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Housing group
rebrands with AO Glow
Grayson Quay
News Editor
The Alpha Omega housing
group will present the first
ever AO Glow dance tonight
from 8 to 11 p.m. on Lincoln
Lawn.
Senior AO member Josh
Eberly called AO Glow “the
first event of its kind ever in
Grove City’s history by any
group or anybody.”
Eberly, who designed the
posters for the event himself,
described what the AOs are
planning. The dance will be
held under a 20 by 40 foot
tent that will be enclosed
with tarps. The tent will be
filled with music, black lights
and AO members throwing
neon glow paint on everyone
in attendance. Eberly made
sure to point out that this
paint is non-toxic and washes out of clothing, but still
advises students not to wear
their nice clothes.
Eberly said that he expects
a turnout of at least 500
students, citing the success
of similar events like Penn
State University’s Dayglow,
as well as his belief that AO
Glow will provide a unique
experience that students cannot get at any other dance on
campus. “A lot of Grove City
dances, in my experience, are
the same … You’re basically
getting sweaty in your nicest clothes. We want you to
get sweaty in your crappiest
clothes and get paint thrown
on you,” Eberly said.
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Silver screen on the streets
Junior Andrew Lindhome poses on a homecoming float designed and constructed by
the brothers of Kappa Alpha Phi and the sisters of Gamma Chi, which was based on
the Pixar film “Up.” For more on this year’s movie-themed parade, see pages 6-7.
Westminster tries
to measure up
Rival college aims to top
GCC Facebook likes
Kelleigh Huber
Staff Writer
Westminster College recently launched a campaign
to try to match the level of
community involvement enjoyed by their rival school –
Grove City College.
The idea behind the campaign started with Katie
Bittner, the new Social Media Coordinator at Westminster College. Bittner, having
worked six years as the Assistant Director of Audio Visual Services at Westminster
College, took on this new position in July. Prior to her appointment, no single person
was responsible for managing social media at Westminster.
The movement, called
the “Like Campaign,” be-
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gan on Sept. 23, with the
goal of gaining more “likes”
on the Westminster College Facebook page than
the Grove City College Facebook page. “I hope that we
can be at Grove City’s level
with around 9,000 likes,”
Ms. Bittner said. Grove City
College’s page currently has
9,269 “likes,” while Westminster’s page stands at
7,566 “likes” at press time.
While friendly competition
is nothing new to the two colleges, the “Like Campaign”
is more than a simple competition with an end victor.
Bittner hopes that through
this project, she can engage
students, alumni and prospective students and integrate them into a strong
CAMPAIGN 2
Going up
Elevator pitch competition updated
Liesel McClintock
Staff Writer
The annual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Elevator Pitch Competition is back – and they are
making some changes.
The competition began as
a way for students with business ideas to have their concepts heard and get businesspeople interested.
It is called an elevator
pitch because, as Program
Manager Lynn Stillwaggon
put it, “The idea is that you
might get in an elevator with
someone important and you
have from the time the doors
close to the time they open
again to tell your story.”
Yvonne English, Executive Director of the Center
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has high hopes for
this year’s Competition. “My
hope is to see more entries
from the various majors here
on campus. Since the competition is open to all students,
we’d like to see ideas rooted
in a variety of disciplines,”
she said.
In past years, the competition had only one round.
Outside
businesspeople
would come to listen to and
judge the pitches and then
collaborate to pick the top
four winners overall, with
each winner receiving $250.
This year they are dividing the competition into two
different parts: an initial
ELEVATOR 2
Exercise science accredited
Grayson Quay
News Editor
The Exercise Science program at Grove City College
recently received accreditation from the Commission
on Accreditation of Allied
Health Education Programs
(CAAHEP).
The program, which was
introduced in the 2008-09
academic year and first offered as a major in the 2010-
11 academic year, was awarded accreditation following a
self-study, an on-site review
and a vote conducted by the
Committee on Accreditation
for the Exercise Sciences
(CoAES) and the CAAHEP
board of directors.
According to the CAAHEP’s website, there are over
2000 CAAHEP accredited
programs that prepare students for 24 different health
sciences professions. The
Commission meets six times
a year to vote on accreditation and is constantly updating their standards. Their
mission statement sets out
their goal to “assure quality
health professions education
to serve the public interest.”
Dr. Donald Lyle, Chairman
of the Department of Physical Education and Athletics,
attributed the accreditation
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Life
E!
Perspectives
Sports
Local bed and breakfast
caters to campus crowds.
Page 4
The longtime rivalry
between DC and Marvel
spills into TV.
Page 5
Dr. Dan Brown weighs in on
the Yik Yak controversy.
Page 9
Men’s and women’s golf
score big in the PAC
championships.
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The Collegian
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Alumni receive
achievement awards
World News
Roundup
Two honored for excellence
Taylor Lennox
Oct. 10, 2014
Staff Writer
Compiled by Zack Voell
The College honored two
alumni this past weekend
with the 2014 Jack Kennedy
Memorial Alumni Achievement Award on the award’s
50th anniversary.
During the Homecoming celebrations on Friday,
Oct. 3, the two alumni were
recognized as having made
significant contributions in
their career fields and to society as a whole.
Robert W. Wickerham ’66
studied business adminis- Jeffrey L. Gregg (left) and Robert W. Wickerham (right)
tration and management at recieved the 2014 Jack Kennedy Memorial Alumni
Grove City College. Wicker- Achievement Award.
ham served in the Army ReThe second alumnus to Sperry Topsider, Tommy Baserves and achieved the rank
of captain before becoming receive the Jack Kennedy hama and Zoo York.
involved in the steel indus- Award was Jeffrey L. Gregg
“Robert W. Wickerham
try. Throughout his career, ’85. He is currently the CEO and Jeffrey L. Gregg have
he successfully ran three of The Collective and chief represented Grove City Colrestructuring officer of MEE lege with great honor and
steel companies.
Wickerham began in the Apparel and MEE Direct. distinction over their cabusiness by working dur- The Collective is a leading
reers and lifetimes. They are
ing the summer in the Open business in the youth-culture
amazing people and we’re
Hearth Labor Gang at Jones branded apparel and acces& Laughlin, a Pittsburgh- sories market. MEE oper- thrilled to present them with
based steel company. He ates the retail and wholesale the Jack Kennedy Memorial
started his first company, Al- business for the brands Mark Alumni Achievement Awards
in this golden anniversary
legheny Steel Distributors, a Ecko and Ecko Unlimited.
While at the College, Gregg year,” Melissa A. (Trifaro
steel brokerage firm, out of
in
accounting. ’96) MacLeod, Senior Direchis home in the early 1970s. majored
It grew into a multi-million Throughout his career he tor of Alumni and College
dollar company with facili- has served at top positions in Relations, said.
ties in both Pittsburgh and some of the world’s top comThe Alumni Achievement
panies. He began his career Award was first given in
Youngstown.
Next, Wickerham estab- at KPMG, an accounting and 1964 and was later renamed
lished Precision Metal Pro- consulting firm. Gregg has in honor and memory of
cessors in Louisville, Ken- filled roles such as chief opJack Kennedy ’37. Kennedy
tucky during the mid-1990s. erating officer, chief financial
served as the longtime DirecHe received an offer from officer, executive vice presitor of Alumni Relations and
Reliance Steel and Alumi- dent and president at companum for the business, which nies including Dixie Group, Career Services and “had an
he ran until his retirement Riddell Bell Holdings and indelible impact on the lives
in 2002. Wickerham also Geneva Watch Group. He and futures of thousands of
founded a third company, has also been involved in the Grove City College graduYoungstown Steel Storage, manufacturing and licensing ates,” according to a press rewhich he sold after five years. of brands like Kenneth Cole, lease from the College.
VP Biden apologizes
for telling truth about ISIL
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to the efforts of former Associate Chair Dr. Allison
Williams as well as those of
the Exercise Science faculty
and College administration.
“We are very pleased to have
earned accreditation for our
Exercise Science program,
our students and the department,” Lyle said.
This accreditation will as-
CAMPAIGN
community that has a place
in media as well as on campus. “We hope to get all of
our alumni, current students,
employees and prospective
students to like our page so
we can engage with them,”
she said.
Social media has become
a target of interaction and
community among many educational institutions. Most
sure potential students that
the College’s program meets
the national standards set by
the CAAHEP, the CoAES, the
American College of Sports
Medicine, the American Kinesiotherapy
Association,
the National Academy of
Sports Medicine, the American Council on Exercise, the
Cooper Institute and the National Council on Strength &
Fitness.
Initial accreditation lasts
three to five years, after
which the CAAHEP will decide on whether or not to
award the College’s program
continuing
accreditation.
