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Prisoner pastor to speak on missions

Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper

Vol. 105, No. 7

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debuts movie David Zimmermann

Nick Mullins

Staff Writer

Contributing Writer Andrew Brunson, an American missionary who was jailed in Turkey for his faith, will headline this year’s Kingdom Week.

The weeklong missions conference, the second annual event, will run Sunday through Thursday and includes popular speakers, social mixers and charity events.

Brunson Brunson will serve as the conference’s keynote speaker.

Brunson was detained in Turkey for two years before his release was orchestrated

by President Trump in 2018.

In the midst of the United States’ increasing tensions with Turkey, Brunson has once again been in the headlines.

In Trump’s letter to Turkey’s President Erdogan, attention was called to Brunson’s dramatic release to remind Erdogan of the measures that will be taken should tensions not subside.

He will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in Harbison Chapel.

Léonce Crump, a former quarterback for the New Orleans Saints who now preaches in Atlanta, will also speak.

The event features a total of 16 mission representatives from various organizations that seek to bring a very specific message to the private Christian school’s students.

“The goal is really to bring the purpose of the Great Commission to the heart of the students here,’’ says junior Josh Tricarico, who manages the promotion of the event.

According to junior Kaitlyn Butts, head of leadership for the event, the conference is run by a group of six students who are all passionate about missions.

Butts says that they want to show students “how their unique vocation can play into the idea of letting everyone around the world know the gospel and know who Jesus is regardless of whether they’ve ever thought of themselves as a missionary or even someone who’s responsibility it is to share the gospel.”

“We are trying to show them in their unique major, department and interests how they can be a part of that,” Butts said.

Despite the college’s existing chapel attendance requirement and the scattering of spiritually focused on-campus events that occur throughout the academic year, Butts emphasized that MISSION 9

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Juniors Evan Mee and Julia Knepper, members of the Omicron Xi fraternity and Gamma Sigma Phi sorority respectively, pose on their float during the Homecoming Parade. The float, which won the parade’s contest, was themed around Presidents’ Day as a part of the Parade’s overall holiday theme.

A star-studded cast will grace Grove City’s historic Guthrie Theatre tonight for the premier of “Shooting Heroin,” Spencer Folmar ’10’s hard hitting take on the drug crisis.

The film’s stars, including veteran Hollywood actors Nicholas TurFolmar turro, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Garry Pastore, will all be in attendance.

Folmar wrote, produced and directed the film, his fourth feature. The movie tells the story of a small town in rural America coming together to fight against the spread of the opioid epidemic.

Filmed in central Pennsylvania, “Shooting Heroin” features a Hollywood cast with actors such as Alan Powell from “Quantico,” Sherilyn Fenn from “Twin Peaks” and Cathy Moriarty from “Raging Bull,” among others.

For two years Folmar poured everything into the film. He drew inspiration from a fateful visit to his home in central Pennsylvania.

“When I visited back home over Christmas, everyone that I caught up with had lost a loved one or a friend from MOVIE 9

Teaching the next generation Clark Mummau Contributing Writer

Grove City College’s Elementary Education program was ranked second best in the nation by Study.com based on affordability, accessibility, quality and value.

“The educational environment within the college itself is extremely supportive and positive,” junior Elementary and Special Education major Rachael Stille said. “Everything they teach has a purpose and the learning that occurs within our classes helps us to become teachers of impact.”

Study.com is a site that reaches over 15 million students per month, with guidance “to help students save money and make informed decisions,” and with online courses.

The site discussed the Hamilton Curriculum Library, which offers invaluable resources to all Education majors. The library is “not a traditional quiet library,” Dr. Constance Nichols ’93, chair of the Department of Education, said. “It’s

EMILY BOSTAPH

A preschooler enjoys playtime at Grove City College’s Early Education Center. The Department of Education’s Elementary Education program is one of the leading courses in the nation. a highly collaborative space.

We don’t leave it to chance that they have the right materials to teach and to teach well. We are very thankful for the resources we have.”

Among these resources are the books used by many local schools. According to Nichols, when students go into class, they can expand on the material in the books.

Study.com also pointed to the College’s certification officer, Dr. Jarrett Chapman ’04, as a reason the Grove City program stood out.

Many schools have a certification officer, but few have one that “cuts through the red tape of different states,” Nichols said.

Another resource for students is the Education Ca-

reer Services Office. This office provides students with networking, international, summer and employment opportunities. Students also have an advisor that stays connected with them from their first semester of college through their first year of teaching to ensure that TEACHING 9

Editorial

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The award-winning Grove City College student newspaper, Oct. 25, 2019

From the Editor’s desk

A coward’s retreat

James Sutherland Editor-in-Chief

October has not been kind to President Trump, with impeachment inquiries looking into yet another scandal in his administration.

And yet, the Ukraine scandal is far from the blackest spot to appear on Trump’s legacy this month.

No, that distinction goes to his cowardly abdication in Syria; the contest is not even close.

Two weeks ago Trump announced he was pulling all American troops out of northern Syria effective immediately. The move is in line with his broader foreign policy concern that America is over-stretched and needs to pull back. Broadly, that is a legitimate concern and a good solution. In Syria, however, it was a disastrous move.

First, it is a remarkably destabilizing move for a region that was just beginning to stabilize. Already, 130,000 Kurds have been displaced, with up to half a million more facing that fate. A full-blown humanitarian crisis is on our hands.

And as Trump himself likes to brag, the war against ISIS (and Islamic extremism writ large) was in a very strong position, if not outright over. The terrorist group was largely a nonplayer in the region, with most of their fighters locked in Kurdish-controlled prisons. But now, all that good work is quickly unraveling.

In the wake of KurdishTurkish fights, ISIS fighters are escaping and reorganizing en masse. Trump’s move

may reignite terrorism in Syria.

Second, the evacuation allowed a massive foothold for hostile powers. Turkey immediately took advantage, moving thousands of troops into northern Syria with little to stop them. Bashar al-Assad’s regime also benefitted from the move, striking an alliance with Kurdish groups who were desperately trying to fight off the Turkish.

And finally, Russia gained as well. It played both sides brilliantly. The Syrian regime, which it has been propping up for years, grew more stable. The Turks, who are longtime frenemies with the Kremlin, also gained geopolitical strength And lastly, they have established themselves are the primary power-brokers in the region. What an abdication of American responsibility in the region.

But more than anything else, the move was a supreme act of cowardice and faithlessness. To be fair, we really should not expect fidelity from the man with three wives and innumerable mistresses. But even granting that, this act of disloyalty to the Kurds is shocking and revolting.

The Kurds have long been our best allies in the region, dating back to the early 1990s. The Kurdish state was maybe the only bright beacon in the region: a stable, prospering democracy surrounded by a raging sea of corruption and dictators.

This is who Trump betrayed: allies who sacrificed their lives for our fights, and who would gladly do so again. It is an infuriating, shocking, yellow-bellied abandonment of responsibility.

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

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#!@%&$ Profanity is complicated

Josh Tatum

Perspectives Editor Profanity, even on Grove City’s hallowed campus, is somewhat common. It is difficult to decide whether this is a recent trend, but my intuition says that it is. Not the use of profanity per se, but rather the sense that the jolt of a four-letter word said in a HAL hallway (or some lectures) has faded to a dull static.

A team of researchers led by data-wrangler Jean Twenge found that books published in the mid-aughts were “28 times more likely to include swear words than books published in the early 1950s.”

It is difficult to decide, however, whether this 2,800 percent increase is reflective of the popular diction at large.

On one hand, one would expect that this an underestimate, being that most authors do not (simply for readability’s sake) truly mirror the dense peppering of four-letter words characteristic of most locker room talk, football games and drunken wedding speeches.

On the other hand, folks have been swearing for a while now, something which has only recently been captured in writing (consider Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” which became the subject of an obscenity trial for – among other obscenities – dropping the f-bomb

only once).

My guess is that, as a metric on popular diction, Twenge’s data show a moderate increase thereof, from which Grove City has not been totally isolated.

But shouldn’t this be concerning? Saint Paul, for example, was especially puritanical towards “obscene talk,” censuring it often in his epistles.

Paul, née Saul, was there when the Sanhedrin set upon Stephen and “gnashed their teeth at him” before stoning him (Act 7:54).

Now the question of whether the gnashing of teeth is a roundabout reference to swearing is up for debate, but it’s hard to imagine that the act of stoning, like most violent acts, would not be buttressed and informed by profanity.

