The Hillsdale Collegian 4.4.19

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Vol. 142 Issue 24 - April 4, 2019

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The City of Hillsdale turns 150 years old this month.

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College to change standards for course registration next year By | Victoria Marshall Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale students’ course registration days will be based on entry year, not credits earned outside of Hillsdale College, starting in the fall of 2019.

The Hillsdale College administration has decided — starting with the incoming freshman class in the fall of

2019 — to limit all credits who will continue to register which determine a student’s using the existing system until standing for registration to they graduate, according to only credits earned at HillsHillsdale College Registrar dale College. All other credits Douglas McArthur. from outside colleges and “The change is really to universities and from exams only one thing, and it’s to such as the Advanced Placestudents’ registration priorment, CLEP, and International ity — the day that students Baccalaureate, will no longer can register for classes,” said count toward the registration McArthur. “The current date. This change will not affect current Hillsdale students, See Registration A2

Whitmer’s proposed fuel tax would be highest in nation By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed gas tax would catapult Michigan into first place for the highest fuel tax in the country.

Whitmer made fixing Michigan roads a priority in her gubernatorial race, but

her proposal faces serious opposition from Republicans, who promised to shoot down Whitmer’s proposed 45-cent-per-gallon gas tax.

“We’d have the highest gas tax and the highest auto insurance. It’d be laughable if it wasn’t the governor of the state proposing it,” Representative Eric Leutheuser,

District 58, said. “It’s 100 percent the wrong solution for Hillsdale County or any rural parts of the state — which is 90 percent of the state.”

Michigan drivers currently pay a 26.3-cent per gallon state fuel tax, as well as the 6 percent state sales tax — placing See Tax A2

Alumna takes position as Romney’s press secretary By | S. Nathaniel Grime Sports Editor Hillsdale graduate Arielle Mueller ’15 has accepted a position as press secretary for recently-elected Utah senator Mitt Romney.

After graduating from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, Arielle Mueller wasted no time beginning her professional career.

Mueller spent a year in Madrid, Spain immediately after completing her undergraduate studies, where she received a master’s degree and taught history and art at a bilingual middle and high school.

Afterward, she returned to the United States, where she worked for Florida senator Marco Rubio for two and a half years. Her latest job on Capitol Hill has taken her to Romney’s office.

Mueller said halfway through her studies at Hillsdale, she got the idea that she might want to work in Washington, D.C. The summer after her junior year of college, Mueller completed an internship with Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise.

“After I had that internship, I fell in love with the Hill and the process there,” Mueller said. “I knew I eventually wanted to come back and live in D.C. and work on the Hill.”

Mueller had also studied Spanish all her life, and at the time was pursuing a Spanish minor at Hillsdale in addition to her history major. She said working in Washington for the first time made her realize her love for the city and the prospect of working there, but she didn’t want to give up on her love for Spanish either.

“I had this dual dream of living abroad and living in Spain, so I applied to this master’s program in Madrid. I ended up getting accepted to that the spring of my senior year and put the D.C. dream on hold,” Mueller said. “I knew if I didn’t live abroad right after graduation, I might not get the chance again.”

Professor of Spanish Carmen Wyatt-Hayes had Mueller as a student at Hillsdale and said Mueller was “always bright and thoughtful” and “always committed to doing the best thing for people.”

Wyatt-Hayes also encouraged Mueller to look into going to

Arielle Mueller ’15 is now working as Sen. Mitt Romney’s press secretary, after working in Sen. Marco Rubio’s office. Facebook

Q&A: Andrew Klavan By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor

Andrew Klavan is a crime and adventure novelist and screenwriter. He has published more than 30 books, including “Empire of Lies” and the “Homelander” series. His film credits include the screenplay for the 2018 anti-abortion movie, “Gosnell.” Klavan currently hosts the “Andrew Klavan Show” on the Daily Wire. Klavan is the Dow Journalism Program’s Spring 2019 Pulliam Fellow, and he will give a talk on April 9 at Hillsdale.

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Novelist and political commentator Andrew Klavan is this semester’s Pulliam Fellow, and he will be speaking publically at Hillsdale on April 9.

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an old-fashioned, chivalric idea into a modern, corrupt world. That appealed to me very deeply as a boy in the

’60s when I saw all the world falling apart around me. I had to ask myself what it means to be a man and what it means to be an American and what it means to be a good guy. I studied those books almost like religious texts. And — it sounds silly to say it — I am insanely crazy about Shakespeare. Shakespeare obviously says some of the wisest, most beautiful things that have ever been written, but he said them in the middle of sword fights, love scenes, battle scenes. He says it in the midst of adventure. I’m an adventurer writer, essentially. I just loved that he could fill stories of such adventure and action with such depth.

There’s a lack of that bravado James Bond-ish character in modern literature. Many of your main characters are this sort of character. Were you makSee Klavan A3

Spain after graduating.

“What we try to do is prepare students for an experience abroad,” Wyatt-Hayes said. “What you want to do is lay the foundations of grammar and vocabulary so that when they go to Spain, everything isn’t simply a cloud of not understanding. But there’s no equivalent to being in the culture itself, because you see how a different people does things.”

Mueller’s lifelong experience with Spanish and yearlong experience in Madrid prepared her well for her next job. After Rubio ended his campaign for president in 2016, Mueller moved back to the United States.

Since many of Rubio’s constituents speak Spanish, Mueller fit the bill for what Rubio was looking for. She was hired on as a staff assistant and eventually worked her way up to the position of press secretary for the senator.

Mueller’s fluency in Spanish was essential to her everyday duties.

“I was mostly speaking to Spanish-speaking constituents,” Mueller said. “In a press capacity, I was helping out

with anything press-related there. We ended up hiring a Hispanic media director who took that whole portfolio. It was just filling in the gaps wherever it was needed.”

After working for Rubio for the next two and a half years, another high-profile opportunity opened up. Romney claimed the open Senate seat in Utah by nearly 30 percentage points in November 2018, and Mueller learned of the newly-elected senator’s search for a press secretary by word of mouth.

“He’s somebody I’ve always thought was a man of good character and somebody that put out good ideas,” Mueller said. “But most of all, he’s a good person with strong morals.”

Almost immediately after beginning her new job as press secretary for Romney, the senator worked with Mueller’s former boss, Rubio, to roll out paid family leave legislation.

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Former Hillsdale professor assists in crafting South Dakota free speech law By | Brooke Conrad Features Editor

Earlier this year, the University of South Dakota School of Law forced a group of students to change the name of its “Hawaiian Day” social to “Beach Day,” citing a complaint about cultural insensitivity. Shortly after, the state passed a new free speech bill — the first of its kind in the nation — that requires annual reporting of university attempts to impede free speech.

Involved in the crafting of the bill was Hillsdale College’s own Classics Professor Emeritus Michael Poliakoff, who reinstated Hillsdale’s Classics department and taught at the college between 1987 and 1991. Poliakoff assisted lawmakers with the legislation through his work with the

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American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability within American colleges and universities, where he currently serves as president.

Not only does the new law forbid free speech zones on state university campuses, but it also requires the state Board of Regents to submit an annual report to the Governor and legislature each year describing every circumstance in which a university has worked to either promote or hinder free speech. The latter provision, Poliakoff emphasized, is the most “powerful” with regard to the fight for increased intellectual diversity.

“Of all institutions of civilization, the academy is the place that pre-eminently must

be open to the exchange of free ideas,” Poliakoff said. “For the legislature to encourage making that transparent — that is absolutely appropriate.”

Poliakoff contrasted his legislation with “inappropriate” free speech legislation proposed in various other state legislatures. Whereas the South Dakota law leaves universities room for administrative judgment, other states have proposed setting particular thresholds for litigation.

“It is inappropriate for government, through legislation, to be telling campus what sorts of procedures to establish,” he said. “We’ve seen a fair number of these, and they really do open up the possibility for another administration to use these things to weaponize the free exchange of ideas.”

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Brooks presents ‘first-rate’ dissertation on Thomas More’s political philosophy By | Nicole Ault Editor-in-chief

was ultimately one’s own pleasure.

“An instrumental conception of virtue is what More Most people don’t treat found politically dangerous,” Sir Thomas More as a politBrooks said. More’s history ical thinker, but his political of Richard III particularphilosophy is worth studyly makes this case. More ing as an insightful unificarecognized that a monarch tion of the contemplative life often feels that people exist and political action, accordfor his use — but instead, ing to Veronica Brooks, a republican government who recently completed the checks the excesses of rulers Ph.D. program at Hillsdale’s and allows for consent of the Van Andel School of Statesgoverned. manship.

In “Utopia,” More enDelivering her disserdorses a realistic approach tation on More’s political to politics, Brooks pointed philosophy Monday afterout, epitomized in a particunoon — and joking that the lar quote: “What you cannot name More gives himself turn to good, you must at in “Utopia” (“Morus,” Latin least make as little bad as for “fool”) was fitting for possible.” the first of April — Brooks More’s blending of politargued that More admired a ical action and contemplarepublican form of governtion in his own political life ment that depended on citi“is hard to separate from his zens’ consent and virtue. She Christianity and his piety,” Brooks said.

“His perspective on eternity is responsible for his realistic view of politics.”

More recognized that heaven comes later and is impossible on this earth.

Stephen Smith, professor of English and one of Brooks’ dissertation readers, said Brooks “articulates a very satisfactory and attractive account of prudence and the great need for it in political and personal life.”

Professor of History Paul Rahe, another of Brooks’ readers, said that while everyone writes about More’s “Utopia,” few delve into the other works that Brooks used for her dissertation. He said he hopes she will publish it as a book in the coming months.

“This is a first-rate dissertation, and it will be a great book,” Rahe said. “It’s the most comprehensive thing written on the Veronica Brooks, who recently earned her Ph.D., spoke to students and faculty about Thomas More’s political philosophy on April 1. Sam political thought of Thomas More.”

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scheme allows students to count all earned credits for the purposes of determining their class level. The new system is going to no longer count credits earned outside of Hillsdale College.”

McArthur said the college will still accept transfer credits to contribute to overall credit count, just not for determining what day a student will register.

“Students will continue to take AP courses, and students can still earn credit, but for the purposes of registration, we just won’t be including those,” McArthur said.

McArthur said there are no plans for any exceptions

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Michigan in sixth place for the highest total pump tax in the nation.

Michigan still spends less on highways compared to other states per capita, and the condition of Michigan’s roads merited a D- from the 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Whitmer’s plan would raise fuel taxes incrementally, beginning with a 15-cent tax on the first of October, and adding another 15-cent tax in April and in October of 2020.

This would raise $2.5 billion in gas taxes per year, but it would only increase road funding by $1.9 billion.

That’s because her proposal

pulled from four of More’s works — “Utopia,” “The History of King Richard III,” “Life of Pico della Mirandola,” and a collection of poetic epigrams — to make her case.

More’s views on virtue or the human good are a “starting point” for understanding his politics, Brooks said.

He derived these largely from Cicero, who rejected the Epicurean practice of withdrawing from society to philosophize. Instead, Cicero — and More after him — recognized that the good life takes place in community.

“More critiqued the ‘ivory tower’ intellectuals,” Brooks said, pointing to “Pico,” who’s apolitical practices led to trouble, as an example of this criticism.

More also rejected the Epicurean idea that virtue

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Q&A: Tim Carney By | Alex Nester d.c. correspondent Tim Carney is the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. He is also a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 2012, Carney was a Pulliam Fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of multiple books, most recently “Alienated America.”

He is speaking about his new book at Hillsdale on April 4.

What was your inspiration behind writing your new book, “Alienated America”?

It was Donald Trump.

When he started the race, he got 25 percent in some initial polls, and he was saying that the American Dream is dead.

And what is that? Why does the country agree with that?

Before that, I had been working on the question of community as the middle between individualism and government. Too many people, and a lot of conservatives, have too materialistic of a view of the American Dream, like buying a house. For many, it’s grounded in money — making more than your parents and climbing the economic ladder. That ties into the American Dream, but it’s good to go back to Alexis de Tocqueville’s American ideas.

He said Americans forms these little groups — these “little platoons,” as Burke said — and these are where we really get to be political animals. This is also where we get connection, support, and a sense of belonging.

That’s what I’m talking about when I say sense of community; this is where we get the support and connection we need and get to live out as political animals.

You were a Pulliam Fellow at Hillsdale in 2012. What was your class about?

It was called the Art of the Political Column. Now I’m an editor, but then, I was a full-time columnist. For a time in my career, my boss was Bob Novak, the author of “The Prince of Darkness.”

I was there teaching about that, and all my students were working toward a reported column — not just spouting off your opinion in a column, but telling something from your perspective that people might not already know. It’s

not just a straight news story that tries to leave the perspective out it. We worked one or two weeks to get a column. One or two of those students, Katie Bacheldor O’Dell and Mikayla Bennett, have gone on to have careers in journalism.

I now work with Jack Butler at the American Enterprise Institute in D.C.; he was one of my students, as was Caleb Whitmer, and I know he’s somewhere in journalism.

Tell me about your Tim Carney, commentary editor at the craft of journalism.

Washington Examiner, will be speaking How has it developed at Hillsdale on his new book “Alienated over the years? What America” on April 4. Wikimedia Comdoes the process of writing an article look mons like for you today?

What advice would you give I try to do reporting for my to young journalists, or more columns. This was more true broadly, young professionals? before I became an editor, To young journalists, I but I try as much as possible would say cultivating your to make the reader learn new facts they didn’t already know. own curiosity and independence are the two most When I worked for years important things. You should reporting on cronyism, I had want to understand better to research and read through how the world works, whether a lot of documents to find its politics or sports. Always out which lobbyists donated be curious, and when a questo which candidates and how tion occurs, always wonder those candidates and other how you can get to an answer. politicians voted.

And independence makes you In more recent years, a lot valuable. If you always argue of the time it’s just trying to come up with sort of an expla- a particular line, someone else is going to do that. Your nation that puts the news in own opinion and analysis isn’t context. This is what Charles Krauthammer did, and he was going to interest many people, but what is, is the ability to a master of it. You pick up his do reporting that gets people column, and it’s like, ‘Here’s information they don’t know what it all means.’ One of the For Washington in particgreat virtues of columnists ular, socializing and joining is telling both what’s going things is important. I know on and how it reflects deeper there is an immense value in thoughts and broader patmeeting people and learning terns. things about them. There is a I also talk about the ideas to as many people as possible, great value in that doing it in a way that’s not just networklike my brothers and people I ing, but really getting to know know. I talk to my colleague people and understanding Dave Freddoso and Phillip how Washington and adult Klein and the others on the opinion page. And if it’s about life works. Nothing works beta really sensitive issue, I spend ter than meeting people face to face and fostering stronger weeks lining up meetings and trying on arguments on differ- friendships. Make sure you’re developing relationships and ent people to get things really not transactions. fleshed out.

The best part of life is going If I know anything about to be relationships where you writing and the craft of put something in without journalism, it’s that writing asking for something in exis rewriting. With columns change. Socializing or netand things I write now, you get things down on paper and working should be developing relationships. then you rewrite.

regarding transfer students.

“The administration believes this is an improvement in terms of giving students equal access to courses according to their class level,” McArthur said.

According to Dean of Women Diane Philipp, many students complained that they were unable to get certain classes because underclassmen with outside credits were able to register first.

“The point of it was that freshmen were coming in with 40, 50, 60 credits, and so were able to bump sophomores, juniors, and in some cases, even seniors out of classes,” Philipp said. “So students have talked to us about it, and we said that we would look at it, and we’re just trying to make it fair for everyone. After you’ve been

here for two or three years, it’s nice to be able to get that one class.”

Philipp continued by saying that students who have been here the longest should have priority.

“The students who have been here the longest should have the opportunity to select the courses and the time slots — it’s kind of the perk of the senior year. And a lot of kids get what they want, but sometimes you just have your eye on that one class; and at Hillsdale, we don’t always teach every class every semester either,” Philipp said.

Some students around campus had both positive and negative reactions to the administration’s decision.

Junior Stephen Rupp welcomed the decision.

“I really like that it’s

changing to credits at Hillsdale only because it’s really frustrating for me as someone who has dedicated their entire academic career to this institution in particular — and I worked really hard to get here in high school — to have classes that I need to graduate for my major taken by people who transferred in,” Rupp said. “I know that I’ve been turned away from classes, but I also know people from my class that have never had that experience, and it’s not that we work any harder than each other, it’s just a difference of opportunity.”

Freshman Hannah Breeding agreed.

“While I respect that a lot of freshmen worked really hard in AP courses and community college classes in

order to bring in credits, as someone who didn’t, it can be pretty frustrating to feel always two steps behind,” Breeding said. “I appreciate the change because while I will still be behind a lot of my current classmates, at least I won’t have to compete with the incoming freshmen for space in the classes I need.”

Other students disagreed and said that the change was a bad idea.

“I think that it sounds like it’s the first step towards discounting all non-Hillsdale credits,” said senior Theodore Birkofer. “I mean, a credit is a credit wherever you go.”

Freshman transfer student Luciya Katcher said the change penalizes transfer students.

“The only benefit of doing

post-secondary work or transferring into Hillsdale is getting the privilege of scheduling according to your credit status, and when you take that away, there is a lack of incentive for going the extra mile and doing that extra work when you’re young or when you’re at a different college,” Katcher said.

Katcher said this change affects her own situation.

“For me, I worked hard for two years before coming to Hillsdale so that I can get a head start on my education and my major,” she said. “If I were to be limited in my ability to schedule—and get closed out of classes—that would set me back a semester or two until I could take those classes.”

dismantles part of the 2015 road deal, which dedicated $600 million from the income tax to the transportation fund.

The 2015 road deal promised to raise $1.2 billion to fix the roads by 2021. It is phasing in fuel tax and registration fee increases, as well as funnelling $600 million from the general fund into fixing the roads each year. It was supposed to raise roughly $880 million this year.

Whitmer argued that the 2015 plan only slowed the decline of the roads instead of actually fixing them.

“We have the worst roads in the country, and I am proposing a plan that will permanently fix our roads while keeping the costs fair for seniors and low-income

families,” Whitmer said in a press release. “I know this won’t be easy, but with one historic vote we can make the investments that are necessary to finally start fixing the damn roads.”

Whitmer’s proposed tax would charge drivers an extra $600 per household, according to Mackinac Center’s Director of Fiscal Policy James Hohman.

