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Students rally against U-M buying fetal body parts By | Brendan Clarey Assistant Editor Ann Arbor, Mich. — Nearly 50 people, including four Hillsdale College students, attended a pro-life demonstration outside a University of Michigan administration building Saturday afternoon. The University of Michigan’s Students for Life chapter organized the protest in response to discovering the university was buying parts of aborted fetuses for research. Both students and activists
from the area’s pro-life organizations spoke against abortion, including Hillsdale Students for Life Secretary senior Cheyenne Trimels. “We’re not here because we want to be an impediment to scientific research, we’re not here because we hate women or want them to be enslaved to the antiquated gender norms, we’re here because we respect life,” Trimels said. “These med students who are using these are going to become our doct or s .
Oscars Award show Hillsdalians predict that “La La Land,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and ‘“Manchester by the Sea” will win awards Sunday. B1
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www.hillsdalecollegian.com Jilly Beans owner Jill Nichols is selling her dowtown coffee house. Jim Drews | Courtesy
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Buyers already interested in the downtown Hillsdale coffee house By | Thomas Novelly Editor-in-Chief
Senior Cheyenne Trimels, Students for Life secretary, speaks at a pro-life rally held on the University of Michigan’s campus Saturday, which condemned the school’s use of fetal body parts in research. Brendan Clarey | Collegian
After serving fresh coffee to the community for more than 10 years, Jilly Beans owner Jill Nichols put her business up for sale last week as she looks to retire with her husband. “We’re ready to retire,” Nichols said. “It’s been wonderful here, but it’s time. I’m looking forward to it. I want to be a grandma.” Nichols put Jilly Beans on the market last week and is selling the entire business —
including all the furniture, existing inventory, and food service equipment — for $89,900. Century 21 Drews realty broker owner Jim Drews, who is in charge of the listing, said there has already been one offer for the 1,000-square-foot coffee and sandwich shop located downtown, but Nichols is looking for backup offers. “We’ve received and accepted one offer so far,” Drews said. “It came in just a day or two of the listing being put on...The potential buyer is actually a long-time customer, which is
kind of unique that someone who was a frequent patron is now interested in making it their own.” Drews and Nichols said they couldn’t disclose the name of the purchaser. Drews said part of the reason the price is so low is because it doesn’t include the cost of the building. The new owner of the business would have to pay monthly rent to a property owner in town. According to Nichols, the decision to put the business up for sale wasn’t prompted
by any decrease in sales or financial troubles and said she was simply ready to relax and enjoy her family. Nichols also said she would work closely with whomever purchases Jilly Beans to make sure the business doesn’t close during the transition. “If a new owner wants to come and change the name, that’s fine, but I think I’m going to sell it just as it is,” Nichols said. “Nothing would change on my half. If they want to make changes, that’s fine. Most
unteer Income Tax Assistance program, and holding an annual senior dinner for graduating accounting majors, Ikawa has also done a hamburger-eating challenge with some students. He and the students attempted to eat a 2.5-pound hamburger and a substantial amount of fries. The first time Ikawa attempted, he almost completed it, but the second time he said he was convinced by a student to give up before feeling sick. “I think if we were going to do it again, you eat the french fries first, because cold french fries are inedible,” Ikawa said. Sweeney joined him for the burger-eating competition, as well as many other activities. “We are different personalities, but we meshed together real well,” he said. “We’ve published some articles together, gone to conferences together, hosted accounting club parties together, gone bowling. We’ve been to countless football and basketball games together, and we sat in the student section of the football field, before the students did. We went on a trip
to Minnesota together when the football team made the playoffs.” Ikawa is most famous at Hillsdale for his five successes on “Jeopardy!” — the most a single person could win at the time. In his journey, he correctly answered these questions: “Surprisingly Humphrey Bogart won Audrey [Hepburn] away from William Holden in this 1954 film,” “In 1969 this Supreme Court Justice resigned amid criticism of his financial dealings,” and “You’ll find a statue of Puck outside this library,” among many others. “One thing I’m really good at is old movies,” Ikawa said. “But old movies — if you ask me the movies that are playing now, I don’t know anything about them. You have to know broad categories, things like geography, history, literature.” Although his renowned “Jeopardy!” feats occurred in 1990, Ikawa was recently recruited to join team Trivia Newton John in the Students Activities Board’s trivia night at El Cerrito Mexican Restraunt
and led the way to victory. S e nior Sam Clausen, one of the students on Trivia Newton John, said Ikawa helped the team while getting to know the students. Professor of Accounting Bruce Ikawa, known among “Mo s t students for his Hawaiian shirts and disheveled ofof the fice, is retiring at the end of the spring semester. Hannah Kwapisz | Collegian time he let us come up with an an- what’s going on and why you’re swer and then would confirm moving numbers,” Gatchell it,” Clausen said. “There were said. “He’s challenging...but a couple times we didn’t lis- I also found him to be pretty ten, and he was right; we were clear in class and he takes time wrong. Another time, we didn’t to make sure that we underhave a clue. He waited until we stand what’s going on.” Students know him for his gave up before answering.” Despite Ikawa’s extensive signature, bright Hawaiian knowledge, Gatchell said he is shirts and his affinity for travelincredibly clear and easy to un- ing, an interest that ultimately i n derstand in class. “Ikawa actually explains spired See Ikawa A3
