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Smith for baccalaureate service Prominent minister will address 2019 class on faith and leadership

Collegian Staff Rev. Rufus Smith IV, an accomplished minister and faith leader, will deliver Smith Grove City College’s 2019 Baccalaureate address this year.

Smith, a prominent leader in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17.

Smith is an active force working to improve lives in the Memphis community.

Smith believes that the au-

thentic and attractive gospel of Jesus Christ consists of three, equally necessary things: preaching, teaching and healing.

“Rev. Smith’s dedication to the work of Christ’s church will inspire our graduates to devote themselves to the ministry of the gospel no matter where they are headed, personally or professionally,” Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty ’80, said. “We are privileged to be able to host him and excited that he will be helping us send the class of 2019 into the world.”

After speaking at the service for graduates, Smith will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Grove City College at the 2019 Commencement on Saturday, May 18, where U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., will deliver an address to graduates, their family and friends and the campus community.

As well as leading the Hope EPC congregation, Smith is the founder of Memphis Christian Pastor’s Network, an ethnically and denominationally diverse group of pastors that aims to cultivate

trust and collaboration between clergy to leverage their influence to address economic disparity in the city.

Smith joined Hope EPC in September 2010 as associate pastor of Discipleship and was elected as senior pastor in 2013.

The church has transitioned to a multi-ethnic congregation over the last eight years, with 30 percent of its members now being people of color.

Previously Smith was senior pastor of The City of Refuge Presbyterian Church, an interracial, inter-gener-

ational, biblically centered and socially active fellowship in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

There he founded the Forge for Families, a community development center designed to empower the under-resourced.

Under his leadership, the Forge successfully completed a $6.4 million-dollar capital campaign and built a 40,000 square-foot campus, debt free.

He also served as lead chaplain for the NBA’s Houston Rockets for three years.

GCC hosts Winter has finally broken folk duo in concert Johnnyswim plays March 29 Grace Tarr

Managing Editor Acclaimed folk and blues duo Johnnyswim bring their talents to Grove City College next week.

The duo, consisting of husband and wife Abner Ramirez and Amanda Ramirez, perform in the College Arena next Friday at 7:15 p.m. Stonebridge Concerts is hosting the concert.

The band blended blend folk, rock and soul on their two albums, and are set to release a third next month.

The couple originally met in 2005 at a church and while their music is not exclusively Christian, they infuse their music with Christian themes.

Johnnyswim has a fan base on Grove City’s campus and was chosen by popular demand. Junior Emily Stein, vice president of Stonebridge, described the process.

“The band was chosen after we polled the student body last year,” she said. “We had a jar at our table for the Run River North concert for people to put in suggestions for who we should bring, and Johnnyswim was by far the popular vote.”

Sponsored by Bon Appetit, the concert is the first major event to receive its sponsorship.

“Bon Appetit became our host sponsor through the work of the Advancement Office here at the College,” she said. “Stonebridge worked with the Advancement Office to write a sponsorship plan that was presented to a wide variety of sponsors. We have a lengthy list of sponsors in addition to Bon Appetit that enabled us to make this concert a possibility.”

While Bon Appetite sponsored the event, the Advancement Office was instrumental in helping Stonebridge present to possible sponsors.

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Grove City got a short reprieve from the dead of winter last week, when a burst of warm weather hit campus. The ice covering Wolf Creek briefly began to break up in the heat wave, leading to this picture.

McNulty in the Post

Anna DiStefano Staff Writer

Do religious beliefs have a say in a judicial nominee’s fitness for office?

Many Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem to think so.

In an article published by the “Washington Post,” however, President Paul J. McNulty ’80 and John A. Sparks, retired dean of Calderwood and a current fellow for educational policy for the Center for Vision and Values, call the questioning of a judicial nominee’s religious beliefs unconstitutional.

Citing Article VI of the U.S.

Constitution, which reads “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States,” McNulty and Sparks argue that questions like “Do you believe [same-sex marriages] are a sin?” are inappropriate. Sen. Cory Booker (DNJ) posed this question to Neomi Rao in February at her confirmation hearing in February to fill Brett M. Kavanaugh’s vacant seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Democrats hold minority panel Jules Wooldridge Staff Writer

The Grove City College Democrats group hosted a panel focused on racial and ethnic minorities in politics before spring break, featuring professors and students of the College.

During the time, the panelists— Professors of Spanish Dr. Carla Ligo and Dr. Julio Quintero, senior education major Grace Heyjin Choi, Professor of music business Dr. Cedric Lewis and Director of the Office of Multicultural Education & Initiatives Justin Jose—discussed their experiences as people of color in a world that isn’t always built for them.

The College Democrats wanted to create an environment that fosters understanding regarding issues of race, according to Secretary and Treasurer Maddie Meyers who also facilitated the panel.

“I firmly believe that we cannot have policies or laws that work well until we understand each other, similarities and differences included,” Meyers said, explaining that this understanding was the goal of the panel.

Those gathered spent a lot of time discussing race and ethnicity as lived experiences, rather than abstract concepts. Experiences such DEMOCRATS 3

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Analysis

Editorial

The Bard of Pittsburgh

James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief

The world of sports journalism lost a titan this year.

You might be thinking of Dan Jenkins, the legendary Sports Illustrated reporter.

In the pantheon of great literary sports journalists, Jenkins stands as tall as any.

He brought class, humor and elegance to everything he covered, especially golf and college football.

But I’m not talking about Jenkins. Enough has been written and said about him already.

No, I’m talking about Pittsburgh legend Roy McHugh, an unparalleled scribe of all things Pittsburgh.

McHugh died at 103 years old last month, having spent nearly his entire life in the business of writing.

McHugh was a great writer, a craftsman of the English language.

He mastered words and sentences, churning out beautiful prose day-afterday, week-after-week in his columns.

As an editor, he helped shape others’ writing into fuller and deeper pictures.

McHugh was also one of the great boxing writers.

There are few sports that lend their nature to writing as much as boxing. Part of that is pure coincidence: boxing’s heyday from the 1930s to 1950s overlaps with one of the golden eras of journalism.

But the beauty of boxing lies also in its central characters: two athletic men, grappling with one another in a fight nearly to the death

for supremacy. It is the stuff of great literature.

McHugh knew great literature, and he wrote great literature.

His coverage of boxing rises beyond the level of plain journalism into the realms of Art. In that respect, he stood alongside Jenkins, A.J. Liebling, Frank Deford and others.

But even more than his brilliant coverage of sports, McHugh covered everything.

He knew Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania inand-out. Everything he wrote came back to Pittsburgh, his adopted home and first love. His columns touched on every aspect of life in Pittsburgh: food, history, society, politics, economics and culture.

Through his nearly seven decades in journalism, working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press, McHugh made the life of an entire region his personal beat.

For that, the Post-Gazette is right to call him Pittsburgh’s Thucydides. He was the great storyteller of our region.

They don’t make Roy McHughes anymore. There isn’t the chance to. Local journalism is disappearing, even in cities like Pittsburgh.

Journalists don’t have the chance to do what McHugh did anymore, and that is a sad fact. McHugh’s work unpacked the innumerable and rich layers of this city’s life, and then added layers all the more rich.

There never could be another Roy McHugh anyway.

No one else could have combined a love of writing and of a city like McHugh did.

He will be sorely missed.

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Toomey visits College Grace Tarr

Managing Editor

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey visited Grove City College Tuesday to speak with student leaders about the future of conservatism.

Toomey, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, is a republican. He made headlines recently for his disagreements with President Trump.

Traveling back from Washington, D.C., Toomey is spending this week meeting with constituents. He noted jokingly that on his journey from D.C. his plane’s heater was broken and the air temperature of minus 18 degrees Fahrenheit at cruising altitude made Pennsylvania’s chilly weather feel warm and inviting.

The group of 15 students, myself among them, consisting of Center for Vision and Values fellows and College Republican executives, gathered in a conference room in the office of Grove City College President Paul J. McNulty ’80 for a discussion with Toomey.

Sitting in the room with the senator, the atmosphere was warm and open. His admiration for the College was clear, as he praised the school for its record of graduating strong conservatives and noted after the meeting that the students were “well informed and thoughtful” in their questions.

“I appreciated how Sen.

Toomey was very genuine and thoughtful when addressing the concerns and questions of the students,” sophomore Caroline Lindey said.

Toomey made news recently for opposing President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border to secure funding for ten key portions of wall construction after Congress rejected his initial request for $5.7 billion. Instead, the House and Senate approved $1.4 billion for border security.

