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Volume 72, Issue 20
SERVING THE BREVARD COLLEGE
COMMUNITY SINCE 1935
Spring Breal!
March 2, 2007
Student crime readies a new liigli
by Tom Cowan
News Editor
Tuesday Feb.27 set a possible
all time record for the highest num
ber of student-involved incidents
reported to campus security. 3 of
the 6 incidents reported Tuesday
have resulted in 6 students facing
marijuana possession charges.
According to the campus secu
rity records, most of the incidents
were reported after a fire drill in
Jones where all rooms had to be
cleared by residence assistances
(RAs). The surprise visits lead to
the search of one room where RAs
reported numerous contraband
items sitting in plain site. In this
room security found pipes, beer
and wine bottles, a small amount
of marijuana, and a digital scale. In
another Jones room, RAs reported
finding incense and a chair, which
was stolen from the Jones Lobby.
In another room in Jones, RAs
found a dog by itself, which had
to be walked outside for the fire
drill. RAs also reported the refusal
of two students to leave the Jones
Lobby during the fire drill. The
students left the lobby after being
asked to do so repeatedly.
Other incidents that occurred
Tuesday evening involved the
Brevard Police Department.
Brevard Police reported to cam
pus security that they had pulled
over a vehicle containing 4 BC stu
dents who all received misde
meanor charges of marijuana pos
session. Police were also called to
the North Village where a Campus
Life staff member searched a
student’s room and found a pipe,
a bong, a scale, several large knives,
and an unusually large amount of
marijuana. The student received a
felony marijuana possession
charge, a felony charge for main
taining a dwelling where drugs are
sold, and a misdemeanor charge for
possession of drug paraphernalia.
Faculty members of the BC’s
science department are anxiously
waiting to see if the scale confis
cated by police is the same expen
sive scale that was stolen from an
MSX classroom on Feb. 22.
Stan Jacobsen says that in his
five-year career as BC head of se
curity, he has never recorded so
many incidents in one day. While
crime on campus was relatively
mild last semester, the security
report has spiked this semester to
include 31 incidents since the New
Year as of Wednesday, Feb. 28.
Last year at this time only 19 inci
dents were recorded, suggesting
that crime on campus is getting
worse.
SGA Election nominations in progress
by Aaron Motley
SGA President
SGA Elections nominations
have started for executive board
positions of President, Vice-Presi-
dent. Secretary, Treasurer, CAB
President, and Speaker of the
House. They are all open posi
tions. Students that wish to seek
holding an office need to attend
the meetings to be nominated.
Nominations will run until March
13th with elections occurring the
following Monday and Tuesday.
Here is the election etiquette
as stated under election by
laws that all students running
for election must adhere to:
Proper election etiquette is
to be maintained throughout
the course of the election.
a. Violations of this are to
be determined by the Dean
of Students within the Office
of Campus Life.
b.Examples of violations include,
but are not limited to the follow
ing;
i.Defacing of advertisements that
belong to those running for office.
ii.Removal of advertisements
that belong to those running for
office.
iii.Anything that constitutes
harassment or slander of those run
ning for office.
iv.Anything else deemed inap
propriate by the Dean of Students.
There are also qualifications that
students meet to be able to run for
b
election. They are: Students must
have and maintain at least a 2.7
GPA, however they may to ap
peal to the Judicial Board for ap
proval with a GPA of 2.5. All can
didates are to be in good standing
with the institution and free from
academic and/or disciplinary pro
bation. Should any candidates be
found in violation of the student
code of contact, they are to be re
moved from running for office.
Remember, SGA is the connec
tion between students and the ad
ministration.
COLLEGE
BREVARD
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