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Vol. 141 Issue 17 - February 8, 2018

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Economics professors optimistic about Dow future

Steady unemployment, tax cuts indicate strong economy, despite the Dow’s largest single-day drop By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief The U.S. economy still appears healthy, according to professors in Hillsdale College’s economics department, despite the Dow Jones industrial average experiencing its largest single-day drop ever on Monday. “The underlying market economy clearly has not changed much over the past few days,” said Gary Wolfram, economics department chairman. “The economy is actually doing well.” The stock market index fell nearly 1,600 points at its low and closed 1,175 lower than its opening value, a 4.6 percent drop. That was the Dow’s largest intraday decline since August 2011. After Monday, the Dow has experienced volatile swings. Hillsdale economics professors, however, noted that the stock market is only one indicator of the economy and that other signs appear to be trending well with recent reports of wages increasing, a steady unemployment rate at

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4.1 percent, and new tax and regulatory cuts. “It might update my feelings on the year a little,” Associate Professor of Economics Michael Clark said. “It’s one indicator, yes, so we update — marginally. Do I like seeing my net worth drop 4 percent in one day? No, but I don’t see it as symptomatic

of a functional problem of current investments and market activities.” Janet Yellen told CBS News in her final interview as the Federal Reserve chairwoman in an article published Sunday that the stock market and other assets were running high. “Now, is that a bubble or is [that] too high?” she said on Friday, her last day at the Fed.

“It’s very hard to tell. But it is a source of some concern that asset valuations are so high.” Wolfram said her statement might have signaled a rush of selling. It also may have hinted that interest rates could soon rise again, encouraging people to look into more secure investments such as bonds. Associate Professor of

Economics Charles Steele noted that low interest rates on bonds have driven many investors to the stock market, perhaps leading to the highs the Dow has seen. It set a record high of 26,616.71 on Jan. 26. “I think there has been something of a bubble,” Steele said. “The stock market, if you want your money to grow, has

been one of the few places to put your money.” Between Feb. 1 and Tuesday’s opening, however, the Dow dropped 7.7 percent. Wolfram said changes within 10 percent typically represent a correction. “I think what you’re seeing is a normal pullback driven by traders, but it’s been orderly,” Wolfram said. “We have not done that for a very long time.” Nonetheless, over one year, the Dow was still up 21 percent after tanking. Wolfram noted the typical expected rate of return over years on the stock market is 8 to 9 percent. “The price to earnings ratio was a little high, and now it’s a little low,” Wolfram said. “That tells you this thing is going to bottom out.” That would likely spur more buyers, he said. For now, though, the market is in flux, Wolfram said. “People are going to be scared,” he said. “You’re going to have some volatility over the next, probably, couple of weeks.”

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City announces new slogan

By | Nic Rowan City News Editor The City of Hillsdale adopted its first-ever tagline at a Feb. 5 city council meeting. The new slogan — “Family. Tradition. Opportunity.” — will appear on city signs and documents as well as its website. It also could be added to city vehicles such as police cars in the future, as well. Chosen by popular vote via a poll on the city’s Facebook page, the tagline beat out “Classic. Creative. Community.” and “Small Town Feel. Lasting Impact.” by a margin of two votes. About 200 people participated in the poll. “I think the new logo and tagline is an announcement that we’re moving forward,” Mayor Adam Stockford said in an email. “It’s like buying a new wardrobe. It doesn’t accomplish anything per

se, but it’s meant to inspire confidence and hope. If it does nothing more than that, I’m fine with it.” Senior Joshua Liebhauser said he thinks the new slogan is an aspirational mission statement. “Hillsdale is trying to focus on economic improvement. New businesses like Handmade, Rough Draft, Hillsdale Brewing company, etc., have all opened, showing at least positive growth in local small businesses. Meijer wants to come here,” he said. “It needs to be immediately obvious what the tag line’s connection is to the town.” Junior Dylan Strehle disagreed, suggesting the tagline could better highlight was the town offers presently. “It highlights what our town could be as opposed to selling something we don’t have,” he said.

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Parking agreement reserves College Baptist Church for student use

By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Students looking to park in College Baptist Church’s lot now must register their vehicles with Hillsdale College security. After noticing an increase of students using the privately-owned lot for parking this year, College Baptist’s board of trustees approached Hillsdale College in the late fall about make a formal agreement for its use, expressing concerns about the lot’s use and clearing it of snow during the week. “We recognize parking is a premium at our proximity to the college,” said Mike Roberts, who is also the assistant headmaster and athletic director for college-owned Hillsdale Academy. “We wanted to figure out how we would be able to have control over the parking lot and be more upfront in communication both ways.” Signs marking the lot for student parking 6 a.m. to 11 Follow @HDaleCollegian

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p.m. on Monday through Friday were put up on Tuesday, said Bill Whorley, director of campus security. Notices also reserve the first two rows in the lot for church visitors, staff, and attendees. “Essentially it provides an option of another place for registered students to park,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said in an email. “We’re very appreciative of the good people at College Baptist Church to go out of their way to be helpful to the college.” In return for permission to use the lot, the college is also providing maintenance, including snow removal on the weekdays, Whorley said. “We think it’s a win-win for both,” College Baptist Pastor Ben Cuthbert said. Enforcement will begin on Monday to give students time to register their vehicles with security. Registration costs $50 for each academic year. Although some students living off campus expressed annoyance at having to regis-

ter their vehicle if they want to park there, they noted the need for more parking. “I frequently park there because I was able to park there and on Hillsdale Street without having to register my car or worry about getting ticketed,” senior Joshua Liebhauser said. “Construction makes it difficult to park on the north side of campus. There are not a lot of options for parking, so upperclassmen frequently park there or farther away.” College Baptist and Hillsdale College have had a history of sharing facilities, even after they formally broke ties in the 1960s. The church typically holds the school’s convocation ceremony, and 50 to 100 students regularly attend service there. The college and church’s agreement exists on a month by month basis, and they plan to review it, after the stipulations are implemented. “We’d like to try it, and we hope it works out well,” Roberts said. Look for The Hillsdale Collegian

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Citizens for Self-Governance club launches on campus By | Emma Cummins Colleegian Reporter Student Federation granted initial club status to the Citizens for Self-Governance club last Thursday. The club is the first campus chapter of its parent organization, Citizens for Self-Governance, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization whose current project is the Convention of States Project. The Convention of States Project propose to amend the U.S. Constitution using Article V, through the meeting of the states rather than Congress. The organization hopes to pass amendments in order to limit the power and scope of the federal government. Junior Lucy Meckler, the club’s co-president, said she feels the club provides a concrete approach to solving the issues of a bloated government. “We believe in an ideology that the federal government should be reduced in certain aspects, but not necessarily how or in what manner,” Meckler said. “That differs from groups like YAF and YAL because they all endorse a certain platform or a certain participant of that platform. It’s a structural, constitutional way to fix the government instead of just voting in new people or educating citizens.” Although the college has multiple political clubs on campus such as Young Americans for Freedom,

Young Americans for Liberty, College Republicans, and College Democrats, CSG appeals to a larger group, according to secretary and junior Jack McPherson . “CSG really spends time educating the grassroots and building positive citizenship,” McPherson said. “Their agenda is the people’s agenda, and it appeals to all people across party lines and across ideological lines.” Sophomore Austin Mock and head of the Club Oversight Committee on Student Federation also felt the club fit a unique role on campus. “They had a mission that was not already being fulfilled on campus,” Mock said. “A nonpartisan, grassroots organization didn’t already have an established place on campus. It was refreshing and new.” Meckler has been involved in politics since she was 8 years old; her father, Mark Meckler, co-founded the tea party movement and is the current president of Citizens for Self-Governance. Mark Meckler has great enthusiasm for these students’ work. “We are very proud of the student leaders who chartered the first campus Citizens for Self-Governance club in the nation at Hillsdale College,” Mark Meckler told The Collegian. “This is an historic event for our organization, and it is fitting that this first should take place at Hillsdale, an institution dedicated to the

Sophomores Clayton Vander Laan, Weston Boardman, and Lucy Meckler, joined by juniors Thomas Mullen and Jack McPherson, promoted their new club in the Grewcock Student Union. Jack McPherson | Courtesy

same principles which guide CSG.” That same enthusiasm can be seen in Meckler’s devotion to her new club. “The solution to the problem in D.C. comes from the

grassroots,” Meckler said. “It gives me an immense amount of faith traveling across country and seeing that these people are active in their local politics and care about what’s happening on their community level, instead of just

hopping from L.A. to D.C. to New York and only talking to people who are on the bureaucracy.” The club’s other co-president, junior Weston Boardman, interned for the Convention of States national

Team as the president of CSG’s personal intern and as the Intern Coordinator for the parent organization. Boardman said he feels the club brings an invaluable perspective to Hillsdale students. “Hillsdale is sheltered,” Boardman said. “The college inculcates us with the high, lofty principles and teachings, but this practice can often lead students to become out of touch with real world. CSG brings a dose of reality that is desperately needed here.” For students who join the club, weekly meetings will be just one of the opportunities to get involved. The club has connections to internships for their parent organization as well as opportunities for lobbying for legislation which aligns with their agenda. Meckler and Boardman share passion for the Convention of States Project, which translates to their work in creating the club. “These two have the best leadership capabilities and know-how for the job,” McPherson said. “CSG is basically Lucy’s life. She and her father are politically well connected, and she is blessed with great communication skills, among a wealth of other skills, that makes her the best for this job. Weston has worked for Lucy’s dad for almost a year now, and his passion and fire for the cause are unmatched.”

Flu season hits Hillsdale College By | Jordyn Pair News Editor Hillsdale College is beginning to see the effects of the nation-wide flu outbreak this week, with several students visiting the Amber Health Center sick. Linda Snoes, the office assistant for the center, said there have been 10 positive cases for influenza on campus. Still more are being tested. “It’s been crazy,” Snoes said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts out a weekly map tracking the flu outbreak. Oregon joined Hawaii and Washington, D.C. this week on the list of places without “widespread” outbreaks in the United States. Although the campus

Only Oregon, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C., are the only states not listed as having a “widespread” influenza outbreak. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

center is reporting climbing reports of the flu, Hillsdale Hospital has seen no change. “We haven’t seen an uptick,” said Doris Whorley, the hospital’s director of risk management. “We haven’t seen a decrease, either.” Whorley said the hospital is still administering flu vaccines to patients who want it. The flu season is predicted to end in March. “The CDC is still encouraging people to get one,” Whorley said. The CDC website lists the symptoms of the flu as fever, a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, aches, headaches, and fatigue. The health center encourages those who are feeling sick to take appropriate action. “Stay out of circulation like you’re told,” Snoes said.

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Bible study helps to encourage dorm leaders

By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor When Griffith Brown ’17 realized resident assistants needed a place to encourage one another, he reached out to fellow Simpson RA Eli West ’17. Brown soon learned that West shared his concerns. Three years ago, the two began Frontlines, a ministry for RAs and any other dorm resident who has a heart for other students in dorms. Today, about 15 people attend Frontlines every week. “Doing ministry in the dorm context is a super great field, but it can be exhausting,” Brown said. “Eli and I felt that very intensely. We randomly reached out out to each other and realized that we had both been thinking and praying about that.” Brown said very little support existed for Bible studies across campus, and he wanted Frontlines to be a place to help fellow leaders and provide accountability. Brown, who works for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, now serves as an advisor to the study, which is led by senior Emily Barnum and sophomores Michelle Reid

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and Jadon Lippincott. A former Olds RA who is now the head RA in Mauck, Barnum shared many of Brown’s concerns. “It can be tiring and lonesome to lead a study without encouragement and accountability,” she said. “Frontlines has great people with the same goal in the dorm context, and I always walk away feeling really encouraged.” She said the group is focused on scripture and prayer, with time for one-on-one discussion. This semester, the group has been discussing the Gospels and Jesus’ relationship with his disciples. Barnum said Frontlines has helped her in providing a space for her to reflect, and impacted how she relates to others. She said she also feels less exhausted in loving others. Reid got to know Barnum as a resident of Olds last year, where she is currently an RA and leads a Bible study. She said taking on a leadership role has been both fulfilling and exhausting. “It’s good to be in a community and understand what God is doing on campus,” Reid said. “Any chance to

have people who are older speak wisdom into your life is invaluable.” She said Frontlines allows her to ask fellow leaders about ideas for her dorm. Frontlines meetings also emphasize establishing new dorm ministry opportunities. Brown said he and others who attend helped start a prayer group in Whitley, and have been praying about the new dormitory, which will have room for 56 students beginning in the next school year. “We’ll ask, ‘What can we do to think and pray and be intentional about this new dorm?’” Brown said. “Or we’ll notice Christians doing Bible studies and not reaching out to non-Christians and ask, ‘How can we encourage this?’” Frontlines meets every Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Formal Lounge. The leaders encouraged anyone who feels a passion for dorm ministry to visit. “We’ve experienced how tough it is, and we realized couldn’t do it by ourselves,” Brown said. “We want to be a resource for people who also couldn’t do it by themselves to be encouraged and supported.”

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Scholarships will send students to Glacier Bay By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer The summer getaway is about to get studious, as the Great Tradition takes on the great outdoors in the 2018 Glacier Bay Session, a fourweek summer conference in southeast Alaska. Two Hillsdale students will be selected to study American writing about the outdoors — think Whitman, Berry, and Thoreau — in its natural habitat. “Twelve students will spend the month exploring the classics of American nature writing, forming and governing their own smallscale political community, and learning the skills required to survive and thrive on a frontier homestead,” executive director Laura Marcus said in an email. The scholarship, made possible by a private donation, will be awarded to two Hillsdale students via an online application for a work-study

program that grafts labor onto learning. The program takes place at the out-of-the-way Inian Islands Institute, a 20-minute boat ride from Elfin Cove, Alaska, which features limited Wifi and cell service, the better to study Berry with. Undergraduate students are selected from only one of seven institutions, including Yale, the University of Alaska, City University of New York, and Deep Springs College. The project follows the “three pillars” of the Arete Project, according to the program website: “intensive academics in the liberal arts and sciences; physical labor performed in service of campus and community; and student self-governance over each other and over the program as a whole.” Students will spend 20 hours per week doing physical labor, including gardening, construction, and food preparation.

This educational approach is rooted in the history of the Arete Project and its connections to the Telluride Association and Deep Springs College, a two-year institution founded to balance serious academic study with manual labor, all within a culture that fosters self-governance, according to the program website. Professor of philosophy Nathan Schlueter heard about the program from Marcus, a Yale alumna, whom he taught in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute more than 10 years ago. “It looks to me like a program that fits well with the kind of students Hillsdale attracts,” Schlueter said. “But since the college is not sponsoring the event, students should do their own due diligence in researching it.” Hillsdale students are interested in the program for the way it brings together learning and life, both now and in the

future. “I’ve always dreamed of being mostly self-sufficient when I’m a homeowner. The Glacier Bay summer program appeals to me so much not simply because it teaches skills of self-sufficiency, but because it does so through intellectual lens; the participants read history, philosophy, and literature. I’m constantly pondering the question of Man’s relationship with Nature, a question that this program addresses head-on,” senior Patrick Lucas, an applicant to the program, said. “I strongly identify with the sentiments of their cooperation along with the idea that being in the wilderness allows one to be his truest self—both of which are expressed by Henry David Thoreau, who’s an author the program employs to teach self-governance. I also like exploring, and Alaska is one of many places I have never been.” Marcus offered to reserve

two students for the seminar based on her past experience with students in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honors program. “I am quite eager to have Hillsdale students participating in this course,” Marcus said. “I’ve always been deeply impressed with their outstanding character and intellectual rigor. It would be especially valuable for us to have a couple students who already had some familiarity with Thoreau, Whitman, Berry, and the like.” The program, which runs from July 17th to August 13th, is free to the two students selected, thanks to an anonymous private donation. This includes airfare, room and board, local transportation, and a stipend. The application deadline, available online at the Arete Project website, is February 10.

“and she’d pull out a piece of paper, write ‘Chapter 8’ at the top, and start from the begin-

me to gain a better insight of the course material prior to lectures.”

teaching a classroom of college students, in some ways, is still less frantic than corporate

allows her to point out what’s important to know. “It’s really nice to have people who have real-world experience, especially for something like accounting that’s kind of technical,” Frerichs said. “We just had a class last week where she was talking about loan amortization schedules, and she was saying, ‘This is something you will do a lot in the real world.’” Frerichs is in Intermediate Accounting II, but of the three classes Mackie teaches this semester, she said Principles of Accounting is her favorite. “I call it a ‘lightbulb moment class’ because when a student gets it, there are times you almost literally can see the lightbulb come on,” Mackie said. In addition to teaching and spending hours tutoring students in office hours, Mackie is also advising the two student groups the college will send this year to the ACG Cup, an annual case study competition that teaches students the processes of mergers and acquisitions. Mackie says she enjoys exploring Hillsdale and the surrounding area as she drives her children to sporting events. Her husband, David Mackie, is the city manager of Hillsdale. They have three children: Emily, Weston, and Hudson, none of whom have expressed interest in accounting — yet. But, since Hudson is in third grade, she said “it’s too early to tell” if he’ll follow her career.

New accounting professor shares real-world experience with students By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor

When junior Thomas Mullen’s parents told him to take an accounting class, he warned them the inevitable drop in his GPA would be their fault. An economics and applied math double major, Mullen agreed to take accounting — a “very important life skill” according to his parents — and signed up for Principles of Accounting I with Instructor in Accounting Deanna Mackie, who began her first semester teaching at Hillsdale just as Mullen was starting his foray into the world of financial statements and loan amortization. As Mullen expected, the class was difficult. But it ended in a way that he didn’t expect, all because of Professor Mackie’s office hours. “I think during finals week I probably spent three to six hours in office hours with her and changed my grade all the way from a C to a B/B+, which is no credit to me at all,” Mullen said. “It was just her taking the time to break down what was going on and then making sure I got it.” Mackie, who left a job as financial systems support analyst for Cabela’s, Inc. to become a professor at Hillsdale last August, has already spent hours with students outside of class, rehearsing concepts like dollar-value LIFO with her students until they’re confident in their knowledge. “I’d say, ‘I’m having trouble with Chapter 8,’” Mullen said,

Deanna Mackie started teaching accounting at the college in August. Madeline Fry | Collegian

ning and work all the way to the end to make sure I got the whole thing.” Sophomore Caylee McComb had a similar experience with Professor Mackie. “She met with me every Tuesday morning before class last semester to answer any questions I had and to clarify material I didn’t understand,” McComb said. “The one-onone help sessions allowed

In addition to working in the corporate world for years — her first job out of college took her to Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms — Mackie has also spent time teaching at both University of Nebraska and Hamilton College in Omaha. Since she moved to Michigan about eight years ago, she’s been working for Cabela’s from home. Transitioning to

finance. “Ten emails a day is pretty good when you’re used to 10 emails in 10 minutes,” Mackie said. Sophomore Jackson Frerichs, an accounting major, is taking his second accounting class with Mackie this semester. He said the textbooks overwhelm students with information, but Mackie’s firsthand experience

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Student Fed approves funds, new student club

By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter The Student Federation approved $4,000 for clubs in their meeting on Thursday, as well as awarded the Citizens for Self-Governance Club initial club status. The College Republicans requested $3,000 to pay for a portion of the bus travel for the group’s trip to the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Although the cost for each student to attend is $180, the entirety of the trip costs $16,000. The College Republicans covered the majority of this price because of fundraising. The federation approved the full amount of $3,000. “This funding is critical to the execution of our trip, so it wasn’t just important for College Republicans, but to the rest of the student body who are attending CPAC,” acting president Rachel Umaña said. This is a smaller request than College Republicans has asked from Student Federation in recent years. “This was all due to the astute efforts of our board to fundraise, but also the streamlining of processes,” Umaña said. The federation also approved a grant of $1,000 to the Hillsdale Hepcats for its annual soiree, an evening of swing dancing featuring James Dapogny, jazz artist and University of Michigan professor, and his 10-piece jazz band. The total cost for the event is about $2,500, and the club had requested $1,500 from the federation. The federation advised the club to offer presale tickets in addition to tickets at the door. The Student Federation also gave initial club status to the new club, Citizens for Self-Governance, meaning the club will have a non-disciplinary probation period of one semester. The club will be headed by co-presidents juniors Lucy Meckler and Weston Boardman. It is the first chapter of the parent organization by the same name and is a grassroots political movement focusing on passing amendments to the Constitution to fix what they believe to be a bloated government. Meckler was particularly excited about the federation’s decision. “It was a moment of joy,” Meckler said. “Hillsdale College is the first campus to have a club for Citizens for Self-Governance. It was exhilarating and nerve-racking, but we’re so excited to see what happens.”

