The Collegian – December 2, 2016

Wolverines win it Grove City women’s basketball begins with a bang

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Vol. 103, No. 9

Orchesis ‘Around the World’

Epsilon Pi loses charter Caleb Harshberger Editor in Chief

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Orchesis ‘Around the World’ performed in Pew Auditorium. The show opened on Thursday and will continue today at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Light Up Night Joe Setyon Managing Editor Grove City College kicked off the start of the Christmas season on Tuesday, lighting up the Rockwell star as part of the annual ceremony.

Students and faculty gathered on MAP South Patio to watch.

Before too long, they were joined by the GCC Marching Band, which strutted across the Quad to MAP. Once it arrived, the band teamed up with the Koinonia Gospel Team choir and led the crowd in singing well-known Christmas hymns “Silent Night” and “The First Noel.”

Highlights from the ceremony also included a speech by College President Paul J. McNulty ’80, as well as Dean of the Chapel Dr. Stanley Keehlwetter reciting Luke 2:1-20 from memory.

In his speech, McNulty told the crowd that the Tuesday after Thanksgiving is known as “Giving Tuesday,” and he reminded everyone of the importance of giving in Christianity.

He said that Giving Tuesday “would be really kind of a hollow

thing if it wasn’t for the fact that we can celebrate the best gift of all.”

“The gift of God’s son is what makes this night…this time of year and the whole idea of giving meaningful in any way,” he added.

McNulty also emphasized that at Grove City, “We recognize, and we’re not afraid to say, in fact we want to say as loud and clearly as we can, that the reason for our season is the person of our savior.”

After McNulty’ speech and Dr. Keehlwetter’s recitation, the Rockwell star finally lit up the Grove City night.

The event concluded with the singing of “Away in a Manger” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” but the crowd milled around to enjoy hot chocolate and donuts.

McNulty told The Collegian that he values this annual event.

“This is a great tradition to kick off the holiday season. I love the fact that there are certain things we do every year such as Dr. Keehlwetter reciting Luke 2 from memory,” he said. “We really have a very special way to commemorate the Christmas season on campus.”

The Epsilon Pi Fraternity recently lost its charter until the Fall 2017 semester.

“The Epsilon Pi Fraternity admitted to being in violation of the ‘Expectations for Campus Organizations’ section of The Crimson (pp. 16-17),” said Assistant Dean of Students John Coyne in a statement to the Collegian. “As a result, they lost their College recognition (commonly referred to as ‘loss of charter’) for a period of one year.”

The loss of this charter means that members of the Epsilon Pi Fraternity cannot, among other things, take on new members, wear their fraternity letters or hold events as a fraternity.

Coyne emphasized that Fraternity President Brett Pinson, Vice President Tyler Kepple and other members have been cooperating fully and honestly with the college.

“Mr. Coyne spoke very highly of the character and integrity they displayed in the meetings,” said the statement from Coyne’s office.

Coyne will also be working with the group’s adviser, Vice President for Student Life and Learning and Dean of Students Larry Hardesty, as well as with the fraternity and fraternity alumni when the group is scheduled to be reinstated next Fall.

Trustees on Trump train Molly Wicker GCC

The star on Rockwell was lit Tuesday, accompanied by a performance of the marching band, refreshments and remarks by Dean of the Chapel Dr. Stanley Keehlwetter and President McNulty.

News Editor T w o members of Grove City’s Board of TrustSKINNER ees have joined President-elect Trump’s transition team. Kiron Skinner, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Kenneth Blackwell have both been appointed to positions on Trump’s ever-evolving transition team.

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Grove City donor nominated as Secretary of Education Molly Wicker News Editor President-elect Trump recently announced that he would nominate Betsy DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist with ties to Grove City College, as his Secretary of Education.

DeVos and her husband are major contributors to many prominent philanthropic efforts within the Christian community, including Grove City College.

The DeVos family is heir to the Amway Corp. fortune. Their family foundation has given grants to a large number of religious institutions, including Willow Creek Association, outside of Chicago, Hope College, a Christian College in Michigan

and Grove City.

Her husband, Richard “Dick” DeVos, received an honorary doctorate from the College in 2002, when he was the featured commencement speaker.

Since then, in partnership with their family foundation, the DeVos’ have donated $70,000 to Grove City.

According to the website, The DeVos Family Foundation exists to “be faithful servants” and to focus on “education, community, the arts, justice and leadership.”

DeVos is known throughout Michigan for her push for private school voucher programs, a position that has been controversial within public education circles.

“Obviously Devos is stepping into an odd

Billionaire philanthropist Betsy Devos recently met with President-Elect Donald Trump who nominated her as his Secratary of Education. DeVos is a prominent donor to numerous Christian institutions including Grove City College.

Mars Hill Bible Church, a large, nondenominational church in Grand Rapids, M.I. According to former president of Fuller Seminary Rich Mouw, who served on a committee with her, DeVos

is heavily influenced

by Abraham Kuyper, a Dutch and Calvinist theologian.

DeVos did not support Trump’s candidacy, telling the Washington Examiner in March that he “does not

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represent the Republican Party.” Her family foundation has donated between $10,000 and $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Attacker killed, 11 injured after OSU campus attack

TRUSTEES international relations, U.S. foreign policy and political strategy has been named to the transition team for the National Security Council.

She is the founding director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy in CMU’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

She joined the university in 1999 and is a distinguished fellow of CMU’s CyLab. The institute focuses on research as well as undergraduate and graduate education and endeavors in political science, international relations, national security policy and overall strategy across the university, according to an announcement made

by CMU officials.

Outside of CMU, Skinner is the special advisor to Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a life director of the Atlantic Council.

She also is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, which, according to its website, seeks to “promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.”

She has written five books, including two on President Ronald Reagan, and has worked for years for the federal government and in politics. She was an advisor for the Department of Defense’s Defense Policy Board and the National Security Education Board.

She also worked for the 2004 re-election campaign of President George W. Bush and served as an advisor to the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rand Paul, according to her biography on

situation in a Trump White House,” explained Dr. Caleb Verbois, a political science professor. “. . . That will be true for every Christian and conservative that goes to work for this Administration. In the final analysis, that isn’t an overwhelming objection to working for Trump. It does set up potential scenarios where Christians and conservatives that work for Trump will have to be prepared to potentially resign under certain circumstances.”

She graduated from Calvin College, a Reformed Christian school named after John Calvin, the renowned Protestant reformer. There, she and her husband are well-known and are major donors.

DeVos is also a member and an elder at

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Former Ohio Secratary of State Kenneth Blackwell is a GCC trustee

CMU’s website.

Ms. Skinner holds masters and doctoral degrees in political science and international relations from Harvard University. She has undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College.

Former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, now a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, was selected by Trump to lead his domestic issues transition.

Blackwell, according to Politico, is in charge of the Trump “action team” examining the departments of energy, environmental protection, labor, transportation, health and human services, housing and urban development, interior and agriculture.

He serves on the boards of the National Rifle Association and Club for Growth. He ran unsuccessfully for chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2009.

In his role as Ohio’s state elections chief, Blackwell played a role in administering the 2004 presidential election even as he served as George W. Bush’s honorary campaign cochairman.

Blackwell served as undersecretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1990. Bush appointed him ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, a position he held from 1992 to 1993.

Josh Delk Staff Writer

A student at Ohio State University rammed his car onto a sidewalk full of pedestrians Monday morning, then began slashing at nearby students and faculty with a butcher knife.

Eleven people were injured in the attack, before the attacker, Somali immigrant Abdul Razak Ali Artan was fatally shot by OSU police officer Alan Horujko after disobeying orders to stop.

Before the attack, Artan posted on Facebook, saying he was “sick and tired” of seeing fellow Muslims “killed and tortured,” and warned that “by Allah, we will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims. You will not celebrate or enjoy any holiday.”

