The Collegian – October 4, 2019

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Savage takes over STEM David Zimmermann Staff Writer

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Juniors Hannah Howe, Rachel Puls and Rebecca Cloyd pose on the sideline of Monday’s Powder Puff game to kick off Homecoming week. The juniors took a 21-14 victory in the annual showdown between senior and junior women.

GCC welcomes returning alums Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

Grove City College’s much anticipated Homecoming weekend kicks off today with over 3,000 alumni planning to attend.

Over the span of today and tomorrow, Grove City College alums will celebrate the 100th year reunions of both the Epsilon Pi fraternity and the Gamma Chi sorority.

President Paul J. McNulty ’80 will also dedicate Grove City College’s newly remodeled soccer field. All twelve class reunions will be on the quad, and the annual parade and football game will continue as the College’s most attended and cherished traditions of the fun filled weekend.

“I think it’s about relationships,” Senior Director of Alumni and College Rela-

tions Melissa MacLeod said.

“Those that can be formed now, and for a lifetime.”

The weekend has not only been anticipated by Grove City’s recent and longtime alum, but also by its current students. According to Alumni Events Director Tricia Corey, over 70 student volunteers have worked tirelessly to make the entire week a success.

“It really is a week leading up to a big day of celebration with the alums,” Corey said.

Building momentum, Grove City students played a part in weeklong festivities leading up to homecoming weekend. Students brought their school spirit in a game of powder puff football on Monday, cheered on our musicians at Java Jam on HOMECOMING 4

McNulty Memo

‘A seat at the table’

Welcome back alumni and friends. Our amazingly large turnout for this year’s Homecoming is another clear distinctive of GCC. People care about this college because their lives have been impacted by the extraordinary kindness of this special community. Alums, we want you to experience the joy of coming home when you return to this campus. There’s a seat at the table waiting for you, and we’re happy to have you join our conversation. So, here are some things we’re talking about these days: The New Soccer Field: Last year both our women’s and men’s soccer teams

earned the privilege of hosting the PAC championship matches. HowevMcNulty er, our field was unplayable after a season of hard use and rough weather. So, we were forced to play at the Grove City high school football field.

After those “home” championships, a group of generous donors pitched in to help us turf and light our soccer field. The new Don Lyle Field looks fantastic!

The first game was played on Wednesday night under MCNULTY 5

Friday All Alumni Check-In - ​​3:30 to 6:30 pm., HAL Atrium Homecoming Dance - 8 p.m., Breen Student Union, HAL Courtyard

Saturday Don Lyle Soccer Field Dedication - 10 a.m., soccer field Homecoming Parade - 11 a.m., through campus, down Pine and Broad Streets GroveFest - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Downtown Grove City Greek Village - Noon to 3 p.m., bottom of Rainbow Bridge Float Awards and Pre-Game Show - ​​1:15 p.m., Thorn Field Football game vs. Westminster College - 2 p.m.,Thorn Field​​

Sunday NOLAN KONDRICH

Junior Peter Stauffer croons at Java Jam. Several student groups played at Tuesday’s Homecoming coffeehouse.

Homecoming Worship - 10 a.m., Harbison Chapel, message by The Rev. Bruce Boak ’69

A new face leads the Hopeman School of Science, Engineering and Mathematics: Dr. Richard Savage.

Savage hopes to bring his years of experience to his work in order to improve both the STEM department and Grove City College.

“We are blessed to have attracted a leader and innovator in Dr. Savage,” President Paul J. McNulty ’80 said.

“His vision aligns perfectly with our strategic goals and objectives for STEM.” Along with introducing new degree programs, such as a nursing major, Savage has also been working closely with student recruitment and the admissions process to bring more students to campus in the coming years.

Additionally, he hopes to set up an advisory board for the entire Hopeman School, instead of department specific advisement.

“Having been in the industry, I’m a team kind of guy,” Savage said. “It’s not my vision that really needs to matter. It’s the vision that we, as a team amongst the faculty and administration, develop for the Hopeman School and for the College overall. Everybody has a part of that.”

Before moving to Grove City, Savage served as the former dean of graduate education at California Polytechnic State University, where he had also been the chair of both the materials engineering and biomedical engineering departments. In addition, he had worked in various industrial companies, such as Nokia Bell Labs and IBM, before moving to Silicon Valley to start his own businesses.

Having over 24 years of industrial experience under his belt, Savage was welcomed into the campus community rather quickly.

“He was someone that I was excited about hiring, even while we were doing the search process,” Dr. Timothy Mohr, assistant dean of the Hopeman School and professor of electrical engineering, said. “Dr. Savage is a fresh voice.”

Dr. Kristina Pazehoski ’01, interim assistant dean of the Hopeman School and professor of biology, agreed.

“Working with Dr. Savage is great. He is very approachable and exceptionally knowledgeable,” she said.

“I have already learned a lot from him in just one month.

He brings a positive energy to our school.”

Although Savage became comfortable working in California, he did not enjoy his time at CPSU anymore.

“I had reached a point in SAVAGE 4

Editorial

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The award-winning Grove City College student newspaper, Oct. 4, 2019

From the Editor’s desk

Like a rolling stone

James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief

Campus is its usual beautiful self. Creekings still happen, at an obnoxious rate. AEX remains pretentious.

One thing that has not changed, in my humble opinion, is the quality of this publication.

The (award-winning) Collegian faced its trials entering this year, to be sure. We lost some of the best staffers this paper has ever seen, several of whom have penned alumni columns in this issue.

Karen Postupac ’19 brought an ever-present divine spark to the paper’s design, crafting some of the most beautiful and engaging layouts this paper has seen. Rio Arias ’19 anchored our News and Perspectives sections for two years. She brought an insightful voice and unique perspective (no pun intended) to each issue.

I could go on forever: Alyssa Bootsma (née Jackson) ’19, one of the best reporters I have read; Michelle Jeffries ’19 and Jess Cameron ’19, two of the best copy editors around; and of course, Aly Kruger ’19, a faithful and longsuffering Sports Editor.

That is a Murderer’s Row of staffers; facing the loss of just one would have been daunting, much less all of them. Entering this year, I thought there was no chance we could meet the high bar that crew set.

Yet, I was completely wrong. This staff has completely blown me out of the water by being some of the most dedicated, talented and enjoyable people

around. I could sing their praises for much longer than this column affords me: Paige Fay, Anna DiStefano and Connor Schlosser’s super editing and management; Fiona Lacey’s intrepid and fearless reporting; and Josh Tatum’s original, witty and perceptive columns. I almost forgot our excellent copy editors, like Britney Lukasiewicz and Joanna Thorpe.

One thing struck me, as a new staff picked up where the old one left off: I could not matter any less. Last year we had a great staff and produced award-winning papers. This year, we have another great staff and are producing more award-winning papers. The success of this paper has precisely nothing to do with me, and everything to do with the wonderful staffers who drive this paper.

I would be remiss if I did not at least mention Grace Tarr, our managing editor, and Nick Hildebrand, our indispensable staff adviser.

They put up with me more than anyone else and do as much as anyone to make this paper great.

All my ramblings are coming to this point. I am graduating in December, so this is one of my last papers. I know now that my departure, nor anyone else’s, could stop The Collegian from being the elite student newspaper that it is.

The Collegian is a vital part of the College, and it will remain so. Every year you come back you will pick up The Collegian and be blown away by what a group of students with two pizzas and not enough sleep can pull together.

Collegian Staff Editor-in-Chief

Copy Chief

Managing Editor

Business Manager

Section Editors News

Social Media Manager Matthew Moody

James Sutherland Grace Tarr

Paige Fay

Community

Anna DiStefano

Perspectives Josh Tatum

Entertainment Nora Sweeney

Sports

Connor Schlosser

Photo Chief Wes Kinney

Britney Lukasiewicz Davis Miller

Copy Editors

Natalie Dell Claire Josey Michael Martin Lauren Ness Elizabeth Schinkel Caleb West

Staff Writers

Katheryn Frazier Fiona Lacey David Smith Mackenzie Stine Mallory Trumbull Jules Woodbridge David Zimmerman

Staff Adviser

Nick Hildebrand The Collegian is the student newspaper of Grove City College, located in Grove City, Pa. Opinions appearing on these pages, unless expressly stated otherwise, represent the views of individual writers. They are not the collective views of The Collegian, its staff or Grove City College.

Green Eyeshade Award the

This week’s Green Eyeshade Award goes to Lizzy Schinkel for her oustanding, lastminute photography as well as her supurb dedication.

Keep up the great work!

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

Lizzy Schinkel

PXHERE

‘A culture of death’ Is it time to go car free?

Joshua Tatum

Perspectives Editor On Saturday, the great tradition of the American parade will live to die another day.

Making its way along Pine and Broad, the holidaythemed Homecoming parade is chalked up to be one of the most grandiloquent yet.

One of the more pervasive features of the parade, besides street-strewn Tootsie Rolls and a truly distressing number of marching bands, is the car. All kinds of cars: firetrucks, cop cruisers, ‘stangs, little sporty droptops, a taxi-yellow trolley limo for some reason; doing all kinds of things: towing frat floats, lugging state representatives and trustees, and some, it seems, being driven just to be driven.

All this traffic considerably lengthens an already overlong parade (a few wouldbe participants had to be turned away this year). The American parade, however, wasn’t always so car-centric and neither, for that matter, was America. But nowadays, cars are (if we can exclude the Amish for a second) an American ubiquity and people truly love their cars.

This love is, however, not reciprocated. In fact, at least 40,000 people died in car crashes last year, according to the National Safety Council. It seems there is even a sense in which car deaths are a part of what Pope John Paul II called the “culture of

death”: a culture “excessively concerned with efficiency.”

You get into that car to go to work with a sense that, “Welp, this could be it.”

And driving is, particularly in urban areas, a largely uncomfortable experience.

Pittsburgh, for example, is notoriously confusing and claustrophobic. And all that stress usually comes out in the form of an unholy barrage of four-letter words against the flid in front of me.

In short, driving makes us (I know I’m not the only one) barbaric.

While places like Pittsburgh are uncomfortable to drive in, on the flipside, the negative effects of car-centricity on towns and cities are myriad. For one, what were once small towns have, as to accommodate vehicles, spread out into so-called “carburbs:” low-density, mostly paved (38.4 million acres in the U.S.) and built around cars and their needs.

And car-centricity means that walking or biking somewhere is more dangerous.

And if not dangerous, due to Euclidean zoning (which disjoints residential and commercial zones), your destination is usually restrictively far away. Not to mention, walking or biking on the sidewalk or shoulder, makes most people assume that you are a vagrant or that you have a DUI. And this stigmatization is epitomized by stringent cycling and “jaywalking” laws, which were in fact a product of the auto industry’s attempts to shift the blame for autocides onto the pedestrian.

