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Hillsdale business owner charged with criminal sexual conduct By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor David Fayez Gadelkarim, 54, owner of two businesses in Hillsdale, was arrested at Burger King on Feb. 18 on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. Gadelkarim, an Egyptian-American who owns both the Shell Gas Station and Hillsdale Smoke Shop on Carleton Road, allegedly lured an employee to a back room of the auto shop two doors down from the Shell Station, forced her to consume alcohol, and then sexually assaulted her, according to a report released by Hillsdale Watch, a community news group. After the unnamed victim finished her work shift at 11 p.m. on Feb. 16, Gadelkarim allegedly took her to a small room set up like a bedroom and offered her alcohol. When
she refused the attention and expressed her displeasure, Gadelkarim forced her to drink liquor and touched her hair and legs, according to the report. The victim asked to leave. “Stay the night here, and Senior Nick Brown and Junior Kate Patrick, along with other students, staff, and faculty, examine memenyou can leave in the morning,” tos exhibited to commemorate the life of “Saga” Stephen Casai ’74 at the memorial service in the Searle he responded, according to Center on Wednesday evening. Anders Kiledal | Collegian the report. After much protest from Gadelkarim, the employee was finally able to leave the premises. According to several womSearle Center to honor him pital, according to Vear, who en who shared their experi- By |Macaela J. Bennett and his contributions to the speculated this contributed to Editor-in-Chief ences with the Collegian, last community he embraced as much of Casai’s desire to keep week’s incident was not the his past private. One of Hillsdale College’s his family. first time Gadelkarim had quietest characters left a proSince Casai’s passing, his Casai graduated from Hillsmade unwanted advances on found impression on the lives longtime friend Bud Vear said dale College in 1974 as a “very young female employees. he touched during his 35 years it has been like a “treasure good student,” according to “I only worked for him for of working in its food service. hunt” going through his pos- Arnn, who said he looked up about a day and a half,” one Yet, “Saga” Stephen Casai ’74 sessions and puzzling together his student records and was former employee, who asked almost didn’t realize it. the life of a person so many impressed. Afterward, Casai not to be named, said of her “We were his ministry, and knew but no one really knew attended Bethany Lutheran time at the Shell Gas Station. College in Minnesota and we should be thankful that we During the hiring process, were members of his flock,” Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Gadelkarim asked her if she President Larry Arnn said of until 1980. had a See arrest A7 Casai at his memorial service Casai’s graduation ceremony pamphlet showed that he Wednesday. was the only member of his It was Casai’s loyalty and class to defer his appointment consistency that so many have at a parish, for unknown rearecalled fondly since his passsons, so he was never ordained. ing on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Instead, Casai returned to Just as Casai could always be Hillsdale and worked as an counted on to trek between usher for 11 years at the Dawn his home and work every day Theater and for the college, regardless of weather, because, checking students in at the as he joked, he was “too lazy dining hall for the rest of his to drive,” it seemed fitting much about. Casai grew up in a “small life. that memorial attendees must “After all that education, he trudge through a snowstorm town near Detroit,” but when to honor him. Although few he was 10 years old, he de- chose to come back here and knew Casai closely, students, veloped Crohn’s Disease and check students in for meals,” staff, and alumni filled the spent a lot of time in the hosSee Casai A2
‘Saga’ Steve: ‘You made a difference’
“It was such a simple task, but through that, he had an incredible impact.”
Rubio rallies in the Rapids
By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor A former Hillsdale College student was among the six victims murdered in a shooting spree in Kalamazoo on Saturday night. Dorothy “Judy” Brown, 74, of Battle Creek attended the college from the fall of 1959 to the winter of 1962. Jason Dalton, 45, allegedly shot and killed Brown along with five other people in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has been charged with six counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, and eight counts of felony firearm use. He was arraigned on Monday morning, without the possibility of bail. “When you were in a room, you knew that she noticed you,” Rev. Jim Ashby said of Brown. “If you were a stranger to her, she wanted to get to know you. She wasn’t very interested in talking about herself—she was much more interested in who you were.” Ashby attends Unity Christian Church in Battle Creek with Brown. As a freshman at Hillsdale in October 1959, Brown — then Dorothy Jean Knight — became a pledge of the Pi Beta
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Restuccia helps revive Republicans for Rubio
Former Hillsdale student a victim in Kalamazoo shootings
GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio spoke at a rally of more than 1600 in Grand Rapids Tuesday. Vivian Hughbanks | Collegian
By | Amanda Tindall Features Editor Approximately 1,600 people crowded into Lacks Enterprises in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tuesday, Feb. 23 to rally for GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida while voters in Nevada were caucusing. As candidates begin campaigning in Michigan for the state’s March 8 primary, a group of seven students from Hillsdale College, lead by Students for Rubio Michigan Chairman senior Dominic Restuccia, helped with the rally. Another 38 Students for Rubio from other Michigan colleges attended the event, as well. “I am looking for a candidate that represents conservative values, who will be able to win the next election, who exemplifies his faith and the ideas of the American dream,” sophomore Jonathan Moy said. “I think Marco Rubio has all these qualities.” Rubio shared his vision of the American dream and the Follow @HDaleCollegian
story of his family as immigrants from Cuba during his rally, noting how they lived paycheck-to-paycheck for many years. America needs to be a land where the current generation can achieve the same success that our parents did, he said. Students and adults came out to see Rubio. A younger attendee, an elementary-aged boy in American regalia with a patriotic bow-tie, threw in his support for Rubio, adding a small pitch for his own run for the presidency many years down the road. “I want Marco Rubio to be the next president because he’s very pro-life, and I think he’d be very good with gun laws and with ISIS and illegal immigration,” the young Luke Cunningham said. When asked what the “new American century” meant to him, Cunningham replied: “To start over with all the bad things President Barack Obama has done, and I think Rubio will do a good job with cleaning up the economy and things like that.” See Rubio A3
‘Political leaders I have known (and annoyed)’ A conversation with James Rogan By |Timmy Pearce Collegian Reporter James Rogan is a California Supreme Court judge. Previously, Rogan served in the House of Representatives, where his colleagues chose him to be a prosecutor in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. He spoke at Hillsdale College on “Stories of Political Leaders I Have Known (and Annoyed)” Thursday, Feb. 18. When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in politics and law? Probably around the fourth or fifth grade. I was a real history buff. I loved history. I loved reading about history. I loved reading about political history in government, politics, and biographies of politicians. I think at some point I figured out that politics was the place people went if they wanted to have their hand on the wheel of making history because the two intersect. It was so long ago that I can’t remember a
time that I did not want to be a lawyer and, at some point, have an opportunity to engage in the political process, but I can track it back to the fifth grade. What challenges did you face while pursuing your career? I think the hardest challenge I faced was just getting through school because I came from a very disruptive and dysfunctional family background. Nobody had gone to college. I was the oldest of four children, and all four of us were high school dropouts. I had a single mom who was on welfare and food stamps, and she was a convicted felon. Coming from a dysfunctional background like that, trying to keep one’s focus on all the things that are necessary to get your education, was probably the most difficult thing. Have you ever regretted your decision to pursue Clinton’s impeachment, even though it may have cost you y o u r
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Hillsdale Royalty Sauer, Wathen named Outstanding Senior Man and Woman
Seniors Matt Sauer and Marie Wathen were named Outstanding Senior Man and Woman this week. Sauer was previously honored as Homecoming King, while Wathen was crowned queen of the President’s Ball last Saturday. Anders Kiledal | Collegian Read the story on A3 Look for The Hillsdale Collegian