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DONALD J. TRUMP WINS Students react to America electing political outsider for president direction, Trump came out victorious, securing more than 270 predicted electoral college votes. Trump took several swing states, including Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “I pledge to every citizen of Donald J. Trump was elect- our land that I will be president ed the 45th president of the United States Tuesday, according to The Associated Press and numerous other media outlets that declared him the victor at 2:31 a.m. Wednesday. After a historic presidential race, Hillsdale College students and faculty expressed surprise over the Republican candidate’s victory and uncertainty for what the future holds. Trump is the first person elected president without having held a for all Americans,” Trump said public office or serving in the from his campaign headquarmilitary. ters in New York City along“A Trump victory sends a side Vice President-elect Mike resounding signal that the peo- Pence, after Clinton concedple have wrenched back con- ed to Trump in a phone call. trol of their government from “For those who have chosen disaffected impotent elites and not to support me in the past, replaced it with a government of which there were a few peoof, by, and for the American ple, I’m reaching out to you for people,” sophomore Garrison your guidance and your help so Grisedale said. we can work together and unify Despite polls that leaned in our great country.” Democratic presidential nomTrump said he congratuinee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lated Clinton, adding that the

country owes gratitude to her for her service. Clinton won highly contested races in Virginia and Nevada. She, however, didn’t make a speech Tuesday night. In the wake of a seemingly endless chain of electoral victories for Trump early in the evening, college President Larry Arnn said in an email that he could see the tide was turning in favor of the political outsider. “The political map is altering in substantial ways,” Arnn said. “That has seemed to be underway since Trump emerged as the leader in the primaries. Take time to figure out what it means. It is significant.” Trump’s win along with the Republicans maintaining majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives give the party of Abraham Lincoln control of the legislative and executive branches for the first time since 2006. Trump’s win and Clinton’s loss draws questions about the future of both major parties, Assistant Professor of Politics John Grant said. “I think that the Trump candidacy exposed a big divide in the Republican Party

over which direction that party should take,and exposing that divide between ‘Are we the party of George Bush 41 and 43, Mitt Romney, and McCain?’” Grant said. Trump rose in the polls early following his announcement that he would run for president in June 2015. Trump continued to lead in the 17-way Republican primary. He became the presumptive nominee in early May, after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his bid when he lost the Indiana primary. In the general election, Clinton continually polled ahead. She gained a further boost, after a 2005 tape of Trump making lewd remarks leaked and several women accused him of sexual assault. Despite this, Clinton’s controversies surrounding classified emails sent to a private internet server, emails between campaign staff released by WikiLeaks, and FBI investigations plagued her campaign. Throughout the race, Trump has defended increasing tariffs to encourage manufacturing within the United States and tougher restrictions on immigration, including construction of a wall along the U.S. border

By | Breana Noble News Editor In the wake of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential victory Tuesday, Hillsdale College faculty expressed uncertainty over how a Trump administation would affect the college. Although seven Hillsdale professors and administrators publicly endorsed Trump in September, faculty members said Trump’s policies remain unclear when it comes to higher education. His win, however, does provide a hope for maintaining Hillsdale’s independence better than during a Clinton administration, they said. When asked how a Trump presidency would affect Hillsdale, President Larry Arnn was honest: “I don’t know,” he said. But he said he would like to keep Trump to his word. “The comprehensive independent regulatory state is dangerous to any independent institution,” Arnn told The Collegian. “Trump claims he wants to reduce that. I like that.” Professor of Politics Thomas West said he wasn’t sure a Trump victory would make a difference for Hillsdale’s state as an independent institution.

said. “It may take a long time for that to happen.” West, however, added that the college has influence of its own. “The college has resources to fight back with — publicity,” West said. “The college will get support from parts of the public, no matter who is president.” Only two employees of Hillsdale donated to Trump’s campaign, according to the Federal Elections Commission. Arnn donated a total of $3,000 to Donald Trump for President Inc. in three payments between Sept. 28 and Oct. 13. No college employees donated to Clinton, according to the FEC. Arnn said he did his research on the real estate business mogul. In February, he came across an op-ed in the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal with Trump’s byline. In it, Trump calls for a president to rein in the federal government. “The United States of America is a land of laws, and Americans value the rule of law above all,” Trump said in the article. “Why, then, has our Congress allowed the president and the executive branch to take on near-dictatorial power? How is it that we have a president who will not enforce some laws

and who encourages faceless, nameless bureaucrats to manage public lands as if the millions of acres were owned by agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Energy?” Arnn said the piece surprised him. “I regard that speech as superb, and I read it, and I thought, ‘Wow. I wonder who wrote this,’” he said. Arnn had students in his office look further into what Trump had said on the rule of law and the government’s ownership of property to see if they could find anything unconstitutional from him on those subjects. They couldn’t, Arnn said. “Over time, I’ve told people that, including people who are very against Donald Trump, and found them surprised,” Arnn said. “I was surprised. It looks to me it is what it is. The article, I think it’s really good. It gets to the heart of the matter, and then I find out it’s not the only thing he’s said on the matter by a long shot. I don’t know who wrote that article, but a lot of those things he’s said out of his own mouth in the context of a debate — more than one — re- See Faculty A2

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“I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.”

Faculty says Trump brings uncertain future The accreditation process, however, is what concerns him the most, West said. Provost David Whalen, who hasn’t publicly endorsed Trump, said growing requirements from the federal government could harm Hillsdale’s ability to determine its own policies. They may also pressure accreditation agencies into becoming more than peer eval-

“The comprehensive indepenent regulatory state is dangerous to any independent institution.” uators but enforcers of administrative policies. West said, in particular, agencies may have to enforce diversity standards. Hillsdale College doesn’t collect racial information on its student body or faculty, in the spirit of its mission statement, which states it will educate “irrespective of nation, color, or sex.” “There’s probably going to be pressure to increase the number of minorities,” West

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with Mexico. He has also promoted his plan to create tax deductions for childcare and put forth a shortlist of rule-of-law judges to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant position. In an Oct. 20 Collegian poll of 493 students, 43 percent said they were planning to vote for Trump, far less than the 90 percent supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Only 6 per-

cent had voted for Clinton at Hillsdale. Junior Elyse Hutcheson, founder of Hillsdale College Democrats, said she voted for Clinton in the election because she believes Trump is unqualified for the position of leader of the free world. “I would be a little scared, if Donald Trump wins,”

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Michigan voters re-elected Michigan Supreme Court Justice David Viviano ’94 Tuesday. Facebook

Alum Viviano wins re-election to Mich. Supreme Court Trump shortlist pick Larsen also wins By | Thomas Novelly and Jessie Fox Editor-in-Chief and Sports Editor Justice David Viviano ’94 and Justice Joan Larsen won re-election to the Michigan Supreme Court Tuesday. “I’m just really appreciative and humble to have the support of so many great people across the state,” Viviano told The Collegian. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Viviano led his Democratic opponent Wayne County Judge Frank S. Szymanski by nearly one million votes. Attorney Doug Dern, the Natural Law Party candidate, secured just 10 percent of the vote compared to Viviano’s 67 percent. Larsen also garnered an immense amount of support

at the polls — with 98 percent of precincts reporting, Larsen had won 58 percent of the vote. Democratic challenger Judge Deborah Thomas secured 29 percent, and Libertarian challenger attorney Kerry L. Morgan brought in just 13 percent. With the two incumbents securing their seats Tuesday evening, the Republican-nominated justices maintain a 5-2 majority on the court. Viviano’s and Larsen’s campaigns gained significant traction, when they were both unanimously appointed at the state’s Republican convention in August, securing their spots on the ballot in November. Although the judges appeared on the nonpartisan section of Tuesday’s ballot, they said following their Republican nomination in August that they

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Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson won nearly 4 percent of Michigan’s votes, during Tuesday’s election, far surpassing the less than 1 percent he received in 2012. Twitter

Johnson gains more votes, supporters than last run By | Kate Patrick and Kaylee McGhee Associate Editor and Assistant Editor Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson won nearly four percent of the vote in Michigan Tuesday, despite, four years ago, running as a write-in candidate and capturing less than 1 percent in the Great Lakes state. Early Wednesday morning, election results showed Johnson was well under the five percent national popular vote threshold that would secure federal matching funds for the Libertarian Party. He needed to capture 15 percent to get Libertarian candidates into future national debates. Despite missing the mark, junior Brendan Noble, president of Hillsdale Young Americans for Liberty, said Johnson, as well as other third party candidates, appeared to fare better than in past elections. “Johnson received far more votes than the 1 percent he received in 2012,” Noble said. “The movement and party has missed many of its goals, but it is larger and has received more votes than ever.” The Collegian polled 493 Hillsdale students Oct. 20, and more than 20 percent of respondents said they would vote for Gary Johnson. In September, The Detroit News reported that 9 percent of Michigan voters supported Johnson.

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Hutcheson said Tuesday. “We’ll hope that the Congress, Senate, and House will stop any crazy bills he’d try to pass. His attitude towards minorities are frightening, and I would be scared to see an uprising of people who aren’t as kind to people who are different than them.” Even students who said they voted for Trump said they were concerned about the reaction following the results. Freshman Karissa McCarthy said she voted for Trump because her sister serves in the Air Force. “I voted for who I would trust more with my sister’s life,” freshman Karissa McCarthy said Tuesday. “I’ll react the same way if either of them win: I’m going to pray. Either one of them is going to do something that’s going to make the other side mad, but I’ll be more joyful, if Trump wins.” Other students said they

The number of Libertarian supporters has steadily increased, ever since Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican candidate. After Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in May, Google searches for “Gary Johnson” and “Libertarian Party” increased sharply and continued to do so through the summer, spiking again Monday, according to data compiled by Google Trends. “I think that the Libertarian Party attracting more attention is wonderful,” said junior Noah Weinrich, president of Hillsdale’s Classical Liberal Organization. “I wouldn’t exactly call myself a libertarian, and I’m not a huge Johnson supporter, but I think it’s fantastic that libertarian ideas are getting more attention.” At least six major publications endorsed Johnson for president, most notably the Chicago Tribune and The Detroit News. Johnson also scored a major Michigan supporter: Jimmy Greene, president of the Michigan chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. Johnson told The Collegian in an exclusive interview Oct. 28 that he has run his campaign with integrity and that even if he loses, he is proud of his success and support. “It’s been a principled run,” Johnson told The Collegian. “Six newspapers have endorsed me, and I think that’s some-

thing to be proud of — speaking the truth.” According to Weinrich, Johnson’s success shows how many voters are rejecting the two-party system and the limited choices it provides. For only the second time, the Libertarian candidate made it onto the ballot in all 50 states. The 2012 presidential election was record-breaking, when Johnson won 1.2 million popular votes, according to data compiled by the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. The only other time the Libertarian Party took one percent of the vote was in 1980, when the Ed Clark and David Koch ticket scored more than 900,000 popular votes. The party has frequently scored 1 percent of the vote in U.S. House and Senate races, though there are no Libertarians in the current Congress. Only 10 Libertarians have been elected to state legislatures in the history of the party, and there are 135 Libertarians in elected positions nationwide right now, according to the party’s data. “I hope the Libertarian Party takes these accomplishments, and failures, and coalesces around a more organized, united, and actually libertarian movement and leaders,” Noble said. “I hope that the party can manage to be taken more seriously and that it handles itself more professionally.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her race for president Tuesday, conceding to Trump in a phone call early Wednesday morning. Wikimedia Commons

were unsure of what a Trump presidency would entail, given his lack of political experience. “I don’t know what Trump will do,” said Hillsdale College Republicans President junior Brant Cohen. “I don’t think he has an extensive experience with policy deals. His inexperience in government could mean a strengthening of Congress and getting back their power.” Hillsdae Young Americans for President junior English Hinton said she thinks the win demonstrates America’s fur-

thering distance from conservative principles. “We’re straying from what President Ronald Reagan would have wanted for us,” Hinton said. “It doesn’t mean he’s not the lesser two evils, but we’re still not going toward the principled end.” Trump supporters, however, are looking forward to January. “If Trump wins, it would be a sigh of relief,” freshman Jadon Lippincott said Tuesday. “And I’m hopeful for his new policies.”

Faculty from A1 sponding to questions. He seems to have absorbed the point.” Ultimately, the real power rests in bureaucratic agencies, West said. While the president has influence over the top officials in those departments, he said many civil servants in those agencies don’t change with a new president, meaning a win for Trump or Clinton wouldn’t have made too much of a difference concerning the policies the bureaucracy enforces. “A lot of these regulatory policies have been in place for a long time and would take a long time to change them,” West said. “No matter who wins the election, I don’t expect a drastic change to take place in America in regard to the college.”

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Nic Rowan Web Editor and Collegian Reporter Four Hillsdale College alumni running for office won their races Tuesday, taking part in a Republican wave that saw Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defeat heavily favor Democrat Hillary Clinton. All running as Republicans, four of the five former Hillsdale students won offices in state legislatures in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and Washington. Voters re-elected Tom Morrison ’97 and Tim Leonard ’83 to their respective state assemblies in Illinois and Colorado, while Hans Zeiger ’07 won his state senate race in Washington, and former Hillsdale student Steve Johnson won his race for Michigan state house. Ian Swanson ’14 lost his race for the Nebraska state legislature. Morrison, who has served as state representative in Illinois’ 54th District since 2010, ran unopposed in the general election. He also ran unoppsed in his Republican primary. Morrison advocates for making spending cuts to Illinois state government, is anti-abortion, and supports traditional marriage. According to his campaign website, he earned the endorsement of the Associated Builders and Contractors as well as the Chicago Tribune and Daily Herald newspapers. Before entering politics, Morrison worked in radio, taught fifth grade at Christian Liberty Academy, and partnered with his brother to purchase two Servpro franchises. Servpro is a company that specializes in disaster cleanup and restoration. Leonard narrowly defeated Democrat Tammy Story, receiving 51 percent of the vote in Colorado’s 25th state house district early Wednesday, in a race that came down to more than 1,000 votes. In January, a vacancy committee chose Leonard to fill the Colorado house seat being vacated by Rep. John Keyser when Keyser resigned to run for the U.S. Senate. “We’re making a difference; we’re making enemies and defending the Constitution,” Leonard told The Collegian in February. “Our biggest framework is a constitutional, limited government.” Leonard advocates for free market principles, is pro-second amendment, and is also anti-abortion. Before serving in government, Leonard owned Deepwater Point Company, having spent 30 years in commercial real estate, brokerage, and consulting. Leonard is the founding member of the American Constitution Party of Colorado and ran as the party’s candidate for the state senate in 2006. He also lost an independent bid for Colorado governor in 1998 as well as two unsuccessful runs for the state senate as a Republican in 2010 and 2014.

