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Vol. 142 Issue 18 - February 14, 2019

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Faculty vote on details for Senior Capstone, continue planning logistics By | Nolan Ryan News Editor The Hillsdale College faculty will begin planning course schedules and other details for the Senior Capstone course after approving basic details of the class in a vote last Thursday.

The Class of 2020 will be the first required to take the course, which was first pro-

posed in 2011. The capstone will be a one-credit course, offered every semester, comprised of five class-wide lectures from President Larry Arnn and five departmental lectures in a student’s own major, according to the proposal crafted by the provost’s office and the academic deans.

The course will officially be offered starting in the Fall 2019 semester, Stephen Smith,

professor of English and dean of humanities, said in an email. Smith said the course will conclude with written exams covering both sets of lectures.

In an email to The Collegian, Arnn said a one-credit course seems to be what faculty and students can manage with their schedules.

He added it was also deemed a sufficient amount for the

Scheduling for Arnn’s component of the course will be worked around his schedule, and the lectures will likely take place outside regularly scheduled class periods, maybe on Sunday nights, according to Paul Moreno, dean of social sciences and professor of history.

“The presidential lectures will be videotaped so that people who can’t make it will

have access to it,” he said.

The departmental lectures, however, will most likely be scheduled for regular class times. The goal, Moreno said, is to get as much of the senior class together for Arnn’s lectures, which will probably be held in a large space such as the Searle Center, according to the proposal.

Planning for each depart-

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Halle Hyman returns a serve on Sunday against Ferris State. Ryan Goff | Collegian

Women’s Tennis

Second shutout puts Hillsdale at 2-0 By | Ryan Goff Assistant Editor On a snowy Sunday, the Hillsdale College Chargers took on the Ferris State University Bulldogs in a thrilling 7-0 victory. The win puts the Chargers off to a strong start to the season.

In doubles, Hillsdale dropped the first match as Ferris St. beat junior Katie Bell and senior Corinne Prost 6-1, but was able to level the scoring with sophomore Hannah Cimpeanu and freshman Sarah Hackman’s 6-1 win at no. 2 doubles. The lone doubles point was then up to the no. 3 match, and every player from both sides crowded around the middle court to cheer on their side. The set was close, and the Chargers, led by Kamryn Matthews and Madeline Bissett, ultimately beat out the Bulldogs 7-5 to take the doubles point.

“I was really proud of the third doubles team for really sticking it out and winning it, because that was a really important match,” coach Nikki Walbright said. “If we were to go down in doubles, it’s kind of a hard way to go into singles.”

In singles, Cimpeanu got off the court early at the no.

1 spot. She took the first set of one singles, then dropped two after going up 3-0 in the second. She broke right back, and by the next changeover was up 5-2. With a few deep backhands and a well-placed lob, she broke again for the match 6-2, 6-2.

“Hannah [Cimpeanu] had a really dominant perfor-

course. His lectures will focus on “liberal education, human nature, and ethics,” according to the proposal.

“The capstone will seek to review and associate the few best things in each part of the core,” Arnn said. “I will probably use readings from each of the core courses with an attempt to define the meaning and reason of each course and its relationship to the whole.”

mance at no. 1,” Walbright said. “She was near-flawless.”

In similar fashion, senior Halle Hyman took no. 4 singles in straight sets 6-2, 7-5, edging out her opponent in the key moments of the second set.

“Although we won all the courts, they were all intense matches,” Walbright said.

“Even Hyman’s to close out was a tough match and she did a good job to finish it.”

But the Bulldogs put the pressure on the Chargers at the 2 and 3 spots. After a dominant 6-2 opening set, Hackman dropped the second set 1-6. The third was a battle at the baseline. Neither player gave in, so each point consisted of a long rally with few unforced errors. Fighting to reach 5-4, Hackman broke serve to take the match 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.

“As a freshman, with not very much match experience in college, it’s a really good one for her to see, and she closed out that third set really well,” Walbright said.

As Hackman walked off the court, Bell was still in the heat of a close match at no. 3 singles. She dropped the first set 1-6, but fought back in the second set to force a tiebreak.

“I was honestly just taking it point by point and trying not to get ahead of myself even though I was in the lead for the most part,” Bell said of the tiebreak. “I just tried to keep calm and keep the pressure on her with deep shots.”

Tied at 4-4, the pressure mounted for Bell, who played with emotion the whole match. She won the

mini-break to extend her lead to 6-4, then lost the next point, crouching down in the middle of the court. At 6-5, with the chance of losing her momentum, Bell hit a powerful forehand winner to seal the second set and level the match, yelling “Let’s go!”

“WEAK! SO WEAK!” she cried after hitting a short return and allowing an easy winner from her opponent to take the third game of the final set, 2-3.

“Keeping positive during the 3rd was tough but I just tried to breathe and told myself to keep getting the ball back even if it meant slicing or loopy balls,” Bell said.

But she bounced back after the changeover, breaking twice to win the deciding set 6-3.

“There was really never a point in the match where I thought she was going to lose,” Walbright said. “That’s just the type of player she is. It was a great moral victory for her.”

With 5 of the points secured for Hillsdale, the rest of the match went by smoothly.

Matthews breezed through 6-1, 6-0 at no. 5 singles, and with the match clinched, Ferris wanted to leave because of the snow after Bissett’s first set.

“In the beginning of the season, it’s tough to replicate that kind of pressure without practice,” Walbright said of the dramatic matches on the middle courts. “It’s good for us to overcome that now.”

The Chargers will be away at Lewis University on Saturday.

By | Kaylee McGhee Opinions Editor A group of Hillsdale alumni have partnered with the college to open a classical liberal arts school in metro-Detroit this fall — the first of its kind in the area.

Tyler Horning, an ’06 alumnus and president of the school’s board, began to garner support for Ivywood Classical Academy after noticing a gap in Detroit’s education alternatives.

“I was looking for schools for my kids, and none of them were the right fit,” Horning said in an interview. “There are things missing in public education that a classical education can fill — things that are necessary for our democracy.”

Horning, along with alumni Jim Musgrave ’09 and Troy Morris ’07, formed the school’s project team and reached out to Hillsdale’s Barney Charter Initiative, which

will provide the school’s curriculum. A location has not been determined, but Horning said the team is looking in Plymouth, Livonia, and Westland.

Though Ivywood will have only K-5 classes when it opens, Horning said he hopes the program will continue to grow and expand to eventually include a middle school and a high school.

Hillsdale’s rigorous, virtues-based education will be the foundation of Ivywood’s, Musgrave said. It will focus on the “whole person,” rather than just preparing students for an exam. The Barney curriculum will lay a foundation in history, literature, math, and science, along with traditional electives “with a classical twist,” Musgrave said.

“That’s what I loved about Hillsdale,” Morris said.

“Learning for the sake of learning instead of just learning to pass a test. We want to

really challenge the status quo and ask: Why am I at school?

Is it really just to get good grades? Or am I learning this stuff for a purpose? And what Hillsdale allowed me to see is there’s a reason students need to take these courses. It paints the entire picture.”

Ivywood will be unique among similar classical schools because it will be a tuition-free public school. Enrollment will be phased, and a waitlist will develop based on spots available. Morris said giving the community access to Ivywood’s classical education is a fundamental part of the school’s mission.

“Not everyone has the resources to go to Hillsdale College, so allowing access to everyone is a big part of why we’re doing this. Any kind of background needs to have access to this,” Morris said.

Horning said Ivywood is a “grassroots experiment” that

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No more Sweethearts this Valentine’s Day

Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio says ‘Wait 4 Me, Back Soon’ By | Brooke Conrad Features Editor This Valentine’s Day, stores around the nation are all out of Sweethearts — the popular heart-shaped, message-carrying candy that has sweetened the holiday since the turn of the 20th century.

After Necco’s candy factory went out of business last year, the company sold Sweethearts to Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio, about a 45-minute drive from Hillsdale. Spangler, best known Follow @HDaleCollegian

Spangler Candy Co. included this photo in a press release ensuring Sweethearts fans the brand will eventually return.

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for its Dum Dums Lollipops, was unable to ramp up Sweetheart production in time for this year’s Valentine’s shoppers, but says the brand will return at a future time.

By the time the factory closed in July, it took 11 months of production at 100,000 pounds a day to make 8 billion Sweethearts for Valentine’s Day every year. Before its closing, conversation hearts were the most-purchased Valentine’s candy of 2017 and 2018, according to candystore. com.

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Founded in 1901, Necco was known not only for Sweethearts, but also for its Wafers (which Spangler also acquired), colorful, sugary discs that have been made the same ways since 1847, making them America’s oldest continuously-manufactured candy.

Alexandra Brock, manager at Small Town Sweet Boutique, said she misses Sweethearts, as well as Necco’s Wafers, which she was hoping to have around Christmas time this past year.

“They’ve been around since

the Civil War so I’m really sad to see them go out,” she said.

The boutique has been selling several other versions of the conversation heart — Brach’s Conversation Hearts, Smarties Love Hearts, and Sweet Tart Hearts — but Brock says for many of her customers, the other brands aren’t quite the same.

“A lot of it has to do with nostalgia. It’s the one they grew up with, it’s the oldest, it’s classic,” she said. “And it tastes good too.

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Nicole Ault Economics and Journalism Hometown: Catonsville, MD

Clara Fishlock History and French Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Ellen Friesen History and Spanish Hometown: Lincoln, NE

Editor-in-chief of The Collegian, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Hillsdale OPC Sunday school teacher and nursery volunteer, 2015-17 GOAL tutor

Orchestra, flute ensemble, GOAL leader of HCCAP, Catholic Society, SHALOM club, Adopt-a-Grandparent, Buddy Bowling

Treasurer/outreach ministry in Catholic Society, Sunday school teacher/youth group leader at St. Anthony’s, Lyceum officer, student director of the Writing Center, choir

Jared Gohl Chemistry Hometown: Hartland, MI

Samuel Roberts History Hometown: Louisville, KY

Student Activities Board, Chemistry Teaching Assistant, American Chemical Society, Sigma Zeta, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Chemistry tutor

Catholic Society, president of Phi Alpha Theta, Lyceum, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Mu Alpha, Thomistic Institute, Delta Phi Alpha, Phi Sigma Tau

Thomas Ryskamp Music and Accounting Hometown: Byron Center, MI Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Student Federation, Choir, piano accompaniment

In brief:

Students, Red Cross hope to reach 105 donors for blood drive By | Emma-Sofia Mull Collegian Freelancer Volunteers hope to reach their goal of 105 donors at the blood drive this upcoming Monday, Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Grewcock Student Union. The Community Health GOAL program, with the help of the Neidefelt Residence, will partner with the Red Cross to host the blood drive.

Junior Adrianne Fogg has volunteered for the last three blood drives, and she is currently in charge of the social

media campaign.

This year, she hopes to draw enough attention to the blood drive in order to attain the needed participation, which they’ve struggled to reach in the past.

“Last semester was the first time we’ve gone over our goal; generally we go under pretty significantly,” Fogg said.

Fogg encouraged all those who are interested to consider donating or even volunteering.

“The drive is open to everyone - maintenance and

professors and students,” Fogg said.

Senior Alexander Green said those daunted at the prospect of donating blood for the first time shouldn’t worry.

“Donating blood is easy,” Green said. “You sign up for a slot or show up as a walkin, they test your blood type and if you are eligible, and then take your blood. The free snacks afterwards are definitely worth the experience.”

Chloe Kookogey English, Classical Education, and French Hometown: Franklin, TN

Ryan Kelly Murphy Politics Hometown: Temecula, CA

Editor-in-Chief of The Hillsdale Forum, President of Aletheia, Writing Center tutor, Tower Dancers, Lamplighters, Pi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Sigma Phi

Senior Class President, Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM, Awana volunteer at Pine Ridge Bible Church, George Washington Fellow, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lamplighters Honorary

Gill West Philosophy and Mathematics Hometown: Jacksonville, FL

Dominic Whalen History Hometown: Hillsdale, MI

CSP, Big, Pep bands, Rob Roy Jazz Combo, Chess Club, writing tutor, Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta, President of Kappa Mu Epsilon, VP of Phi Sigma Tau

GOAL Mentoring Programs, Residence Assistant in Niedfeldt, Outdoor Adventure Club, Catholic Society, Choir and Chamber Choir, men’s formation group

1844 Society hosts Love the Dale campaign this week By | Victoria Marshall Collegian Freelancer With love in the air this Valentine’s week, the 1844 Society hopes that some of it will be directed to their annual “Love the ‘Dale” campaign.

Every day this week, the student-alumni group hopes to target a specific segment of the Hillsdale College community to show their love and appreciation.

“Our idea was that each day we wanted to show our love for Hillsdale by targeting each different facet of Hillsdale’s greater network,”

and staff will be appreciated with a faculty guessing game that all students can participate in, and treats from Jonesville bakery will be offered.

Finally, on Friday, the whole Hillsdale College community is invited to celebrate each other and the “Love the ‘Dale” campaign with a reception at Rough Draft where cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

In addition to recognizing current students and faculty, another facet of the “Love the ‘Dale” campaign is to get alumni involved in giving to the campus and fostering that

life, it’s all funded by other people—so your tuition dollars cover maybe a third of the academic year—the rest is all covered by other people who love what we’re doing here,” said Director of Alumni Engagement Colleen McGinness.

“We’re trying to get alumni who love and also benefited from those things when they were here to give back so you guys can enjoy it.”

This year, the 1844 Society is partnering with the senior class on their “Love the ‘Dale” campaign in order to highlight the senior class gift, the fountain on the quad, for

Educational Testing Service releases results for national proficiency exam Hillsdale students score lower than previous years, better than national average By | Victoria Marshall Collegian Freelancer The results for the 20182019 ETS Proficiency Profile are in, and Hillsdale students scored lower than previous years.

Every year, a random sampling of 50 Hillsdale College seniors take the Educational Testing Service proficiency profile, which compares Hillsdale students’ ability to other students across the nation. Students are tested on critical thinking, writing, reading, math, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. More than 230 institutions, including Hillsdale College, participated in the test this year.

“The purpose of the proficiency profile is for the college itself to look at how the undergraduates are doing based on these very broad, standard skill subjects and to benchmark students’ performance against students’

performance nationwide at other institutions,” said Hillsdale College Director of Institutional Research George Allen. “The results of the test are not used directly to change policies or practices or to change pedagogical approach. It really is a due diligence measure — constantly taking the academic temperature of the student body.”

Hillsdale students have always performed well on the ETS proficiency profile, and the class of 2018 scored an average of 480.2 points out of 500, according to Hillsdale College’s ETS Proficiency Profile Assessment. The years prior include 482.4 points for the 2016-2017 school year, and 480.5 for the 20152016 school year. This year, however, Hillsdale seniors scored lower than previous years with a score of 477.9, dropping 2.3 points from last year. The nationwide average

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is 446.2 points.

When asked about this year’s performance, George Allen said the drop was not significant.

“The difference is so small that it doesn’t indicate anything significant,” Allen said.

“When you’re looking at institutional averages, we’re still in the 99th percentile of the institutional average total score. If we dropped a percentile point or two, that might be significant, but this very small variation in the raw score I would not call a significant difference.”

Allen credits seniors for the Hillsdale’s score.

“I do think that the results of the test are indicative that when it comes to these basic academic skills,” he said. “At Hillsdale, we simply have a higher caliber of student than just the average American college.”

President of 1844 Society sophomore Braden Van Dyke and class treasurer senior Carrie Williams sit at the 1844 Society’s table in the Union on Tuesday.

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sophomore Braden VanDyke, president of the 1844 Society, said.

On Monday, freshmen were recognized and donuts were offered at the society’s table in the Grewcock Student Union; on Tuesday, sophomores and juniors were highlighted and Valentine’s candy was distributed; on Wednesday, seniors were acknowledged and freshly brewed Checker Records coffee was provided; on Thursday, faculty

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student-alumni relationship.

“The affinity campaign is really targeted to alumni to give back to those things that they loved to be apart of while they were at school, whether that’s a greek house, a dorm, any club on campus, or an honorary,” VanDyke said.

Last year, the 1844 Society had 288 alumni participate in the campaign, and this year, the goal is 350.

“Everything you guys benefit from here, whether it’s your majors, classes, clubs, greek

alumni to fund.

“They’re being so kind to let us work together with them this week,” said senior class officer and treasurer Carrie Williams. “We’re working to promote the fountain that will be on campus, so the whole “Loving the ‘Dale” theme, the idea of being for students “present, past, and future”, that’s something that will be ingrained on the fountain.”

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By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter On Feb. 14 and 15, classical schools from across America will descend upon Hillsdale College’s campus for the 11th annual job fair. The event, co-sponsored by Career Services and the Barney Charter School Initiative, is expected to attract 46 schools from 22 states and Washington D.C., promising to be the largest fair yet.

The event will take place Thursday in the Searle Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. On Friday, job seekers have the opportunity to interview with schools they spoke with the day before. Many will be represented by Hillsdale College alums now working for their respective schools, giving current students common ground on which to build.

The fair is a crucial opportunity for students seeking careers in education. Senior Shelby Bargenquast attended the job fair for the first time during her sophomore year and again her junior year to get a feel for what it was like.

Having completed her degree requirements a semester early

and with her wedding on the horizon, the fair is more important than ever.

“There’s obviously a lot more on the line this year,” Bargenquast said. “I probably have a pretty unique situation because my fiancé just found out he got accepted to Kentucky University for grad school. There’s only one school coming from the entire state of Kentucky, so I’m planning on making a beeline to that one school.”

Seniors and soon-to-benewlyweds Calvin Kinney and Emily Walker have been applying to numerous classical schools via the internet but are excited to interact with representatives in person.

“Talking to so many different schools will probably help us figure out some of what we do and don’t want in a school,” Walker said. “We’re both just starting the search process, and it’s hard to know what we’re looking for. I think it’ll be useful to talk with people and hear some of the options and opportunities across the country.”

