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Travel ban hits home Molly Wicker News Editor

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Jabur Sowar

In the days after the Trump administration’s executive order temporarily halting immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, universities and scholars

across the country are grappling with what the restrictions mean for students and for academics as a whole.

At Grove City, some students are feeling the effects of the executive order personally.

Jabur Sowar, a sophomore Computer Information Systems major from Bahrain expressed

his frustration with the policy. He feels his education may be in jeopardy.

“Since I’m from the Middle East and live next to countries that are included in the ban, it may hinder the process of me returning to the U.S., especially for my education,” he said.

“I think that the ban is

ridiculous and should only include countries, like Saudi Arabia, that have committed terrorism directly towards the U.S. But since Trump is involved in deals with those countries, he refuses to include them in order to avoid conflict.”

Sowar also noted that

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Music Dept.’s best featured

Managing Editor Tonight at 7:30 p.m., the winners of last October’s Concerto Competition will perform with the Grove City College Orchestra in the College’s annual Winter Concert.

Dr. Jeffrey Tedford ’00, professor of music

Funch for her soprano performance of “Monica’s Waltz” from “The Medium,” composed by Gian Carlo Menotti.

In addition to the three Concerto Competition finalists, the Winter Concert will feature two senior student conductors.

Sarah Leon will conduct the first movement

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the judges choosing to pick three: senior Claire DeArmitt for her Mezzo-Soprani rendition of “Una voce poco fa” from “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” composed by Gioachino Rossini; junior pianist Emily Nicolette-Fantin, for her playing of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23; and junior Kassaundra

David Kirk

of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”, while Mark Wasilko will lead the Berceuse and Finale from Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.”

Dr. Tedford praised the talent of the student performers and conductors and emphasized the hard work they have put in, calling them “the

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Junior Kassaundra Funch will perform “Monica’s Waltz” from “The Medium” at the Winter Concert after being chosen as a finalist in last October’s Concerto Competiion. Junior Emily Nicolette-Fantin and senior Claire DeArmitt were also finalists, and will be featured in the concert.

and director of orchestras, will conduct the orchestra for the three performers.

Last October, nine contestants showed off their talents in the Concerto Competition.

Though only two finalists were originally supposed to be chosen.

The quality of the performances resulted in

Grover grads get jobs

Last week, Grove City College announced the job placement rate for the Class of 2016.

Within six months of graduation, 96 percent of 2016 grads have secured employment or started at a post-graduate educational institution.

This puts Grove City graduates well above the national average of a 60 percent placement rate within six months, as reported in Accenture Strategy’s 2016 College Graduate Employment Study.

What factors help Grove City College graduates achieve greater success in the job market?

“Grove City prepared me for my job in that the classes solidified my work ethic and challenged me to think analytically,” said Justin Phillips ’16 who is now employed in Los Angeles, CA after graduating with a degree in Industrial Management degree. “I was better prepared to learn the necessary programs and practices needed in my current job,” Phillips noted.

With a 99 percent knowledge rate, Grove City College’s job placement rate offers a complete picture of the 2016 graduating class and provides hope to current students, especially seniors as they search to find employment opportunities as graduation draws closer.

Daniel Atkins ’17, a senior Mechanical Engineering major at the college, remarked that “Grove City’s placement numbers make me feel more confident

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Nine straight PAC titles Bradley Warmhold Sports Editor

The Grove City College women’s swimming and diving team secured its ninth consecutive and fifteenth overall Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) title Saturday night as the Wolverines concluded the three-day conference meet with 909 team points.

Grove City, which hosted the meet in

James E. Longnecker Pool, finished the meet with a 137-point margin over runner-up Westminster. It is Grove City’s largest margin of victory at the conference championships since 2013.

The Wolverines led the six-team championship field with 909 points.

Westminster College finished as the runner-up with 772 PACS 12

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The Grove City College women’s swimming and diving team won its ninth consecutive PAC title last Saturday.

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Feb. 17, 2017

DeVos’ new direction

Josh Delk Staff Writer

After a historic tiebreaking vote from Vice President Pence, the Senate confirmed philanthropist and schoolreform activist, Betsy DeVos, as the new Secretary of Education last Tuesday.

In a break with past administrations’ appointments to the Education Department, 59-year-old DeVos has never taught or served in a public school and strongly advocates for school choice. ““I know that Secretary DeVos appreciates Grove City College’s unique place in higher education,” Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty ’80 said.

“We’ve already begun reaching out to the leadership at the Department of Education about our concerns with the Department’s College Scorecard. We hope to find a way to have our excellent outcomes included in rankings that rely on Scorecard data,” he added DeVos quickly became the target of intense scrutiny from both sides of the political spectrum.

In her home state of Michigan, she is an advocate of private school voucher programs, a controversial topic within the public school system. Some states allow for school choice through voucher programs, which provide tax-funded vouchers and tax credits to help families pay for their children’s access to private schools, mag-

TRAVEL BAN the executive order was just the most obvious form of discrimination against U.S. residents from the Middle East.

“TSA has discriminated against me multiple times upon my entrance to the U.S.,” he said.

President McNulty, who served as the Deputy Attorney General under George Bush, said that the President faces a unique challenge.

“The President is undoubtedly receiving national security briefings . . . He has every reason to be concerned about the threat of terrorism,” McNulty told The Collegian.

“However, if the order had undergone a more thorough interagency review process, the Administration may have found a better way to deal with green card holders and various types of visas, including student visas.”

McNulty conceded that compassion for refugees is often met with security concerns.

“With regard to refugees,” he said, “reliable vetting is an enormous challenge that still needs to be addressed.

I suspect most people support the helping of refugees if the risk can be effectively man-

nate schools and other options outside of the public school system.

Proponents of school choice cite the ineffectiveness of many public schools in preparing students for further education and employment.

Many education reformers also blame the government monopoly on education for keeping impoverished children in failing public schools with no better alternatives for advancing their children’s education.

For DeVos and the school choice movement, decentralizing educational decisions to the states would allow families and communities to have a larger stake in their children’s education.

The progressive left has largely championed the case against schoolchoice and voucher programs through teacher unions and organizations such as the National Education Association.

The left believes that the federal and state governments should not allocate funds toward private organizations, which are largely outside the scope of the public.

There is also fear among progressives that a move toward private schooling on a large scale would unfairly advantage religious causes.

Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, said “it’s been a long-standing goal of the Religious Right to replace public aged.”

The order, which affects citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia, has left many people fearing expulsion, being stranded outside the country, detained or uncertain of whether they are able to travel at all.

Many University leaders have pledged to support those whose lives are being affected by the new rules.

The order also says that religious minorities will be given preference, which many have assumed will apply to Christians in the Middle East.

In a separate interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said that persecuted Christians should be given priority over members of other faiths.

According to a report by the non-partisan Pew Research Center, however, 99 percent of the nearly 12,600 Syrians granted refugee status last year were Muslims. Less than one percent were Christian.

Syria’s population is 87 percent Muslim and 10 percent Christian, according to the CIA World Fact Book.

Other Christian colleges across the country have made statements on the issue.

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President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, was recently confirmed by the Senate. Her confirmation was fought by Democrats who disagreed with her stance on school choice and raised questions about her qualifications for the position. education with Christian education. The long-term strategy of how to change culture is through education.”

Rabbi Moline, president of the Interfaith Alliance, put a voice to this cause. “Americans are always free to send their children to private schools and religious schools, but raiding the public treasury to subsidize private businesses and religious organizations runs against the public trust and the constitution,” she said.

DeVos is a devout Christian, and has deep ties to philanthropic efforts within Christian communities.

A graduate of Calvin College, DeVos is actively involved in her

home church in Grand Rapids, MI. According to Doug Koopman, a political scientist from her alma mater, DeVos’ passion for education reform and school choice stems from her concern for what’s best for the public, not a Christian agenda to implement a curriculum focusing on Creationsim or other issues.

“It would be a mistake to put her in the Religious Right camp.

That’s not who she is,” Koopman stated.

In 1993, DeVos and her husband, the former Republican nominee for the Governor of Michigan, helped enact the state’s charter school law.

This legislative push grew into a nationwide campaign for voucher programs, which operates through the American Federation for Children.

The AFC is one of the country’s largest education reform organizations, which backs candidates and campaigns across the nation in the interest of establishing school-choice programs at the state level.

In 2016, the AFC helped to fund 121 state and local-level elections and won 89 percent of them.

DeVos also serves as chairman of the Alliance for School Choice, the Foundation of Excellence in Education and several other na-

tional and local philanthropic educational organizations.

DeVos has also donated money to several Christian colleges, including Grove City College and Hope College in Michigan.

The national College Scorecard, a publication of the Education Department that provides data and rankings on the country’s universities, recently excluded Grove City College due to its refusal to accept federal funding.

With a strong proponent of religious education at the head of the department, colleges such as these may enjoy benefits of publication on the list of top colleges.

