Collegian
The Friday, October 3, 2014
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 100, No. 24
Two consecutive Galas Taylor Lennox Staff Writer
PHOTO COURTESY DANIELLE DENNIS
The Student Government Association will host a Gala this spring honoring the first year in office of President Paul J. McNulty ’80. Recently, there were rumors that the biannual dance would be held a second consecutive year. Junior Danielle Dennis, Vice President of Social Affairs for SGA, confirmed that there is a gala scheduled for this year.
The gala is planned for April 25, 2015. The change of schedule was made at the request of the Advancement Office. Originally, the Gala was held to mark a new president’s inauguration at the College, but since then it has become a biannual event celebrating the office. Last year the Gala had about 1,200 attendees. There were four ticket levels. General admission to the dance where dessert and hors d’oeuvres were available was $3. To attend both the din-
ner and dance, tickets were $15. The $25 tickets granted admission to the pre-party held in the president’s house, in addition to the dinner and dance. At the $30 tier, tickets guaranteed students access to all of the previous events, as well as a seat at the table with Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67. Next year’s Gala is expected to have the same events. Dennis says she and her SGA colleagues will reach out to McNulty to see how to make his first Gala special.
The dance itself, the one event included in the most basic package, will feature a mainstream dance floor in the Hall of Arts and Letters courtyard while ballroom and swing dancing will be set up in Breen Student Union. The atrium of HAL will hold food and a photo booth like it did at last year’s Gala. SGA budgeted to host a Gala this year, and thus the funding for the Gala comes from the amount that StuGALA 2
Pan Hel: dump Yik Yak
Petition urges administration to regulate app Emily Bartlow
Contributing Writer While campuses across the country debate pulling the plug on Yik Yak, Grove City College’s Pan-Hellenic Council seeks to reduce the cyberbullying potential of the app. The Council is working with Student Life and Learning to get rid of cyberbullying venues on Grove City College’s campus, chiefly focusing on regulating comments on Yik Yak. “We are against Yik Yak because within the first few days of it attracting attention on campus it became a source of extremely targeted and hurtful comments about individuals and groups, specifically pertaining to Greek life at Grove City,” Pan-Hellenic Council President senior Leah McConville said. PAN HEL 3
Sound the alarms Abigail Marsan
Who let the dog out?
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Earlier this week President McNulty brought his 11-year-old black lab Sadie to her new home at Grove City College. Find out more about the presidential pooch on page 6.
Collegian: Generations Former editors weigh in on The Collegian’s past Grayson Quay News Editor
Editor’s Note: This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Collegian as a weekly publication. The Collegian staff has been publishing a weekly newspaper since 1914, but the staff and the methods by which it produces the paper have always been in flux. President Emeritus Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67, Kathy (Gardner ’86) Wingert and Professor of Political Science Dr. Michael Coulter ’91 all served as editor-in-chief during their time at Grove City College and all spoke to the Collegian about the experience. “I was privileged to do a lot of different things as an undergrad. That was my favorite thing,” Jewell said of his time as editor-in-chief of The Collegian during the spring semester of 1966. In Jewell’s time, the editor-in-chief served from the spring semester of one year into the fall semester of the next year, as opposed
Contributing Writer Grove City College went on lockdown when an armed robbery suspect ran onto campus on Aug. 26, 2014. To keep everyone updated and indoors, the campus’ Iris Alert System called, texted and emailed students. Messages informed everyone to stay inside and that classes had been canceled. Throughout the morning, the system continued to give details about the situation and suspect. “If off campus stay away ALERT 3
to today’s system in which all staff members serve for a full academic year. Jewell was elected President of Student Government Association that spring and had to resign from The Collegian. Jewell worked to make the paper an agent of change on campus. To this end, he wrote an editorial nearly every week addressing a College issue of some kind. On March 18, 1966, The Collegian ran Jewell’s editorial in which he chastised students for abusing the College’s honor system policies, pointing specifically to the large number of books that were being stolen from the Henry Buhl Library every year. “By using these freedoms properly we can continue on a desired course toward more freedom; by abusing them we can only take a step backward toward reactionary administrative controls,” Jewell wrote. Jewell and his section editors would spend Tuesday afternoon physically cutting the articles and laying them CCOLLEGIAN 3 out. The
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Pearl Harbor, Kennedy, 9/11. Look back at The Collegian’s response to pivotal historical events. pg. 6
Take a look at Homecoming throughout Grove City’s history. pg. 8-9
The Brewery: Food, beer and atmosphere pg. 11
President McNulty addresses returning alumni pg. 12
Volleyball team holds its own in two grueling matches pg. 14