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Mr. Aavang goes to Washington

Hillsdale remains absent from Scorecard

Senior veteran meets with

members of Congress on VA reform

700 other schools added By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor The U.S. Department of Education added more than 700 institutions to the College Scorecard database in January, according to a department spokesperson — but Hillsdale College remains excluded.

Last September, President Barack Obama described the Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took 43 percent of votes cast in a camdatabase, created to compare pus-wide straw poll of preferences for the Republican presidential primary on Super Tuesday. GOP colleges and universities across frontrunner Donald Trump took only 38 votes. Meg Prom | Collegian the nation, as “comprehensive.” According to the department spokesperson, the updated Scorecard includes all degree-granting institutions listpoll with 202 votes. pretty closely to what I expected in the department’s IntegratBy |Philip H. DeVoe Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., who ed,” said Assistant Professor of ed Postsecondary Education Assistant Editor took 19 percent with 125 votes Politics John Grant. “It was a Data System database.

On Super Tuesday, Sen. in the campus straw poll, came victory for Trump, and barring A further update to add more institutions is in the works, but Marco Rubio, R-Fla. dominat- second on Tuesday with pri- some scandal, I think he will win the nomination.” neither Provost David Whalen, ed a campus-wide straw poll, mary victories in three states.

Donald Trump, Super TuesCruz, according to Grant, nor College President Larry taking 43 percent of the vote.

The Collegian poll collected day’s champion, took seven could have performed better, Arnn are aware of any contact between the college and the preferences of 668 respondents states, yet placed fourth in the and the lack of a clear majorin the Republican Presidential campus straw poll with only 38 ity victory in Texas may hurt Department of Education rehim down the line. He believes garding adding Hillsdale to the Primary ahead of the Super votes.

Tuesday primary returns.

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio— Carson and Kasich are likeScorecard.

Preferences of Hillsdale stuwho hasn’t won any states— ly searching for a spot in the “We’re working with the higher education community dents do not correlate with the came in last in the straw poll, new administration, especially considering their poor perforto make sure that schools that results of the 11-state primary earning only 14 votes.

Hillsdale College Politics mance last Tuesday. weren’t included in the first block: Rubio won his first and “Neither is doing well round of the Scorecard have the only victory so far in Minneso- Department faculty generally agreed Trump was the clear enough for VP though, and opportunity to be in the Score- ta on Tuesday evening.

Ben Carson, who earned winner and that this victory Kasich hasn’t come close in card,” said Acting Secretary of the least number of delegates will make him the GOP nom- any state,” Grant said.

Education John B. King Jr. in a Politics Department Chair hearing of the U.S. House Com- during the state primaries, inee.

“I wasn’t surprised. It fit Mickey Craig had more opmittee on Education and the claimed 38 percent of the straw Workforce Feb. 24.

Hillsdale’s Congressman Tim Walberg questioned King on Hillsdale’s conspicuous absence from the Scorecard. Walberg described the incompleteness of the database as “misleading.”

“I’m not sure that the federal government should be involved time that we were up there,” in putting out something like By|Nathanael Meadowcroft points — their highest scoring output against a GLIAC Tharp said. “We’re just a that,” Walberg said at the hearSports Editor opponent this season — different team mentally ing. “As you say it is not a rating right now. We’re a consystem, but it becomes a rating For the first time in four and yet no player scored fident group.” system. It’s impossible not to be years, the Hillsdale College 20 or more points.

“It was a total team Hillsdale outa rating system when that type men’s basketball team will scored the Lakof information is included. And compete in the GLIAC’s final effort,” said senior forward Kyle Cooers 62-39 in it’s not complete — it’s incom- four. the second plete.”

Six different Chargers per, who recorded half to King countered by saying he scored in double figures as a double-double r u n and the department believe that Hillsdale defeated the Lake with 19 points and 15 rebounds. away the Scorecard provides informa- Superior State Lakers 97-73 on tion that “is important and can Tuesday night in the opening “It was a just a lot inform decisions.” round of the GLIAC Tour- of guys doing a “It’s important to know the nament to set up a semifinal lot of things really Scorecard is not a rating sys- clash with the Walsh Cavaliers well.”

In the first half, on Saturday night.

See Scorecard A3 The Chargers scored 97 it was redshirt freshman point guard Nate Neveau who kept Hillsdale in the game after the Chargers fell behind early. The Lakers led 18-6 with 13:20 left in the first half, but Neveau made two quick 3-pointers to cut the deficit in half. with the game, shooting 62 The Lakers re-extended their percent to the Lakers’ 48 perlead to double digits with 8:58 cent. to go in the opening period, “Good defense turns into but another Neveau 3-pointer good offense,” Cooper said. kickstarted a 10-0 Chargers “When we get stops it allows run to tie things up at 28-28. us to get out running in tranNeveau finished the game with sition a little bit and then their 17 points off the bench. defense is scrambling.”

“Neveau hit some really big The Lakers scored the first shots early in that game that four points of the second half just settled us,” head coach before the Chargers went on John Tharp said. “It really be- a 16-4 run to take the lead came just a team effort after for good. Senior center Jason that.”

Pretzer scored 14 of his 18 After coming back from a points during the run, sinking 12-point deficit, the Chargers four 3-pointers in a span of took a 35-34 lead into half- three minutes. time. Tharp credited the Char“I’m really proud of Jason gers’ “mental” toughness for doing that,” Tharp said. “That’s their ability to climb back into what you need to do on the the game right away, unlike road in March.” on Feb. 6 when the Chargers After Pretzer broke open suffered their worst loss of the the game, the Chargers conSenior forward Kyle Cooper was named GLIAC Player of the Year on season at Lake Superior State. tinued to build their advantage Monday and Academic All-American of the Year on Wednesday after “Our group wasn’t going to until the final buzzer sounded. leading the GLIAC with 22.8 points per game this season. let it happen again like the last Anders Kiledal | Collegian Read full story on A10 See Basketball A8

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Senior Michael Aavang meets with Michigan Senator Gary Peters and members of National Council of Administration.

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By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Reporter U.S. Marines Corps veteran senior Michael Aavang presented his policy brief for proposed Veterans Affairs health care reform to senators and representatives during a conference in Washington, D.C. So far, Aavang and nine other student legislative fellows for the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Student Veterans of America have written Congressional white papers and met with individual senators and staffers to discuss them and find sponsors. Each fellow researched and wrote a Congressional white paper that addresses a certain issue, from veteran healthcare and sequestration to higher education. Aavang and his colleagues were also present at a joint Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing where members of the VFW testified.

Aavang said his aim with his white paper is to enable veterans in need of urgent care to receive care from local, private resources guaranteed by the VA. “I want to be able to say to a veteran, ‘Yes, if an emergency happens, you’ll be taken care of,’” Aavang said. “You can go to an emergency room, and you won’t be in debt for the next 20 years.”

Aavang said the moment that opened his eyes to VA reform occurred in 2014 during a hearing on the wait-time scandals that revealed the VA’s bureaucratic negligence.

“After sidestepping the question for a few minutes the secretary finally admitted

that, as secretary of the VA, he didn’t have the authority to just walk into a room and fire somebody,” Aavang said.

Now, Aavang has the opportunity to effect change, having delved into investigator general reports on the VA, composed a white paper and policy brief, and attended the VFW 2016 conference. His next steps as a VFW fellow will be to enact his community action plan and present his finished white paper in Washington, D.C., this April.

“I want to be able to say to a veteran, ‘Yes, if an emergency happens, you’ll be taken care of.’”

Aavang’s five-step community action plan involves being featured in the Collegian, engaging with veterans in the community, inviting Michigan representatives to come to Hillsdale, writing a letter to Michigan delegates, and promoting a letter-writing campaign.

“You’ve got a lot of guys running around the country, who, when something bad happens to them and they get stuck in the emergency room, not only do you have a serious malady of some kind, but now you’re worried about be-

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Abandoned Oakley gets caffeine kick By |Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter Starting this fall, hungry Hillsdalians will be able to enjoy sandwiches at Oakley again, with an added perk: Checker Records-inspired coffee drinks.

Derek Spiteri, son of Checker Records owner John Spiteri, plans to open a sandwich and coffee shop in the Hillsdale Street building that housed the sub shop Oakley until it closed in October 2014.

The restaurant, featuring specialty coffee drinks, a sandwich kitchen, and outdoor seating along the St. Joseph River, will open this fall after extensive renovations.

“The menu is still subject to change,” Derek Spiteri said.

“I plan to offer some specialty coffee drinks. Fan favorites from Checker Records might show up, but there will also be new products: drinks and sandwiches not offered at Checker Records.”

When the Spiteris purchased the property in December, they knew they had a lot of work to do before serving their first sub.

“First, we need to give the building some love,” Derek Spiteri. “The building has a huge hole in the roof right now. We don’t plan on keeping the sun roof, so a new roof has to happen before anything else.”

But after replacing the roof, the place shows promise.

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A Few Good Men deal with the snow

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Walsh ’09 appointed Wisconsin Chief Deputy Soliciter General By | Kaylee McGhee Collegian Reporter

high order, excellent in character and mind,” Arnn said.

Walsh hopes to meet the expectations of the Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and serve the people of Wisconsin well. As he moves forward into his new appointment, Walsh realized that the values he had come to cherish during his time at Hillsdale helped set him up for success.

“The liberal arts teach you about your obligation to others, to the public at large, and to other citizens.” Walsh said.

During his time at Hillsdale, Walsh was known for having a great zest for life and a desire to learn.

“He was the student that teachers live to teach. He makes our vocation worth it,” Schlueter said.

Walsh looks forward to standing in court on behalf of the state of Wisconsin this coming April. He is anticipating many opportunities to tangibly change things and represent the people well.

The qualities and gifts that Walsh possesses have made him an excellent candidate for the position.

“He is one of the foremost young lawyers in the land.

He is a good man, full of love for justice, law, and freedom,” Arnn said.

Ryan J. Walsh, a 2009 Hillsdale alumnus, was recently appointed as the Chief Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Wisconsin. Boasting an impressive resume, including a past law clerk position with recently deceased By|Josephine von Dohlen Justice Scalia, Walsh agreed to enter the world of public Collegian Reporter service.

Walsh currently serves as In response to last week’s an associate attorney of law snowstorm, A Few Good Men with Jones Day, a private law shoveled and plowed both firm in Washington D.C., in driveways and parking lots to the Issues and Appeals Sec“see the need, meet the need.” tion. However, he is ready They sent out groups of to leave that all behind and students twice in the past two move back to his home state weeks for snowfalls that swept this coming April. through Hillsdale.

“I had inquired about this A Hillsdale College Goal new position and I sent my Program, A Few Good Men name along,” Walsh said, “but Ryan Walsh ’09 speaks in the Dow Center during a fall 2013 visit to campus. Walsh was recently apreaches out to assist those in I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do pointed Chief Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Wisconsin. anders Kiledal | Collegian need throughout Hillsdale it at first.”

County. A special branch of After being offered the “Ryan had so many gifts A Few Good Men called Snow position by Attorney General ciate Professor of Philosophy, future in public service, he Assault Lead Team, or SALT, Brad Schimer, Walsh finally who served as a mentor for had so many other interests that I couldn’t tell which way Ryan during his time at Hills- and talents that he never act- he’d go,” Schlueter said. extends this outreach and exists accepted. dale, believes that Walsh has ed upon that interest.

College President Larsolely for emergency response “The Attorney and Solic- a great sensibility that will When Walsh first came ry Arnn said that he saw a to snowstorms. itor Generals are dedicated Four teams headed out into to defending the laws and to aid him greatly in this posi- to Hillsdale, he had planned future in public service for on becoming a writer. That Walsh within a minute of the snow last Wednesday and fighting federal overreach. tion.

“Ryan is the whole pack- changed after he took a few knowing him.

Thursday to shovel and plow What made me accept was “Ryan was a remarkable for community members and the realization that if I ac- age,” Schlueter said, “I don’t Constitutional history courslocal parking lots of outreach cepted, I would also get to do know of anyone in politics es, which made him realize young man from the beginthat he wanted to fight for ning. Now he is mature, yet that has what he has.” groups like Alpha Omega and that,” Walsh said.

Although Walsh had al- the Constitution and attend still young. He is a talent of a the Youth Center.

Professor Schlueter, Asso- ways expressed interest in a law school.

Sophomore Chief Operating Officer, Dustin Pletan said, “We generally send out two crews for every 3-4 inches of snow.”

Last week, with the 8 inches of snow, four crews went out to shovel driveways and plow By | JoAnna Kroeker T. Rex are carnivores through Junior Lily Carville said parking lots. This week’s four brain shape, eye placement, she attended because she will Collegian Reporter inches took two crews. and fossilized teeth marks on be doing the same thing next Shoveling snow is not the other dinosaurs. year for her research at a simBrontosauruses never only way the club serves the “I thought the presentation ilar site, but she’ll be digging existed. community. A Few Good Men was absolutely outstanding,” up a triceratops. “I just wanted In his lecture to a seeks to help members in the professor of biology Anthony to see what to expect when I cross-section of campus last community in whatever way Swinehart said. “I’m not one go.” week, junior Matt Hoenig possible. Projects range from for excessive praise, so saying Hoenig explained concepts debunked this myth and painting walls, to putting up that is significant. Except for simply and clearly, “in layaddressed other challenges drywall, to cleaning up yards, a few quibbles, I thought he men’s terms,” Senior Kristen and misconceptions about to just sitting and spending time could’ve been a professor up Torvimen said. “I could unpaleontology. with community members. there.” derstand things I didn’t think According to Hoenig, a A Few Good Men is the Hoenig kindled his passion I could understand.”

19th century paleontologist biggest volunteer organization for paleontology last summer, In his conclusion, Hoenig completed a partial Apatosau- digging fossils with Swinehart transitioned from long-dead on campus with 75 members rus body with the head from divided into nine crews. Each at the Hell Creek Formation dinosaurs to animals curanother dinosaur, creating the crew makes a weekly commitin South Dakota. They dug rently going extinct. Of all Brontosaurus. ment to one three-hour shift to up Linda the Edmontosaurus, the animals that have ever “Our ideas about dinoassist with whatever community an herbivore with self-sharpexisted, he said, 99.9 percent saurs are constantly getting members might need for that ening teeth and the second have gone extinct. He showed better and changing,” Hoenig day. most common dinosaur in the three endangered species: the said. “We can make logical, “The crews have different formation. tiger, the kakapo, (the world’s well-supported assertions projects that come in from all “He had essentially no only flightless parrot) and the about ancient life despite nev- training in paleontology prior coelacanth (a deep sea fish). different places in Hillsdale er having seen it alive.”

County,” Executive Administo this course,” Swinehart said.

“Although we don’t have Hoenig walked his auditrator sophomore Katie Beemer “Some of it he learned during T-Rex running around and ence through the methods pa- course, he did some prepasaid. “They pick them up as they eating stuff,” he said, “we have leontologists employ to make are available.” ration for the presentation. a lot of interesting animals to Junior Matt Hoenig digs up a rib bone of Linda the Edmontosaurus inferences about the lives of The club was founded in as part of his paleontology research last summer in South Dakota.

Because of the course he’s enjoy.” dinosaurs. He demonstrated 2012 by Ben Holscher ’14 as a become fascinated by it.”

Matt Hoenig | Courtesy that the fossil record proves group of men in Galloway Residence trying to win a volunteer competition. Community members hear about A Few “Every person running sinOn the Democratic side, Carrington compared troubles. from A1 Good Men through word of cerely believes they would be Hillary Clinton swept with Sanders to Barry Goldwater, “If it were only the election, mouth and can call the organi- timism for Cruz and Rubio, best or at least do something seven states and 504 delegates, in that both tried to remake Sanders is out, but Clinton believing their victories in zation for assistance. good,” Craig said. “Kasich compared to Sen. Bernie Sand- their party in the face of a time could be indicted,” Grant said.

