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Vol. 105, No. 2

‘A burden to vindicate’

McNulty speaks on 9/11, Flight 93 and prosecuting a conspirator Paige Fay News Editor

The anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks draws near and many will stop and remember the victims and first responders who lost their lives.

One person at Grove City College will reflect on the day in a unique way—President

Paul J. McNulty ’80.

Three days after the attacks, President Bush appointed McMcNulty Nulty the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. His first case: 9/11 c0-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui’s prosecution.

McNulty spoke at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., last month about his experience. He was the last guest as part of the memorial’s Flight 93 Speaker Series and spoke about his experiences and reflections at the Department of Justice on 9/11.

He returned to Moussaoui’s case files trial to pre-

pare for the speech, bringing back memories about the day of the attacks and the trial itself.

“I had to refamiliarize myself with the facts of that one aspect of the attack that day,” McNulty said. “And that brought back a flood of memories—not only about what I experienced that day, but about the prosecution,

Moussaoui, and other terrorist cases.”

McNulty was very moved by the architectural design and symbolism of the memorial.

“It’s just beautiful,” McNulty said. “The combination of my memories of the events and seeing that really impacted me.”

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Messer leads re-evaluation

Kitty want a chip?

Sophia Beatty

Contributing Writer

WES KINNEY

A Grove City College student feeds Kitty Purry a chip from the GeDunk. The feline has become a campus sensation, capturing even President McNulty’s attention this summer.

Dr. H. Collin Messer, chair and professor of English, is now the assistant dean of the Calderwood School of Arts and Letters, a role that includes supporting, encouraging and evaluating faculty with an emphasis on faith and learning integration.

President Paul J. McNulty ’80 inspired the position, wanting the college to have more discussions how faith and learning work together to create a more Messer effective academic environment.

“It really grows out of our strategic plan and our mission to be a Christ-centered college,” Messer said. “What I want to do is really just make that word ‘Christ-centered’ come alive for us as a faculty and as a student body as we do our academic work.”

He hopes to be an encouragement to the student body in the way the chapel program and the speakers can connect the message with the work the students are doing in the classroom. He wants students to see how their

spiritual and intellectual formation connect.

“God cares about students and he cares about studies.

God cares about college. God cares about discipline and I think that’s the great thing about the liberal arts,” he said. “All of life is worship, so we’re not just worshipping in chapel, we’re also worshipping in the biology lab.”

Messer emphasized that in a world where we regard science as the “primary domain of the real,” as a Christian community, we should not let the faith and learning integration discussion be forgotten.

“Grove City College as a distinctive ‘place’ has captivated my mind, heart, and imagination for well over a decade. Because I consider myself a certain sort of Christian pilgrim and exile, I am thankful for the opportunity that my sojourn here has provided me to practice faithfulness to a place,” Messer said.

“We rightly name “faithfulness” as one of our core values, but we might best begin any discussion of our college community not with our faithfulness to God, but with God’s faithfulness to us.

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Modifying ministries

Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

Grove City College’s campus ministries are in full swing this year, with exciting changes to chapel, additions of freshman bible studies and new Spotify playlists.

Two new chapel series will begin for freshman as well as seniors in the fall and spring semesters in Crawford. What was originally used for overflow space in Crawford eventually became an opportunity to reach out to individual classes.

“We are able to pull out group[s] on campus that have specific needs and questions, and we can program to

that,” Zachary Pitcher ’17, chapel ministries director, explains.

During the fall semester, the freshman class will be working their way through a new series, called “Fresh Start.” The series, according to Pitcher, is “arranged around the college’s core values, introducing the students to who we are as a campus.”

President Paul J. McNulty ’80 kicked off the first of the series this Tuesday, with a discussion on how he determined these values for the college.

Seniors will then replace the freshman in Crawford, MINISTRIES 2

Wes Kinney

Mathew Montgomery and Zachary Pitcher ‘17 meet in Rathburn to plan this year’s upcoming campus ministries programs.

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Freshening up campus ministries

From the Editor’s desk

Finding your craft

James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief

One of my favorite things about sports are the offseason.

That sounds like such a weird thing: “I love the parts of a sport where no one is actually playing that sport!”

But there is so much to love about the offseason: the trades, the free agency, the wild rumors and the contrived comeback stories.

My favorite thing about the offseason of any sport, however, is getting to see athletes work their craft.

It may seem odd to think of athletes as craftsmen, but that is exactly what they are.

Just like any glassblower or potter, athletes spend their careers sculpting their skills at a particular task.

They all dedicate their lives to mastering arts with defy mastery.

The offseason is a perfect chance for any athlete to work on that craft at length and without the pressure of a season bearing down on them.

In the summer, basketball players suddenly have hours every day to work on their jump shot, dribbling and passing.

They hire trainers to help them run drills to tweak and improve, even in the slightest ways, their technique.

Some athletes glory in this craft.

Ted Williams, a legendary Boston Red Sox player and the greatest hitter to walk on the face of the earth, dedicated himself to mastering the art of hitting a baseball.

He poured himself into the technique of it, revolutionizing hitting in the process.

He tirelessly drilled and reflected on how he hit. He was obsessed with a craft: the craft of hitting a baseball.

That love of a craft, of working to be a master, has always inspired me. As a senior, I think a lot about what I am going to do with my life.

To be honest, I know a lot less now than I did four years ago.

But one thing I do know: I want a craft. I want something that I will spend my life trying to master.

I want to do something that forces me to work on my skills and technique, something that is more than just a nine-to-five job to pay the bills.

It is not just about working a job that I love: it is about working a craft that challenges me.

A few people have asked me for advice, as I get ready to leave.

Not many people, but some. I usually do not have a lot to say, but if there is one thing it is this: find a craft.

Find some skill or task that you are obsessed with mastering, like Williams was consumed by hitting a baseball.

That love and obsession will keep you going through the ups and the downs of a career.

Craft is one of the things I love about writing, and one of the things I have loved about working the Collegian: the chance to work on my craft as a writer, to develop a voice and a style, to learn how to write on deadline and to write weekly.

I hope that I find my craft, whatever it may be. I hope that you all do too.

Collegian Staff Editor-in-Chief James Sutherland

Managing Editor Grace Tarr

Section Editors News Paige Fay

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Green Eyeshade Award the

This week’s Green Eyeshade Award goes to Joshua Tatum for his incisive columns, challenging crosswords and bubbly personality. Keep up the great work Josh!

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

Joshua Tatum

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continued from 1 with their own series in the spring semester.

“In the spring, seniors are really asking different questions. The senior chapels present the world you’re going into as an adult,” Pitcher said.

According to Pitcher, this series is purposed to prepare seniors for upcoming adulthood.

Campus Ministries has also installed RA-run bible studies by hall in each freshman dorm, hoping to create a space for freshman in their spiritual growth amongst peers.

“What we found was when you become an upperclassman, you find other ministries to be a part of. On freshman halls, there wasn’t always a Bible study. So, we wanted every student to be able to have that experience,” Pitcher said.

Freshman students and their RAs are currently reading Mark with a video curriculum and discussion questions from Francis Chan. The study is centered on the basics of the Bible and Christianity.

“We wanted it to be really Christ-centered, and to go over the basics of who Jesus is,” Pitcher said.

Matthew Montgomery, worship teams coordinator, plans to continue chapel

WES KINNEYT

Zachary Pitcher and Matthew Montgomery are helping to revamp campus ministries, with new bible studies, chapel services and even Dpotify playlists. worship with a new spirit of announced their new Spotify intentionality in song choice. playlist (@GCCChapelWor“We really want the stu- ship2019), which includes dents to think of chapel as current and future worships less transactional and more songs.

