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The 1960s: A Catholic Counter-Culture?
Charles Coulombe
Call the generation of which I am an exceedingly junior member either "the Baby Boomers" or the "Generation of '68" and you evoke two similar but distinct images. The first makes one think of self-indulgent hippies-turned-self-indulgent old people; the second, revolutionaries-become-establishment. While neither is completely accurate, neither is entirely false. Like it or not, the folk born in the two decades that began in 1944 shall be eternally linked in the popular mind (and in many of their own) with what Wikipedia calls the counter-culture of the 1960s.
Sit-ins and love-ins, protest songs and psychedelic tunes, Berkeley and Haight-Ashbury, and "God is dead" theology and the Age of Aquarius—this jumble of contradictions had many strands contributing to it. The civil rights movement that had labored long and at last successfully to end Jim Crow was part of the phenomenon, as was the growing opposition to the war in Vietnam on the part of many potential conscripts. The collapse of sexual mores contingent upon the legalization of the pill unleashed a wave of marital issues, of which the increasing respectability of shacking up was the most immediately visible. Movies and television served up ever-steamier fare in response. At the same time, drug use among the young skyrocketed, from marijuana to LSD. Even the death of John F. Kennedy had its impact. Whatever the manifold causes to which it can be ascribed, the counter-culture's results were incontestable in every aspect of life, from manners and clothing to graphic design and education. Music was the most obviously affected, with rock 'n' roll at once undergoing its own revolution and becoming symptomatic of the ongoing revolution. Music festivals such as Monterey, Woodstock, Glastonbury, and the disastrous Altamont seared themselves into the public consciousness, as did the rock operetta Hair—its very title addressing one of the most visible changes the decade brought.
The other, no less visible changes among the young were in their approach to culture, religion, and politics. Fantasy and its allies among the other literary genres experienced far greater gains in popularity than they had had before. In America, the mainline Protestantism that had been so tied to the Establishment came to be seen by many (despite the fevered attempts of such clerics as Paul Moore, James Pike, and William Sloane Coffin) as irrelevant. In addition to a "Divine Invasion" from the East of various new and pre-existing Hindu and Buddhist spinoffs, there was a cornucopia of other prophets on offer, from Father Yod to Meher Baba to Da Free John and on and on. Astrology, tarot, and all sorts of other esoterica flourished. Any number of communes formed, and toward the end of the decade the "Jesus people" made their appearance.
At the same time, young people were carrying Mao's Little Red Book in their shirt pockets. The Students for a Democratic Society were calling for home-grown communism, and radical politics convulsed college campuses across the globe, with May of 1968 being the key date in Europe. Various experts sympathetic to these developments attempted to explain what was going on, ranging from Charles Reich's The Greening of America to Theodore Roszak's The Making of a Counter Culture. What these agreed upon was that the members of the counter-culture felt that the civilization they had inherited was rotten, and they wished to replace it with something else.
But what are we to make of all of this decades later, and why should we care? Well, an easy answer to the latter question is that this era turned Western culture on to its present course. Moreover, most of our current leadership either participated in or were affected by that counter-culture. Its mores have entered the mainstream—and have dominated it, albeit in a far duller, far less colorful way. But there is a more important lesson, and it was a vast missed opportunity for the Church.
At various moments in the last few centuries—the Romantic Revolt, the fin de siècle, the post–World War I era, for example—external conflict and uncertainty led many non-Catholics to re-examine Catholicism, and a large chunk of these to convert.
It could well have been that way for many of the Sixties folk. Historians claim to see two more or less separate currents. The first was political and centered in Berkeley, California; the aforementioned SDS and Little Red Book-wielders are an example. But there is a second current, one more interested in the social, cultural, and religious alternatives to what the mainstream America and Britain of the Fifties had to offer. Of that second wave, Tolkien himself spoke of "the behavior of modern youth, part of which is inspired by admirable motives such as anti-regimentation, and anti-drabness, a sort of lurking romantic longing for 'cavaliers', and is not necessarily allied to the drugs or the cults of faineance and filth."
In those "admirable motives," that "romantic longing," there could well have been a preparation for the Gospel, as there had been in the earlier mentioned situation—the more so because these motives and this longing were certainly shared by the integralist Catholic groups which we looked at in the past several columns. But where the political current of the counter-culture is dominant today, the second current has left very little in its wake (other than a robust fantasy fandom scene, Renaissance Fairs across the land, and a few long-lived communes). It certainly did not result in the customary wave of converts such movements have traditionally produced. Why not?
