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‘Saga Steve’ back in Hillsdale By | Macaela Bennett Editor-in-Chief

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Women’s cross-country team ranked No. 1 in the nation Senior Captain Emily Oren echoed her coach, saying the ranking she really cares about comes at the end of the season.

“We want to be ranked No. 1 at the end of the season, not just now,” she said.

Oren was named the GLIAC Cross-Country Female Athlete of the Week for her fourth-place finish at the Spartan Invitational on Friday.

While the women were excited about defeating Grand Valley, they aren’t taking anything for granted. GVSU’s team wasn’t at full strength during the race, running without their two top runners, including last year’s Division II national champion, Kendra Foley.

“We can run with Grand Valley and we can win,” junior

Farewell, Jim Eckhardt After calling Chargers games for 40 years, Eckhardt puts the mic down for the final time. A10

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By | Evan Carter Web Editor Yesterday, the Hillsdale College women’s cross-country team became the first team in Chargers history to be ranked No. 1 in an NCAA Division II National Coaches’ poll. Hillsdale is just the sixth school in 15 years to take the top ranking in NCAA D-II women’s cross-country. The ranking comes on the heels of their 59-point victory over previously top-ranked Grand Valley State University at the Sept. 18 Spartan Invitational.

Head coach Andrew Towne said the ranking is a nice achievement, but won’t change how the team moves forward this season.

“Our focus, from day one, has solely been on ourselves and how each individual can become their best,” he said.

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22.9% Ben Carson

18.06% Marco Rubio

16.67% Carly Fiorina

15.97% Ted Cruz

Data from straw poll conducted by Hillsdale College Republicans Sept. 16.

City College President Paul J. McNulty, said in a statement Tuesday. “For now, the department should, at the very least, include a disclaimer that the Scorecard is not comprehensive or reflective of all college and universities.”

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By excluding Hillsdale College, the implication is that we are somehow inconsiderable.

By | Nicole Ault conduct polls at some of the group’s Collegian Freelancer If Hillsdale students represented the entire United States, re- u p c o m i n g tired neurosurgeon Ben Carson might feel comfortable about e v e n t s , a n d clinching the Republican presidential nomination.

In a straw poll conducted last week, Hillsdale College Republicans asked students who attended the club’s “Screen on the Green” of the Sept. 16 GOP primary debate who they would vote for were the election the next day. Students cast their votes on paper ballots following the debate on Galloway Residence’s lawn.

Carson took 23 percent of 144 votes. Sen. Marco Rubio, in second place, received 18 percent, and former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina was a close third at 17 percent.

“I think it’s very interesting that we’re skewed far away from the national polls,” College Republicans President senior Sam Holdeman said.

In another straw poll conducted by the College Republicans at the Source on Sept.

1, Carson vied with Rubio for the students’ favor. Rubio beat Carson by only 1 percent of the 160 votes cast: 22-21.

“Since such a large group of students viewed the debate, I think the debate may have led to a change in ratings,” College Republicans Events Coordinator sophomore Morgan Brownfield said. “However, there’s a lot of other important factors to consider, such as the portion of the student body that was polled. That may have influenced the ratings.”

“In both groups, there was a larger population of freshman and a larger population of those interested in politics,” Brownfield said, noting that the poll “wasn’t scientific.”

“Carson’s popularity… was a little bit of a surprise to me, but I guess it shouldn’t have been considering he’s second in many national polls, and Hillsdale students don’t particularly like Trump,” said junior Chris Pudenz, who helped conduct the post-debate poll as head resident assistant of Galloway.

Trump received 4 percent of the votes in the Source poll and 3 percent of the votes in the poll at the debate.

Holdeman thought demographics have something to do with the disparity between Hillsdale’s poll and the national ones. “ Trump tends to 4.17% appeal to an older Mike Huckabee crowd,” he said.

4.17% Brownfield had a different take on Scott Walker the disparity.

“This likely 2.78% has to do with the school’s emphasis on statesmanship and John Kasich prudence,” she said, implying students think that 2.78% Trump lacks these qualiDonald Trump 1.39% ties.

Brownfield said the club uses student opinions for its operations.

Jeb Bush 0.00% “We like to conduct these polls in order to see what the campus Brownf i e l d consensus is regarding Republican candidates so that we can better serve the student body by possibly bringing those candidates said they’ll likely conduct one Chris Christie to campus or organizing student workers on their campaigns,” she after the Oct. 28 debate.

“It’s important because it said. sparks campus conversation and involvement,” Brownfield said.

More opportunity for conversation and involvement might be “In addition, it gives students a capacity to engage with the ideolocoming soon. Holdeman anticipates the College Republicans will gy they’re learning in class.”

Mark Richard Q&A The short story writer, journalist, and screenwriter visits Hillsdale Sept. 29-30. B1

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A week after the Collegian reported that the Department of Education’s College Scorecard excludes all schools that refuse to accept federal funding, including Hillsdale College, the department still refuses to make any changes to the list.

Though attracting national media attention because the Scorecard did not include schools that refuse to receive federal funds, none of the independent institutions have been added to the list so far, and no statements have been released regarding the list’s incomplete state.

“The Scorecard is designed to assist families in making the choices about institutions and institutional value,” Provost David Whalen said. “The pure basis of that choice cannot and and should not be ability to repay Title IV federally guaranteed student loans.”

Title IV schools are those that accept federal funding.

“By excluding Hillsdale College, the implication is that we are somehow inconsiderable— not worthy of the time or effort it would take to include those schools that prize their independence from federal funding,” Whalen added.

President Barack Obama claimed in his release of the Scorecard that it includes information about “every institution

of higher education” in the nation.

The Scorecard represents higher education in America today, Whalen said, yet important educational institutions “suddenly dropped off the radar.”

Officials from Grove City College, another school excluded from the database, requested a public clarification from the education department to make clear that the Scorecard is not, as advertised, comprehensive.

“However well-intentioned, the Scorecard as it exists now is incomplete and does not fully disclose comprehensive data that families need to make informed decisions,” Grove

College Republicans’ straw polls show Carson, Rubio as favorites among students in the 2016 GOP presidential primary after the second debate

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Steve Casai ’74 swipes in a student at the Knorr Family Dining Room Anders Kiledal | Collegian

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work shifts and described his absence as “heartbreaking.”

“He is a sweetheart who cares for the students and community,” Steffke said. “Without Steve, it’s like that heart is gone.”

Steffke added that upon entering the cafeteria, everyone misses the “Saga” Steve smile.

Admissions counselor Anna Saewert ’12 said she connected with Casai over their shared love of the arts and his recent absence from a concert they had discussed attending made it “unavoidable to notice something was wrong.”

“He’s such a consistent supporter of music, and he has his own spot in Markel where he always sits,” Saewert said.

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Freshman Kathryn DuHadway delivers an add card to Registrar Doug McArthur. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

A beloved fixture on campus, “Saga” Steve Casai ’74, is recuperating at Hillsdale Community Health Center.

“He is on the road to recovery and defying all rumors flying around about him,” Bon Appétit General Manager Dave Apthorpe said, referring to claims on social media that Casai had died.

Doctors at the University of Michigan Medical Center operated on Casai two weeks ago, partially removing a brain tumor and mending skin lesions, according to Bud Vear, Casai’s longtime friend.

On Monday, Sept. 7, Casai, a four-decade employee of the

college, did not arrive for his shift.

“We knew something was wrong,” Apthorpe said.

He called Casai’s landlord, who found Casai unresponsive in his home.

An ambulance transported Casai to HCHC, from which he was life-flighted to Ann Arbor.

While Casai recovers in Hillsdale, he is able to receive visitors, but Apthorpe said to “refrain from visiting right now.”

He said anyone wanting to send him well wishes can drop off cards and other items in a basket in the Knorr Dining Room.

Senior Elise Steffke, a student employee for Bon Appétit, said she grew close to Casai during

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In brief: There and back again for ‘second breakfast’ By | Nicole Ault Collegian Freelancer A free meal on campus is always an “unexpected party.”

Perhaps only at Hillsdale College, though, would students feast in honor of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthdays and call it “second breakfast,” which is exactly what happened in the Heritage Room at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

“It’s a very Hillsdale thing— something unique to us,” Public Service Librarian Brenna Wade said. “Tolkien and Lewis are huge here.”

About 50 to 60 students and a few professors gathered for the “Hobbit Day” celebration, sitting around the room in smaller groups to bond over their love for “The Lord of the Rings” – and food.

In the tradition of hobbits, the library provided a feast. A long table in the center of the room held an array of scones, muffins, cheese and crackers, pretzels, grapes, and doughnut holes. Made available were coffee, tea, and hot cocoa as well.

Freshman Nic Rowan said he was motivated to come by the food, but he is a true fan of “The Lord of the Rings.”

“I was in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ club at my high school,” he said, adding that he would appreciate a “Riders of Rohan” group on campus.

Freshman Kathryn DuHadway also enjoys the trilogy. “‘The Lord of the Rings’ kind of fits with Hillsdale’s philosophy. There were a lot of deeper themes in [the trilogy],” she said, mentioning the struggle between good and evil as an example.

Wade agreed.

“I like doing things that are unique to Hillsdale,” she said.

“It’s fun throwing an event that appeals to the student body that wouldn’t necessarily appeal at most schools.”

Wade said she’s hoping to make this celebration an annual tradition. Based on student reactions to today’s event, that’s good news for the Hillsdale shire.

“Excellent,” Rowan said, describing the breakfast. “The Green Dragon could not have done better.”

He got up to leave, then glanced back.

“That’s a ‘Lord of the Rings’ reference,” he said.

‘Fan night’ Saturday By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor The early bird catches the game—at a discount.

Hillsdale College invites Hillsdale County residents to an Early Bird Fan Night Saturday at 7 p.m. at Muddy Waters Stadium. For football fans who are the first to the 100th to arrive, admission costs $1. The price increases $1 for every 100 people. The 400th attendee’s ticket will be $4, and then prices return to $6 for adults. Spectators must show ID at the will call window for the discount.

“We want to solidify our commitment to making this community a great one,” Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said.

The cheerleaders will also distribute 10 pizzas to the student section during the third quarter to encourage attendance throughout the entire game.

“Only to the best fans, though,” Manno said.

The promotion night is one in a series for home games. On Sept. 12, the game admitted 100 Hillsdale County students for free. The football season opener, dubbed Business and Industry Night, brought over 2,000 spectators, surpassing 2014’s homecoming attendance.

“It improves community relations,” Manno said, “and it also encourages people to come to our sporting events.”

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Kiledal selected as new director of forensics teams

By | Emma Vinton Assistant Editor Professor of Speech Kirstin Kiledal has assumed the role of Director of Forensics, a position formerly held by Professor of Theatre James Brandon.

After selecting Kiledal at the end of last semester, Brandon announced the decision two weeks ago. Kiledal will oversee administration of the three forensics teams: debate, individual events, and mock trial.

“Dr. Kiledal has been working with this for a while, and she is ready and suited to take over the administrative position,” Brandon said.

Brandon, whose passion is for theater history and directing, said he will now devote his time to that.

“I’ve been able to do all these things, but my energies have been dissipated,” he

said. “Maybe the hardest part is not being able to focus on the things I really love.”

Kiledal was on the original debate and individual events teams when she attended Hillsdale. She also taught during her postgraduate studies at Ball State University and assisted at Pennsylvania State University.

“Dr. Brandon came in at a time when there was no I.E. program,” she said. “He saw a need to return that to Hillsdale College. Since that time, he has spent significant energy not only maintaining but growing our programs in terms of their capacity for education, for whole-student engagement, and for competitive success.”

Brandon added that the change is not sudden or unplanned and that the transition of ceeding responsibilities has been underway

for a few years. He also said he tried not to micromanage the teams but give the coaches leeway in accomplishing their goals.

“I probably only held on as long as I did because I really love the people I’m working with,” Brandon said.

“I’m not involved in the day to day anymore, but I get to live vicariously through that.”

Kiledal said her new position includes mostly institutional knowledge, support, and assistance with administration or problems that may arise.

“It is about trying to find a way to allow each team its own personality, its own successes and challenges, and to create a unity as well in terms of their acceptance and respect of the other teams,” Kiledal said. “That’s something that Dr. Brandon has spent a lot of time working

on.”

The programs have grown significantly since Brandon’s arrival at the college in 1998.

There was a small debate program, and Brandon helped begin individual events and mock trial in the 2000s. The teams have developed and expanded under Brandon’s long-term direction, and he said the teams are consistently at the top of national competitions.

“Dr. Kiledal has been solving problems along with Dr. Brandon for as long as I’ve been a coach here,” said Matthew Warner, assistant professor of forensics and debate and individual events coach. “The general functioning of the coaches and administrators of our three teams will move forward without missing a beat.”

Assistant Professor of Speech Matthew Doggett,

who also coaches debate, said Kiledal brings much experience into the position.

“She has been closely involved with the teams as the head of the speech department and adviser to the Pi Kappa Delta National Forensics fraternity,” Doggett said.

“I would expect very little to change among the teams.”

Both debate and individual events look to start the season strong during their season opener Saturday at Western Kentucky University.

Although the roles have changed, both Kiledal and Warner said they will value Brandon’s advice in the future.

“Dr. Brandon is not leaving us behind,” Kiledal said.

“He will forever be a supporter of this program and a mentor to the director of forensics.”

Scorecard

using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System’s database, which is required by federal law to collect information such as student loan accrual, graduation rates, post-graduation employment statistics, and gender and racial demographics from all schools accepting federal funds.

Though not required, Hillsdale College has collected and submitted data for inclusion in the IPEDS system.

“We have tried to submit IPEDS data, but have been denied,” Whalen said. “They will not accept our data at all because we decline to collect the racial profiles of our students. We, on principle, do not pay attention to ethnicity, and we don’t collect the data.”

Instead, the college submits data individually to ranking institutions around the country to be included in their deliberations. When the college collected the data for the 2014-2015 academic year and began submitting it, Hillsdale’s information was excluded from the IPEDS database.

“It was just this past academic year that we were refused,” Whalen said. “We started to submit the data and boom, it bounced back.

They told us that unless we submitted the information we were declining to submit, none of our data would be accepted.”

The data not submitted included a racial demographic profile, required by federal law in order to be included in the IPEDS database.

Robin Wilkins, an administrator at the IPEDS database helpdesk, explained that information for the database is collected in a series of surveys, in which all fields must be filled.

“You won’t be able to submit an incomplete survey,” Wilkins said.

College administrators have been fielding questions about whether or not Hillsdale is considered a legitimate institution by the Department of Education since the Collegian’s report last week.

“Since last week’s story, we’ve had concerns from parents, from prospective students and their parents, from donors and supporters across the country,” Whalen said. “A good bit of worry and concern.”

A footnote of the Scorecard’s explanatory documents does mention that the Scorecard only includes Title IV institutions in the universe of schools considered.

“Whether or not there was any intention to exclude and harm conservative schools, the effect is the same,” Whalen said. “We are harmed.

We have been slighted. And we now have to go through a tedious and distracting explanation for why we do not appear on the list that is to all appearances comprehensive. It’s not a disaster or a cataclysm, but it is more than a nuisance.”

“Given the Scorecard, the universe just shrank,” he added. “The universe just got smaller, less independent, less real.”

