Student Publications

TRIANGLE

The Triangle, Bryan's student newspaper, is published weekly through most of each semester. Its writing, editing, photography, and layout are done by students under the instruction and guidance of faculty advisor John Carpenter, editor of the award-winning Rhea County newspaper, The Herald-News.

The Triangle serves as an important source of information and informed opinion about Bryan people, activities, events, and programs, as well as about local, state, national, and international events and issues important to Christians and U.S. citizens. The newspaper provides training for students who may one day write and edit professionally and enables students, faculty, staff, trustees, parents, alums, and others interested in the college to keep up with significant happenings. In the process the Triangle helps students think about events and issues from the perspective of a Christian worldview.

A continuation of Bryan newspapers going back to 1934, the Triangle has grown in size and sophistication of formatting in recent years. In December 2003, for example, it published a twenty-four page issue with four pages of process color. Over the years the Triangle has won a number of college journalism awards.

COMMONER

The Commoner, the college's yearbook, takes its name from a title given to the American statesman for whom the college is named-"the Great Commoner" (the champion of the ordinary American working man or woman). Like the Triangle, the Commoner's writing, editing, photography, and layout are done by students under the supervision of John Carpenter, the faculty advisor.

With just a few exceptions, the Commoner has been published every school year since the college began-the first edition was published in 1931, covering the very first year of the college's existence. The Commoner helps Bryan students and the greater college constituency remember where we've been, as well as reminding us of the biblical principles and ideals that will help us see where we're going. Each year's Commoner records the special friends, fun times, and significant milestones that make each year of college worth remembering. Its tone ranging from whimsical irony to serious theology, the Commoner seeks to represent the full gamut of college experience in such a way that each Bryan student will be reminded of something significant about that formative year of living and learning.

BROADSIDE

The Broadside was introduced by a student during the 2003-04 school year. On one 11" X 17" sheet, several times during the past school year, it publishes the creative writing-poetry, stories, essays-of Bryan students and faculty. The quality of the writing was high, and students enjoyed getting the opportunity to read the creative work of their peers and teachers. Since the founding editor has graduated, a new editor will continue the work this year.

Over the years Bryan students have consistently shown interest in doing and discussing creative writing (the creative writing class offered each year is usually filled quickly, many students enter the creative writing contest sponsored each spring semester by the English Department, and for the past several years an extracurricular student writing group called Third Line has met fairly regularly). Other publications have at times in the past offered a forum for the best of this work. The Broadside has its own special approach but continues this tradition.