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Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 111, No. 12
HUMA core gets more credit Christa Bashinski Staff Writer
Grove City’s incoming class of 2029 will face some new changes. Following years of evaluation, the core curriculum has been updated to more thoroughly reflect the College’s mission and further
students’ education. The updated curriculum boasts four separate courses that are entirely new, raising the required humanity credits from fifteen to eighteen. The new classes include Becoming Wise: A Christian Vision of Learning and Living, Scripture and Theology for the Christian Life I,
Scripture and Theology for the Christian Life II and The Gospel and the Good Life: A Christian Vision for Ethics. These classes will be taught by Biblical and Religious Studies professors and some additional faculty within the other liberal arts departments. With the two new Scrip-
ture courses replacing Biblical Revelation, these changes will put a heavier emphasis on a theological perspective as the biblical requisites double. This speaks to Grove City’s “Christ-centered” mission with students developing a strong basis in Christian fundamentals. Dr. Peter Frank ‘95, pro-
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Pictured above the article is a “tradesman mark”, an example of a symbol that illiterate Protestants used as signatures. Notaries later wrote the actual names of the signees next to the marks. from tradesmen and women, some illiterate and only signing with their “tradesman mark,” a pictorial representation of their vocation and name that was officiated by the Amiens notaries. Baker’s historiography class composed identification tags for the signatures displayed on the walls of the exhibit, with an accompany-
ing QR code that takes visitors to the exhibit’s website with more information about the signatures they see. The website designed by sophomore Anna Scott has more than 105 signatures linked to the codes and has already attracted attention in France. The documents collected contain the signatures of “suspects” and “heretics”
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The search for the next McNulty
Exhibit exposes Protestant persecution Dr. David L. Rosenberg’s second exhibit at the College entitled “Conscience and Coercion: The Early Protestants of Amiens, France, 15301625 Traces of their Lives” made its debut in the Pew Fine Arts Center (PFAC) gallery last Saturday as a culmination of more than 50 years of research. Last spring Rosenberg displayed his first exhibit at the College, “Jews of the Somme,” a project that followed Holocaust survivors living in Nazi-occupied Amiens, France. His current exhibit focuses on primary source documents from persecuted Protestants in Catholic Amiens during the 16th century, a research project he began nearly five decades ago as a graduate student at Yale University. In coordination with Director of Archives and Galleries Hilary Walczak ’09, history professor Dr. Elizabeth Baker and her students and chair of the modern language department Dr. Kelsey Madsen, the exhibit came to fruition. “We began the planning process for this exhibit over a year ago. The collaboration between departments such as history, communications, archives and modern languages gave so many students and faculty a hand in this project,” Walczak said. “I thoroughly enjoyed working with David to bring his research and ideas into exhibit form (by) helping him design and develop the project for our gallery,” she expressed. The project tracked French Protestants through signatures, maps, prenuptial agreements, baptismal certificates and other primary sources from the 16th century. Through his research, Rosenberg collected signatures on these documents
vost and vice president of academic affairs, spoke on the value that these courses will provide. “A key purpose of the HUMA core is to allow students to ask and answer the big questions of life, such as ‘What does it mean to be hu-
who were pursued and attacked for their religious beliefs as Protestants. “In the oldest Catholic parish registers of baptisms of the city dating from the 1560s and 1570s, I found evidence that following episodes of mob violence, frightened Protestant families PROTESTANTS 3
With the 2025-26 academic year approaching, the task of the Presidential Search Committee is becoming more pertinent. Formed this past October, the committee is seeking to replace the retiring president, Paul J. McNulty ‘80, and is currently vetting candidates interested in becoming the tenth president of Grove City College. According to an email Ed Breen ‘75, chair of the Board of Trustees and chair of the Presidential Search Committee, sent to all students on Jan. 15, the Board of Trustees commissioned CarterBaldwin, an executive search firm based in Atlanta, Ga. and Washington, D.C., to aid in the search. CarterBaldwin’s website touts itself as one of the top search firms in the country, and Breen states in the email that the committee has been working hard to hire the best presidential candidate possible. Candidates may be employed, so the committee has been confidential with the over 70 potential presidents it has been reviewing. The tenth president will face crucial obstacles as the College continues to grow and faces unknown difficulties. The new president will have to be prepared to adapt to whatever issues emerge in the coming years. “I think each President has been faced with challenges and changes in higher education or society that they must tackle, but I think for President McNulty, he had a very large one in a global pandemic shutdown,” Grove City College Archivist Hilary Walczak ’09 said. “So, navigating that was obviously a challenge, but he has consistently looked for ways to keep Grove City rooted in its traditions but also look towards the future of the College’s success,” Walczak expressed. Presidents of the College have served for an unusually long time. Isaac Ketler, Weir C. Ketler and Charles MacKenzie served for a combined 97 out of the College’s 149 SEARCH 3