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Vol. 141 Issue 16 - February 15, 2018

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Women’s basketball hits stride for stretch run By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers have settled into a groove as the G-MAC tournament approaches, earning a 80-76 comeback victory on the road against the Ohio Dominican University Panthers on Tuesday.

The Chargers (15-9, 13-7 G-MAC), who remain in sixth place in the conference, have now defeated four of the five teams ahead of them in the G-MAC standings.

“We still realize it’s anybody’s game,” junior forward Brittany Gray said. “One good win doesn’t guarantee the next one. We’re all prepared, but we know that we can beat anybody in the conference.”

Before Tuesday’s victory against Ohio Dominican (168, 12-6), the Chargers enjoyed some record-setting performances during the past week, breaking the school record for three-pointers on Saturday with 16. In the same game, senior center Allie Dittmer reached 1,000 career points in an all-around solid performance.

With two games to go, Hillsdale has already punched its ticket to the post-season conference tournament.

“You set up your whole year praying to peak at the end,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “We’re becoming more healthy and more complete. They’re starting to become more confident and comfortable with their roles.

We’re cautiously optimistic

that we continue to trend up.”

In their most recent victory on Tuesday, the Chargers trailed by 16 in the second quarter and by seven entering the final quarter, but battled their way back, eventually taking the lead for good with less than two minutes to go thanks to a layup courtesy of junior forward Makenna Ott. Junior guard Allie Dewire’s pair of free throws in the closing seconds put the game out of reach.

“It took us two and a half quarters to adjust to do what we needed to beat them,” Fritsche said. “We made really strong basketball plays. Our kids grew up and got tougher.”

Senior center Allie Dittmer continued her torrid shooting pace, making 12 of 17 shots to lead the team with 25 points.

“She’s super determined,” Fritsche said of DIttmer. “She’s having fun playing basketball right now. She’s doing everything she can to play as many games as possible.”

Dittmer ranks second in the G-MAC with a .607 shooting percentage. She added 13 rebounds for a double-double.

“It helps that I’m a post player, so I’m close to the basket,” Dittmer said. “Shot selection, technique, and getting good passes from my teammates helps. It all works together.”

Gray filled up the stat sheet with 13 points, nine rebounds, and five assists.

“Toward the end of the season, it gets harder and harder to beat teams because they know how you play,” Gray said. “As we get closer to the

tournament, these games are a testament to what the tournament is going to look like.”

Gray, who missed three games earlier this season with a sprained ankle, said she feels close to 100 percent, but the adrenaline of late-season games takes care of any inhibitions she may have.

“Tuesday was the first time she’s looked as normal as she should be,” Fritsche said of Gray’s recovery from injury.

“She made physical, confident plays. She’s a dynamic player for us.”

Before Tuesday’s victory, it was Women in Sports Night on Feb. 8 at Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena. The Chargers nearly treated the home crowd to a remarkable fourth-quarter comeback against the conference-leading Ursuline

College Arrows (18-6, 15-3).

Hillsdale coaches and players from the women’s cross country and tennis teams, softball and swim teams, were on hand to sign posters, give away prizes, and receive recognition at halftime for the night sponsored by Hillsdale College Charger Athletics, Hillsdale College FAST, and the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Once trailing by 16 with less than seven minutes left in the game, Hillsdale finished the game on a 29-14 run but never was quite able to overcome the deficit. A three-pointer from freshman guard Jaycie Burger brought the Chargers within one as the final buzzer sounded. The Arrows had escaped with a 85-84 victory.

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World Youth Alliance to hold conference By | Brendan Clarey Senior Writer For the first time, students have the opportunity to learn and discuss issues surrounding identity, the human person, and bioethics during a conference sponsored by the World Youth Alliance.

The conference begins Friday in Phillips Auditorium and goes through Saturday afternoon. It is set to feature keynote speakers in bioethics and philosophy, along with six Hillsdale professors, speaking about identity in relation to technology and bioethics.

“The beauty of the conference is its interdisciplinary nature, and I think the tendency of our student body is for the humanities and the sciences to be somewhat distanced from each other,” said senior Lillian Quinones, a senior studying biology and one of the conference’s organizers.

“The conference encourages a campus discussion that breaks down those barriers in the sense that questions of an are ethical nature are distinct of the times because of technological.”

The keynote speakers are experts in bioethics and philosophy.

Ashley K. Fernandes, the associate director of the center for bioethics and medical humanities at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an associate professor of pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, will kick off the conference at 4 p.m. on Friday in the Heritage Room and end it at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday in Phillips Auditorium. His first talk is called “Peace Without Killing: Toward an End to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” and his second is : “‘Being,’ and ‘Being the Anvil’: Courage in An Age of Secularist Medicine.”

Tollefsen, professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, will give his keynote address at 7:30 p.m. on Friday on the “The Ethics of Medicine and Its Counterfeit.”

As one of the organizers of the conference, Quinones said she has desired to see Hillsdale professors weigh in on the issue of bioethics ever since she interned at the University of Virginia last summer.

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majority of ethical dilemmas were reduced to the principle of individual autonomy,” Quinones said. “To have our professors give a robust defense of human dignity in the face of today’s technological hubris will be an incredible learning experience.”

Caitlin Weighner, a sophomore, is also one of the student organizers of the conference. She says one of the main focuses of the focuses of the conference is to get students to think about bioethics in a different way.

Weighner said some students might not be interested in the conference because they aren’t into science.

“But I think that says a lot about the way that bioethics is being presented currently,” Weighner said. “The way that it’s set now is it’s all about legal issues, it’s all about technological issues, and so we’re trying to reframe the question and say, ‘No, this is about being a human being.’”

Quinones said the conference gives students an opportunity to put their education into practice.

“I think the stress is showing how relevant our liberal arts education is and how useful it is to answer these questions,” Quinones said. “Studying philosophy is a guide for answering these questions, and it shows how ideas have consequences in everyday life.”

In addition to the World Youth Alliance; the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative educational nonprofit; and CanaVox, a pro-traditional marriage organization, the conference is supported by many on-campus organizations, including the Collegiate Scholars Program, the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honorary, the Catholic Society, The Fairfield Society, the Pre-Professional Society, and Phi Alpha Theta history honorary, according to the conference’s pamphlets.

The organizers said they have reached out to Hope College, Spring Arbor University, and Notre Dame University about the event. Some alumni are also planning on attending.

The world youth alliance is encouraging students to register at the group’s table in the Grewcock Student Union during lunch or with the link on the event’s Facebook page.

Walk-ins are also welcome.

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Hillsdale College was hit with a major snowstorm over the weekend. Nathan Steinmeyer | Courtesy

Albion named one of worst for free speech Nearby college investigates ‘joke’ in student email, according to FIRE By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor Albion College, a liberal arts school a half hour from Hillsdale College’s campus, made a list of 2018’s 10 worst colleges for free speech this week.

On Monday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released a list of public and private institutions that infringed on students’ First Amendment rights over the past year. Albion College in Albion, Michigan, made the list because of an ongoing investigation into a student email.

In September, Alex Tokie, a sophomore at Albion, emailed his fellow College Republicans about discussing white privilege with the following conclusion, according to FIRE: “Take the liberal tears from the idiot you just destroyed in your debate, dissemble your American made Springfield M1911 .45 caliber handgun and apply the tears in order to clean the mechanism, reassemble and proceed to purchase ANTIFA

and ISIS hunting permits and max out on tags.”

The sentence was a joke, Tokie told The Collegian.

“Anyone who knows me will say that’s just me being a wise guy,” he said.

Days after the email, the college’s administration began investigating Tokie, a process that began in September and still hasn’t finished, Tokie said.

Albion Director of Media Relations Chuck Carlson declined to comment on the college’s inclusion in the list.

“Seeing as it’s still a student privacy issue,” Carlson said, “we really don’t have any comment on it.”

FIRE has been compiling its list of the top 10 worst colleges for free speech since 2011. Last year, another Michigan school, Northern Michigan University, made the list for emails from the administration warning students not to discuss self-harm with others on social media, threatening disciplinary action.

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FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program Sarah McLaughlin said Albion is one of many colleges guilty of suppressing free speech.

“Last year, FIRE received over 900 requests for help from students and faculty members who believed their rights were being violated on campus,” McLaughlin said in an email. “Focusing attention on the 10 worst offenders each year helps shine a light on how egregious and widespread the problem of campus censorship is.”

Senior Brendan Noble, the president of Young Americans for Liberty on campus, said Tokie’s statements were immature at best, but the investigation was uncalled for.

“People have the right to make immature and unpopular statements, and it is quite obvious there is no actual threat of violence in this statement. Just as important, though, is the fact Albion has left this student hanging for six months with no resolution to the situation,” Noble said.

“That is no way to handle a

situation like this. The beautiful thing about free speech is if you say something stupid, you are protected from government backlash, not social backlash.”

Tokie said he spoke with students on his campus who were offended by the email to make amends.

“I had discussions with individuals who were offended by the document, and we sorted out our differences,” Tokie said. “I’m good friends with those people now.”

Tokie said he’ll speak with the dean of students tomorrow to discuss the outcome of the investigation.

“What happened, me sending the email to so many people, it was a stupid mistake,” Tokie said. “It could easily have been avoided, but with that being said, I think Albion College needs to understand what it means to be a liberal arts school.

And that means accepting every opinion, taking them seriously, and having meaningful discourse about those opinions.”

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D.C. center unveils miniature statue, hosts Washington and Lee professor By | Nicole Ault D.C. Correspondent WASHINGTON — Unsure of his exact birth date in 1818, Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate on Feb. 14.

So on Tuesday, the eve of his 200th birthday, a gathering at Hillsdale’s Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship honored him in style — with a public lecture, a reception, and a brand-new painting.

One of the Kirby Center’s monthly AWC Family Foundation lectures, the event was co-hosted by Hillsdale College and the Douglass Leadership Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization. Lucas Morel, head of the politics department at Washington and Lee University, gave the keynote address, nine months after speaking on Hillsdale’s campus at the unveiling of the Douglass statue by Lane Hall.

Standing next to a photograph and a miniature statue of Douglass (and joking that it couldn’t compare to the one on campus), Morel lectured about 150 people on Douglass’ appreciation for American principles.

“The more one learns about Frederick Douglass, the more one marvels at his extraordinary achievements,” Morel said. “On the eve of the 200th anniversary of his birth, we commemorate the man whose life exemplifies all that the Kirby Center and Hillsdale College seek to promote.”

After escaping slavery, Douglass hated America at first but eventually came to claim it as his country because he understood the principles of the country’s founders, Morel said.

“Douglass did not think the flaws of white America should override the opportunities that could be had if only American citizens, black and white, took serious the principles of their — yes, slave-owning — forefathers,” Morel said. “Douglass be-

Lucas Morel is a professor of politics at Washington and Lee University. He spoke at the Hillsdale College Kirby Center on Tuesday night. Robert Hasler | Courtesy

lieved the bedrock principles of equality and individual rights run counter to highlighting race as a political practice.”

Mistreated even as a free man, Douglass chose to maintain his dignity, Morel said. Forced to ride in a baggage car one time, Douglass received an apology from white friends. But Douglass responded: “They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass.

The soul that is within me, no one can degrade.”

“Somehow, I don’t think he would be a fan of the ‘safe spaces,’” Morel quipped. “Or be too distressed by the ‘micro-agressions.’ This is a man who knew macro-agressions.”

The statesman, writer, and orator was no stranger to college campuses; the most photographed man of the 19th century, Douglass sat for one his most iconic photos at Hillsdale College, Morel recounted. Invited to speak by the Ladies Literary Society, Douglass delivered a speech called “Popular Error and Unpopular Truth.”

Throughout all his speeches and writing, Douglass

primarily sought justice and equality for all humans before the law, values he found inherent in the principles of the American founding, Morel said.

“The question is, if not the principle of human equality, then what principle — American, African, or otherwise — would be more effective in promoting progress and securing equality under the law?” Morel said.

That’s the principle that Walter Hoye, founder of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California and an audience member on Tuesday, found most compelling about Douglass and other historical figures such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Booker T. Washington.

“They embraced the modern-day language of personhood,” Hoye said. “We’re all humans, made in the image of God.” After the speech, guests were invited to a nearby room for a sneak preview of a Frederick Douglass portrait, commissioned by donors of the Douglass Leadership Institute and painted by

Tom Matousek. The institute hadn’t decided where to display the newly-unveiled painting but would use it as a logo for their Douglass bicentennial celebrations, said Rev. Dean Nelson, the institute’s board chair.

Nelson said that for the institute, a 3-year-old, grassroots organization focused on faith-based education and community work, it was a wonderful opportunity to hear from Morel. Members of the Douglass Leadership Institute attended the Douglass statue unveiling on campus last May as well.

“We love being able to hear from scholars,” Nelson said, noting that they’re all about applying ideas to practice.

In his speech, Morel emphasized the value of learning the ideas of Douglass.

“We are in desperate need of fresh thinking about race in America,” Morel said. “I can think of no better place to start than with the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass. May he serve as a guide for our own time.”

IFC blood drive this Friday By | Aaron Andrews Collegian Freelancer The Interfraternity Council is hosting a Red Cross blood drive on Monday, Feb. 19, from 11 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. in Grewcock Student Union.

Vice President of Delta Sigma Phi Joe Spampinato said the drive was a success last year.

“We did well, but we were three bags short of our goal,” Spampinato said.

The group had a goal of 98

bags of blood, a number suggested by the Red Cross, but had too many students cancel after succumbing to cold and flu season.

Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers approached Spampinato about running this semester’s blood drive after seeing the way he handled the one in the fall.

“IFC is doing this event to provide an opportunity for all the fraternities to work together on a philanthropy project,” Spampinato said.

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Q&A: 200 years of Douglass By | Nicole Ault D.C. Correspondent WASHINGTON — Lucas Morel is a professor of politics and head of the politics department at Washington and Lee University. His scholarship focuses on Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison. He is the author of “Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to the Invisible Man” (2004) and “Religion’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government” (2000).

Why did you decide to focus on Frederick Douglass (along with Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Ellison) in your research and scholarship?

These people teach me about America. I’m loyal to Lincoln because I’m more convinced of his interpretation of the Constitution than Douglass’, but Douglass teaches me about the founding not just through his life but through his speeches and writings. I happen to think that the Founders were right, and [I appreciate] anybody who can help me understand what the Founders were trying to do, counterintuitively enough in the midst of holding people. That’s what makes our country such an intriguing historical thing, precisely because we say one thing in the midst of doing another.

We tell American history by the progress of lining up our practice with our profession.

What is one of the most important things Americans — especially young Americans, like Hillsdale College students — can learn from Frederick Douglass?

Read Douglass, imitate Douglass, learn the language of liberty. It’s not language we use today. We talk about rights, but rights can be an arbitrary thing that’s linked to a particular identity. The language of humanity, the language of human rights, the language that speaks of that which we all hold in common -- and therefore what the government should do in common -- that, I think, can help us with progress. What I think we can learn from Douglass is a way of talking about each other and about what we all possess that can teach people that government really can pursue this thing we call

the common good rather than simply being pressure politics.

Does Douglass have wisdom that can help improve race relations in America today?

Racial minorities in this country, as much as they don’t like the Founder’s practices, can be taught to love the Founders’ principles. Get them to be more confident in defending the principles of the American founding, and, in light of those principles, come up with policies that would be more consistent with equality.

What’s amazing is not that the people who believed in equality were slaveholders; it’s that slaveholders believed in equality. They believed in something that contradicted their own practice, and they knew it. Douglass teaches us that we can trust the Founder’s principles; we need to relearn them.

We know their faults; let’s go back and see how they know that they are faults. Guess who teaches us their own faults?

The very people who aren’t living up to their promises.

Is there anything that most people don’t know about Douglass that you find interesting or important?

When he died, they wanted to honor his life. He lived until 1895, so he saw a lot of American history and he had a great role in shaping that history. Someone proposed in Congress that his body lie in honor, in the nation’s Capitol, and that’s an honor given only to government officials or really important people.

A senator from his own state was the one who quashed the idea. But I think it’s amazing that there was an opportunity in American history to announce to the world that Frederick Douglass was so important to us, he deserved to lie in the nation’s Capitol. You only find it in one biography — in all the major biographies, not one of them mentions that.

Do you have any forthcoming books on Lincoln, Douglass, or Ellison?

My [current] book is “Abraham Lincoln and the American Founding.” It basically argues that the most important elements of Lincoln’s political thought and practice were shaped by what he learned from the Founders.

It wouldn’t come out till early 2019.

Members of DSP, Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Tau Delta, and Sigma Chi will be donating a combined sum of approximately 160 hours over the next week to run the drive.

“It’s an important service to the health institutes of America,” sophomore and DTD member Jonah Davey said. “If everyone had the mentality that it wasn’t necessary, then there would be a lot of people dying.”

A blizzard over the weekend dusted Hillsdale College’s campus in a sparkly layer snow.

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Hillsdale buried beneath a blizzard

By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor Today’s forecast may be rain, but just last week the season’s biggest snow storm blew into Hillsdale, leaving several inches of snow and some happy students with no classes to attend.

Senior Brigette Hall says she was happy to have all her classes canceled.

“It feels like Saturday,” she said.

According to the Hillsdale Daily News, the National Weather Service Northeast Indiana predicted 8-12 inches of snow for Hillsdale County on Friday.

Director of Campus Security Bill Whorley said clearing the nearly a foot of snow on campus was a team effort.

“The security office worked with the grounds department and Hillsdale College’s Emergency Response Team,

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a volunteer group, to remove snow where their machines couldn’t,” Whorley said. “The big machinery they have can’t clear small spaces around buildings, like sidewalks and areas close to doorways, so we did it.”

Senior Rachael Reynolds, who lives in downtown, said making her way to campus Friday morning proved harder than she expected. Her car, parked around the corner from her apartment, got caught in a snowbank after the snow plows came through.

“It took me twenty minutes to dig myself out of the snow bank so my car would move,” she said, “and I have fourwheel drive.”

Lecturer in Rhetoric and Public Address Brita Stoneman cancelled her two Friday morning classes the night before.

“I worried I’d wake up

and it’d be nothing,” she said.

“When I saw all the snow, and I just laughed. The amount that we got was ridiculous.”

Her husband, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address Ethan William Stoneman, also cancelled class. The Stonemans live about five miles from campus, Ms. Stoneman said, but that’s far enough when the roads aren’t plowed.

Junior Andrea Wallace, who volunteers for Hillsdale’s Liberty Princess Co., said the business had about a dozen performers working over the weekend, and the snow made transportation difficult.

“I was Ariel for three parties on Saturday and had to trudge through all the snow in character heels,” Wallace said.

“Needless to say, I was a cold mermaid, and unlike Elsa, the cold bothered me anyway.”

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Student Fed welcomes two junior reps By | Carmel Kookogey collegian Freelancer Student Federation elected two new junior independent representatives, who said they hope to bring a wider range of interests to the table.

Hillsdale College’s Student Federation elected two new junior independent representatives, Mark Compton and Rebecca Carlson, at the beginning of the year. Each class has one representative from each Greek house, and two independents, male and female, to represent the student body.

Junior Rebecca Carlson, who is studying philosophy, applied after elections were over, after the previous female independent joined a Greek house. Although she was not previously involved in the federation, she described how her past experience made the job more interesting.

“I like the idea of student government,” Carlson said. “I was on student council in high school, and I enjoyed trying to figure out the best way to use money to help students get to know each other better and do things that they were interested in doing.”

Junior Mark Compton, who is majoring in both philosophy and classical studies,

Juniors Rebecca Carlson and Mark Compton are the newest members to Student Fed. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

is also a new member of Student Fed. “I’d never been involved in Student Fed at all, never been to any of their meetings; it was just kind of this thing that I never really thought about until now,” Compton said.

Despite just starting their involvement in Student Fed, the representatives immediately are diving into Student Fed’s work.

Compton is the new chairman of the Campus Improvement Committee, which looks to find ways to improve campus and implement solutions.

“I guess for me it’s just kind

of focusing on littler things that I and the rest of the committee can do to just make campus more enjoyable,” Compton said.

Carlson is a member of the Publications Committee, which oversees the funding for The Collegian, the Tower Light, and the Winona yearbook.

Student Fed President junior Natalie Meckel said Compton and Carlson are bringing the federation a more well-rounded frame of reference.

“It’s great, because we have new perspectives from

Influenza continues to spread across campus By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Keep washing your hands, kids.

There have been 44 confirmed cases of the flu on campus, said staff nurse Carol Drews, which is “up significantly” from previous years.

Only seven new cases have been confirmed this week, a number down from the 26 cases the week before.

“I feel like we’re having a slight slow down,” Drews said. “It’s hard to tell if we’ve peaked or not.”

