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THE BACHELOR’S PREDICTION FOR THE 125TH MONON BELL CLASSIC: WABASH 28 - DEPAUW 17 SEE PAGE 14 FOR THE FULL STORY NOVEMBER 9, 2018 OUR HOUSE. OUR BELL. IAN WARD ’19 / PHOTO The Little Giants (8-1) host the Tigers (4-5) in this year’s Monon Bell Classic. The game has a title sponsor this year for the first time, as the Cancer Treatment Centers of America have stepped up to cover the cost of the game’s broadcast. VOLUME 111 • ISSUE 10 BACHELOR 301 W. Wabash Ave., HI-FIVES BOWENS PUT Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ ‘STUDENTS FIRST’ WITH Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor OUTMATCHED ALLEGHENY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF $2 MILLION GIFT Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] Hi-Five to the Allegheny football player who tried to NEWS EDITOR fight the entire football team before being ejected last Jake Vermeulen • [email protected] Saturday. Sure, we’ve all been there. We’ve all felt we could “totally take that guy and his buddies before.” COMMUNICATIONS AND “But there are two things that OPINION EDITOR Usually, its after 2 or 3 Cactus cups, but you have to MARKETING • Steve Bowen ’68 can’t endure: extraordinary teaching and Austin Rudicel • [email protected] admire the gall this guy had. Better luck next time, help but laugh as he realizes how academic rigor. To me, these are SPORTS EDITOR long he’s been connected to Wabash the traditions that matter and must Thad Castle. Patrick McAuley • [email protected] College. continue.” In 54 years, he’s been a student, As Chair of the Board, Bowen CAVELIFE EDITOR FROZEN FRESHMEN fan, father of a Wabash man, Chair helped create the William C. Braxton Moore • [email protected] of the Board of Trustees, and now a Placher Fund, an endowment that PHOTO EDITOR We’d like to take this moment to remember the professor in the religion department. supplements faculty salaries. Ian Ward • [email protected] freshmen lost to the cold after guarding the campus He and his wife, Joanie, recently “If we need to augment beginning the previous two nights. Rumor has it that the press made a $2 million unrestricted gift salaries to attract young faculty ONLINE EDITOR box was a whopping -30 degrees last night. The to the College to continue their or otherwise to maintain our Ian Ward • [email protected] dearly departed freshmen started writing, “Wabash commitment to his alma mater for competitiveness in the market place, COPY EDITOR Always Fi...” on the wall before succumbing to the years to come. the fund gives the College flexibility in Brent Breese • [email protected] cold. Thank for your sacrifice, gentlemen. You won’t Why now? meeting these needs,” he said. be forgotten...even though we can’t seem to recall “I’ve lived a lot more years than When he retired after 42 years of The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the your names at the moment. I’m going to live,” Bowen said. “I just practicing law, Bowen was given the school audience, including but not limited to thought it was time.” opportunity to teach a religion course administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, The unrestricted gift allows during the fall semesters. He started community members and most importantly, TAXI TO PURDUE? the College’s administration, in teaching theological ethics and is now the students. Because this is a school paper, collaboration with the Board of helping Professor of Religion Derek the content and character within will cater to Hi-Five to the Hail Mary sent out by a freshman Trustees, to meet the College’s most Nelson teach a senior colloquium and the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. at midnight on Friday asking if there was a student pressing needs and to invest in a freshman tutorial. Further, this publication will serve as a medium willing to drive to Purdue to pick up women. We hate innovative new programs. “I was a religion student, and and forum for student opinions and ideas. to break it to you, but when they said Wabash buses “I believe in the current theology and ethics have always been Although an individual newspaper, the Board women in, they did not mean it literally. Next time administration of the College, and I my avocation,” Bowen said. “My being of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The you’re looking to invite girls over, we would suggest believe in the Board of Trustees,” he here allows the College to offer a Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the using Uber or getting certified to drive a Wabash said. “I trust the College to spend the course it might not otherwise be able Wabash College Student Senate, which derives passanger van. money wisely, to put students first, to offer. It helps the students, and