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Vol. 103, No. 9

$1M grant funds rural ministry

Joy Zavalick

Contributing Writer Grove City College has received a nearly $1 million grant to support rural pastors.

The College will use the grant, awarded by the Lilly Endowment, to help start its Project on Rural Ministry, an outreach program to support pastors as they cultivate growing congregations and serve their communities.

The project will serve pastors of rural and small-town communities in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio.

“Grove City College strives to be a good institutional neighbor. This program provides an excellent opportunity to champion rural min-

istries while addressing their specific strengths and challenges,” Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty ’80 said.

He added, “We are grateful for the financial support of the Lilly Endowment and are looking forward to building a strong program to support men and women who are called to serve the church communities that are so vital to our rural areas.”

The five-year project will convene three groups of 10 pastors located within 150-miles of Grove City.

These participating pastors will attend opening and closing conferences, three regional gatherings, online networking and a series of peer-to-peer site visits alongside other pastors in their

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Grove City College’s new Project on Rural Ministry will support rural pastors and church communities.

The College secured a nearly $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to start the project. group.

The project will also incorporate students and faculty of Grove City College by funding 30 student internships and 30 service learning projects, allowing students to

serve the community and experience church leadership in a hands-on environment.

Faculty members from all different disciplines will work together to visit each church and discuss economic, so-

cial and ministry challenges common in rural areas.

The project will be led by Executive Director Seulgi Byun, associate professor GRANT 8

In tone with ketone Rio Arias

News Editor

SAMI BARTEK

Senior Grant Yurisic, pictured with Sigma Theta Chi president Sami Bartek, is crowned “Big Man on campus” after competing alongside ten male contestants. He wowed the crowd with his yoyo skills in the second round of the competition.

The new big man

Anna DiStefano Contributing Writer

Grant Yurisic named “Big Man on Campus” at Sigma Theta Chi’s annual male beauty pageant Friday in Crawford Auditorium.

Contestants started off the night with a choregraphed group dance to Britney Spears’s “Womanizer.” A typical beauty pageant schedule followed the dance number.

The ‘Big Men’ showed off their formal wear and beach wear, then each answered a random interview question.

Audience members then voted for their favorite contestants during intermission.

Each entry ticket was worth one vote, but additional votes took the form of a monetary donation. Every dollar in a contestant’s bag counted as

one additional vote for that contestant.

Out of the 11 contestants, the five with the most votes after intermission moved on to the talent portion of the competition. They were: Brandan Talbott, Blaise VanSant, Gage McNeish, Corey Fetter and Sam Visser.

A sixth contestant, Grant Yurisic, the Sig Thets saved because his talent was one that they thought everyone should see.

The talent competition included two contestants performing songs, one demonstrated how to make a bowl of cereal, another who lip synced “Under Pressure” with Okies on scooters. Yurisic’s yoyo skills were impressive, and his perfor-

Grove City College seniors Jillian Breckenridge and Mary Shannon presented research on diet programs at a regional conference this weekend.

Breckenride and Shannon, both studying exercise science at Grove City, presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter (MARC) of American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) annual meeting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Breckenridge worked with senior Dan Jacksonw and Jake Seibert ’18 on the project, which measured the effects of ketone supplements on the endurance runners.

Their study found that runners who took the supplements outperformed runners who did not.

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Seniors Jillian Breckenridge and Mary Shannon present their research on ketone supplements and intermittent fasting at a regional conference.

“My research partners actually completed a ketowere actually the brains be- genic diet and saw positive hind the project,” Brecken- results. With that, we wanted ridge said. “The previous summer one of the members RESEARCH 2

‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber’

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A large tree fell on the quad Tuesday with a crash after a day of heavy winds. Students stopped to BIG MAN 2 capture images of it.

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November 9, 2018

Midterms leave D.C. split

Rio Arias

News Editor This week, adults across the country rushed to polls to cast their votes, in one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in recent years. Among these were college students and professors, many of whom drove home to vote or casted an absentee ballot.

Offering insight into the results, Dr. Caleb Verbois, professor of political science, said, “The president’s party normally loses seats in the midterm elections, because we like to react to what’s going on.”

He described how during the first midterm election of the Obama presidency, the Republicans picked up 64 seats in the House of Representatives. The fact that the Democrats

won 34 new seats and control of the House this week is therefore not surprising.

“The Republicans lost seats in the house and picked them up in the senate, because it was the friendliest mat for the republicans in years. Next time around, it’s going to be very friendly to Democrats,” Verbois concluded.

Local politics also attracted the attention of Grove City College students. “One thing that really surprised me was the race for the 38th Senate seat for the PA legislature,” senior Hannah Hastings said. “Someone made a whole bunch of yard signs to look like [candidate] Lindsey Williams’s campaign signs, but they said ‘socialist’, and I was surprised by the smear campaign it created.”

Despite this Williams won, and it was one of the closest elections in the state. Lindsey won by only 500 votes. She had 50.1 percent of the votes, and her opponent Jeremy Shaffer only received 49.7 percent of the vote. The rest were write-ins.

Junior Elizabeth Becherer, an Ohio native, followed the midterms closely. “I feel like there weren’t all that many huge shakeups in my state. It was a really nice bit of news for Mike DeWine to win the governorship against Cordray, even though Cordray was also a semi-finalist on Jeopardy in 1987,” Becherer said. “It’s a nice change of pace that local elections can be less divisive.”

“I hope they continue to keep Ohio a superior state to Pennsylvania,” Becherer joked.

Due to the very public nature of this election cycle, there was also a large number of celebrity involvement. Singer Taylor Swift shared a long Instagram post about how she “could no longer be silent” on political issues, and caused a wave of 65,000 registrations to vote on Vote.org only 24 hours after her post.

Other stars such as Oprah Winfrey and Will Ferrell campaigned for Georgia governorhopeful Stacey Abrams, who is unwilling to concede her election loss, in a race described as questionable.

“The purging of names and reregistering in Georgia raised the question of how the state official influenced who got to vote,” Dr. Michael Coulter, professor of political science said in reference to Brian Kemp, the Georgia Sec-

retary of State, who ran against Abrams. Coulter indicated that because Kemp had a hand in voter registration, his race for governor could have been a conflict of interest.

Coulter also shared his thoughts on celebrities in politics, saying “[celebrities in politics] happen everywhere, not just the U.S. I would prefer people who have knowledge and prudence about politics, but we have a system that is quite open to most people to participate.”

Though millennials make up a majority of the College’s population, they still turn out in the lowest numbers out of all the other age groups. To this, Verbois only had one comment: “Voting is incredibly convenient, it’s the inconvenience of being educated on issues.”

Finance Report: Markets talking trade George Daugharty Finance Reporter November is turning out to be a strong month for investors following October’s record lows.

Thanks to new trade talks and bullish election results, the market—as measured by the S&P 500—is up 3.6 percent for the week ending Wednesday.

Stocks were up two percent alone Wednesday

as investors chewed on Republican party’s projected loss of the House and their threeseat gain of the Senate.

Although history has shown that mixed control of the legislature is good for equity markets, the election has not really changed the narrative on too many issues save perhaps two.

The first is that the possibility for new bank deregulation now looks slim-to-none and sec-

ondly is newfound optimism for healthcare.

Regional banks that have the most to gain from potential regulatory loosening were up only .4 percent on the heels of the election.

Healthcare, the biggest gainer, rallied 2.9 percent on Wednesday as three states—Kansas, Maine and Wisconsin— may now expand the system under new democratic gubernatorial leadership.

Beyond the elec-

‘Let’s Get Ethical’ panel talks ethics in the workplace Rio Arias

News Editor The Grove City College Management Association hosted an ethics panel in Sticht Lecture Hall, titled “Let’s Get Ethical,” Monday.

The association invited GCC alumni back to discuss their experiences in the workforce.

Many professors offered extra credit for the course, and a total of five alumni were asked to sit on the panel and answer questions, including Amy O’Brien ’17, Addie Hovis ’15, Emily Yankush ’14, Matt Grus ’14 and Jacob Priester ’12.