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us to do: provide information to families and consumers to help them make a college choice that’s smart for them,” Department of Education spokeswoman Denise Horn said in a statement. “As of now, institutions that do not participate in Title IV federal financial aid are not included on the site, because they are not required to send us data.

The department is listening closely to concerns from users and other stakeholders and will work to address those concerns in future updates to the tool.”

The Department of Education has not retracted its statement calling Hillsdale a “predominantly certificate degree granting institution.”

The Scorecard was created

New club brings Disney magic to campus By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor You’re never too old for a Disney movie.

At least that’s the philosophy behind Hillsdale’s new club, Ears to Disney. Holding weekly film screenings at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays in the basement of Lane Hall and hosting other events throughout the year, the organization hopes to “spread Disney cheer,” club President sophomore Meghan Perks said.

Treasurer sophomore Karl Berg agreed.

“I think it’s a way for people to sort of relax and sort of step back to that child-like default,” Berg said. “There’s something nostalgic about Disney movies. You formed those memories as a kid. It’s nice to tap into that again.”

Vice President sophomore Rachel Watson and Perks have discussed creating a Disney club on campus since November, suggesting the

name Oozma Kappa in honor of the fake fraternity from Disney and Pixar’s “Monsters University.”

Over 20 students attended the club’s screening of that flick Sept. 14.

“The whole of last year basically it was just this idea we had in our mind like what Disney had drawing Mickey Mouse the first time, a little idea,” Perks said.

Due to concerns over copyrights and a “specialized” title coming from a sequel film made with Pixar, the team looked elsewhere for a name, Watson said.

Perks’ mother, a “super hardcore fan” like her daughter and a previous Disney employee, suggested the name Ears to Disney.

“Like here’s to Disney. We want our club to not just be, ‘Let’s watch movies.’ We want it to kind of be a tribute to Walt’s vision as well,” Perks said. “We really thought he had a lot of great ideas, a lot of great plans. He was also

just a great American. We think that fits with Hillsdale as well. It’s not just to watch movies. It’s also to Disney and his legacy.”

The year is split into quarters with a certain theme of movie for each, such as classic Disney movies or animals, according to Perks.

Beyond videos, however, the club has begun working with the GOAL program Adopt-A-Grandparent to schedule a visit to an elderly community for a showing of a classic Disney movie with the folks there.

Additionally, the group is planning a movie night specifically for professors’ kids to give the parents a night of their own.

On a larger scale, the club will work to raise money to donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which frequently provides children with severe illnesses and disabilities the opportunity to travel to Disney parks. To do so, the club officers plan to host

a Disney dance party.

“Next semester, we have something called the Waltz -- like Walt Disney with a Z at the end,” Perks said.

While any and all are encouraged to come to the club’s events at any time, those who are interested may pay $3.50 for the year to be a part of the “royal guest” membership.

“The significance of that is that was the original admissions price into Disneyworld,” Treasurer Karl Berg said.

The dues cover snacks, refreshments, and other club costs but also allow students to be a part of its Facebook page, providing them access to vote on which movie will be shown at the next meeting.

Having a way to count membership will also help the group in reaching some of its future goals.

One is to develop a relationship between Hillsdale College and the Disney Com-

pany to set up an internship program with each other.

“A lot of other college campuses throughout the United States have official college internship programs with Disney Company, so we kind of want the same thing,” Perks said.

Disney’s program is the third best internship in the country, according to USA Today.

Ultimately, the club’s goal is to provide an outlet for students to both relax and share their creativity.

“The whole idea behind this club is imagination is alive, and we really want to share that sense of imagination with the campus,” Perks said. “I’m really excited to see where the imagination of this campus takes it and to see how many people we can influence, not just catch the references I will inevitably make, but using Disney to broaden our horizons.”

Donald Trump has been leading in most of the recent polls. Do you think his candidacy is a summer fling with the voters? Do you not see him as being a longterm contender?

It’s like a martini. It tastes really good and relaxes you, and then if you keep drinking it’ll kill you. He’s good for the Republican Party now, but they have to find a way to channel his energy and not alienate his base. Or he has to change and get a detailed agenda. So far it’s “tremendous,” “wonderful,” “I’ll make your head spin,” but no specifics.

What specifics do you foresee dominating the conversation during the primary and general elections?

I think it should be two. It should be the debt; we’re going to approach $20 trillion in debt. And should the interest rates be anything other than zero percent, as they are now, it could take a third of the budget just to service the debt that we’ve run up the last seven years. And then the collapse of American foreign policy in the Middle East and the dangers from the Iran deal to ISIS to the

entire region with the immigration to Europe.

Do you think a candidate like Bernie Sanders could plausibly unseat Hillary Clinton from the Democratic nomination?

No, not at all. He’s like Howard Dean. He hasn’t had his scream yet, but he will fade. He’s posing as an outsider, fresh, populist. And everybody knows he’s an insider, tired, socialist. He’s going to captivate the cam-

What concerns do you think a 2016 presidential has that the candidates in 2012 may have not? How has the country changed since then?

We’re $8 trillion greater in debt. We’ve had zero interest rates for seven years, and that’s transferred trillions of dollars out of the pockets of the passbook-holding middle class into the stock market. If we had this conversation in 2012, Iraq hadn’t blown up.

We didn’t have Mogadishu in the Mediterranean and Libya quite yet. ISIS, as the president said, was a JV organization. Putin had not really flexed his muscles in eastern Ukraine, and we didn’t have the Iran deal. Things have gotten very dangerous. And we have a year left of this administration. Legislatively they’re stonewalled, so he’s doing things with executive orders that I don’t think we’ve seen—even in the Nixon and Johnson administrations.

You just taught a course at Hillsdale College on “Historical Leadership: Ancient and Modern.” What leadership qualities do you look for in a presidential

candidate?

I think the most important is courage. Audacity.

[Georges Jacques] Danton said, “Audacity, audacity, always more audacity.” The ability to take a position that’s not popular and win people over to your side.

That requires that you have to be knowledge. You have to be informed…strength, not worrying about the media or what critics say. You have to be able to articulate well, speak well. I hate to say it, but you have to be presentable to the public and vigorous, healthy. Would you believe it, but Elizabeth Warren is only a year and a half younger than Hillary Clinton. They don’t seem that way. Elizabeth Warren seems 20 years younger. Maybe she sounds 30 years older as a neo-socialist, but those are important traits, and I think Hillary doesn’t have those right now. She looks tired, worn, unhealthy. Marco Rubio is a good example of youthful vigor.

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on 2016 hopefuls By | Jordan Finney Collegian Reporter Victor Davis Hanson is the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College where he teaches a course on history and classical culture every fall. He is also the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Hanson spoke at Hillsdale Sept. 17 in review of the Sept. 16 GOP primary debate.

When you survey the field of Republican presidential candidates does anyone in particular stand out in your mind?

That changes each week, doesn’t it? We haven’t had a primary yet, so we don’t know. But right now I think the more viable people like [Marco] Rubio and probably Carly Fiorina. Donald Trump has energized the field… I don’t think he’s a sustainable candidate. The people that everybody thought were going to be the most durable were Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and so far that hasn’t been true.

It’s like a martini. It tastes really good and relaxes you and then if you keep on drinking it it’ll kill you. puses, but he won’t appeal to enough [people]. I think it’ll probably be Hillary Clinton, unless she’s indicted, which I gave that probably about a 30 percent chance depending on how Valerie Jarrett feels on any given day in the White House. And if Joe Biden were to jump in, I think he’d give Hillary a serious run for her money.

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Emails galore no more: SAB launches newsletter By | Kaylee McGhee Collegian Freelancer Every day, the email inboxes of Hillsdale students are buried in a mountain of emails announcing campus events and volunteering opportunities. But this year, the Student Activities Board and Career Services team are working on cutting the pile of emails down to size.

To condense the information, SAB is emailing a newsletter with a list of campus events every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Career Services is sending a similar email geared for their initiatives every Monday.

“When you’re getting 30 emails every day, it’s not likely that you are going to open each one and read them,” SAB member senior Rachael Hille said. “The newsletter makes it so that students are more likely to read about the different events and attend the ones they’re interested in.”

The newsletter results from a survey SAB and the

marketing department did last semester, asking students about their preference of communication.

“The least preferred form of communication was email, and the most preferred form of communication was email,” Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. “So, then the question was, how do we meet both of these requests?”

The team eventually settled on a newsletter after ruling out a mobile app. They designed the newsletter after Instagram’s mobile social media feed.

“It satisfies the preferred form of communication, which was emails, while also cutting down on the number of emails students receive,” Manno said.

The change is already a success, according to Manno, as the newsletter has an average open rate of about 33 percent.

“Even in the first couple of weeks, I’ve had multiple students and faculty members who have requested to be

included in the newsletter,” Manno said. “We’ve received a very positive response.”

Junior Hannah Fleming praised the new structure.

“The newsletter is much better than several emails every day,” Fleming said.

“It’s so much more helpful to have everything that is going on in one space. It’s nice to be able to scroll through all the activities going on in the week and choose the ones I’m interested in.”

Career Services decided to publish an email newsletter as well. The Career Services newsletter will consolidate messages and notify students of events, Assistant Director of Career Services John Quint said.

The newsletter will provide all sorts of information and emphasize Career Service’s branding that it’s never too early to start planning ahead.

“We want our newsletter to be an informational source that students can browse through,” Associate Director of Career Services Courtney

Noonan said. “We spotlight different career fields, and have helpful articles, and we even put up a video just because.”

Noonan also hopes to include “employer spotlights” to highlight jobs and opportunities in which students might have interest.

It “has something for everyone,” Quint said.

The eventual goal is to condense all emails sent about events, activities, speeches, exhibits, and per-

formances into the newsletters.

“We want the newsletter to be the main source of information for everyone on campus, and we want every activity and department to be included,” Manno said.

This alteration is the result of students taking the time to share their thoughts.

“We want students to know that this is for them,” Hille said, “and that their feedback is valuable to us.”

Got something to announce?

Let everyone know with SAB’s newsletter.

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Find a prior SAB newsletter email and click the “Event Submission Form” link.

2) Confirm in an email to Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno that a faculty adviser has approved your event. Email Manno at amanno@hillsdale.edu.

3) Submit only pictures that are 200x133 pixels in size. Pictures will be removed if blurry or inappropriate.

4) Submit all events three days prior to actual start date. SAB will place it in the newsletter section closest to the actual date (e.g. If the event is on Friday, it will be included in the Friday newsletter. If on Thursday, it will be in the Wednesday newsletter).

Competitive Enterprise Institute founder speaks to PRAXIS By | Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter For Fred Smith, economic freedom requires dollars and sense.

In a presentation hosted by PRAXIS, Hillsdale’s economic club, Friday, Smith, founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, explained that intellectuals and businessmen should cooperate to cause change in a political environment that is often hostile to free market principles.

“We can’t expect capitalism to survive if we fail to enlist capitalists in its defense,” Smith said. “Right now, we have a thinker wing and a doer wing, and we need to create an alliance if we want to make a difference.”

Smith, a long-time defender of classical liberalism, worked as a policy analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency early in his career. The impracticality and inefficiency of the government bureaucracy left him disillusioned, he said.

When the EPA struck down many of his suggestions for protecting the environment through private ownership,

Smith took a different path.

In 1984, he founded the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which aims to connect businessmen with thinkers and politicians who support free market economics.

“In founding the institute, my first act in the liberty struggle began,” Smith said.

Calling themselves “media call-girls,” the members of the institute reached out to business groups, working through advocacy and litigation to change policies that made it difficult for businesses to grow.

“It’s easy to focus on the war of ideas,” Smith said. “We wanted ideas to become political realities. We wanted to make something happen.

The defense of capitalism, however, depends on its practical applications, according to Smith. By creating a “thinker-doer alliance” between intellectuals and businessmen, Smith hopes to promote conversation between these two groups for their mutual benefit.

Cooperation between these two groups would allow businessmen to provide intellectuals with information that allow for more effective laws and

more accurate economic theories. In turn, intellectuals could create narratives that support the virtues of capitalism.

“Our challenge is to craft narratives that present the societal value of products. Our policies need to support people’s values,” Smith said.

President of PRAXIS Tyler Groenendal, a junior, said he appreciates Smith’s strategies for promoting economic liberty.

“Smith presented both the strategy and the philosophy necessary to advance the free market,” Groenendal said.

Smith used the taxi company Uber as an example of the benefits capitalism provides for consumers.

“Uber appeals to a wide class of people. It’s an example of the free market creating better opportunities through competition,” Groenendal said.

For sophomore Brendan Noble, Smith’s presentation forged its own thinker-doer alliance by outlining how the ideas he learns in class are put into practice.

Smith concluded by encouraging students to reach out to thinkers and doers within the

student body before they enter the workforce.

“Smith reminded me to make connections now, so if I go into business consulting or management, I can use those ideas in practical situations,” Noble said.

Throughout the semester, PRAXIS will continue to foster conversation among Hillsdale’s thinkers and doers. Future

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at the concert highlighted his dependability.

“That you could count on him being there said so much about his love for the arts and his enthusiasm and support of the student body and college,” Saewert said.

Apthorpe said Bon Appétit

wants to work with anybody on campus to honor Casai and will continue to deliver him well wishes.

One such project comes from the Suites Resident Assistant team, which is sewing a prayer quilt that will be hung up in the Grewcock Student

Union within the next couple weeks for anyone to sign or write a note.

“We want to combine the sentiments of students into one tangible thing,” Suites CoHouse Director Natalie McKee said.

While many described Ca-

“When I go to performances, it’s natural for my eyes to wander to that direction because it was consistent that he was sitting in that spot.”

Saewert said his empty chair

Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute speaks to members of Hillsdale’s economics club, PRAXIS, in the Dow Center on Sept. 18 on the “thinker-doer alliance.”

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speakers include Joshua Hall, co-author of the “Economic Freedom of the World” report; Chris Douglas, a specialist in energy economics; and Michigan Congressman Justin Amash.

“The speakers that PRAXIS brings in,” Noble said, “show how the ideas behind economics apply to a specific issue.”

sai as a “quiet presence,” his impression on campus is deep— emphasized by the void created by his hospitalization.

“In his absence,” Apthorpe said, “we have truly realized what he contributed.”

Some politics faculty offer Trump early support By | Micah Meadowcroft Associate Editor Less than 3 percent of Hillsdale students would vote for Donald Trump tomorrow, according to the College Republicans’ post-debate straw poll last week. But what support Trump does have at Hillsdale, among students and faculty alike, seems sparked by one position, immigration reform.

Professor of Politics Thomas West, Assistant Professor of Politics John Grant, and senior Alex Buchmann each point to Trump’s articulation of immigration reform as setting him apart from the rest of the Republican presidential field. On his website and elsewhere, Trump has advocated for three principles as core to his immigration plan. They read, “1. A nation without borders is not a nation. 2. A nation without laws is not a nation. 3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is

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not a nation.”

West, who said he has not researched any candidates in depth and speaks as an undecided, said Trump is the strongest of what West considers a weak collection of candidates.

He believes Trump, in articulating these principles around immigration policy, implies these principles should be core to all policy.

