The Collegian – December 9, 2016

A delicate dance?

Football finally victorious AEX beats

Thoughts on Orchesis and

Rhos in footbal clash on Thorn

cultural appropriation PERSPECTIVES

SPORTS

Get healthy Exercise Science Club gets Grovers going with series of events open to campus

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Jazzing it up this season Christmas ballroom and swing dance will perform at Christmas dance ENTERTAINMENT

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The Friday, December 9, 2016

Vol. 103, No. 10

The Grove City College Student Newspaper

Christmas cheer comes to campus

Giving Week beats goals Caleb Harshberger Editor in Chief

The Wolverine Giving Week Challenge came to a close last week, and while not all the money has been counted, the school has already exceeded their goals.

This is the second time the school launched this fundraiser, after last years exceeded expectations.

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‘Tis the season to be decorative, as seen in South Lobby. Festivity floods the campus as snowmen, ornaments and presents appear everywhere. Don’t believe us? Check out the photos featured on pages 6 and 7.

This year the school set a goal of $500,000 and 800 donors, with a focus on the number of donors.

Senior Director of Development Brian Powell said that over half of the donors prefer to send donations through checks and that many of those are either still in the mail on their way GIVING WEEK 2

Grove City’s Giving Week surpassed their goal of $500,000 and 800 donors.

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Review writer Carson tapped for HUD secretary discusses media impact Josh Delk Staff Writer

Josh Delk Staff Writer

Political columnist and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute (NRI) Ian Tuttle spoke at Grove City last Wednesday on the state of the media and its influence in the recent elections cycle.

The event was sponsored by the Center for Vision & Values in conjunction with the NRI On-Campus program.

NRI On-Campus event coordinator and 2016 graduate of GCC Nate Mills came to introduce the speaker and share information with students about the Institute’s work.

Throughout the election, Tuttle has remarked at the use of social media and how it has affected both creators and consumers of news content.

“This election in

the media was a large-scale breakdown of trust between the TUTTLE people and the media,” he said.

“There has been a democratization in who is creating the news.

There’s no mediating structure to determine what is accurate.”

Tuttle referenced the pivotal role of media in the election, and recalled Ted Cruz attacking the mainstream media during the first primary debate, a theme that would carry through the general election.

Donald Trump has set “a new precedent” in the immediacy and openness of the president’s communication with the public via social media, according WRITER 2

President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen retired neurosurgeon and 2016 Grove City commencement speaker Ben Carson as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Trump’s transition team announced Monday.

Carson was an early advocate for Trump’s campaign, shortly after ending his own bid for the presidency.

In his new post, Carson will play a major role in the government’s effort to revive inner-city communities.

During the presidential campaign, Carson led Trump on a tour of struggling Detroit communities that included a visit to his childhood home.

“Ben Carson has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities,” said Mr. Trump in

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Ben Carson, last year’s commencement speaker, has been appointed as PresidentElect Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. his Monday statement.

“We have talked at length about my urban renewal agenda and our message of economic revival, very much including our inner cities.

Ben shares my optimism about the future of our country and is part of ensuring that this is a presidency representing all Americans.”

Carson, who has no experience in government bureaucracy or housing expertise, publicly flip-flopped on whether he would

accept a cabinet appointment. In taking the position, Dr. Carson, 65, will lead the agency with a budget of nearly $50 billion that provides vouchers and housing rental assistance to nearly five million low-income families, and oversees much of the country’s affordable housing programs.

In regards to the department’s mission to play a role in community redevelopment and education, Carson said “I feel that I can make a significant con-

tribution particularly by strengthening communities that are most in need. We have much work to do in enhancing every aspect of our nation and ensuring that its housing needs are met.”

High-ranking Republicans and Democrats remain split on the appointment.

House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted his praise of Carson, saying that he “is a great choice for @ HUDgov. A shining exCARSON 2

The Collegian Watchlist targets ‘leftist propaganda’

Dec. 9, 2016

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Molly Wicker News Editor

A new website called “Professor Watchlist” accuses nearly 200 college professors of advancing “leftist propaganda in the classroom” and discriminating against conservative students.

The site, Professor Watchlist, which first appeared on Nov. 21, says it names instructors who “advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.”

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GIVING WEEK to the school or are currently being counted.

However, even with many donations yet to be recorded, the goals have been met.

The College expects to know precisely how much was made by mid next week, but as of last Wednesday the count was around $600,000.

Part of the fundraiser was a challenge where reaching 800 donors, unlocking $80,000 funds provided by former presidents Dr. Charles McKenzie, Dr. John Moore, Dr. Dick Jewell ’67 and current President Paul McNulty. This goal was reached.

The fundraiser will

ton, a professor of psychology at Grove City, says the list “over-reacts.”

“Looking at the list of profs, I know some who are no threat to free speech. This group takes any negative statements about conservative causes as a problem. The Watchlist would be a threat to academic freedom if someone in administration took it seriously. I certainly hope no administrator would ever consult this list for any reason.”

The watch list is a project of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization which, according to its website, is a national movement that seeks to “educate students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.”

The founder and executive director of the organization is Charlie Kirk, a 23 year-old graduate of Wheeling High School in Illinois.

According to Wheeling’s Daily Herald, Kirk

turned down an invitation to Baylor University and instead took education classes at Harper College in Palatine, Ill., while working to found the nonprofit. The organization took off, and Kirk was a speaker the 2016 Republican National Convention.

There are approximately 200 professors on the list from public and private schools, public and private.

Locally, 4 professors from Pennsylvania State University, Temple University and the

University of Pennsylvania are on the list.

One example is Peter Hatemi, a professor of political science, microbiology and biochemistry at Pennsylvania State University.

According to his biography on Penn State’s website, his research focuses on “differences in preferences, decision-making and social behaviors on a wide range of topics, including: political behaviors and attitudes, addiction, political violence and terrorism, public

health, gender identification, religion, mate selection, and the nature of interpersonal relationships.”

The Professor Watchlist included Hatemi based on a 2012 paper he co-authored, “Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies.”

Hatemi’s paper suggested some people could have a genetic draw to a particular political affiliation.

be supporting a wide range of things on campus.

“This money is a part of our annual fundraising effort that we call Full Circle,” Said President McNulty.

“Full Circle is an effort that is repeated each year to raise a significant amount of money to support a very wide range of college programs and opportunities.”

Much of this goes to merit scholarships, or “pass-through” scholarships, which are separate from need based aid which comes from the endowment.

This includes trustee scholarships which go to full or partial rides to 24 incoming freshmen as well as one-time

gifts.

The money will also go to research projects, events on campus like Homecoming and Family Weekend, speakers and other things that aren’t essential to the basic functioning of the school.

“There’s a list of more than 24 items that receive Full Circle money each year,” McNulty said.

The more money the school takes in, the more projects that can be funded with through Full Circle. All donations are unrestricted, meaning that the school can spend it as they see fit, McNulty explained.

“These are things that are a little more flexible.”

“For example, I’d like

to see us have more high-profile speakers come to campus and more concerts on campus,” McNulty said.

The school also keeps track of the number of donors and the decade that they graduated in.

It adds a bit of competition, Powell explained.

The fundraiser’s site, wolverinechallenge.gcc.edu, features a chart representing the amount of donors from each decade. As of last Wednesday, the 70s alumni held a commanding lead with the 80s in second and fewer with each subsequent decade.

CARSON

wrote that “these government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality create consequences that often make matters worse.”

Carson has used his own rags-to-riches story to emphasize the importance of perseverance and individual strength over government assistance.

During his brief presidential campaign, he stated his far-reaching opposition to many of the governments programs aimed at fighting poverty in the inner-cities, which have harmed church and community-based initiatives he said.

“We the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society,” he said in a February town-hall event. “It’s not the government’s job.”

After recently stating through a spokesperson that he did not feel prepared to run a federal agency, he has since decided to the contrary, and will take office as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on inauguration day, Jan. of 2017.

Last year, when the Grove City College commencement speaker had to cancel due to medical issues, Dr. Ben Carson graciously stepped in to fill the speakers position.

This caused a stir on social media with several petitions being filled both for and against Carson coming to campus.

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ample of overcoming poverty, he will put a focus on dignity rather than independence.

Carson was roundly rejected by Ryan’s Democratic counterpart, the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who called Carson “disturbingly unqualified.”

Brian Montgomery, the Assistant Secretary of HUD under President George W. Bush noted that “out of the last five or six HUD secretaries, you could really only point to two of them with direct housing experience.”

