OLYMPIC MEDAL TRACKER - PAGE FOUR FEBRUARY 16, 2018 THE FUTURE OF NATIONAL ACT AUSTIN RUDICEL ’20 | STAFF WRITER • offers a lot for students to get involved in, many and find different things that draw in a more diverse When people notice an issue, it is easy to complain times there is a lack of participation from campus. audience.These changes are part of the push to create and expect others to change. It takes a certain type of One problem Page is looking to resolve is that many more activity for students to do at Wabash. There are person who is willing to attempt to make the change people feel a lack of campus unity and activity. also plans to create a social calendar that will create themselves. When it comes to the issue of finding “I’ve noticed a lot of people leave Wabash on the and balance campus-wide activities throughout the new ways to unify campus, Oliver Page ‘19 decided he weekend to go to other schools,” Page said. “I want year. Page attributes this big change to Kellerman. would reach beyond simply complaining and would there to be more going on so people want to stay “We inherited a good situation from Kellerman,” find ways to make significant changes on campus. here.” Page is looking to create more campus events, Page said. In following Kellerman’s footsteps, Page Page decided to run for Student Body President and have more students participate in these activities. intends to further improve the changes made and with some support from friends but ran into the A large event that students look forward to year create his own changes to improve the Wabash issue of lacking student senate experience. Although after year is National Act, but Page is looking for experience for students. he has plenty of leadership experience from being a a way to make this become something that goes Page is looking for different ways to improve captain of the football team and president of Sigma beyond a single night activity. Instead of having one campus life and encourages students to talk with him Chi, Page did not know much about the operations National Act, Page plans on dividing the event into and give him feedback on things that they want to see within Student Senate.To overcome this lack of multiple nights, taking up more than one weekend. changed. With such a diverse campus, students have experience, it was recommended by former Student “We are thinking about three different events and many different perspectives, but the one unifying Body President Jack Kellerman ‘18 to run alongside have the whole weekend structured around them,” quality is that they are all Wabash men. When it other candidate Nathan Gray ‘20 who had experience Page said. This structurized format will give students comes to making large scale changes on campus, it within Student Senate. more reasons to stay at Wabash on the weekends takes more than just one Wabash man, and students “I want to enhance the four year experience for instead of visit other schools. With multiple events must work together if they want to make Wabash a students at Wabash,” Page said. Although Wabash instead of only one, Page hopes to unify campus better place.
LEVI GARRISON ’18 / PHOTO Students packed into Chadwick Court to watch DJ Carnage perform at last year’s National Act.
VOLUME 110 • ISSUE 16 BACHELOR HI-FIVES ECON WITH PRESIDENT HESS 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK HESS ENGAGES IN Q&A REGARDING MARKET CHANGES Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor
DAVIS LAMM ’20 | STAFF WRITER the market’s been overvalued for FLORIDA TRAGEDY • The stock market, like a brain cell, the last several weeks. My guess EDITOR-IN-CHIEF is as essential as it is complicated. is that people were starting to get Joseph Reilly • [email protected] Without it, we’d be doing math concerned about these high prices We at The Bachelor want send our condolscenes NEWS EDITOR to all the victims at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas by hand, dining upon grass, and and then started to worry about Braxton Moore • [email protected] High School. This string of violence in schools needs dying by age 30. Over the past year, what the [Federal Reserve] was to end. No longer should we worry our brothers, this foundation of civilization has going to do. So, it all came down OPINION EDITOR sisters, sons, and daughters’ safety at institutions been conducting some impressive quite quickly. That being said, we’re Ahad Khan • [email protected] responsible for the teaching of our children. As the acrobatics. On January 26 of this still up year over year. SPORTS EDITOR year, the Dow Jones Industrial next generation of leaders, we are responsible for this Tucker Dixon • [email protected] change. It needs to stop. Average (DOW) closed at an all- Q: Do you agree with the Federal time record high of 26,616 points. Reserve’s (Fed) recent actions? CAVELIFE EDITOR Though it had never broken 20,000 Jade Doty • [email protected] SINCERE CONGRATS points until 2016, celebration of this A: I have advocated for a long PHOTO EDITOR record was halted by a 4% dive the time for the Fed to normalize Levi Garrison • [email protected] Hi-Five to all the seniors who passed Comps. Not following week. interest rates. One of the things ONLINE EDITOR since the Green Mile has a little P brought on To better understand these supporting higher asset values has feelings of such elation. Way to go, men! For our economic events and their impact been the fact that interest rates are Ian Ward • [email protected] brothers who did not make the grade on the first on Wabash, I interviewed a man pretty low. And, the Fed did that COPY EDITOR time through, remember; Wabash Always Fights. familiar with both subjects. intentionally starting with Chairman Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] Equipped with a Ph.D. in economics [Ben] Bernanke. That might have and four years’ experience at the had its moment five or six years The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the CATHOLIC CONUNDRUM Federal Reserve, President Gregory ago. I think it’s a policy that the Fed school audience, including but not limited to Hess shared his thoughts. should have been unwinding for the administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, A Hi-Five goes out to the Universe for placing last several years. I’m in favor of the community members and most importantly, Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday on the same Q: What factors spurred the fact that they started to continue the students. Because this is a school paper, date. Confusion and chaos abounds, as Christians market’s frenzied growth? to raise short term interest rates to the content and character within will cater to don’t know whether to start Lent on time, or more normal levels. the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. postpone their sweet and sexy cravings for 24 hours. A: Regulation always plays a big Further, this publication will serve as a medium We hope that Wabash students made their decision piece in it. Right now, we see a Q: Did Wabash’s endowment and forum for student opinions and ideas. quickly and without too much frustration. lot of market activity, and I think suffer? Although an individual newspaper, the Board there’s the presumption that the of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The current administration puts less A: The college anticipated a lot DEADLINES & DEADLIFTS Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the emphasis on regulation. Not too of the challenges in the market Wabash College Student Senate, which derives low but lower. And, we see that by trying to be careful about how Hi-Five to the Athletic Department for finally its funds from the Wabash College student body. finishing the weight room that was orginally happening in the markets where it chose its assets. The college’s scheduled to be done in October, I mean over there’s more activity, and it’s a portfolio is very balanced, and it Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed break, I mean early February. It is great to see little less regulated. The level of recognizes that no one sector of the and encouraged. They will only be published if Wabash continuing to function like a well-oiled taxation makes a big difference, economy always outperforms the they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not (elliptical) machine. too. When there are a lot of good other so we’re pretty balanced in longer than 500 words. activities happening and there’s too terms of the things we do but we do The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters much taxation, that’s a bad thing. try to pick up when things are a bit for content, typographical errors, and length. CRAWFORDSVILLE ICE RINK There’s also enthusiasm: sometimes less expensive than others. All letters received become property of this markets get enthusiastic and that’s publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ Hi-Five to Campus Services in their preemptive what drives activity. Q: What popular opinion about or redistribution. Profanity may appear in the work regarding the ice storm. The only thing that the economy is misguided? publication, but only in cases of direct quote or if was salted were the students who felt the fresh wet Q: How do those factors explain profanity is necessary to the content of the story. pavement on their posteriors as the ice on campus the market’s behavior over the last A: In the last couple of years, I Please do not confuse profanity with obscenity. took out their legs. While I have always wanted an two months? became concerned that people had No article or picture of an obscene nature will ice rink here in Crawfordsville, our campus is not the come out against financial markets appear in this publication. best place to put it. A: There are a lot of good reasons and that people didn’t understand to be bullish. If corporate tax rates that without finance the world The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at fall, corporations are going to see doesn’t move very much. Financial the Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. It is CORRECTION: more profit. And that explains a markets just connect savers and delivered freely to all students, faculty, and staff lot of the run up. That decreased borrowers. If that market slows at Wabash College. All advertising published In the page one story last level of regulation is going to make down, then everything slows down in the Bachelor is subject to an established rate week, “Wabash Boasts Four Orr firms seem more profitable. And, if as well. We can get as angry as we card. The Bachelor reserves the right to deny Recipients”, the article stated firms seem more profitable, they’ll want about the last financial crisis, requests for publication of advertisements. that “98% of the Class of 2018 have a higher stock price. Then, but without finance there is not Student organizations of Wabash College may have found their first destination enthusiasm kicks in a little too much that gets done anywhere in purchase advertisements at half the listed rate. after college” when this statistic much too fast. By standard metrics, the world. The Bachelor is a member of the Hoosier State should reflect the Class of 2017. and Indiana Collegiate Press Associations (HSPA and ICPA).
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ANDREW HARVEY ’21 | STAFF loved to sing WRITER • If you attend a Glee Club for friends and concert, you might see a small family. “The group break off from the main space was ensemble. A quick glance at a pro- very good for gram provides you with an expla- the acoustics, nation: these are the T-Tones. The and everyone T-Tones is a small group within I talked to the Glee Club that meets out- afterwards side of normal rehearsal times. really enjoyed While the main ensemble typi- Daniel Azar ’18 the music and cally focuses on grand pieces that the hospitality require more voices, the T-Tones the T-Tones specialize in more intricate songs. showed them,” Glee Club president Out of the roughly 40 members Daniel Azar ‘18 said. “It was nice to of the Glee Club, Jacob Anderson be able to sing outside of a concert ‘21, Daniel Azar ‘18, Patrick Azar setting,” said Taylor King ‘18. “We ‘19, Yongjin Yi ‘17, Taylor King ‘18, were able to enjoy dinner and talk COREY LEUTERS ’19 / PHOTO Eric Fritchley ‘19, John Vermeulen with some great faculty members. ‘21, Isaac Hunter ‘19, Jonathan This was a fun opportunity for us The T-Tones performed their “Life Could be a Dream” concert at the Masonic Lodge last Murdock ‘19, Samuel Stephenson to tap into our individual talents as weekend to raise money for the Glee Club Boston tour. ‘20, Timothy Riley ‘18, William instrumentalists Harvey ‘21, Viet Anh Tran ‘18, and and as soloists Alejandro Reyna ‘17 make up the as well.” T-Tones group. The T-Tones Last weekend, the T-Tones were grateful put on a Valentine’s Day themed to Bon Appetit concert at the Masonic Lodge in for the food, the Crawfordsville. Titled “Life Could Masonic Lodge be a Dream,” this performance was for the venue, a fun way to raise money for the and all who upcoming Glee Club Boston tour. attended for Reed Spencer, Choral Director Taylor King ’18 an opportunity and Instructor of Music, hails to perform. from Boston, and he is excited Although for the trip. “This upcoming tour tickets sold out several days before provides a really unique experience the event, the T-Tones plan on for the Glee Club members,” repeating this event next year. Spencer said. “We will sing with “We hope to have a larger space groups from Harvard, University to perform in next year,” Spencer of Massachusetts-Lowell, Gordon said. “I think an event like a College, and Wooster Polytechnic Valentine’s banquet placed in the Institute. This will give us an community allows Wabash faculty, opportunity to understand music staff, and students to mingle with on a different level. Going on tour Crawfordsville, the Montgomery also will also provide the context County community, and with and the space for us to bond parents. This was a combination of together as a group.” both a musical and a social event. While the T-Tones usually We want to include as many people perform at Glee Club concerts as possible. Be on the lookout in Salter Hall, “Life Could be a for ticket sales early next year.” Dream” was different. Audience If enjoying a dinner with family members were treated to a and friends while vocalists from a delicious dinner and dessert while certain all-male liberal arts college the T-Tones entertained with a mix sing for you strikes you as being of vocal and instrumental solos, full right up your alley, then mark your ensemble pieces, cheerful humor, calendars for next year’s T-Tones and poem readings. The T-Tones performance banquet.