At Wheaton College in Illinois, President Philip Ryken has made a personal statement saying that the United States could do “a lot more than welcome the 10,000 per year,” than were previously accepted.

The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Evangelicals, neither of which Grove City is a part of, have written to the Trump administration and formally asked for a reconsideration of the executive order.

“We fully affirm the important role of the U.S. government in vetting and screening those considered for resettlement to our country,” wrote Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the CCCU. “However, the U.S. refugee resettlement program’s screening process is already extremely thorough . . . While we are always open to improvements to our government’s screening process, we believe that our national can continue to be both compassionate and secure. We would ask that you reconsider these decisions, allowing for resettlement of refugees to resume immediately so that our churches and ministries can continue to live out our faith in this way.”

In Pittsburgh, universities and colleges have issued messages condemning the executive order.

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher issues a message to the university, saying that he is “deeply troubled” by the policy and said he joins his academic colleagues in calling for “a sensible immigration policy that protects national security without discriminating against individuals and without incurring potential and profound harm to our nation’s system of higher education.

Pennsylvania State University President Eric Barron expressed opposition to the action in a Jan. 29 statement and urged international students, faculty and scholars to carry immigration documents proving their legal status “whenever you are traveling within the United States.”

“Penn State is enriched by students and scholars from around the world and we will continue our work on providing a climate of inclusion for all, regardless of country of origin,” the university said.

Federal courts in several cities have blocked the enforcement of the ban.

Although the Trump administration has said that green-card holders will not be affected, the Department of Homeland Security has stated that it will continue to uphold the order, despite judicial rulings.

Trump has voiced his concern that refugees and students are not vetted thoroughly enough before entering the United States, citing an incident at Ohio State University in December when Abdul Razak-Ali Artan, a Somali native, used his car and a knife to attack people on campus.

Trump maintains Artan should not have been allowed to enter the country.

Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to thenHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that Artan’s family’s application to be admitted as refugees should have vetted more thoroughly.

Artan, a Muslim, appears to have been radicalized online, according to Federal law enforcement authorities.

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He added that in a recent interview, he mentioned the placement rate and it helped to provide credibility to the college in the eyes of his interviewer.

The attention now falls to current seniors, like Atkins, as they work to lock up jobs and admission to postgraduate programs during their final months before graduation.

CONCERT best and brightest students involved in the music program.”

“This concert gives us an opportunity to showcase the talent that exists among the student body at Grove City College,” he said.

The concert is free to both the Grove City community and the public, and doors open at 7 p.m.

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Singing the way to LA Paige Kraynak Staff Writer

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Held from Feb. 10-12, the 70th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival Featured 126 college students from 32 colleges all around the state, including six representatives from Grove City College. The concert was conducted by Colonel Thomas H. Palmatier.

Intercollegiate Band Festival rocks GCC

Madison Stout Contributing Writer

Grove City College proudly hosted the 70th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival this past weekend from Feb. 10-12.

This festival, presented by the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association, brought together 126 of the best student musicians from across the state.

Thirty-two colleges and universities were represented to produce an amazing concert for the Grove City community.

Dr. Joseph Pisano, director of bands at Grove City College, serves as vice president for the Association and hosted this extraordinary event.

In recent years, the festival was hosted by Elizabethtown College, Bloomsburg University, Shippensburg University as well as other participating colleges and universities. It is a huge honor for the College to host the oldest intercollegiate band festival in the country and serves as the first time since 1994 and the third time in total for Grove City to be the festival’s host.

After two straight days of practicing to-

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Students spent several days practicing their crafts before the concert on Feb. 12. gether as a whole, the student musicians, including six Grove City students, took the stage.

Junior Rebekah Quinlan, who played mallets for the festival, described the application process for the festival. Quinlan said that Pisano sent out an email to band students in the fall to apply for the festival. There was a performer highlight sheet in which students were asked to include all musical achievements and honors.

There was a separate application for students interested in applying for a percussion spot.

“I applied two years in a row,” Quinlan said, “and am blessed and honored to be able to participate for the first time. It seems there has never been a need for a musician who solely played mallets, usually musicians who were both percussion and mallets were chosen for districts in high school, so I’m really excited to have this opportunity.”

Fellow juniors Lindsey Miller, clarinet and Steven Gosselin, bass clarinet as well as seniors Adam Snowden, alto saxophone and Mark Wasilko, euphonium and freshman Hannah Miner, harp were the other five Grove City College Students selected for the elite band.

The concert was directed by guest conductor Colonel Thomas H. Palmatier, who served from 2011-2014 as the Leader and Command-

er of the United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” the largest military music unit in the United States.

The concert featured a wide array of music including Smiths’ American Flourish, Schissel’s arrangement of Goldman’s’ Chimes of Liberty, and a special Salute to the Armed Forces.

There was also an impromptu performance of Palmatier’s arrangement of Ode to Joy which received an encore, standing ovation, and audience participation.

This festival truly showcased the “best of the best.”

These student musicians, both non-music majors and music majors alike, traveled from all over the state to put on an exceptional musical performance.

After a rigorous application process, months of practice at their own colleges and universities, and one busy weekend together, all participants of the 2017 Intercollegiate Band Festival successfully worked in a collaborated effort to put together a concert which enriched the entire Grove City community.

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An occasional satirical feature exploring the vagaries of life at Grove City College

SGA coffeehouse singer toys with thought of leaving Grove City College and pursuing music as full-time career

A longtime Grove City coffeehouse singer said in an interview that he was “playing around with the thought of leaving GCC” and becoming a full-time musician after playing at the most recent SGA coffeehouse.

“I was up there in front of what must have been twodozen people going through

my set. Mayer, Sheeran, Plain White Tees, the crowd was eating it up. As I was on the second verse of ‘Hey There Delilah’ I received a sudden epiphany: ‘Maybe I’m not supposed to be here at all,’ I thought, ‘I should ditch this popsicle stand and pursue my calling,’” he said.

“I mean, biology is cool

and all, but, man I feel so alive when I’m singing other people’s music!”

When asked if he thought he could make it in the cutthroat music industry, the aspiring heartthrob gave the interviewer a puzzled look.

“Did you hear how many people were clapping?” said the two-year guitar veteran, who we later discovered was

referring to the ten people in the SAC who weren’t distracted by their cell phones at the time of the event.

“To not pursue this would be an injustice to both myself and my fans,” he said.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to practice my bar chords,” he added, effectively ending the interview.

Who knew that Grove City held some of the most talented people this side of Pennsylvania?

Singing, dancing, playing music and performing standup comedy are just a few of many talents that some Grovers possess.

They will share their gifts with the rest of the Grove City community at the annual “Upperclassmen Talent Show today at 7:30 p.m.

This event is being held for the ICO Los Angeles students, who are fundraising for their upcoming trip this spring.

This is the fourth time that this event has raised money for that particular trip, but the talent show has been going on since the ICO trips have begun.

Senior Megan Baak is in charge of this event and will be participating in this spring’s ICO Los Angeles trip. She has gone in previous years and is passionate about the work they do and what this trip means to the community.

“We’re working with The Dream Center in Los Angeles, which has over 15 different outreaches that minister to various populations and demographics in LA., Baak said.

“We’ll be engaged in several outreaches throughout our trip, including their Food Truck, Adopt-a-Block, Kidszone Ministry, Discipleship Programs, and Skid Row Outreach.”

“The trip is great exposure to the despair and hopelessness that encompasses so much of Los Angeles, but The Dream Center helps to provide God’s love and light to those who are suffering, and the fact that we get to be part of that mission is truly incredible,” she added.

Students can acknowledge and support their fellow classmates by buying a ticket and watching the acts.

This talent show helps the students pay for the trip as well as initial costs needed.

Currently there are eight acts, including a saxophone player, singers, guitarists and even a spoken word act.

Some are still hoping that the famed dancing skeleton will make another appearance.

For those interested in attending the event, tickets are being sold at the door at Crawford for $3, and the show itself will take place on the lower stage at 7:30.

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Feb. 17, 2017

CPAC creates capital career chances

Kelleigh Huber Life Editor

ANDREW STEIN

The ‘08 Focus isn’t my dream BMW, but it’s a solid ride and it does the job.

Campus Car Reviews

2008 Ford Focus: the DMV of cars

Andrew Stein Car Contributor

Campus Car Reviews is a bi-weekly review of cars driven by Grove City Students. Jerry Seinfeld once called CCR “almost average on its best day.” No interest in cars or intelligence is required to read this editorial column.

Over the break, I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the most beloved place on earth: the DMV. More specifically, the Pennsylvania DMV. In case you haven’t had your spine shattered while driving on PA roads, I’ll let you on to a little secret: Penn DOT is about as useful as a Pledge in class during Pledge week. (Student Life and Learning, when I say Pledge week I mean “Greek Unity Week,” or whatever the new politically correct term is we’re supposed to call it.)

So needless to say, I was expecting a very poor visit, being kneedeep in poor cost cutting efforts, and an experience so slow that I would age many, many moons.

