10.4.12 Hillsdale Collegian

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Vol. 136, Issue 5 - 4 Oct. 2012

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Deer invades Niedfeldt

Assassins: betrayal, murder, and spoons

Shannon Odell Senior Reporter When sophomore Arielle Mueller heard that a deer crashed through her ground-floor window in Niedfeldt Residence, she laughed.

“I didn’t believe it,” she said.

“I’d never heard of anything like that happening before.”

The incident occurred last Sept. 27 around dusk. A young doe was startled by a passing car and runner. It crashed through the ground-floor window of room 108, breaking the glass and trapping itself in the room.

Sophomore Resident Assistant Katie Summa said neither of the residents were in the room and the door was closed, keeping the deer trapped inside.

“It was the best situation that could happen out of that,” she said.

Despite the damage done to her room, Mueller found humor in the situation.

“After I actually found out it was a real thing, I thought it was rather funny,” Mueller said.

“Yeah, there was destruction and broken windows, but I did find it funny.”

Sophomore Rosemary Ricci said she was walking back to the dorm when she heard a crash.

She didn’t see the deer jump into the window but observed the deer jumping up and down inside the room. Ricci said the jogger pulled away some of the blinds that were covering the window so that the deer could see it was open. Once the window became clear, the deer jumped back out.

Associate Professor of Music James Holleman was on his way home from work that evening when he saw a group of deer by Niedfelt and soon after heard a window break. Holleman said he called security immediately and then went to help those involved.

“I encouraged the students to get away from the window,” he said. “They were trying to peek in and such. If this thing gets out of the window, it could be injured and scared and it could have been dangerous.”

Security arrived soon after the deer jumped back out of the window.

Ricci said the deer didn’t seem to be injured. The room, however, showed evidence to the

Taylor Knopf Copy Editor

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New priest appointed to St. Anthony Father David Reamsnyder expected to serve in Hillsdale for one year Roxanne Turnbull City News Editor Father David Reamsnyder began his priestly duties at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Hillsdale, Mich., Sunday, Sept. 23.

Reamsnyder was selected by the Diocese of Lansing to replace Father Jeffrey Njus after it was discovered Njus had violated his vow of celibacy – leaving the Hillsdale parish without a priest. He will stay in Hillsdale for one year. Afterwards, he said he hopes to become a chaplain in a military unit.

Reamsnyder, his wife Beth, and his two children moved into the rectory of the church recently. As a former Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, Reamsnyder is permitted to serve as a married Catholic priest under the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

The Ordinariate, created in January 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI for Anglicans converting to Catholicism, was established “to build up the Church through mutual mission and ministry while retaining elements of the Anglican patrimony.”

“By the time I graduated seminary, I wanted to join the Catholic Church, but it wasn’t until Pope Benedict’s announcement of ‘Anglicanorum Coetibus’ that I knew how it would happen,” Reamsnyder said.

Reamsnyder joined the United States Army after graduating from high school.

It was a member of his platoon who asked

him to join a Bible study one evening, which led to Reamsnyder’s spiritual reawakening. He worked and studied with a missionary from Cadence ministries, but he said the Calvinist roots of the organization frustrated him.

“I had not considered Catholicism due to a prejudice I had in childhood,” Reamsnyder said.

He studied for three years to prepare for seminary at a fine arts community college before transferring and receiving his Bachelor’s degree for philosophy and religion at Spring Arbor University.

“It was a new world of academic challenge and excellence,” Reamsnyder said.

He was then called away for a 14-month tour of duty in Iraq, and he became fascinated with the Chaldean Catholics of Northern Iraq.

“What I know is God used this time to turn me toward Catholicism,” he said.

“I was caught up in the idea of Christians worshipping worldwide in a universal style.”

After his tour, Reamsnyder came back to Hillsdale to be with his family. His wife was raised Catholic, and they made a compromise between them and started going to Holy Trinity Anglican Parish.

“I had to surrender my prejudice of the Catholic doctrine,” he said. “God himself was drawing me into his church through his divine liturgy.”

Through the Episcopal Missionary Church, Reamsnyder realized he wanted

to become a religious leader and served as a priest just short of three years. On Jan. 22, 2012, he was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained as a Catholic priest on June 9, 2012.

At the Episcopal Church in Baltimore, he and the senior priest converted 67 parishioners from Anglicanism to Catholicism. When the newly-formed parish decided to buy the building from the Anglian church, the budget could not provide for two priests. Reamsnyder, the less senior of the two priests, was forced to leave, but he said the decision to leave was easy because the senior priest had laid all the groundwork for the parish conversions.

He and his family returned to Michigan when his wife found a job as a kindergarten teacher at Sacred Heart School in Hudson, Mich. When a priest position was not available, Reamsnyder took a job at an automobile parts company. Reamsnyder said the diocese learned they had an able priest right under their nose when Hillsdale was in need.

Gannon Hyland, president of the Hillsdale College Catholic Society, said he has not heard any negative remarks about Reamsnyder and said he believes the new priest will be a positive contribution to the parish.

“From my impression of him, he’s phenomenal — someone who exemplifies the qualities of Christ,” Hyland said.

Hyland said Reamsnyder being a married priest is unusual but interesting

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Seventy targets dead.

Only three assassins remain: sophomores Mitchell Irmer, Casey McKee, and Matthew O’Sullivan. However, these three formed what they call a “guild,” a pact not to kill each other.

“We decided we wanted to do something kind of funky and stick it to the gamemaster [sophomore] Andy [Reuss],” O’Sullivan said.

The three tied their weapons – spoons – together with a note quoting Peeta from “The Hunger Games”:“We are more than just pieces in their games.”

The game, Assassins, began on Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. Reuss, the game-master, sent out an email with the objective, rules, and safe-zones of the game to all interested players in the Simpson Residence. Players had to eliminate their targets while also avoiding their assassins.

After eliminating his target – by tagging him with a spoon to the torso – the assassin assumed the target of the player he just “killed.”

Reuss played the game at his high school and had heard of it being played at Hillsdale College in the past. So last year he regulated two rounds through the Simpson Bible study. This year he opened it up to all of Simpson. He said it is the largest round yet. Reuss regulates the game and handles all discrepancies over kills.

In response to the surrender of the “guild,” Reuss said that if they refuse to kill each other and produce a winner, he will resurrect everyone in the game until all three die.

“But I have confidence in the depravity of man,” he said. “I’m sure one of them will end up winning.”

Both Irmer and O’Sullivan mentioned a possible gladiatorial contest where the three members of the gild would fight to the end.

Junior Garrett Holt, the player with the most kills, isn’t happy with the trio’s truce.

“They are total losers,” he said. “I hope they kill each other

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Q & A: Timothy P. Carney Visiting lecturer Timothy Carney writes for The Washington Examiner in Washington, D.C., about the intersection of big government and big business. He is a self-identified Catholic, conservative-libertarian. Author of “The Big Ripoff” (2006) and “Obamanomics” (2009), he lives in Maryland with his wife and their four young children.

Samantha Gilman Senior Reporter You told The Collegian you were just someone who just got some good advice. Can you expound on that?

My first boss in Washington was Terry Jeffrey at Human Events, and he pushed on me the idea of being a reporter, even though we were writing for an opinion-oriented conservative publication. He drove home the idea that my opinion would be far less persuasive than new facts. And he also gave me a very good piece of advice, which

is that wherever government power and money intersect, you will find stories of corruption.

What I consider my grad school was my job for Bob Novak, and he mostly by example showed my why to be a reporter, some ways to be a good reporter, even when you’re on the opinion page.

Can you name a time when the Republican “team” pushed you to think a certain way?

Well, there was an ugly clash back in `02 and `03, when most conservatives were supporting invading Iraq. I didn’t support it, and Novak didn’t support it. And there was a lot of name-calling

and friendships broken up over that. I got a little bit of that, and Novak got a lot of it, so that has sort of hardened me to the point where it is easy for me to strike out on my own views.

Can you describe your libertarianism?

I think one misperception that people have is that libertarians can’t be pro-life. But Ron Paul is the most famous libertarian in the world, and he is 100 percent pro-life. If you think the government’s job is too narrow to protect innocent people from violence, abortion falls under that.

(Sally Nelson/Collegian)

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INSIDE Off the record: Income Tax Vote yes if you want decent roads in Hillsdale before your great-grandchildren are born. A3

Henry Payne: celebrating cariacature The Political Cartoons of Henry Payne Exhibit opened on Sunday. B1

Football concussions The head-on collision was the last thing he remembered for the next three hours. A7

Fujian fusion King Buffet, a restaurant in Jonesville, offers a mix of Chinese, American, and Mongolian food. B4 (Sally Nelson/Collegian)

Elections have consequences Conservatives, libertarians, and MSNBC hosts all agree — a sharp Romney won a decisive victory in last night’s debate. A6

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Grad program hosts statesmanship lectures Richard Thompson Senior Reporter

Associate Professor of English Justin Jackson lectured on the significance of King David’s narrative for families and politics. (Greg Barry/Collegian)

Last Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium, Justin Jackson, associate professor of English, captivated his audience discussing the familial and political significance of the biblical story of David.

“I don’t think there’s a biblical narrative better than the David story,” Jackson said in a later interview. “It is a great piece of literature up there with Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.”

Jackson’s talk was the second in a lecture series that is part of the Graduate School of Statesmanship’s doctoral humanities seminar. The course is one of three, year-long, two-credit seminars that are required of all

graduate students.

In this year’s seminar, there are eight lectures that, according to the syllabus, “address the broad themes of the humanities and draw upon the breadth of Western tradition.” A two-hour private session follows each public lecture, allowing the graduate students to bring up any questions that they might have.

In the final session of the seminar, students will be required to present a term paper.

“Most programs treat politics as a social science, where statistics and voting demographics take priority over political philosophy, unlike our program,” said Erika Annis, former assistant to the graduate dean and current graduate student.

“This lecture series brings the focus back onto how politics fits in with humanities as a whole.”

This year’s seminar theme is antiquity and includes such topics as “Cicero and Roman Philosophy” and “Classical Historians,” delivered by professors of history, Brad Birzer and Paul Rahe, respectively. The purpose of these lectures is to address important political questions in their broader contexts and come to an understanding of classical theory.

Graduate Dean Ronald Pestritto said one of the problems with modern education is that the study of politics has become overly specialized and has “lost sight of the higher things.”

“We at Hillsdale strive to be part of a liberal arts institution

in the true, classical sense of that term,” Pestritto said, “and this means that we see the study of politics as an integral part of studying the liberal arts.”

These lectures are not only important in broadening the academic mindset of the doctoral students but graduate faculty believe they will be beneficial to all Hillsdale faculty as well as undergraduate students.

“The lecture series covers topics that are crucial to liberal arts so it has an appeal to the student body at large,” Jackson said.

The next talk will be from 4 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 16. Associate Professor of Education Jon Fennel will discuss the importance of political education.

College updates promotional video Production crew scouted scenery; will return later this month to shoot Morgan Delp Copy Editor Potential donors to Hillsdale College have been viewing the same promotional video for the school since 2004. That will change with the production of a new video, set to be shot later this month and completed by June 2013.

Manifold Productions, Inc., a D.C.-based film company, will produce its third video for Hillsdale since 1990. The school had videos made in 1990 and 2004 and decided that it was time for an update, said William Gray, Hillsdale College marketing specialist.

“Obviously the college has changed a lot over the eight years since the last video,” Gray said. “We have new buildings, the Kirby Center, online learning. Those kinds of things will be reflected in the new video.”

Like the previous films,

the movie will last about 15 minutes. But unlike in previous years, there will also be a sixminute version and a two-minute trailer-type version, used as a teaser to entice viewers to watch the full-length film. Hillsdale leadership and Manifold are still discussing how best to use the trailer.

But despite updates on the latest promotional video’s content, Gray said its focus will remain the same as the last two: the college’s mission.

“I think the important thing to highlight is that the things Hillsdale hasn’t changed is its principles,” Gray said. “We stay true to what we’ve been doing since 1884. There are different things to talk about but the underlying message is very similar.”

The director and producer of the film, Michael Pack, traveled to Hillsdale on Sept. 8 and stayed for a week, scouting potential locations and interviewing students with associate

producer, Dan Curl. Pack agreed with Gray in that the new film will stay true to the unchanging values of the institution.

He further elaborated that the video is for donors to watch, not for potential students to view as a recruitment tool.

“The purpose of the video is to help Hillsdale raise money, especially money they don’t get from the federal government.

It’s designed to reach people that have never heard of Hillsdale,” Pack said. “Because of the principles it stands for, and not just the pretty place, Hillsdale is unique. That’s what all three films have in common.”

Gray said this video is played primarily at off-campus functions and receptions, often as an introduction or prelude to a speaker like college President Larry Arnn.

While the scouting crew was on campus, they were busy. The Sept. 11 memorial service and the top of Central Hall were

Group teaches abstinence Marcus Hedenberg Collegian Freelancer Last year, 47 percent of high school students had sexual intercourse, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 400,000 infants were born to teen mothers.

Alarmed by this, Hillsdale College students of Respect Everything About Life and Love are attempting to fight today’s surge of sexual activity among teens.

REALL’s mission is to fight the prevalent hook-up culture by educating teens on the dangers of being sexually active, as well as the benefits of abstinence and respecting each other’s bodies. said junior Joelle Lucas, the program’s director.

Consisting of 13 students, the team meets on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in Lane Hall. The students give presentations once a week to both middle schools and high schools that last from 45 to 90 minutes, said junior Korbin Kiblinger, a volunteer for REALL. It all started in the 1990s, Lucas said, when a group of Hillsdale College students with a similar vision joined Alpha Omega Women’s Care Center to form Concerned About Teen Sexuality. While that effort collapsed some years ago, REALL was refounded by with Nancy DeBacker, who currently heads

Alpha-Omega Women’s Care Center in Hillsdale.

“I was rather sheltered growing up,” Lucas said. “So going out into a world where kids are confronted with so many other problems that I didn’t have to face was an eye opener to me.

It’s sad to see just how far our youth has deviated from living a pure life by setting a standard that has dropped so much.”

As a goal for this year, Kiblinger said the team will branch out to new areas including youth groups and public schools.

To prevent losing the audience’s attention, Kiblinger said the team tries to keep their presentations entertaining through skits and hands-on activities.

“Then we expand on it so the kids can understand what we’re talking about better,” Lucas said.

Delivering REALL’s abstinence-centric message does not come without its challenges, sophomore Antoni Germano said. Attempting to persuade people to adopt a certain lifestyle is ineffectual if they have already made up their minds.