Although service is their Oklahoma and Alaska and doesn’t like what he sees, and ers’, I-Vt., four and 340. Car- of great change. He said the “Sanders is popular because main goal, A Few Good Men Minnesota, respectively, were thinks he could be viable in rington agreed that Clinton current race is a battle for the he’s an outsider, reaffirming seeks to be a strong presence for upsets considering their closed helping anyone win Ohio.” is the clear frontrunner, so in future of the GOP and the core the Democratic policies.” relationships in the community, primary system.

Craig believes there is a high order for Sanders to overcome of the DNC. Grant believes the Demo“In states with open pri- possibility of a third-party run Clinton, he must begin to heat Pletan said.

Grant acknowledged the cratic party is not aiming for A Few Good Men partners maries, Trump is bringing in by a strong social conservative. up his campaign. ‘huge advantage’ of Clinton, full-fledged socialism, and that poor, working class whites with other outreach groups in Even though he admits there is “Bernie would have to go but added that he believes the Sanders represents a popularthe community, including hos- disaffected with elites in both no chance of an independent negative. He hasn’t been will- democratic primary to be in- ization of left-wing beliefs. pice, senior care centers, Alpha parties,” Craig said. “Trump victory, he believes it could ing to take off the gloves—he herently flawed, considering Craig, however, is impersuades people irritated in Omega Care Center, and the happen, although he doubts could merit from bringing up their system of the superdel- pressed that Sanders has man2012 and 2008—the turnout any of the current GOP candi- her past issues if he keeps los- egate process. He also ques- aged to even come close to Humane Society.

“The fact is this county is numbers have skyrocketed in dates would be that third-par- ing how he has been losing,” tioned the likelihood of a Clin- toppling Clinton. very economically depressed,” the GOP but no so much in ty candidate.

Carrington said. ton presidency, given her legal Pletan said. “We just try to step the DNC.” Assistant Professor of PolThis year, for example, more itics Adam Carrington agrees in and help out.”

Student volunteers said people voted for Trump in Ne- Trump is the frontrunner, working through A Few Good vada than did in the state in but thinks his victory is not 2012. Grant added that Cruz as decisive as many have said, Men benefits them.

“I think it’s always important and Trump are the two people especially considering he only to volunteer at some capacity,” voters angry at the establish- took seven states when most freshman Josh Pradko said. “A ment are choosing, a big part thought he would take 12.

Few Good Men is cool because of their campaigns and a rea“At the same time, though, it is totally, 100 percent student son why they Craig says they Trump did win a clear majorinitiated. We are all in charge of should come together. ity and has no chance of beAs for Carson, Craig says ing beaten,” Carrington said. ourselves”.

Not only does A Few Good the retired neurosurgeon “Cruz has a chance, if he beMen reach out to the greater should have tried his luck at a comes a single factor, and both Hillsdale community but the Massachusetts Senate run, es- he and Rubio have reasonable student community, as well. The pecially considering the retire- arguments for staying in.” leadership said in order to suc- ment of Sen. Barbara MikulsCarrington believes Cruz ceed, the club works to build ki, D-Mass. performed as was expected “I don’t know what he ex- but that Rubio was not relapeer leadership, friendship, and an atmosphere of service among pects to happen. He didn’t tively supposed to do well. For break in in the way he thought Kasich and Carson, however, the students.

“It’s a workshop in leadership he would,” Craig said. a presidential run seems optiCraig sees Kasich’s resil- mistic. that is unrivaled on campus and in the community,” Pletan said. ience as based around his re“Kasich’s strategy is to be“Students are given opportuni- lationship to Ohio, where he is come a king-maker, since the ties to grow as a person and ex- governor. Since no GOP can- convention is in his home didate for president has won ercise leadership.” state,” Carrington said. “But A Few Good Men receives the general election without I’m not sure why Carson is funds for operation through Ohio, Kasich believes his good staying in.” donations and grants from the originates there.

Hillsdale Community Foundation, along with one fundraiser a semester.

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Prosecutor of jihadists speaks at Kirby Center In brief: By | Kristiana Mork Collegian Freelancer Andrew McCarthy is a senior fellow for the National Review Institute. He prosecuted 12 jihadists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks.

McCarthy spoke at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. A student in Maryland recently was forced to concede that Muslims on the whole were more religious than Christians were, and that sparked a lawsuit and lots of community concern. Is the tension between non-Muslim Americans and followers of Islam something that you’re seeing increase over the years?

Yeah. The increase in Islamic immigration into the West, is naturally going to cause a kind of tension because Islam is not a religion that’s like the religions we are more familiar with in the West. In fact, I think there’s a good argument that it is better thought of as a belief system that has some religious elements rather than strictly speaking a religion because it really doesn’t recognize a division between spiritual life and civic and political life. In Islam, it’s all combined into one. So it’s really a different way of functioning, even on its core premises. Where we

basically expect America to embrace their cultural diversity, and they should not be expected to enmesh themselves in American culture.

With Islam, this is a particularly sharp problem because there’s an undertow under violent jihadism that is another way of Islamic supremacist infiltration of the West, and that is this idea of integrating Andrew McCarthy, a senior fellow for the National Review Institute speaks a the without assimAllen P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Feb. 24. ilating. So, it’s Aaron Sandford | Courtesy not just something that sort believe, for example, that with Islam in a very sharp people have the right to make way, but assimilation is a of spontaneously happens; laws themselves irrespective big problem in the United there are Islamic supremacist thinkers who urge Muslims of any religious code or any States irrespective of Islam. other kind of code, in Islam, For example, in most col- to come to the West but not assimilate.

In fact, the Presthey have the Sharia, which leges across the country, the is Islamic law, and everybody notion when I was a kid was, ident of Turkey — who was is expected to follow it. And somebody came to America one of the prominent, probyou are not at liberty to make to be an American and was ably most important, Islamic law that is contradictory of expected to assimilate into politician in the world — ReIslamic law. So because these American society. And that cep Tayyip Erdogan said faare two very different ways was a cultural reality of being mously in a speech in Gerof looking at the world, dif- an American. That was ad- many a few years back that ferent cultures almost, they mired, and people wanted to pressuring Muslims to aswon’t mesh, and you will see join, and that was why peo- similate was a crime against conflicts like this. ple were drawn here. In the humanity. So the idea — it’s Do you think there’s a last generation plus, that idea not just something that sort way to effectively assimilate has come under assault in the of people come here and it Islamic culture into the U.S. universities and throughout just works out that way — the system? the culture so that people idea is actually to relocate Well, this issue comes up come to the United States and into the West.

Is there something that you would say to college students as we prepare to go out into this culture where there is a battle of ideas?

How lucky you are to live in a country where we get to debate this. And fight as hard as you can fight against all of the pressures, not just with respect to Islam but with, broadly speaking, all of the pieties and all of the pressures that are now on college students to curb freedom of speech, on the idea of having safe spaces, and that you know that we have such precious, delicate ears that there are certain things that we shouldn’t hear discussed. We’re very lucky to live in a place where you’re actually allowed to discuss everything. It’s a necessity of a functioning democracy to discuss even uncomfortable topics. And it should be said, although it’s often not noted, that a lot of people died to make that possible for us.

Honoring their legacy demands that we live and we honor those principles. But I think especially the principle of free expression is something that has to be defended, and it’s something that’s more under assault at the university than it is any place else in the country to the point where the university is almost an alternative universe to the rest of the country.

Mossey goes mad in March By | Brendan Clarey Collegian Freelancer Sixty-four authors face off for the chance to win it all in this year’s Mossey Madness, according to Public Service Librarian Brenna Wade.

The second annual tournament offers prizes for correctly guessing the winners and pits authors and poets against each other. Famous poets and authors, such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, will contest for victory based on the support they receive. Popular vote will determine the books that move forward after each round, and voting for the winners will begin on the library’s website Monday, March 7.

Faculty, students, and staff can win prizes for their predictions. The bracket that most closely resembles the actual results will win first prize: a tour of the tunnels for two people by Associate Dean of Men Jeffrey Rogers. Second prize is a $50 gift card, and third is a $25 card.

Completed brackets are due tomorrow by 5 p.m. at the circulation desk.

Senior collegiate scholars help teach program seminars By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Reporter Surrounded by books, the seminar students wrestled with Cicero’s ideas of wisdom, virtue, and eloquence, while the senior assistant and professor listened, reanimating the occasional lulls.

In restructuring the 5-year-old honors freshman seminar this semester, Collegiate Scholars Program Director Richard Gamble included three senior assistants, who bring an experienced perspective and a sense of responsibility to hand down the tradition of collegiality they experienced in the Hillsdale College Honors Program.

The seminars were open to all of campus, not only freshmen interested in Collegiate

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Veterans Choice is the current system attempting to alleviate the burdens of living in a community without a VA hospital. The program targets mostly rural veterans who live more than 40 miles away from a designated veterans’ hospital, have excessive travel burdens, or will have to wait at least 30 days to receive care.

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Scholars, which replaced the Honors Program.

“I get to watch the conversation start that these people will be having for the next four years with each other and other classmates about why they’re here, what they’re doing, why they’re learning what they’re learning,” senior assistant Audrey Southgate said.

According to Gamble, he included the seniors in order to help keep the students on track while discussing key ideas. While he said his students this semester remain focused and intellectually engaged with the texts, he still appreciates Southgate’s unique perspective.

“She’s bringing the perspective of a senior; she’s bringing a different level of experience to the course,” Gamble said.

Before each session, Southgate prepares questions to reinvigorate the discussion, but for the most part, she said she tries to stay on the sidelines. To promote social interaction and further

progressed, he said he trusts the seniors the professors put into the classrooms to guide the conversation as mentors.

“For Audrey, personally, she adds quite a bit,” Hatley said. “She’s disciplined; she

the conversation, she invited the students to her dorm, Waterman Residence, for tea.

Freshman Ross Hatley said he originally felt supervised by the assistant, like she was a second teacher in the room. But as the seminar

doesn’t jump in until there’s a pause in the conversation.”

The seminar has four sections with 55 students enrolled, and the faculty teaching the seminars represent the disciplines of physics, German, and history. Gamble

tem,” King said at the hearing.

“We don’t have rankings of the schools. It’s information — it’s a transparent system of information about the schools.”

As the Collegian reported last September, there is no disclaimer on the College Scorecard website that any schools are missing from the database.

More than 1.4 million unique users have visited the Scorecard since its September launch, according to the department spokesperson.

The Education Department already has almost all of the information necessary to include Hillsdale in the Scorecard.

Scorecard data is sourced from the Integrated Postsec-

ondary Education Data System database — a system which draws from data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, another division of the Education Department.

Data submitted by Hillsdale — such as tuition and fees, geographical location, academic programs, financial aid, and accreditation information — is accessible in the NCES database, according to NCES employee Aurora D’Amico.

To be included in IPEDS — and by extension, in the Scorecard — a school must submit racial demographic information of its student body — information which Hillsdale has never collected for ethical reasons

and, therefore, cannot submit.

Many schools are included in the Scorecard with data sets marked “not available,” but so far, the department has made no effort to add Hillsdale to the database without racial demographic information.

“I don’t think that’s accurate to portray Hillsdale College — simply because it’s not included in the Scorecard — as probably not worthy of people going to the school, do you?” Walberg asked at the hearing.

Corps veteran sophomore Thomas Schuh said. “Young guys like us, we don’t have cancer or things like that, things that are time sensitive.”

He said, however, many older veterans will get colon cancer because of the chemicals they come into contact with in the military.

“There are lots of people who die waiting to get evaluated for their level of cancer and to get treatment,” Schuh said.

“That’s a big problem. I don’t want to experience that.”

Veterans have to jump through hoops to receive com-

pensation for a specific injury, Schuh said. They must file complaints, schedule medical appointments while still in the military for that injury, and show a record of an ongoing condition. If they wait until they are released or begin to notice it after leaving the military, they still need to establish a record dating to their time in service before the VA can determine compensation.

Schuh attributed this distrust to the VA’s expectation that veterans will try to use injury compensation as a way to get money.

“They don’t believe you; they don’t want to believe you,” U.S. Marines Corps veteran junior John Novak said.

While private health care insurance can buffer emergency room costs, it isn’t affordable for the many veterans going to college or searching for careers.

“As an institution, the VA made a promise to provide care for those who served,” Avang said. “Right now there are major gaps in that care when it comes to urgent and emergency services.”

Aavang said veterans

should not have to pay for private health care because service to the country is payment enough.

Schuh said the VA should diversify health care options to better address time-sensitive, critical illnesses.

“I think that it could be run a lot more efficiently in the private sector,” Schuh said. “If you’re coming in for routine exams, pain in your leg, something that doesn’t hint at some kind of malignant cancer, then just go to the VA system. But if you do have symptoms, they should be able to have a de-

ferred emergency visitation program.”

Schuh said because the government will not give up the VA buildings or control over routine appointments, he could see change happening in emergency and life-threatening situations. “There’s no reason it has to be this way with the federal government as well-funded as it is,” he said.

“Fortunately we live in a great country where most people are really friendly and like to support vets, so there’s political support. We should be able to make this better.”

Donald Trump leads in Michigan GOP poll Ahead of Thursday night’s debate in Detroit, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump held a 10-point lead over Sen. Ted Cruz according to a Detroit Free Press poll. Of 400 Republican Michiganders, 29 percent pledged their vote to Trump or were leaning toward voting for him. Cruz took 19 percent, while Sen. Marco Rubio had 18 percent. Michigan’s primary is Tuesday, March 8.

Ben Carson sees no “path forward”

SCOTUS hears abortion case

North Korea fires projectiles

Disney looks for cast for ‘High School Musical 4’

Presidential candidate Ben Carson announced Wednesday that he sees no “path forward” for his campaign.

Carson said he will not appear in the GOP debate in Detroit Thursday. Carson said he would provide more details on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the first major abortion case in almost a decade. The case comes from a challenge to a Texas law that requires local hospitals and clinics upgrade their facilities for abortions to hospital-like standards.

North Korea fired several short-range projectiles Thursday into the sea, South Korea’s defense ministry said. The launch comes just hours after the United Nations’ Security Council unanimously placed sanctions on Pyongyang.

These broad restrictions were the toughest placed on North Korea in decades.

Disney announced Tuesday it would continue the “High School Musical” movie franchise that began 10 years ago. The fourth episode will feature a new cast of five stars.

The storyline focuses around a soccer instead of a basketball team. No airdate has been released yet. “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” released in theaters in 2008.

“This tradition belongs to everyone on campus. These readings...belong to all of us. .”

said his goal for the seminar is that it be interdisciplinary in order to avoid specialists engaging in a narrow discussion.

“This tradition belongs to everyone on campus,” Gamble said. “These readings are not the private property of any one department, but they belong to all of us. They’re open to all of us to have a conversation about.”

For Southgate, the great tradition that Hillsdale studies on how to be educated is not only able to bring people together, but it is worth continual consideration.

“I took this in the beginning, and now I’m taking it at the end and looking back, which is so fun and really constructive,” Southgate said.

“It’s worth thinking about again, and it’s making me grateful for my time at Hills-

dale.”

Gamble said Southgate’s opportunity intrigues him because she will be able to encounter her younger self, perhaps even through old margin notes.

“I think that’s an incredibly value experience for any student,” Gamble said. “It’s an effective way for students to say, ‘Wow, I really have learned a lot.’”

