Bryan College Triangle

Justin M. Jones
Triangle Reporter

Sixteen people showed up to tryout for the new Frisbee club November 11, and freshman Wesley Sanders is taking the initiative to organize the new campus sport.

“I had always been a part of school athletic teams, and I loved playing sports in school. I played several different sports while in high school, and it was strange to me to come to Bryan and start my school year and not be part of a team,” Sanders said. “I have always loved to play Ultimate, and I found it so strange that Bryan did not have a team, especially since Ultimate is becoming so popular.

“I also knew there were so many good Ultimate players, and I thought, ‘Why in the world don’t we have a team….’ So I started asking around and found out that older students at Bryan have attempted to start a team before, but it never worked out.”

According to Sanders, who has been thoroughly researching the college rules of Ultimate, the games previously played at Bryan have been more relaxed and have not followed the official college guidelines of Ultimate.

“So many people do not understand the rules of the game for the real sport of Ultimate,” Sanders said. “This year we will be spending a lot of time learning the game of Ultimate. I have later goals, but my mind is focused on this year. This year will be a big learning year.”

In tryouts Sanders tested the men on throwing, catching, jumping, speed and the ability to read a disc.

“When you have people that can throw and catch real well it comes down to speed and jumping,” Sanders said. “Speed and jumping are very important in the athletic side of Ultimate.”

Some students found it odd to try out for a college Ultimate team, but Sanders said that tryouts are common.

“It was weird [to have to try out for a Frisbee club] considering most of the guys I knew on the team were pretty consistent players, and we already know the rules of Frisbee, or so we thought,” Sophomore Corey Heartlidge said. “So it was kind of weird, but then again this is going to be so serious as an actual club team. I thought it was cool to have actual tryouts, being a little more official.”

Sanders seems to be pretty confident in the team so far.

“I fully believe that our team can do great against other teams,” Sanders said. “It’ll just take some time for us to learn the real game of Ultimate. But we got it!”

Heartlidge believes after the team learns the official rules the team will be very successful.

“If we’re not familiar with [the new rules], we’re really going to suffer playing other teams who are more structured as far as [organization], and so we’re definitely going to have to get acquainted with the rules,” Heartlidge said. “But I think talent-wise we’ve got a shot. So, I’m really excited about it.”

Two of the major teams Bryan will be competing against are Lee University and Covenant College (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

Tryout results were released earlier today revealing a 20 member team with Sanders as the president and Tim Shetter as the Faculty Sponsor.

The club team “will not be doing too much for the rest of the semester” except practicing, according to the email announcement released this afternoon.

A group of Bryan students traveled to Catalys Atlanta 2011 last week and returned to school this week with raving reviews / Photo courtesy of catalystconference.com

Justin M. Jones
Triangle Reporter

The twelfth annual session of Catalyst took place last week, Oct. 5 – 7, in Atlanta, Ga., with “Be Present,” as the theme. About 13,000 young leaders in Christ, including many Bryan students, came together to grow in their calling and to learn more about their leadership abilities.

Students returning to Bryan this week brought back glowing reviews.

“The conference was absolutely incredible,” said Junior Andrew Conn. “I learned something from each and every speaker that impacted my life. If I had to narrow it down to one thing it would be one of the things David Platt said on Wednesday. He said that we as Christians have become leaders without conviction. We do things while forgetting why we do them.” Read full story »

Freshman Rebekah Weaver displays her wardrobe with a smile, one of Huston's residents who is happy the piece of furniture will be a permanent fixture in the dormitory / Triangle photo by Krissy Proctor

Natali Masti
Triangle Reporter

The rebellion has vanquished and life in Huston dorm has returned back to normal for those who were protesting the extra wardrobes. Huston Residence Life Staff made the decision in early October that the wardrobes will be remain in the dorm for at least the remainder of this year.

Women’s Housing Director (and the Resident Director of Huston dorm) Karie Harpest said that a lot of the students are using the extra furniture or are not bothered by them so the decision was made to please the majority. Another reason behind the decision was that Residence Life Staff had already made a statement that the wardrobes would remain in Huston for this year before the protesting erupted and felt the need to be consistent with decision.

There is, however, a possibility that the wardrobes might be removed this summer, but it is a major decision, according to Assistant Dean of Community Life Tim Shetter. To removed the wardrobes from the second, third and fourth floors of Huston, windows would have to be removed and a crane rented.

For Huston residents, life goes on with the advantage of movable furniture and the possibility of bunking beds.

Some girls have taken to shoving the extra wardrobes under their beds, providing more floor space but fewer spaces for storage / Triangle photo by Maddie K. Doucet

Krissy Proctor
Online Editor

While C.S. Lewis may have possessed a certain affinity for wardrobes in his classic children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia,” on Bryan hill some find this particular piece of furniture is no longer a desirable commodity.

Specifically in Huston Dorm, several female residents in two-person rooms are protesting the placement of the wardrobes in their rooms leftover from last year’s many three-person room accommodations because of the large amount of space they consume.

“Many girls just don’t know what to do with them,” said sophomore Natalie Masti, a resident of Huston. “Some are just sticking them under their beds, but even that leaves us without any [storage] space to stick stuff…like say, a hamper.”

Near the beginning of the school year, several girls complained about their lack of space to residence life staff and asked to have the armoires removed – arguing that the furniture didn’t “technically belong there anyway,” according to junior resident assistant, Lia Johnson.  Johnson explained that the modular closets are actually holdovers from when most of the building was occupied with triple rooms.

At that time, the wardrobes were meant to provide extra storage to the already packed living arrangements. Now some Huston girls feel they pay for a double room, but in some ways receive the space of a triple.

Now the wardrobes take up valued floor space for some who feel the two closets and sets of drawers already installed in the rooms (a feature of both Huston and Long dorms) create plenty of space.  Despite this, the girls were initially informed that the wardrobes were now permanent fixtures for Huston and could not be removed. Read full story »

Bryan students on “make-out patrol” last friday night were followed and flashed by a van of people wearing clown masks / Photo courtesy of etsy.com

Andrew Wilber
Multimedia Editor

About midnight on Friday, Sept. 2, a group of Bryan students including junior Milton Bell, sophomore Matt Bell, two other juniors and a sophomore were driving around campus in Matt Bell’s SUV on “make-out patrol,” an activity in which students with flashlights drive around looking for couples alone and preach or shout the gospel at them. When another vehicle, a gold van, with two men in clown masks appeared on the scene, the moral vigilantes got more than they had bargained for.

“We had seen the vehicle once and thought it was just another kid doing what we were doing,” said Matt Bell who was driving his SUV with the make-out patrollers inside.

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