But I was wrong. Very wrong. I was in and out of the DMV in less than seven minutes.

One might say it was an enjoyable experience. *gaaaaaasssp* So now you’re thinking is “That’s great, but isn’t this a car review?” and you’d be right. The purpose of this long winded, highly detailed account of my break serves a purpose: It’s the exact same thought process as the Ford Focus is usually treated with.

See, the Ford Focus is an entry-level, no frills economy car, which

usually means it’s a boring, yet frustrating experience. Yet, surprisingly it’s quite the opposite.

It’s fun to drive: the steering feels wonderful and direct, the power (while not a lot) is responsive and usable at low revs. The best thing about this car? All the buttons are where you would expect them to be.

When your eyes are searching for a button, your hand has already naturally gravitated towards it. (Like your hand does towards the door, when that girl who you haven’t talk to since she rejected you walks in the room.)

This car is supposed to be a bare-minimum vehicle, but it gains a wonderful charm through thoughtful design. The Focus in my mind set the bar for what every entry level car should strive for. If you were looking for a cheap car that still satisfies, the Focus should certainly be on your list.

Was that actual consumer advice? My sincerest apologies…

Would Pres. McNulty drive it? Since it’s a low-value car, and President McNulty is not a low-value man: no.

Campus Safety Score: 4 out 5 tickets: they just bought a new Ford SUV, so they must like Fords, right?

Likes: This car has only what it needs and nothing that it doesn’t.

Like what a SAC meal should be.

Dislikes: Leg room in the back seat is not what you’d call “comfortable.” Reminds me of Southwest Flight.

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Career networking for Grove City College students reaches a peak with the annual CPAC conference, which will take place Washington, D.C. from Feb. 23-25.

The trip to CPAC, which is almost entirely subsidized by The Center for Vision and Values, gives over 40 students the opportunity to travel to D.C. in hopes of meeting alumni, finding a summer internship or landing a job that could begin as early as May of this year.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) began through the American Conservative Union (ACU) and is described as combining “ideas with action to leverage the strength of thousands of grassroots activists to break through the resistance of Washington’s powerful elites,” according to the CPAC webpage, cpac.conservative.org/ about/.

The main purpose of the conference, in whole, is to unite leaders in the conserva-

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At CPAC, students will network with professionals and hear from the stars of conservatism. Last year, Brooke Dymski was one of the students in attendance. tive movement across all levels of government, media and think tanks not only in D.C., but across the country. Through gaining knowledge, activism will begin to take place.

The ACU hopes to bring the party together to continue the success of the conservative movement and to encourage future action and motivation for action.

Confirmed speakers for CPAC include VicePresident Mike Pence, Senator Ted Cruz, exPresidential candidates Carly Fiorina and Scott Walker, Senator Jim DeMint of the Heritage Foundation, Michael

Reagan and others.

The main purpose for Grove City’s attendance, however, is networking.

Events like these serve as a way for GCC students to develop in their skills as professionals, but also become more educated in the conservative values they could encounter in future internships and jobs.

Mr. Lee Wishing III, Administrative Director for The Center for Vision and Values, notes that students can gain “more confidence in their education [and] an understanding of the desirability of Grove

City College-educated students among conservative think tanks and political offices.”

The Center has been participating in the conference for about 10 years.

“Many students get internships, jobs, and even, eventually, graduate school scholarships,” Wishing said.

Regardless of age or major, CPAC serves as a way to make strong connections for one’s present or future, allowing students the chance to meet individuals in their field, ask questions and seek employment in a variety of outlets in the D.C. area.

Tales of a townie

Let’s all go to the movies Sarah Wishing Contributing Writer

For those who may not know, I am indeed a townie. For the entirety of my 20 years of life, I’ve lived here in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Shockingly enough, a phrase I hear all too often is that there is nothing to do here.

Through this article series, I hope to inform students of new places to visit either in the town, or within an hour’s drive from campus.

Each article will have a new theme: coffee shops, restaurants, cinemas, recreational facilities, outdoor adventures, etc. Stay tuned for fun places to adventure with friends, or maybe even new ideas for date nights (because although the benches in the PLC are very exciting, it can be fun to get off campus sometimes).

This week, the theme is movie theaters. (I know we all know and love the Guthrie, but here are some other places to go!)

Cinema 8 Location: 2461 E State St, Hermitage, Pa., 16148.

Distance from Campus: 28.0 mi.

Length of Drive: 34 min.

Cinema 8 is one of my personal favorite movie theaters to visit, and it may or may not be because tickets are only $3! Located in the back of a shopping plaza, my friends and I would go there all the time in

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The Starlight Drive-In Theater is a must-experience attraction in Butler County. high school.

Hermitage is a great place to go for a fun evening. Nearby are Chipotle, Tim Horton’s and Yumberries, so if you enjoy burritos, donuts, Cold Stone ice cream and froyo, this could be the place to go.

(Pro tip: If you go to a later show in the evening and stop by Tim Horton’s around 9:15 when they are getting ready to close, it might be a possibility to score some free donuts or pastries. One time, my cousin and I went and got two boxes of donuts and a box of donut holes. True story.)

Shenango Valley Cinemas Location: 2996 East State Street Hermitage,

Pa., 16148.

Distance from Campus: 27.2 mi.

Length of Drive: 33 min.

The Shenango Valley Cinemas are also located in Hermitage, and although ticket prices are a bit more expensive at $6. On Mondays, there is a promotion where tickets are only $3.

This theater is a little bit bigger and nicer than Cinema 8, and if you’re looking for a swankier place to bring a date, this theater could be the place for you!

Starlight Drive-In Location: 1985 N Main St Ext, Butler, Pa., 16001.

Distance from Campus: 22.3 mi.

Length of Drive: 32

min.

All my life, the drivein theater in Butler has been one of my favorite places to go to see movies.

It is so much fun pulling up and watching a film in the middle of a field on a huge movie screen, sitting with your friends in the back of a truck or on a picnic blanket. This is the perfect place to go on a spring or fall night.

Unfortunately, since it is outdoors, it is weather dependent and only open from April to October. However, during those months, I strongly recommend visiting this movie theater.

So without further ado, get out there and go to the movies!

Entertainment ‘Fifty Shades’ crazier

Feb. 17, 2017

Grayson “Fifty Shades of” Quay ’16 Former Managing Editor

First off, I have a confession to make. I didn’t watch “Fifty Shades Darker.” I watched “Cincuenta Sombras Más Oscuro.”

Two years ago, I went for the full “Fifty Shades of Grey” theatrical experience and had the singular honor of being the only unaccompanied male in the theatre that Valentine’s Day. For the sequel, I was obviously eager to relive the awkward stares of sexually repressed soccer moms, but this time around I chose to skip the theatre and opted instead to stream a sketchy bootleg copy complete with popcorn crunching incessantly in the background and Spanish title cards.

When I made the decision to review the first film, I did so because I was annoyed at the moral uproar expressed by a thousand Christian bloggers who condemned both novel and film while proudly announcing that they had not read or seen it. In the two years since, the excitement and outrage that come with scandal have worn off, leaving us with the cinematic equivalent of an aging Bill Clinton.

Last time, I wanted to see the movie and evaluate it on its own terms. I did so, and decided that it was a poorly-made movie that dangerously romanticized an abusive relationship between two wooden characters.

Yet, as I mentioned in my review, the story is a trilogy, and the possibility for some sort of redemption still existed.

In “Fifty Shades Darker,” the filmmakers obviously aimed to actualize that potential for redemption with mixed results, but what they undeniably triumphed at was de-

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The film features the return of Anastasia Steele and her lover, Christian Grey. stroying any sense of story-telling logic so thoroughly that Aristotle has probably spun his way to the center of the earth by now.

When we last left our heroes, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson as the no-longer-virginal nolonger-college student) had left her billionaire lover, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan as the Brooding, Dark, Sexy Man with a fetish for Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism) after he brutally whipped her at the end of the first film.

We watch the two of them mope their way through their daily routines, she going off to her new publishing job and he does… whatever billionaires do (I don’t think author E.L. James had any idea, so mostly Christian just sits in boardrooms and scowls) while a cover of Coldplay’s “The Scientist” that somehow manages to be even sappier than the original plays in the background.

Then, within five minutes, they’re back together. I would explain how it happened,

but I think I may have missed it during the split second I took to glance guiltily up at my roommate when he came home unexpectedly. Christian stalks Ana until she agrees to have dinner with him, she orders a quinoa salad (because how else do you appeal to the millennial demographic?) and bites her lip a few times, and suddenly all is forgiven.

I was expecting their process of rapprochement to take up about half the film, and apparently so were the filmmakers, because they clearly had no idea how to fill the remaining hour and 40 minutes of runtime.

Christian never becomes sexually violent like he does in the first film, but after four or five trysts featuring the same recycled choreography, camera angles, heavy sighs and sultry electronic pop, I was about ready to do violence to my laptop. I actually found myself feeling nostalgic for the way the first film’s sex scenes mingled fear and arousal. This time, they serve mainly to

entertain the audience and pad out the movie’s length.