The declaration of a national emergency is a strategic move on the part of the administration. It allows Trump to reprogram military construction funds into the border wall, according to Toomey.

While declaring an emergency creates an avenue to fund the border wall, Toomey argued that Trump could have acquired the funding by combining the already approved $1.4 billion with $600 million from asset forfeiture and $4 billion the president has access to from the defense department. Totaling $6 billion, this plan would provide more than the $5.7 billion originally requested, all from money already allocated for presidential discretionary spending.

Instead, Trump opted to declare a national emergency. Twelve Republican senators, Toomey among them, opposed the declaration. For Toomey, the issue is one of respect for the separation of powers. While combining

discretionary portions of the budget are within executive reach, he said using the national emergency funding reallocates money without direct congressional oversight.

Ultimately, Toomey’s concern is that this action will set a precedent for presidential spending through the declaration of a national emergency. While there are parameters in place as to what constitutes an emergency, the lines are not clearly drawn.

To protect the use of national emergency spending, Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, introduced the “Article One Act” with Toomey as co-sponsor on March 12 to curb presidential power to declare a national emergency.

“If we don’t want our president acting like a king, we need to start taking back the legislative powers that allow him to do so,” Lee said.

Toomey made it clear that he supports “enhancing physical security” at the southern border, but he said the principle of checks and balances within the government must be maintained.

The issue was hotly debated, and Toomey noted that many felt pressure to vote with Trump, since it was characterized as voting for or against the wall. Toomey is insistent that the issue is not over border security, but the principle of Congressional oversight.

“When you do the right thing, the politics usually takes care of itself,” Toomey concluded.

This week in GCC history March 10, 1919 “Maj. Smathers Home From France” Grove City native Major C. Blaine Smathers of the 112th regiment is given a warm Grove City welcome upon his return home from Camp Lee, where he was recovering from gassing and illness on the front lines of the Great War. March 10, 1949 “Women Top Men by One On Fall Term Honor List” In the fall of ‘49, 99 Grove City girls held straight A’s, beating by one student the Grove City “fellas,” who had 98 straight A report cards.

Great job, ladies!

March 12, 1969 “Bull$heet Interview” Collegian writers interviewed writers for the “underground newspaper” Bull$heet, a publication than was run from the basement of Ketler Dormitory.

In response to the question, “What is your answer

to the statements by faculty members that your publication lacks good taste?” the writer said, “Well, of course, they’re absolutely right.”

Bull$heet had membership in the Libertarian Press Association, but the newspaper was mainly satirical.

March 16, 1979 “Adels Penalized for Cafeteria Chaos” Formerly, the fraternity Adelphikos held a pledge event knows as “Viking Night.” Adel pledges came to Hicks dining hall dressed as Vikings and threw spaghetti at each other, an event approved by the college as long as they only involved themselves and cleaned up after. However, in ’79, the event took a turn when a Chi Del active reportedly threw a glass soda bottle at the Adel pledges, causing several seconds of food fight chaos. The pledges themselves cleaned up the mess and no one was hurt. However, the

Adels were still fined for the chaos.

March 10, 1989 “Polish Orchestra to Perform in PEW” The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, also known as the “Great Radio Orchestra,” traveled to Grove City from Katowice, Poland to perform.

March 12, 1999 “Freedom Underground Debuts” A new publication, described as the “brainchild” of Collegian writers, debuted in ’99. The publication was meant to be thought provoking and educational as well as entertaining, supplementing the college’s other publications, such as the Collegian. It was received with positivity as well as harsh criticism, its debut “shrouded in mystery.”

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GCC students take on D.C.

Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

The Wednesday night before Spring break, Grove City College’s Center for Vision and Values sent 38 students to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and alumni networking trip.

Receiving financial support from conservative donors and alumni, The Center provided 38 students with bus fare, most meals, rooming and CPAC passes for little cost to students.

Headed by the Center’s new executive director, Jeffrey Trimbath, and longtime Senior Director Robert Ryder, Grove City took a five hour bus trip down to the Gaylord Hotel on Wednesday night just in time for the Thursday morning session the next day.

CPAC, the largest annual convention of political conservatives in the nation, took place at the Gaylord Convention center. Festivities began at 7:00 a.m. with well-known pro-life advocate Marjorie Dannenfelser. From there, attendees of the convention could watch the general sessions, hosting the notable

DEMOCRATS continued from 1 as the fear when pulled over by the police when no crime has been committed, or when a passport is taken away in the airport even though that passport is the only way to get home.

A frequent topic of discussion during the panel was the idea of “colorblindness.” Psychology Today defines “colorblindness” as “the racial ideology that posits the best way to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity.”

There are many who support this ideology, however the panelists discussion emphasized it as an unhelpful method that actually erases personal identity—panelists agreed that despite their difficulties, they are proud of their heritage—as well as current political issues.

Quintero likened being part of a minority group with being a left-handed person in a right-handed world.

Our society treats people of color in a different way than it treats white or light-skinned people, both conscious-

JOHNNYSWIM continued from 1 “Without [the Advancement Office’s] help, none of our sponsorships would have been possible, and this concert would not have been feasible,” Stein said.

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Grove City students pose on the capital steps during the Center for Vision and Values’ recent networking trip to CPAC in February.

profession.

“It was really helpful to talk to a few people who had job openings, who suggested that I apply,” Lindsay Schulenburg, a senior political science major, said.

This gathering is the pinnacle of the Grove City D.C. trip. Many students have made relationships with alumni who have in turn aided them in internships or recommendations and have later helped them in the job market.

“It’s of course the paradigm that we hope all students will use,” former director of Career Services Dr. James Thrasher said. “An in-

speakers, or explore the exhibit halls, breakout sessions or main atrium. In the exhibit hall, Grove City College students had the opportunity to network with recruiters of well-known conservative centers and institutes.

“I really enjoyed the CPAC trip this year,” said Susannah Barnes, a sophomore economic major. “I felt like my conversations were more meaningful this year as I’m more sure what want to do, so I could talk more about what my future would look like.”

Time spent in the exhibit hall is crucial for

many college students looking to get politicsrelated internships and jobs. Students could also observe and loiter in the main atrium, in hopes of running into a notable conservative leader.

Following the Thursday session, Grove City students met up with alumni from the D.C. area at the Heritage Foundation, a wellknown religious conservative think tank.

The Center encourages the students to use this time as a way to make connections and network with students who have an interest in making politics their

ly and unconsciously, and pretending that the difference doesn’t exist diminishes the identities and experiences of people of color.

Myers said that the discussion of colorblindness, “was important because many people think that talking about race is unimportant or that racism no longer exists except in the deep swamps of southern Alabama or maybe Tennessee somewhere. However, everyone on the panel mentioned how their experiences are different than mine (as a white person), including stories and irrefutable examples. I hope people begin to see that there is an issue and it needs to be addressed.”

“When I came to the United States, I also assigned value to someone’s accent,” said Quintero. He talked about how recognizing someone’s identity is good because it allows us to become more aware, but it shouldn’t let us assume what jobs or capabilities someone has based on something like the way they speak.

“There’s not one Mexican, or Colombian or Cuban. We all look different and we don’t fit one mold.”

Quintero also spoke about the immigration continued from 1 process, and the process that native-born ligious convictions as a Americans have never measurement for their had to go through. “It’s fitness for office were very expensive to come also directed toward to the US - you have to William Pryor in 2003 come and interview for and Amy Coney Barrett hours and get a hotel, in 2017. there are many types “We (the U.S.) value of visas and sometimes religious liberty, but you have to hire a law- we are historically inyer. It’s a long process consistent,” Dr. Caleb and an expensive one.”

Verbois, professor of Ligo also talked about political science, said. her immigration pro- Speaking on the concesses, what questions nection between relishe was asked and the gious views and govfeeling the process gave ernmental work, like her, especially traveling that of a Supreme Court with her kids. “On my Justice, and why the American passport it Senate Judiciary Comsays I was born in Mexi- mittee is asking these co, and that sent alarms questions, Verbois everywhere.” continued, “We’re inThe question asked herently suspicious of during the panel were [religious convictions] open-ended, asking because you might act about general experion them.” ences and thoughts When these senators about topics such as ask questions about a immigration in Amernominee’s beliefs and ica. When asked what convictions, they are the group would change effectively asking if about similar panels in and when a nominee’s the future, Myers was religion will influence very clear about seekthem. ing more discussion.

