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Michael Ward named commencement speaker Amanda Tindall News Editor

Michael Ward will be this spring’s commencement speaker.

The insightful C.S. Lewis scholar is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University in Texas. He teaches his Houston Baptist students online because he is based in Oxford. He has studied English at Oxford, theology at Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. in divinity from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. ure as much,” Senior Class Vice President Heather Lantis said. “So we really wanted to mix things up class in a really meaningful way.”

Ward has published several works about C.S. Lewis, such as “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis,” which he authored, and “The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis,” which he co-edited. He also presented the BBC documentary, “The Narnia Code,” in 2009, and has served as an Anglican clergyman at several universities.

Provost David Whalen said Ward has been a good friend of the college through a common friend: Former Hillsdale College Professor of English Literature Andrew Cuneo.

“Michael Ward was presenting his doctorate of divinity and had stumbled on some remarkable, structural, classical components to C.S. Lewis’ trilogy that no one had noticed before,” Whalen

said. “He then was writing that as his dissertation, and gave a talk on that here then. After his book was published by the Oxford University Press, he came back here and gave another talk. The talk at the Kirby Center had to do with the poetry of C.S. Lewis.”

Whalen said, in addition to Ward’s friendship with the college, it’s good to have chances for students to meet and hear someone of Ward’s caliber and character.

Senior Class President Andy Reuss said many of the seniors said they wanted a commencement speaker who would give a speech of substance.

“We wanted to focus on content and substance, and we received just a lot of feedback and input from the other seniors along those lines,” Reuss said. “There was some desire for name recognition, but that wasn’t the foremost thing people were concerned about. We wanted someone who would give a great speech.”

The process for picking a commencement speaker begins with a consultation with the sepresident for external affairs, and the provost. The the faculty consult with the president and provost, and the vice president of external affairs consults with his staff.

“It’s a good thing for a commencement speaker, if you can get one, to have a deep understanding of the life of a student, and the life of the mind as richly endowed through and in a liberal education,” Whalen said. “That’s a rare thing for a commencement speaker. It’s good if you can get it. Michael Ward has that. He understands not only because he, not so long ago, was a student, but be-

Michael Ward speaks during a 2005 CCA on “C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings.”

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cause he is an academic. His profession is that of an academic, but at the same time he is capable of addressing an audience largely unknown to him, but whose liberal arts formation can be available to him as a kind of common ground.”

Lantis said the reaction from students has been very positive.

“I think a lot of people have been really pleased,” Lantis said. “The consensus with the ofexcited.”

Reuss noted that Ward spoke at the Allan P.

CCA Q&A: Richard Brookhiser

Hillsdale women make cross-country history Charger men and women earn five All-American awards Bailey Pritchett Spotlight Editor The weekend of rain turned the Louisville course into a long stretch of mud. For many runyear they needed to wear halfinch spikes to gain some traction. The NCAA had to shorten the race by 200 kilometers. But for the Hillsdale women’s crosscountry team, mud was not a problem.

The Hillsdale women’s crosscountry team made history last month by placing 2nd at the NCAA Division II National the team’s history. By placing in the top 40, four of the seven received All-American status.

Junior Kristina Galat led the Chargers with a strong race of 21:26, placing her 7th in the race. She was closely followed by junior Emily Oren, who placed 12th with a time of 21:26. Sophomore Molly Oren and freshman Hannah McIntyre came in at 23rd and 22nd place, respectively.

Senior Joshua Mirth ran the men’s race and individually placed 12th, with a time of American. This was his second time placing in the top 40 runners at a national championship.

Mirth placed 31st his sophomore season at the national championships, so he considered his last cross-country race an impressive improvement.

“Placing 12th is a pretty big step from where I was two years ago,” Mirth said. “I approached nationals a little differently than I have in years past partly because it’s my last cross-country race ever.”

Mirth also credited his success from his training this past year.

“The training was just enough to get me a bit sharper than I’d been before,” he said. “It was slightly more focused and in-

tense, just enough to get me that extra edge.”

Going into the women’s race, Oren and Galat had personal goals to rank among the top 40 runners. As a team, the goal was to get a spot on the podium.

“We just wanted to be top four because we’d get a trophy,” Oren said. “We were expecting to slip into fourth, lucky to get third. But then halfway through the race my coach yelled at me that we were in 2nd, and I didn’t really believe him. So we knew have a chance. It ended up being the best showing in Hillsdale’s history.”

Another GLIAC team, Grand Valley State University, took 1st in the national championship and was the only Division II team to beat the Chargers this season.

“Our program continues to evolve as does the rest of the GLIAC conference,” head women’s coach Andrew Towne said.

“We’ll continue to work to be a consistent podium team.”

A year ago, Galat would have never anticipated her impressive performance at the national championship. But with the help of an intense training schedule designed by coach Joseph Lynne, Mirth all agreed that the early morning practices at 6:30 a.m. and cross training, among other parts of training, equipped the team to compete on a different level than seasons past.

“Coach Lynne has a lot of can expect a lot,” Galat said.

“We know that we can compete with the best. I’m starting to gain and my training now, which is a huge step. The mark between a good athlete and a great one is how much they believe in themselves.”

INSIDE

Richard Brookhiser is the author of many books, including a series of biographies of the founding fathers. Of those is the most recent “Founder’s Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln.” He is a senior editor at National Review, where he has worked since 1977. A journalist and historian, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Commentary, among many others. His biography of Washington,” is assigned to Hillsdale College freshmen as summer reading.

How has the role of journalism changed in America since the founding era?

Harry Jaffa had a tremendous influence on the intellectual bility to be objective, which reculture of Hillsdale College. (Courtesy of John Kienker) ally didn’t exist in the founding era. Everybody knew that every newspaper had a point of view.

Newspapers were party organs and set up to express certain his impact is greatest in the poli- opinions. They might occasionEvan Carter ally run contrary opinions just to tics department.

Web Editor Jaffa taught Arnn, who stir the pot, but everybody knew teaches a constitution class, as where they were coming from . well as politics professors West Do you have a preference Harry Victor Jaffa — re- and Mickey Craig at Claremont nowned historian, political theo- Graduate University. Further- for one system or the other?

I live in the system we have rist, and intellectual godfather more, almost every member of of Hillsdale College — died on Hillsdale’s politics department and that is what I’m used to, so Jan. 10 at the age of 96. Presi- has been at least indirectly af- it’s idle to wish for something dent Larry Arnn and Professors fected by Jaffa and has taken different. I will say that another of Politics Ronald Pestritto and classes under his former stu- difference from now is that in the founding era, the highs were Thomas West were among those dents. in attendance at Jaffa’s funeral, Jaffa visited Hillsdale three higher and the lows were lower. and West delivered one of the times. He spoke at two Center You had some great writing in eulogies. for Constructive Alternatives American journalism, and some “Just as students here (and I) seminars, in 1972 and 1974, and very wise political thinking.

Thomas Paine was writing, owe a lot to their teachers, so I in 2004 he gave a speech titled, Benjamin Franklin was writing, owe a lot to him. He is a great “Our Embattled Constitution.” loss,” Arnn said in an email.

Before Jaffa died, Hillsdale the Federalist Papers appeared In many ways, Jaffa’s writ- secured his personal archive, in newspapers. But you also had ing and ideas are what formed adding it to their growing collec- scurrilous, bottom-feeding trash, Hillsdale College into what it is tion of archives including that of which was worse than anything today, undergirding much of the Ludwig von Mises, Philip Crane, you might see at a newspaper today. It might be like supercollege’s core curriculum. and Russell Kirk.

Jaffa argued that the AmeriAccording to Mossey Library market checkout line tabloids or can Founding was built on po- Director Dan Knoch, plans are stuff online. You had heights of litical philosophies traceable being made to build an archive thought that were really genius through John Locke and Aristo- and special collections section and slimy depths co-existing. tle — principles that heavily in- in the library where Jaffa’s and What inspired your biogra- other’s archives will permanentphies of the founders? ern Heritage courses. He also ly reside.

I’d been working at National argued that the Constitution and A student of Leo Strauss, the Declaration are inseparably Jaffa raised the same theoretical Review since 1977, and a lot of connected, a point that is explic- questions as Strauss. But, ac- the writing I did there was about itly argued in the U.S. Constitu- cording to West, unlike Strauss, current politics.

When I decided to turn to tion reader.

American history, I realized that See Jaffa A2 the founders, although they’re be seen throughout the college, great men, are also politicians.

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Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship last summer, and the speech was wellreceived by students there.

“The students will warm to him and wish they could have had him as a professor. And we might not actually let him return. We might just duct tape him to a chair and put him in Kendall or Lane and wait until next fall,” Whalen said jokingly. “He’s a delightful, articulate, intelligent, unprepossessing man.”

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they’re trying to persuade voters, and they’re trying to do each other in. They were greater men than most of our politicians but they were politicians all the same.

Do you think that our impression of them can be changed by their role as politicians?

No, I think it makes it richer.

They weren’t only political philosophers trying to imagine a perfect system. They were also men of the world trying to make that happen, and you have to understand both aspects of them.

Where do history and journalism intersect for you?

Someone said that journalism there’s a lot of truth to that. We journalists write about events as they’re happening, we catch don’t know, there’s a lot we get wrong, but what we see with our are materials for later writers to shift and put together into complete accounts.

Journalism can also affect history. I think the Federalist Papers had some effect on the efforts to ratify the Constitution.

They certainly played a role in New York’s ratifying debate, and also in Virginia’s because they were reprinted there. And Thomas Paine’s writing during the American revolution mobilized public opinion. So journalists are observers and sometimes they are bit players.

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Jaffa

From A1 political philosophy was not an end, but Jaffa’s point of departure to understand great minds like Lincoln and important events like the American founding.

Jaffa led a distinguished proat Ohio State, then Claremont Graduate University. Jaffa wrote six books, including what is believed to be the preeminent book on Abraham Lincoln, “Crisis of the House Divided,” as well as numerous articles.

He was also a distinguished member of the Claremont Instiremont Graduate School) where Craig claimed he was the “animating light.”

Lincoln’s legacy as a tyrannical increase of government power.

“Jaffa was always high on

Lincoln, but he changed his mind really dramatically about something that’s not Lincoln. About Lincoln’s relationship to the founding,” said West. “The thing that made Jaffa, Jaffa, I would say, was his turn to the founding and his vindication of the founding in the mid-1970s. And that’s what made all the conservatives mad at him, and that’s when he broke with the conservative movement in general.”

Jaffa was notable not only for what he argued, but also for his methods of scholarship, which went beyond Strauss’s reading of great books.

“He didn’t just read books and say I know the doctrines of this book, books A, B, and C. He applied them to contemporary problems and a lot of academics don’t John Grant said.

Outside of academia, Jaffa is probably best known for the line he wrote for Barry Goldwater’s National Convention: “I would

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remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

Although Jaffa had been sick many times in the years leading up to his death, he stayed active, following current events and composing essays. He also stayed in contact with many on staff in the politics department, including Craig and West.

Those who knew him described Jaffa as friendly and delightful. But Jaffa prioritized the pursuit of truth, and his most contentious debates were with fellow -

with genuine curiosity and was very generous with his time. He was also no-nonsense.

“You could tell he was very

described Jaffa as “pugnacious.”

William F. Buckley Jr. famously once said, “If you think Harry Jaffa is hard to argue with, try agreeing with him. It is nearly

Jaffa was also an avid biker,

print in any agreement as if it were a trap, or a treaty with the Soviet Union.”

Jaffa loved to teach people

said graduate student John Brooks, who personally met Jaffa on two occasions.

Jaffa was aware of his intellectual importance and knew that his books on Lincoln would be read for a long time, but accordcloud his scholarship and he never viewed himself as higher than those he studied.

He was a moralizer and taught that goodness and virtue are nec-

days a week at one point. He continued to ride until he was at an advanced age.

He loved Marjorie Jaffa, his wife of 68 years.

New baby owls, keys, and angels Jack Butler Opinions Editor On the night of Monday, Jan. 12, dozens of campus women stood out on the snowy ground in front of Central Hall in belowfreezing temperatures, screaming cheers and slogans that resounded through the Quad and beyond.

Madness had not driven them there, however. They had congregated to welcome their new sorority sisters and to mark the end of winter formal recruitment, according to Assistant Dean of hellenic Council representatives had invited recruited members to Central Hall that evening, but the students only learned into which

sorority they had been placed in the moments before they rushed outside to join their new sisters, Dell said.

For this recruitment period, Chi Omega welcomed 16 new additional member via continuous open bidding.

In a typical year, each sorority welcomes 18 new members in the second semester, but this year was a bit down from that. Dell said this didn’t surprise her, since Hillsdale College joined a nationwide increase in the minimum re“It made sense for the college said.

Even so, the relative number is actually constant, given chang-

es in the freshman class’s gender distribution.

“The percentage is the same, but the numbers are slightly less, about 30 fewer overall,” Dell said. “Still, about 1/3 of women are Greek.”

Each sorority’s president said she was happy with her recruitment results.

“As always, I am very proud of Chi Omega and our successful recruitment,” said Chi Omega

see what they bring to the house.

These young women are full of energy, sisterhood, and they are a

excitement of expanding our sisterhood, recruitment strengthens our existing bonds of friendship and love, and I know that the other sorority houses would agree

can’t wait to see what they can do in the next few years.”

Now that each woman has entered her appointed sorority, the sororities themselves are responsible for new member training, which lasts six to eight weeks, according to Dell.

“We picked up 15 wonderful ladies and are very excited to

Lozier said. “I am very excited to see what this class of women achieves on campus and I’m sure that they will develop into great leaders.”

“The girls we picked up add Harris said. “They’re really ex-

Students for life march on D.C. Jordan Finney Collegian Reporter

More than 70 Hillsdale College students gathered in Washington, D.C., at noon today for March for Life 2015.

March for Life, an annual demonstration on the annivermore than 500,000 participants and is the largest pro-life event in the world.

“The best part of March for Life is seeing the body of Christ come together and act on what they believe,” StuNichole Chaney said. “When you march with a half million people and everyone has the same heart to see the transformation in America…it gives you the head knowledge that your heart knowledge can be accomplished in this world.”

Hillsdale College students left campus in two buses on Wednesday evening, drove through the night, and arrived in Washington, D.C., earlier this morning. They took turns chatting, praying, and sleeping throughout the night.