With Christian more or less tamed by Ana, the movie introduces three external threats to keep them occupied.

One would have been enough, but whatever.

First, there’s one of Christian’s former submissives, who has a psychotic break and begins stalking Ana. In one of the movie’s better scenes, Christian walks in on her pointing a gun at Ana and, with a few simple hand gestures, disarms her and brings her literally to heel in a disturbing demonstration of the submissiveness Christian craved and got before meeting Ana. Second, there’s Jack Hyde, Ana’s boss at the publishing firm, who gets pretty rapey with her in one scene. Christian promptly gets him fired, and Ana is promoted to editor after working there for (as far as I can tell) about a week. I’m starting to suspect that this film series serves mainly to fulfill the millennial fantasies of spacious apartments, easily ob-

tainable entry-level jobs, successful liberal arts majors, swift promotions and endless quinoa and that the whole sexy billionaire BDSM boyfriend thing is actually the most realistic part.

Third, there’s Elana Lincoln (Kim Basinger), who does absolutely nothing.

As the woman who abused and dominated Christian when he was a teenager, she could have proved an interesting addition to the story, but instead she has a grand total of two passive-aggressive conversations with Ana, the second of which ends with Elena having a drink thrown in her face *and* being slapped in a moment that would have been more at home in a Three Stooges skit.

After their first conversation, Ana finds her car covered in dozens of massive dents, and I’m still mad at this movie for depriving me of the opportunity to see Kim Basinger swing a sledgehammer at a midsize sedan. I could have watched that all day.

As I watched, though, I felt unfulfilled. Something was lacking. I longed for the moment in which the movie would reach a transcendent level of absurdity the way the first film did with the “I’m fifty shades of effed up” line.

As the movie neared its end, I feared that moment would never arrive, and I questioned whether it was even worth writing this review.

Then came the helicopter crash.

This part contains spoilers, but since it’s the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture, I don’t feel too bad about it.

Christian’s helicopter goes down near Mt. St. Helen’s, and Ana and his family sit around

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the TV watching news reports about search parties combing the woods for him. The film holds us in suspense for around two minutes. Then, showing all the signs of a story told by a fanfic author who changes her mind from chapter to chapter, Christian simply walks in the front door.

I have so many questions.

How did he get home? Why are search parties still looking for him? How is he uninjured and his suit unwrinkled?

Are we expected to believe that this moody BDSM billionaire fought his way back to civilization through the Washington state wilderness, battling wild bears with spears fashioned from helicopter wreckage in a far more aptly titled version of that Liam Neeson movie “The Grey”?

I’d watch the hell out of that.

Anyway, Christian and Ana get engaged and the movie ends with the lovers happily… But wait? What’s this? It’s… Jack Hyde!

He has returned to burn a cigarette through a picture of Christian’s face and sneer into the camera as the credits roll. I honestly had to pull up IMDb because by that point I’d forgotten who that character even was.

I tried to approach the first movie seriously, but with “Fifty Shades Darker,” that would be an exercise in futility.

The second installment in the monochromatic paint swatch series is ninety percent less disturbing and approximately one million percent sillier. Such absurdity is not worthy of thoughtful evaluation or condemnation, but only of ridicule. See it or don’t, I really don’t care.

‘Black Marble’ shows it belongs

Nicolas Giorgi

Contributing Writer In the day and age of the internet, being a part of the music industry and vying to become famous is a gamble; without the proper networking, style and label, an artist is likely to slip into complete obscurity.

The cutting edge cultural relevance is very fine, very sharp and can easily pass right by if one doesn’t have the right footing. It’s a risk that needs to be taken, but when one finds their own relevance in today’s culture, it can lead to great success.

Such is the case for Black Marble.

On Oct. 14th, 2016, Black Marble released its sophomore album “It’s Immaterial” on the Ghostly International record label; “It’s Immaterial” has

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The band released “It’s Immaterial” on Oct. 14. a more refined sound than Black Marble’s previous sleeper-hit album, “A Different Arrangement,” released on the Hardly Art label, a subsidiary of Subpop.

“It’s Immaterial” has gained traction significantly faster than the musician’s previous work, bearing a striking resemblance to “New Order played through a trash can.” Ironically, Black Marble frontman, Chris Stewart, reveres this criticism as a great compliment.

The album is unique in its own right, focusing very heavily on Chris Stewart’s transition

from living in Brooklyn to moving to Los Angeles. Stylistically, one can tell that there was a geographic change for Stewart, given that the band’s sound transitioned from an industrial sound to a sound reminiscent of California Indie (E.G., Washed Out).

The instrumentation falls on the spectrum somewhere between the Cure and Real Estate, if one were to take the two bands, toss them in a blender, and add a smarmy dose of eighties synthpop. These elements give “It’s Immaterial” a refined feel, an obvious point of growth by Black Marble as musicians.

The bass is the breadwinner on this album.

Being strong and forceful, it dominates the harmonisphere with its heaviness, but not to the point that it be-

comes overwhelming.

The bass is flanked by twangy, lead guitar that resonates, enlightening the overall tone of each track. The two instruments create a state of symbiosis that could only come from a distinct dichotomy.

The cherry on top is the synthesizer; its semi-analog sound brings the album back into a place of feeling actually human, as opposed to purely mechanical, thanks to the fuzzy buzz that is reminiscent of the magnetic tracks of melotron.

Additionally, some very unique samples are interspersed to enhance the tonal qualities of each track. The least accessible element of the album, however, is Stewart’s vocoded vocals; they can be distorted to the point of inaudibility, which can be both gratifying and

frustrating.

Thankfully, familiarity subdues the ambiguousness of his lyricism.

The album begins with a cacophony of sounds, an amalgamation of noise that Stewart included at the beginning of the album to deter unseasoned listeners from continuing through the rest of the album.

“I wanted this song to make people upset, make them think the record was going to be a noise record,” said Steward in an interview with Self-Titled magazine.

The first track purely gets the ball rolling for the second track, “Iron Lung.” The song, as whole, is a metaphor for a codependent relationship as the Stewart almost affectionately refers to this unknown other as his “iron lung.”

Pairing these lyrics

with the lightness of the instrumentation, especially during the chorus, provides the listener with sense of irony, a hopeful despair that comes with being trapped with somebody, as opposed to being alone.

Additional notable tracks on the album include “Self Guided Tours,” a vestige to a relationship that seems to be fleeting that as the future comes forth full steam, “Missing Sibling,” a lamentation for the past and “Collene,” which presents an unbridled joy for what lies ahead.

As a whole, the album is a finely knit tapestry of deep lyrics and skillfully played instrumentals that deserves some attention, despite the relative inaccessibility that can come from its harmonic style and indistinct vocals.

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Cultures collide ‘The Warlord and the Suffragette’ Marley Kropp Staff Writer

“Ask me tomorrow and I’ll tell you a different story,” said artist Margaret Brostrom about the meaning behind her latest pieces.

On Thursday, Feb. 9, an exhibition featuring the work of regional artists opened at the Pew Fine Arts Center gallery on campus.

The collection, titled “The Warlord and the Suffragette,” is a collaboration between Oil City, Pa., artists Margaret Brostrom and George Cooley.

The exhibition opening featured hors d’oeuvres and live music. Students, faculty, friends of the artists, and members of the public attended the opening.

Brostrom and Cooley mingled with the guests and answered questions about the pieces.

Attendees of the gallery opening could read the artists’ thoughts about the collection in a booklet. Cooley wrote that the terms warlord and suffragette “represent disruptive aesthetic ideas clashing with the more traditional.”

Brostrom also sees this exhibit as an exploration of tension and harmony.

“My art is about the duality that exists between the self and the outside world or the exterior/ interior,” she wrote.

“I need quiet so I can clear my head and think, and I need to hear others so I can learn. It’s a balancing act.”

Brostrom and Cooley moved to Oil City, Pa., to help build an arts community. They have taught art classes and have led community art workshops together. Three years ago, the artists challenged themselves to paint ten 30x30 in. squares each in their respective styles.

Brostrom’s square canvases feature human figures in bright

colors.

“Why do I paint people?” she said. “I want to be alone, but I really like people… Sometimes I do flowers, but I like people. They’re friends.”

Cooley’s paintings are abstract explorations of color and texture. He explained his process of stretching canvases over wooden frames that he creates: “The canvas goes on top of a skeleton, and the canvas is like the skin. The painting is tattooing… Sometimes I use different textures. One includes fabric from a wedding dress.”

In addition to the traditional square canvases, the artists also challenged themselves to paint ten parasols each.

“We were in San Francisco, and we bought a decorated parasol and hung it up with a light in back of it,” Cooley said. The artists decided to try making their own versions of the decorated parasol.

Cooley described the difficulty of painting the fragile paper of the parasol in the studio, however, he said, “Everything we’ve learned from the parasols will translate to our work when we get back to the canvases.”

Brostrom and Cooley enjoy the cathartic aspects of creating art.

