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MARCH 15, 2019 Schurg ’19 Wins National Championship

COURTESY OF LARRY RADLOFF, D3PHOTOGRAPHY.COM Darden Schurg ’19 capped a dominant season by winning the national championship at 174 pounds. Wabash also had two other wrestlers named All-Americans at Nationals over break, Kyle Hatch ’21 and Carlos Champagne ’22.

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2 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR NEWS Wallies Nearly Caught in Yellow Jacket Protest

BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO While visiting l’Arc de Triomphe, the immersion trip which went to Paris and The Yellow Jackets protests have been springing up in France over the last several Normandy almost got caught in the middle of a Yellow Jackets protest. months in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s policies.

BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO Among their many complaints, Yellow Jacket protestors have taken great issues with Macron’s proposed fuel tax. Macron recently backed off the proposal in response to the mounting protests.

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College Presents Campus Masterplan

BRYCE BRIDGEWATER ’19 & ALEXANDRU One of the main priorities for the new plan is a The Armory will go through a beautification along ROTARU ’21 | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & STAFF Campus Commons building. The College plans to with health upgrades. Baxter Hall will get a new WRITER • Last Tuesday, Wabash presented what demolish Wolcott Hall, Morris Hall, and the Sparks annex and IT support as well as new office and Wabash could look like in 2032 to the public, Center to place this new building. The commons will classroom space. Detchon Hall and the Fine Arts pending approval from the Board of Trustees be for both independent and greek students with Center will get some minor upgrades as well. in May. The expansion represents Wabash’s dining options and event space for 350 people. The Hollett Little Giant Stadium will see an increase in continued commitment to its academic mission. The new building will include a pub, recreation room, and the capacity of the homestand but the College plans masterplan was developed to make sure the College bookstore. Along with seating inside, commons will to remove the visitor side stands. The press box and continues to spend money wisely. Mainly, the school consist of an outside seating area. the concession stands are getting renovated as well. aims to renovate current campus buildings, as well Lilly Library will also be getting a renovation. The The College also recognizes many different as adding new buildings to the campus. College will enhance study spaces as well as other environmental efforts that can be taken to reduce After multiple ad hoc meetings, the College is small upgrades to the building. Center Hall will be its carbon footprint. Wabash will try to implement looking to finalize its plans in a few weeks for getting an update as well. The building will become local solar energy efforts as well as different carbon presentation. The College aims to preserve the more student-centered. Center will also have more capture projects. campus mall and the arboretum, while adding new entrances to the mall, working to engage itself Along with some other small changes, Wabash spaces for gathering across campus. They want to more with the center of campus. The College will might look very different by the time the bicentennial connect buildings through reorganized and enhanced aim to add 100 beds through this new plan, too. roles around in 2032. Most students will not see pathways, promoting a sense of arrival. The College Theta Delta Chi will get a new house at the corner any impact of these changes in their time here, but also wants to reduce traffic by improving parking and of Jefferson and Grant, which will free up 25 beds in incoming seniors should expect some differences street crossings. College Hall. coming to the historic halls of Wabash College.

