A STAFF LETTER TO DPU SEE PAGE 2 APRIL 20, 2018 LEVI GARRISON ‘18 / PHOTO Wabash Day of Giving was a rousing success behind the rallying cry of #OurWabash. WABASH DAY OF GIVING COLLEGE EXCEEDS GOAL OF 4,180 GIFTS ON FIFTH ANNUAL DAY OF GIVING; RAISES $968,461 FROM 5,033 GIFTS FOR SCHOOL AT PRESS TIME VOLUME 110 • ISSUE 21 SYKES HONORED WITH BACHELOR 301 W. Wabash Ave., HI-FIVES SENIOR PECK MEDAL Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK JAKE VERMEULEN‘21 | STAFF earned a place on the shortlist of Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ WRITER • On Monday, April 9, potential Supreme Court nominees Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor Wabash College presented the 45th for both President George W. Bush Annual Peck Award to Judge Diane and President Donald Trump. Judge WABASH MOURNS JUSTIN Sykes. After serving on the Wisconsin Sykes is a noted practitioner of the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF State Supreme Court for five years, originalist judicial doctrine, which Joseph Reilly • [email protected] WOODS ‘16 Judge Sykes served on the 7th Circuit NEWS EDITOR Court of Appeals since 2004 and Rest In Peace to Justin Woods ’16. The football SEE PECK, PAGE 3 Braxton Moore • [email protected] player was a rhetoric major during his time at OPINION EDITOR Wabash. We send our thoughts and prayers to his Ahad Khan • [email protected] family. SPORTS EDITOR Tucker Dixon • [email protected] STATE SCHOOL “GRIND” CAVELIFE EDITOR Jade Doty • [email protected] IU and Purdue boasted the two biggest party weeks in the state this past week. But how do Wabash PHOTO EDITOR students spend their time during this week? Most Levi Garrison • [email protected] likely writing papers and studying for exams before ONLINE EDITOR finals. For the second year in a row, Little Five and Ian Ward • [email protected] Grand Prix came the week before dead week. While our state school friends destroy their livers, COPY EDITOR us Wabash men prefer to destroy something more Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] important: our sleep schedules. The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the school audience, including but not limited to IFC GETS LIT administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, community members and most importantly, Hi-Five to members of the IFC for helping out TKE the students. Because this is a school paper, and Phi Psi with fire watch after their fire alarms were the content and character within will cater to knocked out by the storms this past weekend. We’re IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. glad the fire alarms are working again. This week Further, this publication will serve as a medium might be a bad time to not have those. U.S. Seventh Circuit Court Judge Diane Sykes gives the Annual Peck Lecture. and forum for student opinions and ideas. Although an individual newspaper, the Board BROKEN BAXTER? of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The A LETTER TO DEPAUW Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the High-Five to Baxter Hall which has single-handedly Wabash College Student Senate, which derives drained the capital improvements budget between its funds from the Wabash College student body. its power failure in the fall and leaking pipes this STUDENT PROTESTORS Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed spring. C’mon Baxter, we get it is a hard time to be and encouraged. They will only be published if STAFF EDITORIAL • Due to the protest during her lecture Tuesday. involved in the political and economic scene but hold they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not recent events which exacerbated This fight isn’t over. 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The Bachelor is a member of the Hoosier State The Trevor Project in light of the Never quit, always fight. and Indiana Collegiate Press Associations (HSPA and ICPA). 2 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR NEWS FROM PECK, PAGE 2 was popularized by the last Supreme said that Judge Sykes, “...enjoys a ADMITTED STUDENTS Court Justice Antonin Scalia. This reputation as a very able and tough philosophy could be summed up questioner, [and] she writes very by one of the things Judge Sykes strong, well-reasoned opinions.” WEEKEND: PART TWO said during her lecture, that the The Peck Dinner honoring the Constitution, “ought to be interpreted recipient of the Senior Peck Medal based on its meaning at the time of has been a fixture on campus for PATRICK MCAULEY ‘20 in curiosity and enchantment, ratification.” the past 45 years, recognizing the | STAFF WRITER • This past members of the Wabash community In that lecture, entitled contributions of a lawyer or judge weekend, the College hosted a made sure to take note. Julia Wells, “Federalism, Judicial Hierarchy, and who has made a significant impact weekend for prospective students the Senior Assistant Director of State Court Resistance,” Judge Sykes on the legal field. The dinner brings to visit the school, tour the Admissions, reflected on their talked about several times in the past back a slew of alumni who work in campus, and begin settling into responses. where State Courts have attempted the legal field, and it is an excellent understanding what life at Wabash “I think another way to gage this to defy the United States Supreme networking opportunity for students could be for them. This year, was just seeing all the energy, and Court, and she laid out what she who are interested in following in Admitted Students Weekend was the laughter, and the smiles, and the viewed as the legal framework for the their footsteps after graduation. a significant success, and this connections that were made,” she Supreme Court’s judicial supremacy. Beginning with the 2004 honoring reflected throughout much of the said. “Their commitment to Wabash The primary cases Judge Sykes of David Kendall ’66, there has also weekend’s events. was something that was really discussed were the cases of American been a lecture open to the broader There were many goals in place exciting and something that really Traditional Partnership, Inc v. Bullock, community in an effort to provide an to make sure time did not go to made us see the importance of what Fairfax’s Devisee v. Hunter’s Lessee, opportunity for students, faculty and waste. With over 90 minutes to we were doing.” and Ableman v. Booth. others to hear from a distinguished spare, prospective students and Though the event was a success, Judge Sykes was introduced legal mind on a topic they feel is their parents to strolled and found there were a few minor obstacles before the lecture by Indiana important to discuss. their interests in the many housing admissions had to tackle. The Solicitor General Tom Fisher ’91, “That kind of thing happens options on campus. Each fraternity weekend was a balancing act in who frequently argues before the 7th routinely at law schools, but it’s more and independent dorm filled up that it was a short, thirty-six-hour Circuit Court while defending the rare in a college setting,” Himsel said.