Campus Ministries also of a spiritual experience,” wants to encourage students Montgomery said. “It’s sort of to look out for Kingdom alarming to see the changes Week, which is taking place over the past few decades of the last week of October. singing songs that have been Focusing on the role of the sung throughout history, and church in missions, the connow they’ve been tossed to ference expects a large turnthe wayside for whatever’s in out, along with some famous the top CCLI songs.” speakers Recognized Turkish Wanting to counteract this pastor and the heart of one cultural rejection, Montgom- of the largest prayer moveery is centering Grove City ments in history, Andrew College’s worship around the Brunson will be speaking. old, as well as the new.

Campus Ministries expects To further encourage stu- Kingdom Week amongst dents in their love of wor- these other initiatives to sigship music, Montgomery nificantly improve spiritual and the chapel teams have life on campus.

This week in Collegian history Sept. 30, 1929 “Freshman Rules” Freshmen of the class of 1973, tremble! With the unspecified “initiation” that took place the previous Thursday (the 26th), freshman rules once again returned to campus. The article does not actually specify what these rules entail, except for a vague comment admonishing folks to “remember a freshman is expected to do anything that is required of him within reason.” The author does, however, take the time to admonish a “certain type of freshman [that] feels he is just a bit too good to take orders from an upperclassman.” The same month in 1939, an article titled “Frosh Fables” complains that the “frosh” are only too glad to give their opinions; good to see that freshmen haven’t changed.

Sept. 27, 1939 “Van Views the News” 1939 was a historic year in the history of the West, and Collegian writer Van uses his column to reflect on the background and direction, as well as the position of the President, on the Second World War. He places blame squarely on a shoulders of the Nazi regime while also acknowledging the grievances and mistreatment that Germany had suffered up until then; still, Van does not excuse the nation, criticizing the German war machine for its unwarranted attack on smaller nations. He goes on to chastise the cowardice of Russia’s entrance into Poland following Germany, referring to Stalin as the “little Czar.” Not so little in the long run, but Van’s criticism has merit. At the time he was writing, British and French soldiers were already at war, opening up an immense ar-

tillery barrage that exceeds that of the Great War. The war itself would not see an end until September of 1945, six years later to almost the day.

Sept. 17, 1969 “Color TV Brightens Lounge” Residents of Alumni had a pleasant surprise this week in history at the new addition of a full color television! Students could enjoy the new fixture in Alumni Lounge during its active hours. The only exception to this was when the lounge had been reserved by groups, but worry not—no group was allowed to reserve (or perhaps a better word would be “hog”), the television itself.

Sept. 14, 1979 “No Man, No Tan, No Money” This colorful article, written by the “Myrtle Beach Girls,” describes some of the adventures of several Grove City girls who spent the summer of ’79 working in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; they lived with five women and two marines (only in town on the weekends), without the benefit of a twelve-inch ruler! The girls shared three common goals: to get a man, a good tan, and to make money, but they confess that they reached not even one of these goals. The boys they saw were “animals” of little quality, prompting them to adopt the motto “The more I know men, the better I like my dog.” The sun was apparently not enough to get the right tan, but a jaunt into the world of the self-tanner proved disastrous. Finally, they discovered that working in a t-shirt shop was much more fun than it was profitable, although they did enjoy printing a shirt for Artemus Ward, drummer of

the band Lynyrd Skynard, which read “I’m on Castro’s hit list – Free Cuba!” They may not have had a particularly successful summer, but it makes you miss summer, doesn’t it?

Sept. 18, 1989 “Lawsuit Forces Tri-Sigs to Choose New Name” In the Spring of 2019, GCC welcomed back to campus the Tri-Zeta sorority; but do our fall freshman know that the ladies in black and gold originally had a different set of letters? Once the sisterhood of Tri-Sigma, this week in 1989 the national Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority threatened to take Tri-Sigma to court over the similarity.

At the time, the ladies were afraid that such rebranding would confuse alumni and the future rush process, but thirty years later, the sorority is still going strong (some Tri-Sigma paraphernalia is still in the possession of current actives, while still more can be found on display in the College Archives with many other Greek life decorations).

Sept. 3, 1999 “GCC Comes Out On Top Nationally” We now return to the theme of “not a lot has changed” with this article from 1999, which reads “Grove City ranks number 1 in ‘Best value,’ ‘Most nostalgic for Reagan.’” Most colleges spend the summertime holding up their school’s football champions, others their trendy campuses; not so at the Grove. We may not be trendy and we may not rule the roost in football, but boy, do we love former US president Ronald Reagan, as ranked in the ’99 Princeton Review!

Jules Wooldridge

Staff Writer

News The Collegian,

Sept. 6, 2019

Global news roundup

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McNulty memorializes heroes

Fires, riots and democracy

Andrew Furjanic Contributing Writer

With classes and extracurriculars, it’s hard for students to keep up with the raging 24-hour news cycle.

Read our news roundup of this week’s biggest stories.

Amazon fires

The deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest has sparked global outrage, magnified by social media discussion. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, there were at least 74,000 fires in the Amazon in 2019, with over 26,000 in August alone. It is believed that many of these fires are of human origin, set by farmers and miners intending to clear the forest to better harvest natural resources.

Many blame Brazil’s conservative president, Javier Bolsonaro, who relaxed environmental protections and rejected foreign offers of financial support in fighting the fires. The destruction of the rainforest could have serious consequences for both the Brazilian and global ecosystems.

Odessa shooting

On Sunday, a 36-year-old man, Seth Ator, opened fire on police after being pulled over for a traffic stop man outside Odessa, Texas. Law enforcement officers say he drew an AR-type weapon and began shooting at police before fleeing the scene.

He then traveled over 20 miles to nearby Odessa, firing indiscriminately at pedestrians, police and other motorists. After ditching his vehicle and hijacking a mail van, Ator was eventually killed in a shootout with police in the parking lot of movie theater. Police have announced that seven people were killed and 22 were wounded in this horrific attack. They are unsure of a motive.

Brexit mess

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he will suspend parliament in a new effort to complete Brexit negotiation. The details are complicated, but the debate over how to leave the European Union has been raging in the United Kingdom since June 2016. If the British government does not come up with a plan by the end of this coming October, the UK will leave the EU without

any sort of trade deal. This is important because such a deal would determine how the UK would trade with countries in the European Union, including what sorts of goods could be sold in and out of the UK and how those goods would be taxed.

Members of his own party have vpted against the motion, and Johnson could face a severe political crisis.

Gillibrand drops out

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand and Democratic presidential hopeful announced on Wednesday that she is suspending her campaign. The Democratic National Committee requires candidates to have at least 130,000 individual donors and to be polling two percent or higher in four or more qualifying polls. Candidates were required to meet these requirements by midnight last Wednesday to participate in the upcoming debate on Sept. 12. As Gillibrand did not meet these benchmarks, she would not have been able to take part in the upcoming debate, and as a result, decided that being off the debate stage made a presidential run too difficult. This announcement brings the number of democratic candidates for president down to 20, with only 10 qualifying to take part in the debate.

Hong Kong riots

Protesters in Hong Kong continued their demonstrations, which have grown increasingly violent. Protests began on June 9th when Hong Kong legislators proposed a bill to allow the mainland Chinese government to extradite suspects to the mainland.

Pro-democracy protestors believe this would allow the Chinese government to silence dissent and effectively kidnap political opposition by moving them out of Hong Kong jurisdiction to the courts on the mainland. Some estimate that as many as 30,000 protesters took part in a protest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. While many of the Hong Kong residents agree with the protesters’ demands, the police response has grown increasingly violent. Asa a result of these protests, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam agreed to retract the extradition law entirely this past Tuesday morning.

It is unclear whether this will end the protests.

Audia serving jail term Collegian Staff Former Grove City College employee Robert Audia is serving a four to twelve month sentence in the Mercer County Jail after pleading guilty to counts of sexual abuse of children and invasion of privacy.

Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Yeatts sentenced Audia in May after he admitted to filming students in college locker rooms.

Audia worked as the col-

lege’s assistant sports information director. He was fired shortly after the allegations surfaced.

An eight-month investigation began in October 2017 after College officials reported several students suspected Audia was filming them in the locker room and showers. Grove City police filed charges against Audia.

During the investigation, police said they discovered one of the victims was underage, resulting in the charge of sexual abuse of children.

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President Paul J. McNulty spoke at the Flight 93 Memorial last month, recounting his experiences prosecuting 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. ferent from a physical army tack,” McNulty said. “Even that can be defeated by a in something as evil as that continued from 1 military. Because of this, the day, God is still sovereign, Moussaoui is McNulty’s criminal justice system be- and God was still protecting connection to Flight 93 be- came the country’s response when that plane was delayed. cause the case became the fo- to the attacks and a way to He gave courage to those pascal point of all that had taken combat terrorism off the batsengers and they deserve to place on 9/11. After the at- tlefield. be treated as heroes because “We felt this burden to tacks, McNulty worked in the FBI headquarters with the vindicate the principles of of what they prevented.”

Moussaoui was a French Attorney General John Ash- America’s system of justice, citizen arrested one month croft and FBI Director Rob- even as Zacarias Moussaoui before the attacks for an imert Mueller. Through their mocked us. And he mocked research, Moussaoui’s arrest us openly. He had disdain, migration violation. He had one month before in Min- disrespect, and threatening been arrested after trying to nesota brought him to their language. He was an abusive learn how fly a Boeing 747 on attention. The FBI and Jus- defendant,” McNulty said. a simulator at a flight school. tice Department discovered “Yet there we were, honor“From the moment he that Moussaoui had ties to ing the Constitution and the had arrived the people at the 9/11 conspiracy, bringing criminal justice system to a the school saw all these red him to the forefront of jus- ‘T.’” flags,” McNulty said. “He Flight 93 was delayed, so tice for the attacks. Though didn’t really have much comMoussaoui had failed his when the plane was hijacked mission from Al-Qaida, his the passengers already knew petence in flying at all and extensive knowledge on the that the Twin Towers had now he was trying to learn to conspiracy made him an ac- been hit. With this knowl- fly a 747 on a simulator?”

The FBI was notified about complice in the murder of edge, the 33 passengers 3,000 people that day. and seven crew members of his strange behavior which “All the families that had Flight 93 fought back against eventually led to his arrest. lost their loved ones saw the the hijackers and crashed the Moussaoui lied to the federal Moussaoui case as the way plane in Pennsylvania. Their agents and was not cooperathe criminal justice system heroic behavior thwarted tive; many believe that if he was working to address the what was probably the sec- had cooperated the 9/11 atevil that was perpetrated and ond attack on Washington, tacks could have been prethe suffering they had expe- D.C. vented. rienced,” McNulty said. “Vic“The thing I really want to After the attacks, Mousstims need the justice system be communicated in this is to help them process and how providential that morn- aoui’s connection to them beMoussaoui became that focal ing was—how God protected came apparent and it led him point.” countless others through the to McNulty. McNulty helped At the time, the U.S. was heroism of those passengers supervise the case for five debating how to handle ter- and crew members that par- years, until Moussaoui was rorism because it’s very dif- ticipated in that counterat- sentenced to life in prison.

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continued from 1 Time and again, there has been a palpable grace and blessing on this enterprise, which has often brought out the best in both college and town.”

Moving forward, Messer

hopes to see the bookstore providing materials that correlate with what is happening on campus. This includes guest chapel speakers or commencement speakers.

Messer wants the campus to read the same material and make our lives “helpfully bookish.”

“As someone who loves the classroom and my work with students, I am excited and energized by the opportunity (as one of the assistant deans) to promote and enrich the academic life of our students and professors across the Calderwood school,” Messer said.

Finance Column

Debt and malinvestment

George Daugharty Some time passed since our last Collegian publication – in this writeup, I cover the market basics, the need-to-knows for any Grover business major, aspiring businessman or laymen alike.

For the reporting period from May 15 to the time of writing, the S&P 500 rose 1.7 percent to 2,900. The yield on the Treasury’s 10-year note fell to an all-time low of to 1.47 percent and the yield curve fully inverted.

Of all the business news to transpire over the past few months, the global macroeconomic slowdown was the biggest story by far, although here at home in the United States things appear pretty healthy for now.

The global slowdown— which has so far been more pronounced in China and

Europe—has been a long time in the making and something that we have been covering here in the Collegian. Although the American economy is in its 10 year of what is the longest bull market in American history, many worry generous monetary policy over that period has been the source of that growth, not sound economic development.

The worry is that with excessive debt and profligate malinvestment, the next recession may end up being a particularly ugly one. Currently global debt (which includes governments, households and corporations) is roughly $250 trillion, more than three times global gross domestic product. Governments in particular have been on a borrowing spree.

In fact, in this year alone the U.S. Federal Government is forecasted to run a deficit of

$1.1 trillion. Should a slowdown actually come, entities’ ability to service that debt will become hampered and perhaps impossible for some.

Of all the forward-looking indicators which forecast such recessions, none is more powerful in its predictive power than an inverted yield curve. The most recent times the curve inverted was in 2006, 2000 and 1989.

Recessions followed those inversions 14, 12 and 23 months respectively.

Along with a yield curve inversion, this summer also saw both the U.K. and Germany reporting second quarter negative economic growth. Even though reliable data from China is hard to come by, it looks as though this year’s GDP will be that country’s worst since the last global recession.

Community The Collegian,

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I’m on campus, now what?

Forging new communities in a new season

Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

It’s that time of year again, the time of the infamous college transition for the freshman: the first two weeks under their belt.

It’s been ten days of new classes, getting meals and meeting (what feels like) a million new faces. What has been two weeks has felt like two months, and you miss hanging with your siblings on the couch or driving around your hometown in your mom’s Toyota with the windows down. That means something though. You miss your old life. You miss the routine and the things you were used to. You miss the friends you made and the dog you’ve left at home to achieve higher education.

As a sophomore, this was me last year. What I figured out, though, was that missing my old life signaled something significant; it was time to embrace my new life. By embrace I don’t mean to just accept where I am and what I am doing, but to fully take ownership of where I am.

This only means one thing to you freshman: it’s time to submerse yourselves into the community of Grove City College, because this is your new life.

There’s a few things you can do to really start feeling at home, starting with your

As campus welcomes new students, underclassmen must embrace a new season of change and growth. friendships. It all starts with reciprocation. If it’s awkward between you and a new friend, and she’s asked you to a couple meals, but you haven’t reciprocated at all, maybe it’s time to reach out.

Real friendships are born out of mutual admiration, and if you like who you are hanging out with, you should let them know. Pursue those people who look interesting to talk to; ask your lab partner if she’s doing anything this weekend. Don’t chicken out. Show people you are interested in getting to know them. You’ll be amazed at the amount of positive responses you’ll receive.

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If you’re religious, keep going to a church you enjoy and stick with it. You’ll eventually know Jack who always sits in the second row, or Darlene who always plays the organ too loud. These fellow churchgoers of yours already have something in common with you, and saying hi to the old man behind you never hurts. The church you attend is now YOUR church for eight months.

If the church has outside activities like bible studies and luncheons, this is the perfect way to get to know people. Go to these events.

You’ll probably get to meet the head pastor and his wife

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An occasional satirical feature exploring life at Grove City College

Ten rules to reverse brag The semester has begun.

Office hours are packed, idle minds begin to fill, and students pick up their usual traditions.

