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PIA SCHUEBEL GUEST COLUMN SEE PAGE NINE APRIL 19, 2019 A Message from D & I Hello Wabash Community, The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will host a public event this Saturday, April 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Knowling Fieldhouse. This event is OPEN TO PUBLIC and there is no entry fee for Wabash affiliates. The event will include cultural performances by WAMIDAN, Glee Club, and individual members of the community. If you wish to perform anything, from a musical performance, dance, or even to participate in the fashion show, please send me an email as soon as COURTESY OF CTVNEWS possible at dmscisne21@wabash. edu! We welcome participation by all Over Spring Break, a group of Wabash men on an immersion trip to Paris were able to visit the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral, which faculty and staff, as well as the larger tragically caught fire this week. Crawfordsville community! We will also have SIX DIFFERENT TYPES of ethnic foods and desserts (Indian, African, African American, Memories, History Up In Smoke Vietnamese, Hispanic, and Chinese Food). Food is free for Wabash students and anyone who performs at AUSTIN HOOD ’21 | OPINION “As a world heritage site, as a connection personal connection to the building. And it has the event. There is a $5 ticket for food EDITOR • A sense of shock swept over to French history, it is exceptionally a personal, really tangible connection to all the area on anyone who is not a currently Wabash College’s campus on Monday after- representative and profound,” Professor French history and…the Western world.” enrolled student, except for children noon as news came in that the Notre Dame Rhoades said. “Notre Dame is more than just While the fire was still burning late Monday ages 12 and under. Cathedral had caught on fire. The historic a building, just a thing. If you watch the French night, French President Emmanuel Macron The Diversity and Inclusion Parisian building, built between 1160 and news reports you realize all of France’s history pledged to rebuild Notre Dame in five years. committee will also present the 1260, was ablaze for about five hours as and culture is wrapped up into one. You can By Wednesday, the French government had T.A.L.L AWARD to 3 students, and 2 around 500 firefighters battled the flames. see interviews of people in the streets just received $960 million to help with that effort. faculty/staff members in recognition The cause of the blaze remains unknown. An sobbing and mourning the loss.” Miraculously, many of the priceless works of their efforts to make our campus intensive investigation is currently underway, Besides serving as a symbol of faith and of art and historical artifacts, including a a more welcoming and vibrant with the most common hypothesis being that unity to the French people, Notre Dame is the relic reported to be Jesus’ crown of thorns, one. The T.A.L.L award is a student the fire was sparked by faulty electronics or site of a number of notable events in world escaped the blaze. Though mourning, many recognized award created by member human error. history. It is the location where the Romans welcome the event as a time to think seriously organizations of the Diversity and Over the years, hundreds of members first landed in what they called Laetitia. The about the importance on historic sites. Inclusion Committee. of the Wabash Community have visited the Cathedral was the sight of the coronation “It means something. It’s not just a building Thank you for your time, we hope to famed church. From immersion trips and of Charlemagne, the first King of France, any longer, but it represents architecture, see you there to support diversity on studying abroad to family vacations and and Napoleon I, the first Emperor of France. represents progress, represents success, all Wabash’s campus! pilgrimages, the Cathedral has left an impact Many have a connection to it that isn’t merely these things,” Professor Rhoades said. “As on generations of Wallies. The Bachelor sat historical relevance, but personal significance. we go to visit it, as a sight of memory, we The Diversity and Inclusion down and interviewed Associate Professor of “It’s the place where I have gone for now talk about all these things that it means to Committee History Michelle Rhoades, who received her on more trips than I can remember to light a everyone. Especially how beautiful it is. And I PhD in French History from the University of candle...to my grandmother who passed away, think, if anything else, that the world’s reaction Iowa, to get a gauge on just how significant and then my father and stepmother after to it really emphasizes that point that it means