Bryan College Triangle

Last year, then senior Thomas Katz, junior Luke Lillard, and sophomore Jonathan Warner took a 10-day trek across New England in search of adventure and the meaning of hospitality. With the proposed changes to Fall Break, future such trips would be next to impossible during that time./Triangle photo by Jesse Murray

Clari Stewart
Triangle Reporter

With fall break just days away, rumors are spreading about instituting a proposed two-day fall break for next year. Students and faculty alike are reacting strongly to the proposal. The proposed changes affect not only fall break, but accelerated schedules, the start of the school year, the policy of withdrawing from a class and the scheduling of finals.

Vice President of Academics Dr. Bradford Sample proposed the changes to the faculty at their September meeting after the changes were approved by the Executive Cabinet. If the change is made, Bryan would join many surrounding schools including Lee University, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Carson Newman, Chattanooga State and Covenant College that all have breaks that are less than a week long.

The issue of changing fall break has already caused many passionate discussions on campus. Both faculty and students are split in their opinion of the proposed change.

“I couldn’t go home,” said junior Peter Boyajian from New Jersey, “half my break would be spent driving.”

Sophomore Wesley Garnett said, “It wouldn’t be worth the gas for a six and a half hour drive.”

Scott Jones, associate professor of Christian ministry, thought the school should consider the local community, and the local school systems’ break schedules, as well as Bryan students when making such changes. Read full story »

Senior players Harry Sherwood and Sebastian Fischer advance towards a Lee University player in chase of the ball / Triangle photo by Maddie K. Doucet

Justin M. Jones
Triangle Reporter

The men’s varsity soccer team played the Lee University Flames Tuesday, losing 3–0.

However, even though the team lost the match, they held out through the first half, keeping the score 0-0. Read full story »

In a screenshot from King's film "This is the Face", senior actor Derek Batt looks out over a local bridge./Courtesy of junior T.K. King

by Billy Findley
Online Editor

For months it has seemed like the Broad Street Film Festival would be virtually nonexistent this year. The time to raise funds and awareness for the event, plus plan the showings at the Majestic Theater in Chattanooga along with the ostentatious awards ceremony, just seemed too daunting for Bryan College to do alone. However, after a meeting and a series of email exchanges between Chris Clark, assistant professor of communications studies, and Chris Willis, professor of media technology at Chattanooga State Technical Community College (Tenn.), the showings will go on, but there will not be an awards ceremony this year.

“Really it was UTC (University of Tenn.) and Chattanooga State that said, ‘this needs to go on,” Clark said.

While sitting in a meeting at Chattanooga State in February with faculty and some student filmmakers from Chattanooga State, Clark said the collective interest in putting on a festival became apparent.

“Students were at the meeting and they said, ‘man it was awesome last year. We went to the showings, we went to the awards night – we were blown away,’” Clark said. Read full story »

by Catherine Rogers
Multimedia Editor

Senior forward Keith Bauer chases down a Lee player/Triangle photo by Catherine Rogers

Last Monday night, the men’s varsity basketball team faced the team that Head Coach Don Rekoske deemed as the most athletic on their schedule, the NAIA Division 1 Flames of Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.).

The game was a showdown, intense down to the last second, keeping fans on the edge of their seat as both teams fought for the win. The Lions kept the game close throughout the night but finally succumbed to the Flames 77-68.

Going into the game, the Lions were confident, according to Rekoske. Read full story »

Catherine Rogers
Staff Writer

This past Saturday, the Bryan College Rugby Football Club played its final match of the season at Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.). Before the game had even begun, things didn’t go as planned.

While Lee took the victory, it was one of toughest matches the Bryan Rugby Club has ever fought against the University. Photo courtesy of Lana Douglas.

“Lee is going through some transitions as far as coaches and secretaries and so they didn’t really have good communication with us,” said Phillip Kohler, president of the Bryan Rugby Club. “They didn’t tell us where the field was until the night before the game.”

Michael Palmer, associate professor of communications and the rugby club’s faculty sponsor, drove to Lee University on Friday evening to find the playing field, according to Kohler.

“He even got the police to try and take him to where the rugby fields were, and they couldn’t find them [at the university] because the fields where we played were 10 minutes north of Cleveland,” said Kohler.

However, the surprises didn’t end there. When the Lions arrived at the game, Lee forfeited the game. They did so for three reasons according to senior Josh Jones, the team’s lock. They had no official referee, the field was not appropriately marked and they allowed alumni as well as their coach to play in the game.

“They pulled in some really big 25-26 year old guys and so it quickly became just one of those informal rugby games—let’s get out and have fun—which would have been fine if they had just communicated that ahead of time,” said Kohler. “We could have pulled in some alumni too and had some extra players and just had some fun with it.”

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