Professor of English Kelly

Franklin was sick for 11 days and had to cancel a full week of classes.

“I definitely had some kind of flu,” Franklin said in an email. “Flu season is tough.

I’ve got a number of students who missed several days of classes with the same bug.

But we’re going to make it through.”

The Hillsdale Hospital is also seeing no break in numbers.

“It’s almost impossible to predict,” said Doris Whorley, director of risk management at the Hillsdale Hospital. “It would seem like there’s not

many people left.”

The Center for Disease Control still lists the entire nation as having a “widespread” outbreak of the flu, except Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. Drews said the Ambler Health and Wellness Center is still administering the flu shot. She added that handwashing and staying home if ill are the best ways to prevent the disease spreading.

“I hope we’ve peaked, but it’s still early in the flu season,” she said.

Renovations in Galloway to displace men for entire year Some residents will go to Whitley, while others will move off campus By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Freelancer Construction on Galloway is scheduled to begin immediately following the end of the 2018 Spring semester, but will not be finished until fall of 2020. This means the men of Galloway will be “exiled,” as the Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers put it, for an entire year before they can return to their “homedorm.”

In planning for the renovations, the deans spoke with the student leaders within Galloway about what they wanted to see in their new home.

The new Galloway will feature more study areas and common areas and will keep its communal bathrooms.

It will also include a new outdoor hangout space where residents can continue to host their weekly Thursday gatherings. This is a tradition which usually involves a bonfire, grilled meat, cigars, and an eclectic mix of Frank Sinatra and Taylor Swift music.

In the interim, most of Galloway’s current residents will move into Whitley Residence, which is currently a female residence. Mean-

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while Whitley residents will move to the new unnamed women’s dorm, according to Carolyn Milligan, assistant to the vice-president of student affairs.

However, Whitley can house only 49 of Galloway’s current 88 residents, so some residents will have to move

“Galloway dorm has a lot of guys that have really been blessed with living there.” into off campus housing.

“Galloway dorm has a lot of guys that have really been blessed with living there,” Rogers said. “There is a sadness and an excitement in them. They know they will never be able to back to Galloway as it is, but there is an excitement because it will be new.”

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Assistant Ethan Visser said he loves the quirky camaraderie and community that he has found in Galloway over the past two years, something he attributes both to the shared experience of living in the most rundown dorm on campus as well as the strength of his dorm-mate’s character.

“I think a lot of guys in Galloway are not worried about how they look and are unapologetically themselves, which is why Galloway is pretty strange,” Visser said.

“But I love being a part of that, and I respect that in others. I think also faith is a big part of Galloway, and there’s a lot of humility and willingness to serve. I see a lot of all that in Galloway and also just good fun.”

He and his dorm-mates are confident that in even the coming year of construction and separation, the spirit of Galloway will remain as strong and close as ever.

“The character comes from the guys, not the building,” Visser said. “The deans are already talking to the RA’s, who will be staying about keeping up the traditions and culture.

I’m not worried.”

campus,” Meckel said. “Mark is a classics major, which is different from a lot of people who are on the federation.

Rebecca’s really involved in the theater and performing arts aspects of campus, which, again, a lot of our students on the federation are not a part of.”

She added that Compton’s involvement on the Campus Improvements Committee as an upperclassman has been useful.

“I was really excited to have a junior representative chairing that committee,” Meckel said. “He’s going to have a greater perspective of what improvements would benefit the whole campus, because he’s been here for a longer period of time than a freshman or a sophomore.”

Although neither Carlson nor Compton were involved in Student Federation before their election, both are taking the importance of their voice and its effect on student life seriously.

“I would like people to feel like they have some contact with a representative,” Carlson said. “We don’t have to be off cloistered in our own Formal Lounge.”

Compton said he hopes to help people understand

the effect Student Fed has on campus life.

“We just voted for funding on CPAC, we just approved a new club, we just funded something for the Hillsdale Hepcats Swing Club,” Compton said. “We fund events that people think just happen, and that’s money that we’ve given people. So, it’s just that kind of stuff, just keeping campus events running smoothly.”

The new representatives said they hope to be an effective resource to their peers.

“I think one drawback I’ve seen in the past is that I had a hard time getting information about Student Fed,” said Carlson, adding the information was available, but difficult to access.

Compton suggested there’s more to the federation than most students know.

“It’s very easy to think very poorly of Student Fed because the only thing that seems to get publicized is if they make a bad choice or if people think they make a bad choice, so it’s very rare that you hear about all the other stuff the Fed does,” he said. “That’s really the main thing. Don’t be so quick to discredit Student Fed.”

GOAL volunteer programs looking for new leaders By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor The GOAL volunteer program is now accepting applications for leaders. Seven out of 21 of the volunteer programs have positions opening. The GOAL coordinator is also up for application, as this year’s coordinator will step into the role of director.

“Because there’s such a big turnover every year, the leader shadowing this semester is so important. And that’s why we hire so early in the semester,” junior Lucile Townley, program coordinator, said The position comes with a scholarship, due to the required time commitment.

Leaders dedicate 75 hours per semester making sure their program run smoothly, either through administrative tasks or by volunteering at the actual program.

The new leader can also explore taking the program in a different direction and can brainstorm with the current leader.

Townley said volunteering is a great way to further a liberal arts education.

“The whole aim of Hillsdale being a liberal arts school is we’re here to become better, more complete, well-rounded humans and learn how we can be good citizens,” Townley said. “A huge part of being a good citizen is helping your community and volunteering in your community. So being a GOAL program leader allows you to have a vision for how you want to help the community.”

Students can apply to be leaders of Young Life, Buddy Reading, Music in the Community, High Rise, Special Education Assistance, Public School Tutoring, and Hillsdale Buddies.

“They do volunteer in the program, but a lot of their job is working with community members to figure out what the need is and then working with both their peers and the GOAL office to figure out ‘how can we

School shooting in Florida

Kidnapped girl found safe

On Wednesday morning, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Many students noted Cruz’s social media displaying pictures of guns and his history of threatening students.

A missing 4-year-old South Carolina girl was reportedly found Wednesday inside a car in an Alabama parking lot with her suspected kidnapper asleep at the wheel. The girl is safe but the kidnapper, who also beat the mother, managed to drive away.

meet these needs,’” Townley said. “So a lot of what they do is scheduling and recruiting volunteers and making sure volunteers have rides to get places and then — a lot of our programs work with education — so communicating with the teachers ‘are these volunteers meeting yours needs, do they need more training, how can we train them differently?’

Applicants are interviewed by Program Director senior Allison Deckert, Townley, Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell, and — this year — Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers.

“He’s a good presence to have in that process,” Deckert said.

Deckert said that while qualified applicants are offered an interview, it’s a highly competitive process, with seven or eight applications per position, so not every applicant is guaranteed an interview.

Sophomore Emily Skwarek, the new hospital volunteer leader, has been shadowing senior Katelyn Bercaw, the current leader.

“Just because it’s such an intense program, that’s why we hire ahead of time for hospital volunteering,” Townley said.

Bercaw explained what the shadowing process looks like after a new leader is hired.

“What I’ll be doing with Emily this semester is meeting with her, and I’ll be meeting with different staff at the hospital so she can get to know them and so I can introduce her to all those contacts over at the hospital,” she said. “And then I’ll be showing her how to run different meetings such as new volunteer orientations and I’ll be showing her how to keep track of all the volunteers.”

The new leader for Students Against Cancer, sophomore Sarah Becker, was also hired last semester.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 28, and

U-M professor charged with child porngraphy 56-year-old Clifford Raymond Bingham, Former professor at University of Michigan, was sentenced on Tuesday to 90 days in jail and five years of probation for having child pornography of 2- to 4-year-olds on his university computer.

In brief: Improv show this Thursday By | Jordyn Pair News Editor

Improv is coming back.

The first show of the Ad-Liberty Improv group will be tonight at 6 p.m. in the Olds Dormitory. The show will feature six actors, as well as some new content.

“A lot of new-to-Hillsdale-College improvisers will be showcased tomorrow,” said Dylan Strehle, the group’s coach. The group will also play several new games.

Strehle added that he enjoys the spontaneity of the show.

“My favorite thing is when things are up in the air,” Strehle said. “There’s nothing to be stressed about.”

Freshman Taryn Murphy, one of the performers, says that one of the scariest things about improvisation is that no one will laugh at the content, but that she loves the diverse crowd.

“My favorite thing is learning to laugh with people you otherwise wouldn’t meet on campus,” Murphy said.

The Ad-Liberty Improv group will perform tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the lobby of Olds Dormitory.

YAF hosts Michigan state rep By | Rowan Macwan Collegian Reporter Former State Rep. Tom Hooker will speak on Feb. 22 for Young Americans for Freedom on his experience in leadership as state representative for the Grand Rapids area and on his current position as the supervisor of Byron Township.

He will speak in Lane 236 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., which will include time for questions from those attending.

Junior Luke Barbrick, the president of YAF, said Hooker will speak on his experience as a leader, urging the audience not to follow the crowd, but to keep their principles at the forefront of their mind when leading others.

“It’s great for people to hear from somebody who has played in the politics around them, here in Michigan,” said senior English Hinton, the vice president of YAF. “Anytime someone is around here like that, it’s a great opportunity.”

Barbrick said Hooker is known for taking a stand on his convictions particularly when it comes to social issues.

During his three terms as a representative, Hooker has been called one of the most, if not the most, conservative representatives in the Michigan house, and he has a record of standing up for his beliefs.

“A lot of conservatives stand up for what they believe, but with the younger generation, that’s starting to disappear a bit,” Barbrick said.

“I’ve seen examples of both at Hillsdale, and because of that, I see potential for growth.”

Thick fog to cover most of lower Michigan Drivers across most of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan may experience trouble viewing more than a quarter-mile on their Thursday morning commutes to work as dense fog is expected to cover the area.

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News media fell for North Korea’s newest strategy for gaining soft power when a charming young woman, the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, made her debut during the Winter 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The Olympics made controversial headlines over the weekend when Kim Yo-Jung, the dictator’s sister, suddenly was chosen to attend the Olympics, Vice President Mike Pence did not stand up for the united Korea hockey team, and Kim Yo-Jung visited with South Korean heads of state.

Wi-Fi in Mossey Library needs improvement By | Aaron Andrews Special to The Collegian Mossey Library needs better Wi-Fi. I’ll admit it. I’m one of those students that stands in line to be the first to get at those four or five pleasant study spots — one of the three tables in the cloistral silence of the shelves on the left side of Purgatory, one of the four or five nice chairs in the Heritage Room, or maybe even the one-and-only window table in the corner of Paradise, where the leaves from the trees outside the windows hedge the student in with an ever-moving wall of gold and green. Often my patience is rewarded. I swing my backpack down with a triumphant thud and claim the much-desired table only to find — horror of horrors — that the internet connection isn’t strong enough to access a Google document.

Maybe I should stop complaining and download Microsoft Office — that way I’d be able to work on documents offline — but that doesn’t address the problem.

It should be easy to connect to the internet in the library — the very locus of learning.

If there’s one place where you ought to be able to browse the JSTOR database or simply download documents, it’s the library.

Nothing frustrates me more than when things don’t work the way they’re supposed to. So I decided to talk to information technology services about the issue.

According to Patrick Chartrand, lead network engineer in ITS, the internet in Hillsdale is lightning quick.

In the early 2000s, former ITS director David Zenz negotiated with Merit Network Inc. to install fiber optics, which made Hillsdale College part of the backbone of internet infrastructure that serves all of central Michigan. Chartrand reported that the connection between Hillsdale’s firewall and the Merit Inc. ISP router gives the college a stunning 10 GB connection. Translation: Hillsdale’s internet is fast.

So why am I having trouble?

Why can’t I have access to the internet in my favorite study spot?

Chartrand explained although connection is flawless on the front end — the college has no problem connecting to Merit’s router — the problems that students experience on the back end come from limited access points on campus.

Right now there are eight access points in the library.

That might seem like a lot, but in reality, a Wi-Fi connection

is choked by the weakest link.

“A student connecting to the access point through a brick wall is going to share his poor connection with everyone else trying to use that router,” Chartrand said.

So the solution is simply to install more access points, right?

Yes and no. Although increasing the number of access points can help to bring solid connection to areas with limited Wi-Fi, there is a down side.

“A Wi-Fi signal is like a wave,” Chartrand said. “When two waves meet, the troughs and crests can cancel eachother out. It’s the same with a Wi-Fi signal. When two signals meet, it can result in a

“It turns out that this is a complex problem that takes a whole team of network engineers to fix.”

dead spot.

It isn’t just a matter of installing more access points. It’s also a tedious balancing act.

A new access point costs about $175, Chartrand said.

The network cable that links the access point to the network switches in the data center costs between $600 to $1,200.

“We could easily double the number of access points in the library,” Chartrand said, “but throwing more access points into the mix isn’t always the right solution. You have to be aware of the many factors of wireless technology and radio frequency and try your best to provide connectivity for the locations that it’s needed, all while staying within budget.”

Chartrand said ITS just installed a new access point in the library’s fishbowl classroom last week.

If you are like me, bristling in frustration whenever your connection cuts out in the library, then be pacified.

It turns out that this is a complex problem that takes a whole team of network engineers to fix. Rest assured: The ITS department is working tirelessly to improve our connection.

Aaron Andrews is a senior studying English.

The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff Previously off the radar, Kim Yo-Jung was treated like something of a debutant at her first ball. CNN International tweeted an article with the clickbait headline, “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics” and lauded her “diplomatic dance.”

The New York Times wrote: “Kim Jong-Un’s Sister Turns on the Charm, Taking Pence’s Spotlight.”

Sensibly, social media users hit back, and online-only publications aggregated posts into stories sensationalizing the uproar. Even Buzzfeed fired shots with an article: “PSA: Kim Jong Un’s Sister Is Not

Your New Fave Shade Queen.

She’s A Garbage Monster.”

Kim Yo-Jung is not Kim Kardashian or Kate Middleton. She’s neither a celebrity nor a princess, yet implicitly the language that has been used takes her from her sphere of political influence and into a cultural one that makes her seem harmless.

The language deployed reveals an inherent gender bias in media. It suggests powerful women in politics are one-dimensional, limited to being like princesses who dazzle in the limelight, who perform diplomatic dances.

During the Olympics, a

venue for displays of national strength, ideas are just as important as the people who represent them. When we allow ourselves to be enchanted

by North Korea’s impressively synchronized cheerleaders and a young woman rejuvenating the regime, we substitute content for form.

We can only leave behind our gender biases in our writing when we remember that people are both how they present themselves and what they represent. Somehow, in our news coverage, we can’t push past the former.

Hillsdale leaves out the Judeo from Judeo-Christian heritage By | Nathan Steinmeyer Special to The Collegian Here at Hillsdale, the Judeo-Christian Greco-Roman heritage is a big deal.

But something has slipped by unnoticed: Where in our curriculum or on campus do you find anything about the Jewish side of that heritage? Once a year the religion department offers an Old Testament class, and every fall we bring in only a lecturer or two with our Gershom Lecture series.

These are great opportunities, but they pale in comparison to the seemingly endless barrage of the other three heritages. It is practically a requirement to bring Aristotle into any speech given on campus, and the philosophy and religion department offers more classes about Christianity than I could ever fit into my four-year Hillsdale education.

Although I am grateful for these opportunities, the Jewish heritage offers far more than simply a jumping off point for Christianity. The Works of the Jewish writers, both during the biblical period and beyond, give us an endless wealth of wisdom

from philosophy and religion to politics and history.

Through the biannual Philos trips to Israel and the Gershom Lectures, the campus has been pushing to foster stronger interfaith relationships. Yet, no 10-day trip to Israel can truly teach a student to understand this unique tradition.

While I was sitting in Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Joshua Fincher’s Midrash seminar this semester, it struck home just how much less knowledgeable the student body generally is about the Jewish heritage. It’s not a lack of interest, but a lack of opportunities. This tradition in which I and a handful of others on campus grew up is practically night and day in comparison to the Christian, Greek, and Roman traditions.

Beyond interfaith relations, the Jewish tradition is incredibly important to properly understand the Christian faith.

Far from being some mystic on a hill, Jesus Christ was an earthly figure in a real time and place in history. For those of us who desire to understand his teachings, shouldn’t we strive to understand what he was taught and the tradition that he was raised in?

Practically every single

verse in the New Testament harkens back to the teachers that came before it. This work that we hold in such high regard is not some standalone book, but one built upon centuries of a deep and rich tradition.

For me, as a senior about to pursue Old Testament and Near Eastern studies at the graduate level, it is baffling to see just how little respect we give to this crucially important tradition. For example, through our classical studies department, you can learn to read the works of Homer and Virgil. In the foreign language department, you can spend a lifetime reading those of Calvin and Luther. But where do you read the politics of Moses, the philosophy of Solomon, the dialectics of the Hazal?

For those of us interested in such linguistic pursuits, we are lucky if there is a class offered every other year.

This is not for a lack of faculty. It seems like every time I turn around, I meet a faculty member that has at least a basic grasp of Biblical Hebrew and even several that excel in it. By studying abroad or taking independent studies, it is possible to take these classes, but there should be no need to jump through such

complicated hoops.

I understand that as a small rural college, it’s impossible to offer every class that students want, but if we’re meant to do our “heritage” justice, we need to right this wrong. Between the classics, history, and philosophy and religion departments, we have the faculty to do it. Several of them, such as Professor Fincher, said he would even be interested in teaching more classes in this area.

Duly respecting the Jewish heritage does not require offering a new major. But a good place to start would be by offering regular Hebrew classes, continuing to have Fincher teach Jewish literature, and, most importantly, spending more time talking about it in our core humanities courses.

As it is, we don’t even have a Talmud in Mossey Library that students can check out. In an ideal world, students like me could spend just as much time studying the Jewish heritage as the other three, but until that happens, I’ll be doing it on my own.

Nathan Steinmeyer is a senior studying philosophy and religion.

Negative perception of police has increased unjust killings By | Liam Bredberg Special to The Collegian

The Westerville, Ohio, Police Department received a domestic disturbance call around noon on Feb. 10.

Officers Anthony Morelli and Eric Joering, 17- and 30-year veterans of the small town department, arrived at the address from which the call was made, expecting a simple check up.

When they knocked on the door, however, they were greeted by a barrage of gunfire. Joering was killed at the scene. Morelli died in surgery soon after he was rushed to the hospital following the incident. Both officers left behind their wives and children.

Authorities have charged 30-year-old Quentin Lamar Smith. At this time, not much is known about Smith or his motive, except that he was wounded in the firefight with the officers and then taken to a nearby hospital following the incident.

Reading this repulsive story should render any American breathless.

The attack on these innocent officers is part of the tragically malevolent and increasingly popular trend of perceiving police officers as enemies. Cultural icons bolster the opinion that the majority of police desire to hurt rather than protect.

Countless celebrities have abused their platform, pushing the narrative that police hurt and kill innocent people, all while implying that

it is the citizen’s job to put them in their place by fighting back. At an anti-police rally at Washington Square in New York City, Quentin Tarantino said: “I am a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I

“They actively seek chaos and anarchy, which Americans should treat as terrorism, rather than praise as progressive.” have to call the murderers the murderers.”

This statement was made in response to legally absolved and justified police shootings that certain people decided were unjust. America already has a trial-by-jury system set in stone, and justice can’t work properly if public opinion determines guilt.

Many members of political movements such as Black Lives Matter and “antifa” spread the idea that anarchy is a better option than the legal system that our country has in place. They say that police unjustly kill people in the street, so the people have a right and duty to revolt.

In reality, these so-called social movements are terrorists organizations. When

people and organizations with such massive popularity challenge their followers to take the law into their own hands and fight against certain people for unjust reasons, they abuse their power.

They actively seek chaos and anarchy, which Americans should treat as terrorism, rather than praise as progressive. Wes Enzinna, a writer for the leftist Mother Jones magazine, stated in an interview: “Yes, I think they’re not opposed to violence. I spent about two years investigating the antifa movement and getting to know five men who were imprisoned for a violent attack.” Allowing a violent organization such as antifa to thrive is dangerous law enforcement and citizens with whom they may disagree.

Many professional athletes, too, have jumped on he protest bandwagon for only one reason: popularity. They serve as role models for thousands of children around the country and, in conveying their anarchist message, implant the idea that kids can’t trust the police.

The problem with athlete protests is like that of celebrities: They claim to stand right there with struggling people in this country, but at the end of the day they retreat to their mansions and continue living luxurious lives. Their hypocritical protests and lifestyles turn more and more people against the police.

There are outlying cases in which an officer takes advantage of his badge. One example may be the shooting

of Daniel Shaver, who was forced to crawl on the ground and was shot when he tried to pull up his loose-fitting pants by a trigger-happy officer at a New Mexico hotel. No weapons were found on Shaver’s person.

