MARCH 24, 2017 THE BACHELORWABASH.EDU/BACHELOR THE STUDENT VOICE OF WABASH COLLEGE SINCE 1908 WELCOME FUTURE WALLIES! WANT TO KNOW WHAT BEING A WABASH STUDENT IS LIKE? SEE PAGE THREE COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING / PHOTOS Model UN Heads to NYC SCARLET HONORS GIVES Students get the United Nations experience in the place where it all happens: the UN PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS A Headquarters P 5 TRUE WABASH EXPERIENCE Summer Concert Heads Up BRAXTON MOORE ‘19 | STAFF prospective students, this weekend WRITER • This weekend, Wabash will is a selling point on their decision to See where you can catch your favorite artists host prospective high school students become a Little Giant. The weekend will while they’re touring the Midwest P 9 to provide them with an overall sense be structured in a way that highlights of what to expect when coming to the best aspects of our campus, as Wabash. Scarlet Honors Weekend students will be able to meet and recently took the place of Honors engage with professors, alumni, and Baseball Home Opener Scholar Weekend when the College current students. decided to shift the focus of these Director of Admissions Chip Timmons Little Giants start off right at home with a 2-1 visit days from tests and information talked about what makes Scarlet Honors seminars to an inside look at student Weekend so unique, and gave advice series win over Hanover P 12 life, alumni engagement, residence halls, and fraternity rush. For many SEE SCARLET, PAGE FOUR VOLUME 109 • ISSUE 21 TENURE REVIEW: BENEDICKS HAS BACHELOR HI-FIVES OPENED MINDS OF STUDENTS; NOW 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY SHE HOPES TO OPEN MINDS OF PEERS OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STEVEN BAZIN ‘18 | STAFF look at the ways in which the critical outcry Cole Crouch • [email protected] WRITER • Crystal Benedicks, Assistant against the spasmodic poets is echoed in the NEWS EDITOR BRACKET BUSTERS = Professor of English, was among the way in which composition classes started NO PROBLEM professors granted tenure this year. to be taught,” Benedicks said. “My future Ben Johnson • [email protected] Hi-Five to the latest March Madness Benedicks’ tenure has been a long time work will be on how writing teachers give OPINION EDITOR tournament. We hope that Wabash students coming. She first came to the college as a advice to students about how to be clear and Ahad Khan • [email protected] spend this holiday as it should be celebrated: visiting professor in 2007, and her position thesis driven. In short, projecting this control SPORTS EDITOR on a couch. Even if your bracket is already was eventually converted to a tenure track. over the fluid and messy idea of words and Tucker Dixon • [email protected] trash two rounds into the tournament, still In addition to her duties as an educator, thoughts, but a lot of writing isn’t that way. CAVELIFE EDITOR enjoy it. With 63 games over the next three Benedicks also began to coordinate the A lot of writing is spasmodic. I want to look weeks, there is only one word to describe writing curriculum across the English back at the spasmodic poets as a moment in Jade Doty • [email protected] this: heaven. department. After nearly a decade of writing when those forces in writing, those PHOTO EDITOR teaching and two parental leaves, Benedicks weird tangents…got shoved underground, Levi Garrison • [email protected] is excited to continue her work at Wabash. and what was lost with it.” COPY EDITOR, BUSINESS MANAGER DUDE, WHERE’S Benedicks was nervous when she first Benedicks is always looking to challenge came to Wabash. “I came here being very her students with new ideas. “As a Benjamin Wade • [email protected] MY WALLET? DELIVERY MANAGER Hi-Five to Devon DeLaMater ‘20 for mass- doubtful about a college for men,” she professor, I can say that her classes don’t emailing the student body to help look for his said, “I wondered if this place really fit my follow the traditional structure most think Kevin Griffen • [email protected] “lost” wallet. It’s a shame that people still have identity as a gender studies scholar and a of, but that is a good thing,” Mason Hooper not learned from the many of us who have feminist. I’ve come to see that it really is ‘18 said. “She challenged me to think about The purpose of the Bachelor is to serve the made this same mistake before. Also, hi-five a good fit. A lot of my assumptions about issues in a different way by showing me school audience, including but not limited to to Devon’s roomate for using some common gender have been challenged in ways that perspectives that differ from my own. She’s administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, sense by looking for his wallet in the most are really fruitful. This is one of the most a