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Hillsdale’s Prince Former Blackwater CEO left the Naval Academy for the more principled academics of Hillsdale, served the community as a firefighter, loved learning Nathan Prigmore Collegian Freelancer

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n 1989, when student Erik Prince of Holland, Michigan moved in across the street from Professor of Religion Don Westblade, he and his wife mistakenly believed Prince was a wealthy European descending from royalty. Not a bad guess. Prince would become a private military king. But before his rise to founder of billion-dollar private security contractor organization Blackwater,

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Prince was a Hillsdale student. began considering other academic paths. The Deputy Commandant of the Academy said if he left he would amount to nothing. “Having to go to class at the Academy and having to be kind of on guard from the statist nonsense that was coming from some of the professors, it was nice to go to Hillsdale and be able to listen, relax, and not feel like I had to argue,” Prince said in an exclusive Collegian interview this month. In his book, “Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror,” Prince writes, “I left the antics of Annapolis after three semesters and looked to get back to a serious academic path. I chose Hillsdale ColHe attributes much of his business and personal

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Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence Dr. Larraine Eadie, English

Club of the Year Award Students for Life

Part Two: Hillsdale Roads City of Hillsdale proposes special assessments for streets, a city income tax, and selling BPU to finance road repairs. See A6

Pro-family Utah Senator to speak next week Vivian Hughbanks Assistant Editor Next Tuesday at 8 p.m., conservative star Sen. Mike Lee will address students at the Roche Sports Complex. Lee is quickly becoming the conservatives in Congress. Last month, he was appointed chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, inheriting the position from Sen. Pat Toomey. “Mike Lee is a knowledgeable and principled movement conservative, and he has done of the Steering Committee this Congress,” said Toomey, in a press release. “I’m pleased to

hand the gavel to him. I look forward to continuing to work with Mike, and my colleagues, to advance innovative conservative

grow the economy.” A fervent admirer of Hillsdale College, Lee is a passionate defender of America’s founding principles, the rule of law, and the endurance of America as a free republic. He has spoken several times at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C., but dale’s Michigan campus. forces with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to advocate a profamily, pro-growth tax plan. “Perhaps no function of the U.S. government is more anti-

quated and dysfunctional than its tax system,” Lee and Rubio wrote in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal last month. “Our reforms seek to simplify the structure and lower rates. How? By consolidating the many existing income tax brackets into two simple brackets — 15% and 30% — and eliminating or reforming deductions, especially those that privileged few at everyone else’s expense.” Lee ousted seasoned Republican Sen. Bob Bennett from ofsuccessful tea party candidates. Utah’s 16th Senator took of-

working with conservative Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Rubio. Staunchly principled, he has strongly advocated against funding the Affordable Care Act, standing with Cruz during his

“I am particularly honored to be standing side by side with my friend and colleague Senator Mike Lee from Utah,” Cruz said at the outset of the evening. “Senator Lee has shown visionary leadership in standing and taking the mantle of leading the effort to defund ObamaCare and to challenge this train wreck of a law, and Senator Lee has been

quickly earned a reputation as

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Football players suspended Sam Scorzo Sports Editor Ten members of the football team were suspended last week. Nine active players and one player off the roster were suspended for violating school and team rules. Seven of the active players are serving a two-game suspension, which included the Oct. 11 game against Ohio Dominican and the game this Saturday against Ashland. The other two mem-

Junior Jack Shannon walks around campus under autumn foliage.

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“When the failures are serious, then the harm must be redressed, and commitments must be made for the future,” President Larry Arnn said Wednesday in an email. “This particular one is very serious. As we work such things out, we involve parents, counsellors, faculty, coaches--whoever

can help to protect and guide the students in question.” The 10 football players violated not only team policies but college policies, and they will be held accountable like any non-athlete, Dean of Men Aaron Petersen said. “Any team consequences are in addition to any consequences that come from our ofing school policy can include measures such as scholarship removal, community service, social probations, academic probation, suspensions, or expulsions. Petersen said that the details of these students’ punishments

well as clergy and health professionals when appropriate. “It can be disappointing when students make mistakes, but one of the blessings of working at Hillsdale is the ability to work with our students, their families, and the campus community so that they can learn and grow from their mistakes,” Petersen said. As for the football team, head football coach Keith Otterbein said the team is moving forward and preparing for the home game this Saturday. “Any time you lose guys that play it affects your football team,” Otterbein said. “We’re going to play the guys that are there. Whether it’s in-

He further explained that in cases of discipline that are more serious, deans involve student’s parents in a partnership to help young men and women make things right, as

this is the team we’re coaching. And so as the investigation concludes we’ll see where that leads us.” Nathanael Meadowcroft contributed to this report.

INSIDE Russian journalist in Hillsdale David Satter spent two weeks teaching and visiting classes and speaks tonight on Russia. A2

Dawn Theater hosts weekly entertainment Throughout the fall, the Dawn Theater will offer entertainment every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. A6

A buffalo farm in Hanover allows visitors the chance to feed 3,000 pound bison. B4

Women’s tennis team wraps up season and honors senior captain. A7 (Isaac Spence/Collegian)

Greg Wolfe celebrates 25 yesrs of Image Questions and Answers with the artists and authors of the English department’s Visiting Writer’s progam. B1

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Social Media Dehumanize Colby Clark urges us to resist the dehumanizing tyranny of social media. A5

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Kicked out of Russia: David Satter to speak today

Jordan Finney Collegian Reporter When the Russian government tried to expel him in 1979 for “being a hooligan,” the American and British embassies threatened to oust two Soviet correspondents — read that, intelligence agents — from the West. David Satter got to stay, at least that time. “I tried to give them every reason to regret that decision,” he later said. Satter is Hillsdale College’s Pulliam Fellow this semester, chosen partly because of his career as a Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and partly because of the intrigue that ican journalist banned from Russia since the Cold War. He has written several op-eds about Russia for The Wall Street Journal, one of which caught the eye of Director of the Dow Journalism Program John Miller. “You are here largely because of the thing you wrote in Janu-

ary,” Miller told Satter when the Chicago native visited a Hillsdale journalism class earlier this week. Satter will deliver a public lecture about “Russia’s looming crisis” and his personal perspective of Putin’s regime today at 8 p.m. in Markel Auditorium. During his graduate studies at Oxford University, the Rhodes scholar and aspiring journalist ventured to Russia. It was 1969 — more than two decades before the Soviet Union would fall

there on a long-term assignment, working with a linguist tutor every day. “My mission was a little bit different. It was really to understand. I didn’t approach my job in a purely journalistic fash-

novel — an insider view of totalitarian Russia — Satter’s mother-in-law passed away unexpectedly, and he moved to France. Years later, Satter spent six days in the Library of Congress

country that he would visit dozens of times during his life. “The core difference there is in the attitude toward the individual,” he said. “For all our faults here in the U.S., the society and system is based on the notion that the individual has inherent value. In Russia, rights, personality, and fate are all sub- David Satter walks to class Tuesday afternoon. Check the ordinated to the state.” Collegian website next week for a Q&A video with Satter. Satter returned to the Red (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) Empire in 1976, and worked in Moscow as a foreign corre- ion,” he said. “I became fairly spondent until 1982. While most well-known among people, and formation, notes, and ideas for foreign correspondents change I decided it was time to write a his book. posts frequently, Satter stayed book.” “I realized in that moment

Virology returns to Hillsdale

Madeleine Jepsen Collegian Freelancer Assistant Professor of Biology Silas Johnson, a new professor at Hillsdale, is teaching the biology department’s virology course this year. Johnson, a Hillsdale alumnus, recently completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan Medical School, during which time he studied retroviruses. This research has given Johnson a cutting-edge perspective on the of microbiology and virology. Coupled with his teaching experience at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, Johnson’s backteaching virology at Hillsdale. The virology course, offered by the biology department every other fall, offers students an opon the mechanisms of viruses real-world impact of viruses. “I’m interested in covering the basic cellular and molecular biology of virus replication. That’s been our major focus,” Johnson said. “Understanding that allows us to understand

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how viruses direct the host, how they cause disease, how the host responds to the virus infection, and that’s very important.” Class time consists of some lecture, but is heavily discussion-based. The small class setting with only eight students also makes it easier to discuss the material presented in the textbook. According to students, the virology course has been a helpful way to explore this spe“He presents the information well and in an easy to understand way,” senior Amber Hunt said. “This course has tied a lot of my other biology classes together very well.” Senior Annie Teigen, another virology student, has enjoyed the real-world applications of the course content. “It is interesting to take something very classroom-based and apply it to real life,” she said. Although there is currently no lab section for this class, there are plenty of opportunities for hands-on learning. In addition to discussion and lecture, the class has made concept maps and organized pictures of viral processes, such as the reaction of the immune system to a

pathogen. One unique feature of the class is the “viropedia” project, in which each student researches own class encyclopedia. “It’s similar to Wikipedia, and contains basic information about the basic biology of the viruses,” Johnson said. “My plan is to then take that information and actually use it to edit Wikipedia. This will allow students to actually contribute to knowledge that anyone can access.” So far, students said they have found this upper-level class to be a challenging yet enjoyable experience. Senior Hannah Russell noted that Johnson’s teaching style helps to make success in the class achievable. “He covers a lot in class, but covers it well. You get so immersed in the material that you can start to forget how challenging it is,” she said. “He brings up real-life examples that make it engaging and fun. I would highly recommend the class to anyone interested in microbiology.”

Student clubs tackle social media Sarah Albers Assistant Editor

Click. Delete. Repeat. Your student email inbox is full of generic campus messages. Most are probably deleted before being read. Some linger in the inbox for months, unopened and disregarded. So how is a student group to get out its message? The answer is social media, said senior Nathan Brand, the social media coordinator for the campus chapter of Young America’s Foundation. YAF’s videos have garnered national attention in the past, its Facebook events are well-attended, and its Twitter account has more than 300 followers. “We’re Hillsdale College,” Brand said, “We’re conservative. There are people in the Facebook and Twitter-spheres who love both of those.” Brand’s social media efforts ing Hillsdale’s tightly-knit community to his advantage online.