RESEARCH continued from 1 to see how a supplement would be beneficial because the actual ketogenic diet is so hard to do.”

Shannon worked with Lauren Hughes ’18 and Christy Zimmerman ’18, studying the effects of intermittent fasting on people with normal weight.

“Most research on intermittent fasting has been done with different fasting methods— alternate day fasting, 5:2, etc.—and on overweight populations,” Shannon said.

Shannon, Hughes and Zimmerman’s study concluded that intermittent fasting has no negative adverse effects on healthy, college

The night began with a series of topics, including stress, conflict management and competition in the workplace. The panelists each took turns responding and offering their own insights.

“There are gray areas, and you have to balance the needs of individuals and the team,” Yankush said.

O’Brien also addressed the issue of gossip in the workplace.

She advised students to strive to be the one person who your co-workers can count on to not talk behind their back.

“You have the opportunity to be that person and gossip can create aged females, although they said the area needs more detailed research.

The MARC meeting is open to exercise science and sports medicine students, who must undergo a review process by the ACSM in order to have their research featured at the convention.

All exercise science majors at Grove City are required to develop and implement a project, so those with completed research are eligible to apply.

Dr. Phillip Prins, chair of the exercise science department, encourages his students who have recently completed research projects to submit their research abstracts and apply to present.

“All of the GCC students that have applied

unease in the workplace,” O’Brien said.

One question that stood out among the others was, “What was the most difficult ethical situation you’ve had to handle?”

Yankush responded to the prompt by describing her experience letting someone go, due to them not meeting expectations in the work place.

“You have to clearly define expectations, and make sure that the person is given enough time to improve,” she said. “But after using a given communication method to work with them, there is only so much that you can do.” in the past have been accepted, but we develop pretty credible and good research articles,” Breckenridge said.

Both Breckenridge and Shannon are hopeful for what their experience completing a research project and presenting it at the MARC-ACSM will mean for their careers.

“I have been told by my professors this will look really good on my resume. Especially with grad schools because it shows that I experienced every aspect of research—reviewing the scientific literature, designing the study, conducting the study, and sharing my results with other people in the same field,” Shannon said.

tion, markets will soon be moving on to new events and news.

High-level trade talks between the U.S. and other G-20 nations—including Chinese president Xi Jingping—begin at month’s end in Buenos Aires, hopefully resulting in a deal and subsequent thaw in tensions.

As outlined in last week’s column, if the talks breakdown the U.S. will impose an additional $267 billion

in tariffs on China as a New Year’s gift to our Asian friends. Keep your eyes peeled in the weeks ahead on yields as the two-year U.S. T-note hits its highest—2.965 percent— since the end of 2007.

That trend should continue in December as the Federal Reserve continues on with its eight rate hike—70 percent probability—since the last recession.

BIG MAN continued from 1 mance bode well for him in the end. It quite possibly won him the competition.

Talbott and McNeish claimed first and second-runners up, respectively.

Having a male pageant may seem strange and might even raise some questions about what this sort of fundraiser says about our society.

Contestant Gage McNeish, however, enjoyed his time participating. “[It was] a great opportunity to get to know some guys in other groups and see how talented everyone is,” McNeish said. “If women can have pageants, men can, too. Equality for all.”

The pageant serves as the group’s fall fundraiser. Proceeds from ticket sales, additional voting and contributions from sponsors, went to the American Cancer Society. According to its website, “The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem.”

“Big Man” is one of the biggest fundraisers on campus. At this year’s event, over $700 was raised for the American Cancer Society.

Sigma Theta Chi will host another fundraiser for The American Cancer Society, Relay for Life, in the spring.

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November 9, 2018

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Rush begins in a whirlwind Katheryn Frazier Staff Designer

Campus explodes with multi-colored Greek letters adorning the shirts of fellow classmates and crowds of people gathering in excitement.

Another rush season is upon Grove City College.

But, what really is “rush?”

Rush is a time where guys and girls can connect with upperclassmen already involved in Greek life during the fall semester. Each sorority and fraternity plan multiple events to give underclassmen an

idea of a Greek group’s dynamic.

“Rushing, whether or not you decide to join a sorority, is a great way to meet people.

Not only can girls meet other freshmen, but it gives them a chance to build relationships with upperclassmen,” junior Madeline Blue of Gamma Sigma Phi and Panhellenic Vice President said. “A rush should always be herself. Being comfortable enough to be 100 percent yourself around the active Greeks makes a really great impression and makes it easier for the sororities to get to know the rushes faster.”

Teach us more Katheryn Frazier Staff Designer

Admissions events for prospective students, like Education Major Day and Senior Crimson Day, cover questions about finances, major, location and overall atmosphere.

Admissions event manager, Lynise Massella, worked behind the scenes, along with the education faculty, to coordinate Senior Crimson Day and Education Major Day. “It’s unique to see everything come together and to interact with the families that are so gracious for what we’ve done for them,” Massella said.

Prospective education students had the opportunity to learn about the education department through Education Major Day Saturday.

Aspiring teachers heard about different majors offered in education, prior student experiences and attended a Q&A panel with the education faculty.

Dr. Constance Nichols, education department chair, and Dr. Phyllis Genareo, associate chair of education are both heavily involved in preparation of the event.

Giulia Pucci, sophomore PreK-4 elementary education major, assisted Genareo with organizing and planning Education Major Day. “At my Education Major Day, I got to hear Dr. Nichols and Dr. Genareo for the first time. I learned that Grove City is truly a unique experience.

Right off the bat, I was greeted as an educator of impact, and it made me really excited for the challenges that lay ahead of me,” Pucci said.

“The Education Department at Grove City also treats you like you’re a teacher from

the first day you arrive. You’re not a ‘future teacher’ – you’re a teacher. Education Major Day proved to me that I was following my calling from God – No experience is more powerful than that,” she said.

“The strength of Ed Major Day lies in our ability to clearly articulate the unique strengths of our Education program. GCC’s Education Department enjoys an incredible reputation in the field of Education, but for a prospective student to understand the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of how an education degree at GCC is difficult to share in an admissions brochure or on a website,” Genareo said. “The overall theme of the day is not so much to recruit but to do what we do best: teach.”

Forty-seven current education students facilitated the sessions.

Current and prospective students had the opportunity to mingle during lunch.

Blane Gold ’12, a social studies secondary education graduate and senior Rebecca Krupp, a PreK-4 elementary & preK-8 special education major both spoke at the event.

Two Crimson days were scheduled this semester one of which is tomorrow. The day consists of a welcome, student life panel, tour, financial aid sessions and lunch.

A new addition to Senior Crimson Day is the private all-access event in which twenty prospective students, predetermined by the admissions office, get an exclusive introduction to Grove City College. Those selected will participate in normal events of the day and also attend the football game or swim meet, have a desert reception with the President and then attend the musical.

People participating in the rush process can get to know as many groups as they are interested in. At the end of the process, they can then choose to either accept a bid or decline to join, if the group chooses to extend a bid to the rush. Later in the spring semester, rushes who accept bids and complete Greek Unity Week are initiated into Greek life.

“I have benefitted so much being in a sorority. I have found a group of women who push me each and every day to know Christ more and to be a reflection of him,” sopho-

more Olivia Alexander of Theta Alpha Pi said.

“This is what living in a community should be all about. Not only is it a great support system, but it has brought me some of my closest friends, that I know will last far beyond Grove City.”

“I was able to have a deeper connection with my friends after I joined a sorority. I am so far away from home and they adopted me into a family so graciously,” junior Fangyi Zhou of Gamma Chi said.

Overall, female rush involves three formal events that are mandatory and four infor-

mal events – popcorn parties – that are not mandatory. Interested freshman are also invited to Greek dinners and sorority halls.

By comparison, the fraternity rush process is more informal than sorority rushes- in fact, fraternities do not have rush. Fraternities, instead, hold events throughout the year that men can attend to get to know the group better. After the groups get to know the interested freshmen, they decide who they will ask to join them. Sorority rush is monitored by the Panhellenic Council while the fraternities

are viewed by the Interfraternity Council.

