12.5.13 Hillsdale Collegian

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Vol. 137, Issue 12 - 5 Dec. 2013

Bobb leaves Kirby

Merry Christmas!

Bailey Pritchett Washington Editor This semester will conclude Professor of Politics David Bobb’s tenure as the executive director of citizen education for the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. His next venture sits one state away as president of the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, Va. In 1996, Bobb graduated from Hillsdale College as a politics major. He continued his education at Boston College where he received his Ph.D in political philosophy. After school, Bobb was as an education policy analyst at the Pioneer Institute in Massachusetts until he was asked to teach on the Hillsdale College main campus.

In 2008, Bobb returned to the East Coast to oversee the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program and carry out the vision of the Kirby Center on behalf of Hillsdale College.

“David is one of the first people I hired when I came here,” President Larry Arnn said. “He has served faithfully and effectively for more than a decade.

He helped get the Kirby Center underway. He has contributed to our teacher training programs and the building of our charter school efforts. We will miss him, and we wish him every good thing in his new post.”

Bobb’s passion for instructing young people in Constitutional studies will remain in his job de-

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The city of Hillsdale prepares for Christmas by hosting a lights parade and scavenger hunt downtown this Saturday. Lights, wreaths, and Christmas trees decorate the downtown area. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Jitters serves 2 brews Morgan Sweeney Assistant Editor As of two weeks ago, Jitters Coffee Cart started serving two brands of coffee The Lane Hall coffee shop has served Starbucks coffee exclusively for several years, but, just before Thanksgiving break, they began providing Cadillac coffee, the brand found in A.J.’s Café and Knorr Family Dining Hall.

Saga Inc. added the additional coffee brand after students voiced concerns to the college administration about Starbucks’ ideological leanings. The Seattle-based coffee company donates money to Planned Parenthood and in September, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz requested that patrons not carry concealed weapons into its stores.

After Schultz released his open letter, sophomore Anna Pfaff, a member of Students for Life and the competitive shotgun team, met with senior Nathan Brand, president of Hillsdale’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. The two then talked with Dean of Women Diane Philipp about the possibility of serving a coffee brand besides Starbucks at Jitters.

“The gun control thing was not the reason that we did this – it was more of a catalyst,” Pfaff said.

Pfaff also took issue with Starbucks’ financial support of Planned Parenthood.

“Word got around that YAF is going after Starbucks because of their support of the LGBT

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Seniors opt for Students struggle through ‘Hell Week’ early graduation

mind-boggling.

Associate Professor of History David Raney is teaching one upper-level class and two Western Freshmen Sarah Krizman and Heritage courses this semsester, Jada Bissett knew that Hillsdale which is typical of history prowould be challenging. However, fessors, he said. Raney assigned this “hell week” has pushed them three three-page pafarther than they pers to his Heritage imagined. class, and a 14-page “Everything term paper to his 30 happened this week.

Jacksonian America I had an exam in students. All in all, he every class this will grade 798 pages week,” Bissett said. of written papers. He All Hillsdale also writes and procstudents experience tors two midterm tests a certain amount of and a final for his 42 stress during the last Heritage students, weeks of the semesalong with one midter, as papers pile term and one final for up and final exams his upper level class. draw near. Some All in all, he will read students experience and grade 1,194 blue the “final push” to book pages. a more extreme de“My least favorgree than others. ite grading is grading Junior John Tayfreshman term papers lor, a history major because they’re all with concentrawriting in response to tions in economone prompt, and after ics and philosophy, a while the responses took five academic can become redunclasses this semesdant,” Raney said. ter. Four of them “Whereas reading rewere history and search papers is quite philosophy classes, enjoyable, because the heavy on reading topics are quite diverse and writing. and often interesting.”

“Taking four Raney and his wife classes doesn’t Dawn had their first seem worth it to child on Sept. 26 of me when you could Junior John Taylor works on papers during the last week of fall semester this year, which has classes.

(Sally Nelson/Collegian) take more and learn slowed down his usumore,” Taylor said. al speed of grading.

“No matter what happens to your still awake studying for an exam am fortunate to have few papers However, Raney makes the most grade.” at 8 a.m., that’s when you re- assigned considering the work- of the situation with his famous Earlier this week, Taylor had ally feel alive,” Taylor remarked. load,” she said. “I had between positive attitude. about 20 pages written of the to- “Living off French press coffee 13-14 tests this semester, not in“I have never been more betal 55 he will write by the semes- and vitamin supplements – that’s cluding finals or quizzes.” hind in my life, but would I trade ter’s end. Taylor admitted that he literally my life.”

As tolling on students as the it for anything else? Absolutely always intends on starting writA junior transfer and econom- semester may seem, the amount not,” he said. ing the papers sooner in the se- ics major, Carolina McNicoll is of work that Hillsdale professors mester, but neglects his work and enrolled in six academic classes must accomplish is even more See Hell Week A2 Morgan Delp Sports Editor

she has appreciated less competition when interviewing for jobs.

“I have found that a lot of companies when they put up a Senior economics major job postings are looking to fill it Meilii Alvarez noticed last fall within four weeks,” Clore said. that she could fulfill the courses “It is really nice to see interestrequired to graduate by this De- ing job opportunities that are cember if she also took summer available now, knowing I would classes. She now has a job with be able to fill them opposed to PricewaterhouseCoopers that someone who isn’t graduating will begin on Jan. 6. until May who wouldn’t be con“I will definitely miss every- sidered for the position.” one, but I was ready to move on Executive Director of Career and get into the world and move Services Michael Murray also on to the next thing – not to men- said graduating early could give tion it saves a lot of money, so graduates more opportunities, but that helps too,” Alvarez said. it could also work against the hirAlvarez is not the only one to ing calendar. take advantage of the benefits of “In many respects there is not graduating early. as much competiThis December, tion in December, 26 students will I think I have but there are not as graduate – almost had a really awemany easily identihalf of them in less fied opportunities than 4 years. It is some three and a with companies,” the lowest number half years though, Murray said. “The of December grad- and I don’t think I bigger companies uates since 2008, model and strucpeaking in 2010 have missed out on ture their calendar with 47 graduates. anything.” year and their hirJob opportunities ing process around —Senior and finances often a typical academic motivate students Natalie Clore calendar with peoto graduate as soon ple graduating in as they reach credit the spring. Though requirements. based on what I Senior Deborah Ross, a music have seen the lesser number of major, realized she has sufficient opportunities and the lesser numcredits to graduate in December, ber of people is somewhat of a but said she is torn over the deci- wash.” sion to graduate early, since she Murray also said employers hoped to take more humanities could judge early graduates as eiclasses, especially history classes ther ambitious or intense dependshe has not had time to take be- ing on the nature of the company. fore now.

“The majority will see [grad“I am kind of at a stage where uating early] as a good thing. If I have to decide all this in a short [students] can do that it means amount of time,” Ross said. they are disciplined and focused Senior Natalie Clore, a mar- to get the credits done in a shorter keting management major, said Emily Shelton Collegian Reporter

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consequentially will amass a few sleepless nights and MelCat book fines by next week.

“As much as there is to complain and whine those two nights you pull all nighters in a row, when the sun rises and you’re

and a CCA this semester, totaling a whopping 19 credits. McNicoll doesn’t describe herself as someone who gets stressed easily, but this semester has had its moments.

“As an economics major, I

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The Young Guns I.M. team continues family dynasty with another football championship. B4

Councilwoman resigns Ruth Brown gives up her seat on city council. A6

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Orchestra plays “Rhapsody” Hillsdale College orchestra performs both classical and jazz music in the semester’s last concert. B1

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Career services Bacon speaks on virtue in Knorr changes DC trip

Emily Shelton Collegian Reporter

Career Services recently made changes to their informational trip for students Living and Working in D.C., – now known as Networking in D.C. Career Services decided to restructure and rename the program to incorporate Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center resources that they have acquired over the past few years.

“It was inaugurated before the Kirby Center was up and running, so part of our idea of reforming it is to have it better fit it with the Kirby Center.” Keith Miller, assistant director of Career Services said.

Assistant Director of the Kirby Center Craig Kreinbihl said the resources that the Kirby Center has to offer have grown through connections made in Washington, D.C. “As the Kirby center has grown more over the past few years, we have a lot of relationships and natural resources in Washington that we can take advantage of,” Kreinbihl said.

In addition to taking advantage of Kirby Center resources, Career Services has also tried to focus on networking and less on sending students to job shadow.

“In previous years, it has been very focused on job shadows, which has not been as great as we would have liked. We have moved away from that and have more of a series of informational meeting where students tour an office on Capitol Hill or one of the think tanks or an organization.

They will talk to the HR people and a couple of the experts there.

It will be more focused on networking events than individual job shadows. That is one of our big shifts,” Miller said.

Sophomore Macaela Bennett, a student affairs mentor in Career Services, said her experience on the trip last year helped her create connections.

“I think the most helpful part for most students was just having a taste that this is real life,” Bennett said.

The trip will be Jan. 8-9 and will cost $350. This year, Career Services hopes to have as many as 20 students come.

Macaela Bennett Assistant Editor

By outlining the values of a liberal arts degree, best-selling author and motivational speaker John U. Bacon attempted to show that Hillsdale students and fellow liberal arts students are the best prepared to succeed after college.

In his lecture titled “Virtue before Victory: How the goodness and grit you learn at Hillsdale will lead to victory in life after graduation,” Bacon espoused the virtue of a liberal arts degree and explained the importance of Hillsdale students’ diversified knowledge.

“You guys are learning how the world works and how it has for more than 200 years,” Bacon said in his lecture. “That is more important than training for a specific career, because you guys know how to write and how to think.”

Bacon added that one of the most important characteristics of a successful person is character, and that is something he sees many Hillsdale students exemplify.

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Monitors get a makeover Amanda Tindall Assistant Editor

The Grewcock Student Union monitors have a new, official look due to their blue polo shirts, which match the shirts of Hillsdale College campus security’s student employees.

Junior Kadeem Noray, one of the student union monitors, questioned why the shirts were necessary.

“I just don’t understand why we have to wear security shirts when we’re not security,” Noray said.

Director of Student Activities Amanda Bigney said the shirts would give students and visitors an indication as to whom they should go to in case of emergency.

Although the student union monitors do not work directly for campus security, Director of Campus Security and Emergency Management Bill Whorley said the monitors operate under the broad base of services that campus security offers.

“We always want to be of support to every area of campus,” Whorley said. “This is a service area of campus, like maintenance and other areas of campus. So everybody, depending on what

Bobb

From A1 scription. The Bill of Rights Institute has a network of nearly 20,000 teachers nationwide and reaches out to high school students.

Andy Gillette, director or program development at the Bill of Rights Institute, met Bobb at the conference about teaching civic virtue to young people.

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amount of time. I also think it cuts both ways,” Murray said. “Some companies, depending on what they are, might say, ‘That person might be a little too intense – too aggressive for our company,’ but

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Assistant English Professor Dutton Kearney has a large fam-

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community, which was wrong,” Brand said. “That wasn’t even brought up when we talked to the dean. It was more of the guns and the pro-life issue that were a concern.”

Philipp looked into Starbucks’ relationship with Saga Inc. and found that Saga does not have a contract with the coffee provider, meaning that changing providers was possible.

Saga’s General Manager Kev-

Junior Kadeem Noray works his shift as a Grewcock Student Union monitor with his new security shirt.

(Hailey Morgan/Collegian)

task we’re performing, is our customer.”

Operating under that system, the student union monitors received basic security training from Whorley and Assistant Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers at the beginning of the year before starting work.

“They gave an idea as of what to do in a high risk situation,” Bigney said.

Student union monitors only have to wear the shirts if their shift is longer than two hours.

“I’m largely indifferent to it,” junior Korbin Kiblinger said.

“It’s a little inconvenient that you have to change, but they only make you wear it if you’re working longer than a two hour shift.”

Other students, however, don’t look on the uniform t-shirts as favorably.

“The first time I saw them, I said, ‘Stylistically, this is the worst thing that has ever happened to me’,” Noray said. “I guess I do like the color navy blue. And they are navy blue.”

“I was struck by his eloquence and clarity of thought around the idea of the importance of teaching the principles that America was founded upon to today's students,” Gillette said. “It's evident he deeply cares about these issues, and has devoted his life to advancing the ideas that are central to the Bill of Rights Institute's mission of creating a constitutional culture in the United States.”

His job will entail reaching more teachers and students with the words and ideas of the

Founders and identifying donors who can help develop outreach strategy.

“I am excited about this new opportunity,” Bobb said. “After 12 years of working for my alma mater, I will miss all of my wonderful colleagues at the college, as well as the students. I look forward, however, to continuing to work side-by-side with Hillsdale to improve liberal learning and civil education throughout the country.”

again, that is driven by the opportunity and culture and the organization where the opportunity presents itself.”

Clore said despite the benefits of graduating early, there are things that she will miss.

“It is definitely a day to day thing,” Clore said. “When I have a lot of homework, I am very

glad to be leaving early, but on days I get to spend hanging out with my friends or having good conversations with professors, it seems sad that I will be gone sooner than everyone else. I think I have had a really awesome three and a half years though and I don’t think I have missed out on anything.”

ily with many kids, and due to changes in the core, has taught a lighter load this semester. Unlike Raney, he enjoys grading exams better on the whole, although he “loves reading an excellent es-

say.”

As Krizman realized that seven more semesters of this awaits her, she shook her head in denial.

“I can’t even think about seven more times.”

in Kirwan said students asked Saga to bring Starbucks to campus years ago.

“Starbucks was all the fad at that time and, quite honestly, was one of the first coffee companies that said, ‘We’re going to do things right,’” he said. “They wanted to have free trade and make sure their coffee was organically grown and that sort of thing.

option for students who wish to avoid drinking Starbucks coffee.

Kirwan directed Jitters student workers to serve Cadillac Coffee, the brand that is served in A.J.’s, and continue selling Starbucks.

Cadillac has not, however, sold well at Jitters.

“It’s probably at least 100 to one,” Kirwan said, referring to the ratio of Starbucks cups sold to Cadillac cups. “Starbucks continues to be more popular over there.”

Poor sales of the new coffee aside, Jitters will continue to serve both brands until further notice.

“So it was a very positive situation with Starbucks, and it came about because of students.”

Philipp spoke with Kirwin and he decided to provide an

Collegian Correction Contrary to what a story in our Nov. 21 issue claimed (“Hillsdale student cast in Star Wars”), a Hillsdale College student was not cast in the next Star Wars film.

We should have verified the story and take full responsibility for running it. We apologize to our readers.

without doors and locks,” Bacon said. “Don’t forget the importance of that for a second and how much that means about you and your classmates.

Character matters.”

Senior Melika Will o u g h b y, who attended the luncheon, said Bacon’s lecture were very encouraging.

“I enjoyed how he spoke mostly about diversifying your career options and how liberal arts students are naturally diverse,” Willoughby said. “Then he transplanted that to the career world and it encouraged me and was freeing to see that I can be a

speech writer, speech coach, and a volleyball coach when I graduate.”

This was Bacon’s third visit

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Bauman said when describing the book.

Bauman also plans to start cycling again. He won a world championship in 2000 and wants to begin training to race again in 2015.

“I had a heart attack a few years ago and haven’t been able to ride,” Bauman explained.

“Now the time has come when I might be able to try it once more.”

Daniel Coupland, associate professor of education Coupland will be working with a friend to create an elementary grammar program for kids to use in private schools, charter schools, public schools, or homeschools. Aside from this task, he plans to catch up on reading related to his classes.