Getting married this summer adds an additional layer of urgency and complexity to the job search, but Kinney

said he isn’t worried about it.

“To me, it’s exciting,” he said. “I’m not stressed because I know God will provide a job wherever it is. We’re excited to teach and become part of a great community of people.”

While the fair is geared toward upperclassmen, Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley urged freshmen and sophomores to attend as well.

“It’s a great opportunity for underclassmen to check out the world of education and see if that’s something they might be interested in,” she said.

Regardless of school year, Wiseley encouraged all students to come to the event prepared.

“Professional to business casual attire is a must,” Wiseley said. “For seniors, bring copies of your resume and do your research on the schools that will be attending so you can be informed and efficient.”

Most important, Wiseley said, is conveying to potential employers a passion for learning and sharing it with students.

“If you love to teach and want a job, be there,” she said.

“These schools want Hillsdale grads. It’s a seller’s market.”

‘The handiwork of God’: Haarsma weaves together science and religion By | Matt Fisher Collegian Freelancer Christianity can be reconciled with scientific theories of the Big Bang and an old universe, said Deborah Haarsma, president of Bio Logos, in a speech at Hillsdale College last week.

Haarsma spoke to students at the “God and the Multiverse” talk at the Searle Center on Thursday, Feb. 7 as a part of the Natural Science Series, hosted by the President’s Office. BioLogos is an organization which aims to show the church and the world “the harmony between science and biblical faith,” as presented in an “evolutionary understanding of God’s creation,” according to the BioLogos website. Before a large crowd of students, Haarsma addressed a variety of issues facing Christianity and science with a focus on the multiverse.

Haarsma opened her presentation by arguing that scientific evidence pointing toward the universe beginning 13.7 billion years ago does not conflict with Christianity. Before touching upon the multiverse, Haarsma first

discussed the age of the earth and origin of the universe.

“The Big Bang is often a term used as a competitor for God,” she said. “It is unfortunate that it has come to be associated with atheism. The Big Bang does not replace God. It explains how God began and governs the universe.”

Haarsma’s presentation on the multiverse highlighted the string-theory multiverse as well as the use of quantum mechanics with gravity.

Haarsma emphasized that it was the discovery and progress in quantum mechanics that led to the string-theory multiverse theory. Haarsma said the inflationary universe is “the most accurate model of the early universe.”

“This universe did not just happen. It was shaped by a creator. When I study astronomy and the star clusters, I am studying the handiwork of God.” When taking questions from the audience, Haarsma said it is theoretically possible, albeit unprovable, that God could have created the world already mature.

“God could have created the universe 10,000 years

ago,” she said. “There is nothing science could say to disprove that.”

Junior Chloe Sparks said she thought the talk was helpful for Christian students who wonder about how scientific theories such as the Big Bang aligns with the Bible.

“I strongly believe that her intentions by giving these lectures are not only good but desperately needed,” Sparks said, “and I’m immensely grateful for people like her who are spreading the idea that these scientific discoveries not only are compatible with Christian beliefs, they can enhance them.”

Sophomore Emily Ju said Haarsma was very knowledgeable and full of passion.

“Dr. Haarsma is a model of being a scientist who is a Christian - or a Christian who is a scientist - in her desire to glorify God, her respect for the rules of the field of science, and her unshakeable faith even in the face of controversial scientific theories,” Ju said in a Facebook message. “She shows us that Christianity and science are not enemies.”

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Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele spoke on space economics on Feb. 11. Adam Wade | Courtesy

‘A middle ground between forecasting and science fiction’ Steele discusses ‘imminent’ space economy By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor What is space economics?

Is it important? Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele asked students on Monday, Feb. 11, at an event hosted by Praxis to discuss the future of space economics.

Praxis’ first official event of the semester addressed the topics of space development, the question of private property in space, and the kinds of economic structures that may be developed to govern space.

There are two ways to predict the progress of technology, Steele said. The first is through economic forecasting, which predicts the future based on the past, but he says this becomes meaningless for predictions beyond 10 years.

The other alternative — science fiction — is more useful for predicting beyond 10 years, but deals in possibilities, not probabilities. Steele said he hopes for “a middle ground between forecasting and science fiction.”

“That middle ground is economic theory,” he said, and used positive economics to explain what he believes will happen, ruling out the unlikely possibilities where economics is less certain.

Steele pointed out that with a projected minimum GDP growth rate of 2 percent over the next century and the significant advantages of space for manufacturing purposes, the potential for the increase of space activity is huge.

“The world will be six to eight times wealthier by 2100, technology is going to be more advanced, development is going to be greater than my grandmother witnessed, and we’re going to have a multi-trillion dollar space economy,” Steele said. “Now that’s the space economy, but what about space economics?”

Steele addressed three major components of the potential space economy: the development of models for a space economy and the role of private sector in that process, the development of private property rights in space, and the role of government in space. He juxtaposed the current American model of centralized space development, as exhibited by NASA, with a more decentralized space development process in which NASA would just be another customer.

“The space shuttle was actually the last big, centralized project for the United States.

It was supposed to provide easy access to space, and it was a failure,” he said. “It was supposed to be cost-effective.

It was not cost-effective.”

Steele said the world is already in the process of moving from the centralized to decentralized model.

“The Chinese understand this,” he said. “Anybody who’s going into space at this point understands that this decentralized model is the cost-effective way to do it.

Decentralization is inevitable.

Anybody who doesn’t do this is going to be left behind.

The Russians even seem to be catching on.”

Steele quoted Ludwig von Mises, who said that civilization is based on private property rights, to assert that any expansion in space would necessarily involved some method of securing those rights.

The existing institution to protect private property rights in space is the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, he said, which was signed by the U.S. and all the major space-travelling nations, and extends to the moon and other celestial bodies. No group exists to enforce the treaty, however, and there are questions about its effectiveness. The law is

also unclear about what kind of mining or production is actually allowed in space.

Senior Andrew Berryhill said he felt it provided a better framework for him to think about news stories or political questions that relate to space.

“I personally did not know a whole lot coming into this talk, and I think it was not only comprehensive, but as an economics major, it was presented in a language that I could very easily understand,” Berryhill said. “I think I got a lot more out of it because of that.”

He added that he appreciated that Steele covered a variety of topics related to space development and how those elements may play out in the future.

“His goal of finding that middle ground between forecasting and science fiction I found really innovative and really interesting,” Berryhill said.

Praxis Secretary sophomore Joy Brower explained that the club’s goal for the event was to bring together both science and economics students with a common interest. She said Steele was a natural choice for speaker.

“Dr. Steele has been studying space economics for probably going on a year now, he’s really interested in it,” Brower said. “Every day after class when I have him, he’ll show me different things that he’s reading about space econ; he’s a great, knowledgeable speaker.”

Praxis Public Relations Officer sophomore Melody McDonald said Steele’s talk made her want to invest in space.

“It made everything seem a lot more real. I like that,” she said. “It’s a whole field of things I never thought about before.”

checking out a Blu-ray or DVD, which some people don’t have the players anymore to be able to watch,” Rumler said.

Senior Adam Cieply, secretary of the Film and Production Club, said a lot of libraries have subscribed to Kanopy, and having access to it at Hillsdale opens up a lot of opportunities.

“It gives you access to a lot of foreign films that you would otherwise not get,” Cieply said. “It gives students the opportunity to explore stuff, and a lot of language depart-

ments use film.”

Independently of Kanopy, students have access to video streaming services such as Films on Demand which features hundreds of documentaries and educational videos, Ambrose Videos which features many educational videos, including more than 30 BBC performances of Shakespeare plays, and Digital Theatre which has more than 900 performances of plays.

These services can be found by searching their names in the database search on the Mossey Library website.

Library offers trial subscription to Kanopy film streaming service By | Joel Meng Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College students can now access a collection of more than 30,000 movies on the video-streaming service Kanopy. The collection includes a wide variety of content including lectures from The Great Courses, Academy Award-winning movies like “Moonlight” or “Amy,” and many classic films and documentaries from across the decades The college is testing the

Capstone from A1 ment’s involvement in the capstone course will continue throughout this semester and the summer so that the capstone will be fully prepared for next semester, Moreno said.

“The deans and department chairs are working on the individual department plans this semester,” Smith said. “Individual departments will plan the departmental side of the course for their majors and vet the plans with their dean before the class launches in the fall.”

service with a trial which grants Hillsdale students access until Feb. 28, so interested students should check out the service before the trial expires.

LeAnne Rumler, technical services at librarian at Mossey Library, discovered the service last year at the Charleston Library Conference. After a previous library video-streaming service, FilmStruck, went out of business in October 2018, Rumler wanted to find another service with access to a quality suite of films.

“Kanopy has the Criterion In regard to faculty concerns about the logistics of the course and having enough professors to teach the departmental lectures — especially for larger departments — Moreno said the hope is the one-credit structure will take away some of the burden.

“For most of departments I’ve talked to in my division, we have enough people who are interested in doing it,” he said. “We will have an adequate number of sections for the students.”

Several students, who are technically members of the Class of 2020 but are grad-

Collection,” Rumler said. “The video-streaming company that we used to have that had Criterion went out of business.”

The Criterion collection has hundreds of high-quality films which includes “Seven Samurai,” “Miss Julie,” and “Under the Volcano.”

Besides Criterion, Kanopy has access to A24 Studio’s movie collection. The collection, which includes Academy Award winning films, also includes such films as “Swiss Army Man” with Daniel Radcliffe or “Room” with Brie uating early, are currently taking a prototype version of the course, according to Moreno. The provost’s office is working with faculty to help these students since the official launch is in the fall, Smith said.

“They just got started.

They will have a common reading instead of the presidential lectures,” Moreno said.

Arnn said he hopes his lectures and each department’s lectures will “enrich, elevate, and instruct each other.”

“We have a lot of work to do,” he said.

Larson and Jacob Tremblay.

“It seems like they’re a lot of movies you would maybe need to see for a class,” sophomore Caleb Lambrecht said. “I think it could serve a lot of great educational and simultaneously entertaining purposes.”

Hillsdale College’s streaming services come at a time when many students are eschewing physical copies of media.

“In general, students want the ease and convenience of streaming video rather than coming from the library,

Ivywood from A1

has already been received favorably by northwest Wayne County. Horning’s team hasn’t started advertising the school yet, but more than 130 parents have expressed interest in enrollment.

“That was just by word of mouth,” Horning said. “It just goes to show that we are creating a school for a specific need in our community.”

Central Michigan University granted Ivywood its charter for the 2019-20 school year in December,

which means Ivywood will operate outside of a traditional public school district while still remaining open to public enrollment. The school was authorized to open with 336 students, and Musgrave believed they will fill those spots easily.

“Parents want this backto-the-basics model of education,” Musgrave said, “One that encourages virtues like self-government, respect, and excellence.”

Horning said Ivywood’s next step is staff selection and training. Ivywood’s teacher-led classrooms will

use the “Socratic method,” relying on Hillsdale’s educational philosophy to engage students. Hillsdale students looking to teach after college should apply to Ivywood, Horning said, especially if they want to work in an environment in which “students want and love to learn.”

“If you want a life-changing career, go be a teacher,” Horning said. “Because teachers make an impact every day. Watching that transformation is a rare, satisfying thing worth pursuing.”

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Artificial intelligence threatens human relationships

a screen, but a walking talking

By | Shadrach Strehle person tailor-made to your Special to the Collegian physical specifications, with Imagine if genuine and fulfilling love was only a matter of money. Something without the messiness and risk of rejection that comes from real-life relationships.

Something that took only a few hundred dollars and a functioning internet connection to reach.

Last month, experts in the field of artificial intelligence visited Hillsdale’s campus for the Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar and argued for their vision of the artificial intelligence revolution. Topics ranged from the military to self-driving cars, in a field with near limitless possibilities. One topic, however, received almost no attention: sex.

It’s time we had a talk.

It might be awkward and uncomfortable to think about, but the future of sex and artificial intelligence has the potential to ruin human relationships. If we don’t do something about it soon, a new sexual revolution will change human love into a dangerous and bastardized parody.

As chronicled in “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?” a cover story in The Atlantic by Kate Julian, both men and women are opting out of romantic relationships.

The reasons range from pornography addiction to an increasing fear of sexual abuse, but fundamentally stem from a simple reality: the complexity of human love. Men are deciding at an alarming rate that the unexpected demands of a real-life relationship pale in comparison to the instant gratification of the virtual libido. In addition, both men and women value their careers over traditional relationships.

How can we afford to pursue romance when the job market demands a reinvention every six months?

Love is not only emotional and messy, it gets in the way of our goals. According to Julian, about 60 percent of adults under age 35 now live without a spouse or a partner and a third of adults in this demographic live with their parents.

Holding back these trends is the only thing the digital world cannot overcome: loneliness. There is still a tangible difference between a screen and another human person, a difference that even the most mentally fried porn-addict in the world can feel. Almost everyone eventually reaches the point where they decide between fully embracing a troglodyte lifestyle and risking rejection by attempting to go on an old-fashioned date.

Sadly, that decision is becoming a lot easier, and not in a good way.

What if that screen wasn’t

the ability to react to your every mood with perfect understanding — the ultimate constructed partner, who possessed every faculty of humanity except its inherent imperfection.

Movies like the depressing “Ex Machina” and the underrated “Blade Runner: 2049” have shown us the potential for fully functioning AI partners, but the reality is surprisingly close. Most futurists predict that the “singularity,” the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence, will arrive in 2040. Machine learning is already allowing AI to synthesize surroundings and create robust responses to diverse situations, and the technology is improving by the day. Realbotix, a company based in California, is already testing and accepting preorders for a robot using primitive AI made explicitly for sex.

The robots are still prohibitively expensive, costing upwards of $10,000 for basic options, making them outside of the average person’s reach.

Loneliness is only growing.

According to a survey by the health company Cigna, Generation Z is statistically the loneliest generation in American history. They interact with their peers at record lows and exhibit depressive symptoms at record highs. Everything hinges on this fundamental human emotion. If the average person cannot find fulfillment in total romantic and sexual isolation, we will continue to seek out human relationships. The second an easier option presents itself, we will take it.

The relationship between sex and AI represents an existential threat — a threat that could spell the end of human interaction as we know it. Not only will it reinforce destructive views towards women by setting impossible standards, it holds the potential to combine with recent advancements in the field of in vitro fertilization and remove the need for human pairing.

Futurologist Ian Pearson predicts that by 2050, the number of human relationships with robots will surpass those between humans.

In the meantime, we need to fight. It might seem strange or uncomfortable to discuss something as outlandish as sexual relationships with robots, but it’s coming sooner rather than later. Start having this conversation before it’s too late, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes us.

As the tech improves and the prices drop, many young people will give in to the siren call of the Realbotix slogan: “Be the first to never be lonely again.”

Shadrach Strehle is a senior studying History and Journalism.

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Learn how to say “no.”

For the first event of Career Services’ Senior Series, 51 students said they would be there.

Only 14 showed up.

Even with the guarantee of discounted drinks and a guest lecturer, nearly 40 students simply did not come, after RSVPing that they would, without explanation or warning, according to Student Affair Mentor Jenna Biggs, who organized the event.

Unfortunately, students

bailing on their commitments is not unprecedented. Days fill up and schedules get crowded, forcing students to shuffle priorities and sometimes skip things they planned to commit to.

Hillsdale is full of ambitious, involved students who want to do it all. Saying “yes” is the easy thing to do, but it’s not always the right thing. There is value in learning to decline an offer.

The hectic, stressful college

life is not an excuse to drop responsibilities. Pledging to do something and then failing to follow through is worse than simply declining in the first place.

If working a job is more valuable than running a club, don’t take a leadership position. If writing for a campus publication is more important than attending an event, don’t reserve a seat. If playing intramural sports is a better use of time than joining a

Greek house, don’t sign up for recruitment.

Personal responsibility is not just about balancing a schedule; it’s about setting it up for success right from the getgo. College is a time to practice personal responsibility, and properly managing a schedule is part of that. Think carefully before taking on extra tasks, because an important part of growth is learning to commit, but not overextend.

Office Hours Pilgrimage to the U.S.: Moving to America from communist Yugoslavia p.m. for one third of the city By | Ivan Pongracic Professor of Economics every day. My family lived February 19th will mark the 35th anniversary of my family’s arrival to the U.S. I was 14-years-old and have vivid memories of that day.

Growing up in former Yugoslavia, I had been raised to love America and the ideals for which it stood. My dad often took me to see American movies, in particular Westerns — his favorites due to often celebrating self-reliance and rugged individualism that he associated with American ideals.

I also loved American (and British) rock music, which seemed to me an expression of rebellion and personal freedom.

I started learning English in the 2nd grade and was always the best in my classes (the only ones for which that was the case, I should add).

When in the summer of ’83 my dad called from the U.S. to tell my mom and I that shortly after meeting Professor Russell Kirk, a well-known author and conservative political philosopher, he had invited my dad to come study with him, and that we would be moving to America, I was thrilled!

That fall and winter were highly memorable for multiple reasons. After the death of Yugoslavia’s Communist dictator Tito in ’80, the Yugoslav socialist economy had begun its slow collapse, accelerated by the hosting of the Winter Olympics in February of ’84 in Sarajevo. In order to be able to power the Olympics, the Yugoslav government started rationing electricity all around the country for months in advance. In my hometown of Zagreb, the second largest city in Yugoslavia, that meant blackouts from 2 p.m. to 10

in an apartment on the 20th floor, and having to walk up all that way, often carrying my bicycle, probably made me hate socialism more than anything else. At the same time there was an increasing number of shortages of everyday items. I was sent to stand in line for hours for milk, detergent, and other household staples. Despite all this, I have great memories of this time since I had a group of close school friends with whom I shared many interests (music, chess) and we were just old enough to turn the blackouts into opportunities for exploration and adventure.