“One of the things I’ve appreciated the most about the Okies is the mentors that I have gained through the group. I have been able to observe many older guys and ask them questions about life,” senior Jacob Ballentine of Omicron Xi said.

“We have a wide range of members that are commonly focused on Christ,” senior Jonathan Price of Adelphikos said. “Go with the best group that makes you feel comfortable.

There is no pressure to join.”

All we do is game, game, game...for a cause Paige Fay Life Editor

From 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday, Ketler Recreational Hall was alive with gaming lingo and strategy.

“My favorite part of the event is the fact that, for a full day, a bunch of people sit in Ket-Rec and just focus on gaming for charity,” Nathan Stoner, Order of Saint George president, said. “It is a great way to do something we as an organization love to do while also doing it for a good cause.”

Role-playing games, video games, board games and card games all made an appearance at the Order of Saint George’s (OSG) annual Game-a-Thon. The event raises funds for Children’s Miracle Network Hospital through Extra-Life – a gaming charity that runs Game-

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Students participate in the Order of Saint George’s annual Game-a-Thon in Ket Rec this past Friday. The event raised money for Extra-Life, a gaming charity. a-Thon nationwide.

Extra-Life raised more than $40 million for sick and injured children. So far, OSG helped by raising over $1,000 in the group’s goal of $3,500. Typically, the event is held twice a year, but this year the group hopes that more people will be willing to donate if there is a larger gap be-

tween the fundraisers.

About 40 people attended throughout the event, including both OSG members and nonmembers. A few members stayed the entire 24 hours, but attendees typically came and went as they wished.

This is the biggest event that the group hosts and it and took a lot of planning with lo-

gistics and supplies.

“My favorite part of Game-a-Thon is that it’s so fun to put an event on like that and have non-members come, too,” Sophomore OSG member, Michaela Roettger, said.

She was able to play Deltarune, Shadows of Camelot and Skyrim along with the other attendees.

Lovin’ the transformation

Ethan Pierson

Contributing writer The local McDonald’s restaurant at 200 West Main Street shut down this fall and the outdated facility is receiving a much-needed upgrade.

During the transformation, the McDonald’s at the Grove City Outlets mall is sustaining customers of the Main Street site.

“It definitely needed a remodeling,” Nick Deligatti, son of owner Dan Delligatti, said.

“We still get to see a lot of our daily customers and update them,” he said.

This McDonald’s was 40-some years old and is one of the first restaurants acquired by Dan Deligatti when he entered the restaurant business.

The new restaurant will offer the same menu along with more treats of a different kind. Count on convenience when you visit because employees will become trained to use the technology that will be established.

New features to anticipate include digital menu boards, mobile order and pay, selforder kiosks and table service. According to Deligatti, the site is one of the first, if not the first, to include these luxuries. It should revolutionize the customers’ experience.

His role in the project is ensuring the operations are smooth and on schedule.

With the upgrades come employment opportunities. Table servers and “guest experi-

ence leaders,” or more commonly known as your traditional greeter, are included in staff additions. These greeters are expected to assist with customer acclimation with the self-order kiosks. “Someone will always be there to take care of our customers,” Deligatti said.

If digital ordering and checkout are not your cup of tea – no worries. The traditional ordering and checkout counter will still be included.

A fresh new look will dominate the inside and outside of McDonald’s. Two drive-thru lanes are planned for installation, as well as two drive-thru windows: one for receiving your order and one for payment. The goal of breaking up the steps

is to streamline their quick service performance.

While drivers tend to be courteous at the intersection where the restaurant site is, traffic should flow easily.

The existing entrance that faces the Grove City High School will remain and another entrance will be added.

The Deligatti family loves this restaurant.

The elder Deligatti and his wife raised their kids here in Grove City.

Their son recollected that this restaurant has been in his memory for as long as he can remember. This new and much-improved McDonald’s is sure to enjoy an economy boost and a fresh start.

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November 9, 2018

A new look at beauty pageants Paige Fay Life Editor

Participating in the 2018 Miss Pennsylvania USA Pageant is Grove City College’s own Brooke Murphy.

Murphy is a junior from Sewickley, Pa., and this is her first time competing in a beauty pageant.

“I am so excited for this opportunity because it is such a fun way to meet other likeminded women who strive to push themselves to be the best they can be,” she said.

“I have already had the chance to meet so many people and to cultivate skills that I never even knew I had. I cannot wait for all of the new opportunities that this pageant will bring!”

Competing was a spontaneous decision for Murphy. Originally, she considered participating in the Miss Smiling Irish Eyes pageant, but she decided to “go big or go home” when she saw a post of the current Miss Pennsyl-

Junior Brooke Murphy is competing for the title of Miss Pennsylvania. vania on Instagram.

About 50 other women are competing for the crown.

The pageant will take place Dec. 1 and 2 and has three parts: Swim-

Cleaning up roomie conflicts Emily Bostaph Contributing Writer

Here you are, ten weeks into the semester and settled into the rhythm and flow of college life – you’ve found your tribe, you know which dining halls have the best food choices and your classes are humming along relatively smoothly.

College life is great, except for one major detail: your roommate is driving you crazy.

How did this happen?

You spent the whole month before move in snapchatting and texting. You agreed on how to decorate your dorm, talked about which classes to take, and found out how much you—thought—you had in common. And then you moved in. What went wrong? If your living situation is lessthan-ideal due to roommate conflict, there are a few things you can do about it.

The first and most important thing you can do is address the issue though a faceto-face conversation with your roommate.

Although it can be uncomfortable, direct communication is critical. Texting or leaving a sticky note on their desk does not always get the message across clearly, and it may lead to even more miscommunication. Also, avoid posting about the issue on social media, as anyone who may know your roommate can easily screenshot and send them your angerfilled ‘finsta’ post.

When addressing your roommate, do so with grace and compassion and don’t jump to retaliation. Avoid accusatory statements such

as “You never___” because these statements can hurt or anger your roommate; instead, use “I” statements to help your roommate understand your perspective and why it is causing you stress.

For example, “Having a clean space helps me have a clear mind and when our room is filled with dirty dishes, I get stressed,” is much better than saying, “You don’t do anything besides sleep and go to class.”

Alisa Randall, freshmen RA in MAP West, suggests that you can go out of your way to make your roommate still feel loved by leaving them a kind note or even buying them their favorite drink at Dunkin’ Donuts.

If having a civil conversation does not resolve the issue, the next best thing is to contact your RA. If you are an RA assisting a student who has come to you with roommate issues, it is helpful to talk to both parties and understand each perspective.

Maybe they are only being messy because they’re dealing with issues much larger than what meets the eye.

Understanding why the problem arose is instrumental in solving it.

However, if the issue is still unresolvable after contacting an RA, speaking with your RD is the next best step. RDs can coordinate room changes and be there as support if needed.

Whether the issue can be ironed out through a simple conversation or not, learning to live with another person is one of the most important lifelessons to learn outside of the classroom.

wear, Evening Gown and Interview. “They are all unique opportunities to showcase different abilities,” Murphy said.

“There is so much

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preparation that goes into these pageants… physical, mental, and emotional preparation. I think that each of these sections focus on different ways to

develop yourself and achieve your goals so that people can look to you as a well-rounded and healthy individual,” Murphy said.

When Murphy discovered that she was selected for the pageant, she was ecstatic.

She knew that it would be a journey that would get her outside of her comfort zone and help to grow as an individual. Her family has been supportive and strongly encouraged her to achieve her goal along with her friends, professors and coach.

“I feel so blessed to be surrounded by such amazing and godly people who always have my back,” she said. “I couldn’t do it without them!”

Balancing schoolwork and pageant prep are not easy, but it teaches Murphy about spending time. Sometimes she must step back and make sure that her priorities are where they should be and that she is using her time efficiently. She said that

learning to balance is imperative in maintaining a fulfilled life.

Murphy is aware of the negative reputation that pageantry receives, but stresses that is because people do not see the whole picture.

“They give women a platform on which to stand so that they can be influencers in their community and stand up for what they believe in,” she said. “They encourage confidence, poise and inner beauty while giving women a chance to cultivate life stills such as public speaking and persuasive communication.”