professor whose door is always open and community members and most importantly, logical place possible: Devon’s desk. “Dude, promising places in the nation to study welcomes discussion.” the students. Because this is a school paper, you left it on your desk,” was the instant reply gender and masculinity, and I’m excited to the content and character within will cater to that we all had the privilage of seeing. Devon, do that work here.” the student body’s interests, ideas and issues. next time clean off your desk before you plead In addition to her work in the field of Further, this publication will serve as a medium to the whole student body to help you look for gender studies, Benedicks’ main areas and forum for student opinions and ideas. “lost” items. of focus are Victorian-era poetry and the Although an individual newspaper, the Board curriculum surrounding composition. Her of Publications publishes the Bachelor. The most recent publication addressed her Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the SPARSE CALL-OUT concerns regarding academic writing. Wabash College Student Senate, which derives Hi-Five to the Outdoorsmen Society for “It’s about how students use sources in its funds from the Wabash College student body. leading an outstanding callout meeting their paper and how writing teachers can Monday. Though this may seem like news study those patterns of source use in order to Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed to many, it actually happened ... or at least become better teachers of writing,” Benedicks and encouraged. They will only be published if they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not it happened for all four people that came. said. “The idea is to get out from under the COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING / PHOTO Seriously everyone, check your emails; it’s paradise of… policing sources for plagiarism, longer than 1,500 words. kind of difficult to have a club with only and focusing on what students are doing with Benedicks has been at Wabash since 2007. The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters four members including the executive team. their sources. How can we learn more about for content, typographical errors, and length. Hopefully this doesn’t turn out like first go- that, and how can we use that to create better All letters received become property of this around at the Golf Club. source use policies? The idea is to move the publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ conversation about source use away from Most of her students are aware of or redistribution. Profanity may appear in the plagiarism and rules and morality…to a Benedicks’ enthusiasm for fostering publication, but only in cases of direct quote or if SENATE SCANDAL? conversation about scholarship.” new ideas in her classes, and most seem profanity is necessary to the content of the story. Hi-Five to the student senate cabinet for Benedicks is also studying a movement to welcome the challenge. She is often Please do not confuse profanity with obscenity. spending our funds out on the town last of currently obscure poets from the surprised by what those discussions yield. No article or picture of an obscene nature will weekend ... maybe.The President, VP and Victorian era. “The spasmodic poets were Her greatest surprise, however, came with appear in this publication. Treasurer of the Student Body supposedly nineteenth century poets who were really her first senior seminar. spent about $190 of “somebody’s” funds really popular, and then became really “To my knowledge, it was the first time The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at at Kilroy’s during a St. Patty’s Day bar really really unpopular,” she said. “Today, that a queer theory course had been taught the Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. It is crawl. Thankfully, our Cabinet became they’re no longer in print. The reason at Wabash,” Benedicks said. “I offered delivered freely to all students, faculty, and staff too intoxicated to continue their nightly they became unpopular was that some this course for the first time alongside at Wabash College. All advertising published activities. The College is looking further critics started calling them spasmodic. It’s Professor Toby Herzog’s senior seminar in the Bachelor is subject to an established rate into this potential embezzlement scandal the same type of ‘you’re a spaz’ insult we in war literature. All English majors had card. The Bachelor reserves the right to deny #notmycabinet. use today. These poets were called out of a choice. They could either take war requests for publication of advertisements. control, not composed, not manly. Their literature or queer theory, and I thought Student organizations of Wabash College may verse was all over the place.