The Hillsdale Collegian 11.21.19

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Vol. 143 Issue 12 - November 21, 2019

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WHIP hires Heritage Foundation’s David Azerrad By | Regan Meyer & Stefan Kleinhenz News Editor & DC Correspondent

Hillsdale College in D.C. has hired David Azerrad as an assistant professor of government and research fellow. The hire comes as the D.C. campus continues to grow, most notably with the opening of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government this fall.

Vice President for Washington Operations and Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government Matthew Spalding said Azerrad is a perfect addition to the Hillsdale in D.C. faculty.

“He’s a good fit all around,” Spalding said. “His academic background is a great fit for us. Plus, his practical work here in D.C. will set the kind of tone we want: a combina-

tion of strong academics and practical knowledge about contemporary politics.”

Azerrad has teaching experience from his time in graduate school at the University of Dallas, and he has also been teaching as an adjunct professor at American University in D.C. While his teaching plans for graduate school are still in the works, he expects to teach a course on “Progressive and Liberal Political Thought” this summer or next fall. Azerrad will, however, be ready to teach a course on “Contemporary American Political Thought” next semester for WHIP students.

“I’m really pumped and psyched to teach,” Azerrad said. “To me, there is no comparison to meeting a young person a few years later who tells you, ‘I still vividly remember what you said and

it stayed with me.’”

He will also continue his research and work on classical liberalism, the rise of identity politics, and contemporary American conservatism.

“He’d very much like to continue that scholarship in an environment that’s both friendly and conducive to his work,” Spalding said. “He very much wants to teach.

He’s a great teacher. He likes being in the classroom, and he’s very excited about teaching Hillsdale students.”

In addition to being acquainted with many of the Hillsdale College faculty due to his time in the nation’s capital and at the University of Dallas, Azerrad has had his share of Hillsdale College students come through the Heritage Foundation as interns. He said a running joke is that when he asks interns if

Head volleyball coach clinches 500th win By | Regan Meyer News Editor With Charger volleyball’s win during their conference tournament game on Tuesday night came a major career milestone for head coach Chris Gravel.

The win marked Gravel’s 500th victory over his 24 year career as coach of Hillsdale volleyball.

The team celebrated Gravel’s achievements with a framed picture of the team that said “500 Career Wins,” and an ornament for both him and his associate head coach, Stephanie Gravel. The team also sang a song called

“The 12 Weeks of the Season” set to the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas.” The song lyrics detailed everything Coach Gravel did for his players throughout the season until the last line.

“On the twelfth week of season we gave to Coach, his 500th win!”

Gravel said he was surprised by the gesture and feels truly blessed.

“I really wasn’t expecting much except an acknowledgement and some congratulations,” Gravel said. “The team could not have made this 500th win more special for both associate head

they’ve read certain materials, he always has to say, “except for the Hillsdale interns.”

One of those interns is senior Joshua Waechter.

Waechter has maintained a relationship with Azerrad since his internship with the Heritage Foundation during Summer 2018.

“He is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met and one of the most distinguished leaders in the American conservative moment,” Waechter said. “He’s going to be a notable addition especially to the Kirby Center and its work in D.C.” Before Spalding left Heritage six years ago, he hired Azerrad as the assistant director of the Simon Center for Principles and Politics at the Heritage Foundation.

“Hillsdale’s efforts in D.C. are complementary to those of Heritage,” Azerrad said.

“I’ve never stepped foot on the main campus, but I feel like I’m coming home.”

While Azerrad has once again been hired by Spalding, this time he will work under him as a member of the Hillsdale College faculty.

“I feel that I know the school well, I know the faculty, I understand what Matt wants to build here, I see what Larry has been doing with the main campus,” Azerrad said.

Spalding said Azerrad will be very popular with the WHIP students.

“He’s got the academic background but he’s got a lot of practical experience in contemporary politics. He’s a great teacher and a dynamic speaker,” Spalding said.

Azerrad said his involvement in the heart of the nation’s capital has given him a lot of experience that he

can offer to students and help them understand the nation in which we currently live.

“I feel in the last 11 years in Washington, I have unofficially done a second Ph.D., but in real politics,” Azerrad said. “My goal is to really try and understand the American regime as it exists today, and I don’t think there is a blueprint for it.”

Azerrad said he is excited to begin working at the Kirby Center.

“I can’t even begin to tell you how eager I am to come across the street,” Azerrad said. “The hard part of leaving Heritage is leaving all the good people here, but seeing that I am going to be literally across the street, I’m going to get to see them plenty.”

Junior Emma Cummins contributed to this report.

coach Stephanie and me. It was really cool to look up in the stands and see all those signs.”

Junior middle hitter Allyssa Van Wienen said the team is very proud of their coach.

“Five hundred wins is a very impressive feat. Being on the team, we know that he is so well-deserving of that accomplishment and feel honored to be a part of it,” Van Wienen said. “Coach and Steph have done so much for us so we are thankful to have the opportunity to show just a small piece of our appreciation by making that day memorable for him.”

Q&A: Michael Walsh By | Ashley Kaitz Collegian Reporter Michael Walsh is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. He was a music critic and foreign correspondent at TIME Magazine for sixteen years, covering events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Vladimir Horowitz’s return to Russia. He is the author of several novels, including “As Time Goes By,” a sequel to the film “Casablanca.” On Nov. 19, he gave a lecture titled “In Praise of Toxic Masculinity” at Hillsdale College.

recede. These things always do go away, because they can’t support themselves. They are fundamentally irrational reactions to external stimuli.

There’s a famous book called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” which outlines various bubbles and cases of mass psychosis, like the French financial scandal just before the French Revolution when people were buying shares in the Mississippi Company, which was largely

or beings and it discounts any distinctions in the way humans relate to each other, whether physical, intellectual, or emotional. It’s very similar to the leftist idea that everyone is exactly the same, and that everything should be distributed exactly proportionally. In no case is that true in nature.

When did you know that you wanted to be a writer?

I’m a pianist and I was a composer in college at the Eastman School of Music, but I always knew that I would be a writer. I studied music to improve my musical skills, but when I came out of Eastman I almost immediately went into journalism and music criticism.

What is toxic masculinity and what is its role in society?

I’m not exactly sure how the people who complain about it define it.

As a music critic, I think they just what is your opinion mean normal of the current music masculinity, whose scene? meaning in society About pop music, is changing. The I have no idea. I left’s assaults on stopped listening masculinity are to pop music when based on some newfangled notion of For coverage of Michael Walsh’s lecture, see A2. the Beatles broke up. Everything else what the proper rela- Courtesy was just not going tionship between the illusory. People believe what to be as good. They were an sexes should be. They’ve crethey want to believe, and amazingly influential group ated this whole world where the power of belief is strong and they brought so much there are multiple sexes and genders and a lot of craziness. enough to overcome physical that was synthetically new to music, which they derived I want to cut through all that. and physiological contradicfrom the blues and Elvis and I think 10,000 years of human tions, until it isn’t. And then it stops.

50s rock. They were fresh and history and evolution don’t they were extremely good just vanish overnight. And as Why do you think these songwriters. They’re much the old margarine commerbetter than the horrible, hidcial used to go, it’s not nice to groups see masculinity as a threat? eously overrated, absolutely fool Mother Nature.

I’m not sure — that’s worthless Rolling Stones.

What will result from the between them and their inner Don’t even get me started! voices. But I think that there’s I still listen to some very widespread acceptance of a great amount of resentobscure bands from the 60s fringe ideas about sex and ment in the modern feminist that no one’s ever heard of gender? movement. It looks at men These ideas will reach See Walsh A3 as if they’re these superia peak of stupid and then Follow @HDaleCollegian

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Michigan Senate Majority Leader speaks on state politics By | Matt Fisher Collegian Reporter

Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) blasted Michigan Democrats at an event hosted by the Hillsdale College Republicans, describing Democratic members of the legislature and Governor Gretchen Whitmer as “on the bat-sh*t crazy spectrum.”

To begin, Shirkey discussed his career as a small

business owner prior to serving in the state legislature. To this day, he continues his work in the private sector while also serving his constituents back home.

“I was too old for Vietnam and too young for everything else,” Shirkey said. “So I had to find some other way to serve. That is not to compare my career with the enormous sacrifices of our servicemen and women, but we all have an obligation to do our part

to continue this experimentation of self-governance. And if not, shame on us.”

Shirkey then switched gears and discussed Michigan politics. In particular, he explained the continuing battle between the Republican-controlled legislature and Democratic Michigan Gov. Whitmer. The source of

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C.S. Lewis scholar speaks at convocation By | Madeline Peltzer Assistant Editor On Nov. 14, Christ Chapel opened its massive wooden doors for the first of many convocations. After the faculty processional, accompanied by music from the choir and organist Derek Stauff, assistant professor of music, Provost Christopher VanOrman announced the spring semester’s academic achievements. The all-school average GPA was 3.399. The all-women’s GPA was 3.486, while the all-men’s was 3.317. Pi Beta Phi earned the Greek scholarship cup for sororities with a 3.520 GPA, while Alpha Tau Omega won for the fraternities, with a 3.302 GPA.

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Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn took to the pulpit, beginning with an acknowledgement of the people who made Christ Chapel possible.

“Duncan Stroik designed this building and we should thank him for that,” Arnn said of the chapel’s architect who was in attendance.

Construction workers for the chapel’s construction team were also present, and Arnn recognized their work over the past few years, prompting a standing ovation from the audience.

Arnn noted that the workers’ names would be etched into a plaque and displayed in the chapel in honor of their achievement.

Arnn also spoke on the purpose of the chapel.

“There is conflict all around us,” he said. “In a time like this, C.S. Lewis writes, things come to a point. There’s not as much neutral ground as there used to be. So we’re here to thank God today. We should remember to be grateful.

The things we were made to teach are what we teach.”

Arnn then announced this semester’s winner of the Emily Daugherty Award for Excellence in Teaching: Stephen Naumann, assistant professor of German. Arnn praised him for his impact

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Former TIME Magazine correspondent praises toxic masculinity By | Ashley Kaitz Collegian Reporter On Tuesday evening, former TIME correspondent Michael Walsh spoke to a packed audience in Lane Hall where he presented a lecture titled “In Praise of Toxic Masculinity.”

Walsh, an author, screenwriter, and journalist, drew his talk from the first chapter of his forthcoming book, “Last Stand.” Throughout the book, he analyzes famous historical battles in which the losing side was completely annihilated to discover what it takes for a man to survive a non-survivable situation.

“I ended the book with the Korean War,” Walsh said. “I included the Battle of Chosin Reservoir because my father, who is still alive at 93, was there when it happened. A very small force of Marines was surrounded by more than 100,000 Chinese troops, and it was a miracle they escaped with their lives.”

According to Walsh, listening to his father’s firsthand account of the battle was not only moving but also tied all the threads of the book together. Walsh said that these threads can be

traced back to a single idea that Immanuel Kant expressed in his essay “Perpetual Peace.” “‘The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state,’” Walsh quoted from the essay. “‘The natural state is one of war.’”

According to Walsh, people refuse to accept this fact in the 21st-century because war is now so antiseptic and impersonal that we think about it in almost bloodless terms. In his opinion, we’re just lying to ourselves.

“War is not only in our blood, it is our familial birthright and burden,” he said. “No matter how much we may wish it away, erase our martial past or recast it in a more feminist light, war, or its constant threat, is always with us and will be until the day mankind vanishes.”

For Walsh, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“War, or the spectre of it, is the principal means of scientific advancement, territorial expansion, and the defense of the personal, social, and political elements that society holds dear,” he said. “Without the invention of guns, we wouldn’t have had clocks, typewriters, or

anything that requires fine machine tooling.”

According to Walsh, masculinity and war are closely linked.

“At its root, war is a masculine engagement undertaken on behalf of women and children, in large measure to win the former and ensure the survival of the latter,” he said. “This is a truth not often told or acknowledged.”

Walsh said that the way the West approaches war today is largely responsible for the vacuum of masculinity and the societal confusion that it causes.

“In the post-industrial, feminized West, children — once seen as the future of society — are now seen as a burden, and women are believed to be indistinguishable from men,” he said. “Nature abhors a vacuum. Do I therefore come down in praise of war, in praise of death? To contemporary sensibilities, this seems barbaric.”

Walsh said that the modern West has a deep fear of both death and pain.

“Now that religion in the West is largely nugatory, the sole purpose of existence is to live as long and as painlessly as possible,” he said, describ-

West speaks on Strauss and American politics By | Alexis Daniels Web Content Editor Political philosopher Leo Strauss influenced American politics with his defense of classical natural rights and his view of a good society and of politics, according to Professor of Politics Thomas West.

As part of a series that explores the people behind the ideals of the conservative movement, the Young Americans for Freedom hosted West to talk about the classical political views of Strauss, a German-American political philosopher who died in 1973. West said that although Strauss had a more “expansive influence on scholarship,” his views were conservative.

“He didn’t ever actually write anything like a conservative manifesto or ‘why I’m a conservative’ kind of thing,” West said. “He just dropped remarks at various places in his writings, typically writings devoted to some topic not American specifically. But Strauss is widely accused of, by his critics, being the godfather of neoconservatism.”

West said there is a “glimmer of truth” to this contention because one of Strauss’s students, Harvey Mansfield, a professor of government at Harvard University, went on to teach prominent neoconservatives. Strauss, however, would have disagreed with many features of the modern conservative movement, such as a foreign policy that seeks to liberate oppressed populations.

“Strauss would never have thought that was a good idea, to walk into a country you know nothing about,” West said. “People think Iraq is like France. Iraq is a tribal Middle Eastern country that’s never at one time in its entire history known anything like political liberty. The idea of freedom of religion is utterly incomprehensible to anyone who lives in Iraq, and so on.”

Strauss was a Jew living in Germany during World War I and got involved in Zionism due to how the Jews

were being treated in Europe.

In thinking about Zionism, however, he also had to think about the truth of Judaism.

The theological questions led him into philosophy and the main question for most of his career became concerned with the “proper way of life,” according to West.

“Is it to follow the divine commands of revelation or is it to question those commands and live a life of inquiry on your own?” West said. “That was Strauss’s lifelong question and he never gave it up. He took the side of philosophy throughout his life, but he always understood that’s not a self-evident thing to do, an obvious thing that one should follow one’s own reason, one’s independent thought, especially because reason is not able to figure out reality very well.”

This was Strauss’s “beginning point,” and in Germany at the time, the pillars of faith, science, and progress in the previous century were collapsing, West said. Many states were engaged in many of today’s issues, such as transgenderism and public recognition of the homosexual community. The government also wasn’t protecting natural rights and couldn’t understand how to deal with crime and starvation. West said this experience was one of the most formative in Strauss’s life.

“Strauss recognized this collapse of traditions going on around him as a dangerous thing and he could see that it was going to lead to all kinds of fanaticism. He saw the rise of communism and Nazism,” West said.

Throughout his career, Strauss defended the classical notion of “natural rights” and the idea that reason can figure out the basic principles of a good society. He didn’t like the focus on self-preservation and the modern state and thought they should “be subordinate to that which is higher in man,” according to West.

“He appreciated the way

that the classics spoke centrally about the importance of the pursuit of virtue as the ultimate justification for and the end of political life. Perfection of the soul and mind and body,” West said. “Virtue goes together with happiness.

Ultimate justification for virtue is the end of society; it’s not for its own sake, it’s because it leads to human well-being, both individually and for the whole community.”

Strauss believed that one condition for a good society is that the ethnic group is capable of living well and obeying the law. Strauss defended the idea of aristocracy or a benevolent monarchy as the best form of government, but he appreciated American constitutionalism. He proposed that we are “entering into an age of totalitarianism dominated by religious fanaticism,” West said.

“He was very bold thinking about ‘What are the threats coming in the future that we might not be aware of?’” West said.

Sophomore and YAF Vice President Ceanna Hayes said West was a great person to talk about Strauss because he made it so accessible.

“I like that he was able to bring it from a complex, intellectual level to a more easily understandable kind of level,” Hayes said. “He brought it down to layman’s terms and was able to make it something that mattered in the modern day.”

Sophomore Robert Laucius said he hadn’t known about Strauss before but the lecture made him more interested.

“I wasn’t surprised by anything, but I did enjoy just kind of expanding on things that I already had a rough approximation of,” Laucius said. “From what I understand, he already had some influence on the neoconservative movement; it was just interesting to learn how he did.”

ing the modern mindset.

“There may be nothing worth living for, but there is surely nothing worth dying for.”

According to Walsh, this is a very limited way to live life.

“Human beings have a larger purpose than simply living out their threescore and ten,” he said. “Men are born to father children and to defend them, and their women, against other men that would kill them or otherwise take advantage of them.”

Although defending hearth and home is an essential part of a man’s life, his worth is determined by more than his skill in battle, Walsh said.

“The measure of a real man is what he has done in his life, how far he has sailed, how well he has loved, how he has raised his children, and how much, or little, they love him,” Walsh said.

Hillsdale senior Stephen Richmann, who attended the talk, said he thought Walsh danced around some deep truths without fully addressing them.

“He said that the natural state of things is men fighting other men, and I don’t think that’s necessarily true,” Richmann said. “The reason

masculine aggression is good, at least in the Christian conception of things, is because we live in a world where evil has not been defeated. And the conflict isn’t just man versus man. It’s man versus evil, or man versus other men doing evil things. It almost seemed like he was romanticizing war.”

Ellen Hancock, a sophomore at Hillsdale, said that she agreed with many of Walsh’s points.

“The beginning of the talk made a lot of sense,” she said.

“The most masculine thing I can think of is men fighting for their country and protecting women.”

According to Hancock, Walsh’s comments on the modern West were compelling.

“People today are obsessed with comfort,” she said.

“Nothing is worth dying for because we worship ourselves.”

Walsh said that although we view war as a catastrophe, refusing to fight is not an option.

“The culture that doesn’t fight is bent on suicide,” he said. “Civilizations do not just dissolve from innovation, although that is certainly a

factor; but their end is always punctuated by conquest. Just ask Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor.”

For Walsh, continuing to fight even in the face of certain death is the epitome of masculine courage.