Event-oriented photo albums on Facebook allow him to tag members of YAF from all over campus and reach greater audiences. “If you’re able to tap into the different friend groups, you’ll tap into most of campus,” Brand said, Sam Holdeman, president of the Hillsdale College Republicans, has a different outlook. The group has recently added an Instagram account to its social media roster, to complement Facebook and Twitter. He views social media as a more personal, more convenient way of communication than email. “I’d like to use social media as a secondary way of contacting people,” Holdeman said. “[Followers] just happen across a reminder that the College Republicans are doing something. We hope to help get them involved.” But social media has its limitations. After all, emails are guaranteed to arrive in their respective inboxes. Social media’s algorithms make it less sure. “Social media is kind of hit or

miss,” Holdeman said. “I think the emails are more effective.” Jack Butler, president of the as a necessary evil. The group has a Facebook page, a YouTube account, and a blog. “What the group is doing in real life is the important thing,” Butler said. The group’s Facebook page, run primarily by Butler, shares articles, campus events, and YouTube videos of its own events. The blog has proven a cessfully. “It’s easy, with social media, to communicate small, digestible pieces of information,” Butler said. “But a blog is a venue for extended mental perambulation.” Whether contending with a deluge of emails or a dearth of time, social media helps campus groups connect with the student body in an immediate way. Involvement is the end game, not ‘likes’ or ‘shares.’ “The goal of social media,” Butler said, “is to get people off social media.”

course, said that Satter shares stories about his unusual background and seems eager to give advice on how they can improve as writers. The class focuses on memoir writing, editorial journalism, and feature writing. “I’m really enjoying the

class…it’s really been interesting to read his pieces,” said senior Jenna Adamson, an English and French double major. “He really encourages us to think about writing an editorial about a politically-correct notion in the culture that everyone believes without questioning. That’s a good way to grab people’s attention as a young writer because it shows a level of sophistication.” at Hillsdale with the Dow Journalism Program, Satter plans to return to London and continue working on his book. And although the Russian government has made it clear that he’s not welcome in the country, Satter continues to believe that he will go back again someday. “Right now I’m banned, but…I think the day will come [when I can] return to Russia,” Satter said quietly. “A moment comes when people get tired of authoritative leaders, especially when they’re corrupt and criminal. I’m attached to it in a crazy way — a big part of my life is there. Sooner or later, I’ll get back.”

New GOAL program aims to boost post-secondary education Amanda Tindall News Editor

New biology professor Silas Johnson

that the manuscripts were utterly unusable,” Satter said. “But that moment was the beginning of the creation of something that would work.” Satter recast the book as an insider perspective on the decline and fall of the Soviet Union. He pitched his idea to Reader’s Digest, which accepted the proposal and sent him back to Russia, where he began working as an academic writer. Since then, Satter has published three books — and is working on a fourth, “The Less You Know the Better You Sleep,” in Hillsdale College’s Mossey Library during his tenure as a visiting professor. Satter also teaches modern Russian history at Johns Hopkins University. Hillsdale students in his class,

By 2015, the Hillsdale Community Foundation aims to have an application rate of 60 percent of students applying to any form of post-secondary education. Hillsdale Community Career Access Planning works with area schools to help students in the application process and in applying for the FAFSA. HCCAP is now on campus as a GOAL program, looking for current college students to help potential students in the college application process. The new GOAL program’s coordinator, senior Sarah Schumacher, said there’s already been some level of success in the program. “There’s very low numbers of students in the community of kids who pursue any form of post-secondary education,” she said. “The need for that and the need for mentors and tutors, they were really encouraged to talk to us.”

HCCAP Coordinator Lynn Burkett said Hillsdale College Director of External Relations for Athletics Jeff Lantis encouraged them to contact the college’s GOAL program about the need for volunteers. “HCCAP had a unique beginning,” GOAL Program Director Jackie Frenkel said. “The community came to us and said, ‘We have this need, can you meet it?’ And we said sure, and then we found Sarah. Her work in building the program so far is impressive, to say the least. She’s setting it up for tremendous growth and impact in the future.” Burkett said the post-secondary education they’re encouraging includes any form of trade program. “It’s a relatively new thing. I’ve only been on the job two years in November,” Burkett said. “When I started, that’s basically when it came to be. It was in the development stages when I came on board. We’ve seen college enrollment grow

since we started the program.” On Monday, HCCAP worked at a booth at the local college fair, and will be working in the community high schools during college application week in November. “In the spring, last year, we helped with decision day, which was a pretty big event,” Schumacher said. “Students announced what they’re doing, where they’re going to college. It created awareness in the whole school as well, so that younger students could get excited about going to college, when it’s their chance to do that.” College application week is Nov. 3-7, and HCCAP volunteers will be working in nine schools to help students in the application process. “What we’re trying to do is reach out to the certain percentage who don’t think they could go to college or don’t think they could afford it,” Burkett said. “And once that door opens, we hope they think, ‘Well, maybe I can do it,’ or ‘Maybe I can afford it.’”

HEART: Students help keep campus secure

HEART members receive training on natural gas, carbon monoxide leaks, and powerline safety from the Hillsdale Fire Department (Photo Courtesy of Bronte Wigen) Hannah Leitner Design Editor Yesterday, Hillsdale Emergency Action Response Team went downtown to city hall to partment in the areas of natural gas and carbon monoxide leaks as well as power line safety. With recent events of both a gas leak and a down line earlier this year, members see the information and training received at the event as both helpful and “The purpose of HEART is that we are trying to train a group of people on campus who can assist security…as well as the local law management and personnel to help restore order if something were to happen on campus,” HEART President Kelly Tillotson said. Associate Dean of Men and adviser of HEART Jeffery Rogers said that having many club members involved in the community departments will allow for the program to grow and develop in the future, enabling the program to become more specialized and more effective. “We wanted to get to the

heart of the matter, that’s why it’s HEART,” Rogers said. Although a student-led club, HEART does not rely solely on its campus members and advisors for advice and resources. HEART looks to gain knowledge and advice from local Hill-

leadership. “I feel like I know the people better, I feel like I know the campus better. Getting to work with Director Whorley and Chief Rogers is great. They are just a fountain of knowledge. I

prepared. If there were ever an department, police department, emergency, I would be more and the local EMS. confident “HEART’s other to step in goal is because the “We wanted to get and help college is such a big to the heart of the instead of part of Hillsdale, feeling like we want to make matter, that’s why I would sure we give back be a hinto the community it’s HEART.” drance,” that we work in, that -Jeffery Rogers Smith said. we study in, that we A l play in,” senior Rethough bekah Smith said. many of “We are a huge part of the com- the members of HEART aspire munity and we take up a bunch to work either in the medical of their resources, so we thought it would be a great way to help graduating, the club invites anyon campus and off campus.” one interested to join. HEART prides itself on be“The people we want are stuing a diverse group of people dents who have a desire to help from all corners of campus, ,” Tilloston said. “If you want having members from almost to learn how to be an effective all the sports teams as well as leader, especially in emergency the Greek houses. As a student- situations. That’s really what we led group, HEART looks toward are looking for: an eagerness to the student body for support and learn and an eagerness to lead.”

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Career Services introduces Handshake Breana Noble Collegian Freelancer During college, students aim Jeff Coors recieves award surrounded by his family.

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Jeff Coors honored by SPN Kelsey Drapkin Collegian Reporter

Hillsdale College trustee Jeff Coors, president and CEO of Golden Technologies Company Inc., was honored with the Thomas A. Roe Award from the State Policy Network at their annual meeting. At a formal dinner in Denver, in front of a crowd of resentatives from 48 state institutions and over 60 partner SPN Coors with the honor. “He is a champion and exemplar of the virtue of self-reliance, yet his eyes and heart are always open to lend a hand to an underdog struggling to gain independence,” SPN President Tracie Sharp said. “He is a steadfast defender of equal economic opportunity for all.” The Roe Award, named after the late Thomas A. Roe Jr., founder of SPN, is awarded annually to an individual or individuals in the state public policy movement advancing free market philosophy at the state level. “He [Roe] saw the value of an intellectually rigorous policy cenfreedom lovers would shape outcomes,” SPN Vice President of Strategy Lynn Harsh said. “In 1989, a mere handful of people said ‘yes,’ and gathered in a room Thanks to Tom’s foresight and determination, more than 900 of us gathered this year in Denver at SPN’s 22nd annual meeting.” “A long time ago, he [Coors] invited a whole bunch of people who worked in the conservative movement - including me - to come to Colorado Springs, put us all up, and got us all talking about how we could make strategic changes,” President Larry Arnn said. “He put on a program...and

all of that was just to try to make us all better. And he’s been doing things like that forever, and it’s one of many reasons he deserves this award.” Previous award recipients have included Joe Lehman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Kevin Gentry of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and many other liberty-advancing individuals. In his capacity as a Hillsdale College trustee, Coors also acted as a co-chair for Hillsdale’s Founders Campaign, the capital campaign started in the early 2000s to raise $400 million for the school, and held this position for other capital campaigns as well. “Jeff Coors has been a chairman of every capital campaign in the modern history of Hillsdale College including the current one,” Arnn said. “He is kind and self-effacing and talented and tireless.” Coors has been a Hillsdale College trustee since 1985, just one of the many positions he has held that show his dedication to spreading the philosophy of freedom and free markets. “When everything is taken care of by government, the spirit of voluntary commitment is lost,” Coors said in a 1993 issue of Imprimis discussing corporate stewardship. He continued later in the piece: “Give privately, not seeking recognition for your work; it is for you are giving.” It is because of this principle ago that Coors was awarded the Roe Award this year. His quiet, continual support of the greater good without seeking praises was recognized and received a welldeserved standing ovation.

dream jobs. Career Services is pursuing that mission through their new platform, Handshake. Created by college students, Handshake aims to provide a simple-to-use interface, unlike many career-planning sites, according to Handshake Business Development Lead David Shull. Career Services had this problem with Charger Connect, their previous platform. “The feedback we received from students was the user interface was not friendly and clunky,” Executive Director of Career Services Michael Murray said. Handshake, on the other hand, is clean and intuitive, according to Internship Program Coordinator Courtney Noonan. “If you can use Facebook, you can use Handshake,” Noonan said. “It’s similar to the other platforms students are already using.” Handshake also brings new and improved features. Students can research and follow companies, and the more the better recommended job and internship results will appear, cally interested in Hillsdale students, according to Murray. Opportunities to apply for meetings with the full-time staff, and upload your resume to the website, where Student Affairs Mentors can look over them and provide feedback, are also available, according to senior Student Director of SAMs Leah Bernhardson. Handshake will also allow Career Services staff to input information from meetings with students, tailor emails to those with particular interests, create surveys to better receive feedback from students, and publish events for which students can register, according to Noonan. Career Services is planning to upload their guides on career planning and resume building to Handshake too. The staff is especially eager about Handshake’s mobile application. “The last platform, students had to use the web, and scrolling on the web on your phone

is kind of clunky,” Noonan said. “Everybody wants to use an app now.” “It’s really handy for me to attending events,” Bernhardson said. Three years ago when Ben Christensen, Garrett Lord, and Shull, then students at Michigan Technological University, attended a career advisor meeting, they realized the software being used was not meeting the needs of students. The idea of Handshake was born. Teaming together, they designed a user-friendly software. Having graduated in May, these students have implestitutions and are continuing to grow partnerships with career websites that will feed more job opportunities onto the site. “We’ve been blown away by the support,” Shull said. The goal of Handshake is to job. Shull said that students he knew were interested in working for bigger companies like Apple and Google, but since Michigan Tech is a smaller school, these businesses didn’t visit the campus. “Regardless of what size campus you go to, you can connect with businesses that can’t come to campus physically,” Shull said. According to Shull, relationships are key. Handshake representative Shull visited the Career Services’ Career Carnival earlier this year. Having the opportunity to interact with students serves as a constant reminder to serve, Shull said. Students shared their future goals at the carnival, and Shull said Handshake uses this information to better assist students. Handshake is also working in close communication with the schools for which it provides its software. “Hillsdale has a really close relationship with the creators of Handshake, so anytime we need help doing something or need to learn a feature, they are always there with support,” Bernhardson said. Career Services encourages students to use this resource. “The more students that use it, the better we’ll be able to engage and improve it,” Noonan said. “It’s built by students for students.”