Unfortunately, the Sixties were also the time of the post-Vatican II implosion, when the American Catholic hierarchy were apparently more concerned with conforming to the post-Protestant mainstream than preaching the Gospel message—not that evangelization had ever been a large concern for most of them throughout our history. Integrity magazine had folded in 1958. Many of the other Catholic social efforts simply turned to the left in the Sixties, abandoning much or all of their Catholicism; such was the fate of Grailville, many (though by no means all) of the Catholic Workers, and Jubilee magazine.
Tragic indeed was the fate of Ramparts Magazine, founded in 1962 with the intention of publishing "fiction, poetry, art, criticism and essays of distinction, reflecting those positive principles of the Hellenic-Christian tradition which have shaped and sustained our civilization for the past two thousand years, and which are needed still to guide us in an age grown increasingly secular, bewildered, and afraid." But two years in, new editor Warren Hinckle took it in a frankly left-wing direction; by the time it ceased publication a decade after its inception, it was indistinguishable in outlook from Mother Jones.
Then again, this self-secularization mirrored what innumerable Catholic institutions were doing at the same time—as with the major Catholic colleges and their 1967 Land O' Lakes Conference. In all of this, many of them believed themselves to be following the lead of the Holy See itself, which in the wake of Vatican II abandoned the call for Catholic confessional states, preferring to "work with all men of good will for a more just society."
Regardless of the theory behind this shift, it was interpreted by countless Catholics in all sorts of positions as calling for the abandonment of the specifically Catholic identity—in social and political affairs as much as in liturgy. Henceforth, on the bus of society, Catholics were to be simply along for the ride. Rather than converting the world, Catholics were to conform to it. This was not a message calculated to win over the disaffected in society—and, unsurprisingly, it didn't.
It must not be supposed that these developments went unnoticed or unopposed among Catholics themselves. But as they had come from the very hierarchy that Catholics were used to obeying without question, it took a while for unease to develop into opposition. When it did, it was primarily in the liturgical sphere—not too shocking, given that this is and was where most Catholics most routinely encounter their faith. Moreover, Catholics interested in reorienting society in accordance with the Church's social teaching had always been rare in these United States.
Nevertheless, in 1966 Triumph magazine was founded.
The brainchild of William F. Buckley's fiery brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell, it was created in reaction to what Bozell considered to be the "soft" adherence to Catholicism on the part of Buckley's National Review—specifically, Buckley's notorious profession, Mater, si; Magistra, no. Bozell assembled an amazing pool of literary and editorial talent whose cosmopolitan background reflected the diversity of the Church herself.
What united them was first a complete attachment to the papal social encyclicals and distributism, as well as an affection for any nation or group that had tried, or appeared to have tried, to put them into practice. The Habsburgs, the Carlists, the French Royalists, the Jacobites, Dollfuss, Franco, Salazar, and Petain were among the foreign figures looked to for inspiration, while American examples were sought, from Father Coughlin to the Old South.
In terms of practical politics, Triumph broke completely with National Review over the election of 1968. Bozell and his collaborators came to oppose the war in Vietnam and nuclear deterrence, without, however, following Ramparts in surrendering their conscience to the Left. Quite the contrary. When infanticide was consecrated as the law of the land by the Supreme Court, the magazine famously declared: "If she is to protect herself and she is to abide by her divine mandate to teach all peoples, the Catholic Church in America must break the articles of peace, she must forthrightly acknowledge that a state of war exists between herself and the American political order."
This truly radical stance lost Bozell and his more committed staff a good deal of support, even as his own health was declining. In 1976 Triumph closed down. But given the temper of the times, one can only wonder what the Church in America and elsewhere might have accomplished had the hierarchy and the rest of the Church been less accommodating—not to say collaborationist—with the mainstream.
What if the United States bishops, rather than concentrating on making the liturgy as banal as possible and obscuring the abortion issue with their "seamless garment" idea, had instead adopted something of the spirit of Triumph? Such a message would have resonated with many members of a generation who (at that time, anyway) sensed that there was something deeply wrong with America and had the drive to try to fix it.
Instead, the Church in America seemed to join the chorus of "me, too," while many of the young pursued solutions—worse than the problems—which we live today.
