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The Grove City College Student Newspaper

Vol. 103, No. 7

Profs sign statement

James Sutherland Managing Editor

A dozen Grove City College professors have signed the Nashville Statement, a bold and controversial declaration of established Christian doctrine on human sexuality.

The Nashville Statement, released by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) on Aug. 29, purports to be an

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affirmation of orthodox Christian beliefs on homosexuality, sexual identity and marriage.

Over 150 prominent evangelical Christians initially signed the statement, including John Piper, John MacArthur, J.I. Packer, D.A. Carson and R. Albert Mohler Jr. Since the statement was published, more than 17,000 have signed it on the CBMW’s website. Among those sig-

natories are 12 Grove City professors: David J. Ayers, George Van Pelt Campbell, Brian Dellinger, Joshua Drake, Jan Dudt, Jason Edwards, David Hogsette, Joseph Horton, Stephen Jenkins, Dale L. McIntyre, Sam Stanton Jr. and Lawrence Walker.

The preamble of the statement provides context to why the STATEMENT 2

Nashville in a nutshell

The Nashville Statement lays out, in a series of affirmations and denials, what its authors see as Christian orthodoxy on issues ranging from marriage to sexual identity.

In Article 1, the statement affirms that marriage is instituted by God to be between one man and one woman,

and denies that it can be a “homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship.”

In Article 7, the statement argues that “selfconception as a male or female should be defined by God’s holy purposes in creation and redemption,” and that “adopting a homosexual or transgender

self-conception” is not in line with these purposes.

In Article 8, the statement denies that same-sex attraction is “part of the natural goodness of God’s creation, or that it puts a person outside the hope of the gospel.”

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Sophomore jailed, ‘didn’t put a shoe in the door’

Kassaundra Funch Staff Writer

Saturday night’s Concerto and Aria Competition was an unforgettable night of music and entertainment.

Every year, music students apply to compete in the Grove City College Music Department’s Concerto Competition in hopes of winning one of two spots to perform as a soloist with the Grove City College Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s pool of contestants was so large and competitive that the Music Department had to hold a preliminary round to reduce the number, the first time they had done so in seven years. The preliminary round reduced the number of contestants from 17 to 10.

Before a performance, senior piano major Olivia Connors says, “I like to put my hands in warm water, warm up and then just walk around for a bit.”

Junior voice major, Callie Roberts, says, “It’s hard because you never know how your voice is going to behave on a certain day.”

Jeffrey Tedford, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras, offers to pray with the students before the competition begins, and offers words of encouragement, reminding students that they are prepared, and to have fun. Whatever their pre-performance practices or worries, the performers played and sang beautifully.

Half of the ten performers were pianists, a unique aspect of this year’s competition. This is the highest concentration of one instrument that the competition has seen in years, and made for competiMUSICIANS 2

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Sophomore Theta Alpha Pi sister Allison Hollenbaugh, dressed as a prisoner who violated Open Hours policies, is imprisoned at the annual Beta Sigma/Theta Alpha Pi Monster Mash. The Halloween dance was held Friday in Old MAP. For more on the Mash, see photospread 6 & 7.

Roberts Seiter assists cancer research speaks on

living well

Sarah Opst Staff Writer

On the 11th floor of the Schwartz Research Building, Dan Seiter has swapped out his wooden dorm desk for one supplied by the largest cancer center on the east coast.

In order to reach it, Seiter has to set his alarm for 5:45am to drive from his hometown in Boonton, NJ, to the New Jersey Transit, before catching a bus to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City and then taking the subway to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The commute takes nearly two hours.

A physics major minoring in medical physics, Dan Seiter has

Colin Freyvogel Staff Writer

Dan Seiter has taken the fall semester of his senior year off to assist cancer research in New York City. taken the fall semester of his senior year off to continue a summer opportunity at Memorial

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Robert Roberts, Professor of Ethics and Emotion Theory at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor Emeritus at Baylor University, visited Grove City College on October 26 and 27 to speak about moral exemplars.

Roberts is a leading scholar in the development of modern virtue ethics, a field of philosophy that seeks to carry on the legacy of Aristotle and the belief that the end goal of philosophy should be living well.

Roberts’ primary talk focused on Lincoln as a moral exemplar, specifically of the virtue of

humility.

Roberts believes that humility is the absence of Roberts the vices of pride: vindictiveness, an insistence on one’s station being respected, ambitions that amount to selfish ambition and vain conceit, vanity and more.

Humility is lacking these virtues. Roberts then went on to show how Lincoln’s pursuit of office and his ambition to become president were perfectly compatible with the virtue of humility. He explained how Lincoln dealt with ROBERTS 2

The Collegian New Wilmington anticipates Día de los Muertos

Nov. 3, 2017

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Katie Morrison Staff Writer

The borough of New Wilmington, located about half an hour from Grove City, will be hosting their first ever freeadmission Día de los Muertos festival from 3 pm to 7 pm on Saturday, November 4 at the Market Street Garage behind Mugsies Coffee House.

Graduate of Grove City College and local high school Spanish teacher Michelle Shaffer organized the event.

Inspired by the different cultures that compose her classroom and each of their unique celebrations, Shaffer organized the festival in hopes of bringing their cultures closer together.

Shaffer’s students from Mexico have been able to share with her the celebration of Día de los Muertos. Shaffer says, “For most of my students, traveling is not an option. So by studying this holiday in

STATEMENT continued from 1 CBMW and the initial signatories felt it was necessary to write, sign and publish this statement.

“Evangelical Christians at the dawn of the twenty-first century find themselves living in a period of historic transition,” the statement begins.

“It is common to think that human identity as male and female is… an expression of an individual’s autonomous preferences.”

“This secular spirit of our age presents a great challenge to the Christian church,” the statement continues.

Will the Church bend to “the spirit of the age,” or will it “maintain her clear, counter-cultural witness to a world that seems bent on ruin?”

The authors of this statement view questions of human sexuality as key to the health and direction of the church, and therefore, “in hope of serving Christ’s church and witnessing publicly to the good purposes of God for human sexuality revealed in Christian Scripture,” have authored the statement.

Hogsette, Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, said he signed the statement to “show solidarity with fellow Christians who uphold a biblical, historic and orthodox understanding of God’s purposes for human sexuality, marriage and the family as a means towards true human flourishing.”

Horton, Professor of Psychology, agreed, saying, “I signed the Nashville Statement because I wanted to stand

NASHVILLE continued from 1 Article 10, perhaps the most controversial in the statement, af-

class, my hope is to foster cultural compassion and to expose students to another people’s unique way of life.”

People often falsely assume that Día de los Muertos is the Mexican version of Halloween; this is just one of the many misunderstandings associated with the celebration. Shaffer was quick to dispel some of these common misconceptions, saying that she believes the myths are due to ignorance.

Día de los Muertos is celebrated on All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, which in the Catholic church are days to pray for and remember those loved ones who have passed. The modern day celebration is a combination of these beliefs with some traditions from indigenous Mesoamericans.

The celebration represents a different perspective on life and death.

Shaffer and her Spanish Club have even built an altar in her class-

room commemorating her late grandparents.

Building altars is one of many traditions for those who celebrate Día de los Muertos.

People commemorating the lives of deceased loved ones often gather around the memorials and share stories about the deceased.

Graves are decorated with marigold flowers and candles; altars are adorned with pictures of the deceased, special items associated with them, or their favorite foods. Festivalgoers dress up in colorful, intricate costumes and often paint their faces with traditional skull makeup.

Although it is a traditional Mexican celebration, Día de los Muertos is not limited to the people of Mexico. By inviting the community to partake in different cultural celebrations, New Wilmington is doing their part to bridge cultural barriers and eliminate stereotypes

associated with foreign festivities.

Gina Cearfoss, a current Grove City College Spanish education student attending the festival, explained the importance of the event saying, “This celebration, to me, is about family. It could seem scary or different to someone who might not understand, but to me at the core of Día de los Muertos is family, honoring family members that have passed on, and welcoming them to the table once again.”

To an outsider, seeing a parade of dead people walking down the street may appear to reveal a dark and unhealthy fascination with death, but to those who celebrate the cultural event of Día de los Muertos, it means something quite different. Those people walking in the parade are not dead; rather they are very much alive.

up and be counted as being in support of Christian orthodoxy.”

“The Nashville Statement,” Horton continues, “expresses God’s standards clearly, while also proclaiming God’s grace and forgiveness.

As such, it is a loving call to discipleship.”

Campbell, Professor of Sociology and Biblical and Religious Studies, wrote for the Center for Vision and Values: “I signed the Nashville Statement [because], with many other Christians, I believe it expresses truth.” Furthermore, Campbell said he believes in the “historic Christian belief that what is true is also good for us,” and that it “follows that stating those truths has the potential to do individuals and society great good.”

All the Grove City professors and faculty members who signed the statement listed their affiliation alongside their name (as did every signee of the statement). When asked whether he signed the statement as a Grove City professor or as a private citizen, Hogsette responded, “I specifically listed my college affiliation to demonstrate that I support the College’s commitment to biblical Christian doctrine, ethics and practice.”

“While I do not and cannot speak for the institution,” Hogsette continued, “signing the Nashville Statement as a Grove City College professor sends a clear message that Christian orthodoxy is firmly established and supported at the College.”