The overwhelming majority of police officers, however, are good men and women who simply wish to protect and serve the citizens of this great country.

Rhetoric against police officers has led to a tragic increase in violence against and murder of officers.

In 2017, 128 officers were killed in the line of duty, 44 of those were shot. In comparison to only five years ago, these numbers are extremely high. In 2013, the year Black Lives Matter was founded, 76 law enforcement officers were killed on duty. Only 26 were shot.

These sickening statistics prove that this country needs change. The media’s failure to send positive messages regarding police makes it easier for anti-police groups to have a larger impact on the people of this country.

To change these statistics, we first have to change the culture that allows these injustices to happen.

Until people realize that they are manipulated by lies and are able to see the facts, unjustified killings of honorable police officers will continue to happen.

Liam Bredberg is a sophomore studying the liberal arts.

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Kim Yo-Jong is the ceremonial head of a dictatorship By | Kaylee McGhee D.C. Correspondent Growing up, I was fascinated with the idea of North Korea. I watched documentary after documentary, trying to wrap my mind around a place so unlike my own home — a place without freedom, education, or opportunity.

Watching one of these documentaries, I listened to the story of a girl who had escaped the totalitarian regime, who later wrote a book about it called “In Order to Live.”

Yeonmi Park described the horrors she faced growing up: starvation, indoctrination, and dehumanization. She said that in North Korea, citizens are taught to hate enemies of the state, especially Americans.

“Our schools and textbooks were full of images of grotesque American GIs with blue eyes and huge noses executing civilians. Sometimes at recess we lined up to beat or stab dummies dressed like American soldiers,” Park recalled.

And shockingly enough, it

was this brutality and propaganda the American media celebrated this week.

A few weeks before the Winter Olympics were set to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Kim Jong-Un announced that his sister, Kim Yo-Jong, would travel to South Korea to represent his regime at the games. It was a historic moment: This was the first time a member of North Korea’s ruling family had stepped foot in South Korea since the start of the Korean War. But instead of treating her with the precaution and seriousness that North Korea’s repressive, inhumane society demands, the media showered Kim Yo-Jong with attention and praise, taking more than a few shots at the Trump administration along the way.

A CNN headline blared: “Kim Jong-Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics.” This story began by describing Kim Yo-Jong’s diplomatic performance as gold medal-worthy: “With a smile, a handshake and a warm message in South Korea’s presidential guest book, Kim Yo-Jong has struck a

chord with the public just one day into the PyeongChang Games.”

Judging from this, acting politely with a smile on one’s face is a mind-blowing, un-

“We should encourage other nations not to cater to a regime dedicated to destroying freedom and anyone who dares to pursue it.” precedented diplomatic tactic.

Who would’ve guessed? But considering Kim Jong-Un’s typical diplomatic relations consist of nuclear threats and frequent missile launches, maybe CNN is right.

The media briefly abandoned its fixation with the way Kim Yo-Jong “effortlessly” shook hands to attack Mike Pence (but only after making sure we knew North Korea’s diplomatic head of state was

really rocking that wine-colored jacket and black pants).

There was no shortage of criticism for Pence’s decision not to acknowledge Kim Yo-Jong or stand when the “unified” Korean team walked in the opening parade.

A New York Times reporter wrote: “Kim Jong-Un’s sister turns on the charm, taking Pence’s spotlight.”

Her “sphinx-like smile” and “no-nonsense hairstyle and dress, her low-key makeup, and the sprinkle of freckles on her cheeks” apparently symbolized a desire for peace and reconciliation. Pence, on the other hand, has wrinkles instead of freckles and a sense of morality instead of an insane desire for domination.

The media was so appalled with Pence’s “horrific,” “atrocious,” “disrespectful” — you name it — behavior that they seemed to have forgotten the 18 million North Koreans dying of starvation, a wellknown fact thanks to a 2017 United Nations report. They overlooked the stories of survivors like Park, who had been so indoctrinated that she believed her life was “worth

less than an animal’s.”

The New York Times and CNN’s “political princess” is a living manifestation of that reality. Kim Jong-Un didn’t send her to South Korea to make peace or to express a desire for reconciliation. I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing — hiding the ugly truth about the world’s most brutal regime behind a put-together, pretty figure who could make Americans forget, with a smile and handshake, that North Korea will never end its oppression.

Pence was right to ignore Kim Yo-Jong. She was nothing more than a North Korean prop, and America owes her nothing. Her totalitarian regime does not deserve recognition. A state bent on destroying America should not receive attention.

David Meeks wrote in USA Today that Pence “embarrassed America.” He said: “America should always strive to set an example for others.

Sometimes that means rising above pettiness, taking the high road of proper respect over mean-spirited grandstanding.”

Yes, Meeks, we should set an example for others: We should encourage other nations not to cater to a regime dedicated to destroying freedom and anyone who dares to pursue it. And that’s exactly what Pence did.

Just thinking out loud here, but aren’t North Korea’s grotesque crimes against humanity more important than how many freckles Kim Yo-Jong has on her left cheek? Reading their coverage, I’m assuming CNN, the Times, and a host of others are leaning toward the latter.

And the saddest part is that these outlets allowed themselves to be used by Kim Jong-Un, promoting his dictatorship by praising its ceremonial head. They were props and tools used by the North Korean regime, dancing right alongside Kim Yo-Jong as Kim Jong-Un expertly pulled the strings. So, a word of advice for those tempted to do the same: Please — for the love of all that’s good — shut up.

Kaylee McGhee is a junior studying politics.

Turn your heart toward NyQuil and Chills: God and others this Lent I lost a week to the flu By | Josephine von Dohlen Assistant Editor

When Lent rolls around each year, I find myself dreaming up a list of sacrifices I can make with the intention of becoming gloriously perfect by the time Easter arrives.

And every year, I’ve failed.

This year, I’m reminded of Lent as a penitential season set aside, not to demand perfection, but to redirect my life toward Christ, that I might participate in the joys of the resurrection come Easter.

Compiling sacrifices all too easily becomes a selfish way for me to turn my heart inward, rather than outward toward others and ultimately, toward God. Fasting easily becomes dieting, almsgiving can turn into a show, and prayer quickly devolves into list-making.

Lent is a time for all Christians to renew the commitment they made to Christ at the time of their baptism. As Christians, Easter is the pinnacle of our faith – we have nothing to rejoice if Christ did not die for our sins and then rise again.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said, “We are called not just to abstain from sin during Lent, but to true conversion of our hearts and minds as followers of Christ. We recall those waters in which we were baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began

new life in Christ.”

In his 2018 Lenten message, Pope Francis said: “Lent summons us, and enables us, to come back to the Lord wholeheartedly and in every aspect of our life.”

By devoting more time to prayer, we intentionally place Christ at the center of our lives rather than adding him to our list of people to whom we pay attention. Embracing silence, no matter how uncomfortable or how calming it might be, slowly starts to frame our lives around a life of prayer. This Lent, start by setting aside a small piece of time each day to pray, as small as five to 10 minutes.

Teresa of Avila, a Spanish Carmelite nun once said, “Prayer is being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him who we know loves us.”

Through almsgiving, we give directly to others, sharing in the blessings we have received. Almsgiving, however, means giving time, not just money. Try volunteering a few extra hours or helping a friend with a project. Our hearts expand as we make room for God and for others.

Fasting gives us the opportunity to deny the pleasures of the world, not because they are evil, but because of the importance of setting aside earthly comforts in order to make more time for God. By setting aside seemingly small things, such as certain foods

or listening to music, we slowly strengthen our will so that we might more easily submit to God’s will.

I find it helpful to focus on the little things that help us encounter God in places where we often forget to find him. Finding small things to be thankful for each day shifts attitudes of negativity toward good.

“Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy,” Pope Francis said.

And yet even as we enter lent intentionally trying to grow closer to God, we will fall. We will forget; we will just not do it. But Christ is overflowing with mercy, constantly calling us back each day to himself. The Book of Lamentations says, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

This Lent, take the time to take a little step back and re-order your life.

“May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds,” Pope Francis said. “By listening to God’s word and drawing nourishment from the table of the Eucharist, may our hearts be ever more ardent in faith, hope, and love.”

Josephine von Dohlen is a junior majoring in American studies.

By | Joe Pappalardo Senior Writer

By the time the hot water hit my feverish head, I realized I wasn’t hungover on a Tuesday morning. The headache hadn’t passed, my skin was oddly numb despite our enthusiastic water heater, and my body felt like a piñata salvaged from an 8-year-old’s birthday party.

Getting sick during the school year is a higher state of being. I took a breath too close to a diseased person and unknowingly punched my ticket for a week-long vacation. There is no better feeling than feverishly sending out distress beacons to all your professors, “I am coming down with the flu and won’t be in class this week.”

This WEEK. None of this “taking the day off ” nonsense – I’m holed up in my bedroom with three frozen pizzas and a Netflix subscription. I may wake each morning feeling like a small gang of freshmen beat me in my sleep, but I’m watching “Kill Bill” while you’re taking notes for the exam we both have next week. While you try to find a seat at lunch during the noon rush, I’m selectively eating a single cold pepperoni before I put the rest of the pizza in the oven. Bon appetit.

Try the flu. Just once. Sure, there are night sweats and fever dreams. There’s even a possibility that you end up with a life-threatening

respiratory illness. There’s also a chance you land yourself a pass to ignore the outside world long enough that you get a hero’s welcome when you return. Until then, you’re

“There is no better feeling than feverishly sending out distress beacons to all your professors, ‘I am coming down with the flu and won’t be in class this week.’” off the grid. You don’t exist.

Still, there must be a better way to take on the flu. Why does every drug have conflicting dosage times and limits?

The DayQuil label says “take one dose every four hours” but then further down the label it screams “DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN FOUR DOSES IN 24 HOURS.” That means the fun only lasts 16 hours. What am I supposed to do with the other eight?

If your body is not like mine and metabolizes painkillers at a reasonable rate, you can schedule out your day around ibuprofen and NyQuil.

Otherwise you find yourself shivering inside, waiting for your next fix, trying to contribute to a group project over email while your body

commits a crusade against all things comfortable.

And when your symptoms get too bad, there’s always WebMD to tell you it’s probably cancer, but that’s just its opinion.

Sure, I was miserable. It became very apparent why modern heating and plumbing is just one of the little barriers keeping us from dying of a common cold or worse.

The flu comes aggressively, and without warning, like a small child begging its mother for candy in the checkout lane. The worst is when one reaches the eye of the storm and the fever vanishes for a day. You catch yourself trying on regular clothes, maybe cleaning a dish or two, before your body tunes in to “Flu 2: Back with a Vengeance.”

The residual effects might be a deterrent for some.

Coughing up mucus during a friend’s birthday party is certainly not the gift he wanted, but probably the one he deserved. Deciding which clothes to burn and which to launder can be unnerving. For the next week, expect everyone to shout “Unclean!” and then smile and apologize but also back away a few inches more.

The flu was a painful, awful experience, but I’m a month into my semester and I’ve already had a week break. Can you say the same?

Joe Pappalardo is a senior studying marketing.

New federal budget accelerates insolvency By | David Schwartzman Special to The Collegian Imagine you and your brother have $5 to buy candy.

He wants Tootsie Rolls and you want Oreos. You argue about what to buy. Suddenly you realize, “Why argue? Let’s buy $5 of each!”

Unfortunately, life does not work that way. You cannot buy $10 of candy with $5.

Similarly, you cannot increase the budget deficit by at least $150 billion a year when you already have a $20 trillion debt. Yet that is exactly what congressional Democrats and Republicans did by voting early Friday morning to massively increase defense and domestic spending without having the money to do it.

In an example of Washington compromise at its finest, both sides averted their gaze and pretended that the debt was some magic number with no meaning. In doing so, Congress crushed the already-minimal chances of averting future bankruptcy.

Republicans are especially culpable in this situation. For

decades, Republicans opposed increasing deficits when Democrats were in power.

They yelled about the unsustainability of our fiscal path and the inevitable bankruptcy that would result from trillion dollar deficits.

But with Republicans controlling all three branches of government, those very same leaders pushed the United States farther down the same path, fully aware of their actions. Republicans are either knowingly harming the United States or have suffered some mysterious concussion-induced amnesia en masse.

Adding to the shameful content of the bill is the manner in which it passed.

A day before government funding was set to elapse last week, congressional leadership produced a 700-page bill.

Transparency in the democratic process was not even extended to elected officials, let alone constituents.

The bill had massive implications, but no one had time to read it, let alone debate it.

Yet because the bill was introduced so close to the funding

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, protested the bipartisan decision to increase federal spending. Wikimedia Commons

deadline, Senate leadership demanded an immediate vote.

When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, pushed for discussion and amendments to the spending bill, leadership from both parties excoriated him for risking a government shutdown. Republican leadership wrote the bill in secret, then it introduced it at the last second to stifle discussion.

Senate leadership told Paul that it was not the right time for discussion. When was the proper time to discuss spending increases? No one in Congress wanted to have the discussion, and no one wanted to take responsibility for passing the spending increases. To hide their responsibility from the American people, Congress tied spending increases to averting a government shutdown and rejected Paul’s appeal for a seperate vote on raising spending caps to protect members from political responsibility.

Our generation will be left with the consequences of this spending bill. While the current leaders will retire, it is our services that will be cut and our taxes that will be

raised. The United States military has always claimed it is underserved, yet it buried its own report about $125 billion in bureaucratic waste — after already spending more than the next eight countries combined. That same military will receive a $165 billion spending increase over two years that will finally bring it the resources it lacks.

What specifically the military lacks, and what it needs the money for, is, of course, not a germane topic for our elected representatives. Later, when the United States is forced to default on its debt, we will truly face a threat to national security — we will lose the ability to maintain a military because we will not have the money to pay for one.

Congressional action shows a complete disregard for basic financial reality because it’s politically expedient.

However, we must now face the challenges that the future promises.

David Schwartzman is a senior studying applied mathematics and economics.

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‘If you build it...’

Field of Dreams receives grant to help build new storage facility for sports teams

By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor Irrigation systems, circuit breakers, open wells don’t mix well with storage of sports equipment. Until now, the Hillsdale Recreation Department has had to cram all of this and more into one room at Field of Dreams.

Now, thanks to generous donations from community members and a $9,134 grant from the Hillsdale County Community Foundation, the Recreation Department is on course to build a new storage facility starting this spring.

According to Recreation Director Michelle Loren, the facility will be used for storing sports equipment, grounds maintenance equipment, and other items. Additionally, it will allow sole use of a smaller maintenance room attached to the concession stand for its intended purposes, such as electrical boxes and the facility’s open well.

“We’ve had to use it for storage,” she said. “But you’ve

got kids running in and out of there, and so we were concerned with the safety aspect of it.”

There is currently an additional small shed on the grounds, which the Hillsdale Soccer Club uses for storage.

Loren said the Recreation Department prefered to build

A new shed will aid many local sports teams that play at the Field of Dreams.

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an existing structure, rather than allow more of these sheds. This will help keep the grounds organized, and will also allow for continuity in the appearance of the buildings.

Without donations, the project would cost an estimated $27,500. The $9,134 grant from the Hillsdale County

Community Foundation, however, is helping to offset this.

“This project will benefit the Recreation Department and all of the other groups that,” HCCF Director of Community Engagement Amber Yoder said. “Field of Dreams is an amazing place and a great benefit to both those within the city and outside of its limits.”

Several other local business have committed to helping make the project a reality.

Jonesville Lumber is providing the materials for the project at cost, while Kyser Construction, Stoll Construction, and Double A Landscaping and Supply will offer goods at cost and donate labor to the construct the building.

“Everything at the Field of Dreams has been done without taxpayer money, outside of maintenance,” Loren said.

“All of that has been built off of donations, tournaments, things like that. So it really does belong to our community.”

Additional funding will come from the Field of Dreams Fund — which is revenue generated from tournaments at the Field of Dreams — the Field of Dreams Endowment Fund, and an in-kind donation from the Department of Public Service.

The building will allow storage of more than helmets, balls, and pads. Loren said she plans to also store field grooming equipment in the

shed, such as a tractor and its attachments. Previously, these were stored outside, where they were exposed to the elements, causing unnecessary deterioration, according to the Recreation Department’s grant application to HCCF. Loren said she hopes to purchase a new tractor for the fields in the near future, now that there will be a suitable place to store it. This will allow for improved grooming and maintenance of the fields.

According to the grant application, this project falls in line with the Recreation Department’s mission of being a “good steward” of the facility through continued improvement, so that all in the community can enjoy the facility.

“It’s a place where people can come together,” Loren said. “It’s really our summer home.”

By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Out-of-service air pumps have had some Hillsdale residents hopping from one gas station to the next, as snow piles up and temperatures fluctuate.

Air pump companies are being overwhelmed with service requests, as many machines at northern U.S. gas stations break during the winter months.

“We’ve received an increase in calls,” said Allen Medford, owner of Rhino Air Inc., a national air pump manufacturer that services the air pumps at

the Marathon Gas station at 185 W. Carleton Road. “That happens at this time of year.”

In Hillsdale, several gas stations have had to post outof-service signs on their air pumps in recent weeks.

Both of Marathon’s air pumps were out of order as of Tuesday. Manager Abrahim Alarshi told The Collegian that he had called for service on Friday and again on Sunday, but Rhino Air still had not fixed the pumps because service is so in demand.

“They’re really fast usually,” Alarshi said. “They said, ‘Oh, we’re so busy right now.’ I still don’t know when they’ll come

out.”

Admiral Petroleum Co.’s air pump at 69 W. Carleton Road was also out of order on Tuesday. An Admiral employee told The Collegian that someone took the electrical poll that feeds the pump on Friday. The employee, however, added that the pump does not work well in temperatures under 30 degrees.

Mike Parney, owner of Parney’s Car Care & Tire, said the moisture in the air freezes in cold temperatures, which blocks the air pump hoses.

Medford said his air pumps have a heater to keep them 150 degrees inside. When

someone using an air pump does not hang up its hose properly and its nozzle rests in the snow, then the nozzle has a greater chance of freezing.

“What happens to your body if you lie out in negative 20 degrees?” Medford said.

“It’s not good. The same is true for the hose.”

After freezing, customers may try to knock the nozzle against something to break the ice, according to Medford.

“That just breaks it,” he said.

When that happens, gas stations call companies such as Rhino Air to fix the pumps.

It happens in many places

north of I-70, according to Medford.

To make things more challenging, fluctuations in temperatures cause air in tires to expand and contract. As temperatures vary from above freezing to low single digits, more people have to add air to their tires.

Tires also corrode from the cold weather and salt, sometimes causing a bead leak between the tire and rim.

“There’s not a lot you can do,” Parney said. “That’s winter. Come summer, that problems will slow way down.

Medford said customers should follow the instructions

to properly wrap the air pump hoses back up when they finish using them so the next customer can use it, too. If they find an air pump’s nozzle is frozen, he recommended putting it in the car for a few minutes or in the exhaust pipe to warm up.

Some vehicle repair shops in town also have air pumps inside to avoid their hoses from freezing. Some, such as Parney’s, offer the service for free, though it is only available during business hours.

“The pumps are a hassle when they’re outside,” Parney said.

By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer Grove City College Touring Choir will stop at College Baptist in Hillsdale for a free performance at 7 p.m. Feb. 27. The choir will travel across the country, across genres, and across centuries as part of their annual spring break tour, performing pieces as diverse as Palestrina, a Brahms requiem, and Moses Hogan.

“We span all of choir history,” Grove City College senior and choir member Rachel Kurak said, with selections mostly in Latin and English, including adaptations of classic hymns like “Praise to the Lord the Almighty” and “I Need Thee Every Hour.”

Hillsdale assistant professor of music Derek Stauff, an alumnus of Grove City

College and the choir, was instrumental in coordinating the visit, which is a smalltown stop on their trip to and from Chicago.

“They generally head to a particular city every spring for their tour, go to a particular region of the country,” Stauff said. “It turned out they were looking for northern Indiana or southern Michigan on their way to Chicago and I said sure.”

Stauff then began calling up local churches to find housing for all 45 students.

“A lot of the host churches on the tour will be churches of choir members cause that’s an easy connection and they’re family already,” Stauff said.

“Others will be like us here — alumni connections and people that are friends of the college.”

The choir performs at a different church almost every night of the week-and-a-halflong tour, Kurak said.

“It’s a lot of fun, and it’s also really cool to get to stay with host homes,” Kurak said.

“It really shows Christian hospitality. These complete strangers opening up their homes and we get fed really well usually on tour.”

According to Stauff, the concert is a win-win situation for all who enjoy the Grove City choir’s music.

