The Hillsdale Collegian 11.7.19

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Vol. 143 Issue 10- November 7, 2019

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Hillsdale County Sheriff cuts midnight patrol, cites staff shortage By | Ben Wilson Collegian Reporter Hillsdale County Sheriff Tim Parker sighs as he looks over a sheet scribbled with shifts for the week –– he just doesn’t have enough officers to fill all of them.

Like many sheriff and police departments across the nation, the Hillsdale County Sheriff Department can’t find enough qualified applicants to fill all of its open positions.

This has forced Parker to cut the midnight patrol shift.

The shift reduction began Nov. 4, decreasing police presence between midnight and 6 a.m.

“I’m cutting the midnight patrol due to a loss of certified road patrol deputies,” Parker said.

Two deputies are on leave, serving the military. Two more resigned to take higher-paying positions. A fifth is recovering from a severe crash.

“This brings me to five deputies that need to be replaced,” Parker said. “But I cannot replace the two that are on military orders or the one on medical leave.”

Federal law prohibits replacing deputies away on military and medical leave.

“Finding qualified road patrol staff is challenging in today’s market,” Parker said.

“A best-case scenario would be two new hires immediately, which would entail at least three to four months of training.”

The Jonesville Police Department faces similar

challenges.

“We’re having the same problems as Hillsdale County,” Jonesville Chief of Police Mike Lance said. “There’s a shortage of police officers right now.”

Lance placed job postings online over eight months ago and has yet to find a qualified applicant.

“This December, we’re going to be cutting back also on midnights,” Lance said.

With both the county sheriff and Jonesville police cutting back on night patrol, the Hillsdale City Police Department will have to take on more responsibility.

“Yes, it will create more work,” Parker said. “Only Hillsdale City Police have a 24/7 protection program.

All the other agencies are

struggling to keep the officers they have.”

The county sheriff leads all of the other agencies in response to 911 calls in Hillsdale county. Data provided by the county shows from January to September of this year, the county sheriff responded to more than 7,600 calls. State police in the county responded to 6,200 calls. Both Hillsdale and Jonesville city police departments responded to less than 4,000 each.

As the only agency to guarantee service in the early hours of the morning, the Hillsdale City Police expects to respond to more calls.

“The Hillsdale City Police are anticipating an increase in contacts from subjects wishing to speak with an officer,” Hillsdale Chief of Police Scott

Student vehicles involved in city-wide car thefts By | Genevieve O’Gara Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale Police Department responded to 21 complaints of vehicle thefts over a seven-day period starting Tuesday, Oct. 29, according to Hillsdale City Chief of Police Scott Hephner.

The individual or individuals responsible have yet to be found.

Hephner said the majority of complaints were made within a 72-hour period, and all of the vehicles were reported to have been unlocked. No arrests have been made, but

Hephner said this is an on going investigation.

“Our detective has been checking with businesses for potential video of subjects out during the night; however, we do not have anything of quality at this time.” Hephner said in an email.

Hillsdale College junior Megan Kerr’s car, parked on Hillsdale Street, was broken into.

Hers was the only one in a line of cars outside of Waterman Dormitory that was affected. Kerr said her car was unlocked because she does not leave any valuables in it.

Hephner said. “This could be by phone or subjects coming to the city to contact an officer.”

The state police are also preparing to assist the Hillsdale City Police in compensating for the reduced county and city night patrol.

“It won’t be additional work for us,” Michigan State Police Jackson Post Commander 1st Lt. Kevin Rod said. “We just need to adjust our schedules to ensure we can put appropriate coverage and increase the levels of officers in the area.”

The impact on citizens is potentially longer wait times, but all four agreed that crime will not increase.

“I do expect that people may need to wait for service calls,” Parker said. “Central

dispatch will need to prioritize what will need an officer more than ever.”

Parker said the cuts to midnight patrols are temporary.

“I plan to reinstate patrols as soon as I have staff to fill the vacancies and they are trained,” Parker said.

A consensus among the sheriff and chiefs is that the problem they are facing is a national issue.

Lance recently returned from the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Chicago and said the issue isn’t unique to the area.

“It’s a nationwide problem,” Lance said. “It’s difficult to recruit and hire people to come in and work at this time.”

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“I usually don’t lock my car, because I’ve never in my three years here felt the need to lock my car,” Kerr said.

On Oct. 29, Kerr noticed that the light was on in her car but didn’t know why.

Her head resident assistant offered to turn it off for her.

It wasn’t until the next evening when Kerr realized her car had been broken into.

The thief had left the car door open, so her battery was almost dead. The thief had

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Two retire from Financial Affairs By | Julia Mullins City News Editor

After a combined 91 years of working for Hillsdale College, Carolyn Spencer and Joanne Cook are retiring from their current positions in the financial affairs office.

Spencer served as the college’s assistant controller, and Cook served as the college’s internal auditor.

Both women attended Hillsdale College as non-traditional students, attending classes while working full-time. Spencer and Cook graduated with degrees in accounting in 1993 and 1998, respectively.

Spencer said she and Cook grew up near the college and share many of the same

values, work ethic, dedication, attention to detail, and humor.

“Working with Joanne all these years has been very enjoyable, to say the least, and many of my projects were completed with her valuable assistance,” Spencer said.

When Spencer began working in the summer of ’69 filling in for vacationing staff in various offices, she planned on working at the college for five years as she finished her education. Cook began working for the college’s admissions office and said never imagined she’d spend the next four decades working at the college.

After moving to the financial affairs office, Cook began to work with Spencer –– who

had moved to working as the secretary for former college President J. Donald Phillips –– on a regular basis.

“Joanne’s work responsibilities there, as well as mine in the president’s office, kept us in daily contact and began our friendship,” Spencer said. “We even discovered we shared the same birthday.”

Cook said she was always interested in numbers and thrilled to be able to study accounting and then work in the college’s accounting office.

Hillsdale College’s former Chief Administrative Officer Ken Cole supervised Spencer and Cole when they worked in the financial affairs office

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Women Commisioners hold first Charger Derby fundraiser By | Madeleine Miller Collegian reporter The track was clear and the weather was fair for the Hillsdale College Women Commissioners inaugural Charger Derby. Held Nov. 2 in the Searle Center, the fundraising event raised roughly $100,000 for student scholarships and attracted 255 guests for an evening of simulated horse racing and a silent auction.

The Women Commis-

sioners hosted the virtual derby in lieu of their annual rummage sale, which was last held in 2017 and was their biggest fundraiser for years.

They were delighted with the turnout.

The event drew guests from near and far, both friends of the college and people from Hillsdale County, decked out in derby dress.

Many of the ladies wore flamboyant hats and headpieces and several men sported dapper details, including a

horse-motif bow tie. One couple came costumed as a horse and jockey.

Event proceeds will go to the Women Commissioners scholarship endowment, which funds general, music, journalism, leadership, and academic scholarships and a general scholarship granted on the basis of financial need.

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Barney Charter director, Kilgore, says ‘farewell’ By | Reagan Gensiejewski Collegian Reporter After 10 years as Hillsdale College’s director of the Barney Charter School Initiative, Phil Kilgore is saying farewell.

Kilgore’s interest in working for Hillsdale College started when his oldest child, Aaron Kilgore, attended the college. In 2009, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn approached Kilgore with a plan to found classical charter schools around the nation.

After a few conversations with Arnn, it was evident that Kilgore’s background in management consulting, industry, and military services made him perfect for the position.

Kilgore took the job, moving from Colorado to Hillsdale with his wife, Melinda.

At the time, the plan was nothing more than an idea on paper. The first three schools launched in 2012 and 2013.

Ten years later and with Kilgore’s help, Hillsdale has launched 25 schools, serving more than 13,000 students.

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“It eventually evolved to being a three-prong support system: consultation, providing formal and informal training, and creating curricular resources,” Kilgore said.

“We worked in that framework for these schools.”

Kilgore gave nothing less than his best to the school, giving his soul attention to the program and truly acclimating himself in all Hillsdale stands for.

“He attended the philosophy of education class that we offer here within the education department. Mr. Kilgore threw himself into that,” professor Daniel Coupland said.

“I believe he took a number of the core classes here at Hillsdale. He really just acclimated himself to Hillsdale, what Hillsdale was just to get a solid understanding about Hillsdale’s view on education.”

Arnn credits Kilgore for his service and hard work.

“Phil has done important service here at Hillsdale and its effects will last,” Arnn said in an email. “There are now more than 20 charter

schools affiliated with the college in one way or another.

To accomplish this, Phil has built relationships all over the country and a strong team here. We are grateful to him for his service, wish him

every good thing, and remain ready to help whenever he has need.”

Since moving to Hillsdale and having three of his four children attend the college, the town holds a special

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place in Kilgore’s heart. His favorite part of the job just happens to be Hillsdale’s town motto.

“It’s the people,” Kilgore said. “I have worked with some really, really great people — both here at the college and the ones who are founding the schools and leading the schools and teaching at the schools. I have really enjoyed getting to know them over the years and forming good relationships while we are engaged in this really good work.”

Kilgore’s emphasis on personal connections has influenced his co-workers.

“Phil taught me a lot about how to work with people — a lot of different types of people,” said Becky Holland, who was the first person Kilgore hired and now serves as director of curriculum and instruction. “He is a very caring individual. Getting to know who they are as people is important, even more in a business situation. Everyone has background and a story that is affecting their deci-

sions that they are making.

While we try to keep things business and professional and obviously not let the personal override that, it is important to know who people are when you are working with them in this kind of advisory role relationship.”

Though leaving the school, Kilgore says he does not consider it a retirement but rather a farewell. He plans to continue working, likely doing some consulting in education or business and industry.

“My last words would be a very warm thank you to everyone who supported our work, whether it is people on the staff and faculty or the hundreds of donors, because everyone has to come together,” Kilgore said, “The program has experienced tremendous success and it was everyone’s doing. I had the privilege of leading it but it took everybody. The privilege to be a part of something like this for a decade is a gratifying experience.”

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Physics department to offer spring Wall Street Journal columnist programming, astronomy electives speaks on dangers of socialism By | Nolan Ryan Editor-in-Chief The physics department is offering two elective courses next spring. Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch is hoping they will bring in more students from a variety of majors.

PHY 120: Astronomy and PHY 350: Computational Physics will be offered as three- and two-credit classes respectively. Both courses have been offered in the past, Dolch said, but he plans to reach a wider audience of students across the sciences, as well as more non-science majors.

Dolch originally taught Computational Physics every other year, but with a growing demand for computer programming classes, the physics department decided to start offering it annually. The class will use Python, a widely-used computer programming language, Dolch said.

“Python is a skill, an art,

to learn how to write code and have it work efficiently and beautifully. There’s something very satisfying about that,” he said. “It’s a push from both the math and physics departments. Across the sciences and other fields like accounting, everyone is programming. As a biologist, you might spend your day programming.”

Dolch recommends students have some familiarity with physics to take the class, but when he taught the class last year, lots of students who didn’t have a background in physics did well, he said.

Senior Emma Clifton took the programming class last year, the first time Dolch offered it. The course, she said, was practical in that it allowed students to apply programming concepts on a variety of projects.

“It was good for exposing me to some more actual applications of math and computer programming and simulating certain physics-related prob-

lems, like the trajectory of a spaceship around the planets, and how they move due to gravity,” Clifton said.

Meanwhile, the astronomy class is targeted for a broader audience, Dolch said. While students learn astronomy in the core physics class, the astronomy course will take that information further and will even include outdoor observations. Dolch also said that astronomy is one of the liberal arts, and for colleges that require a single science course, astronomy tends to be the most popular choice.

One audience Dolch intends to reach is students who will go into education careers and are likely to teach science of some sort.

“A large fraction of students who graduate go into Barney Charter schools. A lot of teachers will be doing science,” Dolch said. “This course is good for having that in their toolkit.”

Members of Pi Beta Phi pose with Sigma Chi during Derby Days. Courtesy | Kaitlyn Schenk

Sigma Chi raises $4,500 for cancer foundation, Chi O wins Derby Days

By | Deirdre Cullen Collegian Freelancer Last Tuesday, a row of Sigma Chi fraternity brothers sat in chairs in the Grewcock Student Union, bracing themselves for their peers to pie them in the face. As the second day of Derby Days, a week-long fundraiser raising money for Huntsman Cancer Foundation, many brothers had volunteered to have pies thrown at them in order to raise money for their charity.

The Huntsman Cancer Foundation, Sigma Chi’s philanthropy, was founded by Jon Huntsman, who had been a Sigma Chi himself. After a remarkable political career in which he was ambassador to both China and Russia, he began the Huntsman Cancer Foundation with the goal of ending the disease.“Huntsman’s big motto is that we’re the generation to end cancer,” said freshman Russell Breaux, who recently pledged to Sigma Chi. “If we put enough funding into it, we think that

we can find a cure for cancer in the next few decades.”

Sigma Chi has given countless hours and made a massive effort to further their philanthropy’s mission. Curtis Joseph, a member of Sigma Chi, emphasized that his chapter takes very seriously this mission and involvement with their philanthropy.

“Members of Sigma Chi are dedicated to whatever they’re into, whether it be academics or philanthropy,” Joseph said, “We take service seriously.”

Derby Days not only involves events in which brothers have their heads shaved or pies thrown at them for their charity, but also involves various competitions between the sororities on campus, which this year included Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi. Competitions include a field day, Sign-a-Sig Day, and Mock Rock, which is the finale of the week. The sorority that earns the most points during the week not only gains the glory of having won the long week of com-

petitions but also receives a portion of the money raised given to their sorority’s chosen charity organization.

Kaitlyn Schenk, a member of Pi Beta Phi, said her sorority loves the opportunity to come alongside their fellow Greek house in their philanthropic mission.

“It’s important to support each other,” Schenk said, “I’ve been happy that we have taken that very seriously. It is not something that people say, it is something that people actually do.”

Chi Omega came out as the top sorority and the winner of the 2019 Derby Days.

Samantha Widmer, a member of the winning sorority, relates.

“Chi Omega was able to raise $1300 by the end of the week.” This $1300 contributed greatly to the $4,500 that was raised in total by Sigma Chi’s efforts, all of which will go to Huntsman Cancer Foundation.

media every day.”

Like Strassel, Conner thinks that those who support socialism don’t have During her Nov. 5 lecany idea of what it really ture at Hillsdale College, entails.

Kimberley Strassel urged “I think many of the the audience to rememyouth that say they want to ber Benjamin Franklin’s live under socialism don’t famous words: “We have a know what they’re talking republic, if you can keep it.” about, ” he said.

“We don’t Now entering her 25th year feel threatened by commuat the Wall Street Journal, nism or socialism anymore.

Strassel is concerned about Seventy-somethings like the growing rejection of the Elizabeth Warren should founding principles that know that socialism doesn’t Franklin helped craft. work, but they choose to Strassel, who was the ignore the evidence.”

Eugene C. Pulliam DistinStrassel’s fourth culprit, guished Visiting Fellow in higher education, also plays Journalism in 2013, rea significant role in pushturned to Hillsdale for the ing young people towards Center for Constructive Alsocialism. ternatives on Socialism this “Professors tell students week. While on campus, she daily that American socispent time with Professor ety is racist, sexist, ageist, John Miller, Director of the corporatist, and elitist,” Dow Journalism Program, she said. “These kids are and his journalism classes. told that the entire world In her is rigged against lecture, Strasthem, and that the sel decried only remedy for the rising such a situation is popularity of more government socialism in that will equalize America. society.”

“Why are Ivan Pongracic, we seeing a Professor of Ecoresurgence nomics at Hillsdale, of socialshared his unique ism today?” experience with she said. socialism during “The polls the Faculty Round show that Table, which took it is mostplace on Nov. 6. ly younger Born and raised Americans in Yugoslavia, he who are knows the realities embracing of socialism that it, but it’s not American politienough to cians and universit back and sities choose to assume that ignore. the country’s “It was pretyouth will ty nice to be in grow up.

Yugoslavia during This problem the 1970s, because is just too we were getting urgent.” massive amounts According of money from the to Strassel, United States,” he America’s said. “Once Maryouth are shal Tito died in not entirely 1980, the Western to blame Kimberley Strassel met junior journalism student money dried up, for the rise of Madeline Peltzer. Isabella Redjai | Collegian and the irratiosocialism. The nality of socialism culprits tend country and failing young revealed itself.” to be older politicians who Americans.

By the time Pongracic’s should know their history, “Increasingly, the refamily moved to America but continue to push failed porters that shape the daily in 1984, massive shortages policies instead. were already hitting Yugo“They are the products of narrative all come from the same left-of-center slavia. parenting, of education, and communities and the same “I stood in lines for of political policy and culleft-of-center colleges, ” she dozens of hours just to get ture,” Strassel said of young said. “I grew up in a logging things like coffee and milk,” people. “The popularity of community in Oregon, and he said. “The complete ecosocialism is the result of I don’t know a single person nomic collapse led to one of failure by core groups of ofthe most horrific civil wars ficials and civic institutions.” in journalism today who has even a remotely similar ever fought on European Strassel argued that there experience to mine. ” soil.” are four main causes for Thomas Conner, ProfesDespite the creeping the rise of socialism today: sor of History at Hillsdale, influence of socialism, Ponthe Democratic Party, the gracic is hopeful that our Republican Party, the media, said that the media bears most of the responsibility innate American spirit will and higher education. for the growing popularity eventually reject it.

“I would argue that of socialism.

“There are so many the Democrats’ motive, at “Our media is volunteeryoung people that want to least in part, is power and ing to be the mouthpiece be entrepreneurs, ” he said. control,” Strassel said. “Most of the Democratic Party, ” “They understand that parties, when their message he said.

“The media isn’t there’s something good fails to resonate with the constantly pushing socialabout the free market. So go public, decide to figure out ism, but they’re definitely forward and fight the good what they did wrong and to reporting uncritically.

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cle. Now, they meet political setbacks by thinking about how they can shackle the other side, or how to change the system to make it easier to win.”

However, Strassel said that the Republican Party has failed citizens as well.

Although they do not propagate socialist messages like the Democrats, Republicans haven’t offered a compelling message to counter socialist arguments.

Strassel illustrated how young people see the situation.

“You can vote for Republicans and get the status quo, which no one is very happy with, or you can vote for Democrats and get free health care,” she said.

“Which would you choose, given what you’ve been told by the media?”

According to Strassel, the media is damaging the

Thomistic Institute friar offers solution to civic debate By | Rachel Kookogey Assistant Editor

In his visit to Hillsdale’s chapter of the Thomistic Institute, Rev. Aquinas Guilbeau argued that the task of the Christian today is to “produce the better answers to the questions that press on our public life.”

