Bryan College Triangle

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 »

This painting titled "Ascension," by Rudolph Bostic, will be one of the painting on display at the art show. Bostic used enamel house paint on a cardboard canvass. / Photo courtesy Bryan.edu

Alex Green
Triangle Reporter

The “Seeing the Savior: Images of the Life of Christ” art gallery will go on display on the second floor of the library on November 20.

The display is one of eight traveling exhibits that Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) currently sponsors.

Christians in the Visual Arts is an organization founded in 1979 with the purpose of “[helping] artists, arts pastors, collectors, critics, designers, historians and videographers explore the profound relationship between art and faith,” according to the organization’s website.

The exhibit is coming to Bryan by the work of the Worldview Formation Office and Bryan art instructor Elaine Davis. It is the first CIVA exhibit to stop at Bryan, Davis said.

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Krissy Proctor
Online Editor