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Woodsmall for Congress
Ready for the District 11 primary election By Florian Peyssonneaux Opinion Editor
With less than two weeks before the May 8 primary Election Day, Brevard College professor Dr. Steve Woodsmall is in the heart of the campaign in a race with two other candidates who are seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. House District 11. (Early voting started Apil 19.) Since he started his campaign in December 2017 for District 11, which spans the entire western tip of North Carolina, including Transylvania, Henderson and parts of Buncombe County, there has been a lot of work by Woodsmall and his campaign staff. “We have campaign events literally almost every night,” Woodsmall said. “It’s a brutal process.” Even with a large number of forum and debates, “we never had a true debate, more like a forum where all candidates answer the same questions,” Woodsmall said. As for the campaign team, Woodsmall finds help from Brevard College members along with others. “Dr. Hamlett is my campaign manager, and we have a communication director who is a recent college graduate—he is currently an intern in the U.S Senate,” Woodsmall said. “He is doing a great job, and then we have a deputy director of communication who lives in Asheville. “We have a lot of volunteers—a couple of Brevard College students volunteered and are working with us,” Woodsmall said. This campaign is a source of inspiration for some college students. Alex Tenjhay, who has been volunteering for the campaign since February, is now thinking about starting a Democrat’s group at the college. “He has been to a lot of our event and knows what’s going on,” Woodsmall said. For the past few months Woodsmall, his campaign staff and all the people who decided to volunteer are trying their best to communicate about Woodsmall’s candidacy. “We’re just working hard, talking to people, getting the word out,” Woodsmall said.
According to Woodsmall, it is important to elect the person who is the most qualified for the job, and that is exactly what he is basing his campaign on: his experience and qualifications. “My main push as a management scientist is to look for the root cause of the problem,” Woodsmall said. Even though the candidates have debated issues like health care, immigration and other problems, there is more to it. “The root cause of all those problems is money in politics,” Woodsmall said. “And I’m the only candidate talking about it.” Woodsmall believes that he can represent all the people of District 11 if he is elected to Congress. That is part of the reason why he got endorsements by many groups, including AFLCIO and Equality North Carolina. “I am the only (District 11) candidate in the Democratic primary who received any endorsement that I am aware of,” Woodsmall said. The campaign should have been very fair among the three Democratic candidates who agreed at the beginning of the campaign to be respectful to one another by not using any negative advertising.
“Early on we agreed that we wouldn’t do negative campaigning,” Woodsmall said. However, in a letter to the editor in the Asheville Citizen-Times, candidate Phillip Price called Woodsmall a “carpetbagger.” Woodsmall considers this an insult to military veterans like himself who had no choice about where they lived while on active duty as well as to those who just chose to live in Western North Carolina. Woodsmall doesn’t want to take victory in the primary for granted, even if he and the rest of his campaign staff get good feedback from meetings. First of all, there is no polling data, “so we don’t really know what’s going on, but I get a really good response after each forum,” Woodsmall said. Campaign manager and Brevard College professor Dr. Ralph Hamlett thinks positively about the way the campaign is going. “I am hopefully optimistic about the election even though there is no polling data,” Hamlett said. Most of the information they receive suggests that the campaign is going well. See ‘Woodsmall for Congress’ on page 2
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Steve Woodsmall’s campaign booth at the Brevard College second annual Pride Festival last week.
