The Collegian – April 28, 2017

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The Grove City College Student Newspaper

Ghubril to speak at Baccalaureate Molly Wicker News Editor The Rev. Saleem Ghubril, executive director of The Pittsburgh Promise, will speak at Grove City College’s 2017 Baccalaureate service.

“It is a great honor to be invited to address the graduates of Grove City College,” Ghubril

told the Collegian. “I am looking forward to celebrating the graduates and inviting them to be agents of reconciliation in this beloved yet broken world.”

Ghubril is an ordained Presbyterian minister, non-profit founder and committed advocate of students, education and strong communities.

“There is not a shortage of voices that clamor for the attention of young people on the verge of making their entrance into independent adulthood,” he said. “In the midst of all the voices is the Still Small Voice who speaks with gentle and loving authority and who calls all to intimacy and service. It is my hope that

GCC graduates will be able to hear the one voice in the midst of the noise, and reply with abandoned pursuit.”

For some students, Ghubril’s presence will provide a welcome respite from the politics of this year’s commencement speaker, Mike Pence, who has become a divisive figure among many in the

campus community.

Senior Meg Baak hopes that Ghubril’s personal experience will inform his baccalaureate address.

“Ghubril exhibits sacrifice, perseverance and pursuing unity among all people groups, political ideologies and religions,” she said.

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The Rev. Saleem Ghubril

Apps Bubble Bowl brawl are up Caleb Harshberger Editor in Chief

Grove City College has seen an uptick in applications this year, countering a decade of downward trends and demographic shifts.

This year, 1,766 students applied to enroll in Grove City College, 270 more than last year.

“We’re at the highest since 2009,” Lee Wishing said. “I want to get significantly higher than where we are now.”

Admissions counselors were goal-minded, and I believe they hit all their goals.”

This is especially good considering the current higher education climate in the region.

“We’re fighting an uphill battle in our region,” Wishing said.

“And we’re countering the trend.”

The competition for prospective students among private Christian schools is fierce.

Schools meticulously gather data about their competitors and fight for each application through marketing initiatives, networking and scholarships, with teams setting clear-cut metrics for success.

Last year, Grove City increased its mailing list from 8,000 to 66,000, and has become more involved in oganizations and college fairs targetting high school juniors and seniors looking to enroll in Christian colleges and universities.

They have also made financial aid applications more accessible to prospective students.

“We opened up the trustee scholarship to anyone who wanted to apply for it, but you had to apply to the school APPS 2

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Last Week, MAP South RAs hosted a Bubble Ball Soccer event in the IM Rooms. What was a fun, organized game quickly devolved into an agressive brawl. For more photos, see Entertainment (page 8).

Return of the Gala

Kayla Sarin

Contributing Writer Who doesn’t love the 50s? Students who do will have a chance to dress up and attend this year’s 1950s themed Gala filled with good food and lots of dancing.

Years ago, late College President Dr. Charles Mackenzie had the idea to host a Gala for the students at Grove City College in order to honor his presidency.

Students raved about this new event, and a Gala was hosted yearly for several years until they made the switch to every other year.

This year, the Gala will be hosted by the Social Affairs Committee of SGA; they are expecting around 1,200 students, faculty and staff to be in attendance.

The event will be held

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The Gala will be held in the IM Rooms tomorrow night. The bi-annual dance became a tradition under the presidency of the late Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie. in the IM rooms. Justine Simon, Junior Vice President of Social Affairs, said, “One of the coolest things about this year’s Gala is how we are transforming the IM rooms.” She went on to say that MEP

side will become an old school lounge with card tables, pool tables and food stations while the track side will be for dancing and the band.

Décor will include lots of black, white, royal blue and gold.

Live entertainment will be provided by the Bachelor Boys Band, who made an appearance on Grove City’s campus during Fall Fest last September.

Simon said, “They will be doing a mix of

oldies to go with our 1950s theme, as well as covers of current songs to get the crowd going.”

During two twentyminute breaks, there will be time for ballroom dancing.

Rachel Beidelman, Sophomore Senator of Social Affairs, said, “The lovely thing about this year’s Gala is that it is much more dancing; if you want to dance all night you can, or if that isn’t your scene, there will be games, lounges, food and lots of pictures!”

The attire is formal, meaning that the ladies should arrive in long dresses and the men in dress pants, button-up shirts and ties.

“If you want to wear a short dress, you won’t get turned away,” stated Beidelman, “You GALA 2

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Goldberg on state of political discourse Joe Setyon

Managing Editor Following his speech last Thursday at the Center for Vision and Values Conference, National Review senior editor and author Jonah Goldberg spoke with The Collegian about the state of political discourse, both on college campuses and across the nation.

Goldberg touched on the controversy surrounding the choice of Vice President Mike Pence to be Grove City’s 2017 commencement speaker. Though he admitted he is not a “huge fan” of Pence, Goldberg thinks that protesting the pick is “pretty silly.”

“He represents a very large part of American culture, a very mainstream point of view,” he said.

“If you think it’s OK for a Black Lives Matter activist or a transgender activist, or pretty much anyone with strong ideological points of view, you should also probably be willing to listen someone like Mike Pence, who also happens to be the vice president of the United States, and that alone should confer some legitimacy to him,” he added.

Goldberg believes it is important for people with various types of views to be able to speak in a public forum.

This includes those with conservative ideas, like Pence.

“If you’re going to say that those kinds of

GHUBRIL from Ghubril that revolves around changing the world and mobilizing our communities in which we find ourselves after graduation, but he has the experience and perspective to back up his points, and will do so in a loving and compassionate way.”

Born in Beirut, Ghubril and his family fled the Middle Eastern city during the Lebanese Civil War. His father, a seasoned accountant, had contacts with the U.S. Embassy that allowed them to escape safely to the United States.

The family settled in Iowa, where Ghubril finished high school and pursued an accounting degree at Iowa University. He planned to eventually attend law school.

His plans changed when youth workers asked him to volunteer with local kids in middle and high school.

He became interested in investing his time in the lives of kids. After marrying his wife, Patti, and graduating from Iowa University, Ghubril attended Dubuque Theological Seminary in Iowa and received a Master’s in Divinity.

In 1985, after moving to Pittsburgh and settling on the North Side, Saleem founded The Pittsburgh Project, a community development organization that

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National Review editor Jonah Goldberg spoke at the CVV conference last Thursday. people have no place speaking in a public forum even when they’re the vice president of the United States, you’re basically buying into a sort of totalitarian mindset that says ‘you have to agree with us or you’re not allowed to speak,’” he said.

Goldberg also said that he is “consistently disappointed with most college campuses” because students are often so locked into one particular mindset that they are opposed to hearing the other side.

He noted that for a very long time, “The single most fascist-like thing that’s said on college campuses with regularity virtually every single day is ‘if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.’”

However, he believes that to be problematic because it creates a

“monopoly on what the solution to some problem is,” and it makes enemies out of people with different points of view.

“That’s not what college is supposed to be about,” Goldberg emphasized.

He explained that the idea of college itself dates back five or six centuries before America was founded.

“It’s supposed to be a place where you’re debating and pondering important ideas, and that’s impossible if the mindset is purely one of this tribal ‘we’re right and you have to shut up.’”

Goldberg claims to have visited over 100 college campuses in the last 15 years, and he thinks that things are getting worse, as many students “seem to get physically ill at hearing things that they dis-

annually provides free home renovations to hundreds of vulnerable seniors, and mentors, educates and deploys thousands of volunteer youth in meaningful community service initiatives. Saleem led The Pittsburgh Project until 2008, when he assumed the leadership of The Pittsburgh Promise.

The Pittsburgh Promise is a regional economic and workforce development entity that focuses on transforming the quality of education and life in the City of Pittsburgh, and making higher education a reality for all of Pittsburgh’s urban youth.

He is currently the volunteer pastor of the Mosaic Community Church in Pittsburgh.

He also serves on the boards of The Buhl Foundation, Vibrant Pittsburgh, and the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh.

“Grove City College is honored to have a speaker of Reverend Ghubril’s faith, character and experience address our graduates on the eve of their commencement,” College President Paul J. McNulty said.

“His work with The Pittsburgh Promise will inspire our students to use their gifts and education to serve the common good, a tenet central to the mission of Grove City College,” McNulty said.

APPS as well,” Wishing said.

“There’s no question that attracted attention.”

He added that students who applied to both and were accepted but did not receive a scholarship mostly chose to enroll.

Wishing said that the school continues to try to educate parents and students on the value of Grove City College and the way it handles financial aid versus the way other colleges and universities handle it.

“There’s a phenomenon out there that most people aren’t aware of, though there is sense of it,” he said. “That is, how the colleges package scholarships.”

Most schools add the cost of scholarship into students’ tuition, charging students well over the cost of tuition and putting that money into discounts for the student body.

“You’re having students play banker to

GALA may just feel a little out of place.”

For the past several months, the social committee has been working closely with Bon Appetit in order to be able to serve a special menu for this year’s Gala.

“We are doing mocktails (Manhattans and Shirley Temples) and

agree with.”

He realizes that not everyone is going to agree with each other politically, but he expressed disappointment that many college students are not willing to have a civil discussion.

“If you disagree with it, say so and make an argument, but if you don’t have an argument to make and you just want to whine about it, I have zero respect for it.”

Still, Goldberg said he understands that some students do not want to be engaged in political debates, instead opting to get a degree and pursue a career, and he has “no problem” with that.

However, he does think that college is an important time to ask questions about what one believes.

“This is one of the few times for the rest of

your life where intellectual curiosity is highly valued and rewarded and has rewards to it,” said.

“If you’re truly, fundamentally just an incurious person, then you’re probably wasting a big chunk of your college career,” he added.

Goldberg pointed out that in ancient Greece, an “idiot” was someone “who didn’t care about the health of society” or his own responsibilities as a citizen.

The point of liberal arts, he said, is “those skills, sets of knowledge and ways of thinking that make you a fit citizen for a free society and willing to support a free society.”

Displaying a lack of interest in this is “a really pinched and narrow way to go through college, and it’s going to set you up for a pretty pinched and narrow way to be a citizen of the United States as well.”

Finally, Goldberg, who has worked at National Review since 1998, commented on the current state of conservative media.

He compared the conservative movement to a symphony, saying that the fine woodwinds, string instruments and violins correspond to the “intellectual, scholarly” tradition of William F. Buckley, Paul Kengor and others.

“And then you’ve got those dudes with the big mallets smashing a gong, these big percussion kind of things,” he said.

