April 4, 2014 | The Clarion
Arts & Life
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'Medea'
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cold, cunning woman, Medea, is one we see
not only in the long lost Greek culture but in
everyday life. The tension between scenes
that Jason (Dent) and Medea (Ledford) are
high points in the play which leaves you
cringing but waiting for more.
Throughout the rehearsal process the actors
and actresses brought in current events of
mothers taking horrible measures to hurt
their loved ones and shared with each other
to further their progress, and it showed. When
Medea loses herself to the madness of a
grieving lover and mother, it puts a chill down
your spin. She takes hold of the cold, cunning,
madness that Medea is supposed to be in
throughout the play. With the main supporting
actresses, or the media correspondents being
bias towards her helped reflect the difference
in thought process between men and woman.
Jason’s attitude propels the hot headed
personality of a hero turned media junky.
His moment of realization of Medea’s
actions is intense in the best way possible
and made for a great show. Medea, along
with the help of Gamel, Savage, and the cast
help reveal an aspect of human existence that
are not normally ventured into and leaves the
audience able to see reflections from Medea
in their own societies.
“Medea ” continues tonight and tomorrow
at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets
are available at Southern Comfort Records,
etix.com, and 30 minutes before each show.
Logan Taylor plays the Messenger in the
BC Theatre production of “Medea.”
SGA: More than an election
By Burton Hodges
Opinion Editor
O n Tuesday, Apr. 1, the 2014-15
Executive Board was elected to
office after a short voting period held in
Myers Dining Hall around lunchtime. All 5
of the new members, including myself, ran
unopposed and the plans for three days of
voting didn’t seem necessary.
The fact is, as excited as 1 am to begin my
time in this new role of service and leadership,
1 think 1 speak for the rest of the new executive
board in this: As happy as we all are to have
easily won our positions, we hope that every
position is contested next year.
I got my first parking ticket at Brevard
College last week, after security nabbed me in
a visitor spot underneath the bell tower. I went
to the security office to pay the fine and ended
up sitting in Security Director Stan Jacobson’s
office for almost an hour, listening to stories
of his time in the FBI and the Marines, and
swapping tales about Brevard College.
“This place has changed a lot in the 10
years that I’ve been here” Jacobson said, “The
students are different, there is just a whole
different feeling.”
This is something that 1 have experienced
as well in only a fraction of the time that
Jacobson has been here. The Brevard College
1 first arrived at in 2011 is much different from
the school we attend today. There is truly a
“whole different feeling,” in my opinion.
When f transferred to Brevard, f was
excited about the promise of a smaller student
government where it would be easier for me
to make an impact, or at least have a voice. 1
knew that BC was a small school, but I didn’t
anticipate that its SGA would have fewer
members than my immediate family. 1 can
remember walking by SGA meetings my first
few months here on my way to dinner. There
would be four people in attendance.
1 was involved in the SGA during my short
time as a student at Alabama. As a freshman
with average high school grades and very few
connections to a school 9 hours away from
home, 1 could tell that advancing through
the ranks would be quite challenging. The
situation at Brevard College when f arrived
was even less encouraging.
My sophomore year saw a spike of maybe
three or four students, but nothing noteworthy.
1 was a Senator and a Club Representative.
1 was also one of the rare students not on
the Executive Board who regularly attended
meetings. This is not an attempt to shed light
on my involvement. 1 don’t play sports and
I’m not an artist, so I can devote time to this
kind of stuff. My point is to help illustrate
how unprecedented the growth in the SGA
this year was.
We started adding new clubs and we
expanded upon the existing ones. We created,
researched, proposed, and financed new
projects. We hosted formats, festivals,
and community service initiatives. Most
importantly, people began to attend our
meetings, and they kept coming back. We
had 15 active Senators; almost all of the clubs
regularly attended our meetings this year.
Attendance was consistently higher it had
been in at least five years.
As counterintuitive as unopposed elections
may appear, considering where we have
come from, 1 don’t think it should be too
unbelievable that the executive board was
uncontested at the voting booth this week.
If anything, 1 think that the student body
should consider us running uncontested as a
challenge for the future.
My fellow executive board members and 1
plan to focus on establishing tradition in the
SGA next year. We want to inspire irreversible
growth, the kind of growth that would never
again allow five people to run unopposed.
We want to examine other schools, see what
works and what doesn’t, and learn how we can
improve upon the new wave of involvement
we’ve had this year. But we don’t have to look
outside of Brevard for the best answer.
In fact, it’ll be pretty easy for us to develop
into the type of student government that
the executive board wants to see: a group
of students who can speak on behalf of the
entire student body with easy and flawless
communication. We want to be an SGA that
people compete to join, one that actively
pursues to improve upon even the best of
conditions. We want to be an accomplished
SGA.
We just need people to show up, it’s that
simple. If people bring us the materials to
work with, there is no doubt in mind that we
can create something special. Furthermore, I
can assure you that the new members of the
executive board are chomping at the bit to
prove to the student body and staff that it was
a good reason we ran uncontested.
Let’s put it this way: Five students just
volunteered an entire school year’s worth of
time to essentially become something like a
punching bag with an ATM, toolbox, and a
student handbook.
It would be a disservice to us if you didn’t
bring your problems, concerns and questions
to our doors. They will be open at all times
next year.