Guilbeau used David French and Sohrab Ahmari’s debates on civility to explain his own position on the Christian’s place in public matters. Ahmari and French’s initial interactions on social media in particular, Gulibeau said, demonstrate the tension between defending the truth and acting with civility towards others.

As Guilbeau explained, French’s initial article argued that civility is always an affordable expense. French’s leading example of this was

the pro-life movement. Guilbeau quoted French’s article, which said: “The pro-life movement advanced through love — love for mother and child.

And while no one should shrink from telling hard truths, the movement does not advance through scorn.

Violent or scornful men and women are the movement’s greatest liability. Lives are at stake, reach out to people with your whole heart.”

Ahmari’s response, Guilbeau said, claimed that French’s civility and politeness are not good for this day and age.

“Ahmari argues that the current maximization of individual liberty that we are now seeing in the culture, a maximization that he claims French supports, is bad for the family, is bad for the

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church, and is bad for tradition,” Guilbeau said.

Ultimately, Guilbeau said, Ahmari’s frustration with French is rooted in the problem of maximized autonomy, which chases civility beyond the public square.

While French seeks to use civility to defend a neutral public square, Ahmari argues that the political realm can never be neutral. While French argues that civil persuasion always wins the day, Ahmari asks why one should be civil if those people who oppose him are not civil themselves.

Guilbeau concluded that both men get elements of the argument right but miss a kind of Aristotelian mean between their two points.

“What Amari gets right is this: the public square is not neutral, because the human

being is not neutral,” Guilbeau said. “Man is, by virtue of his creation in the likeness of God, oriented to the good.

To choose the good leads to happiness, and flourishing.

To choose evil leads to sorrow, and diminishing.”

Guilbeau added that he believes it’s possible to deal neutrally on comparable things, such as different denominations of Christianity, but not on non-comparable things such as pencils and cigarettes.

“What French gets right in the debate is this: civility remains of primary importance in civic life,” Guilbeau said.

Guilbeau made reference to Thomas Aquinas’s claim that “a fellow citizen doesn’t become an enemy until he takes direct action against the common good.”

Bringing both Ahmari

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and French’s points together, Guilbeau developed a course of action which he said is “to promote the good vigorously in civic exchange.”

“This is not just a defense of the good, but real promotion,” Guilbeau said. “To go on Ahmari’s offense with French’s civility.”

Sophomore Nick Schaffield said he had been working through the ideas of Guilbeau’s discussion on his own and was glad to hear someone address them.

“I had been thinking about a lot of the ideas here before, so it’s really nice to have someone articulate them,” Schaffield said.

The Thomistic Institute is a national organization run by the Dominicans of the Easter Province out of Washington, D.C. The institute presents talks at various colleges and

universities that have student-run chapters.

The Hillsdale chapter of the institute does many joint events with campus’ Catholic Society.

Catholic Society President and junior Patrick Mitchell said he was excited that Guilbeau’s talk brought up the tensions between a Christian identity and a political identity.

“I was really excited that Father Guilbeau was able to use the Ahmari-French debates to address how we should stand by our values as Christians while understanding that things like freedom of religion and freedom of speech are so essential to active democracy,” Mitchell said. “I think these questions are in the mind of a lot of Hillsdale students.”

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Kappa to host country Galloway representative wins Mr. Hillsdale with his hands,” Andrews said.

Siegfried said he hadn’t Some contestants took By | Rachel Kookogey “As a joke, one of them said known what talent he would liberty with the instructions. concert for literacy Assistant Editor ‘Phil, you’re doing that for Mr. use when he committed to For example, sophomore and

By | Alexis Daniels Web Content Editor Kappa Kappa Gamma will be hosting a concert on the quad this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. with country singer John King, a Tennessee-based musician who has performed for Kappa sororities all over the country.

Senior and event chairman Caterina Moran, who organized and communicated with King, said he reached out to her through email about performing.

“He performs for Kappa chapters all over the country, and he really loves performing for Kappas and reached out and was like, ‘Would you guys be interested?’ So we kinda just rolled with it and it’s happening and we’re all really excited about it,” Moran said.

The concert will raise money for Kappa’s philanthropy Reading Is Fundamental Foundation, which focuses on raising awareness about literacy for children.

Senior Callie Shinkle, the chairman for philanthropy,

said the money raised will go towards buying books and donating them to the foundation and the underprivileged areas of the community.

“We would like to bring Reading is Fundamental to the local level,” Shinkle said.

“We buy books and read to kids and they get to take the books home.”

The tickets for the concert cost $12, which Moran said is very cheap in comparison to tickets for any other concert. Shinkle said the cost accomplishes their goal for fundraising and for students’ affordability.

“We wanted to make it affordable for students but still to the point where we could raise money off of it,” Shinkle said.

Moran said having the event on the quad will make it more open and accessible to campus, and she is excited to see it bring the sorority together.

“It’ll be a chance for us to all come together and work for a common goal,” Moran said.

Four place at Illinois debate tournament By | Reagan Gensiejewski But our big tournaments are in the spring.”

Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College Junior and Debate Team Manager, The Hillsdale College Jadon Buzzard said that the Debate Team travelled to Illinois state this past week- tournament was a step in end for their fourth tourna- the right direction for the team who will have two ment of the fall. more competitions before On the first day of comthe end of the semester. petition, in the Open divi“The season has been sion, T.J. Wilson and Russel going really well thus far. I Breaux in Novice division broke to the semi finals and think we see a really solid Frank Vitale was a finalist in improvement level in the people that we are bringing the JV division. in,” Buzzard said, “We had The second day of the most amount of people competition was just as join the debate team this successful. In the Open year than we have ever had division, T.J. Wilson made before.” it to the octafinals, and Debate Club meetings placed 5th for the Speaker are held every Monday and Award. Olivia Ols won the Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the JV division.

Coach Matthew Doggett Debate Lounge, located right across from the Old said that while the team is Snack Bar. New members doing well, he hopes to see are always welcome. further improvement this “You have to dedicate season.

“The fear that you always yourself and try to understand how it all works and have as a coach in this particular situation is these last if you end up liking it, then it is definitely possible to two tournaments we’ve had do very well,” Buzzard said, a lot of success,” Doggett “Even if you have never had said. “Everybody could go ‘Oh we’re good and we don’t any experience before.” need to do any more work.’

GOAL partners with two dorms for campus blood drive By | Lily McHale Collegian Reporter On Nov. 8, the Community Health GOAL program will be hosting the Red Cross Blood Drive in the Student Union.

The drive, organized by Goal Community Health leader Sarah Becker, will be in collaboration with Simpson Dormitory and New Dorm.

“Every semester the Red Cross comes in and collects blood,” Becker said. “Last fall, the blood drives began being organized by GOAL Community Health. So we work with a different campus partner every time. This time we’re working with Simpson and New Dorm.

They’ve been mobilizing their RAs to help with donor recruitment and some other efforts.”

Becker and her team are gearing up for a busy day on Friday.

“Our donation goal is 110 units,” she said. “We have that many appointment slots, and we have about 95 full right now, so it’s really exciting. I think this is the best shape we’ve been in at least as far as I’ve been running it.”

Simpson Resident Assistant Reagan Dugan

expressed his excitement about partnering with Goal Community Health.

“I think it’s a cool opportunity for the dorms and GOAL programs to work together and use their resources for a good cause,” Dugan said. “It’s an easy way to serve something bigger than yourself and make a profound impact.”

Giving blood is an easy way to give back to another person, according to Becker.

“The first time I ever donated blood was last fall and I think it’s a really neat experience in that it’s a really practical and tangible thing you can give to someone else. You know it’s going to someone in need and it will be in a hospital within a couple of days.”

Becker hopes the blood drive will unite campus in a meaningful way.

“Because it requires a lot of volunteers and donors, we are forced to draw from all areas of campus,” Becker said. “I love walking around on the day of the drive and seeing people from everywhere come together and help people in need. It’s definitely an all campus event.”

Hillsdale,’ and I said ‘OK.’” competing, but he knew he representative for Delta Tau From Bob Ross impresWhen they found out the wanted to make people laugh. Delta Ben Garfinkle carried in sions to musical performances “My goal was to make a handful of limes, proceeded and slam poetry, seven men of competition was only a few weeks away, Andrews said, he people laugh. I think that is to drop them and take a long Hillsdale put up stiff compedecided to purchase the rubhow the sorority raises the time to clean them up, before tition for the ‘Mr. Hillsdale ber chicken and actually learn most money,” Siegfried said. saying “sorry, I’m not really 2019’ crown.

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Fed establishes temporary surplus committee By | Virginia Aabram Collegian Reporter The Student Federation established a temporary committee to explore possibilities for the budget surplus in their meeting on Oct. 31.

The motion was introduced by graduate school representative Jose Aravelo, who argued that there needed to be a committee solely focused on finding the best use for the $31,000 that was discovered in an emergency fund over the summer. The surplus doubled the fed’s discretionary fund.

“Thus far, I haven’t seen any concrete proposals for coming up with a concise plan to figure out what we should do with these funds,” Aravelo said.

His proposed committee would have three purposes: first, to brainstorm options for use of the surplus and collect recommendations from

Retirement

from A1 and also taught both women in his “Governmental Accounting” class, in which both students excelled.

“Their work was already top-notch,” Cole said. “They wanted to complete their degrees, but they rose to the top, and I expected that out of them.”

When Cook first started off in the financial affairs office as a secretary, Cole said it was obvious she was talented enough to be doing more.

“She was very competent, always available, and on top of her work all of the time,” Cole said.

Outside of work, Cole said he and Spencer golfed together, and still do today, but also play a lot of time playing pickleball now that they are both retired.

During her time in the financial affairs office, Cook said she enjoyed working with Spencer for her up-beat attitude.

“She’s a lot of fun,” Cook said. “She’s very energetic, and you never know what she’s going to come up with.”

In her early years working for the college, Spencer said she served coffee during a meeting between Phillips and president-elect George Roche.

“This was a formal setting and coffee was to be served on a tray with cups and saucers, and cream and sugar,” Spencer said. “Due to my ‘newness’ and no waitressing experience, I was very nervous serving both gentlemen,

the student body; second, to put forward an organized package of the best proposals for the federation’s consideration; third, to execute the decision made by the federation.

“I think that the student body at-large should have some say over what to do with these funds,” Aravelo said.

Aravelo suggested that some uses for the money could be an investment fund, campus improvements, or parceled out for various uses.

Secretary junior Victoria Schmidt questioned the constitutionality of some of Aravelo’s suggestions.

“An endowment may not necessarily help the current students of Hillsdale College, and that’s who we are supposed to be serving,” Schmidt said.

Aravelo responded that the committee would be devoted to weighing questions such as constitutionality and and as a result, bumped into a chair spilling hot coffee on Dr. Roche. Needless to say I was mortified and thought I would be terminated or transferred. Fortunately for me, neither event happened.”

Following her time working for Phillips, Spencer said

wouldn’t stray from the federation’s mission statement.

Treasurer senior Evan Welch was in favor of forming the committee.

“As chair of the finance committee, I think this is a good idea,” Welch said. “It’s easy for things to be forgotten in these big meetings, and I think this would streamline things better.”

Representative senior Matthew Montgomery opposed the committee, saying that the chairs of already existing committees could request to use the funds.

“I’d rather not run the risk of stepping outside our constitutional purview with things we’ve never tried before.” Montgomery said.

Vice president junior Madeline Peltzer also opposed the motion.

“This is something we should all have a voice in on equal footing, and I am concerned that we would end up putting too much stock in the

committee’s recommendation by seeing it as more special than it really is,” Peltzer said.

Representative Sean Collins pointed out that it is not overstepping to establish a special committee for a special circumstance, and that Peltzer’s argument could apply to any of the standing committees.

The vote to create a surplus committee ultimately passed with only Peltzer and Montgomery in opposition.

Welch and senior Nicholas Oxaal, chair of the campus improvements committee, were automatically on the committee, as their committees were most involved. The three remaining seats were filled by representatives Phil Bernston, David Strobach, and Aravelo, who was unanimously voted chair.

The committee is temporary and will remain in existence only until the end of the fall 2019 semester.

assistant controller. She even witnessed Roche’s battle with the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare regarding the college’s independence from government control.

“From Ronald Reagan to Bill Buckley to then Secre-

fields, and it was both an honor and a thrill to meet them,” Spencer said. “With this exposure brought increased funding from constituents all across the country in support of the College’s battle against government intervention at a time when the College needed all the help it could get.”

Since her first summer working for the college, Spencer said the most obvious change has been the improvement of technology. She was originally trained on a switchboard with sets of cords and five line for incoming and outgoing calls. There were no computers, fax, or copy machines.

“Offices were equipped with manual typewriters and one had to type on stencils for mimeographing multiple copies,” Spencer said. “Now most everything can be handled via cell phones.”

Cook added that another big change since she began working for the college has been the increase in the student population.

“There’s a need for more buildings, more dorms, and more growth,” Cook said.

Both Spencer and Cook agree that Hillsdale College was a special place to work and are grateful for their experiences and the friendships developed throughout their careers.

“It’s the people there,” Cook said. “Everyone is very nice and easy to get along with. It was a wonderful place to work, and it really enriched my life.”

Joanne Cook and Carolyn Spencer at their retirement party.

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she has worked on every floor in Central Hall, working as a secretary, executive secretary, executive assistant, and finally

tary of State Alexander Haig, the campus was exposed to national and international leaders in their respective

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Motor vehicle owners lost approximately $6 billion in theft in 2018, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Between 2016 and 2018, 229,339 vehicle thefts contained keys or fobs left in the vehicles.

Despite the safeguard of the Honor Code and the general respect for others that circulates throughout the Hillsdale College student body, the honor isn’t unbreakable and doesn’t extend beyond campus.

There were over thirty

break-ins in the city of Hillsdale during the first two days of the vehicle theft spree, but the robbers only confiscated cash from unlocked cars off-campus. Later in the week, however, they ventured onto some campus parking lots.

They followed the same trend of taking strictly cash from unlocked cars.

At Hillsdale, we’re fortunate enough to leave our backpacks lying around in the student union while we run to the bathroom or leave for class all day without worrying

about theft by other students.

This is a product not only of our students’ strong, personal code of morals, but also because of the encouraging Honor Code.

Only students of the college sign the Honor Code, however, and we, students, need to take heed against unfortunately common criminal incidents. Hillsdale, although a quaint and overall safe town, has its dangers.

When students walk alone at night, fail to lock their houses and cars, or let their

guard down when they’re holding cash in Kroger, they’re putting themselves at risk.

It is part of the idyllic Hillsdale culture to assume everyone abides the same honor code we do, but that is not the case. Although students ought to practice their own honor code everyday when outside the safe haven that is campus life, it is necessary for them to also take basic safety measures to prevent potentially dangerous situations.

Thirty years after the Wall, persists in the east Hillsdale Greek communism Remember those who still live under totalitarian regimes life remains strong despite adversity

Greek life contributes positively to Hillsdale’s campus culture

By | Allison Schuster For decades, Greek life at the national level has been on the decline, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hillsdale College students, however, often withstand national trends.

We hold different values and cherish unique things. The same is true with how we embrace Greek life.

Greek life is part of what makes Hillsdale College great. The people, values, and mission of pursuing high moral character, scholarship, and philanthropy are all part of the mission of each of Hillsdale’s Greek houses.

It’s an essential part of many students’ lives, and it’s an invaluable part of campus culture.

Greek life at Hillsdale College is different from the fraternity and sorority culture at other schools because of the students.

While many associate Greek life with bad behavior — like binge-drinking, exclusivity based on wealth and appearance, and extreme hazing — the same doesn’t apply to Hillsdale.

It is true Greek life has had some negative impacts on Hillsdale College in the past.

We all know tales about the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, which was disbanded in December 1996 due to excessive violations of college policies. More recently, Sigma Chi removed dozens of its members from the fraternity. And, glancing through a 1980s Winona yearbook, one can find a photo of a fraternity member holding a bottle of hard liquor.

Yet today Greek students often display the best academics, leadership, and philanthropy.

The highest GPAs have almost always belonged to students involved in Greek life. For the Fall 2018 semester, Pi Beta Phi earned a GPA .06 higher than the average for all women, and Sigma Chi achieved a GPA .11 higher than the men’s average.

Greeks also volunteer approximately 6,000 hours each year. Chi Omega volunteered the greatest number of hours of the Greek houses in 2018, spending 285 hours serving the Make-A-Wish foundation. So far in 2019, they’ve donated $4,014 to the foundation.

All of the houses stress the importance of academics, character, leadership, and service to the community — all of which complement the mission of the college.

According to the college website, “Creating social events that bring people together, building men and

women of character and integrity, and serving the community are the foundation of Greek life at Hillsdale.”

Best College Reviews, a website that reviews colleges and online learning institutions to rank student programs, placed Hillsdale Greek life among the best in the Midwest and wrote that the sororities and fraternities are “dedicated to making Hillsdale a better place.”

And they have fun while they’re doing it.

Planning social gatherings, hosting formal events, and raising money for charity by pieing people in the face or competing in a chili cook-off, is not only in line with the college’s mission to develop the character of young men and women, but they’re also fun and bring Greeks and non-Greeks together. And developing joyful students is part of what makes Hillsdale students so edified and involved.

Kappa Kappa Gamma, the first sorority on campus and the house I have been part of for almost two years, initiated its first pledge class in 1881. Greek life has been part of the college’s heritage for most of its history.

Greeks know how to come back from their losses, and they rejoice in the challenge of doing so.

While other schools are suffering with losing members due to problems with hazing, exclusivity, and overall unacademic reputation, Greek life is making a comeback at Hillsdale College. Seventy-seven women joined sororities last spring, compared to 50 women the spring before. Last weekend, the Panhellenic Council hosted open houses, its largest annual recruitment event. Seventy-nine women signed up. At this rate, even more women are likely to go through recruitment in this upcoming spring.

Not only are the numbers of young men and women interested in going Greek increasing, but those men and women become quality brothers and sisters. They display determination to use their respective houses as a tool to better themselves and Hillsdale on a wider scale.

Whether it be through studying Plato’s “The Republic” or joining a sorority, Hillsdale is Greek. It is part of what makes Hillsdale special, and despite the national trends, Hillsdale will continue to stay Greek.

Allison Schuster is a junior studying politics and is the features editor for The Collegian.

By | Gwen Hellickson On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. For nearly 30 years, the wall had been a daily reminder of the deep division between communism and liberalism, a physical barrier to keep Western ideas, people, and resources from threatening the ironclad grip of the totalitarian government.

The wall separated families, friends, lovers. The wall separated people from their jobs. The wall kept people trapped in the stagnating, oppressed, desperate communist state — it had to, or else there would have been no one left to rule. Some were still so desperate to flee that they attempted to escape, and upwards of 200 people were murdered trying.