Rick Kolowski in the state legislature race for the 31st District of Nebraska. Kolowski earned 52 percent compared to Swanson’s 48 percent early Wednesday. “It’s a very challenging thing to run against an incumbent in any office but especially in Nebraska,” Swanson told The Collegian in January. “Incumbents usually win. It can be a challenge if you want to make it a challenge. But I love doing it because I know people are crying out for something different, and I want to provide an alternative to the status quo in politics.” Swanson served as the Douglas County Republican Party’s executive director, before re-starting his campaign. Earlier this year, Swanson defeated Kolowski in Nebraska’s nonpartisan state primary by nearly 500 votes. Swanson campaigned on a platform of tax reforms, local control of education, and support for the anti-abortion cause. His campaign has earned the endorsement of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, former Governor of Nebraska Kay Orr, and the Nebraska Firearm Owners Association. After choosing not to run for re-election in Washington state’s 25b state house district, Zeiger ran for state senate, defeating Democrat Karl Mecklenburg. Zeiger received 58 percent early Wednesday, while Mecklenburg secured only 42 percent. Zeiger ran for the senate seat, after Republican incumbent Bruce Dammeier didn’t seek re-election. During his campaign, Zeiger made job growth and funding public education the main issues of his candidacy. Zeiger was first elected to Washington’s state house in 2010. In 2012, the Washington Student Association named him Legislator of the Year for his encouraging youth civic engagement. He was then named Legislator of the Year again in 2013, this time by by the Associated General Contractors, for his work completing a Washington highway. Zeiger is also an officer for the Washington Air National Guard. After graduating from Hillsdale, Zeiger attended Pepperdine University to earn his Master of Science in public policy. He is a former author, editor, and senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union. Johnson, who attended Hillsdale for two semesters in 2014 and 2015, won his bid for Michigan’s 72nd State House seat, defeating Democrat Steve Shoemaker with 55 percent of the vote early Wednesday. “It was a good night for the Constitution in the 72nd District,” Johnson said. “If you stand on principle, you still can win.” Johnson said he felt called by God to enter politics and saw an opportunity when Republican Rep. Ken Yonker, R-Caledonia, had reached his term limit maximum. Johnson is running on an

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Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Larsen in September 2015, replacing Justice Mary Beth Kelly after she resigned. Larsen, who taught at the University of Michigan Law School at the time, said the appointment took her by utter surprise. Michigan law required Larsen to run for election in 2016 to complete Kelly’s unfinished term. After her victory on Tuesday evening, Larsen will look at re-election in November 2018. Viviano has served longer than Larsen. When former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway retired, Snyder appointed Viviano in February 2013. In 2014, Viviano won the general election, securing his partial term. Viviano will now serve his first full eight-year term on the court. Hillsdale senior Bridget DeLapp, Viviano’s niece, worked for both Larsen and her uncle’s campaigns and said it was clear to her from the campaign trail that people were excited about their message. “He has a lot of success because he reaches out to a lot of individual people,” DeLapp said in August. “It’s important

follow many conservative principles and defined themselves as “rule-of-law” judges. “That really just means judges who limit themselves to their role of interpreting and applying the law faithfully and with fidelity to the cases that come before the court,” Viviano said in an interview with The Hillsdale Collegian. “The concepts of the separation of powers and limited government is how I understand a judge’s role through the framework of the Constitution.” Larsen also won a significant amount of conservative support, when she appeared in May as one of 11 judges on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s shortlist of potential Supreme Court replacements for Antonin Scalia following his death. “It was a shock and a surprise,” Larsen said in August. “The other 10 judges on the list are esteemed judges, and the ones that I know are very good people. I was very pleased to be in their company.” Larsen had no experience as a judge before being suddenly appointed. Michigan

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Ian Swanson ’14 lost his race for the Nebraska state legislature in the 31st District. Facebook

Tim Leonard ’83 won re-election to the Colorado state House in the 25th District. Tim Leonard | Courtesy

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Washington state Rep. Hans Zeiger ’07 won election to the state Senate. Facebook

Former Hillsdale student Steve Johnson won election to the Michigan state House in the 72nd District. Steve Johnson | Courtesy

anti-abortion, pro-second amendment, and reduced taxes platform. His campaign earned the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Michigan. Before entering politics, Johnson served in the Air Force for four years, worked as a handyman in Alaska, and was a substitute teacher in the Grand Rapids area. Looking back on his time at Hillsdale, Johnson said his Constitution course was particularly influential in his candidacy. “The course was definitely a great opportunity to learn about the Constitution, the founding of it, and how to follow it,” he said. to him to express his judicial philosophy to as many people as possible, and Justice Larsen comes out very strong. She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, and her philosophy has been straight on rule of law, and people just fall in love with her when they meet her.” Major media outlets in the state have fallen in love with both of the candidates. Larsen and Vivano secured big-ticket endorsements from The Detroit News as well as The Detroit Free Press. “Michigan is fortunate to have a state Supreme Court that is collegial, committed to the rule of law, and not divided by partisan politics,” The Detroit News said in its endorsement. “Voters should make sure it stays that way.” When asked about the new term, Viviano said he and Larsen both plan to continue serving as rule-of-law judges. “The focus of our court, and of a good judge, is the rule of law and doing the things we learned at Hillsdale, respecting the Constitution and the separation of powers, the design of the government, and system of government that our founders put into place,” Viviano said.

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Job and internship fair looks to build student-employer relations By | Josephine von Dohlen Collegian Reporter Students will have a better opportunity to engage with employers professionally and personally Thursday at Hillsdale College’s job and internship fair. The career services office is holding the annual event from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Six more companies and organizations than last year are sending representatives to the two-day event, presenting employers to Hillsdale’s campus and community. New this year, an exclusive afterglow networking event for students who are personally invited by recruiters during the fair will allow further connections in a more informal environment. Assistant Director of Career Services John Quint invited companies with prior connections to the event. He said an improved economy has made recruiters more willing to come to Hillsdale. “Personal connection and relationship was where we started,” Quint said. “We want to get this thing built up and expand it.” Twenty-five companies — including Aerotek, Enterprise Holdings Inc., and Quicken Loans Inc. — made the cut. “We would like to see every employer that comes hire or give an internship to a student,” Quint said. While the fair introduces recruiters to Hillsdale students, it also familiarizes them with the campus environment, Quint said. This gives them an idea of what it means to be a Hillsdale

student, he said. The afterglow networking event is an extension of that goal to connect employers with future employees The event will be on Thursday from 4-6 p.m. in the Searle Center. “The idea is that there is the traditional career fair, and if the employer would like to invite a student back to talk in a more informal networking environment, they’re going to have the opportunity to do that,” Quint said. Senior Bilyana Petkova, Student Affairs Mentor director, encouraged all students to attend, regardless of their class rank. “You can start networking and get a start ahead of other people looking for a job,” Petkova said. Hillsdale connections with alumni benefitted senior Matt Vanisacker. After meeting a recruiter for The Hershey Company, who attended Hillsdale, Vanisacker interned over the summer for the corporation. Hershey is also scheduled to attend Thursday’s fair. “Through career services, there are so many different connections of different alumni who understand what you’re going through,” Vanisacker said. While those connections are helpful, it is ultimately the Hillsdale education that separates students in those internships and jobs, Quint said. Vanisacker agreed: “A lot of companies are enjoying the liberal arts because those students know how to think.”

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cessible through other online resources, Student Fed Rep. sophomore Kolbe Conger said. “When the constitution was amended to include the mandate for a website, it was 2006,” he said. “MySpace was bigger than Facebook. There was no Google Drive, no iPhone, no Android. No one had any idea of the cloud. So to them, it was a binary choice between a website and printing it in The Collegian.” Creating and maintaining a website would cost hundreds of dollars a year, Conger said. By not specifying a website, Student Fed can use easier and cheaper methods to give student access to meeting minutes, he said. “We’re talking about getting a ‘my site’ on the MyHillsdale website,” Conger said. “We’re working with the Student Activities Board to have email blasters and links to Dropbox or cloud files…A website is on the table, but we want to make sure all the options are on the table not just one.” Student Fed Rep. sophomore Ross Hatley, who also serves as the rules committee chairman, said a website isn’t the best or most efficient way to bring transparency to the organization. “We believe that it’s important to vote for amendment eight to allow the Student Fed a free hand to pursue the maximum transparency possible without restrictions and regulations,” Hatley said.

Student Federation election next week Hillsdale College students will elect their Student Federation representatives and vote on eight proposed amendments to the federation’s constitution next week. From Nov. 14-16 in the Grewcock Student Union, students can elect federation officers, two representatives for their class year, and three at-large delegates. Two-thirds of the student body is needed for each of the amendments to pass. Student Fed representatives said proposed amendment eight seeks to increase access to the federation by diversifying the ways students can access information in response to Thursday’s Collegian editorial that called for students to vote no on the amendment to increase transparency. Proposed amendment eight would eliminate a clause in Student Fed’s constitution requiring it to post meeting minutes on its website, which doesn’t exist. Instead, the constitution would mandate the minutes become available to students when they ask. “It allows Student Fed to be flexible in the medium in which to be transparent,” Student Fed Rep. sophomore Thomas Ryskamp said. “Instead of a website, we can use social media, online storage places.” Student Fed is working with information technology services to make its materials ac-

By | Timmy Pearce Assistant Editor Sigma Chi’s Derby Days fundraiser ended last week breaking the record for the most money ever raised in one event by a student organization at Hillsdale College. The men’s fraternity raised more than $11,000, beating the record it set last year of $9,300 with Operation Homefront, an event that combined Derby Days and the Fritze Farm 5K run. Kappa Kappa Gamma won the week’s activities, for the sixth year in a row. “Derby Daddy” sophomore Thomas Mullen said he had expected a much lower total because of his work to focus the event away from raising money and toward the fun of the com-

Hillsdale College campus security is recommending students lock up their bikes. Over the past two-and-ahalf weeks, four bikes have disappeared from the bicycle rack outside Simpson Residence, after students didn’t properly secure them. “People sometimes forget that we’re not immune to stuff like theft and crime here just because we’re at Hillsdale,” Simpson Head Resident Assistant senior Hank Prim said.

“We’re lucky that we don’t get our computers stolen off of desks, but if you don’t lock up your property that you leave outside all week, you’re just asking for it to get stolen.” Simpson staff is working with campus security to find out when the alleged thefts occurred and who might have taken the bikes. Since many students that have bikes on campus don’t use them on a daily basis, it is often hard to determine exactly when they disappeared. “It’s an open investigation,” Director of Campus Securi-

petition between the three sororities. “I was super excited and thankful for all the ladies support and help,” Mullen said. Kappa won a chili cook off, mock rock dance competition, Sigma Chi member auction, and the “Sign a Sig” event, which had the women chase down Sigma Chi members and sign their T-shirts. “It’s kind of become a tradition for Kappa to win, and it’s really great because philanthropy is really important to Kappa, and, through Derby Days, helping out other people’s charities is good in itself,” said junior English Hinton, Kappa philanthropy chairwoman. In the auction, a couple members went for more than

$1,000 and a few more went for more than $500 to do tasks for the sorority women, Mullen said. Prior to Sigma Chi holding the record, Alpha Tao Omega fraternity set it in October 2015 for its biennial “Clips for Cancer,” raising $5,600. “I congratulate them on raising so much money for philanthropy,” ATO philanthropy chairman junior Abraham Oerth said. “Next fall we hope to raise even more money.” Ultimately, it is all about raising money for a good cause, Mullen said. “We do what we can for a higher purpose here at Sigma Chi, and I’m glad this year we raised that bar,” Mullen said.

College Republicans alter CPAC sign-ups By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor Hillsdale College Republicans recently announced its decision to decrease the number of students it will send to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in February. Unable to fundraise as much as last year, the club is looking to take half the number of participants to CPAC 2017, Hillsdale College Republicans President junior Brant Cohen said. To ensure active participants in the group get a spot, the College Republicans has implemented new requirements students must fulfill to increase their chances of getting a spot on the trip, Cohen said. College Republicans sent around 130 students to CPAC 2016, making it the largest organized group in attendance, Cohen said. The new requirements for this academic year’s event include attending two events sponsored by Hillsdale College Republicans and volunteering twice for the club’s projects. Fulfilling these requirements will make students eligible for applying to CPAC two weeks early, Cohen said. The requirements aren’t meant to bar anyone from going, Cohen said, but they are to ensure students invested in the annual conference’s purpose can attend. “The benefit of these new requirements is that if you want to go on the trip, they show

Junior Michael Lucchese, senior Tatiana Coverdell, senior Alex Buchmann, senior Larissa Clark, and junior Macy Mount stand outside the Conservative Political Action Conference’s hub, where organizations pass out information and free goodies, at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Maryland. Facebook

that you are actually invested in everything CPAC offers,” he said. “It’s a reward thanking them for their participation.” Sophomore Abigail Allen, who attended the conference in March, approves of the new requirements because it would help guarantee people want to be there for the events and not just a subsidized trip to the capital, she said. “CPAC is a very good experience, and it’s even better if you want to be there,” Allen said. “This is a chance for the committed students to get to go.” Junior Katie Mersereau, who also attended CPAC 2016, however, said the new requirements are unrealistic. “Not everyone has the flexi-

bility or the time to meet these requirements,” Mersereau said. “That doesn’t mean that they’re politically inactive or not invested in the trip, though.” Junior Zach Stone agreed: “I think CPAC should be open to people other than the College Republicans. At the moment, it seems like they have a monopoly on who gets to go to CPAC, and that’s not fair.” Cohen, however, insisted that the requirements are not meant to exclude anyone from the event and that students can still attend the conference on their own, if they aren’t able to attend with College Republicans. “We just want to make sure the kids who want to go get to go,” Cohen said.

Getting a hand on robotics: Edward Neff Edward Neff is the CEO of Systems, Machines, Automation Components Corporation, a company which produces fine motored robotics. He has managed automation companies in Belgium and Japan. In 1990, he founded SMAC in Carlsbad, California, which has grown to become a world leader in moving coil technology. Neff produces robots he refers to as “robotic fingers,” which have the capability to complete tasks requiring precise movements. His customers include Samsung and Apple. He spoke Friday at Hillsdale on “Leadership in the Digital Age.” In your presentation, you discussed your project regarding robotic fingers. Why are robotic fingers so important? Robotics try to do things that humans do, and you wouldn’t be able to do too much if you didn’t have hands and fingers. That’s very important for doing just about anything. Up until now, there haven’t been any robotic hands commercialized. What we’ve been able to do is develop a robotic finger that can do what a human finger can do and in some ways, do it better. Are you ever concerned about robots becoming too prevalent in our society? It depends. If you go back and look at old science fiction

Four bikes vanish from Simpson By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter

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ty William Whorley said. “I won’t say anything more.” Simpson RAs have moved all unlocked bikes inside, as a protective measure. Students can also register their bikes with campus security at its office or online to further ensure their safety. “For now, we’re just instructing guys to lock up their bikes,” Prim said. “There’s not much else we can do right now.” Those with information regarding the bikes can contact campus security at 517-6072535.

Three bicycles disappeared from the rack outside of Simpson Residence in October. Nic Rowan | Collegian

-Compiled by Ben Dietderich such as Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein, Arthur Clark even, they have all sorts of science fiction stories where people are living their own worlds. Robots are doing all sorts of things. Populations are shrinking because virtual reality is so advanced. There’s danger about that, and I suppose it depends on the society and how it applies to the robots. Do you believe it’s possible for students who attend liberal arts institutions to be able to get jobs in the technology industry? Yes. In my presentation, I put up a picture of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Neither one had a tech degree. Neither one even graduated from college. Gates was kinda geeky in terms of code and those kinds of things, and Jobs just had these ideas about how he thought computers should be used. You really don’t need that much tech. You need to have an idea, an interest, and you’ve got to have a strong will to make that idea become a reality. Virtually anybody can do it as long as they have the will. What suggestions do you have for college students as they prepare to enter the workforce? My suggestions are based on what I did. Try to find a small

Systems, Machines, Automation Components Corporation CEO Edward Neff spoke about his “robotic fingers” project at Hillsdale Friday. Ben Dietderich | Collegian

company that is expanding outside the U.S., and try to get a position at one of those outside locations. Good points are that when you’re young, you want to learn as much as you can about what you’re interested in. If you’re interested in a company that is smaller, then you wind up doing most of the different jobs. You learn a lot. It’s interesting, fun, and enjoyable. For example, for me, it was the French part of Belgium and Tokyo. I got into those types of cultures by playing sports too. Hear more on Radio Free Hilsdale 101.7 FM’s Soundcloud.

benefits Apple users By | Andrew Egger Senior Writer MacBook users rejoice: The Wi-Fi in college dorms just got much more stable for Apple products. An alternate WiFi network, “Resnet_Test,” has been installed in the dorms, after a security upgrade created connection problems for some Mac computers. In fall 2015, information technology services upgraded the security of Hillsdale’s “Resnet” Wi-Fi networks in residence halls from simple password protection (a technology known as “Wired Equivalent Privacy”) to an encrypted system called “Wireless Protected Access.” WPA encryption makes it more difficult for hackers to steal personal data by using an algorithm to encode data as it moves between computers and routers. Although it is more secure, it caused problems for some students’ Apple computers. “Apple devices, many of them, did not play well with the WPA security on the access points in the dorms,” ITS Network Systems Manager Patrick Chartrand said. “It would work for a little while, and then it would die, and you couldn’t get back on. Very annoying, kids hated it — I don’t blame them. I hated it, too.” Eventually, ITS discovered that many Apple computers were not optimized to work with the WPA encryption, Chartrand said.

Sophomore Theresa Boyd works on her Apple laptop in Benzing Residence. The installation of Resnet_Test allows students to use an unencrypted Wi-Fi network that work better for Apple products. Madeline Barry | Collegian

“Apple’s well known for this; they don’t always follow the preset rules,” Chartrand said. “They kind of do their own little proprietary thing. So a manufacturer builds to a spec, and Apple’s over here, and they don’t just mesh up quite right.” Chartrand said ITS is communicating with Apple to try to fix the problem. In the meantime, however, they have installed a secondary network. The Resnet_Test networks are protected with WEP, not WPA encryption, so Apple devices will have no problems connecting to them. Because WEP networks must use a 10-digit password, the two networks will require different passwords to connect. For now, Chartrand said the Resnet_Test password is simply “0123456789.” Chartrand said if Apple doesn’t fix the problem on their own, they will likely stick with the two-network solution, renaming them “Resnet Secure” and “Resnet Insecure.” “Here, the risk is minimal,” Chartrand said. “You’re fine using it with or without the encryption here.”