Though he believes there is a place for the gongs, he said that “the problem is that the guys with the gongs are dominating everything now.”

Specifically, Goldberg pointed to television and talk radio as mediums that have become far too important, while the importance of “serious journalism, opinion journalism, book-writing” has declined.

He noted that serious journalism still does exist, “but in an age where television is so dominant, a lot of that stuff kind of gets crowded out.”

Despite this, Goldberg believes today to be “the most exciting and interesting time in decades to go into journalism.”

However, although iPhones can do more than “whole news crews” could do a half century ago, there are still many difficulties.

Not only is it hard to figure out how to get paid for it, Goldberg said, but “it’s very difficult to figure out how to reward good stuff and not just reward clickbait whoring on the web, and there’s a lot of clickbait whoring on the web.”

Still, he thinks that “quality is its own reward.”

“If you’re in it just for the celebrity or you’re just in it for page views, then you were probably never a serious conservative or a serious journalist in the first place,” he concluded.

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1,766 students applied to GCC this year, 270 more than did last year. other students,” Wishing said. “We don’t do that.”

At many schools, well over 90 percent of the student body is receiving scholarships, made possible by high tuition fees. Wishing believes this is dishonest.

“The perception is that these schools are better because they cost more,” he said. “And they’re giving you all this financial aid so they must like you.”

This is all an illusion, he said.

In its mailers and Vision and Values web-

site, Grove City has been trying to get the word out about these sorts of student discounts and how Grove City does not partake in them.

This illusion of value created by high tuition prices also means that Grove City College needs to work harder to advertise its worth.

“Students at Grove City College graduate sooner and make more after they’re done,” Wishing said.

He credits the school’s faculty, facilities and history with

this, but he said one of the most important things is the peer effect.

“At Grove City, you’re in such a competitive atmosphere, and many of your peers are raising the bar,” he said.

Wishing said the students of Grove City College push each other to work hard and make the most of their education, resulting in higher retention and graduation rates as well as higher salaries in the years and decades following graduation.

appetizers from Bon Appetit, as well as catering provided by Chocolate Fountain Heaven with two chocolate fountain stations,” said Simon.

Tickets are currently on sale in the STU from 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. today.

Students can buy one ticket for $8 or two for $14.

Simon said, “One

of the new things we were able to do this year is also make ticket sales available through mygcc.com for students who don’t carry cash or can’t make it to the table.”

However, online ticket sales will end on Wednesday, April 26.

All proceeds will go directly into the Gala budget in order to help pay for the event. As

Beidelman says, “Your ticket truly does pay for the event.”

Senior Raquel Fereshetian, who will be attending for the second time, said, “The school always goes above and beyond to make it exciting each year.”

The dance will be taking place from 7:3011:00 p.m. in the IM rooms.

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‘Phantom Tollbooth’ inspires young minds Kelleigh Huber Life Editor

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The presure is on Grovers to get a “ring by spring,” but several female RAs aimed to change that mindset.

Ringing in the rapture

Rachel Riviere Staff Writer

The pressure of “ring by spring” can lead single women to question their purpose in life, but these students are passionate about sharing that God’s plan is good, even for those who remain unmarried.

A group of female RAs got together to plan an event that would shed light on the subject of relationships and would encourage girls who feel like they are waiting to find themselves until they find Prince Charming.

The event was called “Ring Before Rapture,” and occurred last Friday night.

The event was targeted at women who wanted to know more about how singleness is a gift, explained junior Annie Dupee, one of the RAs who worked to create the event.

“There were four panelists from the College- one Professor, two Resident Directors, and one studentwho answered questions about being content with God’s plan for your heart.”

Dupee has never been in a relationship, and has seen her single friends struggle to find meaning in their lives without the security of a relationship and amidst fears of lifelong loneliness. She is determined to find God’s good plan in the midst of her singleness instead of wasting it by waiting to really live until a man comes along.

“We wanted to challenge the way students think about dating,” said Dupee. “Romantic relationships are prevalent here and can be a somewhat controversial topic, so we wanted to impact how students view those relationships in light of the Gospel.”

At first, the group of RAs was unsure of how an event like “Ring Before Rapture” would be

received on campus, but Friday’s turnout exceeded their expectations.

They were encouraged to hear that these women and men had similar experiences and concerns with the dating culture at Grove City.

“I got several female RAs to team up with me to plan this event in hopes of breaking down the destructive relationship stigma on campus,” Dupee said.

“We wanted to speak truth into the lives of women who continually hear conflicting messages about singleness, and we wanted to encourage them.”

This can be a sticky subject at Grove City, which is all the more reason why event organizers believe the vision behind “Ring Before Rapture” is so important.

The RAs know that this situation is not often addressed, and they hope that their determination to speak the truth will start a conversation on campus and encourage others to do the same.

“We hope to encourage students who attend in their walk with God and His plans for their love stories,” said Dupee, who is confident that God is as present in singleness as He is in marriage. “We would love for them to walk away feeling affirmed in their identities and relationship statuses, and confident in the powerful sovereignty of God.” The RAs who planned the event succeeded in sharing that individuals are not alone in their struggles and that God will be faithful to use them right where they are.

“Our deepest hope is that this event will start conversations on campus about singleness, dating, and marriage and what those things should really look like in the context of Christ,” Dupee said.

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Last weekend, Milo and Tock stole the hearts of both children and college students in Grove City College’s performance of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” a story about opening one’s mind to find the new and exciting in life.

Starring senior Rachel Criswell and sophomore Caroline Coulter, the story is based on a children’s book written in the 1960s about a boy named Milo. “The Phantom Tollbooth” changes Milo’s life, causing him to change his view of life from boring to exciting. He is sent on an adventure to save two princesses, Rhyme and Reason and to fight off the demons that reside in the Castle in the Air. The demons capitalize on what Milo most struggles with in the play: using his brain. They taunt him but are eventually unsuccessful.

Because of the schedule this year, Director Sara Giesler, a senior, said the process was short in terms of days, but long each of the days the cast and crew did have.

“We couldn’t really start rehearsals until after the spring play was over, which meant we had about a month to really get down to business,” she said.

In that month, however, long nights were spent on line memorization, choreography, and technical aspects

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The Grove City College Theatre Department performed “The Phanton Tollbooth” last week to entertain children in the local area. and also set construction. Giesler noted that Easter Break also fell at a difficult time for the cast.

“Basically, the cast and crew left for Easter break and then had two days when they got back to make sure they were performance-ready.”

Dave Tharnish and Brian Ferris contributed much humor to the play in their roles of the Mathemagician and King Azaz, respectively, two brothers who fight throughout the play on the importance of words and numbers, eventually choosing to agree that both are essential. Jessica Stonefield, Alex Soberick and Ellen Pierson were cast as the “demons,” working to make Milo abandon his mission in

saving the princesses, played by Callie Roberts and Bethany Thomson.

Giesler said for her and co-director Samuel Kenney, the best part about directing children’s theatre was watching.

“Children’s theatre requires actors to be even more creative and animated than usual, because they have to make sure that they can communicate the story to little eyes and ears.

As the directors, Sam and I gave the cast the tools they needed to tell the story, but then we got to sit back and watch them bring it to life.”

She added that Children’s Theatre can be extremely rewarding for its target audience, too. In addition to the

shows performed on campus, the group did shows during the day for different elementary schools in the area. Often, these shows have the power to influence children and make them want to join theatre. Giesler said that was true of many of those who participated in the show itself.

“There are many of us in the theatre department who can remember the first shows that we saw as kids, or the characters who first inspired us to get involved in the performing arts.

No doubt, the best part about this show was hearing all the stories of kids who were inspired

by The Phantom Tollbooth and can’t wait to get on stage and perform someday.”

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

Lack of publicity dooms Gala

As spring marches on, rainy weather and windy afternoons follow here in our small college town. With the weekend drawing near, students have begun to mull over their plans. All too often, however, students don’t have a clue what to do with their days off from class.

When asked about his upcoming plans for the weekend, one senior said, “Honestly, probably nothing, there’s never anything going on at this school.” Standing in front of a massive sign advertising the SGA Gala, he continued, “And anyway, even if there is, I won’t even find out about it until the Monday after.”

While he may have ended his sentence with a preposition, he expressed a sentiment about this upcoming weekend that was echoed by his fellow students, many of whom do not know how or with whom to spend their day.

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The Gala is tomorrow night, but attendance is expected to be low, considering the lack of publicity surrounding the bi-annual dance.

A number of Grovers complained that even when there is an event hosted by SGA or some other organization, they simply did not hear about it in time.

“Shoot,” said one sophomore girl, shouting over the blaring 50s music that emanated from the record player at the Gala table in the Student Union.

“I could’ve sworn there was something going on this weekend!”

Withers exclaimed as she searched her planner. “Nope, I’ve got nothing here. Man,

I would literally go for any sort of social event or even a biennial dance if it came to that,” she sighed, looking away towards the enormous G, A, L, and A painted in the windows of the STU. “SGA really needs to start pulling their weight and making some magic happen around this campus.”

“I usually just have to go to Slippery Rock on the weekends,” lamented another student, as he used a table tent advertising the Gala as scrap paper for

his engineering homework. “Student groups here do a terrible job of advertising events, unfortunately.”

There have been rumors of an event going on this Saturday, though no sources have yet to peg down exact details. At press time, hundreds of flyers scattered across the floor of the Student Union and dining halls advertised a mysterious “Gala,” but students were too busy deleting emails from Student Life to pay much attention.

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Heavyweights highlighted at conference

Victoria O’Brien Staff Writer

This year’s annual Center for Vision & Values Conference, held from April 2021, featured several well-known conservative figures, like David Horowitz, Ron Radosh, Michael Medved and Jonah Goldberg.

The theme was “The God That Failed: Communism & Socialism Then and Now,” in honor of 2017 being the centenary launch of global communism.

The conference’s title was based on the book, “The God That Failed,” which was published by six ex-communists in 1949. The book discusses their own personal disenchantment with communism during the Cold War. Among the highly esteemed list of featured speakers was Jonah Goldberg, American conservative syndicated

columnist of National Review.

Goldberg created an engaging yet jocular environment by opening his speech stating, “If I knew they were giving me a podium, I wouldn’t have worn pants.”

With the anniversary of 1917, Goldberg challenged his audience to think about how the present changes the past. Looking back to events such as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 and the September 11 attacks of 2001, Goldberg discussed how present events can drastically change one’s views of past events and their impact on society.

Towards the middle portion of his speech, Goldberg addressed a book that he is currently working on. Although not a sequel, the book is a prequel to “Liberal Fascism’ and looks at poverty as being natu-

ral and an existent part of man’s environment.

