The Collegian – Jan. 31, 2014

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Collegian

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Est. 1891

Friday, January 31, 2014

The Grove City College Student Newspaper

Vol. 74, No. 11

Just the facts

Hard data on campus dating Louis Petolicchio Staff Writer

Apparently, many single, female super-seniors really do feel like everybody has somebody but them. At least, that is one of the findings of a study done by several students in Dr. Christian Ola’s Business Statistics Class. Juniors Chesterton Cobb and Ford Reinalda, along with sophomore Abigail Mathes and freshman Timothy Lowrance, decided to do a study to see whether or not someone’s relationship status would affect their awareness of the number of relationships around them. Their findings were not exactly what they expected. Originally, the team postulated that Grove City College students “in a relationship would overestimate the number of people actually in relationships,” Cobb said. After receiving survey results from 225 people, nearly 10 percent of the campus, a close to even number of male and female respondents, and a representative spread across different class years, the group was satisfied they had enough results to present an accurate picture of the campus population. “We made sure to also ask questions about the respondent’s own relationship, letting us see what the actual numbers were for campus, before we compared them to people’s perceptions,” Cobb said. “We’re really happy that we were able to collect our true data at the same time as the surveys.” However, the results blasted their hypothesis out of the water. According to their research, approximately 44 percent of the campus is currently entangled with a significant other, and while only 27 percent of the respondents guessed between 40 and 50 percent, over half were within 10 to 15 percent of the correct answer. Unfortunately for their hypothesis, relationship status seemed to play little to no role in how correct the respondents were. “Oddly enough,” Cobb remarked,“The results broke along gender lines more than relationship ones.” It turned out that, in general, men were better at assessing the percentage of relationships on campus than women were. Even discounting the wildest outliers, which were almost entirely women, the men still had a marginal lead when it came to correctly judging the percentage of relationships on campus.

COURTESY DAVID MARR

Students traveled to many parts of the globe over winter break on short term mission trips. Above, a congregation worships in Hato Mayor, D.R. during the ICO Dominican Republic trip. For more pictures from ICO D.R., see our photo spread on pages 6-7.

FROZEN: Cold cripples campus Emily Bartlow To think back to the days of yesteryear, when snow storms left the world blanketed in white, is to think back to the most anticipated day besides Christmas: the snow day. The typical snow day meant freedom from the rigors of grade school and was spent on a wintry playground of white powder, complete with sledding and hot chocolate. Grove City College students revisited a similar scenario when the College announced a severe weather warning on Tuesday, Jan. 7 during its bitterly cold intersession. The negative 13 degree temperature accompanied by a negative 38 degree wind chill left the College little choice but to shut down campus. With just Hicks Café and the Physical Learning Center open for food and fitness, students refrained from gallivanting through the icy outdoors and sought shelter in their heated dormitories. “It was pretty darn cold. I felt like I was in Alaska or even in North Pole,” sophomore Sooyoung Jung said, an international student from Seoul, South Korea. Although snow is prevalent in South Korea, she had never experienced anything quite so extreme. Other students embraced the snow day mentality. “I made a lot of hot chocolate and coffee, and borrowed my roommates’ blankets for most of the day,” sophomore Ryan Braumann said. “It was super chill,no pun intended, and another one would be especially appreciated.” Braumann’s desire for yet another snow day came close to fruition just this past Tuesday, as Grove City faced another onslaught of subzero temperatures. Although classes remained in session, the College sent an

email warning of the dangerous conditions, even providing a shuttle service for students living in the apartments and off-campus houses. Students taking the shuttle were not only spared the painful walk to upper campus, but they were also warmed by hot chocolate, donuts and their cheery bus driver,Wayne, all provided by the College for their morning commute. “It felt like we just boarded the bus for the first day of school,” senior shuttle-goer Chelsea Tarolli said. While most students followed the College’s weather advice by insulating themselves from head to toe, one student was said to have been spotted roaming the campus with nothing more than shorts and flip flops. Many students questioned the College’s decision for warranting a snow day over intercession, yet not during this week’s comparatively low temperatures. The College’s president, Dr. Richard Jewell ’67, explained that due to intercession’s unique circumstances, including nearly half of its students commuting, versus the 95 percent on-campus student body during the regular semester, the College felt more compelled to cancel classes for the commuters’ safety. While snow days are seemingly ordinary occurrences for local schools and community colleges, the College has only called a weather emergency four times within the past 21 years, two of which were during Jewell’s tenure. Jewell also noted that “the snow and ice storms of 1993 and 1994 were unprecedented,” with the most snow of the century occurring on St. Patrick’s Day in 1993 and a record -22 degree temperature in 1994. The school also closed Feb. 14, 2007 for a monumental ice storm. Although a lawyer at the time,

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Tuesday’s particularly low temperatures didn’t stop College functions. Campus was shut down for a day during intersession, though, due to the cold as well as travel complications. Jewell expounded upon the severe weather conditions faced across western Pennsylvania, specifically the 28 inches of snow which buried the Pittsburgh area in mid-March of 1993 and the Antarctic temperature of minus 22 degrees during the winter of

1994. Although not nearly as severe as history proves, this exceptionally cold winter has given students a further sense of responsibility, not only with their studies, but also with taking proper precautions.


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