Housing advocates on both sides have said that Carson’s name recognition and favorability could help improve the public profile of the bureaucracy at a crucial time.

“We cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities” Carson told Fox News.

“We have to get beyond the promises and really start doing something.

The amount of corruption and graft and things, shell games that are played – we need to get rid of all that stuff.”

Carson was born in to poverty, but worked his way to eventually receive a scholarship to Yale University. He became the director of pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Now an author, philanthropist, and conservative thinker, Carson has repeatedly attacked President Obama’s implementation of antidiscrimination laws in cities as a “social-engineering scheme.” In an op-ed in The Washington Times, Carson

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to Tuttle, with which he has also attacked the mainstream media and contested the narrative forwarded by major news outlets In the 2012 campaign, Tuttle cited, social media demonstrated its power to change the narrative when it “decided” that Romney had won the first general election debate. This power came not only from major newspapers, but from everyday Twitter users.

“The state of journalism is dismal,” Tuttle remarked. “People have lost faith in journalists’ ability to keep the powers that be accountable for their actions.” The

solution, he insisted, was for a richer community life to hold journalists to their words and actions, and a more modest habit of public news consumption to declutter the news conversation.

Tuttle writes regular columns on politics and culture for the magazine, widely acknowledged as one of the premier conservative print publications in the nation. Founded

by William F. Buckley, a founder of the modern conservative movement, the National Review endeavors “to stand athwart history yelling ‘STOP.’”

Life Harbison to light up for candlelight service

Dec. 9, 2016

Kelleigh Huber Life Editor

Dec. 11 marks one of the most beautiful times of the year for Grove City College: bringing together the college and the community in Harbison Chapel for the holiday season.

The annual Christmas Candlelight services will be held Dec. 11 at 6:30 and 8:30 PM in the chapel. The services are identical and are both expected to be as busy, as usual. Commonly, there are an abundance of parents, students, faculty and alumni who will enjoy the service from throughout the college community and Grove City area.

The service will consist of anthems sung by the Touring Choir and the usual lighting of the candles as the con-

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gregation sings “Silent Night.” The meditation for the evening is entitled “God With Us.” In addition, a longstanding tradition of the service includes reciting “Thou Wilt Light My Candle,” a poem written by Grace Noel Crowell.

Students and community members should take part in one of the two services for a variety of reasons.

“This is an opportunity for our academic community to celebrate together our faith at Christmas,” Dr. F. Stanley Keehlwetter, Dean of the Chapel, said when asked about why students should come to the service.

If that is not a compelling reason, getting that last chapel credit might be.

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On Dec. 11, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Grove City will hold its annual Christmas Candlelight Services. Featuring the Touring Choir and the traditional singing of Silent Night, the two services are bound to be a can’t-miss event. Every year, Harbison Chapel is packed with those who come to enioy the music and meditate on the true meaning of the Christmas season.

Even with finals looming, students choose to take a study break and worship.

Dr. Love Meet the parents

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McNulty has done it all - there isn’t anyone on campus who can deny it that. To add to the ever-growing list of McNulty’s accomplishments, he led a competitive game of Simon says in Ket Rec last Friday, Dec. 2.

Simon says ‘Follow McNulty’ Jesse Peterson Business Manager

Members of the campus community gathered in Ket Rec last Friday to relive a favorite childhood pastime.

The American Marketing Association (AMA) hosted a “celebrity edition” of Simon Says featuring wellknown faculty members as the games’ callers.

Faculty in attendance included Professor Sweet, Dr. Bright, Dr. Powell and President McNulty.

For $0.50 cents per game, students in attendance had the chance to compete for the grand prize of a $40.00 Bookstore voucher amongst other prizes.

Second and third place finishers received a consolation prize of Sheetz MTO coupons.

Six competitive rounds were played featuring over 20 students and a rotation of

the four faculty callers.

Each caller had their own personal calling style, including President McNulty getting students to mimic his kayaking and fly fishing techniques.

Halfway through the evening, the hosts waived the $0.50 entry fee, allowing students who forgot their pocket change to participate.

Student participation increased and created a memorable experience for everyone involved.

This was the first time AMA has ever hosted this event.

All funds from the event’s $0.50 entry fee went directly to the American Marketing Association Collegiate Chapter, which is a group of students interested in the field of marketing. The club’s main purpose is to keep the practice of marketing ethical. When asked how the event idea originated, AMA

Alumni Representative Kyle Witzberger, a senior, explained that Simon Says seemed like a unique and fun option.

“We put it to a vote within the club, and it came down to ‘McNulty Says’ and a few other options,” Witzberger said.

“Ultimately we thought, with finals coming up, it was an inexpensive way for students to unwind.”

And unwind they did.

At different points during the event, students were group-hugging, eating (imaginary) chicken tenders from the Gedunk and riding bikes, all without leaving Ket Rec. The participants weren’t the only ones enjoying themselves.

Dr. Sweet seemed to be regarded as the event’s most challenging and entertaining caller. At one point during the competition, Sweet led students

through a lengthy chain of imaginary campus activities, which ended in many of them being eliminated in a single move.

“Dr. Sweet is the man,” said Witzberger, “and it was no surprise that he was an excellent ‘Simon.’”

President McNulty also had his share of fun.

Aside from giving students an introductory lesson in imaginary fly fishing, he was also quite adept at eliminating those who acted without hearing “Mac Says” prior to his instructions.

The American Marketing Association meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. in HAL. The club is open to all who are interested in marketing, including students who are not marketing majors.

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So you’ve made it this far. Traversed through the fun, though somewhat awkward parts of the beginnings of the relationship.

You’re ready to go into what may be your first holiday season as a couple, and to finally meet the parents. You may have a slew of feelings ranging from terror to excitement, maybe even some curiosity.

There is legitimately some pressure. When the introductions come and you look your significant other’s parents in the eyes, wanting to assure them that you are the right pick for their child, they may very well be sizing you up to determine if you are what you say.

Remember, though, meeting the parents is a good thing, It means you are probably in a good place with one another. Here are some tips to make it slightly less terrifying: 1.

First impressions are important- dress nice. I’m not saying dress in a way that makes everyone around you look worse, but look presentable.

2. Depending on where you two are at in your relationship, the parents may know lots about you, or you could be pretty new to them. So take advantage of this early on and ask them questions about themselves. Take an interest in them and they will reciprocate.

3. Be genuine. Don’t act like someone else in order to impress them, it won’t work in the long run. Impress them with who you are, not who you think they want you to be.

4. Remember that your significant other also wants his or her parents to like you too, so let your boyfriend or girlfriend help you make a good impression.

5. Let the parents determine what they want to be called by you. Start out with “Mr. and Mrs.____,” and if they tell you to refer to them as something else, then do so.

But jumping into a first name right away may be risky.

6. Write a thank you note -- now this one may seem a little antiquated, but leaving a note or writing one after the fact, thanking them for inviting you into their home, will leave a good impression.

7. If you are the one introducing your significant other to your parents, help them out. Maybe steer conversation to their strengths, away from things they really know nothing about.

And lastly, take deep breaths and RELAX. Be as natural as possible, be yourself and the reasons that your significant other likes you will shine through to their parents.

Use the unique chance you have to start building relationships with them, because you never know if this is the start of something that may last for a long time.

Got questions for Dr. Love? Email them to The Collegian at collegian.gcc.edu or anonymously mail to Box # 2573.

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Reagan treasurer tackles tough topics Therese Baker Contributing Writer

KRISTA HECKMAN

In efforts to make a healthier campus, the Exercise Science Club has put on various events to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Exercise Science Club pushes health Krista Heckman Staff Writer With cold weather and the holiday season upon Grove City, students can combat the effects of sickness and sweet holiday treats by getting involved with the Exercise Science Club.

The club was established in 2010 and is under the leadership of President Kate Albers.

The overall mission of the club is to offer students on campus a way to engage in healthy lifestyle habits, participate in classes that the club hosts and create a better community between Exercise Science and non-Exercise Science majors.

There is no requirement for students to have an Exercise Science major in order to be an active member in the club. Students of any discipline who are interested in health and fitness are encouraged to get involved.

Active members attend meetings where

speakers from various exercise science professions are invited on campus to speak with students and offer their personal experience and wisdom. For example, one club meeting brought in a chiropractor who shared his step-by-step process through chiropractic school and the lifestyle of his practice.

Another meeting included a panel of Grove City College students who had participated in internships over the summer and allowed them to share their experiences and answer questions. The club’s involvement on campus has been very dynamic and diverse. Recently, it hosted a Children’s Field Day. “Club members played nutrition and exercise games with the kids from the Early Education Center,” Albers said.