“They tune us out and don’t listen because they know what we’re all about,” Germano said.

“We still try to reach out to them because I personally want to let those people know that it’s never too late to change if they want to.”

While each of REALL’s members had unique reasons for

joining the team, Germano said that he entered the team to offer a much-needed male perspective to dispel misconceptions about the way men view women.

However, REALL is not a one-way street of information, Germano said. By participating in activities with the rest of the team, the volunteers have learned lessons that apply to their own lives.

“There is a lot that I have been able to pull from my experiences with REALL,” Germano said. “A lot of things go into being in a loving relationship with another person...certain things that I can and others will be able to incorporate into their current relationship.”

So while the experience at REALL is fun, Lucas said, it is also one that needs to be taken seriously in the face of a community whose teens can be spared much pain and suffering with a little guidance.

Kiblinger encouraged fellow Hillsdale students to take the initiative to help REALL spread its message. He said that while at times thankless, REALL’s work is very important.

“The people we’ve recruited so far are super passionate about this stuff, and it’s very exciting to have people — both guys and girls — who want to get involved,” Kiblinger said.

“We’re just getting started.”

highlights of the crew’s tour of Hillsdale.

“They went everywhere,” Gray said. “We visited lots of different classrooms in Lane, Kendall, and Strosacker. We went to the sports complex, observed practices from sports teams such as tennis, football, volleyball, track and field.

Everywhere they wanted to and could go, they went.”

The purpose of the scout trip was to come up with a shooting plan so when Manifold returns on Oct. 20, the five-man film crew will be ready to shoot.

“Several different groups of students were interviewed — about 50 in all — so Manifold could get a sense of what Hillsdale students are like,” Gray said.

These interviews were not filmed, but photographs were taken for reference in the filmplanning stage. When the film crew arrives to shoot, several of the interviewed students will be

asked to participate in a filmed and loosely-scripted classroom session, staged in Kendall.

Senior Travis Lacy of Oklahoma City was one student who participated in the interview session, but has not yet received notice if he will be used in the actual production.

Lacy was initially emailed by Gray and, with a group of roughly 10 others from all classes, met one evening in the Dow Center for over an hour. Each student went around the room and gave their response to two different questions.

“The first question was to tell the story of how you ended up at Hillsdale,” Lacy said. “I said that my dad threw the Princeton Review and the ISS on my desk my junior year of high school and said, ‘Do your research and pick 10 we will go to visit, and we’ll go from there.’ Hillsdale ended up winning the contest.”

Lacy, a student ambassador for three years, said he has seen

the 2004 film a few times when it has played in the admissions office for waiting parents.

Pack said he enjoyed his return to Hillsdale after almost a decade of being away.

“I had a great time visiting Hillsdale, as always. Having not been there in eight years, I was amazed at the new buildings and how it has changed.

It looked great,” Pack said. “I love meeting students. They’re a great group of young men and women.”

Manifold usually produces documentaries, Gray said. One of its most recent and popular films is a documentary entitled “Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton,” which appeared on PBS. They have also done a documentary on George Washington.

“I am drawn, like I hope my audience is, to the principles Hillsdale stands for,” Pack said.

“It delivers a great, traditional education to students, and I think the student body reflects that.”

Cars collide near Olds No serious injuries reported; security recommends greater caution Jack Butler Copy Editor Two cars crashed into each other on Tuesday at approximately 11:30 a.m, just outside of Olds Residence.

Single drivers – a man and a woman – occupied each vehicle that collided in the intersection of Hillsdale Street and Galloway Street. No serious injuries were reported, though the man did complain of neck pain, said Richard Coon of campus security.

Security officials had to block off the stretch of Hillsdale Street between College Street and the site of the accident for 30 minutes, Coon said.

Because the campus secu-

rity office is only a block away the site of the accident, Coon was able to arrive quickly, he said. Still, he was not first on the scene.

Freshman Amanda Tindall witnessed the accident as it occurred. She called campus security and 911 shortly thereafter, she said. A doctor driving by the accident before campus security temporarily closed the street tended to both drivers to ensure their health. After Coon, Richard Alvarez, grounds keeper and equipment manager for the college, arrived.

The accident visibly affected the surrounding area even after it had been cleared.

Shrubs close to the road were torn up; a brown pow-

der stained the ground in the intersection itself in several areas; and the remnants of a broken car light also littered the ground.

The accident victims were not students or employees of Hillsdale College. The woman, however, was an FBI recruiter scheduled to speak for career services, Tindall saod.

Still, Coon said he remains worried that the intersection will remain dangerous for the college in the future, since he often sees students crossing it without paying much attention.

“Traffic needs to slow down in this area,” he said. “My concern is pedestrians.”

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Students attend YAF conference in Columbus Bailey Pritchett Collegian Reporter This past weekend, over 30 Hillsdale College students attended the Young America’s Foundation conference in Columbus, Ohio. As of this semester, Young Americans for Freedom is an official club at Hillsdale College and has only been growing.

According to chairman Nathan Brand, YAF is emerging as “the new hot group on campus.”

His reasoning: last year, the budding student organization attended the YAF conference in Milwaukee, Wis. as one of the smallest chapters represented with six students. This year in Columbus, Hillsdale’s 30 students made the the college one of the largest chapters at the conference.

Vice chairman junior Philip Wegmann believes that after this past conference, the future of Hillsdale’s YAF chapter is promising.

“There is longevity built into a four year plan here,” Wegmann said. “We have so many freshmen who are so engaged. This

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Besides the broken window and screen, Summa said there was blood on the walls and the carpet, and glass was everywhere.

Security officer Joe Collins, who responded to the call, said custodians and maintenance were called to board up the window and clean the room.

“It didn’t hurt anything in the room,” he said. “It just kind of made a mess out of the glass and the blood.”

Mueller and her roommate, sophomore Simone Lunt, couldn’t spend Thursday night in their room. She said the college took a lot of their clothes and bedding and washed and sanitized them.

“They did a good job cleaning things up,” she said.

Collins said this isn’t the first time something like this has happened at Hillsdale. A few years ago, a deer crashed through a

is going to be their thing. When Nate and I graduate, our position is going to filled.”

At the Freedom Conference in Columbus, conservative icons such as Liz Cheny, Stephen F.

“Here, we learn about the good, the true, and the beautiful. At the YAF conference, we’re learning about social policy.”

According to Brand, the conference was little more than 200

Over 30 Hillsdale College students attended the Young America’s Foundation conference. (Courtesy of Nathan Brand) Hayes, and Rick Santorum addressed the student audience on preserving upstanding political ideals and incorporating conservatism in everyday politics.

“It reinforces what we hear in the classroom,” said Wegmann. window in the Dow Center.

“It’s just a freak accident,” he said. “You’ll see this sort of thing on TV. There’s really nothing you can do. It’s just this time of year.

They’re kind of skittish and it’s just the way it is.”

“When I was driving home, I started to get really nervous,” Holleman said. “What if there were a few girls in the room studying or taking a nap? I think it was a freak accident and we all are really thankful. That whole thing could have been a whole different situation if that were the case.”

House Director Jessica Youngstrom only experienced the aftermath because she wasn’t on campus when the incident occurred.

“I was just totally appalled that something like that could actually happen,” she said.

“Never in your life do you think that you’ll be an R.A. and a deer comes crashing through a window.”

students. Due to the small size of the conference, the students exploited the opportunity of oneon-one time with the speakers.

Brand and Wegmann both joked with Hayes about the Green Bay Packer’s loss and later pestered

Santorum on the fact that he failed to show at Hillsdale College last spring.

Wegmann said that one of his favorite parts of the confernce was meeting such iconic figures outside of their suits, holding conversations with them as normal people. All this first hand experience for $20.

The next YAF conference will be held in Orlando, Fla., over fall break with speakers such as Karl Rove and Dinesh D’ Souza.

In addition to club’s youth, the constant involvement of YAF encouraged Brand and Wegmann that the club will have a significant on Hillsdale.

“It’s something that we’ll do year in and year out,” Brand said. “Not just in November.

There’s more to life than studying Aristotle. There’s real life.”

YAF will hold several events this fall. One of which includes a voter registration drive that will be assisted by the College Republicans later this month.

“YAF is a breeding group for generational leaders,” Brand said. “Like Reagan and Buckley.

The next generation is going to come out of YAF.”

A frightened deer jumped through the window of room 108 in Niedfeldt Residence, shattering the glass. It then escaped back out the window. Custodians and maintenance cleaned up the blood and repaired the damage.

(Greg Barry/Collegian)

Correction: Last week, The Hillsdale Collegian incorrectly reported that the freshman retention rate in 2011-2012 was the lowest in years. The retention rate was actually comparatively high.

The Collegian also incorrectly reported in an editiorial that the Hillsdale College men’s soccer team disbanded in 2006. It disbanded in 2002.

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Off the record Musings from the editorial staff

The city of Hillsdale is in crisis.

The roads are bad. To rebuild them, the city needs $39 million, which it wouldn’t be able to stockpile until 2088. An income tax proposal will be on the November ballot. Vote yes if you want decent roads in Hillsdale before your great-grandchildren are born.

For 20 years, the city has built roads under a pay-as-you-go system, Caleb Whitmer using money from its general fund News Editor in combination with state grants.

Unfortunately, state grants are only available for certain major roads, like M-99, State Street, and Hillsdale Street. Residential roads, or “local roads,” such as Howder Street or South Street, are paid for solely through the general fund. Major roads require $14 million for reconstruction, locals $25 million.

Hillsdale roads cost about $1 million per mile of road to build – or about $190 per linear foot. The city’s total expenditures for its 2011-12 budget are $7.7 million. At $39 million, the road problem costs six times the annual budget.

State Street has been under construction since June. The entire project is expected to cost over $700,000, more than half of which is covered by a state grant. These road projects explode in price not because asphalt is so expensive (although it is not cheap) but because a construction project contains many costs besides just replacing the roads, including the cost of mobilizing equipment and labor, tearing up the road, rebuilding sidewalks, re-landscaping terraces, and laying down road base.

Costs for construction projects continue to rise every year, even as tax revenue for the Hillsdale city government declines.

This year’s budget projects the city to lose $140,000 in property tax revenue from last year due to falling property values.

The city council commissioned a study on the feasibility of a city income tax in early 2011.

The study concluded that an income tax, requiring 1 percent from city residents and .5 percent from commuters, would produce about $1.1 million in revenue yearly. The city council decided that, while the income tax would not immediately solve the road problem, it could provide a mechanism to at least begin dealing with it.

Therefore, the “Uniform City Income Tax” proposal will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot. The council added two stipulations that are unique to any city income tax implemented in Michigan: it contains a “sunset provision,” ending the tax after six years, unless voters choose to extend it, and the money generated from the tax will, by law, only be used for road projects. If passed, the income tax will begin Jan. 1, 2013, and end on June 30, 2019.

The words “new” and “income tax” might be scary next to each other, especially considering the current economic climate.

Another argument against adding a new tax might be that it will deter investment in the city.

Rebuttal one: This is an income tax and it will not affect the unemployed or retired.

Rebuttal two: What do companies care more about – a small tax on income or the infrastructure of the city in which its putting its capital?

The roads are bad. The city budget is stretched. The city needs to rebuild its roads. Passing an income tax is the cleanest solution to an otherwise messy problem.

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because it is not common.

“I don’t’ think it will detract from him,” he said.

Deacon and Dean of Men Aaron Petersen described Reamsnyder as a “peaceful man with a gentle spirit.” He also said that there was some confusion in the parish about Reamsnyder being married but there was not negativity.

“I appreciate that, as our shepherd, Reamsnyder is able to guide us with a spiritual father-

hood that is informed from his personal experience of matrimonial fatherhood,” Petersen said.

Petersen said he learned through this process of losing one priest and gaining another from the parish that the parishioners do “understand the mission” of the church and that the members and clergy both have important roles.

“I think it has made them grateful for the gift of priesthood,” he said.

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Another misperception sometimes is that libertarian means “libertine” – that you don’t think there are lots of moral laws or rules governing behavior. I think that is wrong-headed. I see libertarianism as a view of what government’s proper role is. I believe the church has authority. I believe in moral authority and moral law, and I believe that government’s authority is very limited.

What do you think of Hillsdale College?

I love Hillsdale so far. The main thing that strikes me is how friendly everybody is. I like that the students come to class in a professional manner, basically being on time and dressed like they are going to work. I think that indicates a seriousness in their study.

I like academia. I loved college in general. A lot of the same thing I liked about St. John’s [College], I like about Hillsdale.

One thing that strikes me about Hillsdale that’s different from what I enjoyed in my own college experience is that the campus seems very involved in national politics, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I thought that at St. John’s staying distant from national politics was a good thing because college was about engaging the bigger ideas and eternal truths. And a presidential election is very far from big ideas and eternal truths for the most part.

How big is Catholicism in your life?

I fully came into the church as an adult. That’s another way in which Bob Novak was a mentor to me, in that he was a late-life convert. When I was working for him, I was attending Mass but I hadn’t received all of the sacraments – communion and confession and confirmation. Novak put me in touch with a priest in downtown D.C. whom I met with and who gave

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and use knives for the final three just to make up for their complete lack of effort.”

Holt totaled nine kills this round before being eliminated

by O’Sullivan, who chased him down in an SUV while Holt was biking. O’Sullivan said he was determined to kill Holt after he faked his own death to fool his target sophomore Casey Harper into believing he was dead.

Holt claims Harper was mocking and taunting him for a while; therefore, Harper’s elimination became Holt’s most creative kill. After receiving information that Harper was studying in Mossey Library, Holt dressed up as Charlie the Charger mascot and proceeded to hug and high-five students in the library.

“I ran up and gave [Harper] a hug, and he was completely unassuming,” Holt said. “I slapped him on the back with the spoon in my hand and whispered ‘screw you’ in his ear. I pulled away and showed him the spoon.”

Harper described himself as “an unsuspecting victim.”

“I fell to my knees after,” he said. “You don’t understand how intense this game gets.”

Harper said that while he was alive he had his spoon on him at all times, either up his sleeve or in his pocket.

Reuss said the game is a sort

me the instruction I needed and answered my questions and gave me readings. It was a process of eventually bringing me fully into the church.

It has changed the way I feel about some issues. I’m more pro-immigration, more anti-war, more anti-death penalty that I was. I’ve more of a sense of individual responsibility to care for those who need help, which is something I think a lot of conservatives don’t spend enough of time thinking about.

What advice would you give to an undergrad Hillsdale College student interested in journalism?

