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Vol 105 Issue 3

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

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New Jetliner Flies in New Job Opportunities

Camryn Nethken | Editor

“We are intentional about every decision that we make, and part of our intentionality is including people,” Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said on Oct. 17.

During his second campaign for mayor, Stimpson advocated for a united Mobile. In his efforts to enact this pledge, the mayor has put multiple initiatives in place.

These programs are meant to provide growth within the city and promote equality. Fixing infrastructure, providing youth programs and creating jobs are some of the measures that the city’s government has taken in order to unite Mobile. In a meeting, Stimpson accompanied by Director of Communications and External Affairs, George Talbot, touched upon how Airbus would affect the future of Mobile’s job market.

This week the mayor announced that Airbus has chosen Mobile to build its second final assembly line.

The first manufacturing facility opened in Mobile during September 2015. As of 2016, Airbus has become partners with a Canadian aerospace company, Bombardier. Together, the companies will produce smaller jetliners from the C Series. “Airbus has been very pleased with what has occurred in Mobile since their announcement here to build a [final assembly line],” said Stimpson, gesturing to SHC student media.

This new facility will be located at Brookley Air

Force Base, which opened in 1940 and became a large employer within the city of Mobile. According to Mobile Aeroplex, “When Brookley closed officially in June 1969, nearly 10% of the local workforce lost their jobs.”

By adding this second assembly line, the mayor hopes that the location will create more jobs for the citizens of Mobile. The aviation business and construction of airplanes calls for a large amount of suppliers. Stimpson hopes that these suppliers will want to be located in Mobile to be in closer proximity to Brookley. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mobile County’s unemployment rates have dropped from 7.1% in Aug. 2016 to 5.2% in Aug. 2017.

Mobile is home to several universities that have seniors preparing to be in the workforce. Many of these students are from out-of-state and may not remain in Mobile after graduation. Stimpson said, “I think Mobile is progressing in the realization and creation of a city where young people want to live.” In efforts to attract and retain these graduates, the mayor explains that it is essential to be a city that includes a stable workforce along with different extracurricular activities.

SHC senior Allie May is a marketing major from St. Louis, MO. May explains that she will be returning to home due to Mobile’s unstable job market. “I wouldn’t feel very secure finding a job here,” said May. She also notes that if a student is not from the Mobile area, Spring

Hill offers multiple resources that help to find a job.

Mobile is not new to creating a mass amount of jobs within manufacturing facilities. According to Stimpson, Austal, a major shipbuilding facility, employed nearly 120 individuals about 14 years ago, and have over 4,000 employees today. There are about 600 employees that are associated with Airbus’ first final assembly line.

“I don’t even want to speculate how many employees will be in the new [final assembly line],” said Stimpson.

Government officials hope for more positive reactions from Airbus in the future. “Airbus has opened people’s minds to look at Mobile through a lens that they had not previously looked at Mobile,” said Stimpson.

Mayor Stimpson speaks to SHC Student Media. | Photo: Ryan Flynn

October 26, 2017 NEWS 2 Students Stand with the Pink Ribbon

Katy Rasp | Reporter

Every October, pink ribbons are used to raise awareness for breast cancer.

In October, an international campaign is held in support of breast cancer awareness. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for women, with 1 in every 8 women being diagnosed. However, according to cancer.org, the mortality rate as a result of breast cancer has decreased by 39% since 1989. At the end of the year, it is expected that an estimated 252,710 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Of that number, 40,610 cases will result in fatalities.

Today, breast cancer research is a highly publicized, billion-dollar industry. One could find the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon in many areas throughout October. This unique and familiar symbol has been used since 1991. While it is just a simple symbol, many people see it as a sign of hope and survival.

Ribbons have been used as a universal sign of awareness since 1979 when a yellow ribbon was used to show support for hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis. Since this event, many other organizations have adopted their own colored ribbon. The iconic pink breast cancer ribbon was originally a peach color. This ribbon was introduced in 1991 by Charlotte Hayley,

a survivor and activist for breast cancer awareness.