The kids were very energetic and loved seeing all of the different exercises that they could participate. An-

other event held by the club was its first ever Yoga Glow.

Certified yoga instructor Kara Heckman led the 35-40 attendants through a yoga flow in a darkened room complete with black lights and glow-in-thedark sticks. The event was a huge success for the club and will most likely be offered in the near future.

Students have given positive feedback to the club and have enjoyed the classes that have been offered thus far in the semester.

According to Albers, there is serious discussion about hosting another Yoga Glow and possibly bringing in a certified kick-boxing instructor who will lead a cardio kick-boxing class for the next semester.

Albers says nothing has been finalized at this point.

Furthermore, the club hosted a fundraiser in the SAC, the Exercise Science Bake Sale, used to help fundraise for the club.

Last Thursday, Students for Justice and Equality hosted Bay Buchanan as she spoke at Grove City College.

Also known as SJE, the group is focused on discussing issues of gender equality, while serving those around the world who are persecuted by inequality.

Bay Buchanan was the youngest appointed Treasurer of the United States, and worked under Ronald Reagan. She also served as Chairwoman of the President’s Commission on Women Business Owners, Chair of Team America PAC and senior advisor to Mitt Romney.

SJE President, junior Danielle DiQuattro was excited by the speaker, saying that “I was honored to meet Bay Buchanan this summer. She is a wonderful woman who has shattered glass ceilings, and is an engaging speaker.”

DiQuattro, along with Vice President Cassidy Nelson, worked with their group to team up with the Center of Vision and Values to bring Buchanan to campus.

“She also loves people who disagree with her, which is why question and answer will follow the lecture,” explained DiQuattro.

Buchanan spoke about women’s rights and abortion.

She thinks that one can support women, while still protecting the lives of the unborn.

SJE believed that Buchanan would be the perfect candidate to speak on the topic, and that this would be a great time to have this discussion, since it has

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Bay Buchanan, the former Teasurer of the United States, spoke at Grove City College last Thursday. She discussed the controversial topic of abortion. continued to be an increasingly important issue in our country.

DiQuattro said, “ProLife being Pro-Woman is an issue I am very passionate about and researched this summer, because I want women with unwanted pregnancies to know there are other options to help them and their children long term.”

Buchanan’s lecture, “Pro-Life = Pro-Woman: the Truth about Women and the Abortion Debate,” tackled some of those controversial issues facing society today.

“Although many at Grove City are Pro-Life, this is a great way for them to see the issue from another angle, like how we can help the women in these situations, and how we can take action,” continued DiQuattro.

SJE holds events such as this lecture in an effort to inform the college community to different problems that our society, as well as people in other countries, are facing.

The club hopes to help students form edu-

cated opinions on these issues so that they are better prepared to leave college and become the new leaders of the next generation.

“I think this would be a great event for anyone to attend, because if someone is Pro-Life, it is a new way to think about the Pro-Life position, because sometimes I think the ProLife rhetoric can be repetitive and unconvincing,” said DiQuattro, “And for those who are Pro-Choice, it could help reveal the issue to them in a different light.”

The lecture was wellreceived by students who attended.

“Bay Buchanan was an excellent speaker who offered an interesting opinion on a controversial topic. It was a great experience that I am grateful to have had,” said sophomore Ethan Fry. This speech was in conjunction with a Life Advocate brunch last Saturday that raised money for the Alpha Omega Center in Slippery Rock.

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Orchesis amazes

Claire Rauf Staff Writer

One of the most impressive events on campus is always the annual dance performance, Orchesis.

All of the dancers, from freshmen to seniors, dedicate weeks of their lives to creating, learning, perfecting and practicing their dances. Anyone with a friend involved in any of the dances knows how much time is required, and how much practice and effort goes into making the performance as good as it can be.

Dancing is not for the weak, and Orchesis is certainly not for the weak-spirited. The level of passion, dedication and attention to detail is what makes this event truly stand out from the rest.

However, as with every year, Orchesis begins and ends on a bittersweet note.

While freshmen are just beginning to step out onto the stage, the seniors are bowing out. Many have spent all four years dancing in Orchesis, and it is a source of commitment and pride that all of them hold dear to their hearts.

This will be the last time some of them dance in college, unless

they join Spring Dance.

Each year, Orchesis evolves to take on a new theme. This theme must be specific enough to connect all of the individual dances together, and yet general enough to maintain a wide collection of songs, with varying years and genres.

The theme this year was “Around the World”, meaning that each dance was unique to a country or a culture. The dancers took the audience on a global trip, from the colorful world of India to the earthy greens of Ireland, from the wild savannahs of Africa to a creepy dollhouse in Russia.

Each of the women who choreographed the dances excelled at creating an immersive and vivid global experience for the audience.

Erin Sixt, co-choreographer with Maggie Keating for the Latin mash-up dance, gushed about this year’s performance.

“It was such a rewarding experience to be a part of. I got to work with such amazing dancers who really inspired me and pushed me in ways I wasn’t expecting. I had several fun times and can walk away with new friendships from being involved in my piece.”

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This year’s Orchesis dance series, entitled “Around the World,” took a look at cultures around the globe. Original choreography awed all in attendance.

Since working with Dr. Nichols during Dancing with the Professors, she mentioned how proud she was when her professor showed up at Orchesis and happily screamed “Squad goals!” when Erin’s fun dance to Beyonce’s song “Grown Woman” began.

This interaction exemplifies the unique and delightful friendships that Grove City College creates between professors and students.

Emcees Katie Toomey and Jonathan Fisher were equally entertain-

ing, acting as two agonizingly opposite people meeting for the first time on a plane that was going around the world.

While Jonathan was outgoing, enthusiastic, and had no concern for personal boundaries, Katie was serious, dark, and standoffish.

The two worked together to create an amusing tale of tension and discord resolving in friendship and connection, while also narrating the dances and giving a brief synopsis of each dance and the country it correlated to.

However, conflict ex-

tended beyond Toomey and Fisher’s mock drama. While the concept of “Around the World” was brilliantly fleshed out, there were concerns of political incorrectness and some cultural appropriation.

For example, the “Far Out East” dance was referenced as being Japanese by the emcees and the costumes were designed to appear Japanese in nature, but the song used was Chinese.

Regardless of these complaints, all of the choreographers did an excellent job attempting to recreate the most

accurate depiction of each country and honoring its respective traditions and culture.

Overall, this year’s Orchesis performance was one to remember.

It was obvious that every dancer had poured their blood, sweat, and tears – particularly sweat – into mastering and perfecting their dances.

There is an aura of professionalism and fun about the dances that inspires all who watch to have a little more spring in their step after the performance.

Megyn Kelly won’t settle Victoria O’Brien Staff Writer

NICOLE MINGLE

The Association for Women’s Students hosted a Christmas brunch last Saturday.

Who brunched it better?

Margaret Heidenreich Contributing Writer This past Saturday, the Life Advocates and the Association for Women’s Student’s each hosted a ladies Christmas brunch.

Both events were for female students, but each event was catered to different interests, with its own unique entertainment, atmosphere and food.

The AWS event was held in South Lobby, and about 30 girls attended, with the main attraction being Christmas-related trivia.

This brunch offered eggs, bacon, hash browns, crepes and assorted drinks in a buffet set-up. In the middle of each table was a special treat a tray of homemade Christmas cookies. Meanwhile, while attendees ate, a playlist of Christmas music played in the background.

The Life Advocates brunch was held in Ket Rec, and attracted about 60 female students, who came out to share a breakfast of pancakes and fresh fruit. Live music performed by GCC students which made the atmosphere of the event extremely cozy,

a nice touch on a chilly Saturday morning.

This event featured speaker Sarah Bowen, executive director at the Alpha Omega Pregnancy Center. Having a speaker helped keep people from leaving before the end of the auction and raffle. The items up for cause were provided by a mixture of campus organizations and local businesses, and all money raised went to support the center.

Both events were very welcoming to students outside of the group, even those who had never attended anything put on by either group before.

The Association for Women Students brunch was definitely a much smaller group, as most of the attendees already knew each other.

Each event offered unique features appealing to different interests.

For girls interested in the work of the Alpha Omega Pregnancy Center and looking for the chance to support them, the Life Advocates event would have been way to go. However, for those searching for a fun time with other female students, the AWS brunch might have been preferable.

Megyn Kelly is an American journalist on the Fox News Channel and political commentator from Syracuse, New York. The former corporate defense attorney was paid around $6 million for her new book, “Settle for More.”