I can’t imagine having a better job, unless I was a major league baseball player. And even then, they retire at like, 35 and the rest of their life is kind of looking back on glory days.

But to anybody who has any interest in journalism, I’d say definitely consider it, pursue it.

If what you’re interested in is opinion journalism, remember you have to be a reporter to do a good job.

If Hillsdale invited you back, would you say yes?

Yes, definitely. Maybe I would schedule a flight home over the weekend to see my kids or get a house off campus that could fit us all. But even then, I would have to keep my kids entertained. They would have to plan it during the county fair every year.

Anything else you want to add?

I was struck by the ability of the dining hall to produce food that from all different food groups that were equally flavorless. I literally could not tell the difference between the taste of the roast beef and the taste of the green beans and the taste of the rice, but Saga Steve was incredibly friendly.

of bonding activity, and that he will continue coordinating the game as long as there is interest.

“It’s a good thing for freshmen to get out and be super paranoid,” he said.

Holt had different sentiments about the game’s bonding quality.

“It creates an intense atmosphere of distrust,” he said. “You hate everybody and you don’t trust anyone. Casey Harper and me are mortal enemies now, because I don’t like him.”

He added that his animosity extends to O’Sullivan as well.

“I might smother him in his sleep,” he said.

After this round of Assassins, Reuss is contemplating giving the guys a break from their paranoia and starting a game for the on-campus girls in the next two weeks. He said he will gauge the interest from the women’s residencies and go from there.

If enough girls are interested, Reuss said he will consider a coed version of the game in the future, although the rules might be adjusted in such a case. Holt agreed, but is not opposed to a coed game.

Holt said that more awkward situations might arise because of the essential stalking element of the game, especially because a lot of the killing takes place in the dorms.

“It would be a little weird dropping out of a ceiling tile onto a girl when she’s coming out of her room,” he said. “I don’t condone that.”

Debate stumbles in Kentucky Teddy Sawyer Collegian Reporter While the debate team did not take Western Kentucky University by storm as they did last year, the team saw improvement from the first tournament of the year.

The team expects this first Lincoln-Douglas style debate to prepare it for upcoming tournaments this semester.

“The team did fairly well,” senior Bryan Brooks said.“It was a little disappointing because this was a tournament we won last year; however, we knew it would be difficult to make a repeat performance because of our team’s inexperience.”

In the varsity parliamentary speaker standings, junior Lauren Holt took fifth place and Brooks fourth. Junior Harris Wells, a newer member of the team, was second place in the novice LincolnDouglas debate.

“I was a little sad not to break in the Lincoln-Douglas

debates this year, but I was happy to receive fourth place in the speaker awards,” Holt said.

The team is constantly crippled by its small size and general inexperience, Brooks said, but the incoming students, especially the freshmen who will soon be joining the team as scholarship students, and joining the Pi Kappa Delta speech and debate honorary, which has its own exclusive debate.

“Because of our small size and inexperience, we found ourselves very unprepared to face the much larger teams, with much more experience,” Brooks said. “Everyone persevered and adapted to the challenges, and proved we have the character to bring the program to new heights in the future.”

On Oct. 5 and 6, the debate team will be competing in the Lafayette Ocho at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

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Men start tennis club Teddy Sawyer Collegian Reporter Advertising to experienced and novice players alike, a men's club tennis team is forming on campus. Their charter was recently approved and the club plans to hold their first meeting in the next few weeks.

“There's lots of interest on campus, [junior] J.P. [Gurnee] has a list of around 10 guys, and I have been talking to people as well,” junior Joe Craig said.

“The biggest problem will be court space [and] not getting people there.”

As a club team, they said they plan to become competitive in time, but for the time being, they just want to get consistent play and see how many guys are interested and prepared for traveling and competition.

“We don't plan to really start to compete with other schools for the first year,” Craig said.

“It's more to have meetings, attract players, and once we have it set up then we can start competing.”

Gurnee initiated the effort, and has the most experience

in tennis of the men currently involved. He is an assistant coach to the Hillsdale women's tennis team “We really want to start it up this semester, but there are only three or four more weeks of play left this season,” Gurnee said.

“So we want to get active and get as many guys as possible involved.”

Hillsdale is part of a conference which includes a men's club team league; there just hasn't been a team from the school in the past. Through the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association, the team is already able to compete once it is finalized.

“Once we have a team, six guys travel to compete with other teams,” he said. “But also the goal is to get as many people involved as possible — no need to be like a pro, just come play and try it out.”

Though they have not yet held their first meeting, the team expects to formulate bylaws and plan its first meeting in the next few weeks.

Hayden Park Manager Bill Lundberg will serve as the club’s academic adviser.

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Inn’s remains await demolition Samantha Scorzo Collegian Reporter Just a few miles outside of downtown Hillsdale, Mich. on Hudson Road, you will see the black and dilapidated remains of what once was the Bavarian Inn Motel.

A fire on June 9, 2012 destroyed the three buildings that belonged to the motel, and the remains have been there ever since.

“Right now it’s pending with the fire investigation unit to settle with the insurance company.

As soon as they issue a judgment, we will order it demolished,” said Martin Taylor, chief building inspector for the city of Hillsdale. “It should happen sometime in the near future.”

The Inn’s owner agreed.

“The process probably would have gone faster if only one of the buildings was destroyed, but everything was destroyed,” said owner of the Bavarian Inn Motel Satish Patel.

The fire that destroyed the motel was one of the worst fires the area has seen in years, said Jack McClain, president of the board of directors for the Hillsdale Rural Fire Department.

Over 200 firefighters from five different counties came to help put the fire out.

“We had a lot of guys out there fighting the fire. One of the firefighters was actually a fire chief from out of state who just came to help out,” McLain said. “It took hours to put the fire out. They were there from 11:33 a.m. to 7:55 p.m. and then had to go back later because hot embers usually tend to start up again.”

Almost 650,000 gallons of water was used to put out the fire.

“They actually started pumping water out of

The Hillsdale County Circuit Court held a pre-trial hearing for Hillsdale resident Lucas Allen McDaniel on Sept. 24. McDaniel pleaded guilty to three criminal charges.

McDaniel was originally charged with eight counts including attempted murder. He accepted a bargain, pleading guilty to malicious destruction of police property, assault with a dangerous weapon, and aggravated stalking. Because he is a

Ed & Elaine Riopelle

Elaine and Ed Riopelle sell their breads, jams, mustards, and marmalades at the Hillsdale Farmer’s Market. Elaine’s company is called Elaine’s Kitchen Delights.

How did you get started selling your things at the farmer’s market?

Ed: Well, we’ve been here for three years, and the market has been here for four, so we’ve been here almost since the beginning. It started out with some banana and other breads, a few jams and the mustard, of course.

Elaine: My niece was getting married in Jamaica; this was our way to raise money.

Ed: After that year, we came back and bought new furniture. With the money we earned this year, we hope to travel to England and possibly Scotland.

The Bavarian Inn Motel burned down this past June. A pending fire investigation will determine when the remains will finally be demolished and the inn possibly rebuilt. (Elizabeth Brady/Collegian)

Lake Baw Beese to fill their tankers because so much water was needed,” McLain said.

Many concerned citizens and local businesses helped the firefighters battle the heat from the fire that was made worse due to the hot June day.

“Someone had brought their trailer out so the firefighters could take breaks from the heat in an air conditioned space,” McLain said. “The Red Cross and Salvation Army came out, and Ritters and Little Caesars donated food to the firefighters.”

Patel was grateful to the town and the parents

of college students that helped out.

“The town and college were great — helping in times of need. A lot of parents stayed [at the motel] to attend their children’s functions at the college, and I have received many letters of encouragement and letters wishing me luck in the future along with checks,” he said.

Patel hopes to rebuild the motel, but says what happens next all depends on finances.

The fire chief of Hillsdale Rural Fire Department could not be reached for comment. sscorso@hillsdale.edu

Man pleads guilty to attempted murder, stalking Emmaline Epperson Copy Editor

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third time offender, McDaniel could face up to 15 years of jail time.

In addition to jail, McDaniel will have to pay restitution of almost $2,000, as well as medical bills for the woman he injured.

McDaniel, dressed in a green jumpsuit smattered in paint, arrived in court with his hands chained to his waist. During the hearing, he appeared unfazed when recounting his crimes.

McDaniel received a restraining order from his estranged wife, according to court testimony. Despite this, McDaniel continued to try to contact her by means of Facebook,

texting, and phone calls. On July 28, while intoxicated, McDaniel walked into the house of his estranged wife at 3 a.m. He brought with him friends from a party and his current girlfriend.

McDaniel entered his wife’s bedroom upstairs, where she was sleeping with their two children, who are 8 and 6 years old.

He soon began to fight with his wife regarding previous adultery, according to court testimony. The verbal fight quickly escalated into violence.

McDaniel physically beat his wife and told her repeatedly that

he would kill her. He then took the metal crutch his wife was using for a broken ankle and used it to repeatedly assault her.

McDaniel left his wife’s home shortly after the assault and was soon arrested by the Hillsdale Police Department.

When he was put inside the police car, McDaniel began to yell and then kicked in the door “to get their attention” to find out what he was charged with. Damages cost the department over $1,000.

Sentencing for McDaniel will be held Oct. 29. eepperson@hillsdale.edu

How did you two meet?

Ed: We met while I was serving at my last duty station in South Carolina. I joined the Air Force in ’77 and then we moved here in ’99.

Where do you get all the recipes?

Elaine: Most of these are my family’s recipes, some I invented.

Ed: The mustard is her great-grandmother’s recipe.

On what types of things would you put your cranberry mustard?

Elaine: Sandwiches or anything else you would put normal mustard on. When you pack a lunch, you can just put the little jar of mustard in along with everything else.

Do you make all the different coverings to the jams and mustards yourself?

Elaine: Yes. Each type has its own covering, so I can just look down and pick out exactly what they want.

Ed: She has it memorized. I still have to look with the customers for whatever they want. We also pick all of our own fruits, except for the grapefruit and oranges. We’ve added many more jams and mustards since the beginning.

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1875 – “American Artisan,” a New York publication, praises the large, complex clock within the newly-constructof roads. ed Central Hall “Recently we’ve lost a lot of of the Hillsdale jobs with the factories going out College camof business. No one disputes the pus. Likewise, a fact that we need to do something reporter of Chicago’s Inter-Ocean praises the about the roads,” said City Counview from atop: “What a happy thought it was, cilperson Mary Wolfram. locating a college on that hill, the Parnassus of This has been an issue for some southern Michigan.” time now, and now Hillsdale’s 1918 – Hillsdale graduate Arthur H. Jones Council is taking bold steps to fix (’13) is killed in France as a private in the 77th the problems, Wolfram said.

Division, more famously known as the “Lost “The City Council has just deBattalion” for its helpless one-week struggle cided enough is enough. They’ve of isolation by German forces in the Argonne decided they need to step up and Forest. take the heat,” she said.

1971 – The Michael Alex Mossey Library is As a Hillsdale student, if you dedicated, open to the community at large. make over $3,000 a year in the 1988 – The George Roche Sports Complex is city, you are required to pay the dedicated, also open to the community at large. city income tax as well.

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New income tax could affect larger pool of residents Amanda Tindall Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale City Council has proposed a city income tax, which will appear on the ballot in the upcoming election.

The new initiative applies to anyone working inside the city, regardless of residency. Because this is on the city ballot, only city residents are able to vote on the proposition.

City residents would pay 1 percent of their income, non-residents would only pay 0.5 percent. The proposal also states that anyone making a taxable income of $3,000 or less is exempt from paying city income taxes.

Road construction will be the focus of the funds gathered from the new city income tax, which will be on this year’s ballot. (Shaun Lichti/Collegian)

“Hillsdale is just very poor,” said Professor of English Christopher Busch. “The hospital and the college are the main places of employment, and both are non-

profit. The factories have gone out of business, so we’ve lost a large source of revenue.”

The revenue from this tax would go only towards the repair

Council deals with obstacles facing State Street project Jack Butler Copy Editor Two obstacles still remain in the completion of the State Street reconstruction project.

For many weeks, State Street in Hillsdale, Mich., has been under construction, forcing through traffic to be redirected.

But the project is now almost finished, with a final paving day scheduled for Oct. 3 and a completion date of Oct. 5, according to City Manager Linda Brown.

The first obstacle was the construction of a sidewalk

on both sides of the intersection of State Street and Buena Vista Drive. At a Hillsdale City Council meeting on Oct. 1, however, Mayor Doug Moon confirmed the sidewalk is being built only to satisfy the Michigan Department of Transportation and Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.

“We should really take a look at how ridiculous this is,” said councilperson Mary Wolfram. “This piece of sidewalk is leading us to spend more money. It’s high time the people, government entities, school systems, and everyone involved in these things act.”

Police Blotter The following is a list of calls compiled and reported by the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department.

Hillsdale City Police Department Oct.1 A 22-year-old Livonia woman was arrested for driving on a suspended license. 10 percent of a $4,000 bond was not posted.

A 27-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested for aggravated assault. No bond was allowed.

Wolfram said that a letter to the state would be the best course of action. But Keith Richard, an engineer also involved with the State Street project, said that might not do anything, since the sidewalk is a federal standard.

“A few years ago, when we were doing another project and had a similar problem, a state official said to us: ‘If that ramp doesn’t go in, we’re going to take our money and go into another town,’” Richard said.

Local resident Ed Crouch also raised objections at the meeting to the project’s methods. Crouch said that the road

work shifted the State Street/ Buena Vista right-of-way into his yard, creating a steep grade where before it was gradual.

Crouch requested that the city construct a three-foot wall on the edge of his property, without which he would not be able to mow his lawn with a riding mower.

“If it’s your house, what would you do?” Crouch asked the council. “The road has always been where it’s at. I just want something reasonable, like what I did before.”

Project Engineer Matt Taylor estimated that a wall would cost about $5,000.

Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department Oct. 1 A 20-year-old Litchfield man was arrested for domestic assault. 10 percent of a $1,000 bond was posted.

Sept. 28 A 25-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested for domestic violence. 10 percent of a $1,000 bond was posted.

Jonesville Police Department Sept. 29 A 26-year-old Jonesville man was arrested for domestic violence and a misdemeanor warrant. 10 percent of a $1,500 bond was posted.

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Council members were divided on the issue. Councilperson Wolfram said that, while a wall might look better than other options, she push-mowed a much steeper yard at her childhood home. Councilperson Brown said that she sympathized with the Crouches, but still was not comfortable with the idea of a wall.

“Everybody’s got to compromise for the greater good,” Brown said.