Goldberg stated that for 2,500 years, individuals lived on three dollars a day until the early 1700s, concluding that every individual essentially comes from poverty.

According to Goldberg, “In the last 30 years, there has been a huge reduction in poverty and we do not celebrate it enough.”

Instead of teaching gratitude, Goldberg believes individuals are taught resentment, which he defines as a notion of entitlement.

Goldberg transitioned his speech towards the Lockean Revolution of England in which individuals believed their rights came from God, not government and lived according to strange new values. He heavily contrasted the Lockean view of liberal democratic liberalism to to-

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The annual Center for Vision and Values Conference is always hard to ignore, thanks to the plethora of sports cars that atendees normally park on campus. talitarianism.

Goldberg stated, “Totalitarianism is simply manifestations to escape modernity, liberal democratic liberalism, and freedom.” While tribalism supports the notion of one race, fascism portrays a one state mentality.

He further concluded that every form of totalitarianism, including tyranny, since the dawn of man, is based upon the idea that individuals take the principles of the microcosm and apply them to the macrocosm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophy of the individual as a sovereign being provides fur-

ther explanation for the totalitarian societies of today.

Goldberg believes that Romanticism never went away and is essentially a rebellion against the Enlightenment.

Subsequently, today’s culture is going back to the tribal state of nature, unbound by societal norms and markets.

When humanity loses faith and confidence in the Lockean Revolution, they are confound by tribes and self-categorize themselves according to race and gender.

Goldberg related this notion to the modernday movement of Black

Lives Matter, proclaiming that once can attempt to trace nature out with a pitch for but it will always come back.

In terms of humanity today, Goldberg proclaimed that society is desperate to go back against nature to a time that pre-dates the Enlightment.

Goldberg concluded his speech echoing Ronald Reagan, stating, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

He challenged his audience to be happy warriors because the internal struggle against corruption is a noble fight.

From casual hobby to reliable cash cow Marley Kropp Staff Writer

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AWS is organizing a viewing of classic film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Empowerment though breakfast

Alexandra O’Brien Staff Writer

Grove City College can be a safe haven for a diverse mix of students looking to pursue a career in a wide variety of majors. Students are actively involved in over 130 organizations and clubs on the campus. Different groups sponsor a plethora of service projects, activities, mission’s trips, and projects that promote diversity.

In order to bring different backgrounds together, such as ethnic origin or denominational affiliation, Grove City College promotes events on campus to highlight oneness in Christ.

The Association for Women Students continually promotes the empowerment of women on college campuses.

Focusing on engaging and working with the women of Grove City College, the hope for

AWS is to keep them informed of all they will need to know to continuously be successful in life. Through quality programming and discussion on topics such as beauty, health awareness and fun engaging activities the AWS has tried to show leadership in the Grove City College community.

Junior Jaime Colosimo spoke as to why the focus on woman students is important on college campuses.

“I think this is something that GCC could really benefit from; I know that feminism is a hot topic in today’s culture, but regardless of one’s view on it, a women’s study would be a great way to encourage fellowship of the females at Grove. Women on campus could empower each other and build each other up through this outlet which would positively impact the school as a whole.”

In order to bring students together, the group is hosting a movie night on Friday, April 28, 2017. Women from all over campus are encouraged to attend the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” movie night in Crawford Auditorium from 7-9 p.m.

Audrey Hepburn revolutionizes urbanity and sophistication throughout the classic film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” With her fitted black dress, Ray Ban sunglasses, stunning pearls and sparkling tiara the main character is an inspiration for women everywhere.

Not only is the main character a class act, but she also has a kind heart.

Beneath the desire for wealth, she realizes that money can only take her so far. This concept is reiterated in Proverbs 11:16 “A kindhearted woman gains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.”

What happens when a college student turns a lifelong passion into a business? Rachel Riviere can answer that. The Grove City College junior developed her love of hand lettering into a successful business last year.

Riviere began hand lettering in elementary school. In third grade, she received a book that taught her how to draw bubble letters and other kinds of stylized writing. Riviere kept practicing and eventually developed a love of creating visual art out of words.

In December of 2015, Riviere decided to commit more time to her art. She started experimenting with more handwriting styles. Her family and friends encouraged her to open a shop on Etsy, an online community of individual sellers and creators of handmade or vintage items, art, and supplies. Riviere was initially hesitant to open an Etsy shop because of the well-established sellers of handlettered art already on the site.

However, Riviere ultimately decided 2016 would be the year in which she opened her shop. “I’d never know until I tried,” Riviere said. In the spring of 2016, Riviere started an Instagram account to display her work: @QuillAndCompany. In June 2016, Riviere’s Etsy shop Quill & Company officially opened.

Riviere is now glad that she opened her Etsy shop.

“I’m getting paid for something I’d be doing on homework breaks anyway,” she said.

Riviere still has the first product that she made to sell: a set of four greeting cards, each with “hello” written in a different language in swirling watercolors.

The cards and their envelopes are tied up with twine and are attached to a handwritten business card. Riviere said a product like this would sell for $10 on Etsy.

Many of Riviere’s pieces feature Bible verses or snippets of hymns.

Other pieces include quotes and illustrations related to the seasons, such as flip-flops in the summer and lines from Christmas carols in De-

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Rachel Riviere has turned her passion for hand lettering into a successful business. cember. Riviere said she was busier in the months leading up to Christmas than she has been since the New Year.

Quill & Company’s product line consists mostly of custom orders.

Riviere expressed her willingness to do whatever people want for their customized orders. However, Riviere said, “I love it when people give me full liberty to take their idea and put my own spin on it.”

To date, Riviere has made 110 sales through Etsy. In addition to taking orders through Etsy, Riviere has contributed hand lettering to her friends’ business communications and event promotions. Riviere has also done wedding-related hand lettering, which she would like to do more in the future.

Riviere hopes to continue with Quill & Company for as long as possible. She dreams of owning a boutique where she would sell her handlettered prints. Riviere would also collaborate with other artists and promote their work.

For now, Riviere will keep creating her work and growing as an entrepreneur. “The way I see myself has changed throughout this process,” Riviere said.

“I feel more confident in my abilities when I see people buying what I make.”

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Entertainment

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The Guthrie Theatre will be hosting a one-day viewing of Jake Sziráky’s first ever feature-length film on Sunday, April 30. “Dulcy and Red” is Sziráky’s senior project.

JAKE SZIRÁKY

Student-made ‘Dulcy and Red’ comes to steal hearts

Madison Stout Staff Writer

The Guthrie Theatre will be hosting a one-day viewing of Jake Sziráky’s first ever feature-length film on Sunday, April 30.

“Dulcy and Red” is Sziráky’s senior project to complete his Communication Studies major. The idea for the film was born January, 2016, and the screenwriting process began in late March. By September, Sziráky was ready to cast.

He put out a casting call through posters, social media and commercials. After casting his leading ladies, Alexa Adams and Katie

Hess, the filming commenced.

This week Sziráky has been in the studio fine tuning his film in preparation for this weekend’s viewing.

“I’m beginning to feel like Alfred Hitchcock, not because of talent, but because I’m losing my hair and getting fat,” he said.

Originally, Sziráky wanted to produce a science fiction film. He soon realized the resources he would need, including prosthetics, that would be difficult, and getting all the moving pieces to work cohesively was just too complicated.

Sziráky then came up with the idea of a man

who falls in love with the boring but beautiful girl and is conflicted when a less attractive but more interesting woman comes around.

The idea transformed from this common concept into what is now “Dulcy and Red.” The Scissor Rock and Key Studios production of “Dulcy and Red” is the story of Donald Richmond, a successful writer at Pretension Literary Magazine. Despite his immense success, Donald is not happy with his life, so every night when he goes to sleep he creates his own paradise. This paradise has everything he could ever want, including the affection of the love of

The 1975 is worth the price Daniel Huff Contributing Writer The 1975 is coming to Pittsburgh!

On May 11 at 7 p.m., the widely-acclaimed alt-rock band will be performing outdoors at Stage AE in Pittsburgh.

If you have not heard of The 1975 before now, then I simultaneously pity and envy you.

I pity you because you have been missing out, and I envy you because you have the great opportunity of discovering them right now!

The four-man band started in Manchester, U.K. but are now known worldwide for their incredibly smooth songs, with a knack to turn real life issues into catchy choruses.

Frontman Matt Healy translates his struggles with drugs, relationships and depression into chart-topping songs like “Chocolate,” “Somebody Else” and “The Sound.”

While the band had grown in popularity with a few EPs in Europe, they gained attention worldwide with “Chocolate” and their album “1975”, which reached No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 28 in the U.S., following its release in 2013.

Their second studio album “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it,” (2016) debuted at No. 1 in both the U.S. and U.K. The band is incredibly talented and will-

his life, a woman of his own creation: Dulcinea.

He is happy in the life of his dreams, until he meets Red, Pretension’s new employee. Now Donald must choose between his perfect creation or an imperfect existence in reality.

As Sziráky describes, Dulcy is not simply a dream created in Richmond’s head, she “is a person who inhabits a magical land in his dream. To him she is a fully living breathing person, but she is a figment of his imagination.”

The entire film was made on roughly $1,000, and Sziráky not only wrote and directed the film but also acted,

edited and produced it.

Throughout the process Sziráky thought he wasn’t going to finish, but he felt that God gave him the motivation and perseverance to power through.

“This film does not belong to me,” Sziráky said, “it belongs first to God, and secondly, it belongs to everyone involved in production.

I couldn’t have done it without them.”

This is not the first film Sziráky has produced.

He began making films when he was five.

Every summer he and some friends from home, better known as “the squad,” get together and make a

short film. Sziráky has currently produced 26 films.

Lauren Fishel, a childhood friend of Sziráky said, “Jake has always had a knack for making films. He involves each member of our friend group, whether it involves acting, or helping with recording or sound. We make these films over the course of a weekend, and I can honestly say that it is my favorite weekend of the entire summer.”

“Dulcy and Red” plays at the Guthrie at 11:30 a.m. and is free to the public.

‘Paramore’ finds success – at a cost Cat Anderson Staff Writer

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The 1975 is coming to Pittsburgh. The four-man band hails from Manchester, U.K. but now they are known the world over for their incredibly smooth songs that have a knack for turning real life issues into catchy choruses. ing to experiment with a wide array of genres from alt-rock to 80s pop-funk. Their emotional and genuine music is both lyrically deep and musically appealing.

Healy is not shy about being vulnerable within his music..