Kelly states, “Tough times can be stressful, but they also have a way of centering us, of shining a light through the darkness…The hard times remind you it is possible to change your life. To do better. To be better. To settle for more.”

As the premier anchor on The Kelly File, Kelly is known for addressing difficult questions and exposing true and tenacious answers to her loyal audience of two million. Her book reflects upon past experiences that were catalysts in her ability to “redefine the face of news” for one of the largest news broadcast channels.

Kelly touches upon these personal experiences including her father’s tragic death, being bullied in high school and her mother’s lighthearted humor, to her academic success as an attorney and eventual professional success in journalism.

Kelly’s motto, “settle

Megyn Kelly recently released “Settle for More.” for more,” is evidenced in the challenges she faces as a professional woman and working mother. Playing off Steve Martin’s axiom, “Be so good they can’t ignore you,” Kelly emphasizes the role of gender in the workplace.

Subsequently, the book discusses Kelly’s “public feud” with President-elect Donald Trump and his ‘war on women.’

In regards to the Republican presidential primary debate, Kelly states,” the chaos Trump unleashed was of a completely different order than anything I’d encountered beforethan anything any journalist has encountered at the hands of a presidential candidate in the history of modern American politics.”

“Settle For More” provides behind-thescenes information about the notorious first Republican debate and the following trials

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Kelly faced to maintain her poise and professionalism.

Overall “Settle For More” received a mixed set of reviews from differing audiences.

According to The Daily Beast, fans of Donald Trump aimed efforts to “torpedo” the book’s user-generated standings. On the book’s release date, the book was given hundreds of one and two-star ratings on Amazon.

According to Amazon, most of these low ratings are attributed to troll reviews from Trump fans. Entertainment Weekly provides a positive review of the book stating, “The story of her years as an attorney and her subsequent rise in TV journalism is surprisingly moving, transforming “Settle for More” into a Lean In-ish primer for young women about the importance of hard work, self-esteem, and—most of all—perseverance.”

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Season’s greetings from Grove City Though finals are on the horizon, Christmas is in the air on the campus of Grove City College and in the community surrounding the campus. All around us, Christmas trees, wreaths and more remind students that the holidays are here.

Photos by Joe Setyon and Karen Postupac

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Dec. 9, 2016

One swingin’ evening Madelyn Kimpel Contributing Writer

Travel back to the big band jazz era of the 40s with the Grove City College Jazz Ensemble tomorrow, from 8-11 p.m. at the Jazz Band Dance for what is sure to be a swingin’ evening.

This brand new event is a unique opportunity for the Jazz Ensemble and campus community to showcase live music from the whole ensemble, as well as some performances by smaller groups.

As they arrive, attendees can look forward to a photo booth opportunity with President and Mrs. McNulty from 8-9 p.m. Desserts and other refreshments will also be available.

Senior baritone saxophone player Danielle Bean explained what makes the event so special: “It’s a fresh event that will be a great gathering for everyone, especially if you love live music, and, of course, jazz! This also gives our young musicians of the Grove City College music department an outlet to perform for the campus community.”

By attending the Jazz Band Dance, students will not only enjoy quality music, but also have a chance to learn how to ballroom and swing dance.

At 7:30p.m., before the event begins, the Ballroom and Swing Clubs will be offering beginner dance lessons.

Throughout the night, “hosts” and “hostesses,” those who are familiar with Ballroom and Swing dance, will be offering dances to anyone who would like to learn.

“Attendees of the event by no means need to have any prior dance experience. We encourage everyone to come and enjoy listening to the music and dance

even if they don’t know Ballroom or Swing,” explained co-president of the Ballroom Dance Club Andrea Brodine.

Brodine, along with professor of music and director of bands Dr. Joseph J. Pisano, hopes for the event to continue annually.

“I’m very much looking forward to the ability to provide music for other people to dance to,” commented Timothy Mullen, bassist in the Jazz Band.

“Concerts often feel like a one sided exchange, so the ability to see people express themselves to the music we make is a very unique and fun opportunity in my mind.”

If one night of music isn’t enough, the Jazz Ensemble and Stage Band will be performing tonight in Ketler Auditorium in the PEW Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. for their Christmas concert. They will perform big band tunes in addition to traditional Christmas songs. This concert is free and open to the public.

The Jazz Ensemble is one of several performing ensembles on campus. It is under the direction of Dr. Pisano.

He has lead the Jazz Ensemble for 20 years.

The Jazz Band currently plays for two oncampus events per year, their annual Christmas Concert and Family Weekend. This Saturday’s event provides a unique opportunity for the campus community to hear this talented group perform.

Tickets for the Jazz Band Dance are on sale in the Student Union for $2 until today (Friday) at 4pm, and will also be available at the door on the night of the event. The dance will be held in MAP Cafeteria. Dress code is black tie.

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“The Man in the High Castle” explores a world where the Germans and Japanese were victorious in WWII.

‘Man in the High Castle’ shows resiliency of human spirit Sarah Gibbs Staff Writer

In “The Man in the High Castle,” Frank Spotniz paints a picture of an America where the Allied Powers lost the war and the Axis Powers were victorious in WWII. As a result, the United States is split down the middle, with the eastern half occupied by the Nazis and the western part occupied

by Imperial Japan.

Based on the novel with the same name written by Philip K. Dick, the story picks up fifteen years after the end of the war and follows two main characters: one on the Japanese side and one on the Nazi side.

With rugged scenery, intriguing story lines, mysterious characters, unwavering suspense and a determined realism, Frank Spotniz brings Philip Dick’s novel to life and poses the question “what would our world be like if they had won?”

Throughout the show, we see the hallmarks of Nazi and Japanese wartime domination and suppression. On the west coast, American culture is banned (except for a few elite Japanese who are allowed to collect items of American culture for their own enjoyment).

Americans are secondclass citizens.

On the east coast, Americans for the most part have adopted the Nazi ideology. At one point, a good-natured police officer casually refers to the scheduled termination and cremation of the “crippled and mentally ill” at a nearby hospital.

Even though people disappear and censorship is a way of life in this new world, the human spirit has not been crushed.

On the west coast, a factory worker defies the call for absolute utility in order to craft beautiful jewelry in between his shifts at work, and a young woman seeks to cross the cul-

ture divide by learning aikido (a form of Japanese martial arts) and appreciating the good in her occupier’s culture. On the Nazi side, a small resistance made up of mostly U.S. veterans of the war in Europe remains a formidable opponent.

The action begins when two people on each side of the divide receive mysterious packages of film and instructions to meet someone in the neutral zone. The series of events that follow are grounded in the possibilities of reality, but venture into the metaphysical.

Philip Dick used whatever tools were available in order to convey his ideas. The story shows that in every realm and in every person there exists a capacity for love, empathy, and choice. What the characters choose is of their own making and the consequences are often than not out of their control.

The original novel

was published in 1962, a little more than fifteen years after the end of the war and just at the beginning of the Culture War in the United States. This was a time when the killing of the old and the terminally ill was unimaginable in the mainstream.

Against a backdrop of increasing legalization of assisted suicide and the unnatural selection of the unborn, the story should resonate differently with a new audience. Instead of showing a world that could have been, it shows a world that maybe already is.

Did the Nazis lose the war, but win the argument? Is some human life less valuable than others? Is some human life dispensable?

Should some human life be terminated for the good and efficiency of the whole?

These questions and others return to Amazon Prime on Dec. 16 with the second season of “The Man in the High Castle.”

‘Nutcracker’ comes to life Karli Anzevino Staff Writer

Based on a German story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 1816, the “Nutcracker” is being performed by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre through Dec. 27 at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh.

The story is about young Clairea Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, who comes alive and defeats the evil Mouse King. He then whisks her away to a magical world.

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater describes the performance, saying that “this soaring story captures the awe and expectation of the night before Christmas when a mysterious gift sparks a wondrous adventure.

As the colossal tree shoots skyward and snowflakes blanket the stage, the journey

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The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s annual “Nutcracker” is running through Dec. 27 in the Benedum Center in Pittsbugh. Tickets start at $28. glides into a radiant Land of Enchantment brimming with virtuosic dances from faraway lands.”

The Nutcracker is much more than a ballet performance; it is an experience you will remember and hold close to your heart near the holiday.

The show is broken into two segments. Act I and Act II are each about 55 minutes long, and there is a 20 min-

ute intermission between the acts.

Among the many magical characters in this performance are Marie and Drosselmeyer, Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum, Marie’s brother Fritz, Grandmother and Grandfather, The Nutcracker, Rat King, Snow King and Queen and many more.