Verbois clarified why “It would be good to senators ask beliefhave more opportunity based questions. for follow up, and more “If we think that time to talk in general they’re not following because we never get to all the questions we’ve the law and judges’ deplanned or that are cisions are more often moral, then we want to asked.” know their beliefs. We are creating politicians, cert will enable us to not judges. The stakes continue our momen- are high.”

The publication of tum and continue to McNulty and Sparks’ bring big names that article on March 4 also the student body knows brings a conservative and loves. We want to voice into a media that bring great music to the is dominated by the campus that loves to lis- Left. ten, and Johnnyswim is Students appreciated a great opportunity for the College’s contributhat,” Stein said. tion to discussions on

“As a whole, this is a huge opportunity for Grove City College,” Stein said.

“This band is a wellknown name, and they are bringing talent to campus that hasn’t been present in a long time.

Stonebridge hopes that the success of this con-

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side referral is really the key to getting internships and full-time jobs. What [alumni] are doing is being an advocate for you to the folks doing the hiring.” The College firmly believes in using these connections to aid the next generation of graduates in the job market.

Friday morning, students had breakfast at the Charles Koch Institute, a notable freemarket think tank that helps college students attain internships and jobs in the D.C. area.

Last on the agenda, groups enjoyed lunch at one of four notable think tanks and nonprofits: The Heritage Foundation, International Justice Mission (IJM), The Tax Foundation or American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

“For the students that I’ve worked with that have gone and come back, it just opens doors. I think the power of networking is just really evidenced there,” Thrasher said. He hopes the trip will continue to provide students with helpful resources and connections for their students to attain their goals in the job market and in the world of politics. the secular platform.

“I’m glad to see McNulty’s article published in The Washington Post - hopefully it causes readers to question the manner in which judicial appointments are handled today,” junior Elizabeth Becherer said. “I think the Kavanaugh hearings really made this problem visible to the general public - it was easy to see the cultural and political lines that were being drawn before his nomination. McNulty points out the dangers of allowing more partisan objections to keep principled people out of the courts.”

“I found it very encouraging to read President McNulty’s article in The Washington Post because it is so different from what we normally see in the media today,” sophomore Caitlin McDonough said.

“I think that articles like this one being printed are a great way to integrate a different viewpoint back into the media again so that people reading them realize that there is always more than one side to every story.”

These issues of religious liberty and finding the conservative voice in the mainstream, secular society align with the 2019 conference hosted by The Center for Vision & Values.

This year’s conference, titled “Most Sacred: Freedom of Conscience in America,” will look at questions of conscience and religious liberty.

The conference will be April 4-5 at Grove City College.

Rise of the mega banks George Daugharty Finance Reporter

We all use banks, but they are not often in the headlines and the subject of day-to-day conversation, until this past week.

On Sunday the rumors were confirmed that ongoing merger talks between the two behemoth financial institutions, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, are underway.

The merger of the two Frankfurt based institutions would create a single “German Champion” with just under €2 trillion in assets, large enough to compete with the massive Wall Street investment banks on this side of the Atlantic.

Many are not happy with the potential deal.

Firstly, the deal could lead to the layoff of 30,000 workers in an attempt to eliminate the two firm’s overlapping business segments and minimize costs, warns Dan Duscheck head of Verdi, Germany’s biggest labor union. These layoffs, however, may have been likely regardless, given Deutsche Bank’s continued unprofitability.

Far more concerning is the merging of two poorly performing banks, only to create one “too big to fail” institution. Deutsche bank has posted massive losses for three years in a row, including a painful €409 billion this most recent year end. To further complicate the matter is Germany’s economy, which in the last quarter of 2018 missed a recession by the skin of its teeth. The bank is so unprofitable and the financial system so fragile that according to some, including the IMF in a 2016 report, Deutsche bank possess as a risk to the stability of the entire global financial system.

Both of these banks took bailouts each from the German government in the last recession, and regulators have been concerned about Deutsche ever since. Speculation has arisen that it’s the German government itself that is encouraging the deal. “This is their strategy,” says head of the Economics Department Dr. Jeffrey Herbener, “to take one bank which is in decent financial condition and merge it with another in distress.” Whether or not the merge will actually take place seems probable but will take many months more to work itself out.

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

Tonight Women’s Basketball vs. Washington & Jefferson 5:30 p.m., College Arena Tartuffe 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Little Theatre Pew Fine Arts Center All Athlete Worship 7 to 8 p.m., Crawford Auditorium

Saturday Austrian Scholars Conference 9 a.m., HAL Men’s Tennis vs. Otterbein 10 a.m.

Women’s Lacrosse vs.

Taylor and IUP 11 a.m.

Women’s Water Polo vs. Occidental 11:15 a.m.

Men’s Lacrosse at Baldin Wallace 1 p.m.

Men’s Volleyball Trimatch 5 p.m.

Tartuffe 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Little Theatre Pew Fine Arts Center

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

Monday Blood Drive 9 a.m., KetRec Monday Night Dancing 9 to 11 p.m., PLC 283

Tuesday Grief Group 7 to 8 p.m., Rathburn

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

Thursday Warriors for Christ 9 to 10 p.m., Harbison Chapel

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Prior addressed students in Crawford on March 14 on faith and literature at the College’s annual Christian Writer’s Conference.

Prior to the good life

Acclaimed thinker speaks on reading literature Paige Fay

Community Editor One of America’s leading Christian intellectuals spoke to campus last week on how good books lead to the good life.

Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, professor of English at Liberty University, spoke in chapel March 14 and in Crawford Auditorium later that evening on faith and literature as part of Grove City College’s annual Christian Writers Conference.

In chapel, Prior discussed the necessity of understanding the Bible for a better understanding of great literature. The lecture stemmed from her newest book, “On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Literature,” which explores the virtues that reading good literature can develop, and how those virtues contribute to the good life.

“I’m quite convinced that one cannot read much of the world’s great books without getting a good dose of the Good Book,” she said in her chapel talk, titled “Good Books and the Good Book.”

Prior believes that Christians should approach literature—and everything else— through a Biblical lens.

“We should be weighing everything in life against a Christian understanding of what it means to be human, what it means to live in this word, what our future is, what human nature is,” Prior said. “We’re practicing all those things when we read literature. We should read and judge literature in the same way we read and judge the news, people, relationships, jobs and choices,” she said. “Literature just happens to be practice where no real people were harmed!”

Later that evening in a talk full of great literary analogies, Prior explored the good life and how reading good literature cultivates the virtues necessary for living it.

“The good life is not about material success or career success, it’s about being the

most excellent human being we can be, which is what the virtues are. They are human excellencies. If we can be excellent human beings, then we can have the good life.

First, we have to understand what it means to be an excellent human being,” Prior said in an interview with The Collegian about the talk.

According to Prior, the hardest virtue to achieve for humans is justice.

“Selfishness is so natural to us and justice is the moderation between selfishness and selflessness,” she said. “It’s complicated; there’s not an easy answer to what constitutes justice in such a broken world. Even if we have the desire to be just, it’s still hard to figure out how best to achieve it.”

Prior also spoke to Dr. Rebecca Rine’s Professional Editing class in a panel about the relationship between editors and writers.

“Listening to Dr. Prior really made me appreciate the author perspective of the editor-to-author relationship,” sophomore Laura Locher said. “I have always wanted to be an editor but have never put too much thought into the perspective of the author until hearing Dr. Prior speak.”

In addition to her newest book, Prior is author of “Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me” and “Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More–Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist.”

Prior loves to write about ethics, ideas, and literature.

She has written many articles and for publications like “Christianity Today”, “The Washington Post” and “The Atlantic.” Besides writing, Prior has taught English at Liberty for 20 years, where she teaches British literature.

The College has hosted the Christian Writers Conference annually for nearly two decades. The Conference helps students engage with writers, poets, playwrights and artists to think more deeply about truth, beauty, the common good and God’s glory.

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Dr. Karen Swallow Prior sitting down with junior Rebecca Powell and other students to discuss Christianity and literature during her recent visit to campus. Prior, a professor at Liberty University, argued that reading good books leads to living the good life.

The Collegian sat down with Dr. Prior while she was on campus to talk about her love of books, writing and craft.

When did you first fall in love with literature?

As soon as I learned to read. My mother read to me before I learned to read and I remember reading Dr. Seuss out loud using my finger and then reading bigger books about horses and magical things. As my father always said when I was a little girl: I always had my nose in a book.

Do you have a fictional character that you relate to the most?