“They come and do the concert for us, we provide them with a meal and housing for the night, take in a couple students per family, and then they’re on their way next morning to their next concert,” Stauff said.

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By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor After five years of planning and preparing, a Hillsdale County affiliate of nationwide nonprofit Love In the Name of Christ, or Love INC, will mobilize churches to help those in need of aid, whether it be financial or spiritual.

It’s in the final stages, Rev. Pat Brooke of Hillsdale First Methodist Church said, estimating the official opening date will be this spring or summer. The group’s informal efforts, however, have already begun.

Love INC is a national organization that acts as a coordinating body, connecting local churches to each other so that as a unified force, the churches may address needs in the community that they couldn’t address on their own.

The organization is a clearinghouse, meaning that churches will refer those in need to Love INC, where trained volunteers and staff will have a conversation with people to examine the nature, extent, and legitimacy of their needs. Then, Love INC refers them to a partner church or agency that would best address the need. Finally, volunteers follow up with both the person helped and the helping organization.

The group’s philosophy is to try and solve the underlying, perhaps chronic needs rather than to address the superficial, presenting need of those who seek its help.

“What Love INC does is it takes time to talk with the person and find out what is the presenting need, and what is the underlying need that the churches can then address,” Brooke said. “We can work to not only remedy the pressing need, but ongoing needs. We offer spiritual help through it as well, because it’s a Christian organization.”

Brooke used the example of someone coming to a church with an overdue utilities bill.

A church’s financial assistance is often limited, so the person may find herself having to find another church when she gets another bill the next month. Without an orchestrating body like Love INC, the underlying need — bad insulation, or job insecurity — goes unaddressed.

“There’s a certain amount of trust that will have to be gained between Love INC and the person asking for support,” Brooke said. She said the hope is to address the deeper needs rather than just the superficial ones. “We can then go back to churches and see this is the presenting need; this is the underlying need.”

Pastor of Somerset Congregational Church Lucas Miller ’01 is on the board of directors for Love INC. He said Love INC has just started taking calls last month, and the data is slim, but he guesses that the financial burdens are often the result of divorce or unemployment, drugs and alcohol that are prevalent in Hillsdale County, more so than other counties.

Brooke said recurring needs she has seen include utility cutoff and eviction notices. Food is another presenting problem, since while there are several food banks in the area, each has its own regulations. Finally, many people need support in keeping a job — making sure the employee has transportation and accountability, for example.

“I think there are jobs available in the county, but sometimes people need a little help to make sure they keep that job,” Brooke said.

While Love INC’s mission is to mobilize churches, Brooke said it will try to be a place of resources that could help people reach tax agencies and other departments.

Back in 2013, Brooke and Pastor Jason Meckelberg of College Baptist, who died in 2016, were looking for ways for churches to minister to church and community members.

Meckelberg had a desire for the churches in Hillsdale County to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of the most vulnerable, College Baptist Pastor Ben Cuthbert said. Through Meckelberg’s initiative, College Baptist is one of the founding churches that brought Love INC to Hillsdale County.

“Our role is a historic connection ministry to bringing it to town, and support financially, to get more engaged and hands-on as ministry gets off the ground,” Cuthbert said.

Jenifer Somsel, the executive director of Love INC, came to College Baptist to speak in a recent Sunday morning service, Cuthbert said. Tithing from the first Sunday in February was designated to go to Love INC, in addition to what the church has already budgeted.

Going forward, Brooke said the group would like more churches to know what’s going on and get involved, as it’s an effort that extends from Somerset to Hanover-Horton almost to Hudson.

One challenge will be raising enough money for the operational costs of paying a director and overhead, as well as office expenses.

Response has generally been positive, Brooke said.

“People in churches really want to help people in ways that is really beneficial.

Sometimes, paying a bill isn’t all that beneficial. That’s an exciting part for people. That opportunity to work with something more than just sending a check to a landlord or a utility company get to know deeper relationship with Christ.”

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Westwood Street suffered more damages, after the weekend’s snowstorm.

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Tattered roads suffer under snowstorm strain

Planned reconstruction project set to repair aging and unsafe city streets

By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor When a snowstorm blanketed Hillsdale on Friday and Saturday, Christ Centered Home Manager Jennifer Wagner knew the slick road could pose serious problems for her assisted living home.

“This is a company. We have handicapped people here. If there’s an emergency, we have to take them to the doctor,” Wagner said. “When it snows, we’re the last road to get plowed.”

But even when the road is not covered by more than a foot of wet, packed snow, the street still causes Wagner trouble.

“The road is horrible. There are bumps and potholes. Last summer, I had to have my vehicle fixed because of the

road,” she said. “I want the city to fix it. I think it needs to just strip the whole thing down and redo it.”

The 2017 Road Preservation Project aimed to repair Fayette Street West, Lewis Street, Westwood Street, Spring Street, State Street, East Bacon Road, Barnard Street, Budlong Street, and Hillsdale Street. The project had only completed repairs for two streets — Bacon and Barnard — when winter weather halted progress, but its two contractors will continue to work on the roads in the spring.

City Councilman Bruce Sharp told the Collegian in September that his years in office have taught him the severity of Hillsdale’s crumbling roads. The problem began when the road’s maintenance budget was cut about 20

years ago and street upkeep stopped, according to former mayor Scott Sessions.

“The roads are the No. 1

“Every dollar you spend on street maintenace will save you $6 on reconstruction costs down the road.” issue in this town,” Sharp said.

“We’ve ignored the streets for many years, and it’s going to take time and money to fix

them.”

Hillsdale’s Director of Public Services Jake Hammel said repair, rather than complete reconstruction, is the best way the city can address the roads.

“Every dollar you spend on street maintenance will save you $6 on reconstruction costs down the road. In this business, that number is pretty commonly thrown around,” Hammel said. “Our city’s money is really best spent on streets worth saving.”

Hammel said the city selected two contractors to work on the 2017 Street Preservation Project, which cost $280,000. One contractor cuts out and clears broken portions of the streets before filling the cleared spot with asphalt. The other contractor fills in any cracks with hot rubber, ensuring the edges of the patch

are completely sealed to keep moisture out.

“By doing all of these repairs, it’ll buy us six to eight years of life on each street, maybe more,” Hammel said.

The total cost of repairing the streets encompasses more than supplies and labor. When the city repairs a road, it must make sure its work also brings the road and its surrounding sidewalks and driveways comply with the rules set by the Americans with Disabilities Act. “If we do anything more than fix a chip in a road, we have to bring all the roads and sidewalks and driveways up to code with the ADA,” Hammel said. “We are more than happy to do that, but that does add a whole new set of costs to our project.”

As the 2017 Street Preser-

vation Project completes its work this spring, a different set of roads will be repaired or reconstructed by fall 2018, according to Hammel. The city received a $2 million grant from Michigan’s Infrastructure Capacity Enhancement (ICE) to fix roads situated over city utilities like water and sewage mains in need of repair.

“ICE is really looking for cities to replace utilities in areas where they’re overused or overburdened,” Hammel said.

“It just so happened that these were found in areas where the street conditions were very poor.”

The project funded by the ICE grant will repair Garden Street, Mead Street, Vine Street, and portions of Rippon Avenue and Spring Street.

New Pine Ridge elevator to meet needs of disabled Former church member’s vision inspires community to greater unity By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor Every week, Verina Coward could walk up the eight steps to the sanctuary of Pine Ridge Bible Church. Her husband, Bob, who had brain cancer and was unable to walk, could not.

She resolved no other handicapped church members or visitors should feel the same way, so for the last 20 years before she died last fall, she donated all she could from her Social Security check, like the widow woman who donated her mite, Executive Pastor Rick Nohr said. Her family contributed to the elevator fund, too.

The elevator fund just sat in the church books, growing lit-

tle by little. At the same time, many older, handicapped visitors struggled up the stairs, were carried up, or remained in the entryway.

“It’s not good for the church body, it sends a bad message to what we think about our brothers and sisters,” pastoral intern Eli West ’15 said. “Church leadership has used it to make a theological point and the importance of church unity.”

After watching one wedding guest grab the handrail and struggle up the stairs for what felt like 10 minutes, Nohr said he reached his breaking point. He realized accessibility needed to be a reality if the church wanted to welcome all visitors and mem-

By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor

Hillsdale Community Library Director Mary Hill said the library purchased educational toys that will help children develop the skills they need before they learn to read. These toys include a play kitchen, a light table, a water table, trucks, a dollhouse, and many, many Legos.

“Children learn through dexterity, through finger play.

Things like that, like handeye coordination, encourage them. They are precursors to learning to read,” Hill said.

“The basic things you learn when you’re little, you carry those things with you your whole life.”

A child learns to share and practices her fine motor skills when she picks up a plastic head of broccoli at the library’s toy kitchen and hands it to a friend. As exciting as the toys are to the children, the playroom and the education it offers is just as enthralling to parents.

“We have seen a huge increase in our traffic as far as our community,” the library’s

bers and show God’s love.

“Sometimes you just go numb to the needs of the people, you become blind, and then you have some sort of revelation, or it captures your heart, and that’s why we’re doing this, why this needs to get done,” Nohr said.

To build an elevator, the church needed to have an upto-date building it would go in, so three-and-a-half years ago, the elevator fund became “Perfectly One,” a fundraiser that addressed two needs — accommodating the increase in numbers and an elevator bringing handicapped and abled people together — in one. As the name, pulled from John 17:23, suggests, it was also supposed to emphasize

church unity.

Nohr said the church elders resolved not to borrow any money and trust in God’s provisions. This meant that the construction could only progress as the money came in. Initially, there was a lot of excitement and several large gifts came in toward the $200,000 needed for the wing’s shell. Over the threeyear period of construction, the money would come in just in time to keep going.

In 2017, the church only raised $40,000, and Nohr wasn’t sure if the elevator would ever be completed, because that alone would cost $60,000. He considered borrowing money. Watching people struggle with the stairs,

he said, maybe it was more important to take out a loan than to complete the project debt-free.

Then, someone anonymously doanted about $40,000, and the deacons announced on Jan. 21 that they church could purchase the elevator.

“It’s been ironic, that we did this whole wing thing, because the initial need was the need for an elevator, the elevator was the last thing to go in,” West said. “You have to build the building first, you have to finish the classrooms, the building has to be up to code before you put the elevator in.”

West said many members had hoped Coward would

be the first to ride the elevator when it was completed, but she died last fall before the church could even begin building it. He recalls taking part in the service.

“It was a moving funeral service, it was obvious to me how much of an impact she made on the church. Part of that was starting the elevator fund,” he said. “She had been a leader at Pine Ridge for a long time.”

West added that he hopes the project will help fulfill Coward’s vision for the church.

“She gave for her passion to see the church united,” he said. “To see it come to culmination in the last month has been exciting for us.”

Library receives grant for early literacy project More children than ever are crawling, toddling, or running past the circulation desk and into the Hillsdale Community Library this year.

The Hillsdale County Community Foundation awarded the library a grant for more than $4,500 on Jan. 3 to fund the library’s early literacy support efforts that continue to draw in more kids and families. The foundation’s Director of Community Engagement Amber Yoder said the organization has given money to the library before, but it has never specifically funded early reading initiatives.

“The Hillsdale County Community Foundation believes that literacy is an important piece of the success and wellbeing of our county’s residents and the community as a whole,” Yoder said.

“Encouraging and fostering a love of language, reading, and writing from an early age is vital to our children.”

Children and Teen Services you can encourage a kid to does not end with playtime, interest in the books once Coordinator Vickie Lee said. play and interact with other however. The toys prepare they’re in there,” Lee said.

“We’re usually quite busy kids, you stimulate their mind children for the next step: “Hopefully we’ll graduate anyways but we’ve seen a huge and their imaginations and reading. them from the early play and increase in our traffic since we help them grow. That is what “When they’re playing with get them comprehending started publicizing this.” we’re after,” Lee said. the toys, they’re surrounded books.”

Lee said the children have The early literacy program by books. They do show an astounded her with what they can imagine and create.

She’s seen little tikes stack towers reaching as high as their little hands can touch.

She’s witnessed older children, especially those who attend the library’s after school program, click Legos together to craft intricate, complicated structures.

“Any time Four-year-old Westin plays with Legos at the Hillsdale County Library. Katherine Scheu | Collegian

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Giving ‘proof through the night’: Why you should watch the Olympics Everyday, it seems like new allegations of sexual misconduct ruin another famous entertainer’s reputation or new scandals erupt from Washington, D.C. Already, 2018 has given Americans a lot to feel discouraged and pessimistic about.

That’s why we need the Olympic Winter Games more than ever. Even when the daily news challenges our faith in this country, watching our athletes overseas compete can help restore it.

Take 17-year-old snowboarder Chloe Kim, who won a gold medal for her performance on the halfpipe earlier this week. Both of Kim’s parents, Jong Jin and Boran, were born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States.

In 1982, Jong Jin Kim first arrived in the United States with just $800 to his name.

Like so many other immigrants, though, he arrived with so much more than that — he also brought a dream of a better life for his children.

The sacrifices he made and the risks he took enabled his daughter to pursue her highest aspirations, and it paid off.

“I just dreamed it this way.

Not really dreamed, but it was my hope,” he said in an interview after his daughter won gold. “The dream came true. The American dream!”

People around the world view this country as the land of opportunity. They believe that if you work hard enough, you can make it in America. The Kim family story stands as a testament to that idea. Even in this dark moment of political discord and uncertainty, stories like theirs vindicate the American dream. Stories like this remind us that, yes, anything really is possible here in America.

“Just realizing how far I’ve come as a person and as an athlete, standing on that podium, everything kind of combines,” Chloe Kim said in a press conference after her triumph. “You realize that you won and you did a good run and you’re excited about everything…I don’t know

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what I’m saying right now, I’m just really happy.”

But beyond simply rousing our sense of American exceptionalism, the Olympic Games can show us in new ways the same great truths about human nature that are at the root of liberal education.

Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, wrote that he chose the motto of the Olympic Games — “Faster, Higher, Stronger” — because “These three words represent a program of moral beauty.

The aesthetics of sport are intangible.”

In a certain respect, the Olympic motto and Coubertin’s rationale resemble our own motto here at Hillsdale College — “Strength Rejoices in the Challenge.” This is more than a coincidence; Coubertin, of course, didn’t invent the Olympic games from thin air. He drew on the traditions of ancient Greece, traditions our college draws upon to this day.

At the heart of this shared tradition is a truth Coubertin expressed: “moral beauty.” In “The Laws,” Plato’s spokesman says “gymnastic exercises have been excellently devised for the promotion both of temperance and courage.”

The athletes competing in Pyeongchang have devoted their entire lives to the pursuit of total perfection, pushing their bodies to transcend their limits. They perform feats of physical courage before the whole world, reminding us of the peaks of human greatness and teaching us about the possibilities of virtue.

Even though they may not change the world, the Olympic Games merit your attention because athletic achievements are good in and of themselves. There’s a reason you get goosebumps when you watch a figure skater stick a triple axel or a speed skater set a new world record — these are noble things, images of human flourishing.

So, this weekend, take a break from the books and appreciate the excellence on display at the Olympic Games.

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much of a shot.”

“I just know that it’s a team we need to beat if we have a chance to make the NCAA tournament because [Ferris is] going to be there.”

“Us and Walsh, assuming we’re healthy, are the favorites

to win the conference,” Turner said.

Ferris is ranked 25th in the nation for tennis and 3rd in the region. The Chargers are ranked No. 10 in the region.

Ciraci pointed to experience to explain their success, even though Delp is the lone senior on the team.

“We have a lot more depth this year,” Ciraci said. “Younger players are stepping up to bigger positions and have a lot more experience now. We finally have a senior on the team.”

Ciraci said the team is better as a whole this season.

“I think we’re really con-

fident in our team and the things we can do,” Ciraci said.

“Ferris lost a couple guys since last year, so I think anything can happen this weekend. If we can play well, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to come out on top.”

Women’s track runs at GVSU Big Meet Prepares for the final stretch of the season By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor The women’s track team competed this weekend at Grand Valley State University’s Big Meet, a two-day event. The meet excluded some members of the team, who are preparing for G-MACs. “I think, as a whole, this was the best meet we’ve had all year,” senior Victoria Wichman said. “We had to leave a day early because of the snow, and we just had to be very flexible. I saw the underclassmen dealt with that well. There were a lot of positive attitudes and almost everyone performed really well.”

Senior Hannah McIntyre continues to shine, this time during the 3000-meter race, finishing second overall in 9:31.46. She came just short of an auto-qualifier.

“I had some good competition this time, which was really nice,” she said. “It definitely helped push me to a faster time. It was a good confidence booster. I qualified for nationals.”

McIntyre won’t compete in this weekend’s meet. She said her performance set her up for a smoother few weeks at G-MACs, and she doesn’t have to worry about qualifying for NCAAs. “Now she’s positioned herself really well for NCAAs to where she’s in everything we could possibly want her in,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “Then we can choose what’s best for her and for us.”

McIntyre said she hopes to contribute to fulfilling the team’s goal to win the conference title in track, and outdoor track cross country.

Freshman Maryssa Depies also ran well, and her times would historically qualify her for NCAAs, Towne said.

“You never know until you get right down to it,” he said. “But that time has been historically good enough to get in.”

Junior Ally Eads finished third in the mile race with a provo marking of 4:54.39.

She dropped significant time from recent races, and Towne said she is “in a really good spot,” with the possibility of competing in the NCAAs. “I think Eads did really well in the mile,” Wichman said. “I saw her walk off the track with a radiant smile and call her dad. That’s what makes being part of the track team really special; to see someone so joyful that their hard work paid off.”

Eads, along with sophomore Lorina Clemence, and freshmen Abbie Porter and Christina Sawyer, finished the distance medley race in just over 12 minutes.

Clemence, freshman Zoe Eby, Wichman, and senior Ashlee Moran, improved on the 4x400, finishing in fourth place in 3:49.71, a provisional time.

“We cut four seconds off our time, which is really promising going into G-MACs.” Wichman said.

She said that the team will

be able to go into conference with stability. With confident in themselves and each other, knowing that they will do what needs to be done.

This Saturday, Hillsdale will host the Hillsdale Tune Up. The meet will be short, followed by a large silent auction that is like a homecoming for track and field alumni, Towne said.

“We’re really winding down and just touching on little things that certain people need,” Towne said.

Senior Fiona Shea (middle) runs at the Wide Track Classic. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

Bringing hockey back to Hillsdale By | Jordan Pair News Editor A little inexperience never stopped freshman Charity Tyne.

When Tyne found out there was no club hockey team at Hillsdale College, she decided to start her own, even though she had never played before. She organized a group of 20 inexperienced players and found a local,

private rink.

“Some people have gotten really good,” Tyne said.

Sophomore Laura White is new to hockey but goes with the group frequently.

“I wanted to join, because I always really enjoyed ice skating,” White said. “It’s been the highlight of my winter.”

The group plays one game a week, though they practice almost every night.

“I definitely feel like I have learned a lot more about the

game,” White said. “It’s really fun to go out and be active in a sport, especially during the winter when there’s not much to do.”

Senior Mike Howard echoed White’s sentiments.

“It’s fun to go out and play,” he said. “It’s one way to embrace the freezing cold here.”

Although the club isn’t official, Tyne said they are thinking about applying for official club status.

“We definitely want to keep playing hockey next semester,” she said, adding that it would be “amazing” if they could get a coach and join a league.

Either way, the club will be out on the rink — as long as it stays cold.

“We really only have two and a half months to play,” Tyne said. “So I think that’s what we’re going to do.”

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Although Fritsche said the practice prior to the loss didn’t prepare the Chargers for a victory, he made it clear that his team’s desire to compete and play its best certainly wasn’t the issue.

“Our kids have the purest of intentions,” Fritsche said.

“We don’t have to worry about their character or their effort.”

Ott recorded the program’s first triple-double in ten years, collecting 16 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists, in addition to three steals and two blocked shots.

Dittmer made 12 of 13 shots for 24 points to lead the team, and Dewire scored a season-high 22 points in the loss.

On Saturday, Hillsdale avenged its heartbreaking loss two days earlier by reaching triple digits on the scoreboard in a 103-50 wipeout of the Lake Erie College Storm (11-13, 7-11).

En route to the program-record 16 threes, Hillsdale shot better than 50 percent both from the floor and beyond the arc.

“Everybody can shoot,” Gray said. “In terms of having to guard people, now teams have to get out and guard us as shooters and as drivers. We’re becoming more versatile.”

The Chargers dominated virtually every statistical category. They out-rebounded the Storm 49-28, scored 31 points off of turnovers to

Lake Erie’s six, and racked up 26 assists to the Storm’s five.

It was the textbook definition of a basketball landslide, from the opening tip to the final buzzer.

