2.20.14 Hillsdale Collegian

Michigan’s oldest college newspaper

Vol. 137, Issue 17 - 20 Feb. 2014

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Dow Center renovations to start in May Chris McCaffery and Teddy Sawyer Assistant Editors

Freshman Ian Gensler, senior Garrett Holt, freshman Alex Reuss, and junior Evan Gensler warm themselves over a fire inside of their handmade igloo behind Central Hall. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

Detroit Institute of Arts aims for independence Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor “The whole situation is horrible,” said John Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program, speaking of the Detroit Chapter 9 bankruptcy. “And now it’s reckoning day.”

For the Detroit Institute of Arts, maybe not.

While the city of Detroit has to determine how it will address more than $18 billion of longterm debt, it appears that, for now, the DIA’s art collection is safe from liquidation to help pay the city’s $3.5 billion in pension obligations.

The DIA has been owned by the city of Detroit since 1919.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Inc. is merely a not-for-profit entity that has managed the museum on behalf of the city since 1998.

The total collection is 66,000 pieces. However, most of the pieces acquired from 1919 to about 1940, when the city expanded the collection with direct public funding—rather than donations — were considered “up for grabs.” A little more than 2,700 works of art were acquired

at that time. The auction house, Christie’s, valued that slice of the collection between $454 and $867 million. The DIA has argued that it holds the art collection in charitable trust for the residents of Detroit and Michigan, and thus its collection cannot be sold.

Detroit’s creditors argued that the museum’s collection should be considered a city asset and thus potentially used for paying off the city’s debt.

“If and when Chicago goes bankrupt, the Chicago Art Institute will not be part of that equation,” Miller said, “and that’s the way it should be.”

About $820 million over the next 20 years will keep the DIA’s collection from going to sale. Philanthropic foundations, including the Ford Foundation, have pledged $370 million to the cause. Gov. Rick Snyder and other Michigan political figures have proposed that the state promise $350 million for funding Detroit’s pensions. The DIA itself has committed to raising $100 million over the next 20 years by donation to help contribute to the plan.

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This May, the college will begin building the Searle Center.

This new construction will expand both Curtiss Memorial Dining Hall and Phillips Auditorium while improving the look of the building. This will create space for large campus events and update a complex that has been in place since the 1950s.

“We have been planning to do this, and we have had a very generous donor gift,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said.

The construction will take place in two phases. The first phase, beginning in May, will focus on the expansion and renovation of Curtiss and its lobby, giving more than 800 people room to dine. The second step will add on to Phillips, but no date has been set, as the college is still raising money.

The plans were announced at the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Campaign in October 2013.

In order to increase the size and improve functionalty, crews will remove the roof of Curtiss, replacing it with a higher, more acoustically-effective ceiling

with new lighting fixtures for the larger space. The floors and other furnishings will also change.

Along with the renovations to the dining area, the lobby will undergo some serious changes.

“We’ll take the existing lobby and blow the roof off that, put an escalator in, an elevator, and stairs that go down to the left,” Péwé said. “That lobby will extend out almost to the road, and there will be a porte-cochère for dropping off stuff. The idea is to make an easy flow between the dining space and the expanded Phillips.”

Likewise, Phillips will almost double in size, reaching to the road with a rebuilt roof and balcony and approximately 800 or more new seats in the auditorium.

The current building has a long, complex history. After World War II, changes in higher education across the country left Hillsdale in dire economic straits. While the college’s endowment fell, students began to demand new buildings to replace the aging, 19th-century structures still in daily use. The college’s Board of Trustees began aggressively campaigning for alumni and other benefac-

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President’s Ball arrives Bailey Pritchett Assistant Editor

Every February, President Larry Arnn receives a formal invitation to a ball in his honor.

On the evening of the event, he hosts five men and five women at his home who have been interviewed by a panel of faculty to determine Hillsdale’s next President’s Ball court. After the group arrives to the ball, Arnn crowns the king and queen. This has been the President’s Ball ceremony since the beginning.

Although Arnn is not on the panel that determines the President’s Ball court, his wife, Penny Arnn, has a seat.

The spotlight this year, however, is not only reserved for the 10 court members, but for every student who attends the red carpet event.

The Academy Awards theme for this year’s President’s Ball is “further than we’ve ever gone with a theme” according to Student Activities Board Director senior Haley Johnson.

In addition to a hired photogSenior Alex Anderson works on his handmade Oscar statue in the basement of Sigma Chi fraternity. The theme rapher who will capture student poses on a red carpet, a television for this year’s President’s Ball is the Academy Awards. host, senior Alex Anderson, will (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

engage in red carpet interviews with student celebrities.

“This is a theme where we can go very big,” Johnson said. “It’s very interactive.”

The Student Activities Board began planning the President’s Ball upon its return from Christmas break. After a theme was pinned down, the team broke into groups to work on projects.

The largest project, in terms of physical size, is a nine-foot paper maché statue in the shape of an Oscar.

The President’s Ball boasts the largest SAB event budget of $10,000, after Centralhallapalooza. The bulk of the cost is divided among food, decorations, and the band.

“The Oscar statue was completely handmade,” SAB assistant and sophomore Corinne Wiggins said. “We have a lot of gold decorations, and we plan on putting up a Hollywood sign. We want to bring the venue to life.”

A new competition that aligns with the Academy Awards theme was introduced to students this week. Students may create and submit a 30-second movie trailer

by Feb. 21. On the night of the ball, the winning submission will

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Wolfram named academy commencement speaker Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram was recently selected as Hillsdale Academy’s commencement speaker for the 2014 graduating class.

In June, Wolfram will join the ranks of the academy’s past commencement speakers, such as columnist Jonah Goldberg, historian Victor Hanson, Congressman Tim Walberg, and College President Larry Arnn.

“It’s an honor to be the commencement speaker,” Wolfram said, “and it’ll be nice to speak with my son in the graduation class.”

Although Wolfram has not begun writing his speech, he wants to stress the importance of using the education from Hillsdale Academy through college and beyond. He wants to remind the graduates to stick to their goals and remember what they learned throughout their lives. He also wants to warn them of what they will experience in college, sending them from their graduation with a final piece of advice.

“I plan to talk about what they need to maintain from their current education as they move on to college,” Wolfram said. “Most of the academy kids are going into college, and I want to give them a little bit of a sense of what col-

lege is going to be like.”

Wolfram is no stranger to public speaking. He has delivered keynote speeches for organizations such as The Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley and routinely speaks at college events.

“I hope that Dr. Wolfram will send our graduates into the world with a word of encouragement and a charge to uphold the principles of Constitutional government,” Academy Headmaster Kenneth Calvert said.

Wolfram has a long history with the academy. Mary Wolfram, head of economic development for the city of Hillsdale and Gary Wolfram’s wife, worked as Hillsdale Academy’s 7th grade

teacher for 10 years. The Wolframs have sent three children to the academy, including Liam Wolfram, who is a graduating senior this year.

“In addition to the family connection is the fact that Dr. Wolfram is well-known across the nation for his work in support of limited government and free markets,” Calvert said. “Hillsdale Academy, as a department of Hillsdale College, is keen to endorse these principles in its commencement ceremony.”

Wolfram earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley after undergraduate study at UC Santa

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INSIDE Firearms Club The college firearms club is expanding through the effort of their officers. A2

Sauk Theatre puts on ‘Lost in Yonkers’ Pulitzer-prize-winning play performed at community theatre. B1

Mackinac Center Scholarship The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is offering a new internship position to Hillsdale students. A2

Good friends, good food, and the good book.

Students grow in faith and community through Bible studies. B4 (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Edward Sri is a professor of theology and vice president of missions and outreach at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colo.

Sri teaches classes on scripture, salvation history, moral theology, and spiritual theology. He has written several books, including “Men, Women and the Mystery of Love” and “A Biblical Walk Through the Mass.”

Last Thursday, Sri gave two lectures at Hillsdale College: one on Mary and one on Christian relationships. Compiled by Morgan Delp.

Augustine Institute Professor of Theology Edward Sri gave lectures on the Virgin Mary and Christian relationships on Feb. 13. (Courtesy of Aaron Petersen)

Mackinac offers Hillsdale scholarship Ramona Tausz Collegian Freelancer

A new scholarship endowment will allow one Hillsdale student each year to intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Mich.

The Teresa L. Olson Scholarship Endowment is funded

by D. Joseph Olson, a founding board member of the Mackinac Center, in honor of his late wife, Teresa.

“The Mackinac Center is the premier state policy think tank in the country without a doubt,” said Gary Wolfram, professor of political economy at Hillsdale and a member of the Mackinac Center board of scholars.

Wolfram said the internship will be important for the Hillsdale economics and political economy students who receive the scholarship.

“It’ll give students the opportunity to take a look at how think tanks work and how they can be used as a venue to affect public policy,” Wolfram said.

“The Mackinac Center has an enormous effect on the public policy debate in the state legislature, and to be able to be at the center of that is a big opportunity.”

The process for selecting yearly internship recipients is still being planned but will involve input from both Hillsdale faculty and Mackinac Center representatives.

According to Mackinac Center Media Relations Manager Ted O’Neil, the summer internship will vary depending on what each intern’s interests are and what the center’s needs are.

“Different interns are as-

signed to work with various policy directors, whether it’s in fiscal policy or labor or education,” O’Neil said. “They help the policy directors work, doing research and writing about public policy issues, depending on what that specific policy director is doing at the time.”

Over the course of the summer, students will also be exposed to a range of economic ideas and topics.

“We also have kind of a unique program,” O’Neil said.

“Once a week, we have what is called Intern University, which is held over the lunch hour. All the interns gather and someone, whether one of the policy directors or the president of the Mackinac Center, will come in and give a talk about a particular issue, generally involving public policy but also sometimes the history of a particular issue of economics, free markets, liberty, things like that.”

Interns will also learn about Teresa Olson and her accomplishments, including her background in insurance and her dedication to free-market ideals and interest in public policy.

Olson has long been a friend of the college, and he and Teresa had a personal connection with Hillsdale through Wolfram. The couple’s particular interest in Hillsdale students led to the creation of the scholarship.

“The Mackinac Center in any given summer will have maybe 10 or 12 interns, and it always seems like we have two or three from Hillsdale because the philosophy is so similar,” O’Neil said.

What was your faith like growing up?

I was raised Catholic and have always been involved in my faith, but it certainly grew when I was in college. I went to a big secular school, Indiana University, and my faith was challenged there, in the classroom and outside the classroom. In that period of having to answer people’s questions about why we trust the Bible and why we have to follow this moral law, I was challenged to dig deeper and study and un-

Q&A: Edward Sri derstand my faith better so that I could, first of all, understand it better, but also defend it to others.

What do you tell young people when they ask you about the application of your lectures and books to their real lives?

I am always asked personal questions about their lives, because I think what the Scriptures and John Paul II offer us does strike a chord with our own experience, and we’re looking to ask, “Ok, now how do I apply this more to my life?” I would just go back to the difference between that more self-giving love and self-getting love. Asking, “Do I look at my relationships, romantic relationships especially, more on an inward level?

What do I get out of it? What’s in it for me?” That’s not a mature love, and not one that’s going to last the test of time. A fuller love is one that imitates Christ and focuses on what’s best for the other person. It’s one that’s looking outward, seeking the good of the other person.

As a father of six (almost

style that I think Hillsdale students would appreciate,” Little said.

Eltringham is working on getting another NRA speaker from the legislative branch to talk about the gun debate in America and the issues our generation is facing.

Little explained they are having trouble confirming speakers

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what true love is. He gave His life for us, and he didn’t get anything out of it. It’s total sacrifice.

And I don’t see that most of the popular self-help books out of Barnes & Noble do anything in that direction, at least not a lot.

You’re only going to find happiness when you live in imitation of Christ.

Would you consider Pope John Paul II, whom you speak a lot about, a role model of yours?

He would certainly be one of them. He was the pope through most of my life and certainly during my days of graduate school when I was studying theology. He’s offered us in his book, “Love and Responsibility,” and in his series of addresses, the “Theology of the Body,” some profound insight into what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, and the mix between men and women. I find it so helpful for young people to build strong relationships today in our dating and in our marriage. The world needs that today.

EVERETT COMPETITION ADVANCES Jack Butler Assistant Editor

What would you do for $3,000?

This semester, 16 students competed for the 14th Annual Edward Everett Prize for Oratory. This year’s topic is “Privacy and Surveillance: The Costs to Our Free Republic.”

First place will receive $3,000. The second and thirdplace finalists will receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively.

Though the contest was open to any student on campus in good standing, only five (plus two alternates), survived the preliminary judging round, in which contestants delivered a memorized speech based on the manuscript they submitted.

The finalists were junior Dylan Hoover, sophomore Shaun Lichti, senior Chris Landers, freshman Keyona Shabazz, and senior Melika Willoughby.

Despite the potential reward, only about 16 students compete each year, according to Professor of Speech Kirstin Kiledal.

“Sixteen is within our norm, maybe a little bit below range,” she said.

Two preliminary rounds of judging, with two judges per section, narrowed down the field to its finalists, who now must give essentially the same speech before an entirely different panel of judges on March 4. Any changes must be strictly technical, dealing with issues such as length and timing, and approved by Kiledal.

“Changes to speeches have to be made with my knowledge and permission,” she said.

As the finalists, most of

College President Larry Arnn and senior Jonathan Lewis pose at last year’s Edward Everett Oratory Competition. Lewis was the 2013 winner. (Courtesy of External Affairs) whom come from speech backgrounds, await this last competition, they are trying to refine their arguments and speeches as much as they can.

Willoughby, new to the competition on a last-chance urging from her parents, said she will try to focus on the audience, and stress speech flow.

“The biggest question for me is, ‘Who is my audience?’

Speaking, properly done, is a service to the audience,” she said. “I’m not married to my script. I’ll say what naturally flows.”

She’s also not afraid of the competition.

“I’m a novice facing a lot of veterans. But it’s still anyone’s

Firearms club expands operation

“As long as you are safe with a gun and can get equipment, you can go,” she said.

Members of both clubs are The Hillsdale College Firewilling to help people get equiparms Club has exploded in the ment. last year.

“Last week Matt Little won Due to the work of presifirst in two divisions with bordent and junior Chelsea Bratten, rowed guns,” Bratten said. vice president and senior Matt Bratten said while it is a comEltringham, and secretary and petition, the atmosphere is sophomore Matt Little, relaxed and shooters can the club has become a go as slowly as they feel rapidly growing group. they need to.

