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Vol. 137, Issue 22 - 3 April 2014
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Benjamins conquers Latin conference
More students allowed off campus
Abi Wood Arts Editor
Morgan Delp Sports Editor
Junior Joshua Benjamins is moving up in the Latin world. Not only did he take second place in the national translation contests last year in advanced Latin, but this past weekend he joined about 50 other students at a spoken Latin conference in Ann Arbor. No more than five of those students were undergraduates –– most were professors. The conference hosted Papal Secretary of Latin, Monseigneur Daniel Gallagher, former Papal Secretary of Latin, Father Reginald Foster, and Professor of Lat- Seniors Evan Gage (left) and Emily Goodling (right) were awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and the DAAD, respectively. Gage will spend a year teaching in Turkey while Goodling attends school in Germany. (Photos courtesy of Evan Gage and Rachel in Jason Pedicone. “I felt very fortunate to be with these men over the weekend,” Benjamins said. “Father Foster’s pedagogical approach to Latin is inspiring. He is a genius. He doesn’t simplify the text at all for beginning students, but rather Caleb Whitmer Evan Brune gets them to read actual Latin Editor-in-Chief News Editor from the beginning.” Benjamins isn’t exactly a beIn four years at Hillsdale, Senior Emily Goodling went from Senior Evan Gage will travel to Turkey at the end of summer. ginning student. While he came to barely speaking German to receiving the DAAD scholarship. There, he will teach English language and literature, as well as Hillsdale with only four months “It’s the equivalent of the Fulbright in Germany,” Assistant ProUnited States culture. of self-taught Latin under his belt, fessor of German Fred Yaniga said. The 10-month-long exchange program will be funded by the he is now one of the more profiDAAD stands for Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst, or J. William Fulbright Student Award – one of the most prestigious cient students in the department. German Academic Exchange Service. awards an undergraduate can receive. “You don’t see students like “It is the most prestigious scholarship in international studies,” “I think about the men and the women who have taught me at Josh every day,” Associate ProProfessor of German Eberhard Geyer said. “I’m not surprised she Hillsdale and the type of people they are,” Gage said. “I hope that fessor of Classical Studies Jogot it. I feel that she is among the best students I have ever had in I can emulate that and create a little sense – a small spirit – of that seph Garnjobst said. “He is truly my 34 years of undergraduate teaching. We are very proud of her, at whatever odd Turkish university I find myself at.” unique. This is actually the first and the entire school should be proud of her.” Gage, a double major in English and History with a religion term that I’ve had him in the Goodling, a double major in classics and German, said she felt minor, is a member of the Honors Program. He heard back from class, but I’ve obviously known both disbelief and elation when she was notified of the news. Fulbright on Monday, within a half hour of turning in his senior of him and worked with him on “These kinds of things are such a shot in the dark,” she said. “You thesis on Julian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine Love.” other projects.” hear that people sometimes get these things, but I never thought that The Honors Program’s trip to Turkey last summer cultivated Garnjobst added that, in actuit’d be me. It’s the chance of a lifetime.” his interest in the country. ality, a large number of Hillsdale The DAAD will allow Goodling to study at the graduate level at While there, he connected with managers of a Turkish conserstudents, in departments across a university of her choice in Germany. The scholarship provides for vative political magazine. Depending on where Fulbright places campus, not just classics, are high a living stipend, insurance coverage, and travel expenses. Tuition him, he may assist scholars with translating the writings of Rusachievers. Benjamins is a Latin isn’t necessary, as all higher education in Germany is free. sell Kirk and Edmund Burke into Turkish in addition to his teachand history double major. Gar“In America, we’re like, ‘We want to be independent!’” Gooding. njobst said there are a couple of ling said. “In Germany, everything’s from the government.” Gage said his reason for choosing Turkey, of all places, is twostudents who are double majoring The living stipend for last year’s scholarship was 750 euros a pronged: he loves the Turkish people and he sees cultural simiin the classics department –– inmonth. According to Goodling, that number changes, depending on larities and differences between Americans and the Turks that he cluding junior Andrew Koperski the location. wants to explore and better understand. and senior Emily Goodling –– “Basically, they give me a lot of money,” Goodling said. “It’s not He is interested particularly in exploring Turkey’s brand of and he thinks that cooperation belike I’m going to be a millionaire, but it’s a lot. They really want to civic religion and in comparing it to the United States. tween departments is important. make sure you can afford living there.” “Seeing a different culture do the things your culture does in “We do our best work when Goodling said she plans to study comparative literature. order to propagate a certain identity is fascinating,” Gage said. “It we work together,” he said. “‘Literature without walls’ is how I’ve heard it described,” she makes you really stop and consider your own cultural identity.” Garnjobst added that opportusaid. “It’s trans-cultural, trans-historical studies and it’s across difBut his interest in Fulbright? That began with Annie Dillard. nities like the recent Latin conferferent kinds of media. I’m planning on getting a degree, but I don’t During last summer’s trip to Turkey, Gage got lost in the city ence give students the chance to want to get too specialized yet. I just want to read everything.” of Antayla. He wandered into a bookstore. The store’s owner, a invest in pre-professional devel-