So, it’s no wonder that Saul’s time violently persecuting early Christians had (along with a smattering of Old Testament references) no small influence on Paul.

A word is, for a person, not its dictionary definition, but the composite of every context in which they’ve either seen or heard that word.

That is why those words (even in reading Ralph Ellison or Mark Twain or listening to John Lennon) which still accompany racial violence in America are still so jolting, and the word “cracker” (at least for me, having never heard it hurled in anger) is not.

Another point in this dissonant collection of them is this: one cannot truly understand police brutality, misogyny or the plight of the poor without understanding the words used therefor.

So, if the media reports on Trump’s reference to “s--hole countries” and leaves out the scatology, something essential is lost (that being said, most editors decided to leave the word uncensored).

And the subjective definition of the word also well explains why those vulgar slangs still make young and old fogeys alike uncomfortable.

Whereas “d---” (a word shocking to 1939 theatergoers), when said with the right tone, can make for great rhetorical effect.

But the question still remains as to whether Trump should have used that word (among other four-letter words on the campaign trail) at all.

The three things important to the usage of a curse word is intent, frequency and context.

While Trump’s usage is infrequent (at least publically), his intention is often to wound and the context of those words is a jumbled, fourth grade-level rhetoric.

But when the erudite Dr. Gordon, in a sentence with the words “aleatory” and “imbroglio,” decides to use “d---” just for the flavor of it, the last thing one can take at its usage, is umbrage.

This week in Collegian history

Be a light to the world Oct. 21, 1929 Advertisement: “brighten the corner where you aren’t” “Mighty few parents are hard-boiled when they get to thinking about Sons who are away at College.” This particular ad, boasting Roaring 20’s slang and some choice metaphors, implores forgetful college boys to keep in touch with their parents by way of a telephone service provided by a business in town.

“And we have provided a way to send some of that glow to the folks back home, along with the cheerful notes of your baritone voice. It’s only a matter of moments to home… by Telephone. Just for fun… call Home tonight.”

Oct. 22, 1969 “Red China Escapee Speaks to Grovers” On Oct. 8th, a woman named Mary Wang came to speak to Grove City’s campus. Miss Wang grew up in the world of Communist China, a world that her father and brother barely escaped with their lives. She herself was sent to Shanghai, where she was under constant surveillance but in turn learned a great deal about many facets of life under Communist rule. Government executions, confiscation of property, restriction of any kind

of religious activity- all facts of life for citizens of Red China.

She went on to reflect upon the Cold War, which she viewed as a struggle between good and evil, and on the proliferation of Communist ideology. “The question is whether we will allow certain forces to sweep over the face of the earth - and on that day no man will live in peace.”

Oct. 26, 1979 “‘Back to Nature’ with the outing club As many know, the Outing Club typically plans events around their private cabin, a lovely building around a half hour from campus. This cabin actually has quite a lot of history that goes with it, as it has been in the club’s possession for well over 50 years. At the time the article was written, it had already been around for more than 40.

Oct. 20, 1989 “Here are the answers… but what WAS the campus question?”

Rick McNatt & Rob Testa: “Rob and Nick’s House O’ Love.”

Amy Day & Amy Raimann: “‘Cause they’re the PIs and we’re not.”

Mike Coulter & Chris

Schavey: “The love train pumping iron at Scandanavian.”

Gayle Hayes, Patty Zang, Stacey McCaskey, Helen Moretti: “Meanwhile, the flasher sure had a nice… trench coat.”

Valerie Davis, Jim Slates, Dan Kriley, Jean Symons: “Co-ed bonding on a Saturday night in the student union.”

Amy Steeley & Diane Harrison: “Go to Lightweight Larry and Super Dan for the answer.”

Oct. 10, 2009 “‘Hickstoberfest’ Guests Get in Touch With Their Deutsch Side” Our final event of note comes from the Fall of 2009. Did you know that the Hicks staff’s root beer-centric event has been an annual tradition since 2009?

Now, that may not sound like very long ago (to me it doesn’t), but let’s stop and think about this for a moment… 2009 was ten years ago, friends. A decade. How crazy is that?

Cheers to the Hicks boys for keeping this tradition alive, green hats and all!

Jules Wooldridge

Staff Writer

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Oct. 25, 2019

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Traveling packs perspective Study abroad program enhances learning

Haley Greene

Contributing Writer By the time Grove City College students have graduated, nearly half of them will have traveled to Europe with the College.

Grove City College invites students to participate in the academic study abroad program. The college offers a variety of courses abroad spanning from as little as two weeks to a full semester. Typically, the school week is Monday to Thursday to allow students the flexibility to explore their new surroundings.

According to Jennifer Gilliland, the study abroad coordinator, some students even travel beyond their country of residence to surrounding countries.

“Students love to travel, especially [those] who go to Europe… so they get a taste of other cultures around them.”

Furthermore, Gilliland remarked that traversing Europe is generally affordable – some airports even offer tickets for as little as 15 dollars. This allows students to take advantage of the opportunity to travel, which helps them to step outside their comfort zone and engage with unique cultures and people.

Olivia Alexander, a junior elementary and special education major, traveled to Greece and Italy in

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Senior Cailyn Chiarello tussles with a monkey in Morocco. Chiarello is one of many Grove City students who spent time abroad, and now serves as a student advisor for the study abroad program.

May earlier this year. While in Greece, she interacted with locals who pleasantly surprised her.

“The people in Greece were super friendly and… they are big on gifts and hospitality. Like anytime you would sit down for food you were getting things for free constantly,” she said.

Aside from gaining cultural

knowledge and navigational skills, students also watch their studies come to life. Not only will young scholars read about art, architecture and history in textbooks, they will be given the opportunity to visit those buildings and pieces of art in person.

According to virtuoso.com, immersion is a great way to use all the senses and absorb

Student films a hit

Anna DiStefano Community Editor

Junior Nick Mullins spent his summer filming and editing a documentary about French painter Jean Claude Roy, titled “Tous les Jours.”

Roy, who divides his time between Newfoundland and France, calls his style “expresMullins sionist-colorist,” similar to Van Gogh.

In addition to Canada and France, Roy is also well known in the southeastern U.S., with his work featured in museums around Florida, Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas.

Mullins’s family, of Savannah, Ga., bought a Roy painting when Mullins was young.

“I grew up with him,” Mullins said. The idea for the documentary came later, when, on his 20th birthday, Mullins decided to stop being lazy.

“What do I want life to be?”

Mullins recalled asking himself.

“I have this conviction to tell stories, to stop being lazy.

Not to let college and career fairs get in the way of my passion, because this is what I really want to do, and it’s the right thing to do,” he said.

At the beginning of the summer, Mullins called Roy’s wife with a pitch for a documentary on the painter.

He proposed a film that would tell Roy’s story in a genuine way, without posed shots or interviews.

Roy and his wife accepted Mullins’s pitch and invited him to stay with them in Newfoundland in June.

“I wanted to do it so badly, I didn’t realize how weird it was until I was on the plane,” Mullins said.

Since all their communication had been over email and through Roy’s wife, Roy had to find Mullins on Facebook to know which passenger to take home.

During his week and a half of filming, Mullins followed and filmed Roy’s routine.

The 71-year-old paints every day, waking up as early as 4:00 a.m. and driving to locations up to nine or ten hours away.

At the end of his ten-day stay, Mullins had twentythree hours of film that he would eventually turn into his thirteen-minute documentary.

“I have a passion for telling stories, which developed into a love for documentary films.

There are so many good things, like this guy whose been painting every day since the 1960s, that are tragically forgotten,” Mullins said. “My dream is to find another guy who’s a creator and tell his story.”

Mullins credits Greg Bandy and his documentary film course with giving him the confidence to pursue Roy and tell his story.

After taking Documentary Film last spring, Mullins had a portfolio and a critically reviewed piece.

“I don’t know how I would

have been able to make this documentary without that class,” Mullins said.

He relied on Bandy and his classmates during his editing process, sending them drafts to critique.

“Having and knowing there was a professor there was empowering and comforting,” he said.

Mullins put the final touches on his documentary last week, but news of his film has been spreading since he travelled to Newfoundland.

A composer from Newfoundland heard about Mullins’s work and provided a score for the documentary free of charge.

Galleries in the U.S. are beginning to talk with Mullins about using the documentary in their exhibits.

“Tous les Jours” will premiere at the PA Indie Shorts Film Festival in the beginning of November.