Murphy hopes to learn to better exhibit these traits and be able to encourage others to do the same.

“I want to have a positive influence by helping and serving others so that I not only spread kindness, but also glorify Him,” she said. “If I win, I intend to raise awareness about human trafficking and encourage others to take action against it.”

Honoring heroes

Alyssa Jackson Managing Editor

What do C.S. Lewis, veterans, and Christmas have in common?

Henry Buhl Library.

The library is hosting events tied to all three this month, starting with a Veterans Daydrive this weekend.

Throughout the weekend, students can write thank you cards for veterans at a table in the lobby of the library.

Conni Shaw, interlibrary loan, course reserves and copyright permissions coordinator, found another opportunity for the school to serve veterans. Shaw saw a post on Facebook by Huff funeral home about “Stockings for Soldiers” while celebrating Veterans Day last year. For the second year in a row, the library collaborates with funeral homes around town to deliver stuffed stockings to homeless veterans residing in Erie and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Grove City sent 108 stockings to homeless veterans in Erie and Pittsburgh.

For Shaw, this act hits close to home.

“Speaking personally, my father was in the Air Force and I also have several uncles and great uncles that served in different branches of the military and during wars so this spoke to me,” Shaw said.

“I feel that this is a very worthwhile cause and that it serves to help our veterans and spread the Christmas spirit,” she said.

Anyone can order a stocking by filling out a form from the library, then stuffing the stocking and returning it to the library by Dec. 13.

If you would rather just donate items and not fill a whole stocking, you take them to the drop

boxes in the library.

The library’s website has a complete list of items to include, such as socks, playing cards, pens, toiletries and batteries. According to Shaw, Greek groups can earn CLP credit.

“If a group has 20 or less members, they need to fill at least 1 stocking and for groups with 20 or more members, they need to fill at least 2 stockings,” she said.

The library will celebrate C.S. Lewis’ 120th birthday the week after Thanksgiving break with two events on Nov. 29.

“Barbra Munnell, our library director, and I have seen libraries do similar events for book publication anniversaries and authors birthdays,” Shaw said.

Starting at 4 p.m., Dr. Janice Brown, retired professor of English at Grove City, will join with Dr. Paul Schafer, professor of religion, for a talk about Lewis in the Biblical Reference Room. Trivia, a choral setting of a Lewis poem, prizes and tea and cookies will be provided.

Brown recently wrote a book called “The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot,” published by Kent State University Press.

In an interview featured on the Lewis Website operated by Harper Collins, Brown talked of her choice of these three authors to compare.

“Throughout many decades of teaching these authors I have been increasingly enthralled by the similarities in what they had to say and how they said it. I’m surprised that no one thought of studying the three of them

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The library honors veterans this month and next with handwritten notes and stuffed Christmas stockings.

They will also honor C.S. Lewis’ 120th birthday with a two-part celebration. together before now,” Brown said.

“I have been reading Lewis for over fifty years and have taught and lectured on his works in many different contexts—most memorably at GCC,” Brown said.

She will speak about her book and about Lewis’ poetry.

“I will also talk about the Service in Westminster Abbey when the plaque to Lewis was unveiled in Poet’s Corner, in 2013 on the 50th anniversary of Lewis’s death,” Brown said.

At 7 p.m. in the TLC auditorium, the library will show “Beyond Narnia: The Life and Work of C.S. Lewis.”

After the movie, Dr. Brown will lead a panel discussion with Dr. T. David Gordon, professor of religion, Dr. Joshua Drake, professor of music and humanities, and Dr. Jim Dixon, a former professor of English at Grove City.

“This is our first time having an event like this with guest speakers and a film showing. We’re really excited about it,” Megan Babal, reference and outreach librarian, said.

“We thought with the love for Lewis on campus that there would be an interest among the campus community for an event like this,” Babal said.

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‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ Campus weighs in on Christmas music traditions Phillip Lothe

Contributing Writer “Christmas comes earlier and earlier every year,” the old adage goes.

Every person has a different metric of when celebrating Christmas should start, and for some reason, if that person has a friend who starts celebrating at a different time, it becomes that person’s sole mission in life to prove them wrong.

Christmas is special to many people and everyone has their own Christmas traditions and ideas of what the holiday entails. Who doesn’t remember how happy people were when Trump was elected president and we were finally allowed to say “Merry Christmas” again?

In search of the campus’ opinion of Christmas music, the Collegian turned to you, our readers, to establish the definitive Grove City College consensus on Christmas music. You responded and the results are in.

Two-thirds of Grove City Students believe that one should only start listening to Christmas music after Thanksgiving. This majority opinion may come as no surprise, but it is far from a consensus.

About 12 percent of students say that Christmas music should start after Dec. 1 and around 10 percent of students say it’s okay to listen to Christmas music after Sept. 21.

The remainder of the students

‘All I Want for Christmas is You’

polled said they either never stopped listening to Christmas music or that it is appropriate to start before the beginning of fall.

To those who maintain the season of good cheer and merriment throughout even the warmest months, we salute you.

Grove City Students eschewed traditional Hymnody in favor of more contemporary music, with a majority saying that they prefer songs like “White Christmas” and “All I Want for Christmas Is You” over traditional songs such as “Silent Night.”

The priority of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” over “Silent Night” is perhaps fodder for “not at my good Christian college” jokes. Perhaps the secular song is a precursor to the ring by spring.

When it comes to Christmas singers, Grove City students prefer crooners like Bing Crosby and Michael Bublé.

Their classic feel and traditional songs lend an air of nostalgia welcome in the Christmas season.

Newcomer to Christmas music Pentatonix comes in third, while various other artists trail behind them. An easy way to rid the divisiveness when it comes to Christmas music is to do what our ancestors did and listen to advent carols before Christmas and then sing Christmas carols for the 12 days of Christmas.

Alas, that option may no longer seem practical, so these debates will inevitably continue.

Whatever Spotify plays this week, Christmas is rapidly approaching.

Regardless of the music of Christmas, remembrance of the gift that offered in Christ is the center of the holiday.

is the most popular Christmas song with 31% of votes

‘White Christmas’ is the close second with 24%

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of students said they begin to listen to Christmas music

after Thanksgiving

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Bing Crosby

Pentatonix

Mariah Carey

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Nat King Cole

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of students said they didn’t have to start lisenting because

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Through the Lens

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Artists: Courtney Mattey and Wyatt Jordan Location: Woods past IM fields Explanation: When spinning steel wool, you can’t always be sure what to expect, so capturing the moment can literally be a shot in the dark.

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Artist: Kira Wazelle Location: Outside hicks near the trees Explanation: “Falling in love with Scripture leaves me breathless”

Artist: Samuel Mendheim: Location: Memorial Park, Grove City Explanation: “Death is one of the most beautiful things of this life.

Through death God often shows his power and glory.”

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Artist: Lily Novak Location: In front of the PLC by HAL Explanation: “I caught this beautiful sunrise on my way to my 8 a.m. class. I was thankful that I had decided to get up early as well as walk over early to my class. The result was well worth it.”

Artist: Lizzy Schinkel Location: Pittsburgh Explanation: Found in “garden space” in the city with some of the last surviving flowers. Taken with 50mm prime lens & Canon camera.

Artist: Eli Kendrick Location: Bottom of Campus Drive facing Rainbow Bridge Explanation: “Fiery colors are lighting up one of Grove City’s historic landmarks on a warm Sunday afternoon, harkening in a new season of beauty.”

Artist: Wes Kinney Location: Louisville, KY Explanation: “ECHO”

Artist: Jabur Sower Location: Outside of Lincoln dorms Explanation: “Despite having lost most of its leaves, this tree didn’t fail to catch my eye”

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Oldie but goodie

November 9, 2018

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Classic film gives realistic picture to the courtroom David Smith

Contributing Writer “Jagged Edge,” directed by Richard Marquand and written by Joe Ezsterhas, is a courtroom thriller that keeps viewers guessing until the final scene.