He talks about cocaine use (“Ugh”), falling out of love (“Change of Heart”), doubt in God

(“If I Believe You”), celebrity culture (“Love Me”) and countless other struggles.

Their music is raw and authentic, which makes for an amazing live performance and a rare show.

This spectacular band will be performing nearby in two weeks. To grab last minute tickets, go to Ticketmaster. com now.

Has this ever happened to you? After much anticipation, your favorite band releases a new song. You scramble to hear it, waiting with bated breath as the first few notes play.

Suddenly – the unexpected happens. Experimental instrumentals. Lyrics diverging from the tone of their old work. Chord progressions and solos they would have never attempted in the past.

The familiar sound you held so dear to your heart is nowhere to be heard, instead replaced by something altogether foreign.

To those who’ve experienced it, this kind of discovery is heartbreaking. Without warning, you have to bid the band’s old sound, the soundtrack to many of your best memories, farewell. And you must look on to the future, to a new sound you’re not even sure you like.

Paramore fans faced this challenge after the release of the band’s fourth single, “Ain’t It Fun,” in 2014.

The song strayed from their normal emo punk sound in favor of a more rock-like style.

While Joseph R. Atilano of The Inquirer applauded the transition from “their teenage angst-ridden days,”

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Paramore has found mainstream success with its newer music. However, the success has come at a cost-a decline in quality. some fans protested the change.

Even now, three years later, with the release of another single, “Hard Times,” fans continue to discuss their new style. Comparing it to an 80s pop song, Spin. com’s Jordan Sargent claims the group has “expanded their sound, at once quite obviously but also subtly, in the margins, and come out of the other side with what immediately feels like one of the best singles of their career.”

Is change like this even necessary? Are groups like Paramore abandoning their familiar style to climb the pop charts?

Despite the success of Paramore’s new sound, many of their fans long for a return to their old music. Although disappointment often follows a musician’s transition into a new genre, this transition should in no way surprise or dishearten the listener.

While we may favor the original styles of our favorite bands, we should encourage their exploration into new genres and sounds.

Nothing is wrong with loving a specific sound or relating to certain lyrics. In fact, resisting experimentation limits the artistic growth of the musician.

When faced with moments of change, we should consider the fact that people are closely tied to their musical work. People grow, change and get bored.

They endeavor in their curiosity to discover new sounds and styles.

Their lyrics reflect the changes that occur within their lives and worldviews.

It’s fine to miss a group’s sound, but we should appreciate the reasons for such a change and look forward to their future work regardless. Otherwise, we might miss out on some great music.

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Through the Lens

April 28, 2017

Juniors flood the Grove Last Saturday, potential students and their loved ones roamed the campus for Junior Crimson Day. The event is devoted to high school juniors envisioning their future at Grove City College.

Tours of the school occurred all day, where dozens of families saw all that the college has to offer. The visitors heard the history and the current function of the buildings from students who walk the halls of STEM and HAL everyday.

The multitude of people for the event were met by the smiling faces of the Admissions staff, faculty and student ambassadors.

One of the main events of the day was the major fair, where prospective students heard the details of each major from professors in that department. This was not the only exposure that the juniors had with the faculty.

Professors also gave lectures, simulating the experience the students could have if they attended Grove City.

In addition to the lectures, the juniors and their families dined in MAP cafeteria and explored the College Bookstore, checking out and purchasing apparel that the prospectives could wear to show Wolverine pride.

Karen Postupac

PHOTOS BY CALEB HARSHBERGER AND JOE SETYON

Special to The Collegian

During my watch as President, I tried to do what was good for Grove City College and its students. Scarcely a day has gone by when I have not looked out the leaded windows of my office, seen students walking about the main quad and found myself loving them, dreaming about their futures and offering prayers on their behalf. Everything I have tried to do was for their benefit. As long as I live I will love and pray for the thousands of students I have been privileged to know and I will hope to see them again – at least in a nobler and more glorious realm.

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“With God’s help, I believe I can”

Editor’s note: Before his death, Dr. MacKenzie collected his thoughts on his years as president of Grove City College in a long essay entitled “Reminicinces of the HopemanMacKenzie Era at Grove City College (1971-1991)” and sat for an interview for the College’s Oral History Project.

This story relies on those and other sources to tell the story of his tenure as the College’s fifth president.

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harles Sherrard MacKenzie, Grove City College’s fifth president, was recruited by the school’s longtime benefactor and powerful Chairman of the Board J. Howard Pew to strengthen the school’s Christian mission and clean up student social life on campus.

MacKenzie, who died Jan. 26 at the age of 92, did that – and much more during his years as president.

He moved into the paneled president’s office in Crawford Hall in August 1971.

By the time he left that chamber in 1991, the College had reclaimed its Christian heritage, the anything-goes party culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s was a dim memory, a groundbreaking core curriculum designed to provide every student with a firm academic foundation was established as a hallmark of the Grove City College experience and the College was known across the country – and the globe – as a beacon of academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

On Saturday, current and former College presidents will eulogize him, friends will reminisce about his life and work and the campus will remember one of its greatest leaders in a service of worship in his memory at Harbison Chapel.

MacKenzie was born August 24, 1924 in Quincy, Mass. His family, once prosperous, was wiped out by the Great Depression. Asked what his interests were as a child, MacKenzie simply said: “Survival.”

Advice from a clergyman pushed the young MacKenzie to pursue an education and he secured a scholarship to Boston University. While wandering the streets of that city one evening, the “mixed-up kid” was drawn to a Baptist church by the music.

“And there in that church that night for the first time in my life I think I heard the Gospel, that Jesus loved me, that he wanted to forgive me my sins, wanted to guide my life. And that evening I mark as probably the night when I made my first commitment to Christ,” he recalled.

MacKenzie dove into his twin passions of the church and education, which included studying theology at Gordon College. A stint in the Navy – where he was a Golden Gloves boxer – interrupted his studies, but he returned to the classroom and graduated from Gordon.

MacKenzie, committed to an intellectual exploration of his faith, went onto study and earn advanced degrees at Princeton University and its theological seminary.

He was an ordained Presbyterian minister and a leading authority on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal.

He secured a teaching position at Princeton and began pastoring a Presbyterian Church. He followed this pattern in New York City, where he taught at Columbia and served the Broadway Presbyterian Church – which he successfully integrated in the early 1960s – and California, where he joined the faculty of Stanford University and pastored the First Presbyterian Church in San Mateo.

He and his wife Florence were living the good life in the Sunshine State when a “gruff voice from the past” called out to MacKenzie over the telephone, asking him to consider becoming president of Grove City College. The call came from Pew, the Philadelphia philanthropist – and member of the class of 1900 – whose family had supported the College since 1895. The scholar/clergyman and the tycoon had formed a friendship more than a decade earlier over “a common love for our Lord and a shared concern over the theological drift of the Presbyterian church,” MacKenzie recalled. Hungry for a new challenge, but uncertain if becoming president of a small liberal arts college was the right one, MacKenzie met with Pew, who asked him: “Are you strong enough to run a college?”

“I was a bit taken aback in that moment. I was generally considered to be a strong leader. I didn’t realize fully the great strength needed to deal with students, faculty, trustees, the government, alumni, etc., so I naively answered, ‘With God’s help, I believe I can,’ ” MacKenzie wrote.

In Mackenzie, Pew saw a suitable and capable heir to the educational legacy he and his family had supported for three-

quarters of a century, a strong leader and accomplished scholar whose worldview was determined by a deep faith and evangelical understanding of Christian mission and a commitment to American values.

On campus, MacKenzie found the College at odds with itself. On one side was a vocal, some say radical, element of students along with some faculty and administrators who wanted the College to change with the times. On the other was Pew, a majority of College Trustees and a (not-quite silent) majority of students and their families who only wanted what Grove City College had always promised: An excellent education at an affordable price on a Christ-centered campus.

MacKenzie was squarely in the second camp. In his inaugural address he made it clear that he had “certain convictions about my calling and about the future of this great school.”

The College must rediscover its identity to help students “discover who they are and what they can become,” he said. A Christian college, MacKenzie asserted “should seek that wholeness which is the essence of salvation …

Unlike many schools where specialization and secularism have fragmented knowledge, for us all knowledge should be seen as unified and integrated in the revelation of Him is who is the ultimate truth … We have an Omega Point about which all knowledge becomes unified into meaningful wholeness.”

MacKenzie said Grove City College must give priority to learning, strive for excellence in a “relentless, never-ending search for the finest and best curriculum possible” while maintaining a “caring, learning Christ-oriented community” and look to the future with a “faith perspective which inculcates hope and courage.”

Pew’s death in November 1971 didn’t stop MacKenzie from moving on his patron’s priorities. Albert Hopeman, Pew’s successor as chairman of the board, became a key partner to the new president and stalwart supporter through the years ahead.

MacKenzie found the College’s challenges weren’t limited to students inclined to party and faculty who weren’t interested in what one professor termed “this God d--- God talk.” The College’s curriculum was fragmented and didn’t provide students with a common experience, many classes were less than challenging and the faculty harbored some weak links. The College’s administrative structure was concentrated in the president’s office, which meant

“I am at peace, knowing I did my very best for Grove City College and its Lord.”

MacKenzie’s time and energy was divided and diffused.

In those early years, MacKenzie found hope and support in the students, faculty and staff who shared his vision and calling.

With a faculty committee he helped create the Keystone Curriculum, a set of courses that every student would take to introduce them to the vital concepts, ideas and methodologies of the humanities, social and physical sciences. Infused with a reverence for western civilization, Christianity and civil discourse, the core has evolved over the decades but still reflects the original concept. Thousands of Grove City College students have benefitted from the approach and the classes that make up the core have much to do with the shared worldview that many Grovers hold.

While the core curriculum idea’s value was acknowledged and largely accepted, the College’s attempts to crack down on de-facto off-campus fraternity houses and the culture of the “sinful seventies” weren’t met with unanimous approval.

MacKenzie’s commitment to doing what was right and his adherence to the advice of his predecessor Weir Ketler, the College’s third president and son of founder Isaac Ketler, that it was better to be respected than liked, kept the pressure on. It took more than a decade, but eventually all non-commuter students were required to live in residence halls and now the campus is routinely ranked as one of the nation’s most sober colleges.

A systematic effort to infuse campus life with a Christian spirit through faculty hires, chapel programming, student ministries, admissions and the student life office gained traction in the 1970s.

By the end of the MacKenzie era, an evangelical spirit pervaded campus and persists to this day.