Councilperson Watkins said that the city compromised with a group of State Street residents, not Crouch individually, and that this issue affects

Crouch in particular.

“To say that all should give for the greater good while we don’t is a bit out of line,” said Watkins.

After further discussion, Wolfram made a motion to table this discussion for the time being, to allow Taylor and Richard to come up with other possible options. This motion passed, 9-0.

Crouch, for his part, said that he wants to resolve the issue with as little disruption to his own property as possible. jbutler@hillsdale.edu

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Last week, two representatives from The Interfraternity Council, the organization that oversees national greek fraternities, visited Hillsdale College’s campus to gather information regarding the health of the Greek system and its campus perception. The representatives spoke to Greek men, independent men, and a group of sorority women.

The college’s administration has taken disciplinary action against all of the campus fraternities over the last decade. The dean’s office invited these consultants to campus to build momentum and improve the structure and focus of the system.

The IFC representatives will return to campus with recommendations Striving to make something better is a worthy goal, but we hope the perfect doesn’t become the enemy

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Why Ryan should teach the math behind his tax plan Matthew Wichlacz Special to the Collegian

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aul Ryan could learn a lesson from the history of literacy rates in Turkey. During an appearance last weekend on “Fox News Sunday,” vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan said that he did not have the time to go through the math of the Romney-Ryan tax plan.

“It would take me too long,” Ryan told Chris Wallace in the interview, giving Wallace a rare opportunity to make a coached Ryan seem exactly as he was: coached.

Liberals wasted no time pouncing on his quote, questioning the credentials of the conservative budget wunderkind.

Perhaps Ryan didn’t have the time to show the math right there on national television. But he should find an opportunity to “show the math,” in all its complicated, empirical beauty.

Ryan has earned a stellar reputation in Congress because he excels at explaining complicated numbers in a compelling manner, and he should not abandon one of his strongest aptitudes. He should break out the chalkboard for some oldfashioned schooling, the same way Kemal Atatürk did ninety years ago.

For those who missed the Western Heritage section on the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Kemal Atatürk was Turkey’s first President. In 1923, the new nation struggled to achieve economic and social relevance compared to its euraisan members. Atatürk responded by spearheading an aggressive modernization effort, focusing on addressing Turkey’s abysmal literacy rates.

Atatürk’s administration developed a modified Latin alphabet to replace the outdated Arabic script, and the president himself traveled throughout the country teaching it to his people. Standing before a chalkboard, he would explain to large crowds how to use this new alphabet, and why mastering it would forever improve the lives of the new Turks.

In less than two years, Turkey went from less than 10 percent literacy of Arabic to 70 percent literacy of Turkish, confirming Atatürk’s suspicions that the people of Turkey were hungry for economic and social development.

Ryan faces a similar choice with the mathematics of his tax plan. No other Republican in Congress is better qualified to walk through the complex math involved in the republican ticket’s tax plan. Ryan may be the most convincing voice to explain why embracing this would benefit the American people so significantly.

The “Path to Prosperity” web videos Ryan released explaining his Medicare proposals demonstrate the congressman’s ability to skillfully articulate difficult to understand issues in an appealing way. The Romney-Ryan tax plan could be similarly presented through a series of short “lessons,” in which Ryan would use the math to strengthen the case for Romney-Ryan’s election.

He could also take a play out of Obama’s 2008 campaign playbook by purchasing a one-hour block of airtime, devoting the program to mathematically justifying his case. Doing so would undoubtedly reach a larger base, while simultaneously undermining the democratic talking points so many conservatives say are distracting voters from the most important issue: the economic malaise of Obamanomics.

Hillsdale College, in its own way, has embraced similar forms of online education with its web classes on the Constitution. The success of that online course further illustrates what Atatürk learned with Turkey’s population: people looking to improve their lives want to be taught how to do so.

Ryan should follow this example, and show us why his plan will lead Americans to a path to prosperity.

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in downtown Hillsdale. Last year the same week-long tradition called “Derby Days” raised over $4,000 for The Manor in Jonesville. This is commendable. The men of Alpha Tau Omega just recently hosted a philanthropy event as well. These men make a difference in our local community.

The fraternities aren’t perfect, and when they commit errors, the administration should address them.

We hope these errors will become fewer in the coming years.

But even those of us who oppose Hillsdale’s “party scene” don’t wish for the end of fraternity parties. To end partying on campus, you would have to change human nature, and if someone succeeds in that, be sure to shoot us a letter to the editor about it because that would be impressive.

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pus security to host a party. They have their own security systems in place. Off-campus houses don’t.

We want students to be safe and wise in their choices, and while it may seem counterintuitive, this is often more likely at a fraternity party than off-campus. By keeping the parties at fraternities, we’re keeping them responsible.

We hope the IFC representatives come back with ideas about how to make the fraternity system stronger and healthier. But we also hope we can work together to foster a campus culture of mutual respect and appreciation, even when our differences seem irreconcilable.

The Weekly represents the view of the majority of the Editorial Board but not necessarily the view of every member.

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WHAT WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT OF LAST NIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE? When Romney pointed to the Declaration to address the purpose of government.

It showed the conviction in Romney that I’ve been waiting for.

The editors welcome Letters to the Editor but reserve the right to edit all submissions for clarity, length and style. Letters should be less 350 words or less and include your name and phone number. Please send submissions to kbachelder@hillsdale.edu before Sunday at 6 p.m.

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of the good in this case. We may not have a perfect fraternity system, but we have a good fraternity system, one surely worth keeping on campus. No IFC representative can mandate what’s needed to help our Greek system – a certain level of mutual respect among students.

Fraternities aren’t book clubs, and they were never intended to be purely academic endeavors. These are national social organizations with a rich history and tradition.

They are not for everyone, and we don’t think anyone should be required to even consider joining one or attending any of their functions.

But why can’t we all just appreciate what they bring to campus even if we don’t wish to be part of it?

This very week, the men of Sigma Chi are raising money for St. Peter’s Episcopal health care clinic

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I like the point Romney made about federal money going to low-income kids instead of sending money to schools, whereas Obama only wants to send money to school that work.

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When Romney said to Obama that you are entitled to your own airplane and your own house, but not your own facts.

Elections have Consequences: the first debate

Katy Bachelder Opinions Editor

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Romney’s edge began from the first moment. When he congratulated President Obama on his anniversary, he made a lighthearted joke about how happy Obama must be to spend it “here with me.” It worked. The confidence and ease continued for 90 minutes, through playful jabs and

substantive blows.

Throughout the primaries, Romney had to fight fellow Republicans in a slew of debates. This was the ultimate debate prep. Last night, however, was his best performance yet. He not only looked presidential, but also likable – a quality many of his critics have said he lacks. Obama was the opposite: He stumbled, acting irritated and flustered. He became petulant with the moderator about the allotted time, and betrayed his annoyance at Romney. It was the performance of a man who knew he was losing.

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compelling performances. At one point, Romney looked at the President and said: “I’ve been in business for 25 years and I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Obama couldn’t explain – let alone sell – his own policies, at a possibly decisive moment. Romney, on the other hand, had articulated his plans and drew contrasts. He was direct, thorough, and concise.

For the first time since Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, he has energized the conservative base of his party. But it’s too early to celebrate. Incumbent presidents have lost their first debates and gone

on to win. The conventional wisdom said that Democratic candidate John Kerry beat President George W. Bush in the first debate of 2004.

Walter Mondale clobbered President Ronald Reagan in 1984, only to see Reagan bounce back.

Romney enjoyed a good first quarter – possibly the best performance of his political career.

Republicans demoralized by the latest polls have a new cause for hope.

Democrats have a reason to question their confidence. Three quarters remain, but right now Obama looks a lot more vulnerable than he did just a day ago.

‘This is football,’ and it’s too dangerous

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stadium packed with thousands of fans chanted, cheered, and screamed as the Ohio State University football team pummeled Penn State University. This was my first experience at a “real” football game, and I was overwhelmed to be part of a crowd larger than the entire population of Aruba.

When I shared that realization with my stepmother, she blinked and pursed her lips and told me to never say such things again – not until halftime, at the very least.

“This is football!” she admonished.

My stepmother isn’t the only fan who considers football an untouchable emblem of what makes America great. Millions of fans turn out every year to watch football players bash into each other, and resist any threat to their game.

But many don’t seem to realize that the game itself currently poses the greatest threat to its continuity.

A rash of high-profile suicides among former NFL stars has garnered national attention, with three casualties in the last 19 months alone, including retired linebacker Junior Seau and former safeties Ray Easterling and Dave Duerson.

Easterling, Duerson, and potentially Seau – his autopsy results have yet to be released – suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive neurological disorder similar to Alzheimer’s.

In both diseases, the patient’s brain shuts down due to the presence of tau, a protein that builds up in the brain cells.

Unlike Alzheimer’s, CTE is not genetic. It is the result of the repeated head injury almost indelibly associated with tackle football.

According to Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the University of North Carolina Sports Concussion Research Program, a lineman

done, not so long as fans stand and cheer,” wrote Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker in 2009. “We are in love with football players, with their courage and grit, and nothing else – neither considerations of science nor those of morality – can compete.”

Because of that love, which often verges on worship, many fans ignore the serious issues confronting players and demand no changes from the NCAA and the NFL, claiming, “This is football!” as they slap on earmuffs and head to the stadium.

In The American Spectator, Daniel J. Flynn claims that “There’s no evidence, just speculation” connecting the NFL suicides, CTE, and football. His simplistic conclusion: “Playing football is good for you.

Being a wuss isn’t.”

Perhaps the real “wusses” are in the cheering, stamping crowd, making no move to protect the very men for whom they cheer and blotting out the threat entirely.

ground assault complete with rocketpropelled grenades. Stevens was not, in the words of columnist Mark Steyn, “asphyxiated by a spontaneous classaction movie review.”

The Libya follies are merely the most visible flashpoint of the larger unraveling of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. The U.S.-Israel relationship has become a bad soap opera. Afghanistan is slipping away, as our troops are being killed by the men they’re supposed to be training for the handover. Egypt is now run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Russia casually mocks and defies us. China is rapidly replacing us as an Asian hegemon and rattling sabers at our ally Japan.

Most troubling, as Fred and Kimberly Kagan document in the current issue of National Review, Iraq is rapidly becoming an Iranian vassal state. When President Obama entered office, we had nearly 150,000 troops in Iraq and much sway over the course that nation took. Now we have 150 and almost no sway. Sectarian violence is up, and al-Qaeda in Iraq is resurgent.

Meanwhile, note the Kagans (the intellectuals who helped craft the Iraq surge strategy), Iraqi airspace has become a “critical lifeline for the vicious regime of Bashar Assad,” as he kills thousands of his own people in Syria.

They also note that Iraq has become an essential pathway for Iran to circumvent the sanctions intended to prevent it from pursuing a nuclear

bomb.

There’s a dark irony to all of this.

At least until the killing of bin Laden, Obama kept foreign policy out of the headlines so he could concentrate on domestic policy. Even after bin Laden’s death, when Obama started to tout foreign policy to compensate for a sputtering economy, the message was that under Obama, there’s no drama.

The quiet yet massive increase in drone-strike killings, the reluctance to support democratic regime change in Iran, saying yes to the Afghan surge while insisting on an expiration date, his unwillingness to push for a continued presence in Iraq, his capitulation to Bush policies on Guantanamo Bay and domestic terror trials, the administration’s reflexive spinning of thwarted and actual terrorism attacks (the Times Square and “underwear” bombers, the Fort Hood shooting) as “isolated incidents” – all gave the impression there was nothing to worry about with Obama at the helm.

But making problems easy to ignore isn’t the same thing as solving them. How fitting, then, that the game of kick-the-can faltered just five weeks from Election Day.

Obama’s foreign policy follies

“When we open a criminal investigation in the United States, generally, we don’t brief out in pieces until the investigation is complete so we don’t prejudice the outcome. I have to respect their process, obviously.”

Obviously.

There’s more helpful news for an administration that doesn’t want to say anything about terrorism or the Middle East other than “Osama bin Laden’s dead” and “the Iraq war is over.”

“There’s a chance we never make it in there,” a source described as “a Jonah Goldberg senior law enforcement official” told Syndicated Columnist The New York Times.

“Never” may be unacceptable even e’re now entering the to this White House, but anything past fourth week of the “CSI: Nov. 6 will do just fine.

Benghazi” hostage criUnfortunately, the rest of the sis. That’s how long an FBI forensic administration’s PR operation isn’t team has been trying to gain access in going nearly as well. It’s not clear Libya to what the State Department whether U.N. Ambassador Susan still calls a crime scene – the Obama Rice lied or made a fool of herself administration’s preferred term for – and the administration – when she the location of the first assassination unequivocally blamed a YouTube of a U.S. ambassador since 1979 and video for the Sept. 11 Libya attack the first successful al-Qaeda-backed and denied that the administration’s attack on U.S. soil since the 9/11 security precautions were scandalstrikes. (Our embassies and consulously insufficient. ates are sovereign U.S. territory.)

On a slew of Sunday shows on It is perhaps not accidental that Sept. 16, Rice said the two former the State Department cites the need Navy Seals who were also killed were to complete the investigation as an providing security for Ambassador excuse to stay silent on the whole Christopher Stevens. Former Navy matter. “You’re not going to hear any- SEAL bodyguards do not die in safe thing from here unless my guidance houses far from the person they’re changes,” explained Victoria Nuland, protecting, just as spontaneous mobs the State Department spokeswoman. do not orchestrate a sophisticated

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will be struck in the head nearly a thousand times during the average football season. And not a little bump or jostle. On average, the force of each blow is comparable to that sustained by someone who drove his car into a brick wall at 25 mph without wearing a seatbelt and bashed his head into the windshield.

This means that by the time a lineman on a Division I team reaches his senior year, he would have been in the equivalent of 8,000 car accidents.

“There is something wrong with this group as a cohort,” said Bennet Omalu, neuropathologist, CTE researcher, and founding member of the Brain Injury Research Institute, who has studied well over twenty brains belonging to former NFL players, only finding one that lacked the definitive markers of CTE – a brain that belonged to a 24-year-old running-back who played in the NFL for less than two years.

“There is nothing else to be

Jonah Goldberg is the author of the new book “The Tyranny of Cliches.” You can write to him in care of this newspaper or by e-mail at JonahsColumn@aol.com, or via Twitter @JonahNRO.

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Soccer clubs drop weekend matches Leslie Reyes Collegian Reporter For the women’s club soccer team, freshman Macaela Bennett scored the first goal of the season against Grand Valley State University.

“I knew that their defense was not in a position to stop me and I zoned everything out,” Bennet said.

