AU prepares for Madrigal Feaste
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Men’s basketball preview
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Lip Sync: Greek life face-offCHRIS MARTUCCI@AUCollegian
Lip syncing as a competition has become prominent in recent
years with televised competitions such as ‘Lip Sync Battle’ and
“The To-night show starring Jimmy Fallon” where he and a celebrity
would lip sync to a song.
Here at Ashland University, the lip sync fever has caught on
with the Greek life lip sync competition that pits each Greek life
organiza-tion against each other to come up with the best theme and
routine to a group of songs while still make believing that they
are singing to them.
The competition has been a big event for Greek life in the fall
semester for several years now, Dustin Hargis, the first-year
as-sistant director of student life, said.
“What makes lip sync a lot of fun is that you’re not worried
about trying to sing the song correctly,” Hargis said. “It’s about
presenta-tion and about having fun while doing it at the same
time.”
Hargis sees the competition as a good way for people to put
them-selves in a situation that they oth-erwise would not be
in.
“It really gets people out of their comfort zone to do something
they otherwise would not do,” Har-
gis said. “It also puts people in a brand new light to their
peers, who otherwise wouldn’t expect them to do something like
that.”
Sophomore nursing major Mad-die Cronin of Delta Zeta is one
of
those people.“I was so nervous my first year
doing it,” she said. “It was very in-timidating but it turned
out to be really fun. The girls were so wel-coming to me and I had
a blast do-ing it last year.”
The theme for Delta Zeta last year was ‘DZ Dream’ and featured
songs that fit a dream-like atmo-sphere.
“It’s so much fun watching what all the other chapters on
campus
came up with because of all the hard work that was put into it,”
Cronin said.
Not every competitor is a reluc-tant one at first.
Hollis Coldwater, a member of Alpha Delta Pi, grew up cheer-
leading and dancing so she was already used to that kind of a
spot-light, she said.
As a senior, she hopes this year will be even more fun since it
will be her last competition.
“What’s the most fun about it is seeing what all the other
chapters come up with in terms of their pre-sentation,” Coldwater
said, echo-ing Cronin’s sentiments. “It’s fun to see everyone’s
creative sides.”
For Alpha Delta Pi, their theme
last year was “Things That Go Bump In the Night,” where their
presentation and song choice was based on things that scared them
whenever they would go to bed as kids.
But Lip Sync is not just about competition, Hargis said.
All of the proceeds that come from this event would go directly
to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospitals.
“Greek life as an organization is dedicated to the values of
service to not only the school but also the community,” said
Hargis. “So to be able to connect with an or-ganization like St.
Jude’s, which is a cause that everyone can get behind, was an easy
decision to make. It also helps with getting our name out to the
community and giving the university a good reputation as having
students who are dedicated to serving the com-munity.”
Rehearsals for the competition will be Nov. 15 and 17, but are
closed off to the public because the organizations want to have
their presentations be secretive until the event on Nov. 19.
The competition begins at 6 p.m. in the Hugo Young Theater at
the Center for the Arts building.
Tickets cost $5 and can be pur-chased at the Greek life office
or at the door.
SUBMITTED BY EMILY MCKINLEYTheta Phi Alpha with their trophy
after being announced winners with theme of Grease in last years
Lip Sync.
AU campus rallies around Nick BapstNOAH CLOONAN@noahcloonan
On Oct. 25 the Ashland Univer-sity men’s basketball team
experi-enced a scare when junior guard, Nick Bapst collapsed on the
bench while at a scrimmage at the Uni-versity of Findlay.
Bapst was immediately rushed to the hospital and it was
determined that he had experienced cardiac arrest.
He was life flighted to the Rich-ard M. Ross Heart Hospital in
Columbus where he was placed in the ICU and put into a medically
induced coma. Upon coming out of the induced coma, Bapst
con-tracted pneumonia due to the fluid in his lungs, but doctors
said that this is nothing out of the ordinary.
Bapst is currently still at the hos-pital, but his friend and
teammate, Jay Slone said spirits are high both on the team and as a
medical staff that Bapst is slowing showing im-provements.
