September 9,2005 | The Clarion
NEWS
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BC ranked in top 50 southern
comprehensive colleges
by Angelita Colon-Francia
Asst. Dir. of Public Relations
Brevard College has been ranked
among the top Comprehensive Colleges in
the South by U.S. News & World Report.
Brevard College was also recognized
as having one of the best first year experi
ence programs in the United States and for
having the second highest proportion of
classes under 20 among Southern Compre
hensive Colleges.
“We are extremely pleased by this na
tional recognition of Brevard College’s
educational programs,” said Brevard Col
lege President Drew Van Horn. “We are
proud of our academic programs, our stu
dents, faculty and staff. Together we strive
to create an academic community where
our students can succeed and flourish.
National recognition like this lets us know
we are succeeding in meeting the needs of
our students.”
Brevard College’s J. A. Jones Library
will commemorate the life of Nobel Prize-
winning novelist William Faulkner at 8 p.m.
on Tuesday, September 27.
Dr. John B. Padgett, an assistant pro
fessor of English at Brevard College, will
lead a discussion on Faulkner’s acclaimed
short story “Dry September.” Copies of the
story will be on reserve and available for
checkout.
First published in 1931, the story re
lates how, after 62 days of drought, men in
a small Mississippi town are spurred to
violence against a black man who is ru
mored to have raped a white woman.
Faulkner uses a technique that forces the
For a third year in a row, Brevard Col
lege was listed among the top colleges in
the United States that make freshmen feel
connected through special programs and
regular small group interactions between
students, faculty and staff and peers.
The magazine’s special 2005 America s
Best Colleges edition recognized Brevard
College among the 50 Top Southern Com
prehensive Colleges. Comprehensive Col
leges are four-year schools that focus on
undergraduate education and offer a range
of degree programs both in the liberal arts
and professional fields.
Brevard College was recently named
one of the best Colleges and College towns
in America by Outside Magazine, among
the top Comprehensive Colleges in the
South by U.S. News & World Report and a
“Champion of Character Institution” by the
National Association of Intercollegiate Ath
letics (NAIA).
readers, as well as the characters, to try to
construct what actually occurred from frag
ments of gossip, ambiguous hearsay, and
things left unsaid.
Next month the library will present a
program in support of Transylvania
County’s “Together We Read” program.
On Tuesday, October 4 at 7 p.m., Brevard
College professor of English, Dr. Ken
Chamlee, will present a discussion on John
Ehle’s The Road, a novel about the build
ing of Western North Carolina’s railroads.
For more information about these and
future programs at J.A. Jones Library, con
tact the library’s director, Mike McCabe at
884-8248 or librarv@brevard.edu.
Library adds
new databases
by Angelita Colon-Francia
Asst. Dir. of Public Relations
Brevard College’s James A. Jones
Library has available several new data
bases through its website as part of its
overall mission to provide a wide range
of up-to-date electronic information re
sources.
Now available at www.brevard.edu/
library are: American Council of Learned
Societies JJistory E-Book Project, a fully
searchable collection of high-quality
books in history, recommended and re
viewed by historians; ERIC, the Educa
tional Resource Information Center, a
U.S. Department of Education sponsored
database of more than 1.1 million cita
tions and more than 107,000 full-text non
journal documents; Gale Virtual Refer
ence Library, a database of e-Book refer
ence titles, such as encyclopedias, al
manacs, and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research;
Liebert Online, searchable online access
to full text journals on biomedical re
search, clinical medicine and surgery,
law, and science; Making of America
(MOA), a digital library of primary
sources in American social history from
the antebellum period through recon
struction; Oral History Online, a source
of more than 2,500 collections of oral his
tory in English from around the world;
PsycBOOKS, the American Psychologi
cal Association’s (APA) database of
more than 10,000 chapters in PDF from
over 600 books published by APA and
other distinguished publishers;
PsycEXTRA, also from the APA, con
sists of technical, annual and govern
ment reports, conference papers, news
letters, magazines, newspapers, con
sumer brochures and more in the field of
Psychology; and PubMed Central
(PMC), the U.S. National Library of
Medicine’s digital archive of life sci
ences journal literature.
Hours of operation for Brevard
College’s Jones Library are Monday
through Thursday, 8 a.m. - 11 p.m., Fri
day 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 5
p.m., and Sunday 3 p.m. - 11 p.m. For
more information about the library and
its resources, contact Mike McCabe, di
rector of the library, 884-8248, or
library@brevard.edu.
Earthquake —
continued from page 1
“And to me, that’s the thing I found the most unique was this whole biology.
What it says to me was that those insects knew it was coming. They knew it. They
were getting ready for it. They were no longer talking to their buddies, they were
clinging on. They knew it was coming. It really makes you think. Who s the more
developed?’ They knew it was coming and I didn’t. I’d love to know how they know
it.”
Library to host literary programs
on William Faulkner, John Ehle