The Facebook post was examined in an effort to determine the attacker’s motive, but law enforcement of-

ficials are uncertain as to whether the attack could yet be classified as a terrorist action.

During the attack, Artan said nothing and claimed no allegiances to known terror networks, even after being shot.

No evidence has emerged that Artan had any connections to radical Islamic ideology. Although no known terror groups claimed responsibility for the attack, several groups were updating their online audiences during the incident.

When asked in a news conference Monday, OSU President Dr. Michael V. Drake warned against connecting the attack to terrorism, or the attacker’s Somali community in Ohio, one of the largest in the country.

Artan and his family left Pakistan in 2007 and were admitted as refugees into the United States as part of a minority sect of Somalis, according to a CNN

report by a senior administration official. wHis family currently resides in Columbus as legal permanent residents with green cards.

In August, Artan was featured in the student newspaper’s “Humans of Ohio State” section, in which he discussed the hardships of practicing his Muslim faith on the large urban campus.

“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media,” he said. “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”

At 9:50 a.m. Monday, the attack began when the car rammed into a cement barricade. “It was in high speed, and just hit whoever came in front of him,” said OSU graduate student Angshuman Kapil.

Six people were hit by the car, and five were injured with stab wounds. All the wounded are being treated at local hospitals, and are expected to survive.

McNulty to address college future Molly Wicker News Editor President Paul J. McNulty ’80 will deliver a “State of the College” address announcing a new strategic vision that “honors the College’s past, recognizes the enormous challenges of today and builds for a strong and faithful future,” according to a release by the College.

The address will take place at the Fairmont Hotel, in downtown Pittsburgh, beginning at 11:30am on Wednesday, December 14.

He will be joined by KDKA-TV

Morning News anchor Rick Dayton, the grandson of Grove City’s fourth president J. Stanley Harker ’25 and a parent of a current freshman at the College, for the program.

Founded in 1876 by Isaac Ketler, Grove City College has remained true to its original principles of faith and freedom since its inception.

This is the first event of its kind that the College has produced in several years.

It is ticketed and registration is required, however, it will also be live-streamed for those who cannot attend.

Chief Craig Stone of the OSU police said that going over the curb to strike pedestrians and then striking with a knife was “done on purpose.”

The attack was originally classified as an “active shooter event” by the university, and issued an alert to students through the campus emergency management service to stay in place, and to “Run Hide Fight.”

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther commented it was “one of those days you’re grateful for good training and good people across the board.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich also praised the efficient campus response, saying that it demonstrated “how much practice, how much training, how much expertise, how much coordination” exists in the law enforcement community.

“We are a strong, resilient community” he said.

Correction

A story in the Nov. 11 edition about the Grove City College Elevator Pitch Competition and Perfect Pitch Competition contained several errors.

In the Elevator Competition, Social Entreprise winners were not listed. They were: Hannah Hastings, first, Sarah Klein, second, and Stephen Weaver, third.

In the Perfect Pitch Competition Grove City College students placed first and third. We incorrectly reported they won first and second prizes.

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Study Abroad: Living with the French

Studying abroad in France provides opportunities to experience French culture. Of course, a trip to France would not be complete without visiting the Louvre.

Paige Kraynak Staff Writer

Imagine the smell of freshly baked pastries and the sound of hundreds of languages being spoken, filling the narrow streets of France.

Or, imagine standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower, looking out at the beautiful city of Paris.

Imagine how wonderful living in a place like this could be.

Not just visiting, but living among the people for a period of time is a real possibility for Grove City students wishing to take advan-

tage of another great traveling opportunity.

Many organizations that the college works with involve studying in this beautiful country.

Senior Alexis Marnejon studied in the French Rivera, a dream come true for her.

“I wanted to truly immerse myself in the French culture in order to learn about the country, its people, and its language on a deeper level than I could get from a classroom in the United States. I knew living in France for four months would be very beneficial to my study of the French language, and I wanted to really

improve on my speaking skills,” she said.

As a double major in communications and French, she saw this as an important way to truly learn the language and the culture of the people.

France is the world’s most popular tourist destination and a very popular place for students as well.

This is due to the beautiful architecture, the incredible French artists, the wonderful customer service and the savory food (especially the cheese).

It is important to note, though, that French is the main lan-

guage. However, due to it being a heavily populated tourist country, one can get by with little knowledge of the language as long as he/ she puts the effort in to learning it while living there.

There are many different cities that one can choose to study in.

Paris is one of the most common cities to study in.

Being the capital city, Paris contains the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Luxembourg Gardens and the River Seine. There is much to see and do here in this magnificent and historic city.

In fact, it is a great destination for a student who wants to live in a city. Transportation is very different in Europe, but in a city there are more available ways of getting around.

Moreover, organizations such as the ISA also make it possible to study in other cities, such as in Cannes or Grenoble (French Alps).

Cities like these aren’t as crowded as Paris and can be more suitable for someone who doesn’t want the chaos of a bustling city. They can include more natural sights to see.

“It truly was such a

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unique experience in that I got to experience so many different cultures during my time abroad and constantly spent time with people from all around the world,” Marnejon said.

France is full of different cultures, history and beauty.

Studying abroad there is a once in a lifetime experience and something one cannot forget.

For more information about France or studying abroad, check out the Office of International Education on the third floor of HAL.

CAMPUS CAR REVIEWS

‘04 Mazda 6S Wagon: did I just run over a deer?

Andrew Stein Contributing Writer Campus Car Reviews is a semi-new, bi-weekly review of cars driven

by Grove City Students.

This week’s car was provided by Jackson Clemmer.

2004 was a great year: Google just introduced Gmail and George W. Bush was fulfilling his dream of bombing Iraq in search of “known” weapons of mass destruction.

Mazda also had a good year: they were having another sales record-setting year.

They gave us the 2004 Mazda 6s wagon - a midsized station wagon aimed at the average middle class American family.

While I don’t know the exact history of this particular GCC campus Mazda I’ll be reviewing, here’s my best guess: This car was bought by a middle aged father, used for a few years and then passed down to his son, who drove it like an Okie at Okiepalooza (like an absolute madman) and ruined it by both his driving style

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The 2004 Mazda 6S wagon is a reliable car for your average American family. However, whatever you do, don’t add your own modifications. and by the modifications that he made.

Now if you’re not familiar with the cars, the term “modifications” may be to you what business stats is to me: you have no idea what’s going on.

In short when someone says they modified their car, you can substitute the word “modified” with “ruined.”

I won’t bore you with the exact details of how the previous owner modifications ruined

his car, but the short of it is that the owner modified this car by lowering it, which in turn makes this car about as comfortable to ride in as a being in a washer on spin cycle.

The tiniest bump in the road feels as if you’ve just run over a deer.

It’s such a rough ride that Project Okello should sell tickets to ride in it as a fundraiser and call it a roller coaster ride.

This car, however, does have some positives - for example, since it is a grey station wagon, if there ever is a shortage of hearses, it can be a substitute hearse.

Secondly, this a great car for a date – not because the seats fold down, but because there are double cup holders.

All in all, the 2004 Mazda 6S isn’t a bad car – it’s probably the best car I’ve reviewed in

CCR. Considering this is the second article, that’s about as high of praise as congratulating a Slippery Rock Student on their 4.00 GPA. Would Pres. McNulty Drive it? The 3.0 V6 engine does not produce “adequate power” to whisk the Honorable Paul J. McNulty to his top secret meetings at the speed he deserves.

Campus Safety Score: three out of

five tickets – the wind shield wipers are very easy to lift which makes putting tickets under them very easy.

Likes: This car is a station wagon, which means while it only has five seat belts, it can take 14 people to Sheetz at once.

Dislikes: I could not figure out how to work the wipers to save my life - It was akin to a business major in baby chem.

