The Collegian Vol. 54-No.1 Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. Friday, September 10, 1993 In the face of ideologies Money Guide lists Grove City that deny the very possi bility of truth and mean ing, Grove City College among the best college buys proclaims that life does The Money Guide Best Col- staff, alumni - they all have Common Sense Guide to have meaning that lege Buys 1994 edition is off had a part in building this great American Colleges, The 1993 truth and values do exist the press. Using a number of school." Guide to 101 Best Values in to live by criteria, including cost, stu- Top students attend Grove America's Colleges and Uni- President dent-to-faculty ratio, class rank Jerry H. Combee of freshmen and SAT scores, City College. Of Fall '93 versities, Peterson's Competi- tive Colleges, Fiske's Best Money rated colleges for their freshmen. 81 percent were in Buys in College Education, value. Grove City College was the top 20 percent of their high ranked: school class and 57 percent Barron's Most Prestigious Colleges - all have included were in the top 10 percent of 'Back to the Future': 4th best in the Mid-Atlantic, their class. The 1993 freshman Grove City. Grove City's free- 13th best in the Nation (all average SAT score is 1144; the enterprise emphasis and char- categories), average ACT score, 27. acter-building have won Tem- Combee begins Chapel 6th best in. the Highly pleton Foundation awards for Selective Category Nationally. Grove City College is in- the college. The following is the speech beings, we don't know where creasingly being recognized With strong academics, solid College President Jerry H. "The whole Grove City Col- we came from or where we're nationally as one of America's traditional values, and sensible Combee delivered in Opening lege community may be justly that we're a trivial best colleges. The National going prices $7,870 (yearly room, Convocation on Sept. 1. The proud of this accomplishment," species living on an insignifi- Review College Guide rated board,tuition-B.A.)-Grove said President Jerry H. song he quotes is a barbershop cant small planet revolving GCC one of America's top 50 City College is truly one of Combee. "Students, faculty, liberal arts arrangement called "I Be- colleges. The America's around a medium-sized unre- very best colleges. lieve, sung by a campus markable star that is one of quartet, "The Grovesmen, billions. before Combee's speech. We're gold that, contrary to This January I will turn fifty. the song we heard today, there College welcomes new faculty is nothing nothing "in the I know you find that hard to great somewhere" only the believe since I look so young. silence of empty space and But it's true. And I've seen a that life life itself has few changes in this country in no meaning. my 49 years and 9 months of That's what our culture says, life. but Grove City College says In the last three decades, something very different. In America has experienced a the face of ideologies that deny cultural revolution. Most of the very possibility of truth you faculty know what I'm and meaning, Grove City Col- talking about. But it must be lege proclaims that life does very difficult for you students have meaning that truth born only 13 to 21 years ago to and values do exist to live by. comprehend the magnitude of For 115 years men and the cultural revolution that women who have known what started in the 1960s. they believe and why they be- There was much then wrong lieve it have left this place and with America that needed cor- made a difference for good in recting. There always will be America. They have been sure human perfection exists of the broad purposes of God only in utopian figments of in the world. They have been imagination. But sixties radi- sure of the meaning of their cals threw out the good with lives. They have believed in the bad. The assault upon the values this college upholds American values began. It has the values of work and ca- not stopped since. reer of family of free- Radical students of the sixties dom of faith. New faculty for the 1993-94 academic year. Front row (L-R): Miss Melissa Van Heukelem are radical professors of the This college believes in the (physical education), Dr. Thomas Cavicchi (electrical engineering). Second row: Dr. G. Dirk nineties or TV sit-com value of hard work - and the Mateer (business/economics), Dr. Richard Konzen (music), Dr. Tim Mohr (electrical producers or journalists or satisfaction that comes at the engineering). Third row: Dr. James Matherly (education), Dr. James onwell-(mechanical judges or politicians. Their lec- end of the day for a job well engineering), Mr. Frederick Snow (business), Dr. Paul Bonicelli (political science). tures, their movies and shows done. With the start of the 1993-94 His recent graduate work fo- some. and newscasts, their legislation This college believes in the academic year. Grove City cuses upon the political atti- Prior to his studies at the and regulation and judicial traditional values of hearth and College welcomes ten new tudes and behaviors of Latin decisions - they all pound University of Tennessee, Dr. home a sermon of relentless home - of family, the basic faculty members. American evangelicals, Bonicelli was active in the relativism. unit of any sound society. Dr. Paul J. Bonicelli joins specifically Mexican evangeli- political and public policy are- the faculty as assistant profes- cals; his dissertation is entitled We have all been bombarded This college believes in the nas. During the 1988 elections, with messages that there is no values of a free society the sor of political science. Dr. "Sons of Thunder and Serpent- he worked as a political coor- that principles of religious, eco- Bonicelli received a B.A. in Doves in Mexico: Comparing dinator for a campaign consult- truth, only opinion values are not principles but nomic, and political liberty English from Memphis State the Politics of Latin American ing firm in South Carolina. that our Founding Fathers built University, an M.A. in public Evangelicals." Afterwards, he moved to preferences that morality is like ice cream flavors: some our society and government policy from Regent University, He describes it as an attempt Washington, D.C. to conduct people like vanilla, some peo- upon. and a Ph.D. in political science to explain the apolitical stance research: first, for a Mexican from the University of Ten- of most Mexican Protestants ple like strawberry, and that's public policy institute, and This college believes in faith nessee, where he served as a that. and how that stance is chang- later for a law firm investigat- or rather I should say, we teaching assistant. ing rapidly and markedly for Society seems preoccupied have faith. Our values are Continued on Page 6 with multicultural, multiracial, rooted in America's rich reli- multiethnic, and gender differ- gious heritage and the faith it Harold O.J. Brown scheduled ences, and we're told that there to sustains. We have confidence speak is nothing for people to believe in providence behind all that in common The first of Grove City Col- happens. In the words of the theological seminary of the Danforth fellowships. We're told that as human lege's Visiting Scholar Lec- Evangelical Free Church of Continued on Page 4 turers, Dr. Harold O.J. Brown, He currently serves as con- America. He also serves as will speak on Monday, Professor of Theology and tributing editor of Christianity September 13 at 7 p.m. in Today and has written for Na- Human Rights in the summer Students Ketler Auditorium of Pew Fine program of the Simon Green- tional Review, Eternity, Moody Arts Center. Welcome leaf School of Law in Stras- Monthly, The Times (London), The title of Dr. Brown's ad- The Boston Herald, and other bourg, France. a good year! dress is "From Constantine the publications. His published Great to Bill Clinton: Grandeur Dr. Brown earned the A.B., books include The Protest of a Have and Folly of the Christian B.D., Th.M. and Ph.D. degrees Troubled Protestant, Chris- West." at Harvard University, with tianity and the Class Struggle, Dr. Brown is Forman Profes- Death Before Birth and The Juny H. additional study at the sor of Theology and Ethics at Universities of Marburg, Ger- Reconstruction of the Republic. President Trinity Evangelical Divinity many and Vienna, Austria, The lecture is free and open School, Deerfield, Illinois, the where he held Fulbright and to the public.