The formal March for Life program began at the National Mall where participants gathered to rally before marching to the U.S. Supreme Court buildsang songs, prayed, and shared their testimonies about abortion throughout the march.

“One of the most amazing moments of March for Life is when you walk to the top of Capitol Hill and you turn around and look down,” SFL Treasurer sophomore Victoria Fassett said. “All you can see

is people and more people. You can’t see the end of them. It’s amazing to stand in a place with so many people at one time who really care that a third of our generation is not here.”

After the march, participants were encouraged to visit their representatives in the U.S. House and Senate and advocate for pro-life policies and principles.

“Every time I go to March for Life I draw something new from it, and my passion for the pro-life movement is numbers or images, the media doesn’t portray it accurately.

The energy is always positive and everyone is so excited to be there. We believe that we can change the situation of our country through love.”

March for Life participants will visit Hillsdale College’s stitutional Studies and Citizenship before returning to their buses for a night drive back to campus. Students are expected to arrive back tomorrow at 4 a.m.

Hillsdale College students who are interested in helping plan Students for Life’s trip to March for Life 2016 should be in touch with SFL leadership.

“One day of class is important, but it’s also important to show your support for things you believe in. March for Life is a visible, real way for prolifers to do that,” Fassett said.

“Ultimately you won’t remember missing that class, but you will remember marching with hundreds of thousands of people. Everyone should have a chance to know what that feels like.”

Mock Trial makes clean sweep at Polar Bear Invitational Stevan Bennett Collegian Freelancer

weekend, the more ballots you have received, the tougher the opponent you will face.

The Hillsdale Mock Trial teams had a tournament for the record books this past weekend, with

history.

“We got all of the ballots this weekend, and that rarely happens,” sophomore team member John Church said. “A lot of times the winning team wins 6-2 or 7-1, so to us this was a big deal. Having the

Invitational Mock Trial Tournament. In addition to The fashion in which the Hillsdale team grabbed itself.

A Mock Trial tournament consists of four rounds, with two judges each. Each team spends two rounds as the plaintiff and two as the defense.

At the end of each round, each judge determines the winner of the round, making a total of eight points possible in a tournament. Throughout the

as well.”

In addition to the outstanding overall performance of the teams, Hillsdale was able to win four outstanding attorney awards and two outstanding witness awards.

“Collectively we won a fourth of the individual awards, and a third of our team won an individual award. I would say that is pretty impressive for a small school,” sophomore Jennifer Matthes, cap-

Just because the team comes from a small school does not mean that their success came as a surprise to them.

“I thought it was completely within the realm of possibility for us to win,” senior Jack Shannon

seasons, and will now set their eyes on regionals and attempting to gain a place at the national competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.

by one point on one ballot. We were able to split with Harvard, and placed above multiple other Ivy League schools. So going in, I knew we had a chance.”

As the weekend wore on, the team began to understand the opportunity they had.

State’s A team,” Church said. “On the second day and they were fourth place in nationals last year.

We saw that as the real big hurdle for the weekend.

Once we beat them, making us 6-0, we started to strive for making school history.”

Mock Trial A team members celebrate their tournement win. (Photo Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)

Bringing Home Connection provides quesadillas back visitors with housing Ramona Tausz Assistant Editor

las, chicken tenders, and skinny french fries, back by popular demand.

Though A.J.’s initially stopped selling these foods when Bon Apare now available from 7 p.m.-12 a.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends. Chicken tenders and skinny french fries are also now offered at all regular times. dillas in the evenings, so students have something for homework

food, something you could easily munch on,” A.J.’s manager Lisa Beasley said discussing why ing them back in the evenings and weekends would give them an option for that.” favorites a little at a time after Bon

semester.

“We just wanted to introduce slowly,” Beasley said. “We’ve listened to students and are trying to bring things back.”

She added that more items may be gradually introduced back into the menu as time goes on.

SAB SKI TRIP Jessie Fox Collegian Reporter For only one-third of the regular cost to students, the Student Activities Board will load two buses and head to Alpine Valley in White Lake, Michigan, for its fourth annual ski trip.

Jeffrey Meyers, members of Camthe trip with the help of Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno.

The $40 cost will cover a student’s lift ticket, rental fee, and transportation — a package that usually costs around $110, Myers said.

The buses are scheduled to leave at 9 a.m. on Jan. 31 and return to Hillsdale at 10 p.m. Students will have the freedom to spend the entire day snowboarding or skiing on their own.

Students can sign up outside of According to Manno, Myers decided that Alpine is an ideal venue because it is closer and offers better slopes and a better price than last sort in Oswego, Michigan.

Around 100 students attended last year’s successful trip. Hille said SAB is hoping for a similar turnout this year.

Junior Betsy Thistleton said last year’s trip was one of the highlights of her semester.

“It’s such a great opportunity to get off campus and do a fun activity — and it’s so affordable!” Thistleton said. “I would recommend it for everyone, no matter your skill level.”

Breana Noble Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College is now providing more opportunities for its visitors to stay nearby through the Hillsdale College Home Connection.

The new initiative, which started its pilot program at the beginning of January, has already received interest according to It links local friends of the college with open guest rooms to out-of-town visitors. guests of Hillsdale College,” Tim Wells, energy education specialist and head of the program, said. “They’re typically within a 1 to 5-mile radius of campus.

You don’t have to worry about being not as comfortable with things here locally or travel time from Jackson or Coldwater.”

The college serves as a booking service through its webpage, HillsdaleCollege.Lodgify.com. Users may select the dates and number of rooms they need and that include photos of the spaces, offered amenities, the house’s distance from the college, and pricing options. The website also includes the terms and conditions of the service.

The lodging associates, those who are contracted with the college to rent out parts of their homes, set their own prices, and choose the amenities they wish to provide. Some associates offer a guest room and restroom while others will provide additional living space, a pool, or other features.

“They have the opportunity to practice free market capitalism,” Wells said. “It’s highly customizable. Some lodging associates work full time; some are retirees; some travel. We have a process and system that isn’t pushy or demanding. The expectation for them is minimal. They set everything up. It is not an expectation of our lodging associate to ‘host.’ It seeks to make sure they’re comfortable, and if

they’re comfortable with what they’re of-

the needs campus has,” Wells said.

will be comfortable also.”

Currently, there are nine locations with about 20 rooms available, but others will join the list within the next couple of months, Wells said.

“My husband and I enjoy having people in our home,” Carolyn Milligan, lodging associate and executive secretary to the dean of women, said. “We think it would be a good way to open up our home.”

Wells said construction of the Searle Center, scheduled to open late August, brought discussion of how to accommodate the up to 700 guests the new building will be able to serve in the Curtis Dining Hall.

The Dow Leadership Center has 36

reports 63 percent of the student body is from outside Michigan.

“Our out-of-state ratio has risen,” Wells said. “That means we have a host number of parents and family members who are traveling to and from campus for a variety of occasions. You have graduation, commencement, two parents’ weekends, not to mention the traveling potentially for kids who won’t drive a car; mom and dad will pick them up, drop them off, spring break, Christmas, Thanksgiving.”

With 22 percent of the student population participating in intercollegiate sports,

according to Wells.

“There had been talks of adding onto the Dow Center,” Wells said. “Those ideas are being tabled for the time being for other things more pressing, namely sented the idea six months ago, and administrators began looking at opportunities through Airbnb late last summer, December for those the college believed might be interested in the program generated a positive response.

Hillsdale college donors. They’ve had kids here. They are faculty. It’s a reliable solution at an affordable price.” college held about 25 on-campus events, but now there are more than 90 annually with the hostel program, charter school initiative, and growing number of attendees to Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars.

“It serves as an elastic band; it can expand, and it can contract depending on

said the Hillsdale College Home Conwatch their students play as well as recruiting efforts.

“There is a need for lodging in Hillsdale especially with the growing potential of events on campus,” Stephanie Gravel, assistant volleyball coach and contracted lodging associate for the program, said.

“On busy weekends it can be extremely While the program is not a bed and breakfast service, the college looks forward to growing its partnership with the city of Hillsdale. said. “As people come to and from the lodging, they’re seeing restaurants; they’re seeing stores.” to have 50-75 rooms by the time the pilot program ends and the Searle Center opens in late August.

Wells is planning for 50-75 locations to be open for rent in the next 18 months.

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CHOPPED: Students head to the kitchen

Sarah Chavey Collegian Reporter

Eight teams of two will take over Bon Appétit tomorrow in Hillsdale’s very own “Charger Chopped.” Based off the popular cooking show, the competition requires contestants to work together to create a delicious dish in 30 minutes. The catch? Each team must use four mystery ingredients, unknown to the competitors until the time begins. ments from other cooking shows. If you turn on the TV, they’re all the rage,” Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said.

Grill Ninjas: Ryan O’Hearn and George Ancede

Kooking Kappas: Michelle McAvoy and Lauren Melcher

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ple that can do it. We needed a lot of representation, but at the same time we needed people who can cook,” Manno said. Though not all

students will be cooking, spectators are encouraged to watch from the bleachers and enjoy the food and drinks provided. Even parents and friends from home can watch online as the event is broadcasted.

Bon Appétit has graciously offered their kitchen for the event. The teams will be split into two rounds, and the judges will announce a “I’m really interested to see how people react under that time constraint and the pressure,” Manno said. The contestants, however, almost unanimously claimed that the time constraint did not worry them.

The DG’s: Betsy Thistleton and Elizabeth Green

(Photo Courtesy of Luke Robson)

(Photo Courtesy of Bailey Arlingaus)

Bell and Robson are adopting a unique strategy.

“I’m spending the whole week walking on my toes as much as possible,” Robson said, in order to prepare to be on his toes during the event itself.

“We wake up and we just ooze excellence,”

Green illuminated DG’s competitive spirit when she teasingly hinted that they may “pour boiling beverages on other people’s ankles” in order to win. Thistleton feels they are ready for the competition regardless of plans for sabotage.

“We’ve seen ‘Julie and Julia,’ so that should tell us everything!” Thistleton said.

Hungry Owls: Geena Pietrefase and Elena Sakelaris

(Amanda Tindall/Collegian)

The Kooking Kappas may bring the most experience to the competition with McAvoy’s work in a café and knowledge of the show.

“If I learned anything from the show Chop’d, it’s that they have a concept going into it…”

McAvoy said. She and Melcher are planning together in preparation.

in A.J.’s. People will be able to buy their dish,” Manno said.

Since only 16 students can participate, competitors were selected carefully. Manno talked to head resident assistants and Greek presi-

Fire and Ice: Spencer Bell and Luke Robson

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than one way.

“We’re the shakers and the bakers and that’s what we do. I specialize in shaking. He specializes in baking,” O’Hearn said.

They have not exposed their strategy.

“We don’t reveal our secrets until game time,” Ancede said.

Judges include Bon Appétit’s executive chef Steve Hickman, Associate Professor of Classical Studies Joseph Garnjobst, and Penelope Arnn. Taste, creativity, and presentation will determine the winning dish.

(Photo Courtesy of Elena Sakelaris)

Pietrefase and Sakelaris have cooked together several times before, but neither knows what to expect. says,” Pietrefase said.

“I know we don’t look like we know what we’re doing, but we do,” Sakelaris added.

ATBros: Eric Ragan and Steve Sartore

Whitley: Sarah Schweizer and Julianne Grignol

(Photo Courtesy of Julianne Grignol)

“My mom really enjoys it when I come home from college cause she’s like ‘Oh my goodness! Now we’re going to have someone who actually cares about what things taste like and look like!’” Schweizer said.

Gignol said they look forward to embracing “the adventure.”

Law and Order: Grace Thompson and Rebekah Smith

(Kate Patrick/Collegian)

Ragan has been cooking since seventh grade.

“It was really just a process of experimentation,” he said. “I started out with recipes and gradually learned cooking techniques and how

(Amanda Tindall/Collegian)

Thompson and Smith have watched enough of the show to see the disasters that sometimes arise, but they still feel prepared and excited.

“Rebekah has told me how her and her boyfriend have had Chop’d competitions together,” Thompson said.

Park Place floods, students displaced

at Park Place Apartments last week, leaving soaked carpets and ruined books in its wake.

“It was a bit of a surprise,” sophomore Nathanael Meadowcroft said. “A pipe burst only in my room. All my books are on ruined.”

Meadowcroft said he guessed the value of the damaged books is about $200.

“Fortunately, it wasn’t my textbooks, just all my old literature books,” he said. “I’m hoping they reimburse me or that insurance covers it. It was fortunate that I took my Xbox home.

If that got ruined, I’d be gunning for a replacement.”

Meadowcroft’s roommate, sophomore Shelby Ripley, saw the leak as it happened.

“Initially, I thought that a localized stain on the ground was from something we had spilled last semester, so I worried that we would have to rent a steam cleaner to hide it,” Ripley said.

“As it grew, I realized that the water was coming from the sub-

Rich Péwé said the break had nothing to do with the cold.

“It wasn’t an ordinary pipe break,” Péwé said. “It was a domestic hot water heater, which heated the drinking water and shower. That failed, and there was a hole in it, so it leaked. The previous owner put in…not the best system, let’s put it that way.

I’m sure they were looking at cost more than anything else.”

The college plans to install a new heater, but has run into problems.

“The problem is that the manufacturer knew they were defective, so they no longer have them on the shelves,” Péwé said.

“They’re going to build a heater going to take a few weeks. It’s Until the damage is repaired, the students will live in Simpson Residence.

“They found a room until of Men Jeffery Rogers] said it’s most likely for the whole semester,” Meadowcroft said.

Meadowcroft also said the place for him to stay on the night the heater failed.

“I was obviously disappointed that they didn’t have a place

Mr. to Dr. Heckel Hillsdale Academy teacher earns Ph.D. Madeleine Jepsen Collegian Reporter The hard work of Christopher Heckel, the chemistry and biology teacher at Hillsdale Academy, has paid off, as he earned his Ph.D. in biological sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

The process of obtaining the degree, which spanned 10 years, included advanced coursework in ecology and evolution, summers with a dissertation.

While earning his degree, Heckel began teaching biology and chemistry classes at the academy. He continued working on his research and dissertation throughout the school year.

“Each week I would Skype into the weekly lab meetings that my lab group would have,” Heckel said. “I was at a slower pace, during the school year es-

pecially because of work, but year-round I was doing work towards it.” mers, he gathered data for his thesis, which examined the indirect effects of white-tailed deer on populations of the plant species jack-in-the-pulpit. This several forests in Pennsylvania, studying deer exclosures through the Smithsonian Institution, and modeling population growth and decline.