The one I relate to the most is Jane Eyre. The idea of a person, she happens to be a woman, but it doesn’t matter that she is, who is trying to find her sense of self in a world that is competing for her in ways that are both good and bad. She faces a number of choices, and not all the choices are necessarily bad choices, but they aren’t good choices for her. There’s a root there in my interest in virtue ethics as well because morality is choosing between good and bad; ethics is choosing between competing goods. We have both those kinds of struggles for Jane in “Jane Eyre” and Jane is specifically a Christian figure. She needs to make these decisions in the context of her genuine Christian faith.

How did your love for literature affect how you write?

I think my love for literature means that I want my love for words and the craft of writing to show in my writing.

I’m not saying that I write as well as my favorite literary writers do, but I certainly want my writing to be wellcrafted and nothing has taught me more about writing than reading good writers.

What’s something that you’ve learned about yourself through the writing process?

It did bring out a night owl in me that I didn’t know I had!

That’s a very weird thing because I’ve always been an early riser. I think that there is a more creative side to me than there was before. I’ve always been a half-introvert, half-extrovert, but the more I write the more introverted I become in the sense that I need more alone time and more time with my thoughts in order to write. I’m still half-and-half and very comfortable talking with people, I’ve just found that when I’m writing I need that time away and alone to process my thoughts and to recharge in the way that more introverts do.

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Going into all the world Sarah Opst

Contributing Writer Grove City College students crossed the Americas over spring break, spreading the gospel on Inner City Outreach trips.

Destinations included: Tuscon, Az.; San Andres Sacabaja, Guatemala; Los Angeles, Ca.; Buffalo, Ny.; Ashland, Ky.; Chicago, Il.; and Philadelphia, Pa. As student-led and student-run trips each ICO varied in its modes of service, which were unique to the geographic regions and local ministry sites. On returning, team members and leaders recall ways they served the community, but also reminisce on team bonding, relationship building and personal insights.

The mission work each team focused on varied depending on location and the ministries the ICO teams assisted. While the Arizona team worked at the Life of Christ Community Church painting, building a play set and assisting the church’s Feeding Ministry for the homeless, the Guatemala team worked in Hogar de Vida, a children’s home.

Senior Karina Homan, leader of the ICO Guatemala trip, said that one form of outreach they did was “a VBS with a neighboring village (aldea) to San Andres where we did a skit, taught the kids some songs, and played games such as duck, duck, goose and tag.”

As California holds 25 percent of the country’s homeless population, the Los Angeles team had the unique opportunity of reaching out to the homeless in Skid Row, an area in downtown Los Angeles with one of the highest concentrations of homeless people in the United States. They also served the Dream Center, a downtown organization

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GCC students traveled to Guatemala on an ICO mission during spring break, one of many trips Grovers took to spread the gospel. For more pictures, see pages 6 and 7. that helps low-income families, people struggling with addictions, the homeless and atrisk youth.

Throughout the week, the Buffalo ICO team assisted four ministries. One in particular, Jericho Road, serves asylum seekers, as Buffalo’s proximity to Canada attracts refugee claimants trying to obtain Canadian visas.

The Buffalo ICO team also worked with the Magdalene Project, the Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission and a local church.

Though some ICO trips are international, those in the United States remind students that people around them in their own towns or country are still in deep need despite the United States’ comparative affluence.

“If we look, there’s people right in our own backyard that could use a meal or a hug or just great conversation and realizing those could lead to an opportunity to share the gospel is something I don’t ever want to pass up,” junior Cassie Schickluna,

leader of the Buffalo team, said.

Senior Emeline Ferguson, team leader for the Los Angeles trip, discussed the importance of being aware and attentive to those around her.

“Through this trip, God taught me the value and necessity of both listening and communicating well, not only with those in need, but to whoever is present in my life,” she said. “God used this trip to really shape my heart to want to be more present with those around me at Grove City in these final months leading up to graduation.”

ICO team sizes range—from the 8-member Los Angeles team to the twenty-five who ventured to Guatemala—but ICO trips inevitably lead to team bonding and relationship building. Both are natural consequences of spending a week with the same people, focused on the same goals.

Junior David Sheets, a leader on the Buffalo trip, also noted that “getting to watch my

Holmes and hounds Anna DiStefano Staff Writer

Sherlock Holmes will be solving the mystery of “The Hound of Baskervilles” at Grove City Christian Academy next weekend.

“The Hound of Baskervilles,” a play adapted by Tim Kelly from Sir Anthony Conan Doyle’s classic tale, is full of intrigue, mystery and thrills.

Holmes and Watson arrive in the English highlands, called by their acquaintance Lady Agatha about the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville.

Lord Charles of the Baskerville Estate, died while walking the grounds.

Lady Agatha, Holmes and Watson suspect there is more to Lord Charles’ sudden death.

Imaginations point

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to a family curse that the Baskervilles are doomed to die by a horrific, terrifying hound.

But is the hound real or a mere figment? While investigating the mysterious death and its connection to the curse, Holmes and Watson begin to take measure of the characters around them—perhaps someone was to gain from this tragic death.

If suspicions are true, Holmes and Watson must work to prevent another tragic and untimely death. Audience members will be on the edges of their seats to see if Holmes can solve the mystery in time.

Students from Grove City Christian Academy’s middle school and classical study center will star in the production. They will add Conan Doyle’s classic

tale to a repertoire that includes “Harvey” and “The Mouse Trap.”

Grove City Christian Academy’s production is directed by Ross Kucks, co-directed by Faith Fedor and produced by headmaster Sidney Henriquez.

Students will bring the story to life in their performances next week. You can unravel the mystery of “The Hound of Baskervilles” along with Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson at 7 p.m. on March 28th, 29th and 30th at Grove City Christian Academy, 301 Madison Ave. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Adult tickets are $8.00 and student tickets are $5.00. Bargain night is the 28th, when all tickets will be $5.00.

“God used this trip to really shape my heart to want to be more present with those around me at Grove City in these final months leading up to graduation.” teammates grow and serve was really cool too. I learned a lot about the power of prayer and what it looks like to ‘pray continually.’”

But by working with established ministries during ICOs, students are also bound to learn from people who have been long-dedicated to missions or chosen it as a career path. Elisabeth Bell, an Arizona ICO team member, said, “My favorite part about the trip was getting to know the people at the church. They were so welcoming and showed our team the love of Christ right from the beginning.”

Looking ahead at future ICO trips is an exciting prospect since so many possibilities abound. Any student can take the initiate to start a trip, choose a location, and get involved

in a specific type of mission work. While some teams focus on helping one ministry, others assist in a range of service opportunities.

Eleven ICO trips spanned the 2018-2019 school year. In addition to the seven during spring break, there was one trip during Thanksgiving break and three during Christmas break.

Destinations were Providence, Ri.; Shell, Ecuador; Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic.

The next ICO trips are scheduled for the 2019 Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, but the selection processes for leaders are underway now and continuing into the next two weeks. Destinations are tentative, but Rhode Island is a likely candidate.

The IM room will be full of Relay for Life Activity tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Sigma Theta Chi sorority and Pan Sophic fraternity have hosted Relay for Life for 15 years. It was started by Pan Sophic after they had a fraternity brother who was diagnosed with cancer. The event has run every year since.

The event has worship, a speaker, games and a survivor walk and supports the American Cancer Society.

Greek groups, sports teams and friend groups often come together to make teams which turns Relay for Life into a competition to see who can raise the most money. At the very end, luminara bags will be lit and the survivors do a survivor lap.

“There is always a lot of food and activities for students and members of the community,” junior Molly Conlon, vice president of the Sigma Theta Chi sorority, said. “Anyone is welcome to attend!”

Conlon has had previous experience with Relay for Life. In high school, her best friend was diagnosed with leukemia, but has since overcome it and is now, as a nurse, helping other battle it, also.

“I think Relay is a great way to raise awareness while also celebrating those who are survivors,” she said.

“Relay for Life is an awesome event that means a lot to so many people. The more people we can get to come out an support it, the more successful it is and the more we can raise for the American Cancer Society,” Conlon said.

Fine art flourishes GCC hosts annual Fine Arts Festival

Alejandra Flores Staff Writer

“The arts are not dead at Grove City College!” Dr. Eric Potter, professor of English, proclaimed during the poetry reading of the Fine Arts Festival.

The College hosted its annual Fine Arts Festival last month in the midst of midterms.

Senior Morgan Broome, junior Amanda Mittelman and sophomore Kathryn Frazier helped lead the charge in organizing the festival, hoping it would be a creative outlet for students.