One tradition on our campus is competition. Before history was ever recorded, college-age students have competed through feats of daring. But now-a-days we have progressed. Students now compete by reversebragging. You know what I mean. When you say that you have had a busy week, your hallmate says “Well I….” and proceeds to tell you that she has a VERY busy week. In fact, on top of her 21 credit semester, her professors are all working together to coordinate their pop-quizzes, her roommate is actively trying to kill her by leaving the light on and keeping her awake, and there was a bat in her room and she is 90% sure she has rabies.

Now look where you are.

She had more to complain

about. You’ve lost! But never fear, your courageous reporter has tirelessly interviewed, examined and investigated, all to deliver Ten Rules to Reverse Brag so this semester you can definitively prove that, YOU have a harder week, YOU have more school work and YOU are probably closer to death.

1) Raise them one. If your friend has two papers, you have THREE. If your friend has 15 credits, you have 16.

If your friend has a breakup, you have TWO. 2) Conversely Subtract five for chapel credits. 3) Get that baggy look.

Even if you don’t have very much actual work to do, aim for between 4 and 6 hours of sleep. If you still look fresh and chipper, rub dirt under your eyes to make you look more tired. 4) Carry all your books. Make it obvious that you are weighed down not only by the weight of the world, but also that your textbooks are heavier than

everyone else’s. 5) Milk the test. If you have a test, you can not only talk about it for 24 hours before it happens, but make sure to get the full payoff by saying how bad it went for at least 24 hours afterwards as well. 6) Fake laryngitis. Yes, it can be done.

Your story will always sound more convincing if you have no voice. 7) Waste away. Every day, loosen your watch a little to make it look like you are wasting away before their eyes. 8) Pad your calendar.

Add fake events so that your calendar seems fuller than it is.

9) Change the subject. If someone brings up an unrelated topic, inform them that “in the past week, I haven’t even had time to eat normal meals, I’ve only eaten in the SAC.” 10) Cram for everything.

Test? All-nighter. Quiz? Allnighter. Who knows, you may even have a pop-quiz tomorrow. All-nighter?

or see your professor in jeans and sneakers, which is always fun.

Again, be intentional about creating your new life. These times of meeting and getting to know people outside of school are critical.

Remember when you volunteered back at home? You can do that in Grove City too.

There’s a food pantry right down the street, where you can meet longtime residents of the Grove City community. There are so many service activities that lead to genuine friendships and mentorships, and these don’t have to be found only at the College.

And finally, though this

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seems insignificant right now, keep in contact with your parents. They miss you, and though things are exciting here, they’re still getting used to life without you back at home.

You want to grow your community in Grove City, but you also want to keep the one you have at home. You’ll be thankful for this when it’s summertime and you’re ready to kick back with your friends in that old Toyota again. But by that time, you’ll probably be missing your college friends too. That’s when you know you’ve been successful at embracing your new life.

Finding community

Anna DiStefano Community Editor

As evidenced by last week’s Org Fair, Grove City boasts many groups on campus.

These groups vary in size, focus and time commitment, but they are generally placed in one of four categories: interest-focused, service, ministry or athletic.

Each of the following groups fall into one of those categories, but they all recognize the importance of communion and learning from one another.

S.E.A.D. is an interestfocused group that “seeks to create an environment where students of all cultural backgrounds are fully known, respected, and encouraged to realize their full God-created potential and God-given identity,” junior chair and treasurer of the group, Elsie Becker, said.

Formally “Students Excited About Diversity,” S.E.A.D. now stands for “Students for Ethnic Awareness and Diversity.”

“S.E.A.D. began as a place for culturally diverse students to feel accepted and heard at this college. While it still focuses on targeting these students, issues of racial reconciliation and diversity affect everyone, because we all have a cultural background,” Becker said.

Learning about others’ lives and experiences is not limited to S.E.A.D.; another group on campus finds wisdom that spans generations.

Adopt a Grandparent is a

service group that pairs students with a resident at the Orchard Manor, a nearby nursing home.

Students visits their “grandparent” individually throughout the semester, and the whole group visits about three times a semester to play games and do crafts.

“They look forward to our visits and always greet us with smiling faces. Throughout my three years in this club, I have shared many laughs and gained lots of wisdom from the residents,” president Taylor Horn said.

“Those with a caring heart and a love for the elderly are welcome to join.”

The College’s dance group, Orchesis, is another outlet for students searching for community.

“We put a huge emphasis on creating a space where we can create and do something we love with good people in a good environment,” president Bri Crouthamel said.

“I’ve made some of my best friends through Orchesis, and it has given me an incredible outlet to dance in the midst my busy schedule!”

This year’s show is “Orchesis: A Year in the Life” and will follow each of the four seasons as well as the seasons of life. Anyone can audition for this year’s production at 5 p.m. from Sept. 10 to 12 in PEW. As the new school year starts, these are just a few of the great groups that are ready for you to get involved.

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Food truck Fridays

Campus welcomes new cuisine on wheels in September Alejandra Flores Staff Writer

The ever-present change in classrooms, schedules, friends, housing and even tuition can be overwhelming at times, but it also brings exciting new changes, and this year the school is tacking on one more change: food trucks.

In his premier “Grove at a Glance,” a list of recommended campus events, President McNulty announced the addition of this new food service. Every Friday in September from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the school is allowing food trucks to come in on the Library and STEM side of campus.

The only downside is the extra cost.

However, the food will be a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of Hicks and MAP and the normal options that can become mundane and not so appetizing.

Beginning this Friday campus will add to the variety of

foods with the Wieners Gone Wild, known for their “Rockin’ Hot dogs and Twisted Tots.”

Make sure to stop by during lunch and bring the change that’s holed up somewhere in a jar in the dorm room or sprawled on the desk.

If that’s not appealing, wait until next week to get a taste of mountain pies and other missed comfort food meals with Turkey Rueben Pie, Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese Pie and Jumbo Fried Bologna.

Missing something more on the international side?

Don’t worry!

On Sept. 20, Ash and Kristen Kitchen will be on campus with Mediterranean food and gyros.

Lastly, get on the fusion train and hit up Romeo’s BBQ and Asian food truck on Sept. 27.

“I think it seems like a good opportunity for campus community building but it would also mean students will be more tempted to spend mon-

WHO’S HANGRY

Melinda Trepasso, of Who’s Hangry food truck, poses with one of the truck’s famous gourmet mountain pies. Food Truck Fridays begin today outside of STEM. ey on outside foods instead of their pre-paid meal plans,” Katie Leon, a sophomore bio/health major, said.

For more information make sure to check out

“Grove at a Glance” to get all the updates and information about things happening on campus.

Overall, Food Truck Fridays are definitely a new and

exciting change for Grove City.

Relish in the new food, see if it’s a good fit and decide if it’s okay to spend a little extra.

Rend Collective tour hits campus

Taylor Williams Contributing Writer

Music will pour from the PLC arena Friday when Rend Collective brings their tour to campus.

Rend Collective is a Northern Irish Christian folk-rock worship band originating from Bangor, Ireland.

The concert is possible under some unique circumstances. Stonebridge Concerts is hosting the concert after Rend Collective contacted Grove City College back in April when they were starting to plan their tour.

“We are a convenient stop for them between Ohio and Maryland, and we are right off a major interstate. We are also a Christian Campus with a larger venue space than most churches (where the band normally plays). So, it worked out well for both of

us,” senior Emily Stein, president of Stonebridge, said.

This event is different compared to concerts in the past. For starters, Grove City is a stop on the tour for this show whereas in the past, bands have just come to play a one-off show upon request.

Additionally, the tour factor means that there is a fullscale production company running the entire event.

This means that they have a huge team of people working on all the different details of the show.

“I have personally been working on this concert all summer – emailing back and forth with different people involved on the band’s end, as well as different departments on campus,” Stein said in reference to the preparation for such a large-scale event.