Balancing a full-time job, family life with four kids, and Heckel’s hard work did not go unnoticed. Academy Head Master Kenneth Calvert noted the incredible amount of work Heckel put in each week.

“I will come in on weekends and work, and some nights I’ll be in here working, and almost every time I was here, Chris Heckel

was here working on his dissertation,” Calvert said. “He put in many extra hours working on the weekends and nights.”

Overall, Heckel described the process as hard, but enjoyable.

“It’s a great time in your life when you’re expected to just learn things and read and become an expert in something,” Heckel work. Teaching is an aspect that I really enjoyed as well. It’s really fun to interact with kids and share these interesting ideas that come up in biology.”

Heckel represents a very small percentage of teachers who pursue a doctorate degree and teach junior high and high school students. According to The Atlantic, “fewer than one percent of all public elementary and secondary school teachers have Ph.D.s.”

However, Heckel has been able to integrate his expertise into his classroom teaching in many ways. He has been able to include more hands-on labs, and has used his experience with concepts to life.

According to Calvert, welleducated teachers such as Heckel are a huge asset to the school community.

“Chris loves the life of the mind, loves chemistry and biology, and he’s an expert in those

Christoper Heckel helps students with science homework. (Photo Courtesy of Madeleine Jepsen)

can take that and communicate it to young people, and get them excited about it. That’s really what you want in a teacher.”

said. “I had to get in touch with Despite this, Ripley said both for the night.

“A ‘thank you’ goes out to the Drive-In boys for being so accommodating,” Ripley said. next day, so the whole situation is quite literally water under the bridge.”

In addition to having work done on the hot water heater, Péwé said the college is tackling Residents’ books damaged by the flooding at Park Place, (Courtesy of Nathanael Meadowcroft ) other problems at Park Place.

“We’re going to go ahead and nature are not typical with col- and they’re all connected, so you lege-owned houses. can’t work on it just one piece at tem while we’re at it,” he said.

“Usually, with college-owned a time. We thought it’d be okay.”

“We have a good staff, but if houses, we try to make adjustthey have to keep going back to ments before they’re occupied,” nurse something, then that’s a he said. “With Park Place, waste of their time.” though, there are several units, Péwé said problems of this

WELLS OF COACHING Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter Calling his point guard over, Timothy Wells took a knee.

Keeping eye-to-eye contact with his player, he gestured toward the court. His intensity never let up despite a consistent lead throughout the game, giving the Hillsdale Academy Colts a 5927 win Friday night.

Last spring, Wells replaced Rick Milligan as the head coach of Hillsdale Academy’s varsity boys’ basketball team. Since 2011, Wells has worked in Administrative Affairs as the college’s energy specialist and was an assistant coach for the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team from 2006-2011.

“He is doing a great job getting players to work hard, to reach their potential, and to play together,” Hillsdale Academy Athletic Director Mike Roberts said.

Striving to reach their poten-

“Life lessons can be taught in this environment,” he said.

“It’s great to be taught when the consequences are minimal, like running.”

Following the win Friday night against the CamdenFrontier Redskins, senior player Noah Kalthoff said: “Coach Wells has stressed fundamentals. For example: defense wins games. We took control of this game because we came with a game plan on defense. I actually look forward to games because practices are so much harder.”

Wells brings his love of Christ to the court. The team says a prayer before every practice and game.

“My source of ultimate truth is the Word of God. In everything we do, God gets the glory,” Wells said.

When asked to describe his coach, Kalthoff paused before he said, “A godly man — very focused, yet laid-back.”

Wells plans to keep pushing his boys until March 1 when they begin competing in the dis“By March 1, I want to put D team and I want them to compete,” he said. “That’s our goal.

I tell them, don’t stay the same, don’t stay stagnant. Set goals for and always ask, ‘Was better possible?’”

as success to his team.

“Better is almost always possible,” he said. “Success is about the constant drive. As a team, we aren’t going to hide from weaknesses. We write them down, make mistakes in practice, and learn from them.”

Wells sees the court as an opportunity for the boys to grow in maturity by adhering to strict Tim Wells coaches an after-school boys’ basketball pracrules — no profanity or tardi- tice at Hillsdale Academy. (Photo Courtesy of Madeleine Jepsen) ness from his players.

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American retreat

Although winter break provided a small yet welcome respite

of the fall semester, when you stayed up all night writing your last paper, stumbled out of Delp Hall after turning it in the following day, and nearly collapsed into your car to return home in a post-

the despair, the stress, and the week still linger in the hearts and minds of students throughout campus. This small horror from the past gnaws at the diurnal tedium of students’ lives, preventing

“I will never let things get that That was a good thought, and you fully intended to act upon it to obviate the return of any similar episodes again. Then the second week of classes this semester began.

the aspects of their lives furthest removed from the set of grueling examinations that cast their dim pall over the end of the year.

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On Jan. 16, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a present to a France still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo attacks: Musical guest James Taylor. In what some considered attempted

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imagine possible consequences to isolationism.

But even if any of these powers were to become so dangerous, Stephens ignores an alternative to the options — “the libertarian, balance of power, or idealist” approaches, as well as isolationism and internationalism — for foreign policy he enumerates: The American. Before the 20th century, on which Stephens focuses, America tried (imperfectly) to make war and peace in her own interest, hesitating to involve itself in binding treaties and the affairs of other nations save as dictated by necessity, as when attacked (or plainly about to be attacked), and

When ideology is given dominance over aesthetic judgment, art becomes a shallow extension of morality, philosophy, or politics.

the artists involved that then creness of the act.

Nominations for lead actor David Oyelowo and director

act that needs to part of a political campaign that exactly, or even

itself.

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BROOKHISER CAPTURES LINCOLN’S ESSENCE Review: Founder’s Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser Bronte Wigen Special to the Collegian ration of Independence.

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necessary corrective to our enfeebled era of foreign policy, and a welcome urge to clearer foreign policy thinking; if a return to a foreign policy more in line with the American Founding is currently beyond us, then Stephens’ will do. But if we fail to

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Lincoln emphasized the importance of the Declaration by tying the principles it proclaimed to the present.

men who died

Stephens favors, and “redeeming it,” on which he has soured.

Jack Butler, a senior studying political economy and jour-

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that stole the spotlight from what is, again, not an artistic achieve-

an act in the po-

drawing, appearing with only two nominations, one for Best

that launched the attack. Such an approach could still work, Stephens’ own (for an example, see Angelo Codevilla’s “While the Storm Clouds Gather” in the Fall 2014 Claremont Review of Books).

Strangely, though Stephens mostly ignores this approach, and spends much of his book showing the dangers of isolationism and the necessity of policing the world, his ultimate prescription demonstrates a restraint somewhat out of keeping with what he argued before: He asks, among other things, for an American foreign policy that “would sharply punish violations of geopolitical norms” with an emphasis on “short, cupations for idealistic ends.” Yet even these more modest aims

appreciated (or criticized) on

When the Oscar nominations were released on Jan. 15, Vox. com, the site that aims to “Explain the news,” protested that a

world can take care of itself, et al.

These outlooks comprise “the new isolationism” of the book’s title. But Stephens does not intend the word as a slur.

Isolationism, he writes, is not necessarily “an expression of parochialism or xenophobia, or a yearning for total economic self-reliance or minimal diplomatic contact with outsiders.” It is, instead, a healthy instinct with deep roots in America’s past.

Still, Stephens claims, isolationism was and remains dangerous, and will create a world of disorder, in which nations act on their own whims rather than in the interests of the global order the United States currently maintains. He brings out the familiar examples of World War II and the Cold War, often comparing the lead-up to the former horror to today.

Implicit in this argument is the existence of some litany of virulently anti-democratic belligerents wishing to refashion the world in their own image. Yet though Stephens spends much time discussing the strengths, weaknesses, and threats posed by some potential candidates — Russia, China, Iran — none ever really emerges as a feasible candidate for a 20th-century

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Isolationism was and remains dangerous, and will create a world of disorder, in which nations act on their own whims rather than in the interests of the global order the United States currently maintains.

the habits that allow for the full comprehension of information.

Set up meetings with profes-

last days with the senior class, and less on pulling secluded, library all-nighters. Just maybe.

If not, well, praise the Lord and pass the caffeine.

“Selma” should only get Academy Awards if its artistic quality earns them

erff and others who criticized the

book’s thesis: That America abandons its duty to “police the world” at not only the world’s peril but also its own.

Unfortunately, to Stephens, this idea has widespread appeal.

Discussing a letter he received expressing it, Stephens remarks that the idea has crossed political lines enough that “he has no idea whether the reader who wrote me that letter is a Republican or a Democrat, a Tea Party activist or a lifelong subscriber to Mother Jones.” Various attitudes feed into this supposedly bipartisan trend: Policing the world is too expensive, we have too many of problems to worry about the world’s, we have no real enemies today like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union,

as they are meant to be treated: To test the knowledge gained throughout the entire semester, not to test what can be crammed into the brain in a few short days of study.

There is something you can do about all this immediately: Start

sors and maintain a disciplined sleep schedule. Make productive habits when you have the time to do so. When the time is running short, those habits will hopefully become second-nature — and you’ll have completed the work far ahead of time.

Let’s praise art for its merits, not its politics

America In Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder by Bret Stephens

from the post-attack “Unity March,” Taylor serenaded French delegates with “You’ve Got A Friend,” his 1971 hit. Such is the state of modern American diplomacy.

One can hardly concoct a better example of Obama-era foreign policy. If Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and editorial board member at the Wall Street Journal whose “America In Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder” describes its feebleness, watched Taylor’s

have to send us cowering into our beds, preparing for endless nights of caffeine-facilitated sleep depri-

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he presents an engaging narrative of Lincoln’s life while of-

convocation and orientation, intle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” and visitors to the college will have the chance to meet and hear

Lincoln’s actions as a statesman iser’s analysis makes Lincoln’s

proving an excellent addition to

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Harry V. Jaffa, perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century next to Leo Strauss, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 10. Jaffa, Professor Emeritus at Claremont McKenna and Claremont Graduate Schools, deeply studied not only classical political philosophy but also American political thought, Shakespeare, and the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.

Through essays, speeches, and books, he advocated for a constitutionalism based upon the natural rights and natural law principles of the Declaration of Independence. Much to the chagrin of M.E. Bradford, Russell Kirk, and other paleo- and traditionalist conservatives, he devoted himself to re-founding modern conservatism on the abstract truth that “all men are created equal.�

It can be argued that Jaffa was the intellectual grandfather to the Tea Party, whose appeals to individual natural rights — which undergird the Constitution — surely made him smile. Though I did not know him personally, I can safely -

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Jaffa opened the work the only way he knew how: Castigating the scholars of his day for their historicism and positivism, which they had uniformly taken for granted in their works. They had reduced tives — a contest with no principles at stake. Jaffa devoted more than 100 pages arguing for Douglas and his policy of popular sovereignty, which took a pragmatic middle ground between radical Republicans, who wanted rid the nation of the sin of slavery at virtually any cost, and the Southerners, who called for disunion and secession. Lincoln argued that there was no middle ground between right and wrong.

Lincoln used the Constitution and principles set forth therein to keep the Union dedithen for the extirpation of slavery, Jaffa presented Lincoln as improving upon the “low but solid� principles of the Founding. In his sequel, A New Birth of Freedom, Jaffa instead taught that Lincoln had not transcended Founding principles but had appealed to them.

Reading and thinking about Jaffa’s Crisis emancipated me from my own positivism and historicism and allowed me to see that human action, and not the progress of History, was the impetus behind whether good or evil would triumph. The United States was an exceptional country because of its exceptional principles. I had been a political conservative prior, but I did not know that what I was trying to conserve was not tradition, history, or place: It was these principles that made liberty possible. In his “Eulogy for Henry Clay,�

Lincoln stated the following, which applies to Jaffa as much as it did to Clay: “He loved his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country, and he burned with a zeal for its advancement, prosperity, and glory, because he saw in such the advancement, prosperity, and glory of human liberty, human right, and human nature.�

to Saul being transformed while on the road to Damascus. Reading Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided had a similar effect on me as an undergraduate.

During my freshman year at Ashland University, Jaffa visited and lectured Wikimedia Commons on Lincoln’s statesmanship at a colloquium hosted by the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. He was in his mid-80’s but still a forceful speaker, though his speech was delivered with a slower cadence than it had once been. Sensing that this man had something important to teach and witnessing the reverence Professor of Political Science Peter Schramm — then Executive Director of the Center — and the other professors at Ashland University had for him, Mike Sabo is a second-year Master’s candidate at the Van Andel Graduate School of StatesmanI picked up a copy of his most well-known book, Crisis of the House Divided. (Schramm told me that ship. undergraduates shouldn’t be reading that book, but knowing the heart of man, he understood that the fruit he said was forbidden wouldn’t go untouched for long.)

How to honor MLK

I AM JEWISH AND PROUD Kelsey Drapkin Collegian Reporter Every morning for the past decade, I have put on the same earrings and necklace. They’re nothbut they do have one important feature: The Star of David.

For all the years I have followed this routine, it was only recently that I began to think about it. It was only recently that I began to consider where I would be going or what I would be doing that day to try to decide if it would be safe to wear my jewelry.

I am often told anti-Semitism is a thing of the past, something that ended after the last concentration camp in Europe was liberated. I wish that were true.

It is, however, hard to deny the vigor of anti-Semitic sentiment when events like the recent hostage situation and subsequent murder of four Jews in a Kosher grocery store in France occur.

Multiple terrorist attacks occurred in the short span of a few days in France. Each attack ocat the satire magazine Charlie

Hebdo were targeted for their work and what they published.

This is radically different than the reason behind the targeting of the grocery store. Those in the store were killed simply for living and breathing as Jews.

This attack is sadl y

part of a trend. Many in the media have tried to play it off as an isolated incident, but attacks on Jewish communi- ties around the world have been on the rise in recent years.

A family friend from Belgium anti-Semitism beginning years ago, especially in France, the

United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany. From drawings of Swastikas to destruction of synagogues to beatings and murders of Jews for no other reason than their religion, the world has — yet again — become increasingly hostile toward the Jewish people.

Immigration of French Jews cantly in the past few years, and immigration of Jews to Israel from around the world — Aliyah — reached a 10-year high in 2014. Sofa Landver, Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, predicts even greater increases in homes.

