Feb. 28, 2014
Times they are a-changin'
SACS Accreditation Board visits, Board of Trustees meets
staff Editorial
In addition to midterms, Brevard College
hosted several significant events and meetings
this week that have implications for students,
faculty, and alumni in addition to members of
the Brevard community.
The Southern Association of College and
Schools (SACS) sent a delegation from their
Accreditation Board this week to assess
the status of Brevard College following
the probation placed upon the school last
semester.
The delegates arrived on campus Monday
and were scheduled to leave on Wednesday.
After touring campus, meeting with faculty
and staff members, and finally interviewing
Student Government Association President
Patrick Helmick and Treasurer Burton
Hodges, the SACS representatives cancelled
the final day of their trip.
The Accreditation Board will not make a
decision to remove or continue probation
until June.
Several decisions were reached last Friday
at the Brevard College Board of Trustees
meeting. The meeting led to several changes
that will directly affect Brevard College
students in the future.
Tuition for next school year will increase
by 3.4 percent after the annual budget was
approved for 2014-2015 school year.
Assistant professor Dr. Eva Smith was
promoted to Associate Professor of Business
and Organizational Leadership and was
granted tenure.
Additionally, several decisions for changes
were made that will take effect within the
See 'Change,' page 6
SEE PAGE 4: NC Museum of Art trip review
S tudents and faculty take photos of artwork, and each other, while touring ®
the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh on a field trip last Thursday,
Feb. 20. Read more about their trip on page 4.
Psych students
to spend spring
break at SEPA
By Alex Webster
staff Writer
Three psychology students, Carah Hoover,
Savannah Calvert, and Jourdane Landry,
along with the head of the department, Dan
Moore, will be going to Nashville, Tennessee
over spring break to the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association.
The students have performed research
on a current topic of interest. They asked
questions and surveyed Brevard College
students last semester to try to understand
the responses as they relate to the personality
variables of neuroticism, conscientiousness,
agreeableness, extraversion, and openness
to experience.
Dan Moore and psychology students
from previous years have found a system
that works well to relate the research to one
of the personality variables. The two-part
system measures cynicism and ethnocentrism.
Cynicism is the belief that others aren’t
reliable enough to do good for us, and
ethnocentrism is the idea that one’s culture
and beliefs are superior to other cultures.
Both of these apply to the interesting topics
each student delved into.
Carah Hoover’s Ethnocentrism Relative
to Privacy Versus Security in Government
Surveillanee Tactics accurately reflects
current debates. She has been researching the
opinions of the current surveillance debate
and how people who are very ethnocentric
relate to the issue.
Savannah Calvert based her research on
the second amendment to the constitution
that deals with gun laws and how much
we can control them. Her research is titled
Second Amendment Rights: Cynicism and
Ethnocentrism in Freedom Versus Control.
She looks at ethnocentrism in relation to gun
control and how there is very restricted access
to automatic weapons. She has quite a lot
to play with, since gun control in the South
has been met with aggressive arguments for
freedom with weapons.
See 'SEPA,' page 8