This is not even to mention cars’ deep environmental impact, their dependence on foreign oil (and associated wars), the noise pollution they cause and their effects on obesity rates (we’re approaching 40 percent in the U.S.).

Car-centricity is not, however, accepted by everyone as part and parcel of a GDPdriven society.

Domestically, places like Herald Square in Manhattan have seen a remarkable transformation into pedestrian-centric public spaces.

Some have even argued for the whole of New York City as the ideal place to try out a totally car-free city.

I would even argue that our own North Broad Street strip would be the perfect place to reform for pedestrians.

Imagine, instead of that cattle chute of a one-way street, park benches, umbrellas and trees. But maybe this idea is too European for Grove City.

Abroad, the movement is more concerted. Oslo and Madrid have pledged to go car-free by the end of the year. And, on Sept. 22, in an event which is now becoming a tradition, Parisians went without vehicles in the city center for its fifth annual carfree day.

In America, the idea that we could go car free in many of our towns and cities is very foreign. This article is an attempt to change that.

These transformations won’t happen overnight, but it is a concept that municipal governments around the United States should seriously consider.

This Week in History

Spotlight on Larry Griswold ’69

In the fall of 1968, the Collegian’s editor-in-chief was class of ’69 senior John Lawrence Griswold, an Austen, Texas native and the some of the brains behind the newspaper’s transition from easily-smudged newsprint to cleaner, more durable offset printing.

In Griswold’s freshman year, he was recruited by then-editor John Sparks. He would remain a staff writer until his junior year, when he became managing editor, and then his senior year, when he became the editorin-chief.

At the time, things at the Collegian office were a little different. Nowadays, the gang resides in the tower of

Crawford, but in Griswold’s day, the newspaper could be found in the top floor of the PLC, where Alumni hall is now. Next door was the office of the yearbook staff, and its neighbor on the other side, a small balcony overlooking the sport pool.

It was there that GCC legend Dick Jewell—then a Collegian writer and later in his life one of our school’s most popular presidents—would take a break from writing to go dive, then go right back to writing. Often times, the other writers would take a break of their own to watch from the balcony.

Griswold would go on to join the Air Force as a publications editor, working on

PR briefs and war updates.

Once he retired from the Air Force, he worked in PR and ad sales, then continued with the media, including working for sport news giant Sports Illustrated.

During his time with the Collegian, Griswold wrote on a variety of topics, from coffee houses to women’s synchronized swimming to the time that the popular band The Happenings performed on campus. Occasionally, there were also press releases on graduates, like an alumna who became a flight attendant for Pan Am.

Jules Wooldridge

Staff Writer

The Collegian,

Oct 4, 2019

The court Emma Hartshorn Major: PreK-4 Elementary Education Hometown: Canfield, Ohio

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Torres Kearney Major: Biochemistry with a History Minor Hometown: Dublin, Ohio

Abby Ross Major: English and Communication Secondary Education Hometown: Woodbridge, Va.

Julie Wilson Major: Communication Studies and Biblical and Religious Studies Hometown: Kersey, Pa.

Emily Stein Major: Accounting & Business Management Hometown: Monaca, Pa.

Graham Filby Major: Political Science Hometown: Reading, Pa. Jackson Fyfe Major: Accounting Hometown: Columbia, Md. Zachary Burns Major: Mechanical Engineering Hometown: Lebanon, Pa.

Brooks Thomas Major: Marketing & Business Management Hometown: North Lima, Ohio

2017 Homecoming Queen Olivia Buirge poses with the crown. Escorted above by Homecoming King Jonathan Dabbs.

Adam Bannister Major: Biology with a Biblical and Religious Studies minor Hometown: East McKeesport, Pa.

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Honoring alumni College celebrates notable achievements with awards Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

Four outstanding Grove City College alumni will be commemorated at the 55th Annual Jack Kennedy Memorial Alumni Achievement Award Dinner later today.

Named after 32-year Grove City College professor, Jack Kennedy ‘37, the award honors distinguish alumni who continue to make an impact through their work.

The recipients, Karen (Semler ‘92) Hanlon, Jack Kopnisky ‘78, James Segerdahl ‘84 and Richard Staley ‘62, were recognized for their exemplary leadership skills and notable success in their fields of expertise.

These alumni have brought “true honor to their Alma Mater,” Senior Director of Alumni and College Relations, Melissa MacLeod ‘96, said.

Karen (Semler ‘92) Hanlon

will be honored for her invaluable work in the healthcare industry, as the current executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer of Highmark Health. Over the span of her career, she significantly improved her company’s financial status, especially that of the Allegheny Health Network. She was named the 2018 Chief Financial Officer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Business Times.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bancorp and Sterling National Bank, alum Jack Kopnisky ’78, will be honored for his advancement in the world of finance. As a former president of both Consumer Banking Group and Key Bank USA, Kopnisky grew Sterling Bancorp’s assets enormously, resulting in sizable profits.

He currently serves on the boards of Sterling Bancorp and Sterling National Bank, the Children’s Museum of

Hanlon

Kopnisky

Manhattan and the Westchester County Association.

Kopnisky was also a trustee student during his time at the College.

A member of the Class of 1984, James Segerdahl is currently a partner and CEO of K&L Gates LLP. Maintaining his own private practice in the past, Segerdahl serves on one of the largest law firms in the world. He is also the co-author of “Policyholder’s Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage,” a leading publication in insurance coverage law. He is currently a Board Director for both the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the United Way of Southern Pennsylvania.

Founder of Flavor House,

Segerdahl

Staley

Inc., Richard Staley ‘62, has also made notable advancements in his line of work. Established by Staley in 1977, Flavor House, Inc. has remained 100 percent debt free, selling to wellknown clients McCormick and Maruchan. Staley is also the founder of manufacturing company, Staley Equipment Co. A former chemical engineering major at Grove City College, Staley continues to support STEM and entrepreneurial programs around the country.

Grove City College will award its 2019 recipients during dinner at the Carnegie Alumni Center tonight, surrounded by the college’s own faculty, donors and friends.

NOLAN KONDRICH

Students, faculty and staff packed into Harbison Chapel Wednesday for a special Homecoming worship service. The service was one of five major events Homecoming Committee put on this week to prepare for the weekend, capped off tonight by the Homecoming Dance.

HOMECOMING continued from 1 Tuesday and will attend the much-awaited homecoming dance tonight at 8:00 p.m.

The annual parade on Saturday morning remains one of the most attended events for both those of the College and the town. According to the directors, the streets are always lined with students, parents, alumni and residents of Grove City.

“It’s just like Old Town America,” Corey said. “You see all these people. Everyone is happy. It kind of gives you chills.”

Throughout the parade, participants get to watch class reunions, fraternities and sororities, the college band, the Grove City mayor and of course the beloved President McNulty and wife Brenda parade down Broad Street.

SAVAGE continued from 1 my career where, as a Christian, I was really being asked to participate and go along with initiatives that really were pressing the boundaries of what I felt I could do as a Christian,” Savage said. “Being in a big secular school and not feeling that I was able to be really making a difference for the Lord in anything I was doing, it made

Pres. to teach course in spring

A relatively new addition to the Broad Street festivities is the town’s creation of Grove Fest, a fall-themed festival taking place immediately after the Parade. Alum and students are encouraged to attend Grove Fest as well, experiencing outdoor music from the gazebo, receiving specials from Grove City businesses and attending “Guthrie’s Got Talent.”

The amiable class reunions, taking place for each class every five years, will also make their appearances throughout the day tomorrow, held on the quad. These gatherings remain a special time for alumni, with some attending their 5th year class reunions and others their 60th.

“I love getting to see who’s coming back, and seeing how much they are enjoying being together,” MacLeod said.

“It’s what makes our jobs really special.”

Alumni will not only get the chance to connect to their classmates, but also get to connect with their own groups and clubs of which they were a part during their time on campus.

Ballroom Club has an alumni dance in Old Map, WSAJ radio will broadcast live on MAP South Patio and the Grove City College band will host its own alumni in the homecoming football game.

Many alumni return to their Old Alma Mater to connect back with their professors and walk the halls of their old classrooms. According to both Alumni Directors, all academic buildings will remain open during the weekend, and Academic breakfasts will be hosted by each department tomorrow morning in the Hall of Arts and Letters, Pew Fine Arts Center and STEM Hall Atrium.

The College looks forward to having their alumni set foot yet again on campus, years and even decades after their graduation. There’s a special quality about Grove City alum, according to the College’s Alumni Directors.

“I often say that all our alums have made their mark in their respective worlds and workforces,” MacLeod said.

“We have amazing educators, CEOs of companies, missionaries and everything in between. They’ve been successful in whatever they’ve chosen to do. I think the fact that they went to Grove City College is part of it.”

“We encourage students to go to as many events as they can,” Corey said.

“Treasure this opportunity to be back on campus,” MacLeod suggested to alumni.

“Celebrate what this place has meant to you.”

me think maybe it was time to leave the university.”

Despite Savage’s lack of satisfaction at CPSU, faculty view his experience at a secular school as beneficial to the student body.

“He has an in-depth appreciation for what it is like to be a Christian in a secular working environment,” Pazehoski said. “I think that appreciation and perspective will be immensely helpful to our students as they prepare

to leave the College and enter the grad school or working world.”

Although there are benefits to attending a large state school, Savage said that smaller independent schools have more advantages for students in the long run.

“Grove City, being a private school, has a little more flexibility and freedom in how we develop curriculums, which I found very attractive,” he said. “In larger uni-

versities, it’s very difficult to do anything new. You have to go through so many bureaucratic steps to get a new course proposed or to launch a new degree. Whereas here, I think we can be a little more agile.”

Savage also pointed out how the College should address the changing landscape of education in America and what that means for students today.

“It’s a world where uni-

Collegian Staff This spring, President Paul J. McNulty ’80 will step into the classroom to teach a course on the U.S. Constitution.

Before he became a leader in higher education, McNulty amassed rare experience with constitutional law as the former senior attorney for the Committee on the Judiciary in the U.S. House of Representatives, a top Justice Department official enforcing the law and as a partner in a global law firm defending businesses.

“The goal of the course is to give students a clear understanding of the contents of the Constitution, including its history, structure, principles and protections.

We’ll look at its language and key Supreme Court cases that have interpreted its provisions and applied them to American society,” McNulty said.

“Grove City College students are called to be faithful citizens. This is part of our mission. Widespread understanding of our constitutional order is critical for the preservation of American freedom,” he said.