The greatest outward challenge the College faced during MacKenzie’s tenure was one that ultimately defined Grove City College for many observers. In

1975 the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare sent a compliance form to all colleges and universities to ensure that they would comply with Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting gender discrimination by any “education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

Grove City College had resisted direct federal funding throughout the 1950s and 1960s, funding that many other schools had taken advantage of to grow their campuses and academic programs. It was part of the College’s commitment to independence and selfreliance. But by the 1970s, many students depended on federal grants and loans to cover the cost of their education.

MacKenzie said he was distressed as he read the form, which committed the College to complying with all existing and future government regulations: “It seemed that would be tantamount to turning over control of the College’s future to the federal government.”

Discrimination was not the issue.

MacKenzie had no problem with women’s rights and he had been a promoter of civil rights in New York and California. The College did not discriminate and had been open to students of all genders, creeds and colors since its founding as a matter of Christian conviction.

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4 5 Pictures of a president. (1) Grove City College’s fifth president Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie, left, poses for a picture with three of his successors: Dr. John Moore, Dr. Richard Jewell ’67 and current President Paul J. McNulty ’80. (2) MacKenzie, seen here in an undated photo from the 1970s, often met with students to talk about the changes he was making to the College. (3) The College’s third, fourth and fifth presidents meet at Commencement in the early 1970s; from left, Dr. Stanley Harker ’25, MacKenzie and Dr. Weir C. Ketler, class of 1908. (4) MacKenzie and his second wife Lavonne pose for a portrait. (5) MacKenzie is interviewed about the court case in 1984. (6) MacKenzie and his first wife Florence, who died in 1981, attend a football game in the 1970s.

“… (I)t seemed totally wrong for the federal government to claim control over a successful Christian college which took no federal funds and which did not discriminate. I thought, ‘If the government can take control of such a college, it can effectively control and secularize any Christian institution in America.’ ” After consulting with the trustees and faculty, it was decided that MacKenzie would not sign the form. Initially a few hundred other colleges followed the same path, but a pattern of harassment by the government pressured most to eventually comply. Since the College didn’t take federal money, threats to withhold it had little influence on Grove City College until December 1976, when then-HEW Secretary Joseph Califano announced that the government would terminate grants to students at schools that hadn’t signed the compliance form.

While the College maintained the grants were direct aid to students and not the College, it came to their defense and, with four students as plaintiffs, sued the federal government. An early victory in Federal Court in Pittsburgh was overturned. It was decided, “with much discussion and prayer,” MacKenzie said, to press on. Over the next few years, as the case wound its way through the federal courts and on to the U.S. Supreme Court, MacKenzie became the public face of the College’s quest to remain independent, appearing in media interviews and articulating the essence of the case to anyone who asked.

“We feel somewhat like David facing Goliath on this issue. Yet because we believe we are right in seeking to maintain our integrity as an independent college, we will continue to reject both government funding and this type of government intervention,” he said.

The College’s stand attracted national media attention and support from varied corners. Conservatives, civil libertarians, editorial boards and columnists backed the fight, with some rooting for a victory over big government, others seeing it as a

test of the First Amendment or a statement about educational independence and academic freedom.

In 1981, MacKenzie was consumed by his own “personal Gethsemane.” HIs wife Florence was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Days in the office gave way to nights at home caring for her.

“Somehow God gave me the strength to endure,” he wrote. She died on Dec. 8, 1981, a day he described as “one of the hardest of my life.”

“Yet those bitter days brought me closer to my Lord … More than ever in my life I needed and wanted only Him. In my terrible loneliness and pain, He was with me, reshaping my life and my goals,” MacKenzie wrote.

Work on campus did not abate. During the early 80s, MacKenzie oversaw the construction of new buildings – The Weir C. Ketler Technical Learning Center, Mary Ethel Pew Hall and Phillips Field House – and the renovation of others. The College’s Middle States accreditation was reviewed and myriad other duties of the president consumed MacKenzie’s time.

His personal darkness was lifted by the courtship of his second wife Lavonne Rudolph Gaiser. They met in 1983 and were married in 1985 in Harbison Chapel

by Dr. Richard Morledge.

On Nov. 29, 1983, Grove City College v. T.H. Bell was argued before the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nearly 50 students, MacKenzie and other representatives of the College – all wearing crimson carnations – travelled to Washington for the hearing.

In February 1984, a unanimous ruling came down. The court rejected the essence of the College’s argument, but even in concurrence, Justice Lewis F. Powell noted “the independence and admirable record of this College.”

MacKenzie called it a partial loss and a partial victory. The grants were found to be government aid to the institution, but the federal oversight that followed the money would only extended to the office

6 or department that accepted it. In other words, if the College wanted to continue to allow students to receive federal grants, it would have to let the federal government regulate the financial office.

“After further consultation with the Trustees, we decided not to have even one department of the College under federal control. We didn’t want even the nose of the camel in our tent,” MacKenzie wrote.

The College immediately withdrew from the federal grant program and began a fundraising campaign to help students who would otherwise have used the grants. By 1996, the College’s position was strong enough to withdraw from the federal student loan program as well, providing today’s students both grants and access to private loans to cover their tuition bills in place of the lost federal assistance.

That Grove City College v. Bell cemented the College’s reputation for independence goes without question.

The Court Case put Grove City on the map, MacKenzie said. It drew national attention and the College’s reputation rose with its notoriety. The principles the College stood up for – freedom from government interference and selfsufficiency – resonated as the nation’s political landscape changed in the eighties and nineties. The College became for many synonymous with the conservative thinking that had always been a part of the campus’ culture.

MacKenzie’s final years as president were devoted to bolstering the curriculum, beefing up the College’s administrative structure and improving the campus. Years of work and planning were paying off as the school’s reputation grew and selectivity increased to the point where there four applicants for every spot on a campus that was much different, physically and spiritually, than it was in 1971.

“Seeds had been planted years before which blossomed in the mid and late 1980s,” MacKenzie wrote. “The College

became known far and wide not only for its staunch advocacy of independence and freedom from government but also for its student selectivity and academic strength.

Christian moral standards were revived as was evangelical Christian teaching. The historic posture of no indebtedness and low charges was maintained.”

Though he accomplished many of his goals, MacKenzie acknowledged the difficulties of presiding over Grove City College, calling his years on campus “the most painful, lonely and difficult” of his life. He stayed because “I recognized the College’s incredible potential for greatness. I also felt I had been called to Grove City and was not free to leave until at least some of that potential had been realized …”

In Grove City College, MacKenzie saw an outpost of truth, faith and hope.

“Like the monasteries of the Dark Ages, Grove City, if she keeps the light of Christian truth burning in the midst of darkness which has shut down upon today’s world, will make a vast difference in tomorrow’s world,” he wrote soon after his retirement.

“I am at peace, knowing I did my very best for Grove City College and its Lord,” MacKenzie concluded. ”My critics have been many, but I know I did my best. Now judgement is in the hands of God.”

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If you answered “Yes” to any of those questions, you might want to consider signing up for May Intersession or Summer online classes.

Grove City College is offering more than 60 classes combined during May Intersession and online over the summer. These intensive courses cover a range of subjects and academic disciplines and offer a number of advantages, including a singular focus on one class, small class sizes, and the focused attention of professors. May Intersession and Summer Term courses are only open to Grove City College students.

Most May Intersession classes are held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, May 22, and Saturday, June 3, with a break for lunch. Three May Intersession courses are offered online; others include study abroad or off-campus travel. Housing is available, but if campus is close to home, you can sample the commuter lifestyle and save even more money. There are two summer online terms, Early and Late, so be sure to check both to determine the courses you may want to take.

For information on how to register for both May Intersession and Summer Online courses, visit: www.gcc.edu/registrar. To find intersession courses and register, visit my.gcc.edu, click the Academics tab, and use the Course Search Portlet to find and register for classes.

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‘The Promise’ of a masterpiece

Raquel Fereshetian Staff Writer IWEDPLANNER

The Bachelor Boys Band will be performing live at this years’ Gala. The band has a repertoire that spans far longer than could be played at a single event, so they tailor each event to play specific songs and artists that the audience will want to hear.

Bachelor Boys Band to play at Gala Maddy Moser Staff Writer

For the first time in Gala history, the Student Government Association has decided to shake things up and bring in live music to make this year’s Gala one of the best events campus has ever seen.

Who is this inaugural band? None other than the Bachelor Boys Band, who performed at the SGA-sponsored Fall Fest last semester.

The Pittsburgh cover band, founded in the summer of 2012, plays all styles of music, including dance, jazz, rock, old and modern hits. Typically playing weddings, their energy and spunk are sure to get all Gala-goers on the dance floor.

The band has a repertoire that spans far longer than could be played at a single event, so they tailor each event to play specific songs and artists that the audience will want to hear. For the Gala, the band plans to play Top 40 hits, pop and classic dance tunes.

However, the band’s musical abilities span much further than what they will play on Saturday night. In fact, most of the band members went to jazz school but also enjoy playing indie and alternative music.

The Bachelor Boys Band plays events all over the east coast.

Most often in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Washington, D.C., they have traveled all over the world to perform at various destination weddings and corporate events.

Aside from weddings, the band plays showcases mainly in the D.C. and Baltimore area.

These showcases are great publicity for the band and are a chance for future clients to check them out.

The Bachelor Boys Band is a member of the International Musicians League, or IML for short, which handles all the publicity for the band. IML pays for marketing and covers any expenses associated with showcases.

“We really get to focus on the music, and they focus on getting the reputation of the band out there,” said Adam Hopkins, founding member and bassist for the Bachelor Boys Band.

The members of the band have been friends for quite some time.

Many of them have been playing together since high school, while others joined the band in college. Newer members have gone through an extensive referral and audition process.

Something people may not know about the Bachelor Boys Band is that each instrument can be played by multiple people. This means that not every band member needs to be present at every gig.

“If I can’t make an event, or get sick at the last minute,” said Hopkins, “there is always someone to step in who knows all the songs.”

This gives each musician flexibility and guarantees that no matter what the show will go on.

The concept of a cover band is unique in that it allows bands to play all genres of music by different artists. There is a misconception that playing covers is just a way for musicians to pay the bills, but Hopkins disagrees.

“We love doing this, and have so much fun every single time we play. It actually allows us to pursue our own original music as well, so it’s the best of both worlds,” said Hopkins.

For all those planning on attending the Gala on April 29, the Bachelor Boys Band is prepared to play some of student’s favorite songs to get them up and moving.

This is one of the most highly advertised events on campus and based on ticket sales thus far, SGA is expecting a great turn out.

