Wabash & Depauw Compete in Annual Blood Drive
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NOVEMBER 3, 2017 THE BACHEL THE STUDENT VOICE OF WABASH COLLEGE R SINCE 1908 BLEEDING FOR A CAUSE WABASH & DEPAUW COMPETE IN ANNUAL BLOOD DRIVE JACKSON BLEVINS ’20 | compete with DePauw because STAFF WRITER • On Tuesday, they have around 2,500 students November 7, Wabash College will and we have around 900 students. be participating in the annual However, it is impressive that we Bleed for the Bell Blood Drive have won in the past years.” competition. The event will be The athletic department held from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. oversees campus wellness, and at the Knowling Fieldhouse in they are playing a significantly the Allen Center. On the seventh, large role in the event as well. the Wabash community and Athletic director Greg Shaheen DePauw University community and Operations Administrator Sue will hold a one-day event to see Dobbs-Schneider are some of the which school can donate the most athletic department staff leading blood. This will be the 17th year the charge for the blood drive. of the event, starting back in 2000. Shaheen has done a lot of work This competitive day of donating behind the scenes leading up the blood has been a valuable asset event alongside Dobbs-Schneider, to the Red Cross blood banks who had some words of wisdom since 2000. The event is free and for the Wabash community. open to the public, and it is highly “I encourage everyone in the encouraged that anyone who is Wabash community to give willing and able to donate blood blood,” Dobbs-Schneider said. would do so on this day. The “It takes about an hour of your housing unit with the most donors time but it is a relatively smooth will receive free wings courtesy of process. Make sure to come the Wabash Athletic Department. hydrated, as I came last year and This event is being sponsored they sent me home because I was by the Red Cross and many too dehydrated. Lastly, be sure to COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING / PHOTO Wabash organizations on campus. sign up early to donate because The ‘Bleed for the Bell’ competition has been fierce betwen Wabash and DePauw students Wabash Wellness (through the the Red Cross needs to know how for 17 years. athletic department) and Alpha many technicians to bring to Phi Omega will be lending a campus to assist.” hand for this event. The APO The Red Cross’s goal for Wabash at Wabash has played a large is to get 129 people signed up role in providing resources and and to eventually have 78 people BETA TAKES HOME IM manpower to the event for many donate blood, which is a realistic years and will do so again this goal for the Wabash community to year. Robert Wunderlich ‘18 will tackle. This is a great opportunity CHAMPIONSHIP be one of many students and to grab roommates and fraternity CAVELIFE - PAGE EIGHT faculty who will be giving their brothers and bring them to the time to help out with the event. Allen Center so Wabash can “We will be helping the Red out-donate our rivals from the Cross set up and tear down the South. Winning the blood drive SOCCER FALLS IN NCAC event,” Wunderlich said. “We competition would be a great way have done this for many years to kickstart to Monon Bell Week, and look forward to doing it so roll up your sleeves and let’s SEMI-FINALS TO OWU again. It is very challenging to get to donating, Wallies. SPORTS - PAGE TWELVE VOLUME 110 • ISSUE 9 BACHELOR HI-FIVES DANCE MARATHON 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ FUNDRAISES WITH Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor EMAIL WARS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Joseph Reilly • [email protected] Come one, come all... Recently professors have OLYMPICS NEWS EDITOR been sending urgent emails regarding their Braxton Moore • [email protected] immersion courses. It seems as if there was one CAMPUS EVENTS RAISE MONEY FOR THE KIDS opportunity to go to England, then another OPINION EDITOR opportunity to go to Greece, now there’s professors Ahad Khan • [email protected] taking students all across the world. One would ERIC CHAVEZ ’19 | STAFF no small feat, the club is always SPORTS EDITOR infer that the classes would fill up very quick, but the WRITER • The Wabash Dance looking to improve. “We can Tucker Dixon • [email protected] recent due date extensions and repetitive emails Marathon club hosted the Campus always raise more,” Elrefai said. CAVELIFE EDITOR might mean otherwise.... Olympics last week in an effort Although there were plenty Jade Doty • [email protected] to raise money and awareness for of participants at each event, Riley Children’s Hospital. To do dodgeball seemed to be the PHOTO EDITOR TEAMWORK MAKES THE this, the club hosted four events favorite. “Dodgeball was easily Levi Garrison • [email protected] DREAM WORK throughout the week: an ice cream the most successful, there were at ONLINE EDITOR social, a corn hole tournament, a least fifty guys chucking balls for Ian Ward • [email protected] FIFA tournament, and a dodgeball Every member on the cross country team has been the kids,” Elrefai said. While the COPY EDITOR tournament. Each fraternity main objective was to raise money doing fantastic this season. Although Patacsil ‘19 Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] was the first ever individual NCAC Champion in house was given the opportunity for the children’s hospital, there Wabash history, every runner for Wabash performed to donate money to allow some were also bragging rights at stake of their brothers to participate in for students. Although the real at a high caliber. The team is doing great as a unit, The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the capitalizing on each other’s strengths to push the each event. Independents could winner of the Campus Olympics also create their own teams and were the kids, Delta Tau Delta won school audience, including but not limited to team to higher achievements. buy in individually. the overall competition, with Beta administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, Although raising money was a Theta Pi placing second and Sigma community members and most importantly, COL. MUSTARD IN THE top priority, awareness was also a Chi behind them. It seems that the students. Because this is a school paper, concern. “We had a good turnout,” when competition comes into the the content and character within will cater to LIVING ROOM Kenny Cox picture, Wabash men are always the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. ’19, the club’s up for the challenge of making a Further, this publication will serve as a medium “Beward of the condiments,” cried the Phi Gams. Director significant difference. and forum for student opinions and ideas. The fraternity’s first floor was covered in mustard of Alumni The team hopes to continue Although an individual newspaper, the Board early Monday morning. The early risers were greeted Relations, this event in years to come, of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The to a pungent aroma on their way to their 8 a.m.’s. said. “We along with other events that will Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the Despite the hard work of the members to save the were able give members of the Wabash Wabash College Student Senate, which derives furniture, The Bachelor is sad to report the couch to talk a community opportunities to its funds from the Wabash College student body. and pool table iconic to the living room are no more. lot about help the cause even more. The the dance Wabash Dance Marathon as a Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed marathon and whole has asked students to be on and encouraged. They will only be published if they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not CARJACKERS ON CAMPUS Kenny Cox get the word the lookout for ways to continue out to a lot making a difference. In the near longer than 500 words. Townies attempted to break into vehicles on the of people.” future they will be selling “FTK” The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters East side of campus late Monday night. This is With more people learning about (For the kids) hats. All of the for content, typographical errors, and length. an opportunity to put on superhero costumes the cause, there are high hopes money raised from selling those All letters received become property of this from Halloween and deliver vigilante justice to that more members of the Wabash hats will go to directly to the Riley publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ these Crawfordsville criminals. While you masked community will get involved. Children’s Hospital. or redistribution. Profanity may appear in the marauders are at it, you might investigate the Fiji Even with some difficulties to get The main event, the actual publication, but only in cases of direct quote or if mustarding as well? You don’t have to be the hero all of the events in before the end Dance Marathon itself, will be profanity is necessary to the content of the story. Wabash deserves, just be the hero Wabash needs. of the week, the Campus Olympics held on December 2. During Please do not confuse profanity with obscenity. were quite a success in the eyes which, students can expect to No article or picture of an obscene nature will of the club. “Six houses bought in participate in games and other fun appear in this publication. along with a few other individual activites, eat free food, and most FOR THE KIDS The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at groups, which brought the grand importantly, dance.