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Dr. Love

Don’t lose hope in marriage

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Located in western Pennsylvania, the Polk Center is a home for adults with physical and cognitive disabilities.

Students volunteer at Polk Center

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Contributing Writer Molly Moses is passionate about people.

A senior elementary and special education major, she spends her spare time investing in people through volunteering at Polk Center.

Polk Center is a group home for adults who have physical and cognitive disabilities. Once a week, a group of students from Grove City College go to Polk and hold a devotional service for the residents.

A typical night of going to Polk Center begins at 6:30 p.m when Grove City students meet in MAP North lobby to pray, before drivine to the center.

When they arrive, they split into groups to go to each of the different buildings to facilitate the services. About 100 people come throughout all of the buildings.

After mingling with residents for about half an hour, the college students lead everyone in a few songs. A Polk leader does a devotional and

I just love to think about the promises of heaven, and that someday these people will be boundless.

Maddy Moses leads a prayer before the service comes to an end.

At that point, the residents are free to leave but are invited to stay and color with the Grove City students.

Moses has built relationships with some of the residents and she loves to see the smiles on their faces each week.

“Sometimes I’m not always super pumped to go to Polk, but once you get there you’re always overwhelmed by the kindness of the residents who live there,” said Moses.

She especially loves it when she gets to spend time with one of her favorite residents that often stays after the services and colors with

her.

Moses says that going to Polk gives her the opportunity to get out of her comfort zone. “It helps you become more comfortable with interacting with people who are different than you,” said Moses.

Through this ministry, Moses has learned a lot about herself and the importance of loving others. She encourages people to consider volunteering at Polk because God equips those he calls and if you feel called to go, you can handle it. She also thinks an amazing aspect of the residents at Polk is that they accept you for who you are.

They don’t care about the worldly things that many people often get

caught up in.

Moses is quick to acknowledge the gifts that the Polk residents have been given. “Everyone really does have talents and gifts,” she said. “Everyone is special because God made them, and we all have qualities of God that shine through us.”

Some encouragement for Moses is that the disabilities that affect the Polk residents in this life will someday be gone.

“One thing that has affected me from being an education major and by going to Polk is that I just love to think about the promises of heaven, and that someday these people will be boundless,” said Moses.

She looks forward to that day with joy knowing the treasures that await these people.

Anyone interested in getting involved with the Polk ministry is encouraged to contact the group’s vice president, Ryker Minc, and ask to be put on the email list.

Details come out weekly by email.

With Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie broken up, and thrice-divorced Donald Trump in the White House, the American marriage front may seem grim.

We’re told that half of all marriages fail, and more and more children are raised in single parent homes.

Not so fast. With Thanksgiving and Christmas in the air, it’s a good moment to take another look at the numbers and appreciate the good news. Consider this a gift, from Dr. Love to you – and be of good cheer!

-You may have been told that half of all marriages end in divorce, but that statistic hasn’t been accurate for decades. American divorce peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s, and since then has continued to decline year after year. Happily, today less than one-third of American marriages will end in divorce (The Washington Post).

-The number of marriages between people of different races has doubled from 7 percent in 1980 to 15 percent in 2010.

It’s an encouraging trend considering the ways interracial couples have always been the victim of cold discrimination (Pew Research Center).

-Successful marriage rates are slowly approaching trends not seen since the 1960s, though the reasons people choose to tie the knot have changed dramatically.

Historically, marriage

has been about the partnership of good housewives and high earners. Today, “It’s just love now,” economist Justin Wolfers writes, “We marry to find our soul mate.”

Awwwww. (The New York Times) It seems there are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about modern love and to feel like the deck is stacked against your own hopes for domestic bliss. In general, it’s smart to be skeptical about marriage statistics, which are notoriously difficult to draw conclusions from.

You may have heard, for example, that people are pushing off marriage until later in life (the average man now gets married at 29, women at 27) but you may not have heard that this trend has helped make the institution more stable. Point being, it’s not as bad as you think it is.

Besides, at the end of the day, why should two individuals who love each other, who are both uniquely created in the image of God, be intimidated by the numbers? Statistics have everything to do with other people, and little to say about your future happiness together. So enjoy the holiday season, and get back to worrying about the perfect Christmas gift.

Got questions for Dr. Love? Email questions to The Collegian at collegian.gcc.edu or submit a question anonymously through intra-campus mail to Box # 2573

Fostering love by filling bags

Kelleigh Huber Life Editor

This holiday season, the Grove City Life Advocates group has chosen to be a part of the Foster Love Project.

They will be serving children in the foster care system all across western Pennsylvania.

The Foster Love Project is similar to Operation Christmas Child, except instead of a shoebox, groups are encouraged to fill backpacks with basic needs for a foster child moving in with a new family.

The placement process is eased for both the child and the rest of the family, and gives the child a feeling of having something of their own.

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Students are encouraged to fill bags with a variety of goods to aid foster children in need.

Director of Campus Ministries Devayani Wintrode finds this ministry extremely important and a great testament to the love that we are to show as Christ-followers.

“I’ve been personally blessed hearing stories from people on cam-

pus of how they’ve been involved with foster care – a student’s family has fostered kids, and they’ve seen how the children came to their home with little or nothing, or staff members who have fostered children and later adopted them,” she said.

This year, Life Advocates had 20 bags donated.

Since filling a bag is financially strenuous for most college students, the group is working towards having students sign up to donate one of the items included in the backpack.

Items include pajamas, socks, a blanket, a stuffed animal, a book, a toothbrush and toothpaste and body wash. In addition to those man-

datory items, individuals have the choice to add other hygiene items based on the age of the child.

Helping out with the Foster Love Project can be individual or groupbased.

Life Advocates has anticipated a group approach due to cost, but there is also an opportunity to participate individually if interested.

The donations for group-based bags will be accepted until Dec. 11, but those doing an individual bag have until Dec 15.

Wintrode hopes that students will consider with whom they could partner in order to complete a bag.

“It might feel big to think about doing a

whole bag, but I would encourage students to think of ways to do it based on the groups they are a part of. Think of a way that you can put together a bag with others,” she said.

The past record of the Foster Love Project has been remarkable.

In the last two drives, over 3,000 bags were donated.

Those bags reached across 10 counties in western Pennsylvania.

The Foster Love Project seeks to decrease the amount of children placed in homes without something to call their own.

Wintrode said the ministry is unique in that all of the bags will be given to children in the western PA region,

making the impact of the ministry feel closer to home, because local communities will be served through these donated backpacks.

Life Advocates has a table in the Student Union where students can sign up for an item, drop items off or find out more information.

Drop-offs are also being taken in the 1st floor student workroom in Rathburn.

The Foster Love Project’s Facebook page offers more information on drop-off locations in the Pittsburgh and Butler areas, allowing for family and community members to be involved in the process as well.

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Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activites Dr. Jeffrey Tedford will conduct several regional performances in January and March of 2017

From the classroom to the orchestra

Lizzy Borcheding Entertainment Editor Dr. Jeffrey Tedford ’00, the current Grove City College Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities, will be serving as the guest conductor for several upcoming regional honors orchestra festivals in both January and March. of 2017.

Dr. Tedford has taught at Grove City College for six out of his fifteen years of teaching music. He previously taught for eight years in the Williamsport Area School District as the Orchestra Director and director of the Millionaire

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Dr. Tedford has taught music for 15 years, six of which have been at Grove City.

Strolling Strings.

Tedford also directed and conducted for the Williamsport Chamber Choir and Orchestra, the Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra and founded the Williamsport Youth Choir.

Dr. Tedford is more than familiar with the violin, viola, cello, string bass, tuba and

mandolin, which he has been playing each for fifteen plus years.

According to this veteran music teacher, most of his inspiration comes from his parents because they strongly encouraged music as a way to be “expressive, be well-rounded, work with others, and be creative.”