“They were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice,” he said. “They did it for themselves, for their brothers in arms, for their women and children. And above all, they did it for their country.”

Toward the end of his lecture, Walsh tied Immanuel Kant’s controversial statement to 21st-century issues.

“As much as it pains the West to admit it, war appears to be the natural state of mankind, and peace the aberration,” he said. “The time when civilians could opt out of global conflicts is long past. The best way to preserve the peace is to prepare for war and hope it never comes.

But come again it will, and we must know its nature and history in order to cope with it when it does.”

Catholic Society receives first funding from Student Fed By | Virginia Aabram Collegian Reporter In an effort to make its yearly silent retreats free of charge, Catholic Society requested and received its first funding from the Student Federation.

With only two more meetings left in the semester and over $7,400 left in discretionary funds (not including the surplus), according to Treasurer Evan Welch, the federation awarded $5,040 to Catholic Society to cover the cost of two weekends of retreats, which will allow the club to use the significant portion of its budget tied up in the retreats to expand programming in other ways.

Catholic Society has offered two weekends of silent retreats — one for women and one for men — every spring semester for the past several years. It previously cost students $30 to attend, with Catholic Society subsidizing the rest of the over $100 needed to cover the expense of attending. Despite keeping the fee low, the leadership board decided that it was important that cost not be a deterrent.

“Silent retreats have been one of the most revolutionary experiences in my life, completely unique among the

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anymore, like the Incredible String Band, for example. It was just two guys, and the music is incredibly weird, but either it’ll speak to you or it won’t.

What was it like to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall?

I speak German, so I had been going to East Berlin since 1985, and I had a lot of friends on the communist side. Between ‘85 and ‘89 I’d get in through the famous Checkpoint Charlie. And you’d go from light and color to black and white. When the wall came down, it was scary because you didn’t

spiritual retreats I have gone on and very near and dear to my heart,” said Catholic Society President Patrick Mitchell in his pitch to the federation.

“We have heard only positive things from the students who attend.”

Per the requirements for receiving money from the federation, Mitchell stressed that the retreat is open to any and all students, not just Catholics.

The organization’s goal was to have the entire cost of the retreat covered by the federation so as to have more flexibility with their budget.

“The reason why we’re requesting funding for this event in particular is because a lot of the money in our budget is tied up in this one event,” Mitchell said. “Since it’s so established, we know exactly how much it costs and how much to request. We have found ways to minimize the cost.”

Catholic Society has minimized the cost of the retreats in several ways. Tim and Peri Rose Force, the couple who manages the Grotto, cook all the food for the retreat.

Participants clean up after themselves, which eliminates the cleaning cost. They also share the retreat center with students from the University of Michigan, which covers

a substantial portion of the overall price of renting the retreat center.

“We’re hoping that with the extra money we are able to save from having this retreat subsidized to expand our opportunities going forward next semester,” Mitchell said. “We would like to have this money freed up to host more lectures and retreats that would benefit the whole student body.”

Several federation members pushed for a reduced grant on the terms that Catholic Society still charge a nominal cost to those attending. Mitchell responded that their intention was to make the retreats free no matter what. The amendment to reduce the grant did not pass, and Catholic Society was awarded full funding “The role of the fed is not to judge how they precisely spend their money, or whether they charge students or not, but merely judge the strength of their proposal that cuts costs as much as possible, and that represents the interests of the entire student body,” said Representative Kathleen Hess. “Of the many proposals we’ve seen, this is one that does all these things the best.”

know how the guards on the east side were going to react.

They were heavily armed and trained to kill, but at some point they decided that it was no longer worth killing people to preserve this fiction. And once everyone got pretty used to the fact that they weren’t going to be shot, the mood got better.

munism in this country?’ I’ll tell you, the thing about being in a communist country is the stench. It’s the stink of coal fumes, gasoline, clothes that haven’t been washed in a thousand years. I always get a kick out of people that think America is polluted.

If you want to see pollution, you should have been in East Germany, Poland, or Russia. I spent a lot of time in Moscow and I was there when Chernobyl blew up.

Everywhere I go, something happens. But it’s a good life lesson for everybody, that what seems permanent today can be gone tomorrow.

Literally.

How did your experience in communist East Germany influence your view of American politics?

It made it clear to me that we don’t want that here.

Take it from all the Russians that came over and said, ‘Are you crazy? You want com-

Student ministry groups partner for joint worship service By | Lily McHale Collegian Reporter The Office of the Chaplain, in conjunction with numerous student ministry groups, has planned an all campus worship service for Monday, Nov. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in Christ Chapel. Father Adam Rick, Hillsdale College’s Chaplain, said the idea initially sprang from the faculty.

“They desired to see an opportunity for campus to come

together as one family to give thanks to God for the chapel because the main dedication service did not have room for everybody,” he said. “The idea has since matured into a student-led initiative to come together for corporate prayer inside the chapel to offer ourselves to God’s service within it.”

Student representatives from the Anglican Student Fellowship, Catholic Society,

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Equip Ministries, InterVarsity, Lutheran Society, and Orthodox Christian Fellowship worked with the chaplain to craft the service.

“I reached out to the student ministries to get representatives from each of them who would be willing to brainstorm what the event might look like,” said Father Rick.

Phil Berntson, vice president of Catholic Society, said

he hopes the service will have a unifying effect.

“The service is a good way to get everyone together even if we don’t all believe the same things,” said Berntson.

“We are all Christians sharing the same space and it’s important that it’s done out of good faith with each other.”

Senior Michelle Reid has been involved in planning Intervarsity’s contribution to the service.

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“Father Adam told us leaders when we all met that this service was a blank slate that the administration wanted students to help craft,” Reid said in an email. “I’m excited to see how this service blends beautiful elements from all the traditions we bring to the table.”

Father Rick said the event will include scripture, chant, corporate prayers, and hymns.

“Our intent was to design a service that was genuinely reflective of the diversity of campus,” Rick said. “Dr. Arnn will give some comments on the sacred use of the chapel and what it’s for and I will give a brief address from the scripture readings. Ministries have historically all done their own thing and we’ve never done anything like this before, coming together to do what we have in common.”

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The team has traveled to two tournaments so far this semester.

Courtesy | Sebastian Pestritto

Ultimate frisbee team now traveling to games By | Rachel Kookogey Assistant Editor

Hillsdale College now boasts a traveling ultimate frisbee team that has already competed in two tournaments.

The team started as an unofficial club but was given official status by the Student Federation last spring.

Sophomore and president of the club Sebastian Pestritto approached the office of club athletics to ask for funding to become a club team. The ultimate frisbee team has now received funding from college donors and sponsors such as Checker Records in order to become a travel team.

When Pestritto dual-enrolled at Hillsdale his senior year of high school, he began to play pick-up ultimate frisbee with other members of the campus ‘team.’

He continued playing the sport in his freshman year of college and began to look for ways to make the team more organized.

After making the club official and gathering enough names at this semester’s Source, the team began regular practices on Tuesdays and

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the conflict, Shirkey argued, came from a disagreement over how to tackle infrastructure reform and the budget appropriations.

“I pleaded with her not to tie road funding to the overall budget,” Shirkey said.

He argued that both should have been addressed individually.

In time, Gov. Whitmer eventually agreed to separate the two. But as Shirkey put it, “this left us with no options,” as only two weeks stood between Michigan and a budget shutdown.

Shirkey admitted that, due to time constraints, the legislature could not involve Gov. Whitmer in the process of budget allocations. But he went on to ridicule Gov. Whitmer for taking the lineitem veto pen to numerous provisions and turning to a 98-year-old law to satisfy her desire for more infrastructure funding.

“She exercised her veto

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on the department “Get that guy to take you to Germany,” Arnn joked.

After presenting Naumann with the award, Arnn introduced the main speaker Michael Ward, senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and author of “Planet Narnia.”

Arnn said Ward is a man with “wicked wit.”

“We asked him to speak at the groundbreaking, which was the right thing to do, and now we’ve asked him to speak at our first convocation inside the chapel,” Arnn said.

In his speech, Ward explored the origin of the word “chapel.” He traced its etymology to the story of St. Martin, a young Christian convert who came upon a

Saturdays. After practice, the club members also play pickup games with anyone interested.

Senior Henry Brink, the club’s treasurer, said these pickup games are how the team recruited some of its members. For example, Brink told the story of how freshman Ethan Cobb, who Brink describes as “a very dependable cutter with very sticky fingers,” joined the club.

“Ethan showed up to pick up games for a few weeks and I assumed he didn’t want to play on the team because he didn’t ask,” Brink said.

“Then one day I said to him, “Ethan, are you sure you don’t want to play on the team?’ And he said, ‘Actually yeah I do, I was just waiting for you to ask me.’”

For freshman Abbee Elwell, who had played ultimate frisbee competitively in high school, finding out there was an ultimate frisbee club was a “bonus” to coming to Hillsdale.

“I knew I was going to make time in my study schedule to go to all the ultimate practices because it’s a great form of exercise

and also a great community,” Elwell said.

The travel team has attended two tournaments so far. Their most recent tournament was this past Saturday in Livonia, Michigan.

“A lot of the teams at the tournament are very experienced teams, so a lot of times we didn’t win the games but we were right up there competing with them,” Pestritto said. “At this point, I’m not concerned with winning or losing, it’s more about the experience and getting better, which I really saw.”

Pestritto added that the other team captains at the tournament were shocked and impressed when they heard that Hillsdale’s team had only been official since August.

Elwell said she is committed to playing the sport, improving the team, and making it more well-known during her time at Hillsdale.

“My goal is that by the time I graduate this team is a club sport that is known, that is recognized as a legitimate player in tournaments, and that keeps going after we graduate,” Elwell said.

pen and did an unprecedented number of 147 line-item vetoes,” Shirkey explained.

“In response to the passage of the budget, she tapped into a very obscure 1921 law that gave the governor the power to transfer money within budgets.”

He concluded his remarks concerning the budget fight by deeming Gov. Whitmer’s actions as “rash political misbehavior” and warned that many in his caucus were fed up with attempts to strike a bipartisan tone. When asked whether or not he felt pressure from Republican colleagues to tow a hardline against Gov. Whitmer, Shirkey acknowledged patience is wearing thin within the Republican Party.

“The pressure is building and it will continue to increase and it will affect people differently,” Shirkey stated. “My governor has the two Democratic caucuses fairly locked up. They sit around and wait for her to call them and tell them to do

this or do that.”

Aside from the Michigan legislature, Shirkey also devoted time to answer questions concerning national politics. When asked his thoughts on the impeachment hearings in the United States House of Representatives, Shirkey defended President Donald Trump and critiqued House Democrats for their handling of the situation.

“We are going through ‘kabuki’ theater on impeachment,” Shirkey said. “It hurts my heart to see our president under attack, but it also hurts my heart to see our institutions under attack.”

Reaction to Shirkey’s speech was positive.

“I think it’s great to have the Senate majority leader because as aspiring statesman, we need to balance the concerns of individuals with the concerns of leadership,” said Secretary of College Republicans Brandt Siegfried.

scantily-clad beggar and cut his cloak in two, giving one to the beggar and keeping the other for himself. St. Martin’s half was preserved in a sanctuary that came to be known as a “chapel,” derived from the Latin word for “cape.” Like the sword and cloak of St. Martin, Ward said, it is through our apparent weaknesses that we can make others strong, thereby putting a new twist on Hillsdale’s motto, “strength rejoices in the challenge.”

Senior Nathan Messiter expressed appreciation for Ward’s lecture, particularly the connections he drew between the historical context of the chapel, the purpose it serves today, and how it relates to the Christian life.

“I’ve been raving about why Dr. Ward is the best,” Messiter said. “He gets what this college is about and why

we do what we do. He’s brilliant.”

Senior Stephen Richmann concurred.

“I think the crux of Michael Ward’s speech about strength being found right where you’d think you’d be most weak is connected to earth-shattering truths that are part of the gospel,” he said.

“I appreciated him honing in on that. As a culture, I don’t think we fully understand the full depth of that.”

Both students described it as an honor to be the first class to experience convocation in the chapel.

“What struck me the most was the satisfaction on Dr. Arnn’s face,” Richmann said.

“He felt very strongly about the chapel project, and he’s just very clearly delighted to see its completion.”

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‘Planet Narnia’ author talks theory of Chronicles of Narnia By | Joshua Newhook Collegian Freelancer While the Chronicles of Narnia series has enthralled its readers for several generations, Professor Michael Ward of the University of Oxford contends that many have glossed over its deeper meaning.

Following his convocation address in Christ Chapel on Nov. 14, earlier that morning, Ward gave a lecture titled “Great Balls of Fire: C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and the Planets” in Lane Hall. A senior research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Ward has studied C.S. Lewis expansively. His work includes authoring a book called “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens and the Imagination of C.S. Lewis” and serving as an editor for “The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis and C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner.”

Ward started his lecture by asking the audience who had read at least one book from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Although everyone raised a hand, Ward demonstrated that most did not know the reasoning behind C.S. Lewis’s famous work.

“If we are apt to call Narnia a hodge-podge,” Ward stated, “we should look again.”

Ward stated that the Chronicles of Narnia might just appear as a collection of stories with a mix of different settings, thereby reducing its worth to a great piece of literature.

“Scholars say they are just for the children,” Ward said.

For years, academics have sought the series’ underlying meaning, including what each of the seven books could symbolize. Theories range from the seven deadly sins to the seven books of the Faerie Queen. There have been disagreements among scholars, however, and no clear answer has been reached.

Ward believes that the seven books of the Narnia series represent the seven planets of the medieval universe: Jupiter, Saturn, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

He gave four reasons to support his claim: Lewis’s secretive nature, his belief in Colossians 1:16-17, the “Kappa Element in Romane” or the hidden elements in stories, and transferred classicism, a literary device that exploits paganism for Christian purposes.

Ward presented evidence for his theory from each of the books. For example, he claimed the Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the sun story. During the book, the characters move closer and

closer to the sun and the dawn. The theme of dragons in the book, according to Ward, makes sense because the sun and light god, Apollo, is known as the dragon-slayer in Greek mythology.

Aslan, the Christ figure, is seen shining in the sunlight, demonstrating how he is the true and better Apollo and the light of the world.

“It could be used as an imaginative blueprint to provide atmosphere for the book,” Ward said.

He insisted that this system provides a palate on which Lewis cast his Christian message of a Christian God and Jesus Christ as greater than all the gods represented by the planets.

Sophomore Abraham Sullivan, who was previously familiar with Ward’s book, was convinced of the argument’s validity after the lecture.

“I like how he revealed his theory to us as he discovered it himself,” Sullivan said. “His demonstration on the screen proved it to me.”

Stephen Naumann, assistant professor of German, also had high praise for Ward’s presentation.

“Lots of small elements made him interesting,” Naumann said. “He’s witty, insightful, and well-read. It’s a good combination to listen to and learn from.”

Conservation Club and ACS team up for recycling drive By | Victoria Marshall Assistant Editor

school eventually to have an official recycling program, because the best way to be sustainable and to make that part of your lifestyle is to make it more convenient and efficient.”

Reynolds said she is surprised that Hillsdale doesn’t have a recycling program.

“I do think it is very odd that we are a college that has a lot of resources and we don’t have any recycling, so we’re trying to do what we can,” Reynolds said.

Christopher Hamilton, professor of chemistry and faculty advisor for the Hillsdale College Chapter of the American Chemical Society said that the drive was a

recycle it and keep it out of landfills,” he said.

Hamilton noted that multiple alumni have reached out A recycling drive by the to him and expressed their Conservation Club and concern that there is no recyAmerican Chemical Society cling program on campus. last Friday sought to proSchupbach echoed this mote sustainability and build sentiment, saying that “somesupport for a campus-wide thing like recycling should recycling program. just go along with garbage The recycling drive held in pickup.” the Formal Lounge, encourReynolds said that alaged students and faculty to though previous Conversadivide their recycling into tion Club presidents have paper, aluminum, plastic, and reached out to the administrash to facilitate the recytration about establishing a cling process. recycling program in years “When we take it to past, “there’s been no rerecycling centers, things are sponse or openness to it by recycled separately,” said the administration.”

Vice President of Hillsdale’s For students wanting to American Chemical Society get involved, Chapter and the best thing junior Sothey can do is phie Reyntalk about it. olds. “If your “More conrecycling versation about isn’t sepasustainability rated and and recycling you bring it can help the to a facilculture change ity, it will to a way that’s most likely more friendly get thrown to recycling away.” at Hillsdale The respecifically,” cycled trash Reynolds said. was taken “So just being to Modaware of and ern Waste encouraging Systems, programs like a waste this. Consermanagement Volunteers pose with recycled products in the formal lounge.

Courtesy | Sophie Reynolds vation Club facility on way for ACS to give back to also does trash pickups or West Carleton Road. campus. things where we’re trying to “At this facility in partic“We have had bins all over be sustainable in a way that’s ular, they don’t have people campus and we weren’t able serving the community, so hired to search through bags to maintain those,” Hamilton just getting involved in that.” and divide it,” said senior Schupbach agreed with Crystal Schupbach, a Conser- said. “And because we don’t have a campus recycling Reynolds. vation Club board member. program, this is a way for “The more people talk “So when you bring your about it, the more people are recycling you have to put it in students, faculty, and staff to help take care of some of that going to say this is an issue separate bins yourself.” waste that has been sitting in that we need to solve,” SchupThe main goal for the their offices or dorm rooms.” bach said. “Then people are campus drive was to bring When asked about estabgoing to be more receptive awareness to sustainability on lishing a recycling program, about wanting to do somecampus.

Hamilton said it would be thing about it on a larger “We’re trying to get stugreat if there was something scale.” dents and different organizamore organized on campus.

In Reynold’s words, tions involved in our recy“I think for certain things “There’s a bigger conversacling initiatives to be slightly that are easily recyclable like tion here that could be more more sustainable,” Reynolds aluminum, it makes a lot productive.” said. “But our hope is for the of economic sense to try to

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TikTok, the most-downloaded social media app in September, is looking to cut its Chinese roots. And for good reason: Through TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, the Chinese government demands access to TikTok’s user data. And when requested, ByteDance hands it over.

