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Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper
Friday, October 7, 2022
Vol. 108, No. 6
New software gets mixed reviews Kyle Coogan
Contributing Writer Grove City College students and staff are expressing concerns about this fall’s transition to the new Desire2Learn learning management system. A new semester dawns at the college, and a new LMS called D2L has been integrated. D2L is a platform where professors can post assignments and syllabi, as well as a place for students to submit their classwork and homework. Traditionally, myGCC has been used by students and staff members of the college for all things from learning management, financial information and even checking chapel credits. Concerns regarding the integration of a new LMS alongside myGCC have plagued students such as junior Prince Aviyon, who are swamped with information and assignments on both platforms. “I think that Grove City administrators need to make up their mind on what to use. I feel like I have to check both websites for my assignments and information, and it would just be easier if everything was on one platform,” Aviyon said. The seemingly disorganized nature of using two LMS platforms is a feelD2L 2
EP frat loses charter Ryan Young
Contributing Writer Grove City College has officially suspended the charter of the college’s Epsilon Pi (EP) fraternity due to the presence of alcohol at an offcampus party last April. “It is a loss of charter for a year and during this period of time they have no letters, no colors, no events,” Vice President of Student Life and Learning Larry Hardesty said. The decision was reached Sept. 2, with members of the fraternity present to ask questions about the ruling. “We met with the entirety of the fraternity, and we did that because we wanted to make sure the communication was clear and that the expectations were clear,” Hardesty, who also serves as adviser to the fraternity, said. The sole reason for the charter suspension of the EP fraternity was due to the presence of alcohol at an offcampus party, Hardesty said. The college’s Student FRATERNITY 3
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The Guthrie Theatre is reopening by the end of October. The downtown theater has been closed for renovations under new ownership.
The Guthrie set to reopen New ownership sets plans into motion
Ayden Gutierrez News Editor
The reopening of the Guthrie Theatre is scheduled to take place on Oct. 22 with its inaugural event, Comedy Night at the Guthrie. According to owner Pat Artise, the opening event will feature headliners John Knight and John Evans. After former Grove City College alum Spencer Folmar ‘10 and his company Veritas Arts sold the theater to Artise last year, it began to undergo interior renovations. Artise noted that the theater has seen the addition of a food hall consisting of three different food stations, a bar, a DJ booth and additional interior sound and lighting equipment. The food hall
will have a pizza and sandwich station, chicken station featuring fried chicken and Nashville hot chicken and a taco station called Hippie Tacos. The entry of the taco shop will be the front of an old Volkswagen bus, hence the hippie name. Artise emphasized how tedious the process has been. “The process has been very slow. It has been challenging to find contractors within the last year,” he said. “The contracts that we do get take a good amount of time to complete. One of our studio contracts is 80 pages.” The journey seems to be coming to an end, as Artise noted only a few more things need finished before the opening. The theater is currently in the process of
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The theater experienced many interior renovations since 2020.
Homecoming festivities exceed expectations
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Members of the Homecoming Court wave to the crowd on Broad Street during last week’s parade. Over the festive weekend, Grove City College alumni took a trip down memory lane by reconnecting with students and faculty and catching up with friends for old times’ sake. After the Homecoming Parade, alumni visited all the different Greek life and club tents, located on the upper Quad and lower campus, and stopped by the anticipated football match against Case Western. Despite inclement weather, the crowd stuck it out, celebrating the crowning of Homecoming King Clark Mummau and Queen Tess Dattoli during the game’s halftime show and cheering on the Wolverines until the end. As you’re reading this week’s issue of The Collegian, be sure to check out our Homecoming coverage, found in Editor-inChief David Zimmermann’s editorial on page 2 and Photo Chief Grace David’s photospread on pages 6 and 7.