In addition, Tedford

mentioned his third grade orchestra director and his professor from Carnegie Mellon University as his mentors and influencers.

Some of his favorite memories from teaching music at Grove City include seeing his former college students embark on their own teaching careers, as well as every time

a “student realizes the connection between musical expression, musical worship, and musical leadership and how those fit with the student’s personality and individual skills”.

This is not Tedford’s first time conducting for an orchestra or choir before. He has also conducted Williamsport Chamber Choir & Orchestra (2009-2011), Williamsport Symphony Orchestra (2007), Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra (2003-2006), Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (2001-2003), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Pops (20012003) and served as a

guest conductor for a dozen Honors Festivals.

For the Jan. 26-28 performance, Tedford will be the guest conductor for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District Four and Six Orchestra at Somerset High School, which will be featuring over 100 students from those districts.

Tedford will also be guest conducting the West Virginia All-State Middle School Orchestra from Mar. 2 to Mar. 4 in Charleston, W.V. This festival will include approximately 60 orchestra students.

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Disney’s newest animated feature, “Moana,” takes viewers to the Pacific islands.

Moana’s musical message Jonathan Fisher Staff Writer

Over the week of Thanksgiving, Disney released its newest animated feature, “Moana.”

The movie takes place in the realm of Polynesian lore. It tells the story of Moana, the daughter of the leader of a tribe located on one of the Pacific islands.

Although her father insists that she stay on the island and learn how to become a successful leader of the tribe after him, Moana realizes that the ocean has chosen her to be the one to find the legendary demigod Maui and have him return the heart belonging to the goddess Te Fiti in order to restore peace and harmony back to the islands.

She soon embarks on an adventure across the ocean to fulfill her calling, sparking a series of fascinating happenings.

“Moana” isn’t your typical Disney movie.

The films from the Disney studios that seem most similar are Lilo & Stitch with the Pacific island culture and Pocahontas with the tribal vibes. Moana still takes on a life of its own.

For the first time, viewers get to learn a bit about traditional Polynesian stories and

culture. Different tales and characters that appear in the movie are actual parts of the legends of the Polynesian civilization. It broadens the general Disney scope of the basic fairy tales.

The music adds a beautiful and unique flair to the film as well. The soundtrack provides a mixture of influences between Mark Mancina, an experienced Hollywood soundtrack composer; Opetaia Foa’i, a musician focusing his work on the music of traditional Polynesian culture; and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer, composer, and former star of the smash hit Broadway musical “Hamilton.”

Fans of Miranda’s work will hear some of his signature musical styles in the movie, including a rap in “You’re Welcome,” a song sung

by Maui.

Miranda himself even lends some vocals to another song in the film, “We Know the Way” along with the Oceanic musical group Te Vaka, which Foa’i is a part of. Moana’s recurring theme song “How Far I’ll Go” is another strong element to the soundtrack as well as the movie in general, expressing the development of her character in the story.

The storyline itself did have its weak points but gave a good message overall. The first section of the movie that establishes Moana’s character and her relationship with her grandmother was a solid start to the movie.

Once Moana finds Maui and begins her journey with him, though, the movie seems to become a conflicting mixture of developing the two characters and their relationship as well as a Disney-fied version of the video game “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.” The duo travels from island to island, defeating any enemies they come across in their wake.

By the end of the movie an encouraging and important message comes center stage: you are who you are, not someone that those around you define you as.

Once again, although Disney’s core audience is families with children, the movie’s theme is something that everyone can take something away from.

In every part of life, people are often pressured into fitting into a certain role simply to please others, but at the end of the day, everyone should know the value that each person has as a unique individual.

Plot was never overly important to “Gilmore Girls” in its original seven seasons. More important, by far, were the characters, their fast-paced dialogue and the sometimes bizarre, yet still somehow relatable, family drama.

It’s interesting, given that plot was always on the back burner, that many fans were left feeling unsatisfied by the series’ original 2007 ending.

A large part of that dissatisfaction boils down to the departure of series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Sherman-Palladino left the series after contract disputes prior to the final season, and her absence was felt.

The seventh season is widely seen as lacking the heart and the tone of the rest of the series.

Additionally, ShermanPalladino revealed later that she had an exact plan on how to end the show, down to the series’ last four words, but this ending would never be seen.

Enter Netflix.

With the release of “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” fans are able to visit Stars Hollow for the first time in nearly a decade. The show picks up nearly exactly where the original series left off. Lorelai and Luke are still together, although they never married.

Rory is still single and focusing on her journalism career, although she is struggling to find her footing. To a fault, it seems as though very little has developed in

Stars Hollow or in the lives of the characters in the years that we’ve been absent.

The biggest change from the original series is the absence of Richard Gilmore. The death of Edward Herrmann in 2014 made including him impossible, but his presence is still felt in the revival. Emily, now widowed, is at a crossroads in her life, and her story arc over the four episode mini-series is the most compelling part of the revival.

We watch Emily grieve, move on, and then, for the first time in her life, pursue the life that she wants for herself. Richard’s death has mellowed her in some ways; she is able to find a maid that she likes, finally resolving a running gag from the original series.

While “Gilmore Girls” is often seen as a comedy, its dramatic elements tend to be its most compelling moments (think Rory getting arrested after stealing a yacht), and this trend continues in the revival. After Richard’s funeral, Lorelai and Emily get into a fight, and the scene is brutal, heartbreaking, and hard to watch.

This scene in particular stands out, and unfortunately, the acting caliber of Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop.

Rory is going to be the character that frustrates viewers the most. While there were certainly times in the original series that she seemed to be on a bit of a wild streak, the original finale seemed to suggest that she would get her act together.

This is not the case.

In addition to not having enough ambition to overcome the decline of journalism, it is clear that she has not resolved her poor relationship habits, and she finds herself in a frustrating relationship with one of the men in her life.

Simply put, it is difficult to see Rory in a positive light in the revival, so fans of her character may not enjoy it. However, these character flaws are in line with what viewers have seen from Rory in the past, and in some ways, it is commendable that Sherman-Palladino did not take the easy path, but instead chose to make one of her lead characters fairly unlikable.

Those looking for a tidy bow on the series will likely be disappointed. Although this is supposedly the only extra season fans can expect (although once Netflix sees the ratings it brings in, who knows?), Sherman-Palladino’s mythical final four words do not bring a sense of resolution, but will instead have fans debating their significance and implications for years to come.

“Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” could have easily been six hours of fan service – a vapid, fun, and ultimately forgettable experience.

Instead, the miniseries took unprecedented risks. And while not all of them will work with every viewer, ultimately the series gives Gilmore Girls an ending that emulates the unresolved nature of life.

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Photos by Maddie Williams

Orchesis ‘Around the World’ Every year, the campus community is wowed by the Orchesis dance troupe’s amazing performances. This year is no different, as the Orchesis dancers are performing a variety of originally choreographed dances following the “Around the World” theme. The show opened on Thursday and will continue through Saturday with performances at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, as well as a 2 p.m. matinee tomorrow.

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Christmas music comes to Carnegie for concert series

Rebecca Sayers Staff Writer

Looking for a way to get in the Christmas spirit this semester?

With less than three weeks left in the school year, the stress of upcoming papers and finals can easily cause us to lose sight of the joy of the season.

One event to help get students into the Christmas spirit is the upcoming Carnegie Christmas Concert.

The concert will be held in the Colonnade Room in Carnegie Alumni Center from Dec. 5-8.

Showings will take place from 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. daily.

There will also be an informal performance by the Jazz Combo on Friday from 11:45 – 12:15 p.m.

Each day there will be different musical and vocal groups performing for short periods of time.

The concert will feature groups such as a String Quartet, Grove City College Singers, Horn Ensemble, Touring Choir and Trumpet Choir.