For every five ribbons made, Hayley would pack them together and attach them to a postcard that said: “The National Cancer Institute’s annual budget is $1.8 billion, only 5 percent goes for cancer prevention. Help us wake up legislators and America by wearing this ribbon.”

Hayley distributed the ribbons by handing them out to people in supermarkets and writing to prominent women. Her efforts were extremely successful and caught the interest of Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in chief-of Self, and Evelyn Lauder, the senior vice president of Estée Lauder. These two women saw the potential impact Hayley’s ribbon made to breast cancer awareness, and they wanted to work with her to promote it on a larger scale. Hayley refused, however, saying that they were too commercial for her.

Unable to convince Hayley to work with them, Penney and Lauder looked into ways they could use the ribbon.

After consulting legal advice, it was determined that if they changed the color of the ribbon, then they could use it without Hayley’s permission. After deliberation, the color was changed to the popular bright pink seen on many products today.

In 1991, the pink ribbons were given out to every participant in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer

Foundation’s Race for the Cure. In 1992, the cosmetics industry also became involved to help promote awareness. With the help of Lauder and Penney, the symbol of the pink ribbon continued to grow. In order to promote the ribbon, Penney wrote an article for Self magazine which encouraged women to pick up a ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness at any Estée Lauder beauty counter. Penney also collected signatures to send to Washington D.C. to remind President George H. W. Bush of the importance of breast cancer research and treatment. The pink ribbon today remains one of the most impactful and recognizable symbols. The impact the symbol has on people is exactly what Charlotte Hayley envisioned when she created the idea in 1991.

In 1993, Evelyn Lauder founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation with the goal of preventing and curing breast cancer by “advancing the world’s most promising research.” This year marks the 25th year of Estée Lauder’s Breast Cancer Campaign. In honor of this anniversary, the company is selling a collectible pin and with each purchase, Estée Lauder will donate 20% of the suggested retail price to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This year the pin included not only a pink stone, but also a blue stone to represent the less than 1% of men who are diagnosed with breast cancer.

SHC Works to Improve Financial Issues Katy Rasp|Reporter

At the beginning of October, Spring Hill College received a visit from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges review board to review the school’s current financial standings.

The SACSCOC review board is the regional body that grants accreditation to institutions of higher education.

Every ten years, schools are evaluated in order to retain their accreditation. Every five years, SACSCOC conducts an interim review. In order for a school to keep their accreditation, it must meet a list of 93 standards set

by SACSCOC. An audit was conducted in the spring of 2016, and the results showed that Spring Hill met 92 of the 93 requirements. The school met all of the core requirements, but fell short of one comprehensive standard. The standard that was not met was “a recent history of financial stability.” This means that at the time of the audit in March of 2016, there was a recent history of instability within Spring Hill’s finances.

This financial instability came as a result of two events: the economic recession in 2008 and the BP Oil Spill in 2010. It was during these periods that admission rates

fell short of what was projected. The freshman classes in 2011 and 2012 were drastically smaller than previous classes and as a result, the college did not collect as much money in tuition. Due to this shortfall, the school was forced to take money out of their savings account.

According to Spring Hill College President, Dr. Christopher Puto, the school made this decision in order to “ensure that the students received the best possible educational experience.”

The last class with the lower admission rates graduated in May of 2016, the same year that the audit was conducted. The audit in March of 2016 revealed that the college did not meet the comprehensive standard of “a recent history of financial stability.” The SACSCOC committee placed Spring Hill on financial probation and requested that the school do a series of reports that show that the school’s financial resources were stabilizing.

SACSCOC returned to campus once again in October and concluded that while the school had made progress, there was still more room for improvement. The committee granted Spring Hill College one year of financial probation to stabilize the school’s finances.

In early October, SACSCOC returned to campus to review the school’s finances. According to Dr.

Puto, the results could confirm that the college has met the requirement, and the college is currently financially stable, or that Spring Hill still has room for improvement. If Spring Hill still does not meet the requirement, SACSCOC will most likely extend our probation until June 2018. If the second option occurs, Puto said that he is confident that all issues would be resolved by June 2018.