Offered through the department of political science, the class is an elective “aimed at the broad student body,” according to Department Chair Michael Coulter ’91, professor of political science.

McNulty, he said, will cover the history of the document, its various articles and major cases.

Coulter said he expects the class will appeal to students from outside of the political science and pre-law programs, where an intensive two-semester Constitutional Law class is a requirement.

“I have basically two reasons for teaching this course.

First, it’s another excellent way to connect with our students. Opportunities to engage with students are the most rewarding and enjoyable aspect of my job. Second, I’m passionate about the rule of law. Ignorance of or indifference to our constitutional order is one of the greatest threats to America today,” McNulty said. versities and colleges have taught the same degrees and done the same things for a long time. Where should Grove City College be in 10 years?” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to be the same as it was 10 years ago. It needs to change. Students need to have different skillsets to be able to go out and be competitive in the world.”

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This week in the markets

Contributed by the Crimson Collegiate Investors

Hong Kong phooey This week, China and Hong Kong are once again in the global spotlight, as violence between protestors and police escalates in the former British colony.

The clashes comes on the backdrop of both China’s 70th anniversary celebrations and rumors of a possible Trump mandated cessation of American investments to the mainland this week.

Hong Kong is now in its fifth month of pro-democracy protests, originally sparked by a proposal for an extradition bill which would have allowed extrajudicial removal of Hong Kong citizens to the mainland for trials and convictions of alleged crimes.

The proposed bill was removed from consideration in September. Regardless, the protests continue, as other key demands have not been met. This past weekend saw a significant escalation in tensions, as the first protestor in the uprising’s history was shot. Sixty-six other injuries were reported on the same day.

Hong Kong Police attempted to keep things quiet for the celebrations of the Chinese Communist Party’s 70th anniversary but were unsuccessful.

To make matters even more interesting, the Trump administration recently signaled and later walked back the possibility of limiting or even closing American in-

MCNULTY continued from 1 the lights, and our women’s team pulled out a 2-1 victory in overtime. If you get a chance, check out the new home of GCC soccer.

Intentional Community: At the risk of driving our English Department crazy, I’ve been describing community at GCC as more of a verb than a noun. Community is one of our core values, and we want to be intentional about valuing every member and using our gifts and abilities for the good of all. As our football coach Andrew DiDonato likes to say, “Each of us needs all of us.”

Wolverines Together: Intentional community, excellence and faithbased team culture have been at the heart of a historic chapter in the life of varsity athletics at the Grove. We’re finally at a point where we have the coaching and character to be consistently successful in every sport. Please follow us on social media to keep up the team accomplishments.

Nursing: We’re already receiving applications for the nursing program launching next year. This new major will be offered in partnership with Butler County Community College and its well-regarded nursing program. Students will graduate from GCC with a BSN and be licensed after their third year to begin working as a nurse.

The Chapel Garden: Because two massive trees in the Chapel garden adjacent to Mr. Pew’s statue were at risk of falling, they were removed this summer (a challenging operation as you can imagine). Conse-

vestments into the People’s Republic, which totaled over $117 billion in 2018 alone.

For this reason, Hong Kong is vital. The former colony is not just a large city with rowdy protests: it is a linchpin for the entire global economy. The city is the biggest financial center in the world, outside of New York and London. Its significance to the global economy is due to both its proximity to Chinese growth and to its free economy, ranked highest in the world by the Heritage Institute.

Chinese corporations have avoided stringent capital regulations on the mainland and leveraged the city state’s unique position as a financial gateway to the world.

The current risk to global investors is that the United States no longer declares Hong Kong to be autonomous. Doing so would inevitably subject Hong Kong to all the typical regulations and tariffs that presently apply to mainland Chinese corporations, potentially ending Chinese corporations’ access to American capital.

If this situation continues to escalate, Hong Kong will likely become an increased interest to international investors, as China’s financing window quickly becomes its Achilles heel.

Covering conflict: Ireland’s religious war Paige Fay News Editor

On Tuesday, journalist David Blevins visited Grove City College to discuss “How Christians Stopped Killing Each Other in Northern Ireland.”

Blevins offered his perspective on peace and conflict reporting and why jourBlevins nalists of religious conviction belong in the global media.

In the lecture, he highlighted Ireland’s recent religious conflict and how it deeply affected the Irish people. According to Blevins, the media at the time strived to present a balanced and impartial report on the events.

Journalists ensured every voice was heard, while still leaving space for good news.

Reading between the lines, they helped the public to understand the complicated political atmosphere.

“The greater good does not require there to be a winner and a loser,” Blevins said.

Blevins is the Senior Ireland Correspondent at Sky

News in the United Kingdom and has worked with them for 23 years. He helped cover the political divide in Northern Ireland and received commendation from both sides of the conflict for his balanced and fair journalism.

According to Blevins, it is necessary for Christian journalists to be in the newsroom.

“If no one else understands the principles of ethical news gathering and reporting with integrity, Christians should.

There are so many Christian principles within that about honesty and fairness and balance and accuracy and truth,” Blevins said. “I believe that there is a very clear connection between a Christian and pursuing the truth about anything.”

Blevins believes that Christians’ responsibility to tell the truth eliminates any conflict between being a journalist and being a Christian.

“Rather than my faith limit my ability to be impartial, my faith fuels my ability to be impartial,” Blevins explained.

He said that Christians are passing through this world, giving them an eternal world-

view. This means believers have a more detached perspective, because they do not have time to form allegiances or attachments.

“I’m able to step back and see things from a non-earthly perspective. That’s why I feel there’s no conflict between Christianity and journalism,” Blevins said.

In addition to reporting on Northern Ireland’s political and religious conflict, he has interviewed many world leaders, reported from 10 different countries and received a Royal Television Society Award nomination for his coverage of the Omagh bombing.

Blevins belongs to an organization called the Media Project, which is a global network of journalists who share Christian faith. This group encourages religious literacy among journalists to improve reporting around the world. The Media Project asked Blevins to visit various colleges to speak on journalism and Christianity. Grove City is the first of several Christian colleges that Blevins will visit while in United States.

George Daugharty

Head of Financials Sector, Crimson Collegiate Investors quently, the abundance of sunlight provided an opportunity to expand our landscaping initiative to this area.

If you have time, check out the new open look. We’ve been sprucing up the landscaping all over campus the past few years.

It’s Not Your Grandfather’s FIT-WELL Anymore: Still have vivid memories of Fit-Well and the beloved swim test? Well, our freshmen won’t understand because beginning this year Fit-Well is a one credit online course (“Healthful Living”). It’s the first time we’ve taught an online course during the fall and spring semesters. By making this change, our coaches have more time to coach, and our exercise science faculty can impart more of their knowledge regarding stewardship of the body.

Online Learning Initiative: And speaking of online classes, we now have almost 80 high school students taking courses on campus or enrolled in at least one of six online courses offered this semester. This early jump on college credit will encourage these students to enroll fulltime at GCC. The Wolverine Statue: Thanks to the class of 2019, we now have an awesome wolverine statue outside the PLC. Warning for small children and easily frightened adults: the wolverine is fierce!

Alums, this is just a portion of the exciting things happening at your alma mater. God is richly blessing this wonderful institution, and we’re thankful for His faithfulness and the generosity of countless friends of the College. Brenda and I look forward to reconnecting with many of you over the course of this weekend.

PHOTO COURTESY OF RIO ARIAS

Rio Arias ’19 is volunteering with a county election, applying her experience at GCC to make a change in her local community.

Alumna makes a difference Paige Fay News Editor

Grove City College alumna Rio Arias ’19 is taking her college experience to her hometown, where she’s helping as an intern in a political campaign.

Arias was hired in July as a communications intern for Sylvia Glass, a Democrat running for the Board of Supervisors in Loudoun County in Virginia. Arias helps the campaign by running social media, writing press releases, conducting interviews and creating content for publicity.

“This campaign will be really interesting,” Arias said.

“I’m excited to see the result.”

She works with other college students and community members from her area to canvass, run fundraisers, walk in parades and many

other things to further Glass’s campaign. Her favorite part of the campaign is getting to help the community.

“It’s a great feeling of being on a team and feeling like what you’re doing matters,” Arias said.

Her least favorite part of the job is canvassing.

“It’s not glorious at all,” Arias laughed. “I’m sweating and we can’t drive because we’re literally walking doorto-door.”

Arias pointed out that her experience with the college newspaper prepared her a lot for the job.

“Most of what I do with the campaign is because of what the Collegian trained me to do,” Arias said. “I knew how to run social media accounts, plan posts and all those kinds of things.”

Arias’s part of Virginia has always leaned to the right in local elections, so the cam-

paign is working hard to publicize Glass as a Democrat. If Glass wins the Board of Supervisors seat, she will be the first female and African American supervisor in Loudoun County.

“It’s a lot of time. I don’t think people realize that,” Arias said. “You have a job and have kids and also have to go out and meet your voters all day. But if you win, you get to have the coolest job in the world and help people.”

Arias emphasized the importance of college students getting involved in local government.

She encouraged local volunteerism, keeping up with local journalism and town hall meetings.

“I think the most important thing it’s shown me is what everyday people can do to be involved in their community,” Arias said of the internship.

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‘A special place’

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First Lady talks about the joys of homecoming Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

Mrs. Brenda McNulty ‘80, wife of President Paul J. McNulty ‘80, both looks forward to and looks back on her time at Grove City College, and the memories of her own homecoming weekend.

Throughout the weekend, the McNultys gladly host everything from luncheons and receptions to dinners and banquets, wanting to give back to their alumni and donors.

“Though it’s a busy weekend, it’s all worth it,” Mrs. McNulty said.

“I’m on the other side of things now as the wife of the President,” she said. “Homecoming is the one time of the year that is designated for that much-needed reconnecting.”

For her, happiness is in the little things.

“The parade is my favorite part of the entire year.

I’m a kid at heart,” McNulty laughed. “I like riding in the car, waving and passing out the candy.”

The McNultys returned in 1998 for homecoming weekend and rode in the parade as President McNulty, then Mr. McNulty, was one of the Alumni Achievement Award winners.

“It was pouring rain that

day. We were in the car looking through the rainy windows, waving,” she said.

Every year, McNulty looks forward to welcoming the Jack Kennedy Memorial Alumni Achievement Awardees back to the College. Grove City honors a small group of distinguished alumni for the work they’ve accomplished in their vocational fields.

These special alums are invited to a lunch on Friday and a dinner in Carnegie that evening, where their accomplishments are celebrated and honored. They can invite their families and friends to celebrate with them. This remains one of Mrs. McNulty’s favorite traditions.