“I’m really someplace else when I’m creating it,” Cooley said. Brostrom added, “I have fun creating this way. Other people see what they want to see in it.

I like to set up challenges for myself. It’s almost a frustrating process. It’s a learning process.

I’m never done.”

“The Warlord and the Suffragette” will remain at the gallery on campus until Mar. 3. The gallery is open from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. ​

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Artists Margaret Brostrom and George Cooley pose in front of their work at the opening of their gallery in the Pew Fine Arts Center on Feb. 9. The reception featured the art to members of the campus and town community and included food and live music.

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Everything is awesome in ‘The Lego Batman Movie’

Ian Baker

Contributing Writer Released in theatres on February 10, “The Lego Batman Movie” follows the story of Batman after “The Lego Movie” as he fights crime in Gotham City while also battling his solo attitude and his fear of family as he raises his adopted son.

The movie nearly captures the charm of “The Lego Movie,” while also providing fans of Batman the accuracy and representation of all the Batman universes in the superhero’s past, going as far back as the Adam West Batman.

Chris McKay, who also directed “The Lego Movie,” returned to direct the new installment. The movie was organized and edited very well to ensure a steady flow in the plot.

Viewers will be completely engrossed in it while watching Bat-

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“The Lego Baman Movie” includes television and movie references beyond Batman. man’s self-absorbed nature chipped away as the plot progresses.

Also, the film is brilliantly written with a good balance of comedy mixed in with touching moments.

The movie had the wit that only the Lego franchise can carry out, with a plethora of movie and television references.

Aside from the characters of the Batman franchise, Sauron, Lord Voldemort, the Wicked Witch of the West and King Kong made appearances, as well as others.

“The Lego Batman Movie” starred Will Arnett as Batman, Zach Galifianakis as The Joker, Michael Cera as Robin, Rosario Dawson

as Commissioner Barbara Gordon and Ralph Fiennes as Alfred.

The main characters blended and captured the family essence that the movie wanted to portray very well. The gruff, self-centered Batman contrasted wonderfully with the optimistic, completely adorable Robin.

Together with the

caring, mother-like Barbara and the wise, grandpa-esque Alfred, the protagonists accentuated Batman’s change of character, creating a tight family structure and an inspirational feel throughout the film that pulls the viewer into the story.

The animation in “The Lego Batman Movie” included more computer-generated images than in the previous Lego production.

It did not have many instances of building, which to some is the whole point of Lego.

Aside from the increased CGI animation and the decrease in building scenes, there is also the issue of the greater focus on licensed themes by The Lego Group. While focusing on more licensed themes is a good business move for Lego, especially when it helped saved the franchise from going bankrupt in

2003, Lego, in general, has moved away from the creative focus that it once had.

This is the reason so many were ecstatic when “The Lego Movie “came out However, “The Lego Batman Movie” is great in its own way. Warner Brothers may have created the best Batman movie since The Dark Knight. Within the first five seconds, I was laughing and continuing to laugh throughout the movie, pausing briefly at the moving moments of Batman’s character change and the team coming together as a family.

The characters were excellent, the references were hilarious and the film as a whole managed to include a touching and important message. It is both funny and inspirational for people of all ages.

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‘This Is Us:’ Where life gets real Sarah Gibbs Staff Writer

NBC’s new hit series, “This Is Us,” poses questions of identity and purpose while set against a backdrop of yesterday’s Pittsburgh and today’s New York and Hollywood.

Show creator, Dan Fogelman (screenwriter for “Tangled” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love”) leads the audience through events that took place over 30 years ago and examines their affects today. The modernday story follows three characters who share the same birthday.

In the pilot, each of the three characters faces a crisis on that milestone day, their 36th birthday. Randall, a successful businessman, locates his biological father who abandoned him at birth. Kate, a personal assistant in Los Angeles, recommits to losing weight. Kevin, an actor on a hit show, quits his job in an impassioned speech on its set.

At the end of the first episode, we learn that the three characters are tied together by more than just the same birthdate. They share the same parents. Kevin and Kate are fraternal twins and Randall is their adopted brother.

In flashbacks to the day their mother Rebecca (Mandy Moore) is expected to give birth to triplets, one of the triplets is stillborn and a newborn is abandoned at a fire station. Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) believes it is meant to be, and the couple brings home three children from the hospital.

The show does not shy away from the tough issues that Americans face today, but instead embraces them.

The show examines dif-

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“This Is Us” presents a well-written, exciting narrative. ficult issues like interracial adoption, men’s and women’s roles in marriage, parenting, sibling rivalry, racial bias and racial identity.

More than offering definite solutions to hot-button issues, so far the show seeks to inform the audience of their complexity and urges understanding from all sides. The show follows the path of American culture through the lens of a family over the past 40 years.

It explores how life and family have changed and in what ways they should remain the same.

Dan Fogelman hints that in the future, Jack’s role as a father will be become pivotal in understanding the three main characters and their life journeys.

He says that the overall theme of the show is “how life will surprise you.”

He seems to be saying that each new challenge of life can be met with optimism and with the support of a family.

In a sea of television programs that largely focus on the violence and doomsday storylines of crime, apocalyptic, and superhero dramas, this “dramedy” offers a pleasant reprieve.

It simply looks at a family’s life, with no terrorist attacks, no homicide, no zombies and

no high stakes crime, just individual people’s decisions and some of the hardships we all face every day.

The show strikes a balance between portraying the reality of these hardships and portraying the fulfillment and simple joys found in work well done and in a loving family.

It seems that a portion of Americans are ready for this shift to a show that prizes everyday life over the once in a million.

10 million people tuned in to see the pilot last September, and the third episode retained an impressive 9.9 million viewers, more returning viewers than any new show in the past 10 years.

As of December, the show ranks sixth among 18-49 year-olds (“The Walking Dead” ranks first). This past fall, the show had the most Twitter and Facebook activity of any show on television.

The atmosphere the show creates is important to Dan Fogelman and his team. Fogelman wishes to recreate the feeling of his early childhood which he spent in Pittsburgh with his family in their home in Bethel Park.

He creates an atmosphere of warm nostalgia in the flashback scenes by using clothing and furniture styles from the 70s (rather

than the 80s, which would be the correct time period), and scatters Steeler paraphernalia throughout the scenes.

The cast delivers a solid performance as a whole, with only a few awkward lines spread throughout the early episodes.

A “Gilmore Girls” favorite, Milo Ventimiglia (“Rocky Balboa” and “Heroes”) and Mandy Moore (“A Walk to Remember”) present a compelling picture of a marriage built on love, but persevering through hardship.

Lesser known actors Chrissy Metz (“American Horror Story: Freak Show”) and Justin Hartley (“Smallville”) play the biological twins. Metz plays a lovable and nuanced older sister.

Hartley renders a performance of a needy and oblivious brother that somehow warrants our sympathy.

Sterling Brown (“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson”) contributes a strong performance as the third and adopted sibling.

He offers a thoughtful portrayal of an African American father and businessman who was raised in a white family.

Susan Kelechi Watson and Ron Cephas Jones also add stellar performances as Randall’s wife and as his biological father.

The popular show has already been renewed for two more seasons.

If you have not been following the show so far, episodes are available on traditional streaming sources, Hulu and Amazon.

The most recent episodes are available for free on NBC.com.

The third annual Sock Hop is tomorrow at 8 p.m.

Sock Hop brings back the 1950s Madison Stout Contributing Writer

The Grove City College swing dance club will be hosting its third annual Sock Hop tomorrow in Old Map from 8 to 11pm. This 50s themed dance encourages students to dress in style, from poodle skirts and polka dots, to vests and fedora hats.

There is an entrance fee of two dollars that will go towards purchasing refreshments for the dance as well as maintaining the club without requiring fees for members.

In previous years, attendees reported enjoying playing a part in the event and seeing people dressed up in the fashion of the age.

Bethany King, an attendee of last year’s dance, said she loved the environment of the event.

“My boyfriend refused to go to the Sock Hop last year, so my roommate and I went together instead and danced with tons of guys. It was really fun to experience different dance partners and meet new people. The best part is even if you aren’t dating someone, there is not a pressure to bring a date to have a great time.”

This year’s dance differs from previous Sock Hops hosted by the College’s club in featuring

live music performed by the band Clear Run. The band specializes in “oldies” covers, perfect for the event’s rock and roll swing vibe.

Olivia Ebert, auxiliary committee member of the executive board for the club, is the daughter of one of the bands members. She was able to use her connections to bring them to campus in order to enrich the attendees’ 5os experience.

In addition to the live music, Geneva College’s own swing dance club has been invited to join in on the event.

Maria Dunsworth, president of GCC’s swing dance club said that this event, as well as the club in general, places a huge emphasis on community.

“Our club encourages a very welcoming culture; everyone dances with everyone regardless of their relationship status or how well they know each other. The Sock Hop is a chance for us to share our sense of community with the rest of the campus and Geneva’s own Swing Dance Club,” Dunsworth said.