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Romney McDaniel: Right must win 2014 Jordan Finney Collegian Reporter Ronna Romney McDaniel, Michigan Republican National Committeewoman, will speak at 7 p.m. on Monday in Lane 125. “She’s got massive experience in politics and she’s a committed Republican,” College Republicans president Sam Holdeman said. “I hope her speech is a rallying cry for students that shocks people out of their tendency to support third party candidates. Third parties honestly never win and we need a win in November.” McDaniel is the niece of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Her

speech, entitled “Why Republicans Must Win in 2014,” will address important political issues of the day and the consequences of the upcoming midterm elections in November. Young Americans for Freedom and College Republicans will co-host the event. “Ronna Romney has great insight into the election and valuable knowledge that she can share with Hillsdale students,” YAF senior adviser Nathan Brand said. “She’s going to lay out what’s at stake in this election. If Republicans don’t get a majority in the Senate, we’re back to what we’ve been up against the last few years. But if we can get control of the Senate, the whole ball game changes.”

Václav Klaus spent time talking to multiple classes this week. He is the fall convocation speaker. (Anders Kiledal/ Collegian)

Two new book clubs blossom among students Lois Lesher Collegian Freelancer Walk anywhere on Hillsdale College’s campus, and you will their noses buried in books. While everyone loves to com-

plain about the vast amounts of reading assigned within Hillsdale’s rigorous core curriculum, the reading that students do outside of their normal coursework is not publicized nearly as often. Recently, two campus book clubs have formed to enrich students’ educations with material

that is not commonly covered in a classroom setting. One, led by seniors Devin Creed and David Roach, focuses on American intellectual conservatism. Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Clark leads the other, which encourages students to study how work and economics

Students gather at the Donnybrook for The Symposium book club. (Laura Williamson/Collegian)

tie into Christianity.

cussion groups is a branch of a new campus club called The roots in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. ISI aims to train young leaders through its various conferences and through the funds they provide groups like The Symposium to use toward student book discussions. “We want to educate the campus about the side of American conservatism that we don’t really hear about and don’t really see here,” Creed said. This semester, Creed, Roach, and about 15 other students are working their way through Robert Nisbet’s “The Quest for Community,” meeting once a week to discuss a chapter of the book. Though the location of the discussion varies, meetings take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoons and have been entirely student-led so far. “The Quest for Community” primarily focuses on humans’ inherent need for a sense of community and the harmful effects of turning to government to satisfy that need. The book is published by ISI, enabling the institute to provide free copies of the

text for student discussions at schools like Hillsdale. approved The Symposium just weeks ago, and its faculty advisor is Assistant Professor of History Matthew Gaetano. At the end of the book group, there will be a more formal dinner with a guest speaker to give closing remarks. Clark’s book club also found its roots in a national group. After attending a conference for The Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics this summer, Clark knew he wanted to start a similar discussion on Hillsdale’s campus. The group has four total meetings at various locations this semester, and Clark will recognize outstanding participants at the end of the year. With funds provided by IFWE, Clark is able to provide food at meetings and copies of Hugh Whelchel’s “How Then Should We Work” for the students. The book focuses on how one’s work life can tie into the betterment of the community through basic economic principles and personal faith. “It’s not really an ‘edgy’ in-

ly a basic message of ‘you matter, service matters, your work can matter towards a greater cause. You don’t have to view it, no matter what it is, as pointless,’” Clark said. Kadeem Noray, a senior triple-major in physics, economics, and math, is one of the 15 students accepted into the program. “It’s insightful to hear thoughts of non-econ majors on easy to become very narrowed perspectives of those outside the Clark is hopeful that the book discussion will encourage students to spread the studied material within the community of Hillsdale and beyond. During the last meeting, he will discuss possible plans of action and ask how the students think they can apply the message to their own lives. Though both of the book clubs are new to campus, they are already making great progress in opening discussions among students in areas of study that might not show up on their class schedules.

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Last week the Tower Player’s production of the 2004 play “Almost, Maine” shocked some of the more conservative elements of Hillsdale College. Professor of theatre Michael Beyer asked students to come in with an open mind and perhaps leave with the door slightly ajar. Instead, some audience members left visibly offended. Yes, theatre often does expose us to views and concepts that can make us uncomfortable, but in many ways, that is the point of theatre – to make us think.

mystery — will be speaking on “Conservatism and the Arts: A Lover’s Quarrel”. In the Roche Sports Complex, Sen. Mike Lee from Utah will be speaking on…

The real value of abstinence

We’re all lucky to attend a school that can attract such illustrious speakers to address the student body; however, it’s not

Kittie Helmick Special to the Collegian Chris McCaffery Student Columnist At 8 p.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 21, students are faced with a choice of how to spend the last night before fall break begins (besides studying for their last midterms, of course). In the Dow Center Rooms A&B, Gregory Wolfe — conservative author, Hillsdale College graduate, founder and editor of Image, a national journal of art, faith, and

for their own sake, not for use as a means of gaining emotional or physical pleasure. How we love matters most when it

They both ordered their thoughts towards willing the good for each other. Singly and together, they behaved such that the moment never arrived when they found themselves hidden in the dark, with nothing between them and the brink but a shalKittie Helmick is a George Washington Fellow studying art and Spanish.

From the Archives: Ronna Romney visits Hillsdale

In news that must have left my friends at the New York Post — never mind the gang at “The Daily Show” — with a renewed has been caught covering up a scandal involving a Cartagena hooker. The phrase “Cartagena hookink-stained wretches everywhere, but the revelation that the White House reassigned the alleged client of the aforementioned Andean call girl to the State Department’s -

event this year for the College Republicans; many students attended a rally for presidential candidate Bob Dole last month. Oct. 31, 1996 Ingrid Floit

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Wolfe or Chris Buckley wouldn’t dare attempt as satire. ran for a seat on the U.S. SenLet us back up for a moment. ate in 1994 and lost in that Two years ago, the Secret Service election. She does not currentney is challenging Democratic incumbent Carl Levin. “I totally support Ronna Romney over Michigan Senator Carl Levin,” said senior Tom Morrison. “While abortion is not the only issue which concerns me, I’m angry that Senator Levin twice voted in favor of allowing partialbirth abortions. Romney has pledged to protect the unborn.”

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“Ronna is a dynamic speaker with many great ideas. It should be an exciting event,” said sophomore Aaron Bailey, vice chairman of the Hillsdale College Republicans. Romney’s visit is sponsored by the Hillsdale College Republicans, and all county Republicans are invited to attend, according to Bailey. … Romney, who is from

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Hillsdale College will be one stop on a national campaign tomorrow as Ronna Romney, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, will address an audience at 3 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium. While on a tour of colleges and universities in an effort to build support for the upcoming election, Romney will speak on the direction in which she sees the nation heading as well as what she plans to do if elected into of-

to us about Elizabethan English culture. So today, instead of running away when faced with ideas contrary to our own, let’s appreciate, analyze and discuss their merit – the same way we would under the guidance of Professor of English Stephen Smith. Students aren’t acting against their consciences when they appreciate this authentic artistic portrayal of life in the 21st century.

with each other. No offense to Sen. Lee, but in the unfortunate circumstances we’re presented with, I urge students to attend Wolfe’s lecture on Tuesday night. Wolfe is one of Hillsdale Colcalled “one of the most incisive and persuasive voices of our generation” by celebrated author Rob nized by his alma mater as part of a two-day celebration for the 25th anniversary of Image, the literary journal he founded and publishes. A conservative who studied under Russell Kirk when he attended Hillsdale, Wolfe graduated and chose to spend his energies for the conservative cause

not as a culture warrior or policy wonk but by working to create a place in culture for religious expression and true conservative sentiment free from ideology. “The rise of extreme partisanship, abstract ideologies, and tendency for conservatives to preach to the choir has created a landscape that has little to do with the rich tradition of conservatism I learned at Hillsdale,” Wolfe said in my interview with him. (B1) This focus on art and faith is not to denigrate the importance of political action. Rather, it stems from a fuller understanding of where politics come from. As Andrew Breitbart was well known for noting, “politics is downstream from culture.” This is the same insight that leads me to encourage all my fellow students to learn from what Wolfe has to say as a man at the fore of Christian art and literature. The best way, and perhaps the only way, to truly “win” in politics is to make a culture hospitable to conservative ideas. The law may teach, but art teaches better — it has a wider

reach, a longer-lasting impact, and a deeper lesson. The lessons of art are complex and challenging, but they are what sustain the true political and social change, far upstream from Washington. In addition, Hillsdale often plays host to politicians and commentators. In comparison to the billows of punditry our campus and the Kirby Center see regularly, an opportunity to hear a leadvative Christian art is a breath of fresh air. The entire Image celebration is an opportunity to indulge. Husband and wife Erin McGraw and Andrew Hudgins are hugely celebrated writers, and a free concert from Over the Rhine on Monday night should be taken advantage of. The two-day event is full of rare opportunities to meet and learn from some huge cultural names; it would be a shame for anyone to miss. Chris McCaffery is a junior studying history.

“Cartagena hooker”: A sign of our times

however, the practice of abstinence must be rooted in love that

lead to the begetting of new persons. If teenagers understood how to love people, it would transform their self-images as well as their decisions about romance, friendship, and family. Leaving aside the question of the government’s role in education, we can acknowledge that what programs do exist should make the best case possible for love and the moral habits that spring from it, as these protect both individuals and society. Imagine that one of the teenage couples from Mississippi had loved each other and themselves according to their personhood. She dressed in a manner worthy of respect. He

outcome to the imagination. This mixture of modesty and playfulness portrayed by the actors was commendable. Not only did the play leave graphic content offstage, but it also required the audience to evaluate their own relationships and perception of love. Shakespeare’s plays are full of 17thcentury sexual innuendos (coin in purse, anyone?), and are some of theatre’s greatest art. We spend hours in English classes picking apart the nuances of every word and appreciating what they reveal

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Mississippi, a Southern, Republican, Protestant state with abstinence-only education mandated in public schools, suffers from the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country. Liberals love to parade this statistic, usually garnered from the National Center for Health Statistics (2010), as evidence that abstinence education has failed. Schools should teach teenagers to use contraceptives instead, the argument goes, so that young women can avoid dropping out of high school with a baby in arms and no husband. Teenagers will sleep around one way or another, they shrug, so we should teach them how to do it with minimal consequences. Perhaps abstinence education has failed — not because we ought to give American youth over to the lusts of their bodies and have done with it, but because abstinence education neglects the moral habits that fortify marriages and families. Moral laws exist so that we can attain the good. Otherwise they are subjective standards, imposed by personal belief systems. Without recognition of its intended good, abstinence amounts to little more than a refusal. Abstinence education barded with provocative images, words, and ideas, should stare temptation in the eye and just say no. The ability to resist bodily desires does indicate a certain strength of will, but the lack of context collapses abstinence into futile resistance to a force of nature with an arbitrary deadline — after which we may indulge ourselves freely. Youth pastors recount stories of students posing the question, “How far can I go?” Last month, I heard of a couple that decided to marry within months of ing in sin. Both of these attitudes reveal an impoverished understanding of the good that abstinence education is trying to achieve. We encourage teenagers to practice abstinence because it

