The Collegian – October 9, 2015

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The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Page 4.

Friday, October, 9, 2015

Vol. 102, No. 6

The Grove City College Student Newspaper

#stand withPP responds to pro-life videos Filmmaker: “criminal conspiracy” Molly Wicker News Editor

according to the Washington Examiner, many higher education leaders have criticized the scorecard for giving a false impression of how colleges compare with one another.

Furthermore, this problem exists in nearly almost every collegiate market the scorecard covers, making schools across the country that are renowned for quality education look worse than they actually are.

When data is provided without a comprehensive ranking, many exceptional affordable schools may be placed at a great disadvantage.

To compound matters, the scorecard places too big a stake in post-college salary data. Even more problematic is the fact that it fails to bring into view many important aspects of college that cannot be quantified: things like whether or not

In recent weeks campaigns across social media platforms have sprung up, most with the hashtag #IstandwithPlannedParenthood or #pink out.

This movement comes after several controversial videos were released by an antiabortion group highlighting the murky guidelines for using fetal tissue for research purposes.

The group, called the Center for Medical Progress, has accused Planned Parenthood of selling aborted fetuses for a profit, a charge that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have vehemently denied.

One of the videos, recorded in secret and released on July 14, 2015, shows members of the anti-abortion group posing as tissue brokers discussing terms for procuring fetal tissue.

“This is not something with any revenue stream that affiliates are looking at,” says Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, in the video.

“This is a way to offer patients the services they want and do good for the medical community and still maintain access.”

The first round of videos were found to be highly edited, however, the CMP subsequently released unedited video footage. The videos spread rapidly over social media and were discussed on talk radio.

In an article published in The New York Times, CMP Founder David Daleiden alleged that the videos provided evidence of a “criminal conspiracy to make money off of aborted baby parts reaching to the very highest levels” of Planned Parenthood.

A Planned Parenthood spokesman, Eric Ferrero, released a statement in response, saying “At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does, with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the high-

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Nathan Rutter plays his guitar at the annual GCC coffee house on Wednesday. Along with a variety of musical performances, there were refreshments provided. More pictures and information available on page 7.

How should we rank colleges?

Molly Wicker News Editor

For college educators, September has now been shaped by a deluge of rankings, each with its own data, fanfare and false conclusions.

This month, the Department of Education threw their hat into the rankings ring with the release of the Obama administration’s much-anticipated College Scorecard.

The College Scorecard does not technically rank colleges, but anyone can use the data to do so. The new online tool allows users to compare institutions based on price, debt, completion rate and average salary of graduates, regardless of major, ten years after finishing their degrees.

For families looking for financial aid options, it provides necessary and helpful information, however, some believe

that it has several major limitations.

“It’s a classic example of confusing causation and correlation,” said Frank Bruni, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and author of “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,” a book about the college admissions process.

“Anyone who has taken statistics should know better, but when it comes to college, that’s what people do. They throw common sense out the window.”

The Scorecard excludes colleges like Grove City College and Hillsdale College, schools that do not participate in Title IV federal funding. This blatant exclusion undercuts the scorecard’s claim to be a website that helps American consumers “focus on making a quality, affordable education within reach.”

Both Hillsdale and Grove City charge a tuition that is significantly less expensive than most other private, liberal arts institutions included on the list. In fact,

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Beans hosted an open mic night for poetry writers and lovers.

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Take a look at No-Ho and AO Glow from this past weekend.

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Are you a fashion lover and need something to do on Saturday?

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Perspective from outside the GCC bubble on the melting pot idea.

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Volleyball fans and players help raise money for those in need.

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Joshua Fried

October 9, 2015

The unknown exhibit Local Artists’ Exhibition on campus lacks visitors

Staff Writer

Most people know about the Pew Memorial Room in the Pew Fine Arts Center, but the Local Artists’ Exhibition right across the hallway is not so lucky.

Unfortunately, the majority of students and faculty do not know that there is an art exhibit on campus, even though there are fliers up all over campus.

One reason that the exhibit may go unnoticed is that it is on the edge of the building.

As one walks by Pew Memorial Room, they will see what looks like an exhibit, which is actually the entrance to the exhibit.

“I appreciate it,” junior communications major Zach Ferguson said. “It’s a lot of fun putting it together. It’s interesting.”

Ferguson continued to explain how each piece of art’s center is 63 inches from the floor so that it can be at eye level.

When the exhibit is set for children’s art, it is set up

much lower so that children can look at it from their eyelevel.

“Art is for everyone,” Ferguson said.

After two hours of manning the table for the exhibit, senior Reagan Georges said that no one had walked in to view the art.

“I wish more people knew about it,” Georges said.

The exhibit is usually dead, as the only person seen in the exhibit on Thursday was a janitor who may have glanced at the art for a moment.

“Just about the time students realize there is a gallery they graduate,” Professor of Art Kathy Rhoades said. “I think if it was included in the tours students would at least know we have a gallery for them to enjoy.”

When one enters the exhibit one will find a podium that has a listing of the titles, artists, and prices. The list prices range from $75 to $2000.

The exhibit has a wide variety of art. The mediums of art range from watercolor to terra cotta, charcoal to pho-

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Schools like Grove City, which is continually lauded for its academic rigor and close-knit community, are left to fend for themselves, despite the fact that they offer life-enhancing experiences to students and faculty

PARENTHOOD est ethical and legal standards. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood.”

To many people who saw the videos, it appeared that Planned Parenthood was proposing to illegally sell tissue, prompting lawmakers in several states to launch investigations, however, Planned Parenthood still maintains that its process is legal and limited to a handful of states.

Part of the video shows Nucatola telling undercover activists that tissues can be obtained for fees in the $30 to $100 range. Anti-abortion activists point to this as proof that Planned Parenthood is selling the body parts of aborted children.

While it is illegal to sell fetal tissue, it is legal to donate it. The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 allows a woman to consent to donating fetal tissue after an abortion.

The federal law sets restrictions that prevent the woman from knowing or having a say in how the tissue is used or profiting from it.

The law also stipulates that fetuses cannot be aborted for the specific purpose of using tissue, especially to sell it.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has said that her organization conducts tissue donations in “less than five states.”

Nevertheless, no one from Planned Parenthood, its state affiliates or companies that procure the stem cells will disclose the states where this happens.

tography.

The exhibit showcases the work of local artists. “Their work talks about our histories, our beauty and it explores the individual artists’ ideas of these,” said Rhoades.

One artists displayed in the exhibit is J. D. Titzel, an award winning Pennsylvania artist living in the area. Titzel has been exhibited both regionally and nationally, and will be on campus for the opening of an exhibit displaying his work, with a reception on Oct. 23 from 6-8 p.m in the Fine Arts Center.

Tizel’s art includes watercolors, oil canvases and graphite drawings that depict life. According to Titzel, “They reflect the immediacy and the intimacy of still lifes from studio set ups and landscapes on location.”

“Only an artist of patience, sincerity, and commitment could produce the body of work Titzel has.

You will enjoy his distinctive style, his images, and their skillful artistry,” said Lois Wiley, an art critic from the Erie Times.

alike.

Of course, it is certainly important to give students the tools to empower them in a potentially unstable economic environment.

Nevertheless, survey after survey shows that business leaders look for new employees with liberal arts degrees because of their ability to work hard, think creatively, communicate effectively and collaborate with their

This artwork is being prepared for the next art exhibit.

peers to solve the slew of problems that face their generation.