The main performers who dance these special parts include Jessica McCann, Corey

Bourbonniere, Alexander Silva, Oliva Kelly, Yutaka Tomokiyo, Emily Simpson, Joseph Parr, Lucius Kirst, Jack Hawn, Alejandro Diaz and Marisa Grywalski, who perform interchangeably.

The ballet has been well-received by critics, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calling it “nothing short of magical.”

The Post-Gazette also praised the ballet for its

“flair,” “powerful stage presence” and “refined sense of control.” It focused specifically on the outstanding Spanish and Arabian dance performances, the alwaysbreathtaking snow scene on Mount Washington and the magnificent overall production of the program.

The ballet will be showing on the weekends, as well as on Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 and on occasional Mondays,

Tuesdays and Wednesdays later this month.

More information on the schedule can be found on the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre webpage.

Also on the webpage, potential attendees can purchase tickets and save up to 20 percent over single tickets and unlock VIP benefits.

Prices start at $28, but viewers can save up to 50 percent for groups of eight or more.

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Perspectives

Orchesis raises cultural questions Abby Munson

Contributing Writer After attending Orchesis’ “Around the World,” show I felt proud to attend a school where such talented and hard-working students are my peers.

However, I also felt disappointed and frustrated to be a part of a community that interprets culture as was displayed in the show.

With a school body that is overwhelimingly homogenous, our school is challenged when it comes to events centered on other cultures, so I applaud whatever pure intent to respectfully celebrate those cultures may have inspired this year’s Orchesis theme.

Unfortunately, I do not believe that was the result.

I am not an expert in ethnicity, race or culture, and I do not claim to know the best way to handle all of these issues.

But here is what I do know: it is good to recognize and celebrate other cultures. It is not good to reduce the deeply intimate and personal nature of culture to a caricature for our convenience or entertainment. I think we can do better.

Culture is an enigma of sorts, in that you can never fully know a culture that is not your own. You can learn about another culture, appreciate it and enjoy it, but you will never understand it to the depths that its members do.

This is precisely what makes culture so personal and central to our identities (including in ways we do not consciously recognize).

And this is why it can hurt to see what you call a fundamental part of who you are be wrongly

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Do we need to be more careful in how we decide to portray different cultures? represented.

I understand that the members of Orchesis were not trying to write a commentary on any cultures through their performance, but the problem is they did. By labeling each dance as a region or country, they necessarily said “this is how we see this part of the world.”

It was perhaps not a very compassionate message to students whose cultures were appropriated in the show.

Japanese members of the audience watched the kimono (a traditionally full-length garment for special and formal occasions) being used in a very different way.

A student from an African country saw the entire continent summed up in tribal shirts and a Lion King song.

The “India” routine went so far as to use a religious symbol worn

by Hindu and Jain women (the bindi) to signal which country those three minutes were about.

Whether or not the performances intended to send a message, the effect remains the same. As humans, we have a need to belong that is crucial wherever we go and throughout our entire lives.

Think about how much more important this would become if you were a minority in a place where 92.5 percent of the people with

whom you had to find belongingness were different from you in a fundamental way (welcome to GCC).

Right off the bat, a minority at our school has a greater challenge in finding the sense of belonging we all seek.

To take a unique part of that student, put it on a stage, and get it wrong is to alienate him or her even further. If we care about our students we have to be more thoughtful about how we treat this piece of who they are.

Undoubtedly, people will be affected by misrepresentation of their culture to varying degrees. In the best cases, there are no hard feelings. In the worst cases, that person feels misunderstood, belittled, and isolated.

Some people will care deeply when they see their culture misrepresented and I don’t think we can ask them not to. Whether we know for sure if we’ll alienate someone or not, we should not elect to take that risk. We should not choose to be careless.

We could easily convince ourselves that the Orchesis performance didn’t really mean anything and that it’s no big deal; that cultural appropriation is an overdone liberal topic. But there is a steep price to pay for this kind of approach.

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enough to God that he will preserve it for eternity. Isaiah 17 and Revelation 21 describe the new Jerusalem in which different nations and cultures remain. If culture carries this weight with God, shouldn’t it also with us?

There are also major relational repercussions of a misguided view of culture. When we display our misunderstanding of a piece of another person, we hinder our ability to have a good relationship with them.

This is bad enough in and of itself. It’s even worse when you realize the implications this could have on the wholeness of our lives and even our ability to know God. Because we are all different, we have different strengths and weaknesses and every individual and culture has its blind spots.

You will never begin to see beyond your points of weakness if you do not reach outside of yourself. You’ll stay blind. When you burn a bridge with someone different from you, you may in fact be losing the opportunity to learn something that no one else can teach you. Displays of cultural understanding like the Orchesis performance take the huge risk of burning those bridges.

In order to build relationships with those who are different from

us, Romans 14 and 15 urge us to bear their burdens. We are challenged to adjust our behavior for others’ benefit to avoid putting unnecessary tension on relationships.

This is one of those times we need to do that. Maybe you’d like to do or say something but you know it might be disturbing to someone around you. Paul says if you don’t need to do or say it, you might want to rethink that.

The barriers of culture are hard enough to overcome with a willing heart and determined spirit.

We cannot afford to make it any harder by treating lightly that which shapes another’s identity on the most personal of levels. We must choose to be more careful than careless and we must be more concerned about experiences outside of our own.

In the end it all comes down to love. To what lengths are you willing to go to build bridges to your brothers, sisters, and neighbors? That is the extent to which you will be willing to make every attempt to understand and appreciate what makes them different from you. This attitude goes for all of the differences that set us apart from each other, but is desperately needed in the context of this sensitive and pressing issue.

With only a 7.5 percent ethnic minority population, GCC is prone to inspire unflattering perceptions of exclusivity and ignorance. When we deal poorly with the topics of culture, race, or ethnicity we provide supporting evidence for those perceptions. Let’s prove them wrong. Let’s do better.

Life lessons from dorm living Mary Wishing

Contributing Writer There are many inconveniences that come with living in a college dormitory.

Examples include people playing the ukulele and singing loudly off key for the entire hall to hear, sharing a bathroom with 75 strangers who do not quite understand hygiene, people busting into your room at all hours of the day and night for unnecessary reasons, never having your own personal space, your living space being drastically decreased, the constant noise that cannot ever seem to be controlled and more.

Last week, my roommate and I were trying to sleep at 12:45 a.m. She was sick and I had a class at 8 a.m. A girl on my hall started excitedly banging on

the door, yelling my roommate’s name. She busted open the door and ran into our room screaming, thought the room was empty, had a quick conversation with herself, then slammed the door shut.

The next day, I found out the reason was because the weather was supposed to change and my roommate has been anxiously anticipating snow.

One time, I was trying to concentrate on homework, and the people in the room next to me sounded like they were going to tear the entire building down.

The loud metal clashing and boards moving had me quite concerned.

The walls started shaking. When I saw one of the girls in the bathroom, she told me they were rearranging their room.

Every single girl on my hall chooses the

shower she will use based on the cleanliness level and how it ranks in comparison to the others. They go down the line and then walk to the one that seems best suited to get clean.

When there is only one shower left, it is the one that was deemed dirtiest by the other girls, so the one trying to shower grudgingly cleans out all that makes it gross.

There is a long list of things that makes dorm life inconvenient, but living in a dorm also teaches you many important lessons. I did not care much about how organized my room was when I lived at home; it was my own space and I understood where everything was.

Sharing a room with another person has made me extremely aware of my cleanliness: I change my sheets weekly, I take out the trash as often as pos-

sible, I sweep any time the floor gets mildly dirty, I wash my dishes, and I try to clean during my free time to keep it nice for my roommate.

She does the exact same for me. We both respect the fact that we have to share living space and we want to keep the room clean for ourselves and the other.

Living in a dorm has also taught me a lot about unlikely friendship. There was a girl on my hall that rubbed me the wrong way at first and I was not sure how I was supposed to make it through the year living near her.

It seemed like we couldn’t find common ground on anything.

Soon, we were in a situation that was funny to both of us, and we immediately became friends in that moment.

Since then, we have hung out and have a great time when we are

together.

After working in the restaurant business for several years in two very busy, high-stress restaurants, I thought I had a good handle on containing my stress and acting out of grace and love rather than getting upset. Living in a dorm has tested that and strengthened it even more. Sometimes it is hard when all you want is alone time, and you can’t find your own personal space anywhere. It is important to learn how to not get upset every time you don’t get an immediate desire granted to you.