Horton also emphasized that he signed as both a professor and

private citizen. “I identified as a professor… because prospective students and their families want to know what ‘authentically Christian’ means.”

Ayers, Dean of the Calderwood School of Arts and Letters, said that his signature does not represent an official school position.

“I signed the statement as a matter of conscience, because it is consistent with Christian orthodoxy, my religious beliefs and decades of scholarly work. I do not speak for the College or even the Dean’s office,” Ayers said. “Only the Board and the President can commit the College to a position such as this.

However, based on many years here, I believe that my views on sexual orientation and gender identity do represent the views of the majority of students and faculty here, and I believe my signature reflects that.”

Not all faculty agrees with the Nashville Statement, however.

Warren Throckmorton, Professor of Psychology, says that one of his primary concerns with the Statement is Article 10, which calls not only practicing homosexuality or transgenderism sinful, but also the acceptance and approval of such behavior.

“One critical problem is that Article 10 makes one’s views of sexual gender and identity rise to a confessional level,” Throckmorton said. “I think that that goes beyond what Romans 10 says about salvation. I think that it sets up an exclusion in Christianity that does not exist.”

Throckmorton wor-

ries that taking the view Article 10 espouses could divide the College. “Grove City is a great example of a place where differences have and do coexist peacefully and in harmony over issues that have divided the church in very severe ways throughout history, even on issues of the nature of salvation,” Throckmorton said. “If we can overcome those things, then I don’t know why we would view one’s views on sexual orientation and gender identity as disqualifying.”

Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Vision and Values, supports the statement. While he did not sign the statement, because he “long tried to adhere to a policy of not signing any statements or petitions in my role as head of the Center for Vision & Values,” Kengor argued that the statement is “an affirmation of the historic Christian understanding of God’s design for male-female marriage, gender and sexuality.”

“It’s certainly imperfect, as we all are, as I am. However, Nashville is, above all, looking to affirm the 2,000-yearold Christian teaching on marriage as a sacred bond between one man and one woman,” Kengor said.

Whether the Nashville Statement is an affirmation of Christian orthodoxy or a divisive declaration of insensitivity depends on your position. What is unquestionable is that these issues will continue to drive debates across the country, and on our campus.

firms that it is “sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism;” furthermore, “such approval constitutes an essential departure from Chris-

tian faithfulness witness.”

In Article 13, statement affirms it is possible to from transgender conceptions and

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link between one’s biological sex and one’s self-conception as male or female.”

MUSICIANS continued from 1 tive and diverse pieces all around.

Why hold a concerto competition? Tedford says, “It brings incentive to be better, healthy competition, and it provides a platform for our best students to shine.”

And shine they did.

Micah Mooney’s opened the competition with Bartok’s Piano Concerto No.1, playing with confidence and skill.

Callie Roberts’ stunning rendition of Massenet’s The Gavatte and Josiah Talampas’ dramatic performance of Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, followed.

Next came a more obscure instrument, a piece for harp by Claude Debussy entitled Dances Sacreé et Profane, played beautifully by Hannah Miner.

The first half of the competition ended perfectly, with Olivia Connors playing Kabalevsky’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

After a short intermission, Lillie BovardJones changed the mood with her rendition of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Taking us back to the classics, Lindsey Miller played Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, followed by Schumann’s Introduction and Allegro appassionato played by Evelyn Munson.

Rebekah Willson entertained with a powerful version of Donizetti’s Quel guardo il cavaliere, and the competition ended with David Jeffries’ rendition of Concerto for Trumpet in Eb Major, by Johan Nepomuk Hummel.

At the end of the concert, it was time for the

ROBERTS continued from 1 General George McClellan’s, general-in-chief of the Union Army during part of the Civil War insubordinate remarks and prideful actions.

Lincoln never demanded that McClellan show some sort of respect for him merely because he was president, and thus Lincoln proved his virtue (and his true worthiness of respect) by acting gracefully and taking McClellan’s slights without retaliation.

Roberts’ second talk, on October 27, was a presentation of his paper Admiring Moral Exemplars. In it, Roberts lays out the idea that moral exemplars play an important role in the formation of our morality. Moral exemplars, according to Roberts, play the role of being those who we admire, and that this admiration is fundamentally motivational in essence, giving us encouragement and an example to live better.

He also explained that most moral exemplars in our lives are close to us: family, friends, teachers and others. While moral exemplars can be models of specific virtues, often times they provide the

judges to make a decision.

“People may be surprised at who wins from year to year, but they don’t disagree that that person is deserving,” Dr. Tedford said, concerning past results.

Dr. Melinda Crawford Perttu, Associate Professor of music at Westminster College, Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, Associate Professor at Westminster College and Dr. Misook Yun, Professor at the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University scored each contestant as he or she performed.

When the performances were over, the three judges gathered to total the scores and discuss the winners.

After just a few minutes of deliberation the two winners were announced.

The first was vocalist and senior Music Major, Rebekah Willson, for her performance of Donizeti’s Quel guard oil cavaliere.

The second winner was pianist and sophomore engineering major, Josiah Talampas, who played Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Pianist and sophomore engineering major, Josiah Talampas, who played Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Mr. Talampas and Miss Willson will have the chance to perform their pieces with the Symphony Orchestra in February 2018, an experience that, for Grove City College musicians, is unmatched.

Saturday’s competition was altogether an entertaining and enriching experience. role of helping us to realize what it means to be human and can in a sense exemplify humanity.

Roberts gave an example of such a model.

He read a transcript of a member of the L’Arche community, a movement dedicated to creating support networks for people with individual disabilities. The member spoke movingly about friendship, despite the abuse he had suffered. His exemplification of humanity struck the whole room deeply, including Roberts himself, getting choked up as he read the transcript.

Roberts visit was very welcome, especially by the philosophy majors who have read some of his work for upper-level studies courses or Introduction to Ethics, both of which are taught by Dr. Ryan West, who was advised on his graduate level work by Roberts himself. His charisma, kindness and knowledge of virtue provided for both interesting and nourishing discussion on how we as individuals and as members of a greater community should live.

Life

Nov. 3, 2017

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Pray for a day

Leah Day

Contributing Writer “Prayer is not important” proclaim bold posters across campus, followed by a smaller statement underneath: “We know you don’t believe that, but too many of us live that way.”

The posters advertise Student Mission Fellowship’s (SMF) 24 Hour Prayer event which will occur in the STU Great Room from 7 p.m., Nov. 3 until 7 p.m. on Nov. 4. The goal is to have students praying at all times during the event. SMF witnessed success last year with around 70 students coming to pray throughout the day.

Mariah Denlinger, SMF Connector, finds innovative ways to build unity in SMF as a whole. Denlinger said, “For me, 24 Hour Prayer is the most important and meaningful student-run event of the school year.”

SMF has partnered with Project Okello and International Justice Mission, both of which will have prayer booths set up for the event.

The event will open and close with a time of worship.

During 24 Hour Prayer, different prayer stations will be set up, each with a unique focus. Project Okello’s booth focuses on global poverty, while others focus on prayer for

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missions, human trafficking, the persecuted church and more.

SMF President Brian Schonewald said, “At 24 Hour Prayer we try to set up our booths in an educational way so that we can know more about the issues that we are praying for.”

Schonewald has been impacted by 24 Hour Prayer in years past.

“24 Hour Prayer is an opportunity to take time to forget about all the little things that capture our attention most of the time and come before the Lord and lift up things that are close to His heart.”

“After time spent in His presence, asking that he would work in the lives of millions

around the world, I think you will find that our problems will seem so much smaller when compared to the power of the God that we serve,” Schonewald said.

Denlinger said, “Grove City College is rich with Christian values and heritage, yet in the craziness of college life we too easily forget the importance of simply bowing our heads to pray.

24 Hour Prayer counteracts that mentality, and directs my focus away from myself and towards those who yearn to hear of God’s saving grace. I can’t think of a better way to spend my time.”

BECCA SHAFFER

The physics department got into the Halloween spirit by carving jack-o-lanterns and exploding pumpkins.

No price, just pumpkin spice Alyssa Jackson Life Editor

SGA will host the second coffeehouse of this year from 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the STU. Junior Garret OToole is the SGA Vice President of Marketing and Communications. He has been a member of SGA for three years.

OToole said that the first coffeehouse of this year was the best he has seen in his three years at Grove City.

“The bands were excellent and Dunkin Donuts was also a hit,” he said. “The lights hung in the Student Union that were left over from homecoming really gave it a new relaxing feel.”

For this next coffeehouse, “students can certainly look forward to the same high quality of music experienced at the last coffee house,” OToole said.

In addition to a variety of genres of music, there will be a “Fall Foods Spread.” Pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice coffee will be provided. In fact, as part of his marketing scheme, OToole came up with the hashtag #nopricejustpumpkinspice.

He came up with this hashtag with the help from his fellow SGA member, Justine Simon.

SGA is partnering with the Christian Coalition Outreach for the first time this year to raise awareness for their upcoming Jubilee Conference.

Though SGA does not typically team up with other organizations for coffeehouses, the CCO reached out to SGA and asked for help promoting the event. To help spread the word, a promotional video for the Conference will play before the artists begin their performances.

Two performers, sophomores Edward Doyle and Julia Roper, will be performing from 8-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Doyle has loved music ever since he was little, and he is looking forward to sharing his love for music with the campus.

