Bryan College Triangle

Student Body Vice President Daniel Grayton reviews a list of concerns brought to the forum by a student while other SGA representatives talk to students about their concerns / Triangle photo by Natali Masti

Natali Masti
Triangle Reporter

Tuesday SGA Senate hosted a new type of event to better serve the student body — an open forum.

Freshman representative Kerrie Reinhardt said that, “[the] purpose for this event was to figure out what issues the students care most about.  Once we understand the student’s opinions on these key issues we can figure out the best way to represent these ideas to the administration here at Bryan.”

While SGA usually receives comments from students sporatically throughout the year, this event was designed to provide an opportunity for students to come directly to SGA to give suggestions or complaints, according to Sophomore representative Joseph Murphy.

To the dismay of SGA, only about five to ten people took advantage of the opportunity. Reinhardt, however, was not daunted by the few numbers and maintained an optimistic outlook. Read full story »

Director of Bryan's Physical Plant Doug Schott meets an unusual amount of intentional campus vandalism this semester with prayer / Photo courtesy of eStudent Directory

Tim Baldi
Senior Reporter

I expected to interview a grumbling, old, perhaps outraged, man complaining of terrible students misusing his beloved property and ignoring his hard work. I might be exaggerating a bit, but when I entered Bryan’s physical plant, I was surprised to find a gentle soul who, although still relatively old, harbored even less anger over a shredded couch than he did spilled milk.

Director of Bryan’s Physical Plant Doug Schott contacted the Triangle requesting an article about the vandalism that surfaces on campus. Looking around campus, some of this damage is evident: eggs thrown against buildings and pool cues that have been destroyed in the Game Room. However, this semester has been different, according to Schott.

Schott described the average school year saying that litter is generally a problem for the first couple weeks of school before students get into the habit of picking up after themselves. Besides various repairs around campus, the average Fall semester has never been characterized by vandalism. During the Spring semester, when fewer activities are available, studies become tedious, there are fewer daylight hours and football season ends, property damage is a more regular occurrence. Read full story »

(Right to left) Sam Gilberston, Ryan Anderson, Bethany Diamond, Anna Haffner, David Corwin, Daniel Grayton, Alan Brown, and Leanne Fairchild were all a part of Bryan's delegation to TISL this year, along with reporter Daniel Jackson / Photo by Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson
Assistant Online Editor

Last weekend, nine Bryan students traveled to Nashville, Tenn., to participate in the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL). Bryan College went up against state academic powerhouses such as Rhodes, Vanderbilt University and Tennessee Tech to argue legal cases and pass hypothetical laws, managing to hold its own in the face of these larger schools.

TISL is a student led organization started for and by college students 42 years ago. Students from around the state gather in the state capitol for four days to hold mock government. They elect a governor, sit in the house and the senate and pass law. To build authenticity into the process, both lobbying and media tracks have been started in the last few years. Read full story »