These exciting additions to this year’s event add a new level of enjoyment and variety for attendees of this throwback experience. This is a great opportunity to get to know a variety of people from both our college and other students at Geneva.

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Grammys fail to hail Queen Bey Joe Setyon Managing Editor I’m furious right now.

How dare they? How. Dare. They.

Sunday at the Grammy’s, privileged WHITE singer Adele won the award for Album of the Year over the once-in-a-generation BLACK FEMINIST icon Beyonce.

It’s absolutely infuriating. As a privileged, mostly white, cis male (the worst type of person), I can say with certainty that the Recording Academy voting members represent everything that is completely wrong with this awful, racist country. It’s things like this that brought about the rise of Donald Trump, who is basically Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan and George Wallace all rolled into one anyway.

How dare those voters give them out based on who they think put out the best album, instead of taking into account the fact that Beyonce totally deserves it.

I mean really, just think about it for a minute. We live in a country that enslaved African Americans for so long.

Sure, slavery has been gone for more than 150 years (the Civil War ended in 1865), but we owe it to the black community to pay reparations for past misdeeds for as long as it takes, or for as long as Black Lives Matter requires

we do so.

In fact, it’s representative of the racist, Trumpian culture that we live in that a fabulously wealthy recording artist who is beloved by millions of adoring fans for her overall awesomeness and queenlike nature didn’t win a Grammy.

We owe it to Beyonce and to African Americans everywhere as part of our reparations for slavery to make sure that a black artist’s accomplishments are finally recognized.

Because if Beyonce can’t win a Grammy, who are black children going to look up to?

Beyonce is obviously a great role model for black boys and girls everywhere, especially the nearly half of them (49 percent, according to 2016 statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau) who currently do not have a father living in the home with them.

For these children, Beyonce and her music act as a type of surrogate parent, standing up against those racist police officers who exist solely to shoot unarmed, innocent, young black men who are simply trying to go about their business in a legal and peaceable way.

Beyonce’s importance is magnified for impressionable, young black girls who absolutely need to hear the Queen talk about how completely in control of her own body she is because she decides just how many men she will let objectify her and use her body. Without the

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Queen’s lyrics, young black girls wouldn’t have a role model to teach them about how liberating it can be to sleep around.

By the way, since I’ve gotten to talking about how vital it is for young women to look up to Beyonce, it’s important to note that she deserved to win for Album of the Year simply because she is a woman (Adele, who did win, doesn’t count because she’s white, so she should just check her privilege).

Women have been marginalized in our society for far too long.

They have only been able to vote in our socalled great country for about a hundred years.

They earn 77 cents

for every dollar a man earns, a completely legitimate statistic that should be taken as fact and has totally never been referenced in a completely out of context manner.

It was only 44 years ago that women earned something far, far more important the right to vote: the God-given ability to ruthlessly slaughter one’s own helpless child while they are still in the womb (a right that Beyonce heroically stands up for).

In a society where women are devalued to the point where far too often, they have to pay for their own birth control (seriously, what the heck America?), Be-

yonce stands strong as a symbol of a strong, queenly, majestic black woman who can rise above the haters.

The fact that her race-baiting, provocatively inspirational music is simply the most wonderful art known to humanity doesn’t even really matter.

What is important is her blackness.

And her femininity.

Though of course anyone can be a woman if they have some makeup and the money for the right surgery.

In combination, the two make her royalty. GRAMMY voters should be ashamed for not falling down in worship and for failing to hail the Queen.

How to stop the Obamacare repeal (and look conservative while you do it) Caleb Harshberger Editor in Chief

The country has been abuzz about what a unified Republican government means for the Affordable Care Act. Will Republicans repeal Obamacare?

What will become of the people currently on it?

Do the Republicans have a plan to replace it?

Would it work?

No one knows.

Though leading Republicans like Paul Ryan have indicated that we’ll soon found out. In the meantime, Republican Senator Rand Paul has already come out against repeal due to financial consequences that would follow, and many others have voiced concerns that Republicans have bit off a little more than they can chew with this one.

And that was all at the beginning of the year.

What have we heard since? The president has said he’ll keep the good part, or insure everyone, or… whatever it is it’s going to be great!

Meanwhile, Republicans that are already unsure about what midterms will look like two years into a Trump presidency must also be wondering about the attitudes of constituents on Obamacare.

So what is a conservative House member to do?

I’m no expert but I am a big fan of the poison pill. Just throw it all in. Abortion bans, debt ceilings, minimum wage eliminations, you name it, throw it in. All good conservative principles that can never pass in a million years, at least not in a single bill.

And the fight will be glorious with every 2020 hopeful going nuts on the floor shouting Bible verses and classic conservative talking points. Even Mitch McConnell could get his hopes up.

If it ever even cleared the House, the president or the courts would tear it to shreds and the GOP would have given their people what it thinks they want: a show of moral principle and an act self servitude.

That’s how politics is

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done. Provide the theater for the constituents to consume and try to steal what you can to buy the votes back home. Politicians believe Americans want politics to consume like Netflix or YouTube.

They want to turn on the TV and feel entertained and also productive. They are doing their civic duty, staying informed.

The GOP had better hope so, or they might have to make the tough choices and own the outcomes.

Between the Women’s March, the spontaneous protests at the nation’s airports and the constant stream of anti-Trump movements, the old paradigm may be shifting.

American politics is passing from a nation of consumers to a nation of social media self-promoters. Technology can make the famous, and a protest is the perfect opportunity for some self-expression.

So the GOP better play this one right.

The poison pill can’t go down, but the fight to swallow had better look authentic. There had better be grand speeches, Twitter posts, even town halls as long as it’s in a safely red state.

Political theater just got riskier, but more important than ever for the actors. Only the greatest and luckiest may come out on the other side.

The name of the game is authenticity, and those that can fake it have a bright future ahead of them.

This week’s Green Eyeshade Award goes to Grayson Quay ’16, former Managing Editor of The Collegian, for coming out of retirement to voice his thoughts on “50 Shades Darker.”

Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

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

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What if God wants you to be single?

Julia Roper

Contributing Writer About two years ago, I read “Passion and Purity” by Elisabeth Elliot. Elliot talks about the difficulty of waiting for God’s answer in her singleness. It’s even more difficult when she meets the man she loves, and he tells her that his obedience to God may dictate that the two of them will not be together.

I don’t hear stories of this kind very often, the ones where people are open to singleness for the long haul.

Instead, it seems like we as Christians have this mindset where our singleness is just the waiting stage before we meet the right one.

With this mindset, we may begin to lose the joy in our singleness. In fact, we can lose more than that. We lose the challenge of being open to a life of singleness.

That’s right, a life of singleness.

This sentence might sound scary. In fact, when I really begin to think about not having a partner for life, I feel a sense of loneliness. If you are totally fine with singleness for life, then maybe this article isn’t for you. But if you have even the slightest fear at the idea of never getting married, keep reading.

In the end, our ability to conquer fear really boils down to faith.

We read in Christian biographies and the Bi-

ble about believers with super faith. We can think about the names of people who were tortured and killed for their beliefs, and we cringe at the thought of their suffering. Yet how often do we hear about the emotional hardships we may have to face in our faith?

While the opportunity for physical suffering may not be terribly common in our culture, I definitely think we can choose to sacrifice more of ourselves or less of ourselves to God on a personal level. Although God has the ultimate say in our lives, we can still honor him by ultimately deciding in our hearts that we are content with whatever life God wants us to live.

If we are not willing to take on singleness, then we are holding ourselves back from lives of super faith.

To back this claim up, let’s look at Abraham. God tells him to kill Isaac. Now he could have easily killed his son and glorified God in it. Yet God allowed Abraham to have his son after Abraham laid his desires on the table in all faith. What if we confronted marriage this way, leaving it all on the table before God and deciding in our hearts that any way is good as long as it’s God’s way?

In the Bible, it’s clear that God gives people a way out when they cannot handle a tough task.

Moses couldn’t speak in public, so God chose

We spend so much time trying to find the right person, but what if God wants you to be single?

Aaron.

Saul’s men didn’t want to fight Goliath, so God used David to do it. Yet we see the stories where Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego decided that they could burn in a furnace so that God would be glorified.

Daniel decided that his actions could allow him to end up dying.

God could have easily let these people die under trial, but He granted them grace. The real faith was that they were willing to do it, no matter the consequences. I

think we need to adopt this mindset as young believers, that we can handle marriage or singleness because we love God enough.

It isn’t just something we can believe overnight. It takes prayer and constant submission in our hearts and minds.

I wonder how good God could prove himself to be if we opened ourselves to do anything He wanted in our lives, whether that leads to marriage or singleness.

Perhaps the marriage would be even sweeter

if no expectations existed from the get-go, but only a steadfast faith in God’s superb timing of everything.

Perhaps we would ultimately enjoy singleness and how it frees us up to do amazing things on a whim for God’s glory.