Paul Rahe, professor of history Rahe is currently at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is on sabbatical for the entire 2013-2014 academic year.

Rahe, his wife, and their four children moved in July to California, where Rahe has been revising two book manuscripts. He recently sent “The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Its Origins” to the publisher, and plans to send “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge” soon. Afterwards, he will begin work on a sequel to the second book: “The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Athenian Challenge.”

Aside from his work, Rahe has been enjoying showing America to his children. The Rahe family

(Courtesy of John Bacon)

to Hillsdale’s campus, but his first time presenting in the Knorr Room. The event was sponsored

by Career Services, the Down Journalism Program, and the Varsity Football Team.

Bacon said he agrees to speak at these events not because of the size of the event, but because of the people who organize them.

“Mike [Murray] and John [Miller] are the reason I’m here,” Bacon said.

Bacon and Murray’s friendship goes back around 10 years.

While Murray was a Marine officer at the University of Michigan, Bacon asked him to run a Marine Corps workout for the Ann Arbor Huron high school hockey team he was coaching.

Murray said the event was a success, and Career Services hopes to continue hosting similar lectures.

“We were looking for a way to get a lot of students to attend the event, and I think it was a success,” Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray said.

Murray added that, in the future, similar lectures likely will be held in the Private Dining Room, but that Career Services wants to make these regular events.

Professors plan sabbaticals

A number of Hillsdale professors are leaving for sabbatical this spring. All professors will return to Hillsdale in the fall of 2014, with the exception of Associate Professor of Politics Kevin Portteus, who will resume teaching at Hillsdale in the first summer term.

Ryan Hutchinson, associate professor of mathematics Hutchinson plans to work on course development during his sabbatical. Due to a marked student interest in probability and mathematical statistics, Hutchinson will be developing a followup class to the current Theory of Probability class. He will also be advising a student who is finishing his senior thesis.

Michael Bauman, professor of theology and culture During his sabbatical, Bauman will be completing four books and seeking an agent for a fifth. The titles include “The God of the Philosophers,” “The Little Book of Labor Unions: Who They Are, What They Do, and Why They Do It,” “Mere Indoctrination and Other Reasons Why Christian Colleges Sometimes Fail,” and a book on theology and politics that does not yet have a title. “Long Walk Home,” an autobiographical work of creative non-fiction, is finished but needs an agent.

“You could say it’s life with my two fathers, Ed and God,”

has already visited many sites, including Yellowstone, the Black Hills and Pebble Beach and plans to visit the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert and Salt Lake City before they head home in June.

Kevin Portteus, associate professor of politics According to Mickey Craig, professor of politics, Portteus will use his sabbatical to work on two articles to be published in refereed journals. Craig said in an email that one article will be on the topic of how Progressive Era reforms changed how Congress functions and the other will be on how new left critiques of the 1960s affected the relationship between the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the independent regulatory agencies.

Portteus also plans to use the sabbatical to catch up on reading and research.

Christopher VanOrman, professor of chemistry During his sabbatical, VanOrman will begin assembling a reader for a new Foundations and Importance of Chemistry core course. His tasks include gathering and organizing sources for the reader and seeking copyright permissions. VanOrman also hopes to finish up and publish the results of a current research project focusing on binuclear transition metal chelates. He will continue to perform his duties as a core advisor while on sabbatical.

Gershom Lecture series to begin next semester At the beginning of the spring semester, the new Gershom Lecture series on Jewish-Christian relations officially kicks off with three lectures: Jan. 20 at 4:00 p.m., Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m., and Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium.

The three lectures, given by Walter S. Kaiser, are entitled “When Believing Jews and Believing Gentiles Were One in Messiah,” “When Supersessionism and Replacement Theology Drew the Lines,” and “When the Christian Church Needs Israel and Israel Needs the Church.”

Kaiser is an Old Testament scholar and was the president of the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from 1997-2006.

“The Lectures are the Inaugural Lectures of the Gershom Lecture Series, the purpose of the latter to explore Jewish-Christian relations biblically, historically and sociologically,” Dean of Humanities Tom Burke said.

“We’ve been eager in the department to do more justice to the ‘Judeo’ in our mission statement,” Professor of Religion Don Westblade said in a previous interview. “We’re aware that Judaica is kind of a weakness in the department, so we’re really happy to be able to bolster that end of things.”

Funded by a gift from Messianic Rabbi G. Robert Chenoweth, a founding member of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council and a friend of Hillsdale College, the lecture series had a pre-inaugural lecture last month to introduce the concept to campus. In addition to the Gershom Lecture series, there is potential for some short, seminar courses on the same topic – Jewish-Christian relations – in the future.

–Kelsey Drapkin

Dow Journalism Program announces Pulliam Fellow Jonah Goldberg, syndicated columnist and editor at National Review, will spend two weeks on campus next semester as the Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism.

Goldberg will teach a one-credit class between April 6 and April 18. He will then deliver a public speech the night of April 18.

“Jonah is very funny and deeply principled,” said Dow Journalism Program Director John Miller. “He combines wit with sound thinking. It’s not a unique combination, but it’s a rare one.”

Goldberg has several Hillsdale College connections. Besides speaking on campus several times, including a commencement address at Hillsdale Academy, he also employed a Hillsdale student as his intern two summers ago.

He’s published two books, “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” and “Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.”

In addition to his experience with Washington, D.C., and the realm of national journalism, Miller said he thinks Goldberg will have helpful things to say about social media.

“He’s the best Twitter user I know,” Miller said.

–Caleb Whitmer

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College launches campaign to improve party reputation Back Jutler Collegian Punmeister Hillsdale College is getting ready to party.

After a popular website put Hillsdale on a list of the worst party schools in the nation, the college is launching a campaign to rebrand itself as a destination for debauchery.

“Partying is true, good, and beautiful,” said president Party N. Hard. “Plato’s ‘Symposium’ would not have happened without the influence of alcohol, for example.”

Administration officials worry that current prohibitive policies on partying, drinking, and having any fun whatsoever could keep out students who could still bring something unique to the college.

“A true liberal arts education values knowledge from all perspectives,” said Provost Al C.A. Hall. “How could we pursue truth and defend liberty without perusing drinks and defending license?”

To execute this campaign successfully, the college will

soon begin soliciting donations from interested donors and foundations, using advertisements featuring Beyoncé gyrating.

So far, contributions have been meager.

“Why would I give money for something like this?” said wealthy businessman Wright N. Proper. “Students shouldn’t come here to watch porn.”

But thanks to donations from several distilleries and “medical marijuana” distributors, the campaign will go on, starting with a year-end, campus-wide rager.

All students are encouraged to attend.

BYOB.

Last week college administration generously announced an “email-reading day” to give students time to catch up on thousands of campus-wide emails still buried in the recesses of email inboxes.

“Students originally suggested a national holiday could serve as a suitable break to catch up on the email overload,” Chief Administrative Officer Forward Reply said. “Obviously that’s unacceptable, but we are willing to compromise by offering this randomly-selected email-reading day in the middle of the week.”

More than a year into its capital campaign, the college announced yesterday that so far it has raised $3.27.

College administrators said they hope the campaign – called the Campaign of Money Making, Used Not in a Socialist Manner – will raise $457 million by 2017.

“We’re very proud of that number,” said Chief Administrative Officer Richanov Péwéski, referring to the just more than $3 the college has raised in the past 452 days.

Money the college raises through campaigning will go

Knowing that it was a long shot that she would text him back, at least based on several unrealistic scenarios played out repeatedly in his mind, freshman boy Phil S. Dating almost texted a freshman girl he likes last Saturday. Reports con-

into the college’s endowment, as well as to building projects around campus.

College administrators hope to erect large walls around the

Campaign Specs Money raised: $3.27 Goal: $457 million

campus, organize permanent camping excursions to improve student morale, encourage twominute liberty rallies, and open on-campus grocery stores with

bare shelves.

“We cannot hope to win the war of ideas without introducing character-building privations in the student body,” said President Lars Arnnovich. “It is obvious that the liberals beyond our borders see the threat posed by our upstart republic and refuse to provide capital, the lifeblood of their tyranny, to an institution that seeks such serious upheaval.”

Arnnovich said he expects the college’s new initiatives will attract more donors to campus, and added that he hopes C.O.M.M.U.N.I.S.M. will enable the college to survive being tossed onto the ash-heap of history.

firmed that he then deleted the message before sending and proceeded to, as witnesses say, “cry like a baby.”

The Collegian was able to obtain exclusive access to the deleted messages: “Hey how’s your Jackson paper?”

“Heyyyyyy” “Sup” Dating also considered sending “Awesome!” to the female

so it would seem like an accident.

“She would think I was happy about something, and girls like happy,” Dating said.

After further thought, Dating decided that idea was stupid.

“Phil has never been good at communicating,” said Dating’s close friend. “But ya know, that’s like just a thing, right?”

Football attendance shatters records Taylor Faux-Swift Shorts Editor Bleachers had to be reinforced and concession stands re-stocked to meet the increased number of student attendees to Charger football games this fall.

School officials are baffled at the staggering number of students who attended home

HCF announces day of 24-hour skyscreaming

Campus-wide email contains important information Confused Gala attendees return to campus, cannot rediscover venue College, town combine forces to become Hillsdale-tron 3 seniors, 7 juniors, 9 sophomores receive rings, guard them jealously Fully naked student body looks past differences, clothing Senior class president stages Kanye video on Kawasaki motorcycle Out of Egypt: church finds promised land boxier than expected Metaxas named commencement speaker simply because he is hot

College accepts common core, Lincoln statue weeps

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“I don’t have time to read

Freshman boy almosts texts girl, deletes it, cries Babyface Harpdaddy Basically Samson

National treasure found in Student Fed account

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football games in the 2013 season. The records show that more students attended this year than ever before.

Some speculate that reduced library hours and a shortage of copies of Greek classics in the bookstore have contributed to this feat.

Salamander Laundry, a prominent player on the squad,

said he appreciates hearing Hillsdale students’ chants instead of the opposing fanbase atop the band’s renditions of the always current Top 40 pop list.

“It’s always nice when more students come out to a Saturday game than a lecture on income taxes,” he said.

On the art of pretension One of Hillsdale’s resident hipsters has lots of feelings.

Now that you’ve observed the freshmen, what is your opinion of them?

First off, I don’t know what radio stations they listened to growing up, because clearly they have no taste in music. Most of them haven’t ever heard of “Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.”

Besides, none of them smoke, except for those who smoke those big, grape-flavored cigars.

Sure. Cigarettes kill you but so do televisions, and cars. Besides, fresh air tastes kinda boring.

As I’ve gotten to know a few of them, I’ve introduced them to the rich things of life, like drinking whiskey, while smoking a pipe, while writing your Jackson paper, while thanking the lord that my lungs are so bad that I couldn’t even play sports if I wanted to. But really, I don’t want to.

These kids want to go hang out in town and in each other’s dorm rooms. Don’t they know that the only cool place to hang out on campus is in front of the library? Otherwise, they need to make the drive to Ann Arbor.

A few of the kids are figuring out how to roll their own ciga-

rettes, and really getting the hang of it, so I think they’ll be OK. But there’s this one kid I’m really concerned about, because he still buys his clothes at American Eagle.

How do you think that these freshmen will escape their ignorance?

I’m not really sure they can.

They’ll never take Western Heritage and Rhetoric and the Great Books at the same time.

They’ll never experience the fire, the forge of the soul, that is the dual-humanities first semester.

With the new core, I’m not sure these kids are ever going to become fully formed human beings. How can they? They’ll traipse through meadows of mediocrity rather than suffering the scourge of academic agony as they’re drawn and quartered by the Western Heritage reader, Dante, Homer, and Virgil.

What are your thoughts on politics?

It really depends on what you’re asking. If you’re talking about campus politics, then I couldn’t care less. I didn’t vote in Student Fed elections, and I’m not part of any political clubs, the only election I voted in was for Homecoming king

and queen, and that’s because monarchy is the best.

As for campus culture, I don’t think there should be politics among the student body. I have friends who are in frats, I think.

I should check Facebook. And I’m pretty sure I had a crush on a sorority girl freshman year. And I played sports in middle school.

As for national politics, I don’t know. Is it really our place as college students studying the higher things? I’d rather be reading “Infinite Jest” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

What are you going to do when you graduate?

I don’t know man. I just can’t see myself working a 9-5 desk job, joining the rat race.

I want to do something, like Jack Kerouac. Maybe I’ll be a fisherman and write books, or a farm hand and write poetry and woo the farmer’s daughter. I’ll roam the earth with my guitar in one hand, Pabst Blue Ribbon in the other, Lucky Strike hanging from my lip and see where the wind has taken me. Wherever I go, I’m going to live. Live. I’m going to read and write and sing and dance like nobody’s watching. Because I know people are watching.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, How dare you question the rights of men to wear running tights as everyday attire in an editorial I do not remember the title to and didn’t actually read?

A friend who actually reads told me about it and now I am outraged. I am taking the time to write this because I am excited for this soapbox to enter the public debate from and think

my opinion is credible and authoritative. Listen up.

It is patent sexism to defend the ability of women to wear so-called “yoga pants” when they are not doing yoga—have you seen the flying crow pose?

Wow—but not to defend the ability and propriety of men to wear their running tights about town. Sometimes we wake up late and just don’t have time

to put on proper underpants.

Or any pants at all. Sometimes some compressive sweats is exactly what I need to get me through the day. And you can deal with the view.

Admit it, you enjoy it.

Sincerely, Chuck “Cross Country” Roostersen.

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Walker’s own words “Governor, we’ve lost control of the capitol.”

Thousands of protesters mobbed the Wisconsin Capitol in March 2011, ripping hinges off doors and crawling through open windows. Outraged by the legislature’s passage of a collective bargaining reform bill championed by Gov. Scott Walker, the crowds quickly overran the capitol police. For weeks the swelling mob occupied the rotunda, with protests attracting nearly a hundred thousand people. But, with passage of the bill, protesters began scouring the whole building searching for offending legislators who dared defy union bosses by supporting Governor Walker’s reforms.

In his new book, “Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge,” Walker chronicles his battle to free the Badger State from the restraints of collective bargaining. With the feeling of a political thriller novel, Walker recounts the legislative fight, union intimidation tactics, and ensuing recall election.

While a raw explanation of the drama-filled tale would prove compelling enough, Walker’s candid and pithy narrative will enthrall readers, and leave them speculating about the political future of this rising conservative statesman.

Elected with the 2010 tide of Republican victories, Walker was just a month into his first term when he introduced what came to be known as Act 10. Looking to close the state’s $3.6 billion deficit — one of the highest per capita in the nation — Walker began evaluating options, but quickly realized that conventional budget balancing measures were out of the question. He wouldn’t raise taxes because he pledged not to while on the campaign trail; Public layoffs were not an option, because he promised to protect the middle-class; Medicaid cuts were also out because he believed it would hurt the poor and vulnerable. This panoply of promises sounds stale, because empty-suit politicians have spewed the same platitudes for decades, but Walker intended follow through.

Searching for innovative budget solutions, Walker cast his eye towards reforming collective bargaining. Walker writes that his experience as Milwaukee County Executive taught him that local governments could withstand cuts in state aid, if local officials had the latitude to implement the changes themselves. Collective bargaining, however, made the local executive’s changes subject to the approval of public workers unions. Act 10 would give local officials the tools to manage their own budget.