Two scenes in the play’s second act caused a stir: One depicted same-sex attraction between two men and another implied pre-marital sex between old friends and included a crude hand gesture. The play handled the topics with grace and class. It’s not uncommon to swear off the opposite sex after multiple letdowns and broken hearts, as the two men in the scene did. And the couple preparing for their night together did so humorously rather than sensually, and left the

was humiliated in a terrible scandal. Agents sent to prepare for a presidential trip to Colombia availed themselves of the local service industry, as it were. The local cops were called in when one agent refused to compensate a woman for services rendered, contradicting ancient advice about the oldest profession: You don’t pay for the sex; you pay for the hooker to leave. Hats off to the Cartagena constabulary for their diligence in enforcing contract rights. Ten agents lost their jobs. On April 23, 2012, then-White House press secretary Jay Carney ible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or the White House staff.” “Nevertheless,” Carney said, “out of due diligence, the White ducted a review ... (and) came to the conclusion that there’s no indication that any member of the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior.” If the Washington Post’s exhaustive exclusive this week is to believed, that was what experts would call a lie. Secret Service investigators told the White House that Jonathan Dach also had too good a time in Cartagena. Dach, then a Yale law student, was a volunteer for the White House advance team. The lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees the Secret Service — says he was told “to withhold and

alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration.” One such piece of information was that Dach “was not charged Hilton Honor Member.” Membership has its privileges. That guest, investigators found, had advertised herself as a prostitute on the Internet, complete with a photo of herself scantily clad in front of signs that read, “Summit of the Americas.” Perhaps she was just a student of international diplomacy specialciencies of soft power? The lead investigator and two of his aides say they were put on administrative leave when they questioned what they believed to be a naked political cover-up. If the allegations are true, we’re left with this question: Why did the White House go to such lengths to conceal the event? Dach broke no laws in Cartagena, the alleged tryst took place in a so-called “tolerance zone” where prostitution is legal. Surely the White House isn’t against tolerance. There are two likely answers. in the Post’s reporting. The White House didn’t want a scandal in an election year. The second answer, also suggested by the report, is that while Dach was an inconsequential gnome in the White House’s massive political operation, Dach’s father, Leslie, was a big donor to the Obama campaign. A former lobbyist

for Wal-Mart, Leslie Dach gave $23,900 in 2008 and worked with Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign. Neither answer excludes the other, and both speak volumes about this White House’s problems. The underlying scandal is fairly minor. But if the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about this, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public — and Congress — about larger issues like, say, Benghazi? (Just this week, former Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that the infamous White House talking points on the attack were essentially bogus.) But it also speaks to the seedy way Obama talks about politics generally. The president loves to denounce a cynical system where politics comes before the public good. He rails about a system where fat cats live by a different set of rules than the little guy, and money buys special treatment and access. But the way he operates runs completely counter to all that. Which is why the only person to come out of this scandal in an honorable light is the Cartagena hooker. Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and editor-at-large of National Review Online. You can write to him in care of this newspaper or by e-mail at goldbergcolumn@ gmail.com, or via Twitter @JonahNRO.

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Ebola is a political problem

Don’t politicize Ebola

Dominic Restuccia Special to the Collegian

George Washington once wrote: “The American people must feel before they act.” This is human nature; we tend not to care about something until we feel its impact on ourselves. Ebola has impacted West Africa since March, yet only recently has it become a topic of conversation in the U.S. because it appeared in America two weeks ago. We have three options: chalk the issue up as fear mongering, fear monger and freak out, or have a serious discussion about Ebola. Our medical infrastructure and hygiene habits do not prevent 200,000 Ebola. But the fact that we are unable to stop Ebola does not indicate a sure epidemic. Freaking out is unnecessary and likely to be counterproductive. A serious discussion is in order. What we claim to know about the disease, from our limited understanding of it, is that it is only there is no known cure yet. There have been around 4,500 deaths reported in West Africa. It continues to spread through West Africa due to a lack of infrastructure, a general lack of hygiene, and no real control over the quarantine system. It is expected to get worse before it gets better. sending American troops in to build infrastructure and establish order; and second, ensuring economic stability in West Africa so that the region does not simply dissolve into chaos. But this approach is problematic. It is unclear that American forces will

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not only the nation but the world by storm since it began in West Africa, with what researchers believe was a single person who contracted the virus from fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family. Because these bats infected other animals through close contact in the wild, all it took was one person to eat an infected animal or touch an infected carcass for the disease to take root in the human population. That single person has now infected nearly 9,000 people just in West Africa. While Ebola is survivable if detected early and its symptoms are treated, it is claiming so many lives because of its quick transfer ability. And the longer the virus can propagate, the more it will adapt, and the harder developing a vaccine will become. Luckily, Ebola only “spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, and transfer is not a huge problem in the United States thanks to our sewage systems, health codes, water dispersion, etc. which many poorer nations lack. But, regardless of where Ebola came from and what it’s doing, it’s here and it demands action. Unfortunately, our country’s lack of priorities and desire to push unrelated agendas has created confusion about the disease. There was no immediate response to the threat of it coming into America, and now it is here. Many conservative politicians have blamed President Obama. While the president’s actions concerning Ebola, like sending 3,000 troops to West Africa to help “control” the outbreak, are questionable, Ebola itself is not his fault.

More important, we are allowing people to travel to and from West Africa Ebola death on American soil has occurred and American lives are hanging in quarantined suspense because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whether more people have been infected remains to be seen. There has been little consideration of the health of the 3,000 Marines and even less consideration of the inherent risks associated with free travel between America and the heart of the outbreak. Our administration does not understand the fundamental role of American government: to protect the lives and liberty of the American people. Endangering the lives of the American people by allowing free travel for the sake of West Africa’s economy is a mistake. I understand the argument that we want to keep West Africa stable economically to better contain the situation, but there are better ways to contain the disease without needlessly endangering American lives. We should stop air travel coming in from West Africa. We can transport resources and deliver aid without commercial airliners. We should be using troops to deliver resources and quarantine the infected region without inserting them into the midst of the outbreak. We need to address the problem at its source for the safety of Americans. The generosity of America allows us to send resources and allow volunteers to help poorer countries, but we should not allow people to come into America from West Africa. It may be the case that this does not spread throughout the United States. Should that be so, it will not be on account of the American government protecting its people. Instead, I am concerned that we shall fail to destroy it and it shall continue to leak out to the rest of the world, cropping up across If George Washington was right, we will not act to contain the disease seriously until we feel the effects of outbreak. By then, it could be too late.

Blaming Ebola on our country’s obsession with political correctness, despite the outrageous and foolish concern over the need to be so politically correct, also will not help. Rush Limbaugh said last week on his radio show that, “The impulse might be to isolate these countries. If we do that, if we isolate, see, this is this political correctness crap. It’s not fair that they are the ones that have Ebola. told them that they have more Ebola than anybody else. So we can’t isolate these countries.” Limbaugh does not understand the inability to isolate a country in Ebola/Wikimedia Commons the 21st century. Since when did Ebola and political correctness have any relation? People like Limbaugh are taking advantage of the confusion to push their own agendas instead of actually addressing the problem. Disease is not the next political battleground. Whether or not you are in favor of the travel sanctions or health screenings or deployment of troops, one thing is for sure: The focus must be Ebola and the protection of Reasonable precautions should be taken. The government should warn Americans against travel to infected areas. But medical personnel will need to travel. Banning business travel will depress the African economies, making it harder to obtain medical treatment. All travelers from affected areas must be screened as they enter the U.S. The medical community must develop and rigorously practice containment procedures. The media should keep the public informed, but not panicked. The medical community government gets involved, unrelated agendas get pushed. We need a priority check. Only once we have the country’s priorities in check — one of most important being the protection of the life, liberty, and reasonable precautions necessary to contain Ebola. Gwendolyn Hodge is a George Washington Fellow studying politics and theater.

Dominic Restuccia is a junior studying politics.

Social media make us less human Colby Clark Special to the Collegian On Oct. 10, 2014, I mercifully deactivated the poor, neglected entity that was once my Facebook account. I terminated a long-abandoned Twitter -

of the modern world is becoming further woven together, I am slipping further off the grid. We live in an era when stimulation is literally at our

disappeared at the top of the screen a few blinks ago. Our minds are wired to an ever-expanding nebula that can temporarily eliminate a vague desire to be connected. Now that we have the unprecedented ability to convey our thoughts effortlessly, our communication lines are clogged with information that is quickly chewed, digested, and forgotten. The thirst to stay constantly involved and relevant cannot be a healthy step for mankind. The time we spend plugged in is time lost to a perpetual cycle of remaining in the know. Instantaneous communication

painless, and cheap. From 2005 to 2013, social media usage increased an astounding 800 percent, with 73 percent of online adults in 2013 using at least one social networking site, according to a 2013 report of

the smallest snippets of self-published thought and suck them dry. Modern social networks are an unrelenting, never-ending source completely changed the way human beings live. Never before have we personality so impersonally. Anybrain is happy to read your spews of thought as long as you will glance at person is thinking, but we know what someone is thinking because it just

Dear Editor, Chris McCaffery, in his op-ed “An and in particular the kind of economits fair share (likely more than most) of bad analysis and awful policy prescriptions. I would never purport to defend all of economics since I personally bevery good. But the kind of economsome) is most certainly not guilty of the sins that Mr. McCaffery accuses it. Ludwig von Mises taught us that economics is a science of human action. Building on Mises’ broader inthat economics is about studying which institutions (including the spontaneously evolved market institutions — “the result of human action but not of human design”) are most effective at coordinating the plans and actions of multitudes of free individuals who

times. media is demon spawn or that each of us should completely retreat into our own thoughts. Far from it. But we need to be careful not to let social ing stimulations in this life. Instead of using our downtime to ooze through Facebook, Twitter, and Yik-Yak, we real. Recently, I issued a challenge to myself that I think is refreshing in an age of digital monotony, and I would like to pass it along: Find something to struggle with. For play guitar. But it can be anything, as long as it forces your mind to thing that requires headaches, sweat, and maybe even blood.