History has not been kind to the Jewish people, but our story continues regardless. I am proud of my heritage and am strong in my beliefs. I will continue to wake up each morning, put on my earrings and necklace, and wear them con#JeSuisJuif Kelsey Drapkin is a senior studying political economy and journalism.

Tom Novelly Special to the Collegian This past Monday, our nation observed the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther Founders in identifying the inalienable rights of all human beings. King preached peaceful protest, hard work, and strong individual character as a means to social success. So this MLK day, many progressive Americans and special interest group leaders were pushing agendas for racial equality. However, King’s message has been distorted over time, and the modern many of the lessons from its king. something far removed from current progressive policies. There is no way that King would have defended the use of raadmitted into a university or workplace based on the color of your skin or so that racist. King believed his children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.� To have an institutional policy in place that deviates from the character of the individual is a pitiful excuse for progress.

King most famously said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only

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“We still live in a country where too many bright, striving Americans are priced out of the education they need,� said President Obama on Tuesday night, in his State of the Union speech. “That’s why I’m sending this Congress a bold new plan to lower the cost of community college — to zero.�

The president’s words reminded me of my own experience. Before coming to Hillsdale College, I went to a state university, where I worked two jobs to help pay my bills. I learned that education is an investment that requires sacrino such thing as a free lunch.�

Obama hopes to make two years of community college free for up to nine million Americans, a plan he dubs America’s College Promise. Under this program, federal funding would absorb 75 percent of the average cost of community college, while states would contribute the remaining funds. To be eligible, students must maintain a 2.5 GPA and “make steady progress� toward graduapermit students to transfer to four-year colleges with half the credits needed for a bachelor’s degree. growing problem. Offering a free education would equip more students with the knowledge and skills they need to compete in our growing global economy but without the heavy burden of debt. A free education seems too good to be true.

So what’s the catch?

Obama may try to sell his proposal as “free,� but it comes at a monumental cost to the American people. Taxpayers will face a price tag of $60 billion over ten years. These taxpayers are all of us, including the “veterans and single parsame people who receive Obama’s free education will be paying it back later through higher taxes and mounting national debt.

Free tuition will not automatically improve student performance either. It might increase enrollment, but it would not provide the motivation to do well.

When something is given for granted, people take it for granted.

With many different funding alternatives available, community college is within most people’s reach right now. According to the College Board, the average cost of community college per year is $3,347. That’s not to say that paying for community college will be easy for everyone, but it is inexpensive and more accessible than other forms of higher education. Both private and public institutions offer numerous grants and scholarships. In addition, the federal government’s Pell Grant Program already offers free or nearly free tuition to low-income students. Instead of expecting a costly new federal entitlement program to subsidize them, students should work to pay for school the oldfashioned way by waiting on tables, mowing lawns, and painting houses.

Eliminating the cost of tuition is not the solution to the number of students ill-equipped for the workforce. Free community college won’t solve any of our problems. If Obama wants to help students succeed in community college, he will encourage them to work hard and take ownership over their education. He remind us all that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Arielle Mueller is a senior studying history.

On Jan. 6, 2015, the House of Representatives re-elected John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker. However, 25 of the House’s most conservative Republicans, supported by outside groups like FreedomWorks and other Tea Party organizations, voted against Speaker Boehner in one of the biggest rebellions in the House’s recent history. Those hard-line conservatives, like Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the Speaker because they thought he had “surrendered� to President Obama and the progressives.

Hard-liners see Speaker Boehner’s support of the CRomnibus spending measures as an example of surrender.

Passed in December, the $1.1 trillion spending bill will keep the government running through September of this year.

Those on the far right of the GOP argue that this is a surrender because it contained “riders,� and did not use the power of the purse to shut down President Obama’s executive action, granting amnesty to a large number of illegal

love can do that.� He drove a revolutionary non-violent protest that achieved true change. King would be disgusted by recent events such as the numerous Ferguson riots or the slaughtering of the two Brooklyn cent race movement, King recognized that not all cops were bad, but only a few. There was a clear distinction drawn between the outliers and the group.

King would have fought against entitlement mentalities. King was a huge advocate for hard work, and that no matter what the circumstances are, you should always be pursuing your best. It did not matter your occupation, for “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.� King believed in charity and help for the needy, but he was a clear advocate for personal responsibility and hard work as well.

King fought social injustice by advocating virtue, nonviolence, hard work, and a recognition of the inalienable rights that pertain to all of us. The modern race movement culture has gone far off the tracks.

Disunity and distortion of roots will not lead to success for any cause or organization. So let’s celebrate what Martin Luther King really meant, and not advocate for a distortion of it.

Tom Novelly is a sophomore studying politics and journalism.

immigrants.

The hard-liners are wrong about the CRomnibus. Overall, the bill was a Republican victory, not a surrender.

The bill had a number of measures that conservatives ought to support. For standards set to be imposed on light bulbs soon, cut the IRS’s budget, put the brakes on Michelle Obama’s school lunch program, and eliminated certain provisions from the Dodd-Frank Act which put unnecessary regulations on banks. Not only that, but the government is being funded until September; Republicans and Democrats will not face the prospect of a government shutdown in the critical early stages of the new Congress.

Also, just because the GOP did not push through measures counteracting President Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions does not mean the party will not take action against it in the new Congress — in fact, the House recently passed a bill which repeals the president’s actions in full. What hard-liners do not understand about the CRomnibus is that Republicans need to plan battles wisely. There is a time to win debate on issues like the president’s un-

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constitutional acts, or cutting wasteful spending, but that place was not in the last Congress, when the GOP did not have a Senate majority with which to partner.

The new Senate majority makes it easier for the House to pass conservato President Obama and his supporters.

That is exactly what Boehner has been doing. Under his leadership, the House has passed legislation which would alconstruction, adopted new transparency rules drafted by Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI), voted in favor of eliminating harmful regulations, and passed numerous pro-veteran bills. Speaker Boehner has not been in retreat during this Congress — he is in full-on attack mode. Those conservatives who voted for him earlier this month have been vindicated. and the GOP establishment leadership apart the Republican Party since the Tea Party emerged during the 2010 elections. The far right says that the more moderate elements of the party are “RINOs� or “fake conservatives,� and that they are little better than the Democratic Party.

Republicans have the same goals as the Tea Partiers. Moderates want to reduce government and restore it to its constitutional limits. The only difference is that moderate Republicans recognize that we live in a republic, not a monarchy. Just because we will something does not mean it ought to come about.

Tea Partiers and their absolutist approach to politics, cannot win in the long run.

Politics is the art of the possible. Tea Partiers need to recognize that we cannot win simply by being right, we also have to be popular with the electorate that matters the most — center-of-theroad independents. Betraying princifor another day where victory is more foreseeable is not necessarily wrong. continued leadership will enable Republicans to bring their conservative message to Congress.

Michael Lucchese is a freshman studying American Studies.

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City Council seeks new city manager and clerk

Kate Patrick Assistant Editor After acting as Hillsdale city manager since 2011, Linda Brown stepped down for medical reasons in October and will not have her contract renewed.

The Hillsdale City Council voted to terminate the automatic renewal of Brown’s contract at the council’s vote, her contract would have automatically renewed for a year in May. Acting Manager Doug Terry tober. In March, Terry’s contract will expire, and the council will — of which Terry also serves as city manager — to discuss how much longer Hillsdale will require Terry’s services.

Council is also accepting reclerk position until elections in November. Deputy clerk Michelle Loren has served as city clerk since January 2012, but the council decided to alleviate some of Loren’s duties since she tion. ber,” Terry said.

Councilperson Mary Beth Bail made a motion to appoint Loren as city clerk until November, but no one supported the motion.

“I didn’t second the motion not because Loren doesn’t have

city we’d do this a certain way.”

The council already told the city of Hillsdale that it would have a hand in choosing who will be clerk until November, so resumes to the council for consideration.

In other business, Terry proposed he and the administration discuss the city budget with the Finance Committee and then present it to the council, instead of all the council members working on the budget together. ciency of the budget process,” council involved [in the budget discussion]. This is how most municipalities approach their budget, I think it’s worth exploring.”

Until now, council members each contributed their own elements to the budget, but because each of the council members are on different committees, not everyone is always on the same page or knows what the other committees want or need.

“In the past, council has been very much into the details of the budget, but we didn’t have a uniform strategy — with this strategy, the Finance Committee will go into the details and the council will look at the big picture,” Councilperson Patrick Flannery said. “This way, the council will be the true approver of the budget and see the full strategy.” ing will be May 18.

certain process,” Councilperson

Hillsdale ranked safer than average Michigan city Jack Butler Opinions Editor

Hillsdale really does owe something to the people: They’ve made it safer than the average Michigan city, according to ValuePenguin.

In a recent report based on FBI crime statistics, ValuePenguin, a research company that focuses on assessing value for consumers, ranked Hillsdale the 124th safest city in Michigan of 186 cities measured with a score of 1090. The average score was 1149.

The report’s methodology weighted violent crime at 90 percent and property crime at 10 percent, because its analysts data points are more relevant when calculating the relative safety of these cities.” Violent crime rates measured include murder/manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; property crime rates measured include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

The most dangerous city in Michigan, according to the report, is Detroit, with a score of 7156, making it more than six times more dangerous than Hillsdale. The safest is Raisin Township, with a score of 26, making it 44 times safer than Hillsdale.

Other cities similar in safety level to Hillsdale include Ann Arbor (120th, 1030), Portage (131st, 1183), and Grandville (133rd, 1274). At 3340, nearby Jackson, Michigan is one of the most dangerous cities ranked, appearing near the bottom at 175th.

Hillsdale Chief of Police

ValuePenguin ranks Hillsdale the 124th safest city out of 186 in Michigan. (Jack Butler/Collegian)

Scott Hephner said the report’s results didn’t surprise him. “The community,” Hephner said.

“Most of the assaults here involved people who know each other. They’re not random.”

Hephner stressed that this lack of randomness is indicative of the unique nature of crime in Hillsdale. of noncriminal complaints that could escalate into criminal complaints,” he said. “It’s really resolved before it comes to a criminal complaint.”

Hephner also said that Hillsdale is fortunate to have enough resources to deal with crime on

The vacant building at 101 Hillsdale St., formerly Mancuso’s Pizza-n-Subs, was recently sold to become a very different kind of business: an Darin Spieth of Spieth & Satow Auctions & Appraisers sold the property and said the property has been for sale for about four months. It is the third Edward Jones in the city. nancial advisor at Edward Jones and Hillsdale College ’91 graduate, purchased the property because he wanted to move from his rented build-

good indication: that means there’s enough people investing or that have funds to in“He’s probably open for all the professors and Dr. Arnn to come down and invest money,” Spieth said.

The building has switched back and forth through the years from ice cream shops Mancuso’s, which was open for four years, it was an investment company, and before that,

a Dairy Queen.

According to Spieth, the news is not exactly what people were hoping for.

“They’re hoping its an ice cream place or a taco place or something else for the college but it’s none of the above,” Spieth said.

City to host third Wedding Walk Saturday Natalie DeMacedo Hillsdale College student to News Editor fram said. “And we would love Any brides, bridesmaids, for all those businesses to stay and buy a building. Overall, it mothers of the bride, and women looking to renew their vows is a positive for Hillsdale.” can take a trip downtown to Jane

with the news and the fact that it forms another relationship between the city and college.

“This is the perfect picture

Stewart,

owner

of

where they pick up a punch card. For each business or vendor participants meet along the way, they get their card punched. More punches equal a better chance at winning top Vendors without a storefront presence can be found at either the Elks or the Broad Street Downtown Market Un-

a quieter and more permanent building.

“Because our business model is built around one-on-one client relationships, accessibility is a key component to our ability to serve individual in-

caterers, photographers, cakemakers, people who create invitations and one woman who puts together gift baskets.

“Everyone gets a bridal bag with literature or business cards from some businesses that might not be in attendance,” Stewart said.

Rhonda Carrier of Rhonda’s Every Body Yoga is offering one

Jones has been in Hillsdale for more than 30 years. He began his work in Hillsdale in 1998 and continues his relationship with the college.

“As a student I didn’t realize how much Hillsdale had to offer by way of small town living,” he said.

Director of Hillsdale Economic Development Mary Hillsdale.

“The fact that we have three Edward Jones’ is probably a

complaint load for violent crime has never been that high,” he said.

This ranking coheres with other data and analyses.

A 2012 Cap Index, Inc. Crimecast report assessed crime rates in Hillsdale, Michigan versus the nation at large, with scores on a scale from zero to 2000, 100 being average. The Hillsdale College campus and surrounding area scored a 69, indicating risk lower than average.

Statistics provided on the Michigan State Police website also shows this.

participants.

“I know women are looking es,” Carrier said. “Every year I want to get my name out and help support the brides.”

She offers classes in Hillsdale at 5:45 p.m. on Monday John Waldvogel, Hillsdale College ’91, is transforming 101 Hillsdale St. from a pizza joint into an investment firm. (Emma Vinton/Collegian)

Vanished Hillsdale Chris McCaffery Student Columnist Before fraternities and sororities were introduced to Hillsdale’s campus, student life was dominated by literary societies. and two for women, were organized. According to “Historic The Amphictyon Literary Society poses with President Mauck in Hillsdale College” by Hillsdale 1910. (Photo courtesy of Hillsdale College Archives and Special College historian Arlan Gilbert, Collections) the societies “offered students state law, giving them an indeopportunities for self-improve- pendent existence from the col- student body as new national ment that complemented class- lege with which they associated. gained administrative favor, room work. Excellent writing and public speaking skills re- rooms in Knowlton or East Hall, along with local groups such as the “Princes of the Orient” sulted.” which were extravagantly deco- for men and Sigma Alpha for rated in otherwise drab 19th cenaway with the traditional liter- tury Hillsdale College. Many of women. Even laborious alumni ary society system by the turn of these elaborate paintings, drap- efforts to restore the meeting the century, Hillsdale’s student eries, books, and chandeliers, groups were active and success- as well as valuable records were failed to convince students of the ful well into the 20th century. ing to “The First Hundred Years Societies like Alpha Kappa Phi, Knowlton in 1910. of Hillsdale College”, the societthe Ladies’ Literary Union, and Literary societies gradually ies’ names had disappeared from Amphictyon incorporated under faded out of popularity with the records completely by 1929.

According to Michigan Incident Crime Reporting for Hillsdale from 2013, the most recent year available, there were 298 incidents of crimes against property, such as theft and forced entry, 85 violations of controlled substance and one narcotic equipment violation, and zero incidences of murder or manslaughter, negligent or non-negligent.

