Men’s hoops goes dancing
Ceramics teacher plays with fire
SPORTS
COMMUNITY
Team earns playoff berth
The
@Collegian_GCC @gcc.collegian The Collegian: The GCC Newspaper Friday, February 10, 2023
Showcase graces campus with unique pottery
No more sexy M&M’s
Tucker Carlson rejoices
PERSPECTIVES
Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 108, No. 12
AI chatbot causes stir in academia Nick Grasso
Entertainment Editor
According to Dr. Jeffrey Tedford ’00, chair of the Music Department and director of Orchestras, the winter concert always features the winners of the annual Concerto/Aria Competition and two student conductors, alongside the orchestra. The three winners of this
VIOLONIST, STUDENT CONDUCTOR
STUDENT CONDUCTOR
year’s instrumental and vocal contest were seniors Josef Mueller and Dabria DiCenso
and junior Madeline Helm.
nual tuition is now $20,890 and annual room and board sits at $11,770, adding up to a total academic year cost of $32,660 for students residing on upper campus. The overall cost to attend Grove City College for upper-campus students has increased by 5.2 percent. “Extraordinary inflationary pressures continue to impact most of the major costs incurred by the college, especially in the area of food services,” McNulty wrote.
Colonial Hall’s room pricing increased by $470, adding to an annual total of $11,000. For those living in the apartments, the total cost to attend the college next year is $31,890. “As the father of four college graduates, I have some personal understanding of the financial challenges higher education presents to students and families,” the president wrote. “I trust you share my firm belief that a Grove City College education
is a wise investment.” The 2022-23 academic year saw a 3.5 percent increase from the previous year, rising to $31,040 from 2021-22’s $29,990. For comparison, Slippery Rock University’s undergraduate cost ranges anywhere between $21,200 to $29,300, the final cost dependent on whether the student lives in Pennsylvania or out-of-state. Hillsdale
lights the leadership, accomplishments and services of alumni in the disciplines of HOGANSON science, engineering and math. Hoganson’s speech was titled, “Direction and Providence: Following God in Engineering and Medicine,” and illustrated the intersection of medicine and
engineering in his practice but also the Lord’s role in his life as well. Hoganson’s desire to help others and find lasting solutions stems from his own life experiences. Having been born with a complex congenital heart disease himself, he has made it his mission to serve and minister to children facing similar, lifethreatening conditions. Once a student at the col-
lege, Hoganson majored in electrical engineering while also completing the necessary prerequisites for medical school. After graduation, he spent two years working full-time for Kensey Nash, a biomedical-engineering company that specializes in cardiovascular medical devices. His experiences and ac-
Grove City College, along with other academic institutions, has recently witnessed the emergence of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot created and released by OpenAI in November 2022. Its primary function on campus has been to “assist” students with academic assignments and written essays. Built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models, ChatGPT can answer countless questions for people searching for useful answers. Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, associate professor of English, commented on the surge of ChatGPT use on campus. “There are many potential uses for this kind of technology, and while composing student essays may get the most attention around college campuses, it’s not the sole reason for the AI’s creation.” “My biggest concern with ChatGPT and similar tools is that they contribute to a cognitive ecosystem that tempts us to take shortcuts,” he said. The cheating culture around ChatGPT has become a principal concern for teachers and professors. Senior Kurt Sekera, a future educator, shared his concerns. “I’m really worried about how my future high school students are going to use this software.” “It’s really going to make grading things more difficult, and I’ll definitely have to be on the lookout for cheating and things like that,” Sekera said. Bilbro echoed a similar sentiment, explaining that “most of the buzz I hear from my colleagues here and elsewhere involves how they might need to change assignments to forestall cheating.” “There’s already software that does a pretty good job of identifying AI writing, and so far, these tools remain pretty rough. I’m also encouraged by some ideas to use essays generated by ChatGPT to help students recognize poor writing and better articulate and practice good writing,” Bilbro said. ChatGPT’s popularity, however, has not been constrained to campus. Google quickly joined the AI race recently, according to Forbes, who reported on Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public statement. Pichai said, “Google’s AI service will be initially available to a limited group of testers before a wider release in coming weeks.” Dr. Brian Dellinger ’07, associate professor of computer science, clarified what OpenAI aimed to accomplish with ChatGPT. “Sophisticated chatbots have been a goal of AI research for a long
HOGANSON 3
CHATGPT 3
MATTHEW SCHOONOVER
Senior violonist Josef Mueller will be performing as one of the three Concerto/Aria Competition winners and serving as a student conductor at tonight’s Winter Orchestra Concert. Mueller can be seen playing the violin at an orchestra performance in December 2021.
Orchestra Concert has a new spin Competition winners, student conductors take the stage Ayden Gutierrez News Editor
The college is set to host their Winter Orchestra Concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center on campus. The music performance is free and open to the public.
Featured performers
DABRIA DICENSO ‘23 FLUTE SOLOIST
JOSEF MUELLER ‘23
MADELINE HELM ‘24 SOPRANO SOLOIST
LINDSEY MAY ‘23
ORCHESTRA 3
Inflation drives tuition increase David Zimmermann Editor-in-Chief
The college’s Board of Trustees recently approved the 2023-24 academic year’s tuition, room and board rates, President Paul McNulty ’80 wrote in a letter to the campus community on Feb. 1. Tuition will increase by $900, and $720 will be added to the room and board charges for both semesters, according to the letter. An-
TUITION 3
Hoganson delivers Hopeman lecture Mia Gallagher Staff Writer
Grove City College alumnus Dr. David Hoganson ‘98 returned to campus Monday to share his personal and professional story at the Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Memorial Lecture in Faith and Technology. The lecture, named in honor of the former Board of Trustees president, high-