Image: Pope John XXIII at the opening of the Second Vatican Council
Tagged as Baby Boom (1946-64), John F. Kennedy, L. Brent Bozell, Second Vatican Council, The Sixties, Triumph Magazine, William F. Buckley Jr.
Charles A. Coulombe is a contributing editor at Crisis and the magazine's European correspondent. He previously served as a columnist for the Catholic Herald of London and a film critic for the National Catholic Register. A celebrated historian, his books include Puritan's Empire and Star-Spangled Crown. He resides in Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California.


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I used cordova-plugin-native-sound but it's useless.
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As parents, all of us would like to raise our children to be the best that they can be. The world that we live in is filled with negative news. Controversies about the safety of GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, global warming, a compromised water supply, and a plethora of other environmental concerns can make the world a scary place. As adults, we have developed coping mechanisms to help us deal with a world that seems increasingly toxic. Our children do not yet have this wisdom, and for them it may seem like the entire world is out to get them. How do we talk to our children about the toxic world around us without traumatizing them?
Step 1. Arm Yourself with the Facts. There is a lot of information out there in cyberspace about these issues, but not all of it is based on fact. This is not to say that only information from government agencies or research foundations are valid. Environmental issues are hot topics and it seems that the status quo of accepted facts changes daily. Examine what you and your child are reading about the topic. Is it based on fact? Does it seem logical, or is it just someone's inflamed rant? If you cannot pick out fact from opinion, you can't expect your kids to be able to either.
Step 2. Teach Moderation. Attitudes about environmental issues tend to range from extreme to an attitude that no problem exists at all. These two extremes dominate news on environmental issues, leaving almost no room for the middle ground. Both extremes are locked in a battle to win you and your kids to their side. It would be safe to venture that the silent majority tends to be somewhere in the middle of this spectrum. Talk to your kids about your viewpoint, and if you have teenagers, be willing to back it up. Allow them to express their opinions too. This is not the time for criticism, just listening and being supportive.
Step 3. Taking Away the Boogieman. This is especially important for younger children. They may become fearful about a seemingly uncertain future. This is a normal part of growing up and you, as parents, have dealt with this before. Just as you gave them a flashlight to battle the monsters in their bedroom at night, you can give those tools to	battle the environmental monsters too. You can teach then that they have a choice and a voice in the issues that concern them. You can teach them to make healthy choices at the grocery store, at the school cafeteria and in other areas of their life. Knowledge is power and in this case, is just the tool that your kids need to combat the boogiemen of the modern world.
The world that we live in is increasingly complex and the problems that we face are increasingly complex as well. Children have the ability to comprehend much more than we give them credit for sometimes. The three most important things that you can do to help your child be environmentally conscious, yet balanced is to arm them with knowledge and talk to them Engage in open discussion about their views and what they know about the important topics of our day. Teach your kids how to evaluate what they read and hear about GMOs and other environmental issues. This will help them learn to sort out fact from fiction in other areas of their life too. Teach them about moderation. This is another good practice that will help them in other areas of their life too. Lastly, give your children a sense of control by letting them know that they have choices and that there is something that they can do about the issues that concern them most. Taking a common sense approach with our kids about environmental issues and the fears that arise because of them is the best way to assure that they grow into healthy, well-adjusted adults that will make the world a better place to live.


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Unveiling Atlanta's iconic Plaza Theatre
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Current owner Christopher Escobar plans to renovate the theatre to preserve and honor its original character. (Photo courtesy of Plaza Atlanta on Facebook)
Designed by George Harwell Bond as an art deco cinema and live theater space, The Plaza Theatre first opened in December 1939. With a historical mix of art, cinema and architecture, it remains the oldest still-operating theatre in the city.
After becoming an X-rated adult cinema and live burlesque theatre in the 1970s, George LeFont purchased and renovated the 1,000-seat space in 1983, focusing on independent, foreign and art-house films.
After several more ownership changes, a new 25-year lease was recently signed with plans for a $4 million dollar renovation. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for donations towards the project.
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An App to Keep You Informed on Race Day
Matt PanureWriterEamon BaumanPhotographer
Race days can be extremely hectic in the pits. Not only do you have to worry about your performance and your car's setup, you also have to worry about keeping up with the pace of the show. You want to know where you qualified, where you line up, when you line up, and if there are any changes in the night's agenda.
Many race tracks will accomplish this organization by posting lineups on paper or on a whiteboard/chalkboard. For some racers that can be painfully inefficient and inconvenient. Plus, what if you made a mistake in writing down the lineup? What about the fans in the stands who want to know where you start?