So next time you walk around safely downtown at night, you can thank the people.

Hillsdale wears white

Mancuso’s building Emma Vinton Assistant Editor

this proactive basis.

don’t require a punch card.

Smith’s Flowers has a drawing for $100 off a wedding package and a purchase at Smith’s Next Door equals a chance to win $600 off a wedding gown.

Yvonne Fedrick, manager at David’s Dolce Vita, said the store is offering 15 percent off cases of wine and reminded participants that it sells liquor at state minimum. She added that items for the bride and her party. the paraphernalia that goes with them,” Fedrick said.

Stewart said she and a couple other businesses began the walk because she had an excellent weddings. That year, they only did three or four weddings, but two years later, the number increased to 65. She said she once did eight in one weekend. many people in our area get engaged over Christmas and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to help them,” Stewart said.

She added that although arrangements, she also allows to make their own bouquets.

Another vendor who will be in attendance is Paul Taylor who runs Sunshine Entertainment he is also an ordained minister

Hillsdale Community Action Agency.

Some discounts, however,

County Commissioners veto Park Board budget increase Ramona Tausz Assistant Editor The Hillsdale County Board of Commissioners voted against a 17 percent increase in the County Park Board’s 2015 budget last week. At its Jan. 13 meeting, the comissioners denied the park board’s request for a $5,000 increase that would have raised its total budget to $30,000. cial hits this year at the county level that have hurt us,” Commissioner Ruth Brown said, explaining the decision to deny the red right now that we’re having to take out of our fund balance, so it’s not really prudent to give somebody more.”

According to Brown, the county was originally $450,000 over the budget. Only when the asked all the county departments to cut their spending, did

to $88,000.

“It’s hard to go back and look those people in the eye, afcut everything, and turn around and give somebody $5,000 more out of the fund balance that we really don’t have,” Brown said.

Although Brown couldn’t legally reveal all of the county’s said it is largely due to funds the munity Mental Health, a facility Hillsdale. gle year for the next 10 years,” she said. “So there’s $80,000 right there when we’re $88,000 in the red.”

She said Lifeways claims the county did not fund them properly in the 1990s and is now requiring the county to catch up on payments.

“The other piece of the puzzle is that the park board didn’t support [park director Ted Jan-

sen],” she said. “They didn’t come to our meetings. He was basically up there asking for this himself.”

Board of Commissioners said that while the park board’s budget was not increased, at least it wasn’t reduced.

“There were several other departments where we actually lowered the budget,” he said. get.”

He explained the decision had nothing to do with the value the commissioners believe the park board gives to Hillsdale County. the park system, and I think they do a lot of good to the community,” he said.

Brown agreed.

“Last year we were doing good, and we actually took money out of our fund balance and gave it to the park board,” she said.

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Swim team breaks 10-win barrier Kat Torres Collegian Reporter After falling to the University of Indianapolis 110-95 in the last home meet of the season on Jan. 10, the Charger swim team bounced back with wins against Saginaw Valley State University (157-123) and Olivet College (91-62) in back-to-back meets

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on Jan. 16 and 17.

The triumph over Olivet was a milestone in the season for the Chargers, who now have broken the 10-win barrier by winning 10 time in school history. up to standards against UIndy, but we came back with some pretty consistent swims this last

weekend against SVSU,” head coach Kurt Kirner said, “We are at the point in our season where we are prepping for taper and rest. GLIACs are just around the corner and we need to get through this upcoming week with higher training loads and then it should be downhill from there.”

The team’s record is now 10-3 with only one meet to go before the GLIACS on Feb. 11.

“The team has been swimming tired which is always the Kirner said, “[Sophomore] Emily Shallman has been putting together some great times in the mid-distance free events and Raher last season.”

Shallman had a standout performance in the meets against in the 200 Freestyle and 200 ButSenior Rachael Kurtz was crowned champion in both the 50 Freestyle and 100 Freestyle against both UIndy and SVSU. Juniors Zoe Hopkins and Mikalah Smith dominated against Indianapolis with a one-

Freshman Theresa Smith swims the backstroke at the Jan. 10 home meet. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

swimming times of 11:05.57 (Hopkins) and 11:10.47 (Smith).

Hopkins and Smith went at it

the 500 Freestyle with times of 5:23.69 (Hopkins) and 5:25.10 (Smith).

“The team did amazing. We bonded over our sore and tired muscles. Everyone was very supportive and positive. We had a lot of improvement from this same meet last year. We only lost by 15 points to UIndy which is really close in swimming so we considered it a job well done. I don’t think there was much we could have done better, but we are all ready to let our bodies rest for GLIACs,” Hopkins said.

Before the UIndy meet, the team traveled to Florida to train during the school’s winter break, where the girls were able to put academic stresses aside and swim at a higher level.

“The idea of centering life around strictly training is comforting and invigorating,” Kirner said.

“I thought we did well coming off a hard training trip,” junior Alissa Jones said. “We really pushed through the pain and had some great races against UIndy, Saginaw Valley and Olivet.”

The swim team next competes on Jan. 24 at Ashland University at 1 p.m.

BOX SCORES

Men’s Basketball Hillsdale: 69 Northwood (Mich.): 74

Women’s Basketball Hillsdale: 80 Northwood (Mich.): 72

Hillsdale: 69 Lake Superior St.:74

Hillsdale: 59 Lake Superior St.: 54

Season Leaders Points Per Game: Kyle Cooper (21.6) Stedman Lowry (10.9) Rebounds Per Game: Cooper (10.8) Jason Pretzer (3.1) Assists Per Game: Zach Miller (6.2) Cooper (1.8) Field Goal Percentage: Cooper (55.3) Rhett Smith (53.1) Nick Archer (50.0)

Season Leaders Points Per Game: Megan Fogt (15.5) Kadie Lowery (9.3) Rebounds Per Game: Fogt (9.4) Allie Dittmer (5.4) Assists Per Game: Ashlyn Landherr (2.4) Madison Berry (2.3) Field Goal Percentage: Fogt (61.5) Dittmer (48.6) Kayla Geffert (45.5)

GLIAC North Standings Ferris St. 10-0 Saginaw Valley 10-0 Lake Superior St. 8-2 Michigan Tech 7-3 Northwood (Mich.) 6-4 Hillsdale 6-4 Grand Valley St. 5-5 Northern Mich. 4-6

GLIAC North Standings Michigan Tech 9-1 Grand Valley St. 7-3 Northwood (Mich.) 7-3 Hillsdale 6-4 Northern Mich. 6-4 Ferris St. 5-5 Lake Superior St. 3-7 Saginaw Valley 1-9

TRACK TEAM SPRINTS OFF TO A STRONG START

Micah Meadowcroft Arts Editor

Hillsdale indoor track and women’s at its Winter Opener in the Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center on Jan. 10.

While Hillsdale may not have son started on solid footing.

Head coach Andrew Towne said the Opener, in which four teams besides Hillsdale competed, provides a chance for athletes to compete at home, and gives athletes not yet on the travel squad a chance to perform.

“The other thing that we’re trying to get a feel for is where and performance coming off of break,” Towne said. “You don’t out, you’d rather do it at home.

So we got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.”

Towne said junior Corinne Zehner, last week’s GLIAC female athlete of the week, had

a standout performance on the women’s side. With times of 8.82 and 8.78 in the 60 hurdles, Zehner broke the school record twice, and placed times that qualify her for the NCAA Championships. Towne said those times probably won’t get her in, but it is close.

“And, again, if you think about the fact that we’re just trying to see where people are at this early that’s a really good sign for her to run that fast that early,” he said.

At the SVSU Classic on Jan. 16, Zehner won both of her events.

Towne pointed to sophomore pole-vaulter Alexandra Whitford as another highlight from Hillsdale’s Opener. There she jumped 3.55 meters, which is also an NCAA qualifying time.

“She can go much higher, and she’ll go much higher, but she got started, which is good,” Towne said.

At the SVSU meet, she did jump higher, up to 3.64 meters.

“This past weekend went well,” Whitford said. “I moved

up in my placement in the national rankings, so that’s great. I jumped a little bit higher. I was

the only girl jumping so I kind of won by default, but as a team I think we did pretty well, too.”

Freshman Lane White runs the 200-meter dash. White was named GLIAC athlete of the week for his performance at the Jan. 10 home meet. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Whitford has high ambitions for herself this season.

“My goal is to qualify for nationals again and actually go this year because I broke my foot the day before, last year, which was a bummer,” she said. “I would love to be vying for All-American; I would be very happy if that came to fruition. I would like to jump four meters by spring.”

On the men’s side, Towne pointed to freshman runner Lane White, last week’s men’s GLIAC athlete, as a solid performer at the Opener, giving him a good starting point for the season. He ran a 22.56 in the 200 at Hillsdale, and 22.31 at SVSU. Of being GLIAC’s athlete of the week, he said, “That was nice. I wasn’t expecting it. I hope I can do better performances in the future and get it again.”

White is ambitious not only for himself but for the whole team.

“I would also like to qualify for nationals and I think it would be great if the team could win the GLIAC some time,” he said. “I know certain teams have domi-

nated the GLIAC and I would like to change that.”

Right now the team is getTowne and coaches call the competitive season, which runs up to and is preparation for “the championship season,” kicked off by next month’s home meet on the half of the season as preparation for the second half.

“So maybe, if you’re in a really technical event you’re trysaid. “If you’re in an event where you’re trying to work your way towards that.”

Towne has high hopes for the season, but is thinking long term and focusing on developing a complete team, both men’s and women’s.

“Our goal as a program is always to be an NCAA podium team,” he said. “That’s a very hard thing to do. On the women’s side we’re certainly in the midst of that, already. We did that with cross country. And that’s certainly our intention.”

Fogt shines in senior season Matt Melchior Senior Reporter Athletic awards and honors have been in high supply for Charger women’s basketball star Megan Fogt, and they show no sign of waning.

Fogt was named the GLIAC North Division Player of the week on Jan. 19 for the tenth time in her career at Hillsdale College. These honors come for the second time this season.

She also reached her 1,000th point mark earlier this season at Lake Superior State, putting her among only 14 other Charger women to have done so. Despite the many accolades and achievements, Fogt’s goal isn’t to earn more individual acclaim.

“I don’t read into the awards

a lot. A lot of my success comes from my team,” Fogt said. “I’ve never judged if I played well by how many points I score or what other people say, I judge it on how hard I play.”

As a senior Fogt came into the 2014-15 season as the 201314 GLIAC player of the year and wasted no time proving that she is deserving of the award. Fogt in the last two games averaging 17.5 points per game.

In addition to Fogt’s propensity to score, women’s basketball coach Claudette Charney commented on Fogt’s leadership on the team.

“It doesn’t have to be her scoring,” Charney said. “We all expect Megan to do what Megan does: score 20 points, but Me-

Senior Megan Fogt shoots a free throw in the Dec. 14 game against Lake Erie. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

gan is capable of other things.

We do feel like the ball needs to go through her, but what I like about Megan most is her saying the little things to teammates and coach.”

As a freshman Fogt came to the coaches with a goal—keep it simple and rebound. This season Fogt has averaged 9.4 rebounds per game, creating scoring chances for her and her teammates. She’s managed to do more than just rebound, developing into a key playmaker for the Chargers.

“She has developed more conter recognizes miss matches and is aggressive at taking the ball to the basket, creating scoring chances,” sports information director Brad Monastiere said.

With all 10 GLIAC Player of the Week awards, her 2013-14 GLIAC Player of the Year accolade, and reaching the 1,000 point mark, it seems as if there’s nothing more she could do. Fogt thinks differently.

“The award that will be my favorite is when we win the GLIAC Championship. We want to win as many games as we can, but all that is leading up to is getting in the best position we can be to win the championship.”

The Chargers have 12 regular season games remaining and sit at an overall record of 10-4 with a 6-4 GLIAC conference record.

Fogt’s senior season and career as a Charger has already been successful, but as the senior’s time on the court comes to a close, a championship is the one feat in the back of the mind. “[Senior season] is incredibly bitter sweet moment, I’m getting older my body is wearing down.

But I fell in love with the game a long time ago.” Fogt said. “I’ve It’s hard knowing it’s almost over, but I’m excited to see what God has for me in the future.”

The Hillsdale women’s cross-country team made school history with their 2nd-place finish at the NCAA Division II National Championships on Dec. 6. Four runners received All-American status with their top-40 finishes. Senior Joshua Mirth placed 12th in his race with a time of 30:59, earning him All-American status as well. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

Records set in Bloomington Phil DeVoe Collegian Reporter Junior Emily Oren won her race and broke the standing Hillsdale College record for the 3K with a 9:28 time at the IU Invitational on Dec. 12. Her 5K time was also the second best in the nation.

“It was amazing. I didn’t really have a sense of time after my coach stopped calling my excited,” Oren said.

Junior Kristina Galat and senior Joshua Mirth raced at the meet as well.

While Galat didn’t break any records, her 16:38 time was the fastest 5K in Division II this year. Mirth found similar success, winning his heat; however, because of some issues with the organization of the race, he fell just short of breaking any re-

cords.

“Mirth probably would’ve broken the record if he had raced heat with their own guys, leaving and cross-country head coach Andrew Towne said. “IU didn’t think he could keep up with them, but he could’ve.”

Coach Towne explained that, for most sports, the gap between DI and DII schools athletically is too great to overcome, but that is not the case with track.

“In cross and track, the levels of competition are much more even — many Hillsdale runners turned down DI scholarships to run here, making us viable opponents for ‘better’ schools,” Towne said.

Towne hand-picked Oren, Galat, and Mirth for the race in Bloomington based on their performances during the crosscountry season last semester.

Oren and Galat helped the wom-

vision II Nationals.

“We all performed really well, which was amazing, considering when Nationals was,” Oren said.

With Oren already qualifying for Indoor Track nationals Mirth running times that should get them there, Oren and her teammates are “very excited” for the rest of the season. With Indoor Nationals only a short time away in March, the team is working hard to continue with the success they found last week at IU. “We’re very excited for the rest semester, especially after the success in Indiana. We’ll be back next week and we’ll try to do better,” Oren said.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS Women’s basketball TWO CLOSE GAMES racks up two road wins Nathanael Meadowcroft Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team dropped two games last weekend at Northwood and Lake Superior State by identical scores, 74-69.