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LEVI GARRISON ”18 / INFO GRAPHIC Medal totals as of print deadline.
4 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR OLYMPICS TESTING THEIR METTLE BRYCE BRIDGEWATER ’19 a contender stopped her run due | COPY EDITOR • The first week to a high gust before jumping off of the Pyeongchang Winter a ramp. The weather was a major Olympic Games was nothing but factor in Anderson’s win; however, exhilarating. The games featured no reruns were given to any drama, dominance, and pure participants, securing her gold. athleticism. Despite these sports Chloe Kim earned the third not being the most popular in U.S. gold as the team’s 17 year- America, athletes continue to old snowboarding phenom. The dazzle the clueless at home. teenager had lofty expectations, Whether they watch a 44-lb stone coming in as the favorite to take slide across ice or a skater perform gold in the women’s halfpipe a double cork 1440, spectators are despite never competing in the amazed at the sight of each event. Games. Kim came out with a hot In the first week of the Olympics, start, landing her gold medal Korean Unity was at the forefront winning run on her first attempt. of the games. The united Korean However, on her victory lap, she women’s hockey team, containing landed a 98.25, beating her closest players from both the Democratic opponents by almost 10 points People’s Republic of Korea and the and her previous score by over 3 Republic of Korea, played three points. She landed two 1080 tricks, games since the commencement of something that had never been the olympic competition. Despite done by a woman in the Games. the team only scoring one goal Shaun White won the final and conceding 20 goals over the gold (so far) of the first week three games, the North Korean of the Olympics. The “Flying cheerleaders dominated the Tomato” redeemed himself after a stadium every game. The group of disappointing Sochi performance PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED around 200 women sung chants in 2014. The 31 year-old defeated and songs to cheer on the team. Japan’s Ayumu Hirano in the last 17 year-old Chloe Kim took home the gold for the United States in Women’s Halfpipe, Outside of politics, as of run of the event with a score of beating her closest opponents by nearly 10 points. publication, the United States 97.75. He landed back-to-back had won four gold medals, all in 1440s to win gold. This is the third snowboarding events. Red Gerard Olympic gold captured by the secured a role in procrastinator American legend. His gold medal lore when he won gold in the counts as the 100th Winter Olympic snowboarding slopestyle event. gold medal for the United States, According to Gerard, he slept in marking yet another American after a night of binge watching milestone in the games. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Upon arriving Men’s Hockey contrasted the (late) to the slopes, he realized snowboarding successes with a he forgot his coat in his room. rocky start to the games, suffering Going into Gerard’s last run, he a 3-2 loss to Slovenia. College stars was in last place since he did not comprise the majority of the team, complete a single run. On his last since the NHL ruled to not send run, he finally completed a run athletes to the games this year. that catapulted him into first place. After one week into the games, Other riders could not top his many events still have yet to start. score, leaving Gerard with the gold. Bobsledding and various events The second gold went to Jamie in alpine skiing are still in the Anderson when she won the training phase. As of Wednesday, women’s snowboarding slopestyle Germany leads the medal count event. She won the same event with 12, followed by Norway and in Sochi four years ago. She the Netherlands with 11. The U.S. landed her gold medal run on has seven as of press time. Norway her first time, before bad weather and the Netherlands won multiple descended upon the mountain. medals in speed-skating and cross- The bad weather resulted in country. Germany has athletes who controversy to some regarding her have medalled in a diversity of events at this year’s Games. As the gold medal. Gusts exceeding 20 PHOTO COURTESY OF PEOPLE.COM mph hit the mountain after the first Olympics draw to an end, look for run, disrupting the runs of the rest the United States to close the gap Shawn White, aka “The Flying Tomato”, won gold in the Men’s Halfpipe snowboarding of the participants. At one point, and bring gold and prestige home. event. White’s medal gave the United States the final gold of the first week.
