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JANUARYAUGUST 30,31, 20192020 Wabash Honors Student Research for 20th Year

COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING William Borland ‘22 presents his reaserch to attendees at the 20th Celebration of Student Research. Presentations included 15-minute information sessions and poster boards.

DREW BLUETHMANN ’22 | doing. The research is creative and his podcast titled, “Rescue or Theft Chris Barker ‘20, Sam Henthorn STAFF WRITER • “Our students thought-provoking.” Also, professors – a Podcast About the History of the ‘20, Joseph Ballard ‘20, and Ian Gale are not passive learners. They are took the chance to go back to their Acropolis Museum and Its Missing ‘22 presented their experiences they investigators,” Professor Lon Porter undergraduate roots, when they Marbles.” accumulated while studying abroad. said. became students for the afternoon. “It Haesemeyer said, “Creating a The presentation was titled “A Daily Faculty sponsors appointed students is very gratifying to see how students podcast and researching for a podcast Research on Living Abroad.” The to present their independent research and faculty collaboration leads to is a heck of a lot more fun than writing presentation focused on stories last Friday at the Celebration of these independent projects that come a paper. The whole process of making about culture, language, food, and Student Research. This year marked out of the work they do with faculty,” a podcast is interesting. I think the people they meet. Sam Henthorn the 20th anniversary of the event. said Professor Tucker of the German writing out and researching things said, “Participating in this research “It is a little bit of a flip; it is the one Department. when you plan on them being listened presentation led me to solidify and afternoon where the students become The day started when student-alumni to, rather than read, changes the make concrete the benefits and lessons the teachers, they teach us about what pairs presented with keynote research. writing process. First of all, it does that I learned from abroad. Boiling they have done,” Professor Porter said. The keynote pairs were Aaron Webb not have to be as formal… You also my experiences into a five-minute Professor Porter has been the chair ‘20 and Greg Castanias ’87; Benjamin think outside the box on voices you presentation made me cut out some of of the Celebration of Student Research Grubbs ‘20 and Richard McCombie ’77 hear in the podcast. I had one of my the fringe stuff and look at the meat. Committee for over a decade. “The presented; Vincent D’Angelo ‘20 and professors read a quote from a book… So, it was an illuminating experience celebration holds a special place in my John Deschner ’97 presented. to signify that it was not my quote.” in that way. It was great to work with heart because when I visited Wabash Many students presented research Eric Murphy ‘20 presented his Chris, Joe, and Ian on this project.” during my job interview, it was during in the form of fifteen-minute research titled, “The Effects of Sam Phillips ‘23 presented “The the celebration in 2003,” Professor presentations. “It’s a humbling National Identity on International Natural Home: a Home Design for Porter said. “What struck me was experience to step in front of your Cooperation.” He analyzed the Union Community.” He designed his dream that Wabash was the kind of place that peers and present a robust project and of South American Nations and why it house with a philosophic approach. puts student scholarly and creative see it accepted with open arms. And I failed. He determined that there was The design had a minimalist and achievement and independent work encourage everyone to take advantage no link between national identity and modern feel. It includes large windows, front and center,” he said. of this day in the future,” said Charlie leaving the union. He believes that it large spaces for entertainment, and Some institutions may have research Esterline. Esterline ‘21, Mohammad was an inefficient institution and that balances between private space and days. However, Professor Porter points Adnan ‘20, Christian Redmond ‘20, this was the primary factor for South community space or natural design and to the fact that every year the faculty and Christopher McNally ‘21 presented American countries leaving it. modern design. votes to cancel classes for the event. It their research on student government. Henry Egan ‘22 presented his essay Some students presented research in is rare for research events to happen at In the last Wabash Student Government titled, “Spies and Bi-Guys: The Men the form of posters. Alex Rotaru ‘22 such a central time. And it is especially elections, there was a seventy-two Who Do Exist.” He analyzed the presented his poster titled “Monetary rare for Wabash to cancel classes. He percent voter turnout. Most other representation of bisexual men in Public Health and Geographic also said, “Every year, I am impressed campuses only have about a twenty the media. He mostly focused on a Information Services.” He analyzed by how students across the different percent turnout. They concluded that novel called, My Name is N by Robert maps of prosperity metrics, opioid use, departments and divisions show the peer pressure was the driving factor Kargel. The novel is a classic plot and homes unfit for human habitation. significant and diverse achievements at Wabash. Also notable, Esterline with spy themes, but it happens Joey Ballard, Thach Huynh ‘20, that they have taken on beyond typical ran for President in the election with that the character is bisexual. Egan and Alex Rotaru won the Celebration course work.” McNally as his running-mate, and believes that the positive outcome of Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Many students attended the event. Adnan won the presidential election representation like this is that people Awards. Nathan Biggs ‘20 and Freshmen Ben Axel said, “I think with Redmond as his campaign may see themselves and realize that Benjamin Manahan ‘21 won the Robert it is a great opportunity to see the manager. certain character traits do not have to Wedgeworth Research, Scholarship, great work my fellow Wabash men are Wade Haesemeyer ‘21 presented connect. and Creativity Awards.

Wabash Announces Mental Health Partnership with Jed Foundation

COOPER SMITH ’23 | STAFF WRITER • As the strategic partnership with Jed. Jed will assess But most importantly, we need all Wabash men to spring semester begins, the administration is our current mental health programs and provide encourage each other to seek help when in need. focusing on mental health programming. Laura feedback. As we improve our programming, Wabash “Support for emotional well-being… must be Dolph has joined Jaime Douglas in the Counseling will become a Jed Campus, giving students additional seen as a campus-wide responsibility…It is the Center to help continue providing 1-on-1 counseling resources and a network of over 250 schools. But responsibility of everyone on campus to promote and services for all students. And Dolph has joined the most importantly, we will improve our community – protect the mental health of the student body,” Jed Wabash family just in time for an upcoming mental we will be more able to respond when a brother is in said. health initiative: our partnership with the Jed need. Yes, Wabash is an academically challenging Foundation. This increased focus on mental health includes school. Yes, we have outstanding athletics and arts The Jed Foundation is an organization designed all members of the Wabash family. When this programs. But what separates Wabash, what keeps to improve mental health and suicide prevention partnership was in its early stages, alumni stepped our scarlet banner flying free, is our brotherhood. programs at colleges around the country. Starting in to make this idea a reality. While we partner So let’s all work together and continue looking out this semester, Wabash will begin a four-year with Jed, we will need student and faculty input. for our brothers.