Doyle said, “Julia and I will be singing everything from songs by Peter Paul and Mary to stuff like Chance the Rapper, Beyoncé and Maroon 5. I think the song we are most looking forward to is a mash up of ‘Sunday Candy’

by Chance and ‘Love on Top’ by Beyoncé.”

Roper is excited about the variety of genres and artists. “I am also psyched for the harmonies in the songs because our voices blend well,” she said.

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Book sale raises funds for ICO excursions Tyler Harrington Contributing Writer

Buhl Library held a used book sale last week, with dozens of old books laid out on tables in the entrance to the library and on sale for just $1 apiece.

The library held the book sale for two reasons: to clear out the shelves of old books and to raise money for upcoming ICO trips.

The sale was a great way for students to purchase affordable books while donating to a good cause. Junior Joel Sirota, a student on the team for ICO Guatemala, said, “The

ICO trips are a tremendous blessing to many people and I’m thankful for all the support that is shown across campus for them.”

People going on ICO trips were thankful for the fundraising of the Used Book Sale. Sirota said, “Any financial assistance is always appreciated and the funds from the book sale will help make a difference in many lives.”

According to Amy Cavanaugh, a librarian on staff, the library did not choose the used books at random. They underwent a selection process based on duplications, reviews, value, refer-

ence books and new donations.

The sale offered books of many varieties and genres, from history to political science to literature. While the original deal was $1/ book, the library later opened a two for one deal.

The sale raised a total of $790, exceeding both Cavanaugh’s prediction of $700 and last year’s $505 total.

This year’s book sale was very successful, raising money for ICO trips and providing cheap reads for students.

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Lux Mea retreat tops years previous Alex Watt Staff Writer Grove City College’s Lux Mea Society hosted its 8th Annual Intercollegiate Colloquium on the Liberal Arts Oct. 26-28.

The event attracted 40 students from Grove City, Geneva, Waynesburg, Regent and Mount Vernon.

Lux Mea was honored to have nine professors from six schools lead discussions. Those discussions began with a session Friday afternoon and continued into Saturday.

According to Lux Mea’s faculty adviser, Dr. Andrew Mitchell, this year’s colloquium was one of the best ever.

Discussions focused

SEITER continued from 1 City. He works there as a temporary research assistant for associate attending physicist Dr. Assen Kirov in the Medical Physics Department, in the branch of nuclear medicine.

Within the Schwartz Building alone, Seiter is one of 10,000 employees. This does not include the other 16 buildings within New York City that comprise the cancer center. Nor does it include their lo-

on the virtue of temperance. Not temperance as in abstinence from alcohol, but a focus on practicing self-control.

Dr. Jonathan Den Hartog of the University of Northwestern St. Paul delivered the keynote address: “Temperance, the Political Virtues, and the American Founding.”

The Colloquium began Thursday afternoon as Dr. Robert C. Roberts of Baylor University answered the questions of Grove City students.

Later, students and faculty arrived and headed to Old MAP for the annual “Meet ‘n Greet.” There the guests met their weekend hosts.

In preparation, par-

ticipants read classical, Christian, and modern thinkers on temperance ranging from Confucius to C. S. Lewis. They also looked at allegorical portraits of temperance and essays on tempering pianos and chocolates. Discussions were deeply rooted in the primary sources.

The Colloquium ended Saturday at 4 with the Faculty Roundtable, which led to some final thoughts about the practical role of temperance.

Professors began their Roundtable with a discussion of things in life that must not be tempered. These include hospitality, commitment to Christ over a career, life in community, and thoughts of

our neighbor’s glory.

The weekend also contained lighthearted fun. Some students and faculty visited Coolspring Corn Maze in Mercer Friday evening.

Saturday night brought the annual bowling competition. This year Regent University took home the victory title this year.

Students interested in pursuing the good, true, and beautiful in interdisciplinary ways should contact Bethany Funk, President of Lux Mea, about upcoming events. Lux Mea is grateful for the generous support of President McNulty and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in making this year’s colloquium possible.

cations in Long Island, New Jersey, and Westchester County.

Gone are the days when a walk to class required about 10 minutes of transit time. But Seiter now applies the knowledge and skills from his classes to assist in one of the world’s most demanding needs: cancer research.

In the hospital or across the street at the Zuckerman Research Center—what he calls “23 floors of heaven”— Seiter implements clinical trials, analyzes

data, programs new simulations and works with TMARKER, a “Java program written to teach computers to discern between malignant and benign nuclei in biopsy slices,” he explains. All this is contained within double-digit story buildings amidst the bustle of the Big Apple.

Seiter’s opportunity resulted from a careful succession of events which led him to MSK. As he entered the spring semester of his junior year, he began

to panick. He had been enjoying his summers at Northern Frontier, a Christian camp for boys in New York, but as he put it, “I knew I didn’t want to do that professionally.”

In November 2016, he flew to San Francisco with fellow physics club members for PhysCon 2016, a three-day physics conference hosted

by Sigma Pi Sigma. According to their website, it was the largest known gathering of undergraduate physics students in the United States, yet anyone interested could attend.

At PhysCon, Seiter connected with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). A few months after applying to 25 research internships, AAPM—his top choice—contacted Seiter.

During the summer, Seiter worked as an undergraduate fellow, paid by AAPM to work at MSK. However, the opportunity launched Seiter into a better one in the fall. Once he finished his fellowship in August, MSK took Seiter on as one of their own employees, paying him an hourly rate as a temporary research assistant, the position he still holds.

As of now, Seiter will return to Grove City in the spring to finish the five credits he needs in order to graduate. Then he’s back out in a very real world of science.

Seiter intends to apply to several top graduate schools, but Duke University is his top choice for earning a Ph.D. in medical physics.

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“A Christmas Gathering: Fe’ile Na Nollag” The acclaimed Irish ensemble, Danú, celebrates Christmas with ‘Féile na Nollag’ (A Christmas Gathering).

Christmas in Ireland is one of the most important holidays for families and friends, as many Irish people living abroad come home to gather in celebration.

Danú’s Christmas Gathering offers a taste of these extraordinary events, which have been held across Ireland for hundreds of years. Celtic music lovers around the globe have been thrilled by their virtuoso players on fiddle, flutes, button accordion, percussion and the gorgeous voice of Nell Ní Chróinín along with top notch guest dancers.This seasonal offering is perfect for families and friends get your tickets today!

Ketler Auditorium, Pew Fine Arts Center Dec. 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: General Admission – $25 Faculty/Staff/Retirees –$20 Grove City College students – $10 Children 10 and under – $10

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Crown and Scepter partnered with Ten Thousand Villages to fundraise and support artisans across the globe by selling hand crafted gifts in the Student Union

Crown & Scepter raises funds

Alyssa Jackson Life Editor

Crown and Scepter, a sophomore academic honorary at Grove City College, and Ten Thousand Villages, a part of the international Fair Trade Association, are partnering to fundraise for their honorary as well as to support artisans across the globe from Nov. 8 to 10 in the Student Union.

Crown and Scepter, a sophomore academic honorary at Grove City College, is partnering with Ten Thousand Villages to fundraise for its honorary as well as support artisans across the globe from Nov. 8 to Nov. 10 in the Student Union.

Ten Thousand Villages is a global retailer that sells “fair trade” crafts from across the globe. According to Kate Balcom, the treasurer of Crown and Scepter, a few of the countries represented include Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Guatemala, Laos and Bangladesh.

Other countries in the Middle East, South and East Asia, Africa and Latin America also pro-

vide items to Ten Thousand Villages.

Balcom said, “A large variety of allhandcrafted products will be available at the sale, including jewelry, pottery, carved stone and wooden figurines, Christmas ornaments, and other decorative items.”

In addition to being hand crafted and one of a kind, Balcom said the gifts, “would make unique and special Christmas gifts.”

The fundraiser will help to supply the means for Crown and Scepter to do service projects on campus, which is their main function as a group.

“Most importantly, each purchase made supports fair trade and the work of talented artists from numerous underdeveloped countries,” Balcom said.

Master card, Visa, and Discover cards will be accepted at the event. Stop by the STU from 1-8 p.m. on Nov. 8 and 9 and from 1-7 p.m. on Nov. 10. to support artisans around the world, as well as Grove City’s own Sophomore honorary.

Major day for education Paige Fay Staff Writer

Grove City College will be hosting approximately 50 future education majors Saturday.

The event will showcase the education program and highlight the professors and education students. The Education Department staff and student volunteers will help the event run smoothly.

“Rather than just a recruitment event this is an opportunity to help future students get excited about this important calling of teaching,” said Dr. Constance Nichols, chair of the Education Department.

To start the day, the high school students and their families will be greeted by Nichols. Then alumni from the college will speak to the prospective students about how their education at Grove City helped them in their teaching careers.

“Our alumni make a robust difference in all kinds of schools all over the world.

Hearing about that broad statement is helpful, but hearing the personal example of an individual engaged in that work is really inspiring,” said Nichols.

Visiting students and their families will have lunch with current Grove City education students in order to hear their perspective on school and the college.

High school students can participate in workshops about the college’s curriculum, career services center, field experiences, student teaching and majors offered. Student presentations of extracurricular clubs and activities will also be included at the workshops.

Two senior education students along with Nichols will give concluding statements.

The Education Open House has been a wellreceived annual event.

