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Vol. 109, No. 16
Graduation One day in the sun... speakers announced Grove City College
J. Nicholas Ranjan, federal district court judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania and 2000 Grove City College alumnus, will deliver the commencement address at his alma mater when the Class of 2024 graduates on May 18. A summa cum laude graduate of the College, Ranjan was appointed to the federal bench in 2019. He earned his degree in HisRANJAN tory and served as the orchestra’s concertmaster during his student days. College President Paul J. McNulty ’80 said this year’s graduates would benefit from hearing from Ranjan, who exemplifies the College’s vision, mission, and values. “Judge Ranjan is an extraordinarily talented lawyer who is employing his wisdom, temperament, and commitment to the rule of law to serve the public of this region. He is a credit to the legal profession and Grove City College, and we are proud and honored to have him speak to our graduates,” McNulty said. Ranjan, of Allison Park, Pa., was one of Pittsburgh’s
legal stars when he was nominated for the federal bench by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2019. He is a cum laude graduate of University of Michigan Law School, where he served as a note editor of the Michigan Law Review. He began his legal career serving as the Simon Karas fellow with the Ohio Solicitor General and then served as a judicial clerk to Judge Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. For the next 14 years, Ranjan practiced at the international law firm of K&L Gates LLP in its Pittsburgh headquarters, first as an associate and then as an equity partner. His practice focused on complex commercial litigation, appellate litigation, and domestic arbitration. Ranjan has been recognized by Chambers USA, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America, Pittsburgh Leadership Conference and Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. But his most prized honor was twice accepting the Fred Rogers Good Neighbor Award for the recruitment of
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Two friends enjoy the sunshine on the Quad last week, when Grovers got a little taste of the warm spring weather before this week’s freeze.
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Total eclipse of the Grove Violet Whitmore News Editor
If you thought dark winter days were over, think again. On April 8 from Texas to Canada, it’s going to get a lot darker. Next month, the first total eclipse since 2017 will be visible across a path of totality in the continental United States. According to Associate Professor of Physics at the College, Dr. James Clem, a solar eclipse occurs when the moon covers the entire sun, leaving only a ring of light, the corona, visible. Grove City will experience a
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Eclipse watchers on the Quad in 2017, the last time a solar eclipse was visible here. near-total eclipse where 99.5 percent of the sun will be obscured. This will be the last
visible eclipse until 2044. A watch party for the solar phenomenon will be hosted
by the Physics Department for the student body and general public from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on April 8 on the Quad. Maximum obscurity will occur around 3:17 p.m. and will last for about three minutes. There will be professors and experts with information, eclipse glasses, lightfiltering telescopes and live feed from a telescope on a video monitor for attendees to interact with. Aside from the darkness those in the path of totality will experience, other natural anomalies may occur during the event, Clem said. “During totality, people
have reported that birds go silent and stop flying around when it gets dark because they think it’s the sunset before nighttime,” he said. Leaves on trees may also create “gaps between leaves that act as pinhole viewers that will project an image of the eclipsed Sun on the ground in the shade of the tree.” According to Clem, this is the best time to see some of the brightest stars in the sky and to understand and learn about the Eddington experiment (1919), which confirmed Einstein’s theory of General Relativity which TOTAL 2
Crimson Kilts make campus debut Emma Rossi Editor-in-Chief
Grove City celebrated St. Patrick’s Day this past Sunday with corned beef in Hicks, green-garbed Grovers and bagpipers on the Quad. On Sunday afternoon, the Crimson Kilts, six students who have formed a bagpipe and drum group, performed a series of songs for those gathered on the Quad, including Amazing Grace and the Doxology. The Crimson Kilt is comprised of three pipers and three drummers; co-pres-
idents freshman Zachary Brown and Everett Colby, along with their third piper is Junior Joseph McNeely, Drum Master Freshman Keiran McFall and drummers Freshman Ian Dolbier and Junior Abigail Hodgson. Brown, one of the band’s pipers, shared how the Crimson Kilts came together. “Everett and I met beginning of last semester during a class and bonded over shared love for the pipes. We decided we wanted to try to bring this music to the rest of campus and see if we could CRIMSON 3
The Crimson Kilts gathered on the Quad to perform on St. Patrick’s Day.
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