For many in the West, the breakdown of the barrier between the free and oppressed people of Berlin symbolized the triumph of liberty over totalitarianism. We thought that the rising standards of living, entrepreneurial spirit, and increasing wages in West Berlin and the complete economic disparity of East Berlin would cause a universal recognition that liberty were more conducive to the wealth and health of the people.

After all, nobody was fleeing West Berlin.

But now, 30 years after the fall, the continuing existence of socialism and communism abroad would suggest otherwise.

In our celebration of the destruction of the Berlin Wall, we cannot overlook another 30th anniversary this year — that of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In the same year that liberty triumphed in Berlin, the Chinese government brought in military men and tanks to quell student-led pro democracy demonstra-

tions asking for free speech China, have been the targets and free press. of forced organ harvesting for Tiananmen, in stark decades, with an estimated contrast to the liberation of 60,000 to 100,000 victims the people of Berlin, demoneach year. strated the persisting willingThe development of ness of totalitarian regimes China’s surveillance technolto oppress and even murder ogy has allowed the scope of their own people to remain in surveillance to expand expopower. nentially in the last decade.

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By | Calli Townsend The elite distance runners continue to wow the world, and Sunday was no different at the New York City Marathon.

Joyciline Jepkosgei, 25, of Kenya became the youngest woman to win the NYC Marathon since 2001. She’s also the only woman to win the NYC Marathon and Half Marathon, which she won back in March. Kenya had a great showing in the men’s division as well, taking first and second places. Geoffrey Kamworor won the race in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 13 seconds.

The New York City Marathon, however, didn’t receive nearly the amount of attention as Eliud Kipchoge’s impressive — yet overrated — marathon in Austria on Oct. 12.

Perhaps Kipchoge deserved the amount of attention he received, as he did something no human has ever done before: He completed a marathon in less than two hours.

After a previous attempt in 2017, he finally succeeded with a time of 1:59.40. That’s 26.2 miles at a 4:33.8 per mile pace.

Despite this amazing feat, the 34-year old Kenyan tech-

nically didn’t even break his own world record of 2:01:39 because of the level of assistance he received during his stunt in the streets of Vienna.

During the race, seven other runners surrounded Kipchoge in a V-shape, operating as pacesetters and wind blockers. The course they ran on had been leveled out ahead of time, ensuring an even surface with limited hills.

And they followed a car with a green laser shining on the ground to show them where they needed to be to keep on pace.

Kipchoge compared it to going to the moon, and his achievement received about as much coverage as any moon landing would. The president of Kenya tweeted, “You’ve done it, you’ve made history and made Kenya proud while at it...” He’s even going to name a street after Kipchoge.

This is not the event Kipchoge ought to be remembered for, though. He has done far more than follow a pace car in a perfectly organized race to break the 2-hour barrier. He nearly broke that barrier on his own in a competitive race just over a year ago, but that didn’t receive nearly the same attention as Saturday’s fixed run.

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tional security, and work for the betterment of the Chinese people that they don’t mean these things in the same way that Westerners do. To the CCP, the establishment of the rule of law does not involve a reflection of the laws of nature and nature’s God, but an arbitrary enactment of the will of the Communist Party. To the CCP, promoting national security means protecting the totalitarian authority of the communist government from Western ideas which would threaten it. To the CCP, working for the betterment of the Chinese people means mandating assimilation to their model of a perfect citizen who does not speak, act, or think out of turn.

Just because there’s not a wall doesn’t mean there’s not a difference.

We cannot make the dangerous mistake of believing that the fight against communism has already been won. To believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall signifies the ultimate victory of liberty is to ignorantly overlook the reality of the world today and underestimate the strength of our adversary.

What we need is a new generation that is willing to pick up the torch, act in accordance with the principles we profess to believe, and stand up to totalitarianism in all forms, in all places.

The people trapped under communist regimes today are equally as deserving of the ability to exercise free speech, practice their religion, and govern themselves. And we need to be equally as willing to fight for their rights as we would be to defend our own.

Gwen Hellickson is a George Washington Fellow and a senior studying economics.

Kipchoge’s recent stunt overrated marathons across the globe, including races in Chicago, London, and Berlin. He earned gold in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

His world record of 2:01:39 in 2018 smashed the previous by one minute and 17 seconds.

He is the greatest male marathoner of all time, but it’s not because he was the first human to run a marathon in under two hours.

Everyone ought to remember the day Kipchoge crossed the finish line to set the world record in Berlin. This was a true race — a large competitive field of runners behind him, no wind blocks, no pace cars, and no alterations to the course.

Kipchoge won that 2018 Berlin race by a mile, literally.

Fellow Kenyan Amos Kipruto took second place, finishing in 2:06:48. At Kipruto’s pace of 4:49 per mile, he couldn’t close the five-minute gap that separated him from Kipchoge.

Let’s also remember that Kipchoge was 33 years old when he set that record. Out of the top 20 athletes to run any marathon in 2018, only five others were born in the 1980s, and only one was older than Kipchoge. He’s not only the best, but he’s been one of the best for the longest.

He has managed to stay competitive since he began his professional career in 2002, and more impressively, he’s run a marathon each year since he began competing in the event in 2013. Most professional runners struggle to stay healthy enough for that long to compete at such a level for that many consecutive years.

Kipchoge is nearing a 20-year long career, beating the average NBA career of 4.5 years and an NFL career of 3.3 years. Granted, he’s not enduring physical contact with other people, but he has been running more than a hundred miles a week for years.

Running is a taxing sport, never mind running 26.2 miles at a pace faster than most people could ever run one, and Kipchoge has put his body under such stress for nearly two decades and handled it incredibly well. He was already the best before Saturday, and running with pacesetters, pace cars, a flat course, and wind blockers doesn’t prove he’s any better.

Calli Townsend is a junior studying sports management and is an assistant sports editor for The Collegian.

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The Washington Nationals’ lesson for Hillsdale By | Austin Mock Last week, Matthew Spalding, professor of Statesmanship and Public Policy, began class at the Kirby Center as he usually did by asking the students if anything important had happened that day.

One student mentioned an incident with former Vice President Joe Biden. Another brought up some recent Capitol Hill drama.

Spalding, who also serves as vice president of Hilldale’s Washington D.C. operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government, nodded politely and waited for the class to quiet again. Thinking we had covered everything important there was to cover in D.C., the class turned to him for comment.

Instead, he asked a question: “And as far as we know, Strasburg is pitching tonight, right?”

He was. And that night, Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals won the sixth game of the World Series against the Houston Astros. A day later, they were crowned World Series Champions.

A bona-fide historic run of improbability, with 7th-inning heroics and Baby Shark chants, the Nationals’ journey from a middling 19-31 club to the best team in baseball had made them the District’s darling, delivering the first MLB title to the nation’s capital since 1924.

In a town as divisive as Washington, the way October baseball united people was truly remarkable. By day, Left and Right yelled at each other about impeachment, Syria, and the like. By night, they were high-fiving with a hearty “Go Nats!”

On the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program this semester, I got a front-row seat to watch the power of sports play out in a political town — as well as an occasional back-row seat to watch inside the stadium.

Most sports fans are familiar with this power.

It’s fairly cut and dry on a certain level. We like to win, we hate to lose, and we love to be great. Cheering on the home team fuels our competitive drive and gives us a black-and-white recess from an extraordinarily gray world.

It’s also plain fun.

But sports do something more.

There is a metaphysic to athletic competition which is a bit tricky to put into words — only an athlete or lifelong fanatic could probably get close. Three simple ideas come to mind: unity, loyalty, and courage.

In United States history, there have never been more people gathered together, united in purpose, than the roughly 5 million people who attended the Chicago Cubs’ parade in 2016, after winning their first World Series in 108 years. An average Philadelphia Eagles fan could probably rattle off the team’s entire wide-receiver corps before he could name his district representative in Congress. You wouldn’t be surprised to find yourself hugging the stranger next to you after your team hits a last-second three pointer to win the NBA Finals. But you’d be a little embarrassed if you were doing that after the 6 o’clock news.

It’s sad to say, but this semester in Washington, D.C. is the first time I’ve felt the fervor of being with and among an electric fanbase.

There is certainly not

fervor for Hillsdale’s college athletics.

There’s one obvious answer for that. The Nationals are a professional team, and they did just win the biggest trophy in baseball. But I think there are a few more subtle reasons why Hillsdale athletics don’t enjoy wild popularity on campus.

Heavy class loads make it hard for most students to attend home games regularly, and even those that do have time choose to spend it in other ways. Students already loyal to a Division I team are generally less enthusiastic about Division II sports. Most Michigan fans on campus would rather see Harbaugh hoist the College Football Playoff trophy than they would the Chargers make a deep playoff run.

None of this is outrageous or even unreasonable.

We spend time on what we care about, and at a school of Hillsdale’s caliber, that generally means long hours in the library, practice sessions in Howard, or lectures, debates, and round-tables in Phillips.

Throw in club meetings, volunteer commitments, and dorm or Greek events, and

to peace, stability, law, and order within Turkey’s own borders.

Past acts of Kurdish terrorism within Turkey’s borders — including bombings at soccer stadiums and schools and other public buildings since the late 1970’s — more than justify their “hatred” for the Kurds. Kurds have clearly demonstrated they are an enemy of Turkey, and it seems the establishment in this country forgets that Turkey is an ally of the United States.

Criticisms of the Erdogan regime notwithstanding, they remain a NATO ally of the U.S. in good standing. They are an allied nation state, with defined borders, a central and accountable government, and a long and storied tradition of sovereignty in the region. Their aggression towards a terrorist organization within and near their own borders is completely justified. Wanting to secure their borders from hostile foreign raiders is not only justifiable in the present context — it is also nothing the United States itself hasn’t done.

When Mexico collapsed into anarchy and revolutionary violence in the early 1910s, the U.S. Army and National Guard undertook several punitive expeditions against the Zapatistas, a group of Mexican communist terrorists following Emilio

Zapata and commanded by the bandit Pancho Villa, who had been raiding American towns, burning farms, and stealing cattle.

Moreover, our withdrawal from Syria may endanger these Kurdish terrorists, but it removes American soldiers from danger, fighting an undeclared war thousands of miles from their homeland.

Being “waist-deep” in the Middle East is not a reason to stay in, it’s an even greater reason to leave.

Our entanglements in Syria put our military at risk, isolate us from normal relations with nations in the region, and continue the longest period of war in our nation’s short history. We invaded Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of eliminating an Iraqi dictator in possession of weapons of mass destruction (that he did not have) hellbent on genocide and world domination.

Sixteen years later, we are now considering military action against a Turkish dictator, in possession of American weapons of mass destruction, determined on killing terrorists within and near his own borders.

Regardless, our intervention to help the Kurds does not help the American people. The Kurds have done nothing to help Americans.

Though flunkies in the Pen-

tagon and our foreign policy think tanks may say that they were indispensable to our victory against the Islamic State, that claim doesn’t hold up to any real criticism.

Asking any veteran who has served in the region who isn’t wearing an oakleaf on his shoulder or on the payroll of some defense special interest group, you get the real picture of the fighting prowess of a stateless people: pitiful. Not to mention that the destruction of the Islamic State was not accomplished

by American ground forces, but with American air power, with European, Syrian, and Russian assistance.

To suggest that these people were instrumental in our victory over the Islamic State is a laughable mistake a best and a misleading lie at worst.

President Trump is seeking an end to our endless wars in the Middle East.

We, as conservatives, ought to support this decision. It’s time to put America first in our foreign policy, even if that means some communist terrorists are going to die to do so.

It’s not Kurdistan first, it’s not Iraq first, it isn’t Israel first, it certainly isn’t Saudi Arabia first, it is America first.

you’ll begin to see how showing up to a Thursday night Chargers basketball game can get pretty tough, pretty quickly.

Hillsdale isn’t competing for world titles, and the energy I felt at the Nationals’ World Series parade, which nearly one million fans attended, isn’t likely to happen at a school with an enrollment of about 1500.

Strength in numbers is an axiom which holds true even in the sports world. At a small, liberal-arts college, where students generally prioritize their classes over their home team, much of the team-spirit problem is natural and unavoidable.

This doesn’t mean that the problem can’t be solved.

Though few in number, we can be great in spirit. Cities like Washington, and teams like the Nationals, do not and must not have a monopoly on the power of community built through sports.

Imagine if each of us embraced at least one Charger team, following its season and getting to know its players.

How much more love for our school, for our classmates, and for this season of life

would we have? We shouldn’t forget that there is more to the liberal-arts education than books. A strong team spirit energizes campus life, strengthens community, and creates opportunities for relationships to thrive.

After watching, embracing, and celebrating a historic Washington, D.C. ball club, and after feeling an infinitely closer connection to the city and its people as a result, I can confidently say that the choice to become a Hillsdale College fan will make me a better Hillsdale College student.

I do think the two are distinct, student and fan, and it seems to me that many of us are proud to be the one but have neglected to be the other.

Let’s not make that mistake any longer.

For whichever collegiate sport you love, make the Hillsdale Chargers your team.

You have the rest of your life to don whatever colors you’d like, so choose blue and white while you can.

Austin Mock is a junior studying international studies.

America first: Pull troops out of Syria Facebook news tab By | Luke Grzywacz In the article, ‘Removing troops puts Kurds at risk’ published in the Oct. 31 edition of the Collegian, Abby Liebing argued that withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria would put the Kurds in danger.

Citing historical examples and contemporary criticisms of the Erdogan regime, she insinuates that the Turks are genocidal maniacs with a history of hatred for non-Turkish ethnic peoples, and that this ethnic hatred persists to this day and puts our socalled allies, the Kurds, at risk.

But this claim does not account for the real motivation for the Turkish incursion into Northern Syria, it certainly doesn’t matter in the context of an America First foreign policy.

Turkey’s “long held hatred for the Kurdish people” is not based on a belief in fanatical ethnic supremacy nor is it based on delusions of territorial expansion into the Levant region. Turkey’s hatred is, as referenced briefly in the article, based on Kurdish communist terrorism. The Turks believe, and rightfully so, that the Kurdish Workers Party — comically renamed the Syrian Democratic Forces following a suggestion from the Pentagon — are a threat

Luke Grzywacz is a senior studying politics and German.

Debates show fault lines in Democratic base By | Matt Fisher Presidential debates are game-changers: the bright lights of network television, the intense questioning from the moderators, and the searing attacks from other candidates can melt and destroy even the most polished politicians.

Candidates such as Rick Perry have gone from frontrunner status to an afterthought in a matter of days.

Even world class orators Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama suffered embarrassing losses in the first debates of their reelection campaign.

The Democratic primary debates revealed a party torn between nominating the most electable candidate or embracing firebrand progressivism. Rather than providing clarity in who will emerge as the eventual nominee, these debates have exposed an emerging dichotomy between the Establishment and the new Democratic-Socialist bloc.

The implications of this divide could prove devastating for Democrats in November. Even with a majority of Americans disapproving of Donald Trump’s performance as president and even backing his removal from office, a shattered and unenthused Democratic base could spell doom for the eventual nominee. A repeat of the 2016 primary debacle, where disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters nearly hijacked the convention and stayed home

in November, would almost certainly sweep Trump to reelection.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been repeatedly pilloried for refusing to back Medicare-for-All, the Obama-era deportations of undocumented immigrants, and his legislative record.

Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., face ridicule from more moderate candidates for the impracticality of their proposals.

There are two obvious losers that suffered the most from the debates: Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, who earlier this week announced he will be ending his campaign, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif..

Both entered this year with a great deal of excitement surrounding their candidacies. From the moment the debates began, however, public perception shifted for each of them.

Once garnering comparisons to Bobby Kennedy, Beto O’Rourke instead came across in the debates as a dull hipster who would be more suited as the president of a Pink Floyd fan club than the commander in chief of the United States.

Kamala Harris, meanwhile, was eviscerated in the second debate when Tulsi Gabbard ripped to shreds the former California attorney general’s prosecutorial record.

Clearly, O’Rourke and Harris suffered the most from the debates.And while the rest of the field has not seen their stock fall as sharply, the de-

bates have not boded well for the standing for most other candidates.

Biden began his campaign polling as high as 41%. After a string of mediocre performances, he’s struggling to stay above 25%. He has fallen as low as fourth place in surveys of Iowa voters, an embarrassing crash in support in an important caucus. Meanwhile, Warren’s performance in the most recent debate in Ohio exposed glaring weaknesses in her Medicare-forAll plan and tax proposals.

Sanders is struggling to recapture the energy of his 2016 campaign; no longer the belle of the progressive ball.

Further back in the field, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro continuously fail to differentiate themselves from the field.

The only candidate who has consistently performed well in the spotlight is Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana. From the beginning of the campaign, Buttigieg demonstrated exceptional skills as an orator and debater. He remains handicapped, however, by his lack of executive experience, having merely served as a small-town mayor, and a lack of popular support in the black community. Furthermore, while Buttigieg’s recent tack to the center may help him with the broader electorate and disenchanted Biden supporters, it will undoubtedly raise the eyebrows of

progressives within his party.

Debates are designed to assist voters in determining the best possible candidate.

Yet all these early debates have done is soil a field nearly thirty-deep.

Once perceived as the best challenger for Trump, Biden now looks like a washed-up relief pitcher trying to start Game 7 of the World Series.

After nine months of successfully marketing herself as the underdog candidate with a plan for everything, Warren is struggling to operate as a frontrunner and respond to criticism of her tax plan. And despite campaigning proudly as a champion of the people without need of Washington, D.C. in 2016, Sanders is desperately turning to “The Squad” to resurrect his abysmal poll numbers and bland debate showings.

In many ways, this field of Democratic candidates best resembles the 1996 Republican presidential primary with a series of uninspiring options. Ranging from 72-yearold former Kansas representative Bob Dole to the eccentric and unelectable Alan Keyes, conservatives failed to capitalize on the historic midterm elections of 1994 and the Republican Revolution.

Democrats enjoyed a fruitful 2018, but these debates may have changed the game in favor of Trump next November.

Matt Fisher is a senior studying politics and is a reporter for The Collegian.

pushes polarization By | Julia Mullins Facebook is great for checking up on friends and receiving birthday reminders.

But the recent addition of a news tab is bad for users and the journalism industry, as it places more power in the hands of a tech giant, while taking away power from media organizations and consumers.

With its news tab, which launched Oct. 25, Facebook has greater control over what news content users see and what publishers appear on users’ feeds.

Although Facebook claimed in a company statement that it released this feature because journalism “plays a critical role in our democracy,” it’s more likely that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to try to beat Twitter at its own game: polarizing users by distributing selective information.

People share news stories on Facebook all the time.

The problem with the newstab feature, however, is that people could begin to use Facebook as their primary or even their only source of news. With the feature, Facebook has consolidated social updates with news stories from hand-picked outlets, which makes for a hazardous mix.

