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Volume 79, Issue 15 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Monday:
5:30 p.m.
"Walk to Change"
Bethel Baptist
7 p.m.
MLK Celebration
Porter Center
Jan. 17, 2014
Creating a dynasty
Left to right: Assistant Coach Peter Haiie, Zachery Vaidez, Aiiison
Arensman, Cypress Gorry, Sarah Hiii, Caieb Weiborn, Lewis Gaffney, Keith
Marek, Nicoie Miranda, Ray Dangeimaier, Spencer Lowden, Erica Zaveta,
Brandon Miiet, Coach Brian Sheedy, Assistant Coach Brad Periey
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Second Straight Win at Cyclo-Cross Nationals
By Kody Adams
StaffWritei^^^^_
January 8th - 12th marked the weekend
of the 2014 Cyclo-cross Collegiate National
Championship being held in Boulder
Colorado, and oh what a weekend it was.
Cyclo-cross is a mix of on road bicycle
racing and off road bicycle racing with a few
sand traps and barriers (that you have to jump
over) thrown together to create a fast paced
bicycle event.
January 10th held the first race that Brevard
College cycling team would participate in,
Team Relay. Out of the members that race on
the Championship team, four (two men and
two women) are chosen to race the course
one at a time. Every lap a different teammates
races the course.
After four laps the team in the lead takes
the win. “The wind was the biggest concern
as far as weather is concerned but the ground
kept dry enough to have good races,” Brandon
Miiet (Senior and Mechanic for the team) told
me. Lewis Gaffney, a senior with quite a bit of
racing experience started for Brevard. Allison
Arensman, a new member on Brevard’s squad
took over for Gaffney, then Zachary Valdez,
a sophomore had a chance to take the course
by storm followed by Erica Zaveta (senior)
who took over for the final lap.
The Relay team took 1st place in the
division 2 (D2) Collegiate race, but because
D1 and D2 raced at the same time, they were
able to see how they would stack up against
the division 1 competitors.
The Relay team would have finished 3rd
if in Dl, right behind Marian University
and Fort Lewis College making this race a
statement towards their competitors that they
were ready. This race set the tone for the rest
of the weekend.
Saturday, January 11 was the chance
for the Brevard women to take the on the
cyclo-cross course. Christina Birch riding
for Massachusetts Institute of Technology
would take 1 st place, but the Brevard women
wouldn’t be far behind.
Erica Zaveta (Senior) would end her last
Collegiate National Championship right with
grabbing 2nd place followed by newcomer
Allison Arensman (Sophomore), who took
See 'Cyclo-champs,' page 6
NAACP-NC
president
to speak on
campus
Brevard will welcome Rev. Dr. William
Barber, president of the North Carolina State
Conference of the NAACP, as the featured
speaker at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 at
the Brevard College Porter Center.
Rev. Barber is the honored guest of
Transylvanians Forward Together, a local
outgrowth of the Moral Mondays movement
that took the state by storm last summer when
the North Carolina State legislature passed a
body of legislation that the NAACP considers
discriminatory and unjust.
Rev. Barber has gained national recognition
for his leadership of the Moral Mondays
movement, which led to the arrest of more
than 900 protestors (including Rev. Barber) at
the state capital in Raleigh last summer.
He is expected to address the legislature’s
decision to reject federally funded expansion
of the Medicaid program affecting 500,000
poor and disabled North Carolinians.
Rev. Barber has also strongly criticized
the reduction of unemployment benefits for
See 'Rev. Barber,' page 2
Rev. Dr. William Barber