Volume 83, Issue 5 Web Edition
SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
September 20, 2017
Tornado Alley
The new Coltrane
By Florian Peyssonneaux
Opinion Editor
Located in the heart of the Brevard College
campus, Coltrane is the building where The Un
derground, Campus Life, and the bookstore are
located. It opened at the beginning of September
and now features the Tornado Alley Student
Center on the main level.
The brand new Tornado Alley that replaced
the Academic Enrichment Center (AEC) is
open weekdays from 9 a.m. to midnight and 5
p.m. to midnight on Sundays. It will be closed
on Saturdays.
For this reason, what was previously the AEC
was moved to the library to become the Experi
ential Learning Commons or ELC.
The Tornado Alley is the big change for Col
trane as this space was completely remodeled
over the summer. New offices have been created,
many of them for clubs and SGA. Those rooms
reserved for clubs are equipped with supplies for
clubs to decorate and design posters or banners.
Then, there is a resource room in the Tornado
Alley that has many board games and athletic
equipments such as tennis paddles or outside
games for students to check out.
In addition, a video game room has been set
up in the Rutherford room. “The Tornado Alley
is equipped with Xbox and Nintendo Wii that
are available to check out, but have to remain in
the building. Consequently a variety of games
such as Fifa ’ 17 and many others are accessible
for students to play with,” said Lindsay Altizer,
director of student engagement.
“In the next weeks the future upgrade for the
Tornado Alley is going to be a projector that
will be used to play sports games, or movies,”
Altizer added. Various meeting and campus life
activities will be hosted in the Tornado Alley this
year, such as SGA meetings, ping pong tourna
ments and CAB events.
Beside the Tornado Alley, Coltrane has The
Underground where the food court is located. It
now has different opening times compared to the
Tornado Alley. It will be closed on Saturdays,
but The Underground will be open Mondays
through Fridays from 11 a.m to 4 p.m for lunch.
Likewise, in the evenings students will be able
to get food from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
For people who are not used to The Under
ground, there is the option of meal exchange.
Instead of going to the cafeteria, people can scan
their Brevard College I.D. and get a meal to go.
With the different meal plans, students also
have money available to get food and drinks.
Depending on the type of plan, students can be
granted $ 100 or $200 each semester.
There are also games for students who want to
clear their mind after classes, including a pool
table, darts and air hockey.
This week at BC:
Wednesday: Pinq Ponq^ 8 p.m. Tornado Alley
Thursday:
FCA, 8:15 p.m. Stanback Hall
BINGO, 9 p.m. Tornado Alley
Sunday:
Guest Artist: Tammv Yonce. 3 p.m. Porter Center
Fine Arts Club, 4 p.m. Dunham 111
Monday:
Guest Artist: Stephanie Tinoler. 12:30 p.m. Porter Center
CAB, 5 p.m. Myers Dining Hall
Diversitv Pride Club. 7:30 p.m. Dunham 003
Miniature donkey on dispiay at the Mountain State
Fair.
Mountain
State Fair
A sense of community andfun
By Jordon Morgan
Editor in Chief
On a cool, quiet evening, the Mountain State
Fair brought great (if incredibly unhealthy) food,
rides, and plenty of craft and other amusements
in another successful year of its long run.
The typical time people tend to enter the
fair hover around Friday or Saturday at early
mid-evening times. While certainly the most
opportune time to experience the fair at its
peak capacity, it can make for a severe pain to
navigate and enjoy any of the attractions, unless
you’re willing to wait for hours on end in line.
But if one is looking for a more quiet experi
ence (when next year rolls around at least) then
a Wednesday around 6:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. is a
perfect time. Just crowded enough so that it feels
lively, but not so much that it’s overwhelming
or annoying to get through.
See 'Mountain Fair' on page 5