College annouces the topic for Edward Everett Prize in Oratory competition By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor The school has announced the topic of the Edward Everett Prize in Oratory: “National Security and Privacy: Principles for Achieving a Just Balance.” The 18th annual competition, hosted by the Provost’s Office and the department of rhetoric and public address, is open to all undergraduate students. The first place prize is $3,000, second place is $2,000, and third place is $1,000. “It’s really established to help move forward our mission,” tournament director and chairwoman of the rhetoric and public address department Kirstin Kiledal said. “Our students undertake some of the doing to put forth their ideas.” Kiledal said the competition arises out of the provost’s office because participation is open to the college’s entire

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student body. Judges have ranged in the past from speech coaches and community members in the first round, to College President Larry Arnn and Don Tocco, a supporter of the college, in the last round. Junior Ryan Kelly Murphy won the oratory last year and took second place the year before when she was a freshman. She said she is surprised more students have gotten involved in the program in the past. “I think that public speaking is a lost art; not a lot of people do it or try it,” Murphy said. “When we’re reading the great books, so many of them are speeches, and that’s so integral to western civilization. It’s a culmination of the skills, virtues, history, and politics we’re learning at Hillsdale, we can put into practice.” Junior Shiloh Carozza will be competing in this year’s debate and agreed it offers a new

Junior Ryan Kelly Murphy won the Edward Everett Prize in Oratory last year and placed second the year before. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

way to apply her education. “You get to write essays all the time for classes, but how often do you get to get up there and express what you think besides with ink and paper?” she said. Carozza signed up for the first time for this year’s debate. She said the topic is one that not enough people in government are talking about. “I think it’s pertinent because we have questions going around because of terrorism,” she said. “And I definitely think it’s a good question.” She said about her stance on the topic, “I think the Constitution has to be a big part of it. You have to look to the rules of the game.” The deadline for application is Friday, Feb. 9. The preliminary competition takes place Feb. 22, and the final round is on March 20 at 11 a.m.

Half-time show selfie goes viral

Trump approves memo release on Friday

Pelosi gives 8-hour speech on immigration

Snow may affect air travel in Great Lakes Region

Earthquake on Taiwanese coast kills 7, injures 254

Super Bowl attendee 13-year-old Ryan McKenna is now known on the internet as “Selfie Kid” after snapping a picture with Justin Timberlake in the middle of his half-time performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday.

President Trump approved the release of a memo on Friday that accused senior law enforcement officials of surveillance abuses against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight hours Wednesday, opposing a budget deal to avert government shutdown because it did not address immigration. It was the longest continuous speech since at least 1909.

In preparation for five to nine inches of snowfall Friday, Delta Airlines issued a travel waiver on Wednesday for weekend passengers, and will allow them to cancel flights or receive refunds if they experience delays.

The coastal city of Hualien, Taiwan experienced a 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night, which killed seven people and injured 254, in addition to the 88 reported missing as of Wednesday afternoon.

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The college Ambler health center needs an overhaul By | Ellen Sweet Special to The Collegian In January 2017, I was diagnosed with cancer. And let me tell you, I had to fight for that diagnosis. Rewind to the previous November. I had a persistent cough that wouldn’t go away, so I went to the Ambler Health and Wellness Center. The physician’s assistant sent me to get an X-ray of my lungs. The radiologist report read: “Possible neoplasm.” The P.A. told me that he didn’t think the radiologist should use scary words like “neoplasm” — which means an abnormal growth — and tried to convince me that I had pneumonia. When I told him that I hadn’t been feeling that sick, he responded, “Oh, but

“A college’s health center should take students’ health issues seriously.” you have.” Well, despite his best intentions, he was wrong. I was diagnosed a month later by a doctor back home. Maybe others have had better experiences. Sure, nurse Carol Drews is available for walk-in appointments. And yes, there’s a physician’s assistant available for one hour every morning, provided you get there at 7:45am and are willing to wait for a hurried appointment. There’s even an array of (healthy?) cookies in the lobby so you can plug your sorrows with sugar. But flu shots, limited hours, and cookies are not enough to raise the Health Center to the level Hillsdale College deserves. Hillsdale loves its students. We are in the business of seeking intellectual honesty, investing in relationships, and fostering the love for truth. We tackle challenges, big and small. The professors, the deans, and the students have supported me through the craziest twists and turns of my life. From what I have heard, the health center does some things well: I know many people who use their counseling services and have only good things to say about them. The health center’s counselors outnumber its medical professionals 3:2 from 8 to 9 a.m.; after the physician’s assistant leaves at 9 a.m., the ratio drops to 3:1. I am glad that Hillsdale College takes mental health seriously, but

shouldn’t we take physical health seriously, as well? The college’s website lists the health center’s services as follows: “general medical services (non-emergency), flu shots, immunizations (including travel vaccines), physicals, prescription refills, cold/flu treatment, education for healthy living.” While this may seem like a decent number of services, the list boils down very quickly. 1) If you have the flu, go to the health center. 2) If you don’t want the flu, go to the health center, where all the kids with the flu will be. 3) If you need “general services,” or “education for healthy living,” go to the health center. The thing is, health issues are rarely general. I don’t seek out medical help when I feel “generally” needy. I seek out medical help when something specific is wrong. My persistent cough wasn’t the first time I had been to the health center: My sophomore year, a girl wearing cleats stepped on my hand during a soccer game. My hand swelled up, mottled purple and red. The nurse told me, without so much as a “Can you move your fingers?” that it was broken. I got an X-ray at the Hillsdale Hospital, and my hand wasn’t broken after all. Perhaps this is matter of resources, and the health center should have more. I could demand that we keep a doctor on staff or that we expand the P.A.’s hours to allow students with 8 a.m. classes the opportunity to meet with him. But the most important change is simple. A college’s health center should take students’ health issues seriously, whether it be a bruised hand, a bad case of the flu, or a scary radiology report. If campus health officials aren’t equipped to treat an issue themselves, they should be ready with a thorough knowledge of medical experts in the area. After all, students rarely have a primary care doctor nearby to write a referral for them or to exert influence to make the connection that the student needs. The health center ought to fill this role. Students come from all over the country and the world to this corner of rural Michigan. Their doctors and their families are far away. The college should ensure that students receive compassionate, well-informed medical treatment when they make the trek, through the snow, to the health center. Ellen Sweet is a senior studying English.

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Upon a complaint from a single paper mill in Washington state, the U.S. Commerce Department placed tariffs of up to 10 percent on Canadian paper last month. In choosing to protect one industry over another, the U.S. government is smacking the already struggling newspaper market, as 90 percent of all newsprint in the Northeast and Midwest come from Canada, according to a study cited by CNN. Newsprint costs for local newspapers, such as The Col-

legian and The Hillsdale Daily News, have increased between 13 and 15 percent as a result of the tariff. Matt Davison, publisher and president of the Idaho Press-Tribune, told Bloomberg News he believes these tariffs could have a “catastrophic impact on community journalism.” In a bipartisan letter published after the announcement of the tariff, U.S. senators argued that Canadian paper helps support more than 600,000 U.S. jobs in newspa-

per publishing and commercial printing industries alone. The impact, however, will be more widespread than this. Local news plays a vital role in the community. Stories that may not garner any regional or national attention may be of utmost importance to smaller audiences, such as the description of a suspect in a string of neighborhood burglaries or the details of a fundraiser for a local family made homeless by a fire. Newsprint tariffs squeeze the already

tight margins of the papers that report local stories, restricting the accessibility and freedom of local news. Even with the increased cost of paper-made goods aside, these tariffs do more to hurt the average American than they do to help them. Freedom and accessibility of the press are fundamental principles of this nation, and the government must work to protect them, rather than bind them.

Don’t make an ash of yourself next Wednesday A Catholic’s response to the convergence of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday By | Nic Rowan City News Editor It was an act of love. While cleaning the sanctuary in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church on Broad Street a few days ago, an altar boy decided he might test run his Ash Wednesday sermon. Although the church was nearly empty — and the first day of Lent would not arrive for another two weeks — he did not mind. Practice makes perfect. Finding an urn on a bare table in front of the altar, he ascended the pulpit and preached something in the genre of “Remember man, you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” But the urn turned out to be more than just a memento mori. Shortly after the altar boy returned his prop to its table, a funeral commenced. If this had been a Flannery O’Connor novel, maybe the priest would have marked the foreheads of the living with

the ashes of the deceased. Of course, in a few days, the priest will mark the foreheads of the living with ashes (from incinerated palm branches, thank God). The faithful will receive the sign of their mortality and remember that only Christ’s death on the cross saves them from Adam’s curse. It’s a beautiful way to begin the most ponderous season of the liturgical year. Ash Wednesday’s reminder of death is actually a promise of life; through our suffering alongside Christ during Lent, he redeems all time — binding us into eternity with his death and resurrection. But this year, a touch of the grotesque will smudge the occasion. Ash Wednesday shares Feb. 14 with Valentine’s Day, a holiday designated for cupidity. Simultaneously self-indulgent and self-loathing, it’s a synecdoche for lust itself. The best Valentine’s Days restrain themselves to a brief sojourn in the CVS

chocolate aisle and a blessedly short drink at Clyde’s on M Street. The worst ones involve communal viewings of “500 Days of Summer.” Couple that with Ash Wednesday and things get weird. It seems like we have to choose. So, when Christ’s self-gift and Godiva’s February immanence duke it out for the dominance over the day, which one do we pick? I fear I will try to pick both. There’s always a way to serve two masters, if you’re willing to partition your loves. I’m going to buy my girlfriend Hannah a box of chocolates and staple to the label a Ziplock bag of ashes swiped from the Heritage Room fireplace. For her part, Hannah has told me she’s going to make me a card: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY. From: Dust U. Are To: Dust U. Shall-Return I’ve heard reports of other couples planning to celebrate with fasting feasts or mortifi-

cation-inscribed Sweethearts or even Stations of the Crossthemed chocolate calendars. Some soulful contrarian will probably play “I Love You, Honeybear,” as he drives (alone) to the church. It’s easy to ironize the convergence of the two holidays. After all, suggesting that we can die to ourselves and participate in a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance at the same time seems laughable, a showcase of the inconsistencies and inadequacies of human desire. But that’s what it is. And that’s good. Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday contextualize each other, reminding us that, to subsist, the love romance ignites between two people must die to its selfish desires, so it can burn more strongly for Christ. Or at least that’s what the altar boy says. Nic Rowan is a junior studying history.

Cleveland Indians are right to depart from controversial logo By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor When I was a young kid, I remember visiting my grandfather’s house in rural Ohio. He was a die-hard Cleveland Indians fan his entire life, up until the day he passed away in 2013. He was a truck driver and handyman; he always took me out to his workshop to show me his latest contraption or carpentry. One of his favorite projects was the painted wooden portraits of his favorite baseball team’s logo. He created them with pride for friends and family, and hung them on trees in his yard or on the walls of his shed. He would have had the time of his life watching the Indians make their postseason run all the way to the World Series in 2016. The Cleveland Indians, beginning in 2019, will no longer display their “Chief Wahoo” logo on any of their hats, uniforms, or promote the use of the caricature. No plans for a replacement logo have been made, but it seems the Indians will use their scripted “C” as their primary logo. The team’s historic Chief Wahoo, a stereotypical caricature of a Native American, began with a crooked-nosed, wide-toothed, orange-faced, and goofy-looking cartoon. Hardly edifying if you’re ethnically Native American. Eventually, the Indians moved on from their initial cringeworthy logo. They replaced it with a more proportional cartoon. Still, not the best look. After all, Native Americans have historically been brutalized and discriminated in the United States, the land of “America’s pastime.” Columnist Jose de Jesus

Ortiz wrote last week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Humans are not mascots.” He is right. I wouldn’t be surprised if sometime in the near future, the Cleveland Indians dump their mascot altogether in favor of a less controversial name.

First, the average age of a Major League Baseball television viewer in 2016 was 57. Second, despite concerted efforts to promote baseball in inner cities, less than seven percent of current Major League Baseball players are African American. Less than

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Old-school baseball fans, and Indians fansin particular, will cite their historic attachments to the Indians and Chief Wahoo as reasons for keeping the logo. But Major League Baseball has a pair of pandemics on its hands that make this argument obsolete.

28 percent are Hispanic, despite the sport’s overwhelming popularity in the Caribbean and Central America. Soon, a generation of baseball fans smaller than the one that preceded it will be Major League Baseball’s primary viewing audience. Given the

progressive social attitudes of younger generations and the inevitable progress of history, they are less likely to have an attachment to the controversial Chief Wahoo logo. Racist logos and mascots do not encourage youth or minorities toward a sport. In fact, they do the opposite. If Major League Baseball wants to expand its brand, moving away from a controversial logo is a good first step. If even one kid who has the potential to be a great baseball player doesn’t want to be represented by a team with a demeaning logo, Major League Baseball should take note. The National Football League, historically the most popular professional sports league in the United States, has struggled with decreasing popularity recently because of political controversies. Baseball hasn’t been immune from politics, either. In this case, social politics threaten to dissolve the prominence of Major League Baseball in the United States. But baseball has an opportunity, with record numbers of kids playing in little leagues, to grow in popularity and even eventually surpass the National Football League as America’s preferred professional sport. My grandfather, though he had an affinity for the Indians logos he’d paint and hang on the walls of his shed, would care much more whether or not the Indians would win on a given night. Chief Wahoo wasn’t what made the Indians the Indians. It was the game, and the fans, including himself. S. Nathaniel Grime is a sophomore studying the liberal arts.

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Holocaust denier infiltrates Illinois Republican Party Arthur Jones, former leader of the American Nazi Party, runs unopposed, set to win Republican primary in Illinois’s 3rd District By | Kaylee McGhee D.C. Correspondent Arthur Jones, an Illinois Republican, has tried to get his name on the ballot for the state’s 3rd Congressional District seat eight times. The man has unsuccessfully run for public office in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas since the 1970’s. But the eighth time might just be the charm for Jones since he’s running unopposed in the GOP primary on March 20. There’s a temptation to feel pleased for Jones, in a you-finally-did-it, perseverance-is-key, kind of way. Except, Jones is a blatant racist and anti-semite who denies historical realities, like the Holocaust. On his campaign website, called “Art Jones for Congressman,” there’s a tab titled “Holocaust?” in which he describes the “idea that six million jews were killed by the national socialist government of Germany” as the “biggest, blackest lie in history.” Jones has taken denial to another level, stuffing his head so far in the sand that it’s practically an art form. “Well first of all, I’m

running for Congress, not the chancellor of Germany, alright?” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times. “To me, the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket.” Luckily, Jones has a one in whatever-our-national-debt-is chance of winning the congressional seat. Illinois’s 3rd congressional district is “safely Democratic,” according to Ballotpedia, meaning that thanks to gerrymandering, the district has always voted blue. Dan Lipinski, the Democratic incumbent who is known for his pro-life, moderate views, has held the seat since 2005 and won’t be giving it up to a former leader of the American Nazi Party, a position Jones bragged about to the SunTimes. He was right to pat himself on the back: Besides being an unrepentant bigot for the last 50 years, that might just be his greatest accomplishment. But Jones is not alone. Renowned historians, artists, and leaders across the globe partake in the ludicrousy that is Holocaust denial and have done so since the day Germany surrendered. And although many are not as radical as

Jones, who believes the Jews — “bloodthirsty, criminal vampires” — have conned the world with their “tall tale of woe and misfortune,” there are many who believe the facts of the Holocaust have been

Dan Lipinski, a four-term pro-life Democrat, has a high probability of winning against Jones in the general election. | WikiCommons

distorted. A 2014 study by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 22 percent of Christians, 48 percent of Hindus, 28 percent of Buddhists, and 51 percent of Muslims around

the world, all under the age of 65, believe the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust has been exaggerated. That same report provided an even more shocking statistic: 54 percent of the world knows about the Holocaust, and the majority of those who do learned about it from television. Jones must have been thrilled when this study was released: “This nonsense is part of a mandatory course on the Holocaust required of every single high school in the state of Illinois! What a waste of taxpayers money!” But what do Jones & Co. gain from Holocaust denial? In the Middle East, leaders of Muslim countries intentionally keep their people in the dark so they can continue to wage war on the state of Israel, justifying the continuous conflict they instigate by spoon feeding their people propaganda that claims Jews are vermin and Israel has no right to exist — just like the Nazis did to the German people in World War II. And in Poland, the Parliament passed a bill last week that imposes prison sentences of up to three years for mentioning the term “Polish

death camps” or for suggesting “publicly and against the facts” that Poland was involved in Nazi Germany’s war crimes. The bill is absurd, but could it also reflect a deep fear within Polish officials of being historically comparable to Nazi leaders, of being marked with such a permanent stain? Perhaps. But what about a man like Jones? His website says governments that support education about the Holocaust — “pure Kosher bologna” — do so for one reason: “It’s good business for the Jews and their beloved bandit state of Israel.” Hatred of Israel and its alliance with the U.S. is becoming all too common — especially on America’s college campuses — and it certainly plays a role in Jones’s deluded thinking. But that doesn’t cut it. So, why does Jones deny the Holocaust? The answer is simple: Because he is a spiteful, hatefilled, pathetic loser who hates the Jews purely for the sake of hating the Jews. Just like Hitler and the countless other anti-semites before and after the Holocaust, Jones justifies his anti-semitism with madeup excuses to conceal the fact

that he would despise the Jewish race without ever having a reason to do so. And this is the man who could represent the GOP during Illinois’s midterm election. Fortunately, representatives of the Illinois Republican Party have condemned Jones’s campaign. Tim Schneider, chairman of the Illinois GOP, said Jones has no real connection to the party: “The Illinois Republican Party and our country have no place for Nazis like Arthur Jones,” Schneider said in a statement. “We strongly oppose his racist views and his candidacy for any public office, including the 3rd Congressional District.” But unless the GOP steps up and throws its weight behind a write-in campaign to ensure Jones’s eighth attempt fails once again, the letter “R” will sit beside his name on the ballot come November. A Republican myself, this might just be the first time I am thankful for a “safely Democratic” district. Kaylee McGhee is a junior studying politics.

Elon Musk is more than a bored millionaire By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has “the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets,” and with the launch of Falcon Heavy on Feb. 6, it has come one step closer to that goal. SpaceX has enabled a sports car to live on another planet. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket launched since the Saturn V, which took men to the moon in the 1960s. Falcon Heavy is headed to Mars, hoping to come into an elliptical orbit around the planet, with CEO Elon Musk’s own $100,000 Tesla Roadster on board playing David Bowie over the speakers and carrying the message “Don’t Panic!” on the dashboard.

The seeming superfluousness of sending the most powerful rocket towards Mars with a sports car raises a question: is Elon Musk an innovative visionary or an egotistical billionaire playing with really expensive toys? According to Forbes, Elon Musk’s net worth is approximately $20 billion. With money like that why not play with electric cars and rockets? But while some of his ideas and projects may seem to have an “eccentric billionaire’s playtime” stamp, a closer look at Musk and his projects show that he is trying to innovate and make technological progress. He is not just bored and trying to find things to do with his money. First, Musk worked hard for his money. From a young

age Musk had an aptitude for technology. At 12 years old he taught himself computer programming and created a video game that he then sold to “PC and Office Technology” magazine. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, earned two degrees in physics and economics and started a doctorate in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford. But he quit and went on to make a fortune with his brother who started Zip2, a software company. Afterward Musk co-founded X.com, which eventually merged with the company that created PayPal. That made him most of his money. Even though Musk was young, he wasn’t simply handed his fortune. He earned it by getting involved in the right startups

and making shrewd business deals to sell them for millions of dollars. Then came SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla in 2003. Musk had supposedly always been passionate about renewable energy and space travel, and now he’s trying to accomplish both. More than Tesla, which was originally financed by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, SpaceX is particularly Musk’s brain child. With $100 million from his own pocket, Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and still serves as CEO and chief technology officer. SpaceX is trying to advance rocket technology with the far reaching goal of enabling humans to live on other planets. After launching rockets such as Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon, the work of

SpaceX did not go unnoticed, and it was awarded a contract from NASA in 2006. In 2015, SpaceX landed the first part of its Falcon rocket back at the launch pad, marking the first time an orbital rocket had done so. This is one step closer to rocket reusability and, therefore, cheaper space travel. The launch of the Falcon Heavy means the U.S. now owns rockets with heavy-lift capabilities, something NASA has not had since space travel in the ‘60s. Has Musk just accomplished something that was done 50 years ago? Yes, but he did it cheaper than NASA and the U.S. did. SpaceX rockets use refined controlled burning, which means that one flight of Falcon Heavy costs $90 million,

instead of the whopping $1 billion per flight that NASA’s future Space Launch System is estimated to cost. Maybe Musk was flaunting his ego and wealth a little when he put his personal sports car on his rocket. But his grandiosity proved that Falcon Heavy has heavylift capabilities. And Falcon Heavy was created to show that a cheaper option for rocket technology and space travel is possible. He has proved that he’s not just a billionaire playing with rockets. Musk is a seriously educated individual who built SpaceX as an innovative company to create better, cheaper options for rockets and space travel. Abby Liebing, a sophomore, studies history.