The three were in charge of everything from the poetry reading to the most-attended

event, called “Painting Freedom.”

The live art event was filled with students enjoying cupcakes, painting and pottery throwing, all while in the background live music from various artists from our very own college performed.

Looking around the room, it wasn’t just music majors or art majors, but also STEM, business, marketing, education and more.

Not only does Grove City foster the love for the arts within their college walls, but also in the surronding community.

Hosting the MIU IV’s Very Special Arts since 1989, Grove City helps foster the love of arts to

other individuals.

This art exhibit consists of young artists with special needs who display their art for people of the community to come and see.

Having about 800 participants, this event allows for children to express their individualism and love for the arts in a safe environment thus allowing their love for the arts to grow and flourish here at Grove City College.

This year’s event will be held the Pew Fine Arts Center starting Monday and running until April 17.

At the end of the event, students will be accepting ribbons and certificates for their achievements.

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Lent is for weight loss Spiritual discipline should be the focus of the season

Emily Burke

Contributing Writer

The time of Lent is upon us.

Many in Christ’s Church utilize this time to forgo some personal pleasure, which is oftentimes food.

We give up something we especially enjoy, to focus on Christ, but is this denial truly altruistic?

Or if we cut through the idyllic Christian-speak, is it nothing more than a springtime diet plan to prepare us for swimsuits in the summer?

Thomas à Kempis, a medieval Dutch Catholic who wrote various works on Christian devotion, once stated, “Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.” As an intermediary time before full consummation, the purpose of Lent is to momentarily relinquish things which may be taken for granted or things that hinder our relationship with God. The experience of sacrifice through obedience mirrors the experience of Christ’s Passion. He served as the fulfillment of the ultimate sacrifice, in accordance with His heavenly Father’s purpose.

The forsaking of things during Lent engenders suffering, which provides us just a glimpse into the indescribable, momentous suffering that the Savior endured. Lent is a time of fasting and prayer, de-

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nying ourselves of the earthly in order to more fervently pursue the eternal at the foot of the cross.

We make so much ado about us.

Let us not pervert this Lent to be about us. Let this Lent be different. It is all about Him, and it has always been all about Him. He deserves our whole devotion.

Indeed, He very much yearns for our weight loss this Lent—the weight of sin, sadness, stress, envy, disappointment, anger, loneliness, discontentment, and disgust; we can each name more.

He has already taken our weight, bore the whole despicably heavy load of it, but in our weakness, we continue to take it back.

Let us earnestly make the effort to practice the spiritual disciplines, whether big or small, i n preparation of the celebration o f Easter.

Let us lose our weight at the foot of the cross so that w e will be fit for heavenly robes.

Better safe than selfie?

Staff Writer

A pleasant evening at the zoo turned upside down for a visitor last Saturday.

Wildlife World Zoo located outside of Phoenix, Arizona made headlines nationwide surrounding an unfortunate accident.

A woman intrigued by a jaguar decided to get a closer for a picture.

In her quest for the closeup shot of the cat, she leaned forward beyond the barrier that separated the sidewalk from the caged enclosure.

In a sudden moment, the jaguar lunged toward the woman, clasping onto her arm with its claws.

Paramedics were called to the scene and she suffered severe lacerations on her arm due to the jaguar’s attack.

She was not sent to the hospital but received several stiches, and is now recovering from her injuries.

With no video footage of the attack, eye witnesses are the only source of information to what occurred.

They say the woman

“We’re in a part of society, our culture, where we want that great picture but that’s at too great a cost.”

Kitty Block jumped the barrier and attempted to take a selfie, which would require the woman to stand with enclosure to her back, leaving her vulnerable and unaware. The victim, however, claims she did neither: “If I were taking a selfie, I think my injuries would be in a different place.”

The woman did admit that she was at fault for her own injuries though. “I was in the wrong, for leaning over the barrier but I do think that maybe the zoo should look into moving their fence back,” she said.

She since apologized privately to the zoo for the negative publicity it received due to her negligence.

As for the jaguar, it was removed from the exhibit while the situation is investigated. The zoo will not euthanize the jaguar because it

remained within the enclosure and because it was the woman’s actions that caused the jaguar to respond aggressively.

A statement was released by the zoo via Twitter following the incident: “We want to thank everyone who supports Wildlife World and our decision not to euthanize the jaguar after Saturday’s incident… Wildlife World staff and administrators appreciate her sincere apology and we look forward to welcoming her and her family back at a future date. At this time our attention is focused on educating and inspiring thousands…”

The Wildlife World Zoo has an optimistic outlook for their future, as they should.

This incident could have been avoided had the victim of the attack been more selfaware.

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He was distracted, and at her own risk put herself in danger.

Although the woman understood her mistakes and recognized that she was at fault in the incident, she suggested improvements be made to the barrier to ensure that visitors do not ignorantly make the same mistake.

Improvements may be a welcomed change for the safety of the zoo visitors.

This process could have been far more controversial if the woman had placed full

blame on the zoo. However, this incident was handled quite well and responsibly.

We must be aware that the distractions of technology can put us in danger and can indirectly cause us to make rash, foolish decisions in the heat of the moment.

We must be aware that we are ultimately responsible for our own safety.

We, therefore, must guard ourselves from the influences that may place ourselves, or others, in harm’s way.

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Measels infect the West Coast

Vaccinations encouraged by the state Noel Elvin

Contributing Writer Due to the recent outbreak of measles in both Washington and Oregon, legislation has been pushed to tighten vaccine exemptions.

53 cases of measles were recorded in Clark County, Washington as of Feb. 10 of 2019. In addition, Oregon has confirmed four cases as of Feb. 7, which are directly linked to the break out in Clark County.

Currently, both Washington and Oregon have health, religious, and philosophical exemptions from all required vaccinations. In Oregon, about 15,500 school children have non-medical exemptions from vaccinations. Statistics show that to prevent outbreaks, 93 percent or more of children must be vaccinated. 1 out of every 5 schools in Oregon have a percent that is beneath the statistical requirement for measle vaccinations, with some schools as low as 30 percent.

Oregon state Rep. Mitch Greenlick, a Democrat, is currently writing legislation to remove both religious and philosophical exemptions.

Similarly, Washington state Rep. Paul Harris, a Republican, is also working on legislation to remove philosophical exemptions. This leaves only health exemptions and very strict religious exemptions.

Greenlick explained that the goal behind his new legislation is to protect the children who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons.

“People have a right to make bad decisions about the healthcare of their children, but that does not give them the right to send unprotected children into their school,” Greenlick said.

Oregon and Washington look to make their exemption laws stricter to control the measle outbreak on the west coast and they should,

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as it is their job to put the best laws in place to protect their state. Anti-vaccine proponents have problems with the stricter exemption laws because they believe government should not have the power to force someone to put anything into their body.

The government does not, however, because these vaccines are optional.

Oregon’s state law says, “As a condition of attendance in any school or children’s facility in this state, every child through grade 12 shall submit to the administrator one of the following statements unless the school or facility which the child attends already has on file a record which indicates that the child has received immunizations against the restrictable diseases pre-

scribed by rules of the Oregon Health Authority as provided in ORS 433.273:…”.

These vaccines are only required to attend schools or children’s facilities. It is completely the choice of the parents to send their children to school. No one is forcing them to do anything.

Anti-vaccination proponents believe that these vaccinations are dangerous for their children, and yes, there is some risk. However, studies show that in comparison to the risk of the disease, the risks the vaccine presents are minimal. Measle cases have decreased by 99.9 percent since the vaccination was released.

In the 20th century, the baseline for annual measle cases was 503,282. In 2006 there were 55.

Anti-vaccine proponents are rightly protective of what goes into their children’s bodies, but they have a faulty assumption about the government. The government’s job isn’t to protect just their children, but everyone’s children. The purpose of vaccinations is not to just protect individual citizens, but the nation as a whole.

If all physically-able citizens receive their vaccinations, they are helping protect those who are not physically able due to health restraints. If they are not willing to protect themselves when they are capable, they should not have the right to put others who cannot get vaccinations because of their health restraints at risk by attending schools or children facilities.

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College scam High pressures of higher education Alejandra Flores Staff Writer

It’s senior year and all you can think about is college applications – your parents keep hounding you about SAT scores, extracurriculars, and GPA. You lay in bed at night, tossing and turning, praying that you’ll be accepted into a decent college.