There are many valuable lessons that can be learned from living on a hall with 75 strangers, randomly selected to be together. It is definitely a huge adjustment, but an adjustment that is worth making.

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100 Campus Drive Grove City, Pa. 16127 collegian@gcc.edu gcc.collegian@ gmail.com Editor-in-Chief Caleb Harshberger Managing Editor Joe Seyton Section Editors News Molly Wicker Life Kelleigh Huber Entertainment Elizabeth Borcherding Perspectives Rio Arias Sports Bradley Warmhold Photography Julia Williams Design Chief Karen Postupac Copy Chief Gabrielle Johnston Copy Editors Ali Kjergaard Tom Verner Hannah Sweet Rachel Reitz Writers Josh Delk Dr. Love Sarah Gibbs Karli Anzevino Madelyn Kimpel Claire Rauf Victoria O’Brien Krista Heckman Jesse Peterson Therese Baker Mary Wishing Abby Munson Victoria Zulick Andy Fritz Brett McBride Section Designers Bri Doane Aly Kruger Advertising/ Business Manager Jesse Peterson The Collegian is the student newspaper of Grove City College, located in Grove City, Pa. Opinions appearing on these pages, unless expressly stated otherwise, represent the views of individual writers. They are not the collective views of The Collegian, its staff or Grove City College.

GREEN EYESHADE AWARD

This week’s Green Eyeshade Award goes to Ali Kjergaard for her fantastic work as a copy editor, writer and Wednesday night proofreader.

Congratulations Ali! The Green Eyeshade Award honors student contributors that demonstrate consistency and excellence in their work.

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Perspectives

Reading for what?

Try something new Rio Arias

Perspectives Editor In today’s world of constant communication and sharing of ideas, we are constantly surrounded by new things.

Things like trying new foods and recipes are easy, although mastering them presents another series of trials.

But the things that are the most personal and significant are often the ones that push us away.

Why? Take for example hospitality. One of the greatest joys one can have as a host is the satisfaction of knowing they served others well.

In my own experience, I know that inviting people over means making a home cooked meal, insisting that it isn’t important to be on time, and serving the guests in all ways.

But having a host who doesn’t cook, insists that you keep your shoes on, and wonders why you’re late feels strange to me. It doesn’t feel like home, and I don’t feel as fully welcomed as I would if someone had the same understanding of hospitality as me.

Such a miscommunication often results in hurt feelings, and a letdown of expectations. I feel like the other person doesn’t understand my needs, but the real problem occurs because we are two different people who have different expectations for each other.

Other times it doesn’t feel as simple. People who marry someone of a different background than themselves, or adopt children of a different ethnicity than their own suddenly have to make multiple cultures and identities fit together.

It can be frustrating to explain to the other person how their way of life doesn’t fit into your expectations, or realize your behavior possibly hurt them, but it is necessary to reconcile the differences that exist between people.

This is not to say that all kinds of diversity should be tolerated. Some things will be objectively right and objectively wrong, no matter the culture that someone belongs to, and those need to be expressed. Things that misrepresent God’s intent for our lives such as teaching people to perceive others through discrimination, or honoring things like theft will always be unjust.

But things that we all depend on and expect, like love, respect, trust and compassion, can often appear very different to different people.

In order to truly invest in other people, it is sometimes necessary to be willing to fully learn and seek out ways to understand them.

This goes beyond talking about what’s important to us and asking the other person to understand how we feel. It means being

“all in”- willing to learn about a whole other culture and share certain experiences, to better understand and empathize with people far different than us.

In the beginning it may mean perceiving new realities through things we already are familiar with, like trying to process the idea of people being treated differently on appearance. We might recognize this concept through friends or people we know at first, through listening to their experiences and thinking about how we see them.

Over time, however, this idea feels less strange and we can recognize that every culture has certain stereotypes and that they do affect people, while still respecting others for the people they are and the things they value.

Other times it can be painful to try and invest in another culture.

The Museum of African American History and Culture is a great way to immerse oneself in a different type of American history that is very real and affects all people, but many people cry or feel grief or shame while there. So when does this learning process stop?

The short answer is never. There is always so much more to learn, especially as ideas and relationships change between all people.

But the longer answer, the one that makes us uncomfortable, is that without learning about others with an open mind there will never be reconciliation.

People who attempt to “understand” or “represent” others without first taking the time to grasp that which affects them most, and learn about that which is central to their culture, run the risk of hurting or cleaving their relationships with others.

It is hard to say when something is right or wrong objectively, but cultural identity is something that resonates with each and every person. To fully care about others means to be “all-in” and want to reach beyond different expectations to flourish as people.

God did not create diversity as a side effect of human sin at the tower of Babel. He intended it to occur from the moment he gave us dominion over the Earth, and the chance to explore and represent the glory of God in ways more diverse than any of us would have imagined Him to be. This means that to honor God means to honor each other despite our differences, and intentionally in our differences.

There’s nothing wrong with trying new things, and wanting to learn different ways of doing things familiar to us. But we must be willing to fully invest in understanding how those differences are important and celebrate their significance.

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Alison Kjergaard Copy Editor

No one ever bad mouths reading. If you label yourself as a “reader” it will never be a bad thing. I think the reason most of us can survive at a school like Grove City is because at one point we were readers.

Books were always a critical part of my life as a child. My parents read out loud to me every night, I was encouraged to read and when I would just pick up books to read for fun it was something met with praise.

I continued to read throughout all my childhood (and I wasn’t even the voracious reader in my family). In high school I found subjects that I found intriguing and would read book after book, biography after biography. Then something strange happened when I got to college. It stopped.

In college we are required to read in a way that no high school AP class ever demanded of us.

When assigned hundreds of pages a week you can’t help but begin to skim the pages, you feel like you are chained to the textbook and we begin to loathe all the reading we do.

We turn to mindless things like binge-watching Netflix, or at least this was what happened to me freshman year. I was exhausted from all the reading I was doing and would turn to Netflix. Never do I feel more shame in how quickly I went through the seasons of “Breaking Bad.” Instead of reading before going to sleep, as had always been my habit, I watched shows, staring at my screen. Of course this

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staring at your screen only leads to staying up later and getting a far less healthy sleep.

It hit me early in my junior year how little I read. Many of my friends talk about their craving for breaks simply because it’s the time they can read again and I agreed with them, it was months between my “fun reads.”

I realized that year how much I missed reading, I was reading all the time and that was a nonnegotiable but I wondered what it would be like if I read for the pleasure of it, and so I started to read again.

Of course reading meant eliminating most of my Netflix watching. Instead of scrolling through Facebook mindlessly I forced myself to pick up my book. I started always carrying my “just for fun” book so I’d open it instead of my phone.

I started reading before going to sleep which is a much more relaxing way to end the day. This reading for fun has been one of the most successful achievements of my college career.

Why do we stop reading for

fun? Is it because our professors need to assign less readings to us? Maybe, but that is part of college, our workload is supposed to be harder than high school. The problem is how we turn to other things because we say we need to give ourselves a “mental break” from all the hard work we’ve been doing.

Our brains do need rest; we work hard, we learn a lot and the mind gets tired. Reading a book for fun is a mental break though, and the book you are reading for fun doesn’t have to be challenging (I’ve reread the “Chronicles of Narnia.”)

Going to the library and picking out books I’m interested in and finding old classics has made the library more of a “happy” place then the place I go when I have to write a paper.

Reading for fun has made all the difference in my little time here, re-reading a “Christmas Carol” this Christmas season has made me a more pleasant person.

I’m not writing this trying to show everyone how literate I am or how wise. I was a Netflix binger and a screen starer (I binged “Dance Moms,” guys.) I still watch and love Netflix, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t watch it as much as I used to.

What I just want all my fellow book lovers to know is that they don’t have eliminate the possibility of keeping their “reader” status while at college. You can still read books for fun and read for school. You can achieve both!

And reading for fun (yes, even in college) is the best thing you can do for yourself physically and mentally.

OSU shooting: victimhood and misinformation Josh Delk Staff Writer Last Monday’s attack on OSU’s campus sent the country reeling. In the aftermath of the attack, which hospitalized eleven, social media and the national conversation took a disturbing turn. A narrative emerged that aimed to obscure the nature of the attack, and advance another agenda altogether.

The narrative of the attacker, one of victimhood and righteous outrage, was believed by large swaths of the Left and the media.

In a Facebook post before his rampage, the attacker used typical jihadist rhetoric. “America, stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah,” he insisted. “We are not weak…by Allah, we will not let you sleep until you give peace to the Muslims.