“The people of the state will never ever support a 45 cent gas tax hike, so their representatives in the capitol are no going to support it either,” said Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield’s spokesperson Gideon D’Assandro. “This plan is not going to happen, and rightly so. It’s a non-starter.”

In 2018 the legislature

funneled an extra $357 million surplus general funds into repairing the roads.

Michigan Transportation Department officials have argued that the funding isn’t nearly enough to repair crumbling roads.

Gas taxes put the burden of maintaining the roads on the drivers who use them, but average drivers aren’t necessarily the ones causing the most damage. Michigan doesn’t impose weight-distance taxes on heavy trucks, which is one way to avoid hefty taxes at the pump, said Hillsdale College Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram.

“The gas tax is a decent mechanism for combining the use of public infrastructure with the payments need-

ed to keep it up,” Wolfram said. “The gas tax is a mechanism that links the use of the roads to how you pay for it.

If you drive a lot of miles and use a lot of gasoline and wear out the roads, you should pay more than the person that just rides their bicycle.”

But Republicans cararictured Whitmer’s budget as an income tax hike in disguise.

Wolfram worried that Whitmer’s plan drains money from the transportation fund. While imposing a fuel tax to fix the roads, her plan would shift $600 million in annual income tax revenue away from the transportation fund, freeing funds for her other budget priorities. Wolfram compared her plan to the Michigan lottery debacle, in which legislators promised

to funnel lottery taxes into the School Aid Fund but then siphoned away money from the General Fund into other projects.

“It’s going to be a tough sell to raise taxes by $2.5 billion to spend an additional $1.9 billion on the roads,” Hohman said. “That discrepancy between what you’re calling for in actual road spending and what you’re raising in taxes is a problem.”

Despite calling Whitmer’s plan a “disappointment,” Republicans said they remain invested in fixing the roads.

“Everyone is interested in additional investment to help fix the roads, the question is what exactly that looks like,” D’Assandro said.

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Science, math honoraries Don Tocco to speak on student answer student questions In brief:

talents, donate to student clubs Clubs to write letters for funds, top 10 will receive $750 By | S. Nathaniel Grime Sports Editor Businessman and philanthropist Don Tocco has contributed thousands of dollars to Hillsdale College student groups and clubs, and Tocco will make his annual visit to campus on Thursday, April 11. Tocco’s donation usually depends on a group’s representation, but he’s added a new twist to the process this year.

“Each student group must write a page or two explaining in detail the mission statement of their group and how they are utilizing

income to serve others or advance their cause,” Tocco wrote in an email. “The best 10 letters will receive $750 each to continue on their endeavors.”

Tocco wrote that the best 10 letters will receive $750, and the next 10 will receive $250.

As always, Tocco’s philanthropy accompanies a presentation on leadership.

The presentation will take place in the Searle Center on Thursday at 7 p.m. The theme of Tocco’s presentation next week is “Discovering Your God-Given Talents.”

“The American educa-

tional process is devoid of a necessary strategy on helping students realize what their true gifts and talents actually might be,” Tocco wrote. “The presentation will be centered around ways we can start to notice and get in touch with our unique abilities and most importantly, figure out how to build a skillset around that talent.”

Tocco is also set to announce that all graduating seniors will receive a copy of his book, “Art of the Journey.”

Chaplain to take students on spiritual retreat this weekend By | Austin Gergens Collegian Reporter Director of Health and Wellness Brock Lutz and College Chaplain Rev. Adam Rick will be taking a small group of students to the Lutheran Monastery for a weekend of spiritual and physical rest.

“It may seem overwhelming to students to take two days off of homework, but I am often encouraging students to take more seriously rest for their souls,” Father Adam said. “If you don’t take rest, you will burn out quickly.”

Rick and Lutz deliberately chose a weekend in the semester that isn’t too academically strenuous for students.

The main purpose of the retreat is to spend a couple days in rest and prayer in a Benedictine monastery. The chapel is open to students outside of services for personal meditation, and the garden is open for walks.

Alumni Griffith Brown of ’17 went with the first group last year and has gone back several times with Lutz and by himself.

“The monastery provides a unique space to spend time with God, with lots of

silence in the afternoon and after dinner,” Brown said.

“Chanting the Psalms back and forth is a different way of encountering Scripture and Jesus, and it was beneficial because it got me out of my way of thinking.”

This year’s retreat is unique because it will coincide with the Lenten season.

Rick explained that the services will be different than past trips.

Participants are asked to donate $30 to the Monastery to help fund their services and replenish their supplies.

By | Alexis Daniels Assistant news editor

Hilldale’s Sigma Zeta math and science honorary, Tri Beta biology honorary, and the American Chemical Society came together for an event at Rough Draft on March 30 to answer students’ most-asked questions.

In the week leading up to the event, the clubs asked students to submit questions on what they have always wanted to know, promising to deliver answers at Rough

Chiara. The presentation included common side effects of vaccines, such as headaches, and rare effects of vaccines, such as anaphylactic reactions. Farley said the goal of the event was to answer questions as well as “bring the science honoraries together to promote scientific literacy and interdisciplinary communication.”

“Every year, there are all kinds of questions and conflicts,” Farley said in an email.

“As students in the sciences, we wanted to provide a low

as how acid works and the best element on the Periodic Table (“which was Bismuth,” Holscher said).

“The whole thing overall was a way to answer questions people had about science that sometimes are hard to research if you don’t know scientific jargon,” she said, “so it was a middle step for people.”

Junior Nate Gipe helped present questions on human anatomy with seniors Elizabeth Palmer, Dan Thiery, and Mason Clutter. He said the main goal of their pre-

Freshman Lauren Benson (left) and senior Rebecca Holscher (right) presented on chemistry at Rough Draft. Alexis Daniels | Collegian

Draft. Student members of the clubs created presentation boards based on the questions they received and set up in the back of Rough Draft. Some of the questions addressed controversial topics such as vaccines and gene editing, while others were basic or random questions such as, ‘Why is the sky blue?’ and ‘How much force would have to be put into slapping a 160-pound freshman for him to go into orbit?’

Senior and Sigma Zeta member Elise Farley presented general information about vaccines along with senior and ACS member Christine Ausherman and senior and Tri Beta member Genevieve

pressure, accessible way for our peers to find out more about their questions and make truly informed opinions and decisions.”

Farley said having Rough Draft as their location was ideal because it allowed them to present their research in a “fun, lighthearted way.”

“Rough Draft was an ideal location because it is a small business started and operated by Hillsdale alumni and students,” Farley said. “It also offers a cozy and lighthearted space and a variety of food and beverages that suit a wide range of people.”

Senior Rebecca Holscher presented general questions on chemistry with freshman Lauren Benson such

sentation was to get students interested in the subject.

“I think the goal of our presentation was to pique interest in the science of the human body, and science in general,” Gipe said in an email. “We especially wanted to reach non-science majors who maybe haven’t taken a lot of science classes at Hillsdale.”

Gipe said he thought students interacted with and learned a lot from the presenters.

“I think we all loved the experience; you get to learn some really fascinating stuff in a really fascinating environment,” he said. “So we were all interested in sharing some of that with the rest of campus.”

Kirby Center expands staff, creates three new positions By | Alex Nester D.C. Correspondent Since Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs Matthew Spalding came to the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship five years ago, Hillsdale’s campus in Washington, D.C. has almost doubled in size. In order to keep up, Kirby staff members are taking on new roles and welcoming more members to the team.

To stay on track with expansions and larger projects down the pike — including the addition of a graduate school program to the Kirby Center--the staff is adapting and growing to ensure the day-to-day tasks at Kirby are in line with the expansions. In addition to the newly-hired Executive Director of Outreach Chris Malagisi, Ashlea Frazier is now the director of operations and Matthew Mehan is the director of academic programs and Worsham Teaching Fellow.

After graduating from Liberty University in 2010 with her bachelor’s degree in political science, Spalding hired her as his personal assistant at the Heritage Foundation. While there, Frazier also served as the program manager for American Studies. She joined the Hillsdale staff in Washing-

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ing a conscious decision to put a character like that back into society?

To some degree, yes. I think feminism is a terrible philosophy. I think that manhood is a thing that the world needs. When you look around, the reason that we have this wonderful place where people can do the things they want is because of the world that man built and invented. They invented it through student acts of manhood in the face of

the systems currently in place and thinking of how to grow Hillsdale’s campus in Washington, D.C. She also manages the Kirby Center staff.

“My role is to see the train is continuously moving and on the right track,” Frazier said. “We want to also be looking at the future, and we are continuously moving forward.”

The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies has created three new posiBefore tions, to be filled by Chris Malagisi, Ashlea Frazier, and Matthew Mehan. From left: starting at the Malagisi, Frazier, and Mehan. Sam Coln | External Affairs Kirby Center in February, ton, D.C., with Spalding about Kirby staff members. During Malagisi was five years ago. When she came the hiring process, she said the editor-in-chief of the Conto the Kirby Center, her title she looks for people whose servative Book Club. He spent changed to special assistant, strengths are compatible with time working at the American and she was tasked with orga- hers and others on staff.

Conservative Union, where he nizing the Washington-Hills“My dad told me to hire was the Conservative Political dale Internship Program as people who are smarter and Action Committee Director well as working on budgets for whose strengths are my weak- and the Director of Media and the Kirby Centers’ programs nesses,” Frazier said. “These External Relations. He also and events. people fill various compoworked for the Leadership InIn 2017, Frazier was one of nents of the team.” stitute and, along with Frazier, four people to win the WilAs director of operations, is one of the winners of the liam F. Buckley Jr. Award.

Frazier oversees day-to-day William F. Buckley Award in Since coming to Kirby, projects with a new focus: 2017.

Frazier has hired a few new thinking strategically about Malagisi has spent most societies that sometimes rejected them. My guys walk alone a little bit, they say things they shouldn’t say, do things they shouldn’t do, sometimes they’re wrong, but they’re men. I think that is something that I mean to preserve.

Do you have any advice for Hillsdale students?

I’m not sure you can understand it until you learn it, but maybe you’ll understand it by having someone tell it to you: Every choice comes at a price. I spoke up in Hollywood and it cost

me a lot of money. That was the price of speaking with integrity. I know people who don’t speak up. They hide and they keep their mouth shut. I look in their eyes and that has a price. I know.

Choose the price and choose the thing you’re selling at that price. A million dollars is a lot for screenplay, but it’s not that much for your soul.

Know what you’re selling and know what the price of it should be.

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to see we’re joining this conversation of paid family leave,” Mueller said. “It was a busy week; it was fun to get thrown into it. It’s a baptism by fire.”

Mueller said the nature of the 24/7 news cycle in Washington means she must constantly stay on top of the latest happenings on Capitol Hill. Being a press secretary means wearing different hats as well: It includes writing speeches, drafting statements, posting on

of his professional career in external relations and outreach in the United States; however, during his time with the International Republican Initiative, Malagisi worked on long-term development initiatives for the Middle East and Northern Africa Initiative.

In the early 2000s, Malagisi helped facilitate Afghanistan’s first democratic election since the Taliban took over in the late 1990s. Malagisi helped educate Afghani citizens how to organize politically in a functioning democratic system.

“I’m very blessed and have had a lot of great experiences.

Being able to work and do stuff that I love means I’ve never really had a day of work in my life,” Malagisi said.

Though his career has been mostly fast-paced — he has also worked on five presidential campaigns and traveled to more than 40 different countries — Malagisi said his focus has shifted since he and his wife had their first child.

“Right now, I’m just enjoying life as a father,” Malagisi said. “I really want to spend time with my son and see the world through his eyes. Life is slowing down a bit.”

Matthew Mehan has taught at Hillsdale’s Kirby Center for five years and began his new role as director of academic programs and Worsham Teaching Fellow in January.

He teaches Continental Liter-

social media, planning press conferences, and taking questions from reporters.

Since being press secretary means Mueller is now Romney’s official spokesperson, Mueller said it’s important that people in her position believe in the ideas their bosses do.

“That was always really important for me. That’s why I’ve worked for Senator Rubio and now Senator Romney,” Mueller said. “I really believe in what they’re doing. That makes going to work easy, and you don’t

ature for students on WHIP. After graduating as valedictorian of his class at the University of Dallas, where he studied alongside other Hillsdale professors like John Grant, Thomas West, and Ronald Pestritto, Mehan began teaching at The Heights School, an all-boys preparatory school in Maryland.

After returning to school to earn his master’s degree in English and Ph.D. in literature, Mehan came back to D.C. and began teaching the Arts of Liberty Seminars, lectures on the liberal arts. Spalding heard of these and hired Mehan as an adjunct professor.

“We know that education has powerful political and social implications,” Mehan said. “Working at Hillsdale is a match made in heaven.”

Mehan is currently working on curriculum for the Kirby Centers’ Graduate School.

With both new and experienced staff members, the Kirby Center is undoubtedly moving forward, and at an unprecedented pace.

“When you’re working with an organization that your values align with, you just feel like you’re doing something, like you’re moving the ball down the line,” Malagisi said.

have a lot of those conflicts.”

Although the pressure of being spokesperson for a United States Senator appears daunting enough, Mueller didn’t seem to add any more to the fact that she’s worked for two former presidential candidates as well.

“It is kind of funny to think of that, but I don’t really think about it that way,” Mueller said. “Right now, I’m just working hard and enjoying what I do.”

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Whitmer’s gas tax hurts taxpayers more than it helps fix roads By | Kaylee McGhee Opinions Editor There’s no doubt about it: Michigan’s roads are notoriously bad. But a new state budget proposal by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is even worse.

If Whitmer has it her way, Michigan residents will face an additional 45-cent tax at the gas pump in October to help fix the state’s roads. The cost would vary depending on the driver, the car model, and miles driven, but early estimates have the annual cost to taxpayers at $255.

According to the Federal Highway Administration, Michiganders drive on average 14,121 miles per year.

The average vehicle fuel economy for 2017 model vehicles was 24.9 miles per gallon, per the Environmental Protection Agency report released last week. Put those figures together and Michigan residents are left with an additional $255, on top of the three different taxes already required at the pump.

This proposal would give Michigan the highest fuel taxes in the U.S. Whitmer said the tax could bring in $2 billion annually for the state’s roads fund, but there’s no guarantee that money would stay in said fund. As state Rep. Lee Chatfield (R-Levering) wrote in an op-ed for The Detroit News, some of the money raised from the gax tax will inevitably be siphoned off for other purposes — such is the nature of bureaucratic regulation.

Whitmer pulled this tax hike out of her pocket at the last minute. And ironically, she scoffed at the idea of a 20-cent gas tax during her gubernatorial campaign last year.

During a televised debate, Whitmer’s Republican oppo-

nent Bill Schuette accused her of advocating for a 20-cent gas tax.

“That’s ridiculous,” Whitmer replied.

“No it’s not,” Schuette said.

“It’s nonsense and you know it,” Whitmer continued.

But after assessing alternative options, Whitmer said she concluded that a tax hike — more than double what she originally opposed — is Michigan’s best solution.

But what happened to the 2015 road package? The state legislature approved several price hikes, including fuel and vehicle registration fees, that would provide $1.2 billion each year for road funding.

Though the plan won’t be fully initiated until 2021, it was supposed to guarantee the state $880 million this year alone.

On top of that, the state legislature appropriated surplus general funds for roads repairs, amounting to $357 million this year, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Whitmer’s additional tax encourages inefficient and ineffective government. She’s right about one thing: Michigan’s state representatives have been irresponsible. “Leaders haven’t been honest with us,” Whitmer said last week.

“And they haven’t forged real solutions.”

But handing the legislature a bigger check won’t fix Michigan’s fiscal mismanagement or its roads. It’s time for our state representatives to step up and find a solution within existing funds.

Michigan’s roads won’t fix themselves, but when it comes down to it, most taxpayers would rather swerve to avoid potholes than cut another check.

“Handing the legislature a bigger check won’t fix Michigan’s fiscal mismanagement or its roads.”

Kaylee McGhee is a George Washington Fellow and a senior studing Politics.

Governor Whitmer’s proposed gas tax would hurt Michigan residents faster than it would fix roads, Kaylee McGhee writes.

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Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke joined the growing list of presidential hopefuls eager to abolish the Electoral College this week, calling it an outdated system comparable to “slavery.”

“Yes, let’s abolish the Electoral College,” he said at the annual We The People Membership Summit in Washington, D.C. “This is one of those bad compromises we made at day one in this country. There are many others we can think of and they are all connected, including the value of some people based on the color of their skin. There is a legacy and a series of consequences that have persisted and remain with us to this day.”

O’Rourke’s complaints against the electoral process aren’t unusual: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have made similar comments.

And Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recently signed a bill that added Colorado to a growing list of states apart of the National Popular Vote Contract.

The argument is the same: Every vote matters, so the popular vote should outweigh the indirect representation the Electoral College provides.

“If we get rid of the Electoral College, we get a little bit closer to one person, one vote in the United States of America,” O’Rourke said.

Abolishing the Electoral

College would be disastrous.

Opponents of the institution claim it’s outdated and no longer fits American governance.

But its checks on the election process and human nature are both timeless and necessary.

The Founders understood that man has the right to govern himself, and that he can do so badly. The Electoral College serves as a check on man’s worst tendencies, placing a barrier, or a reasonable body of electors, in the way of the mass’s passions.

The Electoral College guarantees that less populous states still have a say in national elections. Without it, candidates would campaign heavily in large states and highly-par-

tisan cities — more than they already do. It’s true: Even with the Electoral College’s guidance, flyover states still hold less sway than populated swing states. But abolishing the Electoral College would eliminate this influence completely, furthering the divide between urban and rural America.

The country’s longevity is largely due to the stability the Electoral College provides.

Abolishing it would put at risk America’s values and well-being. O’Rourke and the rest of the Democratic gang would be wise to remember its purpose before calling for its dissolution.

Eliminate the international tiebreaker rule at the collegiate level By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor In its spring break trip, the Hillsdale College softball team lost three extra-inning games by one run each. It’s easy to look at the box score and assume they lost because of errors or unearned runs, but what really cost the Chargers those games was an international tiebreaker rule.

To promote competition and sportsmanship, the NCAA should lead the charge and call for the elimination of the tiebreaker rule.

The purpose of the rule is to speed up scoring and reduce the duration of the game. According to the official NCAA rulebook, officials put the the international tiebreaker into effect if the score is tied after the completion of at least seven innings of play.

