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Volume 78, Issue 5
SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Sept. 28, 2012
BC student joins professional opera company
By Ashley Lowe
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Rachel Anthony, a sophomore Music and Art Maj or here at Brevard College,
will perform with the Asheville Lyric Opera in their fall performance of
Giuseppi Verdi’s La Traviata. The Asheville Lyric Opera states, “No opera
expresses the transformative power of love more than La Traviata.”
Anthony auditioned for the production in August before school started and
was told by the judges that they were excited to have her in the company and
that they look forward to watching her grow. Anthony plays the role of a party
guest and will be in both act one and three.
Since early September Anthony has been attending practices in Asheville
regularly. With practices almost every night during the week before the show,
it is amazing that Anthony even has time to breathe. It is amazing how she
can balance this professional life style and her college studies.
This is the first professional opera that Anthony has been a part of. She is
very excited about this amazing opportunity. Anthony said her favorite part of
La Traviata is “being challenged and having to step it up and do everything to
perfection. It’s a professional company and there is no time to slack.”
La Traviata is showing at Diana Wortham Theater in downtown Asheville
on October 5 and 6 at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.
ashevillelyric.org.
Christie Cauble
Rachel Anthony performs at the spring 2012 music honors
recitai.
SGA becomes voice of change
By Patrick G. Veilleux
Editor in Chief
In one of the first issues of the semester
I spoke about how this campus was in the
middle of and would continue to see major
changes. And I know students have had and
will continue to have a great deal to do with
the changes that take place.
For the first time in a long time, SGA
is going to be a very active power around
campus, and a powerful agent of change at
Brevard College. Just as the Clarion has gone
through very constructive transformations
over the past year or so under my predecessor
Park Baker and our very capable staff; the
student government is improving a great
deal under SGA president Elise Labus and
her Executive Board, which was created
during a chaotic time of intense changes in
our community.
At Brevard we each have the capability
to be more than a number, a statistic or a
check for a lump of cash. We all know how
interconnected this community is, the staff
and faculty value each student’s input, from a
WLEE Senior to a Buisiness major Freshman.
That’s what makes this school great. But for
700 people, as small as that number is when
compared to NC State or Western, it’s very
difficult for all 700 people to get their word
in. SGA is composed of the servant leaders
among us who choose to be our voices to the
BC Administration.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been about
that, many think that in the past SGA positions
were just something to put on a resume, or
were a contest for popularity. But I’ve seen
a strong lack of apathy among our Executive
Board, an inspiring desire to have the student
body heard. The Executive Board has a
positive energy and a drive to improve our
school, but they need our help as students.
Think of SGA as a microphone. You the
students can speak to them in open forums,
around campus and through email and they
will represent you to people who can give
you all your needs during your time at BC
but all of your wants as well. If you want the
Voice for Change to be heard by everyone.
you should speak into the microphone. The
staff and faculty cannot think like us, the
students. Nobody knows what we want better
than ourselves.
But the staff and faculty want to hear us,
and SGA, the driven people looking to Learn
in Order to Serve among us want to make
them listen. Some readers might think that
the administration doesn’t listen. But for two
SGA meetings in a row, the Director of Food
Services has sat down with us to talk about
what improvements we want to see in Myers
Dining Hall. President Joyce, in his short
time here, has already sat on committees with
several of these Executive Board members to
make decisions with the student body.
On October 4, SGA will be holding an
“Open Forum” in Coltrane Underground, our
“common area,” where we (the students,) may
have a free exchange of information, beliefs
and ideas.
I hope that you, our readers, will invest
yourselves into this worthy organization
which sacrifices its time to serve you, and
speak so that you are “heard.”