Walker’s Act 10 required public sector workers — excluding police and firemen — to increase pension contributions to 5.8 percent of their salary, and to pay 12.6 percent of their health insurance premiums (a number equivalent to about half the private sector average). To offset these cuts, Walker limited collective bargaining to wages only. Also, union wages could no longer be deducted directly from employee paychecks, and unions had to be recertified by their members yearly. The changes were drastic.

And so was the backlash.

Occupation of Madison’s capitol began the day bill was introduced. Thousands of national union organizations, including some from Chicago and New York, crowded the building bearing signs comparing the governor to Al-Qaeda and Hitler. Walker describes protesters banging drums, blasting horns, and chanting, “This is what democracy looks like.” To ensure the safety of lawmakers, SWAT teams were required to escort them throughout the capitol. The protesters repeatedly lined the driveway of one state senator with nails, and they banged on windows and doors at the home of another legislator. Protesters trailed Walker’s wife and threatened Walker’s sons at high school football games. In the face such reckless hate, Walker maintained a positive message.

He writes that his Christian faith sustained him, coupled with his conviction that the reforms would work. Ultimately, they did.

In September 2011, school districts had balanced budgets, hired more teachers, and reduced class sizes. Because districts were now able to shop for the best price in health insurance — instead of being required to use the company associated with the teacher’s union — they were able to provide the same insurance benefits to teachers at a lower price. The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance estimated health insurance costs decreased by 24 percent in the 2011-2012 school year alone. Act 10 also affected property taxes: for the first time in a decade, they declined on median-valued homes.

Walker often quips, “Good policy is good politics.” Turns out, he’s right. In June 2012, Walker became the first governor in American history to survive a recall election, winning by an even larger margin than in 2010. And, while the left was distracted

by Act 10, Walker signed into law a cadre of other conservative policies: expanding gun rights, defunding planned parenthood, reforming welfare, and refusing medicaid expansion. Because of his national profile, political success, and recent book publication (a frequent stop on the path to the Oval Office), speculations are now flying about a presidential bid in 2016. With Walker’s record of results, and his courage of character, I can’t say I mind.

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Here we are at the end of hell week. Congratulations to those of you who have turned in your last papers, passi graviora to those of you still typing. We’re keeping our last weekly of the semester light: below you’ll find a list of five suggestions for getting through finals, and another five for getting the most out of winter break.

Five ways to cope with finals: 1. Make a to-do list.

Some people are to-do list people and some people aren’t.

But everyone should be during finals week. Strategy is a big part of successfully navigating the potentially dangerous waters of finals. Include things like “study“ and “test” and “shower.”

Especially the last one. Checking things off a list provides instant gratification. While you’re checking off items on the list, be

liberal with rewards. Finished a 25 page Stuart paper? Smoke a cigarette. Or, better yet, down a tub of Talenti’s Sea Salt Caramel Gelato. Long-term health concerns do not belong to finals week.

2. Sleep.

Never underestimate the importance of a few hours of sleep before an exam.

3. Eat. When we say eat, we mean be sure you’re getting enough real food. Man liveth not on pop tarts and energy drinks alone. That’s especially true during finals week.

4. Beware social media.

Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and reddit become exponentially more interesting (and destructive) the more exams and papers you have. Turn over your passwords to someone you trust.

5. Avoid starting “Breaking Bad.” Once you start, you can’t stop. Senior Mark Keller (bless him) watched 51 episodes in nine days earlier this semester.

Don’t be a hero. Netflix will still be there in a week.

Top 5 things to do over break: 1. Make a to-do list.

We’re all about lists this week at The Collegian. You don’t need to be as strict about your Christmas break list, but break goes quick. If you don’t make goals for yourself at the beginning you may not get done everything you want to. Which is fine because its Christmas break. Remember, these are just suggestions.

2. Sleep Remove all clocks from within 15 feet of your bed — ditto with light—and sleep. You earned it, champ.

3. Eat. Saga food may be improving but nothing beats home-cooked meals. Take advantage of it.

4. Beware social media.

You’re going to do that when school starts anyways. Enjoy some time away from the daily tweet and wall-post grind.

5. Binge watch “Breaking Bad.” This is The Collegian’s official editorial stance: “Breaking Bad” is the best TV show ever made. And it’s available on Netflix. Watch two episodes a day and you could complete all 62 episodes before you’re back in the classroom, and all for the eminently reasonable price of $7.99.

So there are our lists. Good luck with finals and have a Merry Christmas.

Don’t think you’ve cornered the market on Truth

Isaac Morrison Student Columnist “Insert obligatory theological debate here,” read the followup comment on a funny quote posted on Overheard at Hillsdale, garnering almost as many “likes” as the actual quote. Hillsdale students are obviously aware of our penchant for turning anything into a heated debate upon which the truth of the universe hinges.

Someone brings up Luther, and the dormant Catholic versus

Protestant feud erupts. Mention Lincoln, and the Civil War refights itself. Write a tongue-incheek editorial about the A.J.’s piano, wake up with a severed horse head in your bed (slightly exaggerated). Even Starbucks has recently been a source of controversy.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? After all, as Hillsdale students, we’re supposed to seek the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, and everyone has different opinions on what those really are. Arguments and debates are expected, and discourse is a necessary part of unraveling intellectual mysteries.

And yet, we walk a very fine line between arguing for truth’s sake and arguing for its own sake.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m anything but a relativist. I believe in objective truth, and I believe we can understand at least part of it. We should seek those higher things that Plato and Dr. Arnn love. But we should also be careful not to get in our own way.

Debate certainly has its place.

Socratic dialogues, presidential debates, and point-counterpoint articles can all be extremely useful in illuminating various ideas and principles. But, as someone who reads YouTube comments

far too often, I can say from experience that arguments can be extraordinarily counterproductive.

There comes a point in most debates, while you’re screaming about papal infallibility or the merits of One Direction, that you realize you might as well be talking to a brick wall. If someone disagrees with you for any reason, then no matter the impenetrable logic and moral rectitude of your assured position, you’re most likely not going to convert him or her to your side.

That’s just how people are: we’re stubborn. We have our reasons for thinking what we do, and we won’t give them up, because they’re ours, dang it. We invoke the natural law of self-defense whenever we feel a threat to the property of our opinions.

Hillsdale students have a very keen sense of this. And well they should, as the truth is both incredibly powerful and desperately vulnerable. With so many differing opinions in the world, the truth gets lost in the fray, and when we think we’ve finally gotten some hold on it, we cling to it for dear life.

The thing we have to realize is that everyone else does the same thing.

Before I completely turn this

into a thesis on epistemology, allow me, as a wise old college senior, to offer some advice to you whippersnappers out there.

I can’t recall learning much of anything by arguing about it. I do remember learning just about everything by asking about it.

We Hillsdale students have an obsession with being right. That is, right about divisive issues, where one side is pitted against another. No matter the source of contention, we want to be the most adamant Directioner or the most effusive Belieber, the most rational anarcho-capitalist or the most Aristotelian monarchist, the most scriptural Protestant or the most faithful Catholic.

That, I think, is where we too easily let our ethos be just our ego. We want to win, to feel more correct than everyone else.

But we shouldn’t compare ourselves to other people and their opinions, we should only measure ourselves against the truth we claim to seek. Yes, we should defend truth with all of our ability, but we should also not be so proud as to think we, individually, have each cornered the market on it.

You don’t have to agree with me, though.

LIBERALS ARE CULTURE WAR AGGRESSORS

Jonah Goldberg Syndicated Columnist Maybe someone can explain to me how, exactly, conservatives are the aggressors in the culture war? In the conventional narrative of American politics, conservatives are obsessed with social issues. They want to impose their values on everyone else. They want the government involved in your bedroom. Those mean right-wingers want to make “health care choices” for women.

Now consider last week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to consider two cases stemming from Obamacare: Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius and

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By Forester McClatchey

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores.

Democratic politicians and their fans on social media went ballistic almost instantly. That’s hardly unusual these days. But what’s revealing is that the talking points are all wrong.

Suddenly, the government is the hero for getting deeply involved in the reproductive choices of nearly every American, whether you want the government involved or not. The bad guy is now your boss who, according to an outraged Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., would be free to keep you from everything from HIV treatment to vaccinating your children if Hobby Lobby has its way. Murray and the White House insist that every business should be compelled by law to protect its employees’ “right” to “contraception” that is “free.”

I put all three words in quotation marks because these are deeply contentious claims. For starters, the right to free birth control -- or health care generally -- is not one you’ll find in the Constitution. And even if you think it should be a right, that is hardly a settled issue in American life.

The right to own a gun is a far more settled issue constitutionally, politically and legally in this country, but not even the National Rifle Association would dream to argue that we have a right to free guns, provided by our employers. If your boss were

required to give you a gun, your new employer-provided Glock still wouldn’t be free because non-cash compensation is still compensation. The costs to the employer are fungible, which means whether it’s a pistol or a pill, the cost is still coming out of your paycheck -- and your coworkers’ paychecks.

“Regular, predictable expenses such as birth control pills cannot be defrayed by insurance; they can only be prepaid, with a markup for the insurer’s administrative costs,” writes Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle. “The extra cost is passed on by the insurers to your employer, and from your employer to you and your fellow workers, either by raising your contribution or lowering the wage they are willing to offer.”

Last, birth control pills really aren’t the issue. Both companies suing the government under Obamacare have no objection to providing insurance plans that cover the cost of birth control pills and other forms of contraception. What both the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties object to is paying for abortifacients -- drugs that terminate a pregnancy rather than prevent one. (Hobby Lobby also opposes paying for IUDs, which prevent implantation of a fertilized egg.) The distinction is simple: Contraception prevents fertilization and pregnancy. Drugs such as “Plan B” terminate a

pregnancy, albeit at an extremely early stage.

The plaintiffs in these cases aren’t saying the government should ban abortifacients or make it impossible for their employees to buy them. All they are asking is that the people using such drugs pay for them themselves rather than force employers and co-workers to share the cost. In other words, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood want such birth control decisions to be left to individual women and their doctors. Leave the rest of us out of it.

But leaving the rest of us out of it is exactly the opposite intent of the authors of Obamacare.

The law forces not only arts and crafts shops but also Catholic charities and other religiously inspired groups to choose between fulfilling their mission or violating their values. You may have no moral objection to such things, but millions of people do.

By what right are liberals seeking to impose their values on everyone else? Isn’t that something they denounce conservatives for?

They could have allowed for plans that exclude controversial forms of birth control -- or even uncontroversial ones -- which would have lowered premium costs and expanded health care coverage to more poor people.

But Democrats wanted a wedge issue to drum up a new battle in the culture war -- a war in which liberals have always been the aggressors.

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Unpaid internships offer invaluable experience Morgan Delp Sports Editor I was ready to head to our longtime friend’s graduation party with my parents and sister around 6 p.m. one Saturday night in June 2012. I had just reached my front door when I felt my phone buzz. It was that irritating, long, slow vibration that signals a call and sends a panic through my text-savvy generation.

I looked down and the screen read “Michael Miller.” He was my boss that summer at the Toledo Free Press, the weekly newspaper where I was an unpaid intern.

I knew he wasn’t calling to congratulate me on a great week’s work or for a casual chat. My suspicions were confirmed when Michael asked me, the lowly intern, to pick up a lastminute assignment. A boy had gone

missing in a nearby town, and the Free Press wanted online coverage that evening before the print edition went out the next week.

I hung up the phone and told my parents and sister to go on to the party without me. I trudged upstairs to get on my laptop and begin research.

With the recent legal trouble that publications like Condé Nast have incurred for hiring unpaid interns, many question the justice of allowing young people to work without pay for a company. Instances like my disrupted Saturday night make me want to grab a picket sign and join the ranks of oppressed youth in forcing pay from the likes of Condé Nast.

But a more rational evaluation of my summer work forces a different perspective. Unpaid internships are invaluable for college students, especially journalism students, for whom published clips and connections are

the currency of success.

I worked the same amount of hours and wrote about the same number of stories as the full-time staff reporters, with just as much of the glory and responsibility. After three months of work, I had about 50 published clips to my name, including three cover stories. I wrote on things like the hiring of a new zoo director, a Vietnam vet dying of the effects of Agent Orange, and a strip of new artists emerging in the downtown district.

There were nights, like that Saturday in mid-June, that I wanted to quit the job. I hardly thought the late nights of writing and the early mornings of reporting were worth a nonexistent cash flow. I felt like I was being cheated.

Just as I was cursing out my boss and the entire institution of journalism internships in my mind, the aunt of the missing boy answered my call,

and suddenly I was snapped back to a harsh reality. As I talked for 10 minutes with this kindly woman about the devastating loss of her nephew, I knew my work was worthwhile. Beyond the selfish addition of a great clip, I knew I was making a difference to this family by creating awareness in the area.

Before I knew it the clock struck 10 p.m. My family walked through our front door as I was sending my story on to Michael for publication on the website.

My breaking news piece did not lead to a discovery of the missing boy; in fact, he was proclaimed dead weeks later. But I was given the opportunity to report on a major story and have it published on a well-respected paper’s website. I was able to work on my reporting in a real-life situation and get a clip that could land me a paid internship or a real job someday.

By the end of the summer I had

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not earned a dime, but the experience I had gained was priceless. How else was a rising college sophomore with no real employment experience supposed to interview county commissioners, have her piece ripped to shreds by a forceful editor, and see it in print on her own doorstep, if not for unpaid internships? The answer is, there is no way that the struggling Toledo Free Press could have afforded to pay me for my work.

Working at the Free Press was the hardest thing I have ever done, and it was not always easy to give up Saturday nights with friends and family for payless work. But by choosing experience over money and a social life, I invested in my future. For that, I will be repaid in dividends.

When the government plays in traffic

Congress’ new black box proposal to fund the Highway Traffic Fund will hurt economy, encroach on rights Sam Scorzo Assistant Editor Do you want the government to know everywhere you drive? And at your expense?

Congress has recently been debating how to get money for the failing Highway Trust Fund. One of their solutions is installing event data recorders, known as a black box, in every car to keep track of mileage so they can tax per mile. A similar proposal will become reality in Oregon in 2015, the first state to impose such a tax, according to Fox News.

The HTF is currently funded by a federal fuel tax of 18.4 cents per gallon. This new black box tax is needed because according to the Congressional Research Service, the fuel tax isn’t bringing in as much money as it used to. The slow economy is causing people to buy less of the high-priced commodity, and people are buying more fuel-efficient cars.

High gas prices are already putting the pinch on travel, and this new tax will only make it harder.

Many people live far away from their work, schools, grocery stores, and churches, so they have to drive.

If people have to pay more per mile, travel for luxury will be cut out of their routines and places like restaurants, movie theaters, and sporting events will suffer.

The politicians pushing this tax in Congress would be more than happy to make driving more difficult to decrease emissions. They fail to real-

ize that preventing traveling will not only harm local businesses, but also tourist-driven cities and regions, such as Northern Michigan.

This past summer, Main Street shops in downtown Petoskey, Mich. struggled because of soaring gas prices, PetoskeyNews.com reported.

Michigan’s gas prices averaged $4.215 per gallon this summer, which is only $0.04 lower than the all-time highest gas price ever seen in the state, AAA Michigan found. As the article explained, these downtown shops “depend on summer sales to bring in a big chunk of their yearly profits.” So how will shops in these regions survive economically when there are even more taxes on traveling? People will be more content with watching a bonfire on their iPad rather than going Up North. They won’t stop at restaurants or malls on the drive up, they won’t pay for a hotel room, they won’t drive to get coffee at the cute little café for breakfast, and they won’t support the local town’s summer festivals.

