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Friday, November 7, 2014
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 101, No. 3
Push-ups for wounded vets
Grayson Quay News Editor
A group of fifteen college age men doing push-ups in the rain sounds like a boot camp scene from a war movie, unless the setting is just outside the Hall of Arts and Letters. Last Friday, Oct. 31, the men of the Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity held a fundraiser in the HAL courtyard to support those who have been through boot camp and war and have come back wounded. In return for a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization whose stated mission is to “foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history,” any passerby could select their favorite – or least favorite – KAP member to do push-ups, with one dollar equaling ten push-ups. Some donors gave $10, requiring a single KAP member to do 100 push-ups in a row. “They struggled but they made it,” said senior KAP member Ryan Duran, who organized the event. Duran explained that the
JENNA HERSHBERGER/THE COLLEGIAN The brothers of Kappa Alpha Phi charged one dollar for ten push-ups, raising over $500 dollars for the Wounded Warrior Project.
cause of caring for wounded veterans is near to his heart because his father is in the Army and several of his father’s friends and fellow soldiers have been wounded. While all 15 members of the fraternity participated,
some were singled out more than others. At 3 p.m., Duran estimated that sophomore KAP member Andrew Taylor had already over 400 push-ups. “Apparently a lot of people don’t like him, or something,” Duran joked.
Duran seemed pleased with results of the fundraiser and hopes to make it an annual event. The KAPs started at 11:30 a.m. and left HAL courtyard at 3 p.m., relocating to the sidewalk outside of Hicks
Café, where they stayed until 5 p.m. In the course of those five and a half hours, the event raised around $500, equivalent to 5000 pushups, an average of 333 and one third push-ups per KAPita.
Remember, remember YAL celebrates Guy Fawkes Day Grayson Quay News Editor
The Young Americans for Liberty celebrated Guy Fawkes Night this Wednesday, Nov. 5. YAL handed out Guy Fawkes masks, handed out books and gathered on the Quad to listen to Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.” Guy Fawkes Day is a British holiday commemorating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, a 1605 plot by Catholic monarchists to blow up Parliament and thereby assassinate the Protestant King James I. The holiday, also known as Bonfire Night, was created soon after the foiling of the
REBECCA SHAFFER/THE COLLEGIAN Faculty advisor Dr. David Hogsette and club founder Jospeh Neff engage in combat.
Karate club kicks it up a notch
Connor Lowe Contributing Writer Any students who ever had an interest in learning martial arts now has the opportunity to explore these ancient arts in Grove City College’s new Karate Club. Led by faculty member Dr. David Hogsette and student founder Joseph Neff, the club is looking for any
students who are willing to be immersed in the many varieties of martial arts. Hogsette has been training in the martial arts for over 20 years, and he possesses both a san dan, which is a third degree black belt, in Matsubayahsi Shorin Ryu and a sho dan, or a first degree black belt, in Shotokan. Moreover, he has also trained several years on KARATE 12
THE COLLEGIAN Students wore the iconic Guy Fawkes mask in celebration of the holiday.
plot and is celebrated today with fireworks, masks and bonfires, in which effigies of Fawkes are burned.
V, the titular freedom fighter in Alan Moore’s FAWKES 8
GOP takes senate
Midterm election mark shift in power Thomas Kutz Staff Writer
The Republican Party will be the majority party in both houses of the United States Congress come January. The Republicans, who already controlled the House, picked up more than its six needed seats to take over as the majority party in the Senate. Republicans picked up several additional seats in the House as well, ousting some long-time Democratic incumbents in the process.
The races for Senate, however, captured most of the nation’s attention. Republican incumbents won in every election where they faced challengers, including the vulnerable Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who defeated the tenacious independent Greg Orman. Current Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also held off a challenger in Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) in decisive fashion. McConnell is suspected to
be the next Senate Majority Leader for the Republican Party in January. Republicans also held the seat of retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), welcoming David Perdue (R-Ga.) as its next junior Senator. Joni Ernst (RIwoa) also picked up an open seat for the GOP in Iowa. What is perhaps more impressive than holding these seats is the ousting of several Democratic incumbent candidates by Republican ELECTION 8
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