WRESTLING NATIONALS RUNDOWN SEE PAGE 14 MARCH 15, 2019 Schurg ’19 Wins National Championship COURTESY OF LARRY RADLOFF, D3PHOTOGRAPHY.COM Darden Schurg ’19 capped a dominant season by winning the national championship at 174 pounds. Wabash also had two other wrestlers named All-Americans at Nationals over break, Kyle Hatch ’21 and Carlos Champagne ’22. VOLUME 111 • ISSUE 19 BACHELOR 301 W. Wabash Ave., HI-FIVES Crawfordsville, IN, 47933 Twitter: @WabCoBachelor_ FIVE THINGS WORTHY Instagram: wabashcollegebachelor EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK Bryce Bridgewater • [email protected] NEWS EDITOR Jake Vermeulen • [email protected] NUTTY BRITS OPINION EDITOR Austin Hood • [email protected] Hi-Five to the UK for making American SPORTS EDITOR politics look sane. As the March 29th deadline Patrick McAuley • [email protected] for a Brexit deal approaches, UK lawmakers CAVELIFE EDITOR again voted down PM Theresa May’s deal. We Braxton Moore • [email protected] hope they’ll be able to work something out. PHOTO EDITOR Then again, it might be fun to watch the British Ian Ward • [email protected] Isles descend into madness. Either way, we still ONLINE EDITOR beat the hell out of them back in 1776. Ian Ward • [email protected] COPY EDITOR Brent Breese • [email protected] NO ONE CARES ABOUT COURTESY OF COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING YOUR SPRING BREAK STORY The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve Michael Butterworth gave last year’s Brigance Forum lecture, entitled: “Public Memory the school audience, including but not and Political Reconciliation at the Munich 1972 Massacre Memorial.” limited to administrators, faculty and staff, Gentlemen, we love that everyone had a great parents, alumni, community members and time on their respective spring break trips. We most importantly, the students. Because hope everyone enjoyed their break. But, its this is a school paper, the content and character within will cater to the student been a week now, and we honestly don’t care body’s interests, ideas, and issues. about how drunk you got or how good of a Brigance Forum Seeks Further, this publication will serve as a time that you had. Let the past die because we medium and forum for student opinions don’t care to hear about it. Let us get back to and ideas. the mundane role of Wabash please. to Spark Conversation Although an individual newspaper, the Board of Publications publishes The Bachelor. The Bachelor and BOP receive NO FLUSH ZONE funding from the Wabash College Student Senate, which derives its funds from the Hi-Five to students of the College that actually on Campus Wabash College student body. take time to flush the toilets in the Lilly Letters (e-mails) to the editor are Library. We at The Bachelor understand that JAKE VERMEULEN ’21 | NEWS speaker who can bring an informed welcomed and encouraged. They will only be published if they include name, phone, the Gentlemen’s Rule is always in affect at EDITOR • On an all-male campus, and different perspective to the the College and would love for many other or e-mail, and are not longer than 500 we can often be somewhat isolated conversations that we’re having here is words. students to understand that moving forward from conversations about gender always a worthwhile endeavor.” this semester. Flush the toilets!! and sexuality. During the Rhetoric Geraths also noted that The Bachelor reserves the right to edit letters for content, typographical errors, Department’s annual Brigance Forum understanding the rhetoric of Supreme and length. All letters received become OUTSTANDING IN NCAC lecture, these conversations will come Court decisions and the political property of this publication for the to campus in a very tangible way. On process is important for being a good purposes of reprinting and/or redistribution. Thursday, March 21, Jeffrey Bennett, citizen and consumer of news. He said, Profanity may appear in the publication, High-five to our student-athletes for receiving but only in cases of direct quote or if the award for most outstanding winter sports Associate Professor of Communication “We should all be able to recognize profanity is necessary to the content of results in the NCAC this year. The school Studies at Vanderbilt University, will what sort of language and tropes are the story. Please do not confuse profanity down south received the same award in the give the 36th Annual Brigance Forum being used about these decisions that with obscenity. No article or picture of Lecture. Bennett is a prominent scholar are being made, for better or worse.” an obscene nature will appear in this co-ed category. Let’s, however, remember what publication. we pride ourselves on at this place. WAF! in the field of queer rhetoric, and his The Rhetoric Department is hoping lecture will focus on the rhetoric of to attract students from a variety of The Bachelor is printed every Thursday at the 2015 Supreme Court decision, academic interests