VOLUME 112 • ISSUE 13 NEWS A Q&A with Laura Dolph

AUSTIN HOOD ’21 | NEWS EDITOR a little bit, would you say that one of Q: How did you decide to be a Mental • This week, “The Bachelor” sat down Q: What do you think might be some those factors would be social media? Health Counselor? with the Wabash College Counseling of the challenges of serving the College Center’s newest staff member: Laura population in your role? A: Yes, of course. People get so A: I like being there for my community Dolph. A Crawfordsville native, wrapped up in “do people like my it’s very important to me. God gave me Dolph served the Montgomery County A: Well, I think generally men tend posts?” So there’s a kind of instant gifts and I feel that it’s my duty and my community as a private practitioner of to be hesitant to seek help. That’s rejection or approval that is almost responsibility in many ways to make the mental health counseling since 2008. a generalization that’s changing like an addiction. It keys into the same world around me a better place. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and somewhat but it still holds true. parts of the brain that flirting, sex, and M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the Usually, by the time a man has said “I drugs key into […] I also think that for Q: What goals do you have for your University of Colorado Denver. need help” he’s really in bad shape. So young people it isn’t something new, time on campus? that means that generally speaking by that’s all they’ve ever really known. I A: Well, first off I just want to get my Prior to her work in private practice, the time people come to the counseling have clients who don’t want to go see ear to the ground and know what the Dolph worked for Cummins Mental center they’re hurting a lot already. their girlfriend, they’d rather just talk conversation around mental health Health Systems as a caseworker. She Part of it, which is something Jamie to her on the phone. So people really is like. Other than that, the main is a proud dog-mom of three. This is [Douglas] has really emphasized, is that get accustomed to that shallow kind of thing is just to give people the tools to Dolph’s first semester as a member of with young people, their relationship approval or disapproval. People don’t recognize early signs that things are the Wabash Staff. between cause and effect has not totally really know you from social media and going wrong. Plus, I want people to formed yet, so they struggle just to you don’t really know them and yet start thinking about mental health care Q: How has your time on campus been remind themselves to not be impulsive, their opinion somehow matters deeply in the same way we think about athletes so far? to think things through before they do to you. The other thing about social conditioning. You know, they stretch them. I’ve met with the Student Mental media, and just the computer age in and do all these things so they don’t A: I’m settling in really well. There’s Health Concerns Committee and one general, is that people have super easy injure themselves and can perform their a lot to learn. I did my orientation on thing I got out of that is there’s a lot of answers. Most of the time we have such best. When mental health care is done the first day and learned a lot about people much, much more open to these easy access to information that we grow well it’s the same thing: it teaches us the culture around here. I’ve actually conversations than before. I think that’s used to not really having to wrestle with to think more fairly to ourselves, make just learned about study tables and I’m a good thing. We’re getting healthier, questions that concern us. “What do I good decisions - all that stuff before getting to know different traditions more quickly. But it’s also a sign that do when my girlfriend breaks up with there’s a problem. and things like that. So it’s been really society is a lot more stressful for young me?” is a little bit harder to find an interesting. One thing that’s really people nowadays. I don’t have the answer to than most things. So I think Q: What advice would you have for all struck me as really different is just magic answer for why that is but I think people don’t know what to do with more Wabash students? that you guys are all so young. I’ve had there’s a couple factors that are making complex questions that maybe I grew a much more varied population in my it harder for young people to function. up talking to friends, or my parents, or A: Aim high. Go for it. Be prepared for private practice so it’s been interesting other adults about. hard work. to see such lively people. Q: Just to press you on that last point

Chinese Club Wabash Magazine Celebrates Lunar Editor Retires New Year JAKE VERMEULEN ’21 | EDITOR- Other, from 2017, as one of the best IN-CHIEF • During his time at Wabash, he had been able to produce while at Steve Charles reshaped Wabash Wabash. That issue explored men’s Magazine into a top-flight alumni mental health issues in response to an magazine. Charles was named an ongoing increase of awareness about honorary alumnus of the Class of the need to prioritize mental health. 1970 at Homecoming Chapel in 2008 In an interview last fall, he said, “It as a recognition of his exemplary was kind of a response to [the fact career of service to Wabash. On that] I’ve lost some friends to suicide, Friday, January 24, students, staff, and so it was a real pent up desire to alumni, and fellow staff members address this […] Everything about joined to honor him at a retirement it was just beautifully and carefully reception in the Scholars Lounge of done. You can see the love for this Lilly Library. place on every page of that [issue]. The reception included remarks We got more letters for that [issue] from Charles’ longtime boss, than anything we’ve done lately. A lot President’s Chief of Staff Jim Amidon of people wanting to tell their stories, ’87, President of the National a lot of people suddenly not feeling Association of Wabash Men Marc alone, and that was my favorite thing Nichols ’92, President of the Board of that I heard from a couple of people. Trustees Jay Allen ’79, and Professor ‘I read this and realized that we’re not of English Emeritus Mark Hudson. alone. I’m not alone.’ That’s a good They all spoke glowingly of Charles’ issue.” DAKOTA BAKER ‘22/ PHOTO commitment to Wabash, as well as When he took the podium at the Ian Gale ‘22 enjoys authentic Chinese cuisine. Students at the celebration enjoyed the skill and humanity with which he reception, an emotional Charles many Chinese traditions including games and lucky enevelopes. went about his work. said that he was planning to spend Charles came to Wabash in 1995, more time with his family after his and immediately received praise for retirement. The Wabash community his work on the Magazine. Some of his will certainly miss a storyteller of best work has come in recent years, his magnitude. We wish him the best however. Charles talked specifically of luck as he moves on to the next about the issue Walking Beside Each chapter of his life.

DAKOTA BAKER ‘22/PHOTO Yao Li, Visiting Professor of Chinese, and Hsinyu Hsu, Foreign Language Teach- ing Assistant, address the crowd.

DAKOTA BAKER ‘22/PHOTO Hsinyu Hsu, Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, demonstrates a traditional Chinese game to attendees. 2 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR OPINION

JAKE VERMEULEN ’21 AUSTIN HOOD ’20 CHRISTIAN REDMOND ’20 BLAKE LARGENT ’22 AUSTIN RUDICEL ’20 DAKOTA BAKER ’22 REED MATHIS ’22 JOHN WITCZAK ’21 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS EDITOR OPINION EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR CAVELIFE EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR ONLINE EDITOR COPY EDITOR