“I really love that sweet time we get to have with them,” she said.

The McNultys will not only be hosting alumni but will also be on hand for the dedication of the brand-new soccer field on Saturday as part of the homecoming festivities.

“That’s a big deal,” McNulty noted. According to the College, the new soccer field will be dedicated to former Athletics Director and soccer Head Coach, Don Lyle.

Festivities begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Both she and President McNulty will be there as they were for the first game played Tuesday night,

President and Mrs. McNulty ride in the 2017 homecoming parade with their grandson, Hank. when the women’s team beat Mt. Union 2-1 in overtime.

President and Mrs. McNulty will then host the recipients of the Alumni Achievement Awards at the football game Saturday afternoon up in the press box. McNulty herself loved football games as a student. She enjoyed the band, the cheerleaders (recalling her days as a high school cheerleader) and the crowning of the Homecoming Queen.

“It’s my personality to love all that fanfare,” she said.

“I remember when I came back as a young alum,” McNulty said. “My experience here was so great as a student.

We considered Grove City to be such a special place. I remember driving home in the car and my face was frozen, because I had been smiling all day,” she laughed. “It was a great weekend re-connecting with old friends.”

Our university years play a unique part in our entire lives.

“We identify with our universities for the rest of our

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lives,” she pointed out.

“Grove City,” she continued, “makes an outstanding effort to ensure that the alumni feel welcome to return to their alma mater at any time to reconnect with former professors, friends and mentors. We hope our alums will stay in touch, that we could even be of service to them in some way and that, out of gratitude, they’ll help keep the College going so others can benefit from the same great education they got.”

Alumni band: Play it one more time Anna DiStefano Community Editor

This year, parade floats are themed after holidays. The women of Gamma Sigma Alpha celebrate turning 95 this year.

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Parade pizzazz

Logan Fuss

Contributing Writer Tomorrow the College will start its day off at 11am with its annual homecoming parade.

The Grove City College parade is a big deal for both the college and the community, and there will be many participants from both the town and the College. Sports teams, fraternities, sororities, class reunions and a number of towns people and school groups will walk in the parade.

“The Parade is a great opportunity to bring the campus and the community together for a fun event,” junior parade chair, Linnea Fairfield, said.

The freshmen class is excited to see what this college has to offer that differs from their high school experience.

“I’m excited to see all of the school spirit,” freshmen Clare Moran said.

Many of the freshman watch the parade and then walk over to Thorne Field to cheer on the Wolverines football team as they com-

pete against Carnegie Mellon.

Upperclassman, who have experienced the parade before, exhibit the same level of enthusiasm as the freshmen class.

“I’m looking forward to passing out candy, watching all of the bands, seeing all of the floats and being a part of something that involves our community and College,” Lauren Frederick, a past participant of the college’s parade, said.

This year’s parade theme is holidays. Fraternities and sororities participate in the parade by creating a parade float that will be judged by Grove City faculty and community members. This year’s judges include Rev. Dr. Dean Weaver ’86, interim dean of the chapel and Spencer Folmer ’10, founder of Veritas Arts, a nonprofit that has taken over the Guthrie theatre.

Theta Alpha Pi is planning a 4th of July themed float. Nu Lambda Phi and Zeta Zeta Zeta sorority are working together on a float dedicated to Mardi Gras. Other holidays

taking float-form include Oktoberfest, Father’s Day, New Year’s Eve and Halloween.

Floats will be judged based on creativity, construction, time and effort, parade theme, visual appeal and ‘wow’ factor or crowd appeal.

The parade chairs and directors have worked since before the start of the school year in order to make sure this year the parade goes smoothly. They have put in a lot of work considering how Grove City College organizes, presents and sponsors the parade all on its own without town affiliation, except for route and traffic management.

The Homecoming Committee even had to turn away a few groups due to so many people wanting to be a part of it.

While there has been a lot of time and work, senior parade chair, Cailyn Chiarello, thinks that, “the most exciting part of the parade is the actual day of the parade when you can see everyone’s hard work and effort come to life!”

The Wolverine Marching Band will grow this weekend with the addition of an Alumni Band.

Returning band members have multiple opportunities to participate in the festivities of the Alumni Band this weekend.

At least 60 alums and their families have signed up for tomorrow’s alumni breakfast. Others will perform with the marching band over the course of the day.

“Alumni band performers will perform the Alma Mater and “The Star-Spangled Banner” during pregame and will perform a selection with the college band at halftime,” Dr. Andrew Erb, director of the marching band, said.

“We are happy to have Dr. Edwin Arnold returning this year to conduct the Alma Mater. It will be great to have him back on campus.”

Erb has been working with the alumni office and the homecoming planners since last year to put this weekend together.

They are expecting alumni from the graduating classes of 1974 to 2019 to be in attendance.

According to marching band president, Kevin Dick, the alumni band will make

the homecoming a “can’t miss” day for anyone who has been involved in the band program.

“The alumni band will add even more band pride and spirit to the stands as we look to cheer on the football team to a win! We hope to add more people, more sound and more cheers to the stands! It will also allow band alums to reconnect with former classmates and friends, create new friends with other alums and current students and to see how the program has been transformed and progressed over time,” Dick said.

Erb is also looking forward to the day, calling it a testament to the experiences and band tradition that students have had through the College’s music program.

“I am thrilled to see so many alumni coming back to either perform or just to stop in for breakfast or lunch and say hello. The amazing band tradition at GCC is evident. I am always amazed at how a tremendous band experience can positively affect people,” Erb said.

“The fact that so many have come back as alumni over the years displays just how important the GCC band has been and will continue to be for GCC graduates and students.”

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Hellenic hoopla

Greeks celebrate milestones Taylor Williams Contributing Writer

Some Greek groups will be cheering louder than ever this weekend, as they celebrate milestone reunions.

While many Greek groups can be found eating together in Hicks, wearing their letters and putting on fun activities for all students at Grove City, many people forget the history that are behind these groups and the legacy they have left to our school.

The Phi Sigma Chi and the Gamma Sigma Phi sororities both celebrate their 95th anniversaries this weekend.

The Phi Sigs are looking forward to participating in the homecoming parade, spending time at their tent and having a taco bar in Rathburn after the football game.

The Gamma Sigs are also looking forward to celebrating their anniversary by participating in the homecoming parade. Their celebration kicks off tonight when many alumnae visit to reconnect.

Following the parade, they will have a lunch and then end the night with a dinner to celebrate 95 years of sisterhood.

Junior Michela Higgins says that she is looking forward to “connecting with the alumni and talking about all of the fun memories that the Gamma Sigma Phi sorority has brought to us.”

President of Phi Sigma Chi, Kimmi Wedelschaefer, said she is looking forward to “seeing alumni and listening to the stories they have to share from their time as a Phi Sig on campus. They never

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Nu Lambda Phi celebrated their 95th anniversary last year. This year, the Gamma Chis and Epsilon Pis will celebrate 100 years and Gamma Sigma Phi and Phi Sigma Chi will celebrate 95 years. fail to amaze me with their awesome stories that show true sisterhood.”

Two groups are celebrating their 100th anniversary this weekend. The Gamma Chis and the Epsilon Pis are looking forward to a weekend reconnecting with alumni and sharing stories of their time spent at Grove City.

“I am so excited to meet all the previous Gamma Chis and hear their stories,” junior Rebekah Vasel, president of Gamma Chi, said.

“I am most looking for-

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ward to meeting the alumni and seeing where their Grove City experience has taken them,” junior Garrett Ruch, member of the Epsilon Pi fraternity, commented.

While these groups are celebrating their milestones, that doesn’t mean the homecoming festivities stop there.

“I look forward to my brothers getting a big win at the football game,” President of the Eplison Pi, Max Clements, said.

The two Greek groups have also been working on their

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float together. Following this year’s holiday theme, the joint Gamma Chi and Epsilon Pi float will be decked out for New Year’s Eve 1920.

Both groups will also have large homecoming dinners with their alumni. The Gamma Chis are hosting their 100th celebration at a hotel, where they will be celebrating the past and future of the sorority. Three hundred sisters of Gamma Chi and 400 brothers of Epsilon Pi are expected to return this weekend.

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Girlfriend registration uproar

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Recently, the freshmen class has pushed back against the College’s girlfriend registration policy.

Introduced in 1964, the policy requires all male students to register their girlfriend with the school as soon as they “define the relationship.” Since 2004, the registration has moved from physical paperwork to online forms.

The recent conflict started when several freshmen refused to register their girlfriends, and subsequently faced the according discipline—temporarily losing open hour privileges.

One interviewed freshman complained, “I don’t get why the college needs to know about my dating life. As soon as you start dating, it’s almost like some sort of alarm goes off notifying the whole campus.”

Another freshman said, “We weren’t even official yet, we were just going on dates.

We were busted because we were exclusive, which fulfills the College’s defined dating requirements, but we told each other we were just friends.”

In response to the recent controversy, one upperclassman said, “I think you just have to define the relationship on the first date. Once you’re talking, you may as well be dating.”

“Date to marry,” she reasoned. “Once it’s official, you should know whether or not you could marry them.”

In the recent freshmen SGA election, one candidate ran on a platform of removing the girlfriend registration policy.

“We have a right to privacy,” the candidate argued.

“Not only does this policy invade that privacy, but it also enforces an unhealthy dating

culture in which expectations are too high to even talk to a girl as a friend.”

Nonetheless, this candidate lost the election.

“It happens every couple of years,” a Grove City College official said. “A new class comes in and tries to fight the girlfriend registration.

It never works, because the policy is essential for student life. Without it, how would they get a ring by spring? It’d all be mad chaos.”

“The girlfriend registration policy was my life saver.

Without it, I don’t think I’d have ever proposed to my wife on Rainbow Bridge.

Once we met on move-in day freshmen year, I registered her that night to secure our relationship in stone,” one alumnus stated.

Though it seems that many freshmen still dislike the policy, considering upperclassmen opinions, perhaps they will grow accustomed with time. On the other hand, girlfriend registration has always been one of the most controversial topics at GCC— perhaps for good reason.

In 2008, the freshmen class pushed back against the policy with a massive strike during which no students registered their girlfriends.

They claimed that because they never “defined the relationship,” they were only ‘pre-dating’ and therefore did not need to register. The College responded by amending the policy with a stipulation that you must register after five open hour visitations.

Though the freshmen are not accustomed to the girlfriend registration policy, college officials, upperclassmen and alumni will not repeal the policy that easily. In the current climate at the college, it seems that the stanch lower-campus-only hammocking policy is more likely to change. Until then, or when President McNulty is Kitty Purry’s uncle, girlfriend registration will almost certainly remain untouched.