The previous presi“You don’t need a dent, alumnus Blake competitive mindset,” Scott, couldn’t expand she said. the club because he had When the weather gets to divide his time bewarmer, the college range tween the firearms club will be open to members and the time-consuming on Thursday afternoons. shotgun team, EltringEltringham worked ham said. with rangemaster BartBut in the spring of ley Spieth to expand the 2013, the club underwent hours and lower club a restructuring, Bratten dues. Rather than paysaid. ing a large flat fee for the “We would like to give whole semester, members people the opportunity now pay $28 for the seto learn about firearms mester and pay per day and issues pertaining to they shoot. the second amendment,” “We wanted to accomBratten said. modate people that can’t Eltringham said their shoot as much, so they goals for the club are to Junior Eric Hodgdon shoots at last semester’s Constitution Day shoot. The feel like they are getting bring speakers on cam- Firearms Club is working with local ranges to offer opportunities to college their money’s worth,” Elpus, expand range hours, students. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) tringham said. and get college students The club is growing involved with ranges off campus. from the NRA because the of- there.” faster than the resources are able Professor of Politics Ronald fices have been closed frequently A few members go to the rifle to, Eltringham said, but they plan Pestritto will be giving a talk on for snow, but they hope to have club each Saturday to compete at to continue working to improve concealed carry on Feb. 24, at 6 one speaker in March and one in its falling plate shoots. the club. p.m. in Lane 124. Little said he April.

Bratten said it isn’t necessary “We are open to hearing sugis also working to bring National “Most Hillsdale students are to be a member of the college gestions for topics and for the Rifle Association commentator pro-gun, but we want to arm club or the local rifle club to at- club,” Bratten said.

Billy Johnson to campus. them with the facts so that they tend the meets.

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seven), you will be celebrating 15 years of marriage to your wife this summer. How did you meet your wife?

My wife was the first woman FOCUS [Fellowship of Catholic University Students] missionary, so I had known her before, but we fell in love through our common work at FOCUS. It was great, because looking back, it’s very much like we were talking about, working side by side toward a mission of evangelization and sharing the gospel, and I think that experience formed a lot of good relations for us.

Hopefully, we are raising our kids in the Gospel as well.

What’s your opinion on popular self-help books about dating and relationships?

I’m sure many people from a kind of secular perspective may pick up on good insights into how to build relationships well.

But often times they focus a lot on self, even that phrase “selfhelp” makes the focus on me, and what’s important is to try to build a love that gets out of ourselves. Jesus is the model for

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can discuss the issues confidently with anyone,” Little said.

Eltringham is also working with local ranges, including the Hillsdale Rifle Club, the TriCounty Sportsmen’s League, and the Brooklyn Sportsmans Club to get student memberships.

“They are incredibly welcoming and love to have us,” Little said. “And we are lucky to be

game,” she said.

Lichti chose to focus on the nuances in the topic, which has been in the news since last year’s revelations about the extent of National Security Agency programs.

“It’s nice to have a broad prompt, because it ensures variety, even if people are ideologically similar,” he said. “The issue of government surveillance doesn’t really have a partisan divide. It’s a little bit more nuanced.”

Hoover, a competition veteran, has focused on telling a story, and practicing delivery.

“I wanted to do something no other competitor would do: tell a story about all the ways I’ve

been monitored and recorded,” he said. “It has to sound really natural. So I stand up and practice the speech a bajillion times.

Anybody can write a speech.”

Lichti and Hoover’s status as finalists has an added wrinkle, however: Hoover is Lichti’s big brother in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, which adds several more dimensions to the nature of the competition.

“I’ll be proud of Dylan when he gets second,” said Lichti.

But Hoover disagreed.

“He’s delusional,” he said.

“But I’m really excited to be competing against him. There will be a real sense of camaraderie — and competition.”

Ice rink opens

Claire Freier Collegian Freelancer The campus ice rink is now open to novices and skillful skaters alike after a halfmonth-long delay.

The ice rink has been doing very well since its first day of operation last Friday, according to Cody Eldredge, codirector of campus health and recreation.

“It’s up and good and kicking butt,” he said.

Open from dawn until dusk, the rink will be accessible until spring break or later, if weather permits.

“It’s quite relieving to have it up and running,” said Director of Student Activities Amanda Bigney. “We are happy to provide it for the students.”

Students can get ice skates with a student ID at the Grewcock Student Union’s front desk, and other equipment for broomball and hockey is available in the Student Activities Office.

The ice rink was originally destined to open at the start of the semester as in previous years. However, its creation was postponed due to difficulties pinning down someone to fill the rink with water.

Although the rink was scheduled to be filled two weeks ago, the Hillsdale Rural Fire Department had to respond to an emergency and was not able to finish the job.

“They came and filled it part of the way before they had to

go,” senior Jessica Youngstrom said. Eventually, the Hillsdale Fire Department was called instead and the rink was completed on Feb. 2.

Before the water-filling stage, the rink needed to be assembled and prepared. The Campus Health and Recreation Office, comprised of Youngstrom, Eldredge, and junior Jeff Meyers, manages the funding, construction, maintenance and removal of the ice rink with the help of volunteers.

Eldredge is primarily in charge of managing the rink, but he needed extra assistance to prepare it before the fire department could fill it. “It’s not a one-person job,” Eldredge said.

Formerly stationed in the quad, the rink is now located off Hillsdale Street across from Broadlawn.

Although the rink had been stationed on the quad for less than a decade, the ground surface needed a break from years of continuous use. Bigney said the new location was chosen as an easily accessible site for students hoping to enjoy the winter activity.

Hayden Park had also been considered, but it was ruled out since it would be more difficult for students to walk there in the wintry weather.

“We didn’t want students trekking down there with skates,” Bigney said.

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Three first-year members of Hillsdale’s forensics team won awards at a tournament without even leaving campus.

On Feb. 8 and 9, Hillsdale hosted a statewide novice tournament for the Michigan Intercollegiate Speech League. Freshman Keyona Shabazz won first place in extemporaneous, and freshman Erin Graham took first in both poetry and impromptu.

Junior Anna Wunderlich won third place in impromptu and informative.

“It’s really encouraging to know that there are up-and-coming novices, who will be able to come up and take the reins when we’re gone,” said junior and team captain Brandon Butz.

Hillsdale’s forensics team worked with friends and repre-

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sentatives from the statewide organization to make the tournament a success.

“It’s a lot of work, but we’re part of a state organization, and by volunteering to do it, it’s a form of service to the schools in the league,” said Matthew Warner, assistant director of forensics and debate.

Members of the team helped prepare trophies, ballots for judges, and welcome packets for competitors. They also set up the tournament so everyone always knew where to go for the next event.

They also wrote questions for the impromptu and extemporaneous events, in which competitors have a limited time to prepare a speech on a question they have never seen before.

But Butz said the hard part came during the tournament.

The tabulation room is where the administrators calculate results

and prepare for the next rounds.

The director of MISL decided to compress the tournament due to weather.

“It was a monumental task, but we condensed it and got it done,” Butz said. “The tab room was a constant flurry all day.”

Warner said one of his friends from Central Michigan University and the Director of Individual Events for the state league helped to run the tab room.

“On the front end, everything looks fine,” Warner said. “A lot of times people have no idea that there’s a team of people pulling their hair out and banging their heads on tables and getting into arguments trying to solve problems.”

On Saturday, the speech team will travel to a tournament at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The debate team will compete at the same tournament.

is the author of “A Capitalist Manifesto: Understanding the Market Economy and Defending Liberty.”

“We have a strong graduating class. These seniors have helped to keep Hillsdale Acad-

emy ranked among the top high schools in Michigan,” Calvert said.

The majority of the graduating class will attend Hillsdale College.

be revealed and receive a prize.

Erring on the side of tradition, inviting the Jerry Ross band from metro Detroit ensures a lively dancing atmosphere for students and the band. Booking the band is the first order of business before the planning season of the President’s Ball, as Arnn often requests that the band return every year.

“The band loves playing there, because the students can really dance to all of the music that the band plays,” band leader Jerry Ross said.

“It seems whether we play a swing tune, a modern tune, or a cha-cha, they all dance. It looks like they’ve been taking dance lessons.”

The 11-person band has rotated members for the past 15 years. Some are only seasoned a few months, others have stayed with the band since the beginning.

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Ross was pushed by demand to open an entertainment agency that now has a 12-person staff. It is general consensus among Ross and his band that Hillsdale College is one of the most lively venues they visit.

“It’s one of the most energetic parties of the year,” co-band leader and saxophonist Levi Jensen said. “More people dance to the band than most of the parties where we play.”

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ing any plans from moving forward.

Eventually, the family of the late Fred Knorr, donated $27,628 toward the fund.

Knorr had graduated from Hillsdale in 1937 and died in December 1960. Knorr was part owner of the Detroit Tigers, and the newly founded Knorr Foundation received half of the proceeds from a memorial Detroit Tigers–Los Angeles Angels ballgame.

These funds, along with a vigorous fund-raising campaign by the students and a loan, were enough to construct the The archival rendering of the Knorr Student Center and Dow Center Hotel (top left) and the rendering of the renovatnew building.

College President Donald ed Searle Center (top right) revealed at the Rebirth of Liberty and Learning Campaign Gala. Below, students enjoy the Phillips presented a new plan snack bar after the construction of the old union. The planned lobby of the Searle Center is shown in the bottom right. for expansion to the Board of (Courtesy of Rich Péwé and Mossey Library) Trustees in 1960. The slogan “Preparation for Leadership through Learning and ExpeCompiled by Emmaline Epperson, Amanda Tindall, and Caleb Whitmer rience” pervaded the Phillips era, and, as the college slowly came out of the financial ary roffit immel nthony anno straits in which the preceding After graduation: Hoping to teach, go into After graduation: I will be moving to Mijas, decades had left it, new plans marketing, or in publishing and editing Spain to take part in a program called the G42 for campus improvements Favorite prof: Dr. Smith or Bart. I really Leadership Academy. were possible. like that whole hall in Delp: Smith, Bart, and Major: I am double-majoring in financial Phillips proposed a leaderSundahl management and Spanish. ship development center as Intellectual influences: G.K. Chesterton, Intellectual influences: C.S. Lewis and the next step in the college’s Thomas Aquinas, Flannery O’Connor Pastor Tim Keller of Redeemer Church in New mission.

Favorite band/genre: My favorite genre is York City In 1961, the Herbert H. and country. That’s easy.

Favorite class: Readings in Leadership Grace A. Dow Foundation of and Power by Dr. Blackstock Midland, Mich., donated $1 Favorite band/genre: Lana del Rey and million for the construction of Florida Georgia Line the center. Ground was broken in 1963, and construction was iktor ozsa essica oungstrom complete in August 1964.

After graduation: Doctorate in molecular After graduation: Three months on a The Dow Center has served engineering volunteer hospital ship in Africa, called Mercy the college for 50 years, hostMajor: Physics Ships. Then med school after! ing visitors and conferences Favorite prof.: Dr. Murphy Favorite prof: Dr. Cline to further the mission of the Intellectual influences: Johannes Kepler, Intellectual influences: Oswald Chambers college. With the introduction C.S. Lewis, Albert Camus (author of “My Utmost for His Highest”), Bruce of the Rebirth of Liberty and Favorite band: Gregory Alan Isakov Perry (author of “The Boy Who Was Raised Learning Campaign, the colas a Dog”), and Chris and Sarah Conley, a lege has raised funds to bring couple I met at the most recent CCA who have the center a new life. significantly enriched my life.

“What you saw at the gala Favorite band/genre: Iron and Wine was the Searle Center, which is the Curtiss–Phillips plan, and that is still in the works,” racemarie ambert ravis ook Péwé said. “We’re working on After graduation: Getting married!

Waiting After graduation: I will begin full-time documents that will make us to see where her fiancé goes. Going to grad employment as an auditor with Plante Moran (a ready for construction.” school for a masters in English large regional accounting firm) in August.

Favorite profs: Dr. Jackson, Dr. Smith, Dr. Major: I am an accounting major. No frills, Somerville I’m just a number-cruncher.

Intellectual influences: Mom, Dr. Gamble, Intellectual influences: C.S. Lewis, Dietand Marilyn Robinson rich Bonhoeffer, and John Wooden​ Favorite band/genre: Bluegrass Favorite class: Dr. Blackstock’s Readings in Power, Leadership, and Responsibility receives my top pick Favorite band/genre:Thousand Foot Krutch (Evan Brune/Collegian)

tors to support the school.

By the late 1950s, the college was ready to build. Koon Residence was completed in 1958, and plans for a large dining hall/student union/ conference center were under consideration by the Board of Trustees. The groundbreaking ceremony for Curtiss Memorial Dining Hall, the first building constructed, took place at Homecoming of the same year.

Alden Dow Associates, the architectural firm of Alden B. Dow, student of Frank Lloyd Wright and son of Herbert Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich., designed the building and the subsequent adjoining student union and conference center.

Saga Inc. moved to the new building from East Hall in the spring of 1959, and a dedication was held as part of that year’s commencement ceremonies.

In the years following the war, campus resumed normal operation. As students returned, they began to demand a recreational facility, tired of having to go to off-campus restaurants to be social with classmates. The administration responded by renovating the almost-defunct Dickerson Gymnasium, which had fallen out of regular use after the new fieldhouse (later expanded several times into the Roche Sports Complex) was constructed in 1928.

The barn-like Dickerson Union was very popular with students, with space for dancing, lounging, a snack bar, a soda fountain, a new pool table, and television tearing students from their books. It was always a temporary solution, though, and by the late 1950s students were clamoring for a more up-to-date facility.

The Knorr Student Center was built in 1963 after extensive student fundraising and petitioning. Students visited other schools around the area with modern student unions and were frustrated for years by financial difficulties keep-

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In the article “Student union floods again,” Dave Billington was incorrectly listed as superintendent of custodial services. Billington’s actual title is supervisor of maintenance.

Spotlight In the article “Graduate Musings,” a picture identified as Connor Hamilton was actually of Connor Lund. Furthermore, the quote attributed to him was not said by him.

In “Campus Chic,” the name Calvin Klein was incorrectly spelled.

Sports In the article “4 x 4 breaks school record,” freshman Grayson Thomas’ name was written incorrectly.

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Two weeks ago, Hillsdale police ticketed every car parked on Manning Street. Most of the vehicles on this street belonged to students who wanted to park close to their classes in Lane and Kendall Halls. Though students only had to pay $10 for the tickets, this should be a message to the college that campus needs to make room for parking.

The college has some parking lots but not enough. This winter especially, we’ve all been frustrated by our inability to find open parking spots on the hill.

For the student-drivers, the only convenient and legal spots are on Manning Street, which the city

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Martha Ekdahl Student Columnist This past weekend, I went to D.C. to steal the Declaration of Independence for my Valentine’s gift.