Andrew Delbanco, professor at Columbia University and the author of the book “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be” expressed a similar sentiment: “Holding colleges accountable for how well they prepare students for post-college life is a good thing in principle,” he told The New York Times.

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“But measuring that preparation in purely monetary terms raises many dangers. Should colleges be encouraged first and foremost to maximize the net worth of their graduates? I don’t think so.”

Ultimately, it is impossible to capture an institution’s value and its impact on students with numbers alone.

Honoring a dear president

Mackenzie lecture captures “Head, Heart, and Hands” Josh Delk

Contributing Writer Every year Grove City College holds a lecture on the integration of faith and education in honor of the achievements of former Grove City College President Charles Mackenzie.

Mackenzie’s endeavors to incorporate the rich traditions of liberal arts education and the Christian faith into the College’s curriculum.

In Mackenzie’s time at the College from 1971 to 1991 he instituted a major curriculum change, which now includes the humanities program, as a shared foundation in the liberal arts tradition.

As president he also greatly increased the size of the student body and faculty, improved the campus with over $38 million in projects and led the school through its landmark 1984 Supreme Court case.

This year, Dr. Dennis P. Hollinger, President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, came to discuss his book “Head, Heart, and Hands: A Paradigm for Integrating Faith and Learning.”

Hollinger was inspired by Dr. Mackenzie when they met at a conference some years ago, and developed an appreciation for Grove City College’s mission to provide a rigorous, authentically Christian education at an affordable price.

An author of several books on ethics and Christian living, it seemed only fitting that Hollinger come and speak at a college such as this.

Hollinger’s talk focused on three typologies of the es-

sence of Christian life which constitute Christian education.

The first, a “faith of the head,” meaning of primary beliefs and understandings, equates to the importance of facts, paradigms and methods in education. These aid the forming of a Christian worldview.

Hollinger notes that “these are the essentials we need to think well in society.”

“Faith of the heart” encompasses feelings, passions, affections and deep spiritual experiences.

Pentecostal and Charismatic movements embrace this, emphasizing the im-

mediate and spontaneous movement of the Spirit.

This typology states that emotional patterns are the key to the human person, and that “the purpose of education is to develop a passion for God and people,” according to Hollinger.

A practical typology, Hollinger’s “faith of the hands” is the faith of action and doing.

In this viewpoint, Christianity is understood through the incarnation: not an emotional state of being, but a faith that “must be lived and made visible in the world,” Hollinger said.

This typology in education insists that we learn by do-

ing, especially through experiential education, and that Christian education must be service and witness-oriented.

When asked which of these typologies is most important or applicable to college students, Hollinger insisted that a substantive Christian education requires a holistic approach in order to produce students with a holistic faith, meaning that students need an integration of all three typologies.

“We are fully integrated and whole beings, and we need to affirm this Biblical idea of wholeness: the cognitive, emotional, and practical,” Hollinger said.

Life Behind the stir-fry

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What A day in the life: The Chelsea Williamson story makes a leader?

Ethan Paszko

Staff Writer

Jessica Brinling

Known for both her delectable stir-fry and vivacious smile, Chelsea Williamson is a celebrity in her own right at Hicks Café.

Williamson wakes up every morning at 8:45 a.m., arrives to work at 9:30 a.m. and begins her work day at 10 a.m. She changes into her uniform, clocks in, and places the veggies and noodles on the stir-fry line. And, of course, she makes sure her famed wok sauce is available for all to enjoy.

Williamson has studied the art of culinary expertise for years, resulting in finely honed stir-fry making skills.

Before beginning her career at Grove City College with Bon Appétit in August of 2013, Williamson was a culinary student for two years at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School.

The first year and a half of her career with Bon Appétit consisted of making pizzas at both MAP Café and Hicks.

This position was shortlived, however. “Chef Ryan wanted to challenge me a couple days a week to prepare stir-fry. And after a few months of that, I’ve been at the stir-fry station ever since,” Williamson said.

Yet Williamson’s daily routine is not motivated by money or a requirement to work.

Rather, Williamson loves the students and interacting with

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Chelsea Williamson poses in front of her stir-fry station. them on a day-to-day basis.

“Grove City students mean everything to me, they’re like family. I love talking to them.

My favorite part about making stir-fry is talking to the kids and seeing their smiling faces every day,” Williamson said.

“Williamson is, without a doubt, one of the most enthusiastic people on campus.

She has a way of lifting others up, and she oftentimes makes my day. In addition, her stir-fry is bomb,” said

Austin Everett, a sophomore accounting major.

When asked what motivates her in life, Williamson responded simply, “cooking for the kids. Students always tell me they look for me at the stir-fry station because they love when I’m here. It makes me happy.”

“Because she’s passionate about what she does, she comes out here and prepares the food for the students, our main customer, and she really enjoys doing that. She

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comes here every day and is proud about the food she is serving,” JonErik Germadnik, General Manager of Bon Appétit, said.

Williamson positively impacts students of the College and fellow colleagues daily with her smile and love of life, evidenced by the words of others.

“You come to work and see that smile on her face, and it’s contagious. It makes everyone else want to smile,” Germadnik said.

MEP gets a facelift

Abigail Cunninham Contributing Writer

The old is gone, the new has come and what was dirty has now been made clean.

Beginning May 18, Mary Ethel Pew Hall was filled with renovators who made use of a $5 million budget to transform the residence hall into a clean, new and updated living space.

“They managed to stretch the money they had very far,” said Becky White, the resident director of MEP Hall.

“It’s exciting to see how the money played out and where it has gone.”

On a campus as old as Grove City College, it is no surprise that MEP Hall was in need of some renovations.

The 34-year-old carpet posed health risks, the laundry room reeked of gasoline,

the walls were peeling paint and the brown wooden dressers and desks were beginning to resemble furniture found in antique shops.

Amidst other buildings that are in need of just as many, if not more, renovations, why was MEP Hall chosen? The answer: budget.

Each year, the College operations department budgets money for renovations. Last year’s renovation budget was $5 million, which was also the amount needed to complete the MEP Hall renovations.

According to White, renovations are budget-based, not need-based.

Major renovations included fresh paint, new and moveable wooden furniture, window installments and new ceiling lights.

Perhaps the most unique

quality of MEP Hall prior to the renovations was the carpeting. Each room was fully carpeted with a dark brown carpet that made for a warmer, homier environment for residents.

The carpet was replaced by linoleum flooring, in an effort to address the developing mold and mildew. “Hygienically and maintenance-wise, tiles are far superior,” said White.

The current 252 residents of MEP Hall have been responding well to the renovations thus far.

First-time MEP Hall resident and sophomore Katie Shilling said that the renovations exceeded her expectations. According to Shilling, MEP Hall “doesn’t feel like a dungeon anymore.”

General feedback may be positive but adjusting has

been hard for some. “The old MEP just felt naturally homie,” said junior Megan Baak, who lived in the building for two years.

Although change was necessary, many residents miss the comfort of the warm carpet and dark wooden furniture that once inhabited MEP Hall.

However, it is doubtful that students would have missed the bathrooms had they been renovated. “I was surprised and disappointed. I was expecting the bathrooms to be redone. The rooms were old but the bathrooms required more attention,” said Baak.

Despite the desires of students, the bathroom renovations did not fit within the budget.

Warriors break out of the chapel

Joshua Fried Staff Writer

Warriors for Christ shook things up last week when they led worship outdoors last Thursday, standing on the stairs of Harbison Chapel in forty-degree weather.