outside of rhetoric the Purdue Exponent in West Lafayette. MODERN WARFARE FOR Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized to this talk. “We’re hoping to have It is delivered freely to all students, faculty, and staff at Wabash College. All FREE? same-sex marriage nationwide. Cory outreach to folks who are interested advertising published in the Bachelor Geraths, Visiting Assistant Professor in the law, considering his particular is subject to an established rate card. Hi-Five to Sony for gifting every everyone of Rhetoric, said, “He’ll be looking in topic, and his larger work is also The Bachelor reserves the right to deny particular at rhetorics of dignity; how interested in issues of health and requests for publication of advertisements. Modern Warfare remastered in the month of Student organizations of Wabash College March. It was a pleasant surprise for students we talk about the dignity of the LGBTQ medicine. may purchase advertisements at half the to come back to from spring break. Instead community.” The Brigance Forum is named listed rate. of enjoying the 60 degree weather this week, Bennett’s book, Banning Queer in honor of the late Professor W. Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Norwood Brigance. Brigance taught in The Bachelor is a member of the Hoosier we are playing as Soap to free Russia from State and Indiana Collegiate Press Contagion, and Resistance, focused terrorists. Thank you, Sony. We love you. the Speech Department, which later Associations (HSPA and ICPA). on the rhetoric surrounding the effort became the Rhetoric Department, for to ban gay men from donating blood 38 years. He made a lasting impact during the AIDS scare. The decision to on Wabash, and wrote many textbooks bring Bennett to campus grew out of a which were taught around the country. desire to contribute to conversations The lecture named in his honor about sexuality and gender. According continues again next week with Dr. to Geraths, “bringing a guest Bennett’s lecture. 2 | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | THE BACHELOR NEWS Wallies Nearly Caught in Yellow Jacket Protest BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO While visiting l’Arc de Triomphe, the immersion trip which went to Paris and The Yellow Jackets protests have been springing up in France over the last several Normandy almost got caught in the middle of a Yellow Jackets protest. months in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s policies. BENJAMIN HIGH ’22 / PHOTO Among their many complaints, Yellow Jacket protestors have taken great issues with Macron’s proposed fuel tax. Macron recently backed off the proposal in response to the mounting protests. THE BACHELOR | WABASHCOLLEGEBACHELOR.COM | 3 NEWS College Presents Campus Masterplan BRYCE BRIDGEWATER ’19 & ALEXANDRU One of the main priorities for the new plan is a The Armory will go through a beautification along ROTARU ’21 | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & STAFF Campus Commons building. The College plans to with health upgrades. Baxter Hall will get a new WRITER • Last Tuesday, Wabash presented what demolish Wolcott Hall, Morris Hall, and the Sparks annex and IT support as well as new office and Wabash could look like in 2032 to the public, Center to place this new building. The commons will classroom space. Detchon Hall and the Fine Arts pending approval from the Board of Trustees be for both independent and greek students with Center will get some minor upgrades as well. in May. The expansion represents Wabash’s dining options and event space for 350 people. The Hollett Little Giant Stadium will see an increase in continued commitment to its academic mission. The new building will include a pub, recreation room, and the capacity of the homestand but the College plans masterplan was developed to make sure the College bookstore. Along with seating inside, commons will to remove the visitor side stands. The press box and continues to spend money wisely. Mainly, the school consist of an outside seating area. the concession stands are getting renovated as well. aims to renovate current campus buildings, as well Lilly Library will also be getting a renovation. The The College also recognizes many different as adding new buildings to the campus. College will enhance study spaces as well as other environmental efforts that can be taken to reduce After multiple ad hoc meetings, the College is small upgrades to the building. Center Hall will be its carbon footprint. Wabash will try to implement looking to finalize its plans in a few weeks for getting an update as well. The building will become local solar energy efforts as well as different carbon presentation. The College aims to preserve the more student-centered. Center will also have more capture projects. campus mall and the arboretum, while adding new entrances to the mall, working to engage itself Along with some other small changes, Wabash spaces for gathering across campus.