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| April 25, 2018
Dr. Chamlee gives phenomenal reading By Carmen Boone Staff Writer
Dr. Ken Chamlee presented a reading on Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in McLarty Goodson, room 125. The reading was essentially a final goodbye before Chamlee’s official retirement. His introduction was given by Dr. Jubal Tiner. He said of Chamlee, “he will be sorely missed.” To begin his talk, Chamlee mad sure to make it clear that, “Poetry is a community, not a hermitage.” The first of his poems he read was called “The Wilderness Experience.” It is the title poem to his second book all about nature and the environment. He wrote the poem about a hiking trip he and his brother took when they were 18 and 19 years old. After that, he read a serious poem that he had written for his father. Chamlee then pulled out some visual props. He wrote a poem about kitchen tools. In his poem
he called a whisk a “silver tornado between the hands […] warner to the ingredients, you will be assimilated. Another of his poems was called “Zodiac.” It came to him when he was sitting at a Chinese restaurant at he looked at a placemat. It had all kinds of animalistic symbols on it. In the poem, he spoke of himself sitting in the restaurant as a dragon. He then told a story about one poem he wrote in college. He had an assignment to write a poem about death. He was walking across a hill when a golf course came into view as he reached the top. He thought to himself, “What kind of golfer would death be?” He wrote, “Match Play.” It was about death playing a gold match. In the poem he used all kinds of words to match the theme of death, and it was more of a humorous work. After that, Chamlee talked about an artist, a painter, he discovered named Albert Bierstadt. He was a very scenic painter, with many of
his works hung in museums. He liked to paint landscapes of the American West. Chamlee is currently working in writing Bierstadt’s biography through a collection of poems. The book is titled, “Nowhere on Heaven or Earth” because of the kind of painting Bierstadt did. Chamlee currently has 35 poems but plans to use 50 for the entire biography. Chamlee also has a group of two poems about change. The first is lyric, about a change in direction. It is the title poem for his first book called. It is titled, “Absolute Faith.” The second poem is about the change in music over many years called, “New Song.” Chamlee closed by taking questions from the audience. Almost every seat in the house was filled, with 46 people in the room not including Chamlee. There is a video of the reading posted on the Clarion website for any that missed it. Chamlee has served the students of Brevard College well. Tiner said something when he introduced Chamlee that is still true, “You can’t mess with the boss.” On behalf of Brevard College, thank you Dr. Chamlee.
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Dr. Ken Chamlee receives a standing ovation at his reading Thursday night.
‘Woodsmall for Congress’ Continued from page 1
“We hear things on the campaign trail, like when they (the voters) were for the other candidate and switch their allegiance to Steve after hearing him talking,” Hamlett said. Even though his opponents in the primary are both Democrats, Woodsmall is not forgetting the real test will be in November against the incumbent: Republican Mark Meadows, who has held the seat for three terms. “Mark Meadow is wrong about every issue that affects North Carolina,” Woodsmall said. “He needs to go, and I think I have the best chance to do it.” With the way the campaign is going, “I think we have a really good chance to put up a very good fight in the general election” said Woodsmall.
On social media the campaign is progressing well for Woodsmall, who has over a thousand likes on Facebook and just passed 3500 followers on Twitter. “I’m not sure how it’s going to translate into votes because the impact (of social media) on elections is relatively new,” Hamlett said. The date of primary elections in North Carolina this year is May 8, but early voting is already underway. Voters not affiliated with a party can choose to vote in either the Democratic or the Republican primary. To be elected without a runoff, Woodsmall would need 40 percent of the vote plus one. If he doesn’t get this number, a second round between the top two candidates would have to take place to determine the Democratic nominee.
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Brevard’s Internationals
Jesse Omezi – Combining athletics and academics By Calum McAndrew Managing Editor
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Universities in the United Kingdom are known around the world for their excellence in academics. Each year, people travel from across the world to attend universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and St. Andrews. There is one thing however, compared to American institutions, that these universities do not excel in – providing their students with an opportunity to play collegiate level sports. It is for this reason that Jesse Omezi of London, England chose Brevard College, over earning a degree in his home country. “Over here, it’s cool, the whole system. It helps people stay in school, stay educated, but it also pushes them to want to progress in sports,” Omezi said. “Here you just can’t do one or the other. To be an NFL player, you have to go to school, you have to keep a certain GPA. “At home you have to drop out and put all your eggs into one basket. If you’re injured, you’re done.” With the tendency to separate academics and athletics at British Universities, Omezi said he was not quite ready to pick a lane, and sought an opportunity to be able to do both. “I was never ready to give up my sport, whether I was going to be a pro or not, my sport is everything to me,” Omezi said. “To play, and still say I got a degree out of it, that’s a big deal to me.” One of the other perks Omezi has found with college soccer is the different nationalities and cultures he has both on the pitch, and in the Brevard College community. “When I came over, you have this different mix of players,” Omezi said. “You have English players, Spanish players, Brazilian players, so that kind of makes up for the stereotype people have of U.S. soccer, because you have all these different cultures. “I’m in school, but I’m in decent weather for most of the year, playing sport, surrounded by great people from different places around the world. It’s not everyone that can say they have a friend in Scotland, France, Brazil, right? It’s cool.” Like any soccer career, Omezi’s time on the pitch has not always been plain sailing. After tearing his meniscus in the spring semester of his freshman year, Omezi suffered with the injury for over two years before fully recovering. “If I was to take a step, a fast walk or dribble hurt me. Every time during my Junior year that I played, my leg was swollen,” Omezi said. “That’s to my detriment. It definitely gets hard, but you’ve got to just try and keep going.” The main differences Omezi has seen away from the soccer pitch, and in the classroom, has been the difference in focus of the classroom setting on either side of the Atlantic. “It’s only like three years [in the UK], but their classes are more focused on their actual degree, whereas if you come here and take a business degree, you have to take a religion class, or an art class,” Omezi said. “There are pro’s and con’s to each. “The pro’s for here would be you’re getting a wider education. I think it’s good for people to be versed in different areas. You don’t want to look like you’re ignorant to some things just because you’re passionate for another thing.” The option of a wide variety of classes, leading to a college degree, is not enough temptation for many to take the gamble of moving thousands of miles away from home however. The tipping point, according to Omezi, was the adventure of something new.
