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Alumnus runs for second term Eric Leutheuser, Hillsdale graduate and area native, discusses the election on Nov. 8 in which he is running for his second term to state house. A7

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Defending Dylan Despite derision from The New York Times, Bob Dylan’s work and cultural influence earned him his Nobel Prize in Literature. B1

Cooking and canning to success Elaine and Edward Riopelle have canned fruits all their lives, and their canning business in Hillsdale is flourishing. B4

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Snyder visits Hillsdale to talk economic opportunities By | Philip H. DeVoe City News Editor

After labelling Hillsdale an at-risk community as part of his Rising Tide initiative in 2015, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder met with city and college officials Monday at the Mitchell Research Center to discuss issues holding Hillsdale back from greater economic prosperity and stability.

“It’s great to see the community together; the key is getting people to work together, and we had so many different elements of the community here today,” Snyder told The Collegian.

In the roundtable, led by Dominic Romano of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, members discussed four issues Hillsdale

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leaders identified as major ways to help the city. These included bringing people and businesses to Hillsdale, improving and expanding the workforce, solving the problem of unavailable housing, and improving public health and safety.

Chris Sumnar began by discussing how Hillsdale can accomplish coordinated placemaking, meaning building Hillsdale as a place for outsiders to visit and, eventually, stay.

He identified the strengths of Hillsdale as Hillsdale College, the Hillsdale Hospital, the recreation and school system, and downtown architecture.

“Some challenges…are communication between local government and the college, finding entrepreneurs who want to take risks on our downtown, and finding folks

who want to retire here,” Sumnar said.

Hillsdale College Chief Staff Officer Mike Harner said one struggle the college faces is finding hotels for parents visiting the college. He said he believes the development of new hotels and space for long-term visiting would help build and improve the downtown infrastructure.

Snyder told The Collegian he believes Hillsdale College is an important asset in helping the city become more attractive to outside entrepreneurs and visitors. He said since faculty and staff live in the community, it is an engine supportive of the economy and housing markets.

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Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, and Mayor Scott Sessions pose with a gift from Toasted Mud, after their meeting to discuss Hillsdale’s economy.

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‘But first, let me take a selfie’ Hillsdale alumni’s federal suit repeals Michigan ballot-photo ban By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief Michigan residents can now post “ballot selfies” to social media without fear of legal punishment, thanks to two Hillsdale alumni who won their case in front of a federal judge Monday.

“We’ve been working on this case since August,” Stephen Klein ’05 said. “It feels great to have this hard work pay off.

To win this case just two weeks away from Election Day is significant.”

Klein — an attorney for the Pillar of Law Institute in Washington, D.C. — represented plaintiff and fellow classmate Joel Crookston ’06. When Klein discovered Crookston had posted a photo of his ballot on Facebook in 2012, they teamed up in September to file a lawsuit against existing state laws and orders from Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, which outlawed “ballot selfies” — the practice of taking a picture of a marked ballot and sharing it on social media — citing that it was a restriction of free speech.

“A ballot selfie is an unequivocal statement of who you voted for, and it’s important to who you are, especially in this election,” Klein said. “This law is designed to hang above people with hefty punishments, but the Michigan secretary of state doesn’t have any desire to enforce it. We recognized that these rules were unconstitutional.”

U.S. District Judge Janet Neff approved Crookston and

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Klein’s request for a preliminary injunction on Monday, temporarily suspending the prior punishment of 90 days in jail, a $500 fine, and the forfeit of one’s vote for the race associated with the photo. In her decision approving the injunction, Neff said Klein and Crookston’s case was convincing and that the law restricting ballot selfies may be unconstitutional nationwide.

“The court determines that the parties presented sufficient documentary evidence upon which to base an informed — albeit preliminary — legal conclusion on these claims and that there is a substantial likelihood that the two state laws and corresponding rules are unconstitutional under the First Amendment,” Neff said.

Klein said Johnson and Attorney General Bill Schuette filed an emergency motion to delay the injunction with Neff and Magistrate Judge Ellen Carmody in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, shortly after Neff ruled in favor of Crookston

book, when he wrote in his friend and fellow class of 2006 Hillsdale graduate Michael Glund for Michigan State University trustee as a prank.

“The picture was a joke between friends,” Crookston said.

“Michael Glund always wanted to go into politics, so I wrote him in on the ballot.”

Crookston said Klein called him several years later and made him aware of the severe punishment he could have received when he posted the picture four years ago. Crookston said he was shocked.

“Steven called me four years later and told me it was illegal,” Crookston said. “I couldn’t believe it. After a while I was worried that the state would go after me. He then asked me if I was willing to go forward with the lawsuit, and I was totally on board because I thought it was a stupid, antiquated law.”

Crookston said he and Klein were old friends at Hillsdale, bonding together in Simpson Residence and later as members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity on campus. Klein

Attorney Stephen Klein ’05 used this “ballot selfie” that Joel Crookston ’06 posted to Facebook in 2012 in a lawsuit against a Michigan state laws that banned the practice. On Monday, a federal court ruled in favor of Klein and Crookston.

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and Klein.

Klein said Johnson claimed that the sudden change in the photography policy would be a logistical burden for poll workers throughout the state.

However, he said he is staying optimistic and pointed out that Neff filed a more-than-14-page opinion for the decision in favor of Crookston, dispelling the secretary of state’s concerns.

“While fully mindful of the importance of an orderly election and the amount of time left until the November 8, 2016, election, the court is nonetheless unpersuaded that the burden to Secretary Johnson is

a factor that tips the balance against issuance of the proposed preliminary injunction,” Neff said.

Crookston said Johnson will most likely take the case to the 6th District Circuit Court of Appeals to try to overturn it. If it fails, he said there is a chance she could take the challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Secretary Johnson is fighting this hard,” Crookston said.

“But the judge said that there was no merit for the emergency stop that they just filed, so the injunction will definitely stand through this election.”

In 2012, Crookston posted a picture of his ballot on Face-

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said he was looking for a way to challenge this ballot selfie ban and said Crookston’s case was a perfect example.

“Crookston’s lawsuit simply calls for recognition that the photography restrictions need to be narrower and not threaten people with jail time for photographing and publishing their own ballots,” Klein said of the case in September.

Crookston and Klein’s case is one of many ballot selfie-related incidents across the country.

On Tuesday, actor and singer Justin Timberlake returned to his residence in Nashville, Tennessee, to vote, and the Shelby County district attorney’s office threatened him with a lawsuit after posting a ballot selfie on Instagram.

Klein said the unnecessary bureaucratic backlash from Timberlake’s post points out why his case with Crookston is important.

“Do you think that the Tennessee government really believes that Justin Timberlake is a threat to democracy?” Klein said. “Of course not. He’s trying to celebrate his right to vote. He wants to celebrate democracy.”

Klein said he is glad that he was able to stand for the principles he learned as a student at Hillsdale in this case.

“If you told me 10 years ago that Joel Crookston and I were going to stick it to the man, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Klein said. “The best part is, we aren’t alone. There are a lot of Hillsdale kids out there that are standing out and standing up for freedom everyday. In times like this, it’s crucial.”

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No clowning around at By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter

Update eases off-campus JSTOR access By | Tim Pearce Assistant Editor

Hillsdale College’s Mossey Library is on the forefront of testing a new update to Sierra, the software responsible for the library’s catalog, circulation, and book ordering system.

While the Sierra 2.4 update mainly fixes bugs concerning background security issues, it also makes logging into databases like Google Scholar and JSTOR easier from off-campus.

Previously, those databases required additional authentication from students not connecting through campus Wi-Fi, even if they were already logged into their Mossey Library account. Sierra 2.4 removes this redundancy.

Technical service librarian Maurine McCourry said the library takes advantage of updates to Sierra as early as possible, even if that means using a beta version.

“We can provide better service by staying up on the latest version,” McCourry said.

Mossey’s small size allows it to adapt much faster than larger libraries, McCourry said.

Problems with updates are often small and involve specific reference materials. As long as staff are made aware of issues, they can usually manage any problems without much fuss, she said.

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More students living off campus than ever College looking to build new residence hall By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor There are more than 450 Hillsdale students living off campus this year — the most in the school’s history.

Some junior men said they are unsatisfied with housing options, after not receiving an assigned room on campus for the 2016-2017 academic year, making them find housing elsewhere. Although the Hillsdale College website’s residential life page says students are “guaranteed a room in a residence hall for all four years,” administrators said growing freshman classes and high retention rates have decreased the number of beds available to upperclassmen.

In 2006, there were 231 students living off campus. In the last decade, that figure has nearly doubled to 450.

“When we talk to students after graduation, they loved their experience in the dorms,” Dean of Women Diane Philipp said. “They loved getting to know people and build relationships. You can still do that off campus, but it’s a bit different.”

With just four men’s dorms on campus — Simpson, Galloway, and Niedfeldt residences and the Suites — upperclassman men have fewer options than the women, who can choose between nine. Dean

of Men Aaron Petersen said about one third of Hillsdale’s men traditionally live off campus, even if some of those men would prefer to live in a dorm.

“There are guys who don’t want to move off campus but know they have a duty to help make room,” Petersen said.

“They’d rather be on campus making relationships.”

Junior Brendan Noble said administrators notified him to find off-campus housing for the 2016-2017 school year in late June, after he didn’t receive a room assignment in Simpson.

“I was not encouraged or given a choice to move off campus,” Noble said. “I was angry. I loved living in Simpson, and I felt unfairly targeted considering how involved I had been in the dorm and had hoped to be a resident assistant for at least my senior year.”

In August, students and administrators who participated in the Student Leadership Workshop, a week-long course for campus leaders, brainstormed ideas for a new upperclassman dorm. Although plans are still under development, Philipp said the dorm would offer more rooms for upperclassmen. With Galloway as the next dorm on the college’s renovations docket, a new dorm could also help solve a displacement problem, as well, since Galloway, like Mauck Residence, will need

more than one semester to be updated.

Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the dorm would be built near Benzing Residence on college-owned land and be about the same size. The dorm would house around 60 students, offering at least single and double bedrooms and community-style bathrooms. Each bed would cost around $50,000-$52,000, amounting to an estimated $3.2 million total cost, Péwé said.

Still, Péwé said building the dorm remains hypothetical, and a timeline is far from finalized. The dorm would likely take eight to 10 months to construct.

“Galloway is probably okay for a couple of years,” Péwé said. “My guess is that we would start something in the fall of 2019, in a perfect world.

But we’ve been using surplus money for renovations, so it’s hard to say.”

Some students, however, said they would like to see the new building sooner rather than later.

“A new dorm is a necessity,” Noble said. “It doesn’t need to be large, but there needs to be the option for people to live on campus. I believe actually required things, like a new dorm, are being overlooked.”

Students now have access to more than 8,000 movies to stream online through a new database offered by Mossey Library.

Fifty hopeful lawyers-to-be are gathering this week to prepare for the first hurdle of their legal careers: the Law School Admissions Test.

Josiah Kollmeyer ’14, a third-year Harvard Law School student who earned a perfect 180 on the LSAT, is sharing his expertise to the next class of lawyers by teaching a threeday crash course Wednesday to Friday.

“I was blessed to do very well on the LSAT and would like to help other Hillsdalians conquer the test, as well,” Kollmeyer said.

Kollmeyer contacted Hillsdale College Professor of Religion and Philosophy Nathan Schlueter at the end of the summer, asking if Hillsdale students needed help with LSAT preparation. After working with the career services office and the provost’s office, Schlueter said he received the go-ahead to bring Kollmeyer to campus for a three-day instruction on the LSAT. Kollmeyer will focus on specific strategies for tackling all three sections of the LSAT: logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and reading comprehension.

“Next to getting a solid liberal arts education, LSAT prep is the most important thing you can do to prepare for law school,” Schlueter said. “We have been trying to figure out how to provide this to our students.”

Unlike other LSAT preparation seminars costing upward of $1,000, students can take this seminar free of charge, aside from the cost of study materials, Schlueter said.

Kollmeyer said he has found that the LSAT is a learnable test, which means that

Josiah Kollmeyer stands with President Larry Arnn at graduation in 2014. Kollmeyer returns to Hillsdale College this week to teach a crash course on the LSAT. Facebook

preparation can significantly improve scores. Therefore, he said he plans to focus on teaching exam strategies, including time management and the best methods for approaching each type of question.

“LSAT questions fall into predictable categories, the approaches to which can be mastered,” Kollmeyer said. “Armed with this knowledge, students will be able to make the best use of their preparation time.”

Junior Tara Ung said she decided to take the course because she plans to take the LSAT sometime next year and wasn’t sure how to start studying.

“I don’t really know what to expect,” Ung said. “I am definitely excited for the opportunity to pick the brain of someone who has done well on this exam and who probably has a different perspective on law school.”

This preparation, Kollmeyer said, will hopefully help more Hillsdale students fulfill their dream.

“We need more defenders of goodness, truth, and beauty in top-tier law schools,” he said.

Free education can’t beat Hillsdale Despite Clinton’s promises, students still choose the Dale By | Evan Carter Web Editor A majority of students would still have enrolled at Hillsdale College, even if offered free tuition at a public college or university in their home state, according to a recent Collegian survey.

Of 297 respondents 52 percent said they would still attend Hillsdale even if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved legislation offering free tuition to students for families making less than $125,000 by 2021.

Hillsdale has thrived without federal aid, but Provost David Whalen said if approved, Clinton’s plan could put the college under “increased pressure” to offer more financial aid to students. In the survey, 86 percent of students said money played a factor in their decision to enroll at Hillsdale.

Whalen said he doesn’t think a proposal like Clinton’s would put the college out of business and said many students are mainly interested in Hillsdale because of the classical liberal arts education it offers.

Although the proposed changes could force the college to run a tighter budget, Whalen said the changes could ultimately benefit Hillsdale.

Whalen said he thinks that free public higher education would cause public colleges and universities to become overwhelmed by an increased number of applicants, leading to relaxed educational standards to make sure their students don’t flunk. He said this could lead to a “precipitous” drop in the prestige of many public higher education institutions.

“In a weird, funny way, it would enhance a little bit the value of a Hillsdale degree.”

“The same downward pressure on public institutions to keep students and to pass them through would have a rebound effect on institutions that didn’t participate,” he said. “In a weird, funny way, it would enhance a little bit the value of a Hillsdale degree.”

Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said public col-

leges and universities may need to cut costs in key academic areas, in order to deal with enrollment increases. He said he also sees the changes affecting private colleges and universities that accept federal funding, as well.

“It may be that for kids currently going to Albion College on a Michigan Competitive Scholarship, which is funded through the federal rolls, their only choice is to go to a public university,” he said. “The strong private institutions will survive.”

While Clinton’s proposal would put pressure on Hillsdale to increase its financial aid offerings, Whalen said Hillsdale already subsidizes about 50 percent of its students’ tuition costs, even before they’re considered for financial aid.

Péwé called Hillsdale the best value for the quality of education it offers in the entire country.

Financial Aid Director Rich Moeggenberg agreed: “I think we’re in a position to weather these things more so than institutions that have sold their souls, that accept monies from the federal government.”

Library offers access to indie flicks By | Brendan Clarey Assistant Editor

Perfect LSAT alum returns to teach crash course By | Kristiana Mork Collegian Reporter

Zombie Run Despite initial plans to reinvent its end-of-October 3K race, Campus Rec isn’t having clowns chase runners at this year’s Zombie Run. Although the group considered changing the name to the Halloween Run in order to include more characters than zombies, like clowns, it rejected the idea because of concerns over them being seen as actual threats, Campus Rec Co-Director senior Matt Vanisacker said.

“We were drawing the line of being funny or serious with it,” Vanisacker said. “The fact that there have been clown sightings on campus meant that we didn’t have a specific way to control ‘Is this a Campus Rec clown, or is this a high schooler from the community?’ It was a close judgement call, but we’re going to stick with zombies.”

Earlier this month, clown sightings on Hillsdale’s campus led to multiple reports to the security office, after several clown-related incidents occurred in more than a dozen states in the U.S. Instead of changing the name of the run, Campus Rec opted to change its starting time. After listening to students’ responses to last year’s Zombie Run, it moved the start time from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., 12 minutes after sunset, Vanisacker said.

“We talked to people last year after the run, and they were like, ‘This is awesome, but it would be even more awesome if it were at night,’” Vanisacker said. “It really gives people the true effect. I think it will be a cool atmosphere. You may get some natural fog or something. We’ll see.”

The event will take place Saturday at 7 p.m. at Hayden Park.

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IndieFlix, a compilation of mainly independent films, offers students unique entertainment options digitally whenever they want and wherever they are, Technical Services Librarian LeAnne Rumler said.

“It’s very reasonably priced,” Rumler said. “It’s just different

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Students can access IndieFlix on the library’s website and in the student activities newsletter. For no charge, they can create their own account.

With a similar interface to Netflix, students can browse movies by film festival, including the Sundance and Chicago International Film festivals.

They can also sort flicks by genre, country of origin, language, and duration.

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Team 1181 — (back row) freshman Dan Henreckson, freshman Philip Bernston, freshman Erin Carroll, freshman Lucas O’Hanian, and senior Hannah Norman with (front row) junior Razi Lane, senior Gwen Hodge, junior Laurel Nitzel, and freshman Jennifer Sanclemente — stand with its trophy after Hillsdale College’s mock trial teams places first, second, and third at the Red Cedar Classic Invitational at Michigan State University Sunday.

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Mock trial takes 1st, 2nd, 4th at MSU Invite The performance of freshBy | Josh Lee Collegian Reporter

Hillsdale College’s mock trial teams dominated among some of the best competitors in the country Saturday and Sunday, sweeping three of the top four positions.

Hillsdale placed first, second, and fourth at the fourth annual Red Cedar Classic Invitational at Michigan State University. Hillsdale beat nationally acclaimed schools, including Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and others, providing hope for Hillsdale to qualify for nationals in the spring, team captain senior Jon Church said.

“This speaks very well for how we are growing as a program and for how we are preparing our teams for trials,” Church said.

Team 1181, captained by senior Hannah Norman and junior Laurel Nitzel, won with a 7-1 record. Team 1180 placed second with a score of 6-2, and Team 1411 also scored 6-2 for fourth. Indiana University snuck in at third.