The Chargers now sit with an 8-6 record overall and a 6-4 record in GLIAC play.

On Saturday at Lake Superior State, the Chargers shot 56 per17 turnovers to the Lakers’ four, leading to 19 Laker points.

“We just turned the ball over way too much,” head coach John Tharp said. “It’s leading to defeats right now so we just have to pass and catch better and we have to have more certainty with our offensive movement.”

Turnovers were also a problem for the Chargers in Thursday’s contest at Northwood, es“We as a team have got to do better [taking care of the ball],” point guard Zach Miller said. “We shot the ball pretty well but when you’re shooting well you’ve got to get shots up and you’ve got to do that with the ball.”

Nine of Hillsdale’s 11 turnovers came before intermission, allowing the Timberwolves to score easy buckets in transition.

“We were giving up easy points,” forward Kyle Cooper said. “When you’re coming down

point margin a couple of possessions like that can really make a difference.”

The Timberwolves held Cooper to just 11 points and 10 rebounds, but Hillsdale’s leading scorer responded with a 21-point performance against the Lakers.

Center Jason Pretzer started Saturday’s game at Lake Superior State after a strong showing at Northwood. The 7-foot junior scored 23 points off the bench on 9-14 shooting in Thursday’s loss to the Timberwolves, prompting Tharp to move him into the starting lineup on Saturday. sively on Thursday and he really gave us some great scoring in the post and on the perimeter,” Tharp said. “We started Jason on Saturday and I thought Nick Archer came off the bench and played really well as well so the truth of the matter is that one of those two guys needs to give us great minutes.”

Pretzer will continue to start games according to Tharp.

The two consecutive losses means the Chargers are currently in the midst of a three-game skid after falling at home to Findlay on January 10.

Over Christmas break, the Chargers enjoyed a four-game winning streak in league play with back-to-back non-conference losses at a Christmas tournament in Quincy, Illinois, sandwiched in between two of the wins.

Tonight the Chargers host Michigan Tech University at 8 p.m. The Huskies boast a 7-3 record in GLIAC play and a 10-4 record overall.

“Michigan Tech runs a tremendous offense and they’re very solid defensively,” Tharp said.

Michigan Tech’s offense is led by senior guard Ben Stelzer, who is averaging 22.2 points per game this season with an impressive 45.2 percent shooting clip from beyond the arc.

“He’s a great shooter,” Miller said. “We’re going to have our hands full trying to get him off screens and make him feel uncomfortable as much as we can.”

On Saturday the Chargers will host Northern Michigan University, who are 4-6 in GLIAC play.

“Northern Michigan is a really athletic team,” Cooper said.

“They get up and down the court really fast so we’re just going to have to keep working on our transition defense and make sure we take care of the ball.”

The Chargers have already lost two home games this season, something they didn’t do all of last season.

“We just haven’t made enough winning plays,” Tharp said.

“We’ve got to get back to protecting this beautiful new facility we have.”

The Chargers will look to protect home court and snap their mini three-game skid tonight.

Junior Kyle Cooper goes up for a shot in a game against Wayne State University. (Anders

Jessie Fox Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team brought home two wins last weekend, boosting their impressive road record to 9-1.

The Chargers, now 10-4 on the season, beat the Northwood University Timberwolves 80-72 Charger victory at Northwood since 2012. Head coach Claudette Charney called this game “a key matchup” and said her team’s solid defense led to the win.

After falling behind early in the game 17-12, the Chargers improved their rebounding and began to press their opponent, turning the game around to enter halftime with a 14-point lead.

Charney said her players maintained control well, limiting the Timberwolves’ perimeter shooters and also stopping the inside shot. The Chargers outrebounded Northwood 42-31, led by senior Kadie Lowery who grabbed 11 rebounds.

Senior Megan Fogt also played an impressive game. She scored 19 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked four shots.

For her performance, Fogt was named the North Division GLIAC Player of the Week for the second time this season.

On Saturday, the Chargers arrived in Sault St. Marie with momentum, helping them win 5954 against Lake Superior State University.

Sophomore Morgan Blair led the Chargers in scoring with 17 points. Seven of these points were crucial free throws in the last two minutes of the game.

“Morgan has been very steady,” Charney said. “She makes adjustments during the game defensively, and is very good shooting from the perimeter as well as driving to the basket.”

Though the Chargers had less rebounds and shot slightly less accurately than the Lakers, sophomore Morgan Blair said her team stayed calm at the end, which allowed them to snag the win.

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Senior Kadie Lowery drives to the hoop in a game against Lake Erie. The Chargers defeated the Storm 7349. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) Fogt had another powerful game, scoring 16 points and junior Kelsey Cromer drained two 3-pointers and scored 10 points.

The Chargers allowed the Lakers to make 11 three-point shots as they struggled to defend the arc, something that sophoas her team’s weakness. She said it is something they will need to work on in practice before the team’s double home games this weekend.

Tonight at 6 p.m. the Chargers will face the Michigan Technological University Huskies (13-1), who are currently leading the league with Wayne State University.

“We will have to defend very well because they’re a very defensive team. That’s what they thrive on,” Charney said.

The Chargers will play again at home this Saturday at 1 p.m. against the Northern Michigan University Wildcats (8-6).

Charney expects to see a shallower bench from the Wildcats, composed of physically big

players and guards who will be tough to defend.

Charney said her team’s versatility has been useful, as the Chargers’ bench has outscored most of their opponent’s benches thus far.

“That’s big especially down the stretch where teams are not as deep, we can utilize our players a little bit better,” Charney said.

Blair and Scherting agreed that the team’s road game has been stronger than their play at home. They hope to turn that around this weekend in Hillsdale’s Dawn Tibbets Potter Arena.

“We really want to get a win on the Hillsdale court, because we haven’t done that in a while,” Scherting said.

Charger Chatter: Corinne Zehner choose to school.

(Photo Courtesy of Marilyn Zehner)

After re-breaking school records in both the 60 and 400 home indoor track meet, junior women’s track team captain Corinne Zehner met an NCAA provisional qualifying mark for the 60 hurdles and earned the GLIAC’s Track Athlete of the Week. For the indoor track season, Zehner runs the 60 hurdles, open 400, and 4x400 while she competes in the 100 and 400 hurdles, 4x100 and 4x400 during the outdoor season. Post-collegiately, Zehner does not plan to continue running competitively and may

pursue

medical

What do you think contributed to you earning the GLIAC’s Athlete of the Week award?

I have no idea. I was really shocked when I learned that I received it. I found out when I went to practice and one of my teammates congratulated me. I said, ‘Is that a joke?’ Not that I’ve had a bad career, but I’ve never thought of myself as someone who stood out in the GLIAC. I’m sure such a big PR sparked their interest, but the success of our cross-country team has helped the name of our school get bigger. People are starting to look at us. A freshman boy also got it, so it was cool to have both the guy and girl that week.

What’s your favorite event to run?

For indoor, now I’m really starting to like the 60 hurdles, which is funny because when I my worst event. I struggled with It was like starting over from scratch, because it was the 55

hurdles in high school. They’re the same spacing, but when I came here, I had to change how I ran them, and it took a while to click.

In outdoor, it’s the 400 hurdles.

It just started clicking last year and it’s my best event. When you run them the right way, or at least close to how you’re supposed to run it, it’s actually pretty fun and not as painful as the open 400 because there you’re just running and it’s this open track but the hurdles break up the race a little more.

Which school records do you hold?

Previously, I had the 60 hurdles record when I broke it in one of the last few meets of last season.

Now, it’s the second meet and I’ve already broken it by over a tenth [of a second], so I expect to break it even more. I’m also part of the 4x400 record indoor and outdoor.

In what ways is the track team improving that’s allowing everyone to compete at such a high level?

Our cross-country team placing 2nd at nationals was a huge

jump for even our track team.

We realized we have the potential to be amazing even though we’re a small school. Also, I’ve noticed a huge change this year in practice. Everyone is really focused. With all the new coaches this year it’s helped even out the groups, and I can already tell everyone’s spirit is better. I remind the girls every day, if we want to take our program to the next level then we need to be sleeping and eating right, encouraging each other and I’ve noticed that at every practice when we’re doing our hard workouts there’s cheering, and it’s awesome. Going to practice is really fun for me even when I know I’ll probably be crying at the end of a workout.

What is it going to take for the team to reach the next level and what will that look like?

We need to trust our coach in what he’s telling us. Sometimes he’ll tell me I can do something and I don’t believe him but he turns out to be right. If we all believe in each other, trust in our training and coach, we’re going to start standing out more

and placing higher at conference.

We have a lot of depth this year.

While in the past, it’s been, ‘What four girls are going to run 4x400?’ This this year it’s ‘Which four girls are going to run it?’ We have so many to chose from. for our team. We’ve never gone as a team to nationals before. I don’t know if that’s something that would happen in the very think it’s something that could happen one day.

Beating GVSU at conference would be a dream come true.

If we beat them, I would be the happiest person ever. This year, we’ll compete with them and I think they’re going to be scared.

I don’t know how it will turn in for a treat. Their coaches are secretly worried, I know it. This is the most excited I’ve ever been for conference for sure. I kept thinking Grand Valley was this power house and now I’m thinking, let’s just destroy them.

What are the individual goals you hope to achieve with the

remainder of your junior track season?

I would like to go to nationals for indoor in the 60 hurdles and 4x400 and be an All-American ly, I want to be an All-American in 400-hurdles outdoor.

Since you’re competing against so many larger schools in sports, why are you happy you chose to run at Hillsdale?

I’m so lucky to be here with all of our resources. We just got this big, new, beautiful track. No where else in the world is someone running on a track like ours.

But I didn’t come here for that.

I think the team atmosphere is not like at other schools. Ours is not just show up to practice, workout, and that’s all you do.

It’s checking up on each other outside of practice. I don’t really see that as much at other schools. Here we’re getting more than just track. We’re getting another family. You’re not just running for yourself, but you’re wanting to run for your and that’s something I’ve really worked on.

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Back in black Chamber Choir starts semester on a high note

Andrew Egger Assistant Editor

“We spent like 20 hours singing, kind of wearing out our voices a little bit,” said freshman Mark Naida, a newcomer to the Chamber Choir this semester.

The reason for the rush? This weekend, they’re performing at Trinity Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids as part of Trinity’s Celebration of Music Concert Series. An added twist: this se-

“We haven’t really done something this big, like what traditional choirs do where you actually go on tour,” said senior Maran McLeod. “We’re usually more of a campus choir, but it’s great to get out there and do that too. It’s super exciting.”

The retreat wasn’t all work.

Adding new members to an a cappella choir isn’t a simple matter of renumbering folders and taking measurements for tuxedos. Each human voice is unique, and the process of blending 28 voices into a single unit of sound

is a surprisingly complex task.

For a choir to truly transcend, the singers must click as a unit, both musically and personally.

So, in addition to rehearsal, the retreat also featured dinner prepared by choir director (and purported master chef) James Holleman and an evening of bowling at Hillsdale Lanes.

“It’s really helped us come together when we hang out together, have meals together,” Holleman said. “It’s that fellowship bonding kind of idea, and I think it makes the group stronger.”

The choristers didn’t need

liked having some down time – although many of them are con-

For the average Hillsdale stuthan vocalists. (There are some dent, the weekend of Jan. 9-11 exceptions: Junior Matt Sauer, was a time for collecting oneself: who sings bass, has been bowlSaying the rounds of goodbyes ing all his life, and is murderous.) to friends and loved ones, mak“I’ve bowled like once being last-minute trips to Wal-Mart fore, ever, so it was interesting,” or the bank, intermittently packsenior Addison Stumpf said. “It ing and repacking, and generally brand new members, some of was a lot of fun, though, espesavoring the last few moments of whom, such as Naida, have no cially after the really intensive tranquility before the arrival of prior experience in a choir of this rehearsals, to be with these same that howling storm of responsi- caliber. people and actually do something bility, Spring Semester.

The 28 members of the Hillsdale College Chamber Choir didn’t have time for that stuff. There was already too much work to get done.

On the morning of January 11, these 28 students (seven for each part: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) arrived on Hillsdale’s largely-deserted campus to throw themselves into three days of intensive choral work. Between Monday and Wednesday, the Chamber Choir, which ordinarily meets twice a week, Jim Holleman, music department chair and conductor of the Hillsdale College Chamber Choir, leads them in rehearsal in Conrad Recital Hall. (Joel Calvert/Collegian) rehearsals.

that isn’t singing. It was nice.”

“Bowling was pretty awesome,” McLeod agreed. “I stunk at it, but I think we all equally stunk.”

Back on the stage, on the other hand, this semester’s choir has a glittering tradition of excelestablished the Chamber Choir as an auditioned subset of the College Choir in the spring of 1998 with a choral arrangement of “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.”

“Spring of ’98 we did one piece with a small group of people from the choir who wanted to do a little bit more, and then fall of ’98 we held auditions and created the group, so it got started pretty quickly,” Holleman said.

The group’s list of responsibilities quickly grew, with performances at convocation, commencement, and other college events soon becomOff-campus performances in places such as Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and the District of Columbia soon followed.

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Dramaturgy for the win Theatre students win awards for production work Ramona Tausz Assistant Editor Few students are fortunate enough to have the hard work they produce in the classroom recognized outside of class — but junior Catherine Coffey and senior Jennifer Shadle were oftheater accomplishments earlier this month when they won awards at the American College Theater Festival.

“You can do stuff that’s great

in the classroom, but nobody cares outside the classroom,” Professor of Theatre James Brandon said of the recognition. “The people that are judging this are professionals, so it really is a nice stamp to see.”

ACTF, a national organization run out of the Kennedy Center, has annual competitions in eight regions throughout the country.

Hillsdale theatre faculty and students attend the Region 3 competition, which was held this year from Jan. 6-11 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Both Coffey’s and Shadle’s

awards were in dramaturgy. Dramaturgs form a link from the playwright and script to the production team. They do conceptual analysis, literary work, and research in order to produce information such as program notes and background information for the actors and director.

According to Brandon, Coffey has good reason to be particularly apt at dramaturgy.

“She’s a dual major in English and theater, so she has a real ly strong literary background; she

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Things

To do and see This week

January 22 Thirsty Thursday: Live Jazz Broad Street Underground 9:30 p.m.

A jazz band sets the mood tonight at the Broad Street Underground.

January 24 3rd Annual Downtown Hillsdale Wedding Walk The Elks (60 N. Manning St.) 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Prize giveaways will be offered to brides-to-be all over downtown Hillsdale.

