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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.