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Plagued by Plagiarism Copy and paste: a task that our generation has become pretty familiar with. But this simple act could be academically dangerous. This semester, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of plagiarism cases here at Pfeiffer. There was even a campus-wide email sent out to students warning of the consequences if they are caught. Why the recent increase? “There have been about fourteen cases in the past few weeks,” Dr. Jim Gulledge, Coordinator of the Honor Board, said. “In more than ten years, I have never seen a pattern like this before. These cases have been both individuals and groups. They are not limited to a particular discipline. We are not seeing students that are unaware of what they are doing. They admitted to cheating. I don’t know any legitimate reason for [the cases], but the consequences are terrible.” Pfeiffer’sHonorCodespecificallystates that plagiarism is a direct violation, and is a form of cheating. The student handbookdefinesplagiarismas“theappropriation and passing off as one’s own writings or ideas of another”. Some professors require their students to sign an Honor Pledge at the beginning of the semester stating that they have neither given nor received unauthorized help on any submitted work. “When students cut corners in life, it creates cracks for future circumstances,” Gulledge continued. “I worry about these students developing bad habits of dishonesty.

It can destroy your life. We want to confront students now and try to stop these behaviors.” Students are expected to submit work that is only their own, and always cite outside sources. Failure to do so may result in receiving a failing grade for a class, or even suspension from the University. The Honor Code also states that it is a student’s personal responsibility to report any violations of this code. Dr. Ashley Oliphant is one of several professors who has dealt with student plagiarism at Pfeiffer.

“Plagiarism is never worth the risk,” Oliphant said. “College is a place to learn about giving proper credit to sources, and the faculty at Pfeiffer is committed to helping students learn how to develop these skills. I would much rather answer student questions about citations and formatting than charge a student with a violation. Students with questions should always ask ahead of time.” A Pfeiffer freshman, who wished

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2 MayFirst Annual Week of Academic Excellence: A Showcase of Pfeiffer’s Finest

Wild parties you hope your mother never hears about, late night study groups for exams the next morning, making friends you will cherish for the rest of your life, and finding that true love who makes everything worth it. These are the memories each college student wants to make. Here at Pfeiffer, not only do administrations want everyone to have lasting memories, but also great success in academics. “[Starting] April 17th and continuing through April 26, The First Annual Week of Academic Excellence: A Showcase of Pfeiffer’s Finest will take place. Beginning on the 17th [will be] the Milton Rose presentations, and the last day of this full week event is Awards Day,” Robin Listerman, Administrative Assistant to the Provost, explained. One event that will truly showcase the academic excellence of students will be held on Friday, April 19. This is where students in the Honors Program who have fulfilled a project this year will set up displays of their work on digital and hardcopy poster presentations. “This will allow others to walk through and truly see the work and research these Honors students have completed,” Director of the Honors Program, Dr. Michael Thompson, said. To highlight the success of every freshman, there will be a Right of Passage ceremony during Wednesday Chapel, including a slideshow featuring students over the course

of the year. “It is truly a community event because all of the faculty and staff will be there along with every student, so the chapel will be jam packed,” Deborah Burris, Director of the Pfeiffer Journey Program, explained. “They will have the freshmen ceremoniously file together and then Dana McKim oversees things. He has done several different things throughout the years, such as the lighting of a candle to represent the completion of their first year. Then we have them leave and the sidewalks are lined with all of the faculty and staff cheering them on.” “This year we have been dissatisfied with how we connect. Here you are as a freshman, and you got a peer mentor that loves, embraces you, and gives you all this attention. But we haven’t made a nice transition from the mentor to your academic advisor. So, what we want to do this year is after the ceremony we would have a reception in the back of the Chapel where the mentor and new advisor will officially meet and greet the freshman. We think this is going to be a nice way to end the year,” Burris added. Other big events this week will include a Dean’s List Reception, and new members of the Phi Delta Sigma Honor Society will be inducted as well. “We are trying to pull things together and centralize the attention to the excellence of Pfeiffer students,” Burris stated. “[I think this week is important] for campus awareness of just exactly how much

effort students have devoted to their academics. We don’t often take enough time to pause and [appreciate] some [extensively researched] ideas. We also plan to recognize freshmen in the Honors Program, as well as invite people to the program who may have slid under the radar. So it will be a chance to meet some new faces, and officially recognize their academic excellence on campus,” Dr. Thompson concluded. For more on the academic symposium, visit: http://misenheimer.pfeiffer.edu/misenheimer/academics/academic-affairs/provosts-page/academic-symposium.