“Home for the most part, will always be there. Your family is not running away. Your friends, if they’re good friends, will still back you. They’ll still wish the best for you, and if anything, they’ll encourage you for being here,” Omezi said. “You’re in a country where there’s just so many different people, it’s unbelievable.” And for Omezi, the gamble of leaving his home country has paid off, if for no other reason that the variety of people he has met, and the challenges he has conquered. “That’s one thing that I’ll never regret coming here, just meeting people from different place,” Omezi said. “The challenge is what you make. You’ll enjoy it if you put yourself out there, and come into it with an open mind. “You take out a four year period of your life where you just explored and can say you did certain things. That’s not time wasted. If anything, that’s time that you’ve been able to learn, grow and see what you like and don’t like. I think it’s very valuable.” Omezi also offered some wisdom to prospective international students on when and why, despite a recent decline in international attendance to the U.S, they should still take the leap of faith, and make the journey. “If there’s a time to do it, it’s now. You’re not going to do it when you’re 40 or 50. You’re not going to do it when you’ve got a full-time job, or kids, or a partner to take care of,” Omezi said. “Now is the time to do it, when you’re young, when you don’t have a lot of responsibilities, when your parents can back you. When you’re still alive, and when you’re still driven.”
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Jesse Omezi, a senior from London, England, is getting ready to graduate from BC after four years in WNC.
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Senior Profile
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Brittany Fisk By Kelly Kearnan Staff Writer
Senior, Brittany Fisk, completed her last semester at Brevard in the fall as a Health Science major and will be graduating with the rest of her class on May 5. Fisk was born and raised in a small town in upstate New York. While at Brevard, Fisk played three and a half years of Women’s Lacrosse and helped the team go to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs during her sophomore year. In her junior and senior fall season, she was named captain of the team. “Aside from leading my team, I enjoyed the van rides with my teammates after we won our games,” Fisk said. Fisk followed her high school dream of playing lacrosse in college after Brevard Women’s Lacrosse coach showed interest in recruiting her. In addition to loving the warmer weather down south, Fisk enjoyed participating in athletic work study and her work as a Resident Advisor for three years. “I met my best friends for life because of Brevard,” Fisk said. During her free time, Fisk likes to read, relax outdoors in the sun, and ride her horse, Bullet. In January, Fisk began graduate school at the New York Chiropractic College (NYCC) and is enrolled in the Doctor of Chiropractic Program (DOC). The three and a half year program is year round and the last full year consists of clinicals. Clinicals provide experience in a wide variety of conditions and real life clinical situations that allow the student to gain expertise and confidence before entering the professional world. Fisk knew she wanted to be in the medical field before beginning at Brevard College.
After several years of attending occasional chiropractic appointments, Fisk eventually wanted to pursue the profession. “Aside from encompassing health and wellness, I find that chiropractors are best at looking at the whole picture when talking to someone about their ailments,” Fisk said. “Since being at school, the one similarity among everyone that attends NYCC is that everyone is genuine and cares about each other’s success; it isn’t a competition between classmates, as it commonly is in medical school,” Fisk said. After her graduate school, Fisk plans to move back to North Carolina and work for a chiropractic practice. Eventually, Fisk would love to own her own practice.
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Brittany Fisk as she waits for her graduate school interview.