This concept is great in theory, but it can be so difficult to practice, especially in light of this upcoming Valentine’s Day. With a day reserved to remind us of love, we can become impatient at the prospect of not

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having found love.

But this weekend, do not forget: all who have encountered God have found the greatest love.

Everything else is shadow of what His love is, including human love.

So remember that although we are not guaranteed human love, we are guaranteed God’s perfect love.

And this love is enough.

This article was originally published on The Odyssey Online.

Edifying political discussion:

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How to best engage the enemy

Perspectives Editor At the beginning of this year Donald Trump was sworn into office, starting what would seem to be the longest four years of a presidency... except that it’s only been a month.

Coming under fire for everything for his immigration policies, to crowd sizes, to how he could better dress, President Trump has ignited one of the most divisive times in recent American political history.

In light of this and my own personal experience, I have compiled a list of tips and tricks to better engage those who share a far different political viewpoint than you, no matter your own personal affiliations.

1. Make sure to clarify that any discussion you have will take place in a “safe space”.

This particularly resonates with Trump supporters who have

praised Trump from the beginning for his holistic support of political correctness.

2. Make sure to interrupt any positive discussion to remind all involved parties what safe words and neutral language should be used. If you yourself find this to be counterintuitive to free speech, which is so highly valued by American culture, make sure to state at all possible opportunities how regressive “PC” culture is.

3. If you feel like you are not garnering enough logical support for your personal viewpoint, take a step back and consider the facts.

Was it on Fox News?

CNN? A featured Facebook status? An alternative fact? All of the above are excellent sources, absent of bias from which to build your political case.

4.

Make sure to actively read your audience while having and argument with them.

Do they appear personally offended? Are they hiding behind a fortress of ambiguous terminology? Or better yet, have

they considered unfriending you on Facebook? Heated political discussions are the perfect way to determine who should stay close to you in life, and anyone who does not follow your logic could be potential chaff in your rich relationships.

5. Consider bringing up politics at your next family gathering.

Though the window of time to share your personal convictions during the holiday season has passed, do not disregard discussing controversial political policies at a family birthday, or when a new significant other is introduced to the fam-

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If someone seems to be disagreeing with you solely on party lines, or because they cannot support a certain idea if it is associated with a given political party, take the time to inform them of the party’s history. Did you know the south used to be democratic? And they supported slavery at the same time?

Surely historical references such as these will convince your loved one that past ideas held must be true today, and anyone should be willing to abandon their political ideologies.

7. A popular and effective way to find an

outlet for your ideas is social media.

Consider deleting all family photos and abstaining from happy birthday wishes across social media in order to better devote yourself to political conversations, marking yourself as someone open and willing to peacefully debate others and have an open mind.

8. . Openly criticize celebrities who disagree politically with you, using the vaguest terminology possible, such as calling Beyoncé “too black” and refusing to further discuss why you feel she is on the wrong side of issues.

Another popular method of accomplishing the same thing is by labeling someone closminded for disagreeing with progressive LGBTQ+ viewpoints.

If they don’t want their little girl to use a bathroom with someone questioning their gender, they must obviously be on the highway to hell.

9.

Stay strong in your convictions. Make sure to bring up political conversations with

all people, even if it means slipping a note to your crush in class to politely inform them that they can only be proper dating material if they voted third party in these elections.

Everyone knows that Trump’s anti free market policies are a wound to the soul, and anyone who supports baby murderers can’t actually be a Christian.

The final and most important tip- remember that no matter your viewpoint is, it was God (or whatever gods you believe in) who gave it to you.

If you feel brokenhearted after your political discussions, sit down and read your sacred scripture in order to comfort yourself and to serve as a reminder that God would also get 72 percent Republican on a Buzzfeed political quiz too.

Stay strong friends.

And remember that at the end of the day, politics are only a small part of what truly makes America great.

Sports

Feb. 17, 2017

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Women’s b-ball on the move Joe Setyon

Managing Editor The Wolverines are surging down the home stretch as they near the President’s Athletic Conference (PAC) Tournament that will determine the conference champion.

The Grove City College women’s basketball team (13-11, 9-8 PAC) has won three consecutive games and four of its last five as it looks to improve its final seeding ahead of the tournament. The Wolverines have played excellent defense and made clutch shots when it matters as they continue to get better going into the last regular season game of the year.

After blowing out archrival Geneva by a score of 80-49 on Feb. 8, Grove City continued its home stand by taking on Westminster on Senior Day, Feb. 11.

Prior to the game, seniors Jackie Stewart and Teresa Dallatore were honored in the penultimate regular season home game of their respective careers.

The Wolverines jumped out to a 19-10 lead after the first quarter, and increased the margin to 11 at halftime. In the second half, Westminster rallied, cutting the lead to one possession and giving themselves a chance to tie things up with just seconds remaining on the game clock. However, Grove City’s defense stepped up, and the Wolverines took the game by a final of 5653.

The defense as a whole was certainly the hero in this game.

Westminster was only able to convert 21 of its 58 field goal attempts, good enough for a 35 percent rate.

Entering the match, Westminster had been,

statistically, the best three-point shooting team in the conference.

However, Grove City’s perimeter defense was stingy, allowing only one make in 13 attempts from beyond the arc.

Junior guard Lexie Arkwright led her team in scoring, picking up 16 total points on seven of 15 shooting from the field. She also collected six rebounds and stole the ball from Westminster players four times.

However, this game was a team effort, as two other Wolverines finishes with double digit scoring outputs. Stewart scored 12 points on six of 11 shooting, and she grabbed five rebounds and dished three assists. Sophomore guard McKenzie Black had 10 points, while sophomore center Laura Buchanan added a team-leading 10 rebounds to her eight points.

Grove City concluded its home stand on Feb. 15, crushing PAC foe Thiel 70-56. The Wolverines took a quick lead, and after faltering in the third quarter, outscored Thiel 23-9 in the fourth to pick up the win.

Freshman guard Kate Balcom scored 24 points and picked up nine rebounds in the victory, as well as four steals. Arkwright added on 23 points, including career point 1000 and six boards.

Thanks to its recent surge, Grove City is in a good position heading into the PAC Tournament.

Currently, the Wolverines are the sixth-best team in the conference, putting them on track to travel to number-three seeded Saint Vincent in their first-round match.

Grove City completes the regular season at Bethany tomorrow at 2 p.m.

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Men’s Basketball Sat, Feb 18, 4:00 p.m. at Bethany (Away) Women’s Basketball Sat. Feb 18, 2:00 p.m., at Bethany (Away) Women’s Water Polo Sat., Feb. 18, 3:00 p.m., at Saint Francis University; 8:00 p.m., vs.

George Washington (Away) Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Saturday, Feb. 18, at Kent State Tune Up (Away) Thursday, Feb. 23, 2:00 p.m., PAC Indoor Championships Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Sat., Feb. 18, at Kenyon Last Chance Invitational, Time TBA (Away)

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Senior Daniel Christiansen won the 5000 meter race at the Baldwin Wallace Mid-February Meet last Saturday.

Track and field shines at Baldwin Wallace

Ryan Brunson

Contributing Writer The Grove City College men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams competed last Friday at Baldwin Wallace University’s Mid-February Meet for the team’s third meet of the 2016-2017 indoor season.

The men’s team finished the event in fifth place collectively out of the thirteen teams. The men’s team ended with 57 team points total, while Point Park University won the meet with a total of 114 team points.

Individually for the men, two athletes won their events: seniors Ryan Buchalter and Daniel Christiansen.

Buchalter won both the 200 in a time of 23.38 seconds and the 400 in 51.07 seconds. Christiansen won the 5000 with a time of 15:35.31.

Five other Grove City men had outstanding finishes.

Senior Mike Cole took second in the triple jump with a best mark of 42’ 4”, mak-

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Senior Lydia Keiper took third place in the 5000 meter event at Baldwin Wallace. ing him the top NCAA Division III athlete for that event. Senior Coby Bartolucci finished fifth in the long jump with a distance of 19’ 10.25”.

Junior Quinton Reed placed seventh in shot put with a throw for 41’ 1.5”, just ahead of senior David Spinder who finished seventh place

with a best throw of 40’ 7.5”. Senior Nate Henry also performed well in the long jump with a best distance of 19’ 4.25” to secure eighth place.

The women’s team took ninth place collectively on Friday with a total of 22 team points.

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won the meet for one the women’s side as well with a total of 96 team points.

Five Grove City women placed at the meet to help secure the team’s points.

Senior Lydia Keiper took third in the 5000 with a time of 19:00.24.

Freshman Rohanna Foote took fifth in the 55 meter with a time of 7.69 seconds, setting a school record in the process. Senior Melanie Packard took fifth as well in the pole vault, clearing 9’ 5.75” and freshman Madison McKivergan took both seventh in the triple jump with a distance of 30’ 0”, and eighth place in the 800 with a time of 2:36.03.

Finally, junior Margi Haiss took eighth in the shot put with a best throw of 33’ 4”.

