Bryan College Triangle

Alex Green
Assistant Online Editor

I’m just a guy writing a column. I get asked frequently if I am a student here and have paid every rate for food in the cafeteria and Lion’s Den. I almost got a staff discount once, too.

The truth is that I arrived at Bryan as a student last semester, but I have been at and around this school since I was a kid. My parents often drove my sister and I around the campus on our autumn Sunday afternoon cruises.

After some post-graduate adventures, I have landed here and am here to stay – hopefully until graduation. These are my thoughts on a place that I love not only as a student but as a piece of my home, Dayton. I’m not always right, but I am the one writing the column. Enjoy.

Mr. Palmer recently showed his Communication Ethics and Issues class a video about the Light’s Golden Jubilee, an extravaganza celebrated in October 1929 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the electric light bulb – thank you, Mr. Palmer; that is good stuff.

The jubilee was centered around the person of Thomas A. Edison, great American inventor and father of the electric light bulb. At a certain moment during the festival, Americans coast-to-coast were asked to switch off their lights in recognition of Edison, a giant among giants by the Dearborn, Mich., party.

The men who had come to acknowledge this titan of his times included President Herbert Hoover, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, industrialists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and J.P. Morgan and Edison’s admirer and auto revolutionist Henry Ford.

Today, I reluctantly acknowledge that giants are extinct. We Americans look back with swelling pride and awe at those figures of our past because they are like fossils, uncovered in the now bleak and deserted forests of the past. We reconstruct their impact and influence and put them on display in our museums. Read full story »

Krissy Proctor
Online Editor

Players on Saturday prepare for a corner kick on Union College's goal / Triangle photo by Cat Rogers

Dan Jackson
Online Assistant Editor

“These are the games that the players remember,” said Michael Palmer, professor of communications, who was watching Saturday’s battle from the sidelines.

In the first round of the AAC-playoffs, Bryan College men’s soccer team hosted Union College (Barbourville, Ky.). After a shaky start ending in a 2-2 tie at the end of the first half, the Lions roared forward, eventually ending the game 8-3. Read full story »

A computer animation of what the proposed stadium seating will look like after the soccer field is redone / Photo courtesy of the Alumni Office

Tim Baldi
Senior Reporter

Over Spirit Week and Homecoming Weekend, students, parents and alumni donated nearly $7,000 for the remodeling of the soccer field.

Through the efforts of Battle of the Dorms, the Alumni Office raised over $700 from students in addition to $1,800 donated online through parents of Bryan students.

“The students are to be applauded,” said Alumni Director David Tromanhauser. He added that students led the effort in Battle of the Dorms.

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Clari Stewart & Dan Jackson
Reporter & Asst. Online Editor

The trophies belonging to Alexander/McGowen rest in the dorm of Vincent Smith. The team placed second in their most recent tournament beating out state universities. / Photo Credit Dan Jackson

This past weekend, six students from the Bryan College Debate Team competed against 17 colleges and universities in the Chicken and Egg Tournament held at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, GA.  The Bryan students walked away with several awards including 1st varsity speaker to sophomore Ashton Alexander, 2nd varsity debate team to Alexander and his teammate freshman Eli McGowan, and 14th varsity speaker to McGowan.

Bryan Students senior Vincent Smith, freshmen Erica Thompson, Daniel Ermatinger and Amy Buchmeyer competed along with Alexander and McGowan against 17 schools including Carson Newman, Florida State University, Georgia Tech, University of Tennessee-Knoxville and University of Florida.

The debate team Alexander/McGowan had a difficult start to the tournament. With one win, two losses and one bye (in an tournament with an odd amount of teams, one team has to sit out each round. They are automatically awarded a win). They barely advanced to out-rounds. In out-rounds, teams are power-matched, similar to what they do in basketball tournaments, said McGowen.

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