The women’s team lost the game 4-1. Their previous encounter against Grand Valley State University in Petosky, MI ended in a 9-0 defeat.

“I know we started off the season really defensiveminded,” said sophomore vice president Larissa Yahsko. “We are not doing that anymore.”

Yashko focused the team offensively by switching to a 4-4-2 formation. Senior Susan Manuel lead the defense throughout the game as keepers freshman Katie Burke and sophomore Eleanor Fina blocked several attacks from the opposing team.

“Eleanor is a beast,” Bennett said.

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the team as the players moved Tracey said of the men’s loss. quickly off the ball, taking sevThe men moved quickly eral shots on the opposing goal. across the field, taking several “Guys, this is so intense and shots at the opposing team’s fun,” goal, sophoyet were more defeated Sheridan 5-0.

Markatos “The said. score Alreally though didn’t the reflect women’s the team’s intenSunday sity out game there,” against said Ashland sophowas canmore celled, Thomas they Ohlsupportgren, ed the vice men’s presiclub socdent cer team Junior Peter Thistleton keeps the ball of the in their away from a Notre Dame player. (Elena men’s socSalvatore/Collegian) game cer club. against “I felt like the University of Notre Dame on we were keeping up with them the same day. for most of the game and we got “I think it went pretty well, unlucky.” but I just don’t think we played Freshman Benjamin Maloley, with the intensity and desire that keeper for the men’s club soccer we wanted to,” junior Aaron team, successfully stopped sev-

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will travel to Kenosha, Wisc. this weekend for the UW-Parkside Lucian Rose Invitational – the same course where regionals will be held. The rest of both teams will travel to Calvin College for Michigan Intercollegiates on Oct. 5.

Freshman Shannon O’Hearn follows through after serving. (Greg Barry/Collegian)

eral attacks from Notre Dame, yet the second goal made by the opposing team surprised all.

“They scored one, then they scored that second which was kind of a cheap deflection goal,” sophomore Landon Peterson said. “And that kind of took the wind out of our sails, but I think overall, especially early on, we played well.”

Shots were taken just for the sake of taking them as the team became frustrated. Peterson received a yellow card for an illegal tackle. The forwards continued to push, pressuring the opposing team, yet there was some disconnect between the defense and forwards when the ball reached the midfielders.

“I think we just need to work on our first touches and work on finishing. I think that is just what it came down to,” Tracey said. “Like I said they got the lucky ones. We hit the post a couple of times and we just didn’t follow through as much as we wanted to.”

The men’s club soccer team will be playing their next game against Spring Arbor on Oct. 22 and the women’s club soccer team will be playing against Ashland this Saturday, Oct. 6.

BOX SCORES

Football Hillsdale College: 44 Northern Michigan: 6

Volleyball Hillsdale College 3 Malone 1

Scoring Plays: Anthony Mifsud 3 yd run Joe Glendening 28 yd run (Colin McGreevy kick) Andrew Mott 38 yd pass from Mifsud (McGreevy kick) Glendening 6 yd run (McGreevy kick) Glendening 1 yd run (McGreevy kick) Paul Wendt 23 yd field goal

Hillsdale College 3 Walsh 0

Weekly Leaders:

Rushing: Glendening 24-106 Isaac Spence 11-41 Passing: Mifsud 14-17-1-223 Sam Landry 2-3-0-18 Receiving: Mott 4-80 Evan Bach 3-98 Sacks: David Galginaitis 0-1 Brett Pasche 1-0 Ian Sheldon 0-1 Tackles: Steven Embry 5-6 Devin Moynihan 3-6

Season Leaders: Kills: Caitlin Kopmeyer (160) Lauren Grover (125) Assists: Sydney Lenhart (278) Alexis Waugh (253) Digs: Kopmeyer (161) Bailey Lindner (153) Blocks: Lauren Grover (78) Emily Wolfert (41) Bekah Draves (41) Tennis Hillsdale 5 Ohio Dominican 4 Ashland 5 Hillsdale 4 Hillsdale 6 Tiffin University 3 Cross-country Notre Dame Invitational Women 10th Men 8th

Charger tennis 2-1 in roadtrip Volleyball defeats newbies Tory Cooney Features Editor In a long weekend of away matches, the women’s tennis team defeated Ohio Dominican 5-4 and Tiffin 6-3. Their lone loss came from Ashland, 5-4.

“The other coaches know that we’re a lot better this year and we’re proving it by winning matches that they weren’t expecting us to,” said team captain and senior Brittany Parks. “We’re definitely on the radar now.”

Also on the radar is freshman Sydney Delp, who won the tie-breaking singles round in Friday’s match against Ohio Dominican and won every match she competed in over the course of the entire weekend.

“If she lost that one tie-breaker, we would have lost the match,” said Parks.

“I don’t think that’s happened at all, certainly not since last year. Sydney played amazingly. She had some really tough matches and pulled them out.”

“It was very exciting,” Delp said. “It really makes a difference to be playing with a team, to have people cheering you on and people to win for. Peirce and Parks were both great. They had heart and fight and completely turned it around. They did it for the team and gave everyone motivation.”

Freshman Lindsay Peirce also pulled out an impressive performance, winning five out of six matches. Junior Morgan Linden got her first win of the year in singles vs. Tiffin and freshman Shannon O’Hearn got her first win in doubles vs.

Ashland, partnered with fellow freshman Rachel Blaauw.

“We played well this weekend,” Parks said. “We won against two teams

who defeated us last year.”

The match against Ohio Dominican was a table-turning win from behind. At the end of the doubles competition, Hillsdale had to win four out of six singles in order to take the team match.

The other three wins – prior to Delp’s tiebreaker – were from freshman Lindsey Peirce, Parks, and sophomore Morgan Delp.

“Lindsay played really well,” Parks said. “And Morgan just dominated. But it was definitely a comeback win.”

Friday’s victory was followed by “heartbreaking defeat” on Saturday, as Hillsdale lost 5-4 to Ashland, Parks said.

“We were in the same general situation as the day before, and we had to win four out of six singles again, but Sydney, Lindsay, and I were the only ones who won. The matches were just so close,” Parks said.

In the final match of the weekend against Tiffin, the team won all three of their doubles matches, providing a tremendous amount of momentum going into the singles competition. The Chargers used that momentum to take three of the six singles matches and secure the win.

“It’s bittersweet to lose that one match, but we have a lot more confidence going into the next couple weekends,” Parks said. “That’s why you need to pull ahead in the really close ones.”

Hillsdale has seven more matches to play in the season, the next three of which are home games against wellestablished teams: Friday, Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. vs. Michigan Tech; Lake Superior State at 12 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6; and Saginaw Valley at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7.

Sarah Anne Voyles Senior Reporter

The Hillsdale College women’s volleyball team went 2-0 for the second weekend in a row.

The Chargers traveled to Canton, Ohio to play against GLIAC newcomers Malone University on Friday, Sept. 28 and Walsh University, Saturday, Sept. 29.

Head coach Chris Gravel said the team welcomed both into the conference as the Chargers leap-frogged Malone in the conference standings.

Friday, the volleyball team faced the Malone Pioneers and won 25–20, 25–22, 24–26 and 25–22. Freshman Sam Siddall said the team really struggled with execution and communication in the third set; however, they quickly changed their mindset to win the fourth set.

“We are still struggling with a sense of urgency,” Gravel said.

“We became a little relaxed, which is a death sentence. We need to keep pushing and stay 100 percent focused.”

During the game, Gravel said Malone continually hammered the ball, but junior Caitlin Kopmeyer responded with 14 digs against the Pioneers. She also had 16 kills.

“We just can’t expect a team to fall over because we win a set,” sophomore Alexis Waugh said. “We need to go out and finish the job.”

Senior Lauren Grover, junior Bekah Draves, and freshman Emily Wolfert each had nine kills. Junior Sydney Lenhart and Waugh set for a combined 44 assists. Waugh also had four service aces.

The next day the team played against the Walsh Cavaliers and swept their opponents 25–13, 25–23, and 25–19.

Gravel said the team became more relaxed at 20 points but was able to push through for the win.

Kopmeyer finished Saturday’s match with 13 kills and a .500 attack percentage. Grover had a total of seven kills, one solo block, and four block assists. Lenhart had 22 assists against the Cavaliers.

Draves also ended the weekend strong with six kills and a .462 hitting percentage. Freshman Melissa Owen delivered 12 digs in her second start as libero.

Wolfert had a total of nine kills in the match.

After starting conference play with a 1–7 record, the Chargers have come back to win five of the last seven games. This coming weekend the Chargers face Wayne State University and Findlay University at home.

“This coming week, we are playing teams who are at the same level as us and practice is going to be very important to secure a win,” Alexis Waugh said.

Concussed: trainers, coaches, players hit issue head-on Phil Morgan Sports Editor In the fourth play of Hillsdale’s game against Malone College, junior receiver Brett Miller lined up in the slot. He took off on a deep out route. Before he was 20 yards downfield, senior quarterback Anthony Mifsud dumped the ball off to senior H-back Cam White. Miller retreated back up field, intent on picking up a block. Instead he ran smack into a Malone linebacker.

“It was a clean hit,” Miller said. “It was just incidental contact.”

The head-on collision was the last thing he remembered for the next three hours.

Miller had his “bell rung.” In other words, he had a concussion.

Hillsdale’s head athletic trainer Lynne Neukom defined a concussion as “a brain injury caused by a blow to the body or head that may result in improper brain function.”

A number of Hillsdale players estimated that six to eight players are diagnosed with a concussion each season.

Concussions have always been a common injury for college and professional athletes.

Yet as aging athletes come out about sustained brain injuries and after multiple depression-related suicides by retired football and hockey players, head injury is the most controversial issue in

sports today.

New research has done more to educate coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes about both the long-term and short-term effects of these jolts to the brain.

Even as awareness grows, some are still asking, has the game become too dangerous?

With players continually getting bigger, faster, and stronger, there is a debate whether new rules and safer equipment are enough to keep high school, college, and professional athletes safe.

The seriousness of concussions is not news to Hillsdale’s Neukom. As new research surfaces, however, she has dedicated a great deal of attention to making sure Hillsdale College is at the cutting edge of concussion treatment.

This means strictly following “return to play guidelines,” Neukom said.

Coaches and trainers recognized Miller’s concussion right away, as Miller went limp and became unconscious.

Typical symptoms include headache, fogginess, moodiness, nausea, vomiting, and irritability.

Neukom said she emphasizes developing relationships with athletes, team members, their mothers, and even their girlfriends.

“You need to know how they act normally,” Neukom said.

After being pulled from the game, Miller underwent a 24-

hour period in which he could not sleep for more than two hours at a time.

Not only are concussed athletes barred from prolonged periods of sleep but they cannot watch TV, listen to music, or

tests like the King Devick test; a two-minute test that requires athletes to read single digit numbers displayed on cards or an iPad. It can take players more than a week to pass simple sequence

(Elena Salvatore/Collegian)

read.

“The brain needs cognitive rest,” Neukom said.

It’s the return cognitive skills that will allow players like Miller to get back on the field. After 24 hours symptom-free and taking a visit to their physicians for a C.T. scan, trainers will begin testing the injured Charger.

Prior to the start of the season the whole team goes through a seminar on concussions. Here they establish baseline scores for

and pattern tests after a concussion. Hillsdale athletic trainers also issue standardized assessments, symptom checklists, coordination tests, and ImPACT testing.

“I failed for three or four days,” Miller said. “It gets frustrating.”

Meanwhile coaches are having their patience tested.

In a season that lasts only 12 weeks and in which a single game can be the difference be-

tween a conference championship and second place, waiting for players to get cleared can be frustrating.

“I have to be more patient if somebody gets hurt,” head coach Keith Otterbein said.

“Teaching an old dog new tricks is hard.”

After more than three decades of coaching football, Otterbein said he is still getting used to the “return to play” guidelines.

“The process takes a lot longer,” Otterbein said. “The timing is different. I’ve been coaching 33 years. It used to be ‘lost the symptoms, back in.’”

No matter what, Otterbein said, he defers to the trainers and doctors, a statement Neukom supports.

“Our coaching staff has the best interest of our athletes in mind,” Neukom said.

Miller’s concussion was easily diagnosed. In other instances, concussions can go unnoticed and players are at risk of second impact syndrome, or a compounding concussion that can cause irreversible damage.

“You don’t see every single hit,” Neukom said.

Here lies the player’s responsibility to report serious head injuries, as outlined in pre-season seminars.

Former tight end Matt Patillo ’11 said this is a dilemma for players competing for positions in the midst of an intense and short season.

“The last thing you want to do is come out because you got knocked in the head,” Patillo said. “It’s something I struggled with.”

Patillo said he was diagnosed with two concussions during his career but believes he received upwards of six.

During one of his two diagnosed concussions he blackedout for a 24-hour period.

Mounting hits to the head are the reason Patillo believes he began having issues with shortterm memory loss.

He said he couldn’t remember things that were normally easy to recall.

After college, Patillo enrolled in cognitive training classes.

While he said he benefitted a great deal from the classes, the effects linger.

“I still struggle with that today,” Patillo said.

Despite the injuries, Patillo views college football as an individual choice.

“If you sign up, you know what you’re getting into,” Patillo said.

Concussions were not a national issue early in Patillo’s career, and yet he said treatment at Hillsdale has always been topnotch.

“Even three years ago concussions were just becoming a hot topic,” Patillo said. “I feel that the coaches and the training staff did a great job. There was no middle ground. They had the players’ interests in mind.”

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FOOTBALL REMAINS UNBEATEN IN GLIAC Northern Michigan University was zeroing in on its first touchdown of the game early in the third quarter.

Their quarterback threw the ball into the end zone from the seven-yard line directly to Ben Karaba who tipped it up in the air to teammate Nick Galvan for an interception.

The Chargers defeated the Wildcats 44-6 in Saturday’s home game. The Chargers are now 4-0 in the GLIAC and 4-1 overall.

The Chargers held a huge time of possession advantage over the Wildcats, especially in the first quarter. Hillsdale’s first drive took up half of the first quarter and ended in a dive into the end zone from quarterback Anthony Mifsud.

“That’s one of his skills,” head coach Keith Otterbein said.

“We have created some plays to allow him to get on the edge. It

creates pressure on the defense when a quarterback can do that.”

Senior running back Joe Glendening also contributed two touchdowns in the first half and rushed for 106 yards in the game.

To open the second quarter, Mifsud launched a long pass to junior wide receiver Andrew Mott in the end zone. The Wildcats responded with a field goal. The Charger defense only allowed one additional field goal later in the third quarter.