The pressure can be vastly overwhelming, driving some to anxiety, depression, or sleepless nights. When faced with adversity, many choose to take up the gauntlet and rise to the challenge of the college application process.

Recently, however, it has been revealed that some decided to shriek in adversity and take an easier – and corrupt – road to college.

It has been reported that many wealthy parents are paying a man named “Singer” to falsify applications and help their students into college. But why do they stoop to such levels?

College has become a necessity for any highprofile job. It is commonly believed that in order to “get ahead” in life, a college degree is necessary; not just any college degree, but from an outstanding, name-brand college.

What these parents fail to realize is that the work and dedication that students put into the college application in some ways prepares them for the rigor of life.

Students must deal with important deadlines, stressful nights, and life-changing decisions, while juggling any curve balls that come along with the task. While taking this experience away from a child may save them some sleepless nights,

BACHELOR continued from 10 morals in our modern society. I almost felt as if they were shaming him at some points and making fun of him. To main stream this worldview in such a popular television show is going to teach the next generation what lifestyles are acceptable and which worldviews are going to get made fun of.

Overall, the advertis-

MARVEL continued from 10 review, Mark Daniell of the Toronto Sun writes, “Does it work? The short answer is: yes.

There’s enough to keep both diehard Marvel fans and newcomers engaged.”

However, audience reviews have been about fifteen percent lower.

Fans have critiqued the film as feminist

it actually detracts from knowledge that will carry them throughout the rest of their life.

We live in a country of privilege and with that can come entitlement.

Although not everyone falls into this category, many do in some way or another. Parents that have spoon-fed their children in an area like college applications risk robbing them of learning the meaning of hard work. Additionally, those other thousands of children who worked exceptionally hard in high school can find that they are turned away because of a lack of money to “bribe” admissions.

A lot are enraged at the notion of this college scam, but maybe there should be a question posed instead of hatred flung. Why do parents – or even students – feel the need to do something of that degree and risk time and jail and their children’s lives ruined? It comes down to work ethic. Again, we live in a land of excess and entitlement.

Sometimes, parents want to give their children everything, no matter the consequences. This may lead a child, or even the parent, to believe they are entitled to certain things, like college, just because of their wealth, background, etc. A key issue arises with that – these children are now growing up with a lack of work ethic. Think about it: work ethic built this country from the ground up. It is because of determined individuals that our country is where it is today, but for what? For children to buy their way into college? When looking at the college scam in the next weeks, ask yourselves, why would they choose to do this? Work ethic.

ing and media portrayal was extremely disappointing to me. The next season of the Bachelorette will be starring Hannah B. from this past season. During the reveal, Hannah showed her excitement, “I feel all the emotions. But honestly I just feel really grateful for this opportunity.” I’m definitely looking forward to how she handles herself this season and if she finds love this time!

propaganda and argue that the film does not illustrate how Vers struggles to become an all-powerful being.

Although “Marvel” is blurry in those regards, it speaks for itself and sufficiently represents its main character. Perhaps, the film needed to be slightly incoherent in telling Vers’ story and character arch. We will find out more this April when “Avengers: Endgame” hits theaters.

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Jonas Brothers make a huge comeback with their new hit single “Sucker.” The beloved band was first known for their involvement on Disney Channel.

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A ‘Sucker’ for the Jonas Brothers Disney stars announce they are getting the band back together

Katheryn Frazier Music Critic

Six years.

Six years is how long it took for the Jonas Brothers to reunite after all this time.

From 2005 onward the Jonas Brothers were known for acting on the Disney Channel on their own televised show titled “Jonas” and the movie musical “Camp Rock”. They also released several albums under the Walt Disney Company record label with notable songs including “Burnin’ Up”, “Lovebug”, and “S.O.S”.

After the Jonas Brothers disbanded Nick pursued solo music and acted in “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”, Joe formed the pop band DNCE, and Kevin headed the reality

show “Married to Jonas”.

“Sucker” was title of the first single released by the Jonas Brothers since their reunion. The group’s new song rapidly gained attention and positioned itself as the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 soon after it was released.

Cleverly, the music video for “Sucker” not only highlighted the Jonas Brothers but their significant others including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sophie Turner, and Danielle Jonas.

The new music can be described as a mixture of both Nick and Joe’s solo sound. It is also important to note that many fans have mentioned that nostalgia is a factor tied into listening to the band’s

music, which contributes to the success of their comeback. Television shows and movies are especially guilty of playing off of nostalgia.

The Late Late Show helped to promote the Jonas Brothers as it released exclusive content featuring the musical group over a course of a week. James Corden either hosted or participated in the majority of the skits with the brothers.

My of these videos have already gained millions of views on YouTube. In the popular “Carpool Karaoke” series, the brothers revealed intimate information that many fans were not aware of. They confessed that it was Nick who initially broke up the band, but it was through

a documentary project depicting their journey through Hollywood that really brought them closer.

They also admitted that they were pressured by an interviewer to expose the reason to why they wore purity rings when they were younger.

The brothers initially did not disclose the reason to the interviewer until the interviewer threatened to state that the group was part of a cult. It was then explained from the Jonas Brothers that they came from a Christian family and that their father was a pastor. Magazines and other sources for celebrity content blasted the statement out of proportion. Other Disney Channel celebrities

Marvelling at the new movie

David Smith Film Critic

Directing duo and married couple Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck finally had the opportunity to create a big-budget film with Marvel’s “Captain Marvel” and, although it is a solid film, they did not hit the ball out of the park. Boden and Fleck are infamous as an indie film duo with films, such as “Half Nelson,” starring Ryan Gosling and “Mississippi Grind,” starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn. Both films are critically acclaimed low-budget films, so there has been an abundance of anticipation to see how the couple will deliver a Marvel movie.

“Captain Marvel” may not be a well-known Marvel hero, but Boden and Fleck chose the perfect cast to represent the film.

The movie stars Academy Award winner Brie Larson as the lead. Ben Mendelsohn plays Talos, leader of the Skrull invasion. Jude Law plays Yon-Rogg, the commander of Spaceforce.

Annette Benning has a significant role in the film as Dr. Wendy Lawson. Samuel L. Jackson also reprises his role as Nick Fury in this origins story.

Brie Larson is Vers, a Starforce member who has a difficulty remembering

her past and exactly how she became a part of Starforce. On the planet Hala, Starforce is on a mission to rescue an undercover agent who is infiltrating the Skrulls, which is a group of alien shapeshifters. Vers is later captured by them in an Earth-bound vessel and crash lands in 1995 Los Angeles. On Earth, Vers slowly remembers her past and connection to the planet from years prior.

What is most interesting and engaging about “Captain Marvel” is that it works on different levels.

Overall, the film is written well. However, the first fifteen minutes or so is convoluted and difficult to follow. There’s a lot going on and most of it makes little sense as far as the linear narrative. What happens in the beginning does not seem significant until the end of the film. Perhaps, Boden and Fleck could have had a clearer dialogue during the scenes on Hala to emphasize the important role that the Skrulls play.

Once Vers is on Earth, the story and dialogue flow seamlessly; and there is plenty of humor. A cat named Goose, who is discovered by Fury and Vers at an Air Force base, plays an integral role throughout, adding humor and action (believe it or not).

also claimed to wear promise rings including Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez previously during their career with Disney.

The Disney company supported these statements to align with their mission to create wholesome family entertainment. It is interesting to uncover the extent that reporters will go to get information from their interviewees and how the media initially reacted to Christian values.

Joe, Kevin, Nick has reintroduced Jonas Brothers music in a more mature fashion with their release of “Sucker” with major success.

Hope to see and listen to more dance worthy music soon in the future.

Once a Bachelor, always a bachelor Samantha Funderlich Television Critic

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After an exciting season of the reality show The Bachelor, Colton Underwood surprised all viewers when he did not propose to Cassie Randolph.

The point of the show is for a single man to meet various eligible women.

These bachelorettes would like the opportunity to get to know the bachelor and hopefully be engaged with him by the end of the season.

Throughout the season, Underwood repeatedly stated how he wanted to get engaged by the final episode as well did Randolph, his now girlfriend. As the season went on Randolph began to change her mind and actually refused Underwood at one point.

The two came to the conclusion that they would like to get to know one another better before they are ready to take the next step in their relationship. I think this is a great decision for the two and shows how they are taking their relationship seriously.

For me, the most interesting part of this season was how the media portrayed Underwood. They had such a field day with the fact that Underwood is a virgin. This definitely reflects the lack of care for ChristianBACHELOR 9

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LAX grabs home victory

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25 turnovers while Grove City committed 20 turnovers.