CCA II honors von Mises and Hayek religious freedom, you proba- ered not only economics but By | Evan Carter Web Editor

The college’s second Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar begins Sunday and will examine the ideas of Austrian economics and its two most famous philosophers. Director of Programs for External Affairs Matt Bell said the point of the CCAs is to further the mission of the college in educating students and now a greater audience because of the ability to stream the lectures online. The ideas of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek perpetuated the values of liberty and independence, Bell said. “If you don’t have civil and

bly don’t have economic freedom,” Bell said. The CCA is part of the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series started by former college President George Roche the year after von Mises’ death in 1974 to honor him and further understanding of the economic system he promoted. The seminar’s speakers will include Austrian economists Israel Kirzner, Lawrence H. White, Hillsdale alumnus Robert P. Murphy ’97, and Peter Boettke as well as authors Nicholas Wapshott and Eugen-Maria Schulak. Professor of Economics Ivan Pongracic said given that the work of Mises and Hayek cov-

politics, policy, and philosophy, condensing it all into a roughly hour-long CCA speech would be difficult. “Mises and Hayek revolutionized Austrian economics,” Pongracic said. Pongracic said although Austrian economics is growing in popularity today, it was “heterodox” during much of the time von Mises and Hayek were alive. The thinkers, however, promoted their theories in the midst of the Great Depression and the rise of Communism after World War II. “For my money, these were two of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century,” Pongracic said.

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Long-time CBS news anchor Dan Rather has described the 2016 campaign season as “a dumpster fire of an election.” And in the wake of America choosing Trump to be its 45th president, many Americans will be adding more garbage to that fire with their Facebook statuses and tweets. Don’t be one of them. Adding to the political echo chamber of social media only serves to further polarize our

already divided nation and campus. Rather than attacking the other side, realize that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the most unpopular presidential candidates in the history of the United States. According to Real Clear Politics, 55 percent of Americans viewed Clinton unfavorably before the election, and 58 percent felt the same way about Trump. A historically small number of Ameri-

can’s are happy with this election’s result— now is the time to build bridges, not deeper trenches. In the coming months America needs to heal its social wounds. Race relations are worse now than they have been in decades, and at 52 percent, America’s trust in law enforcement is the lowest it’s been in 22 years. The last thing we need is more division regarding last night’s election.

No one appreciates a Facebook rant claiming that Trump's presidency will ruin the name of American conservatism, and even more unhelpful is a gloating victory tweet aimed to poke at Never Trumpers. Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States, and no amount of online griping will change that.

Westblade: Regardless of election results, Christians are to obey earthly authorities

How can conservatism recover from Trump?

domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” A Trump victory is not necessarily a victory for American self-government, and we cannot afford to think that opposition to Trump is unpatriotic. In fact, a vigorous defense of Americans’ constitutional rights is precisely the most patriotic path ahead. Pro-Trump conservatives — and #NeverTrump conservatives— owe it to the people to stand firmly on that ground. Most importantly, conservatives in the Congress must do everything they can to oppose any unconstitutionality from the President. The legislature is a coequal branch of our government, and it is incumbent on its members that they act as such. Congress cannot afford to let the President seize still more expansive power. They cannot afford to act like they did the past eight years — or, really, the past several decades. In “Macbeth and the Moral Universe,” Harry Jaffa wrote “Whose actions have the widest consequences and are most in need of virtue to direct them? The rulers'. Hence morality in all its dimensions can be best seen in the lives of rulers.” Our representatives in Congress can either prove themselves equal to the task of restoring constitutional government, or weak and servile to the interests of faction over country — the very creatures of petty politics Washington warned us of in his Farewell Address. Now, more than ever, the very existence of our republic depends on the conduct of Americans. Now, more than ever, this country is in need of high statesmanship. Now, more than ever, conservatives need to convince the American people to steer this state away from the danger of a post-constitutional regime. The future is admittedly murky. But the permanent things remain just as Good, True, and Beautiful as they ever have been. So long as conservatives make the best arguments for the best ideas, we can still salvage this republic. Much work lies ahead. Many arguments are going to be had. But, for now, the best response is simply an appeal to heaven. Mr. Lucchese is a junior studying American history and journalism.

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that brutal imperialist, Augustus, and went to Bethlehem to Assistant Professor of Religion participate in the mandatory census. Daniel served loyally Composing this reflection on in the courts of the ruthless the election’s outcome during tyrant, Nebuchadnezzar. Esther the weekend before the election, subjected herself even to marry I fully expect to wake up on the lewd and lecherous king Wednesday to a new president- Xerxes of Persia. elect who is corrupt, profane, It gets harder. The apostles go and poorly representative of on to make it clear they’re not just my personal convictions. I ask speaking of grudging subjection. myself, what is the prophetic Paul elaborates in Eph 6, “obey and apostolic counsel that the your earthly masters with fear Christian scriptures have for me and trembling, with a sincere under circumstances like that? heart, as you would Christ, not by The answer to that question the way of eye-service, as peopleseems worryingly consistent with pleasers, but as bondservants every biblical voice that weighs of Christ, doing the will of God in. from the heart, rendering service Paul says in Romans 13, “Let with a good will as to the Lord every person be subject to the and not to man.” governing authorities.” Peter Scripture calls us to obey our says in his first letter, “Be subject earthly authorities, and, as Peter to every human institution, says (1 Pet 2:18) to do so “with all whether it be to the emperor as respect, not only to the good and supreme, or to governors as sent gentle but also to the unjust.” by him to punish those who do The question seems natural: evil and to praise those who How can I be called sincerely to do good. For this is the will of obey someone for whom I was God.” Jesus seems to imply the pretty certain I was not even same when he admonishes his called to vote? disciples to “render unto Caesar To answer that question, what is Caesar’s.” our biblical witnesses take us To the protest, But not to a two steps further. Step one lecherous looter like the leader clarifies the foundation of our we just elected! Peter and Paul call to obedience in earthly will patiently point out that contexts. Step two recognizes the they were writing in the days of constraints that are placed on our Caligula and Claudius and Nero, obedience when it is built on this who by comparison might make biblical foundation. our candidates look like cherubs. “Our citizenship is in heaven,” Joseph and Mary submitted to Paul wrote the Philippians. The

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By | Michael Lucchese Columnist We elected a man with the soul of a tyrant. President-elect Donald Trump has consistently shown it throughout his public record. His personal life is repugnant. He has behaved with total dishonor throughout this entire campaign. He has used his fortune to move the levers of power to crush ordinary Americans and accumulate even more wealth. In “The Republic,” Plato wrote that the tyrant “grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself." If Plato is right, then we don’t have much to look forward to over the next four years. However, that’s not to say the outcome of this election is wholly bad. Charles Buskirk, the editor of pro-Trump website “American Greatness,” wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he laid out a way forward for a “Greatness Agenda.” “That means abandoning overly scripted campaigns in favor of authenticity, listening to voters instead of to elite opinion,” Buskirk argued. Buskirk and others hope that Trump will be able to restore constitutional selfgovernment to the American regime. I certainly hope that Trump can succeed in this mission, but Buskirk and I disagree on the capacity of Trump and his “movement” to address these problems. Buskirk believes that Trump is truly a man of the people, whereas I truly believe that Trump and his ilk — the Steve Bannons and Alex Joneses of the world — are fooling ordinary Americans into believing a vicious lie. Regardless of which view is correct, the conservative’s mission has not changed. Government of the people, by the people, for the people is under threat, and we must do everything to defend it. Donald Trump has tapped into something very real. The American people are — rightly — angered by the way the elites in Washington have behaved. They are angered that their way of life has been trampled by arrogant technocrats in D.C. The way forward is clear. George Washington warned that “The alternate

allegiance of obedience we owe belongs to the King who, Paul does not hesitate to say, “instituted those earthly authorities.” In the economy of God’s kingdom, those who give their allegiance to its King are children, and as children we are free – free of the authority of human institutions, and obligated instead to the authority of God. Jesus said as much when his disciples asked him if he and they were subject to the two-drachma tax (Matt 17). “The sons are free.” Kings don’t tax their children. They tax others. Still, Jesus counsels, the sons exercise their freedom in paying the tax so as “not to give offense” to the taxing authority. Paul echoes Jesus’ logic in 1 Cor 7. “Am I not free?” he asks. But he employs his freedom in making himself a slave of others – other humans and human institutions – so as to give them no offense, to love them, and to win among them a hearing of his gospel. The call scripture issues to our obedience to earthly authorities is grounded not in their right to our submission but in the obedience we gladly owe to the King who has set us free by grace to be his children. As his children we in turn give our obedience to earthly authorities as an extension of God’s grace to us. Our obedience is given in freedom and it is given in the power of God as a gift of submission to earthly powers.

Where does the good will come from to “render service [to a corrupt and profane president for the next four years] as to the Lord and not to man”? Paul is very clear. This we can do, “knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he is receiving from the Lord” (Eph 6:7f). Daniel, Esther, Onesimus, Jesus – all of these examples illustrate obedience to God and gifts of gracious service to fallen humans they were willing to call masters. That foundation in another kingdom gives rise to the last step. The location in God of the foundation of our obedience to human authorities means that our obedience to human authorities is radically qualified and limited, not absolute. We will sometimes find ourselves like Peter and the Apostles before the city council in Acts 5, declaring, “We must obey God rather than men.” For that, the state still wields the sword, and we are liable like Peter and Paul to be imprisoned, even martyred for the precedence we give to God’s law over human laws. We will “not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon us to test us as though something strange were happening to us, but we will rejoice insofar as we share Christ’s sufferings” (1 Pet 4:12f). Dr. Westblade is an assistant professor of religion.

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for Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, By | Frank Bruno signs of an unexpected Special to The Collegian showing Trump performance in the The pundits were wrong. Midwest, perhaps driven by The pollsters were definitely this missing demographic.This wrong. Remember Nate Silver’s idea was quickly validated with infallible predictions? Wrong. an unexpected win Wisconsin, Or Larry Sabato’s 322 electoral followed by a bolstering victory college victory for Clinton? in Iowa. The scene seemed to reflect Wrong. They were all wrong: the media, the analysts, and a Rocky Balboa-like ending, most importantly, the ever so where the underdog bides his time against the heavy favorite, smug political elite. As the election kicked off only to unveil a relentless fury with meaningful statistics in of punches in the final round, the 7 p.m. hour, Florida began soaring to a glorious victory. to walk a tightrope, drawing This comeback was fueled by immediate comparisons to the the current dilapidated state of nightmare of 2000. Virginia the nation, and the degraded played its usual game of an condition of the forgotten early Republican lead, slowly people’s prosperity. A Reuters/Ipsos exit poll dwindling throughout the night. North Carolina held out showed three in four people as long as it could, cautiously believe the economy is rigged making its case for a Clinton for the rich. A Real Clear win. But in a matter of hours, Politics average showed 62 the rising tide of populism percent of people believe the swept the nation, and engulfed country is headed in the wrong the egos and swagger of elitists direction. Exit polls across the nation solidified the economy everywhere. In the mystical land of the as Americans’ number one Midwest, where people live concern, above immigration paycheck to paycheck and and even terrorism. At its crux, inhale the rust of abandoned this election was a conscious manufacturing, Trump rallied juxtaposition of the insiders the silent majority.For decades, and the outsiders; the elites and media pundits have debated the those left behind. The Trump reality of these lower-middle campaign seemed to identify class voters who seem to hide this matchup and traced it back in the electoral shadows, but to its source: the Midwest. In now the evidence is irrefutable. the final days of the campaign, Upon announcing Trump on-lookers chuckled as Trump victories in North Carolina and made frequent appearances Florida, the media followed up in places like Michigan, by revealing a major Senate win Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

A bad election is better than no election By | Katie Scheu Assistant Editor

Six years ago today, my family and I hauled 22 50-pound cardboard boxes into the Detroit airport and moved to Shanghai, the largest city in the People’s Republic of China. My time living in a communist country showed me just how fortunate the American people are to endure elections like the one we just finished, even when we must choose between candidates like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. This January, President-elect Donald Trump will raise his right hand and take office, and we, the people, have nothing to complain about: we had the opportunity to make an informed decision, and we made it. In four years, we’ll do it again — that’s how our democracy works. The communist horror

stories I collected in China tend to shock Americans. When CNN’s foreign correspondents comment on the Chinese Communist Party, televisions all over the Middle Kingdom fade to black. Complain about the regime’s rampant corruption in an email, and your memo disappears into cyberspace. Belittle President Xi Jinping over the phone, and the line reduces to static. But what best illustrates the great a gift of the American political system is not big brother’s looming shadow. It’s actually a portrait and a tomb. Tiananmen square is a vast slab of concrete in the middle of Beijing, China’s capital. Towering around its perimeter — the National Museum of China, the Great Hall of the People, the Forbidden City, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Everyday, tourists line up to traipse past the embalmed body

of the chairman before walking underneath his massive portrait adorning the entrance to the preserved Ming imperial city. From 1958 to 1962, Mao starved over 45 million people to death through his attempt to catapult his country into an agricultural and industrial revolution, as explained in Frank Dikötter’s “Mao’s Great Famine.” This number was estimated by Chen Yizi, a senior party official who fled China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre and released his approximated death count in an interview years later. While the numbers hover around 50 million, an official count has not been released — the communist party destroyed it or something. However, a more concrete evidence remains: the memory of the Chinese people. The four years that destroyed China haunt the Middle Kingdom’s older

generation who survived Mao’s great famine and the Cultural Revolution, launched just four years later. The man who decimated an entire generation of people, and destroyed generations of Chinese heritage, is still celebrated in the nation’s capital and recognized as a national hero by the government. Spin the globe back to the United States, and suddenly the political forecast for the next four years looks okay. We have access to sound information. We can pitch a fit over every move the president makes. And if all hell breaks loose, we can always impeach. Most importantly, we voted. And in four years, we’ll vote again. Ms. Scheu is a junior studying French and journalism.

Winner-takes-all system is a loss for democracy By | Kaylee McGhee Assistant Editor Democracy in America lost when the winner-take-all system became a fundamental part of the electoral process. With only two states — Maine and Nebraska — proportionally represented, our nation has been taken over by the duopoly we know as the two-party system. In the winner-take-all system, electors delegated to the electoral college cast all their votes for whichever candidate receives the plurality of the popular vote. The losing candidates win nothing, even if they earn a substantial number of votes. As a result, states are strongly influenced by heavily populated areas, especially during presidential elections. Rural and underpopulated areas are not fairly represented in states that adhere to this limited system. In a nation that boasts of its representative democracy, this system is hypocritical. Although Michigan has leaned red in nearly all of its state

elections since 2010, it goes blue in each presidential election because of Detroit’s influential sway. This is a direct result of winner-take-all. Citizens who cast their votes become political spectators in the nosebleed section — watching as one city determines the color of the entire state. Since many major cities are dominated by a single political viewpoint, this system ensures that one party will have a political monopoly, predetermining the winner before the election even takes place. According to Fair Vote, a nonpartisan organization trying to reform the system, two in five state legislative races go uncontested as a result, and nearly 99% of congressional incumbents win reelection by large margins. How is this democratic? In a system where every vote should count, minorities and third parties are being severely underrepresented. The worst part? States choose to abide by the rules of this system. The Constitution gives

states the freedom to establish their own electoral systems, and the majority of states have opted for the winner-take-all system since the election of 1842, when they first began using it to choose their presidential electors. Maine and Nebraska are the only states which are proportionally represented, meaning each candidate receives a portion of the electoral votes based off the proportionality of the popular election. This not only results in fair representation, but the proportional electoral system also gives voters more options. Voices outside the twoparty system, normally stifled by their inability to draw an overwhelming majority of the popular vote, can actually be heard. Proportional representation does not mean the elimination of majority rule. It still allows for candidates who win the majority of the popular votes to receive the greatest number of electoral votes. It is merely based on the belief that elections should be a mirror of the citizens’ political opinions,

which is something the winnertake-all system has caused us to lose sight of. The winner-take-all system encourages and even sustains the political gridlock the twoparty system creates. As a result, over 45 percent of the citizenry is not represented, according to Fair Vote. This is not the representative democracy the Founders envisioned. In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison argues that extending the sphere, both physically and ideally, is the only way to prevent the tyrannical reign of factions. However, instead of allowing multiple parties to play a role in our so-called democracy, we have allowed two parties to call the shots through the winnertake-all system. So for those who voted and anxiously waited for the results of the election to be revealed: don’t worry. Your vote probably didn’t matter anyway. Ms. McGhee is a sophomore studying politics and journalism.

For months, Trump’s juvenile “Brexit” comparison seemed no more than a wishful hyperbole. In the wee hours of this morning, final numbers are not certain, making in-depth ethnicity and gender analysis difficult to manufacture. But what difference, at this point, does it make? Trump won, and it’s because he spoke the language of everyday Americans: the language of vanishing jobs, diminishing wages, and an increasingly bleak future. His admittedly offensive comments about women, alongside dozens of other unconventional political gaffes, proved irrelevant. In fact, they may have worked as a curious supplement to his folksy message, allowing him to resonate with his “basket of deplorables.” There was an existing theory that a large faction of Americans have been neglected by increasingly liberal policies, and that this hypothetical faction, should they find a candidate which seemed to fight for their dying cause, could come out in droves and change the entire makeup of a general election. This theory was right. The polls rejected its existence, but the polling industry may have just suffered a fatal implosion. The silent majority is real. And the silent majority just changed America. Mr. Bruno is a senior studying politics and business.