While I was unsuccessful in that endeavor, I did attend the 7th annual International Students for Liberty Conference. Naturally, the first panel I attended discussed drug policy. The moderator began by listing statistics including one that states 10 percent

of drug users have some kind of suffer from their ill-effects. I’ve drug dependency.. I checked the only ever heard how people who number later and was astounded use drugs all must be suffering to find it backed up. This was no from deep psychological issues Obama State of the Union pro- and turn to drugs as a result. I paganda graph, would imagine this was cold those people fall hard fact. 90 When we write into the 10 percent. percent of drug We as a society and users had no de- off those 90 percent a campus rue the pendency issue. without dependency thought of a growI was struck. ing drug culture in I have been problems we any form. We joke trained my en- run the risk of about drugs, but we tire life through don’t actually do school, drug losing them forever drugs, right guys? prevention pro- if they ever slip All of this comgrams, and partmentalizing my parents to into the 10 percent drug perceptions always view with dependency and controlling drugs negahow the public and tively. They’re issues.

Hillsdale students the gateway to view drugs could living in a van have an awful efdown by the river, or worse, in fect on how we as individuals a prison cell. Society as a whole, help those 90 percent who may and especially Hillsdale, has be at risk of developing depengiven drug use only one label: dency issues. life-ruiners. They always ruin As a society, we’ve focused on people’s lives. demonizing and belittling drug I’m not advocating for drug users for habits we can’t compreuse in this column, but I do feel hend because we don’t particistrongly about knowing the facts pate in them. Even worse, when about drug use in America in users become dependent and aforder to better help those who fect others negatively, we put

security could focus on securing the campus and not on handing out parking tickets.

Hillsdale prides itself on being attentive to student and faculty needs: The deans are accessible, Dr. Arnn eats lunch in the dining hall, faculty have reduced class loads, Brock Lutz exists, and Saga provides gluten-free meal options. Parking is a problem at every college. But we like to think we are better than most schools. Why not prove it with better parking?

them through the criminal justice system where prisons overcrowd and treatment facilities make money off court-appointed treatment for “offenders.”

We’ve put ourselves in a comfortable state of denial with the criminalization of drugs which hinders efforts of individuals to seek real help when a hobby becomes a life-altering habit. We need to get out of our comfort zone and face the facts. Drugs are in use everywhere. The longstanding solutions don’t work.

It’s time to acknowledge this fact and move forward to help those who want to be helped before we lose them forever.

On the last day of my macroeconomics class, my professor asked in his most serious tone if we knew someone, directly or indirectly, who could get drugs, of any kind. Every hand in the room was raised.

Drugs have pervaded all of society, so why do we continue to lie to ourselves about who uses and why? When we write off those 90 percent without dependency problems we run the risk of losing them forever if they ever slip into the 10 percent with dependency issues.

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Jonah Goldberg Syndicated Columnist Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” to describe the galling normalcy of Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann. Covering his trial in Jerusalem, she described Eichmann as less a cartoonish villain than a dull, remorseless, paper-pushing functionary just “doing his job.”

The phrase “banality of evil” was instantly controversial, largely because it was misunderstood. Arendt was not trying to minimize Nazism’s evil, but to capture its enormity. The staggering moral horror of the Holocaust was that it made complicity “normal.” Liquidating the Jews was not just the stuff

From the Archives: Anonymous fliers ignite controversy “People of America and Iraq, UNITE!” urged the April 15 issue of the Hillsdale Communist, an independent one-page publication complete with discussion of political philosophy and a shadowed graphic of a sickle and hammer.

Less than one week later, the New Hillsdale Order surfaced — a publication similar in style and distribution. The newsletter advocated open dissent against dorm searches and visitation hours, citing the school’s Western and capitalist ideologies as

may not find anywhere to park.

College administrators have yet to state what they intend to do with the three houses on West Street they recently bought. Hillsdale does not need more dorms – most upperclassmen want to live off-campus anyway. Instead, the college should flatten these houses and make them into a parking lot or even a garage (preferably in the neoclassical style).

Concrete structures and lots are ugly. But they would simplify parking at Hillsdale. And with the college trying to expand its donor base and national reputation, more parking lots couldn’t hurt. Also, with more parking,

Let’s talk about drugs, baby

An apology to Mimi I need to apologize for my last column. It was sophomoric and ungrateful, a mockery of many things I hold dear. I failed to communicate my deep appreciation for the ethos of the South.

Mary Proffit Kimmel It is true that, Student Columnist when my family visited Hillsdale’s campus, we advised our student ambassador not to rave too much about the statue of a Union soldier. But Southerners are more than just bigots who are bitter about the past. We possess a culture of respect for tradition and especially for our elders that I did not quite exemplify in my last article.

My grandmother is one of the dearest people in the world to me. When I left for college, she almost cried, and that was the only moment I regretted my decision. Mimi lives in a beautiful house built in the 1950s but made to look like it was built in the 1850s: red But Southerners brick with white columns and a grand staircase. It has are more than a large lawn which slopes down to the bayou (don’t just bigots who ask me to distinguish a bayou from a bay or an inlet), are bitter about two Bradford pear trees, and one big old Magnolia we the past. used to climb as children.

We only stopped climbing when the branches began breaking under our weight.

My brother Winston and I used to play in Mimi’s attic. I was squeamish about the rat poison and dead cockroaches, but these indelicacies didn’t faze Winston. I would always play the piano (“It’s a parlor grand, not a baby grand,” Mimi informed me), especially during the Christmas holidays, until my family would scold me for making it difficult to hear the news or watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

My grandmother’s house reminds me of phenomenal hors d’oeuvres: cream cheese and pepper jelly on crackers, crab claws with cocktail sauce, cheese straws, not to mention a full open bar back in the kitchen. I had to make two batches of eggnog for my extended family over Christmas break: ingredients include sherry, rum, bourbon, half and half, heavy whipping cream, and a dozen eggs.

But the South is more than just entertaining, cooking, and garden clubs. It has a deep, reverential respect for the home and the family. We often have four generations represented at a holiday like Fourth of July or Christmas. From the greatgrandchildren to my mother and aunts, we all view Mimi with awe and love: love for her humor (She recently criticized the Tea Party Movement for being “tacky.”) and awe at her endurance. This woman has seen the Great Depression. She drank champagne with my grandfather in New Orleans on V - J Day. She was a nurse (lab technician, my mother corrected me) who married my grandfather, the doctor. She is a woman who has suffered much and who never liked any of her daughters’ or granddaughters’ suitors at their first visit, but her protectiveness springs from her fierce loyalty to her own.

Flannery O’Connor once said, “What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be endured.”

My grandmother embodies this last principle. She takes her medicine every day, watches the oranges grow outside her window, and yells at Judge Judy when she comes on at four o’clock. And she waits for her grandchildren to call so she can tell them, “Now you know I don’t like talking on the phone,” which we all know means, “Whenever are you coming home to the South?”​

of Hillsdale deems unavailable for parking when the snowplows are on duty. And don’t let the recent warmth fool you: this is Michigan, people. It will get cold again.

Off-campus students brave icy sidewalks and fight off frostbite as they walk to class. For those with cars, driving makes a lot more sense. But there’s nowhere for them to park near the classroom buildings.

Faculty complain about the lack of parking, too. For them, walking to class is usually not an option. Yet the faculty/staff parking lots generally fill up around 9 a.m. Anyone arriving after then

basis for their argument.

No one has claimed responsibility for either publication.

[Provost Bob Blackstock said] the school would only consider censoring underground papers if they were pornographic.

Adam Goldstein, a legal fellow at the Student Press Law Center, said Hillsdale would be within its legal rights to censor any publication to any extent it chose.

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of mobs and demagogues, but of bureaucracies and bureaucrats.

Now consider the stunted and ritualistic conversation (“controversy” is too vibrant a word for the mundane Internet chatter) about the Soviet Union sparked by the Winter Olympics. The humdrum shrugging at the overwhelming evil of Soviet Communism leaves me nostalgic for the Eichmann controversy.

At least Arendt and her critics agreed that evil itself was in the dock; they merely haggled over the best words to put in the indictment.

What to say of the gormless press-agent twaddle conjured up to describe the Soviet Union? In its opening video for the Olympic Games, NBC’s producers drained the thesaurus of flattering terms devoid of moral content: “The empire that ascended to affirm a colossal footprint; the revolution that birthed one of modern history’s pivotal experiments. But if politics has long shaped our sense of who they are, it’s passion that endures.”

To parse this infomercial treacle is to miss the point, for the whole idea is to luge by the truth on the frictionless skids of euphemism.

In America, we constantly, almost obsessively, wrestle with the “legacy of slavery.” That speaks well of us. But what does it say that so few care that the Soviet Union was built -- literally -- on the legacy of slavery?

The founding fathers of the Russian Revolution -- Vladi-

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mir Lenin and Leon Trotsky -started “small,” merely throwing hundreds of thousands of people into kontslagerya (concentration camps).

By the time Western intellectuals and youthful folk singers like Pete Seeger were lavishing praise on the Soviet Union as the greatest experiment in the world, Joseph Stalin was corralling millions of his own people into slavery. Not metaphorical slavery, but real slavery complete with systematized torture, rape and starvation. Watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, you’d have no idea that from the Moscow metro system to, literally, the roads to Sochi, the Soviet Union -- the supposed epitome of modernity and “scientific socialism” -- was built on a mountain of broken lives and unremembered corpses.

To read Anne Applebaum’s magisterial “Gulag: A History” is to subject yourself to relentless tales of unimaginable barbarity.

A slave who falls in the snow is not helped up by his comrades but is instantly stripped of his clothes and left to die. His last words: “It’s so cold.”

Hava Volovich, a once-obscure newspaper editor turned slave laborer, has a baby, Eleonora, in captivity. Eleonora spends her first months in a room where “bedbugs poured down like sand from the ceiling and walls.” A year later, Eleonora is wasting away, starving in a cold ward at slave “mothers’ camp.” She begs her mother to take her back

“home” to that bedbug-infested hovel. Working all day in the forest to earn food rations, Hava manages to visit her child each night. Finally, Eleonora in her misery refuses even her mother’s embrace, wanting only to drift away in bed. Eleonora dies, hungry and cold, at 15 months. Her mother writes: “In giving birth to my only child, I committed the worst crime there is.”

Multiply these stories by a million. Ten million.

“To eat your own children is a barbarian act.” So read posters distributed by Soviet authorities in the Ukraine, where 6-8 million people were forcibly starved to death so that the socialist Stalin could sell every speck of grain to the West, including seed stock for the next year’s harvest and food for the farmers themselves.

The posters were the Soviet response to the cannibalism they orchestrated.

If it is conventional wisdom that the Nazi Holocaust was worse than the Soviet Terror, you would at least think earning the silver in the Devil’s Olympics would earn something more than feckless wordsmithery and smug eye-rolling from journalists and intellectuals. Imagine if instead of Sochi these games were in Germany, and suppose the organizers floated out the swastika while NBC talked of the “pivotal experiment” of Nazism. Imagine the controversy.

But when the hammer and sickle float by, there’s no outrage.

There is only the evil of banality.

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Why I will miss This editorial will change how David Griffiths you look at editorials forever produced as ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.’”

In the fall semester of ’92, the theater moved into its new home, Markel I will miss David Griffiths when he Auditorium. The first play performed retires at the end of the 2013-14 school in the Black Box was “Shadowlands,” year after serving 40 years as technical which tells the heartbreaking story of director of Hillsdale College’s Theater C.S. Lewis, the great Christian writer, Department. who married late in life, only to lose his His love and devotion to the theater wife to cancer. is admirable. He has The play was “as directed many of my likeable and well-profavorite Tower Players’ “Much Ado duced as ‘How to Sucplays, including “The ceed in Business WithImportance of Being About Nothing,” out Really Trying,’” if Ernest” in 2011. not more so.

Perhaps Griffiths’ which starts “Excellent direcbest year was in 1992. next Wednesday tion by Professor David In the spring semester, Griffiths and superb he directed “How to evening, is the acting by several stuSucceed in Business last Tower Players’ dents made the play a Without Really Tryhuge hit with students, ing” in Phillips Audi- play Griffiths faculty, and community torium. This musical viewers,” said the Colcomedy tells the story will direct. One can legian on Dec. 10, 1992. of a window washer be sure that it “All productions of the of a business company play sold out quickly, who eventually be- will be wonderfully and if you didn’t see it, comes chairman of the you missed a stunning board of that company entertaining, too. show.” by reading the book Griffiths once told “How to Succeed in me that he believed the Business Without Remain purpose of a play ally Trying.” was to entertain. This belief has guided I saw the play on opening night. him to pick plays that Hillsdale College Everyone loved it, and word of mouth audiences have appreciated. spread like wildfire. Tickets for the rest “Much Ado About Nothing,” which of the performances became as scarce starts next Wednesday evening, is the as rain in the desert. last Tower Players’ play Griffiths will Four days after the play’s last per- direct. One can be sure that it will be formance, the Collegian reviewed it on wonderfully entertaining, too. the front cover of its Feb. 27 issue. The Griffiths will go out on top.

Collegian praised it, too.

“The theater may be a business, but Stephen Casai, known as “Saga this cast and crew’s obvious success Steve,” serves as customer service repcame only through hard work and inge- resentative of the Knorr Family Dining nuity,” the newspaper said. “Let’s hope Room. the Tower Players can continue to put out entertainment as likeable and well-

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Micah Meadowcroft Assistant Editor The Internet thinks we want to constantly feel bad for people. And warm and fuzzy. And good about humanity, and depressed, and intrigued, and shocked, and full of self loathing, and blown away, all at the same time. We shouldn’t forget anything we see on the web.

Obviously, we can’t feasibly do that. So the Internet helps us feel all these feels and create these everlasting memories in quick succession. Catharsis or something, hashtag: thefeels?

At least, that’s what upworthy.com seems to think. Here are a few titles from this week: “The Photos Facebook Doesn’t Want You To See Are A Whole Lot Better Than The Ones It Does.” “ W h a t Happens To Some Kids When They Go Work In This Famous Industry Is Awful.”

“This Guy Was Shocked By The Amount of Food His College Cafeteria Threw Away. So He Did Something.”

“What It Means That An ‘Old Fat White Guy From Dallas’ Supports LGBTQ Folks.”

Upworthy’s motto is “Things that matter. Pass ’em on.” The people behind this website seem to believe that sentimental videos with hyperbolic titles and self-righteous com-

Summer reading wastes time Bailey Pritchett Assitant Editor During the last few days of my summer before college, I read two books: Richard Brookiser’s “Founding Father” and Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics.” I was alarmed that I could only pronounce one of the titles.