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Oct. 4, 2019

Leesburg Photos and text by Wes Kinney, Photo chief

Looking for a beautiful place to take a date or friend for a picnic? Look no further than Leesburg Falls, a local waterfall a few miles from the Grove City Outlets.

This tranquil waterfall is about 20 feet high and features a giant flat boulder to sit on at the top. If you are more adventurous, feel free to follow the path along the creek and find a nice log to sit on away from the main road.

Another nice feature of the falls is located upstream a few yards. There is a white building with water flowing out of it. This is the pump for an underground spring.

Overall this is a great place that is only a 10-minute drive from College that comes highly recommended by locals and tourists alike. This waterfall is a favorite place for all who know it.

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Oct. 4, 2019

Trump abused the presidency Momentum and evidence for impeachment mounts

Andrew McDevitt Contributing Writer

Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution lays out the circumstances under which a government official may be impeached: “The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

High crimes and misdemeanors is a broad category and difficult to use as a foundation without opposition.

It does include abuse of power; the main concern brought up by the recent whistleblower report regarding Donald Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine.

On July 25, President Trump, was in a call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he asked eight different times for Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden and his son.

Ukraine is currently in the midst of a military skirmish with Russia. The United States was providing military support to Ukraine. A few days before the call occurred, the U.S. began to withhold military aid. This comes up near immediately when the call began.

Trump mentioned offhandedly that Ukraine owes the United States for all the

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help they’ve provided them.

He said, “I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time… the United States has been very very good to Ukraine.

I wouldn’t say that it’s reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good, but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine.”

He later said, “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around

bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.”

This very clearly shows the President of the United States asking a foreign dignitary to interfere with American politics and find dirt on a political enemy that could influence the coming 2020 election. That is a clear case of abuse of power.

The whistleblower also said that the White House officials placed an order to “remove the electronic transcript from the computer system…Instead, the transcript was loaded into a sepa-

rate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature.”

Removing potential evidence and information suggests a Trump administration coverup; the same actions that led to impeachment inquiries brought against President Nixon and his administration.

In the phone call, Trump repeatedly brought up working with his Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Multiple reports showed Giuliani covertly reaching out to the Ukrainian President’s aides after the

call. The State Department judged this as a threat to national security and had to get involved to perform damage control.

A breach of power has clearly occurred. Many Republican will no doubt continue to fight and support Trump, but the evidence is overwhelmingly against him.

Some Republican officials are attempting to downplay the severity of the call, but there is no room for interpretation and estimations.

When the law is read plainly, Donald Trump is guilty of abusing the power of the presidency.

God is above all our laws Clark Mummau Contributing Writer

Laws are inherently subjective; they reflect a particular moral ideal that a society seeks to uphold.

We ascribe value to human life and outlaw murder. We value movement and maintain roads through taxes. We value opinions and have enumerated freedoms for these in the Constitution. If other societies do not appreciate these values, they legislate accordingly.

Other issues are not universally agreed upon even within societies, such as the value of an unborn human’s life or the extent to which opinions can be expressed.

Another issue that people continue to disagree on is prostitution.

Prostitution is illegal in the United States except for in several Nevada counties, and the Supreme Court ruled in Hoke v. United States that prostitution is a state issue.

Some wish to change this.

Those who support the legalization of prostitution often cite a person’s freedom to prostitute himself if he desires, and they often also claim that human trafficking for sex will decrease where prostitution is legal because

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legal prostitution will be more accessible and cheaper than illegal prostitution.

While it is true that legalizing prostitution “reduces demand for trafficked prostitutes by favoring prostitutes who have legal residence in a country,” according to a 2013 report by Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer, they also found that “the scale effect of legalizing prostitution leads to an

expansion of the prostitution market and thus an increase in human trafficking… Our quantitative empirical analysis for a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that the scale effect dominates the substitution effect [of legal prostitution being preferred over trafficked prostitutes].”

Seo-Young, Dreher and Neumayer also noted the difficulty of accurately reporting the relationship between

prostitution and human trafficking. “The problem here lies in the clandestine nature of both the prostitution and trafficking markets, making it difficult, perhaps impossible, to find hard evidence establishing this relationship,” they said.

Whether or not prostitution ever is legalized, we must take action to prevent human trafficking, for sex or otherwise. The victims need

to be comforted and be provided a new life in freedom, and the traffickers must be duly punished for their heinous actions.

Freedom, especially in America, is a convincing reason to allow prostitution, assuming it is regulated and monitored to protect from trafficking situations. However, as Christians, we are called to a higher standard. 1 Peter 2:16 tells us to “live as people who are free, not using [our] freedom as a coverup for evil, but [to live] as servants of God.” Christians, as God’s servants, are subject to God’s moral guidelines clearly expressed in the Bible. Prostitution praises sexual immorality and adultery, so we should flee from it. It is not enough to merely not patronize prostitutes, though.

We must avoid all forms of sexual immorality, whether premarital sex, pornography or lust.

Keeping prostitution illegal should not be to spite certain people; it should rather point people towards holy living. We must take further action to end human trafficking, give the trafficked a new life and assist the disadvantaged. As Christians, we have a duty to promote laws that reflect complete obedience to God.

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The Iranian question

Islamic Republic has the moral high ground?

Joshua Sikora Contributing Writer

There has been much talk recently in the United States about the possibility of war with Iran.

Arguments are that Iran is a rogue, aggressive state that poses a threat to the safety of both Americans and people around the world by supporting terrorism.

While certainly the claim is accurate that a state in this veritable shadow-boxing of a conflict is a threat to the safety of other states and many around the world by supporting terrorism, the only problem is that this claim is wrongly applied to Iran and should be applied, instead, to the United States.

In the current standoff between the U.S. and Iran and each of their respective allies, Iran stands on the moral high ground. Any Christian or individual of decent moral character should offer their support to Iran in this conflict.

First, a history lesson. The current government in Iran came into power in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution. In that time, Iran had been involved in precisely zero offensive wars over the recent 40 years. And the United States? Around 13, depending on your definition of war, along with countless other offensive and aggressive actions around the world. So already the United States has a clear history of being significantly more aggressive than Iran.

But what about Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker in July? Does this not indicate that Iran is currently acting aggressively? Well, when we consider the fact that Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker earlier in the year, this can, in the most favorable light to the West, be called a wash.

Beyond simple aggressive actions, or the lack thereof for Iran, what else is relevant to the discussion of who is the most moral? Foreign policy is a major issue here.

For example, Iran supports

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Bashar al-Assad, a leader who is fighting Islamic terrorists and has a history of protecting Christians in his country. The U.S. supports the Islamic terrorists, such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda, who seek to kill Christians and others who oppose them.

Where else do these nations lend support? Iran has been criticized for supporting Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a group labeled as a terrorist organization by the countries Hezbollah prevented from taking over Lebanon in the 80s. Hezbollah also has a historic record of protecting Christians and rebuilding churches destroyed by the U.S. and its allies. When not fighting Israeli attempts to steal more lands, Hezbollah helps fight actual terrorists backed by the West in other nations such as Syria.

The entire discussion as to how Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization is too long to get into here, but their protection of Christians and fight against legitimate terrorists is nothing to use against Iran.

In comparison, the U.S.

supports Saudi Arabia, a country where Christianity is outlawed and preaching the gospel can be punished by death. Not to mention the fact that the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their allies are committing a genocide in Yemen right now that could surpass the Holocaust in terms of the number killed.

Seems far worse than any action that could be pinned on Iran.

Iran has been accused of attacking a Saudi oil field.

The attack was unlikely to have been conducted by Iran, but rather some of the 15 million people Saudi Arabia is trying to starve to death.

Even if Iran is behind that attack on the Saudi oilfield, it’s more a point in their favor than anything.

Beyond these reasons not to support the U.S. and its allies there’s also the bombing of hospitals, starving 500,000 Iraqi children, thousands dead by drone attacks on foreign soil, and overthrowing a dictator that resulted in an active slave trade to name a few. If you want to look at domestic pol-

Letter to the Editor In the Sept. 27 issue of the Collegian, an article titled “Students object to the text” quotes students claiming that the textbook for HUMA 200 Western Civilization expresses “a socialist and anti-Christian perspective that undermines Grove City College’s values.” The piece mentions “some students,” the vast majority of whom are unnamed. The piece attacks the text, “A Concise Survey of Western Civilization” by Brian A. Pavlac, as a piece of Marxist-Leninist propaganda, something which it is assuredly not. More worryingly, as the subtitle—“book open to interpretation”— makes clear, the article is opposing thought which disagrees with its politics.

The piece first claims the book is faulty. Noting that Dr. Harp calls the textbook “the least bad” and “not grossly inaccurate,” it adds that Dr. Graham said there were twelve spots where the book was “dead wrong.”

Damning though it sounds,

survey textbooks are by nature imprecise. One cannot do justice to two millennia of history in 300 pages.

The article’s most serious charge is that Pavlac’s book is socialist and anti-Christian propaganda. For proof, it refers to a passage in which he states that Stalin was successful at reforming the Soviet Union, citing its improved living standards and greater geopolitical power. It then quotes a student who believed the passage to be “prosocialist” and “very one-sided.” Readers are never told why.

Indeed, here lies the root of the problem. Students are opposed to ideas which they do not like. Even were the book socialist or antiChristian, what grounds is that for removing it from the curriculum? One of the most vehemently anti-Christian authors of the twentieth century was Ayn Rand, yet her libertarian ideas about the government are held in high esteem by many students on

Iran is by no means a perfect country.

Christians face discrimination there as well. However, when the groups and nations the U.S. offers support to are compared with those which Iran offers support to, Iran still seems like the better option for a Christian to support.. icy, we need look no further than the fact that the United States allows the murder of over 600,000 children a year while Iran has the Satanic practice of abortion outlawed.

Iran is by no means a perfect country. Christians face discrimination there as well.

However, when the groups and nations the U.S. offers support to are compared with those which Iran offers support to, Iran still seems like the better option for a Christian to support. They are not the nation who helps people slaughter Christians, nor do they have the blood of millions upon millions of innocent people on their hands, unlike the United

States. However, the war drums still beat and people across the West still push for the United States to engage in another offensive war to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

Should a war with Iran come, any person of decent moral character should stand against the war for its entirety.

If somehow a draft comes about the right action would be to avoid it at all costs. If the draft could not be avoided then one should do what is right: reject fighting for the nation who has killed millions and endangers Christians around the world, and defect to the other side of the battlefield.