Gage and Goodling win Fulbright, DAAD Fulbright scholar Evan Gage
DAAD scholar Emily Goodling
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Due to renovations in Simpson Residence that will turn rooms into new common space, the deans have allowed more rising junior men off campus for the 2014–15 school year than the originally reported 51. This has helped to slightly relieve the pinch many men have experienced as a result of the administration’s decision to return Niedfeldt Residence back to a male dorm and the disproportionate number of women in the class of 2016. However, the Simpson renovations have not alleviated all issues, which Dean of Men Aaron Petersen said inevitably arise every year. A rare situation occurred when last year, as a rising sophomore Joe Srebernak was granted permission to live off campus. Srebernak decided to stay on campus and live in the Park Place apartments. When he and two other rising juniors decided to make offcampus housing arrangements for the upcoming school year, Srebernak thought there would be no issue. But none of the three men were granted off-campus permission for next school year, so they had to void their lease with landlord Carolyn Scholfield. “Some students are truly looking for that savings and a little bit of freedom and they’re not being allowed that,” Scholfield said. Scholfield’s father-in-law, Rodney Scholfield, has been renting a home on Oak Street to college students for six years. Her father, Frank Hinton, has rented a home nearby for two years, but had to void a contract with some male students for next year as well. This is Carolyn Scholfield’s first year trying to rent her family home of 14 years to students. She and her husband are in the process of building a new house for her family. “As new landlords, we’ve never been involved in the process, but for our first time, it’s discouraging,” Scholfield said. “We are counting on the revenue.” Other area landlords have
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Physics seniors accepted to top schools
Bailey Pritchett Assistant Editor
Toward the end of his senior year of high school, senior Viktor Rozsa wandered into the Washington and Lee University library during one of his breaks at a scholarship competition. Sitting at one of the tables, one of his competitors, senior Dominic DiGiovanni, had his nose in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics.” Rozsa recognized the material, as he also needed to finish some Aristotle reading. “Dom, by any chance are you participating at Hillsdale’s scholarship weekend next week?” Four years later, the two have nearly completed their time at Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Science in physics. They are two of four seniors graduating from the program this May. To date, Rozsa is choosing between seven doctoral programs to attend next year. “Hillsdale was not an obvious choice for studying physics,” Rozsa said. “But I came here to study physics in the Hillsdale ac-
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Seniors Alex Kane, Viktor Rozsa, and Iakov Boyko are three of the four senior physics majors who have been accepated to prestigious graduate programs. Senior Dominic DiGiovanni is not pictured. (Caleb Whitmer/Collegian) ademic environment, not just for physics.” Senior Iakov Boyko, another graduating physics major, weighed the risk of attending Hillsdale if he was serious about
continuing physics into graduate school. Originally, the college’s free-market reputation and status as the home of the Ludwig von Mises library convinced Boyko to attend the college. Despite his
interest in economics, Boyko decided to focus on a major in physics. “Coming to Hillsdale — I knew I was taking a gamble,” Boyko said. “I knew what was
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needed to continue in physics, like research experience. In retrospect, I think the gamble paid off. I would have said that even if I didn’t get into graduate school.” Boyko spent this past sum-
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mer researching at the University of Minnesota where he learned about the University of Chicago’s new engineering program. Boyko returned to Hillsdale and told his classmates that the University of Chicago was accepting applications for its first engineering program. Rozsa and Boyko applied to the University of Chicago’s Institute of Molecular Engineering in the fall semester. Both have been accepted. Senior Alex Kane was concerned that his resume without summer research experience would negatively affect his graduate school application results. But Kane’s skepticism was countered by seven offers to doctoral programs, one of which was his top pick, University of California-Davis. He plans to fly back home this upcoming fall to study in the material science and engineering program. All four men agreed that the small class sizes and long lab hours created unexpected friendships and camaraderie among
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