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Get into the Christmas spirit Dec. 5-8 at the Carnegie Christmas Concert. The concerts will feature a variety of the college’s musical groups.

All of the groups will be preforming Christmas songs but will vary for each group.

The groups will be playing and singing Christmas songs in a room full of Christmas decorations to help get their audience into the Christmas spirit.

The concert is open to students, faculty and the Grove City community free of charge.

According to Dr. Beverly Carter, the Carnegie Christmas Concert was formed in the mid1990s as a “Christmas card to the community.”

Dr. Carter works with the music students and faculty to help prepare them for this event.

One student who is excited about the concert is Junior Women’s Singers member Katherine Helmich.

She has participated in the concert for two years and is looking forward to this concert because it helps her get into a “Christmassy mood.”

In past years, the turn out for this event has been well-attended.“It’s great to see students there to support their musician friends, as well as retirees from the college, homeschool-

ing families, and others taking a lunch break for a bit of Christmas cheer,” said Carter.

Helmich hopes for a large audience.

“I encourage people to go to at least one day of this musical event.”

If students are unable to make any of these performances there is another Christmas concert that will take place on Sunday, Dec. 4 at

‘Fantastic Beasts’ returns viewers to Wizarding World

4:30 p.m. in Harbison Chapel.

The concert will feature the Chapel Choir and Touring Choir as they sing Handel’s Messiah.

A chapel credit will be given to all students in attendance and the concert will last roughly an hour.

Biggest man on campus?

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Claire Rauf

Staff Writer

This year – primarily the past few months – have been unnecessarily strange and tumultuous.

In these times, it’s good to imagine a world where everything can be fixed by the wave of a wand; where magic is prevalent and plentiful; where fascinating magical creatures make us laugh and stare in awe; and where the world is different, yet still relatable.

This is where “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” comes into play.

The film takes place roughly 70 years before the events in the Harry Potter series, and operates as a spin-off prequel. While it was originally intended to be a trilogy, there will be four more movies to come.

In the main role is Newt Scamander (played by Eddie Redmayne), a quirky, unassuming British wizard who comes to New York with a magical briefcase full of, well, fantastic beasts. Through a quick series of mishaps related to these creatures, he joins forces with Jacob Kowalski, a non-magical person (known in America as a “No-Maj”).

This unlikely troupe, complete with former Auror Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein

Tonight at 7 p.m. in Crawford Auditorium, the sisters of Sigma Theta Chi are sponsoring this year’s 25th annual Big Man on Campus Fundraiser.

The male-modeling pageant consists of 14 men from fraternities, housing groups and independent organizations. They will be on stage competing against one another in categories consisting of formal wear, swim suit, question/answer and talent.

It’s the Miss America pageant, just without Sandra Bullock. The money raised during the event will benefit the American Cancer Society. Tickets will be sold at the Breen Student Union for $2, and they will also be sold at the door (at Crawford) for $3 on the day of the event.

A raffle for prizes will also take place when votes are being counted. The main judges for the event will be Meredith Gross, a residence director in Harker, Dr. Barton, Assistant Professor of Biology, Dr. Bright, Professor of Sociology and Spanish Professor Señora Ligo.

However, the winner is chosen with the audience’s votes. Naturally, the winner will have bragging rights for the rest of the year.

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J.K. Rowling’s newest work explores the Wizarding World decades prior to the events of the Harry Potter series.

(Katherine Waterson) and her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol), travels through both the nonmagical and wizarding world of New York City on the hunt for Scamander’s lost beasts.

Beneath this seemingly child-friendly tale, however, lurks a much more sinister plot.

Gellert Grindelwald, a name recognizable to Harry Potter fans, is the main villain in this story but is absent for the majority of the film.

The introduction to the movie details how the mysterious and unseen dark wizard is terrorizing America and creating a rift between the No-Maj’s and the wizarding community.

Even the subplots are dark and mature in content, and contain heavy

themes such as execution and child abuse.

As opposed to the eight Harry Potter films, this movie was written as a screenplay

by J. K. Rowling, and merely drew inspiration from her book by the same name.

As her debut screenplay, there are obviously some kinks in the pacing and flow, but the storytelling within Fantastic Beasts retains the same Harry Potter charm that made Rowling so famous.

Despite these technical issues, one can watch the film without losing interest or growing bored simply due to the breathtaking CGI creature work. This is where the movie truly shines.

Each one of the magi-

cal animals that Scamander has locked away in his case is constructive to the storyline, personable in an anthropomorphic way, and astonishingly designed down to every detail. I would highly recommend seeing Fantastic Beasts in 3D, just so that one can wholly receive the full, immersive experience of Rowling’s magical world.

Fantastic Beasts does an excellent job of peppering references to the celebrated original stories in a way that will make fans smile, without distracting those who have not yet seen or read Harry Potter.

This was especially evident for me, as I have not yet seen all of the Harry Potter films,

nor have I read any of the books.

I still thoroughly enjoyed and understood the movie, only once leaning over in the theater to ask my friend, a fervent Harry Potter fan, what an Auror was.

Overall, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is no Harry Potter.

However, the film does reopen that sense of child-like imagination and wonder that so many experienced with the original series.

It is definitely worth going to see the movie while it is in theaters, even if it is simply to see the stunningly detailed creatures and to experience the magic of the wizarding world on the big screen one more time.

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Connecting two worlds

Cat Anderson Staff Writer

On a Reuters video, a little girl with pigtails stands before the rubble of a bombed building. She holds a poster board with the words “#Stand with Aleppo – Please Stop the Bombing and End the Siege” written in multi-colored, childish letters.

As the Syrian civil war rages on, the national army has laid siege on one of the biggest cities in the country. Children like seven-yearold Bana Alabed endure the ever-present threat of death or injury as bombings destroy their neighborhoods.

But unlike most of her peers, Bana has established a connection with an audience very different from herself – with the use of Twitter.

As a result, she exposes more people outside of the conflict to the horrific circumstances endured by those in Aleppo. @AlabedBana posts regularly to her 128,000 followers, attracting attention from big news corporations in the west like BBC and CNN. These posts range from photographs of Bana with her family to footage of bombings and pleas to end the violence.

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From her home in Aleppo, @AlabedBana posts updates for the world to see.

She never shies away from sharing the atrocities she witnesses; in fact, she intentionally exposes a detached western audience to the murder and destruction of the siege. They experience the tragedy as she experiences it, constantly aware of the possibility that each tweet may be her last.

Bana’s account reveals the extraordinary

potential of social media platforms like twitter – which should get us excited. Why? Because we can harness this potential and not only witness events like the siege but act on them.

Twitter opens up a bridge of communication that our generation knows how to use and should use. In fact, we do use it every day. But

merely glancing over Bana’s feed shows us the attention and support serious issues can get over twitter - issues we don’t usually focus on in our everyday lives.

Her account received even more attention after Bana’s mother, Fatemah, tweeted to author J.K. Rowling about her daughter’s desire to read the “Harry Potter” series. In re-

sponse, Rowling gifted her with the eBooks, tweeting back her love and support.

Although a small gesture, Rowling’s gift again emphasizes the power of this bridge of communication.

She gave Bana the opportunity to be a child again in a world torn apart by war. The little girl herself posted that she reads to forget the conflict and wants to be an author someday. Through @ AlabedBana, we see how important twitter has become. It opens our eyes to worlds that might otherwise go unseen, like the siege in Aleppo.

We witness first-hand accounts of situations very different from our own, from the perspective of people very different from ourselves, even little children.

Twitter also gives us a platform on which to respond – like Rowling did. We have the ability to interact with other twitter users, expressing our opinions and concern. We shouldn’t waste this opportunity.

Despite political and social upheaval, and even distance, we can draw awareness like Bana and give support like Rowling. In my opinion, that is something to be excited about.