Internet and American Life longer a gimmick or a fad. The race to develop the next trendy network has led to the creation of more and more media to plug into. In seconds, we can engorge our minds with piles and piles of information. Like vultures circling through the pix-

is no time to truly think. No time to dream. We seem to be shackled by a socially-constructed obligation to stay

wrestle with for hours and hours and never Joel Calvert/Collegian be truly sick of in your heart, even after lethargy tries to trick you into admitting

has turned us into mindless locusts with a taste for the irrelevant, the unnecessary, and the immediate: an insatiable appetite for that which can-

In an age when we can saturate our minds with endless textual bile, how can we retain the elements of who we are as individuals? A healthy amount of mental solitude is fundamental to the development of who we are, and I fear that social media has hunted the deep thinking to near extinction. The overabundance of communication in our generation has effectively shaken awake our daydreams, crippled our minds with leaden irrelevance. There interact with each other in highly complex ways. Good economists simply aim to understand those institutions, whether they take the form of laws, informal social rules, customs, etc., that facilitate this coordination of human actions. And yes, when those institutions are right, prosperity usually follows. But economics is not primarily about prosperity, and it never claims that prosperity leads to happiness; rather, economics is fundamentally about understanding the consequences of choices made under particular institutional arrangements. What so many seem to be bothered by is that good economics does not purport to tell people what goals they should value and pursue. The proponents of ‘localism’ are engaged in exactly that, though — they have an agenda that they are trying to push. It is quite possible that this agenda may be entirely correct, and if they are simply attempting peaceful persuasion that happiness and contentment will be best reached by following their recipes, I wish them all the luck (though I personally much prefer to live in a

you love for its own sake and because there is joy in actively thinking or doing or being something or some way. Find what this means to you, and then make it conform to your efforts. Our connected culture is packed full of voices and distractions that can mask who we truly are and deafen our ears to what is truly important. But when there is so much more that we can be, we owe it to unplug, take a few deep breaths, and discover who we really are. Colby Clark is a freshman planning to study American Studies.

most certainly not about telling people whether they should prefer living in a small commune or in a mega-city. And this is what is irritating about good economics to all people with an agenda — they are unable to conscript it to push that agenda, since the economists’ starting point is always the individual with his or her own thoughts, ideas, values and preferences, whatever those might be. Good economics simply teaches us what institutions to adopt that will allow people to best accomplish their goals based on those thoughts, ideas, values and preferences, which economists are not equipped to judge. And I can assure you that NO economist would ever say that “humans are commodities to be bought and sold,” as Mr. McCaffery claims. That is absolutely ridiculous, and a gross mischaracterDr. Ivan Pongracic, Jr. Professor of Economics Mises Chair in Economics

The Patriarchy’s shower heads Shower heads are agents of female oppression Breana Noble Special to the Collegian In modern America, appearance is everything, especially how one views him or herself. When a group of people feels subjugated by their environmental conditions, they view themselves critically, and someone must stand against the victimization and injustice. appearance is her locks: The tresses and shampooed and conditioned with such great care that each strand is perfectly picturesque (until 30 minutes certainly still be the key to nailing that interview, getting that guy or impressing her friends at lunch. In essence, the hair gives a woman that extra boost in world. But on bad hair days, girls tend to be more distracted, annoyed and insecure. has become a challenge for some female students. When the shower head mately 5 feet 6 inches, give or take an inch depending on the shower head, the girl above the average height — 5 feet 4 inches, according to the Centers for Disease Control — is doomed to awkwardness and humiliation as she hits her head on the shower pipe and must crouch to rinse her hair or else consign herself to the far worse suffering of not having silky, shiny, dandruff-free hair. Many girls gripe that having to adjust the shower head and stand in different postures makes showering take a longer time.

are only 2 inches taller than the female higher. This limitation on the height of striction on their greater ambitions, the truth of the war on women. According to the American Psychology Association, taller people normally earn more money and have ever, with the height of the shower heads, women are forced to shorten themselves, which crumbles their selfesteem and makes them feel uncomfortable with their bodies. Virtual reality studies have shown by making someone view the world from a shorter perspective, subjects report feelings of inferiority, weakness and incompetence. gap between men and women, seeing that women are paid less than men, fewer women in top positions in the business world. Not to mention, when women do assert themselves, they are made to feel guilty about it and called the “b-word”: bossy. It is absurd that this patriarchal oppression of women in day-to-day life has been permitted to stand when we cannot stand in the shower. We must unegalitarian persecution.

cally to decrease their height, they feel less capable, and at an institution that demands students to perform at the highest of expectations, self-congoal. The unequal difference in the height of the shower heads from that

burdensome rite. As careful measuring has revealed, the shower heads in the heads are around 6 feet 2 inches in height. Men do tend to be taller than women, as the average male height is around 5 feet 10 inches. This means,

win the war against them and their fabulous hair. Breana Noble is a freshman planning to study politics and journalism.

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This is a continuation of

last week’s piece, “Crumbling roads cause concern as winter approaches,” which covered the current condition of Hillsdale’s roads and road funding.

Sophomore Matthew Little crosses deteriorating Park Street behind Simpson dormitory. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

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FOOTBALL FALLS SHORT IN LOW-SCORING CONTEST

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can’s quarterback. “We just kept bringing a lot

In a defensive battle, the Hillsdale College Chargers came up short on the road against top-10 team Ohio Dominican, falling by a score of 9-3. “They’ve got a really good defense,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “They’ve got really good pass rushers.”

said. “We were constantly in their

Chargers have played since Nov. 2, 1991 in which both teams The Panthers’ defense held the Chargers to just a fourth quarter more kicker Steven Mette. Hillsdale’s defense wasn’t too shabby either. “We knew we had to be physical with them because they have the best defense in the GLIAC,” said senior captain defensive back Tim Moinet, who had one of Hillsdale’s two interceptions on the day. “Our defense stepped up and played really well.” Hillsdale’s defense bent but didn’t break. The Panthers moved the ball, gaining 376 yards on the day and converting “We played really hard,” coach Otterbein said about his defense. “[We] did a great job with the defense to keep them out The Chargers also did a good job of pressuring Ohio Domini-

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Volleyball Hillsdale: 0 Grand Valley St.: 3

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Hillsdale: 1 Ferris St.: 3

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The Panthers were only able to gy defense, it was enough to get the job done. “Their defense was just very good,” quarterback Mark LaPrairie said. “Their defensive line was very big, athletic, fast, so that made it a little bit more difOhio Dominican’s defense held LaPrairie to just 103 yards passing on 8 completions. The Chargers also left themselves with too many third and long situations, Otterbein said. Hillsdale converted just two of their 14 third downs on the day. “We didn’t enhance our opportunities by the mistakes we made,” he said. “[There were] too many times where we were playing right into their strengths.” With the loss, the Chargers are now 2-4 overall and 2-3 in GLIAC play. Hillsdale will look to pick up their third win of the season on Saturday when they host Ashland at 2:30 p.m. Ashland and Hillsdale haven’t played since the 2011 season when Hillsdale won a shootout 40-34. The two schools have been rivals in years past and there is even a trophy that goes to the winner of each game, but since many of the current play-

BOX SCORES

Wade Wood 4-7 Passing: LaPrairie 8-24-0-103 Receiving: Timmy Mills 4-67 Tackles: J. D’Agostino 2-8 Scotty Penola 6-4 Roger Stewart 4-6 Interception Returns: Joe Duff 1-63 Tim Moinet 1-4

Redshirt sophomore Steven Mette kicks a field goal. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

ers haven’t played Ashland much if at all, the rivalry isn’t on their minds. “I haven’t played them since freshman year so that whole rivalry thing isn’t there for us as a team,” Moinet said. “There’s not much history because we played them once.” Like any team in the GLIAC, Ashland will pose familiar chal-

lenges. “[They’re] fast, physical, athletic just like the rest of the teams in this league,” coach Otterbein said. “The thing we’ve got to continue to focus on is ourselves. [We’ll] prepare the best we can, play the best we can and worry about ourselves rather than what ifs.”

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SWIM TEAM FACES FINDLAY FRIDAY Kat Torres Collegian Reporter This preseason the swim team dedicated their time to becoming faster and stronger. GLIAC championship meet last year, the smaller team is looking to focus individually, to ensure that each girl is swimming to her best ability to achieve a GLIAC

rather than just swimming to get through the race.” Upon arriving back at campus early August, the Chargers have been working diligently on technique and improving racesimulation by vamping up the intensity at practice.

is one of the central themes the Hillsdale’s swim team is focusing on this season, as well as improving their already impressive academic goals. Earning Scholar All-American last year, the teams’ work ethic in the pool

season long conquest of the GLIAC title begins this Friday at 6 p.m. at the University of Findlay. “Our team is smaller, but we are really focused more on getting stronger and swimming everyday like it’s a race. We have been pushing really hard this past offseason,” senior captain Ali Bauer said. Last weekend, the team had its annual Blue and White intrasquad meet which was a great predictor for how the season will unfold. “It’s hard to say this early in the season, but the way everyone looked and felt is really positive,” sophomore freestyler Whitley Sowell said. “The emphasis on see how we grow and improve as the season moves along. Everyone is working on swimming to

with a 3.2 average team GPA. Although the team is small seniors last spring and only introducing two freshman to this team this fall, the 17-member team is just as much of a contender in the GLIAC as the other teams. The size of the team doesn’t matter as much in the conference meet, because in the races that they are able to score points in, coming out on top is what will allow them to bring home a title. “Swimming is such a mental game,” junior backstroker and freestyler Alissa Jones said, “Each one of us has to be on our A-game going into meets because how you swim individually is going to greatly impact a small team. Doing your job individually is going to help your team the most, especially in relays.” The team is packed with talent, but Bauer said their hard work ethic is their secret weapon. “The opportunity the season about. Being stronger, better, and faster, is what we are all reaching for,” Bauer said. “Talent is only going to get a team so far, but hard work will be what brings success and I think our work is

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Oakland Raiders wide receiver Andre Holmes, ’11, played an integral part in the Raiders game against the San Diego Chargers on October 12. Though the Chargers beat the Raiders 31-28, Holmes had two touchdowns and 121 yards from four catches during the game. Holmes attributed much of his success in the game and this season in general to Raiders quarterback Derek Carr’s trust in his teammates. “You like to hear that he’s going to have trust in you, especially on those opportunity balls where you might have to make a play over a defensive back,” Holmes said in an interview after the game. “He trusts you to make plays, and it’s really encouraging.” Holmes is coming to the forefront of the Raiders’ offense, playing 111 snaps and getting 20 targets in the last two games in comparison to the 66 snaps and three games of the season. In the last two weeks, Holmes yards and three touchdowns, including a 77-yard touchdown. After playing for the Dallas Cowboys for two years before

joining the Raiders, Holmes, an undrafted free agent, has been one of the biggest subjects on Fantasy Football blogs the past two weeks. Holmes has remained humble and focused through his success. “We just have to continue to stay the course and work hard,” Holmes said. Holmes’ next game is on dinals in a game that Chargers’ fans might have a hard time deciding which team to root for. Offensive tackle Jared Veldheer, ‘10, signed with the AriVeldheer was drafted by the Raiders in 2010. He signed with the Cardinals this past offseason as a free agent. Veldheer’s Cardinals are one of the big surprises so far this season in the NFL, leading the NFC West with a 4-1 record. Veldheer and Holmes have spent several years playing together at Hillsdale and with Oakland. Come Sunday, they’ll be on opposite sidelines. However, at the same time as both players play on the offensive side of the ball. Chargers will be well represented on Sunday at Oakland’s O.co Coliseum.

Coach John Tharp stands with this season’s captains. (Photo Courtesy of Brad Monastiere)

Martin Petersen Special to the Collegian While roadtripping to North Carolina in late June, head coach of the Hillsdale men’s basketball team John Tharp received a call from Lawrence University. He was going to be inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame. Tharp said he was overjoyed when he heard the news. “I had never given [being in the hall of fame] much thought,” Tharp said. “It sure made the car ride down seem quicker.” It was at Appleton, Wisconsin’s Lawrence University where Tharp began his coaching career and created a winning atmosphere for the school. On Friday, almost eight years after parting ways with the small Division III school, Tharp was honored with a ceremony for the induction at the university. The former coach was greeted by many family and friends, some of which he had not seen since he left to become a Charger. nitely emotional.” Tharp began coaching the Lawrence University Vikings in 1994 and remained the head coach for thirteen years, making a name for the school and himself In just his third season with the team he led the Vikings to a conference title and an NCAA tournament berth. After not making it to the seasons, the Vikings bounced back to claim the conference championship title the next three consecutive seasons. They appeared in the NCAA tournament in each of those years, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2004. His fondest memory was the “What a ride,” Tharp said. “To be ranked number one, it was pretty special.” Finishing with a stellar 204108 record, Tharp set new coaching records for years to come for Lawrence University including most wins and highest winning percentage. Tharp did more for his teams than win basketball games. He said he strived to make his players men and help them through the ups and downs of not only basketball games, but life itself. Tharp, along with his wife Jennifer, took care of the basketball players when they were sick or needed help.