I don’t remember anything about the assignment other than I don’t know why I needed to do it.

The Hillsdale administration should dismiss mandatory summer reading for incoming freshmen. The best insight that premature assignment provides freshmen is learning how to skimp on reading for class.

By the time Hillsdale freshmen return home for their first Christmas break, their minds are stuffed with Aristotle and ideals for a better America.

The intellectual life at Hillsdale quickly inspires freshmen. But that is not a product of reading great books alone, much less mandatory freshman reading. Although good reading is essential to a Hillsdale education, it is not complete without instruction.

During their orientation, freshmen

are told that they are very trusting of Hillsdale for allowing the institution to form their minds. A large part of the process is based on the books that the students will read over the course of four years. After a quick acknowledgement that the freshmen have already read “Ethics,” the lectures move onto the importance of a liberal arts education, and the text remains unaddressed until the students are in a philosophy class.

There is nothing wrong with the intention behind assigned summer reading. The problem is that students do not know why they did the reading at all.

Of course, that only follows the sigh of relief that there is not a test on George Washington’s ancestry during freshman orientation.

The two books successfully explain important ideals of the college. Leadership, integrity, and an Aristotelian understanding of beauty and truth are legitimate virtues any person ought to know.

But only after a semester of Hillsdale classes do freshman begin to value the fragments of their summer reading that they vaguely remember.

At the very least, each book deserves a lecture on why it applies to a Hillsdale

education during freshmen orientation.

In addition to the obscure reasoning behind assigning these texts, summer reading before college interrupts a wearisome transition time for incoming freshmen. The summer between high school and college marks an overwhelming lifestyle shift. Just ask every bawling mother who carries her son’s hamper and desk lamp to his dorm on move-in day. The fear of moving away from home does not need to join the fear of misunderstanding Greek philosophy.

“Ethics” and “Founding Father” did not ruin my last summer at home.

If I wouldn’t have been anxious about reading, I would have been worrying about something else related to college. I did get the chance to reread “Ethics.” My second time around made more sense and impacted me. Perhaps I needed a rough first try before a fruitful second reading.

But if the mandatory reading serves nothing more than a benchmark test, it is best to table the assignment and let high school seniors enjoy their last summer as young adults. Aristotle can wait a few more months.

Minimum income solves what minimum wage can’t Schuyler Dugle Special to the Collegian President Obama is about to issue an executive order raising the minimum wage of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. This is the most recent salvo in the War on Poverty that officially began 50 years ago. Obama will surely sign the Harkin-Miller bill, which raises the current wage of $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. His rhetoric in his State of the Union address is sympathetic: “Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.” But the minimum wage and the extensive welfare state have done frighteningly little to stop poverty.

In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson launched what became known as the “War on Poverty.” Johnson aimed “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” America has been on poverty antibiotics for a generation, but it’s time to try the cure: a guaranteed minimum income (GMI).

The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-friendly research group, found that 16.4 percent of the US labor force would be directly affected by the Harkin-Miller minimum wage increase.

The argument for increasing wages is

that the real minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation. If inflation metrics are to be believed, this is a fair concern. But the fundamental belief behind Obama’s support for raising the minimum wage isn’t that certain numbers don’t match up. It’s compassion for working families who can’t put food on the table. As a good Democrat, he ought to be concerned: Poverty has clearly won the War. Federal, state, and local government combined spent nearly $1 trillion on welfare in 2012, with the Obama administration increasing federal welfare expenditures by 41 percent. These jerry-rigged schemes have failed. The War on Poverty has only provided jobs for countless bureaucrats and established an alphabet soup of programs “run by four different cabinet departments, including, strangely, the Department of Energy,” notes the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner. He identified 126 programs that the federal government funds at the cost of $14,848 per American, per year.

A guaranteed minimum income, on the other hand, is just what it says: Each month the government would send out an $833 check ($10,000 annually) to every American citizen age 21 and above, regardless of employment status, income, or any other consideration.

This figure is substantially less than the current number the government is indi-

rectly spending to combat poverty. The GMI would replace all current welfare programs. Medicare and Social Security would remain because they are not explicitly anti-poverty programs.

The federal minimum wage would be phased out and eliminated over the next ten years.

This GMI is simpler and cheaper than the current byzantine bureaucracy.

A single agency (or perhaps a special division at the IRS) could oversee it. It would allow the free-market system of prices and competition to operate more normally. Because the GMI is an unconditional check, recipients are free to use it how they wish and can choose the goods and services that best suits their needs. States could eliminate their welfare programs and the associated tax burdens.

The GMI’s fairness and equality will appeal to Democrats and its simplicity and efficiency to Republicans and libertarians. Without raising taxes the GMI would raise the income of a four-person family on the minimum wage from $15,080 to $35,080 a year.

Each adult in the family would be eligible to receive the GMI checks, and any income earned on top of the GMI is theirs to keep.

A guaranteed minimum income will do what no minimum wage can ever do: begin realizing LBJ’s dream of curing and preventing poverty.

mentary are the best way to be aware of the world’s many problems and those decent human beings who try to solve them. Unfortunately, Upworthy is just one of many websites built on this error.

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shouts at you, a three-minute video will never move anyone beyond pity.

Compassion calls for action, catharsis for a full range of human emotion. Watching a video and feeling bad or good about it is nothing more than a selfawarded gold star, a screen to hide from real life and leave real problems behind.

People are looking to the Internet to realize their shared h u m a n i t y.

Instead of interacting with real people, we watch videos. Sites like Upworthy let us love the human race without loving human beings.

They let us feel ) plugged in despite an gi lle o our isolation.

C / up To transcend that or Sk e loneliness, interact with n a (D real, live human beings.

Find and thank the kind people in your life. Become a Upworthy — sharing little slices of good person by doing good for your the human experience that deserve fellow man. Be a friend to someone being shared — is admirable. It is who’s weird or different than you. comforting to know that there are Most of all, remember that these people who love other people. It is things aren’t confined to three-minconvicting to be reminded of our ute clips of other people and other own shortcomings. people’s lives.

But no matter what the hyperbolic headlines say, the Internet is not the forum for real compassion and catharsis. No matter what Upworthy

Question our Obamified cultural norms Sarah Albers Special to the Collegian

suppositions that no one cares to talk about or thinks to question are, in many ways, brought to fruition in his presidency.

His father, a moral and intellectual I'll be the first to admit that I use vagrant, was not present during his my time poorly. But when a quiz pops childhood. His agnostic mother exup in my Facebook feed and promises posed him to myriad belief systems to tell me which American president as a child. He was raised in an enviis most like me, nothing short of death ronment of sexual and ideological by flying ice cream truck is going to liberation and educated among those stay my hand. who marched in the name of cultural I took the quiz. enlightenment. He I posted my result: is the product of our Thomas Jefferson. Obama is not self-effacing society, Then my friends born of our moraliztook the quiz and transcending or ing pluralism. began complaining.

Today's politiMost were informed cal hierarchy is not altering American that their persondetermined by how alities most closely well you think or culture.

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I'm not particularly agreeable. I'm Obama’s presidency indicates that more than a little neurotic. I answered the people have indeed become apaaccordingly. Jefferson for me. thetic. Wielding little more than chaMy less-maladjusted compatriots risma and appealing ideological rhetanswered with an eye toward ideal oric, he won the support of a majority behavior. They favored compassion, of the nation. We would apparently equity, altruism, openness. Obama for rather resign ourselves to convenient them. platitudes than risk being ostracized Obama is often portrayed as an in- for the sake of integrity. novator, a man equipped to transcend With the privileges of a free govthe petty struggles of contemporary ernment come requisite obligations. politics: charismatic, idealistic, the Freedom will not long be maintained face of the American zeitgeist. where we refuse to act on its behalf.

The reality is that innovators are Justice cannot be maintained if we born and raised within the realm of unthinkingly accept the presupposithe concrete, the extant; the world tions of our culture. The stability of of particularity. The greatness they convention, though comfortable, must embody is peculiar to their time and be abandoned once the precedents by place. You can have no innovation which it is justified are disproven. without a standard, no deviation withAmerican culture can only be reout a norm. claimed if we challenge the longWhat polemicists on both sides of standing premises of public conversathe political sphere fail to acknowl- tion. Question the prevalent rhetoric. edge is that Obama is not transcend- Test the boundaries of propriety. Find ing or altering American culture. He the truth, not the norm. has merely made manifest what has been lying dormant for decades. Pre-

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24 options: city council seeking road solution Taylor Knopf & Macaela Bennett City News & Assistant Editor First in a series.

The Hillsdale City Council with help from community members, created a list of 24 road-funding options. The potential solutions include ways to cut waste in the budget, privatize city-run projects, and generate revenue, such as the income tax.

All ideas are included on the list, regardless of their viability.

City Manager Linda Brown said some, like selling roads, may be illegal and will need to be approved by the City Attorney.

Although some options are unpopular, city council hasn’t discounted anything yet because the money is greatly needed.

Unlike county roads which cost between $500,000$600,000, city roads cost almost twice as much.

“For us to do one mile, it’s a million dollars,” Brown said.

“That’s because we have curb, we have gutter, we have storm water, we have sanitary and water mains, and all those things that run under the street. When you have to replace all of that, it’s extremely expensive.”

One method city leadership has discussed is grant money, but Brown says only six streets are eligible for this funding.

“We’ve tapped into every opportunity for grant money, but it’s so restricted,” Brown said.

“Because we have what’s called a small, urban boundary, and unless that street connects to that boundary, it’s not eligible for funding.”

Once council agrees on a plan, the city will move forward with budgeting and road work

Emily Shelton Collegian Reporter

(Caleb Whitmer/Collegian)

using the guidance of a Pavement Surface Evaluation Rating completed in June 2013.

The PASER study evaluated the 60.899 miles of Hillsdale streets on a scale of 1-10, with 1 meaning “total reconstruction” and streets ranked an 8, 9, or 10 having “no maintenance required.”

More than 37 miles of Hillsdale streets ranked as a 4 or below, and excluding the 10.04 miles of road not rated, Hillsdale’s weighted average PASER rating was 3.8, meaning Hillsdale’s streets are in “poor to fair condition” overall.

According to City Finance Director Bonnie Tew, many other cities’ streets are in the same condition, and the economy is largely to blame for the lack of action thus far.

“We are at the 1992 level of revenue from the state right now,” Tew said. “It’s a triple whammy because our property taxes have declined for the last five or six years, revenue sharings have gone down, and as the industries left, our top employers became tax exempt.”

State Rep. Ken Kurtz also addressed the economic issues holding back road funding at the Feb. 3 Hillsdale City Council meeting. Kurtz said that with the uptick in the economy, he believes fixing streets should be one of the main priorities throughout the state of Michigan.

“If there are dollars, we need to appropriate a good bit of that back into our infrastructure,” Kurtz said.

Every dollar invested in

preventative maintenance now will save $4 to $6 in future reconstruction costs, according to a recent publication of Asset Management Guide for Local Agencies in Michigan by Cambridge Systematics, Inc., and the Michigan Department of Transportation.

If the street-repair process doesn’t start soon, costs will only continue to rise, and Hillsdale isn’t the only one facing this bleak future if action isn’t taken soon.

“We are not unique in the state of Michigan or across this country with deteriorating infrastructure and reduced revenues,” Tew said. “While some think we’ve mismanaged things for many years and didn’t do what we needed to do, we really did do what we could.”

Leutheuser announces campaign for state rep Jack Butler Assistant Editor Eric Leutheuser began his campaign for Michigan state representative of the 58th district on Saturday, Feb.15, on the steps of the Hillsdale County Circuit Court.

The owner of local car dealership Leutheuser GMC has connections both to Hillsdale College and to the area itself: he and his wife Laura sent all three of their daughters (Anna, Clara, and Grace) to the college, and their family has local roots stretching back several generations.

Leutheuser said he chose to run because he thinks the area can do better.

“Michigan can be its best again if we work together and rebuild it on the solid foundations that made it great before.

That means common-sense reforms, making sure government is accountable, taxes are low, families and hard work are valued,” he said. “It means good jobs, and good schools prepar-

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ing our young people to be good citizens.”

He also said he thinks hope lies in area residents.

“I’m running to be our state representative because the states can show the way in rebuilding our nation. The people of Hillsdale and Branch Counties have common sense and know what’s right and wrong,

and what should be done,” he said. “And they know that because the work is great, it will be worth the effort, and that the time to begin is now.”

The 58th district, encompassing areas in Hillsdale and Branch Counties, is currently represented by Representative Ken. Kurtz (R-Coldwater), who is term-limited out.

Leutheuser joins a crowded field that already includes at least two potential candidates with Hillsdale ties: Brad Benzing, (Hillsdale High School graduate and local business owner, who was the first to announce his candidacy back in August) and Rochelle Ray, as well as Tim Hart Haberl of Quincy, Stephen Besson of Litchfield, and Hal Nottingham of Quincy.

More candidates may emerge before the 4 p.m. April 22 filing deadline, by which time candidates must submit an Affidavit of Identity and a partisan nominating petition with at least 200 signatures.

The candidates who have filed successfully by that deadline will appear on a primary ballot on Aug.5; victorious nominees will then appear on the Nov.4 general election ballot, according to the Michigan Secretary of State. Those elected then will serve in the 98th Michigan Legislature, whose first session will begin on Jan. 7, 2015.

UDDER SIDE TO HOST ‘CHUBBY CHALLENGE’

Shane Armstrong Collegian Reporter This year the Udder Side, a popular local ice cream joint and restaurant, will hold a promotion called the “Chubby Challenge”.

Udder Side owner Julia Bower created the challenge and hopes to aim it especially at Hillsdale College students, although it will be open to everyone.

To enter the challenge, all participants must go to Udder Side in Jonesville, and pick up a

response team partners with city

challenge card from the cashier.

It has a list of 40 ice cream creations that must all be eaten.

The first person to eat all 40 creations and get them checked off of the card will win a $50 gift card to Udder Side.

Anyone who completes the challenge after the gift card is won will receive an Udder Side tshirt, a button, a Jonesville Dump — a type of sundae at the store — and their picture put up on the store’s wall.

Those who not feel up to taking on the Chubby Challenge can still find deals at the store.

Since this is Udder Side’s 25th

year in business, it will have monthly specials. For February, all splits and wraps are $2.50 on Wednesdays. Each Wednesday for the remainder of the year, Udder Side will feature a new $2.50 special each month.

“Our most popular creation is the manure spreader, which is made up of hot fudge, caramel brownies, on vanilla ice cream with whipped cream,” Bauer said.