House memo shows partiality Don’t wallow at home, of U.S. surveillance agencies find a Valentine’s Day date America’s 17 surveillance agencies should consolidate By | Ian McRae Special to The Collegian Since the House Intelligence Committee released the now declassified memo written by Rep. David Nunes, R-California, the overall reaction by Americans has been mixed. The left utterly disregards the statements made by the memo and claims its damaging to the integrity and reputation of the American intelligence community. The right, the alt-right especially, sees it as bigger than Watergate and proof that the government conspires against parties and private citizens. The Never-Trumpers say it is insignificant; proving neither politicization of federal agencies nor the exoneration of the Trump campaign. The memo’s contents have a definitive takeaway: that the FBI did something right and something wrong. According to the memo, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice used a dossier assembled by former British spy Christopher Steele as evidence to acquire a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Carter Page, a voluntary adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign. Steele performed a private investigation into the Trump campaign on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton campaign, being paid through Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie — a research firm and law firm, respectively. Steele himself admitted to the former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr that he was desperate to stop Trump and that he would do what

he could to stop him from getting elected. The FBI received the requested warrant, which is valid for 90 days, and renewed it three times. According to federal law, the FBI needed to prove probable cause at every point of renewal, and they were required to have new evidence to support it. The FBI could not use Steele’s dossier the first time it sought renewal and thereafter. Say what you will about FISA’s’ existence, the hope and intent is that these courts protect American citizens’ rights as much as possible, which is why their warrants are valid for only 90 days and new evidence is required to continually conduct surveillance. Nunes is right, then, to be alarmed when the FBI and DOJ did not disclose to FISC all relevant facts to their investigation and their source, Steele. He had been dismissed by the FBI as a “unreliable source” whose dossier could only be “minimally corroborated” and without which the FBI would not have pursued the warrant. Both the DOJ and FBI knew exactly who Steele was, the quality of his information, and who paid him to assemble the information in his dossier. Yet, they only dismissed him when he committed “the most serious of violations” by disclosing to a Mother Jones journalist, David Corn, that he was connected to the FBI, though he had previously done so with other media outlets before the interview with Corn. The FBI and DOJ officials involved in the FISA warrant application clearly acted inappropriately and politicized a supposedly impartial federal

law enforcement agency. It is unethical and unprofessional for two U.S. agencies to collaborate with other intelligence agencies against American citizens. U.S. law defines what evidence is permissible and impermissible in court. The U.S. has just as many professional and ethical regulations that govern intelligence, but the FBI and DOJ ignored them. This is not bigger than Watergate, but it is not nothing. It does not change the fact that there is an investigation into collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. It should lead Americans to question the ethics of the FBI (as if they did not have enough reason to do so before). The FBI and DOJ used “unverified” information as a basis for probable cause to acquire a warrant. No other law enforcement agency would have obtained as much as a search warrant with Steele’s questionable information. Another takeaway from this situation is that the U.S. intelligence community is cumbersome, extensive, and in serious need of consolidation. There is no reason why the U.S. needs seventeen member agencies of the “intelligence community” gathering intelligence separately from each other, conducting operations and investigations independently, competing for federal funding, and keeping secrets from each other. Ian McRae, a senior, studies history and politics.

By | Brendan Clarey Columnist This Valentine’s Day, ask somebody out. Most single people dread Feb. 14, the day couples exchange heart-shaped garb and sugary junk before they pose for the perfect pic and blast it all over the internet. Bitter singles gag over the happiness their dating and betrothed friends exuberantly express, painfully aware of their condition. I should know. I was single for the first 21 years of my life. Every Valentine’s Day, I hoped for some change to shift the status quo, never to any avail. This Valentine’s Day, don’t be like me and rely on something as empty as a wish to change your relationship status. Do something about it, even if your romantic endeavors don’t give way to a second date. Dating is a skill and should be practiced. Believe me, I sucked at it and probably still do. But you’d have to ask my girlfriend — she’d know better. To be clear, I’m not talking about dating within the (usually) safe embrace of a relationship. I’m talking the scary world of first dates and second dates with no mutually acknowledged state of interest, intention, or timeline. Last year, around this very time, I wrote an angsty article begging Hillsdalians to end Hillsdating by embracing casual dating. The dummy I was, I refused to ask my now-current girlfriend out on a date, despite exhorting my peers to do just that in my article. I even ignored her hinting when she asked if I had ever taken (or would ever take) my own advice. She still rolls her eyes when she thinks about it. In fact, it took a bold

move on her part to give me the wakeup call I needed. It had been weeks of nebulous one-on-one “hangout” sessions over coffee and until she broke: “What the heck is going on?” I didn’t need the reality check because I’m a man. I needed it because I’m a very oblivious man. Learn from my ways. Luckily, I had the a sudden stroke of good luck and answered her question in the imperative: “Go out with me.” The streak of genius didn’t last. My brilliant plan for the first date was a drive to Baw Beese Park in my crappy orange jeep and talk for a few hours before making discount mac ‘n cheese and cracking

“Dating is a skill and should be practiced.” open a six pack of Two Hearted Ale. To my credit, the drive in the park was accompanied by a beautiful sunset and we did watch a good movie that Katie loves. I was bad but not THAT bad. All that to say, the only way to get better at dating is by practicing — by going on dates. So initiate them and agree to them, even if they’re not the stuff of chick flicks quite yet. The worst that can happen is you have a first date like mine, but even that was fun, despite my acute case of diarrhea of the mouth and nervous laughter. If you take the risk and ask someone out, there is a high chance that you’ll have an enjoyable time and learn something, too. For that first date there are

many great places in town that will make a more lasting impression than beer and mac. Rough Draft is a great place to get to know each other better in a casual environment with great coffee. They are easy, nonchalant ways to suggest that you should split the cost if you panic at the register. You’ll buy the lattes if she buys the muffins. (But guys, picking up that check is classy as heck.) Or take your date to the Lorelei concert on Thursday next week and go to the Palace Cafe afterward and talk about the performance. Or go see The Post or Paddington 2 followed by a visit to the Hunt Club or the Hillsdale Brewing Company. That way, you’ll have sweet, sweet small talk, perhaps some lofty conversation, and absolutely no awkward silence. You might be thinking that Valentine’s Day is the worst possible moment to schedule a date or ask someone out. I don’t want to hear it. We are Hillsdale students who pride ourselves on our ability to think. So use that brilliant brain of yours and find a way to gloss over the implications Valentine’s Day would impose on your date. Tell your crush that you swear you’re not giving into the sting of Cupid’s arrow — you just really thought she might enjoy watching Lady Bird with you before the Oscars. If that doesn’t sell you, just think of all the other people longing to change their status quos just like you. They’re also bumming around looking for someone to spend the day with, and you could be that someone. But only if you ask. Remember, the worst they can say is no. Brendan Clarey is a senior studying English.

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Standing athwart history, talking ‘Frank’ Local magazine colors community with a weekly spread of opinions, anecdotes, and jokes games, ads for tours, and clean, seasonal jokes (a typical Valentine’s Day Tickle: “Love is blind, only marriage opens your eyes”). The two-column format reveals itself to be amenable to an astonishing variety of typefaces: Comic Sans, Arial, and Arial italic give their own tone to the reflections, musings, and recommendations of the Frank Talk regulars, of whom there have been more than 35 over the years, from all over the world: California, Australia, Japan, Texas, and Hillsdale township. “We don’t tell our writers what they can write; only what they can’t,” Frank said of his editorial process. “We don’t get religious; they can’t argue for a particular church. Same with politics. That way we’re immune to what other publications suffer from. Other magazines are old news by the time they come out. But nothing gets old about a personal column on their college life or retirement or something somebody’s idiotic husband did, so we don’t lose readership.” Frank described a path to the pamphlets eclectic as the magazine itself. An Iowa native, he started finding lucrative niches in business early: At 17, he bought six bikes and started renting them in gas stations. Soon, he needed more bikes, and after taking a job as DJ, he was moving too fast for college. A series of radio stations followed; in the 60s, he owned the second-most-popular AM broadcast station in the Washington, D.C., area, thanks to advertising shticks like painting company convertibles tiedye colors and driving around the city picking up listeners. The radio stint ended in Toledo in 1972. A redwood furniture store was next, along with a whole amusement park of other businesses: Antique malls, consulting, apartment

buildings, ice cream, donuts. Fortune brought him to Hillsdale’s public relations department, where he wrote until 2001, when he resigned to launch Frank Talk. Of course, the magazine wasn’t a retirement, but a platform for his own writing, and eventually for his next venture: a travel company, which hosts trips across North America. This year, there are eight trips, with slots for about 50 people each. This year, Frank Talk On The Road will visit Charleston, the Smoky Mountains, the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum in Kentucky, the Grand Canyon, Canada, Washington, D.C., and Nashville. “The purpose of the maga-

“I think it’s a cool, small town publication. You wouldn’t find something like that in a big city.” zine now is equally maintaining the magazine that people like to read and also advertising for trips,” Frank said. And although increased as travel ads began taking up more space, that’s not why readers continue to follow Frank Talk, and it’s certainly not why one collector recently scored $60 on eBay for all 600ish issues of the magazine. That credit goes to the writers: “So many writers have a niche. The reader feels a sense of knowing who they are and what they think,” Frank said. Frank said readers often ask about his family, many of whom write for every issue. His wife, Pat, is the resident dog expert (“She gets pretty opinionated,” according

to Jim) — his daughter, Tricia, has chronicled three divorces and a successful career, and his grandchildren have learned to write, type, and tell stories in the magazine’s pages. “I have a granddaughter who’s written for all 660 issues, since she was four years old,” Frank said. “She’s graduating from Spring The Frank Talk family gathers in Detroit: (left to right) John Kmiotek, Carol Arbor Univer- Kmiotek, Pat Frank, Jim Frank. Pat Frank | Courtesy sity in May, and through a publication whose maintain, one that feels like people have seen her grow up subject matter and characters they know the Franks and in the magazine.” have become familiar to many their relatives after 17 years of The granddaughter in in the area. family entertainment: “There’s question is Olivia Olmstead, “People come in and look a real family draw. We have who, in her 17 years as “Just for them, and I go through people ask, ‘How’s Olivia Ask Olivia,” has traced a fami- most of it,” Slade said. “The doing? I’ve read about her all ly move to the Coldwater area, articles are interesting. It’s a her life.’” college and career decisions, different kind of publication, This issue, Olmstead laid her student teaching position not like CNN or Fox News. I out her plans to bring Frank in Flint, and her plans for her think it’s a cool, small town Talk to Flint, where she is upcoming wedding in May. publication. You wouldn’t find student teaching this semes“We lived next door to something like that in a big ter. “OFF I GO!” she wrote. my grandparents in Reading city.” “I have wrapped up the 3 ½ until I was 8 or 9, and I would Slade and Frank talk about years on campus and I am ‘write’ a column for them the magazine’s popularity heading into my last semester every week, which meant that when he drops by as part student teaching off campus. Mom would ask me questions, of his day-and-a-half-long It is a feeling that is hard and I would be a smart aleck delivery runs to more than 60 to explain. I guess I always in my answers and she would locations across three states. thought that leaving college type it up,” Olmstead said. This time commitment was would be this big emotional Frank’s other grandchilpart of the reason the magthing.” dren may be more precocious: azine scaled back from its Frank Talk readers around Trenton, 8, and Luci, 10, weekly print cycle last year. Hillsdale — The Finish Line, type their own columns, this “We’re publishing monthly Kroger, Spangler’s Diner in month about Mona the new now, partly because we’re in Jonesville, and others — will see her along (and, she said, cat (“We all said her name was our 70s, and frankly, we’re will send her plenty of email after Mona Lisa. I am not sure slowing down a bit,” Frank said. But as with his travel feedback along the way). who that is but I have heard company, it’s less about slow“I think it’s a great way to of her”) and school drama ing down than about making reach people over the gener(of which Luci is not a fan, time for adventures: “The ation gap, to talk about social although she guesses “drareason we do the trips is inissues, where I am and where ma comes in handy because come, yes, but also for fun, for I’m going, and what’s going it made me write a column something to do. It’s the same on in my life and my world,” about it. Haha.”). as the magazine — my idea is Olmstead said. “I don’t know Lisa Slade, owner of the that if I retire, I won’t be here how I would stop writing. It’s Finish Line restaurant in very long.” something I just do — it’s part Hillsdale, has stocked the And after all, Frank Talk of me.” magazine since its first issue, has a loyal readership to and she said she often flips

Michigan gets pudgy with Fat Tuesday pączki

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By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer The locked box by the register at the Finish Line restaurant caught their eyes: “Frank Talk, 50 cents.” Who sells a magazine that way these days? And for that price? But that was the price of satisfaction for my housemate’s curiosity last week. She and her friends discovered a publication that has papered the counters of local homes and businesses for 17 years. For a group whose social and political updates come from a buffet of Facebook apps, online news-“papers,” and the occasional podcast, “Frank Talk” has to have an unusual flavor. A 20-page pamphlet-cum-family newsletter-cum-travel company ad, the monthly “magazine” is in every way unexpected, except for those in the know — local Frank loyalists who follow its familiar columnists, outings, and lifestyle advice. “It’s strictly an entertainment magazine, not a political one. I put it all together, and me and my wife and another volunteer do all the editing,” said publisher, editor, designer, and distributor Jim Frank, who runs the magazine and the connected travel company from his home north of Reading, Michigan. Frank Talk’s 660th volume is a virtual whirlwind of variety despite its black and white dressings and its home-computer origins. These sometimes cause problems, as happened this month, when two laptops crash during production. In this issue, Frank welcomes his readers to the magazine with this front-page story: “I would like to issue one warning to all of you in FRANK TALK land … beware of flying laptops! (I will likely throw that one soon)!” The folds of the magazine reveal a mix of personal columns, advice pieces, word

By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Fat Tuesday in Michigan is just that with pączki. Packed with sugar, butter, and lard, these Polish “packages” are special doughnuts stuffed with cream or fruit. At this time of year, bakeries mostly in the Midwest sell the pastries, a tradition born from the large number of Polish immigrants who came to cities such as Detroit and Chicago decades ago. “The Polish brought it here, and it’s fostered and grown into a tradition,” said Greg Kowalski, the chairman of the historical commission of Hamtramck, Michigan, a 2 square-mile city surrounded by Detroit that is known for its Pączki Day celebration. The holiday marks the

final day before Ash Wednesday. Traditionally, people in Poland would make the doughnuts to use up any rich ingredients prior to the beginning of the Lenten fasting season. Today, many people still celebrate Mardi Gras with the dessert, even lining up at 2 or 3 a.m. in the morning outside bakeries as they have since the 1910s. To preserve the tradition, Hamtramck began a festival in honor of Pączki Day, complete with a parade and a 5K run in which participants cross the finish line to receive the doughnut and a beer. Hamtramck once had the second largest Polish population in the United States, though now it is the most diverse city in Michigan, according to Kowalski.

“Bakeries go crazy and are open all night,” Kowalski said. “People will line up outside them, even when it’s below zero.” Hillsdalians can purchase pączki, too. Kroger, Market House, and Wal-Mart all are selling pączki now, and the Jonesville Bakery will do so on Monday and Tuesday. Kroger also is holding pączki “engagement events” for people customize the flavors in a box of four pączki at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, and 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Kowalski, however, insisted that there is nothing like a Hamtramck pączek. “We’ve got the reputation,” he said. “They’ve got to be packed with like 1,000 calories.”

Fire department signs purchase agreement for new ladder truck By | Nic Rowan city news editor Hillsdale Fire Chief Scott Hephner announced at a Feb. 5 City Council meeting that the city’s fire department has placed a security deposit for a

new ladder truck. The new truck will replace the city’s current 1983 Pierce LTI ladder truck, which cannot safely operate its ladder. Because of structural corrosion, the current truck’s platform cannot support the

weight of firefighters while the ladder is raised. Hephner said the new truck meets his criteria. Although not entirely new, it has a 100-foot ladder (as opposed to the current truck’s 85-foot ladder) and its lack of a platform will make it easier to operate with the city’s recently-downsized fire department. “With fewer people, we can still do what people wouldn’t think we could handle with a truck like this,” he said. According to the purchase agreement the fire department signed, Hillsdale will not be able to access the truck until it has complet-

The city of Hillsdale signed a purchase agreement for a truck from Houston, Texas. City of Hillsdale | Facebook

ed its service in Houston in March. The truck will then be sent to a broker firm, which will examine and inspect it before it can be commissioned for Hillsdale. Additionally, the problem of transportation still remains an issue. On the one hand,

the city could drive the truck up to Hillsdale, which could prove costly and dangerous if the truck were to break down or get a flat tire. On the other hand, the city could ships the truck up to Hillsdale on a flatbed truck, which would also prove costly.

Speaking at the same meeting, Mayor Adam Stockford reaffirmed his support for public safety departments. “This council is dead serious about finding sustainable support for public saftey,” he said. “But we need to look at all the options.”

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Coffee shops saturate downtown Hillsdale Owners, employees, economist talk tough competition in Hillsdale’s ubiquitous market By | Isabella Redjai collegian reporter If the four biggest coffee shops in Hillsdale — Checker Records, Jilly Beans, Biggby’s, and Rough Draft, — have anything to say, the increasing variety of coffee shop experiences in town have had no negative influence on business, but rather have increased activity in downtown. Checker Records is known for not only its unique assortment of flavors (all of which are named after musical artists and bands, such as Jimmy Buffet, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash to name a few), but their in-house assortment of vinyl albums. Creating an experience centered around music and community, Checker Records has been a community favorite since 1980, also providing locals with an annual Street Dance. Checker Records employee and Hillsdale junior Isabelle Parell said she does not think the April opening of Rough Draft threatens business. “We are No. 1 in Hillsdale,” she said. “We have accolades like ‘Michigan’s Best Coffee,’ and we have lots of flavors and options. We also have the best espresso in town. Some people come in here six times a day.” Parell added that Checker Records has experienced economic growth even amidst the increased presence of coffee shops in Hillsdale. “Our clientele has grown over time. Our biggest event, the Checker’s Records Street Dance, sells over 600 tickets,” she said. Fellow employees agreed

with her. Parell said the personal relationships developed between owners and customers gives Checker Records a special place in the Hillsdale community. “The best coffee shop owners are always here, and we know all of our regulars’ orders,” she said. Another coffee shop, Jilly Beans provides a quieter and more “comfortable” environment, as described by Jilly Beans employee Julie Crowley. “This is the place that makes you feel at home,” she said. “Parents come here when they visit, and students come and study here.” When asked what sets Jilly Beans apart from other coffee shops in town, other than possessing a home-like atmosphere, Crowley said, “Apart from coffee, we offer sandwiches, soups, and other food that many other coffee shops don’t offer in town.” New Jilly Beans owner, Mary Ellen Sattler, bought the coffee shop over a year ago, which, according to employees, has brought a lot of great changes. With redecorating of furniture and menu signs, extended hours (being open later on Sundays and Tuesdays for students), bringing back live music, a larger menu, and even Jilly Beans’ “Secret Garden” in the back of the building, clientele has expanded. “Each coffee shop has their own niche. If anything, our business has grown, but there’s also been a lot of changes,”Crowley said. “The books don’t lie, and according to them, business hasn’t changed;

Fall in love with local business this Valentine’s Day

Sauk revives ‘Escanaba in da Moonlight’

By | Nolan Ryan Assistant editor

Love is in the air in downtown Hillsdale. Or it will be soon. Several local businesses have special events and sales leading up to Valentine’s Day this year. Jilly Beans Coffee House is hosting a Valentine’s Tea with the Liberty Princess Company and King’s Kupboard on Sunday, Jan. 11, from 3-5 p.m. Children can enjoy a time with their favorite Disney princesses. Liberty Princess Company is asking for non-perishable food or monetary donations to be received by King’s Kupboard. Gianna Marchese, ‘17, director of the Liberty Princess Company, said she had dreams of holding a tea party for local girls. But she wanted to add an aspect of community service to the event. The mission of the organization is to serve children of the community “who wouldn’t normally experience meeting their favorite characters in real life.” “Having a tea party is really nice, but the Liberty Princess Company is more than dressing up,” she said. “I thought about participating with the animal shelter or King’s Kupboard. It might be easier for someone to bring a food donation, so we went with King’s Kupboard. It’s such a worthwhile effort.” Small Town Sweet Boutique is offering unique gifts for sweet-tooth lovers. They have pre-made and customizable candy bouquets. There is a wide variety of sizes for different kinds of candy. Customers can call ahead or come into the shop to customize their choice of candy within a 24-hour notice. The Boutique will be offering their candy bouquet specials now through Valentine’s Day. Finish Line Family Restaurant will feature a steak dinner for two special on Valentine’s Day. Customers can purchase two 8-oz ribeye steaks, potatoes, salad, and dessert for $26.50. Smith’s Flowers is selling rustic drawers filled with various flowers, including roses. They have different sales every day, including Valentine’s Day.

