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Collegian The Award-Winning Grove City College Student Newspaper
Vol. 109, No. 15
Liberty scandal exposes oversight Emma Rossi Editor-in-Chief
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Senior Whitney Leonard poses with freshman Zachary Kappel in one of this spring’s plays, “Our Town”.
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‘Doubt’ and ‘Our Town’ take the stage Mia Gallagher Staff Writer
Life as portrayed on the silver screen or well-lit stage tends to glaze over the more complex, challenging aspects of the human experience. But in the next two weekends, the Grove City College Theatre Department will break from this norm, delivering two thought-provoking productions that attempt to show life and its realities in an unfiltered, moving way. After a successful run of “The Sound of Music” in the fall and a stirring rendition of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” last spring, Director Betsy Craig and her students look to continue this tradition of theatrical excellence with performances of “Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley and “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder. “There’s a really exciting feeling in the department right now where we all know what we’re capable of producing and we all want to see it accomplished. No-
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Junior Hayden Wehrman and junior Jessica Reynolds take the stage in ‘Doubt.’ body is in this show for the applause or the attention; we love theatre, and we want to put on a show that both meets and exceeds the
audience’s expectations,” junior Hayden Wehrman said. Wehrman, who portrays Father Flynn in “Doubt,”
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is one of four members of the production’s talented cast. He is joined by fellow
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In the most recent installment of Grove City College’s Showcase Series, concert organist Adam J. Brakel visited Harbison Chapel last Friday to deliver a brilBRAKEL liant recital featuring everything from Bach to Ragtime. Brakel is a world-renowned organist who has received degrees from Duquesne University and Peabody Conser-
vatory with further training at the Juilliard School. The Chicago Tribune hails him as “one of the most talented organists in the world.” In addition to being music director at various churches and cathedrals across the country, Brakel has had an extensive competitive and performing career. Brakel channeled his accomplishments and diverse repertoire into his recital. The performance covered Bach Fugues, Rags, wedding marches and expansive variations of the Star-Spangled Banner. “I tried to showcase everything imaginable for
this organ, covering a variety of styles, and I think it plays all of those successfully,” Brakel said. “He makes it look insanely easy,” sophomore piano and organ performance major Wesley Morgan said. Having learned a movement from the Trio Sonata that Brakel performed, Morgan has an advantage in understanding how impressive Brakel’s performance was: “What each hand is doing and what the feet are doing are completely different, but everything still sounded so smooth.” Morgan argued that Brakel’s Bach selections were more
New librarian and Buhl’s birthday Kristiana Shirk Contributing Writer
impressive than some of the larger pieces on the program because of this. The Harbison organ is a W.W. Kimball Opus 7102, dedicated in 1931 and restored in 2000. It has four manuals, or stacked keyboards, which can be used to play multiple voices at the same time. Since the console of the organ is tucked away behind a few pews, cameras pointed at Brakel’s hands and the pedal board below to project the performance on a screen at the front of the chapel allowing the audience to
This month, Grove City College welcomes newly hired librarian Debbie Brown and celebrates the 70th anniversary of Henry Buhl Library. Brown began at the College BROWN this month to support students’ academic success and to continue her career as a Reference, Instruction and Engagement Librarian. She grew up in Sharon, Pa., and after college in Ohio and life in North Carolina, found her way to New Castle, Pa. After getting her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh,
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Organist’s recital brings Harbison to life Catharine Runion
The U.S. Department of Education’s investigation into Liberty University has resulted in a historic $14 million for their violation of policies that led to a failure to protect their students. The University, located in Lynchburg, Va., was brought under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education. The investigation’s full report details numerous policy failures and intentional oversights on the University’s part to properly prevent and report sexual violence, as well as providing students and victims with information on how the institution is required to assist victims and notify law enforcement. In addition to neglecting victims of sexual violence, the University’s student code of conduct, “The Liberty Way, “endangered students who would consider reporting acts of sexual violence of being punished. At Grove City, the Center for Student Life and Learning put standards in place that strive to ensure the safety and well-being of students will be protected and prioritized. While Liberty University is a private school, they receive federal funding from the government via student loans, meaning they are subject to Title IX and the policies it further implies. Grove City does not accept federal funds directly or indi-