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Students wrote thank you notes to donors, faculty, and family Wednesday as part of the Student Activities Board’s Day of Thanks.

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Chargers win G-MAC championship, earn spot in NCAA tournament Hillsdale volleyball defeats Lake Erie College in semifinal match Friday By | Regan Meyer Assistant Editor With the home court advantage and an electric crowd, Hillsdale Volleyball rolled its way to a G-MAC championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Hillsdale defeated Lake Erie College in the semifinal match Friday night.

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The Chargers dropped the second game to the Storm but pulled it together to win 3-1. Senior right side Paige Vanderwall said the team got caught up in competing point for point with its opponents.

“I think after that second set we realized that if we wanted to win we were going to have to play with a sense of

Erie. The Chargers and Oilers then moved onto the championship match Saturday night.

Charger head coach Chris Gravel said the team was able to play to its strengths and capitalize on Findlay’s weaknesses.

“We served tough which we needed to do,” Gravel said.

“Findlay has the best ace ratio in the conference, so we had

Debate takes second at third tournament of the season By | Regan Meyer Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College Debate Team traveled to McKendree University, outside of St. Louis, Missouri, this past weekend for their third Lincoln-Douglas debate tournament of the season. The team took second place overall finishing behind Western Kentucky University.

Western Kentucky University is a powerhouse in the National Forensics Association, according to junior and Debate Team Captain Hannah Johnson.

“This is what they do,” Johnson said of WKU. “It’s very hard to get on their team. When they show up, you know you’re going down. They’re a good competitor.”

Two junior varsity division debaters broke into the open rounds. Sophomore Katrina Torsoe won the junior varsity division in a 2-1 decision.

“The final was interesting,” Torsoe said. “It was just the best debater I had hit up until that point. It was a really good round. We had productive clash. We were actually going back and forth on the actual issues which I love.”

Torsoe also took first place in speaker points while freshman Frank Vitale took second in the second debate tournament of his collegiate career.

“I did much better than I was expecting to do,” Vitale said. “When I was in the advanced category in the first tournament, I only won two

out of six rounds. This one I did much better.”

The other seven debaters competed in the open division at the tournament.

None of them broke out of the preliminary rounds.

Tournament attendance is determined by student availability and who still needs to qualify for Nationals. So far three students have qualified in the open division: Johnson, and sophomores Erin Reichard and Jadon Buzzard. Some team members will travel to Bowling Green University in Kentucky this coming weekend for the first parliamentary debate tournament of the season.

Paige VanderWall (3) sets the ball for Hannah Gates (11). Regan Meyer | Collegian

“Lake Erie has some impressive defense that really pressed our offense and made a lot of great plays against balls that we’re used to seeing hit the ground,” Vanderwall

urgency to get the job done,” Vanderwall said.

The University of Findlay Oilers beat Walsh University in a semifinal match after Hillsdale’s victory over Lake

to be on our game in serve receive. The team talked and communicated well.”

Gravel said the home court

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Faculty, students weigh in on birthright citizenship controversy By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter President Donald Trump sent the world of U.S. politics swirling when he said he plans to end birthright citizenship with an executive order in an interview last week. Trump said he plans to remove the right of citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to non-citizens and illegal aliens on U.S. Follow @HDaleCollegian

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Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of History Paul Moreno gave some context to the issue. According to Moreno, “it’s beyond a doubt” that the framers and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment “did not intend” to allow the children of any legal non-citizens to be given citizenship.

“I think that’s a wrong reading of the Constitution,”

Moreno said. “Congress has never enacted a statute on the question, so that leaves administrative interpretation. That’s how this policy was made and how it can be unmade. If Trump is wrong, Congress can pass a statute countermanding his executive order.”

Professor of Politics and Director of American Studies Kevin Portteus commented on

the original interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

“The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to guarantee citizenship and its benefits to black Americans, who might otherwise be stateless persons,” Portteus said in an email. “Its authors openly denied that it instituted birthright citizenship in any form.”

Sophomore Alex Reid, a member of College Demo-

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crats, said the executive order would be a sign of hypocrisy and that the the 14th Amendment acts as a safeguard.

“I think that for a party that is very concerned with the overreach of government, it’s hypocritical to be pushing for an executive order to undo a constitutional amendment,” Reid said. “Aside from that, the 14th Amendment, and birthright citizenship in par-

ticular, have been safeguards against biases. It helps ensure that no one is denied citizenship because of their race, political views, or other criteria that have denied people entry into the country in the past.”

As to whether or not this would be an issue of government overreach, Portteus said that similar critics took issue

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McCourry to replace Knoch as college library director By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter

Salvation Army.

According to Berry, the amount of food collected varies each year.

“The first years, we had a couple of truckloads,” Berry said. “Some years, we just have a couple of boxes.”

Senior Lu Townley, who runs the GOAL program, said the bookstore and GOAL made the connection official for efficiency.

“We usually do work together,” Townley said. “We are grateful for how helpful the bookstore is and we are happy to work with them.”

Throughout the year, the bookstore donates items to local high schools’ silent auctions, and has done advertisement exchanges with Smith’s Flower Shop and Checker Records. The bookstore is also a member of the Hillsdale County Chamber of Commerce, which works to support local businesses.

Pastor Jessica Hahn of Trinity Lutheran Church said she is thankful for the

plentiful donations from the community, including gifts of food, money, and time from volunteers.

“It’s not something we do by ourselves,” Hahn said. “We are very thankful for the help from the community.”

Kings Kupboard began in 2003 with just a few boxes in the back of Trinity Lutheran Church. The pantry now serves 825 families and about 2100 people from Hillsdale County per year. Families are welcome to take food from the pantry according to their need, and they can return as often as they wish. According to Hahn, Kings Kupboard often needs more help in colder winter months, as families need to spend money on propane to heat their home.

No matter how many cans donated, Berry said, she is happy that the college is helping out the local community.

“The college here supports the community. We aren’t closed,” Berry said. “We are here to help them.”

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Junior Matthew Montgomery posted fliers around campus this week, urging the student body to vote against the amendment because “it compromises your student fees.” According to Montgomery, he is opposed to the amendment because he believes it will allow inexperienced students to serve in officer positions.

“The current amendment to the federation constitution being voted on allows for someone to become treasurer without ever having seen a federation budget,” Montgomery said in an email. “The money that Student Federation spends by giving it out to clubs and organizations on

campus comes directly from student fees and to let student fees be compromised by inexperience would be truly shameful… This amendment is simply not in the best interests of the student body.”

The fliers were removed soon after they appeared.

In a Facebook post, senior and federation president Natalie Meckel addressed the “myths” surrounding the amendment, saying it would make “no difference in experience.”

“Right now, students can run with one semester of experience,” Meckel said in a Facebook post. “The amendment would allow students who began serving at the beginning of this semester to run as well since they will

have also served a complete semester by the time they take office.”

Meckel added that “experience is by no means the sole determiner of a candidate’s competence for an officer position.”

She said the amendment is necessary because it allows Student Federation sophomores with experience to run for president or treasurer if either of those positions are uncontested. These positions were previously only open to juniors.

It also allows representatives elected at the start of this semester to run for next year’s officer positions, “since they will have a full semester of experience by the time they take office,” according to

Bookstore runs canned food drive to support community charities This year, the Hillsdale College Bookstore partnered with the GOAL Program for the bookstore’s canned food drive sale. In exchange for each canned or pantry good donated, the bookstore gave donators 20 percent off coupons.

Trade Book Coordinator Angie Berry ’83, who has worked in the bookstore for 25 years, said they have hosted the canned food drive “on and off ” for the past ten years.

Though the bookstore and GOAL have worked together before, this is the first year the two have officially partnered.

The idea for the drive began when Saga, Hillsdale’s former food service provider, wanted to host a canned food drive to give back to the Hillsdale community. This year, the donations will be split between King’s Kupboard, a soup kitchen run out of Trinity Lutheran Church, and the

goodwill, and quiet precision.

Knoch has given deeply of himself and the library shows it.”

One of McCourry’s new responsibilities as library director will be the administration and management of library personnel. She said she

Maurine McCourry, the technical services librarian at the Alex Mossey Library, will be promoted to library director after the end of the 2018-2019 school year.

McCourry will replace Library Director Dan Knoch, who has worked at the library since 1976. McCourry has been working under Knoch at the library since 2000 in the same position that Knoch held before his promotion to director. Provost David Whalen said McCourry will lead the library effectively when she becomes director.

“McCourry is the perfect person to maintain all the strengths so evident in our library,” Whalen said. “She is also well suited to lead it as the college continues to grow in academic strength, develop its internal and external special programs, ramp up archives and special Technical Services Librarian Maurine McCourry will replace Library collections, and manage de- Director Dan Knoch as the director of Mossey Library at the end of the velopments in technology. 2018-2019 school year. Maurine McCourry | Courtesy The library is critical in all these areas, and more.” renovation of the interior. has enjoyed working under McCourry earned a “It’s obvious to everyone the flexible management sysmaster’s degree from the that we need a renovation and tem that Knoch uses, and will University of Michigan and we need an archive space,” she try to imitate his style in her went on to earn her doctorate said. “So I anticipate, hopeful- new position. at Dominican University in “Knoch really lets all of us 2014. Knoch said McCourry’s ly, supervising that project at some point.” do what we are best at, and strong academic background Knoch’s presence will lets people find their own is one of the things that sets certainly be felt in Mossey talents and skills and kind of her apart as a librarian.

Library long after his retirework with those. So he allows “In terms of the things ment, where he has worked us to choose our own projshe’s going to add to the since 1976. Whalen said the ects and our own paths and position, she’s going to be very personality of the library if somebody is better at one more scholarly and academic. has been shaped by his leader- thing, someone else can do a She’s already that way, and project that they are better at,” she’s completed her Ph.D. and ship.

“Knoch’s long history of Dr. McCourry said. “He’s just that’s really admirable,” Knoch excellent service has endowed a nice guy, and everyone likes said. “The terminal degree the library with something to work with him, and I hope for a librarian is a master’s of his own character, ” Dr. I can emulate that.” of library science, and she Whalen said. “The library is a went beyond that, and she’s place where learning thrives published and taught at the in an atmosphere of steadigraduate level. I see that as a ness, calm strength, humane real strength that she brings.”

The Hillsdale College Bookstore and GOAL are hosting a canned food drive to support local charities. Alex Nester | Collegian

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McCourry said she would miss some aspects of her old job, but she is excited about the prospect of facing new challenges as library director.

One of those challenges will be overseeing the planned addition of a special collection area to the library and a

As students vote on federation officers, constitutional amendment stirs controversy By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor

The Student Federation is facing opposition from the student body and some Student Fed officers for its recent amendment proposal.

The amendment proposes to alter qualifications for Student Fed positions by allowing sophomores to run for positions that were previously only open to juniors, if the positions are uncontested.

Candidates who have not served a complete semester can also be considered as though they have, if they meet other qualifications. This is to accommodate members with irregular terms, such as Greek members or students on

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Meckel. This will enable representatives taking offices in the fall semester to run, if “a very high standard of attendance is met.”

The federation also nominated members for the positions of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer on Nov. 8.

The positions of president and secretary remained uncontested. Junior representative James Millius has been nominated for president, and sophomore representative Victoria Schmidt has been nominated for secretary. Three candidates are running for vice president: junior representative Matthew Montgomery and sophomore representatives Madeline Peltzer and Austin Mock. The

candidates for treasurer are junior representatives Alex Yun and Evan Welch.

Schmidt said she hopes the student body will take the voting seriously.

“I really hope that people keep in mind the interest of the school as a whole and how we all strive for the mission here at this school,” she said.

“I think sometimes we tend to think about just what affects us personally, but think about the school as a whole and what reflects the mission of the school.”

Voting for the amendment and for the student representatives and officers will take place in the Grewcock Student Union until Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Wood: Regulations must consider human cost, hold politicians accountable By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor

Attorney Jonathan Wood, in a speech for this week’s Center for Constructive Alternatives, described the real effects of environmental regulation on everyday people and how to combat these regulations going forward.

Wood gave the final lecture in this semester’s second CCA, “The Cost of Regulation.” In his speech titled “How Regulation Ruins Lives,” he spoke of the flawed creation and enactment of the regulatory state of the nation.

Wood, who worked for the Pacific Legal Foundation, discussed examples of the effects of unclear and occasionally ill-founded environmental regulation.

Wood said as a country, we make a mistake when we debate the “overall effect” of regulations. The reality is that these regulations are applied to real people. Whether regulations succeed or fail is largely determined by whether or not they affect individual people’s lives positively.

“If you design a law that can’t be understood by an ordinary person, you’re just punishing people,” Wood said.

As a liberty-minded environmentalist himself, Wood said, he cares about people and the environment, and both are best served by clear rules set out before a problem has begun. Environmental

regulations are Common law, such typically obscure as the law against and indeciphermurdering, is inable, created by trinsically good, he bureaucrats and said, and therefore enforced by those understood by the who are removed majority of the from the real population. people who suffer “Few have the the consequences intuitive sense of them. that it is a crime Senior Marcus to — and these are Koperski said some real examples he appreciated — sell vegetable the emphasis on spaghetti bigger more local reguthan 11/100 of an lation as opposed inch in diameter,” to the national, Wood said. removed bureauSomewhat crats creating obscene laws like regulation. this reveal the cost “I really agreed to people who had with the speaker’s no reason to think argument that if they’re committing we’re dead set on an illegal act, he regulating everysaid. Because regthing, it should ulatory crimes are be done much so numerous, it’s more on the local impossible to know and state level,” them all.

Koperski said.

In order for regAccording ulation to produce to Wood, regua positive outcome, lations need to Wood laid out four focus on guiding guidelines. First, human action regulations must be for real people. publicly commuIf a rule doesn’t do Attorney Jonathan Wood spoke at the second CCA on the need for clear regulations nicated in advance. this specifically, it’s that won’t hurt individuals. LinkedIn Second, they must be not going to achieve simple enough that an its stated purpose; average person — not tions is their widespread lack elected officials who citizens rather, it will just hurt people, a lawyer or policy maker — of understanding. They have are able to hold accountable to as environmental regulations encouraged unacceptable those who people can’t. This is can efficiently decipher it. most often do.

Third, rules must be relatively rules by transferring the pow- problematic because regulaWood said that one major consistent so people don’t get er of making rules from from tions aren’t intrinsically bad. problem with these regula-

Freire speaks on Brazil’s 2018 elections at AHS event By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter

platform,” Freire said. “He has said some pretty horrible things, but he talks about policies.”

As a congressman, Bolsonaro consistently voted for nationalists, protectionists, interventionists, and the increase in salaries for the political class, said Freire. He added that in light of the Workers’ party corruption scandals and economic crisis, the change of power was inevitable.

“Bolsonaro has a clean criminal record, and isn’t

its size and, in a short-term, borrow a lot of money from the market for funds.

“I think his free-market People are disillusioned oriented people understand with the political process, that,” Freire said. “There will Lucas Freire said in a talk at be a period of slow economic Hillsdale College. recovery, maybe things might Freire, professor of politget a bit worse in the first few ical science and economics months before they start to at Mackenzie Presbyterian get better— so that will hurt.

University in São Paulo, Whether Bolsonaro will want Brazil, led a discussion on to pursue that or not will be if Brazil’s 2018 Presidential Eleche wants to feel popular in the tions and populism in South beginning.”

America. The event, hosted Callahan Stoub, sophomore

by The Alexander Hamilton and vice president Society on Nov. 9, of the Alexander also featured John Hamilton society, Elliot, director of said South Amerthe Alcuin Felica is generally lows Program at overlooked in the Charlemagne global political Institute. discussions, and Freire said said she hopes his focus was President Bolon victories and sonaro’s election challenges of Jair will attract more Bolsonaro, Brazil’s attention to these newly elected important issues. president. He “I was glad focused on three to hear how main topics: the hopeful Dr. 2018 presidential Freire felt about elections show the election that the country results,” Stoub is going through said. “Major a crisis; voters European news believe Bolsonaro sources claim will bring actual Bolsonaro will change; and many make a ‘disaspeople voted for trous president’ him because he since he breaks speaks to cultural the mold of inand economic Lucas Freire, professor of political science and economics creasingly socialist fears about the at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. world leaders, but future.

Danielle Lee | Collegian Dr. Freire said One problem Bolsonaro plans observers of mainsuspected of any involvement to strengthen relations with stream and social media in corruption scandals,” he the U.S., so that makes me will pick up is the decline in said. “He’s a former military; hopeful.” dialogue. This issue resulted Juan Hernandez, a sophofrom a long process of decline he speaks of order; he speaks more at Hillsdale College, said in low-quality public debate in against crime. So when Bolhe thought it was amazing Brazil, according to Freire. He sonaro signaled that, suddenthat Freire experienced the emphasized truth, beauty, and ly, he had also turned into a friend of the free market entire election. goodness as three values that economy, despite his vast “The fact that he came should be upheld in public votes in congress, the voters from Brazil and experienced discussion. had an easy choice.” the whole election was just a “There was little truth — He added that Brazil must remarkable thing, because livfake news was widespread, decide whether to keep a ing the election is completely people don’t know how more partisan stance interdifferent than seeing it from to judge the quality of the nationally, as it did under the the outside,” Hernandez said. source they use, and there Workers’ party, or to allow For those who interested in was little beauty,” Freire said. more autonomy in their forglobal politics but know very “Name-calling became actual eign department, which was little, Hernandez recommendreasoned arguments, with the case 16 years ago, Freire ed that they branch out from premises and sound conclusaid. local and national news. sions. And there was very “I would suggest a pruMost people in the U.S. little charity as well, where dent, non-nationalistic, stick with local news and people did not try to undernon-militaristic policy of free politics, and they only know stand what others, across international trade, multilatabout big international issues, different political spectrums, eralism and avoidance of any things that have to do with were trying to say.” militaristic ventures,” Freire Syria or Russia. If you’re interFreire said if politics besaid. “This talk of intervening ested in learning about global comes too personal, people Venezuela because of the criconflicts, go online and you’ll will start worrying about sis there, for example: to me, find different website and percharismatic politicians as that’s nonsense.” spectives, you’ll learn about celebrities. He explained that During the question and different things,” Hernandez this is what has happened in answer segment, a student said.

Brazil. asked Freire if he thinks “Supporters and detracBolsonaro will enact these tors of Bolsonaro treated him proposed policies. Freire said like a celebrity and focused he hopes so, but Brazil’s govconsiderably on what he says ernment will have to shrink and does, more than on his

birthright citizenship came from A1 to be our policy as a result of a faulty court decision, with Obama’s Deferred Acanother court decision would tion for Childhood Arrivals be a good way to fix it.” program, but added that this The court decision Portissue could be resolved in teus referenced was United another way.

States v. Wong Kim Ark “In seriousness, it is which ruled in 1898 that the unclear whether it would be 14th Amendment includes overreach,” Portteus wrote. the right of a child born in “How do you correct a misthe country to be considered interpretation of the Cona U.S. citizen. stitution that isn’t in statute Senior Christian Yiu said law? Besides, an executive he disagrees with Trump, order would almost certainboth in the method of hanly trigger a lawsuit. Since

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easily confused. Fourth, as he emphasized throughout his speech, regulations must be clear.

Senior Emily Holtyn, who has studied endangered species, said she appreciated his note about hunting regulation and the actual it has.

“This talk actually spoke of the power of free-market reform to actually affect change which not all the talks actually do,” she said.

Wood also said part of the solution will be holding elected representatives accountable, those who are actually chosen to create legislation.

They must must bear consequences of a poorly written law, which he said encourages careful and thorough implementation.

This is the problem that one CCA guest brought up regarding the lack of responsibility taken with the clean water crisis in Flint, Mich.

As soon as the issue started, Wood said, everyone fled and played a game of “hot potato” with responsibility, which happens when there aren’t clear lines of accountability.

Wood ended his speech with a call to action for all citizens.

“Until enough members of Congress care, we’re not going to get it enacted, which means we have work to do ourselves,” he said.

dling the issue and the fundamental principle behind it.

