Tennis takes title SPORTS Return to the upside-down Women’s team wins PACs “Stranger Things” comes back just in time for Halloween Digging for hope LIFE Project Okello raises money for ENTERTAINMENT clean water The Friday, October 27, 2017 CollegianThe Grove City College Student Newspaper Vol. 103, No. 6 BECCA SHAFFER To celebrate music, marching and majorettes, high school bands from around the county came to Grove City College to perform their shows. All of the bands gave spec- tacular performances for alumni and peers alike on Thorn Field, where the Wolverine marching band will perform Saturday during the football game against Geneva. March-ing madness Steven Gosselin lege hosted the inaugu- Junior/Senior High Tiger Marching Band traditional high step an interest in the band Staff Writer ral Marching Band In- School Falcon March- and the Grove City High and the Sharon Tiger routine. According to vitational and Festival, ing Band, the Mighty School Marching Band, Marching Band for per- freshman Wolverine “A great day for featuring six local high Mercer Mustang the night was sure to forming music from band member Sarah band!” said Dr. Joseph school bands, as well as Marching Machine, the impress. Star Wars. Gorog, “It was great to Pisano, director of the a performance by the Lincoln High School All the bands gave The performers were have people who sup- Grove City College Wol- Wolverines. Marching Blue Band, great performances, all respectful and en- port band on campus, verine Marching Band, Featuring the guest the Slippery Rock High with two standouts be- couraging of their peers’ performing and enjoy- and it definitely was! talents of the Allegh- School Rocket March- ing the LHS Blue Band performances and ev- On Saturday, the Col- eny-Clarion Valley ing Band, the Sharon for marching with a eryone there shared BAND 2 The scoop on sophomore machines Karen Postupac nology at the College, Sophomores have was released in August Editor-in-Chief spoke on the issue. found a variety of prob- 2016. We installed that “Before we got the lems with their ma- version onto the ma- The difference be- sophomore machines, chines. All the prob- chines, tested of the tween the current soph- we experimented with lems, DiStasi says, can newest version and dis- omore computers and different models,” DiS- be solved with updates tributed the computers ANDREW STEIN the current freshman tasi said. “We tested the to the software, specifi- to the current sopho- The Center of Vision & Values’ 11th annual Ronald computers is obvious, sophomore comput- cally a feature of the in- mores,” said DiStasi. Reagan Lecture featured Peggy Grande, the late but are the sophomore ers and spent months stalled version of Win- He continued, “When president’s executive assistant in the years following computers as bad as the gathering feedback dows 10. we started to see issues, sophomores say they from selected students “We were using Win- we identified the prob- his presidency. are? and faculty. We did not dows 10, the version lem, which was a defect Dr. Vincent DiStasi blindly choose a model. 2015-01, to test the in the video driver. We ‘88, the Vice President This machine was not a sophomore laptops. ‘Grande’ lecture for Information Tech- mistake.” The version 2016-07 COMPUTERS 2 Jennifer Montazzoli Staff Writer and author of The Pres- ident Will See You Now, Community remembers The Great War Few people can claim gave a heartwarming to have personally interview about her Paige Fay worked alongside their book and behind the Staff Writer childhood hero. In fact, scenes story of her daily many times, meeting a encounters with Presi- The number of those personal hero can be a dent Reagan. Students who get to celebrate a disheartening experi- of all majors came to 100th anniversary is ence when the person Crawford Auditorium few, but at Grove City fails to measure up to to listen to the Center College, students and expectations. This was for Vision and Values residents of Grove City not, however, Peggy 11th Annual Reagan Lec- alike will be able to re- Grande’s experience ture. member the United when she met her po- Grande spent her States’ involvement in litical idol, President youth as a presidential World War One during Ronald Reagan. history buff and daugh- its centennial. On Wednesday ter of two educators. A joint effort of the GROVE CITY COLLEGE Grande, former Execu- Upon graduating from college and the Grove “The Great War” exhibit will feature World War I artifacts. The exhibit will open next tive Assistant to Presi- City Historical Society week in the gallery of Pew Fine Arts Center. REAGAN 2 dent Ronald Reagan and organized by Hil- EXHIBIT 2 Page 2 The Collegian Oct. 27, 2017 Trotting for Warriors Samantha Funderlich the best group and indi- Contributing Writer vidual