The rule states that starting at the top of the predetermined inning—typically the eighth inning—and each half-inning that follows, the offensive team places its last batted out from the previous inning on second base. If the No. 4 batter is the lead-off batter for example, then the No. 3 batter in the lineup is placed on second base. Teams can make a substitution for the base runner on second at the start of the half-inning.

Additionally, officials and coaches must agree on using the rule during the pregame meeting. Individual conferences and tournament directors also have the power to decide to use the international tiebreaker rule — this was the case with the Chargers’ games.

The NCAA, however, recommends that this rule not be put into effect until the start of the tenth inning, and for good reasons.

After 13 years of playing

softball, I’ve witnessed how this rule dramatically changes the outcome of individual games.

The international tiebreaker rule undermines the spirit of competition by placing a runner in scoring position without any effort from either team.

With a runner already in scoring position at the Hillsdale freshman Anna Dixon makes contact with a pitch during the Charstart of each half-inning, most gers’ Florida trip. Carly Gouge | Courtesy runs. Since its the home team, season, the Chargers are not teams score at least it can afford to substitute in on track to make a play-off one run in the eighth inning. the fastest runner on second run. Unlike travel and sumEach team uses different base and the best hitters, mer leagues, overall records strategies to score the player knowing that those players matter at the collegiate level. on second depending on their will not have to play defense if Losing three extra-inning line-up and the speed of the it wins the game. games at the start of the searunner.

In travel leagues and sumson could have an impact the A single to right field will Chargers at the end. Another typically score the base runner mer ball, putting the international tiebreaker rule into team in the Chargers’ region on second. If she’s fast, there’s effect makes sense. Softball that played a significantly easno doubt she’ll score. A sacriteams will play up to five ier schedule could earn a spot fice bunt to move the runner games in a single day during in playoffs if it has just one followed by a sacrifice fly or a weekend tournaments. The more win than Hillsdale. gap shot will always score the tournament director needs to Even though the Chargers runner on second. keep all of the games movwere in a spring tournament, The away team generally ing. In the grand scheme of and the director probably scores the runner on second, life, losing one game in a 16U wanted to keep games moving, and feels relieved. It takes the softball tournament because the international tiebreaker lead by only one run. of the international tie breaker rule has a serious impact on When the bottom of the college teams. eighth inning starts, the home rule is not the end of the world. After all, most players The NCAA should elimiteam also has no trouble scorhave already decided where nate the international tieing its own player on second they are playing softball in breaker rule altogether. It to tie the game. Here’s where college. may keep the game moving, the rule changes the game.

At the collegiate level, the but it gives the home team a The home team needs one rule makes a difference. lopsided advantage, stacking more run to win the game.

The Chargers went 4-10 all of the odds against the All of the momentum is in its during their spring break trip. away team and discouraging favor.

It’s possible that they would healthy competition.

In the Chargers’ case, the have gone 7-7 if they did not home team won two of the play three games where the three extra-inning games. international tiebreaker rule Julia Mullins is a sophomore The home team can afford was put into effect. studying Politics. to make more substitutions While it’s still early in the on offense that could produce

Democratic candidates should pledge to appoint a special counsel be in the busiBy | Connor Kaeb Special to the Collegian ness of scheming After nearly two years and more than $25 million, the Mueller investigation ended with the finding that special counsel Robert Mueller “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.”

This finding, however, directly contradicts the bold assertions of many Democratic presidential hopefuls.

For example, Beto O’Rourke claimed, “You have a president, who in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government — a foreign power — to undermine and influence our elections, the sanctity of the ballot box, the ability for each and every single one of us to make informed decisions about those who seek to represent us and hold positions of public trust.”

Likewise, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said, “We have foreign powers infecting the White House like malware.”

And Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) wrote on Twitter that “a campaign for President of the United States should never

with foreign adversaries to tamper with our elections. I just thought that went without saying.”

Although all of these statements were an attempt to smear Trump by painting him as an agent of the Russian government who stole the 2016 election, they do make a valid point. As Gillibrand said, presidential campaigns should never collude Democratic candidates should appoint their own special counsels if they are with foreign nations, and I be- truly interested in protecting the integrity of elections, Connor Kaeb writes. lieve that is an idea Wikimedia does not know every action that In doing so, they would ensure that all Americans, every employee takes. that the will of the American regardless of party, believe in.

With that in mind, in the in- people is truly represented and If the Democrats truly terest of protecting the integrity prove that their condemnabelieve this, they should take a of our elections and the office of tions of foreign collusion with pledge to immediately appoint the presidency, the Democratic a presidential campaign are a special counsel to investigate candidates for President should more than just empty political their own campaigns if elected commit to allowing an unbirhetoric. president. I’m not accusing ased, outside observer to take any of the current Democratic a close look at all of the inner candidates of collusion, but presidential campaigns are vast, workings of their campaigns if Connor Kaeb is a George sprawling apparatuses, and the they are elected to ensure that Washington Fellow and a sophocandidate at the top certainly everything is on the up-and-up. more studying Politics.

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unveiled new pathways into By | Ross Hatley space that became political Special to the Collegian bridges to nowhere because A great revolution in human affairs is unfolding 200 miles above your head. Vice President Mike Pence announced last week at the Marshall Space Flight Center that it is a “stated policy” of the Trump administration “to return U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon in the next five years.”

July 20, 2019 of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as Pence put it, “We’re in a space race today, just as we were in the 1960s.” And the prize is greater than ever before.

Ice, an essential resource for life support and propulsion, was discovered on the surface of the moon in 2008, astounding scientists and throwing open the doors for a lunar real-estate scramble.

Admittedly, the words “space race” are no longer the magical incantation they once were — several administrations since John F. Kennedy’s have

of electoral change, plodding bureaucracy, and budgetary constraints.

Instead, Pence’s magic phrase that will send Americans to the moon is “mission over the means.” Sending a clear message to the builders of the years-overdue and over-budget government Space Launch Systemrocket, the Vice President announced that the government would “consider every available option and platform to achieve our goals” and “if our current contractors can’t meet this objective, then we’ll find ones that will.” Even further, “if commercial rockets are the only way to get American astronauts in the next five years, then commercial rockets it will be.”

This sense of urgency, prioritization, and focus will get us to the moon.

As incredible as it seems, landing on the moon is hardly the most important news to come out of the fifth meeting of the National Space Council.

Dear sleep deprived student, prioritize rest when we are rested. No longer By | Reagan Cool Special to the Collegian just enduring the day, we are freed to enjoy it. We were created for adventures far more If you give your sleep to thrilling than survival, yet we God, He’ll give back to you. subject ourselves to this dull I know because it works. I experience of reality when we used to pull at least a couple refuse our body’s needs. all-nighters a semester, finSleeping is also an act of ishing the third paper of “hell faith.

By tucking myself in at week” at 5:30 a.m. or running night when there are items left through the stack of titles unchecked on my to-do lists, and dates a few more times I promise God: “I worked earbefore the 8 a.m. final. In the desperate hours between dusk nestly today, and I trust that you will provide the restoand dawn, it is easy to let our ration and the time to comobligations overwhelm us. plete what I must tomorrow.”

I finally asked myself one night as I nodded off around 1 And it never fails. I wake up a.m,. “Is this exhaustion worth restored instead of frantic, and the time away from my work it?” I decided it wasn’t, and I discovered that sleeping didn’t gives me a better understanding of what the important cost me my grade. Sleeping things are. The condition, of more helped me to finish all course, is my work honesty. on time.

Sleeping I was also more able to doesn’t work out, help me and pray, accomplish and sustain my work conversaif I wasn’t tion, and really be present working to to my begin. friends and As professors. college Miracustudents lous. preparing The for and truth is dreaming that we of the vast do not future work as ahead of well when us, it is we are easy to sleep-deadopt a prived. dauntless Even if it attitude, feels like I certain that am busy, we’ll live my rate of for at least productivianother ty dwindles century. and my One of the judgment unexpectflouned beauties ders as I of sleep, trespass on however, the time is that it reserved is a good for rest. practice of The work mementhat takes to mori, me four remindhours at night requires just ing us of our death and the one or two in the morning importance of what’s to come. when well-rested.

Professor of EnglishPatricia The Bible frequently Bart says that sleep is good reminds us to tithe, and I practice for death. Man’s will frequently remind the Bible that I can’t. Consider the poor pushes him forward all day; widow in the Gospel of Mark. choosing to go to sleep is a surrender of his will, of not Jesus watches her drop two getting everything he wants. small coins into the treasury, then calls his disciples: “Truly, So it is, too, at the end of our life, when we surrender our I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those will to that which we cannot control. When we go to sleep who are contributing to the each night, we offer our day treasury. For they all contriband when we will go to sleep uted out of their abundance; someday, we will offer our life. but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her The preparation for death, which is living well, helps us whole living,” (Mark 12:43in turn to die well.

44).

Live well, tired classmate.

What more precious thing Your work is important. Go to do we have to offer as students sleep. than our time? Sleeping honors our bodies. We are able Reagan Cool is a junior to be more fully the men and studying Philosophy and women God crafted us to be Religion.

“What more precious thing do we have to offer as studnets than our time? Sleeping honors our bodies. We are able to be more fully the men and women God crafted us to be when we are rested.”

Many of the goals targeted in the Trump administration’s series of four Space Policy Directives were announced as well, such as 5G spectrum reallocation to expand access to space industry, the loosening of export controls on civilian space technologies, and the implementation of new initiatives regarding orbital traffic management, crucial for managing ever larger satellite constellations.

Sweeping changes are underway throughout the bureaucracy as well. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson announced a planning commission that will set up the Space Force as the sixth branch of the military within five years. While Pence observed that previously the “greatest barriers to space entrepreneurs have been bureaucratic barriers,” the planned Bureau of Space Commerce will soon become the one-stop-shop for commercial space ventures.

And most importantly, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the posting of new launch and reentry licensing

rules in a herculean effort, completing the first update and liberalization of the rules in 12 years.

This truly is a revolution.

This isn’t just a trend — it’s bigger than the White House or NASA. Unlike previous eras, the government is not the sole actor in space. In the last six months, advancements in policy were matched by almost-daily triumphs in the American space industry. In November of 2018, Morgan Stanley predicted a trillion-dollar space economy by 2040, driven by what the Department of Commerce called a “wave of innovation” in remote sensing, communications, weather forecasting and imaging that will eventually expand into habitation, tourism, space-based solar power, and mining.

Cell phones, not Apollo, are mankind’s beachhead in space.

With 3.5 billion people still not online, communications satellites are the primary growth market today. Scores of startups are rushing into orbit, pioneering massive constellations of

small satellites, not least among them Google and SpaceX’s own planned Starlink network of 1,584 satellites to provide global broadband access. By 2021, three giant ViaSat satellites (best known for supplying inflight internet) will blanket the whole Earth in the first global cell network.

In February, Israel launched its first spacecraft in history to the lunar surface, essentially contracting a space program wholesale from SpaceX. According to the Council, “access to space is the key enabler,” and 2019 will bring four additional launch vehicles are online.

The deepest underlying trend: venture capitalists poured $3.25 billion into the global space industry in 2018, up 29 percent, an even greater increase than the year prior.

For the Trump administration to put the next “man and woman” on the moon in 2024, reelection is almost certainly required. But even now, the Space Council and the Administration have replaced pork projects with a timely, focused vision for

America’s space presence and are making enduring strides forward in unleashing American space enterprise.

Most important, the march to space is no longer defined by government, as communications and launch enterprises erect the first pillars of a future space economy. You may not see it yet, but the paradigm shift is broadening and accelerating.

As commerce and people enter space, the final frontier will become mankind’s highest home.

Man moves, haltingly, spontaneously, but continuously into outer space, to learn, to profit, and ultimately to live. The discovery of the New World revolutionized world history — who can imagine how our story will read when mankind finally ventures beyond the dim crevasse of its gravity well and sails the celestial seas?

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

Don’t overstay your welcome on the football field By | Regan Meyer News Editor Two weeks ago, hearts across “Pats Nation” broke when New England Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski announced his retirement from the game of football.

In his nine seasons wearing the Patriots’ jersey, Gronkowski has become a NFL fan-favorite with his goofy off-field persona and on-field antics.

The average NFL retirement age is 35-years-old,so it would appear that the 29-year-old Gronk has at least six more seasons left in his career. Patriots fans, and sports fans in general, think Gronk should stick around for a few more seasons, but Gronk’s decision to retire at the opportune moment should be the standard in the NFL. It’s no secret that Gronk has had quite the impressive career. Gronk retires as the Tight End leader in yards per game (68.3), touchdowns per game (0.69), and yards per target (9.9). He’s broken a variety of NFL regular and postseason records, won three Super Bowls, and appeared in four Pro Bowls.

He’s a household name, thanks in part to his myriad of endorsements that include Dunkin Donuts and Monster Energy.

There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t overstay your welcome at a party, but in recent NFL history, that saying should also apply to the football field. In an age where players follow the biggest contracts and guaranteed playing time, a move like Gronk’s is rare. Franchise mainstays are switching teams late in their careers so they can prolong them. The result is a whole generation of declining football stars pathetically attempting to force their careers to last as long as humanly possible.

There is no better example than legendary Green Bay

Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

After 16 seasons with the Packers, starting every game from 1998 to 2007, Favre went to the New York Jets for a season and then to Green Bay’s rival, the Minnesota Vikings, for two more years before ultimately retiring.

Had Favre retired after those 16 years as a Packer, he could’ve gone out with a bang, respected and revered as a great The New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski sets an important retirement preceand loyal dent, Regan Meyer writes. Wikimedia teammate. play the game. But doing so demise of the career of a Instead, he tried to hang would increase the risk of once-great player. The NFL onto a non-existent career retiring an injured liability runs the risk of becoming and lost the respect of not that was forced out by his nothing more than that if its only Cheeseheads but an team. He’s been no stranger stars continue to take desperentire nation of NFL fans. to injury, suffering from a ate measures to prolong their Favre tried desperately to torn ACL and MCL as well careers. Current and future hold onto his career, and that as various herniated disks. players should look to Rob decision tainted his legacy.

The likelihood that his body Gronkowski as the example The name “Brett Favre” will could hold up and stay for a retirement decision forever conjure the image of healthy for the duration of done right. Go out on a high the washed-up quarterback future seasons is low. note and take control of your who couldn’t come to terms Gronk also secured his own destiny. Don’t let the with the end of his career third Super Bowl Champiguys in the front office do it and now stars in questiononship this year with the for you. able Wrangler jeans ads.

Gronk’s retirement comes Patriots’ victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Ending his at the opportune moment in career now ensures he goes his career. His welcome on out on a high note.

Regan Meyer is a sophothe football field is far from There’s nothing worse more studying Rhetoric and over — he undeniably has than watching the pitiful Public Address. at least a few more years to

Letter: The Tower Players will never produce ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Dear Editor, In the March 28th issue of The Collegian, Ms. Allison Schuster initiated a conversation about how we choose musicals at Hillsdale College.

As Chairman of Theatre and Dance, I was contacted for her article, which I did not realize was an opinion piece where readers would be informed as to what the department that I lead should do.

Ms. Schuster left out a few elements of our selection criteria: First, since we have only been doing a big musical every other year, we produce ones that feature all three elements (theatre, music, and dance); second, the shows have a relatively large cast; and third, are something that the faculty desire to work on. That last element is key: the professional faculty members produce shows that they think are important.

The Tower Players are not

community theatre, and will not produce the same shows your own local theatres and high schools do on a regular basis. In short, the Tower Players will never produce “Beauty and the Beast” at Hillsdale College. (That’s not entirely true: Music did produce a fully staged version of Vittorio Giannini’s opera in 2010, where the Theatre Department provided lighting, costume and other technical elements!)

I should also mention that our good friends at the Sauk Theatre in Jonesville are producing “Beauty and the Beast” this summer. Auditions are April 5th and 6th.

Let me correct some misunderstandings in Ms. Schuster’s column. The decision as to what we produce is made in conjunction with the Music Department, as well as with consultation from the Dance program.

I would love to have carte blanche as to what shows we produce, but that is

simply not the case (if it was, I certainly would have directed Jesus Christ Superstar by now). A committee of dedicated professionals met multiple times to decide upon the best shows for the season, for the students of the college, and for our dedicated and enthusiastic audience.

Ms. Schuster’s understandings about who are in involved in our shows, particularly the musicals, is uninformed. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” featured 50 performers, including the backstage crew and pit orchestra. Only ten of them were studying theatre. That is an excellent ratio for a liberal arts program at an elite school. I should also note that “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” had excellent attendance numbers, and the enthusiastic response to the production demonstrated that people who actually see our shows are generally pleased with what we

produce.

I greatly respect the opinions of my colleague George Angell, who responded to these issues 25 years ago, but his statements do not reflect the current departmental position, nor do I think they are particularly relevant to our current discussion. Professor Angell was speaking of a smaller college, with fewer students, and less faculty.

The last 25 years have done wonders in all three areas, and we are capable of doing big, successful, and artistically significant musicals. We also are entering into a period where were are considering producing a musical on an annual basis, so there are multiple ways to be active in the program going forward.

Just not in “Beauty and the Beast.”

James M. Brandon is a professor at Hillsdale College and the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Departments.

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Moments in our history: City of Hillsdale turns 150 By | Brooke Conrad Features Editor While log cabin schoolhouses and railroad roundhouses may be a thing of the past, they contributed greatly to making Hillsdale — 150 years after becoming a city what it is today.

Hillsdale received its charter in April of 1869, but before that, it was frontier country.

According to pioneer William Kirby in “150 Years in the Hills and Dales,” a two-volume catalogue of Hillsdale County’s history, Michigan only had about 60,000 inhabitants in 1834, most of whom lived in Detroit or along the state’s eastern and northern borders.

“The settling of southern Michigan was gradual and the isolation and deprivation of the early settlers corresponded,” he writes. “There was more to be endured by the first pioneers before there were any sawmills, or gristmills, or places of business, than for those who came after. At first it was all natural wildness, the Indian, the wild animals, and the apparent endless, roadless, and eternal woods.”

In the early pioneer days before Hillsdale’s charter, every denomination in the area would hold its meetings in the same school house, which was located near Bacon Street. The first sermon there was delivered by a clergyman, “Page,” from Litchfield, Kirby writes: “His text was in Isaiah, and read something like this: ‘The wilderness and the solitary plain shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.’”