Brevard College Earth Fest
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The Clarion
| April 25, 2018
Humanities Present Final Projects By Morgan Shepard
Staff Writer
Every spring (or fall), students in the humanities department prepare senior projects which will later be presented about two weeks before the end of the semester. This year, I had the pleasure of sitting and watching my fellow peers present their works. The five individuals worked hard all semester in preparation for the moment of presenting their senior projects. Up first was Tiesha Pressley, with her project titled, “An Homage to C. S. Lewis: The Road Home and “We Have Many Faces: Character Creating in C. S. Lewis.” Pressley starts out her presentation by reading the audience a part of one of her short stories. Her project consisted of a collection of short stories titled, “The Road Home,” which contained the stories, The Life of Royals, Journeys, and Night Skies. The research part of her presentation was entitled “We Have Many Faces.” Pressley admits to loving C. S. Lewis since she was a child and taking the LINC course here, reminded her of her love for a beloved childhood author. This projects helped her reconnect with her love of C. S. Lewis. She ended with a quote stating, “Find your next journey.” Tiesha Pressley is a double major with English (creative writing emphasis) and Religious Studies. The second person to present was Jordon Morgan. His project was titled “Laugh, But Also Learn: How Satirical Media Is a Better Outlet for Younger Consumer of Politics.” His main question he wanted his audience to understand was “Why does satiric news work for the younger generation?” He connected with his audience right of the bat by asking them if they thought satiric news helped the younger generation learn more or obtain an interest in politics. His main points of his presentation were that satiric media can be fun and engaging, why millenials are more attuned to satiric media, are younger generations turning away from news outlets and why the younger generation isn’t voting as much. It makes it a point to mention that “news networks favor neutrality over objectivity.” He notes that satiric media doesn’t target specific groups and that it’s effective because the television personalities are passionate and don’t back down from criticism. Jordon Morgan is an English major with in emphasis in journalism and professional communication. See ‘Projects’ on page 8
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Senior Profile
Calum McAndrew: Golfer, Skeptic and future Journalist
By Jordon Morgan Editor in Chief
Coming to a foreign country that is almost 4,000 miles away on its face is a daunting prospect, but Calum McAndrew, by his own admission, took a gamble on it, and it paid off. McAndrew is soon set to graduate with an English major, an emphasis in Journalism and Professional Communications, and a Psychology Minor. He first arrived at Brevard College in August of 2014, but is originally from Levin, Scotland. “It’s a small town on the east coast, just north of the capital city, Edinburgh. I was born in Stornoway however, which is a town on a small island off the northern coast, called the Isle of Lewis,” he says. And apparently, according to McAndrew, “that island is where Donald Trump’s mother was born.” Who knew? Digressing, McAndrew has been heavily involved on Brevard College’s golf team and has greatly enjoyed it, but journalism has been his main drive throughout his academic career. “From a young age, I wanted to play college golf. As I grew up, and especially in high school, I began to develop a passion for writing and Journalism, but ultimately it was golf that brought me here. It’s golf that I receive most of my scholarship from, and that was what allowed me to make the trip,” McAndrew says. As alluded to, journalism is his primary passion, but is unsure of what exactly his future will hold. He doesn’t worry or plan out his future too far in advance however, as his main concern is just enjoying what he does. “I want to be a Journalist, whatever the hell that means in our Trumpocracy. I’m not particularly picky. I’m probably too interested in politics for my own health, so that’s an avenue I could see myself walking down. I would also like to cover golf events, as that would combine three of my passions - writing, golf, and travelling. I’ve never been one to make concrete plans, and plan my life out far in advance. I can barely tell you what I’m going to do tomorrow. No matter what I’m doing, as long I’m enjoying it, and it corresponds in some form or fashion to my passions, I’ll be content,” he says. When it comes to his hobbies, chief among them is reading, and has drawn inspiration from many writers. He also finds great enjoyment in comedic storytellers such as Tom Segura and Louis C.K.