Bringing in live music for this year’s Gala will give it a different atmosphere than most other Grove City dances. The College has various dances each semester and many of them seem to have a similar feel.

“We are bringing in the Bachelor Boys Band to provide a new experience for current students that is not only enjoyable but memorable,” said SGA Executive Vice President of Social Affairs, Justine Simon.

Aside from the Gala, the Bachelor Boys Band’s next performance in the Pittsburgh area will be on May 16 at the James Street Gastropub.

Have you seen the trailer? Yes, that movie with Christian Bale!

Last Friday, the film “The Promise” hit the big screen. Although it may seem like another drama, this movie proved to be different as it displays parts of true history.

Set in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, the movie follows characters Mikael Boghosian, (Oscar Isaac), Ana Khesarian (Charlotte Le Bon), and Chris Myers (Christian Bale), through the days of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenians all around the world have rallied together in support of Academy Award winning director Terry George.

The plot involves the events that occur after the brilliant medical student, Michael, meets a beautiful dance instructor, Ana, in late 1914. They share an Armenian heritage and it sparks their love.

It also, however, sparks the love triangle that unfolds between Michael and Ana’s boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political issues.

As this love triangle progresses, the plot thickens when the Ottoman Empire begins to crumble and chaos ensues.

The issues between the characters gets put aside as they must join together to keep their people safe.

Armenians feel a

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Last Friday, the film “The Promise” hit the big screen. Although many may think that it’s just another drama, this movie proved to be different as it displays parts of true history.

strong connection to this movie as the Armenian Genocide, occurring in 1915, has yet to be acknowledged by many countries, including Turkey. Even today, only 45 U.S. states acknowledge the genocide.

This movie has Armenians everywhere excited, as it is a way to spread the word about this important piece of history and the 1.5 million Armenians who perished.

Many say that they have been waiting for years to see a film on the big screen to bring awareness to the tragedy.

This was obvious, as the viewing premiers all around the country

were packed with Armenians in the theatre.

The film reportedly cost almost $100 million to produce and is one of the most expensive independently financed films to ever be made.

The main donor was Kirk Kerkorian, a businessman with Armenian heritage, who had a mission to bring this Armenian Genocide story to the masses. He died in 2015, just as the film was going into production.

Though many support this movie, the political nature has sparked controversy.

There is already evidence of propaganda campaigns to discredit “The Promise.”

The IMDb page has received 86,000 votes, the majority being onestar ratings.

In an article in Variety, Mike Medovoy, one of the film’s producers, states that “The day after we screened the movie, 70,000 people went on IMDb and said they didn’t like the movie. There’s no way that many people saw the movie after one screening. There aren’t that many seats in the theater.”

The controversy gives the effort to see the movie an even higher importance.

Go see for yourself if the powerful historical nature and moving plot hit the mark.

All’s fair in love and bubbles The South MAP RAs held a soccer game with a twist.

Twenty girls dressed in giant plastic bubbles ran around, chasing the soccer ball and each other. While the objective was to score goals, the players coudl not resist crashing into their friends and watching them roll around.

Photos by Karen Postupac

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Campus leftists show true colors

Josh Delk Staff Writer

Stories of liberal campus protests dominate the news today. These protests aim to smother conservative voices, by blocking right-of-center speakers such as Anne Coulter or Milo Yiannopolous from speaking, targeting conservative student groups, or petitioning administration to oust faculty members who espouse conservative ideas.

U n til recently, I thought that these events were unique to the coddling, safe-space friendly campuses of the liberal elite such as Cal. Berkeley or Middlebury College. However, leftist agitators have recently engaged in similar behaviors here at GCC. The College recently announced the addition of a new Political Science/Sociology seminar class entitled “The Biblical and Natural Family,” to be co-taught

by Dr. Kengor and Dr. Ayers in the spring 2018 semester.

Shortly after the announcement of the course, Dr. Kengor received several emails from alumni that urged the college to cancel the class, calling it “unacceptable” and “based on homophobia.” Unknown groups of students quickly tore down all the posters advertis-

ing for the class, and threw them in the trash.

Students tore down over 100 posters from the walls.

Dr. Kengor noted “these were amazing charges for a course that hasn’t even been developed yet, let alone even started.”

The course will deal with a number of issues related to marriage and the family beyond the LGBTQ concern raised by some alumni, including single parenting, divorce, cohabitation and abortion. “We’re even planning on bringing in opposing viewpoints and we’re hoping for very vigorous discussion and open debate,” he added.

The reaction of certain students to the addition of this class however, was less than willing to engage in open debate, much less use words at all.

A group of progressive alumni, students and professors on campus recently started a closed Facebook group called “GCC Advocates for Inclusion and Acceptance.” As is often the case on the left, this group has only a nominal devotion to inclusion, diversity, and acceptance. Administrators of the page have silenced or kicked out members who voiced conservative rebuttals in discussion threads.

Pictures of the marriage class’ posters appear frequently on the page, accompanied by

vicious and, dare I say, intolerant remarks on the course. Comments advocating for traditional marriage values are especially unpopular.

One student posted “we’re expecting a class filled with homophobic propaganda, which is extreme even for GCC.” This student went on to give the email addresses for Dr. Kengor and Dr. Ayers, and encouraged group members to email them in protest.

While the “Advocates for Inclusion and Acceptance” may not be directly responsible for individuals tearing down posters, the group is firmly committed to generating progressive dissent against the college’s mission and trampling any opinions to the contrary: in the name of tolerance and diversity. The group is an unashamedly exclusive, ideological echo chamber complete with extensive speech codes and guidelines for discussion pinned to the top of the page. However, many of the group’s members are alumni and current students such as myself, who are just there to watch the show.

Page administrators have since condemned the actions of those who sent hateful emails to Dr. Kengor and Dr. Ayers, but only in the interest of protecting their rapport with the administration as they work to subvert con-

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servative thought and principle at the College.

If campus leftists had any commitment to diversity of thought, they would have heeded their own advice of advocating for purposeful and thoughtful conversation on campus rather than resorting to vandalism. Are traditional, natural family structures and Biblical principles something so scary that our liberal friends feel the need to avert their eyes?

College is a place where students are to expand their worldviews and challenge their assumptions. It concerns me when fellow students flee from intellectual discourse.

More disturbing than even the campus left’s disdain for freedom of speech or acts of vandalism, is their lack of commitment to intellectual diversity.

It saddens me to think that there are students on campus who view a class on natural and Biblical families as oppressive, hateful and close-minded. While I personally take issue with a radical secular progressive ideology that leads Christians to abandon their commitment to Biblical teachings on the family and sexuality, it harms our

whole campus community when groups, professors or even the College itself is not able to communicate freely with the student body.

Freedom’s college stands firmly in the traditions of Christianity, Western civilization and the liberal arts.

Every Grove City student should take the chance to learn of Grove City’s intellectual foundations and principles before rejecting them outright, whether that be in the humanities core, their major classes, or “The Biblical and Natural Family.”

As the culture is becoming increasingly hostile toward traditional family structures, it is important that we as believers examine the natural order that God has ordained and His plan for human family and community, before looking elsewhere for truth A note to readers: My knowledge on this issue comes with the bias of being a student of Dr. Kengor’s. I have co-authored several magazine articles with him in the past, and share his commitment to a Biblical and natural conception of family life.

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Pursuing God: ‘Because faith and freedom matter’

Taylor Starcher Staff Writer

Grove City College is a Christian college with the motto “because faith and freedom matter.” The school bases its vision, mission and values off of God. Being independent in that they do not accept any federal funding, Grove City College is able to make the decisions that their morals entail.

Grove City College creates a wonderful setting for people of similar ideas and faith to come together to grow together. There are an abundance of different groups that students can join or participate in to further their faith journey, while generating lifetime memories.

Groups like Orientation Board, Young Life, Student Government Association, DRIVE, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, New Life, Project Okello and Women of Faith are just some of the ways students can make impacts in communities or even

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the campus itself.

All of these examples are filled with people who have a passion for God and the right intentions to complete their missions.

Students usually choose this college for the quality of the Christian atmosphere. To be surrounded by others who share similar beliefs in the college stage of one’s life is truly special in aspects of growing together but it also makes it just as difficult.

Sometimes it’s hard to exercise one’s faith when it seems to be exercised constantly, like

at Grove City College.

Students must get a certain amount of chapel credits, must take humanities courses based off of a particular religious aspect, and some actions are monitored under Christian principles. Policies like our drug and alcoholfree campus put a very strict lifestyle in place for all students.

As it creates a healthier atmosphere to make better choices, it can also make students want to rebel just as much, since some other colleges and students do allow for or engage

these behaviors.

It is easy to think that Grove City students are better than others because of the culture of our school, but we are equal to any other student and subject to the same struggles and successes at any other college no matter the principles.

With the humanities courses or the chapels, one may assume that learning about the Bible for fifty minutes a day or a twenty-minute chapel can be “enough” for our Christian lifestyle.

It’s important to un-

derstand that those are just additional aspects to what we should be doing on a regular basis for our faith.

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).

The fact that most of the students on campus are Christian is an extremely positive aspect, but it is important to not lose sight of what our purpose is every day. We should always make sure that we are not comparing our faith to someone beside us because we are all equal in God’s eyes. It’s also important to not get comfortable in growing just because we already feel more surrounded in Christian morals than other places.

No matter the environment we are in, it is always necessary to pursue God. And if we as Christians continue to exercise our faith in God and live in Him, an impact on others can always be made on people who might need it most, even people here.

Business Manager Jesse Peterson Staff Adviser Nick Hildebrand The Collegian is the student newspaper of Grove City College, located in Grove City, Pa. Opinions appearing on these pages, unless expressly stated otherwise, represent the views of individual writers. They are not the collective views of The Collegian, its staff or Grove City College.

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

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Ask AJ

Perspectives

Your friend and confidant at Grove City College

Broad tips for mental health

To begin any new column, there must first be a new article, and a new writer behind it. I go by the name AJ, and want this to be an open place to discuss new ideas and important issues centering around mental illness.

I’m starting ‘Ask AJ’ as a student who started college with a lot of questions.

As a starting point, I have a handful of broad suggestions that apply to most mental health issues, and many other varying conditions. Please learn from my advice and my past choices, instead of wasting your own time that you could be using to heal and grow.

I’ve struggled with various mental health problems on a frequent basis in my own life, and I wanted to share what I’ve learned with others. Trust me when I say that I have stood where you stand, and I have fought the same battles.