There was a very large crowd gathered around in the dark singing worship songs such as “Lead Me to the Cross,” “The Stand,” and “You are Beautiful.”

“It was really cool,” senior biology major Matthew Brackbill said, meaning this both literally and figuratively.

Some students stood with

their arms raised high while many students stood around with their arms crossed, trying to stay warm, but all students were actively involved in the worship.

The energy level was very high and no one had a negative thing to say about it.

They had a good experience and were glad they went.

“They were really loud, the whole community could hear it,” Grove City local Drew Robinson said.

The Warriors made an impression both on campus and off campus, but for two different reasons. Maybe there is the possibility of raising interest simply through the noise.

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Harbison Chapel is seen over the Warriors sound board.

Grove City College is redefining the true meaning of a leader through a new certificate program called the Grove City College Telos Leadership Institute.

The new program is the brain child of Eric Phillips, Director of Student Leadership DevelopPhillips ment.

The Telos Leadership Institute will focus on two facets: the initiative to start conversations that would shape culture on campus and how to conduct change in a Christian manner.

“Before, we had different leadership programs. This is more of a focus on President McNulty’s emphasis on how to serve the common good,” Phillips sais.

The Leadership Institute will offer a certificate program that spans over four years. It will consist of required workshops, each serving a unique purpose in furthering participants’ knowledge, and a final capstone project.

The first workshop, called “Telos,” will address questions such as, “What is God’s intention within society?”

“What is purpose of leadership?” and “What does success mean?”

The second workshop will focus on the individual and what it means to be “fully yourself.”

The last workshop will center on society and how others influence culture and perspective.

These workshops cater to all majors and potential career paths by emphasizing the true knowledge of God as well as how to be more intentional and purposeful.

“There are certain elements of wisdom that are universal, but on the other hand, if you are a political science major, your view of how to make more common good will be different compared to a communications major,” Phillips said.

Following the workshops, the final step towards a leadership certificate will include a capstone service project that aids community-building.

“The purpose of the project should be something that doesn’t exist, but should exist to help the common good,” Phillips said.

Overall, the leadership program will serve as an opportunity for students to wrestle with how to further the common good and identify where it exists in society.

“Forty years from now, we want students to be healthier and stronger. This leadership program is at your own pace and with your own intentions and path in mind,” Phillips says.

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Home-grown poetry Beans on Broad hosts local wordsmiths

Kathleen McAlister Staff Writer

This past Friday evening Beans on Broad experienced business just as brisk as the cold October wind, as students, College faculty, community members and visitors crowded in, filling up tables and spilling over to the stairs and the floor.

Friday marked the longawaited poetry reading, featuring two new collections of local poetry, “Things Not Seen” by Eric Potter, Professor of English and House Poet of Grove City College, and “Our Portion” by Philip Terman, Professor of English at Clarion University and codirector of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

“Things Not Seen” is Potter’s second collection of poetry, published in early September of this year.

The book is a collection of reflections on topics from the stray dog of faith, a dreamfulfilling U2 concert and his parents.

Potter described his poetry as mostly narrative or anecdotal, though a few poems dealt with more abstract ideas.

Another section of Potter’s poetry describes and reflects on a series of icons Potter carried with him in a notebook in an effort to “not waste time.”

Terman’s collection “Our Portion” is, as Terman called it, the Old Testament to Potter’s New Testament.

While Potter’s poetry stems from a life of Christian faith, Terman writes candidly about his Jewish faith and traditions, with the exception of a poem about St. Augustine.

“Our Portion” is Terman’s fifth book of poetry, featuring works about faith, an unknown ancestry and a poem inspired by his daughter Bella, ending poignantly with, “You, too, were a child, remember? You, too, lived

forever.”

Potter and Terman originally met through a trip to Grove City per a suggestion from retired professor Gloria Stansbury’s.

Over the years they have become friends and have participated in poetry readings together.

After getting together this past spring, they decided with the publishing of two new collections that they should organize something.

“We decided to do a reading, and we thought an open mic would be a good idea to get others to participate and hopefully to enliven the arts,” Potter said.

Hosted by the literary magazine, The Echo, the reading featured an hour of Potter and Terman’s poetry and an hour of open mic.

“Leading up to the event, I was a little concerned about the interest since no one was signing up to read poetry, but the turnout for reading was great. I was very grateful for everyone who showed up to listen to the readers, especially early on for Dr. Potter and Phil Terman,” said Joshua Fried, Junior Editor for the Echo.

The open mic featured original works by students and community members, dealing with subjects like growing up, Harbison Chapel, and the dissolution of a marriage.

The night also featured two song performances and one moving performance of spoken word.

“The experience was incredible and I was very grateful for the experience, and I hope that we (the Echo) can host another event soon,” said Fried.

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Dr. Potter and Dr. Terman, pictured above and below respectively, recite their poetry at Beans on Broad.

New Year’s in October?

Chinese club celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival

Pearl Scalzo Staff Writer

The Chinse Club celebrated the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival last Friday, by drinking a variety of teas, eating mooncakes and playing games.

Often referred to as “Chinese Thanksgiving,” the Chinese MidAutumn Festival is held every Aug. 15 of the lunar calendar. It reflects a legend about a brave queen named Chang’e who saved her people by consuming an elixir for immortality.

However, this meant the beloved, respected queen had to live the rest of her life on the moon.

In the Chinese culture, the moon is associated with peace and prosperity, and the full moon symbolizes family reunion. The Chinese people gather together to eat moon cakes, play games and make wishes on the moon for Chang’e to grant.

The event coordinator, sophomore Parker Fisher, was in charge of the

dice game, “Bo Bing.” The number of fours or pattern of the die determine the quality of the prize. Traditionally there are 64 prizes for the different winners, which are usually moon cakes, ranging in size and flavor.

As a political science major, Fisher is studying Chinese due to China’s heavy presence in economics and politics, hoping it will make him more “marketable in the future.”

Another attraction was watching freshman electrical engineering major Eli Dadd playing the Chinese yo-yo. This traditional game is an hourglass-shaped toy weighing about half a pound which spins on a string attached to two wands held in both hands. With over six years of training, Dadd remarks that his main inspiration was “seeing other people doing this.”

This event was organized with the help of Stephanie Dadd, senior finance and accounting major and president of the Chinese Club.

Stephanie taught English at Bei-

jing Union University for four weeks, which ignited her aspiration to pursue Chinese.

She remarked that the Chinese Club has been instrumental in finalizing her decisions as it offers opportunities to “delve into the culture” and gives a strong “sense of community.”

Stephanie works closely with Professor Su in planning different Chinese Club events.

Su began the Chinse Club in 2009.

She said that her desire was “to help students and the whole school to learn more about Chinese culture.”

Sophomore English major Bethany Haughey performed on a traditional two-stringed Chinese violin, which she has played since seventh grade, an inherited talent from her grandfather. She played an ancient song about nature and rivers, incorporating crescendos and differing tempos which created a beautiful, captivating piece.

The evening concluded with the

ceremonial flying lanterns. The Chinese Club and its participants gathered together on the Quad and helped each other light a large chunk of wax cradled in wire on the base of thin paper. After several minutes the lantern puffed up and flew towards the sky, brightening and warming the gloomy weather.