Now TikTok wants to move out of Beijing and into Singapore or elsewhere in Southeast Asia. That’s a great idea—and other companies would do well to follow suit,

even if it means losing profits.

Earlier this month, United States senators called to undertake a national security review undertook an investigation into TikTok’s ties with China, concerned that the company was censoring content to please Beijing. ByteDance runs ads for Chinese government ministries at no cost, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company also surrenders users’ cell phone numbers and national citizen identification numbers to Chinese police if

they’re deemed necessary to investigate an alleged crime.

As a former TikTok employee who worked in the company’s Los Angeles office told the Wall Street Journal, TikTok “is a Chinese company” who “answers to China.”

Other organizations such as the NBA and Google eagerly kowtow to China. After Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted in support of Hong Kong’s protestors last month, the rest of the NBA rushed to appease China’s Com-

munist leaders. Google also collaborates with the Chinese government, agreeing to censor certain search-engine requests. It also runs an artificial intelligence lab in Beijing.

For the protection of privacy and human rights, large corporations should be leery in business dealings with China, and they should not sacrifice users’ privacy for the sake of complying with a totalitarian regime. TikTok should exit China, and the others should follow.

Despite lawless authorities, US Bring back the needs Mexico as ally for trade original Oath of Hippocrates

By | Reagan Cool A few weeks ago, a premed student and friend of mine mentioned her discovery that medical students today rarely take an oath of doing no harm. Intrigued, it only took a few minutes of Googling to come across the evolutionary history of the medical oath. Sifting through the many versions of the Hippocratic Oath, I couldn’t help but wonder who it is that a physician is vowing to be, and what it means to be a physician.

A few medical schools have started the practice of letting the students write their own oaths. It seems dubious that a standard of medical practice and ethics could be possible in a system where every doctor pledges to a different definition of their identity.

Many, especially the fans of newer, seemingly more relevant versions of the oath, are quick to point out that the original Oath of Hippocrates didn’t even include its famous and now absent line to “do no harm.”

But this defense is vague and misleading. In fact, the original Hippocratic Oath is far more clear than the buried line suggests: “I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.”

The physician, taking this oath, is not just promising to “do no harm.” Rather, he is dedicating his education to the benefit of his patient, and denies himself the temptation of deleterious or mischievous treatment.

The word “physician” came from the Old French “fisique,” meaning “art of healing,” from the Latin “physica,” or “natural science.” And doctor comes from the Latin “docere,” meaning “to teach.” So physicians are healers, and doctors are teachers.

The comparison of these two definitions affirmed something I’ve become increasingly aware of as I’ve transitioned into adulthood and started making my own medical decisions: The medical vocation is not to take the freewill from one’s patient, coercing them into any procedure, treatment, or decision that seems best to the doctor’s personal judgment. Just as much as a doctor has a “gut feeling,” so too does the patient. A doctor’s role is to guide their patient, through care and education, to make the decisions which will promote the most whole life for the patient.

This is, perhaps, a reflection of the evolving public

life of America and the West in general. Lately, everything is everyone’s business, or at least the government’s.

It is hard to find a medical practitioner or insurance provider free to make decisions entirely according to their conscience and intuition. Rather, many medical decisions are made oppressed by regulations, afraid of financial risk, or for the sake of the expense of the procedure. The personhood of the patient is scarcely recognizable anymore.

That claim of jeopardized personhood is not a conclusion drawn by my own observations, although I have plenty of those to make about our current medical system.

The most widely-recited oath today is called the Lasagna Oath, named after Louis Lasagna, who wrote the oath in 1964. While it has many good and true things to say, this section from the middle is problematic: “Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks.

But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.”

It is within no one’s power to take a life, not even his own. No healer or teacher is an exception. We are stewards, not owners, of the lives given to us as a gift from God. To vow to take a life is vastly different than being present to witness a person’s passing from this life into the next. In one, you are actor; in the other, you are audience.

I can’t help but compare this modernized, “more humane” and relevant oath with that oath of antiquity.

The words of Hippocrates do not form the oath of a nice doctor with good bedside manners, but rather a code of heroic character.

This is the oath of a doctor who isn’t afraid to say no to the patient begging to end his own life. This is the oath of a doctor who will not stand by as women abandon their children, and themselves, in isolation and fear. This is the oath of a doctor who does not champion despair as independence and freedom but rather sees it as a serious cause for compassion and treats it as a need for healing.

It is obvious to me that our medical system is in desperate need of more Hippocratic doctors. The Hippocratic doctor defends the seven-year-old child from his parents’ politically influenced opinions, finds real solutions for the woman in need, and has happiness rather than pleasure as the goal of his practice.

Reagan Cool is a senior studying theology and a columnist on faith and religion.

By | Abby Liebing Five years ago, I was on a bus in Cordoba, Veracruz, located in central Mexico on a mission trip. Winding along the mountain roads, there were regular police checkpoints we stopped at, where M-16-toting officers checked the bus. One local pointed out that having the police around should not make me feel safer.

There is no such thing as trusting the authorities in Mexico. With the extraordinary power of the cartels, there is widespread corruption, as many of the police and authorities work for the cartels.

The violence and corruption of a nation that is largely controlled by organized crime syndicates is Mexico’s norm and has been for decades now.

Mexico is dangerously close to becoming a failed state as the cartels grow in power and the government weakens. But Mexico is the United States’ third biggest trade partner and one of our biggest oil exporters. The United States has to keep finding ways to work with Mexico.

But Americans are still getting used to the idea of such lawlessness being so close to our own nation, and many were shocked a few weeks ago when women and children, who were dual citizens, were caught in an ambush and killed while traveling on a road in northern Mexico. Whether it was a matter of mistaken identity or not, the ambush was most likely part of the continual turf wars between rival Mexican cartels.

Americans are horrified by such violence, and though it is a tragedy, it’s simply another

day in Mexico. Cartel control and violence are normal, and each new occurrence in the turf wars shows how the Mexican government is giving up sovereignty to the cartels and becoming a failed state.

Americans act as if the murders last week are a sign of Mexico falling into greater violence, but Mexico has been like this for a long time. There is pervasive corruption at the very highest levels of Mexican government, and it’s not uncommon for policemen, politicians, and lawyers to be working for the cartels.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo once said that Mexico had three big challenges: “Rule of law, rule of law, and rule of law.” Though Zedillo made that comment nearly twenty years ago, it still rings true today. Just look at Mexico’s 2018 election cycle.

Within months of the election season beginning, more than 120 activists and politicians were murdered and many more threatened by cartels. In Ocampo, Michoacan, politician Fernando Ángeles Juárez was murdered and the entire police force of the town was detained by federal agents on suspicion of having been responsible for the murder and corruption.

The former President Enrique Peña Nieto tried to battle corruption and organized crime by establishing the authority of the state, like his predecessor Felipe Calderón, but both Calderón and Nieto made little headway. Meanwhile, violence and homicide skyrocketed.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected in 2018 on the promises that he would cleanse the country and drive the homicide

rates down. But he has since embraced a policy he calls “abrazos, no balazos” — hugs, not bullets. AMLO, as the president is commonly known, wants to boost social outreach to would-be cartel recruits and so end bloodshed and cartel control that way.

But in 2018, Mexico broke a record for murders. Authorities opened 33,341 murder investigations in 2018, which is a 33% uptick from 2017, despite AMLO being president.

Central states like Guanajuato have seen murder rates triple since they have become battlegrounds for the competing cartels. In the state of Jalisco, there were so many murders that authorities reported that they ran out of morgue space and had to store victims in a mobile refrigerated trailer.

The cartels have read AMLO’s new “abrazos, no balazos” policy as weakness and have thus taken even more liberties in doing whatever they please as their power and turf wars increase.

The Mexican government’s weakness has been highlighted as it becomes clearer that the cartels hold the most power and sovereignty in Mexico.

This has never been more clear than when the Sinaloa Cartel, which controls most of northwestern Mexico and the major drug trade routes into New Mexico, Arizona, and California, mobilized its paramilitary wing on Oct. 17 and forced the city of Culiacán to release Ovidio Guzmán, son of the infamous Joaquín Guzmán, better known as “El Chapo.” This was a stunning blow against the Mexican government and brought into question its sovereignty and legitimacy.

What implications does

this carry for the United States? Mexico is not yet a failed state, but it is getting closer and closer as the rule of law is abandoned and the cartels keep gaining sovereignty. It is important for the United States to understand that Mexico is a delicate state and, as a major trade partner, the U.S. influence on Mexico cannot be underestimated.

A major part of a state’s failure is economic failure.

The drug trade is one of the biggest markets in Mexico, and the cartels are the powerful corporations bringing in billions of dollars into Mexico every year. Having massive illegal organizations make up such a large part of the economy, of course, does not bode well for either Mexico or the United States as its trade partner.

Mexico is the United State’s third largest trading partner, and the United States is Mexico’s biggest trading partner. In 2018, U.S. goods and services traded with Mexico totaled around $671 billion, with about $299.1 billion in exports and $371.9 billion in imports.

It could only be beneficial for the United States for Mexico to be more stable.

There are multiple ways to try to stabilize Mexico, but the first and most basic is to keep trading and economically investing, but remember that Mexico is in a delicate situation, losing its sovereignty to cartels, and getting closer to a failed state.

Abby Liebing is a senior studying history and a columnist on foreign politics. She is the associate editor of The Collegian.

Dear Hillsdale: Nobody likes conservative daters

By | Carmel Kookogey While bold in their intellectual battles, many Hillsdale guys are too hesitant in relationships. Protecting their pride and avoiding the discomfort of rejection, they use the friend-card first, rather than take the risk of asking a girl out.

Playing it safe like this kills the art of romance. We should return to old-fashioned, casual dating.

Most Hillsdale students see a date as a big commitment. It’s practically pre-engagement. As a result, guys and girls find other ways of getting to know one another before going out: going on long walks up and down Hillsdale street, having extensive, exclusive meal times in Saga, or whispering and giggling in between the shelves in Purgatory with complete disregard for the prestigious scholars around them.

Many couples “Hillsdate” for several months before any official first date, and sometimes this prolonged test period goes on for multiple semesters before the guy makes a move — because, presumably, it takes a year-

and-a-half to know if you really like each other.

We’re too pragmatic for our own good — or as C.S. Lewis writes in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” we’ve read so many books about governments and drains that we don’t know magic when we see it. We’re so focused on the good and the true, that we’ve forgotten the beautiful.

In the classic 1989 film “Dead Poets’ Society,” Robin Williams as Professor Keating tells his male students language was invented for one reason: “To woo women.

And, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”

While gathering theatrical and political significance from the Shakespeare we read in class, we’ve ignored one of the most significant moments he gave us: Harry’s wooing of the French princess Katherine in “Henry V.” The new English king delivers multiple monologues, even speaking some in butchered French.

Despite Katherine’s pretended disinterestedness, he succeeds in winning her hand.

A modern romance doesn’t have to be written in iambic pentameter to be meaningful, but it should look different from your other male-female

friendships.

This isn’t to say we should be all heart and no head when pursuing a relationship, either. Anyone who’s read “Romeo and Juliet” knows a cocktail of ungrounded passion and slick poetry wreaks havoc on common sense.

Hillsdale students fail at this, too, though perhaps less often. But old-fashioned dating proposes an Aristotelian mean. Instead of letting passion run rampant or bottling it and slapping on a poison label, it puts it in its healthiest place — at a nervous first dinner date at Olivia’s, or a coffee at Rough Draft where six people you know are scattered throughout the room.

The point of old-fashioned, casual dating is still to get to know one another, just like Hillsdating. The difference is that both people are honest about their interest in each other, instead of feigning mere friendship.

The blame falls on both men and women. While men often lack courage, women often fail to set healthy boundaries. In fear of losing a guy completely, they allow these ambiguous male relationships to monopolize their time and give a guy the same level of

attention they would give a boyfriend. Then they complain to their girlfriends that “he won’t make a move,” but why would he, when there is no incentive? What we allow is what will continue.

It’s easier for both the guy and girl to pretend they don’t care too much, so if their affections aren’t reciprocated, they can pretend those feelings never existed. But if we want to wear the proud slogan of “virtus tentamine gaudet,” we should apply it to relationships, too, and rejoice in the challenge of finding out if we’re right for each other the hard way — the honest way.

In an article published in the Collegian on Oct. 31, professor of politics Adam Carrington pointed out that “the liberal arts were made for life and for man, not life and man for the liberal arts.”

We’re here to learn to live, and learning to love is a necessary part of that.

Be a man. Just ask her out.

Carmel Kookogey is a George Washington Fellow and a junior studying politics.

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Live meaningfully: Impeachment does not require illegality Choose community over efficiency Choosing to live with family, friends over a fast-paced city life can be more fulfilling

By | Emma Cummins As my time at the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program in Washington, D.C., comes to a close, I find that my experience of Hillsdale in D.C. is different from life on main campus. Though the things I’m reading and writing about may be comparable to a Hillsdale class, these classes are located in the heart of American politics. The culture is fast-paced and focused on efficiency — despite the bureaucracy being so slow.

During my semester in D.C., I’ve come to realize that choosing what many would consider a less efficient way of doing things for both my own sake and the sake of the community might create a more meaningful life. After spending the summer in Hillsdale, and then moving to D.C., the difference between the two has only shown me that this principle can lead to a happier life wherever one may live.

Over the summer, I lived in the Paul House with four other girls.

I lived a few minutes away from friends who lived in town. We cooked together, ate together, and lived a relatively simple life — nothing exciting or as fastpaced as the city.

Efficiency, as a principle which subordinates our time and efforts to productivity, was not really on my mind.

This isn’t to say I sat around and did nothing; in fact, I read more than I ever have in a summer. But these choices weren’t dictated by a desire to consume or produce.

During that time, I read Wendell Berry’s “Hannah Coulter,” which tells the story of a woman who grew up farming and dies farming. Her time as a parent, however, comes when family farming is quickly fading away and being replaced by agrobusiness, and she must face the prospect of her children going to college and abandoning their family’s way of life.

The life of Hannah Coulter rests upon the assumption that to stay put is almost always the better option, and not just for its own sake. The passing on of tradition, heritage, and family narrative works best when the same family lives and works on the same land for generations. But it’s all terribly inefficient.

Berry recommended a different way of thinking about life, and it’s not that everyone should become a farmer.

It is that efficiency, which inevitably leads to total independence, is not the path to adulthood. Instead, the right way to live life might be to live near your parents and shape your life around your friends and family, not your career. Planning out every hour of your day might not result in a day well-lived.

This approach to life looks different for different people and different circumstances.

Maybe you should plan out your day if you have a great deal of things to do. Maybe you should move to D.C. for that job opportunity on Capitol Hill. But the principle in mind should not be how can I be both efficient and

independent — throwing off childhood dependence — but rather, how I can be successful while still engaging realistically in and contributing to my community.

Living in D.C. means I can wake up on a Friday morning after a busy week, and I’m not sure if the week has even begun yet. Confused and unattached to the week, it’s only until Friday night that I feel I’ve truly woken up to it.

As humans, we look for signs in our lives which point us to a greater, deeper reality.

Life can be both busy and full of these signs. But if we choose to make efficiency the priority, these signs, and a deeper reality, are lost. If we choose our own independence over our involvement in a community, we deny the interconnectedness of reality.

Living in Hillsdale after graduation or following your friends elsewhere to form a community may be better than taking the most profitable or prestigious job in D.C. Even if you can’t move back home or live in a community of friends, shared life is something every human person needs. At the root of our existence is the existence of another: God. Dependence is a fundamental part of our nature.

When we choose efficiency by default, we create an independence from reality by chiseling out our own narrow chunk of it for our success in achieving said efficiency. This denies our existence as dependent.

In D.C., studying with other students in the Kirby Center reminds me that living life independently and autonomously in the city is not a real way to live. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a good community while living in the city. But you may need to actively seek out friendship and community since the city does not, by the very nature of it being a city, lend itself naturally to community.

Doing an internship, taking classes, having a social life, and finding time for leisure becomes a constant juggling act. To sacrifice the interconnectedness of all of these things for efficiency’s sake would be to lose their meaning.

Living life inefficiently or with your friends doesn’t mean you can’t live in D.C., or work in politics. It just means that your life will be a series of sacrifices to the community regardless of what you do. The framework with which you view your job should not be defined by efficiency, but rather by an understanding of the whole of yourself, your community and ultimately, reality.

At Hillsdale, the community is centered around learning and educating the soul, and politics is another subject to study. Even though we are in D.C., we can’t forget that we are still part of a community of students here, and that this community is meant to nourish both us and the city we live in for a semester.

“As humans, we look for signs in our lives which point us to a greater, deeper reality.

Life can be both busy and full of these signs.

But if we choose to make efficiency the priority, these signs, and a deeper reality, are lost. If we choose our own independence over our involvement in a community, we deny the interconnectedness of reality.”

Emma Cummins is a George Washington Fellow and a junior studying politics.

By | Cal Abbo As impeachment proceedings begin, the Republican Party and conservative media are quick to defend President Donald Trump.

Based on testimony and phone transcripts, we know Trump tried to leverage federal funds to pressure the Ukrainian government into investigating and supplying information that could damage 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The specifics of the situation are trivial. Democrats focus on the offer itself as an example of a quid pro quo, and are currently hearing testimonies from different officials who have knowledge of the situation. So far, several witnesses have supported the quid pro quo narrative, signaling that Trump committed some level of wrongdoing.

The next step for both Democrats and Republicans, seeing the overwhelming evidence, is arguing over the legality of Trump’s actions. It’s a complicated question that I, far from a legal expert, will leave alone. But the standard itself is worth questioning.

In National Review, Victor Davis Hanson wrote a scathing critique of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and the impeachment inquiry.

Hanson wrote that witnesses in the inquiry were “incoherent” regarding their ability to describe a violation of the law committed by the president.

“They never cite knowledge of presidential crimes but feel that Trump is dangerous,” he wrote.

Of course, he’s correct.