“Everything was clicking,” Galvan said. “We kept them out of the end zone and didn’t give up big plays.”

The first of NMU’s field goals came from a 76-yard kick return, which put the Wildcats in good field position.

“We didn’t execute what we were trying to do,” Otterbein said. “We had guys getting close to tackles but not getting tackles.”

Mifsud threw a 75-yard pass into the end zone to sophomore Evan Bach in the third quarter

for a touchdown. Mifsud went 14-for-17 for 223 yards and connected with Evan Bach three times for 98 yards.

The Wildcats opened the fourth quarter with their first interception of the game. Their drive down the field was halted with a second interception from Galvan.

“It’s always nice to get the ball on defense,” Galvan said.

“And when you do you want to capitalize.”

The Chargers closed out the game with another interception from Butch Herzog and drove down the field to put three more points up on the board with a field goal.

Hillsdale will face Wayne State University in an away game on Saturday, Oct. 6. Wayne State sits at sixth in the North Division, behind Hillsdale, ranked No. 2.

“Wayne State is very wellcoached and physical,” Otterbein said. “We have to get the most out of every snap we can.”

HIGH HOPES: HILLSDALE SWIM PREVIEW 2012-13 Doug Williams Collegian Freelancer

The Hillsdale women’s swim team began their season Saturday with their annual Blue vs. White intrasquad meet.

The team will be in action next at a special meet against Northern Michigan over fall break. This meet is unique in that prior to the standard competition on Saturday, the girls will face off on Friday with a meet comprised solely of relays.

Senior Lauren Burt said she has high hopes for the team this year. The Chargers have improved every season that she’s been here, and with the talent that Hillsdale has now, this year should be no different.

Even though the Chargers have constantly improved since Burt’s freshman year, so has the competition, she said.

The GLIAC is the most competitive conference in all of DII, so this season will be no walk in the park, several swimmers said.

According to Burt, individual and team improvements, as opposed to any specific placing within the division, are the girls’ main focus for this year.

Junior Alison Johnson said she is optimistic about the pos-

sibilities for the Chargers this has teammates. During high year as well. school, she was the sole memThe depth of the team is ber of her high school team and our greatest strength, Johnson had to compete alone. Although said. Although some girls are she trained with a club team, faster than others, they aren’t she would much rather have too far ahead. All of the girls had other girls from her high train at similar levels and school to train and compete complete the same workouts with. together.

Wheeler said she is eager to The team’s depth is evident incorporate weight training into in their relays. While some her regimen. Through lifting schools’ relays are substanweights, Wheeler hopes that tially faster or slower, Hillsdale added strength will translate fields relays that are never too into faster times in the pool. far apart Wheeler is from each also lookother. ing forward Freshto an annual men Hanteam-building nah Leitexercise, the ner and Navy SEAL Jennifer Challenge, Wheeler which is comboth said posed of pullthey are ups, pushexcited to ups, sit-ups, be part of running, and the team swimming. and have The challenge high exwill test the pectations girls’ abilifor the ties outside season. of the water Leitand will help A Hillsdale swimmer preps for ner is an upcoming meet with Northern them gain glad she Michigan University. (Joe Buth/Colstamina and finally strengthen legian)

the muscles that aren’t worked during swimming. Workouts outside of the pool, or dry land workouts, are a staple of the team’s routine and will be incorporated more as the season progresses.

Despite losing seniors Linda Okonkowski, Katie Lamb, and Michaela Wolfe, Coach Kurt Kirner is optimistic for what this season has in store. The Chargers are joined by a class of eight freshmen, each of whom ranked Hillsdale as their top priority.

Aiming for a certain ranking in the GLIAC for the end of the season is risky, because other teams may have more scholarship money or may get lucky with young new talent, so Coach Kirner said he instead looks for time improvements on the individual and team levels.

Hillsdale has set more records and had more swimmers set national-qualifying cuts in the past couple years than ever before, so Kirner only sees things improving for the Chargers in the future. With eight eager newcomers, as well as the seasoned upperclassmen, Charger nation is excited to see how the season will play out.

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CROSS COUNTRY 8TH & 10TH Caleb Whitmer News Editor The Hillsdale College cross-country men and women traveled to South Bend, Ind., this past weekend to compete in the University of Notre Dame Cross-Country Invitational.

The men raced five miles and the women 5000 meters.

Schools from all three NCAA divisions competed at the meet. Hillsdale was the only GLIAC team at Notre Dame last weekend.

The Hillsdale men placed 8th of 18 teams and the women placed 10th of 15.

Sophomores Joshua Mirth and Matt Perkins led the way for the Hillsdale men. They placed 14th and 15th, respectively.

Mirth’s foot was stepped on at the mile, pulling his shoe half-off and exposing his heel. After a half-mile of hoping the shoe would slip back on, Mirth kicked it off and ran the rest of the race one shoe on, one off. He finished in a time of 25:05, followed closely by Perkins in 25:06.

Sophomore Luke Hickman (55th, 26:05), senior team captain Matt Van Egmond

(63rd, 26:18), and freshman John Bell (82nd, 26:35) rounded out the top five, adding up to a team score of 226.

In total, seven of the nine Hillsdale men ran their personal best times at Notre Dame.

Senior team captain Victoria McCaffrey led the women, finishing 22nd in a time of 18:12. Following McCaffrey were freshmen Emily Oren (27th, 18:17) and Kristina Galat (46th, 18:42).

Fifth for the women was junior Chelsea Kilgore (73rd, 19:24), who was running with freshman Kathryn Royer (74th, 19:27). Totaled, the women’s top five scored 236 points, missing 9th by two points.

Head men’s coach Jeff Forino said the men did well. Some of the freshmen ran slower than weeks past; however, Forino said that’s to be expected because of their inexperience with the volume of collegiate training.

“We were expecting to adjust their training a little bit,” Forino said. “[We will] do some stuff this week and then by conference we’ll be

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Charger Chatter: Jeff forino

You had success at Hanover High School, Springfield College and Dartmouth College.

What made you want to come to Hillsdale?

[Hillsdale] is really similar to Dartmouth academically.

Honestly, when I came to visit here and have an interview, I felt like it was just a great place to be. It was my first chance to be in charge of my own areas; I had to work under the coach at Dartmouth in field events. He supervised me, and here I was supervised by a head coach, but I got my own areas to work with and I could do whatever I wanted. That was the first time I was able to do that at this level.

When did you decide you wanted to be a coach?

I went to school everyday being a teacher and also became the football and track coach.

After a while, I felt like I got up every morning to go to practice. I liked teaching, but I felt like a lot of kids didn’t want to be there; while when I went to practice I felt like kids were there because they wanted

to be there all the time. I really liked that environment. I love working with people that really want to get after something, and I like helping them get there.

You took on the men’s cross-country and track and field head coach position last fall. How has the transition been?

It’s been great. As the assistant coach, I was doing a lot of the dayto-day stuff anyways.

This gave me more responsibility, but I think I am doing a lot of the same things I did before.

Being totally in charge of the budget is really the only different thing, and I am still coaching the same event areas.

forward and build the team to be a team that will make nationals every year. We hope to keep that momentum going into track.

We also have some strong kids other than our distance runners. We want to take a good group of kids to nationals -- not just one.

Are there any standout athletes that you think will achieve AllAmerican status?

I believe Maurice Jones will do that again, and I believe that Matt Perkins and Joseph Banovetz will make nationals this year. One of my What are your goals hopes is that Justin for the team this year?

Fawley will make (Joe Buth/Collegian) nationals this year.

In cross-country, our big I am really hopeful goal is to be in the top five in that some of the other guys the region and make nationals. who have developed like Josh That is our ultimate goal. We Mirth can. Our freshman Paul also want to just keep moving Ausum -- he’s huge. They will

all be guys who provisionally qualify in events.

Who is the best athlete you ever coached?

I have coached two people who became Olympians. I would say though, Mustafa Abdul Rahim. He was a guy from Dartmouth who went on to do the decathlon at the Olympic Trials a couple of times. He is probably the best pure athlete I have ever coached. The other would be Russell Brown -- he was third at the Division I Nationals.

How do you like specializing in throwing and vertical jumping events and also being the head coach of crosscountry? When were you first exposed to cross-country?

When I was a high school coach I worked with some very good distance runners and had three state record holders in the state of New Hampshire.

That is where Russell Brown came in. He ended up going to Stanford. He has been to the world championships a couple times and also competed at the

last [Olympic Trials.] He is still a guy who could be a medalist at the Olympics -- that’s how good he is. He is the one who really exposed me to distance running. I never coached cross country until here. I helped with cross-country at Dartmouth and that’s where I got the biggest exposure to crosscountry.

Can you tell about your bodybuilding days?

In my late teens -- 18 and 19 -- I competed in an amateur bodybuilding contest. The way it works out you are best off just training and competing when you’re 18 and 19. That’s what I did. It wasn’t for me.

How is the freshman class?

We did pretty well. I am pretty excited about Paul Ausum and the group that we have. We have a couple that have a lot of potential above and beyond what they did in high school that we can develop. Paul ran really fast in high school and we are excited because we think he will move forward and be the top guy for us. We got a pole-vaulter that is pretty decent and we have some talent in the high jump too. We think a couple of the guys are going to try the [steeplechase], and we think they will be good in that. We are pretty stoked about the whole thing.

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Easy curried butternut squash soup Curry, cumin, and red pepper add a kick to this creamy squash and apple soup

Peel and dice apples and squash.

Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. add sliced leak and next five ingredients; cook two minutes, stirring frequently.

Add squash, water, and apple; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 25 minutes or until tender.

Ingredients: 6 cups chopped and peeled butternut squash 4 cups chopped and peeled Granny Smith apple 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 1 cup thinly sliced leek 1 tablespoon curry powder 1 tablespoon brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper 5 garlic cloves, chopped 6 cups water 1/3 cup whipping cream 3/4 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup minced fresh cilantro Puree soup, then stir in cream and salt. Cook one minute, or until thoroughly heated. Sprinkle each serving with cilantro.

Adapted from Karen MacNeil’s recipe in “Wine, Food & Friends”

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Henry Payne: celebrating caricature Sarah Leitner Senior Reporter Political cartoonist Henry Payne stooped in front of the whiteboard and, with a few quick strokes of his marker, brought a cartoon figure to life.

“As good looking as he is, he’s got big ears,” he said, as elephantlike ears appeared on the board.

Dark, thick eyebrows soon followed with large lips, a prominent nose, and a mole.

“And he has freckles,” Payne said. “The freckles play up the fact he’s inexperienced and young.”

Soon the familiar face was finished, and Barack Obama stared out from the whiteboard. But Payne was not finished.

“I often draw him in an entertainment setting,” he said, adding a microphone. “He is a celebrity as much as he is a politician.”

The Political Cartoons of Henry Payne exhibit opened on Sunday in the Sage Center for the Arts Daughtrey Gallery. The exhibit showcases Payne’s cartoons –– many he drew this year as well as some of his limited edition prints.

Sophomore Julianna Chuslo, a gallery manager, said that the atmosphere of this exhibit is different than in the past.

“Typically people come in and they’re like, ‘That’s pretty,’” she said. “This time you hear laughter.”

Margaret Smith said political cartoons express something different than other pieces in that the message is just as important as the artwork.

“It’s a reversal in that a cartoon is message over execution,” she said. “I think the two are on par [in Payne’s work]. The execution is brilliant.”

Payne said a cartoon should, first and foremost, be funny.

“It’s a powerful visual statement,” he said. “It’s that punch line that should grab you.”

Payne, a syndicated cartoonist, has been in the business for 25 years and now creates cartoons and writes for The Detroit News.

Payne’s cartoons appear in around 60 newspapers beyond The Detroit News. He also runs the Michigan View, a conservative, online publication.

Payne creates 12 cartoons a week — six for local news and six for national news, but he says he has never run out of content.

“Fortunately for me,” he said, “Detroit is the most dysfunctional city in America.”

Payne said the majority of his time is not spent actually drawing the cartoons, but watching film and looking at pictures of his characters.

“There’s a lot to body language and how they compose themselves,” he said. “It’s not just a likeness, it’s trying to capture what’s

in a person.”

Payne said that in this year’s election cycle, he enjoyed having Newt Gingrich, a caricature he was already familiar drawing.

“He’s a great caricature in so many ways with that scowl and shock of white hair,” he said.

Gingrich and Mitt Romney were a good pair to play off one another in his cartoons, Payne said. But with Gingrich now out of the race, Payne said the combination of Romney and Obama is a bit boring.

Payne said he has also been developing the caricature of Paul Ryan, another difficult task.

“He’s very fit — damn him,” Payne said, laughing.

When Payne joined in the cartoon business, he said there were around 350 political cartoonists around the country, which has shrunk down to around 60.

“I think it might be that politicians have become so hard to draw in the TV age,” he said. “They keep getting better and better looking.”

But Payne said he will keep working on developing Ryan as a caricature, pointing out his lazy, blue eyes and unusual hair.

“There’s a lot to work with there,” he said.

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The art and science of cooking Shannon Odell Senior Reporter

When junior Aaron Sandford cooks dinner, he tries to think like a scientist.

“I like to understand the science of why brining a chicken in salt water before you cook it makes it more tender,” he said. “I like knowing what makes a dish good and then combining those concepts with other dishes.”

Sandford is an artist whose tools are more than a pot and wooden spoon. Along with cooking, Sandford is a musician and graphic designer who pursues his crafts with a curiosity: Food is a science and there are strategies of choosing typeface.

As a child, Sandford always liked drawing, cooking and music. His earliest aspiration was to be a baker, and then a car designer.

When Sandford entered Hillsdale, he came as a physics major and was hoping to go into architecture.

“I never envisioned being an art major,” he said. But after a year taking physics classes, Sandford said he realized that his interest in architecture was focused on the artistic side. Now he trains this artistic interest through design classes and hopes to go into graphic design upon graduating.

Typography, the study of type text and how one ought to use fonts, especially fascinates Sandford.

“It is amazing how much you can communicate using a typeface,” he said. “Every font has a personality. You don’t always know why, but each one can give you a different feeling.”

Sandford practices his craft in External Affairs where he designs pieces like the homecoming invitations.

Sandford’s love for cooking is no weaker. He said he always loved to bake but didn’t do much cooking in grade school. During his three years at Fairwood Bible Institute before coming

to Hillsdale, Sandford occasionally cooked, but his love — one originally inspired by his mother — blossomed two summers ago when he had his own kitchen.

“I especially discovered that I really enjoyed cooking for other people,” he said.