After Hillsdale College, originally founded as Michigan Central College, moved to Hillsdale in 1855, it also instituted College Baptist Church. The services were at first held in the college chapel on Hillsdale’s campus, which accommodated about 800 people. It wasn’t until a decade later when the church decided to build a permanent meeting house. According to the “Hills and Dales,” this was “a heroic undertaking” for a group of approximately 200 members, as the nation had recently passed through the Panic of 1857 as well as economic

strain due to the Civil War. Education in Hillsdale began in 1838 in a log schoolhouse on the north side of State Street near Wolcott Street, where a local resident, Caroline Ford, taught a few children privately. A few years later, early settlers gathered to construct a one-story frame building on the north side of what is now East Bacon Street, complete with a wood stove in the center of the room. This building was also used for

“Hills and Dales,” fire departments were a “luxury” that communities could only acquire after reaching a certain level of prosperity and age.

“The most serious menace which early frontier towns had to face and fight was fire,” Hillsdale’s Fire Marshal, Larry Eichler, wrote in his account.

“Inflammable wooden structures, protected inadequately by primitive water systems, were easy prey for the devouring element. Open fireplaces

Hillsdale, at a time when the nation as a whole only had constructed a few total miles of track. Hillsdale, in fact, operated as the “western terminus,” or last stop on the railroad line between 1843 and 1853, until it was later extended to Coldwater and eventually west toward Chicago, according to a February 1988 edition of Community Plus Magazine.

The railway roundhouse, or semicircular building for stor-

stituted its own broadcasting station, WBSE, or “Baw Beese Broadcasters, Incorporated,” on the corner of Howell and North Streets. Eventually brothers Fahey and Tony Flynn in 1961 took over the station, which became WCSR, and moved in 1963 to its current location on West Street.

Another milestone development for Hillsdale in its early years was the railroad.

In 1843, the first set of track was laid between Adrian and

ing locomotives, was located on “Railroad Street,” now known as Carleton Road. Up to 40 trains a day would come through Hillsdale, according to Carol Lackey, who performs research with both the Mitchell Research Center and the Hillsdale County Historical Society .

“The railroad was what made Hillsdale what it was,” Lackey said. “Because the service originally came here and stopped here, the place

The Hillsdale train station was the last stop on the railroad line between 1843 and 1853. Courtesy | Mitchell Research Center/ Hillsdale Historical Society

church and other community activities. Several other local schools were constructed within the following century, including Joseph Mauck Elementary School on Fayette Street, which opened in 1939.

Perhaps one of the most important events in the city’s early development was the creation of the fire department, the beginnings of which occured in 1847, the year Hillsdale was organized as a village. According to the

and flickering candles augmented the danger. Every inhabitant held himself in readiness to answer every alarm and, at any hour of the day or night, ran with his bucket to join the water-passing brigade.”

As the population increased over the next several decades, Hillsdale saw the influence of several national trends, including the 1870s temperance movement.

Hillsdale County saw the

Residents speak out against new leaf collection plans By | Cal Abbo Assistant Editor The City of Hillsdale will save nearly $50,000 this spring as it transitions to private leaf collection by Modern Waste.

Jake Hammel, Hillsdale’s director of public services, estimated the total cost of his leaf collection procedure around $76,000, including labor, equipment, fuel, supplies, and raking.

“Rather than discontinue the service, we were trying to look at ways to save money with the service,” he said. “With Modern Waste, there’s a leaf collection option for $19,500.”

To save money, Modern Waste’s service requires residents to collect leaves and place them into biodegradable bags.

Previously, residents could blow or rake leaves to an area between the sidewalk and the curb, without using bags, for pickup by Hammel’s staff. According to Hammel, wind and rain often blew leaves into the street, clogging sewers and making it more difficult for his staff to collect.

Since the announcement, residents have voiced their complaints to both Hammel and the city council. At the council’s March 18 meeting, resident Keith Myers spoke about the difficulty and cost of bagging leaves.

“I have 18 mature trees, six decorative trees, and a lot of other shrubbery,” Myers said.

“When the city picks up my leaves, they use two truck-

formation of the Sons of Temperance, a group that articulated principles of strict alcohol abstinence, as well as a Hillsdale County Women’s Christian Temperance Union chapter, which was one of the state’s oldest chapters.

The beginning of the 18th century brought both the construction of Hillsdale’s city hall, as well as the advent of Michigan’s first radio broadcasts. A few decades later in 1955, Hillsdale County in-

loads. Not only is that a high cost for the bags, the additional time and effort to place the leaves in the bag will be astronomical compared to just blowing them to the curb.”

Instead of a new collection protocol, Myers suggested one pickup later in the fall instead of two in order to save money.

However, Hammel said his staff needs all the time they can get for fall leaf pickup.

In the spring and fall,

permits to residents wishing to “barrel burn” their leaves.

At the council’s April 1 meeting, Councilman Bill Zeiser said the commission concluded this solution could cause more uncontrolled fires and present issues for residents with prior health conditions.

Hammel said he strongly encourages residents to compost their leaves, which can provide good nutrients for soil. Ultimately, he focused on the positive aspect of the change.

“That $50,000 in savings is money that can be spent on streets,” Hammel said. “I’m excited we can work on streets in the fall rather than collect leaves. Fall is an optimal time to get the streets in really good shape before the winter.”

Additionally, residents can no longer drop off leaves and grass to the city’s compost site.

Hammel said he believes new state regulations controlling for organic material in runoff would drastically increase operating costs at the site.

Hammel and his staff will continue to do brush collection like normal. Residents should leave brush in the same area between the sidewalk and curb.

Modern Waste will pick up residents’ leaf bags on April 20. Hammel and his staff will collect brush on or before April 16. Hammel encouraged residents to make sure their leaves weren’t on the curb for a long time in case of a rainstorm.

“I have 18 mature trees, six decorative trees, and a lot of other shrubbery,” Keith Myers, a Hillsdale resident said. “When the city picks up my leaves, they use two truck-loads.”

Hammel retools existing snow plow trucks for leaf collection, which means he needs to convert them back once it begins to snow.

“Once it gets to the point where we have cold temperatures, I have to put salt spreaders on all my dump trucks that I needed to collect leaves,” Hammel said. “So we struggle to get all the leaves picked up that folks want us to.”

The council also directed the Public Services Commission to explore expanding

boomed.”

Local resident Gloria Triechman recalls spending time during the 1940s at the railroad station where her grandfather, Frederick Triechman, served as superintendent of the tracks.

“We used to go every place on the train,” Triechman said.

“We would go to Fort Wayne to shop.”

Lackey, who grew up in Hillsdale, said she remembers the downtown area being “so much more busy,” to which Triechman agreed.

“People used to go downtown to park and watch people go by,” Triechman said.

“Things would be open at 9 at night.”

Hillsdale’s last passenger train came through Hillsdale in Nov. 1956, met by a ceremony of around 250 Hillsdale local residents. One of the passengers on that last train, Ben Deuel, lamented to the Hillsdale Daily News that the country “would be better off if there were fewer automobiles and more passenger trains.”

Today, the city of Hillsdale is focused a great deal on issues pertaining to economic development. Mayor Adam Stockford said his biggest goal right now is to expand Hillsdale’s industrial park. The park is currently operating at full capacity with regard to physical building space, which Stockford said hasn’t been the case in a long time.

“It’s a sign of a good economy, but it’s also a sign of a good area when companies want to move to Hillsdale,” he said. “It’s definitely not Michigan taxes that make them want to move here. And we’ve got more than just the state of Michigan to compete with. We also have two border states, one of which keeps taxes lower than we do.”

Stockford, who grew up in Hillsdale, said the biggest change he has seen in recent years is the city’s strong focus on education, and also emphasized private schools’ refusal to “take cues” from the state or federal government.

Despite a handful of developments over the years, a lot in Hillsdale has stayed the same.

“I don’t think Hillsdale has changed all that much,” Stockford said, “which is exactly what people like about it.”

The Keefer House will be remodeled into a hotel by fall 2020.

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Council lifts property tax for Keefer House By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor During its meeting on April 1, Hillsdale City Council passed the Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act for the Keefer House, LLC, which will provide property tax exemptions for for the next 12 years.

Mayor Adam Stockford said the Keefer House, LLC submitted its application for the rehabilitation project to start July 2019, with a projected end date of Sept. 2020.

“The total estimated cost of the building and real property improvement reported by the applicant is $6,012,670,” Stockford said. “The Economic Development Corporation Board reviewed the application at their meeting held Feb. 21 and recommended that Council approved the resolution as presented for 12 years.”

C.L. Real Estate associate Brant Cohen ’18 said he appreciates the community’s support with the project.

“Our numbers work really well when we have the OPRA

added into it to make this project viable for the city,” Cohen said. “We believe it is a catalyst for future development here.”

Ward 2 Council Member Will Morrisey asked Cohen how the council would learn if there is an error with the application.

“Would it be knocked down, what would would happen?” Sharp said.

According to Cohen, after the city assessor deemed the Keefer House an obsolete building, she deemed it worthy for the OPRA application, which then moved on to the council vote. The next step in the application process, Cohen said, is to receive approval from the state.

Morrisey also asked Cohen if he thought the project would make a big difference in downtown Hillsdale.

“We really feel that it’s going to be activating that block and bringing more people to the community to see the wonderful town that Hillsdale is,” Cohen said. “We’re very

excited that it will show off the greatness of the city and encourage more investment and development.”

Cohen said the Keefer House will be transformed into a 34-room boutique hotel with a restaurant and have three retail spaces and a space in the back that can be used for events and dining.

Ward 3 Council Member Bruce Sharp said he supports the council’s decision to promote the project because the Keefer House has been empty for so many years.

“Here we got somebody that wants to invest and get the Keefer House going,” Sharp said. “Let’s get something done because we want to get the downtown rolling again.”

After discussing old photos of Downtown Hillsdale, Sharp said he would like to see the Keefer House come back.

“It benefits everyone in Hillsdale and the county, not just the college,” Sharp said.

“I’m looking forward to seeing it get done.”

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‘For something greater we can come together’ Hillsdale High’s David Boswell wins Artworks of Hillsdale’s Artist of the Year prize By | Grace Houghton Collegian Reporter Moments before David Boswell learned he had won Artworks of Hillsdale’s Artist of the Year Prize, he stood before his students at Hillsdale High School, helping his chorale warm up for rehearsal.

For Boswell, his final year of teaching looks remarkable like the previous 25 – investing in the musical community of his students and peers, and finding ways to deepen the local musical community through training chorales and sharing performances.

David Boswell, choir director at both Hillsdale High School and Davis Middle School, won Artworks of Hillsdale’s 2019 “Artist of the Year” prize, awarded to individuals or couples who promote the arts in Hillsdale county.

Boswell’s own musical career started during his highschool years, when he was inspired by his high school choir director.

“I thought, maybe if I could be half as good as him, I could

do something good,” he said.

As Artworks of Hillsdale’s award has witnessed, Boswell has indeed done much good.

Connie Sexton, president of Artworks of Hillsdale, said Boswell transformed the music programs.

“He picked up a falling program and turned it into something inspirational, beginning with his arrival in Hillsdale in 1993,” she said.

Boswell’s students succeed both during and after grade school years. Each year his students from Hillsdale High School reach the regional and state levels, regularly qualifying for the all-state choir.

Others have gone into teaching themselves, including a now-alumnus of Hillsdale College who double majored in voice and cello performance before attending University of Michigan for his masters in vocal performance.

“It’s a tough career, but he’s doing all the great stuff to make this career work.

I’m awfully proud of him,” Boswell said.

Boswell has even inspired students to follow his own

example, including a student who directs the choirs at Dewitt High School.

“She’s doing just an incredible job,” Boswell said. “Her choirs are among the best in the state.”

But Boswell doesn’t just train students to go on the road and bring back titles.

Often the same trips to larger campuses with bigger productions spark ideas in Boswell’s head that he brought back and planted in Hillsdale.

The three-day art festival, Artrageous, which recently celebrated its 13th year, was based on the Michigan Youth Arts Festival, held on the campus of Western Michigan University. On a trip to Western for a choral festival, Boswell wondered if Hillsdale High could replicate the festival for Hillsdale’s own students and community, and give greater publicity to the work he and his students already do. He pooled funds with the band and orchestra directors and helped start Artrageous, a visual arts festival held over a spring weekend.

While past years have

Arnn speaks at local GOP Lincoln Day event By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn was the keynote speaker Friday at the Branch County Republican Party’s 124th Annual Lincoln Day dinner in Dearth Community Center in Coldwater, Michigan. Arnn spoke about Lincoln’s strong leadership and how society should follow his example today.

“He was a beautiful human being, also he was great because he got the chance where it would either fail or be glorious,” Arnn said. “That was not the first time our country had been in that spot. It was the second and this is the third, where we are tonight.”

The Lincoln Day dinner is hosted annually by the Branch County Republican Party and this year’s event included four other guest speakers, Chair of Michigan GOP Laura Cox, U.S. representative Tim Walberg, state senator Mike Shirkey, and state representative Eric Leutheuser.

Arnn used Aristotle’s four causes to compare the country’s current situation with that of Lincoln’s time. He said how pursuing the principle of equality, the final cause, was the crisis during Lincoln’s presidency, and how this issue is relevant to that of today’s.

With current politicians only favoring those agreeing with their beliefs and shunning those who do not, the principle of equality becomes lost and less of a safeguard in human history, but following it can be regained if Lincoln’s

example in leadership and perseverance is followed, Arnn said.

“If we love the right things and study them, and we shine our character so that courage is in us, then in God’s good time we’re going to fix all of this and we’re going to be like the generation that founded this party,” Arnn said.

After Arnn’s speech, attendees said they became hopeful for the country’s future improving when considering its present situation.

Hillsdale College sophomore and Vice President of College Republicans Aidan Wheeler said the speech was great because it implied the importance in reading and studying the writings of Lincoln.

For President of College Republicans junior Patrick Farrell, he said Arnn’s reminder inspired him that good can still come out of seemingly hopeless times.

“You never know what to expect every time you hear Dr. Arnn talk, because he always adds something new to it and I always get something more out of it,” Farrell said. “It sometimes seems like we can never attain the government we had before, but Arnn’s speech brought the message that things can be that way again as long as we keep up the good fight.”

Freshmen Jacob Hooper said he was rather surprised at the relevant application of Lincoln’s values in today’s world and how important it is to remain faithful in the good fight, just as Lincoln did.

“There were a lot of people

included video projects and culinary arts, the program of Artrageous centers around theater and music performance. This year’s show featured “The Little Mermaid” on Friday and Saturday, with a coffee shop performance Saturday evening featuring the jazz band, students reading their own poetry, and various solos and ensembles. Artrageous culminated in Sunday’s Festival of Song, a program that featured Hillsdale High School’s band, orchestra, and both choirs. The visual arts of the students were displayed so that the audience could browse before and after the theatre and musical performances, and during intermission too.

In addition to Artrageous, Boswell also developed the Hillsdale Collage Concert, which was held this December for the 16th year in a row, at the Davis Middle School Auditorium. Boswell initially drew the idea at the state music conference at University of Michigan, where he saw the larger school’s collage concert.

Now, Hillsdale’s own Col-

lage concert is “probably the community’s favorite performance of the year,” Boswell said. “It might go from a flute solo to full choir to jazz band to string quartet. It’s very beautiful.”

Boswell’s love for music and the community it produces extends outside the classroom. His time in Hillsdale involved six years as the director of the Hillsdale Arts Chorale, which performs both sacred and secular pieces four times a year, ranging from Bach to Mozart to Bernstein.

Boswell called Hillsdale Arts Chorale a “fantastic organization,” and said “I’m grateful for my time as a director.”

Boswell himself played trombone, tuba, and bass guitar in previous years, but currently enjoys guitar best, often on Friday nights performing around Hillsdale with his wife.

Their band is called “Secondary Roads,” and showcases rock, pop, and blues. Some of Boswell’s favorite pieces include “Son of a Preacher Man,” Elle King’s “Ex’s and Oh’s,” and a healthy dose of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

From Here’s to You Pub and Grub to the halls of Hillsdale High, Boswell leaves a rich legacy of investment in the Hillsdale’s musical community, as recognized most recently by Artworks of Hillsdale’s “Artist of the Year” prize.

No matter the venue, classroom, or auditorium, Boswell believes that music fosters people and their relationships in a unique way.

“I think it helps us connect to our humanity – to connect with others. It doesn’t really matter the other people in group – what their beliefs are, or if they are different.

For something greater we can come together, and we’re better for that.”

Debbie Wyse, assistant choral director at Hillsdale College and a previous recipient of the Artworks Artist of the Year prize, said in an email, “The next high school director will have a tough act to follow.”

The property at 23 and 25 N. Broad Street will be demolished by the city by the fall.

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wanting to kill Lincoln, but he didn’t give up. He went fought through it and the challenges encompassing it. Not to be cliche or anything, but strength rejoices in the challenge,” Hooper said. “It’s just important to remain strong and push through what we believe is right for everybody, and if we stay true to that hopefully we can see a reasonable solution to the end of our current constitutional crisis.”

Though Hooper expected an analysis of Lincoln’s leadership styles, he said he was glad that Arnn brought up this serious topic while remaining sentimental about Lincoln.

“Arnn called Lincoln a true American, especially through his fight for equality, and it’s something that we should keep in mind today because we don’t think that we need to push for equality as much anymore, but essentially we still have to fight for what’s good and for what it truly means to be an American.

And I think Lincoln really ecompassed that,” Hooper said.

From this speech, Farrell said he hoped people remember their sense of duty to help this country and to remain steadfast to its foundational beliefs.

“It definitely inspired me,” Farrell said. “If you really believe in these things, to go out there and to give of yourself, make something of yourself, and they’ll end up fighting the good fight. It takes some self-sacrifice and courage, but at the end of the day it’s worth it.”

Condemned building to be demolished By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor The City of Hillsdale will demolish the condemned building at 23 and 25 N. Broad Street by fall of 2019, according to Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker.

Beeker is currently going through the six bids he received for the demo process.

He said he will will submit his choices to the City Council at the April 15 meeting.

Beeker said he hopes to have the building torn down by the fall. Once the building is demolished, the city will put the lot up for sale to try to supplement the cost of the demo, which will cost around $200,000.

“It’s a viable site for future development or an urban green site,” Beeker said. “Either way, it’s better than what’s happening now.”