By | Michael Lucchese Senior Writer Starting this weekend, Sauk Theater in Jonesville is putting on a production of Jeff Daniels’ “Escanaba in da Moonlight,” which will run through Feb. 18. “The last time we did this show was ten years ago,” Trinity Bird, the executive director of the Sauk, said. “Now, it’s back by popular demand. Deer hunting is huge around here, the play is set in Michigan, and it’s just really funny. It was a no-brainer to do this season.” “Escanaba in da Moon-

business has gotten better.” Around the corner of W. Carleton Road, Biggby’s – the only chain coffee shop Hillsdale offers – provides a convenient drive-thru for busy clientele who don’t have a moment to spare when it comes to grabbing their daily caffeine and doughnuts. Biggby’s also is known to offer sweeter flavor coffee options, such as caramel, chocolate, white chocolate, butterscotch, etc., than some others in town. According to Biggby employees, lots of customers come through the drive-thru. The store is influenced by college students, but most clients come from elsewhere. When asked if Biggby’s experiences any competition with neighboring coffee shops, he declined to expand on the subject. “Biggby’s isn’t necessarily a spot to have an aesthetically pleasing environment for quiet studying,” Sophomore Emma Peters, previous employee of Biggby’s Coffee in East Lansing said. “The purpose of Biggby’s is to be social, make conversation with the barista, and grab a quick coffee.” The newest addition to the Hillsdale neighborhood, Rough Draft, offers not only gourmet coffee options, but a variety of teas and alcoholic beverages. They offer live music nights, art events, and “Taco Tuesdays” — very different options than other shops in town. “Setting ourselves apart from other coffee shops hasn’t been our focus so much as making sure we can contrib-

light” is the story of a Michigander named Reuben Soady, who is trying to bag his first buck and avoid a family jinx. Productions at the Sauk — including this play — are entirely volunteer productions, with members of the community stepping in to help with everything from set design to acting. “The best thing about community theater is that everyone wants to be here,” Bird said. Hillsdale College admissions counselor Matt Sauer ’16 is performing a park ranger in his first production with the Sauk, and said that it has been

ute something to the already vibrant coffee scene in Hillsdale,” Rough Draft barista Rachel Solomito ’17 said. “So we’ve definitely tried to expand our relationship with the community into other areas, like with our live music events and cocktail menu.” Recognized for its modern aesthetic and rustic accents, Rough Draft often attracts Hillsdale College students. Employees claim this as Rough Draft’s unique mark, as other coffeehouses in town each possess their own personal aesthetic. “Each coffee shop offers its own unique environment — there’s the edgy-rock-coffeevibe, more intimate and conversational spaces, etc. I think we’ve tried to make Rough Draft both a social gathering space as well as a good study zone,” Solomito said. According to employees,

Rough Draft was birthed from the ideas and inspiration of the neighboring coffeehouses in Hillsdale, by providing both a quiet study environment for students and a relaxing yet vibrant nightlife for students and adults alike. But is this influx of coffee shops is healthy or dangerous for the local businesses in the city of Hillsdale? Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram, he called this sensation “economies of agglomeration,” which is when a greater variety of businesses become available, and attract more people and the pull of traffic. “There is definitely an element of competition amongst the coffee shops. But, on the other hand, there is an atmosphere of downtown Hillsdale that is improved by these ‘cool coffee shops,’” Wolfram said. “There is also going to be

economic growth in local businesses, because, for one, you probably know the person who owns it,” Wolfram said. “That’s why places like Starbucks opened, it’s about the experience. In a small town, you can make that experience not only having Wi-Fi, but being familiar with the owners.” Wolfram suggested that the influx of coffee shops will not necessarily overwhelm Hillsdale with competition amongst businesses, but rather will bring people from other towns like Jonesville or Coldwater into Hillsdale more often. “I think it is a good sign that we are getting more coffee shops, and other venues. You’ll get more students going downtown,” Wolfram said. “I have noticed there are more students downtown then there ever used to be.”

Rough Draft makes latte art. Isabella Redjai | Collegian

an eye-opening experience. “It feels great to be back in acting,” he said. “I’ve really enjoyed working with the people. It’s close to home for me, but most of my castmates are driving a lot further than me to be here. I appreciate everyone’s commitment, and I feel very welcomed and grateful.” Sauer said that during this production, he’s learned that theater really can be a lifelong pursuit, even outside of hubs like New York or Chicago. He also said that community theater is very different from the collegiate productions he’s been in, such as the

The Sauk’s production of ‘Escanaba in da Moonlight. Left to right: Timothy Brayman, Mike Sutton, Matt Sauer, Nathan Johnson, Nathan Drumhiller. Michael Lucchese | Collegian

Tower Players’ 2015 musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” “For example, you’re acting with people who are playing characters their own age — you certainly don’t do that in high school, and you mostly don’t in college,” Sauer said. “Here, we have actual grown adults who fit the description of the character and have a very healthy dose of real-world experience.” Others involved in the production said they reciprocated Sauer’s warm feelings. “The thing that’s great about Matt in this show is that he’s so earnest,” Bird said. “He plays his ridiculous character who thinks he’s seen God. When Matt’s on the stage, you just believe him — and if the actor wasn’t good, Matt’s part could just bomb.” In addition to Sauer, four of the six actors in “Escanaba in da Moonlight” are new to the Sauk Theater. One such castmate is Nathan Drumhiller, the proprietor of the Grate Haus fireplace and stove store in Jackson. He plays the lead character, Reuben Soady, and this is his first time acting on stage. “I guess you could call it my adult theatrical debut,” he said. “I always wanted to do a play, but between owning my farm and my business I’ve never really had the time. My fiancé really encouraged me to

come down here and do this, because we sometimes watch the movie version of ‘Escanaba in da Moonlight’ before deer season starts.” Both Sauer and Drumhiller said they have enjoyed their experience so far with “Escanaba in da Moonlight” and the Sauk. Despite some of the challenges associated with the limited resources of community theater, the cast and crew said they are very proud of the production they are staging. “We’re not a professional theater spending millions of dollars on a show, but we like to see that as an opportunity to do big shows on our stage,” Bird said. “Shows that people will see and ask themselves ‘How on earth did they do that?’” Sauer said that Hillsdale College students should come see “Escanaba in da Moonlight” because their attendance would be a witness to the integration of the college with the larger community. “Plus, it gets you off campus for a couple hours for a good study break,” he said. “It’s not very highbrow, but the pure comedy and escapism is a great part of theater — which should be fun!” The show is sponsored by the Hillsdale County Board of Realtors, and tickets are available online at TheSauk.org.

reason to go anywhere else.” Even so, she takes life a little quieter these days. She and her husband are actively involved in their church, College Baptist. They are apart of the church’s student adoption program. They host college students in their home on a regular basis. Another former professor is Jim Juroe who, like Lundy, also happens to be involved with College Baptist’s student adoption. Juroe taught English at Hillsdale from 1970 through 2001. One of the appeals of Hillsdale was that it allowed him to teach a broad range of courses within the English department. He didn’t want to be “pigeonholed,” he said. Ultimately, he retired from teaching at the school because of an eye condition that affected his grading ability. “It didn’t allow me to read papers in the way you have to,” he said. “I got cloudiness of vision. I’d probably still be

here.” Juroe was responsible for starting Hillsdale’s Oxford Study Abroad Program. He worked with the program until May 2017. “I decided maybe I should grow up,” he said with a smile. “When you get to be an octogenarian, you probably ought to back off a little.” His decision to remain in Hillsdale was due to his love for the area and the college students. “I think there’s no better place to live on earth than Hillsdale,” he said. “It’s one of those best-kept secrets. I just love it here. I love rural life.” Juroe and his wife continue to stay busy with their involvement in the student adoption program. “We have about 8 students now,” he said. “My life would probably be less stressful and busy if I started working again.”

Retired professors stick around the ’dale By | Nolan Ryan assistant editor

Some Hillsdale professors fall in love with the city and decide to stay — even after they retire from teaching. Over the years, Hillsdale College professors come and go, but some professors remain in the area, continuing to contribute to the community. Will Morrisey came to teach in the politics department at Hillsdale in 2000. Holding the William and Patricia LaMothe chair in the United States Constitution, his 403(b), a retirement savings plan for educational institutions and non-profit employers, allowed him to retire in 2015, the date he received when he checked when he could retire back in 2005. When he finished teaching at the college, he wanted to continue living in the area. “I liked the area,” he said. “The property values are very good in Hillsdale compared

to a lot of other places in the country. The house I live in is located in an area that is convenient for me; I don’t drive. But it’s easy walking distance to the stores.” Morrisey continues to read and write on a regular basis. He maintains a book review website, “Will Morrisey Reviews.” As an academic, he compared his decision to remain in Hillsdale to a character in a French novel by André Malraux. “One of the characters in the novel is an elderly scholar,” Morrisey said. “The novel is set in the Spanish Civil War, so the fascist troops are advancing upon his town, and somebody told him to get out of town before it’s too late. He says, ‘When a man of my age travels, he takes his library with him.’ He’s not moving. I’d have to take my library with me. Therefore, I’m not moving.” But life is not always quiet for Morrisey. He keeps active

in the community, and he has served on the Hillsdale City Council since August 2016. He was elected to take over the unexpired term of a city councilwoman. Another local professor who retired is Carolyn Lundy. She worked at Hillsdale as a lecturer in accounting from 1991 to 1996. Lundy worked in the business department, teaching courses such as business information systems and income tax. She recalls teaching a marketing class one semester while the professor was on sabbatical. She continued to work after she retired from teaching at Hillsdale. She still did accounting work, and to this day, she does online teaching for the University of Phoenix. But this was not the only reason she and her husband Larry decided to remain in Hillsdale. “Our family was here; our kids were here and our grandkids,” she said. “We had no

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Women’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball thursday, feb.

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Nick Czarnowski Austin Yarian Stedman Lowry Ryan Badowski

10 3:00 PM tuesday, feb. 13 at Ohio Dom. 5:30 PM vs lake erie

12 pts, 9 reb, 1 ast 11 pts, 8 reb, 1 ast 11 pts, 2 ast, 1 stl 10 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast

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Malone

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Gordon Behr Nick Czarnowski Ryan Badowski Dylan Lowry

14 pts, 10 reb, 5 blk 13 pts, 7 reb, 4 ast 10 pts, 9 reb, 1 ast 8 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast

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Allie Dewire Allie Dittmer Makenna Ott Sydney Anderson

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Thursday, feb. 8 vs Ursuline 6:00 PM Saturday, feb. 10 vs Malone 1:00 PM

19 pts, 12 reb, 5 ast 14 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast 10 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast 6 pts, 1 reb, 2 stl

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Feb. 9-10 GVSU Big Meet Allendale, MI 10 A.M.

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Sailing Club gains official affiliation with MCSA Group will compete at Notre Dame University’s Freshman Icebreaker in March

By | Calli Townsend Collegian Freelancer Senior Jake Weaver and freshman Kaitlyn Rowland left the MCSA Midwinters conference in Grand Rapids with exciting news for their team of sailors. Hillsdale’s sailing club was officially accepted into the Midwest Collegiate Sailing

Association on Saturday, Jan. 27. “We’re a real team now. After about a year and a half of working, it’s very exciting to have it come to fruition in terms of us being a real official team in every respect,” junior Pearce Pomerleau said. This process began with Weaver and Pomerleau in late 2016. A little over a year

Members of the Hillsdale College Sailing Club at a regatta in the fall. Jacob Weaver | Courtesy

WBB from A10 gers escaped with a narrow victory. Dittmer led the way with 21 points and eight rebounds, and Ott added 15 points, nine rebounds, and four assists. “Our offensive game was a lot better,” Dittmer said. “We moved the ball a lot more; it wasn’t as stagnant. We made a lot more shots so we were able to get ahead.” Dittmer is averaging 13.6 points per game this season, second on the team to Ott, who averages 14.8 points per game. Junior forward Brittany Gray returned to the floor after missing the previous two weeks because of an ankle sprain. She came off the bench to play 15 minutes against Malone, and Fritsche said she should be ready to return to the starting lineup this week. The Chargers return to Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena this Thursday for a 6 p.m. tipoff against Ursuline College, whom they beat 84-68 in early January. Hillsdale is 6-2 at home this season. “We know we are capable of beating them,” Dittmer said. “We want to do it again

because they’re still at the top of the league.” The team then has two opportunities for revenge, as they host Lake Erie College on Saturday and hit the road to play Ohio Dominican University on Tuesday. The Chargers lost to both teams earlier this season. Ohio Dominican has already clinched a place in the G-MAC Tournament. The Chargers currently sit in sixth place in the conference and have five games in total remaining on their schedule. They need only one more victory to clinch a tournament berth. “We’re not even talking about it,” Fritsche said, referring to their potential place in the tournament. “We want to finish as high as we can. We’re focused on winning every game that gets put in front of us. Our whole focus is just to improve every day.” Improving every day means winning out in Dewire’s mind. “We’re definitely not settling for one win. Not even four wins. We’re going to go for all five,” Dewire said. “If we finish strong, it’ll be a good entry into the tournament.”

later, the club is ready to set sail in four regattas as an official MCSA team. “The first one is the freshman icebreaker at Notre Dame,” Weaver said. “We’ll probably send about six people down there.” This competition will take place on March 24-25 and is to be followed consecutively by three more regattas, one of which is the Women’s Qualifier at the University of Michigan. Hillsdale’s sailing club currently has about 14 members, about half of which are women, according to Weaver. “That was one of the nice things to put on our application to MCSA, that we had a lot of female interest,” Weaver said. Freshman Kaitlyn Rowland is an important asset to this new team of sailors. She has been coaching since she was sixteen years old. “She is a certified instruc-

tor,” Pomerleau explained. “She has a lot of experience not only with sailing and racing, but with teaching and coaching young sailors. We’re very lucky to have her.” Winter’s preparation should set the sailing team up well for this upcoming spring. It recruited a great team and are looking to expand their resources to three used 420 club boats for practicing on Baw Beese Lake, as well to provide their skippers and crew members with the proper equipment. These purchases will be made possible by a $10,000 promise grant from an anonymous donor, Pomerleau wrote in a text. “This semester we hit the ground running, recruited at The Source, and tried to get people who hadn’t sailed get some experience so they could come with us and really build up a team,” Weaver

said. Weaver said there is much to look forward to for the new club. Its official membership of MCSA allows them to race in as many regattas as they want in a year, which will provide the experience this team needs. “It’s a big deal for Hills-

“It’s fun for the three of us to be together,” Andrews said. The fun atmosphere extends to the light banter between the women and the men’s team. “We crashed the party,” Andrews said. “You’re as much a part of the team as they are,” Gilchrist said. “It’s fun, they’re great. They have to put up with all

of it,” Balkan said. Gilchrist said guys and girls do play differently. Girls play with more finesse. They control their attitudes and outbursts on the course, whereas guys play a more powerful, and in some ways more reckless, game. Traditionally, he said, women have more patience chipping and putting. “There’s a reason campus GPA is higher,” Gilchrist

“It’s a big deal for Hillsdale, and we have good numbers for sustainability.”

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got lonely. And of course, “life got busy,” according to Gilchrist. But then Balkan and Shinkle also came to campus and connected through their dorm. The three started practicing together soon after. For Andrews, this is a dream come true. Gilchrist said, there were good women golfers on campus before, but there wasn’t a group. “Now, we can point to something,” he said. Balkan is the one taking the bull by the horns. They’ll have team meetings, which Balkan emphasized with verbal air quotes, at Rough Draft, and lift together. In some ways, this situation is ideal: it’s no commitment, and it’s a small entrance fee to compete in tournaments. It started with Andrews, and even with three, it’s still easy to manage, Gilchrist said, comparing how this club formed to the roots of the men’s team, which started with 12 members. “I didn’t have to sit back and think. We need to have a women’s team. There are a lot of scholarships that go unused for women’s golf, and it’s a good marketing tool for them,” Gilchrist said. “A guy will take a good female golfer seriously.” Andrews echoed Gilchrist with the classic golf adage, deals get closed on the golf course. In the meantime, Andrews, Balkan, and Shinkle all agreed that this arrangement brought them together in friendships that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.

dale, and we have good numbers for sustainability,” Rowland said. “I’ve got lots of ideas for improving our racing.” A lot of time and effort has gone into making this crew an official team, but their efforts have paid off.

Senior Jacob Weaver and freshman Kaitlyn Rowland at the MCSA Midwinters Conference. Jacob Weaver | Courtesy

said. “It’s a willingness to be taught, coached.” Balkan said she tries to spread awareness of the club team through word of mouth, sending emails and coordinating lunches with girls who are interested. They’re on the lookout for more women golfers. “We’re going to track ‘em down,” Balkan said.