Many college students say the Udder Side is one of their favorite places in Hillsdale to get frozen treats. Despite the fact that the store opened on

Feb. 1 during subzero temperatures, students weathered the cold in order to get their ice cream fix.

“My favorite flavors of hard ice cream are bear claw and coconut,” senior Megan Korpics said.

“My favorite thing is the mudslide with brownie and pecans,” senior Mattie Butaud added.

Both seniors visited Udder Side opening week. With more than 40 flavors of hard-serve ice cream, there is sure to be something for everybody.

A core group of Hillsdale College students meet every other week to train how to handle crisis.

Hillsdale Emergency Action Response Team formed last fall after the college administration suggested the idea. The goal was to develop an emergency response team of Hillsdale College students to respond to emergencies on the campus and immediate surrounding areas.

“It was kind of the brainchild after the Sandy Hook [shooting in Connecticut],” senior Kelly Tillotson, HEART team leader said. “We heard at an RA meeting that the school wanted to put together an emergency response team to train students, who, in the event of an emergency, could step up to help security and get things back to normal on campus.”

The team meets every other week for CPR training, First Aid certification, drills, physical fitness exercises, and tabletop exercises, which work through potential situations and responses. The group currently rosters 50, but has a committed core of 15.

HEART will work closely with security in the event of an emergency, but the team also partners with local organizations such as the American Red Cross, Hillsdale Police Department, Hillsdale Fire Department, and the Hillsdale County Manager.

“We want to work with them,” Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers said. “How can we assist them, because what if we are OK and the city isn’t? We want to help.”

HEART trains to address campus issues as well.

“If something were to happen where the services of the city and the county are exhausted, we have to fend for ourselves,” Rogers said. “It makes sense to have a cadre of wellequipped, well-organized students that will know what to do and be able to assist.”

HEART especially attracts students for the leadership training and emergency response skills.

“They always say hope for the best prepare for the worst,” junior Markie Zimmer, secretary of HEART and pre-med student, said. “Even in medicine, being in difficult situations and working through those is a great thing, so why not get training for that,” Zimmer said. “These are always good skills to have, because you never know what situation you’re going to be in.”

Tillotson said she appreciates the leadership experience that HEART offers.

“We are not training kids to take down an active shooter.

We are training students so that they can be leaders in the event of an emergency, so they have the knowledge, the background, and some practice so they can keep a level head in an emergency and lead other students,” Tillotson said. “We are trying to train people to be leaders by giving them this knowledge base and this network that they can work through.”

Rogers acknowledges that the team is a unique program.

“It’s unique because we are a group of people who are standing by to assist if needed – hoping never to be needed, but if we are, then we are ready to do that,” Rogers said. “With that comes a lot of training and a lot of recruiting.”

HEART hopes to grow both in the community and on campus. The team is also applying to be recognized by Student Federation as an official campus club this semester. Rogers also hopes for a student representative in the community.

“We eventually want to have a HEART representative on the Hillsdale Emergency Response Committee so that we have a student lending a voice to the community,” Rogers said.

“What are we here for if we are just here to get an education and not make a difference in where we are at? This is a chance for students to lead.”

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Michigan schools going private with services Bailey Pritchett Assistant Editor The Mackinac Center for Public Policy released a survey on Jan. 21 that evaluated the growth in contracting support services in Michigan public schools. The survey indicated that the amount of private contracts in Michigan public schools has increased since 2001.

Author and policy analyst James Hohman broke the survey down into three categories of support services: transportation, custodial, and food. Out of the three, food privatization is the slowest growing private contractor.

Hohman’s survey reflected that more than 30 percent of Michigan’s town and rural school districts have signed private food contractors in the past

10 years.

“We noticed some difference, there are smaller and rural schools that don’t contract out as much,” Hohman said. “Contracting is rarer in Hillsdale county.”

Hillsdale Community Schools shows little growth toward this trend. For the past 15 years, HCS has employed Chartwells Services as its food management contractor. Chartwells Services is a branch off of Michigan’s largest company in food services, The Compass Group, which is based in the United Kingdom. Most of the employees under food services are paid by the school district, but the service runs under Food Director Laura Call, a Chartwells Services employee.

Although HCS involvement in private contracting is not reflected in the survey categories, the district does contract out in

other small areas such as lawn maintenance.

“We do have certain obligations that require us to bid projects out,” said HCS Business Manager Patty Knapp . “But that decision isn’t made by one person. It first comes from the finance committee and then the board.”

The largest trend difference between rural districts and statewide statistics is in transportation contracts. In rural districts, 16 percent of schools contract out transportation service while statewide more than 20 percent use private transportation services.

Last year, almost two-thirds of Michigan school districts contracted private food, custodial, or transportation services.

Hohman’s survey shows that out of the three services, private transportation contracts have been growing the most, despite

its initial dwindling private contracting.

The survey states that from 2012- 2013 the “proportion of districts using private companies to provide transportation services increased from 16.4 percent to 20.9 percent.” Five years ago, only 6 percent of school districts in Michigan contracted out transportation services.

Custodial service contracts in Michigan schools increased from 39 percent to 45 percent between 2012 and 2013. Only 6 percent of schools privatized custodial services 10 years ago.

“Privatization has shown to save money for smaller school districts,” Hohman said. “We’re looking at our government services, and how we can better provide these things. The answer is you need to contract out.”

In July of 1914, elephants and other circus animals paraded through downtown Hillsdale as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus walked the animals from the train station to the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds.

Hillsdale was often the last stop in Michigan for popular troupes before they made the trek to Richmond, Va. with their entire retinue.

The fairgrounds was a popular location that merited visits from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1915, as well as visits from other popular entertainers, like William “Buffalo Bill” Cody in August of 1899.

After arriving by train, many such groups would march elephants, horses, and other animals down the narrow, dirt roads of the town center on the direct route to the fairgrounds. The visiting troupes would perform there prior to continuing their tour around the country.

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Club volleyball preps for spring season Jessie Fox Collegian Freelancer

After a winning fall season, the women’s club volleyball team is preparing for its spring season. The 16-member team was created this fall as the first of its kind.

“Before this year there wasn’t an intramural league either. I loved volleyball in high school and wanted to continue playing,” said club president, sophomore Betsy Thistleton.

Motivated by their love of the game, Thistleton and her friend and fellow sophomore Alexis Allen took it upon themselves to get this team started. As the women of Hillsdale jumped at this opportunity, it became clear that there were a whole slew of ex-volleyball players who were itching to get back on the court.

“I didn’t want to give volleyball up. I loved the sport and wanted to keep playing through college, even just for fun,” sophomore Lydia Ivkovich said.

This team provides these girls with a competitive outlet while

requiring a manageable time commitment. The team practices twice a week and plays games on weekends. This fall the team

teams with more experience and a coach,” sophomore Holly Frankfurt said.

The team had a successful

Freshman Laura Williamson (left) and sophomore Alexis Allen (right) practice for club volleyball. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

competed well against small schools from the Detroit area, as well as a couple community colleges.

“Our team is entirely studentled, so it was fun to win against

fall, finishing with a record of 5-2. However, the girls are looking forward to an even more successful spring season by picking up a couple new players and continuing to improve through

practice.

“There’s a good turnout at the practices, which is unique in a club team. They are able to scrimmage against each other, which is very important,” explained team advisor, Kevin Foeman.

“It is very well organized and has high expectations and goals,” said Brad Kocher, the director of club and intramural sports. “I definitely believe it is going to be one of our strongest club teams. It already is.”

On top of a winning record, the players aim to have a lot of fun with their teammates.

“I have loved getting to know these girls who I might not have known otherwise,” Thistleton said.

The team plans to participate in tournaments at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Detroit Mercy this semester, as well as a handful of games in Hillsdale’s own Margot V. Biermann Center.

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee has worked to provide many opportunities for student-athletes to give back to the community this semester.

On Feb. 27, the SAAC will host its Pink Wave during the home basketball games, an event fundraising for breast cancer research. This year there will be a silent auction – full of private lessons and sports items donated by each team – the week before the Pink Wave, and those proceeds will go towards the MakeA-Wish Foundation.

The SAAC – a national organization implemented on

campuses with NCAA collegiate athletics – allows studentathletes from each team to give input on the NCAA policies and rules, but also to organize events to unite student-athletes and serve the community as a group and not just as individual teams.

“The committee’s goal each semester is to provide athletes with an opportunity to give back to the community,” committee member and senior Matt Raffin said.

President of SAAC and senior volleyball athlete Lindsay Kostrzewa said it also helps broaden student-athletes’ experiences. “[SAAC] helps get the full student-athlete experience and helps broaden the presence of student-athletes on campus and

in the community,” Kostrzewa said. “I have been on the committee since my freshman year and it’s been a great experience to get to know other athletes from other teams and get involved in the community.”

The SAAC kicked off the semester with an academic recognition night at the home basketball games on Thursday, Jan. 30, when the committee recognized athletes who received a GPA of 3.5 or higher last semester.

The committee has also organized weekly volunteering at the local King’s Kupboard food pantry, and at the end of the year the committee will host an athlete formal, with ticket sales going towards Make-A-Wish as well.

Tennis coach and advisor to

SAAC Nicole Walbright said she was a part of the organization when she was a student-athlete at the University of Dayton, and still enjoys being a part of planning activities for each year.

“I am always excited for them to be involved with their fellow student-athletes. It’s nice to see everyone work together outside of sports,” Walbright said. “We have really tried to grow our volunteer base, which adds to the community. Studentathletes have a great voice in the community and I think it is important they take the skills they learn from their sports and use them outside of their typical environment.”

CHARGERS SPLIT ROAD GAMES

Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter

The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team defeated Lake Erie College on Lake Erie’s home court last week.

Previously, on Jan. 23, Hillsdale had lost to Lake Erie at home.

“We underestimated them the first time,” sophomore Alex Moynes said.

But on Thursday, Feb. 12, the Chargers came back and defeated Lake Erie 67-56.

“We made ourselves realize that we are the better team,” junior Brooke Borowski said.

Head coach Claudette Charney said the team played an okay first half, but had a much better second half.

Hillsdale was behind 27-29 going into the second half, and junior Megan Fogt had been held to six points and four rebounds.

In the second half, the Chargers scored 40 points, with 20 points coming from Fogt.

She also added 14 rebounds in the second half, to finish the game with 26 points and 18 rebounds.

Moynes scored seven points in only five minutes of playing time. Three players –

senior Angela Bisaro, sophomore Kelsey Cromer, and junior Kadie Lowery – each scored nine.

“It was not our best, but we played well enough to win,” Charney said.

The game against Lake Erie was Borowski’s first game back since being injured in the beginning of January.

“It was so nice to be on the floor playing,” Borowski said.

She said that Charney had told her she might be needed to play this game, but figured she would only be put in at the end of a half. Charney put her in the game with 13 minutes left in the second half.

“I just looked at her like, ‘are you sure?’”

Borowski said.

She played for seven minutes, with one assist and one foul.

On Saturday, Hillsdale lost to Ashland University 63-83.

In January, Hillsdale had defeated the defending Division II national champions, but were unable to defeat them on Ashland’s home court.

Hillsdale played a strong first half, and ended the half ahead by one point.

Ashland was able to score on seven possessions in a row in a 25-0 run to take a solid

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Women’s Tennis Hillsdale College: 0 Western Michigan: 7

lead early in the second half.

“We never really got that spark,” Moynes said. “We needed somebody to bring it home and nobody was able to.”

The Chargers were able to cut the lead to 11 points, but couldn’t get over the hump, Charney said.

“It was our worst defensive game in a long time,” Charney said.

Fogt fouled twice in the first five minutes of the game, and was limited to eight points, seven rebounds, three assists, and two blocks in 24 minutes of playing time.

With Fogt limited in time from her average 35 minutes per game, Moynes used her increased time to set career highs with 15 points, six rebounds, and five blocked shots in 20 minutes.

“She had her best effort this year,” Charney said.

Hillsdale plays at Malone University on Thursday, Feb. 20. They return home to play Walsh University on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m.

“We are definitely ready to work this week to beat Malone and make it to the tournament,” Moynes said.

Blocks: Dezelski (31) Cooper (24) Women’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball

Hillsdale College: 63 Ashland: 83

Hillsdale College: 64 Ashland: 61

Hillsdale College: 67 Lake Erie: 56

Hillsdale College: 75 Lake Erie: 59

Season Leaders:

Season Leaders: Total Points: Tim Dezelski (530) Kyle Cooper (265) 3-Pointers: Anthony Manno (49) Dezelski (39) Offensive Rebounds: Dezelski (69) Cooper (31) Defensive Rebounds: Dezelski (148) Brandon Pritzl (101)

SAAC to host breast cancer fundraiser

Emily Shelton Senior Reporter

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Assists: Dezelski (89) Pritzl (79) Free Throws: Dezelski (93) Pritzl (68)

Total Points: Megan Fogt (457) Madison Berry (192) 3-Pointers: Kelsey Cromer (29) Kadie Lowery (27) Offensive Rebounds: Fogt (111) Angela Bisaro (47) Defensive Rebounds: Fogt (252) Bisaro (72) Assists: Ashlyn Landherr (62) Bisaro (61) Free Throws: Fogt (123) Berry (65) Blocks: Fogt (61) Bisaro (28)

Fogt awarded for academic prowess Monica Brandt Collegian Reporter Junior Megan Fogt was named to the 2013-14 Capital One Academic All-America Second Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

She is the first Hillsdale College women’s basketball player to receive this award that only 15 players in all of NCAA Division II receive each year.

“I am honored and grateful,” Fogt said. “It’s a really cool thing to be one of only 15 people in the country.”

Earlier in the year, she was named to the all-district allacademic first team, which made her eligible for the all-American award.

The awards are voted on by the sports information directors from the colleges across Division II, Hillsdale Sports Information Director Brad Monastiere said. Being in the second team means she received between the sixth and tenth most votes of all the districts’ first team players.

“I’m extremely proud of Megan for winning this award,” Monastiere said. “It’s nice to see this kind of recognition on a national level be given to someone who works so hard in the classroom and on the court.”

Fogt is majoring in exercise science and minoring in biology,

with a 3.9 cummulative GPA, and achieved a 4.0 in the fall semester of 2013.

“I take it one day at a time and try to do the best I can to

Megan Fogt ’15 stay on top of things,” Fogt said.

She said coming into college she wasn’t the best at time management, but has learned since her freshman year.

Fogt averages 15.8 rebounds per game, the highest in Division II this season. She is second in the GLIAC with 19.9 points per game. She currently has 363 rebounds and 61 blocked shots this season, the second highest in school history.