“It got to the point where he was getting so many visitors that
they had to take him and put him in a room that no one knew the
room number of, and only his parents were allowed to know because
he knows so many people, it’s unbe-lievable,” Slone said.
Back on campus, students have shown an outpour of love, support
and prayers, all focused in the di-rection of Bapst.
Slone said that the support has come from fellow athletes,
pro-fessors and even those who have never met Bapst.
“People who maybe have never even talked to him are affected by
it because he is just such a good person,” Slone said. “It just
shows how powerful something like this can be.”
Bapst is heavily involved in Fel-lowship of Christian Athletes
and Slone said that during this time members of FCA have truly
rallied around Bapst.
“We went to FCA and we had a whole sermon on basically relating
it to him and everybody broke off into groups and we all prayed for
him and I think he felt that,” Slone
said. “You know that was the first FCA [Nick] has missed in
prob-ably three years, you know, and I think it was just special
because I know missing that was probably hard for him.”
Beyond FCA, Bapst has received support from many other of the
athletic teams at AU.
Just two days after the fact, the women’s soccer team took the
field against Tiffin.
The women took a black marker and wrote the phrase “NB Strong”
on their wrists.
The next day the volleyball and football teams followed suit as
they wrapped their wrists in white tape and wrote down the same
phrase.
On Oct. 29 the women’s basket-ball team took the floor for the
first time of the season in Colum-bus and their thoughts were
with
Bapst. The team showed their support
for their fellow basketball player by tapping white tape across
the back of their shoes with “NB Strong” written on them.
“I think that everyone is con-cerned, I mean he is a big part of
the men’s team, we all have that bond with him,” senior Laina
Snyder said. “I know I’m texting people on the men’s team everyday
asking how he’s doing, what’s the update. I feel like it’s brought
our campus close together and made everybody realize how close we
re-ally are.”
Bapst’s impact has not just been on fellow athletes but it has
spread through the classroom.
See NICK BAPST, Page A6
Student affairs announcement on campus sexual misconduct LUQMAN
TAROUTI@AUCollegian
Ashland University’s Student Af-fairs Office announced changes
on campus sexual misconduct and Title IX regarding the handling of
sexual misconduct cases.
Student affairs shared the memo on Friday, Oct. 20 through MyAU
portal highlighting the updated policy on sexual violence. The post
also shared the resources that are available to members of the
cam-pus community.
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a fed-eral
law that states: “No person in the United States shall, on the
basis of sex, be excluded from participa-tion in, be denied the
benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
The changes came after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’
announcement in September that her department was concerned
previous guidance denied proper due process to those accused.
The Education Department is withdrawing the Dear Colleague
Letter dated April 4, 2011, and Questions and Answers on Title IX
and Sexual Violence dated April 29, 2014.
The Dear Colleague Letter ini-tially was issued by Former Vice
President Joe Biden and Secretary Duncan and presented guidelines
on legal obligations in addressing sexual violence in school and on
campus. The US Department of Education issued an updated Dear
Colleague Letter to rescind parts of Title IX that deals with the
burden of proof needed in campus sexual assault investigations.
“The 2011 and 2014 guidance documents may have been
well-intentioned,” the 2017 Dear Col-league Letter stated. “But
those documents have led to the depriva-tion of rights for many
students—both accused students denied fair process and victims
denied an adequate resolution of their com-plaints.”
The changes affect the time frame, mediation possibility and the
standard of evidence.
While the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter obligate universities to
com-plete the investigation in 60 days, the new letter keeps the
time frame open to whenever the investigation is complete.
Student affairs stated that they would continue to use the
60-day time frame for investigations. If the investigation extends
beyond 60 days they will inform parties in-volved with the
projected comple-tion date.
The old guideline did not recom-mend mediation for sexual
miscon-duct cases specifically in rape.
The new Dear Colleague Letter suggests mediation an option for
Title IX.
The Department of Education Q&A on campus sexual miscon-duct
document stated: “If all par-ties voluntarily agree to participate
in an informal resolution that does not involve a full
investigation and adjudication after receiving a full disclosure of
the allegations and their options for formal resolution and if a
school determines that the particular Title IX complaint is
appropriate for such a process, the school may facilitate an
informal resolution, Including mediation, to assist the parties in
reaching a vol-untary resolution”.