It is a good opportunity for the Education Department faculty and students to meet with future students and to familiarize them with campus and the College before their arrival.

“Our education majors are very supportive of one another, and I find that as enjoyable as the event is for our future students, our Department as a whole really enjoys the opportunity to come together for this day,” said Nichols.

Entertainment

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‘Music Man’-ia

Emily Fankulewski Staff Writer

A con man. A keen librarian. Two acts packed full of humor, romance, and — of course — music.

Grove City College Theatre has been preparing for the fall musical, “The Music Man,” since the beginning of the semester.

Directed by professor Betsy Craig, rehearsals for the production are currently in full swing— and, according to the students involved with the musical, going incredibly well.

With opening night only a next weekend, the cast and crew have been putting in plenty of time to ensure the production’s success— sometimes as much as

three and a half hours of rehearsal per night.

Ally Echard, who is portraying Eulalie Shinn in Grove City’s production of “The Music Man,” as well as serving as an assistant stage manager, expressed that “there is no such thing as a normal day of rehearsal.”

Echard shared that, the cast is always doing something new and working toward finetuning the production.

“By now, we are trying to run through entire acts, while stopping to work out any imperfections or confusions,” said Jordan Luntz, who will be portraying Marian the Librarian, the production’s leading female role.

While the rehearsals may be long and only

increasing in intensity, the cast has been enjoying the experience and pointed to the fact that their close bond has only helped foster an energetic environment.

“We have an amazing cast, and they are really bringing their best to this show,” Luntz said.

Echard echoed Luntz’s praise of the cast, as well as further explained what makes the environment so uplifting: “Our cast has created a community that seeks to love Christ and serve Him with our talent, so everyone is supportive of each other. It’s refreshing to walk into rehearsals and have someone ask about your life and care about the answers.”

With high expecta-

tions for the success of the production, the cast members also shared why they are most excited for the student body and Grove City community to see the show.

Brian Ferris, who is the tenor in the quintet as well as Public Relations Chief for “The Music Man,” is excited for campus to see the variety of talent coming together for the musical.

“There are lots of beautiful vocals and hilarious moments that happen in this show, and it will be a memorable experience for our audiences,” Ferris said.

Echard, on the other hand, discussed the importance of a lighthearted musical in today’s world. “I think

REBECCA SHAFFER

Get in “trouble with a capital T” with this year’s cast and crew of the Grove City College’s fall musical “The Music Man.” it’s so important to see a comedy in times such as now, with the world being as crazy as it is.

With so much evil presenting itself in the news and life, I think we all deserve to take a break and be reminded of better times,” Echard said.

Nightly performances of “The Music Man” will be held at 7:30 p.m. from Wednesday through Saturday in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center. There will also be a matinee performance at 2 p.m on Saturday.

Get your poker face on

Kathy Morley Staff Writer

RACHEL LONG

Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty ‘80 approves of D’phi and Phi Tau game night and mocktails to raise money for The Pittsburgh Project.

Who said there’s nothing to do?

Madison Stout

Monday

Entertainment Editor

Men’s Basketball v.

CCAC 8:30 p.m., Wolverina

People complain about how there is nothing to do in Grove City. I promise there is plenty to do.

Try your luck at the D’phis Monte Carlo Night in Ket Rec tomorrow. Play casino games, get your picture taken and win prizes. Support our local thespians at the musical this coming week as they present “The Music Man.”

Saturday Swimming and Diving v. SUNY Geneseo and Fredonia 3 p.m., PLC Competition Pool 24 Hour Prayer 3 p.m., SAC Great Room GCC DOT Marathon 4:30 p.m., Thorn Track Whose Line is it anyway?

7 p.m., Crawford Auditorium Masquerade Dance 7:30 p.m., Old MAP Monte Carlo Night 8 p.m., Ket Rec

Sunday Vespers 6:30 p.m., Harbison Chapel

Tuesday RA Info Meeting 5 p.m., Stem 051 Coffee Concert 7 p.m., Student Union

Wednesday Music Man 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium

Thursday Warriors 9 p.m., Harbison Chapel Music Man 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium

Friday Battle of the Bands 5 p.m., Ket Rec Music Man 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium OSG 24 Hour Gameathon 11 p.m., Ket Rec

Saturday

Senior Crimson Day 9 a.m.

Rachel Sinclair and Hannah Van Der Eems Senior Recital 2 p.m., PFAC 106 Music Man 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium Blacklight Dance 8 p.m., Old Map

Do you like card games? Are you a Bananagrams aficionado?

Do you like all-campus events with prizes?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” check out Monte Carlo from 8 to 11 p.m Saturday in Ketler Recreation Room.

Monte Carlo is an annual event held by the Sigma Delta Phi (D’Phi) sorority. This casino-themed game night features a variety of classic card games, including Black Jack, Texas Hold’em, Hearts, Dutch Blitz, Roulette, Five Card Draw and Egyptian Rat Screw.

Guests are welcome to attend in casual or formal attire.

For the first time in almost 30 years of hosting the event, the D’Phis will co-host Monte Carlo with their brother fraternity, Phi Tau Alpha (Phi Taus).

Monte Carlo is designed to promote community across campus.

Sophomore Catherine Haas is excited for the event: “It will be my first all campus event put on by my sorority, so it will be a fun, new experience for me to help put on an event for the whole campus, not just Greek groups.”

Besides encouraging community across campus, Monte Carlo also aids a charitable cause.

This year, all proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh Project, a Christian, nonprofit organization dedicated to

community growth and progress.

The Project’s purpose is to “develop servant leaders and uphold the dignity of vulnerable homeowners.”

Although Monte Carlo is free to attend, students are asked to donate to the Pittsburgh Project, either at the event, or at the D’Phi’s table in the STU. In addition to various games, Monte Carlo will also have an assortment of food. Buffalo chicken dip, pigs-in-a-blanket, cookies and brownies will all be available to hungry card-gamers, as well as mocktails, to complement the Monte Carlo-theme.

Students attending can also win prizes from local shops and businesses, including

free games for eight people at Family Bowlaway, gift cards from Sweet Jeanies, and Made-to-Order vouchers and Guthrie tickets, donated from Student Life and Learning.

Prizes will also be featured from other local Grove City businesses, such as B’Gifted, the Collage Coffee and Art House.

By participating in any of the games, students can win tickets, which will be entered into a raffle to win any of the prizes, including a mystery box prize with at least a $75 value.

With a wide array of games, food, prizes and a photo booth, Monte Carlo is sure to have something everyone can enjoy.

Try Me: ‘Shawshank Redemption’ cannot be matched Eric Gardner

Contributing Writer “Send you here for life. That’s exactly what they take.”

These opening lines

by Ellis “Red” Redding, played by Morgan Freeman, in the trailer reveal exactly what prison life is like: life-destroying.

Directed by Frank Darabont, also known for “The Green Mile,” “Shawshank Redemption” is among the most critically acclaimed films of all time. It is tied for the top film of all time by imdb.com and is rated four out of four stars with a “great movie” recommendation by Roger Ebert.

The story begins with Andy Dufresne, played

by Tim Robbins, being convicted of the murder of his wife and her bull for which he is falsely accused. He is punished with two life sentences, one for each of the victims, and is sent to Shawshank State Prison.

There, he meets abusive guards and inmates alike, and becomes the victim of heinous beat-

ings and rape. However, there is good to be found in the prison as well; he finds inmates to befriend. Red, the prison smuggler and Brooks, the librarian, become two of his closest companions as he serves his time.

Conflict arises between Samuel Norton, the prison warden, and Andy. As Norton seeks to increasingly exploit the inmates through forcing them to do manual labor for personal gain. He has Andy handle the financial aspect of the money laundering since he was an investment banker before his internment.

The character development in “Shawshank Redemption” is among the best in cinematic history, with the prison acting as a microcosm of society. Both Andy and Red are dynamic characters. Andy becomes more rebellious as the film progresses and slowly becomes more outspoken. Red changes from a man lying to please the law to a man who expresses his disdain for it.

And while Andy re-

mains a sympathetic character throughout, other characters, like Brooks, become sympathetic as the film advances. Brooks’s inability to adapt to modernity after his term end is disheartening and serves to remind the audience of prison’s “institutionalizing” effect.

One of the few flaws is that the characters portrayed as evil do not have any redeeming qualities. Norton, Hadley, the prison guard’s captain and Bogs, a gang leader, Gil Bellows, the actual murderer of his wife, are all caricatures of their flaws (which come to define them).

It seems that they have no internal struggle to act ethically. An example of this is that Bogs seems only to be in the film to antagonize Andy. He does not have a strong motivation other than to prey on the week. Ultimately, it does not take away too much from the film, as their depravity makes rooting for the protagonist an even more relishing proposition than

it would have been otherwise.

The score is relatively minimalist, accentuating emotional scenes, but it does not particularly stand out.

The cinematography, particularly in Brooks’s side story, excellently portrays his struggles as he tries to adjust to his new life outside the prison walls.

Morgan Freeman is famous for his ability to narrate and he does an excellent job portraying Red. Tim Robbins does an outstanding job as the protagonist, allowing the audience to connect with him on an emotional level, making his redemption a story of their redemption as well.