Facebook now pays an undisclosed number of publishers licensing fees of $1 million or more a year. This creates a new layer of tension between the business and news sides of media companies where cash is flowing from big tech to the news industry.

It also allows Facebook to decide what outlets are trustworthy. Facebook has already partnered with the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, and Bloomberg News – all of which write for a left-leaning audience. The more the Times and other large publications cater to Facebook users, the more money these outlets can make. Of course, publishers should satisfy the desires of their readers. But they don’t need to sacrifice their journalistic integrity to do so.

In recent years, conservative commentators and journalists have accused Facebook of spreading inaccurate news and having an anti-conservative bias. For these reasons, Zuckerberg met with with many conservative journalists and commentators like Tucker Carlson, Matthew Continetti, Hugh Hewitt, Ben Shapiro, and Byron York prior to launching the news tab in order to design a program that wouldn’t exclude rightwing views.

Consequently, Facebook has disclosed to the public that it chose to partner with one right-wing outlet, for the time being. Of all the right-leaning news outlets, Facebook chose Breitbart, the

pro-Trump news site many conservatives don’t take seriously because of its support for extreme right-wing thinking and association with conspiracy theorists, like Alex Jones.

Although a team of journalists will select “today’s stories,” algorithms will determine which of those news stories pop up on a user’s feed. It’s possible that a story from Breitbart will never appear on a liberal’s feed. If it does, however, the liberal will see only the most extreme form of right-wing thinking and assume that everyone on the perceived-right thinks that way.

The news tab will have five key features according to Facebook: today’s stories, personalization, top sections, your subscriptions, and controls. Each feature holds the key to more disinformation.

Due to the profit-driven nature of businesses, it’s likely that the team of journalists choosing “today’s stories” will choose popular stories from left-leaning media outlets that will earn Facebook the most money per click.

Earning money isn’t a bad thing — except when it drives political agendas of biased journalists.

The “personalization” feature is “based on the news you read, share and follow.”

But what Facebook should have said is that this will prevent users from seeing anything that might challenge the way they understand the world. “We want new forms of journalism in the digital age, including individual, independent journalism, to flourish. So we will continue to expand the algorithmic selection of stories driving the majority of Facebook News,” said Campbell Brown, Facebook’s vice president of global news partnerships, and Mona Sarantakos, product manager for Facebook News, in a company statement.

Finally, the “controls” feature allows users to “hide articles, topics and publishers you don’t want to see.”

Similar to Twitter, Facebook gives users the ability to reject certain stories or news outlets. Although the news tab aims to help users explore “a wider range of their news interests,” this feature reduces the variety in stories people can experience. Liberals can block Fox News and conservatives can block CNN. Facebook may think it’s doing everybody a favor by combining relationship statuses with the latest update on the impeachment inquiry.

The reality is that Facebook is meddling with consumers’ access to news stories, contributing to the infection of misinformation across America.

Julia Mullins is a junior studying politics and the city news editor for The Collegian.

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Hillsdale County Toys for Tots is collecting donations for families By | Gladys Oster Collegian Reporter Each year the Hillsdale County Toys for Tots Campaign provides more than 200 children with Christmas gifts, and this year local businesses and organizations will come together to serve families in the community.

The Hillsdale County Toys for Tots 2019 Campaign will be distributing its toys at the Hillsdale Assembly of God Church again this year.

“Without the Toys for Tots, a lot of kids would go without Christmas,” Pam Bognar said. This is Bognar’s second year as the Hillsdale County coordinator of Toys for Tots, although she’s been involved with the program for 10 years.

All toys are distributed to families residing in Hillsdale County. Besides new toys, the program offers families vouchers to Hillsdale Markethouse Supermarket to provide a Christmas dinner. A group of farmers and dairy producers from Hillsdale County also have donated 300 certificates for families to purchase milk, butter, and cheese.

The Salvation Army helps families with preregistration and applications for receiving

toys from the program. Each family is then given a time on either Dec. 9 or 10 when they will choose toys for their children at the Hillsdale Assembly of God. Salvation Army captain Cassondra Grey has helped check families in for a few years, and said she loves the culmination of the program at the toy shop.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched faces change as they go into the toy shop,” Grey said. “The parents are a little nervous and excited at first, and when they come out they are so overjoyed and so full. By giving the opportunity to choose the toys back to the parents, it gives them a sense of being able to provide for their children.”

On the distribution days, each family is paired with a volunteer to go through the toy shop with them.

“We have such incredible volunteers,” Grey said. “They really engage with the parents.

It’s so powerful. We’re saying to the parents, ‘I see you. I want to be there with you. I want to live life with you. I want to see you succeed and be happy.’”

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always donates many toys to the Hillsdale Toys for Tots.

The company hosts an annual fundraiser hayride with a bonfire, cider, and doughnuts.

Randy and Troy Hawkes, military veterans and owners of the company, have been collectively supporting Toys for Tots for more than 25 years.

Troy Hawkes was the central point of contact with Toys for Tots for his squadron while he was enlisted and has enjoyed partnering with the program ever since.

“We put on the fundraiser, but without the participation, we wouldn’t be able to do much,” Troy Hawkes said. “I really want to thank all who donate to the Toys for Tots and for the community’s continued support.”

Many others help fundraise throughout Hillsdale County.

For 18 years, the Jonesville Detachment of the Michigan State Police Jackson Post and the Jonesville Fire Department have collected toys together for the program. The fire department hosts a toy drive at Walmart every year on the first Saturday of December.

Nationally, the Salvation Army is partnering with Walmart on Nov. 9 to collect

toys. The Hillsdale branch of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services join forces with the Salvation Army to set up and distribute at the toy shop.

Hillsdale College is supporting Toys for Tots this fall, once again. There is a large collection box in the lobby of the Roche Sports Complex where students can deposit new, unopened toys at any time. This November there will be collection events during three different games.

Community fans will receive complimentary admission if they bring toys to the following Hillsdale College sporting events: Charger Women’s Basketball on Sunday, Nov. 10; Charger Football on Saturday, Nov. 16; and Charger Men’s Basketball on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The Hillsdale County Toys for Tots volunteers will collect Hillsdale College’s boxes on Dec. 5 in time for distribution this Christmas.

The Toys for Tots is still accepting applications for families to receive toys and is in great need of volunteers.

For more information, visit the Hillsdale County’s Toys for Tots Facebook page.

The Salvation Army helps families with preregistration and applications for receiving toys from Hillsdale County’s Toys for Tots Campaign. Julia Mullins | Collegian

Stadium Roller Rink owner Doug Ingles to run for county commissioner in 2020 By | Rachel Kookogey Assistant Editor

Doug Ingles is running for District 1 County Commissioner in the 2020 election. | Facebook

Longtime Hillsdale resident and former mayor Doug Ingles will challenge County Commissioner Ruth Brown for the District 1 County Commissioner seat in 2020.

Ingles moved from councilmember, to mayor pro tem, to mayor in the 1990s. Ingles said he missed public service after his term as mayor, but he did not have the time to commit to it until now.

“During that time as mayor, my business suffered, but things are healthy now.

My son was young and then I had to take care of my dad,” Ingles said. “But my dad has passed away now and my son is grown. I have time, and I still have the fire, so this is a terrific opportunity and the timing is right.”

Ingles said he also considered running for state representative but decided to run as commissioner instead because he wanted to stay in Hillsdale near the people and his family.

Ingles runs and owns the Stadium Roller Rink in Hillsdale, Michigan. The rink has been a family business since 1956 when Ingles was 2 years

old. Skating is an integral part of Ingles’ family, for his parents met at the Arena Gardens skating rink in Detroit.

“Back in those days, the rink was a place to go out,” Ingles said. “Guys would wear a suit coat and tie to the rink and the girls would wear dresses, it was like ballroom dancing on skates.”

Ingles began skating at the age of 2 and eventually purchased the rink from his retiring father in 1996.

Today, Ingles says roller skating is still his favorite thing to do.

“I get up in the morning, and I rub my hands together, and I put a big smile on my face because I get to go to the roller rink,” Ingles said.

Ingles says his habit of roller skating throughout the workday has helped him become more efficient in his other management work at the rink.

Additionally, the act of skating helped him recover from the loss of his father and even lose 30 pounds.

The roller skating rink is also where Ingles met his wife, Sherri Ingles, in the late 1980s. It wasn’t until about 15 years ago, however, that the two reunited and got married.

City Council votes to extend the deadline for demolition of the Westwood Street property By | Ben Wilson Collegian Reporter The city council voted unanimously in its Nov. 4 meeting to extend the deadline from Nov. 16, 2019 to July 1, 2020, for either serious repairs or demolition of the 65 and 65 1/2 Westwood St. property.

The dilapidated house has been a major topic of discussion at council meetings this year as it violates the property maintenance code.

The council voted in its meeting on Sep. 16 to give the property owner, Marvin Salyer, 60 days to make the fixes.

If Salyer misses the deadline, the proposal authorized city personnel to take “such action as necessary to demolish the property.”

The only progress on the property as of the Nov. 4 meeting was that some of the broken windows had been fixed.

“It’s just hard to get people there,” Salyer said. “I finally got a guy to commit to it, and

he said he’d work on it in the course of the winter.”

Councilman Bruce Sharp has been the leading voice to get the property either fixed or demolished since his home is on the same street.

Sharp said he has visited the property and recognizes steps are being made, but there are still broken windows and potentially animals inside.

“You’ve got a cat that stuck it’s head out the window this afternoon,” Sharp said.

“You’ve got wild animals running around in there.”

Salyer said he was unaware of the feline and that it was not there when he visited two days prior to the meeting.

Salyer owns 10 properties within the county. According to city records provided to the council, police have been called to his rental properties a total of 89 times since 2015.

The property in question, 65 and 65 1/2 Westwood, has had 22 visits by police in the last four years and has been vacant since 2017.

Sharp read the list of properties and Salyer informed the council that many of the listings are his mother’s properties.

Mayor Adam Stockford advised that the council should not consider such properties, but Sharp felt they were important to look at.

“If you’re a responsible landlord, you would want to know what’s going on with your tenants,” Sharp said.

Salyer informed the council he has spent $12,000 in down payments on the roof, which must be repaired before other parts, and that he’s serious about fixing it up.

Councilman Greg Stuchell reminded the council that taxpayer money would front the cost of the demolition.

The city would eventually be reimbursed by having the costs added to Salyer’s taxes.

“I don’t see progress,” Stuchell said. “I hear the same song and dance every time he’s come up here.”

Both Stuchell and Sharp agreed that they don’t want to

see the house torn down, but would rather see it repaired.

Stockford said he doesn’t believe the council gave Salyer enough time with the initial deadline. Instead of 60 days, he said six months would have been more reasonable.

“I don’t like taking someone’s property and doing something with it,” Stockford said. “I didn’t run for office to do that.”

Stockford also came to the defense of the individuals living in Salyer’s rental properties, adding the tenants are “working people.”

The members exchanged ideas about what date to make the new deadline and settled on July 1, 2020. William Morrisey proposed the motion to extend the deadline and it passed unanimously.

At one point, Salyer accused Sharp of name-calling on Facebook.

“I didn’t really appreciate you calling me a con-artist on social media,” Salyer said.

Sharp replied with confusion and shook his head, suggest-

ing it wasn’t him.

Yet a screenshot showed that Sharp did make the comment on the Facebook page of the Hillsdale Daily News.

Resident Jack McLain also came to Salyer’s defense in public comment. He said he wanted to see how many times police were called to the Beacon Hill apartment complex, a building frequented by the police.

“You can’t compare how many times the police come to one place,” McLain said.

“You can’t judge the landlord by that. In that case, Beacon Hill would be out of the city.”

Several residents expressed that Salyer is a hard worker and will fix the house.

“As long as I’ve known Marv, he’s always worked two jobs plus had a business on the side; he’s a worker,” McLain said. “He’s going to do that house.”

Sherri Ingles said she’s been encouraging her husband to return to public service for a while now.

“Doug has the time to devote to it, so I think he’ll do a fantastic job,” Ingles said.

“He’s dedicated, honest, and hardworking. And he wants the best for his community.”

Ingles will be running against Brown, who has held the office since 2014.

Brown said she plans to run again and continue her efforts to improve government facilities and county employee pay.

“I’m a big proponent of department-head meetings and open communication with our employees,” Brown said.

“We are also trying to be proactive instead of reactive with our budget, to look ahead and know what we’ll need in the next three or four years.”

On his campaign Facebook page, Ingles said his decision to run is nothing personal with Brown.

“It is unfortunate that we both live in the same district,” Ingles said. “My interest in public service is strong. Timing is everything; now is the time because I have the time.”

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Two-thirds of 397 U.S. law enforcement agencies reported in a December 2018 U.S. Department of Justice survey that they have seen a decrease in applicants compared to five years ago.

“It’s a national trend to not be receiving qualified people like we used to,” Rod said. “Folks used to grow up wanting to be police officers; now, it’s a challenge trying to keep up with those lost to retirement.”

Lance believes the lure of the job is still there, but the media coverage has an impact.

“There’s a lot of negative parts to this job that have been pretty well-publicized,” Lance said.

Officers currently on the job are working longer hours to keep the area safe.

“The current staff has been working excessive overtime including back to back double shifts,” Parker said.

Lance expressed how much it means to these officers when citizens show support for the men and women in blue.

“A lot of people in Hillsdale thank us, offer to pay for meals, and help in any way they can,” Lance said. “It’s appreciated and the people doing the job love it because they enjoy helping people.”

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Cottage Inn Pizza to open at its new location in the early months of 2020 By | Gladys Oster Collegian Reporter Hillsdale’s Cottage Inn Pizza should be operating out of its new location at Silos Fun Park by mid-January or February of 2020, according to owners Donna and Brad Olmstead.

“We’re anxious to get it opened back up for the community,” Donna Olmstead said. “We plan to have the arcade and the restaurant open before the rest of the attractions.”

By mid-November, both said they hope to put the concrete floor in the new restaurant and finish the framing of the building itself.

Dave Clevland said all of the plumbing has already been installed. Cleveland, the original owner and builder of Silos Fun Park, has helped the Olmsteads plan and execute propositions for the new restaurant and business.

Because of the decreasing temperatures and heavy rainfall, the construction has been

slightly delayed, according to Cleveland.

“If Mother Nature would cooperate, that would be extremely helpful,” Cleveland said. “Since the rain showed up, we’ve just had to work in mud.”

Despite the delays, those working on the project are hopeful and excited for what’s to come. Cleveland explained the “marriage” of a full restaurant and the arcade with the park will be what makes the park successful.

“When we operated the park, it was successful on its own, but financially, it was hard to be operational really only three months out of the year,” Cleveland said. “The park has to support itself for 12 months, and I think the restaurant was the missing component.”

The Olmsteads see a lot of potential for different attractions and events at the park. They hope to host not just birthday parties but also corporate events, fundraisers, and rent out the space when

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different organizations have events.

“We’ve all thrown around a lot of ideas for events,” Donna Olmstead said. “We have plenty of upfront property, so we’ve thought about hosting a community Easter egg hunt.

Maybe we could do family movie nights. Really, we want to do anything that will build community and keep it fresh.”

Many organizations and students on campus are excited for the return of the park.

“It’s exciting for the community because the abandoned silos will have life to it, and college students new option in town for events,” Hillsdale College junior Claire Lupini said.

Donna Olmstead is also excited for ways the park will bring the community together.

“More than anything we appreciate the community supporting us,” she said. “We ask for prayers as we face these hurdles as we try to get it ready by spring.”

Hillsdale Historical Society honors renovated homes and barns cabin. The cabin had been Bradstreet is a forward-thinkBy | Allison Schuster covered with siding outside ing engineer. Both were made Features Editor and drywall inside but, after to preserve historic buildings, The Hillsdale County a fire sparked by lightning, their daughter Laurie Lapham Historical Society held its 38th Deb Wasnich’s husband, Scott said. annual “Restoration, PresWasnich wanted to rescue In the mid ’80s, a hiservation and Beautification the square logs. In May 2001, toric barn behind the Delta Awards” on Oct. 28 at the Will they began building the cabin Sigma Phi fraternity house Carleton Poorhouse, where in another location with each on Hillsdale Street was going the society celebrated three log individually removed and to be demolished. The house properties. transferred. By December of was part of the John P. Cook The historical society that year, the home was recon- estate, one of the founders honored Deb Wasnich for the restoration of her 1800s log cabin, Hal and Beverly Bradstreet for the preservation of their John P. Cook barn, and Bob Kline for the beautification of his home.

The tradition of the award ceremony started in 1981. The process for deciding award recipients takes a whole year.

Board member Kathy Fowler was in charge of the project, and said the event is a way to recognize homeowners who take the time and effort to restore and preserve historical homes and barns in Hillsdale County.

“I think some other counties may have more substantial historic homes,” she said. “But our county certainly has a large number of homesteads that have been taken care of and people have preserved them over the years.”

The historical society allows anyone to nominate people in the county who have done something noticeable to their The Hillsdale County Historical Society awarded Deb home to be considered Wasnich with the restoration award for preserving for an award. The major- this log cabin, originally built in 1837. | Facebook ity of entries, however, come from members driving around the county stituted without any addition- of the city of Hillsdale. Free in search of unique property al nails.

Methodist Church owned the restoration and preservation.

The result is a one-room building but decided to exThere are 10 cities in Hills- cabin that now serves as the pand, thus needing to dismandale County, which Fowler Wasnich’s home, complete tle or demolish the estate. said is why the society actively with the Keiser family’s wood The historical society asked encourage people to submit stove from the 1900s. the Bradstreets if they would personal nominations.

Beverly Bradstreet said she be interested in saving the Deb Wasnich’s home, has a strong appreciation for building because the society which won the award for antiques, and her husband Hal considers it to be the oldest restoration, is an 1837 log

standing barn in the county.

The Bradstreets, with their combined love for historic preservation and affinity for how to engineer structures for their best use, took over the project of moving the barn.

Hal Bradstreet engineered a plan to fit the barn on a separate property and hired Amish who specialize in moving buildings. With Hal

a partition wall to host more people as they use the barn as a venue for events. Since the events often require a dance floor, they have also recently put in oak beams to support the upstairs, as well as a small, rustic bathroom. The barn did not require many renovations due to the precise movement of the barn.

The Bradstreets estimate

Bradstreet’s guidance, they cut, moved, and reassembled the barn in a new location.

They have since put on a new metal roof that has lots of different valleys. Lapham said the roof is very intricate and beautiful. The only alterations they have made on the interior is removing

the barn was built around the 1860s, around the same time the DSP house was built. The original estate included the DSP house, the little brick barn, and the Bradstreet’s carriage barn.