No witness explicitly confirmed that Trump broke the law, namely because the law in this domain is incred-

ibly complex. That said, an impeachment proceeding and successful unseating of a public official does not require any criminal violation whatsoever. This is where Hanson and others make a critical mistake.

Article II of the Constitution defines a valid impeachment as concerning “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Treason and bribery are usually well-defined in the legal world, but the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors” is legally ambiguous and undefined within the constitution.

Luckily, Alexander Hamilton wrote about impeachment in Federalist 65. During the constitutional convention, many framers disagreed whether impeachment powers should reside in the courts, the legislature, or an entirely separate body. Some even thought it should be left to state governors.

Eventually, the legislative view won out, which Hamilton justified in Federalist 65.

In doing so, he illuminates the nature of impeachment.

The legislature has the ability to impeach based on “offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.”

The Congressional Research Service agreed with this view in a 2015 report.

“The notion that only criminal conduct can constitute sufficient grounds for impeachment does not, however, comport with historical

practice,” the report said.

A few paragraphs later: “‘Other high crimes and misdemeanors’ are not limited to indictable offenses, but apply to ‘serious violations of the public trust…’. ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’ are thus best characterized as misconduct that damages the state and the operations of government institutions.”

Put simply, the legislature can choose to impeach a president, or any public official, for virtually any act it deems corrupt or an abuse of power. Our standard is no longer limited to illegality but includes “abuse or violation of some public trust,” and therefore we can understand impeachment in a much broader, contextualized sense.

How does this relate to Trump? If the legislature can bring impeachment articles against him for any abuse or violation of public trust, it can do much better than the relatively minor Ukraine scandal.

There are dozens of examples of Trump violating this principle, like when a lobbyist representing Saudi Arabia paid to stay for 500 nights at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., or when Trump approved a military raid in Yemen which killed an eight-year-old American girl.

The legislature could bring articles for campaigning on a Muslim travel ban, hiding his tax returns, or even refusing to pay contractors that work on his buildings.

Here, a problem unfolds. If any violation of public trust is an impeachable offense, virtually every president in U.S. history, as well as thousands of department heads and other public servants, could — and should — have been

impeached.

Perhaps former President Barack Obama should have been impeached when he authorized a drone strike on untried U.S. citizens. Or when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which the executive branch, overseen by Obama, abused the law and violated privacy rights. Using our new standard, former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney could easily have been impeached for lying to the public about Saddam Hussein’s association with weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda.

High-profile impeachment proceedings, as they are currently used, represent the whims of party alliances and power dynamics rather than any semblance of justice or fairness. Recall that former President Richard Nixon was impeached in relation to documents stolen from the Watergate building, not for carpet bombing Vietnam and killing millions of people.

How did we stray so far?

Every thoughtful American recognizes how corrupt and abusive our government is.

Excusing war crimes, explicit lies, and horrifying violations of our privacy signals to public officials that this type of behavior is acceptable.

Maybe this interpretation is exactly what America needs: a mass impeachment of corrupt public officials who abuse their power and violate our trust. Let’s start with Trump.

Cal Abbo is a junior studying psychology and a columnist on Democratic politics. He is an assistant features editor for The Collegian.

Michigan must ban buggies from public roadways for public safety for a two-ton metal vehicle. disrupt the flow of traffic if a refuse to comply.

By | Madeleine Miller In a New York Times article, vehicle traveled any slower.

Michigan Senate MajorAs I zipped along JonesAlfred Nichols, supervisor of Yet Amish buggies travel at ity Leader Mike Shirkey, ville Road on my way back a town in New York’s Amish around 10 mph, just 18.18% of R-Clarklake, Mich., and State from a fall-break camping country, described the effects the 55 mph speed limit.

Representative Eric Leutheustrip, I was pleased that I was of an accident.

Motorists share the road er, R-Hillsdale, Mich., have making good time. It had “You hit one of these bugwith other slow-moving sponsored three companbeen a refreshing excursion, entities, including bicycles, ion bills that would impose but my head was already spin- gies and they’re like kindling wood — they just kind of golf carts, and riding horses. tighter regulations on buggy ning as I considered the many explode — and you almost These forms of transportation drivers. Introduced in the assignments that awaited me always have to put the horse also pose challenges, but are state house and senate Nov. on campus. down,” Nichols said. smaller and often drive on 7, they come in response to a Then I spotted a strange, Three Amish children the side or shoulder of the recent rise in deadly collisions black vehicle with feet and a were killed in an accident road.

Even if they drive on between buggies and motorbobbing head about a quarter near Chester Township, 25 the roadway, it’s much easier ized vehicles.

-mile away. It was an Amish to swerve to avoid a collision The bills would require buggy, and I was approaching miles southwest of Lansing, buggies to be it rapidly. I braked equipped with at lightly, and then least two lights on more forcibly. I the front and rear, didn’t come close and would compel to hitting it, but the buggy drivers to use buggy caught me them between dusk off-guard. and dawn and in Others have not inclement weather. been so lucky.

To minimize damHorse-drawn age to roads, they buggies are dangerwould ban carbide ous for both Amish on the bottom of and motorized-vehorseshoes and hicle drivers. They require buggies to should be banned sport rubber tires. from driving on Additionally, the public roadways. bills would allow So far this year, counties to require six children have owners to register died in five acbuggies before drivcidents between ing them on public buggies and moroadways. torized vehicles in Shirkey and Michigan. Three Six children have died this year as a result of collisions between buggies and motor Leutheuser hope people died in that the bills will Branch County when vehicles. | Wikimedia Commons as they commuted home from with them than with buggies, increase safety on roadways a pick-up truck collided with school by buggy last July. which take up most of a car in Michigan, which has the an Amish buggy in June.

The driver of the motorized lane. fastest-growing Amish popFrom 2014 to 2019, eight vehicle was an 83-year-old Horse-drawn carriages are ulation. people were killed in acciman.

Although he had shared particularly dangerous on The proposed regulations dents between buggies and the road with Amish drivers hilly roads. Had I come upon are better than nothing, but motorized vehicles in Michfor decades, he had difficulty the first buggy just below they don’t go far enough. igan. In Pennsylvania, 23 In the aftermath of a fatal people died in buggy-and-car seeing because he was driving the crest of a hill at 55 mph, into the sun, and didn’t I would likely not have been collision, a sheriff in Eaton collisions between 2007 and realize he was overtaking the able to stop in time to prevent County, Michigan was asked 2016, according to the State carriage until it was too late. a collision. what could be done to prevent Department of TransportaSmall and dark, buggies Considerate motorists future accidents. tion. are difficult to detect.

They know to slow down when “People need to be more A study for the Ohio Deoften take me by surprise, driving near and passing cognizant there will be partment of Transportation and, because I’m young, I can horses and buggies, but buggies out there,” he said, counted 1,412 collisions beaccording to The New York tween horses and buggies and see well and react quickly. But horses are skittish and are not all drivers are so agile. In sometimes perturbed by even Times. motorized vehicle from 2007 2016, nearly 42 million Amer- respectfully-driven vehicles.

Being aware of Amish to 2016, an average of one icans over the age of 65 were Spooked horses are known to buggies does not make them every 2.32 days in the state. licensed to drive. damage passing cars, often faster or more visible. Even Of the crashes, 78% occurred Even if you can see them, injuring themselves and their stauncher stipulations will do on dry roads, 65% happened it’s often difficult to reduce drivers in the process. little to make roads safer. in daylight, and 76% took speed in time to avoid hitting There is no minimum Michigan must ban the place on non-intersection age or skills test for buggy buggies. portions of roadways. Even in buggies, especially on roads with a posted speed of 55 drivers. Most states mandate the safest driving conditions, mph.

On freeways with that buggies be equipped with Madeleine Miller is a senior horse-drawn buggies present 70-mph speed limits, the reflectors and lights, but some studying international busian often unavoidable hazard. minimum speed is 55 mph, strict Amish people believe ness and a reporter for The With frames of wood and 78.75% of the posted speed, such additions violate their Collegian. fabric, buggies are no match as it would be unsafe and religious views, and so they

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‘Buggy Bills’ seek to make travel safer for Amish and auto-drivers By | Madeline Peltzer Assistant Editor With the increase in accidents involving buggies and automobiles, the Michigan State Legislature is reviewing a three-piece package of legislation known as the “Buggy Bills” to improve road safety.

In the past 11 months, Michigan has seen six accidents involving buggies and automobiles, including one southwest of Hillsdale that injured a family of four. A month earlier in Mecosta County, six children were injured when a vehicle struck their buggy, and in June, another accident claimed the lives of three children.

The goal of the bills is twofold: first, increase safety for both the people driving the buggies and those sharing the roads with them and, second, reduce the damage caused to the roads by the buggies’ steel wheels.

State Sen. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) is sponsoring one of the bills. He said the legislation was born out of the

“increasing challenges with the Amish lifestyle creating situations that endangered safety” for both parties.

Before drafting any legislation, however, Shirkey spent the summer of 2017 meeting with a dozen Amish bishops in Michigan, making the case that safety regulations were needed and seeking to find a compromise.

“The Amish are so kind and so genuine and seemed so engaged,” Shirkey said.

Shirkey said they met over the summer, and he asked if they could put together a voluntary proposal. They told him they would have that ready in September.

But by the time September came along, Shirkey said it was “abundantly clear” that nothing was going to be accomplished.

“We met and I asked, ‘Do you have a proposal? Any ideas? Any sketches for what you would be alright with?’”

Shirkey said. “They were silent. I looked them all in the eye and said I’d satisfied my commitment to try to

do this without government intervention, so we’re going to proceed.”

The result was a trio of bills modeled after laws in Indiana and Pennsylvania, which also have large Amish populations.

public.

SB 643 would require horse-drawn vehicles to be equipped with at least two illuminated devices on the front and rear of the buggy visible from at least 500 feet away.

“I was born and raised here, and there’s never been a time when there wasn’t an accident,” Leutheuser said.

“The thinking was always that it would be too hard to get something passed. But people are interested in this all over the state, so it wasn’t just unique in our area.”

Senate Bill 642 would allow counties to require buggy owners to register their buggies before operating them on public roadways and ensure that a horse-and-buggy driver manual be available to the

SB 644 would require all vehicles, including horse-drawn vehicles, to be equipped with tires made of rubber or similar materials while using a public highway.

This bill also would ban car-

bide on the bottom of horseshoes, which is notorious for tearing up roads.

State Rep. Eric Leutheuser (R-Hillsdale) is championing this legislation in the House.

“I was born and raised here, and there’s never been a time when there wasn’t an accident,” Leutheuser said.

“The thinking was always that it would be too hard to get something passed. But people are interested in this all over the state, so it wasn’t just unique to our area. We found more interest in it than we thought as we had conversations about it over the years.”

James Hohman, director of fiscal policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said the legislation seeks to offer a practical solution to a real challenge.

“Roads are engineered to be used for their primary motor vehicle users, but the roads are available to people using other vehicles,” Hohman said. “The problem is that the differences in speeds and safety features make it dangerous for different kinds of vehicles

to use the roads at the same time. The bills look like an attempt to address that problem and to also prevent use from other vehicles from causing damage to the roads.”

Both Leutheuser and Shirkey said their only motivations in the legislation is public safety.

“I think the only thing that would be controversial would be that people might fear that we’re picking on the Amish in a sort of heavy-handed or unfeeling way,” Leuthueser said. “But this is an unreasonable claim. No one is claiming that these communities are somehow less than neighbors or that they’re second class citizens because they’ve got horses or don’t have lights.”

Shirkey concurred.

“There have been previous attempts to do this, and people have framed it as a being punitive to the Amish,” he said. “This is just the opposite.

I’m sincerely looking out for the interests of the Amish and public safety.”

Registration is still open for annual BPU Holiday Light Contest By | Joshua Newhook Collegian Freelancer

Residents in Hillsdale won’t need to decorate their homes like Clark Griswold to register for the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities’ Holiday Light Contest. With the Christmas season quickly approaching, BPU is giving residents an incentive for decorating their houses with its annual Holiday Light Contest.

BPU will award three prizes to both business and residential sections in the form of a credit toward their next BPU bill: $100 credit for first place, $75 for second place, and $25 for third place. The main requirements to qualify for these prizes are that residents need to enter the contest and must be a current BPU customer.

Olivia Jones, an assessing technician at BPU, is in her first year managing the project

and said she’s excited about the contest. “It’s a way for BPU to go out and see the customers that it supplies energy to,” Jones said. “I think it’s really important to see who you are dealing with and to get to know faces and names.”

To enter, residents must submit their name, address, and phone number to ojones@cityofhillsdale.org or via phone at (517) 437-6455

by Monday, Dec. 2.

Jones will take pictures of the decorated houses on Wednesday, Dec. 4 beginning at 5:30 p.m. And the community will decide the winner by the number of likes each photo receives on the City of Hillsdale Facebook page. An official public viewing will take place on Dec. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. and voting will be open from Dec. 9 to 13. The contest will conclude with the announcement of the winner on Dec. 18.

Hillsdale BPU Director

Chris McArthur said this event is a great way to give back to the community. “Being a public power utility, a lot of people don’t realize that we are a nonprofit,” McArthur said. “Your rates coming into us pays for operating and the rest goes right back into the community and the system.”

Jones also said she enjoys collaborating with community members because it helps citizens build a relationship with governmental workers.

“I think that it is important for us to collaborate with the community members because it makes us more realistic people. Being more personable with the people is very important so that they become comfortable with coming us for other needs that the city does provide,” Jones said. “It shows them that we are people as well and that we can have a little fun during the holidays.”

BPU Director Chris McArthur awards employess from Nash Drugs with the First Place Prize for the business category in last year’s Holiday Light Contest. Courtesy | Olivia Jones

Local shops prepare for

Small Business Saturday By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor

Maggie Anne’s Shoppe on N. Howell Street in downtown Hillsdale is one of the several businesses participating in this year’s Small Business Saturday. Julia Mullins | Collegian

With the holidays quickly approaching, Hillsdale’s local businesses are preparing gifts and discounts for their customers on Small Business Saturday, which will take place on Nov. 30.

Small Business Saturday is an event that was created by American Express in 2010. By 2011, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution in support of the day and now all 50 states participate. According to the American Express website, it’s estimated $103 billion has been spent in local businesses since the creation of Small Business Saturday.

Patti Bailey, owner of Maggie Anne’s Shoppe in downtown Hillsdale, said she’s thankful for American Express’s launch of this movement.

“We love that everybody is out shopping in the downtown,” Bailey said. “We’ve seen a lot more enthusiasm for shopping local and people just want to get out into the local stores.”

To celebrate, Maggie Anne’s will have a storewide sale, along with several other deals.

“We’ll have 20% off storewide, with a couple of exclu-

sions,” Bailey said. “And Vera Bradley will be 30% off, and with your purchase of $75 of more of Vera Bradley, you get a free cellphone crossbody bag. Also from Vera is their Grand Tote that’s normally $90, but it’ll be 50% off. You also get a free ‘love and joy’ tote from Brighton jewelry and handbags with your purchase of $125 or more.”

Healthies of Hillsdale storeowner Sierra Cady said she’s working to bring other local business owners to her store to promote them along with her own place.

“We’re having a Small Business Special here with eight vendors, including us.

We’ll be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and our vendors will be here from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,” Cady said. “We’re also having our customer appreciation day and everything will be super fun and awesome. We’ll have prizes and other fun stuff happening.”

Some of the vendors coming to Healthies of Hillsdale include Thirty-One bags, Pampered Chef, and Tori Belle makeup.

Customers can find Healthies of Hillsdale, Maggie Anne’s, and many other small businesses in downtown Hillsdale.

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Healthies will hold its monthly community cooking class on Dec. 2 By | Gladys Oster Collegian Reporter Healthies of Hillsdale will host a cooking class on Dec. 2 to teach customers healthy recipes featuring their products.

The class costs $10, which includes a protein shake for dinner and samples of the recipe to take home.

Chase Cady, co-owner of Healthies, leads customers through the creation of healthy meals. Cady is also a chef at Olivia’s Chophouse in Jonesville.

Sierra Cady, co-owner of Healthies, said she hopes

more college students will be able to attend the cooking classes.

Healthies opened last February with the mission to promote a healthy and active community in Hillsdale. “We have incredible meal replacements for athletes that are all approved by the National Sanitation Foundation,” Sierra Cady said. “We also have tea bombs that I see many college students buy before exams.

It keeps them energized and focused while studying.”

Sophomore volleyball player Emma Noskey goes to Healthies about once a week with her friends and team-

mates.

“I go to Healthies because sometimes it is just a better, healthier option than the food in the cafeteria.”

Noskey added that the cooking class is especially beneficial for students to prepare for when they start living on their own.

Sierra Cady said Healthies holds a cooking class with 20 seats the first Monday of every month.

“We always love having people come out for the event and try out healthy alternatives for dinner.”

construction.

Donna Olmstead is the owner of Cottage Inn Pizza, which will be moving into the Silos location, and she is overseeing the repairs and building of the entertainment areas and restaurant on-site.

“We were actually looking for grant money when we came to the city,” Olmstead said. “They said this is going to be better suited as some of our taxes can turn back into cash for our business.”

Members of the city council expressed gratitude to the

Olmsteads for undertaking the project.

“Thanks for using your money to reinvest into the community,” Councilman Matthew Bell said. “We’re excited to come when it opens.”

Silos Fun Park hasn’t been occupied in decades, and the costs of repairs are estimated to be at least $100,000.

“I totally support their endeavors,” resident Ted Jansen said during public comment.

“It’s a great idea for our young folks to have another recreational opportunity.”

Healthies of Hillsdale will hold a cooking class with 20 seats on Monday, Dec. 2. Julia Mullins | Collegian

City council approves tax exemption for the restoration project at Silos Fun Park By | Ben Wilson Collegian Reporter The City Council voted 9-0 during its Nov. 18 meeting to approve a Commercial Rehabilitation Exemption for Olmstead LLC’s restoration project of Silos Fun Park.

A CRE freezes a majority of the property taxes on a building that is at least 15 years old and undergoing substantial repairs.