In the months leading to our move, my family had to liquidate most of our belongings, so bit by bit our apartment became bare. At the end I was sleeping on a mattress on the floor, with only the very few things that I planned to take with me remaining in my room.

When the big day finally came, we made our way to the airport early on that cold and overcast morning, brightened by my group of friends meeting me at the airport to send me off. I was sad to bid them goodbye, but very excited to make the trip, my first, to the U.S. We flew first to Frankfurt, Germany, and from there to New York City, and then to Detroit. One of the legs of this trip had the U.S. Olympic hockey team returning from Sarajevo, the “Miracle on Ice” team that beat the Soviets in the ‘80 winter Olympics!

(Alas, they did not do nearly as well in the ’84 Olympics.)

They all wore matching lightbrown suede and fur jackets and cowboy hats, and were quite impressive. By the time we arrived to Detroit it was

dark and fairly late. We were met by a friend of Kirk’s who was sent to assist us, expecting we would stay the night at a nearby hotel, but my parents decided that it would be easier to simply make the trip to Kirk’s ancestral home in Mecosta, MI (a three hour drive) right away. They rented a big station wagon with typical ‘70s/early-‘80s fake wood side paneling and stuck all our earthly belongings in it — there was barely enough space on the back seat for me to squeeze in!

It wasn’t long before the drive turned more eventful than we had expected: my dad, only 40-years-old at the time, came down with heart palpitations, gradually increasing in severity. We had to pull over several times for him to catch his breath and attempt to calm down. My parents feared that he was experiencing a heart attack — but what cruel fate would have him finally see his childhood dream – moving to America! – come true, only to strike him down mere hours later? My mom was increasingly frightened at this point since her ability to speak English was very limited and this was a foreign country, after all. They eventually concluded that his state was due to his considerable intake of coffee served on our flights, a drink he did not otherwise consume.

The excessive caffeine consumption had gotten the better of him. The entire episode had delayed us by a few hours and left my parents exhausted.

We had to pull into an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere so we could get some sleep, only to be woken up by a policeman who must have found the entire scene quite remarkable — a family of three sleeping in a station wagon filled to the brim with

stuff on a cold February night.

After my dad explained what was going on, the policeman kindly provided directions to a nearby motel where we finally brought this long and stressful day to an end.

We woke up to radiant sunshine the next morning and got on our way. Hillsdale College students know how desolate and stark the Michigan countryside is in February, so despite the sunny weather, things looked a bit grim. Mecosta is a very small town, so at one point my dad stopped to go into a restaurant to ask if that was it. My mom had been very quiet for most of the morning; in contrast, my dad’s mood was ebullient — he was feeling much better than the night before, and was finally in the U.S. When he stepped back in the car he happily proclaimed, “This is Remus — Mecosta is another five miles ahead — and it’s even smaller!” My mom promptly burst into tears.

This was not exactly what she expected when she contemplated a move to America.

Once in Mecosta we were greeted by Kirk’s irrepressible wife Annette, which is a whole story unto itself. Mecosta was indeed a tiny, humble place, but it became our home for the next two and a half years.

I was in high school two days later despite leaving Yugoslavia as an eighth-grader. Our American adventure was off to quite a start.

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Time, talent, and treasure: Students need to tithe blood, By | Clara Fishlock Special to the Collegian leading If you’ve ever gone to a church in Hillsdale, you know the drill. When the collection is taken up, the usher glances down the row of college students sitting side by side, diligently studying their hands and avoiding eye contact. After a quick look, he probably passes on to the next row without even wasting the time to pass the basket.

“Shoot I forgot to bring cash,” the excuse goes. “Also I have no money and I’m going to Checker Records after this.”

We’ve all done it. But students need to support the community churches that we profit from so much.

This week, as the usher got closer to my row, I looked down at what I was wearing and quickly added up how much I had spent on my clothes. I’d like to think of myself as pretty frugal, but even so I was shocked at the amount I came up with, and ashamed at how many times I’ve justified my Sunday morning decision to leave my wallet safely at home. When the moment comes to give money away instead of spending it on myself, I suddenly become a strict and responsible budgeter.

Most of us give time and talent to a good cause, whether that’s volunteering, donating

a Bible study, or any number of other ways students serve.

These are worthy and necessary, and for some people truly the best or only way they can give back. But I think many students would admit that midnight McDonHillsdale students should prioritizegiving back to their local churces, Clara Fishlock ald’s runs writes. | Wikimedia often take it comes to spending money? maybe your church would even priority over If it is true that where we give get a Venmo. Skip the latte and giving a couple of dollars to the our treasure is a reflection of give a few dollars to a church or church. a charity. I doubt anyone will In Matthew 6:21, Christ tells our hearts, we shouldn’t let the collection basket pass us by, end up homeless on the street us, “For where your treasure is, Sunday after Sunday. because of it. there your heart will be also.”

We’re poor but not that poor.

We learn to prioritize very well It’s not really that hard to get Clara Fishlock is a senior at Hillsdale when it comes to cash back at Kroger so you have studying History and French. time and activities, but do we it on Sunday morning. Hey, have ordered priorities when

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Conservatives: Don’t dump Trump in the GOP primary given circumstance perceive By | Ross Hatley Special to the Collegian virtuous ends and act so as to best attain them. If one aims to see America well-govIn the world of op-eds and erned, domestic liberty and talking heads a campaign is constitutionalism respected, underway to unseat President and American power judiDonald Trump in the Repubciously used abroad, then prulican primary. In December, dence dictates that a primary the New Yorker put forward challenge to Trump is patent former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., political folly. who retired with a negative Turning to the particulars, approval rating in his own it is politically impossible state, or Michael Bloomberg, to successfully defeat Presiif he switched parties again dent Trump in a Republican after re-registering as a Demo- primary. While presidential crat last October. The Washapproval polls are common ington Post, an unusual coun- and are breathlessly reportselor for Republican primary ed, careful examination of voters, shopped Massachusetts the most recent and targeted Governor Larry Hogan and data is revealing. On January former Ohio Governor John 27th a Monmouth poll found Kasich as potential insurgent that “43 percent of registered leaders.

Republicans would like to For their part, principled see [Trump] face a primary conservatives ought to oppose challenge.” However, when a primary challenge to PresiMonmouth asked the same dent Trump. From a prudenRepublicans if they would tial view of politics, concerned support names like Sen. Ted with both the universals and Cruz, R-Texas, or Kasich in a the particulars, we may in any primary bid, Trump won by

Past wrongs should be met with grace and forgiveness By | Erik Halvorson Columnist “Was he the one in the blackface or the Klan outfit?”

Incredibly, that was a serious question discussed on major news outlets just last week.

An old yearbook picture of Virginia’s Democratic governor Ralph Northam dressed in blackface, standing next to another man in Ku Klux Klan garb, surfaced last week, resulting in condemnations and calls for Northam’s resignation from both sides of the aisle.

Americans were once again confronted with the question: What role should a person’s past mistakes play in regard to his current life?

This phenomenon is not new, however. Just a few months ago the country debated the very same thing during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, during which he was accused of sexual assault by a woman he went to high school with.

Should the gaffs of young adults hang over them decades later?

The short answer is no.

Certainly, there are some things that should discredit a person from public life. But these transgressions are not tantamount to poor decisions attributable to immaturity. If our standard leaves no room for immaturity, there would be no one left to serve in public office. The norm of forgiveness, rather, should and must become common. As a society, we must be willing to give grace to those who deserve it. It is possible and necessary to identify the wrongdoings of the past while accepting the apologies of people in the present.

Unfortunately, we live in a culture of outrage. The primary weapons against political opposition now extend into the land of deep explorations of years-old social media posts and jokes made in poor taste decades prior. We are ready to publicly exile anyone who dared to disrupt the current norms of acceptable behavior. The silver bullet for a politician with whom we disagree is nothing more than an old yearbook photo or a poorly-worded tweet.

Our culture contains an inconsistency when it comes

to the treatment of past transgressions. People who have rejected vile ideologies such as white nationalism or neo-Nazism are welcomed back into our liberal fold with open arms, and rightly so. But when records of bad decisions find their way into the spotlight, it is seemingly impossible to keep the pitchfork-wielding blue checkmarks at bay. It should be apparent that the full-fledged acceptance of an evil ideology is much worse than an action done in poor taste, but society’s reaction would suggest the opposite.

Why does this discrepancy exist?

The human experience is one of growth.

While every human contains a telos or ultimate end, we cannot be expected to have it all figured out by young adulthood.

Human nature, or “natura,” is a process of becoming, according to Aristotle, a process of becoming what we were meant to be: complete human beings.

Our lives are a continual process aimed towards the cultivation of virtue and moral excellence. An integral part of this process is the making of mistakes and gentle correction by those who know better. Mistakes shouldn’t be celebrated, but they are a natural part of the human experience and should be treated as such.

Without a doubt, a mea culpa should be required from public servants whose pasts are checkered. But more importantly, we should accept their apologies, given they show evidence of growth. For Governor Northam, there is a chasmic difference between wearing blackface today and doing so thirty years ago.

Neither are acceptable but one reveals, at the very least, racial insensitivity, and the other reveals the inevitable blunders of youth. In the end, a culture of forgiveness and correction will always be superior to one of outrage and condemnation.

We cannot become relativist in regards to past mistakes, but we mustn’t be merciless either.

“Mistakes shouldn’t be celebrated, but they are a natural part of the human experience and should be treated as such.”

Erik Halvorson is a senior studying Economics.

hefty margins — even among the Republicans who preferred a primary challenge!

Many Republicans may not be entirely satisfied with President Trump, but the majority of even the most reticent Republican voters prefer him to the “viable” alternative candidates. Practically speaking, a primary against Trump would amount only to a self-inflicted wound, hurting Republican messaging and fundraising in a general election. This may explain why HarrisX polling found 91 percent of Democrats support a Republican primary challenge.

Moreover, it is impossible to win a general election with anyone but President Trump.

If we swap horses now, we may end up with a donkey.

Like it or not, American politics has changed. The margin of victory against the Clinton machine in 2016 was slim and largely carried by Trump’s appeal to working-class Americans — a group Presi-

dent Trump carried into the Republican Party. Hillsdale conservatives did not win the election for Trump. And yet, President Trump listens to conservatives and staffs his administration with them to a great extent — much to his, and the nation’s, benefit.

Some conservatives may support a primary challenge to obtain a more “pure” candidate. In reality, any primary challenge to Trump will come from the center. As Kasich’s advisors have no doubt informed him, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has already staked out the centrist position in the general election amid withering criticism from the left. And given the lack of applause for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a conservative is unlikely to find a preferable candidate among this crowd. In the end, conservatives cannot allow the idea of the perfect to become an enemy of the good. Especially if a “perfect” candidate isn’t

among the options.

None of the preceding observations are person-worship, an all too common accusation — even in this paper — against many who support the President. Conservatives recognize that human beings are fallen. No reasonable participant in politics supports a campaign expecting a messiah. The same goes for governance. Pundits frequently comment that Hillary Clinton is no longer on the ballot, but now the conservative beholds even more frightening alternatives. Literal infanticide and 90 percent tax rates are entering the political mainstream with shocking rapidity.

On the other hand, Trump is no longer unknown, as he was in 2016. Of course mixed, Trump’s track record has been pro-life, pro-business, prorule of law, and pro-America.

That’s a good look for our president.

Churchill rejoined the Conservative Party when his

former party allowed Labour to form a government and usher the specter of socialism into Great Britain. While he still had tremendous disagreements with the Conservatives, he asserted that “the only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.” Conservatism has not dumped its principles for a person over the last two years. America has President Trump for four or, I hope, eight years, but it is incumbent on each of us, individually and through institutions such as the college, to ensure that its principles will be both preserved and aired in the public square for years to come.

Ross Hatley is a Churchill Fellow and a senior studying Politics.

The library is a place to study By | Garrison E. Grisedale something wrong? Was someone injured, or having Columnist a heart attack? It turned out to be a group of students I walked in and heard a crowded around a table havroar. People jumped to their ing a grand old time. feet, hands thrown in the My friend threw on air, shouting and screechhis Bose noise-cancelling ing. I’m not talking about a headphones — a $200 piece game-winning field goal at of technological excellence Muddy Waters Stadium, or — and started blaring music. the Dawn Tibbetts Potter But not even Tchaikovsky Arena erupting when a could cover up the ruckus.

Charger hits a three-pointer.

About 30 minutes later, he Unfortunately, I’m talking looked up and said, “This about a typical day in the debate is the worst.” And Mossey library. he was right: The freshmen For some, Hillsdale’s had begun debating liberlibrary is a hangout spot, a tarianism vs. conservatism, place to meet friends and goof around for the evening. treating the library as their stage and its patrons as their Hillsdale’s library culture audience. There are few must change: The library things worse than listening should be a place to study. to first-semester freshmen One night during finals debate political philosophy. week last semester, a friend To my right sat another and I hit the library to study table of library groupies. after dinner. We sat down, One whipped a massive pulled out our books, and knife out of his pocket and heard an explosion of noise slapped it down on the table. from across the room. Was “I carry this bad boy with me

at all times,” he proclaimed.

Across the room, one of my friends sat at a table trying to study. She had headphones on, but also clasped her hands tightly against her ears in a futile attempt to drown out the noise. I texted her later that night about our shared misery. “I had to leave,” she replied. “It was just too loud.”

In a way, it’s confusing: Hillsdale College boasts a beautiful campus with a bustling student union, numerous dorms and dorm lobbies, off-campus houses and easily accessible classrooms, all of which are perfectly appropriate spots to spend time with friends. But even with these great alternatives available, some students — primarily freshmen, but not exclusively — still treat the library like Simpson’s lobby or AJ’s Cafe.

Sometimes studying ought to be social. Working through study guides as a group or running through

flashcards is a great way to learn. Hushed discussions which remain conscientious of others are just part of the nature of the first floor, and rightfully so. But that’s different from freshmen guys competing to impress the girls at their table, each of them forcing the next performer to raise the volume, while the girls giggle and egg them on.

This is by no means a unique phenomenon. My friends seem to share my complaint. “The library is unbearable” one friend told me at lunch. “I can’t even go there to study anymore,” said another.

“Library” comes from the Latin word “librarius.” It means “relating to books.” As for the screams and shouts, Hillsdale students ought to save those for the basketball games.

Garrison E. Grisedale is a senior studying Politics.

Letter: Pro-lifers must see the victims of abortion Dear Editor, In Jan. 24’s Collegian, Mr. Nolan Ryan criticized Created Equal, the organization I work for, for showing the victims of abortion at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The article was measured and researched, but because Mr. Ryan specifically named Created Equal, which has written much on the topic of victim imagery, I thought it necessary to offer a response to Ryan’s specific objections. First, I need to offer a disclaimer.

We live in an age where it’s considered rude to tell people they are wrong or offer any kind of criticism, regardless of whether it’s constructive. Created Equal does not believe this, and we appreciate constructive criticism wherever it is found.

Because of this belief, I’ll be up front and say Mr. Ryan is certainly wrong. Ryan presented three arguments.

First, Mr. Ryan said there are few pro-choice people at the March for Life.

But Mr. Ryan underestimates the number of marchers that aren’t solidly pro-life or are “pro-life” with exceptions. Many college and high school students travel to Washington D.C. because, well, it’s a trip to the nation’s capital with their friends.

We have seen this time and time again, and we have also heard many testimonies of changed minds from these individuals.

It’s also important to keep in mind that thousands of powerful, pro-abortion individuals live in D.C., and sadly, they are in charge of deciding whether the preborn live or die. We know they see us too.

Almost every pro-life leader I can think of became an activist because of the images. We attend the march with images of abortion victims to get pro-life people to take abortion seriously, and we have seen that happen

in the seven years we have marched in D.C.. Seeing the victims inspires bold action.

The second claim Mr. Ryan makes is that parents should decide when and where their children find out about abortion.

Kids are often taught about abortion apart from their parents’ knowledge or permission, whether that be through school, media, or friends. In some states, they’re even allowed to get an abortion Created Equal shows pictures of the victims of abortion at the annual March without their parents’ consent. for Life. Sam Riley | Courtesy meant by “images of sex traf- testify — not with words at This means pro-lifers need least. This is the only way to to be proactive in addressing ficking.” If by this the author meant an image of a sexual represent the injustice done abortion before the culture act involving a trafficking to them, the cruel taking of sets the terms for when and victim, I would agree with innocent lives. These are the how we can address it, or behim.

Such images would be last photos of forgotten chilfore the culture addresses it obscene and inappropriate. dren set adrift into eternity without giving us the chance But abortion victim images by parents who were supto speak first. are not comparable.

They are posed to protect them.

Most important, parents not images of sex crimes and Yes, these images are hard who attend the March for they are not obscene. to look at. But seeing the Life with children in tow But if Mr. Ryan meant victims of abortion shouldn’t made the conscious decision that we would not show change, we should change to bring young minds to an images of the aftermath of by seeing them. A culture anti-abortion march. The sex trafficking, like a womthat doesn’t believe unborn choice to inform their child an’s beaten face or bruised children are fully human about abortion was already limbs, I would disagree. In deserves to see the abhorrent made, and it doesn’t seem fact, I think some of the most abuse they endured. God is reasonable to expect that powerful responses to sex greatly grieved at the plight information regarding that trafficking have been public of the murdered unborn. We injustice will not be present. visual representation.

Showmust be as well. And to adLastly, Mr. Ryan argues ing such images, like images equately grasp the injustice that showing images of aborof the abandoned preborn, and grieve for it, we must see tions is tantamount to showre-humanizes the victims. the victims. ing images of sex trafficking, There may be good which any sane human being reasons for opposing victim would rightfully oppose.

Sam Riley is the content This is an inherently difficult images at the March for Life, but I haven’t heard manager and field captain for claim to address because them.

Preborn children can’t Created Equal. it’s not clear what Mr. Ryan

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CAPA hosts charity ball, bringing awareness to local human trafficking

By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor

Hillsdale County is not spared when it comes to the issue of human trafficking.