Hillsdale’s bench alone outscored Lake Erie, racking up 51 of the Chargers’ 103 points.

“In college games, it’s rare to have an easy day,” Fritsche said. “It keeps those kids who don’t play as much coming back to practice with a purpose. You can’t really see when you’re not playing how important you actually are.

Today, they got rewarded.”

In the victory, Dittmer scored 17 points and reached 1,000 career points in style, nailing a three-pointer in the fourth quarter to achieve the milestone.

“It was a pretty cool accomplishment, but it was something I couldn’t do without my teammates,” Dittmer said. “It’ll be something that when I’m done playing will be a cool milestone to look back on.”

Dittmer, who scores the bulk of her points in the paint, has made two of her four three-point attempts this season.

“It took me four years but I finally made a three,” Dittmer joked. “I don’t shoot those a lot.”

Ott continued her steady scoring pace, notching 15 points to go with nine rebounds. Even with Dittmer’s dominant streak of performances, it’s Ott who leads the team with 14.8 points per game.

Sophomore guards Sydney Anderson and Bree Porter both came off the bench with hot hands. Anderson made four of six three-pointers en route to a career-best 14 points, and Porter added a career-best 10 points.

Burger initiated the ball movement for many of Hillsdale’s scoring opportunities and tallied a career-best eight assists.

Hillsdale has two games remaining on its schedule before the G-MAC tournament begins. Its home finale is scheduled for Saturday, when Ohio Valley University (0-22, 0-18) visits for a 1 p.m. tip off. Saturday is Senior Day, which should be a special moment for the four seniors on the roster, including those who don’t see the floor as much as other players. Still, Fritsche said the attitude and work ethic of the senior class has been superb all year.

“You don’t have to have a good play to have fun. You can experience joy from someone else’s good play,” Fritsche said. “My seniors aren’t done with the year.

They’re all in.”

A week later, Hillsdale wraps up its regular season on the road against the University of Findlay (18-6, 15-5).

“We’re playing for each other now,” Gray said. “We’re really starting to come together at the end of the season, and it reflects in how we play. It’s nice to be a part of and to watch as well.”

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of a few key elements.

“He’s very talented, first of all,” Towne said. “But he’s also very driven and very motivated. He’s also been able to string together a lot of consistent training.”

Consistent training is a key part of a successful season, something Towne and his staff frequently emphasize with their athletes.

“That’s something we talk about with the kids on a regular basis,” Towne said.”

Just being able to train on a regular basis is going to help you be better. If you have to take time off for an injury or what have you, the training adaptation process stops.”

Humes also competes in the men’s distance medley relay. The team made up of Humes, freshmen Adam Wade and Konnor Maloney, and senior Nathan Jones, has delivered consistent performances in past meets.

Jones said that his teammates have performed well beyond their years.

“With young guys, you sometimes don’t know what to expect when they get into a big atmosphere,” Jones said. “They’ve handled themselves with a lot of maturity. Having two freshmen and one sophomore on that relay, it’s been fun.”

The Chargers will host the Hillsdale Tune Up on Saturday at the Biermann Center.

Baseball to open season in Tennessee

Team brings veteran squad to the field after graduating only two By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor Despite what a foot of snow on the ground may indicate, it’s baseball season.

The Chargers will travel to Johnson City, Tennessee, this weekend to open their season with a four-game set against former GLIAC foe Saginaw Valley.

After graduating only two seniors from last year’s squad, Hillsdale brings an experienced group to its first season in the G-MAC. Seniors pitcher Phil Carey and outfielder Ryan O’Hearn said this has brought both role clarity and confidence to the team.

This veteran squad, however, will be faced with an exceptionally tough schedule.

“We’re excited to get started, and it doesn’t start slow, so we’re not going to be able to start slow,” head coach Eric Theisen said of a non-conference schedule, which features six teams which received votes for a pre-season national top-20 ranking.

According to Thiesen, this is exactly the way the Chargers want it to be.

“We scheduled it this way on purpose because we think we’ve got that level of talent,” he said. “And we’re looking at it like we’re their test.”

Preparing for these kinds of tests in Michigan during January and February comes with its own challenges.

In fact, the team has only been able to practice outside once all spring. Despite this, Theisen said pitchers have worked their way near to 100-pitch conditioning mark and that hitters have seen at least 30 live plate appearances. In the end, he said the ability to come out of the snow and play good baseball comes down to athleticism, and he believes pitching and bats can get the team past any potential cobwebs.

“The way we’re built, and our identity, the offense should be strong enough to outweigh that setback,” he said. “And we think we have good enough athletes, to be honest, that it’s like riding a bike.”

When Thiesen refers to a “good offense,” he means it.

The Chargers averaged almost 6.5 runs per game last season while swatting 50 home runs.

Of those 50 long balls, 38 return to the lineup, including 17 from junior catcher Steven Ring, who led the GLIAC last season.

The offense, however, is not one dimensional. The Chargers also bring back the 2017 GLIAC steals leader

in O’Hearn, who swiped 23 bags last season, and junior infielder Colin Boerst, who took 16 bags of his own last year, which tied for fourth in the GLIAC. “We have a very threatening offense in many ways,” Theisen said. “We will have four or five guys in at a time with green lights on the bases, along with having four or five guys at one time that can put the ball over the fence and cause some damage. That combination of skills in the lineup make it very dangerous.”

Boerst, who hit 10 home runs last season, also adds to the team’s power potential, along with junior infielder Dylan Lottinville, who hit six home runs in 2017 and also won the Chargers’ homecoming home run derby.

Several other heavy 2017 offensive contributors return to the field for the Chargers this season. Carey said other teams should certainly take note when Hillsdale comes to town.

“They’re not going to want to pitch to us,” he said. “I’ll tell you straight up, they’ve hit everything I’ve been throwing, so it’ll be a sad day for other teams if they’re off even a little bit on the mound.”

While the offense has

been the identity of Hillsdale baseball in recent years, the strength of the pitching should not be overlooked.

“We’ve got depth on the mound,” Theisen said. “We’ve got more depth on the mound than we’ve had in a long time.”

Theisen said the pitchers returned to campus a week and a half early this spring, after starting the 2017 season slow in regards to stamina.

He said this paid off, resulting in pitchers ready to take on 100 pitches in their first starts and guys topping out their velocity.

Theisen said he expects to see Carey and senior Will Kruse, along with sophomores Andrew Verbrugge and Kolton Rominski start games in the opening weekend, but the contribution will go far beyond that.

According to Theisen, the first goal the team has set its sights on is a regional berth in the NCAA tournament.

“Everybody knows we’re playing to get a shot at the regional. That’s the first step of the national tournament. You don’t have a chance to win a national championship unless you make the regional,” he said. “So, get to the regional, and play your heart out — that’s the goal.”

Theisen added that the team hopes to be in a position for an at-large berth by winning 30-35 games.

“We’ve done the math, and we know how that’s going to work out, and shoot, if we win a conference championship on accident along the way that’s great,” he said.

The Chargers know that non-conference results will play a large part in putting themselves in that position.

“I told our guys the other day in a text, we will establish ourselves as a regional and national contender in the first month of the season or we won’t,” Theisen said. “That first month...by the end of that pre-conference ‘warmup’ we’ll know how good we are. It won’t be a question.”

O’Hearn said the Chargers are just excited for the opportunity.

“We don’t play until the spring, so we’ve been training since August, and it all leads up to this weekend,” he said. “We’ve been cooped up inside, which is not natural for a baseball player. We’re supposed to be outside; not in a barn or the Biermann Center, so we’re super excited. It seems like everyone is amped up, because we know what is coming up here soon.”

Charger Chatter: Theresa Smith swimming and just stuck with it.

That’s what I really fell in love with.

Why did you choose Hillsdale College to further your athletic career?

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Theresa Smith is a senior from Franklin, Tennessee.

She is a member of the Hillsdale College swim team and is studying English.

When did you first start swimming?

I started swimming when I was 10, so I’ve been swimming for 12 years now. I was 10 so I kind of dabbled in a few other sports. I mean, everybody does soccer. But I found

When I chose Hillsdale I didn’t know I was going to be swimming.

I was a walk-on. I had to reach out to coach and tell him I was coming to Hillsdale, so I was looking at some other Division III schools who actually wanted me. They couldn’t give me a scholarship but they actually recruited me and everything. I came to Hillsdale more for the academics and the community.

Of course, I wanted to swim; I really wanted to swim. But I didn’t really know I would be swimming until coach gave me a call after I decided to come here.

What are your plans for after graduation?

It’s a little up in the air right now.

I’m just looking for a job. I want to get involved in maybe doing some think-tank work or I might go teach.

Those are probably my two options right now. Law enforcement might

be a third. I’m just going to apply and see what happens. I’m going to keep swimming but it’s just going to be as a hobby. I probably won’t join a masters team quite yet. I don’t know.

It’s just going to be different not being able to practice with a team, especially with my team of 20 girls.

It’s fun to be around them every day.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

What free time? I’m a member of the Catholic Society, so I like to be involved with them as much as I can. Also, freelancing with The Collegian has been something I’ve enjoyed here.

What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment?

I could probably honestly say that my greatest accomplishment will be graduating Hillsdale. Honestly, people always say ‘How do you do it with athletics?’ but since athletics has kept me so busy, it has helped me to stay on a schedule and keep up with my school work and ensure that I’m sleeping and eating and that sort of thing. I can’t say it has been

easier but I think it has been better, more rewarding.

Have there been any big challenges with the team this year?

What has your experience been like managing school and swimming?

There have been a lot of challenges going into conference. We’ve been dealing with staying healthy and staying injury-free. We’ve had a few injuries in the last couple weeks, so just people recovering from sickness and injury, but I think everything is going to fall into place and we’re going to have a really good team going into conference. I think it will be good. It will be a definite challenge to win but we’re gonna give it our best effort. And with our best effort that’s going to be a winning team.

Its been positive. Of course, there are those days when I wish I could stay up until 2 a.m. writing a paper draft but I know I have morning practice. I guess it has been a big time commitment, obviously. I really just don’t waste my time; that’s how I manage my time. That’s the short answer.

What’s the most exciting moment you have had during swimming?

I think the most exciting moments in general are when I watch my teammates succeed. Whether it’s someone winning first place or somebody just in the middle of the field that gets a really awesome time or a season-best and they got out of the pool and they’re just so happy with it. I think the best moments are when I get to celebrate my teammates’ successes with them.

Do you have any rituals that you do during meets?

Ten minutes before any meet begins, coach will talk to us and give us final words of wisdom, and then we will all circle up and pray together, and then we do a team cheer and then we break and go swim our best.

And then, individually, right before I race, I always make the sign of the cross.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS LAKE ERIE, FALLS TO ODU Both men’s and women’s teams will host senior day on Saturday By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor The Hillsdale men’s basketball team (18-7, 12-6 G-MAC) split two games this week, earning a convincing 78-67 win over the Lake Erie University Storm (4-24, 3-17 G-MAC) on Saturday afternoon, but losing 65-48 against Ohio Dominican University (14-10, 9-8 G-MAC) when the shots just wouldn’t fall.

In the previous two games, the Chargers suffered losses as their star senior guards Ryan Badowski and Stedman Lowry shot poorly. In the slump, Badowski shot 21 percent and Lowry shot 17 percent.

But at home against the Storm, both scored in bunches.

Lowry led the team with a season-high 31 points on 10-17 shooting including 5-9 from beyond the arc and a perfect 6-6 from the free throw line.

He got hot but kept running

the offense, coming off screens and finding space for open shots.

“Stedman ran great motion against Lake Erie,” head coach John Tharp said. “We’re reading defenses, screening, and cutting. We did work before he received the ball.”

Badowski complimented him scoring 19 points on 50 percent shooting while nabbing 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

With junior forward Gordon Behr in foul trouble early, sophomore guard Davis Larson stepped up and played 21 minutes scoring 7 points and grabbing 5 rebounds.

“We have been working Davis more and more at the four,” Tharp said. “He can put the ball on the floor and score.

Winning is incredibly important for him.”

Although Behr gives the team great length at power forward, Larson’s speed and strength help him to bully inside, nabbing rebounds and

finishing at the rim.

Junior point guard Nate Neveau scored 8 points and had 6 assists, but his true value was putting defensive pressure on the Storm’s leading scorer Gabe Kynard. Neveau kept his hands up and his feet moving restricting the Storm guard to 13 points on 3 of 10 shooting.

“Neveau is one of the best defensive players in D-2 basketball. He almost always guards the best perimeter players and forces them to stay in from of him,” Tharp said.

And Neveau doesn’t restrict relentless defense to gametime. Tharp said he feels bad for the other guards who have to deal with him in practice.

“We have to shut him down sometimes,” he said. “He comes to compete every day.”

Though both teams matched up in nearly most statistical categories, the Chargers stepped to the free throw line 33 times and converted 70 percent. From the field, they

After GVSU, men’s track prepares to host Tune Up before G-MACs By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter Despite the winter storm raging outside, the Charger men kept the track hot at the GVSU Big Meet. To beat the ice and snow, the team left Thursday night rather than Friday afternoon.

“Thursday morning I realized that the snow was going to totally encompass our travel time,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “Depending on where people were coming from for the meet, it took them two to three times as long to get there. Because it was a fairly important meet, it was our last regular season meet, we decided to leave Thursday night before

the storm hit.”

Despite the change in plans, the actual meet itself went off without a hitch.

Showings were strong with a few standout athletes delivering impressive showings.

Sophomore Joey Humes broke the Hillsdale College record in the mile despite being placed in the slower heat.

“They didn’t put me in the fast heat,” Humes said.

“I was totally expecting to be in one and then I wasn’t.

My PR is not where I should be. So that was pretty rough.

When you’re in the fast meet and you have all those people around you going fast, it’s so much easier. When you look at people that run really fast

races, they rarely do it alone.

You always run faster when there are people around you.”

Despite the challenge, Humes ran to a 4:06.11 finish in the mile, good enough to beat the Hillsdale record by less than a second.

“It was so cool,” Humes said. “My whole team was cheering me on and I heard my coach cheering me on. It was such an awesome environment.”

Humes has had a strong season, delivering solid performance after solid performance. Just a few weeks ago, he broke the Biermann Athletics Center record in the 1,000 meter. Towne said his success is a combination

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Sophomore Ian Brown runs at the Wide Track Classic this season. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

shot 51 percent in total.

After two disappointing losses, the game seemed to signal a sign of things to come for the Charger basketball team.

But as Tharp has often said, “We’re a fine-line team.”

Monday night the team traveled down to Columbus, Ohio to battle the Panthers but struggled top to bottom and shot only 29 percent from the field to score 48 points. Both statistics mark season-lows for the team.

‘You know when a team is sharp and crisp, and we just didn’t have any of it,” Tharp said. “We were a second slow with everything. We just weren’t any good.”

The Panthers early hot shooting established an 8-0 lead after the opening tip. The Chargers weren’t able to regain the lead over the course of the game. The lead grew into a 16-point gulf that Lowry’s hot shooting tried to bridge.

But it was too little, too late

as the Panthers poured in 9 of their first 16 shots from three.

“It was like sitting in the dentist’s chair,” Tharp said.

Despite taking care of the ball and having season-low 6 turnovers, Hillsdale lost the rebounding battle 45-33 and made half as many three-point field goals.

With slow pacing and lax rotations, Tharp said the timing was generally off and contributed to stagnant offense.

Lowry led the team in scoring with 11 points, including 3 buckets launched from beyond the arc. Junior forward Nick Czarnowski was second in scoring with 9 points and 3 rebounds but shot only 33 percent for the game.

“We definitely need to do a better job of finishing around the rim,” Tharp said.

By the end of the game, Tharp emptied the bench when the outcome became inevitable.

“I’m scratching my head a

bit,” Tharp said. “This time of the year, we usually play our best basketball.”

After spending most of the season in second place behind Findlay, on of the top-ranked teams in D-2, the Chargers have fallen to fourth in the G-MAC standings behind Findlay, Walsh, and Malone.

But the Chargers will play more basketball beyond the regular season. With their win against the Lake Erie Storm, the Hillsdale team has clinched a berth in the 2018 G-MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Hillsdale will play their final home game of the season on Saturday against Ohio Valley University at 3 p.m. The team will also celebrate Lowry and Badowski’s collegiate basketball careers in their final appearance at Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena.

Men’s tennis ranked first in G-MAC poll Team tops Daemen 8-1 at home By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team, picked first in the G-MAC preseason poll, toppled Daemen College 8-1 on Friday in the Biermann Athletics Center, advancing its record to 2-0.

Sophomore Milan Mirkovic won at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-0.

Sophomore Charlie Adams won No. 2 singles, 6-4, 6-0.

Adams teamed with junior Justin Hyman to win No. 1 doubles, 8-2.

Freshman Gabe Katz was a No. 4 singles winner, 6-2, 6-3.

Junior John Ciraci won 7-6 (9-7), 2-6, 11-9 at No. 5 singles, the longest match of the night, and then teamed up with senior captain Dugan Delp to win at No. 2 doubles, 9-7. He proceeded to win No. 6 singles, 6-3, 6-1.

Sophomore Michael Szabo joined sophomore Julien Clouette to win at No. 3 doubles, 8-6.

Head coach Keith Turner said he was satisfied with last weekend’s turnout.

“It was as well as could be expected,” Turner said. “We still have a couple spots where we can play better, but overall, the team played well. Daemen had a competitive lineup

where they had solid players at every singles and doubles spot.”

Turner said previous injuries plagued the team.

“Justin couldn’t play last fall because of a fractured ankle and Charlie missed the first week of the season because of being sick. So it’s good to see those guys playing as well.”

Ciraci said Daemen improved since their last match.

“I think it was a good test for us,” Ciraci said. “They got some new players and we still beat them. It shows we’re already that much better this year.”

Ciraci said Mirkovic’s performance on Friday was impressive.

“Milan Mirkovic really killed the kid,” Ciraci said.

“He’s gotten better than he ever was and he makes us stronger because he can push guys further down the lineup.

And that makes us a really deep, talented team.”

The Chargers’ match against the University of Illinois-Springfield on Saturday was postponed due to snow.

“We really only had one weekend where we could play home matches in the Biermann, and, of course, the match is canceled, so it was really disappointing,” Turn-

er said. “That’s a match we needed to play because they’re a little bit stronger team than Daemen, and we’ve got some very tough matches coming up this weekend.”

Turner said they plan to reschedule the match in Indianapolis in late March dependent on weather.

“We’ve got two very important matches coming up: Northwood on Saturday night and Ferris on Sunday morning, so it’s a tough, tough stretch for us. They are two very good teams. I’m sure Northwood is going to be fired up to play the match since we upset them last year.”

Turner said the Chargers have a shot to beat a topranked team.

“Hopefully everyone is completely healthy and, if so, then I think they’re two winnable matches for us,” Turner said. “But they are certainly two matches we could lose.

They will be competitive, for sure.”

Turner said Ferris is relatively weaker than last year, while Hillsdale is relatively stronger than last year.

“They’re just not quite as good as before,” Turner said.

“We feel like we can compete with them this year when last year we knew we didn’t have

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Studio 42 opening celebrates art within community By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Although black bears haven’t been sighted in Hillsdale county in many years, locals had an opportunity to see the black bear statues sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is creating at her studio space at 42 Union St. The grand opening of Studio 42 Saturday afternoon featured Tritchka’s sculptures of the mother bear and the framework for the sculptures of her two cubs, as well as the work of several other local artists.

Tritchka said $47,380 of the $92,440 needed to complete the statue has been already been covered. Two memorial park benches have been donated, and will be placed near the bear statues along the Baw Beese Trail, Tritchka said.

“We’re about halfway there, and the main expense is getting it cast in bronze,” Tritchka said.

The clay sculpture of the mother bear is nearly complete. Tritchka said she will continue refining the mother bear’s fur and claws based off a real bear hide she was able to borrow for the project.

“It’s a hide stretched over a form, but it’s great for figuring out fur thickness, especially around the neck and the ears and the eyes,” Tritchka said.

The mother will stand on her hind legs, alert and observing her environment.

Tritchka said she added a tree trunk next to the mother to help support the statue’s weight.

Tritchka hasn’t started the clay sculpting for the mother bear’s two cubs yet. She is still creating the metal and plaster framework that supports the clay exterior — a more rigid framework than she has used for her previous projects she said.

One cub will be standing, and the other will be seated and holding a branch. Tritch-

ka said she designed the posture and spacing of the cubs to allow small children to interact with the statues. Although the cubs will be modeled after photos and observation of real bears, Tritchka said the metal and plaster framework as it is right now reminds her more of an ewok and Sid the sloth from “Ice Age.” The studio’s opening event also featured senior Madeline Richards’ paintings and drawings. Her work included both model- and imagination-based portraits. She said she enjoys the nuance and emotion that goes into painting portraits.