While the results from the review board will not be available until December, the school remains a fully accredited college.

Banner hangs to show the pillars that the college holds while trying to overcome financial issues. | Photo: Katy Rasp

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Commuter on Campus: How Do We Connect?

Baylee Jackson | Reporter

As graduation quickly approaches, I have realized that for the past four years, I have belonged to one specific group during my time on campus: the commuters. As a commuter, there are many days where you wake up early for class just to sit in traffic, drive thirty minutes in the pouring rain, over sleep and attempt to drive like Dale Earnheart just to make it remotely on time to class. While facing these challenges in travel, according to Complete College America, over 75% of commuter students are also juggling a job, school and family.

At Spring Hill College, the number of commuter students is at an all time high. In the current freshman class, there are 114 commuting students.

These students travel from the Mobile and Baldwin county areas to attend classes at Spring Hill College. Many people will ask a commuter student, “How do we connect to those on campus?”

While this is a question we have answered so many times, the answer is simple: It is very hard as a

commuter to feel connected on campus but we give our best effort to get as involved as possible on organizations on campus. This is just one of the many challenges commuter students face today because while “fitting in” is difficult, it is not the only thing we attempt to do while on campus. A commuter has limited interaction with students on campus because we are restricted to the classroom and the caf between classes. Most commuters lack the experience of late nights in the common room or piling into a pod where all their friends have gathered in preparation for a night spent at the apartments--which in my opinion is a large part of the college experience.

From my own experience, freshman year was not only a difficult transition from high school to college, but also from living at home and going to school five days a week for eight hours. It was very difficult to travel thirty minutes from home to school two or three times a day in order to make it to my classes, and I found myself going off campus between classes rather than spending time in the cafeteria. In addition to traveling for class, I was also traveling an additional twenty minutes to work immediately after classes dismissed. As a senior now looking back at my time at Spring Hill, I encourage the new commuters on campus to take the time to eat in the caf between classes and speak

to those next to you in class because these are the ways you will connect on campus.

While commuting challenges are present in the social aspect of college, they are also present in the academic aspect. Commuters must make additional trips to campus in order to meet with professors during office hours, whereas residential students are able to walk over from their living space.

Informal and limited interaction with faculty and staff make it challenging for commuters to connect with those who play a role in shaping their future.

Because of this informal connection to the social and academic aspect of college, research shows that commuters have lower retention rates than those students residing on campus. In Vincent Tinto’s novel, “Leaving College,” his research indicates that “students who have high interaction with their university’s academic and social systems are more likely to persist in college.” Because commuting students have less interaction with those on campus, we tend to lack the formation of quality relationships with these individuals. Therefore, this proves that it is less likely for students to cultivate a strong relationship with the university and are more likely to dropout or transfer colleges than those residential students.

The Privilege of Our First Amendment Rights

Abby Hanson | Reporter

In the United States, we are extremely fortunate that our Constitution provides rights to give individuals the opportunity to express our independent ideas and opinions without persecution.

We have a great amount of freedom that many other countries around the world do not. Although at times it may feel to some as if freedom of speech or right to peacefully assemble may be compromised in our modern world, the violations towards the freedom of press are often ignored.

On Oct. 16, journalist Daphne Caruana Galiza of Valletta, Malta was killed by a bomb planted in her car. Galiza was well known for her blog, The Running Commentary, where a great deal of her content addressed corruption within the Maltese government. According to USA Today, her most recent content revealed that Malta’s prime minister and two of his aides were involved in offshore companies that were actively and illegally selling Maltese passports and receiving payments from the Azerbaijani government. Before her car exploded while leaving her house, Galiza’s last posted words on her blog: “… there are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.”