American utopia arrives as Trump claims victory

By | Mehgan Cain Satirist After months of having to endure a woman getting ample stage time, the United States is finally back where it belongs: in the massive and "bigly" capable hands of Donald J. Trump. Our new president—nay—our new savior has come to our nation in a time of need glowing with 1000 promises and 1000 dying hair plugs. We have done it, brothers and sisters, we have #MadeAmericaGreatAgain. Before last Thursday it had been 108 years since the Cubs won the World Series, and before Tuesday it had been 240 years since our country had come into existence… as the past week has proven all streaks must end sometime. I have no doubt in my mind that the Donald is ready to really make this country great again, even if he has to end it like a first marriage in order to do so. After years of a mediocre America we have finally done it: we have changed this country for the better. Under the Trump regime—erm…—presidency, we are finally reverting to the way things were during the founding: fake powdered wigs are in, rights for minorities out, and women are back in the home. As a woman though, I can say that this is a relief. I would much rather have my parents spot me a small million dollar loan to get my life started or simply sell me off to a worthy man. My father has often said that if he were 20 years younger and not my father that I would be quite the catch so I know that any man who can afford an Armani suit but not a natural bronzer would be the right balance of humble and successful for me. Being an equal member of society is exhausting and quite frankly I think female Americans miss simpler and less stressful times. This election too will be great for our international image. Mr. Trump has perfected the decorum and social media presence of any great leader. The world looks to us in wild admiration as we close our borders and build our walls, showing that we—as Americans—fear nothing but fear itself and anyone who is not as white as the house in which our fearless leader lives. After years of immigration–a plague on our country since 1492 when the first “Bad Hombres,” as Trump would call them, migrated from Spain–we are finally #MakingAmericaMeanerAgain and I could not be happier. Our president, as dry and ocher as the amber waves of grain themselves, is nothing if not totally professional, is garbage if not completely polished, is an idiot if not utterly a genius. Trump’s presence demonstrates all of this, emulating a natural disaster in his sheer physical power and implied strength. As we welcome him with open arms and closed minds, we can rejoice in the half life glow of his social media presence. Trump has mastered Twitter with the swag of an eighth grader and the insults of said eighth grader’s younger counterpart. It is truly a blessing to have a president who is young and hip in his PR choices and taste in women. Our poised and polite prez is perfect for demanding the respect he so deserves, which is why I’m so glad we #MadeAmericaRespectableAgain. Looking forward to the next four years of this presidency, I am humbled by how great this nation is and how much greater it is about to become. How inspiring that no matter what you say, no matter how few taxes you pay, no matter how little money you donate to charity, and even if you only begin adult life with a minute million dollar loan, you can become president. Literally anyone can become president. Anyone. Ms. Cain is a junior studying speech.

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Rep. Tim Walberg wins re-election By | Evan Carter Web Editor Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., defeated Democrat Gretchen Driskell in Michigan’s 7th Congressional district on Nov. 8, winning his fifth term in office. At print, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, Walberg has earned 177,366 votes, against Driskell’s 127,755 and Independent Ken Proctor’s 15,910. “I really think what the voters were saying tonight is, we were talking about growing the economy, we were talk about lowering the tax burden,” said Walberg’s campaign manager Stephen Rajzer. Walberg won by more than 40,000 votes in a toss-up district designated by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a seat they hoped to flip in 2016. According to Real Clear Politics, the district historically leaned Republican. Walberg has won five out of his six races in the congressional district, which stretches from Lansing to Hillsdale and Monroe to Coldwater. “Tonight was a difficult night for all of us as we con-

ceded the race for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District,” Driskell said in a statement. “Tonight, I am more proud than ever of our strong campaign, our many supporters, and our message on behalf of the families of Michigan.” Rajzer said Walberg will look to help House Republicans push their “better way” plan during his upcoming congressional term, but will also look to return to his bipartisan work on combating the nation’s growing opiate epidemic. Chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party Ronna Romney-McDaniel said she believes that President-elect Donald Trump’s success in Michigan helped all of the state’s Republican candidates. “Trump’s message resonated with Michigan voters,” Romney-McDaniel said. “For Michigan to win and to keep this seat means so much. For our congressional majority it means so much.” The election concentrated on debate surrounding trade and the economy, with Driskell’s campaign spending thousands to slam “Trade Deal Tim” for his voting history, which showed the incumbent’s favor of multiple free

trade bills, as well as his past comments in favor of NAFTA. In return, the American Action Network, a nonprofit that works to elect a Republican majority in the U.S. House, ran ads attacking Driskell for her support of the Affordable Care Act. According to Rajzer, Walberg’s campaign began with ads promoting his record, but he said the tone of the race shifted when Driskell ran her first ad attacking Walberg’s trade record. “Did we call her out for holes in her record? We did,” Rajzer said. “We also focused, at the same time, on our accomplishments.” According to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonprofit that follows money in Michigan politics, constituents of the 7th District saw more than $1.5 million worth of TV commercials from the candidates during the campaign. But the TV ad campaign wasn’t enough for Driskell to overcome Walberg’s lead in the district. “The people see what they’re looking for in the policies that the House and the Congressman has laid out,” Rajzer said.

State Rep. Eric Leutheuser maintains seat in Michigan Legislature By | Katie Scheu Assistant Editor Republican incumbent Eric Leutheuser will represent District 58 in the Michigan House of Representatives for a second time after defeating Democratic candidate Mary Hamaty in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. “It was a quiet campaign. I ran on my record and what I hope to do,” Leutheuser said. “It’s a very Republican district. I’m grateful for the strong showing in votes and I’m grateful for the trust people place in me. It’s a humbling thing.” His results show otherwise. The Hillsdale native, Hillsdale College graduate, and former owner of Leutheuser Motors, Inc. commands a sweeping lead of 15,189 votes over Hamaty’s 4,240. “We’re really pleased with the results,” said Branch County GOP Chair Dennis Armstrong. “We expected the victory because Branch is such a strong Republican county. We have one precinct in the entire county that does not generally vote Republican. That held true tonight.” Hamaty was not available for comment. Both candidates ran uncontested in August’s primaries, but Leutheuser still knocked on doors in Hillsdale and Branch county to familiarize voters with his principles and his name, which was already recognized by locals who knew his father. “I probably won because my dad was a good dealer and treated people well,” Leutheuser told The Collegian this October. “People looked at the list and said ‘yeah I trust him, he’s a good businessman.’” In addition to his Michigan heritage, Leutheuser also comes from strong political lineage. His grandfather served as postmaster in Somerset, Michigan, and his father, Paul Leutheuser, served as two-time mayor of Hillsdale in

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recession in 2008 did not go far enough or fast enough,” Leutheuser said. “We’re going to continue to look for ways to help businesses grow and expand in Michigan. That means making sure the business climate is attractive.” Leutheuser said lowering auto insurance and funding education and pension liability will make the state more attractive to businesses looking to expand to Michigan. “Our job is to keep working on the economy,” Leutheuser said. Leutheuser said he plans to run for a third term representing Southern Michigan. “There’s been a lot of backlash feeding into that rejection of Hillary Clinton from the notion that the elites and the people in Washington are out of touch with everyday concerns,” Leutheuser said. “The point I’d like to make is I do want to represent everybody, whether polls are Republican or Democrat, and I hope that the strong showing in the polls is that people trust me to do just that.”

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BPU installs generators for liability purposes By | Kate Patrick Associate Editor The city of Hillsdale’s backup generators have been out of service for the past four years, but in two months they will be completely upgraded with newly-installed cooling towers. Total repairs — which began in 2015 — cost more than $470,000, funded by the Board of Public Utilities’ budget. Assistant Director Chris McArthur said the BPU chose to restore the generators because the Midcontinent Independent System Operator will provide the BPU with income based on how often the generators are used during the year. “Once a year MISO pays us money back to have those generators available in case there’s an issue with the power on the grid,” McArthur said. “But we

are not required to have backup power. The generators are for liability purposes.” Hillsdale is a member of the Michigan South Central Power Agency, which is located in Litchfield and also provides electricity to the villages of Clinton and Union City, and the cities of Coldwater and Marshall. The MSCPA provides energy for Hillsdale on a daily basis and charges the city per megawatt based on the MISO Energy Market. The price of energy fluctuates hourly, so the price skyrockets during extreme weather conditions, including on the hottest and coldest days of the year. McArthur said when the price of energy rises above $70 per megawatt, the city of Hillsdale uses its backup generators for power to save money. Hillsdale uses its generators about 10 to 12 days out of the year.

“It’s all about economies of scale,” said Glen White, MSCPA general manager. “We make sure the city of Hillsdale has all the energy it needs.” Hillsdale joined the MSCPA when it was founded in 1982 as part of a joint effort for the five communities to save money on electricity, White said. “If the grid went down, Hillsdale would be able to provide for some of its needs with its generators,” White said. In the past, the Hillsdale generators were cooled with water drawn from Baw Beese Lake. After cooling, the water was dumped back into the lake according to Hillsdale’s Department of Environmental Quality noncontact cooling water permit. McArthur said the BPU will finish installing the towers in approximately two months.

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A7 9 Nov. 2016 A view of Cox’s farmhouse and land. Nicole Ault | Collegian

Oldest farm in Hillsdale County dates back to 1834 By | Nicole Ault Collegian Reporter

Cox sits on a vehicle on his property; a view of a road leading into the land; Cox poses next to the sign marking his farm as sesquicentennial, meaning his family has owned it for over 150 years. Nicole Ault | Collegian

Quick-witted, capable, and strongly opinionated, Burt Cox does not act like he is turning 100 on Nov. 19. Most could not live alone at his age, but Cox does, on the oldest farm in Hillsdale County, Cox Farm, which his ancestors purchased in 1834. “I don’t really feel like I’m an old person,” said Cox, who bought a brand new Honda Touring this year and can get around his house without a cane. Given his background, it’s hardly surprising that he is still going strong. Cox recalled how growing up on the farm was no luxury: his mother made clothes for him and his four brothers, and meat was a treat they enjoyed on Sundays. They took baths once a week in a wash basin. He fondly remembered earning two jelly beans for hauling a load of wood for his grandfather. During World War II, Cox spent four years as a mechanic in the U.S. Air Force, including two years in Morocco. As a crew chief, he said, he would get up at 4 a.m. to warm up the

Citizens make last-minute predictions after voting By | Philip H. DeVoe and Ben Dietderich City News Editor and Collegian Reporter During exit interviews conducted at the Hillsdale Community Library voting precinct by The Hillsdale Collegian, voters shared their thoughts regarding the issues that mattered to them in the 2016 general election. “I’m a little disappointed in the national candidates, how they were all about downing each other and sharing bad news about each other,” Hillsdale resident Shelly Weddington said. “I want someone who will be out there looking out for our state and world, not worried about ‘he said, she said.’” Weddington said that although she was uncomfortable with the level of mudslinging to which the candidates reduced themselves, the scandals surrounding former presidential candidate Sec. Hillary Clinton gave her some pause. She said she also questions Clinton’s stance on abortion and financial policies. “Her support of abortion at 36 weeks — it’s absurd. I don’t believe in abortion, period, but you can take your child home

at 36 weeks,” Weddington said. In the election for the 7th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, Weddington had more confidence in her candidate, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich. “He seems like a pretty good guy. I definitely went with him. He’s being honest about what he’s offering, so I was pretty happy with him,” Weddington said. Lt. Tim Parker, who won his race for Hillsdale County sheriff, was the subject of controversy during his campaign for violating the Hatch Act by posing with his official uniform in campaign materials. This controversy lead some citizens, such as Weddington, to reconsider voting for him. Others, however, said Parker’s actions did not change their minds. “Tim’s alright. He wasn’t my preference,” Hillsdale resident Jason Snoes said. “I’m not opposed to Tim. I’m okay with that.” Snoes was supportive of President-elect Donald Trump, especially the candidate’s assessment of the electoral system, which both he and Snoes say is rigged. “I’m with Trump — he says it’s a sham. With the way the electoral system is, they take

by removing photographs in which he appears in uniform from his campaign billboards and his official campaign Facebook page,” said Hamrick, the OSC’s Hatch Act Unit deputy chief. “Lt. Parker has been advised that should he engage in activities prohibited by the Hatch Act in the future, OSC would consider it a knowing and willful violation of the law that could result in disciplinary action.” Parker won the Aug. 3 primary election against fellow Republicans Dow and JonPaul Rutan in a landslide, but Dow reentered the race as a write-in candidate on Sept. 26 due to allegations that Parker had violated a federal election law. “However it turns out, I’m sure it will be the best for the county,” Dow said. “I probably started a little too late. I didn’t get around as far as I could’ve. It’s a big county.” Nevertheless, Parker gar-

“This is the best place in the United States. The best place in the world that I know of,” he said, looking through his kitchen window at the vast, tree-lined cornfield across the road. “I don’t want to go anywhere. Every day I see the sun come up, and it’s different 365 days of the year.” The 119-acre farm has a story of its own. It’s been certified by the state as a sesquicentennial farm, meaning it’s been owned by the family for 150 years, said Mary Foulke, who serves on the state board for the Michigan Centennial Farm Association. Cox said his grandfather, Robert Cox, who bought the farm, also organized the Republican Party in Jackson. Cox’s daughter, Martha Blessing, lives out of state but said the farm has always felt like home to her. She and her husband came up to visit for her father’s birthday. “To me, it’s very special that only my family has lived here,” she said, noting that her great-grandfather’s signature is on an upstairs door. “It’s peaceful,” Blessing said. “You can get away from a lot — it feels like a lot leaves as you come down the dirt road. You

just kind of leave things that don’t really matter.” She said she’s grateful for her father’s long life, too. “He’s been my rock,” Blessing said. Foulke said she’s built up a relationship with Cox while gathering information about the history of the farm for a project she’s working on. “First he seems gruff, but he’s such a sweet person,” she said. “I love talking to him because he has all these life lessons that he’s learned. I just love hearing his stories and what he’s learned about life. I feel very fortunate that I got to know him.” Cox said “you bet” he’s voting in the election. He said he doesn’t know why such a big deal is made over his 100th birthday. “It’s really nothing. If you live long enough, it’s going to happen,” he said. Cox said at the end of the day, he’s content with his life. “God gives me every day, and he lets me do what I want to do,” he said. “I live my life every day, and I live it for today, and if this is it, well, that’s all right. I’ve had a good life, a colorful life.”

Workers install the new Hillsdale city welcome sign. Evan Carter | Collegian

a lot of power out of the voters,” Snoes said. “I think they should count the votes vote for vote, instead of having this ‘each state gets this many votes’ system.” The Rev. Steven Allen, a Greek Orthodox whose family has roots in the Hillsdale area dating back to 1812, said he was supportive of Trump, though he had reservations about his vote. “I’m a die-hard monarchist, so, even if our republic were still legitimate, I would say its system is uncongenial to my sensibilities,” Allen said. “I believe that Clinton is the tool of an insane hubristic war establishment, and if we let these people stay in power, we could enter a war with Russia or China, which is insane, since our military can’t win such a war.” Allen said he held his nose the first time he voted Republican, and that he did so again today. He explained that he had to choose the worse of two evils, but that he knew what he had to do. “Politics is the art of the possible, so instead of voting for the devil I voted for a weak human being,” Allen said. Nobody The Collegian interviewed said they supported Clinton and a clear majority supported Walberg.

Lt. Tim Parker wins sheriff race By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Senior Writer Despite revelations that he violated the Hatch Act during the primary election, Lt. Tim Parker defeated write-in candidate Tammy Dow in the Hillsdale County sheriff election on Tuesday night. Parker took an overwhelming majority early on in the night, and ended the night with 14,940 votes against Tammy Dow’s 1,153. According to an Oct. 6 letter from Erica S. Hamrick of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, Parker violated the Hatch Act during the primary election. He wore his sheriff ’s uniform in photos on his campaign’s Facebook page and billboards, which was a violation. “Once OSC informed Lt. Parker of his violation, he immediately took steps to come into compliance with the law

airplane engines. He said he lived in a hole while in Morocco, and sometimes wouldn’t change clothes for six weeks at a time. “My time in the service changed me,” he said. “I couldn’t be trained. I just got out of three years of combat — no one could tell me what to do.” Cox then worked as a mechanic for United Airlines for 27 years, first in California and then in Detroit. In 1954, he bought the family farm from his mother because he wanted to keep it in the family, he said. For several years, he managed to commute to Detroit daily while raising hogs and growing 60 acres of corn and soybeans on the farm. He retired from United Airlines at 63, but didn’t stop farming till he was 80. Now, he rents the farm to neighbors, who grow corn, wheat, and soybeans on the land. Because of his military background and work for United Airlines, Cox has traveled the world. Besides Morocco, he said, he’s been to Germany, Hawaii, and Tokyo, and has seen much of the U.S. But he said he’s content where he is now.

nered enough support to earn the position of Hillsdale County Sheriff. “No surprise. I defeated the person who wanted to run against me in the primary election,” Parker said. “I really did not have any surprises. I did zero campaigning since the primary election.” Parker was not worried about the election after Dow announced her candidacy. In the Aug. 3 primary, Parker won with 4,534 votes (67 percent), followed by 1,428 votes for Rutan (21 percent) and 798 votes for Dow (less than 12 percent). “I took her attempt to do a write-in campaign as nothing. I took no action. I took no more action than a candidate who had no one running against them,” Parker said. “I didn’t place anything in campaign literature out. I didn’t go out anywhere.” Parker will take office on Jan. 1.