Eamon Bauman noticed these issues a couple of season ago. With a background in IT and acting as a scorer at Wisconsin International Raceway Bauman was inspired to create something that would help the race teams and the fans. His idea was an app he named RacePal an app that helps fans, race teams, and officials stay informed on race day.
The app provides tracks and series a place to post lineups, results, a day's schedule and a full season schedule that goes right to the user's smart phone. Users can also choose to be notified when lineups/results are posted. The app is free to download for racers, teams, and fans. Bauman charges a small monthly fee to host the tracks and series.
"I watched race officials post lineups on bulletin boards for years, or hand write them on paper. This was the way it had always been done. But it was slow," Bauman said. "It was cumbersome and time-consuming, and error prone. It also forced anyone who cared about lineups to crowd around a small area and take pics with their phones. Plus, fans never had a great way to view lineups in the stands. So, I thought, why not skip the paper middleman if racers are just taking pics on their phones? Let's make something that will deliver the information they need right to the palm of their hands."
Bauman used the 2017 season as a testing year of sorts. After beginning with implementation at Wisconsin International Raceway, RacePal was soon adopted by the TUNDRA Super Late Model Series, Dirt Kings Late Model Tour, Golden Sands Speedway, and Dells Raceway Park. One aspect that Bauman took extra care of was making sure that the app was user friendly for both the viewers and the track/series entering the information.
"It's very simple for a track or series to use. All they need to do is enter in their divisions and drivers," Bauman said. "Then, on race day, an official or scorer can use a laptop or mobile device to enter in the lineups for that day's races. Once the lineups are entered, they are automatically available for fans, drivers, and race teams to view. Tracks and series can also put in their schedule of events for the day, as well as their entire season schedule."
The opening screen of the RacePal app is fairly simple. You can choose to see the schedule or get right into the lineups and results.
Thus far the tracks and series using the app have been very receptive. They have provided feedback and asked questions that have helped Bauman continue to develop new features and better interfaces.
"RacePal has been an easy way to communicate race lineups, results, and announcements to our fans, teams and competitors. It is easy to use and allows for easy sharing on social media," said Sandy Shultz, co-owner of the Dirt Kings Late Model Tour.
It hasn't just been the tracks and series who have enjoyed the benefits of the RacePal app. Users have downloaded the app in droves throughout the state of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.
"I have had people I've never met come up to me and tell me how much they love the app," Bauman said. "Fans love it because they can go to any track and immediately know who's who. Drivers love it because they never need to leave their pit stall to figure out where they are starting. It has enriched the experience for fans and drivers alike by a significant amount.
"When the app was first deployed, I was overjoyed to get my first ten users. Then ten turned into 100. Then 100 into 500. Now we're pushing 3,000 downloads and climbing. The more the word gets out about this app, the more folks seem to download it and like it."
The lineup/results page shows the different divisions available at the track.
Quick, simple, and right to the palm of your hand. Lineups are posted and notifications are available to let you know when to check the app.
The quest to create the perfect app takes some time. Bauman estimates that he has over 500 hours worth of work into the app (he's a one-man show with a full-time job, as well). He said he spends most of his time trying to perfect the app and make it as easy-to-use as possible. The process hasn't been without its bugs either. The process can be tricky because the bug could be specific to just the android version, the iOS version, or it can be universal. Once a bug is identified, it is isolated and fixed.
With a solid test season for the app in 2017, Bauman is looking to expand RacePal's horizons in 2018.
"The sky is the limit," Bauman said. "RacePal's initial year has shown me that this has the potential to be a platform for communications and information on race day. Fans and officials have suggested plenty of features that they want to see, and I'm hoping I can get many of them implemented. The open-ended answer would be'"anything that helps fans stay engaged and drivers stay informed.' More concretely, I hope to see live timing and scoring, per-driver notifications, and location-based services coming soon."
For more information visit the RacePal page on Facebook. To download simply head to the Google Play store or App Store on your iPhone and type in "RacePal."


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By the light of day Saturday, police continued combing for clues in three separate homicide investigations stemming from a rash of weekend gunfire that marked one of the deadliest days of the year in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Two men were killed and three were wounded in separate shootings in Minneapolis late Friday. Those shootings came just hours after a man was found dead in the street in St. Paul's Summit-University neighborhood.