Overall, this is one of the best films of all time in terms of both the character development and the consequential shift in the audience’s perspective of the inmates. I heartily recommend this film to anyone, though some may find the prison violence and language disturbing.

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Nov. 3, 2017

It’s the Mash

The brothers of the Beta Sigma fraternity and the sisters of the Theta Alpha Pi sorority hosted their annual Monster Mash Friday in Old Map. The dance featured a DJ, songs from the past, current hits and plenty of Halloween costumes to fill the room and boost seasonal spirit.

Students danced, sang and spooked their way through the evening. They had the opportunity to take photos and take part in a costume contest, with prizes given to the best costumes in the form of Sheetz, Dunkin’ Donuts and Chipotle coupons. All proceeds from the dance went to the Alpha Omega Pregnancy Center.

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Photos by Rebecca Shaffer, Photo Chief Words by Aly Kruger, Sports Editor

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The Collegian Think pink, raise cash

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Juliet Long Staff Writer

ABT FACEBOOK

ABT’s give back to The College through laughter and cheesy improv games in their fundraiser for Red Box missions.

It’s my line?

Jeff Lukawski Staff Writer

Loud laughs and insane improv will be heard coming from Crawford Auditorium tomorrow night.

Grove City College’s Alpha Beta Tau sorority will be hosting its annual “Whose Line is it Anyway” event for the campus.

The event will be taking place in Crawford Auditorium and all proceeds benefit Red Box Missions.

This event, which has been going on since 2012, follows the same basic formula as the famous TV show.

The show is an improv comedy, a series of games where the cast takes on the role of a quirky kind of character or are just being themselves and making jokes.

The cast of the event will be an all student cast who have been selected through an audition process which took

place in September.

The students having been working with improv and overall speaking and acting skills for the event.

In addition to watching the students improve, there will be some audience participation for some of the acts.

During the intermission of the event there will be a Red Box Missions speaker who will come up and shares some information about his experience with mission and also how students can get involved in mission if they desire to.

This would be a good event to go to if that is something which you are passionate about.

Anna Wadding, the main coordinator for the event, said, “A lot of work goes into planning this event, picking the cast and working with them on getting ready for the show, so when it all comes together it is really great to see the

audience laughing and enjoying themselves.”

“Also, this event is great because the cast of the show comes from all different groups on campus. This year we have many housing groups and fraternities represented as well as sororities. For that reason the audience is super diverse and it brings the whole college together in a special way” Wadding continued.

The Alpha Beta Tau sorority will have a desk in the sac this week.

Students and faculty will have the opportunity to buy tickets at the desk for $2 a ticket. Tickets will also be available at the door for $3.

If a comedic show is something you are interested in, I recommend that you check out this event!

The proceeds go to a great cause and this event might prove to be a great time for you and your friends.

The sisters of Zeta Zeta Zeta and the brothers of Phi Tau Alpha are gearing up to join the fight against breast cancer.

Tonight, from 8-11 p.m. the annual Pink Dance is set to be held in Ketler Recreation .

In previous years the proceeds from the dance have gone to the American Cancer Society, but this year the Tri-Zeta sorority sisters have decided to donate to the Hillman Cancer Center located in Pittsburgh.

The Zeta service project chair, Samantha Wolfe explained that this decision was a very personal one for the group.

“It’s something that’s very near and dear to our hearts”, described Wolfe of the dance and this particular cancer center. The mom of a Tri-Zeta alum began treatment with the Hillman Cancer Center last year.

Wolfe explained that the group did not want the money going to a large organization focused on research.

Rather, they wanted to send the money they raised to a smaller cancer center where it would be going directly towards helping the patients and their families.

The Tri-Zeta sisters typically hold the dance

KATIE HAMMES

“Fight like a girl” to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research with the Zetas and Phi Taus. in October, because it is at the door. The entire “Pink Month”. Howev- proceeds from the sale er, this year they decid- will be donated to famied on the first weekend lies effected by breast in November to send cancer. a message of rememSamantha Wolfe and brance. the Phi Tau Alpha so“Breast cancer should cial chair, Joe Serventi be something you sup- wanted to ensure that port all year long”, said the as much money as Wolfe. The group want- possible would be availed to promote the idea able to donate. to “continue the fight”, So they began plansaid Wolfe. ning for the dance durAdvertising began a ing the early weeks of few weeks ago for the September. event.

Wolfe and Serventi Between the Face- have arranged for 30 book event page, post- to 40 pizzas to be doers around campus and nated by Pizza Hut and a banner in the Student Coffaros’ so the groups Union; the Pink Dance wouldn’t have to pay hosts are hoping for a for them themselves. good turnout.

“We want it to be a fun In past years they time”, said Wolfe. have raised between The groups encour$600 and $800 in pro- age attendees to wear ceeds. This year they pink in order to show are hoping to not only their support, but it is match that goal, but not a requirement. surpass it.

“It’s a great time to They plan to sell out hang out with all your of the 200 wristbands friends plus it’s for a in the Student Union great cause so that reduring the week leading ally adds to the fun”, exup to the dance. Each plained Therese Baker, wristband will cost $2 junior and sister of the before the dance and $3 Tri-Zeta sorority.

Nov. 3, 2017

Perspectives

All is not well

Rio Arias

Perspectives Editor These days, its seems we can’t get enough of bad news.

One media outlet will be reporting a new sexual scandal, the latest one being House of Cards being completely cut after this season, due to allegations against leading man Kevin Spacey.

Criticisms of Trump appear everywhere we turn left and right and sometimes I have trouble discerning if he’s just that bad at leading our nation, or people in the spotlight just hate him that much. Either way, his 33 percent approval ratings continue to be another drop in the bucket against those who feel he is not truly making America great again.

But as often occurs with our president, whoever they may be at the time, choices made in the White House often affect other nations.

And it is for that reason that it is worth reporting bad news.

There is still no electricity in Puerto Rico and relations with Mexico are tight after Trump is using taxpayer money—something that was not in his campaign promises, by the way—to pay for a wall between our two nations. The stakes are high between Canada and Mexico as well, since new NAFTA draft requirements are continuing to dispro-

It is important to remember that there are so many things we can change as people. portionately favor the United States, and require other nations to produce “in-house” or domestic made goods in order to have “free trade.”

For example, as of now, at least 62.5 percent of a vehicle must be from within NAFTA members to qualify for tariff-free treatment.

The Trump administration is currently working to improve the terms of trade and wants the vehicle content requirement raised to 85 percent, with an extra requirement of 50 percent American content.

This way, the United States can further it’s protectionist agenda by using the reward of low or no tariffs to engage other countries in the trade of their products.

And basic economics can tell you that protectionism does not equal free trade. A quick history lesson in the “tariff of abominations” can remind us of how bad things can get if we head down that road.

So what do we do with all of this bad news?

There isn’t a lot that can be done, truth be told.

We often sound like a broken record for complaining about things we cannot change and though criticisms have been high for all presidents, Trump’s continual judgement by the more liberal outlets and many other moderate ones speaks for itself.

But at the same time, it is important to re-

Editorial: Apples and oranges Karen Postupac Editor-in-Chief

Several friends have confessed that they are more than a little concerned about how others perceive them.

As much as we wish to not care, we do. As much as we hope to play it cool, people see through the cracks of our façade.

Why is our society so obsessed with image?

One major culprit is comparison.

Take standardized tests for example. Students, from the time they are in first grade or so, are taking exams to determine their placement. Little Suzie gets her score back and sees she is in the 88th percentile. Suzie does not know what that statistic means yet, but she will find out that it is just a mechanism to compare her with the other students in her class. She might even use this number, along with the rest of her test scores, to define her abilities later in life.

Determining someone’s intelligence is not the inhumane part

of this process. It is the comparison to other people.

Comparison eliminates the variety in thought processes.

There are other students in Suzie’s class, all of whom learn differently. Johnny could be just as intelligent but for some reason, he takes longer to take tests, answering less questions as Suzie and thus, scoring lower than Suzie on the exam. This score, by no means, accurately measures Johnny’s intelligence. It is just comparing Johnny to Suzie, who are incomparable.

Standardized testing, along with other meaningless comparisons, only set up students for disappointment – if they score lower – or false measure of success – if they score higher.

Why is comparison so dangerous? Because people compare apples to oranges. People compare football players to ballerinas, STEM majors to liberal arts majors, sopranos to altos. These skills are vastly different and yet we insist that one is better than the other.

These things, people and ideas are on differ-

member that there are many things that we can change as people.

Instead of dragging on about what should be done or what others can be doing better, it is important for us to take individual and collective responsibility as Americans and step up.

So when Puerto Rico is without clean water and internet access, it is up to us to spread positive awareness in the face of negativity. We should be looking to see how we can help out, not add to the chaos.

At this point in time, it’s most likely no secret that the Trump administration isn’t my favorite. Maybe it’s because I’m finally old enough to remember a presidency I didn’t like or because Trump made a lot of campaign promises that seemed to trample peoples and issues I cared about, but either way I could probably go my whole life without saying something positive about the White House right now.

But it’s equally important for me to realize that there are many Americans who do benefit from a Trump presidency and that the quality of our country is higher than the choices of a handful of people, elected or not.

I hope that other people who have the same biases as me can see the same thing. Because it would be a shame if we were all swallowed in the drama of bad press and dark news.

ent scales, in different worlds.