“The only proper way to address the birthright citizenship is through a constitutional amendment,” Yiu said. “I am a citizen from birth, since my parents are first generation immigrants. I don’t believe America should shut out people who want to pursue the opportunity to live freely.”

The Hillsdale College Debate Team took second place at their third Lincoln-Douglas debate tournament last weekend. Facebook

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from A1 and home crowd worked in the Chargers advantage.

“The crowd was phenomenal,” Gravel said. “The guys that come out behind our bench are just crazy and it made for a great atmosphere and home court advantage.

Definitely part of that victory goes to the crowd.”

Hillsdale had already defeated Findlay twice in the regular season. Vanderwall said they knew the Oilers would bring their “A game.”

“It’s tough to beat a team three times in one season but I think we wholeheartedly accepted that challenge and wanted to play for each other to get a shot at NCAAs,” Vanderwall said.

Findlay won’t be getting that shot. Eight teams in each region make it to the first round of the NCAA tournament. A victory in the G-MAC title match is an automatic qualifier to the tournament. Hillsdale’s victory over Findlay knocked the Oilers out of the running.

“Both teams had to win to

move on. Both teams knew that going in,” Gravel said.

“It was a high pressure game.

It meant even more than the conference title; it meant an NCAA berth.”

Gravel said he was proud of his team and how they handled that pressure.

“They were able to stay in the moment and let their training take over,” Gravel said. “That takes everybody on the roster to do. We were doing that in practice and it showed up in the games.”

Not only did the team take home the trophy, but a number of Chargers also took home individual honors. Paige Vanderwall, Kara Vyletel, Lindsey Mertz, Alyssa Van Wienen, and Taylor Wiese all made G-MAC First Team, while Hannah Gates made the All Conference 2nd team. Head coach Chris Gravel was named Coach of the Year and senior Paige Vanderwall, Player of the Year. The championship match was the last home game of their careers for Vanderwall and Vyletel.

“It’s crazy to think my career is almost over,” Vyletel said. “I’ve been so blessed to

have such a great coaching staff and such strong players surrounding me. We play for each other everyday and build off each other’s success. I wouldn’t trade anyone on my team for anything. I love this group of girls and couldn’t imagine taking this journey with any other group.”

The Chargers travel to Springfield, Missouri for the Midwest Regional Quarterfinal against Drury University.

Hillsdale saw the Panthers earlier this season at the Midwest Regional Crossover Tournament. A win against the Panthers pits the Chargers against the winner of the Lewis University/Michigan Tech University match. A loss sees Hillsdale’s season come to an end.

“They’re all good,” Gravel said. “We’re all pretty even, I would say. Overall, they’ve done a little bit better. When we played at the Crossover, these are a lot of the teams that we lost to. We’re looking forward to getting another opportunity.”

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Vote for Student Fed’s constitutional amendment experience required. FurtherBy | Natalie Meckel Special to the Collegian more, the amendment would Hillsdale’s Student Federation has proposed a new amendment to its Constitution. The amendment seeks to introduce fairer qualifications for officer positions and discourage uncontested elections. I’d like to set the record straight by dispelling three myths being spread by its opponents.

The first myth claims that the amendment compromises student fees by enabling someone who has never experienced the spring budget process to run for Treasurer. The Constitution already allows this scenario to take place.

Candidates for Treasurer are required to have one complete semester of experience on the Federation, but there is no requirement that their experience is in the spring semester.

A student who serves in the fall and studies abroad or on WHIP the next semester is currently permitted to run for Treasurer the following November, having never experienced the budget process.

Does the amendment make this more likely? Perhaps slightly, but it is also important to keep in mind that to run, a student must first be nominated by another representative on the Federation. If a candidate is clearly under-qualified, it is unlikely that he or she will be nominated by a fellow representative. Even if a clearly under-qualified candidate were nominated, his opponents would have ample opportunity to campaign against him. Still, this scenario is hardly unattractive — right now, next to no campaigning takes place. Students who are not personally connected to candidates have little motivation to vote.

The second myth is that the amendment allows students with far less experience to run for officer positions.

Right now, students can run with one semester of experience. This is not uncommon—one of the students running this week, in fact, has only served for one semester.

The amendment would allow students who began serving at the beginning of this semester to run as well since they too will have served a complete semester by the time they take office. Since we only meet twice per month, the difference in experience between these two types of students at the time of the election boils down to one meeting. At the time of taking office, there is no difference in the minimum

require that a student who took office in the fall be held to a higher attendance standard if he or she wishes to run for office the following year. Only one absence would be allowed.

All other students are permitted three excused absences per term.

The third myth: Less experience translates to incompetence. Length of service on the Federation is by no means the sole determiner of a candidate’s competence for an officer position. Some of our hardest working and most dedicated members are firstterm representatives. Two of our members began chairing committees the day they were sworn in, and both have done an excellent job. Younger members tend to be more motivated to prove themselves, whereas some of the Federation’s least competent and laziest officers have been those in their third year of service.

The amendment is necessary because it accomplishes two things. First, it allows sophomores with experience on the Federation to run for President or Treasurer if either of these positions, which are normally reserved for juniors, are uncontested. The current constitution only permits juniors to run for these two positions. There are very few juniors on the Federation, so this often results in uncontested elections, which allow a junior to become Treasurer or President without winning the approval of the student body.

This is unhealthy, and it has occurred two years in a row for the office of Student Body President.

Second, the amendment permits representatives elected at the start of this semester to run for next year’s officer positions since they will have a full semester of experience by the time they take office. Right now, a representative who takes office at the start of the fall semester (which is rare but typically occurs due to a Greek house’s unusual election cycle) cannot run that November for an officer position. This amendment would allow them to do so if a very high standard of participation is met.

If you have not yet voted, I urge you to support the amendment. If it fails, we are stuck with the status quo until at least 2020.

Natalie Meckel is a senior studying Biochemistry and the president of Hillsdale’s Student Federation.

and balances employed by a community to quell deviant behavior, targeting people online can — and often does — cross a line. Although this line can feel arbitrary, these accounts are most likely to cross it when they fail to consider anonymity.

At a school of just under 1,500, most students are able to recognize people, even if they do not know them personally.

Unlike similar accounts at larger schools, where even an unblurred face will be most likely unknown, Hillsdale students

are able to identify almost anybody in a public picture. This means that if and when someone’s embarrassing moment is posted to a public account, it’s not just a random person’s embarrassing moment, it’s that of a classmate, sorority sister, or the AJ’s barista.

And posts can be spun one way or another, moving quickly from lighthearted to mean-spirited in just one caption.

There is room at Hillsdale for these accounts, but only if done in a way that protects

people from having those posts follow them for the rest of their time at school. College is a time of growth and solidifying identity. There is ample opportunity to poke fun at those who are purposefully wanting to stand out — those in capes or riding unicycles — but shaming those who are simply unaware, and doing so in a way that will follow them, goes too far.

Office Hours Food for thought: Thanksgiving is a time for fellowship By | Dedra Birzer Professor of History Back in the day of scheduled television specials, one of my childhood favorites was the classic Peanuts Thanksgiving cartoon. Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friend Marcie to Charlie Brown’s home for the holiday dinner.

She doesn’t let “Chuck” get a word in edgewise, making him unable to tell her that he was going to his grandmother’s home for Thanksgiving. Charlie Brown ends up “cooking” (with the help of his beagle, Snoopy) the only foods he knows how to make: popcorn and buttered toast. When Patty sees this feast, she exclaims, “Look at this! Is this what you call a Thanksgiving Day dinner? Did we come across town for THIS? We’re supposed to be served a REAL Thanksgiving dinner!” Clearly, she had specific expectations of what foods a Thanksgiving feast required. Charlie Brown actually did provide some of what we associate with that first Thanksgiving feast, celebrated

by Separatist Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians at Plymouth Colony in 1621: corn and bread of some sort. What Patty lamented was the absence of turkey and all the trimmings.

Turkey, of course, is the mainstay of Thanksgiving. It’s the trimmings, though, that truly make a Thanksgiving one that deserves the very subjective label of traditional. Much of that reflects regional backgrounds and even generations. Canned or homemade cranberry

sauce? Green bean casserole or fresh green beans? Pumpkin pie made with frozen pre-made crust or pastry crust from scratch? Sweet potatoes baked with a marshmallow topping and lots of sugar, or fresh ones mashed with cinnamon? The quintessential trimming, dressing (stuffing if it’s put in the turkey cavity to bake), speaks to regional differences more loudly than anything else. Chestnut-based dressing has an East Coast provenance, while cornbread-based dressing has more Southern roots. Which version one prefers is an expression of family history.

The absence of proper dressing can make or break Thanksgiving. When I was in graduate school in the late 1990’s, I spent one Thanksgiving holiday housesitting for my mentor, a favor that included permission to host some friends for the day. Intent on being a good hostess, I let my guests choose the dressing. They went with chestnut, which I had never eaten, let alone cooked. So, I borrowed a friend’s Williams-Sonoma holiday cookbook and wrote my shopping list. One small problem: the only chestnuts I could find were the water chestnuts in the Asian section of the grocery store! The resulting dish was certainly edible, but it wasn’t the cornbread dressing that I loved. Without it, Thanksgiving dinner wasn’t quite right.

The next year, I found myself cooking Thanksgiving dinner once again, but in

much different circumstances.

I had been invited to spend the holiday with my boyfriend and his brother’s family in Meridian, Idaho (that boyfriend became my husband the following summer). This was my first introduction to the extended Birzer family, who met me at the airport while Brad drove through a blizzard to get from Helena, Montana to Meridian (a Boise suburb). Brad had warned me that if I wanted a traditional Thanksgiving meal, we would have to cook it ourselves as his Japanese sister-in-law was not familiar with that kind of cooking. I arrived armed with my mom’s recipe for cornbread dressing, but not quite realizing that she had given me the large group version of the recipe. Brad and I did not get the turkey in the oven soon enough either, so his nephew and niece (ages 6 and 4 at the time) declared to their grandmother on the phone that they were starving. These were kids who happily ate sandwiches of Japanese fish egg jelly, which I was instructed to pretend was normal. With this introduction as the person responsible for the “starving time,” I was then given the phone so that I could “meet” Brad’s mom.

After that rather nerve-wracking distraction, the turkey was finally ready, as was my first attempt at making cornbread dressing — enough to feed 25 people, it turned out.

Post-dinner clean up included directions from Todd to remove ALL of the turkey meat from the carcass, another first

for me in that holiday week filled with new experiences and relationships, into which I brought my traditional cornbread dressing.

I don’t recall the family’s reaction to my dressing, perhaps because I was so happy to eat it. Now my own children insist on cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving (actually, they’ve never had any other kind). It’s part of our family’s holiday tradition, though I’ve scaled back the recipe to feed a family rather than a restaurant. More than any other holiday, Thanksgiving revolves around food, and not just any food. The dishes we each associate with this day of gratitude link us to generations of family and to the particular places those generations have lived. The varying regional versions of “turkey and all the trimmings” remind us that this very American holiday unites us in all of our variations of ethnic and regional backgrounds into one grateful people, celebrating the abundance of food and fellowship occasioned by the willingness of American Indians in the Plymouth Colony area to help the newcomers from England survive, a willingness borne of our common humanity.

The editors invite faculty members to contribute to Office Hours, a weekly column dedicated to promoting relationships between staff and students through the giving of advice and stories. Send submissions to the Opinions Editor at kmcghee@hillsdale.

Use social media with moderation friendship did not explode as By | Joshua Pradko Special to the Collegian exponentially as our online

I remember conversing with a friend about bananas several weeks ago, munching and speculating about where our bananas come from. Completely mundane, yet apparently memorable.

But I can’t remember anything that I saw on social media yesterday. In my 36 minutes on Twitter, six on Facebook, and five on Snapchat (Thanks, iPhone Screen Time), I certainly enjoyed, appreciated, and chuckled at some content. I don’t remember a darn thing. The benefits of social media are exaggerated, and we should reduce our usage to seek out more genuine engagement, however mundane.

Social media promises to bring people together by sharing information and ideas, granting them heretofore impossible glimpses into the lives of family and friends. But it risks pulling people apart more than it brings them together.

Our capacity for genuine

engagement. In ye olden days, we remained friends with people only if we maintained a significant connection. Social media gives us the illusion of having more friends and engaging more broadly than ever before, but these superficial engagements give information, not connection, and they come at the high cost of foregone engagement with real people.

Knowing that a friend remodeled his kitchen, without showing any of the hallmarks of abiding, reciprocal, or self-sacrificial friendship, placates us into fake friendship. But a real conversation — a quality round of questioning and sharing — seals a connection and a worthwhile engagement. If a real connection isn’t possible, then the information might not have been worth knowing in the first place.

Using social media in the presence of others is a strange sin of which I am frequently guilty but only occasionally

“The best antidote to the ruinious presence of social media in our lives is moderation, not faith in its virtues or total deletion.”

ashamed. The opportunity cost is high: Every minute of unnecessary detachment from my surroundings is a lost minute of human interaction – an activity as healthy, natural, and necessary as eating and sleeping. So while social media created new ways to interact, it simultaneously erected Social media should be used with moderaimpediments to engagement with tion, Josh Pradko writes. WikiMedia a pariah. It enables us to know those around us. We should spend the short time we have at and see things we otherwise never would have — somewhat Hillsdale doing worthwhile — like printing presses spreading and memorable — things books across medieval Europe.

Social media also proWe should remember, though, vides information and news: that content on social media is A well-curated newsfeed can often noteworthy for its value direct a user to a plethora of or brilliance in real life. “The quality content. But if interestMona Lisa,” author Seth Godin ing articles and eye-opening points out, “has a huge social perspectives are what users media presence. Her picture seek, they should take advantage of other mediums — news- is everywhere. But she doesn’t papers, blogs, and other sources tweet. She’s big on social media because she’s an icon, but she’s that survive on the strength of not an icon because she’s big on their content, not on the addicsocial media.” tiveness of their platform. The We should enjoy social internet is full of things worth media so long as it enriches, knowing, the best way to find rather than dilutes, our real these things isn’t by scrolling lives. Remind me I said that if through Twitter. you see me scrolling through The best antidote to the rumy phone in Saga, munching inous presence of social media on a banana that probably came in our lives is moderation, not from Guatemala. faith in its virtues or total deletion. Facebook is a modern-day address book and an invaluable Joshua Pradko is a senior event organization tool; having it keeps one from feeling like studying American Studies.

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treasurers oppose this amendBy | Thomas Ryskamp Special to the Collegian ment, as do all of the current members of the Federation Rules Committee who were The amendment on the specifically tasked to study ballot this week will do harm the issue. In fact, the comto Hillsdale’s Student Federmittee expressly rejected the ation and the student body. clause, but the proposal was This amendment would amended on the floor against loosen qualifications for Federation officers to discour- their wishes to include this phrasing. age uncontested elections. Its It is bad enough that the original intention to modify amendment is an incompreelection requirements was hensible monstrosity with noble; the product that the student body is now voting on contradictory definitions. Before you vote on the amendis a frankenstein. The student ment, ask to view a copy of body should vote “no” on this the text and remember that amendment. future Federations will have to During the final debate on reread this every year. There the amendment, a clause was is a better way to solve this added to loosen the eligibility problem and it starts with a requirements for Federation “no” vote on the current text. officers, so that candidates More dangerous than the need only have completed a legalese, however, is that there semester on the Federation will be inexperienced and before taking office (rather ignorant students running than before running for office). While short, this rushed for officer positions. Instead of closing a loophole in the addition has tremendous current Constitution, the implications. amendment will make this Both the current and loophole the rule rather than immediate past Federation

Brag less, complain more By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter

Hillsdale students need to brag less and complain more.

Last week a freshman wandered into the Writing Center and we fell into a conversation about how she was enjoying her time at Hillsdale.

Sometime later, she mentioned getting ice cream in AJ’s and feeling terrible about it. When I protested, she said something vague about how everyone else was studying and complaining about how much work they had.

Good Lord, I thought, freshmen feel like criminals when they have fun?

But the more I thought about it, the less surprised I was. Whenever people have fun, we wring the joy out of their smug faces by treating them to laundry lists of our problems. Meanwhile, we fluff our little egos, assuring ourselves that we are living our best, most miserable lives.

To set the record straight: I don’t mind complaining if it expresses pure, unadulterated misery. I don’t like listening to it, but at least it’s honest.

My problem is with a specific type of complaining that isn’t actually complaining at all. It’s bragging disguised as complaining — an odious cousin of the “humble brag;” but instead of a false modesty, it’s a false misery.

Take a walk during hell week — or really anytime at all — and you’re almost guaranteed to overhear students competing over who is suffering the most. The conversation always goes something like this: “Oh man, I haven’t slept in 24 hours.”

“If it makes you feel better (it probably won’t) I haven’t slept for two days. I don’t even remember what sleep is.”

“Oh. Well. I have so many papers. Like, four.”

“I feel that. I have to write six by Friday.”

Sometimes it seems like we can’t let anyone have a bad day without first rubbing their noses in how we are having a worse one.

We all sound like Dostoevsky characters — like miserable people having altogether too much fun being miserable.

But here’s the catch: Like all good Dostoevskytes, we enjoy being miserable only when we are more miserable than everyone else, and students know it.

This becomes particularly

toxic when people actually need sympathy.

Sometimes we need to commiserate about our collective misery. Sadly, the best way to do this is to complain.

Sympathy is the grease that keeps students functioning when they need to crank out papers and cram for exams.

If one outlawed venting and complaining, the student union would be crushingly silent during finals week, and students would trundle around glowering in mute frustration.

And while no one likes listening to complaining, sometimes listening can be a gift, both to the unfortunate venter and the trapped listener.

It can remind the listener that even the seemingly-perfect student is human as well, and that no one on this campus is unique in having problems to sort out.

As sleep-deprived students attempt to ease the woes of studying with other people’s sympathy, the last thing they need is to hear more complain-bragging.

I’m not asking Hillsdale students to stop complaining. Goodness knows I’d make it about a day before breaking down. All I ask is that people stop bragging about their misery.

Braggadocious whining makes you feel better, and it invariably makes the happy, healthy, sane listener feel worse. If you are feeling spiteful, this is almost as good as being happy, healthy, and sane.

This is the kind of whining that is problematic. The rest is a relatively harmless waste of air.

Complaint-bragging is not a problem unique to Hillsdale.

It’s a problem with everyone, everywhere; but it’s is becoming an pandemic on this college campus. Things are getting out of hand when ice cream breaks become furtive guilt trips.

There’s a thin line between commiseration and conceit.

Commiseration builds community, but it requires listening and honesty. Conceit tears it down and drives people into isolation and shame.

Misery does love company.

But I say we need to put it in time-out, or at least make it play alone more often. We’d be better company, and maybe then our freshman could eat their ice cream in peace.

“Commiseration builds community, but it requires listening and honesty.

Conceit tears it down and drives people into isolation and shame.”

Julie Havlak is a senior studying English.

the exception.

Under the current system, officers will have served a complete semester before their candidacy, resulting in a full year of experience. This means they will have experienced the entire budget process and heard numerous funding requests and new club proposals.

Worst of all, this amendment would allow someone to run for treasurer who has never seen or worked with a Federation budget.

Allowing someone who joined in the fall semester to run for treasurer will place someone in control of more than $100,000 of student fees who might not

even know how that money is allocated. The budget process requires great subtlety and tact, and a treasurer should, at the very least, have been on the Federation to have seen and voted on the previous budget.

In addition, allowing students with only one semester of experience to run for office will endanger the institutional memory of the Federation, which is already sparse from its high turnover. When College Republicans requests thousands of dollars to go to the Conservative Political Action Conference, shouldn’t the treasurer at least know what promises the

“Instead of closing a loophole in the current constitution, the amendment will make this loophole the rule rather than the exception.”

club made the last time they came?

The foundation of the entire “yes” argument is fallacious. Even though there is a loophole whereby a member can leave the Federation and be nominated for office in absentia, this almost never happens. Even this year, probably the first-ever use of this loophole, the candidate took advantage of unusual circumstances that let him run for office without being nominated at a meeting. Using this as the basis for so-called fairness is foolish — it will likely never happen again.