“We were their second parents. It’s one big family,” Tharp said. This sort of attitude toward the players is what made Tharp special and what Lawrence Uniing him as a hall of fame coach. Since becoming a Charger in 2007, his coaching style has not changed and the people who are surrounded by him now are not surprised with the honor he received. “He has a unique ability to talk to people,” said Luke Laser ’10, the Hillsdale men’s basketball assistant coach. “He makes you feel like you are the most important person in the world. It’s a good feeling and it’s something that not many people can do.” Laser has spent a lot of time with Tharp over the past years, including his time as a player. Laser became a Charger the same year as Tharp did. “He makes you feel like if you set a goal, no matter how lofty that goal is, you can accomplish it and he will make sure you do. That’s what makes him a special man and a special coach,” Laser said. Former player Anthony Manno ’14 echoes what Laser said about Tharp’s care for his players. “The majority of coaches out there care only what you do on Tharp certainly cares what you gitimately invested in your life as a human.” Manno could not agree more with the induction Lawrence University gave Tharp. “Coach Tharp is a hall of fame caliber coach. To see where he has taken our program in such a short period of time is proof of his ability,” Manno said. The Chargers have made the GLIAC playoffs every year since Tharp began coaching, and the team won the GLIAC conference championship in 2012. Tharp is currently ranked as Hillsdale’s third winningest coach. “I believe that he is hall of fame caliber for many reasons in addition to his overall record and winning percentage,” Manno said. “Things like the way he cares for his players and his invested interest in every man who has played for him will transcend past all wins and losses in my mind. Few coaches can win a lot of games. Even fewer coaches can win a lot of games and respect their players as Coach Tharp does.”

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TENNIS WRAPS UP SEASON

Charger golf team closes inaugural season

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Junior Rachel Blaauw hits a backhand on Friday against Northwood. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)

VOLLEYBALL WINLESS OVER WEEKEND, 6-5 IN GLIAC PLAY -

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Left to right: Juniors Jordan Denmark and Emily Wolfert celebrate with sophomore Erin Holsinger. (Madeline Fry/Collegian)

Charger Chatter: eric theisen the dugout. I helped coach the Hudson legion team while still in college, and then I was a graduate assistant at Sienna Heights University. After that I came here, and I have been here

Head coach of the baseball team Eric Theisen talks about his love of baseball, prepreparation for the upcoming season, and the team’s annual Halloween game on Oct. 19. How did you get into the game of baseball? I was born into it. My dad was a head college coach when I was born, and so I grew up in

Why is baseball so special to you? Baseball is a unique sport. It is one of the few sports without a clock. Your time doesn’t run out, but your outs do. It is a great blend of individual and team aspects. You can’t just give the ball to your best player. Your best hitter can’t be up all of the time. It is truly a team sport in that way, that everyone has a chance and a responsibility, and every player is relied on at some time. However, there is also an individual competition between the pitcher and the hitter. It is a sport that stays true to its roots, and it really teaches the players to deal with failure. What is it about Hillsdale ath-

letes that set them apart from athletes at other schools? Obviously the academic rigor here is hard to match. The GLIAC is a very competitive Division II conference. I would say that they have to develop incredible time management skills. Being an athlete is a parttime job at the very minimum. This means that there isn’t a lot of time for leisure, especially at a place with the academics of Hillsdale. How does this affect what you look for in new recruits? Good academics are one thing. Overall the quality of a guy’s character makes a big difference. We want guys that will blend well here on campus and that will blend well with the team. We look for qualities how good of a teammate they are. We will even ask his current teammates how good of a teammate he is. We are really

looking for guys that will bring the team together, and not draw it apart. What is being done right now to prepare for the upcoming season?

The fall classic ends on Thursday, and after that it is just small group work up until Christmas break. What is happening with the Halloween game this year? That will be Sunday the 19th. There are a lot of programs that do it around the country. It can be tough to do in the Midwest because of weather, but as long as that holds, we will get the guys out there in their Halloween costumes. Just give them a chance to run around and be kids. Where did you get the idea from? I had seen it happening around the country, and some coaches that I knew were doing it. It

has been a really big thing for southern schools the last few years. Baseball is a kids’ game, and this is a good way to be reminded of that. Do you have any ideas as to what costumes will be on the

Oh man, I really have no idea. It’s just going to have to be a surprise. What are the goals for the team come spring? Over the last couple of years, we have really raised our expectations. The guys have raised their own expectations, and that has been cool to see. I think it is everybody’s goal to get into the GLIAC conference tournament. Everybody knows that anything can happen once you’re in the tournament. We just want to put ourselves in a position where we can get hot and have some fun in the playoffs. How would you describe your style of motivation?

Ownership. I think that is the best way to motivate. A big difference between students here and at other places is that these guys just have a high achieving mindset being instilled in them already. We give the guys some freedom and some choice. We encourage them to own the program. They have some choice in what we do, and I think that goes a long way in increasing the responsibility level. It is a big motivator when they know that it is theirs. We have a team full of leaders, and they all take ownership of the program. The program is really starting to become its own living thing. We tell them all the time, it is their team. The coaches are just here to make sure that everything runs smoothly and put the lineup together. -Compiled by Stevan Bennett

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Q & As with three writers and a folk band

Celebrating 25 years of his Image Magazine, Gregory Wolfe ’80 to headline next week’s visiting writers fest The Visiting Writers Program of the Department of English, directed by associate professor of English John Somerville, is hosting a special two-day event Oct. 20 and 21. The event honors Greg Wolfe ’80, publisher and editor of Image journal, and director of the Center for Religious Humanism and director of the creative writing MFA program at Seattle PaImage. Monday, Oct. 20, Andrew Hudgins, poet and humanities distinguished professor of Engand Erin McGraw, novelist and from their work at 4 p.m. in the Dow Leadership Center rooms A and B. That evening at 8 p.m. in the Sage Center for the Arts Markel Auditorium, band Over the Rhine will perform. Tickets may be reserved through the Tuesday, Oct. 21, Wolfe leads a panel discussion titled “Faith and the Arts” in the Dow center at 4 p.m. Later, at 8 p.m., Wolfe will deliver a talk, “Conservatism and the Arts: A Lover’s Quarrel.” The event is also sponsored by the American and Christian studies programs, the departments of English and music, and the presicroft, Arts Editor

A conversation Greg Wolfe:

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Gregory Wolfe graduated from Hillsdale College in 1980 and went on to earn a M.A. in Eng-

lish Literature from Oxford University. He has been published in journals such as National Review, Modern Age, Chronicles, and Crisis. In addition, Wolfe is the author of several books, including Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery, and most recently Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age. He is currently the editor of Image, a national journal of art, faith, and mystery, which he founded in 1989.—Interview conducted and biography compiled by Chris McCaffery, student columnist What impact has Image journal had on our artistic culture in its 25 years? What’s different, and what does the future look like for religious art and Christian Humanism? tion. It’s always tricky trying to take credit for cultural change! One thing I’ve come to realize is that Image has been part of a larger social phenomenon: a reaction against what I would call “militant secularism.” Since the late 1980s there has been a gradual decrease in the censorship of the religious imagination by cultural gatekeepers (think the New York Times, etc.). Our purpose in founding Image was to showcase the work we suspected was still being created: world-class literature and art that grappled honestly with the ancient faith traditions of the West. The irony is that when we began many religious folk as well as secular intellectuals agreed that

such work was a thing of the past. available, such as taking classes We made a conscious effort with visiting professors like Rusto put up our shingle on the pub- sell Kirk and Gerhart Niemeyer. lic square and not do what many I also loved the CCA seminars conservative efforts have done and drove many speakers to and — withdraw into a fortress and from the airport in Detroit, giving blast away at “decadance.” That me valuable exposure to major means we created a journal that thinkers. could take its place side by side I wrote op-eds for the Collewith the New Yorker and Paris gian and edited the Tower Light. Review. We went to the confer- I even started a national quarences and conventions. And we terly called the Hillsdale Review were not only accepted but wel- when I was a sophomore. It was comed. founded to publish writing by The more dramatic impact young, traditionalist conservawe’ve had is within the commu- tives. Eventually we got over a nity of believers. When we began thousand subscribers. The HR many of the faithful put all their lasted about eight years. stock in apologetics and politics. Does a deep appreciation We have consistently argued that for and understanding of clasthis is an imbalance: that reason sical literature preclude a full must be balanced by imagination. embrace of modern and postWhat was modern art? your acaHow does demic career art produced like at Hillsby a secudale? What lar culture was your touch on experience Christian orwith publishthodoxy? ing and art Not at all. on campus? In fact, quite In the late the opposite. 1970s HillT.S. Eliot sdale had and Flannery only begun O ’ C o n n o r, to transform both profrom a sleepy, foundly provincial conservacollege to the tive, wrote powerhouse unselfconit is today. sciously in But I took Gregory Wolfe ’80 returns to highly modfull advantage campus next week as part of ern styles. of the good a special event for the English things that department’s Visiting Writers reactionaries, had become Series. (Photo Courtesy of Gregory who think we Wolfe)

can turn back the clock, conservatives have always known that change is the nature of human life and that outward forms can and must change to preserve ancient truths. Eliot argued that unless we fully engage with the art of our own time we actually begin to lose a full sense of the classical tradition — which is another way of saying that without a living tradition, the past becomes distorted and distant. What advice do you have for Hillsdale students who come out of school similarly disillusioned with ideological conservatism? How can academic and political climate? Never let political and economic expediency cause you to go along with rhetoric and ideology which you feel to be dangerous and harmful to the organizations and publications that speak for the deeper meaning of conservatism, then create your own. Power, wealth, and fame are temptations for conservatives, just like anyone else. Be willing to defend truths that are more subtle and nuanced than the poused by others, even if doing and feeling marginalized. If your vision is honest and true, others will be attracted to it and your witness will have an impact. You devote a lot of space in Beauty Will Save the World to on the art of the 20th century. What has been the Protestant contribution to American

Christian art over the last century? To be fair, of the thirteen artists and writers I discuss at length in that book in separate chapters, seven of them are not Catholic! In the last half-century, American Protestants have experienced a sense of renewal and reengagement with literature and the arts. The evangelical community in particular—at least the more intellectual end of it—has undergone something of a revolution in this regard. Evangelicals have been and remain one of the most active constituencies in the Image community and many evangelical institutions, such as Wheaton, Calvin, Messiah, and Gordon Colleges (to name a few) tions to scholarship and activism in the arts. One only has to look at a list of writers like the followfrom a Protestant background in our time: Marilynne Robinson, Frederick Buechner, Christian Wiman, Kathleen Norris, Anne Lamott, Jeremy Begbie, Bret Lott, and Jeanne Murray Walker.