A Burning Problem homes were lost because of the bushfires. The to fund proper measures to combat the that is now uninhabitable. Many Aborigional Austin effects of the fires continue to affect those increasing dangers of bushfires, which is communities are still not acknowledged Rudicel ’2o living in Australia and the rest of the world, partially to blame for the severity of the as original owners of the land by the with the smoke creating hazardous living 2019-2020 bushfire season. While fires government , and now, after stealing the Reply to this editorial at conditions and spreading across the globe. As blazed and fire services tried to contain and land, the Australian government fails to amrudice20@wabash. of last week, the smoke has circumnavigated put out the fires, Morrison took a family trip assist them in relocation. edu the globe. to Hawaii. Only after two firefighters lost The fires in Australia are significant to There are many causes for the increased their lives did Morrison return to Australia, me because I lived in New South Wales right outbreak for the fires. The heatwave from and when he returned, firefighters refused where a majority of the fires and casualties 2019 left wild areas very dry, so fires would to shake his hand at his publicity-focused occurred. Seeing videos of the fires from spread further than in a normal bushfire photoshoots. One news channel filmed a team news outlets, I can barely recognize some season. Some “sources” claimed deliberate of firefighters putting out fires and as one fell of the places I visited from the fires. It is year ago, I arrived in Sydney, arson was responsible for over half of the to the ground from smoke inhalation he says, devastating to see how things have changed Australia to start my semester at fires, but this statistic was proven to be “Are you from the media? Tell the prime in just a year, but if Wabash taught me one Athe University of New South Wales. spread primarily from social media bots to minister to go and get f**ked from Nelligen. thing, it is how to effectively take action to At the time, Australia was in the middle misdirect attention from global warming We really enjoy doing this s***, ****head! solve problems. Many US firefighters flew to of a heat wave with temperatures spiking issues. The statement “183 people were I’ve lost seven houses already in Nelligen. I’m Australia to put out the fires, but for those to 40.6C (105F). Anytime I was outside, arrested in NSW for arson” comes from the not going to lose any more, you f***head.” lacking firefighting training, one way to regardless of how much Australian Gold statistic that 183 people faced legal charges When an Instagram model offering nude help is donations. From conversations with (deceptive name for a company founded in for fire-related offences such as breaking fire photos to donators and Metallica brings friends I met in Australia, I found a handful of Florida) shielded my skin, I could feel my bans, failure to properly put out campfires, in more money fire relief efforts than the organizations that use all of the money from skin burning from the dry heat. My sunburns lighting barbeque grills, and even throwing Australian government, one starts to question donations to help the people and animals would eventually recover, but unfortunately, out lit cigarettes. Only 24 were charged for the government’s effectiveness. affected by the fires. I’ve included links for the effects of the 2019-2020 bushfire season deliberately starting fires (and even some Many animals were killed from the fires, each of these organizations and encourage have caused unrecoverable damage. this number comes from fires unintentionally but even those that survive still struggle you to donate just $10 dollars to a meaningful The bushfire season occurs annually with spread from campfires). It is hard to ignore with relocating to a new environment. cause instead of buying yourself a pack of Juul fires breaking out in the “bush” (wild area) global warming when a whole continent is on Wildlife preserves are overloaded with pods. Thanks to continued effort, many fires across Australia, but this season is one of fire, but false information such as the arson rescued animals and spend a lot to feed and have been put out already, but the fires blaze the worst in Australian history. Australian rumors attempts to undermine the effects treat these lives, but the animals are not on and the effects are lasting for those in the government estimated 17 million hectares rising temperatures play in the scale of the the only ones forced to relocate. Indigenous area and will require help. Please help me (nearly the size of Syria) burned, over a billion fires. Australian people (Aboriginal and Torres protect this special place so that it will still be animals died, and a record 32 lives and 3,000 Prime Minister Scott Morrison has failed Strait Islander) lived on much of the land there for when I come back. Victim in Chief trying to discredit the impeachment process. the House approved impeachment rules does Presidential administrations. Also, the CIA, Simon In the last month alone, President Trump has it state that the President is allowed to call FBI, and the National Security Agency all described the inquiry as a “phony scam,” a witnesses during the investigation process. concluded with “high confidence” that Russia Hacker ’21 “witch hunt,” a “hoax,” “fake,” and a “total Instead, the President will be allowed to call did interfere in the 2016 election. Lastly, Reply to this editorial and complete circus.” He has also stated that his own witnesses if the case were to reach President Trump has reputedly labeled Hillary at slhacker21@wabash. House Democrats are “hysterical,” “shifty,” a trial in the House (allowing Trump to call Clinton as a criminal for her “e-mails,” in spite edu “corrupt,” “Do Nothings.” In summary, witnesses during an investigation would be of multiple congressional investigations (led President Trump is pushing the narrative like someone bringing their mom to a police by Republicans) concluding that she was not that he is being unjustly attacked by the evil interrogation room as a character witness). criminally liable for her actions. Democrats through unfair means, so that they The President has continued to launch similar After all of this, you may be wondering can accomplish their ultimate goal of removing attacks against the impeachment process “How does the President keep getting away him from office. and will most likely continue to do so until its with spouting blatantly false information For many people, this narrative is very conclusion. while still maintaining support from his n Tuesday, September 24, Nancy appealing. Members of the public can The idea that the most powerful man on the constituents?” The answer: President Trump Pelosi announced that the House of easily relate to someone who they believe planet is actually a victim is puzzling. This is has created a false discourse of power that ORepresentatives opened a formal is being screwed over because almost all of especially confusing when we consider that places himself as a victim constantly under impeachment inquiry against President Trump us have felt the same way at some point in the entire executive and judicial branches attack by unhinged and corrupt liberals. This to investigate his dealings in Ukraine. I do not our lives. Justice, fairness, and due process along with the Senate are controlled by strategy allows President Trump to shield intend to bore you with my opinion concerning are all cornerstones of our shared set of conservative leadership. However, as himself from criticism by shifting attention the President’s guilt (or lack thereof) in American values. However, this narrative nonsensical as this idea is, it is a position that and blame to his opponents. Essentially, this this case. That is a job for the House of is problematic because none of his attacks the President has put himself in several times allows him to make the argument that any Representatives. Instead, I would like to take on the impeachment process have any throughout his term. In fact, President Trump evidence presented against him should be a closer look at how President Trump has merit. The first popular complaint among uses this same strategy for almost all of his discredited because the individuals producing defended himself in this case and how his President Trump and House Republicans prominent controversies. For example, with the evidence have some sort of personal defense is indicative of a larger problematic was that there needed to be a formal vote regards to immigration President Trump stated vendetta against him. discourse he has used throughout his entire to begin the impeachment probe. This is that Democrats wanted to open our southern Going forward, I encourage all of you to political career. false. The Constitution does not require a border entirely in an effort to allow dangerous see past this rouse to understand where So far, President Trump has not admitted vote to begin an impeachment inquiry. The people into the country and boost their voter power truly lies in our country. The wall isn’t any wrongdoing whatsoever. In fact, he has next complaint from the President was that base. This too is false. Literally not a single built right now because it is a bad policy, repeatedly insisted that his phone call with the impeachment hearings should not be Democrat in Congress has advocated for not because Democrats love criminals and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was held behind closed doors, but instead on completely open borders in the entire time the hate Trump. The Russia investigation was “perfect.” He also consistently referenced live television for the whole world to see. President has been in office. He also used this a legitimate inquiry that uncovered several Zelensky’s comments that he “never talked Despite the fact that Chairman Schiff had same strategy during the Russia investigation. troubling truths about the 2016 election to the president from a position of a quid no constitutional obligation to hold public He routinely accused Special Prosecutor Robert and ultimately found 34 people guilty of pro quo”. Other than those two points, hearings, the Democrats decided to acquiesce Muller of corruption and refused to admit criminal charges, not a witch hunt. This new President Trump does not spend much of to their request and hold the hearings in that Russia meddled in the 2016 Presidential impeachment inquiry is a completely legal his time discussing the substance of the call public. Also, Trump consistently complained election. Shockingly, this is also false. Robert search for information surrounding a possible itself or any of the evidence against him that he was not being afforded full due process Muller is a tenured veteran of the United misuse of presidential powers, not a phony that has come to light over the course of the because Republicans were unable to call their States intelligence community with a sparkling scam. Finally, the President of the United impeachment inquiry. Instead, President own witnesses in the initial hearings. This is record of being a non-partisan individual States of America should be a leader, not a Trump has spent almost all of his efforts also false. Nowhere in the Constitution or in that has worked under several different victim.