Once continuing accreditation is awarded, the program
will be subject to a review by
the Commission every ten
years and will remain accredited unless the CAAHEP
votes otherwise.
universities and colleges
nationwide have an official
Facebook page, and many
colleges have several unofficial pages. Examples of such
unofficial pages at Grove City
College include Overheard at
GCC, Grove Compliments,
and a page for each graduating class which develops during the summer before that
class arrives on campus. For
many students, these pages
are a way for them to connect
with the student body, as
well as with alumni and faculty, in order to feel a deeper
sense of community during
their time here on campus.
Westminster College’s staff
hopes to further engage their
campus community by creating this campaign, through
which they plan to reach
past, present and future students. So far, the Westminster College page has gained
765 likes since the beginning
of the campaign.
Weekly Update
SGA has chosen to aid in
sponsoring the AO Glow on Friday, October 10th . The dance
will be held on the Lincoln
Lawn and is the first dance of
its kind held here at the college. Students are asked to
wear white, come prepared to
be covered in non-toxic glow
paint, and to dance like there’s
no one watching. The admission for the dance is $1 and
half of all proceeds will go to
the YMCA organization of Grove
City, PA.
This past week SGA
launched a Facebook page,
Humans of Grove City, that
highlights individual students
or faculty through a single picture and caption. A new highlight is posted every 2-3 days.
Students are encouraged to
‘like’ the new page.
Vice President Joe Biden
has apologized for telling
the truth.
In a press conference,
Biden answered in the negative when asked if the US
should have acted sooner
to counter ISIL. His reasoning?
“My constant cry was that
our biggest problem is our
allies – our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” the VP insisted. Biden notes that Middle
Eastern nations were so eager to take down Assad that
they funded whoever would
fight against him – including extremist groups like al
Nusra and al Qaeda.
Biden is now saying he
did not mean what he said
about America’s problematic Sunni allies.
ISIL gains new allies
The Pakistani Taliban,
along with other extremist
groups including Jund alKhalifah and Boko Haram,
has pledged to send fighters
to support ISIL, which continues to expand its control
and influence in the Middle
East.
In a statement, the Pakistani Taliban assured ISIL
that, “We are with you.
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In past years, the AOs
hosted a dance called the
Sweaty D, which was held
on their hall but bears some
semblance to AO Glow in
that it took place in an enclosed space and prominently featured black lights.
The last Sweaty D was held
in 2011, after which, according to Eberly, it was banned
as a fire code violation and
for violation of community
standards.
The AOs lost their charter
soon after, regaining it during the 2012-13 academic
year, Eberly’s sophomore
year. Between the banning of
the Sweaty D and the loss of
their charter, Eberly said that
the current AOs feel a need
ELEVATOR
qualifying round and a final
round.
The initial round will take
place Thursday, Oct. 23 at
2:30 p.m. Grove City College
faculty from several different
departments will judge this
first round and pick the top
10 pitches in each of the two
categories – commercial and
social – that will move onto
the next round.
The final round will take
place soon after the initial
round. This round will be
judged by outside businesspeople from the Grove City
community.
The judges of the final
round will pick the top three
pitches from each section.
Third place will receive
$300, second place $400,
and first place $500.
Both rounds will be judged
on criteria including the
magnitude of the problem
that the organization is try-
We will provide you with
mujahedeen [holy warriors]
and with every possible support.”
Navy debuts self-guided,
unmanned boats
Self-guided
unmanned
patrol boats could join the
Navy’s fleet within a year,
according to Department of
Defense officials.
These boats can decide attack movements for themselves once they are alerted
to a threat. The purpose of
the technology is to protect
sailors while the self-guided
boats “deter, damage or destroy” enemy vessels, Navy
spokespersons said.
U.S. takes asteroid threat
seriously
The United States is taking decisive action to protect the Earth against killer
asteroids.
Nuclear warheads that
were previously marked for
destruction next year have
been put into reserve storage instead, according to
the Government Accountability Office’s report on the
National Nuclear Security
Administration.
However, according to the
National Research Council,
the Earth is safe from seriously dangerous asteroids
for at least the next hundred
years.
to reestablish themselves on
campus.
“As seniors in the group,
we’ve never really experienced an event that we could
put our name on,” Eberly
said, adding that he hopes
the AO Glow will become
associated with his housing
group in the same way that
the Extravaganza is associated with the Tri-Rho housing group.
Due to the costs associated with the event, which
is sponsored by SGA and approved by Student Life and
Learning, there will be an
admission charge of $1 with
half the proceeds going to the
YMCA.
There will also be a table
outside the tent taking donations in addition to the entry
fee.
ing to solve, the group’s ability to implement their pitch,
who would benefit from this
organization and the uniqueness of the idea.
“The changes in this year’s
competition will give our students the opportunity to refine their pitches as some of
them will be presenting twice
to two different judging panels. In addition, adding places and more prize money will
further fuel the competitive
spirit of the event,” English
said.
Registration is free and
ends today, Friday, October
10 at 5 p.m. The competition
is open to all students, and
the Center for Entrepreneurship expressed hope that a
variety of students will compete.
For more information
about the Elevator Pitch
Competition and other Grove
City College entrepreneurship events, visit www.gccentrepreneurship.com
Life
Oct. 10, 2014
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An apple
a day...
Hospitality and fun for all ages
at Emmett’s Orchard
Emily Bartlow
Staff Writer
Imagine for a moment, a
glass of freshly pressed cider,
your chilled hands holding
a warmly glazed fritter and
the aroma of homemade pie
warming the crisp fall air.
What is it about this blissfully autumnal scene that
causes our senses to soar and
taste buds to sing?
For Emmett’s Orchard,
the harvest season wouldn’t
be complete without the fragrant and flavorful fall fruit,
apples.
Located in Grove City, a
mere 10 minute drive from
the College, Emmett’s Orchard not only boasts a
plentiful array of apple confections, but also acts as an
autumn escape from the rigors of studies.
After visiting the Orchard
with her hall, junior Ryan
Braumann stated, “It was a
great stress relief for the beginning of the semester. I really enjoyed it.”
Tucked away down a
charming country road, the
expansive Emmett property
is home to nearly 550 fruit
trees, including the Honeycrisp, Gala and McIntosh varieties as well as peaches.
Visitors are welcomed with
free apple cider and apple
cookie samples, which can be
enjoyed while touring the orchard’s trees.
Though apples are not
available for public harvesting, Emmett’s Orchard does
sell bags of their prized fruit
in their gift shop, also filled
with fall décor and locally
handcrafted goods.
Guests also may feast on a
variety of confections sold in
the gift shop, including apple
fritters and pies, pumpkin
molasses muffins, cheesecakes and caramel apples, all
made in-house daily.
The farm’s cider mill
blends freshly harvested apples and spices to produce
gallons of unpasteurized apple cider a day, also available
in the gift shop for their visitors’ delight.
Housed in the Emmett
barn, goats, piglets,and bunnies – along with other farm
animals – may also be held
by guests.
Upon visiting Emmett’s
Orchard,
junior
Kaitlin
Bartlett loved interacting
with the animals.
“Petting the goats and getting free samples of apple
butter was the best,” Bartlett
said. “I can’t wait to go back.”
Founded in 1997 by Joe
and Rachelle Emmett, the
Orchard originated from
the young couple’s dream of
cultivating and sharing the
fruits of the land God had
richly given them.
They have been blessed
with a blossoming family
who help with the care of the
PHOTOS COURTESY EMMETT’S ORCHARD
Workers sort apples and perform various tasks around the orchard.
farm and are more than happy to answer any questions
concerning the apples or
even their favorite animals.
Emmett’s Orchard will
also be hosting a Fritter Fest
on October 18th from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Sal’s Pizzeria offers great
food at a low price
Participants will be treated
with fresh apple cider and
hot apple fritters, as well as
other fall activities.
A century
of news
Abbey Henshaw
Contributing Writer
“This ain’t Burger King.
You don’t get it your way; you
get it my way or you don’t get
a damn thing.”
Even with this sassy motto
spelled out on the menu, Sal’s
New York Pizzeria, located in
the South Side of Pittsburgh,
has no problem getting regular business.
The paint on the walls immediately identifies Sal’s Pizza as an Italian restaurant: a
cream color from the ceiling
to waist-level, a foot-wide
streak of brick red underneath, followed by a bold forest green to the dusty floor.
Toward the back of the
room are some small tables,
above which are decorated
paper plates on the walls.
These plates are white serving plates with penned
sketches, names and thankyou notes written by customers who have been there before.
This was the most unique
aspect of the shop and it added a personal touch.
At the front of the store below the menu and a display
of various New York Style
pizza pies stood two men
who quickly identified new
customers and flicked the desired pizza slices into an oven
to heat up.
Within moments, the pizza was ready to be served
and money was quickly exchanged.
Four large pieces of barbeque chicken pizza, Margarita pizza, and cheese pizza
Breanna Renkin
However, unlike Sammy,
hopefully you receive better
than a D on your exams.
Staff Writer
Even if you have not already started taking your
midterm exams, you have
probably already started
stressing over them.
The tests at Grove City
College are difficult, and
staying up all night to cram
for a test at 8 a.m. the next
morning only adds to a college student’s already high
level of stress.