Regarding mediation, AU an-nounced that it will not be used in
any cases involving an alleged rape.
The last change is touching the standard of evidence. The
previ-ous guideline required schools to use the preponderance of
evidence. While the new one recommends universes to use clear and
convinc-ing standards.
Ashland University decided to continue using the preponderance
of evidence and to keep working with the evidence approach of the
old guideline.
AU’s Department of Education will share any further updates
is-sued with the campus community via campus memo, followed by a
posting on the Title IX website.
AU ATHLETICSNick Bapst averaged 8.1 points per game in
2016-17.
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Be thankful, but not for ThanksgivingBEX HUNTER @Bexihunt
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and a lot of us will be
head-ing home to spend time with our families, eat our body weight
in food and celebrate the yearly tra-ditions involved with the
holidays.
But what exactly is it that we are celebrating? According to
Ameri-can history, we are celebrating the nice friendly dinner
between the Pilgrims and the Native Ameri-cans when they first came
over on the Mayflower. We all know the story. Tisquantum, better
known as Squanto, of the Wampanoag tribe, taught the Pilgrims how
to fish and farm and agreed to be their interpreter. Those
friendly
little Pilgrims were just so grateful to him and all of the
Native Ameri-cans that they threw a huge festival to celebrate the
harvest which is now known as the first Thanksgiv-ing. They were
all great friends and everyone lived happily ever after.
Too bad that is not really what happened.
In reality, Thanksgiving is basi-cally just a holiday
celebrating the genocide of almost an entire eth-nicity of people.
While sure, the first Thanksgiving really did hap-pen and the
Pilgrims and Native Americans had a harvest festival, the Pilgrims
then continued on to slaughter the Native Americans and steal their
land.
For some reason people tend to forget that whole part to the
story.
The Native Americans helped the Pilgrims and those who did not,
had every right not to. The Pil-grims raped and killed their people
just for land. I do not think you would be super friendly to them
either.
It is so important to teach and understand all of American
histo-ry, not just the positive parts. Our ancestors did some
messed up stuff and we need to acknowledge that, especially during
Thanksgiving. I mean, they literally almost wiped out an entire
group of people, we should not be celebrating that.
While I do not support the history of Thanksgiving, I can
totally get behind the message it is trying to send: be
thankful.
Not only for the big things you
may have accomplished, but also the little things in your
life.
Life may suck right now. It always has its ups and downs and
some-times you have a lot of ups and other times you just have
seem-ingly never ending days of down. Whether your life is going
great or absolutely horrible you can always find something you are
grateful for.
Maybe you just ate the best din-ner at Convo or maybe your
fa-vorite show is still running on TV. Maybe the dryer did not
steal any of your socks or maybe your crush just snapchatted you.
Even if ev-erything else in your life has gone to crap, maybe
someone let you pet their dog on your way to class this
morning.
Be thankful that there are people
who care about you, even if it some-times feels like no one
does. For us students, be thankful that you are getting an
education. Be thankful that you are able to even read this article.
Be thankful that I am even allowed to write it without it being
censored.
If absolutely nothing else, be thankful that you are alive and
breathing.
I am not telling you to completely disregard Thanksgiving as a
holi-day.
Go stuff your face with food, spend time with your family and be
thankful.
Just understand and acknowl-edge that Thanksgiving itself is not
something that we should cel-ebrate.
Our sincere apologySTAFF EDITORIAL@AUCollegian
It has been brought to our atten-tion that a story published in
the last issue of the Collegian about Masterminds Escape Room and
Game Library included incorrect and plagiarized information.
The article listed the pricing for the escape room and game
library incorrectly. The correct pricing is $25 for the escape
room, with a $2 discount to military and students, and $5 for the
game library.
The writer of the story did not in-terview their sources
directly and instead plagiarized them from a Richland Source
article. None of the editors had realized this be-fore publishing
the article and we apologize for not doing a better job at fact
checking.
