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@Collegian_GCC @gcc.collegian The Collegian: The GCC Newspaper Friday, November 9, 2018
The Grove City College Student Newspaper
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
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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’
KAREN POSTUPAC
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.