However, we are not alone
in feeling overwhelmed by
midterms looming ahead
in the not so distant future.
Students at Grove City College in the 1940s faced the
same text anxiety, as shown
in the “Sammy Says” article
in the Jan. 10, 1940 issue of
the Collegian.
PHOTOS COURTESY ABBEY HENSHAW
Drawings like the one pictured above, “I definitely want the Meat
Lover’s Special,” decorate the restaurant.
cost only 13 dollars.
Senior Rebecca Price said,
“I am used to good New York
Style pizza, but it doesn’t
usually have spinach on it. I
liked that … it still reminded
me of home.”
Labeled as casual dining,
this restaurant has a shelf by
the door so customers could
quickly eat their pizza and
get back out onto the busy
life of Carson Street.
Open from 11 a.m. to 4
a.m. Monday through Thursday and an additional hour
Friday and Saturday, it is
exactly what the 18-26-yearold party crowd is looking
for as they pause to consume
some carbs.
At home in Pittsburgh,
Sal’s Pizza certainly is no
Burger King. But it doesn’t
have to be, because the customers like it that way.
“Sammy Says”
I think that I shall never see
Exams to suit the likes of
me.
Exams
whose
hungry
mouths are prest
To gobble up my evenings’
rest;
Exams that stare at me all
week
While I, at my crib, prepare
to peek;
Exams that may in winter
wear
Upon a mind that isn’t
there;
D’s are made by fools like
me
Because of tests at G. C. C.
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Oct. 10, 2014
Terra Nova House
TERRANOVAHOUSE.COM
The hot spot for campus visits
Liesl McClintock
Staff Writer
Ryan Mercer does not fit
the stereotypical image of a
businessman.
Instead of wearing a suit,
he wears T-shirts, khaki
shorts and sandals. He cleans
a house day in and day out.
He makes delicious breakfasts every morning, but he
must be doing something
right – his bed and breakfast
is booked solid for the next
four years for Grove City College’s homecoming weekends.
Mercer owns the Terra
Nova House Bed & Breakfast
located at 322 West Poplar
Street in Grove City. Mercer
said that he has 21 people
booked and seven people on
the waiting list for move-in
day next year.
He has six people on the
waiting list for Homecoming
2015, 12 people waiting for
2016 graduation, four people
booked for 2017 graduation,
13 people booked for 2018
graduation, and even two
people booked for 2019 Parent’s Weekend and graduation.
Mercer told a humorous story of a woman who
wanted to book rooms with
him for the next 12 years.
She has one child already at
the College and plans to send
her two younger children to
Grove City College as well.
She loved the Terra Nova
House so much that she
wanted Mercer to book her
through till 2026 graduation,
when her youngest son will
potentially graduate.
Mercer had to explain to
the woman that, unfortunately, he does not book that
far in advance.
Under Mercer’s leadership, the Terra Nova house
has won the Allied News
Reader’s Choice Award for
the Best of the Best Bed and
Breakfast Accommodations
in both 2012 and 2013.
The House has also received The TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence in 2013
and 2014.
What has led to this man’s
incredible success?
Mercer said that ever since
they were married, he and
his wife, Molly, had always
wanted to own a bed and
breakfast. They had always
imagined that they would
have one of their own after
retiring.
Mercer said that God had
other plans in mind though.
Mercer had been working
as an IT technician and really enjoyed his work but realized that it was taking over
his life.
He said that he was on call
for work so much that he was
feeling “phantom phone vibrations” on his leg.
He and his wife searched
for a solution to the problem
for a while, but did not find
anything that worked for
them.
Then one night Mercer
said that he heard God tell
him “Grove City.”
He immediately told his
wife, who said that it would
be the perfect place because
she worked at Slippery Rock.
With a little searching they
found the Terra Nova House,
bought the house the day after they viewed it, and moved
out of their own house two
weeks later.
Mercer seems to have been
born to run a bed and breakfast. He welcomes everyone
into the Terra Nova House
and offers them a snack and
a cold drink.
He talks and engages with
people without being overbearing.
Mercer inspects every one
of the rooms himself. He gets
up at 5:30 a.m. and usually is
not in bed till 11:30 p.m. or
12:00 a.m.
He has an alarm set on his
phone to go off every hour
every day so that he remembers to do laundry.
With all the guests that
come through the Terra Nova
House, he says that he makes
over 2,000 breakfasts a year.
And people have noticed
his hard work. One online reviewer said, “Innkeeper Ryan
Mercer pulls out all the stops
to make this B&B in a class of
its own.
From seamless reservations, good communication,
personal & professional service, there is really nothing I
can find to fault Terra Nova
House B&B.”
For Mercer, the best part
of running the Terra Nova
House is all the interesting
people that he meets.
He said that he has had a
worker from Area 51, a bor-
American Muslims in the voting booth
Haley Monts
Contributing Writer
Amidst the recent atrocities committed by ISIL and
the ongoing threats of alQaeda and other extremist
groups, Texas Tech Political
Science chair Dr. Dennis Patterson spoke on campus on
Tuesday, Oct. 7 to give voice
to the oft-marginalized Muslim-American perspective.
His lecture provided a
brief statistical overview of
the Muslim community’s
self-image, political beliefs
and changing identity within
American society. Breaking
down the political genome of
the Muslim-American population, Patterson analyzed
the demographic’s evolving
partisan ties in a post-9/11
era.
Referencing his studies
on the voting Muslim population across the 2000 and
2004 presidential elections,
Patterson pointed out that
the group has been shifting
its focus away from social
conservatism toward foreign
isolationism. Though the
Muslim community is considered largely moderate,
their votes reflected a Democratic preference, as Kerry
had a less invasive MiddleEast policy compared to
the then-incumbent Bush.
Similarly, Patterson’s polling
showed an increasing feeling
of oppression and stigmatization within the community: a staggering 90 percent of
Muslim-Americans said they
experienced mistreatment
and/or civil rights abuses in
the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The modern political ramifications, Patterson argued,
are immediately obvious, as
these leanings require candidates to offer softer foreign
policies and less suspicious
domestic initiatives in order
to win Islamic voters. However, as Patterson pointed
out, these demands seem
almost incompatible with
the increasing prominence
of ISIL. Between the terrorist organization’s unfettered
military progress and internationalized recruitment, the
group is actively undercutting the desires of MuslimAmericans by forcing politicians to take more aggressive
action.
Former CIA director and
Patterson himself plans on
expanding his research with
a new poll in 2015 that will
account for Muslim-American opinions on ISIL and
their changing community
identity.
The modern political ramifications are immediately obvious, as these leanings require candidates to offer softer foreign policies and less
suspicious domestic initiatives in order to win
Islamic voters.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta addressed this issue
directly in a recent interview
with USA Today, in which he
condemned President Barack
Obama’s failure to adopt
or enforce hardline foreign
policies in the Middle East,
thereby allowing extremist
groups like ISIL to rise unopposed. The overarching implication, Patterson argued,
is that the Muslim-American
agenda is irreconcilable with
current US responsibilities.
While Patterson doesn’t
adhere to the notion of multiculturalism, he stressed the
importance of cross-cultural
interaction and remains optimistic about the results of
his next study.
The point of his studies,
he reiterated, was not to homogenize a demographic or
support social divisions, but
to promote political insight
and social understanding.
der patrol officer from Arizona, and Jessica Goldman,
a woman who ran across the
country, stay at his bed and
breakfast.
As Mercer said, “You never
know who is going to come
through that door.”
However, Mercer attributes he great success to
the owners that came before
him. He says that the previous owners had such great
relationships with the town
that he has not had to advertise much at all.
He has, however, added
some amenities, such as
complementary snacks and
drinks and the recently renovated third floor, changes
that he believes have attracted more business.
“If I’m not fully booked on
a weekend I’m scratching my
head,” he said.
Red Box
accepting
applications
Collegian Staff
Red Box Missions is now
accepting applications to
volunteer for the summer of
2015.
Each year, the program
sends up to eight Grove City
College students to work
in mission fields around
the world for the summer.
Most recently, students have
served in places like Mozambique, Latvia and Nicaragua.
Full-time sophomores and
juniors who will be living on
campus during the academic
year following their service
in the program are eligible.
Applicants must submit the
application and two letters of
recommendation by Oct. 24.
Interviews will then be held
prior to Thanksgiving break.
Application materials can
be found at www.gcc.edu/
redbox.
Entertainment
Oct. 10, 2014
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Marvel vs. DC
The battle for TV supremacy rages on
Ryan Brown
Contributing Writer
Marvel
Entertainment
dominates DC Entertainment at the movies.
Christopher Nolan’s recent
Batman trilogy held more
than its own, but Marvel’s
“The Avengers” broke records, and “Guardians of the
Galaxy” had but one summer box-office peer. Every
movie Marvel touches turns
into gold, while DC limps
along with films like the critically panned “Man of Steel”
and “Green Lantern.” DC is
struggling to take back some
of that market with the upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” but
with Marvel’s head start it
seems like a long shot.