Soon the peaceful atmosphere was interrupted when a lantern escaped landing somewhere near the Zerbe Health and Wellness Center. Chaos broke out as large chunks of wax on fire dropped from the lanterns.

Frantic participants stomped on the wax and steered their lanterns away from unsuspecting flyers. Wires twisted and people screamed warnings as fiery lanterns grazed heads and trees.

The situation was eventually controlled and the Mid-Autumn Festival ended with laughter and sighs of relief.

Entertainment ‘Oh, what a beautiful morning!’

October 9, 2015

Practice is underway for ‘Oklahoma!’

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before a show opens. It is a lot of hard work, but generally the cast and crew members love what they do.

There is definitely a comradery within the theatre. Jonathan Fisher, junior communication and visual arts major said, “It’s such a privilege to be in the cast of this production. Being able to be

a part of a musical is really fun for me.

I feel like deep down I wish that my actual life was a musical, so at least I have this outlet to break out into song and dance with my friends without bystanders giving us funny looks.”

It will possess you The Exorcist, the twentytwo year old classic, supernatural horror film, holds true in its classic status with an 8 out of 10 on IMDb. The film, directed by William Friedkin, is about the demonic possession of a twelve-year-old girl and her mother’s attempt to get her back.

The beginning stages of the film were shaky because no directors would take the

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“Oklahoma” is one of those musicals that everyone in America has heard of, in one way or another.

Even if they cannot place it, phrases like “Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what a beautiful day. I have a beautiful feeling, everything’s going my way,” and the “corn is as high as an elephants eye” are not completely uncommon in today’s vernacular, even in modern pop culture.

It is one of the great American musicals. It is the embodiment of the American Midwest, but it is not exclusively performed in the United States and is beloved the world over.

“Oklahoma” has been performed on Broadway, in London, and now it will grace the stage of Grove City College’s very own J. Howard Pew Fine Arts Center.

The finished musical will debut on Oct. 28, but that does not mean that there is not a lot of work that goes into it.

The actors have been working hard, on their line memorizations and choreography. The set crew has been working on creating the physical world of the show for close to a month now.

The costume department has been painstakingly crafting the adornments for the players on the stage. A lot of work has gone into this show already, but it is two weeks away from going up and there is plenty left to do.

A lot more work goes into producing a stage show than one might think. The crew and actors are working months

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Pick of the Week Sam Farley

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Revisiting ‘The Exorcist’

job. One of the main actor’s toddlers was hit by a motorcycle, which led to the belief that the set was cursed.

Yet even with all the setbacks the film was produced and became a commercial success.

The plot is inspired by the events in Cottage City, Maryland in 1941 with the possession of a young boy by the name of Roland Doe. Friedkin said that his film is meant to immortalize the story by changing very little of Doe’s exorcism story, in-

cluding as much of the information that was verified by those involved in the exorcism.

The three key roles are Chris MacNeil, Father Lankester Merrin, and Regan MacNeil After playing with an Ouija board, Regan MacNeal, played by Linda Blair, becomes possessed by the demon Pazuzu, who was defeated once before by Father Lankester Merrin, played by Max von Sydow, but has returned for his revenge.

Regan’s

mother,

Chris

MacNeil, played by Ellen Burstyn, does everything she can to find a medical cure for her daughter’s ailments but ultimately calls a Catholic priest.

In the end, the story has an ending that reflects Christlike grace as Father Damien Karras,

played

by

Jason

Miller, sacrifices himself after regaining his faith to save Regan from Pazuzu.

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As fall hastily approaches, there is a contradictory coziness that comes with the brisk winds and changing colors. The peculiar transition of seasons often marks a difference in taste, as well.

Sweaters are being broken out, pumpkin spice lattes abound, and there is often a shift in musical interest from those summer jams to the more stripped-back, sentimental sounds.

The newest release from Beirut, “No No No,” is certainly released at the right time, because it captures all of this.

Beirut’s album is simple in its delivery, but has a cheeriness that is not overwhelming, yet enhances those good tidings associated with the season and provides a warm welcome to fall.

The amount of effort in this album is surprising because they make it seem very minimal, but in reality, this album displays a lot of musical talent and diversity. This is easy to overlook due to the cohesiveness and mood this album maintains throughout its entirety.

Yet, as the album develops, it transitions from its two main singles, “Gibraltar” and “No No No,” into more instrumentalfocused tracks that bring to light the skill displayed.

Past the two singles, you start to hear the string instruments as they ease in and out, and the continuity starts to make sense. Through the violins and cellos, the melody is carried from one song to the next.

All other instruments are used very sparingly at the right moment and the right time. Trumpets and trombones are brought in to add emphasis. A piano and synthesizer preserve the playfulness.

The drums are used in accordance with the bass to keep the beat alive but delicately enough that it does not become the entire rhythm for the songs.

This all adds up to a fragile balance that the voice of the band, Zach Condon, eloquently carries with as the sophisticated sounds of the album unfold.

This album is not much of a commitment at all; it totals at 29 minutes in length and is versatile enough to simply toss on in the background, or to sit and take in every last component of what forms the songs.

Very rarely does a band manage to make an album that is both fitting for what is wanted at the time and still be something that can last outside of that time period, but Beirut has managed that with “No No No.”

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Through the Lens

No-Hos before bros

October 9, 2015

Northern Hospitality, or No-Ho as it is lovingly referred to, occured this past weekend in South MAP. This is an all-freshmen dance where students can jam to a variety of tunes and get to know each other in a fun environment.

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AO Glow version 2.0

Josh Fried Staff Writer

A DJ, a circus tent, paint, and students all came together to have a great time at AO Glow last Friday, Oct. 2.

The event was hosted by the housing group Alpha Omega, known as the AOs. With hot drinks and tickets that paid for themselves thanks to the additional three-dollar discount for Sweet Jeanie’s, one would have expected a much bigger turnout.

“It went really well, but we were disappointed that it wasn’t more popular which was frustrating,” said AO Erik Carlstrom.

The general consensus was that this year’s AO Glow was everything that it should have been last year, but with a lesser turnout.

“It was a better set up, a better design, and had better ventilation,” said AO Nick Gillot.

“There was more

space and more area.”

Everything appeared to be better, except the turnout seemed to be down because of the negativity surrounding the event last year, due in part to poor ventilation, lack of “glow,” and an unfortunate stink bomb incident.

The security of the event was increased to keep the dance from becoming a grind-fest, according to AO Clint Glenn.

“And DJ Dave Porter was the bomb,” Glenn said.

It was a big event that had a lot of work put into it, and hopefully the negativity that shrouded it this year will dissipate for next year, aided by the success of this year’s event.

“The glow was awesome, and everyone should have gone because the music and environment was great,” said junior communications major, Bradley Warmhold. “It was a lot of fun, and I had a blast.”

Not your average grind

The most recent SGA-hosted coffee house happened this past Wednesday.

This event featured many different artists such as Nate Rutter, Ben Tobias and Zeke Hoole. Many also came for the donuts.

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October 9, 2015

Dare to be Dauntless

Liesl McClintock Editor-in-Chief

JMK Boutique will present its second fashion show tonight, Friday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Beans on Broad.

The fashion show is titled “Dauntless” in order to emphasize “the boldness and beauty found in every woman.”

The show is directed by Saria Dorsey, who has been instrumental in the history of the boutique.

The show will feature many Grove City College students including juniors Sarah Markley and Sarah Wishing and seniors Patty Folkerts and Maggie Englehart. There will be free drinks and food and a DJ. Located on Old Mills Road, JMK Boutique was founded in 2012 by husband and wife Jon and Mary Kaup. They were originally inspired by a pharmacy whose entire front was a boutique.