After 28 years since beginning the preservation project, Lapham said the award means

State Health Department recognizes Hillsdale County schools as ‘cardiac-emergency ready’ By | Virginia Aabram Collegian Reporter Three Hillsdale County schools have been designated as cardiac-emergency ready by the Michigan HEARTSafe program: Jonesville High School, Jonesville Middle School, and Hillsdale County Intermediate School District.

The HEARTSafe program has been helping schools become cardiac-emergency ready for six years, and so far 569 Michigan schools have earned the designation.

Though recommended for every school in the state, it is not mandatory due to the high cost of some of the requirements.

“The ultimate goal would

be to have 100% of schools having this program, but for now there isn’t a timeline on it,” said Lynn Sutfin, Public Information Officer at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

The program’s goal is to prevent Sudden Cardiac Death of the Young, a blanket term for a range of undiagnosed heart issues responsible for abrupt and unpredictable death in people under the age of 39. It is an extension of the Michigan Alliance for the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the Young According to the Michigan Genetics Resource Center, SCDY kills roughly 300 Michigan residents between the ages of 1 and 39, annually.

This program seeks to prevent as many deaths as possible.

According to MDHHS, schools are eligible to receive this designation if they meet five standards: a written medical emergency response plan and team; current CPR/AED certification of at least 10% of staff and 50% of coaches, including 100% of head varsity coaches and PE staff; accessible, properly maintained and inspected AEDs with signs identifying locations; annual cardiac emergency response drills; and pre-participation sports screening of all student-athletes using the current physical and history form endorsed by Michigan High School Athletic Association.

Tina Varney, a registered nurse and the District Health Coordinator for Jonesville Schools, helped Jonesville High School and Jonesville Middle School achieve this designation for a second time. Working toward a HEARTSafe designation was a natural extension of their AED program that began in 2004.

“It’s essential to be aware if your school has this,” Varney said. “It tells a lot about how a district feels about their students and staff by the priority they give to these kinds of health concerns.”

The Jonesville Schools have trained all of their coaches and PE teachers in CPR, and have response teams that

participate in several drills throughout the year.

Nikki McLouth is also a registered nurse and works in special education for Greenfield School, part of the Hillsdale County ISD. It took two years for her building to meet all of the requirements, but she said the effort was important since many of the students she serves are at high risk for a cardiac emergency.

Though only 10% of staff are required to be certified in CPR at Hillsdale County ISD, McLouth’s building chose to certify everyone.

“We have a lot of medically fragile students in our building, so we want to make sure we’re prepared,” McLouth said.

a lot to her for her mom and dad’s sake. Her parents took on the barn to help preserve history, not only for themselves, but for the good of the community.

“People call it the jewel of Hillsdale County,” she said.

“My parents had enough love to preserve it and that’s special to us.”

Fowler said she drives by the beautification winner every day.

Kline said his beautification process began in 2009 when he bought a run-down home in Hillsdale for a low price but was ready to put in significant time and effort to renovate the property. Kline painted it green at the city’s request, but he decided to repaint it orange this past summer.

Kline said he realized the house was built in 1929 after discovering newspapers stuffed between the floor joists with dates from that year. Kline said he’s now focused on updating the kitchen. Next he will work on the upper cabinets, one of which opens in both the kitchen and dining room.

In order to continue honoring people such as the Bradstreets, the society plans to continue the awards tradition as long as it can.

“It’s an incredible undertaking for our honorees,” historical society board member JoAnne Miller said. Although Fowler has only been a board member for the past few years, she said it is worthwhile to recognize people for their work.

“It has encouraged people to take pride in their historic homes or barns, to keep them up, to preserve them, and to try to beautify the property,” she said.

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“I saw my car just completely trashed; things were everywhere,” Kerr said.

“Things were completely sorted through. My glove compartment was completely torn apart. It was very startling to come across.”

Despite the mess, the only thing Kerr recognized to be stolen was her chapstick.

“Of all the things they could have stolen, they stole my chapstick,” Kerr said.

Because nothing of importance was stolen, Kerr did not report the break-in to the police.

Hillsdale College Campus Security said it urges people to keep their car doors locked and be aware of the situation.

“Watch your cars. The ones that are locked aren’t being messed with, so keep them locked,” Hillsdale College Security Officer Pat Calligan said.

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Chargers set to race in Regionals Men's Cross Country

Women's Cross Country By | Calli Townsend assistant editor This weekend, the Hillsdale College Chargers are looking to qualify for their seventh-consecutive trip to the national meet in Sacramento, California. But in order to punch their ticket, they’ve got to perform well at the Midwest Regional meet in Evansville, Indiana this Saturday.

The top four teams in each region will qualify for nationals, and sometimes the fifth-place team makes it, but it depends on the strength of the region. The Midwest region has three teams ranked in the top 10 nationally, making it the strongest region, which means the Chargers will have their work cut out for them, but they’re prepared.

“I feel really strong going into the race. We’ve put in a lot of work this season, and I trust our training,” junior Maryssa Depies said. “We’ve backed off on mileage a bit

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2019 NCAA Division II Midwest Regionals this week, so my legs are feeling pretty fresh.”

Sophomore Amber Mango says that while the team has backed off on their training this week, the focus is still on the national meet in a few weeks.

“We’re trying to gear up more towards nationals,” Mango said. “Our volume has come down a little bit, but not much. We haven’t really cut out some things coach White probably will cut the week leading up to nationals.”

After their victory at the G-MAC Championship meet, the Chargers jumped up to No. 9 in the national rankings and are picked to finish second to Grand Valley State University at the regional. G-MAC rival Walsh University is ranked in a close third.

The Chargers beat Walsh by three points at the confer-

ence championship, making for a highly anticipated regional race this weekend.

“Walsh is a really good team, so it’s not guaranteed that we’ll beat them,” Depies said. “But beating them at conference made us feel like we can do it again.”

Mango says that with Walsh being so close, the Chargers have their eyes set on running their best race and even pushing the topranked Grand Valley Lakers.

“I would say at conference we didn’t come out with our best foot forward, so we beat Walsh when we weren’t even at our best,” Mango said. “I think we’re not looking at what’s behind us but more of what’s in front of us. So we’re looking towards Grand Valley and try to make them run the race they don’t want to run.”

The women’s race begins at 10:30 a.m. central time.

By | Calli Townsend assistant editor After a surprising second-place finish at the G-MAC Championship meet on Oct. 26, the Hillsdale College Chargers are ready for the Midwest Regional meet this weekend.

They now sit in the No. 8 spot in the regional rankings, in which they hadn’t been ranked all season.

The Chargers will have to beat several tough regional opponents to qualify as a team for the NCAA Division II National meet, but it’s not impossible.

“We’re very confident, not even looking at results-wise but just the way we’ve been racing this season, we know we’re going to race the race we need to,” junior Jack Shelley said. “If that gets us to nationals, that’s great, and if not, we’ll know we did our best.”

The Chargers have continued to improved all season and are on pace to peak

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2019 NCAA Division II Midwest Regionals at just the right time. They’re healthy and after recording dozens of personal-best times this season, they have a lot of momentum going forward.

“I think that if everybody has a really good day we can make it,” junior Mark Miller said. “Some teams can’t really say that, like even if they had their best day, they still have no shot.”

Depending on how the other regions perform on Saturday, at least the top four teams will qualify for the national meet, potentially the top five, according to Shelley.

“Even with the performances we had at Notre Dame and at conference, a lot of us still weren’t really tapered for that,” Shelley said. “Mark and Adam, for instance, had been doing the same mileage the whole season, but for this race they’re

going to be on pretty low mileage, so I think they’re going to blow up.”

Saturday’s race will be a jump up from the typical 8k to a 10k. While it is a longer distance, the course is flatter than the one at Hayden Park the Chargers have been training on all season, leaving them to feel confident in their strength to handle the extra 2,000 meters.

“I kinda like it,” Miller said of the increased distance. “[Senior] Joey Humes is a great cross runner but he’s also a great mid-distance runner. We have a few other guys like that, like Jack and I would probably consider ourselves more mid-distance, so I guess having trained on the hills over the season and being mid-distance runners, the flat course will help.”

The men's race begins at 11:45 a.m. central time.

Volleyball

Hillsdale moves to No. 11 after pair of road conference sweeps Van Wienen named G-MAC Offensive Player of the Week for fifth time this season, Wiese named G-MAC Defensive Player of the Week for third time By | Liam Bredberg assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers won two games this weekend, increasing their overall record, and further cementing their status as the team-to-beat in the G-MAC. The Chargers are now ranked 11 in the country and are inching closer to a top-ten ranking by the week.

Junior Allyssa Van Wienen was honored as the G-MAC Offensive Player of the Week for the 5th time this season for her impressive weekend performance.

Senior Taylor Wiese was her usual self and put together an impressive defensive performance earning her own honors for G-MAC Defensive Player of the Week.

Van Wienen needs just 16 kills in the remainder of the season to meet the 300-kill mark, an impressive feat for offensive players. It would be the first time in her career to meet that mark. During the Saturday match, Wiese recorded her 2,000th career dig. She is only the second player in school history to do so and now sits in second place for career digs at Hillsdale.

The Chargers played Trevecca Nazarene leaving nothing up to chance and defeating the Trojans in three sets. Hillsdale won the sets with scores of 25-15, 2516, and 25-19, respectively.

The Chargers dominated statistically, leading the

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Hillsdale (18-3, 7-0 g-mac) 3 Trevecca Nazarene (13-14, 3-4 g-mac) 0 13

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Hillsdale (19-3, 8-0 g-mac) 3 Kentucky Wesleyan (13-10, 6-3 g-mac) 0 13

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Trojans in hitting percentage (.371), digs (40), and aces (7). Prior to playing the Chargers, Trevecca Nazarene was second to Hilsdale in the G-MAC for allowed hitting percentage with .161.

In her return to starting play, Van Wienen was back to her original excellence with 13 kills and a .522 hitting percentage. Sophomore Maggie DePorre added another impressive offensive performance with 10 kills on 15 attempts with a .533 hitting percentage.

Sophomore Karoline Shelton contributed to the offense with three of the teams seven service aces. Freshman Megan Kolp, senior Dani Jones, and Shelton each had six kills in the match. Junior setter Lindsay Mertz had an impressive 38 assists in the match greatly assisting the offensive explosive that con-

tributed to the match win.

On the defense, senior Taylor Wiese led the team with 16 digs.

Following their sweep of the Trevecca Nazarene Trojans, the Chargers travelled to Owensboro, Kentucky to play the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers. The Chargers put up a similarly impressive defeat over the team winning in three sets. The Chargers won the match with set scores of 25-15, 25-13, and 25-18.

Wiese began the game with an impressive 10-0 run in which she had four service aces. Junior Madie Schider was effective on the defense with with 16 digs.

Mertz had 34 assists and four digs in the match.

On the offense, Van Wienen led with 11 kills and no errors with a .524 hitting percentage. Shelton

performed well on both sides of the ball with nine kills and nine digs. Senior Emily Lachmann had nine kills with a .348 hitting percentage.

“I believe we can accomplish anything together if we have the heart and will,” Freshman Audrey Riley said. “I definitely don’t think about our ranking when we play our opponents. In the end rankings do not mean much, it’s about how well we perform and how hard we work.”

The Chargers will face off against the Walsh University Cavaliers and the Malone University Pioneers this weekend. The match versus malone is vital to the Chargers season as the winner will likely take sole possession of the number one rank in the G-MAC. Until this point in the season, the Chargers and the Cavaliers are both undefeated in the G-MAC, and while Walsh will prove to be a worthy opponent, they lack the national recognition that the Chargers have earned. The match will prove to be a winner-takes-all shootout that fans will not want to miss.

The winner of Friday's game against Walsh will likely determine who has home-court advantage for the G-MAC tournament, which begins Nov. 19.

The Chargers have enjoyed home-court advantage for the tournament the previous two seasons, and won both years.

G-MAC STANDINGS SCHOOL

t1. 11 HILLSDALE t1. WALSH

3. TIFFIN 4. CEDARVILLE 5. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN 6. TREVECCA NAZARENE 7. MALONE t8. LAKE ERIE t8. FINDLAY 10. URSULINE 11. OHIO DOMINICAN 12. OHIO VALLEY 13. ALDERSON BROADDUS

G-MAC

OVERALL

8-0 19-3 8-0 16-6 7-1 13-11 6-2 14-8 6-3 13-10 5-4 14-15 4-4 9-18 3-5 9-17 3-5 6-18 2-6 4-18 2-8 3-23 1-8 7-13 0-9 9-19

NCAA DIVISION II RANKINGS SCHOOL

1. CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO 2. NEBRASKA-KEARNEY 3. WASHBURN 4. WESTERN WASHINGTON 5. MINNESOTA DULUTH 6. CONCORDIA-ST. PAUL 7. NORTHERN STATE 8. ST. CLOUD STATE 9. REGIS 10. CENTRAL MISSOURI 11. HILLSDALE 12. LEWIS 13. WAYNE STATE (NEB.) 14. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 15. WHEELING 16. WINONA STATE 17. ANGELO STATE 18. SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE 19. FERRIS STATE t20. MICHIGAN TECH t20. ROCKHURST 22. UPPER IOWA 23. MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS 24. CAL STATE LOS ANGELES 25. TAMPA

RECORD

PREVIOUS

21-0 1 26-0 2 22-2 4 21-1 5 20-3 3 19-4 6 20-3 7 19-4 11 20-3 10 18-7 9 19-3 13 22-4 8 19-5 12 18-6 14 23-3 17 18-5 16 21-2 18 14-9 15 19-5 20 19-4 21 21-6 19 16-7 22 23-3 25 15-6 24 19-6 nr

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FOOTBALL

november 2 1 2 3 4 FINAL Hillsdale 14 14 21 7 56 Alderson Broaddus 7 0 7 7 21 passing

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Luke Keller Ty Cox Ross Feldpausch

9-19 192 3 0 59 5-7 44 2 0 17 1-2 8 0 0 8

David Graham Ty Cox Luke Keller Josef Hissom Jake Umholtz Christian Shepler

15 132 8.8 2 49 2 38 19.0 0 33 4 26 6.5 0 22 6 24 4.0 0 8 5 11 2.2 0 4 4 8 2.0 1 3

rushing

receiving

K.J. Maloney Martin Petersen Alex Giampietro Brecken Stewart David Graham Ben Gendics Joey Bentley Christian Shepler defense

Zach Herzog Nate Canterbury Josh Peroni Gabe Nickels Nate Jones Jason McDonough Jonathan Burton Matt Gray Nate Chambers Alex Anschutz Matt Harding Kyle Parran Derek Branyan Schuyler Snell Kendall Tobin Joe Royer Will Syrus Ty Cox Joe Schneider Drake Temple Dan Shanley Kyle Kudla Max Torbert

att yds avg td long

rec yds avg td long

3 123 41.0 3 59 2 45 22.5 0 33 3 28 9.3 1 17 3 19 6.3 1 9 1 17 17.0 0 17 1 7 7.0 0 7 1 5 5.0 0 5 1 0 0.0 0 0

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Chargers to open regular season at home with pair of non-conference games By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers’ regular season will tip off Friday morning when they host The Saginaw Valley University Cardinals at 10:30 a.m. After the unconventional start time to begin the year, Hillsdale hosts the Northwood University Timberwolves on Sunday at 2 p.m.

According to a G-MAC preseason coaches poll, the Chargers are picked to finish fifth in the 13-team conference. Hillsdale finished

Allyssa Van Wienen Karoline Shelton Emily Lachmann Taylor Wiese Maggie DePorre Megan Kolp Hannah Gates Lindsey Mertz Audrey Riley Dani Jones Taylor Wiese Madeline Zenas

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Northwood vs. Hillsdale fifth in the regular season standings last year, behind Walsh University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Cedarville University, and the Univer-

#13 COURTNEY KROL #21 LAUREN DAFFENBERG

kill ast dig bs/ba pts

13 0 1 1/1 14.5 6 1 7 1/1 10.5 10 0 2 0/0 10.0 6 0 2 0/1 6.5 6 0 0 0/0 6.0 4 1 0 0/1 4.5 1 38 3 1/0 3.0 0 2 16 0/0 2.0 0 0 7 0/0 1.0 0 0 2 0/0 0.0 0 0 0 0/0 0.0

#22 GRACE TOUCHETTE #25 SYDNEY ANDERSON #33 SOPHIA PIERCE #34 MADISON RATHBUN

FORWARDS

kill ast dig bs/ba pts

11 1 2 0/3 13.5 9 0 9 0/1 9.5 9 0 1 0/0 9.0 0 0 27 0/0 5.0 4 0 1 0/1 4.5 3 0 0 0/3 4.5 2 0 1 0/3 3.5 1 34 4 0/2 3.0 1 1 1 0/0 2.0 1 0 0 0/0 1.0 0 0 27 0/0 1.0 0 2 1 0/1 0.5

#5 SYDNEY MILLS #12 AMAKA CHIKWE #15 ARIANNA SYSUM

5/11 3/7 8/9 21 5 3 5/17 1/8 1/2 12 3 3 3/15 2/10 4/4 12 5 0 2/5 2/4 4/4 10 2 1 2/2 1/1 4/6 9 4 1 1/3 0/1 0/0 2 3 3 1/4 0/2 0/0 2 10 0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0 9 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 3 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0

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sity of Findlay. Those four teams are picked ahead of the Chargers to begin the season this year.

Hillsdale’s 2018-19 season ended in March earlier this year, when the Chargers fell to the eventual G-MAC tournament champion Walsh Cavaliers by two points in the tournament semifinal.

Two years ago, the Chargers tied for fifth in the regular season conference standings but made an improbable run to win the G-MAC tournament and clinch a berth in the NCAA Division II national tournament.

Both of the Chargers’ previous two teams featured starters Allie Dewire at guard and Makenna Ott and Brittany Gray at the forward position. The trio has since graduated after last season, so this year’s team will feature some different players stepping up into more prominent roles.

“We lost some good players and gained some good players. It’ll be a process. We’ll learn a lot about ourselves,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “But instead of trying to replace players, we’re just trying to be the best version of ourselves.”

In an exhibition game against Morehead State University in Kentucky on Friday night, the Chargers’ starting five featured senior center Julia Wacker, senior guard Sydney Anderson, junior guard Jaycie Burger, sophomore guard Grace Touchette, and freshman guard Courtney Krol.

Among those five, only Burger was a regular starter last season for the Chargers.

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“The ball moves at a much higher pace this year than it did a year ago,” Fritsche said of this year’s four-guard offense. “We’ve lost some individual playmaking, but we’ve gained in ball movement.”

Krol is a transfer from DePaul University this season, and has four years of eligibility in a Hillsdale uniform. She scored 12 points in the Chargers’ 77-68 exhibition loss to Morehead State.