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JOSEPH REILLY ’18 BRAXTON MOORE ’19 AHAD KHAN ’19 TUCKER DIXON ’19 JADE DOTY ’18 LEVI GARRISON ’18 IAN WARD ’19 BRYCE BRIDGEWATER ’19 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS EDITOR OPINION EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR CAVELIFE EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR ONLINE EDITOR COPY EDITOR DEFENDING MASCULINITY ttending an all-male school okay for you to talk about the masculinity like wearing sweaters and bow ties. While can be daunting. When I Koty that I do have but not for me to talk about I may seem like a meathead because of Awas a senior in high school, Hall ’19 your lack of masculinity? Neither is okay, my athletic choices, I am far from it. As a I constantly got remarks of, “insanely but the hypocrisy in this movement is physics major, I can promise you that. high levels of testosterone, ridiculous Reply to this column at astonishing. Stop attacking societal norms Wabash is home to some of the most competition, meatheads, and cavemen.” [email protected] because you are insecure about yourself. well-rounded men out there. Most of us One comment I received at my Shaming someone because of your own will never know that because we are too graduation party stuck out to me and self-seen shortcomings is equally as bad busy judging one another on whether rings in my head to this day; “that place is as all of the stuff you are trying to prevent. or not we think they are too masculine. full of toxic masculinity. I think you will fit We are all different people. We all Telling me that I am hyper-masculine is in just nicely.” experience the world in different ways. just a reflection of your own insecurities For those of you that do not know me, We all have different upbringings. Just when you are around me. Just because you here is some background: I am a wide I soon came to realize that this was not my because you are more emotionally cannot follow in societal norms does not receiver on the football team, a wing on fault. It was their own insecurities. intelligent than someone does not mean that I should be shamed for doing so. the Wabash College rugby team, I have an The truth is, “toxic masculinity,” is most make you superior to them, just as If we just accept that not everyone’s incredibly beautiful and overall wonderful definitely a phenomenon that happens in being physically stronger than someone the same and celebrate what makes us girlfriend, I enjoy holding leadership the world, even in our own little bubble else does not make you superior. It is unique, this issue goes away. The sad positions, and I like to lift weights. It at Wabash. Things like drinking to the incredible to me that individuals with reality is that this will never happen. was recently brought to my attention point of hospitalization, doing dangerous this anti-masculinity mindset can look at Movements like this are close minded that some people are intimidated, if not stunts, or fighting for dominance are someone and look down on them simply and ignorant due to self-loathing. If we offended, by my activities of choice. Even all what cause toxic masculinity to be because of their masculine tendencies. truly lived by the morals we claim to love brothers in my own house think of me an issue. That being said, just because You may see the tip of the iceberg, but so much, it would be much easier to live as a meathead or a jock. However, when I something another person does shakes there is always so much more. On top of and let live, rather than judge someone sat down at dinner one day to discuss this, your own insecurities, doesn’t make it my favorite activities listed above, I have for being different than yourself. Not all of they said my issue was, “overbearing toxic “toxic.” It makes you insecure, irrational, some pretty “non-masculine” tendencies the people you label as being “toxic,” or masculinity.” I pondered this for quite some and closed minded. Being intolerant of as well. I love making candles, helping my a , “meathead,” are as bad as you think. time, feeling disturbed that I was being someone else’s tendencies is exactly what lady pick out shoes and clothes, painting Talk to a few of them. I bet it will change viewed this way even by my own brothers. you’re fighting against, right? Why is it nails for my niece and lady, and I really your mind for the better. DON’T JUST RESEARCH, PRESENT ow, I know for most of us here papers they have recently completed. etc. Often when we get to a class, at Wabash, whenever we hear Anthony I was able to explore New Orleans, we dread to see the words research Nthe dreaded word research, Eley ’19 present my research, listen to other project on the syllabus but presenting we run back to our rooms to hide from research from fellow members from the research can make the struggle the data that needs examined and the Reply to this column at across the country, and meet other all worth it. All the hours spent in the hours sitting at a computer screen [email protected] lovers of history and its craft. This library can be less dreadful if you know typing away until the 11:59 deadline. experience was by far one of the that the work you are doing will be Though there may be many downsides highlights of my collegiate career and heard by more than just the people in to doing a research project or paper, is an experience that I think students your class or professor, but by others there are several upsides beyond getting at Wabash don’t take advantage interested in your field who can relate an A in your class. Just about a month of enough. Taking the chance of to your struggles and give you valuable ago Wabash held one of its newest going to a national conference and feedback. If you do get accepted to traditions on campus: The Celebration outside the classroom, this is just the presenting your own research is a present, Wabash has pathways to help of Student Research. beginning of what Wabash students can highly educational experience that will you go and present. Students from every major either do as far as presenting research. For not only prepare you for presenting I cannot begin to express my thanks presented a poster of their findings or example, take my recent experience in academic research in the future but to Wabash, the History Department, Phi gave a presentation on their research. presenting research I did for a class here will also allow you the chance to Alpha Theta, and the Undergraduate This event provides Wabash students at Wabash at a national conference. travel and meet other students or Research Committee for allowing me with benefits such as no class that Just after the beginning of the year, professionals who are interested in the to gain this valuable experience, and Friday or some tasty treats from Bon I made my way down to the city of things you are also interested in and I want more Wabash students to be Appetit, but it also gives students a New Orleans for the Phi Alpha Theta Network! (Career Services will love that able to enjoy these experiences like I slight taste of what it is like to present 2018 Biennial Convention. Phi Alpha I inserted that benefit). was able to. So, I implore my Wabash at a regional or national conference. Theta is an American honor society for Back to the point, doing research brethren, find your discipline’s honor Though this is an excellent experience students and professors of history, and is hard. It takes a lot of time, whether society, or find out about a conference for Wabash men to get out and present this conference allows for any of its that being doing an experiment in a where undergraduates can participate their research, and see what their members, but mostly undergraduate lab, reading hundreds to thousands and submit your research to present. fellow Little Giants are doing inside and and graduate students, to present their of pages to write a research paper, You will not regret it. 6 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR OPINION WEAPONIZING SILENCE IN SEX ED ducation is never advocacy most people know what sex is and that affirms the normalcy of and always the laying out of Luke know what queerness is (the latter is homosexuality and the public policy Eoptions. That should not stop Doughty ’18 usually known by another name in that slanders homosexuality is when we talk about sex and sexuality. public school: “fag”). I would argue unethical, outdated, and politically On February 9, NBC News released Reply to this column