4 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR NEWS Peck Dinner Brings Former College to See RNC Lawyer to Campus Housing Changes REED MATHIS ’22 | STAFF ‘85 Associate Professor of Political WRITER • For any Wabash student Science, Dept Chair. Ryder through there is always an event occurring on the lecture will detail his role in 2016 Over Next Few Years campus, and if you do not think so, RNC, and his work around, now, check your school email inbox more President Trump. often. The dinner will consist of giving out As College Increases Enrollment, On behalf of the Pre-Law society awards, such as the Peck Medal and and the College, the 45th Annual Peck Junior Peck Medal- given to a Wabash Lecture and Dinner will take place on Senior, the Bingham Award, William Housing is Likely to Become Less Monday, March 18th. The lecture will Nelson White Scholarship, and the begin at 5:00, in Baxter 101, with a Joseph J. Daniels Prize. Close to thirty Flexible reception immediately following, and lawyers will be in attendance, most dinner, at 6:30, to close the evening. of them Wabash alums, including the The recipient of the Peck Medal first winner of the Peck Medal, Mark PATRICK MCAULEY ’20 | that seniors had to live on campus,” and the honorary speaker this year is Eckerle ‘74. SPORTS EDITOR • Try to picture it: Dean Welch said. “This put about 50 John Ryder ‘71, who after graduating As someone who has attended it’s Freshman Saturday in August. All more students in campus housing.” from Wabash College continued his every Peck Dinner during his time of the new students are moving onto These changes affected the academic career at the Vanderbilt at Wabash, William Armbuckle ‘19 campus, while a lot of the returning overall balance of campus housing. University Law School. Ryder ‘71 knows the event has a sizeable upperclassmen make their way back For example, take a building such served as an assistant county attorney impact for the school and is as to dorm rooms and fraternities. The as College Hall, which is both an for Shelby County, Tennessee, and in rewarding for the students and faculty campus is buzzing with cheerful laughs, independent dorm and a fraternity 2000, joined the Harris Shelton law who attend. “Being able to see your bro hugs after a long summer break, building here at the College. The firm. Currently, Ryder ‘71 teaches fellow classmates win awards and and anxious attitudes about how their Theta Delta Chi chapter increased election law at Vanderbilt University. networking with attorneys and their first week of classes will go. their numbers by a large portion Along with this extensive career experiences after Wabash, is fun and “I call it a crunch this past year. This rapid growth of practicing law Ryder has, also, worthwhile,” said Arbuckle. a lot of the times,” led their chapter to have to acquire been involved with many different The lecture and dinner is not only Dean Welch, extra housing in College Hall, which roles within the Republican Party as, for professors and students interested Associate Dean eventually lead to an unbalanced the chair of the RNC Redistricting in law, while the R.S.V.P. for the of Students of amount of rooms available to a larger Committee in 2009 and being dinner is closed, everyone is more the College, said. amount of students who needed these appointed the chief counsel for the than welcome to attend and obtain a “And a lot of the rooms. Additionally, many of these Republican National Convention (RNC) better insight into Ryder’s experiences transition period students who are living as independent in 2013. working with the political figures he comes from that students change their minds about “There are very few people who has throughout his career, and what period of getting fraternity life after living in dorms for are walking around with similar he took away from his time at Wabash from forty percent the first couple weeks of school. This experiences,” said Scott Himsel College. greek in the class Marc Welch makes the living situation even harder to sixty-percent.” on fraternities that have to eventually Dean Welch is talking about the fill up all of their rooms while at the housing crunch at the College. Every same time acquiring guys they believe year, about 250 or so new freshman would be good fit. Numbers are not flood to campus eager to begin their quite matching up with the space. Wabash experience. Many show Dean Welch, nonetheless, sees this as interest in the various forms of living an important challenge that he looks units on campus, and they want to forward to working out. take every opportunity to explore their “We are limited and less flexible,” options. In the past few years, however, Dean Welch said. “I see this as the College experienced a rapid influx something that I am willing to of students coming to live on campus. accomplish over the next few years, “I think the real challenge started and I look forward to working out the last fall because it was the first fall problem as they arise in the future.”

COURTESY OF WABASH.EDU John Ryder ’71 returns to campus to receive the Senior Peck Medal and deliver his lecture about his role in the 2016 Republican National Convention.