You will not celebrate or enjoy any holiday.”

What’s most disturbing about this rhetoric is the appeal to victimhood.

He refuses to take responsibility for the actions he believes are justified, as he’s being forced to respond to the injustices posed to Muslims by the West; that his cruel and hate-filled rampage was in self-defense of his fragile feelings.

“I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point.”

His premise is entirely false: Muslims are not under assault in the West.

The war-torn Middle East is war-torn from homegrown terror groups.

News coverage of the destruction in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Jordan is coverage of the destruction caused by fellow Muslims.

The brutal acts of terror committed against Muslims in these countries is largely at the hands of other Muslims, in groups such as ISIS. The U.S. is not responsible for the destruction of mosques, suicide bombing and car bombing that is taking place there.

The Ohio students he attacked were not only innocent, but had no connection or responsibility to any of the issues facing Burma or any other primarily Muslim country. Essentially, he felt so threatened and persecuted while attending class at Ohio State that he justified taking violent actions to protect himself.

Not to mention that as a legal resident in the United States he enjoyed

the disconnect between his narrative and the facts of the situation reveal his real motivation: hate.

In a featured article in the OSU student newspaper, the attacker cited the unfair perceptions of Muslims in the media, that Muslims were dangerous and filled with pious rage against Westerners and innocents. Good thing he wasn’t any of those things. He proved us all wrong.

The attack was immediately labeled by progressives, college students and politicians alike, as another senseless episode of gun violence. Tim Kaine and a host of Democratic activists took to Twitter to label the event as “another senseless act of gun violence.”

When gun-restriction advocates and progressives discovered that the attack had been a Muslim student armed with only a car and a butcher knife, they quieted down quickly.

But the damage had already been done. #GunControl had already been trending on Twitter, a topic discussed by thousands of social media users. The problem here, is that Twitter and Facebook aren’t conducive to conversation. Social media are more of a wall of noise.

It’s very hard for second opinions and truths to be

heard amongst the noise.

First perceptions are everything in this environment, and in this case, people will think of OSU as just another reason why guns, of which there were none, should be banned.

Hate will always find ways to harm innocents.

Whether motivated by Muslim ideology or anything else, banning weapons of any kind will not put a stop to it. By the left’s own logic, bans on butcher’s knives and subcompact cars should be the nation’s utmost priority.

Progressives demonstrated their lack of concern for truth and correctness in this event. A violent Muslim armed with something other than a gun was a tough pill to swallow.

Guns have provided a smokescreen for jihadists, as Western progressives do their best to shift the conversation in a way that benefits them. Admitting that this attack was motivated by orthodox Islamic ideology and had nothing to do with guns of any kind doesn’t fit with their push for gun control and blind cultural pluralism and acceptance.

Obscuring the truth is paralyzes democratic societies from naming its aggressors.

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Women’s baskeball edged by Waynesburg Joe Setyon Managing Editor The Grove City College women’s basketball team dropped a President’s Athletic Conference match (PAC) at home against Waynesburg on Dec. 3 by a score of 62-64. The Wolverines, after dropping a second consecutive conference loss, fell to 3-3 on the season.

Grove City and Waynesburg battled early on, and at by the end of the first quarter Waynesburg had a 1615 advantage.

Though the score remained close for a majority of the second quarter, the Wolverines pulled ahead with four minutes and 27 seconds remaining in the half.

Freshman forward Jess Book hit a three pointer that gave the Wolverines a five point lead, and Grove City kept up the pressure ending the first half with a 35-24 lead thanks to hot shooting from Book and junior guard Lexie Arkwright.

Waynesburg responded to the deficit by chipping away during the third quarter and eventually taking a

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The Wolverines lost their last game to Waynesburg, bringing their record to 3-3 on the young season. Junior Lexie Arkwright (above) has been the star early on. three point-lead at the end of the third quarter.

Grove City kept things close in the fourth quarter and led by a score of 60-58 with two minutes and ten seconds remaining.

Waynesburg would tie things up, however, and the game would remain at a stalemate until the last 24 seconds of regulation.

The Yellow Jackets, however, would take advantage of a foul by Book by sinking the first of two free-throws.

Grove City had one last opportunity, but Arkwright missed a jumper with six seconds remaining.

For the game, the Wolverines shot nearly 42 percent from the field compared to Waynesburg’s 37.1 percent. The Wolverines also made over 35 percent of their three point attempts.

The team also had six blocks compared to the Waynesburg’s two.

Overall, Arkwright led all scorers with 26 points, while adding 10 rebounds, three blocks and six steals. It was another in a string of impressive games from Arkwright, who leads the team with 19.7 ppg on 55.2 percent shooting from the field.

In addition to Ark-

wright’s standout performance, sophomore Laura Buchanan had a double-double with 12 points and 12 boards.

Sophomore guard Mackenzie Black also reached double digits with 11 points scored and also added five assists.

Grove City returns to action on Dec. 10 at 1 p.m at Chatham University. The team will return home on Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. for their last game before Christmas vacation. Over the break, the squad will travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico for a series of games in the Puerto Rico Clasico.

Thomas More stripped of title, put on probation Andy Fritz Staff Writer

The NCAA recently made the decision to strip Thomas More Women’s Basketball of their Division III national title for the 2014-2015 season after uncovering player violations.

The NCAA says Thomas More College, winner of two straight DIII women’s basketball championships and President’s Athletic Conference rival of Grove City College, will have to vacate all 33 wins for the 2014-2015 season because it used an ineligible player.

In addition to vacating the wins, the NCAA says Thomas More will be on probation for two years and will have to pay a self-imposed fine of $2,500. An additional penalty (self-imposed by the college) includes a review by an outside auditor of the college’s athletics program, where the school must implement all recommendations made by the reviewer.

The NCAA says in its report that for eight months, former assis tant coach Jerry Allen provided free housing to a student-athlete Sydney Moss while she recovered from surgery.

Thomas More was still in violation, “even

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Thomas More has been stripped of their 2014-2015 Division III national title after player violations came to light. though the former assistant coach and his family had an existing relationship with the student-athlete, NCAA rules do not allow college employees to provide cost-free housing to student-athletes…”.

Because the staff members did not recognize the arrangement as an extra benefit, the student-athlete competed an entire season while ineligible.”

Moss, estranged daughter of NFL legend Randy Moss, according to the NCAA report, lived alone in an upstairs, off-campus apartment and both she and Coach Allen “had concerns about her physical limitations [after surgery].

According to Allen, she could not even walk up the stair.

Moss ultimately re-

covered from her injuries, returning to the court in 2016. She played well enough to receive the unanimous National Player of the Year from the WBCA, D3hoops.com and DIII News for the third straight year. Moss was also named the 40th 2016 Honda DIII Athlete of the Year by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).

Moss is a premier former Division I athlete that has mercilessly dominated Division II athletics for the past three years. She originally started college at the University of Florida, where she was named to the SEC allfreshman team and the WNIT all-tournament team.

However, by the end of freshman year, she wanted to transfer

closer to home. Florida, though, blocked her from transferring to SEC rival Kentucky, but she knew Thomas More coach Jeff Hans well enough to transfer to the school finish her playing career.

In three seasons with Thomas More, Moss scored 2,309 points (24.8 per game) and pulled down 727 rebounds (7.8 per game).

After breaking numerous DIII records, Moss said she is trying to go play overseas and eventually work her way into the WNBA. In a post from her personal Twitter account, Moss spoke out against the decision stating, “What an absolute joke. The NCAA can take what they want but the memories and friendships will last a lifetime!”

Christmas Day classic coming soon

Victoria Zulick Staff Writer Games like these are what sports fans dream about.

Arguably one of the fiercest rivalries in the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens are set to face off on Christmas Day at Heinz Field at 4:30 p.m.

The NFL knew what they were doing when it scheduled such a game, but the chances of the Ravens and the Steelers, notorious enemies for years, playing in what could be the deciding game for either of their seasons has drastically increased the stakes for an already highly anticipated match.

The teams enter December tied for first place with records of 7-5 in the AFC North, meaning that the division title could rest on the holiday classic showdown.

With the game still a few weeks away, the hype is just starting to begin. Regardless, fans and athletes alike are still aware of the magnitude of it all: one moves on, the other might not.

Steelers’ guard David DeCastro is trying to remain focused on the two upcoming games before Christmas Day, but recognizes the importance of their primetime holiday headto-head.

“We know it’s going to come down to that game, regardless of how things really shake out,” DeCastro said.