So my first broad suggestion is to never be afraid of going for help Getting help from other people can be done in stages, and doesn’t automatically mean going to a professional psychologist. If you can’t bring yourself to go to a formal therapy session, find a friend you can confide in. Even though it can feel like you’re being a burden, most friends won’t mind listening if you’re going through a difficult time and find yourself needing to talk.

As you learn to talk to people about your problems more easily, it will become less of a challenge to attend a therapy session or two. An assumption I made in my initial recovery process was thinking that talking to trusted counterparts was equivalent to professional therapy.

Though it may seem as though that were true at first, anybody who has attended an appointment will most likely tell you that a professional’s help is unlike that of any other.

A skilled psychologist can provide proven techniques for handling stressful situations, recommend possible, more lasting solutions, and often offer diagnoses, should one be necessary. On that note, don’t worry about having diagnosable depression, anxiety, or such when visiting a psychologist or scheduling a therapy session.

An appointment can certainly help those going through a particularly stressful time, not just those with more pronounced issues.

My second suggestion is to not avoid trying the option of medication. Medication should

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not be your go-to for every problem, however, it can be a highly effective and nonpermanent solution to a balance problem in your body’s chemicals. Many mental conditions, depression and anxiety, for example, can be caused by an imbalance of hormones.

If this is a part of your condition, it is programmed into your genetics and may not be solved through therapy alone. After beginning therapy, a psychologist or licensed therapist can recommend medication to your general physician or psychiatrist. It doesn’t have to be and likely won’t be permanent. Many medications are taken for a specified amount of time before your body adjusts to normal processes on its own.

If your problem is not depression or anxiety related, such as ADHD, medications can also help on more of a caseby-case situation. It doesn’t have to be a routine dosage.

Most medications can be stopped easily, should problems occur.

Trying a medication could be the solution you’ve been looking for but have been too scared to try.

My third, and possibly largest piece of advice is to never devalue yourself because of your condition. It’s okay if there are days you can’t get out of bed.

It’s okay if there are days it’s more difficult to understand. It’s okay if there are days you just have to be around people.

It’s okay to be not okay, because nobody is ever a hundred percent.

Take strides in hope, knowing that things can get better. Here, you are surrounded by available resources, but, even so, it’s okay if you’re not ready to use all of them. Recovery and growth comes at a different pace for everybody and is shown in many different ways.

Your condition may be permanent or may be gone next week, but that doesn’t mean it makes your worth any more or less.

Your pain is real, and you’re allowed to be upset. Allow yourself to cry, even if it’s alone.

Whatever you do and whatever you’re going through, remember: You matter, and you are loved.

Have any questions or topics you want to see discussed? Submit any ideas to collegian. gcc@gmail.com

April 28, 2017

An unjustified strike

Joshua Sikora Staff Writer

On April 6, the United States government launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield in response to an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian government the day before.

However, there are numerous problems with the claims and U.S. actions surrounding these events.

Firstly, it is unlikely Assad would have committed the gas attack. Assad had strongly beaten back the rebels and ISIS recently in the war, and is currently on the verge of victory.

The supposed chemical attack came before peace talks were to be held, which would have likely favored the Assad government. Additionally, this came several days after President Trump expressed his interest in allowing Assad to remain in power in Syria. It makes no sense that with everything going Assad’s way in the war that he would commit a chemical attack that would cause the West to turn against him.

UN reports after the chemical attack said that it did not appear Assad was behind the attacks. A senior UN official told a Swedish TV station that there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that the rebels are behind the gas attack.

This situation is similar to the 2013 alleged Assad gas attack. In this situation Assad was blamed for the chemical attack, but it was actually the rebels behind the attack in 2013.

It does not seem like Assad would nor did commit the gas attacks.

The US government

justified the tomahawk strikes by claiming the chemical attack was a threat to the national security of the United States.

This begs the question: How can Syria be a threat to the national security of the United States? Syria is almost 7,000 miles away from the United States. They have no weaponry available to strike the United States. There is no way Syria could pose a threat to the United States.

The response by the U.S. government are significantly hypocritical.

The attack on the Syrian airbase was in response to the alleged chemical attack because it was an attack by the government on its people with dangerous chemical weapons.

However, if the US is serious about attacking governments who attack their people with chemical weapons, then it should not be long until the U.S. bombs its own airfields.

After all, tear gas is banned for use in war by the Geneva Convention.

However the U.S. government frequently deploys tear gas on civilians in the United States. Apparently attack your own citizens with weapons considered too inhumane for war is only a problem when countries who are

not the U.S. do it.

Additionally, the U.S. is severely guilty of killing innocent civilians.

In March, the United States killed twice as many innocents in Mosul as the gas attack did.

Yet the U.S. shrugged it off as an accident. Not to mention thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in recent years by US drone strikes across the Middle East. This includes a strike on a Doctors without Borders hospital in Afghanistan in 2015. Yet this is barely an afterthought for most Americans or the U.S. government. Like with the use of gas on civilians, this appears to only be a problem when a country that is not the U.S. kills civilians.

Additionally, the foreign policy of the United States for the 21st century has been combatting terrorism, sparking war which has been going for over fifteen years.

Now, the United States has provided $94 million in military aid to ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria. Assad is strongly opposed to radical Islamic terrorism as he has been fighting terror groups since start of the civil war. With the strikes against Assad’s forces, the United States has eased the opposition these groups face in the war. If the US is truly interested in

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fighting terrorism, then it significantly failed in doing so in the strikes against Syria.

The US opposition to Assad is troubling for Christians and Jews in the area. Unlike many of the region’s leaders, Assad protects the Christian and Jewish minorities in his country.

Earlier in the war, Christian leaders in Syria sent a letter to the US government asking them not to support the rebels because it would negatively affect them.

Additionally, the FSA has admitted their goal is to implement Sharia Law in Syria, which would certainly lead to problems for Christians and Jews within Syria.

As the war goes on, Christians flee to areas controlled by Assad as they have faced “convert or die” situations in areas held by the rebels. Assad is certainly the best option for Christians and Jews in Syria. It’s rather ironic that Trump invoked an appeal to God in his speech for justifying attacks against Assad.

It is doubtful Assad is behind the gas attack. Even if he was, the United States needs to take a look at its own actions before criticizing the actions of other governments.

And if he wasn’t, the US government has made a grave mistake.

Grace in the place of sin

Rio Arias

Perspectives Editor Every year, Grove City College makes sure that its students are able to celebrate the most important holiday of the year with their families—Easter.

As a faith-based college, we pride ourselves on staying true to the principles that reflect the character of God and encourage us to live a life that glorifies him. Easter is such an important time to honor because it is the time we set aside to remember how God loves us, and was willing to sacrifice his own son to rescue those who did not want him.

And every year we take pride in worshipping a God who wanted us when we did not want him. Someone who came down to our level, lived a life like us, and still chose us when

we did not choose him.

However, there are times when our faith seems to conflict with the very thing that gives us faith: grace. We become so focused on doing all of the right things, and following the words that Jesus told us to live by that we forget about all of other sinners in the world, the people who aren’t like us.

We look down on them, tell our kids not to go to school with them, and live in neighborhoods away from them.

We shield ourselves from a world of sin, and choose to grow closer to God away from people who might tempt us.

Who might stain our lives with their ways.

But what we forget, is that God wants them too.

I spent my whole life in public school before Grove City College. I saw all of the drinking, and partying and twisted relationships people had. I didn’t like it and

wanted to spend all of my time away from it, joining clubs and going to church with people who were more like me than everyone else.

And when I chose a college, I chose one full of people like me. Good people, righteous people, Christian people.

But what happens when even someone righteous messes up?

When Christian people lie to their parents, disrespect those who care about them, who are mean to their friends?

Or even worse, party?

Or do drugs? Our lives become shattered when we realize that there isn’t a fine line between the good church-going people who do all of the things they’re supposed to, and those who don’t call Jesus lord and live in sin.

So what do we do when we can’t surround ourselves with people like us, or protect ourselves from sin?

The answer is simple: grace. We ask them to

hang out. We talk about fun things like school, and family, and the dreams we have in life.

Because the more time we spend understanding people who mess up, we begin to see them differently.

Not necessarily as people who have completely honorable actions or who can justify everything they did wrong, but we see them as people like us. People that God wants. People that we should love.

So the next time someone around you sins, whether they claim to be a Christian or belong to the outside heathen world, consider meeting them where they are rather than expelling them from your life or condemning them because of one action. After all, if Jesus could come down to Earth and meet us where we are, why can’t we?

Sports

April 28, 2017

Baseball pushes forward Bradley Warmhold Sports Editor

A key sweep plus a huge comeback victory has put the Grove City College baseball team (15-16 overall, 12-9 conference) at fourth place in the President’s Athletic Conference (PAC) and on a four-game winningstreak.

The Grove City College baseball team’s struggles at the plate continued, as the Wolverines managed just eight hits and one run in a pair of losses to Thomas More on Tuesday afternoon in Presidents’ Athletic Conference action at R. Jack Behringer Field. The Wolverines fell 9-0 in the opener and dropped a hard-fought 2-1 affair in the nightcap.

After suffering a twogame sweep to last year’s PAC Champions Thomas More College over Easter Break, the Wolverines rebounded to sweep longtime rival Westminster, 6-0 and 15-3.

In the opener, sophomore pitcher John Bini fired a three-hit shutout

striking out three and not issuing a walk over seven innings. His light’s out performance was backed up by an outburst of hits that would carry on into the nightcap as well.

Senior right fielder Nolan Myers began the offensive surge by cracking a two-run single in the first to drive in sophomore left fielder Travis Auth and sophomore third baseman Micah Burke to give the Wolverines a 2-0 lead in the first.

The Wolverines continued to gradually build off of their lead as the game progressed thanks to timely hitting and even more timely errors on Westminster. They finished the first game with a 6-0 victory.

The nightcap began with Myers and Burke lacing two-run singles in a first inning that would see seven Wolverines circle the bases. Grove City extended the lead to 11-0 in the second inning with senior first baseman Matt Waugaman blasting a solo shot to get the second rally going.

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The Grove City College baseball team is on a hot streak, winning four consecutive games, including three straight victories against the rival Westminster Titans, and most recently, a win against Thomas More. Senior Nolan Myers has contributed the Wolverines’ excellent play, hitting .263 with 15 runs batted in this season.

Senior catcher Andy Fritz added a two-run homer of his own in the fourth while Waugaman and Smail added runscoring singles later in the inning, furthering Grove City’s already giant lead to 15-2.

Dulay finished three for four while Auth, Burke, Graham, Myers and Waugman all had two hits each. Auth, Burke, Dayton and Dulay scored twice.