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BRYCE BRIDGEWATER’19 JAKE VERMEULEN ‘21 AUSTIN RUDICEL ’20 PATRICK MCAULEY ’20 BRAXTON MOORE ‘19 IAN WARD ’19 IAN WARD ’19 BRENT BREESE ’19 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS EDITOR OPINION EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR CAVELIFE EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR ONLINE EDITOR COPY EDITOR Are You Certain That You are Certain? ertainty: what a beautiful agree on,” and, this saying has Industrial Revolution. Yet, due concept. Everything happens Alexandru many possible interpretations. One to some people’s ingenuity and flawlessly all the time in of them is that you have to make perseverance in front of failure and C Rotaru ’22 deductions based only on the the way predicted. This is, perhaps, critique, we can now fly, go into reserved to tools in the scientific evidence preserved, be it written text, space, break the sound barrier with toolbox – such as Mathematics –, and Reply to this column at pottery, statues, weapons, armor, , or a car, and send messages across imaginary worlds. But, still, complete arotaru22@wabash. anything else from the past. However, the globe in an instant. Given the uncertainty is as unlikely as complete edu there are always certain elements precedent, I will say that, perhaps, certainty. So, what can we do about that may be missing. From the way nothing is short of possible, if enough it? And how certain can we be? the language sounded, verba volant, time and resources are put into the Since I already mentioned them, let as the ancient Romans used to say, project. Some projects are just not us look at Mathematics, formal logic, that nobody else understands. Finally as well as anything decomposed, worth the time and effort required, and languages – although some might add symbols, such as the chicken such as paper on which a message and that’s why they are abandoned or argue that Math is a foreign language for cowardice, the owl for wisdom, or was written, there will always be that do not even get off the ground. in itself. I am not one of them, so, water for purification. This polysemy one missing fragment that might put Let’s move on from the surrounding for me, the most obvious connection is the basis of modern literature. an event in a whole new light. Given world to the ones we create. Yes, between them is that they are sets of For instance, as Andre Breton said that some things are buried in the imagination, stories, and even conventions that have their own logic in his manifesto, surrealism dwells sands of time, there is no perfect way modern games play a huge role in – as they have been conceived for on the associations made by the to describe what exactly happened defining certainty. In the imaginary easy use. subconscious mind. In the quotidian without the whole picture, hence world, everything is as possible as Math is beautiful because it world, polysemy also plays a key part. making history imperfect. the person imagining wants it to be – operates with certainty, everything For instance, in Romanian, if you say Then there’s the interpretation that perhaps this utopian quality is what derived from its most basic definition: a sentence, it can be interpreted in the past can be fabricated. As George makes games so fun and addictive. 1+1=2. However, along the way, it at least five different ways. Finally, Orwell said in his novel, “1984”, “He And, of course, our actions are the had to create rules and methods to sometimes, we use certain words who controls the present controls results of our thoughts, which is compute more complex stuff; limits or examples to convey a hidden the past, and he who controls the why, perhaps, anything is possible, were invented because, in regular message, such as talking about past controls the future.” People as mentioned above. But even in our arithmetic, you can’t divide by zero, how wrong it is to do something to can exploit this ambiguity history imagination there exists a level of for example. Due to this certainty, an audience where one of those provides in order to help people come uncertainty; living in a world where Math has developed a method people actually did that action to you together and fight in the spirit of a everything is perfect gets dull fast for generalizing rules: induction. recently. Therefore, we cannot even shared pride for their history, to help – you need some sort of disruption Basically, you test for a random value be certain of the meaning of the dictators establish their authority in the status quo to keep being – whichever is easiest; then, starting words we hear and speak. by association with a glorious past, interested. Perhaps certainty is from the premise that for n, the rule Let us also not forget that or even to justify crimes towards a counterproductive, in this sense. holds, you must reach the conclusion language is a convention, and certain category of society. Therefore, However, we still need some sort that it holds for n+1. I bring this up conventions can be easily changed. we could and should take historic of yardstick in order to analyze the because I have seen induction used Why do we call things the way we facts with a little pinch of salt, just world around us. Enter concepts. outside the perfect world of Math, call them? Why don’t we call chairs like scientific facts. But even they are powerless in front with dreadful results. Imagine that towers, water cleaquid, and failure Even in medicine, where life-and- of uncertainty, or should I say, in a few people of one ethnicity start l’ah’d’na’h’welowe? Why don’t we death situations are omnipresent, front of contemporary art. Dadaism, screaming obscene words in public; walk cars, instead of driving them, there is room for error. While there cubism, surrealism, neomodernism, by induction, all people of that and why don’t worms fly? are all these tests that confirm a postmodernism – these are a few of ethnicity do the same, and get treated These conventions are needed certain diagnosis – or not – doctors the -isms where unusual associations as if they did, even if they, in fact, in order to make sense of the take these tests on the likelihood of between elements, some contrasting, did not. This is how toxic stereotypes surrounding world – the object of that test becoming positive (emphasis as well as randomness, are what are born, as well as hatred for the study for the natural sciences. Now, on likelihood) as it shows that the defines them. Here, conceptualizing populations affected by them. I have we all hear people say ‘the laws doctors are not 100% sure that the what the author meant can be been on the receiving end of this – of science are unbreakable,’ so, test will be positive before taking incredibly difficult. Just take a look for my weight and age, among others perhaps, the sciences are close it. Also, for some diagnoses, such at any painting by Salvador Dali or –, so I speak from experience when to perfection. Then again, science as cancer, there is a survival rate – Vassily Kandinsky; at a poem by I say that Math’s methods, when is based on the scientific method: therefore, there is no guarantee of Tristan Tzara, by anyone from the applied to imperfect systems, such making an observation and using it to surviving the illness. Finally, finding Dada group at Cabaret Voltaire; or by as social interactions, yield imperfect form a testable hypothesis. If further the cures for illnesses require testing the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, (and sometimes unwanted) results. tests confirm it, then the hypothesis – lots of trial and error – in order to and you’ll see what I mean. The languages, on the other hand, is valid. However, only one negative show that they truly work. So, there is In the end, all I can say is that the have another kind of imperfection: test result is required for a hypothesis no certainty even in something that only thing certain in this world is ambiguity. First, figures of speech to be disproven. So, as you can see, keeps us alive and well. uncertainty. We are bound to live in a and idioms have given new meaning science dwells on imperfection, with Now that we’ve looked at certainty world where precision and perfection to words that describe something – the goal of reaching perfection. in the possible, let’s look at how are unattainable ideals. The question metallic clouds, rusting leaves, and And it’s not just the present world certain you can be about the is, why should that stop us from being feeling blue, for instance. Next, came that is imperfect. As Napoleon impossible. Many of the things better, or even from enjoying life? slang – which is specifically designed Bonaparte once said, “History is we take for granted today were After all, a perfect world is a stagnant by people to communicate in a way the version of events which people considered impossible before the world.