City council re-opens welcome sign debate By | Nic Rowan Collegian Reporter

Widespread complaints about the Hillsdale welcome signs posted on the edges of town caused the city council to reopen public debate about the town’s motto at the Nov. 7 meeting. City Manager David Mackie said he has received negative comments about the signs’ size, visibility from the road, and their content. “I have a hard time seeing the new signs — they are small. I think they’re nice looking signs, but they’re not very big and they’re not lit up very well,” Hillsdale resident Dennis Wainscott said. “They also do blend in with the background greenery.” Wainscott also admitted to being legally blind, but others shared his concerns. Councilman Bruce Sharp, who first brought up the issue of size at an Oct. 3 meeting, said the signs’ visibility has been a problem for him, too. To appease everyone upset about the new signs, Councilman Adam Stockford expanded on a suggestion made by Councilman William Morrissey several weeks ago for a citizen-run contest for a new unofficial motto for the town. Stockford said he wants to show the people of Hillsdale that the city council cares about their concerns and wants to encourage them to participate in local government “Everyone will be allowed some input,” he said. “We’re working with the local press — we’ll run a contest, the committee will receive all the slogans and then pick the best two. And then we put those

two to vote and include ‘It’s the people,’ on the ballot too so residents have a chance to keep the old slogan.” Stockford said it was important that the people take this task upon themselves. “The committee needs to be composed of citizens — we have three volunteers now, but we need more,” he said. Stockford credited Hillsdale resident Penny Swan as being the driving force behind the idea for a new town motto. Swan has been advocating for the city council to allow the citizens of Hillsdale to come up with a new motto ever since the city announced the new “Home of Hillsdale College” signs in September. “I’d love to see “it’s the people” back, but if we could come up with a new slogan that would be great,” Swan said. “I’m open to anything — I’d just like to see something with us people other than the college acknowledged.” Should citizens succeed to form a committee like the one Stockford laid out, it would hold no official power to give the City of Hillsdale an official motto or a new welcome sign. It also would not have the power to place any additional signs near the ones already posted on the side of the road without first getting approval from the city council. Councilman Matt Bell said although he believes citizens should take an interest in their local government by forming committees like the one Stockford proposed, it is important that they follow legal procedure in these sorts of issues. “I think it’s good that citizens pick up the ball and do things on their own,” he said.

“We just need to be sure that we stay within the provisions of our charter as to who has the power to do what. If private citizens want to put up their own signs, they have to come to city council to get the permission to do it.” Ashley Signor, vice president of welding company Liquid Metal Custom Creations, said she and her husband would be interested in possibly building a new sign. Signor said the town of Hillsdale has a rich history that does not just include the college and the signs should reflect that. “In my opinion, many more things should be added to the sign to reflect Hillsdale and its roots, including the industrial parts of Hillsdale,” she said. Until someone forms a committee to give Hillsdale a new unofficial motto, different suggestions are in play to make the current signs more visible. Several residents suggested lighting. Mackie said in a conversation with Hillsdale Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé, Péwé had raised the possibility of building bigger signs with a more legible blue color scheme. Péwé could not be reached for comment. Councilman Bill Zeiser said he hopes the controversy surrounding the signs will eventually have positive effects and get more people involved in local government. “I think we have a problem that a lot of cities have, and that’s a lack of citizen input,” he said. “My hope is that this idea will help bring more people into participating in government. I think that’s more important than whatever ends up happening with the sign.”

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Men’s basketball falls to Valparaiso in exhibition game “There were positives for us By | Nathanael Meadowcroft to build on. There were negaSenior Writer tives to clean up but that’s what The Hillsdale College men’s we expected,” head coach John basketball team lost its only Tharp said. “We’re cautiously exhibition game of the sea- optimistic with things.” son 78-63 to D-I Valparaiso Junior guard Stedman Lowon Saturday night. With their ry scored 13 points, and junior first game of the regular season guard Ryan Badowski and scheduled for Friday night, the sophomore point guard Nate Chargers are building on the Neveau each added 11 points. good and learning from the Sophomore forward Gordon bad in preparation for this Behr led the Chargers with 8 weekend. rebounds and no other player Freshman guard Dylan Lowry came off the bench during Saturday’s game to score five points. Brendan Miller | Collegian

grabbed more than 4. “We didn’t rebound particularly well,” Tharp said. Valparaiso’s lineup features a lot of size inside, which the Chargers struggled to deal with. “We won’t be playing teams with two 7-footers again, so that will help,” Lowry said. The Chargers trailed just 28-24 with 5:27 remaining in the first half, but the Crusaders finished the opening period on a 17-9 run to lead 45-33 at the break. Hillsdale missed 7 free throws in the first half and missed 16 points at the rim. “We did some really good things, we just didn’t do them in long enough stretches,” Tharp said. “When we broke down, we broke down for maybe a three-minute stretch where we turned it over. Our transition defense wasn’t great, and we didn’t rebound the ball.” Valparaiso opened the second half on a 21-10 run to put the game out of reach. “They jumped on us early in the second half, which wasn’t good,” Lowry said. “But nonetheless we were right there so there’s some little things to clean up and I think we’ll be fine.” The Chargers have been working to improve their team defense and transition offense during the preseason. Tharp was happy with both on Saturday. Valparaiso shot 40 percent

from the field and just 29 percent from beyond the arc. “We played better team defense than we have over the last couple years,” Tharp said. “And we were pleased with our pace of how we played from a transition standpoint. We played faster than we’ve played over the last couple years.” This year, the NCAA has put an increased emphasis on calling fouls in the post. The Chargers committed 23 fouls on Saturday. “We fouled too much,” Lowry said. “But that’s an adjustment with the new emphasis.” Because it was an exhibition game, Tharp tried various lineups throughout the game. Tharp was pleased with the performances of redshirt freshmen guards Dylan Lowry and Mike Travlos, who each scored five points. “Dylan Lowry played pretty well off the bench,” Tharp said. “Travlos came in and gave us a great spark in the second half, made some shots for us, and he improved defensively.” Tharp also said Badowski and Neveau played well. Badowski injured his thumb during the game, which means Hillsdale’s coaching staff has yet to come up with a starting lineup for opening night. “We’ve got to see how Badowski comes out of this from an injury perspective,” Tharp said. “We have an idea of who

it’s going to be.” Regardless of who starts, Tharp believes it will take production from the entire rotation for the Chargers to win games. “In order for this team to have any type of success, it’s going to have to be an unbelievable collective effort,” Tharp said. “There isn’t a superstar on this roster. And that’s not saying that we don’t have some good players. But it’s going to have to be just a

great collective effort.” The Chargers will face Malone on Friday night at 5 p.m. and Ohio Valley on Saturday night at 5 p.m. at Walsh University. Facing unfamiliar opponents, the Chargers are focusing on themselves. “That’s the difficult thing about this time of year. We don’t know what we’re going to see,” Tharp said. “So we’ll focus on trying to be as sound as we possibly can.” Nate Neveau pushes past a defender during Saturday’s matchup against Valparaiso. Brendan Miller | Collegian

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL READY FOR FINAL GLIAC SEASON By | S. M. Chavey Features Editor

The Hillsdale College women’s basketball team is tipping off its season this weekend, hoping to use an aggressive offensive strategy to trump last year’s 16-10 record. The season will begin with home games Friday and Saturday against McKendree and Illinois-Springfield, teams from the Great Lakes Valley Conference, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively. The Chargers are hoping to put forth an aggressive offensive strategy this year, starting against a team they beat 71-59 last season. “Right now, the team is anxious to get started with our games. We’ve been practicing for several weeks and we really feel that we’re ready to get out on the court,” head coach Todd Mitmesser said. “Those first few games are like a measuring stick in a test. They tell you where you’re at, at that given time, and I think the team is really wanting to get rolling and see where we’re at.” Sophomore forward Makenna Ott said she thinks they can beat both teams this weekend. “We need to play how we play and not to what they want us to play. If we just do what

we’re coached to do and what we know how to do, we’ll win,” Ott said of Friday’s upcoming game. “Winning Friday and Saturday would be a great way to start off the season, with two wins under our belt. We would be able to show the others how tough the GLIAC is.” The team was ranked No. 5 out of seven in the GLIAC South Coaches’ Poll based on their performance last season. “Obviously, we have a different opinion, because we know what we’ve been doing since the end of last season until now,” Mitmesser said. Their pre-season workouts have changed since last year, when the open-gym style practices led to frequent injuries. “This year, we slowly moved into conditioning with jump training, track workouts, pool workouts, and then on-court workouts. All of that during pre-season, the first six to eight weeks of school has really helped us get to where we are now and in condition for the season,” Ott said. Athletic, tall, and quick, the team is ready to play up-tempo this year, according to Mitmesser. Each player possesses a set of skills enabling her to attack defenses in several ways; most players can both hit threes

and play with their back to the basket. Plus, the height of the team means that many lineups are 5 feet 10 inches and taller. “I think we’re very offensive-minded, and so a struggle for us is going to be to carry that same aggressive mentality to defense as well. Even in our first two scrimmages, defense has been a little lacking. It’s one of the things that I know personally I’m really trying to work on, and we’re getting there,” senior guard Morgan Blair said. The team added four freshmen to replace last year’s four graduates. Mitmesser described them as tall, athletic, talented basketball players who he expects to contribute to the team quite a bit this year. “I think the best part about them is that they work very hard, but they know how to have fun too,” Blair said. “They’re not just always serious, they can lighten the mood at practices or lifts when we need just a lighter moment.” Mitmesser did not designate captains this year, instead allowing more opportunities for everyone on the team to lead in some way. He noted, however, that the two seniors on the team, guards Blair and Becca Scherting, will stabilize the team with their experience.

“Becca Scherting does a great job of getting to the basket and is one of the best onball defenders in the league,” Mitmesser said. “Morgan Blair, our other senior, is an all-around great basketball player with a variety of skills and we’re looking to see her do many things for us offensively and defensively as one of our most experienced players.” Other top returners include juniors Allie Dittmer and Maddy Reed and sophomores Allie Dewire and Ott. This year, Mitmesser has changed up the practice structure — to the benefit of the team, players said — and aims to improve defense in getting half-court stops. He said he’s putting people where they need to be successful and to use the skills they’ve been working on for years. Blair said despite the tough competition in the GLIAC, she’s excited for the Charger’s last year in the conference. “This year, with it being our last season, there’s a lot of pressure to really go out and leave a mark, and to have a better record than last year,” Blair said. “Honestly, I’m kind of sad about leaving, but it just kind of drives me that much more to make my last year that much better.”

Junior Allie Dittmer is one of the Chargers’ returning players who will look to make an impact this season. Brendan Miller | Collegian

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during which she plans on coaching and taking some additional courses needed for nursing school. All the girls agreed that swimming has left an impact on their lives. Shallman said she has loved all of the friendships she has made throughout her swimming career, and then added that her swim friends are her best friends. “I am so grateful for the women who encouraged and challenged me throughout the years,” Dickhudt said. Senior Whitney Sowell began swimming in 6th grade.

“The reason I decided to swim in a straight line for hours on end was because it requires discipline and perseverance, two things I am still learning to understand and enjoy,” Sowell said. “Swimming is usually characterized as an individual sport, but in college the love I have for it has only increased as I train alongside some of the most dedicated and inspirational women I know. This makes the experience priceless.” Sowell said her parting advice to her teammates is to just stay humble. “Swimming is a wonderful thing to enjoy, but it’s important not to forget that it

is something we do because we’ve been given the opportunity to do it. In being humble, you will come to notice the many little things that so often pass us by in our busy lives,” Sowell said. Sowel said each woman on this team has a beautiful heart, and she has been blessed to be around them. Shallman admits that even if it is perhaps a bit cheesy, her advice for her teammates relates to a quote by Tyler Knott Gregson: “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget how much you have always loved

to swim.” “Swimming has taught me so much about myself in terms of self-discipline, resilience, etcetera,” Shallman said. Shallman said one can become bogged down by the stresses of school, swimming, and other commitments that one forgets to enjoy the process of learning, the joy of swimming, or the company of friends. “It is really important to soak everything in, as your time here at Hillsdale goes by quickly. So, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy every moment,” Shallman said.

GOAL program promotes “family, school, football” By | S. M. Chavey Features Editor The elementary schoolaged football team huddled up after their game. In the middle of the huddle stood “Beef Cake,” the son of Dean of Men Aaron Petersen. He was motivating his teammates as one of the leaders on the team. After he’d said everything he needed, he sent them off. “Alright, get outta here,” he said. “You all smell, go take a shower.” It was one of many moments the football team enjoyed and the two coaches, both Hillsdale College students, got to share it, too. Throughout the year, college students devote a few hours a week to coaching or assistant coaching a youth sports team through the GOAL Sports in the Community program led by senior Luke Robson and assisted by Dean of Men Aaron Petersen. Sports range from football, basketball, soccer, and baseball to kickball and potentially a shooting program in the future. Many of the children playing kickball and basketball come from Davis Middle School, but the other sports draw athletes from all over the community. Typically, the youth are divided into teams by city administratives and coaches in order to keep the teams even and the sports fun. In the past, most football teams were coached by parents, but this year two students coached a team. Robson said the kids always have a blast, but the student coaches seem to enjoy the experience just as much. Junior Luke Ens coached a football team this year, spending between five and eight hours a week at the field. “I got to see the value of coaching football,” Ens said. “Especially for youth football, it’s a more than coaching the fundamentals and technique of football. It’s about teaching kids to come, work hard, and follow through with commitments. Some of the kids come from families where it’s nice for them to get out of the house. They love playing with their friends and they love playing football.” Ens fell in love with football as a child. The fourth of five boys in his family, he grew up

Junior Luke Ens laughs with a group of young football players that he coached through GOAL Sports in the Community program. Luke Robson | Collegian

watching the sport and finally got to play it, under the coaching of his father. Watching his father coach inspired Ens, he said, and so last year he began assistant coaching, and this year, when asked, worked with senior Christian VanDeBurg as one of two student coaches leading the team. “Coaching the kids was so much fun. You get to see their excitement every day. Every single day before practice, the kids have endless amounts of energy, which is both a good thing and a bad thing,” Ens said. Finding the balance between fun and teaching proved to be a learning experience for Ens and VanDeBurg. They had to realize they couldn’t be “those fun coaches,” Ens said. But the kids loved messing around before practice. They would show up early to toss the ball, tackle each other without their gear on, and goof off. The twice-weekly practices were fun, but never as fun as the Saturday games. After some pregame drills and stretches, the boys would begin playing. VanDeBurg led the huddles and helped the boys line up while Ens handled substitutions, making sure every child got to play. Because the teams

were pretty even, games were often close — once, the teams tied 0-0, and some parents offered to pay for the teams to go for pizza afterward. “Saturdays were always fun because you get to see their excitement level, and know that basically the entire program is made possible through the efforts of Dean Pete, Luke, and other coaches as well and fathers,” Ens said. This year, Robson also invited sports leaders from the college and community, such as team captains and coaches, to speak to the youth football program about life lessons. Petersen spoke about the importance of “Family, school, football” after almost every practice, but others talked about responsibility, teamwork, and ethics. “Danny Drummond taught them how to put their game face on and yell,” Robson said. Football was fairly time intensive for the student volunteers, but the Ens thought it was worth it. “It’s not work when you’re enjoying it. Activities like that are very enjoyable. I like to stay busy, and that’s a great way to do it: through volunteer efforts,” Ens said. GOAL program director

Alexis Garcia added that volunteering also provides students with an opportunity to focus on something other than schoolwork. “I think volunteering helps give people a greater perspective. College can be pretty self-focused. We’re focused on our careers and studies and what we’re going to do with our lives and relationships, so volunteerism helps get people involved in the community,” Garcia said. The sports seasons coming up don’t require as much commitment. Basketball season, starting soon, only involves two hour-long practices and one hour-long game each week. Robson recruited almost 15 students to coach these teams. When kickball begins, it will only be about one hour a week. Despite the time commitment, however, Robson and Ens agreed it’s more fun than it is work. “It’s nice because it breaks you out of the Hillsdale bubble a little,” Robson said. “You see this whole different side of Hillsdale, and it makes the whole town feel more like a home. It makes the whole Hillsdale experience a lot better.”