“Those three things, if I heard any of the other candidates speaking so emphatically about those three things I would be interested in them,” West said.

West points to the American founding as support of Trump’s principles.

“You can’t have a nation if it doesn’t have a border. If you go back to the founding, the first purpose of government is to secure the natural rights of every individual who is an American citizen.

What’s required for that is stated in the preamble of the Massachusetts Constitution in

1780—that means to preserve and defend the body politic,” West said. “You cannot allow your country to be invaded.

An unarmed invasion is when you move in a large quantity of people into the country without arms who have been explicitly forbidden by law.”

Grant also believes Trump to be unique in his focus on enforcing existing law and said he thinks well of him in comparison to the rest of the candidates.

“I’m not an enthusiast in the sense that this is my beau ideal in a presidential candidate by any stretch of the imagination,” Grant said.

“That being said, I support him right now—and of course a lot of things can change and anything can happen—compared to the others because he is talking about critical issues that either are not being talked about by anybody else or would not be discussed at all if it were not for him.

And so I think especially in

relation to basic matters, like immigration—I can’t find another candidate who has actually said we should enforce existing laws, and that’s kind of amazing.”

Grant acknowledges Trump is not popular on campus and people have other issues they are concerned about, but, he said, “Looking at matters in relation to ‘how is this good for America’ is kind of novel in comparison to other candidates.”

Buchmann does not have as negative a view of the wider Republican field as Grant and West, but he still thinks Trump stands out.

“I like Donald Trump, I honestly do,” he said. “I strongly support large portions of his immigration plan.

I think his rhetoric, though crass, is refreshing in the political field. I think the biggest issue of our day is immigration, and I think Trump’s immigration plan is fantastic and stellar.”

Trump’s oft-mentioned braggadocio has made him distasteful to many, but West said he appreciated Trump’s spiritedness.

“One of the reasons that I am willing to give Trump a chance is because of his spirit.

He shows by far the greatest degree of spiritedness of any of the candidates, in a good way. He seems to be spirited on behalf of sensible things.

The things he says to someone who insults or attacks him, that’s one thing. To me, that all falls under the category of ‘you come after me and I’ll defend myself ’ so I’m not concerned about that.”

Trump’s behavior does not bother Buchmann.

“The executive branch is larger than one individual,” he said. “You have a cabinet around you, and Trump has acknowledged that he’s going to put great people around him in his cabinet.”

Scott Walker quits 2016 GOP primary

Pope Francis lands in United States

Volkswagen CEO resigns amid scandal

Medical Marijuana bill in Michigan House

The Wisconsin governor withdrew from the 2016 presidential race on Monday. “I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive, conservative message can rise to the top of the field,” he said. “With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately.”

Pope Francis touched down in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

Somce he has met with President Obama, the first steps on his first visit to America. Pope Francis will address a joint session of congress tomorrow in the U.S. Capitol, and is expected to talk about immigration and climate change.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned yesterday over the German automaker’s carbon emission scandal. Volkswagen admitted to deliberately programming diesel vehicles to emit fewer emissions during official tests, giving them a better ranking and allowing them to save costs on emission taxes.

A measure was passed earlier this week in the Michigan House Judiciary Committee which will allow communities to build medical marijuana dispensaries as part of a new tax bill. The bill passed amid criticism from both sides, some of whom believed it would encourage the use of marijuana.

In brief: Hillsdale County Fair begins next week By | On Yu Lee Collegian Freelancer The 165th annual Hillsdale County Fair, one of the biggest events in Hillsdale, will take place at the Hillsdale Fairground from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3.

On the first day of the fair, Sunday, Sept. 27, rides and exhibits will open at 1 p.m. as usual. At 7 p.m., Your Generation in Concert, a live multimedia spectacular celebrating the greatest American and British pop and rock hits from the 1960’s through today will give a concert featuring by Fifty Amp Fuse in the Grandstand.

Moreover, The Hillsdale County Fair Board is preparing Veteran’s Day Parade from the Midtown Lot starting at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 28 as the day is called ‘Veterans & Children’s Day.’ Also, Antique Tractor Pulls will begin at 6 p.m. on that day in the Grandstand as a free event.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, there will be National Heavyweight Horse Pulls starting at 9 a.m. and International Demolition Derby in the Grandstand at 7 p.m.

Trace Adkins, a country singer who is invited to the fair this year, will perform his country concert in the Grandstand at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Also, Dairy Night & Market Feeder Calf Auction will be held in Expo Building at 6 p.m. on the same day.

The gate admission for a carload will be $10 as Carload Special on Thursday, Oct. 1.

Youth Department Small Animal Sale will begin at 6 p.m. in Expo Building and Modified, Super Farm & Truck Pulls will take place in the Grandstand at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2 is ‘Senior Citizens Day’ as it is called, but also a ‘pulling’ day. Pulling events such as Farm Tractor Pulls Draft Horse Pull will begin at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. respectively.

On the last day of the fair, Saturday, Oct. 3, Miniature Pony Pull will begin at 9:00 a.m. and Youth Department Large Animal Sale will take place in Expo Building at 10:00 a.m. For the last big event of the fair, there will be Shake, Rattle & Roll - Truck Pulls at 5 p.m. in the Grandstand.

Upcoming SAB events: ‘Just Cook It’ The Student Activities Board is offering the opportunity for students to learn how to bake apple pie for one meal swipe. Class starts Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Searle Center’s kitchen. Students may take their creations home. 30 spots are available. Sign up by emailing senior Megan O’Dean at modean@hillsdale.edu.

Garden Party Enjoy the one of the last warm night of the year at the annual Garden Party. The event is Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. to midnight in the Slayton Arboretum. This year’s theme is Mardi Gras.

All-Campus Tailgate Get in the Charger spirit before the Sept. 26 football game against the Indianapolis Greyhounds with friends, food, and music at 4 p.m. at the corner of Union and College Street.

Chinese President in U.S. on state visit

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke in Seattle on Tuesday evening on issues of intellectual property and cyber crime.

With the U.S. threatening to impose sanctions on China, President Obama will discuss China’s hacking of U.S. companies with Jinping. The White House will also receive him for a state dinner Friday.

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Mattis should lead us into battle By | Josiah Lippincott Special to the Collegian Enough with politicians rolling out tone-deaf stump speeches and academics shilling their websites. This year’s commencement speaker should be someone with chutzpah. Someone with guts. This year’s speaker should be retired Marine Corps General James “Mad Dog” Mattis.

The transition from the comfortable intellectualism of academia into the uncomfortable reality of the outside world promises to be difficult for us future graduates of Hillsdale College. Life outside academia is hard. Finding meaningful work, maintaining a healthy marriage, and continuing the enrichment of our learning, like all good things, comes with challenges. Battles await the class of 2016.

General Mattis makes perfect sense. The man knows how to fight and win. Mattis became famous for leading the first Marines into Afghanistan in 2001. He overcame the challenges of moving amphibious troops into a landlocked country through savvy diplomacy and a gutsy decision to fly right to the edge of the range of his transport helicopters.

In 2003, Mattis led the 20,000 men of the 1st Marine division into Iraq. His units moved 500 miles in 17 days, the longest sustained march in Marine history. Mattis’ tactical acumen led to the quick defeat of the Hussein regime with few casualties. His fierce dedication to victory earned him the moniker “Mad Dog” from his men.

The lessons from his success in defeating insurgent forces in the second Battle of Fallujah shaped American counter-insurgency doctrine, and in 2010 Mattis became the head of U.S. Central Command. He oversaw 200,000 troops in the Middle East and Asia until his retirement in 2013.

Mattis is a terrific public speaker. He’s witty, straightforward, and eminently quotable. His talk “The Meaning of Their Service,” published as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this April, was celebrated throughout the military and beyond as a brilliant tribute to the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But it’s not Mattis’ military success or public speaking ability that makes him the best choice for commencement speaker. Rather, it’s the way in which he approaches conflict through the lens of liberal education. When asked about his success in combat, Mattis points to his study of history and great books. Indeed, his personal library once numbered more than 7,000 volumes. During every deployment, he carried a copy of the “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.”

In a famous letter to a subordinate before the Iraq War, General Mattis had this to say about his own liberal education: “Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.”

The challenge for the graduating class of 2016 lies in finding a way to fit the life of the mind into a life of action.

General Mattis has done this well. His emphasis on the human over the technological element in combat and his attention to history helped guide his men to victory while sustaining minimal casualties.

Mattis was always on the front line with his men, demonstrating by example how a leader ought to act.

We Hillsdale graduates will have our own front lines to confront, whether in the boardroom or the classroom, in our homes or in the public square. We need a commencement speaker who will leave us with more than just a lecture on American history or pithy advice.

We need hard-won wisdom and inspiration. We need an address that will lift our eyes from the sadness of leaving Hillsdale to the opportunities and challenges that await us. We need General Mattis.

Josiah is a senior studying politics.

The Department of Education released a list last week to help students make smart college choices. The White House calls this list comprehensive, making it sound like it includes all twoand four-year degree-granting institutions in the nation.

“Americans will now have access to reliable data on every institution of higher education,” President Barack Obama said when he announced the Scorecard’s release on Sept. 12.

But that’s not true.

The Department of Education knowingly excluded a number of schools that by many rankings would be the

best choice to sharpen some of America’s brightest young minds. In addition to Hillsdale, Christendom College, Grove City College, and Patrick Henry College were all absent from the College Scorecard.

Yet all this omission warranted was a footnote.

After noticing Hillsdale’s absence, the Collegian inquired with the Department of Education about its reasoning for leaving it off the list.

At first, a spokesperson inaccurately stated that Hillsdale is a certificate-granting institution, so it did not fit the Scorecard’s requirements to be included.

Though never retracting this explanation, the spokesperson later clarified that the real reason derives from Hillsdale’s refusal to accept state or federal funds— it is not a Title IV institution, and neither are the other three schools left off the Scorecard.

As shown in the Collegian’s Sept. 24 article “Department of Education Scorecard still doesn’t include independent schools,” Hillsdale’s absence hinges on its refusal to collect and report data about students’ races.

Hillsdale College is one of a growing number of institutions that have rejected the Federal line—educationally, cultural-

ly, and politically. Some of the smartest choices for students have been left off an ostensibly reliable list. Standing athwart the accepted dogma has cost us, and those like us, the favor of the administration.

But it is not for the sake of favor or recognition that we pursue education.

The permanent things, those things most worth learning, cannot be pursued well unless pursued freely. Accepting government funding compromises education.

It is moments like this when we find this to be most evident.

Schumer: feminist ‘trainwreck’

By | Katherine Scheu Special to the Collegian Amy Schumer has recently taken center stage in American pop culture. The provocative comedian is viewed as a trailblazing hero in the world of women, but she hasn’t convinced me that she’s worthy of her newfound influence.

Schumer has established herself as a successful humorist and public figure over the past year. Time Magazine listed her among its 100 Most Influential People; Schumer’s movie “Trainwreck”—which she wrote and starred in— grossed more than $30 million in its first week; and her show “Inside Amy Schumer” won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. With this recent success, Schumer has broken free from the confines of Comedy Central and standup shows, establishing herself as a public figure as she makes appearances in magazines, TV shows, and award ceremonies.

When Schumer appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Sept.

11, Colbert went so far as to call her a “role model for women everywhere.” As her

achievements grow and her audiences broaden, Colbert’s statement becomes more and more accurate. Schumer certainly has something to say to the impressionable women listening.

“I am not who I sleep with.

I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you,” Schumer said at last year’s Gloria Awards.

Schumer’s message of innate self-worth is valuable.

But a careful look at her interviews, stand-up routines, and speeches shows that she herself often undermines that message.

At the Gloria Awards, Schumer gave an emotional speech that has since circulated widely on the Internet. Websites and blogs alike praised her authenticity as a real woman and her message about self-worth. In her speech, Schumer told of a one-night stand she briefly confused for something more meaningful. She explained that as she lay alone in his bed—he had passed out on the floor— she realized her self-worth had to come from within herself, and not from anywhere else.

“I never heard from Matt

again, but felt only grateful for being introduced to my new self, a girl who got her value from within her,” Schumer said.

Though she speaks of her ability to find self-worth from within, Schumer made several comments that weakened this message throughout the speech.

“I did morning radio last week, and a DJ asked, ‘Have you gained weight? You seem chunkier to me. You should strike while the iron is hot, Amy.’ And [my confidence] is all gone. In an instant, it’s all stripped away,” Schumer said.

Schumer admits to these moments, making herself vulnerable and accessible, but she fails to provide a solution to the inevitable moments of self-doubt and insecurity that women experience.

Schumer contradicted her own ideas about self-worth yet again in her speech at the Glamour Awards in June, where she accepted a title, “Trailblazer of the Year,” previously won by Kristen Wiig.

“I’m like 160 pounds right now and I can catch a [guy] whenever I want. Like, that’s the truth. It’s not a problem,” Schumer said.

With this statement, Schumer declared her self-worth contingent upon her ability to attract men. Although she appears to overcome the social stigma surrounding women and weight by mentioning her own, she actually just swaps one external source of selfconfidence for another. In other words, Schumer states that, though she may not be thin like a model, she can at least get someone to sleep with her.

Schumer is at an important moment in her career. Young women follow her through different media platforms, and they are listening to what she has to say. Disappointingly, Schumer fails to provide them with anything consistent. She shifts between advocating for intrinsically grounded self-worth and telling selfdeprecating jokes about her own value, founded in anything from men to her weight.

There is no doubt that young women around the world need a role model. I just hope we can find one more worthwhile than Amy Schumer.

Katherine is a sophomore. She has yet to declare a major.

SCOTT WALKER WAS CROWDED OUT By | Michael Lucchese Special to the Collegian Scott Walker was a legitimate candidate for President, and it is a black mark on the Republican Party’s primary that such a candidate was forced out of the race so early.

Walker has a proven and successful record of conservative reforms in Wisconsin, a blue state typically difficult for conservatives to govern. Across the country, many Republicans rightly respected him for his bravery in standing against organized labor’s bully tactics.

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Walker was articulate on policy, especially health care. Although inexperienced in foreign affairs, he made admirable attempts to familiarize himself with those issues.

Although he lacked a certain level of charisma, his experience and policy chops alone should have commanded the attention and respect of Republican primary voters.

But too many candidates from the past jumped into the race. What those candidates fail to understand is that the conservatism of the 1990s and 2000s will not win us voters.

We need a new, reform-minded conservatism, oriented in a

different direction.

Scott Walker, and others like him, have been and are advocating this conservatism of the future, and they ought to be heard. But the screaming of demagogues is drowning them out.

The same ragged platitudes about “taking our country back” and “defeating the Washington establishment” might win a candidate applause at a rally, but they will not solve the crises of our times.

Scott Walker was not the candidate to win us the White House. But unlike many of the other candidates, he at least had a thoughtful point of view.

The suspension of the Walker campaign shows us that, at least for now, Republican primary voters are valuing flash over substance. They prefer insults and petty politics to thoughtful discussion and informed deliberation.

We must hope this attitude will change by the time voting begins next year, and that a real conservative with serious credentials can gather the support of Republicans across the country.

Michael is a sophomore majoring in American Studies.

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DC interns: break a leg (or your wrist) to get ahead and media players, making the most important plays. In reality, you’re usually making coffee runs or scouring over government white paper for a story you won’t be credited in.