For information, contact Jane at Smith’s Flowers (517-437-4485) or Chris Bahash at Hillsdale Jewelers (517-439-0100).

January 24 The Novella, with Stereo Story and Casey Rockin Rowe Historic Dawn Theater 7 p.m.

Three talented local bands bring their music to the Dawn Theater. $5 cover charge.

January 22-25 55th Annual Hillsdale Tip-Up Festival 3835 Bird Lake Rd S, Osseo, MI 49266 The Hillsdale Conservation Club is sponsoring this festival, which will include a Euchre tournament, music, and more.

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Micah Meadowcroft

Whether it’s your major or not, pursue art this semester Last semester I asked you to read this column, and read this section, because it — all of the crafts and creativity that makes up the arts — is your friends’ world. Hillsdale is home to a host of talented artists we live and learn next door to. It is also home to a host of the less talented, and the lazy.

This semester, regardless of your major, I want you to consider cultivating whatever artistic talent you have. Actually, I would like you to do more than consider it — do it. If you look upon your

and the chip on your shoulder you need to keep writing.

If you want to try your hand at acting, remember the Tower Players’ next play this semester, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” Audition! Or, check out the brave men and women of Ad Liberty Improv and see if that’s the kind of exhibitionism that will express the weirdest parts of your deepest soul. Sometimes you have to ask yourself whose line it really is, anyway.

If you dance, there are friends to be had. There is a dance honorary if your interests tend to the performative and serious. If you want to be social on the dance

fallow, till the earth there and explore. “Techne,” the transliterated Greek word for the arts, implies skill and a rational mind. It’s not and the Hepcats strictly grammatical, but art is a muscle. “If you look upon your It needs exercise. the art plot fallow, till the If you have earth there and explore. ever felt an itch to write, “Techne,” the transliterated

Greek word for the arts, you don’t hate implies skill and a rational your papers mind. It’s not strictly gramquite as much matical, but art is a muscle. as your room- It needs exercise.” mate, there are three opportunities to write on campus in community. Of course, I encourage you to write on your own, whether poetry, narrative prose, or essay, but, like any exercise regimen, accountability makes your efforts more fruitful.

Write for the student journalism and opinion publications.

There’s us at the Collegian, and the Collegiate Network team at the Forum. Learn what journalism is about, or test your hand at the long-form opinion essay.

If you feel you’ve got a novel in you, and statistics say you do — 81 percent of people surveyed in 2002 said they did — join the folks at the nursling Creative Writing Club and get some help spitting up your brain on a page.

Get enough training in to leave NaNoWriMo bleeding in the dirt this November.

Sensitive soul or no, if you prefer the poem, the sketch, the very short story, or the pensive paragraph, submit to the Tower Light. Rejected or accepted, you’ll get valuable feedback, with a commitment to that end from this year’s editorial board,

swing club. Put a little pep in your step.

If you draw, or paint, or sculpt, or make collages — quodlibet — or want to,

and show them what you’ve made.

Keep creating. Come create an arts header for me, or see if the Tower Light needs illustrations.

Photographers can practice for the Collegian; we always need more. Or the Tower Light may take your work. Submit or you’ll never know.

I need hardly talk about all the opportunities there are for music here at Hillsdale. Sing and play at Coffee House, Battle of the Bands, or just on the quad. Join SAI, or Phi Mu Alpha, or Mu Alpha. Opportunities to practice and perform here are nearly inescapable. If you haven’t already found an outlet for whatever musical energies you have, I’m actually not even mad; that’s amazing.

But in all seriousness, you have fewer obstacles and more opportunity to practice the arts, at Hillsdale than you will have at any other season of your life.

Don’t waste it.

Micah Meadowcroft is a junior studying history. He is minoring in journalism through the Dow Journalism Program and is the arts editor for the Collegian.

draMaturgy From B1 sees things the way a literary scholar would see them,” he said.

Coffey won in the category Critics, Dramaturges, & Scholars for a project she had prepared in Brandon’s dramaturgy class last semester on the play “August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts.

She was judged on written work she had emailed in beforehand, such as a playguide giving a biography of the playwright, a glossary of the play’s terms, and charshe and the other competitors had to set up lobby displays featuring presentation.

“I saw all these fantastic lobby displays, and here I am putting up things with twine and clothespins,” Coffey laughed. “Literally, I used a trash bag. It ended up looking like a country curio shop when I was done with it.”

Despite her nerves, Coffey won and now has the chance to go on to the national level of the competition in Washington, D.C., in April. After each of the other eight regional competitions have chosen to continue to D.C. Coffey is waiting to hear if she is one of the chosen four.

Shadle also won an award for her work in dramaturgy, though her category, Design Storm, does not have a national-level competition. Shadle worked with a team of other students from other schools in Region 3 to present a concept for the play Sweeney Todd. Each member of the team

had a different role, such as director or set designer, and Shadle was the dramaturg.

“The most fun part about Design Storm is that you’re working with other people you don’t know from other schools,” she said, adding that her team worked tohad collaboration like that.”

Over the span of four days her team met together to prepare for judges of their work, but didn’t “It’s always tricky because everyone’s spread out when they announce winners,” Shadle said of the moment her team realized they had won. “We all just ran like little children into the lobby of the place and we did this little group hug.”

Even if they hadn’t won recognition for their work, both Coffey and Shadle agree that the experience of ACTF itself is rewarding.

“I think it’s a good way to kind of pump us up for the next semester,” Shadle said. “I know that at the end of ACTF I was like, ‘Man, I’m pumped to work on Drowsy Chaperone!’”

Hillsdale can be excited too — the college gets to reap the ben-

Emma Vinton Assistant Editor The Art Department is drawing both artwork and crowds this spring semester.

The department is bringing in two artists for their Professional Artists Series: Mark Mehaffey, whose exhibit will be from Jan. 31- March 1, and David Lippert from March 21- April 3, artists who are both making their livings in the profession.

Mehaffey’s exhibit will display watercolor paintings of both abstract and representational styles.

Professor of art Samuel Knecht said of Mehaffey: “I

wanted to invite him to exhibit here because he’s an artist who has had a great reputation for boyant water colors.” Knecht love.

Lippert is a Hillsdale graduate who works within a large range of styles and mediums, ranging from photography and illustration, to graphic design and cartoons. He is also president of AutoExec, Inc., a company for vehicles. His exhibit is titled Design Beyond Boundaries.

“It ought to be an interesting show because he’s worked in a large range of materials and is making a living as an artist,” said

associate professor of art Barbara Bushey.

“I am excited to bring in Dave Lippert, being a designer myself,” said art instructor Bryan Springer. “It’s nice to have an alumnus come back and share personal experience with students that are getting ready to graduate.”

Besides the visiting artists, the department is also taking a trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as preparing for senior art exhibits. Professor of art Anthony Frudakis said that his senior sculpture students will work all There is also a judged art exhibit open to all art students which features students’ class

projects and cash prizes.

Knecht also said he was excited for the thematic competition in April that students may choose to enter. The students must create a work of art on their own in any medium on a certain theme. The theme this year is the Stage of Life. The prize for the competition is $1000 or more.

And if cash prizes and wellknown artists are not enough to draw visitors to Sage, Knecht encouraged visitors to come for the beauty of the art itself.

“We want students to appreciate that art can be based upon beauty and a belief that the universe is good and made in an orthat,” he said.

“Drowsy Chaperone” team wide awake Natalie DeMacedo News Editor New York Magazine hailed it as “the perfect Broadway musical.”

“The Drowsy Chaperone,” the fantastically popular 2006 play, is making its way to the Tower Players’ stage this semester.

From Feb. 18 through 22, the Hillsdale Theatre Department will produce the “play within a play” which has won 5 TONY awards since its Broadway debut.

The play opens with an elderly man in a chair, reminiscing about days gone by and his once-favorite musical, said junior Madeline Martinez, props mistress and assistant stage manager.

As he speaks, the musical comes to life around him.

“It’s a screwball comedy,” Martinez added. “It’s such a fastpaced, witty show. Most of the comedy comes from mistaken identities, which is a theater trope, but done so well. It’s an extravaganza.”

Senior Aaron Pomerantz, Theatre Department public relations

new and a parody of 1920s musicals.

Senior Jennifer Schadle, head stage manager, said people generally enjoy a show that pokes fun at itself.

Pomerantz added that this is Professor of Theatre James Brancal at Hillsdale. anyone but Dave Griffeth is doing a musical in 30 years,” Pomerantz said regarding the department’s former set manager who directed “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” in 2013.

Brandon said even though Griffeth retired after nearly 40 years with the department, they were determined to keep the tradition of putting on a big musical every two years – it was just a matter of someone stepping up and being willing to do it.

The department brought in visiting professor Phil Simmons to teach a Musical Theatre Dance class for the actors, as well as to choreograph the entire production. In addition to dancing, there will be plenty of singing, so Professor of Music James Holleman is lending his expertise.

Schadle said that a musical is

always more challenging than a regular play.

“I think there are just more things to juggle with a musical,” Schadle said. “One character has double digits of costume changes.” She added that the play will also include random monkeys.

Schadle has to balance the schedules of every cast member, as well as Brandon, Holleman, and Simmons, and then create a rehearsal schedule that blends the dance, music, and acting portions of the musical.

“This is certainly a much newer musical than people are used to seeing. The last thing we did was ‘Funny Thing’ which was a 60s or 70s show. This is a very popular show to do, and it’s not even ten years old,” Pomerantz said.

Martinez added that even though the cast has only had three rehearsals, she was impressed with how quickly they were catching on to the dance moves.

“I wasn’t there for long, but what I did see was highly entertaining,” she said.

As props mistress, Martinez has to keep track of every prop needed for the show. Although she said none of the props would -

chase, there are a lot of them.

“In one scene the main character is showing off all her talents in one song, so there is just prop after prop,” Martinez said.

Despite all the moving parts, Schadle believes the music and theatre departments will work together well.

“James and Jim seem to get along well,” Schadle said. “They say, ‘You have your thing and you do it well, and I have my thing that I do well and we will leave the other one be.’”

Martinez said the play will added she has faith in their new set manager, Renee Surprenant, and thinks the set will be amazing.

Brandon said the play will be a fun night out with an escapist comedy.

“This is not some sort of detion, but it’s a fun show to bring parents to and to relax and enjoy,” Brandon said.

“Come for the set, stay for the comedy,” Martinez added.

A boring flight out of Egypt, “Exodus”movie Emma Vinton Assistant Editor When “Exodus: Gods and Kings” began with the opening frame of circa 1300 BCE, I knew that the movie was not going to be about God at all. It wasn’t.

The movie, which loosely follows the story of Moses and the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, features Christian Bale as an apathetic and schizophrenic Moses, Joel Edgerton as the Pharaoh who you really want to like, and Sigourney Weaver in a few scenes. “Exodus,” which debuted in December, is a visual thrill but a biblical bore.

I am not necessarily bothered by the fact that the movie does not strictly follow biblical

events. Though the biblical story is really a great one, I would ing movie that stood on its own.

But the strange and out-of-place alterations made Ridley Scott’s rendition of the Exodus story just … boring.

The story focuses on familial and human relationships in the story rather than supernatural assistance. Moses, content in Egypt as adopted brother to Ramses, discovers his true identity as an Israelite. When Ramses also discovers this, Moses is exiled from Egypt. Skip many years to his return to Egypt after his encounter with the burning bush, the “God” character who is portrayed as a pre-pubescent British boy who just wanted vengeance on the big bad Egyptians.

At the burning bush, which

Saturday, catch a financial meeting and a show at the Sauk Andrew Egger Assistant Editor or action-packed, but Jonesville’s Sauk Theatre hopes to provide an exception Saturday.

The local community theater will use the public event as the staging a scene from each of last year’s six productions. The event, which will take place at 7 p.m., will also feature a sneak preview of “You’re Perfect, I Love You, Now Change,” a musical comedy opening at the Sauk on February 12.

“We’re required to have a public meeting every year to an-

the previous year,” Sauk Presidramaturgs work on theatre pro- dent Trinity Bird said. “But because we’re a theater, we try to ductions right here on campus. spice it up a bit.”

The meeting will also include cords, the election of the Sauk’s board of directors for 2015, and

the announcement of the 2015 recipient of the Clint Johnson award.

Bird said that the event, which is free, has in years past served as a great way for people unfamiliar with the Sauk to see what it has to offer.

“If there are people who have always wondered what kind of stuff we do or if we’re any good, they can come check us out and essentially see pieces of seven shows for free,” he said.

In addition to “You’re Perfect, I Love You, Now Change,” scenes will be performed from the Sauk’s productions of “Lost in Yonkers,” “Les Miserables,” “Godspell,” “The War of the Worlds,” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” as well as last May’s “Festival of One-Acts.” Professor of Theater James Brandon will reprise his role as Professor Pierson from “The War of the Worlds,” and Senior Brian Vear will participate in the scene from the one-act plays.

“Great things are happening at the Sauk and we are excited to celebrate 2014 and begin 2015,” Bird said.

Moses, trapped in mud up to his head, spoke to a child who needed a general to redeem his chosen people. The concept of portraying God as a child — not a totally absurd one considering Christ’s New Testament coming — ultimately failed. It could have been done well and is an interesting attempt, but it did not work here.

The portrayal of God in the movie ruins any kind of wonder that the story might otherwise evoke.

I kept waiting for the next “biblical event” to redeem the plot after that. The plagues, though visually well done, sprung Nile turned to blood because of crocodile attacks). The parting of the Red Sea came about when Moses hurled his sword into it in frustration rather than an obedi-

ent response to the command of God, and Moses himself chiseled out the Ten Commandments— ultimately, an atheistic portrayal of plot and character rather than a Christian view of obedience and redemption.

And though it was a valiant acting attempt, even Christian Bale as Moses was not enough to redeem this movie. The movie’s interpretation cheapens the bethe connection between God and kings.

As my fellow movie-goer whispered to me, “This scene could use a musical number.” If you are looking for a better account of the Exodus, a better movie and better acting, stick with DreamWorks’ “Prince of Egypt.”

chaMber choir From B1 Advanced members of the College Choir, which is not auditioned and is open to all sufcally join the chamber choir not just for a more intensive musical challenge, but also because of the community the choir nurtures.

“Not only was the level of work appealing, but also just the people in it were really wonderful and welcoming,” McLeod said.

