinity Methodist Church,
Rockbridge County High School, St.
James Episcopal Church and High
land Methodist Church.
The singers performed a
broad range of songs including “Re
joice in the Lamb” by Benjamin
Britten and “Same Train” by Robert
Shaw. Their largest crowd attended
at the Highlands United Methodist
Church in Raleigh, N.C.
Graham White felt that his fa
vorite part of their performances was
“the way we sounded.” The students
performed their best and riveted au
diences.
Of course, the group did enjoy
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Supreme Court says students must pay
(UWIRE) - The U.S. Supreme
Court recently overturned ruling by a
lower court, regarding whether or not
students at the University of Wiscon
sin had to pay student activity fees used
to support “political or ideological” stu-
groups whose views were at odds
'^ith their own.
The decision came after groups
’'^presenting America’s college media
'Earned the decision “could threaten the
'^^0' existence of student media on hun
dreds of public college campuses na
tionwide.”
While the students challenging the
school’s policy said they were not tar
geting mainstream student newspapers,
the effect of the court’s ruling on stu
dent media could be devastating.
The student media groups warned
that the appellate court decision gave
no clear indication of how a school could
distinguish between publications that
were impermissibly “political and ideo
logical” and those that were not.
Most college student newspapers
include editorials or opinion columns that
offer political or ideological viewpoints;
the lower court failed to establish guide
lines for determining how many of such
editorials or columns could be published
before a student newspaper could have
its funding withdrawn.
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