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Vol. 102, No. 17
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
Grovers may lose Spotify discount
Molly Wicker News Editor
Grove City students are no longer eligible to receive Spotify’s student discount. The popular music streaming site announced recently that their student discount, which allows undergraduate students to purchase the premium version of the streaming service for $4.99 per month, is only offered to students at Title IV schools. Students at schools like Grove City and Hillsdale College, in Michigan, are eligible to receive the discount since
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the schools do not accept federal funding. Spotify’s terms and conditions state the discount is offered to “students at
a U.S. Title IV accredited institution located in the United States.” Spotify Premium allows subscribers to down-
load music and avoid advertisements that the service’s free version includes. Without the discount, it costs $9.99 per month. SheerID uses a database from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, which only includes Title IV institutions, to approve student enrollment. A SheerID spokesperson told the Hillsdale College Collegian that Spotify’s student discount “is only being extended to students enrolled in the winter or Spring 2017 term at any Title IV U.S. College/University located in the United States.
As a third-party service, we must follow the guidelines set by Spotify.” “I hope this isn’t another example of a company putting a political agenda ahead of fairness and good business sense,” said College President Paul McNulty. “The student discount is intended to attract longterm customers. Why wouldn’t Spotify want to develop GCC student subscribers? Let’s hope the company ‘spots’ this problem and fixes it.” The manual verification process requires students to supply school-issues documentation providing their
name, an issue date of the current term, and their college’s name. According to SheerID, students who attend a Title IV-exempt institution should no longer be able to manually verify their enrollment. In response to a Collegian inquiry, a Sheer ID spokesperson said that “we are very sorry that the current Spotify Student product is not avilable in Title IV exempt schools.” “Spotify is working on it, and hopes to be able to make it available as soon as possible,” the spokesperson said.
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Super-McNulty
Caleb Harshberger Editor in Chief
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President Paul J. McNulty ’80 dressed as Superman for the “Men in Tights” show, a fundraising event that took place in Crawford on Wednesday. The show featured students and faculty prancing around in tights. For more on “Men in Tights,” see Page 8 (Entertainment).
Vision & Values looks at communism Molly Wicker News Editor
The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College is focusing on the idol of government for its 13th annual conference on April 20 and 21 on campus. “The God That Failed: Communism and Socialism Then and Now” will feature dozens of speakers and scholars exploring a variety of issues re- GOLDBERG lated to the communist-socialist phenomenon of past, present and future. The conference will mark the centenary of the
launch of global communism with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and will explore the ways in which current ideologies bare resemblance to communism. This year’s Vision and Values conference will be a time of reflection and assessment, allowing participants to think about the history and future of socialism in America, as well as its more radical variants, such as communism. “A shockingly high number of Americans (especially Millennials) have a positive view of socialism and say they would (and, in fact, did) vote for a socialist for president of the United
States,” explained Dr. Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at the College and longtime Vision and Values Fellow. “Literally more Millennials (in some surveys) have a positive view of socialism than capitalism. And when they are asked why, they give reasons like, ‘Well, socialism helps people,’ or ‘Socialism is about caring and sharing and loving your fellow man.’ They have a very distorted view of socialism,” said Kengor. Kengor said that a “complete failure in education has led to Millennials having a “very distorted view of communism.” “One recent survey
found a shocking percentage of Millennials and Americans generally who believe that George W. Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin. That is utterly appalling. It’s outrageous, inconceivable and unimaginable.
Stalin killed tens of millions of people,” said Kengor. Among the speakers slated for the two-day conference are Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, best-selling VALUES 2
Grove City College has partnered with Armstrong Cable to test Philo, a stwreaming TV service, on campus. This service allows “the campus community to watch live TV on your computer via web browser, smartphone app, tablet app or Roku app while attached to the College network,” according to Vice President- Chief Information Officer Vince DiStasi ‘88, in an email sent to the student body. Founded by two Harvard students, Philo is a IPTV platform that caters specifically to college campuses. The service will only be available on campus, and while students can download the it on as many devices as they’d like, they can only use it on one device at a time. Philo users can also record up to 20 hours of content. The College will be testing this system to see if they will switch from the current TV service to a streaming platform. As of April 1, students that are paying for cable will no longer be charged for the rest of the semester. Subscribers can still access cable TV as well as the Philo service.
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