Touchette led the scoring with 21 points, and Anderson scored 10. Sophomore guard Lauren Daffenberg, one of the team’s most lethal three-point shooters last season, came off the bench to score 12 points.

Fritsche said Daffenberg could be in the mix for a starting spot at some point this season, but with five guards competing for four starting positions, one will be left out of the starting lineup at any given game.

Still, Daffenberg was on the floor for 29 minutes in Friday’s exhibition and averaged nearly 20 minutes per game coming off the bench last season.

Fritsche figures to tap into his bench depth again this season, especially with a seven-member freshman class. After Krol, freshman forward Sydney Mills came off the bench to play 18 minutes against Morehead State. Junior forward Amaka Chikwe, who started 25 of the team’s 30 games last year, came off the bench for 17 minutes and will again be a big part of the team’s game plan on both ends of the floor.

After this weekend’s pair of home games, the Chargers will be on the road until mid-December. They finish November with five non-conference games, and begin G-MAC play on Dec. 5 at Alderson Broaddus University. They also play Ohio Valley University on the road before hosting the University of Findlay for their conference home opener on Dec. 14.

POINTS

1. WALSH 2. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN 3. CEDARVILLE 4. FINDLAY 5. HILLSDALE 6. OHIO DOMINICAN 7. MALONE 8. TREVECCA NAZARENE 9. TIFFIN 10. URSULINE 11. LAKE ERIE 12. ALDERSON BROADDUS 13. OHIO VALLEY

#24 ANNA LOMONACO

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#20 MAVERICK DELP

november 1 (exhibition) 1 2 3 4 FINAL Hillsdale 14 17 22 15 68 Morehead State 10 17 34 16 77 Grace Touchette Courtney Krol Lauren Daffenberg Sydney Anderson Amaka Chikwe Jaycie Burger Sydney Mills Julia Wacker Maverick Delp Arianna Sysum Kennedy Pratt

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#10 MACY BERGLUND

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Hillsdale Morehead State

#4 DACEY NELSON

november 2 1 2 3 SCORE 13 Hillsdale 25 25 25 3 Kentucky Wesleyan 15 13 18 0

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#3 JAYCIE BURGER

november 1 1 2 3 SCORE 13 Hillsdale 25 25 25 3 Trevecca Nazarene 15 16 19 0 Allyssa Van Wienen Karoline Shelton Maggie DePorre Dani Jones Megan Kolp Hannah Gates Lindsey Mertz Taylor Wiese Madie Schider Audrey Riley Emma Noskey

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GUARDS

VOLLEYBALL

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CENTERS #23 KENNEDY PRATT #30 JULIA WACKER

2018-19 G-MAC RECORD

143 18-4 127 18-4 124 18-4 104 16-6 98 14-8 91 12-10 85 13-9 64 11-11 56 8-14 54 7-15 32 8-14 27 4-18 12 0-22

Men's Basketball

Hillsdale to play Southern Indiana, Oakland City in Conference Crossover By | Calli Townsend assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers will face off against two regional opponents in their early season play this weekend. Their first game is against Southern Indiana University on Friday and they’ll play Oakland City University on Saturday in the Dawn Tibbits Potter Arena.

Friday’s game is against Southern Indiana, which Hillsdale head coach John Tharp calls “the most heralded Division II basketball programs in the country.”

This will be a rematch from last season’s opening game when the Chargers defeated the Eagles 67-60 in overtime.

Southern Indiana went on

to win the Midwest Region and eventually make it to the NCAA Division II Final Four.

“So far in practice we’ve just been focusing more on us and doing the things we can do to get better offensively and defensively,” senior guard Dylan Lowry.

“It’s going to start on the defensive end for us with them having so many guys who can score from so many sports.”

Tharp says this year’s matchup will be much different, as the Chargers have graduated eight seniors and Southern Indiana received several transfers, as well as graduating a few seniors.

“We don’t know necessarily a ton about their makeup as a team because they’re

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relatively new,” Tharp said.

“We’re just going to focus as much as we can on what we need to do to win this game.

I know they’re going to be really big, really athletic, and really physical, and so we’re going to have to keep them off the boards and guard them without fouling.”

“Their 4-man, I play the four as well, and he’s supposed to be their All-American, their best guy, so I’m kind of excited to get the opportunity to guard him and try to make a statement,” junior forward Austen Yarian said. “We’ve been working a lot in practice guarding the

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bigger guys in the post.”

The Hillsdale-Southern Indiana game will be the second game of the day for a busy weekend for Charger Athletics. The women’s basketball team will be playing prior at 10:30 a.m., and the men follow at 12:30.

“It’s unbelievable, but it’s kind of fun,” Tharp said of the 12:30 start time. “It’s just gonna be a full weekend of sports here when you think about everything that’s happening.”

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, as well as the volleyball team are home this weekend, totalling

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Oakland City vs. Hillsdale eight different events.

Yarian said a win over Southern Indiana would have a big influence on their future postseason play.

“They’re in our region, so if we beat them and have a really good season, and they lose to somebody, it could help us make it to the Tournament,” Yarian said. “They were ranked in the top 25, and we weren’t ranked, so we want to come out for our first game and make a statement.”

Oakland City will be a new opponent for Hillsdale, as none of the current Chargers have ever taken on the

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Mighty Oaks. Oakland City is a non-affiliate Division II program. Last year the Chargers played the University of Illinois Springfield in their opening weekend, but due to coaching changes for the Prairie Stars, they decided not to come to Hillsdale.The Chargers will play Oakland City on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.

“Like any team you play, we’re not going to take anybody lightly,” Lowry said.

“They’re gonna have talented guys, so our focus is going to be about us working on what we need to improve on.”

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Chargers narrowly top Albion, win quad meet against G-MAC teams By | Rachel Kookogey assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers narrowly beat Albion College in the Jack McAvoy Natatorium on Friday, Nov. 1, and swept a group meet they also hosted the following Saturday, Nov. 2.

Senior Caylee McComb said their goal for the weekend was to be “unflappable”— to “bounce right back when something gets you down.”

Head Coach Kurt Kirner said the team ”can’t waste any opportunities.”

“Regardless of the competition, we still have to come with the mindset that we need to race,” Kirner said.

“As we approach the midseason invitational, the girls need to be building their race plan.”

On Friday, the Chargers lead Albion by only two points going into the last event, a 200 freestyle relay.

The A-relay team of freshman Marie Taylor, sophomore Carissa Henderson,

freshman Leah Tunney, and junior Katherine Heeres beat Albion by .01 second, bringing the team to a win of 141-130.

“Relays lend themselves well to that kind of thing,” Heeres said. “I think most people swim better on relays because it’s much more tangibly team-linked than swimming an individual event.”

Kirner said the meet was tighter than it should have been because of a disqualified relay earlier in the meet, but the close competition “got the girls fired up.”

The Chargers dominated a lot of the distance events, including a 1-2-3 sweep in the 1000 freestyle, in which Freshman Leah Tunney took first (10:40.10), freshman Sarah Clark second (11:10.41), and sophomore Anna Clark third (11:25.26).

On Saturday, the Chargers hosted four teams — Tiffin University, Olivet College, Notre Dame College, and Ursuline College — and beat each team. Against Ursuline, the Chargers won

Football G-MAC STANDINGS SCHOOL

G-MAC

1. TIFFIN 2. FINDLAY 3. OHIO DOMINICAN 4. HILLSDALE 5. LAKE ERIE 6. WALSH 7. ALDERSON BROADDUS 8. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN

OVERALL

5-0 7-1 5-1 6-3 4-1 5-2 4-1 6-3 2-4 3-6 2-4 2-7 0-5 0-8 0-6 0-9

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FIRST DOWNS

23

20

TOTAL YARDS OF OFFENSE

483

423

NET YARDS PASSING

244

294

NET YARDS RUSHING

239

129

THIRD DOWN EFFICEINCY

50% (7 of 14)

44% (8 of 18)

FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY

50% (1 of 2)

50% (2 of 4)

PENTALTIES/YARDS

2/15

6/45

FUMBLES: FORCED/RECOVERED

1/1

0/0

INTERCEPTIONS: NUMBER/YARDS

2/39

0/0

SACKS/YARDS

4/29

1/4

TIME OF POSSESSION

26:44

33:16

224-28, against Tiffin 21251, against Olivet 221-45, and against Notre Dame they won 196-54.

Saturday was also ‘Senior Swim,’ which is the Chargers’ last home meet of the season. Many parents, siblings, and friends came to support the seniors’ last time racing in their home pool and the team conducted a tribute to the 8 girls before the meet.

“It doesn’t really feel like the last home meet because it’s so early in the season,” senior Victoria Addis said.

“So we seniors are just trying to have fun. And we have a long season left to go, so the sadness hasn’t crept over yet.”

Kirner said he did his best to place the seniors in their strongest events.

Seniors Bailey Bickerstaff, Allie Matti, Taylor Steyer, Catherine Voisin, and Danielle Snell, all placed in the top three for at least two of their events, and Addis took first in both of her events.

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Chargers remain in G-MAC contention Defense and special teams have big day, offense scores season-high 56 points in win By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers improved to 4-1 in the G-MAC with a 56-21 win over the Alderson Broaddus University Battlers on Saturday in Philippi, West Virginia. The 35-point margin of victory is the Chargers’ largest this season.

Despite scoring a season-high 56 points, the Chargers’ first three series on offense ended in two punts and a turnover on downs. But with the game still scoreless toward the end of the first quarter, a special teams breakthrough got Hillsdale rolling.

Set to receive the ball on a fourth-down punt from Hillsdale, the Battlers instead muffed the kick, and the Chargers recovered in Alderson Broaddus’ territory. Hillsdale’s offense needed just two plays from there to get on the scoreboard.

After a first-down rush, redshirt freshman quarterback Luke Keller connected with junior wide receiver K.J. Maloney for a 34-yard touchdown, and after the Battlers tied the game with a touchdown on their next drive, the Chargers took over and didn’t look back.

“That turnover on the punt really broke things open. Those kind of game-changing plays that can explode a game were all over the place and went in our favor,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “Well-executed plan in that phase.

It’s nice when you can put together a game plan and have that executed.”

On the final play from

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scrimmage of the first quarter, Keller again connected with Maloney for quick scoring strike, this time a 59-yard completion, to put Hillsdale back ahead for good.

Maloney caught a third touchdown pass, from 30 yards out, in the third quarter. He finished the game with those three receptions — all for touchdowns — and 123 yards.

“I guess if he had three catches and three touchdowns we should have thrown to him more,” Otterbein said. “We’re able to get him the ball more in the first and second down passing game when we see more zone coverage. When people are playing man-toman, there aren’t a lot of short-control throws against that type of coverage.”

Maloney ranks fourth in the conference this season with 38 receptions and 698 yards, and is now tied for touchdown receptions, six, after doubling his yearlong output on Saturday.

Keller finished the game completing nine of 19 passes for 192 yards and the three touchdowns to Maloney. Junior quarterback Ty Cox replaced Keller late in the third quarter and completed six of eight passes for 52 yards and two touchdowns.

Cox’s first touchdown

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went to redshirt freshman tight end Brecken Stewart for a nine-yard score. The touchdown reception was the first of Stewart’s career.

He finished the game with three receptions for 19 yards, and has caught passes in his last three games.

Senior running back David Graham carried the ball 15 times for 132 yards and two touchdowns. His 14 total touchdowns this season are first in the G-MAC. He now averages more than 100 yards on the ground per game after failing to crack 100 rushing yards in three of the team’s first four games this year.

Defensively, the Chargers came up big early in the game while their offense was struggling to get going. On the first series of the game, sophomore defensive back Zach Herzog intercepted a pass to stop a Battlers’ drive that had nearly reached the red zone. The interception was the first of Herzog’s career.

On the first play of the second quarter, senior defensive back Jason McDonough intercepted a pass and returned it to the Battlers’ one yard line to set up Graham’s first touchdown rush of the game. Later in the quarter, the Chargers kept Alderson Broaddus off the scoreboard by keeping the Battlers out

of the end zone on four plays from Hillsdale’s four yard line, forcing a turnover on downs.

Sophomore defensive lineman Kyle Parran recorded three sacks, tying a career-high. After missing the first four games of the season due to injury, Parran has gradually gotten back into the groove he seemed to be in down the stretch last season, and has four sacks in his last two games.

“It was kind of disappointing for him because he had a good offseason,” Otterbein said of Parran’s’ early-season absence. “But he’s coming on and doing a good job. He’s back into where he might have left off last year.”

Senior kicker Bryce Sealock, who is the team’s number-one placekicker and punter for the first time in his career because of injuries to both Hillsdale’s starting kicker and punter, made all eight of his extra-point attempts after touchdowns and was named the G-MAC Special Teams Player of the Week for the first time in his career.

The Chargers travel to Tiffin, Ohio on Saturday to take on the Tiffin University Dragons, who are 5-0 in the conference this season. Last year, Hillsdale defeated Tiffin 48-26 in the last week of the regular season to decide the G-MAC champion.

“These guys are the real deal,” Otterbein said of this year’s Dragons. Tiffin has won six consecutive games after beginning the season 1-1 against non-conference opponents.

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Choral evensong reinforces theology By | Elizabeth Bachmann Assistant Editor The full, round harmonies of the “Gloria Patria,” the “Magnificat,” and the “Nunc Dimittis,” flew to the oak rafters before falling softly over the bowed heads in the sanctuary of Holy Trinity Church Sunday.

A full choir, comprised of Hillsdale College students, faculty and community members came together to participate in a Choral Evensong, one of the few Holy Trinity holds each year, to celebrate All Saints Day, and the presence of Bishop Rev. Julian Dobbs. Below the choir balcony, the pews overflowed with parish members eager to participate in the evening service.

The service moved through various sung psalms and prayers into two scripture readings, one from Isaiah and one from Revelation, and concluded with a prayer of thanksgiving followed by an interlude from a Widor Symphony, performed on the organ to the scene of altar boys extinguishing the church candles as parishioners proceded out of the church.

More than 100 people squeezed into the small church. The rarity of the service makes it even more attractive to community members, said Rev. Adam Rick, though he lamented that

Holy Trinity only has the musical capacity to hold the event a few times a year.

The Anglican tradition of Evensong stems from the 1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer, which lays out the morning and evening prayer service that Anglicans still use today.

However, the tradition of daily morning and evening prayer for Anglicans reaches back even farther to monks in the Middle Ages who used to pray in a chant eight times

and evening services would lead participants who, in the 16th century, often did not have a Bible at home, through the entirety of the four gospels.

However, this Sunday’s service was special in that it was sung.

For senior and Holy Trinity choir member Henry Brink, this was the most important part.

“I love singing, I love liturgical music. I love singing liturgical music,” Brink said.

“We remember something longer when we have sung it.

It gets the gospel theology even deeper into the soul.” a day.

The Book of Common Prayer narrowed the service down to two times a day, and simplified some of the language to make it more accessible to the common churchgoer. This more accessible version also features two “lessons” from the gospel in each service. The yearlong schedule of scripture reading that accompanies the morning

“They say to sing is to pray twice. I love singing as a devotional thing.”

Father Rick explained that committing to the extra time, practice, and actual act of singing the evening prayer bears a certain extra significance.

“First, it is beautiful,” Rick said. “But also, the way music forms in our brain is a different location than the rest of

verbal location. So we remember something longer when we have sung it. It gets the gospel theology even deeper into the soul than if you had just heard it.”

Rick added that the Bible frequently portrays heavenly worship in which saints sing to God. “There is something primordial, or almost divine about song and poetry,” Rick said. “By singing here on earth, we are getting a glimpse of the heavenly chorus in heaven.”

While the choir was magnificent, Father Rick said that even without the music there is something essential about praying in the evening. The death of day can be symbolic of human mortality. Reflecting on Christian death at the end of the day while falling asleep provides an opportunity to be mindful of human mortality from the perspective of the gospels.

Junior Paul Esposito began to attend Holy Trinity his sophomore year, but this was the first Choral Evensong he has attended.

“The choral part and the spoken part both work together to not only communicate that this is a work of art that expresses the beauty of God,” Esposito said, “but it is also an opportunity for the person to participate in the worship and understand what is actually being communicated.”

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‘Voices together cannot be ignored’ Kimberley Strassel’s new book digs into Trump resistance, media

By | Isabella Redjai Assistant Editor When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a tumultuous campaign season foreshadowed the aggressive “Resistance,” as Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberley Strassel calls Trump haters in her newest book “Resistance (At All Costs)” released Oct. 15. This “Resistance” movement would violate ethical codes and due process in an attempt to impeach the president.

Strassel’s book is a timely and thorough rendition of the events following the 2016 election, with the Mueller probe, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, and the rampant behavior of the mainstream news media overshadowing any positive legacy the Trump administration could leave behind. The administration has sought to embrace the checks and balances of the branches, and remain true to the intent of the Constitution.

“Unlike his predecessor, [Trump] has not governed by executive orders. He has dramatically reduced the size of federal government – not expanded it. He has appointed judges on the basis of their fidelity to the clear language

of the Constitution and law,” Strassel wrote. “It is instead the reaction to Trump that is new and alarming, and that threatens to leave enduring marks.”

With her evidence, Strassel tells the narrative of the aggression and obstinate behavior that earns Trump haters the name of the “Resistance.”

Through detailed reporting and investigation, Strassel shows her audience how the Resistance has fundamentally altered American society with its hateful disposition toward the sitting president.

At all costs. Including using one source with two pieces of speculative evidence as the only basis for the Mueller probe, or Christine Blasey-Ford’s inability to answer questions during the Kavanaugh hearing about her own personal experience against her alleged assaulter.

Of her own book, Strassel writes that it’s “a book of more radical elements of the Resistance, and how their reaction to Trump is causing significant damage to our institutions and political norms.”

Strassel doesn’t use the book to reiterate the news or reinterpret events we already know. Instead, she fills in the information gaps with details

the public never seemed to hear on mainstream media in the original reporting, providing clarity to the defining events of Trump’s first years in office.

“Trump at most will be in office for eight years,” Strassel writes, but added that “we may be living with the wreckage of the Resistance for much longer.”

In “Resistance (At All Costs),” as well as her reporting for WSJ, Strassel isn’t afraid to criticize or recognize the wrongs on both sides of the political aisle.

Strassel openly discusses the insensitive ad hominems and mockery Trump showed his opponents during the campaign of the 2016 election.

“He’d taunted his primary rivals - making fun of Carly Fiorina’s face, calling Jeb Bush ‘dumb as a rock,’ and ridiculing the size of Marco Rubio’s ears,” Strassel writes.

But as Strassel points out, most of the Resistance’s slights against Trump were either exaggerations based on these unflattering comments or completely made up. Labels such as ‘homophobe’ or ‘racist’ had never been used to describe a president prior to Trump, yet this behavior opened avenues to nothing less than libel.

