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Vol. 139 Issue 6 - 8 Oct. 2015
Remembering Michael Bozic, college trustee
Faculty and staff celebrate the
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dedication of the Searle Center Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé, Dean of Women Diane Philipp, College President Larry Arnn, and honored guests cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Searle Center on Monday, Oct. 5. Brendan Miller | Collegian
College President Larry Arnn publishes new book Rep. Tim By |Breana Noble Arnn said. to mitigate Walberg talks He picked up “The World and control Assistant Editor Hillsdale College President Crisis, 1911-1914 Vol. I,” and the power of Larry Arnn wears the memo- after two weeks, Arnn’s hand statesmanEducation ry of Winston Churchill on his had healed — except for a small ship through white scar that remains visible constitutionsleeve — literally. and and House As an undergraduate student, on his wrist to this day — and alism Arnn would not have predicted he had completed all six vol- through the he’d write a dissertation on the umes of the collection as well as practice of elections twice elected prime minister of part of “Marlborough: His Life justice, which and Times.” includes the By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor
Congressman Tim Walberg represents Michigan’s 7th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Walberg came to campus last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hillsdale Academy. How does Hillsdale Academy stand out from other schools as a model for classical education? It is based on a higher principle that the academics and morality and spirituality must work to achieve. You go back to the Northwest Ordinance and Article VIII, Section 1 of our state constitution, and it says religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. From what I can tell in my involvement around this school, they truly believe that religion and knowledge have to combine. And that faith aspect, the character aspect, the integrity, builds the opportunity for education to take root and expand into something valuable. I think that’s probably the uniqueness about a classical education: that it builds present reality on timeless truths. The American education system is often described as broken and dysfunctional — a failure to America’s youth. What’s your plan to make the education system work again? No. 1, the Department of Education ought to be abolished. The U.S. Department of Education has no purpose — has no place in our Constitution. The federal government has no responsibility constitutionally for education: That comes down to the states and the local communities. Our state constitution says that we have the responsibility. So doing away with the Department of Education would be a great start.
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the United Kingdom, let alone an entire book on him — Arnn’s latest, “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government,” is scheduled for release Tuesday, Oct. 13. During one summer in the midst of graduate school, Arnn’s “warrior” boxer got into a fight with another dog. As Arnn tried to break up the altercation, the other dog bit him on the wrist. His hand swelled to the extent that Arnn became bedridden while house-sitting for a friend, who had written a doctoral thesis on Churchill. “What was lying near my bed were lots of Churchill books, and I had studied a little in two graduate classes, but now here was all these books, and they were the ones I could reach,”
“I just loved it,” Arnn said. “I was a young, ambitious man, interested in politics, interested in saving the country, interested in understanding the country. Here is this very powerful explanation.” Now, 41 years later, after reading the very of Churchill and working underneath his official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, Arnn is publishing his own book on the decisions Churchill made after spending the past two years writing it. “Churchill’s Trial” looks at what it means to be a modern statesman: the principles to display, the ways in which to deal with crisis, and how to look at new developments. “Churchill was an assertive statesman, but he sought
protection of human freedom,” Arnn said. While researching Churchill, Arnn said he learned more about practical ideas of how to get things done Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn holds his new as well as the book “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the purpose of Salvation of Free Government,” slated for release politics and this month. Brendan Miller | Collegian life. “The reapretty quick,” Arnn said. son it took so long to write the While the book is heavily book is, in my opinion, it takes influenced by what he learned so long to learn about those from Gilbert, Arnn’s work stands subjects, unless you’re someone alone. like him who seems to pick it up “I do See Arnn A3
Robert Hardy on Lewis, Tolkien, and World War II
British actor Robert Hardy addresses the Center for Constructive Alternatives on Monday, Oct. 5. Carsten Stann | Collegian
By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Robert Hardy is one of England’s most successful character actors. He has played Sir Winston Churchill many times in television, film, and theater productions. Best known for his role as Siegfried Farnon in BBC’s “All Creatures Great and Small” series, he also played Cornelius Fudge in the “Harry Potter” films among many others. Hardy spoke at this week’s Center for
Constructive Alternatives seminar. Every generation has their defining moment — for my generation it’s the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York. Do you have any specific recollections of the day Adolf Hitler invaded Poland? Yes. Vivid. I was born in 1925. I remember every detail of that whole business. I suppose it’s really itemized in the broadcast that Neville Chamberlain, who was our prime
minister, made on the radio. He said, “We are at war with Germany. We have received no response to my cable saying that if by 11 o’clock we had not heard from Mr. Hitler that it would be a state of war. We have heard no word from the leader of Germany, the leader of the Nazis, and therefore we are at a state of war.” And then he went on to my shock to say, “You can imagine what a great disappointment this personally is to me.” And I thought, — I was not very advanced, but enough to think very quickly — “That’s a mean personal response to an epic situation, which may see Britain attacked, Britain destroyed, America attacked — who could foresee what this mania was going to do?” I remember thinking that at the time. Quite soon afterwards, placards began appearing all over London — nobody to this day knows who financed it — great big, simply printed placards saying, “What price, Winston?” “How about Churchill?” — things like that. “Now for Churchill.” Things like that printed up on giant street plac-