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this campus. That a textbook called Stalin powerful would provoke such a reaction reminds one of protests at other campuses against statues of slaveholders or conservative speakers. If we disapprove of Middlebury College disinviting Charles Murray, why ought we to disinvite Mr. Pavlac?

The great problem is that if students only hear ideas they already agree with, then there is no broadening of the mind, no education, to speak of. That a book would be discouraged because disagrees with political consensus is the sort of behavior which Grove City has rightly frowned upon, and which it has done well to avoid. This College is devoted to the pursuit of truth, and if the truth disagrees with preconceived ideas, lose the latter. To do otherwise would be to exchange the truth for a lie.

Samuel Tobias ’21

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Perspectives The Collegian,

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PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK HILDEBRAND

Editor’s note: The Collegian reached out to recent editors for contributions to this special Homecoming issue.

Real world hits hard

The company we keep, not a degree, defines us Karen Postupac ‘19 Former Editor-in-Chief

A year ago, I wrote a column about the “real world,” where I talk about the fear of the coming struggles of life after graduation. It hasn’t eaten me alive yet, so praise the Lord.

Why hasn’t it Postupac eaten me alive?

In many ways, I credit GCC. The College has prepared me for this. However, I don’t want to talk about the academic, educational

preparation. I mean the “real stuff,” the stuff that belongs in the world outside of 200 Campus Drive.

Grove City forced me to be critical. I made hard decisions in school. Not just “what should I wear to the Homecoming Dance?” kind of decisions, but the kind of decisions over which you lose sleep – and your parents, they lose sleep, too.

Grove City teaches you, taught me to be empathetic.

Every situation is to be approached with truth and compassion, and I have seen the lesson in sitting down on

Take a breath Rio Arias ‘19

Former News Editor A lot has changed between now and the last time I wrote a Collegian column.

Like last time, I’m sitting on my bed, with my college laptop in front of me. But this time I’m five hours, not five feet away from my college roommate and a full time worker instead of a full time student.

C o l l e g e taught me a lot.

How to work hard, play hard, make good friends.

How Arias to prepare for a meaningful career. But what it didn’t teach me was a more surprising lesson – work isn’t your life.

Now I’m not talking about the realization that even Christians need rest and mental health days, or that being more successful doesn’t make you better than someone else. It’s the simple fact that you could have your dream job, make six figures, live in a city or beachy small town of your dreams and it wouldn’t fulfill you.

Maybe at first, you would feel like you have purpose and your work matters. But after a while, we all are forced to realize that the pressure you put on yourself to succeed doesn’t mean much if you don’t begin to prioritize other things like family, friends and doing things that you enjoy, too.

Most of college prepared me to think that unless I spent time on something that called for my work – be

it student groups, Greek life or classes – I deserved to rest and reward myself by putting my interests first. I had more responsibilities than I’d ever dreamed of, and it was difficult to know when it was time to rest or work.

But I am not entitled to rest, or do whatever I want to do the second I leave my classroom or meeting.

“Adulting” has forced me to realize that while I might not spend my free time studying, it gets filled up faster than ever by obligations to our family, friends and own personal health.

And that’s because nothing good comes to us without work. We invest our time and our love into our family, significant others, friends and, mostly importantly, Christ.

But sometimes those three free hours a day are all we get. And when you have to choose between exercise, paying bills, attending a bible study or reading quietly in bed, reading doesn’t always win out.

And perhaps this isn’t a revelation to some of you.

You’re selfless workers, friends and neighbors. But I think it’s a lot harder to be selfless with our time the less of it we have to ourselves.

And the more you grow up, the more is expected of you – and the more of yourself you’re asked to give.

So enjoy those days when you have a lazy Sunday before class and maybe an extra hour before dinner to hang out all by yourself. There’s a lot less of those than you might think in the future.

the gross, only-vacuumedonce-this-semester floor with a friend in need.

Grove City allowed me to push against preconceived notions of my past. I coughed up the beliefs of those around me that I had unknowingly swallowed and began to form my own thoughts and feelings about, well, everything.

Where did all of this come from? Who and what taught me all of these lessons?

In my opinion, these things did not come from a classroom.

Grove City College is not extended high school. People

do not go to Grove City to learn more about calculus or the judicial system.

People come to Grove City for experiences. They come to become leaders and advocates and people who will make some kind of difference.

I came to Grove City because I wanted to earn a degree to, hopefully, land a great, well-paying job.

I left Grove City with a deep understanding of how the world behaves, with the people I could encounter and a taste of the struggles that may come.

I left with professors who worked as I worked and worked and worked a little more.

I left with incredible friendships all across the country that will be with me, hopefully for the rest of my life.

And I got a degree, too, but honestly that is little lost on me.

After these months away, I have realized that it wasn’t the degree that brought me to where I am today, it is the people who stood by my side the whole way to here.

A story worth telling Alyssa Bootsma ‘19 Former Managing Editor

Though I still don’t know the words to the Alma Mater, I did, in fact, graduate from Grove City College; on Dec. 17, 2018, I walked out of my last final of the last college class I would ever take (grad school is not for your girl).

Instead of “furthering my education” like some go on to do, I, well, I furthered my Bootsma education...

Education on how to write for WORLD magazine, how to lose to Marvin Olasky in chess, how to teach kids tennis (and not entirely lose my cool) and how to plan a whole wedding, get married and be a good wife, all while searching for and landing a full-time job. I’ve learned so much, and all that in just nine months after graduating.

But no worries folks, I wasn’t gone long! Here I am, back in the Grove, working for the College’s Office of Marketing and Communications. Don’t believe me? I’ll show you my business card.

I write, edit, coordinate, complete “tasks as assigned” and still don’t know the darn Alma Mater.

I miss working for the Collegian, but I’m thankful Nick still lets me see it before publication sometimes. I actually do miss college life too…

sometimes. I mostly miss living 30 seconds from all my best friends. But at the same time, it is pretty great to live life with my ultimate best friend: my husband Mr. Joe Bootsma.

Even though sitting at a desk for eight hours a day has definitely taken some getting used to, it’s nice to just go home at night and not have to worry about work. Instead, I love to cook dinner, go for a walk, watch TV, read a book or just spend time with Joe. Oh, and still writing a bajillion thank you notes for wedding gifts. It’s hard work people.

So where am I post-grad?

I’m still here in good ol’ Grove City, wondering about the future like the rest of you.

Still assured that God is in control, which can be infuriating to my sinful self, but utterly comforting to my soul.

I’m thankful to be living four houses down from my church, and I’m thankful for my church family, my lovely neighbors, my old and new friends and my coworkers.

I’m enjoying seeing this town through a different pair of eyes, realizing I missed so much of this while I was in college. There is much more here than the College, and I think we Grovers really need to recognize that.

For example, totally did not know that there are hiking and mountain biking trails at Memorial Park until just a few weeks ago. Also, I

“I’m thankful to be living four houses down from my church, and I’m thankful for my church family, my lovely neighbors, my old and new friends and my coworkers.” realized that this town is full of so many people all with stories of their own. Like our neighbor across the street who sits on his porch a lot with his wife. He noticed another neighbor had a car in the driveway whose lights were on, so he walked over, knocked on the door, and kindly informed them, probably saving the battery. How thoughtful is that?!

Anyway, my advice (if you want it…I’m only 22 so don’t write it in stone) is to open your eyes and not ignore what you see. It is so easy to live life in the bubble of Grove City College, but that is the antithesis of what we learn within its walls, and within God’s Word.

We should work and learn to glorify God. And shutting our eyes to the outside world is definitely not loving Him well.

So, I challenge you, as a student and soon enough as a graduate, look outside yourself and see what you find.

It’ll be a story worth telling.

Entertainment

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TV takes the trophy Streaming platforms shine at the 71st Emmys

Katheryn Frazier Staff Writer

This glistening golden angel holding a globe-like structure represents the highest honor within the television industry: the Emmy.

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards show aired on Sept.

22, highlighting five standout series across a multitude of genres and networks. One of the most shocking or unknown surprises was the success of “Fleabag”, who took home four Emmys in the area of writing, directing, lead actress and outstanding comedy series. The show follows a British woman, called “Fleabag” who navigates tragedy and love in London through a comedic lens. The lead character’s name derives from the nonexistent use of a filter whenever she talks.

“Fleabag”

Long ago television was considered a lesser medium compared to film, but with technological advancements the industry has been able to reach the same technicality and splendor as its entertainment counterpart. was originally developed by BBC and can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

On America’s comedy circuit, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” shined in the areas of supporting actor and actress in a comedy series.

Mrs. Maisel is based on the ideal 1950’s woman who had a seemingly perfect life until her husband leaves her. She consoles her loss in the discovery that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. The show can also be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

The more serious content seemed to dominate the rest of the night as the critically acclaimed HBO show, “Chernobyl” earned three awards for directing, writing and outstanding limited series. This historical drama conveys the intensity felt after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant collapsed in 1986 in a mere five episodes.

Netflix also represented as it found success in the “Ozark” after winning best-supporting actress and directing for a drama series. The narrative follows a man and his family who move to the Ozarks to avoid paying into a money-laundering scheme

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“Fleabag” creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge accepst an award at the 71st annual Emmy awards. This year, TV streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO swept the competition. that got out of hand. Family is a central theme within the show.

Interestingly, “Game of Thrones” received a good amount of excitement from fans before the ceremony started, earning a total of 32 nominations. In the end, it won two primetime awards in the categories of outstanding drama series and best

supporting actor. The show also won ten Creative Arts Emmy Awards prior to the featured award show.

It is interesting to note that these shows are prominently featured on streaming sites instead of the traditional cable networks. By the looks of the content recognized Amazon Prime Video, HBO and Netflix seem to be producing

the best-televised content at the moment. In reflection, it is amazing to see the leaps and bounds made by television. Long ago television was considered a lesser medium compared to film, but with technological advancements the industry has been able to reach the same technicality and splendor as its entertainment counterpart.

New movie offers heartwarming humor David Smith Film Critic

“The Peanut Butter Falcon,” written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, stars Shia LaBeouf in what is his first financially successful film in nearly five years.

The film also stars Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, and Thomas Haden Church. This unique independent comedy tells the story of a twentytwo-year-old mentally challenged man, Zak, who escapes from an assisted living home in search of a wrestling camp. On his journey, Zak becomes acquainted with Tyler, a fisherman who is on the run after setting fire to over ten thousand dollars of equipment at a dock after a confrontation with other fishermen. Together, Zak and Tyler form a unique bond, which ultimately benefits them both.

What separates “The Peanut Butter Falcon” from other independent comedies, such as “Little Miss Sunshine,” is the amount of heart, soul and sincerity it exudes, especially from freshman filmmakers. There are many blatant moments that will make you laugh so hard that you cry.