Now what for #NeverTrump?

Matthew Leverknight Contributing Writer

Donald Trump has defied conventional wisdom and won the Presidency by picking up 47 Electoral College votes in states that had gone Democratic in every election from 1992 to 2012.

This was thanks to his outreach to voters in the Rust Belt and the tone deafness of Hillary Clinton’s “Basket of Deplorables” line, which, even more so than Barack Obama’s “Clingers” remark, demonstrated the modern Left’s contempt for the white working class.

This Rust Belt flip will probably have lasting consequences, since for 25 years the GOP tried and failed to break that wall. Now that Trump has shown the GOP how to win there, you can bet conventional Republicans are watching, especially as a conventional Republican running a conventional campaign in conventional states might not have boosted turnout in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania enough to reelect Senators Ron Johnson and Pat Toomey.

As a reform conservative #NeverTrumper, I have a confession of where I and likeminded people were blind. We opposed Trump tooth and nail, but in the process of defending the establishment, we missed something important: the establishment is doing fine, and they don’t need reform.

The folks whose kids are stuck in terrible public schools, who can’t get decent healthcare coverage, who are dependent on a Medicare/Medicaid/ Social Security colossus that is on the brink of falling apart are the ones who need reform in Washington.

And frankly, Donald Trump needs the ideas of the Paul

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President-Elect Trump has begun working with Republican leaders.

Ryans and the Yuval Levins to deliver on the promise he made to “Make America Great Again.” Reformicons have been working on plans to repeal and replace Obamacare, provide school choice and make government more efficient for a long time. It is possible for the GOP to be both the ideas party and the party of working-class populism, and reformicons should recognize this and make a stronger effort towards explaining how their ideas will make the silent majority better off.

We can either build a relationship with the coalition Donald Trump has handed the GOP, or remain ivory tower philosophers with complex plans irrelevant to real people and their real concerns, in other words, the right-wing version of the progressive technocrats who were repudiated in 2010, 2014 and 2016.

I hope reformicons will make themselves available to Trump as he’s choosing his cabinet, and that he uses them.

He seems to be stocking the cabinet with loyal campaign surrogates, but to truly restore trust in the Executive Branch, he needs eminently qualified people who will be able to effectively manage large bureaucracies and find the reductions in spending that are needed to get budgets under control and prove that he really is serious about draining the swamp at institutions like the VA, IRS, Defense and Health and Human Services.

Many of his loyalists are, to put it politely, long on talk and short on demonstrated leadership capacity and assorted opportunistic D.C. insiders are also offering their services.

Ahem.

A realignment of the GOP away from unrestricted free trade may occur. But, while globalism taketh away, it does also giveth. Where I come from (Somerset County, PA, where Donald Trump won 75% of the votes cast), coal mining is an important industry, and much of that coal is exported to oth-

er countries, including China, for use in steel production.

Similarly, two Scandinavian industrial firms have plants in my hometown. International businesses provide many good paying jobs around this country, such as the Asian automakers building plants in the South, even while the Detroit Big Three are exporting jobs to Mexico. Trump should consider carefully just how beneficial a trade war would be for his supporters.

Finally, Trump must shed the Alt-Right to be a true president of all the people. Sticking with any hint of identity politics is going to continue President Obama’s disgraceful legacy of playing one group against the other.

There’s no reason why the party of the white working class can’t also be the party of the black and Hispanic working classes. Issues like economic anxiety, institutional decay, bad schools, family breakdown, crime, and drug addiction matter to the vast majority of Americans of all races, and if the GOP can deliver with genuine solutions, the days of identity politics may be over.

It appears the common people notched a win and were finally heard, and even though I didn’t vote for Trump, I’m glad for that. As the very first Republican president Abraham Lincoln was said to say: “God must love the common people, He made so many of them.”

So, after a long and bitter campaign, Donald J. Trump will be our 45th President, may he deliver on his promises and vindicate the support the common people gave him.

But, may the common people remember that we already have our Messiah, and He is not a politician.

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Perspectives

A generation given up Michael Thompson Contributing Writer

In the Old Testament, God judged His people Israel when they turned away from His holy law, and devoted themselves to idols. The tendency with which Israel followed corrupt practices is evident from the sheer amount of prophetic literature intent on bringing Israel to repentance.

One of the most obvious manifestations of Israel’s sin was sexual immorality, a sin which is found frequently in Israel’s list of failures and which the prophets regularly denounced (Jud. 19:22; Num. 25; Hos 4:7-14; Ez. 16; Ez. 23).

In one of these cases, Israel indulges in sexual immorality with the Moabites, just before entering the Promised Land (Num. 25).

Reflect a moment on the gravity of this crime. God saved Israel, redeeming them from bondage in Egypt and leading them through the wilderness. He spoke the law. He established his covenant.

He wrought miracles.

Now, just before Israel entered the land which God swore to give them, they broke the covenant and prostituted themselves to Baal of Peor. Needless to say, God was enraged and He ended up sending a plague among them.

Yet the church today has transgressed in a similar way. How? Through letting the sensuality of the world seep into our minds and lives.

It should seriously concern us when sexual impurity is mainstream in our own society. All you have to do is go to your local shopping center, or flip on the TV, to see on display a type of sexual promiscuity debatably more pronounced than that of Old Testament Israel.

Advertisements are full of the message that sex will give you what you want, and the Internet is fraught with pornography and licentious material. The latest celebrities and fashion models insatiably flaunt their bodies and project such behavior to the culture. The effects of these things are enormous. Already, God’s people are being led astray.

One of the reasons for this is because the church in America in many spheres has turned a blind eye to the sexual immorality of the culture. Sexual impurity of all kinds are heinous in God’s sight, and as his people, we should seek to cultivate a lifestyle honoring to God. God designed the marriage bed to be kept pure. However, rather than seeing this as something holy before God, we have debased sexuality in our minds and dishonored that which God made.

How as Christians

can we tolerate even the slightest stain of sexual impurity? (I confront myself here as well) Indeed, how can we fulfill our mission to be Christ’s representatives if we look no different from the world? Let us “put to death… what is earthly” within us (Col 3:5) and “not gratify the desires of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). As “we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25). In order to be God’s witnesses our responsibility is to stand out and proclaim His glory through living a godly life. Judge for yourselves.

Can we live sexually impure and still honor God? If the church syncretizes religion with the cultural practices of the world, no alternative is left than judgement and wrath.

Indeed, according to Romans 1, the wrath of God is already being revealed against “all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men… who suppress the truth” (Rom 1:18).

The church is increasingly becoming suppressors of the truth, just like Old Testament Israel. As a result, God’s judgement is to, literally, give them up to their own depravity. Can you think of a harsher judgment?

The depravity which Romans speaks of is among other things, sexual immorality, “the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves” (Rom 1:24). One kind of sexual immorality, Paul is explicit, is homosexuality. Just as you cannot entertain a sexually profligate lifestyle and espouse Christianity, so you cannot pursue homosexuality and still hold to the truth of God’s Word.

This is not to say that everyone who struggles with sexual purity is non-Christian. Of course not! I struggle myself to obey God’s Word. The body of Christ should be active in helping each other turn from sin and to God and we should all be seeking to put to death the old man in our hearts. But for those who think that God will love them in their sexual immorality, or that they can glorify God through a homosexual lifestyle, nothing awaits but wrath (1Cor. 5: 9-10).

The fact that our nation is perfectly okay with such things is nothing new. The fact that the church is becoming okay with such things, proves that God’s wrath is already being revealed.

The question to the current generation of believers is three-fold.

Will we endeavor to pursue godliness and lovingly encourage each other in our struggle for holiness and sexual purity? And will we stand firm on the truth of the Word of God and uncompromisingly live a life of integrity and obedience to His law?

