NOVEMBER 18, 2016 THE BACHELOR THE STUDENT VOICE OF WABASH COLLEGE SINCE 1908 WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS SEE STORY PAGE 12 LEVI GARRISON ‘18 / PHOTO VOLUME 109 • ISSUE 11 BACHELOR HI-FIVES 301 W. Wabash Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 FIVE THINGS WORTHY POLLSTERS GOT IT OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cole Crouch • [email protected] MANNEQUIN CHALLENGE WRONG IN 2016 NEWS EDITOR Ben Johnson • [email protected] Hi-five to the new trend that is sweeping OPINION EDITOR the nation: the mannequin challenge! The NATHAN GRAY ‘20 | STAFF which resonated as influential to Jack Kellerman • [email protected] art challenges a group of people to freeze WRITER • After the surprising their decision in over thirty percent SPORTS EDITOR long enough for one person (who doesn’t results of last Tuesday’s elections of respondents. Tucker Dixon • [email protected] get to be part of the fun) to film them. with Republican Donald Trump It is still unclear why the pre- The mannequin challenge looks a Trump beating favored Democrat Hillary election polls were so wrong in their CAVELIFE EDITOR, BUSINESS MANAGER family reunion. And if that isn’t by far Clinton, pollsters and citizens alike predictions. One theory is that both Joseph Reilly • [email protected] the best part of this fad, it’s that Wabash are wondering what happened? polls and the Clinton campaign failed PHOTO EDITOR hasn’t partipated yet. Hopefully this fad How did the polls get it so wrong? to recognize how much the support Levi Garrison • [email protected] lasts shoter than DePauw’s winning streak. While there is still discussion about of white working-class voters, a COPY EDITOR what transpired on Election Day voting block which has traditionally and how polling is related, one voted for Democratic candidates, Benjamin Wade • [email protected] FREE TIX IF YOU PLEASE group on campus has contributed had shifted in favor of Trump. An DELIVERY MANAGER Hi-Five to Greg Shaheen for the success of to the conversation. Last Tuesday, additional possibility, according to Kevin Griffen • [email protected] the Monon Village. It actually worked and fourteen students in the course another exit pollster, was a lack of was enjoyable to be a part of. But what the “Election Polling and Public voter turnout. “Media polls tended to The purpose of the Bachelor is to serve the heck happened to the tickets? Electronic Opinion,” taught by Shamira focus on the 18-29 age group, which school audience, including but not limited to ticketing? You had to find tickets for over Gelbman, Professor of Political generally leaned towards Clinton,” administrators, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, half the campus on Friday just for them to Science, administered exit polls to Levi Garrison ‘18 said. “But on community members and most importantly, the be ripped up! A pledge come up with that Montgomery County voters. Tuesday, this group was one of the students. Because this is a school paper, the con- idea. Better luck in two years. At the start of the semester, most underrepresented at polls.” tent and character within will cater to the student Gelbman’s class focused on the way As for what corrections need to body’s interests, ideas and issues. Further, this polls work, why polls are considered be made to polling to prevent such publication will serve as a medium and forum for JAIL FREE CARD? accurate, and what flaws polls student opinions and ideas. possessed. After fall break, the class Although an individual newspaper, the Board Hi-Five to students that stole and began to develop the questions they of Publications publishes the Bachelor. The returned a piece of public property. Delts, would use for their exit poll. The Bachelor and BOP receive funding from the is this a sign of what’s to come? exit polls were conducted at two Wabash College Student Senate, which derives vote centers in Montgomery County: its funds from the Wabash College student body. North Montgomery High School and St. Bernard’s Catholic Church. Letters (e-mails) to the editor are welcomed and Initially, there was concern about encouraged. Any content, including editorials the number of voters who would be and comics, printed in this newspaper endors- willing to answer the survey, due to ing or opposing candidates for political office inclement weather outside the vote are decided by the editors of the Bachelor and PRINCETON REVIEW centers. However, the students still should not be attributed to Wabash College. received two hundred thirty-five SHAMIRA GELBMAN / PHOTO The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters for Many students know that The Princeton Review responses. “We were very happy loves singing Wabash’s praises. From receiving content, typographical