Authorities have not released the victims' names, and no arrests had been reported by Saturday night.
Minneapolis officers were called to the 2000 block of Washington Avenue N. just before midnight Friday on a report of shots fired. They found a man dead on the sidewalk outside Cliff-n-Norm's Bar and another man in the area with a gunshot wound. He was taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale.
Later, police were notified that another man and a woman with gunshot wounds had sought treatment at area hospitals. The man went to North Memorial, while the woman went to the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. Both are expected to survive.
According to emergency dispatch audio, an off-duty officer reported hearing at least 20 shots before cars peeled away from the scene.
On Saturday, red and black balloons hung above a makeshift memorial in the alley behind the bar. A line of votive candles flickered on the curb.
Earlier Friday evening, a man was killed behind a restaurant in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Officers responded to the 1800 block of Riverside Avenue at 7:20 p.m., where they found a man dead inside a car in the parking lot near the Hard Times Cafe.
The victim, described as a man in his 20s or early 30s, did not appear to be a University of Minnesota student, said those at the scene, although the shooting occurred close to campus.
Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, visited the scene in the heart of Minneapolis' Somali-American community, trying to comfort people who were watching the investigation unfold, some of whom were distraught and expressing their anger at police and journalists at the scene.
He decried yet another young person's death at the hands of gun violence.
Meanwhile, St. Paul police continued to investigate Friday morning's fatal shooting. The victim was found lying in the street about 9:10 a.m. on Avon Street near Carroll Avenue.
Sgt. Mike Ernster, a police spokesman, said he died at the scene of an apparent gunshot wound.
The shooting marked St. Paul's 12th homicide this year.


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James Gosling on the state of Java
What would JavaOne be without an interview with James Gosling. I met up with Gosling, the father of Java and a Sun vice president and Fellow, at the Moscone Center to record this podcast.
Written by Dan Farber, Inactive on May 18, 2006
What would JavaOne be without an interview with James Gosling. I met up with Gosling, the father of Java and a Sun vice president and Fellow, at the Moscone Center to record this podcast. Gosling gave his take on why he doesn't think Java needs to be open sourced, but accepts that it is going to happen. "The one big issue that we have that gets us kicked out of being called open source is the issues in our license around compatibility and testing," Gosling told me.
"From people in the open source community it's really hard to get a coherent answer [as to why Java should be open sourced]," he said. He also mentioned the conflict of interest among big platform vendors (IBM?), who would like to dominate the Java space, which could hamper interoperability. "On one hand people say Microsoft--bad business model, I would never want to do that, but on other hand everybody would like to be Microsoft. There are so many players in the game, trying to balance all this stuff is very difficult," Gosling said.
We also discussed the progress in scripting languages working with Java and next steps for Java, which he said is a "late teenager." The diversity and integration of things on the network stood out most on his wish list, he said. He also talked about the cell phone as tomorrow's desktop, singling out JSR 209, and the relationship between NetBeans and Eclipse.
This podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop or MP3 player if you're subscribed to our podcasts (See ZDNet's podcasts: How to tune in).
Stay tuned for coverage of the Gosling/McNealy keynote session tomorrow at JavaOne.


Tomorrow The LEGO Movie opens and the entire family can't wait to see it. It looks like a ton of fun, and Batman and Wonder Woman are in it, so yay.
LEGOs are a fixture in the house. The kids love to build and create, the videogames are lots of fun, the kids get into the LEGO books (such as this one) and I always seem to find them on the floor in the dark. With my bare feet.
OK, the last one isn't so great, but overall, I have lots of adoration for the mighty LEGO bricks.
Recently discovered while shopping at Toys R Us for a birthday present: BrickStix. They are reusable stickers and decals that you can put on your bricks. They had several different packs, all $5.99, with themes such as Comics, WWII, Zombies, Town, and Medieval. I really like the Comic pack that had dry-erase compatible stickers. This feels like the perfect present for a LEGO happy kid. It's not something they would probably pick out - I know mine would always go for new bricks first - but once he figured out that he could make new characters, or put together his own LEGO comic with his own words, oh yeah, he would dig that.
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Raymond Hinnekens, né le  à Dergneau est un homme politique belge wallon, membre du PRL.

Il est licencié en Sciences commerciales (UMONS); chef d'entreprise dans le secteur du transport; président des étudiants libéraux de l'UMONS, des Jeunesses libérales du Hainaut, du PRL du grand Mons (1979) et de la Fédération PRL de Mons-Borinage (1990-1995).