Southgate said she is thankful that she gets to take part in a conversation that includes students of all grades and faculty of various disciplines and can bring people together.

“Normally you have to fail a class to take it again,” Southgate said. “This is the class—if I could take one again—I would want to take this one the most.”

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Don’t leave your ATM receipt behind By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor Receipts scatter the floor around the ATM machines in the Grewcock Student Union. Some are left atop the machine beside a ring from a coffee cup — the students remembered the java, but not the ATM receipt.

Fifth Third and County National banks both have ATMs in the union. Fifth Third receipts display the name of the bank, the location, the most recent transaction, the balance, the last four digits of the debit card, and the last four digits of the account number. County National’s slips have similar information.

Those forgotten pieces of paper could be all someone needs to steal your identity. Don’t leave them behind.

Identity theft is a growing problem in the United States.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported 17.6 million identity theft victims in 2014, compared to 16.6 million in 2012.

Rob Douglas, editor of IdentityTheft.info, said college students are favored targets.

Douglas is a certified identity theft risk management specialist. He said there is cause for concern for those who leave their ATM slips behind.

“The more information I have, the more likely I am going to be able to contact the bank and do what’s called ‘account takeover,’” Douglas said.

Account takeovers occur when an individual has enough information on another person to make withdrawals, close accounts, or even make loans in that person’s name.

An identity thief can obtain the information needed through a bank’s online inquiries page, but most frequently collects it through customer service telephone conversations due to human error, Douglas said.

“If you get a very helpful customer service representative, they’ll fill in the blanks,” Douglas said.

Identity thieves typically use a five-step process in order to obtain account takeover: Know what it is you want to steal, know who the custodian of that information is (the bank), know who the custodian will release the data or money to, (the account holder), know what circumstances are needed for the release of the data or money, and become that person with those circumstances.

“More times than not, just like the bad guys can, we can put enough data together to actually move money outside of an account,” Douglas said. “The more information there is, the easier it is.”

Douglas said printing part of the account and card numbers is unnecessary on receipts like those from the ATMs in the union. He said he has performed account takeovers with originally having just one piece of protected personal information.

“Usually what people want is the account number, so I can quickly glance and be sure that the machine or the teller deposited the money from the correct account,” Douglas said. “The card number I should already have.”

Douglas said college students are one of the most at-risk groups for identity theft. Living in tight quarters in dorms and with roommates, it is more difficult to keep personal information private.

Douglas said most college students have developed some sort of a credit history, allowing them to take out loans.

“While you’re sitting there with a usually very nice, clean, maybe even some credit history that’s pristine, that’s a prime person I want to impersonate,” Douglas said. “It’s not necessarily the money itself; it may just be the credit history and the ability to take out lines of credit in your name.”

Most importantly, however, Douglas said college students are easy targets because they aren’t paying attention.

By law, an individual can check their credit report three times a year for free. Getting a credit report every four months from the three major credit bureaus — Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax — can help track personal finances, Douglas said.

“Probably 99 percent of college students aren’t going to do that,” Douglas said.

To avoid identity theft, Douglas also recommended individuals check account balances at least once a week.

Additionally, store ATM receipts in a locked or at least outof-sight spot for a day or two to ensure the bank completed any transactions. Then shred the receipt.

If there is no access to a shredder, rip up the receipt and throw the pieces into separate trash cans if possible.

Superintendent of Custodial Services Kelli Withrow said her teams rarely find slips from the bank machines in the union, but when they do, they tear them up and throw them away.

But don’t take that risk. Make sure to grab the receipt before leaving the ATM. Breana is a sophomore studying politics and journalism.

an education for virtue and the pursuit of the true and the good, grateful for the beautiful found in the world. The foundation of that education is the relationship students have not just with each other, but with their teachers. This holistic schooling must be modeled.

The classical school commitment to the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, to great texts and great ideas, educates the whole person in like manner. And like the professors at Hillsdale, classical school teachers wear the passion for these permanent things, for lessons well learned and living well, that they hope their students will

put on.

Hillsdale students have experienced this same method of learning and teaching through their time in college that they will use teaching in classical schools. The relationship between Hillsdale student and professor is one of mentorship, a relationship wherein the student learns to love the loves of the teacher.

With the college’s rejection of federal funding and the independence of classical and private schools from the influence of the common core and other regulations, each has the freedom to pursue this philosophy of education.

The Hillsdale minor in classical education is a tes-

tament to the college’s commitment to this whole-person schooling. There is no education program separating the content of what is taught from the manner in which is taught or the character of the teacher.

As students turn in resumes today, they can take comfort in the fact that these schools, even thousands of miles away, are part of the same tradition as their alma mater. And they can be confident that in their relationships with their professors they have learned to teach and model a liberal education.

Campus, embrace the trip to CPAC By | Tom Novelly Assistant Editor Campus will feel a little empty for the next couple of days. More than 12 percent of the school — 175 students, — will be attending the 22nd Conservative Political Action Conference to engage with conservative ideas and the current GOP presidential candidates.

This yearly trip annoys many professors. It is seen as a distraction from a liberal arts education. For many members of the faculty, CPAC is an unjustified absence. It is condemned as patriotic frivolity filled with networking and punditry.

It’s true that students will be missing two days of class. It’s true that it’s a lot of fun. But dismissing it as a distraction from our liberal education is a misunderstanding.

Since its establishment in 1973 by Young Americans for Freedom, CPAC has been a yearly celebration of the conservative movement and, simultaneously, a serious reflection on its growth. It engages conservatives young and old to debate the ideas that have made conservatism great.

CPAC is an immersion experience. Visiting a foreign country is one of the best ways to understand it. Attending CPAC is an opportunity to see conservative politics at work.

Students who have generated strong political opinions based on lectures are missing a large part of the picture. As students and citizens, they should look to political reality before forming their beliefs.

CPAC educates as it entertains. Speeches are the highlight of the weekend.

Some of these are filled with grandstanding, which provides students an opportunity to critically

apply their knowledge of political philosophy from class. Every year, students have the opportunity to poke holes in illogical arguments.

They also witness effective statesmanship in action: Real politicians who embody or reject the ideas they’ve covered in the classroom.

Another educational resource the conference provides is its interactive panels on controversial party issues. Topics range from marijuana legalization to prison reform. A variety of scholars, journalists, and politicians take up the debate. Students listen and ask questions, often drawing from their classroom lessons or preconceived notions. They may leave with opinions either affirmed or corrected, but educated regardless.

Interacting with other conservative students from across the nation is one of the most valuable elements of the entire weekend. In between speeches, or when the convention closes its doors in the evening, the political conversation continues.

Students discuss conservative principles over a meal or a drink. Students from Hillsdale reference the usual suspects: Aristotle, Hobbes, and Locke. Students from other universities counter with their favorite texts and views to engage in friendly and constructive debate.

Aristotle states in the “Politics” that “human beings are by nature political animals, because nature, which does nothing in vain, has equipped them with speech, which enables them to communicate moral concepts.”

CPAC is a chance for students to utilize their reason to generate opinions

Ted Cruz, a GOP presidential frontrunner, speaks at last year’s CPAC. Michael Vadon | Wikimedia Commons

by experiencing political ideas at the source. Hillsdale’s education is unique because its lessons cannot be contained in the walls of classroom. These are ideas worth talking about in D.C. There will be more empty chairs in classes this

week, but students will not be taking a break from learning.

Tom is a junior studying politics and journalism.

Where the GOP primary field now stands: RealClearPolitics reports the following polling averages for Feb. 14-27.

Trump: 35.6 percent. He took seven states on Super Tuesday and now has a total of 319 delegates.

Cruz: 19.8 percent. Took Alaska, Texas, and Oklahoma; now has 226 delegates.

Rubio: 17.4 percent. Took Minnesota but is currently third, with 110 delegates.

Kasich: 8.8 percent. Currently has a total of 25 delegates.

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The opinion of the Collegian editorial staff Today, 40 classical schools from 22 states are seeking seniors who can be to the students in their schools what Hillsdale professors have been to Hillsdale graduates.

Seniors who become classical school teachers do not abandon the collegial community they were a part of at Hillsdale. While their roles and castmates do change, they continue to be a part of an association united by shared commitments to the transcendentals, to liberal learning, and to the western tradition.

Hillsdale’s liberal education aims beyond the utility of learning to the development of the whole individual. It is

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Is ‘Hamilton’ good history?

By | Emily Peterson Special to the Collegian When Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted his “Hamilton Mixtape” at the White House in 2009, his clever lyrics and musicality carried the performance, while his subject inspired amused but politely restrained laughter.

This year Miranda rapped his Grammy acceptance speech for the cast recording of “Hamilton: An American Musical” to roaring, even tearful applause. Miranda’s work has made American history a popular obsession.

Teachers rejoice at the new interest their students have developed in the subject.

But does Miranda’s hip-hop Broadway spectacle, littered with inaccuracy as it is, really promote history?

The show’s superficial departures from historical fact — anachronisms of language and medium, an ethnically diverse cast, etc. — do what all narrative history must do: collect the actions and dispositions of individuals of the past, with some degree of selectivity and adaptation, for the sake of communicating them faithfully to individuals of the present.

While Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson might not have gone head-to-head in actual rap battles during cabinet meetings, they did compete against each other with an energy and animosity that Miranda and his cast portray with appropriately caustic attitude. The audience doesn’t know what’s hit them:

Suddenly they feel emotionally invested in niceties of 18thcentury foreign policy.

Now, Miranda does feed his audience significant factual inaccuracies. The love triangle between Hamilton and two of the Schuyler sisters is purely dramatic invention, and so compromises the faithfulness of the narrative to reality. But although Angelica Schuyler Church was already married by the time she met Hamilton, the intentional fiction of their brief flirtation illustrates a primary function of history as a scholarly pursuit. Two songs, “Helpless” and “Satisfied,” narrate the same events but tell two different stories. Elizabeth Schuyler, Hamilton’s brideto-be, recounts the night with all the blush and flutter of flowering romance; from Angelica, they hear of a moment of passion, power, and sacrifice. Such consideration and reconsideration of facts according to various perspectives is precisely the business of history. In departing from the strict facts of history, Miranda represents history at work.

Miranda’s choice of medium opens the door to a species of compromise more detrimental to Hamilton’s historicity. There is no comprehensive list of facts which, added all together, make up history; so history as a study requires selection and therefore exclusion of facts, which inevitably expresses the historian’s predispositions.

Choosing material is one level

President Obama greets the cast of Hamilton, a hit Broadway musical based on the biography Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote in 2004.

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of bias, shaping a narrative is another, and idealizing that narrative is yet another.

Theatre thrives on tropes that idealize the narrative.

In “Cabinet Battle #1,” for example, Miranda creates a microcosm of the archetypal conflict between Jefferson and Hamilton.

Miranda emphasizes the opposition by invoking multiple points of disagreement.

The character Jefferson defends the sovereignty of the several states, which is both accurate and relevant; that is exactly how the historical Jefferson argued his point. Miranda

adds, however, a eulogy to the southern agrarian ideal, which gives the character Hamilton the opportunity in his response to excoriate Jefferson for owning slaves.

So the historical Hamilton’s argument for his financial plan is replaced by an ad hominem attack, and the attitudes and values of the Sectional Crisis are imposed on a debate that took place decades prior.

Rhetorically and theatrically, it plays well: the tension is high, and the subtle foreshadowing is exquisite — but it bears the mark of bad history, a prejudicial association of later

answers with earlier questions.

Even so, the theatrical treatment of the question may become useful as a historical artifact in itself in years to come, as future historians view “Hamilton” as the present generation’s consideration of the relationship among all the questions facing the early republic.

All Miranda’s departures from orthodox historiography serve a purpose for history as well as theatre. Miranda does not mean for his audience to fall in love with Alexander Hamilton, except perhaps as a side-effect: he means

for them to fall in love with history itself, and with the legacy of America’s founding.

“Hamilton” is not the first musical to recount American history, nor to contextualize it for modern audiences — what makes it special is its guarantee that it will not be the last.

“Hamilton” has successfully established popular theatre as a gateway drug to hard history, and America is hooked.

Emily is a senior studying English.

True beauty isn’t ‘sexy’ By | Michael Lucchese Sports Illustrated editorial staff even selected models Special with more diverse body types to the Collegian for the covers — so that the In February, Sports women could be equally Illustrated published its objectified.

The editors can publish annual Swimsuit Edition. indecent pictures Instead of releasing one these version of the cover with a because our society has lost sight of what true beauty is. single model, the magazine Far from the lustful and published three different covers, each featuring a model erotic qualities the Swimsuit Edition identifies with beauty, of a different body type.

Feminist advocates and true Beauty is the superlative influential figures in pop of the Good. That is to say, culture hailed this as a step a thing is beautiful when it towards a more inclusive most perfectly accomplishes society. E! News, for its end or purpose.

Saint Paul wrote in his first instance, proclaimed that the additionally models were “a epistle to the Corinthians, “do nod to female empowerment.” you not know that your body But, quite frankly, there is is a temple of the Holy Spirit nothing good or beautiful within you, whom you have A statue of blindfolded Lady Justice outside Albert V. Bryan Federal District Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia.

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How we’ve neutered the ‘rule of law’ Trump and other politicians have reduced a foundational principle to a meaningless political catchphrase.

By | Micah Meadowcroft country that has no king, and even one that does, the law is Associate Editor king — lex rex. But appeals Donald Trump opened a to a limited executive from column in the Reno Gazette- Trump are painfully ironic, and not just because of his Journal, writing: “The United States of recent and unapologetic America is a land of laws, and retweet of a quote from Americans value the rule of Benito Mussolini.

Trump’s legal restraint is law above all.”

These four little words, the about as thin as his combover. rule of law, have become a He has pledged to “open up” brittle phrase this election. libel laws if elected president Bandied about as justification so that he can censure for any loosely conservative and punish negative press stance or concern, the rule coverage. He has publicly his inability of law has become more lamented charged with emotion to use violence against than with meaning. It is a protesters. (“What power!” nebulous concept, gestured his supporters simper.) He at with little regard for its full has promised restrictions on implications of equal justice critics that recall the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. and equal protection.

For Trump, the rule of law Trump’s attitude toward is a way to accuse President Muslim Americans suggests Obama of executive F.D.R.’s use of the Alien overreach, and is the Enemies Act to imprison rhetorical basis for Trump’s Japanese Americans in labor criticisms of unenforced camps.

Regardless of the disconnect immigration law and his calls for the deportation of illegals between Trump’s criticisms and a wall on the southern of President Obama and his own imprecise positions, the border.

This critique is a legitimate real disconnect is between application of the phrase; in the contemporary use of its concern over an expanded rule of law language and the executive and various failures disregard of equal protection. to enforce laws or pass new That’s a failure of political ones, it echos the origins figures across the spectrum, of the rule-of-law concept not just Trump.

The 14th Amendment in rejecting early-modern divine right monarchy. In a affirms America’s guarantee

of equal protection under law to all citizens. Equal protection is merely a logical fulfillment of the rule of law. That is an application of principle that America did not finish with the civil rights acts.

Tocqueville observed in “Democracy in America” that the American’s respect for laws comes from his participation in their making and belief in their justice.

Confidence in the rule of law, trust that officials will operate within their appointed authority beholden to the people, that they will execute the laws fairly, leads to lawabiding citizens.

The 14th Amendment remains an unfulfilled promise to America. Selective application of the rule of law is still a pressing political problem. The chances of an African-American man going to jail for nonviolent drug offenses are enormous.

But Wall Street survived the 2008 housing crisis and received bailouts without major figures going to prison for fraud. That’s a dramatic failure of justice.

