Wallies, Start Your Engines!

APRIL 15, 2016 THE BACHELOR THE STUDENT VOICE OF WABASH COLLEGE SINCE 1908 WALLIES, START YOUR ENGINES! IAN WARD ‘19 / PHOTO exciting finale to the day was the all-star writer for The Indianapolis Star. The chaired the planning committees for INDYCAR PANEL panel of Indianapolis 500 notables who panel was moderated by Chris Denari Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis in 2012 spoke to students, families, friends, and ’83, longtime Pacers TV announcer and and the Indianapolis Pan-Am Games in MAKES BIG local racing enthusiasts at “IndyCar & turn four announcer for the Indianapolis 1987, led the Central Indiana Corporate the Liberal Arts”, a panel put on by The Motor Speedway Radio Network. Sunday Partnership and Association of Tennis HIT AT WABASH Bachelor. Denari was inducted into the Indiana Professionals prior to taking the top job The panel consisted of Mark Miles ’76, Sportswriters and Sports Broadcasters at Hulman and Company. Hulman & Company President and CEO, Hall of Fame. Preparing for the 100th running, Miles PATRICK BRYANT ‘16 | BUSINESS Jonathan Byrd ’97 and David Byrd ’98 Miles, head of the company that owns said that careful consideration has been MANAGER • Most days, something like of the Jonathan Byrd’s Hospitality and both the Verizon IndyCar Series and given to this year’s race being a salute closing down the mall so an IndyCar Restaurant Group, sponsors of the Dale Indianapolis Motor Speedway, spoke to the past but a look to the future and two-seater can lap around Center Hall, Coyne Racing Team, the Byrd’s driver both of the events of the 2016 racing growing the support, just as the race’s the Chapel, and Lilly Library would Conor Daly, a two-time Indianapolis season as well as the preparation for next make for a pretty big event in and of 500 participant, and Curt Cavin (father month’s 100th running of “the greatest itself. That was only the beginning. The of Quinn ’19), a longtime motorsports spectacle in racing.” Miles, who also SEE WALLIES, PAGE THREE VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 24 FROM WALLIES, PAGE ONE WABASH PARTNERS WITH BACHELOR HI-FIVES MONTGOMERY CO. 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK NICHOLAS VEDO ‘19 | STAFF “She has had Wabash students working EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WRITER • In our modern world as summer interns and they do things Adam Alexander • [email protected] WIFI LIVES UP TO technology has revolutionized human such as learning about every aspect of NEWS EDITOR interaction. Countries that previously the public health department, which is Benjamin Johnson • [email protected] EXPECTATIONS had little connection to each other more than just giving vaccinations and OPINION EDITOR are now bound together for better getting people’s birth certificates.” Horror struck the campus on Monday as students or worse. Nowhere can this be more One of the larger Public Health Ty Campbell • [email protected] walked out of their morning classes and checked their clearly seen than in the issue of Department projects that many Wabash SPORTS EDITOR phones to see that the Internet was down. Evidently, health care. The recent outbreaks of students contribute to is the mosquito Michael Lumpkin • [email protected] the entire city of Crawfordsville gets Internet from zika virus have brought international surveillance project. The students do this CAVELIFE EDITOR a single cable that runs from Indianapolis, and this attention to the epidemiological in order to combat the onset of West Nile Joseph Reilly • [email protected] cable was cut by some evil villain - presumably one links between different nations. virus in the area. This partnership also of the Dannies. Having been forced to live without This connection makes it imperative helps frame the concept of global health PHOTO EDITOR the Internet for almost four hours, students led riots that healthcare officials see disease in a more local lens that makes it more Colin Thompson • [email protected] across campus, smashing windows and setting fire outbreaks in terms of common applicable to the daily life of students. COPY EDITOR to classrooms. All was restored to normal, however, humanity and not national borders. This coming summer, the Global Benjamin Wade • [email protected] when the sacred cable was repaired around 1 p.m. This concept of global health is very Health class led by Wetzel will be BUSINESS MANAGER important for the future health of the embarking on a trip to the country PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT global population and the Wabash of Peru. Patrick Bryant • [email protected] College Global Health Initiative is “The trip to Peru is embedded in the BACHELOR ADVISER Take one look at the front porch of the Beta house doing its best to join the fight. middle of the global health class, and Howard Hewitt • [email protected] and you’ll find eight, count ‘em, eight unpainted This past Wednesday, a is a way to expose students to different benches lining the porch. Aside from the fact that memorandum of understanding (MOU) cultures and show them global public The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the you may think you’re at the C’ville Cracker Barrel was signed by President Greg Hess and health issues that exist particularly in school audience, including but not limited to with all the porch seating, it makes you wonder if the head of the Montgomery County areas of poverty,” Wetzel said. The trip administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, they bought all those benches to practice for the big Health Department, Amber Reed. serves as a method of giving Wabash community members and most importantly, the one out back of Center. We see you, Beta artists. This formal agreement makes public a College students a method of practicing students. Because this is a school paper, the con- Practice makes perfect, gentlemen! partnership between Wabash College global health in its purest form. tent and character within will cater to the student Global Health Initiative and the County Sam Hayes ‘19 is one of the students body’s interests, ideas and issues. Further, this TOWNIES INVADE Health Department to work together who will travel to Peru. publication will serve as a medium and forum for in order to give interested students an “One of my main motives for going student opinions and ideas. NATIONAL ACT opportunity to conduct public health on the immersion trip is to not only Although an individual newspaper, the Board in the city of Crawfordsville and help break cultural barriers, but to immerse Hi-Five to the several hundred high school students of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The improve the overall health of the city. myself in a new environment where Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the in the greater Crawfordsvile area. While you thought Eric Wetzel, Norman Treves Professor there are different challenges that do you were being sneaky by ditching the letterman of Biology, serves as the Director of the not exist in our country. I am hoping Wabash College Student Senate, which derives jacket to blend in with the college students, it was Global Health Initiative. to gain a broader perspective on global its funds from the Wabash College student body. easy to distinguish you from the guests of Wabash “For the last couple of years we health itself, and a better idea on the students, who were paid for by those students, and Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed and have reached out to Amber Reed, global health issues that face societies encouraged. They will only be published if they the Dannies who showed up in NBA jerseys. At least who is the head of the County Health that are not high income, and develop a all you 9-12th graders have enough fashion sense to include name, phone, or e-mail, and are not lon- Department, and we have collaborated better reasoning of why these problems ger than 300 words. realize not to do that. with her in in terms of creating student occur and possible solutions to them,” opportunities in public health within Hayes said. The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters for WORK THROUGH THE PAIN the health department,” Wetzel said. content, typographical errors, and length. All letters received become property of this publication On Monday, Wabash students had the opportunity for the purposes of reprinting and/or redistribu- to ride in an IndyCar around the College Mall. Not tion. Profanity may appear in the publication, everyone seemed to enjoy it, however. Perhaps the but only in cases of direct quote or if profanity is driver’s seat was just uncomfortable, or perhaps the necessary to the content of the story. Please do gentleman driving was not confuse profanity with obscenity. No article expecting to get to drive or picture of an obscene nature will appear in this around sorority girls publication. instead of Wabash guys. The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at the Oh well - we certainly Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. It is deliv- appreciated his driving ered freely to all students, faculty, and staff at skills, and we thank him Wabash College. All advertising published in The for taking time to drive us Bachelor is subject to an established rate card. around for a while! The Bachelor reserves the right to deny requests for publication of advertisements. Student ROCKING ALL NIGHT organizations of Wabash College may purchase advertisements at half the listed rate. 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