By Kimberly Goodell

Plagiarism continued...to remain anonymous, comments on her personal experience this semester after being accused of plagiarism. “I chose not to go against the Honor Board,” the student said. “I failed a class for the first time ever, it brought down my GPA, and now I’m going to try and take the class again next semester and get it off my record. It was only one sentence.” Communication professor Dr. Shaun Cashman reported six cases of plagiarism in just one class this semester. Four of those students appeared before the Honor Board.

“It [plagiarism] doesn’t help because in the end you haven’t come here for a grade. You have come here for knowledge you can utilize. And you don’t get knowledge from plagiarism,” Cashman said. If you are unsure what constitutes plagiarism or you have questions regarding the honor code, visit the Learning Center on campus or log onto www.pfeffer.edu for more details.

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The fries weren’t the only things sizzling at McDonald’s during Pfeiffer’s “McEducator’s Night” fundraiser. Some of Pfeiffer’s “hottest” faculty and staff members donned hairnets and aprons to raise money for the Special Olympics the week after Spring Break. “I was all geared up helping toward the cause of raising money for the Special Olympics basketball team,” freshman Cathyleen Rice said. “What really sparked my interest was the thought of seeing Professor [Ross] Braymer in McDonald’s attire.” The freshman class recruited several faculty members to help out a good cause. A percentage of the money made that night will go to help the Special Olympics basketball teams purchase new uniforms to compete in. “Our athletes love coming to Pfeiffer. The men and women’s basketball

By Katherine Deeck

Do You Want Fries With That?teams do a lot to help out Special Olympics teams,” Kathy Odell, Pfeiffer’s Human Resources Director and Stanly County’s Special Olympics Coordinator, said. “When we have events at Pfeiffer, for them to put on uniforms in Merner Gym, it’s memories they’ll never forget.” Pfeiffer staff and faculty who tried their hand at making fries and milkshakes were complementary of their experience. “The crew was very friendly and helpful,” Dr. Russ Sharples, Dean of Students, said. “Everything is set up very well and it’s organized. I enjoyed it a lot.” Many people came out to support the cause including Pfeiffer students, faculty, community members, and even Freddie the Falcon. “Thank you to everyone for their support for the cause and for willing to be a part of the McDonald’s staff,” Professor Deborah Burris said.

4 May

AMVETS Room 205 in the Stokes Student Center is home to North Carolina’s AMVETS (American Veterans) Career Center. Here volunteers work to provide career and job assistance for members of the military, including those on active duty, guard, reserve, and veterans. Services they provide include asset assessments, help writing resumes, and interview training. They also help with searches involving education, training, and licensing, as well as certification opportunities. This program began in Ohio ten years ago and now they have at least one location in every state. The government is cutting twenty percent of the armed forces over the next five years, making this center more important than ever. “There will be something like fifty thousand individuals out of work,” AMVET volunteer and veteran Gerry Pion said. The AMVETS organization hopes

to help ensure that these individuals are able to find jobs or help them go to school and get a college education with the help of the G.I. Bill. “Right now, the unemployment rate among military veterans in the eighteen to twenty-four year range is over nineteen percent,” Pion said. With the work being conducted by the AMVETS organization, hopefully this percentage will be lowered. Senior Jamie Alcala is the daughter of a veteran. “I think it’s great that people can take time to help our veterans when they need it,” Alcala said. If you are or know any current

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military members or veterans who could benefit from help from the AMVETS Career Center, have them call or stop by the office.