Wabash’s Strength is Depauw’s Weakness any short-term financial crisis. DePauw’s facing many of the same issues, only much But at Wabash, we can say that we are Drew Endowment is $731 Million (about $338,000 worse. Last year, DePauw faculty voted unique be providing education for men. This Bluethmann per student). Wabash’s Endowment is $349.7 no confidence against their president. The commitment to education defines the school Million (about $397,000 per student). Wright institution offered buyouts to over 100 faculty culture, experiences, and tradition (at least the ’22 cites money as the main issue at DePauw. The members. And the incoming freshman class ones that matter). Wabash’s undergraduate Reply to this editorial University did not balance the books and drew was 200 students short of the expected 650. population is culturally male. The average at dmblueth22@ from its endowment for years. While money Faculty at DePauw cited “President Mark Wabash Man watches Sunday Night Football, wabash.edu might be the most direct factor for keeping a McCoy’s lack of communication, transparency, belongs to a fraternity, plays a sport, and lets university running, it is not the ultimate factor. and vision,” when they voted no confidence loose on the weekend. However, the average Drawing from the endowment is bad, but against him. Administrative issues are a Wabash Man does hours of homework every DePauw has an alumni base like Wabash—they direct cause of the crisis at DePauw. An day, has deep and meaningful conversations have deep pockets. DePauw is about to start institution cannot succeed without good and in and out of the classroom, and is generally ill all small private colleges close? a $30 million renovation of its library, while stable leadership. If DePauw finds stable and accepting and curious about different cultures Does campus culture and tradition Wabash is currently building a new $13 million reliable leadership that regains the trust of the and ideas. And the all-male student body is mean anything anymore? Will the football stadium and will begin renovating the community, they will be well on their way to the root of many of our traditions that would W library as well. Infrastructure projects are a success. However, Leadership cannot account not likely exist at a coed institution: Chapel liberal arts persist? Questions like these are circulating at all small colleges in America. One good sign for both institutions and reveal that for most of their crisis. There is a deeper and Sing, the Gentlemen’s Rule, and competition institution we can look to is our friend down there is enough money to run and maintain the more pressing issue at play. between fraternities. And the underlying south. DePauw is facing a crisis on campus. campuses. One of Wright’s main concerns is The root of DePauw’s campus crisis is theme to four years at Wabash is the all-male On December 4, 2019, DePauw Professor a $5.1 million tuition shortfall, mostly due to culture. Professor Wright mentions culture in education. I can speak to alumni from the Lili Wright wrote an article in “Indianapolis being 200 students short of their enrollment her article, “What the school needs, sociology ’90s, the ’70s, and the ’50s, and they would Monthly” titled “DePauw’s Big Mess On goal for 2019-2020. They planned on having professor David Newman says, is a well- all have a general understanding of what life Campus.” She summarizes the situation 650 freshmen, and only have 450. That is defined niche.” Although Wright addresses is like at Wabash now because of the all-male saying, “With declining enrollment and a more than 30% short of their goal. But this culture, she ignores it in favor of finances and experience. The all-male experience at Wabash wave of professors set to depart, DePauw shortage is indirectly a money issue, and more a leadership. DePauw is a liberal arts school. is the unifying factor for our campus’s culture. University faces a crisis. But even its Ph.D.s cultural issue, or an issue of the administration. However, the liberal arts are not a niche on Some might say that we are losing culture can’t agree on a smart solution.” Her analysis The real question is, where are the students? its own. In a world where businesses want and tradition. One only needs to cite the of DePauw’s firestorm is excellent. Although The communities at Wabash and DePauw more hard skills from employees and students Sheep-Skin debate. But the truth is, some she never directly states it, one factor is clear: have criticized their administrations and usually want a degree that has a job title on it traditions are dependent (or at least only likely) DePauw has lost its identity. The institution leadership in recent years. However, (accounting=accountant), the liberal arts can with all-male education. Sheep-Skin has no has financial difficulty. Its leadership has been criticism of DePauw’s administration has be a hard sell. DePauw’s mission statement is, connection to the all-male experience. Another poor in the past, but not destructive. And, the been much more serious than Wabash’s “DePauw University develops leaders the world example is the Arch superstation. I do not university has failed to send a unified message administration. Criticism of President Hess needs through an uncommon commitment walk underneath the arch on my way back to to prospective students about the value of and his administration started at the beginning to the liberal arts.” The liberal arts may be Lambda every day. Duh, I do not want to fail the experience at DePauw. I have decided to of this academic year, mostly from students “uncommon,” but it is not exactly unique. comps. But this tradition has no connection to analyze Wright’s article because, even though and some alumni. “The Commentary” Holistic education is unspecific. DePauw can Wabash being an all-male intuition and does not we learn from our mistakes, it is better if we announced that sheep-skin diplomas would be committed to the liberal arts, but they need add to my experience. You do not experience can learn from other’s mistakes. Learning from no longer be a tradition for the graduating something more defining. They attempted to the sheep-skin, you receive it. Our traditions other’s downfalls and triumphs is a cornerstone Wabash Men. The main criticisms can down bridge this gap with the Gold Commitment. are as safe as we value the experience of an of the liberal arts education. Wabash and to the administration’s failure to effectively Wright says it is, “a pledge that all grads will be all-male institution. And the greatest tradition DePauw are two similar institutions, in the communicate to the student body on many either employed or in graduate school within of all, all-male education, is what defines our sense that we struggle with many of the same issues: sheep-skin, raising tuition cost, and six months of receiving their degrees or they institution. issues. In spite of a few fires this last semester, parking. However, the administration has can return for a tuition-free semester or be In conclusion, Wabash’s all-male status is our Wabash is in an age of relative prosperity. maintained the confidence of most of the placed in an entry-level position for at least six defining feature and greatest asset. If Wabash DePauw has a forest fire on campus. So why community. I would say that about half of months.” As Wright points out, this is a safety were to turn co-ed, we would be another is DePauw struggling while Wabash is holding the student body does not look down upon net for a school that has a 97% placement rate liberal arts college in the Midwest with nothing strong? The short answer is culture. The President Hess. Most Alumni are mostly after graduation. DePauw has a lost identity unique to promote. We would be lost in a sea of long answer is our preservation of relevant in support of President Hess (even though and they should look to Wabash as an example. failing small colleges that fail to get alumni to traditions and our belief in one Wabash they may be disappointed in the sheep-skin Without a defined identity and culture, it is give back, that have bad leadership, and that Community. situation): just look at the capital campaign very difficult to establish a leadership that will have no unique identity. As we look toward Most small private colleges in the United last spring. And the faculty has not voted no properly manage finances. the next decade of Wabash College, and the States are struggling financially. St. Joseph’s confidence against the administration (or even At Wabash, we have our identity set in upcoming centennial, we should reflect on how College is an example of a college in Indiana considered it as far as I know). Yes, Wabash cement. We are a liberal arts college for important all-male education is to the health of that went under due to finances. The college faces issues in its administration, but the fixes men. The idea that Wabash is a college for our community. Without it, we might not exist. closed in 2017 while it was $27 million in debt do not require a complete overhaul or coup to men does not lean too heavily on the liberal And to DePauw: you will recover, but you must and needed much more to stay in operation. fix. arts. DePauw’s mission statement leans too know how to talk about the unique value you However, DePauw and Wabash are not facing In contrast, DePauw’s administration is heavily on abstract ideas like leadership. bring to potential students. THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 3 Mac Miller’s Emotional Final

says “I just need a way outAlbum of my head. CHRISTIAN REDMOND ‘20 | OPINION EDITOR • Mac Miller’s sixth I’ll do anything for a way out of my and final album, “Circles,” came out head.” on January 17. This is his first album The album then picks up the pace released posthumously. Miller died with “Blue World,” which has an up- on September 7, 2018 because of an beat tone over a chopped-up sample accidental overdose. The album carries from “It’s a Blue World” by The Four a soft and somber tone driven by Freshmen. In the last two songs, he Miller’s lyrics addressing his mental describes himself as cluttered and health, drug addiction, depression, in a circle, but “Blue World” shows and relationships. a more confident side of Miller. The album starts off with two Lines such as “Yeah, well, this mad melancholy songs, “Circles” and world made me crazy. Might just “Complicated,” that continue what turn around, do one-eighty” and “When Miller discussed in Swimming: his the devil tryna call your line, but shit, mental health. In past interviews, I always shine. Even when the light Miller discussed his struggles with dim. No, I ain’t God, but I’m feelin’ substance use many times. In an just like Him,” show how Miller can interview with Complex, Miller says he pick himself up to face his problems. started heavily smoking marijuana to However, the song contradicts this cope with the stress of being on tour confidence with anecdotes of betrayal. in 2012. Miller believed marijuana was He talks about former best friends the gateway of his addiction to many leaving him and how is “hand got bit” other substances, including lean. “My presumably referening his ex-girlfriend friends couldn’t even look at me the Ariana Grande. same,” Miller said in the interview. The next track, “Good News,” is “I was lost.” In the song “Circles,” Miller’s first single since his death. Miller uses circles to depict the cyclical “Good News” gives the listener a taste nature of addiction with such lines of the artist’s “cluttered” mind. He as “I cannot be changed, I cannot be hears and understands the critiques COURTESY OF POST-GAZETTE.COM changed, no. Trust me, I’ve tried I just of his behavior from others. He hears Mac Miller leaves fans in the feels with his final album, “Circles”. end up right at the start of the line. people say, and even says to himself, Drawin’ circles.” that “It could always be worse” and recognizes he needs help and find an with drugs, an addiction that he finds In “Complicated,” Miller discusses “There’s a whole lot more waitin’” for alternative avenue to feeling normal. detrimental to his mental health. On his struggles with getting through him on the other side of his illness. However, in the second verse he “Surf,” Miller says, “Sometimes I get the day. He notices that some people Even though, he still is “so tired of seems to conclude that there are no lonely. Not when I’m alone. But it’s desire to live forever. But Miller is being tired.” This is a powerful line other ways for him to find normalcy. more when I’m standin’ in crowds. just focusing on getting through a that articulates, again, the cyclical He desires something real to feel. That I’m feelin’ the most on my own.” day, as he struggles with substance nature of depression and addiction. “And now I know if life is but a dream Even through this pain though, Miller use and mental illness. “Inside my The next two tracks, “I Can See” and then so are we,” Miller says. “Show end the album with a message to his head is getting pretty cluttered. I try, “Everybody,” brings the concepts of me something, show me something, fans. He tells them to not keep their but can’t clean up this mess I made,” life and death into the album. Miller something I can see.” emotions and problems bottled up for Miller said. “‘Fore I start to think looks at his life through a different For the majority of the rest of the them to deal with on their own in the about the future. First, can I please lens in “I Can See.” He observes that album, Miller acknowledges his own song “Once a Day.” “Don’t keep it all get through a day?” The concept of his life is guided by the desire to feel fragility and problems. He understands in your head. The only place that you a cluttered head appears in many of normal. He realizes he can achieve he has a problem with anxiety, saying know nobody ever can see,” Miller Miller’s songs including a line from that feeling through multiple avenues, “I’m busy trippin’ ‘bout some shit says. “You’re running low on regret. the track “Come Back to Earth” on the but he has been taking the avenue that still ain’t even happen yet,” on No tears, that’s keeping you wet. I prior album, “Swimming”, where he of drugs. In the first verse, Miller “Hands.” He understands his problem think you gettin’ it now.” Comic Relief by Sam Hansen ’22