The article “Ashland’s Mas-terminds to open game library
Thursday: Escape rooms expected to be finished by end of October”
is
by Tim Busbey, who deserves full credit for their work that the
Col-legian writer stole.
The Collegian writer did not fol-low the integrity of the
journalism our publication believes in, and is being dealt with
accordingly.
We as a staff would like to sin-cerely apologize to Masterminds
Escape Room and Game Library-for publishing incorrect informa-tion
about their company, as well as the Richland Source for the
plagiarism of their work that took place.
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The way we once wereBELLA PACINELLI@AUCollegian
Life is pretty funny sometimes. When something bad happens it
feels like the end of the world. As young adults, us college
students definitely fall victim to taking things out of proportion.
In those hard times, have you ever thought about the big picture?
So yes, I am in an argument with my mom, I have not reached my goal
weight, and I am stressed out about the amount of homework I have.
There was a time when none of that mat-tered. Think of your younger
self - a careless, happy, light-hearted individual who had the
power to bring joy to anyone that surround-ed you; life was not
always this se-rious. We were held and cuddled by
family members because we were fragile beings who were so
incred-ibly easy to love. The way people looked at us could move
moun-tains. Well, why can this not reign true today? If we truly
were so lovable, I am
sure we would treat ourselves and others much better. We lived
in an imaginative world
where a fake phone was better than a real one. Our training
wheeled bikes may
have been slow, but we swore they could take us to the edge of
the earth. Nothing was limited because we created the world we
lived in. There is a lot we feel like we cannot do now. Curiosity
ran through our veins.
We were interested in things for the sole purpose of learning
and understanding more. Nowadays, it seems as if we are furthering
our education because we feel we need to, not because we want to.
Appar-
ently, something got disordered as we grew older. We did not
compare ourselves to
others. The unrecognized beauty we held was never in competition
with the rest of the world. We whis-tled to our own tune and
presented ourselves the way we were - real. We smiled in pictures
without the thought of how many likes it would get on Instagram. It
did not matter what we looked
like because we did not know it had to look a certain way. But
wait…it does not. We found joy in the simplest of
things, like pulling all the tupper-ware out of the cupboards
and de-ciding to sit in there for a few min-utes. Or hiding in a
laundry basket because we were small enough to do so. We made the
best out of every situation because there was no reason not to.
Today, we are at-tracted to a complicated, complex way of life.
There was no fear of the unknown.
We took things as they came and lived freely in a world with
limit-less opportunities. We talked to new people because we were
brave and looking for excitement. Think about how many times a day
we avoid doing something out of fear or anxiety. It is fascinating
to think that there was a time when we were instinctively
fearless.We did what made us happy and
stopped doing the things that made us unhappy. It was as simple
as A-B-C (literally). There was no need to please anybody else
because our main priority was to be happy. Oh, how that has
changed! Unfortu-nately, it feels like we forget to cre-ate a life
that make us truly joyful. Material things did not really
have any value. We were content with what we had, no matter
how
much or how little. There was no concern about getting the
newest iPhone or getting the most expen-sive clothes. More
important things captured our attention. When you really think
about it, why do more important things not capture our attention
now? There was a time when we did not
think about, obsess over or worry about what food we ate. We
nour-ished our body with what people gave to us and it did not
matter if it was fruit or chocolate. As a young woman, I definitely
struggle with over-analyzing my diet choices. However, we should
remember to love our bodies for all they do for us.One of the most
unbelievable
habits of our past was asking for help. It was obvious that not
ev-erything could be done on our own - and this was okay. For some
reason, it is not so “okay” anymore. We feel like we need to have
all the answers, all the time. Although change is inevitable, I
think it is safe to say that we have lost the innocence we
possessed as children. Society has changed the way we see the world
and we take to things much differently now. It is important to look
back on
the qualities we once had and real-ize that living a simple life
was all we knew. The things we take for granted now, were once
appreci-ated. The most important things now, were not always the
most im-portant things then. As we move forward in our lives,
we must focus on the overall can-vas and paint a life that is
loving, happy and kind. Never forget that the child we once were,
is still within us. Reminisce on the past, be grateful for the
present and get excited for the future!