At first, the city considered renovating the property

through a TIFA grant. A structural engineer surveyed the property and concluded that the property was beyond saving.

“The engineer who evaluated the property has been around for a long time. I think he’s in his mid-60s,” Hillsdale County Inspector Martin Taylor said. “He also evaluated another building at the time and that these two buildings are the first he’s ever said needed to be torn down.”

According to Taylor, 23-25 Broad St was one of the first buildings in Hillsdale and was most likely built in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The city dealt privately with the previous owner for years.

“He really didn’t do anything except collect rent,” Beeker said. “He didn’t fix the roof and didn’t pay his taxes.

There’s only so much you can do for someone who does nothing.”

The building has a number

of structural problems including a deteriorating foundation, a leaking roof, and missing structural supports.

“It’s been going on for way too long,” Beeker said. “Unfortunately, good example of what happens when nothing is done to a building.”

The building was condemned several years ago, and Hillsdale County foreclosed on the property in April 2018.

The first auction was held in August 2018, but with a starting bid of $50,000. In Michigan, starting bids for foreclosed properties must be the equivalent of the amount owed in taxes. When no one bid on the building, another auction was held in October 2018 and the City of Hillsdale bought the building at a county tax sale for $75.

“We were concerned about somebody buying it and not knowing what bad of condition it’s in,” Beeker said.

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Multiple runners set personal bests at Bellarmine Invitational By | Calli Townsend assistant editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers are beginning to show their depth as they traveled to Bellarmine University last weekend. Several athletes found success new events, while some earned personal bests in their normal races.

The distance squad opened up the outdoor season on Friday as Chargers competed in everything from the 1500 meter run to the 10,000 meter run.

Junior Joey Humes dominated in the 5000 meter run, taking first in 14 minutes and 43.64 seconds. It was the first time he’s run the 5k on an outdoor track since 2017, when he finished in 15:01.67. Humes continues to prove his wide range of capabilities on the track.

Hillsdale had two new runners in the 3000 meter steeplechase, as sophomore Mark Miller and junior Alex Oquist tested out the barriers and water jumps.

Miller finished in third place in 9:35.96, and Oquist took fifth in 9:57.78.

Freshmen Eric Poth and Adam Wier finished the 10k in 32:48.21 and 33:10.19, respectively. Poth took seventh, while Wier came in ninth. In the 1500 meter run, sophomore Jack Shelley took third in 4:04.17, just four seconds off of his personal best.

In the sprints and hurdles, the Chargers broke several personal records. In the 200 meter dash, sophomore Adam Wade and junior Ian Brown finished in 22.71 and

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The two placed eighth and ninth.

“I felt really fast coming off of the curve. I felt like I ran it technically really well,” Brown said. “The reason I run the 200 is because it’s very similar to the 110 meter hurdles, so the faster I can start moving in the 200 will help me be faster in the 110s, which is my race.”

Brown ran a season-best in the 110 meter hurdles, finishing in 15.06. He finished right behind freshman John Baldwin, who took second in 15.00.

“Honestly, the 110 hurdles felt a little rough, but my goal was just to stick with [Baldwin] because he's been running really well,” Brown

said. “This is the fastest I've been at this point in the season in both races so that’s really exciting.”

Baldwin tried out pole vault and the 400 meter hurdles for the first time this season as well. In the hurdles, he finished second in 55.97. Junior David Downey and freshman Kevin Curby finished in 56.83 and 58.30, respectively. Curby’s time was a new personal record by more than a second.

In pole vault, Baldwin took third behind senior teammate Jared Schipper, who placed first. Schipper cleared 4.72 meters, while Baldwin cleared 3.97 meters.

Schipper was an All-American in the 2015 and 2016 indoor seasons, and a national qualifier in

the 2015 and 2016 outdoor seasons. He holds Hillsdale’s pole vault record with a mark of 5.27 meters, which he set in 2015.

“I just want to get back to nationals,” Schipper said.

To help him achieve that goal, freshman teammate Ben Raffin has been pushing him in training. Raffin competed on Saturday, but failed to clear the bar. The two are currently ranked in the top 10 in NCAA Division II. “That has made the biggest difference,” Schipper said. “I’m a competitive person so having someone to compete with makes me so much better, and Ben’s fun to practice with.”

In other field events, senior David Chase competed in shot put. He took 20th with a mark of 11.60 meters.

In the hammer throw, freshman Kai Panethiere took 20th as well, throwing for 38.48 meters.

Hillsdale’s 4-by-100 meter relay of freshman Jacob Schmidt, seniors Nathan Pando and Levi Wyse, and Schipper, raced to first place in 42.53. Wyse said the race wasn’t quite as smooth as last weekend’s relay. Schmidt had to “twinkle toe” around a runner in the lane next to him who crowded into his lane, according to Wyse.

Schmidt, Wade, Pando, and Wyse teamed up for the 4-by-400 meter relay and ran a season-best of 3:20.57 to come in a very close third place.

The Chargers head to the University of Cincinnati this weekend for the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

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Chargers drop three of four on road to conference rival Tiffin By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor

Monday, April 1 (Game 2): Tiffin 5, Hillsdale 1 The remainder of the series wasn’t as kind to Hillsdale. In game two on Monday, the Chargers totaled only four hits total, and fell quitely, 5-1.

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The game was tied at four heading into the ninth inning, but Ring started a rally with a leadoff single. Senior third baseman Colin Boerst drew a walk, and two batters later, senior left fielder Michael Mitchell reached base on an error, pushing the goahead run across the plate.

Sophomore pitcher James Krick worked around a oneout single in the bottom of the ninth to seal the one-run win for the Chargers.

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The Hillsdale College Chargers’ road struggles continued this week in Tiffin, Ohio, where they lost the final three games in a four-game series against the Tiffin University Dragons.

Since winning their first three road contests of the season, the Chargers are 2-10 away from home.

Originally a four-game series scheduled for doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, the Chargers and Dragons played doubleheaders on Monday and Tuesday because of rainy weather during the weekend.

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four-run sixth inning for Tiffin broke a 1-1 tie. Only one of the five runs Lapshan allowed was earned. A pair of errors in the field complicated the four-run sixth the Chargers allowed.

Tuesday, April 2 (Game 1): Tiffin 19, Hillsdale 7 On Tuesday, both Tiffin and Hillsdale got more comfortable in the batters’ box, but the Chargers were once again on the wrong end of a pair lopsided, high-scoring affairs.

The Dragons pushed 19 runs across the plate in game one on Tuesday, and routed Hillsdale 19-7.

The Chargers got out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning on sophomore left fielder Will Smith’s first home run of the season, a three-run shot.

But starting pitcher senior Joe Hamrick was tagged for five runs in the bottom of the third inning, and freshman and junior pitchers Dillion Manion and Josh Stella allowed 12 runs in the next 2/3 innings of relief.

Ring added a two-run homer in the top of the fifth, but by then, the Dragons already led by double digits.

Tuesday, April 2 (Game 2): Tiffin 7, Hillsdale 5

In the final game of the series, Tiffin posted four runs in the bottom of the second inning, building a lead the Chargers couldn’t surmount.

Hillsdale answered with three runs in the third inning, on Ring’s three-run home run, his third home run in four games.

Tiffin extended its lead to 7-3 by the eighth inning, when junior pinch hitter Jake Rhodes hit a two-run home run off the bench to cut the deficit to 7-5. Hillsdale couldn’t complete the comeback, however, and ended the series on a threegame losing streak.

Wednesday, April 3: Hillsdale 14, Grand Valley 8 The Chargers found better luck at home on Wednesday, defeating non-conference Grand Valley State University, 14-8.

Senior center fielder Christian Rodino capped a four-run first inning with a three-run home run. Grand Valley fought back to tie the game at five in the top of the fifth inning, but an eight-run bottom of the seventh for Hillsdale tipped the scales.

Ring continued his tear at the plate with a grand slam in the inning, his fourth home run in five games.

Sophomore pitcher David Toth pitched three scoreless innings in relief to earn the win.

Up Next The Chargers (9-17, 5-7) travel to Painesville, Ohio, this weekend for a four-game series against the Lake Erie College Storm (11-14, 5-7 G-MAC). The two teams will play doubleheaders at 1 and 3:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

On Tuesday, the Chargers travel to Saginaw Valley State University for a single game at 3:05 p.m.

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Jake Hoover: 1-3, 2B Michael Mitchell: 1-3 pitchers

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Steven Ring: 1-3, HR, 3 RBI, BB Jake Rhodes: 1-1, HR, 2 RBI pitchers

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march 31 (game 1) 1 2 3 4 5 R H E Hillsdale 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 Kentucky Wesleyan 2 1 3 4 x 10 12 1 hitters

Katie Kish: 1-3, 2 RBI pitchers

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Dana Weidinger (L, 4-8) 3.0 6 6 8 4 2 Camryn Olson 1.0 4 4 4 1 2 march 31 (game 2) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Hillsdale 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 6 9 0 Kentucky Wesleyan 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 9 3 hitters

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Amanda Marra: 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI Emma Johnson: 4-4, 2B, RBI, BB Madison Stoner: 2-4, HR, 2 RBI, BB pitchers

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Natalie Walters: 2-3, 2 2B, 3 RBI Emma Johnson: 1-4, RBI Madison Stoner: 2-2, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 BB Sam Catron: 2-3, 2B, BB pitchers

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march 29 singles doubles score Hillsdale 6 3 7 Ursuline 0 0 0 singles competition scores 1. Hannah Cimpeanu def. Elizabeth Weber 6-0, 6-0 2. Sarah Hackman def. Ashley Duncan 6-0, 6-0 3. Halle Hyman def. Clare Hunt 6-0, 6-0 4. Kamryn Matthews def. Bea Torres-Fults 6-0, 6-0 5. Corinne Prost def. Kiara Anderson 6-0, 6-0 doubles competition score 1. Bell/Hyman def. Weber/Hunt 6-0 2. Cimpeanu/Hackman def. Fortney/Duncan 6-0 3. Formentin/Spinazze def. Torres-Fults/Anderson 6-0 march 30 singles doubles score Hillsdale 6 2 7 Walsh 0 1 0 singles competition scores 1. Hannah Cimpeanu def. Mercedes Fernandez 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 2. Sarah Hackman def. Maria Kacalova 6-1, 6-1 3. Halle Hyman def. Clara Drasch 6-3, 7-5 4. Katie Bell def. Nicole Beidacki 6-3, 6-0 5. Kamryn Matthews def. Katharina Razum 7-5, 6-3 6. Corinne Prost def. Sofia Khairutdinova 6-4, 6-0 doubles competition score 2. Cimpeanu/Hackman def. Kacalova/Razum 7-5 3. Matthews/Bissett def. Drasch/Karimpour 6-3

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march 28 singles doubles score 49 Hillsdale 2 1 2 Grand Valley 4 2 5 singles competition scores 3. John Ciraci def. Jack Dausman 6-4, 7-5 6. Brian Hackman def. Eric Zwemer 7-6 (2-0), 4-6, 10-8 doubles competition score 1. Adams/Hyman def. Colantone/Lescoulie 6-4 march 31 singles doubles score 49 Hillsdale 3 2 4 Walsh 1 1 1 singles competition scores 2. Justin Hyman def. Filipp Kulynych 6-4, 6-2 4. Michael Szabo def. Guilherme Carneiro 6-4, 7-5 5. Brian Hackman def. Tim Bruin 7-5, 6-2 doubles competition score 1. Hyman/Adams def. J. Campos/Drummond 6-1 3. Katz/Ciraci def. Kulynych/P. Campos 6-3

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Chargers sweep a road pair By | Ryan Goff assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers took another strong step toward the G-MAC tournament over the weekend with two 7-0 shutouts on the road against Ursuline and Walsh. The Chargers are now 3-0 in G-MAC play.

In what was the team’s most anticipated match of the season, the Chargers performed up to their expectations with a lot of strong play from the lineup against Walsh. The match followed a sweep of Ursuline where not one Charger lost a game.

Everyone on the team was able to play this weekend, which culminated with the thrilling victory over the Chargers’ toughest opponent on Saturday.

“You could feel the energy on court during doubles and it definitely enhanced in singles,” senior Corinne Prost said of the Walsh match.

Though there were a number of close sets, the Chargers managed to pull out victories by a comfort-

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“Saturday, all the cards kind of aligned,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. “It’s probably the best the team has played. Everything that we had worked on we did very well. It was a super positive match, I just felt like we were really in control the whole time.”

After a contentious doubles point where Halle Hyman and Katie Bell lost at no. 1 and Madeline Bissett and Kamryn Matthews won at no. 3, the no. 2 team of Sarah Hackman and Hannah Cimpeanu pulled out the point-clinching set 7-5.

With the doubles point won, the Chargers moved into singles where Hackman

got off the court by the time some matches were closing out their first sets in a 6-1, 6-1 win, Halle Hyman came out on top after a close second set to win 6-3, 7-5, and Cimpeanu came from behind to win in three sets 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 to clinch the match.

“It was kind of one of those days where everyone did something that stood out,” Walbright said. “It was one of those magical days when everything just kind of clicked for everybody.”

For Prost, who won at no.

6 singles against Walsh and at no. 5 against Ursuline, things seemed to click as she stayed in the moment during points. She said she was able

to not get too worried about being ahead or behind in games.

“I was able to handle just the immediate point before me without thinking too hard of where I was at or how far I would have to go,” Prost said.

After a strong in-conference win against Walsh, the Chargers are looking ahead to the G-MAC Championship in hopes to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in May. Five matches stand in their way before the G-MAC Championship at the end of April, which Walbright says is the team’s main focus more than a national ranking or the numerous awards earned by the team this season.

“Our main focus is winning the tournament because that gives us an automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament,” she said. “It’s nice to get the player of the week and other accolades, but at the end of the day we’re really just focused on winning conference.”

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Chargers continue to deliver on high preseason expectations By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer The Hillsdale College Chargers entered the outdoor season as the favorites to win the G-MAC. After a strong performance at last weekend’s Bellarmine Invitational in Louisville, Kentucky, the Chargers seem poised to match their potential. Hillsdale competed well against strong NCAA Division II competition.

The distance runners started Friday’s events with a bang. Fresh off her All-American indoor season, senior Ally Eads kicked off her outdoor season by winning the 3000 meter steeplechase. Her time of 11 minutes and 4.32 seconds blew away the competition, and stands as the fastest time in the G-MAC this season by 49 seconds.

Sophomore Maryssa Depies also finished well in the 5000 meter run, taking second with a time of 17:14.53.

Depies also stands atop the G-MAC in her event, registering a faster time than anyone else by more than seven seconds.

In the field, freshman Emma Shea hit a personal best in the javelin, throwing 31.91 meters. For Shea, competing in this new event has been a healthy challenge.

“I like it because it’s not

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Oliver Nikoloff Invitational a heavy object to throw and the flight pattern is really cool to watch,” Shea said.

“You can tell immediately if your throw is good or not and the run up is very interesting, a mixture of throws and jumps, like the rhythm of it. It’s really satisfying when you learn how to do it.”

After improving her distance by six meters in just two meets, Shea seems ready to build on her previous improvement. She said she’s looking forward to continued success in the event.

“Hopefully once I get my block step and run up approach correct, it’ll go a lot further so I’m really excited for how it could go,” Shea said.

Saturday started off with a strong mid-distance performance from sophomore Megan Poole. Poole finished first in the 1500 meter run in a field of 17 runners, setting a personal best with a time of 4:57.59.

The Chargers had some of their strongest performances from the sprint events. Junior Abbie Porter took first

in the 400 meter dash with a comfortable two second cushion. Her time of 56.82 seconds was a lifetime best and registers as the fastest time in the G-MAC this season.

“I was really happy with my races. I felt like I moved really well through the first 200 considering there was a pretty strong head wind,” Porter said. “That set me up well to do well in the second 200 because I normally struggle with making the first half fast enough to finish the race with PR.” Porter also ran well in the 200 meter dash, finishing in seventh in 26.18, just one-hundredth of a second off her personal best.

Sophomore Calli Townsend continued to perform well in the 400 meter hurdles, taking second with a time of 1:03.62, just threetenths off her PR. In the 4-by-400 meter relay, freshmen Melanie Boehm and Alanna O’Leary joined Porter and Townsend to run a season best time of 3:58.36 on their way to a first place finish.

Hillsdale will be back in action in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational. Events will begin tomorrow and conclude Saturday.

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The Panthers’ offense overpowered the Chargers’ pitching, scoring one run in the bottom of the second, three runs in the bottom of the third, and four runs in the bottom of the fourth. Down by eight runs after the fourth inning, the Chargers were unable to respond, and the game ended in five innings.

Sunday, March 31 (Game 2): Hillsdale 6, Kentucky Wesleyan 2 After a slow start, the Chargers picked up their first victory of the weekend in game two.

“We struggled a little bit in our first game with Kentucky,” Stoner said.

“But then we flipped a switch and really turned our offense on.”

The Chargers got on the board first, scoring two runs in the top of the third inning. Senior second baseman Amanda Marra singled to the shortstop and junior outfielder Carlin MacDonald Gannon scored. Taylor doubled to left, scoring Kish.

During the bottom of the third, the Panthers scored one run, but the Chargers answered, scoring two more runs in the top of the fourth. The Chargers scored another pair of runs in the top of the fifth.

Walters started in the circle for the Chargers and picked up her fifth win of the year. She faced 33 batters in seven innings, allowing two runs on nine hits.

Monday, April 1 (Game 1): Hillsdale 10, Trevecca Nazarene 9 (8 innings) The Chargers earned their first extra-innings win of the year in game one against the Trojans.

Hillsdale took the lead early, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning.

Taylor singled to the right side to score Marra, and Walters scored on a wild pitch.

Down by two runs going into the top of the fifth, the Chargers tied the game with a single from Marra, scoring Johnson followed by a single from Catron, scoring Kish. A hard-hit ball from Walters scored Marra, putting the Chargers ahead by one.

The Trojans came back to score one run in the bottom of the sixth but would not score again.

Stoner homered to left

field in the top of the eighth to give the Chargers the lead. She said she felt pure joy after hitting her solo shot.

“I sprinted around the bases because I was so excited,” Stoner said.

All four pitchers on Hillsdale’s staff saw action in the first game against the Trojans. Weidinger got the start, facing 20 batters in 3 1/3 innings.