6 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR OPINION No, Montana is not Basically Canada n Friday, February 23rd of Christian Moms Against Public 579,315. If you’re going to sell a state, BRENT BREESE ’19 the year 2019, The Bachelor Paul Education, mentioned their surprise sell Wyoming. Or North Dakota. I’m not COPY EDITOR declared its support to sell about local news covering this issue. sure if North Dakota even exists.) O Haesemyer Well, when Montana makes ANY If I were to become a Canadian the state of Montana. This is my official response as a Montanan: ’21 national headlines, we have to talk citizen, I would be considered an Are You Certain That You are Certain? “A recent petition was created to sell about it locally! Sometimes we’re happy international student. Actually, that’s Reply to this column at the newspaper called The Bachelor that no one notices us, but a little not a bad thing. I would get to hang out pwhaesem21@wabash. to D******, and, honestly, the edu attention is always nice! I don’t think with Amy Weir more! However, Tyler Montanans are all about it. We know we’ve ever been as excited to make Wade would have trouble recruiting this will disappoint the lucky reporters these kinds of headlines since the from a foreign country. Is it harder than who hoped to break into mainstream of the Little Belt Mountains in Judith Unabomber was arrested in 1996. Even domestically recruiting? I’m genuinely journalism. (We know there are some Basin County—for the British Crown USA Today reported on this! Thanks, curious here. But I would like more native to Greencastle. This is definitely Jewels! They represent a small portion Josh Hafner! Montanans here than my brother and I, provoking.)” of North American jewels. Canada did Montana lawmakers responded in Tyler. Not that I don’t like Hoosiers, but I would like to officially apologize to give a sapphire brooch to Her Majesty turn with a sassy resolution intending to it’s hard to discuss mountains all misty- Canada for comparing you to the school the Queen for her jubilation, but that is officially oppose this transaction. It was eyed without them thinking I’m crazy. down south. It is an insult, and I used neither here nor there. approved 15-5. Opposing Rep. Jessica (I don’t think most Wabash men know it pettily for a punchline. As one of your Not only did Montana supply jewels, Karjala stated that, “What about those what proper mountains are!) neighbors, I hope you understand the but we have sent other men to Wabash of us who would like more maple syrup, While writing this though, I think gravity of the situation that an Arkansan College. Fred Urbaska ’71 double- better tea and free health care?” Her I have found the perfect solution: (is that right term?) called for one of its majored in French and History! (He also opponents suggested that she could Montana will become an independent 49 siblings to be sold to Canada for a happened to graduate from the same move to Canada in turn. state, separate from the United States trite one-trillion dollars. high school as me: Billings Senior High.) But she has a point: if Montana and from Canada. We have everything That doesn’t even cover the national At homecoming, there is an award joins Canada, free Healthcare would needed to be completely self-sufficient! deficit. Montana is worth way more than named in his honor! Now, why would be available! And we would have an (What do you think, brother? We should that! We funded the Union army during we disrespect a Wabash man’s name endless supply of maple syrup. We stage a revolution. Though, we would the Civil War! We were only a naïve by selling his home? He contributed to have enough grizzly bears and moose lack a sea port). We can do it if we territory then. Montana became a state the theater arts in particular, for which I to qualify. (Those asking about grizzlies try hard enough! And there are many in 1889 after all. (Yes, dear old Wabash have an affinity, thus my theater major. would recall Secretary Devoss defending other reasons why MT is the best, I is older than Montana’s statehood. And theater needs as much attention as a bill for guns having a place in public recommend the Great Falls Tribune’s Why should we define states by their it can get at Wabash. Awards help with schools due to grizzly bear attacks was column about it. But the best thing statehood anyway?) And not to mention, that cause. referring to our neighbors down south: about Montana is that it truly is the Last Montana supplied Yogo sapphires—only Now while I was reading the petition Wyoming. They have even less people Best Place to have a Big Sky with a hell found in the Yogo Gulch, which is a part for this dreadful cause, the creator, than us! MT has 1.05 million, WY, of a lot of Treasure. On the Relatinship between Christianity and Socialism he title says it all. Before I get Him there. We can do so only through concerns should not, for a Christian, be started let me make something prayer, but prayer through the Spirit is considered outside the lense of Christ clear: I am not a clergymen, Austin Hood the gift given to all. What’s more, God Consciousness. Socialism, at its core, T ’21 gives us the agency to act through Him aims to orient socio-political thought economist, or a political scientist. I have no expertise in any of those fields. Reply to this column at (which human acts constitute action towards greater political and economic Naturally, as someone affected by the aghood21@wabash. accordance to God’s Will is determined inclusion of communities, rather than movement of these fields, I do hold edu through prayerful thought) . We aren’t simply individuals. certain beliefs about them. I identify bugs trapped in the amber of sin. The This means that unlike neoliberalism as both a Socialist and a Christian. The Triune God gives us the ability bring life (in which the strength of a society aim of this piece is to explain why. I do as He did, and we do so by walking with is measured primarily by GDP) or not intend to argue in this piece that wasn’t an act that God merely caused, Him. God Himself clothed the naked Fascism (in which societal strength is Socialism and Christianity are inherently God Himself is revealed through the and fed the hungry, and He taught us correlated with that of the nation-state) linked. Doing so, I believe, would be act. The God of the Old Testament isn’t that we are truly living when we do the Socialism aims for greater equity among heretical. That being said, my politics one that sits and ponders his creation, same. This means that embodiment communities. Such is the system, in my and my religious beliefs should not, in but engages actively with it and talks of The Word, which is the task of The assessment, which best achieves what fact cannot, be separated. What I wish to it. The Good News of the Gospels Church, is to uphold the dignity of all Christ commands us to do: love one to do here is merely express this link, is that God Himself walked among those Created in His image, doing so another. When one sees his brother in my personal conception, between the us, that He sacrificed Himself so that by upholding Christ’s ultimate ethical struggling, the Christian thing to do isn’t two systems of thought. Please bare we might truly live. Christ’s ineffable demand to love radically. to ask “how might helping him affect with me. grace shows us that God doesn’t This ethical demand, being ultimate, GDP growth?” or “does helping him now Israel’s God is unique in that He isn’t reside in the Temples or in the Laws of does not stop at the door of politics mean that I’ll have to help him more in removed from and above the world, the Pharisees, but in the Communion or economics. Christianity doesn’t the future?” or what’s worse “does he but in it. In fact, He is the very essence of Man through the Holy Spirit. God only apply on Sunday morning or deserve this struggle?” The Christian of it. He is the history of His People. is in every brothel, every ghetto, in one’s immediate surroundings. thing to do is to help him. The Kingdom Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt every boardroom and battlefield. The Pressing political and economic of Heaven is at hand. challenge of the Christian life is to find THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 7 Taking Care of "Business"

