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Birzer book wins ISI award
By | Josh Paladino Assistant editor The Intercollegiate Studies Institute recognized “Russell Kirk: The American Conservative,” as this year’s best book to advance conservative principles. In September, the biography, written by Professor of History Bradley Birzer, won ISI’s Paolucci Award. According to Jed Donahue, ISI vice president of publications, historian Wilfred M. McClay said the book could begin a Kirkian movement. “Given the confused and dispirited state of American conservatism at the present moment, it is high time for a Russell Kirk revival,” McClay said. “The appearance of Bradley J. Birzer’s splendid and exhaustively researched biography of Kirk just might provide the catalyst needed to set it in motion.” Birzer’s book beat four other finalists: The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson’s, National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke’s, The Claremont Institute’s Robert Curry, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Ut. Birzer said he wants the biography to distinguish Kirk’s conservatism from today’s mainstream conservatism. “Kirk’s conservatism was deeply humane,” Birzer said. “He wanted us to conserve the best and the most beautiful of the past.”
Invite three to Cedar Point, go for free
By | Morgan Channels Collegian Reporter Refer three friends to go to Cedar Point on Oct. 1 with the Student Activities Board and ride for free. Although Cedar Point raised its admission by $6, Hillsdale College’s SAB is doing what it can to decrease the trip cost, Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. Students can also drive themselves for a reduced price. “This is all to make it easier to register and less expensive for the students,” Manno said. Students can register online with a link available in the student activities email newsletter. The $40 fee is waived for a student if three people sign up and type the student’s name under the question “How did you hear about this trip?” Previously, Hillsdale drove to the amusement park in a large charter buses, but this year, a 40-passenger bus will depart from campus instead. This bus leaves campus at 8 a.m. Oct. 1 and will leave Cedar Point at 9 p.m.
Galloway lawn to hold debate watch party By | Cecelia Pletan Collegian Reporter
Galloway Residence and Hillsdale College Republicans are holding a “screen on the green” presidential debate watch party Monday at 9 p.m. Last year, more than 200 Hillsdale students gathered on Galloway’s lawn to watch the second Republican primary debate. It will bring the national event conveniently to students, College Republicans President junior Brant Cohen said. “We found it to be a great place where people heading back to their dorms could stop by to catch a quick glimpse of the debate, especially if they did not have any intention of watching it at home,” Cohen said. “It’s nice to hear the live reactions of your fellow classmates, as each candidate talks.” College Republicans and Galloway will provide popcorn, soda, and ice cream, and poll students after the event. In case of rain, Phillips Auditorium will hold the event.
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Fall break trips give the experience of ‘living and working’ in Chicago, D.C. By | Mariana Koch Collegian Freelancer For those eagerly looking to leave rural Michigan for the hustle and bustle of city life, Hillsdale College is providing students two opportunities to do just that over fall break. The career services office and alumni relations office are sponsoring trips Oct. 13-15 to two metropolises: Chicago, Illinois and — revived after a few-year hiatus — Washington, D.C. These excursions look to give students of all majors and years the feel of what it is like to live and work in a new city, Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said. The sessions include networking events with local alumni, a job shadow, a guided tour of the city, and free time to
explore. The cost to attend Chicago is $350 and Washington, D.C., is $400, which includes travel, meals, and lodging. Larissa Clark ’17 attended “Living and Working in Chicago” in 2015. “There’s a difference between coming to career services and working on your resume versus actually practicing your elevator pitch and networking at an event.” Clark said. “It’s a chance to apply what you’ve been learning.” Clark also received an internship offer from the organization at which she shadowed. In Chicago, students participate in a private tour of Google led by its head of industry, John Farrar ’98. Students also work with career services to choose where they shadow. In the past, they have gone to Valassis
Communications Inc., The Private Bank, the Illinois Policy Institute, and others. Students attending the Washington, D.C., trip will tour the Pentagon. They’ll also have the chance to shadow Hillsdale alumni at the American Enterprise, Manhattan, and Charles Koch institutes, among other organizations. “If a student is looking to get outside their comfort zone, this would be a great trip for them to take,” Director of Student Activities Anthony Manno said. “Although we do have some structured programming, a large part of the trip is self-exploration.” Students interested should register on Handshake, career services’ online platform, by Friday for Washington, D.C., and Oct. 4 for Chicago.