This dims not only your three months in the capitol, but also your ambitions for reaching a career.

Interns know that the pointless work is not hard.

On their first day, eager to impress, they finish their task early and efficiently, leaving their coordinators either to leave them with nothing to do or to give them another demoralizing task. I learned the hard way that an intern’s attitude after this moment determines if they just get a photo with the senator, or priceless job connections.

Choosing to stick with the status quo and merely complete the worthless tasks as you’re asked is the simplest way to ensure the duration of your time is demoralizing and unmemorable. Your supervisors know what it is like to be in your position, so the most beneficial thing you can do is freak them out.

Volunteer for everything, suggest meaningful assignments that you can

complete, and show through hard work that you’re so dedicated to the company’s mission that they’ll almost think you’re insane.

My fellow intern at my publication felt he was above the pesky write-ups assigned to him. He would forward the requests to his spam folder, claiming he never saw them.

Meanwhile, I was asking him to forward them to me, and I was being published regularly as a result.

My decision to continue on

to work after being hit by the taxi was met with high praise and concerned criticism. The hearing I was sent to cover was not important, and definitely didn’t break national news.

My coworkers saw that the task wasn’t serious, but my dedication was.

The positive response I received made my choice completely worthwhile. Even though the money I received from the internship covered just a little more than my living expenses, I left with some of

the most useful connections in the business.

My classmates and friends I made over the summer like to remind me every once in a while about how much money I could’ve made if I’d filed a lawsuit against the driver. The way I see it, being reminded that a D.C. internship can be more than just a three month secretarial stint was priceless.

Tom is a junior studying politics.

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By | Tom Novelly Student Columnist Two weeks into my D.C.based journalism internship, on my first assignment, I was hit hard by a cab on my way to a low-level congressional hearing. As I was flying through the air, I thought to myself, “I’m not getting paid enough for this.”

The impact broke my left wrist, sprained my left ankle, inflicted road rash on my right arm, and left me with a mild concussion to boot. As the driver flew past, I picked myself off the ground and limped, bruised and bloody, to the assigned hearing. That decision resulted in more than a story about me in Politico

and hundreds of contacts in the field of journalism: it ultimately restored my faith in internships.

The Hillsdale College Career Services center and numerous other college counselors stress the importance of internships to attain a career in your field of study after graduation.

Upon landing a spot in the National Journalism Center, I called up my parents and broke the news. Their boy was going off to D.C. to do big things—or so I thought.

As many Hillsdale students know, some D.C. internships can be simply demoralizing.

For example, Capitol Hill promises the opportunity to shake hands with your senator and get a picture with them that you’ll post on Facebook so all the relatives can see.

This, however, is done at the conclusion of your internship, almost a chintzy souvenir to reward you for three months answering phones and making copies for a coordinator who keeps getting your last name wrong.

Organizations in D.C. like to use the city’s name as a selling point. If you intern here, you’ll be near the nation’s most notable political

Political discourse in the soundbyte era By | Jennifer Matthes Special to the Collegian As the 2016 presidential campaign picks up speed, GOP candidates are beginning to fold. On Sept.

13, Rick Perry was the first to officially announce the end of his presidential campaign, followed on Monday by Scott Walker. This was not particularly surprising— their campaigns had been dealing with financial issues for months—but it was odd given their political experience and strong runs in recent years. Fellow candidate Rand Paul said of Perry that “it shows what an extraordinary thing it is to run for the presidency that someone who is a very popular multi-term governor from a big state still didn’t resonate enough to really get a campaign going.”

Perry is not the only one who is failing to resonate.

Several candidates with multi-term experience (Jindal, Graham, and Santorum) have all been stuck in the lower tier of the

debates. In contrast, many of the top candidates have either minor political experience (such as junior senators Cruz and Rubio) or no political experience at all (Carson, Fiorina, and Trump). This lack of experience doesn’t seem to be working against them: in the latest CNN poll, Trump, Fiorina, and Carson are holding first, second, and third place respectively.

This trend is due in part to Americans’ frustrations and their disinterest in listening to actual policy.

But more worrying is the role that the media play in framing how Americans view the election process and how they evaluate the candidates. The debates are one of the few opportunities candidates have to publicly discuss policy with each other. Unfortunately, news networks control these debates, and rather than use them to encourage political discourse, continually minimize the opportunities candidates have to engage in real discussion. Notably, at this point in the 2012 election cycle, six Republican

debates had already taken place, which offered more opportunities for candidates to rise, fall, and narrow down the field. As a result, only nine candidates remained.

In contrast, the two debates have only removed two candidates, leaving 15 candidates still vying for the nomination.

Moreover, the two debates that have occurred thus far have had little, if any, real discourse over political issues, not because the candidates are unable to have these conversations but because the structure of the debates doesn’t allow them.

When asked a question, each candidate has only one minute to respond before they are cut off by a bell. The majority of these questions either promote infighting among the candidates, which occurred for the first halfhour of the second debate, or highlight controversy, explaining Trump’s whopping 10 (and a half!) minutes of speaking time in the first debate.

As Neil Postman wrote, “How television stages the

world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged.” How the media have staged the debates and the election cycle informs how the American voters judge who is successful: by how well they conform to these constraints. Winners of the debates are judged neither on the soundness of their answers nor on the clarity of their ideas, but rather on their ability to

won’t produce a candidate capable of solving America’s real political issues. In the three-hour CNN debate, moderator Jake Tapper mentioned “a lot of questions on social media about the economy and jobs”. Despite this interest, however, there was little conversation about debt other than that used to critique Trump’s business practices.

Additionally, while the economy was

The media’s framing of the election cycle through the debates has undoubtedly influenced what Americans are looking for and who they support, as seen in Trump’s nearly three-month lead in the polls and Fiorina’s rise from less than 1 percent of the vote to second place after a few sharp debate responses.

With these methods of representing political candidates to voters, those

Winners of the debates are judged neither on the soundness of their answers nor on the clarity of their ideas but rather on their ability to defend themselves against other candidates. make sharp, savvy remarks and to defend themselves against other candidates.

This affects not only the American voters but also the candidates themselves, who often struggle to string together a coherent thought for 60 seconds, instead resorting to emotional appeals to win voters over.

What is most worrying is that this debate structure

mentioned by candidates in relation to other topics, the moderators themselves didn’t pose a single question to the candidates about their economic policy. If candidates are able to succeed without having to tackle issues that voters really care about, the eventual nominee will be ill-equipped to put forth policies that solve voters’ problems.

vying for the presidency can coast on their personas all the way to the White House, and the issues on which Americans so desperately want answers will never be resolved.

Jennifer is a junior studying politics.

Our ‘righteous battles’ are not justifiable Our veterans are suffering the consequences of aggressive and unjust U.S. foreign policy By | Josh Paladino Collegian Reporter Veterans who voluntarily join the military abound with courage. But veterans have separate intentions from the political class. Men and women join the military to defend their country and make the world a safer place (among other reasons).

Unfortunately, politicians distort this noble purpose by using the military to fight perpetual wars or attempting to “nation-build.” Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Vietnam War are classic examples of the United States’ failure to establish free government through the use of military force.

Iraq is less stable today than when the U.S. first entered, and Vietnam still has an authoritarian government.

Not only does nation-

building fail, but it is an immoral use of force that trivializes the lives of soldiers. The U.S. does not have the moral authority to tell foreign countries which style of government is best.

The U.S. lacks the financial stability to continue fighting costly wars. Above all, the U.S. cannot risk the lives of American men and women to set up a government that the citizens of foreign countries do not even desire.

Michael Aavang (‘Veterans are not victims,’ Sept. 10) claimed that “the terror and pain a soldier experiences often serves to expand, not diminish, the potential greatness of his soul.” But 20 percent of those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom experience posttraumatic stress disorder, as do 12 percent from the Gulf War and 30 percent from the

Vietnam War, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs. Even if war truly makes man’s soul better, which is unlikely, human lives cannot be risked for an abstract sense of greatness.

We must have the courage to look back and admit that sacrifices made by soldiers have not always reaped positive benefits on a global scale, and we must stop senselessly sending our troops to die in unwinnable conflicts.

Aavang said that the victimhood mentality of soldiers originates from postmodern, relativistic, and progressive thought.

In reality, the idea that militaries can forfeit soldiers’ lives to spread democracy or to merely champion a noble yet undefined purpose stems from Woodrow Wilson, a president who was as

progressive as they come.

Only in recent history have conservatives adopted the idea of “righteous battles,” as Aavang used the term. The only wars that are morally justifiable are those that are fought in self-defense.

Military occupation for even the noblest end is immoral.

War does not bring out the best in society. Aavang said, “[War] realigns the soldier’s moral paradigm with what is truly important and higher.”

But war does not refocus society on morality. It rather strips people of what makes them human. Aavang also claimed that “in peacetime experience it is so easy to mistake what appears to be higher for what is higher in actuality.” If this were true, then humanity should have been focused on the highest morality for thousands of years prior to the modern

era, when men and women were in constant strife with one another. But this was not the case. Recent history shows that peacetime allows people to develop morality and strive for what is good.

Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. military has fought many battles and lost many soldiers. In the 14 years

since, global terrorism has increased by a factor of five, according to the 2014 Global Terrorism Index. Aggressive war does not make the world a safer place. War does not make men and women better.

War is not glorious. It should always be our last resort.

Josh is a sophomore studying politics.

By the numbers 6,762: U.S. Military fatalities incurred by Op-

erations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). The U.S. Department of Defense estimates 11-20 percent of surviving veterans suffer from PTSD.

58,220: fatalities incurred by Vietnam War. U.S. DoD estimates 15 percent of survivors suffer from PTSD.

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Hillsdale MMA center smacks down stereotypes Self-defense, anti-bullying programs, and fitness classes merge at local Mixed Martial Arts center By | Natalie C. McKee Senior Writer Mixed Martial Arts sounds intimidating to some people.

So much so that Hillsdale Fitness and MMA owner Steve Gossett bought new decals this week to change the MMA center’s name from “Hillsdale MMA” to “Hillsdale Fitness and MMA.” Despite its stigma of violence, Gossett believes MMA isn’t about hurting others but defending yourself.

“MMA is no worse than football,” Gossett said. “I got 14 concussions in a year playing football and only one in six years of fighting.”

He added that MMA is a more disciplined sport, and MMA fighters train to not get hurt, whereas in football you are told to hurt other players and get hurt yourself.

To raise money for new equipment and classes, Hillsdale Fitness and MMA is hosting a spaghetti dinner on Sept.

27 at the McCall’s Center Reception Hall at 6 p.m. There will be a silent auction and a suggested $10 donation for

food.

Gossett said he has everyone from children to twenty-somethings to adults 45-65 years old training at Hillsdale Fitness and MMA, including his twoyear-old daughter.

Jeramy Monroe brings his nine-year-old son, Aiden Monroe, to learn MMA at the gym.

“Aiden didn’t want to play football, so he is doing this for

Aiden Monroe trains with professional fighter D.J. Castle, another member of the gym.

He’s been fighting for three years, and said he and Aiden have become good friends.

Castle is also now training with a four-year-old two days a week.

“It teaches them discipline,” Castle said.

Although he could always

ward young women ages 12 to 15.

“We want to prepare them just in case,” Gossett said. “You can get into a situation where you wish you knew how to defend yourself.”

Gossett said he also offers private self-defense classes to women who have been raped or abused to protect their privacy. He added his gym is a

lose 10-15 pounds in a month of MMA training.

“Everybody has their own mission,” Gossett said.

Gossett said he is also working on an anti-bullying program, which he implemented when he was in Addison, Michigan, and said it was very successful. Students who get suspended or expelled for violence often end up at home

MMA is no worse than football. I got 14 concussions in a year playing football and only one in six years of fighting. exercise,” Jeramy Monroe said.

“He is picking it up really fast.”

Jeramy Monroe said his son doesn’t get into fights at school, and this helps Aiden get in the mindset that he can do anything.

“This is very beneficial to kids,” Jeramy Monroe said. “It’s a huge confidence-builder.”

“I like the punching combos,” Aiden Monroe said, adding that his least favorite part of the workout is the running.

expand the gym, Gossett said he doesn’t want to lose the family relationship his gym offers.

“We have dinner together and birthdays together,” Gossett said, “Some of the girls are young enough to be your own daughter, and some old enough to be your sisters, and we want to protect them at all costs.”

Gossett said one of his goals is to teach people to defend themselves. He currently offers self-defense classes geared to-

The Hillsdale Fitness and MMA center at 54 N. Howell St. offers gym equipment for members who want to work out rather than learn martial arts. Natalie C. McKee | Collegian

place women can work out without fending off guys trying to hit on them.

Gossett said college students, more than anyone else, need self-defense training.

“People get drunk...” Gossett said, “and take advantage of you.”

But besides defending themselves, some clients learn MMA to get their anger out in the right way, and others do it for exercise. Many of his members

playing video games, Gossett said. Instead, they can come to the gym where they spend four hours a day doing school work and two hours watching videos that show the consequences of their bullying.

Gossett said he also brings troubled kids to see a jail cell.

The schools he worked with in Addison stopped suspending students because of the success of the program, Gossett said.

Gossett moved to Hillsdale

two years ago, and started running classes out of his house before moving into his downtown location. He and other professional fighters didn’t have many places to train in the area before he opened, but now he has eight to 20 men who train there, as well as other members who enjoy the gym’s offerings.

The gym is open Monday through Friday, from 3-9 p.m. and offers a variety of membership options: $50 per month for a month-to-month, no-contract membership, $45 per month for a three-month contract, $35 per month for a sixmonth contract, $30 per month for kids classes and a $10 dropin fee.

The first class is always free, so attendees can check out the gym before jumping into a contract. Classes and instruction range from MMA to kickboxing to kids’ classes. Members can attend an hour-long cardio class from 6-7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Hillsdale Fitness and MMA members work out and use Everlast sparring equipment.

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‘Poor planning’ costs city more than $200K By | Thomas Novelly Assistant Editor The Hillsdale City Council decided to sell more than $200,000 worth of little-used sludge removal equipment at its Monday meeting. The decision came after council members realized they contracted the sludge removal service to a third-party maintenance crew several years ago.

The equipment, purchased in 2012, was used for only one winter season until the sludge removal service was hired out to a private contractor in 2013.

The $296,441 total cost for the equipment includes $18,500 for a tanker trailer, $50,000 for a semi tractor to pull it, and $227,941 for a sludge injector. Councilman

Bruce Sharp said he was disappointed the city wasted a quarter of a million dollars.

“We spent $227,941 on a sludge injector almost three years ago and now we want to unload it,” Sharp said. “It’s terrible to spend that kind of money only to get rid of

“Why in the world were we contracting something out when we had the equipment to do it ourselves?” Stockford asked.

City Manager David Mackie responded, saying that to be as efficient as a private contractor the city

employee to do the job yearround. That would be their only permanent job,” Mackie said. “A contractor comes in and can do it much quicker.

It makes financial sense to keep it contracted out.”

After selling the equipment, the city will

TIFA is one of the city’s main assets for improving economic development and utilizes taxes on baseline property values in certain areas of town to improve the physical appearance of buildings and businesses.