Brock adds to recordbreaking season By | Nathanael Meadowcroft year that he had a little extra burst. He can run,” Hillsdale Senior Writer head coach Keith Otterbein With one game remain- said. “I think he surprises ing, sophomore wide receiv- people with how fast he is. er Trey Brock has already He’s sneaky fast and slithery.” Brock’s second touchclinched the Hillsdale record for most yards receiving per down came on a 54-yard game in a season. Brock lofted pass from Stewart added 160 yards receiving down the left sideline. Stewand 3 touchdowns to his art’s pass met Brock in stride. record-setting year in the Brock made the over-theHillsdale’s 41-20 loss to Fer- shoulder catch and ran into ris State on Saturday at Frank the end zone untouched. “He’s getting some pretty “Muddy” Waters Stadium. Through nine games, Brock nice balls to catch,” Otterbehas scored 10 touchdowns in said. “Chance really has a and hauled in 1185 yards re- good feel for throwing the ceiving. His 131.7 yards per deep ball.” Brock’s final touchdown game average is fourth-best was an impressive 9-yard in the nation. In his freshman season, reception. Brock ran a fade Brock split playing time with route to the back left corner senior wide receivers and of the end zone and reached recorded 483 yards receiv- around the cornerback coving and three touchdowns. ering him to make the catch. “That ball was underThis season, Brock has been sophomore quarterback thrown and he just grabbed Chance Stewart’s No. 1 target it right out of the air,” Stewart said. “All I have to do is from the start. “This year I am on the put it in an area and he’s field a lot more, which gives going to come up and make me more opportunities to those plays for me.” Brock has finished with make plays,” Brock said. Brock’s best three per- 100 or more yards receivformances last season came ing in eight of nine games after Stewart took over as this season, breaking the Hillsdale’s starting quarter- Hillsdale record for most back. The chemistry they de- 100-yard receiving games veloped has blossomed this in a season previously held by Andre Holmes. Holmes season. “Last year, we made some currently plays for the Oakgood connections. From land Raiders in the NFL. For then on, we have just been Brock, breaking records is getting more comfortable an inevitable result of hard with each other on the field,” work. “I expect those things to Brock said. “He puts the ball where I can get it and gives happen. I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing,” me lots of opportunities.” Brock’s 3-touchdown per- Brock said. “I thank God formance against Ferris State every day — and especially on Saturday demonstrated game day — for allowing me his versatility as a wide re- to play football and be in the ceiver. His first touchdown situation that I’m in.” With two more seasons came on a 61-yard catchand-run. Brock caught a still to come as a Charger, pass from Stewart over the Brock has set the bar high middle and sped away from for himself. “[My goals are to] win three pursuing Ferris State two national championships defenders. “We knew going into the and go to the NFL,” he said.

Sophomore wide receiver Trey Brock broke the school record for most yards receiving per game in a season. Ben Block | Collegian

VOLLEYBALL FIGHTS FOR GLIAC TOURNAMENT SPOT

Senior middle Erin Holsinger was a bright spot for the Charger offense during a winless weekend in the Upper Peninsula. Todd Lancaster | Courtesy

By | Jessie Fox Sports Editor After a tough weekend in the Upper Peninsula, the Hillsdale College volleyball team is looking to make a statement in its last weekend of GLIAC play. The Chargers dropped two matches during their fiveday road trip this weekend, falling to Northern Michigan University 3-0 on Friday and Michigan Tech 3-1 on Saturday. The losing weekend drops Hillsdale to 15-11 overall, and 7-8 in the GLIAC. Entering their last weekend of the regular season, the Chargers are No. 10 in the conference. Only the top eight teams will go on to compete in the 2016 GLIAC Tournament, so the Chargers will likely need to put away both Grand Valley State University and Ferris State this weekend to earn a spot. Sophomore setter Taylor Bennett said that the weekend’s losses were disappointing but also motivational. “It has been cool to see the attitude and determination that has come from those losses. I feel like we’ve all come to practice this week refocused and ready to work hard and get better,” Bennett said. Head coach Chris Gravel said the team has lacked con-

sistency, leading to a late-season slump. This weekend was no exception: on Friday, the Wildcats outperformed the Chargers, putting up a .248 hitting percentage compared to Hillsdale’s .138 percentage. The Wildcats jumped to a couple strong leads, and although Hillsdale fought for late-game comebacks, the Chargers were unable to even the score. The Chargers committed five serving errors, five serve-receive errors, and six ball-handling errors — all of which contributed to the sweep. “I wouldn’t say we didn’t show up, we just didn’t perform,” Gravel said. “It looked like we were trying almost too hard at times, and nobody had control of their actions, for the most part.” The unfortunate theme carried into Saturday’s match, too, Gravel said. The Chargers were outhit again when they faced the Michigan Tech Huskies — .277 to .176. The Huskies were especially dominant in sets one and two, overpowering the Chargers 25-13 and 25-16. Hillsdale fought back in set three, pulling out a 25-22 win, but the Huskies came back to end the match with a 25-21 decision in set four. Senior middle hitter Erin Holsinger led her team’s of-

fense this weekend, Gravel said, as she was one of Hillsdale’s only solid contributors. Sophomores Kara Vyletel and Paige VanderWall currently lead the Chargers in kills, but Gravel said both hitters have struggled with consistency. “It’s just a matter of them being able to create better routines in their heads which is a mental toughness issue,” Gravel said. Still, Vyletel put up 26 kills this weekend. Looking back, Gravel said a lack of mental toughness has plagued the young squad this season. Though the Chargers got off to a 12-2 start, Gravel said they never learned how to win consistently. “Just because you’re winning doesn’t mean you’ve learned how to win consistently and often. In order to do that you need to learn from your mistakes, and I believe that’s what we’re slow at doing right now, and that’s usually a characteristic of a young team.” But the Chargers are looking forward now, and Holsinger said she wants her team to get back to work and go out on top this weekend against Grand Valley and Ferris. “We have one guaranteed work week left to go all out, put in every hour, and really be disciplined with every con-

tact that we have to get better,” Holsinger said. “We want to fight until the end because we have no other choice. Because the winless weekend dropped the Chargers to No. 10 in the conference, their post-season fate depends on two wins this weekend. Though the Chargers defeated Grand Valley at home earlier this season, playing on the road might breed a different outcome. Ferris State — who the Chargers will matchup against on Saturday — are currently 14-1 in the conference. “It’ll be tough,” Gravel said. “If we win two it does put us in a good position, because we’ve lost some of our head-to-head matchups, but Grand Valley is one of the teams that we would be tied with, and that would give us two wins over them. Holsinger said she wants to end her final season at Hillsdale — and Hillsdale’s last season in the GLIAC — with a bang. “It would be huge to make a statement even though our season hasn’t been the greatest and things haven’t always worked out well,” Holsinger said. “We want to leave the last games of the season and say, ‘We are Hillsdale. We have always been a threat. We’re young, but watch out.’”

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Senior Caleb Gatchell leads the pack at the Midwest Regional Championships on Saturday. Evan Carter | Collegian

CROSS COUNTRY SPRINTS TOWARD NATIONALS

Men and women put up ‘yuuuuuge’ performances at Midwest Regionals By | Evan Carter Web Editor

For just the second time since Hillsdale College fully joined NCAA Division-II in 1996, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams have qualified for the National Cross Country Championships in the same season. On the men’s side, seniors Caleb Gatchell and Luke Daigneault both stepped up in a big way at the Midwest Region Cross Country Championships, running personal best times for 10 kilometers, helping the team to a fourthplace finish. The women’s team slipped into the final regional qualifying spot, with a number of the runners feeling bangedup, and freshman standout Arena Lewis leaving the race without finishing. With warm temperatures and good course conditions,

junior Tony Wondaal described Saturday’s regional meet in Evansville, Indiana as “a day well suited to people who prefer track.” “We had a lot of experience and the seniors especially talked about seeing teams before them, especially their freshman year, come up short at the end,” Wondaal said. “We knew that we had worked hard enough over the past few years and become developed enough to have the talent to make it.” The men posted their fastest average time at regionals in the last four years, with an average scoring time of 31:16, just under a minute faster than last year’s average, while bettering last year’s ninth place regional finish by five places. Wondaal lead the men, who coming in close behind the race leaders for seventh place. Gatchell and senior Joe Newcomb both finished within 30

seconds of Wondaal for 11th and 16th places, respectively. Freshman standout Joe Humes and Daigneault rounded out the team’s top five coming in at 35th and 61st places. Humes was named the region’s Freshman of the Year for his efforts. “The men ran really solid,” said Assistant Distance Coach Richard White. “Even from our No. 7 guy Jones, he ran an awesome race. That was his first 10K and looking back at it, I never thought he’d be a No. 7 guy for cross country, but it was kind of cool.” When the men’s team heard they were going to nationals for the first time since 2004, some of the guys began jumping around in excitement. “It was good to know that we were for sure in, even though we had a good day, pretty much across the board,” Wondaal said. “It was really special and then it got even

more special once we knew the girls would be joining us.” Junior Hannah McIntyre said that the regional meet was more difficult than the last two regional cross country meets where the Chargers placed second. “It really was a total team effort this season,” said McIntyre, who was the first finisher on the team and fifth in the race. With Lewis dropping out halfway through the six kilometer race, and a number of girls battling injury, multiple runners had to step up for the team to stay ahead of sixthplace Malone University. White highlighted freshman Addison Rauch’s performance as the team’s fifth runner that day. “There were some pretty good races and there were some mediocre races, but we were happy that we’re moving

on,” White said. “Some things could have gone better for us.” Senior Molly Oren was second on the team coming in 10th place overall, with sophomore Ally Eads and senior Meri Didier coming in at the team’s third and fourth spots. While the top three runners on the women’s team either ran near- or faster-than the times they ran at the regional meet last year, they just couldn’t compete with last year’s team, finishing with an average scoring time of 21:43 which was 41 seconds slower than last year’s time. “We were relieved when we heard we made nationals,” McIntyre said. “I was talking with Molly before about just being so happy this day has come and not having to answer any more questions about, ‘Are you going to make it’?” In the last national coaches poll, which was taken before

the regional meet, the men were ranked 17th in the nation and the women ranked 11th. The women had their best finish at the national championship in 2014 when they finished second. The men had their best national finish in 2004 when they were eighth. In 2000 the men and women both qualified for the national meet for the first time in Hillsdale’s time in the NCAA. White said he didn’t want to share any goals about how he would like the men’s and women’s teams to finish at the national meet and, instead, said he wants the athletes to be confident in the work they put in this season. “Our focus is running our absolute best race,” White said. The NCAA Division-II National Championships will take place on Nov. 19 in Tampa Bay, Florida, at St. Leo University’s Abbey Course.

Chargers swim past Notre Dame College and Olivet By | Morgan Channels Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College swim team claimed victory on Saturday when they hosted Olivet and Notre Dame College. Hillsdale defeated both teams soundly, beating Olivet 16577, and Notre Dame 162-57. The Chargers took first place in 14 events on Saturday, including the 200-yard freestyle, 50-yard backstroke, and 50-yard freestyle. Freshman Danielle LeBleu won both the 1000-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke. Freshman Catherine Voisin led in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard freestyle. Senior Emily Shallman placed in front of the pack in the 200yard freestyle, and sophomore Grace Houghton took first in the 500-yard freestyle. Freshman Victoria Addis won the 50-yard breaststroke race. Freshman Taylor Steyer swam personal bests in the 100 and 200-yard freestyles and 50-yard butterfly. Sophomore Anika Ellingson, named GLIAC Swimmer of the Week last week, placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke. The relay team made up of sophomores Suzanne Detar, Tiffany Farris, Ellingson, and Houghton, also reigned victorious. According to senior Whit-

ley Sowell, it was encouraging to see the teammates reach personal bests and attain incredible finishes. “I look forward to hopping in the pool tomorrow knowing that the girls next to me are more than ready to do whatever it takes,” Sowell said. As this meet is the only home meet on the schedule for the swim team, head coach

Kurt Kirner took the opportunity to honor the senior class: Emily Balog, Mae Bass, Kenzi Dickhudt, Emily Shallman, and Whitley Sowell. During the ceremony, seniors shared their plans for after graduation. Dickhudt aspires to land a job in business in the Detroit area after college, and she mentioned going to school later for a masters

degree. Sowell said she hopes to either apply for a position as teacher of history at a classical school in the States somewhere or spend some time teaching and learning at a small school in Africa with close relatives. After college, Shallman said she plans to take a gap year,

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Senior Emily Shallman takes her place before a race on Saturday. Emily Shallman | Courtesy

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Life in Babylon: A Collegian veteran talks Election Day in D.C. By | Micah Meadowcroft

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WASHINGTON — Mornings are brutal here in our nation’s capital, and have been especially so as election day approached. After I wake and cut off the ringing, I lie on the couch that is my bed — the cost of living in D.C. is grotesque; this poor alum’s wallet misses Hillsdale as much as he does — and wonder why I want to get up to go be an intern at a magazine where I will not be able to escape what has passed for politics this year. My masochism gets the better of me and I open Twitter. Perhaps this time I will laugh and not cry. Somehow I will get out the door on time. Caffeine helps. Yesterday, America picked its next commander-in-chief. As they say on the internet, #lulz. My couch is in a living room in an apartment in West Falls Church, Virginia. Beltway Virginia is a suburban hellscape, one Dante could have taken inspiration from in his account of the third ring of Inferno’s seventh circle. It is a festering, open wound of highways, strip malls, and apartment complexes, a work of diabolical vio-

lence against aesthetics and humane living. Thank God for Trader Joe’s. A bus takes me to the metro, and into WMATA’s hands I commit my schedule. The downtown Metro stations resemble nothing so much as bomb shelters, matching the rest of Cold War era Washington’s brutalism, and in the crush of the morning commute the abstract possibility of nuclear winter seems almost a relief, a reset of a civilization that clearly went wrong somewhere. After all, in the bird-flip-to-theelites popularity of Donald Trump, we’ve discovered that blowing it all up is an appealing prospect to many Americans. When I rise from the earth on long, oft-broken escalators, I’m greeted by the best cacophony of city life. Car horns and buskers and people shouting into phones, the sidewalks are full and the city is humming. This place is recession proof. But it seems as though the worse the rest of the country is the better for imperial Babylon and its bureaucrats. Never mind the homelessness everywhere, the panhandlers on

every bench and every corner. Never mind the globular men in chalk stripe suits staggering from brunch meeting to lunch meeting past the hungry, ignoring their neighbor at their feet as easily as they ignore the rest of the cwountry and the aches in their knees and ankles. This city is evil, but I love it anyway. It is a coldly beautiful mixeduse temple, a monument both to the people and to mammon. Stately parks

masterpieces, palaces for all citizens preserving and sharing the extravagance of extraordinary wealth and long history. They let us know where we come from and what is worth conserving and, like a mirror, let us reflect upon our present. In the same way, the National Archives, the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, are all visible reminders of the aspirations of our founders. It’s inspirational and hopeful. But after the slog of the election, and the divides it drew even in the Hillsdale community, it is hard to hope right now. We may limp along in our partisan trenches or enter a state of crisis after yesterday, but civic revival must begin in the hearts and minds of the people, and neither of those gave a strong showing this past year. But when I’m tempted to despair for the country, to find the prospect of total destruction more than a passing flight of nihilistic fancy, this city’s beauty offers itself as a balm for my malaise. That beauty can come in unexpected places. Farragut Square often

plays stage to a ragtag pop trio with a beat up drum set, an electric guitar, and a cheap microphone. It is enough. Sometimes you need a black man to sing a sizzling Adele cover by your Metro stop to remind you that art is not going to die because the American experiment is having a replication problem. And of course that beauty is found in expected places too. When I worry about the shrinking middle class, about runaway greed on Wall Street, and about declining economic mobility, I take some comfort in the fact that in the National Gallery I can see art I could never afford and find culture preserved and perpetuated. Fellow Hillsdale alumnus Gregory Wolfe literally wrote the book on how “Beauty Will Save the World,” and I hope that’s true; but I also hope that Beauty will save my election-ravaged heart and soul. We’ll see in the morning. Maybe Twitter will actually make me laugh tonight.

“The city is evil, but I love it anyway. It is a coldly beautiful mixed-use temple, a monument both to the people and to mammon.” and marble monuments adorn common life. I almost weep at the Smithsonian museums’ collections, priceless art and knowledge made freely available to the masses through one man’s generosity and others’ careful stewardship. The Smithsonians are architectural masterpieces containing

Micah Meadowcroft ’16 is a former Arts editor and associate editor for The Collegian.