Junior Brian Hall reads Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” to students at Eta Sigma Phi’s public reading Friday on the Quad. The event paid homage to the Greek tradition of performing “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” at festivals, the classical studies honorary’s president, senior Anne Begin, said. Nicole Ault | Collegian
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stantive message you’re trying to translate. I really view it as a journalistic endeavor. The main difference is that you have to do it in one concise window as opposed to a whole column. You want the point to be immediate, memorable. Ironically enough, I don’t like to draw that much. But, people have a short attention span, and the visual medium is something that the audience has always been drawn to, no pun intended. Cartoons are something that people will pay attention to. What is one of the major issues with political cartoons today? Political cartooning is an art of criticism. And I think we’re losing some of that. It seems like there are more guys who want to be funny and entertaining than being substantive and poignant. Political cartoons are rooted in journalism, and they need to be substantive. You try to find iconic images and things that people are familiar with because you’re trying to draw them into the process. One thing you want to do with political cartoons is that you want to be the catalyst for thought. A major problem with the democratic republic is that you rely on people to be informed, and I’m not so sure that America is as informed as it ought to be. Just look at our presidential candidates. Out of 320 million people is this really the best we could do?
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How has the Obama presidency affected your cartoons and editorials? It’s made life pretty easy. These days I think of myself as more of a glorified stenographer than a political cartoonist. You always want what’s best for the country, and this administration has not been that. The comics in my book are a critique of the Obama administration and the failure of these progressive policies. You could just as easily call this book a visual indictment of the Obama Administration or
an illustrated guide to impeachment. Do you see a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency bringing the same result? Either one of them will be writing my material for me. The choices in this election are very difficult. It comes down to what Donald Trump you believe in, the one of the progressive past or the one he is trying to sell today. Obviously, Hillary Clinton is a horrible choice for president, with numerous failed foreign policy measures behind her.
Cody Jessup ’16 and senior Daniel Halmrast stand with their posters explaining their research on pulsars at the International Pulsar Timing Array conference in South Africa. Timothy Dolch | Courtesy
Physics students present research in South Africa
By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College LAUREATES scholars presented their research before physicists from around the globe in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this summer. After receiving funds from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves because of their research, senior Daniel Halmrast and Cody Jessup ’16 presented their data on pulsar timing at the International Pulsar Timing Array conference that will be used in future projects. “We had a little freak out party for five minutes, and then we got serious because now we had an accelerated timeline,” Halmrast said when he learned about the trip. “I was working 10-12 hours a day, but I enjoyed every minute of it. It was a great sense of accomplishment, wrapping up six weeks of research into one poster.” Pulsars are remnants of exploded stars used to detect objects and activity in space from the interstellar medium, the matter between star systems, to merging galaxies. The students, both members of Hillsdale’s Laboratory for Advanced Undergraduate Research Education Adapted for Talented and Extraordinary Students Program, used the regularity of pulsars’ radio emissions to track anomalies in pulsar emissions caused by gravitational waves and the interstellar medium. Halmrast studied an eighthour recording of pulsar emissions, to set an upper limit on the strength of gravitational waves. Meanwhile, Jessup observed data collected from a giant tele-
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Michael Ramirez, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, is giving a speech entitled “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare” Thursday at 8 p.m. in Lane 125. Thomas Novelly | Collegian
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tournament,” senior Graham Deese said. The open debate is the “varsity” category, Graham Deese said. He received the first place speaker award and placed 10th overall. “All of our students won multiple rounds, even the debaters with no prior experience,” Deese said. “Natalie Van Handel, who had her first debate round only a week before the tournament, managed to have a winning record and advance to elimination rounds.” Handel had never participated in a debate before the event. She said she almost didn’t compete at all.
scope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. “James Bond” fans might recognize it from the movie “Goldeneye.” Jessup used the information to look for the scattering of pulsar emissions by the interstellar medium. After listening to a week of lectures, each student presented his poster to a room full of the world’s leading researchers. “I was very excited to give a presentation,” Jessup said. “You know if you make a mistake, they’re going to know. But that’s the point of the process — I’m a student trying to learn from the experts.” The IPTA conference met at a landmark time in radio astronomy, in a city 10 hours away from the construction of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch, who went with Halmrast and Jessup to South Africa, estimated the telescope will eclipse the 2,500 known pulsars by detecting 20,000 pulsars. “It’s game changing,” Dolch said. “More than 400 years ago, Galileo pointed a telescope at the night sky, and it was like getting a new pair of eyes. This telescope is like getting a new pair of eyes. It is the birth of a new area in astronomy where you can make a map of this invisible sky.” But in order to map these radio emissions, the conference is consolidating researchers’ data, including that from both Jessup’s and Halmrast’s presentations. “These are the people who write the textbooks on the subject, and that’s their audience,” Dolch said. “They both did really well. They were very confident, very clear. I was beaming.” “I was honestly so nervous about going to the tournament that I even considered backing out,” she said. “After competing at Western Kentucky this past weekend, I realized how much I love debate.” The team debates one topic each year. This season, the focus is “The United States federal Government should substantially reduce the role of the United States Southern Command in Latin America.” The team’s next competition is Oct. 1-2 at Lafayette College.
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