Harner, who was a

Why in the world were we contracting something out when we had the equipment to do it ourselves? it. That’s poor planning on whoever did this.”

Councilman Adam Stockford said he was confused why the city would contract private professionals to remove sludge when the city owned equipment to do it itself.

would need to add another employee whose only job would be clearing sludge, which is an inefficient use of city funds.

“To get the same service we do with a private contractor and their equipment, the city would have to hire one

allocate funds to a new generator for the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities.

In other business, the council appointed Hillsdale College’s Assistant to the President Mike Harner to the city’s Tax Increment Finance Authority board.

member of the board several years ago, said he is excited to rejoin and looks forward to serving the community.

“I served with TIFA back in 2009 to 2013,” Harner said, “and I took a break to focus on reestablishing the Hillsdale Golf team. Now

that we have a great coaching staff, I had some time freed up and rejoined TIFA.” Harner said his wife urged him to get involved with the municipal government again and stressed the importance of serving the community.

“I’ll admit it was my wife that persuaded me to get involved again,” Harner said.

“She told me, ‘It’s important to serve the community if you’re a part of it’ and she’s absolutely right. Being a part of the community isn’t enough, you have to give back.”

The council also approved a pilot payment ordinance, which is a city tax subsidy, for the development of a new retirement home to be placed on the existing site of the Old Smoker’s Club Beer & Wine Tobacco shop at 8 S. Manning St.

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State provides $400,000 for Jonesville rail trail By |Evan Carter Web Editor The city of Jonesville will open construction bidding in January for the rail trail in order to complete the project sometime during the summer of 2016. The $400,000 project will be funded through a $296,000 Michigan Department of Natural Resources grant and $104,000 in matched city funds.

The trail will begin at the intersection of state Route 99 and Gaige Street and go north 1.4 miles to an old bridge on the Saint Joe River, just north of U.S. Highway 12. The trail will be open to walking as well as non-motorized vehicles.

The city of Jonesville originally planned to have the project finished this summer, but after obtaining all the necessary state permits it was unable to get any construction bids.

Jonesville City Manager Jeffrey Gray said the city was

disappointed about not getting any bids, but also said that the rest of the process should be easier now that they have all necessary permits.

“Permitting with any one department has its own requirements,” Gray said.

“Fortunately for us, we have those permits behind us now, and so moving forward will be relatively straightforward at this point.”

Gray said although Jonesville plans to seek construction bids again in January, the project start date depends on when the snow begins to melt.

“Folks are anxious to get out there and use it,” said Tim McLean, assistant to the city manager.

Gray estimates that the construction project will take six to eight weeks to complete.

In that time, construction crews will remove remaining railroad ties, level the path back to its original train bed, lay asphalt, and put down

benches.

With $15,000 in promised funds from the Jonesville Rotary Club, the city plans to put in a pavilion and picnic benches at the trailhead behind the office of the Jonesville Police Department.

The city will receive the rotary club funds when the pavilion is completed, and the pavilion project currently does not have a start date.

“At the rotary club we usually make large commitments back to the community because the community has supported us so well,” said Don Germann, president of the Jonesville Rotary Club. “The Jonesville rail trail is our biggest commitment in the past few years.”

Jonesville has been working to purchase the discontinued railroads from the Michigan Department of Transportation since 2007. In 2012, Jonesville purchased the lines owned

by MDOT with the help of a state grant. Even though

the first phase of the path hasn’t been built, the city is already working with the Hillsdale County’s Headwaters Recreation Authority to find the most feasible path for the second stage of the project.

“We’ve tried to seize the opportunity we have in front of us, and then we’ll evaluate what else to do in the future,” Gray said.

Jonesville is just one in a growing number of communities in Michigan transforming discontinued railroads into trails for biking and walking. Gray said many towns in Michigan are connected by abandoned, state-owned railroads and that these narrow tracts of land lend themselves well to becoming recreational trails.

“I think there absolutely is a trend going and it has been going on at the community level,” Gray said.

The city of Jonesville will seek construction bids to complete the rail trail by next summer. Evan Carter | Collegian

The Jonesville rail trail follows the St. Joseph River.

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Local bookstore starts new chapter with music venue By | Josh Paladino Collegian Freelancer The renovations at the Book, Art, and Spiritual Center of Hillsdale include more than new paneling, a book mural, and a fresh coat of paint on the front of the store: BASCH will liquidate some of its inventory and use the empty space to entertain guests.

“The real purpose of these changes is to become more of a music venue with books than a book venue with music,” owner Richard Wunsch said.

“As it is now, we have karaoke a couple nights a week, and we do an occasional open mic, or a band comes in, but I want more of an event focus. I don’t care if someone wants to have a wedding in here.”

Wunsch will remove two bookshelves in the back of the store to make more space for a music venue. Most of the books in the store need to be sold before the bookshelves

may be removed, Wunsch said.

BASCH is selling all books for half price Sept. 12 through Oct. 31, and books under $6 are selling for two-thirds the original price. Outdoor renovations will be finished by the end of September.

I don’t care if someone wants to have a wedding in here.

Wunsch hopes these changes to BASCH will help the store fit in with other social businesses on Broad Street, such as Here’s to You Pub and Grub, Broad Street Market & Tavern’s Downtown Underground, and the Historic Dawn Theater if it is reopened.

“I’ve talked to Richard about doing a student concert

series there because I don’t know if karaoke is what college students are into anymore,” sophomore Stacey Egger said.

Books have cleared out fast, even though business has been slow due to the construction, which makes BASCH appear closed.

“We’ve had a good quantity of books that have gone to the students at Hillsdale,” Wunsch said. “I would rather see these books go to local people or students than out-of-town dealers, which might be the case if I can’t get the bulk of books out.”

Although much of the book inventory will be gone, there will be more space to socialize.

“I’m really excited, it will be cool to have the college community more involved in town events,” Egger said. “The changes at BASCH will be a good opportunity for students to go to events and maybe even perform at them.”

Despite its storefront being covered in construction scaffolding, BASCH is still open and having a sale on all its books. BASCH is located at 98 N. Broad St. Josh Paladino | Collegian

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Volleyball

Football SATURDAY, SEPT. 19

Hillsdale

24 GLIAC Standings North Division 1. Michigan Tech 2. Ferris St. 3. Grand Valley St. Northern Mich.

Wayne St. Northwood 7. Hillsdale 8. Saginaw Valley

upcoming Saturday, Sept. 26 VS. indianapoliS 7:00 pm

Northern Michigan

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StatS CJ Mifsud |24-42, 232 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT Bennett Lewis |21 ATT, 103 YRD, 2 TD Joe Revermen | 4 ATT, 37 YRD John Haley | 7 REC, 91 YRD Kegan Smith | 1 REC, 11 YRD, 1 TD

Conf. Overall 3-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 2-1 1-1 2-1 1-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-2 1-2 0-2 0-3

South Division 1. Ashland 2. Findlay 3. Tiffin 4. Lake Erie Ohio Dominican 5. Malone Walsh

Conf.

3-0 2-0 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3

Overall 3-0 3-0 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3

Spartan Invitational 6K 4th-Emily Oren-21:32 6th-Kristina Galat-21:42 27th-Molly Oren-22:37 30th-Hannah McIntyre-22:44 35th-Kathryn Royer-23:05 53rd-Andrea Bodary-23:25 57th-Amanda Reagle-23:30

Spartan Invitational 8K 31st-Joseph Newcomb-25:50 56th-Caleb Gatchell-26:26 97th-Anthony Wondaal-27:09 141st-Sam Phillips-27:42 160th-Isaac Harris-27:53 163rd-Miles Garn-27:54

Hillsdale Lake Erie

03 01

Hillsdale

Ashland

03 01

SeaSon leaderS

GLIAC Standings Conf.

North Division 2-0 1. Ferris St. 2-0 Michigan Tech 2-0 Grand Valley St. 2-1 4. Northwood 1-1 5. Northern Mich.

0-2 6. Saginaw Valley 0-2 Wayne St. 8. Lake Superior St. 0-3

|Kara Vyletel-93, Emily Wolfert-92 | Jenalle Beaman-157, Vyletel-84 | Wolfert-12, Vyletel-11 | Owen-199, Taylor Bennett-140 | Erin Holsinger-47, Wolfert-44

Overall 10-0 10-0 6-4 4-7 9-2 8-2 3-7 0-7

South Division 1. Hillsdale Ohio Dominican Tiffin 4. Findlay Ashland 6. Lake Erie Walsh Malone

Conf.

2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2

Overall 8-1 7-4 4-3 7-3 6-4 3-4 4-6 4-7

Women’s Tennis Saturday, Sept. 19

Upcoming Friday, oct. 2

Saturday, oct. 3

At South Bend, Ind.

At Louisville, Ky.

Notre Dame Invitational

Greater Louisville Classic

4:15 PM

10:15 AM

Men’s Cross-Country Friday, Sept. 18

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19

Friday, Sept. 25 at northwood 7:00 pm Saturday, Sept. 26 at lake Superior 2:00 pm tueSday, Sept. 29 at Findlay 7:00 pm Kills Digs Aces Assists Blocks

Women’s Cross-Country Friday, Sept. 18

upcoming

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18

Grand Valley | 8 Hillsdale | 1

Sunday, Sept. 20

Upcoming

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Friday, Sept. 25-27 ita regionalS

Ferris St. | 2 Hillsdale | 2

Golf

Upcoming Friday, oct. 2

Saturday, oct. 3

At South Bend, Ind.

At Louisville, Ky.

Notre Dame Invitational Greater Louisville Classic 10:15 AM 4:15 PM

Sept. 18-19

Upcoming

GLIAC North Invitational Joel Pietila-144 Liam Purslow-145 Andrew Grayson-154 Logan Kauffman-159 Joe Torres-162

Oct. 3-4 Kyle Ryman Invite At Tiffin, Ohio Monday, Oct. 5 At University of St. Francis

Football can’t overcome slow start at Northern Michigan Chargers’ comeback effort falls short in fourth quarter By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor Despite a hard-fought comeback effort, the Hillsdale College football team fell to the Northern Michigan Wildcats 32-24 on Saturday evening for the first time since 2006.

The Chargers fell behind 16-0 in the second quarter before scoring 24 points in a span of 6:37 between the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter to take a 24-22 lead. But the Chargers couldn’t tack on any more points throughout the rest of the game.

“We have to start better.

Two of three games we’ve fizzled out of the blocks,” head coach Keith Otterbein said.

“We’ve got to get to game speed in all phases faster so we don’t dig a hole. It’s partial-

Junior tailback Bennett Lewis fights through a tackle in Hillsdale’s season opener. Lewis rushed for 103 yards and two touchdowns on Saturday. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

ly the speed of the game that happens, partially execution, but we’ve got to trust ourselves and jump right in.”

Trailing 29-24 with 10:34 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Chargers had a chance to drive for the go-ahead touchdown after sophomore linebacker Jay Rose recovered a Northern Michigan fumble at the Wildcats’ 41-yard

line. The Chargers marched down the field, but on thirdand-goal from the 3-yard line Northern Michigan’s Darryl Williams picked off Hillsdale senior quarterback CJ Mifsud in the end zone.

“We had a good situation and we liked the call, but we didn’t execute it the way we wanted,” Otterbein said. “It wasn’t exactly the defense we

called the play for but that doesn’t happen all the time anyway.”

After the Wildcats drove down the field and kicked a field goal to take a 32-24 lead, the Chargers had one final chance to force overtime, but the Wildcats’ Brandon Auguste sealed the win for Northern Michigan with an interception with 15 seconds left after the Chargers had driven the ball down the field to the 20-yard line.

Despite the loss, Otterbein was pleased with the way his team fought back.

“We played hard and we got back into the game,” he said. “We could have just cashed it in and we didn’t do that. Our kids have too much character to do that.”

The Chargers recognize they need to start games faster.

“We came out a little bit flat which we can’t afford to do going forward,” senior left guard Justice Karmie said.

“We need to do a better job of getting to the fourth quarter consistently with the lead.”

The loss made the already long bus ride home seem even longer.

“That’s a tough long bus ride after a loss,” Mifsud said.

“I think most guys just tried to get some rest on the way back.”

Hillsdale now holds a 1-2 record in the GLIAC this season.

“We didn’t get done what we needed to get done so everybody takes it very seriously,” Karmie said. “It’s not a pouting attitude, we just need to be better, we need to get it done, and we need to feel the weight of that loss motivate us for next week.”

The Chargers will look to erase Saturday’s loss from their memory on Saturday night when they host the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds at 7 p.m. at Frank “Muddy” Waters stadium.

Indianapolis is a non-conference opponent, but the Chargers will approach the game the same way they would any other.

“There’s 11 chances to play football,” Otterbein said.

“We’ve got a long-standing rivalry with these guys and we’ve had some great games.”

Otterbein coached with Greyhounds head coach Bob Bartolomeo at Ball State from

the fall of 1995 to the fall of 2001, and before that the two coaches clashed when Otterbein coached at Ferris State and Bartolomeo coached at Butler.

“I’ve known him for a long time,” Otterbein said. “He’s a truly great guy and a great friend. I respect the heck out of him as a person and respect the heck out of him as a football coach but you put that aside when it comes to playing somebody like that.”

Because of the history Otterbein and Bartolomeo have, their programs share similarities.

“There’s a lot of familiarity and similarity to the way that we run our programs and the important parts of our programs, just based on the philosophy of the two head coaches that have spent a lot of time together,” Otterbein said.

The Chargers know what they need to do to pick up the victory.

“For us to win, we will need to execute our game plan and do the little things right,” Mifsud said.

his score between rounds one and two for a tournament score of 154.

Sophomores Logan Kauffman and captain Joe Torres shot 159 and 162 for the tournament, respectively.

The links style of the course differed from that of the previous tournament.

“The course was extremely nice and similar to what I play back home, so it tended to suit me better than some of the other players,” Purslowe said.

This was evident by his birdie-eagle start on Sunday, putting him at 3-under through the first two holes.

“It was a nice start to my college career,” he said.

Overall, the team shot 305-294, for a drop of 11 shots between rounds.

“Being such a young team, composed of mostly freshmen and sophomores, they make some mistakes on the first day,” Gilchrist said, “but they identified that and did a better

job of tightening up their rounds on the second day and eliminating the unforced errors.”

“Our freshmen played really well, especially the second day, combining for even par,” Kauffman said. “The way they play is not the way most freshmen play. They have a lot of composure and that’s something you can’t really teach.

They are a different breed.”

Kauffman himself dropped three shots on the second day and said the difference was his confidence over the ball.

“Sometimes you don’t have your normal game but you have to adapt to what you have that week,” he said. “I was able to shoot a respectable score even though I didn’t have my best game.”

Both Gilchrist and Kauffman commented on the “fine line” between finishing first and finishing sixth.

“Eliminating just a few shots from each player would

put us near the top of the leaderboard each week,” Gilchrist said.

The Chargers have another chance next week at the Midwest Regional tournament in Chicago, Illinois, the largest tournament of the fall season.

“Last year we finished in the middle of the pack and with the maturity of this year’s team, I feel we have a really great chance for a strong showing. We will be very competitive,” Gilchrist said.

The team wants to play well.

