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Vol. 107, No. 15
WBN goes live
Campus radio now digital Haley Steele
Contributing Writer The Wolverine Broadcast Network launched Tuesday with a live broadcast in Breen Student Union. The new streaming service aims to, “entertain and engage our listeners by uniting excellence, insight, and innovation through the production of creative student broadcasting.” The college’s radio station, WSAJ, which was set to celebrate its 100th anniversary this December, is an icon of history not just for the college but also for Grove City, Pennsylvania. When the station was forced off the air in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, students and the community told themselves that it was a short-term sacrifice. However, when the radio’s six-person executive team came back to campus in the fall of 2021, they were met with the news that their faculty advisor had resigned, their radio antenna was broken and library renovations meant they could no longer fully utilize their broadcasting equipment. Sophomore Maya Lindberg, the Marketing Director
on the WSAJ executive team since spring of 2021 and this year’s General Manager of the Wolverine Broadcast Network, talked about fielding the questions and complaints from the WSAJ community. “We didn’t have answers to any of their questions,” Lindberg said. The team attempted to reach out to the college staff, but amid the lingering COVID crisis they were met only by radio silence. The team decided to reach out to President McNulty. Lindberg says meeting with McNulty was both encouraging and discouraging for the team. “He invoked passion in us, because he said you’re going to have to fight for this,” Lindberg said. Committed to doing what they could for the radio, the students brainstormed ideas for what would be their next steps. According to Lindberg, “As an executive team we spent hours meeting.” The students considered the heart of WSAJ and ultimately decided student broadcasting was the most important element to WSAJ. Dr. Vincent DiStasi, the Vice President for Informa-
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Ryan Young broadcasts on the new Wolverine Broadcast Network in their studio found in the TLC. tion Technology and Chief Information Officer, suggested online broadcasting. The idea caught on. While the thought of having an FM radio station was still appealing, and the team wanted to nod to the history of WSAJ, they decided that their community had waited long enough. Staff banded around the students, as they worked with
the college marketing team to rebrand WSAJ as WBN. The students are especially grateful to Justin Harbaugh, who worked to create the WBN logo, Kiley Miranda for contributing heavily to all social media efforts and junior Janessa Dawson and senior Miles Dorst, both of whom dedicated hours to digitizing all the station’s music and creating playlists for syndi-
cated broadcasting. Reflecting on the hours of work that college staff and students have put into this, Lindberg said, “It’s been really hard to keep everything in the dark because this is such an exciting thing… We’ve seen the Lord work so heavily in turning WSAJ into WBN and how He has anWBN 3
Resense to the moon Ayden Gutierrez News Editor
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The Henry Buhl Library renovations continue to be completed as the Learning Commons, a new study space, was opened to the campus community following spring break.
Two Grove City College sophomores, alongside their company, Resense, are finalists in a nationwide business pitch competition that could net them $50,000 in startup funding. Ethan David and Luke Gilligan are finalists in the Washington University of St. Louis’ Olin Business School BIG IdeaBounce contest. The two are the only undergraduates to make the final cut. Their proposal for Resense, a business that develops and delivers resources to aid people with dementia and memory loss and their caregivers, is one of 12 finalists in the contest – out of more than 160 entries. Their competition now consists of Ph.Ds., Ph.D. and MBA candidates, and graduate students from some of the nation’s top colleges and universities. According to the duo, they came up with the idea in Lean Launchpad, a class taught by Entrepreneurship Professor Yvonne English ’97 that focuses on the lean startup method. “We were tasked to create
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Ethan David and Luke Gilligan pose with their Resense Box. a team and explore a product idea from idea stage to physical prototype. Throughout that process, we realized the great need and opportunity that we had to help individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia,” Gilligan said. “Without Lean Launchpad, we would not even have come up with the idea.” David and Gilligan are also part of E plus I’s VentureLab program, an idea feasibility lab that fosters
entrepreneurship amongst students. After a successful run in the 2021 Wolverine Venture Battle that saw the team take home over $6,000 in cash prizes, they have advanced their idea with VentureLab support. And they’ve done their research. “We completed over 50 interviews of mental health professionals specializing in dementia and memory loss RESENSE 3