it its funds from the Wabash College student body. and to give them what they need to extends our academic footprint.” YOU CAN’T PARK THERE succeed.” Bowen recognizes the culture Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed Bowen was elected to the Wabash of philanthropy is essential to the and encouraged. They will only be published if Board of Trustees in 1996 and became College’s long-term well-being. He they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not Chair of the Board in 2007. His son also encourages alumni to stay in longer than 500 words. David graduated in 1999, and he touch with their classmates and with The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters met his wife, Joanie, when her son, faculty members. for content, typographical errors, and length. Paul Heinemann ’07, was a Wabash “I have always benefitted from All letters received become property of this student. staying in touch with faculty publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ “Steve and Joanie have been members,” Bowen said. “They have or redistribution. Profanity may appear in the exceptional ambassadors for and a lot of wisdom about a lot of things, publication, but only in cases of direct quote or if stewards of Wabash College,” said and they’re always interested in you profanity is necessary to the content of the story. Wabash President Gregory D. Hess. and in what you’re doing.” Please do not confuse profanity with obscenity. “Though each connected to Wabash When Bowen isn’t on campus, No article or picture of an obscene nature will through different paths, they have he is usually with his wife and dogs appear in this publication. always been strong and consistent at their home in Chicago. He and in the importance of the College’s Joanie do yoga and get a lot of The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at mission to transform lives.” exercise, read, and enjoy seeing good the Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. It is MERCY, PLEASE Bowen is aware that much has movies. Of course, Bowen is often delivered freely to all students, faculty, and staff changed at the College. doing something Wabash-related, at Wabash College. All advertising published Dear Professors, we know you have a job to do, but “Traditions in my day, like ‘W’ like preparing classes or listening to in the Bachelor is subject to an established rate can we dial back the homework for Monon next haircuts and pole fights, are traditions or live-streaming Wabash athletic card. The Bachelor reserves the right to deny year? The amount of work this week seems a bit no longer, and some ‘current’ events. requests for publication of advertisements. overwhelming given the context of the week. Just traditions, like not walking under the “That’s just me. This is a special Student organizations of Wabash College may ease off of the gas pedal next year, and we promise arch, began long after I graduated. place. It’s where my life took off.” purchase advertisements at half the listed rate. that the week after bell we will be productive... once The Bachelor is a member of the Hoosier State we sober up. and Indiana Collegiate Press Associations (HSPA and ICPA). 2 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR NEWS WABASH MAN WINS HIGH PROFILE SENATE RACE CHRISTIAN REDMOND ’20 | Josh Hawley (R) overcame incumbent STAFF WRITER • Mike Braun ’76 (R) Claire McCaskill (D). Former Presidential beat incumbent Joe Donnelly (D) in the Candidate Mitt Romney (R) decided to run Indiana Senate race on Tuesday. Early for Senate again in Utah and won. Jeff Flake on Tuesday, FiveThirtyEight.com, a well- (R) opted to vacate his seat in Arizona, which respected poll reporter, only slated Braun was captured by Martha McSally (R). Rick with a 28% chance of taking over the seat. Scott (R) barely defeated incumbent Bill News networks labelled Braun the winner Nelson (D) in the swing state of Florida. after he grabbed 54% of the vote compared While the Republicans held power in the to Donnelly’s 42%. Braun joins Senator Todd Senate, the Democrats took back over the Young (R) in representing Indiana in the House of Representatives. Sharice Davids United States Senate. (D) in Kansas and Deb Haaland (D) in New Braun is a Jasper High School, Wabash Mexico became the first Native American College, and Harvard Business School Congresswomen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduate. Braun was an economics major, (D), 29, won her district in New York and served as Student Body President, and became the youngest woman to serve in graduated summa cum laude during his Congress. Rashida Tlaib (D) in Michigan and time at Wabash. After Harvard, he moved Ihan Omar (D) in Minnesota became the back to Jasper and started Meyer Body first Muslim Congresswomen.