Jeremy Norwood, associate professor of sociology at Spring Arbor University, explained the reality of human trafficking in the local area to more than 300 people attending a children’s charity ball held by Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness on Saturday at Hillsdale College’s Searle Center.

“One of the things we need to understand first and foremost about human trafficking, is that it does happen in our communities,” Norwood said in his keynote address.

Since encountering human trafficking while on a trip to Cambodia when a gentleman offered to sell a young girl to him for sex, Norwood has directed much of his academic research toward the issue of human trafficking in the local area.

“What we found, as we’ve begun to do research, is that this does happen in our communities,” Norwood said. “It happens in our rural areas, it happens in suburban areas in Michigan, and in urban areas, too.”

And it’s not just minors who experience sex trafficking, Norwood said.

“Your idea of a trafficking victim, is a minor sex trafficking victim, and there are victims of minor sex trafficking in Hillsdale County, in Jackson County, and in Michigan,” Norwood said. “However, as we look at this dynamic of minor sex trafficking victims, often times we don’t realize that there are also victims of human trafficking who are not minors.”

Norwood leads trainings in various universities and communities around Michigan, where he invites survivors to come and tell their stories. He

said that many times, victims are first trafficked as adults.

“This idea that once someone reaches a legal age, they can decide certain things for themselves, sort of betrays this idea of what force, fraud, and coercion really is,” Norwood said. “In cases of force, individuals are often being beaten, they are being violently, sexually assaulted or raped.”

CAPA hosts a charity ball each year in order to raise money for awareness and prevention efforts. This year the organization raised around $25,000, which will go straight into the various programs that CAPA holds throughout the year. All of CAPA’s programs seek to prevent child abuse in all its forms, from safe sleep programs that work to educate child caregivers on

“When we can prevent those adverse childhood experiences, like the work you’re doing at CAPA, we know down the road we will have less substance abuse, we will have less sick people, we will have a wealthier society, a better educated society, and a thriving society,” Schuster-Wachsberger said. “That is what CAPA is about, that’s what CTF is about, and so your generosity helps to support these programs.”

This was the first year that the ball was held at the Searle Center. Stiverson said that she heard many people say that they really liked the venue and the charity games, which, in keeping with the casino royale theme, were wine and gift card roulette along with other raffle and auction items.

Each year, the ball is held in memory of Trey Bowman, who died as an infant due to what is believed to be shaken baby syndrome.

Dan Bowman, Trey Bowman’s father, addressed the ball attendees with gratitude for their determination to end child abuse.

“I love to get up here every year and see us grow a little bit,” Dan Bowman said. “And I love it because I get to see all of you folks here. We’re here because we’re here for a great cause. We’re also here because you give me the opportunity to say my son’s name again.”

Dan Bowman said each year he is so grateful for for the opportunity to honor his son in this way.

“Not only are you doing a great thing for the community, but I love that something good came out of his passing, and hopefully it’s that we can help one little one maybe not suffer some sort of abuse because you came and sat here tonight, and that’s all that we ask for,” Dan Bowman said.

“One of the things we need to understand first and foremost about human trafficking, is that it does happen in our communities,” Norwood said. the effects of sudden infant death syndrome, to its Baby Think It Over program, which helps teens understand the commitment of parenthood.

Megan Stiverson, who sits on the CAPA Board and was the chair for the charity ball, said that CAPA is held accountable to the state of Michigan through the Children’s Trust Fund.

Emily Schuster-Wachsberger, local council coordinator for Children’s Trust Fund of Michigan, works with CAPA by assisting it with its program efforts.

Schuster-Wachsberger delivered opening remarks at the ball, where she said that today’s science and research shows that when children don’t grow up in thriving environments they tend to see the effects down the road in adulthood.

M-99 will get resurfaced this summer. Collegian | Josephine von Dohlen

MDOT to resurface M-99 By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter M-99 will undergo resurfacing this summer funded

by Michigan’s Department of Transportation Jackson Transportation Service Center.

Maintained by MDOT, M-99 is located in the lower peninsula along the border of Ohio, running through Hillsdale County.

Jason Pittman, cost and scheduling engineer for MDOT Jackson TSC, said this project involves three sections of the highway. The first section includes old M-99, which runs north of Beck Road to South Lake Wilson Road. The second portion starts from Steinberg Road and continues south to the southern Steamburg Road intersection. And the third part is north of the Fayette Street M-99 intersection to north of the Arch Avenue M-99 intersection.

The first two sections are part of the Non-Freeway Resurfacing program, while the third section is under MDOT Jackson TSC’s annual maintenance program. All of them are state funded, Pittman said.

“No taxes were raised to pay for them; rather, it’s money that’s already in the program,” Pittman said. “It did come from tax money, but

Hillsdale Brewing Company to offer breakfast on Saturdays By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor Starting Saturday, Hillsdale Brewing Company will serve breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m hoping to add a new spot to the breakfast scene in Hillsdale.

In light of the Palace’s recent closing, manager Felicia Finch said Hillsdale Brewing Company is hoping to bring in what the community needs by offering breakfast on Saturdays. Finch said she hopes college students and community members alike can sit down and talk while enjoying a good meal.

“That’s what breakfast is for,” Finch said.

Senior Cameron Maxwell attends Hillsdale Brewing Company regularly for lunch and dinner and said he was ecstatic when he found they will be serving breakfast.

“I love any excuse to go there,” Maxwell said.

Maxwell said his favorite aspect of Hillsdale Brewing Company is the friendliness of the staff.

“I mean it’s always just a fun place to be,” Maxwell said.

“Having breakfast available is gonna be great.”

Waitress Darcie Miller will be working Saturday mornings and said she is looking forward to meeting new people.

“It’s going to bring in a whole different crowd in the mornings,” Miller said.

“There’s going to be people that I know from the evening shift, but then it’s going to be a whole new avenue.”

The current breakfast menu features: Build Your Own Omelet, French Toast, HBC Breakfast (two scrambled eggs, one meat, toast, and American fries), Biscuits and Gravy, and a Breakfast Sandwich. Finch said the Biscuits and Gravy will be made from scratch, and the American fries will be hand-cut.

“We’re kind of playing off

in Michigan.

“We try to choose local as often as we can,” Finch said.

“Obviously, this isn’t the time of year where you can go to the farmers market or grow your own, but we do try to use as fresh of produce as we can.”

Miller said she thinks customers will be most surprised by the hand-cut American fries.

“That’s definitely something that we haven’t done,” Miller said. “That’ll be nice to have.”

“We don’t have a whole lot of other breakfast joints,” Miller said. “I think people should stop out and try it, try something different.” of things we currently have, just to start,” Finch said.

Maxwell said he is excited to try the Build Your Own Omelet because of the ingredients.

“They always have very high quality meats, and everything they do is high quality,” Maxwell said. “I’m sure they’ll be making a mean omelet.”

Finch said Hillsdale Brewing Company gets its bacon and sausage from Grand Rapids and uses bread made

She also said she’s looking forward to seeing how the French toast turns out.

“We always go over the top with a lot of our stuff,” Miller said. “It’s gonna be cool to see how Grant, the cook, dolls it up for us.”

The menu also features cold cereal with fresh fruit and a yogurt parfait.

“For the parfait, I’ll do vanilla yogurt, fresh fruit, and granola,” Finch said. “It kinda depends on what fruit looks

good, especially this time of year.”

In addition to breakfast food, Hillsdale Brewing Company will offer coffee, hot tea, and hot cocoa. Hillsdale Brewing Company uses Paramount Coffee out of Lansing which is single origin, certified organic, and certified Fair Trade.

Finch also said if the first couple of weeks go well, then Hillsdale Brewing Company will expand the menu and consider extending its hours.

“We just wanted to start somewhere,” Finch said. “If breakfast does great on Saturdays, we’re not opposed to Sundays, but right now it’s just been a family day.”

If Hillsdale Brewing Company were to expand its breakfast menu, Maxwell said he hopes to see pancakes, waffles, and breakfast skillets offered.

“I think it would be great if they did a breakfast skillet and just get a bunch of eggs, potatoes, different meats, peppers, tomatoes, and cheese on top,” Maxwell said. “Bingo, bango, bongo. That’d be great.”

Miller said she thinks breakfast at Hillsdale Brewing Company will serve as a great asset for the community.

“We don’t have a whole lot of other breakfast joints,” Miller said. “I think people should stop out and try it, try something different.”

the job itself didn’t require raising the taxes.”

Jake Hammel, director of public services for the City of Hillsdale, said this project is entirely under MDOT Jackson TSC, not Hillsdale.

“I hounded them about this and they finally took the deal,” Hammel said. “It’s the state’s road, not the city’s. MDOT is going to fix it, they’ll source the manager and fund the project.”

Hammel said it’s been 20 years since M-99 was resurfaced. After this project, he expects the road to last around six to eight years, possibly even 10 if it’s well maintained.

A major issue for this highway is its rough surface from expansion, contracting, and heaving, Hammel said.

This problem might result in some parts of the highway requiring more than two inches of asphalt. But for now, Hammel said maintenance will continue keeping the road as drivable as possible until it’s reconstructed, which might happen within the next 10 to 15 years.

“This is surface maintenance, not reconstruction,” Hammel said. “I just hope it’ll be more drivable from the resurfacing until reconstruction.”

For now, these are just short-term fixes. They are looking at long-term solutions, but the funding for those projects haven’t been determined yet, Pittman said.

“Right now, we have a five year program, but currently the rehab and reconstruction projects aren’t in it,” Pittman said. “But maintenance will continue after these roads are resurfaced.”

Hammel said he hopes research is being done to come up with new methods for longer lasting roads.

“This isn’t my road, but I’m happy that they’re going to make it more drivable and useable for the near future,” Hammel said. “Longterm, I think new methods should be something that they need to consider.”

Driving on this highway often, sophomore Claire Lupini said she is looking forward to the smoother rides this resurfacing will bring in the near future.

“It’s exciting that I won’t have to worry about my car breaking, the ice, and the pot holes,” Lupini said. “It’ll be frustrating for the people living nearby during construction, but it’ll be nicer and safer to drive on.”

Bon Appétit to teach food literacy class By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor Students from Hillsdale Academy will have the opportunity to participate in a food literacy program developed

by Bon Appétit Management Company, Hillsdale College’s food service provider.

On Feb. 20 and 22, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Bon Appétit Catering Manager Rhula Mitcheltree and Bon Appetit Manager of Food Education for Children Hannah Schmunk will lead students in hands-on lessons about healthy eating and cooking that will guide in making healthy food choices for themselves.

“We believe the program is a good tool to combat childhood obesity and related health issues,” Marketing Coordinator at Bon Appetit William Persson ’17 said.

“What we’re teaching them is that they can enjoy their food and still have it be healthy.”

Persson said Bon Appétit held its first Healthy Kids in the Bon Appétit Kitchen program last summer for students in Hillsdale Academy.

“Because it’s almost exactly

the same as the last class, we sort of revamped the course because it’s unique that we’re doing it again so quickly,” Persson said. “Based on our last class, they kids are so vibrant and really excited about learning. It’s just going to be such a joy to have them come back because it’s it’s really fun to do it.”

During the knife-safety lesson, Persson said the students will be using child-safe knives and be taught how to properly use the knife by Mitcheltree.

For the vegetable pizzas, Persson said the dough will already be prepared for the students and Mitcheltree is going to demonstrating how to make a quick marinara sauce for the base. While the pizzas are baking, Persson said the students will make rainbow fruit kabobs.

In addition to learning about healthy food, the students will have the opportunity to tour Bon Appétit’s catering kitchen in the Searle Center at Hillsdale College.

“The kids are just always so enthralled by everything,” Persson said. “They love the giant walk-in coolers.”

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Iconography class allows students to encounter saints By | Anna Timmis Collegian Reporter

with the parish and other locals interested in learning the process of iconography.

Workshops for adults are every Monday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Youth classes, open for children aged 7 and older, will begin March 1. There are

might be tedious for some, Conley said, “I’m completely blown away by how receptive youth are to it. Some have said it’s the highlight of their week.”

Kelly Cole, also a parishioner at St. Anthony’s, said in an

When Sarah Conley, who teaches weekly iconography workshops at Saint Anthony Catholic Church, was asked to join a group of women from the parish to make icons, she said she jumped at the opportunity because “I wanted to get to know people in the church.”

That was four years ago, and she had only been living in Hillsdale for a year.

What she first saw as a way to get to know the community has become a serious pursuit for Conley.

“I just became enthralled,” she said.

Since learning the basics from Laura Smith, another member at Saint Antho- An Icon of the Angel Gabriel. Courtesy| Sarah Conley ny’s, she said she has taken four workshops from experts limited places in the class, as email that her children have in iconography or color theoConley says she tries to keep greatly enjoyed taking classes ry, including Mother Olympia the youth class at 10 particifor almost two years, with her of Holy Dormition Monastery, pants.

7-year-old son just starting in an Orthodox community in The children’s class will the fall.

Rives Junction, Michigan. often take 8 to 10 weeks to “They have all benefited Now, for the last year, complete the project. Because from it as a unique form of Conley has shared her passion the process is meditative and prayer and as a way of medi-

tating on a particular name/ image of Jesus or the Blessed Mother or a particular saint,” she said. “They also have been pleased to be able to give their icons as gifts to family and friends.”

Called “writing an icon,”

“They are to be taken seriously,” Conley said. “I’m very open to anyone who is attracted to the idea if it’s something they’re interested in.”

Once a year, Saint Anthony’s also hosts a week-long iconography retreat, orga-

same icon. Conley uses acrylics during the weekly classes, allowing her to teach color theory as well. Members of the adult class pick an icon of their own choosing. She said she appreciated the freedom to mix colors with even subtle differences, which egg tempera does not allow for.

Though Conley played down her role as instructor during the adult class, saying “we’re basically an encouragement to each other,” Smith said that she was a wonderful teacher.

Conley said she would be willing to speak with anyone interested in learning more about iconography, or are interested in joining.

Her contact informaA student paints an icon in one of Sarah Conley’s iconography classes at St. Anthotion can be ny’s Catholic Church. Courtesy | Kelly Cole found on the name of the process nized by Heather Tritchka, the Saint Anthony website. reflects that creating a reliwhich will take place this “There’s a deep communal gious icon is much more than summer. Smith and Conley aspect of doing this together,” just painting a picture. Every said that, since the retreat Smith said. “You’re copying detail has symbolic meaning, teaches the traditional method original images a lot of the and the painter layers multiwith egg tempera and other time. It’s not about you — It’s ple thin pigments, with every traditional tools, it’s more ina means of prayer.” stroke a form of prayer. tense. Everyone works on the

ArtWorks accepting nominations for 2019 Artist of the Year award

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Arlan and Gudi Gilbert in art Debbi Wyse teaches 24 Frost poetry in nearly 28 By | Isabella Redjai and literature, Joan VanArsprivate students piano, and states, and visits schools to Assistant Editor dalen in dance, and Ned and works with the chamber choir recite poetry for students of Bringing Hillsdale County Debbi Wyse in literature and and college choir. Every year, various ages. together through both commusic.

Debbi Wyse also co-directs “I recite according to the munity encouragement and Ned and Debbi Wyse Opera Workshop with Melissa audience – I accept requests, involvement in the arts, Artreceived the ArtWorks ‘Artist Osmond, voice director at the but ultimately will choose Works of Hillsdale is opening of the Year’ award in 2016, college. Every other year, she what is appropriate for elethe nominations for the 2019 specifically for Debbi Wyse’s and Kristi Gautche also run a mentary students, etc.,” Ned ‘Artist of the Year’ award to involvement as a Hillsdale program with two toy pianos Wyse said. “I don’t know all of the public. Nominations can College piano teacher and called Child’s Play.

Frost’s poetry, but I do know be made by any individual within the college’s chamber In addition to her inquite a bit. I memorize his who recognizes a commuchoir, and Ned Wyse’s recitavolvement in the Hillsdale poetry while I do field work, nity member’s advocacy or tion of Robert Frost poetry.

College community, Debbi because I’m a farmer, and so involvement in the local arts.

“I knew about ArtWorks Wyse has been a harp student was Frost.”

“In the past Ned Wyse reusually ArtWorks members one specific board members memory from visnominate and vote iting one of his first on who receives the public school assemaward,” President of blies in 1984, which Artworks Connie encapsulates why he Sexton said. “We are loves to recite Frost’s very excited about poetry so much. inviting the com“I performed a munity this year and recitation in an ashope they get excitsembly, and a student ed about it, too.” came up to the teachWith this award, er and said ‘He’s not ArtWorks recan actor or anything, ognizes a special but a regular guy individual or couple who likes poetry,’” whose art influencNed Wyse said. “Art es and impacts the should be acceptable.

Hillsdale County I think that whatcommunity. ever art it is, it is an ArtWorks seeks enriching part of life. to recognize those What would life be who promote and without art? Pretty are involved in dismal, I think.” various disciplines The Wyse’s of art, whether it be received a private drawing, painting, reception with their music, theater, literguests of choice at ature, photography, the Perennial Park or dance.