Some have argued that opposing this amendment is anti-Greek, thereby implying that the status quo is somehow anti-Greek. Since two current officers and two of next year’s officers are Greek, and Student Federation has had at least one Greek officer at all times since at least 2011, crying discrimination is ridiculous. Resorting to the tired arguments of “anti-Greek”

bias is a distraction from the real problems in the amendment.

Finally, voting “no” on the amendment will not leave us with this problem for years to come. Amendments may be proposed and voted on by the student body at any time of the year. The Federation can address this issue again this spring and still be on schedule to have the issue resolved before the next cycle of elections in the fall with time to spare.

This amendment has some advantages, but loosening eligibility requirements is irresponsible. Though diligence and competence supplement experience, they cannot replace it. The student body deserves a concise, considered, and prudent answer to who is eligible for the highest offices on campus. This is not it.

Thomas Ryskamp is a senior studying Music and Accounting and is the secretary of Hillsdale’s Student Federation.

Love and shame at Hillsdale College By | Nic Rowan Columnist It’s all too, too shaming.

When I was 16 years old, I stole my first kiss — in public. I was walking home from Starbucks with this girl I knew from school. We were talking about something inconsequential. I liked her. And I knew from her obsessive texting habits that she liked me. So, as we were passing that Methodist church whose belfry plays Christmas carols year-round, I went for it. Easy as that.

It was the next few kisses that were hard. They all occurred somewhere semi-public: on a park bench, behind the auto-repair store, down in the woods near my house. At every subsequent meeting, we exchanged fewer words before getting down to business. Each kiss was more passionate than the last, and more distant. The anonymity allowed by these vacant public spaces hid any sign of affection from our parents, family, and friends.

Our actions played out on a moral heath. And when it all ended, we went off separately and did it again with someone else.

I’ve often found myself or one of my friends caught in a similar cycle — make out in the car; don’t forget the breath mints — and every time we talk about how our actions were right or wrong for our particular situations.

We solve our problems inhouse, like the mob killing

Luca Brasi or Amazon picking a new headquarters.

And that’s how it usually goes at Hillsdale. Love and shame bind us together.

We’re a tight crew.

Except this past week.

After a year of #metoo, outrage culture has finally made its way to the conservative Harvard — albeit in eunuch form. And it reveals just how much like everyone else we are: Regulating norms of social conduct isn’t an interpersonal matter. It’s an opportunity to jump on a soapbox and tell our less-urbane boot-cut jean-wearing peers to get a room.

It’s not just last week’s Collegian article. I mean, golly goose. We have an Instagram account devoted to mocking the awkward romantics in Saga and the student union. We boast a newspaper readership eager to gobble up run-off from Barstool Hillsdale’s post mocking kissy weirdos. Even Weird Catholic Twitter — the internet’s tentacular arm of traddery tied up with angst — cares about us again, set off by the rantings of @ tradqueen.

Now I know this outrage stuff happens at other schools too. But they’re, like, obsessed with MAGA hats and that gun-toting blonde girl. Boring.

Here, we have a tendency to obsess over honor. Tour guides brag about how students can leave their laptops out in the library. Men usually hold doors for women.

Professors and students greet

each other on campus.

These are precious customs, not often found at other schools.

It’s understandable that to many, certain public displays of affection seem to threaten our honor culture.

After all, H.L. Mencken was right about us; we don’t like levity. That’s fine. Many of us come from a stiff Hillsdale stuents have a tendency to obsess Midwestern stock, beholden over honor, Nic Rowan writes. Nic Rowan | to a sex-fearing, Collegian just in public. sex-obsessed enBut I’ll hang back. For vironment. It’s easier to work my own part, I’m lucky to within that way of life than have a brother and close to grow out of it. Accepting friends who help me out widespread PDA — in any when I’ve made mistakes. form — could radically alter Every time I’ve mistreated a our campus character. For woman, whether in word or the sake of Hillsdale’s integdeed, they’ve made me feel rity, we should stamp it out. ashamed of my actions and Cruelly. told me to do better.

So bring on the social It’s encouraging. I’ve media. Print more Collealways wanted to be a good gian pieces. Set up a student person — a saint, goddamroundtables to discuss the mit — and it’s much easier many and varied positions with friends willing to offer on the matter ab urbio ad deeply personal corrections. nauseum. While we’re conFor that, I’ll always be flating taste with morality, grateful. we might as well go whole hog and write up manifestos Nic Rowan is a senior on the specifics of what is studying history. and what is not right and

Letter: Birthright citizenship has a place in American society in the blood of a child whose By | Kyle Huitt Special to the Collegian parents were legal citizens that is different from a child whose parents were illegal In his article, “President Trump Is Right to End Birth- immigrants.

One might argue that right Citizenship,” Garrison this only applies to people Grisedale takes drive-by style aim at birthright citizenship, who are old enough to gain familiarity with the U.S. targeting everything from and come to identify with the interpretation of the it. There’s a case for this: A 14th Amendment to social possible compromise might contract theory. Let others reward birthright citizenship spill ink in the volumes it will take to settle the primary at a certain age rather than at birth. While this is more question of interest in Mr. Grisedale’s piece –– the prac- palatable than total opposition to birthright citizenship, tical consequences of birthright citizenship. I would like there are principled challenges to it. to simply ask whether the Why should we look at an denial of birthright citizeninfant and say she rightfully ship is right in principle. belongs in a land where she The principle I argue for has never been, especially is a simple one: A person when there is nobody in who grows up in American that land who can rightfully society and learns to funcclaim her? If the parents tion in and respect it with parents who are legal citizens are sent back to the place of their rightful citizenship, we is indistinguishable from would certainly want them someone else in identical to be able to bring the child circumstances with parents back with them by their who are not legal citizens. volition. But to say a child It seems strange to take belongs where he has never two children who have both been because of the citizenbeen raised to love America ship status of his parents and tell one that they rightly belong in a foreign land they seems like a non sequitur.

If we do say that a child have never known simply necessarily belongs elsebecause his parents were not where, I fear such an attialso born in the U.S. But this tude would quickly lead to, is the logical consequence of ending birthright citizenship. if not foster, a xenophobic degrading of the children of And yet, there is nothing immigrants as second-class

citizens. They would be seen as people whose claim to citizenship is weaker than the claims of those whose heritage is more well rooted in the U.S. Such a position would not make much sense, but history has shown that bad ideas do not need to make sense to thrive.

Mr. Grisedale does try to appeal to a principle of his own: the social contract theory. Mr. Grisedale argues that this theory poses problems for children of illegal immigrants since U.S. citizens have not consented to those children becoming citizens. The merit of social contract theory itself is far from a settled debate (let alone the extent to which the authors of the Constitution wished for such issues to be framed in light of social contract theory). But even more importantly, applying social contract theory to the process of citizenship rather than to the government is inconsistent with how the U.S. government was intended to run and any efficient immigration process. As it is, citizenship is determined via government agencies rather than any sort of democratic process in which citizens have a true voice. Requiring some direct, meaningful, coherent notion of social contract for the immigration

process would make this even worse.

Social contract theory could very well apply to questions of immigration in the sense that someone can join our social contract through lawful means established by the government to which we have consented.

But this weaker application of social contract still permits birthright citizenship, on principle, as it has been commonly understood and carried out for decades.

One might still argue that birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants is not, in fact, constitutional, therefore it still violates our social contract.

However, the constitutionality of birthright citizenship is a question of facts — not of principles inherent in social contract theory. It requires a debate that involves the fundamentals of constitutional interpretation, legal terminology, and precedent.

For our part, Hillsdale students should accept that from a principled standpoint, the common understanding of birthright citizenship is the correct one.

Kyle Huitt is a senior studying philosophy and history.

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Hillsdale Community Thrift opened Wednesday at 390 W Carleton Rd. Collegian | Josephine von Dohlen

Hillsdale Community Thrift opens, gives back to local nonprofits By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor When Missy DesJardin was a child, she remembers leaving Home Depot with her parents and seeing a man holding a sign that read, “Will work for food.”

“I remember crying to my parents that we had work around the house he could do, and we always had leftovers so we would have plenty,” she said in a recent speech. “I remember being angry at my parents for not helping him.”

DesJardin’s spirit of responsibility for others is the motivation behind the new Hillsdale Community Thrift store which opened Wednesday as an effort to bring the people of Hillsdale together in raising money for local

nonprofits.

Located at 390 W. Carleton Rd., Hillsdale Community Thrift collects and sells new or gently used items, then turns around to give the net profits right back to the community through local nonprofit organizations.

DesJardin says the local nonprofits can fill out a form with who they are, what they do, and what they intend to do with the money. Once the donation is received, they can send a photo back of what the nonprofit did with the money so that the store can have a corner dedicated to all the good work it has helped accomplish.

“Nonprofits just don’t have enough money here,” she said.

The idea for the thrift store began after DesJardin and her

husband, Brian, were running an annual golf outing for the Salvation Army this past spring. Several other non-

“The foundation of our county is the people,” DesJardin said.“If there are too many people that can’t support themselves, then we will crumble. This is my easiest way of helping them.” profits reached out to them, asking for DesJardin to put on a similar event for their own organizations. DesJardin said

Hillsdale brings comfort to homeless with warming center No one in Hillsdale has to spend cold winter nights outside thanks to Share the Warmth By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assistant Editor This winter, the homeless people of Hillsdale County now have a place to spend the night.

Share the Warmth is a night-only warming center that operates out of the House of Refuge Church located on E. Carleton Road. It’s designed to give people who don’t have anywhere to spend the night, a place to stay during the winter months. It’s a “night-only” warming center where guests can check in as early as 9 p.m. and checkout by 7:30 a.m.

The center opened on Nov. 1 and will remain open seven days a week until March or mid-April.

“In the big cities you see the homeless people, here you don’t,” Director of the warming center Penny Myers said.

Homelessness isn’t often thought of as a problem in rural areas like Hillsdale County.

“Homelessness is not just a big city problem,” Mayor Adam Stockford said in an email. “We’ve seen an influx of homeless people in Hillsdale County for the past several years.”

Myers said that she believes the warming center will meet a need for the community.

The first few nights the center was open, they only had one or two guests, but now in their second week since opening, the warming center has four to six people a night.

“We expect to have more guests as it starts getting colder out,” Myers said.

One of the first nights the center was open, Myers was sending her volunteers home because they didn’t have any guests. As they were leaving, a police officer stopped by and requested that they stay open even when they don’t have quests, so if during his night patrol he finds people sleeping

in places they shouldn’t, he can refer them to the warming center.

“It made us rethink the situation,” Myers said. “Now, we’ll be open every night as long as we have volunteers.”

The warming center has two shifts per night, each of which needs two volunteers.

As of now the center has 25 volunteers, but Myers said they definitely need more.

Mary Greco, freshman at Hillsdale College, said she started volunteering at the warming center when she felt like she should be more involved in the community.

“I feel very grateful for meeting the guests who stayed that night,” Greco said. “I plan on going back and fostering the relationships I made with them.”

The Chief of Police for the City of Hillsdale Scott Hephner said in an email that the warming center fills a primary gap from the perspective of the police.

“It gives a location for someone to spend the night other than sneaking into an apartment building laundry room, mechanical room, or other non-public areas,” Hephner said.

Hephner also noted that officers from the Hillsdale Police Department tell those who may be in need about the warming center, and have even made transports to the center upon request.

“This warming center is a compassionate addition to our city,” Stockford said.

“Our community is full of kind-hearted people that have identified where we were falling short and responded accordingly.”

Myers said the other night the police brought in a man they found sleeping in the utility room of an apartment building. They told him that he could spend the night in

she knew then that she had to begin brainstorming ideas about how she could help more people.

jail or go to the warming center. Myers said they brought him in and he went straight to bed.

“He’s been here every night since,” Myers said. “He’s been nothing but polite and friendly.”

Myers also shared a story of a woman who has been coming to the center for the last few nights.

When she first started coming, Myers said she was very shy and would go straight to bed, but now she’s very talkative and hangs out and drinks coffee with the volunteers.

“That’s what it’s all about,” Myers said.

Stockford noted that he too believes the warming center fills a need for the community.

“Now we’ve got to get the word out that there are options available for the needy and the downtrodden amongst us,” Stockford said.

“No one should be cold this winter in the city of Hillsdale.”

On top of providing guests with snacks and a place to spend the night, Myers also works to give guests Dial-ARide tickets and gift cards to local food places or coffee shops. Myers said the warming center is open to support from the community and they are always in need of volunteers and donations of gift cards, Dial-A-Ride tickets, or whatever people are able to give.

Myers and her husband come in to the center every night to visit with the guests and the volunteers, and she said they’re taking it one step at a time, but they’re hopeful that the warming center will meet a need in the community.

“It’s relationship building and we all have a story,” Myers said. “We can’t fix all of their problems, but we can give them a place to stay.”

DesJardin found her solution at a garage sale.

“I’ve always loved garage sales,” she said. “Hillsdale

loves garage sales.”

From there she began to plan for Hillsdale Community Thrift, a place where people could give away their new and gently used items that they no longer had a need for, and where nonprofits could benefit.

“The foundation of our county is the people,” DesJardin said. “If there are too many people that can’t support themselves, then we crumble. So this is my easiest way of helping them.”

Along with her husband, DesJardin founded a nonprofit corporation, BMAK Charity Thrifts. Their goal is to open six thrift stores in the next three years, she said. Each will give back to that county’s local nonprofits.

Many volunteers have

worked alongside DesJardin throughout the opening process.

Cherie Keiser, one of DesJardin’s helpers, said she started to thrift shop last year, going all the way to Jackson to search for goods. She said she’s excited that this shop is closer to home.

“And to help the community will make it even better,” Keiser said.

Keiser said that DesJardin and her husband had something good going with Hillsdale Community Thrift.

Hillsdale Community Thrift is open 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Donations are accepted during business hours.

Rough Draft prepares to say goodbye to founder Hubbard accomplished After overcoming this By | Emma-Sofia Mull exactly what she set out to do, initial set of hurdles, Hubbard Collegian Freelancer as Rough Draft is a popular was able to accomplish what Rough Draft may be destination amongst Hillsshe set out to do: provide a bit bidding farewell to its owner dale’s students. Freshman of beauty and liveliness to the and current manager, but Morgan Billingsley frequents people of Hillsdale, all while caffeine and aesthetic addicts Rough Draft often. having plenty of fun. have nothing to worry about “I enjoy Rough Draft “My coworkers make it so as management will be picked because it is warm and welfun and sweet to go to work up by the qualified Rachel coming, and provides a great and I love them all so incredSolomito ’17. study space off campus,” Billibly dearly. I love creating Carly Hubbard ’16, the ingsley said. “Not to mention weird latte flavors and coming owner and current manager the coffee is great.” up with cocktails and I love of Hillsdale’s beloved Rough While ultimately a reward- throwing parties and I think Draft, is in the process of ing and successful endeavor, I love live music more than handing off the management Hubbard faced her fair share most people,” she said. “I of her business to Solomito as of challenges starting her own love our slightly broken sink Hubbard prepares to move to business from the ground up and how packed our back California. room is because I Hubbard began didn’t make it big the process of enough.” opening Rough Lara Ryd ’18 Draft while finishbegan working at ing her fifth year at Rough Draft in Hillsdale College.

June 2018, and After weighing has thoroughly several options, enjoyed her time she ultimately there thus far. decided to pursue “My favorite the creation of her aspect about very own business. working at Rough “I was too Draft is the fact attracted to the that I get to be a opportunity of part of both the creating a space town community for the people of and the college Hillsdale and the community at the college students same time,” she could hang out said. “The team and get to know at Rough Draft is one another and incredibly comenjoy something munity-oriented. beautiful and It’s one of those delicious, whether places in Hillsdale it be a coffee or that bridges the Carly Hubbard will be transitioning out of her role as beer or scone,” divide between manager of Rough Draft. Collegian Archives Hubbard said. “I the town and the think everybody as a recent college graduate. college.” deserves something beautiful.”

“It was a long journey, it As Hubbard gets ready to Still a student herself when took way longer than I had leave her beloved town and she began drawing up plans to anticipated to open Rough business, she is setting her open Rough Draft, Hubbard Draft and there were so many eyes on the future. said she had the students of more decisions to make and “My plans are up in the air; Hillsdale College on her mind problems solved that I ever that seems to be a trend in my while designing it. dreamt of when I started,” job searches,” Hubbard said.

“I wanted there to a space Hubbard said. “There was just “I am headed out to the Bay that was open a bit later than so much to confront when we Area in California to try my other places in town,” Hubwere working on construction hand at working in Operbard said. “I was always up and codes and licenses and ations at a few sustainable late studying as a student and equipment and all of it was so start-ups that I greatly admire. had out-studied all the spots new and foreign to me. I often I’m winging it like always and would always fall asleep felt overwhelmed and unqual- and I can’t wait for the next if I went home to my off-cam- ified.” adventure.” pus house.”

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The property at 23&25 N. Broad Street will be demolished in the near future. Collegian | Josephine von Dohlen

By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor With a two-property building beginning to crumble at its corners, Broad Street could see an empty lot in the near future.

The City of Hillsdale is considering demolishing the properties at 23 and 25 N. Broad Street, due to the fact the building owner has failed to meet the city’s property maintenance code for some time.

“The front facade is separating, if you go inside, it’s even worse because there’s no roof in the center section of the building. It’s really bad,” City Manager David Mackie said at the Nov. 5 Hillsdale City Council meeting.

The Tax Increment Finance Authority plans to discuss the demolition process of the property at its meeting next week, before presenting a plan to the city council.

“Unfortunately, the building has been neglected for years and is deteriorated beyond the point of repair,” according to the council meeting agenda item summary.

“It is a serious hazard to the CIty that must be demolished ASAP.” The property was posted as unsafe in December 2015, when Planning and Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker inspected the building with an architect and found significant damage to the foundation, exterior walls, floors, and interior. The property’s problems were caused by roof failure as

well as lack of maintenance.

The owner, Mortgage Management LLC, was ordered by the city to submit a plan for demolition or repair and complete that plan within the next six months, according to the a write-up from City Assessor Kimberly Thomas which was given to the council.

After failure to comply with these requests, Hillsdale’s Department of Public Services placed barricades along the sidewalk outside the building in September 2017.

The building’s owner was ordered by the city to either bring it up to code through repairs or demolish the building by Jan. 23, 2018. When Mortgage Management LLC failed to meet those orders, the issue went to the Hillsdale County Circuit Court on the grounds of potential foreclosure due to unpaid property taxes, according to a March 2018 Collegian article.

The property was foreclosed on in April after the property owners, who owed more than $50,000, failed to pay even a minimal payment of $3,566.23 to redeem the property.

Stephanie Kyser, county treasurer, had the building re-inspected in June. The conclusion of the engineer’s assessment was a recommendation that the building be demolished, the report said.

“This is the safest and most cost-effective solution,” Richard Moran wrote in his report of the inspection, published in a city council packet. “Any attempt at repairs would be

band-aid fixes and would not overcome the structural inadequacies that exists.”

The first county tax sale was held in August, with the minimum bid at $50,000, the amount owed in back taxes.

When no one bid on the property, a second county tax sale was held in October, and the City of Hillsdale purchased the property for $75.

“Since then, at that particular time, the county had received an engineering reporting stating that the building needed to be torn down,” Mackie said at the council meeting. “That all those years of tax delays and no maintenance on the property had deteriorated the building to such a degree that there is no repair of it.”

Purchasing the property will allow the city to apply for blight elimination grants and other available funds. Ultimately, following demolition, the property will either be sold for redevelopment or left as a green space.

“I thought given our staff and our ability to search out grants with Kelly LoPresto and my office, that we were more inclined to actually get something done with that property and search out a grant to demolish it and work with, potentially, private interest to either redevelop it or maintain green space,” Mackie said.

Mackie said several private parties have expressed interest in the potential empty property.

Vape-n-Chill aims to deter nicotine addictions By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor With the aroma of vape wafting through the air paired with the unmistakable sight of faux palm trees lighting up the shop, Hillsdale’s very own Vape-n-Chill not only provides vape to its customers, but builds community among locals as well.