“They accuse Supreme Court nominees of rape.

They break Senate committee rules,” Strassel writes. “They breach government rules and regulations, and even statutes (see all those leaks of classified information).”

“Resistance (At All Costs)” brings to the surface a serious epidemic facing American society today: the breakdown of tolerance, and refusal to commit to the constitutional and democratic process of justice.

But Strassel doesn’t leave her readers asking the question, “What can be done?” In the conclusion of her book, she offers a solution. Strassel recognizes the difficulty of the present state of politics, but says that true change “requires a legislative or administrative response.”

This may feel unreachable by the average voter and reader, but Strassel encourages her readers to not only attempt to be engaged in local political matters but national as well.

“You might think that one voice is nothing. But you aren’t one voice,” Strassel concludes. “Millions of Americans feel the same fervor about keeping our country on a strong, viable, constitutional path. All those voices together cannot be ignored.”

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Christening Plaster with jazz: Big, Little Big Band By | Matt Fisher Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College music department opened the first concert in the new Plaster Auditorium with their beloved jazz ensemble — the Hillsdale College Big Band and Little Big Band — in their Friday concert. The event offered attendees the opportunity to usher in a new era of performance at Hillsdale.

The night began with the Little Big Band, led by Jonathon Gerwitz, an adjunct music instructor, performing a series of songs. In particular, the band’s rendition of “Tenor Madness” stood out as an upbeat and peppy tune with Jarret Ochsendorf ’s performance on the drums stealing the show. “My Funny Valentine” also resonated with the audience, in a large part due to the artists’ exceptional use of the piano and horns throughout the piece.

After the half-hour performance by the Little Big Band, director of jazz ensembles Chris McCourry introduced the Big Band, consisting of primarily upperclassmen.

Performing with the Big Band, McCourry opened the evening by praising the Plaster Auditorium.

“We’ve been waiting three years for this new venue. And it was worth the wait,” he declared.

The Big Band burst into their first song “Big Swing Face” with the full force of trumpets, horns, and trombones. After the energetic opening, McCourry steered the audience into “Corner Pocket,” highlighted by Carson Waites’ performance on the piano. Albeit a slower song, the performance

provided the audience with arguably smoothest melody of the evening.

Immediately following this performance, Mike Williams took the stage. Williams, famous for his tenure as the lead trumpeter on the Count Basie Orchestra, accompanied the Big Band and McCourry on a series of songs.

“We’ve had a couple of concerts with him,” Big Band Member Kyle Randolph, senior, said. “He’s a great guy.

Tons of experience and stories. It went well.”

Senior Jacob Rummel, saxophone player for the Big Band, said he thought they played with “a lot of energy.”

“It was easy to play with that energy because Mike Williams is an energetic player,” Rummel said. “He’s got a lot of experience playing trumpet and brings a whole new dimensions to younger players.”

McCourry agreed.

“Mike Williams is one of the most phenomenal high note specialist I have ever encountered. He plays with pure fire. He is a one of a kind,” McCourry said.

Later in the concert, McCourry introduced sophomore Molly Buccola to sing a trio of tunes, “Orange Colored Sky,” “Feeling Good,” and “Mean to Me.” On all three Buccola demonstrated her vocal ability and drew strong applause from the audience.

The Little Big Band and Big Band rang in a new era of music at Hillsdale with an excellent evening of music at the Plaster Auditorium. The new venue will host the sounds of jazz again on Nov. 15, when the Hillsdale College Hillcats perform.

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‘To look and truly see’: Frudakis sculpts his legacy By | Ashley Kaitz Collegian Freelancer If you walk down to the sculpture studio, you might hear it before you see it.

Professor Anthony Frudakis, associate professor of art, likes to play music during his classes.

“I find music relaxing and very inspiring,” he said. “In the morning, it’s kind of Apollonian, with the classics by Mozart and Beethoven. In the afternoon I go with Southern rock. I have Sculpture II, III, and IV in the afternoon and I figured they could handle it.”

Frudakis, who has been teaching at Hillsdale since 1991, grew up in a family of artists.

“My father was a sculptor, and my mom painted,” he said. “It was a lot of fun. I thought it was amusing that my friends would come over and be shocked by the nude statues.”

Frudakis said his parents discouraged him from pursuing an artistic career.

“They wanted a more secure profession for me, something more stable financially,” he said.

Although he grew up making small sculptures alongside his father, Frudakis really discovered his passion for the art form in college.

“I took a class in sculpture

at Duke University, where I was an undergrad,” he said.

“I was thinking I might go into law, but my genetics had something else in mind.”

According to Frudakis, his first commissioned piece resulted from a competition that he won to sculpt his high school mascot — a Viking.

“I’ve had to compete for a lot of my commissions,” he said. “By that point I’d been out of high school for about five or six years.”

Although he often finds inspiration from photographs and paintings, Frudakis prefers to work from life, so he convinced his father to pose for the statue.

“He made a good Viking,” Frudakis said.

Frudakis competed for another commission that Hillsdale students might know about. His statue of Socrates in Mossey Library is actually a small model of a life-size statue that he made for the city of Astoria, New York. Astoria is home to a large Greek community, who held a competition to choose the sculptor for a statue of Socrates. Frudakis decided to enter.

In fact, when Frudakis moved to Hillsdale in 1991 to begin teaching, he hadn’t heard the result of the competition yet.

“When we moved here, I still hadn’t won, and I was a little worried about it,” he said.

“Then during my first week here I’m in class and I hear this knock on the door of my studio. And I look over and it’s a fellow from the commu-

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nity. He’d heard that there was a new sculptor and he thought he’d come and say hello.”

Frudakis said he had an epiphany during their conversation.

“We’re talking and suddenly the light goes on. I thought

William Westney performs Chopin with ‘virtuosic flash’ By | Sofia Krusmark Assistant Editor It’s two weeks until classical pianist William Westney will say ‘adieu’ as a faculty professor at Texas Tech College.

But first, he made a pit-stop at Hillsdale for one of his final performances of his 41-year career.

“We look for these peak experiences in performing and you never know when it’s going to happen,” Westney said.

“I don’t know how I could’ve had a better time, I swear it’s one of the best things I’ve done. I felt so good.”

On Oct. 31, Westney, a Fulbright recipient and concert pianist performed a variety of piano music in Markel Auditorium. From a 17th century Beethoven sonata to the pop-classical music of the 20th century Gershwin, the performance was stamped with character.

“Westney played with a beautiful integrity to his sound and carried off the Chopin with all the virtuosic flash that piece needs,” Katherine Rick, adjunct instructor

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Beginning at 7 p.m., guests mingled throughout the Searle Center, visiting the cocktail bar and snacking on mini tarts, bite-size burgers, shrimp skewers, and other gourmet finger foods.

Dozens of silent auction items were displayed around the room, featuring donations from local businesses and national brands. Offerings included two handmade Adirondack chairs featuring the Charger logo, a “mystery surprise ball” wrapped in red cellophane and gift certificates for local businesses.

President Larry Arnn volunteered his time for “Cigars, Cognac, Churchill & Larry Arnn: An evening with Larry Arnn to discuss all things Churchill,” and William Broadbeck, chairman emeritus, and his wife Janet donated a John Railing magic show hosted at their home.

Art faculty provided their work, including Samuel Knecht, lecturer in art, who donated a painting, and Barbara Bushey, professor of art, who gave hand-painted scarves.

An M1 Concourse 4 tour, and Los Angeles Angels club-level seats were also available.

An app allowed guests to bid remotely from their

‘My God, this guy looks like Socrates!’ I had never in my whole life seen anybody that really looked like Socrates.

And here I come to this little

of music, said.

She added that he showed an amazing depth of sound; each piece had its own personality.

“The Gershwin felt like it was a part of him,” Sophomore Britta De Groot said.

“In lessons he talked about bringing out the ‘sexy harmonies,’ which he did in the Gershwin.”

Westney called this the “chemistry between the pieces.”

“I like to tinker with it, so I can produce an organic kind of experience for the audience,” Westney said.

After intermission he transitioned into the later eras of music, including pieces by George Gershwin and Frederic Chopin.

Junior Anne Ziegler said the Gershwin piece was her favorite.

“I thought that was the best piece on the program because he really brought out the different rhythms in Gershwin,” Ziegler said. “They were really clear, and I really liked how his depth played through.

With Gershwin, it doesn’t have to be as clear with the rhythm, like you would in Beethoven. You can be rough around the edges, and I think he did that.”

After performing Grieg and Beethoven, Westney engaged the audience in a fascinating journey of rhythms, jazz and blues. Each ‘original arrangement’ exercised a different rhythm.

“I just remember thinking, ‘Wow that sounds really cool,’ and ‘I want to learn how to play that someday,’” Freshman Chloe Tritchka said.

A third of the pieces were familiar to him, Westney said. While Gershwin and the polonaise by Chopin were “touchstones” he’s returned to throughout the years, the Beethoven and Grieg were fresh pieces to him.

“These were all pieces I related to, that I love to practice, so that helps a lot,” Westney said. “They suit the way I’m feeling in my playing these days, and they fit my technique in my experience right now.”

phones, opening the silent auction to event attendees and out-of-town participants alike.

The silent auction generated $42,000 of the event’s revenue, with each item receiving nine bids on average.

Dressed in blue shirts, current recipients of the Women Commissioners scholarship volunteered to assist with running the event. Jaime Boerema, a junior, said she was happy to help.

“We’re really grateful that the Women Commissioners want to give back to campus and have blessed us personally, and we want to contribute back to that tonight,” she said.

Black and white checkered tablecloths, red roses, and imitation trophies adorned each table, and a dozen colorful jockey suits and hats, painted

by Janet Brodbeck, lined the stage.

Just before 8 p.m., a bugler played the “Call to Post” to commence the virtual horse races. Judy Gabriele, Director of Development at Hillsdale Hospital and a member of the Women Commissioners, delivered opening remarks.

“Our work is noble, and I wish to thank each Woman Commissioner here tonight,” she said, noting that over the past 40 years, the Women Commissioners have raised $4.2 million for scholarships.

And then it was off to the races. Footage from a dozen past horse races projected onto screens beside the stage, with a live master of ceremonies providing commentary.

Guests bid on one of the 10 horses in each race, placing their votes in buckets at the front of the room.

“You may have to jockey for position to see your horses,” said master of ceremonies Steve Cox, who came from south of Pittsburgh to host the event.

Guests watched the screens intently as horses with names such as Hill Filly, Mr. Markethouse, and Commissioner’s Winner galloped counterclockwise around the track.

William Broadbeck dubbed his horse No More Rummage, a nod to the erstwhile rummage sale.

Between races, bids from the silent auction were displayed on the screens and the master of ceremonies read quotes from recipients of Women Commissioners scholarships.

“Hillsdale is the best decision I’ve made and the Women Commissioners made it possible,” one read.

Elli Leutheuser, ‘51, said she was pleased with the event.

“It’s fantastic,” she said. “It looks like everyone is having a good time.”

place and bump into him.”

The two struck up a friendship, and when Frudakis won the competition with his design, the man agreed to pose for the statue.

“I was very grateful that he was willing to help with the

project,” Frudakis said.

Currently, Frudakis is working on two life-sized commissioned sculptures.

“I’m doing something for the college. It’s a secret,” he said.

His other project was commissioned by a psychologist.

“She has spent part of her life caring for parents who have lost their children. She does a lot of grief counseling work, and it’s really been her calling,” Frudakis said. “So this statue is of a mother and child, and the mother is reading a book. It’s a monument to her life’s work.”

Of all the sculptures he has created over the years, Frudakis said he doesn’t have a favorite.

“It’s like asking you who your favorite child is,” he said.

“Each one is such a unique experience that you remember it in terms of the context of the experience, more than as a finished product.”

Over the course of his career, Frudakis has produced not only sculptures but quite a few sculptors as well.

Junior Melody McDonald, who took Sculpture I and II with Frudakis, said that his classes are different from any others she’s taken at Hillsdale.

“He’ll randomly pull out life advice,” she said. “He wants to be more than just a professor — he wants to be a mentor. He will go out of his

way to help people, which is pretty fantastic.”

McDonald said that her favorite moments with Frudakis are the discussions they have before she starts a sculpture.

“We’ll have philosophical talks about art and the interplay between order and chaos,” McDonald said. “He brings so much understanding of art that I don’t have yet.

He helps me pull together my ideas and actually portray something.”

Isaac Dell ’18 said Frudakis inspired him to pursue a career in sculpture.

Dell planned to study physics when he came to Hillsdale, with the goal of becoming an engineer. During the fall of his sophomore year, he decided to take Sculpture I with Frudakis. He was hooked.

“I’ve lost count, but I think I took 11 sculpture classes with him,” Dell said. “I got to spend a lot of time with him.

Seeing the joy that he found in creating definitely inspired me to keep taking his classes.”

Dell said that Frudakis taught him not only how to sculpt but also how to see the world as an artist.

“Frudakis gave me an appreciation for beauty and taught me to look for beautiful shapes and forms,” Dell said. “That really is the essence of sculpture — to be able to look, and truly see.”

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‘The Laundromat’ should have folded By | Abby Liebing Associate Editor When Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, and Meryl Streep are combined in a cast and directed by Steven Soderbergh, it shouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a good film. Apparently it was too much to ask of Soderbergh’s new Netflix original, “The Laundromat,” however.

While watching the film, my mind tried to trick me into thinking I was simply not seeing what made Laundromat a great movie.

Soderbergh tried his best to make “The Laundromat” clever by making it a dark satire, made up of a series of vignettes, drawn together with two unconventional narrators. But the end result was a garbled mess and an incoherent narrative with an obnoxiously-pointed political statement.

“The Laundromat” is a loose exploration of the 2016 Panama Papers, 11.5 million leaked documents containing the attorney-client information of thousands of U.S. offshore financial accounts and entities. These papers were taken from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Mossack Fonseca, also a corporate service provider and one of the biggest providers of offshore financial services.

But in 2015, whistleblower “John Doe” leaked the papers showing that some of Mossack Fonseca’s shell companies were being used for illegal activity — mainly fraud,

tax evasion, and evasion of international sanctions.

“The Laundromat” tries to sum up the Panama Papers and generally explain things like trust funds, tax evasion, shell corporations, offshore accounts, and insurance fraud. Soderbergh tried to make the story and colorfully odd and fresh by making Jurgen Mossack (Oldman) and Ramon Fonseca (Banderas) the narrators of the vignettes that he threw together. Each vignette is a short example of the different financial services that Mossack Fonseca provided, showing how easily something like an offshore entity, which is perfectly legal, can be used for illegal purposes.

Streep is the widow in one of these vignettes who becomes a victim of insurance fraud when her husband tragically drowns in a boating accident and she cannot collect the full settlement. She begins poking around only to find that United Re-Insurance Group is a shell corporation (thanks to Mossack Fonseca), neck deep in shady business and running shell corporations for some questionable people. From there, Mossack Fonseca unravels as corruption and illegal activity is uncovered.

As the movie progresses, it exploring other vignettes that could be interesting, but altogether turn into a jumbled mess that eventually is numb and boring.

Soderbergh is known for his experimentation in mov-

ies, and the general idea and goal of “The Laundromat” could have been a good one.

Back in 2015, the film “The Big Short” did a great job of taking complex financial schemes and explaining them in an accessible, interesting, and dramatic form.

The Laundromat could have done the same, and maybe in an even more interesting way, since Soderbergh’s approach to storytelling is always colorful and creative.

That’s why it’s even more of a disappointment: It could have been so good.

But aside from the ramshackle nature of the storyline, the movie’s political statement beats the audience over the head. Even if you agree with the political message, it’s not comfortable having it drilled into your eyeballs throughout the entire movie. When Streep ends the movie with an impassioned monologue about how corrupt American finance is and how much it needs reform, it’s hard to care. Soderbergh tried to evoke outrage at a broken and corrupt financial system, but by the end he’s shot the audience in the head with his political statement gun so many times that the audience is numb.

It’s a real misfortune that so much talent and experience could be gathered into one movie and yet still manage to be a disappointment.

“The Laundromat” had the potential to be so good, but then fell on its face.

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walk away from. You’re probably not going to survive.’ I thought was going to die.”

After falling between 30 to 40 feet off the side of the cliff, Sollie hit the ground—alive.

“The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Dear Lord, please help me. Dear Lord, please help me,’” she remembers. “I actually kind of had a sense of peace. It was totally an act of God’s grace on me.”

Although conscious, Sollie said the shock of the impact made her body numb.

“The first place I felt pain was my head,” she said. “I put my hands on my head and when I pulled them away there was blood all over them.

I knew my hair was bloody and I was like, ‘Do I look good as a redhead?’”

Sollie makes light of it now, but she has not forgotten the fear that ran through her mind in the moment. As the camp leader and his fiance, a wilderness first responder, rushed to her aid, Sollie’s worries turned toward her knee, which she’d previously injured multiple times in different accidents.

“I immediately thought, ‘Am I going to need to get an-

boarded a seaplane that rushed her to the emergency room in Juneau.

“I was immediately given CT scans because the doctors were worried about internal damage, fractures, and brain bleeds,” Sollie said. “My CT came back clean. There was a rock in my head wound, but no skull fractures. They stitched up my head with 14 stitches on my nose and right temple and stapled the back of my head.”

Junior Ben Weide accompanied Sollie on the trip and described the experience as terrifying. He was ahead of Sollie in the group as they began their descent, so he was the first to see her start sliding down and fall from the cliff.

“For a moment I was sure she was dead; I think we all did. All I could think was ‘God, don’t let her die,’” Weide said.

Weide said once she was off to Juneau, everyone was rattled the rest of the day.

“I have not been in a more somber atmosphere,” he said.

It was nothing short of miraculous, he said, that she survived with only stitches and a concussion.

“It was amazing in the fullest, deepest sense of the word,” Weide said.

“I knew in my head, ‘Danae, this is not something you’re going to walk away from. You’re probably not going to survive.’ I thought was going to die.” other surgery? Did I just bust months of physical therapy?’” she recalls. “I was so happy when I found I could move it.”

With help, Sollie walked back to camp and there

After being under observation for three days, Sollie returned to camp to finish out the remainder of her program.

“I was really grateful that I was able to go back,” she said.

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“I knew I wasn’t the only one who went through something that day because there were five other students who witnessed it. Thinking that you’re watching someone die is really scary.”

Just a few weeks later, Sollie arrived on campus to start her final year of college.

By mid-September, however, the constant headache she endured — which only worsened when she tried to study — forced her to recognize that she needed to finish healing.

Now at home in Minnesota undergoing physical and vision therapy, Sollie said she is 90% recovered and plans to return to Hillsdale in the spring.

