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Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper
Friday, April 28, 2023
Vol. 108, No. 19
Lux Mea back on campus
Third annual film festival lights up silver screen Mia Gallagher Staff Writer
The third annual Lux Mea Film Festival kicks off tomorrow evening, April 29 at 7 p.m. in Crawford Auditorium. The event promises to provide a unique cinematic experience and an enjoyable evening for the campus community in attendance. The film festival premiere will run for two hours, during which several awards will be given to the best student films. Afterwards, attendees will get the opportunity to enjoy the reception in Carnegie Alumni Center where they can meet and mingle with the event’s student filmmakers. “This is the first year that the reception is open to all film festival attendees, and we can’t wait to show off the work of our awesome Reception Team,” said senior Jacob Shirk, who serves as the Video Team lead. The festival organizers, Communication Arts Professor Gregory Bandy and his Special Events and Promotions class, have been hard at work all semester to bring this event to life. Each of the six student teams–Communications/
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Upon graduation from BC3, Emma Clark, Finnley Coglon, Sadie Kriebel, Sara Layton, Elizabeth Mackey, Abigail Montgomery and Emily Smyth can receive their associate degree from BC3, they can take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses and work as they complete a bachelor’s degree at Grove City College. The Charles Jr. and Betty Johnson School of Nursing, partners with Butler County Community College to grant students access to the best of both schools—an excellent, Christ-centered liberal
Dr. Joshua A. Mayo ’10 will be honored as Grove City College’s 2023 ODK Professor of the Year at next week’s Recognition Convocation. Mayo is department chair and associate professor of English. He also teaches in the Writing Program and the Humanities Core and serves as the faculty adviser for The Quad literary magazine. He is highly regarded by his students for maintaining academic excellence, enMAYO gaging them intellectually and consistently demonstrating Christian character. “He is a rare individual who can be spoken of with such enthusiasm, both in his own department and equally by those outside of his department. Dr. Mayo’s reputation for kindness and excellence goes before him, making him an exemplary professor and man,” one senior said. “Dr. Mayo is an outstanding scholar and an extraordinarily caring person. He embodies the best of what distinguishes a Grove City College professor,” said President Paul J. McNulty ’80. “Josh is a generous-spirited and encouraging colleague,” Dr. Eric Potter, professor of English, said of Mayo. “As a teacher, he is passionate in pursuing wisdom and adept at providing deep insights in a personable and engaging way. As department chair, he has fostered a spirit of hospitality that is welcoming to students and colleagues alike.” “I am deeply grateful for this award. It blesses my soul. I love to teach here,” Mayo said. “Grove City College is a place where biblical imagination and serious inquiry are still possible. I am regularly amazed by the profound Christian wisdom of my colleagues and the earnest faith of my students. In many respects, it is the ideal institution of higher education.” Mayo said he hopes he conveys a larger truth to his students through his work as a teacher, advisor and mentor. “I want my students to know that friendship with God is the summum bonum – the highest good – of living,” he said. “In John 17:3, our Lord prays to the Father, ‘This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.’ Communion with God really is possible: in our work, our play, our studies, our worship.” After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English
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Juniors Olivia Nicholas and Nick Guidas get all glammed up for tomorrow night’s red-carpet premiere. See page 5 for more about the festival and student filmmakers. Marketing/Social Media, details that make this night a We spent a lot of time reflectDesign, Photography, Vid- success. ing on what we wanted the eography, Program Venue “The most rewarding part film festival to look like, but and Reception–oversee their of this process is watching share of behind-the-scenes where we have come from. LUX MEA 3
Music Dept. to perform AI-generated music Ayden Gutierrez News Editor
Ludwig van Beethoven, arguably one of the greatest musical composers of all time, will have his 10th Symphony performed tonight by Grove City College’s Orchestra. Only they didn’t perform Beethoven: They performed his famously incomplete 10th Symphony finished by artificial intelligence (AI). “Symphony (After Beethoven)” was created by composer and scientist David Cope’s Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) system two decades ago but was never performed live.
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Dr. Jeffrey Tedford ’00, chair of the Department of Music and director of Orchestras, programmed this believing it is incredibly important to be aware of AI’s influence on multiple areas of life. “The backstory is that the composer entered Beethoven’s sketches that he left when he died of what would have been his 10th symphony,” said Tedford. “The AI was then programmed to write something in the style of Beethoven using those sketches and other programming of Beethoven’s previous nine symphonies.” Tedford believes, musical-
ly speaking, elements of the work are academically well written. “There are other areas of the symphony, for instance, the development section, that are lacking from an academic standpoint. The development section of a musical work is supposed to be the development of previously presented musical ideas,” said Tedford. “I believe the AI lacks the ability to develop ideas that are cohesive and make sense without becoming simple repetition. The work is worthy of study and performance as a way to have discussion and conversation on the im-
pact of AI on the music industry.” In terms of style, Tedford believes elements could be interpreted as Beethoven’s style; however, other elements in the AI-generated work definitely lack personality, one quality which was evident in all of Beethoven’s work. “We will unfortunately never know how Beethoven would have written the 10th Symphony. We only have a handful of sketches of what Beethoven started,” said Tedford. Mark Wasilko ’17, a music technology instructor for the AI MUSIC 3
Nursing school sends off first BC3 grads Ayden Gutierrez News Editor
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Pictured from left to right: juniors Sara Layton, Emily Smyth, Sadie Kriebel, Elizabeth Mackey (top row), Abigail Montgomery, Finnley Coglon and Emma Clark (bottom row).
The college’s nursing program will see its first class of graduates receive their associate degrees from Butler County Community College (BC3) in May. The students, all juniors at Grove City College, received clinical and technical training through BC3’s two-year Nursing, R.N. program under an innovative partnership between the schools. During their time in the program, students study nursing and the liberal arts and sciences at Grove City College in their first and final years, with the BC3 training in years two and three.