Planning has continued

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Northern-Irish worship band Rend Collective will bring their Revival Anthem tour to campus Friday. since students’ return to campus and Stonebridge finalizes all the details to ensure things go smoothly.

“There are tons of moving parts with an event like this, especially on a college campus. The band has certain needs and we can only provide what we can provide, so we have to do a lot of problem solving to figure out how both parties can be

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All this hard work is not going to go unnoticed as students are already getting excited about the event.

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Sophomore Allaryn Smith also expressed great excitement towards the event. “I am so excited! I love Rend Collective and cannot wait to go spend a night worshipping with my friends! We have all been listening to them for a while now and are so excited for next Friday.”

Even the newly-arriving freshman are catching the excitement about the concert.

“It is awesome that this community gets to experience such an amazing band with a wonderful message,” freshman Grace Roux said.

Tickets are on sale now.

Grove City students can purchase tickets for $20 through Rend Collective’s website. If these tickets run out, general admission tickets can be purchased at a higher price.

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Bolsarno blunders Amazon burns as president does nothing Andrew Furjanic Contributing Writer

In August, over 26,000 fires lit up the Amazon Rainforest. These new fires pushed the total for the year to nearly 74,000, an absurdly high, record setting number of fires. Right now, more than 3 football fields worth of forest are being destroyed every minute. This is a critical situation for Brazil and for the rest of the world.

Starting in the 1970s, deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest became a hot button issue. Artists, musicians, and conservationists began sounding the alarm, as miners, loggers, and farmers began to clear vast swaths of Brazilian woodland. To a large extent, this outrage succeeded in preventing the deforestation, but many Brazilians began to wonder: who were we to tell them how to use their resources? After all, many developed countries (like the US) had deforested large swaths of their own

Joshua Tatum

Perspectives Editor Since its inclusion into college curricula, business-related majors have, for many Ivory Tower snobs, been a consistent source of ire. A side-effect of the 2008 financial crisis – namely, an increased demand for majors perceived to provide postgraduation stability – has only intensified this flame.

Before I start, however, I have two preliminary thoughts.

First, unlike the Ivory Tower-ists, I will here insert some measure of pragmatism. For the Grove City’s graduating class of 2018, a whopping 23.5 percent of the degrees awarded were business-related, according to NCES data. And for a college that derives about 60 percent of its revenue from student tuition, abolishing the business major would be a slowly bled suicide. And, at least in my book, if a proposal would destroy that which it is trying to save, that proposal is wrong.

countries in an effort to seek out resources.

In fact, these countries had come away as wealthy and technologically advanced nations, precisely because they had made use of their natural resources. What right, many Brazilians wondered, did the United States and other developed countries have to criticize Brazil for trying use its own natural resources to improve?

These sentiments largely lay unacknowledged in the minds of many of the more conservative Brazilians.

Then, in 2018, as right wing Brazilian politician Jair Bolsonaro campaigned for president these questions reentered the national discourse.

Bolsonaro campaigned on a platform that Brazil was for Brazilians, and that Brazilians should, accordingly, make use of the natural resources, including those in the Amazon. In order to bet-

ter the lives and capitalize on the economic advantages that these resources afforded them. Brazil, said Bolsonaro, ought to use their land to become a developed world player.

After Bolsonaro’s inauguration in July, deforestation began almost immediately.

Farmers began setting fire to nearby patches of forest to clear land, primarily to grow soybeans — Brazil’s biggest cash crop — and raise cattle —Brazil is a major exporter of beef. Miners began to set up camps to mine fossil fuels in the midst of the rainforest.

Bolsonaro rolled back many environmental protections, and the protections that remain in place go largely unenforced by his administration.

As the amount of deforestation increased, the international community sounded the alarm, worried that deforestation would harm everyone and that it was not Brazil’s place to take this environmental heritage away

from future generations. Bolsonaro and many Brazilians have responded to this outcry by rebuffing foreign offers of aid, arguing that they are a sovereign nation who will not yield to colonialism.

While this resistance to colonialism is well taken, and Brazil’s sovereignty should be respected, the environmental damage is still a major problem. Changing an ecosystem from rainforest to farmland will hurt the wildlife. Deforesting a lot of the rainforest will upset the ecosystem, even if a large portion of it is left alone. Species will go extinct.

A bigger consideration is something called evapotranspiration. We often think of the rainforest as just being a rainy part of the world that allows trees to grow. That’s half right. In reality, the rain and the trees have a cyclical relationship. Big trees, like the ones in the Amazon, process over 50 thousand gallons of water per year, much of which gets sent back up

into the atmosphere after photosynthesis occurs. Because there are large, thirsty plans to suck up the water from the rain, there is also a healthy supply of rain.

The rainforest, in effect, creates its own rain, which sustains itself. This rain also sustains most of the South American economy (which is 70% based on agriculture).

Because of the size of the rainforest, it also supplies much of the rain to the rest of the western hemisphere, including the US, which is also a major agricultural player.

Even from a purely self-interested perspective, the land will be hurt in the long term, which will make farming and mining much less fruitful.

So even if Brazil should have the right to self-determine, they still must protect the rainforest for future Brazilians. Fighting deforestation and stopping the industrialization is the only way to preserve the beauty of the rainforest and prevent the squandering of its benefits.

Staying in business Second, the business major in most institutions, include this College, is not perfect.

It is, however, a careful balancing act between attracting those who want a degree and those that want an education – an important distinction. The thing to note is that there is nothing fundamental to the business major which makes it incompatible with the liberal arts. “International Business” or “Marketing” are just the names plopped on the brochure. What really matters is the curriculum content, which can be wellmelded with the liberal arts.

To be frank, I would rather have the purity of the liberal arts be but slightly marred by a bustling business department, than risk corporations helmed by people who don’t know how to think. Grove City does a fair job on this tightrope, requiring business majors to endure a volley of courses in the humanities and the natural sciences.

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With those foundations laid, I will now recall and revise a couple popular qualms with the business major.

One popular argument is, given that the business major does not necessarily lead to a higher salary upon graduation, why not just indulge in the liberal arts? I respond with my own two questions.

First, why assume that liberal arts majors are above choosing their majors for the

money?

Second, why should business majors not be given the benefit of the doubt that they also chose their major purely for the skip that it puts in their step? A job does naturally follow from the business major, but so also from most other majors, the hermit lifestyle being lately out of vogue.

Another argument is that employers prefer those that

know how to think and would rather emphasize onthe-job training. For this, we go back to our preliminaries, noting that the business major, while often imperfect, properly melded with the liberal arts, can provide knowledge and wisdom both.

Higher education unquestionably requires reform.

The business major should not be, however, a hill anyone need die on.

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The Rwandan phoenix After tragedy, forgiveness wins

Justin Folger

Contributing Writer Twenty thousand victims of the Rwandan Genocide are chronically forgotten in Western reporting.

Most articles cite an early UN estimate putting the death count at 800,000, far below the Rwandan Government’s census that identified 1,074,017 victims by name, profession and method of murder.

We continuously forget, be it intentional or not, a fifth of the murdered.

From this discrepancy alone, it becomes clear that it’s time to revisit Rwanda, getting things right once and for all.

This year, the 25th anniversary of the genocide, is perhaps the most fitting time to do so.

Now, the most authentic first step to take for the Rwandan survivors is to finally listen to the voices of the Rwandan people, and to allow that to be enough.

While in some cases western media does its best to honor the efforts of those who have worked to revitalize Rwanda, some stories make unfortunate and frankly false statements about the heart of the Rwandan people.

Such articles minimize the progress that the Rwanda people made over the last twenty-five years, insisting that the ethnic tensions that caused the genocide are still burning beneath the surface and when Rwandan President Paul Kagame is out of office, the bloodbath will resume.

It’s simply unfair for American journalists to make such

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claims without including the voices of any Rwandan citizens.