According to its unwritten but well-understood mission statement, Vape-n-Chill’s goal is to wean people off nicotine while getting to know them on a personal level.

Vape-n-Chill, which opened a little over a year ago on W. Carleton Road selling Goose Juice, encourages peo-

ple of all ages to stop by for a vape and for some conversation.

The shop boasts a friendly lounge area of two couches, a booth, a chair, and not one but, two faux palm trees.

After working at Mr. Darcy’s, a former Hillsdale vape shop, for over 10 years, Paul Taylor was ready for a change.

After dissolving his partnership at Mr. Darcy’s, Taylor partnered with Nick Gallup, as part-owners, forming Vapen-Chill. Taylor and Gallup are both co-owners, with Taylor as a silent partner and Gallup as the only in-store employee.

Gallup said they were able to bring the established customer base from Mr. Darcy’s

By | Nic Rowan Columnist It was out with the old and in with the new at the Dawn Theater this past Saturday.

In an effort to clear the old performance venue for its long-awaited redevelopment, Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Financing Authority auctioned off every old item it could at the Dawn on Nov. 10. About 25 students and Hillsdale residents alike attended the event from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., taking the chance to own a piece of the city’s past.

The funds from the auction will go toward purchasing new audio and video equipment for the newly renovated Dawn, according to TIFA advisor Mary Wolfram.

Senior Jimmy McGrath said he went out of curiosity, and ended up buying a old sign explaining that management reserved the right to throw any customer out for any reason.

“It was neat to be in there, after four years of walking past it and wondering what it looks like on the inside,” he said. “I finally had my questions answered.”

McGrath noted that in a way, the theater is a time capsule for when it closed in 2015: A sign posted on the red-colored wall still informs visitors that theater staff will not serve alcohol to people born before 1994.

Although he said it was fun to explore an old Hillsdale establishment, McGrath also said that it is clear that the Dawn is still in its early stages of development. The building still is unheated, an expensive

problem that has confronted TIFA since it acquired it in 2016.

“I started laughing about something, and all of a sudden, I could see my breath,” McGrath said. “So I laughed some more, and a big plume of steam came out of my mouth.”

Brant Cohen ’18, associate at C.L. Real Estate LLC—the company charged with both renovations for the Keefer House and the Dawn Theater—said the auction went off well, managing to sell the Dawn theater’s iconic sign adorning the building’s facade. TIFA needs to remove the sign (along with the theater’s yellow overhang) to restore the building’s original street-facing windows.

Cohen said that auctioning off these items from the Dawn marks an important first step in the restoration of the historic theater.

“It was a way to get rid of the old to make room for the new. The funds raised will go back into the theater to help make improvements,” he said.

“We envision live entertainment, receptions, banquets, recitals, movies, weddings, conferences, and more.”

On the whole, Cohen said he hopes the new theater and the restored Keefer House will feed off each in the restoration of downtown Hillsdale.

“Most importantly, the small businesses in town will see an increase in customers because of the visitors drawn in by the Dawn,” he said. “The theater will help bring the visitors here and the Keefer will keep them in town.”

Dawn Theater auction first step in revitalization

to Vape-n-Chill.

One customer, Alvie Sackett, said that after shopping at Mr. Darcy’s for a few years, it just made sense to start going to Vape-n-Chill.

“I live nearby so that made it real convenient to come here,” Sackett said.

Despite what may seem like strategic locationing near a college, Gallup describes their demographic as anyone from ages 18-60, claiming there really isn’t any small, target audience for vaping.

Gallup said most customers are former smokers who are using vaping not only as a hobby but as a way to get off nicotine.

“The goal is to get people

away from smoking,” he said.

“The main goal is to get them less addicted.”

For this reason, Vape-nChill doesn’t carry any pods or devices such as Juuls. What sets apart Vape-n-Chill from other competitors in Hillsdale is its specialization in just vaping as opposed to a variety of smoking, as provided by a big competitor, Wild Bill’s.

One Hillsdale College junior said that she prefers Smokey Joes, another vape shop in town, because of the wide variety.

These other types of smoking, Gallup said, only further people’s addictions.

“I want it to be a safe environment for people to come

and vape and talk to others who are going through the same thing,” he said.

Gallup emphasized fostering community as a big part of his role in the company. His job description consists of the usual things: checking inventory, placing orders for more vape, and cleaning the glass which he said gets atrociously dirty due to the constant flow of vapor.

But aside from the technical tasks, Gallup said his favorite part is getting to hangout and help customers.

It’s something he finds “extremely rewarding.”

“I like to get to know my customers,” Gallup said. “And not just know about them

but know about their friends, parents, and pets too.”

There have been no major issues and that business is going well despite lack of major advertising Gallup said. He attributes their success in their first year of business to the loyalty of their old customers and great word-of-mouth advertising.

According to Gallup, Vape-n-Chill has no plans on changing a thing. He will consider possible future expansion but, for now, everything is going smoothly.

“I can see myself staying here for a long time,” he said.

From left to right: Greg McLogan, Peter Jennings, Robert Smith, Gene Denning, and Jeffrey Mackie . Collegian | Stefan Kleinhenz

Three inducted into Hillsdale County Veterans Hall of Fame By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assistant Editor Although veterans come from different branches of the United States military, they are united in their service under the American flag.

Three veterans were inducted into the Hillsdale County Veterans Hall of Fame in a ceremony last Thursday, as the group gathered to honor veterans and special guests.

Assistant Professor of Management at Hillsdale College, Peter Jennings, was one of the three inducted into the hall of fame.

“I’m humbled and honored,” Jennings said. “It’s nice that they do this.”

Jennings served as a Major in the United States Marine Corps; a career of nearly 20 years including service in three major conflicts. Jeffrey

Mackie and Russell McLogan were also inducted alongside Jennings. Mackie served for 29 years in the U.S. Army and was part of five major conflicts throughout his career, and he attained the rank of Master Sergeant. Private First Class McLogan served in the U.S. Army during World War II. McLogan passed away earlier this year, and his son received his certificate on his behalf.

Michigan’s 58th district state representative Eric Leutheuser was in attendance.

“Knowing and honoring the past is the foundation of what we learn,” Leutheuser said. “Recognizing these everyday heroes is the least we can do.”

Gene Denning was this year’s guest of honor and The Hillsdale Exchange club was the recipient of the Service Organization of the Year

Award.

Jeffery Rogers is the treasurer of the Hillsdale County Veterans Hall of Fame, and the Associate Dean of Men at Hillsdale College. Rogers delivered the opening remarks of the ceremony where he recited Johnny Cash’s “Ragged old flag.”

“We might be from different branches,” Rogers said.

“But our common bond is the symbol of the American flag.”

Major General Robert Smith of the U.S. Army was the ceremony guest speaker.

Smith spoke of the 50 year anniversary of the Tet Offensive and his personal experience in Vietnam.

“We counted down the days until we got to go home,” Smith said.

He was the only one of nine men in his group to return home alive. Smith paid

tribute those in Vietnam and all veterans.

“Remember and honor our vets,” Smith said. “Never let their actions be forgotten.”

Smith also emphasised the importance of leaders today to follow in the footsteps of our veterans.

“We need more men and women who aren’t afraid to take risks or go against popular opinion, we need leaders who aren’t afraid to admit when they’re wrong.” Smith said. “The world needs leaders who embody these types of leadership.”

The Hillsdale County Veterans Hall of Fame honors veterans every year in honor of Veterans Day. “This Veterans day think about love,” Jennings said.

“Think about what our veterans did out of love.”

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Hillsdale wraps up fall season in the snow at Bald Mountain shoot By | Austin Gergens collegian reporter The Hillsdale shotgun team competed in a public sporting clays competition in Lake Orion, Michigan, at the Bald Mountain Shooting Range on Saturday. The team competed with 94 other entrants in snowy conditions.

Senior Matthew Grunzweig got the highest overall score of the competition, with 96 out of 100 clays broken. Senior Emanuel Boyer scored second in the B class category, and senior Amanda Klug won the highest overall score for women and first place in the D class.

“Staying consistent takes a lot of mental toughness, and

most importantly, a positive attitude,” Grunzweig said.

As the fall passes by and winter approaches, the team has been facing colder competitions each week.

“The cold was the hardest part of the shoot for me,” freshman Anthony LaMacchia said. “There wasn’t harsh wind or falling snow, but you still had to really layer up.”

Grunzweig was impressed with how the team did considering the winter weather.

“It’s always good to get experience going to away competitions,” assistant coach Jordan Hintz said. “The course was the right level of difficulty for what we’ll see at nationals.”

The Bald Mountain shoot was the last competition for

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Chargers drop two non-conference matchups to begin regular season By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers began the regular season on their home court last weekend, and lost two non-conference games.

On Saturday, the Chargers fell to the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds 69-67 after the Greyhounds sunk a pair of game-winning free throws with 2.9 seconds remaining. On Sunday, Hillsdale fell behind early against the Lewis University Flyers and never led in a 77-55 loss.

“We didn’t make shots. We have to kind of bounce back and find ourselves fundamentally a little bit,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “We’re gonna work on a lot of breakdown stuff for the next few days. It’s just going to be about us and hammering home some details.”

The Chargers shot 40.3 percent from the floor against Indianapolis and just 32.8 percent against Lewis. Hillsdale relied heavily on three-point shooting, taking 28 and 31 attempts in the two games.

Fritsche also said the team’s communication on the court was lacking, and traced it back to ineffective coaching during practice.

“To an extent, what we permit we promote. We need to ask them to talk more in practice,” Fritsche said. “We end up with the wrong matchups in defensive transitions or we end up with the wrong reads on screens and we end up with mistakes being made because we haven’t talked

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Against Indianapolis, the Chargers led by as many as six early in the second quarter.

The game featured eight lead changes in total. Fritsche said he isn’t worried about his team’s ability to bounce back from an early-season setback.

“I’m not concerned about their willingness to learn and improve,” Fritsche said.

“I think they all wanna be really good and they wanna be way better than we were this weekend.”

Senior forward Makenna Ott led the Chargers with 19 points against the Greyhounds and 12 points against the Flyers. She’s now just two points away from 1,000 in her collegiate career.

“I’m really excited to be able to do that, score that

1000th point, but also to be able to win and have a good game, and just improve as a team,” Ott said.

Senior guard Allie Dewire scored 15 points on Saturday, but played only two minutes on Sunday before exiting because of an unusual injury.

Dewire collided with junior center Julia Wacker and had to sit out the rest of the game to tend to the bleeding from her head.

“Allie brings a level of toughness and athleticism, and she’s a good communicator,” Fritsche said. “Anytime Allie’s not at the floor, we’re a noticeably different team.”

Freshman guard Grace Touchette stepped up to run the point position, and grabbed five rebounds while dishing out two assists. Sophomore guard Jaycie Burger

also helped fill the void, and scored eight points.

Freshman guard Lauren Daffenberg scored nine points on Saturday and seven points on Sunday, and made four of nine three-pointers. She said that while she didn’t have many nerves in her first collegiate action, she’s looking forward to the team having more time to work as a unit.

“We just need to keep playing with each other,” Daffenberg said. “The communication issues we had in the two games — we do very well in practice, so it’s just about transferring our practice to the game.”

Ott agreed, and said the team has early adversity to learn from and build on as the season unfolds.

“Our expectations haven’t changed because of this weekend. Our main goal is to always peak at the end of the season just like we did last year,” Ott said. “It might even be beneficial for us in the long run, because if we hadn’t lost these games, we wouldn’t point out the exact things that we need to work on and what we need to do to get better.”

The Chargers have a week off before their next game on Monday, when Ferris State University visits Hillsdale for a 6 p.m. tip-off.

“We didn’t want to start off 0-2, but it’s better to realize that we need to peak in March and not now,” Daffenberg said.

“We realize how far we have to go in order to get to that peak. We’re just realizing that we started off a little bit lower than what we expected.”

Chargers fall to Findlay and Lewis in final home meet of fall season The Hillsdale Chargers fell to the University of Findlay and Lewis University in a home meet on Saturday. Lewis edged the Chargers with a final score of 134-126, while Findlay won with a score of 191-88.

“This weekend was a good gauge of where we are as a team before we head into mid-seasons next weekend,” sophomore Katherine Heeres said. “Findlay and Lewis are both very strong teams and I am proud of how we rose to the challenge on Saturday.”

Heeres earned the Chargers their first placement of the meet with her second-place performance in the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing in 11 minutes and 9.86 seconds. Heeres also took second in the 200

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“We had quite a few season-best times,” Heeres said.

“In general, everyone seemed to feel good about where they’re at in terms of times.”

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these are a fun way to stay in practice.

“I could have definitely done better at Bald Mountain but I didn’t do my pre-shot routine or shot analysis,” Klug said. “That’s what happens when you get into these shoots and are having fun.”

The Chargers start practices again in January and will continue to work toward improving until the Nationals competition in Texas, where the team has won five years in a row.

“Wrapping up the fall season of my senior year is most certainly bittersweet,” said Grunzweig. “But I’m excited to help Hillsdale bring home another national championship.”

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the team in its fall season.

“We don’t require team members to shoot in the offseason, but they are strongly encouraged to,” Hintz said.

“It’s also recommended to do eye training exercises, stay physically active, and work on your mental game.”

The break from the routine shoots and weight room workouts offers the team a chance to reflect on areas to improve going into the spring semester.

“My goal is to keep shooting over break, even if it’s only 100 targets a week,” LaMacchia said. “I’m also going to focus on the basics and get my gun mount to where it used to be.”

Klug said public shoots like

medley. She finished the 200 breast with a time of 2:27.31 while finishing the 200 IM at 2:20.32.

Junior Catherine Voisin took second in the 200 butterfly, finishing with a time of 2:13.92.

The Chargers A-team, made up of Heeres, sophomore Emma Rao, senior Suzanne DeTar, and junior Victoria Addis, took second in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:41.50.

Head coach Kurt Kirner said the team is aiming to improve times and overall health before the G-MAC championships, which are in Canton, Ohio, in February.

The Chargers’ final event of the fall season is this weekend at the University of Chicago Invitational in Chicago, Illinois. The event will run from Friday through Sunday.

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www.hillsdalecollegian.com PLAYOFFS, from a10 town is nearly a nine-hour drive from Hillsdale, and just under the threshold of 600 miles that allows teams to fly to its destination. The Chargers will take the bus.

“We’re going to have to do the same thing we’ve done for 11 weeks in terms of our preparation and in terms of going on the road,” Otterbein said. “We found out how difficult that was on Saturday, and now we’ve gotta do that again.”

Both of Hillsdale’s losses this season came on the road.

In Otterbein’s playoff career at Hillsdale, he’s coached three games, all on the road, and gone 1-2.

While Otterbein has coached teams that have been on the fringe of the playoffs, this is the first time any of the players on the current roster have been on a team that’s had a shot at making the postseason. He didn’t think his team’s lack of postseason experience would be a factor on Saturday.

“It’s really just another game for the players in terms of their preparation and what they’ve gotta worry about,” Otterbein said. “It’s still a 60-minute game with four downs to get a first down and six points to get a touchdown.”

Stewart said the offense’s gameplan on Saturday will the the same as it’s been all season. That means getting the ball in the hands of its playmakers — guys like senior wide receiver Trey Brock, junior running back David Graham, and soph-

FOOTBALL, from a10 63-yard pass from Stewart to sophomore tight end Martin Petersen that moved the ball inside the Greyhounds’ five yard line.

The back-and-forth began, and Indianapolis tied the game before the end of the first quarter. Junior running back David Graham’s 14th touchdown run of the season, a one-yard score, put the Chargers back ahead in the second quarter.

Indianapolis tied the game at 14 before halftime and took a 17-14 lead with a field goal early in the third quarter. Sophomore kicker Joe Philipp’s 32-yard field goal tied the game at 17 until the Greyhounds took the lead for good in the fourth quarter.

Stewart connected with senior wide receiver Trey Brock for completions of 38 and 30 yards on consecutive plays for Hillsdale’s only score of the fourth quarter.

The 30-yard completion went for a touchdown, Brock’s 14th touchdown reception of the year.

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omore wide receiver K.J. Maloney.

“Every game, it’s the same mindset, getting David going early, getting Trey and K.J. going early and as often as possible,” Stewart said. “Once we start exploiting one of those matchups, they’re going to have to change a little bit on defense to try to eliminate that, and then it just opens up the other part of the game even better.

We’re going to keep doing our normal thing and just get ready to go.”

This year’s nine wins are already the most by a Hillsdale team since 2010, the year of the program’s last playoff appearance. That team was also 9-2 entering the postseason, but lost in the first round. This year’s Chargers will try to be the first to win a playoff game since 2009.

For the team’s veterans, a playoff appearance has been a long process. Senior linebacker Jay Rose, a captain this year and the team’s leading tackler, was a true freshman in 2014. That team went 4-7.

The next year, the Chargers improved by a game and finished 5-6. Midway through the season, Stewart took over as the starting quarterback after transferring from Division I Western Michigan University. He quickly found his favorite target in the passing game, then-freshman wide receiver Trey Brock.

In 2016, the team went 5-5. Last season, Hillsdale posted its first winning record since 2012 when it went 7-4 in its first year in the G-MAC. David Graham burst onto the scene as the

Chargers’ starting running back in his sophomore season.

Before the beginning of the 2018 season, Hillsdale’s captains decided on the team’s one-word motto for the season: finish.

“Looking back on our four years here, we wanted to decide a word that resembled our time here as a senior group,” Stewart said. “The word ‘finish’ just means every play, every rep, every quarter, every game, you find a way to finish that game off and do everything in your power to finish it off.”

Stewart is just one of many seniors who Otterbein noted has been playing his best football in his final season at Hillsdale. Stewart led the G-MAC in total offense this season as a dual-threat quarterback. His week-byweek focus has never wavered even as the team rose in the national rankings and he climbed in the Hillsdale record books.

“Our first goal was to win the conference and we did that. Our second goal was to win in the playoffs,” Stewart said. “This group of guys is very motivated to keep going.”

Otterbein lauded his group of veterans who have been on less successful teams at Hillsdale, and said they’ve paved the way for a winning environment and close team chemistry.

“There’s something in that locker room where they really play hard for each other.

They don’t want to let their buddy down,” Otterbein said.

“We had arguably more talent last year on the field and more experience for sure, and didn’t come up with the

of 29 passes for 221 yards.

With at least one more game remaining in his career at Hillsdale, Stewart is just 107 yards shy of Troy Weatherhead’s school record for passing yards, at 9,544.

Stewart has already set single-season career highs in completions, passing yards, and passing touchdowns in his senior year. He said he’s grateful for the chance to play in a playoff game this weekend.

“I get to play another football game for Hillsdale. Just really happy and thankful for the opportunity,” Stewart said. “To be able to be on this team is pretty special. Really excited for the opportunity.”

Brock’s 14 touchdowns are a single-season career high, and fourth-most in all of NCAA Division II. He caught eight passes for 124 yards on Saturday, his sixth game this season with 100 or more receiving yards. In his four-year career at Hillsdale, Brock has at least 100 receiving yards in 23 of the 42 games he’s played in.

On the defensive side, the Chargers allowed 269 rushing yards, the most in a game this season. Senior defensive back Wyatt Batdorff

said the Greyhounds’ spread offense led to their big day on the ground. Hillsdale’s run defense is typically one of the team’s strengths, as it allows the third-fewest yards per game in the conference.

“They made the gaps much wider and that makes it harder for the linebackers and defensive backs to make tackles,” Batdorff said. “That was a little bit uncharacteristic of us. If we go back to our basics, we should be fine.”

Batdorff led the defense with nine total tackles, and is second on the team with 82 tackles this season. Senior linebacker Jay Rose, who had six tackles on Saturday, leads the team this season with 86.

Batdorff also said the loss may serve to bring the team down to earth after going more than two months without losing. But he remains confident in the team’s prospects during the playoffs.

“It puts us into a reality check a little. We’re still a good team, but it humbles us a little,” Batdorff said.