“There’s a layer of art psychology,” Richards said.

“People like to look at pictures that look like humans because we like to look at what looks like us. You can relate to them very easily, and also there’s this aspect that I get to know someone on such a deep level.

It’s really a powerful thing to capture not only their like-

ness, but a layer of who they are.”

Her work included two portraits she painted while studying at the Florence Academy of Art during the summer of 2017, as well as drawings she completed of a fellow Hillsdale student.

“I loved capturing who they were in these paintings,” Richards said of the Italian portraits. “She was very calm and serene. She made me feel peaceful while painting her.

He had this energy that was a little bit subdued but still very powerful.”

She said she plans to attend graduate school for painting and drawing, where she will be able to continue developing her skills as an artist.

“The thing that I keep in mind when I’m in the studio is to always paint with integrity and speak my truths,” Richards said. “I don’t just want to paint what people want to see because that’s not truthful.

I’m still growing and finding

out what I want to say with my art, but that’s a lifelong pursuit.”

Hillsdale Academy Art Teacher Jennifer Lehman displayed oil and watercolor paintings based on photography from her trip to Venice, Italy, last April. She said she plans to follow up her yearlong study of the vibrant canals and architecture of Venice with a series of paintings based on her photography of Rome. Her Rome paintings will include several larger pieces, she said.

“It’s nice for big paintings and big artwork, to be able to use an art studio space like this,” Lehman said. “It’s a great outreach to the community.”

The event also featured artwork from 24 artists from St. Paul’s Ability Resource Center, a support network for individuals with developmental disabilities. The artists, who ranged from 6 to 55 years old, created everything from drawings to watercolor paint-

ings during their weekly art classes. Some of the work was abstract, while other pieces related to fall or winter themes will be displayed during SPARC’s upcoming Snowball Dance, SPARC representative Becky Johnson said.

Event organizer and Heritage Association member Connie Sexton said the combination of different artists at the event provided a fun and compelling atmosphere.

She said the Heritage Association’s art events are a way to contribute to the community that has helped support the association’s projects.

“I can’t believe it’s almost been two years,” Sexton said.

“It’s been a good ride so far, so fun, and the community has been so uplifting and so helpful every step of the way — supporting us, giving to us, and just opening every door possible for us. That’s one of the reasons we want to give back with our art events.”

Senior Art Show: Isaac Dell

From sculpture to furniture, senior Isaac Dell exhibits his artistic process By | Abigail Liebing Assistant Editor

Matt Sauer ‘16 performs in “Escanaba in Da Moonlight.” Sauk Theatre | Courtesy

‘Escanaba in Da Moonlight’ shares U.P. style By | Isabella Redjai Collegian Reporter Channeling the Upper Peninsula stereotype centered on beer, guns, and lots of flannel, the Sauk Theatre’s most recent production “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” features Hillsdale College’s own admissions counselor, Matt Sauer ’16.

“I had heard of the play before being a part of the production, when I had accidentally rented the movie during middle school, one time,” Sauer said. “I knew it was a comedy, and knew people in town would appreciate it.”

The play opens with narrator Albert Soady, played by Timothy Brayman, asking the audience whether they have ever visited the Upper Peninsula, or even know what the true UP is. (Contrary to public opinion, Mackinac Island, according to the Soady-character, does not count.)

The play then explores the hunting ventures and special “deer camp,” of the Soady father and brothers, and their friend Jimmer Negamanee.

In an attempt to end Reuben Soady’s hunting curse as a “buckless yooper,” the crew embarks on a series of strange events with a glorious light, Native American mysticism, and even one another.

The audience in the front row were told by Director Trinity Bird, they were in the “splash zone,” as several scenes required the tossing of beverages as props, to portray Soady Sweet Sap Whiskey, “moose testicle” potion, and porcupine pee.

One scene in particular encapsulates the UP-redneck-atmosphere attempted in the play, as Reuben Soady says in defense of his hunting skills,

“No flapjacks, no macaroni and cheese, and no spam.”

Matt Sauer’s character, Ranger Tom T. Treado from Detroit, makes a spontaneous debut halfway through the play, and Sauer’s character begins singing almost immediately, in an attempt to ease his anxiety and sudden existential crises.

Sauer had been in seven shows during high school, as well as one show per semester while attending Hillsdale College. This training and background was evident in Sauer’s stage presence and refinement.

“This was one of the smaller casts I’ve been a part of,” Sauer said. “Since this was my first show in a while, it was helpful to have a smaller cast where we could grow together.”

Fellow performer Nathan Johnson, who played Remnar Soady, agreed.

“It was great having such a small cast because the small group allowed me to develop relationships with fellow actors,” Johnson said. “I really got to know each person.”

The cast — made up of only six actors — allowed the audience to quickly understand the personalities of each character in the play.

“We make comedy believable, but let the craziness unfold,” Sauer said. “I like how aloof Ranger Tom is. He’s a lovable character, although he is completely unaware of his surroundings, and can be easily taken advantage of.”

Although each character had a unique personality, the audience could naturally recognize the common thread found in the rural, UP-local personae of nearly all the characters.

Freshman Johannes Olson, who was raised in northern Michigan, recognized these stereotypes, and found them to be accurate of actual UP natives.

“You have to be from Michigan to understand some jokes. You would not think the stereotypes in the play are accurate, but they are. I’m from northern Michigan, and know some people just like that,” says Olson. “Deer Camp is basically guy-time, booze, hunting, and no girls allowed.”

The play does not limit itself to locals of the UP, though. Students from other parts of the country also appreciated the Michigan humor.

Fellow freshman Dan Grifferty says, “I’m from New York, so this was my ‘crash course’ to understanding UP culture, but I thought it was pretty funny. It also doesn’t hurt that Jeff Daniels wrote it.”

The play does in fact contain adult language and numerous innuendos, which some families may find inappropriate for younger children.

But “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” provides Michiganders with a relatable account of UP culture and leisure, a small cast with trained actors, and humor that will leave the audience belly-laughing.

The play concludes with a recurring image throughout the play: Albert Soady, leaning back in his recliner, a lift of his flask, a drink, and an exaggerated wipe of the mouth. “‘Escanaba in Da Moonlight’ is very fun and a mustsee,” Sauer said. “I think it is important that the community is shown some support from the college.”

While preparing for his art show, it’s not been unusual for senior Isaac Dell to be in the studio for 12 hours a day.

Dell has been working many, many hours to get all of his pieces ready for his senior art exhibit.

Dell’s artwork will be on display in the Daughtrey Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts Wednesday through Sunday, with a reception held on Feb. 17 from 3 to 5 p.m. Most of the sculptures that Dell has created during his time at Hillsdale will be displayed as well as some of his drawings, a few paintings, some of his graphic design, and even some of the furniture he made in high school.

With most of his pieces, he will also display the sketches so everyone can see the process he went through in his creations.

“You don’t necessarily have to like art to appreciate the creative process and the end product. And I think that’s something that my senior show will display,” Dell said.

“Creating is a challenge: to conceive an idea and then have the skill set to create and make that idea manifest itself into a physical object.”

His younger sister, Joanna, a sophomore at Hillsdale, said she has been proud to watch her brother’s hard work.

“It has been really neat to see the progress and meticulous work Isaac has put into every detail of this show over the past months,” she said.

“He has really aimed to use this opportunity to the fullest and represent who he is as an artist.”

And now all of campus will have the opportunity to see Dell’s hard work, creative process, and talent.

Associate Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis said he has been surprised by Dell’s abilities in everything he creates.

“I am amazed with the quality of really all his work,” Frudakis said.

Frudakis mentioned several of Dell’s sculptures —

Senior Isaac Dell’s senior art show started Wednesday. Facebook

his life-sized male figure, the female figure he carved from limestone, and his three-figure sculpture of football players.

Each of these pieces required a lot of time, patience, and care. With each piece there was a narrative and an idea that Dell communicated beautifully.

“He’s really expressing the concepts very well,” Frudakis said.

Frudakis has enjoyed teaching Dell over the past several years and watching him set the bar very high for himself as he realized his talent and made a decision to develop it.

“He has committed himself to excellence,” Frudakis said.

One of the qualities that Frudakis has really appreciated in Dell is that he has remained the same, “terrific young man,” as he pursues his

passions and ambitions in art.

“He can have this ambition and determination and yet, along with it he hasn’t changed,” Frudakis said. “He is still friendly and a good person.”

Frudakis said there is a feeling that the whole art department is really cheering for him because of his character.

With graduation coming up for Dell in May, he is still making decisions about his future. For now he is planning on returning home to Ohio for the summer to work and design for the steel company his dad owns.

Further down the road, Frudakis said he really believes Dell could go far.

“The sky is the limit,” Frudakis said. “He has he ability and opportunities to do some really wonderful things in sculpting.”

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Junior Clara Fishlock plays the flute. Katherine Scheu | Collegian

Flute like a fiddle

By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor When flutist Clara Fishlock auditioned for the 2018 Concerto/Aria Competition, she channeled the sound of bow hairs grating on strings rather than the hushed whispers floating from a flute.

The junior history and French major drew her musical inspiration from the violin rather than the flute to preserve the heart of the piece, which she will perform on March 1 with the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra after earning a winning spot in the competition. Aram Khachaturian wrote his “Violin Concerto in D minor” for the violin, as the song’s title indicates. When Fishlock transposes the piece to the flute, she strives to keep the musical quality of a violinist.

“If I hadn’t known this piece was a violin concerto, I would have played it very differently,” Fishlock said. “It brings out a different aspect of the flute. Different emotions come out in this piece, maybe, than in the majority of flute concertos.”

Fishlock said she treats notes of shorter lengths, for example, with special care.

On the flute, peels of eighth notes and sixteenth notes take on a delicate tone, but a violinist performing this piece would grind her bow across the strings to evoke a more powerful sound.

“I did a lot of listening to violin, and I thought a lot about how to best mimic those sounds on the flute,” Fishlock said.

When Fishlock began practicing the concerto, her

ears were already attune to the sounds and techniques of the violin: Her sister, freshman Eleanor Fishlock, has played the violin since she was a little girl. A member of the orchestra, Eleanor will sit among the string section in March and accompany her older sister as she performs her solo.

The sisters are not the only members of the Fishlock family who possess musical talent.

David Fishlock, their father, is the principal percussionist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

After winning a concerto competition in high school, Clara Fishlock played Franz Doppler’s “Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise” with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra at the same concert as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, taking the stage with her father.

Clara Fishlock said competitions like the CSYO Concerto Competition prepared her for her January audition.

And Fishlock’s flute teacher at Hillsdale, Adjunct Instructor Jaimie Wagner, said her student entered the college’s music program as an advanced musician.

“Clara was a great flutist when she arrived at Hillsdale, with excellent technical faculty and a beautiful lyrical style,” Wagner said.

Orchestra Director James Holleman echoed Wagner’s observation and said Fishlock is a leader of the orchestra, always modeling preparedness and attentiveness in rehearsals. Though he did not participate with the concerto competition’s judges in picking a winner, Holleman

said Fishlock’s performance impressed him.

“Clara’s concerto is technically demanding, and she showed her advanced faculty on the instrument,” Holleman said. “She showed she would be able to be heard playing with the orchestral accompaniment on the concert.”

Wagner said the concerto’s difficulty lies in the fact that it was written for another instrument. Primarily, the piece presents no opportunities for a flutist to breathe, since it was originally composed for a string player who can breathe at any point in the music.

“There are a lot of really long phrases in the piece,” Wagner said. “We work to shape the phrases so that we can breathe in a musical way, where a violin player wouldn’t normally pause.”

Fishlock added that, disregarding its demanding passages, the piece exhausts her just in its length.

“I need to continually build my stamina to be able to play for 16 minutes,” she said.

“During the competition I felt myself really losing energy while I was playing.”

Despite the demands of the music, Fishlock said she’s happy with the competitive atmosphere at the music department.

“Our environment is a great one to compete in.

Congratulations to the music department for making this a healthy environment,” Fishlock said. “A lot of times these things do not foster community, and I think it does here. I haven’t seen that in music competition scenes elsewhere.”

Junior Tova Forman plays the violin. Madeline Fry | Collegian

Violins and virtuosos By | Brooke Conrad Assistant Editor Saint-Saëns wrote the piece for a virtuoso.

The composer’s “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso,” performed by junior Tova Forman in last month’s Concerto/Aria Competition, was meant to test the limits of both instrument and musician. Fingers fly across the strings, stunning the audience with swift, intricate bow strokes and dramatic shifts between fiery enthusiasm and tender musicality.

“It’s one of the most difficult violin pieces that has won the concerto competition,” Professor of Music Melissa Knecht said. “She did a very, very expressive job. The slow, melodic sections were gorgeous, and the fast sections were impeccable.”

Camille Saint-Saëns composed the piece in 1863 for his friend, the then-19-year-old virtuoso, Pablo de Sarasate, who frequently performed the piece on his European concert tours. Forman, who was a finalist in the Howard Department of Music 2018 Concerto/Aria Competition, said she looks forward to performing the piece with the orchestra in their March performance.

Forman had actually planned to perform the piece at the competition a year before, but an injury her therapist termed “double crunch,” which involved a pinched nerve in her neck and shoulders as well as inflammation in her arms, pushed the performance back a year. The injury forced her to stop playing for more than a month.

During that month, Forman said she focused on cognitive memory.

“During that time, I would just think about the Saint-Saëns,” she said with a laugh. “That’s really good actually — memorizing it without having the muscle memory — because then you really have it cognitively memorized. I could totally feel myself playing it if I concentrated enough, even though I was just sitting there…I could even feel, ‘Oh, that went wrong; I lost my bowing right there,’ and I’d go back and do it again…I got to think about how I actually would want it to sound if I could play it that way.”

Although it was a challenge not to be able to play, Forman said it did not affect her positivity.

“My violin is part of who I am, but it was just nice to have it confirmed that when I can’t even play my violin, I don’t feel as though I’ve lost part of my identity. I was just as happy in some ways,” Forman said. “I think some people play violin every day and not know what to do with themselves if they don’t play.”

The judges placed seven performers out of the 26 who auditioned, and five of them will play in the orchestra’s two performances this semester.

Holleman said the greatest challenge is rehearsing. Forman said it was difficult for her to determine the appropriate volume at which to play, as violin can easily be overwhelmed by an orchestra.

“I think Dorothy DeLay said there are two dynamics that a solo violinist can use:

forte and fortissimo,” Forman said. “You don’t have much space to get really quiet because the orchestra’s going to bury you or you’re going to sound as though you’re scared of playing. You want at least a color change, even if you can’t dynamically alter what you’re doing.”

Forman majors in classical studies, with minors in accounting and music. She teaches music, plays at a retirement home, and performs for various gigs. She also serves as one of the concertmasters for the orchestra.

“She’s always positive in rehearsals when I see her,” Holleman said. “It’s always an uplifted, positive attitude.”

Although she came to Hillsdale with a strong musical background, Holleman said he has seen Forman mature even more as a musician during her time at the school.

He gave Knecht the credit for that, as he noted that at every competition, there is at least one winner from Knecht’s studio.

“Dr. Knecht is phenomenal,” Holleman said. “She was able to take an advanced player and continue to advance her.”

Knecht agreed that Forman exhibits strong musicianship.

“Sometimes students with strong musical ideas are not willing to listen to another opinion,” Knecht said. “But she listens to me, and we find out what will work best with her personality. She’s very malleable that way, but strongwilled as well.”

She said Forman is a “wonderful person in every way.”

‘Three Billboards’ laced with lost love A capella group By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer Three billboards hover above a country road outside Ebbing, Missouri, and an entire country’s social issues — race, rape, misogyny, poverty — cling to them like peeling paint.

When I saw “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on a cold Midwestern night a few weeks ago, I didn’t move for ten minutes afterward, for shock. I was seared, as I entered this volatile Western ghost town, Midwestern blip on the radar, and Southern tale of the grotesque, by the way Ebbing’s suffering is wrapped up in the fury of a single grieving mother: Mildred Hayes.

Though much has been made of the political background of the film, if “Three Billboards” wins an Oscar from any of its seven nominations (and one should go to Frances McDormand in her blazingly brilliant leading performance), it will be for its depiction of the way all rages become Mother Mildred’s own in her quest for a justice that is lethally laced with lost love.

Seven months after her daughter’s rape and murder, the Ebbing Police Department’s investigation has gone cold, but Mildred still has a burning question, which she,

as resident avenging ass-kicker, decides to make public: “RAPED WHILE DYING AND STILL NO ARRESTS? HOW COME, CHIEF WILLOUGHBY?” the billboards read.

The fallout is immediate and explosive (spoilers impending): Turns out, the Police Chief has his own grief to deal with. He’s dying of cancer, and this has distracted him from the investigation.

But in this clash of loves, Mildred has no sympathy, and it becomes clear that Mother Justice has allowed grief to blind her.

This blindness leads her into a disturbing parallel with Officer Jason Dixon, who, in his infamous tenure at the Ebbing Police Department, executes his own form of “justice” by torturing black men and beating up young upstarts who insult his pride.

Dixon and Hayes end up on the warpath for their own reasons, but it leads the bumbling, racist idiot and the mother further into self-justified acts of violence in the name of their causes. As vengeance tears the town apart, redemption becomes more necessary and more difficult for both characters, and much of the criticism of the movie centers around the way director Martin McDonagh thinks they earn it.

The film self-consciously

situates itself within America’s Southern literary and Western film traditions, a confluence of genres that has arisen naturally in the last century as the spirit of Southern post-Civil-War writing moves northward. Now critics talk about the Midwestern Gothic, a breeding ground for stories about the emptinesses, arguments, and struggles of American life in a place and political conversation that it seems like time forgot.

But McDonagh is an Irishman. And what, critics ask, can an Irishman know? Does the fact that a young character in the movie reads Flannery O’Connor make the story American?

McDonagh, it seems, tosses together American problems with race relations, misogyny, law enforcement, and treatment of women in the name of a drama he doesn’t fully understand. This is particularly troublesome in the case of Dixon — Can we, after Ferguson, forgive a bad racist cop as easily as someone outside the crisis asks us to?

Viewers who fixate on Dixon miss the way this unexpected companionship turns the moral compass on Mildred as she finds herself on Dixon’s side in tracking down Angela’s rapist — Dixon to prove that he’s a good cop after all, and Mildred to take matters into her own hands as

a substitute for despair. Predictably, the two cut swaths of destruction in what seems like a death spiral for the hope for justice in any form, and Mildred’s own moral mirror begins to cloud in ways disturbingly similar to Dixon’s.

How to escape the death throes of loss? What happens when the whole world’s sorrows seem to swarm around a single event? That’s a question viewers could not ask if McDonagh hadn’t aimed so high in his depiction of a rural American tragedy.

But it’s not a question McDonagh answers. For a lapsed Catholic, it seems impossible to apply the “It’s messy, but grace shows through the cracks” thesis that works so well for O’Connor. At best, the comic thrust of an absurd final scene where the two warriors find themselves on an awkward road trip in the name of justice can say to viewers, “It’s complicated.”

It would be better if Mildred’s rage and Dixon’s racism were purgatorial fires.

But “Three Billboards” left me burnt out, spent in the embers — and this is grief, before the phoenix.

That seems to be enough for McDonagh. But I don’t know if Mildred would have accepted that answer to her question on the third billboard: “How come?”

to visit the ’dale

By | Anne Ziegler Collegian Freelancer The Lorelei Ensemble, an a cappella vocal group comprised of nine women, is coming to campus to perform at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 at College Baptist Church.

Lorelei is known for its wide range of performance repertoire, including selections from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

“Lorelei is starting to extend the envelope with a lot of commissioned works and exploring a lot of new areas,” Department Chair James Holleman said. “They are starting to be known as champions of new music.”

Lorelei Ensemble was founded in Boston in 2007.

Critics have praised Lorelei for its pristine vocal tone and grace of the human voice. Lorelei has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Odyssey Opera. It has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At hillsdale, the group will perform Renaissance com-

poser Guillaume Du Fay, as well as numerous modern composers, such as Joshua Bornfield, David Lang, and Shawn Kirchner. Hillsdale music faculty will also perform with Lorelei: Teacher of Music Stacey Jones-Garrison and Mark Douglass, director of bands and percussion at Spring Arbor University, will play “Know What is Above You” by Steve Reich, and Adjunct Instructor of Music David Peshlakai will play “Saro” by Joshua Shank.

Lorelei will also teach a masterclass 12-1:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 in Conrad Recital Hall. The Hillsdale College Choir and Chamber Choir will both perform selections at the masterclass.

Freshman Caroline Lively will sing with Hillsdale’s chamber choir in the master class.