costumes. Laura said she only There is no greater way to get in shape be- “ran once or twice a fore indulging in an week for a few weeks. entire night of trick-or- It’s not too hard to train treating than the sixth for, and you may not annual Trick-or-Trot even need to because 5K hosted by the Tri- Zeta sorority and the you’re certainly allowed brothers of the Sigma to walk as much of the Alpha Sigma fraternity. race as you want to.” According to senior Donuts and hot choc- Zeta Cassidy Nelson, the race was created by TRI ZETA &SIGMA ALPHA SIGMA TRICK OR TROT 5K RUN/WALK olate will be available at the girls to honor the The Tri-Zeta sorority and the Sigma Alpha Sigma fraterninty present their annual Trick or Trot 5K on Saturday to the finish line and there family members and benefit Wounded Warriors. may be pumpkin paint- boyfriends who serve in her experience in the afterwards. I partici- go to www.runsignup. people in the commu- ing at the end along the armed forces. They race last year, sopho- pated because I knew com/race/pa/grovec- nity can stand with to with a photo booth for all had a mutual love for more Laura Reiner my money was going ity/trickortrot2017, support their own loved athletics, so they creat- seemed to enjoy her towards a good cause, which can be found on ones and the country. everyone to take pic- ed the Trick-or-Trot to morning. “It was a the Wounded Warrior all of their various post- While prizes are giv- tures together in their get students and mem- great experience! It Project, and because a ers around campus. en out for the top spots costumes. CLP credit bers of the community was fun to see everyone Halloween-themed 5K Donations are also in each age group, no is given to groups if a active on a holiday that wearing their Hallow- sounded like a really being accepted of the need to panic if you minimum of 20 percent is better known for een costumes during fun time.” website as well for the don’t consider your- snacking. the run, and yummy In order to donate Wounded Warrior self a runner, because of the group partici- When asked to recall snacks were provided and sign up for the race, Project. This is a cause prizes are given out for pates. BAND Comment dit-on Comte? continued from 1 ing it together with us.” Joseph Fitzpatrick the 1980s at the Univer- While Harp was not was just going to be an the middle of finish- Senior and drum Contributing Writer sity of Virginia. While involved in the trans- e-book. But no, they’ve ing another book. Part major Lindsey Miller searching to get his lation process, he is printed it up into a nice of a contract with Ox- echoed these senti- Dr. Gillis J. Harp, a dissertation published, glad that his work has paperback.” ford University Press, ments. “The festival was professor of History Harp received an offer been made available The book explores the book focuses on the amazing! The bleachers at Grove City College, from Penn State. to another audience. some of the influences history of the relation- were full of energetic has recently had his Comte is a distin- Twenty-two years after on American political ship between conserva- students, friends, and study on the influence guished French phi- having his book first thought in the late 19th families. It was great tives and Protestants in of Comtean positivism losopher, often re- published, Harp re- and early 20th centu- to share music with translated into French. garded as the father of ceived a message from ries. “It started because America. Harp said, “It’s kind the talented local high Harp’s book, originally Sociology. Because of Penn State letting him of the larger question school bands. They ap- published in 1994, was of how did the politi- of a big sweeping over- this, Harp’s book was know that a translation preciated GCC’s hospi- once again published immediately brought cal thought change at view back from the was in the works. tality and loved to see this past August by to the attention of the Harp said, “Even the turn of the century? colonial period up to the college band per- L’Harmattan, one of the French audience. “In more recently, I got a We know it changed, so the recent past”. While form,” said Miller. main publishing houses fact, at the time when note from one of the how do we explain it?” Harp’s work on Comte The Wolverine in France. it was published, I re- editors of this French Harp continued, “No- was the first of his to be Marching Band’s fi- Harp’s work, titled member getting e-mails Publisher and that was body had really looked translated into another nale performance re- “Positivist Republic: and letters from French when I realized that at continental Euro- language, he hopes that ally brought the house Auguste Comte and academics asking me this wasn’t some tiny pean influences at the his latest book will be down.