The one place where this
trend is reversed is television. DC has had the lead
over Marvel for quite some
time on TV. DC’s “Smallville”
was an incredibly popular
show over other superhero
media. Once the modern superhero trend began, DC beat
Marvel to the punch by filling the hole that “Smallville”
left with “Arrow” on the CW.
Marvel’s only show, “Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D,” aired on
ABC a full year later. Now DC
is doing everything in their
power to increase their lead.
On Sept. 22 the first episode
of DC’s “Gotham” on Fox
drew 8.2 million viewers.
ABC’s premiere of season
two of “S.H.I.E.L.D” brought
in a paltry 5.98 million viewers. That is less than half of
“S.H.I.E.L.D”’s season one
debut. DC is following that
initial punch from Gotham
with three other fall shows:
“The Flash,” “Arrow” and
“Constantine.” By the end of
this month, DC will have a
show every Thursday night,
and Marvel will have a critical success with lukewarm
public reception.
However, Marvel is planning on fighting back. This
January they will be releasing a second show on ABC
called “Agent Carter.” It is
to be set in the aftermath of
World War II. “Agent Carter”
will follow the eponymous
secret agent as she founds
S.H.I.E.L.D. and copes with
the loss of Captain America,
her love interest in Marvel’s
“Captain America: First
Avenger” film. Marvel will
also be releasing a Netflix
only show based on their
character Daredevil in 2015.
Daredevil is the first of 5
planned mini-series that will
be produced as Netflix exclusive shows in the vein of
“House of Cards” or the final
season of “Arrested Development.”
While Marvel’s shows and
films all occur in the same
world and liberally cross
over with one another, DC’s
shows are self-contained
with the exception of Arrow and The Flash. Both
strategies present their own
advantages and disadvantages. For example, “Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D.” masterfully
continued from where “Captain America: The Winter
Soldier” left off, giving more
depth to that story, but leaving those who had not seen
the film feeling lost. There is
no risk of that for those who
watch “Gotham.”
“Gotham” follows detective James Gordon (Ben
McKenzie) as he tries to do
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good from within the absurdly corrupt Gotham Police Department. In Gotham,
beating an innocent suspect
to get him to confess, taking
payoffs from local businesses
and carrying out executions
for the mob is just day to
day business for the police.
James Gordon’s partner,
the jaded and corrupt Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue),
is seen doing most of these
things. While the portrayal
of the corrupt police system
is exaggerated, it is a breath
of fresh air to have only one
straight arrow cop instead
of the standard angelic force
with a corrupt cop or two.
The city of the show feels
dirty and crime ridden, with
the sets evoking imagery of
cities like Chicago and Detroit. The atmosphere the
show presents is not as dark
as it sounds, as it is brightened by the presence of colorful characters. Camren
Bicondova looks like a cat in
her role as Catwoman. Some
of the well-known villains
– The Penguin, Riddler and
Poison Ivy – make appearances in the first episode.
Nearly every character is
ripped straight from either
DC’s much lauded comic
series “Gotham Central” or
from the comic book arc
“Batman: Year One.” The
cold and calculating crime
boss of Gotham, Carmine
Falcone (John Doman), is
a wonderful villain who despite his ruthlessness sometimes seems like a nicer guy
than Bullock. The producers
of this show, including Bruno
Heller (of mentalist fame),
brought a wonderful feel and
great directing.
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Practice makes perfect
Fall orchestra concert tonight features guest conductor
Jacob Sziráky
Entertainment Editor
If one had walked through the foyer
or hallways of the Pew Fine Arts Center during the past few weeks, they
would have been treated to a wave of
majestic beauty emanating throughout the building, as the Grove City
College Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra have been practicing for their
Fall concert.
The orchestra groups have been
working very hard for several weeks
to ensure they will give a wonderful
performance. “We have had 12 rehearsals and lots of individual practice time,” says Jeffrey Tedford ’00,
Instructor of Music and Fine Arts
and Director of Orchestral Activieties
“A basic rehearsal we have an hour
and a half, two times a week,” Tedford said. “The last week or two we
put everything together and we run
through pieces in preparation to the
concert.”
The 2014-2015 Orchestra is the
largest orchestra the college has had
in the past ten years. However, what
helps make this particular group so
remarkable is that they are not all
music majors. “We have 30 different
majors represented in the orchestra.”
said Tedford. The students in the
orchestra are obviously very proud
of what they do and strive to give
a fantastic performance. Students
will even get together in groups to
rehearse outside of their scheduled
practice time.
Tedford will be serving as conductor for most of the show, however
he will not be the only one with the
honor this particular concert. Jeff
Lippencott, a Hollywood composer,
who is responsible for the music on
such shows as “The Apprentice,”
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and
the “The Biggest Loser” is coming to
guest conduct. “‘Viam Dei’ is one of
his symphonic pieces not used for
television.” said Tedford. Lippencott
will be conducting the orchestra as
they play his work.
This year serves as the bicentennial anniversary of “The Star-Spangled
Banner.” The orchestra will honor the
song by playing it as the show’s opening piece. “I’m excited about that be-
cause I’m proud to be an American,”
said Tedford.
Despite the anniversary of our
national anthem and the guest conducting of Jeff Lippencott, Tedford
expects the fan favorite will be the
final number. “The piece most people
in the audience may be excited about
is the last piece, Samson and Delila,
which is from an opera based on the
biblical story of Samson,” Tedford
said.
The concert will be held tonight,
October 10th, in Ketler Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m. Be sure to come out and
enjoy an evening of such ethereal
beauty that only an orchestra can
provide.
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Through the Lens
Oct. 10, 2014
Homecoming Parade
In spite of rain and sleet, this year’s Homecoming Parade featured
a variety of colorful movie-themed floats created by Grove City College’s fraternities and sororities as well as appearances by the various reunion classes and performances by the GCC and Grove City
High School Marching Bands.
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Oct. 10, 2014
Pick
of
the
Week
Hesitant Alien
Claire McCray
WSAJ Contributor
‘Three Colors: Blue’
Ryan Hampton
CINAPSE.COM
Classic with continued appeal
Contributing Writer
Widely hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1993,
French-language film “Three
Colors: Blue” is the first and
best entry in Polish director
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s deeply psychological “Three Colors” trilogy.
Beautifully filmed and anchored by a career-defining
performance from Juliette
Binoche, “Blue” tells the
story of Julie (Binoche), a
composer’s wife who survives a car crash that kills
her husband and child. Julie contemplates suicide, but
ultimately decides to begin a
new life after attempting to
purge all memory of her old
one. However, the process of
leaving her old life behind is
complicated by the revelation of her late husband’s extramarital affair, and Julie’s
burgeoning affection for Olivier (Benoît Régent), a composer and family friend.
Throughout his career,
Kieślowski produced a number of works remarkable for
their thoughtful and compelling portrayal of the human
psyche. “Blue” is the foremost example of its director’s
psychological perspicacity,
a quality it conveys without
resort to lengthy sequences
of dialogue. Indeed, Binoche
manages to fully convey the
full breadth of Julie’s grieving process through her enigmatic, yet captivating, screen
presence and subtle facial
expressions.
Throughout
the film, she proves a per-
fect match for Kieślowski’s
meditative and true-to-life
cinematic style.
At the same time, one of
Kieślowski’s finest traits as a
director is his ability to seamlessly inject compassion and
redemption into melancholy
stories. For her part, Binoche
lends Julie an aura of numbness and detachment which
is nevertheless paired with
kindness and a charitable
inclination through which
she begins to find comfort
and meaning. The movie’s
sweetest moments are those
in which Julie decides, rather than harboring feelings of
jealousy or spite, to use her
husband’s wealth to ensure
that his mistress and illegitimate child are cared for.
More than any other, this sequence instills “Blue” with a
sublime sense of redemption
and deeper meaning that has
led to its enduring status as a
modern classic.
Ultimately, “Three Colors:
Blue” is a thoughtful and
sensitive film that serves as a
tremendous showcase for its
gifted director and magnetic
star. It is likely to appeal to
thoughtful and mature audiences attuned to the film’s
psychological nuances and
to film connoisseurs who will
appreciate its impeccable
cinematography. Together
with his Polish-language
mini-series “The Decalogue”,
“Blue” is the foremost example of Kieslowski’s artistic
genius and remains one of
the finest cinematic achievements of the 1990s. The film
is available to view on YouTube.
‘I Am the Messenger’
YA novel with wide appeal
Carrie Howe
Contributing Writer
“I Am the Messenger,” by
Marcus Zusak, is cleverly
written with realistic characters and a heart-wrenching
plot. It opens the eyes of the
reader to the needs of those
around them, and shows that
a small gesture of kindness
can go a long way.