Surprisingly, Malta is ranked by Freedom House as one of the freest countries for the press as of 2017. However, Galiza’s family is now facing the battle of an untrue libel case from the government, and there is a great amount of doubt that the Maltese police will actually solve the case of her murder. Even in the U.S., where our Constitution establishes freedom of the press, over 30 journalists have been arrested in America for doing their jobs during 2017. In addition, 30 have been physically attacked for attempting to report the news.

Freedom House also reports that only 13% of the world’s population enjoys free press—that is, “a media environment where coverage of political news is robust, the safety of journalists is guaranteed, state intrusion in media affairs is minimal, and the press is not subject to onerous legal or economic pressures.”

Globally, freedom of the press is currently the lowest it has been in the past 13 years—with over 45% of the world living in countries where the media are not free.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, only 7 reporters have been killed in the US since 1992. In contrast, the deadliest country for journalist deaths in the past 25 years is Iraq—coming in with 185 deaths with confirmed motives. Of the 1,258 total killed worldwide during this time period, 584 of the deaths were over journalists reporting on politics.

The Trump administration has not put much effort into supporting journalists within our country. The President, in many instances, has voiced his opinion that First Amendment protections must be weakened to protect those in power.

He has even gone on to call the press’s ability to report on whatever it wishes as “frankly disgusting,” and he has called those who believe in freedom of speech as “foolish people.”

As a Communication Arts major here on the Hill, I cannot imagine my colleagues and I in the major possibly facing these threats one day. Many of us may go on to be journalists in a wide variety of areas and countries. It is hard to think that our field of study has the possibility to result in assault or even death, depending on the laws and freedoms of where we choose to live and what we choose to report. I am scared to imagine that one day, our country may no longer regard the values and freedoms we have historically been graced with.

But, it is important that journalists continue to be steadfast and reveal cold, hard facts. It is important for opinions and corruptions to still be voiced. It is important that the rights of those who tell the truth are protected.

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AR UND THE HILL

Tuesday 10/24 Men’s Basketball Exhibition for Hurricane Relief

Wednesday 10/25 No Submissions

Thursday 10/26 Archduke Piano Trio concert Senior-Alumni Happy Hour Whoa Bro

Photo by: Abby Hanson

October 26, 2017

Friday 10/27 Saturday 10/28 Sunday 10/29 Greater Gulf State Greater Gulf State Greater Gulf State Fair Fair Fair Boo at Bellingrath Mass 11:00 a.m.

- St. Joseph’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s Mass 9:00 p.m.

- St. Joseph’s

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TOP LEFT: Gavin Crimmins and Kenny Ross selling t-shirt for Delta Chi’s Philanthropy, Earth Ball.

TOP RIGHT: Mary Hutti selling Boo Grams for Psychology Club

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BOTTOM: Cecilia Von Mann and Kelsie Hubbuch attended Midnight Madness to support junior Chase Shellman as he kicked off the season.

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Monday 10/30 Tuesday 10/31 Wednesday 11/1 Thursday 11/2 Greater Gulf State Halloween Greater Gulf State Greater Gulf State Fair Fair Fair Greater Gulf State Fair

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Saturday 10/4 Three Loves Retreat

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Sunday 11/5 Greater Gulf State Fair

Greater Gulf State Greater Gulf State Mass 11:00 a.m.

Fair Fair - St. Joseph’s Mass 9:00 p.m.

- St. Joseph’s

Photo by: Baylee Jackson

TOP: Tri Delta held their philanthropy event, DHOP, to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

BOTTOM: SHC Baseball competed in their annual purple and white game.

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LIFESTYLE

October 26, 2017

Spooky Times Call for Spooky Measures

Dori Green | Reporter

With Halloween less than a week a way, the countdown has begun for costume preparation, pumpkin carving and horror-movie binge watching.

Although a widelypracticed holiday in the United States, Halloween actually originated as an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The Celts celebrated their new year on Nov. first, and held the belief that, on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and dead became blurred, and the ghosts of the dead would return to earth. In commemoration, on this night, the Druids would dress up in animal heads and skins, tell fortunes, and burn crops and animals in sacred bonfires as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. Later, after the Romans overtook the majority of Celtic land, they added the honoring of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees, to these practices. Traces of these ceremonies have found their way into modern day traditions such as

dressing up in costumes and bobbing for apples.