They then decided to bring a boutique to Grove City.

Their goal was to create a boutique that would be accessible to all ages. They began the business in their pharmacy RX Xpress, and the business has continued to grow more than they ever anticipated.

They hosted their first fashion show in 2013 titled “Dreaming in Color.” The event was a huge success with over 100 people in attendance.

Tickets for the show are available at https://www. eventbrite.com/e/jmk-boutique-fall-fashion-show-tickets-18785225114 Doors open at 6:30.

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The Grove City College marching band delights the audience as it performs in HAL coutyard during homecoming weekend.

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Grove City College band shows off at local competition Jake Sziraky

Entertainment Editor This past weekend the Grove City College marching band took part in a band invitational in Allentown, Pa. Over 15 bands participated in the festival, along with the Marching Wolverines.

The band has been practicing diligently for weeks in order to get ready for this prestigious event. After all, this was the first time the marching band had even participated in this festival.

The final rehearsal for the competition took place only four hours before the wolverines were scheduled to leave at 2 p.m. on Oct. 3.

Only slightly off schedule, the bus

was loaded and pulled out of the Pew Fine Arts Center’s parking lot, and the Marching Wolverines were off.

The band arrived at the festival around 1:00 in the afternoon on Oct. 4.

They were allowed 55 minutes to wander around the festival and watch the other bands.

It was not a competition with winners and losers, so the entire ordeal had a more a relaxed feel for the band. Even the bands performing were allowed to sit back and enjoy the work of the other teams.

At 1:55 p.m., the band returned to the buses to change into their uniforms and prepare for their 3:15 performance time. Dr. Pisano, the director, lead the

band in their warmups with a quiet confidence in their performance.

There were many other talented bands at the festival, such as the spectacular performance from Morgantown and the clockwork precision of the University of Connecticut; however, Grove City College was able to put on quite a show.

The Wolverines charmed audiences with their rendition of the songs “Riverdance,” “Sierra Sister,” Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off,” “I Bet My Life” and “House of the Rising Sun.” All the songs were received with a rousing applause by the audience, and the Wolverines could hold their heads high in pride as they marched off the field.

October 9, 2015

Perspectives

Hate the politics?

Love the process Thomas Kutz

100 Campus Drive Grove City, Pa. 16127 collegian@gcc.edu gcc.collegian@gmail.com

Staff Writer

Many people ask me how I can possibly be a political science major. “I don’t know how you put up with all of it,” they say.

I am often asked why I want to go into politics. “It’s a bunch of yelling and nobody gets along,” they tell me.

Despite the constant arguing and bickering that goes back and forth between parties and candidates, I contest this: even if you hate the politics and signs and phone calls that come every four years, you should love the system.

In 1776, the founders of this nation agreed that electoral government was the fairest means of governing. They agreed that people should not be subject to the rule of a monarch or a dictator.

Thus, in the second U.S. constitution written in 1787 (it’s a little known fact that John Adams wrote the first constitution ever in Massachusetts years before), the founders included the system by which we currently elect government.

They did not want the political elite to be the only ones with a chance to lead the nation, which is why the only requirements are of age, residence and birth in the country to be President of the United States.

The foundation of the American experiment is based on the principle of electoral government.

Some people ache over the 17 candidates jumping in to run for the Republican nomination for president.

Add the other five or so on the Democratic side that

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are running or considering a run, and you have a crowded field, and each candidate has a slim shot at being the next Commander-in-Chief.

On the GOP side alone, the debate stages are packed. It is difficult to get each of the 11 air time – but it is important. Why? The process was created so that each person, regardless of his or her background, might have an equal chance.

It is the beauty of the American system.

At its founding, the GOP consisted of nine governors, five current or former U.S. senators, a neurosurgeon and two businesspersons with no political experience.

While the majority of the party has had prior political experience, many started as lawyers, doctors or business owners.

The anticipated next speaker of the house started with a $5,000 investment to start his own deli. Anyone can do anything in the political process in the United

States, and that is a beautiful thing.

What frustrates people is the constant bantering back and forth between candidates, but this is also a good thing. Survival of the fittest is a principle that holds true in many aspects of the world, including politics.

Therefore, having many candidates is healthy for the system, though it can be difficult to keep track of them all.

Consider this: would you rather have a presidential nominee who sailed through the primary and election process and was never challenged to stand up for what he or she believes in?

Or would you rather have a presidential nominee that withstood months of hard work, answering questions, and came out on top?

It is beneficial to have a battle brewing in all stages of the political process. By asking candidates the hard questions, we the voters are able to see how they respond

and make a more educated decision at the polls as a result.

The majority of the people will not want to be asked these questions. Of course, it is easier that way.

But it is very important to pay attention to each candidate’s answers, because soon one of them will have to face the hardest questions in the world every day.

So why do I study politics?

I believe John Adams said it best: “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Our sons ought to study mathematics … commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, [and] music.”

The process is what keeps the America going. The process is what allows our freedom to continue to flow from the fountain of liberty for eternity

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The danger of a standing army Colin Combs

Perspectives Editor The United States has the largest military in the entire world.

Besides the U.S., China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the U.K., India and Germany spend the most on defense are – totaling $601 billion for the protection of almost 3 billion people.

The United States spends $610 billion on a mere 300 million people.

However, the United States neighbors only friendly nations, it is geographically isolated and the closest thing to an “Axis Power” or Soviet Union the world has currently is little more than a puffed-up terrorist group.

In spite of all this, some people just are not satisfied.

Consider Donald Trump: “I am the toughest guy. I will rebuild our military. It will be so strong, and so powerful, and so great. It will be so powerful and so great that we’ll never have to use it. Nobody’s going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.”

One must wonder who it is that Trump has in mind who is so ready to “mess with us” today. Is there some evil Galactic Empire that I am not aware of? How much is

enough?

We are spending an insane amount of money on something, but Trump is promising to spend even more money on something he does not even plan to use.

For a man running as a businessman to bring in the market’s sense of profit and loss, of cutting unnecessary things from the budget, this is an incredibly wasteful plan.

What is worse is that many Americans seem to buy into this kind of reasoning.

Trump’s promise of “Making America Great Again” strikes a chord with millions of U.S.

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voters.

If what we really want is to conserve American values, if we really want America to be great by following the principles we stand for, few plans could be worse than Trump’s.

More than almost anything else, the founding fathers wanted to avoid a standing army, a permanent professional army that is not disbanded during times of peace.

In one of his speeches during the Constitutional Convention, James Madison stated that “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be

safe companions to liberty.

The means of defense against foreign danger have always been instruments of tyranny at home.”

Alexander Hamilton, who was much less enamored with the ideals of liberty, praised a small militia of the people as an alternative to standing armies in Federalist Paper No. 29.

Thomas Jefferson bluntly stated in a letter to Chandler Price that “the spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.”

Americans are supposed to be distrustful of such powers in the world. When we hear the word “military,” we are not supposed to think of glory and honor, but of vice, death and despotism.

At best we may consider it a necessary evil, and when it does not prove itself necessary, such as during a time of peace, we despise it as the greatest of evils.

There is nothing more unAmerican than our current military, and certainly so would be an even larger military as Trump and so-called conservatives are calling for.

