The Clarion
Serving the Brevard College community since 1935
Volume 71, Issue 4
NC Democratic Party Chair
speaks at Brevard College
encouraged the audience to supp
by Adam Beeson
Managing Editor
Brevard College hosted Jerry Meek,
Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic
Party, in Dunham Audito
rium on Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Meek, who has been
involved with the Demo
cratic party since the age of
13, was warmly welcomed
by the Brevard community
through the chairman of the
Transylvania County Demo
cratic Party, Marshall
McCallie, who spoke of
Meek as a “dynamic young
leader” who will help to
“take our country back.”
“Things aren’t going
well in Washington,”
McCallie said. “It’s time to
take
our
country
back...state by state,
county by county, and precinct by pre
cinct.”
McCallie’s brief statements were ex
panded upon when Meek took over and
Jerry Meek
photo from NC Demoaatic parly websile
BC student suffers spine injury
near Dunham Music Center
new
mascot?
see page 5
November 4, 2005
encouraged the audience to support the
Democratic party’s effort to gam control of
the House next year. Meek’s strategy m
doing so, he explained, is a return to a
“grassroots party.”
According to a study composed by
two professors at Yale Uni
versity, Meek said, going
from “door to door” in an ef
fort to inform others of vot
ing registration resulted in a
10-12 percent increase in vot
ers. This, according to Meek,
was significantly higher than
the half of one percent in
crease from “postcards” and
“telemarketers.”
“We have a tremendous
opportunity in 2006,” Meek
said. “People are sick and
tired of Republicans in of
fice.” To accomplish the goal,
Meek also said that the
Democratic party must “reach
out to new people” and not
allow Republicans to take over “issues of
^^‘‘*’“We must be able to communicate
see Democrat, page 3
Reuters fitness
center opens
by Zach Browning
Staff Writer
The Reuter Fitness center is open and
ready to serve the needs of Brevard Col
lege students and faculty.
President Drew Van Horn and Chair ot
the Brevard College board of Trustees Jo
seph McGuire were on hand to cut the rib
bon during the opening ceremony on Oct.
20. The new facility boasts two totally reno
vated areas that are generously equipped
with new free weights, cardiovascular and
a myriad of other workout equipment.
The project was made possible largely
by a grant from the Janirve Foundation,
which gave $225,000 towards the project.
That’s not all the foundation has been do
ing around campus, the new roof on
Boshamer Gymnasium and the refinished
floors in the gym were also a gift from the
Janivre Foundation.
The new fitness center is located in
side the Jenkins Campus Activity Center
of the Boshamer Gym. Brevard College is
undergoing a vibrant transformation with
the hopes of recruiting new students, fhe
target enrollment is growing towards 1000
undergraduates in a variety of programs.
“Today’s college student is accus
tomed to having access to wellness and
fitness facilities on campus, Presiden
Drew Van Horn said. “We feel it is impor-
see Fitness, page 2
by Tom Cowan
Staff Writer
On Saturday Oct. 29 between 8:00 and
8:15 p.m. Jing Zhoa, a Brevard College mu
sic student from China, fell over 5 feet into
the cement window well in front of the
Dunham Music Center. She is being treated
for a spine injury at the Missions Hospital
Spine Center in Ashville.
Brevard student Christopher Dimond,
said he was walking towered Dunham when
he heard the concerned voice of a woman
telling someone to get an ambulance. He
ran to the scene where he said “nearly six
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„n on her side- obviously injured. D mond
iLped down into the window well and
held Jing’s head, stabilizing her spine until
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to Zhoa who said she was on her way to
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see Injury, page 2
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