“I think the camaraderie has actually grown over my years in it, which isn’t always the case in an auditioned group: it can be very competitive. But I think we have a unique type of group on Hillsdale’s campus, which is great.”

“The talent in the room is just immense from everyone: the music majors, the people who are just doing it because they like to sing,” Naida said. “All that just makes everything so much easier.

The Chamber Choir still most often performs alongside the College Choir, of which they are a subset, at college-sponsored concerts, where they add a dimension of variety to the performances. While the chamber choir performs almost exclusively a

cappella, the College Choir often features instrumental accompaniment.

“Our typical routine is for the chamber choir to do a set of a cappella pieces and then for the large choir to perform,” Holleman said. “So it makes for a varied sound for a concert.”

Right now, as the choir gears the semester, the choristers are very aware of how little time they’ve had to prepare. They’re taking it in stride, however.

“It’s not perfect yet, obviously, but we’ve made a lot of music,” Stumpf said. “Having hit the ground running like that is really positive.”

It’s been a busy week, but the Chamber Choir is ready to rock.

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Horsin’ around in Florida Bailey Pritchett Spotlight Editor The chances of her interning in Wellington, Florida for the Phelps Media Group internship were slim. After all, the internship program invited every college equestrian in the country to apply. As senior Glynis Wilof her fall semester at Hillsdale College, she never thought that, in a matter of days, she would board a plane for Florida.

“I had every intention of graduating this spring,” Williams said. “When I got the

“I’m around people who are world champions and Olympians.” email to apply, I was sitting in the kitchen with my parents and my mom said, ‘Apply right now.’ I wasn’t planning on leaving school the next semester, but the stars aligned. It is literally my dream job.”

Williams was the only student who had applied to the intern“Wellington is the mecca of horse shows,” said junior Gianna Marchese, Williams’ teammate. “Anyone who’s anyone competes in these shows. Those people have been riding their entire lives. And those horses can probably do a lower-level show without a rider even on them.”

A few days after wrapping Florida and began working after New Year’s Day. As a speech major and a competitive rider, the internship was the perfect hybrid. Williams was placed with a subset of the company, p.s.dressage.com, a blog that follows dressage news, an equestrian discipline with roots in military manuevers.

Her duties include submitting articles and photos of shows to the website.

where anyone who likes horses can apply, or anyone who doesn’t like horses can apply,” she said. “This internship requires a broad background like marketing, advertising, and journalism.”

The website covers the news of the industry with a balanced perspective, an element of the internship Williams appreciated, considering the company’s prestigious clientele.

“They tell straight news stories,” she said. “You’d think clients would get special treatment, but the news is considered a separate task. Even though there is a lot of money and a lot of ego in this industry, we cover the people who do well in competition— not necessarily clients.”

Danielle Cole, Williams’ equestrian coach at Hillsdale College, thinks that Williams’ experience will improve her riding in the future.

“I think the more you encourage yourself by watching other individuals who are at an even higher level, the more determined you are to be a better rider,” she said.

The Phelps Media Group, equestrian focus, represents clients that range from Olympic athletes to members of the royal family.

The level of caliber Williams expected to see in Florida was far surpassed.

“I’m around people who are world champions and Olympians, and what’s surprised me is that these people are so open to helping me write a story and take their picture.”

Before Williams can ride any of the show horses, however, simulator test that she has yet to master. Even experienced equestrians, like Williams, struggle through the intense technical screening.

“Young riders would give an arm and leg to watch these people ride these horses,” Williams said. “These horses are competing at a top level. They are incredibly expensive — they’re treated better than I am.”

Rink From B4 out of the snowbanks all the time.”

At the far end of the ice, a wire with a large curtain attached stretches across the rink.

“On warm days I push it over to block the sun to keep it from screwing up my ice,” Connor said. “I call it a sun curtain.”

The wires are attached to two of the four light poles that illuminate the ice for nighttime hockey games.

When the ice melts, Connor leaves the boards up and takes his liner out. The Connors then use the exposed sand beneath as a riding arena for horses.

On the side of the rink sits a sizable warming hut. Inside the hut is a hockey fan’s paradise.

Detroit Red Wings memorabilia line the walls along with a blown up black-andwhite photo of Connor’s father in goalie pads. He played for the Boston University team. A black-and-white photo of the Hillsdale men’s hockey team in the ‘70s also has a place on the wall.

At the front of the room, a lacing up their skates and padding up for a game. Shelves of old hockey skates and hockey pads line one of the walls, offered to any visitors to use for play.

Bob Blackstock, professor of business law, played hockey growing up in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. and again in law school. He occasionally plays a game at Connor’s house when he’s not maintaining his own backyard rink.

“Its a great service that he

provides for the community, that he opens it up to everyone the way he does,” Blackstock said. “A lot of Hillsdale kids learned to skate at the Connors. We have two sons and a daughter and they were kind of raised at the Connors.”

Blackstock said he loves playing against college students at the Rink.

“I like to go up against a freshman who doesn’t know me and throw an elbow in just to surprise him,” he said with a grin.

Connor said he welcomes skaters with any level of experience out onto the ice.

“People just learning or old vets, we get a whole range of skaters out here,” he said.

One of the veteran skaters who frequents the Rink is senior Brett Miller.

“It’s fun for us to get out there and relive the glory days,” he said. “We’ll get full it’s a great time. I would recommend it to everyone to go out there, especially if you’ve played hockey, you’ll really enjoy it.”

Connor said it’s fun getting to know the guys and seeing new faces come around every four years.

“He just really enjoys the game,” Blackstock said. “I remember his wife telling me one story: The neighbors called and said the music was too loud by the rink one night.

He went out to check on it and didn’t come back for three hours because he started skating with the guys.”

Members of the men’s track team chug chocolate milk for their act in the Sixth Annual Michael Finch (‘12) Track Talent Show. Other acts included musical performances, human lifting, stand-up comedy, and magic tricks. (Photo Courtesy of Heather Lantis)

Q&A: Fulbright scholar Evan Gage he died and he was buried.’ And I put the book down, and I cried because I had learned that I loved this man and he had died.”

It’s been amazing being able to confront my own faith from the perspective of people who haven’t grown up with my faith.

Evan Gage, ’14 applied for the Fulbright Scholarship to Turkey after visiting the country with the Honors program. As a Fulbright scholar, Gage is employed by both the Turkish Council of Higher Education through his school, the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Services. Working for both organizations, Gage serves as a fulland as a cultural ambassador for the U.S., a job that includes travel and cultural immersion. Recently, Gage shared some of his most memorable moments in Turkey thus far.

What has it been like adapting to another culture?

There are many cultural traits that I never recognized as distinctly American or distinctly Western cultural traits that I now recognize and really appreciate.

Like, we have an approach to the idea of freedom of expression.

Or we have a different approach to the idea of being insulted, and I really appreciate how in the West, that’s handled and looked at. We have a higher commitment to expression than we do to hurting feelings. But in a highly convivial, highly communityoriented, highly social culture, it’s more important to make sure people aren’t insulted than it is to make sure that people are freely expressing their opinions. And I see the positives on both sides of that. But it’s hard working out the difference between those things.

Here, opinions make you a member of a kind of tribe, and it’s im-

What landmark or historic site have you visited that has left the greatest impression on you so far?

Evan Gage, ’14, looks at some icons at the Soumela Monastary in Turkey where he teaches English at a university as a Fulbright scholar. (Photo Courtesy of Evan Gage) portant to be able to identify with a group of people who share your opinions. There’s not so much of that in the United States.

You said you don’t have a church home in Turkey, which however, that you’ve met quite a few Christians who have been

I never knew the story of Jesus.

I only knew the Islamic one, and I didn’t even know that well. So I’m reading the gospel, and I’m learning about this Jesus guy, and he does these amazing things, but he doesn’t want anyone to know..

And then, all of a sudden, he’s

share one of those stories?

thinking, ‘No, surely this won’t happen. He raised men from the dead! He turned water into wine.

went to a church in Ankara, and I had the pleasure of meeting a really amazing woman, a Turkish convert from Islam. She comes from a very pious Islamic family and is going to have to face a really hard choice about what she’s going to do with her life. “I read the Bible, and it was nothing like the Koran,” she said. “It was easy to read- it was like a story.

And it goes through the whole trial, and she’s like, “It gets closer and every time I think, ‘Surely he’s going to do something.

Surely he’s going to stop this.

How could this happen?’” And she’s like, “And then he went to the cross, and I’m thinking, ‘No, no, no, this can’t happen, this man is God! God can’t die!

God wouldn’t die! And then the gospel writer just says, ‘And then

As far as travel has gone, one of my favorite places has been the Sumela Monastery. I traveled to there with a group of other Fulbrighters this fall. Christians have been in monastery there since the 300s, and they were kicked out in 1923 by the new government.

It was just a breathtaking place, a beautiful place. You saw these icons on the wall, these ancient, ancient icons. And from things from Dr. Jackson’s Biblical Narrative and his Anglo-Saxon class, I knew enough about Christian monasticism and early Christian ways of reading the Bible to be able to interpret them. And I had spent enough time with Dr. Bauman in his history of religion classes to be able to understand what the monastic communities were. And thanks to my history courses, I understood enough about the iconoclastic controversies and the rise of Ataturk, that I understood why so many of them had been destroyed, and why the monasteries themselves had been abandoned, thanks to the government’s reform.

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ShooteR From B4 that stuff was something I hadn’t really gotten to do before and was a lot of fun to shoot.”

At Hillsdale, Lichti has been hired by sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma twice as an independent contractor to help shoot their recruitment videos. The most recent video, titled “Perfect Day,” was

ry,” Hamilton said. “I do know the content I get will be good because I know Simpson and I know those guys and there’s a lot of amazing personal interaction and story that happens.”

In addition to “Dorm Dogs,” Hamilton also plans on shooting a

gained so much popularity on social media that it was picked up by Kappa Kappa Gamma’s fraternity headquarters.

“Shaun just seems to know ex-

program, but both Lichti and Hamilton agree that Hillsdale’s maker. “[Hillsdale] makes a huge difference,” Hamilton said. “A lot of people in the creative industries,

junior Sydney Delp, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma who worked with Lichti in the production of the recruitment videos.

“He has great vision and knows the technical and directional ways to implement his vision.” over just one afternoon, “Perfect Day” was shot over the course of an entire week at seven different locations.

While Lichti has already spent several years working at his craft, Hamilton is just getting started.

“When you want to get into the a reel,” said Hamilton, a sophomore studying political economy.

Hamilton came to Hillsdale

Lichti shoots for a film project. planning to study politics. But as ized that working on Capitol Hill is not the most effective way to reform America.

“One of the things I always keep in my mind is a quote from Chuck Colson, that ‘Politics is downstream of culture,’” Hamilton said. “So I realized that whenever I’m sitting and pointing a frustrated about where America is politically, culturally that’s really just an indictment on myself and it’s an indictment on everyone.” help improve culture, but he does

(Photo Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)

“If people can just watch my them, it’s not a big thing and it’s not going to change them over of transforming American culture and hopefully steering us back,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton has been working on a documentary about Simpson Dormitory.

The documentary, titled “Dorm Dogs,” may last anywhere from 15 minutes to 50 minutes in length according to Hamilton.

“You can never predict what’s going to happen in a documenta-

by the fact that they don’t have a great understanding of the way the world works.”

Both Hamilton and Lichti would love to work as a major director in Hollywood one day. They admit it will take a lot of work.

“That’s something you work towards,” Lichti said. “There are a lot of different paths that can get you into the industry.”

Lichti’s path has taken him into the commercial world.

Hamilton hopes his indepenmake a name for himself in the Perhaps their paths will intersect again in Hollywood.

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sharpshooters Senior Shaun Lichti and sophomore Josh Hamilton

- al and verbal tion, allowing them to shoot on abuse and how it affects lives. resolution camera.

Producing a movie is a long Lichti brought up eight tons production, but and expensive process. Finding of equipment from Los Angeles Lichti plans to success as a director can take release a teaser years.

Hillsdale students Shaun Lichthe next couple ti and Joshua Hamilton recognize of weeks and they are in for the long haul.

Lichti, a senior studying mar- to happen in a within the next keting management, began his six months.

The movie was ducing experience in 2009 as a originally intended to sophomore in high school. to Fresno, California where they be 25 to 30 minutes long but LiLichti was looking for somechti thinks it will end up a little thing to do as a summer project crew of about 150 professionals so he got some friends together and many more volunteers. to make a movie. After getting a good screenwriter on board to way to get catapulted into the help draft and edit the script, LiLichti, in looking back at his chti and his friends showed the script to others. years ago, sees how far his style People liked the script so much has come.

Lichti was able to raise more than out about the power of emotionNathanael Meadowcroft Assistant Editor

Lichti works with a cameraman at a film shoot.

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him the ability to work for commercial clients. Last summer, he

A still from Lichti’s brand launch film for World Class Warrior that will release in February.

for a new apparel company called said. “Action sequences, getting World Class Warrior. The apparel to work with active military, law is designed for law enforcement, enforcement, live range exercisFebruary.

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A still from one of Hamilton’s film projects.

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(Photo Courtesy of Shaun Lichti)

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Students warm up before a pick up game on the hockey rink in Craig Connor’s ’77 backyard.

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A visit to the Rink

Hillsdale College used to have a hockey team, but it was dislation ice arena in town, the team used to drive to Jackson, Mich. to practice.

Today, the town is still with-

to think this was too small, now The slapshots, if not hitting campus in the back of a woody nor said. net, will hit regulation ice arena After two decades of maintenance trial and error, Connor has are tinted a slight shade of green.

“A lot of Hillsdale accumulated enough knowledge They used to belong to Michigan kids learned how to to make his rink a community hot spot in the cold months. skate at the home rink before Munn Stadium property, one will see a mounted was built. customized road sign reading “The boards were going to a

community members could show you where everyone goes to skate: The Rink. ice, one is immediately greeted For the last 21 years, Craig ranges from four to eight inches with sounds of slapshots over the backdrop of oldies rock mufor the Chargers, has built the system. backyard. He simply calls it “The

MEHGAN CAIN, FRESHMAN Describe your fashion sense.

If J. Crew and Goodwill had a love child What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?

Easily my pair of crocs, though some may say my fanny-pack What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?

Excessive chevron or skinny jeans with bulky tennis shoes What is your favorite item of clothing?

My sweatshirt with a map of every Civil War battle Who inspires your wardrobe?

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