at that the role of sex education has not irresponsible. It leaves LGBTQ+ an article stating that “Seven [email protected] so much informed our knowledge people homeless and dead because states forbid LGBTQ-inclusive sex- of sex, but has affirmed bigoted the world effaced their core education in public schools, and a attitudes about it. identity (footnote gender/sexuality new report from the Gay, Lesbian and I mean that sex education is not essentialism debates). Straight Education Network (GLSEN) where students learn about sex; sex Homophobia today seems to details the effects of these so-called ed. is where students are taught that believe that the slightest public social ‘no promo homo’ laws.” homosexuality is unconscionable. license for the queer community will In the article, the GLSEN reports politicized with heterosexuality, It is where students get affirmed turn more people queer, and that it that these “No promo homo” laws and that including LGBTQ in the in their homophobic language and is better to oppress those who are stigmatize LGBTQ+ people and sex education classroom would ideas. An elimination of safe LGBTQ+ queer than to let it flourish. Those increase bullying in the classroom. depoliticize it by representing more sex from the curriculum tells people may need to think more Debate continues about these laws of the American population. millions of students every year—gay on the fact that there is consensus and their future in the classroom— These disagreements encourage us and straight—that LGBTQ+ safety is among scholars and scientists that primarily between religious to reconsider what content choices not important. queerness is not a choice but the nonprofits and LGBTQ+ advocates. constitute an apolitical classroom. Ironically, this erasure is what result of genetic and social factors Some religious groups see LGBTQ- More broadly, these disagreements killed millions of men in the 1980s out of control of individuals. inclusive sex-education as advocacy encourage us to ask ourselves if the and 1990s when the government The more the LGBTQ+ community for queer lifestyles. They think that politics of a public classroom should remained deadly silent about the is “othered,” erased, and made out to inclusion of queer topics in the public be a zero-sum game when it comes HIV/AIDS crisis. Some suggest be deviant, weird, and unnatural— classroom would be a politicizing of to human rights and social justice that those who imposed the “No the less opportunity the world will what should be an apolitical space. issues, religion included. Promo Homo” law did so because have to see that LGBTQ+ is a natural On the other hand, LGBTQ In the U.S.’s public education, of fear of HIV. It is hilarious irony human identity. Careful of being people see queer discourse in the funded by our government that and disgusting incompetency of anachronistic with my language, classroom as the bare minimum separates church and state, we take intellect to think that not including queerness has existed since the standard of representation of a sex education. But we learn about LGBTQ+ sex in the sexual education beginning of human life on earth and subset of American population sex long before those awkward curriculum would lead to more HIV has repeated itself in every world that has historically been erased. elementary or middle school and not less. culture. That fact is worth a mention They see the classroom as already classroom talks, don’t we? By sex ed, The mismatch between research in sex ed. FORTNITE: THE UNFORESEEN BROTHERHOOD icture this: It’s a Friday lesson: teamwork. Duos and Squads white letters/numbers read “#1 night. Everyone Wabash man James ultimately can’t be won without the Victory Royale” across your screen knows there not much going Schulz ’19 help of teammates. There are a few after a little “dink” noise is made etc. Often when we get to a class, P on at campus on a Friday night. characteristics of team work that from headshotting the last guy with we dread to see the words research Many times, students go to see their Reply to this column at relate quite nicely to these two game a gold bolt sniper from 100m away. project on the syllabus but presenting girlfriends, go home to their families, [email protected] modes. 1) Be flexible. If you are used It’s almost a kind of “high” if you will. the research can make the struggle or stray over to the library to be to landing in Tilted Towers, but your It’s a feeling every person who likes to all worth it. All the hours spent in the productive with classroom demands. friend(s) want to land in Fatal Fields, compete should feel. library can be less dreadful if you know Papers were written. Books were read. don’t shoot the idea down. Don’t be Now, after describing this new that the work you are doing will be Presentations were created. That’s afraid to land outside your comfort culture that suddenly emerged here at heard by more than just the people in how life at Wabash used to be. That zone. 2) Keep your team informed. Be Wabash, I want to ask you to picture your class or professor, but by others was the old culture of Wabash. But sure to always make known what loot what now happens here on campus: interested in your field who can relate now, now the culture has changed. It actually reinforces material we you have. If you have extra shield or It’s Friday night. There’s only one to your struggles and give you valuable Life at Wabash will never be the same learn here at school. For example, bandages, share it. Every last drop or thing to do here on campus now. You feedback. If you do get accepted to thanks to the world changing event the game exemplifies one of the first bandaid for each player could make and your buddies head to the liquor present, Wabash has pathways to help that took place this last summer, July concepts we learn in BIO-101, that the difference in a loss or a dub. store after dinner to grab a 30 rack you go and present. 25th, 2017: the release of Fortnite. being Natural Selection. Fortnite 3) Always be ready to help. If your of Busch Light. You get back to your I cannot begin to express my thanks Fortnite has created a second is all about survival of the fittest. teammate goes down. Revive him living unit, put the beer on ice, turn to Wabash, the History Department, Phi brotherhood at Wabash that I doubt Those with the ability to build before going to loot. The gold scar on the tv’s and consoles, and take Alpha Theta, and the Undergraduate would have ever been predicted. In effectively, aim precisely, and run can wait. a seat. As people walk from floor- Research Committee for allowing me fact, it has created a brotherhood felt quickly survive. The individual with Lastly, I would like to speak about to-floor, room-to-room, they hear to gain this valuable experience, and around the world. Fortnite has taken the greatest of those combinations the satisfaction that comes with the echo of yells and screams, some I want more Wabash students to be the internet, social media, and gaming of abilities is the ultimate survivor. Fortnite. Other than winning the Bell of pure joy and others of extreme able to enjoy these experiences like I community by storm (HA get it?). I Though unable to reproduce, I saw or passing Comps, it’s hard for me to dismay. Girlfriends keep texting you was able to. So, I implore my Wabash could watch videos from Barstool of an excellent saying on a bumper think of a feeling of more satisfaction because you haven’t responded while brethren, find your discipline’s honor friends hyping up their friends as they sticker that would fit quite nicely, than coming in first in a Fortnite deployed for battle. Pure bonding is society, or find out about a conference make it to the top 10, top 5, and if “Gamers don’t die. They respawn.” battle. When those feelings of anxiety, taking place here at Wabash. True where undergraduates can participate you’re really good, top 2. Outside of school material, Fornite stress, and fear you feel throughout brotherhood is being reinforced here and submit your research to present. Fornite is not just a game either. also teaches an important life the game disappear as the gold and at Wabash. All thanks to Fortnite. You will not regret it. 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LEVI GARRISON ‘18 / PHOTO The Wallies came to the Wabash-DePauw game in full force for the last home game of season. While the Little Giants lost, the intensity of the crowd helped the Wabash basketball team to keep it close.