These notions must be rectified to allow the new Rwanda to be defined by what they are as opposed to what they have been.

The Rwandan Genocide began in April of 1994 and lasted 100 days, making it the fastest genocide in human history. Most victims were killed by machete at a rate of 7.5 deaths per minute for the entire span of the genocide.

The country lost not only the lives of a million people, but hundreds of thousands more to displacement and imprisonment, leaving the structure and morale of the country in shambles, earning them the appropriate stamp of “failed state” from the United Nations.

But like a Phoenix, Rwanda’s story does not end in ashes. Under the leadership

of President Kagame, Rwanda has risen from this “failed state” scarlet letter to become, according to The Telegraph, the 9th safest country in the world in just 25 years.

John Gasangwa, the founder and president of Arise Rwanda Ministries, believes that reconciliation was the cornerstone to their recovery.

“The first thing we did as a country was to know that we are all Rwandans,” Gasangwa said. “We are not Hutus, we are not Tutsis, we are not Twas, we are all Rwandans.”

With this established, Rwanda stood unified for the first time under the ideology of forgiveness.

In the twenty-five years since the killings, the citizens of Rwanda have embraced a revolutionary program. If perpetrators seek forgiveness from the victims of their actions, and forgiveness is granted, the perpetrator is

given the opportunity to be regrafted into society. This forgiveness serves not only as a starting point, but as a common thread that runs through everything else they do. Gasangwa says that their justice system is not about punishment but “providing reconciliation and forgiveness in Rwanda.”

These words are not just an ideal for Gasangwa, but an ideology that impacts every facet of his ministry.

Gasangwa told the story of a child soldier who killed 78 people during the genocide and has been forgiven by the families of the victims.

Now, he’s been hired at the school Gasangwa runs, Kivu Hills Academy.

“This is just one example of the reconciliation between the Hutus and the Tutsis,” Gasangwa said.

In the eyes of The Honorable Dr. Odette, Rwandan senator and doctor in the

real Hotel Rwanda, the ethnic tensions have been put to rest.

“There is no cultural divide amongst Rwandans!” Odette exclaimed. “Even during the genocide, killers had to read the ID to know who to kill.”

This ethnicity-centric identification policy has since been banned in favor of a more unifying system.

Odette continued to say that Rwandans all have the same “Rwandese ID” and can now “enjoy the same rights from birth.”

It’s not just the citizens who have noticed the reunification of Rwanda, but researchers, too.

The National Unity and Reconciliation Committee conducts a “reconciliation barometer” using metrics such as apology and forgiveness, trust among citizens, and understanding of the genocide itself. Most recently, reports showed

GPA or GTA? Jonathan Skee Contributing Writer

I probably wouldn’t be here at Grove City College studying political science if not for a video game. I know, this statement seems like a crazy idea given how our society views video games as a detriment to education, but it is true, nonetheless.

The video game I refer to is Sid Meier’s Civilization III, a turn-based strategy game in which players can choose some of the greatest empires of human history to establish and grow through the ages.

Players must expand their populations, research new technologies, accumulate a treasury, found new cities and increase their influence around the world while fending off rival nation-states (or conquering them). To win, one must withstand the test of time and be the most powerful nation by the year 2050.

As a first-time player in the fifth grade, I didn’t understand a lot of the concepts represented in the game, but as I played more, I began to realize how closely aligned a lot of the game was to what I was learning in school. The game is based on real-world history. All civilizations featured in the game are real— from the Romans to the Aztecs to the Chinese to the Americans. The buildings,

military units, and resources were portrayed in painstakingly accurate detail.

The video game introduced me to some of the most important concepts in politics and international relations as well, such as the art of diplomacy, collective security, meeting the needs of a population, promoting ideals and using influence to achieve objectives.

I was fascinated by the experience that Civilization gave me and played more and more throughout my middle school years. I found myself paying attention and raising my hand more in my classes, particularly my social science courses, and reading more about politics and history in my free time.

My grades in those courses rose substantially. I began having profound conversations with friends and family about these subjects. I even started getting involved in related extracurriculars.

Eventually I realized that this interest in history and politics that was sparked by a video game was no longer a mere interest; it was my passion. Fast forward seven years and here I am as an aspiring scholar of political science.

I go into depth about my experience with this game to demonstrate how the stereotypical view of video games and video game players are not always correct.

People generally perceive video games as mere entertainment and those who play them more than a couple hours a week to be wasting their time and lost in a fantasy world. While there are certainly examples of this, video games can also be a powerful tool of self-discovery and education.

I learned a lot about history and politics from Civilization III—not just because of the sheer amount of information provided by the game, but more importantly, because of the interest in these subjects that the game sparked in me.

Teachers can teach a subject all they want, but if their students are not interested in a subject, they will never learn as much as they could. Interest causes students to seek more information on their own; to be teachers to themselves.

In this respect, video games are like books. Books can spark interest and expand one’s knowledge just like video games can. The difference is that video games reach a different audience: those who prefer a more entertaining and interactive ap-

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proach to learning. Perhaps this is not what a student has in mind when they play a video game, but it’s an effect that many, including myself, have observed in ourselves, nonetheless.

The other difference, of course, is that one is heavily promoted by parents and educators while the other is frowned upon. This baffles me. How exactly does being printed on paper make the “Captain Underpants” books inherently more enriching than a video game like Civilization III? Parents, teachers and students should recog-

nize that education is not so much about how the material is taught, but whether the student actually learns the material.

While I have played my fair share of unproductive video games (just like I’ve read my fair share of unproductive books), it was ultimately my experience with a video game that led to my discovery of my calling in life. Gaming should not be considered incompatible with or a detriment to education because there are games out there that, like books, can be an effective means of learning.

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“The Good Place” starring Kristin Bell returns to NBC on Sept. 26 for its fourth and final season. The show takes a humous look at the afterlife.

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Death after life in ‘The Good Place Show exlores the concept of heaven and hell

Grace Tarr

Managing Editor The fourth and final season of NBC’s “The Good Place” airs Thursday, Sept. 26, at 9 p.m., and in the meantime, there is just enough time to binge the past three seasons on Netflix.

Created by Michael Schur, the series takes a humorous look at the afterlife as it follows the life, or rather, the death and afterlife of Eleanor Shellstrop (played by Kristin Bell). Eleanor, a vivacious and rather cynical character, finds herself mistakenly in The Good Place after dying in a freak grocery cart accident. After realizing that

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the “Judge” made a horrible mistake, Eleanor tries to improve herself to win her place in The Good Place with the help of an indecisive, moral philosophy professor (William Jackson Harper ), a selfabsorbed socialite (Jameela Jamil) and a clueless gangster from Tallahassee (Manny Jacinto) – all of whom died sudden and unexpected deaths. In a surprising twist, the first season’s main antagonist, Michael (Ted Danson), becomes an unlikely ally and sacrificial Christ figure.

Schur’s humorous and ironic writing style harkens to his work on “The Office” – which he co-created with Greg Daniels – and “Parks

and Recreation.” The storyline is compelling and drives the sequence of events naturally, but the best part of “The Good Place” is how it manages to take a heavy subject, like the afterlife, and frame it with humor. Common human experiences and annoyances are dealt with hilariously, like Eleanor’s confusion with heaven having a chowder fountain, which she says is “basically a savory latte with bugs in it.”

If the plot and the humor are not enough to draw viewers, “The Good Place” also offers fodder for considering the nature of good and evil, human fallenness and our incapability of perfecting our-

selves. As the plot develops, Eleanor must try to answer the burning question: what makes a person good? While the show handles the question with considerable doses of sarcasm and dry humor, thoughtful viewers are challenged to confront their own beliefs. If, as the show suggests, life is a game in which we must garner enough “good” points, how do we ever find rest in this life?