The film stars Jeff Bridges as Jack Forrester, a man convicted of murdering his wife and maid. Suspicion mounts because his wife owns a lucrative newspaper business, of which he is the editor.

Teddy Barnes, played by Glenn Close, is an attorney who stopped working in criminal law after her client was falsely convicted guilty, but Jack Forrester desperately wants her to defend him. He believes that a female attorney will appeal to the jury, considering the circumstances of his conviction. Teddy reluctantly agrees to defend Jack, and everything seems to be going in his favor throughout the trial. However, some are still suspicious that Jack is the killer.

Jack Forrester is a likeable character who has most others convinced that he did not murder his wife.

There is a plethora of evidence stacked in his favor. He takes a poly-

graph test and passes.

Most significantly, there were no eye witnesses or a knife that proves he killed his wife. In fact, there is evidence proving that someone else murdered Forrester’s wife. Teddy is frustrated by all the confusion, and in the midst of it all, she falls in love with Jack.

This love affair only makes Teddy care more about the case, especially considering Jack practically had to beg her to get on board. Everything, at this point in the film, seems too good to be true. When “Jagged Edge” was released in 1985, both Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges were finishing their work on successful films. Close starred in “The Big Chill” and “The Natural.”

Bridges starred in “Against All Odds” and “Starman.”

Ultimately, “Jagged Edge” was destined to be a success. It grossed forty million dollars against a budget of fifteen.

Critics praised the film: Variety magazine called “Jagged Edge” a “well-crafted” film and praised Close and Bridges. Roger Ebert wrote that the suspense in the film was “supremely effective,” and that is exactly why the film is so great and entertain-

Ari has a message for her exes Rio Arias

News Editor Break-up anthems- ranging from diss tracks to Taylor Swift-style name dropping fill the entertainment world today. But Ariana Grande fans were surprised with a different tune last weekend, a song that mentioned Grande’s exes by name with the simple message “Thank U, next.” In each line of the song, Grande shares a message of personal growth, including things learned from past relationships and the desire to love herself.

The sweet pop tune is a break from Grande’s usual style of heavy bass and upbeat songs. This new single allows the simple message of being grateful for her past relationships to ring true, alongside dreams of marriage and love in the future. She shares a reminder that in order to truly move on from past relationships, she needs to love herself and be at peace with past that shaped her present self.

She sings “I’ve loved and I’ve lost/ that’s not what I see/ look what I’ve found/ no need for searching.”

This message is not only personal because of the names mentioned in the first few lines, but also because it follows a series of dramatic events in the singer’s life. In 2017, the Manchester Arena bombing took place as fans left Grande’s Dangerous Woman concert, killing 22 fans and injuring over 500 more.

This year, the highly publicized death of Malcom McCormick, better known as Mac Miller, took a toll on the singer as fans pointed to the breakup between the two musicians as a reason for McCormick’s sudden death. The Pittsburgh native, a rapper and producer, died of a drug overdose in his home. Many took to social media to comment and tweet

GRANT continued from 1 and chair of biblical and religious studies at the College.

“The Project on Rural Ministry is expected to unite students and faculty from multiple academic departments with regional clergy, allowing our students to explore their personal and professional callings and our pastoral partners to benefit from the expertise, enthusiasm and energy of the Grove City College community,” Byun said.

He continued, “At the same time, we want to listen and learn from the churches in our region. We couldn’t be

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Ariana Grande gets personal with her latest song, addressing her exes by name.

that had they stayed together, or had Grande not moved on so quickly in her whirlwind engagement to Pete Davidson, the rapper might still be alive.

He has his own track titled “Pete Davidson” on Grande’s 2018 album “Sweetener”, and the two constantly made headlines for their rapid engagement after only a few weeks of dating. Grande’s engagement ring was said to be worth $100k. Davidson made crass comments about their sex life, some even occurring on his own Saturday Night Live (SNL) skits, where he works as a full-time comedian.

Though there is much speculation about the abrupt end to their engagement (Grande was already making plans to change her name and plan a wedding within a year) there is no coincidence in the timing of her latest single. “Thank U, next” dropped the day after Davidson addressed his split from the singer on SNL. Many fans took to social media to praise the single as a sweet surprise, and also a huge sign of growth for Grande.

more excited about the potential impact of this grant.”

“Leading a congregation today is multifaceted and exceptionally demanding,” Christopher L. Coble, Lilly Endowment’s vice president for religion, summarized.

“When pastors have opportunities to build meaningful relationships with experienced colleagues, they are able to negotiate the challenges of ministry and their leadership thrives.”

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolisbased private philanthropic foundation, founded in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family —J.K. Lilly

Sr. and sons Eli and J.K. Jr. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the endowment supports the causes of community development, education, and religion.

Its grantmaking in religion focuses on supporting efforts to strengthen leadership and vitality of Chirstian congregations throughout the country and to increase the public’s understanding of the role of religion in public life.

Grove City College is one of 78 organizations located in 29 states that is taking part in the initiative.

ing.

I think what makes “Jagged Edge” a classic thriller is its ability to seem believable.

“Jagged Edge” is quite comparable to “The Usual Suspects” in its unreliability that seems surprisingly realistic.

The characters are not static; they are just like real lawyers, law enforcers and suspects.

Both Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close are at the top of their game in the film.

They are two of the most diverse actors out there.

Watching their interactions: the passion, the pain and the frustration is convincing.

Political personas dominate prestige TV Grace Tarr

Entertainment Editor For all talk about the wearisomeness of politics, American TV shows no sign of resigning the classic political thriller genre.

Netflix recently released the sixth season of “House of Cards.”

Political thrillers continue to gain traction as “Madam Secretary” and “Designated Survivor” gained approval for new seasons and feature prominently on Netflix and in critical opinion.

In a climate of political unrest, Americans are attached to the trope of a singular character standing up to the entirety of the government or higher authorities. In the case of “Designated Survivor,” fictional Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Tom Kirkman, must assume the role of the presidency after practically all members of congress and Senate, Supreme Court and executive branch are wiped out in a supposed terrorist attack. Kirkman, the ever noble rogue, must prove himself to a suspicious and overbearing Department of Defense and state governors.

“Madam Secretary” also features a fiercely independent individual standing for her morals against the political climate of reactionary retaliation.

“House of Cards” deviates from the path of “Madam Secretary” and “Designated Survivor” by portraying a leader with highly questionable motives and actions. But it stays true

to the narrative of one leader standing against the tide of political pressure.

All three shows focus on the struggles of one main character versus an establishment. Such an individualist approach to politics is at once a direct result of America’s focus on individual freedom and autonomy and in direct contrast to our system of government, which seeks to distribute power.

It is the classic image of the noble individual—or even the suspect individual—against the group. From her beginning, America struggles with both an individualistic identity and a conception of community. These three popular political thrillers highlight the tension in American politics and reveal a cultural obsession with the concept of a savior.

Whether in TV, movies or books, story tellers–even secular ones– cannot seem to escape the draw of a savior.

However, when that savior, or anti-hero, appears as a singular political figure, is it possible that faith is placed in a narrow and limited power?

It is said that politics is downstream of culture. In other words, what is made popular in the psyche of a country’s society will find its way into policy. What do these three series tell about the culture?

America seems to be obsessed with the notion of a savior, but perhaps eyes are turned to the wrong throne of power.

Who said there’s NOTHING to do in Grove City?

Today Christine Perrin Poetry Reading 4 to 5 p.m, STU Great Room The Pink Dance 6 to 11:30 p.m, Old MAP Christopher Perrin “The Liberal arts as the liberating arts: freedom and justice for all” 7 p.m., STU Great Room Brigadoon 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium

Saturday Swimming and Diving vs. Saint Vincent College 1 p.m., Longnecker Competition Pool Football vs.

Thiel 1:30 p.m., Thorn Field Whose Line is it Anyway?

7 to 11:30 p.m, Crawford Auditorium Brigadoon 7:30 p.m., Ketler Auditorium Masquerade Dance 8 to 11 p.m, Old Map

Sunday Vespers 6:30 p.m., Harbison Chapel Ramen Night 9 to 10:30 p.m, Ket Rec

Monday Monday Night Dancing 9 to 11 p.m., PLC 283

Tuesday Women’s Basketball vs.