“I am excited to hear the interpretation and fresh perspective that these nine women will bring to Hillsdale,” Lively said.

Admission to the concert is free, but tickets should be reserved by emailing sageboxoffice@hillsdale.edu.

February 15, 2018

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Student research helps prepare Cornell lab for brighter X-ray beams By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor Only 40 yards underneath Cornell University’s football field, electron beams race around a half-mile loop of narrow piping nearly as fast as the speed of light in a machine known as the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, or CESR. Junior Laura Salo’s research involving CESR at Cornell this past summer helped move the team one step closer to achieving the goals of the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, CLASSE,to produce the brightest source of X-ray beams in the United States.

“As the particles pass through deflecting magnetic fields, X-rays are emitted and these are used for X-ray research at Cornell,” said Michael Billing, an accelerator physicist at Cornell and Salo’s research supervisor.

Salo worked in the Wilson Laboratory at Cornell where she used a computer software program to determine how some proposed modifications to CESR would affect the overall operations of the machine. CESR maintains beams of electrons after a particle accelerator has excited the particles in the beam to travel

at high speeds, and serves as a way to store the beams, Salo said.

“When the beams get up to speed, they’ll exit the ring and go into the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, or CESR, and it’s in that storage ring that they are maintained at this speed,” Salo said. “That’s also where they wiggle the beam to produce X-rays.”

The X-rays can then be used in other research projects to study the characteristics of different samples as they interact with the destructive X-ray beams.

To improve the brightness of the X-ray beams produced using CESR, researchers at the laboratory proposed adding new components along the ring and replacing parts of the ring with narrow pipes that would require a more focused beam, Salo said.

Before they could make these modifications, however, the research team needed to know whether their proposal was feasible in the first place.

“You’ve got to have a pretty focused beam to get particles moving at the speed of light to consistently shoot through a tiny tube,” Salo said. “That’s what my project was doing. I was basically calculating how stable the beam was based on these different factors in the

One component of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, sliding joints, allowed the machine to expand and contract when it heated up or cooled down. Laura Salo | Courtesy

ring, like undulators, wigglers, and magnets — just different things that they need to make the ring function.”

Salo’s work measured how different components of the ring affected the motion and oscillation of the beam as it travels around the ring. She focused on two characteristics of the beam’s motion: tune shift and wake field, and in turn, what limits those characteristics placed on the beam’s overall stability.

“They wanted to know how many electrons or positrons can be in the beam at one time, or how bright they can make the beams,” Salo said.

“Tune shift is going to limit that.”

To calculate the impact of each individual component, Salo measured their dimensions and entered them into a computer software program that estimated their effect on the beam’s stability. She focused primarily on undulators, a component of the ring where the tube becomes narrower.

“Undulators cause huge spikes in the movement of the beam away from the center of the tube, and they want to put about five more undulators in the ring,” Salo said. “They don’t quite know whether there will be a compounding effect from them. That’s where I came in and used a computer program to predict what the tune shift will be with the additional undulators.”

Once she obtained estimates from the software, Salo compared the numbers to Billing’s theoretical calculations and other measurements and found them to be in good agreement, Salo said.

Then, she presented her findings to other researchers at Cornell who worked with CESR. The other researchers incorporated her predictions into their own parts of the project, Salo said.

“I felt kind of bad because they had to do some additional calculations based on my numbers, but it was cool to be able to influence what they were doing,” Salo said.

She said she also enjoyed working in an office near the CESR control room, where she was able to meet some of the operators and learn a lot

Junior Laura Salo spent the summer working with the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, running simulations to determine how different modifications would affect the machine. Laura Salo | Courtesy

about how the ring worked.

“It was really neat because I got firsthand knowledge of what was happening with the machine the entire summer,” Salo said. “First thing I did when I walked in in the morning was to check the status of the machine: whether it was on or down, how long the beam has been up, and whether there are users down there. Of course, if something happens, you hear the alarm goes off, so I got used to what all the different alarms meant.

You’d hear one go off, and then a split second later you’d hear one of the operators running across the floor to go do something. It was fun to be right there in the control room.”

Physics department chairman Ken Hayes said Salo was

one of two Hillsdale students to conduct research at other colleges over the summer through a national program that provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to conduct research.

“We encourage all of our physics majors to apply for summer REU positions,” Hayes said in an email. “REU’s are very helpful for the students as they get to experience what graduate-level research is like at a research university.

Also, having done an REU greatly strengthens a student’s application to graduate school…Hillsdale College physics majors have been quite successful in obtaining REU positions.”

Billing said future research will also use the same software Salo used over the summer.

“Laura’s results predicted a reasonable operating charge... and we will continue to utilize this software to optimize the maximum charge [for different parts of the beam],” Billing said in an email. “The higher charge per [section of the beam] allows enough decay time for the physicists to study the dynamics of molecules after being excited by X-rays before the X-rays from the succeeding [beam section] arrive on the sample.”

Billing said Salo was diligent and focused on the project, and sometimes worked long hours to achieve her research goals.

“Laura’s work during the summer was very successful, and my colleagues and I enjoyed working with her,” Billing said in an email.

Junior Laura Salo spent the summer completing a research project about the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, working from an office just off the control room. Laura Salo | Courtesy

‘Pedal power’ physics demo shows principle of energy efficiency By | Jordyn Pair News Editor The energy bike demonstration hosted by the Society of Physics Students on Friday did more than highlight the physics department — it also helped spread awareness about energy efficiency.

“I had the idea that if they were able to feel it in their body, they would get it,” physics department chairman Ken Hayes said.

The demonstration, in the Grewcock Student Union on Friday afternoon, consisted of a bike hooked up to three types of lightbulbs. Participants who rode the bike could see how much pedaling it took to light up incandescent bulbs,

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compact fluorescent bulbs, or LED bulbs. LED bulbs are the most energy efficient of the three.

The project was started two and a half years ago by Michael Tripepi ’17. It was taken over and finished by senior Rebekah Roundey.

The project was “very nearly done,” when she got it, Roundey said.

Between 30 to 50 people tried the bike on Friday, according to Roundey.

The point of the bike was to demonstrate energy efficiency.

“It’s a way to bring physics to people,” said junior Laura Salo, who helped lead the demonstration.

Hayes said that exposing

people to science is part of the reason the society does these demonstrations.

“Right now, there’s a lot of people in the country who don’t view science with a lot of respect, and that’s a tragedy,” Hayes said.

Hayes said he hopes that people would relate to the demonstration since it deals with issues like energy efficiency, economics, and conservation.

Roundey echoed his sentiments.

“It’s not only important from a conservation side, but from an economic side,” Roundey said. “We think it’s important for non-science majors to think about it.”

The Society of Physics Students held an energy demonstration in the Grewcock Student Union Friday, where students could power light bulbs by pedaling a bicycle. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

Research helps quantify viruses present in Earth’s atmosphere

Enzyme removal found to reverse Alzheimer’s plaques in mice

A new study marks the first attempt to quantify viruses in Earth’s troposphere, the atmospheric layer below the stratosphere where planes fly. The scientific collaboration of scientists from Canada, Spain, and the United States demonstrated that more than 800 million viruses are deposited per square meter in the troposphere. The researchers said most of the viruses they found may have entered the air from sea spray, and could be deposited again through rain or Sahara dust.

A study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine reported that reducing the amount of an enzyme called BACE1 in model mice prevented the formation of Alzheimer plaques and also cleared away the plaques already present in the mice brains.

The researchers said previous studies have demonstrated the importance of BACE1 for other brain functions, so drugs targeting this enzyme must be able to inhibit some, but not all, of the enzyme.

Microplastics may pose risk for ecosystems on dry land Although research has already shown the adverse effects of microplastics, tiny plastic particles, a new study from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries demonstrates that microplastics may also be harmful for terrestrial ecosystems. The researchers estimated there may be anywhere from four to 23 times as much microplastic in terrestrial environments as there is in aquatic environments.

Tab device generates electricity from body motion or friction Researchers developed a thin, 1.5-centimeter tab that generates electricity through body motion, according to a study published in Nano Journal. The device, called TENG, consists of two gold films separated by a silicon-based material and generates electricity through friction. Although it cannot generate enough electricity to charge a smartphone yet, the team is developing a larger version that can generate more electricity while still maintaining cost efficiency.

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Unsung Heroes of Hillsdale: Patrick Kander keeps it simple By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor When Patrick Kander was 15, a year into his dishwashing job at Perkins, his manager took a leap and asked if he wanted to try his hand at cooking, and he’s never looked back.

Now, Kander, the executive chef of Bon Appétit at Hillsdale College, develops meals for the café, observes, and coaches the Grewcock Student Union staff, but also sets catering menus and teaches cooking classes on the side.

“This is the hardest business to be successful at,” Kander said. “The failure rate is extremely high because you’re dealing with food.”

His long career in the food business means he knows its parts inside-out and start-tofinish.

“One of the greatest things about cooking food is being able to take it from off the truck, out of the cooler, into preparation, into the cooking technique, and onto the plate and serving it,” Kander said.

Kander’s mum was Irish, so he joked that she knew how to boil when she married his Hungarian father. For three years, Kander’s mom learned from her mother-in-law. The family of nine — Kander, the youngest of seven siblings — ate every day at 5:30 as a family, and tended a garden.

He grew up on comfort food, from chicken and biscuits to stews, anything slowcooked made for winter. He appreciated the time it took to make food from scratch, a value that he holds to this day.

His mother, who shopped at local markets, instilled in him his values for home-cooked meals using fresh, local ingredients, as well as his aversion to grocery stores.

He cooked at Perkins for until high school graduation, making $3.35 an hour, but loving every minute of it.

While studying business management at Cleveland State, he worked at two different restaurants, but in the back of his mind, he knew he wanted to go to culinary school in New York.

The plunge into life in the City after living in Cleveland didn’t make him homesick, but it was intimidating at first.

Once he settled in, he put his nose to the grindstone and worked, worked, worked.

He washed pots at one of the school’s five student-run restaurants and attended night

classes, a system that gave him a clearer picture of the school’s operations.

After graduation, he took a job at a restaurant in Columbus, then one as a sous-chef in Cleveland — taking home $315 a week for 70 hours of work — then as a corporate chef for a wholesale retail fresh pasta company. He

joined the Bon Appétit at Case Western Reserve University, where he met Dave Apthorpe.

He left Case Western Reserve for an executive chef position at the University of Akron.

He operated his own catering business for five years before joining Bon Appétit at Hillsdale College August 2015.

Seeing so many disparate sides of the business, not just restaurant work, has given him an informed sense of how each part of the food business runs effectively. He also said observing how successful peo-

ple ran their businesses and adhered to certain mission statements built him up.

“People have no idea all the steps that are taken to get the food to a station in the café — so many steps involved that people don’t see that part of it,” Kander said. “It’s easy for them to judge it because they don’t know what it took to get there.”

But being a self-employed caterer required him to work non-stop, no-vacation.

“I loved it, but I was dying on the inside,” Kander said.

He missed family Executive Chef Patrick Kander explains the intricacies of the Christmas because Searle Center kitchen appliances. Jo Kroeker | Collegian a client wanted him to cook for 10 “He was a great fit to zucchini, squash, cucumbers, people. He pocketed open the Searle Center with,” and carrots. $1,800 but, he said, Apthorpe said. “We really “I keep it simple,” Kander it wasn’t worth it. wanted to make sure that said. “It’s amazing how much “You realize opening went well, for all the of a bounty you get in a small what’s important and what’s effort the College put into that garden.” not,” he said. place.”

The food business hasn’t Apthorpe said Kander was When the executive chef of just taught Kander to apprecitrying to be a one-man-show. the café position opened, the ate the process what humans “But, not knowing where quality of Kander’s food and eat has to go through to get to each paycheck was going to the guests’ feedback made him their tables. It’s also shaped his come from, he looked to get a good fit, since, Apthorpe life philosophies. back into a more stable corsaid, he thought Kander could “Half the world’s problems porate setting. He believes the bring the catering mentality to start with hunger,” Kander values of Hillsdale College, so student dining. said. “To me there is no better he thought this would be a reKander just moved to Chel- connection on the planet than ally good fit, so far it’s proved food. If the whole world could sea, about 60 miles away, and just that.” get together and share a meal commutes every day. Like his Kander joined Hillsdale as we could all get along pretty mom did, he grows a garden well.” the catering chef for the Searle at home, with tomatoes, pepCenter. pers, herbs, and sometimes

food, made from scratch: a lifestyle with monetary and spiritual benefits.

“I love to take my craft and show people it’s doable, no matter who you are,” Kander said. He said this is a two-way street: he teaches and his students reciprocate, like when people come back and tell him they made his recipes for their families.

Typically, he said, students are shy at first, but then they get involved and ask questions.

His back to the audience again, Kander added the purée to the other ingredients to let it simmer for 30 minutes. “People who say, ‘I make my sauce all day long,’ Don’t listen to ’em.”

He blended together another speedy sauce: a pesto that substitutes the expensive basil for the inexpensive yet flavorful arugula (blanched), combined with olive oil, almonds, salt, and garlic.

“Recipes are just words on paper,” Kander said. “As long as you’re doing the technique, you can use whatever ingredients you want to add a personal touch.”

Then, he pulled out a tray with small round dough balls, ready to roll while the sauce simmered.

While students smooshed and pressed, Kander demonstrated the versatility of a wine bottle as a rolling pin.

Ali and Bruno Cortes are students of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship who just got married in July. Ali said her mom and grandma are great cooks, and from their families the couple received nice kitchen equipment that needs using.

Ali said she liked the idea of making oils since she usually tries to avoid eating processed foods, a philosophy that is reflected in her love of making breads and using her dreamy Vitamix blender.

Off to the side of the action, Kander credited the presence of Marketing Manager William Persson ’17 with better marketing efforts to get out the word about the classes.

By | Shadrach Strehle Collegian Freelancer It was a regular Thursday.

Alarm Rings.

Brush teeth.

Comb beard.

Get dressed.

Head out.

I needed to get to the Howard Music Building as soon as possible; My jazz combo was waiting.

Earphones in.

Isaac Hayes.

I kept my head down and my hands in my pockets, trying to beat Michigan’s harsh In the past, Persson said and unyielding weather. My the cooking classes were a mind began to wander. little less planned and not as “Why is it so cold around marketed. Another factor that here? I swear, it hits temperamakes these kinds of events tures like this all the time in easier, Persson said, is that Washington, but this feels a better-trained staff means ridiculous. I wonder if it’ll Kander can spend the day clear up by Satur…” prepping for a class.

Time stopped. I lurched Kander and Persson have forward, grasping for traction more events like this in on the icy sidewalk. This was store. From the students who it. My life flashed before my attended Tuesday’s class and participated in a feedback sur- eyes. My mind raced to decide vey, one student will random- what people would remember me by. One second felt like an ly be selected to learn how to eternity as gravity ceased to prep (and enjoy) a 3-course apply. I flung my arms out like meal shared among three a drunk condor, grasping for other friends. In the spring, balance.

Kander wants to host a wine And with that it was over, pairing night for roughly 40 I was still on my feet and still of-age attendees. very much alive.

“Wine is food,” Kander I whipped around, ready said. “Jesus was right. Jesus to do battle with whatever did it right.” brought me so close to death.

Just before it was time to And there, solitary and eat, Kander pulled out the proud, sat a banana peel. foods that he had prepared Historians debate who ahead of time, the arencine exactly brought the banana and the chopped salad. He threw red wine vinegar, lemon to the United States, but they usually agree who caused juice, dijon mustard, basil, banana mania. garlic, salt, pepper, and olive In the late 1800s, busioil together and whisked. nessmen Andrew Preston “If you consider buying and Minor Cooper Keith salad dressing, don’t,” he advised. “It’s just preservatives began shipping bananas from Jamaica to the United States. and sugar.”

Preston dedicated his life to Ung said she appreciated making the banana “more that Kander introduce the idea of mise-en-place because popular than apples,” and through targeted and incredshe, like many students, often ibly aggressive marketing, starts cooking without laying Preston and Keith made this out all the ingredients and promise a reality. often looks for things as she Street carts all over cities goes along. like New York and Boston But Kander does not besold to populations convinced lieve that cooking is anything of the banana’s superior health to do half-concentrated or benefits and taste. half-prepared.

The previously placid “Do one thing at a time, streets of the East Coast beand do it well, and then move came a battleground between on.” man and plantain. People After the burners were threw their used banana peels shut off and the range cooled, on the ground without thinkKander and the members of ing twice, a cultural staple the cooking class split up and in an era with incredibly lax sat around two tables in the sanitation laws. Rotten banana Searle Center and shared a peels piled up, and citizens meal together. became increasingly wary of “Think about what a home- their latent destructive power. cooked meal means,” Kander Publications like Harper’s said. “Food is love, and it’s Weekly warned of banana 1,000 times better than going peels as a public health risk out.” and admonished those who failed to dispose of their used

“ T here is no better connection on the planet than food.

If the whole world could get together and share a meal we could all get along pretty well.”

By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor A distinct cheesy odor hung in the air of the state-ofthe-art Searle Center kitchens. The range hoods roared.

Stainless steel countertops reflected Italian staples: infused olive oils, roasted garlic, Parmesan Reggiano cheese, the fixings for dough.

Nine students learned how to cook simple Italian street food from scratch using just a few, fresh ingredients from Bon Appétit Executive Chef Patrick Kander on Feb. 6.

They flattened dough spheres into 8” circles to cook in olive oil, watched demonstrations for making marinara sauce, pesto, salad dressing, and dough, and listened to Kander’s general tricks of the trade.

“Get good ingredients if you’re making everything from scratch,” he said. “It’s good, and good for you.”

Kander emphasized that cooking from scratch isn’t overwhelming if one keeps it simple.

The spread covering the gleaming countertops was light fare: chopped salad, fried risotto balls called arencine, and piatta sandwiches — a trendy Italian pop-up street food. The class is the first of the semester, and had been rescheduled because of the influenza outbreak.

Kander opened the class with an inspirational story to show the power of food and convince students to buy real Parmesan Reggiano, not the white dust that comes in a green plastic shaker. After a devastating earthquake cracked cheese wheels, one chef promoted a parmesan risotto dish anyone could make around the world. Acclaimed chefs joined the trend and ultimately, international sales from the cheese sold saved the cheesemakers’ livelihoods.

Then he gave a tour of the high-tech kitchen: smart ovens with flash drives that read downloaded recipes and tell cooks what settings to use, and machines that blast -10°F temperatures to cool down food.

“The tech stuff is wild,” the 46-year-old chef admitted. “It’s nice to have those features. Even you guys can do it.”

Dave Apthorpe, General Manager of Bon Appétit, said that hosting the class in the Searle Center is a way for

students to get involved, check out the kitchens and work there.

“One of our goals is not to have that viewed as, ‘that’s for CCAs, that’s only for outside events,’ We want it to be viewed as part of the college, it’s a good opportunity to show it off, have a students feel part of it,” Apthorpe said.

Mark Harrison ’18 and Tara Ung ’18 came to the class with open minds. While Ung only knows how to make Chinese food, she knows its essence involves experimenting. Harrison said he doesn’t know how to cook at all. In the kitchen, Ung does the bossing, which Harrison said sometimes works... and sometimes it doesn’t.

The couple enjoys cooking together: Last year, Harrison gave Ung a cookbook with traditional English dishes, “basically, what might’ve been Hobbit food,” Ung said.

Ung is a part-time student, off the meal plan and fending for herself with her 20-ounce Crock Pot. Her mom, dad, and grandma in Malaysia have taught her what she knows.

In her estimation, Penang, Malaysia, has the best food in the world: a blend of Indian, Dutch, and English, and island flavors.

As for Italian? At the start of the class, her knowledge was limited to Olive Garden.

Kander waved his hands over the ingredients laid out and ready-to-use. He emphasized the technique, mise en place, which is French for having everything in place before cooking. He dumped the dough ingredients together and used the dough hook on a Kitchenaid to knead.

Then, he heated and stirred garlic, basil, oregano, salt, and pepper. Kander whirled to face his audience with a giant plastic vat of puréed tomatoes: “You’re obviously not going to make as much as I am,” he joked.

It’s true. Most of the time, Kander is dealing with how to feed a thousand students every single day, or preparing catering menus. That Tuesday night, he scaled it down to teaching students how to cook for two or three people at home, which allows him to be more intricate.

Kander’s motto is simple

Seniors Mark Harrison and Tara Ung form piatta dough at the Italian street food cooking class.

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Executive chef teaches students cooking basics with fresh ingredients

I slipped on a banana peel — this is my story

peels. Cities soon joined in the fight, with some releasing wild pigs into the streets to eat the peels. Cities like St. Louis outlawed throwing banana peels on public walkways.