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October 9, 2015

Peace Prize in pieces

Jon Nelson

Contributing writer The Nobel Peace Prize should be abolished, or at least seriously rethought. A recent episode has made this all too clear.

Doctors Without Borders (which goes by the name Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF), an international medical aid charity, was awarded the Prize in 1999 “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents.”

Last Saturday, an MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was struck in a series of bombing raids by the U.S. military after Afghan forces requested air support.

At least 22 people were killed, including 12 MSF staff, and another 37 people were wounded.

A truly striking, and ironic, aspect of this tragedy is that the Commander in Chief of

Does the Nobel award commit to finding honorable and deserving recipients, or is it becoming a popularity prize for big names? the U.S. military, President Barack Obama, received the Peace Prize in 2009 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

What this means is that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was, in some way, responsible for the killing of members of the 1999 Peace Prize recipient.

What then does “peace” mean? A generally accepted definition is something like, “freedom from or the cessation of war or violence.”

However, if one Peace Prize recipient’s military can bomb and kill the mem-

bers of another recipient, the word seems to have completely lost its meaning.

And if the word has lost its meaning, so has the Prize itself.

There are other examples of past recipients who did not deserve the Peace Prize, including the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces (1988) and Al Gore (2007).

The United Nations has rarely been a successful promoter of “freedom from war or violence.” In fact, they often cause more problems than they are able to fix.

Likewise, there is nothing to suggest that Al Gore has done anything to foster an

environment of peace.

He received the award along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

Nothing there suggests that he is doing anything to prevent war or violence.

Another interesting case was the Nobel Peace Prize of 1973.

The Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese Communist leader Lê Đuc Tho “for the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces.”

However, Tho refused to accept the prize in 1973, on the grounds that peace had not yet actually been

achieved in Vietnam.

He understood the meaning of peace better than the Nobel Committee.

These criticisms do not prove that every instance of the Peace Prize has been meaningless.

The Dalai Lama in 1989, Doctors Without Borders in 1999, and Malala Yousafzai in 2014 were all deserving recipients of the Peace Prize.

Even former president Jimmy Carter (2002) was a deserving recipient for his work on international human rights, both as president and afterwards.

Peace is a goal that should be aimed for by all of those in the international community.

But giving an award to individuals who have done little or nothing to promote the freedom or cessation of war and violence only dilutes the award, and the meaning of “peace” itself.

Is the melting pot really what we want?

Grayson Quay

Foreign Correspondent European countries are “in a population death spiral” and will soon have to “make serious existential decisions about defending their cultures, and more broadly, western civilization,” Dr. Marvin Folkertsma wrote in a Vision and Values piece last week.

In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 sci-fi novel “The Diamond Age,” he portrays a world that has grown tired of attempts at encouraging diversity within a relativistic, pluralistic society.

Instead, individuals belong to various “phyles,” based around a shared ethnicity, religion or set of values.

There’s an Ashanti phyle, a Jewish phyle, a Neo-Victorian phyle, and so on.

In major cities, each phyle has its own ghetto. Some phyles accept new members; others do not. You are free to leave your phyle at any time.

And what is wrong with that? It makes sense to want to be around people like you, with whom you share a language, faith, or culture – or all three.

Being around people who

differ from you can certainly open your mind to new perspectives. I am experiencing that right now in Spain.

But, after two hours of speaking Spanish with my host mother, I’m exhausted and ready to shut myself in my room and Facebook message a friend in English for an hour before bed.

In medieval Spain, Christians and Jews voluntarily and happily lived in ghettos within the Muslim-controlled cities.

Today, the American Department of Housing and Urban Development takes an active interest in integrating racially homogenous neighborhoods.

Although Stephenson never goes into much detail about how the world got that way, the current situation in U.S. and European politics could provide a passable prequel to “The Diamond Age.” If Western civilization is still a meaningful entity, it is certainly in trouble, as Dr. Folkertsma said.

According to the UN, in 1950, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, and the United States were among the 12 most populous nations in the world.

By 2013, only Russia and the U.S. remained, and according to projections, Russia’s days on the list are numbered.

The average birth rate across the entire European Union is 1.6, far below the 2.1 necessary to maintain a stable population.

For this reason, most Western European countries require huge influxes of immigrants to keep the workforce running and to fund social security programs for the much larger cohort of retirees.

These issues have recently become more urgent in light of the influx of refugees from Syria.

Some countries, like Germany, have welcomed refugees with open arms. Others have remained hesitant, drawing accusations of xenophobia.

A similar debate has been playing out in the early stages of the U.S. presidential election.

Donald Trump’s plan to deport every illegal Mexican immigrant reflects the same “us and them” cultural/linguistic dichotomy and the same fear of non-assimilation that we see with the Syr-

ian refugees in Western Europe.

This attitude is perhaps less appropriate in the U.S. than in Europe.

European nations are tied by a long history to a specific people group, but the U.S. is a young “nation of immigrants,” and despite a long history of immigration policies that favored Western Europe, is not defined by a particular faith or language.

It is united merely by the ideals which are articulated in our founding documents and are available to people of all races, tongues, and creeds.

Meanwhile, in Europe, we may be seeing the beginnings of Stephenson’s phyles.

Last year, Scotland came within five percentage points of leaving the United Kingdom, and Catalonia recently held a referendum on seceding from Spain.

According to a Facebook post from quasi-omniscient Grove City College alum Dan Hanson, Spain’s constitution declares the country to be indivisible and charges the army with protecting the nation’s territorial integrity.

Hopefully civil war does not break out while I am here

in Spain, but if it does, rest assured I will cover it for the Collegian.

There are earlier precedents, though. In the 1960s, Muslim Northern Nigeria forcibly stopped the Christian Biafra region from seceding, and 100 years earlier, Abraham Lincoln did the same thing with a handful of states that claimed that there were irreconcilable cultural differences between themselves and the rest of the nation.

My reading of current events through the lens of “The Diamond Age” has led me to two closely-related questions: First, is the pluralistic state worth fighting for, or should groups that would rather strike out on their own be allowed to do so?

And second, is it cruel and xenophobic to reject Syrian refugees, or is there an argument to be made for turning away those who will not assimilate into a country’s culture?

I still feel that it is our moral duty to care for those who have been displaced, but sometimes Stephenson’s vision of the future seems awfully appealing.

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Capping it off Soccer teams split close results against Geneva Men’s tennis

Thomas Kutz Staff Writer

The men’s and women’s soccer teams each battled Geneva College this past week, with the women winning 1-0 on the road and the men dropping 2-1 in a home decision against the Golden Tornadoes.

On Oct. 2, the Grove City College women’s soccer team (6-4-1, 1-0 PAC) opened up their Presidents’ Athletic Conference season with a 1-0 win in overtime at rival Geneva. Senior forward Sammie Wild was the hero for the Wolverines. Wild scored in the eighth minute of the first overtime period, for her third goal of the season on an assist from fellow senior forward Kristin Thomas.

Senior goalkeeper Nicole Lapia earned the Wolverines’ fourth shutout of the season, as the women are now winners of three of their last four

Score Check Men’s golf In day one of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Fall Championships, the Wolverines finished first out of eight teams, as Anthony Smaldino and Jordan Alfery both finished with combined scores of 77.

Women’s golf In day one of the PAC Fall Championships, the women finished in fourth place, as they posted a team score of 422. The Wolverines were led by Carolyn Jack, who shot a combined 97.