Pitt-Greensburg 5:30 p.m., College Arena

Wednesday Swing Dance 7 - 9:30 p.m., Crawford Auditorium

Thursday ABT Popcorn Party 7:30 to 9 p.m, Map South Rec Warriors 9 to 10 p.m., Harbison Chapel

Perspectives Boisterous Bolsonaro

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Connor Schlosser Contributing Writer

Since 1989 Brazil embraced democracy.

The former Portuguese colony gained its independence in 1822, and after a military coup in 1964, it only recently re-established its democratic government. The nation’s current president, Michel Temer, affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement, claims a pitiful approval rating less than 10 percent by the entirety of Brazil.

With this nationwide disapproval, it is safe to say that Brazil desires change from Temer’s “center-right” political position and policies.

The 2018 Presidential Election introduced Fernando Haddad, a socialist, former mayor and professor who specializes in Marxism and neo-socialism. Jair Bolsonaro, a populist congressman, retired military officer and vocal advocate for military government control is another candidate. Between these politically opposite candidates, Brazil chose their victor—Bolsonaro.

This 63-year-old veteran is not new to politics. For seven terms he has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil—a federal legislative body. Amidst the Brazilian majority in support of him, not everyone approves.

Countless American media sources have even labeled him as “far-right” comparing his demeanor to Donald Trump’s.

What is it about the

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president elect that causes a divided response from Brazil?

Countless sources verify with video footage of Bolsonaro’s outbursts of crudeness and inappropriate language.

CNN states he “stirred controversy by making misogynist, racist, and homophobic remarks.”

His language and rhetoric irk audiences, quite similar to words of President Trump.

But more significantly, Bolsonaro’s policies differ from Brazil’s recent democratic history and are more like its militaristic past.

Many in Brazil are strongly in support of military control, yet many are against it.

Such a government could be labeled as a stratocracy.

A stratocracy is a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military.

Bolsonaro is a rough, bold politician who is ready for change. This military veteran is a recent survivor of a stabbing incident which occurred at one of his rallies, just a month before elections. His recovery caused his supporters to have even

more faith in the man.

But why would Brazil, a democratic country, favor a potential stratocracy?

While Bolsonaro does not plan to convert Brazil into a stratocracy, he does believe in use of force and torture to stop crime. But crime is catastrophic. With the highest accounts of homicide in the world, New York Times reports, “63,880 people were murdered across the country in 2017.”

To put that in perspective, Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world by population, records over three times as many homicides as the United States’ 17,284, the third most populous country.

While both are under democratic governments, Brazil’s murder rates are attributed to its web of organized crime, poverty, drugs, and territory wars.

Brazil’s current government has not been defending its citizens effectively and this horrific statistic is evidence of that. Men and women alike take comfort in the promise of Bolsonaro’s leadership with an iron fist

against crime. Promising to bulk up the military and increase trade are two things that the president-elect believes will help Brazil prosper.

Economically, many conservatives see this election being a huge positive step for Brazil; an opportunity for improvement. Politically, his ideas with military control are unorthodox and frightening. Giving power to the military is surrendering your rights to a degree.

It could be beneficial to give more power to military and police forces in order to shut down crime, but equally harmful and likely where increased power can corrupt and be abused.

It is assumed that the “far-right” is ever distant from the “far-left,” but in this instance, there are more similarities than differences.

With the idea of surrendering individual freedom in exchange for power to the armed forces, it is no different than a far-left ideal.

This is where the farright and the far-left meet on the spectrum rather than separate.

Brazil is divided on

their presidential decision. When a country selects two candidates that are political opposites of each other, opposite reactions are inevitable.

There are many things to disagree with Bolsonaro on: his inappropriate language, his belief in torture, and his adoration of military control.

This will likely affect his presidency and his decisions which make me truly fear for Brazil.

But we can only speculate what will happen.

President Trump tweeted he had a “Very good conversation” with the newly elected Brazilian, agreeing they would work on w“Trade, military and everything else.”

In a positive light, American-Brazilian relations appear to be off to a good start.

But time will tell how Bolsonaro will lead, and how the world will respond to Brazil’s pivotal decision.

Pray for our Christian Brazilian brothers and sisters in this time of transition as they are the second largest Christian population in the world.

Protesters out of the ballpark Joshua Tatum

Contributing Writer The fifth and final game of the World Series on Oct. 28, the Red Sox saw their strong offense putting yet another feather in the caps of Bostonians, much to the chagrin of LA devotees everywhere.

Slugging superiority, however, was not the only thing on display that night. In the upper stands was a group of activists from the TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) with a smuggled banner and a big message: “Trans people deserve to live” in bold, black letters across a transgender pride flag.

The demonstration responded to the Trump administration’s proposal that, under Title IX, gender definition follows a biological basis. Streamed on the organization’s Facebook Live, they unfurled banner between innings, with the group and their banner taking

less than three minutes to be thrown out.

And while the banner never made it to the near record-few watching at home, far more powerful than the television cameras were the cameras in the stands.

It wasn’t long before social media blazed with images of the demonstration, immortalizing what was otherwise a three-minute inter-inning distraction.

Such displays have become typical in the last few years, being part of the larger trend of so-called “Instagram activism” which seeks, above the attention of the meager few present, the clicks of the millions in cyberspace. The attention-deficiency of cyberspace requires that captivation precedes virility.

This is not to imply that the activists of yesteryear never sought to be captivating or contentious. Dressing up as Mohawk warriors and dumping tea into the Boston Harbor certainly attracts far more attention than simple abstention.

Though freedom of

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speech is perhaps our greatest liberty, an immediate consequence is that an individual’s speech is quickly drowned out in the cacophony of his fellow citizen’s. The internet, accelerates communication, but also intensifies such mutual suppression.

To slog through fake news, multi-milliondollar ad campaigns, and cat videos is a near Herculean task for a minority position. Leading up to the World Series, the TLC, as part of their larger campaign, hung a number of banners on bridges and freeway overpasses around Los Angeles. And while largely legal, these ban-

ners did not even make the nightly news. Thus, from their perspective, the urgency of the cause required more drastic measures.

The problem then becomes, what lengths some groups may go to that they may break through the ever-loudening mutual suppression. Demonstrations are disruptive by design, but when groups see fit to block highways or otherwise endanger their fellow citizens as to boost their message, they cross a clear line. It is important that, independent of our own biases towards one cause or another, we keep this line clear in mind.

Naturally, the MLB

holds that in their parks, speech is free only insofar as it is “baseball related and in good taste.” In these gray areas, these large public spaces–which also happen to be relative dead zones of political speech–to the brave goes the glory.

There is a certain justice in that the most impassioned causes are most likely to sneak through. In the case of Oct. 28, the most damage done was that some holders of $800-dollar tickets had their views obscured for a few minutes—then the game went on. The mean that the TLC has found in this gray area is, I think, a golden one.

Green Eyeshade Award the

This week’s Green Eyeshade Award goes to Bethany Hawke for her outsanding graphic design work.

Great job Bethany!

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

Perspectives Multi-country caravan

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Andrew Furjanic Contributing Writer

Considered one of the most dangerous places on Earth, San Pedro Sula was known as the murder capital of the world from 2013 through 2016. About 120 people left the city in Honduras on Oct. 12, 2018.

The 120 crossed into the neighboring country of Guatemala and eventually into Mexico.

The group g r e w as new travelers joined t h e m along the way. Now grown into a so-called “caravan,” the group’s goal was to reach the United States and apply for refugee status with the hope of being granted political asylum from persecution.

While estimates range from one to ten thousand, most experts agree that now, a few weeks after their initial departure, about 4,000 people belong to the caravan. Currently, the caravan is located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, about 1,000 miles from the U.S. border.

At their present pace, the caravan is weeks away from the nearest border crossing in McAllen, Texas, and the trip could take twice as long if they head towards the larger crossing in San Diego.