Any red-blooded conservative will tell you he has a right to resist tyranny, to violate law when governors violate law’s rule. Look at the Bundy public land standoffs

in Nevada and Oregon for the contemporary interpretation of this theory in action. That was lawbreaking in response to perceived violations of the rule of law, the logical inverse of Tocqueville’s observation.

Yet the same people who praised armed resistance of agents of the law in Nevada and Oregon love to shout “rule of law” when minorities riot in response to perceived injustice, whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore. But that violence is just as much a response to the seeming breakdown of the rule of law, a reaction to unequal protection.

The rule of law is about holding leaders accountable to the law from which they derive their authority. It is about equal application and equal protection. It tells us that no one, no matter how wealthy or powerful, is above the law, and that no citizen, no matter how deprived, is outside the law’s care. It is not Trump’s or anybody else’s catch phrase, to be selectively applied for easy conservative cred.

Micah is a senior studying history and journalism.

“Women aren’t pieces of meat, but the Swimsuit Edition has no problem commodifying them.” about “including” more models on the much-coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover. The editors of the magazine misdiagnosed the problem with the Swimsuit Edition.

The problem with the magazine is indecency.

Honoring human achievement is important in well-ordered society.

Fitness and beauty ought to be respected and lauded, and for the most part, Sports Illustrated and other athletic magazines serve that important purpose. But the Swimsuit Edition serves an entirely different purpose — titillation and exhibition.

The same E! News report praising the additional covers called the photo shoots “racy” and “sexy.” One of the covers features a topless model.

The Swimsuit Edition serves pornographic purposes. And that’s the problem.

All women are created in the image of God. As human beings, they inherently deserve a certain kind of respect from their fellow humans. Their bodies should not be commodities for high school boys and desperate middle-aged men to gawk at.

Women aren’t pieces of meat, but the annual Swimsuit Edition has no problem commodifying them and selling their photographs. The

from God? You are not your own.”

Human beings are most beautiful when they most perfectly honor their Maker.

Physical beauty certainly plays a role in this, but so do a cornucopia of other virtues.

Listening to popular music, or watching many contemporary television programs, it becomes selfevident that society has a tendency to value women for their erotic qualities. Women are valued because of how pleasing they are to the eyes, not for how comprehensively excellent they are.

What message does our pornography-filled culture send young girls? Is it right that they are taught by our culture to desire to have men lust after them? Is it right that our culture legitimizes passionately lusting after women’s bodies?

Rather than wrongly honoring women for how good they look in a skimpy bikini or body paint, Sports Illustrated should stick to rightly honoring women for their athletic achievements.

Our society needs to stop lusting after women, and start recognizing and applauding their virtues.

Michael is a sophomore majoring in American Studies.

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Litchfield power plant closure leaves locals unemployed Expensive energy costs cause station to close after 33 years By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor Endicott Generating Station in Litchfield, Michigan, will burn its last lump of coal

by June 1, after 33 years of service to the five municipalities of the Michigan South Central Power Agency. The power plant’s 74 full-time employees will be laid off, 33 of which are from Hillsdale County.

The coal power plant will close as a result of decreased costs of natural gas. American Municipal Power Inc. in Ohio will make up for Endicott’s closure with its production of hydroelectric power, which is coming online now and almost doubles the MSCPA’s goal of hydropower sourcing.

The Hillsdale City Council approved a resolution Feb. 15 allowing the MSCPA to hire its lowest bidder as another source of electricity beginning Jan. 1, 2018, when the agency predicts its communities will need more watts. These changes will not alter the electrical costs for those living in Hillsdale, Board of Public Utilities Director Mike Barber said.

Approximately 22 percent of Hillsdale’s electric energy will be provided by hydropower by the end of the year.

“Endicott is closing in the interest of economics,” MSCPA General Manager Glen White said. “In today’s world, the price of natural gas energy is cheaper than what we can actually produce it for in a smaller coal-fired power plant.”

Endicott provides some of the electrical power of the city of Hillsdale, village of Clinton, city of Coldwater, city of Marshall, and Union City in Michigan. Other sources of power the MSCPA currently uses are natural gas, another coal plant, and hydro power other than AMP’s, as well as some solar power for those in Coldwater.

Formal discussion of retiring Endicott began about a year ago, White said. While some of its employees will continue to work for the MSCPA in different departments, others will receive severance packages upon being laid off.

The agency, however, is aiming to provide networking opportunities to help their employees find other opportunities through statewide organizations that assist with getting people jobs.

“They’re great people; it’s the right thing to do,” White said. “They’ve been dedicated people for a long, long time.

We hate it as bad as anybody that we have to shut down the plant.”

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that Oakley’s backyard offers a scenic view of the St. Joseph River, something many other restaurants in Hillsdale lack.

“The biggest change is going to be outdoor seating along the river, where it’s not such an urban view,” Derek Spiteri said. “We’ll use the back yard for a place where people can sit outside and talk or study.”

Although the whole family will help with the new business, John Spiteri said his son is in charge.

“A lot of this is Derek’s own adventure,” John Spiteri said. “We do some sandwiches here at Checker Records, but we can’t do that on a bigger level. With the set-up there, he’ll be able to do more at a faster pace.”

Derek Spiteri earned a degree in business management from Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne University in 2014, but he said much of his business knowledge came from working in his parents’ coffee shop throughout his childhood.

“You have to grow a business organically, and you have to be consistent,” Derek Spiteri said. “I remember dragging around

The city’s unemployment rate is currently 4.4 percent, which means Hillsdale has plenty of jobs, said Mary Wolfram, director of the city of Hillsdale’s economic development. These opportunities, however, may not support the abilities of many of the power plant workers.

“The employees of the power plant have very specific utility, power plant skillsets,” Wolfram said. “That’s a very specialized field.”

Litchfield City Manager Douglas Terry said he hopes many workers will stay in the area.

“The best thing the city can do is work with South Central Michigan Power Agency to help with that transition, especially with training,” Terry said. “We would hope they would continue to reside here.”

Environmental concerns did not play a role in the decision to close Endicott, White

Natural gas costs about $2 per million British thermal unit while coal is just over $3 per million Btu. Additionally, Endicott uses 12,500 Btus to create a kilowatt of electricity.

Modern natural gas facilities use half of that — about 6,500 Btus, White noted.

“Now that gas is cheaper and is more efficient in terms of combustion, that really puts coal at a disadvantage,” White said.

Hydropower costs depend on water flow and the distance water travels to have enough power to turn the pump’s turbines, making fuel costs low, White noted. Such electricity, however, is more expensive in capital — $5,000 to $7,000 per kilowatt until the mortgage is paid off. Additionally, it’s $10 per megawatt for maintenance and labor.

The last coal plant constructed in the United States was $4,000 per kilowatt for

The Endicott Generating Station in Litchfield, Michigan, at 720 Herring Rd. is closing June 1. Thirty three of the laid off employees are from Hillsdale County. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

“As a nation, we’re becoming so dependent on one fuel that it lessens the security and reliability of our nation’s supply. Diversification of fuel is, I believe, very important.” said. It is one of the cleanest coal power plants in the Midwest, Terry added.

“Environmentally, the power plant has always done a responsible job of controlling emissions,” Terry said.

Nonetheless, carbon emissions from the transportation of coal by railroad will diminish, as well, Wolfram said, adding that pipelines transport natural gas.

“It’s just cleaner technology, if gas prices stay low,” Wolfram said.

White said MSCPA does not know what it will do with the Endicott plant. It does have infrastructure to create energy from natural gas, and the size of the property could allow it to become another type of generator. Currently, however, it is too small to make profit from production of energy from natural gas, White said.

“It does have some good opportunities,” White said, “and I’m hoping in the long term, that’s what we will end up with.”

With the greater supply of natural gas, prices have slid and made coal-powered electricity uncompetitive, he added.

capital and $23 per megawatt for variable costs, though this value is less than most as fuel was onsite and did not need transportation, White said.

Wolfram added that the city of Hillsdale’s BPU, then, could provide power with less money, which could cause a positive economic impact.

No plans are set to change the charge rates of utilities, Barber said. The average household in Hillsdale pays $86.20 for electricity.

AMP began outputting hydropower to the MSCPA’s five municipalities in January from new pumps on existing Ohio River dams. All 11 pumps spread across four locations along the river will be functioning by the end of the year.

“It’s green, has low carbon impact,” White said. “The good side of hydro is the pumps last a long, long time.”

While hydropower is initially expensive because of the pumps’ mortgage, it produces electricity cheaply. Hydro pumps that MSCPA already owns have been working for 100 years, White said.

MSCPA forecasts AMP’s hydroelectricity will cover the lapse in energy pro-

a red wagon at the farmers market begging people to try Checker Records coffee. It took awhile, but eventually it caught on.”

Even aside from necessary

store there from the 1950s to the 1980s.

“I spent a lot of time there as a kid,” Coon said. “Since then, at least three or four owners have tried a sandwich

When the Edicott Generating Station closes, almost one fourth of Hillsdale’s energy will be provided by hydropower from American Municipal Power, Inc., in Ohio. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

duction from Endicott until 2018, when the organization will need 25 more megawatts during peak-time energy usage, due to the municipalities’ growth, especially in Coldwater, the greatest energy user.

The highest rate of electrical usage typically occurs during the summer as people turn on the air conditioning. The agency will work with AMP to find the lowest bidder to provide the power.

Barber and White both predicted the supplier will use natural gas, though the contract does not specify.

Terry expressed concern over the stability of gas prices.

“As a nation, we’re becoming so dependent on one fuel that it lessens the security and

reliability of our nation’s supply,” Terry said. “Diversification of fuel is, I believe, very important.”

In the past, forecasts for natural gas supply were unpredictable in the long term, White said. The horizontal drilling technology, however, creates fixed pricing of energy rates for two, seven, and 12 years into the future due to an abundance of natural gas supply. This allows for flexibility and reduced risk when buying market purchases and purchase power agreements to supply the electricity, White said.

“We’re seeing those prices depressed for a long time out,” White said. “We’re thinking this is a good time to lock in a

piece of what we need for the future.”

The city of Hillsdale is taking advantage of the natural gas prices, too. It is looking into rebuilding two generators that run off natural gas and fuel oil at its power plant to use in emergencies, like ice storms or high-price periods.

As for Endicott, it might have to wait a while before producing electricity again.

“We would hope, one day, South Central Michigan would be able to use that property for some sort of electrical production,” Terry said.

“You have to grow a business organically, and you have to be consistent. I remember dragging around a red wagon at the farmers market begging people to try Checker Records coffee. It took awhile, but eventually it caught on.” renovations, establishing a new business takes time and careful planning, Derek Spiteri said.

“I plan to open in fall with a new name, but I’m not in a rush,” Derek Spiteri said. “Right now, I’m in fact-gathering mode. I’m asking, ‘What did you love about Oakley? What do you remember?’”

Hillsdale College photography professor Doug Coon remembers seeing a lot of businesses come and go in the building since his grandparents ran a grocery

shop in the old Oakley building, and over the years, it’s fallen into disrepair. It’s just tough to keep a small business going. I think what works in towns like this is specialized businesses, stuff the big chains don’t do well.”

But Coon said the Spiteris’ local connections and business experience will help spread the word about the new business.

“I’ve known John for a lot of my life,” Coon said.

“There’s a group of us who meet at the coffee shop down at Checker Records

Checker Records owner John Spiteri’s son Derek Spiteri is renovating the old Oakley’s sub shop at 78 Hillsdale St. The new sandwich and coffee shop is expected to open fall 2016.

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every Sunday. John and his wife are there all the time.

You’ve got to put in a lot of hours to survive. Derek has the opportunity to make this thing work. He’ll put the time in. He’ll be there.

A lot of it is word of mouth, and once a place gets a buzz about it, people go there.”

As Checker Records

customers learn of the new sub shop, John Spiteri has had to field concerns about the Spiteris’ existing business.

“Checker Records is going to stay here,” John Spiteri.

“They’ll be two separate entities, with the same good service.”

Derek Spiteri said the

restaurant will blend the old sub shop and his parents’ coffee shop into something fresh and new.

“People loved Oakley, and we’re not trying to take that away,” Derek Spiteri said.

“We’re going to use what’s great about that and what’s great about Checker Records in the new place.”

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Hillsdale adults color outside the lines Hillsdale Community Library sponsors Color Café for adults to scribble away their stress By | Natalie C. McKee

Senior Writer When you walk into the Hillsdale Community Library on the third Tuesday of any given month, you’ll find as many as a dozen teens and adults gathered around tables with cardstock coloring pages and colored pencils engaging in one of the latest fads: adult coloring.

The Color Café began more than a year ago under the direction of a former library staffer before Heidi Pruitt took over the program.

The café was designed as an adult activity that was low-cost for the library and would give the town something to do during the cold winter months.

It meets from 6-7:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month, and will meet next on March 15 in the meeting rooms adjacent to the library.

Pruitt said she searches for free coloring printables and has a wide variety of options at each café, even the occasional bookmark.

They also provide coffee, tea, and cocoa, and she often cooks baked goods for everyone to enjoy and puts a crackling fire on her laptop so patrons can color to the warm, crackling sound.

“It’s sort of nostalgic,” she said. “People come in saying, ‘Oh I loved to color!’ and now it’s okay to love coloring.”

Patrons can create art with colored pencils, crayons and a small selection of markers, but Pruitt said they are more than welcome to bring their own supplies. The café is open to teens and adults, and Pruitt said one motherdaughter team comes often because it’s a one-on-one activity for them to enjoy.

“It’s quiet and relaxing,” Pruitt said. “It’s a destresser.”

Sue Skiendziel said she

attended the second color café ever in the fall of 2014.

“I wasn’t coloring at that point, but I’m kind of an introvert,” she said. “I was totally smitten by it.”

By Christmas she started buying markers, books, and pencils.

“It’s their fault I got into coloring. I’ve spent a lot of money,” Skiendziel said, with a laugh.

Skiendziel pointed out that the library was about five months ahead of a nowworld-wide fad.

“The Hillsdale library

Just can’t keep them in print fast enough,” Lesley O’Mara, the managing director of British publishers Michael O’Mara Books, told the New Yorker in 2015.

Skiendziel said she is not very artistic, but has colored in art and thought, “Wow, that looks good.”

But more than being creative, the art of adult coloring is, in fact, therapeutic according to multiple studies.

In the 1900s, psychiatrist Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology,

“It’s sort of nostalgic.

People come in saying, ‘Oh I loved to color!’ and now it’s okay to love coloring.” was right with it,” Skiendziel said.

The New Yorker Magazine pinned down the “birth” of adult coloring books to when Johanna Basford, a Scottish artist who used to draw wine-bottle labels, published the “Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book” in 2013. In two years, it sold two million copies all over the world.

Before speciallydesigned coloring books, adult coloring was largely reserved for parents coloring with their kids or teenagers babysitting the neighbors.

But largely due to Basford’s success, a new market opened up.

“We’ve never seen a phenomenon like it in our thirty years of publishing.

We are on our fifteenth reprint of some of our titles.

prescribed coloring to his patients who suffered from anxiety, Fox News reported.

“Because it’s a centering activity, the amygdala, which is the part of the brain that is involved with our fear response, actually gets a bit, a little bit of a rest,” New York clinical psychologist Dr. Ben Michaelis told Fox News, “And it ultimately has a really calming effect over time.”

Skiendziel’s observation matches up with the scientific data about the benefits.

“It’s very relaxing,” she said. “I love the calm that it gives me.”

A few studies have shown how art therapy can positively affect patients.