Women’s soccer: Grove City College 1, Geneva College 0 (Overtime) Nicole Lapia recorded another shutout, stopping two shots on goal, and the

games. The women will host Bethany College on Oct. 10 at 3:30 p.m. at College Field, St. Vincent College on Oct. 17 and Thomas More College on Oct. 21 in conference play.

On Oct. 5, the Grove City College men’s soccer team (54-1, 0-1 PAC) lost a 2-1 game to Geneva at College Field.

The game was rescheduled from Oct. 3 due to inclement weather, and the men came off of the weekend flat after nearly a week between games.

The Wolverines were caught sleeping early in the game, when Geneva took the lead in just the sixth minute.

The Wolverines did little to counter offensively against Geneva and became frustrated as they lost possession and several 50-50 balls.

Senior goalkeeper Ben Weaver had a stroke of bad luck when he tried to keep a ball in play to avoid a corner kick. There, a waiting Gene-

va attacker took the ball and tapped it into the back of the net to give Geneva a 2-0 lead.

Weaver may have been back on top of the ball but the goal stood, as the referee did nothing from his position nearly 35 yards from play when the suggested distance is 20 yards.

That appeared to be a deflator for the Wolverines, who sparked little offense until the second half. The Wolverines found hope in the 70th minute when senior Tim Shackleton launched a throw deep into the Geneva penalty area to find junior David Wurmlinger, bringing the crowd to its feet and the game to 2-1.

The final 20 minutes saw several opportunities for the Wolverines to score, including a header that sailed just wide of the near post in the last five minutes of the game.

Even eleven second-half shots were not enough to

Wolverines held a 22-6 advantage in shots. However, they could not break the ice until Sammie Wild scored in overtime.

The Wolverines won all three of their doubles matches, and five out of six singles, to secure the victory.

Men’s golf In day two of the PAC Fall Championships, the men finished second out of eight teams. Going into the Spring Championships, they are just four strokes behind leader St. Vincent College.

Overall, Jordan Alfery and Anthony Smaldino had the lowest scores, as they each shot a combined 154.

Women’s golf In day two of the PAC Fall Championships, the women finished in fourth place, posting a team score of 420.

Caroyn Jack led her team, shooting 102, and they look forward to the Spring Championships.

Women’s tennis Grove City 8, Thomas More College 1

Men’s cross-country The Wolverines finished 13 out of 34 teams in the Greater Louisville Classic and compiled 353 team points.

Gabe Imhof had the best team time, as he finished in 98th place in the 8-kilometer race.

Women’s cross-country The Wolverines finished sixth out of 17 teams in the Greater Louisville Classic with 174 total points. Emily Rabenold led her team, finishing in sixth place overall in the 8k.

Volleyball Grove City 3, Westminster College 0; Grove City 3, Washington & Jefferson College 1 Grove City College dominated when it counted in these two matches. Jamie Robati-

bring the game level.

The loss to Geneva was the men’s team’s first home loss of the season. They will host Bethany on Oct. 10 as part of one of three remaining men’s-women’s home double-headers this season.

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Senior goalkeeper Nicole Lapia has been fantastic for the Wolverines so far this season. She has three shutouts as well as a sparkling .815 save percentage, to go along with 44 saves.

Moreover, she has only allowed an average of .98 goals per game. sin had nine kills in the first match while Amy Trageser had 26 assists in the second.

Football Waynesburg University 35, Grove City 31 The Wolverines came close to ending their losing streak but ultimately could not.

Quarterback Matt Pennypacker threw for 171 yards and a touchdown, and rushed for 37 more, but the Wolverines could not overcome a late Waynesburg touchdown.

Men’s Soccer Geneva 2, Grove City 1 After falling behind 2-0 with 20 minutes to play, the Wolverines cut the deficit to just one, thanks to a goal from David Wurmlinger. However, Grove City could not complete the comeback. In the loss Ben Weaver made 3 saves.

Spotlight on Pittsburgh Steelers give game away vs. Ravens

Michael Cole Staff Writer

The Pittsburgh Steelers are not the first team in NFL history to start the season inconsistently and they certainly will not be the last.

However, they have a lot of obstacles to overcome if they are to be an actual playoff contender this season, the first of which seems to be the loss of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Roethlisberger suffered a knee injury

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in the team’s Week 3, 12-6, win in St. Louis. As a result, Michael Vick was given his first career start in the black and gold uniform, in a home game against their division rival Baltimore Ravens.

The Steelers drew first blood as Josh Scobee hit a 45-yard field goal to give the team an early 3-0 lead. After some back and forth scoring from both teams and more field goals from Scobee, the Steelers went into the locker room at halftime up 13-7.

The squad carried this momentum into the third quarter, taking a 20-7 lead after a nine-yard touchdown pass from Vick to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey. It appeared as if the Steelers had run away with the game, but the Ravens had something to say about that.

They scored 13 unanswered points during the second half, including a touchdown pass from Joe Flacco, and two huge fourth quarter field goals from Justin Tucker. Both were more than 40 yards.

With the game tied, the only thing that remained was overtime at Heinz Field.

This was the first overtime game of the season for the Steelers. However, the Ravens put together an overtime drive that culminated with a 52-yard field goal from kicker Justin Tucker.

Despite 122 rushing yards from Le’Veon Bell and 124 passing yards from Michael Vick, the Steelers came up short.

The Steelers are now 2-2 and will have to step it up if they want to get some wins.

Meanwhile, Roethlisberger most likely will not return to the team until they play the Chiefs on Oct. 25.

The Steelers have their next game in San Diego against a 2-2 Chargers team coming off of a very close victory against the Browns. The team will need to win this game if they are going to keep their record over .500 going into Week 6.

Support Your Wolverines!

Volleyball Friday, 7 p.m., vs.

Thomas More Tuesday, 7 p.m., at Geneva College Thursday, 3 p.m., vs. Waynesburg

Thursday, 7 p.m., vs. Penn State Altoona Football Saturday, 2 p.m., at Washington & Jefferson College

finishes fall season

Jon Wagner Staff Writer The men’s tennis team capped off their fall season on Thursday. The men fell to Mount Union University 8-1. As the weather is turning away from ideal tennis conditions, the team will prepare in the offseason before the spring season begins.

Their first match will be on April 2, away at Thomas More College, which is in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference—Grove City College’s conference.

This fall season the Wolverines primarily played outof-conference opponents.

These matches were in a sense practice for the team.

The opponents they faced were mostly at a higher skill level than the in-conference teams Grove City will face in the spring.

The match against Mount Union showed Grove City’s willingness to compete at their best, regardless of the opponent.

At first singles, Jon Graber fell to Mount Union’s Malcom Leake 6-4, 6-2. Graber no doubt came out fighting hard to take four games off his opponent in the first set.

At second singles, Jon Fleet lost to challenger Rob DeMarco 6-0, 6-0.

Zack Sprunger had a very close match at third singles against Mount Union’s Jeff Williams. After losing the first set 4-6, Sprunger came back to win the second 6-4.

However, as is common with some tennis matches, instead of playing out the third set, it was decided by the coaches to simply have Sprunger and Williams play a “super-tiebreaker” in place of the set. A super-tiebreaker is the same as a normal tiebreaker but is played to ten points instead of seven.

Although the set was close—going past the ten points—Sprunger lost in the tiebreaker 15-13.