Predictions for the New Decade

ALEX ROTARU ‘22 | ASSISTANT written about the first two decades believe in the future there will be The status quo has remained in check COPY EDITOR • A new decade is upon of Wabash. More likely than not, flying cars” meme has been going for too long. With politics around the us, which is a great time to reflect on students will uncover and revive lost around the internet. While we are world getting severe critique, poverty the past 10 years and start anew. We, traditions that will prove valuable in a not flying around in our cars, we do and hunger still going rampant, income at The Bachelor, decided to make some contemporary context, increasing the communicate with each-other across inequality, discrimination, and sexual of our own predictions for the new diversity and depth of campus lore. the globe through messages that travel harrassment being daily occurences, decade, about Wabash and the world Montgomery County will return to its thousands of miles in an instant. This, and global warming destroying the around us. former Glory I believe, has become a catalyst for a Earth, something has to give. Most Wabash expands while maintaining For the past 5 years, multiple new kind of revolution started in the likely, it will be the people’s patience. its Tradition initiatives on campus have created 1960s: the social revolution. I see a lot of change coming with With the campus master plan a symbiosis between Wabash and Just like the industrial revolution the new decade. Yet, it will be for overcoming the planning phase, the county: students get a chance to brought in new technology, the social the better: it will be a perfect time Wabash will be renovating its learn and hone skills in real-world revolution brought change in how for society to re-evaluate its status, facilities, expanding its fields of situations, while the county tackles humans relate to one-another, in to reinvent itself, and to, hopefully, study and exploration, and, overall, more easily its pressing issues. With diversity and inclusion, and in de- create a better future for the next preparing for its bicentennial in 2032. initiatives like Wabash Democracy stigmatizing how people behave. We generation. And this change starts A lot can happen in 12 years, and, and Public Discourse or the Global are becoming more accepting, yet more with all of us. most likely, Wabash as it is today will Health Initiative identifying issues and polarized each and every day. For the So, what are the key themes of the look completely different from Wabash facilitating their solution, the county 2020s, we will learn from the 2010s, next decade? in 2032. is in good hands. and reduce the polarizing hate speech The fundamental theme for the At the same time, Wabash Also, in terms of Public Health and that has dominated social media 2020s will be change. We will have exemplifies how tradition can be Public Safety, the county will become platforms in recent times. to re-evaluate our standards and adapted to modern times, and, while more proactive in addressing issues, People. Stories. Humanity values, our habits and mindsets, and it will don a renewed look, the campus through Geographic Information With the social revolution in full our beliefs and hierarchies. It will be will still have the spirit that has Systems (GIS). This technology can swing, and with artificial intelligence a time of starting anew, and of great guided generations of Wabash men. plot all incidents on a map, in order taking over a plethora of jobs around peril. The best skills to have for the The professors will still be guides to find correlations between issues the world, humanity and people have 2020s will be compassion, empathy, through the marvels of the world, and clusters of addresses where said become more important than ever. listening, and initiative. We will be the administration will still uphold issues are most prevalent. Using GIS, Accepting each-other, putting human questioning ourselves and others the Gentleman’s Rule, and the entire the county agencies will communicate touches, and hearing the stories that more, particularly institutions. We will campus will never cease to fight with more effectively, and use resources connect us will become the focal points innovate, but we need to challenge the challenges of the day. more efficiently in helping the of the next decade. It is prime time to first. We will build, but we need to Also, the students are showing community thrive. hone those journalism and storytelling destroy first. In any event, they’re increasing interest in Wabash history, The Social Revolution continues skills (by writing for The Bachelor). going to be a new, unique kind of and there will most likely be a book For a couple of years now, the “I Activism and Change roaring ‘20s.

4 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR CAVELIFE Expanding Your Horizons to Foreign Language Films

COURTESY OF AMINOAPPS.COM COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA.COM COURTESY OF PINTEREST.COM COURTESY OF FATHOMEVENTS.COM City of God shines light on the troubling Dangal is about a father who teaches his Oldboy is a thrill for those who can Spirited Away is beautiful and rated as upbringing of kids in Rio de Janeiro. daughters to wrestle. stomach it’s violent fight scenes. one of the greatest films of all time.

AUSTIN RUDICEL ‘20 | CAVELIFE development into world-class female different lives. This is one of the best called The Upside was released in EDITOR • Foreign language films are wrestlers. The father’s dream was to crime films that gives Scorsese a run for 2017 starring Kevin Hart and Bryan far too often passed over by American win a medal at the Commonwealth his money. Cranston, but that version is not worth theaters because of public distaste of Games, but when he had to choose a Spirited Away (2001)- Japan mentioning, so stick to the original. The subtitles. Bong Joon-ho’s speech after job over wrestling, he gave up from You might be familiar with the art film is fantastic at implementing humor accepting the award for Best Foreign wrestling and vowed to train his son style of Miyazaki thanks to Disney into the traditionally disadvantaged Language Film for Parasite encouraged to win a medal. After having four distributing the film outside of Japan. portrayal of disabled characters in many (Americans) to “overcome the daughters, he believes his dream is Miyazaki is known for his other movies allowing for a balance of many 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles” to lost, but when he sees his daughters films like Princess Mononoke, My serious and comedic moments. experience a diverse range of amazing roughhouse, he begins to train them to Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Moving Oldboy (2003)- South Korea films extending beyond US borders. wrestle. Even with a runtime of almost Castle. These hand-drawn animated Hailing from the same country as Film Festivals and the award season are three hours, the film never falters in masterpieces are visually appealing and Parasite, Oldboy is a film that should good places to start for someone looking bringing intense moments. If you enjoy fun for all ages. Spirited Away is the be watched instead of summarized. The to discover some of these international sports films, this one is a necessity. highest grossing Japanese film and for plot is unforgettable and has twists that films, but if you don’t have the time City of God (2002)- Brazil good reason. The story is charming, will make you want to watch it again. to sit through the mediocre jokes and City of God tells the story of the funny, and moving and is something Another victim of a subpar American Meryl Streep’s seemingly endless rampant violence and drugs in Rio everyone should see at least once. remake, do not waste your time with nominations, we made a list of the best de Janeiro. Children grow up in The Intouchables (2011)- France the US version (even though it stars films from across the world. these dangerous conditions and it The Intouchables is about the unlikely Josh Brolin). The only warning is the Dangal (2016)- India shapes the way they grow up, if they friendship between a rich quadraplegic film is intensely violent, so squeumish Dangal is based on the true story survive. As the young kids grow up, and his black in-house nurse.An ones with weak stomachs should avoid of the Phogat sisters and their their experiences lead them to vastly American remake of this French film watching this one. Word on the Street Introducing a new weekly section, Word on the Street asks you, the students of Wabash, the important questions about campus life and the world. This week’s question: If you could teach one course at Wabash, what would it be?

