Bryan College Triangle

by Matt Crutchfield, Senior Staff Writer

Fog machines, fluorescent spotlights and a military issue Humvee are hardly the ingredients for a normal evening, but all of these greeted students who stepped through the doors of the National Guard Armory in Dayton, Tenn. last Thursday. The local Armory was the base for “The Bunker: Innovation,” a meeting organized by the Student Government Association Presidents’ Council of Bryan College.“The Bunker: Innovation was designed to be a forum/think-tank about leadership at Bryan College – what it is, what it should be, and what the most effective steps are to develop it,” Junior Class President Philip Meznar says.

A military issue humvee set the tone for the inaugural meeting of the Bunker leadership thinktank. Photo submitted by Rachel Lowdermilk

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by Billy Findley, Triangle Staff Writer

The upcoming Center for Origins Research (CORE) symposium promises to be enlightening and engaging for students who attend. Though Associate Professor of Science and Director of CORE Dr. Todd Wood says the debate over evolution and creationism is nowhere near reaching a termination point, he does say it should be conducted more civilly than it has in the past.

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by Joy Hartman, Triangle Staff Writer

“The financing system for college is in real crisis,” Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers, told USA Today last month. “Every one of the participants in the system is experiencing hardship — higher education institutions, states, aid donors and families all are cash-strapped.”

As the current financial crisis deepens without an immediate end in sight, fists everywhere are tightening around precious savings, and colleges across the nation, including Bryan, are beginning to feel the pressure of that grasp. Read full story »

by Billy Findley, Triangle Staff Writer

Three-person rooms are something students will have to come to terms with this semester and, more than likely, the next. Until more room is made available, roommates will have to embrace a little less elbow room and a lot more closeness. Read full story »

by Matt Crutchfield, Senior Staff Writer

I wake up at six every morning and arrive at the middle school in Decatur, Tenn. before the sun makes it up over the horizon.

I stand in the teacher’s lounge, watching the paper pile up on the copier. I take a moment of silence for the forest in Wyoming that was leveled so my students could learn about alliteration. I assist in bus duty, explaining to students why they can’t go to the bathroom in groups of six. I am everyone’s favorite target in dodge ball. I am a student teacher at Meigs Middle School.

Senior Matt Crutchfield teaches a lesson on alliteration

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