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Study AbroadBy Ryan Goldsmith

Junior Briana Oliver is an intern at ISA, an International Study Abroad company that gives students the chance to explore the world and experience everything it has to offer. After returning from her stay in Florence, Oliver had nothing but good things to say. “I miss everything, from the pizza to the architecture. Every day I felt as if I was walking through the Renaissance,” Oliver said. With over 20 countries to choose from, ISA offers something for everyone. Whether it is showering under the falls in Argentina, playing in the sand in Costa Rica or enjoying Oktoberfest in Germany, studying abroad provides opportunities you only dream of. The lessons you learn will change your life forever. “Studying abroad makes you more open minded, and better able to understand others cultures and traditions. There are so many places out there to see. The only person stopping you, is you,” Oliver said.

The opportunity of a lifetime is within your reach. Just imagine St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, a championship soccer game in Spain or a moonlight walk under the Eiffel tower. Whatever your dream is, follow it. Rebecca Hraczo is Pfeiffer’s Director of International Studies and has had the privilege of learning about different cultures first hand. If anyone knows the benefits of studying in a different country, it’s her. “Studying abroad is a huge resume builder. Because of the global economy, employers are looking for employees who can approach ideas from a different standpoint and who can work with people who have different perspectives,” Hraczo said. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Hraczo and find out the best way for you to study abroad, you can email her at Rebecca.Hraczo@fsmail.pfeiffer.edu

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6 May

While some Pfeiffer students spent their spring break twiddling their thumbs, laying by the beach, or staying in a overcrowded hotel room with copious amounts of (fill in the blank here), ten students felt a desire to make a difference in dozens of lives by attending the Center for Outdoor Leadership’s (COL) spring break mission trip. Led by their student trip leaders, Lindsay Sisco and Zach Thompson, eight Pfeiffer students made a journey to Spring City, Tennessee to learn the true meaning of servant leadership, flexibility and, most importantly, teamwork. The team of ten spent their time at the Wayeh Alaskan Malamute Kennel in Spring City, Tennessee, participating in activities such as deforestation, gardening, log cutting, fence building and vine trimming. They also took part in building bonfires, as well as getting down and dirty with 26 Alaskan Malamutes. “The COL Spring break trip was such a fantastic experience for me. It gave me not only the chance to play with Alaskan Malamute puppies, but I also got to spend a lot of time seeing the outdoors and other forms of wildlife. All in all, it was one of the best ways I had spent a break at Pfeiffer,” junior Kelly Buck said. “Being able to do service at the Alaskan Malamute Center was an amazing experience. Being able to help someone

who is so selfless is an amazing experience within-itself!” senior Chelsi Haefele said. “What really surprised me about this trip was how amazed the ladies were that we didn’t get any sort of credit for coming on the trip,” sophomore Abbie Goodman said.

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Philanthropy at PfeifferBy Kelly Hoey

The most rewarding courses are the ones that go beyond the classroom walls. Dr. Juanita Kruse’s Current Events class is giving students the opportunity to impact lives throughout the world. The class focuses on global issues and exploring how and why problems such as poverty, hunger, war, and water contamination are plaguing countries. Each student was required to pitch a project proposal to raise money for a charity of his or her choice. The only requirement was that the charity must be focused on an international issue and research must be narrowed down to one country. Out of the 12 proposals three were chosen and then the class was divided up. The three organizations the class is raising money for are Live Again Ministries, Action Against Hunger, and Children of Colombia. The Live Again Ministries group is led by Rhonda Benton and focuses on building wells and other methods of providing clean water to communities that do not have access to a luxury that is taken for granted every day. The organization mainly works in Honduras, a country that is desperately in need of access to clean water. Live Again Ministries is located right down the road in Locust, North Carolina. “Our particular project is to raise money to provide clean water to a village in Honduras. Clean water is a necessity for life. Without it, disease, starvation, and malnutrition are an everyday occurrence. Every 20 seconds a child dies to water born illness. If we raise enough money for one purification project, we will save dozens of lives. One life saved is worth everything. Dozens are a miracle,” Benton said. Senior Diamond Pate is the group leader for Action Against Hunger. The charity is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to eradicating malnutrition in over 40 different countries. “Many organizations help hungry