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COREY LEUTERS ‘19 / PHOTO Yongjin Yi ‘19 performs “Moon River” on acoustic guitar for Wabash’s T-Tone’s Valentine’s Dinner this past Saturday before the “Life Could Be a Dream” concert.
8 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR CAVELIFE RUDICEL ’20 WINS LIP-SYNC BATTLE BRAXTON MOORE ‘19 | NEWS EDITOR judges were looking for. Performing solo, I • Salter Hall was electric last Friday night as felt like there was a lot more pressure, but on students from all over campus came together the other hand, I knew that there was no one to watch and perform in a lip-syncing to hold me back so my successes and failures competition hosted by IFC President Braiden would be my own.” Slavens ’19. The performers strummed away Slavens, who orchestrated the event, on invisible guitars, danced across the stage talked about his excitement regarding the in choreographed dance routines, and silently competition, as well as the motivations for belted out the lyrics to their favorite tunes. hosting it. Slavens’ event was hosted for the sole reason of “The main motivation for the competition promoting campus unity, drawing students out was to promote more campus unity,” Slavens of their living units for a night of hilarity and said. “When students speak about what they music. The event was largely a great success, would hope to improve at Wabash, the issue and all who walked onto the stage did so with of campus unity is one that always comes up. smiles on their faces and a goal in their minds By promoting more social events such as this to take away first place glory for their respective one, we as students can tackle the issue of a living unit. more unified campus. I was excited to see the At the end of the night, it was Austin Rudicel amount of performances that signed up for ’20 who took the gold medal back to his the event, and the number of students and Home at Phi Delta Theta. Rudicel spoke faculty that came out to support our students.” about stage fright, his song selection and how With the successful execution of the lip- he decided upon it, and how he effectively syncing competition last week, many students delivered the only solo performance of the are wondering if the event will return for competition to lead him to victory. a consecutive year for the 2018-19 school “It took a lot to get up on the stage, but I year. While this topic is still unclear, Rudicel knew that I had to put my best foot forward has maintained that if the event is hosted for the Top House,” Rudicel said. “You have next year he will return to defend his first to show yourself that you can accomplish place title. anything if you have enough faith in yourself. “I would definitely participate in this event I decided to go with the classic hit “Don’t Stop again,” Rudicel said. “I’ve always been a fan of Me Now” by Queen. I’ve always been a big karaoke and things like that, and I see this as CLAYTON HUBER ‘21 / PHOTO fan of their music, and I felt like that song had an event that I could potentially take back to Logan Kleinman ‘18 and Brady Quackenbush ‘18 perform “Only The the right type of stage presence to deliver the my fraternity house, friend groups, and clubs, Good Die Young” by Billy Joel at the Lip-Sync Battles. electric atmosphere that the audience and I had a great time performing.”
JADE DOTY ‘18 / GRAPHIC, PHOTO COURTESY OF FORTNITE, DATA COLLECTED FROM BETA THETA PI
THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 9 CAVELIFE SPRING PLAY PREVIEW: “UNIVERSAL ROBOTS” AUSTIN HOOD ‘21 | STAFF some aspects. that’s how we got to where we are.” You start thinking about things like WRITER • The Theatre Department “It helped to make science fiction “Universal Robots” depicts an Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner, will be putting on a production of into to its popular modern form,” alternative history that chronicles all the impact this idea that Capek the science fiction play “Universal James Cherry, Associate Professor of the invention of robots in the introduced has had on our culture. Robots,” written by Mac Rogers, in Theater, said, “It popularized many fledgling Czechoslovakia in the Robots are kind of everywhere, so Ball Theater on February 21 through of the trends and themes that we see years following World War I and this play feels very present because 24 at 8 p.m. Admission to the play is in science fiction to this day. But as the cultural, political, and ethical of where we are in 2018.” free for Wabash Students. Tickets can a play, it’s not the greatest piece of effects such technology through “Universal Robots,” which was be reserved at the box office in the dramatic literature.” the modern age. named 2009’s Best Off-Broadway Fine Arts Center. Cherry, who is directing the The end result Play by the New York Independent Universal Robots is a modern production, wanted to produce an is a play that is Theater Bloggers, tackles many adaptation of “R.U.R.,” the 1920 updated version of “R.U.R.” when more sober and philosophical questions through sci-fi drama written by Czech he chanced upon the script to intellectual than a plot that mixes elements of writer Karel Capek. “R.U.R.,” which “Universal Robots.” its primary source political allegory, love stories, and introduced the word “robot” to the “I had been kicking around for a of inspiration. blockbuster sci-fi thrillers. English language, was received well long time the idea of doing ‘R.U.R.’ “There’s a lot “This play is just full of by critics and audiences alike upon but updating it,” Cherry said. of the same plot ethical, moral, and philosophical its premiere in Prague in 1921. By “It’s bizarre. I was on Facebook as ‘R.U.R.,’ but questions,” Cherry said. “You 1923, the play had been translated one day and a colleague of mine there’s other stuff could easily do a kind of Enduring into 30 languages and began a 184 from graduate school had posted too,” Cherry said. James Cherry Questions class where you just performance production at the something about a friend of hers who “If you have an start with this play and take all of Garrick Theatre in New York City. had done this adaptation. I got in interest in science the questions that it touches on “R.U.R.” has long been considered contact with the playwright and we fiction, you can look at this play and and work them out over the rest of a cultural landmark, but many were able to get the copyrights even see a lot of the robots in popular the semester. It’s just chocked-full today find the play to be lacking in though the script is unpublished and culture from the past 100 years. of them.”