“I think it’ll help that we actually have to work much harder to win games. We can’t just roll up and expect to win. You’ve gotta put a lot more effort into it.”

big plays. Fine line between winning and losing.”

Senior defensive back Wyatt Batdorff, who led the team in tackles in 2016 and 2017, was one of the captains this year that chose the word ‘finish’ for the 2018 team.

“I think the whole team was just sick of being very average. We know we have the talent, and it’s just a matter of finishing and doing our jobs,” Batdorff said. “We just got sick of it and decided that this is our year.”

After five seasons of mediocre win-loss records, this year’s Chargers are conference champions, nationally ranked, and far from average.

Hillsdale teams of previous years didn’t finish games.

This year’s team has finished in the moments when it’s mattered most, and it’s led to a 9-2 record and the promise of more football.

The Chargers finished their conference schedule with an eight-game winning streak, the longest the team has had since 1992.

They finished the year with a G-MAC championship in the team’s second year in the conference.

Otterbein said making the playoffs provides the team an opportunity to appreciate, if only for a moment, the things already accomplished.

“I’m very proud of our guys, and very proud of our staff,” Otterbein said. “A lot of blood, sweat and tears go into an accomplishment like this.”

But Otterbein and the entire team knows the Chargers aren’t finished. The regular season may be over. But the playoffs are only beginning.

MBB, from a10 with myself that we hadn’t done a lot of late-game situations [in practice]. It was a hard, hard- fought game. I thought we showed a lot of courage to respond properly in overtime. We could’ve folded.”

Lowry remained hot in Hillsdale’s second game, leading the Chargers with 15 points while five rebounds and one assist. Senior forward Nick Czarnowski led the Chargers with six rebounds.

On Saturday, the Chargers started strong, making the first two shots of the game, but the Prairie Stars quickly took the lead. By the end of the first half, the Chargers had regained control, and Lowry’s buzzer-beating jump shot at the end of the half put Hillsdale ahead 39-29 at the break.

Hillsdale remained in the lead for the rest of the game, but the Prairie Stars came within one point after a three-pointer with 15 minutes left. Behr answered with a three of his own to extend

November 15, 2018 A9 WXC, from a10 per now, so we have a better chance for a really good race.”

Assistant coach R.P. White said the Chargers have been training on tough hills and had a great workout on Friday.

“Walsh has been training on a flatter area and we have the upper hand,” he said. “We’ve trained on every inch of that course and we’re going to be well prepared.”

MXC, from a10 will be the Chargers’ first 10-kilometer race this year, as opposed to the eight kilometer distance the team usually competes at. Team opinion about the jump to the longer distance is mixed, with some confident it will help the team and others not sure about the change.

Sophomore Morgan Morrison said high-mileage runners such as himself and senior Eli Poth will have an advantage during the longer race.

“Kids that maybe ran more mileage during the summer just have more of an advantage because their bodies are more oriented towards that longer distance,” Morrison said. “Eli and I and some other guys have raced 10k’s on the track before, so we understand that distance pretty well.”

Humes, who holds the Hillsdale's lead. After a 9-0 scoring run, the Chargers sealed their victory as they led by 13 with just over five minutes left in the game.

“I thought there were some times our offense wasn’t clicking, but we could rely on our defense,” Larson said. “It’s always good to have a strong defense in the beginning of a season.

Defense first is our foundation. Offense will come later in the season. We played really well defensively and that’s what’s going to win us games.

Larson led the Chargers in scoring with 19 points, while Behr added 15 points, four rebounds and four assists against Illinois Springfield. The Chargers shot nearly 50 percent from the three point line.

“This weekend was truly a team weekend for us,” Tharp said. “Jonny Wilkinson came off the bench on Friday and we would not have won that game if it wasn’t for Jonny’s threes.”

The Chargers’ overall depth made a difference over the weekend and figures to make them a tough opponent as the season progresses. Sophomore guard Connor Hill came off the

The Chargers are heading into Saturday’s race with many goals in mind.

“My goal is to be in the top ten,” Depies said. “I feel like this one is more special because we’ve done so many workouts out there. It’s like, ‘Yeah, we own this.’”

Sawyer says she wants to join Depies and junior Arena Lewis in the top ten.

“Anything can happen in a big race like this, and they’re definitely talented enough,” White said. “We just want to focus on having our best races and protect our course.

G-MAC record in the 8k and is a three-time winner this year at the shorter distance, said he is unsure of what to expect from the longer race.

“This whole season I kind of had a plan for the 8k, and I know how to race that. The 10k has another mile and change that you’re just nailing onto the end of it,” Humes said. “It’s new, which is fun, but there are just a lot of unknowns going into it.”

Humes said he was pleased with how the Chargers looked last meet, and said they don’t have to make any fundamental changes leading up to the regional meet.

“In terms of our attitude going into the [G-MAC Championship] meet, it was better than any meet, and everyone put out their best energy,” Humes said.

“I think if we keep that same attitude and how we compete and how we look forward to the meets, we’ll be just fine.” bench in both games to score 11 points. Larson, who didn’t score at all on Friday came back to score 19 on Saturday.

Senior forward Jack Cordes came off the bench and snagged five rebounds to lead the Chargers on Saturday, and sophomore forward Trenton Richardson added five blocks in the two games combined.

“This year we’re very deep,” Behr said. “Our offense will just depend game-by-game on who steps up and scores.”

Tonight, the Chargers will host last year’s Division II national champions, Ferris State University, at 7 p.m.

Tharp said Ferris State will be a tough matchup because of their sharp shooting, speed, and quickness, calling their players “the whole package.” Ferris State did graduate several players from its championship team a year ago, however.

“We all want to win the game. It’s a very winnable game,” Behr said. “We’ve always played Ferris tight, and especially at home we should be able to beat them.”

After its home opener against Ferris State, Hillsdale hosts the Thanksgiving Classic tournament next week.

charger chatter: Maryssa Depies Maryssa Depies is a sophomore from Muskegon, Michigan. She is studying biochemistry at Hillsdale and is on the women’s cross country and track and field teams.

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Q: How long have you been running?

Q: What are some of your hobbies?

Q: What are your aspirations for the rest of your time at Hillsdale?

Q: Do you have anything special or ritualistic that you do before a race?

Q: What’s it like balancing academics and running?

MD: The “Girls on the Run” program is where you get a bunch of girls together and talk about not only running but girl issues and stuff. My mom signed me up for it in fifth grade and I didn’t want to do it. The end of the year celebration is this 5k run and I just didn’t want to do it at all. But then I ended up winning that and thought ‘Hey, running is kind of fun.’ And so I started running after that.

MD: I like to be artsy, but usually things outdoors.

Something to take my mind off of school and whatnot. To get outside or just to hang out with friends is what I like to do. My family is really active, so we did bike trails and we would always be at the beach doing stuff. We go boating, tubing, and waterskiing.

MD: In cross country, it's a lot easier to qualify as a team to go to nationals, so I think we have a good possibility of doing that, so I’m looking forward to that.

Coming from high school to college, I dropped a minute off my 5k time, which is a lot. Based on how this season is going, I think I have a lot more potential to hopefully do that, and maybe being an All-American in track is something that I am looking forward to. It's definitely a goal.

MD: I know some people get really psyched about that and I used to think ‘I have to do this and that and eat this.’

But now I’m at the point where I think I stressed myself out doing that, so now I just go into it. So nothing special except the pair of socks that I wear every race.

MD: This semester has been a lot. I only have 16 credits this semester, but I have five classes. So I go to class at 8 a.m. and then get out at 2 p.m. It's a really long day. I’m trying to keep up with homework and stuff. It’s not easy. And we travel a lot, so studying in the car gets done.

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By | Sutton Dunwoodie collegian reporter A trip to the NCAA Division II National Championships is up for grabs on Saturday when the Hillsdale College men’s cross country team competes in the Midwest Regional at Hayden Park. The Chargers, currently ranked seventh in the region, need to jump at least two positions to be in play for an at-large bid to the national meet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next month.

The Chargers are coming off a fourth-place finish at the G-MAC Championships two weeks ago, and will face many of the same teams at the regional meet. Junior Joey Humes said he looks forward to showing the competition how good the team really is.

“The guys that finished ahead of us at the conference, they’ve got some pretty big heads right now and they’re

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showing it,” Humes said. “I really hope regionals is a chance to show that’s not where we really are.”

This will be the team’s second meet this year on its home course this season. The first race at Hayden Park in October resulted in a win for Hillsdale, and assistant coach R.P. White thinks the familiarity with the course will give his team a big advantage.

“We know where all the subtle hills are, we know where the big monster hills are, and we know where the sharp turns are,” White said.

“Some of the teams, even though they will preview it on Friday, won’t have it memorized. We basically have the thing memorized. It doesn’t ensure we are going to be successful, but it definitely is a helping hand.”

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The Hillsdale women’s cross country team has a chance to qualify for the NCAA Division II National Championship meet for the sixth year in a row this Saturday. The Midwest Regional six-kilometer race begins at 11:45 a.m. at Hayden Park.

The top three teams in the region will advance to the national championships. Additional teams will be picked from each region following a bidding system for a total of 34 teams. The top two runners in each region who are not a part of a qualifying team will also qualify, and if the runners in the top five of the race are not a part of a national-qualifying team, they will also advance.

The Chargers are currently ranked fourth in the region behind three nationally-ranked teams. Last year, Hillsdale took second to

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Grand Valley State University at the regional meet with four runners in the top 25.

Grand Valley is ranked first in the region again this year.

The Chargers bring back three runners from last year’s regional runner-up team.

“I think there’s a better chance of beating Walsh because we have the home course advantage,” sophomore Maryssa Depies said. “And rumor has it that they’re not very good at hills.”

Walsh was the G-MAC champion after the conference meet on Nov. 3, where Hillsdale placed second. Depies and junior Arena Lewis earned first team all-conference, and sophomore Christina Sawyer got second team all-conference.

“I think we’re better than them,” Sawyer said. “Everyone just needs to give their best races. We’re just starting to ta-

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When senior quarterback Chance Stewart walked off the field on Saturday after the Hillsdale Chargers’ loss to the Indianapolis Greyhounds, he wondered if he would ever play collegiate football again.

The regular season was over, and although the Chargers finished 9-2 and won the G-MAC, their playoff fate was uncertain.

“That was a rough 24 hours for a lot of people,” Stewart said.

On Sunday night, the team gathered around a pair of projectors to watch the NCAA release its selections for the Division II playoffs. Hillsdale

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Hillsdale Chargers 24 Indianapolis Greyhounds 34 tied with the Greyhounds at seven at the end of the first quarter, 14 at halftime, and 17 at the end of the third quarter.

A 64-yard punt return for a touchdown and a 35-yard touchdown pass gave Indianapolis the edge in the fourth quarter, and senior quarterback Chance Stewart threw an interception on Hillsdale’s final possession to seal the win for the Greyhounds.

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had qualified twice for the playoffs before, in 2009 and 2010.

At 5 p.m., the 28-team bracket appeared on the screen, and head coach Keith Otterbein used one word to describe the feeling that ensued: “relief.”

The screen read: “5: Hillsdale (9-2).” The Chargers were in.

“Our guys were pretty subdued. They were pretty confident we were going to get in. They were excited, maybe more optimistic than I was,” Otterbein said. “I’ve been

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those games,” Stewart said.

“We didn’t execute on both sides of the ball and on special teams. We’ll watch the film, flush it and move on, and get ready to go for Saturday.”

Hillsdale got the ball to begin the game, but a blocked field goal attempt kept the Chargers off the board on their first drive.

On Hillsdale’s second drive, however, junior running back Christian Shepler’s two-yard touchdown run put the Chargers ahead, 7-0. The scoring drive was punctuated by a

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NCAA Division II playoffs for just the third time in school history.

“There’s stuff to work on.

By no means do you come out and think you’re a world-beater,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “This reality check helps refocus our guys. I don’t look at it as a negative.”

The loss drops Hillsdale to No. 23 in the national rankings. Indianapolis remains at No. 12. The Chargers were

The Hillsdale College Chargers kicked off their regular season with a successful road trip to Springfield, Illinois for the Prairie Stars Tipoff Classic last weekend.

They played the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Friday, and won in overtime, 67-60. On Saturday, the Chargers beat the University of Illinois Prairie Stars, 73-62.

In their first game of the weekend, the Chargers led for most of the first half, but never by more than seven points.

Sophomore forward Davis Larson got into foul trouble within the first two minutes.

“In the first game, I was limited in playing time,” Larson said. “That kinda just affected me for the rest of the game. At that point, I took myself out of the game, so I just had to be a great teammate, supporting the guys who were out on the court.”

Four minutes into the second half, the Screaming Eagles took a 36-30 lead thanks to a 13-0 run.

Senior guard Jonathan Wilkinson came off the bench midway through the

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Chargers fall in season finale to Indianapolis The Hillsdale College Chargers fell in their regular season finale, 34-24 against the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds on the road on Saturday. Hillsdale finishes the regular season 9-2 and 8-0 in the G-MAC. The loss snapped an eightgame winning streak for Hillsdale. The Greyhounds were the third nationally-ranked team Hillsdale has played this season. The Chargers beat the first two. But despite the result, the Chargers were selected to compete in the

half. He ended the Screaming Eagle’s scoring run with a three-pointer, and on the Chargers’ next possession, he made another. That brought the Chargers within two points.

With three seconds left in regulation, Nate Neveau was fouled. He went to the free throw line and made both shots, putting the Chargers ahead by three. But that wasn’t enough to end the game in regulation. Southern Indiana tied the game with a three-pointer at the buzzer.

“Obviously, we were down about him hitting the a buzzer beater,” Larson said. “But we knew the game was ours to win.”

Junior guard Dylan Lowry came alive in overtime, scoring eight of the Chargers’ 15 points in the five-minute period. Senior forward Gordon Behr contributed on both ends of the court as well with a steal, two defensive rebounds, one block, two points, and one assist.

“At the time when it happened, I was not pleased,” head coach John Tharp said.

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through it before. I’ve had the name not appear in the past.

It’s a satisfying feeling to go to the playoffs, because that’s really what you’re shooting for.”

After winning the G-MAC championship by defeating Tiffin a week earlier, the Chargers woke up Saturday in good shape to qualify for the postseason. Losing to Indianapolis proved not to be catastrophic, but it did create a degree of ambiguity to the playoff picture.

“Seeing your name up there, you’re able to take a deep breath and relax, and get

excited for another opportunity,” Stewart said. “We’ve got second life, and here we go.”

Hillsdale qualified as the fifth seed out of seven teams in Super Region I. The team will travel to Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania on Saturday for round one to take on the Kutztown Golden Bears, the fourth seed in Super Region I. Hillsdale and Kutztown have never played each other. Kickoff is at 12:05 p.m.

Kutztown is ranked No. 20 nationally, while the Chargers are ranked No. 23. The Golden Bears went 9-1 during the regular season. Kutz-

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Protestantism: disunity between denominations? ‘Harvey’ hops to the stage By |Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Reporter “What unites us is a pursuit of deeply and fervently held end or aim, not uniformity or agreement about the means with which we reach that aim,” Assistant Professor of Religion Don Westblade said about Protestant unity.

Alitheia, a Christian apologetics group, hosted a panel last week to discuss the issue of Protestant unity through the lense of the question: Are we together? The panel featured Westblade, Assistant Professor of History Korey Maas, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy Ian Church.

All three professors answered in the affirmative, but agreed that the question was delicate. They questioned the nature of unity and disunity, sought to clarify the definition of “we,” and discussed the pros and cons of being completely united as a Christian body.

Church approached the question of unity from a personal perspective. He studied philosophy in a secular university, where he said most of his colleagues were atheists.

He then went on to study in the United Kingdom where he said that the Christians he did encounter focused less on denomination.

“If you couple these two experiences, you can see why I want to give an affirmative answer to the target question,” Church said. “During my time at the University of St. Andrews, I went to church with Lutherans and Baptists.

We took communion, prayed,

and worshipped together.

We were, in some significant sense, together. We prayed for other denominations, not to convert them, but to encourage them.”

Maas, though he agreed that “our lack of unity is reprehensible,” emphasized the dangers in overlooking the sources of denominational differences.

“However great a good unity might be, it is a ultimately a lesser good than truth,” Maas said. “In other words, a state of unity united in error is worse than a disunity in which some maintained the truth.”

He went on to explain that ignoring significant doctrinal differences for the sake of unity is equally as reprehensible as a break in fellowship.

He cited as an example the Catholic Church’s hesitance to excommunicate members who do not adhere to accepted doctrinal and moral beliefs out of a desire to maintain unity.

Ultimately, he came to the conclusion that the disunity so often alluded to in the Protestant community stems from a difference in name alone, whereas the unity of the Catholic Church comes from a common name alone.

“There is often real unity even where differences in name might suggest otherwise,” Maas said. “There is often real disunity even where a shared name might suggest otherwise.”

Westblade said that it is essential to embrace these differences both across denomi-

national lines, and in relation to the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. He likened his understanding of unity to a university, where students and professors all have a common aim of seeking the truth, but they approach that goal from different perspectives.

It is the variety of opinions, unified into one great pursuit, that gives it the name “university.”

“Our differences are providentially baked into God’s cake to help us learn from one another,” Westblade said. “If we didn’t disagree, we would have nothing to talk about.

We all disagree because we all share an end for which those disagreements are aiming.

Unity happens when we get together to come to the truth, and it means we need to stay engaged with each other.”

Westblade said that it is more important to recognize and discuss differences among Christians than it is to seek for an imposed uniformity among them.

“The unity that we think we don’t have is probably a mistaken term for uniformity or identity, which clearly we don’t have and actually I’m not sure I want,” Westblade said. “Scripture itself tells us about a metaphor of the Body of Christ. We are not all identical, not all uniform parts of that body. There are arms and legs and feet and hands, and they all have differences. We may lament that we don’t have uniformity. But we might be very unified, even though we are not uniform.”

By | Emma-Sofia Mull Collegian Freelancer The Tower Players opened their most recent project, Mary Chase’s “Harvey,” last night.

“Harvey” is a 1950s American comedy in which the central character, the eccentric Elwood P. Dowd, claims to have a six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey as his closest companion.

Elwood’s sister, Veta, and his niece, Myrtle Mae reside with him in his house.

Much to the chagrin of his socially-conscious sister, the friendly and quirky Elwood introduces his invisible, and apparently imaginary, companion to everyone he meets.

Elwood’s alarming behavior sends guests running from a house party Veta is attempting to host.

Veta, fed up with her brother’s antics, decides to commit him to a sanitarium for treatment. But because of her extremely agitated state, and her description of her brother’s strange companion, the young Dr. Sanderson is convinced that it is Veta, not

Elwood, who needs to be institutionalized. Veta is then committed to the sanatorium, Elwood is free to go, and Harvey is nowhere to be seen.

Chaos ensues as the doctors try to locate the cheery Elwood, Elwood tries to track down Harvey, and everyone tries to figure out who is — and is not — crazy.

Senior Dylan Strehle, playing the eccentric Elwood P. Dowd in the show, said he is excited to bring some laughter to Hillsdale College.

“I love to make people laugh and this show is full of it,” Strehle said. “I can’t wait to see where the audience laughs once we show it to them, it’s never where you expect.”

While a highly amusing and fast-paced show, the comedy is not without its challenges. Strehle mentioned that one of the most challenging parts is keeping the energy levels high.

“Comedy depends heavily on energetic physicality and delivery,” Strehle said. “I’m on stage for most the show, so it’s tough to maintain.”

“Harvey” is the last performance for senior Amber

Crump, who has participated in five shows since her junior year and portrays Nurse Kelly in “Harvey.” Crump mentioned that while “Harvey” is a comedy, this is not always obvious.

“The hardest part of this show is that it’s a comedy, and yet the text is not funny on its own,” Crump said. “It’s the actors’ job to have some type of physicality or voice intonation that will bring out the humor of the text. You have to make it jump out.”

Performances for “Harvey” are tonight till Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday.

Crump said she has thoroughly enjoyed her time working with the cast and Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Matsos, director of the play, and it’s a bittersweet moment for her.