Hillsdale alumnus writes about coffee and competition law By | Kristiana Mork

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Brother Leibowitz Revisited

Miller’s dark novel finds hope amid death and destruction By | Hannah Niemeier Culture Editor

“The book is a compelling read for sci-fi geeks and linguistics nerds alike ... Time-garbled Latin quotations mix with a devastating dose of dystopian warfare.”

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Hillsdale alum Tim Sandefur ’98, explains competition laws in ‘The Permission Society,’ published this September. Sandefur | Courtesy

nesses who were affected by Certificate of Need laws. Other kinds of government permit laws, Sandefur writes, require people to prove that there is a “public need” for a business before establishing one. Starbuck’s, for example, would have to prove the public needed another coffee shop. An impossible task. Fortunately for Starbucks, and for other companies, public need permits did not exist in the 1980s,

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Senior Art and English major Bridget DeLapp on her work as a coordinator and designer on the campaigns of Michigan Supreme Court Justices Joan Larsen and David Viviano: What work did you do for the justices’ campaigns?

The majority of my role in the campaign was to serve as the “right hand man” for Justice Viviano ... I designed Justice Joan Larsen’s campaign logo, which is featured on signs, literature, and t-shirts. I created event invitations, stickers, informational pamphlets, and different templates for event briefs. I spent the majority of time with Justice Viviano, and helped him track and organize the different aspects of his individual campaign.

How did you meet Larsen and Viviano?

I had the opportunity to work on the campaign because Justice Viviano is my uncle. He called me before school ended last spring and offered me the position. It was wonderful to get to know Justice Larsen. She clerked for Justice Scalia in the Supreme Court and also was listed in Donald Trump’s 10 nominations for Supreme Court.

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What were your takeaways from working on the campaigns?

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After World War II, U.S. Army Airman Walter D. Miller, Jr., feared that the world would explode. In his novel, it already had. “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Miller’s only novel, was published in 1959 amid fears of nuclear holocaust. Today, this classic work of science fiction brings us face to face with the darker side of man’s genius. When will man learn power cannot save him? According to Miller, never. In the world of his dystopian novel, at least, human life and culture is left to the bookish and rather baffled monks who pick up the pieces of a dead civilization, again and again. For more than 50 years, Miller’s classic science fiction novel has provided a dark example of the chaos that ensues when man fails to use knowledge with love and humility. Science fiction hums to the fears and fantasies of the age, and Miller’s “Canticle” plays out Cold War era fears of nuclear holocaust. Like a recurring nightmare stemming from man’s abuse of power, the characters in Miller’s novel live through the near-destruction of humanity not once, not twice, but three times in the story’s three novellas. The book is a compelling read for sci-fi geeks and linguistics nerds alike (and those categories are not mutually exclusive). Time-garbled Latin quotations (“Apage, Satanas” and “Libere me, Domine” make appearances in the novel’s first pages) mix

with a devastating dose of dystopian biological warfare. Space travel is a futuristic bonus. “Fiat Homo” (“Let there be man”) opens on an already-dystopian future that reveals the weighty themes of the novel through the eyes of a novice in the order of Isaac Leibowitz. The monks of the order of Leibowitz attempt to recover knowledge from a long-gone advanced (read: 1950s-era) civilization, and their attempts reveal the tragedy — and the absurdity — of reviving a lost civilization: the monks preserve diagrams of electrical circuits with reverence and comically perfect ignorance of their use. “Fiat Lux” (“Let there be light”) revisits the monks of Leibowitz after a second destruction, at a time when a new Renaissance is, at long last, coming into the light. A brilliant scientist enters the monastery, rediscovers technology from the past, and is tempted by the seemingly boundless power of science. The monks, for their part, must decide the best way to make use of the texts they have preserved for so long. Knowledge, it seems, is dangerous. Cue impassioned conversations about faith and reason. By the third section of the novel, the moral that “knowledge is dangerous” seems clear. Man has destroyed and rebuilt himself through equal parts pluck and Providence, but this destruction threatens to be final: the monks send their treasured knowledge to space, abandoning terra firma with a prayer (“Fiat Voluntas Tua,” the title of the third novella,

Nestled on the street corners of every self-respecting American city, coffee shops adorned with the famed coffee brand’s green and white siren welcome hordes of customers where, seated by Starbucks fireplaces and soaking in faint strains of jazz, they enjoy not just coffee, but a cultural experience. Yet the coffee giant’s popular drinks and welcoming hearth would not exist under today’s permit requirements in some states. Certain kinds of government permits were required, according to Hillsdale alumnus Tim Sandefur’s new book “The Permission Society,” published September 2016. A political economy major at Hillsdale, Sandefur ’98 said his studies prepared him for law school and a career defending the Constitution in court and in books like “The Permission Society.” Sandefur’s writing career began in 2005, when he was asked if he knew anyone who could write a book on property rights. “I’d never written a book before and I wasn’t sure how to do that,” Sandefur said, “But I remembered that line from the Ghostbusters

where they said, ‘When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes!’ So I said I’ll do it.” Two months later, Sandefur published his first book, “Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America” and started on his second, “Right to Earn a Living.” Sandefur said the books are a natural outgrowth from his work as an attorney. “As you’re doing law, you write briefs on a variety of cases and they all had sort of a common theme,” Sandefur said. “So you can take them and sort of blend the cases together and make a book out of that without too much effort.” Sandefur said the idea for “The Permission Society” came when he litigated cases challenging the constitutionality of Certificate of Need laws, which require new businesses to obtain permission from competitors before opening their doors. During the litigation process, Sandefur said he found examples of how companies used the Certificate of Need laws to prevent new companies from starting up, merely because the existing companies were afraid of competition. Sandefur said his work was the first research of its kind give the perspective of busi-

I learned a lot about political professionalism when it comes to design and how important it is to have logos, invitations, and other work that reflects both patriotism and leadership. I also learned that politics involves a lot of relationship building. It isn’t enough to have the right ideas and values. You have to make an intentional connection with the people you are seeking to represent, as they are the ones you will have to depend on for support.

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In review: What is the best TV show about politics? ‘The straightest shooter’ in Washington ‘Designated Survivor’ shows that American politics can survive its dark days By | Michael Lucchese Collegian Reporter

2016 has been a rough year. So bad, in fact, that the idea of blowing up the government and starting over will resonate with quite a few spectators of American politics. “Drain the swamp” or “burn it all to the ground” seem like good catchphrases to many, many voters. The first few minutes of “Designated Survivor,” ABC’s new political drama, fulfill just that wish for rebuilding from the ground up. A catastrophic attack on the Capitol Building leaves only the titular “designated survivor” — Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, to ascend to the Oval Office. While some may have expected “24” star Kiefer Sutherland to play President Kirkman as a “Jack Bauer is President” character, he instead portrays him simply as a man of decency and resolve. Sutherland’s Kirkman is bewildered at finding himself in such a position of authority with so little preparation, but strives to do the right thing nonetheless. Sutherland’s Kirkman is a kind

of Jimmy Stewart character. In one and it is certainly not the instant clasof Stewart’s most famous films, “Mr. sic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Smith Goes to Washington,” Stewart was. The show is still finding its idenplays an idealistic boy scout leader tity. Certain subplots — the FBI inwho is appointed to fill a vacancy in vestigation of the Capitol explosion, the U.S. Senate, where he is framed drama surrounding the First Famfor corruption and then uses the fili- ily, political jockeying in Kirkman’s buster to expose political corruption. staff — have been slow building Likewise, Kirkman’s idealism stands and slightly clichéd, but nonetheless out against a cast of characters con- mostly well-acted. stantly seeking to undermine his As with any new show, “Designatpresidency. In a confrontation with ed Survivor” is still improving. But an Iranian ambassador, for instance, the show can still give the American Kirkman says that he is “just about people something sorely needed in the straightest shooter you’re gonna the aftermath of 2016 — the story find in Washington.” of a good man trying to do the right In some ways, “Designated Sur- thing. vivor” looks to fill the same cultural space that NBC’s “The West Wing” filled in the early 2000s. “The West Wing” offered the American people a hopeful vision of politics at a moment in history where partisanship often seemed overwhelming. Similarly, the premise of “Designated Survivor” serves as a wish fulfilment scenario. Resetting the political system and getting back to “politics as it should be” might not be possible in real life, but it is fertile soil for a TV show. Admittedly, “Designated Survi- Kiefer Sutherland plays Tom Kirkvor” has yet to soar to the heights land in the ABC political drama of critical acclaim “The West Wing,” “Designated Survivor.” Imdb

“Resetting the political system and getting back to ‘politics as it should be’ might not be possible in real life, but it is fertile soil for a TV show.”

Canticle from B1 means “Let Thy will be done”) and an understandable doubt that humankind will survive his own destructive power on any planet. Cue equally impassioned debates about the nature of man. If there is a weakness to the novel, it is one common to much of dystopian fiction: the broken world overshadows the broken characters. Jon Michaud wrote in the New Yorker that “there is a conspicuous absence of physical and emotional intimacy. Miller is grappling with Big Questions, but I occasionally wished for scenes in which the pressures of those big questions would manifest themselves in private moments of comfort between characters.” The novel certainly comes up short on comfort. But perhaps that is part of Miller’s point: In his fear for humanity’s destruction, Miller does not allow his characters to become fully human. Regardless of its potency, the question of man’s destructive nature remains ominous in the abstract. Late in the novel, a monk of the

order of Leibowitz asks himself whether there is any hope for his prideful and self-annihilating race, and finds that his fellow men lack grace: “But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.” Hillsdale’s Raiders of the Stacks recently revisited “A Canticle for Leibowitz” in a book discussion in Mossey Library. Though it is enlightening to pull the book off the shelves and consider it in a modern context, readers enter at their own risk when revisiting a novel of such potent political content — the slip of a tongue or keystroke can explode into incendiary doomsday conversations about nuclear warfare, tyranny, and the general nastiness of politics circa 2016. But Miller’s novel digs more deeply into the rubble left by man’s misuse of power. At the root of his novel’s three catastrophic events is a moral monster — pride. When faced with power of their own creation, politicians, scientific geniuses, and abbots all struggle to recon-

cile their personal use of the fruits of knowledge. For Miller, words and the wisdom they impart have an undeniable power, and understanding the roots of this power is essential to its proper use — and possible misuse. Monks, scientists, politicians, and sci-fi lovers can read “A Canticle for Leibowitz” for many reasons: to glory in Miller’s obvious love of language, to discuss the philosophical and political themes underlying the novel, or even to escape politics entirely in favor of the most action-packed story about monks ever written. But whatever motivation brings readers to “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” they should walk away from the rubble with a belief that words should support the truth, instead of destroying it. They should remember that knowledge must be humbly pursued, courted, and nourished with humility, not preserved in a crypt. Can man survive his own tendency toward destruction — and dirty politics? “Fiat voluntas tua,” indeed.

Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright play Frank and Claire Underwood in the Netflix original series ‘House of Cards.’ Imdb

You gotta serve somebody ‘House of Cards’ portrays religion, power, and politics By | Nic Rowan

Collegian Reporter In the third episode of Netflix’s “House of Cards,” Congressman Frank Underwood (D-SC) learns that voters in his hometown are rebelling against him. A 17-year-old girl has died in a car crash while driving past a distracting peach-shaped water tower. The town blames Underwood’s failure to remove the peach for the accident, and the parents want to sue. Underwood sees this as a threat to his reelection efforts, so — like any slick DC insider — he returns to South Carolina to conjure up some empathy for his constituents. Of course, Underwood does not really care about the dead girl or his hometown. As with every situation in “House of Cards” — one of the few political shows that recognizes that public service is the nation’s only holy office for a Christ-forgetting, Christ-haunted populace — what really matters here is if Underwood can continue to enslave the hearts and faith of his voters. Underwood knows real power does not come from celebrity endorsements, or PACs, or election promises. Successful leaders — think Moses, Mohammed, Julius Caesar — converted free people into followers, people willing to die for their personage and ideas. In a speech following the 17-yearold’s funeral, Underwood seeks to do the same. He steps up to the pulpit and lets the congregation indulge in

their hatred of him. Instead of offering condolences, he eulogizes hate and encourages them to rave against this injustice — why should anyone have to die before their time? He even goes so far as to shout, “I hate you, God!” much to the shock of the congregation. But Underwood does not allow himself to linger on hate for long. Instead, he pulls out a Bible and reads from Proverbs, chapter 3: “Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” In the span of three minutes, the show has married the heaven and hell of human nature. On the one hand, Underwood’s invitation to the congregation to hate God (and by extension, to hate him) feels like a very natural response to a senseless death. But on the other hand, Underwood’s call to faith taps into the noble human desire to worship a higher being. Underwood is so slick that by the end of the speech the audience is unclear on whether that higher being is God or the congressman himself. This sort of scene is “House of Cards” at its best. Leave aside the show’s nasty tendency to make tasteless cultural commentary — promoting gay power-sex relationships, endorsing Russian punk bands, writing up a floppy stand-in for Vladimir Putin. Just enjoy a serious take on America’s unspoken religion. In “House of Cards” religion centers on many things: money, power, sex — even God. It’s a lot to think about. But “lean not on your own understanding”: Frank Underwood thinks he has the answer for what is really worth your devotion in the end.

“‘House of Cards’ [is] one of the few political shows that recognizes that public service is the nation’s only holy office for a Christ-forgetting, Christ-haunted populace.”

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and according to Sandefur, they shouldn’t exist today either. “These laws,” Sandefur writes, “expand the power of the state, stifle innovation and entrepreneurship, and do violence to the basic principle of equality on which our nation’s institutions rest. Our constitution promises more – and Americans deserve better.” Sandefur’s career in public interest law started even before he could walk. “There’s a legend in my family,” Sandefur laughed, “that my mother looked down in my cradle and said, ‘Oh T. Nathan Sandefur, he sounds like a lawyer.’” But it was during his junior year at Hillsdale College, Sandefur said, when he realized he wanted to work in public interest law. The lecture was on economics and the law, and one of the co-founders for the Institute for Justice spoke, describing a case challenging a California law that forced hairbraiders to obtain licenses from the state. “By the end of the speech I was sold,” Sandefur said. Litigating cases where he could defend people against the government was exactly what he wanted to do. After graduating from Hillsdale, Sandefur attended Chapman law school, clerked with the Institute for Justice and the Pacific Legal Foundation where he became a principal attorney. He only recently transitioned to vice president for

litigation at the Goldwater Institute. Sandefur’s skills as an attorney stood out to Deborah La Fetra, Pacific Legal Foundation principal attorney and special assistant to the Director of Litigation. La Fetra said she became a mentor to Sandefur, working with him on cases before he became principal attorney himself. As the two worked together, La Fetra also became familiar with Sandefur’s humorous side. “He has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things ‘Simpsons’ and ‘Star Trek,’” La Fetra said. “He can find a relevant ‘Simpsons’ quote for anything, usually asterisked with the footnote ‘Little “Simpsons” quote there’ or, in shorthand, ‘LSQT.’” La Fetra said she even gave him a custom-made coffee mug with “*LSQT” on it. Another colleague, Adi Dynar, a staff attorney at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, said Sandefur impacted his life as well. Dynar said one of his favorite cases with Sandefur involved a hairbraiding license case like the one that first inspired Sandefur. “When he and I work on cases like that, it’s very rewarding on a personal level,” Dynar said. “We are helping people lead happy lives, and we are helping people get through unnecessary government regulation. I think Tim is an awesome boss, an awesome mentor, and a really dear friend.”