The film is honest, yet suitable for families to enjoy and it is still not tacky or diluted. Its message is poignant: everyone deserves the chance to be loved and to be redeemed, and perhaps it is only love that can redeem us. Although Tyler is a hardass, he displays selfless tendencies

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Zack Gottsagen and Shia LaBeouf star in the new heartwarming comedy “The Peanut Butter Falcon” which follows the adventures of a down syndrome man with big dreams. and brotherly love for Zak. It is nice to see Shia LaBeouf in a film that shows his soft sides. He is an actor who generally gets stereotyped and type cast as an action star or tough guy. That is still somewhat the case in “The Peanut Butter Falcon.” However, LaBeouf proves that he is almost as diverse of an actor as

Leonardo Dicaprio. I think that will become more evident in his upcoming film, “Honey Boy.” Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader writes, “This may have as much to do with the colorful eastern seaboard settings as it does the filmmakers’ sensitive handling of the main character’s developmental disability; the

film feels authentic and sincere.” Although “The Peanut Butter Falcon” will not be in theaters much longer, I strongly urge you to watch it via streaming or DVD. Not too often do powerful comedies resonate with such heartwarming radiance, especially an independent one.

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Holding down the line The football team’s unsung heroes keep things running James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief

The football team has one of the most explosive offenses in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, producing both the league’s leading rusher and receiver.

The source of that weekly explosion? The offensive line.

Grove City’s o-line is one of the best in the conference.

The unit is led by four seniors who have all tallied doubledigit starts in their time at the school and collected individual accolades in the process.

Left tackle Sal Spinosa and left guard Matt Villers both earned All-PAC honors last year. Center Geoff Matthews and right guard Sam Mikolay seem poised to make a push for such honors themselves.

But the lineman could not care less about individual accolades. According to Spinosa, the line is “not about personal success; it is about success as a unit.”

“It feels cool to be recognized, but at the same time, that’s not what I’m about,” Villers said. “The recognition shows that what we’re doing is working. Sal and I making All-PAC also promotes Geoff and Sam, because I rely on them. That’s not just a promotion for me but for the offensive line as well.”

Whether or not they are individually praised, the offensive line is possibly the best unit on the field, in large part because of their extensive experience. Spinosa, Villers and Matthews, the entire left and center of the line, have started every game together since mid-2017, their sophomore season. Mikolay returned from an injury to the right side last season, meaning four of the five lineman have played in nearly 15 straight games together. Those four combine for over 100 starts,

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Grove City’s elite offensive line in action against Case Western Reserve last season. With four seniors, including two All-PAC honorees, the line is one of the best in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. a staggering amount of experience for DIII football.

Playing with the same guys week-in and week-out for three seasons breeds a closeness no amount of practice could simulate. Villers said the connection between linemen becomes “almost telepathic.”

“You get really comfortable. You understand what they’re going to do, and so you can anticipate stuff. You can just play better,” he said.

“Just knowing that the person next to you is going to do their job, all worry just leaves,” Spinosa said. “You don’t have to worry about doing other people’s job.”

Trust is an important theme for the line. Sopho-

more quarterback Josh Ehst has to trust them to protect him. Senior running back Wes Schools has to trust them to open up rushing gaps. And they have to trust each other to get their assignments done.

That trust starts with Matthews. Coaches and players could not say enough about the center’s intelligence and vision. Derrick Baney, associate head coach and offensive line coach, called him “another coach on the field.” Ehst said Matthews is “the smartest guy on the field.” Villers called him the “brains” of the line.

Matthews is one who reads the defense to see what is coming, often calling out

audibles to the blocking scheme. Spinosa said the rest of the line relies on Matthews to tell them what to do: “He’s always there to sort out what to do,” he said.

On the other hand, Spinosa often sets the example in practice and games with his cool, focused, never-tiring demeanor. Villers said the line often “leans on him for consistency.”

“Everyone looks up to him for our mentality on every play,” Villers said.

Spinosa rarely makes mistakes, a prized attribute for offensive linemen.

“He does things right consistently. As a lineman, if no one is talking about you, that’s a good thing. Sal is

rarely talked about,” Villers said.

Villers and Mikolay are quiet constants as well. Junior Luke Sherrod is the only new starter on the line, filling the large shoes left by Dalton Calihan ‘19.

But he has slotted in seamlessly, ensuring the line keeps doing their job without a hiccup.

The Wolverines will need the line to do that job, weekin and week-out, if they want to repeat the history-making success they had last season.

Grove City takes the field at 2 p.m. tomorrow on Thorn Field for a Homecoming matchup against Carnegie Mellon, who sit in fourth place in the PAC.

A turning point in the season?

Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

Senior forward Christian Caporaso’s 66th minute penalty kick goal sealed a 2-0 win over conference rival Thiel, a hard-earned and much needed victory for the men’s soccer team.

Friday’s win leaves the men with a 3-6-1 record as they enter Presidents’ Athletic Conference play. Is the win a sign of what’s to come for Grove City?

This season’s start has been one of humble beginnings.

Falling to six of their difficult non-conference matchups over the first half stretch of the season has seemed like a shortcoming. PAC Preseason polls placed Grove City at the top of projected rankings, but non-conference losses questioned that initial placement.

“Non-conference games have been a challenge so far,” head coach Mike Dreves said.

“Our non-conference slate hasn’t gone as well as we would have liked, but everything is about conference.”

Despite early season woes, Grove City has shown signs of improvement and chemistry both on and off the field

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Senior Christian Caporaso dribbles against Thiel. Caporaso sunk a penalty just after the hour mark Friday to seal a 2-0 win over the Wolverines’ conference rivals. over the last stretch of games.

“Getting to know this group of guys has been one of the biggest blessings of my life,” freshman midfielder Sam Belitz said. “The way everyone serves and loves each other, regardless of class, amazes me daily.”

“The culture of our team is phenomenal,” senior defender Alec Gehman agreed. “The squad has continued to grow

together during the season thus far. This is one strength we will continue to build on.”

The team’s growth is reflected in the team’s twogame win streak. Offensive stamina is on the up and up.

Grove City’s shooting gallery display at Thiel, owning the offensive edge 19-4 in shots, is living proof of advancement.

“With two solid wins in our

last two games, we are ready for our conference games and ready to strive for our goal of winning the PAC,” Gehman said.

The stars are aligning for the Wolverines as they head into the second half of the season. The men’s team will have the privilege of competing on the newly renovated and soon-to-be dedicated Don Lyle Field at home in

time for the remainder of their PAC matchups.

“We’ve played plenty of road games consecutively this year, and the thought of a game with a home crowd under the lights really excites me,” Belitz said. “It’s going to be an amazing atmosphere, and we’d be so grateful for anyone that comes out to cheer us on.”

Excitement and anticipation for the first game under the lights has been building.

“We have been training on the field since Monday, which has been amazing,” Dreves said. “All of the road games have made us really appreciate what we’re getting.”

“Don Lyle Field is everything we had hoped for; the lights and playing surface are unbelievable,” Gehman said.

“We are definitely ready.”

The Wolverines will have to wait to get their first game on the new field as they will travel to face PAC foe Waynesburg at 8 p.m. tonight. Grove City will take on Geneva at Don Lyle Field on campus at 7 p.m. Oct. 12th.

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Sports at a Glance News

Men’s Tennis Grove City dropped both matches at Allegheny Invitational. The Wolverines fell to Ohio Northern 9-0 and came up short against Allegheny losing 5-1 where sophomore Karsten Lagerquist was the only Wolverine take a set in singles.

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The women’s soccer team opened play on Don Lyle Field Tuesday. The field will be dedicated to the former GCC coach at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Paying respect Legendary coach honored with field dedication Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

In 2017, Grove City College inducted a legend into the College’s Hall of Fame.

Well-known by student athletes, fans and coaches alike, Dr. Donald Lyle was a centerpiece of Wolverine athletics for a memorable 43 years.

Now, Grove City welcomes Lyle back to the College to add yet another honor to the legacy of a man who invested so much into our own Wolverine legacy. Grove City College’s newly renovated “College Field,” home to the men’s and women’s soccer teams, will be dedicated in Lyle’s honor and appropriately be named “Don Lyle Field” at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Dr. Lyle filled many roles during his time at Grove City College. He served as an educator, an administrator and a successful coach of multiple Grove City sports.

Joining the Grove City family in 1972, Lyle started out as the men’s head soccer coach. Under his leadership, the men’s team earned six postseason berths as well as two trips to the NCAA Championship Tournament in thirty-four years. From his first season at Grove City in 1972 to his last in 2005, Lyle became the most successful coach in program history with 277 career wins.

Lyle helped Grove City earn its first PAC men’s soccer title in 1996, boasting a 16-2 record. In his final season as head coach in 2005, Grove City earned their first ever PAC Tournament title.

Lyle would then go on to earn PAC Coach of the Year.

Outside of his historic impact on the soccer field, Lyle was a pioneer in organizing Grove City’s softball program. He served as head coach from the program’s start in 1980 till 1988. In his career as head coach, Lyle

holds an overall record of 9161 and led the Wolverines to the conference title in 1987.

Lyle was also active on the court, serving the men’s basketball team as the assistant coach from 1972 to 1979.

Lyle’s legacy is found in the dugout as well. He led the baseball team as head coach from 1989 to 1997, earning 81 career wins.

Beyond his impressive resumé in coaching, Lyle served as chairman of Physical Education in 1996 and athletic director in 2003, mentoring and leading students in countless ways. Lyle retired in 2015.

“The dedication of the field to Coach Lyle at homecoming is going to be special,” said assistant athletic director Mike Dreves. “His impact has been immense and naming the field after him is a great way to honor his legacy.”

National sports column

Sports Editor

California governor Gavin Newsom signed a groundbreaking law Monday that allows college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsements.

“It’s going to change college sports for the better by having now the interest of the athletes on par with the interests of the institutions,” Newsom announced.

Despite the insistence of the NCAA not to allow such benefits, California is the first of the 50 states to initiate this legislature for college athletes. In addition to allowing students to earn money through endorsements, the bill prohibits college athletic organizations from banning such compensated athletes. This law will take effect in the Golden State in 2023.

What separates college sports from professional sports? What separates a Happy Valley home crowd chanting “We Are” from a Heinz field audience in the City of Steel? What separates an adrenaline-pumping “blue-blooded” rivalry game between Duke and UNC from any NBA primetime matchup? Is it money?

Is it talent? How about passion?