“The most fun part has been working with Chris,” Crump said. “He really helps us to dive deep into our characters. He works on the individual, and that’s why this show is really special.”

Rick to play pieces ‘From Russia With Love’ By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter Next week, Hillsdale College students and faculty will have the opportunity to hear a sampling of Russian culture thanks to Katherine Rick, adjunct professor of piano and staff accompanist at the college. Rick’s upcoming piano recital, “From Russia with Love,” will include pieces spanning three distinct eras of classical Russian music and feature three Russian composers. The performance will be Monday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in Conrad Recital Hall.

“I hope to expose people to the breadth of Russian music,” Rick said. “The first composer, Rachmaninoff, is very much in the post-romantic, westernized Russian style. Prokofiev is in the Soviet, mid-20th century style with all the dissonance that comes with it, and then Mussorgsky represents the folklore and historic side of Russian culture. I think among those three composers you can get a sense of the uniquely Russian contributions to classical music.”

The recital theme was inspired by Rick’s experience growing up in Russia. The child of missionaries, Rick and her family moved to Russia when she was five. Soon after, her brother began taking piano lessons from their mother.

Rick’s competitive streak flared and she insisted on taking lessons as well. Within six months, however, her mother recognized her daughter’s talent and enrolled her at a pre-conservatory piano program in Yakutsk, a town in northeastern Siberia. Rick’s family moved to St. Petersburg when she was 11 years old and she continued her musical education at a conservatory.

There, students were immediately placed on one of three tracks: professional, middling, or amateur. Rick was placed on the professional track.

“The Russian system is very intense and very immersive,” Rick said. “The school I went to was actually a boarding school, although I lived at home. You’d have three or four lessons a week plus classes in music history, music theory, ensembles like choir or chamber music, plus all the general education courses. It was a tough system, the kind of place where if you don’t keep up you get kicked out.”

Although it was challenging, Rick appreciates the preparation she was given.

Now, gratitude for the rigorous training she received is something she hopes to convey to her audience.

“This is my third year at Hillsdale and I wanted to bring something from my

background to the college,” Rick said. “The theme of the recital draws on my experience growing up there.

Through my graduate studies I focused on Russian music.

I did my doctoral thesis on Rachmaninoff and then my lecture recital on the first piece I’ll be playing, the Rachmaninoff ‘Variations on a Theme of Corelli.’”

Sophomore Sofia Krusmark has been taking piano lessons from Rick for two semesters and credits her with reigniting her love for music.

“I went to a concert the first semester of my freshman year, where Dr. Rick was playing with Dr. Blackham,” Krusmark said. “It was enthralling to watch her. She is so articulate. She hits the notes perfectly. She’s able to make her pieces a story and make it look easy. She’s a miracle, as a person and as a pianist.”

Krusmark urges her fellow students to attend the recital.

“You will not be disappointed,” she said. “I think you will go and see something beautiful because you’re going to see a woman who has devoted her life to playing music beautifully and to giving that gift to other people. That’s really special and people should go to celebrate the gift that she has given to so many of us.”

The Hillcats faculty jazz band will perform on Friday. Chris Mccurry | Courtesy

Hillcats are home By | Matt Fisher Collegian Freelancer The Hillcats enter the spotlight on campus with their upcoming performance “Home Style.” Hillsdale College’s faculty jazz ensemble will perform on Friday, Nov. 16 at 8:00 p.m. in McNamara Hall. Comprised entirely of original music written by the band, the concert will incorporate a variety of unique genres as well as offering the audience a more traditional swing style of jazz.

The Hillcats’ performance will center around the inspired creativity of each bandmate. Each member of

the Hillcats composed music for the concert to perform.

A highlighted theme of the night is the diversity of original songs with inspiration found in Latin, rock, and swing.

One performance in particular that the band is looking forward to is bass player Hank Horton’s original song that draws numerous elements from famed musician Frank Zappa. The piece will reportedly reflect the intense, mesmerizing, and challenging nature of Zappa’s style.

Adjunct Instructor of Music and pianist Arlene McDaniel, meanwhile, has composed a ballad for the

evening.

“We have such amazing faculty members who can impart their ideas and make something really cool,” Director of Jazz Ensembles Chris McCourry said. “I believe this will be the best original concert we have ever had.”

For students unable to attend Friday’s performance, the Hillcats will have a public dress rehearsal on Thursday, Nov. 15 at McNamara from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

This dress rehearsal will in many ways serve not only as a review for Friday night’s performance but a test run for interest in afternoon concerts.

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Senior Miles Garn, junior Rebecca Henreckson, and sophomores Caroline Lively, and Abbey Bohrer perform in “Don’t Make a Scene.” Alex Nester | Collegian

Twenty-fifth opera workshop makes a scene By | Alex Nester Assistant Editor When vocal instructor Melissa Osmond selected opera scenes for this year’s Opera Workshop, she selected pieces that highlighted the vocal department’s students’ talents.

“Don’t Make a Scene” is the 25th Opera Workshop, and almost 30 Hillsdale students displayed their talents in scenes from various operas, operettas, and operatic-style musicals. Along with adjunct instructors Emily Douglass, Kristen Matson and piano accompanist Debbi Wyse, Osmond began preparing selected scenes from various operas after last year’s opera workshop.

The vocal department performed scenes from operas and operatic-style musicals, including “A Boy Like That” from “West Side Story,” “With a Twinkle of Warm and Tender” from “Elixir of Love,” and “Café Scene” from “La Boheme.” The cast performed last weekend in the Howard Music Hall.

Though Osmond began planning for the workshop last year, the students began rehearsals in September.

“One of the best things for me really is being able to work one-on-one with these kids and being able to see them grow,” Wyse said. “It’s exponential what they do in the span of eight weeks of school.

In that amount of time, they’ve done great things.”

According to Osmond, performing selections from operas or shorter operettas provides an alternative to performing a full opera, as it is less stress on students’ busy schedules.

“The schedules of these students have gotten out of control, so it’s almost impossible to get everybody together,” Osmond said. “I’ve been thinking about how we will be able to pull off another full production of an opera.”

While Osmond, Douglass, and Matson directed some scenes, other scenes were directed by students, including junior Rebecca Henreckson, sophomore John Szczotka,

and sophomore Michaela Stiles. In addition to performing their own respective roles, these students helped choreograph the scenes, giving notes and pointers to the cast members within their scenes.

Junior Rebecca Henreckson directed “Hmm, Hmm, Hmm,” a scene from “The Magic Flute,” in which she played the role of First Lady.

Though she studies English, Henreckson came to Hillsdale on a music scholarship and devotes much of her time to the vocal department, including chamber choir. She has participated in Opera Workshops since her freshman year, some of which she had to sing in other languages.

“This year, they tried to make it more attainable for everybody. All the scenes were in English, which is new,” Henreckson said. “People can connect to that more. And I enjoy singing in English more because it’s harder to connect with what you’re singing when it’s not in English.”

Henreckson knew many of her fellow cast members

‘Outlaw King’ making Scotland great again By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor For years now, Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” (1995) has made people wish they were Scottish, that is, until the end, when they see William Wallace executed and Scottish freedom squashed beneath the British. But, hold the phone.

William Wallace was not the end of Scottish freedom.

Robert the Bruce came along and took up the Scottish cause, and defying all odds, gained independence. Now, thanks to Netflix and director David Mackenzie, everyone can watch the story of Robert the Bruce in “Outlaw King” (which could also be called “Braveheart with a satisfying British bum-bashing and a happy ending”).

Following in the footsteps of “Braveheart,” Mackenzie casted an American actor to play Robert the Bruce. And like Mel Gibson, this man is a heartthrob with sweet baby blue eyes: Chris Pine. Though he is an American, Pine did a good job with the Scottish accent, while his long hair, his scruffy, graying beard, and slightly weathered face, fit the part well.

Though it does feel like a Mel Gibson mimic, “Outlaw King” is a satisfying and captivating movie that tried to stay (generally) historically accurate. The reason it feels like “Braveheart” is because the actual William Wallace and Robert the Bruce lived at the same time and ended up fighting for the same cause.

Bruce just ended up being successful while Wallace was drawn and quartered. But in reality, Robert the Bruce did have the success William Wallace so fatefully missed.

“Outlaw King” certainly romanticizes Robert the Bruce.

But, since not much of Bruce’s personal life or character is historically known, the writers get away with this. Historians know the general account of his ascent to the Scottish throne and his subsequent reign, but many facts about him are fuzzy enough that the movie could take some creative liberties without stepping too far outside the boundaries of historical accuracy. They give Bruce a noble character, a big heart, and soft spot for his wife — and everyone wants to cheer for a noble hero.

The film also portrays Bruce’s takeover of Scotland well, one area of his life that is actually historically documented. In a time when England was still operating with knights and a code of chivalry, Bruce introduced guerilla warfare to the British Isles, and is still considered one of the greatest and shrewdest guerilla warriors in history.

Edwards I and II of England (the kings during both Wallace’s and Bruce’s resistance) fought formal battles. Bruce found his success by mostly avoiding engagement with the English army in formal combat. Instead, he took Scotland castle by castle, skirmish by skirmish.

The movie climaxes at Bruce’s first major victory at the Battle of Loudoun Hill (which is basically the victorious version of Wallace’s Falkirk) and, with effective cinematography, shows how Bruce set up the battle, using the terrain and only a few hundred men to ward off the much-larger English army, neutralizing their strength in numbers. The only problem with this grand climax battle scene was that the producers decided to add a little more drama by putting some

characters there who probably weren’t there in reality. They mixed in a little bit of the Battle of Bannockburn (one of Bruce’s later triumphs) by putting English King Edward II at the scene to prove that he was a weakling and Bruce was the grand hero. But, here again, is where some of the fuzziness of the historical facts helped. The liberties taken in the climax battle scene came off as merely “probably nots” rather than major inaccuracies.

“Outlaw King” is engaging, but there are certainly some cliches that accompany it. The producers stress the theme of freedom. Scottish freedom.

Something that everyone can get behind and feel patriotic about, regardless of whether they are actually Scottish or not. Like in “Braveheart,” it seems like every English soldier in “Outlaw King” is a terrible villain, come to rape and pillage. Of course there was barbarity and cruelty, but not every English foot soldier was Satan’s spawn, while all the Scots were upstanding citizens and family men.

A tender love story (flashbacks to “Braveheart”) is also included. It seems a little farfetched when Bruce and his wife run toward each other on the beach, at sunset, at the end of the movie. But again, everyone loves a good love story and seeing the tough warrior king’s tenderness with his wife is a good selling point. In spite of the cliches, the film is captivating.

So if you like historical dramas that bring some legends to life, then “Outlaw King” will grease your wheels, and have your heart pounding again the way it used to when Mel Gibson screamed “freedom!” with a blue and white face.

through chamber choir, which, she said, made it easier to work together.

“So much was pulled together in so little time,” Henreckson said. “I knew the people and we were comfortable with each other. We can trust each other. And we also knew what to ask and expect from people.”

Sophomore Michaela Stiles played the role of Musetta in “Café Scene” from “La Boheme” and directed the workshop’s final scene, “Make Our Garden Grow.” After coming down with pneumonia earlier in the semester, Stiles said she experienced the community built within Howard.

“I received a lot of support from kids in the cast, which was phenomenal,” Stiles said.

“I’ve learned what a great community there is in Howard and am beyond blessed to be a part of this community of great people.”

Next year, with the opening of the chapel, the current plan for the 2019 Opera Workshop is a performance of Handel’s “Messiah.”

By | Nic Rowan Columnist To the disappointment of cheapskate film lovers everywhere, WarnerMedia recently announced that it will discontinue FilmStruck, its streaming service for classic, foreign, and independent cinema, on Nov. 29.

The stated reason: not enough subscribers. The real reason: FilmStruck was structured poorly and allowed users to blow through an infinite number of free trials. And now: no money, no ticket.

But! You still have 15 days.

And whether you knew it or not, you’re a FilmStruck subscriber. The Mossey Library signed up for service—for research purposes—in 2016, and will retain it until the bitter end. Here are 10 movies you should try to see before then: 1. “Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red” (19931994) Polish director Krzystzof Kieslowski’s trilogy focuses on the French flag and its corresponding ideals—liberty, fraternity, and equality. Watch for the sugar cube in “Blue.”

2. “Chungking Express” (1994) It’s hard to say if Wong Kar-wai’s violent romance is actually “about” anything, but it looks cool. And that’s more than most action films can say.

3. “The Double Life of Veronique” (1991) Another Kieslowski film, “Double Life” follows a Polish woman and a French woman bound together by an inexplicable bond. Come for Irene Jacob’s haircut, stay for Zbigniew Preisner’s concerto.

4. “The Player” (1991)

Robert Altman’s send-up of Hollywood, this movie has one of the longest continuous opening shots out there.

It also has one of the most discreet sex scenes in American film.

5. “Gates of Heaven” (1978) Errol Morris made his documentary about pet cemeteries on a bet with Werner Herzog. Herzog told Morris if he could make an interesting film on the subject, he’d eat his shoe. Two years later, the documentary, “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe” (1980) hit select theaters.

6. “M” (1931) Fritz Lang is famous for the silent “Metropolis,” but his first talkie—about a child killer—was always his favorite.

7. “Solaris” (1972) The Russian response to “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968). Much darker. Much grittier. Much better.

8. “The Castle” (1997) Libertarians will love this one: the comic story of an Australian family’s refusal to sell their house to an airport that wants to pave it over with a runway.

9. “Knife in Water” (1962) Fans of Roman Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby” (1969) and “Chinatown” (1974) should see this one. “Knife in Water” got the Polish pervert started fittingly—with a story about two men struggling to dominate a woman.

10. “The Spirit of the Beehive” (1973) The movie that inspired Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2005). But fewer fauns, more political allegory.

‘A Visual Philosophy of Winston Churchill’ exhibit tells history through art By | Austin Gergens Collegian Reporter Decades have passed since Winston Churchill’s death, but Curtis Hooper’s dramatic graphite drawings of the World War II era prime minister are as lifelike as ever.

“While many only know Churchill for his wartime leadership, the gallery is very unique in that it contains vignettes drawn from throughout his entire life,” Churchill Fellow and senior Ross Hatley said.

In the 1970s, English artist Curtis Hooper was commissioned by Churchill’s second daughter to create what would become known as “A Visual Philosophy of Winston Churchill.”

This complete collection of works based off of photographs selected by Sarah Churchill is on display in the Daughtery Gallery through Nov. 20.

Among the 27 original drawings, eight have a nearly identical lithograph with Hooper’s and Sarah Churchill’s signatures, as well as an embossment and Winston Churchill quote.

“Very few full collections of these prints exist,” said Senior Fellow for the Churchill Project Richard Langworth, in a blog post titled “Sarah Churchill – Curtis Hooper Prints.”

A significant portion of the exhibit focuses on Churchill’s accomplishments during the war, but also on aspects of his life that are less often por-

trayed by other artists.

To the left of the entrance hangs a drawing titled, “I have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries,” and depicts the face of Churchill as a schoolboy in the left foreground. Hooper contrasts this youthful innocence with an experienced and aged face of Churchill in his later years.

On the right of the page is a sketch of Churchill, back turned toward the viewer, walking forward into the mysteries of the future.

“Churchill was a prolific writer, but also produced several hundred paintings in the latter half of his life.”

The next drawing shows Churchill in his mid-20s as a war correspondent during the Boer War. With his slightly pursed lips and cocked hat, his face exudes great confidence. His service overlapped with Lt. Gen. Robert Baden-Powell, who would later become a national hero and founder of the Boy Scouts.

Hooper drew one picture

that showed Churchill painting in Normandy, titled “A hobby is of the first importance to a public man.”

Churchill was a prolific writer, but also produced several hundred paintings in the latter half of his life. He enjoyed painting so much that he wrote a book titled “PAINTING as a Pastime” to teach others the beauty of painting.

“It’s a wonderful book about painting, and it isn’t very long either,” said Professor of Art Barbara Bushey.

Hooper finds a way to represent all significant elements of Churchill’s life. Some of the pieces reflect the deep depression that plagued Churchill for most of his existence. In particular, the sketches of him during the war are marked by profound sadness.

“I really like how Hooper finds something different to depict in his face every time,” sophomore Jonathan Meckel said. “None of faces are quite the same.”

Hooper covers the immense swath of Winston Churchill’s life with only graphite: peacetime painting in a civilian suit, negotiations with President Roosevelt, Clementine Churchill superimposed on a silhouette of her husband, and Churchill standing tall in honorary colonel uniform are just a few examples.

“Take a moment to experience an artistic synthesis of the great statesman,” Hatley said.

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More than 150 students donate blood, volunteer at Red Cross blood drive By | John Arnold Collegian Freelancer On Friday Nov. 9, from 11a.m. to 7 p.m., students waited to donate blood in the Grewcock Student Union while others reclined on tables, stress balls in hand to help the blood flow. The Community Health GOAL program hosted its first blood drive with the Red Cross, partnering with Simpson Dormitory and the New Dorm.

Volunteers spent the beginning of the week launching a social media campaign about the benefits of donating blood and asking students to sign up as donors.

Junior Nate Gipe, a blood drive volunteer and cancer survivor, is a positive proponent of the benefits of donating blood. At the age of 16, Gipe was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

(ALL) and had to go through several blood transfusions as part of his treatment.

“I personally experienced the benefits of blood drives,” Gipe said. “I remember getting multiple blood transfusions, sometimes several a day, and even a bone marrow transfusion during my cancer treatment. And even though I can’t donate blood because of the leukemia, I still wanted to be a part of this incredible project.”

Sarah Becker, junior and student leader of the Community Health GOAL program, organized a core team of volunteers, advertisers, and donor recruiters. Becker said the donation turnout was so great that some donors had to be turned away because the Red Cross staff handling the donations did not have enough people to handle the volume.

“Organizing the blood drive has really opened my

Junior Nate Gipe was treated for lukemia as a high school student.

He volunteered at the Red Cross blood drive this past week at Hillsdale College. HILLSDALE GOAL | COURTESY

eyes to the importance of donating blood,” Becker said.

“We forget how human the process is.”

More than 50 students volunteered at the day-long event, and over 100 students donated blood throughout the day.

Gipe volunteered in everything from the sign-up table to the registration booth to the snacks table for the blood donors. He encourages others who may be nervous to donate blood by explaining the good that can come from their donations.

“You can save 3 lives with 1 donation. If you are nervous, bring a friend for support,” Gipe said. “And even if you don’t donate now, set a goal for yourself to donate in the future.”

Gipe said he takes life one day at a time trying to make each day as positive as possible and hopes other people see that acts of charity like donating blood bring hope to the lives of people like him.

Adrianne Fogg, a junior and another volunteer with

the blood drive, said she has been involved with the Hillsdale blood drive since her freshman year. Fogg ran the social media platform leading up to the blood drive itself.

“I wanted to share stories of people like me who have personally seen the benefits that come about from a blood drive,” Fogg said. “I feel like a lot of people were touched by the stories.”

Along with donating her time, Fogg was a first-time blood donor this year, saying she wanted to “take a moment of courage in my life for the sake of someone else’s.”

Becker and her team for the Community Health program plan on hosting another successful blood drive next semester in February. Details on the specific day have not been finalized, but the goal is to have more volunteers and an even greater turnout of donors for those in need.

Students discuss Juul trend, FDA attempts to regulate the sale of Juul products By | Abraham Sullivan Collegian Freelancer “Hitting the Juul” has become a common phrase as high schoolers and college students increasingly turn to Juul as a “cool” form of e-smoking.

Juul is a brand of e-cigarettes that delivers an aerosol mix of chemicals, nicotine, and flavoring to the user, according to the American Cancer Society. One Juul can contain as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes.

Senior Haley Hauprich has set out to criticize that, opening a Facebook page against using Juul products.

“It’s gotten very popular with college students especially,” Hauprich said. “It’s a very big pop culture thing.”

She was inspired to begin the page after seeing her friends using Juul.

“I thought, ‘This is so dumb. Why are people doing this?’” Hauprich said.

The Facebook page, called Anti-Juul Coalition, is mostly devoted to memes and is not particularly serious.