“The Good Place” does not shy away from this question.

As season three progresses, the characters realize that even good actions are not enough to compensate for bad motives. For Christians, this is not a new revelation.

In Mathew 5, Jesus warns that the law extends beyond actions to thoughts and intentions. It is a sober reminder that “the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7 ESV).

NBC is certainly no bastion of Christian principles and “The Good Place” is no apologetic, but Christian viewers may just find themselves nodding along as the character’s best attempts fall short of perfection.

As the fourth and final season airs, it remains to be seen if and how the characters will achieve their moral perfection.

Tarantino ignites nostalgia

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“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” directed by Quentin Tarantino, is nothing short of a masterpiece.

The film takes place in 1969, the psychedelic era of Hollywood. Tarantino effectively recreates this era in a fashion that is beautifully twisted in a way that only he could.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Rick Dalton, a fading Hollywood star who will do whatever it takes to obtain significant roles.

Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt, is Dalton’s stuntman and chauffeur, since Dalton had had multiple alcoholrelated car accidents.

Most of the film consists of Dalton auditioning for various roles, while Booth attempts to clean up after Dalton.

The interesting dichotomy between Dalton and Booth provides the film with uncanny moments of humor, especially within their dialogue.

As expected, we are introduced to members of the Manson family: Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee and Roman Polanski.

Two bubbly female characters in the film are Sha-

Tarantino effectively recreates this era in a fashion that is beatifully twisted in a way that only he could.

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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio co-star in Quentin Tarantino’s latest picture, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The movie, set in 1969, recounts the changing of the guard in Hollywood, as well as the Manson family’s infamous murder of Sharon Tate. ron Tate, played by Margot Robbie, and a member of the Manson family named Pussycat, played by Margaret Qualley.

We are given snapshots of both characters’ worlds until the latter half of the film, when Cliff regretfully befriends Pussycat and takes her to the Spahn ranch, the

Manson family’s hideout.

However, this event proves to be somewhat helpful in the end.

Upon its release, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” became one of Quentin Tarantino’s highest grossing opening weekends.

To date, the film has grossed approximately three-

hundred million dollars and has garnered critical acclaim.

Despite facing adversity in pre-production, Tarantino stayed true to himself. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is Tarantino’s first film not to be associated with the Weinstein family.

Instead, the film was produced by Sony studios, and

thankfully, Tarantino’s golden streak remains.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is “Tarantino’s love letter to ‘60s L.A.” Adam Nayman of Sight and Sound wrote that the film is “A slow, indulgent ramble through a gloriously recreated past, placidly hypnotized by its own stately paced and luminous nostalgia.”

Indeed, the nostalgic factor pertains to Tarantino’s keen sense of style; the decadent musical soundtrack, hippie clothing and the bright lights of Hollywood all coincide to create a magical movie-going experience.

Although “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is a long film, clocking in around onehundred and sixty minutes, it is worth the patience.

It is a movie that is equally mesmerizing, memorable and better with every viewing.

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Soccer slip up

Connor Schlosser

Scores and schedule

Sports Editor

The Grove City College soccer teams stumbled to start their respective seasons.

The women opened with a pair of loses last weekend, while the men split their game with a draw and a loss.

The teams played all four games on the road, while renovations on College Field continue.

The women kicked off their season against a top 10 Division III non-conference monster in Messiah, losing the game 3-0.

Messiah opened with a goal at the five-minute mark.

Grove City was unable to get any shots in the first half, and Messiah grabbed two more goals later in the matchup. Grove City finished with three shots compared to Messiah’s 37.

Grove City continued their difficult road trip Saturday, traveling to face non-conference Lebanon Valley. Coming down to the last minutes, Grove City was edged by their opponents 4-3.

Lebanon Valley paced themselves ahead of the Wolverines with a comfortable 3-0 lead at halftime.

Grove City ignited their offense with junior midfielder Shannon Brawley making the score minutes after the start of the second half assisted by senior midfielder Ruby Mattson.

Brawley kept the momentum going and put another in the net five minutes later off the assist from junior Ryleigh Lefever.

The Wolverines evened up the score 3-3 with junior Michaela Burke launching a

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Junior forward Michaela Burke dribbles up the field against Lebanon Valley Saturday. The Wolverines fell 4-3 after fighting back from a 3-0 deficit.

35-yard bullet past the goalkeeper.

Messiah broke the tie in their favor grabbing a goal in the final minutes of the game.

The men opened their season at a stalemate against Houghton Friday, finishing the game in a scoreless tie.

Grove City created offensive drives to produce 15 total shots, with eight making it to goal only to be snagged by the goalkeeper. Houghton produced 13 total shots, with seven making it to goal.

Sophomore goalkeeper Luke Greenway kept the Highlanders scoreless by saving six shots, and sophomore defender Christian Giannetti prevented a potential Houghton score in the second half.

The team moved onto their second weekend game against Capital in Slippery Rock, Pa., Saturday, falling 4-2. Looking to rebound after

their tie against Houghton, Grove City came up short against their non-conference opponent.

Sophomore forward Kennan Roewer got momentum going for Grove City scoring the first goal of the match in under 12 minutes assisted by sophomore midfielder Josh Flenniken. Capital bit back with two goals in under 90 seconds following Roewer’s score.

Senior forward Christian Caporaso evened up the score for Grove City with a penalty kick goal. Capital continued in their theme of scoring in pairs and grabbed a penalty kick goal and a header off a throw-in in just over 90 seconds.

The men return to action at 5 p.m. today in Wilmington, Ohio, taking on non-conference opponent Wabash. The women face off with Penn State Behrend at 7:30 p.m. today in Erie, Pa.

National Sports

Fall is for football

Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

Football is back, folks!

Another drama-filled NFL offseason comes to a close as we look forward to our Sundays watching some gridiron action. The league has seen several changes already with trades, signings and even retirements. Here are some highlights.

The Pittsburgh Steelers made a big splash early in the offseason centered on their seven-time Pro Bowl receiver. Antonio Brown, voted second overall by NFL players last season, was traded to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for picks. Brown had been disgruntled with his Pittsburgh team, wanting out of Steel City, and now his wish has been granted. The 31-year-old will become the star wide receiver on a fairly young Raiders lineup with 28-year-old quarterback Derek Carr and rookie running back Josh Jacobs. Old helmet or not, Brown will look to maintain his highlevel play with his new team.

The Cleveland Browns have long been the punchline of every football joke, being an easy target for any NFL fan. Well, not anymore, it seems. The same team that threw a parade for the 2017 season, boasting a 0-16 record, is now studded with two elite wide receivers in Jarvis Landry and newest addition, Odell Beckham Jr. Second-year quarterback Baker Mayfield will have a lot of mouths to feed this

season with plenty of pass options for the promising 24-year-old. Former Kansas City running back Kareem Hunt was also picked up by the Browns this offseason after being dropped by the Chiefs for being suspended eight games for violating the NFL’s conduct policy.

Although the Browns are not yet Super Bowl material, they have made massive strides from the bottom of the list to the middle of the pack.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck announced in August that he will be retiring from the NFL. This came as a shock to everyone considering Luck is only 29 years young. The Colts had a promising outlook for the upcoming season, but with the absence of their captain, has their luck run out?

So, who are the catalysts that are going to have breakout seasons this year and lead fantasy leagues? Ask any NFL analyst and they will tell you there are three running backs that will battle for rushing production across the league. Saquon Barkley of the New York Giants is a fan favorite for fantasy leagues where many analysts project him to lead the league in rushing. Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers is also projected to build on his last season’s success. Alvin Kamara is the third of these three backs who is practically guaranteed to consistently produce high fantasy points. Kamara will be a vital piece of a top tier offense in New Orleans.