The goal of the tax exemption is to help lessen the cost burden on the owners during

The restaurant is planning to double its current staff of 18 and add indoor activities, such as arcade games, so the community can use the venue in all seasons.

The CRE expires on Dec. 30, 2029. The Olmsteads are planning to reopen the restaurant in the new location as early as January 2020.

Councilmembers also heard from Steve Stoll during the meeting, regarding a Neighborhood Enterprise Zone at his construction project of an 18-building condo-

minium on Bacon Street.

Stoll’s company, Commonwealth Developments, worked with the city to request a NEZ around the area.

These zones reduce taxes for new residents who move into a home or existing residents who undergo repairs.

Commonwealth has promised to invest $75,000 into the local infrastructure of the neighborhood and the NEZ tax breaks are the council’s form of compensation for the improvements of the water and sewer systems.

The only concern raised by council was a request to have a letter campaign notifying residents within the zone that they can receive tax breaks for home enhancements.

Members agreed this would be a priority.

The council voted 9-0 to instate this fourth NEZ zone in Hillsdale and thanked Stoll for investing his money in the community.

Eight local nonprofits will take part in this year’s ‘The Great Give’

Representatives from local nonprofits who participated in the Hillsdale County Community Foundation’s “The Great Give” in 2018. | Facebook

By | Julia Mullins City News Editor The Hillsdale County Community Foundation will be joined by eight local nonprofits for “The Great Give” on Dec. 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s Great Give celebrates the global generosity movement “GivingTuesday” and gives members of the county an opportunity to give donations to HCCF and the other nonprofits.

Christie Campbell, the executive director of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness of Hillsdale County, said she looks forward to this event every year.

“It’s literally my favorite day of the year,” Campbell said.

“I get to see everyone in the community supporting one another. It’s so much fun to see all of the nonprofits sup-

port one another and cheer one another on.”

HCCF Marketing and Youth Program Officer Caitlin Clark said the eight local nonprofits include: Alpha Omega Care Center, CAPA, Court Appointed Special Advocates, Domestic Harmony, Greater Hillsdale Humane Society, Hillsdale County Senior Services Center, Hospice of Hillsdale, and St. Peter’s Free Clinic.

This will be Clark’s first year helping out with The Great Give, but she said she is excited to get to interact with other local nonprofits.

“It’s a good opportunity to have all of the agencies under the same roof,” Clark said.

“It’s an awesome activity, and it’ll be fun to see it all come together after all of the hard work.”

St. Paul’s invites all to celebrate its first Advent Hymn Festival By | Nolan Ryan Editor-in-Chief St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will be holding its first-ever Advent Hymn Festival, open to all members of the community.

The event, which will be held on Dec. 1 at 6 p.m., will feature a variety of religious hymns with both vocal and instrumental music. The idea behind this festival was to bring together all of the different musical talents at the church, according to Sean Willman, associate pastor at St. Paul’s. It is a time, he said, for celebrating and rejoicing in the beginning of a new church year as the Advent season starts.

“We will sing hymns. We will hear scriptures of prophecy,” Willman said. “Part of the joy when you do a hymn festival is that it gives you an opportunity to sing some hymns you might not hear on Sunday. You can be exposed to some new stuff and learn some new music.”

Hillsdale College senior Nathan Grime is spearheading the event, Willman said, and he has organized the songs to be played and sung.

According to Willman, there will be two main benefits from the festival: It’s a chance for community members to take a rest from their daily lives, and attendees can celebrate beautiful music as well.

“We can rejoice in all the gifts we have together here in the community,” he said. “It’s not just Nathan on the organ bench or me preaching. We all get to do this, to use our voices and come together as a community.”

Senior Alyssa Walsh, who is a member of the St. Paul’s handbell choir, will also be playing flute at the event. She said in an email that Advent as a church season tends to be rushed past with the bustle from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

“Observing Advent gives more meaning to Christmas once it does come,” Walsh said. “I hope this hymn festival will help remind us what Advent, and ultimately Christmas, really are about.”

Walsh said people should come for the beautiful music and stay afterward for hot chocolate to be served by the Lutheran Society.

The sanctuary of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Hillsdale. S. Nathaniel Grime | Collegian

Clark added that she enjoys working for HCCF because of its “mission and purpose.”

“It’s cool to hear stories from people in the community because they know the foundation and know what we do,” Clark said.

Campbell said she is grateful for the opportunity to meet people who donate to CAPA. “It’s nice to put a face to a name to somebody who had donated to us in the past and tell them ‘Thank you,’” Campbell said.

Clark, who is originally from Jackson, Michigan, said she appreciates working in a smaller community and watching all of the organizations work together.

“Everyone supports one another and wants the best for Hillsdale,” Clark said.

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Chargers split long two-game road trip in northern Michigan By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor The Hillsdale College Chargers began a string of seven consecutive road games with a two-game split against non-conference opponents. On Thursday, the Chargers fell to the Ferris State University Bulldogs 8559 after falling behind 19-0 in the first quarter, and on Saturday, Hillsdale defeated the Lake Superior State University Lakers, 80-51, thanks in part to a 10-0 run to begin the game.

Hillsdale is now 2-2 on the season after splitting their first two home games before the current road trip.

The Chargers won’t play at home again until Dec. 14, by which time they will have already begun conference play.

In Thursday’s loss against Ferris State, the Chargers went nearly six minutes without scoring until senior guard Sydney Anderson sunk a pair of free throws.

By then, the Bulldogs were ahead 19-2, and the Chargers never led.

“It was the perfect storm.

We felt ready, we had a good week of practice. But we didn’t have everything ready,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “It took us a while to settle in and play. It was the first time we’d seen that pace. They’re good, but we had way more in us than that.”

At the end of the first quarter, the Bulldogs led 32-7. Ferris State outscored Hillsdale in the final quarters combined, but by only one point, 53-52.

The Chargers shot just 34.4% from the floor in the loss, and were outrebounded by the Bulldogs 50-35. Hillsdale also turned the ball over 19 times and forced just nine turnovers.

Sophomore guard Grace Touchette led the Chargers with 13 points, and Anderson followed with 10.

Freshman forward Courtney Krol came off the bench

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Hillsdale (2-2) at Southern Indiana (1-0) in her season debut after missing the team’s first two games due to injury, and was busy, scoring seven points with five rebounds and four assists in 21 minutes.

“It was nice to see her out there. She only had one real practice before we went, so

2:00 P.M.

6:30 P.M.

we didn’t expect her to be super sharp,” Fritsche said.

“She was a bit rusty, but she played with good effort and solid poise.”

The Chargers got off to a much better start in the Upper Peninsula on Saturday against Lake Superior State.

They held the Lakers scoreless in the first three and a half minutes of the game, and built up a lead they didn’t relinquish.

“Everything that went wrong on Thursday went right on Saturday,” Fritsche said. “Scout defense was perfect. We moved the ball efficiently. The ball movement was at a different level.”

Hillsdale shot 51.7% from the floor in the win, and sunk 14 of 33 three-point attempts, a 42.4% rate. Anderson and sophomore guard Lauren Daffenberg each scored 17 points to pace the offense.

The 17 points for Anderson are a single-game career high, and her performance earned adulation from her coach.

“She’s got one of the highest basketball IQs I’ve ever coached,” Fritsche said.

“I think she’s diversified her game and improved her game to fit what we need every year she’s played here.

That’s been impactful to our

team.”

Daffenberg has been the team’s early-season scoring leader, averaging more than 16 points per game in the team’s first four games of the year. Touchette added 13 points in the win, and junior guard Jaycie Burger filled up the stat sheet with eight points, four rebounds, and five assists.

Freshman forwards Sydney Mills and Krol came off the bench and each scored eight points as the team’s two go-to options. Each also sunk two three-pointers.

“It’s still early, and we’re trying to figure out our rotation,” Fritsche said about the team’s bench depth. “Courtney and Sydney have had big impactful games. We’re excited about where we’re going. We hope they can stay the course and keep great focus.”

The Chargers’ road trip continues on Friday against Grand Valley State University nearby Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tipoff is at 6 p.m.

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Chargers split pair of non-conference games in Wisconsin By | Calli Townsend assistant editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers extended their record to 2-2 after finishing their weekend in Wisconsin 1-1 against the University of Wisconsin Parkside and Concordia-St. Paul.

On Friday night, Parkside tied the game at 43 with just under two minutes to go.

Hillsdale missed three shot opportunities to seal the victory, forcing overtime. From there, the Rangers outscored the Chargers 17-8 to take the win, 60-51.

“I think it was disappointing. We led the majority of that game,” head coach John Tharp said. “We made a few defensive mistakes that led to a couple threes on us, and we had some really good looks that we missed some opportunities.”

Hillsdale commanded the first half, leading by as many as eight points at times, but Parkside came out strong in the second half with a 7-0 run to start. The Chargers called a timeout, regained their composure, and took back a seven-point lead with just under six minutes remaining in regulation.

Another factor in Friday’s loss was when junior forward Austen Yarian injured his thumb early on in the game. By overtime, the team lacked his much-needed presence under the basket.

“We went to the doctor right after the game Friday night and the doctor called our trainer on Saturday and said it was a UCL sprain,” Yarian said.

Senior guard Dylan Lowry led the game for the Chargers with 12 points and nine rebounds, while junior forward Davis Larson added in eight rebounds and eight assists.

“I think we were altogether upset that we let that game slide by,” Larson said. “I think Coach Tharp did a good job of getting us together and he told us he was proud of how hard we worked. We just kind of kept the mindset of, ‘Hey, we’ve

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just got to get a win tomorrow.’”

Against Concordia-St. Paul, the game stayed within a six-point margin well into the second half. But a three-pointer by Lowry with 14 minutes remaining in the game gave the Chargers the momentum to pull away and take the lead. They finished the game 65-49.

“I didn’t know if we were gonna be able to bounce back from that tough loss, with just the energy that we had to put forward. We had a wakeup call at 7:30 and were back on the court by 8:05 for a walkthrough,” Tharp said.

“We played really hard on Saturday. I told them after the game I was as proud as I’ve been because what happened to us Friday was hard. But we sucked it up on Saturday and a lot of different guys stepped up.”

Freshman forward Tavon Brown was one of those guys to step up into a new role.

He took over Yarian’s starting position for the day and snagged eight rebounds, had three steals, and added nine points.

“I was really proud of Tavon on Saturday,” Tharp said. “He stepped into that starting spot and did great.”

Lowry went on to score 17

points to lead the Chargers’ offense. Freshman forward Patrick Cartier and Larson each put up 15 points as well and combined for 13 of Hillsdale’s 45 rebounds.

Despite the weekend being a road trip for Hillsdale, for several of the players it was like playing in front of a home crowd. Four of the 10 Chargers who traveled are Wisconsin natives, so many of their families and friends came to watch.

“I felt like on Friday there were a lot of family members there so I felt like a lot of people were worried about playing well in front of their family,” Yarian said. “On Saturday though we were able to walk in and get it done.”

Larson is from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and said there were maybe 20 or more people there to watch him over the weekend.

“Honestly, I was a little nervous,” Larson said.

“There were people that I hadn’t seen in years there.”

This weekend the Chargers return to Hillsdale to play for a real home crowd, but first, they traveled to Ferris State University on Wednesday night, where they lost 82-67. On Saturday they’ll take on Davenport University for a 1 p.m. tipoff.

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Chargers set pool record in dual meet win against Findlay, Lewis By | Rachel Kookogey assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers beat Findlay University 110-95 and Lewis University 119.5-85.5 in an Illinois tri-meet last Saturday.

The meet came down to the last event, the 200 freestyle relay, which the relay of Katherine Heeres, Anika Fassett, Emma Rao, and Marie Taylor won to secure the team win and break the Lewis University pool record by .2 seconds for a new record of 1:39.22.

Relay anchor and freshman Marie Taylor said the pressure of her position helped her to swim faster.

“Its always good to have

slight pressure on yourself to do well,” Taylor said. “Moving forward, my plan is to always have that pressure because it will push me further and also push the team in general.”

Taylor put up strong performances in her other events as well, taking second and beating Findlay swimmers in the 50 freestyle (24.82) and 100 freestyle (54.04).

In general, the Chargers gathered a lot of points by securing multiple placements in each event.

“The thing that is gonna do it for us is that second line of swimmers. They put us in the position that makes it hard for the other teams to outscore us,” Head Coach

Kurt Kirner said.

In the events where the Chargers were weakest, like the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke, they stacked their points by taking multiple places.

In the 100 breaststroke, Senior Victoria Addis finished third (1:10.47), sophomore Madeline Breay finished fifth (1:11.84), and sophomore Taylor Boyle finished sixth (1:12.16). Against the Findlay swimmers, this put Addis, Breay, and Boyle in second, third, and fourth place, respectively.

“Every event was exhilarating because every point mattered in this meet,” Addis said. “It was a full team effort, and you could feel it in the air.”

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K.J. Maloney David Graham Joey Bentley Alec Foos Martin Petersen Alex Anschutz Zach Herzog Drake Temple Dan Shanley Nate Jones Nate Canterbury Kyle Parran Kendall Tobin Matt Harding Wain Clarke Jason McDonough Kyle Kudla Jonathan Burton Schuyler Snell Nate Chambers

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november 16 1 2 3 SCORE 11 Hillsdale 25 25 25 3 Ursuline 22 9 18 0

Megan Kolp Maggie DePorre Hannah Gates Emma Noskey Dani Jones Karoline Shelton Veronica O'Connor Audrey Riley Lindsey Mertz Taylor Wiese Madie Schider Madeline Zenas

november 19 8 Malone 1 Hillsdale

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Grace Touchette Sydney Anderson Jaycie Burger Courtney Krol Julia Wacker Sydney Mills Lauren Daffenberg Maverick Delp Sophia Pierce Macy Berglund Kennedy Pratt Anna LoMonaco Amake Chikwe Arianna Sysum

november 16 Hillsdale Lake Superior State

Sydney Anderson Lauren Daffenberg Grace Touchette Jaycie Burger Sydney Mills Courtney Krol Maverick Delp Julia Wacker Sophia Pierce Macy Berglund Arianna Sysum Kennedy Pratt Anna LoMonaco Madison Rathbun

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Dylan Lowry Connor Hill Patrick Cartier Davis Larson Austen Yarian Trenton Richardson Tavon Brown Mike Travlos Cole Nau Jack Gohlke

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Dylan Lowry Patrick Cartier Davis Larson Tavon Brown Trenton Richardson Cole Nau Mike Travlos Connor Hill Jack Gohlke

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Connor Hill Davis Larson Dylan Lowry Austen Yarian Tavon Brown Trenton Richardson Patrick Cartier Cole Nau Mike Travlos Jack Gohlke

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Volleyball ADVANCE, from a10 returned home to begin the G-MAC conference championship tournament. In their first match of the tournament versus the Malone Pioneers, the Chargers won in four sets.

The match was close in all of the sets with scores of 28-26, 25-19, 23-25, and 25-21, respectively. The Chargers led the Pioneers in hitting percentage with .190, blocks with 11, and service aces with 10. The teams tied for digs in the match with 90 each.

Van Wienen led the Charger offense with 16 kills and a .457 hitting percentage in the match.

Senior Hannh Gates put together an impressive

performance when it mattered most and finished with 12 kills, one of which won the match. Shelton stepped up on both sides of the ball adding 11 kills and 21 digs with her second double-double of the week.

On the defensive side of the ball, Wiese performed extremely well with 30 digs. Freshman Audrey Riley had 12 digs and junior Madie Shider had 11.

The Chargers’ win over Malone pushes the team to the second round of the tournament where they will face number four seed Kentucky Wesleyan. The Chargers will hold home court for the remainder of the tournament.

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1. 11 HILLSDALE 2. TIFFIN 3. WALSH t4. CEDARVILLE t4. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN 6. TREVECCA NAZARENE 7. FINDLAY 8. MALONE 9. LAKE ERIE 10. ALDERSON BROADDUS t11. OHIO VALLEY t11. URSULINE t11. OHIO DOMINICAN

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NCAA DIVISION II NATIONAL RANKINGS SCHOOL

1. CAL STATE SAN BERNARDINO 30 35 65 2. NEBRASKA-KEARNEY 28 21 49 3. WASHBURN fgm/a 3pm/a ftm/a pts reb ast 4. NORTHERN STATE 7/14 2/5 1/2 17 7 5 5. REGIS 5/9 0/1 5/6 15 7 4 6/14 0/2 3/4 15 6 1 6. WESTERN WASHINGTON 2/5 1/3 4/6 9 8 1 7. ST. CLOUD STATE 2/6 0/1 0/0 4 7 1 t8. CONCORDIA-ST. PAUL 1/3 0/2 1/2 3 2 0 t8. MINNESOTA DULUTH 0/5 0/4 2/2 2 1 0 10. CENTRAL MISSOURI 0/5 0/1 0/0 0 3 5 11. HILLSDALE 0/2 0/1 0/0 0 0 0 12. WAYNE STATE (NEB.) 1 2 FINAL 13. LEWIS 33 34 67 14. ANGELO STATE 31 51 82 15. WINONA STATE fgm/a 3pm/a ftm/a pts reb ast 16. WHEELING 6-11 0-1 2-2 14 1 4 17. FERRIS STATE 6-15 1-4 1-2 14 11 2 4-10 1-5 0-0 9 3 3 18. SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE 3-10 1-3 2-3 9 3 3 19. UPPER IOWA 3-3 1-1 0-0 7 1 2 20. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 3-3 0-0 0-0 6 2 0 21. ROCKHURST 2-2 0-0 0-0 4 2 1 22. MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 1 1 23. MICHIGAN TECH 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 24. WINGATE 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 25. CAL STATE LOS ANGELES

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charger chatter: Pat Cartier Q: What did the recruitment process look like when you came to Hillsdale?

PC: I first got recruited through a connection of my high school coach at Michigan Tech. A lot of times when one school recruits you, then the other schools in that conference will look at you. I just talked to the coaches, really liked them, and came on a visit and picked Hillsdale.

Q: What are you studying and what are you hoping to do in the future?