She allowed seven runs on eight hits. Olson faced four batters, allowing one run on two hits.

Freshman pitcher Julia Sayles made her first appearance in conference play. She faced 13 batters in 2 1/3 innings and allowed one run on three hits. Walters earned the save in the circle. She faced six batters and gave up one hit.

Gross said the game personified what the pitching staff talked about doing since the beginning of the season.

“We talked very early on that it was going to be a year of the staff,” Gross said. “Everybody’s going to play a part at times and do their job.”

Monday, April 1 (Game 2): Hillsdale 7, Trevecca Nazarene 6 Walters earned her seventh win of the season in the Chargers’ second game against the Trojans. She faced 32 batters in seven innings and gave up six runs on nine hits.

“She’s worked hard on not only the physical part of pitching, but also her mentality,” Gross said of Walters. “It’s showing on the field.”

Walters helped herself at the plate, doubling to left field in the top of the first inning to score Kish. Also during the first inning, Stoner singled through the right side, scoring Walters and Catron to give the Chargers an early three-run lead.

The Trojans threatened in the bottom of the sixth with a grand slam from a pinch hit by junior Caitlyn Hudgins, but the Chargers held on to their lead through seven innings.

Up Next Hillsdale will host Malone and Walsh Universities this weekend for a four-game homestand. The Chargers will play Malone tomorrow at 3:30 and 5:30 p.m., and Walsh on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m.

Senior Day was originally scheduled for the Chargers’ games against Walsh, but it has been moved to Saturday, April 20 in their games against Ursuline College.

Stoner said the team is looking to pick up four more wins this weekend.

“If our offense stays strong, we should be fine,” Stoner said.

charger chatter: Andrew Grayson Andrew Grayson is a senior from Medina, Ohio. He is a member of the golf team at Hillsdale.

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Q: What’s your most memorable golf moment at Hillsdale so far?

Q: What are your personal goals for the season?

Q: Have you ever gotten a hole in one?

Q: What’s the nicest golf course you’ve ever played at?

Q: Who’s a pro golfer you admire?

AG: It would probably be winning our first tournament in the fall. We’ve kinda been expecting to win ever since we got here, so finally accomplishing it this year was fun.

We enjoyed it. We actually finally played to our full potential. Then the rest of the year, we haven’t been as consistent but still achieving that one — that was our one goal — coming in the year winning that tournament, that was pretty special.

AG: I think we start with winning the G-MACs. The tournament we won in the fall was the G-MAC Fall Invitational. Every school from the G-MAC was there, so we have a good chance to do that [this spring]. We were picked to finish third in the conference, which I think is going to be a good motivator for us.

If we win G-MACs, we make it to the [super regionals].

The goal will be from there to qualify for nationals. But I think our main goal to start is just winning the G-MAC tournament.

AG: I have, last year. We do a yearly golf marathon as a way to raise money for the team.

We pretty much start at sunrise and play as long as we can over at the Hillsdale Country Club. It was my first hole of the day. I didn’t even bother taking a practice swing, and I just kinda hit it, and it landed on the green, bounced, rolled a little bit, and then fell in.

It was just really cool. I kinda just threw my club like 50 yards in front of me. I just didn’t even know what to do, I was just shocked. I didn’t even think I hit it that good but it went in and I was like “Let’s go.”

AG: I’d say Oakland Hills, just outside of Detroit. I played this summer with a couple Hillsdale alumni, so they got us out there. The conditions were perfect, the greens were just insane. I got to play with a historian of the course while I was out there because it’s a pretty famous course.

They’re potentially looking at making some renovations to the course and I’m kinda big into the architecture side of golf so as we were going through he was pointing out all the different changes that they’re going to make so just the whole experience of that was just really cool.

AG: I’d say Rory McIlroy, because he doesn’t take himself too seriously. He’s good and obviously he treats it like a job, but at the end of the day it’s just a job. He’s not going to get himself too bent out of shape, which is something I kind of have a problem with when I’m playing. So I think what I take for him is to kind of relax more when I play and to kinda just enjoy the sport.

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Chargers win Music City Invitational By | Ryan Goff assistant editor

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Hillsdale places third at ACUI shoot By | Austin Gergens collegian reporter

The Hillsdale shotgun team won third place overall in the Division III category of the Association of Colleges Union International competition last week in San Antonio, Texas.

Junior Lucas Pieraccini’s shooting distinguished him as the 46th best shotgun shooter during the competition-out of nearly 900 competitors, including all of the Division I competitors.

The team won first overall in international skeet shooting, an event that they were not favored to win. They also took second overall in sporting clays.

Freshman Anthony LaMacchia and Pieraccini led the team with scores of 92 clays out of 100, and senior Emanuel Boyer scored 86 clays.

“Even the people who knew that they weren’t going to post scores just had a

good time,” freshman Brandon Korhonen said.

The newest member of the team, sophomore Mariah Lowry, was one such shooter.

“It was my first time ever shooting International Skeet,” Lowry said, “And it was my goal to hit one target.”

In actuality, she hit 52 out of 100 targets. She said she was grateful for her squad’s immense support, who after each round gave her encouragement and advice.

First year shooter, sophomore Barrett Moore, tied with Pieraccini with 97 targets hit in the American Skeet competition. Pieraccini was the team’s highest skeet scorer for the season. Hintz said he was impressed with Moore’s performance.

“It was certainly within Moore’s abilities, but for him to do it was unexpected,” Hintz said.

Senior Matt Grunzweig, who placed in the top scores in every event except Inter-

national Skeet, said he was also proud of Moore and his other teammates.

“I was particularly proud of how most of the freshman shot, specifically Barrett,” Grunzweig said, “ He really came in the clutch this year and I know he’s going to develop into a top shooter.”

Despite some individual team member successes, the team overall was a little disappointed not to continue its five year winning streak at the competition.

“We’re a pretty young team, and we felt the pressure,” Korhonen said.

The team’s youth and lack of experience contributed greatly to the result, not to mention that three of the team’s best shooters in history graduated last year, according to Hintz.

Though the team will be graduating three more shooters this year, they have some recruits who will join in August. Overall, everyone is hopeful going forward,

and the current seniors had some words of praise to share.

“We shot well overall and we still placed. Sixty percent of the team attended nationals for the first time this year, so it was a good opportunity for them to learn what it's all about and profit from the experience,” senior Amanda Klug said.

“I can't wait to see what the they will do next year. I'm incredibly proud of everyone and I've loved being a part of this team.”

Senior Emanuel Boyer said he was very proud of the newer shooters.

“As far as season highlights go, I just want to point out how proud I am of some of our newer shooters,” Boyer said, “I think they've really put in a tremendous amount of effort and developed an incredible amount in such a small period of time.”

teams out there on a weekly basis,” Purslowe said. “That just gives us so much more In a tight finish, the confidence, knowing you’re Hillsdale College Chargers going to be competing.” remained at the top of the Coming off a back injury leaderboard at the end of the last week, Purslowe had a 36-hole Music City Invitacommanding performance tional in Nashville, Tennesthat placed him at fourth see on Tuesday. overall and four-under-par.

The Chargers won with a “I couldn’t do anything. I one-stroke margin, beating couldn’t play, I could hardly the University of Findlay move,” he said. “I just spent with a five-under 570. the whole week trying to Freshman Josh Davenport prepare, trying to get myself and senior Liam Purslowe back to being able to walk led the team to victory as and play. If someone had both finished under par and said at the start of the week in the top five individually.

I’d be four-under, I definitely Davenport was low medalist would have taken it.” of the event, tied-first with More than just take it, the Northwood University’s Chargers competed against Jagger Richard at five-under- the field in the way coach par. He shot a six-under 66 Nate Gilchrist believes they on Monday that was the sec- always had the potential to, ond-lowest round of the day according to Purslowe. and then stayed consistent “You’re playing with some on Tuesday to remain at the of the best guys in the natop of the leaderboard. tion. It just proves that you “We’ve always known that can go toe-to-toe with them, we can beat these guys. Getand it helps fulfill that belief ting an overall win against that we’ve always had,” he everyone — it was the first said. “[Gilchrist] always says, time in program history ‘We’ve got the skills to be up we’ve beat Grand Valley there with these guys,’ and — so that just proves we it’s just so much better to see can compete with the best that on a results sheet.” music city invitational | old hickory, tn april 1-2 par 1 2 score 1. Hillsdale -6 274 296 570 2. Findlay -5 288 283 571 3. Trevecca Nazarene -1 283 292 575 4. Grand Valley +1 285 292 577 5. Northwood (MI) +4 292 288 580 6. Drury +5 287 294 581 7. Tiffin +10 295 291 586 8. McKendree +11 288 299 587 9. Ashland +15 300 291 591 10. Missouri S&T +16 291 301 592 11. Mobile +17 295 298 593 12. Purdue-Northwest +25 299 302 601 13. Walsh +33 305 304 609 14. Ohio Valley +34 306 304 610 15. Cedarville +35 306 305 611 16. Kentucky Wesleyan +36 309 303 612 17. Kentucky State +90 336 330 666 18. Alderson Broaddus +113 343 346 689 hillsdale par 1 2 score t1. Josh Davenport -5 66 73 139 4. Liam Purslowe -4 68 72 140 t34. Logan Anuskiewicz +5 75 74 149 t34. George Roberts +5 66 83 149 t50. Ryan Zetwick +7 74 77 151 SUNDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 7-9

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Walsh (8-24, 4-6) vs. Hillsdale (11-16, 5-3) son said she simplified her approach at the plate.

“I’ve been thinking too much,” Johnson said. “I just wanted to see a good pitch and hit it.”

In game two against Trevecca Nazarene, sophomore catcher Madison Stoner went 2 for 2 with three runs batted and two walks.

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After a tough loss on Sunday that began a fourgame road trip, the Hillsdale College Chargers bounced back to win three consecutive games on the road.

Hillsdale improved its record to 11-16 overall and 5-3 in the G-MAC. Head coach Kyle Gross said the team took care of the little things over the weekend.

“It was impressive to see this team go from its first run-rule loss of the season to its first three-game win streak,” Gross said.

Freshman outfielder Renee Bielawa went 2 for 4 in the Chargers’ second game against Kentucky Wesleyan.

“I was just focusing on certain pitches and attacking them,” Bielawa said.

Sophomore first baseman Emma Johnson went 4 for 4 in the Chargers’ first game against Trevecca Nazarene University on Monday. John-

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close,” Stoner said. “I was really just hunting strikes.”

Sunday, March 31 (Game 1): Kentucky Wesleyan 10, Hillsdale 2 (5 innings) The Chargers began their weekend with a swift loss to Kentucky Wesleyan. The Panthers took the lead early, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first inning.

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Victoria Marshall will perform with the Tower Dancers in their spring show this weekend. Courtesy | Lilly Schmitz

By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale Tower Dancers have been preparing for their annual spring concert since the start of the fall semester. This weekend, their efforts are finally coming to fruition.

The concert consists of nine pieces and a range of dance styles: classical ballet, modern ballet, and contemporary dance.

In addition to seeing the

work of the college’s own dance faculty, audience members will be treated to a piece by guest artist Alyssa Alger of Southeast Missouri State University, as well as four pieces created by student choreographers.

Two of the dances, choreographed by seniors Colleen Prince and Stephen Rupp respectively, were selected to be performed at the American College Dance Association Conference at Wittenberg University in Ohio last month.

With such variety, Holly Hobbs, Hillsdale’s assistant professor of dance and director of Tower Dancers, encourages the audience to “welcome the unexpected.”

“Look for shapes and images that resonate rather than searching for the expected,” she said. “Often concert-goers assume that they’re missing something when they see a dance performance and can’t pick up on a storyline. But not all dances tell a story. We deal with human forms and

abstraction. The important thing is to focus on how the dance makes you feel.”

For the six seniors participating in the concert, this year’s performance represents the end of an era.

“It’s bittersweet,” said senior Kathryn DuHadway, a Tower Dancer and student choreographer.

DuHadway said many seniors are unlikely to continue dancing after they graduate.

“It’s a really emotional time because most of us aren’t

looking to dance extensively beyond Hillsdale. This is ‘goodbye’ for a lot of us. We’ve had great camaraderie this year,” she said.

Senior Colleen Prince said she hopes students and faculty will take advantage of this performance as a unique opportunity to enjoy an art form not often on display at Hillsdale.

“Other than social dance, Tower Dancers is the only opportunity on campus to experience an array of different

dance genres and styles,” she said. “But more importantly, dance is fundamental to every single living person, and I think it’s very important for Hillsdale students to be aware that this art form reveals a lot about human nature, our relationships, and the human condition. Plus, it’s just beautiful.”

Tower Dancers will be performing Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., in the Markel Auditorium. Tickets are not required.

Great Cookbooks: ‘The Narnia Cookbook’ By | Austin Gergens Collegian Reporter C.S. Lewis, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, is widely known for his children’s book series, the Chronicles of Narnia. His philosophical treatises on objective morality in “The Abolition of Man,” and the nature of temptation in “The Screwtape Letters” have also gained him great notoriety.

Many are familiar with him as a Christian theologian and writer, but the 1998 “The Narnia Cookbook,” compiled

by Lewis’ youngest stepson Douglas Gresham and publisher Mary Kate Morgan, explores Lewis’ other profound love: food.

Whether or not you’ve read the entire seven volume Chronicles of Narnia, or only seen the 2005 movie “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” you’re probably familiar with Edmund Pevensie’s obsession with Turkish Delight. In Douglas Gresham’s “The Narnia Cookbook,” you can learn how to make the delicious delicacy, and enjoy it without betraying

your friends.

Keeping in line with the book series’ recommended audience, Gresham advertises the book to kids ages eight and up.

In Gresham’s foreword, he discusses C.S. Lewis —“Jack” — and his experience in the kitchen. Many of Jack’s favorite dishes came from “The Book of Household Management,” a widely-used cookbook that contained a few thousand recipes. “The Narnia Cookbook” is a nostalgic undertaking, harkening back to Gresham’s childhood, and revealing some of the foods he and Jack enjoyed.

The 115-page cookbook is divided into six main sections: Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, Dessert, and Drinks. The last subsection, titled “Some Favorite Narnian Menus,” presents several examples of meals, such as, “Tea With Mr. Tumnus,” using combinations of recipes from the main sections.

Each section begins with a preface briefly describing the etymology of the meal, and its significance in our world

versus the world of Narnia.

In the Dinner section, the author describes how dinner was the most significant meal at Jack’s house, The Kilns, and was “served at seven in the evening and could be either a very simple meal or an elaborate feast, depending on the occasion.” At the closing of the Dinner preface, Grisham invites the reader to have his own Narnian Dinner party with friends.

Besides Edmund’s Turkish Delight, the book presents a lot of basic, traditionally English recipes, such as buttered eggs and roast chestnuts, as well as more difficult dishes like mincemeat pies (a traditional Christmas dessert in England) and ginger fig pudding. Perhaps the most exotic dish is the stewed eel, the dish that Puddleglum first made for Eustace and Jill in “The Silver Chair.”

Rather than photos of the food, the Narnia cookbook features original artwork

by Pauline Baynes, also the original artist for the Narnia series. Her drawings add color to the description of the recipes, and help situate the

food in its context in the land of Narnia.

Virtually the only downside of the cookbook is acquiring it. It is unclear why the book is no longer in print, but the large demand from Narnia devotees has made it difficult to find the cookbook online for under $85.

A economical option would be the $2.99 Kindle version on Amazon, though this puts those who prefer the page to a screen in a predicament.

Grisham captures Jack’s love of food and friends early on in the cookbook.

“He enjoyed nothing more than a fine dinner in the company of people whom he liked and respected and with whom he could enjoy good conversation,” Grisham said.

As such, the cookbook presents many simple recipes that children, or adults with little cooking experience, can easily create and enjoy with others, and be transported back to the magical land of Narnia — no wardrobe necessary.

‘Drive to Survive’ is a motor thrill By | Grace Houghton Collegian Freelancer Released a week before the first race of the 2019 Formula 1 season in March, Netflix’s docu-series “F1: Drive to Survive” is an adrenaline-charged piece of escapism.

Formula 1, also known as F1, is the top tier of single-seater, open wheel car racing in the world. Ten teams, with budgets that soar from the tens to the hundreds of millions, put two cars and two drivers on the grid each year for a schedule of 21 races on 10 continents. While a few teams are privately owned, and race under their owners names (Haas, Williams), the majority of F1 teams are owned by manufacturers, automotive and otherwise, including Ferrari, Red Bull, and Mercedes. Most races occur in Europe and in Asia, with the lone American-hosted race, the United States Grand Prix, held in Austin, Texas.

The series hits the astronomic highs and the crushing lows of the 2018 F1 season, from the first race at Australia to the finale in Abu Dhabi.

With complete access to pit lanes, drivers, and team principals, Netflix gets full coverage of every team except Mercedes and Ferrari, currently the top two dominating teams in F1. But given the consistency of Mercedes and

Ferrari’s podium finishes, the series gives more time to the less certain, more dramatic mid-field fights.

“F1: Drive to Survive” is much less investigative journalism than it is a celebratory documentary of everything that makes this sport magnetic: the oodles of money, the handsome drivers, the constant lethal danger, the sunglasses, the horsepower, the hundreds of miles per hour.

Take the rivalries and testosterone of SEC football and add a zero to the team budgets to make it in the hundreds of millions. You’re approaching the politics, emotion, and money of the F1 production.

It makes for good TV. F1 drivers are conspicuously responsible performers, getting all the credit for a win, but all the responsibility for a crash, racing with millions of dollars breathing down their neck. Lap times define each driver’s value, and the most vicious rivalries are often between teammates, since the only true apples-to-apples comparison is between drivers equipped with the same exact car, which only occurs within a team.

The extremes of racing also generate mundane changes, and this trickle-down effect, along with the absurd amounts of publicity for

brands and sponsors, is why F1’s glamour show can go on. Rear view mirrors, disc brakes, and all-wheel-drive first premiered in the F1 racing world.

The Netflix series frequently heightens this tension by using slow motion shots, and slathers the emotional high points with equally tense music. When telling the ragsto-riches story of F1 rookie Esteban Ocon, whose father worked through the night as a mechanic to get his son’s racing career off the ground, violins pitch in when Ocon wins sixth place, illustrating how important it is to him to earn his parents’ approval.