A way to get around paying this tax would be using public transportation, but only people in urban areas have access to it, and they live in the vicinity of places they need to travel to. It’s the people who live far away from their churches and work and schools who will suffer the most because they drive more miles.

Black boxes were first installed in cars in the mid-1990s, and today, they record the events of about 150 million vehicles on the road. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety

(Dane Skorup)

Administration, 96 percent of all new cars made this year now sport the boxes.

These black boxes are just another way of government acting as big brother, infringing on people’s privacy by acting as a GPS system that tracks people’s whereabouts.

Both sides of the political spectrum think that black boxes encroach on citizens’ rights. The Tea Party conservatives and the American Civil Liberties

Union are against them. The fact that these two are agreeing on something should be a neon yellow “duh, this is wrong” sign to the legislatures .

The NHTSA states that black boxes help public safety, but how?

The black box is used to reconstruct accidents. Reconstruction just puts the pieces of an accident back together but has little to do with accident prevention.

The best way to fix the Highway

The bright yellow bollards have to go Casey Harper Spotlight Editor Hillsdale College has a beautiful campus, but pointless yellow eyesores threaten that reputation.

The “bollards” are the pairs of bright yellow metal poles that pop up on the driving paths on campus installed last year. There are two pairs, one between the Grewcock Student Union and Delp Hall and another between the union and the Dow Leadership Center.

Security told the Collegian last year that the bollards protect students, but they don’t. Supposedly, cars driving around campus may hit students, but security only puts the bollards up at night when the pedestrian traffic is lowest. The bollards pop up when all the students lay down.

And even when security puts the bollards up, they don’t lock them.

Students can easily push them over any night of the week. Sometimes they do. The bollards protect students from any menacing criminals who want

to rampage across campus in their vehicles, but are afraid to push over a yellow pole. Further, there’s plenty of open grass to drive around either pair.

The bollards by Delp Hall have enough empty grass for an 18-wheeler to pass through easily.

It’s not as if the college is against vehicles driving on campus. Utility vehicles and maintenance trucks regularly wheel down the paths. Security drives the path more frequently than Hillsdale’s bloated squirrel population walks it.

Students walk along sidewalks where cars whiz by at 40 miles an hour to get to campus, but as soon as they get on campus they need to be walled in? No. Campus is well-kept with manicured lawns dotted with trees and

peaceful sitting areas. Contrast this with the metal obstructions, which are bright yellow, except for the rusted out parts exposing an industrial gray metal.

You can even see the yellow blights on Google Maps’ satellite images of the college.

It’s not just a matter of beauty. It’s a matter of competitiveness.

Students consider campus beauty when choosing a school.

Princeton Review even picks the most and least beautiful campuses every year.

Hillsdale wants desperately to compete with the most prestigious schools, to be seen as the conservative answer to the Ivy League. Schools like Princeton and Harvard have gorgeous architecture and inspiring campuses. A few bollards don’t destroy Hillsdale’s chances, but it is not the Ivy League thing to do. Many small changes add

You can even see the yellow blights on Google Maps’ satellite images of the college.

up to a less beautiful campus.

Distinguished visitors and donors visit often. They want to see a beautiful place of liberal learning, but when walking from the Dow hotel parking lot to the Union they have to step over some odd pieces of metal and wonder, “What are they for?” This is a fair question. Sadly, the answer is not rewarding.

The bollards are a classic case of needing to seem like something is being done. It’s like eighth-grade algebra when you don’t know the answer to a test question, but you scribble some little calculations on the side of the page, draw a graph and guess what?

You get half credit because the teacher felt like you tried and must have understood something if you went through all that work. In the same way, this is a case of trying to do something that seemed to make everyone safer but actually did nothing.

The bollards, though a well-intentioned attempt at security, have failed.

They have to go.

Quick Hits What is your favorite movie from 2013?

Julie Finke, Junior

“Despicable Me 2,” director Pierre Coffin

“Mud,” director Jeff Nichols

“To the Wonder,” director Terrence Malick

“It took everything from the first ‘Despicable Me’ and not only capitalized on what was awesome, but made it 10 times better and applied it to relatable situations.

It’s one of the best sequels, besides Batman.”

“It had a lot of elements that make an entertaining blockbuster without sacrificing real Southern grit.”

“Malick shows the overwhelming comedy mixed with the very real tragedy of finding love and meaning through knowing and experiencing another person.”

Aaron Schepps, Senior

Daniel Teal, Senior

Trust Fund’s problems is to simply do away with it. Privatize roads instead.

The government has proven itself incapable of managing our nation’s roads. Further punishing the consumer with another tax because the government has failed is absurd.

Ultimately, the black box brings us one step closer to the 1966 Beatles song “Taxman:” “If you drive a car/I’ll tax the street.”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR To The Editor: Following the November election in the city of Hillsdale, two council seats now sit vacant: one in Ward 3 and another in Ward 2.

I am writing in the hopes that this letter will inspire citizens from those wards to step forward and place their names on the ballot for the special election that will be held on Feb. 25th to fill those two vacant seats.

Anyone interested will need to have his or her petition signed and turned in to the city clerk’s office by Dec. 3rd. For specific details on the process, you can contact the Clerk’s office at 517437-6441 or by email at clerk@ cityofhillsdale.org.

The role of councilperson is often a thankless job requiring hard work and thick skin. The pay is very low compared to the time commitment required but being chosen to represent your friends and neighbors in helping to shape the long- and shortterm future of our community is rewarding in and of itself.

As the council moves forward on many important issues, including the funding of our street repairs, it is vital that we have a full council. It not only ensures adequate and balanced representation, but also guarantees a diversity of ideas. If you are a citizen of Hillsdale who’s ready to get off the bench and help lead, please do not hesitate. Take out a petition today.

Brian Watkins Ward 1 Councilman City of Hillsdale

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Hillsdale prepares for Christmas with lights parade Sam Scorzo Assistant Editor The Hillsdale Business Association invites everyone to participate in a Christmas celebration downtown this Saturday. The events include the sixth annual scavenger hunt, second annual Light up Hillsdale Parade, and an AfterGlow.

“It gets bigger and better every year,” said Margie Elchert, owner of Tree of Health Natural Wellness Center. “We’ve been advertising the heck out of this day so we’re hoping to double the amount of people out here this year.”

The scavenger hunt will kick off the day at 10 a.m., beginning at GoldStar Tax Service on North Howell Street.

Cathy Newell, owner of The Blossom Shop, said that approximately 80 to 90 people showed up to the first scavenger hunt five years ago, and that the number has increased every year. This year, they are expecting around 300.

In the hunt, each person uses a map of the participating businesses to find miniature golden sleighs in each of the 30 to 35 stores. Once found, the store employees will mark off their shop on the participant’s map.

Completed maps may be entered into drawings for prizes at 4 p.m. at GoldStar. Each store participating

in the hunt will donate a substantial prize for the drawings. In the past, prizes included $40 to $50 gift certificates, as well as jewelry and gift baskets.

The main point of the scavenger hunt is to get people into the downtown stores.

“The first year we did this, we kept hearing, ‘Oh we didn’t know you guys had this!’ and ‘We’ve never seen this store before!’” Newell said. “So this is definitely a good way to show what we’ve got for the coming holiday season.”

The Light up Hillsdale Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will start and end in the Midtown parking lot.

The grand marshal in charge of

“Being the grand marshal is a great privilege,” Hodshire said.

“Our downtown businesses strive very hard to provide services and goods to our community, so folks should enjoy the parade and take the chance to shop local afterwards.

Last year, this night was such a treat and it will be this time around too. People will not be disappointed.”

Elchert said they were expecting about 12 floats (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) in last year’s inaugural parade, but leading the parade is J.J. Hodshire.

A 1999 Hillsdale College graduate, they were surprised with a showing Hodshire served as the Undersheriff of 32. This year they are unsure of of Hillsdale for 12 years, and is now the amount of entries, but are anticithe director of organizational devel- pating an even larger lineup than the opment for the Hillsdale Community previous year. A permanent feature of the parade is a Santa Claus riding Health Center.

As the grand marshal, Hodshire in the basket of a Hillsdale fire truck.

The HBA said that anyone can said that he will “say a few words before the parade starts—thanking participate in the parade as long as the folks in the parade, as well as they show up at the Midtown parking lot at 6 p.m. those who came out to watch.”

Directly following the parade is Although this is the first time he will take on the role as grand mar- the AfterGlow, where all the floats shal, the parade scene isn’t new to will stay lit up in the parking lot Hodshire. He has run several po- to give people a closer view of the litical campaigns that involved him elaborately decorated floats. passing out stickers and candy during parades.

Councilwoman Ruth Brown resigns due to controversy Macaela Bennett Assistant Editor

Ward 2 Councilwoman Ruth Brown announced her resignation at Hillsdale’s Dec. 3 city council meeting to avoid a potential court case.

Her announcement resulted from a controversy over whether or not she has a conflict of interest in a contract the county recently proposed to the council. The problem arose by her positions on both the council and board of county commissioners.

The city council voted to approve her resignation Monday, and Brown said it was with great difficulty that she resigned, but that it is in “the best interest of the city of Hillsdale.”

“The council is trying to get off on a fresh, confident foot, and this is just a distraction,” Brown said after the meeting. “I just want the council to be able to get down to business

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and worry about the issues of the have been charged with a misdecity.” meanor.

City Attorney Lew Loren said, Brown accepted the city comafter reviewing many similar cases missioner position in July 2013, and and opinions of the Supreme Court said she was not aware of the potenof the United States, that the only tial conflict of interest by her holdsolution was for Brown to vacate ing both positions. one of the of“When I was fices. appointed com“There is missioner in no incompati- “I just want the council to July, they said I bility because be able to get down to busi- could do both,” of Ruth,” Brown said.

Loren said. ness and worry about the “But when we “There is an issues of the city.” started to do incompatibilithe contract be— Ruth Brown ty because the tween the city person who and county, it holds both came up that it seats owes a duty to both entities violates the Incompatible Public Ofthat are separate and distinct from fices Act.” each other. She can’t wear two hats Loren said that the attorney genat one time.” eral verified in July that there was Loren said if she had not vacated no incompatibility by Brown holdone of the positions that she could ing both offices, but the problem

arose when he received a request for the proposed contract between the county and city.

“I knew that this would present a problem for Ruth’s continuation in both seats,” Loren said.

Brown was first made aware of the issue on Nov. 1 when Loren sent her a letter addressing the problem.

“It was only four days before the city election,” Brown said. “By then, it was too late. I just wish I could have known earlier so I could have taken my name off the ballot and someone else could have stepped up.”

Despite there now being two vacancies on the city council, the other being Mayor Scott Sessions’ former seat in Ward 3, Sessions said he believes the council will “get by.”

In order to have a special election in May 2014 to fill the vacancies, a resolution must be brought to the council for its approval.

Osseo woman charged with stabbing accepts plea bargain

Taylor Knopf City News Editor

The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Victor Jason Owens, 59, of Osseo, Mich., Monday after a dispute with a neighbor. Owens was arraigned in the Hillsdale County District Court on charges of first degree home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

His bond is set at $5,000 with 10 percent allowed.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the dispute between two neighbors resulted in a pretty rough beating after one got angry with the other. The victim, Owen’s neighbor, was taken to the hospital after the incident, but is said to be in stable condition now. Owens awaits his preliminary examination.

Desiree Jordan Sherman, 21, accepted a plea bargain of no contest to one count of assault and battery in Hillsdale County Circuit Court on Nov. 25.

The prosecutor agreed to drop Sherman’s four other charges of assault with intent to commit murder, resisting and obstructing, interfering with electronic communications, and assault and battery of a second victim if she pleaded no contest to the first assault and battery charge.

The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Sherman for allegedly stabbing a 33-year-old male on the evening of Nov. 13 off of Hudson Road in Osseo, Mich.

The police incident report said that the victim was stabbed twice, once in the side puncturing his lung -Taylor Knopf and once in the back. When the police arrived at the scene, the victim

was reported saying that he couldn’t breathe.

He was transported to the Hillsdale Community Health Center then life flighted to the University of Toledo Medical Center where he underwent immediate surgery to repair his lung and stop internal bleeding. The victim is in stable condition now.

According to the police report, Sherman had been sharing a residence with the victim, his girlfriend, and a baby. After an altercation, the victim told Sherman she had to take her things and leave the residence.

It escalated to both the victim and Sherman throwing each other’s belonging from the house. The victim said that Sherman came at him with a knife, but he did not see it at first and she stabbed him in the side.

While trying to wrestle the knife away from her, she stabbed him in the back.

The victim reported forcing Sherman out of the house, but he did not

lock the door. The girlfriend reported that while she was on the phone with the police, Sherman re-entered the house, knocked the phone from her hands, and threw her to the ground. When police arrived at the scene, they found the two victims in the front yard, but Sherman was not there.

Police tracked her to a Hillsdale city residence, where they found her in a bedroom. Sherman resisted arrest by attempting to block the door, and she kicked at the officer who handcuffed her.

The defense attorney said that Sherman’s memory of the night is spotty, and that the police report shows a blood alcohol content of approximately 0.2 at the time of arrest some time after the incident.

Sherman’s sentencing is set for Jan. 13. The maximum potential penalty for the count against her is 10 years in prison and/or $5,000 fine. Her bond is set at $100,000 with 10 percent allowed.

City to enforce rent permit requirements Vivian Hughbanks Collegian Reporter Five years after going into effect, the Hillsdale City ordinance requiring inspection of rental property is going to be enforced.

The City Planning Commission discussed plans to enforce the existing property use and occupancy ordinance citing the blight as one motivator to uphold the inspection requirement at its Nov. 19 meeting. Now when the city is informed of a property changing hands or occupants, renters will be reminded to have their property inspected.

“Use and occupancy has been on the books for several years,” Code Enforcement Administrator Alan Beeker said at the meeting, “but over the last few years, the law has not been enforced.”

According to the statute that has been in effect since 2009, the use and occupancy ordinance requires lessors to apply for a renting permit by paying a $25 fee and having their property inspected by city officials to ensure that it measures up to maintenance standards. Once the permit is issued, it is valid for two years or until a new occupant moves in.

“It seemed like a responsible thing for the city to do,” City Property Assessor Kim Thomas said.

The law was written to promote the safety, health, and welfare of Hillsdale residents, and raise the standards of quality for rental property in Hillsdale.

According to the Hillsdale building inspection office, some of the most common violations include a lack of smoke alarms, electrical outlet covers, handrails, proper bathroom ventilation, and missing or broken windows or screens.

“I’ve seen exploitation of the poor,” Planning Commissioner Laura Smith said during the meeting. “I’ve seen college students exploited.”

For the past five years, however, the law has not been effective because it has not been consistently enforced. No notice of the requirement for inspection has been regularly sent to lessors.

Not all lessors are registered with the city. As a result, many are unaware of the law.

“I’ve had rentals for 13 years, and I never knew about this,” Smith said.

The commission has recognized the lack of enforcement and at their meeting discussed measures to be taken to uphold the ordinance.

“It is important that we enforce all the laws on the books,” Beeker said.

To solve the problem, the committee discussed creating a rental registry to keep records of permits granted and ensure the two year reinspection is met. The committee also discussed cooperation with county officials for greater efficiency. According to Beeker, renters who register with the City to rent their properties will now be notified of the requirements.