In response to the formation of this cara-

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van, the Trump administration has deployed more than 7,000 troops to the border. Legally, active duty U.S. soldiers cannot act as law enforcement, so their stated mission is to support the existing border patrol agents.

The logic is that border patrol who are trained to properly and legally deal with refugees will be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the caravan.

Therefore, the military troops are being deployed to act as support for these overwhelmed border security agents by filling administrative support and security roles to allow border security to focus on processing the influx of asylum seekers.

Theoretically, this could work great.

The problem is, based

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on President Trump’s rhetoric, it is unclear whether the troops are being deployed to support the existing border security apparatus, or to repel the refugees with force as a nation might fight off a foreign

invasion force.

It is not illegal for these refugees to seek asylum in the U.S. and directly preventing them from doing so would be a violation not only of international laws concerning

refugees, but also of the United States’ own laws.

U.S. law states that a foreign national may qualify for asylum by demonstrating that they have “reasonable fear of future persecution on account of race, religion, national origin, political opinion, or membership in a social group.”

This means asylumseekers need to prove they meet three qualifications. First, they must show that they face persecution or have good reason to fear persecution in their home country. Second, they must show that this persecution results from their membership in one of the five protected classes named: race, religion, national origin, political opinion, or particular social

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group.

U.S. law traditionally defines membership in a particular social group based on characteristics shared by members of the group that members cannot or should not be forced to change.

Third, they must show that the government of their home country perpetrates the persecution or is incapable of protecting them from said persecution.

If the foreign nationals do not meet these qualifications, they are not granted asylum, and are required to leave the U.S. A rigorous process, involving screenings called “credible fear” screenings, which determine the credibility of refugees’, claims to ensure that those who have legitimate claims to asylum receive it, while rejecting claims made by those who do not have legal claim to asylum.

This effectively ensures that those who receive asylum actually need it, and are not simply trying to enter the U.S. to ‘take our jobs.’

If refugees do not receive these hearings, it is not only immoral, but unlawful to bar them entry. If America wants to consider itself a beacon of freedom and human rights, it must do its duty, at bare minimum, to evaluate foreign nationals before deciding to deny them asylum and prevent them from entering the United States.

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A Christian response to tragedy

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Choosing the intangible Alejandra Flores Contributing Writer Princess Ayoka fell in love, but was it with the right person?

Living a typical fairytale story, Princess Ayoka fell in love with a commoner Kei Komuro.

While this story has the beginnings of a perfectly picturesque fairytale, a princess of Japan has way more to worry about.

Love is not the only factor to this engagement as the bounds of their love are tested.

Marriage, in the traditional sense, means leaving your family to be with the person you love, but what does it mean when marrying someone means leaving your family and the identity you share with them for the rest of your life?

That is what Princess Ayoka must do.

The women of the royal family do not have the privilege of loving whoever they choose without consequences.

As she decides to marry the love of her life, Princess Ayoka must make the decision of renouncing her title of royalty and all the privileges that come

with it.

She decided to marry this man and give up the title of her family.

Many may say this is rash decision, but what would you do?

If you found the man or women of your dreams, and knew that they were the one, would you give up the comfort and financial security to be with that person?

Would you choose money over love? That’s what it comes down to: the tangible over the intangible.

Princess Ayoka made up her mind, she chooses to follow the intangible feelings of love and pursue them

rather than follow the trail of money, comfort and luxury. Those are all materialistic things that will fade in time, but this man will be with her for the rest of her life.

In life, in death, in sickness and in health, they will be together until death do they part.

The idea of giving up the comfort of what you know to pursue that of the unknown because you know it’s something beautiful is a terrifying yet romantic thought.

Let me leave you with this. If today you found your soulmate, what would you do to stay with them?

Tragedy and comedy touch on each other in literature.

How do we read tragedy as a Christian?

Well, we understand the reality of damnation. Without the threat of damnation, there is no need of a savior. But the Christian story of life takes on the form of comedy. Though a long winter ensues, the Spring comes—along with the return of the hero.

These are dark days.

And they will be until Christ returns. Though mass shootings, death and disaster are all too common, we must not let these events become normal. We must not become numb to the hardship surrounding us. Because if we do not see the terrible reality of the world around us, we do not see the need for a Savior. Instead of simply respond-

ing with “no more hate” we have to use this as an opportunity to shine light on the darkness. It’s not just about hate, it’s about sin in the world.

We, as Christians, in this world of death have the hope of eternal life. But we are also called to mourn. Jesus mourned the death of Lazarus—he wept bitterly—but then he raised Lazarus from the dead. Though he would live again, Jesus still mourned the loss of a friend. So let us not skip over the grief, but feel the weight of it. But after grieving the deaths of those lost in the Tree of Life synagogue, we must remember the life that is to come.

In John 16:33, Jesus says, “In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Sports Hoops, they did it again

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Looking forward to promising year

Mackenzie Stine Men’s Basketball Beat Writer

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The women’s basketball team prepares for the start of the seaon against PittGreensburg on Nov. 13 with four seniors and an experienced squad.

Women have eyes set on the prize Mallory Trumbull Women’s Basketball Beat Writer

The Grove City Women’s basketball team is back in season and looking for a strong start.

The Wolverines ended the 2017-18 season with an overall record of 18-10 and a President’s Athletic Conference record of 12-6.

The women shattered all kinds of program records last year and made it to the President’s Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals where they fell to powerhouse opponent, Thomas More College.

On top of that, they also earned a spot in the ECAC opener.

The Wolverines will be bringing many experienced players back onto the court. Along with four seniors— guard McKenzie Black, forward Emory Ujano and centers Laura Buchanan and Cass Book—the team brings

back two juniors who have seen their fair share of court time— forward Jess Book and forward Kate Balcom.

Senior Erin Logue will be able to provide lots of leadership in her position as student-assistant coach.

Balcom provided some insight on the team dynamic this year, saying, “We have a lot of returners this year, so it’s allowed us to hit the ground running a bit more this year. Lexie is also gone this year, so we need different people to step up and fill her spot. Not one person is going to fill it all.”

Balcom said that one of the goals the team has for this year is to “be one of the top defensive teams in the PAC. Push the pace on offense to take advantage of our speed. Build on games throughout the year so we are at our best come February.”

Logue said, “Our team vision is to be the

#1 team in the PAC with the right culture.”

“We have been lifting throughout the summer and fall,” Logue said.

“We also have early morning conditioning, pick-up and bonding as a new team.”

Finally, Balcom and Logue said the PAC is different now that Thomas More is gone, having move up to Division 2.

“I think it’s exciting because it makes the PAC very open. It’s no longer a forgone conclusion who’s going to win the championship,” said Balcom. “I think there’s a group of teams that are going to be very competitive with each other over the regular season which will keep things interesting until the very end.”

Logue said, “The conference champ can literally be anyone this year and that’s never really been the case before.”

The Grove City College men’s basketball team looks to build on last season’s success as they take the court this year.

The Wolverines reached the quarterfinals of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship last season after finishing 5th in the conference.

Grove City lost key players, however, with four seniors graduating, including starters Cory Huff and Andrew Beckman.

Both Huff and Beckman reached 1,000 career points during their senior season.

Despite the losses, this year, the 20th season of Coach Steve Lamie’s career as head coach for the Wolverines, looks to be a promising one.

The team has 12 returning members, including captains senior Isaac Williams, junior Nate Peters and sophomore Justice Rice.

Peters thinks the team is “looking strong.” He says the team is “going to miss having 2 thousand-point scorers in Cory Huff and Andrew Beckman, but we have three starters in James Wells, Justice Rice, and me all coming back.

“With senior Isaac Williams returning for his final year, he is great for our team and an awesome leader to have,” Peters said.

Williams was the team’s leading 3-point scorer last year.

Both Wells and Peters were also leading

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The Grove City College men’s basketball team adjusts to the loss of key players and the addiotion of new ones. The team’s home opener is on Nov. 20. scorers on the team last year.

The team is very young this year.

They only have one senior and brought in seven freshmen and one sophomore transfer.