“I’ve always been an avid reader. I guess that’s where my enjoyment for writing stems. It’s something that I’ve managed to do quite a lot of, even through college, and I hope that continues post-graduation. My favorite authors are Irvine Welsh, PJ O’Rourke and Mark Twain. In addition to this, I love standup comedy. I’m a bit strange about it, I can watch the same show half a dozen times and still laugh at it. I love nearly every type, from dark comedians like Anthony Jeselnik and Frankie Boyle, to storytellers like Tom Segura and Louis C.K.,” McAndrew says. His time here at The Clarion has also been memorable he says. Every position he has held, from staff writer, to sports editor, to opinion editor, to managing editor, to editor in chief, has given him valuable learning experience. McAndrew has endured a fair bit of controversy during his time at The Clarion as well, particularly with his talent show reviews, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’ve enjoyed getting in a bit of trouble. I wouldn’t change a word of anything I’ve said or written. Learning how to act accordingly to criticism is vital as a journalist,” McAndrew says.
His senior project, a how-to guide of sorts for international students using anecdotes and interviews from those students who are here at BC, has been “wonderful.” “I’ve been compiling a guide for prospective international students to the United States, by writing about my own experiences in memoir form, and combining this with the experiences of others through interviews. I think I’ve got enough information now to write about any part of international life, from the first day in a new country, to the plane ride home! After talking with some of the internationals that we have here, I’ve heard so many incredible stories. It’s been a joy to work on, but I’m not quite ready to call it finished yet. I think there are still a couple of people I’d like to talk to,” he says. Currently, as it pertains to journalistic experience outside of BC, he is interning at the Transylvania Times paper here in Brevard, but isn’t sure if it’ll continue on to a paid position. He says that “I’d love to continue [at Transylvania Times], but they are at full capacity, which means there is not an opportunity for employment. I’ve learned a hell of a lot in my time there. I hope to keep contributing, and in the near future, I hope to land a job writing full time for a newspaper.”
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Calum is enjoying one of his many passions, golf, for the Brevard Tornados.
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Arts & Life
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| April 25, 2018
Nontraditional Students A look into the different obstacles, responsibilities facing adult learners
By Jeni Welch
Copy Editor For most college students, college is dorm living, cafeteria eating, writing papers and late night get togethers. But for nontraditional students the college experience is different. Students who are returning to college after years of being out of the education world have to blend adult life and college life together. A nontraditional student is most often based on age, especially being over the age of 24, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). “Age acts as a surrogate variable that captures a large, heterogeneous population of adult students who often have family and work responsibilities as well as other life circumstances that can interfere with successful completion of educational objectives,” says the NCES webpage. Students fresh out of high school are not as likely to be working a fulltime jobs and balancing school. It is far more common for a student to work part time on campus or not need to work at all allowing them to strictly focus on their education. Brevard College considers a nontraditional student to be over the age of 25. Chad Holt, Vice President of Admissions and Financial Aid, said that the number of nontraditional students does follow the trend of the economy. As the economy goes up, more students over the age of 25 go to school. As it crashes older students leave school to work. In 2017, the school had enrolled a total of 677 students and of that total only 51 of them were nontraditional. The nontraditional student enrollment is down from 2016 which had a total of 54 for the entire year. In 2010, the highest number of nontraditional students were enrolled on campus with a total of 160. Since then the numbers have been gradually declining. BC does not actively look to enroll nontraditional students. The main target is high school students since the college is residential. “Adults are great students,” Holt said. “They raise the game of traditional students.” Current Brevard College student, Melissa Ashe, is a full-time mother of three children and works part time, around 16 hours, on the weekends. Ashe is graduating with a major in English but will be back in the fall to pursue her Teaching Licensure. “I have so many responsibilities,” Ashe said. “Kids, bills, work. It’s difficult to balance my time and money. I have almost no free time between my job and assignments.” These added responsibilities hinder the social interactions that surround the fresh out of high school students because of responsibilities outside of the classroom. Ashe was able to take out student loans to allow more time to be focused on homework and class assignments rather than having to work full time. Ashe said, “This has been the best thing for me, but I do worry over paying those back.” Brevard College graduate of 2017, Benjamin Saettel was 30 years old when he graduated with his Environmental Studies B.S. and a minor in Physics and Astronomy. After college, Saettel accepted a job as an Environmental Educator working on a 2,100-acre nature preserve. “While being busy with school and on a set budget, I didn’t have much
