The Brookhaven Courier

By Carmina Tiscareño

New Media Editor

Illustration by Sophia Espinosa

A room in the L Building stores event flyers, T-shirts and old carpet from the campus dating back 35 years. Brookhaven College Executive Dean Sarah A. Ferguson wades through the items and stumbles across a poster that reads: “Brookhaven College opens fall 1978.” She opens a drawer and finds five laminated posters that list all the courses offered when the campus first opened. One poster included an aerial map of the campus and a map of Dallas, showing how to locate Brookhaven. Another poster had the registration form on it. Continue reading →

By Chris R. Allison

Copy Editor

Despite 35 years of changes and evolving technology, The Brookhaven Courier continues its tradition of informing the Brookhaven College community and documenting the many facets of life on campus and in the community.

The Courier’s origins are rooted in the creation of the journalism program. In 1978, Brookhaven’s inaugural year, journalism professor Dr. John Neal taught Beginning Reporting and Introduction to Mass Communications. A handful of students enrolled in those courses made up the original staff of the school news- paper. The first issue of The Courier was published on Nov. 22, 1978. Continue reading →

By Brigitte Zumaya and Ashley Heussner

Layout Editor and Staff Writer 

Photos by Brigitte Zumaya | An expressive Sara Lundsteen dresses as a sheriff for her performance.

The usually quiet atmosphere of the Performance Hall lobby resonated with the voices of students from the Brookhaven College Opera Workshop Class. In the middle of the lobby, Brookhaven student Elizabeth Varhaug sang along with the piano, warming up.

The Brookhaven College School of the Arts held an Opera Workshop Recital April 16. Directed by Susan Wyatt, the performance showcased the talents of the students in the Opera Workshop class. Wyatt is an adjunct faculty member, and studying music has taken her all the way to Munich and Cologne, Germany, according to the Brookhaven website. Continue reading →

By Gyeryeong Kim

Senior Staff Writer

The room filled with English professor Jason Carney’s booming voice. It sounded as if he was acting. The students focused on his voice and read through a poem with him. He read the poetry using his emotions and explained the details.  The focus was on interpreting the poem.

Reading and understanding literature are not one and the same. Literature involves navigating the author’s purpose and deeper meanings within the text. It is the role of the reader to understand them. Continue reading →

By Adriana Salazar

A&E Editor

Photos by Adriana Salazar | Pierce William Bradley make up part of the percussion for the ensemble.

Almost immediately after the song started, the audience let themselves be overtaken by the rhythm flowing through them. It hit them like a fog, engulfing their bodies’ whole as it slithered through their skin.

From the tips of their tapping feet, it crawled up to their hips as they swayed side to side. Then their hands that let themselves be overtaken as they clapped to the beat. The faces of the audience twisted into jubilant expressions before breaking into almost primal shouts. Continue reading →

By Leah Clark

Copy Editor 

Students walked from class with empty bellies. Pangs of hunger brought them to the TreeTop Café, but some of Brookhaven College’s poets soothed their hunger at the Windmill Writer’s Club’s performance April 10.

English professor Jason Carney introduced the after- noon’s performers, Ashley Balcazar and Antoine Votaw, Brookhaven students and leaders of the Windmill Writer’s Club. Continue reading →

By Aaron Ortega

Senior Staff Writer

Photo by Marjorie Wilson | Joy Tipping lays on
her horse, Penny, a Pinto American Quarter Horse.

In the 1970s, the land surrounding Brookhaven College provided home to a life of horseback riding and boarding stables. As a young girl, Joy Tipping, staff writer and copy editor of the Guide and Arts and Life section of The Dallas Morning News, would tag along every day with her Continue reading →