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PC: I’m studying psychology right now with a minor in general business. I’m looking at something that has to with counseling, and something with kids also. Maybe kids counseling? Maybe a school counseling? I just really like being with kids and I worked at a summer camp the last two years—a day camp—and that’s been pretty enjoyable for me. And with psychology, I feel like can help people solve their problems, and it’s just really interesting learning how people think.

Q: What role did the team play in helping you adjust as a freshman?

PC: My teammates and coaches did a great job helping me out when I came out. All my teammates were offering to help me with classes

and professors to take. And, coaches helped me with scheduling, and getting used to the offense. Obviously you kind of get a wakeup call coming to college basketball, everyone’s bigger and stronger, and you have it get used to that. It’s hard sometimes but definitely for the better. The coaches do a good job of welcoming you into the family, as do the players.

Q: Who are some of your biggest role models?

PC: “My twin brother is a big role model of mine, and I just really look up to him, as a leader and how he goes about things. He’s a really humble guy. He’s someone I really try to model after, and my parents, obviously, and the unconditional love they give me, not only in basketball but in everything in my life, and their work ethics also. That’s for all three of them.

Q: Do you have any rituals or things you do before you play a game?

PC: For every home game we go to Finish Line. I always get the same meal, French toast. Me and one of other guys in my grade, Peter Kalthoff, we do a stretching routine beforehand. It kind of gets us in the zone.”

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Humes, women's team to run at national meet By | Calli Townsend assistant editor

The Hillsdale College women’s cross country team will be traveling to Sacramento, California, for its seventh-consecutive NCAA Division II National meet this weekend. The Chargers will be accompanied by senior Joey Humes, who qualified as an individual for the men’s race.

Twenty-four teams automatically qualify for the national meet, along with 10 other teams that are selected at large. Hillsdale’s women’s cross country team was one of the 10 teams to be selected at-large, after missing the automatic qualifying mark by one point.

After a disappointing fourth-place finish at the Midwest Regional, the Chargers are determined to finish their season strong at nationals. They placed 19th as

a team at last year’s national meet, and senior Arena Lewis is confident in her team’s capabilities to improve on that this year.

“I’m extremely excited.

This group of girls is the closest team I’ve been on,” Lewis said. “It’s the most selfless group I’ve raced with, so if we are able to fully put that into a race, I don’t know what we will be able to do but it’ll be amazing.”

Last year, Lewis earned her first cross country All-American title and is looking to put together another solid race this year.

“I just want to run a strong race, a lot of my family will be there so it’ll be nice to have so many people at my last race,” she said. “It’s definitely going to be a fun weekend.”

Humes was one of 30 individual qualifiers. He qualified as an individual at last year’s Midwest Regional

as well, and went on to earn his first NCAA Division II All-American title by placing 25th. This season he’s improved his times in both the 8k and 10k, proving his strength and speed as he’s ready for the national stage.

“I'm a little nervous, but I've been in this spot before, so I'm not as nervous as I otherwise would be,” Humes said. “As for my goals, I just want to put together a good race. A 10k is a long race, and it's a loaded field, so I just want to have the best race I can, and hopefully finish higher than I did last year.”

The races will take place on Nov. 23 at the Arcade Creek Cross Country Course. The women will race first in a 6k at 1 p.m. eastern, followed by the men’s 10k at 2:15.

The Hillsdale College Chargers struggled to find their rhythm on offense and despite a stingy defensive effort, fell to the Ohio Dominican University Panthers in their season finale on Saturday, 17-7. The Chargers’ season ends with two consecutive losses and a 4-3 record against conference opponents, good for a fourth-place finish in the G-MAC standings.

Hillsdale finishes the season 6-5 overall for its third consecutive winning season. Against teams that finished the regular season with sub-.500 records, the Chargers went 6-0. Against teams with winning records, they went 0-4. Against teams that finished the season at .500, they went 0-1.

“Our record with Team 127 was 6-5 but we’ll know if we were successful 20 years from now,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “This group set a good foundation for our future success as a football team but more importantly, I think the lessons they learned individually are going to allow them to battle and compete in the future.”

Senior running back David Graham was named the team’s MVP at the team’s annual postseason banquet.

Graham rushed for more than 1,000 yards this season for the second time in his career, and finishes his fouryear career at Hillsdale with more than 3,000 yards rushing. He is one of only five running backs in program history to pass that mark.

Graham rushed for 15 touchdowns in 2019, and scored 17 touchdowns total.

His 52 career touchdowns are tied for second-most of any player in program history. He lead the conference this season in rushing touchdowns and had the second-most rushing yards.

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Ohio Dominican (7-2, 6-1 g-mac) 17 Hillsdale (6-5, 4-3 g-mac) 7 “He’s worked at it. He shows up every day and has been a tough, durable kid,” Otterbein said of Graham.

“He’s had to play through some knicks and bruises and bangs throughout the course of his career. He’s just shown a tremendous work ethic.”

Redshirt freshman quarterback Luke Keller, who won the starting quarterback position in training camp, started all 11 games this season and ended the season completing just over 50% of his passes for 2113 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also threw 11 interceptions.

Despite the sometimes up-and-down freshman campaign, Keller’s first season under center ranks near the top of program history for Hillsdale quarterbacks playing in their first season as full-time starters. If Keller were merely to replicate his freshman year numbers in the next three years of his career, he would end up third all-time in program history for passing yards and touchdown passes.

Senior defensive back Drake Temple, who intercepted his seventh pass of the season in Saturday’s loss, finishes his career with 162 tackles, 11 interceptions, two forced fumbles, and three fumble recoveries.

He was named the team’s

Most Outstanding Defensive Back during the postseason banquet.

The Tiffin University Dragons, who defeated Hillsdale on Nov. 9 to all but eliminate the Chargers from postseason contention, finished the season undefeated in the G-MAC to win the conference. Tiffin will play Kutztown University in the first round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs on Saturday.

Last year, the Chargers won the G-MAC and defeated Kutztown in the first round of the playoffs before falling to Notre Dame College in the second round.

This year, their season ends short of a conference championship and a playoff berth, but not without significance for their graduating seniors and returning players next year.

“It wasn’t always easy, and we had some tough things go against us, and yet we persevered and kept plugging along,” Otterbein said, reflecting on his 18th season at the helm of the program.

“One way to measure winning and losing is on the scoreboard, but it’s certainly not the only way. The approach we took toward competition is something that will pay big dividends for Team 128.”

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1. 21 TIFFIN 2. OHIO DOMINICAN 3. FINDLAY 4. HILLSDALE t5. LAKE ERIE t5. WALSH t7. ALDERSON BROADDUS t7. KENTUCKY WESLEYAN

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Chargers beat Malone 3-1, advance to G-MAC semifinal By | Liam Bredberg assistant editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers finished the regular season undefeated in conference play for the second year in a row last weekend after defeating Lake Erie and Ursuline. Hot off of their regular season success, the Chargers began the G-MAC Championship Tournament on Tuesday with a statement win over Malone, eliminating the team from championship contention.

Hillsdale remains at number 11 in the national rankings for the third week in a row and looks forward to a berth in the national tournament come December. The Chargers aim to improve on a first round loss in last seasons tournament in which they fell to number one seed Drury University.

The tournament win over Malone marked the 500th

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career victory for head coach Chris Gravel who has served in the position for 24 years.

Gravel is one of the winningest volleyball coaches in school history and is looking to win G-MAC Coach of the Year for what would be the second year in a row.

In their final games of the regular season, the Chargers were their usual selves, mak-

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ing light work of Lake Erie and Ursuline College.

They defeated Lake Erie in four sets on Friday, outscoring their opponent 25-8 in the final set after narrowly winning two and falling to the Storm in the second. The Chargers led in all statistical categories in the match with a .280 team hitting percentage, 10 blocks, 72 digs, and

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The Chargers traveled to Pepper Pike, Ohio, on Saturday to take on the Ursuline Arrows in the team’s last regular season game of the year. They won in three sets, outscoring the Arrows by 26 points. The Chargers again led in all statistical categories with a .283 team hitting percentage, five blocks, 58 digs, and six service aces.

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though she sat out of the team’s last game against Ursuline. She amassed an impressive 15 kills with a .400 hitting percentage in only four sets of play.

Senior Taylor Wiese led the defense with 47 digs on the weekend. During the three-set win over Ursuline, she averaged nine digs per set for the second time in two weeks. Sophomore Karoline Shelton performed extremely well on both sides of the ball over the weekend

adding 20 kills, 16 digs, and a .324 hitting percentage.

A number of freshman players had the chance to step up to the plate in the final game of the season and took advantage of the opportunity. Freshman Megan Kolp set a career high with eight kills in the match and an impressive .667 hitting percentage. Freshman Madeline Zenas set a career high in assists with 19 in the match.

“I am confident that if the team continues to challenge themselves mentally and physically in the upcoming weeks, we will see ourselves grow and accomplish the goals we set out for ourselves,” Gravel said.

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Student musicians ready for annual battle By | Elizabeth Bachmann Assistant Editor The floor won’t be breaking this year.

Local pub 55 Below is the quintessential bar. Complete with filmy plastic barstools, pool tables, and ancient arcade games, it is a perfect new location for Phi Mu Alpha’s annual Battle of the Bands.

But atmosphere is secondary.

The pub’s greatest qualification is its six-inch-thick concrete floors. After the floor broke at last year’s performance, the music honorary is not taking any chances.

This year’s musicians are amping up their game to bring down the house. Saturday’s battle will be waged between six bands: “Penny and the Mandimes,” “Great White North,” “The 72,” “Johnny Cole Murdock,” “Cat Stevens Conversion,” and “Roger Scotch and the Highballs.”

Juniors Owen Macaulay,

and Alex Reid, sophomore Aidan Cyrus, and senior Luke Woltanski of the “Cat Stevens Conversion” will kick off the night with some crowd favorites. For all the band members except Woltanski this will be their inaugural Battle of the Bands performance, so they

Brown,” and a few others, Macaulay said.

This laid-back vibe embodies “Cat Stevens Conversion,” whose band title emerged from a conversation about Cat Stevens’ recent conversion to Islam.

Following “Cat Stevens

“The pub’s greatest qualification is its six-inch-thick concrete floors.” decided to stick with songs that they enjoy playing.

“Our style is a lot lighter, it is a lot of ’90s and 2000s music,” Macaulay said. “We were going for music we like to play rather than trying to get first place.”

Their set list includes “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Mr. Jones and Me,” “Bad, Bad, Leeroy

Conversion,” “Johnny Cole Murdock” will charm the crowd with its Texas-style country music.

“Johnny Cole Murdock” consists of sophomore transfer student Johnny Cole Murdock and juniors Dillon Eason and Liam Bredberg. This group is no stranger to performance.

Murdock, also a solo artist,

met Eason at church this summer. They began playing together when Eason agreed to trade his egg shakers and djembe — a small african drum — for a bass guitar, and fill in for a band member last minute at a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.

After spending a week sleeping in a tent while performing at the rally, Murdock and Eason both agree that their understanding of one another and their ability to communicate musically had blossomed.

Because they have performed together so much already, the stakes for Battle of the Bands are much lower.

They already have a set list of more than 40 songs to choose from.

They’ll be debuting three original songs from Murdock’s EP, plus a country cover, and a “really special song that

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‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ is a killer time By | Carly Fisher Collegian Freelancer “One teaspoon full of arsenic, then add half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide.” That isn’t your aunt’s recipe for elderberry wine. But then again, Martha Brewster is no ordinary aunt.

For those in search of a night of adventure, dark humor, and Theodore Roosevelt impersonations, Hillsdale’s Tower Player’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” playing this weekend will not disappoint. Performances will run Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24.

Set in New York during the 1940’s, Arsenic and Old Lace tells the story of an everyday theatre critic named Mortimer Brewster, played by James Young, and his everyday family — except everyone in his family are homicidal maniacs.

The play opens with Mortimer getting engaged to his sweetheart Elaine Harper

and celebrating the news with his beloved elderly aunts, Martha and Abbey Brewster.

From here, things quickly spin out of control as Mortimer accidentally discovers that his aunts have been killing old, lonely men with poisoned elderberry wine as a charity to them.

Desperate to protect his aunts from the law, Mortimer seeks to dispose of a body but his plans are hijacked by his two brothers who turn out to be insane as well. One brother, Teddy, believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and keeps bringing the police to their house with his ruckus bugle playing.

The other brother, Jonathan, who has a reward on his head, invites himself into the aunts’ home with a dead body of his own to get rid of. Jonathan also brings an infamous plastic surgeon who has changed his face three times to prevent police from recognizing him.

The play depicts Mortimer’s frenzied attempts to keep his serial-killer aunts out of

jail, stop his plastic-surgery aficionado of a brother from endangering the rest of his family, and find an asylum for Teddy, all while convincing his fiancee not to leave him.

What ensues is sheer hilarity. Junior Trenton Olds’ portrayal of Teddy will have you in stitches as he embodies all the gusto of our 26th president. His boisterous exclamations of “Bully!” and Roosevelt’s battle cry “Charge!” as he ascends the staircase to his room might just convince you that he really is Roosevelt.

For the lover of situational irony and slap-stick comedy, the scene in which both Mortimer and his brother attempt to bury different bodies in the same grave complete with run-ins with cops with thick New Yorker accents will not disappoint.

Director Michael Beyer said though the play contains some commentary on insanity and mental health in the 1940’s, the main goal is pure entertainment.

“It’s comedy. It’s not an

intellectual thriller. Treat it as comedy and the laughs will flow,” said Beyer.

Senior Madeline Campbell said she especially appreciated the dark humor of the play.

For her, the fun of playing Abbey Brewster is treating Brewster’s crimes as normal, since her character believes her murders are charity for her victims. “‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ is honestly just a good time,” Campbell said. “The best that 1940’s theater has to offer.”

James Young agreed. As his senior project, Young said he enjoyed playing a character like Mortimer who has strong reactions to the lunacy happening around him.

“I love morbid humor. I love plays where it has fun with dark or serious topics,” Young said.

Just like the Brewster aunts’ recipe for elderberry wine, the Tower Player’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace is a recipe for a killer time.

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On hosting a ‘Friendsgiving’ By | Sofia Krusmark Assistant Editor

There’s no better combination than spending time with good friends and eating good food.

You’ll be home from break soon to celebrate your family, but take a Friday or Saturday night to celebrate

your friendships and share a meal. It doesn’t even have to be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

Have drinks and appetizers, or order some brisket from Saucy Dogs. Make it as casual or fancy as you want to be — and thank your friends while you’re at it.

Holleman to conduct 192 students in chapel concert By | Regan Meyer News Editor On Sunday, the full Hillsdale College orchestra and choir will give a joint performance for the first time in three years.

The concert will feature 122 choral voices and 70 orchestra musicians. The repertoire will include Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria”and Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.”

Poulenc’s “Gloria” is written for both orchestra and choir. According to junior Gabe Kramer, it’s a staple in the choral tradition.

“It’s really hard,” Kramer said. “It’s one of the hardest choral pieces I’ve ever had to tackle.”

This will be the choir and orchestra’s first joint performance in Christ Chapel.

Orchestra concerts used to be held in Markle Auditorium while the choirs used College Baptist for their performances.

Choral Director and Symphony Conductor Professor

James Holleman said the two groups are getting used to the new space and the new acoustics.

“It’s inspiring. All the students in the orchestra and choir seem very inspired to be in here,” Holleman said.

Chamber choir member Ethan Visser said playing with the orchestra adds another level to the performance.

“You need to pay a lot more attention and listen more but it’s also really helpful because hearing the orchestra we can hear the music more and that helps us sing our notes,” Visser said.

“Before, we’ve been singing our part in a vacuum without understanding how it fits into the rest of the piece.”

As the director of both groups, Holleman will conduct all 192 musicians at the same time.

“To me, it’s quite enjoyable because it’s a challenge.

There’s a lot of elements.

There’s no time to get bored mentally,” he said.

Hillsdale students from cross-cultural homes share their stories

What Chile, Mexico, Albania, and Russia taught these students about family, culture, and identity By | Sofia Krusmark Assistant Editor Every once in a while, I disappear to a place none of my friends have visited: Chile.

Twenty-five years ago my dad, an American man named Tim, started working as a mining engineer in Tucson, Arizona. One weekend, he decided to vacation in Prague, in the Czech Republic A Chilean woman — Rosario — who was running her own marketing company in Spain at the time, was also vacationing in Prague that weekend. When my dad offered my mom a seat at an open-air jazz concert, she couldn’t resist. The rest was history — my history.

Growing up in a cross-cultural home has had a pivotal effect on my upbringing. But my story is only one of many at Hillsdale.

Emma Purdy, sophomore, Chilean-American Freshman Emma Purdy’s mom is also from Chile, and her dad is American. She described growing up in a

cross-cultural home as “a whole different lifestyle.”

“At times, we laugh within my family that even though my dad grew up in Plymouth, Michigan, he has more tendencies that are Hispanic than American,” Purdy said.

“Sometimes my dad will interject something in a conversation that has a Spanish ring to it.”

But the mesh of cultures hasn’t always been easy. Purdy recalled times where her mom would suggest hosting large dinner parties at their home in Ann Arbor. At first, her dad would typically say, “smaller is better.” But through the years, he’s acclimated to the Chilean culture his wife has cultivated within their home. This acclimation was an act of love, she said, and in some ways, subconscious.

“My dad has assimilated more to her culture and to her desires, more than she has had to assimilate to the culture here,” Purdy said. “He does see the beauty in Spanish culture, and he has been able to

Zapallar is a beach town in Chile.

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shift his preferences toward what she wants, and because of that, they have really developed a really great and healthy relationship.”

But Purdy said she struggles with some aspects of Chilean culture. While in the United States families are spread across the country, in Chile, no one lives more than 15 minutes from one another.

Because of this, Purdy said Chileans have a tendency to go with the flow of their family instead of trying new things.

When her mom left the country, Purdy’ grandparents were devastated, particularly her grandfather.

“He couldn’t believe that she was leaving everything,” Purdy said. “He knew she was going to have to adopt a whole new way of life.”