Camera footage from within the car is used extensively throughout the show, often paired with the radio from the driver’s cockpit, but the show also delves into the concurrent drama from other drivers’ perspectives.

Wheels bounce; cars fly like frisbees over each other after what seems like the barest bump under a tire. Shockingly, most drivers walk away from an F1 accident. However, the series focuses so much on the crashes, usually first from the on-board cameras, conditioning the audience to think the driver is going noseover-tail every time they see an on-board camera angle.

One episode features Swiss-

French driver Romain Grosjean, driving for the American team Haas, the newest team to the F1 grid.

“If a driver keeps crashing, the biggest thing is he loses his confidence,” Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says of Grosjean’s 2018 season. “On a good day, I think Romain is one of the best out there. But he makes mistakes.”

Grosjean relates how he sought help from a psychologist, unable to shake a string of mistakes. One particularly humiliating slip left the nose of his car stuck in a tire wall in France in qualifying, before the race even began.

When that happens, “you keep your helmet on and your visor down,” Grosjean reflects.

“You can be a hero and you can be a zero within five seconds.”

“Drive to Survive” gives cohesion to stories that the average viewer couldn’t piece together by trying to keep pace with a season through normal channels.

You don’t have to like, or to know, open-wheel racing to enjoy this show. You need healthy adrenaline levels, and a high tolerance for shrieking engine noise, because F1 is already a rock-star sport, operating at the extremes of mechanical and human performance.

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Remi Brague argues for importance of classical studies, understanding other cultures By | S. Nathaniel Grime Sports Editor “Classical studies can’t make us better professionals,” French philosopher and historian Remi Brague told a packed room of Hillsdale College students, professors, and members of the community on Monday. “But they can make us better human beings.”

Nearly 200 attended Brague’s much-anticipated lecture on the study of classical languages. The visit was the 71-year-old Brague’s first to Hillsdale College, and the culmination of what was years in the making.

Brague is professor emeritus of Arabic at Sorbonne University of Paris and chair of philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Associate Professor of English Dwight Lindley said he’s been interested in inviting Brague to come to Hillsdale for a few years, and was pleased that it actualized this year.

Brague’s lecture addressed the benefit of studying Latin and Greek, and how Western people are to understand their relationship with their classical roots.

“Classical studies can hardly contribute to our instruction, in order for us to do things,” Brague said. “But they can contribute to our education, which is something rather different. Such studies are because they can enhance what is human in us.”

Brague explained why it is important to study the Western cannon in particular, in relation to other cultures’ histories.

Brague argued that studying classical languages would not only strengthen ties to Western roots, but would open up a better un-

derstanding and relationship with other cultures.

After beginning his career studying classical philosophy, Brague shifted his focus to both medieval and Middle Eastern cultures.

“As a historian of philosophy, I shifted from the study of the Greeks to the study of medieval thinkers, and thereby followed a track that produces the very itinerary of European cultural history,” Brague said.

In introducing Brague, Lindley remarked on Brague’s ability to find continuity through history and culture.

“To read him is to watch the procession of human cultures down through the ages, each shimmering with differences, but each aware of the same ends,” Lindley said.

Sophomore Dan Grifferty attended the lecture, and said he enjoyed having such a high-profile philosopher visit Hillsdale to speak.

“I’ve been considering doing a Classics major and was talking to Dr. Lindley about it and he mentioned that Brague was coming to talk about classical languages,” Grifferty said. “That worked super well with what I was thinking about.”

Grifferty said he was impressed with Brague’s thoroughness in defending the study of classical languages.

“I’ve been taking Latin since I got to Hillsdale and just started taking Greek this semester. I was always interested in Latin and Greek for the philosophy, so that I’d be able to read the original texts themselves,” Grifferty said. “It was mainly practical for me, but this got beyond the practical, and why reading these authors is important in the first place.”

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‘The Laramie Project’ retells murder story with real quotes By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assistant Editor In the fall of 1998, a small rural American town was changed forever as the community faced the reality of a once-distant hatred hitting too close to their home of Laramie, Wyoming.

The people of Hillsdale County were introduced to the community of rural Wyoming as the “The Laramie Project,” a three-act play, visited Jonesville’s Sauk Theatre for a four-day showing. It was part of the Sauk’s “Second Series,” where the theatre produces contemporary plays that deal with heavier issues, compared to its other productions that are more universally known and family oriented.

“The Laramie Project” is oriented as a self-aware docudrama, a play about making the play. It is not just

a loosely-based true story: the audience is told Shepard’s story by actors playing the people of Laramie. Actors talk directly to the audience, and the words of the script are the real words of the real people.

James M. Brandon, chairman and professor of theatre and dance at Hillsdale College and one of the nine actors in the play, said this particular element was exciting to him.

“I love when you take what real people have said and then reenact it on the stage,” Brandon said. “There is an honesty there that a playwright making up language can’t capture.”

The play begins by describing Laramie, a small town where everybody knew everyone, and everyone knew everybody’s business. It was a simple community that you’d only know about if you’d been there, but that all changed when the world found out

about Matthew Shepard — a 21-year-old, gay, college student at the University of Wyoming. He was found beaten and tied to a buck fence, fighting for his life. Shepard was gay in a time well before it was socially acceptable, and he was murdered because of it. The media put Laramie on the map after Shepard’s death, and soon everyone knew the name of the small town and the man who was murdered.

Brandon said the approach to this play is advantageous because rather than just giving one perspective, “The Laramie Project” gives the audience the “whole mosaic.”

“It’s a challenging play, it’s the kind of play people don’t want to sit and watch,” Brandon said. “It’s awkward and not as pretty as a fictional play, and that is exactly the point.”

The characters of the play

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I ended up in one of the The bro-tanked man was The air was full of a nerfirst matches, which I promptSam Cassels, a senior and one vous excitement, the competly lost. I am no expert, but of the founders of Hillsdale itors were eager to see how with very little video game Smash League. They were they stacked up against the experience I was able to figure setting up for the league’s rest of their classmates, and out how to jump, run, attack, first ever Super Mario Smash the event organizers were and dodge. I was severely imBrothers Tourpressed with nament. how easy the The Strehle game was to twins, Shad and play.

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He was right. I had already hoping everything would run I think smash bros exactly become intensely invested in smoothly. follows that philosophy.” the game which I had walked Cassels explained how the He is not wrong. As I in on only 10 seconds earlier. event got its start. entered my second game, I felt I instantly spotted the under“The Hillsdale Smash scene I was learning with each misdog, and as soon as I noticed has been underground more take. Even though I lost, I felt a potential comeback, I was than anything,” Cassels said. the urge to try again because I hooked.

Guys play in their dorms or felt myself tangibly improving.

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Cassels said with a chuckle. ent motorsport series.

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represent a range of real people in Shepard’s community, from those who were shocked that something like this would happen in their hometown, those who were not surprised at all, those who were also gay and feared for their own lives, and those who had no qualms with the murder of the young man because of his sexuality.

The play was like newscasts used to be: the facts were presented, each side was represented, and the audience was left to make the decision for themselves. The audience is invited to assume the role of the playmakers, interviewing the townspeople to find the truth of the story.

“So many things in this play will resonate forever,” Michele Harmon, the stage manager said, “It is our responsibility to tell it correctly.”

The Sauk’s production of “The Laramie Project” was

simply profound. Nine actors played some 67 characters, each narrating at one point or another. The actors never left the stage and were always visible to the audience, even when they weren’t in the scene. Most scenes only consisted of two characters at center stage, fixed around two wooden chairs to identify their intentional presence in that moment. Each actor was dressed in black with minimal props — just enough to differentiate between characters.

The wooden buck fence was fittingly the focal point of the stage, as it was central to the plot. This simplicity, from the stage direction to the props, allowed the story to speak for itself.

When the actors were not in the scene, they sat in chairs that framed the focal point of the stage as they prepared for their next role. While still

visibly present, there was a clear indication that they were not a part of the scene when they sat around the perimeter.

It was distracting at times to notice the actors who were not involved in the scene as they were preparing for the next character they’d be playing, but it also added to the simplicity of the production.

Trinity Bird, the executive producer of “The Laramie Project” at the Sauk Theatre said they considered producing many plays, but this one was special.

“We didn’t do the play to try to preach a message,” Bird said. “But it’s all about love and hope. We aren’t that different, we may have completely different beliefs, but we’re still the same. I hope that’s what people took away from it.”

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Captain Marvel falls flat, lacks ‘The Right Stuff’ By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor As Vers, the Air Force pilot turned super-powered Kree warrior, makes her way through the Blockbuster that she crash landed into seconds before, she picks up one movie off the shelves: “The Right Stuff.” Based on the book written in 1979 by acclaimed journalist Tom Wolfe, “The Right Stuff ” follows the seven military pilots who became the Mercury Seven, the astronauts who conducted NASA’s first manned space flight. Before their careers as astronauts, the Mercury Seven were military pilots who continued their career in space exactly as Vers does.

Released March 8, Captain Marvel brought in $153,433,423 during its opening weekend.

Wolfe’s book gets its title from an unexplainable character trait that each of the Mercury astronauts possessed, “the right stuff.” Merely being a highly-skilled and courageous pilot is not enough to have the “right stuff ”: something more is required. Some of the best pilots in the world were passed over for the Mercury mission because of their lack of this undefinable and incomprehensible quality.

With its various references to Wolfe’s book and focus on Vers’ character, Marvel spends the whole of its newest installment, “Captain Marvel,” attempting to prove that Vers herself has the “right stuff.”

“Captain Marvel” follows Vers journey of self-discovery. Suffering from amnesia, the young Kree warrior finds herself alone on Earth. Verse soon discovers she has some connection to planet C-53, the Kree call sign for Earth. Vers

teams up with S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Nick Fury, and the two galavant across the country seeking to save Earth from Like Wolfe’s astronauts Vers (Brie Larson), known as Carol Danvers on Earth, is undeniably a highly-skilled and courageous pilot. Unlike, Wolfe’s astronauts, however, Vers possesses no unique quality that separates her from other characters. While she does have an incredible amount of superhuman powers, skills do not the “right stuff ” make.

Brie Larson’s skill as an actress shines in the few moments that require a dramatic and emotional response. The few attempts at comic relief, however, feel flat and forced.

The film spends a fair amount of time on female empowerment. The audience is first introduced to Vers in a training session with her mentor Yon-Rogg (Jude Law).

It’s early in the morning, and Yon-Rogg and Vers are sparring in a training room.

While Yon-Rogg clearly has the upper hand, he spews motivational sayings at Vers, including telling her to “keep her emotions in check,” alluding to the obvious gender stereotype.

Throughout the film, male figures in Vers life belittle her: her father, her superiors in the Air Force, her fellow airmen.

But each moment, though intended to be inspiring, focuses on cliche female empowerment tropes. The moments are unoriginal and tired: towards the end of the movie, when Vers is knocked down in battle, a montage of men belittling her plays. Every woman has experienced what Vers goes through. Every woman understands it. Every woman also overcomes it, without the help of superpowers.

While its main character is flat and uninteresting, and its attempt at social-justice commentary fails, “Captain Marvel” is not a terrible movie. The flick serves as a prequel to the entire Marvel universe and fans will appreciate the groundwork it lays for later Marvel installments such as the “Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

“Captain Marvel” is the first introduction of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) to alien life and superheroes. Jackson and Gregg were digitally altered in post production to appear younger to fit the film’s 1990s setting, and it’s endearing to watch Fury and Coulson grow into the characters Marvel fans know and love. For that reason, Marvel fans should see it. So many pieces of the intricate Marvel puzzle start to fit together through the background established by “Captain Marvel.”

“The Right Stuff ” follows seven men with a special characteristic that allows them to overcome all odds and become the first Americans in space. Marvel intended for “Captain Marvel” to be the females’ “The Right Stuff.”

But with its main character lacking that special characteristic and its feminist tropes falling flat, the movie instead makes females look weak.

By focusing only on male ridicule of women, it suggests that women should pay mind to the opinions of men who see them as little more than a pretty face. Some women do, but strong women don’t.

That is the female’s “Right Stuff,” and Carol Danvers doesn’t have it.

Harry James Orchestra returns with jazz classics By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter Sponsored by the President’s Office, the Harry James Orchestra will perform a selection of popular and distinctive big band songs April 6 in the Searle Center. Doors will open at 7 p.m for a social hour and reception, accompanied by student jazz combos, and the orchestra will begin playing at 8 p.m.

The performance is expected to last two hours, punctuated by a 15-minute intermission, and attendees will be welcomed to dance.

Tickets are required, and can be reserved for free through the Sage Box office.

This will be the Harry James Orchestra’s second performance at Hillsdale College, and Music Director Fred

Radke said he is delighted to return to campus.

“I love Hillsdale and I love the students,” he said. “I’m looking forward to working with the students.”

Radke joined the Harry James Orchestra in 1969 as the lead trumpet player, and has been the band’s music director since 1989.

Harry James was one of the best-known and loved jazz performers during the height of the Big Band Era. He formed the orchestra in 1939 with vocalist Frank Sinatra, and produced a number of hits throughout the 1940s. Today, the Harry James Orchestra pays homage to its eponym by perpetuating the great trumpeter’s original sound.

Jaclyn Case, assistant to the president, helped organize the

upcoming concert. She said the authenticity of the Harry James Orchestra is widely admired.

“The orchestra and Mr. Radke both have a fantastic reputation for those who are fans of big band era music,” she said.

The Harry James Orchestra will play an assortment of Harry James’s beloved songs on Saturday, including “You’ll Never Know,” “Ciribiribin,” “Sleepy Lagoon,” and “2 O’Clock Jump.”

According to Radke, the band is distinguished by its terrific trumpet solos in the style of Harry James.

“It’s the mystique of Harry James and the music he made so famous during the Big Band Era,” he said.

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One thing Perry has learned in the past couple of years is that she can tell the speakers to give a graduate-level presentation because Hillsdale students already have a strong foundation in understanding the Western tradition.

“We don’t realize how blessed we are to have the classes that we do,” Perry said.

“We can go deeper into really technical, legal, or philosophical things because our students are at a level where they can understand these principles.”

Abigail Allen, the Hillsdale chapter’s former vice president, said the Federalist Society has given her the opportunity to build a strong network with other members.

“I was able to gain a lot of advice from all the different people who I was able to interact with through the Federalist Society,” Allen said.

“There’s a huge number of Hillsdale alumni who have gone to law school, who have worked with the Federalist Society, and who want to come back and help us. They’ve been great.”

Allen will be attending the University of Notre Dame Law School this fall. She said the network she has built within the Federalist Society has given her confidence going into

LSAT. For example, the Federalist Society teamed up with Career Services to bring in Josiah Kollmeyer ’14, who earned a perfect score on his LSAT and attended Harvard University Law School. Kollmeyer gave students advice to prepare for the LSAT. The Federalist Society also brought in Daniel Cody ’18 who shared his 12-week LSAT study program with students.

In addition to bringing in alumni, the Federalist Society also held a series called, “What Can You do With a Law Degree.”

“We brought in job lawyers, intellectual property lawyers, traditional firm lawyers, people in academia with a law degree, and people in Council,” Perry said.

Perry said she will be taking two years off before applying to law schools because she is getting married to her fiance who currently lives in Dallas. She has learned about job opportunities in Dallas through the connections she established through the Federalist Society.

“We had Clark Neily come in to talk about how the criminal justice system worked,” Perry said. “Now I’m looking at jobs in the district attorney’s office in Dallas, because I had no idea that the criminal justice system is the way it is.”

“If there was a college worthy of some designation of being an outstanding potential Federalist undergrad, Hillsdale College stood head and shoulders above other choices.” law school.

“I have a network of people to support me in my career,” Allen said. “It’s very reassuring to be able to build that network as an undergraduate and be able to choose a law school in light of what I know.”

Last spring, Allen invited U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Barrett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, to Hillsdale’s campus. Allen and a couple of other students had dinner with Barrett and discussed life, law, and ethics.

“When I started looking at law schools more seriously, her influence and her ability to explain her experiences at Notre Dame were really helpful,” Allen said.

Allen also said the study groups and various speakers helped prepare her for the

Perry, an economics major, said she learned about how economics and incentives are involved in the criminal justice system.

“The Federalist Society exposed me to ideas that made me think about things,” Perry said. “Just being involved has made me think about things more than ever.”

One observation Perry had about the Federalist Society at Hillsdale compared to other campuses is that it does not face push back from the administration.

“We don’t have any debates that are that heated because we’re not going to find a faculty member who’s an opponent of something one of our speakers talks about,” Perry said.

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“There have been some that I’ve put in front of them and guys have been like, ‘We can’t physically do that, that’s going to be impossible.’ And then they do it. They may fail a hundred times, but on the 101st time, they get through it,” Gifford said. “And that’s great.”

Four years later, Senior Kevin Monson said it felt “really good” to be among the first group to complete Mental Toughness Fridays, or “MTFs,” for all four off-seasons.

Monson described the time the baseball team carried a telephone pole around to notable spots around campus, and did workouts with the poles there, while other students looked at them “like we were crazy.”

from B4 to improve them — not just physically, because it’s a hard workout, but mentally,” he said. “You have a challenge that’s put in front of you and you’re going to have challenges put in front of you all the time throughout life, and the question is what you’re going to do with those moments. So the hope with this, as for anything, is that they don’t back down when the challenge is there.”

The goal is to get the guys to push back against roadblocks that might come up, whether at the pitching mound, in the dugout, or even later in their lives, according to the strength coach. Often, the challenge appears to be greater than it actually is.

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the Federalist Society at Rice University as a junior and said the first event the chapter held was met with resistance. The new chapter invited Charles Murray to speak about the true meaning of free speech on campus.

“We heard the school administration was providing supplies, free of charge, to protesters who were going to protest the event,” Delaplane said. “The day of the event, we had police everywhere. We had a packed auditorium, over 230 people. And then we had another 35 protesters outside, and here was heckling at the event.”

Delaplane said the event shook the Rice undergraduate campus.

“People began to think, ‘What does it actually mean to allow someone to speak on an issue I don’t agree with?

Is this a place that is just an incubator for group think, or is it a place that is going to encourage intellectual curiosity and risk taking, and honesty,’” Delaplane said.

After the event, Delaplane said the chapter didn’t fade because of strong leadership and showing respect toward the administration at Rice.

“The key to making these groups successful is focusing their leadership on character,” Delaplane said.