children, but I chose to support this organization because they not only treat malnutrition in children, but they work with the local community to fix the causes of the malnutrition in the first place. Besides providing proper nutrition, they provide safe water, financial assistance for failing farms, and most importantly, education to prevent future crisis,” Pate explained. The Action Against Hunger group is focusing on raising money to combat malnutrition in India, which accounts for 54 percent of all malnutrition-related deaths in children around the world. “When I was in India I saw a lot of poverty and was deeply saddened by how small and hungry the children look. This assignment gave me the opportunity to help make a change for these children,” Pate said. The final organization, Children of Colombia, is a charity based in the United Kingdom that raises money to help support Colombian organizations that benefit disadvantaged children. Jaime Sanclemente is the group’s leader and is very personally affected by the plight of many Colombian children, due to the fact that he spent the first few years of his life living there. The organization raises money for food, shelter, clothing, and even education for the children. Keep your eyes open for events and fundraising on campus for these three life changing and saving organizations. Not only

will you be helping your fellow students, you will be significantly impacting others’ lives with just a simple donation.

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“I strongly believe the communication of culture is the bridge of sincere friendship. Therefore, the more we know about each other, the less culture gap we will have. And I really hope to make more friends through Asia Night,” student Susan Yang said. To find out more information about activities in the Multi-Cultural Club, please click their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PfeifferMcc.

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Students on a CrusadeBy Mariana’ Melvin

CRU, which stands for Campus Crusade for Christ, is a religious organization on campus whose purpose is to show and share Christ’s love with our community as we grow as biblical disciples of the Gospel. It is basically a group that gets together once a week to worship God in unique and fun ways. “CRU has been important to me since I came to Pfeiffer because it has given me a place to worship and talk about God. I have also been able to make friends that share my faith, which is important for me now that I’m in college,” freshman Emily Gardon said. “CRU has been a blessing to me because I felt a little lost my freshman year, but CRU was a place I could go to find other Christians on campus and to know that I wasn’t alone. After enjoying CRU so much as a freshman, I definitely wanted to get involved with CRU leadership as well. The activities, but also the other members who attend, definitely encourage me every week!” student Mary Lindsaye Boyd said. CRU is trying to reach out to other Christian organizations on campus to host events together and help spread their love for Christ throughout campus. Last semester, CRU held a Suicide Awareness Event featuring the movie To Save a Life, and they also took a group of students to the WinterJam. “It was a good bonding experience for the group that went. I got to meet a few new people, and we were all there to have a fun time while worshipping God!” freshman

Janna Featherstone said. This semester CRU hosted a cultural credit movie night featuring The Passion of the Christ. CRU meets Monday nights at

8pm in the Community Room. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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It’s that time of year again. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and people are sneezing. Spring is here,which means Allergy season will be striking students at full force. “I love springtime, there’s nothing like it. But you know there’s always that one week, at least, where the allergies hit you like a truck,” junior Dustin Brannam said. According to WebMd online, one in five people have allergies. Some common outdoor allergens or triggers include weed pollen, tree pollen, grass pollen, and mold spores. “It’s important that students know what exactly they are dealing with,” nurse practitioner Jenny Carrick said. “Some students may think they have a cold when in reality they are experiencing allergy symptoms.” For relief from allergies there are several medications available, ranging from pills and liquids to nasal sprays. “The best thing to do [if you’re experiencing allergy symptoms] is contact

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your family doctor and find out which medication is best for controlling your symptoms,” Carrick said. “Our students’ health is essential not only for a safe and healthy campus, but for overall academic and athletic success,” Russ Sharples, Dean of Students, said. “The more we can do to assure that students are well, the better for every aspect of life at Pfeiffer.”

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12 May

THE CULTURAL CREDITCROSS FIT

Cross Fit: constantly varied, functional movements. Thanks to the Pfeiffer Knapp Center students have been offered the chance to participate in this high intensity workout. Cross Fit sessions usually run $100 dollars a month, so this is an amazing deal for students. “I like how it pushes not only my body, but my mind, farther than I had ever imagined,” freshman Lindsey Shoaf said. “It’s cool to see my body change over time. It’s definitely changed me for the better.” Shoaf is not the only student that has benefitted from this new opportunity. Many students have become dedicated to Cross Fit. “It’s the most fun and efficient workout program I’ve ever tried. The high intensity training is a physical and mental challenge,” senior Dawn Watkins said. “It always leaves me feeling satisfied.” Most workout programs are designed to give you physical results, but Cross Fit does much more than that. The workouts are high intensity and one workout is never the same as the next.