“I don’t know if I’ll be back as a full or part-time student,” she explained, “but I registered for classes and I’m going to Israel this winter.”

Despite all she has been through, Sollie said her faith as a Christian has been strengthened, not shaken.

“I’ve been learning two big things,” she said. “First, my reading of Scripture and the book of Job has taught me that God is good even when circumstances aren’t. And second, that eternity is a lot closer to us than we think. I am so thankful that through Christ there is hope and there doesn’t have to be fear in death. It’s only because of Him that my mind has not turned this into a negative experience but has challenged me to trust the Lord. Why am I doubting Him when He so clearly kept me alive?”

Sollie explained that her hope in sharing her story is that others would turn to Jesus as their savior.

“The more powerful story than the one about what Christ did that day on the hiking trip is the one about what he has done on my soul,” she said. “Even in my weakness, He has upheld my life.”

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Interfraternity Council builds unity between Greek houses By | Christian Peck-Dimit Collegian Freelancer At Hillsdale, being a member of a fraternity means making close friends within your house and forming a lasting brotherhood with fellow members as you walk through life at Hillsdale with the support of a house full of principled men.

Recently, however, it has also meant involvement in the Interfraternity Council, which brings all of the campus’ fraternities together to work towards common goals.

Junior Jack Murphy, IFC representative for the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, said IFC brings together all the houses to create a fraternal bond that transcends the oft-divided Greek lines.

“The purpose of the Interfraternity Council,” Murphy said, “is to bring together all the fraternities on campus and create better communication and cooperation so that we can make Hillsdale better.”

The IFC, which has recently begun to meet at least once a month, is comprised of one member representing each fraternity, as well as the council president. They discuss each house’s progress with rushing and event planning.

“The main thing that we do, especially during the spring semester, is Greek Week.” Alpha Tau Omega’s IFC Representative Alex Yun said. “It’s the big competition between all the different fraternities.”

Greek Week consists of events held throughout the week between all of the fraternities on campus, with the winning fraternity receiving a trophy at the end of the week

“Greek Week is a chance for all of the fraternities to come together in athletic competition,” senior and IFC President Hunter Pearson explained. “It’s a great opportunity for camaraderie and fellowship.”

The IFC is organized similarly to the Panhellenic Coun-

nities and sororities is significant, a good relationship with the college is also imperative.

Recognizing this, the deans set up an ‘all Greek’ meeting at the beginning of the semester.

“I think that they’ve kind of felt that there was a disconnect between the Greek houses and the dean’s office,”

“The purpose of the Interfraternity Council is to bring together all the fraternities on campus and create better communication and cooperation.” cil, which is the inter-house governing council that serves as the sorority counterpart to the IFC. “In the past, the relationship between the Panhellenic Council and IFC was nonexistent,” Pearson said. “However, we’ve recently come together to support one another where possible.”

To help this relationship along, the two councils have begun to plan ‘all Greek’ events.

“I think, if anything, we’re trying to err more on the philanthropic side,” Yun said.

“Our initiative for the entire Greek organization is just trying to raise money, as well as having the houses come together and have some unity.”

This is an important change. While a thriving relationship between the frater-

Yun said. “They just wanted to get our input; things that they can work on, and also things that we can do to help them understand our situation as well.”

Recent years, this past one in particular, have brought tremendous improvement in the activity of the IFC as well as the responsibilities that it takes on. Yun described the visible change he experienced during his involvement.

“I think we moved in a positive direction. Ever since I was a freshman, IFC was kind of looked at as a joke,” he said.

“We didn’t really do much, but I think that more and more we are becoming involved on the campus as a whole and in the fraternities.”

English department aims to educate non-English majors on literature

The Collegian advertised Hillsdale parties By | Callie Shinkle Columnist Early 1900s dorm parties are sure to deliver some compelling stories. On May 18, 1916, The Collegian printed this headline: “East Hall Girls’ Party is Novel Affair: Gentlemen leave at 11:30.”

I think they emphasized that the boys left exactly at 11:30 a little too strongly. Nobody thought twice about it until they put it in large print.

The article began, “The East Hall Girls’ Party proved to be a big time. It was the kind of a big time that comes when the girls decide to give the boys a real party that overthrows the stilted, tame affairs which some folks have thought East Hall parties to be.”

I cannot tell if that is a good or bad thing. Who wants to have a stilted, tame affair? That being said, I can’t imagine a party that takes place in a dorm and where the opposite sex must leave before midnight to be anything but.

However, the more I read the more I realized how wrong I was.

The author wrote, “It began with the novel entertainment that had been prepared. . .

Miss Caroline Stearns and Loinal Wallace brought down heaps of laughter with their special folk dances.”

He continued, “A ‘movie’ was put on by the dramatic club in which Harriet Von Ehrenstein had five dates all in

the same evening and which resulted in disaster to the irate callers.”

This party sounds incredible.

The East Hall party even had a little competition.

The Collegian reads, “In a contest held following the above events it was tactile agreed that Edna Stoke was the most popular, Vivian Smith the prettiest, Pauline Werner the smallest, Kathry Heckman, the cutest.”

What were these categories? In what world did these party animals think they could take a break from the folk dances to take a tally of who was the prettiest at the party, and think no one would get hurt?

Intrigued by the trend to publish descriptions of parties in the college newspaper, I looked at another article.

Published on Jan. 6, 1909, this article’s headline was redacted and I genuinely cannot imagine why.

The Collegian published, “The students who remained in town through vacation have to resort to many devices to ward off lonesomeness. Those seeking amusement had to rely on sleeping all day and skating all night.”

It continued, “The one social event of the holidays was a Christmas party given by the Misses Leah Stock and Joy Mauck at the home of the former. About thirty attended and report a glorious time.”

Well I am certainly happy to hear that.

The Collegian even used to report on fraternity parties.

On May 31, 1911, an article in the newspaper printed, “The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity made an interesting innovation in Hillsdale College social diversions in the way of a house party at Baw Beese Lake where they royally entertained their lady friends from Saturday till Tuesday evening.”

I have so many questions, none of which are answered in the article.

The author continued, “The boys rented Tally-Ho-Inn situated on West Lake front, which they beautifully decorated with college pennants and banners.”

At first, I thought the line referring to the length of the party was a bit of a joke, a little Collegian sarcasm.

It was not.

The article printed the entire schedule of events, starting with supper on Saturday night and ending with a beefsteak roast Monday night.

Some highlights of the party include, but are not limited to, an opening sing, a hare and hound chase, and dancing at the pavilion.

I think we can all be glad The Collegian no longer reports on parties, despite how much fun it is to look back at the social events of years past.

By | Victoria Marshall Assistant Editor Many Hillsdale students have questioned why they are required to take three literature courses during their time at Hillsdale. The English department, in their biannual “Opening Charge” lecture series, seeks to explain why.

For the past four years, the Hillsdale College English department has hosted a lecture each semester that explains to students the importance of studying literature, a practice started by Professor of English Stephen Smith.

“My undergraduate program had a nice tradition of opening charge lectures, and I thought we might try such a thing in the English department here, with a focus on poetry, poetics, and the importance of studying great literature,” Smith wrote in an email.

English faculty are invited by the chair of the English department to deliver the lecture.

“I think some students are very curious about different professors’ perspectives on what one does when one studies literature,” Professor and Chair of the English department Justin Jackson said. “It’s nice to see professors defining their discipline for us. And

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needs. Earlier in his career, students were more spirited.

Now, he said, students are more agreeable and friendly.

“You’re supposed to get along,” he said. “Here, I like the civility, I like the friendliness.”

And they are a busy group as well. Unlike even 10 years ago, Grant said, students often ask for letters of recommendation for summer internships, whereas they used to ask solely for graduate schools.

The emphasis on finding an internship and involving oneself in campus in so many different ways is new.

“When I was in school, I don’t think I was as stressed

in our department we have so many different approaches to literature and it is very diverse. So I love it because I get to hear my colleagues and how they are trying to do something with literature.”

The lectures typically range from 30 to 40 minutes, with a question and answer period following.

“The first lectures addressed questions like ‘What is the relationship between poetry and reality?’ and ‘Does poetry make anything happen?,’” Smith said. “Other lectures have focused on a theme like ‘gift and mediation,’ or articulated some characteristics of ‘the ideal reader,’ as Dutton Kearney did via his fine reading of a Wallace Stevens lyric.”

This past semester’s lecture, titled “Things Below: Thoughts on This World and Literature,” was delivered by Professor of English John Somerville in the Conrad Recital Hall.

“In that beautiful setting, Dr. Somerville spoke on faith and the artist’s work,” Smith said. “He shared his own understanding of how religion, literature, and creation relate to one another. He also elucidated Flannery O’Connor’s best thoughts on faith and art. It was a deeply thoughtful address, and I was delighted

to see him deliver it.”

Sophomore and English major Victoria Nuñez attended the lecture and said it was very illuminating.

“As an English major and a Hillsdale College student, we put a lot of value onto ideas — rightfully so — but sometimes I feel like we get lost in the abstract and the theoretical without taking the time to look at what’s around us and say, ‘this matters, too,”’ Nuñez said. “So, at the very least, it was a relief. But at the most, it was inspiring because that’s one of the ideas of being a poet or a writer — to see the ordinary and look at it in a new light.”

Jackson cannot stress the importance of these lectures enough, especially for non-English majors.

“The college actually values the study of literature, and so we like to have these lectures be this conscious undertaking of what literature can do for you,” Jackson said. “It’s important students understand that the lecture is not just for English majors. Anybody who is in the humanities and social sciences ought to be fascinated because it’s not just about specific pieces of literature, it’s about how we even approach this act of reading, which every discipline approaches in a slightly different way.”

as a contemporary student because I worked, studied, and socialized too, but I wasn’t planning my application for this, that, and the other thing,” he said. “And I didn’t know anybody else who was.”

Despite taking over as chairman, Grant manages to teach the same amount of classes: three per semester. But now he now also coordinates conversations between the administration and the rest of the department.

“That’s what I’ve experienced here with the deans and the provost,” Grant said.

“They’re very collegial, and they want to talk through things to solve issues.”

His colleague, former Chair of the politics depart-

ment Mickey Craig, said Grant is performing the job well.

“I’m very happy he was willing to take on the job,” Craig said. “I’m also very happy to be relieved from the responsibilities of the chair.”

Before coming to Hillsdale, Grant taught for 12 years and served as the dean of student life at the University of Dallas. Of his different roles, he said he prefers teaching far more than working in administration.

His role now, as politics professor and chairman, allows him to do both.

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TKE house on its 50th anniversary in 1993. Courtesy | Greg McLogan

Tau Kappa Epsilon: ‘The legends are all true’

By | Isabella Redjai Assistant Editor The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity on Hillsdale College’s campus disbanded mysteriously in December 1995, but rumors concerning why the TKE National Chapter chose to shut down the Iota Nu Chapter, and the increasing impatience of the administration with its members still puzzle students nearly a quarter of a century later.

Some say the TKEs tarred and feathered the eagle statue on the corner of College and Hillsdale streets. Others suppose their downfall came from excessive hazing and drinking, while still other rumors say the TKEs burned down their own fraternity house in protest of the college’s actions.

While the TKEs did tar and feather the eagle statue, according to Dean Aaron Petersen, it was said to be the “final straw” after their numerous violations of college policy, according to Teacher of Art and TKE alumnus Bryan Springer, ’94. The TKEs were known for their crazy parties, and, at times, suspicious haz-

ing rituals, as documented in several Collegian issues from the 1980s and 1990s.

No, they didn’t burn down their house, once located at 328 N. West St. According to Petersen and TKE alumni, the fraternity house had many infrastructural issues, including a flood-prone basement due to a burst pipe during the winter.

A Sept. 12, 1996 edition of The Collegian reported, “After inspecting the property for possible use as offices, the college decided that the potential cost of renovation outweighed the projected usage, and had the building destroyed.”

The fraternity’s alumni association decided to have the house torn down, selling the house and land to the college, according to the ’96 Collegian piece. The loss of the fraternity saddened alumni, especially those who graduated only a few years prior to its disbandment, and who cultivated the best memories of their college experience in the house and with the ritual of TKE. “I felt very sad to hear the news, because here was this organization that had a history that went back to ’63

on campus, and then it was gone,” Springer said. “And, I don’t know why, and most people still don’t. Only those people who were there and probably will never step on this campus again will ever know.”

Although the TKE story and legacy ended on a sour note, the fraternity alumni don’t want their house to be remembered in a negative light. The members of the fraternity before its dissolution continue to treasure the times when TKE, unique from other fraternities on campus, made Hillsdale home.

“The late ’80s, early ’90s was a totally different TKE house,” TKE Jeff Chandler ’81 said.

Just like rumors, notorious stories have spread across campus over the years. One particular story even pertains to a former president.

“The legends are true: Ronald Reagan did come into the TKE house, and he was a TKE, which is how we got him to come. He hadn’t even declared his run for presidency yet,” Chandler said. “He gladly came over, spoke to us during our active chapter, was

incredible, and then he took a picture with us. He was in a coat and tie, looking dapper as always.”

Chandler said times were different. Security, although important, was not a primary concern for prestigious guests like Reagan when visiting Hillsdale.

“It was just us. Nobody from the school was there,” he said. “Just Reagan and one of his associates.”

But the legends don’t end here. Often compared to the 1978 “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” TKEs were known for their rambunctious social gatherings — dare, say it — parties, that were almost too wild to be true.

“Every Greek house had its own niche in regards to social gatherings. We liked to bring in live music and bands,” Springer said. “I heard stories about driving motorcycles down the stairs. It was crazy fun.”

One Kappa Kappa Gamma alumna said she recalled a dance called the “TKE Shuffle,” where all the TKEs would gather whenever a specific song came on during a party.

“Everyone was welcome

at the TKE house,” the Kappa alumna said.

The TKE’s tolerance for more than mere shenanigans transpired across the Greek pages of The Collegian back in the day.

The Sept. 3, 1981 “Party Line” beat article of The Collegian said, “The Tau Kappa Epsilon’s tried to drink Broadstreet dry Saturday night with an enormous beer party…”

One story from a Homecoming weekend encapsulates the TKE’s celebratory culture and influence on the nature of the social scene in the ’80s.

“Chuck Berry played at the Tent Party at Homecoming with buckets of beer,” the Kappa alumna said. “They would give you pails filled with beer, and we called it ‘Camp Happy Dale.’”

Chandler continued the Kappa’s story, saying, “B.J., one of our TKE brothers who passed away tragically last year, made up ‘Happy Dale’ stickers. The deans were not happy about it.”

But these stickers were the least of the deans’ worries during the TKE’s reign. The TKEs were infamous pranksters, and their mischievous

bent eventually contributed to the end of their dominance on campus.

“They took the spindles off of the stairway of Central Hall,” the Kappa alumna said.

“It was a prank that really wasn’t destructive — unless the building is over one hundred years old, and then you have to replace it. But it wasn’t anything bad or malicious.”

But in the end, in spite of the violations that eventually caused the TKEs to be kicked off campus, TKE allowed young men to gather, be creative, exercise their senses of humor, and ultimately become “better men for a better world,” in good TKE fashion.

“The guys I went to school with were some of the most passionate, creative guys I had known here,” Springer said.

“They were deep.”

The legends and memories of TKE live on through alumni storytelling and even with those who would gather at the TKE house for a little shuffle on a Saturday night.

“The legends are all true, all of the good and the bad,” Springer said. “It was an exciting fraternity to be a part of.”

‘Stayin’ Alive’: Hillsdale College student recalls how she fell off a cliff

By | Madeline Peltzer Assistant Editor When senior Danae Sollie set out on a hiking expedition during one of Alaska’s rare sunny days, she had no idea how close it came to being her last.

This summer, Sollie, a biology major, spent four weeks on the Inian Islands with the Arete Project, an organization that seeks to educate young people about citizenship, environmental stewardship, and leadership. Sollie and 11 other participants took classes on a variety of subjects—philosophy, biology, ecology, and the relationship between man and nature.

Three weeks into the program, Sollie went kayaking to a nearby island with several other students where they planned to spend a few nights camping. On the first day of the four-night trip, the group decided to hike to the top of the ridgeline.

“I don’t really remember how it started,” Sollie said.

“We were climbing back down the ridge to the creek.

Everything is very steep up there and Alaska is a rain forest so the ground was mossy and wet. I know I was holding onto a tree and there was someone in front of me and someone behind me. We were trying to find the best way down to camp because it’s pretty rugged hiking and there are only deer trails there.”

That’s when Sollie says she lost her grip. The next thing she knew, she was rolling

down the incline.

“I remember being very surprised it was happening,” Sollie recalled. “At first I was like, ‘I’m sliding down this hill, what is happening?’ And then I started wondering, ‘When am I going to stop?’”

She didn’t. Instead, Sollie found herself somersaulting

off the edge of the cliff.

“That’s the moment that stands out the most—the moment I saw everything below me and how far away the ground was,” she said. “I knew in my head, ‘Danae, this is not something you’re going to

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John Grant lectures in his politics class. Courtest | Hillsdale College Marketing Department

John Grant fosters political community as politics chair

Danae Sollie revists the site of her fall. Courtest | Danae Sollie

By | Allison Schuster Features Editor Just as Aristotle emphasized ethics and strong leadership as necessary for communities to prosper, so does the politics department at Hillsdale College.

Associate Professor of Politics John W. Grant took over as chairman of the politics department this summer after teaching here since 2010. With prior administrative experience at the University of Dallas, Grant said he is enjoying his new role.

“I really like the students, I’ve got great colleagues, and I think we have a mission that is noble and good,” he said.

Tonight, Grant will deliver a lecture titled “Conserving Liberalism? The

Conservative Debate on Liberalism and Foreign Policy” at 7 p.m. in Lane 236.

Grant has taught over 20 courses at Hillsdale, including American Foreign Policy and Modern Political Philosophy 1, as well as politics electives. He said he has enjoyed all the courses he has taught and is teaching, noting his War and Politics: Post World War II as especially enjoyable.

Senior and politics major Luke Grzywacz has taken several courses with Grant and appreciates the professor’s vibrant teaching style.

“He’s the greatest, and his ‘Grant Rants’ are also fantastic,” he said.

Grzywacz said that Grant’s commentary on modern politics that he weaves into the lesson on classic books helps develop

his overall understanding of politics. Grzywacz has dubbed his discussion of modern politics as “Grant Rants.” The way he communicates with and lectures to students is special, he said.

He also likes to study under professors who connect current events to lectures.

Although Grant is extremely intelligent, Grzywacz said, a quality his lectures make obvious, his teaching style and demeanor make him very approachable.

“He’s a great choice to be politics chair,” he said. “He’s very friendly and approachable, and I’m sure that carries over to his colleagues.”

Grant said that in 20 years of teaching, he has seen some big changes in his students and their

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