Junior Caroline Andrews practices in the golf simulator. Jo Kroeker | Collegian

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MEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS TWO, HOLDS SECOND IN G-MAC By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor The Hillsdale Chargers (17-6, 11-5 G-MAC) dropped two games last week against conference opponents but still remain in second place in the G-MAC. The first loss of the road trip was a thrilling defeat at the hands of the Walsh

tough week. You get on a bus, you don’t assume anything,” head coach John Tharp said. After the first half against Walsh University, the game looked well in hand for the Chargers. Hillsdale boasted a 39-30 point lead after making 55 percent of their shots in the half, including 4 of 7 on three-point field goals. But the Chargers’ offense

Junior Nate Neveau is averaging 9.4 points and 5.1 assists per game this season. Crystal Schupbach | Collegian

University Cavaliers (15-6, 10-5 G-MAC) and the second came against the Malone University Pioneers (17-7, 10-6 G-MAC). “We knew it would be a

became anemic in the second half, shooting 28 percent from the field. “We didn’t come out of halftime the right way,” Tharp said. “We didn’t control the

Women’s tennis falls to D-1 Western Michigan By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief

Hitting off spring play with a challenge, the women’s tennis team fell to Division I Western Michigan University on Saturday. The Chargers lost 7-0 in the non-conference match, despite junior Halle Hyman and freshman Hannah Cimpeanu defeating Western’s junior Denise Azcui and freshman Valentina Sanchez Briend at No. 3 doubles. Division I rules award a single point to the team that wins two of three doubles matchups. “It’s a good start to our season,” coach Nikki Walbright said. “We held our own and had some great matches.” Although Hyman and Cimpeanu’s victory did not appear on the final score, the win will count for each player’s personal career records. Junior Madeline Bissett gave a noteworthy performance, losing after a tie-breaking third round at No. 6 singles against Briend. Cimpeanu fought long with Azcui at No. 2 singles, finishing 6-1, 7-5. “We had to be very adaptable, and I hope we can take

that into the season and make it our own,” sophomore Kamryn Matthews said. Leading up to the match, Walbright said the team was focusing on pressure points for Division I game style such as quick and hard hits. “I hope we can continue that but also work on playing longer games and keep control of the ball,” Walbright said. She said the team is focusing on match play and repetition to build consistency and endurance to take advantage of the first two months of season. “We want definitely to win the conference and tournament championships,” Walbright said. “Our nine girls bring lots of different game styles, and they’re strong players with good experience.” Women’s tennis faces Division II University of Illinois Springfield in a non-conference match at 9 a.m. on Saturday in the Biermann Athletics Center. “Victory is always what we strive for,” Walbright said. “I want our game to get better, to see the girls support each other, and to pull off wins as much as possible.”

tempo like we needed to.” Though senior guards Ryan Badowski and Stedman Lowry have shot well from beyond the arc this season, 39 and 37 percent respectively, the duo missed 9 of their 10 shots from three in the second half. Missed shots by Hillsdale and hot shooting aided by tough rebounding late in the game by Walsh allowed the Cavaliers to overcome the 9 point deficit with 2:00 left in the game. With the game tied at 59, Junior forward Nick Czarnowski made a layup, giving the Chargers a 61-59 lead. From there, neither team could score over the final two minutes, with three missed shots and a turnover. But with 15 seconds remaining, Neveau drove to the rim and dumped the ball off junior forward Gordon Behr who went for an easy layup with 15 seconds remaining. Walsh guard Bo Furcron rose up with Behr and violently blocked his shot. Malone freshman guard Darryl Straughter nabbed the rebound and shot the ball from far beyond the three-point line as the buzzer sounded. “We got caught staring for a quarter of a second, and the guy throws up a sideline shot,” Tharp said. The ball dropped through the net and Badowski bent over, with his hands on his knees, and looked up at the basket for a moment. “It was a good, old-fashioned kick in the gut,” Tharp said.

Despite the loss, freshman Austen Yarian, coming off a breakout game last week, continued to produce, scoring 11 points on 5-7 shooting while adding 8 rebounds and a block. Straughter had the hot hand for the game, scoring 19 points on 7-9 shooting. The second game of the road trip ended in a 77-68 loss to Malone University, who had upset Findley, the top team in the G-MAC, earlier in the week. In the first half, both teams had trouble scoring, as Hillsdale made only 26 percent of their shots including only 2 of 13 three-pointers while Malone struggled with turnovers and shot 33 percent from the field. The score was 25-24 in favor of Malone at halftime. In the second half, shooting percentages improved for the Chargers but the Pioneers continued to find the bottom of the net, making nearly 70 percent of their three-point attempts, and scoring 52 points in the half; the most points the Chargers have given up in a half all season. “When a good shooter on their home floor sees one go in, it may not matter what you do to stop them,” Tharp said. Malone also shared the ball well, with 11 assists in their prolific half from 6 different players. Behr had a complete game against Malone, scoring 14 points on 6-10 shooting, grabbing 10 rebounds, and blocking 5 shots. “Gordy had one of his better games, but just didn’t have enough around him,”

Tharp said. Badowski had 10 points and 9 rebounds. He and Lowry continued to struggle, shooting 1-15 from beyond the arc.

“The guys who are shot makers, it just isn’t happening,” Tharp said. The Chargers return to action against Lake Erie College at home on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Junior Gordon Behr is averaging 7.1 points per game this season. Crystal Schupbach | Collegian

Men’s tennis to open spring season at home this weekend By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team will kick off its spring season with two matches this weekend at 4:30 pm Friday against Daemen College and at 2 p.m. Saturday against Illinois-Springfield College. We’re excited to get going,” head coach Keith Turner said. “The guys are playing well and we definitely have a solid team that should be a little bit stronger than last year’s team. It’ll be interesting. We’re playing two solid teams this weekend.” The No. 10 team in the Midwest region, senior captain Dugan Delp said the Chargers are the favorite to win the G-MAC. “We are significantly better than we have been for the last two years, so that obviously helps us more than than just switching conferences,” Delp said. Delp said the team has grown exponentially since its inception. “The difference between

two years ago when we were about to have our first season versus now is just leaps and bounds different as far as not only talent but also preparedness and expectation confidence,” Delp said. “Whereas two years ago none of us had ever played a college match before.” Turner said that new and healthy players will strengthen their team. “[Freshman] Gabe Katz has been a great addition to the team,” Turner said. “He makes us a much deeper team and, in general, we’ve got some good depth in the lineup this year.” Turner said that sophomore Milan Mirkovich will start at No. 1 singles, and Katz at No. 4 singles. Turner said that his top two doubles teams will return, but also sophomore Michael Szabo, who will be teamed with sophomore Julien Clouette, partly due to their fall doubles win over Grand Valley State University last fall. Sophomore Charlie Adams and junior Justin Hy-

man’s doubles team is ranked 8th in the Midwest region. Turner said that junior John Ciraci, who injured his shoulder last year, was the most improved player. Turner laid out a few goals for this season: to win the G-MAC and to make the NCAA tournament. But the third-year team will face a harder battle after switching to the G-MAC, Turner said. “The GLIAC was a pretty strong conference and honestly, the G-MAC this first year was pretty weak,” Turner said. “So we had to schedule a lot of the good out-of-conference schools because we don’t get an automatic bid into the tournament because we only have five teams in the conference this year, so that’s a big disadvantage to us, unfortunately.” NCAA regionals only took the top seven teams from the region last year, all teams Turner said the Chargers will face this season. “We’re playing quite a few of those teams ahead of us in the rankings,” Ciraci said.

“So if we play as well as we’re capable of playing, I see no reason why we wouldn’t end up in the NCAA tournament.” “The top two teams in the year of the host sides,” Ciraci said. “It could be anyone.” The Chargers have faced every opponent either in GLIAC or G-MAC play, and are confident about their ability to win it, Delp said. Delp said that although they team is traveling about the same distance, the are more Southern miles rather than driving to the Upper Peninsula. In addition, each team plays at its home as well as its opponents home courts. Turner said that their schedule will show how the team matches on a regional ranking. “I intentionally put a real tough schedule so hopefully we can beat one or two of these teams ahead of us,” Turner said. “We’ll see what happens.”

Charger Chatter: Joseph Humes this.’ But then once we started doing it in middle school, I was like, ‘This is actually a lot of fun.’ I didn’t use to run distance, I was just a sprinter. But in soccer they would make us do a training mile, which is just a timed mile to see how well you could do. I got beat by one kid and the coach and I was like, ‘I want to beat both of them. I want to beat the coach and I want to beat that kid.’ And then they were like, ‘Oh you should actually try distance.’

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Joseph Humes is a sophomore from Maybee, Michigan. He runs for both the Hillsdale College track and cross country teams. Why did you start running track? Seventh grade was the first year it was available for us. I think it was my mom that said ‘you should try to do this.’ In soccer, we would always run as punishment and so I was like, ‘I don’t know if I really want to do

Do you have a favorite warm up song to listen to? No. I know some people get really hyped to warm up songs. And if they are playing it over the loudspeakers, like ACDC, that gets everyone going. But I can’t do it with headphones, because they fall out. But ACDC comes on and I’m like, ‘we’re getting lit today!’ What’s the most adventurous run you’ve ever had? So we went to San Francisco for a meet. And it was really cool because it was a two-day meet. We competed on one day and the next

day we didn’t have to compete, but we still had to run. The people I was with and I didn’t really have a plan, so we were just going to run to the beach and then follow that for however long we needed to. And then the beach ended and we got on some trail...it’s not like we had a plan for any of it. We didn’t know where we were. And then we come around the corner and there was this picturesque view of the Golden Gate Bridge. That was the coolest run that I’ve ever done, but it was also super adventurous too because there was no plan to any of it. Besides track, what is your favorite sport? Skiing. I think looks like so much fun. I know we have snow out here. I always thought skiing looked like a lot of fun. I would love to do that. And then I used to play soccer and I loved it. And people say, ‘Oh that’s not American,’ or something. Well yeah, but the whole rest of the world plays it. And when they get into the huge games where you have thousands of fans all cheering on one team, and when they score and the crowd goes absolutely wild. You

think of buzzer-beaters in the NBA, when its kind of close and then the whole stadium erupts and everything, it’s like that, except its for every single goal. If I could be a pro player, I’d be a pro soccer player, because that’s awesome. I’m a big Real Madrid fan, and if you’re looking at Premier, I like Chelsea. Who did you cheer for in the Super Bowl?

The Eagles. I was just tired of the Patriots. It just seems like they’ve won a lot. I don’t know how many times the Eagles have won, but I think their coach, it was one of his first season. So the fact that he was new and made it to the Super Bowl was pretty impressive. And he called some pretty gutsy plays. I was like, ‘You’re in it to win it, you’re risking it. That’s good. I like that.’ And they went for two point conversions, which I don’t think you see very much, or like ever. Tom Brady. I get it. He’s good. Also Tom Brady looked so slow. He just looked so unathletic. You’re slowing down. He went to run the ball, and it was just like, what happened? He’s slow.

What is your favorite food?

I love a lot of foods. My mom makes this shepherd’s pie that’s really good. So I love shepherd’s pie. There’s a bok choy chicken, a recipe that I found, so I ended up making it, and it was super good! So either bok choy chicken or shepherd’s pie. What is your favorite movie? So I watch movies all the time. That’s like, what I do in my spare time. I’ve seen so many movies. So I don’t know if there’s just one. But Ben-Hur, the new one, I actually really liked that one. I didn’t really know what I was expecting going into it. I saw the new Thor movie. I didn’t think that was going to be good and it was actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Marvel, ever since Iron Man, they found the recipe and they just stick with it. They know what works and they stick with it. But even with that story line I thought it was pretty good.

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Sailing Club The Hillsdale College Sailing Club gained official Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association affiliation and will compete at the Freshman Icebreaker at Notre Dame in March. A9

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Hillsdale College hosted more than 800 athletes at this weekend’s Wide Track Classic. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

800 ATHLETES COMPETE AT WIDE TRACK CLASSIC

Men prepare for final tune-ups before G-MACs By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter The Charger men delivered solid performances at the Wide Track Classic this past weekend. Around 800 athletes from the United States and Canada competed over two days. Hillsdale head coach Andrew Towne said the team’s performance on Saturday indicates that they are on track for the G-MAC Championships. “I think we’re a little banged up in a couple of spots,” Towne said. “But hopefully the guys are starting to sort out that we have a chance to win the G-MAC title. Being at home won’t hurt that.” The distance team chalked up one solid performance after another. Sophomore Alex Oquist placed first in the mile with his time of 4:28.8. “I PR’d in the mile by about 13 seconds, which is pretty awesome,” Oquist said. “It was

only my second time running it, so I was really excited to have another shot at the distance. I was just really happy because it was the culmination of my training kind of paying off. The whole weekend was great.” Junior Eli Poth won the 5000-meter race with a time of 15:41.98 while leading the pack the entire time. “It was a good step in the right direction,” Poth said. “I had to run the race mostly by myself, so I’m excited to get into a more competitive race.” The distance medley relay team made up of senior Nathan Jones, freshman Konnor Maloney, freshman Adam Wade, and sophomore Joey Humes took second place on Friday night. “The men’s DMR went really well,” Towne said. “They just missed the school record, but it’s a good time for this point in the year.” Oquist said watching his

teammates perform as well as they did in the DMR was a motivator for Saturday’s events. “It was pretty special to see that because all of them ran pretty great races,” Oquist said. “That was Friday night and it kind of gave us a lot of momentum going into Saturday. I was really excited for them so it gave me a little bit of motivation.“ The team will compete twice more before G-MAC Championships on the 23rd and 24th of February. They travel to Grand Valley State this coming Friday and Saturday for the GVSU Big Meet. “I’m excited to see where we’re at this week,” Towne said. “This will be our last meet where everybody is going at it. Next week will just be a tune-up. Some kids will wrap up their season next week and some kids will just be trying to do one little thing to get ready for G-MACs.”

Distance teams shine for women’s track

By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor Senior Hannah McIntyre led the women’s track team to victory in the mile race, the second distance victory in two weeks. McIntyre finished in 4:49.6. Junior Ally Eads, close behind, finished in second place with a time of 4:59.67. Freshman Christina Sawyer came in fifth and Addison Rauch, a sophomore, finished in 10th place. “My whole goal has been to go in and break five,” Eads said. “And this time I told myself I had to do it, and that’s what happened.” She said the weekend was “huge” for the distance team, praising her teammates. Freshman Maryssa Depies took second in the 3,000 meter with a time of 9:50, a personal record. Depies raced late in the evening, giving the event an unusual and less nerve-racking environment. “There was an awesome atmosphere,” Depies said. “There were a lot of people

there. Our team’s really good at supporting each other, so there was a lot of that going on.” Depies also made provisional marks, finishing second in the 3,000 meter, and Kyleigh Edwards, also a freshman, took fourth place in the same race. The Wide Track Classic, a two-day meet, is more competitive than meets earlier in the season, including teams from Eastern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, and Academy of Art, an arts school in San Francisco, and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Head Coach Andrew Towne said each meet in the season is more significant than the last. “It’s developed into our bigger meet of the indoor season,” Towne said.“...Overall it was a really competitive meet in most spots for us, which is good.” Senior Rachael Tolsma

continued to distinguish herself in throwing, taking third place with a distance of 17.76 meters in the weight throw. In the 200 meter sprint, freshman Zoe Eby made an NCAA provisional time, finishing in 25.1 seconds. Senior Ashlee Moran won her flight of the race in 25.68 seconds. Moran and Eby, along with senior Victoria Wichmann and freshman Carmen Botha finished second in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:54.32. Depies said that transitioning from highschool, where she didn’t experience competition, to Hillsdale has been a good adjustment. “It’s cool to see us all succeed together,” she said. “Every one of us who ran the 3,000 meter PR’d by 20 seconds.” Saturday, the team will be heading back to Grand Valley State University, the last full team meet until the team competes in the G-MACs in three weeks.

Women’s basketball one win from Trio forms grassroots clinching tournament berth after split of women’s golf team By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers split a two-game road trip last week, falling to

Walsh University on Thursday, 68-60, and defeating Malone University two days later, 66-62. Both Walsh and Malone are located in Canton, Ohio,

Junior Allie Dewire is averaging 12.2 points per game this season. Matt Kendrick | Collegian

so the team stayed in the area during the off day in between games. The Chargers got off to a rough start against Walsh, falling behind 9-0 before head coach Matt Fritsche called a timeout to regroup. Hillsdale eventually got on the scoreboard midway through the first quarter. “We were disappointed to lose; it wasn’t an effort or focus issue,” Fritsche said. “On the road, things have to go well, and they didn’t. We played really hard and they made some good plays. It was just one of those deals.” The Chargers turned the ball over 20 times. Fritsche said although the team had troubles with turnovers early in the season, he isn’t concerned about that issue resurfacing in the season’s final month. “Our turnovers were a little bit uncharacteristic,” Fritsche said. “We were trying to make plays because we were down. We made some late mistakes when we were trying to do everything we could to get back in the game. It doesn’t concern me moving forward.” Junior guard Allie Dewire played her best game of the season, scoring 19 points and hauling in 12 rebounds. Twelve boards is no insignificant statistic to Dewire, who is listed at 5’6” tall but jokes with her teammates that she’s really 5’7”. “Most people don’t expect a guard to come in and rebound,” Dewire said. “When

other people are boxing their girls out it gives me an open lane. That’s a group effort right there.” Along with her double-double, Dewire dished out five assists and recorded three steals. In the victory against Malone, she tallied 15 points, six rebounds, and four assists. “She’s a really hard kid to guard,” Fritsche said. “Her focus has been great all year. She’s starting to understand more of what we want on offense.” Dewire leads the team with 68 assists this season. “You want to get the ball moving. It’s a dual effort,” Dewire said. “When I start contributing and the other team gets worried about me scoring, I can kick it out to my teammates. They do the hard work. I just give them the ball.” Senior center Allie Dittmer added 14 points and eight rebounds in the loss while junior forward Makenna Ott scored 10 points and collected five boards. The Chargers got off to a better start on Saturday against Malone, and outscored the Pioneers 15-7 in the third quarter to build a 12 point lead heading into the final quarter. The Pioneers gave Hillsdale their best shot in the fourth quarter and tied the game at 62 with less than a minute left, but senior guard Maddy Reed’s layup and free throw in the final minute sealed the deal, and the Char-

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Junior Caroline Andrews and freshmen Callie Shinkle and Grace Balkan pose inside the golf simulator. Jo Kroeker | Collegian

By | Jo Kroeker FeaturesEditor All three women knew they’d have to give up golf to come to Hillsdale College. None of them thought that together, they’d practice with the men’s team and compete representing Hillsdale. “They should’ve been playing Division I golf somewhere, to be honest,” men’s coach Nate Gilchrist said. The trio, junior Caroline Andrews, and freshmen Grace Balkan and Callie Shinkle, began practicing with the men’s team in the fall. While their group is still in the process of joining the college club team, they hit hundreds of balls and weight train just like any golf team

preparing for tournaments. “We have women who deserve opportunities to compete, so we’re going to find that for them,” men’s coach Mike Harner said. Those opportunities include an invitational in Kentucky March 17-18 and the G-MAC Championships April 23-24. Golf was always a part of Andrews’ life. She even considered going to college on a golf scholarship. When she came to Hillsdale, she found a way to keep golfing — practicing with the men’s team her freshman year. After one year of sports reminiscent of “She’s the Man,” Andrews said she

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Culture “Snow at Argenteuil” by Claude Monet is on display now at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Wikipedia

Monet at the DIA: Framing life around a smudge of suburban snow By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor Smudges of blue paint like footprints speckle the snow beside a mud-worn path. A traveler in a blue coat, which seems to have been stamped on his torso by a divine finger, ambles forward, proceeding down the muddy trail to leave the town behind. In “Snow at Argenteuil” by Claude Monet, a handful of travelers wander through a suburb of Paris, but the snowy scene captures the feeling of winter in any rural town. The painting accompanies several others by the famed impressionist at the Detroit Institute of Arts in “Monet:

Framing Life,” an exhibition that opened last fall and will run until March 4. Monet spent four years living in Argenteuil (ar-jahn-toi-yuh), France, where on canvas after canvas he painted his wife and young son, the town’s harbor, and its blotted skyline. But Monet tended to shrink from the industrial. He preferred painting gladioli flowers. On the two-hour car trip to Detroit’s Art Center, snow rests on wooden homes with peeling yellow paint and mimics the pallor of “CHEW MAIL POUCH TOBACCO” spread in giant white letters on the side of rotting barns. Old, aging factories flank a

father-and-son tire shop that shuttered years ago. The signs of decaying industrialism contrast with the crisp stone walls and massive murals in the halls of the DIA. But most of all, they belie the sailboats and sunlit gardens of almost a dozen paintings in the small, dark room that hosts an exhibition of impressionist art. “Framing Life,” with its paintings of gardens and homes, centers around the only Monet painting in the DIA’s permanent collection. Known for 99 years as “Gladioloi,” the painting was recently renamed “Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs)” by the museum to reflect what it

may have been called when it was displayed in 1877. A plaque underneath the painting explains that an inscription on the back led curators to believe it was displayed under this alternate title at the 1877 exhibition where artists first labeled themselves “Impressionists.” “Rounded Flower Bed” caps Monet’s artistic successes in Argenteuil. Thanks to Monet’s ivy-coated home, the town became a center for artistic activity, where he cultivated a cultural center for impressionism by drawing other artists into his orbit. But soon after the painting’s completion, he would move to his home in Giverny and paint his famous

water lilies. The other paintings in “Framing Life” develop the context of “Rounded Flower Bed” by expressing the whole of Monet’s activities in Argenteuil. He paints his son standing outside their home as his wife appears in the doorway. He depicts a great bridge over the Seine and the little skiffs that approach it. And his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir paints Monet himself, standing in a garden with a paintbrush and canvas. Renoir’s portrait of Monet as painter (named, appropriately, “Monet Painting in his Garden at Argenteuil”) depicts him surrounded by society: A series of homes and

a smoking chimney loom in the background. But Monet in his indigo coat directs his eye, and his canvas, toward the garden. Amid Monet’s scenes of idyllic greenery, “Snow at Argenteuil” stands out with its cream and pink puffs of powdered-sugar road. But like the artist’s other paintings from Argenteuil, its frame is filled with not industry, but natural imagery. The town sprouts up like a monument from the snow, but our eyes turn to the blue footprints by the muddy path.