errors, and length. All let- with the turnout that we received,” ters received become property of this publication honors such as #7 Performing Arts Theater to #5 in exit pollster Ian Ward ‘19 said. Internships and Alumni Networks, Wabash is clearly for the purposes of reprinting and/or redistribu- “People were really willing to take mistakes in the future, there is still tion. Profanity may appear in the publication, doing something right. Most recently, WabCo was the poll, which is something we much debate. Ward pointed out lauded with the following: #3 Squirrel Population but only in cases of direct quote or if profanity is weren’t really sure about going in.” that the way polls are conducted, necessary to the content of the story. Please do and Diversity, #8 Friendliest Custodians, and #13 Of those who completed the which have long relied on home Most Unused Archway on a College Campus. not confuse profanity with obscenity. No article exit poll, sixty-one percent voted for phone calls, are changing as more or picture of an obscene nature will appear in this Donald Trump versus the twenty- people ditch landlines in favor of publication. nine percent for Hillary Clinton. Ward cellphones. Some wonder if polling TAILGATE WAS LIT was not shocked by the results of the is still relevant. “A lot of people The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at the exit poll. “It wasn’t a huge surprise,” are starting to question has polling Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. It is deliv- The after parties at DePauw University he said. “Obviously, Montgomery outgrown its useful life, and that’s ered freely to all students, faculty, and staff at this Saturday were lit, both figuratively and County was going to vote for Trump.” something we can’t really know,” he Wabash College. All advertising published in the literally. Whilst celebrating their extremely The results of the exit polls also said. “We are going to have to look at Bachelor is subject to an established rate card. lucky victory, a number of couches were set revealed what issues mattered most the future.” The Bachelor reserves the right to deny requests on fire, along with a multitude of trash. And to voters in Montgomery County. Despite the unpleasant weather for publication of advertisements. Student by trash, we mean their student body. To By far, the economy was the biggest outside the vote centers, Gelbman’s organizations of Wabash College may purchase make things even more DePauw-esque, the issue for voters this election with students enjoyed their time engaging advertisements at half the listed rate. blaze was set off within a stone’s throw of sixty percent saying this topic with members of the community. The Bachelor is a member of the Hoosier State the campus’ oldest building which is almost affected their voting decision. Behind “It was great overall experience, and Indiana Collegiate Press Associations (HSPA entirely composed of wood. It’s a shame that the economy, influential issues and it was a lot of fun seeing the and ICPA). the building did not catch because it would included gun control, health care, community we live in doing their have made an excellent funeral pyre for the immigration, and foreign policy, civic duty,” Ward said. slum that is DePauw University. 2 | BACHELOR.WABASH.EDU | THE BACHELOR MONON VILLAGE CREATES BIG SCHOOL HYPE ZACH MOFFETT ‘20 | STAFF Shaheen, the man in charge of all the WRITER • As we all know, Monon alterations, expressed his satisfaction Bell was this past weekend, and it with the event as well.. He also did not go the way many of us had commented on his appreciation anticipated. It was disappointing to for the people that made this all see the game go the way it did, but possible and for all the feedback after it was a great game to watch. With the game. One aspect that he was that, there were other activities that proud of was that four dozen football took place alongside the bell game, families could solidify tailgating such as the tailgating and logistical spots. Shaheen had time running aspects of the game. While against him from the start of this these were argued when the first project, as he started at the college announcements came out, it seems only in September. “Rich Woods and that many aspects of this game that I discussed that if people were able to were in question turned out rather stay calm we would be alright,” Shaheen well. Despite how the game went, said. Woods had a key role in making it was safe to say that there was a the tailgating happen this past weekend. positive outcome in much of what the school did this year for the 123rd Monon Bell game. Talking to many students around campus, it seems that there was a lot of doubt in how the game was going to be organized on such short notice.