A conversation with Andrew Hudgins and Erin McGraw:

Andrew Hudgins and his wife Erin McGraw met at the Yaddo Artists’ colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. Now both teach at The Ohio State University. McGraw received her MFA at Indiana State University, and her two most recent

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Shakespeare in the Arb underway Morgan Sweeney Collegian Reporter “It’s one of the greatest pieces of Shakespeare because it includes everything,” senior Julie Finke said. “Except a shipwreck,” senior Maran McLeod said, smiling. The pair are co-directing this year’s Shakespeare in the Arb production of “Cymbeline.” Though many on Hillsdale’s campus were introduced to “Cymbeline” for the last week’s auditions, the directors’ journey to the play began at the end of last semester. Finke and McLeod read through four

doesn’t get put on a lot because of its length,” McLeod said. The women were drawn to the play because, unlike many Shakespeare plays which seem to fall clearly into one dramatic category —tragedy or comedy— “Cymbeline” doesn’t, though Shakespeare himself considered it a tragedy. “Cymbeline,” like most of Shakespeare’s plays, has a labyrinthine plotline, and a cast full of characters whose names are as colorful as the language they

heights of love and the depths of despair. A Shakespearean trope, even crossdressing makes an appearance. Finke and McLeod have dreamed of directing a Shakespeare in the Arb since they were freshman —for Finke, even before. “I love Shakespeare, and I love the arb, and the two of them put together is one of the main reasons I chose to come to Hillsdale,” she said. “So this is a very big dream.” Finke said her acting experience before Hillsdale was limited but deeply enjoyable. A tradition in her family was to send the children, once they were old enough, to the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s summer camp. Finke attended the

over the summer before choosing it, and then spent and there discovseven hours cutered her love both ting the play to for Shakespeare make it doable for a “Cymbeline” cast members and co-directors Julie and acting. spring production. Finke and Maran McLeod. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian) In fact, another “Cymbeline” is Shakespeare’s third-longest play, speak. A play synopsis alludes Hillsdale student and Shakefollowing “Hamlet” and “Corio- to the whole range of human ex- speare-in-the-Arb devotee, seperience —sorrow, humor, de- nior Sean Kunath, met Finke lanus.” “It’s a great play that just ception, fraud, headlessness, the at the Cincinnati camp and has since auditioned for the arb production every year, including “Cymbeline” last week, in which he will play the Roman Philario. “What’s beautiful about Shakespeare is there are so many different ways to interpret and perform it that don’t seem present in modern plays,” Kunath said. McLeod’s exposure to the arts has been lifelong, beginning when she was small, with ballet and opera. McLeod performed with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus in “Hansel and Gretel”

and “The Damnation of Faust,” and has since practiced pantomime through ballet. When Finke and McLeod acted in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” their freshman year, they discovered they shared a dream of directing. Finally, that dream is becoming a reality for the two

friends with “Cymbeline.” Like Finke, sophomore Dani Morey was drawn to Hillsdale because of the theater. Morey visited the college and watched the theater department’s production of “Cymbeline.” From that moment, she knew that she wanted both to come to Hillsdale and

to act in “Cymbeline.” someday. Last Saturday, Morey was cast as Imogen, the play’s heroine. Morey said she’s intrigued by the play because it has, “all of the Shakespeare plot points thrown into one.”

Things

To do and see This week

16 October Awesome Autumn Downtown Hillsdale 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hillsdale Business Association brings you the annual Awesome Autumn event, including store specials, free snacks, and local history postings. 16 October The McQu5 The Broad Street Underground 9 p.m. 17 October Coffeehouse Mauk Solarium 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Hosted by Phi Mu Alpha, a come-and-go event featuring musical selections performed by musical students. 17-19 October War of the Worlds The Sauk Theater 240 E. Chicago Street, Jonesville, Mich. 8 p.m. On the foggy evening of October 30, 1938, America went to war with Mars!! The Sauk will make the original radio broadcast come to life on stage. Visit thesauk.org for ticketing information. 18 October Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra Markel Auditorium 8 p.m. 18 October Jazz Afterglow

Hillsdale College Jazz Big Band McNamara Rehearsal Hall 10 p.m. to midnight 18 October Beyond the Ashes The Gospel Barn - 4751 Bankers Rd. 7 p.m. Beyond the ashes is a Christian men’s quartet including musicians Anthony Facello, Dustin Doyle, Tyler Vestal, hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. They are joined by special guests Soul’s Harbor, from Adrian, Michigan. 19 October Organ Concert Hillsdale First United Methodist Church 45 N. Manning Street 4 p.m. John Ourensma, the church’s Director of Music and organist, will present his second annual organ recital. He will include informative comments about the inner workings of the pipe organ and will share the bench with past organists Brandon Spence and Janet Lee. Free event. 20 October Over the Rhine Markel Auditorium 8 p.m. Native Ohioans Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist launched Over the Rhine as a quartet in the spring of 1989, naming the ensemble after the historic, bohemian Cincinnati neighborhood and recorded together. To reserve tickets contact

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Superhero movies and why

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we love ’em Lois Lane’s naivete when it comes to the swoon-worthy Clark Kent’s real identity was public back in 1938, and it’s still talked about today. We care not because she’s so pathetically unaware for a journalist, but because she’s never too far removed from our society. Since the 30s, the Man of Steel’s strong jaw line and bilacross the big screen at least once every few years or so: he and his fellow superheroes have aged tremendously well. But how are they still so popular, some may ask, seeing that for decades, these superhero movies have pretty much all had versions of the same storyline: the kind, pathetic underdog builds himself up, becomes almost a hero, loses a minor battle, but then kicks the crap out of the bad guy at the climax. And of course, you can’t forget the inevitable smooch between the hero and the quirky, but super-hot chick who believed in him from the beginning. People know this storyline by heart, yet it will continue to Hulk smashes everything else -- because its popularity comes from the fact that it gives us an escape from our ever-graying reality and an entrance into a black and white fantasy. In reality, “good” and “bad” motives, actions, people...They have this annoying way of blending together and forming an amorphous-like solution: a gross gray clump that cannot be sucout. It’s close to impossible to depletely good or completely bad. Black and white doesn’t seem to exist in the real world. away, keep them there. We like black and white. Today, our gray world includes this war on terrorism. This war is the absolute grayest of gray. In World War I, there were the War II, there was true evil with the Nazis. In the Cold War, the Russians sucked! But today...

terrorism… yeah, he’s an evil…. guy? thing? religion? It scares us. We want a bad guy —one that we know is 100 ured out, solved, destroyed: the Green Goblin, Dr. Doom, Loki, the Red Skull. Following this notion, the deep roots that these xeroxed storylines have in American cinematography show that human nature isn’t lost after all. Yes, corruption in this world has boomed as fast as technology did during Clinton’s time in continual remakes and sequels show that people still have a deeper yearning for morality. We still want “good.” We want Peter Parker to win. We need Thor to lift his hammer again. We want Bucky to remember his old pal Steve and return to the good side. Superhero movies are black and white, cookie-cutter clean, unambiguous. They are the good guys versus the bad guys with the good guys always singing “We are the Champions” in the end. It seems weird that we’d want is always better than an ominous one we don’t seem to know how to solve. That’s why Marvel’s 2012 hit “The Avengers” still holds the record for largest opening weekend at a whopping $207 billion. That’s why we’ll continue to pay up to $17 to watch the next big superhero in 3D every few months. We can’t get enough of these mask-wearing, costumeumphing over evil. I’m not going to sit here and attempt to color-code this war and our world with you- you can do that on your Friday evening. I’m just saying all this gray is hard on the human brain. Excuse me while I catch the 7:30 p.m. showing of X-Men. Sam Scorzo is a senior studying English and journalism. Cocaptain of the Charger cheer team, she is the Collegian’s Sports Editor.

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books are “Better Food for a Better World,” which will be published next spring, and “The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard.” Her works has also been featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, and Image Magazine. Hudgins received his MA from the University of Alabama and his MFA from the University of Iowa. His collections of poems and stories tional Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, and “After the Lost Poets’ Prize. He is currently Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State.—Interview conducted and biography compiled by Amanda Tindall, Assistant Editor. When did you get to know Greg Wolfe and begin writing for Image Magazine? McGraw: I had published Greg. I was writing a lot of stories about Catholicism, and I was market. When I heard that this guy had showed up on the scene and was putting together a magazine about religion and the arts, I thought ‘Wow, this sounds like a guy who’d be interested in what I’m doing and just someone who I’d want to know. He’s gotta share some interests with me.’ So I wrote to him asking if he’d like to see my work before the magazine even existed, when it was still in its prototype form, and he said, ‘woah, you’re a little ahead of the gun here.’ But we got into a correspondence and then when the magazine was looking for

work, I sent him things, and we became friends. As you’re writing, where do you see the intersection of art and religion? my patron saint on this, which would be true for a lot of writers is Flannery O’Conner, would be very clear about how the real artist must never attempt to bend conceived mold of what religion responsibility is to the truth, always. I think that’s about a billion percent true and is ignored much too much. That’s really writing that is comforting for a day. And that’s not something that I’m very interested in reading or writing. I’m interested in reading and writing things that might make me uncomfortable, but that illuminates things and makes me think. Who are some of your bigHudgins: It varies widely from what I’m thinking about at any particular moment: Robert Frost, Shakespeare, John Milton, Chaucer a lot, the King James Bible, Robert Lowell, Emily Dickinson — I don’t think I’m not sure I’m necessarily inspent a lot of time thinking about her — and William Butler Yates, all those biggies. And lately I’ve been thinking more and more about Wallace Stevens. You mentioned the King enced you more in terms of style or content of your poetry? Hudgins: A little bit the con-

Sarah Chavey Collegian Freelancer Markel Auditorium has already hosted world famous pianist Andreas Klein and the celebrated folk band Rani Arbo & daisy mahem this semester. This weekend, the Hillsdale College Orchestra performs, adding their presence to the stage. The Symphony Orchestra will perform three intensive movements Saturday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets for Sunday’s concert are still available there is a waitlist for tickets made available by no-shows for the Saturday performance. The concert will begin with Beethoven’s “Fidelio Overture,” followed by Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn.” Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” will conclude the performance. Orchestra Director James Holleman, considers “Pictures at an Exhibition” to be most excit-

ing because of its familiarity to audience members. The composition has the largest collection of winds, brass and percussion among the three. It also includes auxiliary and bass clarinet, contra bassoon, piccolo, English saxophone, harp, and many other instruments. “It’s probably the most shiny, glitzy piece.” Holleman said. “People know it and it’s exciting. I think that’s probably the headline, the longest piece.” Student performers are equally excited about the piece. Senior Hannah Taylor has played oboe in the orchestra for four years. “It’s very colorful, and there’s a lot of potential for energy,” Taylor said. piece to be most exciting and different. “It features a lot of brass and the earlier years of composition, trumpets did not have all of the capabilities they have now,

Mussorgsky lived in the 19th century, he was able to write compositions for trumpets with higher capabilities. This, in combination with the large amount of exposed parts and solos, leads challenging song. While “Pictures at an Exhibition” may be the most exhilarating piece, Holleman believes that the Brahms composition is more musically challenging. While “Pictures at an Exhibition” is very romantic in nature, allowing for obvious contrasts and big effects, the Brahms has provided an opportunity to grow as an ensemble. “That’s been a real nice piece for the strings, the woodwinds, and the horns to really focus on some really subtle expressive techniques.” Holleman said. piece, and she agrees that the “A lot of musicality goes into is listening well and leading,” Taylor said. Though the Beethoven over-

ture may be the simplest piece, Holleman said that it will prepare the orchestra to play a more challenging Beethoven piece in the spring concert: “Leonore Three.” The piece, an additional overture to the same “Fidelio” Opera, is challenging. “When we do ‘Leonore Three,’ a lot of the same melodies, a lot of the same motives are going to come back and it’s going to be recognizable to us,” Holleman said. The Saturday night performance was sold out several weeks before the show, Ruth Sanders said. Sanders is in charge of Sage Center for the Arts box Sunday performance still has available seats, but they may also sell out. Sanders asks that people remember the limited capacity of the auditorium, and consider calling or emailing to cancel their reservation if they can no longer attend a performance so that others can attend.