At the fourth single Nathan Roberts fell to Mount Union’s Jackson Schneider 6-0, 6-1. At first singles, Wolverine Jason Wichert brought home the only win of the day, defeating Matt Brinman 6-3, 6-3. At sixth singles, Thane Feldeisen fell 6-3, 6-0 to Bryce Payne.

In the doubles matches, Graber and Sprunger took a good bit of games off of Demarco and Williams but lost 8-5. Fleet and Roberts fell 8-1 to Leake and Schneider.

Feldeisen and Wichert fell 8-3 to Bringham and Hicken.

As the men’s team now moves into their offseason, they will continue to refine their skills and will have in mind the takeaways they gained from this preliminary fall season.

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Women’s Soccer

Women’s Tennis

Saturday, 1 p.m., vs.

Bethany College

Saturday, 3:30 p.m., vs. Bethany

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., at Westminster

Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., at Westminster

Monday, 3:30 p.m., vs. W&J (Senior Day) Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at Thiel

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Dig for the cure

Volleyball comes together to support Breast Cancer Awareness Rebecca Sayers Contributing Writer

Students and faculty came out to support the women’s volleyball team for their “Dig for the Cure” game at home on Saturday, Oct. 3, in the afternoon.

The Wolverines first played Westminster College and quickly jumped ahead with a 25-7 victory over the Titans in the first set. The Titans put up a fight during the second and third sets, leaving the crowd in suspense.

Coach Street, however, was able to help drive her team to a 25-20 win in the second set and 25-17 victory in the third set over the Titans. The game was 3-0, giving the Wolverines another victory.

Sophomore Jamie Robatisin had an exceptional game, serving three of the five Grove City Collge service aces and pounding four kills in the first set.

Senior Libbie Casey would also stand out with her five straight points to end the second set with the 25-20 victory.

The third set against the Titans opened up with an ace by senior setter Amy Trageser. Casey would then have a 7-0 run, allowing the Wolverines to hold onto the lead.

The match against Washington & Jefferson College started off slower than the one against the Titans. The Wolverines made errors that caused them to lose their first set 25-20 to the Presidents.

The Wolverines refused to lose the second set, as freshman Laura Buchanan smashed five kills to even the match and later give them a 25-22 victory.

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Armed with body paint and “punny” signs, fans made some noise for the home team during the volleyball team’s “Dig for the Cure” matches.

The Wolverines shut down the Presidents for the remainder of the game with a 25-19 win in the third set and a 25-9 win in the fourth.

Sophomore Ariella Carter led the defense with a careerhigh eight blocks along with six kills. The Wolverines’ Rebekah Russell was able to tie for the team lead with 19 digs.

The Wolverines welcomed Breast Cancer Awareness month with an auditorium full of pink. The team wore pink jerseys and the gym was filled wtih posters and pink streamers wrapped around the railings.

Not only was the team helping to raise awareness, but the fans also had the chance to purchase a “Dig for the Cure” t-shirt.

The money used to purchase the shirts went towards breast cancer research.

The Wolverines had a few “super fans” in the stands cheering them on during their game.

With “G-C-C” painted on their chests, Nicholas Betz, Nathaniel Longjohn, and Andrew Nosbisch showed their enthusiasm and support for the Wolverines.

“The girls were phenomenal and those spikes were amazing!” Longjohn said.

Betz was heard yelling encouragement to the ladies throughout the entire game.

When the Titans hit a ball out of bounds which gave Grove City a point, Betz’ humorous cheer that filled the stands with laughter was, “That was out like white after Labor Day!” Fans like Betz, Longjohn, and Nosbisch are examples of what gives encouragement to the Wolverines.

During the game the play-

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The Wolverines lined up prior to their “Dig for the Cure” matches, which raised money and awareness in order to find a cure for breast cancer. ers show their appreciation for the fans, often times looking up at the crowd and waving. Longjohn encour-

ages everyone to come support their fellow Wolverines at the volleyball matches.

Player Spotlight: Anthony Marnejon Junior in third year as starting punter

Bradley Warmhold Staff Writer The spotlight rarely tends to shine on punters in the world of football. By the time they take the field, it is the last play of a drive, the other team is readying to receive the ball and the fans of the punting team groan to see another failed attempt to convert a first down.

But on a team that has literally had many downs – that is, fourth downs – in the

last few years, junior punter Anthony Marnejon has proven to be one of the most dynamic Special Teams players on the Grove City College football team.

“I only played one year of high school football, and they had open tryouts for punting and I just figured that I would try it,” Marnejon said when asked about his punting origins.

“I did not perform at a high level at first, but one of the coaches worked with me and

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Now in his third year as the varsity football team’s main punter, Anthony Marnejon has proved a lot. Behind his leg, the Wolverines will look to win their first game since 2013.

then it really clicked midway through the season.”

The one year of football paid off for Marnejon as he became Grove City’s starting punter entering his freshman year of college.

During his first two seasons as a Wolverine, Marnejon amassed an average of 36.2 yards per punt – which currently puts him at seventh on Grove City’s career all-time punting average list – and a total of 4,266 yards across 118 punts, putting him at eighth all-time on Grove City’s list.

Now in his third year, Marnejon continues to put up effective numbers for the Wolverines’ Special Teams unit.

With 18 punts currently under his belt, the twoyear letter-winner currently boasts a 36.9 yards per punt average – the highest of his career thus far. He has also placed five of those 18 punts within the 20 yard-line and booted a 61-yard punt against Geneva College for his longest of the season thus far.

“Going into a game I don’t necessarily have a mentality, but I usually just try to pin my punts inside the twenties. My focus is consistency.

That’s what punting is all about.”

Consistency continues to be a theme for Marnejon’s game-mentality and prac-

tice, but there are many challenges that come with being a punter that the junior takes into account before every game or situation.

“It may seem easy to be a consistent punter, but when you actually get the chance to play you see it’s a skill that requires coordination and practice. For example, dropping the football drastically affects your kick and can determine if you have a good or bad punt. If the nose is down, it can also result in a bad punt. There is a lot of physics involved.”

Along with mechanical processes, Marnejon mentions that nature plays a huge role in his game as well.

“Wind is probably the biggest factor. Nick Piett (senior, long-snapper) always says that I complain about it.

A punter needs to get a spiral on kicks in order to fight incoming wind. If the wind is behind you it can be your best friend, but a [huge obstacle] if it is against you.”

With six games still left in the regular season, the punter aims to keep himself on top of his game and hopes that his contribution will assist the Wolverines in picking up their elusive first win.

Though the Grove City football team currently sits at the exact same record that they had during this time last year, Marnejon mentions that the team has seen con-

siderable improvement offensively over the course of a year.

“We scored a total of 74 points last year and now we’ve already scored 88. The offense is a lot more spread out, guys are getting more receptions, and that’s what has been our biggest success. [Coach Didonato ’10] brought in a completely new offense, and I think that’s one of the big reasons that we put up as many points as we have.”

A recent setback against Presidents’ Athletic Conference rival Waynesburg University, though disappointing, highlights these improvements that Marnejon mentioned.

A year ago, the Wolverines were blanked by the Yellow Jackets – who finished 6-2 that year – with a score of 350. This year, they fell within single digits by a score of 3531.

Marnejon remains positive that Grove City will pick up its first win in the upcoming weeks. Until then, his goal is to continue to play the way that he is playing.

“Personally, I would love to be top in the PAC [for punters]. I’m working on getting most of my punts inside the 20 yard-line. People usually look at average, but I try to take all statistics into account and be as effective as I can possibly be.”