Freshman pitcher Austin Wacker started on the rubber, allowing one earned run in six innings. He struck out four and walked one, improving to 4-4 on the season. Senior Cedric Hils pitched a perfect seventh in relief.

In the last game of the

Westminster series at R. Jack Behringer Field, the Titans carried a 3-0 lead into the fifth inning until the Wolverines rallied to take their first lead of the game. Both teams proved resilient throughout the nine-innings of play, and eventually the Titans forced the game to go into extra innings.

In the top of the 10th, Westminster loaded the bases with one out but sophomore reliever Phil Bell recorded a pair of force-outs to end the threat.

The Wolverines would then load the bases in the bottom of the inning and Dulay would emerge as the hero by taking a hit-bypitch for the team in the

back of the left-leg in anticlimactic, yet victorious, fashion.

Grove City capped off their recent fourgame winning-streak by upsetting secondplace Thomas More last Wednesday in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

The game started out rough for the Wolverines after a grand slam plus one more run put the Saints up top 5-0 to start the game.

Bini, who got the start that day, shook off the bad first inning, however, and fired five more scoreless innings to keep the Saints at bay.

The Wolverine bats kept silent for most of the game, that is until a string of hits in

the seventh by Burke, Waugaman, freshman Matt Dayton, and Myers plus a reach-onerror by Fritz contributed to a seven-run inning for Grove City.

Wacker then came in to silence the Saints for a three-inning save and the comeback that the Wolverines were looking for.

With one conference series left against the fifth place Waynesburg Yellow Jackets (15-18, 9-9), the Wolverine’s playoff chances will be resting on this final matchup in two weeks.

Grove City will return to action this Saturday against non-conference opponent Chatham University in a home double-header.

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Managing Editor The Grove City College softball team has played well recently, winning four of their last five games as they get closer to the postseason. The Wolverines (15-19, 3-13 President’s Athletic Conference) have four games remaining, two apiece against Chatham and Franciscan.

Last Friday, Grove City took on Waynesburg, splitting the doubleheader.

In Game 1, Waynesburg defeated Grove City by a score of 5-0. Grove City had chances to score runs, but was unable to get a timely hit. Senior pitcher Erika Aughton took the loss, allowing five runs in six innings on 11 hits, while striking out six.

In Game 2, Waynesburg got out to a 2-0 lead, but the Wolverines scored three runs in the third inning to take the lead. Senior center fielder Maddie Brubaker had a two-run single in the inning, as well as a runscoring hit in the fourth as well and an RBI double in the sixth. Senior pitcher Aimee Wootton allowed two runs, one of them earned, in seven innings of five-hit ball, and Grove City earned an 8-2 win.

Next, Grove City hosted Westminster on Tuesday.

The Wolverines dropped the opener 2-0, even though Aughton pitched a complete game four-hitter, but Grove City came back to walk it off in Game 2.

The Wolverines took

a 2-0 lead in the second contest, but Westminster clawed back to tie it.

The game remained knotted at two until the bottom of the eleventh inning.

With the bases loaded and just one out, Brubaker came up to bat, and drove a sacrifice fly that won it for the Wolverines.

Aside from Brubaker, the pitching staff was the hero in this game.

Wootton allowed just one earned run in seven and two-thirds innings, while striking out five batters. In relief, Aughton earned the win, throwing three and a third scoreless innings until Brubaker’s game-winner.

Grove City hosted Hiram on Wednesday, sweeping both games of the doubleheader. In Game 1, Hiram took a 2-0 lead, but Grove City came back with runs in the first and fourth innings.

The Wolverines were aided

by Hiram misplays, allowing Aughton to score on a little league home run that should have been a double.

In the sixth, Grove City took the lead thanks to another Hiram error. Aughton had two hits in the 3-2 victory, and also pitched seven brilliant innings, allowing just seven hits.

The Wolverines were also victorious in Game 2, winning 4-0.

Grove City scored runs in the second and fourth innings. Wootton earned the win, pitching seven scoreless innings, and yielding just two hits.

Contributing Writer A little way into the second period of game five, the Columbus Blue Jackets went wild as they were catching the Penguins. Boone Jenner almost got a penalty for a high stick, but after review the officials ruled that it was a fair goal.

However, there was still time left in the game, enough for the Pens to capitalize on the Blue Jackets’ mistakes and make them regret celebrating early.

The Pittsburgh Penguins answered Columbus’ goal with two more, making the final score 5-2 and giving the Penguins a victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday, April 20. They won the series against the Blue Jackets 4-1, sending the Penguins to the second round of the playoffs.

This past series turned into one full of momentum swings, especially after the Blue Jackets scored three times without answer, which led them on to win the fourth game of the series. However, the Blue Jackets would have needed to perform flawlessly if they wanted to bring the series back and win.

The Penguins are now heading to Washington to take on the Capitals who are much stronger on the defensive side of the puck, ranking number one overall in goals scored against them, with only 2.2 per game.

It is going to be hockey’s best offense versus its best defense, which will turn into

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The Penguins defeated the Blue Jackets in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to move on to the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury was brilliant for the Pens in the series. However, if they want to defeat the Capitals, the Penguins will have to be on their game.

Game 1 was played yesterday, but Game 2 will be played tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the nation’s capital. a very exciting series for both sides to watch.

The Penguins get a few days to rest after their victory over the Blue Jackets, but they will have to prove just how good their offense is against their next opponent. Their defense also needs to get in line after the letting the Blue Jackets take 49 shots this past game.

Marc-Andre Fleury played an amazing game and Sydney Crosby was very impressed with him. Crosby said “He had to make a ton of huge saves. They weren’t necessarily routine, either. He was tested a lot. We don’t like to have to make him work that hard. He was our best player.”

The next few games will be tough for the Penguins to win, but many people think that it could go either way.

Out of 11 experts, six predict that the Capitals will win and five predict that the Penguins will win. If the Penguins do pull out a victory, they will move on to round three, putting them closer to winning their second Stanley Cup in a row. They are preparing for their next step to become the first team in 20 years to win two Stanley Cups in a row.

Game 1 between the Pens and the Capitals was yesterday, and Game 2 will be played tomorrow at 8 pm in the nation’s capital.

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Track and field preps for PACs Alex Locher Contributing Writer

The Grove City College men’s and women’s track teams each had strong showings last Thursday at the Slippery Rock Open, held at Slippery Rock University’s own Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.

Though the Open consisted primarily of Division II teams, the Wolverines performed well relative to their fellow Division III competitors present at the meet.

On the women’s side, sophomore Elizabeth Donahoe took home a ninthplace overall finish in the 400-meter dash, good enough for a first place finish among all PAC runners, and sophomore Rachel Martin placed fourth overall in the 1500 meter run.

Strong performances were given in the triple jump as well, including senior Rachel Watson’s fourth place overall finish at the meet.

As for the men’s team, senior Ryan Buchalter gave strong performances in both the 200 and 400-meter dashes, finishing first out of all PAC competitors.

Sophomore Matt Werner also had a solid showing in the 800-meter run, finishing second amongst all PAC runners for the day.

Senior Daniel Christiansen rounded out the running events with an overall first place finish in the 5000-meter run.

Finally, senior Michael Cole jumped a 13.36 meters in the men’s triple jump finals, leaving him with a fifth-place overall finish.

Cole is currently atop the PAC men’s triple jump standings, with a season-high jump of 13.50 meters.

When asked about how the teams are feeling as they head towards the PAC Championships this coming Saturday, Cole commented “We’re hopeful for strong perfor-

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mances from everyone.

It was disappointing not bringing home a team championship last year like we did in 2015, so that’s what we’re striving for this year. Anything less would fall below our expectations for ourselves.”

The PAC Championships will be held on today and tomorrow at Bethany College.

With confident spirits after the teams’ performances at the Slippery Rock Open, Cole and there rest of the team are feeling well-rested and ready to make a run at the title this year.

“We’ll see how it goes,” commented Cole. “Hopefully we’ll be riding home on the bus with that championship banner.”

April 28, 2017

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The Grove City College men’s and women’s track teams each had strong showings last Thursday at the Slippery Rock Open, held at Slippery Rock University’s own Mihalik-Thompson Stadium. The PAC Championships will be held today and tomorrow at Bethany College.

Inside the life of an athlete

Taylor Starcher Contributing Writer

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Mary Ehrbar, a sophomore at Grove City College, has loved basketball since her adolescent years.

Watching her older siblings play largely influenced her decision to start playing in third grade and has progressed since.

Pre-season is a busy time for Ehrbar with practices six days a week, along with team dinners, lifting, meetings and other teambonding activities. She still manages to keep a tight focus on her major of accounting and any additional studies.

“I probably have something basketball related that totals to five hours a day…yeah, it’s definitely not easy balancing it all.”

Once it’s time to see all of the team’s hard work pay off, Ehrbar is in full basketball season mode.

This schedule is even more hectic with practices taking up four days a week and two days of games, home or away.

She feeds off of the energy at games especially when large crowds show up.

Coach Fuss, the head coach of Grove City College’s Women’s Basketball, has played a significant role in Mary’s time at school so far.

“Coach has a real care for us players, a passion for the game, a real understanding of the right structure for the program, and the right perspective. She always stresses how we are playing for a bigger purpose which is for our God and that to get results, we need to put the work in,” Ehrbar said.

Ehrbar emphasized how much she loved the talks that Coach Fuss would plan for the team before games. “Speakers from

all kinds of backgrounds would come in and it was really interesting to hear their perspective on life.

We’ve had GCC representaMary Ehrbar tives from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes who really relate to our problems and struggles, so that was really cool,” Ehrbar said.

Ehrbar and her team had the opportunity to go to Puerto Rico over Christmas break. Not only did it create an unforgettable experience for them all, but a trip that helped them grow as people.

“I loved getting off of campus with some of my favorite people and seeing more of God’s creation here on earth,” Ehrbar reminisced.

“This is the first team I’ve been on without petty drama. The chemistry that everyone has as a team is great and helps us play better,” Mary said. She went on further to explain how Coach Fuss has specifically shown her how to target weakness and improve it altogether.

She teaches mental toughness, along with the setting of goals to further improve Ehrbar as a person and a player. Ehrbar has broadened her skillset by playing guard and post positions more during practices.

It’s obvious how basketball has influenced Ehrbar’s life and continues to everyday. Her drive to achieve her goals while staying true to herself is something so vital, especially in life today. Ehrbar looks forward to the rest of her college career with basketball, along with what is to come in the future.