‘Reading Around,’ a cure for the curious

Sophomore Joanna Dell (center) takes wedding portraits: Heather ‘14 and Zach ‘11 Miller (left), Esther ‘13 and Jonathan Pan (right). Joanna Dell | Courtesy

Stopping the clock one photo at a time By | Morgan Channels Collegian Freelancer In the quiet moments of a hectic wedding day, a soonto-be-couple clasps hands in a church courtyard. They pray together. The groom is crying. Behind a camera, a girl snaps photos to remind them of this moment again and again. Only a high-school student, this young woman is quietly directing the show as if she’s done this her whole life. It started when a 9-yearold Joanna Dell received a little purple digital camera for Christmas. Ten years later, the same girl reaches for her second lens and twists it in place, clicking the shutter button as two newlyweds kiss for the first time as man and wife. “I thought it was a toy at first. I started shooting everything — birds, snow, random shots of people,” Dell, now a sophomore at Hillsdale, said with a laugh. According to Dell’s older sister and Assistant Dean of Women, Rebekah Dell, the Dell household is one filled with raw creativity. When they were young, their father would illustrate Bible stories for his children and their mother beautifully arranged flowers, but no one had ever experienced any formal artistic training. “I’ve always kind of been the family member in the background that’s observing,” Joanna said.

Rebekah said the observation, diligence, and natural creative ability she sees in her younger sister are Joanna’s keys to success. “Joanna pays attention to everything around her,” Rebekah said. At school Rebekah, Joanna, and brother Isaac, a current senior at Hillsdale, all thrived with formal training from the art department. Rebekah graduated in 2006 as an art major, while art major Isaac Dell will graduate this spring as a sculptor. The family lives in Wilmington, Ohio, and Dell mostly finds clients from the Cincinnati and Columbus areas or via connections at Hillsdale College. Last year Dell photographed six weddings while balancing the schedule of a full-time student and art major. This July, she photographed the wedding of Heather Miller (formerly Lantis) ’14 and Zach Miller ’11, an admissions counselor. Zach and Heather were friends with Rebekah, and hearing of Joanna’s success, wanted her to be their photographer. “It is a leap of faith to have someone that young do your wedding,” Miller said. “But you just have to look at her work to see that she’s very good.” Miller admits to being a reluctant “picture person” as a subject who poked fun at posing, but Joanna put the

couple at ease, making the photoshoot fun. “She encouraged me to be myself, making the process enjoyable and stress free,” Miller said. Miller said at the end of the day, Joanna had taken photographs “that just stop your heart.” He said he loves one photo of Heather and her father, which captures their personality and love for one another perfectly on her wedding day. Miller said behind the scenes of the wedding chaos, Dell is calm almost clandestine. “The day is mostly a blur, and at the time you don’t even realize the impact of all the people helping you,” Miller said. “It’s after the wedding you realize how lucky you were to have the support.” This is not to say that Joanna’s business comes without its headaches. She said she would be lying to say she didn’t have nerves, but that is what she overcomes. Joanna admits that sometimes there are 8 a.m. shoots at the break of morning light when a damp 32 degrees and bouts of freezing rain complicate things. “Equipment fails and faulty memory cards always scare me,” Dell laughed. “Directions can be confusing, and it looks bad if the photographer is late or doesn’t know where to go.” Dell also acknowledges that with the use of the internet,

many young photographers have the opportunity to publish their own work and find clients. Rather than being discouraged by the increased amount of competition, Dell points out that this helps refine her own clientele, allowing people whose style matches hers to seek her out and commission her work. Even after finding a passion by her second decade, Dell said she recognizes the importance of going to college to develop more than her trade. “I don’t want to be stuck with just photography, and I wanted to have the skills and the ability to have opportunities outside of this work,” Dell said. In a world saturated with images from the flood of social media posts, Dell says it is easy to get swept up by the work of others or to try to change her own work to match trends and mimic other styles. She says to avoid this, artists must focus on their own purpose behind their art. Dell says that, for her, the purpose behind her photography is to capture moments that would be a blur and preserve them to remember again and again. “I want to make people slow down and appreciate the blessings that God has given us. Life quickly passes us by, and it’s scary,” Joanna said, “Photography is a mechanism that slows us down and makes us appreciate life.”

By | Nolan Ryan Assistant Editor “No readers get to everything they want to read. In fact, the more we read the worse the problem grows.” Director of the Dow Journalism Program John J. Miller opens his newest book by addressing a number of issues pertinent to avid readers. Released in January, “Reading Around: Journalism on Authors, Artists, and Ideas,” includes a variety of articles he has written on pieces of literature and authors ranging from “Beowulf ” to C.S. Lewis. The title for the book came from a phrase Provost David Whalen uses. “Reading around” underlines the importance of understanding the context surrounding a work. In order to better understand an author’s message, readers must research the events and writings of the day as well as the influences on the author. Miller highlights one conundrum for bookworms: that readers are in a constant search for more and more books to devour. Then he addresses the problem of quenching this ever-growing thirst to read more books. “When I finish a book, I may scratch a title off a mental list but often two more titles suggest themselves and the list lengthens,” Miller writes in the introduction. “One of my hopes is that ‘Reading Around’ will address this conundrum of the curious.” Miller grew up as a “voracious reader,” devouring all kinds of books he could get his hands on. He attended the University of Michigan with plans of becoming an English professor. His college and professional careers took different turns than he had originally planned. “As things turned out, I

went into journalism, and I’m glad it worked out that way,” Miller said in an interview. “I have never looked back, although my interest in literature, art, and ideas never went away. As I’ve been a professional writer, I’ve looked for opportunities to cover these topics.” And he has found them. The book features pieces he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, and the Weekly Standard. Because “Reading Around” is a collection of his articles than a continuous narrative, Miller said readers will not likely read the articles in order, from beginning to end. This book has a perfect format for college students. With the business of essays and exam preparation, time is a precious commodity for the studious. Miller has designed the book so readers may pick and choose articles they find interesting. One goal he hopes to accomplish for the readers is to show the possibility of making a living by writing literary articles. You don’t need to be a professor, Miller said, to write about literature. It’s entirely possible for journalists to get paid writing about books and their authors, he said. He mentioned great writers such as John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Edgar Allan Poe who worked in journalism and got their start in writing and editing for newspapers and magazines. “If you love movies, why not be a movie reviewer?” he said. “Or if you love books, why not think about working at the Wall Street Journal book section? These are real jobs, and they require people with certain kinds of interests. You can do this professional-

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The Hurricane is a Mardi Gras drink. Mark Naida | Collegian

Drink of the month: The Hurricane By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor A common conceit of high school French curriculum — along with kitschy French names, the berets, and a summer trip getting lost in a throng of Parisian monument gawkers — is the annual inclass mardi gras party where students practice the creole slang and dig into a King’s Cake for the little figure of baby Jesus. But what students don’t get to experience of the carnival of carnality that rolls through the French Quarter is the cup-filleth-over abundance of alcohol on the street. New Orleans permits open-carry in the streets, so long as the booze isn’t in a glass container. So when sun rises on Ash Wednesday, sanitation workers fill dumpsters full of beads and plastic cups. And those plastic cups were full of one popular Mardi Gras drink: the Hurricane. After Hurricane Katrina threatened to destroy the whole city, the name seems ironic for the drink. But New Orleans has an attitude about it. So for a drink that is more than half booze and generally served in a 26-ounce glass, it’s a fitting joke. The drink was first made by Pat O’Brien, a New Orlean’s speakeasy owner, during World War II. Government rations made sure the grains and sugar needed to produce spirits went to the troops during the war. But rum continued to flow up from the Caribbean into Louisiana. Due to shortages of popular liquor like scotch and

whiskey, liquor distributors forced bar owners to purchase 50 cases of cheap rum before they could buy they could get a single case of Kentucky rye. Because of the rum stores building up in his back room, O’Brien started experimenting with recipes, using passion fruit to add some sweetness, and lemon juice to cut the alcohol. He ended up with a drink that slides easily down the hatch. Shortly thereafter, the password to get in to the bar became “Storm’s brewin’.” Though Pat O’Brien’s bar now charges $8.50 for the drink today, the hurricane is perfect for a Mardi Gras celebration because it can be made cheaply and in large quantities. Ingredients: Ice 4 ounces of Dark Rum (the cheaper the better) 2 ounces of Passion Fruit Juice (Welch’s, Torani, or Monin) ½ ounce of Lemon juice Process: Fill a plastic cup with ice. Add ingredients. Stir. If you are keeping track, this drink is mainly rum. The qualities that make the Hurricane the ambrosia of the French Quarter may make it a little vicious for newcomers to alcohol. Ice is a beautiful thing. It makes your drinks colder and is made of water, which is not alcohol. Use it liberally. With some simple ingredients and some disposable cups, any Mardi Gras party can have the flavor of New Orleans.

The art department got my crooked nose, while I got minimum wage By | Joe Pappalardo Senior Writer I celebrated the end of my first 15-minute pose by picking up my feet and smacking them against the floor like the limbs of a mannequin, confirming their numbness to the cluster of artists gathered for Sketchy Sunday. In a few months, I’d gone from pretending to model Walmart clothes on Instagram to posing for an art department event. Even at Hillsdale, aspiring models can stumble upon work. Contrary to my parents’ worst fears, I haven’t had to take my clothes off yet. I saw a guy posing in gym shorts for a sculpture student, but I think he was above my paygrade. Believe it or not, just about anyone can sign up to model for the art department. I got my start because Patrick Lucas, a fellow senior, texted me in the middle of his sculpture class asking if I’d “still want to model for sculpture.” “I need it,” he said. “Your face.” So last September I began selling my body for minimum wage, which is a lot if you’ve never held a campus job before. Every Tuesday and Thursday I’d sit on a stool for three hours while he molded my features out of lumps of clay. Associate Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis was

Senior Joe Pappalardo models for the art department. Joe Pappalardo | Courtesy

kind enough to tolerate my incessant talking but did ask that I not do Latin homework since the sculptor needed to see my face. I obliged. Sitting still for three hours is difficult even if you factor in the frequent breaks to discuss Led Zeppelin, ponder the stock market, and interpret Patrick’s dreams. I also made it harder by admitting my nose was crooked after he had already begun using it as a point of reference. Staring into the distance while someone analyzes every inch of your face, trying to capture your best and worst features, is also a great time to quietly wonder how awful your posture really

Classics Joseph Garnjobst and friends marvel at the ease with which they can draw my bony profile. I also have hardly anything to offer aside from my face, saving everyone time and energy. Just add some legs and arms the thickness of a pencil (to scale) on any given Sunday and send the piece off to the Sage gallery for fledgling couples to awkwardly pace in front of. Until the next Sketchy Sunday, I’m just another unemployed senior. But when that time comes, I’ll be up on stage, legs numb, staring into space while a few artists attempt to align my nose with the rest of my face.

Dominican hillbillies from Washington, D.C., top the bluegrass charts

By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor From the rapid pace of Capitol Hill, eight friars’ sensitive harmonies and lovely acoustic instrumentals present a sophisticated knowledge of faith. The Hillbilly Thomists rose to the top ten bluegrass albums of 2017, according to Billboard, along with Alison Krauss’ “Windy City,” and Steve Martin’s “The Long-Awaited Album.” This group of eight friars and two priests strummed up a Southern collection featuring classics such as “Amazing Grace,” “Angel Band,” and “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” The musical journey of the Dominican brothers from Washington, D.C., started

with playing Irish songs for fun. From the House of Studies on Catholic University of America’s campus, the “deserving poor boys” (a name alluding to their vows of poverty) took their preaching vocation to a new platform: the recording studio. The album is not only an expression of their personal commitment to the religiosity, but a broader celebration of the joyfully raucous life of the Christian: messy, earthy, hard, sometimes dissonant, but hopeful of the life to come. “I’m a Dog” tells the story of the founder of the order, St. Dominic. Dominic described himself as a dog for God, based on a vision his mother supposedly had before his birth. The song encapsulates their mission: “I’m a dog with

The Academy Award-nominated film depicts a tangle of love and lust close to Reynolds, inside his eyes, inside his ears. We follow him through his morning routine, where every crumpet’s crunch crumples his entire day. We learn of his routines, and how everything that is not dress designing dissatisfies him. Reynolds has a right to brood about everyday life. Although he loves designing dresses, the drudgery of his customers and bills irks him. His sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) can handle the bills, but Reynolds must engage the customers — aging husks of aristocrats, concerned only with appearances, appearances, appearances. Reynolds truly loves his work — the way an artist obsesses over his craft — so he soldiers through his frustrations. His is an ordered life, with few surprises. Until Alma. Reynolds picks her up in a seaside village, intending to keep her as a dress model, but she quickly becomes his lover, overtaking Cyril and the memory of his mother as Reynold’s sole female complement. When he attempts to rebel against Alma’s care, (spoiler alert) she poisons his food with mushrooms, reducing him to a weak and needy old man.

After a couple months, I received a message asking if I was available to pose for a Sketchy Sunday, where a few students who should be off writing papers choose to sit inside and draw me instead. A few signed timesheets later, I discovered that what had started out as a favor for a friend was now paying for my weekend misadventures and had cemented me in the system as a student employee. Again, anyone can model, but there are perks to being a few toothpicks thicker than a lamppost: Turning my head into the light means instant gasps of shock as Professor of

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‘Phantom Thread’ sews elusive love By | Nic Rowan City News Editor Like all Paul Thomas Anderson films, “Phantom Thread” is a study of a family and the love its members share. At the center of the film, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, lies the relationship between Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), a couture dressmaker in 1950s London, and his muse, Alma (Vicky Krieps). All about them flits the bombast that marks nearly every Anderson film — the hysterical realism of character-specific accessories, an intentionally unsteady camera, and the unpredictable beauty of a Jonny Greenwood soundtrack. Anderson is up to the same project as his two masterpieces “Magnolia” and “There Will Be Blood”: the study of family, specifically the phenomenon of gift — true gift, dispensed only with the contingency that all love is an exercise in complementarity. In Anderson movies, real love is a circular motion where giving is receiving and receiving is allowing the fruits of gift to return back into the self. In “Phantom Thread,” Anderson draws the audience

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By the end of the movie, Reynolds and Alma have developed a mutually aggressive — and yet mutually tender — relationship, each caring for the other by dampening the other’s pride. Reynolds uses his acidic wit. Alma employs deadly fungi. In its advertisements, the movie was billed as Daniel Day-Lewis’ retirement act, but really, it’s about the vital importance of women in the world. For perhaps more than men, women recognize the whole human person, because they see persons with their hearts. It’s no coincidence that Alma’s name puns on the Latin word for “nourishing.” Alma understand Reynolds in a way he could never understand himself alone. She sees him with all of his greatness and limitations, but instead of standing in cold judgement, she tries to help him become a fuller artist. As her name indicates, Alma’s existence is marked from the outset by the principle of help: a help which (once Reynolds accepts it) is not one-sided but mutual. Alma complements Reynolds, just as Reynolds complements Alma; all men and women are complementary. Alma’s womanhood

expresses the “human” as much as Reynold’s manhood does, but in a different and complementary way. But through that holistic insight which is so much a part of her womanhood, Alma enriches Reynold’s understanding of himself and helps to make his relations with others — especially his sister — more honest and authentic. Ideally, at least. While Alma and Reynolds agree that their relationship operates under the principle of help, their actions seem to disagree. There’s something mutually masochistic about the preparation and indulgence in poisoned mushrooms. It speaks not so much to the pun on Alma’s name, but to the equally important innuendo in Reynold’s surname: Woodcock. Because if not in love, the film’s resolution hedges into love’s near-image parody — lust. And maybe that’s fitting. The phrase “phantom thread” refers to the symptoms of a factory worker who has sewn one too many dresses. Even when not working, the hands involuntarily move, thinking they’re doing something they’re not.

a torch in my mouth for my Lord / making noise while I’ve got time / spreading fire while I’ve got earth.” Humble and playful, but purposeful. A defining characteristic of the Thomists’ tracklist is the distinctly Protestant heritage of most of the songs. I’ve always known and sung “What Wondrous Love is This” in my Protestant church. “Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” could be drifting from a little white church on Mainstreet. The traditional American tracklist appeals to both Christian and secular listeners, however, in light of the reemergence of bluegrass. The Coen brothers pulled the genre back to the surface of the contemporary music scene with their wildly success-

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ly. This is not an unrealistic goal.” Miller is living proof of this. Although he has done more political journalism than literary, he has built up an impressive collection of book reviews and literary opinion pieces, which appear in “Reading Around.” But more than an interesting topic, Miller believes that literature is vital for understanding human nature and finding truth we had not previously known. But there’s more to it than that. Good literature is simply appealing to us as readers. “The best literature is entertaining,” Miller said. “I read a lot of books that are primarily for the purpose of entertainment. I enjoy a good thriller. I enjoy a good crime novel. I think that’s an entirely worthy thing. The best literature says much, much more and gives us insights we may not have and teaches us things we may not know. Entertainment is a perfectly good reason to read.” Students at Hillsdale are often concerned with the intellectual value of a book and the truths we might glean from it. This is certainly noble, but we’re prone to lose

ful “Oh Brother Where Art Thou,” featuring a few of the songs on the Thomists’ album. Junior Sammy Roberts, president of Catholic Society on campus, noted the ecumenical nature of the tracklist. The Dominicans have good social media, Roberts said, noting that millenials know how to market. And evangelize. “Just throwing Bibles isn’t gonna make converts,” he said. The unity is timely for Hillsdale students, as questions of the Reformation became the subject of a semester’s public debate. Maybe the songs’ history signifies a small gesture toward the ecumenicism Christians are longing for.

sight of the entertainment value that great books offer. One article in “Reading Around” covers L. Frank Baum’s classic story of the land of Oz. In “The Wizard of Oz: Just a Story,” published in the Wall Street Journal in 2006, Miller “reads around” Baum’s life and his most famous work, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Miller explains scores of readers and teachers tried to read all sorts of political meanings into the children’s book. But this is not where the true heart of the book lies. “The real brilliance of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ is that it aims chiefly to entertain — a worthy ambition in its own right,” Miller writes. “As Baum himself once said, ‘To write fairy stories for children, to amuse them, to divert restless children, sick children, to keep them out of mischief on rainy days, seems of greater importance than to write grown-up novels.” As Miller said, entertainment is an important aspect of good literature. Certainly, some novels can be purely fluff, but we shouldn’t absurdly dismiss the value of a book simply because it is entertaining.

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Science & Tech Student researches link between pancreatic cancer-related proteins By | Alex Nester Collegian Reporter

College students perform chemistry demonstrations for local students. Andrea Lee | Courtesy

Students bring chemistry to life at local schools By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor How do you make water seemingly vanish? Take a cup, put a superabsorbent polymer in it, pour water into it, and turn the cup upside down. The water doesn’t flow out. It’s like magic. Members of Hillsdale’s chapter of the American Chemical Society visited Gier Elementary School last month for its Family Science Night and performed an assortment of demonstrations and experiments for entertainment and educational purposes. Students ranging from preschool age to 12 years old attended the event, along with their parents and siblings. Approximately 75 students attended the demonstrations in total, according to ACS treasurer junior Catherine Bodnar. Hillsdale’s ACS chapter typically does demonstrations at local schools two or three times per semester upon request, according to ACS president senior Andrea Lee. “They don’t normally get to experience these types of demonstrations on a regular basis,” Lee said. “It’s nice that we can bring these kinds of demonstrations where they don’t normally get them in school.”