“In our second year we have a lot of motivation to put the work in, even just to prove people wrong,” Kauffman said.

“Hillsdale College is a tiny school with a new team and people think we are nothing to worry about. But any week we put everything together, we’re going to beat the socks off of all of them.”

Golf shows improvement in first conference tournament Chargers finish in sixth place at GLIAC North Invitational By | Christy Allen Collegian Freelancer In their first full meeting of GLIAC competition, the Hillsdale College golf team tied for sixth place at the GLIAC North Invitational held this past Sunday and Monday at Hawks Head Links in South Haven, Michigan. This is up from a 13th place finish last fall.

Grand Valley won the tournament with an overall score of 581 on the par-72 course.

The Chargers finished just 18 shots back for a team score of 599.

Freshman Joel Pietila once

Sophomore Steve Sartore tees off in a tournament last season.

Brad Monastiere | Courtesy

again led the team, scoring 73-71 for a 144 and solo-seventh finish. Australian-native freshman Liam Purslowe finished one shot behind Pietila at 145 and tied for 8th in his

collegiate debut.

Head coach Nathan Gilchrist noted that one of the highlights of his weekend was seeing freshman Andy Grayson shave eight shots off

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Men’s soccer club looks to compete against varsity competition Chargers strengthen schedule in pursuit of varsity status By | Micah Meadowcroft Associate Editor The Hillsdale College men’s soccer club continues to practice and press towards becoming a varsity program. Though a scrimmage with Northwood University’s top-25 ranked varsity team was cancelled, club president Christian Gajor plans to make sure that the Chargers have the chance to measure themselves against varsity teams this year.

Due to a demanding schedule of two games over one weekend and three games the next, a proposed midweek scrimmage with Northwood that would have resulted in Hillsdale playing six games in five days was postponed until next semester. Because Hillsdale athletics are preparing to move to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference in the fall of 2017, Gajor hopes to set up opportunities to scrimmage G-MAC varsity teams. He and the rest of the club want to be ready to play at a varsity level as soon as possible.

“Compared to Northwood,

Senior JP Zawatsky dribbles past a defender in a match last year. Sam Grinis | Courtesy

I think the G-MAC teams are a little more our caliber with 3,000 students instead of 15,000,” Gajor said. “So we’ll be scrimmaging them and probably one or two of the

other teams in the spring and we’ll see how it goes and we can position ourselves against varsity teams.”

Gajor is a senior this year, so he is working to lay founda-

tions that the club, and a future varsity team, can build on.

“With us switching leagues, I’m sure there’s probably going to be a push from current players that still have a few more

years to see if we can turn it into a varsity program by the time that they’re juniors and seniors and in the position I am. That’s the goal,” Gajor said.

“We have a bunch of good juniors that are all in leadership positions on the team, so I’m not really worried about when I step away.”

Junior Sam Grinis agreed that the team is ready to fill the gap that the loss of Gajor’s leadership will create.

“Gajor is a fantastic player and he’s a fantastic leader,” Grinis said. “We have two or three players who are juniors now, who are sophomores now, that are capable of stepping up into his shoes. If not one player, then a committee of players will easily replace him.”

Grinis sees opportunities to play higher-ranked teams and bigger schools as key to the club’s growth.

“Anytime that we can play teams that are better than us is good,” he said. “Personally I’d like to play as many G-MAC teams as we can. Any team that’s better than us, any team that’s on that high level of play that shows us where we need to go, I’m a fan of playing.

How are we supposed to know how good we are supposed to be unless we play against good competition?”

For now, though, the club is focusing on getting back into stride and doing the best they can where they are. Sophomore Max Smith is confident

Cross-Country, from A1 Molly Oren said, “but nothing to say we’ve secured a national championship over.”

Head distance coach Joe Lynn said that the team tries to focus on itself.

“The important part for us will be to continue to stay focused on our program and for us to be our best self each and every day so we can reach our full potential,” he said.

Course conditions at the Forest Akers East Golf Course weren’t as good as they were for last year’s race, but the women’s times weren’t affected as much as the men’s times.

Seniors Emily Oren and Kristina Galat placed in the top ten.

Spartan was the first all-out race for the women and many of them improved upon their performances from last year, running faster and placing better. With the top runners giving their full effort, the gap between the first seven runners increased from 26 seconds in last race to just under two minutes.

“It’s always nice to try that out before you get to big meets,” Molly Oren said.

Sophomore Hannah McIntyre, who finished just three spots behind Molly Oren, called the race a solid start.

“I would have settled a lot more if it hadn’t been for

Seniors Emily Oren (left) and Kristina Galat (right) finished fourth and sixth, respectively, at the Spartan Invitational on Friday.

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Molly,” she said. “Racing with teammates is a really good thing.”

“I thought as a whole the women ran very tough,” Lynn said. “Our 1-5 and 1-7 will continue to tighten up, which will be key.”

The race produced mixed results on the men’s side with juniors Joe Newcomb and Caleb Gatchell running a solid race, but the team struggled against other GLIAC schools racing at the meet. The team’s third through seventh fin-

ishers at the meet were all freshmen or sophomores.

Although still young, sophomores Tony Wondaal and Sam Phillips, who finished third and fourth, and freshmen Isaac Harris and Miles Garn, who finished fifth and

sixth on the team, stepped up for the Chargers. Additionally, junior Luke Daigneault returned for his first race in two years.

“As a team we’re learning how to race,” sophomore Nathan Jones said.

they can pick up the pace.

“So far we’ve had some really tight games and they haven’t really gone our way,” he said. “I’m really excited for the comeback. We’re getting our game back on and we should be ready to face the more difficult teams of the season pretty soon.”

Gajor said that the whole league has improved, and with five new players, the club is ready to test themselves.

“I guess what we are most excited for is the potential of where we were last year and how we can build on that this year,” he said. “We really haven’t hit our stride yet, but once we start clicking like we were, we’re just about as good as anybody in the league. Just wait till we really start clicking and all start hitting our stride together we’ll see where we go from there—the possibilities are endless.”

Smith sees room for improvement in the team’s ability to finish on the offensive side.

“Right now we’re really good at possessing out of the back, but once we get to the final third and we’re in the dangerous place right in front of the box we can’t finish, so I think we’ll be spending the next couple practices on finishing those dangerous runs.”

The club has a home match on parent’s weekend, accompanied by an SAB barbeque, and another during homecoming weekend right before the football game.

Similar to the women’s race, the gap between the men’s No. 1 and No. 7 finishers went from 28 seconds at the last meet to over two minutes at the Spartan Invitational.

Newcomb was happy with the effort his team put in.

“What I saw is that people are willing to work hard,” Newcomb said. “They can run faster than they did.”

Lynn is also confident that the men will continue to progress.

“On the men’s side we will continue to grow used to the 8K distance and the training it takes to be at a competitive level,” Lynn said. “We definitely have some guys like Joe Newcomb and Sam Phillips who are making huge strides and will pay off in the end.”

The Chargers will be splitting up for their next meets with some runners going to Notre Dame on Oct. 2 and others traveling to Louisville on Oct. 3. But whether his athletes are going to one meet or the other, Lynn is focusing on building fitness for the end of the season.

“We have a 6-7 week window here where we can gain fitness,” Lynn said. “Right now it’s full speed ahead and not letting off the gas at all.

We’ll be ready to race fast next week, but the focus is still on the NCAA.”

Women’s tennis can’t find traction away from home Chargers drop their first two road matches of the season By | Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter Playing its first two away matches of the season, the Hillsdale College women’s tennis team fell to Grand Valley 8-1 on Saturday and Ferris State 7-2 on Sunday. This is the first weekend the team has lost both matches. The losses bring their overall season record to 3-3.

Saturday’s match against Grand Valley was “really tough” according to head coach Nikki Walbright.

“They were hard competition, the girls know that we can perform better, but they definitely had a good fight,” Walbright said. “I was proud of them.”

Freshman Corinne Prost provided the sole win for the Chargers at No. 4 singles with a decisive 6-1, 6-1 victory.

Prost is now 7-2 overall and 4-1 in singles.

While gaining no additional wins, all doubles matches

Freshman Corinne Prost hits a forehand in an 8-2 win last weekend as junior Dana Buck prepares for the return. Carsten Stann | Collegian

were tight. At No. 1 doubles, seniors Sydney Delp and Lindsay Peirce lost 8-4. Junior Dana Buck teamed up with Prost for a tough loss in a tiebreak set, leaving match score at 9-8 and 7-3 for the tiebreaker. Freshmen Halle Hyman and Julia

Formentin fell just short with a 9-7 loss at No. 3 doubles.

On Sunday, after traveling multiple hours, the Chargers challenged and fell to Ferris State.

Once again, Prost proved valuable to the Charger’s line-

up with another win at No. 3 singles. Following her classmate’s lead, Formentin also earned a 6-2, 6-4 victory at No. 6 singles.

“Corinne and I were both very happy with our wins,” Formentin said. “I was excited

that I was able to represent my team in this way.”

Two of the doubles matches were tight, but the Bulldogs pulled out all three wins. Delp and Peirce fell 8-6, while Prost and Buck lost 9-7. Formentin

and Madeline Bissett dropped their match 8-3.

Peirce said that while she was disappointed with the losses, the tough competition this weekend allowed the team to see the good aspects of their game as well as other aspects that need to be refined.

“What is most important to take away from weekends like this are the positive things and what we did well,” Peirce said.

“We need to be able to see the good things and continue to build on those for the weekends to come.”

As the second half of the season quickly approaches, the team looks forward to preparing for the ITA tournament which will take place in Indianapolis this weekend. The tournament allows athletes to play at an individual level without the pressure of competing for a qualifying place in the GLIAC championship.

“We will definitely take it match by match. We really just have to focus on the second half of the season and come on strong to beat the teams that we have for the next four matches,” Walbright said. “The ITAs will be nice to relax, play tennis, get into a groove, and then get excited to come back to dual-match play.”

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Thanks for the memories, Jim Jim Eckhardt retires after 40 years of calling Chargers games By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor Very few color commentators can say that they ever called a game while hospitalized, or received surgery in the training room between games, but Jim Eckhardt can tell both of these stories with pride.

Eckhardt began providing color commentary for Hillsdale football and basketball games before almost anyone in the student body was born.

On Sept. 5, however, a chapter closed as Eckhardt called his final game for the Chargers, ending his 40-year run in the booth.

Emotions were high as Eckhardt signed off of WCSR for the last time.

“It was tough, but I also knew it was time,” Eckhardt said. “I used to spend two weeks memorizing numbers and other stuff about players, and I just didn’t do that anymore. It’s just like any other job where you slowly get worn down.”

Eckhardt also cited medical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his wife, Sally, as reasons for hanging up his headset.

“I have spent pretty much every Saturday of our 47year marriage at the college,” Eckhardt said. “Don’t get me wrong, we were both having a blast, but eventually you really start to think about that.”

In 40 years, Eckhardt has missed only one home game, and this was due to a death in the family. It is this level of commitment that has allowed him to have such a strong impression on so many people connected to the college.

“Jim has been around Charger football for so long, and he is such a gregarious guy, that he has friends in every generation of Chargers that we come in contact with,” said Andy Brown, who has been Eckhardt’s partner since 2001. “It was interesting to me that these kids, these players,

would have developed a relationship with the radio guy, but they really did and that just speaks to who Jim is.”

It is not only the players and his partners that understand Eckhardt’s impact on the college. In 2009, the college honored Eckhardt by electing him to the Hillsdale College Athletic Hall of Fame.

“That really was an honor to be put in since I didn’t even play sports there,” Eckhardt said. “It meant everything to me, and it still does. I am very, very proud of that.”

Eckhardt, who grew up a Chargers fan, and to this day declares them his favorite team at any level, has done far

Jim is a great big guy with a huge heart, an infectious sense of humor, a great laugh, and he just loves to make people smile. more for the college than call football games. He also spent years calling basketball games, served as a public address announcer, a recruiter, a booster, and even helped coach the golf team.

While coaching, Eckhardt was famous for telling his players that they were there to play, and not to work, so they should smile. This kind of attitude carried over into how he called games.

“I was playing up there,” Eckhardt said. “I never worked one single day in that booth and I think that showed.”

For his partners and listeners, his love of the booth certainly did show, and because of it, Eckhardt’s broadcasting style couldn’t be mistaken.

“Sometimes he would just start singing during our broadcast,” Brown said. “He had this catchphrase when the game was boring and already

decided, he would say, ‘It’s time for those famous three words: Let it end!’ There was no pretense with Jim, he just said what he felt at the time.

He was just enjoying watching and talking about the games, and I think the listeners appreciated that.”

If you spend a Saturday walking around Frank “Muddy” Waters stadium, you’re more likely to hear Eckhardt call someone by a warmhearted nickname than the name they were given at birth, and the response is bound to be a smile from ear to ear. This exemplifies how Eckhardt lives his life.

“You have to be a people person, and I just love people,” Eckhardt said. “How long does it take to just be sincerely nice to someone? Really not that long, and I think we often miss that. If you can help someone you should just do it.”

According to Brown, Eckhardt has a way about him that proves that he practices what he preaches.

“Jim is a great big guy with a huge heart, an infectious sense of humor, a great laugh, and he just loves to make people smile,” Brown said.

Taking Eckhardt’s place, at least for this year, will be Hillsdale high school senior Martin Petersen. Petersen, the quarterback for the Hornets, will bring a wealth of football knowledge to the booth.

“I know that I can’t go out there and try to be Jim Eckhardt, because he is a legend, and you can’t fill those shoes,” Petersen said. “What I know I can do is use my experience as a player to provide a little bit of a different angle from the booth.”

Eckhardt was adamant that although his days calling games may be done, he still plans to support his favorite team.

“I’ll be around,” Eckhardt said. “I may not make every home game like I did for years, but I’ll be around plenty.”

Many Charger fans look forward to having Eckhardt join them in the stands of Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium, because even if he is no longer on the radio, Eckhardt is a vital part of gameday in Hillsdale.

Jim Eckhardt pauses for a photo during a radio broadcast in the crows nest of the old basketball arena with Park Hayes, who was his partner for more than two decades. Jim Eckhardt | Courtesy

Andy Brown (left) and Jim Eckhardt (right) smile for the camera before their final broadcast together on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Andy Brown | Courtesy

Volleyball beats rival Ashland for sixth straight win Chargers now 8-1 overall and 2-0 in conference play By| Jessie Fox Assistant Editor “We always go into a match asking, ‘Who are we better than today?’ And the answer is no one,” said Hillsdale volleyball head coach Chris Gravel.

“During that match we are just trying to be better than that team that day.”

This weekend, the Chargers proved to better than both Lake Erie and Ashland. The Chargers defeated Lake Erie 3-1 on Friday and Ashland 3-1 on Saturday giving Hillsdale a 2-0 start in the conference. The spotless weekend elevated the Chargers to a 8-1 record overall.

On Friday, the Chargers stopped at Lake Erie to challenge the Storm, coached by former Hillsdale assistant coach, Kevin Foeman.

“They hadn’t played the weekend before so they were pretty fresh,” Gravel said. “Obviously with our old assistant coach being there they knew what we were going to do for the most part. They were ready for us. They came out, and they played tough.”