of a social life,” Saettel said. “I found it somewhat hard to make friends on campus that were in similar situations as me.” Neither Ashe not Saettel lived on campus and both had hard times with involvement in campus activities. “Being older and being a commuter definitely had a role in me being less active on campus,” Saettel said. “This is probably what I regretted most about being a nontraditional student.” Ashe also was not extremely active in campus activities but did say that sometimes things worked out and schedules would match up. During the 2015-2016 academic year a survey conducted by The Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) and Ruffalo Noel Levits, a leading provider of technology-enabled solutions and services for enrollment, student success, and fundraising in the higher education and nonprofit communities, showed that adult learners were found to have different needs then “traditional-aged” students such as course offering flexibility, more course offerings in their major and different options for financial aid and billing. These reasons leave adults looking for colleges that provide them flexibility in time and locations for course completion and student services. According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, some colleges have designed their schedules around those needs such as Empire State University, Fielding Institute and the University of Phoenix. Ashe spent the first two years of her college education at Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC). The community college is financially easier to handle when working and handling life outside of a classroom. “I didn’t think I could [attend Brevard College],” Ashe said. “When I met Tina [English Professor at Brevard College] at BRCC and told her I wanted to transfer somewhere, and she told me I could go to BC and FAFSA would give me aide. “It was always this expensive school I believed to be out of reach for me,” Ashe said. Saettel also began his college career at a community college before transferring to BC. Community colleges offer a smaller price tag and flexible schedule that work better with the nontraditional student’s schedules. Regardless of the added obstacles of a nontraditional student, there are a number of benefits of waiting to go college or deciding to go back. “I was able to chase my passion and search more for the job I wanted [after college],” Saettel said. “I think I am in a better situation having waited to finish my college education.” The number of nontraditional students is growing according to the NCES. In 2007, the overall participation rate in adult education was 70 percent higher in professional or managerial occupation, 48 percent higher service, sales, or support jobs, and 34 percent higher in trade occupations. This number appears to be growing in the pattern that was predicted by the NCES. In 2020, a 20 percent increase in students aged 25 and up is expected in comparison to an 11 percent increase in younger students. This is not really a surprise when in 2012, it was estimated that graduate degrees made 35 percent more than those with only bachelor’s degree according to Northeastern University. “I would tell anyone who is older and considering returning to school to go for it,” Ashe said. “It works out better than you think it will.”
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Growing up at WNC summer camps Gritty girls becoming strong women through experiences at all girls’ camps By Mary Lewe Staff Writer
Waking up to the chiming of a 100-year-old bell. Skinning your knee on gravel paths and swimming in water colder than what’s in your water bottle and falling asleep to the sound of bull frogs that have taken your place in that same chilly water... Summer camp in Western North Carolina is enchanting to say the least, but the scenes of girlhood dreams and childhood fantasy fade into something more concrete as campers become counselors, and counselors become young professionals. What is it about moving away from your parents for three weeks each summer and creating new sisterhoods that prepares so many women for the ”real world”? Although many girls follow in the footsteps of mothers and grandmothers to fulfill their summertime destiny and continue what has become a dynasty of tie-dye shirts and browned shoulders, many others find themselves at camp in different ways. Some struggle to pay the ever-increasing tuition at sleep away camps, while others still find ways to barter and trade for their summer adventures. But all seem to benefit after some time outside, although they may not realize the true benefits until much later in life. “There is no way that at the time I saw all the ways in which I benefited from camp,” Catherine Frampton said in an interview conducted via email. “It was a benchmark moment of immeasurable growth: emotional, social, personal, intellectual -- you name it.” Frampton grew up going to Rockbrook Camp here in Brevard, NC. “I think ultimately, camp showed me how to be a good person,” Frampton said. “Rooted in acceptance and kindness, camp allowed and encouraged me to be the best version of myself, and to carry that version out into the world far beyond the confines of camp.” This sentiment is not limited to Frampton’s experience, or to Rockbrook Camp for that matter. According to the Transylvania County Tourism Development Authority, there are 15 summer camps in Transylvania County alone, with many others in surrounding counties. Of those 15, five are open to girls only. One Brevard local, Moonyean Wood, spent five summers as a counselor and riflery instructor at Camp Merrie-Woode in nearby Sapphire, NC. In a lecture she shared with BC’s Institute for Women in Leadership in March, she spoke about how her experience came to inform the rest of her life’s work. “I came to really respect women where they were,” Wood said about her time at Merrie-Woode. Seeing women running the summer camp was just one more experience in her life that convinced her she could do anything. “If they [men] could do it, I could do it better,” Wood said. A Louisiana native and graduate of Louisiana State University in primary education, Wood went on to create a successful career in construction as the second female builder in Louisiana, even winning the award for Builder of the Year in her area. “Keep looking for your voice, keep sharing yourself with other people,” Wood said to the IWIL women. It seems that giving girls their voices is exactly what many camps have done and that is only through the hard work of other women. Two