At Gier, the demonstrations focused around two main components: polymers and optics, or light. Lee said the visual component of the optics demonstrations seemed most enjoyable to the students. “One of the things the kids like is when we burn different chemicals, they produce different colors,” Lee said. “A potassium solution when you light it on fire will turn lavender-purple. When you put sodium in fire, it will turn red.” The students also got to view different elements while wearing diffraction glasses, which reveals the unique frequencies and patterns of light emitted by each element. ACS vice president senior Micah Heinz worked with the polymer experiments, which included making foam and slime. “Like most children, they were interested in the spectacle and sensory experiences,” Heinz said. “They wanted to touch the slime. They had a lot of fun.” Heinz said that while the kids enjoyed the hands-on aspect of the demonstrations, the reality behind the experiments is that polymers are everywhere around us. Heinz plans on studying polymers in a doctorate program soon, but

working with students in their first years in school is what he said he enjoyed most about the experience. “I have nine younger siblings, so I enjoy working with kids,” Heinz said. “That was the most fun part for me: I like seeing kids get excited about something they think is really cool.” Since the kids are so young and just starting to learn basic scientific principles, Heinz said they don’t expect them to understand everything that’s going on, but showing the students what science can do might prompt them to adopt an interest in the more technical side of science down the road. “Part of what we wanted was to get people interested in the science and chemistry itself,” Heinz said. Hillsdale’s ACS chapter will likely visit another school later this semester to do similar demonstrations, Lee said. “ACS’s overall mission is to show our passion for chemistry and give an introduction to these students about how science is cool and how chemistry can be fun,” Lee said. “We also want to give an enjoyable experience for these kids as well. It’s for entertaining, but also to introduce a possible interest.”

With bitcoin, you can just buy $20 worth of it.” Clark encouraged others to invest “only as much money as you are very comfortable getting $0 back; not just no return, but ending at $0.” Clark said initial investments in cryptocurrencies were lucrative, but that no one knows bitcoin’s future trajectory. Bitcoin’s price is volatile, jumping 40 percent in 40 hours before settling at $14,000 on Dec. 6. It shot to $19,000 the next day and then fell.

Depot has all of our credit card information,” Clark said. “So if someone can break into Home Depot, they’ve got your credit card information.” To pay in cryptocoin, however, users anonymously send coins to a private online wallet or a QR code through an app or wallet. The transaction is verified by miners. Anyone with an internet connection and enough computing power can be a miner. They use computers to solve complex math equations and are paid in bitcoin: part newly created tokens and part transaction fee charged to the sender. Senior Steven Custer said bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, but that Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency, and others are used for purposes other than transactions. “I still think the best analogy is of an operating system: if you had Windows operating system and it had its own internal currency and used Microsoft dollars to build programs built off Windows,” Custer said. “That’s kind of like what Ethereum is like.” Bitcoin was designed to ease internet payment, but other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, lead the “smart contract” world because its programmable nature allows them to self-execute contracts and stipulate transactions

As a kid, Casey Schukow ’17 used to mow lawns in his Saline, Michigan, neighborhood for extra cash. Years later, one of these neighbors, Dr. Tim Frankel, a general surgeon who also works as a laboratory supervisor for the University of Michigan Health System, helped Schukow find a new job: assisting in a pancreatic cancer research project. At his internship with the University of Michigan Health System, Schukow researched TXNIP, a protein involved in the spreading of pancreatic cancer, and Interleukin-22, a protein which suppresses the cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 40,000 people will die this year from pancreatic cancer in the United States alone. TXNIP, or thioredoxin-interacting protein, drives the metastasis, or spread, of this deadly cancer to other parts of the body. Frankel directed Schukow to Mirna Perusina Lanfranca, a research scientist responsible for multiple research projects in the University of Michigan laboratories. One of her projects studied the two proteins, TXNIP and IL-22 involved in the metastasization and suppression of pancreatic cancer. Under Perusina Lanfranca’s guidance, Schukow researched these proteins and then conducted his own experiments. “Mirna gave a list of terms and a quick run down, and after that point, all of the learning was on me,” Schukow said. “I realized how much I didn’t know about research, cancer, and lab techniques, and this was a better way to learn than having somebody

hold your hand through it.” Jenny Lazarus, who works in the University of Michigan laboratories studying the microenvironment of the pancreas for her residency research fellowship, taught Schukow various methods in the laboratory. Although she helped out, Schukow did most of his research independently, Lazarus said. “Every day he was in the lab, he was good on his own,” Lazarus said. “He was really good about trying to troubleshoot on his own.” Schukow completed his thesis research in two main stages. First, he studied the pancreas and the roles of various proteins’ gene expression on pancreatic tissues and the development of cancer. His goal was to write a paper for undergraduate students to understand the basics of the pancreas and pancreatic cancer. According to Schukow, his preliminary research suggests that TXNIP would be produced at higher rates in individuals with pancreatic cancer than others. Additionally, as he later stated in his thesis, IL-22 aids in protecting and repairing pancreatic tissues. However, Schukow found little work regarding the interactions between these two proteins. To better understand if the two were related, Schukow conducted experiments to observe interactions between the TXNIP and IL-22 proteins during the progression of pancreatic cancer. With his research using mice pancreases, Schukow found that disproportionately high levels of TXNIP did occur in mice with pancreatic cancer. His research also suggests that the IL-22 protein, when produced at normal levels, prevents the pancreas

from producing high levels of TXNIP, although Schukow said further research is needed to confirm this finding. Schukow said his greatest difficulty — working and experimenting professionally in a lab setting — also proved to be his greatest success. “I quickly realized how much I didn’t know, and I realized a difference between being book smart and being able to apply techniques into a lab itself,” Schukow said. “It was hard and frustrating, but I can look back at that and realize that I will be a much better medical school student and doctor someday.” Chemistry major senior Jessica Taylor, who peer reviewed Schukow’s thesis, said Schukow worked diligently throughout the research and paper-writing process. “He loves to learn,” Taylor said. “To see him write about it was insane, super cool to see him grow in that. He was so happy, upbeat, and outgoing on anything and wanted to teach everybody in the class that too.” Schukow returned to University of Michigan’s laboratories to assist Lazarus Feb. 5. Now, he and Lazarus are working on a new staining system to study immune cells, like cytotoxic T-cells, that infiltrate cancers. “Casey has a really bright future,” Lazarus said. “What he’s helping me with right now is going to be really intense, but he is up for it. He’ll do whatever it takes.” He will work both in the lab and with his high school football team until he begins medical school in June at Michigan State University. “Nothing that is really valuable is easily attained,” Schukow said. “Research and science paints a great picture of that.”

contingent on certain requirements, such as multiple owners’ signatures. But with great security comes great risk: Losing the private key is like losing a credit card or Personal Identification Number. In fact, bitcoin was modeled to be a digital gold, according to Steve Patterson’s book “What’s the Big Deal about Bitcoin.” Cryptocurrencies allow universal banking for anyone with an internet connection and enough computing power. Cryptocurrencies have been used to pay remittances, such as when people from other countries immigrate to the U.S., but financially supports their family abroad. Only Western Union and wire services offer these services for a percentage cut of the transaction. They also charge currency exchange fees and international transaction costs, and the transfer process can take up to six business days. Bitcoin, however, charges only 1/100ths cut of the transaction and can send coin in up to two hours, no matter the distance nor the financial market stability. Bitcoin transaction fees rise when network demand exceeds capacity. Government-run currency systems such as Venezuela often adjust the money supply in response to changes in demand for money to stabilize the price level. Venezuela’s

central bank on Monday announced a 99.6 percent devaluation of the official foreign exchange rate. Bitcoin has no such centralized feature, so short-term price fluctuations are often more apparent than centralized currencies. “To me, it’s a sense of hope,” Clark said. “And it has been for third-world countries already. It’s been a way for them to create wealth in a society where it’s been impossible to create wealth.” Clark said many people accuse cryptocurrencies of aiding illicit activity such as Ross Ulbricht’s infamous Silk Road or the Youbit hack in December 2017 in which the hackers ransomed the company’s files and demanded bitcoin to decrypt Youbit’s documents. These illicit transactions, however, are a small percentage of cryptocurrency transactions and aren’t much different from the anonymity of paper cash transactions, Clark said. He said many people don’t trust bitcoin because it’s a digital currency, yet the U.S dollar is also a digital currency. When the Federal Reserve expands the money supply, they often add zeros to bank accounts instead of printing dollars. Even amid concerns about safety, cryptocurrencies have other possible future uses,

Patterson said. St. Louis’ Federal Reserve research suggests potential applications include e-voting systems, identity management, and fundraising. Blockchain has disrupted security standards ranging from digital tokens representing tangible assets to CryptoKitties, a game centered around owning and breeding digital kittens, which cannot be hacked because individual miners monitor and securely store data files that autonomously change its hash volume, its unique digital fingerprint if a hack is attempted. Solar coin allows users to receive solar coins in return for donating energy, some of which is donated toward the mining system. CureCoin, which is connected to Stanford University’s cancer research center, has donated $31,553 in converted CureCoin to charities since its inception. CureCoin miners donate computer processing power used to research and analyze data used to literally cure cancer. Clark said he cared more about future uses of the blockchain than bitcoin’s current price. “I hope for the long run,” Clark said. “I’m hoping for when my kids start having kids that it somehow helps, not only people in the United States but perhaps the world larger.”

Economics department talks pros and cons of cryptocurrencies By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor A currency designed to ease internet payment could revolutionize the way people negotiate, from legal contracts to crowdfunding. Hillsdale College Economics Professor Michael Clark teaches about when it is rational to pursue high-risk, high-reward investments, such as cryptocurrencies, a $700 billion market as of Jan. 3 according to Business Insider.

“Bitcoin to me is this ultimate high-risk, high-reward that everyone can get access to.” Clark said that a cryptocurrency is a digital currency that uses cryptography, a code-breaking system, to verify currency transactions. Unlike many investments, bitcoin only requires a phone and an internet connection to buy cryptocurrencies. “Bitcoin to me is this ultimate high-risk, high-reward that everyone can get access to,” Clark said. “A lot of times high-risk, high-reward things are startups, and hedge fund managers have access to these, but you don’t and I don’t.

“I would be very hesitant to say, ‘Everyone, go invest in bitcoin,’” Clark said. “Yes, it’s crazier now, but it’s also worth more. A 25 percent jump used to be from $10 to $12.50. Now it’s from $10,000 to $12,500.” Clark said the biggest attraction to cryptocurrency is its use of a decentralized ledger technology called blockchain, which causes information to exist omnipresently on every computer running bitcoin software. “When we use our credit card at Home Depot, Home

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Treatment window expands for blood clot removal after stroke New research in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates that the physical removal of blood clots up to 16 hours after a stroke occurs can help prevent death and improve recovery rates. Previously, removing the clot was only believed to be effective for about six hours after the stroke begins. The researchers said their work shows the procedure will be helpful even for patients who come into a hospital many hours after the onset of a stroke.

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First planets outside the Milky Way Galaxy detected by scientists Multiple planets ranging from the size of Earth’s moon to the size of Jupiter have been discovered outside our galaxy for the first time using a technique called gravitational microlensing. The technique, which relies on Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, can detect faraway planets by observing how their gravitational field bends the light emitted by stars. The newly detected planets are nearly 3.8 billion light years away.

Accumulated road salt affects river water chemistry, research suggests A study tracking salt levels in 232 locations across the United States found increases in salinity in freshwater streams and rivers. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, attributes these changes in water chemistry to runoff from road salt as well as agricultural runoff. The study’s lead author said the research demonstrates the impact of the salt that accumulates in soil and groundwater.

New, efficient technique may help gather hydrogen for fuel cells Splitting water, a process for harvesting hydrogen from water molecules for use in renewable energy, typically requires expensive metal catalysts. A new study in Nano Energy outlines a new nanofoam that uses two inexpensive metals to gather the hydrogen from water molecules. Researchers said they are preparing for large-scale tests of the nanofoam, which resembles a tiny sponge, due to its promising stability and low cost.

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Monastic retreat: withdrawing from classes, drawing toward God By | Joshua J. Paladino Opinions Editor Sophomore Jack Duffy withdrew from classes a few weeks into the Fall 2017 semester. When Duffy noticed insufficiencies in his faith and with the priorities of the Lutheran Church, he turned to a place where he could quietly rest and contemplate. “I knew my relationship with Christ was not where it should’ve been — I mean, it never is — but I really needed a place where I could focus on fostering a direct connection with God, away from other distractions like school and friendships,” Duffy said. So he spent the rest of his semester at Saint Augustine’s House, a Lutheran monastery in Oxford, Michigan, addressing his theological concerns, disconnecting from the chaos of modernity, and reorienting his life toward prayer, study, and a relationship with Jesus Christ. While his time at the monastery served purposes separate from college, Duffy said his time there has improved life at Hillsdale, especially through dedication to prayer. His favorite prayer from Saint Augustine’s House is Compline, the evening prayer. “It involves a confession to God, and if you’re with people, a confession to your brothers and sisters, an ancient hymn, a Gregorian chant, readings from Psalms and the New Testament, and it ends with the Lord’s prayer.” After the Lord’s prayer, Compline concludes with Duffy’s favorite line, “The Lord Almighty grant us a quiet night and peace at the last.” At the monastery, the monks pray seven times a day because of the Psalms 119:164, which reads, “Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.”

The Lutheran Monastery models its structure on the Benedictine monks. They begin their first prayer, the Office of Vigils at 5:10 a.m., then there’s Lauds at 6, Terce at 8:15, and the Eucharist at 8:30. In between prayers, the monks chat around meals and coffee. Duffy said after morning mass, he and the monks would change from their black vestments into plain clothing and begin the day’s work. Then it’s back into vestments for more prayers: There’s Sext at 12 p.m., None at 2:30, Vespers at 6:00, and Compline at 8:30. Duffy said the monastery’s dedication to prayer will stay with him, adding that not everyone can live a monastic life, but every Christian can have a dedicated prayer life. On top of having seven prayers a day, Duffy studied Origen Adamantius’ “On Prayer.” Origen, a third century Christian scholar, wrote about the position, place, and attitude required for prayer — qualities that Duffy doesn’t think Christians consider enough. “When you’re adoring and thanking God, you lift your hands to heaven and praise him,” Duffy said. “When you’re confessing and supplicating, you prostrate yourself, laying your head and hands on the floor.” Conversations with Father John Cochran, the prior at Saint Augustine’s Monastery, taught him just as much, if not more, than his private study, he said. “Father John asked me how I prayed: ‘Is it a conversation, Jack?’ ‘No, it isn’t really. I just kind of blather to God.’ He said silence is very important in prayer — listening. What I think he meant is silence of the soul, being silent and letting God speak, and it may not be a voice in your head.

Star and Gala, the two long-haired chihauhas of Whitley. Regan Meyer | Collegian

It may be what you’re reading in Scripture or what someone else is reading while you’re listening in mass.” Saint Augustine’s House is the only Benedictine Lutheran monastery in the United States. There are two other Benedictine Lutheran monasteries in the world, one of which — the Ӧstanbäck Monastery in Sala, Sweden — is the sister community of Saint Augustine’s House. The other is the Priory of St. Wigbert in Werningshausen, Germany. Duffy said there are so

of entire monasteries converting to Lutheranism and continuing to do their work of God all the way into the 18th century,” Cochran said. Cochran said young people visit often, some staying for a day or two and others staying for an entire semester to study and write. He said some come for spiritual connection, some for academic study, and others out of a curiosity about alternatives to modern life. “There’s a high level of curiosity about the monastic way of life and the monastic

“I really needed a place where I could focus on fostering a direct connection with God, away from other distractions like school and friendships.” few because Lutherans don’t value monastic life as highly as Roman Catholics, for a few reasons. First, he said Lutherans do not believe asceticism is necessary because Luther was a monk who rejected his vows. Second, Duffy said Lutherans don’t prioritize the same virtues as Catholics. “I don’t think the Lutheran Church, at least how I’ve experienced it, has a lot of need or respect for cultivating virtue, and at a monastery your entire life is discipline, and by being disciplined through prayer and meditation you learn virtue,” Duffy said. “It brings you closer to God, and that’s a more Catholic idea than a Lutheran idea.” Cochran said the Lutheran belief that Luther freed people from monastic life is “partially true.” “But there are also stories

take on the present culture. In a very materialistic culture, monasticism presents a very non-materialistic way of life,” Cochran said. “Schools fund their stay and they write about monastic life. They live, pray, and work with us. It’s a steady flow of young people through here.” Saint Augustine’s House is an order following Benedictine Rule, which means monks adheres to the principles of monastic life set forth by Saint Benedict of Nursia, a Catholic monk. So, the Lutheran monks have taken vows of chastity and obedience, they’ve committed themselves to silent reflection, and they’ve given up their possessions to the community, but they aren’t entirely ascetic — they love some of earth’s pleasures. “The monks would take

turns cooking for dinner and supper,” Duffy said. “They were very good cooks, like, excellent cooks.” The Lutheran Monastery doesn’t draw influences from just the Catholic monastic orders. It also is a meeting place for Christian representing different sects. Duffy said that Saint Augustine’s House invites pastors, preachers, fathers, and leaders from various churches to join in worship. “We’d have Anglicans, evangelicals, Lutherans, orthodox, you name it — they were there.” Cochran articulated three missions guiding the operation of Saint Augustine’s House, one of which shows the reason for the mixing of different Christian sects. He said monks founded the monastery in 1958 “for ecumenical work among Lutherans in North America,” which he has made a priority. “This becomes a neutral ground, a place where people can meet and have theological and social conversation with each other about issues which they agree and do not agree — without killing each other,” Cochran said. “We get along better now than we did in earlier centuries. But getting along and tolerating each other is not what’s in the mouth of the Lord in the New Testament. Christ prayed that we be one. Our relating and our growing isn’t ever complete until we are one.” Cochran said their other two founding missions are to spread “the call that Jesus gives not to be owned by your possessions but to use them to do good to each other” and to create a community for marginalized people, specifically in collapsing urban environments. Starting 2018 back in school, Duffy already sees that he’s winning the battle against

a sin considered deadly in monasteries: acedia. He said it’s like the deadly sin of sloth, though it extends beyond mere apathy and laziness. “It’s a disgust for activity and a sorrow over spiritual goodness,” he said. “Acedia is a very serious vice that is affecting modern culture in ways that we don’t even realize it. I was prone to this vice and still am. I consider it a grace from God that much of that has been helped. Certainly it’s only through prayer and constantly being in Scripture.” He describes acedia as mindless activity, or the desire to do nothing rather than something. It’s like binge-watching a show on Netflix, not so that you can glean anything from the program, but simply so you can shut off your mind for 60 minutes, he said. “When you translate that to your relationship with Christ, it’s very destructive,” Duffy said “You don’t want to put in the effort, so to speak, to foster the relationship through prayer, meditation, and devotion.” Sophomore Spencer Bohlinger also came to Saint Augustine’s House for a weekend visit to see Duffy and experience monastic life. “The amount of reverence they have in their faith was striking and inspiring,” Bohlinger said. “Even the short time I was there, I felt a lot closer and connected to God in those moments.” Duffy, like Bohlinger, wants to return to the monastery’s comfort and seclusion whenever possible, and also to Father John, whose name is more than a title. “He’s a mentor, almost like a father to me now,” Duffy said.

Codie, Simpson house director Peggy Wilson’s German Shepher Collie mix. Regan Meyer | Collegian

Coming back to a dorm mom and a student’s best friend Dorm dogs and their owners remind students of home, provide comfort By | Regan Meyer Collegian Reporter The howling of young men and the chattering of young women are not the only sounds resounding in the halls of Hillsdale College dormitories: There is barking, too. A few dorms on campus are home to dogs. From providing comfort and stress relief to contributing to a homey feel in the residence halls, these canines are loved by the students. The Simpson, McIntyre, Galloway, and Whitley residences all house cuddly canines. Simpson’s house mom, Peggy Wilson, owns a German Shepherd Collie mix named Codie. The 4-year-old pupper is quiet and hardly barks. Codie is popular with the guys and enjoys being around them, all while being extremely protective of her owner. “She keeps me company when the guys are gone,” Wilson said. “It’s really nice to have her. She’s very protective of me when I’m in here. Even the guys that she knows, when they come in she’ll grumble but her tail wags. She just wants them to know that she’s here and is protective.”