There is not a penalty if properties are never inspected, but if the city finds a property being rented without inspection, they can take measures to ensure the property is safe for renters.

“We simply ask the landlord or the new resident to schedule the inspection,” Beeker said.

If the property fails the required inspection, existing renters could be evicted. According to Beeker, the city has never had difficulties to this extreme.

“I think that having the things already on the books being resurrected from the dead would be a good thing,” Smith said. “Once precedent has been set, it’s very difficult to change.”

Vanished Hillsdale

Volume Salon reopens offering massages, manicures Casey Harper Spotlight Editor

Volume Salon and Spa hairdressers chat with customers while snipping and styling. “Be your own kind of beautiful” is stenciled on the wall, situated between mirrors that allow customers to look back at themselves and contemplate the phrase.

The Hillsdale salon reopened in June 2013 on East Bacon Street across from Hillsdale Community Library. Their expanded services include massages, which provides an alternative to massages offered by the college’s Health Center.

“Every person that comes through the door is different, so everybody has a different kind of beautiful,” said Volume Salon and Spa owner Kelly Dunlap.

The salon offers a 15-minute massage for $20, and a 30-minute

massage for $35.

Dunlap decided to move from West Carleton Road to her new location to accommodate her expanding business. Her staff nearly doubled with the move, and Dunlap said they are busy.

“We moved here to expand our services to include manicures, pedicures, and facials, makeup, and massage,” Dunlap said. “We went from having no receptionist to having three.”

Dunlap owns the business with her husband and said it is difficult to balance being wife, mother, and business owner.

Although there are several other salons in town, Dunlap claims hers is different.

“We have everything under one roof, and we have the best people,” she said.

Stylist Morgan Page is one of those superior staff members. Her business card echoes the “Be your

own kind of beautiful” stenciled on the wall. It quotes Psalm 139 reminding her customers that they are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Page plans to work as a stylist part time and help her fiancé start a farm.

“I love it,” Page said. “The atmosphere is very lively. There’s never a dull moment.”

She said that people come in with unrealistic expectations sometimes.

“We’re not magicians, we’re beauticians,” Page said. “People will come in after box coloring their hair black and then want it platinum blonde.”

Page said there is a teamwork mentality at Volume Salon.

“Everyone here helps one another out,” she said. “If someone needs something people will jump in and help out other stylists. We all have our busy times so we understand.”

Hillsdale’s beloved Lake Baw Beese derived its name from Potawatomi Indian chieftain Baw Beese, whose tribe of about 150 members settled on the banks of the lake sometime in the first quarter of the 19th century. While Baw Beese and his tribe roamed as whim, game, and season led them, present-day Hillsdale County and the lakeshore held their burial grounds, maize fields, and semi-permanent housing.

The Hillsdale County Community Center’s History Index, based upon the account of the Hillsdale Centennial book of 1969, reports that Baw Beese disregarded the 1816 Treaty of Chicago granting Hillsdale County, among other tracts, to the young United States and considered the area to be his sovereign territory. Baw Beese went so far as to demand tribute, as fee for rental of the property used by American citizens, from the government.

However, in 1840 the federal government expelled Baw Beese band from his lake and territory on the authority of the Indian Removal Act. Baw Beese died circa 1850.

(Casey Harper/Collegian)

-Compiled by Micah Meadowcroft

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Track starts season at Oiler Opener

Kelsey Drapkin Collegian Reporter

Dedication. That is just one thing the 46 men and 33 women of the Hillsdale College track and field teams have going for them this season.

Practices began Sept. 2, and neither team has gotten to display their skills in competition.

“Our track kids basically practice from fall and don’t have a chance to compete to see where they are,” head men’s track and field coach Jeff Forino said. “For track kids, it’s a long time before they get to compete.”

The Oiler Opener at the University of Findlay on Friday, Dec. 6 is the first meet of the indoor season for both teams. It is also the first meet in which the athletes can qualify for the Division II track and field national meet.

Forino is excited about the possibilities he sees for the men’s team this year. After a few years with a younger team, he said this year’s team is older, has more experience, is extremely well-rounded, and is solid on

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almost all of the events.

3,000 meters indoor.

There are some injuries on “This is going to be a very the team that may prove chalgood year for us,” Forino prelenging, but Forino foresees the dicted. “I expect us to be in the competition within the GLIAC top five in our conference meet.” as the biggest challenge for the Sophomore pole-vaulter Matmen’s team this thew Harris year. echoed “Our league, Forino. the GLIAC, is “I’m rea really strong ally looking league,” Forino forward to said. “It’s one seeing how of the top two our team leagues in Divicompetes sion II on the this year,” men’s side in Harris said. the country. On “We’ve got the women’s some of side, it’s just the most by far the best talented league in Diviguys in the sion II.” GLIAC, and The men’s we should team is strong be able to though, with take a top two conference three spot at record holders the league returning this meet this Senior Amber Mueller practices year. Junior year.” throwing shot put in the BierMaurice Jones The wommann Center. (Anders Kiledal/Colis the conferen’s team is legian) ence record battling with holder in the 400 meter indoor, age this year, though they too are and senior Josh Mirth is the shaping up well. conference record holder in the “We will be a young team

again this year,” head women’s track and field coach Andrew Towne said. “We have a good deal of talent, but we’re a bit short on experience. Overall, though, we’ll continue to improve.”

Much like the men’s team, Towne said this year’s women’s team is very well-rounded.

“The women will be a much more complete team this year,” Towne said. “We are now in a position to compete in every single event at the GLIAC level.

The next step is being able to have multiple compete in every event.”

Both coaches are looking forward to hosting the indoor GLIAC Championships at the beginning of March.

“Being at home for our conference meet, it kind of just raises you to a whole new level,” Forino said. “People do really well at home. You tend to get a lot more energy out of them.

This is our first chance to have an indoor conference championship in 11 or 12 years. It’s a big deal for us, especially with the new facility because it’s one of the nicest in the country.”

BOX SCORES

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 76 Cedarville: 59

Hillsdale College: 69 Ill.-Springfield: 54

Game Leaders: Total Points: Tim Dezelski (28) Kyle Cooper (16) Offensive Rebounds: Dezelski (4) Cooper (3) Defensive Rebounds: Dezelski (9) Brandon Pritzl (8) Assists: Pritzl (5) Dezelski (5) Blocks: Dezelski (4)

Hillsdale College: 74 McKendree: 77 Season Leaders: Total Points: Megan Fogt (83) Marissa DeMott (50) Ashlyn Landherr (20) 3-Pointers: Demott (12-25) Brooke Borowski (5-17) Offensive Rebounds: Fogt (21) Defensive Rebounds: Fogt (52) Borowski (10) Assists: Katelyn Newsome (10) Borowski (10) Free Throws: Fogt (19-28) Landherr (9-11) Blocks: Fogt (5)

Women’s basketball notches first CHARGERS THWART JACKETS win at GLIAC/GLVC Crossover Men find second-half surge

average of 20.5 points.

The schedule will certainly toughen up in the coming weeks. The Chargers play a challenging contest tonight at Senior forward Tim DezelNorthwood, a game on Saturski helped himself to some day at Lake Superior State, and pre-Thanksgiving stuffing last eight games over Christmas Tuesday night. Dezelski poured break. in 28 points to go along with “Northwood is a really talnine rebounds, five assists, four ented team and has a variety of blocked shots, and three steals different guys that can score,” to fill the stat sheet and lead the Tharp said.

Chargers past the Cedarville Northwood is already 4-2 Yellow Jackets, 76-59. on the season, and being on “I’ve got a lot of talented the road sure doesn’t make the teammates, so it’s very helpful game any easier. that teams can’t just focus on “It’s the first time we’ve me,” Dezelski said played away since concerning his our exhibition performance. “If season, so it’ll be they do, then anya good test for us,” body on our team Cooper said. can step up their The Northwood game and I believe game opens up the that’s one of our GLIAC schedule biggest strengths, for the Chargers. balance offen“The GLIAC is sively, because any tough every year, night anybody on and every game is our team can hurt a battle,” Dezelski you.” said. “This is the It took a big tough part Tim Dezelski ‘14 second half of our for the season and Chargers to get the win, taking we’re looking forward to geta two-point halftime lead and ting into it.” turning it into a 17 point rout by “Every team brings different the end of the game. challenges that we’re going to “We came out with a much see,” Tharp added. “Everybody higher energy level,” sophois talented enough to beat you.” more Kyle Cooper said about The Chargers are looking the turnaround. forward to facing these chalCooper set a career-high by lenge over Christmas break. scoring 16 points to comple“Playing over break is ment Dezelski’s 28. Senior always kind of fun,” Cooper Brandon Pritzl contributed nine said. “You’re not worried about rebounds and stingy defense. anything but basketball, so you “We made a switch [at need to put 100 percent focus halftime] of Brandon Pritzl onto into that, and you hope that 22- their (Cedarville’s) really translates into better perforgood player- and that slowed mances.” him down,” head coach John The test that is the GLIAC Tharp said. starts tonight against NorthThe defensive adjustment wood and continues until certainly contributed to the March. The Chargers hope they Chargers holding Cedarville to can get off to a strong start in just 26 points in the second half. conference play and lay a solid The win gives the Chargers foundation for the rest of the a 2-0 mark in the young season, season. having won both games by an Nathanael Meadowcroft Collegian Freelancer

Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter

The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team defeated the University of Illinois-Springfield 69-54 to go 1-1 in the GLIAC/ GLVC Crossover Challenge.

Before getting their first win, the Chargers lost to McKendree University the night before, on Friday, Nov. 22, with an overtime buzzer-beater shot.

“It was a heartbreaker,” junior Megan Fogt said. “It was a fun game, but it was tough.”

Hillsdale was ahead most of the game, but fell behind 67-70 with 19 seconds left in regulation.

Senior Marissa DeMott hit a three-point jump shot with five seconds left to tie the game and take it into overtime.

Hillsdale took the lead in overtime, but lost 74-77 with a last second three-pointer for McKendree.

“They were hitting threes all night,” Fogt said.

Hillsdale only made 17 of 31

free throws, which head coach Claudette Charney attributed to the loss.

Fogt said Hillsdale used the loss against McKendree as motivation for Saturday’s game against the University of Illinois-Springfield.

“We honestly played one of the best defensive games since I have been here,” Fogt said.

Three minutes into the game, the Chargers took a 9-0 lead, and they held onto it for the rest of the game.

“We set the tone defensively from the beginning and controlled the game,” Charney said in an email response. “We led by 19 at the half and played efficiently at both ends of the floor.”

After the tournament, Fogt was named the GLIAC South Division Player of the Week.

“It’s always an honor,” Fogt said. “But honestly, it comes down to getting those wins. All the titles in the world don’t mean anything if you don’t have wins on the board.”

Fogt currently has 18.2 rebounds per game, which is the highest in Division II so far this

season.

In the tournament, Fogt played a tremendous game, scoring 29 points and 27 rebounds against McKendree, and 27

Megan Fogt ‘15 points and nine rebounds against the University of Illinois-Springfield.

Tonight, Hillsdale plays its first conference game against Northwood University. The team will be away from campus until after their game on Saturday against Lake Superior State

University.

“It is really tough to be missing those final classes,” Fogt said.

The Chargers will have to miss the final two days of class, and then come back to begin finals.

“The professors are really understanding as long as we are putting effort in and not slacking,” senior Angela Bisaro said.

The basketball season is just beginning as the school semester is wrapping up, which can be challenging.

“It is so exciting to finally be playing games that it is hard not to let it take precedence over school,” Bisaro said.

The team will be on campus through most of the Christmas break, with home games on Dec. 14 and 16, and games on Jan. 2, 4, 9, and 11.

The players will go home for Christmas, but come back on Dec. 30, Bisaro said.

“The win on Saturday gave us a big boost,” Bisaro said. “It has propelled us forward. We are excited to get some wins and have a good year.”

Charger swimming takes second Doug Williams Collegian Freelancer The Chargers had their best weekend so far this year, with many girls recording season and personal best times. Although they only took first place in two events, the Chargers were still able to take second place overall (out of nine teams) at the University of Chicago Invite.

Notable performers for the Chargers included sophomores Sarah Rinaldi, Jennifer Wheeler, and Zoe Hopkins, and junior Rachel Kurtz.

Rinaldi won the 200 IM with a big season best of 2:07.75. Freshman Emily Shallman followed, taking sixth in 2:12.87. Rinaldi also led Hillsdale’s 2-3-4 placings in the 100 breast, with juniors Cayley Cruickshank and Ali Bauer very close behind. Rinaldi finished her successful weekend with a fourth place finish in the 100 fly (58.45).

Wheeler took third place in the 200 fly (2:07.44) and fourth place in the 200 free

(1:56.21), both very impressive times for this part of the season.

Kurtz placed in all of her freestyle events with season-best times. She took third in the 100 free (53.11), sixth in the 200 (1:56.86), and first in the 50 (24.04), respectively.

Hopkins had a phenomenal meet. She took third place in the 1650 freestyle, finishing in 17:42.08, which is over a minute faster than she’s gone all season and within a second of her personal record. In the 500 free, she took fourth place and set a personal best of 5.06.93, within a second of the school record.

Hopkins turned an early season injury into a learning lesson and source of motivation. With a newfound appreciation for the sport, Hopkins has been working extra hard to make up for lost time, which reflected in the results from last weekend.

Between the 500 and 1650 free, Hopkins said she prefers the latter.

“The 500 is a sprint event when you train for distance, and I prefer to take my time to find a good pace,” Hopkins said. “It’s also

exciting to watch how much can change in a mile. A swimmer who was in last place after the 1000 can end up winning in the last 650, so you can’t let your mind wander and lose your pace.”

Two things in Hillsdale’s favor were their relays and their depth, especially in breaststroke. Hillsdale placed second in the 400 medley relay, third in the 200 medley, as well as the 400 and 800 free relays, and fourth in the 200 free. And apart from Hillsdale’s 2-3-4 showing in the 100 breast, they also went 2-3-6 in the 200.

Over Christmas break, the Chargers will head south to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for their annual training trip. Starting Dec. 30, the trip will last approximately 10 days, and will be quite intense. Their daily routine will include two workouts in the water, with weight training on some days. This is the most intense training the girls will do all season.

The team will next be back in competition on Jan. 11 at the University of Indianapolis.

HILLSDALE STUDENTS PREP FOR FANTASY PLAYOFFS Shane Armstrong Collegian Reporter

In the United States, there are over 32 million people ages 12 and older that play fantasy football, the most popular online sports game in the country. Some of those participants are here at Hillsdale College, as there are multiple student leagues on campus. Students have been striving for top scores all season and now it is getting into crunch time with the playoffs fast approaching.

Fantasy football allows fans to interact with their peers in a way that brings them closer to teams and players. Fans draft players that are currently in the NFL and try to build their team for success like a real NFL owner. There are trades, injuries, adding and releasing of players, and lineup strategy, giving participants the feel of being in control of their team. Each week, participants play against another team in their league. Points are amassed based on the success of their chosen athletes in each week’s actual games.

Things are getting heated for Hillsdale’s fantasy aficionados. The gentlemen of 201 N. Manning St. have comprised a league made up of ten teams. Senior Peter Thistleton, owner of “Team Thistleton,” is 7-5 going into the last Sunday of the regular season.

“My playoff hopes really depend on the last game. I need to win

and I need some other guys to lose in order to get in,” Thistleton said.

