'You Like That?'

COLLEGE ANNOUNCES MAJOR GIFT PAGE TWO NOVEMBER 2, 2018 ‘YOU LIKE THAT?’ A MESSAGE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTBALL ENDS WITT’S PERFECT SEASON CONCERNS COMMITTEE BRANDON ARBUCKLE ’19 | GUEST consistent rate, trees have a decent WRITER • The climate is changing, “idea” of when it should get cold. end statement. Whether or not you However, temperature is a secondary agree with the human-caused part of cue. Warm fall temperatures tend to it doesn’t change that fact. With this delay the onset of fall colors later in in mind, it’s interesting to consider to the season. This may also cause an what a warmer future may look like issue in how “in sync” trees are when for the world. Narrowing the scope they do eventually change. Rather of this thought down, what might a than a burst of color all around, we warmer future look like in a place like may see more of a gradual transition, the Midwest, Indiana, or Wabash? with some trees changing and losing In my opinion, one of the most their leaves earlier with others exciting times of year at Old Wabash straying behind. While this may be is during the fall. We welcome relatively harmless, trees don’t just hundreds of new students to our exist to provide us with beautiful campus, Homecoming and Monon colors in October. They provide Bell weeks come and go, and perhaps many valuable ecosystem services, most beautifully, the leaves begin too, which may come under threat to transition into vibrant varieties from pests and a loss of biodiversity of yellows, oranges, reds, and in a warmer world. everything in-between. Cold winters in Indiana kill off Biologists, forgive me, I’m no various forms of pests, invasive expert. My understanding of the species, and diseases which ail trees “leaves changing” may not be up to in our state. Shorter, warmer winters PhD par, but I’ll give it my best shot. would allow these troublemakers to The process in which the leaves thrive and proliferate for an extended change is caused and influenced season, increasing their ability to by a wide variety of factors, from kill and sicken trees. Additionally, the length of day, the temperature over time, the types of trees able IAN WARD ’19 / PHOTO outside, the amount and frequency of to survive under these changes will Oliver Page ’19 celebrates after his second touchdown of the game, which gave Wabash the precipitation, changes in humidity, diminish. Currently, Indiana harbors lead with 84 seconds left in regulation. and changes in cloud cover. Trees over 100 native tree species. That pick up on these annual alterations, number, according to the US Forest mainly the length of day and Service and the Department of temperature outside. The days get Agriculture, is expected to decrease dramatically shorter in August and under the effects of climate change. September, and the trees begin to That means fewer colors in the fall, lose the chlorophyll in their leaves, and a higher proportion of trees FOOTBALL RECAP AND the chemical responsible for the affected or killed when an invasive “greenness” of their foliage. Some pest, or disease comes through. begin producing anthocyanins, In short, the climate is changing. PHOTOS responsible for leaves turning red. With it, so will falls on our campus PAGE 13 Some don’t, and when they lose their and around our state. It’s weird to chlorophyll, turn orange. consider the changes that we may Day length and temperature are see over our lifetime, but the real the biggest factors. While the Earth question will be how we proactively runs around the sun at a pretty adapt to them. VOLUME 111 • ISSUE 9 BACHELOR HI-FIVES 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY ALLENS MEET NEED OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor ESPN COLLEGE GAMEDAY WITH $2 MILLION GIFT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AT THE ‘BASH? Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] GIFT DEMONSTRATES STRONG AND NEWS EDITOR Dear College Gameday, you can’t find a better Jake Vermeulen • [email protected] college gameday experience than the Monon Bell LASTING COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS OPINION EDITOR game. Here is our pitch for you to come: 10,000 Austin Rudicel • [email protected] fans pack into a stadium to watch a game that has very little conference implication. Just to put that SPORTS EDITOR into perspective, that is higher than some DI football COMMUNICATIONS AND it has on so many men who have the Patrick McAuley • [email protected] programs can. Let the Little Giants rock your day, MARKETING • “Where is the need?” ability and interest in making something CAVELIFE EDITOR It was the simplest of questions from more of themselves. That is what makes you won’t regret it. Braxton Moore • [email protected] Jay Allen ’79, and the answer carries a me continually dedicated.” great deal of weight. A self-described good student, Jay PHOTO EDITOR FIJI FRESHMAN BABES “I want to know where the needs are finds himself leaning on some of the Ian Ward • [email protected] and that’s what I try to support.” lessons gained both in and out of the ONLINE EDITOR Hi-Five to the Fiji Freshman for their, um, creativity Jay and his wife Susan recently made classroom, and the maturity that comes Ian Ward • [email protected] on Halloween this year. From Cleopatra, bees, a $2 million gift to the College that from a little perspective. French maids, and nurses, the Fijis definitely turned celebrates Wabash’s rich tradition of “I learned things here that I didn’t COPY EDITOR some heads. Regrettably, we noticed some students athletics and recreation in the building know I was learning at the time,” he Brent Breese • [email protected] do a double-take as the Fiji freshman provocatively that bears his family name. The gift says. “I look today at how I approach life, walked passed. Its still an all-male school, gentlemen. will, in part, provide state-of-the art how I approach some of the issues we The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the equipment for recreational users face – people taking sides on everything, school audience, including but not limited to and varsity athletes alike, including a people not listening to others. I learned administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, HOLLOW-WEEKEND completely refurbished fitness center at Wabash that it’s okay to have your community members and most importantly, and new weight room, while improving own idea, but you always listen to the students. Because this is a school paper, We couldn’t help but notice how the biggest the experience for Wabash students somebody else. You are always open to the content and character within will cater to party weekend of the year was abnormally quite and boosting the College’s recruitment discussion. You are always considerate the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. for Wabash College. The ghouls and goblins that efforts. of others’ views and opinions. I attribute Further, this publication will serve as a medium normally walk college campuses was noticably absent The generous gift continues a legacy that to my experience here at Wabash and forum for student opinions and ideas. from Crawfordsville. This staff thinks that those brave established by his parents, Bob ’57 and College.” Although an individual newspaper, the Board Wallies just went to other campuses for their fill, or Betty H’57, whose $10 million gift in 1998 The economics major and current of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The every student went as a ghost, and there was nothing made the Allen Athletics and Recreation Managing Director for Bank of America Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the to be seen. Center possible. Merrill Lynch freely admits that the idea Wabash College Student Senate, which derives Twenty years later, Jay is appreciative of making such a large donation isn’t its funds from the Wabash College student body. TOO MANY BERNHARDTS that the Allen Center remains essential to easy. The Allens often ask those simple the Wabash experience. questions: what’s important or how can Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed and encouraged. They will only be published if William “Billy” Bernhardt ’19 has quite an eventful “I’m very proud to have our name we make a difference? on a facility that is so important to It comes down to priorities. they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not senior year after the new addition of swimming coach, longer than 500 words. William Bernhardt. Senior Bernhardt constantly gets students and which demonstrates the “Susan and I are fortunate to have administrative and prospective students emails. We commitment we have to our students,” sufficient resources to live comfortably The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters just hope that they run into each other on campus, said Jay, who is in his second year as and support our children,” he explains. for content, typographical errors, and length. personifying the Spiderman meme. Oh well, we can Chair of the Wabash Board of Trustees. “As we consider other ways to share our All letters received become property of this dream. “Our commitment to providing funds good fortune, Wabash College is at the publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ continues to do what my dad did top of the list.” or redistribution. Profanity may appear in the in making sure this facility remains That support has paid dividends publication, but only in cases of direct quote or if UMD FAIL important and relevant to students.” not only to a generation of Wabash profanity is necessary to the content of the story.

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