Schlueter said the atmosphere at Hillsdale has fostered success within the Federalist Society.

“We’ve had success in getting students in at top law schools,” Schlueter said. “And those students have been successful at law schools.”

In addition to success at top law schools, Schlueter said more Hillsdale graduates clerk on the Supreme Court than the vast majority of law schools.

“The truth about a law school education is that nothing prepares you better than a liberal arts education because of the kinds of skills you need to know: close and careful textual reading, analysis, interpretation, and argument,” Schlueter said. “And that’s what we’re doing in the core anyhow.”

Norton said Arnn’s approach to education holds students to a high standard of excellence. This expectation, he said, allows students to succeed at difficult law schools and earn high positions in the legal field.

“Hillsdale graduates are known to be deep thinkers, honest individuals, and people who have high integrity,” Norton said. “And I think that’s what really has caused people to say, ‘There’s something different about the students at Hillsdale.’”

“We still talk to guys that have graduated about certain MTFs that we’ve done in the past,” he said. “It does bring us together in the long run.”

Senior Christian Rodino explained that along with the MTFs each Friday during the off-season, the baseball team also has a week of MTFs at the end of October, before going into their short season. Some of the workouts during MTF week are more fun, such as 7-on-7 flag football and team relay races in the indoor pool.

“A lot of our guys aren’t very good at swimming, so it’s pretty funny to watch them try to doggy-paddle a whole lap,” Rodino said. “So we do get breaks during the Mental Toughness Friday week. MTF Fridays though, we don’t.

That’s not a thing. They’re all tough.”

Gifford described how senior Joshua Hamrick — “a skinny, freshman pitcher who looked like he’d never worked out a day in his life” — handled his first Mental Toughness Friday.

“I think the other guys joked that after the first MTF he laid in bed the entire Saturday and didn’t move,” Gifford said. “But in the weight room, he’s a leader with the pitching staff now. Some of those guys are gym rats, weight room guys, and some of them are guys that’ve never had to workout a day in their life, and all of a sudden they’ve had to go through those workouts and MTFs for four years and it changes everything.”

Rodino didn’t have a favorite MTF, but he did have a least favorite: “All of them.”

“Giff does this thing called ‘STUD,’ ‘Squat Till U Drop,’” Rodino said, in which the players have to squat their

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The South Dakota bill had actually failed to pass a senate committee, prior to its being resurrected earlier this year after the “Hawaiian Day” debacle, in which the USD School of Law both ordered students to change the name of their event and also prevented them from handing out lei, traditional Hawaiian flower gardens, at the gathering.

Poliakoff also said that President Donald Trump’s executive order, which instructs that research and education grants be we withheld from colleges and universities that fail to uphold the First Amendment, had no connection to the South Dakota bill, which passed the day before.

Hillsdale was in part what launched Poliakoff into his many years of public policy influence. He said he loved living among a community of students who show deep interest both in what they read and in “the affairs of the nation.”

“They breathe these things — not just in the CCAs but in the dining hall as well,” Poliakoff said.

It was this very energy, he said, that propelled him from the classroom into policy. He began reading more deeply into national events and feeling a sense of obligation to do what he was doing in the classroom on a wider scale.

“There’s always that tension between sanctuary and the obligation that one feels,” he said. “I don’t mean to be pretentious, but isn’t that what Plato is telling us, that every once in a while we’ve got to go back into the cave and try to get people to see what the truth is?”

Professor of Politics Mickey Craig, who was also at Hillsdale during Poliakoff ’s time, said he appreciated Poliakoff ’s love for everything classical — from Greek wrestling to how classical learning could be combined with contemporary civic education.

“Things like how do you perpetuate a free republic type of thing,” he said. “He obviously continued in that — he’s body weight plus 10 pounds.

“It’s pretty intense.”

Though later Gifford would only require players to squat 60 percent of their maximum, the first version of this workout wasn’t so easy.

“We had people squatting 80 times at their body weight, until their legs physically couldn’t continue,” Rodino said. “It was kind of cool, because it really showed you that even when you think you’re tired at 30 reps, you have the will and the mental ability to push on. That was one of the toughest ones.”

With the STUD, as well as other workouts, the concept is based on one the U.S. Navy SEALs use in their training, according the Gifford: the “40 percent rule.”

“When your brain is telling you you’re done, your body is only really about 40 percent done,” Gifford said. “You’ve still got a lot left in the tank, physically. That’s the goal with them, is trying to get guys to understand that when they feel like they want to stop because it hurts, it burns, it’s whatever, they’re huffing and puffing, you still have more in the tank, you can do it, you can push through.”

Rodino said he’s found this to be mostly true, but for different reasons.

“When you get to a point, you want to quit, but then you look to your side and you’ve got your teammates still pushing on, so it really drives you not to quit. And then at the end of the MTF you always realize you could do a lot more than you ever thought,” he said. “As a senior this isn’t as evident, you kind of already have this predisposition from earlier years, but as a freshman it’s definitely a pretty

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Former Classics professor Michael Poliakoff currently serves as President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. ACTA | Courtesy

bounded all over the country since Hillsdale.”

Craig even participated in a Greek reading group with Poliakoff along with several other professors.

“He saw how what he did with his classical studies could somehow become part of what he was trying do in education and education reform — to bring back the classics and the study of great books,” Craig said. “Through what he’s doing at ACTA — you know, with an English department that might not even study Shakespeare — he’s making people aware of the strange multiplicity of specialties at universities.”

Professor of History Paul Rahe, who overlapped with Poliakoff at both Yale and Oxford, said some of Poliakoff ’s other work at ACTA with regard to tracking university mismanagement could end up being “explosive.”

“It’s allowing trustees at the University of Michigan and other places to actually see where the money goes, and it might bring pressure on the government because of grants,” Rahe said.

He added that universities across the country “are almost always badly administered,” noting that during financial decline, many tend to slim down faculty numbers while holding onto burgeoning and unnecessary staff positions.

“There’s a crunch coming, and Michael is preparing the ground for revolution I think,” Rahe said.

Before ACTA, Poliakoff served as Pennsylvania deputy secretary for postsecondary and higher education, direc-

tor of education programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and vice president for academic affairs and research at the University of Colorado. Now, as ACTA’s president, Poliakoff continues to further his stance against what he sees as the erosion of the First Amendment.

“One of our dear friends at ACTA says, ‘What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens at the university doesn’t stay at the university,’” he said. “When we accustom students to expect bias-response teams and free speech zones and safe spaces then they will carry that over into the workplace and civil society. I’d venture to say much of the polarization in this nation — the inability to debate in a civil and respectful manner is an outgrowth of that toxic environment on so many campuses.”

Poliakoff added it’s not surprising that many legislatures around the country are working to protect free speech, given the many recent incidents of hostility toward conservative campus speakers, including scholars Charles Murray and Christina Hoff Sommers, and political commentators Heather McDonald and Ben Shapiro.

“Intellectual diversity commands us to challenge our own beliefs,” Poliakoff said. “A good method is what scientists do: an ethical scientist will do everything he can to prove his hypothesis wrong.

Since we are all imperfect creatures, we need intellectual diversity to help us stumble toward a better understanding of the truth.”

“We had people squatting 80 times at their body weight, until their legs physically couldn’t continue. It was kind of cool, because it really showed you that even when you think you’re tired at 30 reps, you have the will and the mental ability to push on. That was one of the toughest ones.” interesting thing to see.”

Ultimately, Gifford said, this makes a difference in the players’ game-day endurance.

“If they’re down late in the game, maybe it’s game two of a double-header, and they’re tired and they’ve played 17 innings of baseball already, it’s still not nearly as hard as some of the stuff they’ve had to go through on Fridays, and be successful. It builds confidence in themselves, but also in their teammates and the team as a whole,” he said.

What’s good for the team, however, is not always the most enjoyable. When asked about the players’ response to the workouts, Coach Gifford laughed.

“It’s a mixed bag. They embrace it, they know it’s a part of it. The baseball coaches know with the recruits that they bring in to visit campus in the fall, they bring them in on a Friday so they can see a Mental Toughness Friday. As Coach Theisen has said, if that scares them, we don’t want them,” he said.

Theisen emphasized the benefit of the MTFs on the players’ communication and coordination skills.

“When it takes a whole

team to carry a big railroad tie or telephone pole across the field and do curls with them or lifting them above their heads, those are always things that require timing and teamwork. The other things I really enjoy seeing are when players are pushed physically to exhaustion,” Theisen said.

He added that the players refer to this perseverance under pressure as “grit.”

“They like to consider themselves gritty,” he said.

Grittiness aside, however, nothing is met with more happiness than the end of the Friday workouts.

“I had one guy in the past who graduated who told me that on Fridays he couldn’t eat all day, because he was so nervous and anxious about what I’d make him do. And then as soon as it was over on Fridays, his whole house would go up to El Cerritos and just smash dinner,” Gifford said.

This year’s senior class, as the first class to complete all four years, “celebrated big time,” according to Gifford.

“The joke is, ‘I never have to do that again,’” he said, laughing.

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Hillsdale’s Federalist Society one of three undergraduate chapters By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor Three years ago, senior Anna Perry saw the need for a pre-law club on Hillsdale College’s campus. During this same time period, Justice Brian Zahra — who serves on the Michigan Supreme Court — approached College President Larry Arnn and Professor of Philosophy and Religion Nathan Schlueter about establishing a Federalist Society on Hillsdale’s campus.

In November 2016, Hillsdale became the second undergraduate program to have a Federalist Society on campus. Schlueter, the director of the pre-law program and adviser for the chapter, said he loves that Hillsdale has a Federalist Society.

“It’s a great honor at Hillsdale College, and I’m excited to be a part of it,” Schlueter said. “It’s really a great opportunity for our students at the college.”

According to its website, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was founded in 1982 and is made up of conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming the current legal order.

The society is a membership organization that features a student division, a lawyers division, and a faculty division.

Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo said the Federalist Society creates an environment where people can gain a deeper appreciation for the United States’ constitutional system and the ways it contributes to freedom and well-being.

“It’s very valuable to have informed, civil, and reasonable debates about the importance of the rule of law in terms of protecting the freedom and dignity of all people,” Leo said. “The Federalist Society provides a unique

forum that does all of those things.”

Schlueter said that Leo is credited with selecting most of President Donald Trump’s court appointees.

“Leo is the head of our society and we have that association on campus,” Schlueter said. “That’s a powerful connection.”

Today, only three undergraduate programs have Federalist Society chapters. Rice University started its chapter in 2013, followed by Hillsdale College in 2016, and Princeton University in 2018.

Leo said most universities and colleges with law schools have Federalist Society chapters, and the undergraduate students can participate in the law school’s chapter activities.

“At some universities that’s a very extensive collaboration and some it’s less so,” Leo said.

“It all just depends on the university community.”

Prior to starting a Federalist Society on campus, Leo said the senior management looks at the program’s proposal.

“The senior management of the organization decides whether it’s worth pursuing based on potential effectiveness and demand,” Leo said.

“It’s not a matter that the board of directors has to vote on.”

Vice President and General Counsel of Hillsdale College Robert Norton — who has served on the litigation executive committee of the Federalist Society — said it was a logical step for Hillsdale to have a Federalist Society chapter.

“If there was a college worthy of some designation of being an outstanding potential Federalist undergrad, Hillsdale College stood head and shoulders above other choices,” Norton said.

He also said Hillsdale’s

reputation continues to grow in the legal field.

“We know more about the Constitution, and our students are taught through the Socratic method,” Norton said. “They are excellent writers. They’re taught to think critically and read and write well.”

Perry, who was the first president of Hillsdale’s Federalist Society said the chapter’s first event included attending the Agraino Award Dinner for the Michigan Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society in November 2016.

“They host a big award dinner once a year to honor a reputable and important member of the society who’s done good work,” Perry said.

“Justice Zahra was the person getting the award that year.”

After helping Hillsdale start its Federalist Society, Zahra bought a table for 10 Hillsdale students to attend the dinner and be recognized.

Perry said she and the other students networked with appellate judges, federal judges, and Michigan Supreme Court judges.

“We took a picture with Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen,” Perry said.

“She was one of Trump’s short list nominees.”

Perry said the chapter began recruitment in 2017, which was difficult because it was the middle of the year.

At its first meeting, Perry said about 75 students showed up.

Since 2016, the chapter has collaborated with Hillsdale’s Career Services to bring in speakers and people to help students preparing for the LSAT. “Our main campus presence, even for people who aren’t going to law school, comes from speakers that we’ve had,” Perry said.

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Federalist Society members with U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Barrett.

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Historic Hysteria Campus slams Collegian gossip columnists By | Callie Shinkle Columnist Based on the number of gossip columns covered in this historic review, it is safe to say that Hillsdale may have had a bit of a gossip problem in its past.

This didn’t go unnoticed by the students of Hillsdale College.

Dating back to 1939, The Collegian has been stuck in a cycle of printing gossip columns and then printing articles complaining about those columns.

An article entitled, “Let Gossip Take a Holiday,” printed on Dec. 12, 1939, an anonymous student wrote in, “Your thoughtless words do more harm than you can imagine, and there is no injury that can’t be averted through one moment of thought.” Thinking before speaking? What a novel concept that has yet to be implemented.

In an article called, “Watch Your Step Rumor Monger,” printed on Oct. 13, 1955, Jack Jardine described gossips at Hillsdale, writing, “They derive some queer sort of pleasure from being able to say something scandalous about other people. If they can’t find anything in the present that seems shocking enough to furnish juicy gossip, they delve into the ancient history for their malicious material.”

That quote is tough to work with because that is in fact the

word-for-word purpose of my column.

Jardine clearly knew me well, because he continued writing, “These people are thoroughly convinced that every silver lining has a builtin black cloud and go through life looking for the clouds, blindly closing their eyes to any goodness that might be around them.”

On Feb. 24, 1977, Ayn Cabaniss wrote an article entitled, “Gossip fills our Hillsdale Campus,” saying, “Gossip appears to be the most enjoyable sport around.

Any form of back-stabbing is acceptable as long as the story can be exaggerated and blown into a full fledged scandal.”

She continued, “How many times have I been sitting in the union or Saga and heard outrageous comments made about roommates, suitemates, professors, or whatever else can be thought of. I would just as soon listen to a bunch of old hens as to overhear these conversations.” While in the rural Dale, that actually is a plausible option.

Cabaniss wrote, “I realize that there is not a whole lot to do in the town of Hillsdale, but there must be better things to do than talk about other people.” Once again, tough to agree with that statement when I literally spend my days searching through the archives for thirty-yearold gossip.

Andy Kaplan also hopped

on the complaining about campus gossip train on Nov. 4, 1982, writing, “Hillsdale, besides being known as a fine independent college, should also hold the title of, ‘Gossip Capital of the World.’ The old cliche about the three quickest ways of communication gains new meaning at Hillsdale.

They are: telephone, telegram, and tel-a-student.” Remember when these were the only ways to gossip about people?

Seven years later, on Nov. 30, 1989, Julia Maloney wrote an article entitled, “Rumors Spread like Tumors.” She wrote, “Rumors seem to cover Hillsdale’s campus faster than the snow. It seems that the students here thrive on a tadbit about their fellow students’ personal lives.”

She continued, “At a college of this size and one this conservative, rumors appear to be one of the few things which still unify the student body.

We may not know everyone personally, but usually a name can be matched with a face.

So, once the identification is made, the rumor is ready to take off.”

There is no true gossip column in The Collegian anymore, so these complaints seem to have paid off. However, college kids will be college kids, and it is doubtful that gossip will ever fully be eradicated from this campus.

True grit: Baseball seniors complete four years of ‘Mental Toughness Fridays’ By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor It’s a cold Friday night in October on the football field.

The air is crisp. A group of young men are struggling and yelling, their breath coming in clouds. A coach’s whistle blows, and they collapse, exhausted.

This isn’t Friday night football. This is the Hillsdale College baseball team in the off season, and they’ve just finished lunging the length of the field with a telephone pole for weight. This is Mental Toughness Friday.

Four years ago, Strength and Conditioning Coach Patrick Gifford came to Hillsdale to help train Hillsdale College athletes, and met with Baseball Head Coach Eric Theisen and his father, Assistant Coach Gordon Theisen, before the team returned to campus for the fall. The Theisens, who were hired two years prior, had an idea for improving the baseball team’s mental approach to their game.

“We started talking about trying to win championships our first year,” Gordon Theisen said. “I firmly believe that you have to become a champion in your mind before you actually become one on paper, or in the field, or wherever you may be. I don’t think championships are won by

accident.”

To do this, Theisen proposed what he called “Mental Toughness Fridays,” a particularly tough workout at the end of the week, with the purpose of strengthening the players’ ability to push past failure.

The difference between losing and winning, Theisen explained, is almost entirely mental.

“In my experience and education, I know that our brains don’t know the difference between visualizing something and actually doing something,” he said. “So when you visualize holding up a trophy, our brains register it as actually holding up a trophy. So we had to convince our players that they had to believe in themselves as champions before they were going to win them.”

But while Theisen described a kind of calisthenics — such as sprint drills, planks, and situps — as his original plan for the Friday workouts, Gifford had other ideas.

“They had some ideas,” Gifford said, “And I said, ‘Yeah, those are fine, or we could do this…’ We decided to make them tougher than what was originally planned. It was the goal of the baseball coaches, and I took it and ran with it.”

Workouts would ultimately include races to push trucks up a hill, carrying telephone poles to notable monuments

on campus, or carrying tractor tires from the intramural baseball fields down to Hayden Park. Players are broken into teams of four or five, competing to win, and losers often have to do a penalty workout — what Gifford calls ‘the penalty for losing,’ and Theisen calls a ‘reward.’

“Part of that is motivation,” Theisen explained. “The losing team, for example, may have to do something extra when they’re done. So you want to win, so you don’t have that.

But what we really like to see is the winning team, when they realize that they won and they feel accomplished, even though they’re dead-tired, we love to see the leaders on the winning team say, ‘Hey. We’re going to do this penalty — or ‘reward’ — with the team we just beat.’ And that’s the element of the team bonding that’s really important.”

Some of the workouts still “live in infamy,” according to Gifford, especially that first one, in which each team carried a tractor tire — some still filled with rainwater and sloshing the guys in the face — out to Hayden Park, flipped it around a baseball diamond, and carried it back up the hill.

“With anything that we do in that strength-conditioning aspect, it’s trying

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