A 2005 study published on PubMed tested the effectiveness of

“mindfulness-based art therapy” on eleven women with cancer diagnoses against a control group who didn’t use the treatment. The treated women experienced “significant improvements in key aspects of healthrelated quality of life.”

A 2002 UK study discovered the benefits of art therapy in the classroom for children needing “emotional and behavioral support.”

They left the 10-week Art Room program with “less depression, fewer behavioral problems and improved self-esteem,” Medical Daily reported.

But the simple act of coloring without a trained therapist isn’t technically “art therapy” according to the American Art Therapy Association. Art therapy also extends to more than simply coloring. The Association said they use “art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.”

But just because it isn’t therapy doesn’t discount the merits of a few hours of coloring at the Color Café.

A 2007 study found a correlation between music, drawing, meditation, reading, arts and crafts, and home repairs and enhanced “health and well-being.”

Although much of the “fad” might be anecdotal rather than proven science, many people in the Hillsdale community are discovering the benefits of adult coloring.

During finals week last semester, Mossey Library held a coloring night in the Heritage Room for students needing to take a break from the books.

Sue Skiendziel colors patterns at the Hillsdale Community Library’s Color Café, which is every third Tuesday of the month at 11 E. Bacon St. Sue Skiendziel | Courtesy

A nature scene from an adult coloring book, colored by Sue Skiendziel, who participates in the Hillsdale Community Library’s Color Café. Sue Skiendziel | Courtesy

“It fills a creative need,” Skiendziel said. “I think we

all need to do something creative. It’s very meditative.”

Seventy percent of Hillsdale felons do not go to trial All of the 801 felonies issued in Hillsdale County over the past two years were dismissed or reduced to misdemeanors By | Natalie C. McKee

Senior Writer

None of the 801 felonies issued in Hillsdale County in the past two years made it to jury trial. According to Circuit Court Judge Michael Smith, seven out of every 10 people charged with felonies have their charges dismissed or reduced to a misdemeanor, which he said is “not a good thing.”

The lack of jury trials over the past two years is extremely unusual, Smith said.

“You can’t find that anywhere else in the state,” he said.

But county prosecutor of 19 years Neal Brady disagreed.

“This is the process by which prosecuting offices generally convict people,” Brady said, adding that plea bargains guarantee a conviction the way a jury trial cannot.

“Jury trials do not necessarily equal justice,” Brady said. “A jury can be sympathetic and decide they are not going to convict.”

Smith said he has no choice but to accept a plea bargain when it comes to circuit court.

“As a citizen, I think

there is way too much plea bargaining for felonies,” Smith said.

Brady said most suspects end up charged with more than one offense: if someone breaks into a home, he or she could be charged as a conspirator with another person, as well as for breaking and entering.

Those multiple charges give Brady room to offer incentives to suspects: he can agree to knock off some of the “superfluous charges” if they agree to plead guilty to some of the charges or lesser charges.

“Incentives must be real, they can’t be illusory,” Brady said.

Conviction by jury also allows the convicted felon to appeal, Brady said, costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars as the felon appeals until he has exhausted all his options.

Brady added that criminals who are forced to confess to a crime place themselves in a position to be rehabilitated.

On the contrary, even if convicted by a jury, they will never take responsibility for their actions. Finally, Brady said the county has limited resources, so he said he thinks it’s a good thing no felony cases have gone to

trial in two years.

“It has forced probably close to 1,000 people to start the rehabilitation process, admit responsibility, and be punished, without spending more resources to do the same [via jury court],” Brady said.

“This comes down to a

mentioning the arrest, charging, bond, and plea bargaining practices all function together to create the system. He added that you have to look at the specifics of each case.

For example, a sexually abused child might find testifying in jury court a

“Jury trials do not necessarily equal justice. A jury can be sympathetic and decide they are not going to convict.” difference in philosophy,” said Brent Weigle, district judge of Branch County, which abuts Hillsdale County to the west. “Neil thinks Smith is too harsh, and Smith thinks Neil is too soft.”

Weigle said it is important to realize that the justice system in a county depends on more than just Brady and Smith.

“It’s not a totally accurate premise to boil it down to two players. Everybody has their roles,” Weigle said,

traumatic experience, so a plea bargain avoids that.

Additionally, Weigle said it doesn’t matter to him personally if someone pleads guilty to operating under the influence of alcohol rather than getting a guilty conviction in a trial. He also mentioned that he had around 2,500 misdemeanors and 500 or 600 felonies reach district court, so if there were no plea bargains at all, the courts would need more staff and more courtrooms to deal with all those cases.

On the other hand, if plea bargains are reducing felonies to misdemeanors, some see that as a problem.

“My philosophy is that people should have to deal with the consequences of their conduct,” Weigle said.

“I tend to be old-school. I have a reputation for being a little on the tougher side on sentencing, but I look at everything.”

He said to remember the data represent real people and real victims.

“I think you have good people over there in Hillsdale in terms of ethics and integrity,” Wiegle said.

Brady said 30 percent of the suspects he charged ended up in Smith’s court, which Brady considered a generous number.

“If he was creative in his sentencing options, I could get 40 to 50 percent of the cases to him. In talking with a retired district judge, he was surprised that even 25 percent of the issued felons went to circuit court,” Brady wrote in an email.

Brady said he received 548 requests for felony charges in 2015, but the number of individuals charged is less because some people received more than one charge. Of those

he issued 421 files, denied 98 and 29 went “for further investigation or other disposition.”

According to Brady, some of the felonies break down as follows: 21 manufacturing meth charges, 71 breaking and entering or home invasion, 16 operating while intoxicated 3rd degree, 20 fail to pay child support, 19 larceny in a building, 34 criminal sexual conduct charges, 42 resisting police, and 27 felony assault charges.

“Judge Smith is a master of manipulating numbers and if he wants to make it look like we are not doing our job, he can do that,” Brady said.

Smith disagreed.

“I am not manipulating anything. How can I manipulate numbers produced by the District Court and the County Clerk?” Smith said.

He admitted that Brady’s claim could be true — that 95 percent of those charged are convicted of something — but “crimes that the Legislature says are serious enough to send you to prison, are dealt away to misdemeanors or dismissed,” Smith said.

“The numbers speak for themselves,” he said.

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The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team won its third straight with a 7-2 win over visiting Spring Arbor University on Friday afternoon.

With No. 1 singles player freshman Justin Hyman out of the game, each player shifted one spot up, with the sixth singles spot forfeited. As the third doubles game was also unable to be played, Hillsdale entered the matched down 0-2.

“Honestly, everyone played really well,” Hillsdale head coach Keith Turner said. “The Spring Arbor team was down a little. Traditionally they’re a difficult team. My best player was down with the flu, so everyone had to move up a spot.”

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everyone rose to the occasion.

“We were excited to be playing a spot ahead of what we normally play and mix up the doubles a little bit,” Delp said.

Delp himself, bumped up to the No. 1 spot, won for the third straight time in singles, 6-2, 6-0.

Sophomore Gianpiero Placidi won 6-0, 6-0 in No. 2 singles, and teamed up with Delp in No. 1 doubles with an 8-3 win.

“We’ve been making big improvements, definitely,” Placidi said in reference to doubles. “Dugan and I had a good match and before that I played with John Ciraci and we had some good wins.”

Turner noted that doubles is an intended area of improvement in practice.

“Doubles has been a focus,” Turner said. “With our current

court situation, where we only have two courts, going forward we’ll have to find a way to win two of the three matches in doubles.”

In No. 2 doubles, freshman John Ciraci and freshman Zach Rabitoy took an 8-2 win and each won their singles matches.

In No. 5 singles, Jerry Hewitt won with 6-3, 6-0.

Turner noted that three straight wins at the beginning of the season have given the young team a boost of confidence.

“It’s hugh because we didn’t know what to expect,” he said.

“We didn’t know what the competition was going to be like. To get off to such a good start has given us encouragement and confidence, and we’ll need that with such a tough competition coming up.”

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“It was like that open gym kind of feel because shots that necessarily weren’t falling in the first half, in the second half it was the complete opposite,” senior point guard Zach Miller said. “The thing was though that we were getting stops.”

While Neveau and Pretzer scored in spurts, Miller did a bit of everything throughout the contest. Miller tied Cooper with a team-high 19 points, but it was his game-high 14 assists that made the biggest difference, prompting Tharp to say his point guard played a “beautiful game.”

“It definitely helps when guys are making shots. There are so many good shooters and good players around me that it’s fun passing,” Miller said.

Tharp was happy with the way his seniors played.

“Our seniors Jason Pretzer,

per just played a tremendous game,” Tharp said. “That’s what you need to do on the road in March. Your veterans have got to really step up and make plays, and they did.”

The Chargers will look to win their seventh game in a row and advance to the GLIAC championship game when they face the eighth-seed Walsh Cavaliers — who upset first-seed Saginaw Valley on Tuesday night — at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday night in Ashland, Ohio. Walsh ranks fifth in the GLIAC in scoring and are led by guard Jesse Hardin Jr. who is averaging 20.7 points per game on 47 percent field goal shooting.

“Jesse Hardin is one of the great D-II players in the country,” Tharp said. “Unfortunately, he can go get 50 on you, so we’re trying to figure that out right now. But at the same time

our own skin and be who we are and hope that things that we’ve been doing of late will be good enough for us to continue this.”

The Chargers are confident that they can get the job done.

“There’s just something about March, it’s a different kind of feel, playing, going to practice, going to the games,” Miller said. “We’ve got this thing rolling right now where nobody wants to play us, and I think that’s around the conference and around the region.

Everybody knows we’re coming.”

Baseball survives 40-run marathon to go 3-1 over weekend By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor

Sunday night had bled into Monday morning before the Hillsdale College baseball team defeated the Bellarmine Knights in the highest scoring game in Hillsdale baseball history, finishing a 3-1 weekend in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Chargers opened the weekend with a 6-3 loss against Bellarmine on Saturday before they topped the Alderson-Broaddus Battlers in games on Saturday night and early Sunday afternoon—13-4 and 8-5 respectively. The Chargers rounded out the weekend with an 11-inning affair that resulted in a 21-19 Hillsdale victory.

“We took care of business over the weekend,” senior third baseman Michael O’Sullivan said. “Being early in the season, we are still experimenting with lineups and positioning. To win three-of-four is a testament to the depth of our roster.”

The Chargers struck first in game one against Bellarmine, with an RBI coming from junior designated hitter Ethan Wiskur, who was named GLIAC North Hitter of the Week.

“It is nice to be recognized

and I am proud to represent Hillsdale,” said Wiskur. “But with the hitters we have on the Charger team this season, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if several of us win the honor.”

Bellarmine, however, delivered three runs in the bottom half of the first inning. The Knights would never relinquish this lead, despite Hillsdale RBIs from O’Sullivan and senior first baseman Chris McDonald.

Hillsdale starter senior Jacob Gardner took the loss, pushing him to 1-1 on the season, after giving up five runs — two earned — on seven hits and four walks over six innings.

Through the early part of the season the Chargers have stressed the importance of learning to bounce back from tough losses. They wasted no time doing this, scoring in each of the first six innings during Saturday’s second game against Alderson-Broaddus.

Eight different Chargers had hits and six recorded RBIs on the way to opening up a 13-4 lead after six innings.

Sophomore starter Will Kruse recorded the win after allowing four runs — three earned — over six innings,

while striking out four. Sophomore Phil Carey, Wiskur, junior Joe Chasen, and McDonald combined to throw three shutout innings out of the bullpen, allowing only one hit.

Head coach Eric Theisen credited his team’s ability to recover from the first-game loss, something that has been a point of emphasis for the squad.

“We have bounced back multiple times already this year and we have only played seven games,” Theisen said.

“You can see from our comeback in Georgia, and the way we rebounded from the loss this weekend, that this team doesn’t have any quit in them.”

Hillsdale didn’t lose any momentum over night, either.

The Chargers jumped out to an early two-run lead in Sunday’s first game against Alderson-Broaddus, with RBIs coming from Wiskur and senior catcher Joe Gentile.

The Knights scored one run in the top of each of the fifth and sixth innings, knocking out senior starter Lucas Hamelink after 5 2/3 innings, in which he allowed two earned runs on five hits. Alderson-Broaddus scored two runs in the top of the seventh to take a 4-2 lead.

The Chargers responded with six runs in the bottom half of the inning, thanks to two passed balls and a grand slam from senior right fielder Connor Bartlett.

“I was just trying to get a good pitch to drive somewhere deep in the outfield and hopefully sneak a run in with a sacrifice fly,” Bartlett said. “Coach Theisen reminded me after the game that when I rounded third I yelled ‘crushed it’ to him, which he thought was funny.”

Senior Evan Chalker, senior captain Mitchell Gatt — who recorded the win — and Wiskur combined to allow three runs — two earned — in 2 2/3 innings before McDonald threw a perfect ninth to record his third save of the season.

The fourth and final game of the weekend, against Bellarmine, lasted 11 innings over 5 1/2 hours and resulted in a 21-19 run Charger victory, which is the highest scoring game in Hillsdale history.

“I swear we are playing the longest, most exciting games ever,” Theisen said. “You knew both teams were going to continue to score runs, and we had to be the ones to score the most.”

The scoring started early when Hillsdale plated three in the top of the first, and Bellarmine responded with nine of their own. Over the next few innings the Chargers mounted a comeback, and tied the game at 14-14 in the sixth inning, before four runs for each team in the seventh finished the regular-inning scoring.

O’Sullivan homered twice, and McDonald once, in the effort.

“I was in another world. I’m a little dude and so for me to hit a homerun pumps the team up like nothing else,” O’Sullivan said. “I’m usually the team bunter.”

Theisen attributed the scoring to the exhaustion felt by the pitching staffs on both sides.

“That’s just what 38 innings in a weekend will do to you,” Theisen said. “I don’t think there is a pitching staff on the planet that wouldn’t be worn down.”

After a scoreless 10th, Hillsdale scored three in the top of the 11th with RBIs coming from Wiskur, Bartlett, and freshman catcher Chris Ackerman.

McDonald took the mound in the bottom of the 11th, and was able to limit the Knights to

one run on two hits to record his second save on the day and fourth of the season.

Freshman second baseman Kevin Monson did his part in sealing the victory, fielding a rocket ground ball and starting 4-6-3 double play to record the first two outs of the inning. The play came after the Knights had already scored one run in the inning.

“That ball was the hardest hit ball I’ve fielded in my life, but luckily it was hit right at me,” Monson said. “I knew at that stage of the game I just needed to get my body in front and make sure I got at least one out. Luckily for us we got two.”

Despite the long weekend, Thiesen said that the team was ecstatic after the victory, and emphasized the team’s ability to keep each other motivated and driven.

This weekend elevates the Chargers to 5-2 on the season.

The team will look to continue its success this weekend when it travels to Owensboro, Kentucky, for a doubleheader on Saturday against Kentucky Wesleyan, and a Sunday doubleheader against Urbana University.

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Women’s basketball gains experience in first season under new coach By | Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter A loss to Saginaw Valley State University on Feb. 25 ended the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team’s first season under head coach Todd Mitmesser. The Chargers finished with an overall record of 10-16 and 7-15 in the GLIAC, setting the groundwork for next season with an aggressive game strategy and a host of young, experienced players.

Though a GLIAC tournament spot was already out of sight, the Chargers attacked Saginaw Valley with their characteristic high-speed charge, earning a five-point lead over the GLIAC North Division champions by halftime. But a 28-2 Cardinal run beginning in the third quarter halted the Chargers’ hopes of denying Saginaw Valley a home game in the first round of the GLIAC Tournament.

“Our last game was similar to games we played in the last few weeks,” Mitmesser said.

