Giddy for Gettys: Grove City College hosts world famous hymnist couple, the Gettys Page 10
24 Hour Theater: TAP performed its first 24 hour show last Saturday in place of One Acts Festival. Page 3
Female Kicker: Wolverines recruit first female kicker in school history. Page 15
Homecoming: Homecoming parade, football game highlight Saturday’s celebration. Page 6
Collegian
The Friday, September 30, 2016
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
Caffeine and jams
Lizzy Borcherding Entertainment Editor
Claire Rauf Staff Writer
The smell of pumpkin spice coffee hung in the air, a darkened room softly illuminated by white-string lights, and a live mixture of blues, acoustic, and slow rock covers crooned smoothly over the hum of students’ discussions. This is what coffee sippers, hand clappers, and head bobbers experienced this past Tuesday night at Java Jam. This year the Homecoming Committee held its coffee house in Ket Rec, which contributed to more of a coffee-house ambiance than when it was held in the SAC in past years. Though attendees may have caught wind of their friend’s all too enthusiastic perfume application, which was nonetheless aggravated by elevated room temperatures, it at least masked the sting of body odor that lurked in the open space that was few and far between. Despite the discomfort of close-quarters, students and a few faculty members enjoyed the serenade of student talent, which no doubt reflected a wide variety in genre taste across campus. JAVA JAM 2
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Grove City College’s Center for Vision & Values will help communicate the ideas and enduring influence of the “Great Communicator” with the 10th annual Ronald Reagan Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6, in Ketler Auditorium of the J. Howard Pew Fine Arts Center. This year’s event will also feature a special screening of the movie “Silence Patton” at 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at
Alum’s app aids Africa DonorSee donor do
Molly Wicker News Editor
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Homecoming Committee put on their annual Java Jam coffeehouse Tuesday. Throughout the night, live music from student groups, such as the Rockafella’s, rocked KetRec.
Reagan talk eyes foreign policy
Molly Wicker
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the Guthrie Theater on South Broad Street in downtown Grove City. “Reagan, Patton and Foreign Policy: From the Cold War to the Rise of ISIS and Beyond” features Herb Meyer, an expert on international intelligence, and Robert Orlando, a filmmaker and former journalist. The pair will explain how both Reagan and General George S. Patton have informed today’s foreign policy. Dr. Paul Kengor, Grove City College Profes-
sor of Political Science and noted Reagan scholar, will lead the discussion focusing on major issues for Americans to consider in 2016 and beyond. During the Reagan administration, Meyer served as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is widely credited with being the first senior government official to forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union, an in-
sight for which he later was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor in the intelligence community. Meyer’s essays on intelligence and politics have been published in numerous outlets including The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Policy Review and American Thinker. Orlando is the president of Nexus Media, for which he directed “Silence Patton,” a
documentary that digs into the pages of history to find the answers to many of the questions that surrounded Patton’s tenure in the U.S. Army. In addition to his work on Patton, Orlando has worked for over 20 years as a digital media producer, director and editor for a variety of commercial and corporate partners including, American Express, Unilever, the Wall Street Journal and Condé Nast.
Some might consider Gret Glyer to be a world-changer. He left his cubicle job to pursue full-time entrepreneurial missions in Malawi just months after his graduation from Grove City College. He started building $800 homes for orphans and widows and moved on to build a school for girls, which, after more than nine months of fundraising, opened on September 7. “It’s been an incredible journey,” he said. “God has been so good.” The school will be run by native Malawians, but Gret will be available for advice as necessary. “The idea is that Malawians will run the school and I will step back,” he explained. “I thought it would be easy but it definitely is really hard to step away from a project that I care so much about.” To remedy that feeling, he is working on the launch of his newest project, an iOS App called DonorSee, a giving platform focused on the new ways that people are donating their time and their money. Gone are the days of well-known, institutionalized charities using donated funds to keep the lights on and the plumbing running. With the introduction of the smartphone, people are finding new ways to connect with those they support financially. Technology is providing a level of personality that was virtually unthinkable even five years ago. “I’m just happy to be doing something that GLYER 2