Nine different play- In goal, freshman R.J. ers scored to push the Miller earned the win Grove City College after making one save in men’s lacrosse team the first half. Freshman to a 16-2 victory over Robbie Voinchet made Houghton Tuesday on five saves in the second Robert E. Thorn Field. half.

Junior Henry BranThe team nearly ralnan and freshman lied from a seven-goal Blaise Bishop both deficit Saturday afterscored three times for noon against visiting Grove City while junior Messiah, but the comeAndrew Kvasnovsky, back fell short as Messifreshman Grant Evans ah took a 16-12 victory. and freshman Brett Grove City trailed Gladstone each scored 9-2 with 6:11 remaining twice. in the first half before Junior David Cal- whittling the lead to 9-5 houn, freshman Ad- by halftime. dison Bennett, freshIn the third quarter, man Jed Speers and Grove City closed the freshman Josh game to 10-9 on backGCC Spicher all added goals. to-back goals by BranSophomore Ashley Cornelius led Grove City to a 3-2 win over Penn State New Kensington Wednesday, going 3 Gladstone and Speers nan four minutes into for 4 at the plate and scoring three runs. both assisted three the second half. goals each and freshHowever, Messiah did man Jack Atwood had not relinquish the lead. two assists Six men scored for Evans, Spicher and Grove City, led by a freshman Will Morgan four-goal effort from all tallied one assist. freshman midfielder 3-4, bookending the came home on a sacri- ning to win after Fay- Bishop and Brannan Aly Kruger Brett Gladstone. trip with wins. Grove fice fly by sophomore ette took a 10-8 lead. both scored twice in Sports Editor Brannan scored three City opened the trip first baseman Miranda Kondracki scored the the first quarter to help times and freshman Jed The Grove City Col- March 4 with a 3-0 win Griffith. In the fourth game-winner in the Grove City jump out to Speers scored twice. sophomore eighth on Buck’s field- a 6-0 lead. lege softball team swept over Penn State Abing- inning, F r e s h m a n Brannan and Bishop a doubleheader against ton, and then pulled out center fielder Ashley er’s choice. Kondracki Blaise Bishop, junior Penn State New Kens- an 11-10 win over Penn Mietlicki belted a two- singled in Cornelius each scored early in the David Calhoun and ington Wednesday, State Fayette in the fi- run triple that scored earlier in the inning second quarter to give sophomore Andrew dominating the first nale last Friday. The Cornelius and Griffith. while Griffith tied the the Wolverines an 8-0 Kvasnovsky all added game for a 10-0 victory Wolverines also picked Grove City beat Cedar game with a sacrifice advantage. goals.

Speers, Spicher and before stealing a 3-2 up a 7-6 victory March Crest 7-6 March 6, a fly that scored Scherer.

Gladstone scored victory in the second 6 over Cedar Crest. game that had been Buck and Eidle both Bennett all scored in twice in the second Junior third baseman rained out the day be- had run-scoring singles the final six minutes of game. while Junior right field- Jen Kondracki paced fore. Buck’s three-run in Grove City›s four- the half to give the Wol- period Speers scored with three er Sarah Eidle paced Grove City by hitting triple in the fifth in- run seventh inning. verines a 12-1 halftime seconds left in the half lead.

Grove City in the .471 during the week. ning gave Grove City a Buck and Griffith Evans picked up a to bring the Wolverines opener by going 4 for 4 Kondracki started 7-5 lead. Buck, Griffith scored the final two team-high eight ground to within 9-5. Calhoun with three runs scored. all seven games and and Scherer all went 2 runs of the rally on balls while freshman and Speers both scored Sophomore pitcher also led the team with for 4. Griffith, Scherer an error. Griffith and Keith Torrillo had sev- in the first 90 seconds Ashley Cornelius went a .609 on-base per- and Kondracki all Kondracki both went of the third quarter, en ground balls.

3 for 4 and knocked in centage on the trip. doubled in the victory.

3 for 4 while Buck accelerate Freshman Michael helping three runs while junior Sophomore pitcher Griffith and Kondracki finished 2 for 5.

Eidle the comeback.

La Forte collected six catcher Liz Scherer sin- Ashley Cornelius hit both scored twice. gled twice and scored a .350 while also post- Cornelius struck out also had two hits while ground balls. Torrillo Bishop also assisted goals. ing a 2-1 record in the eight in seven innings Scherer scored twice. won all 10 of his face- three pair of runs.

Watts earned the win Freshman Grant Evans offs while Evans went The wins pushed circle. She struck out 29 to earn her second win.

Grove City’s record to batters in 23 innings. In the trip finale against after pitching 3 2/3 7 for 7 on face-offs. won 20 of 29 face-offs 5-4.

Cornelius struck out Penn State Fayette, innings of relief. She La Forte also caused a and also picked up a The Grove City Col- a career-high 16 bat- Grove City led 4-0 early, struck out three. Corne- team-high four turn- team-leading 13 ground balls. Freshman goalie lege softball team ters March 4 in the then trailed 8-4 enter- lius started in the circle overs. and pitched 4 1/3 inAtwood, Calhoun R.J. Miller made a opened the 2019 season win over Penn State ing the seventh inning. and junior Domi- Grove City-record 18 with a seven-game trip Abington. She did not The Wolverines forced nings.

Grove City travels to nic Quiggle each saves in goal. over Spring Break to walk a batter and al- extra innings by scoring tomorrow caused two turnovers. Grove City will visit The Ripken Experience lowed only three hits. four times in the bot- Houghton in the Myrtle Beach Kondracki scored Grove tom of the seventh, then for a double header, Grove City owned a 41- Marymount tomorrow in non-conference play area.

City’s first run in the scored three runs in the with the first game at 1 13 edge in shots.

Houghton had in Arlington, Va. The Wolverines went first inning when she bottom of the eighth in- p.m.

Sports Editor

Get out the brooms

Softball sweeps New Kensington in doubleheader

MLB stars score big paydays ... but does it matter?

Connor Schlosser Staff Writer

Two 26-year-old baseball all-stars made MLB history in February by signing some of the biggest contracts in sports history.

Third baseman Manny Machado signed a whopping 10-year, $300 million deal with the San Diego Padres.

Machado will be leaving his former World Series runner-up team, the Los Angeles Dodgers and moving down south 100 miles to his new home in the San Diego.

Machado, a young and established fourtime all-star and 2013 American League Platinum Glove winner (voted best defensive player) is easily one of the top twenty players in Major League Baseball today.

He will provide the Padres with top tier talent while he joins forces with former MLB

All-Star MVP and 2015 champion Eric Hosmer, who signed with the Padres last year.

Bryce Harper, the former backbone of the Washington Nationals provided seven years of consistent, elite talent for the fans of D.C. The Nationals put forth every effort to resign their treasured right-fielding slugger, with their generous first offer being a 10-year, $300 million contract, only for Harper to refuse.

The Nationals were persistent in their attempts to keep their 2015 National League MVP, but to no avail.

Bryce Harper decided to pen a staggering 13-year, $330 million contract to join the Philadelphia Phillies.

Harper will team up with all-star left fielder Ryan Hoskins, all-star catcher J.T. Realmuto, and former Pittsburgh Pirate stalwart Andrew McCutchen.

SB NATION

Bryce Harper and Manny Machado inked record deals this offseason.

Bleacher Report ranks the Phillies at number five in “Future Power Rankings (3 years from now)” by looking at the development of their promising young core.

Now with the signing of Bryce Harper for 13 years, the Phillies future could not look brighter.

These deals are some of the biggest payouts in sports history, but

also some of the longest commitments on the players’ parts.

According to Fox Business, Canelo Alvarez, Mexican boxing world champion, has an 11-fight $365 million topping the ranks of biggest contracts.

Just behind him is Harper, then Giancarlo Stanton of the New York Yankees with his 13-year $325 million deal, with Machado fol-

lowing next in the ranking.

With Machado’s new contract, he will be collecting $32 million annually for ten years and will have the option to opt out of his contract in 2023.

Similarly, Bryce Harper will be raking in roughly $27 million annually for his thirteenyear contract. However, Harper cannot opt out of his contract and must remain with Philadelphia until his contract’s expiration.

These two franchises have respectively acquired all-star talents in their prime, but the magnitude of improvements to the team is quite different.

The Padres will likely improve, but not to championship caliber.

Machado, who played for the Dodgers last year in the World Series, was part of a more talented roster than his current Padres squad.