Senior middle hitter Emily Wolfert said her team came into Friday’s match expecting an easy win, which resulted in

Senior Emily Wolfert (right) celebrates with junior Kyra Rodi (left) and freshman Kara Vylytel (middle) during Hillsdale’s 3-1 win over Lake Erie on Friday. Greg Vylytel | Courtesy

a first-set loss.

“We were mostly preparing for Ashland all week because they are one of our biggest rivals. We weren’t overlooking Lake Erie but we kind of went in expecting to win, and I think that showed in our first set because we dropped it,” Wolfert said. “We immediately got a wake-up call and realized we had to pick it up because we can’t look ahead to Saturday until we take care of Friday.”

After that, the Chargers settled in to beat Lake Erie in three straight sets. Freshman outside hitter Kara Vyletel led the Chargers as she matched

her career-high 15 kills and had a career-high 16 digs. Vyletel is the first player to record 15 kills and 15 digs in one match since Wolfert in 2013.

Vyletel also had five ace serves, which reflected the team’s overall impressive serving on the weekend.

“We’re serving for points now,” Gravel said. “Everybody back there wants to serve more points than they give up during their serve receive. If everybody does that we will get to 25 first, so we want that to continue.”

Senior right side hitter Haylee Booms slammed 10 kills while Wolfert had nine.

Both Booms and Wolfert mastered consistency in this match, hitting .333 and .364 respectively. Junior middle hitter Erin Holsinger was a force at the net as she recorded five of the team’s nine blocks.

On Saturday, the Chargers arrived at Ashland ready for their annual battle.

“We were all fired up for that game but we were really focused,” Wolfert said. “There wasn’t a ton of nervous energy.

It was a very cool go-get-’em mentality.”

Freshman outside hitter Paige VanderWall said that the upperclassmen have helped the freshmen keep a steady

mentality.

“They keep us calm in a way that doesn’t belittle us, but in a way that welcomes us. They’re like my older sisters,” VanderWall said.

Gravel agreed, saying that his upperclassmen are really enhancing the freshmen’s abilities.

“We’re always talking about making your teammates better and I think the upperclassmen are making the freshmen better,” Gravel said. “Freshmen are doing a nice job of listening and doing what they can.”

The Chargers started strong in the first set with a 25-19 win. The Eagles came back fighting in set two to grab a 2515 victory. The Chargers took control again in the third set to win 25-17.

Gravel said that set four was the most exciting of the weekend.

“We were down 22-17 and that’s where we really got mentally tough and embraced the moment instead of fearing the moment,” Gravel said.

A kill by VanderWall gave the Chargers their 25-23 win, and their first victory at Ashland since 2011.

VanderWall and Wolfert combined in a senior-freshman effort, each pounding 12 kills against the Eagles. It was Wolfert, however, who dominated in all areas of the game.

To add to her 12 kills, Wolfert smashed seven blocks and had nine digs.

“It’s important to have a big middle that’s going to have consistency,” Gravel said about Wolfert. “It sets the tone for

the whole defense, but also middles set the tone for the whole offense too.”

After Saturday’s match, Wolfert moved into the No. 10 spot on Hillsdale’s all-time kill list. Wolfert now has 921 career kills and needs only three more to advance to No. 8.

The Chargers are anticipating two more battles this weekend as they play Northwood and Lake Superior State both on the road.

On Friday, Hillsdale will play the Timberwolves who are coming off a 2-1 premiere weekend in the Upper Peninsula. On Saturday, the Chargers will make their own trek to the U.P. to face the Lakers, who are currently 0-3 in the GLIAC. On Tuesday, the Chargers will play their travel partner, the Findlay Oilers, in Findlay, Ohio.

“We’ve had so many great matches with Findlay, they are an offensive powerhouse,” Gravel said. “It’s going to be hard to go to their place but we see that team more than any other team in the conference.

We play them several times in the spring and during preseason. Our teams know each other well.”

Though the Chargers have certain expectations as they enter into their second week of conference play, Gravel said he urges his players to ignore each team’s record.

“We start a new week and, again, we’re better than no one,” Gravel said. “Maybe if we work hard this week in practice we can change that this

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Anson Mount, who plays Cullen Bohannon, discusses his role with Richard on the set of “Hell on Wheels” Mark Richard | Courtesy

Short story writer, journalist, and screenwriter Mark Richard on the set of his AMC show “Hell on Wheels.” Richard will visit Hillsdale College next week for two public readings, sponsored by the Visiting Writers Series of the department of English Mark Richard | Courtesy

Mark Richard, writer and producer for the AMC series “Hell on Wheels,” on set Mark Richard | Courtesy

Q&A: Visiting writer MArk richArd

The award-winning short story writer, journalist, and screenwriter visits Hillsdale Sept. 29-30 The Visiting Writers Series of the department of English will host acclaimed writer Mark Richard next week for two public readings of his work. Richard has authored two award-winning short story collections, “The Ice at the Bottom of the World” and “Charity.” Also a journalist and screenwriter, he has corresponded for the BBC and written various screenplays for television and film, including the Emmy-winning series “Huff ” and the AMC series “Hell on Wheels.” ~ Compiled by Ramona Tausz When did you begin writing?

I think I wrote my first short story in second grade—“The Ancient Castle.” It’s not great, but it’s not too bad, and I see a little bit of my later style in the last sentence of the story. So second grade I began to write short stories, and then I really began to write in earnest in high school. I had great teachers who encouraged me to write all along the way.

At what point did you first consider making a career of writing?

I think I was driving home from college, Christmas break.

I was failing a lot of classes, and I was failing out of pre-law, and the only class I was getting A’s in was creative writing. So when I went back to school after Christmas break I switched my major to journalism; I figured that in creative writing you couldn’t make a living, but maybe in journalism you could.

a story (especially since I was writing features), you look for the details of the story. Journalism creates an awareness of the world that is really crucial to a fiction writer, I think.

At the same time that I was a journalist and writing for a newspaper, I was beginning to write short stories and send them to magazines in New York, so I was sort of doing both at the same time. I would see things while I was reporting— stories that weren’t news stories. There were stories about people that if you just tweaked them a certain way, you could really have a Flannery O’Connor short story.

I think that you always want to manipulate events so that they create a story, and you weren’t able to do that in journalism. You just had to kind of report on what was. In fiction you can sort of record what could be. So I was reporting on people and then turning them a little bit into other characters and sending those stories to New York — Esquire magazine in particular.

How do you navigate the two distinct styles?

It’s not an either/or proposition. Like I said before, the skills I was holding in journalism were exactly the skills that I needed for fiction writing—developing my eye.

How did you transition from journalism to fiction writing?

I always say that one of the best things I learned in journalism was not to be precious about your writing. When you write journalism, you hand your story off to an editor and they’re going to chop it up, cut it up, edit it, do what they need to do to make it fit into the paper, and it may not be what you wrote in the end at all. But because you can’t be precious you can also be playful.

I think that journalism sharpened my eye to become a fiction writer. There’s an old saying: “a writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.” I think when you’re trying to record

I think that you have to be able to have a sense of playfulness and not be afraid of the failure. Failure is going to come, the rejection is going to come, but you can’t be fearful of it.

You have to be fearless in your work, and if you’re fearless you can be playful. One thing I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older as a writer is that you must keep the sense of play in your work, even if it’s journalism and especially if it’s fiction.

During your visit, you will give a reading from “House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home,” a memoir that traces your development as a writer and your growing-up in the South as a child struggling with hip failure. How does your experience of the American South appear in the work?

I think that I was a kid in the South during one of its greatest upheavals: the beginning transition during the civil rights era. When I was a kid, the civil rights movement had not reached my corner of the universe. But during my childhood, race relations were at a boil, and informed all the years that I was growing up with integration and racial violence.

At the same time I was in and out of children’s hospitals in which the patients were either poor inner-city black kids or white kids from Appalachia, so I was seeing first-hand humanity. Especially in terms of the black people, these were not demons—they were demonized. I was living with them for years and seeing the suffering on the physical level that they were going through in these hospitals. And, I think that informed the way I feel about people all being the same. Suffering is a great common denominator, and a great leveler— as is poverty.

How did you get into screenwriting?

A former student of mine at the University of Mississippi was a script supervisor in Hollywood, and she moved to Los See Mark Richard, B2

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Holleman: back to pain-free conducting After spinal surgery, the music department chair is ‘recovering well’ By | Jace Lington

Collegian Freelancer Although he has battled back pain for many years, Music Department Chair James Holleman is again standing and conducting after a successful back surgery on June 8.

“I first noticed something was wrong about five years ago,” Holleman said. “I had pain and numbness in my leg and an MRI showed spinal stenosis, which was pinching a nerve.”

According to Holleman, the pain in his back and leg would increase the longer he stood while conducting rehearsals and concerts.

“Treating that pain with therapy and injections helped, but not totally,” Holleman said. “I had to use a barstool to rest during rehearsals and it was hard to stand through performances.”

After the pain caused him to lose his place during a performance at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, and then led him to almost pass out while conducting a Parents Weekend concert, Holleman sought further medical care.

“Last fall I was in even more pain and in February an MRI showed two stenoses of my spine and a ruptured disc,” Holleman said. His doctor recommended spinal reconstruction.

“The outstanding surgical team gave me confidence even though the procedure was intensive,” Holleman said. “They took several hours to walk me through the procedure and answer my questions.”

“The fusion process takes six months, so I took it easy this summer,” Holleman said. “The first full week of classes wiped me out, but I am better this week. I just have to be careful until the fusion is complete.”

According to Holleman, he had a post-surgery victory on Aug. 15 when he finished a four-mile walk at Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes.

Students and colleagues were happy to learn that Holleman was recovering well and in significantly less pain.

“I’m glad that he is back to his walking routine, and that his conducting seems more free now with mostly painfree days,” Artist-Teacher of Music Debbi Wyse said.

“He seems to be recovering well,” junior Stevan Lukich, orchestra concertmaster, said. “The surgery will hopefully let him be more dynamic while leading the orchestra and not have to sit during long pieces.”

“The timing of the surgery was good for me to keep working,” Holleman said. “I am glad I did the surgery.

Rehearsals have been mostly pain-free and I hope to be totally pain-free by the October concert.”

Flugelhorn master to perform tonight Dmitri Matheny joins The Hillcats for jazz spectacular

By | JoAnna Kroeker

The Hillcats will be play-

vored the blend, warm, laid-

by Matheny, selected from the set he currently plays on tour.

“I picked the hardest tunes, the ones that interest me the most,” Director of Jazz Studies Chris McCourry said.

Matheny has been compared to Miles Davis and Chet Baker, major pioneers of the West Coast jazz style, as well as Art Farmer, who AllMusic Guide described as “the bebop master who defined the sound of the flugelhorn in modern jazz.”

“West Coast players fa-

“A lot of trumpet players would play flugelhorn, but only now and then, on a ballad. I loved that sound so much I wanted to play it on everything.”

By choosing to play only the flugelhorn, Matheny has been able to realize a comfortable, mature tone and create a unique sound for himself by experimenting with subtones and lower ranges. Tonight’s show will give listeners Matheny’s melodious take on the essential sounds of West Coast jazz, along with elements of blues

Collegian Freelancer ing mostly music written back sound,” Matheny said.

Flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny, heralded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the jazz world’s most talented horn players,” performs tonight with The Hillcats, the Hillsdale College Faculty Jazz Ensemble.

The show will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in McNamara Rehearsal Hall at the Howard Music Hall, with free admission and no ticketing.

Hillsdale Artist in Residence Sunny Wilkinson will accompany Matheny as vocalist.

Renowned flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny performs with The Hillcats tonight at 7 p.m. in Mc Namara Rehearsal Hall Dmitri Matheny | Courtesy

In review: ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Harper Lee’s latest explores justice and identity from a different perspective By | Madeleine Jepsen

Assistant Editor

Sometimes, coming home forces people to confront uncomfortable changes and realities that they would much rather avoid. Such is the case for Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the much-loved protagonist of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman.”

Since her appearance in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the now 26-year-old Jean Louise has moved to New York City to make a living for herself. The storyline of “Go Set a Watchman” features her experiences during her annual two-week return to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama.

Lee artfully balances character development with flashbacks from Scout’s childhood, instilling readers with nostalgia and an awareness of change as they jump back into the world of Scout Finch. Sandwiched between Jean Louise’s anecdotal recollections of the past are her observations of the present situation. Readers will immediately recognize the familiar sights and sounds from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but also sense a distinct change in the dynamics within Maycomb County.

72-year-old Atticus Finch, Jean Louise’s father, has developed severe rheumatoid arthritis in his hands, and has reduced his involvement in legal work. Henry “Hank” Clinton, Scout’s childhood friend, has since

graduated from law school, and assists Atticus in his practice of law.

Additionally, he has been seeing Jean Louise for several years, and the two are in a serious relationship.

Her Aunt Alexandra, the unyielding Southern belle, has moved into the

“Go Set a Watchman,” Harper Lee’s sequel to the beloved “To Kill a Mockingbird,” features an adult Scout Madeleine Jepsen | Courtesy

Finch family home to assist Atticus with household chores after the retirement of Calpurnia, their longtime housemaid.

Though Jean Louise has traded in

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Angeles. Coincidentally, my wife and I moved to Los Angeles and I kept in touch with the script supervisor. It turns out she was a script supervisor for a director named Robert Altman, who was very famous.

She introduced me to Altman, who had read my short stories, and he said “The Ice at the Bottom of the World” would make a great film. So I went to the library and checked out some books on screenwriting and got some scripts and watched the movies while I was reading the script and taught myself how to write a screenplay. So I turned that in to Robert Altman. Unfortunately, he died, but an agent had heard about it, and suddenly I had an agent, and then the agent took the script and started sending it around as a writing sample. I got a call from

her childhood pair of overalls for professional attire, her stubborn wild streak and strong moral compass remain constant. Especially after her experience in New York, she is troubled by the strong racial tensions she encounters, which are increasingly

the producers of an old show called “Party of Five,” and they asked me to come be on the writing staff. So suddenly I was on a television show.

It’s been a bumpy ride, we’ve had ups and downs and feasts and famines. I made a film, we had a writers’ strike, I’ve been broke several times, but after a while you get a little traction. Knock wood, we’ll be OK. You just wrapped up four years of writing and producing “Hell on Wheels,” a television series about the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad. What do you enjoy about writing for television?

The “Hell on Wheels” experience was great—we were shooting in Calgary, which was a great double

flagrant in the Deep South of the 1950s.

Jean Louise, seeking answers, goes to the home of Calpurnia. She comes to a full realization of the situation for the plains of America. I enjoy it because as a writer, it was very satisfying to hear the actors speak the words that you spoke for them. I started out in Hollywood in feature film, and the feature film industry is pretty dead for writers. It’s mostly cartoon movies, or franchise movies, or superheroes—there’s not a lot of real drama in movie houses. Most of the drama today is to be found on cable and premium cable. So I was happy to find a home working on the railroad for four years, and I worked with fantastic actors, including the lead actor who plays Cullen Bohannon. He’s a young actor named Anson Mount, and he was an undergrad at Sewannee when I was the Tennessee Williams Fellow there—so I remember him when he was running around in the drama department there. It was really fun.

in Maycomb when the once-loving housemaid who served as her mother-figure would barely make eye contact with her. The conflict comes to a head when she finds Atticus and Hank at a city council meeting with strong racial undertones.