Mullins, however, does not count this showing as the true premiere.

Instead, he looks forward to the biographic film being shown in Roy’s exhibition at the Mansion on Forsyth Park Gallery in Savannah, Ga., Mullins’s hometown gallery.

In the meantime, viewers can watch the documentary’s trailer on Facebook.

“I think it’s a pretty Grove City thing to do. A lot of people here are self-motivated.

Students really want to strive to be excellent and want to make something beautiful,” Mullins said.

studies, making them much more meaningful. Encountering these things in real life will make them stick with undergraduates much longer than if they were only reading about them.

Eliza Lowe Gordon, ‘16, majored in history and studied abroad in Seville, Spain.

“As a history ma-

jor and Spanish minor, the ability to see firsthand so much of the rich history of Europe and practice my Spanish greatly enhanced both of those aspects of my college studies,” she said.

These trips allow for students to be challenged not just academically, but in many diverse aspects of life. Allowing themselves to experience new social circumstances is great practice in networking. “Students… are thrown into a situation that they haven’t been [in] before… so they have to learn how to adapt and operate in that culture,” Gilliland said.

While some may worry that they will be unsafe outside of the protection and familiarity of America, they may find that their fears are unfounded. Alexander said that growing up she always believed the safest place was America but changed her mind after traveling.

“When we got to Greece we went through five different check points to even get into the country… they asked us a bunch of questions, it was just really different than my experience coming back. In America they were like ‘What’s your name? Ok. Where were you?

Ok. Go ahead.’ Also, in both [Greece and Italy] they had armed gunmen everywhere, so anytime something would happen they were on it,” Alexander said.

This week in the markets

Contributed by the Crimson Collegiate Investors

Debt and deficit

This past week was action packed on Wall Street as financial markets tried to make sense of continued trade tensions with China, the report of U.S. manufacturing activity falling to its lowest level in ten year and unemployment maintaining its best numbers since 1969.

As of the time of writing, the S&P 500 (stock market index) has risen 2.6% since last week and the yield on 10-year Treasuries has risen to about a 1.78%.

In this addition, we take some time to discuss a slow developing and significant story, both for Wall Street and Washington, the federal debt.

On Oct. 1, the current federal fiscal year began, and the numbers don’t look great. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting this year’s deficit to be an incredible one trillion dollars. The impact on financial markets is hard to overstate.

The Federal government funds the difference between its revenues and expenditures (i.e. the deficit) by selling securities or treasuries, and promising investors the right to recoup both their principle and some interest. These notes are considered to be the safest investments in the world, in fact, they are universally considered risk free.

But with the total federal government debt reaching a record $22 trillion and a federal government debt to GDP of 106%, analysts are

becoming increasingly concerned that the levels are unsustainable.

Thankfully, from the creditor’s perspective at least, interest rates have been falling globally thereby making it easier for governments to service their debts.

In fact, in Europe, over $15 trillion in securities are currently yielding negative rates, meaning that creditors are paying debtors for the privilege of lending.

The debt loads are a prime reason why President Trump called for the Federal Reserve to lower rates even further last month, a move which would make the cost of servicing future interest payments easier.

Neither the President, who campaigned for shrinking federal spending in 2016, nor the top Democratic candidates seem interested in tackling the decades old spending issue.

The brewing storm has, for the most part, remained on the back burner for financial media outlets.

Yet as long as the debt continues to creep up, and as long as governments are incentivized to lower interest rates and stoke inflation, investors may want to consider relocating into timeless assets which could provide a hedge against such market dynamics.

George Daugharty

Head of Financials Sector, Crimson Collegiate Investors

Community The Collegian,

Oct. 25, 2019

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Concerto prep stays nerves Fiona Lacey Staff Writer

PHI SIGMA CHI

The sisters of the Phi Sigma Chi pose on the Quad. Some girls opt to participate in Greek life as a “social” member instead of rushing.

The rush alternative An inside look at socialing

Paige Fay News Editor

Rush is around the corner and many girls are beginning to think about Greek Life.

The formal rushing process is not the only way to join a group, however. Some girls can participate in Greek Life through a process called “socialing” or “going social.”

This process happens during the nontraditional rush time on campus, and girls can only go social after their freshman year. Typically, one would receive a social bid because she’s made friends with members of a group or was only interested in one sorority, according to former social and current member of Sigma Delta Phi Jules Wooldridge. Other girls go social and then decide to formally rush later.

“Socialing is a good alter-

native to formally rushing because sometimes you know which sorority you want to join before the process begins,” Wooldridge said.

“I decided to social instead of rush because I knew most of the girls already since I got to know them better outside of the rush process, and I knew that was the group I wanted to be a part of,” Alpha Beta Tau social Angela Kerchner said.

Rushing is also time-consuming and makes going social much more appealing to busy students.

“I wanted to be a social because I knew I wanted to be involved in Greek life but knew I did not have the time to rush again,” Phi Sigma Chi social Marissa Demeo said.

Although in some groups, socials can’t do everything that the actives do, it still opens up the opportunity for

close relationships amongst the group.

“I am not able to do everything the other girls can do, but I am able to be involved in lots of activities that are for the whole group. There are still people I am getting to know better, but I already feel like part of the family,” Kerchner said.

Some groups’ socials blend in so there is not much difference between the two roles.

“My membership in the group is just like anyone else’s,” Wooldridge said. “In the D’Phi’s, we have several girls who joined socially instead of joining formally.

There isn’t really a difference for us.”

“There are six other socials in the group currently and we are all in the same boat and treated just like actives,” Demeo said. “We are still expected to participate in ev-

erything the actives are and are still a part of all meetings and events on campus.”

Going social may look different than formal rush, but it allows female students to still be a part of Greek life and find their niche on campus.

“Within the group, I really appreciate having such a wonderful group of women to spend time with. They’re always there for me when I need them. We have each other’s backs,” Wooldridge explained. “I just really like my sisters and am proud to be able to call them that.”

“I love how there isn’t a lot of tension between the different groups and it isn’t a competition,” Kerchner said. “I am good friends with lots of girls that are in other Greek groups, and I think we are all part of a big community that shares common values.”

Fall bus trip offers insight on slavery Taylor Williams Contributing Writer

Slavery is not a thing of the past.

On Thursday, Oct. 18 Grove City College offered a bus trip to Cincinnati, Ohio to tour the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for the day.

The day started at 6:30 a.m. when the students departed for the museum.

Students were able to tour the museum, walk across a bridge into Kentucky and go on other adventures. The day ended with dinner at the Swamp Grill before heading back to campus.

Many students found the center insightful and educational. While the museum focused on the history of slavery, it also emphasized how slavery continues in the 21st century.

“The freedom center did a great job reminding visitors that slavery is not a thing of the past – there was an entire floor about the realities of human trafficking today.

It was hard to read, but encouraged visitors to take action like the heroes of the Underground Railroad,” senior Jayna Bates said.

Junior Courtney Mattey noted the detail of musem.

“The museum was really thorough and takes you from the slave trade to freedom. I think I learned the most at the modern-day slavery exhibit where they had lots of

JUSTIN JOSE

Students and faculty pose in front of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center last week. the Office of Multicultural Education hosted a trip to the museum over fall break. information about human trafficking and other forms of slavery, about how slavery is still a major problem today even though it takes different forms then what we may think,” Mattey said.

The bus trip also offers a time for students to spend time together off campus.

“What is great about the bus trip is that we have the opportunity to come together as a broader community to learn more about these important topics, often with other students with whom I am not normally learning with,” junior Jesse Belitz said. “It is a unique chance to gain this broader perspective with others who may think differently than you.”

Belitz has participated

in the bus trip the last two years. He joins a group of students who keep coming back to learn and foster community.

“Really, the people were the best part,” Mattey said.

“We got to explore the museum together, have dinner together, and a lot of us went on extra adventures like waking to Kentucky, going to Starbucks, and checking out an antique store next to the place where we had dinner.

It’s hard to pick a single moment out because the day is so full of different things.”

Many students on the trip said that they would encourage other students who are sticking around for fall break to attend the bus trip. Even though it is only for one day,

the trip offers a chance to travel at a small cost while learning more about diversity. “[The bus trip is] an awesome opportunity to explore a museum and learn new things, as well as meet other students, eat some really good food, and have some adventures. This was my third time going on the Fall Break Bus trip and it’s always been great,” Mattey said.