Today, rituals have been developed over time to reveal a month of spooky and sentimental activities. Junior, Emilee Adams, claims her favorite Halloween tradition to be going to haunted houses. She says, “I foolishly think I like to be scared, and then quickly realize I made a mistake.

All in good fun though!” In contrast, Senior, Mary Snakenberg, says, “My favorite tradition is pumpkin carving, and taking cutesy pumpkin patch pics.” Other students look forward to watching scary movies with their friends.

Streaming sites, in anticipation for the end of the month, have made some favorite Halloweenthemed and horror flicks available in spirit of the holiday. Netflix has released a few original movies, one being Gerald’s Game, that was filmed in and around Downtown Mobile with a Spring Hill graduate, Keli Mazza, as the Assistant Production Coordinator. This psychological thriller leaves out the ghouls and monsters, and presents the horrors of a woman’s fight for survival while handcuffed “alone” in an isolated home. Netflix also features some cult classics like Children of the Corn, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gremlins, Saw, and Hellraiser.

For those more into cable television, Freeform is currently hosting their “13 Nights of Halloween”

with favorites like Hocus Pocus and the Nightmare Before Christmas. AMC’s Fear Fest showcases films that fall more in the horror genre like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

This year, Halloween will take place on a Tuesday, however that has not hindered the annual costume search for most. According to a recent report made

by Google Trends, the costumes most searched in 2017 have been Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, and clown/It. With Wonder Woman being the second most grossing movie of 2017, Suicide Squad in the top ten highest grossing films of 2016, and It releasing last month, it seems natural that these pop culture references would be made. However, at Spring Hill there have been mentions of recreating the cast from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things, in honor of the second season airing on Oct. 27, and others have expressed an interest in the more typical ghoulish finds like a ghost or witch.

For all those who despair over these spooky times coming to an end, comfort can be found in the reduced post-Halloween candy markdowns and the anticipation for Thanksgiving break when one can enter into a heated, yet friendly, stuffing v. dressing debate.

Cash or Credit? How about Venmo?

Maegan Lynch | Reporter

make purchases. Venmo is currently rated at 4.9 stars on iTunes with over Venmo, a money transferring app, 599,000 reviews. Although Apple is providing Spring Hill College will not show how many times the app students a social way to pay back has been downloaded, Fox Business friends when they owe them money reported that the app is steadily and don’t want to deal with cash. growing with millennials. “Campus Junior Randi Evans uses Venmo as culture is littered with examples of a way to pay back and forth between Venmo’s popularity where the app’s friends. “If someone forgot cash or nomenclature is increasingly being if we don’t want to take the time to used as a verb as in, ‘I’ll venmo you split a bill, we just transfer the money. the money when I get back to my It’s super convenient,” Evans said. dorm,’” the website stated.

However, Venmo is not just for With Venmo being on the rise in sharing money between friends. You the college community, security can also use the app to pay for services should be a number one priority. at certain businesses such as Forever Venmo does use data encryption to 21, J. Crew, Ulta Beauty, Lululemon, protect your personal or financial Foot Locker, Eastbay and Poshmark, A student checks her Venmo feed. | Photo: Maegan Lynch information and guard against Sigma Chi Fraternity used venmo as a way to to name a few. Senior Tee Nash says unauthorized transactions. However, fundraise for their philanthropy during Derby she hasn’t used Venmo at businesses yet, but she with technological innovation comes the growing Days this year. The Derby Days teams would just does use it for “puppy support, splitting bills and penetration of security networks, which means “Venmo” their coaches money for the various hiding money from myself.” Even students on other nothing connected to the Internet is completely competitions throughout the week. campuses have taken advantage of this new app. safe. According to Investopidia.com, in 2015, According to their website, Venmo was founded Camille Buaas, a sophomore at The University of Venmo became the target of criticism due to Alabama at Birmingham said, “all of my friends use in 2009 by two former college roommates who security breaches of user accounts. While Venmo’s wanted a better way to pay each other back.