Ed Kennedy is average in
every sense of the word. He
is a 19-year-old cab driver
who is hopelessly in love
with his best friend Audrey
and unusually attached to
his atrocious-smelling, coffee-drinking dog, named The
Doorman. His life has come
to a halt, and does not seem
to be going anywhere anytime soon. He has come to
terms with the fact that he
will probably remain in this
state of mediocrity for the
rest of his life. It is not until
he inadvertently stops a bank
robbery that his stagnant life
is interrupted and becomes
interesting.
He assumes his life will
return to normal after his 15
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Despite everything great
about ‘Gotham,’ ‘Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D’ is undoubtedly
more tightly scripted and
has better acting. The second
season brings a menace and
purpose that the first season
did not. Every character feels
like they are really struggling
with their demons. Leo Fitz,
the team’s brilliant scientist,
is dealing with brain damage
that he suffered at the end
minutes of fame for his accidental heroic deeds are up.
He could not have been more
wrong. It is shortly after the
excitement of the robbery
dies down that Kennedy receives the first ace playing
card in the mail, jolting him
out of his comfortable routine.
Each ace Kennedy receives has a clue written on
it. The clues come in different forms, like an address,
phrase or movie reference,
but each leads him to a person in need. Kennedy solves
the riddles and fulfills the
needs one by one, without
the slightest idea of who is
instructing him to do so.
His tasks range from simple, like buying an ice cream
cone for a lonely woman, to
terrifying, like when he was
ordered to kill an abusive
husband in order to save his
helpless wife and child. The
completion of some tasks is
triumphant, including one
in which he filled the congregation of a church to
lift the spirits of its priest,
while some are heartwarm-
ing, such as when Kennedy
befriends an elderly woman
who mistakes him for her
husband who died decades
earlier.
As Kennedy completes his
missions, his role shifts from
“messenger” to “message”
as he learns valuable things
about his friends, his family
and himself while having a
remarkable impact on those
he is called to help.
The reader, too, gets to
know Kennedy on a personal
level, as he is an extremely
relatable character. His sar-
castic personality and utter
lack of sophistication make
Kennedy’s journey memorable and entertaining, and
teaches us that you don’t
have to be rich or powerful
to make the world a better
place.
Although “I Am the Messenger” is classified as a
young adult novel, readers
of all ages will be swept away
by the captivating story, and
will be inspired by the valuable lessons the story holds.
of last season. Phil Coulson
(Clark Gregg), newly appointed director of S.H.I.E.L.D,
has so much responsibility
on his plate that his stress is
tangible. Skye’s (Chloe Bennet) primary love interest
from last season, Grant Ward
(Brett Dalton), betrayed the
team and is now locked up.
The fact that the S.H.I.E.L.D
organization is largely dismantled – and considered a
terrorist organization – lends
a credible threat to the previously indefatigable team.
The premiere’s villain – The
Absorbing Man – had some
well-crafted special effects
devoted to him.
The pilot for “Arrow”’s spin
off, “The Flash” is campy.
The costumes are poorly designed, the acting is bad and
the plot is uninteresting. Bad
guys are given powers and a
good guy must stop them; it
is uninspired.
But if you want to try
something really different
from ordinary superhero
fare, “Constantine” is probably worth watching when
it premieres on Oct. 24. The
title character, John Constantine, is a misanthropic
con man who dabbles in a bit
of magic and constantly gets
dragged into occult mysteries. It is likely to be the darkest television show based on
a comic book yet.
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There is nothing worse
than a beloved band
breaking up.
When My Chemical Romance officially disbanded in 2013, then officially
released their greatest hits
album, “May Death Never
Stop You,” it seemed the
end was certain for the influential pop punk band.
However, out from the
ashes rose anticipated
solo projects, with former
My Chemical Romance
lead singer Gerard Way’s
project gaining special
attention. Known for his
creative concept album
ideas, specifically “Danger Days: The True Lives
of the Fabulous Killjoys,”
Way’s debut solo album
“Hesitant Alien” is no exception. It draws deeply
from Brit-pop influences
with hints of shoegaze to
form incredibly unique
tracks that are a breath of
fresh air in a music environment where everyone
seems to be playing “follow the leader.”
Before the music even
begins to play, the nods
to 70s glam rock are striking, with the album cover
bearing a resemblance
to David Bowie’s iconic
“Heroes” album art. The
opening track, “Bureau,”
oozes Bowie-glam influence mixed with the fuzz
qualities of shoegaze. “Action Cat,” the debut single
for the album, asks listeners over a fast-paced and
gritty guitar line “And
don’t ask a lot / And you
won’t lose a lot / Don’t ask
for much” and “Do you
miss me? ‘Cause I miss
you” specifically stating
to past fans that this new
project is different and
to not reject it outright.
“Brother” is a slower track
compared to the ones that
come before it, opening
with a simple piano accompaniment, but later
bursting forth with anthemic qualities full of frolicking Brit-pop rhythms.
Reinvention is expected
and appreciated, especially after an artist has been
profiled in a niche genre
for so long. While the lyrics of “Hesitant Alien”
may not be as poignant
as those from his My
Chemical Romance days,
they do not necessarily
have to be. My Chemical
Romance was all about
dramatic gestures; “Hesitant Alien” is a personal
journey through a fresh
reincarnation of glam
rock for the modern era.
Full of swaggering guitarcentered riffs, buzzing
chorus fills, and, at times,
downright jubilant vocals, “Hesitant Alien” is
an invigorating journey.
For diehard My Chemical
Romance fans, “Hesitant
Alien” is an appropriate
next step and completes
the journey for those who
have grown up with the
band and followed them
through all their musical
phases. Gerard Way takes
the glimmers of color first
found in My Chemical Romance’s “Danger Days”
and takes them dramatically to the next level, providing a vibrant change of
scenery.
Perspectives
Yik Yak: A lot of talk
about something
Oct. 10, 2014
Dr. Daniel Brown
Professor of Communication
Studies
Dr. Brown is professor of
communication studies. He
teaches Media Law and Ethics each spring semester. Social Presence Theory instructs us that if we cannot
see the Other’s face, hear her
voice or sense his presence,
we tend use language that is
less filtered.
We lie, we conceal, we
exaggerate, we bully or we
share intimate details of our
own lives that we wouldn’t
discuss with our best of
friends.
The Grove City College
community has begun an interesting and insightful conversation about Yik Yak, the
smart phone app.
In doing so, we are dialoging about communication
ethics.
The Collegian staff should
be proud of the role they have
taken bringing this issue to
the attention of the campus
and fostering the conversation.
Yik Yak is one of the most
fascinating social media applications to launch in the
last year.
You’ve been reading about
Yik Yak in the pages of the
Collegian over the past three
weeks. Perhaps you are even
using Yik Yak.
Not only does Yik Yak allow you to post, read and
“up-vote” or “down-vote”
your campus’ entries anonymously, it also allows you to
“peek” in on the conversations of other campuses both
Christian and secular. It is
quite an education.
Our campus, we now
know, is not all that different
from other campuses in our
anonymous moments.
While the College leadership is not obligated to do so,
it is well within its responsibilities to its students, staff
and faculty to provide a safe
and comfortable learning
environment.
Blocking Yik Yak on College networks will not halt
the unwanted speech, but it
sure will send the right message.
I am a free speech advocate and scholar; I believe
firmly in First Amendment
rights.
The flip side of having this
freedom is the responsibility that comes with the wise
and not-so-wise decisions we
make in our communication.
There is speech of a certain
quality that is not protected
by the First Amendment.
Libel is illegal, for example.
Advertising unlawful goods
or activities is illegal. Obscenity is illegal.
The use of “fighting words”
is typically not protected
by the First Amendment if
it intentionally, knowingly
or recklessly inflicts severe
emotional distress. People
go to jail when they engage
in unlawful, unprotected
speech.
Yik Yak does not have a
stellar reputation. Some of
the speech is certainly unlawful and unprotected.
In other jurisdictions,
school shooting threats and
bomb threats are communicated by means of Yik Yak.
And it’s all anonymous. The
source cannot be tracked.
So vicious are some of the
verbal, online comments, according to the Chicago Tribune, Yik Yak was disabled
in the city of Chicago while
parents and school administrators decided how to deal
with the threats, bullying and
mean-spiritedness expressed
in the public schools.
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow
is not exaggerating when he
called Yik Yak the “the most
dangerous form of social media I’ve ever seen.”
Late last month, Vermont’s Norwich University
You do not, for example, have the right to
promote a political candidate at 3 a.m. in
my residential neighborhood by using a
sound-truck equipped with bull-horns. You
have freedom of speech, especially political
speech, but you don’t have it at this time, in
this place or in this manner.
took action and blocked Yik
Yak from its campus Wi-Fi
network.
Students can surely still
access the app through telephone company networks,
but the University did its due
diligence in blocking the content.
There is wisdom making a
good-faith effort to block Yik
Yak on campus networks, including our own. “But wait,”
you ask, “What happened to
the free speech advocate who
is writing this essay?” I am
still here.