Both Church and Norman won outstanding attorney awards. Senior Gwen Hodge also won an outstanding witness award for her role as a plaintiff for Team 1181.

men on the teams are particularly noteworthy, Church said.

“Team 1181’s win is especially impressive, due to the fact that two-thirds of the team are composed of freshman or new team members,” Church said.

Freshman Philip Berntson on Team 1181 said he was nervous to “square off ” against the experienced teams, but through practice he and his teammates all performed their roles well enough to win the tournament, he said.

“When the host announced that my team won, most of us didn’t know how to react,” Bernston said. “We ended up just screaming and hugging. I felt a huge confidence boost knowing that despite being a rookie team, we are capable of great things, if we only work together.”

Norman and Nitzel said they are proud of their young team.

“It was beautiful watching the freshmen’s joy and exuberance, as we heard our names called for first place,” Nitzel said. “Just having all three Hillsdale teams place was an awesome feeling. It brought recognition and respect to Hillsdale’s name and made us even more proud of our school.”

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Students learn the logistics business By | Josh Pradko Collegian Freelancer Inside a former storage closet in the Knorr Student Center, Mary Margaret Peter ’14 is working hard, having altered the space to accommodate her and three part-time interns.

She is working for Automated Logistics Systems, or ALS. The supply-chain management company began its relationship with Hillsdale College last year, when its vice president of business development — Paul McDonald, whose daughter attended the college — contacted the career services office about hiring December graduates.

After some interviews, however, ALS learned Hillsdale students didn’t fully understand its industry, Assistant Director of Career Services John Quint said. The company started a Hillsdale office to offer students the opportunity to learn.

“I had no idea what the logistics industry was,” Peter said of when she was first hired.

The former storage closet is a small branch of the transportation brokerage company.

ALS coordinates with both

(Above) A sign for Automated Logistics Systems sits outside the closet from which Inside Sales Executive Mary Margaret Peter ’14 and student interns work.

(Below) Junior Josh Cameon works at a desk for his internship with Automated Logistics Systems in the Knorr Student Center.

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customers and transportation companies to move goods and freight around the world.

Headquartered in Jackson, Michigan, ALS has branches in Laredo, Texas, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, as well.

Crediting her education in the liberal arts, Peter said she used her skills of problem solving, critical thinking, and writing to gain an understanding of the work so different from her exercise science major.

As an inside sales executive, she now oversees the three-session, year-round internship program. The program aims to teach students about sales, supply chain management, and logistics and provide an environment for students to apply those skills in a work setting, Peter said.

The sessions, which begin at the start of each semester, kick off with a one-week seminar in which students learn the particulars of the company itself, the supply chain industry, making sales within that industry, and other relevant skills. Summer interns work a full 40 hours per week, while fall and spring interns have a more flexible schedule. The students perform a variety of tasks, including making sales calls and compiling customer relationship information.

Intern junior Josh Cameon said he appreciates the opportunity to put his double major in economics and mathematics to use in tackling data projects, such as analyzing labor efficiency and preparing revenue reports.

“It ties in a lot of applied math in a business setting,” Cameon said.

Career services hopes to foster more of these close relationships with local employers in the future, Quint said.

“We’re all ears,” he said.

Student Fed passes eight amendments for campus vote By | Brooke Conrad Collegian Reporter Student Federation recently reviewed its constitution for the first time in 10 years, approving all eight of the Rules Committee’s proposed amendments Oct. 21.

The federation approved eight amendments, which serve mainly to clarify wording and issues concerning officer positions, almost all unanimously. The only amendment that significantly divided federation members was an amendment that would remove philanthropic activity from the federation’s responsibilities.

Students will have the chance to vote on the amendments Nov. 14-17.

Student Fed’s constitution states that the vice president must organize at least one philanthropic project per semester and hold at least one charity fundraiser per term.

An amendment would remove these requirements from the constitution, relieving the vice president from this responsibility.

Pi Beta Phi Rep. senior Lauren Renslow, who serves on the Rules Committee, said the federation’s current philanthropy funding poses two problems.

First, it isn’t the most efficient or practical way for students to receive capital to hold their own philanthropic events. Second, the federation’s philanthropic fundraising requires

the federation to ask for additional money from students, on top of student fees, she said.

After several minutes of debate, the federation approved the amendment 8-6 with one abstention. Several representatives expressed dissatisfaction with the decision.

“I think it sends a bad message to the student body, if we strike philanthropy from the constitution,” Student Fed Treasurer senior Christopher Pudenz said.

Independent Rep. junior Razi Lane agreed: “When we start to think that our spirit is no longer philanthropic and when we start to think that we can make our own judgments with respect to your money, as opposed to you coming to us and telling us what you want us to do with your money, I think that’s dangerous.”

Independent Rep. sophomore Ross Hatley, chairman of the Rules Committee, voted in favor of the change.

“The amendment imposes a required burden on Student Fed that has not been properly executed in the past,” he said.

“Nothing in the amendment will keep Student Fed from raising funds for philanthropy or dispersing funds that have been raised for philanthropic activity. All it does is it removes the requirement to perform those two activities each semester. That way it will be a matter of choice, a matter of principle, and a matter of tra-

dition.”

Several other representatives, including Independent Rep. sophomore Andres Torres, said they wished there would have been more discussion on the topic.

“We don’t want to violate students’ consciences,” Torres said. “The concern is that the federation might allocate money from the big pool of money that we get from student fees to a philanthropic event that some students may not approve of, whereas if the Student Federation Philanthropy Committee raises the money independently, then there’s no conflict of interests with the people we’re representing.”

Prior to the constitutional debates, the federation also heard from representatives of the Winona yearbook, faculty adviser Maria Servold and Editor-in-Chief junior Anna Eby. It approved their request for increased funding for the yearbook. Last year, Servold recommended that the federation cut yearbook funding from $2,900 to $1,500, but because the yearbook team doubled its staff since last year, she requested an additional $1,500.

Although Student Fed approved increased funding for Winona, the new constitutional amendments must receive a two-thirds vote from the student body, as well as approval from President Larry Arnn, before they can go into effect.

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Two more earthquakes shake Italy Two earthquakes shook central Italy within hours of each other Wednesday, with magnitudes of approximately 6.1 and 5.4. Several people were reportedly injured. The earthquakes struck about 50 miles from an August earthquake that killed nearly 300.

Clinton leads Trump by 8 percent in Michigan Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 8 percent of likely voters in a four-way race that includes Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, according to the latest Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell poll.

Assistant Professor of Math Mark Panaggio brings expertise in applied mathematics to Hillsdale College. Julie Havlak | Collegian

Panaggio strengthens mathematics department By | Julie Havlak Collegian reporter Mark Panaggio said he knows what it feels like to be a discouraged student. That feeling led him to become a teacher, he said.

Panaggio is a new assistant professor in Hillsdale College’s mathematics department this semester. His expertise in applied mathematics comes at a fortuitous time, as the department shifts its focus away from computer science, Associate Professor of Mathematics David Murphy said.

“We were fortunate to find him,” Murphy said. “In addition to being very good, he also contributes things to where we don’t already have a strength.

It provides an opportunity for growth.”

Senior Ian Gensler is taking Panaggio’s Mathematical Modeling course. Although the students in the class have struggled with programming models in the computer, Gensler said, Panaggio has made it a point to be there for his students.

“He’s done a really good job of catering to the class’s needs and handling all of the questions and discouraged students,” he said.

Sitting in one of his first graduate school classes at Northwestern University in Illinois, Panaggio said he felt a similar sense of discouragement.

“That was the moment

when I really realized that teachers make a big difference,” Panaggio said. “I realized that that’s something I want to do: to make that difference in student’s lives, to provide students with a chance to learn in an environment where a professor is enthusiastic about what he’s teaching.”

Panaggio’s enthusiasm for learning is likely unsurprising, given his background as a “missionary kid,” he said. At the age of 11, he moved from Michigan to San Jose, Costa Rica, for a year and then spent another four years in Lima, Peru. He knew little Spanish, before leaving for Central America.

“You learn quickly when you have no choice — trial by fire works,” Panaggio said.

“The thing about living overseas is you appreciate both how different cultures view the world differently but also how much we have in common. It broadens your perspective.”

Today, Panaggio said he enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee on the Quad, shooting hoops on the basketball court, and spending time with his wife and two children.

“I don’t think of myself as just a mathematician,” Panaggio said. “Math is used to help us understand ourselves — why do people behave the way that they do? The idea of making these connections is what excites me about math and is a big part of what Hillsdale College is about.”

News Editor Along with Twitter, Amazon, and Netflix, internet users had problems accessing the career services office’s online platform Friday, after the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks in history.

Students had trouble loading Handshake’s website — which uses Dyn, one of a few major domain name service companies, to connect users to its server — after junk data traffic overwhelmed Dyn’s infrastructure Friday.

“It was by no means specific to us,” Handshake Head of Business Jonathan Stull said.

“All we could do was let the career services and employers know about the situation.”

New World Hackers, a network of hackers against corruption, took credit for Friday’s three attacks. The first mostly affected users on the East Coast, while a second was successful at blocking users from accessing websites that use Dyn’s service internationally. Dyn was able to prevent a third attack.

Senior Larissa Clark, a student affairs mentor for career services, was unable to gain access to Handshake, when she was trying to register for career services’ Nov. 9 internship and job fair.

“It was important because I wanted to register early, which would get my resume to the employers coming sooner,” Clark said.

Clark was later able to log onto Handshake and register for the internship and job fair.

Stull said the attacks affected the website at varying times throughout the day. Users experienced problems first on the East Coast and later in other parts of the country. Stull said the site, however, still saw more than 50 percent of its usual Friday activity.

“It’s unfortunate that any of our students and users were affected,” Stull said. “Dyn and the government are looking into the infrastructure to better secure in the future.”

Friday’s attack only denied service to people attempting to use the site. The hack didn’t steal any private information, Executive Director of Career Services Ken Koopmans said.

“Handshake does a great job at keeping things secure,” Koopmans said.

Switchboard Operator Billie Jo Hardwood is moving her operations to the new contact center in Kendall Hall.

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Bookstore Operator to switch to Kendall gets techy By | Ramona Tausz Senior Writer Students and visitors strolling into Central Hall will soon no longer see the smiling greeting of Billie Jo Harwood behind the front desk.

Starting around Nov. 1, the college switchboard is leaving for the new contact center in the basement level of Kendall Hall. In the new facility, all of the college’s external communications — email, phone, and chat — will have a central location, and Harwood will have assistant switchboard operators.

“I’m excited for the change,” Harwood said. “But I will miss ‘my students’ — all those I speak to on a normal basis.”

The key difference regarding the switchboard, Director of the Contact Center John Papciak said, is that now students will also be working alongside Harwood as switchboard operators.

“Billie Jo will move over, and students will also help,” Papciak said. “There will be more hands on deck to help with those operations.”

In the future, the college plans for the contact center to publish a toll-free 800 number for the campus.

“The idea is to slowly inArby’s introduces venison to its menu Arby’s announced Tuesday that venison is coming to its menu in six states, including Michigan. The venison sandwich will be available from Oct. 31 to Nov. 28 in select restaurants located in Clio, Cedar Springs, Plainwell, and Birch Run.

tegrate multiple departments into the contact center,” said senior Luke Daigneault, a contact center employee. “The end goal is to basically have all the college departments on one phone number. Somebody calls it and can choose the department they want to call.”

Papciak said when people call the 800 number, they would hear a number of options and press a digit on their number pad to select where to be transferred. The changes, however, wouldn’t take place for at least a year’s time, he said.

“We have many phone lines at Hillsdale College that would need to be consolidated, but that is where we’re moving toward,” Papciak said.

Other future plans for the contact center include creating a live chat feature on the college’s website, Papciak said.

“We’re looking at being able to chat via text on our website with a prospective or a current student and then eventually down the road also maybe assisting marketing with social media endeavors, but that is very undefined at this point,” Papciak said.

The contact center is holding an open house for all of campus Thursday from 7-9 p.m. to celebrate its grand opening.

Iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ arrested in Pakistan The Afghan woman, whose green eyes were the highlight of an iconic National Geographic cover photo, was recently arrested. Sharbat Gula, also known as Sharbart Bibi, was arrested earlier this week for remaining in Pakistan illegally and forging documents.

By | Tim Pearce Assistant Editor Shoppers at the Hillsdale College Bookstore can now charge their phone, while making their purchases.

In August, the bookstore began selling phone chargers, speakers, and portable batteries from a new On Hand kiosk.

The kiosk also features complimentary phone chargers and shower speakers shoppers can use while browsing the aisles.

Bookstore supplies manager Lori Pietruszka said the kiosk benefits bookstore patrons and expands the shop’s technology product selection.

“We’ve always carried a little bit of that in our electronics aisle, but when I saw the kiosk, I thought it would be perfect for the students and whoever else that comes in here and needs to charge their phone,” Pietruszka said.

Pietruszka ordered the kiosk from a software and electronics vendor with whom the bookstore already does business.

Several people have bought items from the kiosk, Pietruszka said. She added that the bookstore has a 15 percent discount on any On Hand product through Friday.

Taylor Swift celebrates 10 years of music Monday marked 10 years since singer/songwriter Taylor Swift released her first self-titled album in 2006. On Saturday, Swift performed her only live performance at the Circut of The Americas race track in Austin, Texas, in front of more than 80,000 fans.

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Did you know there’s a class on “Conspiracies, Cryptids & Enigmas” this semester? Or that you can take a class titled “Beer: Science, Styles and Sampling?” This semester, consider taking a class you’re not obligated to take for your major.

It’s easy to get bogged down with core classes and major requirements, but taking classes outside your major such as “Beginning Scuba” can break up your schedule, giving your brain an opportunity to rest while you still receive a credit. Chances are, you’ll have a much easier time snagging an “A” in “Social Dance” than you will in your upper-level accounting class.

More importantly, learning about something new will pro-

vide you with a deeper understanding of the liberal arts and will contribute to your overall intelligence.

The purpose of a liberal education is not just to understand a little about a few things in order to excel in jeopardy and shine at cocktail parties.

Rather, it is to understand the complexity of the world by breaking it down into different pieces and understanding how those pieces are invariably unified.

A liberal education develops your mind in such a way that learning about something new not only expands your knowledge, but enhances it.

Taking classes outside your major enables your mind to understand the topics within your major from a new per-

spective.

Even from a practical standpoint, taking classes outside your major makes sense.

As full-time students, you can take up to 17 credits without having to pay additional fees.

You may as well use those prepaid credits to learn something new and put a few credits towards your graduation requirement. Plus, if you take these classes as an underclassman, they may prompt you to change your major or add a minor.

Listing coursework outside your major can bulk up your resume and add more context to your interests. A 2012 Forbes article recommends it, especially if it applies to your future career plans or if it could be considered work ex-

the Oval Office.

If that polling is anywhere close to accurate, the American people must be treating their votes as a chance to block one of these two deplorable candidates.

On the other hand, McMullin offers voters a chance to vote for thoughtful policy proposals firmly rooted in a conservative political philosophy.

“Our basic rights are Godgiven,” McMullin said at an early campaign rally. “Every American is created equal and has the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The fundamental purpose of government is to secure, not define, these rights for every member of our diverse society.”

From this fundamental principle, McMullin has built a platform that resembles the draft platform proposed

by Hillsdale’s own president Larry Arnn and rejected by the Republican National Committee. By promising to rein in the administrative state, secure America’s leading role in foreign affairs, and promote free enterprise both at home and in the international arena, McMullin is promising to restore government of, by, and for the people.

McMullin’s principled approach to policy also offers conservatives a chance to preserve the honor of their movement. By building his campaign around the essential American principle that “all men are created equal,” McMullin

shows conservatives the way to avoid allegations of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia that have plagued the Trump campaign.

Trump’s divisive rhetoric not only undermines his support among growing voter demographics, it also distracts from his alleged pro-life stances on social issues. McMullin, in contrast, frequently talks about the inherent dignity of every human being. Far from pushing away minority voters, McMullin’s rhetoric about common goods, natural rights, and the value of human life is precisely what conservatives need to employ to persuade growing blocs of voters to vote for a pro-life, conservative agenda.

Regardless of whether conservatives stick with the Republican Party or try to build a new party to fight for constitutional liberty, voting for McMullin sends a signal to the political elite that conservatives are tired of the dishonor of business-as-usual.

By any estimation, the United States is fast approaching a time of crisis.Terrorist groups and hostile regimes are on the march once again overseas. The national debt has skyrocketed past $19 trillion. 54 million babies have been aborted since the Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade in 1973. Out-of-control federal agencies subvert the checks and balances that once defined our republic. Zealous social justice warriors attempt to use the

perience. You may also meet new professors — who might prove to be invaluable connections in finding a job or serving as a mentor — or new students, with whom you could become good friends.

If you take a class in which you learn a skill, then you can use that skill for the rest of your life. For instance, if you take a private cello lesson and decide to continue playing after graduation, then by the time you’re 50 you will have been playing for about 30 years.

This is most likely the only time in your life that you will have this opportunity. Embrace it.

Evan McMullin is our only hope

Gary Johnson is not a libertarian, but Darrell Castle is

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By | Michael Lucchese Columnist This election is a binary choice.

American voters can choose between honor and dishonor.

They can choose liberty or tyranny. They can vote for major party demagogues, or they can vote for a serious candidate — Independent, Evan McMullin.

McMullin, an ex-CIA operative and former policy director for the House Republican Conference, announced his long shot bid for the presidency in early August, after conservatives with higher name-recognition turned down pleas to enter the race.

In an interview with NPR, McMullin explained his motivations for entering the race by saying, “Seeing that no one else would get into the race to offer the American people a better choice, I decided to get in and try to do just that.”

And a better choice is exactly what the American people need.

According to RealClearPolitics averages, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is viewed unfavorably by about 53 percent of Americans, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is viewed unfavorably by a whopping 60.4 percent of Americans. And the people have good reason to be dissatisfied with the choice between these candidates — based on their records and public statements, neither Clinton nor Trump are suited for the responsibilities of

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By | Joshua Paladino Assistant Opinions Editor As Libertarian Party want to protest against the presidential nominee Gary two major-party candidates, Johnson slips in the polls, then they should do so in a libertarians need a new manner consistent with their option for president. principles.