Dec. 2, 2016

Sometimes, it’s okay to just say ‘no’

Maddy Moser

Contributing Writer My alarm goes off at 8:20 a.m. and I hit snooze a few times, convincing myself I only need 10 minutes to get ready. At 8:45, my feet hit the floor and a small panic rises inside me, I’m going to be so late.

I rush off to my 9 a.m., holding onto a cup of coffee for dear life and still wearing the sweatshirt I fell asleep in. This is how most of my days at Grove City College start.

In order for me to continue describing my day, from classes to meetings to IM games to Bible studies to meals to studying to trying to have a social life, I would need a lot more time and space than I currently have.

I also cannot tell you the last time I was fully rested. And I would bet that you can’t tell me the last time you were fully rested either, can you?

When’s the last time you said “no”? When’s the last time you turned down an opportunity

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at Grove City? And I don’t mean saying no to something because you have an exam the next day. When’s the last time you said “no” just because you didn’t want to play IM volleyball with your hall, go to the alternative chapel or eat at Hicks?

Looking at my planner for the month of December almost gives me a heart attack, and while there’s the chance that I’m alone here, I’d be willing to bet that many of you feel the same way.

On a Saturday night a friend looking to make casual conversation asked, “how’s your week looking, Mads?”

I kid you not, I nearly cried because for a split second I couldn’t remember if my week was going to be a breeze or if I would spend Monday through Thursday clos-

ing down the library and doubting my ability to graduate.

Simply put, Grove City College students are over-booked. But you already knew that.

In fact, many students won’t pick up The Collegian because they don’t even have time to read these articles.

You might be thinking that busyness isn’t a bad thing, and I agree, it doesn’t have to be, but sometimes it is. I’ll admit that I am most productive when I’m busy.

If I only have two hours between obligations to get my homework done, I can crank out a 5 page paper in that time because I have no other option.

If I have three weeks to write a paper I will wait until two hours before the class to start. Being busy keeps me accountable.

It also keeps me from being spontaneous, something I deem one of the most important parts of the college experience. Having every moment of every week meticulously scheduled does not leave enough

wiggle room to simply have fun.

When we are overly focused on the preplanned details of our weeks, we miss out on moments that could possibly redefine college for us.

Rushing from place to place across our quarter mile campus, only pausing to capture your feet in the leaves, produces a head-down mentality that focuses exclusively on the next task.

Wouldn’t you rather remember college as more than the positions you held in the clubs you were in and all the honoraries into which you were inducted?

At the very least, having more free time will decrease your stress, but it could also provide countless adventures that you’ll remember long after graduation.

It is fine to be busy, but as you set your alarm for the next morning, you have to ask yourself, what are you busy with? Mundane tasks that you’ll soon forget about, or experiences that shape who you are becoming?

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Grove City inducts six into sports Hall of Fame Brad Warmhold Sports Editor The Grove City College Athletic Hall of Fame will induct six new members into its ranks on February 4, 2017.

The College will also present its Athletic Heritage Award to former swimmer Thurlow “Turtle” Mayhood ‘50, and longtime athletic department supporter Wayne Stamm will receive the McMillan-Jewell Charitable Heart Ambassador Award.

Grove City College established the Athletic Hall Fame in June of 2006 to honor men and women who achieved superior excellence during their time as a Wolverine athlete or coach.

The honor of being inducted into the Hall of Fame also extends to those who have made a significant impact on the Grove City College athletic program.

Athletes who are nominated for induction must have last attended the College at least 10 years prior to being considered for induction.

Nominated athletes must also have earned at least two varsity letters at Grove City while competing in a sport recognized as having varsity status during their time of competition.

A nominated athlete must also be recognized as alumnus by the College.

The following Wolverine alumnae and former staff members will be inducted into the Hall of Fame next February: Lynn Crawford ‘69, Eric Sluss ‘86, Cherith Reidenbaker ‘97, Abby (Moose ‘05) DeMario, Elisa (Pedersen ‘06) Stodghill, and recently retired athletic director Dr. Donald Lyle.

Lynn Crawford ’69 (Football): A fouryear starter on defensive line from 1966-69, Crawford helped lead the Grove City College football team to a 259-2 record. Crawford started both on the offensive and defensive line in hisfinal three seasons and is believed to be

Grove City’s last “60-minute man”.

He was also named to the Pittsburgh Press All-District selection in 1967.

Eric Sluss ’86 (Swimming and Diving): Six-time NCAA Division III All-American and an All-American in 100 and 200 butterfly in 1984, 1985. Sluss held a Grove City College record in both butterfly events for 25 years and helped the team to 42-7 dual meet record from 1981 to 1985.

Cherith Reidenbaker ’97 (Softball): A threetime First Team AllPresidents’ Athletic Conference pick at shortstop, Reidenbaker set a school record by hitting for a .500 batting average in 1996. She also set single-season records for on-base and slugging percentages and

graduated as the Grove City College career hit leader with 104.

Abby (Moose) DeMario ’05 (Basketball): A threetime First T e a m All-PAC at guard, DeMario scored 1,209 points between 2001 and 2005. She was Grove City College’s Sportswoman of the Year during the 20042005 season, and she set a program record with 172 3-point goals.

DeMario also represented the United States in the 2005 and 2009 Deaflympics, helping the U.S. to gold medal in 2005 and silver medal in 2009.

Elisa (Pedersen) Stodghill ’06 (Cross Country): During her career at Grove City, Stodghill received numerous accolades such

as NCAA Division III AllAmerican honors in 2004 and 2005. She was also a four-time Presidents’ Athletic Conference Runner of the Year, four-time All-Region performer, CoSIDA Academic All-American as a senior and Grove City’s 2005-06 Sportswoman of the Year.

Dr. Donald Lyle (Coach/Administrator): Dr. Don Lyle spent 43 years at Grove City (19722015) as a coach, athletic director and administrator. He was the men’s soccer coach from 1972 to 2005, the first softball coach at Grove City (1980-87), and also coached the baseball team from 1988 to 1997.

He became the athletic director in 2003 and held that position until 2015. During his time as athletic director, he helped found the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame and chaired the Hall’s Selection Committee from 2006 to 2015.

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Women’s Christiansen crosses basketball country one last time starts strong Brad Warmhold Sports Editor

Joe Setyon Managing Editor The Grove City College women’s basketball team is off to a good start, winning three of its first five games as it makes its way through its first few contests.

The Wolverines began the season with a tough 61-75 loss at home to Pitt-Greensburg. Following that game, though, the squad has picked up the pace, finding a way to both shoot the basketball effectively and play lockdown defense on the opposition.

Grove City’s first win of the season came in the opening game of the Allegheny College Greg Richards Memorial Tip-Off on Nov. 18.

As most Grovers were preparing to depart for Thanksgiving vacation, the Wolverines were taking on Oswego State.

The squad trailed by nine points at the start of the fourth quarter, and was down eight points with three minutes left in regulation. However, Grove City crawled back, and would win it by a score of 55-54 with a basket with three seconds left. Sophomore center Laura Buchanan scored on an assist from senior guard Jackie Stewart.

Junior guard Lexie Arkwright led the way in this one with 21 points to go along with eight rebounds and seven steals.

Buchanan had 12 total points along with 12 rebounds, while sophomore guard McKenzie Black also had 12 points. Stewart led the team with six assists.

The Wolverines concluded tournament play the next day with a 7963 win over Adrian.

After an impressive end to the first quarter, Grove City led 18-11, and opened it up before halftime, taking a 4124 lead. In the fourth quarter, the team led by as much as 21 points.

Freshman guard Kate Balcom had a breakout performance, scoring a team-leading 22 points and adding seven re-

bounds, three assists and three steals. For the second consecutive game, Buchanan scored 12 points, while Stewart and Arkwright each contributed 10 points.

Meanwhile, Stewart had five assists, while Arkwright grabbed seven rebounds.