Recall, however, our discussion of types of unprotected speech: these are speech
acts that do not carry First
Amendment protection.
Among these types of unprotected speech is a category of speech regulated by
“time, place, and manner”
principles.
You do not, for example,
have the right to promote a
political candidate at 3 a.m.
in my residential neighborhood by using a sound-truck
equipped with bull-horns.
You have freedom of
speech, especially political
speech, but you don’t have it
at this time, in this place or in
this manner.
My first reaction to Yik
Yak was generous and openminded. Keep the app available, I argued.
If there is unpleasantness
communicated on the app,
do not register for it and
don’t read it, I thought.
Then the time, place and
manner restrictions came
to mind as I read about the
harm done to others by this
“most dangerous app.”
Real or imagined, the impacts of Yik Yak are felt and
making a difference, often
for the worse.
Think of it this way: Think
of Yik Yak as being the anonymous graffiti painted on a
highway overpass.
When that happens, it gets
painted over. It’s not the
time, place or manner to express your undying love for
your soul mate.
Alternatively, think of it
as the graffiti on a bathroom
stall.
At Grove City College, we
have some of the most polite
graffiti found on any college
campus in America.
You are much more likely
to find a Bible quotation than
an invitation to “call me”
posted. Nevertheless, it is a
defacement of private property.
It is illegal, unwarranted,
and unwanted.
The College has every right
to control what’s communicated on its walls and stalls.
It can do that without violating the First Amendment.
Paint over the graffiti.
Pull the plug. Block the
app. Yik Yak isn’t the time,
the place or the manner to
communicate your thoughts.
And it is not protected by the
First Amendment.
Just another gym class
Why Fitwell’s physical education needs to go
Evlyn Roper
Contributing Writer
All students who went to
schools that required gym
classes have memories of the
dread that filled us, knowing
they would have to change
into gym clothes and run
around, only to get back into
school clothes and go on with
the day afterward.
The goal of physical education in high school is to keep
students active. Since most
high school students do not
play sports every day, many
of them miss out on the daily
activity required to maintain
a healthy lifestyle. But that is
high school.
When graduation comes
around,
most
students
breathe a sigh of relief at
the fact that they will never
have to deal with physical
education again. However,
this is not the case at Grove
City College. Students at this
school are required to take
two semesters of Fitness &
Wellness, or “FitWell,” a
program that combines a basic level health class with a
physical education program,
which seems to be adapted
from your average public
high school curriculum.
Now I will admit: as a recent “graduate” of the first
section of FitWell – namely,
the health class portion – I
can attest to its effectiveness.
The information conveyed
through the lectures touches
on everything from nutrition to heart health to stress.
These lessons prove to be
very useful, and are taught in
a way that the student is really challenged to live a healthy
lifestyle. If this were all that
FitWell consisted of, it would
be a successful course.
However, the majority of
the FitWell course focuses on
required physical education
classes. After a fitness evaluation and swim test, students
are subjected to these classes. According to the course
description, the ultimate
goal of this entire program
is to “provide an opportunity
for each student to develop
a personal responsibility for
his/her own lifestyle”.
But how does a mandatory
lifting class help a student
develop a “personal responsibility for his/her own lifestyle?” While the lecture portion of the class does in fact
strike a nerve in students, the
fitness section seems to be
seen in a negative light.
The most common complaints about the second
half of the class come from
people who are already living
a fit lifestyle. By requiring
these students to comply and
participate in fitness activities, the school is taking away
time and energy from those
who have already achieved
that “personal responsibility” for a healthy lifestyle.
In order to deal with this
dilemma, the school should
reevaluate the program. For
instance, students who have
previously received a college varsity letter in past
years and students currently
involved in a varsity sport
should be able to opt out of
the fitness portion.
This strategy is used at
many public high schools,
and it allows student athletes
to focus on their studies and
their sport-specific training,
while also eliminating the
risk of injury that can result
from extra fitness classes.
Since these students have
the athletic ability to play on
a varsity college team, they
are more than capable of
maintaining a healthy, active
lifestyle.
Another possible adjustment to the program could be
a “testing out” exception. For
example, the college could
develop a level of achievement in the physical evaluation that, when reached,
allows the student to test
out of the fitness portion of
FitWell. Like the first suggestion, this rule would allow
students who are physically
fit to test out, giving students
room in their schedules and
giving instructors the ability
to have smaller classes where
they can give more of their
attention to students.
As it now stands, FitWell
is much more of a gym class
than it is a college course.
Ultimately, it is not the College’s place to dictate how
fit students should be. As
adults, college students are
now at a place where they
must start making decisions
for themselves. Although the
College is acting in the student’s best interest in some
ways, this is still something
that should be beyond the
control of the administration. If students are expected
to act like adults on this campus, then they should also be
entitled to making their own
lifestyle decisions.
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Perspectives
Oct. 10, 2014
Gordon College under fire for
stance on homosexuality
Kayla Murrish
Contributing Writer
Can a Christian college
keep its standards if they
conflict with trending cultural viewpoints? Gordon
College could lose its accreditation next year unless they
recant their policy of student
conduct which upholds a historic Christian understanding of sexual activity within
the boundaries of traditional
marriage.
Like many Christian colleges, Gordon College has a
policy prohibiting “homosexual practice” as well as
other forms of extramarital
sexual activity. The school’s
policy came under fire from
the New England Association
of Schools and Colleges this
July when Gordon’s president Michael Lindsay signed
a letter to President Obama
requesting that religious organizations be exempt from
the new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)
non-discrimination
policy
that requires federal contractors to hire homosexuals.
“Signing the letter was in
keeping with our decades-
old conviction that, as an
explicitly Christian institution, Gordon should set the
conduct expectations for
members of our community,” Lindsay explained in
an interview with WORLD
magazine.
Though 100 prominent
faith leaders signed this letter, the Obama administration ignored it – a blow to
religious liberty nationwide.
Gordon College faced harsh
criticism for its participation; prominent alumni denounced the action, the
school district cut off 11 years
of student teaching ties and
endorsement for a federal
grant was rescinded by a local museum.
More concerning is the
NEASC’s accreditation review, which gives the college until September of 2015
to “ensure that the college’s
policies and processes are
non-discriminatory,” which
essentially means they must
change the policy or face the
consequences. Loss of accreditation could end federal
funding and would cripple
the college’s ability to attract
students of a high academic
caliber.
The NEASC’s attempt to
pressure the college into
compliance with its secular
policies violates the Gordon College community’s
religious liberty to live out
foundational beliefs and endangers other religious institutions as well.
Ending discrimination is
a major goal for every college to consider, particularly
Christian colleges that seek
to operate on biblical principles of love and grace. Gordon’s Dean of Student Life
Terry Charek explained that
“a student at Gordon College
has never faced disciplinary action for being gay or
lesbian.” He added that the
college handles homosexual
behavior violations in the
same way as heterosexual violations. “We generally deal
with them in a private and
supportive manner to try to
help people establish healthy
relationships,” he said.
As Christian institutions
handle this issue, an important distinction needs to be
made between same-sex attraction and actual behavior. Unfortunately, Christian
Resurrecting the ‘dead’
horse of American culture
Scott Alford
Perspectives Editor
America’s global image
has historically been defined by our pursuit of new
frontiers, especially settling
the West. From the shows
of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill to Teddy Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders, America has a
rich tradition of celebrating
mounted men and women
who symbolize justice to our
nation and bring joy to our
hearts.
However, as the technology of automobiles has come
to dominate modern transportation, the art of traveling
on horseback has been lost.
As the guardian of Western
civilization, Grove City College has a duty to preserve
this rich tradition. To that
end, I suggest that Campus
Safety “go maverick” and be
re-trained as a mounted police force to enrich our respect for American tradition,
enhance campus beauty, preserve the environment and
promote a healthy perception of campus safety.
Before someone tells me
to get off my high horse, I
think that a mounted police
force could easily enrich our
campus culture. Saddling
up would enhance the College’s image as dedicated
Campus Safety would be perceived as knights
on horseback, advocating for distressed students.
to the preservation of the
great tradition of American
culture. As students stroll
across campus, they would
be reminded of our western
heritage – from the midnight
ride of Paul Revere to the
Pony Express.
To the end of preserving
our glorious campus, horses
would brilliantly suit our
campus aesthetic. Instead
of the sounds of mechanical
vehicles, the natural thud of
pony’s hooves would be welcomed music to our ears. The
presence of such beautiful
equine beasts would complement the beauty of the campus architecture. As a college
with a rich heritage of beauty, Grove City College should
reflect this in all aspects,
including
transportation
choices. This could expand
student and faculty’s horizons toward an appreciation
of the beautiful beasts that
galloped from sea to shining
sea.
Conserving the College’s
beautiful campus is another
reason to “saddle up.” Despite the campus naysayers
on climate change, the College must implement adequate measures to battle
this looming threat. Through
the use of horses, the campus
could reduce the dependence
upon fossil fuels while offering a cost-effective method
of fertilizing plants.