Senior Center in The ArtWorks Hillsdale, where board consists of 14 hors-d’oeuvres and members, who will Ned and Debbi Wyse were awarded the Artist of the Year award in 2016. Courtesy | drinks were served, review the nomina- Debbi Wyse and they received tions made by the flowers and an award community. The from the state of recipient, according to Sexton, through a music competition since 2003, and uses this new Michigan. Winners of the will be announced in midfor high school and junior skill set within the Hillsdale ‘Artist of the Year’ award April. high students,” Debbi Wyse community through a hospice receive an honorary reception, “We want the public to said. “I didn’t really know any- ministry and visiting retirealthough the location is to be be part of the process. We thing about the award, other ment homes. announced. are trying to encourage the than the fact that I had other “I’ve played for quite a few “We both received accompublic to be aware of Hillsfriends who won the award.” funerals, and accompanied modation from the governor, dale’s vast art community Debbi Wyse has been a the Hillsdale Art Choral, but and a special tribute signed and ArtWorks,” Sexton said. part of the college’s music demainly my interest with harp from the governor and our “The council supports many partment since 1981 teaching is to play at bedside for people state representative, Eric art projects throughout the piano, and this will be her in their last days and retireLeutheuser,” Debbi Wyse said. county and provides venues 38th year working with the ment,” Debbi Wyse said. “It’s “We also received a piece to demonstrate and showcase Hillsdale College choir. really neat to see the power of art from Gudi Wittgen, a Hillsdale County artists and “I still have no idea who that music has when people Scherrenschnitt artist who musicians and numerous nominated me, and I was recovering from a stroke or creates art from scissor-cutartistic endeavors.” completely surprised,” Debbi some other condition.” ting a single piece of paper.

Some previous winners of Wyse said. “The award was As for Ned Wyse, he perThe piece is of me at a grand the ‘Artist of the Year’ award not for a specific concert or formed his first recitation of piano with a ball gown on, include Don and Jan Heckeneven performance, but rather Robert Frost poetry in May and Ned is standing beside the lively for their contribution for my continued dedication 1983 in Phillips Auditorium. piano in a tuxedo and reciting in photography and painting, to music over the years.”

Since then, he has recited poetry.”

By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor With the help of programs like Upbound at Work, disabled individuals in Michigan are finding employment at Fortune 500 companies such as Ford Motor and IBM. Upbound at Work is an employment outreach program under its umbrella non-profit the Autism Alliance of Michigan. The unemployment rate for Autistic individuals has only decreased by 1 percent from 91 percent to 90 percent, between 2016 and 2018. While the organization wasn’t tracking numbers early on, Upbound at Work has placed 144 individuals into the Michigan workforce in the last two years.

“All citizens have the right to work. No perceived obstacle, prejudice, or lack of awareness should deny any person that opportunity,” the AAMs Mission Statement says.

According to Chief Program Officer Tami Morris, Upbound at Work grew out of a free case management program. In 2014, the AAM realized that while most of their adults were interested in employment, they couldn’t find jobs.

“These individuals were highly credentialed and there’s a tendency for high IQ in Autism,” Morris said. “We just found a disconnect between the potential of the individual and the opportunities available. The autism spectrum is so broad that employers didn’t know how to handle these individuals. Accommodations have to be unique for each person.”

36-year-old Jeff Gebhart found Upbound at Work soon after graduating from Walsh College in December of 2014.

“It was hard to find a job after graduating, mainly because the people I was applying to were looking for experience,” Gebhart said. “I didn’t have that being freshly out of college.”

Gebhart has Asperger’s syndrome, which falls on the Autism spectrum.

“It affects me in social situations,” Gebhart said. “It’s harder for me to get comfortable in an interview, for instance.”

Upbound at Work found Gebhart a job in bailments, a technical term for loan contracts, at the Ford office in Dearborn. He deals with the paperwork that’s required to loan out vehicles.

“When we started our pilot with Ford, it was pretty groundbreaking,” Morris said.

“There were myths and concerns about safety on the job.

Things like individuals with disabilities were more prone to injury on the job, which is just not true. Breaking into auto was pretty significant.”

Gebhart has been with Ford since July of 2016. He said his coworkers were extremely welcoming when he first started and are always willing to help him out.

“It can be challenging at times like when I have to chase people down to get what I need, he said. “But, the people are great, my boss is great.

All in all, I’m happy.”

As a non-profit, Upbound at Work not only helps disabled individuals gain employment, but also provides a variety of free resources. The programs offers professional coaching, video feedback, work with social skills, and mock interviews. While Upbound at Work focuses much of their energy on resources for the disabled individual, the program also provides assistance and resources for the businesses that hire those individuals. For example, federal contractors, such as Ford, are required to hit a 7 percent disability hiring rate. Morris said that Upbound at Work helps companies reach those diversity targets.

“They have to be making a good faith effort to reach those goals,” Morris said. “The only area that can be an issue is if they see it as an act of charity. Companies may not expect that we’re giving them good candidates with good backgrounds.”

For disabled individuals that need employment, Morris suggested getting entered into the Upbound at Work database. Gebhart had one piece of advice.

“Don’t give up,” he said.

“There’s something out there for you. You just have to find it.”

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Chargers run win streak to five By | Isabella Redjai assistant editor On Saturday and Sunday, the Hillsdale College Chargers defeated Purdue Northwest University and no. 22 Ferris State University for a 2-0 weekend and a 5-0 start to the season.

In no. 1 doubles on Saturday, junior Charlie Adams and senior Justin Hyman won 6-1, while the available doubles point was clinched through a 7-5 win by junior Julien Clouette and freshman Brian Hackman in no. 3 doubles.

In the no. 1 singles flight Adams achieved a 6-1, 6-2 win. Most significantly, Saturday’s match marked coach Keith Turner’s 100th coaching career win.

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the off seasons,” senior John Ciraci said. “He cultivated this great team culture so that we can win in high-pressure situations.”

Turner says he’s optimistic about this season and the work his team has put in.

“I feel very good about the

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upcoming season,” Turner said. “I have a hard-working, dedicated group of guys that continue to improve on the court.”

On Sunday the Chargers maintained their winning streak, knocking off Ferris State. The win was the Char-

gers’ first against a nationally-ranked team since 2015.

In no. 3 doubles, Clouette and Hackman earned a 6-2 win, but Ferris State ended up taking the doubles point with victories in no. 1 and 2.

A suspenseful wave of 7-6, 6-7, 7-5, ultimately ended in an important win for Adams in the no. 1 singles flight. Adams is undefeated this season with an overall record of 5-0.

“Honestly, it was a little nerve-racking, because I knew I had to win the match if we had the chance to win,” Adams said. “It’s the best feeling to win a match that close. It shows that every practice, every lift — it’s all worth it.”

The Chargers will look to maintain their perfect record by taking on Southern Indiana University on Friday, and Bellarmine University on Saturday.

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Chargers top Raffin shines G-MAC team at for Chargers at GVSU Big Meet GVSU Big Meet By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer When the Hillsdale College Chargers traveled to Allendale, Michigan, last weekend for the GVSU Big Meet, they knew they faced their stiffest test of the year. While Hillsdale finished 17th in team points against powerhouses like Grand Valley State University and Miami University of Ohio, the Chargers finished as the top team in the G-MAC at the meet, an encouraging sign as the team ramps up for the G-MAC Indoor Championships.

On Friday, senior Ally Eads blew away her previous personal record in the one mile run, finishing in four minutes and 52 seconds. Not only did Eads comfortably beat the Division II provisional mark, she also registered the fastest time in the G-MAC this season.

Sophomore Abbie Porter also had a career performance in the 800 meter run. Porter finished seventh with a personal-best time of 2:11.23, beating the provisional mark by three seconds. This time is the third best 800 meter time in the G-MAC this season, and is only three seconds off the automatic qualifying time for the national meet.

After missing the previous meet due to injury, sophomore sprinter Kajsa Johansson competed in the 200 me-

BEGIN, from a10 West Chester was throwing the outside curveball and getting strikes for them,” Walters said. “He mentioned last week that he wanted us to get up on the plate and take the outside pitch, and when I did that, I hit one out.”

West Chester responded scoring three runs in the bottom of the fourth.

In the top of the fifth, senior infielder Jessica Taylor singled to center field, scoring junior outfielder Carlin MacDonald Gannon.

West Chester scored one more time in the bottom of the fifth, but San Juan answered in the top of the sixth with a single, scoring freshman pitcher Camryn Olson.

In the bottom of seventh, West Chester earned an run from a single to center field.

From the pitcher’s circle, Walters faced 16 batters in three innings, and allowed two hits and three runs. Redshirt freshman Julia Sayles made her collegiate debut, coming in to pitch during the bottom of the fourth. Olson also made her collegiate debut on the mound in the bottom of the fifth.

ter dash, finishing in 25.44 seconds. As Hillsdale looks forward to the upcoming conference championship meet, Johansson will be a key contributor on the track. Johansson holds the fastest 60 meter dash time in the G-MAC this season, and the second fastest time in the 200 meter dash.

Freshman Nikita Maines turned in another solid performance in the shot put, competing in the event on both Friday and Saturday. On Friday, Maines threw 14.04 meters, just five centimeters off last week’s personal best, and finished fourth. Maines also finished fourth in the event on Saturday with a throw of 13.69 meters.

In Saturday’s open competition, senior Paige VanderWall had a statement performance in the high jump.

VanderWall, a two-time All American volleyball player, made her collegiate debut in the event. She cleared a height of 1.64 meters to finish fifth in the event and a mere three centimeters off the provisional mark of 1.67 meters.

The Chargers are back in action at home in the Biermann Athletic Center on Saturday for the Hillsdale Tune Up. This meet will be their last competition before the G-MAC Indoor Championships at the University of Findlay the following weekend.

February 9: Indianapolis 10, Hillsdale 3 On Saturday morning, the Chargers suffered their first loss of the season to Indianapolis.

Weidinger faced 28 batters in 4 2/3 innings, giving up 12 hits and 12 runs, only three of which were earned. Sayles faced seven batters in 1 1/3 innings and gave up just one hit.

Kish singled to center field in the top of the second inning, scoring Stoner, and Walters scored Taylor in the top of the third and Catron in the top of the fifth.

The Greyhounds came up big in the bottom of the fifth, scoring seven runs, and the Chargers couldn’t respond.

Despite the loss, Catron said the team didn’t stop battling back.

“Even when we were down by seven, we still fought until the last out, which is something I think we lacked last year,” Catron said. “This past weekend, I don't think there was one inning when we were down on ourselves, and the encouragement on the team was constant and positive.”

February 9: North Georgia 6, Hillsdale 3

By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer The best competition often brings out the best performers, and the Hillsdale College Chargers found that to be true in last weekend’s GVSU Big Meet. The Chargers finished 14th as a team against some of the nation’s best, but several of the team’s most consistent performers competed well, rounding into form in anticipation of the G-MAC Indoor Championships in just one week.

Freshman pole vaulter Ben Raffin continues to soar to new heights as he set another personal record. On Friday, Raffin jumped 4.81 meters to finish second. Raffin followed this performance by jumping 4.91 meters to win Saturday’s competition. This height is another personal best, and the third best mark achieved in the G-MAC this season.

Junior Joey Humes continued to improve on an already impressive season in the 3000 meter run. Humes finished the invitational race on Friday in a personal best eight minutes and 14 seconds, beating the provisional mark by nine seconds and taking sixth in a loaded field. Humes now holds the fastest time in the G-MAC this year by over 16 seconds, putting him in an optimal position to contribute in a big way as the Chargers In their second game on Saturday, the Chargers faced some of the best pitching they may see all season in North Georgia.

“It was awesome to see that, especially early in the season, so that we can be ready for anything else,” Kish said. “If we played the best, we can do anything else that comes in the middle.”

After going against one of the most competitive pitchers at the Division II level, Hillsdale’s offense failed to produce. The Chargers scored just three unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Gross said the team will need to work on making more in-game adjustments at the plate.

“We faced a little better pitching on Saturday then we did Friday, and I think that affected our approach,” Gross said. “When success wasn't happening rapidly, there was a little bit of apprehension to continue swinging hard and doing the things that made us successful before.”

From the circle, Walters faced 32 batters in seven innings, giving up nine hits and six runs.

February 10: Eckerd 3, Hillsdale 1 In their last game of the

compete for a G-MAC title.

In Saturday’s open competition, junior Alex Oquist also competed in the 3000 meter run, setting a personal best and finishing in 8:38.

Freshman sprinter Peter Curtis ran a personal-best time in the 200 meter dash, finishing the race in 23.04 seconds. While this time was only good enough for 20th against a deep and competitive field, he finished less than a second behind the winning time.

In the weight throw, freshman Chris Huffman, who has shown flashes of brilliance at times this season, threw a distance of 16.12 meters to finish eighth. This is Huffman’s second time breaking the 16 meter barrier this season, and an encouraging sign as he looks to establish consistency in the event heading into the climax of the indoor season.

Freshman Will Syrus continued a solid freshman campaign as he battles back from injury, jumping 6.29 meters in the long jump and finishing 13th.

The Chargers have one more meet before they travel to the University of Findlay for the G-MAC Indoor Championships. On Saturday, Hillsdale has a final chance to get locked in at home in the Hillsdale Tune Up. Events begin in the Biermann Athletic Center at 9:30 am. weekend, the Chargers fell to Eckerd on Sunday. Weidinger got the start on the mound but only faced eight batters.

She gave up four hits and three runs in the first inning.

Walters came in for relief and pitched six shutout innings. She faced 27 batters and gave up just five hits.

The Chargers’ only run came from Catron’s single to left-center in the bottom of the fourth inning to score Marra.

“My mentality was just to go up there and produce a hit,” Catron said. “If I didn't get hit, at least I did my best.

I did everything that I could.”

The Chargers won’t take the field again until Friday, March 8, in Clearmont, Florida. The Chargers will play 14 games during spring break against teams from across the country. Leading up to these games, Gross said the team will be working on making adjustments for facing different pitchers.

“After this weekend, the future looks really good with young players but also this season,” Gross said. “I’m looking forward to getting into conference later and working out the last few things over spring break.”

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MEN'S BASKETBALL february 9 Findlay Hillsdale 9

Davis Larson Austen Yarian Connor Hill

1 37 33 fgm-a pts 10-15 26 7-12 15 4-7 12

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL february 9 Findlay Hillsdale

Brittany Gray Allie Dewire Lauren Daffenberg Makenna Ott

1 17 19 pts 17 16 14 13

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february 8 1 2 Lenoir-Rhyne 0 0 Hillsdale 1 1 hitters Natalie Walters: 2-3, 2B pitchers Dana Weidinger (W, 1-0) february 8 1 2 Hillsdale 1 2 8 West Chester 0 0 hitters Katie Kish: 3-5, 2 RBI, SB Jessica Taylor: 1-3, RBI, BB Elaine Townley: 2-4, SB pitchers Natalie Walters (W, 1-0) february 9 1 2 Hillsdale 0 1 Indianapolis 1 0 hitters Katie Kish: 2-3, RBI Sam Catron: 2-2, BB pitchers Dana Weidinger (L, 1-1) february 9 1 2 3 North Georgia 0 1 Hillsdale 0 0 hitters Syd San Juan: 0-3, RBI pitchers Natalie Walters (L, 1-1) february 10 1 2 Eckerd 3 0 Hillsdale 0 0 hitters Katie Kish: 2-4 pitchers Dana Weidinger (L, 1-2) Natalie Walters 19

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MEN'S TENNIS

singles doubles score february 9 2 1 2 Purdue Northwest 4 2 5 Hillsdale singles competition scores 1. Charlie Adams def. Moritz Gisy 6-1, 6-2 4. John Ciraci def. Jonluke Passett 6-2, 6-2 5. Julien Clouette def. Mauricio Villacres 6-2, 6-2 6. Gabe Katz def. Dru Kennedy 6-4, 6-1 doubles competition score 1. Hyman/Adams def. Kint/Gisy 6-1 3. Clouette/Hackman def. Villacres/Kennedy 7-5 february 10 singles doubles score 22 Ferris State 2 2 3 Hillsdale 4 1 4 singles competition scores 1. Charlie Adams def. Steward Sell 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 4. Brian Hackman def. Mathis Guerre 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 5. Julien Clouette def. Connor Douglas 7-5, 6-2 6. Gabe Katz def. Cedric Rupa 6-3, 6-2 doubles competition score 3. Hackman/Clouette def. Deswal/Rupa 6-2

WOMEN'S TENNIS

singles doubles score february 10 0 1 0 Ferris State 6 2 7 Hillsdale singles competition scores 1. Hannah Cimpeanu def. Patricia Gomez 6-2, 6-2 2. Sarah Hackman def. Isabela Paixao 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 3. Katie Bell def. Nicole Meylor 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 4. Halle Hyman def. Agata Klak 6-2, 7-5 5. Kamryn Matthews def. Brittany Lavenant 6-1, 6-0 doubles competition score 2. Hackman/Cimpeanu def. Verebes/Meylor 6-1 3. Matthews/Bissett def. Klak/Lavenant 7-5

MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD gvsu big meet: february 8 3000 meter run 6. Joey Humes 4 x 400 meter relay 9. Wade/Wyse/Baldwin/Schmidt pole vault t2. Ben Raffin gvsu big meet: february 9 pole vault 1. Ben Raffin weight throw 8. Chris Huffman

time 8:14.26 time 3:20.04 height 4.81m height 4.91m distance 16.12m

WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD gvsu big meet: february 8 800 meter run 7. Abbie Porter 1 mile run 7. Ally Eads shot put 4. Nikita Maines gvsu big meet: february 9 high jump 5. Paige VanderWall shot put 4. Nikita Maines

time 2:11.23 time 4:52.10 distance 14.04m height 1.64m distance 13.69m

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Title defense starts in Tennessee Chargers to swim in G-MAC Championships By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer In college baseball, no matter how a season ends, February brings a clean slate and a fresh start. For the Hillsdale College Chargers, last season ended with a bang, as the Chargers rode an impressive postseason run to the school’s first conference championship in 58 years. As head coach Eric Theisen looks forward to 2019, however, his focus is only on winning another title.

“The guys are over last year,” Theisen said. “Now they’re focused on making some new noise.”

As the Chargers look to defend their title, they enter 2019 facing a new set of challenges. The starting rotation will look markedly different as they only return one starter from last year’s three-deep rotation. Hillsdale also graduated more than one-third of last year’s offensive production.

These factors may figure into why a panel of G-MAC coaches has the Chargers in third in the preseason coaches poll. Ohio Dominican University is slotted in the top spot, with Kentucky Wesleyan College, the team Hillsdale defeated in the finals of last year’s G-MAC tournament, in second.

