The Clarion, Vol. 86, Issue #19, Feb. 10, 2021
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Volume 86, Issue 19 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 February 10, 2021 OskarGood news for Brevardians that like to haveBlues a Current COVID-19 guidelines to to expect at expand• Maximum party size is 6 beer at Oskar Blues Brewery- the company has Oskar Blues: • Order one at a time at the bar plans to expand! Oskar Blues Brewery is going • Masks are required • Hand sanitizing stations are provided to lease 30,375 square feet in the Sylvan Valley • Staff is cleared by a health check before • Indoor restrooms are closed, Porta Potties Industrial Center in Brevard. This new location each day are provided outside will be in addition to the current facility that is • Max occupancy is 90; there may be a wait • To-go items must be taken off the property on Mountain Industrial Drive. The first location to be seated to be consumed, no tailgating opened in Brevard in 2012. • All parties must stay a minimum of 6 feet • Credit card payments only, no cash A press release stated that this business move apart • Just be nice came as a result of the brewery trying to keep up • Entire party must be present to be seated with demand. This will assist with the brewing, —Aia Andonovska canning, and overall operational process. This new opening will also create ten full-time positions at the new location. Operations Manager Thomas Transue said, “We feel extremely fortunate that demand for our products has maintained growth, giving our local leadership an opportunity to look for creative ways to expand our operations and headcount. In 2020, our Brevard facility will produce over 200,000 barrels. The addition of Photo from CraftBeer.com the Sylvan Valley Industrial Center site will The assembly line at Oskar Blues allow our facility some much-needed flexibility to increase capacity, hire more employees, and BC Security Report As students settle back in for the spring ship more product. We can’t wait to get started.” semester, Brevard College’s Campus Security has received fewer reports of conflict than ever before despite the added stress of COVID-19, according to the Director of Spring COVID-19 Safety, Security and Risk Management, Stan Jacobsen. “I am very pleased with the way students are deporting themselves in spite of COVID positivity rises to 36 protocols,” said Jacobson. “Students are The Brevard College COVID-19 dashboard number of students in quarantine or isolation working at a high level of maturity.” has reached a new high of 36 total positive as of 10:30 a.m. today is 39. There have been several reports of speeding cases for the spring semester, 10 in the month of Brevard College encourages everyone to keep on campus. The campus community is February. This can be compared to the previous up with strict mask wearing and social distancing reminded to adhere to the 15 mph speed semester, with 16 more cases in five weeks while on campus. To keep up with Brevard limit. The campus roads are used for walking of testing and four weeks of students back on College’s COVID-19 cases, visit the dashboard and running by students as well as the campus than the entire fall semester. on the COVID-19 updates page, https:// greater Brevard community, including many In all, more than 1700 tests have been my.brevard.edu/ICS/COVID-19_Updates.jnz. residents of College Walk Senior Living conducted on campus so far since Jan. 5, —Margaret Correll Community located next to the campus. compared to 1949 total tests in the fall 2020 Students are reminded to contact Campus See ‘Chernobyl fire’ on page 3 semester. Security at (828)-577-9590 if they observe This week testing is taking place Monday anything suspicious on campus. Campus through today. So far, 225 tests have been Security is on call 24/7. conducted this week with 4 positives.The —Duncan McWilliam-Grench Page 2 Campus News The Clarion | February 10, 2021 By Julie Carter Opinion Editor KeystoneBy Caroline Hoy made from conventional Pipeline oil.” and providing jobs is good,XL the pipeline has a Staff Writer The Keystone Pipeline XL has spent years potential to cause more environmental problems President Joe Biden passed 25 executive facing controversy from climate activists, than it will help the economy. orders while in his first month of office. One of indigious communities and farmers due to The Keystone Pipeline XL, as mentioned those executive orders canceled Keystone XL’s studies saying that the pipeline is a major earlier, carries tar sands which are very harmful permit on the Keystone Pipeline XL. Nothing in detriment to the ecosystem. to the environment. According to the National Washington, DC is easy and everything must be When former President Obama was asked Resource Defendant Counsel, “...between 2007 met with opposition. to sign the cross border