ards. So all of that time, one was at some kind of mixture of excitement and dread. Excitement because I was at the right age to be excited, obviously. War: thrill. Airplanes. I was trained as a pilot. When you came back from training, what was it like to transition back to wartime England? Well it wasn’t over yet when we got back. When we got back, you dropped the bombs. So our choice, of the group that trained at that date, was either to sign on to train for five years and be sent out to the Far East, or to hang around and be offered another job in the Royal Air Force. And I wasn’t going to do that — no thank you. I was in a hurry, you know. So one hung around mostly in London. So I spent most of my time — and all of my money — going to the theaters. I went every night. I understand you were at Oxford at the same time as C.S. Lewis? He was my tutor. It was wonderful because I had formed an opinion See Hardy A2
Oxford Professor Michael Ward returns to Hillsdale By |Ramona Tausz Arts Editor C.S. Lewis organized his classic children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia” around the pre-Copernican medieval concept of a universe with seven heavens, according to Michael Ward, a senior research fellow at Oxford University and author of “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.” “Lewis’s best-known works, the seven Chronicles of Narnia, are, I believe, structured according to the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos,” Ward, best-remembered at Hillsdale as the 2015 commencement Follow @HDaleCollegian
speaker, told a packed Phillips Auditorium during a lecture hosted by the history department on Thursday, Oct. 1. Ward’s lecture, based on his dissertation, was entitled “Great Balls of Fire: C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and Medieval Cosmology.” “I have to admit, it is a very large claim that I’m making,” Ward said. “Lewis had a deliberate and intentional design behind the Narnian Chronicles which he told nobody about and which nobody spotted for 50 or 60 years until I came along.” The theory that would become Ward’s dissertation first popped into his head while he
was completing his doctoral studies at Oxford. According to Ward, the question of how the Chronicles of Narnia are organized—why they’re written the they are—has long posed an “imaginative conundrum” to Lewis scholars. Is the series a hodgepodge of disparate elements, or does it have a central governing organization? “Lewis was not at all a characteristically random or slapdash thinker,” Ward said. “He was a very rigorous and consistent thinker who loved intricacy and complexity of all kinds.” Such a thinker, according to Ward, must have given the Chronicles an underlying thematic structure.
His thesis is that each of the Narnian books can be examined through the lens of one of the seven heavens of the old pre-Copernican, geocentric cosmos espoused by medievals such as Dante and Chaucer. Each medieval heaven had its own planet: the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” for instance, includes references to Jupiter, king of the gods, throughout. “Kingliness is Jupiter’s main quality,” Ward said. And indeed, the book is pervaded with themes of kingship. “The story is really a clash of kingship between Peter and Edmund, and
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Aslan demonstrates true kingship in his role for Edmund’s sake.” “Prince Caspian,” on the other hand, contains the imagery of Mars, the god of war. “It’s the civil war book of Narnia, a very martial book,” Ward said. “The word martial itself appears a couple of times.” But after tracing similar threads through brief readings of each of the seven books,Ward was sure to point out why Lewis chose to structure the Chronicles this way—not merely as an interesting schematic organization, but because each book, each planet, each god reflects something true about Christ and how See Ward A2
He was a Harley rider. He loved boats. President Larry Arnn valued him as a friend of the college. Michael Bozic was a 16-year Hillsdale College Trustee who died unexpectedly at the age of 74 while working near his boat in Maryland on Sept. 30. “He had the gifts of emphatic language that you would expect from such a person,” Arnn said in an email. “He loved the freedom that he, a little boy from Pittsburgh, had enjoyed to build and to serve.” According to Arnn, Bozic loved his family — his wife, Stephanie, and their two children — and he loved the freedom to follow his conscience. “Every night, we had dinner together. Every morning, he kissed his children goodbye. Every night, he read them bedtime stories. He was a good father,” said Stephanie Bozic, his wife of 47 years, in Bozic’s TribLive obituary. “His career never came home with him. When he wasn’t at work, he was just Dad,” said his daughter, Amanda Pyper of Chatham, New Jersey, in the obituary. For a man so focused on family, Bozic had many accomplishments. He began his career at Sears Roebuck and Company where he climbed from a management trainee to various leadership roles including CEO of Sears Merchandise Group. After 28 years with Sears, Bozic took over and transformed a then-bankrupt Hills Store Company into an award-winning regional discounter. In 1995, he worked as Chairman and CEO of Levitz Furniture Corporation and in 1998, became the Vice Chairman of Kmart Corp. Most recently, Bozic was a director and trustee of Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds and part-owner of Orlando Harley Davidson. “Mike worked for the biggest companies in the most senior positions,” Arnn said. “He operated upon a massive scale, not millions but billions, not in regions but nations, not in the rich or the poor or the middle but in every home.” This expertise made him an excellent chair of Hillsdale’s marketing and outreach committee, Arnn said. “Mike Bozic was an important part of the board and will be missed by all of us he has left behind,” Chairman of the Board Bill Brodbeck said in an email. “Mike was a quiet, warm, caring individual who had a depth of experience in business and industry.” Arnn emphasized that Bozic was also a great adviser and encourager. “Mike knew everything. He was a superb guide, and I can recall no conversation with him when he did not offer me some thoughtful encouragement, some word of praise that he had considered and delivered as an act of charity,” Arnn said. Arnn described Bozic as “a man’s man,” who was principled and did not like the people who he, and Arnn, were sure are leading America astray. “He was fully a man, and being so he was an inspiration to know,” Arnn said. His memorial service was Tuesday at 11 a.m. Instead of flowers, his family asked donations to be made to Hillsdale College or the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Bozic is survived by his wife, Stephanie, daughter Amanda, son Peter, and two grandchildren, Ellie and Lucy Pyper, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Look for The Hillsdale Collegian