Pham Takes Moot Court Competition Comes to a Decisive Close
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OCTOBER 27, 2017 THE BACHELOR THE STUDENT VOICE OF WABASH COLLEGE SINCE 1908 PHAM TAKES MOOT COURT COMPETITION COMES TO A DECISIVE CLOSE CALEB DICKEY ’21 | STAFF WRITER Pham ’18, and Jacob Roehm ’18. • The 24th annual Wabash College These 4 students argued their cases Moot Court competition ended on on Wednesday night to compete for Wednesday night, with The Anh Pham Top Advocate. ‘18 taking home the prize of Top The case they argued was based on Advocate. “I just read the case again a case that will actually be argued in and again, and after each round I read front of the United States Supreme it again,” Pham said of the work he Court. “The problem is meant to put into preparing. “It feels great.” reflect as closely as possible the He beat out a pool of students same arguments that the parties are from every class and academic making in the real case,” Himsel said, focus. “We were thrilled with the whose wife, Jane Ann Himsel, was diversity of the students,” Dr. Todd the primary author of the case. “The McDorman ’, Senior Associate Dean problem was assembled with the of the College, said. “We had new materials [of the case].” competitors, returning competitors, The Chief Justice of the final round students from all sorts of majors. was Judge Margret G. Robb of the We had art students, international Indiana Court of Appeals. The other students, students who want to go to judges were Judge Rudolph R. Pyle III, law school, but students who want also of the Indiana Court of Appeals; to go on to graduate school in other Stephen Creason ’97, counsel to the subjects as well.” Indiana Attorney General; and Dr. Pham did not have an easy path to Derek Nelson ‘99, Chairman of the victory. 40 students participated in Religion Department. Nelson had the preliminary round on Saturday no prior Moot Court experience, but morning. In that round, each student was chosen as a judge because of the had to argue both sides of the religious implications of this case. argument in order to demonstrate a Wabash’s Moot Court competition thorough understanding of the case. adds to the innate uniqueness of IAN WARD ’19 / PHOTO “You’re never prepared to argue the college; it is very rare for an The Ahn Pham ’18 (center-right) poses with his fellow Moot Court finalists as well as the your case until you can argue your undergraduate school to offer such a judges and advisors of this year’s competition. opponent’s case better than he can,” competition. Yet McDorman feels it Dr. Scott Himsel ’85 said. “That’s one fits perfectly with the school. of those skills that you learn in Moot “It is a competition that allows Court.” students to really live the Wabash After the preliminary round, Pham mission statement,” McDorman and 11 other competitors advanced said. “To think critically, certainly to FOOTBALL ONE-STOP to the semifinal round, which took develop their communication skills, place on Monday night. Each student to get to know their fellow students argued in front of a panel of four and alumni alike.” TAKES DOWN judges—Tim Fisher ’91, Matt Griffith Pham encourages all students who BARBER SHOP ’89, Himsel, and McDorman. “We are thinking about participating in had a particularly rigorous [semifinal] Moot Court to do it. He reflected OBERLIN round this past Monday night,” on his experience and provided Himsel said. encouragement. “I have no intention After the semifinal round, the of going to law school,” he said. SPORTS - PAGE TWELVE CAVELIFE - PAGE NINE judges chose 4 students to advance to “This competition is for everyone. the final round—Walker Hedgepath Participate and you will be pleasantly ’19, Jake Vermeulen ’21, The Anh surprised by the results.” VOLUME 110 • ISSUE 8 BACHELOR HI-FIVES BARTON TO BRING 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ BEAUTIFICATION Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor BRAXTON MOORE ’19 | NEWS improvements to the community EDITOR • Wabash College and the will persuade more young people EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CAMPUS INSECURITY greater Crawfordsville community to stay in Crawfordsville. Joseph Reilly • [email protected] will be enjoying the addition of “The trail will run just south of NEWS EDITOR Nervous about their impending loss of the bell, the new community parks and city campus by the Fine Arts building,” Braxton Moore • [email protected] school to the south installed a pressure plate to alert improvement in the near future, Barton said. “After seeing the OPINION EDITOR the authorities of any attempted bell theft. However, with the hope that such added plans for the trail, and the path Ahad Khan • [email protected] this security measure barely averted a brave bell heist amenities will help spark a new, that the