Wilson allows the Simpson guys to spend as much time with Codie as they need. Galloway’s dorm mom, Joann Arendt, does the same. “The students, if they’re doing laundry or are stressed with homework, they just come down and pet the dog or take him for a run,” Arendt said. “When they come in and visit, sometimes they come in and talk. It’s nice because it reminds them of home. A lot of them have dogs.” Arendt owns Winston, a pure-blooded Brittany. The 2-year-old pup is named after Winston Churchill. Arendt is considering making Winston’s official title “Sir Winston Churchill of Galloway” on his American Kennel Club paperwork. Sophomore Resident Assistant Rowan Macwan said Winston is a joy to have around the dorm. “Winston is so incredible, so loving, so kind, and so hyper,” Macwan said. “And he makes me happy. I hang with him every time I am there.” Galloway residents love Arendt, whom they call Mrs. A, as much as they love Winston, since she is always there to talk through their stresses and issues. “Mrs. A is the most kind

and gentle soul or spirit or person on campus,” Macwan said of the Galloway dorm mom. “She loves all of us, and we love her. And she loves Jesus, and she loves Winston.” Arendt allows the guys to take Winston around campus on walks and to come into her apartment to chat and relax. One such resident is sophomore RA Nathan Grime. “Nathan took him for a walk, and they had something going on in the quad,” Arendt said. “There was one picture of Nathan with Winston, and in the next picture, eight girls were around Winston. They call him the ‘chick magnet.’” But the chicks have dogs of their own, with two in Whitley and one in McIntyre. Whitley is home to two longhaired chihuahuas, Star and Gala. Theresa Martin, dorm mom for McIntyre, owns Bean, a miniature long-haired dachshund with quite the personality. “I call him my wild squirrel monkey dog,” Martin said. “He thinks he’s a circus dog. He jumps from the sofa, to the footstool, to the other footstool, and back, and back. He sits up like a meerkat.” Martin has been the house mom in “Mac” for 17 years.

Before Bean, she had a black lab named Budweiser. She says the dogs provide comfort to the students. “The students love him,” Martin said. “Because if you’re down in the dumps and you want to come in and talk to me, you sit down and the dog is there. You want to pet the dog. He’s very loving.” Dorm moms are involved in everything from resolving dorm issues to being in charge of the RA team. Many students take advantage of that opportunity just to talk through their day with the dorm moms. Though students enjoy visits with the dogs, those few minutes with the moms can be just as helpful and stress-relieving. Freshman Michaela Stiles said she enjoys the presence of the dorm moms in the residence halls. “I like that there is still this mom that takes care of us,” Stiles said. “And that even though we’re adults and everything, there is still someone looking out for us.” For students in Hillsdale’s dorms, the best mom is a dog mom.

Bean is McIntyre Residence dorm director Theresa Martin’s “wild squirrel monkey dog.” Regan Meyer | Collegian

Galloway Residence dorm director Joann Arendt, “Mrs. A,” with her dog, Winston. Regan Meyer | Collegian

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The Stonemans, 2/5 of rhetoric department By | Stefan Kleinhenz Collegian Freelancer When Breta Stoneman switched her major from journalism to rhetoric, she never imagined that the decision would introduce her to her future husband and her future teaching colleague. Stoneman, an adjunct professor of rhetoric and public address, joined the Hillsdale faculty this semester. She was drawn to Hillsdale because it was a place that harbored community, family, and a channel for her to pursue her passion. Stoneman received her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota. As a young college student she was initially interested in studying journalism, but after an introductory course in rhetoric, her heart turned. “I changed my major and never looked back,” she said. “For me, rhetoric was a new way to see the world.” At the University of Pittsburgh, she earned her Ph.D in rhetoric and met her husband Ethan. After he finished a teaching job at the Virginia Military Institute, the couple moved to Hillsdale so he could take up an assistant teaching position. Now, Ethan Stoneman isn’t the only Dr. Stoneman at Hillsdale College. Breta Stoneman spent the fall semester auditing rhetoric classes and was hired this semester as a part-time lecturer. She teaches Interpersonal Communication and the core class Classical Logic & Rhetoric, a course her husband also teaches. “It’s comforting; it feels like the same-old,” said Ethan Stoneman of his wife joining the rhetoric and public address department. Teaching as colleagues isn’t new for the Stonemans. It’s actually how they met. The couple taught together during graduate school and often paired up for group projects. Ethan recounts his first impression of Breta: comfortable, argumentative, and well-connected. “I was both impressed by her and intimidated by her,” Ethan Stoneman said. After Breta Stoneman finishes her lectures at the college, her day of teaching has only just begun. She goes home to another set of students — except they call her “mom.” Breta and Ethan share homeschooling duties of their three children. When Breta teaches at the college in the morning, Ethan stays home with the kids, and then they trade roles for the afternoon. “It saves on babysitting costs,” Ethan said. He paused, then chuckled. “And I love my children.” Breta Stoneman expressed the importance of striking the balance between homeschooling and teaching. Her lesson plans and conversa-

tions change depending on where she is teaching. “I have to remember I’m talking to adults when I’m on campus and to children at home,” she said. But she said coming back to the classroom has been special. “It’s exciting to transfer my passion of rhetoric to the students, showing them all of the doors it can open from philosophy, religion, journalism, and politics,” Breta Stoneman said. She also expressed how much she loves going home to their three little kids and two not-so-little Newfoundlands, but still being able to continue the passionate conversations about rhetoric with her husband. “Even my five year old contributes to the conversations because she hears what we say, and she benefits from the classical education we teach at home,” she said. Ethan agreed, saying they share a lot of interests, and that common framework allows them to discuss and have friendly arguments about ideas. But sometimes, he says, his wife wants to get out of that mode. “She tells me to stop talking and just watch the show,” Ethan Stoneman said. “Sometimes she’ll even analyse how I talk to her and how I make an argument, and then use it as an example in class.” Kiara Freeman, a sophomore majoring in rhetoric and public address, is a student of both Breta and Ethan Stoneman. Freeman expressed her excitement to be a part of Breta Stoneman’s Interpersonal Communication class. “She’s really inviting and quick to bring in examples that are personal and relevant. Because of that I think the students are receptive to that and engage with the material more personally,” Freeman said. With this distinct perspective on both of the Stonemans, Freeman provided some insight on them, saying they are both kind and easygoing and have a similar sense of humor that makes their classes comfortable. A year ago there was no Stoneman on Hillsdale’s campus, but now two occupy the fourth floor of Kendall Hall. Sharing an office isn’t a big deal for two professors who already share their lives.

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New Hillsdale nonprofit embraces women, families suffering early pregnancy loss By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor Just as Early Pregnancy Loss Association President Emily Carrington began to piece her life back together after her second miscarriage in 2014, she found in her mailbox a medical bill ordering her to pay for the procedures she experienced when her unborn child passed away. “I didn’t think these bills were unjust in any way — I was paying for medical services,” Carrington said as she reflected on the miscarriage almost three years later. “I was angry. I didn’t want to pay that bill. It was just one more reminder of what we had been through that year, and I was just annoyed.” Emily Carrington said she joked at the time with her husband Adam Carrington, an assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College, that if she had all the money in the world, she would pay every medical bill received by a woman who had lost an unborn child. That sentiment did not fade, even as Carrington spent 2014 enduring these transitions and tragedies: She had quit her job fundraising for a museum, moved to Hillsdale, and mourned two babies she never got to cradle. As the year went on, she considered life’s next step when an idea came to her. Carrington said she realized she alone would never have enough money to even slightly lighten the financial burden of women’s post-miscarriage hospital bills, which rack up costs in the thousands of dollars. But if she applied her experience in fundraising to her own endeavor to forgive medical expenses, perhaps what once was a pipe dream could become a reality. “I wondered if there was a way we could do this,” she said. Along with several friends in the Hillsdale area and a few members of her own family, Carrington founded the Early Pregnancy Loss Association in July 2016. The members plan to pursue their goal to pay medical bills in the future, once they build up a large network of donors and find a way to give money in an account-

able and responsible fashion. “This isn’t just raising a few dollars. Unfortunately, we can’t just take $100 and spend it on bills,” Carrington said. “We’ve started up and we’re doing a lot, but bill pay is not something we’re doing yet even though that was the spark and where we want to go.” As EPLA moves toward its founders’ original aspiration, the nonprofit is making strides in educating women about miscarriage and building a community among those who have suffered. EPLA recently distributed more than 75 informational folders around Hillsdale County to begin its education efforts. Light gray folders bearing EPLA’s logo, a purple tulip, now wait in the emergency room and obstetrics wing at Hillsdale Hospital, in

Hidden Meadows OB-GYN, a clinic owned by Hillsdale Hospital, said before EPLA, the resources for women and families suffering from early loss were limited before EPLA began its work. When a patient loses a child, Zoll comforts her and hands her an EPLA folder as they prepare to face the outside world. “We hold their hands, we hug them, we want to be there to do whatever we can to help them through that,” Zoll said. “I know that when we share this information with our patients, they are absolutely grateful. It has been very well received.” EPLA Secretary Maria Servold, who also serves as the assistant director of the College’s Dow Journalism Program, said she she looks forward to seeing the nonprofit expand.

“When someone goes through a miscarriage, they’ll have a place to go.” the offices of local counselors, in the lobbies of crisis pregnancy centers. “My goal is to have our folders anywhere where a woman might be diagnosed with a miscarriage and not know what to do,” Carrington said. “I want them in the hands of any care provider sitting in front of a woman grieving.” Tucked inside the folder is a packet outlining different types of early pregnancy loss. The write-up includes important terms that women couldn’t grasp during the initial, overwhelming conversation with their doctors. Clean lines of text define terms like missed miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and molar pregnancy. The next page outlines how women should care for themselves physically and emotionally after their loss. The folder also includes a card of facts about miscarriage and lists a few myths about miscarriages. Certified Nurse Midwife Amy Zoll, who works at

“It’s fun to think about what we can do in the future when we have an endowment and people apply for money. We’ll pay for their bills, we’ll have folders all across the country,” Servold said. “When someone goes through a miscarriage, they’ll have a place to go.” Beyond bill pay and education initiatives, EPLA will also foster community among women and families who are coping with loss. But the organization is not postponing its work on this — the women of EPLA have already begun to cultivate community, both through their nonprofit and through their own lives. Carrington, Zoll, and Servold each identified society’s failure to address, let alone properly address, miscarriage, and said community born through vulnerability will ease that burden. “Whenever a star comes out and talks about her miscarriage, it’s still talked about as an act of bravery. The

Unsung Heroes: Custodian Rick Arsenault Rick Arsenault has helped keep Hillsdale College in pristine condition for 30 years this August. Breana Noble | Collegian

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Breta Stoneman, adjunct professor of rhetoric and public address, joined Hillsdale’s faculty spring semester. Stefan Kleinhenz | Collegian

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August 15, 1988. Without hesitation, Rick Arsenault recalled the first day he started working at Hillsdale College, even though he says he doesn’t remember dates well. Arsenault, Sage Center for the Arts’ custodian, said he is aware that August will mark his 30th anniversary at the college. He has seen buildings come down and others constructed. The faculty has doubled in size. Students have come, gone, and returned. Those 30 years, though, have flown by, he said. “It seems a lot shorter than that,” he said, shaking his head. “The kids, the professors, they’ve made the 30 years seem like nothing, actually.” It is the students, he said, who make the work of mopping the floors and deep-cleaning Markel Auditorium worth it. “I try to maintain the appearance as if there were VIPs touring the building every day,” he said. It is how he treats the people he sees, too. Junior Jessica MacFarlane, a theater major, said Arsenault always greets

her with a smile and asks her how she is feeling. “It’s very positive,” she said. “I smile every time he talks to me. It’s genuine and sweet how he gets to know me and other students.” Arsenault said he does not think much of it; that is just how he was raised. “We’re all family here,” he said. “Even if your day is miserable, it doesn’t mean theirs has to be, too. That’s just me, I guess.” Those brief conversations have also led to longtime friendships. He said some of his favorite memories at the college come from seeing alumni return for Homecoming and other events. “You get close to some of them, and you hate to see them leave,” Arsenault said. “Like a parent, the kids are going to be moving out. That’s a sad memory, but they’re fond memories, too.” While working in the Strosacker Science Building, Arsenault, always donning a Detroit Lions or Tigers baseball cap, fostered a close relationship with Andy Brown ’97. Heading from one class to the next, Brown would meet Arsenault in the hall with the baseball game playing on the radio sitting on his cart,

and they would discuss their favorite pastime. “We talked almost every day,” recalled Brown, who just was getting into radio at the time. “I told him we ought to do a sports talk show.” That premonition became reality about 10 years ago when Brown asked Arsenault to co-host with him on his WCSR “Time Out” sports radio program at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays. Now joined by sophomore Martin Petersen, they banter back and forth on trends in sports. “I’ve always loved sports, ever since I was 3 or 4 years old,” Arsenault said. “We get to talk about everything. I love it.” Brown said Arsenault brings a historical knowledge of sports since he has been following longer than him, which is exactly what he wanted for the radio program. “I didn’t want a professional broadcaster, but someone who could bring a different perspective like if you were talking at a bar or at a game,” Brown said. “He fit the bill perfectly. The listeners enjoy that he’s funny.” His co-hosts enjoy his personality and generosity. With a bonus he received from the college one year, Arsenault

bravery is not that she’s surviving without her child. The bravery is that she told you,” Carrington said. “That’s not how we talk about any other death. If I were to announce to you that my grandma died, you wouldn’t call me brave. But we’re seeing that shift. We’re excited to be a small part of that.” Carrington explained that most women and families refrain from announcing their pregnancies until they reach 12 weeks of gestation. Before 12 weeks, the chances of miscarriage are higher. Carrington said she followed this advice for her first pregnancy. “We didn’t announce until 12 weeks. We went to an appointment at about 11 weeks and found out the baby had passed,” Carrington said. “We were going to announce our pregnancy the next day. What we ended up doing was announcing our miscarriage the next day. And that wasn’t easy. “In the end, we regretted that we never had a chance to celebrate the life of that child,” Carrington said. It’s this vulnerability that Carrington has tried to live out personally as she tries to foster it in her organization. “With EPLA, you have an avenue to express and share and maybe help somebody else get through the process, which I think is phenomenal,” Zoll said. “People can talk to each other rather than silently sit in pain.” Members of the board of EPLA plan to attend the ProLife Women’s Conference in St. Louis this June to hand out their materials and network with other organizations. Carrington said the nonprofit’s vision — that all women and families are supported — will guide them as they grow. “Someday, I really hope to see an organization that reaches wide and addresses pregnancy loss by bearing burdens,” Carrington said. “I want to see an organization that meets families in their weakest moments and provides them support, but brings them out of that and past that so they can move forward and move on.”

purchased Lions football tickets for Brown, Petersen, and himself. Arsenault grew up in Hillsdale. At 25, however, he sought his fortune and moved to California in the 1970s. In the Golden State, Arsenault found jobs wherever he could. He worked at a Beverly Hills gas station and often spotted one or two celebrities a day. He shook boxer Muhammad Ali’s hand, saw drummer Ringo Starr drive by with eight or nine women in a Rolls-Royce, and gave directions to actress Jane Fonda. “Most of them are very nice people,” Arsenault said, though he added that he finds it amazing that any TV show is made given the drama that happens behind the scenes. Later, Arsenault drove a laundromat delivery truck that served movie studios, but the heavy Los Angeles traffic was too much, he said. “Do I miss L.A.? Yeah, a little,” he said. “I miss the weather and the restaurants and the beautiful, long-legged tan women, but the day I had to wait two or three blocks down the street just to get on the freeway — I’m not going to play that game anymore.” After his father died, his mother asked him if he would consider returning to Michigan. Longing the wide open roads of the country, Arsenault obliged and found work at the college. To this day, Arsenault said he is unsure if he found what he sought in California. “I didn’t know what I was looking for, and I think that’s true for a lot of people,” he said. “I had no idea what to expect or what I would do. I said, ‘Whatever happens, happens.’” Maybe, though, Arsenault was meant to return home. It was a decision he does not regret at all, he said. “I wouldn’t trade my 30 years at Hillsdale for anything,” he said.

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Caitlyn Larsen ’12 (right) is a stuntwoman for “Marvel Universe LIVE!,” a live-action stunt show. Caitlyn Larsen | Courtesy

Acrobatic alumna performs in ‘Marvel Universe’ By | Jordyn Pair News Editor For 2012 alumna Caitlyn Larsen, work means playing with fire. Larsen is a stuntwoman for “Marvel Universe LIVE!,” a live-action stunt show featuring characters from Marvel storylines. Larsen plays Nebula, a character from “Guardians of the Galaxy.” “I basically grew up and decided I was going to keep playing with toys for a living,” Larsen said. Trained in eight different forms of weaponry, including fire fans, pyroswords, and staff, Larsen is part of the United Stuntmen’s Association, the Advanced Actor Combatant in the Society of American Fight Directors, and has an orange belt in Filipino stick fighting. A typical day for Larsen begins when she arrives at the theater at 9 a.m. and prepares

for the first show of the day. On Saturdays, Larsen performs in three separate shows. “It’s really taxing on the body,” Larsen said. “I take a solid beating every show.” “Marvel Universe LIVE!” features over 25 Marvel characters in a live stunt show centered around a plot bringing characters from all storylines together. The show is currently touring the nation with around 150 cast and crew members. “Each city has its own flavor,” Larsen said. “Each city is distinct and notable when you see them back-to-back.” Larsen said her favorite city has been Denver. “Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of entertainment industry there, otherwise I would move there in a heartbeat,” she said. Touring 36 cities in a year brings the cast and crew together, Larsen said. “There’s not a lot of pri-

vacy,” Larsen said. “It make a very tight family environment.” While at Hillsdale, Larsen double-majored in economics and theater. “She was a good student and a very fun, upbeat per-

in it. “We were talking about fitness training after class, and I started going on about kettlebells. Caitlyn was interested so I loaned her my kettlebell video with Pavel Tsatsouline, the Russian kettlebell expert,”

“Caitlyn is so courageous and bold and fierce...I try to avoid any and all bodily danger and she’s the opposite.” son,” associate professor of economics Charles Steele said in an email. “I am pleased to see her successful in such an interesting career.” Steele said he saw signs of Larsen being a stunt woman early and even loaned her some exercise equipment when she showed an interest

Steele said. “She seemed to get a kick out of it. But I think she the loaned it to Dr. Blackstock, and I never saw it again. Yet it was worth it if it helped her get where she is today.” Steele said he looks forward to any potential visits. “She has promised me that in one of her future visits to

Hillsdale, she will train the Econ faculty in stage combat and pyrotechnics,” Steele said. “I can hardly wait. The rest of the campus better watch out.” Larsen said the diversity of the theater program helped her understand the jobs of — and get along with — members of both cast and crew. “You have to work all five of the spectrums of theater,” she said. “I’ve been able to get along really well with crew because I recognize their jobs as well.” Carly Hubbard ‘16, Larsen’s sister and the owner of local coffee shop Rough Draft, said she had never really seen a show like her sister’s. “I was so impressed and nervous watching her,” Hubbard said. “I try to avoid any and all bodily danger and she’s the opposite.” Hubbard said she was especially impressed because when she saw the show, Larsen had recently sustained a wrist

injury. Hubbard added that although most of her relationship with her sister is currently long-distance because of Larsen’s traveling schedule, it’s been exciting to watch. “Caitlyn is so courageous and bold and fierce that the last thing I ever want to do is get in the way of what she’s passionate about,” Hubbard said. Larsen said her Hillsdale education prepared her for more than her career in entertainment, though. “They absolutely gave me the ability to be a real human being,” she said. “Hillsdale teaches you to be a real community player.” Larsen views her job as more than just stunts, though. “Art is an important medium that can favorably impact society,” she said. “If one day I can make a message that can impact the world...that’s a life goal.”

Campus Chic

Chloe Sparks By | Jordyn Pair

What inspires your style? “My grandmother inspires my style the most. I’d say 75 percent of what I own was given to me by her, and the rest I typically run by her before I buy it. We’re the exact same size, and I’m her only granddaughter, so I get all her ‘hand-me-downs.’”

What is your favorite piece?

Sophomore Chloe Sparks. Jordyn Pair | Collegian

“I definitely don’t have a favorite piece, probably because I don’t think I have a specific style. I like my closet to have a healthy amount of vintage, preppy, artsy, bohemian, and casual.”

Where are your favorite places to shop? “My favorite clothing places to shop are White House Black Market, Express, Nordstrom Rack, Banana Republic, J Crew, TJ Maxx, Sal Val and Goodwill (no shame) and BCBG Maxazria.”