Though Chile is not a luxurious country, having maids and chauffeurs is normal, so laundry, cooking, and cleaning were all on the list of new things for her mom to learn.

But some traditions came

to the United States with her.

“La Hora del Te” — or the hour of tea — celebrates rest and good food. Around 4 p.m. every day, most Chileans sit down for tea, coffee, and an assortment of afternoon snacks. Purdy recalled enjoying the hour with her mom and sister every day.

“Every day after school, from preschool until I was a senior in high school, the three of us would sit down and have tea, and have pan con palta (bread and avocado), and cookies, and just talk about our day.”

Genesis Rivera, senior, Mexican-American Senior Genesis Rivera was born in a little village in south Mexico called Mapimi. But their family didn’t stay long.

“We lived in the middle of a desert,” Rivera recalled, “and when I was born, my lungs were very weak. I couldn’t even really go outside, because I wasn’t able to breathe, so we ended up moving to Kansas

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International Club discusses European politics, cheese By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor How do you govern a country with 500 cheeses?

On Monday, the International Club hosted an event to discuss how European nations can maintain their distinct languages and cultures, without disturbing the current balance of power.

The speakers, Marie-Claire Morellec, chair and professor of French, and Assistant Professor of Spanish Todd Mack, discussed current events in European politics, and much of the history that led to them.

Immigration in Europe Morellec, a native of Brittany in west France, explained that the formation of the European Union after World War II was a good idea because it encouraged Europe to rebuild after three destructive wars — the Franco-Prussian war and the two world wars. However, she added that many complications came with the creation of the union, most significantly the vastly disparate cultures, languages, and histories the union would have to represent.

“How, when you belong to such a large entity, do you retain your independence?”

Morellec asked. “How do you manage to have, on the one hand, laws that are French law

and then on the other hand European laws? Well, you often complain.”

Though the European Union consisted of six countries initially, it’s grown to include 27. This expansion caused problems for Europe not just culturally but also linguistically, she explained.

“There are 23 official languages in Europe,” Morellec said. “That means 23 different histories. That means 23 different cultures. That means 23 different ways of looking at life, in some cases. We have things in common, but still, that is the complexity of the European Union. It’s a grand idea, but it’s very complicated.”

Morellec explained that even within France, there are many different ways of doing things — such as making cheese.

“There are about 500 cheeses in France,” she said. “How do you govern a country where there are 500 cheeses?

That’s not even talking about the wine that goes with the cheese. It’s difficult. That incredible diversity and that incredible identity — when it’s challenged by the European laws and rules, and it’s starting to totally disregard who you are or how you do things, like making cheese, that is a

problem.”

But Morellec said there are bigger problems at hand than whether or not Europe can tell France to make Camembert with pasteurized milk instead of raw.

“There is a big issue with Europe right now, and it’s not milk; it’s immigration,” Morellec said. “Obviously, we can well understand that, because

“How do you govern a country where there are 500 cheeses? That’s not even talking about the wine that goes with the cheese.” of the events in the Middle East that have been going on a long time. And we have a lot of refugees and immigrants that come from that area, but also from Africa. It’s not easy, because you don’t want people to be dying in the sea on some raft; you want to make sure these things don’t happen. But how do you manage that? It’s an incredibly large problem.”

She explained that in the past, waves of immigration were easier to handle because

Q&A with Bon Appetit sustainability specialist By | Rachel Kookogey Assistant Editor Lily Gross is a Bon Appetit fellow who travels with Bon Appetit to colleges around the country to work with students on sustainability issues. Gross visited Hillsdale this week and taught a cooking class.

Can you tell me about your job with Bon Appetit and how you are promoting sustainability in that position?

I am a fellow, which is a program that Bon Appetit has had for the last ten years. They take students that have just graduated from college and who care about food system issues and sustainability. We work to drive change by visiting seven schools each semester where Bon Appetit is the provider while also supporting students in whatever kind of systems they’re working on related to sustainability or food system issues.

How did you first get involved with Bon Appetit?

During college at Denison University, I worked a lot with the Bon Appetit team as a dining committee member. We worked on various sustainability initiatives and bridging the gap between the students and the dining team. Through this, I got to know the team very well and knew I wanted to work with them, but I had no idea the fellowship existed.

I also did research on Bon Appetit my senior year, I investigated their sourcing policies and compared them to the sourcing policies of

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people wouldn’t expect,” Murdock said.

Murdock added sometimes his biggest fear is belching on stage.

“One of my biggest fears about performing is when you are drinking a bunch of fluids and singing,” Murdock said. “You just want to burp sometimes. I will be in the middle of some high note and I’ll just be like “urrrp.”

“Johnny Scotch and the Highballs” will follow Murdock’s band. The band features Phi Mu alumnus Ryan Burns ’18, as well as seniors Brian Freimuth, Carson Waites, Jake Rummel, and junior John Szczotka.

“The vibe of our band is going to be pretty retro, but I think a lot of rock is pretty retro,” Freimuth said. “We are going to be playing a lot of rock that sounds like it is straight out of the ’70’s, but

restaurants in Granville, Ohio, which is where Denison is located. I wanted to compare how their environmental impact would look, and it was really eye-opening.

I expected to find some major flaw in Bon Appetit’s policies but the restaurants I interviewed had no idea where their food came from and didn’t care, but the conversations I had with Bon Appetit were very different.

They knew where everything came from and where it was grown. After a dining com-

“The hope here is to help students feel more comfortable around food.” mittee meeting last spring, our general manager mentioned the fellowship idea to me and I pursued the job and was happy to get it because it felt like the perfect fit.

What do you like best about your campus visits?

What I really like about my campus visits is I feel like there is a lot of variety in how they come together. So at Hillsdale, I’m speaking in four physics classes and one biology class, and on Thursday at 4

we have some funky stuff to mix it up. Then again, the funky stuff is from the band The 1975, so it all evens out.”

Their set list is secret, but Freimuth promised “Johnny Scotch and the Highballs” will deliver some sounds as unique as its name.

“Ryan Burns has this really cool octave-effect pedal, and I don’t think anyone else will have one,” Freimuth said.

“It will be pretty dope.”

“Great White North” will maintain the upbeat vibe with a mixture of classic rock, alternative, and pop.

Comprised of juniors Joseph Harvey, Phil Andrews, Ben Weide, and sophomore Sean O’Dea, “Great White North” promises to deliver a “fun, high-energy setlist that’s really going to let people move,” Weide said.

Though they are also keeping their set list under

they came to France from other parts of Europe. The Algerians who came over in the 1960s spoke French, too, so the cultural differences were not huge.

“When you have people from Syria — poor people, I have to say, they don’t speak a word of French — they have to learn everything,” Morellec said. “That is a very different

p.m. I am also giving a presentation in collaboration with an organization called the Roots Project.

Also, teaching college students how to cook healthy, easy food. The hope here is to help students feel more comfortable around food. Then at other schools, sometimes students will come to me with ideas about implementing projects. And because there are three other fellows throughout the country, I will call the others up to collaborate on helping students with their ideas.

What are some of your favorite activities when you’re not working?

I’m from Michigan, so it’s been really interesting moving to the Twin Cities, and I’ve been working really hard to establish a community and make new friends there. I like being taken out of my comfort zone, so that’s meant that I actually joined a women’s hockey league and play with them a few times a week.

What are you planning to do in the cooking class here at Hillsdale?

“On Monday I taught the softball team how to make frittatas, and then I’m teaching the baseball team how to make frittatas tonight. I had reached out to the coaches of several athletics teams here, and those were the teams who seemed most interested. I thought that was funny because they’re both teams with bats.”

wraps, Weide promised they would throw in some audience suggestions.

Finally, “Penny and the Mandimes,” perhaps one of the most familiar groups on campus, plans to round out the night with classic rock and “stage presence,” senior and lead singer Claire Calvert said.

“Penny and the Mandimes” will use its longstanding cohesion to try and win the day.

“I think we have experienced enough of these events together that we have a pretty good idea of how to please the crowd,” Calvert said.

“And so many people know these boys on campus, they know us, and we understand that and do our best to give them a good performance.”

kind of situation.”

Revolution in Catalonia Mack, who did his Masters’ in Spanish literature and linguistics and has spent time in Catalonia, walked students and professors through the long history of Spain’s civil wars.

He explained how the current conflict on the Iberia Peninsula began before Ferdinand and Isabella, and really developed when the two regions of Castile (present-day

Madrid) and Aragon (present-day Catalonia) fought over who would succeed the Hapsburg family.

“The Catalans backed one guy and Castillians backed a guy from France, Felipe V of Anjou,” Mack said. “Felipe wins, and he is not happy with the Catalans. He establishes really strict laws against them.

So the Catalans will say ‘Since 1714, we have been disrespected by the king of Spain.’

And it’s hard to say they’re not right.”

This conflict escalated after the Catalonians tried for freedom again in 2006, and elected a president who promised to pass a law allowing the Catalonians to vote for their independence. Spain’s current constitution says the country is indisolveable; when the law passed, it was repealed four years later. In 2017, however, Catalonians voted, and 90% of voters chose independence.

“Now, leaders are in a pickle,” Mack said. “They have said they will do what the election says, and the election said ‘independence.’ The Spanish government revoked the Catalans’ autonomy, called different elections, and arrested a bunch of the leaders of this rebellion against the Spanish state in 2017. In October of this year, the Supreme Court

sentenced against these leaders of the rebellion, and the most important leaders got up to 13 years in prison.”

If Catalonia successfully earns independence, it could upset the stability of Europe as other small countries see them as an example, Mack explained.

“You’re willing to turn the world upside down — that’s what people said about the American Revolution,” he said. “An independent Catalonia that somehow is able to break away from Spain would turn Europe; it would be a big deal.”

President of the International Club junior Nico DeEnrique said the event went really well, and he was especially touched by Mack’s presentation, as a native of Spain.

“I have my own interests in Europe because the Catalonia-Spain controversy is in front of me, being from Spain,” DeEnrique said. “So I know what it’s like. There’s this cultural identity problem. And having Dr. Morellec explain that from a broad perspective and then Dr. Mack being more specific and talking about history and how that influences the economy and the political situation of the country — it was very cool.”

Senior Genesis Rivera celebrates her sister’s quinceneara. Courtesy | Genesis Rivera

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and later to Michigan.”

Upon arriving in the United States, Rivera says her parents were shocked by Americans’ overcommitment to their work.

“Mexicans are very family-centered, and spending time with your family and your loved ones is most important to us,” Rivera said.

“Here, everyone is focused on their career. I think they think that American’s should take the time to smell the roses every once in a while.”

Rivera said this is because the small villages in Mexico demand a culture of dependence and everyone relies on and helps one another. For her, the sacrifices of her family have instilled in her a deep respect for her loved ones.

“I call my mom every day, not for a sense of obligation but because I want to talk to her every day. But some of my friends will call their parents once every two months or something,” Rivera said.

“I don’t think it’s a lack of respect, but we just have very different ways of showing that respect.”

Their traditions carry out these values as well.

Dia de Los Reyes celebrates the wise men’s arrival to baby Jesus. To celebrate this, someone cooks a round loaf of bread in which three plastic babies — symbolic of Christ — are buried. The reward for whoever finds them? Cooking tamales for the next family gathering.

Rivera said though her childhood was different than most other Hillsdale students, it doesn’t have to be difficult.

“With any culture and being immersed within it, it doesn’t have to be completely contradictory to American culture,” she said. “If you just stick to what you think is most important and those priorities and perhaps the characteristics and traits that you find you value most, you can still appreciate American culture and live an American life within it.”

Steven Weideman, sophomore, Albanian-American Seven years had gone by until sophomore Steve Weideman realized that his parents were divorced.

In Albania, he said, hardly

anyone gets divorced, so his mom continued living in their home in Gross Point, MI, to cook, clean, and take care of the family until she remarried in 2011.

“She and my dad are still super tight,” Weideman said.

“She lives right around the block, and she still comes over to cook and clean. He respects her, and he’s the reason she was able to come to America.”

Weideman grew up speaking only Albanian, so for a while, he and his dad didn’t speak the same language.

“Then my dad started taking me out to the movie theatre twice a week so I could learn some English, because my dad doesn’t speak Albanian,” Weideman said. “He couldn’t really talk to me, which he found kind of upsetting.”

While Weideman celebrates less Albanian traditions here in the United States, he said his mom has still held onto some Albanian superstitions.

“She doesn’t like it when you whistle at night,” he said.

“She always yells at me and says it’s bad luck. Oh, and if you eat with two forks, you’re going to marry two wives.”

But the best lessons, Weideman said, have come from the high value Albanians place on quality of life.

Growing up, Weideman said his mom would never buy him Lunchables or any “commercialized boxed foods.”

Steaks and fresh salads kept him full. Even here at Hillsdale, Weideman says he has no problem driving half an hour to Coldwater for a good meal.

“I guess you could say I have expensive tastes, and I’m terrible with money,” he said, laughing.

Weideman added that maintaining this quality of life sometimes means school comes second for him.

“I think that I value the quality of life more than work ethic sometimes,” Weideman said. “If something is really stressing you out and ruining your health or making your relationships very depressed, I have no problem turning a project in late.”

Vika Nunez, sophomore, Russian-Puerto-Ri-

can-American Sophomore Victoria (Vika) Nunez was born in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to the United States with her Puerto Rican-American father and Russian mother.

Through growing up in Michigan, Nunez said she has found a new appreciation for freedom. Her dad celebrates the American dream and is an idealist, Nunez said, and her mom has taught her to truly appreciate the freedoms she didn’t have growing up in Russia.

“My dad loves the story of America and its principles and that was something he really likes to talk about to us,” Nunez said. “But my mom balances that out, and teaches us what it was like to live without that in a society.

All that to say, I’ve learned how to laugh and cry simultaneously.”

Nunez said coming from a part-Puerto-Rican heritage, some people expect her to be someone who is “always happy and playing their guitar on the streets and chacha-ing,” but this isn’t always the case. Nunez said she uses that joy to balance the hardship reflected in many Russian traditions.

One tradition is the typical Russian New Year’s celebration. While eating food for eight hours straight on Dec. 31, the Nunez family watches “Enjoy Your Bath,” a four-hour-long Russian film. This “topsy turvy” story ofNew Years Eve mishaps reflects the hardships of Russian culture, according to Nunez.

“I think my desire to see the beauty in stories that may not seem like they have happy endings is a Russian idea,” she said. “ If you just look at Russian history, it’s just one bad situation after another one. I don’t think we should write it off, but I do think we try to see the good things, the redemption and renewal in every new season of life.”

It’s also a New Year’s tradition for everyone to take a bath, Nunez added. It’s a time to cleanse the hardships of the previous year and enter the New Year “clean and fresh.”

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Godspeed: Hillsdale alumnus qualifies for Olympic trials after running for men’s track and field team By | Haley Strack Collegian Freelancer

Luke Hickman competing for the Hillsdale College Men’s Track and Field team. Courtesy | Hillsdale College Marketing Department

The year is 1924. Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two young runners, are training vigorously for the Paris Olympics. The British athletes are determined to pursue the sport of running in testimony to God’s glory.

Decades later, the influence of these two young men brought runner Luke Hickman ’15 from Midland, Michigan to Hillsdale. Luke, who studied political economy, is an avid cross country runner, and he is well known as a track superstar in the athletics department. He recently qualified for the 2020 Olympic trials after running a marathon in 2:18.08, 52 seconds under the qualifying time of 2:19.

Luke’s younger sister Leah Hickman ’18 noted one of Luke’s inspirations was pure passion for the sport. The movie “Chariots of Fire,” she said, was always one of Luke’s favorites. Liddell and Abrahams ignited a spirit of zeal in Luke’s running career, with his favorite quote from the

film guiding him down the trails. “‘When I run, I feel God’s pleasure,’” he said, quoting Liddell.

To Luke’s coaches and family, his accomplishments are no surprise. Leah has stood alongside her brother for the bulk of his running career.

“He started running in middle school,” Leah said, “he kept the distance up and it seemed like the longer the distance was the better he was at it. He had plans to be done with running, but he loves it so much that he couldn’t stop.”

Like many athletes at Hillsdale, Luke was an exemplary student. When Assistant Professor of Sport Studies and former track coach William Lundberg recruited young Luke, he looked at “the whole person.”

“Luke was very much aligned with Hillsdale’s mission,” Lundberg said. “The essential part of education at Hillsdale is moral character, so we don’t just recruit the student, we recruit our family.”

Coach “Wild” Bill, as he’s

affectionately known, continues to see and hear of Luke’s determination past college.

After his time at Hillsdale, Luke wasn’t sure how running would translate into his professional life. As a senior data analyst at a consulting company, Luke’s passion for running was always the hobby he needed, he said.

“Whenever I need a break, it’s a good way to get out.”

Though he wasn’t planning to train for any specific race, Luke constantly looked for races to sign up for. He trained with a goal in mind and eventually noticed the possibility of making it to the Olympic trials.

Luke competed in his first marathon just after he graduated with a few former teammates.

“We didn’t think we would ever be in that good of shape again to run,” he said.

Little did Luke know that he would go on to run the Columbus Marathon, the Glass City Marathon, and the Monumental Marathon in the two years following his graduation. “When I graduated in 2015 I had the four-year plan

of being the best marathoner I could be,” Luke said. Now that he’s achieved his personal best marathon time, Luke is closer to doing just that.

To qualify for the Olympic trials, male runners must have a time of 2:19 or lower.

Luke’s time of 2:18:08 placed him among some of the best competition in the United States.

“The U.S. can only bring three people, so they will take the top three finishers at the trials,” Luke said, “In mid-October, there were 200 guys on the qualifying list. There are a couple more races this year, so there’ll be over 200 men competing.”

He plans to continue with his current training.

“I run a few hundred miles a week,” he said. “That volume seems to work well for me.”

Luke is gearing up for the race which will begin on June 19, 2020 and end on June 28 in Eugene, Oregon. His former coaches and teammates will be cheering him on from around the country, with Hillsdale following suit.

Godspeed, Luke.