“We were beating the GLIAC North Division champions at halftime. Then in the third and fourth quarter we had open looks and we didn’t shoot them well.”

But the 73-55 final score masked successes on offense and defense. The Chargers

scored 18 points in the paint against Saginaw Valley post player Emily Wendling and held the Cardinals (20-7, 17-5 GLIAC) to 0-for-12 3-point shooting.

Freshmen Makenna Ott and Allie Dewire continued to prove themselves as consistent scorers. Ott posted her fifth straight double-digit scoring game with 15 points behind 3-of-4 3-point shooting, while Dewire added 10 points and 2 assists of her own.

Though Ott said the team played well in the first-half, they lost their fire in the final two quarters.

“A lot of teams in the GLIAC come out and pick it up in the third quarter, and sometimes we get complacent,” Ott said. “They go on a run and it’s hard to come back. But we have more experience for next year. We just need to push, since that’s what we do best.”

The seniors played hard in their last game as well. Kayla Geffert put up 7 points and 7 rebounds and finished the game with the other four healthy seniors on the court.

Ott said the seniors helped the younger players as they learned a new system together this season.

“The seniors especially were so welcoming this year,” Ott said. “They led vocally and by

example. For example, Kayla was always in the gym. She taught us what to do and how to be successful as a team, and now we can show that next year to the freshmen.”

Though six Chargers will be leaving the team, a core of younger players is ready to take charge next season.

“Our future is bright,” Mitmesser said. “We’re really excited about returning players, who contributed a great deal this season. We also have a strong recruiting class, with six committed players who are playing deep into their state tournaments right now.”

Geffert said Mitmesser’s coaching has laid the foundation for success in their last season in the GLIAC next year. The team’s fast playing style allowed the Chargers to consistently outscore their opponents in the first two quarters of the game, but they lost the scoring battle 483-392 in fourth quarters during the season.

“The team’s overall game IQ improved,” Geffert said.

“Coach Mitmesser did a great job of not only coaching us in the fundamentals, but going beyond that to how he sees the game and how to make plays and read defenses. So we understand the game more.”

As the Chargers transi-

Women’s basketball head coach Todd Mitmesser draws up a play during a timeout in Hillsdale’s game vs. Grand Valley on Feb. 20. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

tion to offseason workouts, Mitmesser said the players will continue to develop their games.

“In the spring, we’ll work on building individual games to get a broader and deeper idea of how to play basketball,” Mitmesser said. “We expect every individual player to improve

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al rankings released on March 1 confirm that the Hillsdale women’s track and field team will send 10 athletes and one relay team to compete. According to Towne, Hillsdale is sending the most athletes ever between men and women to the national championships.

“No matter what we go in ranked or how we compare to last year, our focus is on our kids this year and what they have to do to be successful.

That said we are covering a lot of events,” Towne said. “That’s the key to success at NCAAs — having quality and having as much of that as you possibly can. It’s not a quantity championship. It’s not about who has the most entries. It’s about the quality of the entries because points are hard to come by.”

Members of the Hillsdale College men’s and women’s track and field teams smile for a photo with their medals on the podium after the GLIAC Championships last Saturday. Joe Lynn | Courtesy

their skills both on offense and defense.”

Geffert said though they suffered disappointing losses, the women’s basketball season showed a positive trend.

“That’s been the theme of the whole year: it was a transition to a new coaching style and teaching style,” Geffert

said. “They’ll be more experienced than other teams next year because of all the young players who got a ton of opportunities to play. And the learning curve will be quicker because the girls know the system. I’m excited to watch them grow. I think they’ll be hard to beat in years to come.”

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in the national championship meet in Pittsburg, Kansas. The 4x400 relay team is currently ranked No. 14 and the DMR relay team is ranked No. 10.

Some schools have qualified multiple relay teams for the national meet, but can only race one, so Hillsdale athletes’ chances of placing in the top eight and becoming All-Americans is better than their ranking would suggest.

Schipper, who is currently ranked second in Division II and placed second at the championship last year, is confident that he will compete to be national champion this year. Still, he’s not putting too much pressure on himself.

“I’m just going to do my best, and whatever place that gives me, I’ll be happy,” Schipper said.

Hillsdale,” he said. “I stress that it’s not rocket science to get better.”

Later on the second day of competition, Schipper out-vaulted the competition to win the pole vault, and in the process broke not only his own school record, but the old GLIAC event record of 5.25 meters, with a vault of 5.27 meters.

“I’m happy with it,” Schipper said. “In all honesty, the GLIAC is really strong in pole vaulting right now. Out of GLIACs, four are going to the national meet.”

Senior Matt Harris placed fourth in the event.

On Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12, Schipper and the men’s 4x400 and DMR relay teams will be competing

Softball goes 2-2 over weekend to wrap up nonconference play By | Madeleine Jepsen Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College softball team opened last weekend with a 13-3 victory in the fifth inning, invoking the NCAA’s mercy rule against Trevecca Nazarene University. The Chargers also topped Huntington 3-1, but dropped games to Indianapolis and Truman to solidify a 2-2 weekend.

“Our strongest game was definitely against Trevecca Nazarene,” head coach Joe Abraham said. “We just came out hitting the ball, and we scored in all five innings.

Overall, we hit well throughout the lineup and jumped on them with five runs at the top of the first and never looked back. That was a great game for us.”

Senior pitcher Sarah Klopfer said the team exhibits an experience-based confidence which five-inning games have reinforced.

“Overall, the entire team sees the ball really well and goes to the batting box with confidence,” she said. “Usually, we don’t see that this early in the season.”

Although the entire team played well, senior outfielder Bekah Kastning had a stellar performance, hitting a homer-

un, a triple, and a double, driving in four runs.

The team suffered a close defeat on Saturday against University of Indianapolis, who were the 2015 Midwest Region champions. Abraham said Indianapolis’ All-star pitcher posed a huge challenge for the Chargers.

“In addition to her being incredibly good, you add to that how we never see that type of pitching, and we were just completely overmatched,” Abraham said. “As is the case for most teams that she faces.

She would be a good pitcher at the top of Division I.” Despite the loss, Abraham said the Chargers held their own until the seventh inning of the game through their strong defensive performance.

“We held them to two, but they also have an excellent lineup,” he said. “We played great defense that game, and Sarah Klopfer pitched a great game. We were in the game until the final out, despite the fact that she struck us all out.

All it would have taken is for someone to connect with one, and we would’ve had a tied game.”

The team rallied later that afternoon and defeated Huntington University 3-1. Abraham said the game was close

until the last inning, but the team pulled through for a hard-fought victory.

“Just the emotional wear and tear of the Indianapolis game made the Huntington game a very difficult one for us,” he said. “The fact that we played great defense, got a great pitching effort from Sarah Gruenert, and managed to score the runs when we really needed to showed a lot about our team — the maturity, the fight, the will — that would have been a very easy game for us to lose.”

The team took another tough loss on Sunday against Truman State University, 4-0.

Despite a strong throwing game by senior pitcher Sarah Klopfer, strong winds and three runs at the bottom of the sixth inning tipped the scales in Truman’s favor.

“We didn’t strike out all that much, but we had a hard time getting a good piece of the ball with the bat, and the wind was blowing in hard, which cost us at least one home run, and maybe two,” Abraham said.

“Between that pitcher being good, and us just hitting into some bad breaks, she shut us down.”

This weekend marks the final game the Chargers will play until the their conference

What has the transition from player to coach been like?

The transition from player to coach has gone pretty smoothly. Since I am coaching alongside guys that I played for I knew what to expect as far as work ethic, team expectations, and how things are run, which definitely helps.

of baseball and life. I wouldn’t trade my friendships with my teammates over the past five years for anything.

Senior outfielder Bekah Kastning came a single short of hitting for the cycle on Friday against Trevecca Nazarene. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

opener March 25. Although the team typically plays in Florida over spring break, the late break this year prevents them from doing so. Additionally, the southern teams will have already begun their conference season, leaving the team with significantly less out-of-conference games this year.

“For us this year, the difference will be that we will not have played a game in almost four weeks, while the rest of

the league will have played much closer to the time of our actual conference games,” Abraham said.

Even with the lower number of games under their belt, freshman second baseman Amanda Marra said that the tough competition will prove valuable in preparation for the in-conference season.

“There are some really good teams in our league, so the games we’ve played this past weekend really prepared us for

that,” she said. “We’re going to be ready to go.”

In their eight games thus far, Abraham said their average of 7.5 runs per game bodes well for the rest of the spring season, which they will begin with a 5-3 record.

“Our hitting, our defense, and our pitching have all been really good,” he said. “We just lost to three really good teams with three really good pitchers.”

What hopes and goals do you have for this Hillsdale College baseball season?

The expectations for this team will always be the same. That we will all be great teammates to each other and the team will always come first.

As far as performance goes we expect to be in the conference tournament and win the GLIAC and reach our peak performance as we go to regionals and beyond.

everything is sharp physically and mentally so you can perform at a high level throughout the season and help the team as much as possible. As a coach it’s more of preparing the players to be ready during practice and doing things like scouting reports of our opponents and preparing itineraries for road trips off the field so they can just focus on school and baseball.

players that are 100 percent committed to the team and eager to come to Hillsdale.

We also carry a larger roster size than we did when I first got here which provides more depth at every position which has already paid off our first week of competition in the season.

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Shane Armstrong ‘15 is now an assistant baseball coach after pitching for the Chargers until he graduated last year.

How did your time with Hillsdale Baseball affect you as a person?

My time with Hillsdale Baseball has impacted my life a lot.

Playing here at Hillsdale has taught me a lot about how to set and achieve goals, build strong relationships, and how to prepare both for the game

What about the team do you like so much that makes you want to stay around and coach?

I really enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds this team. It has always been a group of guys that cares about each other and wants to help each other succeed. It was great to be a part of that as a player and help to carry it on as a coach.

What differences are there preparing for a season as a coach and as a player?

As a player preparing for the season you want to hone in on your skills and make sure

How has the baseball team improved since you first started on the team?

Since my freshman year, Hillsdale Baseball has undergone a complete culture change. The coaches work hard to bring in

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By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College women’s track and field team fought through the storm that is the GLIAC Championships this weekend at Tiffin University.

Despite being ranked No. 1 in the nation, the Chargers took a backseat to Grand Valley, placing second. The Chargers utilized every facet of the team to score 101.5 points in total.

Sophomore Rachael Tolsma dropped a bomb in the weight throw this weekend, shattering her own personal record and breaking the school record with a throw of 18.97 meters.

Tolsma’s incredible weekend earned her a spot on the podium at second and also ensured her a spot at nationals. Her national ranking leapt from 20th to eighth.

“I’m really excited about it. Practice has been going really well, so it’s just kind of catching up in the meets so that feels good,” Tolsma said.

“There was only one thing I needed to fix in my finish and it finally clicked, so I’m pretty confident about nationals.”

Senior Emily Oren placed first in the mile, running a time of 4:48.64. Oren earned 10 points for the team and another automatic mark for nationals, and she is ranked second in the nation in the event.

Oren won a total of three awards after the championship meet: Track Athlete of the Year, Track Athlete of the Meet, and High Point Athlete of the Meet.

The Chargers swept the podium in the 3K, taking first, second, and third. Emily Oren, who is ranked second in the nation for this event as well, ran a time of 9:42.15, junior Molly Oren was close behind with a 9:44.80, and sophomore Hannah McIntyre followed with a 9:47.45. Each time reached provisional standard.

This single event earned Hillsdale 24 points.

“As a group and a team we are a lot more confident in our role in not only conference but also nationals. It’s nice going into nationals with a good race under my belt,” said Molly Oren, who will be running the 1200 in the distance medley

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Senior Emily Oren runs the last leg of the distance medley relay at the GLIAC Championships. The relay team ran its fastest time of the year and is ranked second in the nation. David Mexicotte | Courtesy

relay and the 3K at the national meet.

The DMR placed first this weekend. McIntyre, senior Emily Guy, sophomore Hannah Watts, and Emily Oren ran their fastest time of the season with an 11:35.96. Though this is only a provisional mark, the relay team is ranked second in the nation.

Junior Sarah Benson competed in her second pentathlon this weekend and placed fifth, scoring 3323 points. This was a 300-point improvement over the last time she ran it.

Though Benson reached the provisional standard for the pentathlon, she will be competing at nationals because of her performance in the long jump portion of the multievent. Benson jumped 5.84 meters, a foot better than her personal record, and she is now ranked 15th in the nation in the long jump.

“I started the day off running my slowest hurdle race yet so I was in the frame of mind that I had to make big efforts in every single event from then on to catch up,” Benson said. “Qualifying in long jump was the least likely thing I expected to happen. There wasn’t as much pressure as last year when it was an individual event. In the multis you don’t place any event under too much pressure.”

Head coach Andrew Towne admitted that some things didn’t go their way but that overall he was pleased with their performance.

“Our whole focus isn’t laying down at GLIACs but being completely ready for NCAAs,” Towne said.

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After a season of athletes and coaches claiming their team was on the rise, the Hillsdale College men’s track and field team went out and proved it at the GLIAC conference championship meet in Tiffin, Ohio, last weekend, placing third overall in its highest finish since 2008.

The team’s success at the GLIAC Championships is significant because it’s not only sending nine athletes to the NCAA Division II National Championship in March — the 4x400 relay team, the DMR relay team, and Jared Schipper in pole vault — but the conference is considered to be the most competitive in D-II men’s track.

The team had one fewer individual champion than last season — last year Joshua Mirth ‘15 (5K) and sophomore Lane White (400) won their events — as sophomore Jared Schipper was Hillsdale’s sole champion. But the Chargers also scored 19 more points than last year, with 17 athletes scoring points.

“The men are progressing very quickly as a program,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “We’re excited about NCAAs. We’ll be ready to go.”

The key to the team’s conference gains was its ability to score in so many different events. They continued their success in relays as well as distance and middle distance events, while also showing improvement in the sprints and field events.

Senior Todd Frickey and junior Sergio San Jose Lorza combined for eight points in the 60-meter dash, and Frickey again broke his own school record in 6.88 seconds. Last year, the team didn’t score any points in the event.

While Schipper was Hillsdale’s only GLIAC champion, they had a number of top three, or “podium,” finishes. The DMR relay team, the 4x400 relay team, and sophomore Tony Wondaal (mile) finished second, while White (400 meter), junior Caleb Gatchell (mile), and junior Joe Newcomb (5K) placed third in

Sophomore Jared Schipper took first place in the pole vault with a vault of 5.27 meters, a GLIAC record. David Mexicotte | Courtesy

their respective races.

The DMR relay team only finished 0.42 seconds behind Grand Valley State University’s team. In their duel with Grand Valley, the team ran their best time yet, smashing the school record set in 2012.

“Watching the first three legs of the race, I knew we were on school record pace, and if we set the school record, that would be fast enough to go to nationals,” Wondaal said.

“I got the stick maybe two seconds out of the lead behind Grand Valley, but just a few quick steps after the handoff put me right on their heel.”

Wondaal ran right behind Grand Valley, until the sixth lap of his leg, where he fell behind. He made up most of the lost ground in the final two laps.

“I couldn’t quite make up the ground in the last 100 meters,” he said.

After last Saturday’s perfor-

mance, Wondaal is confident that the DMR team can place in the top eight and become All-Americans at the national meet later this month.

The next day, Wondaal placed second in the mile to Grand Valley’s Ethan Barnes, getting out-kicked by only 0.26 seconds.

“It went out really slow; we came through 800 meters in 2:16,” Wondaal said. “About three laps to go, I jumped out from the back of the pack and just decided to go for it at that point. I led a lap, maybe a lap and a half, then Barnes got around me.”