On horseback, the police would be able to better
assess and respond to the
needs of the college community. Rather than chasing
potential criminals across
the Quad on foot, Campus
Safety ought to ride horses
to quickly subdue them upon
their brave steeds.
Finally, students would be
enriched by the presence of
caring horses to greet them
rather than the feeling of a
patrolling police state. Instead of the agents patrolling
in their vehicles, Campus
Safety would be perceived
as knights on horseback, advocating for distressed students.
Grove City College should
reconsider how campus safety travels and “stop putting
the car before the horse.”
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organizations have at times
discriminated against people
based on their experience of
same-sex attraction. Fostering an environment where
people can express their
struggles and grow together
in lifestyles that reflect biblical values while affirming
the dignity of every human
person is a valuable goal for
colleges.
However, religious schools
should be able to establish
standards that express a traditional view of marriage and
sexual behavior. An institution’s response to this issue
should be made thoughtfully
by its leaders, alumni and students, not coerced by a state
accreditation agency imposing its views on people of
faith in Massachusetts. Jeremy Erickson from the journal First Things explained in
an article about InterVarsity
that “it is indeed possible to
uphold a traditional doctrine
of sexuality without discriminating simply on the basis of
sexual orientation.” Grove
City College’s standards seek
to do just that; the Crimson
Student Handbook treats homosexual and heterosexual
conduct violations with equal
consequences in a personalized process.
Grove City College’s nondisciplinary policy also provides an opportunity for
students seeking help. If a
student comes to a College
official about a behavioral
violation before it is made
public and demonstrates “a
good faith effort to change
their behaviors,” the student
will not face disciplinary
sanctions. This policy shows
Grove City College’s commitment to redemptive discipline and growth and applies
to other violations that meet
the above criteria, not just
sexual behaviors.
As LGBT activist movements have gained national
attention, America’s 120
Christian colleges representing more than 400,000
students have a unique opportunity to respond with
wisdom and tact as they seek
to uphold traditional biblical
principles. In a nation where
religious liberty is our first
freedom, Gordon College’s
stance should not destroy its
accreditation status.
BRANDON FERRIS
Editorial
100 years of journalism
Josh Evans
Editor-in-Chief
Marissa Candiloro
Managing Editor
With this issue, The Collegian celebrates 100 years
as a weekly newspaper.
We’ve changed significantly over the last century,
starting as little more than
a medium for publishing Isaac Ketler’s sermons
and evolving into the fullfledged newspaper we are
today.
In the process of becoming a weekly newspaper,
The Collegian moved from
a literary format that included
student-penned
short stories and poems to
the format of a traditional
newspaper consisting of
news articles and editorials.
In addition to a change in
content, The Collegian’s appearance also experienced
a huge overhaul. From a
two column format to the
more familiar four to five
column format, The Collegian’s design gradually
became more recognizable.
Before computers became
a common household and
office device, the individual stories were typed up
on typewriters, cut out by
hand and physically placed
in the desired spot. The
editors would then send
the paper to a professional
printer, who would handset the type and prepare
the paper to be distributed.
The Collegian’s nameplate at the top of each is-
sue has also gone through
a drastic redesign over
the years. Our current
nameplate is a nod to the
original format – with the
similar font and the image
of Crawford Tower in the
background – while still
maintaining the modern
style into which the paper
has evolved over the years.
We’ve covered the big
events throughout history,
both on and off campus.
Writers and editors alike
have made it their goal to
provide students with updated news coverage as
well as the views of their
own peers and professors.
Despite the changes over
the years, The Collegian’s
core commitment has remained the same: to bring
students the information
they need and want.
As the current editors,
we are honored to play our
part in the paper’s continuing evolution and improvement. We are committed to
providing the campus with
quality information and
up-to-date news and opinions on all the hot button
issues. We promise to cover even the controversial
issues without bias, and to
allow all opinions, no matter how unpopular, within
our Perspectives pages.
Looking back at old issues and forward to those
hopefully to come, we are
proud to present to our
readers this, our 101st year,
and to lay the groundwork
for many years to come.
Sports
Driving toward Looking for
their
groove
the top
Oct. 10, 2014
Page 11
Men and women each take podium
place at fall championships
Joe Setyon
Sports Editor
The Grove City College
men and women’s golf teams
were both in action from
Sept. 29 to 30 at the New
Castle Country Club for the
PAC Fall Championships.
Leading up to the tournament, both teams had been
playing extremely well, and
they each carried this momentum into strong finishes.
The men were coming off
of back-to-back first place
finishes at the Penn State
Behrend and LaRoche Invitationals. On the first day,
they shot a combined 319,
followed by a 318 on the second and final day of the fall
tournament.
Overall, the Wolverines
were 14 shots in back of fall
winner Washington and Jefferson, and nine back of Saint
Vincent, who took second.
There were a lot of positives to take from the Wolverines’ third place finish.
Senior Brian Giesler had the
lowest score among Grove
City golfers, shooting a 153
over the 36-hole tournament.
Meanwhile, fellow senior
Christian Locker also played
well, shooting a 154.
The men were
coming off of backto-back first place
finishes at the Penn
State Behrend and
LaRoche
Invitationals.
Freshmen Jorden Alfery
and Anthony Smaldino had
solid performances under
the spotlight, shooting a 163
and 168, respectively.
Finally, Sophomore Austin Eckhardt finished the
tournament with a score
of 171. The men’s team will
conclude their fall season on
Oct. 8h at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational.
The women’s golf team
was also in action at the PAC
Fall Championships.
After winning the Penn
State Behrend Invitational,
the women finished third out
of seven teams at New Castle.
As a team, the Wolverines
shot combined 398 on the
first day, followed by a 411 to
conclude the fall part of the
tournament.
Ahead of Grove City were
Westminster at 807 and
Washington and Jefferson at
744.
Carrying the Wolverines
throughout was senior golfer, and this year’s homecoming queen, Esther Durling.
For the sixth PAC event in
a row, and fourth consecutive fall championship, Durling had the lowest individual
score on the course, at 175.
Freshman Carolyn Jack also
stood out for the Wolverines,
shooting a 196 for the tournament, while junior Rebecca Shakely had a total score
of 217.
Finally, senior Meghan
Love and sophomore Leah
Wilson each shot a 227 to
round out the field of Wolverines.
Both of the College’s teams
are now in good shape to
earn a bid to the 2015 NCAA
Division III Championships.
Scores from the Fall 2014
and Spring 2015 PAC Championships will be combined
to determine who gets the
PAC’s automatic bid.
Before that, though, the
women will conclude their
fall season at the Seton Hill
Invitational Oct. 10-11, while
the men are in action at the
Carnegie Mellon Invitational
Oct. 8.
Spotlight on Pittsburgh
Pirates fall short in Wild Card game.
Aaron Lundmark
Men’s Soccer drops PAC opener
at Waynesburg
Thomas Kutz
Staff Writer
The Grove City men’s soccer team (5-4-1) dropped a
2-1 double overtime decision
at Waynesburg in their first
President’s Athletic Conference match of the season
on Oct. 3. The Wolverines
played a well-fought match,
and deserved much more
than their second loss in extra time of the season.
The men jumped in front
in the first half thanks to junior Seth Loew’s penalty kick
conversion with just over ten
minutes remaining. The goal
was a long time coming for
the Wolverines, who edged
Waynesburg in possession
and shots in the first half up
to that point. The team surely
felt another goal should have
been coming as well, however, as they shot a combined
30 shots in the game and
14 on goal. In comparison,
Waynesburg had eight total
shots, four of which found
the target.
The team’s impressive offensive performance, however, did not yield enough fruit
to hold their advantage. As
a result, Waynesburg knotted the game up at 1-1 with
just ten minutes remaining in regulation. The game
looked sure to end in a draw,
but Waynesburg pressed up
until the last minute. It was
Cody Lemke who spoiled
the Wolverines’ chance at a
draw, when he scored with
the board showing just 27
seconds remaining in the
second overtime period.
Waynesburg surely stole
the game from the Wolverines, who were shocked after
dominating play most of the
match.
The good news for Grove
City is that it has been playing among the top teams in
the PAC this season. Among
PAC schools, Grove City
ranks in the top four in all
major offensive categories,
as well as for fewest goals allowed and shutout.
Moreover the Wolverines
are also tied for the fewest
yellow cards of all schools in
the PAC, a testament to the
discipline of the players and
the integrity shown by the
team under head coach Mike
Dreves.
On an individual level, junior Seth Loew ranks in third
in points per game (1.3) and
fourth in goals (4), while
posting second best numbers
in assists (5) and assists per
game (0.5) of all PAC players.
All this hopefully bodes
well for the Wolverines, who
continue their run of conference play at home on Oct. 8
at 4 p.m. against Thiel, before going on the road to face
Bethany on Oct. 11 and rival
Geneva on Oct. 15.