“The bus trip is an opportunity that caters to college students. It promises a full day of fun and learning at an affordable cost. Justin Jose [Director of Multicultural Education & Initiatives] does and excellent job organizing and ensures the trip will be worthwhile!” Bates said.

Grove City College musicians are gearing up for their annual Concerto Competition at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Arnold Recital Hall.

The competition will consist of nine instrumental pieces and two arias. Students both involved and not involved in the college’s orchestra will compete. The finalists of tonight’s competition will perform their pieces with the Grove City College Orchestra concert in February.

Senior Micah Mooney looks forward to tonight’s competition, having been preparing with his piece since 2017. He’ll be playing the first movement of Edward Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor.

“I’ve been playing piano for 17 years,” Mooney said. “I like the different ranges, and the fact that you can play so many more notes than you can on other instruments.”

As a piano player, Mooney said, it’s like you’re a “full orchestra.” “[I am nervous] because of the event’s formality and expectations,” Mooney said.

Junior Allison Smith, a violinist and another contestant in the anticipated event, has some nerves as well.

“When I was a kid, someone told me that the more you perform, the less nervous you’ll get.” Smith said this is a complete lie. “I think that, to some extent, you have to just accept that you’re nervous.”

Smith, a hard-working violinist since age five, will perform Antonin Dvorak’s Violin Concerto Finale: Allegro Giocso ma non Troppo. She looks forward to performing, but not for its own sake.

“If all I ever did was practice, I wouldn’t have to deal with the nerves of performing,” Smith said. “But I also wouldn’t have the joy of sharing the beautiful music God has given with those around me.”

Even the Dvorak piece, which she has been working on since mid-July, has instructed her to play with “excellence.”

“This piece is teaching me to play joyfully. You can’t play it properly and not be joyful,” Smith said.

Smith has loved being in the college’s orchestra, with its talented conductors and fellow musicians.

“It’s my favorite when I have rests and can listen to the rest of the orchestra play, or when we all reach a climax together. You can feel the energy. You kind of just have to experience it for yourself,” Smith said.

Both Smith and Mooney anticipate tonight’s event as a showcase of excellent musicianship.

“As a musician, we’re called to bless others through our music,” Smith noted.

“Because all the competitors are music majors and minors who have worked on very challenging repertoire, tonight is a night to hear the best music played by GCC students,” Mooney said.

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Battle of Broad St. Which coffee shop prevails?

Love and Lux Mea John Kalajian

David Zimmermann

Contributing Writer

Staff Writer

What does every great coffee shop have?

Is it defined by a friendly atmosphere? Is it the product that makes or breaks the experience for consumers? One can only hope that their local coffee shop has both, but that is not always the case.

Located in downtown Grove City, Beans on Broad and Collage Coffee and Art House are two local favorites that many students and professors frequent. Whether you want to get work done or just have that good cup of coffee, each spot has something for you.

Imagine walking into a coffee shop with brick walls and warm yellow lights. Full of variety, the menu has everything from coffees and lattes to muffins and sandwiches.

That is Beans on Broad.

According to junior Naomi Shrom-Kuc, Beans is “cozier” than Collage and has “a good volume of background noises, good music choices, friendly people, various seating options and a more secluded upstairs.”

Although Beans has more of a warm and cozy vibe going for it, it can’t make up for the fresh coffee that Collage has to offer.

“Collage roasts their beans at the store, and they’re doing it right. They have a roaster in the front window, and they’re usually doing something with it,” associate professor of communication studies Gregory Bandy said.

Some say that this coffee roaster makes the difference between going to Collage and going to Beans.

“I think Collage makes a wonderful latte, and life is very good when you have a Collage latte,” Bandy said.

While some might enjoy the social aspect of Beans, others prefer a quieter space.

“The environment at Collage is better to get work done while you have coffee.

Beans on Broad has a lot of

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Collage Coffee and Beans on Broad are the preeminent coffee houses in Grove City, with competing menus, environments, and fan bases. people in there, and there is a lot of noise depending on what time you go,” junior Ethan Harvey said.

“I like the modern approach, and I think it appeals to the younger crowd,” freshman Luke DiPofi said.

While Beans may have more variety in their menu, some find it overwhelming.

“If you don’t know what you want walking into Beans, it’s a lot harder to figure out what to get,” Harvey said.

“Whereas, if you walk into Collage and don’t know what you want, it’s a lot easier, and the menu is more laid out for what the options are.”

Shrom-Kuc offers advice for dealing with this issue.

“Going online before you go into the store and talking to the workers about the menu and what they suggest both help,” she said.

Despite the variety, Collage has one fan-favorite product that Beans does not

serve: kombucha.

“There are not a lot of places that will sell their homegrown kombucha. So, to find a place down the road from the College where you can go and try a glass of kombucha is pretty sweet,” Harvey said.

Besides serving their signature coffees, both Collage and Beans act as important staples in the Grove City community.

“Apart from the daily grind with our customers and our collective ups and downs, Collage engages its community by hosting and sponsoring events like fundraisers and live music as well as hosting art and coffee classes,” co-owner of Collage Joe Funte said.

Collage also offers local artists the chance to sell their work to consumers.

Although live music is an aspect of both coffee shops, Beans allows people to rent space as a venue for different

community events such as bridal showers, baby showers and graduation parties, to name a few.

“We have our ‘spread the love’ board, which everyone who comes into our shop comments on. It’s so nice to see all the names on there, and the concept is to pay it forward to someone. This gives people a nice boost in their day who pay for someone else to have their name on the board,” co-owner of Beans on Broad Wendy Best said.

Even though Beans and Collage are different coffee shops, they are different for a reason — to promote variety.

Each consumer is different, but the reason for finding the right coffee shop can be boiled down into one statement.

“I think we’re all looking for the third place, the place between the home and the business,” Bandy said.

Grove City College’s annual Intercollegiate Colloquium on the Liberal Arts was held the weekend of Oct. 12.

Organized by associate professor of history Dr. Andrew Mitchell in conjunction with Lux Mea, the event sought to bring together students from various colleges to discuss important topics related to Western civilization.

“We had a decent turnout this year,” Lux Mea President Micah Warren said.

Approximately 38 students came from Waynesburg University, Messiah College and Eastern University for the event. Visiting students were housed in the dormitories of Lux Mea members.

The event, which focused on the theme of “The Pursuit of Love in an Age of Distractions” included several discussion sessions led by professors from Grove City College and visiting colleges, as well as a keynote lecture

by Dr. W. Jason Wallace from Samford University in Birmingham, AL. “In his lecture, Dr. Wallace took a broad survey of Western civilization discussed the theme restlessness, discontentment and distraction across the ages,” Warren said.

In preparation for the event, students were expected to familiarize themselves with a reader compiled by Dr. Mitchell that included Bible passages, writings from Church Fathers such as John Chrysostom and Augustine of Hippo, poetry, prose and some artwork that pertained to the themes of distraction, discontentment and restlessness.

“This event gives students a chance to think about and discuss the humanities without having the pressure of a grade attached to it,” Warren said.

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Perspectives Editor ACROSS 1. Nickname for a Pixar monster, see 69 across 6. A Berenstein, for one 10. Bruce Wayne’s buddies 14. La bohème, for one

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16. Not a little 17. Of haunches or hands, fatless 18. Pretentious soon

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20. Superlative suffixes 21. Striped stinker

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23. A breach of grammar or etiquette 26. Seuss’ ___ on Pop

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6. You ride them to slow down

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10. Canaanite deity

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Through the lens,

Oct. 25, 2019

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Tearin’ up the turf Photos by Wes Kinney and Mikayla Gainor

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The men’s soccer team has had a tumultuous season. With renovations on the soccer field taking longer than expected, the Wolverines spent the first month and a half entirely on the road. But when the sparkling new Don E. Lyle Field opened in October, the men took full advantage. They swept their two home games, scoring six goals and giving up just one. The timing is perfect: the field reopened just as Presidents’ Athletic Conference play heated up. The men now look to ride their home win streak to another successful finish in the PACs.

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Letter to the Editor Recently there has been some discussion amongst the faculty and students concerning the HUMA 200 textbook, “A Concise Survey of Western Civilization” by Brian A. Pavlac.

This text is controversial in some respects because of the author’s view on economics and Christianity. Pavlac makes several factually incorrect historical statements, which is admitted by some of the professors, as cited in the original newspaper article.