POSTER COURTESY OF DR. JAMES CHERRY Universal Robots, originally tilted R.U.R. for Rossum’s Universal Robots, was written in 1921 by Czechoslovakian Karel Čapek. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called roboti (robots), from synthetic organic matter. The play is famous for introducing the word “robot” to the science fiction genre.
10 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR CAVELIFE SPRING PLAY PREVIEW: YOUR SMALL TALK BRIEFING COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES • The United States is currently fourth in medal standings in the 2018 WInter Olympics. Team USA has four Gold Medalists in the two major Snowboarding events, slopestyle and halfpipe. 17 year-old Red Gerard won gold in the Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle event after having a remarkable final run, and Jamie Anderson won Gold in the same category for the Women’s division. Chloe Kim, also a 17 years old, won gold “UNIVERSAL ROBOTS” in the Halfpipe after doing the same in this year’s Winter X Games, and Shaun White won Gold in the same category for the Men for the third time in his career. • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, the Israeli police said on Tuesday after a yearlong graft investigation. He is accused of accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts, including expensive cigars, jewelry, and Champagne, in exchange for favors. If he is charged, it would be a first for a sitting prime minister in the country. • President Trump proposed steep cuts to domestic programs and large increases in military spending as part of a $4.4 trillion budget proposal that he sent to Congress on Monday. Although it has little chance of being enacted as written, the plan would add $7 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. • While the United States may be weakening protections for wilderness, the creation of Peru’s Yaguas National Park protects millions of acres from development and deforestation. Peru’s largest forrest, and now National Park, harbors over 300 species of fish, 6,000 plant, 600 bird, and more than 150 different species of mammal. Over the past two decades, indigenous federations living around Yaguas have been working to protect the land. They educated scientists and conservationists about its geography and biology, and convinced the government that the land was worth saving. • Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a pornographic-film actress who had once claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump. In the most detailed explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, Mr. Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said he was not reimbursed by the Trump Organization or the campaign for the payment. Clifford, also known as Stormy Douglas, was said to recieve payment days before the presidential election took place. Ms. Clifford has not publicly denied an affair with Mr. Trump. A statement released by Mr. Cohen in her name in January denied an affair, but in interviews, she has refused to directly answer questions about it. • On Tuesday night, Netflix announced that it had poached the hit-making producer Ryan Murphy from 21st Century Fox. The five-year deal is worth as much as $300 million, according to two people with knowledge of the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations. The deal would be one of the biggest ever made for a television producer. Mr. Murphy, the prolific producer behind “Glee,” “Nip/Tuck,” and the anthology series “American Crime Story” and “American Horror Story,” would have been a key piece in the expanded Disney empire, and FOX executives made several attempts to keep him in the corporate family.
THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 11 SPORTS FINAL SHOT FALLS SHORT ZACH MOFFETT ‘20 | STAFF only put up 27 at the end of the first on the Dannies in their last home Hallstrom said. “They came out and WRITER • On Wednesday, the half and held Oberlin to 25. game of the year. Wabash struggled gave it their all and so did we.” The Wasbash basketball team faced off The Wabash defense would hold early and continued to struggle Little Giants fought back at the end against the Dannies on Chadwick their own through the rest of the through the rest of the game. of the game to come within one, Court. Leading up to the thriller at game. In the second half, the Little Wabash shot 46% from the field and but failed to convert the last second Chadwick, Wabash would first have Giants turned on the switch. The 55.5% from behind the arc in the shot of the game. The final score was to face some tough competition on shot 64% from field goal range and first half. Wabash 61, DePauw 62. the road. Wabash took their road 50% from behind the arc. Harrison The defense could not manage The Little Giants finish their trip to Oberlin College. They took a Hallstrom ’20 picked up his eighth in the paint as DePauw put up 34 regular season run with a road trip tough loss prior to the Oberlin game double-double on the year with 16 points for the whole game. The to Denison tomorrow. They are as they went on the road to the third points and 15 rebounds. Wabash Wabash offense struggled with fighting for positions with Denison ranked Wittenberg. Wabash went would go on to a 10-1 run in the turning the ball, giving the Dannies to hopefully get a higher seed in the into the games with a record of (11- beginning of the second half and the ball 11 times. They finished the conference tournament. 11) overall. finished strong, forcing 11 turnovers first half trailing 37-33. The conference tournament The Little Giants struggled against on Oberlin and managing to only In the second half, the defense will begin with its quarter final Oberlin in the first half, especially score 32 in the second half. stepped up for the Little Giants, games on Tuesday and semifinals on the offensive side of the ball. Wabash would score 43 points but the offense could not find a and championship on Friday and Wabash shot just 34% from field alone in the second half. Wabash way to put things together. Wabash Saturday. Wabash will need to goal range and 40% from the thee stayed strong with their lead to shot under 40% both from the field get a win over Denison to provide point line. They trailed for the first finish out the game on top. The final and behind the arc. “The whole themselves with a opportunity to six minutes of the game, but Alex score was Wabash 70, Oberlin 57. atmosphere was insane tonight, and get a higher seed in the conference Eberhard ’20 regained the lead for Next, they took on the team from it was great coming into this and we tournament. Wabash will take on the the Little Giants. They managed to down south. The Little Giants took knew it was gonna be a tough game,” Big Red Saturday at 3:00 p.m.
IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO LEVI GARRISON ‘18 / PHOTO Parker Manges ‘21 goes up for a shot with defensive pressure on his arm. Wabash welcomed local youth basketball players during the game’s halftime.