While Hauprich said she’s not trying to start a campaign, she would like to see people’s opinion about juuling change.

“I would love to see people not using it,” she said.

“Getting a nicotine addiction just for the sake of being cool is not a very good idea.”

Senior Mark Compton, another leader of the Anti-Juul Coalition, said that he believes that Juul is good when used for the purpose it was created for.

“I don’t dislike Juul,” he said. “I think that if you’re trying to quit smoking, they’re fantastic. I don’t think that you should buy one if you don’t smoke, because I’ve seen a lot of people that didn’t have a nicotine addiction develop one from a Juul.”

Senior James Burke, a Juul user, said that he turned to Juul because it was a healthier alternative to cigarettes.

“When I got to campus as a freshman, I was a social smoker for a little bit,” he said. “Then I realized quickly that that wasn’t healthy for me. A lot of tobacco products tend to be expensive, so I wanted something that I could use more frequently, that wasn’t as physically dangerous, didn’t make me smell bad, didn’t make the other people around me feel uncomfortable, and that was more cost effective.”

The answer, for Burke, was found in Juul, which he said is cheaper and healthier than cigarettes. Juul, Burke

explained, costs only around $4 a pod, which is equivalent to a $10-$12 pack of cigarettes. In addition, he has read many of the recent studies on Juul that have come out over the past few years.

“The general consensus is that it is healthier for you than other tobacco products,” he said.

Addiction has not proved to be a problem for him, he said.

“I don’t really use it when I go home on breaks, and I haven’t had any withdrawal symptoms or cravings for it, so I think that addiction is really a more personal thing.

Some people struggle with addiction more or less than others,” he said.

When asked if he was concerned that Juul would be used by teenagers who have not smoked, creating nicotine addictions, he replied in the negative. To Burke, the teenagers that use Juul are the same ones that would try cigarettes.

The teenagers who try Juul are those who would try anything that was frowned upon, including cigarettes if Juul was not available.

“If you look at, over the past five decades, high schoolers have been smoking cigarettes, like they always have been,” he said. “It’s one of those things that’s going to happen, and it’s not a good thing, but that’s the reality of it that young people are going to try those things. I don’t think it really changes much.”

Zulfiqar Mannan, reporting in Yale Daily News, Yale University’s campus newspaper, described the ways in which Juul has impacted Yale’s campus. She told the story of a friend: “I started [Juuling] when I started going out and people would have cigarettes and I’d be like, oh, I really enjoy the nicotine but I don’t want to get into smoking cigarettes,” Jazzie narrates now.

She thought it would be a “fun thing to try.” Fun, that is, until she realized her addiction.

Today, Jazzie vehemently “does not recommend the Juul to anyone.”

But, is Juul actually bad for you? In a 2016 report about e-cigarette use, Thomas R. Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “Tobacco use among youth and young adults in any form, including e-cigarettes, is not safe.” He continues, “Nicotine exposure can also harm brain development in ways that may affect the health and mental health of our kids.”

In an interview published

online, Cliff Douglass, Vice President for Tobacco Control of the American Cancer Society, added that this also applies to college students.

“The brain is still developing well into the mid-20s and even beyond, so health concerns apply not only to teens but also to college-age users,” he said.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, these health concerns include disruption of “the growth of brain circuits that control attention, learning, and susceptibility to addiction,” and they “can include lower impulse control and mood disorders.”

The report, released by the United States Surgeon General in 2016, also expressed concerns that e-cigarette use would lead to further problems.

“Research has found that youth who use a tobacco product, such as e-cigarettes, are more likely to go on to use other tobacco products like cigarettes,” it stated.

“The nicotine in e-cigarettes ... can prime young brains for addiction to other drugs, such as cocaine and methamphetamine.”

These concerns led the Food and Drug Administration to retaliate. According to The New York Times, on Sept. 28 2018, they “conducted a surprise inspection” of Juul’s headquarters.

They seized approximately a thousand documents, which are in addition to the 50,000 pages of documents handed over to the FDA earlier in the year by Juul.

In a USA Today report, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said “the agency will halt sales of flavored electronic cigarettes if the major manufacturers can’t prove they are doing enough to keep them out of the hands of children and teens.”

However, Juul is working with the FDA. In a statement reported by USA Today, Victoria Davis, a spokeswoman for Juul, said, “We are focused on engaging with FDA, lawmakers, regulators, public health officials, and advocates to drive awareness of our mission to improve the lives of the world’s one billion smokers and to combat underage use so we keep Juul out of the hands of young people.

In fact, visitors to Juul’s website will be asked whether they are 21 or older and willing to verify. If they answer in the negative, they will be redirected to the NIH SmokeFreeTeen website.

Juul’s website only sells products to those who are over 21 years of age.

Kathryn Weirenga ‘16, a current Ph.D. candidate, spoke to Hillsdale students and faculty about her work in the laboratory at Michigan State. JULIA MULLINS | COLLEGIAN

Ph.D. candidate, alumna inspires current students with molecular biology research By | Julia Mullins Collegian Freelancer After earning her Bachelor of Science in chemistry, Kathryn Wierenga ’16 is now a Ph.D. candidate working in the laboratory of James J. Pestka, Ph.D. at Michigan State University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

On Nov. 7, Wierenga came back to Hillsdale College and inspired students to attend graduate school through a proposal presentation of her thesis work.

Wierenga said the goal of her lab is to understand why Lupus develops, and the focus of her research will be understanding how docosahexaenoic acid and crystalline silica influence the progression of Lupus.

Lupus is a prototypical autoimmune disease which is characterized by systemic inflammation and a loss of self-tolerance, which means the immune system begins to attack itself. Wierenga said the development of lupus can be affected by an individual’s genetic makeup and can also be affected by the exposome.

“The exposome is anything we’re exposed,” Wierenga said. “That could include things we eat, such as the dietary fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid; it can also include things we inhale, such as the toxic stressor, crystalline silica.”

In order to understand the relationship between Lupus, docosahexaenoic acid, and crystalline silica, Wierenga will focus on the alveolar macrophage.

“The alveolar macrophage is an early responder to crystalline silica, and for this reason, I believe that by attenuating this early alveolar macrophage mediator response, we may then be able to suppress the downstream silica trigger to autoimmuni-

ty,” she said.

Her overall objective is to determine how the Omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid influences silica induced toxicity in alveolar macrophages.

After gathering preliminary data, Wierenga formed a hypothesis for her thesis work.

“DHA and its metabolites protect alveolar macrophages from silica-induced toxicity by attenuating the priming step of inflammasome activation,” Wierenga said.

Wierenga said she hopes by attenuating the early alveolar macrophage mediated response, this may also suppress silica-triggered autoimmunity that occurs downstream.

Her research will address three specific questions about docosahexaenoic acid and its suspended particulate matter. In order to answer these questions, Wierenga has designed three separate experiments to conduct her research.

Courtney Meyet, an assistant professor of chemistry at Hillsdale College, said she was Wierenga’s thesis adviser when at Hillsdale. Wierenga worked alongside Meyet in the lab during her junior and senior year.

“I always knew that she was graduate school material, and she definitely had a mind for research -- she had an intuition,” Meyet said.

“She took her project, here at Hillsdale, in a direction I was not expecting her to take it.”

Meyet said she and Wierenga studied the synthesis of benzimidazoles, which are bioactive compounds.

They put together an initial hypothesis, but the reaction didn’t behave the way they had expected. Despite this setback, Meyet said Wierenga decided to take a different approach to her research, and she began studying the

formation rate of benzimidazole derivatives.

“I knew right then, she was definitely a researcher,” Meyet said. “Through her research here, she determined that she would much rather do research than go onto medical school.”

Now, Meyet said she considers Wierenga a colleague. She said it is always rewarding to see her former students go on to be successful in graduate school.

“It’s great to see them grow as chemists and scientists and to just continue to be part of that journey,” Meyet said. “I think that’s something very special that happens at an institution like Hillsdale College.”

Junior biochemistry major Carlin MacDonald-Gannon said she enjoyed Wierenga’s presentation and found it easy to follow.

MacDonald-Gannon said she has learned about many of the techniques Wierenga described in her biochemistry courses.

“She’s taking a lot of things we’re learning here at Hillsdale and directly applying those skills to her experiment,” MacDonald-Gannon said. “For example, she talked about using ELISA, and I’ve been studying that, so I understood how and why she would do that.”

MacDonald-Gannon said she had never considered graduate school, but she was inspired by Wierenga’s research and looks forward to beginning some of her own research.

“Now, I’m excited to take my biochemistry lab next semester to see if I enjoy doing the processes I’ve learned about,” MacDonald-Gannon said.

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Sharono Bisher is President o f the Hillsdale Community Foundation. Sharon Bisher | Courtesy

Serving Hillsdale for 18 years, Sharon Bisher is ‘the walking foundation’

He became nationally The edition met significant By | Nic Rowan significant in 1957, when he controversy upon its release, Columnist spoke out against a proclama- but it established Nye as the When Marvel creator Stan tion from the Detroit Public nation’s leading expert on pop Lee died at 95 earlier this Library that Frank L. Baum’s culture literary theory. week, comic book fans rushed novel “The Wizard of Oz” had But the Comic Art Collecfrom their basements and no literary value and should tion stands as Nye’s most lastcushy tech jobs to pay tribute. no longer be stocked in public ing achievement. It provides Lee was the co-creator libraries. The announcement a space where comic book of Spider-Man, X-Men, and made national news, as many scholars can still study source Iron Man, among many other people in the country were texts from the present all superheroes and cartoon familiar with the 1939 film the way back into the 1840s. characters. His passing marks version.

And in keeping with Nye’s the official end of the era Nye responded — along vision, it’s also a living library, when comic books were just with fellow pop culture schol- constantly adding more cona hobby for scrappy dorks. ar Martin Gardner — by pub- temporary texts for study and It’s all about Disney’s pleasure. commercial juggernaut Right now, the now. collection is run by But, for fans of Lee’s Randy Scott, a comic work — and comic enthusiast, who books in general — joined the library in there’s still a haven of 1971 as a preorder purity: Michigan State typist and in 1974 as University in East Lana cataloger for the sing. Since 1970, MSU’s Comic Art CollecComic Art Collection tion. When Nye has amassed the largest retired, the univerholding of cartoons sity created a special and comic books in the permanent position world. for Scott to work in Think of it as the the collection.

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“What American History class is legit without at least one reference to Bruce Wayne?”

By | Julie Havlak Senior Writer Pictures and knickknacks line her shelves, alongside the dried flowers from her children’s first bouquets and little bags of m&ms from her son’s graduation.

“This is my world, this is my impact, and I like to surround myself with it,” Hillsdale Community Foundation President Sharon Bisher said.

“Each of these knickknacks represents a time in my life, and they have meaning for me. It’s about a conversation I had, or a relationship, or some impact that we had on each other.”

Bisher has worked at the Hillsdale Community Foundation for 18 years, helping the town where she grew up and raised her own children.

“I’m a sucker, I want to save the world,” Bisher said. “I still believe in utopia, that if we hold hands and work together and show up, we can make the world a better place. I think that’s what keeps me going…

Every day I come work to make a difference, and I change our community.”

Bisher is a familiar figure in the community: She can’t shop at the grocery store without being ambushed with questions about the foundation.

“I am the walking foundation,” Bisher said, laughing.

The foundation has funnelled $9.8 million into Hillsdale’s community through grants and scholarships since 1991, 98 percent of which came from private donors. Over the years, Bisher has helped everyone and everything from firefighters to fireworks, students to senior centers, homeless people to historical societies.

“There’s not a facet in our community that we don’t touch,” Bisher said.

This is Bisher’s “perfect job,” and one which she once dreamed of getting, Bisher said.

“This was always my dream

job to work nonprofit and give back to our community,” Bisher said. “My mom was a single parent, so we grew up in low income and really saw the benefits of all of the resources that the community nonprofits provide.”

Her childhood gave her a perspective that made her want to help others in a similar predicament, said Bisher.

“I really don’t want to tell my poverty story… but I understand the poverty mindset,” Bisher said. “I grew up in it, and I understand that Hillsdale County is really a wide spread of the have and have nots, and that there is not a lot of middle ground.”

The foundation collects data on the community’s needs, and Bisher said she is trying to fight high rates of generational poverty, substance abuse, and neglect in Hillsdale. The foundation supported Hillsdale’s new drug court, and it is currently partnering with schools to introduce counselors for students.

“We need to change the cycle, and show our community that there is a different way,” Bisher said.

Bisher’s heart lies with the schools and youth leaders, and much of her time has gone into helping uplift the next generation.

“I’m really impassioned about youth leadership,” Bisher said. “I think they are our future. We want to raise up young people who have a heart of philanthropy and create life-long givers.”

As the past president of the Hillsdale Community Foundation Youth Board, Hillsdale native and senior Kelsey Lantis worked with Bisher and the board to create awareness initiatives. For one initiative, they gave children the opportunity to live as a homeless youth for 24 hours.

“I was a teenager and someone who didn’t wield a lot of power besides having my driver’s license, but she gave myself and all the other

kids on the student board the opportunity to be instruments of change in our community,” Lantis said.

Working with Bisher and the foundation changed the course of Lantis’ career plans: Lantis said she wants to pursue a career in Child Protective Services.

“I was unaware of the needs in my community before joining the Community Foundation Youth Board,” Lantis said. “Mrs. Bisher was someone who encouraged myself and the other students to think big, to be honest about the issues we seen in our school’s hallways, and come up with ideas on how to change them.”

As the years have passed, Bisher has realized that she cannot always change everything.

“The passion that makes me successful also breaks my heart. You can see the needs, and sometimes it’s so hard because you want to help so badly and there is not quite enough,” Bisher said. “You want to scream goodness. But every day is a gift, and you have to use its opportunity to help others.”

That optimism is often the first thing people mention while describing Bisher.

“She is a very cheery, stand-up individual that cares about her community and loves her family,” said Director of Community Programs Susan Stout. “We’ve been through a lot together, professionally and personally.”

Stout began working with Bisher 13 years ago, and they have shopped together, scrapbooked their kids childhoods’ together, and together they have continued to work to change Hillsdale.

“Don’t get me wrong, there are some major challenges that can get you down,” Bisher said. “But I think that the purpose of the Community Foundation is to provide hope for the community. However we can, we have to bring about that positive message.”

By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor After attending the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, Brant Cohen ’18 came back to Hillsdale with an idea help preserve the city’s history.

As the city of Hillsdale works to restore its historic downtown district, Cohen is helping to turn the Keefer House, which was built in 1885 and closed in 1965, into a boutique hotel.

He first got the idea the summer before his senior year, when he was interning in his home state of Illinois, working alongside state senators, and they asked him what he wanted to do after graduation.

“I told them, ‘Well, politics seemed to be a pretty good route and it’s what I’m interested in,” he said. “‘But during my four years I kept looking at the Keefer House, and it’s beautiful.’”

Cohen said one of the senators told him, “I’ve got this very affluent couple in my district. They own a bunch of businesses and right now they’re trying to rebuild old properties across Illinois. Why don’t you reach out to them about the project?”

After procrastinating for a few weeks, Cohen finally

reached out to them.

“I spent more time on that email than my papers,” he said.

That email must have been well-received. Cohen received an invitation to visit the office of C.L. Real Estate in Peru, Illinois, owned by husband and wife Inga Carus and Peter Limberger, who are also donors to the college.

Pretty soon he was on the road with his dad to meet the people who would become his future employers.

“We sat down and talked and I didn’t realize it was my job interview,” he said. “He just asked me a lot of questions and at the end he just smiled and stopped talking to me. I kept waiting for the ‘but,’ but he said, ‘Okay, tell the city we want to move forward with the project.’”

By October, Cohen was offered a job to work for C.L. Real Estate as the Michigan development associate. He said his job is still being defined, as this is the company’s first time expanding into the state.

“It kind of is what I’ve always wanted to do and I didn’t even know it,” Cohen said.

Cohen said they’re currently working on about ten projects in Illinois and looking at many more. They are now starting to expand into

Michigan, beginning with the “It helped me learn about and Keefer House. love Hillsdale. I began to look During around his time as and a student, think, Cohen ‘what was the does this president commuof College nity have Repubto offer?’” licans, He participatalso ed in pep worked band as a in the saxophone mainplayer, was tenance a member departof Phi Mu ment as Alpha, an office was a part assistant. of Little “The Big Band women and even there played connectsome ed me intramural with the basketball. comOn top of munity all of this, because he worked they two jobs, grew both of Brant Cohen graduated in 2018. Brant Co- up in hen | Courtesy which the city,” he said he said. influenced his love for the city “They were over the moon and his eye for its potential. excited because I’m restoring The work also played a role a key property in their comin allowing him to have his munity. They remember going current job. there as kids.”

“I was a student ambassaThe women in the maindor, and I loved welcoming tenance office had nothing people to the college,” he said. but good things to say about

Alumnus Brant Cohen turns Keefer House into boutique hotel Cohen.

“It’s wonderful,” Jill Draper, staff assistant said. “We’re very proud of him and the Keefer will do great things for Hillsdale.”

Cohen said they would encourage him to see the best in the community and look at different properties. This job helped shape his eye for architecture and potential as he got to see the exciting new building plans and blueprints.

Cohen’s boss, Leah Martin, aid to the facilities department, said they would always play pranks on him. She recalled one time recruiting Dean Petersen to tell him he was fired.

“He has a great sense of humor,” Martin said. “He took it in stride.”

A picture of Cohen still hangs in superintendent of custodial services Kelly Blaker’s office. It depicts him holding the strawberry rhubarb crisp he made using his grandma’s recipe.

Martin says they love food in their office, and one summer Cohen even came back to judge a pasta-making contest.

His busy schedule didn’t stop him from having fun on campus, however. One of his favorite memories occurred during the fall of his junior year, when he gathered with fellow Chicago Cubs fans in

the Kappa House to watch the Cubs win the World Series for the first time in nearly 100 years.

“After the game we ran up the hill from Kappa blasting ‘go Cubs, go!’ and stopping everyone we saw,” he recalled. “We paraded in a line, dancing and jumping around the union. Then everyone naturally started gathering at the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Central Hall. All the Cubs fans from all over campus just happened to come.”

Cohen’s time as a student allowed for the right opportunities and connections. He said it taught him to appreciate the power of the community.

“I still love politics, but I don’t want to do D.C. politics,” he said. “You can somewhat influence policy, but you’re not really making that much difference.”

Now Cohen said he gets to improve the city he has grown to love and really make a difference.

“I hope to be in this line of work for a long time,” he said.

“I have a lot to learn. It’s fun to see this project from start to finish. I get to get a vision for these old hotels and see that happen. This is going to create more jobs… and positively impact more people quickly.”

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New professor Habib offers Lebanese perspective on U.S. politics By | Victoria Marshall Collegian Freelancer New Associate Professor of Politics Khalil Habib, after being hired this fall, has already become a popular name on campus. His classes for the spring 2019 term filled by the second day of registration.

“I’ve been talking him up to everyone that’s been asking about him,” said Freshman David Strobach, who plans on majoring in politics. “He’s honestly the most brilliant professor I have here. He’s the most engaging, the way he makes such complex topics so simple. The conversational aspect of his classroom is fantastic.”

Habib, a professor from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, was hired this fall as an associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Maine, his masters in political science from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University.

Habib offers a unique perspective to students on American political thought as he is originally from Lebanon, and then later moved to Bahrain. He immigrated to the United States while he was still a young child.

Freshman Ceanna Hayes says she loves learning from Habib in her U.S. Constitution class because she gains a fresh appreciation for the American founding principles.

“You really understand these founding principles in a different way than if you were

taught by someone who was behind it.” ues to take very seriously the born in America who is acTrying to locate the answer idea that individuals can chart customed to and doesn’t really to the success of the American their own path.” appreciate how completely experiment, Habib explored Besides his unique perradical it is that the American economics, religion, theology, spective on American politics, experience was successful,” and even philosophy until he Habib also offers an enriching Ceanna said. took his first political science classroom dynamic. When Hayes said she enjoyed course as an undergraduate. asked about his teaching style, Habib’s teaching so much “I eventually realized that Habib said he focuses on close that she dropped out of her with respect to America’s reading of the text and fostermusic class this semester and picked up one of his 200-level politics courses.