Distance coach Joe Lynn attributes the distance runner’s success to being consistent.

“They buy into the system, hold themselves and each other accountable, and want to take advantage of this great situation they have here at

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COOPER NAMED PLAYER OF THE YEAR, ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICAN By|Nathanael Meadowcroft percentage in the GLIAC, and scored 40 or more points twice Sports Editor and reached the 30-point plaThe Hillsdale College bas- teau six times. As an accountketball team has boasted many ing major, he has a 3.88 GPA. “It’s a huge honor, and it great players in its history. But none have had a season quite feels mostly like a culmination like senior forward Kyle Coo- of a career,” said Cooper , who per had this year — on and off is Hillsdale’s first recipient of the GLIAC Player of the Year the court.

Cooper was named GLI- award in 32 years. “But more AC Player of the Year by GLI- than anything, I think it’s just a AC coaches on Monday and product of playing for a coachthe D-II Capital One CoSI- ing staff that runs an offense DA Academic All-American that is able to utilize what I’m of the Year by the College best at and playing with teamSports Information Directors mates that are willing to sacriof America on Wednesday in fice, give me the ball when I’m recognition of his outstanding open, and set screens.”

“As much as it is an indiperformance in the GLIAC vidual award, to me it’s really a and in the classroom.

“Kyle epitomizes what it team award,” he said.

After playing under the means to be a student athlete, and we’re really just proud shadow of Tim Dezelski in of him and all of the guys are his freshman and sophomore happy for him because he rep- seasons, Cooper emerged as resents what college athletics Hillsdale’s top offensive option are supposed to be about. Kyle in the 2014-15 season when he Cooper is the poster child of averaged 20.5 points per game that,” Hillsdale basketball head and 10.3 rebounds per game.

“He’s been doing this for coach John Tharp said. “He’s a tremendous player, and a very two years. It hasn’t been just one year that he’s had this rehumble kid.”

Cooper led the GLIAC in sponsibility. He’s had it for two scoring with 22.8 points per years,” Tharp said.

Cooper also credits senior game and was second in rebounding with 9.7 rebounds point guard Zach Miller, who per game. He shot 45.3 percent he has played alongside for all from 3-point territory, the best four years.

“I’ve been blessed to play with Zach,” Cooper said.

“Zach is the best point guard that I’ve ever been on a team with and his court vision has led to me getting a lot of easy baskets.”

Miller is happy for his teammate, and said that it’s Cooper’s defense that has lifted him and his team to new heights “He deserves it. He works hard, had an unbelievable year, and he’s our go-to guy,” Miller said. “A lot of people don’t realize that his defense this past month has really picked up a notch, and I think that’s helped us because I think everybody else’s defense has followed suit.

When you’ve got your best player locking down, it helps all of us, and that’s been a key part to winning games.”

Cooper will play in his first GLIAC semifinals of his career on Saturday. A win puts the Chargers into the GLIAC championship game, while a loss likely ends his collegiate career. Cooper plans to play professional basketball in Europe after graduation, but he doesn’t want to start worrying about that yet.

“I’m just trying to keep my college career going for as long as I can,” Cooper said.

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The opening of Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture,” featured at the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend. IMSLP | Courtesy

Weekend orchestra concerts take audience from the English seaside to Cuba “In the third movement, ‘Moonlight,’ the flute and piccolos play this percussive, pingy motive over and over which represents the

By | Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will fill Markel Auditorium with the sounds of a Suffolk fishing town this weekend in its annual spring concert.

The “Four Sea Interludes,” selections from the opera “Peter Grimes” by British composer Benjamin Britten, challenge musicians to bring the salty air of the sea and scenes of village living in a seaside hamlet to the audience.

“Not many of my peers would attempt Britten’s piece, but our orchestra keeps growing in their skill level and I wanted to challenge them,” Music Department Chair James Holleman said. “It’s a very beautiful and intense piece, not something you would have heard in Bugs Bunny or in a commercial.”

Last year, senior violinist Taylor Flowers included Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes” in a selection of music he suggested to Holleman for the 2015-2016 orchestra repertoire.

“I’m thrilled that we can try to tackle such a complex work,” Flowers said. “It’s one of the most purely modern pieces that the orchestra has done in a good while, at least while I have been here.”

Flowers described the modern character of “Interludes” as highlighting the distinctive sound of instruments independent of intensity and pitch, a quality musicians call timbre.

striking of contrast of stars against the night sky,” Flowers said. “That kind of pingy percussive sound is evocative in that context because

Junior Rachelle Ferguson rehearses with the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra. She and fellow concerto competition winner sophomore Gregory Farison will perform their winning pieces at the orchestra concert this Saturday and Sunday.

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if it was a cello, the effect would have a completely different,” Flowers said.

The orchestra program also includes George Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture” and the overture from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, “Nabucco.” The second half of the concert will feature two of this year’s four concerto winners: junior violinist Rachelle Ferguson playing Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5 and sophomore cellist Gregory Farison playing Camille SaintSaens’ Cello Concerto No. 2.

Holleman plans to record the orchestra’s spring program and use it as an audition CD when he attends the National College Orchestra Director’s Association Conference (CODA) next year. More than 200 conductors nationwide from schools of various sizes belong to CODA. Judged in a blind audition, Hillsdale’s orchestra would face competition from large state schools.

Holleman is not daunted.

“With a clean recording, these are impressive pieces for any size school,” he said. “I’ve been going to the national conference for the past four years, gauging our orchestra against the ones that are performing, and I think we have a shot at it.”

Holleman said that the talent of concerto winners Ferguson and Farison also give this weekend’s concert a special energy, a program of music that shouldn’t be missed.

A scene with a view Hillsdale’s technical director in theatre arts travels to Italy to design opera sets By | Jessie Fox Assistant Editor Renee Surprenant, Visiting Assistant Professor of Design and Technical Director in Theatre Arts, understands the importance of getting a change in scenery. This June, she will head to Italy to spend her fourth consecutive summer working as the set designer and internship coordinator for La Musica Lirica.

La Musica Lirica is a five-week training program that sends about 50 opera students to Novafeltria, Italy, to gain hands-on training and experience in producing operas.

“The whole point of the program is to teach the students better Italian language skills and singing skills in Italy so they get the full immersion,” Surprenant said.

Surprenant works with a technical director and two interns to produce the sets for three shows. Designing and building the sets takes the first 2 1/2 weeks of the program. During the second half, the students do mini tours through Emilia Romagna, a region in northeast Italy.

“We get to see some really cool places and none of them are in big cities that you would normally see if you’re on a trip to Italy,” Surprenant said. “On a normal tour you might skip over this whole beautiful region. It’s not very touristy. It feels like authentic Italy.”

The program puts on three shows: two large productions and one smaller production for less-experienced students. This summer the company will perform “La Traviata” and “Falstaff,” both by Giuseppe Verdi, as its main productions.

Surprenant said the variety of venues they use adds to the experience.

“Some of the stages are outside — temporary stages set up in a courtyard,” Surprenant said.“Others are in real Italian theaters with great stages and old theater machinery from the 1800s. They’re beautiful opera houses. The sets I design are almost like puzzle pieces so I can make them bigger or smaller to fit into the space.

We usually don’t know what the space will be like until we get there.”

Surprenant said the theaters in Italy are unlike any she has seen in the United States.

“That’s kind of why Italy has that entrancing quality,” she said. “It’s old and so beautiful and a lot of these theaters are older than our country.

It’s just so amazing to be able to be there.”

Surprenant’s role as a set designer means she comes up with the concepts for the scenery in conjunction with the director, draws a design, then passes the design along to a technical director who builds the set.

Surprenant also paints the sets.

At Hillsdale, Surprenant is both

set designer and technical director for theatre department productions, working two jobs instead of just one.

Surprenant said that when she was pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree at Michigan State University, she wanted to master set design, technical direction, and painting.

“I knew throughout my graduate studies that I would have a much higher chance of getting a job in this field if I were good doing all of those things, and I enjoy doing all of these things,” Surprenant said. “So, my Visiting Assistant Professor of Design and Technical Director in Theatre Arts Renee Surprenant designs sets plan was to train in both design and for a student opera company in Italy each summer. Renee Surprenant | Courtesy technical direction, and learn how to paint so that I could do it all myself and cover all my bases.”

It turned out that her role at Hillsdale would require her to do all three.

“That wouldn’t be the case anywhere else,” Surprenant said. “Normally I would be one or the other but here I do have the challenge of doing all of it. Our schedule is set up so that I can do all of it. If we did four shows a semester it would be a lot more difficult, but it’s spaced out just correctly so that I can do all of it.”

Surprenant said she sees potential in making La Musica Lirica into a study abroad option for set design students in the future.

“For students of set design, whether you’re a set designer or constructing or painting the scenery, doing summer stock theater is really important,” she said. “You can go to school during the year and then do a summer job in the professional world. There is so much to learn in terms of time management and the time crunch of getting it done no matter what. Banding together with your scene shop is a really important experience that all summer stocks have. You can get that experience with this program, and you can get the experience of being in Italy.”

Senior theatre major Nicholas Gibbs, who is on the set design track, has worked with as one of Surprenant’s employees for a couple years. Surprenant works with four student employees when she designs the sets for Hillsdale’s theatre department.

Gibbs said he thinks La Musica Lirica would be a great opportunity for set design students.

“I would love to see an opportunity like that, especially at Hillsdale,” he said. “Theater is a career that is almost entirely reliant on word-ofmouth and connections, so the more networking you do and the greater diversity of people you work with, the greater chance you have of landing work. Plus, the exposure to an entirely different culture’s forms of theater, design, and art are perfect

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Q&A: Concerto competition winners Junior Rachelle Ferguson will perform Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5, and Sophomore Gregory Farison will perform the second movement of Camille Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No. 2, at this weekend’s orchestra concerts.

What is your major?

I’m an English and classics double major.

What is your major?

Economics with a music minor.

How many years have you played the violin?

I started taking lessons when I was 4, so about 16 years. I can’t remember a time without it. It’s part of my life.

How many years have you played the cello?

Roughly 13 years.

Do you play any other instruments?

No, I’ve only studied the cello.

Do you play any other instruments?

I play piano and I sing. I take lessons for those here as well.

What is your favorite piece that you’ve played or one that has spoken to you the most?

That’d be one of my absolute favorite cello pieces, Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2.

What is your favorite piece that you’ve played or one that has spoken to you the most?

One of my favorite composers and pieces that I’ve played is by Samuel Barber. The Barber Violin Concerto is just one of my favorites.

Do you have any other hobbies?

I love to write. I’m on the Tower Light board, so I do a lot of creative writing and things like that. I spend a lot Madeline Fry | Collegian of time reading and writing.

What is your fondest musical memory?

This is sort of a bigger thing and not really a specific memory.

In high school, I was in the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, which was a really fantastic experience. We played fun music and it was really special to be involved with a group of other young people that were so serious and had such a love for music, like myself.

Do you have any other hobbies?

Music is certainly my main hobby, though I also greatly enjoy reading novels.

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What is your fondest musical memory?

Going to a Goat Rodeo concert with my friends and geeking over Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile’s playing. ~Compiled by Laura Williamson

Arts News Feb. -March  “Glimpses”: Paintings by Sam Knecht Daughtrey Gallery Sage Center for the Arts

March  College Night at The Underground features Imperial Dynasty 9:30 p.m. Thursday Broad Street Market

March  &  Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra Concerts 8 p.m. Saturday 3 p.m. Sunday Markel Auditorium Sage Center for the Arts Tickets Required

March  Jazz Afterglow: Hillsdale College Little Big Band 10 p.m. Saturday McNamara Rehearsal Hall Howard Music Building

Hillsdale students ‘outstanding’ at Elmhurst College Jazz Festival By | Joe Pappalardo Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College Big Band performed at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival this past weekend for the first time in 20 years.

Last Saturday, the group traveled to Elmhurst, Illinois, where they played with several other colleges. Director of Jazz Studies Chris McCourry, the band director, said Hillsdale was on par with other schools that performed at the festival, including Ohio State University, Western Michigan University, and Central Michigan University.

Juniors Luke Zahari and Gianna Marchese both received Outstanding Individual Musician Awards at the festival. Marchese, who sings with the Big Band, said she was grateful to be a part of the group and impressed by its work.

“I was really honored that such fine musicians as the judges thought that I was deserving of it, especially seeing the caliber of other students from other colleges receiving the same award,” Marchese said.

The Big Band represented Hillsdale College against several larger institutions.

“We were up against some really big schools,” she said. “We were followed by Ohio State, so for little Hillsdale to come in and impress a lot of frequent festival-goers, I think that speaks a lot for our program here.”

The judges gave Zahari an Outstanding Performance Award for his trumpet performance.

“Being recognized at a festival as presti-

The Hillsdale College Big Band performed at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois, last weekend. Ben Block | Courtesy

gious as Elmhurst is a surreal experience,” Zahari, who has been playing at jazz festivals

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creative fuel for students like me who are still discovering the vastness of style.”

Gibbs said that working with Surprenant influenced him to pursue theatrical design.

“We worked with her first on the production of ‘Woyzeck’ we did here and I definitely saw a new side to design,” Gibbs said. “I had never exactly considered theatrical design as something I was interested in, but seeing the kind of diversity Renee brought really drew me in.

As I started working towards a focus in design, she really started to challenge me and push me to work more efficiently. She was really patient, and I think in part that it is because she’s graduated more recently from academia and understands the balancing act.”

Though her two-part job does seem like a balancing act, Surprenant has produced quality work for the Hillsdale theatre department

— and sophomore Glynis Gilio, an actress in these productions, said she has noticed.

“The work that Renee has done thus far has been absolutely spectacular,” Gilio said. “As an actor, you want to know that when you’re on that stage you feel immersed in the environment around you, and Renee is an expert at achieving that. Renee is also very skilled at working with students with all different levels of experience in the scene shop. She incorporates them well and is a great leader.”

Surprenant said she feels a certain commitment to each set she works on.

“I love set design because each show has a different specialty to it, a different thing to focus on,” she said. “I love something different about every show and as a whole I get to do so many different things and that’s what makes it so exciting.”

Visiting Assistant Professor of Design and Technical Director in Theatre Arts Renee Surprenant designs sets, like this one for Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri,” for a student opera company in Italy each summer. Renee Surprenant | Courtesy

high praise from the judges.

“We got a lot of comments that our trumpet section was phenomenal,” sophomore trombone player Julia Hoyda said.

Before taking the stage at Elmhurst, the Big Band also performed at a GOP rally Friday night. The event encouraged DuPage County residents to vote in local elections, but did not endorse any specific politician.

Hoyda said the Friday night set consisted of classic ’40s and ’50s big band music from the band’s dance books. The Saturday songs were more contemporary, according to sophomore drummer Dean Sinclair. The band’s competition performance expanded beyond jazz to include rock, Latin, and swing music “We did incredibly well for the fact that none of us are music majors and we come from a school of this size,” Sinclair said.

The band members also met professional jazz musicians when they attended a masterclass hosted by trombonist Michael Davis, saxophonist Donny McCaslin, and trumpeter Scott Wendholt. Later Saturday night, the students watched a performance by the three-time Grammy-nominated Bob Mintzer Big Band.

All agreed that this year’s trip was a smashing success.

“We plan on attending in the future,” McCourry said.

since seventh grade, said.

The Big Band’s entire brass section received

The Oscars in review Chris Rock’s humor ‘damaged the cause he was trying to support’ By | Kayla Stetzel Collegian Reporter The 88th Academy Awards was full of surprises and some truly cringeworthy moments.