When asked why he participates in fantasy football, Thistleton said, “I already love NFL football. Fantasy was a fun opportunity for me to get more involved in the NFL. It also gives all my friends at the house something to do on Sundays together. There is a reason to watch every game. I am a lot more into the NFL because of fantasy football and it is a lot of fun.”

Senior Garrett Holt is the only player in the league that is not a resident of 201 N. Manning St. He is the owner of “Dang Dangus,” which is a tribute to 2012 Hillsdale graduate Nate Jebb. Holt is 5-7 going into the last week of the regular season and admits his team has had a rocky year.

“I have good players, they just seem to not want to play well at the same time,” Holt said.

Junior Vinny Delicata’s team is one of the best in the league.

“Vinny Delicata is the cocky one. Nobody wants to see him win.

He is always talking about how good his team is. I would like to see his whole team go on injured reserve,” Holt said.

On the other side of the spectrum, senior Brett Pasche hasn’t had the best luck this season.

“Brett’s team is awful, worst in the league,” Holt said. “Normally we would do something bad to the guy that came in last in the league, but in this case I think we are all too afraid to do something

to someone of Brett’s size.”

The league does not have a pay-in fee or an award for the winner, besides bragging rights amongst the guys involved. There is a league played by guys in Nebraska where the winner gets to pick a tattoo for the guy who comes in last place. The losing tattoos done in the past include rainbows and a portrait of Justin Bieber.

There are no tattoo leagues here on campus, but fantasy football creates intense competition amongst student participants throughout the duration of the season.

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(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Charger Sports

The comeback kids

Syndrome almost completely paralyzed him for two weeks.

Although he eventually recovered, he significantly damaged bones and muscles around Every athlete has to deal his ankle in preseason practice with some setbacks, mental or in 2012, and was confined to physical, but some have it so bad a wheelchair for two weeks, they have to stop playing their crutches for four to five, and a sport long before they expect or boot for three to four. want to.

Doctors told him he had only But others just don’t know an 80 to 85 percent chance of rehow to say no. Hillsdale College covering his former strength. So features two such athletes: volwhile doing what he could for leyball player Lindsay Kostrzehis team while convalescing, and wa, and football player Steven after initial hesitance to work Harding. Just a few months ago, his way back onto the roster, both Chargers had trouble walkhe made his decision to return, ing, let alone competing. Now, benefiting from already having both are meaningful contributors overcome incredible difficulties. to their respective teams.

“You have to be mentally, How did they do it? Though physically, and spiritutheir stories differ, ally tough to overthey share at least come something like two traits: personal that,” he said. “The determination, and team was the reason I reliance on their came back.” teammates.

And come back he Kostrzewa, a did. This season, he redshirt junior, tore did not miss a single her ACL during practice or game, and her junior year of made key contribuhigh school, which tions to gameplay as usually requires defensive back. about nine months Those on the team of recovery. But credit his tenacious then she tore it character. again before it fully “It matches his healed, turning On left: Redshirt senior Steve Harding makes a grit and determinanine months into tackle at an away game earlier this year. On right: tion.

Most kids dread two years. ForRedshirt junior Lindsay Kostrzewa spikes the volleythat time when they’re tunately, she had ball at a home contest. (Collegian file photos) told their career could already committed years also attest to her resilience. be over, and he heard it twice,” to Hillsdale, which provided “I always thought she could football head coach Keith Otmotivation. come back and do some good terbein said. “All credit goes to “I missed my whole senior things,” head volleyball coach him: his passion, his love for the year of [high school] athletChris Gravel said. “Most people game, and his desire to help the ics, which was really hard, but would have given up, and I program in any way he could.” it helped having something to would include myself in that Teammate senior Sam work toward already,” she said. category.”

Landry, who went to high school Yet even when she came to “To have five surgeries and with Harding, agreed.

Hillsdale, she remained cautious come back is kind of unheard“Once he said he was going in her on-court pursuits to preof,” teammate and roommate to come back, anybody that vent any relapse, but didn’t let Sydney Lenhart said. “She’s an knows Steve knew he was going this stop her from doing everyawesome person and an aweto be back. If there’s anyone thing she could off of it. some player. I’d be very sad to who could do it, it’d be Steve,” “The past couple of years be on the team without Lindhe said. “If I was hurt, Steve have been very off-and-on, very say.” would be the first person I’d talk touch-and-go,” she said. “So I Harding, a redshirt senior, to.” decided to be a leader in other has faced debilitating setbacks ways that I can, whether it’s offcourt training or being known as not once, but twice. In the summer of 2011, Guillain-Barre a responsible teammate.”

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And though she considered leaving the team, Kostrzewa’s patience and diligence paid off.

Thanks also to a new doctor and new treatment, she earned scholarship status despite joining the team as a walk-on, and was named Second-team All-GLIAC in volleyball, signifying exceptional performance. Even so, she remains humble, and just hopes to keep doing what she’s doing.

“I wasn’t expecting anything like that at all. It was a surprise.

I would attribute it all to my team,” she said. “I consider every time I get to play a blessing.

It’s a privilege to play for this school.”

Those who have observed Kostrezewa’s struggles over the

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM PLACES 15TH AT NATIONALS

The women’s cross country team members and coaches gather during the 2013 Division II national championship meet in Spokane, Wash. (Photo Courtesy of Dawn Oren) Caleb Whitmer Editor-in-chief A national coaches association poll ranked Hillsdale College 15th going into the national meet.

Nice job, coaches.

The Hillsdale College women did indeed take 15th at the NCAA Division II cross country national meet on Nov. 23. The meet, held in Spokane, Wash., marked the first championship berth for the Charger women’s team in three years.

Despite hitting their pre-race ranking, the team wasn’t entirely satisfied with their race, said head coach Andrew Towne Even so, “It’s been a very good season,” Towne said. “Definitely something to be proud of for sure.”

The weather on race day was perfect, Hillsdale runners said: high 30s, dry, and sunny. The course was narrow, however, and the nearly 250 runners pushed each other around, especially early in the race.

“During the meet, just having that quantity of people there yelling and screaming and right up in your face – that’s a different cross country race,” Towne said.

Sophomore Kristina Galat led the women at Spokane, placing 63rd in a time of 22:15. She said she was running for top 40, which is AllAmerican.

“But I felt like I ran as hard as I could, so I was satisfied in that way,” Galat said.

The Oren sisters finished second and third for the team. Sophomore Emily, 91st, ran a time of

22:33, and freshman Molly, 108th, crossed the line in 22:41.

“The race was average,” said senior captain Victoria McCaffrey, who finished two seconds and one place behind Molly Oren. It wasn’t what we could have been, and definitely not up to our potential.”

While she has NCAA eligibility left, she’ll spend next semester in D.C. with the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program. Nationals was the last race of McCaffrey’s collegiate career.

“I think it will really hit me over break,” she said. “I’ll probably sleep for about a week and then wake up and just be like ‘oh shoot, I’m not going to have this anymore.’”

Junior Chelsea Kilgore rounded out the top five. She placed 133rd in 22:53.

The team scored scored 413 points in total.

Besides McCaffrey, Hillsdale returns all its women cross country runners next year.

Towne said teams travel to the national meet hoping to run their best race.

“We didn’t do that,” Towne said. “But it came down to a learning experience for us.”

Galat echoed Towne’s sentiment.

“Now that we’ve made it and know how we can do it, I think there will be a mentality shift and we can be more confident with races like that,” Galat said.

Grand Valley State University won the Division II national title with 54 points. Saginaw Valley State University, the one other GLIAC team that competed at the race, placed 11th with 304.

Charger Chatter: Rachael Kurtz a kid I would beg my mom to let me get in the pool with him, even though I was way too young. I joined a swim team as soon as I was old enough, like the first or second grade, and I have been swimming ever since.

Do you ever get nervous before meets?

Junior Rachael Kurtz is a sprinter on the college swim team who has had considerable success recently, winning the 50-meter freestyle and placing in two other events in each of her last four meets.

When did you first start swimming and how long have you been swimming for Hillsdale?

I started swimming when I was really young. My brother took lessons. My mom says that as

Not really nervous, I would just say excited. I don’t know, we [the team] are at that point where everyone is really good, we are all practicing 20 hours a week, we are all at the same level strength-wise, it’s all mental. I’ve hit the point where I know how to get myself psyched for a race. I know that if it comes down to it, I know I can just swim as fast as I can.

How do you get pumped for a meet?

We all do team 50s beforehand, so that we can all be doing something as a team. Then our coach will get us together and give us a pep talk before the meet starts. Then we all pray

and do one cheer before we start. I think it’s a good tradition; I like the idea of us all praying as we get ready. To just give all the glory to God, that’s the best thing. I usually pray by myself before each race too.

And okay, this is where it gets nerdy. I have inspirational talks on my headset that I will listen to. There is one really good one that I was listening to all weekend. It says that you have to want to succeed just as much as you want to breathe. If you can do that, you’re going to get it.

It’s just a good thought. I don’t know, it just gets me really pumped, just listening to stuff like that. That’s basically it.

What are some of your other commitments at Hillsdale, and how do you balance them with swimming?

Well, I’m in Chi Omega, so that is a big commitment. I try to put as much time into it as I can and I try to be at as many of the events as I can, but they are the most understanding girls. If I can’t make one of our meetings, they definitely understand. I am also part of the

Host Program and the Student Activities Board, and I work as a lifeguard. Balancing all of it takes work, but I’m used to it. I’ve been doing it my entire life. I’ve always had school and swimming. And our coach understands that I have swimming now, but school is my future.

Do you have any tips for younger athletes trying to balance sports with academics?

I would say, just have fun, and make sure you really enjoy your team. If you can’t commit and have your teammates with you, then it can be a really bumpy road. I think once you find where you are supposed to be - once you find a balance - it all makes sense. With the rigorous academics here at Hillsdale, and then having to train, and then having other things you want to do, and then trying to fit friends into all of that, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. But just have fun with everything, and give each thing you are involved with everything that you can.

Do you have any long (or short) term goals for this season?

Last year I was 1/100th of a second off of making nationals, so this year my goal is, basically, just to make it to nationals.

That would be nice. But in the end, if I don’t, I really want to make sure I give it my all. As long as I keep trying and keep having fun, it will all work out the way it should.

What is your definition of a good Charger fan?

Definitely one that is committed. I like to think that Chargers are classy too. We obviously get really into our sports and want to win, but we know how

to keep it classy.

How important is team spirit to you?

It’s one of the biggest things. If a team isn’t working together, even in a sport that is mostly individual, I know that we won’t do as well as we could.

We might still have good times and we might still swim well, but if you don’t have the support of your team then it will put a damper on everything else.

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Strains of classical and jazz music in upcoming orchestra concert Amanda Tindall Assistant Editor In their end-of-the-semester concert, the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra features a repertoire representing a blend of classical and jazz music, opening with the “Hansel and Gretel” opera by Engelbert Humperdinck, and ending with banjo and jazz-infused classical piece after the intermission.

The excerpts from “Hansel and Gretel” consist of four movements, one of which has three parts.

Hansel will be played by mezzo soprano and adjunct voice professor Cynthian Knight, and Kristi Matson, a soprano and adjunct professor in voice, will play Gretel.

“We’re also featuring Claire Ziegler, a junior voice major,” Professor of Music Holleman said. “She’s the sandman who puts Hansel and Gretel to sleep when they’re lost in the woods at night.”

Ziegler explained her excitement for the piece and some of the research she had done on Humperdinck.

“Even though this is an opera for children, and it’s based on a children’s story, the music is very rich and almost dark at times,” Ziegler said.

The second half of the concert begins with “Fingal’s Cave Overture” by Felix Mendelssohn, which leads into “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin, featuring soloist and artist-teacher in piano Brad Blackham.

Matson, Blackham’s wife, solos in the first half of the concert, and her husband in the second.

“It’s kind of neat that we’re featuring them both in concert,” Holleman noted.

“What’s fun about this piece is that it’s one of the first pieces that incorporated jazz into classical music.”

“The very first performance, it was kind of improvised because he wasn’t quite done with the score yet,” Blackham said. “He had been commissioned to write the piece, but he didn’t remember until about a month before it was to be performed. Probably what he played in the first concert is what we’ve come to know as the piano parts in the piece.”

“Rhapsody in Blue” also calls for a banjo and saxophones, both of which aren’t usually included when the orchestra piece is performed.

“Will Abrams is a new math professor here, and he plays viola in the orchestra,” Holleman said. “I said something to the orchestra about a banjo part. He came up to me after rehearsal and he said, ‘Well, I play banjo. I’ll take a look at it.’”

After the banjos and saxophones, and “Hansel and Gretel,” the big band, directed by jazz music director Chris McCourry, will perform at an afterglow at 10 p.m.

“It’s really fun,” Holleman said. “It’s Friday night, after classes. Students can unwind before revving up for finals.”

Tickets are still available for the Saturday night performance at 8:00 p.m.

Clockwise from top left: The orchestra practices in Markel Auditorium, senior Cory Flint plays the atindall@hillsdale.edu cello, and the string section works through a movement of “Rhapsody.”(Anders Kiledal/ Collegian)

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As they like it: bringing the Bard to the arboretum All the world’s a stage, and the players have been cast.

More than 70 students auditioned for this spring’s Shakespeare in the Arb production of “As You Like It,” necessitating callbacks for the first time in two years, sophomore co-director Phoebe Kalthoff said.

The Shakespeare in the Arb club stages a Shakespeare play in the Slayton Arboretum each spring, said junior Elizabeth Whalen, the other co-director.

Whalen said it was hard to turn down so many of those who auditioned.

“We tried to get a lot of people who hadn’t been able to do

it before involved, though our first criterion was, of course, just the quality of the audition,” she said. “We’re really humbled by the caliber of the actors we’re getting to work with.”

Many of the actors said they are very excited about working with the rest of the cast.

Junior Meredith Caton will play the lead, Rosalind. Caton submitted video auditions from Paris, where she has been studying abroad this semester. She said she heard about the production from Whalen, as well as from campus-wide emails.

Caton played Rosalind in an Annapolis Shakespeare Company production of “As You Like It” three years ago. She

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On Dec. 13, Hillsdale Wind Symphony will perform their annual winter concert featuring a variety of energetic pieces and Christmas classics with a twist.

The symphony has grown to 60 members – both community members and college students – since 2002 when Director Robert Livingston, now also teacher of music at the college, started the community symphony.

Livingston chose “Toccata” by Girolamo Frescobaldi, “Four Scottish Dances” by Malcolm Arnold, “Continuum” by Robert Buckley, and “Ghost Train” by Eric Whitacre for this year’s concert. The second part of the concert will feature “traditional Christmas carols with a bit of a twist,” Livingston said.

Percussionist Catherine Ellis said she appreciates that Livingston has picked pieces with more percussion then pieces featured in previous concerts.

“Bob always picks fun pieces, and, as a percussionist, it is nice to have some pieces that are a little percussion heavy to keep us entertained,” Ellis said.

Ellis has been playing in the wind symphony on-and-off for 10 years since Livingston – her high school band director at the time – invited her to join the group her sophomore year. She said she has enjoyed the community of the group.

“I really enjoy the community aspect and that there are people of all ages who come. You don’t have to be perfect at what you play and we are not just there to play music at rehearsals – we laugh and tell jokes and stories, but we are serious about the music,” Ellis said. “We play as well as we can, but we are there to have fun and play music at the same time.”