At the beginning of In an interview with September, Johnson polled Liberty Hangout in August, about 10 percent nationally Castle said, “I am more but he has slid down to libertarian than the two 5.8 percent, according candidates of the Libertarian to RealClearPolitics. Party.”

Libertarians should have He's right. been willing to compromise Castle was an original and support Johnson, but founder of the Constitution now that he cannot win Party (called the U.S. libertarians should support Taxpayers Party on the the Constitution Party’s Michigan ballot). He served presidential nominee, as a Marine in the Vietnam Darrell Castle.

War, and is currently a lawyer Johnson never represented in Memphis, Tennessee. a philosophically consistent Although Castle is a approach to libertarianism. libertarian, he says that He has described following the Constitution libertarianism as “fiscally comes before a political conservative and socially do philosophy. Because of this, whatever the hell you want to he can unite libertarians and do.” This immature approach conservatives. misinforms the public about Castle’s platform includes the foundational principle of five main issues: adherence to the philosophy — the non- the Constitution, withdrawal aggression axiom — and will from the United Nations, hurt the Libertarian Party in abolition of the Federal the long run.

Reserve, protection of private When former Libertarian property, and protection Presidential nominee of unborn children from Ron Paul was asked if he conception. would support Johnson, he Abolition of the Federal replied, “Well, if he were a Reserve, a policy Johnson libertarian, a true libertarian, has barely discussed, is of and promoted the nonthe utmost importance to aggression principle...I’d libertarians. A 2012 study consider it.”

Johnson’s social policies by the Cato Institute found have always been inconsistent that the Federal Reserve with libertarianism. His "has allowed the purchasing views on abortion, religious power of the U.S. dollar...to liberty, and drug legalization fall dramatically.”

Paul grew his presidential are founded more in social campaign based on liberalism than social opposition to the Federal libertarianism. This is why he supports funding for Reserve. Johnson has failed Planned Parenthood and to oppose the Federal forcing religious people Reserve with the same fervor, to violate their conscience but Castle is continuing the Johnson said, “I support fight for libertarians.

Castle wants to drastically women’s right to choose up reduce the role of the until viability of the fetus.” federal government.

From Most libertarians only advocate funding for the basic phasing out Social Security functions of government: the to eliminating nearly every police, courts, and military. executive department.

“What I propose is a No true libertarian promotes state-sponsored murder or complete turning upside down of the system,” Castle forced association.

Johnson supports the said.

In last week’s Collegian legalization of marijuana — but only marijuana. presidential poll, 20 percent students supported Libertarians are opposed of to the criminalization of all Johnson and only 2 percent non-violent activities, which supported Castle. If your means they support the support for Johnson is simply to protest the Democratic legalization of all drugs.

If Johnson could win and Republican parties, then the presidency, then he switch your vote to Castle who might be worth a vote, but stands for libertarianism and he can't. And if you live in constitutional government.

New Mexico he may still be Mr. Paladino is a junior worth a vote because he has a studying politics and chance to win the state.

But if libertarians simply economics.

power of government to further their ideological ends. And, as if all that wasn’t enough, the American people are perhaps more polarized today than they have been at any time since the Civil War. The country needs serious statesmanship to navigate the treacherous waters ahead. The business-as-usual politicking of the RNC and the Democratic Party gave the American people candidates utterly incapable of uniting the nation around the solutions necessary to fix its problems.

McMullin may not be the statesman for our times, either.

But, he is a good man trying to do the right thing for the right reasons. And that’s far closer to what the American people need than what George Washington called the “frightful despotism” of “the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by a spirit of revenge.”

A vote for either Clinton or Trump is a vote to send an incredibly unqualified, petty, and selfish demagogue to the White House. This country does not have to endure such dishonor.

Instead, voters ought to consider casting their ballot for common decency, sound policy, and the American tradition of ordered liberty and self-government.

Voters should consider voting for Evan McMullin.

Mr. Lucchese is a junior studying politics and journalism.

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Talk money to me: It’s time you learned the wonders of budgeting apps By | Kate Patrick Financial Columnist If you’re like me, you’ve probably opened a blank Excel spreadsheet dozens of times to try — and fail — to make your own personal budget. Some are quite successful using Excel for their budgeting uses, but others are not (i.e., me).

Enter technology and a slew of budgeting apps all marketed to people like you and me, who may or may not have a clue what we’re doing when we try to make our own budgets.

Unfortunately, navigating the world of financial apps can be extremely confusing — that’s why I’ve done the work for you.

The first thing you need to know is that there are two types of budgeting apps: apps that show you where your money is going, such as Mint, Pocketguard, and Wally, and apps that force you to account for every dollar you earn and spend, like You Need A Budget, Every Dollar, GoodBudget, and Mvelopes. Which app you choose depends largely on your goals: if you just want to know how much you’re spending on entertainment or transportation per month, then using an app like Mint might be a good idea. But if you want

to create a budget and decide where your money goes every month, then you need an app like Every Dollar, You Need A Budget, or GoodBudget.

Mint gives you a diagram of where you’re spending all of your dollars. It syncs to your bank account and credit cards so that when you spend $20 on groceries, that $20 shows up in the Groceries Category in the Mint app. When you open Mint every day, it shows you where you’re spending your money and how much of it is going into categories like Entertainment, Dining Out, Student Loan Payments, etc.

While this tool is free and may be useful, Mint doesn’t actually force you to make a budget. It just provides a snapshot of your spending.

Some people are naturally more fiscally responsible than others, so maybe glancing at the big picture of their purchases is all they need to stay on track with their financial goals.

But for the vast majority of us, assuming complete control of our money is the only way for us to learn to be responsible with it.

When I was deciding which budgeting app to use, I ended up choosing You Need a Budget, and here’s why: YNAB

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syncs to my multiple checking accounts and then forces me to, in the app creator’s own words, “give every dollar a job.”

The app itself can be used on your laptop or on your phone

and syncs to your checking and savings accounts and credit cards. It’s your job then to assign each dollar you own to a category. Unlike Mint, YNAB doesn’t log your transactions for you, so when you spend

Groceries category are left to spend for the month. That way you can keep track of all spending and saving, and plan for big purchases or loan payments.

Even though YNAB costs $50/year for me to use, the app has enabled me to save money for trips to Nashville and New York, to plan for rent payments and my phone bill, and also pay off my credit card debt at the end of every month.

If you don’t like the sound of using Mint or YNAB, do not fear: personal finance has exploded in the app world, so there are literally dozens of other apps to match your financial needs and preferences. Some are free, and some are available for a subscription fee or one-time payment. Just remember: using an app is incredibly useful tool to help you take control of your money, but apps like Mint and Wally aren’t going to budget for you, they’re only going to show you where your money is going. If you’re serious about $20 on groceries, you have to setting up a personal budget manually enter that data and and sticking to it, then you’re better off investing in an app YNAB automatically subtracts like YNAB or Every Dollar. it from your Groceries category. Then the app shows Patrick is a senior studying you how many dollars in the history and journalism.

Letter to the Editor

Hillsdale’s administrators should not endorse Trump Dear Editor, As the Collegian recently reported, Dr. Arnn and several Hillsdale College faculty lent their public support to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. They continue to do this despite reports of Trump’s repugnant sexual remarks and alleged actions toward many women.

I believe this reflects poorly on the college.

While I understand that the views of administrators do not represent the entire faculty or amount to an official endorsement from the college as an institution, the inclusion of the school’s president among these endorsers attaches the Hillsdale name and reputation to Donald Trump. Dr. Arnn is

the public face of the school, appearing in video and radio ads and promotions. Fairly or not, his words affect the perception of this institution.

More than the endorsement itself, Dr. Arnn’s defense of Trump against indictments of his character is disturbing.

According to the Collegian, when asked how he would react if a student made remarks similar to Trump’s, Arnn responded, “I would regret it. If, however, one of our students becomes a real estate billionaire, I will be happy for us all. I do not dislike everything about Trump's private life, just some things.”

Am I to understand that, in Arnn’s view, becoming a rich businessman is a counterpoint to bragging about sexual

assault?

Perhaps I am misreading his statement or missing important context, but the idea that material success and moral depravity should be weighed on the same scale is heinous.

This defense is particularly offensive in light of Hillsdale’s stated mission and principles.

Hillsdale College’s mission statement claims that it “maintains ‘by precept and example’ the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.” Hillsdale’s Honor Code binds students to be “honorable in conduct, honest in word and deed, dutiful in study and service, and respectful of the rights of others.” Hillsdale’s motto invokes virtue and the struggle to achieve it.

I do not understand how men claiming to espouse these principles can endorse and defend a politician so devoid of any of them.

Under the tutelage of this school’s faculty, I cultivated a desire to pursue the higher things to value wisdom over status, and to hold personal character paramount. When, as an alumnus, I see members of that same faculty make political statements that fly in the face of these, it disappoints me.

The Hillsdale I see represented by Dr. Arnn and these faculty is not the Hillsdale I know and love.

Sincerely, Isaac Morrison, '14

Move over Detroit auto, it’s time to give Tesla a seat at the table

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Tesla’s competition makes the By | Grace Houghton Big Three look suspiciously Special to The Collegian defensive.

Embracing the competition from Tesla You don’t see many electric cars in Hillsdale, and thanks to offers tons of opportunities Michigan politics, that won’t to Michiganders. Not only does increased competition change anytime soon. motivate suppliers to improve This September, Michigan products and attract buyers, officials confirmed the 2014 bill but expanding production of blocking Tesla, the electric car electric vehicles bolsters job and manufacturer, from opening innovation opportunities. The company-owned dealerships relative novelty of electric cars is in Michigan. This bill, which an opportunity for creativity and passed through the Michigan specialization, not suspicion.

Senate and House in a single Michigan’s law against Tesla day, supposedly protects the car- doesn’t look like fatherly buying public from predatory concern. It looks like the Big companies, upholds interests Three feel threatened and may of the Detroit-based Big Three be stuck in the technological (General Motors, Ford, and mud.

Chrysler) and dealership Electric cars are relatively owners. “We think the law today new compared to gasoline cars, suffices,” said Terry Burns, and possibly less familiar. The executive vice president of the most popular non-combustion Michigan Automobile Dealers car, the Toyota Prius, actually Association, referring to the uses a hybrid of gas and battery recently confirmed law against technologies. Tesla’s cars are company-owned dealerships. fully electric, the kind you “It works for the manufacturers. literally plug and charge with a It works for consumers.” giant extension cord.

The decision about which A car with a cord sounds alien, products are available and who’s but Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk sets protecting consumers should an optimistic tone. The point of not be up to the Big Three or the founding Tesla, as he wrote this Michigan Automobile Dealers summer on the Tesla blog, “was, Association. Michigan should and remains, accelerating the stop playing favorites and let advent of sustainable energy, so Tesla compete. that we can imagine far into the While each branch of the Big future.” The company aims to Three offers a plug-in hybrid sell 50,000 vehicles by the end of model — none of which are this year, ambitiously shooting offering much competition for 500,000 vehicles sold in to Tesla — shying away from 2018.

Elon’s optimism is, for once, proving well-founded. Earlier this month, Tesla shares rose 4.6 percent, resulting from a dramatic increase in sales (70 percent) from last quarter. In addition, Tesla’s new electric sedan leads Chevrolet’s electric offering, the Volt, in sales by 5,000 vehicles — even though the Tesla costs twice as much.

Interest in electric cars is picking up speed.

Why doesn’t Michigan capitalize on this interest?

Existing dealerships, whether franchised or not, are unfamiliar not only with Tesla’s product, but with electric cars in general.

Allowing Tesla to manage its own dealerships encourages Detroit manufacturers as well as Tesla to do what each does best—unless Detroit becomes more aggressive in the electric car market.

Let’s assume minimal political machinations in the existing automotive world, and say that the Big Three are merely skeptical about the success of electric cars. In that case, they have nothing to lose if Tesla nosedives, and they would get to rejoice in their prediction if it does. On the other hand, if electric cars take off, Detroit’s existing electric models stand to benefit.

More importantly, the refusal of Tesla’s dealership request denies Michiganders a viable product. If government is truly so concerned that consumers

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will be ripped off while buying directly from Tesla, their ban on Tesla is unreasonable; the self-interest of buyers will protect them more effectively than a bill.

Similarly, if Tesla’s direct business strategy backfires, that’s Tesla’s problem. Also, as of last year, Ford sold more than 2.6 million vehicles, making it America’s best selling brand for the sixth straight year. That’s 52 times as many as Tesla currently aims to sell this year. These numbers hardly compare.

Michigan’s flat refusal of Tesla’s dealership request plays to the interests of the Big Three and the dealership owners, completely overlooking the people’s choice.

Allowing Tesla to compete in the electric car market, bringing an increasingly popular and polished product to consumers, is in the best interests of the people of Michigan. Tesla’s attempted move into established combustion territory signals the potential of electric cars— potential that already-existing manufactures need to seize.

Michigan legislature is stifling innovation and consumer choice due to political fear.

Just because it works for the manufacturers does not mean it works for the consumers.

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By | Nathanael Meadowcroft music reminds me that the holiday is about much more.

Senior writer Commercials shouldn’t define when Christmas It’s not even November, season begins. Neither Thanksgiving, but I’m already listening to should a holiday that is only Christmas music.

Yes, Thanksgiving is still a celebrated by 4.4 percent month away, and according of the world. But while you to societal norms I ought to should always keep the spirit wait until after the American- of Christmas in your heart, only holiday to delight my that doesn’t mean you should ears with Christmas cheer. keep Christmas music on a But one month out of 12 24/7 loop 365 days per year.

Think of Christmas is not enough time to fully enjoy the most wonderful music as a delicious fivecourse dinner. If you eat too time of the year.

I don’t need to describe much soup and salad at the the joys of Christmas music. beginning of the meal, you You probably love it just as won’t be able to enjoy the much as I do, but for some entree and dessert as much reason you wait to turn it on at the end of the meal. In until Black Friday—the day the same way, if you listen that epitomizes everything to Christmas music in July it wrong with how we celebrate certainly won’t feel as special in December.

Christmas.

I begin listening to I’ve already seen Christmas related commercials on TV. Christmas music in late For two months our senses October or early November. are bombarded with catchy The music I listen to isn’t jingles and corporations limited to Christmas music telling us Christmas is about because holiday music can lose its charm after weeks of consumerism.

I need Christmas listening to the same songs.

Variety is important, music the minute I see a holiday-themed ad. These in both genre and subject commercials sum up what matter. I love Christmas the holiday means to our carols. Bing Crosby’s “White culture in neat and tidy Christmas” is a classic. And 30-second clips—stuff and I enjoy the catchy melodies lots of it will make you happy in Pentatonix’s Christmas albums. on the morning of Dec. 25.

All remind me of the Christmas music reminds us of the real reason we reasons Christmas should celebrate the holiday. be celebrated. All serve as Christmas carols joyfully a haven from the stresses describe the advent of the of the fast-approaching Son of God into the world. end of the semester. While Even non-religious holiday Christmas music can be music speaks of the joys of over-consumed, it cannot be being with family and loved enjoyed to its fullest in just ones. Together, these songs 30-some days.

So please don’t be a grinch tell us the love of God and family will bring comfort and and tell me to turn off Christmas music for another joy on Christmas morning.

These clashing themes month. cannot coexist. When I see a Christmas commercial Mr. Meadowcroft is a senior tempting me with the allure studying mathematics and of possessions, Christmas journalism.

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Monument honoring Ladies of Hillsdale installed at Oak Grove Cemetery By | Josephine von Dohlen Collegian Reporter

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Hillsdale struggles to compete with rising wages By | Kate Patrick Associate Editor

Sheri Ingles has driven 70 miles round trip every day for the last 16 years to her human resources job in Jackson County because Hillsdale jobs don’t pay enough for her position.

She’s lived in Hillsdale County for 35 years, but when the auto industry began to decline in the late 90s, Ingles started looking for a position outside Hillsdale County.

That’s when she took a job as a human resources director with TNG, a magazine distributing company in Jackson in 2000.

“When I decided to change jobs, I looked at a lot of places — Bryon, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana — including Hillsdale,” Ingles said. “But the salary for my type of position wasn’t in Hillsdale County.”

Ever since the decline of the auto industry, Hillsdale County has struggled to replace its biggest job supplier with a diversified job market. Hillsdale is still a manufacturing county, but it’s struggling to maintain a manufacturing presence because it is so far from major highways and airports.

The June 2016 wage and benefits survey, conducted by Six Feet Solutions, LLC and the Hillsdale County Economic Development Partnership, analyzed Michigan’s Branch, Hillsdale, Jackson, and Lenawee counties — along with Steuben County, Indiana — and reported that 72 percent of the economic activity in these

counties is in the manufacturing industry.

Hillsdale County was the biggest participant in the study, contributing 53 percent of the responses.

According to the survey, the average salary for a human resources manager from one of these counties is $70,354.

According to the Michigan Department of Technology’s Management and Budget branch, however, the average salary for a human resouces manager in the state of Michigan is $102,070. That puts Hillsdale and the other counties reviewed by the survey in the 25th percentile.

“I’ve continued to watch the human resources job market in Hillsdale and the benefits are the same across the board, but isn’t anywhere near Jackson County in terms of compensation,” Ingles said.

Sue Smith, the executive director of the HCEDP, played a key role in distributing the survey to local businesses and confirmed that Hillsdale County is not as competitive with wages.

“We have a lower wage scale and a lower standard of living, though, so it’s all relative,” Smith said.

As technology advances and continues to shake up the manufacturing industries, the skills required for those industries are “changing at a very rapid pace and they’re always competing,” Smith said.

Only four businesses in Hillsdale County have ex-

panded since 2011: Martinrea Jonesville LLC; NEX Solutions; Nyloncraft, Inc.; and Bob Evans Farms. Three of those businesses are in manufacturing, according to data provided by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

The wage and benefits survey reported that the average salary for an electrical engineer in the manufacturing industry is $67,666, but MDOT reported that the average salary across the state for this position is $87,640.