ALEX ROTARU ‘22 | STAFF WRITER • 1. Lilly Library Basement DISCLAIMER: This article represents the opinion This one is not for the faint of heart. Take of the author alone, not of The Bachelor, and not a small room, add two narrow stalls, where of Wabash College. you can barely fit in, as well as graffiti, and Restrooms: sooner or later, we will have to you got the worst restroom on campus. Being use one. However, no two restrooms are created claustrophobic, I would much rather take the equal. In my time putting up Career Services’ elevator to the first, second, even third floor just weekly newsletter, the Ur’Nal Review, I have had so that I won’t have to use it. to go into the good, the bad, the cramped, the modern, the busy, and the quiet. That being said, Best Restrooms: here are my top 5 best and worst restrooms on 5. Detchon Center First and Second Floor campus where you can find the Ur’nal Review. The restrooms in Detchon are just as I like them: modern, spotless, quiet, and spacious. Worst Restrooms: Nothing special about them, but they are still 5. Center Hall Second Floor some of the most satisfying restrooms to use. Good old Center Hall: the one brick building 4. Lilly Library First Floor that survived the test of time on campus. Its This is a restroom that gives a lot of privacy, creaking stairs are famous across campus and with one stall and accessible paper towels if the alumni network. However, beneath that that stall is occupied. It is spacious, simple, archaic charm lies a feat of ill planning: the and clean. What more could you want from a restroom on the second floor. Privacy is the only restroom? issue, as the toilets and urinals themselves are 3. Hays Hall Basement on a step, making it a bit less comfortable to As Dorothy said in “The Wizard of Oz,” use. “There’s no place like home,” and it rings true 4. Fine Arts Center Experimental Theater for restrooms as well. My spiritual home, as a This is perhaps the most obscure, unused Chemistry major, is in Hays Hall, and I just find restroom on campus, and for good reason. Just it more relaxing to use the restrooms in there, getting there is like hearing a baby’s laughter particularly the spacious, lesser used one in the at 2 a.m. in your fraternity. Even though Clara basement. Crawford is an urban legend, this bathroom in 2. Center Hall First Floor the Fine Arts Center’s basement is not. Unless While Center Hall is famous for its olden you have a class in the Experimental Theater, charm, when you walk into this restroom by the this is one to avoid, particularly after 4 p.m. Trust main entrance to the building, it feels like you’ve me, it’s terrifying to hear and see the overhead stepped into a portal to the future. The room lamps flicker down there after classes end. looks sleek and modern, with tasteful colors 3. Armory decorating the walls and stalls. It truly feels This century-old building has become the like a fancy hotel bathroom, hidden away in an best illustration of re-purposing and expansion architectural gem. PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE IMAGES gone wrong – especially with that dead end right 1. Fine Arts Center Randolph Art Wing on the first floor. And the restroom makes no My personal favorite restroom has its Wherever you plan to pop a squat, campus commodes are far from golden thrones. exception. Just getting to the restroom requires entrance on the right side of the Gregory passing through a staircase, and one wrong step Huebner H’11 Gallery. With multiple stalls and could send you down it to the cold, cold side displays of artwork and posters of previous entrance. Cheers to all the Bachelor staff who gallery events, this bathroom-gallery hybrid can have endured decades getting from their Armory help put you in touch with your inner artistic self basement office to the restroom on the first floor, with every visit. And, as a bonus, on the way in BEFORE YOU navigating the maze of hallways and staircases and out of there, you’ll get a chance to admire in order to use one of the most unwelcoming art from our college’s collection or from visiting restrooms on campus. You are true heroes. artists. ANSWER THE 2. Allen Center So, there you have it, gentlemen: the best The only reason this restroom is so high up on and the worst restrooms this campus has to CALL OF NATURE, the worst restrooms ranking is because some offer where you can find the latest information of the stalls won’t close: either the door frame about careers and more. If you feel like your is too small for the door to close properly, or the favorite restroom is not in here or if it was not CONSIDER THIS door frame is too large for the door to close at given the right treatment, please write an opinion all. And the new sports center is only a decade about it for one of the next issues and send it to HANDY GUIDE! old. [email protected].