Is there a way to stop comparison? No, there is not. An article from CNN entitled, “Comparison is the thief of joy, so why can’t we stop?” says that comparison is a part of our humanity. Even monkeys compare each other.

If useless and hurtful comparison cannot be stopped, how must comparison be approached? We have to understand that comparison is helpful, but not final. If finality is found in the comparisons of the world, society will go mad.

Everyone will believe what others have said, observed or calculated about them, which is already true.

Take comparisons as a gauge of where people say you fall in this world but do not allow those opinions to determine how you feel about yourself or your abilities.

Remember that if you were supposed to be smarter, faster, prettier, skinnier, stronger, cleverer, God would have made you that way. He created you to be just as you are, not average, but extraordinary.

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Feminism is not for sale

Julia Roper Staff Writer

I walked into H&M today and came across some interesting finds.

Feminist logos were splayed across a handful of shirts. Two opp o s i n g realities struck me at the same time: the first, being that the store was attempting to advocate for women in some manner; and the second, that such casual marketing was insidiously harming the cause of women’s rights in the first place.

The ease at which someone can buy a shirt and tout a viewpoint troubled me. Perhaps I am simply too jealous of my sex for my own good, but I was appalled. In that moment I realized why feminism has become a household name.

Like other popular ideas, the big-name companies encourage us to take large mouthfuls and digest with little thought. And the end result is a disillusioned young lady who is more focused on living for the idea of “feminism” as an end in itself than living for her own equality day by day.

The ultimate question is this: who gets to define feminism for us? Certainly somebody who has a vested interest in the equality of the sexes, especially pertaining to women. And I think that the most vocal advocates for women should not be the media or some name brand t-shirt. Rather, it should be those who understand women the best - namely, a woman herself.

In order to combat this “false feminism” that it is easy to buy into-both figuratively and literally- I think it would be helpful to point out the real feminists. A true feminist lives her life with the expectation that, as a human being, she has the innate capacity to pursue her goals and to not fear that her achieving or failing is somehow based on her sex.

A feminist believes that each individual, formed with the same God-given capacity to pursue intellectual and emotional intelligence, also possesses equal potential to attain opportunities as it relates to their giftedness as individual human beings.

As a result, feminism is expecting nothing less than that men and women receive equal treatment as it pertains to their shared humanness.

Even so, feminism has become less about our humanity and more of an excuse for not accepting our womanhood.

Some feminists have tried to embrace masculinity to the extreme, expecting society to call it womanly and beautiful.

Others have tried to embrace their femininity by brazenly displaying their bodies to the world, a step that undermines our responsibility as humans to respect boundaries that were created in order to ensure privacy and dignity of our personhood.

Both approaches do nothing to the intended purpose of feminism, which was to create equality between the sexes on grounds outside of the physical.

An objection arises here. If we do not discuss discrepancies over the physical, we may pass over pertinent issues such as objectification of women. In response, I would say that before consideration of these problems, we must get to the heart of the issue.

The essence of this inequality is a flawed idea about how our physical differences somehow merit different treatment. Yet in our truest form, we are both humans.

As human beings, both men and women should be cultivating character in all areas of life, regardless of how society pressures us to engage only in certain growth. By that, I mean that men should not be ashamed to be as sensitive as they are strong.

Likewise, women should be as prepared to state their opinions, as they are open to compromise.

This is a simple example, but consider how easy it is for you to fall into your gender’s stereotypical patterns of behavior.

These tendencies do little to develop wellrounded people. How is this so? Regarding sensitivity for men, he will not gain as wide an understanding into the workings of other human beings or himself if he does not allow his heart to be as deeply touched as his mind.

And to women - no woman can be quite certain what she believes for herself if she cannot confidently assert her conclusion to other humans, men or women.

Women, feminism must be the way that you engage your peers.

Actions, not slogans, will speak volumes to what you truly believe about yourself as a woman.

Be proud, not only that you are a woman, but that you are a human being created with innate value.

Among your male counterparts, let your equality be the force that drives you to carry yourself with strength and dignity.

We all know that the wage gap will not change overnight, so let us put more effort into something that we can change in a split second: our individual resolve to live, by speech and deed, as equals among the opposite sex and nothing less.

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Argument: Why I signed the Nashville Statement

Counter Argument: Why Christians should reconsider the Nashville Statement

Dr. George Van Pelt Campbell

Dr. Warren Throckmorton

Professor of Biblical & Religious Studies

The Nashville Statement is a recent document addressing contemporary issues of sexuality and affirming traditional Christian views.

It has b e e n signed by a significant number of Christian leaders.

Unfortunately, as we have come to expect in our polarized society, it has also occasioned the predictable firestorm of angry denunciation.

So why did I sign it?

The primary reason I signed the Nashville Statement is that, with many other Christians, I believe it expresses truth. Christians (71% of American adults according to Pew Research) hold that God has revealed Himself to humans in Christian Scripture. Many who reject this belief see it as irrational and indefensible; and yet, a former president of the American Philosophical Society has argued at great length that this claim fails to pass muster, and his views persuaded even the ardent atheist philosopher Richard Rorty on this point.

In fact, it seems that many who find the Christian view objectionable have devoted too little thought to how people come to believe what they believe. Many perceive Christians as believing in Scripture “by faith” because they have nothing better: No facts, no reasons, no logic. But this is clearly a false dichotomy.

In fact, we humans are all believers, holding large parts of what we believe primarily because others around us believe it, which makes it seem plausible to us (Peter Berger’s “plausibility structures”).

“Facts,” “reasons” and “logic” are far less determinative for what we believe than the prevailing views around us.

As Earl Babbie observes in a social research text, “Most of what you and I know is a matter of agreement [with others in our culture] and belief. Little is based on personal experience and discovery.

A big part of growing up in any society, in fact, is the process of learning to accept what everyone around us ‘knows’ is so. … Most of what we know is a matter of believing what we’ve been told.”

So all human beings are believers: “Our elemental assumptions and beliefs themselves cannot be empirically verified or established with certainty. They are starting points, trusted premises, postulated

axioms, presuppositions—‘below’ which there is no deeper or more final justification, proof or verification establishing them.

In philosophical terms, these beliefs and commitments may be ‘justified,’ but they are not justifiable.”

So all human beings live by faith in ideas and beliefs they cannot necessarily prove—not just Christians. It is not a matter of who has justified, logical beliefs versus who has illogical, unjustifiable beliefs.

It is, in fact, a matter of those who (often unreflectively) absorb the prevailing mood, who live by the “tyranny of the popular,” versus those who believe they have good reasons— not persuasive to everyone—to believe that God has communicated to us something more reliable than the prevailing zeitgeist.

It is the non-religious who have the circular argument: “We believe what we believe because everyone we choose to believe believes it.” There is nothing to be ashamed of in siding with the vast majority of humanity in holding to the belief that God exists and that God has communicated to humans.

While Christians believe that God has revealed truth in the Scriptures, and feel bound by Scripture’s authority, it is accurate and appropriate to candidly acknowledge that Christians, too, have often failed to live up to the best of their own ideals.

Some have criticized the Nashville Statement for failing to acknowledge Christian failings regarding some gender or sexuality issues, and I am sympathetic to this criticism. Sometimes we have misunderstood the Bible.

Sometimes we are so captured by our culture that we easily go along with what is popular.

The Christian doctrine of sin ought to make Christians the most self-suspicious of our own beliefs and practices, since it is to remind us of our tendency to easily go wrong.

The fact that humans often fail to live by their stated convictions does not excuse Christians when we do so. Nevertheless, human imperfection does not obviate the responsibility to state what we believe to be the truth.

Another reason I signed the Nashville Statement is that I hold the historic Christian belief that what is true is also good for us. Plato argued this, and it was the standard Western (and Christian) conviction until the Enlightenment.

If what Christians believe is true, and thus is good for us, it fol-

lows that stating those truths has the potential to do individuals and society great good. In fact, much empirical evidence suggests the benefits of traditional Christian beliefs regarding sexuality and marriage.

For example, our staggering divorce rate (something like 50%) suggests that many of our current beliefs and practices torpedo relationships, marriage, civic engagement and more.

That is, as American attitudes and behaviors have moved away from the traditional Christian views stated in the Nashville Statement, especially since about 1960, many unanticipated negative consequences have resulted.

There is an abundance of empirical evidence that traditional marriage yields an abundance of benefits to the marriage partners and to their children.

There is also abundant empirical evidence that, contrary to the current conventional wisdom, religious involvement is beneficial to people.

Finally, the latest research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that “individuals who self-identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual have an equal or higher prevalence of experiencing IPV [interpersonal violence], SV [sexual violence], and stalking as compared to self-identified heterosexuals.”

Thus, the data we have suggests the benefits of traditional views regarding religion and sexuality and suggests that some alternative views and practices may not be as salutary as many have believed.

Thus, stating and affirming the views that Christians believe to be true is a valuable contribution to honest public discussion of human well-being.

The Denver Statement, a recent counterpoint to the Nashville Statement by “progressive Christians,” states, “WE DENY that the only type of sexual expression that can be considered holy is between a cis-gendered, heterosexual, married couple who waited to have sex until they were married. But if you fit in that group, good for you, we have no problem with your lifestyle choices.”