Councilman Adam Stockford said he thinks wages shouldn’t be as low as the survey indicates, and businesses should be paying higher wages. The fact that someone like Ingles drives to Jackson for better compensation proves that Hillsdale needs to step up its game.

“We’re behind in everything,” Stockford said. “If you can make $8 more per hour by driving 45 minutes away, anyone will take that up.”

But the HCEDP released some data at its annual dinner Monday that suggest Hillsdale County is moving in a positive direction. Smith, who presided at the dinner, said a total of 435 jobs have been created over the past three years.

“There’s a limited number of industrial jobs so everyone’s vying for those jobs,” Smith told the Collegian. “My job is to attract as many of the higher skilled jobs as possible and that should raise the overall income for the county.”

Payroll has increased by $11 million across the country in the past three years, and the average Hillsdale County home sale has increased from $86,462 in 2013 to $112,725 this year. That statistic shows that county residents now have more money to spend on a home, suggesting that salaries may be on the rise.

“We’re a small community and we’re growing,” Smith said. “We’re moving very well in the right direction.”

Ingles said she thinks Hillsdale County will continue to struggle if it tries to keep up with the manufacturing industries because the required skills are constantly changing and because Hillsdale’s location is so remote. She believes the county will grow once it moves away from manufacturing and invests in other options, such as technology, service, recreational, and tourism-related industries.

“The growth for Hillsdale in a manufacturing environment is going to be limited,” Ingles said.

Until there’s more substantial growth in Hillsdale, Ingles will continue to drive almost an hour to Jackson every morning and back every evening to her home on Vine Street. She loves Hillsdale, but she also wants the best-paying job for her position.

“Hillsdale is a beautiful county, and we have lots of really beautiful areas,” Ingles said. “But we need to capitalize on what we have.”

A monument built in honor of The Ladies of Hillsdale was completed at the Oak Grove Cemetery this month.

After designing a plan for the monument, Carol Lackey, a lifelong Hillsdale resident, presented her idea to the cemetery board this past Feb. The Hillsdale city council then approved her plans for the monument, located near the former fountain and windmill at the center of the cemetery grounds.

The remains for the monument originated from the stone archway at the entrance to the cemetery, which was donated by the ladies of Oak Grove Cemetery Association in 1870. The Ladies of Hillsdale formed in an effort to care for the cemetery after upkeep was neglected during the Civil War. Through their hard work, they were able to fund the archway by selling goods at the Hillsdale County Fair. It stood until 1960, when it was taken down due to safety concerns.

In conjunction with both the Hillsdale Historical Society Board and the Oak Grove Cemetery Association, the building of the monument itself came together through the generosity of many in the community. James O. Taylor, a former Historical Society Member, left funds for the cemetery upon his death, which were used to assist in the completion of the memorial.

Lackey came across the idea for a memorial monument back in 2013.

As a member of both the Hillsdale Historical Society Board and the Oak Grove Cemetery Association, she dedicated her life to the preservation and research of many parts of historic Hillsdale through her volunteer work at

the Mitchell Research Library.

“Out at the cemetery one day and back behind the potter’s field, I was looking around and found some stones,” Lackey said.

These stones she discovered to be pieces from the original 1870 archway that sat at the old entrance to the cemetery on Montgomery Street. She was able to preserve the pieces from when she first found them, to this year, when the monument was built.

Three of the original stones were used in the monument: one reading, “Erected by the Ladies of Hillsdale,” the 1870 headstone, and the original keystone.

“I think it’s nice that they were able to do something with some of those old stones to show off the work that was put in before when the arch was built back in the 1870s,” Frank Engle, sexton of Oak Grove Cemetery, said.

Jason Blake, foreman of the Department of Public Services, sees the monument as a symbol that brings back some of the history to the cemetery that was lost for the past 60 years, he said.

Blake and his crew contributed to the monument by excavating the area and assisting with the foundation structure.

A grand dedication will be organized for Spring 2017, where they hope to have a Civil War reenactment to focus on the people of the era that greatly influenced the city of Hillsdale, Lackey said.

Today, the memorial is surrounded by stone benches for the rest and relaxation of cemetery visitors who come to enjoy the beauty found in this secluded corner of Hillsdale.

“At one time they held local picnics at the circle,” Lackey said. “I enjoy going to the cemetery and thinking about the history of the community.”

Leutheuser to seek second term and promote Farmer’s Almanac predicts frigid winter, family, church, community heard from a mentor of his By | Katie Scheu college days, Leutheuser said residents prepare Assistant Editor he decided to run for office beBy | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter Hillsdale residents should prepare for a winter laden with more snow and sub-zero temperatures than usual, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac’s prediction.

A colder winter could adversely affect Hillsdale’s farming industry by increasing farmers’ risk of losing crops.

“When you plant in the spring, sometimes it’s really good, and other times the ground is still frozen,” Hillsdale farmer Glenn Frobel said.

“You’ve got to trust it. It’s like a science for people who don’t know anything about science.”

Frobel said he has trusted the Almanac’s predictions since he was 12 years old. The Almanac, however, isn’t the only source predicting a cold winter, according to Frobel.

Another telltale sign of an approaching harsh winter is the behavior of his animals, Frobel said.

“My chickens have gone into a feeding frenzy, and usually that means they’re storing up. The hawks are a little early to move, but they’re starting to cattle up and migrate. Even the hummingbirds have left a little early,” Frobel said. “It’s going to be cold and snowy.

The animals are on a different page because they have to live in it.”

Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, is also predicting a cold winter for Michigan. According to Cohen, a thicker Siberian snowpack is expected to weaken the polar vortex. A weaker polar vortex will then draw cold air down from the arctic and into the U.S. instead of flooding the country with warm air from the Pacific Ocean. If so, the influx of colder air could drive winter temperatures down.

“We are predicting colder-than-normal temperatures,” Cohen said. “It takes a unique situation to get a cold winter. If anybody’s predicting a cold winter, it’s going out a bit on a limb, but that’s what I see so far.”

If Cohen’s predictions are accurate, farmers will have to cope with a harsher winter, which could mean trouble for crops. Although a long winter is not adverse to most crops, extreme cold can kill several trees and fruit crops, according to Hillsdale farmer Burnell Pickell.

“Depending on how cold it is, we might not have a crop.

Last year was easy, but this year, who knows?” Tom Kolasa, manager at K’s Orchid, said. “It makes a difference on how tough the springs are. If they are cool, damp, and the bees don’t come out and pollinate, all bets are gone.”

For dairy farmer Ali Ferry, a colder winter will add an extra layer of work to the maintenance of the farm.

“It’s hard on the animals.

It’s hard on the employees.

They’re out in it a lot, and so are we,” Ferry said. “You can imagine what it’s like, when it’s cold and windy and snowy and you are in it for extended periods of time every day.”

Whether the Almanac’s prediction is accurate or not, it will not decide how most farmers prepare for winter, said Kim Kerr, the south regional representative of the Michigan Farm Bureau.

“Agriculture is different from other industries—it is very much impacted by the weather, and we want to be able to minimize that risk.

There are some million dollar decisions that are made on putting in a crop and harvesting a crop,” Kerr said. “There are a lot of farmers that look at the Almanac, but do they rely on it? No.”

When Republican Rep. Eric Leutheuser talks political philosophy, he uses a trinity of institutions as his guiding principles in Michigan’s House of Representatives.

“Family, church, and local community support American civil life when they are successful,” Leutheuser said.

“When those institutions are under attack, our society wobbles. Local communities are weakened all the time when federal and state institutions take more and more control.”

On Nov. 8, Leutheuser will seek a second term as the state representative for District 58, which includes Hillsdale and Branch County. He faces Democrat Mary Hamaty.

A native Michigander, Leutheuser grew up in Hillsdale before graduating from Hillsdale College in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He married a fellow graduate, the daughter of now retired Hillsdale Professor of History John Willson, and raised three daughters, who all attended Hillsdale Academy and Hillsdale College.

His ties to the area he represents aren’t simply personal, though — Leutheuser recently sold the family-owned car dealership, Leutheuser Motors, Inc., he worked at for 30 years.

“Having a job day in and day out where I got together with people, listened, and tried to be helpful was great training for my job as a representative,” Leutheuser said.

After following his father into business, Leutheuser also took cues from his family when he made the decision to dive into the world of local politics. His grandfather, a first-generation German immigrant, served as postmaster in Somerset, Michigan, and his father, Paul Leutheuser, served as a two-time mayor of Hillsdale in 1966 and 1967.

Recalling a slogan he’d

cause his time to learn and his time to earn had passed, and he knew it was time to serve.

In 2014, Leutheuser won a spot in the House with 71.5 percent of votes against Democrat Amaryllis Thomas.

“I probably won because my dad was a good dealer and treated people well,” Leutheuser said. “People looked at the list and said ‘yeah I trust him, he’s a good businessman.’”

During his 2014 campaign, Leutheuser expanded upon his well-established name, knocking on doors all over Hillsdale and Branch County.

“When you’re running at this level, the race is intimate,” Leutheuser said. “There’s no focus group. It’s just belly-to-belly, face-to-face on someone’s doorstep.”

Leutheuser said his greatest accomplishment during his first two years in the House was his sponsorship on a bill supporting faith-based adoption.

“It goes back to the big three,” he said. “Family, church, and local community.”

This bill protects private faith-based adoption agencies from policies forcing them to give children to unmarried or homosexual couples who violate their religious beliefs.

“The state has made significant progress in finding more forever homes for Michigan kids in recent years, and that wouldn’t be possible without the public-private partnerships that facilitate the adoption process,” Gov. Rick Snyder said after signing the bill into law last year.

As a freshman, Leutheuser also sponsored bills that placed tighter restrictions on controlled substances; declared October breast cancer awareness month; and qualified farmers for tax exemptions on agricultural equipment.

But that was last term.

Leutheuser is back to campaigning for reelection, and one project sits at the top of

Eric Leutheuser, who is running for reelection as a Michigan state representative for District 58.

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the agenda for his next term — reforming Michigan’s automobile insurance.

Michigan law requires drivers to buy no-fault insurance, which covers medical expenses, wage loss benefits, replacement services, and the damage to others’ property, according to the state’s Department of Insurance and Financial Services.

No-fault insurance pays a monthly maximum of $5,398 to families of those injured or killed in auto accidents, and provides a maximum of $20 a day to pay for “routine household services which injured persons are no longer able to provide for themselves or their families,” according to the DIFS. They will also provide up to $1 million in compen-

sation for third party property damaged in accidents.

With coverage like this, Michigan drivers get big bills.

According to carinsurance. com, drivers in Detroit, Michigan, pay an average of $5,109 a year, the highest annual rate in the U.S. Leutheuser said he wants Michigan to give its drivers the option of less extensive and less expensive coverage.

“We need to give people a choice,” he said.

Should Leutheuser represent Hillsdale County in the next two terms, he said he plans to remain active in local politics after his third term.

“People are trying to do the right thing out there,” he said.

“The state should not get in the way — it should help them.”

www.hillsdalecollegian.com Hillsdale city and college leaders, state officials, state and U.S. congressmen, and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder meet at the Mitchell Research Center to discuss Hillsdale’s economy and other issues.

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Snyder from A1 “It has a great, world-renowned reputation that will help identify Hillsdale.”

Another city asset discussed at the meeting is the recently-installed fiber optic cable system throughout Hillsdale, which is a potential incentive for entrepreneurs to open businesses in the area.

“This fiber could be leveraged into new economic opportunities — you can do business all over the world if you have good connections on the internet. You’ve got a good

start on that, so, now, how can we grow that,” Snyder said.

Snyder said he hoped Hillsdale College would help with expanding Hillsdale’s workforce through programs in conjunction with the city. He described cybersecurity as an example of a high-paying field with a need for workers, and suggested Hillsdale College work with the community to train workers.

Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie said he believes the lack of housing is one of the major problems facing the city’s economic development.

He explained how he and his

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family, two adults and three children, struggled to find somewhere to live upon moving to Hillsdale, a difficulty shared by potential business owners.

“The first questions businesses ask when they consider moving here has to do with where their staff and employees will live,” Mackie said. “We have a limited stock of movein ready homes and a high landlord rental rate. Housing is very critical to our community right now as it affects business development.”

Mackie said city officials are working to fix this problem by marketing a recently-built subdivision, building a 40room senior center, and performing demolitions on derelict houses.

On the issue of poverty, Chief Financial Officer for Hillsdale College and City Councilman Patrick Flannery said that there is a perception that some members of the community aren’t motivated to work. He said it is in part because churches help out, give them food, but should focus on helping the parents re-

alize they need to get back into the workforce.

“There’s a difficulty in convincing parents of these children that they need to work, because there seems to be an opposition to working or an incentive not to work,” Flannery said. “It’s frustrating to see.”

He said churches in the community are helping parents by giving them food and praying for them, and stressed the importance of educating parents on their responsibility to work, having them return to or enter the workforce as the ultimate goal of such education.

On the topic of public health, Hillsdale Police Chief Scott Hephner said that the opioid addiction is one of the biggest issues of public health affecting Hillsdale. He explained that the main cause of heroin addiction is an addiction to painkilling medication prescribed by doctors.

“We should not be targeting our resources at addicts who are at that addiction point. If we look at it from a prevention standpoint, it becomes a ques-

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tion of how we stop it before the addiction starts,” Hephner said.

Snyder suggested automated prescription systems as a way to prevent this addiction, which happens when painkilling medication is overdosed to patients. Since heroin is cheaper but produces a similar high, addicts often make the switch once the heroin becomes available, like it is in Hillsdale.

“Some doctors don’t like to adapt to this new technology, and we need to overcome that,” Snyder said about the automated prescription systems. “If all prescriptions were online, we could analyze that data to look for problem areas and trends.”

The roundtable was Snyder’s final stop on his visit to the 10 communities involved in the initiative, a program designed to help them reach economic stability and self-sufficiency to foster business development.

“It’s not that ‘we’re from the state and here to help,’” Snyder said in his opening remarks at the roundtable. “It’s a proactive involvement, to say ‘we’re here to be a partner.’”

Snyder said he hoped the roundtable would expose issues with which the community struggles as well as assets which show its potential. Key to the process, Snyder said, is the second meeting, where he will return and see how the communities are progressing.

“It’s not about listening, it’s about helping these communities,” Snyder said. “My goal is to say at some point that these communities have graduated, become self-sustained, and don’t need state assistance.”

Snyder said he believed the meeting went well, and that he is excited to return and see how Hillsdale has done with overcoming some obstacles and utilizing assets. He has yet to revisit any of the ten Rising Tide communities, and hopes his return visit finds Hillsdale closer to self-sufficiency.

“I want to go back and see what we’ve gotten done,” Snyder said. “It’s a wonderful community, and, now, how do we strengthen it on a sustained basis?”

Democratic House candidate Driskell plans to bring jobs, businesses to district By | Evan Carter Web Editor In a battleground district where Republicans have won three of the last four elections, Democrat Gretchen Driskell is hoping her views on trade and the economy will draw voters to polls this November.

Driskell, the former mayor of Saline and current Michigan assemblywoman, is running against incumbent Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., for Michigan’s 7th Congressional district. Issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the lack of jobs, and the survival of small businesses are driving Driskell’s campaign.

“I believe my job in congress is to do everything I can so the people in the 7th district have the support they need moving forward,” Driskell said. “If you don’t have businesses with good-paying jobs, you don’t have successful communities.”

The district, which stretches from Lansing to Hillsdale and Monroe to Coldwater, is considered a battleground district by both Democrats and Republicans. It has split votes between the two parties for six consecutive presidential elections. According to Real Clear Politics, however, the district is leaning Republican in this year’s Congres-

sional race.

It has been highlighted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a seat they hope to flip in 2016. The DCCC has selected Driskell for their “red to blue” program, and has financially supported her campaign in the race against Walberg.

According to Driskell, her campaign has focused on personal interactions, relying on door-to-door campaigning.

“I go door-to-door and talk with people. Some of them are working two or three jobs just to pay bills,” Driskell said.

“What we have learned is they want a representative that listens to them and works for them.”

In addition to going doorto-door, her campaign has spent thousands on campaign ads. According to the Federal Election Commission, both Driskell’s and Walberg’s campaigns have received almost $1.5 million in campaign contributions.

“This really is as close to a 50-50 district in terms of Democrats and Republicans in the district as there is in the country,” said Driskell’s campaign manager, Keenan Pontoni. “We certainly hope that Tim Walberg’s voting record increases our chances, since it’s in line with special interests and it’s against working

families.”

Driskell’s campaign has run multiple ads focusing on Walberg’s votes on trade deals during his time in Congress, specifically highlighting his vote to give President Obama fast track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“We certainly want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to bring jobs back to Michigan, and that starts with fixing bad trade deals like NAFTA, which Walberg has said is good policy,” Pontoni said.

Walberg’s campaign manager, Stephen Rajzer, responded by saying the Driskell campaign’s comments are misleading.

“Congressman Walberg doesn’t hide that he is for free and fair trade,” Rajzer said.

“Driskell is really grasping for straws and not telling the whole story on the Congressman’s trade record.”

Driskell believes her experience working with manufacturing as Mayor of Saline will strike the right tone with voters and help her bring high-paying jobs to the district.

“There’s a lot of economic anxiety in the 7th,” Driskell said. “There are things that a government can do to help business grow.”

New basketball court opening at Sandy Beach through Rotary Club By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor The Hillsdale Rotary Club sponsored the development of a new basketball court at Sandy Beach Park as a part of a multi-year project to renovate the recreational facility located near Baw Beese lake.

According to Michelle Loren, director of the Recreation Department, this is only one phase of the project the Rotary Club has undertaken. The club approached the city five years ago in order to find out what they could support in order to benefit the community best, according to Loren.

“These renovations were always on my wish list,” Loren said.

According to Richard Moore, member of the Hillsdale Rotary, they settled on the Sandy Beach endeavor because of the disarray the park was in.

“It just wasn’t taken care of,” Moore said. “Any city in America would want this piece of land, so it’s great for us to get

to redevelop it.”