“It works my body to the maximum potential,” freshman Jamal Snipes said. Cross Fit workouts are designed to push you to your limits. Each workout is scaled so that anyone is able to participate. You are able to showcase your strengths as well as develop your weaknesses. “I like that the major focus is on building your core muscles,” junior Robbie Rogers said. “I have definitely seen a difference in my body’s ability to push myself in a workout,” Watkins said. “Because every workout can be scaled depending on your ability, you are able to see how much you are actually improving.” Cross Fit was first offered at the Knapp Center, but after developing a core group of devotees they moved the class to Cross Fit Delphi located in Albemarle. By meeting at Cross Fit Delphi students were able to experience Cross Fit in a new way. “By meeting [off campus] we were able to challenge ourselves in a completely different way,” Shoaf said. “The atmosphere is perfect. I plan on continuing with Cross Fit even after I leave Pfeiffer.”

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THE CULTURAL CREDIT

Perhaps it all began with the best of intentions, maybe it was designed to be a co-curricular program that would not only add to classroom experiences but further the goal of our Liberal Arts grounding and provide our students with meaningful experiences. However, as the Cultural Credit program stands today, it is nothing more than a requirement that students must satisfy in order to graduate, and a dry, unrewarding requirement at that. The most compelling argument for the program’s existence is that it somehow opens up our students to events and ideas that will provide a viewpoint different from their own and as such reinforce a minor goal of our Liberal Arts program. Nonsense. How can a few visits to Dan Nicholas or Chapel introduce students to an outlook of the world either contrary or challenging to their own? We should be praised for being able to digest items of literary or scientific worth like Don Quixote, or the Divine Comedy and Newtonian Mechanics; not for how many times we have watched Saving Private Ryan. Obviously reading books is no substitute for a visceral experience, but the University

should provide these opportunities. For example, give us more than just a choice between Spanish and Chinese. Why not offer other languages? Another selling point of the program is that it encourages student participation; or rather it makes students attend events because they need the cultural credit that it offers even though they are not interested in the actual subject material of the event. If students wish to go of their own volition then fine, but do not force students to attend events purely because they need the cultural credit. Not only are they wasting their time, but students are not taking anything away from the event when forced to attend. The responsibility falls back onto the University to create interesting or exciting events that students will flock to. Is it difficult to always have an appealing event? Certainly. It may also be impossible to host something that is interesting to even a small fraction of our student body, but do not make the other uninterested students sit through it only because they need a certain amount of hours to satisfy the time requirement in that area. We want students at the end of their

BLUESsenior year to look back at the time they spent here and be able to appreciate their education, their journey and everything that they have been required to do. However, with the program in its current state I could not even imagine any student appreciating it. The idea of a Cultural Program is wonderful, but its execution is poor and its current overarching goals are not met. I will willingly and gladly participate in a program that betters or furthers my education or outlook on the world around me, but the program currently needs a great deal of revision. It should be noted that I have the highest respect for the faculty involved and in charge of this program. It is only the program itself that I find a colossal waste of time and irrelevant to my education.

By Zach Dyer

This editorial represents the opinions of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of The Falcon’s Eye or

Pfeiffer University.