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IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Harrison Hallstrom ‘20 rises above his defender for a easy bucket. Connor Rotterman ‘21 catches his defender off-guard and launches a jumpshot.
IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Jack Davidson ‘21 draws a foul as two DePauw defenders close in. Davidson finished the game with 21 points and 4 assists.
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TENNIS TRACK & FIELD The Wabash College tennis team Last Saturday, the Wabash traveled to Ohio last weekend College Indoor Track & Field team to compete against John Carroll traveled to the school down south University and Case Western to compete in the DePauw Indoor University. After two days of stiff Track & Field Invitational. competition, Wabash walked away Wabash athletes excelled across with split matches. the board and scored 119 points to After losing to a very good #15 win the team title. Case Western on Saturday 8-1, the The Little Giants finished ahead of Little Giants rallied to defeat John second place Rose-Hulman with 115 Carroll 7-2. points. The host Tigers took third The duos of William Reifeis place out of 14 teams with a score of ‘18 and Patrick McAuley ‘19 and 97 points. Jordan Greenwell ‘19 and Andrew IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Ra‘Shawn Jones ‘20 placed first in Denning ‘20 added victories the 60-meter hurdles with a time of PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMUNICATION & MARKETING Jordan Greenwell ‘19 returns the ball in a at doubles. 8.55. Satchel Burton ‘18 was not far Ra’Shawn Jones ‘20 clears a hurdle. Wabash plays Kenyon tomorrow, match this season as his partner readies for behind, finishing second in 8.73. February 17 against Kenyon College. the next volley.
14 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR SPORTS WRESTLING WINS MID-STATE INVITE JAKE CHRISMAN ‘20 | STAFF ‘21, Brice Everson ‘20, Anthony WRITER • This past weekend, the Cicciarelli ‘21, Grant Gough ‘18, Little Giants took on their last and Wade Ripple ‘21. “Overall, regular season event of the 2017- the team performed pretty well 2018 season. Wabash wrestled their on Saturday,” Diaz said. “We were way to a first place finish as a team. able to get a lot of guys on the 20 Wabash men finished in the top podium and took first as a team.” 8, and 4 capturing individual titles. Other notable finishes for the Little Finishing on top of the podium Giants were Max Bishop ‘21, taking for the Little Giants was AJ Belden third, and Christian Redmond ‘18, Chris Diaz ‘19, Riley Lomenick ‘20, Heath Ault ‘21, Hunter Bates ‘21, and Ethan Herrin ‘20. Belden ‘20, and Jake Stephenson ‘19, all finished the day 4-0 to take the finishing fourth. title at 125 lbs. Diaz and Lomenick The Little Giants return to action finished as the top seed, winning February 23 and 24 to host the three matches each on their NCAA Division III Central Regional. championship run. Herrin also “There’s a lot of stress on all of went 3-0 to take first on the day. us these last few weeks to get the “I think I wrestled pretty good on guys that are wrestling at regionals Saturday,” Diaz said. “I was able to in the best shape possible,” Diaz get on the top of the podium and said. “It is definitely going to be beat some guys that I lost too in a grind.” Wrestling begins Friday IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO the past. evening in Knowling Fieldhouse Suny Nier ‘21 placed second in the 133-pound weight class at the Mid-States Invitational. Adding on four first place and continues on Saturday finishes, placing second for morning. Come out and support the Little Giants was Suny Nier your Little Giants.
THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 15 SPORTS LACROSSE LOOKS TO IMPROVE IN FOURTH SEASON PATRICK MCAULEY ‘19 | enthusiasm to set a stage for the Upperclassmen began recruiting of the Wabash Athletics program: STAFF WRITER • Three years ago, many years to come. Like any players they know from local the weight room, the practice walls the Wabash College Athletics young program, this developmental high schools. This has added to at Knowling Fieldhouse, and mostly Department made a decision process took time. the overall quality players of the each other. The older players on the that would change the course of The general basis of the team’s lacrosse team. Last year, freshmen team including Adrian Tejeda ‘18, sports here at on campus. In 2014, culture and attitude struggled such as Maxwell Atkins ‘20 and Steven Stark ‘19, Collin Brennan Wabash began recruiting players from the beginning. Initially, the Jacob Taylor ‘20 came in to play ‘19, and Tucker Dixon ‘19 attest to that would formulate the school’s team had 14 players on their first and ended up seeing huge amounts how buying into the program has first Division III lacrosse team, the roster. Furthermore, they were of success. Head Coach Todd created a deep passion for Wabash. fastest-growing sport in America at transitioning from a club team to Richardson believes he learned a lot “My favorite part about competing the time. By spring of 2015, Wabash an NCAA program. The change was from recruiting these past couple for Wabash College is being a part lacrosse would take the field for smooth so that guys could adjust years. “I know the types of guys we of something greater than myself,” their first season. peacefully. The time commitment should be recruiting and the guys Stark said. “Having the unique Expectations were high from the increased on and off the field for that will do well,” Richardson said. opportunity to build a program start. Historically, Wabash is known guys wanting to play for Wabash. “All the players that are getting a has been challenging but very for its rigor in the classroom and All in all, NCAA programs gain majority of the playing time have rewarding.” The Wabash lacrosse demand for competition on the better competition and can play started to understand.” team begins their season field this sports field. With such a young more games within a season. The This season, the squad is Saturday at 1 p.m. against Trine lacrosse program, the college began program grew from this experience. increasing their levels of intensity University here in Crawfordsville. recruiting players that would bring The guys on the team took and overall participation. They are Go out and support the Little that level of academic and athletic matters into their own hands. utilizing the many different aspects Giants!
IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO Wabash defenders, Holten Warriner ‘17 (left) and Adrian Tejeda ‘18 (right), press out on an opposing attackmen.
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