In spite of these challenges, Theisen is confident in his team’s ability to step up.

“Our goal is to win the regional,” Theisen said. “We have the talent, we have the tools. Every weekend we need

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to prove we’re better than the team we’re playing, and that starts this weekend.”

The Chargers have a lot to work with in all areas of the game. On the mound, junior Andrew Verbrugge will look to build off last year’s breakout performance. Verbrugge led the team last year with a 2.83 earned run average and figures to be the ace in Theisen’s rotation.

While Verbrugge is the game one starter, Theisen is optimistic about the Hillsdale’s depth behind him, both in the rotation and out of the bullpen.

“We’re confident in our staff,” Theisen said. “We have good options, and some freshman pitchers that can really perform. We have 15 healthy arms for the first time since I’ve been here, and the jobs are up to be won.”

Junior Kolton Rominski will step into a starting role after a solid sophomore year in which he finished with a 5-3 record and a 3.97 ERA. After a dominant performance in last year’s conference championship game, senior Joe Hamrick also plays in to the discussion.

Out of the bullpen, sophomore David Toth returns

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after recording 10 saves in his freshman campaign and holding opposing hitters to just a .233 batting average. A consistent and reliable closer is a high-priority piece for any baseball team, and Toth seems poised to make a significant impact.

“Toth definitely has the ability to be one of the best relief pitchers in the conference this year,” Theisen said.

Hillsdale enters 2019 with one of the most potent offenses in the G-MAC. On top of the batting order is junior shortstop Jake Hoover.

Hoover had a breakout year in 2018, hitting .320 with 15 steals and demonstrating excellent plate discipline.

The meat of the Chargers’ order is anchored by the most successful senior class in school history. Senior Colin Boerst, a fourth-year starter in right field, will be a key for Hillsdale in the outfield.

Boerst’s production last year was limited due to injury, but the veteran is a well-rounded player that should contribute.

Senior catcher Steven Ring, who holds single-season school records for home runs and runs batted in, will hit third. Ring will be in the lineup this weekend against

DRILL, from a10 On Saturday, the Chargers shot better from outside the three-point line than inside, sinking 15 of 29 shots from beyond the arc.

“We find what’s available, and today that was available,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “They were there, and they were quality looks. If we’re taking good shots, we’ll be fine with it.”

Senior forward Brittany Gray led the way, making four of five threes en route to a team-leading 17 points.

“In the first half, I thought we couldn’t miss,” Gray said.

“Shooting is hit or miss — it depends on the night — but today, we just hit shots. It just shows the work we’re putting in.”

After a close first quarter, the Chargers outscored the Oilers in the second quarter 27-14 to build a 15-point lead by halftime. In the second quarter, Hillsdale was especially lethal from downtown, going seven for 11, a 63.6 shooting percentage, from three-point range.

Freshman guard Lauren Daffenberg sank a pair of threes in the win, made four free throws in four attempts, and scored 14 points in just 17 minutes coming off the bench.

“We knew hopefully our three-point shot was going to be there,” Daffenberg said.

“Because our movement was so good, we were able to get that much more open and make that many more shots.”

Despite being a reserve player, Daffenberg is second on the team in threes made this season (36), and has gone 35 for 39 from the free throw line, translating to a team-best 89.7 free throw percentage. She averages 9.4 points per game despite playing only 17.4 minutes per game, making her by far the team’s most efficient scorer.

The Chargers’ entire offense was running efficiently on Saturday, with 19 of its 30 made field goals coming off of assists. Three players — Daffenberg, senior guard Allie Dewire, and senior forward Makenna Ott — had four assists each.

“They did a good job of playing for each other and finding each other,” Fritsche said of his team’s offense and ball movement. “When we move the ball and move bodies like we did today, we look like a really talented team.”

The Chargers turned the ball over only nine times, their first game with sin-

Wayne State University, but will not suit up behind the plate since he’s recovering from a shoulder surgery in the offseason. Senior catcher Chris Ackerman will likely get the nod to start defensively.

Behind Ring is senior first baseman Dylan Lottinville, who provides consistent power from the cleanup spot.

Lottinville hit .288 last season with 33 RBIs. Another piece in the Chargers’ offensive arsenal is outfielder Dante Toppi. In 2018, Toppi had nine home runs and 14 stolen bases, and possesses a rare blend of power and speed. This year, Toppi will make the switch from left to center field, and will hit fifth.

Hillsdale travels to Johnson City, Tennessee to kick off its season with a three-game series against Wayne State University. The Chargers will look to get on the field and answer one of their biggest concerns: defense.

“Because of the weather, the first time we’re going to step onto a baseball field is this weekend,” Theisen said.

“The question mark this time of year is always defense. We have the talent, we have the tools, we just haven’t been able to practice it as much as other things.”

The series begins Saturday at 1 p.m., with the second game following immediately afterward at 3 p.m. The series will conclude with game three at noon on Sunday.

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Lauren Daffenberg drives to the basket during the first half of Hillsdale's win against Findlay. s. nathaniel grime | collegian

gle-digit turnovers since Dec. 13.

“A huge part of it is trust,” Daffenberg said of the Chargers’ effective execution.

“Trusting our defense — especially our help defense — and on offense, trusting every player. Our confidence has definitely been on the rise.”

Fritsche said that confidence has been a result of preparation in practice and close attention to detail in scouting opposing teams’ styles of play.

“They’re super locked in and attentive to what we’re trying to get done,” Fritsche said of his team. “It’s made it easy to feel like they can win. I’ve been really proud of their effort in practice, and I think that gives them a little boost.”

Dewire scored 16 points — 11 in the second half — and Ott recorded her fourth double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds. The tandem of Gray, Ott, and Dewire each averages more than 12 points per game this season, a testament to the team’s offensive balance and consistency.

Defensively, Hillsdale has held its opponents to less than 70 points in eight of its last 11 games, despite going just 6-5 in that stretch. The upward defensive trend, however, paired with an even more explosive and disciplined offense, has been manifest in the recent upending of top-tier teams.

“I think we’re one of the most talented teams in the G-MAC. The way we’ve been

prepping showcases our talent — and we know what we can do,” Gray said. “Seeing this team finally come together the way I knew we were going to just gives me all the confidence in the world.”

Fritsche said that while he agrees the team is trending up and building confidence, to reach its peak, it will have to prove it can win games on the road.

The Chargers are just 2-5 on the road this season, but their opportunity to buck that trend begins now. With six games remaining in the regular season, their next four games are all away from home.

“I hope the momentum from these home games and the confidence of knowing we can play well will transfer to playing on the road,” Daffenberg said. “We know what kind of focus has to go into preparing for a team on the road.”

First, the Chargers visit Ursuline College (8-14, 7-9 G-MAC) in Pepper Pike, Ohio, tonight for a 5:30 tipoff. Hillsdale beat Ursuline at home on Dec. 18, 89-84. On Saturday, the Chargers travel to Painesville, Ohio, to take on Lake Erie College (11-10, 8-8). Hillsdale beat Lake Erie on Dec. 13, 85-61.

“It’s just gonna be about keeping that same preparation that we have been and being confident playing on the road,” Gray said. “With the three-game win streak we have now, I think going on the road is going to be very helpful for us.”

Findlay’s repeated trips to the free-throw line. The Oilers went 31 for 42 on free throws, compared to the Chargers’ seven for 11 performance. In a 40-minute game with 41 fouls called, each whistle and each point made a difference.

“The free-throw differential was pretty crazy, but we’ve had games like that in our favor,” sophomore guard Connor Hill said. “It’s not the refs’ faults. They’re human; they make mistakes.

We didn’t lose because of the refs.”

Hillsdale held a 19-6 lead with 12 minutes to go in the first half, but the Oilers chipped away and eventually led 37-33 at halftime.

Sophomore forward Davis Larson started the second half strong with a quick layup to narrow the gap. His determination under the basket led him to a career-high 26 points.

“Whoever has the hot hand or is on, I think the coaches do a good job of getting the ball in their hands frequently,” Larson said. “In the game I wouldn’t say it was just me, it was a team effort.”

With eight and a half minutes to go, and down 56-47, the Chargers had to battle back from their largest deficit.

Larson drained a three and drove to the basket for a layup, while sophomore forward Austen Yarian added another layup to bring the Chargers within four, 58-54, with six and a half minutes to go.

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by Hill and a pair of free throws by senior guard Nate Neveau, Hillsdale trailed by only one, 60-59.

Assistant coach Ryan Choiniere had to pull back ecstatic head coach John Tharp as he jumped and yelled from the half court line. In a crowd of more than 800 people — the largest of the season — Hillsdale’s student section, decked out in white, shared Tharp’s enthusiasm.

Larson gave the Chargers a brief lead at the free throw line with two more points.

But on the Oilers’ next possession, a costly shooting foul on a three-point attempt gave Findlay three points at the free throw line. The Oilers now led 65-61.

Hill aggressively drove to the basket to draw two more free throws with just over a minute left. Hillsdale was back in the game, 67-63, but

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By | Danielle Lee collegian reporter The Hillsdale College Chargers are set to compete in the G-MAC Championships in Canton, Ohio, from Wednesday, Feb. 13 through Saturday.

Head coach Kurt Kirner said he’s confident in the team’s outlook, saying they’re at their best and ready to compete. One of the team’s mantras is “We are warriors, not worriers.”

“We’ve completed our physical conditioning and race skills strategy preparation,” Kirner said. “We spent the entire season building a mental training plan to match the competitive peak necessary for us to be at the best of our abilities.”

Junior Catherine Voisin said everyone has worked hard and she’s impressed with the team’s tenacity.

“We’ve had a lot of issues with injuries,” Voisin said.

“But despite the setbacks, I know the team will do well.”

Leading up to G-MACs, Voisin said the team tapered off its practices to let mus-

cles recover. Practices have been very detail-oriented and require a lot of focus on perfecting the small things, Voisin said.

Freshman Anna Clark said she’s to swim in her first conference championship.

She said she’s never felt so prepared for a meet in her swimming career.

“In club and high school swimming, I didn’t get many chances to swim butterfly in practice and I didn’t know how to strategize my races,” Clark said. “With my training this year, I feel prepared to swim fast and I think the team is well-prepared as well.”

As a senior and team captain, Anika Ellingson carries experience going into the G-MAC meet.

“I’ve done this for the past three years, so I know what to expect and how to prepare,” Ellingson said.

Ellingson said the team’s mock races have prepared it to constantly be in race mode.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to score some more points and make Findlay sweat,” sophomore Katherine Heeres said.

Oilers went on to score five more points from the charity stripe to secure their lead.

With 25 seconds remaining, Findlay led 72-63.

The Chargers made a lastchance attempt at victory with a three by senior guard Harrison Niego and a couple of layups by Hill and Yarian, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Oilers.

“The disheartening thing is, we started off great pretty early on and Findlay took control, then we came back with 61-60 lead,” Tharp said.

“We were proud that we just kept fighting and battling.”

Larson said the team learned from that game and will work to improve in the remaining five regular-season games.

“I think there were a lot of things that didn’t really go our way in that game, but we still only lost by five, so if they shot just 10 less free throws, we would’ve won that game,” Larson said. “It’s good to see how much we can improve from that game.

We’ll have to fix defending without fouling. Whether the calls were fouls or not, we have to limit that. That’s kinda just how basketball works.”

With the win, Findlay (19-3) took over the top spot in the G-MAC with a 13-2 conference record. The Chargers fell to second place and are now 16-6 overall and 12-3 in the G-MAC. Larson played his best game yet in his young career.

In addition to his 26 points, he had three assists and four rebounds.

“We thought he was tremendous offensively,”

Tharp said. “He did it in kind of different ways: hit some threes, penetrated and scored in the post, and from the free throw line a couple times. And thank God he did. It was him and Austen that were our two threats offensively throughout that game.”

Hill came off the bench with tons of energy and aggression to lead the Chargers with four assists and three steals, while adding 12 points. Yarian came off the bench to add 15 points and lead in rebounds with nine.

“The great things about it is their contributions off the bench have been so important,” Tharp said. “Who knows what it’s going to look like a week from now?

You need guys like Connor and Austen to give us great minutes off the bench.”

On Saturday, the Chargers travel to Painesville, Ohio, to face the Lake Erie College Storm (14-8, 9-5 G-MAC).

Tip-off is at 3 p.m.

According to Tharp, this will be a “good Lake Erie team” that has a great defense and a threatening scorer.

“They have a young man that’s gonna get a lot of shots up and we’ve gotta make sure it’s a low percentage game for him,” Tharp said.

Hill says he and his teammates are ready to take on the challenge.

“We’re pretty confident,” Hill said. “We won eight in a row before losing to the ninth-ranked team in the nation. We lost a tough game to a really tough team.

There’s no reason to freak out.”

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Chargers drill Oilers in commanding win By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers continued their upward trend in the G-MAC on Saturday with a resounding 88-67 victory over the University of Findlay Oilers. The win evens the Chargers’ record at 11-11 overall, and 9-7 in the G-MAC. The all-time series between Hillsdale and Findlay is now tied at 22 wins each.

The Chargers have won three games in a row, and have moved up to fifth place in the conference standings after sitting in ninth place just three weeks ago, when they lost to the Oilers in Findlay, 69-64. The last two teams the Chargers have beat — Cedarville University and Findlay — have a combined record of 32-12 this season, and 24-9 against G-MAC teams. Hillsdale has now handed each team a loss.

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Brittany Gray shoots a three during the first half of Hillsdale's win against Findlay on Saturday. Gray made four of five three-pointers and led the Chargers with 17 points. s. nathaniel grime | collegian

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G-MAC STANDINGS 1. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN 2. CEDARVILLE 3. WALSH 4. FINDLAY 5. HILLSDALE 6. TREVECCA NAZARENE 7. OHIO DOMINICAN 8. MALONE 9. LAKE ERIE 10. URSULINE 11. DAVIS & ELKINS 12. TIFFIN 13. ALDERSON BROADDUS 14. OHIO VALLEY

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Hillsdale (16-6, 12-3) at Lake Erie (14-8, 9-5) By | Calli Townsend assistant editor Despite a 19-2 run early in the first half, the Hillsdale College Chargers couldn’t hold on to an early lead and lost 75-70 to the University of Findlay Oilers at home on Saturday. The defeat snapped Hillsdale’s eight-game win-

ning streak, and dropped the Chargers back to second place in the G-MAC, behind firstplace Findlay.

Hillsdale’s superior field-goal percentage, fewer turnovers, and well-moving offense couldn’t match

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Natalie Walters connects for a solo home run during the top of the fourth inning on Friday in Hillsdale's win over West Chester. Walters went 7-for-13 at the plate with three extra-base hits and three runs batted in in the Chargers' first five games. carly gouge | courtesy

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By | Julia Mullins assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers opened up their season on Friday with two big wins against ranked opponents in the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Clearwater, Florida.

The Chargers came up short on Saturday and Sunday, ending the weekend with three losses.

Head coach Kyle Gross said the first two wins were an enjoyable start to the season, and was impressed by the team’s ability to fight throughout the weekend.

“When you make the final out of the first game, that's an amazing feeling,” Gross said.

“And then you take that and add to it a second win on your first day against great competition. It's hard to describe the feeling, but we were very happy.”

During the weekend, senior outfielder Katie Kish went 9 for 18 with three runs batted in, and didn’t strike out. Sophomore pitcher and outfielder Natalie Walters went 7 for 13 with three RBI,

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three doubles, and a home run. She had two starts on the mound, pitching 16 innings while allowing eight earned runs. With her performance, Walters earned a spot on the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic All-Tournament Team.

Kish said she was happy with the team’s ability to play so well together for it being the first weekend.

“It seems like we have already been playing, it’s as if we were in the middle of our season,” Kish said. “The thing I was impressed with the most is how ready we were to take the field.”

February 8: Hillsdale 2, Lenoir-Rhyne 1 Junior pitcher Dana Weidinger dominated on the

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mound against Lenoir-Rhyne in her first start of the season.

She faced 28 batters in seven innings and allowed just four hits and one run.

The Chargers got on the board in the bottom of the first inning when sophomore catcher Madison Stoner flew out to left field for a sacrifice fly, scoring senior second basemen Amanda Marra.

In the bottom of the second, freshman utility player Morgan Cox grounded out to shortstop to score Walters.

Lenoir-Rhyne earned its only run in the top of the third with a double to left

field.

February 8: Hillsdale 8, West Chester 5 The Chargers’ consistent offense against West Chester earned them a clear victory against another ranked opponent.

In the top of the first inning, Kish stole home, putting the Chargers on top early.

Marra singled to left field in the top of the second, scoring junior catcher Syd San Juan.

Later in the inning, junior infielder Sam Catron fouled out to third, bringing home Kish Kish singled to right field in the bottom of the third, scoring both sophomore first basemen Emma Johnson and freshman infielder Elaine Townley.

Walters smashed a home run over the left-field fence in the top of the fourth to extend the Chargers’ lead to 6-0.

“Coach talked a lot before the game about making adjustments, so going into it, we knew that the pitcher for

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Senior Judy Moreno and director Tory Matsos host audience talk-back after the presentation of ‘Endangered Species Act.’ Collegian | Carmel Kookogey

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‘Endangered Species Act’ grapples with social media harassment By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor Ornithologist Ben and his assistant and Ph. D. candidate Lily are walking through a forest looking for sandpipers, when they discover a moustached kingfisher — the first one seen in 100 years — and accidentally kill it.

At 7:30 p.m. last Thursday, senior Judy Moreno presented her senior project: A reading of her two-act play, “Endangered Species Act.” The play, put on by a six-person cast with stage directions read aloud by junior Caleb Clark, takes the true story of an ornithologist’s discovery of the rare moustached kingfisher bird, and the escalating internet drama that ensued, creating a piece that is not only humorous and endearing, but also a thought-provoking commentary on the realities of living in the digital age.