“I thank God for all the opportunities I’ve been given,” Fogt said. “All the credit goes to Him.”

Charger Chatter: john banovetz My older two siblings both came here before me, so that had a lot to do with it. Also, the track team and orchestra gave me some good scholarships which influenced the decision.

Why did you get involved in track?

John Banovetz is a Hillsdale College senior who throws for the track team and plays the viola in the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra. Due to an injury, Banovetz currently only throws shot put, but he hopes to begin competing in both shot put and hammer during the approaching outdoor season. Banovetz is the third of four siblings who have attended Hillsdale, and he will marry a former Hillsdale thrower on June 21.

Why did you decide to attend Hillsdale?

I’ve always been of a bigger stature, so throwing always came kind of naturally to me, and I’ve always enjoyed it and been relatively successful. I started track in 5th or 6th grade, but for a brief period in 7th grade I did sprints.

How long have you been involved in orchestra?

I have been playing viola for 15 to 16 years and orchestra since elementary school. It was something that all of us as kids did — all of my siblings play instruments. My mom encouraged us to do that.

What is your most memorable experience with the track team?

Indoor nationals last year. That was a lot of fun. We go for five

days, and get to watch all the other top athletes in the nation, cheer on our teammates, and hang out with the coaches. It’s kind of like a vacation, and a lot of fun. Personally, I did very badly, but there are hopes for this season.

What is your biggest goal in track for this year?

My biggest goal would be AllAmerican in any of the events.

How does being involved in both Hillsdale athletics and music affect your life?

It makes it busy. I have track practice everyday from 2 to 4 p.m., at least, and orchestra rehearsals for two hours twice a week. Ensemble is an hour a week, and twice each semester, we have concerts, so concert weeks are really busy.

How did you meet your fiancé?

Adrienne Bigelow was a senior when I was a freshman, and we met because she was also a thrower on the track team.

We went on a spring break trip together and it went from there

I guess.

What are your and Adrienne’s plans after you graduate?

Right now she is managing a consignment shop in Jonesville and also working some hours at 8 North in Hillsdale. She’s thinking about opening and

managing her own consignment shop, but I’m pushing her to become a personal trainer — I think she’d be really good at it, and she could help me stay fit, which would be nice. I’m currently looking for jobs, and we want to move somewhere other than the Midwest for at least a few years, since we’ve both lived here for all of our lives.

Would you like to continue in track after college?

I would definitely like to coach at a high school or maybe at a college somewhere.

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(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

TRACK MAKES STRIDES AT GVSU Teddy Sawyer Assistant Editor At the Grand Valley State University Big Meet on Feb. 14-15, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams had members qualify for provisional marks and break personal records in several events.

“The women’s team did really, really well, and it was a really strong meet for us across the board,” women’s head coach Andrew Towne said. “All around it was a really great week for us, and for next week we’re just trying to get ready and make final preparations for the GLIAC championships.”

The women’s team made high marks in a variety of events, and almost broke the school record in the 4x400-meter relay. The team composed of freshmen Allison Duber and Jessica Hurley, and sophomores Danielle Gagne and Corinne Zehner, ran with a time only .12 seconds below the school record.

“The distance girls specifically were extremely strong this weekend,” freshman Sarah Benson said. “It’s a great accomplishment for the team in general when so many girls are performing at a national level.”

Duber and fellow freshman Alexandra Whitford received provisional marks in the 400-meter and pole vault, respectively, as did junior Amy Kerst in the 800-meter. Sophomores Emily Oren and Kristina Galat both made provisional marks in the mile. The distance medley team of freshman Kathryn Royer, Kerst, Oren, and sophomore Emily Guy also met provisional marks and took 6th.

“This meet was probably the best so far this season just because everybody showed up and did really well,” Oren said.

“There were a lot of personal bests on the girls’ team; a lot of provisional qualifying times and nearly provo times.”

For the men’s team, senior Maurice Jones took second in the 400-meter, breaking his personal record and meeting the provisional mark. Junior Joshua Mirth met the provisional mark and placed 6th in the 3000-meter, sophomore Matthew Harris took 4th in the the pole vault, senior Brett Dailey 5th in the weight throw, and sophomore Nick Shuster 5th in the high jump.

Also, in the 4x400-meter relay, freshman Ty Etchemendy and seniors Jared Van Dyke, Matthew Raffin, and Jones, made the provisional mark and received 7th place.

“I think the meet went pretty well. It’s always good when we go to Grand Valley for the big meets. There were over 2,400 athletes and there are always a lot of good competitors, so you have competition,” junior John Wierenga said. “Everyone has competition at their level, and everyone rises to the challenge.”

With the GLIAC conference meet on the near horizon, the teams are taking on a somewhat lighter meet this week and working on qualifying for nationals.

“The tune-up is a smaller meet focusing on recovering, and we’re trying to do some finetuning,” men’s head coach Jeff Forino said. “We’re hoping to get some people doing the meet like us, competing in one or two events and working on getting some good times and lanes for conference the next week.”

The Chargers will be at home this week for the third time this season. The Hillsdale Tune-Up will take place in the Margot V. Biermann Center on Feb. 22. On the following weekend, March 1 and 2, Hillsdale will host the conference meet.

Senior Maurice Jones broke his own personal record in the 400-meter dash at the GVSU Big Meet last weekend.

(Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

FOUR SCHOOL RECORDS FALL Charger swimming takes 6th place at GLIACs

Doug Williams Collegian Freelancer

Friday saw a battle in the 500 freestyle. Hopkins bettered the previous mark of 5:06 by a couple of seconds in the morning prelims, only to have Powrie drop it even further by swimming 5:01.38 in the finals.

Hopkins was close behind with a time of 5:01.64. Both girls

Hopkins, after already having a successful meet, smashed her old school record in the 1650 free, swimming 17:18.95 and earning another B-cut. Powrie, who also earned a B-cut, was not far behind in 7th place, and Leitner came in 16th.

Kurtz wasn’t content to return

The Hillsdale Women’s swim team placed 6th overall out of 10 teams and beat four school records at the 2014 GLIAC championships in Cleveland, Ohio.

The action for the Chargers kicked off on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Sophomore Zoe Hopkins led the way in the 1000 free, taking 3rd place while swimming 10:18.52, breaking the school record and earning a B-cut in the process. Fellow sophomore Jennifer Wheeler placed 6th. Freshman Kylie Powrie and junior Jordan Rucinski also scored for the Chargers, placing 12th and 13th respectively.

In the 200 IM, sophomore Sarah Rinaldi placed 10th, swimming 2:07.89 and earning a B-cut.

Thursday was another good day for the Chargers. Hillsdale’s 200 Free relay, made up of Junior Rachael Kurtz (center) celebrates with teammates senior Hayley Johnson, sopho- during GLIACs . (Photo courtesy of Becca Remmes) mores Alissa Jones and Wheeler, and junior Rachael Kurtz placed earned B-cuts in the event. with only one school record. In 5th. Hillsdale’s best event of Later in the day, sophomores the 100 free, Kurtz placed 3rd, the day was the 200 freestyle.

Wheeler and Hannah Leitner earned a B-cut, and swam a new Hillsdale had four girls score placed 5th and 12th respectively school record of 51.19. Freshpoints. Rachel Kurtz came in in the 200 fly, which earned man Emily Balog grabbed a on top for the Chargers, placing Wheeler her second B-cut to na- piece of the action too on Satur7th and swimming 1:55.32, with tionals. In the final event of the day, setting a new school record Powrie (13th), Wheeler (14th), day, Hillsdale’s 800 free relay in the 200 breaststroke (2:24.28) and Hopkins (16th) rounding out placed 5th. while placing 13th. Freshmen the scorers for the Chargers.

Emily Shallman and Powrie, as well as Wheeler and Kurtz finished the meet by coming in 6th place in the 400 free relay.

“I was happy with both [my 50 and 100 freestyle times], but I’d say I was happiest with my 50 because I have a better chance of going to nationals,” Kurtz said. “I was pretty excited about how we did as a team.

Everyone had a great meet and a lot of girls swam fast times.”

Coach Kurt Kirner was pleased with his team’s results and impressed with Kurtz’s improvement.

“The team score (of 6th place) was not as good as we would have liked but we had a lot of girls swim fast times,” he said. “It’s outstanding how much [Kurtz has] dropped in the 50.

It’s quite a substantial amount of time to drop for someone who’s already an established sprinter,” he said.

The Division II National Championships will be held March 12-15. Until they know whether or not they qualified for the meet, the girls who are potential qualifiers will keep training hard.

Equestrian advances two to regionals Amanda Tindall Assistant Editor

With a new home at Premier Equestrian Center LLC in Hudson, Mich., a new arena completed in September, the Hillsdale College Equestrian team has been able to thrive this past year.

New riders had the opportunity to compete, and more experienced riders have advanced further in competition. This year at regionals, junior Daniel Kish represented Hillsdale in Stock seat, which was on Feb. 8 and 9, and Anna Purzycka will compete in Hunt seat on March 1.

For the Stock Seat competition, which is also known as Western riding, Kish won fourth place.

“As great as qualifying for regionals is, it’s also a great accomplishment for the team as well,” coach Danielle Cole said. “Out of the 29 riders he was competing against, he was fourth in the region. The riders that placed above him were from very large schools. It was a particular accomplishment because they have a lot more access to riding. I’m so proud of him for competing and placing where he placed above riders that have so many more opportunities with

horses.”

Since arriving at Hillsdale as a freshman, Kish has been competing at the collegiate level.

“I’ve never made it this far before,” Kish said. “So I’m really excited to have been able to compete.”

Senior Anna Purzycka advanced to the regional competition as well, but in the Hunt Seat division. Purzycka began this season in Advanced Walk, Trot, and Canter, but quickly made it into the Novice division.

Purzycka has been riding since she was 14 years old, and has competed in horse shows since joining the equestrian team three years ago.

“I’ve grown incredibly over the past year with Danielle and Ingrid (Poissant) coaching. At every show, you walk away learning something new about yourself and yourself as a rider. You have a different horse every time and different judges, and you have different people in the ring, so in navigating between all of that you learn a lot.”

While Purzycka and Kish were the only students to advance to the regional competition, many of the younger or newer riders made great strides.

“Some of our freshman riders go from just barely walking and trotting to being on

the correct diagonal.” Purzycka said. “It’s great to see how they’ve grown as riders, but then also to see the new friendships that have come out of it.”

One of these freshman riders is Lillian Quinones, who has ridden both English and Western. This year was her first year in show, as she competed in the Walk, Trot division.

“The nature of the IHSA competition, the fact that we ride different horses everytime we compete, is very scary,” Quinones said.

“You learn so much about different horses.

It’s just so different when you have a horse that you know.”

Overall, Quinones said her time this year with the team has been very rewarding.

“Our coaches have been really amazing.

They sacrifice so much. They drive us to our shows at 5 a.m. and get back so late,” Quinones said. “I’ve made some really great friends. And we have the awesome new arena.”

Anyone is able to compete, Cole explained, as they’re always looking for new riders.

“They cut us off at around 20 per division,” she said. “Up until that point, we’ll always accept new members, even if they’ve never ridden before.”

Men’s basketball snags two road wins in Ohio

Nathanael Meadowcroft Collegian Freelancer Of the Chargers’ seven losses, five of them have been by five points or less, while just two of the team’s previous 15 victories before Saturday were won by the same margin. However, the

Chargers were able to reverse their fortunes on Saturday at Ashland University and make some big plays down the stretch, leading to a hard fought 64-61 victory.

“Those close games, they’re great learning experiences,” senior Tim Dezelski said. “Some

of them haven’t gone our way, but we feel like that’s helped us to get to the point now where we’re pretty confident that we can win and we can make those plays that it takes to win.”

Dezelski’s play was huge as always for the Chargers, as he scored 25 points and recorded 11 rebounds, including a clutch play in the closing minutes.

“Tim Dezelski came up with a huge offensive rebound on a missed free throw by [Brandon] Prizl,” assistant coach Brian McCauley said.

Dezelski’s offensive rebound and layup gave the Chargers the lead for good with 90 seconds left in the game.

“Our older guys, all our

seniors, they stepped up,” sophomore Kyle Cooper added.

“It’s coming down to the home stretch here for them and they know what’s on the line, and they showed it [on Saturday].

They stepped up when they needed to and made big plays and big shots.”

The Chargers’ gutsy victory came just a couple of days after they knocked off Lake Erie College on the road, 75-59. After falling behind early in the game, the Chargers responded and took their first lead of the game with 15:25 left in the first half, which they never relinquished.

“They hit a couple shots early, took a little lead on us, and we just kept on attacking,” Mc-

Cauley said. “We played with a bit of tenacity, and we controlled the game.”

“We were really locked in and ready to go,” Dezelski added. “We were able to get it done.” Dezelski turned in another remarkable performance, garnering 25 points on an efficient 69 percent shooting average to go along with his game-high 14 rebounds.

The Chargers now have three games left in the regular season, and none of them will be easy.

Following the game tonight at Malone University, the Chargers will host Walsh University on Saturday, the first place team in the South Division of the GLIAC.

“Malone is a game behind us right now and their place was a tough place to play last year,” McCauley said. “Walsh took care of us pretty easily down in their place so I think we’ll be ready for them.”

“They’re two big games,” Dezelski added. “We’ve got to win them both.”

The Chargers don’t expect these final three games to be easy, but are determined to keep their three game winning streak alive.

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The Sauk Theatre puts on Pulitzer-Prize-winning script in Jonesville

The cast of ‘Lost in Yonkers,’ the Sauk Theater’s latest production, has overcome quite a few obstacles to bring Neil Simon’s Pulitzer-Prize winning script to Jonesville.

High school sophomore Brock Hayes and his eighth-grade brother Bradley –– cast as leads Jay and Arty Kurnitz, respectively –– have never been cast in a non-musical production before. Their mother, Jennifer (J.D.) Evans, cast as their Aunt Bella, has never performed in a speaking role before now.

“It’s a lot more difficult,” Bradley said, referring to the shift from a musical performance to a straight play. Brock concurred.

“You can’t just do what the director says,” Brock said. “You have to make it seem natural.”

Despite the difficulty of adapting to the new theatrical style, the Hayes brothers, along with the rest of the cast, have worked diligently to bring the script to life, rehearsing four times a week.

“The cast is a dream,” says Trinity Bird, president of the Sauk Theater and director of ‘Lost in Yonkers.’ “We all believe in the material. I adore this play. I have directed it before, but not here.”

Cast members are not the only people enthused about the play.

The opening-night audience was incredibly responsive.

