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@Collegian_GCC @gcc.collegian The Collegian: The GCC Newspaper
Friday, September 28, 2018
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 104, No. 5
Patient, provider, payer
Furry friends and the first day of fall
Alyssa Jackson Managing Editor
time. “Participation [in meals] was at 64 percent and jumped to 69 or 70 percent after the
Dr. Richard Kocur ’87, assistant professor of management and marketing, succinctly debunked Medicare for All at the Freedom Reader’s opening event Tuesday, put on by the Center for Vision & Values. About 100 students grabbed their choice of fruit and desert and took a seat around tables in the Morledge G r e a t Room in Kocur Rathburn Hall. “I was happy with the turnout and was encouraged to see many pre-health majors here with Dr. Rumbaugh,” Kocur said. Kocur graduated from Grove City in 1987 with a degree in Biology, before working for Coventry Health Care in the pharmaceutical industry. Though he now teaches management and marketing at Grove City, he always had an interest in the area of health care. Patients, providers and payers make up the three concerned parties of health care. Kocur spoke on how Medicare for All would affect each group. “As someone who will be in the payer/ stockholder group, I found his talk very helpful,” senior Lindsey Harrington said. She worked this summer in the pharmacy economics department for Cigna, a prominent healthcare company. “Though I already
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Junior Emily Geiger is all smiles at SGA’s annual Fall Fest Saturday. The event featured an exotic petting zoo, apple-bobbing and other fun fall games. Check out page 5 for a review of Fall Fest and page 6 and 7 for more photos.
Filling Nacho-average meal plan in Rio Arias
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Elsie Becker
Contributing Writer As Grove City College’s own Dr. Shawn Ritenour takes a sabbatical during the Fall 2018 semester, the economics department has found itself short of professors needed to teach classes. Thankfully, in a classic operation of supply and demand, two visiting professors made themselves available to cover the education shortage. The department welcomes back Dr. David Rapp and Dr. Anne Bradley. Both have taught classes at the college before and will be teaching in GCC’s economics department this semester. While they share the commonality of teaching economics, Rapp and Bradley have differing backgrounds and concentrations. Bradley lives in the D.C. area and has taught at Georgetown University, The Institute for World Politics and George Mason University, among others. Rapp comes to Grove City from all the way across the Atlantic where he teaches at the University of Saarland in Germany. “I always enjoy coming back to Grove City in general and to the college with its beautiful campus in particular. I’m certainly very much looking forward ECON 2
Grove City College is a private Christian college that prides itself on catering to the individual needs of its students in all areas; however, while most colleges offer multiple options for meal plans, GCC has just one for its on-campus residents—three meals a day, seven days a week—better known as a 21 meal plan. JonErik Germadnik, general manager of Bon Appetit in Grove City, talked about the expenses behind a 21 meal plan and how the catering company bills to college. “If you add two to three meal plans you have to charge enough to cover the fixed costs,” he said.
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Sophomore Wes Kinney chows down on Hick’s delicious food. Bon Appetit continues to offer 21-meal plan to Grove city Students. Participation from students in the meal plans offered, and usage of the different dining halls are factors that determine how to be
efficient with meals offered and what students will actually consume. Usage rates of meals among students have also changed over
A fair for the future Juliet Long Contributing Writer The Career Services Office hosted the 20th annual Career Fair Wednesday. This year’s fair was the second largest in the school history. Over 150 company representatives and Grove City College alumni awaited the anticipated rush of eager students. The 2018 Career Fair reached an important milestone in its history, “which makes this event particularly meaningful to the CSO [Career
Services Office] team,” Amanda Sposato, director of Career Services, said. Career Services began planning and inviting organizations to the annual event back in May “all summer and through the early fall until the day of the fair,” Sposato said. Caleb Vits, the office’s assistant director for employer relations and internship development, strategically approached the planning of this year’s event. Vits invited companies who had previously hired Grove City College
alumni and brought diversity to the vast selection of employers. “There’s a lot of benefits from attending our fair, from building connections with recruiters and alumni representatives…to gaining professional skills,” Sposato said. “It’s useful to just help you explore your options. Think of it as practice,” Therese Baker, a senior communications and marketing major, remarked. Senior Kyle Harshbarger agreed, saying that the CAREER FAIR 2
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The 20th annual Career Fair, held Wednesday, was the biggest in the school’s history.