The question the campus is attempting to address is why does the college use this textbook if it seems misrepresentative of the college’s values?

This book should provide a solid historical framework for events and primary sources that the professors discuss in class.

Rather than presenting history as is, Pavlac inserts many of his views and thoughts on history even if they are factually incorrect. For example, “Prior to 1400, the usual position of the church had been that witches did not exist… any supposed magic spells were meaningless deceptions” (p. 198). Clearly the church did know and believe in magic as it is taught in the Bible. The church did not just suddenly change its position on magic after the 1400s.

Another example, based more specifically on the issue of college values, follows as such: “Since economies require stability, he instituted government controls on wages and prices… Diocletian’s policies show that sometimes the solution is more government, not less” (p.

97). Austrian economics, which the college proports, has proven this wrong. A careful look in history has shown that more laws lead to more violations of human rights and, ultimately, the downfall of a nation.

Less economic freedom due to more legal regulation is shown to lead to an overall decrease in average wealth, and an increase in the distance between the rich and the poor.

It is not an issue that the college uses a textbook that is in error if professors are willing to discuss those flaws in class. Majors, such as economics, political science and sociology use factually incorrect authors like Karl Marx as part of their curriculum.

However, these professors are willing to critically engage with the author’s flaws in classrooms, allowing the students to come to their own viewpoints. Unless professors begin doing this in HUMA 200, then the college needs to look at other textbooks. If the professors want the book to speak for itself without criticism in classroom time, then it needs to get its facts straight.

Josh Ayers ’22 Wesley Gaines ’22 Rebekah Ayers ’22

A Christian Halloween

Allhallowtide ‘tis the season to remember John Kalajian

Contributing Writer Bright leaves, cooler mornings, pumpkins and endless hours studying for midterms probably come to the mind of the average Grover when thinking of fall.

There is, however, an ageold tradition associated with the autumn season that still holds significance for some Christians — the triduum of Allhallowtide.

Many of us are familiar with Halloween. Children dress up in costumes to receive candy from neighbors and legends of ghosts, witches and goblins are shared over hot apple cider. But many people do not know that Halloween is part of an ancient three-day Christian celebration – called a triduum – of the faithful of years gone by.

As early as the fourth century A.D., Christians honored all martyrs of the faith on a single feast day. This celebration was later extended to include all saints — souls in heaven who form the “great cloud of witnesses” (Heb. 12:1). The day of celebration, Nov. 1, became known as the “Feast of All Saints” or “All Saints’ Day.” The day following All Saints’ Day, Nov. 2, was a day set aside to remember all the departed faithful and was known as “All Souls’ Day.” Because All Saints’ Day is a principal feast, the liturgical celebration begins the evening before, just as Christmas celebrations begin on Christmas Eve. It was in medieval England that many American Halloween traditions originated. In England, those in heaven are called “hallowed” and the evening is often called “e’en,” and Oct. 31 became known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” which was shortened to “Hallowe’en.”

On All Hallows’ Eve, children and peasants began to go from door to door beg-

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ging for small, sweetly spiced cakes marked with a cross known as “soul cakes.” In exchange for soul cakes, the beggars would pray for the souls of the faithful departed of the provider. Some people would even dress up as saints such as Peter and Paul to honor their legacy. This tradition is, of course, the origin of trick-or-treating.

All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) was considered a Solemnity, or a high day of celebration on par with Christmas and Easter.

Families attended church on All Saints’ Day to give thanks for the example and lives of the saints that positively impacted Christianity, honor their legacy and to remember that the eventual prize of following Christ is joining the Communion of Saints in heaven to glorify God for eternity. Other traditions of All Saints’ Day included visiting the graves of deceased relatives and friends, praying for them and lighting candles to place on their graves.

All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2), while not a Solemnity, was a Commemoration, in which Christians remembered all the faithful departed at once and prayers were offered to God to grant their souls eter-

nal rest. Christians visited the graves of relatives and friends on All Souls’ Day as well as All Saints’ Day to pray for their souls to God and performed almsgiving and acts of service on this day.

The days of Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 form a triduum celebrating all the faithful of the Church known as Allhallowtide.

Remembering our past helps us understand who we are today and can help move us forward. As Americans, we remember those who have helped to shape our country such as George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and Susan B. Anthony. How much more should we, as Christians, remember those Christians who have gone before us into the heavenly kingdom? They walked on earth with all of life’s struggles just as we do, died in God’s grace and now take their rest in perfect communion with God. This is a model to be followed.

While they were sinners like us, they fought the hard fight with Christ as their sword and shield and won.

As Christians, we should honor these warriors for their faith and their contri-

butions to Christianity, and we should continually offer our prayers to God for departed souls, asking God to grant them eternal rest in his arms. This is the purpose of Allhallowtide. Unfortunately, this triduum celebration has largely fallen out of practice in favor of the secular Halloween we know today. It is time to reclaim Halloween and the rest of Allhallowtide as a Christian celebration and restore it to its proper place as the sacred time for remembering Christians of the past.

Christianity is not the religion of the dead. It is the religion of the living. The bodies of the saints may know decay, but their spirits are not subject to death. Instead, they live with God in heaven, enjoying the company of Him who was their fortress, and honored His covenant with His faithful. All Christians should celebrate the triduum of Allhallowtide, because it reminds us of our mortality and that we are not alone in our walk of faith. Thousands of Christians have gone before us, and at the end of the walk, there is victory in Jesus, and the company of all those who trusted in Him.

Stanford could learn something from us Lauren Ness

Contributing Writer Stanford University revised their policies regarding students’ mental health crises – a move that, for many, was long overdue.

The class action lawsuit brought against the school was a wake-up call to Stanford, forcing them to reevaluate their response to those expressing concern about their mental state.

Students testified that administration’s go-to solution was an involuntary leave of absence from school, regularly failing to take into consideration the circumstances of the crisis. They describe coercion to hospitalize, false accusations of causing harm and the feeling that they were a liability to the school.

To take effect on Jan. 4, Stanford’s revisions consider an involuntary leave of ab-

sence as the last resort. The students are given a stronger voice, more options for treatment and more flexible housing accommodations.

The new policies are “a model of student-centered, compassionate, detailed and transparent practices,” Alexander Kafka, senior editor of “The Chronicle for Higher Education,” wrote.

With the rise of societal pressures, strenuous academics, social media and the expected stressors of life, it is no wonder that the emotional and mental well-being of college students is under fire. Thankfully, awareness of mental health disorders has increased, and the stigma of their reality is beginning to decrease. That does not, however, negate the apparent lack of proper and appropriate treatment that still exists.

Stanford took this opportunity to challenge other colleges to reexamine their policies and procedures. Let’s

take a look, then, at Grove City College’s approach to their students’ mental health.

According to the current edition of the Crimson, in the event of a psychological emergency, the individual is instructed to call Campus Safety, who will then contact the counseling center and proceed to evaluate the situation. From this first step, the involvement of professional counselors demonstrates the college’s desire to respond in the best and most appropriate way possible.

Grove City also provides a fully staffed Counseling Center available for any and all students. This accommodation supports their “commitment to nurturing the mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health of all students,” as stated on their website. Where an average individual counseling session costs between $60-120, the Counseling Center offers unlimited sessions for no charge.

In comparison to Stanford University’s only recent changes to their policy, Grove City College stands out in its well-established, accessible and approachable resources for students.

Grove’s example is, unfortunately, not yet a common standard nationwide. There are two main responses to this reality: first, a sense of appreciation for Grove City’s initiative and intentional care for its students. Second, the reminder that while there is significant progress in understanding and seeking to improve mental health, there is still more to be done.

How can we, as followers of Christ, model His call to love and care for those around us? May the events surrounding Stanford University encourage us to be aware of this growing need for support and attention. surrounding Stanford University encourage us to be aware of this growing need for support and attention.

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The NBA abandons Hong Kong Yen > liberty?

Erin McLaughlin Contributing Writer

Remember when basketball and sports analysis didn’t include endorsements of communist dictatorships?

Those were the days.

Recently, the NBA showed deference to China and exposed its own cowardice and greed when it denounced the general manager of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, for tweeting a defense of the freedom fighters in Hong Kong who decried the outrageous Chinese extradition laws. These laws would expedite criminal trials to the Chinese mainland, laying Hong Kong residents before the mercy of the communist Chinese government.

“Fight for freedom. Stand with Taiwan,” Morey tweeted.

