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Christ Above All A different kind of 'normal' "Normal" is taking on a new meaning at married INSIDE Bryan College. student living in a tiny Most classes are mobile home. "If you call meeting in classrooms - a few arc still in this Trailcrville, just be sure to tell everyone that these Children face Rudd Auditorium and trailers don't have running enormous pressures the Rhca County ban- today; no wonder so quet room in the cafe- water or bathrooms hooked up," he said. "We had water many suffer serious teria; faculty and staff in our trailers, but no bath- problems. Dr, Bill arc back in offices Brown examines the and the library has room. There was a bath house for all of us to use, so situation and sug- reopened after the dis- that's similar too." gests some answers astrous fire of Feb. 6. Other than the inconve- Page 2 But the third floor nience of offices and classes has been cleaned off the Administration in unfamiliar places, college life really does seem normal. Bryan's men's Building, interior Students took their spring basketball team won walls on the first and the regular season second floors are Workers had almost completed demolition of the third floor of the Administration break as scheduled, PCI ministries continue their TVAC championship being demolished Building when this picture was taken in early March. Looking from the north stair- and earned a trip to and faculty and staff well, the tower is at right and the walls of the library are in the eenter background, regular outreaches in the the NAIA national members are work- After demolition was complete, a temporary roof was to be erected to allow workers community and graduation still will be held the first tournament in ing with architects to to dry the first two floors before reconstruction began. weekend in May. March Page 6 determine just how have now and the plans we have for developing to rebuild. At the same time, "normal" is the college." changing in positive ways, as the col- Dr. Rosie deRosset, Bryan President Dr. William E. Brown told But until "normal'" again includes the lege has hired Dillard Construction, *69, remembers faculty and staff on March 1, that decisions Administration Building in its definition, stu- Inc., of Dayton to complete the the Administration about the building would be made by (he end dents will be having classes and faculty and Building from her of March or early April, depending on recom- Student Life Center before the end staff offices will be housed in modular build- days as a student mendations from the architects and the settle- of the school year. ings, the dining room will be a popular meeting and draws some ment offer from the college's insurance carrier. By the first week of March, the and study site and Rudd's parking lot will bring bookstore, Student Development lessons to be "We want you to help design this building,'" back memories of Trailerville. learned from he said. ''We have a plan that's two years old, Office suite and Lions Den recreation In fact, former President Dr. Ken Hanna, '57, the fire. but the situation has changed and we want to areas were taking shape on the second a former resident of the original Trailerville, Page 4 make sure what we do reflects the needs we laughed when he remembered his days as a Continued on page 8... Dr. Crawford Loritts Senter family gift underwrites softball, baseball challenges students by John Carpenter Bryan College, he has named the college as sports offerings to five women's to consider the Herald-News Editor beneficiary of several trust funds. Although sports and four men's sports," Bryan holiness of God as the amount of the original endowment was athletic Director Dr. Sandy Zensen the only really EDITOR'S NOTE: John Carpenter^ effective weapon in 86, is editor of The Herald-News not released, Senter said it would amount to said Friday. "But it's really going to millions of dollars over time for the college. be important for college life. the Christian's battle in Dayton. This story, reprinted by against sin. permission of The Herald-News, The only string attached to his money is Currently, we only have tennis in was published Feb. 6, 2000. that "Bryan has gotta come up with win- the spring. This is going to bring a Page 3 ners," Senter said with a smile. new excitement to campus in Bryan College has received a multi-million Bryan College had successful baseball the spring." dollar gift from a Chattanooga family to and softball programs until declining enroll- Earnings from the trusts will allow begin and operate intercollegiate baseball and ment and participation and rising costs the college to begin work immediate- softball programs. forced the college to cancel the programs in ly on construction of a new sports Bryan President Dr. Bill Brown and Nick the mid-1980s. complex to include baseball and Senter of Chattanooga announced the contri- Now, the Senter family's gift will allow softball fields complete with lighting bution during a press conference held the college to again field a women's softball and stadium seating. The gift will also Wednesday at the college. team beginning in 2002, with a men's help fund renovation of the existing Senter said because of his love for base- baseball team to follow in 2003. ball and softball and his long association with "This is going to increase our varsity Continued on page 3... Page 2 Bryan Life • Spring 2000 Where Have All the Children Gone? parison between The Big Box and, for example, It's tough being a kid in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. today's culture. Sendak's 1963 classic has 10 per cent of the words From and 10 times the depth of Morrison's first try at a Experts in child development are struggling with children's book. explaining why young children are having such a the hard time. In our era of profound prosperity, never has childhood been so filled with trauma and President Children Being Children unhappiness. Until the 1950's, deaths of young But the Morrisons make a good point. Children people were due to polio, tuberculosis or other dis- are not miniature adults. They need freedom to be eases. Now, with these diseases all but eradicated, children for a lot longer than current society allows. children die from stress-related causes. They need time to "speak as a child, think as a Five thousand a year take their own lives and child, reason as a child" (1 Cor. 13:11). But more 10,000 die from accidents caused by substance Thinking Outside the Box? importantly, they need love, care and adult guidance. abuse. Two million young people are alcoholic. A As every child's friend, Fred Rogers, says, child's existence is so filled with stress that there Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and her 31-year- "Children want to be like the people they love." are 3.4 million significantly depressed children, old son, Slade, think the problem lies in repression: according to the American Academy of Child and children do not have enough freedom to express Adolescent Psychiatry. Half a million children and themselves. In their book, The Big Box (Jump at leens are taking antidepressants, the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 1999), the Morrisons blame adults for keeping children from Miniature Adults? enjoying their childhood. The idea for the book, Bryan Life Morrison says, came when her son was in elemen- Volume 25, Number 3 Why has such a morbid view of life enveloped tary school and his teacher chastised him for his Editorial Office: our children? Blame is everywhere. Many fault Bryan College childhood exuberance by claiming, "You don't family breakdown for the increased stress on chil- P.O. Box 7000 know how to handle your freedom." Dayton, Tennessee 37321-7000 dren. "Divorce didn't just split up our parents. It The resulting children's book, illustrated by (423) 775-2041 stole our childhood," writes UCLA student Lee Giselle Potter, presents a frightening scenario of Goldberg in Newsweek on Campus. Other targets President somber-faced adults who are threatened by child- are video games, television, materialism, or William E. Brown hood spontaneity. After making adults "nervous," Editor impersonal day care. three culturally and geographically diverse children Tom Davis Whatever the causes for the problems, one factor are imprisoned in a room-size box where they are Associate Editors seems to overwhelm them all: children have little given all the material possession of modern society Brett Roes time to be children. They are forced to grow up Sherry Weller (television, pizza, Barbie, Pepsi, etc.) and have and confront adult issues and the resulting stress is Rebecca Peck Hoyt weekly visits from their parents. driving them to the brink of despair. Bryan College The melancholy children bemoan their loss of David Elkin, president of the National Alumni Association freedom by trying to explain to the adults that peo- Director of Alumni Ministries Association for the Education of Young Children, ple define freedom in their own way: "If freedom Brett Roes, '88 notes that current culture overestimates the compe- is handled just your way/ Then it's not my freedom President tency of children. Autonomy has replaced together- Steve Stewart, '85 or free." ness as the chief family value. The individual is President-elect In spite of the noble theme, The Big Box misses more important than both the family and the soci- vacant _ the mark by a wide margin.

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