Ellis said the concerts are just as fun for both the audience and the musicians.

“It is a very comfortable environment, and on top of that, the concerts are always packed every single time, and I’m sure its not just family members that come out for the concert. We play a lot of good music – a lot of classical – and we play a lot of fun pieces, and I’m sure it’s just as fun for the audience as for the musicians,” Ellis said.

Both community members and Hillsdale College students play in the symphony. Livingston started it as community group, but since then, Hillsdale College students have been invited to participate for a credit hour. “[The symphony] was something that I had wanted to do for a while. At first it didn’t seem like it would go and then all of a sudden people started coming, and since the first concert, it has been going

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Alumni Owned Junior Elizabeth Whalen and sophomore Phoebe Kalthoff, are the directors for the annual Shakespeare in the Arb performance. (Ben Strickland/ Collegian)

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For the many of the 12 Hillsdale College students attending the art department’s upcoming figure-drawing workshop Jan. 6-10, the last week of break will be their first exposure to depicting a nude model.

The Studio Incamminati will present the workshop on campus the week before classes resume for the rest of campus.

In this program, students promptly begin an intensive study of the geometric shapes of the human body, lasting up to eight hours each day. Studio Incamminati will provide a local nude model so that students can acquire a more comprehensive understanding of proportions and linear construction.

“We study structural points,” instructor JaFang Lu said. “My lecture talks about what’s under that, so students can correlate abstract information with specific information. It trains their seeing. A competent artist learns to see and knows what they see, what they know, and what they want.”

A typical day during the workshop begins with a demonstration, and a lecture. It concludes when students complete

a number of exercises to practice drawing with charcoal.

“The goal is for them to see exact shapes. They have to have an idea of what they see as far as what the form is like under the skin,” Lu said. “Once they acquire a certain amount of proficiency, we move on.”

Lu adjusts the amount of information that she teaches in one lesson to the degree of student experience and how quickly students apply the material to their artwork.

“The most difficult thing I observe in my students’ art is that they get distracted by details. If they are doing a portrait, they get caught up in the features instead of understanding the structure of the head as a simple form,” she said. “They need to ignore all of that. It’s like a house: you get distracted by doors and curtains, but the most important thing is the foundation.”

Lu has taught drawing workshops for 10 years. The course she will be teaching at Hillsdale College has been condensed from 18 weeks into one week, and she aims to hone the skill of artists who have an interest in drawing realistically.

“It’s 1/18 of the time that students have compared to what Portraits drawn by JaFang Lu, the realist art instructor who will conduct the artist workshop held on campus Jan. 6-10. (Courtesy of Studio Incamminati)

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ART DEPARTMENT: EXPAND!

Hillsdale College art department’s popularity has been growing among majors, minors, and those artistically inclined to various degrees, but the department itself has not. Interest in both the historical and studio aspects have grown to the extent that entry into the classes –– even for majors –– is a race through Web Advisor. Perhaps it is time to change this.

“Our aim is to strive for the glorious things, to fill your head with good ideas,” Professor of Art Barbara Bushey said. “We study the great works of the past to gain a sense of what’s possible, to develop a strong sense of craft and of honesty. We are committed to studying the best sort of making.”

I’m not an art major. In fact, my stick figures look about the same as they did when I took my first art class when I was nine years old. But, like most Hillsdalians, I can appreciate good art.

And it seems that the Hillsdale administration should consider expanding the art department “We definitely need another professor, and we also need more space because there are only four art rooms,” sophomore Phoebe Kalthoff said. “My professor next semester will have to teach two separate classes in the same classroom at the same time.”

Over the past few years, the interest among the general student body in taking art classes has increased significantly. In fact, class sizes often exceed the number of students who are allowed to enroll at registration.

“There’s not enough space for the art classes, and it’s almost impossible to get into the art classes that you want to,” Kalthoff said. “Photography, drawing one, and portraiture are all full.”

At the end of the 2012 spring semester, 11 students had declared art majors, and the art honorary, Alpha Rho Tau, had 28 members. These students alone are just about enough to fill each of the required classes of drawing, sculpture, and art history. In addition to these, each must present a senior art exhibit and portfolio, both required classes as well. This doesn’t even consider students simply interested in dabbling to expand their liberal arts experience.

“We’re just always teaching and thinking of new ways to improve our classes. I am excited to see how the art department is growing, and, as an alumna, it’s wonderful to be a part of that growth,” said Katharine Taylor ‘02, part-time art professor.

Currently, the department has five full-time professors and one part-time professor on staff. However, if student interest in the arts continues to climb, it seems reasonable for the college to hire more professors.

“As an artist, it’s really helpful to have a wide variety of opinions to develop your skill. When there’s only a handful of teachers in the department, and usually one teacher for each subject, you can’t get multiple perspectives on the work you’re doing,” junior Heather Buell said. “It would be nice to hire more fulltime teachers because it would give us a bigger variety of classes and more feedback on our work.”

The department has shown interest in expanding the department, but has no definite plans at this time.

“If the opportunity arises then, of course, we would love to expand student choices and possibilities,” Bushey said. “Certainly with the advent of the graphic design minor, among other things, our classes are all full.”

While the number of art majors and minors has increased this year, many students who aren’t planning to study art extensively have added to the packed classrooms.

“A majority of the students who aren’t majoring in art actually finish our courses feeling satisfied and happy,” Taylor said.

“Some didn’t think that they could learn, but that’s certainly not true. Anyone can learn if they practice.”

The Hillsdale art department encourages all interested students to take art class, regardless of whether or not students think they are talented artists, though it is also determining how best to manage the increasing enrollment in their classes.

“I strongly believe that the basic skills of drawing, sculpture or painting can be taught just like you can learn to be a better writer or musician,” Taylor said. “That doesn’t mean everybody will be genius artists. But as far as technique goes, anyone who has a desire to learn can become better for their own personal satisfaction and creative outlet.” jfinney@hillsdale.edu

Museum holds annual open house for Christmas The Grosvenor House Museum in Jonesville, Mich., has its Victorian

Christmas Open House Dec. 7-8, 14-15, and 22-23. The event begins at 2 p.m. and goes to 5 p.m. –– with an extension to 7 p.m. on Dec. 7 and 14.The Victorian Christmas is an annual event offered by the museum that includes hourly performances by local artists, special homeade treats, and a historic story teller.

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said she looks forward to returning to the role with greater maturity.

Rosalind spends much of the play disguised as a man after being banished from court by her usurper uncle. Caton said Rosalind finds the control the disguise gives her exciting but uncomfortable. Rosalind uses her guise to help other characters mature.

Early in the play, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando, a nobleman oppressed by his cruel older brother, Oliver. Oliver willfully neglects to train Orlando in the manners befitting a gentleman.

Senior Whittaker Dunn, who plays Orlando, said Orlando feels great discomfort about this lack of training, but his excellent personal character outweighs his lack of formal manners.

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strong ever since,” Livingston said. “Originally, I just thought it would be a community thing because I really did not have a connection with the college at that point. We were rehearsing at the college, and Mr. Holleman suggested we made it open to the college kids so they could take a different class.”

Sophomore Grace Hertz is one of a growing number of college students involved in the wind symphony. Hertz heard about the symphony before she came to Hillsdale. She said she was excited to keep up with flute while she focuses on piano.

Hertz said she enjoys the communal aspect of the symphony.

“I think the dynamic between being a community group which also has involvement in the college is unique and really makes it special. It’s not just college students – it’s an effort from the community as a whole, and that is really neat.”

by freshman Dani Morey, lacks manners. She cruelly rejects the affections of the shepherd Silvius, though she marries him after manipulation by the disguised Rosalind.

“I honestly feel bad for Silvius,” Morey said, “I hadn’t met the actor who plays him beforehand, so I was like ‘Hi, I’m Dani,’ and then I just started yelling at him.”

Sophomore Kendall Karpack plays Celia, Rosalind’s cousin and best friend, who joins her in her banishment.

“She’s very loyal,” Karpack said. “I think that’s her biggest quality, and it’s definitely a quality I admire a lot.”

Karpack said she was excited about stepping into a new acting role for the first time since high school.

“Every time I play a part, I learn something new,” she said.

“Every character has something she can teach you.”

This production marks both Kalthoff and Whalen’s directorial debuts. They have both

Hertz said she is excited for the concert this year.

“I think it is going to be really neat, and we have a unique lineup of music. There is some Christmas music, but it is not all Christmas music, and a lot of out songs have a higher level of difficulty than we have done before, which makes for great and unique sounds,” Hertz said.

Tim Galloway, who comes from Reading and plays the French horn, has been coming with his sons for the past four years. He said that each year he is excited and surprised by the progress of the symphony.

“Every time I am amazed that we only meet once a week and there are 8-12 rehearsals. I am amazed how two weeks before the concert I am thinking ‘gosh are we going to be ready for this?’ and somehow those last couple weeks everyone buckles down a little. I am always amazed how it turns out.”

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Some cast members from “As You Like It” gather for a read-through of the play. (Ben Strickland/ Collegian) acted in a Shakespeare in the They both stressed their desire Arb production, Whalen in “A to have the production reflect a Midsummer Night’s Dream” faithful reading of the play. and Kalthoff in “The Tempest.”

“Most of all what Shake“We’ve been best friends speare wants is thoughtful readsince we were babies,” Wha- ers who care about the truth of len said, “so we channel pretty things,” Whalen said, “so if we well.” can bring that kind of authentic“Which is really helpful for ity to it, then we’ll be happy.” directing,” Kalthoff added.

She said their interpretations of the play were very similar. wmulley@hillsdale.edu

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get to come to Philadelphia, we thought we would bring it to them,” said Bill Wedo, comFrom B1 munications manager at Studio we do in a regular class. I won’t Incamminati.

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“We have alumni who have atist art in Philadelphia.

“We just celebrated our tended this school after gradu10th anniversary this past year. ating from Hillsdale and speak At first it was more or less an very highly of it. This is, in a informal thing, but our pro- word, quite exciting.” gram has really grown in the jfinney@hillsdale.edu past year. For those certain people who are not going to

Juried art exhibit gives students chance to show work Teddy Sawyer Assistant Editor

Featuring works from just about every area of the Hillsdale College Art Department, the Student-juried Art Show is open now in the Daughtry Art Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts. The show includes sculpture, pastels, master copies, graphic design, and more.

The exhibit had its grand opening Dec. 3 with the announcement of the awards by the faculty and student-voted favorites, and will remain open until Jan. 10, the beginning of the Spring semester. Around 35 students participated this year, entering a total of around 100 pieces into the show this year.

Many of the students are nei-

ther art majors nor art minors, but merely students interested in developing new or unpolished skills.

“Lots of people are just interested in dabbling in the mediums for fun or from curiosity,” said senior Julia Kilgore, one of the student gallery workers. “There are a fair number of students who are not actual art majors in the studio classes and in the show.”

Participation is open to the entire art department, but many classes require enrolled students to enter.

“Anyone who is in an art class may participate, and I think all of the studio classes require participation at some level,” Professor of Art Barbara Bushey said. “All my art history students are must to make master copies, and I encourage them to put the good ones in the

show.”

While the pinnacle of most art majors' collegiate careers converge in the senior art show at the end of their senior year, the student-juried and guestjuried exhibits allow for other students to display their work in the gallery.

“I always look forward to the show because I get to see what everyone else it up to,” senior Jasmine Noman said.

“I like to see the other mediums –– that might be why I loved the pastels at the show so much. They don't do them that often, and I love to see them.”

Professors and students alike enjoy seeing what the rest of the department has been working on. The student juried aspect allows for students to recognize one another's abilities and the professors note the pieces they consider most ex-

traordinary.

“I always like seeing the different ways of perception, and I encourage students, even very beginners, to think about their composition,” Lecturer in Art Katharine Taylor said, “to see the greater vision and understanding of the piece that comes through.”

The Student-Juried show is one of a few annual exhibits put on by the art department, as well as the annual guest-juried show, occasional visiting artists, and senior art shows.

“I'm not an art major, but I've taken 20-30 hours of studio classes. I love the department and really love the professors: they're a bit crazy and great,” Noman said. “I love the department and seeing and being in these art shows.” tsawyer1@hillsdale.edu

The Raven’s Club: a review of ‘neo-American’ food in Michigan Robert Ramsey Special-to-the-Collegian Long has the debate raged over what constitutes “American” food. There are primarily two camps in this fight, either you believe that, like the nationality, American food is merely composed of other ethnic foods, amalgamated and reproduced for our eating pleasure, or that American food equals Southern food, which appears to be the only thing we’ve come up with on our own.

Up until the last ten years or so, one could rarely find a restaurant which touted itself as “American,” and places would usually go with labels such as “steak house” or “diner-style.” With post-modernity and its apparently ravenous, identity-seeking obsession with “heritage” infiltrating even the culinary arts at this point, highbrow restaurants have begun to explore the idea of American food, working to create an actual identity by exalting recipes long sequestered as old-fashioned or comfort food.

Personally, I take the stance that there is no such thing as true American food with an authentically original heritage. What has become labeled as haute in current restaurant circles are primarily the products of Germanic, Celtic, or Anglo immigrants and really cannot be delineated from our more recent Italian, Eastern European, or even Asian brethren. Even Southern food is the product of immigration. What we think of today as Southern soul food is purely afro diasporic and can be found on a multitude of continents in a variety of forms.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bothered by the neo-American food movement. In fact, I find it to be quite delicious, and some rather good examples exist out there which should be experienced by our generation. One of the best of these is Ann Arbor’s The Raven’s Club.

The website of The Raven’s Club describes the inspiration for the decor as coming from early 20th-century jazz clubs and speakeasies, and it does not disappoint. Upon entering, a massive bar filled with

layer upon layer of craft liquors and other beverages immediately catches one’s eye. The antique lighting, including massive lampposts installed in the center of the restaurant, transports one to a time utterly Fitzgerald.

I should be quick to mention that The Raven’s Club is as much a bar as a restaurant, and in that way, very much captures the preprohibition tradition of a “public house,” where food and drink were there to assist in people engaging in community, not getting drunk or sated. The bar there can only be described as awe-inspiring; an ever changing list of affordable cocktails, beers, liquors, and wines graces every table, and an immensely helpful staff will direct you to whatever your heart may desire. At The Raven’s Club, they specialize in what could be described as craft or obscure, and oftentimes they will have just received a shipment of something I had read about days before. They currently even carry the ever elusive, over-priced, rumored-to-be-a-scam Pappy Van Winkle’s bourbon, and are one of a very few mid-western institutions that do so.

Their menu is as superb as their drinks list, and the quality of their “American” food truly astounding. Like every restaurant trying to participate in the neo-American food craze, much of their food is locally sourced and of outstanding quality. The menu is also very seasonal, constantly shifting to the point where expecting a particular favorite on the menu is a futile endeavor. A constant presence, though, is their charcuterie board, the contents of which may change, but always satisfies any cravings one might have for premium cured meats.

Their entrees will invoke almost medieval imagery. Delicious heavy meats in delicious heavy sauces grace the singular page of a menu. Maybe this is the American aspect I’ve been looking for, but then I remember that these seem all too familiar in German cuisine.

Despite that, the food, much like German cuisine, is all delicious.

Whether it be pork shanks or lamb chops, all of it is good.

The desserts are wonderful as well as seasonal. Currently, try either the apple fritter or the potted chocolate creme. Both are delicious, and both will assuage any sort of sweet tooth you may have.