Carrière politique
député wallon de 1995 à 1999.

Liens externes
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Député de la Communauté française de Belgique
Naissance en septembre 1935
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Some GPS systems may incorrectly direct you to the wrong end of the horseshoe shaped Schiber Court. If entering from the East end of the horseshoe, just continue around the loop and you will find K-10's on the right. If entering from the West end of the horseshoe, K-10's is on the left about a hundred yards from Vadalabene Drive. Look for the blue and white metal building.
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From St. Louis - East on I-55/70 from the Poplar St. Bridge to exit 15B, Route 159 north to Vadalabene Dr. (fourth traffic light just past Ameren IP), right on Vadalabene Dr., 400 yards, turn right on Schiber Ct. (just past the second medical building), 19 Schiber Ct. is the third building on the left. The blue and white building south of the gray mini-storage.
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The men ran first on this battlefield course, braving the mud puddles and dodging the mud ponds in their 8K race.
Freshman Isaac Alderfer (Broadway, Va./Broadway) finished first for the EMU men with a time of 28:04 and 67th place out of 276 runners.
Next came sophomore Justice Allen (Waynesboro, Va./Waynesboro), overcoming his previous night's illness (when he was unable to successfully finish a plate of spaghetti and meatballs) in addition to the terrain (on which he successfully completed an 8-kilometer race), with 29:32 and 110.
Charles Thornton (Hamilton, Va./Loudoun Valley) charged through the finish next, earning a big PR of 31:16 and placement of 139.
And EMU's cross country team is not limited to just one blond freshman Isaac; today Isaac Andreas (Bluffton, Ohio/Bluffton) made his collegiate debut. Just steps behind Thornton, Andreas came in at 31:22 and 140th place.
Jack Rice (Palmyra, Va./Fluvanna County) finished next for EMU, earning 32:05 and 147th place.
Rounding out EMU's pack were Collin Longenecker (Harrisonburg, Va./Turner Ashby) (33:03, 156) and Andrew Nord (Albany, Ore./Albany) (33:24, 157).
Senior Derrick Chirinos (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) was unable to finish due to a hip flexor injury.
The men earned 21st place overall out of 28 teams.
"The guys were mixed bag today," said Head Coach Bob Hepler. "There's a lot of sickness and there's a lot of weird things going on in their heads...The good news with the guys is that most of the guys that are typically behind them all had significant PRs today. Charlie Thornton dropped another minute, Collin dropped another two minutes, Isaac Andreas, I don't know how that happened today, but I think he's gonna make our regionals team now."
He paused, marveling at his freshman wunderkind.
"There were some amazing things that happened today," he said. "Just, you know, a little disappointing for me overall. I was excited about Gettysburg for weeks and the conditions weren't perfect and that affected us. I think we're gonna learn a lot, get mentally stronger. I think because of today, that things didn't go perfectly, we're gonna be that much more ready for ODACs, and Regionals, too."
The women's 6K was next. The mud puddles had become mud ravines thanks to the hundreds of spiked feet churning up the fields from the men's race.
Senior Laurie Serrell (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) came in first for the women, earning 43rd place and a time of 24:44.
"Laurie maybe had the first or second best race of her XC career," said Coach Hepler. "It was a very sloppy course and footing was rough and she just kept chugging away and just looked better every time I saw her in the race."
Junior Elizabeth Nisly (Bluffton, Ohio/Bluffton) finished next with 25:03 and 53rd place out of 318 runners.
"If there's anything that held her back today," mused Coach Hepler, "it might have been a little bit of fatigue, even though my nickname for her is Indestructible."
Abigail Shelly (Collinsville, Miss./West Lauderdale) blazed through the chute with 26:23 and 102nd place, closely followed by Emma Hoover (New Carlisle, Ohio/Tecumseh) (26:28, 107).
"I think the race of the day for the women was with Emma Hoover," said Coach Hepler. "She was really committed to closing the gap with Abigail. We challenged her to do that and that's what she did today."
Allison Shelly (Collinsville, Miss./West Lauderdale) was the women's fifth place finisher with a PR of 27:58 and place of 138.
"Allison also was phenomenal," Coach Hepler added. "She just gets better and better."
Finishing the race for EMU was Kellie Serrell (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) with a time of 31:29 and place of 175.