loop will take around the last week. Sources say that the university has installed invigorated interest in the city downtown, I think the trail will be SPORTS EDITOR a few new security measures, since including trip among residents and Wabash a good addition to the city. This Tucker Dixon • [email protected] wires that fire poison darts at would be trespassers, students alike. According to the trail will better tie the campus with CAVELIFE EDITOR and a giant boulder that will roll down from the plan proposed by Crawfordsville the downtown area, and the two Jade Doty • [email protected] Mayor Todd Barton ‘00, areas of the community should feel ceiling to crush thieves if the bell is removed. improvements will include a like they are connected.” PHOTO EDITOR variety of areas for recreational Barton also talked about Levi Garrison • [email protected] BALL STATE SUSPENSION activity which will be made stimulating the Crawfordsville ONLINE EDITOR available to the residents of the community, with a primary Ian Ward • [email protected] 13 fraternities at Ball State University have agreed to city and students of the college. focus on the downtown area, by COPY EDITOR “We have laid out a series of encouraging new small business halt all social events until January 31st next year due Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] to issues of alcohol, hazing, and sexual assault. Will projects designed to enhance the startups and investment ventures. this decision be the death of BSU’s Greek life, or is quality of life in our community,” In addition to opening new it a necessary measure for improving their Greek Barton said. “These projects are institutions downtown, Barton The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the culture? Either way, it sounds like BSU’s fraternity meant to stimulate more activity also wants to shift focus onto the within the already existing shops, restaurants, school audience, including but not limited to men need to learn the Gentleman’s rule. community, and businesses in order to spark administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, with the the Crawfordsville economy. community members and most importantly, HAWAII OH-NO driving goal “In our downtown right now, the students. Because this is a school paper, behind the there are only a few vacancies,” the content and character within will cater to the student body’s interests, ideas, and issues. High five to Hawaii for having a Spam black market. proposal Barton said. “Other than that, focusing on it’s fairly full. We have all this Further, this publication will serve as a medium Retailers in the state of Hawaii have been forced to and forum for student opinions and ideas. lock up the infamous canned mystery meat after keeping young interest from investors saying a multitude of thefts. This issue has progressed so people and that they would like to come to Although an individual newspaper, the Board far that to buy Spam in Hawaii one has to ask an professionals Crawfordsville to invest, so we of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The within the want to stimulate the downtown Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the employee to retrieve it from a sealed glass case. Todd Barton Students are advised to be on the lookout for Crawfordsville area as much as possible so we can Wabash College Student Senate, which derives suspicious characters who may try to tempt them community. make that happen, that’s where we its funds from the Wabash College student body. We know that people expect to see want to be as a city.” with black market meat. certain things in a community of The project is currently set to Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed this size, and that’s what we hope break ground during the spring and encouraged. They will only be published if they include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not SILENT GUARDIAN to accomplish with this upcoming of 2018, starting with two new community project.” parks in the downtown area: Pike longer than 500 words. Hi-Five to Dean Raters for putting a not-so-abrupt The beautification plans will take Place, on the corner of Pike and The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters end to the email war that plagued our inboxes place due to the Stellar Community Washington Street, and on South for content, typographical errors, and length. this past week. Raters shut down the forwarding Grant, which determines Washington, where the railroad All letters received become property of this fun three hours after the last email had been sent. exemplary communities within line crosses Highway 231. The trail publication for the purposes of reprinting and/ Glad to know that we can expect a quick reaction the state and allocates funds to is second on the to-do list, pending or redistribution.