permit to build the and 2010, pipelines moving tar sands oil in The Keystone Pipeline XL is a pipeline that pipeline he refused, but within four days for Midwestern states spilled three times more per transports tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada former president, Donald Trump, taking office, mile than the U.S. national average for pipelines By Mickayla Smith down through the United States. Tar or oil sands he signed an executive order to continue with carrying conventional crude. Since it first went Staff Writer are defined by the Union of Concerned Scientists the build. Trump’s executive order to build the into operation in 2010, TC Energy’s original as, “Are a mixture of mostly sand, clay, water, Keystone Pipeline XL was, again, overturned Keystone Pipeline System has leaked more and a thick, molasses-like substance called by Biden as an executive order. than a dozen times…” The leaks from pipelines bitumen. Bitumen is made of hydrocarbons—the Not happy with the executive order introduced damage the water in the ground making the same molecules in liquid oil—and is used to by Biden, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and 13 other drinking water dangerous to consume. produce gasoline and other petroleum products.” Republican senators introduced a Keystone Even though President Biden put in an Tar sands also emit a large amount of carbon Pipeline bill late this past week. The bill would executive order to stop the Keystone Pipeline, dioxide, according to the Union of Concerned overturn President Biden’s executive order to which has made many groups of people happy, Scientists, “On a lifetime basis, a gallon of cancel the pipeline. The bill has no support it is not the end of the battle. With the new bill gasoline made from tar sands produces about amongst democrats. in support of the pipeline being introduced, it 15% more carbon dioxide emissions than one The main point for republicans with this new is unknown if the pipeline build will stop for at bill is a hope that it will benefit the economy and least the next four years. provide jobs. Although growing the economy the Clarion SENIOR STAFF Editor in Chief Margaret Correll Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Managing Editor Copy Editor Aia Andonovska Campus News Eleanor Flannery Opinion Eleanor Flannery steps down Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of Arts & Life Kym Caldwell By Anna Ervin international business administration at Harvard Sports Staff Writer Layout & Design Kym Caldwell Business School, states "You want to go out on . Eleanor Flannery On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Jeff Bezos announced his top, you want to go out when things are going Faculty Advisor John B. Padgett plan to step down from his position as CEO of really well and you hand the reins to a successor Amazon. He will now transition into the position who can build on the momentum that you've STAFF WRITERS of executive chairman. established." Colyn Brannon Jackson Inglis What’s the difference between these positions? Simon Donnaway Kellen McGeorge However, Amazon is under fire right now Anna Ervin Duncan McWilliam-Grench The executive chairman is based more on giving for a few different reasons. There have been Ann Farash Jacob Moore guidance rather than having actual hands in the major protests from workers over the current Caroline Hoy Brady Penn business aspect of the company. COVID-19 policies and warehouse working The Clarion is a student-run college newspaper produced This is one of the closest experiences people conditions in the U.S and in the U.K. Amazon is by student journalists enrolled at Brevard College. will get to see humanity in Bezos. He plans to a company that thrives on worker exploitation, Unsigned editorials represent the collective opinion of pursue what he says he loves most, “Focusing the staff of The Clarion. Other opinions expressed in tax dodging and invasions of customers' privacy this newspaper are those of respective authors and do on technologies of the future”. experienced; amongst other violations. not necessarily reflect the opinions of the faculty, staff This is a man who has personified product Bezos stepping down when these accusations or administration of Brevard College. monopoly and change for over two decades; are under investigation seems as if he is All correspondence should be mailed to: there is a degree of emotional intelligence that pushing his own faults onto another to deal The Clarion, Brevard College, One Brevard comes with realizing this is not all his identity with and could be a confirmation of his true, College Drive, Brevard, NC 28712, or send can consist of and a bit of humility in realizing E-mail to [email protected] weak character. Amazon has immense power, clarion.brevard.edu what one built can live on without the creator.