“I would want to teach “I’d teach Spanish 103 Enduring Questions because because it’s really use- it’s one of the few things ful to be bilingual and that all Wabash students it would be rewarding have in common. I feel like it would be really cool being to help other people the person who introduces achieve that.” students to critical thinking and discussion.” - Jeff Inman ‘21 Levi Jones ‘22

“Mass Communications “I would teach a class on because that’s a class we cryptography because don’t have and a lot of it’s a mathematically people come from a small beautiful subject that circle and don’t know has a lot of practical how to interact with a applications.” larger community.”

-Eugene Bhattarai ‘23 Kyle Suico ‘23

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Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ MLK Day Speech OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor ALEX ROTARU ’22 | ASSISTANT lightheartedness and humor, allows the COPY EDITOR • Every year, on Rev. [story to remain ingrained] in the mind KOBE TRIBUTES ROLL IN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Wabash of those who attended the lecture, 10-20 Jake Vermeulen • [email protected] College brings in a speaker to campus, years from now, ” Jones said. Also, those Hi-Five to the basketball community NEWS EDITOR to talk about how society can become a stories were set in Dallas, traditionally for honoring the lives of the nine people who died in the helicopter crash Austin Hood • [email protected] more inclusive place, in the spirit of Rev. known as a well-to-do city. “[Many of in Calabasas, California, including NBA King’s legacy. OPINION EDITOR the students I talked to] have a particular legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Christian Redmond • [email protected] “I think the life and legacy that [Martin view or perception of Dallas,” Jones Gianna Bryant. Kobe was a legend SPORTS EDITOR Luther King] left was one of remarkable said. “To know that the stories that she who changed the game and was just connectivity,” Dean of Professional shared in such a vivid way took place, Blake Largent • [email protected] starting the second half of his life, Development Steven Jones, Director of allows them to see it from a different CAVELIFE EDITOR while his daughter was a promising the Malcolm X Institute, said. “And, perspective.” basketball player in her own right. Rest Austin Rudicel • [email protected] for us to allow the day to come and go The goal for the Martin Luther King Day in Peace to all those who passed. PHOTO EDITOR without finding a way to connect with Speaker Events is to foster conversations Ben High • [email protected] each-other [would be] unfortunate.” and understanding across Wabash’s CORONAVIRUS IN THE ONLINE EDITOR Human connection and building campus. However, at times, people Reed Mathis • [email protected] relationships are some of the most get frustrated with the slow speed of REGION COPY EDITOR effective ways to build the trust, support, progress in terms of how far society has and humanity necessary to overcome come in terms of race relations. Still, Hi-Five to the coronavirus for reaching John Witczak • [email protected] Indiana. There is reportedly a case of the contemporary challenges in race “since the [event], our comments from ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR coronavirus in Northwestern Indiana. relations. students about how they received the Alexandru Rotaru • [email protected] Let’s all be honest. If it wipes out The This year’s speaker, Dr. Cecilia Conrad, storytelling from Dr. Conrad and their Region, is that really the worst thing? The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the shared the lessons she learned from ability to fully appreciate the value school audience, including but not limited observing her father break through the her father brought to the Civil Rights to administrators, faculty and staff, parents, racial barrier in Dallas, Texas. Conrad’s Movement in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, MURDER BY THE TENNIS alumni, community members and most stories were a mix of humor, humanity, and so long as one person walks away COURTS importantly, the students. 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DAKOTA BAKER ’22 / PHOTO Riley Lomenick ’21 battle for position against an opponent. The Wabash wrestling team has raced out to a 10-2 start this season, with its only losses coming against top- five teams.

LOGAN SMITH ’23 | STAFF College. This success can be attributed Wrestling team. Returning success has seemingly ran right over them with a WRITER • Winter break is a time of to not only the amount of time spent also been nice for the Little Giants as 42-3 win. Coach commented on this peace and relaxation for the majority practicing, but also the quality of Carlos Champagne ‘22 and Kyle Hatch meet saying, “The week leading up to of Wabash men, but if you’re a member each individual practice. “A lot of our ‘21 are currently ranked #1 in their Milliken wasn’t the greatest week of of Wabash’s wrestling team, break is practices depend on what happened weight classes, with Maxwell Bishop practice, we dropped a couple matches more about sweat and hard work. in our last meet. We usually compete ‘21 and Darden Schurg ‘20 also in the where we shouldn’t have, but some “Winter break for us isn’t really and then see what we need to work top 10 of their weight classes. Coach guys came through at the end and we much of a break,” says Assistant on. We get all the coaches together Kyle spoke on the National Wrestling won the duel in the end. It definitely Wrestling Coach Lincoln Kyle when and talk about our flaws and where we Coaches Association (NWCA) and their wasn’t what we wanted, but at the end explaining what they do with the need to begin, and then that is how we ranking system saying, “It’s cool to of the day we got the job done.” days that aren’t their eight days of no get our focus together for our week of see the rankings and the numbers, and In the end, Coach was glad to get practice. “Winter break is where we practice.” This is certainly a recipe for it helps with the seeding at the NWCA the win, but he knows they will have get a lot of our two-a-days in.” Coach success which works, and this in turn National Duals, but at the end of the to be better in the future to get the Kyle talked about the grueling process leads to a happy coaching staff. day it is really just a number on a results they want. The team will be of practicing and competing over the Coach was especially happy with piece of paper, we’ve had guys go into looking to take advantage of their break, and how it pays off, “That the contribution of younger wrestlers March unranked and come out to win. upcoming matchup at Kentucky Saturday, after a week of practice, we over the course of the break. “Andy So realistically I think that rankings Wesleyan University this Friday at 7 flew out to New Jersey and competed Posledni ‘23 and Kyle Holman ‘23 really don’t matter that much.” p.m., a team who they gave a clean against three top-25 teams and came were big over break, stepping up and Wabash was also able to overcome sweep with a 43-0 victory earlier in out 3-0.” getting some good wins.” With big Milliken in their latest meet, where the season. Coach was confident they Wabash was able to go 9-2 over the injuries and other factors, Holman they squeaked by with a score of 26- would be able to repeat their previous course of the break, losing only to No. and Posledni stepped up and shined 20. This is especially concerning, since performance and build further on the 2 Wartburg College and No. 4 Loras in their first year on the Little Giant the last time Wabash saw Milliken they great season they have had so far. THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 6 SPORTS Swimming Regular Season Recap

JIM DALY ’23 | STAFF WRITER • conference title, one or both of the Last Saturday, Wabash swim and dive main events, [and] beat DePauw.” NCAC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS traveled up to Chicago to take on the Jones pulled off a third-place finish NCAA Division I University of Illinois in the 200-yard breaststroke, clocking Flames and their hosts, the top-10 in under two minutes and nine SCHEDULE ranked Chicago Maroons. The Flames seconds, and fourth overall for the ultimately took home the competition 100-yard freestyle, where he clocked that afternoon. Because the Little in at sub-1. Giants fell short to both teams, they Preparing for the first-ever Wednesday, February 12 at Denison University 7 p.m. are looking to step up their efforts conference meet of his career, which and preparation as they advance into is less than two weeks away, critical the North Coast Athletic Conference team captain Wesley Slaughter ’21 (NCAC) Championships. stole the show for the Little Giants. “The teams were better, but the Slaughter finished first in the 50 and Thursday, February 13 at Denison University 10 a.m. guys embraced the challenge and 100-yard freestyle events, touching raised their level of competition,” the wall in just above 21 seconds Head Coach Will Bernhardt said. in the former and just beneath 46 “We [are] trying to work those seconds in the latter. small details that would make a big “I was mostly trying to compete Friday, February 14 at Denison University 10 a.m. difference at the championship level.” with steep competition,” Slaughter Hunter Jones ’20 put in a hard day’s said. “I went into the meet honestly work, nearing victory in both the just trying to have fun. I didn’t really 100 and 200-yard freestyle events have any expectations but I had my against some of the nation’s finest- best times [...] so that was very Saturday, February 15 at Denison University 10 a.m. trained collegiate swimmers. “I didn’t exciting to see.” really have any expectations going In spite of their previous obstacles, in,” Jones reflected. “... [I was] Wabash swim & dive remains resilient used to swimming [in Chicago] when as they transition into the postseason. I was young.[I] felt sentimentality The NCAC Championships open in in finishing my regular season at less than two weeks, on February the place where we started. [...] 12 against Denison University in Moving forward, [We hope to] win a Granville, Ohio.

COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Adam El-Khalili ’23 swims in a home meet. The Wabash swim and dive team will compete at the NCAC Championships starting on February 12. Track Continues Season Success with Top-2 Finish

JOHN WITCZAK ’21 | COPY Head Track and Field Coach Clyde we are smart about it. Indoor [track] see guys compete and fight through EDITOR • The Wabash track and field Morgan was pleased with his team’s is a longer season than outdoor, so you some adversity. That’s going to come team competed in the Coach Rob performance at Wittenberg. “This meet have to be careful about injuries. When up, it always does.” Challenge at Wittenberg University at Wittenberg, we were just coming off they’re coming off break, we challenge Though point tallies and wins are of last Saturday, January 25. This was a break, so we were working through them, but we’re also careful about the great importance to Coach Morgan and the first time Wabash had competed in some things,” Morgan said. “What I volume of work that we’re doing early. the track team, the intangibles are the Wittenberg’s new indoor track facility, was looking for was making sure the We try to work off that break in them subject of focus as well. Speaking of and the team finished second, with a guys were competing and working on early but keep them healthy at the his team as a whole, Morgan said, “I’m number of individual athletes having things we’d been practicing the last same time.” very impressed with their comradery stand-out performances. Josh Wiggins couple of weeks. Looking to see that The track and field team is headed to and their energy. Yesterday, the ’21 finished 4th in the 200-meter they were taking what we’ve been Rose-Hulman this Friday, January 31, hurdlers got done with their workout, race with a time of 22.50, while doing in practice and applying it in a for more competition. Morgan is still and the distance guys were finishing Tyler Ramsey ’21 came in 2nd in the more competitive environment.” focused on easing his team back into up, so the hurdlers circled the track 400-meter race with a time of 51.11. The impact of a five-week break can an intensely competitive environment, and pushed them, hyped them up. I In the mile-long race, Wabash took be immense on any student-athlete, but continues to hold high standards haven’t seen or felt the fieldhouse like home both the 1st and 2nd place spots, and the potentially negative effects for his team. “We’re backing off a little that in a long time, years. At most with Ethan Pine ’22 posting a time of such a break is something Coach bit, because we are in a lighter week of programs, the attitude is, ‘If I’m done of 4:26.14 and Clarke Criddell ’22 a Morgan is keenly aware of. When training,” Morgan said. “We got some with my work, I’m out.’ But we don’t time of 4:32.62, a personal best. The asked about the break, Morgan said, expectations for some performance do that. And that culture in practice Wabash team’s total point tally of 99 “Its long. I’ve been doing this since marks, and guys getting their legs spills over to the meets.” fell above 3rd placed Wittenberg, who 2000, so I know that some guys are back. The guys are just coming off The Wabash track and field team earned 84 points on the day, but well going to put the work in over break, break, and we’ve been really pushing will return to action later today, with behind The University of Mount Union, and some guys are not. I’m not going them, so we are expecting some marks a meet at 6 p.m. against Rose-Hulman who came in 1st with 313 points. to get even more gray hair over it. So, this Friday. Like always, we want to Institute of Technology.

THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 7 SPORTS Look Back: 1977 Wabash Football Team