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14 May

The women’s basketball season has come to a historic end. The Lady Falcons finished their season in the second round of the NCAA Division II tournament. Their record was 25-7, which is the second-best in school history. Players Brittany Cox, Christina Harvey and Jodie Lemons are very proud of the team’s accomplishments. “Our team had a great season and surpassed many people’s expectations by making it to the national tournament. We showed people why we deserved to be in the tournament when we had a great team win and beat Anderson. Unfortunately, Limestone ended our run, but that doesn’t take away from our team’s success this year. I couldn’t be more proud of my teammates, coaches, and all we accomplished this year,” Cox said. “This basketball season was great. We accomplished many things that have not been done before. We overcame a lot as a team and grew as a family. We had some tough losses in conference, but we learned from each and tried to improve what was needed. It was definitely a great year and I

am so proud of the team!” Harvey added. “We had a phenomenal season…Words could not describe what an amazing team and family we became,” Lemons said. Cox was selected as this year’s Conference Carolinas Women’s Basketball Scholar Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year. She also helped lead Pfeiffer to the NCAA Southeast Regional semifinals. Along with Cox, Harvey will be leaving Pfeiffer this year. Lemons will be back for the 2013-2014 season. “I was actually very pleased with how we played on defense, holding Limestone under their scoring average on the season. We never really got it going on our offensive side of the floor,” Coach Jill Thomas said of the final game. Even though the Lady Falcons didn’t go all the way, it was still a historic run that the team, and Falcon fans, will always remember.

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Lady Falcons ‘Stick’ Together

“We have the best talent that I’ve seen in all my four years that I have been here and I am really excited to see how the rest of the year goes,” senior captain Laura Shea said. Pfeiffer Women’s Lacrosse is making many strides in their record breaking start to the season. The team has already broken the program’s record for consecutive wins, and many of the players are nationally ranked in the top five spots for their positions. “We don’t run this team around specific players, we run it around the team’s specific strengths and weaknesses. It’s about the team breaking records and working together,” Coach Dawn Easley said. The team goes into the last stretch of their season and hopes to make a run for the conference title as well as a bid to the national tournament. “We are doing well because we work

as a unit on and off the field. We really are a family, not just a team,” junior Ashleigh Kassab said. The conference tournament gets underway later this month. The national tournament is in May.

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16 May

With just a few weeks of play left, the Pfeiffer Women’s Softball Team is in overdrive, working toward a winning season. “I think we’re doing really well. The games have been close and we’re putting ourselves in a position to win,” softball coach Chris Vullo commented. “We work on fundamentals and trying to make the plays second nature. We also work on fitness, effort, and trying to perform as well as possible.” “We back each other one hundred percent. We’re like a huge family,” catcher Julianna Bullington said. “We want to make conference tournament. Our defense is really good,” second baseman Tyresha Ellis said.

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Lady Falcons fans are noticing big changes this season. “They have improved a lot from last year. They have more team chemistry and a coach that wants to win more,” senior Cody Teague commented.

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While some come to college for parties, academics, or because of an athletic scholarship, sophomore Craig Bolton came to Pfeiffer to do what he loves- play baseball. Unfortunately, Bolton has now been faced with adversity that threatens his love for the game. “I had surgery on a torn labrum and had my bicep tendon reconnected last year during baseball season. And during that surgery the doctor went in and cleaned out some of my rotator cuff. I recently went back to the doctor for pain in the same spot, and he basically said that there are still some fragments that he left inside during the last surgery because he was only able to clean out about ten percent of them. Unfortunately, it is now those left fragments that threaten my baseball career,” Bolton explained. “After the doctor told me that I may not be able to play baseball any longer, I felt horrible. I still have two years left of college. And all I want to do is play baseball in college. I am a pitcher and enjoy the sport so much. I will be devastated if I can never play baseball again. The doctor told me that I will only be able to play catch with my son [if I were to have one],” Bolton continued. “Craig is extremely devoted to baseball, but there is a lot more to him than that. He is one of the funniest people I know,” girlfriend Mary Brown said. “Constantly laughing at the most random of things, he never ceases to keep me from smiling. He normally has an optimistic attitude that infects others around him. Honestly, Craig is a role model to me because anything he puts his mind to he will, without a doubt, succeed.” As I sat down with Craig to interview

him, I could see the fear in his eyes and hear it in his voice. The very thought of not being able to play baseball, something he so dearly loves, became an unfathomable idea. And then he said, “My favorite quote is “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” The determined tone in Craig’s voice assured me that he was not about to give up.

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Craig Bolton:“Never Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You from Playing the Game.”

18 May

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