Initially, the NBA could only characterize his tweets as offensive and “regrettable.” Lebron “woke” James similarly disowned Morey.

In a recent statement, the NBA’s chief propagandist – I mean communications officer – Mike Bass stated: “We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.”

On a somewhat related note, Morey has since deleted his tweet.

After domestic backlash over the NBA’s initial response to the tweet, however, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver attempted to backtrack and say nice things about Morey and American

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continued from 1 they start their career strong, Nichols explained.

Study.com said that the Education Career Services Office “assists students in their journey to finding their dream career,” but Nichols added that students are “not settling; they are getting the jobs they really want.”

The Office also provides continuing support to alumni for their entire careers, but Nichols hopes the department can expand to offer more opportunities to help students “grow professionally” beyond their undergraduate studies.

While Nichols values all the qualities Study.com looked at, she specified that “the program’s most valuable resources are people: our faculty, staff, students and educational partners.” The Education Department’s faculty are all educators: former superintendents, principals and supervisors from different school demographics.

“The professors are all truly passionate about education and developing teachers and all have experience in the field,” Junior Carli Gehman,

values.

It’s all about the money.

Unsurprisingly, the NBA and China are tied at the hip, bound by billions of dollars in assets. NBA China alone is worth an estimated $5 billion dollars.

Multiple Chinese government officials fired back against Morey’s tweet. China reacted by cutting the number of NBA games it airs and allegedly calling for Morey’s termination.

Chinese Central Television opposed “…Morey’s right to freedom of expression. We believe that any remarks that challenge national sovereignty and social stability are not within the scope of freedom of speech.”

The NBA is bleeding. “The financial consequences have been and may continue to be fairly dramatic,” Silver commented.

Additionally, ESPN supposedly released a memo to some of its employees, imploring them to keep quiet about the Morey tweet. Unfortunately – but yet again, unsurprisingly – ESPN toes the same line as the NBA. (Follow the money!)

Nonetheless, this fits the pattern of ESPN’s humble submission to Chinese politics.

Recently, smugly placed in the middle of the big screen on the ESPN “Sportscenter” morning show was a map depicting China and 10 small yellow dashes looping around the South China Sea and the adjacent nation of Taiwan, not-so-subtly legitimizing China’s rule over both the internationally contested areas.

Seriously?

This is propaganda. As The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saa-

vedra pointedly reported, such maps only exist inside of communist China.

The Chinese government has actively and aggressively positioned troops in the said outlined territories. Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, notes that China’s current posture is indicative of future aims to take the region and expand.

Similarly, control over the South China Sea is no small potatoes. A handful of nations, such as a Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia all contest China’s claims on the South China Sea. An estimated third of interna-

tional shipping is facilitated through those waters, with trillions of dollars in assets at stake. It’s the lifeblood of China’s economy. Likewise, the international community relies on safe passage there and freedom from communist restrictions.

ESPN’s intent is plain.

They would have had to make a concerted effort to avoid standard maps of China and pick this one. This is not the result of the typical one-anddone intern monkey Google search – someone had to search the map out. (A simple scroll of the Google Images results of “map of china” will prove my point.)

Like the NBA, ESPN is shamefully kowtowing to the needs of and bending over backwards to defer to the sensitivities of communist China.

So go the dealings of conceited companies who submit to the grumblings of their pocketbook. ESPN and the NBA know how bad China is, yet they see fit to agree to China’s expanding control across key international waters and over nations cowering in the shadow of communism. What ESPN and the NBA are marketing is egregiously un-American and a big, blotchy stain on their reputation.

an Elementary and Special Education major, said.

“A lot of the things that stick with me the most are stories from my education professors about scenarios they have been in with students and parents,” Junior Elementary and Special Education major Elizabeth Manuel said. “It is very unique how well the profs equip us as future educators for all scenarios because they themselves have dealt with it all.”

“We laugh in this department. You’ve got to bring the laughter, the joy,” Nichols said in the College’s Early Education Center (EEC), which is “open and available to a wide range of families” in the Grove City area. The EEC is one of the many ways students practically learn how to teach. Twenty-three of the 28 courses in the Elementary Education major include a hands-on teaching component. Student experiences “start small and spiral up and out,” Nichols described.

“Every time I am in a field placement, I learn more about classroom management and other strategies that are hard to learn about by just receiving a lecture on the topic,” Manuel said. “Ev-

ery child is unique and the way they act and respond in the classroom is individualized. Having the chance to work through hypotheticals in the classroom is preparing us better than a 10-page paper on a case study ever could.”

Despite its achievements, the Elementary Education program is not perfect. According to Nichols, the department could offer more assistance to freshmen navigating the change from high school to college. She said the department is considering adding a one credit course to cover the Education Department’s aspirations for students, as well as pragmatic tips for success in rigorous courses.

“Education has a problem with diversity of the teaching force,” Nichols said. She hopes that the department helps “high schoolers from all backgrounds recognize their gifts” and consider becoming teachers.

“The greatest measure of our department is not upon the things we see; it’s upon the work our students do after they graduate,” Nichols said. “I will celebrate this department any chance I get.”

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capacity to most influence culture,” he said. “With cinema, you can change people’s minds and hearts because you have their undivided attention for 90 minutes, and neither your professor nor your preacher gets that.”

Although “Shooting Heroin” is not strictly speaking a Christian film, Folmar did not ignore elements of faith when making it.

“Every movie I do is an experiment with integrating faith into my films,” he said.

“I didn’t want to make faithbased films because I felt like they do more damage than good. Yet, I still want to somehow talk about objective truth, which can only be found in the gospel and Scripture.”

Folmar hopes that the audience “feel a personal responsibility to help their neighbor” after the film.

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continued from 1 the opioid epidemic. In fact, I’ve lost multiple classmates from my high school,” Folmar said. “So, I felt a need to respond to this injustice in my hometown and in the heartland of America.”

Folmar hopes to bring exposure to this issue.

“I just don’t think people are talking about it enough,” he said.

With over 13 years of filmmaking under his belt, Folmar reflects on how important narrative film is to him and how he hopes “Shooting Heroin” will change the conversation.

“I believe in the power of fictional storytelling just like Jesus taught his disciples with parables. I think that cinema, especially a fictional narrative story, has the

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continued from 1 this is “not another checklist item.”

“We want Kingdom week to inform how we as Christians think about the multicultural kingdom of God, whether that’s at home or abroad,” Zachary Pitcher ’17,

chapel ministries coordinator, said.

Tricarico expounded upon the importance of such an event, saying, “When you’re on a Christian campus, sometimes it can be ‘too easy’ to be a Christian. You kind of just get caught up in things and you don’t really think about your faith as much.”

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“Joker,” a new film starring Joaquin Phoenix in a tour-de-force performance, presents a gritty, disturbing take on one of pop culture’s most iconic villans.

No joking about it ‘Joker’ poses tough questions

David Smith Film Critic

“Joker,” written and directed by Todd Phillips, is a menacing film that possesses more questions than answers: that may be what is making this nuanced film so popular.

A standout performance

by Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, also known as Joker, is another reason.

In the film, Arthur Fleck is a man who suffers from an abnormal form of mental illness that causes him to break out into random bouts of

laughter. That, of course, is ironic, considering his dream to become a stand-up comedian.

We discover throughout the film that Arthur has not had an easy life: it has been complicated and troublesome. There are parts that may seem laughable, but it is simply a reflection of a man’s descent into madness.

And although his reasoning and acts may seem justified, they are simply Arthur’s coping mechanism towards a society that has belittled and shunned him.

The beauty of Phillips’

vision in “Joker” is that it paints a world of injustice, challenging the viewer to question how another human being should be treated.

Every person that Arthur targets deserves their punishment. However, we know that the final outcome of Arthur’s madness is the vigilant work of Batman, which aims to correct the wrong done by someone who was wronged.

Still, an interesting matter is the legitimacy of Arthur’s actions and delusions. It is difficult to believe Arthur, since he is our unreliable main character. Is the joke on us

all? Is the Joker facade just a way for Arthur to mask all his pain and nothing else? That may be so.

This insinuation enhances the film’s commentary on mental illness and injustice.

Regardless, “Joker” is an entertaining film that will be discussed for years to come.

The fact that “Joker” has grossed well over $500 million against a budget of approximately $60 million is an impressive feat all on its own, especially considering it is an R-rated film.

Phillips is not new to such extreme success. His “Hang-

over” films performed unfathomably well in the box office despite having a restricted rating. Perhaps the financial success of “Joker” is a good thing.