“Opening night was crazy,” Bird says. “The audience was clapping for the characters, laughing with them, and then went completely silent during one of the intense scenes. It was exactly what we had

hoped for.”

In order to bring scripts like ‘Lost in Yonkers’ to the stage successfully, the Sauk relies upon the time and talents of both its dedicated core team as well as around 300 community volunteers during an average season. No resource goes unused or unappreciated.

The crew’s love for and meticulous dedication to the theater is written into the very walls at Sauk: the seats in the small auditorium are clean, carefully kept, and slightly threadbare. The ceiling, adorned with a completely new lighting system, has been stripped of large patches of water-damaged plaster during recent renovations.

“It’s an old building,” Bird said. “There is always something that needs to be fixed. A lot of people look at this place and see obstacles.

We see opportunities.”

For example, during their recent production of ‘Shrek the Musical,’ the small stage space posed a problem when deciding where to place the singing, moving dragon.

“We had a 24-foot dragon that sang and flapped and lived in the scene shop,” Bird said, laughing. “For us, there is no ‘far away.’”

Though the intimacy of the small space is prized, Sauk Theater has plans to expand its staff in the near future and extensively renovate the building, giving it a more energetic presence in the community. They call the 2014 production season the “season of identity.”

‘Lost in Yonkers,’ the first production of Sauk’s new era, is a promising start.

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Jennifer Evans (left) acts the role of Aunt Bella alongside her two sons, eighth-grader Bradley Evans (middle) and high school sophomore Brock Evans (right). Bradley and Brock play Jay and Arty Kurnitz, respectively. (Ben Strickland/Collegian)

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Theatre students accepted into DePauw conference Morgan Delp Sports Editor One hundred percent of Hillsdale student applicants were accepted into the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference in Communication and Theatre this spring.

On Feb. 7, sophomore Catherine Coffey, junior Aaron Pomerantz, and senior Katherine Denton received notice that their research papers had been selected for their exemplary quality and worthiness of inclusion in the conference.

“When we first started out, maybe one out of three of our students got picked,” Professor of Theatre James Brandon said. “We’ve been steadily improving.”

Brandon submitted the three students’ outstanding research papers by the deadline of Jan. 11. The papers were written for his History of Theatre I class last semester.

Each of the submitted 80-100 papers are read and judged by two members of the DePauw faculty, and students with the highest ranking are invited to attend the conference.

The 40th annual conference will be held April 17-19, which falls on the tech week of “Woyzeck,” the play that Denton is directing for her senior project.

Denton’s paper is on the popularity of ancient Athens Theater.

“My angle was, ‘Why was it so popular and what can we learn about it today’ because theatre is not as popular today,” she said.

Coffey wrote about the Japanese theatre, with a focus on the Bunraku and Kabuki styles. The title is “Of Puppets and People: The Influence of Bunraku Doll Theatre on the

Development and Performance of Kabuki Theatre of Japan.”

“My main argument is that the Bunraku Puppet theatre of Japan, by contributing significantly to Kabuki’s aesthetic and style of production, has been an integral part of the growth of Kabuki theatre into a Japanese cultural icon,” Coffey said.

Pomerantz’s paper was titled “Plato’s Mitre, Plato’s Mask: Platonism in Medieval Sacred Theatre.”

He and Denton are both unsure they will be free to attend the conference, but Coffey said she plans to go. The theatre department covers all the students’ expenses.

According to Brandon, students at the conference are assigned to groups and critiqued on their work. Each group is given a mentor –– a professor from another undergraduate school –– to help them. There are typically two speech professors and one who specializes in theater.

“It’s almost like a little boot camp for research skills,” Brandon said. “[The mentors] are the exact people who will be mentoring and teaching students at the next step. In at least one case, for a student we sent there a couple of years ago, their mentor is now who they are being taught by at graduate school. That connection is not expected, but it is a nice side effect.”

In the spring of 2012, senior Anne Peterson attended the conference with “Atreus,” a paper she wrote in Brandon’s History of Theatre I class her sophomore year. She was one of five to apply and be accepted into the conference from

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Something creative every day: art graduate pursues career in graphic design had there the summer before her senior year. During her internship graduated with Chisum last spring, describes Chisum’s work as she focused on graphic design for a movie production. “charming.”

“I was doing logos and posters for the movie, and I did a lot of “There is a carefree and fresh spirit, especially in her illustrations, logo design,” Chisum said. “After I graduated I that captures the imaginawas looking for a job and they had an opening, so tion. [Her designs] were Kelly Chisum ’13 found work after graduation to be quite enjoy- it really worked out because I already knew them, varied depending on the asable and exciting. and we got along well.” signment, but still very clear, Chisum, an art major at Hillsdale College who graduated last Chisum said she focused on graphic design clean, accomplished work. spring, now works for Copper Cup Images, a graphic design com- while at Hillsdale, taking many classes from She definitely understands pany out of Bartlesville, Okla. –– a town near Tulsa and close to Bryan Springer, professor of graphic design. She the principles of design and where her family lives now. also said she took the children’s illustration class color,” Akin said.

“I love it. I get to do something creative every day,” Chisum said. and loved it. Her love of children’s illustration has Chisum explained that “I get to work on billboards, and posters, and ads, and websites. carried into projects in her position as a graphic she misses aspects of HillsThere is a lot of variety, which I like, and a lot of creativity.” designer. dale, especially the people, Chisum found the company through an internship opportunity she “Probably the project I had the most fun on was but she said she is excited at the local community for her work because it is recenter for a children’s warding, and she enjoys the theater performance opportunity it gives her to [put on] every summer,” create.

Chisum’s renderChisum said. “It was “Everyone who graduing of Dickens’ really fun to work with ates finds that it is a difficult character, Betsey that because you know transition, but a good one,” Trotwood. This it is something that will Chisum said. “I like that I and many more help kids and help this can see real tangible results quaint illustraorganization.” for what I am doing now. I tions appeared in Chisum designed a drive down the highway and Chisum’s senior Kelly Chisum ’13, (Courtesy Kelly Chisum) logo for the “Peter Pan” I see a billboard that I made art show last year production, creating illustrations of Peter and I know that I have helped the company and my work had a direct at Hillsdale ColPan and Wendy and other characters for the impact on them. I really enjoy that, and that is not something you get lege. (Courtesy Kelly logo, posters, and postcards advertising the in college.”

Chisum) show.

Let us help Springer said her style suits children’s illustrations well. you enjoy your “She was very interested in classical spring break children’s illustration, which tended to find its way into both her graphic design and Ilwith a free lustration work,” Springer said. “I enjoyed trip inspection watching her illustration technique mature. before you go!

She used colorful ink washes with detailed pen and ink overlay to develop whimsical Free wipers characters reminiscent of Beatrix Potter with Valvoline and Elsa Beskow. I was very excited to hear that her skills were sought after by her curhigh mileage oil rent employer.” change!

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‘Winter’s Tale’: the book revisited

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JOHNSON’S: DELICIOUS PIZZA IN NORTH ADAMS I don’t expect you to have heard of North Adams. The town is literally a crossroads with a blinking yellow light suspended in the center, and from what I can tell, this does not cause anyone to slow down or speed up.It does host a nudist colony (in the summers, though, in case you were wondering how that worked), and quite a few Amish people. In North Adams, bars have not been allowed to sell liquor since before Prohibition, which “is a major bummer” according to the very kind locals I talked to. It’s about 10 minutes northeast of Hillsdale out in the cornfields. Just Google it.

I found myself there with friends a few weeks ago. I had discovered the place while looking on old maps, and, as it was the last place in Hillsdale county I really hadn’t been, I wanted to see what it contained. There are two restaurants in North Adams: The Coffeehouse, which doesn’t really have much to do with coffee but does have good pie, and Johnson’s Pizza and Subs, which “sells the best pizza in Hillsdale County.”

The title of best pizza was not applied by me originally, although I agree with it; it came from the mouth of Randy Johnson, the pizza shop’s owner and an all-around stand-up guy. He bought the place a few years back and runs it with his sons, who are each about three times the size of Randy but share his penchant for hospitality and friendliness. In the back of the very small pizza restaurant is a very large pub, although they bring you your pizza into the pub if you want it, so maybe they’re just the same thing.

First, let me make it clear that the pizza is incredible, particularly for the price. For $5 you get a four-topping, 10-inch personal pizza that will blow away any “personal pizza” you got for reading books at your local library when you were six. The crust is first class, and they use the correct flour (pizza’s should be made with high-protein, low-water absorption flour, like 00 flour) in order to get that classic thin crust that seems to be missing in so many Midwestern pies (Oh, you like Chicago-style?

That’s not a pizza. It’s a casserole). They also use great mozzarella at Johnson’s; commonly-used cheeses like colby-jack or cheddar, though cheaper, make a greasier pizza. These types of cheeses contain fats that dichotomize at high temperatures, forming a shell of grease on the top of the pizza. The toppings are also fresh, and the meat brings you back to when you were a kid and thought that pepperoni was probably the greatest thing God put on this earth.

The beer selection is decent as well. They have about eight taps, which are mostly domestics, but they do cycle through a variety of craft beers as well. The beer is also incredibly cheap –– if you go at happy hour, which lasts until 6 p.m., you can get a craft beer for two bucks. Be sure to look at the bar as you grab a beer; for $5 you can carve your name into it and it has seen it’s fair share of interesting customers.

The atmosphere is eccentric. Deer heads hang on the wall, the tables look like they came out of a public high school cafeteria in the 60’s, and a Confederate flag bearing the logo of the local biker gang hangs above the free pool table. It’s a cozy eccentric, though, and I enjoy it thoroughly.

Johnson’s is perhaps one of the most unabashedly old-school midwestern places I have ever been, from the people to the food to the lack of liquor. I heartily recommend it to anyone looking to get out of Hillsdale for a bite but not wanting to go too far.

I had a suspicion, about a month ago, that the cruel Michigan winter would not end until I finished Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel “Winter’s Tale” — as if the 700-page, epic, realworld fantasy is somehow capable of directly intertwining itself with the lives of its readers.

And, in many ways, it absolutely is.

Those of us in the senior class might remember Helprin as Hillsdale’s commencement speaker in 2011. While some devout fans seem to prefer his other works — such as “Refiner’s Fire” and “A Soldier of the Great War,” both in the college bookstore — his most wellknown book is “Winter’s Tale.” And, given Helprin’s other role as a conservative commentator (and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute), I’ve had the curious experience of perusing left-leaning book blogs and forums online to find their patrons just as enamored with Helprin’s literary genius as the general public — some even puzzling, “How could a conservative have possibly woven such beautiful words to paper?!” Not bad. So what could keep the reading world this shaken up after 30 years?

In summary, “Winter’s Tale” is a mythic ballad of New York City, a juxtaposition of a city’s beauty with its ugliness as experienced by various characters whose different narratives all miraculously converge on the city itself, bringing their destinies together for reasons that are not quite clear until the end. In a fashion truly reminiscent of a “city upon a hill,” the book repeats thematically, “For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone?”

The main storyline belongs to a man named Peter Lake, abandoned by his immigrant parents near the start of the 20th century, raised in combat on a shrouded island by the clam-fishing Baymen, tutored in engineering at a boys’ orphanage by the Rev-

Everyone thought Anjan Sundaram was insane. At 22, he abandoned his graduate studies in mathematics at Yale and turned down a high-paying job from Goldman Sachs to report on the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.

“I’m going to try to be a journalist,” Sundaram said.

“To play the fool,” his mentor and professor Serge Lang blurted out.

His mother cried, his friends mocked, and his Congolese acquaintance, Anna, told him that one doesn’t just go to the Congo.

But Sundaram did.

In “Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo,” the young writer chronicles his journey from his first article in print to the explosive election in 2006. Sundaram writes with the fluid precision of a mathematician — each word poignantly descriptive — and the sensibilities of a novelist. This brilliant coming-of-age story has earned critical acclaim, with the American Booksellers Association hailing it as one of the best debuts this spring.

When Sundaram first arrives in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, he has no money, no job, and frighteningly little foresight.

That paucity of precaution, combined with Sundaram’s tenacity, serves him well, surprisingly, and he lands a stringing gig with the Associated Press. As a stringer, he was paid by words published, not words written.

When the AP didn’t run his story, Sundaram and the Congolese family he lived with and supported didn’t eat.

Sundaram’s writing shines

when he describes his experiences coming to terms with the Great War in Africa, the deadliest conflict since World War II. The war has involved nine African countries directly and innumerable more through trade and mining, killing more than 5.4 million people and displacing untold millions more.

The writer left Yale overwhelmed and frustrated by the fantastical otherworldliness he saw in mathematics — “Sub-

lime laws were substituting for life” — only to be floored by the incomprehensible violence and suffering in the Congo. By seamlessly weaving his commentary into his personal narrative, Sundaram offers unique glimpses into the “why” behind the war.

Dictators, he writes, destroy a nation’s consciousness by shattering and manipulating history.

They raise statues to themselves and change the country’s name.

Most Congolese people remain “docile in their misfortune” because they have no national identity and succumb to customs created by tyrants.

erend Mootfowl, and coerced into burglary by the psychopathic Pearly Soames and his bowler-wearing gang of Short Tails. When Peter betrays Pearly, he must go on the run — with the help of his guardian angel, a majestic white horse named Athansor. It is in this lonesome capacity of a burglar whence comes the defining moment of his life. As he attempts to rob the West Side mansion of Rockefelleresque Isaac Penn, Peter instead encounters and falls in love with Penn’s dying daughter ,Beverly. And with her eventual death, Peter is given a sort of new life. That is, after disappearing and having been long forgotten, he resurfaces — at the other end of the century, in a vastly different New York City, without his memory. It is then, in the book’s third quarter, when Peter’s path is destined to cross both with the modern characters whose narratives together span the majority of the novel and with some of his aged acquaintances or, in the case of the Penn family, their descendants. As the book informs us: “Nothing is random.”

Helprin writes beautifully, and he is proudly unconventional as well. Despite serving heaping mounds of charming simile to improve the reader’s experience, his narrative style is straightforward and focused on furthering the story, save for fun moments such as, “the rooster was so happy that had he been a chicken he would have laid three eggs a day. Or was he a chicken?

Who knows? The point is, he thought he was a cat.”

All in all, better than just telling an epic tale, Helprin crafts a world filled with human characters just like him: talented eccentrics. No one is ordinary, but everyone has a task and does it well.

Reading through, they reminded me vividly of my fellow Hillsdale students, in fact. I confessed earlier that “Winter’s Tale” gets inside your head and, as good art does, tries to resonate with your life in countless subtle ways. Perhaps this is just one reason why.

