Bryan College Triangle

Monday night, a prank involving a fire extinguisher tripped the alarm in Long Dorm/Triangle photo by Daniel Jackson

by Daniel Jackson
Staff Writer

On Monday at about 1:30 a.m., the men of Long Dorm were awakened by the fire alarm after a fire extinguisher fell and discharged in room 317. The extinguisher had been propped against the door as a prank.

A student or a group of students also propped a stop sign and a small sectional couch from the hall against the door of the room.

Sophomore Kelly Findley opened the door to the knock of freshman Jason Ricketts, neither of whom live in the room but were studying there at the time.

The fire extinguisher fell, broke the safety pin, and blasted the white powder in Findley’s face.

“All I could see was smoke and I started coughing,” Findley said.

Within 10 seconds, the fire alarm went off, alerting everyone to move outside. The Dayton Police Department and the Dayton Fire Department arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. According to police, had anyone gotten hurt in the incident, the pranksters would have unintentionally committed a felony.

“You’re not funny!”  Matt Williams, Long resident director, told the pranksters. Read full story »

by Krissy Proctor
Copy editor

Current senior Rob Franklin spent two weeks making 499 napkin roses to ask current sophomore Erin Wright to banquet last spring/Photo courtesy of Erin Wright

Oh yes, ladies and gentlemen it is that time again. The “Sherlock Holmes” themed Homecoming banquet lies just around the corner, and with it comes the overwhelming responsibility of pulling off a banquet “ask” that will be remembered for semesters to come.

From asks with sidewalk chalk to announcements in chapel, it feels like everything has been tried this year. However, here are a few tales from this and semesters past where askers really pulled out all the stops to get the answer they wanted.

Franklin/Wright ask of spring ‘10

What girl wouldn’t like to receive roses for banquet? That’s what current senior Rob Franklin asked himself last semester when planning to ask current sophomore Erin Wright to the banquet, “A Night on the French Riviera.”

However, a problem lay in acquiring a stellar amount of the expensive flowers on a poor college student’s budget. Solution? A total of 499 paper napkin roses made over two weeks and delivered during open dorm to the lady’s residence, Robinson Hall.

“I had taught her how to make them and so it was kind of an inside joke between us,” he explained. “[The napkins] actually come in packages of 500…but one day my fingers were sticky.”

Wright returned to find a trail of white napkins leading to her flower-filled room along with a note for her to receive rose number 500 in the kitchen, a real one. Of course, she said yes. Read full story »

My name is Kelly Findley and I am currently a freshman here at Bryan. I am a double major in Mathematics and Politics and Government, and my favorite hobby is playing the piano. I am really excited about this opportunity to work on Executive SGA with a great team of people. I hope that you all will see us as approachable people, available to listen to ideas and to serve you in every way that we can.

While VP of Finance does not exactly sound like the most exciting job, I do have several goals in mind over the next year. My primary goal is to set a standardized way of keeping financial records among class SGAs that is both easy to keep and easy to understand. I would also like to stress the importance of making complete class budget predictions at the beginning of the year based on prior class budgets.

I won’t bore you all with any more details, partly because I don’t know all the details myself. And as far as this rumor goes about me siphoning extra money to my own class next year, that will just have to be one of those details I’m not going to bore you with.

by Timothy Baldi
Staff Writer

Students and visitors who attended spring banquet on Saturday will remember the small, decorative pond located in front of the first floor entrance to Latimer Student Center. The pond symbolized the banquet’s theme “A Night on the Riviera.”

However, four hours after the banquet ended at 7:45 p.m., freshman Aaron Hunt walked through Latimer and discovered the pond had leaked nearly 75 percent of its water onto the Rhea County Room floor and part of the cafeteria floor. Read full story »

by Tim Baldi
Staff Writer

Courtesy of Freshman SGA.

Freshman Class officers and SGA Events Council have combined their planning abilities for “A Night on the Riviera” spring banquet and cruise scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 27.

SGA’s Events Council wanted to bring back the midnight cruise because of its popularity last year, according to Vice President of Off Campus Events Elijah Ammen. When the weekend of the 27th became available, they checked with freshman SGA and coordinated to have the banquet and cruise on the same night.

This is the first time two large events like this have been planned for one night, according to freshman Vice President Amy Morris.

The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. with “A Night on the Riviera.”

“We want people to see and smell the river,” said Morris. The decorations and atmosphere will create an outdoor European restaurant atmosphere.

“We plan on this banquet being classier than ordinary banquets,” said freshman Treasurer Kelly Findley. People will be able to focus on table conversation instead of the stage events.

A significant portion of the budget is being spent on providing good food, according to Findley.

“The food is going to be awesome,” said Morris.

At 10:30 p.m. after the banquet, students will begin boarding the midnight cruise, according to Ammen. The ship will leave the dock at 11 p.m. and return at 1 a.m.

There will be a wider range of activities on the two-hour cruise this year. According to Ammen, the cruise will have all the same activities that students enjoyed on last year’s cruise, in addition to a video game arcade, card games and possibly karaoke; events council is also currently searching for a jazz band to provide music for the cruise.