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Celebrating campus royalty By | Callie Shinkle Columnist After country music star John King graced our campus last week, I decided to take a look into Hillsdale’s history with celebrities. As I began to search The Collegian archives, I was expecting to find political pundits, businessmen, or possibly a certain Wheel of Fortune host.

What I was definitely not expecting to find: a princess.

Yes, a real, live princess visited Hillsdale College in 1930 (and according to my research, this falls into the time period when princesses actually still had the power to rule the world!)

On Jan. 23, 1930, The Collegian read, “Her Imperial Highness, Princess Der Ling of the Manchu Court of the Late Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi of China will visit Hillsdale college campus February 12, 1930.”

A Feb. 7 1930 Collegian article clarifies the purpose of her visit, saying “Princess Der Ling will give a lecture in the College Church at 9, at which time she will, in the costume of her native court, present a picture of modern life in China through the medium of her address.”

How did Hillsdale land a guest lecture by a Chinese princess?

A Feb. 21, 1930 article explains, “Princess Der Ling has lived in America for some time, and was able to see that enough was not known of the life of the people in China, so she resolved to make a trip through the United States and do what she could to inform America of the country.”

According to The Collegian, Princess Der Ling was fit for this job because of her unique upbringing.

On Feb. 7, 1930 The Collegian read, “Princess Der Ling was born in Tienesin, China, the daughter of Lord Yu Keng.

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Earlier this semester, Dean of Men Aaron Petersen stated at a meeting for club leaders that the purpose of campus clubs is education, not activism. Holmes said the club doesn’t do much activism anyway, but it was still important that the club fulfills the college’s guidelines.

“We did a chalking event last year in front of Central

Her father was a Manchu of the first rank and his forearms came to China with the first Manchu emperor.”

The article continues, “During the youth of the Manchu princess her father was Chinese Minister to Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Consequently her education was unusually cosmopolitan, and she is intimately acquainted with several languages.”

Collegian authors reported that in addition to typical elementary school subjects, the princess studied flower decoration and music as well as Japanese, English and French.

According to the author of a Feb. 7, 1930 Collegian article, studying abroad not only aided the princess’ studies but also ensured her safety.

The article read, “Fortunately for the entire family they were in France at the time of the Boxer uprising in 1900, and undoubtedly in China would have lost their lives.”

This is quite a cavalier way of phrasing such a serious topic.

I guess differing religious beliefs only held the princess back so far, because, according to the Jan. 23, 1930 issue of The Collegian, “After returning from France, Der Ling and her sister were ordered to the Manchu court by her Majesty, Tzu Hsi, the late great Empress Dowager, to who Der Ling became First Lady-in-Waiting, and favorite.”

The article continued, “She maintains that she attained this enviable, or unenviable, depending upon the viewpoint, position because she could not realize that solemnity and dignity should be the keynote at court— and there giggled at the most inopportune times.”

My takeaway from this is that employers do not care about manners and hand

out promotions to the class clowns, which is weird because employees have yet to award my awkward laughing.

While on Hillsdale’s campus, the princess visited various sorority houses and women’s groups. The Feb. 21, 1930 issue of The Collegian printed, “Last Thursday, February 13, a luncheon in honor of Princess Der Ling was held at the Kappa Kappa Gamma House. Approximately sixty people were seated at the tables which were adorned with gay centerpieces of yellow tulips and daffodils while tiny placards were at each plate.”

I am a big fan of how the author spent more time describing the decorations than the actual event. That is actually an old journalism trick reporters use when they lack facts: distract the reader with detailed descriptions of nonessential matters so they will forget that they learned nothing about the incident.

Following these social obligations, the princess addressed the student body and visitors of the college.

The Feb. 21, 1930 issue of The Collegian reads, “The Princess told of many unique customs of the Chinese. The Empress never walked up a hill, but was carried by means of a Unit who held her by the arms, and pushed with a pillow.”

If only the empress came to Hillsdale a few weeks ago when the treacherous journey up the hill involved traversing what appeared to be an inclined ice rink.

The article concluded, “Her lecture was very interesting and was enjoyed immensely by everyone who heard it.”

Well if Hillsdale could get a princess in 1930 there is no reason we can’t bring one to the current campus. Here’s to convincing Kate Middleton to visit us next.

Hall, and I think the deans just want there to be a separation between the administration and the student body,” Holmes said. “One theme I got out of that conversation was the student body is different from the administration, so activism as a whole can be dangerous to project a certain notion on the college’s name.”

Holmes said the club is about “changing minds and

hearts,” and it aims to transform students’ passion into action.

“Education requires a response of us,” Holmes said.

“It’s really easy to say doing anything is activism, and maybe that’s true, maybe it’s not. But we’re here to learn, and if we learn something and don’t do anything about it, have we really learned anything?”

By | Julia Mullins City News Editor How many children do you have? No kids. What’s your favorite movie? Can I pick two? The fact that I have a LEGO model of the Saturn 5 Rocket in my office might tip you off that I’m into NASA and space. My two favorite movies are related to NASA and space exploration: “The Right Stuff,” about the Mercury Program and “Apollo 13,” about the Apollo Program. What is your favorite genre of music? It’s sort of cliche to say I like all genres, but if I had to pick a favorite, I would probably say 1990s hip hop and rap. What piece of advice would you give to a Hillsdale College student?

Don’t take advice from somebody if they say there is one “way” or one “path,” because everyone has a different way and path. And you’ll find it yourself. What college or university did you attend for undergraduate and graduate school? Hillsdale College with a B.S. in biology in 2004 and the University of Michigan with a microbiology and immunology Ph.D. in 2011. What do you like about living in Hillsdale? I don’t live in Hillsdale. I live in East Lansing, actually. What is that commute like for you?

It’s 70 miles door to door, a little over an hour each way.

I’ve done it for over five years now, and it’s sort of relaxing actually having some time to myself, listening to music,

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During their first two months of leadership, Bauer and her team focused on solving the ringworm problem. For an animal to qualify for adoption, it must show no symptoms of ringworm for six weeks. As a result, the shelter was not able to put up any animals for adoption until February 2019.

Once the animals received a clean bill of health, the Humane Society began putting them into loving homes or sending them to either PetSmart or Huron Valley Humane Society in Ann Arbor where they had a better chance of adoption.

Gradually, the shelter brought down their numbers to a more manageable level.

As of Nov. 12, the shelter houses 43 cats and 3 dogs.

With the overpopulation problem solved, Bauer and her team were able to focus on improving their facilities.

Their building hadn’t been updated since 1992 and had major design flaws. One of the challenges they face is how to house both cats and dogs in the same building.

“We’re trying to accommodate both animals, cats

and podcasts. Right now I’m relearning Spanish. I took Spanish for a couple years, took a year of Spanish in Hillsdale and a couple years in high school. It’s time for myself to do things. Is your favorite language Spanish, or do you have another favorite? I would say Spanish. Although I like Italian in terms of how it sounds. I like the musical flourishes in Italian. What is the best place you have traveled to? Top of the list, the Cook Islands.

My wife and I took a trip a few years ago to two of the Cook Islands. One is called Rarotonga, and the other is called Aitutaki. They were two beautiful South Pacific islands with white sand and turquoise water, amazing.

Do you have a favorite type of food? Yes, all food. But if I had to pick a favorite cuisine, it would be Italian cuisine. Simple ingredients, few ingredients, and seasonal ingredients. What’s something that’s changed between your first year of teaching and now? I get more sleep.

Do you have a favorite class to teach? I do not. They’re like children, you can’t pick a favorite. What is your greatest talent? My number one talent is reaching stuff on high shelves. I’m 6’5”. Where did you propose to your wife?

Old Mission Point, right at the tip of the Old Michigan Peninsula. What is the best gift you have ever recieved?

I’ve had a lot of good ones.

My favorite though is when my wife got us season tickets to the Detroit Tigers in 2012, which was the year they went to the World Series. That was a good gift. That was a birthday gift. What is the most important virtue you look for in a friend? That’s a hard one. I don’t know if I have an answer to that one.

I think that’s something I’m going to be searching for my entire life. What’s one of your pet peeves about students?

I’m not easily annoyed by students, so there’s very few things that students can do to annoy me. But what bugs me the most is when students are not supportive of one another. And I found that generally, students are one another’s biggest critics.

Students can learn to lighten up on one another. What is something that you think all good professors should know, or something that all good professors do? A lot of what we do as professors involve learning the techniques of teaching and the best practices of teaching.

And all of that is important, but that’s not everything when it comes to teaching.

It reminds me of my favorite teaching-related quote. It’s from a guy named Parker Palmer: ‘Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique.

Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.’”

Silas Johnson is an associate professor of biology.

and dogs, without stressing either one out but still in the confines of this building,” Bauer said.

To solve this issue, the new construction will place the dogs in the back two rooms and the cats toward the front of the building.

Another design problem with the building was the kennel room. Because in the old configuration kennels ran on both sides of the walls, the dogs faced each other and worked each other up into a frenzy. Concrete walls amplified this issue, echoing the barking to create pandemonium.

“It was bedlam,” Bauer said.

The new construction creates 17 kennels for the dogs, 12 of which will include outdoor runs. No longer will dogs share kennels, instead, each will have a separate space.

The construction team has already installed new ventilation, heating, and air conditioning systems that help with disease control. Additionally, the Humane Society plans to create puppy and kitten rooms to protect smaller animals from larger ones.

“We’re working to make it more friendly here for the pets and for the people who

come here to adopt,” Bauer said. “You’re going to see the animal in a more home-like environment. That’s what our plan is.”

To fund the new construction, the shelter is participating in the Community Foundation’s Capital Campaign.

Every Tuesday after Thanksgiving, the Community Foundation of Hillsdale encourages residents to make that day the single most charitable day of giving in the county. This year, the Community Foundation asked the Hillsdale Humane Society to join the fundraiser.

Money raised from the event will go toward renovations.

Bauer credits her team with the success of the past year.

“We had to change, and the people behind this have been fantastic,” Bauer said, praising the efforts of Jill Richardson and Emily Wood.

From getting their animals healthy, renovating their facilities, and, most importantly, putting pets into loving homes, Hillsdale Humane Society has accomplished a lot this past year.

“We’re very proud of the changes we’ve made here,” said Bauer.

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By | Allison Schuster Features Editor

Graphic by S. Nathaniel Grime

John, Hannah, Emma, Andrew, Jacob are the most common campus names By | Allison Schuster Features Editor In addition to the 22 men named John at Hillsdale, there are six Jonathans, one John Paul, one Johnny Cole, one Jon-Luke, and one Jon. The name of every male on the Student Activities Board, sophomore John Biscaro said, is some variation of John: sophomore John Ball, sophomore Jack Hall, and senior Ian Brown. Ian is Gaelic for John, and Jack’s given name is John.

The most popular names at Hillsdale, according to data from the registrar’s office, are John, with 22 carrying the name; Hannah, appearing 20 times; and Andrew, Emma, and Jacob, which all appear 19 times. Other popular names include Jacob, Michael, Joseph, Matthew, Nicholas,

Sarah, and Emily.

Several of these names are popular nationwide, but Hillsdale bucks certain national trends. Many of these students are namesakes to biblical or family figures.

The names John and Hannah have remained popular in recent years. In a 2017 article for The Collegian, Nic Rowan ’18 reported that John was the most popular name on campus with Hannah shortly behind.

Sophomore Andrew Szewc said there are always girls named Hannah in his classes.

One of the 20 Hannahs at Hillsdale, senior Hannah Molloy, said there are pros and cons to having such a popular name, but, at Hillsdale especially, the cons are strong.

“You hear your name everywhere and you think you’re going crazy,” she said.

“It’s distracting sitting in A.J.’s

and always hearing people call your name.”

Those with family names, including Szewc and Biscaro, said they plan on continuing the tradition with their children. Molloy said she has begun to like less common names because of her own experience with a shorter, more popular name.

The majority of Hillsdale students are between the ages of 18 and 22, with a large portion born in the early 2000s. According to the Social Security Administration, Hannah was the fifth most popular baby girl names for those born in the 2000s.

Throughout the 2000s, Emma was the third popular baby names for girls, and Andrew was the seventh for boys.

John, despite being number one on Hillsdale’s campus, barely cracked the top 20.

For some, confusion arises

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when grouped with those with the same name. Andrew Szewc, for example, is in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity with Andrew Nell. To avoid confusion, Nell goes by the nickname “Nelly.”

Szewc said he was named after his grandfather, and he plans to continue the tradition of family namesakes if he has a son in the future. He has observed that other Andrews at the college are named after the apostle Andrew from the New Testament.

Since Hillsdale College is a Christian school with a largely Christian student body, he thinks the biblical origin is what makes the name so popular.

John may be the most popular name for a similar reason, since John is one of the four Gospels in the New Testament.

Emma comes in second

with 19 women bearing the name despite the fact that it doesn’t have biblical origins.

Junior Emma Matheson said four girls named Emma lived in her dormitory hall freshman year.

The names Andrew and Emma are equally popular, and Szewc is glad his last name is unique as it balances out the commonality of the name Andrew.

“If I had a generic last name, then my name might get lost,” he said.

Many names, Szewc said, are both family traditions and biblical. And John has been one of the most popular names in the United States since its founding. In every decade from the 1880s until the ’90s, John was in the top 10 names given to males, and was number one until the ’20s.

The name John has history,

and, in passing it down, families honor their familial and religious heritage.

“It is definitely a name passed down through heritage and now it’s not as much in style because it’s been around for so many generations,” he said. “There are so many figures, too, like John the Baptist.”

John was the 18th most popular baby name for boys born throughout the 2000s, according to the Social Security Administration’s data.

Despite confusion during his Student Activities Board meetings, sophomore John Biscaro doesn’t mind the popularity of his name, and said his heritage is more important to him.

“There are so many Johns in history, and I think that gives the name more honor.”

after a hairy situation By | Carly Fisher Collegian Freelancer

Visitors of the Greater Hillsdale Humane Society are greeted with a clean and cheerful environment, the purring of contented cats, and the smiling face of Jill Richardson, the shelter manager. A year ago, a trip to the humane society would have been a very different experience.

Since new management took over Dec. 22, 2018, the shelter has eradicated a ringworm outbreak, solved its overcrowding issue, embarked on a fundraising campaign to renovate its facilities, and had 214 cats and 14 dogs adopted.

And the community is taking note.

Senior Madeleine Miller, who has volunteered at the shelter since 2016, wrote in an email, “When I visited last week, I was surprised to find that the shelter was tidy and nicely decorated. It even smelled good.”

When Julia Bauer became president of the Humane Society last year, she knew the shelter needed to improve.

“We needed to change the whole perception of the shelter. We needed to bring a new focus to the reason we are here: to adopt animals into loving homes in this community and not to have such an abundance that it is almost impossible to care for them,” Bauer said.

Prior to Bauer’s leadership of the organization and the overhaul of the board, the shelter was grossly overrun. It housed 27 dogs in 25 kennels and 257 cats in only 32 cages.

For reference, the Department of Agriculture stipulates only 50-60 cats can be housed in a building of that size.

As a result of overcrowding, disease ran rampant.

“If a cat sneezes and it’s too close to another cat and there is no barrier, the other cat’s going to get sick too,” Richardson said. “To keep disease down, you must have the right ratio of space to animals.”

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Former Students for Life board attends the March for Life in 2018. Facebook.

Students for Life Grows from 20 to 70 members By | Alexis Daniels Study Break Editor Senior Adelaide Holmes, president of Hillsdale College for Life, has always been pro-life, but it wasn’t until her sophomore year that she became a passionate pro-life advocate with Hillsdale College for Life. Her hard work has quadrupled club participation.

“Our goal has been to raise up pro-life leaders,” Holmes said, “because a lot of Hillsdale students are pro-life.

They’re just not doing anything about it.”

Holmes’ passion was awakened by Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” in which he wrote about the church standing by and watching civil injustices happen. She said she “felt challenged” by it and wondered if she would have done anything.

“I realized that abortion is an even greater injustice and discrimination than the injustice of that time, and I was doing nothing to end abortion now,” Holmes said. “I threw myself into pro-life work to solve my conscience, and what was a penance became a passion and I love it.”

In the last four years, Hillsdale College for Life has gone from 20 or fewer members to more than 70 students attending each meeting. According to sophomore and club board member Carly Fisher, before

Kathleen Russo ’19 took over the presidency, the club had disappeared completely.

“What really started the club up again was the March for Life trips,” Fisher said. “Everyone just got really excited about it.”

The club used to focus on educating people about the pro-life movement, but now it developes leaders in the movement and provides opportunities for pro-life activism. The club now offers semi-monthly apologetics training sessions, the Klusendorf Fellowship, and a trip to the March for Life in Washington, D.C. In the last two years, the club has also organized spring break trips, sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List, in which students knock on doors and raise awareness about abortion.

“We’re a fairly unique prolife club on campus because Hillsdale is such a largely pro-life campus, so our focus is less on trying to convince the people around us and it is more a public activism,” Fisher said. “It’s more equipping people on campus to actually do something about it. We want to get rid of any sort of apathy and show how we can exercise this.”

Fisher said the club added the Klusendorf Fellowship this year to “raise up the next generation of pro-life leaders.”

Freshman Lucy Cuneo joined the fellowship this semester, having done pro-life

work throughout high school.

Cuneo said growing up, her sister with Down syndrome informed her passion for the movement.

“The pro-life cause has always been important to me because oftentimes, for preborn with disabilities, the importance of their lives is misunderstood and discriminated against in the womb,” Cuneo said. “I’ve always had a real passion for the pro-life movement with protecting peoples’ lives and everything.”

In high school, Cuneo participated in the March for Life on the east and west coasts, volunteered with a pregnancy center, and participated in Forty Days For Life, a semiannual peaceful prayer protest outside abortion clinics. She said she is interested in continuing pro-life work outside of school and staying active, and the Klusendorf Fellowship seemed a perfect avenue.

“The fellowship seemed like a good way to connect with people who were interested in pro-life leadership and being more active in the movement,” Cuneo said.

“We’re getting a more detailed look into pro-life apologetics.

Whereas the Hillsdale College For Life group is going to apologetics videos about once a month, we’re getting a more detailed look on how to do that.”

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