Moreno wrote the entire play during the Fall 2018 semester, for a playwriting class with theatre professor George Angell, after he found the story idea online and recommended it to her.

“I told her if she wasn’t interested in it, I was going to write it myself,” Angell said.

“But she was interested in it, and it’s a good thing, because I think she came up with something better than I would’ve, and on her own.”

The play juxtaposes characters Lily (read by senior Rebecca Carlson) and Ben (senior Austin Benson), arguing like an old married couple as they carry out their expedition, with teens Piper (sophomore Ariannah Gaiser) and Nick (sophomore Johannes Olson), sitting on the opposite side of the stage, responding on social media to what they believe to be outrageous behavior on the part of the ornithologists.

When Lily accidentally kills the moustached kingfisher bird and shares a photo of it on Instagram, Piper and Nick spark an online protest, claiming the ornithologists have killed the last bird of its kind. What starts as a small, misguided effort by “bird nerd” Piper, goaded by her new friend Nick (“People get famous all the time for this sort of thing!”) quickly becomes a real threat when another bird-loving teen attempts a suicide bombing of the ornithology institute where Ben and Lily work.

“Every time I even thought about writing, I was incredibly intimidated,” Moreno said, but added that having deadlines for class was extremely helpful for her. “I needed that structure. I needed to show up to that class — which was basically a workshop with George and Shiloh Carozza — I needed to show up every time having produced some new work, or at least thought about it, brought new ideas, come up with new questions.”

The true story of ornithologist Christopher Filardi, who found a moustached kingfisher in 2015 and collected and prepared it for scientific research, was the inspiration for “Endangered Species Act.” While Filardi was still on his expedition, the story was somehow broadcast, and people began harassing him online for having killed the bird.

“By the time he got back, his family was receiving death threats and he was told by the police that he had to use back entrances to the museum he worked at, or else his safety might be threatened,” Moreno explained. “He wasn’t fired, but he resigned — he left the museum.”

Burn, Bundy, Burn: On ‘Conversations with a Killer’ By | Emma Cummins Assistant Editor Responsible for the murders of over 30 women in the 1970s and 80s, serial killer, rapist and necrophile Ted Bundy inspired horror and fascination during his time.

His crimes were horrific and gruesome, but his personality puzzled everyone. Charming, friendly and handsome, Bundy was the kind of guy you wanted your sister to marry, as one of his old friends said in the new Netflix original “Conversations with a Killer: the Ted Bundy Tapes.”

Charged with constructing a narrative of Bundy from his childhood to his time of death, director and producer Joe Berlinger strove to show who Ted Bundy was through his conversations with journalist Stephen G. Michaud.

The recording totaled 100 hours worth of audio, which were condensed into four 1-hour episodes.

The documentary itself was masterfully done, overlaying

Bundy’s voice with visuals of him, his victims, and unrelated images to conjure up the required reaction to Bundy’s brutality, the devastation of his victims’ families, and the ensuing media spectacle.

In the final episode, much of Bundy’s trial in the Chi Omega case was videotaped, giving the viewer the opportunity to see Bundy’s bizarre and celebrity-obsessed personality.

Bundy consistently complained about his living quarters, citing the lack of reading light, and even went so far as to cross-examined witnesses against him, an unusual and rare break from courtroom practice. Bundy had an eye for drama, and the packed courtrooms and abundance of cameras and crewman surely didn’t help.

The gruesome nature of Bundy’s crimes and the fascination over his personality by both the media and those who followed his story makes for an appealing documentary.

But the desire to make Bundy and his story appealing to the

average viewer also creates a narrative that inevitably romanticizes the idea of who Ted Bundy really was.

If the purpose of a documentary is to capture real life, the camera may not be the best tool. English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge understood the great danger of the camera, even in 1976.

Muggeridge once said that “as I see it, the media have created, and belong to, a world of fantasy, the more dangerous because it purports to be, and is largely taken as being, the real world.”

If anything, the documentary was more an image of how society today views a man like Bundy. In the last portion of the documentary, only about two minutes are given to Bundy’s claim that pornography increased his desire to do these violent things, and a journalist and FBI agent dismiss this as Bundy merely using pornography as a scapegoat.

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She added that in the true story, the moral dilemma was more ambiguous, because Filardi did kill the bird intentionally. But, she added, he had his reasons.

Prior to writing the play, Moreno had taken Playwriting I with Angell, and wrote a one-act about ornithologists Ben and Lily, and some birds.

As a former intended biology major, Moreno said that she has always had an interest in birds. Ben and Lily’s characters changed significantly when she adapted them to “Endangered Species Act,” according to Moreno, though they existed in her mind prior to writing the play.

“This is a play in development,” Director Tory Matsos told the audience of 30, before the reading began. Matsos explained that though it was being staged as a two-act play on Thursday and Friday, Moreno is already honing it, and the final edition will be a one-act once again.

Angell emphasized the importance of both Moreno and senior Shiloh Carozza, the other student in the class, being diligent in their writing, in order to complete the play in time to be staged this

semester.

“Both of them were dedicated writers, and they came at it without ego,” Angell said.

“They wrote all the time, and they always had something at every class for us to read and discuss and think about.

We kind of approached it the way a TV writer’s room does, where we would bounce ideas off of one another. Everybody was willing to take all kinds of ideas and go with them.

But the big thing is that they would write. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taught playwriting where people don’t write. And you have to write.”

Angell also emphasized the timeliness of the issues address in the play, which discusses both conservation and the issue of social media harassment, showing how even a seemingly noble cause is often taken too far.

“I also really like Judy’s sense of humor,” he added.

(Moreno keeps the dialogue lighthearted, even in the case of the 15-year-old attempted suicide bomber, who exclaims, “But the f***ing YouTube video guaranteed results!” when her homemade pyrotechnics conveniently

malfunction.)

“We had the best time working on it,” Matsos said.

“We sat down for the table read and it was just the most fun. It’s such a wonderful thing to sit down as a director and as an actor with a script where the playwright is so alive to you on the page, right?

Where you’re going, ‘Oh, had a good time writing this, because we’re having a good time reading this bombing scene.’ So it’s just been a total privilege to work on it.”

Moreno described her lifelong desire to produce a completed creative writing work.

“I’ve always questioned whether I’d be able to do that,” Moreno said. “And whether it’s good or not, whether anything happens with it, I did what I set out to do: I wrote something. So I’m happy about that.”

Senior Colleen Prince said she’s always known Moreno was a great writer.

“I think it’s super interesting because she also wanted to be a bio major: It’s cool to see the synthesis,” Prince said.

“My humble opinion is that it could totally go professional.”

‘Joy of Cooking’ by Irma Rombauer. Collegian | Julia Mullins

Great Cookbooks: JOY

Irma Rombauer helped me find the joy in cooking

By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor Before I could could count to 10 or sing my ABCs, I was helping my parents prepare meals in my childhood home.

Even today, my family and I spends most of our time together cooking in the kitchen.

Next to all of the serving dishes and cooking utensils rest two editions of our most-beloved cookbook, Irma Rombauer’s “Joy of Cooking.”

The sixth edition was wonderful, but my family decided we needed the seventh edition, too, because one edition of the “Joy of Cooking” was not enough. That may be why my grandma gave me the eighth, and most recent edition, before I headed off to college.

This most recent edition contains an epigraph from Mark Twain: “To receive the full value of joy, you must have someone to share it with.”

From her St. Louis apartment, Rombauer worked with her daughter Marion to produce a cookbook filled with timeless recipes and helpful illustrations of her dishes.

After her husband committed suicide, Rombauer took her life savings and self-published America’s most popular cookbook, in 1931. The book has gone through nine revisions.

Marion’s son, Ethan Becker, added international recipes to the seventh and eighth

editions. He wanted to add recipes to incorporate the way we cook today, yet still reflect his “Granny Rom’s” cooking.

The recipes include food from Cuban, Thai, Indian, and Japanese cultures.

One chapter, “Know Your Ingredients,” helps beginners and seasoned chefs navigate their way through recipes for the first time. This encyclopaedic chapter describes the origins of both common and exotic ingredients, the distinct purposes of four different baking powders, the effects of weather on cooking, the chemical composition of starches, and a discussion on different grades of eggs.

My personal favorite from the “Joy of Cooking” is the Belgian Waffles recipe. This simple recipe is the only one I use when preparing brunch on the weekends. Rombauer’s recipe produces thick, fluffy waffles with deep pockets to fill with maple syrup and butter. My family always insists on making these waffles when I visit home.

On a cold winter day, nothing tastes better than the rich flavour of Rombauer’s French onion soup, prepared using her household beef stock, five caramelized onions, and a hefty topping of Gruyere cheese.

The “Joy of Cooking” has something for everybody.

If you are just beginning to cook and looking to learn the basics, impress yourself and

your friends with the spaghetti carbonara. If your looking to push yourself, Rombauer provides instructions for how to make your own pasta, an arduous process that requires a careful and patient hand.

Even if you are looking to throw a party, Rombauer has guides and menus for various forms of entertaining.

In 2004, Julia Child said the “Joy of Cooking” had already made a great impression on American cooking.

“Irma’s voice is there for you in the kitchen, giving guidance, and encouragement, and friendly tips and reminders,” Child said. “The whys and hows are carefully explained, and that’s what makes JOY a fundamental resource for any American cook!”

For me, preparing and sharing a meal with my family or friends is the best way to experience the true joy of cooking. I love spending hours in the kitchen for those precious 30 minutes when everyone is gathered around the table, talking about their day or discussing favorite memories.

Maybe this shared experience is what Rombauer had in mind when coming up with a title for her cookbook.

Thanks to Rombauer, I know how to make a killer French onion soup. Thanks to Rombauer, my waffles are the fluffiest waffles imaginable.

Thanks to Rombauer, I’ve found the JOY in cooking.

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French department travel to Toledo, Ohio, to see French opera ‘Carmen.’ Courtesy | Marie-Claire Morellec

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Students experience French opera in Ohio By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter Last Sunday, Hillsdale College French students took their language skills outside the classroom and into the opera house thanks to Hillsdale’s French honorary, Pi Delta Phi. Nineteen students and three professors spent the day in Toledo, Ohio where they saw “Carmen,” a 19th century French opera that tells the story of a naive soldier who is seduced by a gypsy named Carmen.

“The purpose of the trip was to give students the unique opportunity to experience an event unavailable on campus and show them that French culture is present, alive, and well,” Marie-Claire Morellec, chair of Hillsdale’s French Department and organizer of the trip, said in an email.

Beyond gaining general cultural knowledge, however,

Morellec added that seeing “Carmen” in particular was especially meaningful for some students.

“Several students had read the text on which the opera is based as part of their 19th century French literature class,” she said. “It just so happened that ‘Carmen’ was part of Toledo Opera’s program this year.”

For attendees like Soren Moody, a freshman majoring in French as a part of the international studies in business and foreign language degree, “Carmen” was their first encounter with opera.

Moody said he attended not just for the academic enrichment but also for the musical aspect.

“Madame Morellec started talking about the trip way back in the fall, and I flipped out about it,” Moody said.

“Initially, that was because “Carmen” is part of French

culture, and I’d never seen an opera. But then as the semester went on, I was in a voice class and my teacher brought out an operatic voice in me. This was an incredible opportunity to see two of my favorite things, opera and French, come together at a professional level. How could I pass that up?”

Sophomore Joy Brower, a French and economics double major, said she appreciated the chance to broaden her understanding of the language.

“The diction is very different in an opera,” Brower said.

“They put the emphasis on different parts of the words. It was good experience to hear how French is pronounced out of the context of normal conversation.”

Pi Delta Phi hosts enrichment events every year, sometimes twice a year. Activities range from plays, to exhibits, to operas.

The International Club hosted a Mediterranean Feast on Thursday. Courtesy | Monica Darlington

While members of the honorary receive priority, events are open to students in all classes.

“We would not be able to provide this opportunity to our students but for a wonderful donor, Mrs. Christine Smith, who created a fund to honor the memory of her mother, Mrs. Cecile Frazier Smith,” Morellec said. “Thanks to her generosity, we have been able to do this every year, sometimes twice a year, for over a decade.”

Brower spoke highly of the trip and encouraged others to attend in the future.

“I think anyone interested in French culture and language would definitely benefit from going to see ‘Carmen,’” she said. “It’s a great way to experience the culture outside of the experience you get in a classroom.”

By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor Ever since Saint Valentine healed a blind girl and she sent him crocuses while he was imprisoned for his faith, Feb. 14 has been (somewhat extraneously) revered as a day for romantic lovers. And ever since Leslie Knope brought it to life in 2010, Feb. 13 has been Galentine’s Day, a day for the gals. Though some have called it an “anti-male” holiday, the concept of showering your female friends in love is not a bad one. Whether you’re single, Hillsdating, or in a long-term committed relationship with Aristotle, no Galentine’s Day celebration is complete without this classic sweet treat (and a boppin’ jam, too).

Ingredients: ¾ cup of coconut oil 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 3 eggs 3/4 cup flour 1/3 cup + 2 1/2 tbsp cocoa 1/4 tsp + 1/8 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt

Recipe adapted from lifeloveandsugar.com.

Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×9 square baking pan and line with parchment paper, or your last romantic attachment, if paper-thin.

2. Mix together the oil, sugar, and vanilla extract.

Add eggs one at a time, and stir mixture until the different ingredients are thoroughly immersed in one another, like your formerly-single friends.

4. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture, until the two become one.

5. Pour the batter into the pan and spread as evenly flat as your love life.

6. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until they are as gooey or cakey as you like, because the best part about Galentine’s Day is that you don’t have to share your brownies with anyone...except, of course, your fellow single gals.

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A lifetime in the making: Brad Blackham to play three Beethoven sonatas

Students get a taste of belly-dancing, Arabic tea, and pastitsio at Mediterranean Feast By | Brian Freimuth Collegian Freelancer Faculty and students line up to serve themselves pastitsio and Greek salad after conversation over Arabic tea.

German, French, and Spanish can be heard over a cheerful din of laughter and exotic music. Members of Hillsdale College’s international club rush to greet guests and set up for a kind of exotic performance that Hillsdale students rarely get the chance to observe. A stage is made out of a string of small yellow lights.

On Thursday, Feb. 7th, Hillsdale College’s international club hosted an authentic Mediterranean dinner, featuring cuisine from the nations of the Mediterranean and a performance and lesson by a professional belly-dancer.

Club President Nico de Enrique said that the food was “more from the eastern side” of the Mediterranean, consisting mostly of “Libyan and Greek food”. It is “very usual for mediterranean countries to have music and dancing while you’re eating,” De Enrique added.

Students and faculty mingled and ate while members of the club waited to introduce their guest, a professional belly-dancer from South America, who goes by Rommyna.

“First she’s going to dance and show what she does, then she’s going to teach, to show us what she does,” de Enrique said.

Former club president Nour Ben Hmieida, originally

from Libya said the goal of the dinner was to bring part of the Mediterranean culture to campus.

“We’re very isolated here at Hillsdale. We wanted to bring a piece of home. It’s good and fun to expand your exposure to cultures. It’s good to reach out of our comfort zone,” Ben Hmieida said.

After dinner, guests observed and were able to take part in some traditional Mediterranean belly-dancing.

“She’ll be giving a 15-minute lesson toward the end for people who are interested in learning,” Ben Hmieida said.

The cuisine was familiar to several of Hillsdale’s international students, some of whom helped prepare the menu. De Enrique said that he helped cook the “pastitsio” which he described as “like lasagna.”

“I cooked a little bit of that, so I’m kind of proud of that,” de Enrique added.

Hillsdale senior Elizabeth Palmer described the cuisine: “They had a pasta dish that Nour explained is from Greece and Italy and is a recipe that her mom uses. We also had some feta and spinach squares, which were really good, Arabic tea, and some Greek salad.”

Palmer dined with friends and colleagues and said that events like these make her want to travel more.

“Taking part in the belly-dancing lesson is something I might try tonight,” Palmer added cheerfully.

Rommyna, who is Brazil-

ian-Peruvian, said the variety of music in South America sparked her interest in belly-dancing.

“We have access to all sorts of music from the Middle East, and Morocco, and Tunisia. It was very trendy. I felt like I wanted to learn to dance and learn about their culture.

Then I moved to the United States and started taking lessons,” she said. “It’s an art: there is a beauty, there is a lot of work in that, to manage the moves. It required a lot of practice.”

When asked what distinguishes belly-dancing from other styles of dance, Rommyna said it comes down to isolation.

“When we move the hips we normally don’t move the upper body. When we move the upper body we don’t move the lower body. Isolation is very important, but sometimes we move the whole body like a serpentine,” she said.

Palmer said she thinks it’s important to have events like this at Hillsdale to help broaden students’ perspectives.

“Hillsdale can kind of be a very homogenous school in a lot of ways,” Palmer said. “It’s a good learning opportunity for everybody.”

By the end of the night, many students had gathered alongside Rommyna on the makeshift stage, to belly-dance as a group. The lesson went longer than the anticipated 15 minutes, as students requested more music be played for multiple rounds of dancing.

By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter Classical music fans of Hillsdale College are in for a treat this week. Professor Brad Blackham, pianist and director of keyboard studies for the college, will perform three of Beethoven’s greatest pieces — the “Pathétique,” the “Tempest,” and the “Waldstein” — at his upcoming solo piano recital.

An all-Beethoven recital is a first for Blackham. In many ways, the performance is a lifetime in the making.

“When I was younger, I never really felt like I got Beethoven,” he said in an email. “I had played plenty of his music, but I always felt like I wasn’t doing it justice. I’m finally to a point where I get it. I hit my 40s, and suddenly I could see beyond the notes in the scores. All of the emotion and bits of Beethoven’s life that he poured into his music were much more visible to me.”