Monday’s events were. that,” Professor Rhoades said. “So I have a more than just the building.” VOLUME 111 • ISSUE 24 BACHELOR 301 W. Wabash Ave., HI-FIVES Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 Future Wallies Come Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ FIVE THINGS WORTHY Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK to Campus EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] NEWS EDITOR ALEXANDRU ROTARU ’22 | are to the students.” This is why visiting Jake Vermeulen • [email protected] NEW STUDENT BODY PREZ STAFF WRITER • Last weekend, campus is so important before making a OPINION EDITOR on April 13 and 14, Wabash College decision: one cannot fully experience the Austin Hood • [email protected] Hi-Five to Mohammad Dayem Adnan ‘20, the brought over 90 high-school seniors in joy of being a Wally in a photograph, a SPORTS EDITOR order for them to experience a taste of pamphlet, or a short video. first international student to become President Patrick McAuley • [email protected] what an all-male, liberal arts college Naturally, the prospects’ favorite event of the Student Body. He and his vice-president, CAVELIFE EDITOR Corbin Landrum ‘21, will be working next in the heart of Indiana has to offer, as was fraternity rush. Given the nation- part of the second and last Admitted wide stained reputation of fraternities Braxton Moore • [email protected] academic year to improve our lives on campus. PHOTO EDITOR Let us hope that Dayem achieving this goal will Student Weekend. Students and their and sororities, actually engaging with families came from as far as the states Greek life would show students that, Ian Ward • [email protected] inspire more students to follow in his footsteps ONLINE EDITOR and become involved, successful Wabash men. of California, New York, Arkansas, Texas, on this campus, there are no frats, and Tennessee so that they can see for only fraternities, where scholarship, Ian Ward • [email protected] themselves what kind of men they can community service, and responsibility COPY EDITOR TIGER ROARS BACK become here. are standards, and not exceptions. At the Brent Breese • [email protected] The goal for Admitted Student same time, “from what we’ve heard from The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve Hi-Five to the G.O.A.T., Tiger Woods, for Weekend is “to get the deposited the students, and from walking around the school audience, including but not winning his fifth Masters last Sunday. He fell students even more excited about to that evening, [the students] had a lot limited to administrators, faculty and staff, Wabash, and a little bit more familiar of fun,” Wells said. “It’s always fun to parents, alumni, community members and from grace, was not supposed to play again, most importantly, the students. Because and made it back to the top. Love or hate the about the next steps, as well as provide see them get a bid or accept a bid, and this is a school paper, the content and guy, his comeback is nothing short of a miracle. them with more information about our be able to visualize where they’re going character within will cater to the student Whether you like it or not, green and red are a campus,” Julia Wells, Senior Assistant to be, and the kind of community that body’s interests, ideas, and issues. Director of Admissions, said. “And, then, they’re going to be a part of.” Further, this publication will serve as a perfect combination. medium and forum for student opinions for those that haven’t deposited yet, just The program concluded with the and ideas. to show them what a great place we are students learning how to network, FIREFIGHTER-IN-CHIEF to choose to be a part of, and get them obtaining business cards, and actually Although an individual newspaper, the Board of Publications publishes The even more excited to then make that attending a networking lunch with 25 CLAYTON HUBER ’21 / PHOTO Bachelor. The Bachelor and BOP receive Hi-Five to the president concocting another deposit.” Based on the feedback they alumni of the college, from the nearby funding from the Wabash College Student Phi Delta Theta was awarded best Freshman GPA at Fraternity Day. brilliant idea in his little, little mind. While have been receiving from students and area. The alumni “represent different Senate, which derives its funds from the La Cathedrale du Notre-Dame de Paris was parents alike, “I’d say we’ve reached that and diverse careers,” Wells said. Wabash College student body. burning, POTUS suggested using helicopters goal,” Wells said. “They’re not all lawyers, or they’re not all to pour down water on the roof. Does he want Letters (e-mails) to the editor are The entire event could not have been from recent classes. It was important for welcomed and encouraged.