Moore said the Rotary also recognized the importance of having places in the community that everyone has access to.

“Everywhere you go people are talking about how nice it is to have this recreational property,” Moore said. “It benefits everyone in our community.”

Some of the extensive renovations included in the multiple phases of this project have been the construction of sand volleyball courts, bike trails, and a concession stand.

Loren hopes to use these new facilities to host recreational activities for the community, like basketball and volleyball tournaments.

“It would be a great way to put money back into the park and keep it moving,” Loren said.

The Hillsdale Rotary has raised over $300,000 in order to fund the project. The club has held a few fundraisers, but, according to Moore, the majority of the money has come from individual donations.

“The generosity of this community is incredible,” Moore said. “When you think about it, for people to have pledged that much money, this park must mean a lot to them.”

According to Sharon Bisher, executive director of the Hillsdale County Community Foundation, which serves as a vehicle for donations to the Hillsdale Rotary, it is amazing that people have supported each phase of the project.

“It shows that this project is a community project,” Bisher said. “People love the fact that we are revitalizing the park.

We’re just thankful the Rotary has taken this on.”

According to Moore, the final phase will be to create a new entrance to the park, which he hopes will take place within the next year. Once the project is completed, he believes the benefits will be immediate and long-standing.

“It just adds more life and vibrancy to our community,” Loren said. “And that’s what we need.”

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Grosvenor House to host haunted Halloween Poe readings By | Timmy Pearce Assistant Editor Jonesville’s historic Grosvenor House Museum is hosting a night of haunted Halloween readings and local lore featuring everything from the work of artists such as Edgar Allen Poe to those by local volunteers beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. Doughnuts and apple cider will be provided afterward.

The Halloween reading is the next in a series of events the museum hosts over the course of the year, from Jonesville’s Riverfest to the museum’s own Victorian Christmas.

This is the second year the manor has held this Halloween celebration. According to Hillsdale College assistant Physics professor and museum volunteer Paul Hosmer, about 70 people, a mix of local residents and college students, attended last year’s event. Late-

comers stood as the 60 seats set out were filled.

This year, the museum staff has planned for extra seats to handle the crowd, museum board vice president Dick Morgan said.

Last year, Hosmer presented his own ghost story, constructed around President William Harrison’s removal of Hillsdale County’s local Indian population in 1840. Hosmer will be crafting a similar tale for Friday.

“I’ve enjoyed writing these original ghost stories,” Hosmer said. “I’m really interested in local history so I try to work in real, local history into the ghost stories so you also get a fun ghost story but also learn a little bit about local history.”

To craft his ghost stories, Hosmer digs through old county records and histories and builds his work off what he finds, mixing an entertaining narrative with some local trivia.

“There were several county histories in the late 1800s that were put out, so basically I’ve just gone off of biographies and histories in those,” Hosmer said. “So both my stories, last year and this year, are set in the 1840s so those stories are in the county histories of the 1870s and 1890s and 1903.”

Other Hillsdale College professors and local residents will be presenting from a series of suspenseful and scary poetry and short stories such as Poe’s “The Raven,” presented by Associate professor of English Dutton Kearney.

Morgan won’t measure the success of the event by counting the number of heads who show up. Rather, he values positive feedback from those who decide to attend the event.

We already had a lot of interest from the public. That in itself is rewarding,” Morgan said. “But really, good feedback from those who come would be a successful night.”

Awesome Autumn features costumes, candy By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor Hillsdale residents and students enjoyed free treats while wandering through downtown Hillsdale and explored its shops during the Hillsdale Business Association’s annual Awesome Autumn event on Oct. 18.

Over 22 local businesses participated in this year’s fall festival, which included a costume contest for kids, free snacks, and local history postings.

According to Carol Gier,

owner of Maribeth’s, the annual event helps spread awareness of what downtown Hillsdale has to offer.

“It gets people in stores who have never been down here before,” Gier said.

According to Hillsdale resident Dottie Pauley, the event gets better every year.

“They do such a good job with it,” Pauley said. “It gets everyone in the community involved.”

Kathy Newell, president of the HBA, said the event is meant to promote a good climate for local businesses in downtown Hillsdale, just like

other annual events the HBA sponsors.

“It’s meant to do two things,” Newell said. “If you’ve never been in a store, it’s supposed to bring you in the store. If you have been in the store, it’s meant to thank you for supporting our local businesses.”

According to Suzanne Spiteri, owner of Crow’s Nest, Awesome Autumn is her favorite out of the events the HBA sponsors.

“People come in and say I have a nice store and that they’ll come back,” Spiteri said. “And they do.”

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put another touchdown on the board on the next play when quarterback Bart Williams connected with wide receiver Matt Williams for a 55-yard touchdown.

Trailing by two possessions in the final quarter, the Chargers were forced to abandon their balanced offense which had worked for three quarters for a quick-tempo, pass-heavy attack. The Chargers couldn’t mount a comeback, while Grand Valley added their third touchdown of the final quarter.

“Once it came to throwing it every down, that’s not what we do,” Otterbein said. “When we were able to mix it and throw some first-down passes

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Through three quarters, the Chargers gained more yards than the Lakers (321-302) and possessed the ball for eight more minutes than the Lakers (26:38-18:22), but in the final quarter, Grand Valley outgained Hillsdale 168-85 even though Hillsdale had the ball for a majority of the final quarter (8:55-6:05). Giving up big plays has been an issue for the Chargers during their three-game losing streak, and Bart Williams’ 55-yard touchdown strike to put Grand Valley ahead 28-17 put the Char-

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gers in a hole they couldn’t climb out.

“They popped a couple big plays on us, and we couldn’t hang in there,” Otterbein said.

“In the end you just kind of run out of gas.”

The Chargers also struggled on third downs on both sides of the ball. Hillsdale converted just three of 12 third downs while the Lakers converted seven of 13 third downs.

“We had a couple thirdand-long situations and third-and-short too where if we would’ve stopped them it would’ve been a whole different game,” Rose said. “We’ve just got to be better on third downs.”

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be taken from Saturday’s loss, but they desperately wanted the win.

“I’m not a huge believer in moral victories. I’d rather have won and learned the same lessons,” Reverman said. “But there’s a lot of things we did right that hopefully we can learn from and take on to the rest of the season.”

One positive — the Chargers weren’t at their best for three quarters and still led the No. 2 team in the nation after 45 minutes.

“We can play with anyone.

We’re a good team,” Rose said.

“When we’re at our best we can really take anyone down and we’ve just got to carry that through the last three weeks.”

Otterbein was also pleased

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with his team’s effort.

“I was really proud of the way our football team played on both sides of the ball. I think we really flew around,” Otterbein said. “We played with a lot of passion and a lot of emotion.”

Otterbein also saw several positives in Hillsdale’s defensive performance.

“We really did a good job controlling the line of scrimmage. I don’t think we got pushed around by any means,” Otterbein said. “At minimum we held our own against the No. 2 team in the country.”

Hillsdale will play its final away game of the season on Saturday at Northern Michigan at 1 p.m. Like the Chargers, the Wildcats have lost

three in a row. The Chargers are looking for their first win on the road this year.

“They’re one of those teams who plays really well at home.

They’ve got good skill,” Otterbein said. “We’ve got to play 60 minutes of football like we did for three quarters today. To do that you’ve got to be really mentally tough.”

Northern Michigan features a pass-heavy offense which will test Hillsdale’s defense.

“We’re just going to have to make sure we defend. They do a lot of run-pass option so you’ve got to defend that,” Rose said. “It just comes down to making plays, being in the right spot, and making tackles.”

Bats and breaststrokes: freshman pursues two-sport career By | Hannah Niemeier Culture Editor For Victoria Addis, a schedule filled with softball doubleheaders isn’t enough; the freshman from Canton, Ohio, has decided to double up on Division II sports.

Addis plays right field for the softball team and swims the breaststroke for the swim team, a feat that head softball coach Joe Abraham said is rare at the Division II level.

“Softball is my priority here, but I really wanted to get to know the swimming team and be part of another team,” Addis said. “I didn’t want to give up swimming like I thought I could. I couldn’t physically do that. It was the best decision I ever made to do both.”

Abraham said Addis is the first full-time two-sport athlete he’s coached in his six years as Hillsdale’s softball coach.

“It’s not like Division III, where they encourage athletes to dip their toes in the water here and there,” Abraham said.

“Division II sports are a huge commitment, and many play-

ers are on scholarship, so we expect a lot from them.”

Addis’s reasons for playing both sports look a lot like the people standing next to her on the field and on the blocks.

“With teams, you never know how everyone will relate to each other, but with both of my teams, it’s a perfect fit,” Addis said. “The college did a great job in selecting the athletes. Both teams are great.”

Though Addis has loved softball since playing T-ball in kindergarten, she said she owes her team-oriented mindset to a senior year of swimming where her personal victories came from her leadership.

“I just had a great mentality that entire year,” Addis said.

“Every year the district meet used to ruin me. I did horrible.

This year, because I focused on helping others, it made me a better swimmer because I had a better mentality.”

At her senior-year district meet, Addis, who described herself as a “decent” high school swimmer, broke her high school’s record and the Stark County record for the 100-yard breaststroke with a

time of 1:04.52. This performance gained the attention of Hillsdale’s head swim coach Kurt Kirner, who asked her to help out on the swim team as much as she could, Addis said.

Addis has been practicing with both the softball and swimming teams for the fall softball pre-season and the beginning of winter swimming season. She will focus on softball during the spring.

In the fall portion of her first softball season, Addis has already proven herself a strong player, Abraham said.

“It became clear this fall that she will get playing time in the spring,” Abraham said.

“She was one of our top hitters. She has good power, good speed, and a high batting average. She’s a Division I level hitter, one of the best hitters on our team.”

Though he said he worries about overuse injuries, he allowed her to join the swim team because of her love for both sports.

There has already been some overlap between the two schedules — during one week she had a softball doubleheader on Thursday, a swim meet

on Saturday, and three softball games Sunday.

But Addis said sports fuel her motivation for schoolwork in her off time.

“My style of studying and doing work, I find it easier to be busy because then I really hone in and focus on the blocks of time that I do have to really give it my all for my studies,” Addis said.

Addis spends her free time working toward a biochemistry degree, including organic chemistry homework for a class that’s usually closed to freshmen.

“Everyone’s going to think I’m weird if I say this, but organic chemistry is my favorite class this semester,” Addis said. “I’ve always been one for chemistry. I love thinking on the micro scale. What goes on that we can’t see is so cool, that everything just works.”

Sophomore Katie Kish, a fellow softball outfielder and organic chemistry classmate, said she admires Addis’s love for both sports.

“I have never been in that position where I love two sports enough to do them both,” Kish said. “If I loved

Addis swims in her first Collegiate swim meet earlier this month.

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something else as much as I love softball, I could totally see why she does what she does.

But yeah, she’s crazy.”

To show her support for Addis as a swimmer, Kish adopted Addis through the Adopt-a-Charger program, which means that Addis stays supplied with sweet snacks, fans at her meets, and encouraging text messages.

“The girls on both teams are supportive of my decision to do both,” Addis said.

“I made it clear that I’m going to try to be on each team as much as I can, and I’ve already made such great friends.”

When stressed about sports or studies, Addis dreams about playing the violin she left at home.

“I didn’t bring it with me, but I might bring it next year,”

Addis said. “I just haven’t found time to be able to play.”

She also said her Monday night Bible study with her softball teammates allows her to connect with her team in a deeper way than she has with any other team.

Addis said she plans to play both sports throughout college.

“It would be one thing if I didn’t love the sport,” Addis said. “But I love both sports so much that I think that love will get me through, even when the school gets harder and time seems to get shorter. I definitely think I can play both all four years just because of the love of the sports and the love of my teammates.”

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HEY CHICAGO, WHAT DO YA SAY? CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY!

By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Bleeds Cubbie Blue The oldest generation is known as a suspicious bunch.

On Saturday, however, the entire nation watched Dorothy — the white-haired woman in the front row at Wrigley Field — embrace a complete stranger, without an ounce of cynicism. Her Cubbie-blue shirt said it all: “Just Once Before I Die.” When the Chicago Cubs clinched their first World Series berth in 71 years, emotional reactions ran the gamut for members of Cubs Nation.

Many cheered, some cried, and a few just sat in speechless wonderment. As for me, I managed to do some of all three in the span of 45 seconds.

To say this was a longtime coming would be the understatement of the century — a century which has not seen a Chicago Cubs World Series title. In fact, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908.

In general, those 108 years have been marked by a billy goat, bleacher bums, and a lot of Old Style for the pain. For each Cubs fan, however, the tale is much more personal.

Most every memory of my childhood is interwoven with

the voices of Pat Hughes and Ron Santo filtering throughout my home, as my brothers and I tuned every single radio we owned to the broadcast.

This continued into my highschool days, when I would turn off the game on TV, grab a radio, and climb onto the roof on a thick July night, just to be alone with my thoughts and listen to the final outs of a West-Coast game. It’s a near-religious experience.

Others, like Dorothy, are now sitting in the front row, experiencing something they only wish their late-lovedones could be a part of.

“I just wish my brothers were alive to see this... They loved the Cubs. And my father did, too, but they’re all dead now. This old lady is still livin’,” she told Fox Sports.

You see, Cubs baseball is a tradition, with the pain passed from generation to generation. In the last five years, however, generations have come together to watch the Cubs ascend the ranks, season by season.

Now, fans are witnessing a World Series with more storylines than can be followed: the breakout of Javier Baez, the return of Kyle Schwarber, the long-overdue forgiveness of Steve Bartman, the breaking of a curse.

We get to witness history, as this group of young, charismatic players puts an entire city on its back, striving to give it something that it has only dreamt of.

So here is my advice: Cubs fans, enjoy this ride. Our contemporaries would have paid good money to be in our shoes. To everyone else, cheer alongside us; this bandwagon has plenty of room on the back. After all, we all want Dorothy to witness this “just once” before she dies.

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Calvin, GVSU swim past Chargers By | Morgan Channels Collegian Reporter Rival Grand Valley State University swam away with the win at last week’s swim meet in Grand Rapids, Michigan, beating Hillsdale 218-68.

Hillsdale also finished behind Calvin College 176-114.

Though the Chargers admitted they are disappointed with performance, they’re staying positive.

Several girls achieved personal goals during the meet, head coach Kurt Kirner said.

“We have been riddled with injury and illness, but we had very nice performances by the balance of the team. We keep getting better each week,” Kirner said.

Sophomore Anika Ellingson won first place in the 100yard breaststroke with a time of 1:06. Ellingson holds the school record in the event, thanks to a 1:03.35 swim last season. for fourth-best time in

that event. After her impressive performance, Ellingson was named GLIAC Swimmer of the Week.

Junior Theresa Smith matched her championship time from last year in the 200yard breaststroke race.

Freshman Danielle LeBleu took second in two events — her 10:44.71 performance in the 1000-yard freestyle is in the top 10 times in program history.

Sophomore Grace Houghton said that people are thinking constructively about their swims and adjusting for different factors in the weeks before like injuries, sickness, harder lifts, intense schedules, and changes in training for the freshmen.

“We’re learning as we go, so every experience, whether textbook or not, is to our advantage,” Houghton said.

Historically, GVSU is a rival school, and the team said this meet is always an anticipated

challenge. They agreed that the women swam some really great individual races and gave the races their best efforts.

“Obviously the team is trying to improve, but I think it’s important to look at individual efforts and praise those, rather than taking everything from the end result,” junior captain Peyton Bowen said. “It wasn’t our best meet, but I’m proud of the way we conducted ourselves and kept the team positivity up.”

According to both Bowen and Houghton, the women on the team are looking to the next meet and anticipate heading into the next round of events with heads held high.

“A big goal of ours is team unity and positivity. It’s important to recognize the good individual swims and move past the bad ones in order to prepare for upcoming races. With those goals in mind, this meet was a success in my book,” Bowen said.

What if? This two-word question was a promotional campaign for the Cleveland Indians in the summer of 2014. The campaign features nostalgic reels of blotchy footage from the 1900’s, showing not only iconic Indians moments of the past century, but celebrating the tradition of the sport.

By highlighting the last Cleveland World Series win in 1948 and also celebrating Jackie Robinson and the mark he left on both the game and on American society, the commercial speaks not only to Indians fans, but to the sports fan and the romantic in all of us.

The world is busy and demanding, leaving little space for free time. In an era of deadlines, agendas and a “time is money” mentality, sports of any kind are a welcomed reprieve. We stick to our schedules because we desire stability — but not too much.

As humans, being labeled as workaholics is insulting.

We want to believe that we aren’t enslaved to the monotony of everyday life. Baseball, for me, is about forgetting the pressures of the moment and enjoying the great American pastime. It’s about watching the game with strangers and leaving as friends.

Sports fans are so passionate for their teams, it borders on romantic. They wear terrible, baggy jerseys on game day, and do crazy things like removing those jerseys, paint-

ing their chests, and waving foam fingers in the air. They yell when their team wins and shed tears when they lose.

To varying degrees, each of us rejects the compartmentalization of the modern world; we find the most accessible romance in sports. Sports fanatics fall in love with their teams. Instead of driving across town, under the cover of darkness, to deliver flowers and a handwritten note to someone’s porch, they drive across the country to watch their home team play each and every away game.

Baseball specifically stands contrary to the hustle and bustle of modern life. There’s no clock — it’s slow and methodical. It’s a game played more on probability and statistics than any other game. Baseball is a game in which the defense controls the ball. Baseball has given us both great athletes and iconic American figures like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Roberto Clemente. So, what if we leave behind our preoccupation with lost time?

What if, during this World Series, we gather in a place where time stands still?

The Indians are my home team, and they should be yours this World Series. My love of the Tribe is dictated by little more than loose family ties to the ball club and geographical proximity. I happily embrace the label of a hometown sports fan. When I think of baseball in general, I instinctively think of Progressive Field and the sound of Indians baseball on AM radio.

For a second, let’s forget that Chicago’s underdog story is tarnished by their acquisition of baseball gurus Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon, or the fact that the Cubs have a payroll of over $167 million.