What it to pay each other back, also some sororities use it security and liabilities insurance protects against started off as a simple SMS messaging platform to for philanthropy donations and things like that.” a majority of theft, users should still be aware that send and receive money has evolved into a social Organizations at Spring Hill College have also theft can happen. payments app allowing people to split bills and taken advantage of this new app for their events.

SPORTS

7 Baseball Team Give Fans A Preview Volume 105 Issue 3

Ben Breymier | Reporter

for the coaching staff. “Usually by mid-October we a really big part in the series for us. They like to have a good idea on who’s going to play. Although, cookout and show their support, which definitely The Spring Hill College baseball team hosted it’s still really important for us as coaches because brings a great vibe to the baseball field,” Barrios its 32nd annual Purple/White World Series at we can evaluate how the players react to situations said. The favorite part for the Badgers’ head coach Historic Stan Galle Field during Family Weekend and how certain players mesh together in game is watching the freshmen be immersed in the on the hill. The team’s 42-man roster split up into scenarios,” Sims said. spotlight. “I really enjoy sitting back and watching two teams to play a best-of-5 series.

The competitive nature comes naturally for the the freshmen get their legs underneath them. You This is the first year that the Purple/White World Badgers during the Purple/White World Series. usually know what the old guys will do but it’s the Series has not been set up as a best-of-7 series.

Sims humors about the magnitude of competition new guys and the pitchers that are a lot of fun to “We’re cut down on time limits now with the between both teams. “There’s a lot of talk, you watch,” Sims said.

NCAA,” head baseball coach Frank Sims said. “We know how it is, some trash talk here and there,” The Badgers will debut the 2018 season with a only have 24 days of practice in a timespan of 45 Sims said. Senior Brandon Donoghue claims home opener on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 when they days. I cut down the series to enable us to have more that the Purple/White World Series is one of the play Auburn University at Montgomery at 12 p.m. real practice time where we can really improve our most competitive times of the year but admits that skills rather than just having games.” the high stakes do not call for high The baseball coaching staff meets together and consequences. “Bragging rights is attempts to assemble equally talented teams for the what it all comes down to,” Donoghue series. However, it is not always guaranteed that said. “Although, there have been both teams will be selected as equal as the coaches times when we do play for washing the hope. “We’ve had a lot teams that will go all seven baseball laundry in our clubhouse.” games in the series, but then we’ve also had teams The Purple/White World Series is that I think will play the total seven games and end a finale for players to showcase their up going 4-0,” Sims said. skills in front of friends and family The Purple/White World Series is beneficial for during the highly anticipated Family the players because it’s the first time they can play Weekend. Junior Austin Barrios’ under the lights, with umpires and in front of a large favorite part of the entire series is the Baseball players meet at the baseball mound. | Photo: crowd with music. However, the series is primarily opening Friday night. “The fans play Ben Breymier

Badger Softball Names Joe Guthrie Head Coach

Ben Breymier | Reporter

The addition of Guthrie’s wife, Courtnay Foster, as SHC’s assistant coach is a “huge Spring Hill College named Joe Guthrie benefit” for Badgers softball. Foster comes as softball’s new head coach on July 10. to SHC from Bucknell University as the The Badgers acquired an Alabama native Bisons’ softball head coach. “Having who has veteran experience within the two former DI coaches on a DII staff just softball and baseball world. SHC Director doesn’t happen,” Guthrie said. “With her of Athletics, Jim Hall said, “His recruiting successful coaching experience, there are a and coaching experience are exceptional lot of things she does much better ranging and will pay immediate dividends for our form pitching to computer skills and softball program.” communication with higher-ups.”