Junior Jonathan Slonim, a housemate of Sandford’s, said Sandford often cooks for their house, named “West Berlin” by the four men living there.

“The rest of us often do the dishes as payment for his services,” Slonim said. “West Berlin is made much more appetizing by his presence.”

Another of Sandford’s housemates, junior David Graber, said he appreciated having a chef in the house as well.

“I would definitely put the food in West Berlin against any other off-campus house at Hillsdale,” Graber said. “His food is fabulous.”

Sandford said he especially enjoys cooking Italian food because it is easy, hearty, and delicious.

Bread is also one of his specialties.

“I have gotten addicted to having fresh bread around,” he said.

Graber said Sandford’s cooking has also inspired his housemates to cook better food, though Slonim said he prefers to clean dishes in payment for Sandford’s delicious culinary contributions.

Even in cooking, Sandford’s artistic personality shines through.

“Every time I make a dish, I critique it up and down,” he said.

“I try to figure out what I could have done better.”

With his own personal critiques aside, Sandford has found a sure way to measure his work.

“I can judge how good a meal has been by how long it lasts in the refrigerator,” he said. “It is a pretty good measure of success.”

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Restaurant review: Rumors, Inc.

IN FOCUS

Tory Cooney

COOK, BAKER, CANDLESTICK MAKER?

My mother is a baker. I am a cook. She realized this a few weeks after I botched my very first batch of cookies and set the oven on fire. It took me a bit more soul-searching and the acquisition of a paring knife.

The theory goes that cooks and bakers possess fundamentally different approaches to the preparation of food. Cooks intuit and tweak recipes when not ignoring them altogether. Bakers are more scientific and follow recipes to the letter.

Most critics who disagree point out that many bakers go by feel, and that most cooks are governed by general rules regarding what flavors go together and which ones don’t.

But the distinction holds true. What some might consider the intuitive elements of baking and the general rules of cooking are both the simple result of experience.

Baking is unabashedly scientific. The protein content of the flour dictates the difference between crumbly pastries and hearty breads. Leavening agents –– such as baking powder, baking soda, and yeast – all influence the carbon dioxide content to puff up the batter in different ways. And then timing is of precious importance.

In short, you have to follow the rules if you want something edible.

But true bakers, who have played by the rules long enough to internalize them, can make snap judgments based on how brown a loaf of bread smells. They’re not acting on whim, they actually know. It’s just fact. The phenomenon is akin to an expert in ancient Greek statuary who can spot a forgery without consciously thinking about it. They just know, not because of a freakish sixth-sense, but because of experience.

Cooking, on the other hand, actually is intuitive, with hundreds of little variables that can be tweaked or omitted altogether without anything going horribly wrong.

My great-grandmother was a notorious cook. Each of her recipes is peppered with such ambiguous directions as: “add a roughly egg-sized lump of butter when sauce is somewhat thickened, but only somewhat. Stir for a bit.”

As long as my lump of butter is somewhere between the size of an ostrich egg and a pheasant egg, the lemon curd comes out just fine. I can even throw in a dash of orange zest if the mood takes me, and it still tastes pretty damn good.

But I dare you to find an experienced cook who will try to boil skim milk or combine anise, dill, and nutmeg. They probably aren’t avoiding it just because some recipe told them not to.

Chances are it just doesn’t look, smell or feel right. At the most scientific, some failed-white-sauce horror story discouraged the attempt, or the attempt ended poorly.

Experienced cooks inevitably develop systems of proportion and contrast that they seldom violate. The consistency behind these systems might even seem “scientific,” but, chances are, the cook simply remembered to replicate happily stumbled-upon combinations and avoid the bad ones.

One method is not necessarily better than the other, but the difference is important to identify. Understanding who is a cook and who is a baker makes sharing recipes and coordinating efforts in the kitchen must easier. It permits bakers to cut the occasional corner when making a pot of soup, and it reminds cooks to set the timer after they put a pan of cookies in the oven. Otherwise, things might end up flavorless or in flames. vcooney@hillsdale.edu

The BBQ bacon burger we ordered came stacked high with onion rings and dripping in pepper jack cheese and barbeque sauce. The meat was cooked perfectly and retained its juiciness while the onion rings and bacon added a nice crunch to the overall consistency. Rumors is right to boast about the pretzel buns. The bread did not overwhelm the rest of the ingredients but did its job in holding everything together.

The burger was the best kind of messy — making you want to lick everything left over off of your fingers. I recommend splurging and getting the sweet potato fries on the side, which come with a tangy sweet sauce. The burger showed Rumors is capable of great consistency, and the Memphis Mac ‘n Cheese we ordered demonstrated the chef’s creativity.

(Roxanne Turnbull/Collegian) The grilled barbeque pork slices had a smoky flavor that enhanced the smoked gouda in the pasta, and the ample amount of scallions on top added Roxanne Turnbull the crunch and bite the dish needed. It was a mac and cheese that City News Editor rivaled my own, and I’m a self-labeled macaroni and cheese aficionado. I couldn’t stop eating it.

It’s a good thing Rumors has reasonable portion sizes because Ah, civilization.

I still had room left for the incredible desserts. Where most restauThese words popped into my mind when I walked into Rumors, rants slack off and underperform, Rumors delivers up until the very Inc. restaurant in Hudson, Mich. The quality of the food, the laid- end. back and inviting atmosphere, and the wonderful staff will make Dennis Smoke makes the crème brulée and his chef makes the you want to take the trip to this place over and over again. homemade apple fritters. We couldn’t choose between the two, so And it’s only 15 minutes away. we ordered both. It was the best decision of the evening. The apple Rumors celebrated their first year of business in July. Restaurant fritters were crunchy on the outside while staying light and fluffy owner Dennis Smoke said the “limited menu” allows for every dish on the inside — bliss in a dish. It is very easy to mess up a crème to be made consistantly well. The restaurant likes to work with lo- brulée. Smoke keeps his simple and classic and is made to perfeccal food vendors such as McAuliffe’s Meats in Addison, Mich. and tion.

McCarty’s Bakery in Hudson. They also buy local produce in the Everything about Rumors, Inc. makes me want to bring every summer. single one of my friends back to enjoy a great burger, sit at the bar Both McAuliffe’s and McCarty’s play an important role in creat- and have a Michigan beer on tap, or maybe just go for dessert. The ing Rumors’ most popular menu items: the burgers –– costing only restaurant is a great success and a much needed get away for someseven dollars a piece. The meat is local and every burger comes on one in need of a little civilization. a specially made pretzel bun from McCarty’s. Rumors has a number of specialty burgers, but you can also make your own burger by rturnbull@hillsdale.edu choosing from a list of toppings and cheeses.

Paula Deen gives healthy alternative The queen of batter, biscuits, and butter launches healthy alternative to classic recipes Sarah Ann Voyles Collegian Reporter With a dash of southern hospitality, chef Paula Deen now dishes up diabetes-friendly recipes.

Deen is known for her “butter, butter and more butter” mantra, so some readers find it hard to stomach the switch from the stereotypical fried foods of the South to more healthy options.

The southern belle and her two sons, Jamie and Bobby, created the website www.diabetesinanewlight.com after Deen was diagnosed with type–2 diabetes.

In a letter on her website, she states that she also started the website to answer requests from fans who liked her food but wanted a healthier alternative.

She offers recipes and their calorie count so readers can know how each portion will affect their diet.

In the introduction before Deen presents her recipes, she underscores the importance of portion control and reveals that she worked alongside Diabetes Care and Education in creating the site.

The healthy suggestions are not aimed solely at diagnosed di-

abetics –– rather, Deen’s new system is for Americans across the board. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise in America, and Deen’s health-concious efforts draw attention to the problem.

“She is trying to encourage a more hands-on approach, and that is great,” freshman Shaun Lichti said. “If this is successful it might lead other cookbook manufacturers to include carb and calorie counts. At least she is trying to raise awareness.”

The recipes that Deen offers are also easy to prepare. These recipes are not cliché cardboard recipes –– there is chicken divan for a cozy night and artichoke dip for the weekend tailgate.

Except for the lasagna and chicken divan, the few recipes she has up on the site take less than an hour to prepare. The ease and accessibility of these recipes give busy people an option other that take-out.

There are only a few recipes, though, so the at-home chef will have to be creative to avoid boredom. We can only hope that in the coming months she will add more to the site.

The new website has it pros and cons, but all-in-all Deen is doing her best with the cards she has been dealt, and her best is helping others in the same situation. svoyles@hillsdale.edu

Saga solution: baked apples

This week marks the beginning of a weekly “Saga recipe,” giving consumers of Hillsdale College’s favorite monopoly creative alternatives to the usual dishes. Today we spotlight senior Hannah Akin, who encourages students to, “Look at Saga like a pantry, not a restaurant. See what you can do with the ingredients you find, rather than expecting a meal ready-made every time.”

“My family always made this at home, so it tastes like being with them.”

–– Senior Hannah Akin

Senior Thomas Phippen, playing the part of Poseidon in “The Trojan Women,” walks amongst the conquered Troy in the first scene of the play. The performance opened Oct. 3 and will run trhough Oct. 7. The show will be performed in Markel Auditorium at 8 p.m., with an extra matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Saturday. (Joe Buth/Collegian)

Ingredients: 1 Apple Apple Butter Oatmeal Milk or Water Raisins (to taste) Brown Sugar (to taste) Cinnamon Nutmeg Take the apple and cut it into slices. Place slices in a bowl with about ¼ inch of liquid (milk or water). Add oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste and microwave for four minutes. When finished, add apple butter and enjoy!

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upcoming arts

theatre Oct. 9 & 10 — The Aquila Theatre presents “Cyrano de Bergerac,” on Tuesday at 8 p.m. They will also present “The Taming of the Shrew” on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Both show in Markel Auditorium.

art Sept. 30-Oct. 21 — Political Cartoons of Henry Payne on exhibit in the Sage Center for the Arts Daughtrey Gallery

etc.

Oct. 5 — One of a series of weekly fire-spinning classes taught

by Julianna Chuslo in the Slayton Arboretum. Classes run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday evenings.

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Chief Rogers encourages students accross campus to be the best they can be: physically, mentally, and spiritually Macaela Bennett Collegian Freelancer Serving in the United States Navy for 26 years resulted in more than an intimidating demeanor for Jeffery “Chief” Rogers. He also became a Christian aboard a Navy ship and his military position brought him to Hillsdale College in 2011.

While working as chief of the lab for the Navy in Tokyo three years ago, Rogers was given the choice between moving to several new locations including Guam, New York City, and Michigan. He chose to move his family to Dwight, Michigan, where he began recruiting physicians for the Navy. After recruiting two Hillsdale students, he researched the ideals of Hillsdale College and found they aligned exactly with his own.

There was an opening for a new Associate Dean of Men at the college and Rogers applied.

“I wanted the job in order to mold students — the future leaders of tomorrow. I get to mold them today, teaching them to lead today,” said Rogers.

Roger’s emphasis on instructing students to lead in the present was explained by Davidson Russell, security training officer for Hillsdale College.

“The military made him realize life is short and there’s no sense in messing around,” Russell said. Before he became

a Christian, Rogers was primarily concerned with superficial things like bodybuilding, but when his faith changed so did his priorities. He now focuses on how he can positively impact others’ lives with his work.

“His plate is very full,” said Russell. Far from an overstatement, Rogers serves Hillsdale College as Associate Dean of Men, Interim Security Director, Women’s Soccer Club Advisor, Watkins House Director, and his self-proclaimed most important title, loving husband, and father of two.

So that his son can finish his high school career in Dwight, Chief lives at the Watkins house and commutes an hour each weekend in addition to the occasional weekday. Although this is an obvious hardship, Rogers wife, Roma, holds a positive outlook.

“Comparatively to my other friends, who may only get to see their spouse thirty days out of the year, I get to see him a lot, and it’s not a hardship because the Lord placed us here,” said Roma Rogers.

Though Rogers’ family is his first priority, he is not hesitant to take on many other roles in order to serve Hillsdale College.

“I’ve got my tentacles involved with a lot of things, and the reason for it is I have a vested interest in the students’ success and I want them to do well,” Rogers said. His wife, ,

upholds this testament saying “his passion is for people.”

Chief’s many roles on Hillsdale’s campus testify to his dedication to building up exceptional students. He accomplishes this by having high expectations and pushing them to reach their goals.

“I want people to stick with the hard stuff... I want you to live up to your God-given potential,” he said.

In addition to sharing how his own testimony changed his life, Chief emphasizes how important it is for students to be dedicated to their own beliefs while attending Hillsdale College.

“Know what you believe and why you believe it, because it is your fuel,” he said. “I want you to have good success. There’s a difference [between good and bad success]. Good success is doing that which is right in the eyes of He who made you.”

Junior Gena Oster, president of the women’s soccer club, attests to his positive impact on students’ lives.

“Whenever someone says something about Chief, a smile always goes on people’s faces and they can think of a positive experience involving him,” she said.

One way Chief connects with students is by advising the women’s soccer club.

The 2011-2012 club team’s advisor left without naming a replacement and no alternative

could be found. The soccer club faced the prospect of disbandment until Rogers answered the call.

Though willing to fill the need, he admits his shortcomings in soccer knowledge.

“I’m not a soccer player, but I know about how to win and about passion and desire . . . I was on board with their vision, and I’d rather they go kick a soccer ball than kick one of my guys,” he said.

He also leads their conditioning practices on Wednesday evenings. While it is one of the most difficult workouts many of the athletes have ever endured, Oster says Chief keeps them laughing in spite of the pain.

Oster said the team admires Chief for his ability to help them succeed in more than athletics.

“He is all about us growing physically, mentally, and spiritually. He wants to train us so we can not only be solid soccer players, but also incredible students and stronger in our faith,” she said.

He does this through encouraging good sportsmanship and an academics-first mentality reminding them what is really important as a Hillsdale student.

Through challenging students academically, physically, and spiritually, Chief Rogers constantly encourages students to lead in new ways. His most recent idea, to be carried out by students, is to honor those

serving in the United States military. He has asked that whenever someone serving in the military from Michigan passes away, a student veteran lowers the flag and another plays taps on the trumpet.

“I just want students outside to give me 90 seconds to remember that freedom isn’t free. People are still dying for it, and we need to honor them.

They may never hear about what we’re doing here at Hillsdale, but it’s my hope that the grass roots Chief Rogers is the associate dean of men, would start an interim security director, the women’s from us, as a soccer club adviser, and a house director. way of saying (Shaun Lichti/Collegian) that we haven’t important isn’t the piece of paforgotten here,” per or the things you learn here, said Rogers. it’s what kind of legacy you In many ways, Rogers is leave behind. What will people planting seeds here at Hillsdale say about you? Are they going College, where he hopes to cultivate students who live lives to glorify God because of who you are, or are they going to talk of excellence in all they do. about you?”