alumnae of Illahee Camp for Girls, Mary-Elizabeth Dixon and Martha Hughes grew as campers, counselors, and leadership staff at Illahee, and have found themselves in director positions at Brevard’s Keystone Camp for the summer of 2018. “Being a camp counselor was a quintessential part of sculpting me into who I am today,” Dixon wrote in an online interview. “The responsibility of acting in loco parentis for eight young women pushed me to step into to new challenges and face fears or uncomfortable situations I had previously been able to avoid.” “If you ask any camp counselor, they will have at least one example of facing a fear for their campers, whether it is getting up on stage in front of a crowd and dancing, climbing to the top of the rock wall, or introducing yourself to someone new,” Dixon said. Hughes began her time as a camper with a difficult personal challenge, facing bullying at a different camp before finding her home at Illahee, where she spent 15 summers before making the jump to Keystone. She says going back to a new camp after being bullied somewhere else was probably the greatest challenge of her time as a camper. It is this tough experience that lead Hughes to pursue a career in the camp world. “Overcoming my fears was really empowering for me,” Hughes said. “I think that’s a big part of what inspired me to make camp such an important part of my life. Hughes and Dixon are excited to be working together this summer in a whole new capacity. “There is something powerful about being a role model for others that makes you stand a little taller, try a little harder, sing a little louder, be a little kinder, and find a little more joy in everything you do,” Dixon said. As much as there is for campers to gain from their counselors at camp, it seems that counselors gain just as much in return. In fact, the campers can be the most inspiring people at times. “I’m always so impressed by the youngest campers – the Juniors,” Catherine Frampton wrote about Rockbrook Camp’s littlest campers. “They roll into camp, some of them only 6-years-old, and unleash their enthusiasm and spunk and crazy all over the place,” she said. “It’s insane and awesome.” Clearly, the inspiration that can be found at camp is not limited to any age group. “My time at camp, as a camper, counselor, trip staff, and now director, provided me with a safe place to grow,” Mary-Elizabeth Dixon said. “At each stage in my camp experience, I have looked at those around me and seen qualities I wished to embody, and camp has helped me to grow into many of these qualities,” Dixon said. “As to what exactly is the catalyst for so much incredible growth at camp, there is a long list of factors, and when you add all these ingredients together you get a sort of camp magic. “This magic is difficult to describe, but the result is like pixie dust sprinkled on our heads allowing us to fly, becoming our best selves and continuing to grow summer after summer.”
Sports Erskine edges Brevard Softball in season finale doubleheader Page 8
By Jon Cole
Sports Information Director DUE WEST, S.C. – The Brevard softball team closed out the 2018 regular season slate with a series of setbacks to Erskine by scores of 7-6 and 9-0 (5 innings) in Due West, S.C., on Saturday afternoon. The two-game set opened with a hard fought battle between the two squads as Brevard used solid performances by Emily White (2-3, HR, RBI, run), Teegan Bullock (1-4, RBI, run), Ricki Kuhn (1-3, RBI, run) and Jordan Hawk (1-2, RBI) to tally six runs. Breanna Allen went the first three innings on the mound for Brevard (11-19), allowing five runs on seven hits, before giving way to Kuhn who also tossed three innings. Kuhn surrendered two runs on six hits, while striking out a pair of Erskine (27-15) batters. Brevard put the first run of the game across the plate in the first inning when White drove a two-out home run over the left field wall. The Flying Fleet answered with a two runs in the home half of the inning to forge in front. After a scoreless second, Brevard had its first multi-run inning of the game in the third when Sarah Lallier opened with a single up the middle. Two batters later, with Lallier at second, Kuhn drew a walk and the pair advanced one base each on a wild pitch. After Amber Hong reached base after being hit by a pitch, an wild throw by the pitcher opened the door for Lallier to tie the game at two-all. Hawk dropped a single into right field, scoring Kuhn from third, before Hong followed with a throwing error by the right fielder to give the Tornados a 4-2 advantage. Erskine cut the margin to one in the bottom of the third, but the Tornados answered with two runs in the fourth to establish a 6-3 advantage. The inning began with a walk by Miller, who eventually reached third on the combination of a wild pitch and a passed ball. Bullock delivered a single through the left side of the infield, scoring Miller from third in the process for the 5-2 lead. White followed with a single, also to left, moving Bullock into scoring position. Kuhn delivered a single to second, plating Bullock for the sixth Tornado run of the game. Erskine got both runs back in the bottom of the fourth, trimming the lead to 6-5. The two teams would remain scoreless over the next two innings, but the Flying Fleet opened the seventh with a single through the right side of the infield by Mia Blochaviak. Brooke Rhinehardt dropped a bunt single to third base, putting Blochaviak at second.