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Collegiate Elitism Scandal Dick's Removes Guns A scandal which involved wealthy parents paying Notable sporting goods store Dick's announced last week that they will no longer be selling firearms in their stores outlandish amounts of money to guarantee their child's nationwide. CEO Ed Stack was quoted as saying: "We admission to prestigious schools has recently come to support and respect the Second Amendment ... But we a head in the form of a federal prosecution. At least 40 have to help solve the problem that's in front of us." people have been charged in this racketeering scheme, spearheaded by William Singer. -jerrynews -jerrynews

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Honda, Acura Recall Following an incident regarding defective airbags, Honda will recall around 1.1 million vehicles. Models to be recalled include the 2003-2008 Honda Pilot, the 2006- 2014 Honda Ridgeline, and the 2001-2005 Honda Civic.

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THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 9 CAVELIFE Spring Break - 2019

PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Trading white sandy beaches for white snowy trails, some Wallies visited Iceland over the course of their spring break.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW FRECK ’21 PATRICK MCAULEY ‘20 / PHOTO The Wabash College Tennis team took an off-day at Universal Studios during spreak Wabash students and professors grab some grub on the EU Trip. break. The team went 4-0 on their trip.

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REED MATHIS ’22 / PHOTO Wallies enjoying the scenic hills of Scotland during their Spring vacation.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DIIIPHOTOGRAPHY.COM Preston Whaley ‘22 at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 11 SPORTS Lacrosse comes off of Spring trip, team now looks to Hope

JACKSON BLEVINS ‘20 | STAFF WRITER • Over spring break the Little with Dixon adding two assists on the game. Giant lacrosse team traveled south to Alabama and suffered two losses in “The trip was a good experience as we played some teams that we normally some close games. On Tuesday March 5th, the Little Giants took on Huntingdon don’t play on our schedule, Dixon said. “We played hard with our opponents but College in Montgomery, Alabama and the team fell just short, losing by a score a few mistakes put us in a tough spot to win the games.” of 6-7. The team was down by a score of 4-7 with six minutes left in the game, “We all obviously wish the outcomes of the games would have been and despite two late goals, the comeback did not result in a win. Collin Brennan different, but we are not getting down on ourselves,” Plencner said. “Since ’19 scored three goals, Jake Taylor ’20 scored two goals, and Steven Stark the beginning of the season, we have seen vast improvements in both team ’19 scored himself a single goal late in the fourth period. Despite the close chemistry and in the skills of individual players.” loss, the Little Giants were essentially even in all statistical categories with The Little Giants have three more non-conference games before they Huntingdon, as Wabash had 38 shots with 15 of those shots on goal, while begin their difficult conference schedule. This weekend the team will take on Huntingdon shot 43 times with 16 of those shots on goal. Hope College in Holland, Michigan before returning back to Crawfordsville on The team’s spring break trip was capped with an 8-17 loss to Birmingham- Wednesday to face off against Anderson University. The Little Giants have been Southern College. The Little Giants worked a balanced offensive and defensive playing quality lacrosse under new head coach Tim O’Shea, and the team is attack early on in the game to enter halftime down just 6-7 against a solid optimistic for the future. Birmingham-Southern College squad. However, the host team ultimately pulled “Hope is a solid team, but we don’t change our game based on who we are away and limited the Little Giants to just two goals in the second half. Colin playing,” Plencner said. “No matter who the opponent is, we are going to go out Brennan, Steven Stark, and Joseph Plencner ’22 all scored two goals for the there, focus on what we can control, and just ball out.” Little Giants, while Jake Taylor and Tucker Dixon ’19 contributed one goal each,

IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Wabash lacrosse player plays defense against Trine. Wabash player attempts to pick up a ground ball.