On Nov. 22, in their final game before Thanksgiving, the Wolverines returned home and crushed Franciscan 65-35, their largest margin of victory of the young season. Grove City started fast, taking a 15-0 lead. The team continue to pour it on, and had a 40-17 lead at halftime that would keep growing until the final buzzer sounded.

Arkwright was at the forefront of a great team effort in this game. She scored 28 points, grabbed 12 rebounds, and accounted for seven steals, coming dangerously close to a triple-double. Black added eight points and four assists, while Stewart had seven points and five rebounds.

These were just four of the 11 Wolverines who scored in the game.

After break, the Wolverines travelled to Kentucky to take on Thomas More on Nov. 30, losing 47-88. Buchanan was her team’s leading scorer with 11 points.

Grove City has received meaningful contributions from all over the roster early on this season.

Arkwright leads the team in scoring, averaging 18.4 ppg on nearly 60 percent field goal shooting.

Buchanan is once again having a strong season, scoring 10.56ppg. Finally, Balcom (8.4 ppg), Stewart (7.6 ppg) amd Black (6.2 ppg) have all been excellent as well.

Looking ahead, Grove City will host Waynesburg on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. The Wolverines will not open their President’s Athletic Conference (PAC) until 2017, on January 3 against Washington and Jefferson.

Senior men’s cross country runner Daniel Christiansen concluded a superb fall season and one of the most outstanding careers in Grove City history with a 56th place finish at the NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country Championships at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Christiansen completed the eight-kilometer course in 25 minutes, 10.3 seconds, placing 56th out of 278 other runners. His DIII Championship time is now the third-fastest 8K time in the history of Grove City College’s cross country program.

Christiansen, a fouryear letter-winner and team captain his senior year, finishes his career with a plethora of accolades.

Currently, he holds five of the top eight 8K times in program history, and his careerbest time of 25:08.8 at the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships last weekend finished behind 2014 graduate Arleigh McRae’s school record of 25:08.7 by only .1 seconds.

GROVE CITY COLLEGE

Senior Daniel Christiansen finished his last season running for Grove City. He has had one of the most outstanding careers in the school’s history.

Christiansen began his career as a Wolverine competing in all seven meets during freshman campaign.

His ability to adapt quickly to the collegiate level and improve with each race that he ran earned him First Team All-PAC honors after finishing fifth at the PAC Championships with a time of 26:30.30, the top time among all

freshmen in the conference.

That same year, he also earned Freshman All-Mideast Region honors after finishing fifth among freshmen and 54th overall at the NCAA Mideast Regional at Lehigh with a season-best 26:05.

Christiansen followed-up on his successful freshman season with an even more

successful sophomore year. Once again, the standout earned First Team All-PAC honors after finishing as runner-up at the conference championships.

He was also Grove City’s top runner at the NCAA Mideast Regional, posting a 43rd place finish in 26:07.3.

By his junior year, Christiansen had already established himself as one of the greatest cross-country runners in Grove City’s history. He earned AllPAC First Team honors for a third-straight year and finished third at championship meet.

He went on to receive USTFCCCA All-Region honors after finishing fifth at the NCAA Mideast Regional with a then career best 8K time of 25:35.2 and qualified for NCAA Championships where he took 115th with a time of 25:36.0.

Christiansen’s overall talent and ability to constantly improve without any setbacks has set the 2017 graduate apart during his tenure as a Wolverine.

Though great talent has always been a part of Grove City’s crosscountry team, the likes of Christiansen will be hard to find again soon.

Indoor track and field up and running Brad Warmhold Sports Editor

Today marks the beginning of the Grove City College men’s and women’s indoor track and field 2016-2017 season. The Wolverines will travel to Youngstown, Ohio where they will compete in the Youngstown State Icebreaker at 3:00 p.m.

Though track and field has been a varsity sport for quite some time now, the 2016-2017 season is only the second one to feature indoor track.

“Last year was our first true indoor season; the year before that was more experimental than anything else” said senior hurdler Nick Betz.

“We had a much firmer grasp on what we wanted to accomplish and how to go about training, and I think it paid off with our results. While we didn’t bring home the team crown, numerous people saw personal improvements in their times/ marks and many new school records were made.”

The men’s team will look to

improve on a season that saw them finish in 6th place in the President’s Athletic Conference.

Individually, Betz won his second straight conference title in the 60-meter hurdles, and current senior Daniel Christiansen finished second in the 5000 by breaking his own school record with a time of 15:28.23.

Jumper Mike Cole broke a pair of his own school records in the triple jump and long jump, and the distance medley relay team of, Andrew Mascio, Josh Dunsworth, Drew Thibault and Matt Werner combined for a fourthplace time of 11:06.95, good for another school record.

Sophomore, now junior, Connor Lowe recorded the Wolverines remaining school record of the night, finishing eighth in the shot put with a best mark of 43 feet, 4.5 inches The women’s team ended their indoor track season last year with a fifth place finish at PACs. Current senior Lydia Keiper finished in first for the 5000 meter event in 19 minutes, 10.14 seconds, and the Wolverine 1600-meter relay quartet of Allison Blain, Lauren Pearce,

Melanie Wizorek and freshman Elizabeth Donahoe closed the meet by taking third place with a time of 4:16.47. Tabitha White finished off her freshman campaign by leading Grove City’s field athletes by earning third in the high jump, clearing 4 feet, 9 1/2 inches.

Both teams will look to build off of their experiences and successes from last year and use the indoor season to prepare them for the outdoor season in the spring.

“Indoor is different from Outdoor in many respects,” explained Betz, “some events are shorter, and the track itself is smaller, so the turns are much tighter…also, since Indoor goes directly into Outdoor, you have to be sure not to overstrain; you don’t want to burn yourself out during the Indoor season since you still have a 3 month Outdoor season right after.”

Following the Youngstown State Icebreaker today, the men’s and women’s teams will not compete until next semester.

Both teams’ next meet is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2017 at Oberlin College.

Men’s basketball struggles in season’s opening contests Garrett Gaffney Contributing Writer The Grove City men’s basketball team kicked off its season earlier this month at at the start of Thanksgiving vacation.

Last season, The Wolverines accumulated a 19-8 overall record and qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III playoffs, the first time they made the tournament since 2010.

The team ended up los-

ing in its first game of the tournament to Penn State Behrend.

The Wolverines have had a slow start to the 2016-2017 season so far.

The season and home opener against Allegheny College on Nov. 15 was a back and forth affair that ended with the Wolverines being edged 59-63.

Meanwhile, their next game ended in a 57-78 loss to Penn State Beaver on Nov. 16.

The Wolverines were able to get back on track at home against Franciscan on Nov. 22.

Dominating from the start, Grove City lead 44-24 at the half and was able to ride that lead all the way to the final buzzer, winning 79-61.

When asked about the team’s turn around, freshman guard Nate Peters said, “We didn’t come out timid like the two games before. We were focused on win-

ning instead of not losing.”

Junior forward Andrew Beckman led the team in scoring against Franciscan, tallying 18 points and also grabbing nine rebounds.

Peters also turned in an impressive performance, shooting 70 percent from the field and scoring 16 points.

Peters also dished out six assists, and his performance helped earn him the President’s Athletic Conference

(PAC) Rookie of the Week award.

With an impressive stat line of 11.5 points a game, along with four rebounds and four assists per contest, Peters shows promise for the young Grove City team.

“I just played within my role, I did what the team needed me to do to get the win,” Peters said.

The team began conference play on Wednesday against Thomas More College.,

losing by a score of 6277. Sophomore guard Gabe Goode had 15 points in the game, and also added four steals.

They will also be playing at home this Saturday against Waynesburg University at 3:30 p.m.

Last year, Grove City split its series against Waynesburg,

winning

the first matchup but losing in the second.