The EMU women earned 16th out of 30 teams.
"Well, I thought the ladies, as always, did really well," said Coach Hepler. "We're very proud of the women, I think they're set up for a really good meet at ODACs. We've got some special workouts coming up to help them get ready for that."
EMU cross country competes next at the ODAC Championship on Saturday, October 27, hosted by Shenandoah University.


We know that most students live busy lives, so in between post-Jesters hangovers and the odd lecture, you probably haven't been paying attention to some of the main sporting events taking place around the world. Fortunately, as two humanities students with very little to do, we spend most of our time watching sport, and as such, we can be your guides through the sporting wilderness, reviewing some sports events that get little mainstream coverage in the UK.
Why you've missed this: No normal human should stay up until 3am every night.
There have been two major storylines in the NBA this season. The first is the retirement tour of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant; the second is Golden State Warriors' pursuit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' all-time single-season wins record. The Kobe retirement tour was slightly let down by the fact he's no longer the player he used to be and the fact he was playing with probably the worst supporting cast of his career, but in his final game he put on a show at the Staples Centre, scoring 60 points in a Lakers win (it took him 50 shots to do it, but efficiency has never been Kobe's strength).
The Warriors have been far more interesting, because they are actually good at basketball. Led by the trio of Steph Curry (last season's MVP, who also set a new record for single-season 3-pointers made), Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, they've turned last year's championship success into a tilt at being the greatest single season team of all time, starting out by winning 24 straight games. They tied the Bulls by beating title contenders San Antonio, before easing to a win against Memphis on the last day of the season to secure their 73rd win of the year. Chances are we'll get a Warriors-Cavaliers Finals series, in a replay of last year, which means another face-off between Curry and LeBron James, possibly the two best players in the game.
Why you've missed this: Barely any TV coverage.
This year has been a transition year for squash, a slow fading of the old guard and the emergence of some outstanding new talents on the PSA and WSA. In the men's game, whilst the season has been mostly dominated by young Egyptian Mohamed El Shorbagy, the 25-year old world no. 1 (somehow still a university student at UWE), this year has seen bright young talents – such as his brother Marwan El Shorbagy, Ali Farag and Mazen Hesham, producer of some of the most outrageous shots in squash history – come forward and state their case to join the world's elite. At the other end of the scale, the older players have been raging against the dying of the light. World no. 2 Gregory Gaultier sealed his first World Open title in November last year, beating Omar Mosaad, who finally seems to be reaching his full potential. From a British perspective, Nick Matthew remains world no. 3 and James Willstrop has shown signs of a revival.
In the women's game, there has been a real shake-up at the top of the rankings, with Nicol David, previously ranked no. 1 for 108 consecutive months, dropping to third, and Britain's Laura Massaro reaching a historic first time at the summit of the women's game. However, it has been the rise of Nouran Gohar, 18, and particularly Nour El Sherbini, 20, the two finalists of the recent British Open final, that has really turned heads this season. In both the men's and women's game, the signs point to a very bright future for squash.
Why you've missed this: You've not heard of it yet.
The traditional Indian sport of Kabaddi (which is essentially tag, mixed with wrestling, mixed with holding your breath for long periods) has seen a revamp in the last couple of years. This year marked the third season of the Pro Kabaddi League, with 8 franchises battling it out over a month in cities across India, like the IPL for masochists.
This year's champions were the Patna Pirates, who triumphed over U Mumba led by their talisman, Sandeep 'The Beast from the East' Narwal (important point: all good Kabaddi players are called Narwal). Both the Puneri Paltan and Bengal Warriors made the playoffs for the first time, finishing 3rd and 4th respectively. Bengal were led by Jang Kun Lee, the 'Korean King of Kabaddi', showing that the sport has true international appeal. The unfortunate teams not to make it to this stage were the Telugu Titans, the fantastically-named Jaipur Pink Panthers, the Bengaluru Bulls and the ultimately useless DaBang Dehli.
If you could choose one sport to start watching next year, this should be it.
Why you've missed this: This seems obvious.
This ridiculous sport is entering its 27th year, with championships taking place in Nevada in October. The aim of the sport is simple: to push your customised outhouse (portaloo, as they're known in the UK) round a course in the quickest possible time. Each outhouse must have three costumed team members: a rider and two pushers. Last year's winners were Sport A Potty, who beat Dung Fo Warrior and Commando Commode to the title in a thrilling finale.