Both the men’s and women’s teams are scheduled to compete again on Saturday, February 18th at the Kent State Tune-up in Kent, Ohio. The first events are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.

Pitt sports search for consistency Michael Cole Staff Writer

It has been a long week in the world of Pittsburgh sports with no apparent clarity in any team’s possible success.

It starts with the city’s favorite Panther team.

The navy and gold have struggled to live up to the expectations set by last year’s squad.

Led by Coach Stallings, the Panthers lost all but one game in the month of January.

Their only victory came against a highly talented University of Virginia team, making fans question whether or not their team will ever be able to find even an ounce of consistency in an exceedingly talented conference.

Going into Saturday, the Panthers had the chance to take out their frustrations on a Syracuse Orange team who had been riding the momentum of a five-game win streak, with two

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The Pittsburgh Panthers beat Syracuse on Saturday. of those wins coming against top 15 teams.

It seemed as if all hope had been lost for the Panthers before tip-off, but Pitt had other plans for the Orange.

Outscoring the Orange 35-28 in the first half, all seemed to be going well for the Panthers, who were led by sophomore Cameron Johnson and senior Michael Young. At the end of the game, they had combined for more than half of the Panther’s points total.

Young also finished with nine rebounds and six assists to help will his team to their second straight victory.

The Panthers attempted to ride this

momentum into their next game against the Virginia Tech Hokies in a Valentine’s Day ACC matchup. The Hokies came into the game having beaten number 12 University of Virginia in a double overtime thriller on Feb. 12.

Pitt seemingly dominated the first half as they led 40-29 going into the locker room.

However, they were reluctant to keep up their lead. Virginia Tech came out firing in the second half shooting over fifty percent from the field, and soon the Panthers lost their halftime lead. Jamel Artis and Cameron Johnson led the way for the Panthers, finishing a com-

bined 33 points.

Despite the ups and downs in the world of Pittsburgh basketball, the hockey season is in full swing for the Penguins. The team traveled to Arizona on Feb. 11th to play the Coyotes.

It was an overtime thriller for the Penguins, who were able to overcome a one goal deficit by scoring two times in the third period to tie it up and take the game into overtime.

However, they fell short as the Coyote’s Connor Murphy was able to seal the deal for the Coyotes.

Fueled by their loss, the Penguins would find their way back to the Console Energy Center to play Vancouver in a Valentine’s Day showdown. The Penguins came to compete and had four different players score throughout the game.

Looking ahead, the Panthers will face Florida State tomorrow and the Penguins will stay home and face the Blue Jackets tonight.

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Feb. 17, 2017

Men’s hoops rise up with a mighty roar Joe Setyon Managing Editor Things didn’t look too rosy for the Wolverines coming off a 68-83 drumming at the hands of PAC foe Thiel on Jan. 18. The team had lost four games in a row, and was just 2-7 within the President’s Athletic Conference (PAC).

Fast forward nearly a month, and the men’s basketball team is playing much better. The Wolverines have won four of their last six contests to improve to 11-13 on the year and more importantly, 7-10 within the PAC. Grove City has played better on defense and shown a knack for winning tight games as it nears the end of the regular season and the start of the PAC Tournament.

After defeating Geneva on Feb. 8, Grove City took on Westminster at home on Feb. 11, Senior Day. Prior to playing, the team honored seniors D.J. Martin and Mitch Newburg, who will both graduate following the season.

The game was back forth throughout the first half, but the Wolverines were able to 3029 lead into the locker room at halftime.

The game stayed tight for much of the second half, but Grove City broke through in the second half.

Though Westminster threatened to pull even in the final minutes, Grove City grabbed the rebound off a missed three-pointer that would have tied it, and junior forward Cory Huff’s two free throws

with 1.6 seconds remaining iced the 65-60 victory.

It was the 250th career victory for Grove City head coach Steve Lamie, and the defense led the way allowing just 18 of Westminster’s 59 field goal attempts to be successful. Grove City also outrebounded the Titans by a 44-29 margin.

Sophomore guard Brandon Grider did not start this game for the Wolverines, but he still led the team in scoring with 23 points off the bench on nine of 17 shooting from the field, while adding eight rebounds.

Meanwhile, Huff also starred, scoring 22 points on 10 of 14 shooting with nine rebounds.

Junior forward Andrew Beckman scored seven

points and pulled down seven rebounds in the victory.

Grove City ended its home schedule on fell to Thiel 60-65 on Feb. 15. The game was close, but the Wolverines faltered in the second half.

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Last week, Grove City held the PAC Swimming and Diving Championships in the James E. Longnecker pool.

Men’s swimming, diving takes second

Bradley Warmhold Sports Editor

The Grove City College men’s swimming and diving team finished the 2016-17 by placing second at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Championships, hosted by the college in the James E. Longnecker Pool.

Westminster emerged victorious in the five-team championship field with 929.50 points. Grove City finished as the runner-up with 825.50 points.

Saint Vincent College was third (598.50), Washington & Jefferson College was fourth (446.50) and Bethany College was fifth (188 Freshman Ben Slate won the 200 breaststroke in a time of 2 minutes, 4.76 seconds, surpassing the NCAA’s provisional qualifying standard. Slate also set

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a Grove City record in the 200 breaststroke.

On the second day of the championships, he became Grove City’s record-holder in the 100 breaststroke (57.23).

Senior Jeremy Kim won the 200 butterfly in a time of 1:54.02, making it his fourth straight victory in the event Sophomore Rhys Dickhudt recorded a pair of third-place finishes for the Wolverines. He took third in the 100 free (46.92), and in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:56.65.

Dickhudt, senior Jo-

siah Vehrs, sophomore Dane Hoselton and junior Brett Gwynn closed the meet by finishing third in the 400 free relay (3:08.01).

Freshman Zachary Burns placed fifth on the three-meter board with 307.05 points.

Gwynn earned fifth in the 100 free (47.70) while Hoselton placed fifth in the 200 backstroke (1:54.97). Freshman Ash Pietroboni opened the session by taking fifth in the 1650 with a time of 17:01.95.

Westminster junior Mitch Stahara earned the title of PAC Most

Senior Jeremy Kim won the 200 butterfly at PACs.

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Sophomore Brandon Grider is averaging nearly 10 points and five boards per game.

Valuable Performer in swimming after claiming his second-straight PAC title in the 100 freestyle with a winning time of 45.77 seconds.

W&J sophomore Theo Skoric was named the PAC’s Most Valuable Performer in Diving after winning the 11-dive, one meter event last Thursday, scoring 460.95 points.

He also won the 11-dive, three-meter event last Saturday with a score of 482.25 points.

Westminster firstyear head coach Pat Smith was awarded PAC Swimming Coach of the Year honors and PAC Diving Coach of the Year honors went to W&J’s Vic Galati, now in his 10th year with the Presidents.

A number of Grove City performers will compete at the Kenyon College Fast Chance Meet next Saturday in Gambier, Ohio.

Grider scored 18 points in the loss, while Huff had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Bekman added 10 points, nine boards and seven assists.

Looking forward, the Wolverines’ are the

sixth seed in the PAC. If the season ended today, Grove City would take on third-seeded Westminster in its firstround match. Grove City concludes the year tomorrow at 4 p.m. vs.

Bethany.

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City’s other victory Saturday night, securing the 200 backstroke in 2:08.59. Freshman Kaylyn Froebel took second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:23.69, one spot ahead of sophomore Megan Crutcher. Senior Megan Smith took third in the 1650 (18:08.25) while senior Abby Jank finished third in the 100 free (53.92).

Along with her multiple victories in the pool, Dassow also claimed PAC Most Valuable Performer in swimming honors. Chatham senior Emily Hinson was named the PAC’s Most Valuable Performer in Diving after claiming titles in the 11dive, three-meter event (495.70) Thursday and 11-dive, one-meter event (477.45) Saturday.

Wolverine head coach Dave Fritz earned the conference’s Coach of the Year award after guiding the Wolverines to their eighth conference crown in his eight years as head coach.

Several Grove City performers will compete at the Kenyon College Fast Chance Meet next Saturday in Gambier, Ohio.

points and was followed by Saint Vincent College in third (594), Washington & Jefferson College in fourth (437), Chatham University in fifth (340) and Bethany College in sixth (137).

After winning the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly Friday night, freshman Anne Shirley Dassow claimed the 200 butterfly as well in 2 minutes, 1.91 seconds.

Her time surpassed the NCAA provisional qualifying standard and is just .07 seconds short of the Grove City, Longnecker Pool and conference record set by three-time national champion Peggy Whitbeck in 2003.

Dassow also swam on Grove City’s winning 200 freestyle (1:36.16), 400 medley (3:53.97) and 200 medley relays.

The Wolverines’ 200 medley relay established new pool, PAC open and PAC Championships records while meeting the Division III provisional qualifying standard with a winning time of one minute, 45.61 seconds.

Freshman Brittany Byer earned Grove

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Anne Shirley Dassow was named the Most Valuable Performer in Swimming, helping lead GCC to victory.