It’s the passion of the game that consumes the athlete during crunch time. It’s

the student section screaming relentlessly that delivers that image of passion. The athletes either play to reach the professional level or out of love for the game. It’s not the paycheck. It’s not the stat line.

Watch any regular season NCAA college matchup and compare it to a professional counterpart. Sure, the pros aren’t getting paid for nothing. They have talent. Yet, the all-stars know at the end of the day that they’re guaranteed to get their money. In contrast, college athletes are still working to get to that point where they can have those professional-level guarantees.

Now with agents and endorsements clouding the minds of student athletes, there is a concern that players will fail to live in the here-and-now of practices and games. They may instead be preoccupied with filming commercials and signing contracts. Suppose a California student athlete makes a supplemental amount of money during their college career under the new law. What expectations for contracts will the future professional player have? Professional leagues far and wide are already riddled with salary schemes and squabbles, from the U.S. to Europe. Imagine highend Division 1 student athletes getting paid more than rookie contracts in professional leagues. Franchises would be caught between the two unfavorable options

The Wolverines took second place at the Newcastle Invitational posting a team score of 315. Senior Luke McKeogh took fourth overall leading the Grove City effort with a 74.

Cross Country The men’s placed second out of seven teams at the Chatham Invitational last Friday with sophomore Einar Trosdal pacing the Wolverines taking eighth overall. The women’s team also took second place out of six teams at the Chatham Invitational. Senior Heidi Hoffman earned second overall.

Results Football (2-2)

L, Washington & Jefferson (38-21) Women’s Soccer (4-4-2) W, Thiel (8-2) W, Mount Union (2-1) Men’s Soccer (3-6-1) W, Baldwin Wallace (3-2) W, Thiel (2-0) Volleyball (12-4) W, Thiel (3-0) L, Geneva (3-1) W, Washington & Jefferson (3-1) Men’s Tennis (1-3) L, Ohio Northern (9-0) L, Allegheny (5-1) Men’s Golf 2nd/11 -- 315 @ Westminster Invitational Men’s Cross Country 2nd/7 -- 52 points @ Chatham Invitational Women’s Cross Country 2nd/6 – 48 points @ Chatham Invitational

California defies NCAA Connor Schlosser

Men’s Golf

of either coughing up extra cash or having to pass up on their next young star.

The human brain is not fully developed until around age twenty-five.

Young college athletes who just walked across their high school auditorium now have the pressure of hiring an agent and juggling endorsements. Some athletes entering the professional level out of high school manage to transition, but any situation where a nineteen-year-old is forced to make major financial decisions on their own is not ideal, particularly for the developing mind of that teenager.

Perhaps this is playing devil’s advocate. There are certainly college athletes who, even with scholarships, struggle to make ends meet financially. Many athletes endure rigorous physical work to earn a scholarship to their dream college. It’s a pleasant image to see hardworking athletes being rewarded for their work. In turn, those hard-working athletes make college programs look more appealing for prospective athletes, which helps the institution.

But ultimately, this will have a domino effect on both collegiate and professional sports nationwide. The egos of athletes will be boosted exponentially before they even reach the professional level. The difference in earnings may prove to be divisive in college locker rooms.

Sports may simply become more expensive.

Upcoming Football 2 p.m. tomorrow vs. Carnegie Mellon Women’s Soccer 6 p.m. today at Waynesburg, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hiram Men’s Soccer 8 p.m. today at Waynesburg Volleyball 11 a.m. tomorrow vs. Chatham, 7 p.m. Wednesday at Waynesburg Women’s Tennis 4 p.m. Wednesday vs. Waynesburg, 3 p.m Thursday vs. Saint Vincent

Men’s and Women’s Golf Monday & Tuesday, President’s Athletic Conference Championships

WOLVERINE WEEKLY HONORS

Faith Keating Volleyball ECAC Rookie of the Month

Trevor Leitzel Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week

Ruby Mattson Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week

Einar Trosdal Cross Country Runner of the Week

Ryleigh Lefever Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week

Thomas Troxel Cross Country Rookie of the Week

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New field, same results Women’s soccer eyes another PAC title as it wins three straight Joanna Thorpe Copy Editor

The women’s soccer team christened the brand new Don Lyle Soccer Field with a dramatic, 2-1 overtime victory over Mount Union Tuesday.

“We wanted to start off this new phase of GCC soccer history on a postive note, and I am so thankful for all of the support that we had in doing so,” said senior midfielder Brook Thomas.

“The atmosphere surrounding (our first home game) was incredible. The crowd brought some much energy and excitement to the game. The (turf) surface is perfect for our style of play and the field itself is one of the most beautiful fields I have ever played on. Team spirits are high as we continue on into conference play, especially knowing that we have many other opportunities ahead of us to play on our own campus.”

The win came on the heels of a dominant, blowout 8-2 win over Thiel Friday.

After a long and trying non-conference season, the two conference games helped restore some confidence.

Expectations ran high for the Wolverines coming into the season. Their 2018 campaign saw a conference title, a 17-4-1 overall record and a victory over 2017 national runner-up Chicago in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. For the second consecutive year, the Grove City College women’s soccer program was elected the favorite in the PAC, according to the league’s preseason coaches’ poll.

After seeing a variable start to their season, the Wolverines hold a current 4-4-2 overall record. Fighting through many difficult non-conference matches, the team looks to apply their experience to the remainder of

this season.

“Expectations were high, but we also had the toughest non-conference schedule that we’ve ever had, so I didn’t expect that we would necessarily win a lot of those games. The point was not to get results: the point was to prepare us for conference play,” head coach Melissa Lamie said.

“They’ve all been good teams, so we have been tested. We’ve learned how to defend against some really good attacks. We’ve tried to figure out how to score goals against some very good defenses. We’ve grown. It’s pushed us to improve so much.”

Opening this season with a hard-fought contest against the number one team in the NCAA Division III, Messiah College, has helped to prepare Grove City for the challenges that lie ahead this season.

Similarly, the tough matchups the team faced in their recent tournament in Texas have also been what Coach Lamie considers “preparation for post-season tournament,” intended “to hopefully prepare [the team] for another NCAA trip, if we can get there.”

In Friday’s victory over Theil, the Wolverines came to play with tenacity, beginning with the opening goal by senior midfielder Ruby Mattson in the seventh minute. Following closely behind at the 8:35-minute mark, junior defender Ryleigh Lefever scored her first goal of the season to double Grove City’s lead. Mattson put the third score on the bored in the 26th minute, with Chloe Williams scoring her first goal this season, assisted by Colleen Zilka, at the 32:49-minute mark. With a four-point lead, the Wolverines lost one goal to the Tomcats before the conclusion of the first half. To open the second half,

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Above, senior midfielder Brooke Thomas passes the ball against Mount Union. Right, senior midfielder Ruby Mattson celebrates her equalizing goal. The match, which ended in an overtime win for the Wolverines, opened the new Don Lyle Field.

Lefever scored the fifth goal with a penalty kick. Just behind were Mattson’s backto-back goals in the 49th and 50th minutes, giving her a hat trick and a recordbreaking game. Thiel’s own goal and second score closed the game with a final score of 8-2.

“I was really excited to earn a hat trick and to join my teammates and those before me who have accomplished that. I had no idea I was breaking a record with the fourth goal but to learn that was really wild,” Mattson said.

“A record doesn’t get broken in a sport like soccer by just one person. It involves the whole team both in the moment and during the hours of training we’ve put

into the season thus far.”

With the historic overtime night win under the lights last Tuesday at the Don Lyle Field against Mount Union, the Wolverines are looking on to the second half of this season as the team moves forward encouraged by their progress.

“Even Friday, I wanted them to understand that ev-

ery team wants what we had last year, so no game in the conference is going to be an easy anything. So, as long as we’re going in with that mentality, that we have to earn everything, then I’ll be pretty pleased,” Lamie said.

The Wolverines move on to face the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets at 6 p.m. tonight in Waynesburg, Pa.

Volleball plays for an ‘audience of one’ Emily Rupczewski Contributing Writer

The volleyball team is off to a rocket start this season, adding two more wins to an already impressive record this week with victories over Thiel and Washington & Jefferson.

Grove City swept Thiel in three narrow sets Sept. 26, before traveling to W&J for a tri-match. The Wolverines took down the hosts in four sets, after falling to Geneva in four.

So far, the team’s hard work is extremely evident: the Wolverines now sit at 12-4 overall (3-3 in PAC play), which is the best overall record that Grove City volleyball has seen in years.

A new coaching staff, a roster of veteran players and hard work in practices all play their part in the team’s success, but for the Wolverines, their success comes down to who they play for.

Senior middle hitter Maria Boris and senior right side Emma Hartshorn both agreed that it was “an audience of one.”

“I think what makes our team different this season is the culture we were able to build, which is Christcentered and full of love. All of our team loves each other deeply. We have the same vision and goal to play with a joy that glorifies God and we use that joy to truly compete,” Har-

Freshman outside hitter Faith Keating earned ECAC Rookie of the Month honors this week, capping an outstanding start to her GCC career. shorn said.

“Our team has worked hard in the off season and over the summer in gyms, in the weight room, and in our personal time to reflect on our goals for the season and prepare for excellence. Above all, we know that we are playing for an audience of one,” she said.

This year’s senior class has been through three different coaches in four seasons but has still managed to maintain a group of core players.

Grove City has developed a strong team culture and deep bond. For seniors like Boris, these transitions and

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setbacks have all been leading up to this season.

“People keep asking what is different about the team this year, but I think the real question is ‘how did we get to this point?’” Boris said. “I think that the coaching staff changes along the way have all been God saying, ‘I have someone who can teach you important lessons in this season.’

Coach Sayles is the one God planned to take us in this next step. This season is a continuation of the work that God has been doing on the team for years.”

The new coaching staff has aided

in this transition, but the players themselves are the ones who are truly pushing for team unity and success.

“There have been lots of changes throughout the volleyball program over the last three years. However, our new coaching staff has organized focused practices, has held our team to a standard, and has helped our team believe in ourselves again. As players, we have made many changes beginning in the off season with efforts toward open gyms, intense practices, and lots of time weightlifting, which has elevated our game immensely. Not only have those physical changes in the way we stay focused in the off season made a difference, but also our focus in creating a vision for the season. Our leadership team met often to develop our values, vision, and goals for the year,” Hartshorn said.

This Grove City team has spent years building a Christ-centered team culture, and the season is shaping up to be the payoff of years of prayer and hard work. Ten regular season PAC games remain for the Wolverines, and the team will be going after each with the same tenacity.

Boris and Hartshorn will lead the Wolverines as they take on Chatham at 11 a.m. tomorrow in College Arena for what promises to be a packed Homecoming crowd.