You can expect the

Padres to be enhanced with the addition of the all-star third baseman, but they may not find immediate success against its opponents while being in the same division as the runnerup Dodgers and last year’s NL Wildcard Colorado Rockies.

The Phillies, however, will likely see more immediate success with the signing of Harper alongside their young core and key pieces like Hoskins and Realmuto.

With the Boston Red Sox coming off an extremely successful regular season and winning the World Series Championship, along with teams like the Yankees and Dodgers, it is projected that these franchises are the top three teams within the power rankings.

The Phillies are not far behind the top dogs—ranked at #6 according to Bleacher Report.

Sports The Collegian, March. 22, 2019

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Wells, Williams honored

by PACs Aly Kruger Sports Editor

The Grove City College basketball teams’ “One Shining Moment” flickered out a little too early this season.

Both the men’s and women’s teams fell in the semifinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Championship Tournament March 2.

The men lost to RutgersNewark 62-51, ended their season with a 18-12 record.

After the season, two men’s players were honored with All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference spots. Junior forward James Wells made First Team, while senior guard Isaac Williams was an honorable mention.

Williams in particular was key to Grove City’s success, as the only senior on the team.

He provided much needed leadership for the Wolverines, not least in his own rise through the program.

“He rose through the ranks of our program the old-fashioned way: he played on the jayvee squad his freshman year, got limited backup duty as a sophomore, was our sixth man as a junior and then started as a senior captain,” head coach Steve Lamie said.

Williams was one of the nation’s best three-point shooters this season, leading the PAC in three-point percentage with an astonishing 46.6 percent on nearly six threes per game. He set Grove City’s single-season record for three-pointers, making 81 on the year.

Wells also propelled Grove City to a success, anchoring the Wolverines’ elite defense with his rim protection. Wells blocked a Grove City-record 71 shots on the season, ranking second alltime with 121 blocks in his career. Wells was no slouch on the offensive end either, averaging 16.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.

With Wells’ help, the Wolverines were ranked the eighth best defense in the country. Behind that defense and Williams’ shooting, the Wolverines finally broke a program record: after 15 trips to the NCAA or ECAC tournament, they finally won a tournament game.

“I believe that the saying ‘culture beats strategy’ epitomized this squad,” Lamie said.

“We definitely were not the most talented team but what we did have was great buy-in from the players; they embraced our system–which is very counter-cultural–and we finished in second place.”

The women’s basketball team also lost in the semifinals of the ECAC tournament, falling 63-60 to Cabrini University March 2.

The women ended their season with a 18-12 record.

Junior forward Kate Balcom scored her 1,000th point in the game, becoming the 14th player in program history to do so.

The Wolverines played top-seeded Cabrini even for the whole game, coming up just short.

GCC

Sophomore pitcher Lake Pry threw a no-hitter on the baseball team’s Spring Break trip, striking out 13 batters. Pry’s no-hitter is Grove City’s first since 2000.

Youth leading the way

Collegian Staff

The Grove City College baseball team has started off fast this season, propelled by several underclassmen standouts.

Sophomore pitcher Lake Pry, in his first year on the team, threw a no-hitter against Penn State New Kensington March 7 during the team’s Spring Break trip.

Pry struck out 13 batters on route to Grove City’s first nohitter in nearly two decades.

“I knew about midway through I had a shot at this,” Pry told the Butler Eagle.

“I was throwing my fastball on the inside corner and the outside corner and my curveball was working.”

Pry said that he had not felt great going into the trip.

“I had a random week where I couldn’t throw the ball anywhere close to where I wanted it. But I got back in the swing of things just before the trip,” he told the Eagle.

Pry’s performance propelled the Wolverines into a three-game win streak, after losing four of five. Grove City won the three games by a combined score of 30-10.

Sophomore pitchers Jacob Brothers and D.J. Newby both put in strong performances for the Wolverines, while sophomore reliever Joel Engstrom picked up a relief win.

Senior Micah Burke helped lead the offensive charge, picking five hits and one RBI in a double header against Martin Luther College.

Since the trip the Wolverines have won three of their last five games, splitting a double-header against Bethany and grabbing a dominant 7-0 win over Penn State Greater Allegheny last week.

Freshman left fielder Colton Lineman stood out for Grove City, hitting for the cycle in the win over Allegheny. Lineman led off the game with a home run,

before hitting a triple in the fourth inning and a single in the sixth. He completed the cycle with a double in the eighth inning, scoring two runs and batting another two in along the way. Lineman’s is the first cycle in NCAA Division III baseball this year.

The pitching staff once again stood out in the win over Allegheny. Four pitchers combined to allow no runs and just three hits.

Brothers started the game, allowing two hits in 5 2/3rds innings.

Junior Austin Wacker relieved him, followed by freshman Noah Sedmik in the eighth and freshman Isaac Bowden in the ninth. Both Sedmik and Bowden put up perfect innings, striking out all three batters they faced.

Burke also put in another strong performance, singling three times. After Lineman’s home run in the first inning, junior first baseman Matt Dayton singled in

a run. The Wolverines had a monster second inning, with sophomore DH Bubba Hamilton hitting a two-run double before scoring on senior catcher Derek Boyle’s single.

The Wolverines faced Hiram College twice this week, losing the first game 5-2 on Monday. Hiram pulled off a three-run rally in the top of the ninth inning to steal the game.

Grove City redeemed the lost by battering Hiram 15-9 Tuesday. Senior center fielder Shane Hammel led the charge with two home runs and five runs batted in.

Hamilton and Lineman both doubled twice as the Wolverines registered 18 hits on the game.

Pry came into the game as reliever, pitching five innings to secure the victory.

He struck out six, allowing five hits and two runs.

Grove City travels to Salem International this weekend for a three game series, starting tonight at 6 p.m.

Track puts a bow on indoor season

Price Styer

Track and Field Beat Writer Grove City College’s track and field teams capped off their indoor season with two successful meets.

Both the men’s and women’s teams competed in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Indoor Championships last month.

The men’s team finished third in the tournament, hosted by Youngstown State University.

Senior Ryan Budnik won the 5000-meter with a victorious time of 15 minutes, 46.33 seconds.

Sophomore Thomas Troxel took the 800-meter in a time of 1:57.63 while sophomore

Seth Ray won the high jump by clearing 6 feet, 4 inches.

The women’s team produced four victories as well.

The four victories and numerous other top finishes helped Grove City take second overall in the team standings with 98 points.

Junior jumper Kaitlyn Adams earned Co-Field Most Valuable Performer honors in recognition of her performance in the meet.

Adams won the triple jump with a conference- and school-record leap of 34 feet, 11 1/4 inches.

She also took third in the long jump by marking at 16 feet, 10 inches.

Sophomore Gretchen Elsey earned Grove City’s

other field victory Thursday when she cleared 4 feet, 11 inches to win the high jump.

Elsey also won the high jump at last year’s outdoor championships.

Senior Elizabeth Donahoe captured the 400-meter in a time of 1 minute, 1.43 seconds.

Grove City’s distance medley-relay squad also claimed victory as junior Heidi Hoffman, junior Maddie Graner, freshman Olivia Lowe and sophomore Karen Prem combined for a winning time of 13:29.37.

Several Grove City athletes have qualified for the AllAtlantic Region Championship meet, which was held this month in Ithaca, Ny.

On the men’s side, Budnik earned sixth in the 5000-meter with a College record time of 15 minutes, 5.54 seconds.

Meanwhile, Gay took sixth place in shot put with a best mark of 48 feet 3/4 inches.

Troxel placed 26th in the 800 meters with a time of 1:59.95.

On the women’s side, Foote placed 15th in the 60 meters with a time of 8.11 seconds.

Foote, Adams, White and Donahoe earned 18th place in the 800-meter relay with a time of 1:51.90.

Donahoe took 18th in 400 meters with a 1:02.99 time.

Grove City opens its outdoor season March 23 at California University of Pennsylvania.

WOLVERINE WEEKLY HONORS

Freshman outfielder Colton Lineman earned Rookie of the Week in baseball. Lineman hit for the cycle Friday in Grove City’s victory at Penn State Greater Allegheny, the first in Division III baseball this year. He hit .357 last week, helping Grove City to push its record for the season to 9-6.

Freshman Karsten Lagerquist captured Player of the Week honors in men’s tennis, posting a 4-0 combined record last week in helping lead Grove City to two non-conference victories. He earned straight-set wins at No. 1 singles against both Norwich and Muskingum and two victories in doubles.