12 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR SPORTS Baseball looks to rebound after Spring Break trip BRYCE BRIDGEWATER ’19 | The Little Giants closed out their EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • Wabash baseball spring break trip with three games returns home tomorrow after a week against Gustavus Adolphus College. in the desert of Arizona facing some In game one, the Little Giants were of the top teams in the country. It was lead by Roginski again with 4 RBIs and the first time all season where the went 3-4 on the day, including one team could play games without the homerun. Wabash’s save leader, Zach threat of cold weather. In Tucson, the Moffett ’20, added his second save of team played six games, going 2-4 on the year to lead the Little Giants to a the week. 6-4 victory. “It was nice to get out on the field “This was a hard fought game,” for a long period of time,” Eric Chavez Chavez said. “Our bullpen has been ’19 said. “We found out a lot of things solid all year, keeping us in games. we need to work on, which is good.” They won us this game.” In the first two games, the Little Wabash could not keep up their Giants played previously ranked Aurora mini win streak however, dropping the University for a Sunday doubleheader. next two games against Adolphus. In In game one, the Little Giants trailed the second game, the Little Giants 10-2 in the fifth inning. Over the last struggled to get the offense going, 2 innings, the Little Giants added six dropping game two, 2-5. Jumonville more runs, but ultimately could not had both RBIs. The Little Giants stole overcome the early deficit, losing 8-11. seven bases in game two. In game Andrew Jumonville ’21 lead the team three, Wabash trailed 9-0 after three with 3 RBIs in game one. In game two, innings. Despite mounting a seven run the Little Giants added three runs in comeback, lead by Canton Terry’s ’21 the last two innings to send the game three RBIs, Wabash dropped the last into extras. After five extra innings, game of the trip, 7-10. Aurora singled to end the game, 6-5. The Little Giants return to action Sean Roginski ’19 lead the Little tomorrow at Goodrich Ballpark against Giants with 2 RBIs including one in the Hanover College. Last year, the Little seventh inning to help tie the game. Giants defeated Hanover in two The next day, the Little Giants games, 8-3 and 3-1. Following the played Carthage College. Thanks to an three games against Hanover, Wabash early offensive output, the Little Giants returns home to face Manchester rolled to an 11-6 win. Erich Lange ’19 University in a weekday doubleheader. and Roginski had 3 RBIs each. Tyler Wabash split the doubleheader last Dearing ’21 lead the Little Giants on year with Manchester. the mound with five shutout innings, “It’s fun just being back home,” racking up four strikeouts. Chavez said. “It’s always better being “This was big,” Chavez said. in front of the home crowd and not at “Carthage is really good. This was a a neutral site.” glimpse on how good we can be. We Head out to Goodrich Ballpark need to bring that effort every game tomorrow at 1 p.m. to support the for the rest of the season.” team. THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL SATURDAY, MARCH 15 Home vs. Hanover at 1 p.m. Home vs. Hanover at 4 p.m. SUNDAY, MARCH 16 Home vs. Hanover at 1 p.m. IAN WARD ’19 / PHOTOS Jackson Blevins ’20 (top) and Sean Roginski ’19 (bottom) continue to lead the Little Giants in major offensive categories.

IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Wabash player attempts to pick up a ground ball. Home vs. Manchester at 1 p.m. Home vs. Manchester at 4 p.m.

THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 13 SPORTS Wrestling competes at Nationals; brings home champions BLAKE LARGENT ‘22 | STAFF placed seventh total in the 125-pound WRITER • The Wabash wrestling team weight class to earn All-America honors advanced six wrestlers to the 2019 while Hatch finished sixth total in NCAA Division III Wrestling National the 165-pound weight class, earning Championship Tournament, including All-America honors for the second Carlos Champagne ’22 in the 125- consecutive year. In 174-pound action, pound weight class, Owen Doster ’20 Schurg faced Mount Union’s Jairod James in the 133-pound weight class, Jared in the championship round. After falling Timberman ’21 in the 157-pound weight behind 3-1 in the match, two consecutive class, Kyle Hatch ’21 in the 165-pound penalties from James allowed Schurg to weight class, Darden Schurg ’19 in the tie the score at 3-3 with 10 seconds left 174-pound weight class and Wade Ripple and sent the match into overtime. Schurg ’21 in the 285-pound weight class needed just nine seconds in the overtime Three total Wabash wrestlers advanced period to capture a national title, quickly from Friday’s round and into the All- scoring a takedown over James to America round on Saturday, beginning capture the sudden-death victory. with Champagne in 125-pound action. Schurg began the year as the top- He lost his first match by a 9-1 major ranked wrestler in his weight class and decision against Jay Albis from Johnson never relinquished that spot, finishing and Wales but bounced back with a pin as the top-ranked wrestler to end the of Josiah Gehr from Messiah and an 8-0 season. He is the first national champion major decision over Zack Murillo from for Wabash wrestling since Riley Wesleyan, allowing him to advance into Lefever’s national title in 2017. Saturday’s All-America round. Two other The Little Giants finished ninth as Little Giants advanced as well, with Hatch a team out of 74 total teams in the grabbing three-straight victories in 165- tournament and ended with three total pound action and Schurg capturing two- All-America honors this season. Bash straight victories in 174-pound action. returns next winter. In the All-America round, Champagne

IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Wade Ripple ‘21 competed in nationals this past weekend.