“Spotlight” won best picture, which was a shock to all, but perhaps the most startling event of the night was comedian Chris Rock’s opening monologue.

After the academy did not recognize a single actor of color for the second year in a row, many were curious as to how Rock would address the race issue on Hollywood’s biggest night.

Needless to say, Rock did not let Hollywood off easy. He dove straight into controversy during his opening remarks, calling the award ceremony “the White People’s Choice Awards.”

“You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job! You’d all be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now,” Rock said.

While some of his remarks were funny, like the time he compared Hollywood racism to sorority selection — “We like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa” — many of Rock’s jokes missed the mark and undermined the issue of racism in Hollywood.

In one of the most awkward

encounters ever displayed on television, Rock introduced Stacey Dash, an outspoken African-American actress who has publicly bashed both the #OscarsSoWhite movement and Black History Month, as the new director of the academy’s “minority outreach program.” While it was supposed to be ironic, audience members were visibly uncomfortable, and silence filled the room.

Rock’s general statement of the evening seemed to be that “black people want opportunities” in Hollywood, a point he hammered home, yet it was clear Rock neglected the fact that #OscarSoWhite movement included actors of all minorities.

In one of the most egregious missteps, Rock introduced a pack of young Asian children as “accountants” from the PricewaterhouseCoopers firm, the firm responsible for tallying the academy’s votes.

“They sent us their most dedicated, accurate, and hardworking representatives: Ming Xu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz. If anyone’s upset about that joke, just tweet about it on your phone that was also made by these kids,” Rock said, as three young Asian children walked out onto the stage.

The small children were visibly confused and did not know where to stand. It was clear the whole encounter was in poor taste and discriminatory against Asians. While Rock made it clear it isn’t OK to exclude African Americans from the Academy Awards, Rock often threw other minorities under the bus.

Rock had the opportunity to take Hollywood to task for excluding other minorities from the award shows, but he never made an attempt. He could have reached out in solidarity and congratulated nonwhite actors and directors who were up for nominations, like Alejandro Inarritu or Asif Kapadia. Instead, Rock focused his entire act on African-American representation, as opposed to inclusion of all races from all countries.

Rock closed the award show by shouting, “Black lives matter,” as credits rolled to Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.”

While Rock used his humor to bring attention to the the inequality in Hollywood, the way in which he went about it damaged the cause he was trying to support.

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Senior coaches Academy’s Women’s JV basketball team By | Andrew Egger Assistant Editor Senior Betsy Thistleton has always been more of a volleyball aficionado. But it’s hard to grow up with eight brothers without picking up some basketball, too.

So when Mike Roberts, the athletic director at Hillsdale Academy, offered her a job coaching the junior varsity girls’ basketball team last fall, she didn’t hesitate to accept.

“It was really fun to be a part of the Academy culture for the time, just to kind of get to know more families in the area and be invested outside the college,” Thistleton said. “And it was really fun also to be friends with people who aren’t just in our four-year age group.”

For most Hillsdale students, the rigors of academics and other campus responsibilities are more than enough to stay occupied. But until the season ended last week, Thistleton managed to split her schedule between duties up and down the hill, carving out afternoons for practices and evenings for games.

“It was a lot of time, because we had practice basically every day for an hour and a half or two hours,” she said. “And that was usually in the middle of the afternoon, from when they got out of school until about dinnertime. So I did have to shift my schedule around: wake up earlier to do homework, stay up later to do it.

But it was definitely worth it.”

Thistleton first got to know Roberts as a student in his History and Philosophy of Sports class last semester. So when he started looking for a student to coach the JV team, he invited

Senior Betsy Thistleton coaches the Hillsdale Academy Colts women’s junior varsity basketball team.

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her to apply.

“I had heard through the grapevine that Betsy was interested in the job,” Roberts said. “Once I started doing my homework and asking around campus, it became clear she would be an outstanding fit at Hillsdale Academy.”

Although she had never coached a basketball team before, Thistleton came prepared. She had previously coached volleyball at Will Carleton Academy in Hillsdale during her freshman year.

“I think it was really helpful to have coached

volleyball before,” she said. “Just learning how to communicate with parents, organize rides, to know the protocol of introducing yourself to refs before games, that sort of thing.”

Nor was Thistleton a stranger to the sport, which she often played at home prior to college.

“It was not as much my sport, but my brothers were very much into it,” she said, “so I’ve had a lot of basketball education over the years. They’re all really good at basketball, so I played a lot of knock-out and pick-up games

with them.”

That’s not to say, of course, that there wasn’t a learning curve. The skill sets of playing and coaching don’t always overlap.

“I had to learn how to go about calling timeouts, when to call them, stuff like that,” Thistleton said.

Fortunately, Academy varsity coach Kevin Reed was happy to lend a helping hand, especially early in the season.

“Coach Reed is an amazing coach,” Thistleton said. “He knows the game of basketball very well, and works so hard at his job. He always had new ideas for how to improve, and spent lots of time researching, watching films, and scouting.

“It was such a great experience to learn from him,” she said.

Most importantly, Thistleton helped the girls of the JV team grow together as athletes and as friends.

“One of the things that I saw the most improvement in was the sophomore class helping the freshmen get used to that sort of a game,” she said. “At the beginning of the year they just didn’t know each other very well or fit as a team, and at the end of the year they were all best buds — learning to encourage one another on the court and off the court.”

For his part, Roberts agreed.

“She was a great role model for our girls,” he said. “You can tell when a coach has the respect of the athletes, and this was the case with Betsy.”

President’s Ball hits record attendance on its 50th anniversary

Market House grants gifts of food for local charity events and fundraisers. Collegian Archives

Market House continues family legacy of giving back to community By |Kate Patrick City News Reporter Market House owner Brett Boyd said he loves giving back to the community by providing produce, dairy and baked goods to local fundraisers and charities.

Giving back is a family legacy, he said, ever since the local grocery company was founded 75 years ago.

“My great grandfather started the company and giving back to the community was huge for him, and he passed that down as a Market House tradition,” Boyd said. “Hopefully we’ll be doing it for another 75 years. When you call the store, if you’re a nonprofit group or charity you can let us know and we’ll help you.”

Every month, local charities and fundraising groups mail letters to Market House requesting assistance, and Boyd reviews them with Market House employee Jan Hutchin.

Boyd said he rarely says “no.”

“Last year we contributed to 12 different charities, including Salvation Army, the Humane Society, and the Hospice of Hillsdale County,” Boyd said. “We have a lot of groups we contribute to every month.

We donate to the local food banks and Salvation Army on a weekly basis, King’s Kupboard in particular. We

recently gave a large donation to them.”

Hutchin clarified that Market House does not give monetary donations, but gives directly from Market House stock.

“If a group is doing an event for the benefit of a member of the community, like a spaghetti dinner, we’ll provide the sauce and spaghetti,” Hutchin said. “We do fundraisers for them too: we’ve had churches out here selling candy bars for mission trips, and a family Relay for Life team holds a bake sale on Good Friday here every year.”

A local 4-H group hosts a hot dog sale at Market House every year, and Hutchin said Market House provides the condiments, cups, and hot dogs for a low cost.

Boyd’s charitable spirit appears to have permeated his entire business: Market House does not make a profit from helping local charities and fundraising groups, so even though the store does not always provide its inventory to fundraisers for free, it is still considered a donation.

Sometimes local residents will set up a fundraiser for another sick resident in need of medical funds, and Market House often assists with those fundraisers.

“Because of the needs of the community we’ve tried to doubly support them because they support us,”

Hutchin said. “We want them to make money, so it’s more of a donation from us.”

King’s Kupboard Director Kristin Lucas said she picks up produce, dairy and baked goods from Market House two to three times a week. She said this makes a big impact since King’s Kupboard is open only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

“I don’t think it’s a large percentage of our inventory, but it’s produce and we like people to have healthy food and it’s fresh,” Lucas said. “Some of our other food is a little more limited, and people get a certain number of items based on the number of people in their families.”

Lucas said King’s Kupboard also buys food from Market House once a month, which varies depending on the food pantry’s budget, which is dependent on charitable donations from the community. But Lucas said the community, like Market House, is consistently generous.

“Checks come in all the time from all over the community,” Lucas said. “We usually do a mailing once a year and our church members help, but we have a small church so it’s really a whole community effort.”

This year’s President’s Ball hit record attendance with more than 1050 people in the new Searle Center.

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By |Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter The 2016 President’s Ball celebrated 50 years since the College first inaugurated the event under the name “The President’s Christmas Ball.” More than 1050 people attended the event in the College’s new Searle Center, the most ever since its start in 1966.

Over the past five decades, the Ball has developed and taken on many different forms as Hillsdale has matured as a school.

This year’s event featured The Jerry Ross Band, and culminated in the longstanding President’s Ball tradition, the coronation of a King and Queen from a court of 10 chosen seniors. This year’s King and Queen were Kyle Cooper and Marie Wathen.

“About three weeks prior to President’s Ball, I contact all the faculty and ask them to nominate five senior men and five senior women that they believe should represent the court of President’s Ball,” Student Activities Director Anthony Manno said. “They nominate people based on academics, extracurricular activities, character, how they are as a student in and out of class — overall people who embody Hillsdale and should represent us in the President’s Ball court.”

Once the faculty has chosen the ten nominees, the Arnns invite them to Broadlawn for an interview tea the Friday before the Ball. After the tea, a faculty panel asks nominees questions ranging from “What do you plan to do after college?” to “What

is honor?” On the night of the Ball, the court attends a reception at the Arnns before heading to the event.

But President’s Ball has not always been what it is today. The event began in 1966 as a school-wide Christmas party. The Collegian reported the Ball’s intent “was to give students and faculty a chance to meet on a social level.”

The College hired a live band to play “rock music for the younger people attending” and “subdued music for the less young attending.” Then-president Donald Phillips would then announce king and queen.

In 1972, the Ball became an event independent of the Christmas season. To accommodate for President George Roche III’s busy schedule, the college moved the event to Saint Patrick’s Day. Because of this change, 1972 marked a shift in the Ball’s tone, and the event became more focused on the king and queen. The Collegian reported many students thought the Ball “seemed like a re-lived Senior Prom.”

In 1973, the college decided to start hosting the Ball in February, as a way to provide students a break from mid-winter dullness.

But after the 1974 Ball,

Hillsdale discontinued the event. Lackluster interest, as well as the financial issues plaguing the school at the time, threatened to cancel the Ball. Even when resumed in 1977, student misconduct threatened to discontinue the event yet again.

The college revived the Ball in 1979 for a final try. In compliance with the new federal drinking laws, no alcoholic beverages were served at the event. In response, several fraternities held alternative parties in an attempt to lull students away from the Ball. This practice persisted until the early 1980s, when the school moved the event so it would not conflict with the “fraternity party schedule.”

Now the President’s Ball has become a regularized eventand one of Hillsdale’s official traditions.

Manno said President’s Ball has become a firm fixture in Hillsdale’s culture.

“When you first establish a new event, it’s a new event, not a tradition,” he said. “As it picks up momentum year after, and it gains notoriety, it becomes a tradition. it becomes something people look forward to and put on their calendars. I love it because it’s a way we can give back to students.”

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Classical schools swarm Searle Center from across the country Sacred Heart Academy Grand Rapids Livingston Classical Academy

Cedar Tree Classical Christian School Ridgefield, WA

Brighton, MI

Trinity School at River Ridge St. Paul, MN

Mount Hope Lutheran School Caspar, WY

Baldwin Christian School Baldwin, WI

Rocky Mountain Classical Academy Colorado Springs, CO

Founders Academy of Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV Benjamin Franklin Charter School Gilbert, AZ

Temcula Prep Winchester, CA

Estancia Valley Classical Academy Moriarty, NM

Basis.ed Tuscon, AZ

The Academy of Classical Christian Studies Oklahoma City, OK Great Hearts Academy Irving, TX

Great Hearts Academy Phoenix, AZ Faith Lutheran School of Plano Plano, TX

Oakdale Academy Waterford, MI

Brilla College Prep Public Charter School Bronx, NY

Veritas Classical Academy Marietta, OH Kennedy Charter Our Lady School Public School Fort Wayne, IN Charlotte, NC Seven Oaks Classical School Bloomington, IN Circe Institue Concord, NC Thales Academy Rolesville, NC Millenium Charter Academy Mount Airy, NC Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy Mooresboro, NC

Golden View Classical Academy Golden, CO

The Vanguard School Colorado Springs, CO

Mystic Valley Regional Charter School Malden, MA

Saint Agnes School St. Paul, MN Bloomfield Christian School Bloomfield, MI

Atlanta Classical Academy Atlanta, GA

Founders Classical School Lewisville, TX

Providence Classical School Spring, TX

The Rafiki Foundation Eustice, FL EPIC Classical Academy Tampa, FL Classical Preparatory School Spring Hill, FL True North Classical Academy Miami, FL

Forty classical schools from 22 states will be in the Searle Center today, visiting with students who are seeking jobs or interested in classical schooling. Many will interview seniors Friday morning to fill teaching positions. Meg Prom | Collegian

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By | Amanda Tindall What are your style staples?

Scarves and comfortable shoes. Sometimes, I’ll wear heels, but I have to wear thick socks. My style is really based on comfort.

The Tutors: Students’ rock in the midst of writer’s block Compiled by Ramona Tausz

Katie Kortepeter, English and French What essay-writing blunder do you find yourself fixing most often in your own papers, and how do you tackle that blunder?

It’s hard for me to start the writing process if I don’t have my thoughts sorted out yet. Even if I’m not sure that my ideas are coherent, I sometimes need to force myself to just start writing and then heavily edit later.

What piece of writing advice do you find yourself giving most often when tutoring?

Don’t panic, and do visit your professor every once in a while.

Best class taken thus far at Hillsdale and why?

My Speaking and Writing French class has been delightful. The professor is kind and encouraging, I’m learning a lot, and my classmates and I enjoy it so much that we leave Delp every day still speaking French. Also, the comfy swivel chairs are magnifique.

Favorite movie?

“Anne of Green Gables.”

Who is your fashion icon?

Taylor Swift: because if she wants to change her style, she does, and she does it nicely. If you suddenly decide to change your style, that doesn’t work very well. Also, Blake Lively, especially in “Age of Adeline.”

Where do you like to shop for clothing?

Goodwill — it’s more fun. If you find something good there, you’re so proud of it.

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Rebekah Basinger, English What essay-writing blunder do you find yourself fixing most often in your own papers, and how do you tackle that blunder?

This is a typical blunder, but I always struggle with forming my thesis. It takes a long time for me to come up with a cogent argument. There’s no easy fix for this beyond drafting and revising.

What piece of writing advice do you find yourself giving most often when tutoring?

I’m fairly certain that “topic sentence” is the most common phrase spoken in the Writing Center. The goal is not to edit or proofread papers, but to help students become better writers, which means talking to them about how to approach writing a paper.

What is the best class taken thus far at Hillsdale and why?

The two most transformative classes for me have probably been Restoration and Romantic British Literature with Dr. Eadie (now Murphy) and Calculus with Dr. Gaebler.

What is your favorite movie?

I don’t really have a favorite. I just like movies with interesting plots. Movies that I have really enjoyed range from “Black Hawk Down” to “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”

Do you have a favorite item of clothing?

Actually, my favorite pants tore this morning!

I love those pants. If it’s comfortable, I love it.

What makes an outfit a “fashion statement”?

I think when it is near the edge of weird. Like mixing patterns: it’s weird to look at, but it works. And if someone looks comfortable. Like Taylor Swift always looks comfortable, even when she’s wearing heels. `

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