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SERVING THE BREVARD COLLEGE
Volume 74, Issue 19 COMMUNITY SINCE 1935 February 27, 2009
Housing lottery pushed back to after Spring Breal
by Joseph Chilton
Editor in Chief
The housing lottery that was scheduled
for last week has been pushed back to an
unspecified date after spring break, Dean
of Campus Life Chris Holland confirmed
on Tuesday.
“We recognized that there was still quite
a bit of confusion over the details of the
lottery system and then the baseball team
was not going to be around the whole day
so we just decided to postpone it to a bet
ter date,” Holland said in an e-mail to The
Clarion.
When that nebulous lottery day does
arrive, students will find themselves sign
ing up for rooms in a drastically different
campus setup.
The most notable change is that Green
Hall will no longer house freshmen, as it
will be replacing Jones Hall as the campus’
wet dorm for upperclassmen. Jones Hall
will be home to freshmen and sophomores
In this issue...
FEATURES:
Ask a nurse 2
What could you get out of BC? 4
ARTS AND LIFE:
'Picasso' review 7
Award show disappointment? 5
OPINION:
How to get rid of the liberal bias in The
Clarion 3
SPORTS:
Tennis season begins 6
Basketball falls to Newberry 6
ODDS AND ENDS:
American Hero 8
Pop Culture Grid 8
Totally fabricated story of the week.... 8
next year and will be dry.
"The rationale for the change is based on
a long-term philosophy of recruitment and
retention for all students," Holland said.
According to Holland, it will be much
easier to facilitate first-year student men
toring programs by placing them in close
proximity, with freshmen inhabiting Beam
Hall and East Jones.
Since freshmen will now be in East Jones,
Holland said that it will not be prudent to
allow upperclassmen to remain in West
Jones with alcohol allowed, and moving
the upperclassmen to Green Hall was the
best resolution to this quandary.
“We could not have upperclassmen who
could legally drink living in West Jones
right next to the freshmen, so we decided
to put the group most closely related to
their development next to them-the sopho
mores,” Holland said.
The Village is the one dorm that will not
have major changes for next year. The
college is, however, trying to facilitate
more theme housing units in the Village
for students who choose to live similar
lifestyles.
Two weeks ago at an information session
regarding housing, some students expressed
concern over GPA and past behavioral re
strictions being placed on the Village, thus
sequestering a large cohort of students to
Green Hall. According to Robert Minton,
these concerns are misconceptions.
“The entire Village is not subject to be
havioral or GPA stipulations. This is only
for theme housing,” Minton said.
Some theme houses will be substance-
free housing enviroimients and others will
be reserved for service organizations on
campus.
The 98 members in an anti-Green Hall
Facebook group suggest that there is op
position to the wet dorm being moved from
Jones Hall. Students who wish to circum
vent living in Green Hall in order to be able
to drink in their residence have until June 1
to apply for off-campus housing.
“They need to file to move off by June 1
or they would pay a $250 contract breakage
fee,” Minton said. According to Minton, all
the changes being enacted by campus life
are being made in order to foster a better
sense of unity on campus.
“The concept behind all of this is an ef
fort to build a community for students and
by students in which students take more
ownership in their living enviroimient but
are also held accountable for that owner
ship,” Minton said.
Picasso plays a packed Poiter Center
"Picasso at the
Lapin Agile"
opened last
weekend with
three sold
out shows at
the Morrison
Playhouse in the
Porter Center. The
final performances
of the show will be
this weekend. For
our review of the
play, see page 5
photo by Z. Porch