I applaud the authors’ desire to be tolerant. But in light of the widespread hostile reaction to the Nashville Statement, one can be forgiven for being perplexed that it seems that there is no problem with adhering to the traditional lifestyle, but there is apparently a problem with saying so out loud.

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Professor of Psychology Published by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, the Nashville Statement is a series of 14 affirmations and denials of claims about sexual orientation and g e n d e r identity.

According to Council president D e n n y Burk, a prime reason for the statement is to draw “a line in the sand” regarding gays and transgender people.

The statement declares that sex is only for heterosexual marriage and opposes a “homosexual or transgender selfconception.”

While many agree with these beliefs and have signed on in support of the statement, there is more to the Nashville Statement than agreement with traditional sexual morality. Understandably, opposition to the statement has come from gay and transgender advocates.

However, some who support the traditional stance of the statement have also declined to sign on.

For instance, speaking about the Nashville Statement, conservative writer Preston Sprinkle lamented that “the evangelical approach to the LGBT+ conversation has been profoundly impersonal and one-sided (lots of truth and very little grace).”

Also, evangelical pastor and author Scot McNight rejected the statement as “pastorally inadequate.”

To these observations, I want to add two problems which I believe disqualify the project even for those who accept the underlying theological claims.

As I see it, the Nashville Statement misrepresents LGBT Christians and the essential simplicity of the Gospel.

The preamble to the Nashville Statement reads: “We did not make ourselves. We are not our own. Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given

by God. It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us to be.”

These claims represent a foundational flaw in the Nashville Statement. The Nashville Statement assumes LGBT people willfully try to make themselves what God didn’t create them to be. It implies that the reason LGBT people aren’t unambiguously male or female or straight is due to their rebellious choice.

In fact, most LGBT people grew up in church or traditional homes.

I have been privileged to talk with hundreds of such persons over the years. Most of them have prayed fervently

to fit into God’s design.

The Nashville Statement doesn’t just ignore this fact, it tramples on it.

The Nashville Statement says “…the spirit of our age no longer discerns or delights in the beauty of God’s design.” Since LGBT people don’t choose their differences, they are in a bind.

Tell the truth, live honestly and be considered rebels by their church or lie and violate their experience and conscience. On this point, Scot McNight says, “the Nashville Statement doesn’t seem to respect the complexity of human realities, realities confessed by seriously devoted Christians who experience reality contrary to these words.”

Surely, we can do better than this for our LGBT brothers and sisters.

Second, I don’t believe one’s position on sexual orientation and gender identity should be considered a core Gospel issue.

Article 10 states: “WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.”

“WE DENY that the approval of homosexual immorality or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful Christians should agree to disagree.”

About Article 10, Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood president Burk wrote: “That is why Article 10 of The Nashville Statement is as important as any other article before you today… We are not arguing today about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

We are not spinning our wheels about adiaphora or some issue of moral indifference.

We are declaring what it means to be a male or female image-bearer.

We are defining the nature of the marriage covenant and of the sexual holiness and virtue. To get these questions wrong is to walk away from Jesus not to him. There is no more central concern than that.” (emphasis in the original) “Readers who perceive Article 10 as a line in the sand have rightly perceived what this declaration is about. Anyone who persistently rejects God’s revelation about sexual holiness and virtue is rejecting Christianity altogether, even if they claim otherwise.”

Burk’s “line in the sand” places Christians who disagree with the Nashville Statement on the side of “rejecting Christianity.” According to the statement itself, the departure from

Christian faithfulness is an “essential” one.

By this declaration, the Nashville authors make one’s views on sexual orientation and gender identity fundamental issues of the faith. For the authors of the Nashville Statement, affirming LGBT people is a rejection of Christianity.

Church history is filled with many lines in the sand. Protestants and Catholics have waged deadly conflicts.

Anabaptists were persecuted by Protestants and Catholics. There isn’t enough space in this op-ed to detail the tragic consequences of drawing such lines.

According to the published works of some initial signers of the Nashville Statement, Catholics are also on the wrong side of the line in the sand. So too are charismatics.

Here at Grove City College, charismatics and non-charismatics, complementarians and egalitarians, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox believers all work side-by-side to advance the Christian mission of the College. And yes, some members of our community are gay affirming and serve along with many who are more traditional in their views.

As I understand it, one may believe in the Virgin Birth, deity of Christ and the resurrection of Christ and still be on the wrong side of Christianity according to the Nashville Statement, if one identifies as LGBT or affirms people who do.

On the other hand, according to the Romans Statement (Romans 10: 9-13), the threshold for Christian belief is clear: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, ‘Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.’ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”

There are many significant and complex disagreements among Christians. Differences involving homosexuality and gender identity are important and merit our consideration. However, Christianity as reflected by the Romans Statement is the core of the faith whether one is LGBT or straight, Calvinist or Arminian, or Catholic or Protestant. That is something I can affirm.

Sports

Nov. 3, 2017

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Men’s cross country takes PAC title

Aly Kruger Sports Editor

The Grove City College men’s cross country captured its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference title since 2009 as the Wolverines upset favored Washington & Jefferson and Saint Vincent at the conference championships, held Saturday at Westminster College.

Grove City finished the meet with 60 points.

W&J, the preseason favorite in the conference, finished with 62 points while seven-time defending champion Saint Vincent finished

The men’s cross country team won its first PAC Title since 2009 Saturday. Head Coach Sean Severson won the Conference’s Coach of the Year Award with 76 points.

It is Grove City’s 20th all-time conference title in men’s cross country.

Grove City placed five

runners in the top 23, with four men earning All-Conference honors.

Senior Drew Thibault led Grove City by tak-

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ing second place in the 118-runner field with a time of 25 minutes, 53.41 seconds for eight kilometers.

Wolverines run by Geneva Aly Kruger Sports Editor The Grove City College football team used a punishing running game and a stifling defense Saturday afternoon in rolling to a decisive 25-7 win over archrival Geneva at a rain-soaked Robert E. Thorn Field.

Grove City amassed 249 rushing yards, including a 187-yard game from sophomore running back Wesley Schools. The Grove City defense, meanwhile, forced three turnovers, recorded four sacks and held Geneva to nine first downs and zero passing yards. Geneva finished with 213 offensive yards on 55 plays, an average of 3.9 yards per play.

Schools put Grove City up 7-0 with 7:18 remaining in the first quarter when he bulled into the endzone from one yard out. Grove City began that seven-play, 36-yard touchdown drive in Geneva territory after junior cornerback Daniel Jackson blocked a punt at midfield and freshman running back Brandan Talbott returned the ball to the Geneva 36.

Geneva tied the game with 2:39 left in the first

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Sophomore Wesley Schools helps propel the Wolverines to victory. Schools won PAC Offensive Player of the Week. quarter when quarterback Bryan Stafford scored on a 69-yard option keeper. Grove City rebounded by scoring the final 18 points of the game, however.

Schools put Grove City up 13-7 midway through the second quarter on a five-yard touchdown run. Geneva drove to the Grove City 12 in the final moments of the first half but the Wolverines forced a fumble that senior defensive end Caleb Allen recovered at the 12 to

preserve the 13-7 lead.

Late in the third quarter, senior linebacker Deion Minor recovered a fumble at the Geneva 15. Three plays later, Schools scored on a one-yard run, pushing the lead to 19-7.

Quarterback Randall Labrie sealed the win with 10:13 remaining when he raced 16 yards to the end zone on an option keeper. Labrie finished with 60 rushing yards on 11 carries while Schools matched a career-high with three

touchdowns. Schools carried the ball 35 times.

Labrie completed 8 of 17 passes for 85 yards. Freshman Cody Gustafson caught three passes for 37 yards.

Defensively, junior linebacker Ethan Conto led Grove City with 13 tackles and a forced fumble. Freshman linebacker Carl Jaszcar added 10 stops.

Minor, senior defensive end Jacob Armbrecht, senior linebacker Andrew Seifert and freshman end Cam Haley all had sacks.

Grove City held Geneva to 60 yards in the second half.

Stafford led Geneva with 113 rushing yards on 18 attempts. Grove City held Geneva’s Trewon Marshall, the conference’s leading rusher, to 74 yards on 13 carries. Marshall entered the game with 1,277 yards in seven games.

Grove City owned a 32:58-27:02 edge in time of possession.

Each team had one penalty in the game.

Grove City (3-5, 3-3 PAC) will close its home schedule next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against conference foe Bethany.

It will be Senior Day for the Wolverines.

Men’s soccer falls in semi finals Katheryn Frasier Staff Writer

The Wolverines fell in second overtime after a tough battle against Geneva in the PAC semifinal round Wednesday night.

The loss ended the season for the team and followed a triumph on the road at Westminster.

On Oct. 28, Grove City, then 10-4-4, 6-1-1 PAC, visited archrival Geneva in a conference tournament semifinal match Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Grove City is the No. 3 seed in the four-team tournament while Geneva was No. 2 seed.

Senior Peter Tobias and sophomore Christian Caporaso had phenomenal games and both scored twice, with junior Jonathan Burton and freshman Chris

Stack each adding another. Caporaso blasted in Grove City›s third goal at 14:38 when he directed Tropiano›s feed into the net.

As the team prepares for playoff action, Coach Dreves had some thoughts about the team and their success.

“They have responded to adversity well. We lost 9 players from last year’s team and while those guys have been missed we are in the conference semi-final again,” said Dreves.