She said he sometimes references the Constitution class while teaching the 200-level course in order to help her understand the class better.

“No one else in the class is even in Constitution,” she said. “He’s just that devoted to each student that he will literally make a comparison, and he’ll point to me and say, ‘Now Ceanna, this is how this ties into the passage we’re reading in the Federalist papers today’ — Khalil Habib recently joined the politics faculty at Hillsdale. The King’s which is absolutely fantas- College | Courtesy tic.” founding — not to diminish ing debates and discussions It was Dr. Habib’s experithe confluence of factors that with students. ence as an immigrant that led came together at the right “I don’t believe that a polihim to pursue politics. moment with the right people tics course should be anything “As an immigrant to this –there was a real conscious ef- other than a mirror of a politcountry, I can tell you one fort, particularly as expressed ical community,” Habib said. of the things that always in the Federalist Papers “We’re in it together, and we’re perplexed me, having come and other important docugoing to debate. We’re going from the Middle East, having ments, to articulate an idea to articulate positions that are seen first hand the devastatof government and natural very controversial and we are, ing effects of civil war and rights that have their roots in through mutual respect, and religious persecution, I could political thought,” Habib said. through conversation, going not wrap my mind around “I suddenly understood that it to have a debate. So the classhow 350 million people were wasn’t simply by accident that room for me is a mini polis.” getting along and coexisting we have separation of powHayes said she also enjoys peacefully; it just seemed like ers, representative governHabib’s sense of humor. a political miracle,” Habid ment, and a constitution that “I have literally five pages said. “And since I knew that focuses on individual rights of quotes of just funny things political miracles are very rare and the protection of liberty Habib has said in class,” Hayes and not likely possible, there and property. There was real said. “The first day of class had to be some sort of science deliberation, and this was a we were talking about the or art behind it or some mind nation that took and continsecond amendment and he’s

says, ‘Well alright, can I, in the interest of self-defense, assemble my own nuclear armada?’ And we’re all just like, ‘You probably shouldn’t do that?’ And then he replied, “Well, you can’t but I can — I’m Lebanese.”

Habib first came to Hillsdale two years ago when he gave a lecture on Islamic philosophy.

“That was the first time I was able, in person, to see for myself what I’d heard for so many years, and that is that Hillsdale attracts some of the best students in the country,” Habib said. “After the talk, I was asked to conduct a two-hour graduate seminar and it was just an amazing experience — the students were so smart, so eager, so prepared, and so engaged.”

Habib said he also really admires the Hillsdale faculty.

“Some of the faculty here literally changed my life and shaped the way I look at things and what I do. I learned about the Progressives from Dr. Pestritto. I learned a great deal about Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and ancient and modern republicanism from Dr. Rahe. Dr. Tom West, for example, wrote a book called Vindicating the Founders that I read as an undergraduate; it changed the way I look at and study politics—and I never imagined that one day I would be sitting in on one of his classes and teaching alongside these great teachers and scholars.”

Habib said the college’s mission was the number one reason why he came to

Hillsdale.

“What really distinguishes Hillsdale College from any other institution is its mission, and that it lives by it and that it’s not just words on paper,” Habib said. “Its mission specifically focuses on liberal education — committed to teaching the greatest works of the greatest thinkers that have shaped the greatest events.

And the students who come here know it.”

When asked about teaching a politics course on Islamic political philosophy Habib said although he’d like to, it would be difficult.

“The problem with teaching a course on Islamic political thought is that most of Islamic philosophy tends to be in metaphysics, or deeply theological. So it’s extremely difficult, I think, for students with not much of the background to really get much out of it,” Habib said. “You’d have to have advanced students with a lot of background, especially in Plato and Aristotle, not to mention the Koran and Islamic tradition, but in time.”

Habib said working at the college was enough to cause him to move to Hillsdale, but as a native city-dweller, he was surprised to find he liked living in Hillsdale for the surrounding area as well.

“I’m shocked at how much I love living here,” Habib said. “It has no urban sprawl whatsoever and so it has an authentic Americana feel to it that I just adore. You have to remember that I’m an immigrant so anything that’s pure Americana for me is like a dream come true.”

Beyond the ‘four-block radius’: Dunking GPAs and basketballs: professors organize weekly games Cycling club grows to 10 members By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter Finessing hook shots, layups, and dunks, a group of Hillsdale College professors face each other in a competitive game of basketball at the gym’s indoor courts every Tuesday at 6 a.m. before class.

Christopher Heckel, a biology professor at Hillsdale College, initially organized the group as a way to do some fun cardio.

They started with once a week, and later increased to twice a week during the school year and three times a week during the summer.

“The group grew from the four Hillsdale Academy faculty that played two on two for a couple of months,” Heckel said.

“We have a lot of college faculty that send their kids to the academy, and they found out we were doing this and the group grew from there.

Rich Pewe, Justin Jackson, Zach Miller, Mark Panaggio, and Sam Webster are just few of the many who come out to play. Even a couple of college students join them. Though their goal is to have a good and enjoyable workout, the games are competitive.

“I always want to beat Rich Pewe and Justin Jackson,”

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After high school, she worked at Oxford for four years and then had to go home for personal health reasons, later returning to Oxford to look for another job.

At age 23, she began working for Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian and official Churchill biographer, and then met Larry Arnn, who was studying under Gilbert at the time. The two got married in 1979 and then moved to California where they had three children — Katie, Henry, and Alice — and later adopted a fourth, Tony, at the age of 14.

The Arnns later moved to Hillsdale after Larry Arnn was offered the position of college president in the year 2000.

“When we moved to Broadlawn, the board said, ‘Treat this house like your home,’ which was very helpful, so we felt that we could make it feel like home and not an institutional place,” Arnn said. “I like to keep this house nice.”

Heckel said. “Rich is very competitive, so it’s fun to beat someone who is competitive like that. And Dr. Jackson is a pretty good trash talker, so it’s fun to beat somebody like that.”

Sometimes their competitive play results in big injuries, including an instance when assistant professor of philosophy Blake McAllister got his

McAllister said the dentist popped his teeth back into normal position, and continued playing next week wearing a mouth guard.

A memorable moment for Justin Jackson, professor of English, was from a previous game with students Peter and Noah Kalthoff, during which Peter Kalthoff beat his defender on the baseline but Jackson was too late running over to help and Kalthoff dunked on him.

“I’ve been dunked on many times, so that’s no big deal. But what was great was that Peter had the most precious smile on his face because he’s such a sweet kid and didn’t want to say anything or embarrass me, whereas everyone else couldn’t shut up because I never stop talking,” Jackson said.

“I think my team won, though, and I’m pretty sure I hit the game-winner.”

Heckel said he enjoys the competition, but it’s all for fun and there’s always another chance to win next week.

“There’s just a nice vibe to the group that plays,” Heckel said. “Everyone that’s there wants to get a good workout in, but it also gets pretty competitive in a good sort of way, nothing ever really gets heated. It’s just fun basketball.”

“Dr. Jackson is a pretty good trash talker, so it’s fun to beat somebody like that.” front teeth knocked out. He also didn’t have a dentist and had trouble finding one early in the morning.

“I seriously considered going to my 8 a.m. and teaching, thinking my commitment to the truth might inspire my students, but I could hardly talk,” McAllister said. “So, I just waited a couple of hours for the dentist, who said there was nothing to be done but to shove them back into place and hope they stayed.”

Arnn said when she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband at home. They enjoy binge-watching detective shows in her husband’s study.

She mentioned that, although they usually try to scrounge up a good show on Netflix or Amazon prime, they often default to “Blue Bloods.”

“I enjoy not being sociable sometimes,” Arnn said. “I’m fairly self-contained in many respects. My best friend is my husband.”

Although she doesn’t travel with her husband on all his trips, Arnn usually makes it out for most Washington, D.C., trips to visit their house there. She said she is looking forward to an annual Christmas party there for faculty of the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship and friends of the college, which she helps to organize.

One of Arnn’s long-established duties is planning the college Christmas card, something she’s working on this week. Sent out to faculty

and friends of the college, the Arnns create a Christmas card each year on behalf of the college that features Broadlawn from different artistic angles. One year, the card displayed a photo of the house made out of gingerbread. This year, Professor of Art Bryan Springer is helping her design the card.

“I think Mrs. Arnn saw my work and thought it might be a nice, fresh look at Broadlawn as an iconic building that could be in a Christmas card,” Springer said. “I would imagine the challenge with the Christmas card is to provide enough variety so it isn’t the same every year.”

Arnn said she appreciates that people at the college work hard, enjoy what they do, and treat each other with respect.

“I appreciate, too, the respect that we are given in the way we live here, because we live in a college house, but people are kind enough to recognize that it’s our home, too.”

new freshmen has given her a ond in the “Lowell 50” gravel By | Sofia Krusmark fresh perspective on commurace as well as second in the Collegian Reporter nity.

“Iceman Cometh Mountain When sophomore Emma “Having so many people Bike Race.”

Noverr, president of the Enjoining the team reminds me Prior to this semester, all durance Sports Club, mesof the fact that ‘yeah there races were self-funded. Noverr saged Assistant Swim coach are new people on campus,” said all students had to pay Laura Peter asking if she Brilsky said. “It’s a reminder out of pocket for the race fees, wanted to go for a bike ride, that new people are just as ranging from 35 to 75 dollars she wasn’t expecting Peter to important as the friendships per entry. But USA Cycling invite her to dinner, or to beI’ve had here over the last few granted Noverr a scholarship come her club’s future coach. years.” that is now a part of the club “I used a cycling app to Because of the variant skill budget. stalk people who rode “Now we can pay for bikes in the area, and only registration through one person replied. That our team fund,” Noverr was the coach that I have said. “Now races are so now. I asked her if she much more accessible to wanted to go for a ride, everyone and there’s less and she replied in about of a barrier to be able to two minutes and said, participate in races.”

‘Why don’t you just come Peter said Noverr’s “enover to my house for ergy, attention to detail, dinner tonight?’” and ideas” are what keep Initially a team of two the team up and running. people, the Endurance Toates agreed.

Sports Club now has 10 “Emma kind of makes members. Though the the whole thing happen. club did not at first have This club wouldn’t exist the resources required to without her going out and race according to U.S. Cydoing it. She takes us out cling rules, the team now everywhere and coordihas uniforms, donations, nates everyone’s schedule,” and even a budget within The Endurance Sports Club gathers for a bon- Toates said. “She put this the club to help pay for fire. Emma Noverr | Courtesy whole thing together. races.

It’s really admirable how Instead of holding a formal sets, Peter said she hopes to much work she puts into it.” recruitment process, Noverr train the racers based on what In the last month, the club said she has grown the club by they want. has initiated a community just finding people who love “If they want more specific service project alongside the the sport. training and they want help Hillsdale United Brethren “It’s not something that devising a plan or actual train- church. Collecting the abanmost people are typically ing time, I can help them with doned bikes on Hillsdale’s drawn to. You just suffer on an that. Last year I worked excampus, the team is hoping uncomfortable seat for hours. tensively with Joe and Emma,” to have them refurbished We got a booth started at the Peter said. “Some people are

by Thanksgiving. The bikes source, we started an Instariding somewhat recreational- will be given to kids living in gram page,” Noverr said, “and ly and just beginning, so I just the Hillsdale community for through word of mouth, we give them general advice.”

Christmas. found people who were interThough the club has “I think there is a space ested in cycling. At its core, it’s regular rides, Noverr and here between the college ‘I like to ride my bike, I like to Toates said most training is and the community that can have the freedom of that,’ and individual. Whether they are be easily filled but is also here are some people that can stretching, speed training, easily overlooked,” Noverr kind of relate to that.” or lifting, the training ranges said. “Every kid remembers Peter said the increase in from person to person. Toates riding their bike. That was club participation is notable. said the self-training has been their first taste of freedom.

“90 percent of the growth invaluable to his personal You could get anywhere you is just getting people to go on growth. could dream of without your bike rides on a regular basis, “Training on your own parents. I really want to share and then another percentage teaches a lot of self discipline. that with kids here who have of it are those who are actually Everyone who’s in it really a tough life, and I think our going to go out and do races,” really loves it, you either really team is very capable of doing Peter said. “We have to build want to do it or you won’t do that.” the people that are riding first, it,” Toates said. “If you don’t Noverr said cycling is a and getting regular participalike the training and the prac- helpful way to relieve stress tion doing rides before they tice, it’s very hard to be in the and to get away from normal race. And also too, there’s a sport.” everyday activities. love for it. Everything starts Throughout the entire year, “I want people to go out from that.” members have the opportuni- in Hillsdale,” she said. “Most In order to build a stronger ty to participate in a variety of people are confined to a fourcommunity and initiate more races. “Gravel races,” or mass block radius and they don’t riding, junior Joe Toates, vice start races that take place on see the beautiful sunflower president of the club, said the dirt roads, are most popular fields and old bars. There’s team has gone on regular Satduring the fall season. They a lot of beauty in the simple urday morning rides. Accord- can range from 20 to 60 miles things of life and I think that ing to Toates, these rides have and are “welcoming” to a lot sometimes gets lost in the helped foster a community of of beginners, according to complexity of the deep philo“adventurous spirits.” Junior Peter. Noverr has placed secsophical roots of Hillsdale.”

Maddie Brilsky said that the

B6 November 15, 2018 Emma Noverr at 2017 Major Taylor CX in Indianapolis.

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Penny Arnn: Making Broadlawn a home

snacks to ensure students are for college-related meetings, By | Allison Schuster well taken care of during their allowing them more privacy Assistant Editor two-and-a-half hour long and space than if they stayed During their time at class. at the Dow Leadership Center.

Broadlawn, Penny Arnn’s dogs “I make sure they’re cafPrevious guests include Hillshave encountered so many feinated and have sugar,” she dale College Board of Trustees skunks that Vice Presishe now keeps dent Pat Sajak shampoo and and Former a swimsuit in Secretary of the bathroom Defense Donclosest to the ald Rumsfeld. backyard so “They she can wash become our off the stench friends,” she when the dogs said. “Mr. Sacome inside jak stays with after being us every time sprayed. he visits.”

Penny The Arnns Arnn, who have also is married had several to Hillsdale animal visiCollege Prestors over the ident Larry years. Besides Arnn, spends the skunk the majority encounters Larry and Penny Arnn pose together at a Student Activities Board of her time in their event. | Cumulus tending to backyard, college-owned they have also Broadlawn and making it said. seen a full-grown deer run suitable for both business Senior Ryan Murphy is through their house, as well as and family life. In addition currently taking Larry Arnn’s a chickadee, and a total of 11 to caring for her two dogs ethics class and said Penny possums inside one summer. and keeping up with several Arnn always goes out of her “The thing about possums college-related projects, she way to make sure students feel is that they like to play posalso attends college events and welcome. sum,” Arnn said. frequently entertains student “She takes the time to lay She proceeded in describguests and college visitors. out treats for us, and last ing an instance in which one In addition to an elegant class, even made her famous possum that appeared dead guest room, sitsuddenly sprang ting room, and to life and ran large dining hall through their on Broadlawn’s home. main floor, the Arnn said one house has what of her favorite Arnn likes to call parts of her job her “shipping is getting to see and receiving students dress up department.” for Halloween and This long hallwatching male way downstairs dorm residents is lined with “just whaling garbage bags on each other” full of toys for a during their annuChristmas party al Naval Battle. she is planning She smiled once for children of she remembered college faculty two students who and staff, in showed up at her addition to other house once during packages and dinner asking to supplies preperform — she pared for events couldn’t recall or for transfer whether it was a to the Arnns’ poem or a song — Washington, for Larry Arnn.

D.C. residence.

Penny Arnn “I’m lucky didn’t receive enough to be quite the same able to do the kind of college exfun bits and perience as some lucky enough Hillsdale students.

Penny Arnn is the wife of Hillsdale College President Larry After growing up to be able to choose what I can Arnn. | Cumulus in England, Penny do,” Arnn said.

Arnn took a secre“My job is to be homemade blondies that melt tarial course in Oxford after flexible. I do what needs to be in your mouth,” Murphy said. high school and then worked done.”

“What complements learning for the University of Oxford The college uses the Arnns’ better than that? Dr. Arnn’s Engineering Science Departhome for various receptions lectures and Mrs. Arnn’s bakment for four years. and dinners, as well as Larry ing — a power combo from a “I thought, ‘This is fun!’”

Arnn’s “Ethics, Nature, and power couple.” she said. “I lived and worked Totalitarianism” class. Next Arnn said they sometimes in Oxford and got to enjoy the to his teaching room, Penny have guests stay at their college atSee Arnn B5 mosphere.”

Arnn stocks up on coffee and house while they’re in town

100 years later, Hillsdale veterans’ sacrifices ‘cannot be measured’ By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor If you read a Collegian issue from 1918, half of the articles would be coverage of World War I. Now, 100 years after the end of the war, the names of those who served, including seven who died, have been mostly forgotten.

Of the approximately 500 students on Hillsdale’s campus in 1919, 368 enlisted in the armed services, Red Cross, YMCA, or YWCA. One hundred and fifteen were in active service overseas, while 109 were in the Student Army Training Corp (SATC).

“The part which Hillsdale College played in the war cannot be measured in men and women,” an April 1919 article of The Collegian said. “The spirit which sent them will continue to move and work among us, influencing every Hillsdale student to bigger and better things.”

College archivist Linda Moore said students and faculty alike did a variety of things to help the war effort.

“A couple of college girls had gone over in a version of the United Service Organizations, entertaining the troops,” Moore said. “There were a variety of ways that people served, but not necessarily in the military. There were people here who helped train troops to go over. There weren’t a whole lot of guys on campus.”

The U.S. Army created the SATC to train young men for military action. While participation in the SATC was completely voluntary, enroll-

ing gave the individual the rank of private and the ability to be called into active duty.

The SATC was active at 525 educational institutions.

“The government looks to the college men of the country for its leaders,” an Oct. 13, 1918 issue of The Collegian said. “The SATC can train them for entrance into an Officers’ Training Camp, where their training may be finished. This is an opportunity for advancement that will not come to those who remain at home and wait for the draft.

Hillsdale College is to be congratulated on the fact that it has been selected as one of the colleges where this important work will be carried on.”

The War Department announced in August 1918 that a unit of the SATC would come to Hillsdale. Lt. Arthur S. Bell was appointed as commander of the Hillsdale unit. The SATC barracks were on Manning Street at the shoe factory, an off-campus house.

“When the students on campus went to look for some member of the faculty to help them with their military drills, the only faculty member with any military experience was Melville Chase. He fought in the Civil War,” Moore said.

Hillsdale’s first casualty came from the SATC, when Pvt. Harry Kelly died from influenza.

“At the same time, there was the flu epidemic of 1918,” Moore said. “Two of the guys that were in the Student Army Training Corp died in the barracks from the flu. That was another thing that was going around at the same time.”

At Kelly’s funeral, Lt. Bell made his remarks. He said that while Hillsdale would honor all the men who had given their lives in service of the United States, Kelly’s death would be a personal one.

“As a member of the S. A. T. C, fulfilling faithfully the duties assigned to him, Private Kelly gave himself to Hillsdale and to his country,” Bell said, according to the Dec. 26, 1918, issue of the Collegian. “And although not a student here as long as others, who have learned to love old Hillsdale and the ideals for which she stands, we feel that he comprehended the meaning of the words of our Alma Mater: ‘When the world’s hard fight is over And life’s end draws nigh May those colors gently hover In the twilight sky; Then to eyes that see the glory Faith will come anew; Memory brings its visioned story Of our hallowed blue.’”

According to the April 24, 1919, issue of The Collegian, seven students died in the war effort.

“There are seven gold stars on the college service flag, representing the seven men who have given ‘their all,’” an April 1919 article said. “To many of the present student body to whom they were well known, their sacrifice comes particularly close. We cannot help but feel some of the patriotism which inspired them to give their best up to the last.”