It is unlike any recent superhero film: it has something earnest and honest to say. The fact that not all critics agree with the film may also be a good thing.

Korey Coleman of Double Toasted writes, “This was brilliantly-crafted cinema.

The story falls in place naturally, with great performances all around to deliver that story, and gorgeous visuals.”

Eyes on the prize

Katheryn Frazier Staff Writer

“The Politician,” a Netflix original series, centers around Saint Sebastian high school senior, Payton Hobart, whose sole aspiration in life is to become president of the United States.

Hobart has meticulously analyzed the most valuable qualities correlated with past American presidents, knowing since childhood that his destiny would lead to the presidency. His next steps include high school presidency and acceptance into Harvard University at all costs. This mindset leads his character to display the traits of both protagonist and antagonist.

Hobart is played by Tonywinning singer and actor Ben Platt, known for his starring role in “Dear Evan Hansen.”

Gwyneth Paltrow (playing Hobart’s mother) and Zoey Deutch (playing Hobert’s running candidate) are other featured cast members. Netflix has confirmed that each season of “The Politician”

is supposed to take place at critical steps of Hobart’s accession to the presidential candidacy, with a second season already confirmed.

Wes Anderson comes to mind after viewing Netflix’s new series, as larger than life characters and symmetrical shots are some of the show’s most notable components at first glance. The primary themes convey the duplicity of a fake image and real self making the dialogue compelling, especially in the context of high school. These themes are largely explored through shocking revelations and a selection of sincere scenes.

However, potential viewers should be cautioned that the relationships are severely melodramatic and complicated.

Successful screenwriter, director and producer Ryan Murphy is primarily affirmed as program creator for “The Politician.” He is notable for his contribution to “Glee” and “American Horror Story.” Fans of his work will undoubtedly be able to see

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Ben Platt stars as Payton Hobart in the new Netflix original series “The Politician.” The series centers around Hobart, who seeks to win his high school’s presidency. his influence in the Netflix original. Murphy agreed to a five-year deal worth $300 million with Netflix. His next production is reported to star Darren Criss in a series titled “Hollywood.” Similarly, Netflix made a multi-million-dollar deal with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of “Game of Thrones,” to cre-

ate content that would be able to compete with streaming competitors. At the moment, Netflix’s subscriber count has allegedly dropped; the emergence of Disney Plus viewership makes the matter even more critical for the company.

Although “The Politician” received good online antici-

pation before premiering, many critics said that it did not live up to the hype, resulting in a 59 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. “The Politician” is an acquired taste, however, it conveys a very unique world that some viewers will delight in and others will decline.

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Sports at a Glance News Men’s Soccer Over the last four games, the Wolverines earned two wins against Geneva (2-0) and Chatham (4-1). The men’s team is undefeated at home on the new Don Lyle Field.

Cross Country The men’s and women’s teams took 9th and 5th respectively at the Gettysburg Invitational. Sophomore Jeffery Eide led the men’s team taking 42nd overall. Senior Heidi Hoffman led the women’s team placing seventh.

Junior midfielder Michaela Burke shoots the ball during Saturday’s game against Chatham. Burke scored a hat trick in the double overtime victory.

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Snatching victory Women grab dramatic 2 OT win

Joanna Thorpe Copy Editor

The women’s soccer team secured a last-grasp 3-2 victory in double overtime against Chatham Saturday at Don Lyle Field.

The victory marked a 14game win streak for the Wolverines over the Cougars and bumped Grove City to second place in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, behind Westminster.

Junior midfielder Michaela Burke led the Wolverines to victory with a hat trick of crucial goals.

“We have learned that no matter how tough the situation seems or even how hopeless, the game is not over until the final second is gone,” Burke said. “There were a lot of unexpected injuries and changes that had to be made even before the game started but throughout it all the team kept it together and showed what it meant to be resilient throughout the entire game, and even with how to trust God with things that are out of our control.”

The Wolverines dominated first half possession with their consistent strong play and fluid movement. Burke

registered Grove City’s first goal at the half-hour mark, putting away a corner kick from senior defender Colleen Zilka. The solid backline, led by sophomore defender Tirzah Lloyd, kept the home goal clear through the first half, allowing persistent offensive pressure on the Cougars’ side of the field.

Taking advantage of Grove City’s slower movement in the second half, Chatham released an early onslaught to take the lead. The Cougars grabbed two goals at the 63:27 minute mark and the 66:51 minute mark from a free kick and from a shot in the box, respectively. The Wolverines played with finesse, but their lack of field dominance made the second half an up-hill battle.

Finding heart in the final stretch of the game, Grove City’s consistent offensive strength resulted in a gametying goal by Burke with a little over three minutes remaining in regulation play.

Despite aggressive competition from both sides, the game ended in a 2-2 draw, followed by two 10-minute overtime periods.

Both teams put up a fight in the first overtime period,

but the Wolverines proved to be the more formidable competitor, posting four shots and a corner kick to the Cougars’ one shot. The second overtime period saw the same relentless aggression as the first, with Grove City’s four shots and one corner to Chatham’s one corner. The fourth and final shot followed a long punt from junior goalkeeper Columbia Harkrader.

Freshman forward Hailey Weinert guided the wellplaced punt to Burke, who struck the game-winner into the back of the net with only 29 seconds left in the game. The small, enthusiastic crowd rose suddenly to their feet as the team rushed the field in celebration of the 7-6-2 (4-1 PAC) record they have earned.

Harkrader dependably guarded the goal, making four vital saves to Chatham’s nine. The Wolverines held a 2 to 1 edge over their opponents throughout the game, taking 12 shots on goal and seven corners to the Cougars’ six shots on goal and three corner kicks.

The Wolverines will be back in action with a matchup against Bethany at 1 p.m. tomorrow on Don Lyle Field.

Golf The men’s and women’s teams took fourth place at their respective championship meets. Junior Jacob McConnell led the men’s team with a 36-hole score of 160. Sophomore Kaylee Grieb led the women’s team carding a 199.

Women’s Tennis Grove City dominated Waynesburg 9-0 in playoff action. The Wolverines, now with a 9-1 record, advance to the PAC semifinals to meet their challenger today at 1 p.m.

Results Football (2-2) W, Carnegie Mellon (29-26) W, Westminster (43-41) W, Waynesburg (42-24) Volleyball (16-7) W, Chatham (3-0) W, Waynesburg (3-1) W, Pitt-Greensburg (3-0) L, Thiel (3-2) L, Saint Vincent (3-0) W, Washington & Jefferson (3-2) L, Geneva (3-1) Women’s Tennis (9-1) W, Bethany (8-0) W, Waynesburg (9-0) W, Saint Vincent (9-0) W, Westminster (5-4) W, Waynesburg (9-0) Men’s Golf 4th/7 President’s Athletic Conference Championships Women’s Golf 4th/8 President’s Athletic Conference Championships Men’s Swimming & Diving 1st/5 – 851 Women’s Swimming & Diving 3rd/5 -- 681 Men’s Soccer (5-7-2) D, Waynesburg (2-2) W, Geneva (2-0) L, Westminster (4-0) W, Chatham (4-1) Women’s Soccer (7-6-2) W, Waynesburg (1-0) L, Hiram (1-0) W, Geneva (2-0) L, Westminster (2-0) W, Chatham (3-2)

Swinging for success Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

Bryce Harper who?

The Washington Nationals are making history this season holding their own against the 2017 champs from Houston on the World Series platform.

Including the Montreal Expos era, the Washington Nationals have yet to win the pennant and hold up the famed Commissioner’s trophy making this playoff run for Nats fans all the more special. Getting past the Brewers in the Wild Card was all the Nationals needed to start their path to the World Series.

The Nationals have faired well since the departure of their superstar Bryce Harper, who left Washington for a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. 20-year old left fielder Juan Soto has proved himself worthy to fill the shoes of the Mr. Harper.

Soto was the man of the hour in Game 1 as he sent one over the fence becoming

the second youngest player to hit a homerun in his first World Series. The Nationals were a fringe top ten team at the beginning of the season but have showed up when it matters most.

The Houston Astros have had a small dynasty of success taking the AL West titles for three years straight including this season’s run.

Six-time all star Jose Altuve has greatly contributed to the Astros offensive force.

The 29-year old Venezuelan second baseman leads the Astros batting average with .333 for the postseason as of Game 1. The Astros also boast the dynamic pitching duo of Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole who are sure to keep batters on their toes.