14 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR SPORTS SAAC changes thanks to New Campus leadership PATRICK MCAULEY ‘20 | huge event this April will be known as SPORTS EDITOR • Over the course DIII Week, which will feature a coin of the past year, the Wabash College war, a Friday reading program with Athletic Department has implemented local elementary schools, and other formidable changes to the Student leadership initiatives. Advisory Athletic Committee (SAAC) “We wanted student athletes to here on campus. Kate Burke, the kind of think outside the scope of their new associate athletic director of the team,” Burke said. “To kind of think College, along with Sam Colaiacova outside of what the impact is that they ’19, fulfilled these unique changes are making for themselves, the impact after making the decision to move they are making for their teams, and forward earlier this semester. the impact on the department.” “The school I was at prior to coming This change to SAAC is part of a to Wabash kind of had the same larger enterprise to give student- identity crisis that Wabash is going athletes at the College an opportunity through,” Kathryn Burke said. “What to develop themselves in volunteer- really is the expectation? What is it driven events. Wabash men committed that we are supposed to be doing?” themselves to community service SAAC now features a large set of and leadership development after smaller sub-committees to help create stepping foot on campus during their a wide range of new initiatives set freshman year. Furthermore, part up for this semester, next fall, and of the College’s mission statement years to come. Some of the plans revolves around leading effectively include a running set of dodge ball and living humanely, which has games with the Boys and Girls Club language that orbits the realm of here in Crawfordsville, which will give community involvement and outreach. student-athletes a chance to give The new sub-committees at SAAC back to the surrounding community as give student-athletes a chance to well as have some fun. Another sub- dive into this mission of the College. committee consists of events with the They now supply a wide assortment Special Olympics here in Montgomery of opportunities before them, which County, which is once again another Burke believes will add to the overall community service opportunity for integrity and dynamic of the athletic student-athletes of the College. department here at the College. In addition to community service, “I hope it is an awesome leadership members of SAAC have leadership and development experience,” Burke opportunities with the NCAA and said. “We want people to come on out chances to reminisce on their athletic and support our events and what we accomplishments at the College with are doing.” an awards ceremony here in April. One

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THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 15 SPORTS Player Profile : Kyle Warbinton ‘20 Warbinton talks college life ALEXANDRU ROTARU ’22 | STAFF WRITER • Many of us know Kyle everything, and in being a successful athlete so far. But, for them, [good grades Warbinton ’20 through one of the many leadership roles he has on Wabash’s come first].” campus: Student Body President, Golf Letterman, member of the Sphinx Club, One of the first major positions he held on campus was senator for the and brother of Phi Kappa Psi, among others. However, beyond these credentials class of 2020 his freshman year. “That gave me an initial look at what student lies a person genuinely dedicated to his pursuits and motivated by his own daily government was like,” Warbinton said. “ After that, I really decided I enjoyed it engagement. and I wanted to continue with it.” He chose Wabash, as many do, after getting to know the feel of the campus. Dedication, authenticity, and self-overcoming are the core principles of After his first visit, he “really decided this was a place where [he] could succeed his life. In fact, his greatest enemy is the lethargy that comes with not being and flourish,” Warbinton said. That is also how he chose to become a brother at committed enough. “Being busy is when I am most effective, and, for me, being Phi Psi, even though his grandfather and uncle were both members of Lambda on top of things is when I’m happiest,” Warbinton said. The main reason he Chi Alpha during their time at Wabash. “It came down to the fact that I thought joined the Sphinx Club was because he looked up to its members when he the Phi Psis were the most genuine group of guys that I interacted with [when was a freshman for their engagement with the campus. “They were the ones deciding] where I was going to be living,” Warbinton said. “I love my house and that I really saw as people that I wanted to develop into in my future career at I think I made a good decision.” When he finds some free time, he generally Wabash,” Warbinton said. likes to spend it with his fraternity brothers, “because I don’t think I spend as His passion for golf comes from how much of a mental game it is. ‘I don’t much time with the people in my house as I should,” Warbinton said. “My house know if a lot of people would agree with me, but I think golf is one of the is something that I cherish more so because I don’t get to do as much, and it hardest games to play, and it’s one of the most confusing and stressful as well, really allows me to take a break from everything else.” because, when you’re off, you’re off, and when you’re on, it’s usually for a little As a Political Science major, he is passionate about government and bit,” Warbinton said. “So I think it’s mentally draining. But then again, it’s just international law. “I’ve enjoyed looking at the different political environments so fruitful. And when you have good teammates and a support group behind and landscapes across different continents and different countries,” Warbinton you, it can be really fun.” said. “I really got some enjoyment out of learning about the different styles of Another mental game in his life is staying on top of his hectic schedule. “The politics and what are the conflicts and problems that arise from each region.” biggest thing is making sure I have a good schedule set out, so every Sunday I He is also committed to his academic excellence and rigor. “That’s what my know what I usually do [the following week],” Warbinton said. parents instilled in me,” Warbinton said. “They’re excited that I got involved in

CONGRATS TO WABASH’S NEW ALL-AMERICANS: DARDEN SCHURG ‘19 KYLE HATCH ‘20 CARLOS CHAMPAGNE ‘22 PRESTON WHALEY ‘22

IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Kyle Warbinton ‘19 lines up for a drive.

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