Williams says because of this, they will be “asking [the] young guys to step up”. He believes that despite the young nature of the team, the team “can be a very difficult team to play.”

As captains, both Peters and Williams want to be examples of what it means “to be a Grove City basketball

player,” which Williams explains is “tough, hard-nosed basketball playing for the glory of God.” Peters says the team has been working incredibly hard in the offseason and he is excited to see their hard work payoff because “the goal is to win a PAC championship!”

The Wolverines are slated to play 11 games at home this season and are looking at 16 PAC games. They open their season next week away at Hilbert College in New York. Their first home game is Nov. 20 at 7:00 p.m. against Franciscan University.

Men to face Wilkes in ECAC tourney Price Styer Men’s Soccer Beat Writer The Grove City College men’s soccer team has earned an invitation to the 2018 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Championship Tournament, following one of the finest regular seasons in the program’s recent history.

Grove City, now 14-24, will face Wilkes University at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Madison, N.J. Grove City is making its 15th all-time postseason trip as well as its fifth straight qualification for the ECAC Division III Tournament.

The Wolverines earned a spot in the ECAC tournament following a run to the finals of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship. Grove City lost the final to Westminster College at home Saturday, snapping their 11-match unbeaten streak.

Westminster broke through at 23:55 when Shane Fallen scored on a penalty kick after

a Grove City defender fouled within the goal box. Grove City was able to place the ball into Westminster’s goal at 67:23. Unfortunately, the referees declared an end of action before ball went into the goal. Top-seed Grove City outshot secondseed Westminster by a 20-4 margin, including 10-1 within the second half. The Wolverines also held a 9-0 advantage in corner kicks.

Freshman goalkeeper Luke Greenway made one save for Grove City.

Westminster goalie A.J. Bove stopped 11 shots.

Westminster defenders also recorded two team saves to preserve the shutout.

Junior forward Christian Caporaso leads Grove City in goals, assists and points this season, with 10, five and 25 respectively.

Senior midfielder Jon Burton has added nine goals and three assists this season while senior forward Franklin Tropiano has seven goals.

Defensively, freshman goalkeeper Luke Gre-

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Above, senior Wade Chapline fights at the goal in the Wolverines’ devastating loss to Westminster College Saturday. Right, senior forward Nate Curry battles for possession against Westminster. enway owns a 14-2-3 record and 0.78 goalsagainst average this season.

The Wolverines have served an impressive seven shutouts as a team. Senior defender Wade Chapline and junior defender Alec Gehman have anchored the Grove City defense.

Wilkes University went 8-8-1 overall and 3-4 in the Freedom Conference this season. It is the Colonels’ best season since go-

ing 9-8-1 five years ago. Senior midfielder Camry Huff leads Wilkes with six goals and six assists this season.

This is the first-ever meeting between Grove City and Wilkes. The winner of the game will play either Drew University or College of New Rochelle at 1 p.m. Sunday. The winner of Sunday’s contest advances to next weekend’s ECAC semifinals at a site and time to be determined.

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The Grove City College women’s soccer team greets the elated crowd at Forker Field after triumphing over rival Westminster in a nailbiter Saturday. The Wolverines face University of Chicago tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in Danville, Ky.

Sixth is oh so sweet Women’s soccer wins first PAC title in 17 years, sixth overall

Mackenzie Stine

Women’s Soccer Beat Writer The Grove City College women’s soccer team beat rival Westminster College in a penalty kick shootout Saturday to win the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship.

The conference title is their sixth overall and first

in 17 years, with titles in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001 all under coach Melissa Lamie.

Westminster took a 1-0 lead early in the first half, the first goal allowed by the Wolverines in 10 conference games.

With 25 seconds of regulation left, junior midfielder Brooke Thomas was able

to put away her fourth goal of the season and push the Wolverines into overtime.

The 1-1 tie remained intact throughout a scoreless overtime, sending the game to a penalty kick shootout.

Sophomore goalkeeper Colombia Harkrader stopped Westminster’s first three shots in the shootout, before they scored on their fourth

shot. Grove City scored 3 of their 5 shots in the shootout to claim the win and the title.

Freshman defender Lizzy Swoboda, sophomore midfielder Micaela Burke and freshman defender Maggie Burke all put their penalties in the net.

With a 3-1 shootout win, the Grove City women’s soccer team advances to the

NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. This will be their fourth all-time NCAA tournament appearance with qualifications in 2002, 2003, and 2012.

The Wolverines will face the University of Chicago in the first round of the tournament tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in Danville, Ky.

Comeback kings

Aly Kruger Sports Editor

The Grove City Wolverines overcame an early 20-point deficit at archrival Geneva College Saturday, scoring 21 points in the fourth quarter to clinch their fifth-straight win.

Grove City fell down 20-0 in the first quarter, and entered the fourth behind 27-14. The Wolverines cut that deficit down early in the quarter when freshmen quarterback Josh Ehst found sophomore wide receiver Cody Gustafson for a 67-touchdown pass.

Junior running back Wesley Schools then scored twice in the span of 30 seconds to grab the comeback win. With 2:40 left on the clock and the ball on Geneva’s 4 yard line, Schools punched the ball into the endzone, giving Grove City a 28-27 lead. His touchdown capped a 12-play, 62-yard drive for the Wolverines.

Grove City’s defense then held Geneva to a quick fourand-out, forcing a punt. On the first play after the punt, Schools took the ball and drove 55 yards up the field, giving the Wolverines a 3527 lead.

The score would remain unchanged for the rest of the game, but not without a scare as Geneva drove to the Grove City 19. However, the Wol-

verine defense was a brick wall and stuffed senior quarterback Trewon Marshall one yard short on 4th-and-2 with 1:11 left to seal the victory.

The win was Grove City’s first at Reeves Field since 1979. At 6-3, Grove City has its best record after nine games since 1997.

Gustafson caught 13 passes for 170 yards and two touchdowns, setting the record as Grove City’s all-time career leader with 19 touchdown catches. Gustafson also extended his single-season record for touchdown catches with 14 on the year. Schools ran for 142 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries.

Ehst threw for 204 yards and two touchdowns, completing 18 of his 33 passes. Ehst also ran for 54 yards.

After a rough start to the game, Grove City broke through at the 12:09 mark of the second quarter as Ehst tossed a 13-yard touchdown pass to Gustafson.

DAVE MILLER The Wolverines cut the lead Cody Gustafson added the first points to the Wolverines’ score and became Grove City’s all-time to 20-14 late in the first half career leader with 19 touchdown catches, including 13 passes for 170 yards on Saturday. when junior running back Wesley Schools scored on back for the Golden Torna- er Luke Salerno posted 1.5 shall led Geneva with 285 a six-yard touchdown run does and ran for three touch- sacks and seven total tackles. rushing yards on 36 carries. with 28 seconds left. Sopho- downs in the first quarter. Ehst added with 54 rushing The Wolverines will close the more safety Patrick Mark set Mark led the Grove City de- yards. Grove City finished regular season at 1:30 p.m. up the Wolverines’ 32-yard fense with 11 tackles. Senior with 400 offensive yards. Ge- tomorrow at home on Thorn touchdown drive with a 30- nose tackle Connor Lowe neva finished with 434 yards. Field against Thiel College in yard interception return. and freshman linebacker Grove City held a 24-21 edge the 35th annual battle for the Normally a fullback in Ge- Parker Kilgore both had in first downs while Geneva prestigious Mercer County neva’s option-based offense, nine stops. Kilgore also had had a 31:20-28:40 time of Cup. It will also be Senior Marshall started at quarter- a half sack. Junior lineback- possession advantage. Mar- Day for the Wolverines.

WOLVERINE HONORS Freshman Luke Mason captured Rookie of the Week after winning the 200 IM and 500 free Saturday at Fredonia State.

Senior swimmer Dane Hoselton captured Swimmer of the Week after winning the 100 and 200 meter backstroke.

Freshman quarterback Josh Ehst earned Rookie of the Week after leading Grove City to a comeback win over Geneva College Saturday.

Sophomore wide receiver Cody Gustafson earned DIII South Offensive Player of the Month for October.