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where he was employed before Hillsdale — schools like Cornell, the University of Tulsa, and Franklin and Marshall College.

“When I was teaching at the University of Tulsa, my six-yearold daughter could write better than some of my college freshman,” Rahe said.

He said he wasn’t exaggerating, either.

“Twelve years of daycare does not teach you to read and write,” Rahe said. “They corral you in, prevent you from killing one another, and look after you while your parents are working.”

Rahe said Hillsdale is different — most of the students who come here are better prepared and well-read.

“I haven’t had any real bloopers at Hillsdale,” he said. “I don’t mean the writing is uniformly good. Especially in Western Heritage, where I get first-term freshmen, there is a certain percentage who need a lot of help with their writing.”

One such student, William Cooney ‘12, began his college career with virtually no writing experience, but now is attending graduate school at Gonzaga University and plans to pursue a PhD. “Dr. Rahe and Dr. Stewart

at two of the three people who really propelled me to where I am,” Cooney said. “They taught me how to think and how to read.

Both they and their well-earned chastisement encouraged me to work harder, read more, and spend more time editing my papers.”

Cooney still has a copy of Dr. Rahe’s “Painful Examples” and has noticed similar mistakes in his own students’ writing.

Certain mistakes occur regardless of passing time, Rahe said “The current generation doesn’t know to use the apostrophe. They use it promiscuously.”

Rahe said for some time there has been a “grave problem” with pronouns and antecedents, misuse of “lesser” versus “fewer,” and use of the shortened “most” instead of “almost.” “’Most everybody.’ That’s what rural people in Oklahoma, where I grew up, said,” he laughed.

Rahe said the examples are amusing, but the problem is real.

He said every student makes a diction error occasionally, but if you cannot write well, it makes it more difficult to get a job.

“What goes on in the writing center on campus and the pum-

meling we give student papers is very important,” he said. “It’s a matter of habits. Changing habits isn’t easy, and requires conscious effort.”

Associate Professor of Education Daniel Coupland said poor grammar is a common problem in today’s public school system.

“If students received explicit English grammar instruction — including sentence diagramming — in a traditional public school, they received it from teachers who were willing to teach against the grain,” he said.

Coupland went on to say that in today’s classrooms, you have a better chance of finding a manual typewriter than you do of finding a sentence diagram.

“The sad fact is that most teachers couldn’t teach explicit English grammar even if they wanted to because they themselves never learned it,” he said.

Rahe said that he also sees bright students who aren’t willing to do the work. These are the students who approach a test without studying and scribble down a nonsensical — though witty — answer to the questions they don’t know the answer to.

Rahe admitted these “snarky” answers made him laugh, but

were a symptom of the highschool-fostered idea that studying was an unnecessary accompaniment to class. Many students feel that because they coasted through high school they can pull the same stunt in college.

Rahe said this usually comes out on the test.

“I will guess a third of my freshman students will fail their first exam,” he said. “Being hit by a two-by-four is a very useful thing for a freshman.”

Stewart agreed that he saw much of the same behavior in his classes. He said many of the mistakes that appear on his list are there because students wrote the paper at 3 a.m. with no time to proofread.

“I believe 90 percent of the time the mistakes result from procrastination,” he said. “I call on the students who ought to know better.”

Stewart says he calls students on their mistakes, often in class,

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“In Hebrew God is called Yamaha.”

Or so says one of Professor of History David Stewart’s former students. This comment is immortalized along with a 14 pages of single spaced, individual student flubs collected by Stewart during the 20 years he has worked at Hillsdale College.

The “Yamaha” quotation shares the page with other gems like: “Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by someone with the same name.”

Stewart said he often copies small portions of this makeshift anthology and prints them on the back of quizzes to entertain students. Some have noticed the addition, but few on campus know the extent of the list from which it came.

20 years is a long time.

Stewart’s colleague, Professor of History Paul Rahe, has a list of his own. He staples this list of what not to do, simply titled “Painful Examples,” to his sheet of paper requirements. Rahe said the his list is composed of mistakes from students at schools

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but that most don’t make it onto the list.

“A list like Rahe’s or Stewart’s does three things,” said Cooney.

“First, it shows students that professors care enough to read their papers closely. Second, it shows students that their classmates have also made mistakes and gone on to overcome them. And third, it’s easier to recognize a problem if you can associate it with an anecdote or an example.”

At the end of the day, it helps students learn.

“You deserve to be mocked if you clearly didn’t spend the time proofreading,” Stewart said.

But neither Rahe nor Stewart shame the students who they call out, Cooney said.

“It’s for the edification of others and always in good fun — never ill spirited. They simply create the exemplar of what not to do. Compliments do the same thing, really, only by showing what one ought to do.”

Excerpts From Dr. Stewart’s List • They lived in the Sarah Desert and travelled by Camelot.

• Homer wrote the oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey.

• Religiously, you could worship any God you wanted, as long as you picked the right one.

• Democracy wasn’t equality for all, but equality for those who are equal.

• When the A-Bomb was dropped on Mussolini, it killed 75,000 of him.

• If he didn’t like someone, he sent them to the gallows to row for the rest of their lives.

• The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

• France was full of Goths, who had pointed arches.

• The plague caused a shortage of Latin.

Excerpts From Dr. Rahe’s List • In rage of his son’s meanness, Strep burns the thinker of Socrates.

• Just means to be conformable to devine or humane laws.

• If Socrates had a school of thought or just a place where he met his students, it doesn’t matter.

• Socrates believed that if one could master the art of persuasive speech then most anything could be found sensible.

• The gods to Socrates were below him.

• He reputed all the values the Greeks trusted.

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Fujian Fusion King Buffet finds its niche in American-Chinese cuisine Faith Liu Collegian Freelancer The Jonesville Wal-Mart is a popular place for Hillsdale students – they claim that you can buy anything from hair products to hunting spears. But students with a hankering for hot-and-sour soup can get their fix next door at King Buffet.

The restaurant, which opened in 2003, has become a staple for Hillsdale students and others who want to experience and enjoy Chinese food.

“It’s a good mix of Chinese, American, and Mongolian grill foods, ” freshman Erich Steger, a first-timer at King Buffet, said.

The restaurant offers a smorgasbord of food from various parts of Asia, including a highly popular Mongolian barbecue.

Senior Ian Blodger, now a King Buffet regular, said that the restaurant opened new doors for him.

“I hadn’t really been exposed to Chinese food before my junior year,” he said. “I was really resistant to trying new things, especially food, because I’m kind of a picky eater. But when I went to King Buffet, I actually liked the food.”

Ian said that, at that point, he changed his mind about eating Chinese food and has liked it ever since.

But there’s more to King Buffet than good food, Blodger said. There’s also excellent service.

“The employees who work there are really, really nice,” Blodger said. “and they were helpful in helping me decide what I wanted. Ever since the first time I went there, they’ve always remembered who I was.”

He remembers one King

Buffet employee in particular.

“The woman who usually is there — one of the employees — she’s just been really, really nice,” he says. “Whenever I go in, she says ‘hi’ and asks how we’re doing and how our classes are.”

That employee is Li Shao, who co-owns the restaurant with her husband, Jimmy Yang.

For Shao, cooking Chinese food is a no-brainer.

“Our family was always in the restaurant business,” she said. “My mom had a take-out restaurant in New Jersey, in Perth Amboy. I was working in the restaurant when I was sixteen.”

Shao moved with her husband to Michigan in 2003 to start their own business — but opening a restaurant in Michigan is different than opening one in New Jersey, she said.

“We have to adjust our taste locally. I think people here, they tend to eat sweeter food.

That’s why we use a lot of sugar in our dishes, not salt – if you go down south, people like spicier stuff, but I think in this area, in Hillsdale County, people like their food to be sweeter,” Shao said.

Shao uses the comments of her customers to help determine how best to season her dishes.

“They will give you some very constructive criticism that you have to take. They say, ‘oh, this dish should be…’ and when you think about it, they’re true.”

These adjustments in the menu are not only due to local, but also national preferences.

American Chinese food, Shao said, is very different from authentic Chinese cuisine.

“When you find a Chinese restaurant in this area, it’s not authentic Chinese food, unlike

when you go to a Chinese restaurant in New York’s Chinatown,” she said. “It’s different; you have to adjust your taste level accordingly to local people’s taste. Otherwise, if you pull one of the dishes from Chinatown, and you display it here at the buffet bar, it’s not going to be popular.”

Many Chinese restaurants, including King Buffet, have created a sort of AmericanChinese cuisine – dishes like chow mein, egg foo young, and General Tso’s chicken – that please the palate of the average American and are still indubitably Chinese. And while these dishes have become a staple in the American-Chinese restaurants, each cook puts his or her own twist on the dish, Shao said.

“Most Chinese restaurants have a lot of the same menu, but they do it the way they want it,” Shao said. “It’s still called black pepper chicken at my place, and at other restaurants in different places, but it might come out differently.”

Shao can still trace the origins of many of her dishes.

“People like sweet-sour chicken a lot; it’s very popular.

But is it Chinese food? Maybe, because in Canton, they have sweet-sour chicken.”

Shao herself is from Fujian, a province in the southern part of China.

“Fujian is right on the coast,” she said. “They have a lot of seafood down there. In Michigan, because we are up north, we don’t have a lot of choices for seafood.”

But every once in awhile, Shao misses food from home.

“Sometimes when I’m craving for something, I have to go back and cook something for myself,” she said.

Restaurant Review

(Caroline Green/Collegian)

For students who are seeking foreign fare, but are still unsure of how far their taste buds (or their cars) are willing to go, King Buffet is a solid Chinese all-youcan-eat and takeout restaurant, serving a blend of Asian-American food broad enough to please both the experienced and the uninitiated.

In addition to offering an array of ever-dependable AmericanChinese takeout dishes – pork fried rice, egg drop soup, and lo mein – King Buffet also introduces the more adventurous to dishes such as peanut chicken, black pepper chicken, and crab rangoon.

The restaurant’s Mongolian barbecue is especially popular for lunch. Diners fill up their plates with fresh, thinly sliced raw meats and vegetables from a buffet bar. A chef stir-fries their food in one of the many sauces chosen by the diner.

King Buffet’s convenient location, right next to the Jonesville Wal-Mart, makes it the perfect place for an after-shopping meal.

And while service is not necessarily prompt, the buffet format allows you to take as little – or as much – time as you want to enjoy your hot-and-sour soup.

And if you’re really terrified of new foods . . . they also have pizza.

HOUSE OF HOPE: A CINDERELLA STORY Casey Harper Collegian Reporter The quiet hum of a vacuum upstairs and a faint hint of Febreze spill out as the old, wooden door to the renovated Watkins house swings open. Refurbished hardwood floors creak beneath the feet of Hillsdale men playing Ping-Pong and conversing in a neat, spacious common room. These men know firsthand the change their house has undergone.

The Hillsdale College Administration spent $140,000 renovating the Watkins house, formerly the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house, over the summer. The house acts as a dorm for 17 male students, but Dean of Men Aaron Petersen says DSP will likely occupy the house again.

“It was dirty, dark, and in need of major updating, and

now it is light, beautiful, and updated,” Petersen said. “The tentative plan is to have the men of Delta Sigma Phi working hard on their fraternity’s purpose and the expectation is that they can earn the chapter house back.

We anticipate two good years and then the third year returning to the house if everything goes well.”

The condition of the house caused major reservations for some students considering living in the space last year. Broken glass, crumbling construction, and outdated electrical and heating equipment raised eyebrows.

“It looked like something out of a television show,” Sophomore and Watkins Resident Adviser Phil Wegmann said.

“But it is better now. I could not go back to living in a dorm.”

After tearing down long vines of ivy climbing the walls of the house, workers replaced the

windows and shutters, adding a fresh coat of paint as well. They also repaired the front porch, driveway, and sidewalk along with adding new landscaping.

Inside, the refurbished hardwood floor, new tile, and new carpet brighten the entire space. The administration also had the electrical wiring and floor-heating mechanisms repaired and walls knocked down to open the floor plan. Despite all these changes, Wegmann and his fellow RA, sophomore Garrett West, say it is the men of the house who really make the difference.

“It was really cool. We were both hesitant because of the condition of the house, but it became really interesting when they told us we were going to be able to hand pick the guys,” Wegmann said. “So, Garret was able to bring a lot of his friends over from Galloway and I was

able to bring some of my guys from Simpson to create a really great group.”

The men also boast of having the most culturally diverse house on campus.

“We have an Asian in Banovetz, African-American in Kadeem, a foreign nationalist from Belgium in Alex Winston, and an Iranian in Salehzadeh,” Wegmann said. “And in all our people we have both Catholics and Protestants. It’s like Hillsdale’s United Nations.”

Associate Dean of Men Jeffrey Rogers lives in an apartment attached to the house.

“If there’s an issue they can come get me and I check on them, but I’m not in their face so it is almost like they are in their own house,” Rogers said. “It’s not like I’m walking through there in my underwear.”

Rogers, who lived in the Alpha Tau Omega house last year,

is enjoying the changes as much as the students.

“My room was next to the stairs right where the cars drove by and the kitchen so you have college students getting the munchies at two in the morning waking me up,” Rogers said. “I haven’t had any problems out of the guys and I think that they are very grateful and they understand the opportunity and want to represent well.”

Wegmann and The Watkin’s House now houses 17 male West say they have a students after renovations were completed this summer. New floors, repaired electricity, few events planned for and an improved exterior are only some of mid-semes- the changes. (Caroline Green/Collegian) ter to get students out someone else and no one can get to the house for a good time. in someone else’s business. It is “If you look at this place, it just an issue of coming together is set up for a dance party,” Weg- and holding each other accountmann said. “It is set up for a fall able to what this house can festival. Right now, we are just become.” focusing on coming together and The administration recently becoming really good friends.” put a flat screen television in the With all these improvements, living room, and the Watkins the house’s distance from cammen look forward to a promised pus would seem to be a downpool table in the coming weeks. side. Wegmann, however, sees it “Hillsdale talks so often as positive. about self-government, and “I think that because we are I think that our house is the far away from campus we are all perfect microcosm of that,” holding each other accountable Wegmann said. “We’re lucky to and working towards a comhave a solid group of guys here mon goal which is living in a that are just fantastic.” civil community,” he said. “No one can hold a grudge against