Regan Davis delivered a single up the middle to tie the game at six, scoring Blochaviak from third. Chloe Hamilton came through in the clutch with a double to right centerfield, scoring Rhinehardt from second for the game-winning run. GAME 2: ERSKINE 9, BREVARD 0 (5 INNINGS) Erskine held the Tornado offense in check in the second game, while the combination of Brittany Rhinehardt (2-3, 3 RBI, double, run), Taylor Payne (2-2, RBI, run, 2 doubles), and Reagan Davis (2-3, 2 runs) led the way from the plate. Erskine’s pitching tandem of Hannah Houge and Samantha Schmidt limited Brevard to two hits over five innings of work with Houge striking out five batters along the way. The two hits by the Tornados came from Amber Hong (1-2) and Brittany Franks (1-1). Erskine exploded for six runs in the second inning, capitalizing on five hits and one error to establish a 6-0 advantage. Two innings later, the Flying Fleet used an RBI double to right field off the bat of Brittany Rhinehardt to score their seventh run of the game. The final two runs of the game came in the fifth when an error in left field allowed Davis and Lexi Samples to trot home for the eighth and ninth runs of the game. For more information on Brevard softball check out www.bctornados.com.
BC Alumni soccer game
In the Alumni game Saturday on, the BC Tornados were able to score the victory by virtue of a penalty decision. The Alumni game, graduated students coming back to play just one game with the current BC soccer team, students from 80´s, 90´s all the way up until last year came back to play. After a solid game, the final score was a tie at four points each and the game was again, decided by a penalty. With the penalty decision after two saves from Patrick Hall, BC’s current soccer team got the final victory with a score of five to four in the penalty´s decision. After two games in the Spring, the BC Tornados are done for the season and come back in the Fall.
— Matheus Masukawa
The Clarion
| April 25, 2018
‘Projects’
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Third to present was Kaelyn Martin. She begins her senior project by quoting Dr. John Padgett, “Pick a project you can live with all semester.” She admits this was the first crisis of many. Her project entitled, Speak Up!: Inventing Languages for New Worlds,” consisted of her creating own language. Growing up she was always fascinated by words and she spoke a bit of her language, which she called, “Condirian.” Her sentence structure was simple yet different from the English language. She had worked with Dr. Tina Hollands Language Studies class and presented her language to them in the form of a worksheet. She was surprised how natural creating this language came to her. She says that one doesn’t have to be a linguistic scholar to create language. Kaelyn Martin is an English major with in emphasis in journalism and professional communication. The fourth person to present was Calum McAndrew. His project entitled “3868: An International Guide to Living in America,” was my favorite of the five. He starts out his presentation with quote from Florian Peyssonneaux, a fellow international student, “When you fly across the world, you can’t bring your life.You only have one suitcase.” His project consisted of three parts, a memoir, an interview section, and an informational section. He interviewed other international students at Brevard and used their experiences along with his own to create the informational section for international student possibly wanting to come to the US. Out of the seven interviewees, only one of them was a native English speaker when they arrived in the U.S. He states the most important thing we have is the stories of other people. The title of his project, 3868, has a significance to him because he is exactly 3,868 miles from home. Calum McAndrew is an English major with in emphasis in journalism and professional communication. The last to present was Scarlett Rogers, and English major with an emphasis in literary studies. Her project titled, “Laughing in the Dark: Black Comedy and Satire in Vonnegut, O’Connor, and Faulkner.” Her projects explores why authors use black comedy and/or satire. The three authors she looked at all use dark comedy for different reasons. She explored “SlaughterHouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Good Country People” and “Revelation” short stories by Flannery O’Connor and “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner. She hits on reasons all three authors use dark comedy throughout their works.