“We kind of jockeyed for position a little bit, had some good stretches and bad stretches and now it’s the most

important stretch of the year.”

The nature of these two teams, especially when in opposition of each other, display the real grit and athleticism reminiscent of classic football. Hard hits, big plays, tough defense.

Regardless of their standings, the outcome of the game is always a toss-up because of their abilities to read each other, remain highly physical and get under each other’s skin.

Out of the 45 total games against each other, including postseason, the Steelers lead the contest 24-21. The back and forth kind of play is what makes the Steelers-Ravens games the ones you love to hate.

The stakes are high not just for the division title, but also for personal redemption.

The Steelers started the season as one of the top three choices to go all the way, but lost unexpectedly against teams they should have beaten, including a hard loss to the Ravens in Week 9 by a score of 14-21. The Ravens also experienced a rollercoaster of a record, losing four games in a row in the first half of this season. Despite this, the odds in Las Vegas still have the Steelers as a top contender with 10/1 odds.

For the Steelers and the Ravens, it is becoming clearer that their respective futures in the 2016-2017 post season will most likely come down to one glorious game. One will leave with exactly what they asked Santa for, and the other will leave with a very blue Christmas.

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AEX, Rhos face off on Thorn Field Brad Warmhold Sports Editor Grove City has finally won a football game.

Last Saturday, the selfproclaimed most bitter rivals on campus, AEX and the Rhos, took to Thorn Field in the 14th annual Rho vs. AEX/ AEX vs. Rho football game (source: Nick Clinton).

The two groups, who both held practices for nearly a month leading up to their paramount sporting event, arrived at Thorn nearly two hours before kickoff at 7 a.m., much to the dismay of many of the residents of Colonial, who reported being woken up early due to excessive screaming outside their windows.

Once the game got underway, the Rhos took an early lead by winning the coin-toss and then an even larger lead by actually scoring a touchdown off a short-rush by senior Benjamin

Watkins.

AEX struck back quickly with a touchdown of their own, beginning a pattern of both teams trading blows for the entirety of the first half.

AEX’s offensive game took off thanks to junior wide-receiver Ben Koeber, who activated beast mode as soon as the game began.

“The yards Ben had is what I wish my GPA was,” said teammate Jonathan Dabbs. Koeber had 5 receptions for touchdowns, which would be good enough for second on the varsity team. He also had an interception.

The second half of play remained close amidst a plethora of injuries, including a blow to the head of junior AEX member Brandon Schamberg that had him escorted off the field to the nearby ambulance.

According to his teammates, however, Schamberg recovered

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AEX and the Rhos clashed on Thorn Field last Saturday for their annual football game. AEX won 47-32. quickly and is doing fine. “He had a mild concussion, but the doctor basically said, ‘don’t hit your head again; don’t play anymore football. It was scary at first, but he’s okay” clarified Dabbs.

Going into the final four minutes, Rho quarterback Derek Work connected with wide-receiver Garth Murray for a touchdown pass to bring the game to within deficit of one at 33-32. Unfortunately for the Hopeman housing group, that would be the end of their scoring game and AEX pulled away

with two more scoring drives to end the game at 47-32. When asked about the final minutes of the game, Work said, “Fatigue…simple as that…boys got tired and we didn’t have reserves.”

Though the actual game was won by AEX, the taunting game, the other famous dimension of the match, universally was agreed to have been won by the Rhos.

“I think we won the verbal war very easily,” said Watkins, to which Dabbs agreed, “you gotta give it to the Rhos…they were pretty

intense…you have to respect their taunt.”

When asked, Dabbs said that he knew the Rhos won after the taunt, “AEX pays for AEX live with indulgences.”

Following the game, both groups went back to their respective floors to recover.

“I didn’t feel good afterwards,” said Rho RA Nick Clinton. “I didn’t feel good during the game either, but the physicality of the game makes it though.”

When asked about how AEX was doing after their victory, Dabbs commented “the day

of wasn’t bad…but the next day, wow…the next day I was so sore, and a vast majority of people who played were sore.”

The two teams will return to football action at no time in the near future. Despite this, both teams continue to look forward to next year’s annual game and will look even harder for recruits to help beef up their rosters.

“This is the best game on this campus,” said Work, “and it only is going to get better next year when we stop the three-peat.”

Men’s basketball getting on track Brett McBride Contributing Writer Grove City College men’s basketball team rebounded after losing consecutive match for the second time this season.

The Wolverines hosted Waynesburg College in the Wolverina on Dec. 3, where they fell by a score of 49-57.

On Dec. 6, Grove City GCC travelled to Houghton Men’s basketball is working hard to start their season College, winning 83-77 strong, with mixed results. in a high-scoring, back and forth affair. Sophomore guard Brandon Carlstrom at center. pushing them into the Grider led all scorers This year, the squad is playoffs. Grove City still young, with only a few has many PAC games, with 23 points, while seniors and long-time meaning that a hot junior forward Brnaveterans on the team. streak at just the right odn Grider had 19.

This does not mean time could propel them As a result of the win, they are an untalented, into the conference the Wolverines curhowever, as the Wol- playoffs. rently sport an overall verines still have leadIn addition to the acrecord of 2-4, and are ers in players like Mitch tual basketball games, and 0-2 in the PresiNewburg, Andrew between the men’s and dent’s Athletic ConferBeckman, Jon Grimm, women’s contested last ence (PAC).

Corey Huff and othThe slow start is a ers. There is also some Saturday, the 2015-16 change after the team’s promising new talent Bob Frederick Sportsprogress last year. Dur- on the floor, including manship Award was ing the 2015-2016 sea- freshmen Zane Laws presented to the former longtime Athletic son, the Wolverines and Nate Peters.

Director Dr. Don Lyle. finished 18-9 overall Peters, a guard, has and 13-5 in the PAC un- been starting and fin- Dr. Lyle coached and der Head Coach Steve ishing as a top scorer assisted coaching many Lamie. It was one of in many of his games so Grove City teams in his their best seasons since far. He and other play- career including softthe 2009-10 season ers like Brandon Grider ball, baseball, soccer where they went 19-9 and Gabe Goode show and basketball which overall and 9-3 in the significant promise in eventually led to his PAC. becoming future lead- promotion to Athletic Director.

However, the Wol- ers of the team.

The men’s basketball verines lost many talThe start should not ented senior players frighten the Wolverines team will return to PAC last year, including just yet. Late last year, action this Saturday at University.

Joe Vermilya, Isaiah the men went on a six Chatham Reeves and Steve Tam game winning streak, Tip-off is scheduled for at guard as well as Erik all against PAC teams, 3:00 p.m.

The Wolverines swimming team headed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, for their last swim meet of the calendar year.

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Calvin hosts year’s last swim meet Brad Warmhold Sports Editor The Grove City College men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished their competition for the calendar year at the Calvin Winter Swimming and Diving Invitational.

The men accumulated 710 team points while the women wrapped up competition with a sixth place finish and 631 team points on Saturday night at the Venema Aquatic Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

NCAA Division II school Grand Valley State won the men’s team competition with 1,999.5 points, and Northern Michigan, also DII, finished second with 1,811.5 points.

Grove City freshman Ben Slate held the highest individual placement for the Wol-

verines throughout the event.

Slate finished in fifth-place for the 200 breast in a time of 2 minutes, 7.17 seconds, which currently ranks second in program history. Slate also teamed with sophomore Dane Hoselton, junior Brett Gwynn and senior Josiah Vehrs to take sixth in the 200 medley relay with a season-best time of 1:34.36.

The team of Hoselton, junior Andrew Kisak, Gwynn and Vehrs were tenth in the timed finals of the 400 free relay (3:13.35), and senior Jeremy Kim finished in 10th-place as well with a time of 4:47.17 for the 500 free.

On the women’s side, freshman Anne Shirley Dassow earned the invitational victory for the 100 butterfly.

Dassow finished the 100 fly in 57.34 seconds, moving her into third in program histo-

ry in that event behind former All-Americans Peggy Whitbeck and Kait Riesmeyer.

Freshman Danielle Ledyard also reached the championship final in the 100 fly, taking seventh with a time of 59.38.

Another freshman making her way into the Grove City history books, Kaylyn Froebel moved into sixth place in program history in the 200 breast by taking 10th with a time of 2:27.60. Senior Grace Klimek finished 10th in the 3-meter diving competition with a score of 282.80 points while junior Bri Darnell followed her closely in 12th (264.20).

The Wolverines, finished with their season for the calendar year, will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. at Presidents’ Athletic Conference foe Washington and Jefferson.