BLAKE LARGENT ’22 | SPORTS EDITOR • With the conclusion of Christmas recess and the new semester off and running, The Bachelor returns with its second edition of the ‘Look Back’ series. The goal of this series is to remember and present some of the greatest and most influential athletic teams of Wabash College. The series began with a look back at the historic 1981-82 Wabash basketball team, which captured the 1982 Division III Men’s Basketball National Championship and finished with a 24-4 record. This edition looks back at one of the most historic football teams in Wabash College’s rich football history: the 1977 Wabash football team. Other than academics, Wabash is most well- known for its football program. The Monon Bell rivalry, the Little Giant persona and the Wabash Always Fights mantra, the nine North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championships, and the consistent winning records have led Wabash to become a school known for its football program despite being in basketball-centered Indiana. Every person associated with Wabash College has a personal story or a favorite COURTESY OF WABASH COLLEGE ARCHIVES memory from a specific moment in Little Giant football history. Wabash football achieves The 1977 Wabash football team poses for a team photo. The Little Giants finished the regular season 9-1 and received a success consistently on and off the field, which berth into the Division III playoffs. The team earned a trip to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl to compete for the Division III is expected. This success and the current state championship, but lost a shootout matchup against Widener University 39-36. The team was inducted in the Wabash College of the football program, however, may be Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013. drastically different if not for the 1977 Wabash football team. accomplishments. [...] That was part of the Frank Navarro took over as the head coach of [team’s] campaign.” Wabash football for the 1974 season. Wabash Wabash eventually was placed into the had gone 9-11 over the past two seasons. Division III playoffs, which struck Kerezy as Navarro’s initial progress was slow; the team big break for the team. “The other thing that went just 8-12 in the ’74 and ’75 seasons. This happened was we kind of got a lucky break. The included back-to-back losses in the Monon Bell Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) scheduled its Classic against DePauw. After the ’75 season, playoff game between the north and the south Navarro initiated a decision that would change teams for the first weekend of the Division III Wabash athletics forever. playoffs. They thought that was more important “Frank Navarro was the glue that really than participating in the playoffs. Two really set the foundation for Wabash’s football good schools, Wittenberg and Baldwin Wallace, excellence,” John Kerezy ’77, author of Glory didn’t go. They couldn’t be selected. So Wabash Reborn: A History of Wabash College and its got into the number two slot because of that. Athletic Teams, 1977-1982 and member of the Those two factors combined to open up the door National Association of Wabash Men (NAWM) for Wabash, and the team and the coaches and Board of Directors, said. “In two ways: first everybody took great advantage of that once the and foremost, he understood the disparity door was open.” between the Evansvilles and the Butlers and Wabash had finally made the Division III those who were in Division I and Division III. playoffs, but the road ahead was not easy. He was an instrumental force in convincing Looming in the first round was the defending both the athletic director, Max Servies [’58], national champion and No. 2-ranked team and the college’s president, Thaddeus Seymour in Division III: St. John’s University. After a [H’78], that we should declare for Division III low-scoring first half, St. John’s led Wabash and get out of the Indiana Collegiate Conference at halftime 9-3. The Little Giants, however, (ICC) and declare ourselves permanently that did not surrender. A second-half comeback COURTESY OF WABASH COLLEGE ARCHIVES we are not going to compete with scholarship performance saw Wabash hold St. John’s athletes. That was critical. The second thing scoreless for the remainder of the game, and Wabash head coach Frank Navarro discusses game plans with a player. Navarro was how quickly the program’s fortunes turned the Little Giants walked away with a 20-9 upset guided Wabash to its only national championship appearance in football and was around. Two years before the ‘77 team, we victory. Wabash had no time for celebration: inducted into the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986. were 3-7. That was because we were playing No. 1-ranked University of Minnesota Morris Evansvilles and Butlers and other schools that awaited the Little Giants in the next round. future of Wabash football. “I will say that it was point, but had little to show for it on a national had scholarship athletes on the team. Once that Despite the first-round upset, a win over any a phenomenal team, and it was just remarkable stage. What Coach Frank Navarro, quarterback playing field became level and we were playing top-ranked team is no easy feat. But Wabash’s how the whole thing came together,” Kerezy Dave Harvey, and the 1977 Little Giants against our counterparts [...] our student potent offense, led by quarterback Dave Harvey said. “From winning eight in a row, getting accomplished ushered in an era of greatness in athletes were better.That showed both on the ’78, and home-field advantage played into to the playoffs, and then winning against the virtually all of our athletics teams. That team set field and over a prolonged period of time. [...] the Little Giants’ hands. The offense had a defending national champs and the number- the stage for two undefeated football teams and He had a key role behind the scenes in Wabash fantastic performance, scoring 37 points and one-ranked team to get to the Stagg Bowl. It a national championship basketball team over declaring itself as a Division III college and in leading Wabash to another upset victory, 37- was a lot different back then than it is now. It the next six years.” leaving the ICC.” 21. The Little Giants were headed to the Amos really set the table for the excellence that has Amidon continued, saying, “The Wabash Navarro initiated Wabash’s departure Alonzo Stagg Bowl to compete for the Division happened in Wabash football ever since then. football team that went to the Stagg Bowl gave from the ICC and the Little Giants became III National Championship in Phenix City, If you think about it, there was a six-season the entire Wabash nation a sense of pride, and an independent team into the newly-created Alabama. Their opponent would be Widener stretch, from 1977 to 1982 where the team the timing was excellent since the College was Division III. In 1976, the ‘Navarro effect’ began University, a team that posted an 8-1 regular- went 55-5-1. That was the second-best win- quickly approaching its sesquicentennial. The to show. The team posted a 7-3 record and season record and had momentum coming into loss record of any college in the entire country momentum continued to build over the years reclaimed the Bell after a 14-7 victory against the championship game. that had a football program. The table was set that followed, culminating with the basketball see guys compete and fight through DePauw. Despite the improvements, Wabash The Stagg Bowl featured two teams with by that ’77 team.” team’s national title in 1982 and the 10-0, some adversity. That’s going to come entered 1977 unranked. The Little Giants stifling defense: Wabash held opponents to Kerezy continued to speak of the team’s undefeated football team in 1983. It’s now up, it always does.” opened the 1977 season against a ranked Albion 9.3 points per game in the regular season and impact for the future of Wabash football: been over 40 years, but our College’s athletics Though point tallies and wins are of College team, who demolished Wabash in the Widener held opponents to 11.6 points per “Wabash was at or around a .500 football ambitions and expectations were set by that great importance to Coach Morgan and prior season, 36-0. The Little Giants, though, game. The game itself, though, proved to be a team for 20-plus years prior to the Stagg Bowl 1977 football team.” the track team, the intangibles are the held their own, defeating the Britons 19-17 shootout. The game produced five lead changes team of 1977,” he said. “After 1977, we The success of Wabash football today was subject of focus as well. Speaking of in come-from-behind fashion. Wabash faced between the two teams. Both offenses were had better than .500 teams all but one of the sparked by the breakout season of the 1977 his team as a whole, Morgan said, “I’m another ranked opponent in week two: Hope rolling, and the game looked to be coming next forty-two seasons, numerous conference Wabash football team. Wabash is consistently very impressed with their comradery College, who, like Albion, was also ranked. down to the final possession. Widener held championships, and at least a half-dozen a contender in the NCAC and Division III. The and their energy. Yesterday, the The Little Giants pushed the Dutchmen to the a 39-28 lead with 4:38 to play, but Wabash appearances in the Division III playoffs. We playing field in the new Little Giant Stadium will hurdlers got done with their workout, brink, but Hope escaped with a victory over kept its hopes alive after a touchdown and also had the second-winningest college football be named after Frank Navarro, and Stagg Bowl and the distance guys were finishing Wabash, 20-18. The loss to Hope, however, two-point conversion with just under three team - at any level, DI, DII, DIII, NAIA - in the memorabilia and other historical trophies sitting up, so the hurdlers circled the track was the last regular-season loss for the ’77 minutes remaining. With the score at 39-36, nation with a combined record of 53-5-1 in the in the football trophy case offer a small glimpse and pushed them, hyped them up. I team. Wabash ended the regular season with a Widener marched down the field, taking six years of 1977-1982. The ’77 team ‘set the of the impact of the ’77 team. The 1977 Wabash haven’t seen or felt the fieldhouse like 30-6 rout over DePauw to keep the Bell ringing valuable time off the clock for Wabash. Widener table’ for this, and the teams from ’78 through football team changed the face of Wabash that in a long time, years. At most in Crawfordsville. Despite a 9-1 record, the was eventually stopped and the Little Giants ’82 really ‘ran the table’ to set Wabash’s football football forever, and even many decades later, is programs, the attitude is, ‘If I’m done playoffs were still uncertain for the Little Giants. managed to get one last chance, receiving the foundation for the powerhouse we have today.” still deserving of a look back. with my work, I’m out.’ But we don’t “The coaching staff was hoping all along they ball back at their own 30-yard line with 24 Jim Amidon ’87, who serves as Chief of Staff, Special thanks to John Kerezy ’77, author do that. And that culture in practice may be getting in the playoffs,” Kerezy said. seconds remaining. The hail mary attempts and Director of Strategic Communications, and of Glory Reborn: A History of Wabash College spills over to the meets.” “They had collaborated with the PR office to comeback effort fell short, though, and Widener Secretary for Wabash College, also commented and its Athletics from 1977 to 1982, for his The Wabash track and field team try to make sure the coaches on the [Division claimed the Division III title, winning 39-36. on the success of the ’77 football team. “The assistance in producing this article, to Beth will return to action later today, with III Selection Committee] knew about Wabash The 1977 Wabash football team remains 1977 football team and its accomplishments Swift for her assistance in producing this article a meet at 6 p.m. against Rose-Hulman and what was going on. Everybody that was on the only Wabash football team to compete for put Wabash on the national map in Division and providing the photos used in this article, Institute of Technology. that selection committee got an old-fashioned a national championship. Despite the loss, the III for the very first time,” Amidon said. “We and to Jim Amidon ’87 for his assistance in snail mail and could read about Wabash’s team’s success in the ’77 season changed the had been in Division III for several years at that producing this article. Basketball Season Update

LOGAN SMITH ’23 | STAFF WRITER is, in the words of Coach Brumett, “as • The Wabash basketball team has had healthy as we’ve been all season.” This a less successful start than expected. combination of young support in the role Some of this can be attributed to how players and a healthy roster could turn the over half the games this season have second half of this mediocre season into been away games, which can really drain a strong finish for the Little Giants. This an attempt at winning multiple games team has improved so much throughout in a row. “We’ve had some injuries that the season, and they are also looking at kind of slowed the natural progression of an increase in home games throughout establishing roles, and made it harder to the remainder of the season. Wabash will figure out rotations and minutes,” Head play five of the next eight games in their Coach Kyle Brumett said. “Along with own Chadwick Court where they have that came some inconsistency, we just achieved a 6-1 record thus far. Coach came out of preseason and we weren’t Brumett talked about the effect of playing fully prepared to grind, especially when at home saying, “We have been good at our older guys had injuries.” Brumett home, actually historically good at home, was fully aware of the crippling effects and the support we get, whether it’s the that early injuries to leaders had on the students or just the Wabash community, it team, but also recognized that his team really gives us a lift and makes Chadwick wasn’t quite ready for the pressure last Court a really tough place to play for road year had put on them. Although they do teams. Our guys have remained really have a strong young core, it does help positive through everything, but we have when the experienced guys on the team to find the things that work for us.”

are able to be out in the pressure that they Brumett went on to compare this team to COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING are used to, which also allows the more last year’s sensational basketball team, experienced players to guide the younger talking of how this year’s team is much Justin Hensley ’23 rises for a three over a Denison opponent. Hensley nailed five players through that pressure. stronger defensively, and has showed threes en route to an 88-65 Wabash victory. However, this early struggle could times where they can be even more prove to be a blessing in disguise for the efficient on offense. The hope is that the conference games at home against The but hopes are that this healthy team Little Giants. Not only do the younger team can find consistency as we approach College of Wooster at 2 PM, tomorrow, will be able to show what they are truly players of the team now have experience the final games of the season. Saturday, January 29. Wooster beat the capable of and come out with a win to with being on the court, but now the team Wabash will start their final stretch of Little Giants 74-79 earlier in the season, start their final stretch of the season.

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