cally from the establishment of UKIP, which broke off the Conservative Party in the 1990s, to his now-viral speech in the European Parliament following the Brexit vote. “Brexit and Trump were not blips,” Farage said. “They were not short-term revolts of angry people. They were fundamental changes of direction...They will see 2016 as the year people took back control of their lives, their countries, and their destinies.” Throughout his speech, he focused on the theme of the worldwide bureaucratic system’s dilution of the people’s role in their democracy. He touched on the mistakes made about former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s opinion of the European Union, tying his speech into his visit for Hillsdale’s Churchill Conference. “What is absolutely clear is that W.C., whether the European project went ahead or not, did not believe that
the British nation should be a part of it because he saw we had wider links, bonds, and associations with the world, who were our cousins, our families, and he was right about that,” Farage said. Do you think Churchill would have supported the EU of today? It’s interesting isn’t it — both sides claim Churchill. There was a building in Strasbourg within the European Parliament called the Winston Churchill building. Now my own view is he’d be horrified. And I’ll tell you why — don’t underestimate the disaster in many ways that occurred in Europe from 1870 to ’72: the Franco-Prussian War; 1914, the Germans invade; 1940, the Germans invade the low countries again. Three times in the space of a normal adult lifetime, Germany invades with huge — in the last two cases, global — consequences, so Churchill was looking for solu-
tions and looking for answers, and he did say the U.S. of Europe could be a way of stopping all this from happening, but two key points: Firstly, Britain should not be a member of it, because we had our links and associations through what he called the English-speaking world, which today I would define as the commonwealth plus the United States of America, and secondly, Churchill was not an ideologue. If he’d seen that the idea of bringing peaceful countries together had turned into the anti-democratic monster that it now is, and it doesn’t have the support and consent of the peoples of Europe, there is no way Winston Churchill today would have supported the EU in its current form. Would he support close European relationships? Yes. Would he support being friendly, cooperating, training? Yes, of course. But not this. How do you think Churchill would have felt about
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Ikawa retiring after spring semester to travel the world By | S.M. Chavey Features Editor
After 18 years at Hillsdale College, Bruce Ikawa — fivetime “Jeopardy!” winner, travel aficionado, and professor of accounting — will retire in May, realizing he only had so many years left to explore, he said. “He’s just been a great colleague; it’s like the end of an era,” Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney said. “I’ve probably spent more time with him than I have with my wife for the past 18 years.” A native Midwesterner, Ikawa earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at a number of places, including Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine universities. His longstanding right-wing pedigree and familiarity with the college after living in Michigan for a time brought him to Hillsdale, he said. Although he can claim high success rates among accounting students who have taken the Certified Public Accountant Examination, Ikawa said
he treasured his relationship with the students even more. At the beginning of the semester for students in Accounting 209, Ikawa plays a game to learn students’ names. When students raise their hands to answer a question, Ikawa asks them to provide a hint for their name such as a description of an actor, athlete, or biblical character with the same name. Senior accounting major Caleb Gatchell said he didn’t remember Ikawa guessing any names incorrectly, and Ikawa said he sometimes remembers the clues, even when he sees students years later at homecoming. “He’s a character, a genius, especially with numbers and what he can do in his head,” Gatchell said. “He knows at least a little bit about everything, and his breadth of knowledge makes him fun to have conversations with and interesting to get his take on things.” In addition to hosting an Indian-food themed accounting tailgate, working with the Vol-
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party and the leader of the movement in Britain to leave the European Union, delivered a speech at the Searle Center on Monday about the Brexit vote and President Donald Trump’s election.
-Compiled by Philip H. DeVoe The speech was met with raucous reactions from the crowd, who Farage encouraged to boo for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and cheer for Trump. Farage delivered an account of his role in the Brexit vote, discussing chronologi-
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Nigel Farage, founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party and leader of the Brexit movement, addressed hundreds of students, faculty members, and visitors Monday, during the Churchill Conference. See the full Q&A at HillsdaleCollegian.com. Rachael Reynolds | Collegian Follow @HDaleCollegian
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Trump? It’s very difficult to compare someone who was born in the middle of the Victorian era with the 21st century. The one thing Churchill completely understood was the power of the simple message and the use of media. People forget this about Churchill — he was a terrific showman and on the radio at the time. He was also a prolific writer of newspaper articles and everything, but he recognized that the radio was the means to getting into people’s houses, to get close to people, and nobody tried to use and exploit the radio more or in a better way than Winston Churchill. Trump has recognized that there’s a new thing called social media, and he’s going with that. And I’m quite sure, if Churchill was alive today, he would have the biggest global Twitter following of anybody, so I think in terms of understanding how to deliver messages, in terms of recog-
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