But who are the contend-

ers for the Lombardi trophy that have what it takes to make the Super Bowl? It would be negligent to ignore the returning champions, New England Patriots. For a franchise that makes the playoffs consistently, led by Bill Belichick and 42-yearold Tom Brady, it is hard to ignore that the Patriots may yet again appear in the Super Bowl. Wide receiver favorite of Brady, Julian Edelman is set to be the first option in receiving. Josh Gordon, recently cleared by the NFL to play The Patriots also boast a top ten defense squad that can only help the Patriots’ season outlook.

Also, in the AFC, you have a young stud quarterback in Patrick Mahomes who appears on track to have an even more explosive season leading the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs were the offensive juggernaut that everyone feared last year.

Kansas City is reloaded with many of their pieces like Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce and Sammy Watkins all returning, with the exception of Hunt who will be replaced

by Damien Williams.

For the NFC, the Super Bowl runner ups, the Los Angeles Rams are projected to be back in the running in playoff action ready for redemption. Also, in the NFC, the Saints have their two offensive weapons with Kamara rushing and Michael Thomas receiving. New Orleans is also looking to make a deep playoff push.

Sunday football is coming.

Are you ready?

Misericordia W (3-1), Moravian W (3-0), Alvernia W (3-0), Penn State Harrisburg W (3-1) Women’s Tennis Thiel W (8-1), Edinboro W (5-2) Men’s Cross Country Westminster Invitational 6/12 Women’s Cross Country Westminster Invitational 4/11 Men’s Golf Pitt-Bradford Invitational 4/15 Men’s Soccer Houghton T (0-0), Capital L (4-2) Women’s Soccer Messiah L (3-0), Lebanon Valley L (4-3)

Upcoming games Football Sept. 7 @ Juniata Women’s Volleyball Sept. 10 v.s. Penn State Altoona Men’s Soccer Sept. 6 @ Wabash Sept. 7 @ Wilmington Sept. 11 @ Oberlin Women’s Soccer Sept. 6 @ Penn State Behrend Sept. 11 @ Carnegie Mellon Women’s Tennis Sept. 6-7 @ Oberlin Invitational Cross Country Sept. 7 @ Bethany Invitational Men’s Golf Sept. 6-7 @ Malone Invitational

News The Grove City College Men’s golf team teed off their season at the Pitt-Bradford Invitational, hitting the links, and taking fourth place out of the 15-team competition. The Wolverines posted a team score of 317, 18 strokes behind the title winner Pitt-Bradford.

WOLVERINE WEEKLY HONORS

Maria Boris

Faith Keating

Volleyball Senior Moravian College Tournament MVP

Volleyball Freshman All-Tournament Honoree

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Ready for another

Wolverines look to continue dynastic reign over PACs Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

The Grove City College Women’s Tennis team has seen great success in the last half decade.

The consistent program produced four Presidents’ Athletic Conference titles in the last five years, maintaining a winning mindset.

The women’s tennis team sits atop the PAC preseason rankings ahead of their first game.

This year’s freshmen make up for half of the roster going forward.

With these six freshman entering the program, the team looks to adapt to the college level.

“All of these girls have been very good high school players for their teams, so they are going to transition really well in playing college tennis,” Henry Boyle, tennis head coach, said.

The only senior on this year’s squad, Jennifer Elder, returns after earning First Team All-PAC in singles and Second Team All-PAC in doubles last season.

“The PAC is getting stronger,” Boyle said. “We like to be preseason favorites, but we take it a day at a time, and

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Sophomore Madi Reed returns the ball during her 6-0. 6-0 singles win in Grove City’s dominant victory over Thiel last week. Reed and the Wolverines are seeking their fifth PAC title in six seasons. we see what we can do.”

Grove City will have their challenges in conference play.

Westminster, a college ranked second behind Grove City will have two of its seniors returning to the courts.

Washington and Jefferson

will have sophomore Maya Krishnasamy, PAC Player of the Year, in their arsenal.

The team proved their strength in the season opener against conference opponent Thiel winning 8-1.

The Wolverines dominated in doubles sweeping Thiel

3-0. Grove City won five out of the six matchups in singles.

Grove City continued their opening success against Division II Edinboro.

The Wolverines were unphased despite the division mismatch pulling out the win

5-2.

Grove City won all three matchups in doubles and securing four singles victories.

The Grove City College women’s tennis team will compete in the Oberlin College Invitational this weekend.

XC finishes strong at Westminster Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

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Seniors Maria Boris and Emma Harthsorn flank freshman Faith Keating, holding the Moravian College Tournament trophy. The Wolverines ran the slate at the tournament, going 4-0. Keating and Boris both earned honors: Boris won Tournament MVP, while Keating was named to the All-Tournament team.

Volleyball sweep Moravaian Tournament Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

The Grove City College volleyball team dominated their competition at the nonconference Moravian College Tournament last weekend, downing all four of their opponents.

Senior Maria Boris earned Most Valuable Player after averaging 2.07 kills, 0.93 blocks and 0.57 aces per set.

She posted a .365 hitting percentage in the four matches.

Freshman Faith Keating also earned All-Tournament honors.

Keating kicked off her college career by averaging 2.57 kills and 2.86 digs in the tournament.

The Wolverine’s first matchup against Misericordia ended with a final 3-1 win for Grove City.

Junior Elizabeth Sems led the game with 16 kills out of Grove City’s total of 44.

Senior Emma Hartshorn led in assists with 24 and added nine kills to the Grove City offense.

Directly following Grove City’s first win of the season, they faced their next tournament foe with Moravian.

The Grove City squad swept Moravian 3-0.

Sems continued to guide the offensive effort with 14 kills and three aces. Setting up her teammates, junior Abigail Neal lead the team with 24 assists.

Grove City had very little time to rest, and was thrown back into the arena to face Alvernia the next morning.

Fatigue was not a factor for the Wolverines, however, as they swept their third opponent of the tournament 3-0.

Boris executed 10 kills, leading the Wolverine offensive force with Neal distributing the ball with 15 assists.

The Wolverines concluded their tournament action with a win against Penn State Harrisburg 3-0.

Sems again led the team with 13 kills and Hartshorn led in assists with 26.

The team opens their home season with a 7 p.m. game Tuesday in College Arena against Penn State Altoona.

The Grove City College cross country teams started off their season on a high note last week, with strong finishes at the Westminster Invitational.

The men’s team took sixth place in the 12-team, 118-competitor event. The Wolverines finished with 200 team points. Franciscan won the team event with 41 points, and Saint Vincent finished second with 54 points.

Sophomore Einar Trosdal led Grove City, taking 36th overall with a time of 27 minutes, 52.87 seconds on an eight-kilometer course. Senior Michael Martin earned 38th, while sophomore Jeffrey Eide took 44th. Junior David Vaccaro finished 53rd, and sophomore Noah Callinan finished 55th. Freshman Bergen Weiner debuted and

finished 56th, while sophomore Bryce Lowe rounded out the top seven, finishing 59th.

The women finished fourth in the 11-team competition.

The Wolverines accumulated 113 points, while Waynesburg won the team event with 61 points.

Three of Grove City’s runners made top 25 in finishing. Senior Heidi Hoffman led the Wolverines, taking 12th out of 127 runners and posting a time of 25 minutes, 22.82 seconds on the six-kilometer course. Junior Karen Prem earned 21st, while classmate Michaela Higgins finished 25th. Senior Allison Hollenbaugh came in 26th, with sophomore Olivia Lowe finishing 35th. Senior Brenna Rupe finished 41st, one spot ahead of freshman Eliz Slabaugh at 42nd. Junior Sionna Spear earned 43rd.

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Junior Karen Prem runs in the Westminster Invitational, held last week. Prem finished 21st in the field of 127 runners, helping to lead Grove City’s women’s team to a strong fourth-place finish.

The men’s team finished sixth at the same Invitational