Player Spotlight
George DeAugustino’s defense
boosts Wolverines
Contributing Writer
With one swing of the bat,
San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford silenced the record-breaking
crowd at PNC Park as the Giants defeated the Pittsburgh
Pirates 8-0 Wednesday night
in the National League Wild
Card game. Crawford gave his team all
that it needed and more with
his 4th inning grand slam
off Pirates starting pitcher
Edinson Volquez, who got
the start because Pirate aces
Gerrit Cole and Fransisco
Liriano were unavailable.
Even if it weren’t for Crawford’s slam, it was going to
be tough for the Pirates to
win. This was due to the
way Giants starter Madison
Bumgarner was pitching.
Bumgarner was simply dominant on the mound, throwing a complete game shutout
with 10 strikeouts on 109
pitches.
“I ain’t coming out,” were
the words Bumgarner told
his manager Bruce Bochy
when asked if he was tired.
“He’s a competitor,” said
Bochy, “You always have to
love a guy who loves to compete.”
The skipper gave unlimited praise to his number one
pitcher who wasted no time
shutting the Pirates down
early.
Bumgarner only gave up
four hits the entire game,
two of which were to Pirates
MVP candidate Josh Harrison. Along with Harrison,
Bradley Warmhold
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Russell Martin and Starling
Marte were the only Pirates
to record hits.
The Giants also got more
runs later in the game off the
bat of first baseman Brandon Belt. Belt singled off Pirates reliever Justin Wilson
in the 6th inning scoring
Giants right fielder Hunter
Pence and then later singled
in two runs off of reliever
Jared Hughes in the 7th. The
Giants also added another
run in the 8th with a Buster
Posey RBI single.
But when all said and done,
the story of the game was the
arm of Madison Bumgarner.
The left hander’s gem was
called “a very professional
and well-pitched game by
[Bumgarner],” said Pirates
manager Clint Hurdle, who
faces some problems this
offseason as a number of Pirates veterans prepare to hit
the free agency market.
Pirates’ starting catcher
and perhaps the backbone of
the entire organization, Russell Martin, is one of those
players set to hit free agency.
After Martin’s final at bat of
the game, the crowd chanted
“Re-sign Russ,” and Martin
responded with a tip of the
cap. The attendance for the
game was a record breaking 40,629, which broke last
year’s Wild Card game record.
Along with Martin, Pirates
pitchers Fransisco Liriano
and Wild Card game starter
Edinson Volquez have their
contracts expiring. The Pirates general manager Neil
Hunnington will have to stay
busy in order to resign all
three of them.
Meanwhile, the Giants
went on to face the Washington Nationals in the National
League Divisional Series,
taking a commanding series
lead early on.
The Pirates will attempt to
move even deeper into the
postseason next season after
finishing this season at 88-74
and making the playoffs for
the second consecutive year.
The Grove City College
men’s soccer team watched
success slip away in heartbreaking fashion during their
last two contests. Carnegie
Mellon managed to make a
second-half comeback to give
them a 2-1 victory against
the College in their most recent non-conference game.
Meanwhile, the Wolverines
President’s Athletic League
opener against Waynesburg
University ended with the
Yellow Jackets scoring the
winning goal in double overtime.
Despite the disappointment, the Wolverines (5-41, 0-1-0 PAC) still have a lot
to look forward to. The loss
to Waynesburg was only the
first PAC contest of Grove
City’s season, and the Wolverine offense continues to
average at least two goals per
game, while the defense has
kept their goals against average to as low as 1.29.
Leading the Wolverine defense is senior George DeAugustino, a three-year starter
and letterwinner, as well as
a second-team all PAC selection during his junior year.
His 626 minutes of playing
time this season rank fourth
on the team. This has allowed his defensive work to
contribute to a sub 1.5 GAA,
including two shut-out victories against Oberlin University and Heidelberg College
during the week of Sept. 22.
During that time, his defensive prowess were recognized
by the PAC, who named
DeAugustino as the defensive player of the week.
In addition to his accolades on defense, the senior
also netted his first goal of
his collegiate career during an away non-conference
match against Allegheny College. His first collegiate goal
would also turn out to be
a pivotal one, as it allowed
the Wolverines to finish the
game in a 2-2 draw as opposed to another nail-biting
loss.
The senior defenseman’s
contributions have given
the Wolverines victories as
well as recognition by other
coaches. In a recent regional
poll by the NSCAA (National
Soccer Coaches Association
of America), the College was
one of two PAC teams to receive votes of recognition.
With six votes, the Wolverines are just two spots away
from being ranked in the top
ten in the Great Lakes Poll.
Looking to bolster their
conference record, and subsequently their place in the
polls, the College’s men’s
soccer team and DeAugustino return to action next
Wednesday at home against
Mercer County rival, Thiel
College. For those wanting to
tune into the game, kick-off
is at 4 p.m.
The Collegian
Page 12
Oct. 10, 2014
Grabbing back
the momentum
Three is a magic number as
Wolverines get second
win of season
Thomas Kutz
Staff Writer
The Grove City women’s
soccer team (2-8-1) got back
in the win column on Oct.
3 in their President’s Athletic Conference opener at
Waynesburg.
They were able to snap a
five-game losing streak, albeit one that included losses to
two nationally-ranked powerhouses and one regionallyranked side in the last two
weeks.
The women gained momentum after holding second ranked Messiah to just
two goals.
They carried that into their
match against a regionallyranked John Carroll side on
Sept. 30, playing to a heartwrenching 1-0 road double
overtime loss in University
Heights, Ohio.
In their final game before conference play started,
the women played a tough
match, firing 22 shots of their
own and holding the impressive John Carroll side scoreless for nearly 102 minutes.
Senior goalkeeper Kristi Lathrop recorded seven
saves in the game before
John Carroll’s Andrea Regrut
netted the game-winner in
the 102nd minute. The Wolverines could not find the net
themselves, despite 14 shots
finding the target.
The women bounced back
from their third double overtime loss of the season, however, on Oct. 3, igniting for
three goals and shutting out
Waynesburg to record a victory in their PAC opener.
It was junior Abby Mathes
who scored first for the Wolverines just fifteen minutes
into the match. Grove City
would hold that lead and
hold off a strong Waynesburg attack before junior
Kristin Thomas added a second goal 18 minutes into the
second half. Moments later,
freshman Kat Kouzelos used
the momentum to score her
first career collegiate goal.
This one put the game
away, as it gave Wolverines
a 3-0 advantage. It was the
women’s first win since the
season-opener against Marietta, in which they posted an
identical score line.
The team has not lost when
scoring three or more goals
this season, and the Wolverines have earned clean sheets
in both of those games.
In fact, despite a record
that does not reflect their
resilience, Grove City ranks
third in the entire PAC in
goals allowed, goals against
average, and saves.
The women hope to ride
this win into their second of
nine straight PAC games to
close out the season. They
face Thiel at home on Oct. 7
at 4 p.m. before traveling to
Bethany on Oct. 10 and Geneva on Oct. 15.
Volleyball
team serves
up a good
game
Above: Grove City’s back
line bumps the ball to each
other as Head Coach Erin
Street looks on. Coach Street’s
team was at home, playing
against Bethany College on
Sept. 30th, in a match they
ultimately dropped three games
to one.
Right: Outside hitter Jamie
Robatisin prepares to spike the
ball as the Wolverines practice
a hitting drill. During the game
itself (versus Waynesburg),
Robatisin was a major factor,
contributing nine kills in a 1-3
loss.
LAURA COUNIHAN / THE COLLEGIAN
BEKAH WHEAT / THE COLLEGIAN
Wolverines at it again
The Grove City defense lines up for a play in the Homecoming Game against Waynesburg Saturday.
Inside linebacker Bobby Tuttle (39) had 9 total tackles in the game, while free safety Andrew Seifert
(42) added 3. Defensive end Ryan Hickey (57) stood out with 5 tackles, including 11/2 for a loss, while
outside linebacker Jason Skyrm (37) had 9 total tackle, one of which was for a loss. Cornerback Jimmy
Cianciola had one assisted tackle in the 35-0 loss.
6
Senior golfer Esther Durling’s
streak of individual PAC titles after shooting a 175 at the PAC Fall
Championships on Sept. 29-30.
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5
Women’s tennis team’s winning
streak as of October 5, following
a 7-2 win at Saint Vincent on October 1.
Total assists from junior setter Amy Trageser in the volleyball team’s 2-3 loss to Westminster on Oct. 4. In the
second game of the doubleheader, the Wolverines rebounded, sweeping Thiel by scores of 27-25, 25-15 and
26-24.
Sports by the NUMBERS
166
3
rd
0
Goals allowed by the women’s
soccer team in a 3-0 shutout at
Waynesburg on October 3.
Total yards on the ground and in the air from
sophomore quarterback Aaron Lundmark
in his first start of the year, a 35-0 loss to
Waynesburg.
The men’s and women’s golf teams’ finishes at
the PAC Fall Championships at the New Castle
Country Club.
Compiled by Joe Setyon