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Fostering collegiate conviction: Students FOCUS on faith

Senior Victoria Fassett spent five weeks this summer in Ave Maria, Florida, for the FOCUS training for new staff. Victoria Fassett | Courtesy

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Nearly 80 percent of people who leave the Catholic faith do so before the age of 23, according to Pew Research. When senior Victoria Fassett heard this statistic at a conference two years ago, she remembered it, and said it continually fuels her desire to work with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) post-graduation. “If you can get to people before [23], then the chances of retaining them and helping them to grow in the faith is so much greater than if you lose

them,” Fassett said. “Eighteen to 22-year-olds struggle with a lot of anxiety, depression, and a lot of identity issues so being able to reach all of these college students in one place is really ideal.” According to its homepage, “FOCUS is a Catholic collegiate outreach whose mission is to share the hope and joy of the gospel to college and university students.” So far, the organization has placed more than 550 campus missionaries on 125 campuses around the country. Fassett, who worked with FOCUS last summer, said the main purpose of campus mis-

sionaries is to “walk through life” with students by inviting them into discipleship and building real one-on-one relationships. An average day on campus would include attending daily mass, meeting with students individually and in small groups, planning outreach events, and simply hanging out with students in casual settings, Fassett said. “That’s the goal: spending tons of time through relationship, through example, through conversation, through studying Scripture together,” Fassett said. Through accountability, you’re helping other people grow closer to Christ, and then they’re able to help other people, too.” Campus missionaries dial in on the people right in front of them on college campuses — that’s what drew senior Angela Bonvissuto to the organization, she said. “Everyone needs a good friend, and everyone needs to be encouraged in Christ,” Bonvissuto said. “Often we think about missionary work as something far away and complicated, but really it can start right here, wherever you are, with whomever you normally spend your time.” Fassett first learned about FOCUS two years ago when some upperclassmen encouraged her to attend SEEK2015,

a FOCUS conference. It was the magnitude and passion of the 10,000-member audience that resonated with Fassett the most, she said. “Being with that many people in one place who are all excited about being there and who are excited about growing deeper in their faith and getting to know Christ better and learning how to evangelize was so cool,” Fassett said. Bonvissuto agreed, say-

but said she remembers another feeling, too. “I was watching them and said, ‘That’s so cool, I wish I was called to do that.’ But I definitely didn’t think that was what I was supposed to do — weirdly. I had lots of peace about that,” she said. That summer, Fassett opted to spend her summer in Washington, D.C., working in the liberty-advancing nonprofit movement. She said

“Often we think about missionary work as something far away and complicated, but really it can start right here, wherever you are, with whomever you normally spend your time.” ing the staff ’s enthusiasm shone brightly in the first FOCUS recruitment videos she watched. “What stood out to me most in the videos was the passion that all the missionaries had for bringing others closer to Christ and devoting their entire lives to Him,” Bonvissuto said. Fassett said she also remembers feeling inspired by FOCUS’s promotional videos,

she’s glad she did, because that internship led her to a change in heart. “It was a realization that we were missing something,” Fassett said. “If we don’t have a foundation, then what is it for? What are we getting out of this?” The next summer, Fassett took the internship with FOCUS and headed to Ave Maria, Florida, for a five-week training session. Working on

the special events team, she helped plan a variety of events ranging from an etiquette dinner and talent show to lectures and regional meetings. For the second half of her summer, Fassett worked remotely with Andrea Clarke, a former Hillsdale College admissions employee, writing grants and fundraising for the FOCUS development team. Though Fassett worked in development in Washington, D.C., she said this was an entirely different experience — one that she could see herself continuing in the future. “I believe 100 percent in FOCUS, I see the need, and I see where this money is going, and I love it,” Fassett said. Both Bonvissuto and Fassett applied to be two-year on-campus missionaries after graduation. Though Bonvissuto said she would likely transition into the medical field after two years as a campus missionary, Fassett said she would love to work for the FOCUS development team long-term. “I would donate all of my money to FOCUS. I really enjoyed spending my time writing grants that help to convince people to give to an organization that I love,” Fassett said. “What more could I do with my life? It was perfect.”

Online Latin school graduates reunite at Hillsdale: The liberal arts bond By | Morgan Channels Collegian Reporter Lone Pine Classical School, an online Latin school program based in Colorado, emphasizes the classics and liberal arts. The school offers varying levels of Latin, beginning with middle school students and extending to high school. Many of the classicallyminded students from Lone Pine decide to attend Hillsdale College. Though there are no obvious ties between the two schools, they share similar mindsets and a love for the classics. “I think Hillsdale is always on the radar for my Michigan faction, which is usually large,” founder of Lone Pine Karen Karppinen said. “As they get to know their classmates online and talk about where they’re applying, they probably tell them that Hillsdale is a great school which is also friendly to home-schoolers.” Lone Pine began with Karppinen, then a high school math and science teacher. After teaching two high schools in the metro Detroit area, Karppinen moved to Colorado from Michigan in 2003. In Colorado, she maintained friendships with Michigan home-schoolers who asked Karppinen if she would teach a Latin course online. Using a curriculum called Orberg, Karppinen set up Lone Pine Classical School as an online resource for students. It began as a group of six students in 2003 and has grown since then, reaching 85 students at its peak. This year, Karppinen has about 45 students enrolled. The average enrollment is roughly 60 students, beginning at Latin 100

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animals were sort of like a natural place to go for comfort and nostalgic moments,” Parell said. As a child, Parell would ride her pig Freda May (who was raised in the house) and became the “chicken lady” when she successfully advocated for her family to buy 50 chickens. She jokes that she doesn’t trust people who don’t like animals. “My dad always told me that animals were put on this earth to teach us how to love better, and that’s something that’s really important to me and something I have a hard time expressing often,” Parell said. “Animals teach you to more properly and kindly love. They’re so innocent and don’t know what they’re doing, they are just doing what they know. People, in a sense, are doing the same, and you love them anyway.” Senior Alexis Garcia said Parell brought to life a pro-

and finishing with AP Latin. Hillsdale sophomore Benjamin Weeks, said his mother found the resource and shared it with other home-schooling friends. Weeks described the learning experience as a live classroom video of a white board. Students would communicate with Karppinen via live chat feed on the screen. Karppinen controlled the microphones of each student. In Week’s experience, the class would meet two times a week for an hour and a half. In the upper levels, he said, students would give a presentation on a selection of reading in Latin that they have translated and analyzed. Weeks took all the levels offered, and after four years of high school and two years of middle school, he graduated the program. “It was great,” Weeks said. “ It really prepared me for Latin here. Hard, but worthwhile at the end of the day.” Sophomores Jordyn Pair and Nora Gibes also graduated from Lone Pine. Gibes said the classroom experience was similar to many online classes she had taken, and she enjoyed it very much. “Miss Karppinen approached Latin a bunch of different ways at once,” Gibes said. “We would read and write, she combined all these aspects. This is why I love Latin so much, because Lone Pine was such a fun experience.” Gibes continues to take Latin at Hillsdale. Although Lone Pine serves students from across the country, approximately 25 students fly to Colorado each April for the annual Latin Convention, Karppinen said. Gibes said at the conventions, she participated in a

gram that should have a natural appeal anyway. After all, it’s working with puppies and kittens, Garcia said. Parell brings animals to campus frequently and partners with other organizations on campus to spread awareness of her program. “Cecily is a very headstrong, fiery personality,” she said. “She definitely knows what she wants and how to achieve those goals. She’s not going to take no for an answer.” As GOAL program director, Garcia overlooks not only the humane society, but all 23 of the programs. “I like seeing all the different passions that people have for different needs in the community. Whether that’s physical needs or mentorship need or educaton needs, there’s something for everyone, and everyone’s passionate about something,” Garcia said.

classically-themed competition, making a Latin-based board game based on the theme of that year’s convention. This Colorado Junior Classical League convention “is what really solidified the school,” Pair said. These students who had been talking together all year online and learning together finally got to spend time together and compete as a school. Karppinen said many Hillsdale alumni coincidentally are teaching at The Classical Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, another school that participates in the Latin Convention. “We meet with their students at our state’s annual Latin Convention and at other JCL events,” Karppinen said. Hillsdale College’s liberal arts education focuses on the classics, and many students believe the connection lies in the shared loved for the classics, Weeks said. “There’s just not as many classics resources out there,” Weeks said. “That focus on Roman culture and classics contributes to a certain type of person looking for both of those and ending up at both.” Gibes echoed Weeks’ sentiments. “I think it’s a love for the liberal arts, a value for the classics,” Gibes said. “They’re attracted to a school like Hillsdale where the classics are emphasized and appreciated.” In addition to a similarity in academic focus, Karppinen said she believes that the two schools have the same mindset about education. “Lone Pine has a small, friendly, collegial environment and my impression is that Hillsdale is similar,” Karppinen said.

Part of Garcia’s position entails collecting data on volunteer hours, which she does through the portal. If people didn’t enter their hours in, there would be no way of gathering the data, Garcia said. With 215 hours, Reeb came in second overall in the hour count as a passionate Young Life volunteer. Reeb visits Hillsdale High School at least three times a week to spend time with students during lunch, attend sporting events, and get to know them on a deeper level. Hillsdale High School and other high schools involved in the program keep a list with the names of volunteers like Reeb so they can walk freely through the school as long as they’re not disruptive. “We become friends with the kids and then show them about Christ once we have the right to tell them,” Reeb said. “It’s on their terms too.

Students from Lone Pine Classical School pose for a picture in Estes Park, Colorado in 2014. Jordyn Pair | Courtesy

The Lone Pine Classical School students pose after the awards ceremony at the CoJCL Convention in 2010. Nora Gibes | Courtesy

We’re not pushing, it’s very gentle and at their pace. It’s not just mentorship, but it’s also more of an organized ministry...What I’m trying to do is reach out to kids, make a difference in their lives.” Young Life features a club, a Bible study, and camps, but the volunteers prioritize oneon-one interaction with the kids to show they care about them, Reeb said. “I think Hillsdale is such a nice place and it’s so easy to get comfortable, but I think it’s important to reach out to the community,” Reeb said. “There’s a lot of hurting people, a lot of really good people too. There are people who work in maintenance, people who work in the dining hall, people who work as secretaries in the offices. They’re living lives that are somewhat separated from us. We can make an impact on them and their kids by volunteerism. That’s why I do it.”

Smoking from B4 vinced that smoking can do anyone any good. Sophomore Mark Compton said it baffles him how people willfully destroy their bodies with cigarettes. “We’re at a place where everyone is incredibly intelligent. And then we have this activity that has been proven time and time again to be detrimental to your health in a multitude of ways. And yet

Junior Samuel Potter smoking outside the library. Morgan Brownfield | Courtesy

we have a lot of people who do it anyways. When I first came here, it really surprised me,” he said. Other students, however, do not regard their smoking habit as an addiction at all. Junior Samuel Potter said he smokes for the aesthetic benefits the experience brings. “I don’t really smoke for the nicotine buzz,” he said. “All my role models — Tom Waits, Hayao Miyazaki — they smoke like crazy. So I should too.”

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A Bon Appétit cup full of cigarette butts. Morgan Brownfield | Courtesy

“Do it, because it’s cool.” That’s what senior Luke Martin said about smoking. Martin, along with a group of friends, can often be found outside the Grewcock Student Union smoking cigarettes. But they’re not the only students at Hillsdale who enjoy smoking. A brief tour of Hillsdale’s campus reveals students smoking outside the student union, the library, the Simpson and Galloway residences, and other hangouts. The college does not explicitly condone smoking, but will not stop students from exercising their right to smoke. Because of fire safety regulations, students are not permitted to smoke inside, but anywhere outside on campus is fair game. “The college is on private property, so the administration has every right to make a policy about smoking,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said. “If a smoker wants to smoke outside, and they are not hurting anyone — just their own body — that is their choice.” Other nearby schools such as Kalamazoo College, Michigan State University, and University of Michigan have adopted smoke-free policies

within the past five years, but, according to Péwé, it is unlikely that Hillsdale will follow suit. “Too many things are already over-regulated by the states or the federal government,” Péwé said. “Students need to rise to self-governance.” Péwé said the college understands the negative health effects nicotine has on the body (nicotine addiction is the one of the leading causes of death annually in the United States) but believes students should be responsible for their own health when it comes to smoking. “If students understand those implications and do make the choice to start, they should be allowed to smoke outside, as long as they are not harming the facilities, causing a mess, or putting others at risk,” Péwé said. Neither the Ambler Health Center nor the financial office actually records how many students smoke, so it’s impossible to give an exact number of Hillsdale College smokers. But, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 16.8 percent of Americans are smokers. In addition, 16.7 percent of Americans ages 18-24 are smokers, the highest among any individual age group. If Hillsdale

follows the national trend, there are about 240 student smokers on campus. Students have conflicting opinions on smoking. Junior Dani Ruedisueli, for instance, said she enjoys smoking, but does not consider herself a smoker. She said she used to regard smoking as an evil until she noticed that some of her role models smoked. “In my senior year of high school I lived with a mentor who was also a friend of mine. One day she told me she smoked, and I realized that I had a strange prejudice against smoking,” Ruedisueli said. “It took a long time for me to realize that smoking doesn’t make someone a bad person.” Ruedisueli said she has since decided that a group a people smoking cigarettes together can create a positive at-

By | S. M. Chavey Features Editor The average Hillsdale student volunteered just under nine hours during the 2015-2016 school year, but two students — senior Cecily Parell and junior Eddie Reeb — volunteered over 200 hours each. Through the overarching GOAL Program, students volunteer in 23 different programs around the community. Nearly 600 Hillsdale students volunteered more than 12,000 total hours last year. The five students with the most hours, Parell, Reeb, and three others, volunteered a total of 996.3 hours. It’s no surprise that Parell and Reeb volunteer respectively with the Humane Society, the organization with the most volunteers, and Young Life, the program with the highest average amount of hours per volunteer. With 240 total hours, Parell averaged eight per week — almost as many as the average Hillsdale student

completed over the course of the entire year. “I’m happiest when I’m volunteering a lot. My grades are best when I’m volunteering a lot,” Parell said. As the GOAL program leader of the Humane Society, Parell expanded a program that was on the verge of termination to one of the largest volunteer programs at the school. Participation in the program increased by 1000 percent, from 80 hours to 800 hours. “I learned from a previous volunteer coordinator the art of making people feel appreciated, and knowing their work matters,” Parell said. She primarily works on the administrative portion of the program, raising money by selling and hand-delivering cupcakes during parent’s weekend, attending board meetings, and helping out volunteers. But at least a couple times a week, she makes a point to go back to the Humane Society. “I grew up on a farm, so

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(left to right) David Johnson, Dan McAlary, Luke Martin, Eric Gough, David Ramirez post outside the Grewcock student union. David Ramirez | Courtesy

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mosphere that outweighs the physical harm of smoking. “Smoking really brings people together and puts you in situations where you are able to have conversations that you wouldn’t be able to have otherwise,” she said. Ruedisueli said she realized smoking could be a positive force when in her freshman year, she discovered one of her best friends at Hillsdale smoked. “I let her smoke my first cigarette with me and teach me how to do it,” she said. “We made it a real friend-bonding moment.” Although she enjoys smoking occasionally, Ruedisueli said she will never become a smoker herself. “My younger sister made me promise that I would never buy my own, and I have stuck to that,” she said. Another smoker, senior David Johnson, said smoking is a necessary addiction for him. When he came to Hillsdale, Johnson was on the track team. After a rough first semester, he picked up smoking to cope with stress. “I would sneak outside of my dorm at night and just smoke a cigarette,” he said. “It became a habit — when I got stressed out, I would smoke.” Johnson said he eventually quit the track team, which gave him the time to hang out with a group of people who smoked all the time. “I realized that it really was a way to bond with people,” he said. “You’re standing outside for like seven minutes — not really doing anything — so you just talk. You really grow closer to people that way.” Johnson said he knows some people think smoke smells disgusting, but he did not notice it until he tried to quit two weeks ago. “I started to get my sense of smell back,” he said. “I didn’t know I smelled like a cigarette all the time. Some people may find that gross, but when you’re a smoker, you don’t really notice.” Some students aren’t con-

From pets to peer ministry, Hillsdale students give back Hillsdale senior Cecily Parell volunteered 240 hours in the 2015-2016 academic year. Cecily Parell | Courtesy

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Rachael Reynolds How long have you had this collection? I’ve added to my collection for the past four years. There were grassroots campaigns when her memoir “Hard Choices” came out, and they had various shirts, pins, etc. My last purchase was this summer when I bought additional pins and this shirt.

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What about your candidate’s fashion choices inspires you? First of all, I would love to be considered a “hair icon” or “pantsuit aficionado,” but I think it is most important that she couldn’t care less about people making fun of her for being so predictable with her style. It works for her. So by all means, work it, girl. What is your favorite politicallythemed article of clothing? My “Women’s rights are human rights” shirt, hands down.

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What’s the most entertaining comment you’ve heard while wearing it? One time a guy my age just smiled at me and then exclaimed “Gary Johnson!” He was so excited. I felt like I was Gary Johnson.

Garrett Glassburn What about your candidate’s fashion choices inspires you? I like that he looks somewhat uncomfortable in a suit and tie. Do you wear the shirt often? Due to its low quality and generally poor fit, it rarely finds its way into my rotation.

What is your favorite politicallythemed article of clothing? This shirt, I suppose. I try to stay away from overtlypolitical clothing. How would you define your style? Like Gary Johnson’s politics, my style is rebellious yet pragmatic.

Sam Barke What about your candidate’s fashion choices inspires you? I always try to wear something that has “Trump” or a Republican elephant on it. Sometimes I can manage both! Do you wear your collection often? Most of my gear I wear all the

time. My flag suit only gets taken out for special occasions! What’s the most entertaining comment you’ve heard while wearing it? Sometimes a “Hillary for PRISON” shirt is mistaken for a “Hillary for President” shirt. That can start all sorts of odd conversations. What is your favorite politically-themed article of clothing? Either my flag suit or Trump Converse.