Ok, so American food might not be a thing, but whatever sort of

amalgamation of cuisines we have come to call American food can be a beautiful thing. The Raven’s Club provides the perfect example of what the 21st-century restaurant should look like: simple, farmto-table, elegant. They also provide the perfect 21st-century bar: everything anyone’s heart could desire. Go to The Raven’s Club, not to feel “American” but to feel like a damn human being. rramsey@hillsdale.edu

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Hillsdale’s voice of big band

Student combines passion for broadcast, big band music

Emma Vinton Collegian Reporter You wouldn’t say that Wes Wright has a face for radio, though he has been told that. But he does have the voice for it, and he’s been told that too.

Flip on the radio Sunday mornings in Hillsdale, and you’ll be met with the music of Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, and Dean Martin. And, occasionally, you’ll hear the voice of Wright, host of the big band program that airs after the Christian music and Church programs on 92.1 WCSR, Hillsdale’s local radio station.

“I’ve always been told that I have a voice for radio...so that sparked a little interest in broadcasting,” Wright said.

“I like listening to the radio because it has more variety than just choosing the song that you want to hear in that moment.”

Working as early as 6 a.m. on Sunday mornings since the beginning of the semester, Wright has been learning the ways of broadcasting. He took introductory courses in broadcasting in the speech department and works at

WCSR, the local radio station that employs college students.

“WCSR is really committed to the community aspect of being the voice of Hillsdale,” Wright said. “And that’s part of what Big Band Sunday is. It caters to an audience that many radio stations no longer cater to. I play the music, track down the commercials, get on the air and say things about the music sometimes. Six a.m. doesn’t help with that part. But I really enjoy it.”

Because of his love for swing dancing, hosting the Big Band program has been a perfect fit for Wright.

“I really enjoy it because I swing dance, and I really do like swing music and big band stuff,” Wright said.

“I know a lot of the music, and I’ve expanded my horizons a little bit with some of the music that they have.”

The Big Band program is Wright’s first experience on the air. He said he was apprehensive at first, but he is getting the hang of it.

“For a while I didn’t have the technical experience,” Wright said It was scary to be doing the news and a minute in realize there was no sound going out over the air, because I hadn’t had

a couple buttons depressed. But I don’t air: ‘If you live near this, and you have “I dont think I have the personality become depressed about that,” Wright cows, do you know where they are?’ for it, to be a personality,” Wright said. said. “The biggest fear is oversleeping, Just things like that.”

“It takes a particular sort of person that which I did once. But I’m still around.”

Despite his love for the community I don’t think I am, but I would enjoy Wright said that Andy Brown, host aspect of WCSR and for big band mu- doing it as a part time thing, at least a of the program, “Time Out With Andy sic, Wright said that he is not consider- similar capacity to what I do at WCSR.” Brown,” and sports announcer for the ing broadcasting for a career path.

Hillsdale College Chargers and Lady Chargers, gave him the feedback: “There are enough old ladies out there that you’ll know if you’re doing your job wrong.”

“If you make a mistake, because the station has been around for a while, people will call in and let you know,” Wright said. “It is very much a community station, which is a lot of fun.”

Wright also said that he has even received calls concerning the station’s Pet Rescue program.

“I think it might have been my first day without someone being there,” Wright said.

“This woman called in and said that a bunch of cows were eat- Junior Wes Wright sits in the WCSR studio. His Big Band program airs at 8 ing her flowers. So I said on the a.m. Sunday morning. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Botanist grows passion Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor Ben Durrington grows plants.

In his room.

Durrington, a sophomore from Aledo, Texas, is a biology major. He began to study botany in middle school after observing his grandparents’ gardening. He said he decided to read about the plants they were working with and it took off from there.

“I got into mainly tropical plants, like orchids and palm trees and cycads and bromeliads,” Durrington said. “I like reading about them and learning about their habitats and just different things about the environment and climates they live in, and growing some of them, the ones I can find.”

He does more than just grow them: Durrington volunteers in the herbarium on campus. He also plants, repots, and treats diseases in the flora in the greenhouse and removes invasive shrubs as part of an ecosystem restoration project in the Slayton Arboretum.

“He’s incredibly meticulous and thorough,” said Renessa Cooper, professor of biology and the director of the arboretum. “His attention to detail is very admirable: little gets past him.” She added, “He also has a lot of patience too.

I’ve given up on terraria multiple times, but he seems to be totally inspired by the challenges.”

In addition to his work for the college, Durrington continues to cultivate plants on his own. Fortunately, his roommates don’t seem to mind.

“It’s actually quite nice, because I get this fresh supply of oxygen in my room, and I wouldn’t really get that from any other roommate, you know what I mean,” Os Nakayama, Dur-

rington’s roommate, said. “It’s not a problem at all. It’s quite enjoyable. I’ll go in there and he’ll try to tell me the genus and species and I’ll say, ‘O.K., I don’t speak Latin and all that stuff.’”

Durrington cultivates some rather rare plant species.

“There’s one called allthorn, Koeberlinia spinosa, and that’s rare in the sense that it’s not really cultivated by that many people, but it’s not really that rare in the wild.

It’s from the desert, in west Texas,” he said. “It’s a new addition to the family and so I’m still trying to figure out exactly what it needs, because it’s different for every plant.

And there is not cultivation informa- Ben Durrington tion for it; I can only read about its habitat.”

Durrington has plants from all over the world.

“The most exotic or rare plants in the wild are some of the cycads I have, which include some from South Africa and Australia,” he said. “One from Africa I have is called Encephalartos horridus and that one has really sharp leaves.

And then, Macrozamia glaucophylla, which is from Australia.”

Durrington pointed out that his plants were obtained legally, an important point since the plants are endangered. Durrington takes growing cycads as an opportunity to protect the plant.

“Responsible cultivation of rare plants can actually be beneficial to their species,” he said. “It’s sort of like insurance in case that species goes extinct in the wild.”

Cooper was surprised to find

that Durrington was a member of a cycad society before coming to Hillsdale.

“Cycads are really neat plants.

They were around even in the time of the dinosaurs. They are a plant lineage that’s been around for quite some time, and Ben even tries to grow them from seed.”

The enthusiasm Durrington has for the well being of natural plant habitats does not go unnoticed.

“He has a genuine passion for promoting conservation,” Cooper said. “We need more students like him. He’s a botanist.”

Durrington sees plants as more than biology. They’re art.

“I guess there are several different things that I like about it,” Durrington said. “Scientifically it’s interesting, I guess from a biology standpoint, it’s interesting to look at their habitats and how they grow and interact. But even though I’m a biology major I kind of have an artistic side and each plant is like its own little design or work of art. Each one has its own unique leaf structure or flower that’s just really intricate.”

Nakayama said rooming with Durrington and his plants has been a delight.

“His plants are awesome,” he said. “He has some orchids right now, and they’re blooming. He has his cute little terrariums in there; they have their own sleep schedule and everything.”

However, those plants are definitely Durrington’s domain.

“There was one time when I went into his room, it was about a month ago—I went in there and I was looking at his plants and [I touched one] and I came back a week later and it was dying,” Nakayama said. “He said it wasn’t my fault, but it was. Because I touched it and I don’t have his

Sophomore Ben Durrington waters plants in a terrarium in his room.

Defense expert partners with Hillsdale Emmaline Epperson Collegian Reporter Class began promptly at 7:15 p.m. At 7:20, there was still no sign of the professor.

When the clock hit 7:30, a student got a call from him.

He got caught up at work and would arrive shortly. Finally, Professor Todd Lowery came bumbling into the room at 8:00.

Lowery apologized for his tardiness. It was the first time he had arrived late all semester.

“Were you in the war room?” one student asked, jokingly.

“If there was such a thing…” he answered with a grin.

“Is there a national security emergency?” another questioned.

“If it were only that interesting,” he posited back.

“I think you can sleep tight tonight.”

Lowery, who works as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, is also an adjunct professor who has taught the class, “National Security” for the past seven years at the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program (WHIP).

In 2007, Hillsdale College approached Lowery. The college hoped to revitalize WHIP and wanted to teach a class on National Security. With no prescribed syllabus, Lowery had the freedom to choose what students in his class read.

With the country at war, the class offered him the opportunity to introduce students to the subject of war and politics.

“So I thought if I had one shot with students to teach them everything that I found to be important over 15 years of schooling, what could I pack into 10 to 12 weeks,” Lowery said.

Though teaching is not Lowery’s main career, he enjoys it as a night job.

“I like it because you are introducing people to new concepts and new ideas. It also forces me to think about things and try to do a good job of explaining it,” he said.

Most students at WHIP, Lowery noticed, study national security for the first time in

his class. The class has helped current WHIP student Kate Bock in her internship.

“Taking Dr. Lowery’s class on National Security Studies has greatly helped me with my job on the House Armed Services Committee,” she said.

“It has been really interesting to see how the theory we learn is class is actually applied on

Lowery left the think tank and entered civil service. At the end of President George W. Bush’s administration, his old boss was appointed as Under Secretary of Defense. The under secretary remembered Lowery. Since then Lowery has stayed on and worked for him in different capacities.

Though his areas of focus have shifted, international relations have always interested Lowery. Growing up in a rural town during the end of the Cold War, he was fascinated by the breakdown of the Soviet Union.

“It was ‘pre-Internet’ days so I was glued to the TV and loved reading the papers and anything I could find about how the world was changing around me,” Lowery said.

“I remember the television images of people tearing down the Berlin Wall in my mind.”

Upon acceptance at Frostburg State University in Maryland, Lowery entered the international studies program.

After living in a small town, Lowery was eager to travel.

He spent one summer studying in Germany. Another summer he worked at a think tank in Washington, D.C. He spent his break between semesters backpacking through Eastern Europe.

“That’s one of the reasons I like the WHIP program, because I’m a big believer in internships,” Lowery said.

“Practical experience counts for a lot in this field.”

Lowery completed his undergraduate education in three years and went on to study at the University of Chicago to earn his master’s degree in international relations. He also holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Maryland.

Deep down, Lowery is a self-described “small-town kind of guy.” He said with a chuckle that he stays in D.C. partly, “because my wife likes it.” Lowery also said that the capital is the best place to study international relations and foreign policy. So he stays and continues to teach.

“It gives a certain energy to me,” he said.

“I’ve always found students who are very good, informed students have never had a rigorous approach to the study of foreign relations or national security.”

-Todd Lowery, lecturer in national security Capitol Hill.”

The first class of every semester, Lowery asks students about their backgrounds in studying international relations. Most have very little experience. Lowery’s favorite part of teaching comes at the end of semester. He asks students to review what they have learned in the past semester.

“I’ve always found students who are very good, very informed students, have never had a rigorous, analytical approach to the study of foreign relations or national security,” Lowery said. “They come away, perhaps looking at things a little differently.”

Brittany Baldwin ‘12, uses what she learned from Lowery’s class at her current job, working for Senator Ted Cruz.

“Dr. Lowery’s class gave me a solid foundation to understand the complexities of foreign relations, and it has informed how I think about difficult questions facing the Senate,” she said.

Lowery has worked in the office of the Secretary of Defense for nine years. He met his current boss while working at a defense think tank, one of his first jobs out of graduate school. Eventually the secretary of defense became one of Lowery’s mentors.

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Overheard at Hillsdale: the best of the week

“I don’t understand why we need santa for christmas and a bunny for easter. what does the easter bunny have to do with Jesus being born?”

-anonymous

Todd Lowery stands beside an American flag in the Kirby Center Lecture Hall in Washington, D.C. (Emmaline Epperson/Collegian)

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Spotlight Young Guns

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Family continues football dynasty Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter

the field,” Assistant Coach Landon Peterson said.

“They had a warrior spirit that I did not expect.”

Although the team did take home the champiTen girls huddle together on the sidelines of the onship trophy, senior running back Katie Malm football field. Their faces are painted with red and believed that it was the memories created with her black markings that give the group a confident, teammates that made the season special.

“I think that the [championship] win was infierce quality. Their battle cry fills the air. consequential compared to the season as a whole,” “Welcome to the gun show! Tick, tick, boom!”

They range from seniors to freshmen, and to- Malm said.

The Young Guns’ goal isn’t simply to be regether, form the intramural football team known as membered as champions. Instead they focus on the Young Guns.

This year they won the Championship game— demonstrating a positive attitude on the field “We play to win,” Tirzah said. “But we also for the seventh year in a row. want to honor God on the field So what is their secret to success?

“We play to win, but we as well.”

Malm shared this idea.

“I would tell you, but then “I think the whole point I’d have to kill you,” team also want to honor God of the season was to get close captain and sophomore quaron the field as well.” with everybody and to grow in terback Tirzah Ashmore anour faith,” Malm said. swered jokingly.

Abigail Ashmore ’10, older - Tirzah Ashmore, In order to live out their of honoring God on the sister of Tirzah Ashmore by 6 Sophomore goal field, the team made sure to years, decided to start her own conduct themselves in a posiintramural team in 2007. tive, sportsman-like manner.

They won the championBut living out their faith on the ship that year. It was the birth field was not an easy task. of the Young Guns.

“A lot of the teams were really competitive, so Since then, the team has passed down through the sisters of the family: from Abagail, to Esther remaining positive can sometimes be a struggle,” Ashmore ’12, and finally to Tirzah, the youngest of Malm said.

They tried to show this spirit by doing small acts her family of 10 siblings.

Even alum and brother Sam Ashmore became such as handing flags back to the other team, makinvolved with Young Guns by coaching the team ing sure their flags are worn on the outside of their shirts and, when involved in a collision, making his four years at Hillsdale.

“It’s like a family tradition,” Sam said. “There sure the other person is alright. Malm said these has basically been an Ashmore girl on the team ev- small acts can really help keep their competitiveness in check. ery year.”

“We’re not perfect,” Malm said. “We can get But for the Ashmore family, the tradition of competitive, too. But those little gestures can make football started before college.

As children, the Ashmore’s did not have a tele- all the difference.”

With Tirzah graduating in two years, the Young vision, so they spent their time outside playing Guns will lose the Ashmore touch. But to the teamgames with each other.

“There are so many of us that we could play mates, winning isn’t what defines the legacy of the against each other,” Sam said. “And when we Young Guns.

“My only hope for the team in the future is that played, we actually played real tackle football.”

That Ashmore competitive streak permeates the they continue to carry out that good, God-honoring attitude on the field, which I know it will,” Malm entire Young Guns team and coaching staff.

“I was thoroughly impressed with their effort on said. “I don’t think anyone’s worried.”

Top: Sophomore Tirzah Ashmore shows off her war paint before the game. (Courtesy of Arielle Baker) Bottom: The Young Guns play runner up Vicious and Delicious. (Courtesy of Caroline Green)

Spencer Bell Who or what inspires your style?

A 64-pack of Crayola crayons.

What is your favorite item of clothing?

Lederhosen.

What is the most embarrassing thing you own?

A comfortable and stylish blue shirt that just happens to have ducks flying in groups spotted throughout.

Where is your favorite place to shop?

“Tommy Hilfiger and J-Crew with some Bavarian Outfitters every once in awhile.”

How can an unfashionable person become fashionable?

“Suggestion 1: Try to wear as many colors as possible.

Suggestion 2: Grow a mustache.

Suggestion 3: Wear a bow tie.

Suggestion 4: Buy a pair of nice shoes. Take care of your feet, people.

Suggestion 5: Dance.”

campus chic - Compiled by Casey Harper, photographed by Shaun Lichti