See next week’s issue for Skorup’s review of “The Winter’s Tale” movie

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“I was blessed to have a great guest scholar mentor my group, Dr. Judith Sebesta of Lamar University. I loved her enthusiasm, helpful feedback, and genuine interest in my fellow students and me,” she said. “Because Hillsdale is a small school in comparison to most other institutions that were represented at the conference, all five Hillsdale students were placed in the same group, so I also enjoyed hearing my fellow students present their research papers,.”

Peterson said she learned the importance of being able to defend her work, not only to a professor, but to a group of peers.

“I got a small taste of the

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Further disempowering the Congolese, Sundaram writes, these tyrants are propped up by foreign powers. America, for example, sent the CIA to cultivate Mobutu Sese Seko and aid his coup in the 1960s. Mobutu is guilty of unquantifiable and horrific human rights violations.

Sundaram links the decades of foreign interest in the Congo to the $24 trillion worth of raw mineral ore in the country. This global interest in Congolese mines extends back to early 20th century Belgian King Leopold II committing genocide to pillage Congo for rubber and to WWII when the Manhattan Project use uranium from the Shinkolobwe mine to make the first atomic bomb. Profit from these and other resources prop up the rebel groups that ravage the country. Recent conflicts have been heightened due to increasing demand for tin to make conductors in electronic circuits.

“We currently live in what some say is the Fourth Great Pillage,” Sundaram writes. “The world now needs cell phones, and Congo contains 60 percent of known reserves of an essential metal called tantalum. It is the curse: each progress in the world produces some new sufferings.”

In “Stringer”, Sundaram elegantly captures that suffering without downplaying the individual experiences of the people he meets. In the second chapter, he describes a midnight visit to a group of drug-addled teenagers living in a dump. Despite inarguably painful circumstances, the teenagers seemed to feel an “extraordinary and implausible” joy. Through stories like this and his personal narrative, Sundaram makes the blistering devastation both accessible and, at moments, staggeringly beautiful.

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Garrett Swanson, a Hillsdale alumnus on the curatorial staff at the DIA, said that the museum raises about $12 million a year to operate. To raise the $100 million it has pledged, the DIA will have to now raise an average of nearly $18 million annually for the next 20 years.

He and the DIA want it to be clear that none of the $100 million will ever come to the DIA, rather, it will all fund Detroit’s pensions.

Miller is happy to see that the vulnerability and need is being recognized and addressed not just by the government or the DIA, but by independent foundations and charitable organizations.

“I love that these private philanthropies are stepping up and trying to solve a crisis for the city and, not just the city, for the region,” he said. “This collection is not just for Detroit, it means a lot for Michigan.”

For most art museums, there wouldn’t be a question of a museum’s art collection being monetized to help pay its city’s obligations, but unlike most American art museums, the DIA is not a private institution.

“It’s tragic,” Miller said.

“The institution and the city made a huge mistake early on which was to have the city, the government, own the collection instead of putting the collection in private hands, which is how virtually every other collection in America is run. They’ve created this incredible vulnerability.”

If approved, the current plan would transfer from the city of Detroit to the DIA the free and clear title to the museum’s

from Millsaps College and “Your Programmer is in Another Castle: A Study of Women in the Video Game Industry,” by Salem State University’s Blair Bailey.

This year’s mentors will be Cheryl Black of the University of Missouri, Patrice Buzzanell of Purdue University, Kathleen Turner of Davidson College, and Mary Beth Oliver from Penn State University. This year’s keynote speaker will be Sarah Vowell, the bestselling author of six nonfiction books on American history and culture. For twelve years, she was a contributing editor for National Public Radio’s (NPR) “This American Life.”

buildings, property, art collection, and other assets, removing the possibility of any of the art being sold in response to Detroit’s financial situation.

The plan still requires the approval of the directors of the DIA, the city of Detroit’s management, the State of Michigan, participating philanthropies, pension representatives, and three Detroit-area counties whose property tax is helping support the museum over 10 years.

Swanson said that some of the most important pieces in the DIA’s collection were bought

“This collection is not just for Detroit, it means a lot for Michigan.”

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during the period of acquisition considered for liquidation.

These included a self-portrait by the Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh, and “The Wedding Dance” by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel—completed in 1566.

“It’s a very important piece in the history of American museums,” Swanson said, speaking of Van Gogh’s self-portrait. “At that point America really didn’t have a name, when it came to museums. We didn’t have a cultured side to us, at least, in European eyes.”

Swanson explained that the purchase of the self-portrait proved that the DIA, and American museums, took art serious-

as brothers Jay and Arty Kurnitz, Jennifer (J.D.) Evans as Aunt Bella, Marla Gilpin as steely Grandma Kurnitz, Trevor Tracy as Louie Kurnitz, and Mary Jean Dulmage as Aunt Gert, the play consists of two acts broken by a 15-minute intermission.

The play will be performed this weekend, Feb. 21-23. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, the curtain will rise at 8:00 p.m. On Sunday, an afternoon matinee begins at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are available online at www. thesauk.org or by calling the box office at (517) 8499100.

ly, and recognized nearly contemporary genius when it saw it — Van Gogh painted the selfportr ait in 1887, only 35 years before the DIA acquired it.

Barbara Bushey, associate professor of art, said that the Van Gogh and Bruegel paintings are probably the most valuable in the DIA’s collection and most attractive to foreign collectors.

She said, however, that the choice between our humanity, found in the art, and the needs of human beings, like the pensioners, is impossible. Both are priceless, and that’s why fundraising efforts are so important.

“You can’t take a Van Gogh portrait and put it on this side of the balance and put 50 hungry pensioners on the other side,” Bushey said. She explained that it’s not an issue she believes can be broken down to pure monetary relations.

“I just think it’s so important to have a collection of things like that together,” she said.

“And I think it’s important to support them, and to go look at them.” Then she added, “I can only hope that this initiative for fundraising is successful.”

Bushey, who grew up going to the DIA, said, “As a girl, my favorite thing was the spiral staircase. It felt like you were in a castle that went on forever.”

Miller is also a native Michigander and grew up in Detroit.

For him, the whole situation is sad. He finds it especially troubling that the DIA is in this position not because of the mismanagement of the museum itself, but because of the mismanagement of Detroit as a whole.

For now, it seems that a plan will be put in place to save the city of Detroit from the hard choice between the treasure of its art and the integrity of its promises to its people. Reckoning day averted.

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Book club provides discussion Walker Mulley Collegian Reporter The discussion was heated, though friendly, between two factions who have debated the question for years: “What are Fanny Price’s merits in Jane Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’?”

Women around Hillsdale, many of them Hillsdale College professors’ or staff members’ wives, agree to read certain books, from “East of Eden” to “The Hunger Games.” In addition to fruitful discussion, they enjoy each the friendship.

The women draw on their academic backgrounds, with varying areas of study, to add something unique to the discussion.

“We fall very easily back into this role of analysis and penetrating discussion,” Amy said.

The book clubs are not only about books, but also friendship. Jaminda Springer, married to Art Instructor Bryan Springer, organizes one of the clubs. She said that, often, halfway through a meeting someone asks, “Shouldn’t we talk about the book?”

“Although we do touch on really important points and ask hard questions, and we are all educated and well-read, we don’t let that get in the way of laughing and having

bible From B4 only one person has come, but it has been a different person each week.

“Each study goes completely differently than I had thought,” Ahern said. “I think every week has been a fruitful time.”

Senior Grace Marie Lambert helps lead an older, more widely attended Bible study on campus at the Waterman Residence. As a freshman, Lambert was one of about 20 women that attended each week. That summer, she thought about what she wanted her sophomore year to look like.

“I knew I wanted to invest in campus ministry while I was in college,” Lambert said. “So I emailed the girls that I knew were leading it that coming semester, and they said the sophomore who was going to help had dropped out, so they needed someone new.”

That hour each week she devotes each week to being with other women and studying God’s word has made a huge difference all throughout college, according to Lam-

igloo From B4 and igloos, but never to this extent,” Evan said. “This is by far the Taj Mahal of my snow forts.”

By Tuesday night, a combination of rising temperatures inside and outside the igloo forced the group to condemn their handiwork.

Holt believes the igloo melted so soon because they forgot to christen it.

“That’s a huge oversight. That’s why it melted, because we didn’t give it our bless-

a great time together during the discussion,” she said.

Kelly Cole, who attends the club Amy organizes, expressed similar sentiments, saying those in her club often joke about how long it takes to get around to discussing the book.

The clubs provide good motivation to keep reading amidst the day-to-day routine, Jaminda said. Kelly Cole, who is married to Instructor of Philosophy Lee Cole, said that without the club, she’d probably read very little fiction. The club keeps her reading literature and enhances that reading, because she gets to hear her fellows’ insights, she says.

The clubs also serve to welcome newcomers to Hillsdale.

“We all know how isolating it can be moving to a new town and how difficult it can be to make new friends, to begin to feel that you belong,” Jaminda said. The book clubs ease that process by providing a regular time to meet.

“I think that the Hillsdale argument is that the art of reading itself makes us more authentically human and community makes us more authentically human,” Maier said.

“To pair those pursuits is of great service in helping us to live our vocations, as humans, wives, and mothers.” bert.

“My favorite thing is the joy that I’ve been given in setting aside that time each week and learning to count it as sacred,” Lambert said. “As a freshman, I would be so stressed and sometimes think I didn’t have the time. But you learn that you do, and there’s a peace and goodness that comes over you while you’re there, assuring you that you do have the time, and that it’s good you’re there.”

Sophomore Lucas Hamelink helps lead the college baseball team’s study. Junior Vinny Delicata approached Hamelink and several other sophomores at the beginning of the year about co-leading the study.

The focus of the 10-week study is what Jesus accomplished on the cross, starting with the purpose of Jesus’ coming and discussing the theological implications of his sacrifice. About 10 to 12 men consistently attend each week.

Hamelink said that doing the study together creates a strong bond among the men.

“Obviously when you get together and talk about the deeper spiritual things, you grow a lot closer to each other,” Hamelink said. “You’re becoming more than teammates, you’re becoming brothers.” ing,” Holt said. “Number one in fort building: christen it. Give it a name. Give it your blessing. Don’t forget it. We did, and you saw what happened.”

Holt and Evan both hope to build more igloos in the future.

“We’ve been scoping out a few other mounds, but we don’t want to make any promises to the student body of where our next igloo will show up,” Evan said.

Because it is getting so warm this week, Holt is unsure as to whether or not another igloo will be built soon.

“If there’s another snowstorm we’d love to,” Holt said. “It’s kind of a fun way to get away from homework.”

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Inside the igloo Simpson men burrow into ‘Taj Mahal’ of snow forts Kate Patrick Collegian Freelancer A group of Simpson men build a fire inside an igloo where they roast marshmallows, eat Swedish fish, and tell ghost stories. Freshman Alex Reuss downloads “The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace,” a fairy tale, onto his phone and begins to read aloud. Senior Garrett Holt, junior Evan Gensler, sophomore Colin Wilson, and freshman Ian Gensler pass around a bag of Swedish Fish as they listen intently.

The igloo is small enough that it warms up quickly, but smoke can’t funnel out of the hole in the roof fast enough. Finally, Reuss has to stop reading and the men scramble out into the clean night air. Later the group jumps on the roof to destroy the melting igloo, putting an end to their midnight excursion.

“It reminds me of the Dead Poets Society,” sophomore Hannah Leitner said. “In the movie they go into a cave at night and read poetry to each other.”

On Sunday, Feb. 16, sophomore Betsy Thistleton found herself digging through a snow pile behind Central Hall with Holt and Evan.

“Garrett and I talked about how we wanted to tunnel through the snow a while ago, because that would just be fun,” Thistleton said. “I was just watching the Olympics when Garrett called and said, ‘Come behind Central Hall in 10 minutes, we’re going to build an igloo.’ So I was like, sweet, abandoned all other plans like homework, and went to build an igloo.”

This is not the first time Holt has built an igloo behind Central Hall.

“Last time we made an igloo almost in the same spot, me and Alex Gage,” Holt said. “We tried to sleep in there. That was a terrible life choice. Alex left halfway through the night, and I would have but I forgot the keys to Simpson.”

Evan also has experience in building igloos, but believes this is the best igloo he’s ever created.

“When I was younger, we used to build little tunnels

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The entrance to the snow fort behind Central Hall was just big enough to slide through (top). Sophomore Ian Gensler, senior Garrett Holt, freshman Alex Reuss, and junior Evan Gensler sit by a fire (left), stand by their creation (middle), and warm themselves by the fire (right). (photos by Ben Strickland and Casey Harper)

Good friends, good food, and the good book Students bond while studying the Bible

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Countryside Bible Church Pastor Bob Snyder leads a college student bible study at an off-campus house, “The Bounce House,” every Wednesday night. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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Last semester, Hillsdale had a Bible study in every dorm, seven studies offcampus, and seven sports team studies.

There were five Greek-house studies.

All of these studies were connected with InterVarsity, but more continued independently.

Now, students continue the growth and community.

Junior Hannah Ahern is leading a new study in the art department. It wasn’t her idea, however.

A friend and fellow art major encouraged Ahern to lead a study there during Ahern’s sophomore year. But Ahern wrote it off for many months, thinking that God could not possibly want to use her to do it.

“I was really excited about it at first,” Ahern said. “But then I just hit this wall, where I was like, ‘No, I’m not. I don’t think that’s where God wants me.’”

Ahern got the push she needed when she visited her high school art teacher during the 2012-13 winter break. Ahern told her teacher that some friends had

challenged her to start a Bible study in the art department at Hillsdale. Her teacher responded by showing her a painting she had been working on, of Nehemiah’s wall.

“She dragged me out into this room ...” Ahern said, “She looked at me, and she was like, ‘Whenever somebody walks by this mural, I want them to remember that God has given them gifts and talents in their lives, and God expects them to be using their gifts and talents for His kingdom.”

Just a few months before, senior Ben Holscher had used that same analogy when talking to a group of Hillsdale students at the Intervarsity Compelling conference in East Lansing, Mich.

Standing in front of the mural, Ahern knew what she needed to do. This semester, Ahern started a study of the parables, which she leads with an interesting twist.

“We sort of encourage drawing while we’re studying just to engage with it,” Ahern said.

Each time she has held Bible study,

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Who or what inspires your style?

My cat and Pinterest.

Describe your fashion sense in five words or less.

It’s all about neutrals.

What is your favorite item of clothing?

Probably my American Eagle skinny jeans.

What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?

My teal Christmas sweatshirt with Santa’s face crossstitched on the front.

What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?

As much as I love them, leggings aren’t pants.

Photos and compilation by Laura Williamson