In the way only comedians can, the giants of vaudeville mined the public crisis for jokes. The genesis of the banana peel slipping gag came from the comedian “Sliding” Billy Watson who earned his moniker from his famous “sliding act.”

The joke was simple enough. Watson started on the edge of the stage, preparing himself both physically and mentally. He then walked across the stage, blissfully unaware of a waiting banana peel.

The audience held their breath.

Did he not see the banana?

What would become of our hero?

The air was thick with tension and dramatic irony, and when the audience reached their limit - Watson reached the peel. He slid across the stage on the banana, flailing his arms.

The audience lost it.

Comedy would never be the same.

Watson’s success gave rise countless imitators trying to cash in on America’s new obsession with “sliding.” This success transferred to the silver screen, with the first use of the gag appearing in the Harold Lloyd silent film “The Flirt.”

Film did little to improve on the joke, as directors chose instead to simply adapt it.

“Sliding” entered a dark age, with very few comedians bothering to improve on the formula. Then, without warning, Buster Keaton blew America’s collective comedic mind.

In the 1921 film “The High Sign,” Keaton came across a banana peel and avoided it, only to slip on a second peel waiting slightly off screen.

This simple improvement to the gag added a whole new dimension of broken expectations and comedic timing. The floodgates flew open, as the banana peel cemented itself in film.

Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, and Woody Allen mark only a few of the talents who gave their unique spin to the now well-established trope.

And there I stood, the unaware victim of over a century of comedic development.

That banana traveled far to meet me, sailing across oceans and through the crucible of America’s unyielding humor mill.

I laughed.

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Students question themselves when they should question their professors By |Sutton Donwoodie Collegian Reporter

Martha Kuehn, the oldest living alumna at 103, enjoying dinner with her friends. Monica VanderWeide | Courtesy

Oldest living alumna recollects Hillsdale, founds scholarship By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer

Looking at a yearbook, Judy Knapp can pick out many of her mom’s classmates; she remembers them from a decades-long “round-robin” chain letter that her mother’s friend Martha Kuehn orchestrated for six members of Hillsdale’s classes of 1937 and 1938. Now, as the last living member of the correspondence, Kuehn sends Knapp postcards to stay in touch.

“She’s a firecracker,” Knapp said. “She still drives, you know. I’ve ridden with her. If you didn’t know she was 103, you’d think she was 75.”

Kuehn, the college’s oldest living alum, has kept her Hillsdale relationships strong for eighty years after her graduation through her support of Pi Beta Phi sorority, Slayton Arboretum, and an endowed scholarship for students from her current home in Washington state. Today, she lives outside Spokane and visits friends at college events like a luncheon in Coeur d’Alene this October.

One lesson Kuehn has learned in her long life is not to trumpet her wisdom: “I’m not one for speeches,” Kuehn said when asked to share a few words at the luncheon, but she came up with a few valuable ones that sound with the spirit of 1930-era higher education: “It pays to get a college education.”

It’s an education Kuehn, a daughter of an Iowa farmer, had to work for in the middle of the Great Depression; she first attended secretarial school and did office work for the dean of women to help pay for college.

“Everybody had something going then,” Kuehn said. “Nobody had any money, so we worked to get scholarships.”

At Hillsdale, Kuehn majored in economics, joined Pi Beta Phi, and edited the yearbook. Her favorite pastime was playing intramural

basketball; in the 1930s, there were no collegiate women’s teams.

Pi Phi is the link between Knapp and Kuehn: “Marty and my mom, Carol Stroud, went to school together before college, and then they were in Pi Phi together.”

After a visit to Hillsdale’s campus in 2012, Knapp’s mother looked back on Pi Phi fondly: The house has been rebuilt since Stroud ’37 lived

“ If you didn’t know she was 103, you’d think she was 75.” there. And the wardrobes are bigger, Kuehn remembers: Sisters used to share space in the basement for their one or two formal dresses. Today, she’s amazed by the closet space.

Outside the house, too, Hillsdale was cozier. Classes were small and located mostly in Central Hall. The community was conservative; students attended chapel every day at a Baptist church down the hill. The attitude of the college, even amidst the Depression, was positive: Everyone worked to get by.

“We survived,” she said.

After Hillsdale, life got bigger: Two years after graduation, Martha married Kenneth Maxwell Kuehn, an old friend from her church group.

“I guess that’s one of the funny stories of my life,” Martha said. She attended church one day during vacation, and a friend said, “Congratulations!”

“I said, ‘For what?’ He had announced our engagement in the Plain Dealer newspaper without telling me about it. We talked about it later,” Martha said. “That’s just his sense of humor. We were together for 76 years, so I guess it stuck.”

Biscuit from B6

restaurant and real estate business where she had worked since high school.

“I really appreciated that my parents introduced me to business at an early age,” Anna said. “It’s part of my blood at this point. They gave me an amazing amount of experience in restaurant operations and menu design, and that whole industry.”

The couple said they realized there were not any local breakfast restaurants apart from some national chains, and began looking into options for starting a restaurant of their own in March 2016.

“Breakfast is the best part of the day,” Anna said. “It’s before anything good or bad has happened, and we get to make a great impression with a hot breakfast and serve it to our guests. I think it’s a really great platform to be able to offer Bentonville and the surrounding area.”

In the meantime, while they searched for a building and developed the brand-

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Martha did interior design and banking work in Cleveland while Kenneth served in the military during World War II. After 1945, his Navy post moved him around the country, but they eventually landed in Los Angeles, where he became a toy salesman, and a friend recruited Kuehn to teach elementary school.

She taught fourth grade for eighteen years.

That’s where Knapp met

was just throwing shovels full of snow at each other.”

But it was not only the young men of the Hillsdale studentry who helped combat the worst of the winter storm.

The security office and its team helped dig cars out, jump car batteries, and transported people around campus during the storm. They worked with the college’s grounds crew along with the Hillsdale

her, after a long correspondence, in the 1990s — after Knapp picked up the pen to keep alive her mother’s side of the round-robin.

“I know Marty and Ken through my mom,” Knapp said. “After my mom passed away, I made a point to keep in touch.”

In 1999, the Kuehns moved to Washington, where Martha now lives next door to her son and daughter after her husband passed away three years ago.

Kuehn stays in touch with Hillsdale by supporting the upkeep of the Slayton Arboretum, where she remembers a failed attempt at ice skating on the pond with a boyfriend.

Two years ago, she also donated $50,000 to support scholarships for Hillsdale College students who struggle to pay for college just like she did.

For Vice President for Institutional Advancement John Cervini, this interest in supporting students was worth a cross-country trip.

He visited Kuehn at her home in 2005: “She wanted to make a gift to the college, an endowed scholarship with preference for students from Washington. I said, ‘Let’s see

ing concept for their restaurant, Sam continued working at Kellogg.

One day while scrolling through food pictures on Pinterest, Anna stumbled across the photo that would lead her to the restaurant’s name, The Buttered Biscuit.

“I wanted to embrace the fact that we’re here in the central South, but I also wanted it to explain what we are, and what better way to do that than to have a food image as a name,” Anna said. “It was just a really fitting name. It’s comforting and welcoming, and it clicked with me.

I love to bake and cook, and we have a running joke in our family that how much butter we go through is ridiculous.”

It wasn’t until September that they found the site for their restaurant, but once they did, they made an offer on the building and immediately set to work transforming the building. Anna said Sam would come to the restaurant to help with preparations after finishing his workday at Kellogg. Sometimes they

College Emergency Response Team (HCERT), a volunteer group which helps to remove snow in places that the larger plows and machines cannot reach.

“The big machinery they have can’t clear small spaces around buildings, like sidewalks and areas close to doorways, so security did it.

I think removing the snow was really beneficial and would love to see more students get involved,” Director of Security William Whorley said.

Senior Victoria Johnson’s experience with the snow shows the sort

what we can do about setting up a scholarship with matching funds from alumni.’”

Their plan worked, and on her 100th birthday on December 17, 2014, Alumni Director Grigor Hasted and the women of Pi Phi thanked Kuehn for her gifts to Hillsdale’s students.

At the Coeur d’Alene luncheon in October 2017, Kuehn introduced President Larry Arnn, who, with Cervini “made too much of a fuss” over her.

“Martha got up and welcomed everyone before Dr. Arnn gave his talk,” Cervini said. “She got up and said she was proud to be a member of the class of 1938. That got her a standing ovation.”

Kuehn was equally impressed.

“It was such a lovely luncheon,” Kuehn said. “I was thrilled to have a picture with Dr. Arnn, John Cervini, and a couple of other men from the office. They’re nice men, healthy and handsome, and they think good thoughts. You can tell that from their faces.”

On her own health, Kuehn said, “I’m in good shape. I only take one pill a day, and I’m not shaky. I’ve learned that if you treat your body well, it hangs in there with you. I’ve been very fortunate.”

And sharing an 80-year history with Hillsdale College and the people connected with it helps keep Kuehn sharp.

“This is a woman who’s over 100 and looks like she’s 80, and her mind is sharp,” Cervini said. “She told me once, ‘You know, the only thing I don’t do anymore is drive on the freeway.’”

Eighty years after the graduation that made the round-robin possible, a version of that correspondence goes on.

“We talk on the phone and send each other postcards,” Knapp said. “My mother loved receiving mail, so I try to keep that going.”

would be at the building past midnight, Anna said.

Only 40 days after closing on the building, The Buttered Biscuit opened on a Monday morning in April 2017.That Friday, Sam handed in his two weeks’ notice to Kellogg so he could focus on running the restaurant.

“We realized to make this work, we needed to be all in, and we had the traffic volume to do it,” Sam said.

Now, the Russells spend their time running their restaurant, raising their two young daughters 3-year-old Charlotte and 3-week-old Lydia, and staying active as volunteers in their community through Rotary Club.

“The commitment level of embarking on a new business venture in a new market in a new town, and also becoming new parents, it’s been a strong passion of mine,” Anna said. “It’s really been amazing how it’s come to fruition with a lot of hard work and sacrifice. It’s been a really incredible, rewarding journey.”

of aid that the security team offers to the students.

As she backed out of the gravel lot behind her house on Manning Street known to off-campus residents as the Waffle House, she backed into a snowbank and her car’s front end began to slide down the hill beside the lot.

Her wheels weren’t getting any traction and she ended up in the middle of her neighbor’s snow filled yard.

Friends tried to come to her rescue to dig her out, but they left with

When a student doesn’t understand a point a professor makes in class, they have two options: remain silent or admit ignorance and ask for help. Professors say they want students to engage with them, but students sometimes choose to avoid that engagement.

Professors said they desire student engagement for different reasons. Blake McAllister, assistant professor of philosophy, thinks the nature of what students study in his classes makes it worthwhile for students to ask questions, despite the discomfort it causes.

“The issues we discuss in philosophy are of the utmost importance, and there is a part of us that naturally desires to seek out answers to these questions,” McAllister said in an email. “Class provides an opportunity for us to explore the ultimate nature of reality together, not for me to hand you the ‘official’ answers.”

Ranessa Cooper, professor of biology, believes the reasons students need to engage their professors changes as the discipline changes. In her biology classes, she said students need to ask questions when they don’t understand the terminology she used in a lecture.

“In science, you have to understand the vocabulary to understand the concept,” Cooper said. “It is like a foreign language.”

In the philosophy department, engaging the professor is an essential part of the training students receive in philosophy classes.

“The philosophy department doesn’t just want you to learn about philosophy; we want you to learn how to think philosophically,” McAllister said. “Critical thinking of that sort is only learned through practice and participation.”

The reasons professors want student engagement are varied, just like the reasons students cite for choosing not to engage.

Jacob Coonradt, a senior, believes the fear of appearing dumb is what prevents most students from asking a question.

“You’re with smart professors and smart students, too,” Coonradt said. “You don’t want to look like an idiot.”

Professor of history Tom Conner said he is aware of how intimidation could curtail student-professor engagement, and he is aware of how he personally could be intimidating to students.

“I have a deep voice, I talk loud, and I am fairly energetic,” Conner said. “I fear that I may have an intimidating effect on students.”

Doyle Wang, a sophomore who is known by his classmates as someone willing to ask questions in class and in Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars, said his desire to learn triumphs over any doubts he may have about asking a question.

“My curiosity is what drives my questions,” Wang said. “If it’s something that contributes to the conversation in class, then I think I should ask.”

Wang also said that frequently asking questions

little to show for their effort. She called the security patrol hotline and Rick Coon came and helped shovel out the entire backyard of the house next-door so that she could drive through their yard and out to the alley behind.

“It was a lot of pushing, a lot of digging, a lot of shoveling,” Johnson said. “Kind of traumatic and irritating.”

Before Coon left, he was able help Johnson further.

Bright neon fluid stained the snow around her car and a stench

can cause him to miss out on some of the required material covered in a lecture. He said the process of asking a question sometimes forces his attention to shift from the lecture to his question.

One thing that makes professor-student engagement unique at Hillsdale is the relatively high percentage of students that were formerly home-schooled. These students find themselves in a drastically different learning environment with different rules of etiquette.

Conner said that while every home-schooled student is different, it is hard for some to transition from a student-tutor style of learning to a student-teacher style of learning.

“Occasionally there are home-schooled kids who are used to being the only student in the class,” Conner said.

“They don’t know when to dial it back, and sometimes students like that can have a disruptive effect.”

Conner also said that most often he does not know whether a student was home-schooled, and he does not believe that the very rare instance of a disruption is a significant problem.

While Conner does not believe student hyper-engagement is a substantive issue, he does believe students who do not engage with the faculty are cutting themselves off from people who want to help them.

“When a student doesn’t choose to come by during office hours or open up communication with a faculty member, we never know why that communication isn’t happening, and we never find out that there is a problem.”

Conner said. “We are here for you, don’t ever be hesitant to reach out to us.”

Ryan Zetwick, a sophomore, is a student who prefers not to engage with faculty during class. Zetwick said that smaller class sizes make it easier for him to participate in class, but when he needs a specific question answered, he prefers to go to office hours.

“Office hours are more personal, and professors can take time to answer questions,” Zetwick said. “It’s better because I don’t disrupt class, and I’m not in front of people.”

Cooper also feels that office hours are a productive time for professors to engage their more reluctant students.

“If you are really uncomfortable asking a question before, during or after class, I think that is a very good use of office hours,” Cooper said.

Coonradt feels that having professors who are willing to answer student questions during office hours is rare, and something Hillsdale College does well.

“Office hours are great.

Something about the one-onone setting there is better than class,” Coonradt said. “Professors here are very willing to give up their time and answer questions outside of class.”

A heightened level of student-professor engagement is something that would be beneficial to both professors and students. It helps the professors fulfill their purpose as instructors and moulders of minds, and it helps students get the most out of class.

hung in the air. Coon popped the hood and made sure the car wasn’t a danger to anyone and then recommended a mechanic to Johnson who could help.

“My three girlfriends and I probably could have gotten out eventually by ourselves at some point, but it is always good to have a little more manpower,” Johnson said.

Assistant editors Cal Abbo and S. Nathaniel Grime contributed to this article.

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Galloway residents shoveled snow, after storm blanketed cars and parking lots. Jodi Martin | Courtesy

Stormy weekend brings out good snow-maritans

By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor Nearly a foot of snow fell last weekend, leaving cars stuck in their parking spaces and students scrambling to move their cars before the police tucked a ticket under their windshield wiper in advance of the plows.

But when tragedy struck and people needed help, some men of Hillsdale College rose to the occasion.

As the snow fell in sheets through Saturday night, a dozen guys from Galloway Residence shoveled the parking lots of both sororities and women’s dorms from 8:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

After digging out their own cars in the Galloway lot, the men kept their shovels in hand and walked across Hills-

dale Street to clear the parking lots of Olds and McIntyre residences as well as the Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority houses.

“We just wanted to do something nice for our neighbors,” sophomore resident assistant Kyle Froisland said.

“Plus, we all have terrible social lives anyway so it’s not like we had anything else to do.”

It was not just a bunch of young men sweating through their scarves, however. The men said they had fun, enjoying each other’s company while giving a huge hand to others in the process.

“We just thought that it’d be a good way to hang out with friends on a Saturday night, and make anyone’s day a little bit easier and maybe a little bit brighter,” sophomore Scott Lowery said. “The best part

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Inside From dishwasher to executive chef, Patrick Kander talks lifelong love affair with food At 103, the oldest living alumna, shares her 80 years of history with Hillsdale College

The Buttered Biscuit, the restaurant of Sam Russel ‘08 and his wife, Anna, already has won two awards. Sam Russel | Courtesy

Buttered Biscuit breaks into breakfast scene By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & tech Editor For Sam Russell ’08 and his wife, Anna, opening their own breakfast restaurant was a family affair and a fulfillment of an entrepreneurial dream that had been 10 years in the making. When The Buttered Biscuit opened its doors last April, Anna said she never imagined the success they have experienced in their first year open for business.

“The first week that we opened, the response from the community was overwhelming,” Anna said. “It was incredible the people that came out and supported us and have continued to support us. It’s been a wonderful success. I’m a firm believer that if you’re honestly meeting a need in the community, it doesn’t guarantee success, but it increases your chances of that business’s success.”

For the Russells, their restaurant’s food, made entirely from scratch, has been recognized for two awards: Best New Restaurant in Northwest

Arkansas and Best Breakfast Restaurant.

“I think what really shocked us was the Best New Restaurant, because there’s such an explosion of a culinary scene in Northwest Arkansas that to be honored with that award is just incredible,” Sam said. “Both of those we felt very humbled to win, we were very thankful, and ultimately give the glory to God.” Sam said the path to starting their restaurant was a marathon, not a sprint, and combined both his and Anna’s backgrounds in business — his in corporate marketing and sales, and hers in restaurant management and entrepreneurship.

Prior to the restaurant’s opening, Sam worked for Kellogg for nearly 10 years, starting as a summer sales intern while he was still a student at Hillsdale College. This set him toward a career in sales and brand management, and provided a lot of free food, Sam said.

“Back when I was an intern, one of the cool bonuses was that I got free Kellogg cereal sent to my dorm,” Sam said. “All of the sudden, I would have tons of cereal lined up in my dorm room, and I’d give away free cereal to the hall and pretty much everyone. I used to have at Tony the Tiger poster in my dorm room every year, and I would have 600-700 signatures of people who had visited my room, most of them to try the free cereal.”

Sam also served as the first president of Hillsdale’s chapter of Students in Free Enterprise, now known as Enactus. Sam said he credits his involvement with SIFE for fostering his passion for entrepreneurship and brand development.

It also helped him land his first Kellogg internship.

“Sam was one of the really dynamic leaders at Hillsdale,” said Rich Rudolph ’85, who helped found Hillsdale’s Enactus chapter. “It’s been really exciting to see his career path and all the things that evolved

out of his involvement with SIFE.” Once he was hired fulltime by Kellogg after graduation, Sam moved to several different positions involving sales and brand management, ultimately working as a senior brand growth manager.

While working for Kellogg, he helped sell brands to WalMart and also helped develop and improve different Kellogg brands such as Famous Amos cookies and Murray Sugar-Free cookies.

“At one point, my formal title was senior manager over commercial innovation, which is a fancy way of saying I brought new Cheez-its and Keebler cookies to the market,” Sam said.

Shortly after the Russells were married, they moved to Bentonville, Arkansas, for Sam’s work.

Anna said the idea to start a restaurant surfaced after they moved, when Anna was looking for business opportunities after leaving her family’s

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Ellison Orange Croc Chic Jared By | Rowan Macwan

Jared Ellison.

Rowan Macwan | Collegian

Jared Ellison.

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What is your favorite color?

It’s orange. When I was young, my favorite colors were red and yellow, right up next to each other. But then, when I was 4 or 5, I went to school and found out about elementary color theory, and I combined the two and picked orange and never looked back.

How did you get so much orange stuff?

Ever since orange has been my favorite color, people just give me orange things. It’s not just Crocs, but over half the stuff I own is orange, because people give me orange things all the time.

Why do you wear crocs?

The reason I wear Crocs is actually not just to wear them, but because I like to be barefoot a lot. Even in the winter in the snow, and with Crocs, I can do that at any time.

How did you first get into wearing crocs?

My first pair of orange Crocs was yellow. I got them in fifth grade as a gift. Once I got the orange Crocs, it was better. Now I have seven pairs which is 14 crocs altogether. Just a couple of days ago, my dad came into my dorm room at 8 a.m. and dropped off two pairs of Crocs for me on his way to work up in northern Michigan.

Which are your favorite pair of crocs?

I like my second oldest pair best.

They have the most traditional look but are a little lighter than my most recent pair.

What do you think of oranges?

They’re good, but apples are better.

And pears are better still. I love pears and plums, which are both purple, which is my second favorite color.