Let’s celebrate the long journey that both teams endured to put themselves in a position to contend for a championship. What if the Indians pull out their first World Series title in 68 years? What if they don’t? For me, this World Series is about more than a win for my home team, it’s about baseball.

Members of the Hillsdale College swim team huddles before this weekend’s tri-meet versus the Grand Valley State University Lakers and the Calvin University Knights. The Chargers fell to both the Lakers and the Knights. Kenzi Dickhudt | Collegian

VOLLEYBALL SUFFERS WINLESS WEEKEND IN OHIO By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor

If sets were played to 21 points, the Hillsdale College volleyball team would have defeated Ashland University on Saturday. The sets, however, were played to 25 points — and the Chargers tallied their second loss of the weekend.

The Chargers dropped two matches on the road this weekend — one against Tiffin University on Friday night 3-1 and another on Saturday afternoon against Ashland University 3-1. The sweep drops Hillsdale’s record to 13-8 overall, and 5-5 in the GLIAC. “We did a lot of good things in the end of sets, but just not enough. We need to do a couple more things in a row to take it,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “The matches had everything, they just didn’t have the ‘W’ for us.”

The Chargers played a powerful first set against the Tiffin Dragons on Friday evening — driving to a 32-30 win — the team’s longest set of the season so far. From there, the Chargers couldn’t finish a set. After the Dragons ran away with set two, the Chargers leaped to 14-8 leads in sets three and four. Both times, the Dragons rebounded to come out on top.

“It’s more of a mental issue

— the killer instinct,” Gravel said. “We had some big leads that we lost, and those made the difference in the matches.”

Though the Chargers recorded a solid .255 hitting percentage in set one, they hit .104 percent in sets three and

four. Hillsdale also piled up 13 serving errors.

Sophomore rightside hitter Paige VanderWall stood out on Friday night as she pounded 15 kills, committing just one error. Sophomore outside hitter Kara Vyletel tallied her

third 20-kill match of the season, but struggled in the back row, according to Gravel. Still, Vyletel became the first Charger with three 20-kill matches in a single season since 2009.

Saturday’s match unfolded much like Friday’s as the

The Hillsdale College volleyball team went 0-2 this weekend in Ohio against Tiffin University and Ashland University. Greg Vyletel | Collegian

Chargers bounded to a firstset win in extra points. After their 26-24 victory, however, the Chargers couldn’t secure another win. Hillsdale lost sets two, three, and four by two points each, even though the Chargers were the first to 21 in each set.

“We weren’t being disciplined, and so we would start out the game really well but we couldn’t hold on to that,” senior outside hitter Sam Siddall said. “It comes down to getting into the mindset on gameday, and sometimes we don’t do that.”

VanderWall had another strong performance, recording another 15 kills for the Charger offense. The right-side performance wasn’t enough to make up for Hillsdale’s .176 hitting percentage, which paled next to Ashland’s .250 performance.

After a winless weekend in Ohio, the Chargers returned to campus ready for a tough week of practice and some self reflection.

“Right now we’re just taking a look in the mirror and reevaluating what we’ve been doing and what we’re going to do better,” Gravel said.

The Chargers woke up early Monday morning for a swim workout; the team’s main focus is building more discipline before another weekend of

matches.

Hillsdale will host Saginaw Valley State University on Friday at 7 p.m., then Lake State University on Saturday at 2 p.m. Though Lake State has yet to win a match in the GLIAC, Gravel said they’re much improved from last season.

Saginaw Valley is currently one spot ahead of Hillsdale in the conference, and has played well against the Chargers in recent years.

“We are really excited for this weekend,” senior middle hitter Kyra Rodi said. “It’s always fun to play at home, and we have a huge opportunity to come out and play volleyball like we have the potential to.”

Though the 2016 GLIAC tournament is still a couple weeks away — and the NCAA tournament even farther — the remaining conference matches will prove crucial to the Chargers’ post-season fate.

Still, Gravel said, the Chargers have to focus on what’s directly ahead of them.

“Every game is absolutely important at this point as far as making the postseason goes,” Gravel said. “With our struggles as of late we need to be focused on one day at a time, one match at a time, or else we won’t have to worry about the playoffs, which would be most unfortunate.”

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MEN AND WOMEN FINISH THIRD IN THE GLIAC By | Evan Carter Web Editor BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — The Hillsdale College men’s and women’s cross-country teams finished their final GLIAC competition on a high note this past Saturday — both teams finished third.

This was the team’s last season competing in the GLIAC Championship because Hillsdale is joining the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (GMAC) on July 1, 2017.

Though both teams placed third overall, a number of key runners run didn’t run strong races, leaving both squads excited to put on their best performance at the regional meet on Nov. 5.

Several Chargers did, however, put up impressive performances to help their teams reach the podium. Junior Hannah McIntyre finished second overall in the women’s race, senior captain Joe Newcomb finished eighth in the men’s race.

After freshman Joe Humes’ ran to a 28th-place finish, he was named GLIAC Freshman of the Year.

Head Distance Coach Samantha Kearney called the team’s performances “in between,” but still found positives in both the men’s and women’s races.

“There were some great spots on the women’s side — Hannah McIntyre looked re-

ally strong today — and then we had some not great spots where we have to go back to the drawing board and fix moving forward,” Kearney said. “On the guys’ side it was definitely a grind. It was a battle. Not our best day, but we

were eighth last year, we were third this year.”

The women’s third place finish is one back from their second place finish last season.

This season, Hillsdale finished behind regional competitors Grand Valley State University

and Northern Michigan University.

In addition to McIntyre’s second place finish, senior Molly Oren placed fourth, and sophomore Ally Eads placed 21st, giving the team three All-GLIAC finishers. The race

Junior Tony Wondaal goes head to head against a GVSU runner at the GLIAC Championship last weekend. Wondaal placed 15th overall. Evan Carter | Collegian

also featured strong finishes by senior Meri Didier, junior Amanda Reagle, and freshman Addison Rauch, who all finished within 10 spots of Eads.

McIntyre called Oren one of the “toughest runners she’s ever run with,” saying she placed fourth at the meet after feeling sick all week. Overall, McIntyre said she and her teammates had a good day.

“I’ve beat all the girls I beat today before, so I knew I could just do it again and I felt in control,” McIntyre said. “I think some teammates wanted to do better in terms of getting All-Conference, but sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not. I think it was a great day. The freshman especially looked good.”

The women’s team is now ranked 11th nationally and fifth in the Midwest Regional in the latest national coaches poll.

The men showed major improvement over their GLIAC performance the previous year, placing third, up from the previous year’s eighth place team finish. The men’s finish also bodes well for regional competition, with many of the GLIAC teams they competed against last Saturday also running in the Midwest Regional.

The men had two All-Conference finishers: Newcomb placed eighth and junior Tony Wondaal finished 15th. The men’s top five was rounded out by Senior Caleb Gatchell,

Humes, and junior Nathan Jones placing third, fourth, and fifth on the team respectively.

Newcomb said the day’s performances highlight how far the team has come.

“We still have a lot of work to do. I wouldn’t say that’s our best as a whole all year, so I think running what we think is mediocre as a team and still doing well is something to say about how good our team really is,” Newcomb said.

Newcomb said he thinks it was his best race of the season.

“I think it’s probably the first time I put the whole entire race together in terms of being tough, so I felt pretty good, felt ready for regionals,” Newcomb said.

The men’s team is now ranked 17th nationally and fourth in the Midwest Regional in the latest national coaches poll.

Looking forward to the next week-and-a-half of training before the regional competition, Kearney said the team will be focusing on fine-tuning their workouts and recovering, making sure the athletes are ready to have their best race of the season at Evansville.

Newcomb said at this point in the season, the team just needs to have a good race.

“Obviously we want to make it to nationals,” Newcomb said. “We have to hold where we are in our rankings and prove it on race day.”

Chargers battle, fall to No. 2 Grand Valley Lakers By | Nathanael Meadowcroft linebacker Jay Rose said. “It sucks we lost, but it’s reassurSports Editor ing heading into the last three There’s no shame in losing weeks.”

On the opening drive of to the No. 2 team in the nation, but that doesn’t mean it’s the game, the Chargers drove deep down the field. But the not painful.

The Hillsdale College foot- Lakers came up with a thirdball team came far closer to down stop in the red zone and upsetting the Grand Valley blocked Hillsdale’s ensuing Lakers on Saturday than the field goal attempt.

On their next drive, the final score of 35-17 would suggest. Despite squandering Chargers again drove into three red-zone scoring chanc- the red zone but failed to put es in the first three quarters, points on the board as the the Chargers took a 17-14 lead Lakers forced and recovered a into the fourth quarter. But the fumble by sophomore quarterLakers scored 21 unanswered back Chance Stewart.

In the third quarter with the points in the final quarter to make an even battle look like game tied 14-14, the Chargers had a first-and-goal opportua rout.

It was Hillsdale’s third nity at Grand Valley’s 4-yard straight loss — but it showed line. Two rushes by sophojust how little separates good more tailback Joe Reverman brought the Chargers a yard teams from great ones.

“We definitely showed our- away from the end zone. On selves that we can play with third-and-goal at the 1-yard anyone. We should’ve beat line, Stewart faked a handoff them. We had them,” junior but dropped the ball, and the

Lakers recovered.

“It’s a totally different game after you have that. As much as our guys try to stay engaged, that’s like a sock right in the gut.” Otterbein said. “It makes all the difference in the world.

It’s a big momentum thing.”

Despite squandering several chances, the Chargers led going into the final quarter against the second-ranked team in the country. But those missed opportunities came back to bite them.

“When you have opportunities like those you need to capitalize, and we just missed too many of those,” Reverman said. “You’re not going to beat the No. 2 team in the country playing like that.”

The Lakers took a 21-17 lead on the second play of the fourth quarter. After the Chargers went 3-and-out on their ensuing possession, the Lakers

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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature is right and noble Bob Dylan just won a Nobel Prize in literature. It’s exactly the kind of lifetime achievement award such an endlessly inventive and prolific artist as Dylan deserves.

Of course, everyone is mad about it.

In The New York Times, Anna North laments that the selection committee passed over “writers who have made significant innovations in the form” and underrepresented “writers from the developing world” in favor of a man already famous for his work.

North is correct that Dylan doesn’t need the distinction of a Nobel win. But she overstates the award’s ability to launch previously obscure writers into the public eye — just ask Svetlana Alexievich, Tomas Tranströmer, or Mo Yan. These, of course, are three other recent laureates for the Literature prize. Hadn’t you heard?

North’s other critiques fall just as flat. “Significant innovations in the form”? Dylan’s

unique, complex narratives inspired a generation of poets and songwriters. It was Dylan who inspired the Beatles to leave their teenybopping “She Loves You” days behind to pen masterpieces like “Yesterday,” “Come Together,” and “A Day in the Life.” “Writers from the

superficial and the trite.

“The way that Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind,” Bruce Springsteen said in 1988. “He showed us that just because music was innately physical, it did not mean that it was anti-intellect.

He broke through the limita-

“Dylan’s mastery of his form and cultural influence are nearly impossible to overstate. His songs, elemental blasts of deep huuman feeling, electrified a popular music scene dominated by the superficial and the trite.” developing world”? Have you ever been to Duluth?

It’s hard to fault writers like North too much; they’re fighting an uphill battle. Dylan’s mastery of his form and cultural influence are nearly impossible to overstate. His songs — elemental blasts of deep human feeling — electrified a music scene dominated by the

tions of what a recording artist could achieve.”

Just as importantly, Dylan muscled the culture of the heartland back into a pop landscape overwhelmingly populated, as now, by urban elites. Dylan’s early catalog is full of clever jabs at his industry’s snobbery. “Unlike most of the folk songs nowadays

Keywords and context clues OED editor seeks out the mysteries of language In 1976, when Simpson stumbled upon the OED, definitions were still cobbled together by expert wordsmiths wandering through miles of handwritten index cards, as they had been since the dictionary’s first edition in 1857.

The OED has always been “crowdsourced” (from n. The practice of obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number of people). Readers sent in notecards of new John Simpson chronicles his work and unusual word uses on the Oxford English Dictionary. from their casual reading. Amazon According to Simpson’s Simpson soon decided this charmed account, images of elderly English ladies filling method was too old-school to long afternoons sipping tea keep up with the new words in the parlor while doing the flashing by outside the ivied Lord’s work for the OED are walls of Oxford University.

As an editor, Simpson denot far from the old-fashioned veloped his flair for the conreality.

Yet from these seemingly temporary, and a fixation on random scraps, lexicographers keeping up with the language (n. A writer or compiler of a as it evolved into fascinating dictionary) scrabbled together new usages: “My preference one of the most comprehen- was for less ‘literary’ and more sive running accounts of a lan- ‘popular’ vocabulary — more ‘world’ English,” he writes of guage ever conducted.

The mission of the OED his time as an editor for the had always been ambitious: New Words section of a sup“It would provide a potted plement to the OED. The twists and turns of biography of English words, providing accurate definitions Simpson’s various editorships of their meanings, detailed are far less arresting than the information on word origins, labyrinth of words he naviand — crucially — quota- gates on the way to the head of tions showing real, documen- a project to completely overtary examples of any word haul the OED in a Second Edior meaning from its earliest tion 150 years in the making.

Though the old tea-and-inrecorded use right up to the dex-card system had the adpresent day,” Simpson writes.

In keeping with the vantage of giving new words time-honored tradition, Simp- time to settle down into the son began his work in the low- language, it couldn’t keep up er ranks of the OED by reading with rapid changes after the dull biographies and obscure explosion of tech-language scientific accounts to trace the following the rise of computusages of certain words as far ers, a phenomenon that fascinated Simpson — and set him back in time as possible.

But as he moved up the to scheming new word-hunts.

There were new terms to ladder to edit a supplement of words from the 20th century, See OED B2

no one would deny that a play can be literature. Certainly the Nobel Committee has not: scores of playwrights have won the prize, from Samuel Beckett to George Bernard Shaw.

But even this answer misses the point. The most important question here isn’t just what literature is, it’s what literature is for.

The creation of literature is not simply a technical exercise of virtuosic wordsmithing. In the truest sense, literature is for its readers — for their delight and edification. Prizes in literature shouldn’t just say “Good job: You had the best words!” Rather, they should reflect literature’s purpose: to help us make sense of our broken world; to help us redeem the time, because the days are evil. Dylan, singing about politics and society, about sin and faith and hope and love, did and does that better than anyone.

He sings with tenderness, as in 1966’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”: “With your silhouette when the sunlight dims / Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, / and

your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns, / Who among them would try to impress you?”

He sings with bitterness, as in 1965’s “Positively 4th Street”: “When you know as well as me you’d rather see me paralyzed, / Why don’t you just come out once and scream it?”

He sings with resignation and determination, as in 1975’s “Buckets of Rain”: “Life is sad, life is a bust; / All you can do is do what you must. / You do what you must do, and you do it well — / I do it for you, honey baby, can’t you tell?”

Bob Dylan, in short, sings about is what it is to be alive.

As usual, of course, Dylan himself slips by his critics with a shrug. He’s always been the last person to call his own work “genius” — he has protested throughout his career that he is nothing but an entertainer, and clearly thinks many of his own fans take him too seriously.

In that respect, he’s fighting an uphill battle, too.

Fresh tunes from freshman folk singer By | Kayla Stetzel

Collegian Reporter

As a musician, Luke Woltanski never fit into a category. His piano teacher once refused to teach him because he was too inventive during lessons. He admits playing “normal music” is difficult for him, but being unconventional has served him well so far.

Woltanski, a freshman studying biology at Hillsdale College, independently recorded three albums in high school and is currently working on two more. While Woltanski said his first two albums, “Prairie Fire” and “Fog Dance,” were “good starters,” his third album, “Constellations,” and his upcoming projects are more closely tied to his artistic vision.

“My first two albums were good, but they are not like what I want to become. I want to make something that sounds full, to make something that people would want

to listen to in their cars or pay to go see,” Woltanski said. “‘Constellations’ took literally a year to record. It was 300 percent more work than my prior albums.”

On “Constellations” especially, Woltanski embraces many unique styles of guitar playing, from classical fingerpicking guitar, to slap-guitar, to slide guitar techniques. His songs often have many layers and complex uses of harmonics and tempo.

Woltanski is mostly a selftaught guitar player who fell into recording by chance.

In a brush of what Woltanski calls “fifth grader naiveté,” he decided to pick up guitar in hopes of becoming a bona fide rock star. Rather than taking lessons, he decided to teach himself and learned how to improvise and create his own melodies — almost by mistake.

“I was trying to play a Creedence Clearwater Revival

song, and I messed it up really bad,” Woltanski said. “Even though I was playing the song completely wrong, I liked the way it sounded and thought I could write lyrics for it.”

“I wanted to see how far I could go,” Woltanski said. “I can play instruments, and I can write my own music, but that doesn’t matter if no one hears what I make. When I first decided I wanted to record, I had no clue how I was going to begin, but the hand of providence kind of came down and slapped me across the face.”

Luke Woltanski’s father, Steve Woltanski, encouraged his son to pursue music.

“I always told him, don’t just play guitar,” Steve Woltanski said. “I was pushing Springsteen and Mellencamp, the kinds of musicians who wrote their own songs and a lot of times produced their

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Compiled by Hannah Niemeier

What are your favorite Bob Dylan songs?

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By | Hannah Niemeier Culture Editor “Dictionary, n. A book which explains or translates, usually in alphabetical order, the words of a language or languages.”

Thus speaks the Oxford English Dictionary.

For the literarily inclined, the online OED is a treasure trove of etymology and usage, and today’s tech-savvy logophiles can thank John Simpson, the OED’s editor-in-chief for almost 40 years, for the digitization of this indispensable dictionary.

In “The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of it All in the Oxford English Dictionary,” published Oct. 25, 2016, by Basic Books, Simpson recounts his life’s work: dusting off the old OED and showcasing the world’s most comprehensive, reliable dictionary on the Internet.

“The Word Detective” is an OED entry writ long, a deluge of delightful detail about a database that has become a lifeline for undergraduate English essays and serious linguistic scholarship the world over. It’s a history of the OED, a history of the English language, and (perhaps secondarily), a history of the editor himself.