“We also won three games and earned a tie after being down in each of those games.

No matter what happens to them they continue to battle.”

Of the relationships with his players off the field, Dreves is proud.

“The team is also very close off the field. The friendships that every-

one has with each other have deepened immensely this season.”

The victory against Westminster capped the regular season and prepared the team to face Geneva. While the loss was disappointing, it was a hard fought battle against a worthy competitor, with a great group of young men working together. “It’s a great group of guys and everyone has everyone’s back,” said freshman Jonathan Wicker. “One of our team sayings is ‘striving for excellence’ and every day we push each other to be better than we were the day before.” If any team was ready for such a battle, it would be this squad.

Following the loss, the team remains optimistic about the upcoming years. “We have a wonderful freshman class who have contrib-

uted well to things both on and off the field,” said Dreves. Speaking of the team as a whole, he also said, “Our team right now is full of characters with character.

They have a ton of fun but work very hard and are great representatives of what a competitive Christian culture should be.”

Looking back on the season, Dreves looks back fondly at the season and eagerly ahead.

“I am most proud of how our team has been a ‘team’ this year,” Dreves said.

“Our goal each season is to compete for the conference championship and our hope is to win it. With regards to wins we are coming off our most successful 4 year period in our program’s history. Our hope is to improve upon that next season.”

Senior Nick McClure earned sixth place in 26:31.70. McClure and Thibault both earned First Team All-PAC honors.

Sophomore Mack Mettille earned 11th place with a time of 26:58.74, good for Second Team All-PAC. Junior Ryan Budnik captured 18th place in 27:20.80. Budnik merited All-PAC Honorable Mention.

Senior Travis Mattson rounded out Grove City’s top five by taking 23rd place in 27:32.19. Grove City’s No. 6 and No. 7 runners also factored into the

standings by displacing W&J runners. Junior Simon DeAngelo finished 34th with a time of 28:03.32 while sophomore Michael Martin earned 35th with 28:07.17.

Head coach Sean Severson earned the conference’s Coach of the Year award.

W&J’s Harley Moyer won the race in 25:29.84.

Grove City returns to action next Friday night at the College of Wooster’s Twilight 5K. The Mideast Regional Championships will be held Nov. 11 in Newville, Pa.

GCC athletes weekly honors

Dane Hoselton

Wesley Schools

Carl Jaszcar

Christian Caporaso

Women’s soccer heads to final match Rebecca Sayers Staff Writer

The Grove City College women’s soccer team is heading to semi-finals after defeating Washington & Jefferson in a 2-1 contest Tuesday afternoon.

The victory followed an exciting win over Westminster College that concluded the regular season with a 14-4 record, including a nine game winning streak.

They will now face Thomas More on Friday for the PAC conference title, and upon the end of the season, the soccer team reflects on what has been gained throughout the months.

Despite playing many significant games during the season, one game stuck out to Senior Elena Guerra, who plays offensive wide forward. During their game against Denison University, Guerra scored the winning goal in overtime, making the score 1-0.

“Our win over Denison was important, as it … showed that our pace of play is at a competitive level and that when we play together as a team, we can play with and overcome highly ranked teams,” said Guerra.

As this is the last season for many of the players on the team, it brings bittersweet emotions to many seniors.

Guerra says, “[the thing that] I will miss most is the close-knit community that comes with playing an intense sport with amazing teammates for an Audience of One. My team is my family here.” Guerra would like to extend a special thank you to

Coach Lamie and the rest of her team.

“Above all, I would like to thank Coach Lamie for the program and culture she has created on this team, as it is so unique and so impactful. I cannot truly express in words how much this team has positively impacted my life,” said Guerra.

The team took the field on chilly Halloween and defeated W & J 2-1 in semifinal action.

The victory -- Grove City’s 10th straight -sends the second-seeded Wolverines, now 154, into this weekend’s conference title match at No. 1 seed Thomas More.

Grove City broke a 1-1 tie at 86:33 when freshman forward Michaela Burke headed in a throw-in from sophomore midfielder Ruby Mattson. Burke recorded her second game-winning goal of the season and her seventh overall goal.

Mattson gave Grove City a 1-0 lead at 37:32 when she scored from just outside the penalty area. Senior forward Katherine Kouzelos assisted Mattson’s goal.

Mattson now has eight goals this season.

In goal, Winters made a season-high 10 saves for Grove City.

She preserved the 1-1 tie in the 75th minute when she stuffed W&J’s Jordan Toohey -- the conference’s leading scorer -- from pointblank range. Grove City is now 3-0-2 against W&J in the last five postseason meetings, all of which have been in the semifinal round.

They head to Thomas More on Friday for the PAC title match.

Nov. 3, 2017

Fall player spotlight:

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Blake Baer, Soccer

Janine Jones, Tennis

Adam Young

Mackenzie Tressler

Staff Writer

The Collegian is proud to recognize senior midfielder Blake Baer for its Men’s Athlete of the Fall spotlight.

Baer is a four-year letter winner on the Wolverines’ men’s soccer team, and is finishing his second year as a captain.

His athletic abilities, standout involvement in on-campus activities, and recommendation from President McNulty set him apart from other considered athletes.

With at least one game remaining as a Wolverine, Baer looks back on his final season with a smile.

“It’s a 10, absolutely. This year means so much more knowing the significance and history of the program, having watched seniors before me go through, and now being a senior myself and being able to lead the underclassmen,” he said.

Over the course of his time at Grove City, Baer has played in 75 games, scored 10 goals, assisted 5, and made countless memories; however, his favorite moment from his time at the college did not happen on a college soccer pitch,

but a continent away.

“The team’s soccer trip to Ecuador this past summer was an amazing experience.

It was awesome to just be in Ecuador with the team, but it was also a really great bonding experience. Just getting to serve alongside those guys and getting to be with them… it was special,” he said.

During his four years on-campus, Baer has kept himself busy.

Not only has he played soccer in addition to his studies, but he is also active with the Omicron Xi fraternity, the Christian Medical and Dental Association and the campus’s Religious Activities Committee, among others.

Through soccer, his extracurricular activities, and his studies, Blake has learned much and offers this advice to his teammates and fellow students: “Always, always, always do your best, and show grace when your best isn’t good enough. Become the best that you can be, seek excellence in all areas, and be passionate about everything. Pour yourself out and be wholeheartedly a Christian as an athlete and as a man (or woman) of God.” As he prepares to

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move on from Grove City College, Baer has a few people he’d like to thank.

“With all my heart, shout out to Coach (Mike) Dreves for being one of the greatest men I know. Thanks for being my mentor on the soccer team both on the field and off the field, and for encouraging us in the absolute pursuit of excellence.

“My family and my parents have done more for me than I could ever understand or ever imagine, and in that they’ve directly prepared me to be the man that I am. I am nothing without what they have done in my life.

“And, finally, I just thank God for giving me the gifts that I have.

Everything that I am and everything that I do is only because of Him and His grace.”

Congratulations, Blake. Thank you for all you’ve done here at Grove City, and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

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Extremely humble, talented, and teamoriented senior tennis player, Janine Jones was a stand-out female athlete both on and off the court this fall. President Paul McNulty, athletic director Todd Gibson, and other coaches endorsed her as an exemplar for the Grove City community for her excellent athletic abilities and her campus involvement with Fellowship of Christian Athletes and chapel worship team.

After an impressive season with a 14-4 singles record, a Presidents’ Athletic Conference win in third singles, third place in first doubles with freshman partner Morgan Happe, and earning placement on the inaugural conference Sportsmanship Team, Jones has proven to be an outstanding student-athlete.

The most recent conference championship was the highlight of her college career, where the team worked hard together to win by 19 points over Thomas More, earning their third PAC title in the past four years.

However, the undefeated conference team showed more than just outstanding athletes, they proved outstanding character and faith.

Other than dominating

the opponents, Jones’s favorite part was sharing team biblical devotions with Geneva in the mornings and oncourt prayer with teams that wanted to join before play started.

“When I’m looking back at my college tennis experience this will be one of the things that I remember most,” said Jones.

This career success did not come to her easily though, as she had to deal with major obstacles through injury of a herniated disk in her lower back sophomore year. After sitting out for the first three weeks of that season, she cautiously went forward into practice and matches, constantly worrying about protecting the previous injury site.

“Having to deal with this on a daily basis has really put a new perspective on competition for me,” said Jones.

After her hopes being crushed in the beginning of her sophomore season, expecting to sit out for the majority of it, she worked hard and overcame that obstacle.

She really started to appreciate her abilities and opportunities after being cleared to play again, with a constant hopeful and positive mindset despite any tough losses.

“I would have a good attitude about it because I was able to be

out on the court playing the sport that I love,” said Jones.

This hard worker dedicates a lot of her success to her teammates and the fun environment that surrounds them. She explains that the team has a good balance between knowing when to be serious and when to have fun.

They are a tremendous support system to her in many ways, especially with providing their insight on competition to help with play strategy. She loves how tennis is both an individual and team sport, even though she may be on the court by herself, she knows that she is playing and rooting for the teammates on the courts next to her.

“I’m proud of my entire team and how well we played this season start to finish,” said Jones.

Congratulations, Janine! The Collegian is proud to highlight you as our pick for female fall athlete spotlight.

Thank you for all you have done for Grove City and good luck on all your future endeavors!