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The Clarion | Oct. 2, 2009
New student's questions answered
by Anne Bolos
Staff Writer
Question 1: I don’t have a car here. Is
there a shuttle that can take me to Hender
sonville or Asheville for shopping at a mall
or sightseeing trips around the surrounding
area?
Answer: Yes and no. After speaking
with Mark Adamson, Campus Life, trips
for students can happen with transportation
provided for a nominal fee. Currently, there
are no trips scheduled. He needs your help
in determining the dates and places that stu
dents would like to go to and see! Drop by
and see him at his office located in the lower
level of Coltrane or send him an e-mail at
adamsom@brevard.edu or (828) 884-8359
with your suggestions for trips!
Question 2: Fd like to start a campus
club. Is there a form 1 have to fill out?
Answer: Yes! Stop by Mark Adamson’s
office to pick up a form. It’s a very simple
form to fill out. Once the form is filled out.
all you need to do to have an official club on
campus is to turn the form back in! Be sure
to let the Clarion know when your group
holds meetings and we’ll pubhsh it!
Question 3: 1 will have friends visiting
me from out of town and 1 have an unlim
ited lunch plan. Can 1 use my meal plan to
cover their meals?
No. However, you can get a guest meal
pass in advance, Monday through Friday,
at a reduced rate from the cafeteria or your
guests can pay full price at the door
Senior Pinning kiclcs off family weekend
by Anne Bolos
Staff Writer
Parent’s weekend festivities began with
Senior-Pinning Banquet. It is a tradition
that not only marks a student’s final year
at Brevard College before embarking on
a chosen career but the memories of how
Brevard College has shaped the student’s
first years of adulthood, coupled with new,
life-long friends.
Parents, faulty members, roommates,
and even BC students’ children had the
honor of pinning the seniors with a Brevard
College lapel pin. It was a moment that
evoked a tear or two of happiness as well as
fond memory of the first days on campus.
Dr Drew Van Horn, president of Brevard
College welcomed everyone to the banquet.
Guest speakers included Dr John Hardt, Dr
Ralph Hamlett and senior student Mereck
Slagle, who gave a moving reflection of
her time at Brevard College. Rev. Shelly
Webb conducted the blessing and closing
benediction. Hard work and perseverance
have gotten the new senior class this far
and we look forward to seeing you at the
graduation ceremonies!
Brevard College dorm life in 80s
by Anne Bolos
Staff Writer
With homecoming fast approaching,
some of you may be wondering what col
lege dorm life was like in the 80’s. Did the
coUege students of the 80’s have parties
and do crazy things? Of course! Ask an
alumni and the first thing that pops into
their mind are forest parties! Of course, we
also did other things on campus that weren’t
aUowed at the time.
During the 80’s, Brevard College was a
dry campus even though the legal drinking
age was 18 untfl 1985. In other words, NO
alcohol was aUowed anywhere on campus.
That didn’t stop us from playing “hide the
keg from security,” which usually occurred
in Taylor Hall.
We only had two full-time security
officers on campus to watch over approxi
mately 600 students living in the dorms.
Points were issued to students who broke
the rules. Once a student accumulated so
many points, you had to go see the Dean
and parents were called. You could smoke
a cigarette anywhere on campus - even in
your dorm room and in the dorm lobbies.
You were not allowed to have guests of
the opposite sex sleep overnight in any of
the dorms under any circumstances. Beam
dorm was the only co-ed dorm. AU the men
were in one wing and all of the women were
in another wing of Beam.
Overnight guests would be sneaked into
the dorms through the basement levels with
people on the upper levels as look-outs for
security. All of the dorms had curfews. If
your dorm broke too many rules, then the
dorm would be off-limits to anyone who
wasn’t a resident of that dorm. When one
dorm hall was closed, parties would take
place in another dorm, in the forest, or in the
com field, which is now a baseball field.
No one owned a computer and the
internet was non-existent. Typed papers
were done on a typewriter and having a
lot of white-out on hand. If you didn’t
own a typewriter, you had to hand-write
aU of your reports or pay someone to type
them for you.
Each dorm lobby had a tv, with no re
mote control device, a microwave oven,
sofas (where everyone would wrapped up
in their blankets), tables and chairs, share
snacks and watch movies on a VHS player
A few students had their own TV in their
room, which meant, if you owned a TV,
there was going to be a super-bowl party
in your dorm room.
MTV was the channel to watch. It was
new then and only showed music videos 24
hours a day. Top movies/ TV shows being
watched then in which everyone would
gather around were: Indiana Jones and the
See 80s page 4