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NEWS
The Clarion — November 18,2005
Admissions officer asked students to remove Clarion
issues from public view
by Adam Beeson
and Hall Penn
On the morning of Saturday,
Nov. 19, Brevard College was
hosting an Open Campus Day
when Presidential Circle (PC)
members were asked by an ad
missions official to get rid of
copies of the Nov. 18 Clarion is
sue, according to a PC member
who wishes to remain unnamed.
The PC member said the of
ficials felt “it probably wasn’t a
good idea to have [The Clarion]
silting out” because the covers,
which contained a mug shot of
an arrested student, “weren’t
portraying the school very well.”
“We thought this was inap
propriate for visiting families to
see,” said PC Advisor Betty Kay
Brookshire. “So [admissions
officials] asked them to put The
Clarion out of sight for our Open
Campus Day.”
According to another stu
dent account, admissions started
the effort to remove The Clarion
from sight the afternoon before.
Sophomore Catherine
Turner was working in Office
Services between the hours of
2:30 and 4;30p.m.on Friday, Nov.
18 when, according to Turner,
two “high ranking admissions
officers” entered the room and
asked the Director of Office Ser
vices, Ann Etters, if the latest
issue of The Clarion had gone
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When the admissions offi
cials learned that someone from
The Clarion staff had already re
ceived the order, they asked the
workers in the office to “pick
them up” if they saw any issues
on campus. “They were going
out right then to pick them up
around campus,” Turner said.
“[The Clarion cover]
doesn’t portray the majority of
the students here at Brevard
College so to us it was inappro
priate to be showing,”
Brookshire said.
When asked about the
situation. President Van Horn
said it was not an institutional
decision to pull copies of The
Clarion.
“It is not an institutional
policy to ever pull copies of stu
dent publications,” Van Horn
said.
'■eceives research grant
Staff Writer
Heather Hinkle, a Brevard College senior who is pursuing a
bachelor s degree in health science, was recently awarded a re
search grant from the National Tri-beta Research Foundation
The grant was awarded to Hinkle for her research proposal
Variation m the Development of Drug Resistance in Propionibac-
terium Acnes to Different Antibiotics.” The research proposal de
tails looking at the evolution of the Acne bacteria, and if it would
develop drug resistance to antibiotics over time.
Hinkle’s research proposal had to include specifics on what
she would be doing, what she was hoping to find through the
research and a budget detailing the expenses. This proposal was
then submitted to a committee at the Tri-Beta National Biological
Honorary Society. For the project. Dr. Janie Sue Brooks, Assistant
Professor
Environmental Studies and Ecology at Brevard College worked
closely as an advisor to Hinkle.
Hinkle became interested in the subject after doing research
on her senior project topic, the drug resistance of the Staphylococ
cus Aureus bacteria.
In my research with staph, I have found that the research for
new drugs and medicines has dwindled over the past 30 years,”
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served as the Alumni Chair of the college’s comprehensive capital
campaign, and has been an Alumni Member of the College’s Board
since 2003.
Jones, who graduated in 1964, then pursued a bachelor’s de
gree in chemical engineering from N.C. State University and a
bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering from Washington
University in St. Louis, Mo.
said Hinkle. Coupled with this is another serious issue, the grow
ing concern of drug resistance. “We are finding this day and age
that more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics.”
Hinkle said that the fact that bacteria are becoming resistant to
antibiotics, and that less research is being done, could prove to be
detrimental to the ability to deal with bacteria in the future. “It’s
there, it’s scary, and it’s a real life situation,” Hinkle said.
Hinkle said that there are two main types of antibiotics: those
that boost the immune system, and the more common, those that
attack the bacteria through lysis, the rupturing of cell membranes.
Specifically, Hinkle s research will focus on acne bacterial resis
tance to topical (applied to the skin) prescription antibiotics.
The funds from the grant will primarily be used to provide for
equipment necessary for the research, including Petri dishes, au
gers, and antibiotic discs. The equipment will be gathered over the
winter break and she plans on starting the research at the begin
ning of the spring semester and finishing in early March. She will
present her the results of her research at either the regional or
national Tri-Beta Convention in the spring.
1 would definitely like to thank Dr. Janie Sue Brooks because
without her expertise, knowledge, and help, I wouldn’t have had
this opportunity,” Hinkle said. “And I hope this inspires others at
the college to work toward something they want to achieve.”
Jones retired in 2001 as a business consultant for Polaris and
has since served as board member for Whitewater Cove Children’s
Home; elder and ministry team member at Brevard-Davidson River
Presbyterian Church; and acting assistant Scoutmaster and a char
ter organization representative for Boy Scout Troop 703.
Jones served as a member of the Brevard College Alumni Board
ot Directors, before being elected as a Trustee.