At the beginning of the season if someone said that the World Series was going to feature the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals, that would not be an entirely outlandish prediction. Saying that the defending champions from Boston would fail to make the playoffs would raise some eyebrows even from baseball fans outside of New England. Essentially the

same-look Red Sox roster that won it all last year underperformed this season to say the least. The Astros who were ranked in the second to third range in projections just behind Boston, have stayed true to their elite prediction now at the championship-level.

Many have projected that the Astros will ultimately win it all this Series. It would be a safe bet to do so, but the Nationals thus far have given ‘Stros a run for their money on the big stage and will not go down easy. This Washington team has not yet seen the World Series and their inexperience may show in the long run. Houston, however, has over a dozen of their 2017 championship seasoned players on their current 40-man which is a clear advantage in the experience department. The Nats yet have the highest average in age for the league at 30.1 years. The ‘Stros are not far behind in that statistic at 29.8. Which team will have the endurance through the potential seven-game series?

Men’s Cross Country 9th/30 – 297 Women’s Cross Country 5th/33 -- 170

Upcoming Women’s Soccer Oct. 26 vs. Bethany (Senior Day) Volleyball Oct. 26 vs. Waynesburg (Senior Day) Men’s Soccer Oct. 26 vs. Bethany Swimming & Diving Oct. 26 @ Allegheny

WOLVERINE WEEKLY HONORS

Michaela Burke Junior Midfielder PAC Offensive Player of the Week

Wes Schools Senior Running Back PAC Offensive Player of the Week D3 Football Team of the Week

Morgan Happe Junior PAC Player of the Week

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Victory never sleeps

Volleyball shoots for top finish in PACs Emily Rupczewski Contributing Writer

Grove City extends winning streak heading into bye week Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

The Wolverines football team hold a three-game win streak as they head into their bye week with wins against Carnegie Mellon, Westminster and Waynesburg bringing their record 5-2 overall.

The homecoming crowd witnessed a nail-biting thriller against Carnegie Mellon Saturday, October 5 where Grove City took home the win in double overtime 29-26.

Sophomore quarterback Josh Ehst gave the Wolverines the edge with his one-yard sneak into the end zone to secure the exhilarating victory.

Senior running back Wes Schools rushed a game total of 180 yards and found the end zone in the fourth quarter.

Junior wide receivers Cameron Drake and Cody Gustafson connected with Ehst for a combined 11 catches and 216 yards. Drake recorded a touchdown in the third quarter.

Grove City’s defense made big plays down the stretch including sophomore

tackle Jared Krout blocking a Carnegie Mellon extra point attempt.

Junior free safety Patrick Mark and sophomore defensive end Ryan Appleby each recorded a sack on Carnegie Mellon’s quarterback.

Mark and sophomore Nik Grabiec each snagged passes from CMU’s quarterback recording an interception each.

Another miracle win at Memorial Field saw Ehst rush yet another quarterback sneak into the endzone sealing the Grove City triumph over conference rival Westminster in a high-scoring 4341 game.

Ehst threw for 265 passing yards against Westminster connecting with Drake for a touchdown in the second.

Gustafson collected 211 receiving yards.

Schools led Grove City’s rushing game with four rushing touchdowns and 196 rushing yards.

Senior linebacker Luke Salerno applied defensive pressure to Westminster’s offensive game recording a sack.

Senior cornerback Jacob Ross and freshman linebacker Curtis Freyermuth each recorded interceptions in defen-

sive play.

Grove City continued on their win grind with a commanding victory against Waynesburg 42-24 with a quality performance by Schools with five touchdowns and 324 rushing yards.

Grove City’s running backs delivered on offense against Waynesburg.

On top of Schools’ five touchdowns, sophomore running back Zach Trusky was able to find the end zone for Grove City in the fourth.

Grove City gets the weekend away from the gridiron for now with their bye week.

The Wolverines will be back in action next Saturday against Saint Vincent and will look to build on their threegame win streak. Grove City will play at the Bearcats at 1 p.m. Nov. 2

The Grove City swim team kicked off its season with a successful home meet, the annual Grove City Fall Classic.

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Diving into a new season

Connor Schlosser Sports Editor

It’s full speed ahead for the men’s and women’s swimming teams as they kicked off the season with 1st and 3rd finished respectively at the Grove City Fall Classic.

Sophomore Luke Mason led Grove City in events won earning first in 200 free, 200 breaststroke, and the 200 individual medley. Junior Michael Moosa earned the other win for the Wolverines with the 100 backstroke.

Senior Anne Shirley Dassow won the 200 butterfly and freshman Sydney Laughlin won the 400 individual medley in her debut for the women’s team.

The Fall Classic, a dual meet, is an opportunity to “see strengths, measure progress, identify weaknesses, and look for ways to improve,” head coach Dave Fritz said. The first of the season

The men’s team found success taking home the PAC title in the championships last season. The women’s team finished second in the PAC championships last year, losing a ten-league title streak over the last ten seasons.

With these results in mind, including the shortcomings, the Wolverines’ process of preparation and transition remains unaffected. “(Last year) the women put more pressure on themselves about winning that championship,” explained Fritz. “They were focused on the outcome and not the process. In some ways (the win streak) became a bit of a distraction.”

With the pressure of maintaining a historic win-streak now out of mind for the women’s team, it has allowed them to grow and focus on improvement.

“I think the team now is much more focused on the process- which is absolutely

an improvement,” said Fritz.

Not only do the swim and dive teams have a fresh mindset entering the season, positive adjustments in coaching and leadership are also boosting team culture. A new full-time assistant coach for swimming, Stefani Wendelschaefer, joins Fritz and the coaching staff for her first season with Grove City.

With the shift from FitWell to Healthful Living, coaches across athletics also now have more time to focus on their respective programs.

“The biggest difference is that we are able to put a lot more time into recruiting than we ever have,” said Fritz. “I think we will see long term benefits. We are getting a lot more positive responses from and more consistent communication from recruits where we now have the opportunity to follow up and respond.”

Not only has this additional time granted coaches

and swimmers opportunities to recruit, but to develop the current team culture as well with “leadership groups.” A leadership plan a little different from team captains, Fritz hopes to spread the team’s vision and improve the overall culture of the squad.

“With captains it’s more one-way communication, whereas the leadership group is actively trying to develop next year’s leaders and identifying strengths of the team,” explained Fritz. “With the eleven people in the leadership group now, we are already seeing that some of the juniors and sophomores are accepting a more active role in leadership with the team.”

Through consistent teambuilding activities and the leadership group dynamic with a focus on the athletes helping each other grow, the swim and dive teams hope to collectively work with each other as they enter another season in the pool.

In their last 8 games, the volleyball team has gone 6-2 and is currently in 5th place in the PAC standings.

The PAC will extend playoff bids to the top 6 teams in the conference, and Grove City is looking to continue to play on through November In the last two weeks, Grove City has swept Chatham and Boris Pitt-Greensburg in three sets, gained victories over Waynesburg and WashKeating ington and Jefferson, and narrowly lost two matches to Thiel and Saint Vincent.

Sems Offensively, the Wolverines have been led by outside hitters freshman Faith Keating and junior Elisabeth Sems flanking senior middle hitter Maria Boris.

Keating has earned PAC Rookie of the Week three times so far this season and claimed ECAC’s rookie of the month for September.

Currently, Keating also has recorded over 200 kills in this season alone.

Sems ranks second in the PAC in service aces, totaling over 30 so far this season.

She also holds a high ranking in kills, with over 200.

Boris holds a top rank in both hitting percentage and blocks with over 50 blocks.

As a team, the Wolverines lead the PAC in kills totaling over a 1000.

Sophomore Cassidy Kohmann has recorded over 550 assists and is one of the PAC leaders in assists.

As a team, Grove City leads the PAC in assists, totaling just under 1000 assists.

Defensively, senior defensive specialist and libero Katie McClymonds reached her 1000th-career dig against Pitt-Greensburg on October 11. McClymonds now has over 300 digs on the season.

The Wolverines will face Waynesburg at home tomorrow at 1 p.m. as they honor seniors Emma Hartshorn, Monica Fitzgerald, Katie McClymonds and Boris on Senior Day. Earlier this season, the Wolverines easily put away Waynesburg 3-1, working 14 players into the game.

Tomorrow’s match promises to be a big one as the seniors look to lead the team and add another win to their conference record.