The Collegian – Feb. 7, 2014

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Collegian

The ‘Frozen’ stops us cold. Pg. 5 Friday, February 7, 2014

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Vol. 74, No. 12

The Grove City College Student Newspaper

Bush to give grad speech

Josh Evans News Editor

Grove City College announced yesterday at the senior dinner that Jeb Bush, former Florida governor − and potential 2016 presidential candidate − will be speaking at the College’s commencement ceremony on May 17. Bush, the son of former President George H. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush, currently works as the head of Jeb Bush and Associates, a consulting company that serves clients ranging from small technology start-ups to illustrious Fortune 500 companies. However, much speculation has been raised about a potential run for president in 2016. While Bush has neither confirmed nor denied these rumors, he told CBS Miami last month that he will consider the decision later this year. Bush will be the second of his family to do so, following former First Lady Laura Bush, who spoke at the 2011 commencement ceremony.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will deliver the commencement address to 2014 graduates on May 17. Bush was elected governor of Florida in 1998 and was reelected in 2002, making him the only Republican in Florida’s history to serve two full terms as governor. During his time as governor, Bush was known for major Medicaid reforms, as well as numerous education reforms, including the establishment of the

Florida Virtual School program, increased emphasis on standardized testing, and the One Florida proposal, which helped to end affirmative action admissions programs at state universities. Bush was also a strong supporter of school vouchers and charter schools. Bush continues to support education improvements as

chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, which lobbies for immigration reforms. He also serves as the co-chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, which works to help both children and their parents, particularly from lowincome families, learn to read and write. The commencement cer-

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emony will be held on the quad between Harbison Chapel and Crawford Hall. The Baccalaureate service will be held the night before, led by the officers of the Class of 2014 and featuring special music from the touring choir and a message from Dr. Ron Moore, senior pastor at the Bible Chapel in the South Hills.

Are Grovers too trusting? Josh Evans News Editor

Nu Lamb alumni took steps to bring back the fraternity, refounding the group along its traditional values.

alumni, interested in restarting the fraternity along the lines of the old traditions. “We all as a group share a vision of reflecting the traditions of the fraternity but not the behavior of past classes that caused the loss of the charter,” Hurst said. “We want to ensure that the Nu Lambs are committed first and foremost to Christ and secondly to each other, just as the fraternity was when it was founded 90 years ago.” These students have worked with the alumni association to try to find other students with a similar mindset. Johnston was excited to see how the students and alumni threw themselves into the rush process, and he said that the process was something unique and unusual for Grove City. “This was not a situation of a block class being formed by the administration. This was a situation of having a core group of students working directly with

With the number of laptops, books, wallets and other valuables left unattended in nearly every public place on campus, the trust that Grove City College students have in each other is clear. However, such trust may be misplaced, based on the most recent crime reports available. The College recorded 26 instances of theft in 2012, at a crime rate of 910 per 100,000 students. By comparison, the slightly smaller Geneva College had a theft rate of 269 per 100,000 students. The rate at nearby Slippery Rock University, is even higher than that of the College, at 467 per 100,000 students. Seth Van Til, director of Campus Safety, believes the biggest problem is a lack of supervision of belongings. “Because we have so few serious problems, people tend to be a little more lackadaisical about securing their belongings,” he said. Van Til recommends that people lock up their belongings, keep valuables out of sight and avoid leaving things unattended. “We rarely if ever have anything taken from a locked room,” he said. “Almost every theft is a crime of opportunity, where something was left unattended and somebody picked it up and away it went.” Bike thefts are also reported relatively often, although Van Til estimates that approximately 30 percent of such cases are the

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The new Nu Lambda Phi

Louis Petolicchio Staff Writer

After becoming nonexistent a little over four years ago, the fraternity of Nu Lambda Phi is experiencing a dramatic rebirth. Working closely with their alumni association, a pledge class of fifteen students, mostly freshman and sophomores, are working to re-found the disbanded frat. Nu Lambda Phi was originally stripped of its charter in the fall of 2010 for a series for College violations, and due to further complications, was forced to remain inactive for an extended period of time. Concerned brothers among the alumni were not ready to stand by and watch the once prestigious Nu Lamb fraternity fade away, so they began taking action. After forming the Nu Lambda Phi Alumni Association, one of the few government-registered Greek associations on campus,

they received official sanction Nu Lambs have traditionally from the administration to pur- stood for the ideals of scholarsue corrective and restorative ac- ship, leadership, integrity, action aimed at the restoration of countability, fellowship and brotherhood, and that they were their charter. NLPAA President, Dr. Al looking for men who would exemplify and Johnston ’64, along with pursue these Vice President values. The Nu Lambs have Geoff Vinton “ We ’ v e ’83, formed traditionally stood for p r o m o t e d a committee these valthe ideals of scholar- ues for over of nine Nu Lamb alumni, ninety years,” ship, leadership, inencompassing Johnston said. tegrity, accountability, “Number one classes from 1964 to 1985, fellowship and broth- is scholarship. who desired You’re here erhood. to see their to be a stufraternity redent first, so claim its place on we expect you to campus. be an outstanding “Historically, Nu Lambda Phi student.” has had a reputation of being the However, this rebirth was neileadership fraternity,” Johnston ther a case of the administration said, “There were Nu Lambs in appointing a block class nor of nearly every organization on the alumni cherry-picking men campus, often in roles of leader- from the student body. Sophoship. We would like to see that more Alex Hurst explained that again.” he and three other students actuJohnston explained that the ally approached members of the

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