Blackham recalled the moment during his undergrad years that drove him to master Beethoven.

“My teacher heard a college student play a piano audition for a summer festival and she said, ‘Wow, he played that Beethoven sonata like a 40-year-old,’” Blackham recounted.

Teacher of music Debra Wyse, a colleague of Blackham, said she will “absolutely” be attending the recital.

“You don’t often get to hear three Beethoven sonatas all in one performance,” she explained. “Brad Blackham is an amazing musician, and I’m excited to see what he does with the pieces.”

Junior Sam Musser has been studying piano with Blackham since his freshman year. He said Blackham’s attention to detail will make his performance of Beethoven particularly outstanding.

“In Beethoven’s sonatas, every little note, rest, slur, and tie means something,” said Musser. “Professor Blackham is very good at pulling out the little things and expanding on them. He understands how to get the most out of the piano.”

Musser added that the recital is a chance for people to get a deeper understanding of

Blackham’s musical ability.

“A caricature of Professor Blackham is that his specialty is contemporary music simply because he’s extremely good at performing contemporary music and 20th and 21st century classical piano repertoire,” said Musser. “This is a good opportunity for them to see that his excellence in one area doesn’t detract from his excellence in another.”

As for Blackham, he hopes his audience sees his passion and admiration for Beethoven’s work through his performance.

“One of the best compliments that I can receive as an artist is when someone says that they heard me play something in a completely new way,,” Blackham said. “My goal is to be able to convey how much I love these masterpieces, with the hope that everyone listening finds that same enjoyment and maybe hears something new.”

The performance will be Friday, Feb. 15 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 17 at 3:00 p.m. in Conrad Recital Hall.

Tickets are free, but reservations are required.

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he conducted himself. Bundy compared himself to Jesus at one trial, and even proposed to Carole Ann Boone when she was testifying to his good character. He loved the attention.

Muggeridge thought that a true documentary was one in which the person we seek to learn about should simply be put in front of the camera. But would anyone had watched if Berlinger simply put the tapes onto a black screen? I wouldn’t have.

Muggeridge wrote: “The cameras are our eye’s ego, our ages’ focus, the repository and emanation of all our fraudulence.”

This is not to say that the documentary didn’t capture Bundy’s character. The point is that as a viewer, I don’t know. I don’t know because all

I’ve been given are interviews with pre-scripted questions, Bundy’s interviews, and, most importantly, the actual television program itself, which consists of masterful use of images, music and other tricks to make the show exciting. It does not just attempt to present evidence, it also attempts to draw conclusions.

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” the new independent film which Netflix recently purchased,where Bundy is portrayed by a very sexy Zac Efron, will push us further into fiction and away from the reality of his repulsive behavior.

Perhaps on paper, Bundy would have just been a handsome creep who murdered 30 women: a cautionary tale. But with a camera, he’s something completely different.

Bundy may indeed have used pornography as an excuse, it demonstrates the larger issue. Rather than take seriously all of Bundy’s different parts, the makers of the documentary pieced together their own image of Bundy.

Using their own interviews, images completely unrelated to Bundy or his family, and music, it starts to feel more like a fantasy, and less like a depiction of reality. The excessive culture that we live in today inevitably shapes the way we hear what he said.

Bundy is an infamous character, and his shenanigans made for great television. But perhaps the media’s obsession in following his every move played a part in the often irreverent manner in which

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partment of Corrections and By | Elizabeth Bachmann I fell in love with it the first day. ” Defense.

Collegian Reporter Anderson began class his “I was just a beginning When he came to Hillsdale freshman year and, by his cadet, and they found out my College on a four-year football sophomore year, Grand Mashistory, that I am a martial scholarship in 1975, Brian ter Tae Zee Park had put him arts instructor at Hillsdale Anderson anticipated gradin charge of the class, though College — I was a third degree uating four years later with he continued to mentor Anblack belt at the time,” Anderan art major and going on to derson. son said. “A lot of techniques teach. The possibilities of that “I spent a lot of one-on-one were being taught wrong so life path lasted only until he time with him learning real I was correcting a lot, and so saw his friend practicing some that’s how kind of strange I stepped martial art in his into the dorm; this was position Anderson’s first of training encounter with people.”

Taekwondo.

After 17 Now an acyears, he complished blues moved up guitarist, aspiring to trainauthor, artist, and ing the 6th degree black Emergency belt, Sergeant Response Master Anderson Team for is passing on his Lansing, skills to current Michigan Hillsdale students and the in his self-defense Lakeland class and still Correccredits his friend tional and teammate Facility.

Ronnie Parker In the with introducing midst of him to the world his self deof martial arts. fense work, “I was watchAnderson ing Ronnie continued practice, and it to pracwas during our tice the football early non-marcamp, and he was tial arts he always practicing is passionover in the dorms, ate about. and I’d say, He still ‘Where did you jams with learn that, man?’ Sergeant Master Bryan Anderson and sophomore Emma Alberts. a blues band and he would say, Elizabeth Bachmann | Collegian he started ‘You want to learn with some martial arts, you’ve got to take self-defense techniques — friends after college called the class with Grand Master how to hurt somebody really “Who Dat? Blues,” which has Tae Zee Park.’” bad, finger pressure points, produced two CDs to date.

That is exactly what Ander- things like that,” Anderson He is also currently writing son did. said. “I learned a lot from and illustrating his own book “I was just going to try it him.” on self-defense, marrying his for a semester, because I used After graduation, Anderpassions for martial arts and to be into Bruce Lee, and son worked as a counselor fine arts.

I would make up my own for a few years and then went About 10 years ago, moves when I was in high on to work as a corrections Anderson brought his skills school,” Anderson said. “But officer for the Michigan Deback to Hillsdale, and began a

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self-defense class that he still that you encounter that you think would be fun to learn?’ teaches. can’t avoid, where you feel un- We were watching Guardians “When I first started teach- comfortable, and you’re think- of the Galaxy this weekend, ing I tried to show everyone ing, ‘what is my escape plan?’” and we saw a move and we so much stuff,” Anderson said. Henreckson said. “‘What said, ‘That’s so cool, we should “And, you know, nobody rewould I do if something try to learn it.’ So it’s awesome tains that information. When happened in this situation?’ that you’re able to bring your you’re teaching anyone how to Knowing that I could defend world experience into the do something in a short perimyself if the situation arose classroom.” od of time, you’ve got to pick was really attractive to me.”

According to Anderson, out one or two things that While he teaches his stubeginning a martial arts class they can remember to do, and dents to elbow and groin kick is like learning to walk as a so I show them toddler. mainly how to He expects use their feet, students knees, and to spend a elbows in tight large chunk fighting.” of the class Even as metahe educates phorically students about crawling, how to protect stumbling themselves, around, and his first piece even falling of advice is before the always to avoid truly begin getting into to walk, or, potentially in this case, dangerous sitkick. uations in the But first place, and Anderson also how to said one of defuse potenthe most tially dangerimportant ous situations skills he can before they teach is concome to blows. fidence — He advises and a good students to groin kick. always remain “You have conscious of to have the the doors, to confidence keep obstacles to be able like furniture to protect between them yourself. and their That’s one Anderson instructs Alberts (middle) and senior Emma McCormick aggressor, and (right) in a self-defense class. Elizabeth Bachmann | Collegian of the things to hold firm eye I like to instill contact with into people, their aggressor. their way to safety, Anderson having confidence in yourself “If you can psych someone also likes to keep the class to believe that you can do this. out before things start to get light and fun.

And if you don’t have that crazy, then you really win,” “I really like Master Ander- belief, you will be taken,” AnAnderson said. son. He is very amusing,” said derson said. “I watch all these Junior Rebecca Henreckjunior Adrianne Fogg, who action movies and I hate them son enrolled in the class this is currently enrolled in the — all these people screaming, semester. one-credit class. “He always help, and crying. I just think, “I wanted to take this class asks us at the start of class, ‘Get up and hit that guy, kick because, as a woman, I feel ‘What moves have you seen him in the groin.’” like there are a lot of situations on TV or in movies that you

Guys, and other four-letter words

you lose variety in that reing up for class as opposed to By | Callie Shinkle spect.” my usual groutfit attire.

Columnist Susie took it a step farther.

Matt P. wrote, “Most of On March 16, 1989, The She commented, “Men are them have a lot of money.”

Collegian published an arlooking at women on HillsMatt, you’re not doing a ticle titled “Guys and Other dale’s campus as toys.” great job disproving the girl’s Four-Letter Words” detailing However, other women complaints that the boys of the women of Hillsdale’s view had a more positive view of Hillsdale are insincere. on dating and men at Hillsthe boys of the Dale. Wendy “I think the girls here are dale.

W. said, “You see the studygood girls, not just in the Current ladies of Hillsdale ing aspect more here. It’s not moralistic sense. They’re a lot beware: Some of these quotes just constant partying every better looking than the girls are all too relatable. night.” Micki L. said, “I think at other schools. . . They’re When asked about the they have something that a lot wealthy, smart, intelligent, and Hillsdale dating life, one of guys don’t have. They know they dress nice.” student, Renee, said, “There is how to treat girls. They don’t The boys were much more no dating. Guys graphic when just don’t ask girls describing the out on dates here. negative qualiOne thing in genties of Hillseral just about the dale women. dating situation at Brad made Hillsdale: When this oh-so-flatyou’re seen with tering anala guy once you’re ogy: “I like automatically to compare going out.” the females Another stuat Hillsdale dent, Wendy, said, College to a “I think that the praying manguys could find creative things always do it, but they know tis. They’re very elegant. They to do, but most of the guys how to open a door, be polite, move slow. And then they here don’t. You need sponthat sort of thing.” pounce on you and rip your taneity. You need something Well, if you can’t get them head off. And they’ll smile different than “let’s get drunk to act politely I guess we can while they’re eating you.” and go to the parties.” be happy that they at least Thank you, Brad, for this colA third anonymous woman know how to be polite. orful and not-at-all dramatic commented, “There’s a certain One week later, the men comparison. sense, specially when you’re a of Hillsdale spoke up. In an An anonymous commentfreshman, in which you spend article titled “Their Turn: er wrote, “They are totally two hours in front of the Guys Talk Back” published on self-centered, unbelievably mirror before a party teasing April 20, 1989, the men had a selfish, egotistical, pathetic, your hair, expecting to meet chance to respond. sick wimps. I’ll tell you why.

Mr. Right. It’s not going to When asked about the They’re totally opportunistic happen.” Ouch. most impressive qualities pigs.” Another animal analogy Other women offered a of the female students, Tom is a tough look. very pessimistic view of the B. said, “They dress nice.

All in all, the 1980s was men on clearly a campus. time of Jenny dissent W. said, between “I think the sexes they’re too at Hillscocky. They dale, but like to have judging fun and from the everything, alumni but they put who on an air of come being too back to confident.

A response column to Hillsdale women’s accusations in “Guys and other visit, it But it’s a cov- four-letter words.” Collegian Archives is evident er-up, because that all the they’re really romances insecure.”

I’ve never seen a girl in blue worked out and these two Wendy also wrote, “Many jeans and a T-shirt in my life articles didn’t do too much of them are insincere. . . I around here.” Okay, so I guess damage to dating at Hillsdale. think guys go a lot by what that has changed because I their friends say, and I think consider wearing jeans dress-

“There is no dating,” one Hillsdale woman said.

“Guys just don’t ask girls out on dates here.”

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from A1 The taste is not for everybody, but I think that has a lot to do with it.”

At least one to two people per week visit the store asking about Necco Wafers, and more recently, about the Sweethearts. Though it’s not in stock this year, Brock said customers are glad to hear it’s in Spangler’s hands. “Especially because people know Spangler around here, it’s a sigh of relief to them to hear that.”

Around Christmas time, Small Town Sweet Boutique also buys Dum Dums and large candy canes from Spangler through distributors.

It is uncertain when Sweethearts will be back on the market. In a September press release, CEO Kirk Vashaw said the company would relaunch the brand for the 2020 Valentine’s Day season, but that release was later taken down. According to Vashaw in the earlier release, “There are a lot of

manufacturing challenges and unanswered questions at this point, and we want to make sure these brands meet consumer expectations when they re-enter the market.”

Several customers nationwide have been acquiring Sweethearts off the black market, the Wall Street Journal reported. Some of Brock’s customers also say they have purchased the candy online, but found them to be “rock-

of conversation hearts last week, and Market House sold out just a couple days ago.

Brach’s Conversation Hearts, which have been around since the 1960s, distinguishes itself from Sweethearts as a brand by adding newer colloquialisms in its messages, such as “TTYL” (Talk To You Later) and “LYMY” (Love You Miss You).

Though Sweethearts weren’t on the public market until 1902, Necco sold them by special order for weddings starting in 1866.

Director of Spangler Corporate Communications Diana Eschhofen declined to comment on the future of the Sweethearts brand — whether colors, flavors, and messages will stay the same, or whether they will be available for Valentine’s Day in 2020. Spangler did send out a release last month, however, in the form of a “three-heart response to Sweetheart fans.”

“Miss U 2,” “Wait 4 Me,” “Back Soon.”

“A lot of it has to do with nostalgia. It’s the one they grew up with, it’s the oldest, it’s classic.” hard,” since the last batch produced was last year.

Other heart candy brands have been flying off the shelves in Hillsdale. As of Tuesday morning, Small Town Sweet Boutique still had a few packages of Brach’s Conversation Hearts, while other stores in Hillsdale have run out completely. The Jonesville Walmart sold out

Correction from previous issue In Collegian issue number 17, a Collegian article entitled “Historic Bible found in Delts’ basement” incorrectly stated that the Bible was published in 1946. The Bible was actually published in 1846.

B4 February 14, 2019

Best of Hillsdale 2019 Below are the results of The Collegian’s annual “Best of Hillsdale” survey. The survey was published in last week’s Student Activities Board newsletter and received 135 responses.

McDonald’s

Udder Side

McDonald’s is for all the people: Big Macs for the big macs and salads for the vegans; a playland for the kiddos and flower-adorned tables for date-night couples; automated checkout machines for the technos and friendly cashiers for the old-school. And a dollar menu for low-budget college students. You can’t beat this classic fast food chain, a worldwide phenomenon right here in Hillsdale. Just hope the ice cream machine isn’t broken.

– Nicole Ault

If you’re looking for quality ice cream, look no further than the Udder Side.

A Jonesville icon, the ice cream shop has everything your sweet-tooth desires, from soft serve cones to hard scoops and specialty creations such as the “Manure Spreader,” a creation of brownie pieces, peanut butter, hot fudge, and whipped cream with soft serve ice cream. But the ice cream doesn’t stop there: ice cream drinks and other creations on a stick make sure there is something for everyone at Udder Side.

– Josephine Von Dohlen

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Rough Draft Best Coffee

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Hillsdale Lanes Best Entertainment

Located not far from campus, Hillsdale Lanes is the perfect place to spend a couple of hours on a weeknight if you’re looking for a study break, or an entire day if you’re in need of something to do with friends on a weekend. Bowling is reasonably priced; per game bowling is less than $3 per person, and shoe rental is less than $2 per person. There’s a generous selection of food and drinks at Lane 17 Sports Bar, located right inside the bowling alley.

– Nathan Grime

Rough Draft is the perfect spot to sit down with a coffee and chill out after a long week of work. The rustic interior, combined with an atmosphere of urban class, makes this coffee shop a great place to do some reading or catch up with friends. Coffee lovers will enjoy the quality and variety, but they also serve an array of other beverages and food for those whose tastes don’t tend toward the caffeinated.

– Nolan Ryan Pexels

Domino’s Best Pizza

Nothing says ‘Bring on the weekend’ (or homework all-nighter) better than a tray of carry-out carbs and a side of breadsticks. Located three minutes from campus, Domino’s provides speedy service, and customers can follow each stage of their order using the Live Pizza Tracker app. $6 for Valentines, $20 for Galentines. 2018’s biggest worldwide pizza chain is now Hillsdale College students’ first choice.

– Brooke Conrad

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Lake Baw Beese Best Nature Hangout

Just a five minute drive from campus, Baw Beese boasts three playsets, various picnic areas, a paved trail system, and a well-kept sandy beach. In the summer and early fall seasons, students can grab a friend and head to the Hillsdale Country Club for some paddle boarding or kayaking courtesy of SAB. In the winter months, students can grab a hot beverage and watch local families play hockey and ice fish on the frozen lake.

Whatever the season, Baw Beese is the perfect place to relax and unwind: sit on the dock, watch the sunset, stargaze, and forget about those three term papers due on Tuesday.

– Regan Meyer

The Hunt Club Best Burger

If you’re looking for a classic sports bar, a good date spot, or just an incredible burger, the Hunt Club is the place to go.

With burgers as exotic as the Sunny Side Up, a burger with bacon and fried egg, served on Texas toast, or as classic as the Hunt Club burger itself, in addition to pizza, specialty salads, and even a Mexican menu, the Hunt Club has something for everyone. Grab a friend; grab a blind date; grab the best burger in Hillsdale.

– Carmel Kookogey

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Olivia’s

Best Date Spot Romantic ambiance, house-made wine, and filet mignon — Olivia’s Chop House has it all. This quaint but elegant restaurant, located in Jonesville, has been the go-to date night location for years, and with good reason. With a varied list of appetizers, delicious entrees, and a selection of wines from around the world, Olivia’s has something for everyone. If you’re looking to splurge a bit on Valentine’s Day — or Galentine’s? — head to Olivia’s for a night worth remembering .– Kaylee McGhee

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A favorite for both students and locals, Hillsdale’s Here’s to You Pub & Grub is the go-to for a downtown drink. Grub includes items like cheesecake with raspberry bourbon sauce or a Kevin’s Tossed Salad with chicken or steak on a bed of arugula. With a split-level set up, you can take your drinks upstairs for a game of pool, or dance the night away on the dance floor. Sipping away your school-time sorrows just got a little bit easier.

– Jordyn Pair