And for both language lovers and language analysts, the book will be “enlightening” (n. the imparting of knowledge or increasing of understanding and insight).

As befitting a memoir about a dictionary, Simpson weaves “The Word Detective” together with extended OED-style entries of intriguing words; he began his work with the dictionary as an “apprentice” (n.

A learner of a craft, first referenced in 1362 in the poem “Piers Plowman”) in 1976 after studying medieval English literature at York College in England.

that are being written uptown in Tin Pan Alley,” Dylan comments over the opening chords of 1963’s “Bob Dylan’s Blues,” “This — this is a song, this wasn’t written up there… This was written somewhere down in the United States.”

Springsteen again: “Bob Dylan is the father of my country.”

Difficult as it is to fault Dylan on the merits, critiques of Dylan’s Nobel necessarily all boil down to an argument of qualification. As a singer, the argument runs, Dylan is not actually engaged in the project of literature, which connotes the written word. Stripped of their musical regalia, Dylan’s lyrics fall flat — or at least fall short of deserving a Nobel.

There would be something to this argument, were it not that literature has always been about more than the bare word. Poetry, while good in print, derives its particular pleasure from the rhythm of spoken sound, the sibilance and glottals that form rushing air. More, the proper execution of a state play requires costumes, sets, even music — but

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By | Andrew Egger Senior Writer

Professor of English John Somerville: I’ll pick three that are less well known: “Something There Is About You” (from the Planet Waves album), “New Pony” (Street Legal), and “Precious Angel” (Slow Train Coming).

Sophomore Ryan Burns: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” “Spanish Harlem Incident”

Somerville: “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face” (“Visions of Johanna,” Blonde on Blonde)

Burns: “Disillusioned words like bullets bark / As human gods aim for their marks / Made everything from toy guns that sparks / To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark” (“It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”)

What’s Dylan’s loveliest line?

What’s your take on Dylan’s Nobel Prize?

Somerville: I love Bob Dylan’s music. I’ve seen him in concert four times now. But he shouldn’t have received the Nobel Prize. Of the many who deserve the award before him, I’ll begin by listing Philip Roth.

Burns: I, for one, am happy about Dylan’s achievement; and though I may be happy now, the next time I give “Bringing It All Back Home,” “Blonde on Blonde,” or “Highway 61 Revisited” a listen, Dylan will move me to feel something beyond the happiness of the moment.

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‘Miss Peregrine’: spooky, but unsatisfying Burton’s new flick suffers thematic famine despite a visual feast

By | Molly Kate Andrews finds his grandfather dying in the backyard after suffering Collegian Freelancer a mysterious monster attack Tim Burton’s newest film, does Jacob begin to wonder based on Ransom Riggs’ whether the stories might graphic trilogy “Miss Per- not have been so imaginary. egrine’s Home for Peculiar With his dying breath, Jacob’s Children,” delivers Halloween grandfather tells him to go to eye candy but fails to satisfy Wales to the home for pecuthe audience with any themat- liar children, where the actual Miss Peregrine will answer all ic meat to chew on.

Burton consolidates Riggs’ of his questions. Desperate for thriller trilogy into a single answers, Jacob convinces his film, a fact which will cause skeptical parents to take him more cringing from fans of the books than will the disturbing style which has become Burton’s trademark. By combining color and whimsy with the macabre, Burton creates a captivating visual paradox of unnatural and shocking beauty. In this way, the film resembles Burton’s other works (such as “Coraline,” “The Nightmare Before to the island which served as Christmas,” and “Edward the setting for all of his grandScissorhands”), complete with father’s fantastic tales.

Once on the island, he reanimated corpses, a feast of human eyeballs, and a child discovers that the imaginary with a monster mouth in the Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) back of her head. The effect is and her children are not fican amusing combination of tion but flesh and blood pecufascination and horror: pure liarities living in a time loop Burton. Though Burton de- in 1947. Here Burton shines livers the sensational visual in all his own peculiar gloeffects which audiences have ry, showing off his skills with come to expect from his work, special effects as he creates this film lacks the thematic Emma, a girl so lightweight punch of his previous movies, she must wear leaden shoes leaving the audience feeling to stay on the ground; Myllike it’s been all show and no lard, an invisible boy who can only be seen when he wears tell.

Viewers follow the ad- his clothes; Hugh, a boy with ventures of Jacob Portman, a swarm of bees living in played by Asa Butterfield his belly which sometimes (from “Ender’s Game”), who pop out when he burps; and is haunted by his grandfa- Enoch, a boy who has the abilther’s bedtime stories about ity to reanimate corpses using monsters with tentacles for animal hearts. Miss Peregrine tongues, children born with herself proudly gives Jacob a unnatural abilities, and their guided tour of the house and shape-shifting protector, Miss its inhabitants, introducing all Peregrine. Only when he her children like proud mother hen. In a particularly “Bur-

tonian” scene, Enoch revives Vincent, a peculiar who was murdered by one of Jacob’s grandfather’s monsters. Miss Peregrine has preserved Vincent’s body in the attic with meticulous care, tortured by her one failure as a protector.

As the plot progresses, the children and Jacob must pool their weird powers together with Miss Peregrine in order to escape the cruel appetites and schemes of the monsters

“Though Burton delivers the sensational visual effects which audiences have come to expect from his works, this film lacks the punch of his previous movies.” and their leader, Dr. Golan.

Eva Green executes a marvellous performance as Miss Peregrine. With the help of several key props (such as a pipe, sweet steampunk styled attire, and a convincing special effects bird transformation), Green evokes the dark and quirky style of Burton while also rendering a maternal pathos to the role, providing a beating heart to the plotline that would otherwise be cold as a corpse. In a singularly poignant scene Miss Peregrine sacrifices herself for the sake of her wards. The children gather around her skirt like chicks around their strange mother-raven, and she claims with tears in her eyes, “It has been a privilege to care for you all.” This scene is perhaps the only moment of effective poignancy in the whole movie, the rest is driven entirely by plot, special effects, and sub-par child actors.

The children show off their lack of acting skills in a predictable and somewhat creepy child love story between Jacob and Emma, who was interested in his grandpa back in the 1940s (you know, when he wasn’t old and dying in the backyard). Neither one of the actors has the chops to pull off being in love; thus the kiss at the end (oops: spoiled) comes off as just plain uncomfortable. (Roll credits. Please.)

And though Butterfield (Jacob Portman) looks the part of a Burton character with his transparently pale skin, dark hair, and massive pools of blue eyes, he fails to animate his character with any semblance of personality.

(Somebody pass him an animal heart. By god, this kid is dead inside.) In his defense, the uninspiring script doesn’t give him much help. Cool costumes and doe eyes do not a moving romance make.

As a result, the final scene, the kicker, the one that’s supposed to leave me with that fuzzy feeling of satisfaction, falls completely flat.

In the end, Miss Peregrine’s character offers more interest to the film in one scene than the primary plot between the children themselves.

While flavors of Burton’s iconic style linger throughout the film, it lacks the dramatic poignancy and the thematic weight of his previous works, leaving the audience with that unsatisfying post-binge feeling of too much sugar and not enough substance.

If you’re looking for the perfect spook-time Burton this Halloween, save your movie ticket dollars, snuggle up with some real junk food, and rewatch “Coraline” or “Sweeney Todd.”

Tim Burton’s spooky new thriller delivers on eye candy, but skimps on story. Coming Soon

OED from B1 There were new terms to define (“LOL” appeared on a message board on May 8, 1989), usage changes to trace (electronic mail becomes e-mail becomes email), and new opportunities for the study of language: Could a computer tell lexicographers if there were more nouns or adjectives in the English language (today, the ratio is 2 to 1, but that number has fluctuated in the past for reasons as yet unexplored)? Could they track a word’s movement over time and map its movement across oceans? Could they include new definitions from people and publications across the world?

They could. After a massive five-year project from 1984 to 1989, Simpson accomplished what no other editor had ever done: He brought an entire language onto a disk the size

of his palm, and in 1995, out into the infinite space of the Internet.

“Up until now, dictionary readers had been restricted to ‘single look-up’ … and serendipitous browsing,” Simpson writes. “For editors, we would be creating a massive dynamic and updatable language resource.”

This feat is drama enough — what other editor can say he literally held the English language in the palm of his hand?

But compared with the weight of this quiet accomplishment, his attempts to weave his personal life in this his work seem slight. Though the father who struggled with the silence of a mute, mentally handicapped daughter is certainly poignant, Simpson’s influence rests on other lives — and words — than his.

In his approach to language, Simpson is a scientist, not a poet. And he prides

himself in his analytical approach to his work. He criticizes self-proclaimed “lovers of words” and rejects them in interviews for positions with the dictionary because precision is more important than passion: “Words are not dolls: who cares about ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ from the point of view of real language, or ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ … or mallemaroking (look it up)?”

The English language is not to be admired; it is to be hunted through labyrinths of novels, academic papers, science textbooks, TV shows, coffee shops, and bars. It is to be studied, interrogated, background-checked, and argued over late into the night. Only with such a broad scope and linguistic precision can the OED keep tabs on a language that changes with each text we send, each headline we read, and each hashtag we retweet.

For all that, though, Simp-

son is a genial, expert (and drily British) guide through the English language.

Though he claims his view shuns romance, no man who spends three pages on the myriad uses of the word “as” (metaphor, comparison, causation — the possibilities are endless) lacks love for the English language.

For Simpson, though, the OED is primarily an impressive work of scholarship: “Britons … have never been quite sure whether the OED is a work of monumental scholarship or simply opens up to the world the British at their most obsessive,” Simpson writes.

We can thank Simpson’s obsession — and his editorial vision and lexical precision — for the labor of love and excellent scholarship that is the online OED. And that’s something worth “mallemaroking” about.

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Woltanski from B1 own songs and a lot of times produced their own albums, so for him to record his own material is great.”

When Luke Woltanski was a sophomore in high school, he met another student who was making records using cdbaby.com, an independent record distribution company which handles licensing and distribution of music. Once Woltanski had a substantial repertoire of songs, he decided he would buy a recorder and sell his music to cdbaby to distribute.

From that point onward, Woltanski has been recording material constantly.

Freshman Luke Woltanski has recorded three albums. Facebook

“I was proud of him,” said Tammy Woltanski, Luke’s mother. “He’s always has been a self-starter...Then when he wanted to record, we thought oh it’s probably not going to happen, but sure enough it did. And each time it gets better and better.”

Writing lyrics is at the core of Woltanski’s evolving creative process.

He has written songs about shipwrecks, ghosts, love, and loss. Some songs are inspired by feelings, and others are inspired by events. The song “Prairie Fire,” which is also the title of his first album, found its inspiration after he and his family were caught between

Get cultured on campus this week Alpha Rho Tau hosts apartment art show By | Jordyn Pair

Assistant Editor Art honorary Alpha Rho Tau is hosting its first annual art show this Friday from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in an off-campus apartment.

“This is going to be our first annual art show,” said junior Elsa Lagerquist, president of A.R.T. “We’re super excited because we are requiring all of the artwork be done outside of class.”

Both honorary members and faculty have pieces in the show. Mediums include photography, watercolor, fabric, digital paintings, mixed media, and charcoal.

The honorary mandates any art submitted to the show be made outside of assignments or class time, a requirement which Lucas said he appreciates.

“I’m almost hesitant to say I’m an art major, because I’m so bad at doing art outside of class,” Patrick Lucas, Treasurer

of A.R.T., said. “It’s the first art piece I’ve done in a while that I have a connection with.”

Lucas is submitting both a photograph and a charcoal piece to the show.

The honorary, which currently consists of around 40 members, hopes to encourage more art outside the classroom, as well as participation in the arts in general.

“Getting involved in the arts is an important for anybody to do. It doesn’t have to be creating art,” A.R.T. secretary senior Tori Swanson said. “I think it’s cool for people to come and see individually what we make of it, especially for any of us that want to be artists in the future. It’s not an assignment, it’s more personal and individual. You learn about the artist’s personalities from the art that they create.”

The art show will be held at 118 N. Broad St. in Apartment C. Directions and more information about the honorary can be found on Facebook.

SAI sings ‘A Little Night Music’ in McNamara By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor

This Saturday evening, the women of Sigma Alpha Iota will hold their fall concert, “A Little Night Music,” at 8 p.m. in the Howard Music Building’s McNamara Rehearsal Hall.

The concert, expected to last about an hour and a half, will feature 14 acts.

“A lot of the music is more geared toward night music like things talking about dreams or lullabies,” SAI president senior Gaby Wong said in an email. “The couple pieces I am in are more acoustic as well, which I think gives a more relaxed feel to the concert.”

Though many of the songs deal with similar themes, the concert will feature a wide variety of music, according to the concert’s program director, junior Sarah Schutte.

“We’re doing a jazz arrangement, we have people doing original compositions, we have people doing pop arrangements, stuff from musicals, some acoustic sets — so all different genres,” Schutte said.

Though SAI graduated 23 seniors last year, over half the Hillsdale Chapter, this year’s concert length was not affected by the smaller number of performers. It still has roughly the same number of acts, which SAI members began rehearsing for toward the beginning of the fall semester.

“It’s a little smaller, but still very strong,” Schutte said.

“There has been a lot of dedication and enthusiasm.”

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the concert, and seats typically fill up quickly, Schutte said.

“I’m anticipating a really big crowd,” Schutte said. “We usually fill all the seats and still have people standing.”

Hillcats fuse jazz, rock, and funk in fall concert By | Katie Scheu

Assistant Editor

The Hillcats Faculty Jazz Ensemble will rock the Markel Auditorium with rock beats and electronic instruments as they perform a concert of jazz-fusion music this Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m.

With a program full of jazz blended with classical, funk, and rock elements, Lecturer in Music and saxophonist Jonathon Gewirtz said this concert will cover material not usually associated with a traditional jazz concert. Instead, the night will mainly feature the music of jazz-fusion band Weather Report.

“Weather Report was one of the most successful, both artistically and commercially, of these ‘jazz-fusion’ groups to come out of the 1970s and 1980s,” Lecturer in Music Jon-

a prairie fire and a tornado while hunting in Kansas.

“In Kansas, they light all of the prairies on fire to fertilize the ground from time to time,” Woltanski said. “We were in the wilderness, and there was this massive tornado to our left and a huge prairie fire to our right. So if you go one way you’d burn, and if you went the other way you’d get sucked up into a tornado.

It was really intense. It left an impression on me to say the least.”

The title track for his most recent album, “Constellations,” is his most personal. “‘Constellations’ came about after my grandmother

athon Gewirtz said.

Weather Report’s music departs from jazz’s typical free style, their completely composed pieces leaving no room for improvisation, Gewirtz said.

“Weather Report changed the face of music with their fusion of jazz, rock, funk, and classical influences,” Jazz Bass Instructor Hank Horton said.

“They were arrogant, loud, and arguably some of the finest musicians on the planet at the time.”

Admission to Friday’s concert is free, and no ticketing is required.

“People will enjoy the collection of tunes, and the extremely talented group of musicians you will hear on Friday night,” Horton said. “We plan on having lots of fun.”

died, so that was her song,” said Woltanski. “I wanted to write it from the eyes of my grandfather, which was difficult, but it was really cool to do.”

Woltanski said he would like to reach a point where he can travel and perform live for audiences.

“Whether or not that happens, it’s kind of God’s will, but I hope it does happen,” Woltanski said. “I would love to be able to do music for the rest of my life” Woltanski’s new album is expected to come out this January. His current music is available on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Plus.

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Law from B4 students entering Hillsdale College and to Hillsdale’s liberal arts education.

“The liberal arts really force students to master the kinds of skills you need to do well on the law school admissions test,” Schlueter said. “Close reading, textual analysis, good writing, and good logical reasoning are all part of that package. You get that by reading difficult texts. Reading the great books sharpens the mind in ways other things do not.”

Megan Lacy, a 2007 Hillsdale graduate and 2010 graduate of the No. 8 ranked University of Virginia School of Law said studying a broad range of topics, and discussing first principles at Hillsdale helped her perform well in law school.

“We were taught to reason from first principles and argue from original sources,” she said. “That’s a lot like what a lawyer does when she argues about the meaning of a statute or a document and tries to persuade a court that her case comports with one line of reasoning instead of another.”

Lacy said she intentionally majored in history and minored in French, studying across multiple disciplines with her favorite professors.

“My goal was to study interesting topics with professors who would teach us to think seriously about them.

Some of the best things about our Hillsdale education are things I also love about law,” she said.

Education at Hillsdale also produces character, Lacy said, which is helpful in the legal profession.

“On a personal level, I’ve found our liberal arts education to produce reliably mature, kind, hardworking, and self-governing students.

All of those qualities prove invaluable to the pursuit of a demanding profession like the law,” she said.

Now, Lacy works as Legal Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“At the end of the day, setting aside the additional pressures and responsibilities at work in private practice and in politics, that’s what I love about the law — wrestling with a question alongside your colleagues until you’ve gotten it right,” she said. “In many ways, it’s not so different from the way we wrestled with the ‘everlasting questions’ alongside classmates and professors at Hillsdale.”

Close relationships between students and professors also help with law school applications, said Garrett West ’15, a law student at No. 2 ranked Yale Law School.

“Hillsdale allowed me to become close with professors who knew me well enough and cared about me enough to write strong letters of recommendation,” West said. “I think that’s a tremendous advantage compared to some other larger institutions.”

Paul Ray ’08, a 2011 graduate of No. 1 ranked Harvard Law School and 2013-2014 clerk for Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, said that just as important as his studies at Hillsdale were the friendships he made along the way.

“Fellowship with other people who are trying to live out in the legal profession what we learned at Hillsdale has been an immense blessing,” he said.

Ultimately, the path to law school starts with loving undergraduate studies first, Schlueter said.

“Of the three Hillsdale students who clerked for the Supreme Court, all three of them just loved their time here,” he said. “They loved ideas and they loved the things they were studying.”

“Take time to study subjects that aren’t immediately relevant to law school and a legal career,” Ray said.

