THE
SPRINGHILLIAN
February 13, 2014
Volume 98 Issue 2
Ad Majorem Del Gloriam
CAPTURE the HILL
Students participated in Spring Hill’s first ever “Capture the Hill” event on Sunday to benefit the International Service Immersion Program. Recap and Story by Matt LaBorde
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Last Sunday, Feb. 9, students in teams of up to ten people frantically ran around Spring Hill College’s campus playing the classic game, “capture the flag.” The event, dubbed “Capture the Hill,” invited Spring Hill students to participate in order to raise money for the International Service Immersion Program (ISIP). ISIP sends students abroad to four different countries every year to serve and live among the poor and marginalized. In the game, teams were assigned with the tasks of retrieving the opposite team’s flag by strategically using runners and defenders to attack and defend different positions on large playing fields. If you are tagged, you are escorted to a “jail” where you can be rescued by a teammate. “It was something new and different, it was an outdoor, adventurous type of game, and it was a competitive team event,” said senior Molly Cowley, one of the organizers of the event, “I definitely think the
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