Guthrie came to SHC from NCAA Foster pitched at DI Northwestern Division I Bucknell University as a University in the Big Ten Conference. volunteer assistant coach. Prior to With an 80-37 record accompanied by a Bucknell, Guthrie served three seasons as career 1.49 ERA and 1,014 strikeouts, as an assistant coach for Division I Penn State Head Coach Joe Guthrie prepares for the upcoming season. | well as an All-America selection in 2005, University in the Big Ten Conference from Photo: Ben Breymier Foster’s softball knowledge is not limited 2014 to 2016. With coaching experience to pitching. “In the last two years she has in a “Power Five” conference, Guthrie claims that the differences between the really progressed in the infield by being able to teach it and manage it in a game.

Big Ten Conference and Division II SHC are mostly positive. “As a former Our fielding numbers from Bucknell last year prove that compared to previous professional baseball scout, I’m drawn to the recruiting aspect along with years,” Guthrie said. “She has an incredible softball IQ because she is just as teaching and development aspects,” Guthrie said. “SHC being a smaller school passionate about the sport in her spare time, so having her as an addition to the allows me to be heavily involved in all three of those coaching aspects.”

SHC staff helps tremendously.”

Guthrie played collegiate baseball at DI University of Kentucky, University Guthrie and Foster both are less concerned about the numbers more of Alabama and National Junior College Athletic Association Bevill State concerned about core values.“We want to identify a culture that is reflective Community College. In addition, serving as a scout for the Miami Marlins, of our program having integrity, discipline and gratitude,” Guthrie said. “If Guthrie implements his baseball knowledge into softball. “This is my 11th year players exercise this daily and everything resonates, we believe that will lead to in college softball and baseball definitely bleeds over...Softball has come leaps a championship culture.” and bounds in the 11 years I’ve been in it, but it’s nice to have an older ‘manual’ Coach Guthrie will debut as SHC’s softball head coach in the season opener [in baseball] to draw from,” Guthrie said. on Feb. 2, 2018 when the Badgers travel to play at Gulf Shores Sportsplex.

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HILL YEAH!

October 26, 2017

On the Spot:

If you could only wear one costume every Halloween for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Chad Newell Junior “Definitely three-hole-punch Jim from the Office.”

Maggie Nelson Senior “The Snapchat hotdog.”

Dwight LeBlanc Senior “Michael Jordan in Space Jam. Greatest movie of all time.”

Joanna Dembowski Sophomore “I’d wear a banana costume . . . yeah, I like that.”

Italy Center Explores Poland

Jasmine Ader | Reporter

SHC has a campus in Bologna, Italy and is a human rights focused study abroad program that concentrates on social justice. This fall, students studying in this program had the opportunity to travel to Poland on a social justice trip. Many students like SHC junior Brigit Reynolds did not know what to expect before heading to Poland. They were able to immerse themselves in the culture and history of Poland.

The abroad students had a jam-packed trip with a lot to learn and process. Reynolds said, “We were able to learn about the different struggles that Poland has faced and is currently facing and how people our age played such an important role in helping solve these issues.”

Students are often challenged by the Italy Center director, Todd Waller, to reflect on their involvements throughout the humanities trip.

For many students, emotions ran high during WWII discussions. For Reynolds, it was hard for her not to be emotional while speaking of their trip to the Warsaw Uprising Museum. “It was the first place that we really got immersed in the absolute horror that Poland was faced with during WWII,” Reynolds said. “It was hard to get into that mindset and not let it overpower you.” The students also toured Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by German Nazis where thousands died. SHC junior Kate Huete spoke of her fears before entering Auschwitz, “I was about to enter a place that I have been growing up learning about all my life, a place where millions of people met their terrible deaths, and I couldn’t wrap my mind around actually being there.” Both Huete and Reynolds noted the difficulties of processing this experience as their breaths became deeper and their hearts pounded faster as they continued their tour of the camp.

Both students mentioned that that they faced a harsh reality in Poland.

Huete said, “I think this trip has taught me to try not to be so wrapped up in my own country’s issues and try to be more aware of what is happening in other parts of the world, as some of the issues are way bigger than what America is going through right now.” Both students believe it is important to be aware of issues in other countries and to never be silent so that atrocities like the Holocaust never happen again.

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