“There will be plenty of time to learn what you need to know to be a good lawyer, but it’s hard to find time amid a legal career to study poetry, literature, philosophy, and other subjects that are so important to the good

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Negotiations with Norton: Students learn lifelong skills

Vice President and General Counsel Robert Norton teaches negotiations. Nicole Ault | Collegian

By | Nicole Ault Collegian Reporter Starting with 15 cents worth of puppy chow, junior Beau Jarrett traded his way to a steak dinner at a professor’s house and two rounds of biscuits and gravy from his housemate. At one point in the process, he had a minifridge (but he preferred the food).

The project was his first homework assignment in the negotiation class he’s taking this semester with Hillsdale College Vice President and General Counsel Robert Norton. Norton is offering the two-credit class — which is normally only taught at the graduate level — through the business department. But he said it’s an important and applicable class for students in any major.

“All of us negotiate every day,” Norton said, citing marriage, buying a house, and ne-

gotiating a job contract as examples. “It’s an important skill to recognize early in life.”

Norton, who was certified to teach negotiations by the Harvard Program on Negotiation, said the course uses the Harvard Case Method. In the class, students read and listen to lectures on negotiation basics, then put what they learn into practice by competing with each other in negotiation scenarios. For example, one student might represent a baseball player forming a contract with a baseball team which is represented by another student.

“I love doing those negotiations outside of class because it’s an opportunity to try different ways of negotiation,” Jarrett said. “Learning to ask all the questions you can and develop a way of thinking of multiple routes at the same time has been extraordinarily valuable for me.”

Colin Wilson ’16, who took Norton’s class when it was first offered last semester, said the class was invaluable for him as well.

“Our class periods were an hour and a half but they always just flew by,” he said. “Taking the class sort of pulled back the curtain and showed me how things worked.”

Norton said learning about negotiation changed his life.

At 14 years old, he was al-

ready negotiating — and he didn’t even realize it. Selling tires for his family’s auto repair business, he would cut deals with customers: buy four tires and get a free alignment, or take half off an oil change.

He took his first negotiations class in 1991 while in law school at the University of Michigan because one of his favorite professors was offering the class. Though he wasn’t initially intrigued by the topic, he said he was hooked once classes began.

“I was fascinated, because I didn’t realize there was even a study of this thing called negotiations,” Norton said. “I realized there are a whole bunch of rules and phrases and terms and strategies you can use.”

After law school, Norton began employing his negotiations skills while working for a law firm and dealing with conflict situations in court. He then went on to work for corporations, including as principal negotiator for Visteon Corp., a spinoff from Ford Motor Co., and assistant general counsel at Chrysler LLC. In these positions, he said, his negotiations role focused more on cooperation and building long-term relationships with other companies.

Norton then served as vice president of external relations for the Bradley Foundation, a charitable foundation where

he said he employed his negotiation skills to bring in donations.

Now in his second year at the college, Norton said his work combines the kinds of negotiation he had to do in his previous positions.

“Sometimes I’m working with an organization; sometimes with an individual; sometimes it’s a matter of dispute or conflict,” he said. “Otherwise it’s a donor with whom we have a very good long-term relationship, and we’re trying to further that and give them the most benefit we can.”

Norton emphasized that forming good relationships is crucial to negotiation.

“Some people think negotiation means conflict and hostility when quite often it’s the opposite,” he said. “Being friendly and building long-term rapport and a relationship with somebody is ultimately the best way to go forward.”

Wilson said Norton displayed the humility and civility that are so important to negotiation.

“He’s doing a lot of really important, high-level work for the college, but every time I went into his office he put down whatever he was doing and talked to me about my imaginary negotiation exercise,” Wilson said. “He’ll always offer you a soda when-

ever you come into his office.

He actually let me sit in on a couple actual negotiation calls he was on.”

Jarrett affirmed that Norton is down-to-earth and principled.

“He’s always emphasized: Never brag about any negotiations you’ve done, and never lie,” Jarrett said. “He’s teaching you how to be strong and sometimes aggressive when you need to be, but he’s keeping you on that moral track especially that Hillsdale stands for.”

Norton, whose daughter graduated from Hillsdale in 2015, said he came to work at the college largely because he appreciated its values.

“From my interactions coming to campus, meeting Dr. Arnn, and meeting the other management of the college, I believed it was as good as I had heard,” he said. “I believe in the mission of the college.”

He said that his goal is to set students on track for becoming better negotiators and using these skills throughout life.

“Hopefully we start them on a lifelong pursuit of becoming better and better negotiators,” he said. “They’ll go into situations that other people might avoid because they don’t want to have to negotiate, and hopefully the Hillsdale students that have had the class

Beyond the stars: Dolch explores space with largest radio telescope

Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. Timothy Dolch | Courtesy

By | Jack McPherson Collegian Freelancer For Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch, the night sky holds much more than mere starlight. As a specialist in astronomy, Dolch said he has long been fascinated with space.

“At night, I lie awake think-

ing of pulsars,” Dolch said. “I fell in love with astronomy as a high school freshman while building antennas in my backyard.”

Beyond the doors of Strosacker 116, Dolch has a gateway to the radio-wave feed that can see into the fast galaxy. He also has access to the Green Bank Radio Telescope

Hillsdale College Archivist Linda Moore stands with the grave of Spencer J. Fowler, a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Hillsdale during the 1850s, during a past Halloween tour of Oak Grove Cemetery. Linda Moore | Courtesy

— almost 500 feet tall and 16 million pounds — situated in the United States National Radio Quiet Zone.

“It’s the largest moveable object in the world and we operate that radio telescope from this room,” Dolch said.

“We also operate the Arecibo Observatory, which is another radio telescope located in Puerto Rico.”

These radio telescopes can detect phenomena like pulsars, which emit electromagnetic radiation.

“Pulsars are collapsed remnants of exploded stars,” Dolch said. “Stars have a life cycle to them and when they get old and explode they leave behind this remnant of a collapsed core of the star.

This remnant is so dense that it is like the mass of our sun packed into a 10-kilometer sphere.”

A spoonful of material from one of these pulsars would weigh as much as a mountain.

“It’s so dense that regular atoms don’t even hold up,” Dolch said. “It turns into pure neutrons. It’s like an enormous atomic nucleus and it’s a very extreme form of matter.”

No Hillsdale students have ever seen a pulsar in the night sky because pulsars are impossible to image within the visible spectrum, hence the necessity for radio telescopes.

“Visible light, the light we see, is only a small part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. There’s ultraviolet, xrays, and radio waves. Radio waves that we use for com-

munication are essentially waves of light that are redder than we can see, which corresponds to longer wavelength,” Dolch said.

With a radio telescope, he can observe pulsars at any time of day or weather condition, even during a cloudy afternoon.

“If we had eyes to see the sky in other wavelengths, we’d be able to see a lot different things,” Dolch said.

Recently, Dolch, along with NANOGraph, an international collaborative study on pulsars, observed an oddity about a particular massive nebula, which is a cloud gas and dust in outer space, that resembles a guitar.

“Something about the shape has changed about that pulse and we don’t know why,” Dolch said. “I’m totally in love with figuring out why that is.”

Discovery of phenomena like massive nebulae and pulsars pose new questions for scientists, but can also lead to questions about fundamental aspects of science.

“We’re using pulsars to detect gravitational waves. As space is stretching out, the distance between these radio pulses [becomes larger] too,” Dolch said. “[This is] why we study it, because it’s new.

When you study new things, you end up learning physics fundamentally.”

Dolch aims to create an environment in the classroom in which he can let the wonder of nature speak for herself. Freshman Alex Ancede, who is enrolled in one

of Dolch’s introductory physics courses this semester, attests to this.

“I learned about the recent discovery that confirmed Einstein’s theory of distant black holes due to the detection of distortion of spacetime at the LIGO Centers in Louisiana and Washington,” Ancede said. “It is fascinating.”

Dolch appears to teach in an voracious manner, according to Ancede.

“He is very inspired by what he teaches,” Ancede said. “He loves to get his students involved. He keeps the class fun and entertaining and we are able to learn something at the same time.”

Freshman Jack Duffy agreed.

“Many humanities majors can have a tendency to write off science majors in much the same way a science major may view the humanities as subservient to his own field of study,” Duffy said. “Dr. Dolch entertained many different opinions on the matter, but was careful to present physics as integral to a complete understanding of the universe.”

Dolch said the proper study of nature and the universe should be a moving experience.

“Why is the universe beautiful? You have these experiences by letting nature move you,” Dolch said. “If that’s not happening [within someone], if you don’t get that sort of wow moment from nature, then I think something’s missing.”

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about past students who aren’t much different than those attending Hillsdale today, she said. Her favorite to tell is how secret societies led to the establishment of fraternities on campus after the faculty had banned them, Moore said.

She said she also likes discussing the literary societies — preludes to clubs that hold lectures, discussions, and debates on various topics today.

“Students were more closely connected to their literary society than even the college,” Moore said. “They illustrate the lifelong friendships students still feel at college. They certainly did in the early days, as well.”

But what is most noteworthy is the amount of support the college had from the surrounding community in its early days, Moore said. Before becoming nationally known, many Hillsdale supporters, administrators, and board members came from the area.

“People talk about the disconnect between the town and gown, and I guess it shows that it wasn’t always that way,” Moore said. “There were very

many times in the early years the college wouldn’t have made it without the sacrifice of the people buried there. I think it’s fitting the students should acknowledge their gratitude to those people that made this institution possible.”

Egger said learning about the community’s connection with the college altered her perspective of her school.

“The supporters weren’t somewhere across the country,” Egger said. “They lived right here and helped build the school.”

Moore said she now knows people buried in the cemetery.

Some are related to the college and others are not. The stories of those they rest among, however, are worth telling, she said.

“There’s a saying that no one ever actually dies until the last person who remembers them is gone,” Moore said.

“I think that’s one way we’re keeping those individuals alive on campus and acknowledging the great debt the college owes them.”

ton. Junior Anna Zemaitaitis said she thought it was neat to learn their histories.

“You live in the dorms, and you see the names, and you learn something about the people who built the school,” Zemaitaitis said. “We’re surrounded by these names anyway. It’s nice to know who it was.”

Junior Stacey Egger, who works in the college’s archives with Moore, agreed, adding that Moore combines wellresearched information with fun factoids.

“There’s probably no one better to do the tour than her,” Egger said.

The tour has mostly remained consistent, but when Moore learns something interesting about a new person on the route, she will add that story to her repertoire.

“Fortunately for me, it doesn’t have to change,” she said. “New students are always coming in and can hear the same old stories.”

Some of her favorites are

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Carrying on a sweet tradition of cooking and canning Elaine and Edward Riopelle have been canning all their lives and started a canning business in Hillsdale in 2006. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

By | Jordyn Pair Assistant Editor When Elaine Riopelle wanted to see her niece get married, she found herself in a sticky situation — the wedding was in Jamaica, and she and her husband Edward Riopelle didn’t have the money to go.

So, they set up a card table at the local farmers’ market.

“We took the mustard, four jams, a dip, and some quick breads up to the [farmers’ market],” Elaine Riopelle said. “In eight weeks, we made enough money to go to Jamaica. It just kind of grew from there.”

Six years later, they have replaced the card table with two 6-foot tables and a canopy. Underneath, they sell mustards, jams, breads, pickled products, and small pies, as well as dips, rubs, and bread oil dry mixes as Elaine’s Kitchen Delights. Prices range from $1.50 to $12, although bulk orders are available for a higher

price.

“She sold a half a gallon of mustard to a customer over the winter,” Edward Riopelle said.

Choosing a cooking business wasn’t random. Being resourceful, as well as cooking and canning, is ingrained in both families.

“My mom canned between 2,500 to 3,000 jars a year,” Elaine Riopelle said. “Nothing went to waste in our house.”

Edward Riopelle, too, comes from a canning family.

“My mother didn’t can near as much as hers did, but I’d say we did between 500 and 800 jars a year of various products,” he said.

Many of the mustard and jam recipes they use have been passed down from Elaine Riopelle’s great-grandmother. Although the recipes originally come from a cookbook, she follows the penciled-in alterations made to them.

“Some of the recipes in there too are index cards or pieces of paper shoved in the cookbook,” Elaine Riopelle said.

While some of the recipes are familiar, others are more unusual, such as tomato jam, elderberry jam, and corncob jam. Elaine Riopelle has also created her own recipes, like her caramel apple crisp and raspberry mango jams. The couple currently offers 28 varieties of jams, although that number fluctuates as they rotate products.

Their resourcefulness goes beyond canning, though: they forage most of the fruits they use from their own property.

“The birds have been helping us plant wild blackberries,” Edward Riopelle said. “I’ve got two nice patches because of them.”

They also use repurposed jars for their products.

“What we can’t reuse, we recycle,” Edward Riopelle said. “We believe in

taking care; it’s our little part we can do.”

Last year, they sold 600 jars of jam, 600 pies, and 250 jars of mustard.

Two customers were Thom and Marty Lantz, who visit Hillsdale around three times a month from Maumee, Ohio.

“We’re small business owners, so we really think it’s important to support the local people,” Marty Lantz said.

The Riopelles cite God and their faith as the reason for their success.

“We’ve been asked to go to a different Farmers’ Market on Sunday and we’ve always said no because church is very important to us,” Elaine said.

“I think God has been faithful to us [because of that].”

The couple attends the Hillsdale Assembly of God church, where they help host the craft and gift bazaar.

Elaine’s Kitchen Delights can next be found at the bazaar on November 12,

Alumni lead in law schools By | Kristiana Mork Collegian Reporter

Hillsdale College graduates rank among top performers in law school and law school admissions, according to Career Services statistics.

Of the 2016 graduates who reported law school attendance, 67 percent reported attending top-10 law schools.

Of the 2015 graduates who reported attendance to law school, 57 percent attended

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law schools, but large percentages of students who apply to law school generally are admitted, and those who attend perform at the highest level, Schlueter said.

In 2015, eight out of nine Hillsdale students were accepted to law school, and in 2014, all 14 students were accepted.

Those students are also getting on law reviews, Schlueter said. Usually, law reviews are reserved for the top 5 per-

“I’ve found our liberal arts education to produce reliably mature, kind, hardworking, and self-governing students. All of those qualities prove invaluable to the pursuit of a demanding profession like the law.” top-20 law schools, according to Career Services data.

“Every year at least three students get into top-10 law schools,” said Nathan Schlueter, Hillsdale College professor of philosophy and pre-law advisor. “Right now we have students at Harvard, Yale, University of Virginia, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. I don’t know another school of our size that has that kind of repeated success getting students into top law schools.”

Students are not only accepted to the highest-quality

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The money they make is put toward things like travel and house renovations.

“Since we’ve [started doing] the market and the craft shows, we’ve gone to Jamaica, taken an Alaskan cruise, been to Hawaii, bought new living room furniture and lamps, and bought a whole new bedroom set,” Edward Riopelle said. “It’s going to take us a couple of years, but we’re planning on putting a small addition on the back of the house.”

Both have other jobs and see Elaine’s Kitchen Delights as a way to work together and supplement their income as they move toward retirement.

“We enjoy being together,” Edward Riopelle said. “It’s a labor of love. We enjoy it with each other, and we like what we do besides the time together.

I think that’s really what keeps it going.”

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cent of students in a given law class, and Hillsdale alumni are making the cut.

Schlueter said law review acceptance is based on writing. All exams are graded blindly, so that professors do not pick favorites. Schlueter said Hillsdale students have been chosen to write for the law reviews at schools like Harvard, Yale, and the University of Michigan.

Schlueter attributes success largely to the quality of

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Hillsdale College archivist Linda Moore swears the Oak Grove Cemetery sometimes plays tricks on her.

“I know those graves don’t move, but I sure as heck have trouble finding them from year to year,” she said.

According to students, however, her Halloween cemetery tours are nothing but a treat.

Almost annually, Moore leads a group of students, faculty and staff, and community members on an illustrative tour visiting 18 tombs in the 157-year-old graveyard at North West and West Montgomery streets. This year, she’s holding one Monday from 3:30-5 p.m. The group will meet in the Dow Leadership Center’s parking lot before stepping back in time to the early years of the college.

Moore has led about eight tours in more than 10 years, holding one only when a group or individual requests it. Her tradition of visiting cemeteries, however, extends further back than that.

Growing up, Moore visited her grandmother in Michigan City, Indiana, 35 minutes from her hometown of Buchanan, Michigan. Her family would grab a bite to eat for lunch and then go to the graves of her mother’s family to honor and remember them, she said.

Her grandmother would look at the dates to calculate the age at which the people buried there died.

“We always did that, visit the cemetery,” Moore said. “I don’t think it’s that common, but it’s something we always did.”

She said she would eventually develop an interest in history and genealogy, as well.

In 1998, she took over the college’s archives from Professor Emeritus Jerry Fallon.

She said she learned of the local people buried in Oak Grove with connections to the college — students, faculty, administrators, board members, and donors.

“It dawned on me, in the early years, there was so much local involvement in the college,” Moore said. “I thought it would be interesting to do a kind of college tour.”

Using a 1970s book with a map labeling people in the cemetery, Moore selected some individuals she knew had interesting stories and created a route to walk by their final resting places.

She also compiled photos of many of the people she discusses to make the tour illustrative.

“They become more real, I think,” she said.

Several stories come from those with familiar names, like Mauck, Koon, and Slay-

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Matt Katz and Lois Lesher By | Corinne Prost

Matt Katz: Penguin

Lois Lesher: Guy Fieri

Describe your costume: Penguin. I don’t know how else to describe it.

Describe your costume.

Off the chain.

What is the inspiration behind your costume?

I’m a big fan of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” I think it’s out of bounds.

What was your favorite costume as a kid?

Pikachu before it was cool again. I also was a dog like four times.

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What is the inspiration behind your costume?

First it was a group costume with friends. We got it my sophomore year of high school. I keep using it because it’s comfy and it’s been a crowd pleaser.

What was your worst Halloween costume?

Sophomore year, I was a carrot and Bridget DeLapp was a bunny.

What does Halloween mean to you?

This year it’s a chance to go straight to Flavortown.

What does Halloween mean to you?

Halloween is a chance to express yourself and be something you’re not.

Character quote?

Halloween this year is going to be straight money.

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