Shocked, she is forced to take a stand and confront both her father and sweetheart about their beliefs. In reconciling her own outlook on life with the attitudes of those whom she loves, Jean Louise must discover who she is and what she stands for as an individual.

Lee’s latest novel deals with the same principles found in “To Kill a Mockingbird” from a slightly different perspective, with the questions of justice, good, and evil coming to roost at a more personal level.The universal themes of identity and morality find a unique intersection in “Go Set a Watchman” that will especially resonate with a college-aged audience.

Lee’s expertly-crafted story weaves straightforward diction with an intricate plot, establishing “Go Set a Watchman” as a profound, intriguing sequel that is sure to be a hit with any audience. Jean Louise’s introspective struggle will echo in readers’ minds long after they finish reading the book, leaving them to ponder these same questions in their own lives.

and swing.

“The flugelhorn gets a warmer, more lyrical, melodic sound, as opposed to trumpet, which is brassy,” Matheny said.

McCourry originally heard of Matheny because of his distinct method of improvisation from melodies, rather than the harmonic or rhythmic approaches.

“My approach is to render and phrase the melody like a singer, try to get a soulful, vocal quality, not an approach many instrumentalists take,” Matheny said.

McCourry predicted that Matheny’s melodious, vocalist style would make the concert very accessible to listeners.

“The music he writes is mostly blues-based, but the melodies are beautiful and catchy, things people will be singing on their way out,” he said.

Both Matheny and McCourry expressed excitement for tonight’s concert because of the amount of talent packed into one hall.

“It is such a thrill to work with those guys,” Matheny said. “Hillsdale College has a surprisingly great faculty there. Chris is a treasure, I dig that guy. And Sunny Wilkinson, she’s a legendary figure in the Midwest— someone I’ve been listening to but never had the chance to meet.”

“This one is a special concert,” McCourry said. “The band is full of the finest in Michigan. It’d be a shame to miss it, since it’s free.”

Arts News Sept.  College Night at The Underground features The St. Joe Trio 8 p.m.

Broad Street Downtown Market

Sept.  Special jazz performance features The Hillcats and flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny 7 p.m.

McNamara Rehearsal Hall Howard Music Hall Free Admission

Sept.  Visiting Writers Series: Mark Richard Reading from His Fiction 8 p.m.

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What are the unique challenges of writing for specific television characters?

In the case of “Hell on Wheels,” I was blessed to be working with Anson Mount. Anson is from Tennessee, and I’m from the South, and I knew Anson personally, so I knew his cadences of speech, I knew the character that he was trying to build as the writers were trying to build the character together with him. I remember one time, Anson and I were sitting at the monitors waiting for something to be set up, and he said, “You know, we have a Holy Trinity.” I said, “I don’t know what you mean by that.” He said, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” What he meant was, that I’m the father, he was the son, and the ghost was the character that we’d developed together.

Sept.  Visiting Writers Series: Mark Richard Reading from “House of Prayer No.2: A Writer’s Journey Home” 8 p.m.

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Patches show brotherhood in Hillsdale Fire Department By | Phil DeVoe Assistant Editor While Gary Easterling was in Iraq as an Army National Guardsman, his wife, midway through a shower, fell through the bathroom floor after it collapsed underneath her. His friends from the police and fire stations rushed to his house as soon as they heard and repaired his floor, free of charge.

As a thank you for their charity, Easterling decided to bring home a patch from the fire station at Camp Victory in Baghdad and donate it to the Hillsdale Fire Department’s patch collection, composed of patches from fire stations all over the world. Camp Victory was one of the bases to which Easterling transported military VIPs through mortar fire and surprise attacks by Iraqi terrorists.

Although his convoy was hit many times, Easterling never lost a man, and always delivered the VIPs safely to their destinations. Today, The collection of patches at the Hillsdale Fire Deptartment. Each one comes from another fire department. Phil Devoe | Collegian Easterling fights a different battle — he works for reminder of their national when visiting different fire Almost every patch on city fire department’s service the American Legion, where brotherhood as firemen. departments. McDowell said the wall has a story. A patch during 9/11. he pressures the U.S. govern“We look at each other as that now, less than half of the from California was donated “9/11 changed a lot of the ment to give more to vetera family. You love those guys collection is from Jansen’s by a Hillsdale firefighter who way firemen do their jobs,” ans who, in their service to and there can’t be a doubt online orders. fights fires on the West Coast said Easterling. “The attacks America, weren’t as lucky as when you fight fires togeth“Some are Ted’s, some we for a month every year. A helped stations get up to Easterling to have returned er,” Eric Pressler, a captain at trade, and a lot of them come patch from New York was equipment standards. It used home unharmed. the fire department, said. from firefighters visiting donated by Pressler’s daughto be that there was only one His story is just one of the According to Pressler, other towns,” McDowell said. ter Kristen, celebrating the station with the jaws [of life], stories behind the more than the idea for the patch board but since 9/11, almost every 100 patches adorning a wall came to Hillsdale through station around here’s got of the Hillsdale Fire Station. fire Chief Chris McDowell one.”

For some, they simply repreand fireman Ted Jansen, Pointing to a dark blue sent a collection of fireman who decided to buy patches patch with a red border memorabilia, but for othonline, in hopes of encouragemblazoned with the word ers, they’re an ever-present ing others to collect patches ‘bomberos’ and an Italian

We look at each other as a family. You love those guys, and there can’t be a doubt when you fight fires together.

flag, McDowell added, “one of our guys, Corey Burke, went to Italy and picked up this patch while he was there.”

‘Bomberos’ is the Italian word for firefighter.

Many on the board are from local departments — Reading, Litchfield, and Jonesville, for example, have all donated patches, primarily through trading with Hillsdale. Other stations have patch boards as well, and many of the Hillsdale firemen have seen other stations with similar boards. McDowell said that Ypsilanti has a patch board with at least seven panels, while Hillsdale’s only has two. No matter the size, the idea behind the board is the same.

“There’s a union in it — firefighters really need support. A Lansing firefighter was murdered by a disgruntled citizen after they had a verbal fight just a few days ago, and as brother firefighters we feel that pain, too,” McDowell said.

Now happily home with his wife and their repaired bathroom floor, Easterling said he thinks of his patch in a much more intimate way than most of the other donors.

“I like getting things that represent what I’ve done with my life. It’s memorabilia but it’s also a token of what I’ve accomplished, and I’m happy that my story will live on through that patch,” Easterling said. “I have two sons who are following my footsteps in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I’m proud that what I’ve done has encouraged them to do the same.”

Global to Local: Hillsdale’s International Students By | Anna Timmis Collegian Freelancer

Erla Sigurjonsdottir said she made the decision to travel from her home in Keflavik, Iceland to Hillsdale so that she could continue swimming as she pursued her college education. She explained that colleges in Iceland do not offer varsity sports. “I’ve been swimming since I was six,” Sigurnjonsdottir said. “I wanted to go to college and keep swimming. I wasn’t ready to quit.” She said she finds that the supportive community of Hillsdale has helped her to adjust. “If there’s something you need, there’s always someone you can go to,” she said. “It’s not even people who work here. It’s older students and teammates.

They reach out and say, ‘if you need something just call me.’”

Katrin Gross, from Saarbrueken, Germany, said she wanted to experience American culture before she graduated from University, where she has two semesters remaining.

“I’m majoring in culture,” she said. “We can choose four subjects.

I’m taking religious studies, literature, newest history, and anthropology.

Because I’m starting culture, I’m interested in America.”

Gross said she appreciated the beauty of the Hillsdale campus. “The nature and the buildings look amazing,” she said.

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GROSVENOR FROM B4 Well, that family is still in Jonesville and they still own that same property. So, it’s just an old ox yoke, but to them it’s really significant,” he said.

The museum features several fully-furnished ground floor rooms, including a parlor, kitchen, dining room, study, and bedroom, as well as an upstairs with educational exhibits. Among the house’s artifacts is a 50-star US Flag flown over the United States Capitol on July 4th, 1960, the day that flag was adopted.

In the past few years, Hillsdale College students have become more and more involved in the Grosvenor House Museum.

Julia Kilgore, ’13, said that her interest in Museum Studies led her to contact the museum her junior year and begin to volunteer there. She and fellow student Gwen Stoldt, ’13, soon formed the Hillsdale College Grosvenor House Volunteer Program. By her senior year, Kilgore said, the program had grown to four members. This year, according to Morgan, 25 students have shown interest in volunteering.

Morgan recommends this experience to students of any discipline. There are always more opportunities to help out.

“If students have specific interests,” he said, “We can find specific jobs for them here.”

Kilgore spoke very highly of her experience at the museum.

“It’s a great place to get involved in the community, and get to know the Jonesville community itself,” she said. “And it’s lots of fun, and they do need help. They need people to help with special events, and to develop new ideas there, to keep things both interesting and running… You would be making a big difference volunteering at the Grosvenor House.”

The Grosvenor House is open from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays June through September, with special open hours during the Christmas season. Students interested in volunteering should contact the Grosvenor House Volunteer Program’s current head, Amanda Hatch, at ahatch@hillsdale.edu.

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Homecoming 5K honors coach ‘Wild Bill’ Lundberg

Students participate in last year’s Wild Bill Fun Run in honor of Bill Lundberg. anders kiledal| Collegian

By | Stevan Bennett Jr Assistant Editor On an average day, a few students go on a morning run through the campus fairly unnoticed. On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 24, however, the stampede of runners in the Wild Bill Fun Run are sure to attract some attention.

In 2001 the Farmhouse 5K was founded as a way to honor the already-esteemed career of coach Bill Lundberg.

In 2014, after a three-year hiatus, the race was resurrected and renamed the “Wild Bill Fun Run”.

With a route that begins at Hayden Park, runners will find their way around the track, up Alumni Walk, past three statues, and in front of the student union before

crossing the finish line near the Sage Center for the Arts.

“We advertise it as a run through campus, and we really mean that,” Lundberg said. “Since it is over homecoming weekend we have alumni run the race, so we wanted to be sure that the route allows them to experience parts of campus that may look different from when they were here.”

Lundberg, known by many as “Wild Bill,” spent his college years running first at Jackson Community College before accepting a scholarship to run at the University of Kansas.

Lundberg’s competitive running career included competing in the Olympic Trials for the steeplechase, setting a national record in the twomile, and being named an

All-American. It is, however, his career after running that leaves the most indelible mark.

After Kansas, Lundberg returned to Jackson Community College where he enjoyed tremendous success as the youngest collegiate track coach in the nation.

For four years of Lundberg’s life, he served as the graduate assistant coach at University of Michigan, and as the head assistant coach at Eastern Michigan.

In 1985, Lundberg accepted a job at Hillsdale College as the head coach for both track and cross-country, and although he no longer serves as head coach, he remains one of the most recognized figures on campus.

“Coach Lundberg is one of the greatest men on this

campus,” sophomore Jacob Weaver said. “It’s about so much more than what he had done on the field too. It’s mostly his character. He just exemplifies everything Hillsdale stands for.”

Indicative of his nickname, Lundberg takes on everyday with a type of fire about him, and it shows in every interaction he has with those around him.

“A lot of freshmen will ask me about the name Wild Bill,” Lundberg said. “It just comes from my love for the Lord and for people. I really believe you should be passionate about everything you do, and that’s how I try to live my life.”

It is this passionate attitude that has garnered Lundberg respect from students and coworkers alike.

“Coach is always available

to assist in anything that will inspire and get the student body fired up,” Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. “Never will you see him complaining, because he is just too busy serving people.”

Now the Director of the Wellness Initiative and Hayden Park, Lundberg has committed himself to making the everyday life of students both healthier and more exciting.

“Being taught how to live a healthy life is an important part of a liberal arts education,” Lundberg said. “That’s part of the reason we work so hard to make sure that an active lifestyle is both easy and fun here at Hillsdale.”

Lundberg certainly does work hard to achieve this goal, and the college has benefited

greatly.

“Wild Bill is a high energy man of Christ that bleeds Charger Blue. He loves this college and what it stands for,” Director of Recreational Sports Brad Kocher said. “He has been instrumental in the growth of wellness on campus and the growth of Hayden Park. Somewhere on campus everyday you can hear him chanting ‘charge up!’”

It is this kind of commitment and attitude that makes the Fun Run live up to it’s name, attracting attention throughout campus.

“No matter your ability, it’s no harm, no foul to take part,” Dave Peters, who participated last year said. “It’s fun and it’s free, and you get to spend time with Wild Bill, so there is no reason not to do it.”

Students participate in Grosvenor House history By | Stacey Egger Collegian Reporter An old sepia photograph on the wall of the Grosvenor House in Jonesville shows a highceilinged Victorian parlor with a chandelier, a marble fireplace, and several ornately-framed paintings. The photo hangs on the wall of the same parlour — which, over a hundred years later, looks almost identical to its picture.

The Grosvenor House has been preserved remarkably over the years. The house, which was built in 1874 for Jonesville businessman and Lieutenant Governor E. O. Grosvenor, stayed in his family until the 1950s, according to Grosvenor House Museum board member Dick Morgan.

And though it spent several decades as a bed and breakfast and then an antique dealership, it continued almost unchanged, as the original building had included advancements such as central heating, plumbing, and hot water.

“When we bought it there was one cabinet in the pantry that was painted,” Morgan said, “None of the other woodwork in the whole house had been touched.”

Since the house’s conversion to a museum in 1976, its preservation has been continued more actively, and its wealth of hidden history made available to the public.

According to Morgan, the house was purchased as a museum when the Jonesville Heritage Association, formed for the bicentennial, needed a home. The museum was initially meant to focus more on Jonesville history than on the Grosvenor family. But once they began working on the house, they realized how wellpreserved it and its artifacts were, and began to shift focus.

“For quite a few years it was about the Grosvenor family and the house, and they kind

It’s a great place to get involved in the community.

You would be making a big difference volunteering at the Grosvenor House. of forgot the Jonesville history,” Morgan said, “And we’re trying to get that back, trying to start including the Jonesville history.”

Morgan said that the shift to incorporate more of Jonesville’s history does not necessarily mean moving away from the house itself

A sepia photograph of the Grosvenor House parlor, nearly identical to the way the room looks today.

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and the artifacts they have, since the house is so connected with the history of the Jonesville community.

“Down in the basement we have an ox

yoke that was used by a family in 1834, 36, something like that, to clear their property.

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Tori Wichman By | Lillian Quinones

secondhand stores, or look for clothes from my dad’s closet.

How would you describe your style?

Occasionally boho, sometimes hobo.

What are your fashion staples?

My hoop earrings and choker necklaces are my go to, also graphic shirts are my favorite statement pieces.

Would you say that your fashion has evolved?

About two years ago, I was very conservative in my style and scared to wear what I wanted to. I dressed very girly. Then, I realized that fashion is about individuality.

Favorite fashion piece?

My favorite thing in my closet is a dress from Ethiopia. I got it there when I was on a mission trip. It was so cool to provide the woman selling it her whole month’s rent by just buying a dress.

Where do you like to shop?

I really appreciate handme-downs. If I go shopping, I usually go to Urban, Lillian Quinones | Collegian

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