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Champions again
Vol. 105, No. 9
Women nab second straight PAC title James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief
It took a long, painful and winding road to get there, but the women’s soccer team is back on top. The Wolverines earned their second-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship Saturday with a dominant 4-1 win over Chatham on their home turf, the shiny new Don E. Lyle Field. The win capped a stellar run to end the season. Grove City won its final six games, scoring 22 goals while allowing just four. In the PAC tourney the Wolverines gave up just one goal, outscoring their opponents 6-1 across the semi-
finals and finals. That excellence earned Grove City its second consecutive conference title and its second straight bid to the NCAA Tournament. Grove City went almost twenty years before the two conference titles, winning their last in 2001. Head coach Melissa Lamie said that the title drought set the stage for recent success. “The teams that fought and worked just to finish second laid the groundwork for us to get to the top,” Lamie said. “The legacy they left was one that the past two teams have built on and improved enough to get to the final and have the mental strength to win it.”
Senior forward Ruby Mattson, a four-year starter and stalwart of Grove City’s attack, noted that playing the PAC tourney at home was an unexpected boost. The Wolverines had planned on traveling to top-seeded Westminster for the final, until Chatham upset the Titans, and Grove City became the host. “A home game created an awesome environment for our whole school to be a part of,” Mattson said. “I think the home game gave us the advantage of extra motivation to earn the win.” Things did not always look rosy for the Wolverines this CHAMPIONS 10
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Junior midfielder Michaela Burke shoots during the 4-1 win over Chatham in the PAC title game, GCC’s second consecutive title.
Chinese program shuts down
Roaring into winter
Clark Mummau Contributing Writer
ways this garden could increase our campus’ appreciation and care for nature.” McNulty and the chosen students plan to work as a team to prep, build and plant the new community garden. The team already has plans for harvesting, with ideas of giving back to the college and Grove City community. “We could donate the leftover veggies to the food shelter, or gift them to Bon Appetit for a special event,” said McNulty. McNulty’s passion for gardening started long before the community garden. “When we first married
Grove City College’s Chinese program is in its last year as enrollment decreases. This change is symptomatic of a national reduction in foreign language enrollment. Dr. Rebecca Harmon, chair of the Department of Modern Languages, said that it is unsustainable to continue the program. “We can’t continue to offer classes students don’t take,” she said. Dr. Shuhui Su, professor of Chinese, “brought hundreds of students to Chinese Club festivals who never took or will never take a Chinese class,” Harmon noted. While next semester is the last semester for students to take Chinese language classes and to finish minors, Harmon said, classes such as Asian Politics and World Music: Asia and Middle East will still be offered as they are not within the department. Harmon also hopes that the Chinese Club and Chinese Language Table can remain to continue building students’ language and cultural knowledge. Senior political science major and Chinese minor David Calhoun noted that the loss of the minor is especially unfortunate in an increasingly global world. “Chinese is the most useful language to know in the twenty-first century,” he said. Some students will be unable to complete their Chi-
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Winter has hit Grove City College, and not everyone is happy about it. The Wolverine growls at the cold weather and some friendly pranksters who put snowballs on his noggin.
Planting a new community Fiona Lacey Staff Writer
First Lady Brenda McNulty ’80 and a number of students are prepping the grounds for a new campus community garden to be planted right in the president’s backyard. With their first meeting at the President’s House last Thursday, McNulty and the students already have plans underway for the garden’s primary stages. According to McNulty, a longtime gardener herself, the garden beds will be ready for planting after the right soil is put in place. “I really appreciate the enthusiasm of the guys in the
grounds department to help us make our dream a reality,” McNulty said. “Once the boxes are in place we’ll plant our garlic and shallots.” Flowers and fences will be added too, according to McNulty. Vegetables will be planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. “The thought behind the community garden is manifold,” McNulty said. “Many universities across the country are doing this, and Paul shares this vision with me of our school having our own gardens.” McNulty began this project to share the joys of garden-
ing with students on campus. This love of gardening, she added, also leads to a love of God and his creation. “There is so much to learn about God’s creation in order to be good stewards of it,” she said. “I hope we, as a campus community, can learn by doing it in a small way through this garden.” Meanwhile, her team of students are ready to get to work. “When Mrs. McNulty first contacted me with her interest in a campus garden, I was so excited,” sophomore Katie Leon, president of the environmental club, said. “I’m looking forward to the