The visiting writers program, a history Ramona Tausz Assistant Editor The gentle cadences of a softly singing male voice, accompanied by a guitar’s simple strum, wove through the crowded room. From his perch on a chair, the singer teased a lilting melody from the instrument on his lap, sending a living thread of sound among the youthful, raptly attentive faces of thirty listening students crowded on couches and scattered about ent realized it at the time, the scene of music and fellowship shared by visiting poet Wilmer Hastings Mills with the students at the 62 Park St. “Donnybrook” off-campus house that night in 2010 would come to epitomize both the purpose and history of the English department’s Visiting Writers Program. Professor of English Daniel Sundahl established the program in the late 1980s as a way to allow students to interact directly with contemporary poets and authors. Since that time, writers including Paul Mariani, B.H. Fairchild, and Dennis Covington have come to campus for two-day visits every year to share their craft in workshops, classes, lectures, or public readings. In the 1990s, Sundahl passed responsibility for the program to Assistant Professor of English John Somerville, who still heads it today. For both men, Mills’ visit to the Donnybrook represented the unique quality of the personal

tent, but mostly the style. Just the awareness of language of the subject matter, and the attitudes behind it, with a sort of neo-platonism, or platonism, is clear as a bell. I grew up hearing that read to me by preachers and by my father, so those are the kinds of rhythms that you’ hit pretty deep. lish and American literature. As you’re writing, how to you go about portraying depravity and the existence of God’s grace, as you do “Communion in the Asylum”? Hudgins: Well, with that one, I had simply met an episcopal priest who did that as part of his weekly job. He’d go to an asylum and administer communion to these people who were, to some degree, out of it. And I probably made a more out of it than they were for the purposes of that poem. But he did indicate that a lot of them needed help getting the cup to their mouths. god, that’s horrible.’ And my second thought was, ‘and how is it that much different than the rest of us.’

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Linford Detweiler is the guitarist, pianist, and bassist for two-piece folk band Over the Rhine. Detweiler is married to Over the Rhine’s vocalist Karen Bergquist. Over the Rhine was founded in Cincinnati in 1989. Since then, they have released 13 studio albums and toured with musicians such as Bob Dylan and My Morning Jacket. Detweiler and Bergquist currently live

interaction between writer and students that was the original purpose of Hillsdale’s Visiting Writers Program. “What happened that night when he went to the Donnybrook, to me is the ideal,” Somerville said. “I want [writers’ visits] to be as much as possible an opportunity for the students to spend time with these writers at these informal, more intimate gatherings. By all accounts it was a miraculous evening.” Sundahl’s value of such interactions led him to begin the 1980s, when a pool of money became available for use in the dahl made sure to join the committee formed to decide how to allocate the funds. “If music gets visiting musicians, we should have visiting writers,” he said. He received a small amount of money and the program was

Sundahl’s increasing duties during the 1990s, including the task of establishing the Dow Journalism Program, forced him to turn the program over to Somerville. “It is his program, and he has done such a marvelous, marvelous job,” Sundahl said of Somerville. “He has almost brought it to the point of perfection.” Somerville leaped at the opportunity to lead the program. He said he has enjoyed almost every minute of his 20 years doing the job. Despite the hard work, he would never give up the responsibility. “One reason I haven’t turned this over to someone else is I want to make sure to keep bringing people I like,” he said with a laugh. “Writers I’ve read that I really like and that I want to share with our students and faculty.” He has seen the program grow in different ways over the years. “We have more money now

afford to bring one writer to campus for a two-day visit each year. Czeslaw Milosz, a Lithuanian poet and Nobel Prize Winner, ter the success of that earliest visit, Sundahl then began building up the program. During the next few years, he hosted well-known poet Paul Mariani of Boston College and organized a Center for Constructive Alternatives on American Literature that brought several other visiting writers to Hillsdale. Both decisions helped establish the program’s credibility on campus.

Somerville said. “For a number of years I could only afford one [writer] a year, and then recently it’s been possible to bring one each semester.” According to Somerville, inviting writers to visit an off-campus house for a night of fellowship with students, without any faculty present, has now become a tradition and a highlight of every visiting writers’ stay. It ex-

on a pre-Civil War farm outside Cincinnati.—Interview conducted and biography compiled by Andrew Egger, Collegian Reporter. How would you describe the style of music that you play? Every songwriter loves for people to actually hear the music and respond to it without a lot of preconceived notions but that being said, I have always thought of Karen as a soul singer. She sings from the place where her pain lives like all soul singers. I like voices that come from deep places. Loosely, we would be considered an Americana band. I think we often forget about the kind of music that can only happen in America. Johnny Cash could have never happened in Italy – it’s kind of the messiness of America and the contradictions of America that create these pregnant places where music can happen that couldn’t happen anywhere else. I think we’re products too of growing up in little churches around gospel music, so that was kind of in the water. Americana is a genre which many associate with “authenticity.” What do you think it means to create authentic music? Authenticity – not trying to be something that you’re not – that’s a little bit tricky when it comes to careers in the arts and

you realize your particular story is really the only gift you’re given. You can’t borrow somebody else’s story, you have to work with your own, even if it’s a little unwieldy. So we eventually embraced that and realized there was this rich past to draw from, all of the stuff in these coal mining towns that we wouldn’t have seen if we’re growing up in New York City or something like that. You also discover that you’ve stepped into a story already in process, like what was going on in my mom and dad’s life when they were kids had a huge impact on where I ended up, and anyway you learn to own that stuff and it becomes incredibly fertile ground for a writer. So for me, authenticity starts by embracing your own story and past. You and Karen got married seven years after Over the Rhine was founded. What kinds of challenges did that create for the band? Well, we were a little bit ter-

started off Karen and I were a little embarrassed by our small town roots—little no name times in Ohio—my father was a minister at a little protestant church by the railroad tracks. At some point a transition happens where

come to mean to Hillsdale over the years. “It brings people who want to spend time with the students, not

objectivity as artists and collaborators if we were romantically entangled and in a committed relationship, but I can assure you that that has not happened. We both have continued to trust each other as editors, and we both value the other’s opinion greatly; Karen has no problem whatsoever with telling me that something is not my best work. I think we realized that we were tending two gardens, our career and our marriage, and both required creativity and care. If we didn’t water one for too long, there’s no way it could survive, so we had

just come in and out,” Sundahl said. About a year after Mills played guitar and sang at the Donnybrook, the poet died of cancer, but his memory lives on in the continued intimate interactions between writer and student that the Visiting Writers Program engenders. According to Somerville, Mills’ death greatly impacted the Hillsdale students who had known him. Their genuine feeling at his passing further ence the program enables visiting writers to have on the college’s students. “I think there’s a lot of value in just going to a lecture and hearing someone give a premeditated talk or lecture on their work, and if you know the author it’s really cool to have them shake your hand and sign your book, but it really accesses different angles of them as people instead of just writers when they come to an off-campus house and someone hands them the guitar and they start playing a song,” junior Forester McClatchey said. McClatchey has kept in correspondence with a number of the visiting writers. Looking to the program’s futhe program will continue to live up to its history of bringing students and writers together. As long as students desire to learn, listen, and connect with writers such as Mills, the program’s impact will only strengthen.

both. But it’s an interesting dilemma, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Make sure you get that in there, it’s important. Can you talk a little about the stories you tell in your songs? I think most of our songs, for good or for ill, do end up being a bit more personal in nature. There are characters in our songs, but what we hope is that when we capture a moment convincingly in our own lives that other people can lay the transparency of their own life on the song it’s not about us necessarily, but it’s more about opening a real conversation with the listener and sort of inviting them into the conversation with the idea that “this is where I am, what do you think about this?” I think it’s more about the stories that we all share. ence your creative process? Very, very much so. When I was a young songwriter people ences, and without realizing it I would usually name authors or visual artists. There’s something about getting out of your discipline as somebody in the arts creativity. Ten years ago, Karen and I moved out of the city to a hideaway farm in southern Ohio that felt like it was lost in time. Some authors, like Wendell Barthink that’s happening with us. That’s an idea that I like, anyway.

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Winona: Hillsdale princess

After burning at the stake for killing her abusive husband, Princess Winona garners Hillsdale community’s sympathy

Phil DeVoe Collegian Reporter

“Well if you don’t like it, why don’t you kill me?” And Winona Baw Beese plunged the knife deep into her husband’s heart. Winona was brought to the center of the village, where her father, mumbling and chanting spiritual hymns, bound his daughter to a tall pole. As day crept toward night, elders stacked wood around the sobbing Winona’s feet as members of the tribe gathered to watch the remaining child. When Chief engulfed Winona’s legs and risen her body, Baw Beese drew his knife and carved a cross, matching the one hanging around her neck, into his daughter’s head. “It was tragic, but it was the way of the Indians; kind of a Hammurabi’s code, an eye for an eye,” said June Roche, a city resident for over 40 years. In the 1800s, Chief Baw Beese ruled over the Algonquin Tribe of Hillsdale County and fathered two daughters, Winona and Waunetta, who both died for breaking tribal laws. “Indian law was strict, and

there were consequences,” said Dan Bisher, historian and author of “Faded Memories,” a book on the pioneer period of Hillsdale.

“Indian law was strict and there were consequences.” Winona’s death resulted from her troubled life of domestic violence. The princess was in love with her cousin, Ashtewette, who is immortalized in Ashtewette Drive, off Baw Beese Lake. Incest violated Indian law, so Winona’s love for her cousin had to end. Instead of Ashtewette, Winona married a Negnaska, an alcoholic nances and beat Winona in the midst of his drunken stupors. “Winona is really Hillsdale’s Roche petitioned Hillsdale’s Battered Womens Shelter to use Winona’s persona as a symbol for the society’s commitment to preventing domestic violence. Baw Beese gave his daughter a cream-colored pony as a wedding gift, a horse she loved, and was furious when she discovered her husband traded it for more alcohol during a trip to Indiana, which

provoke Winona to murder him. After Winona’s burning, her father buried her three miles south of Baw Beese Lake, still within Hillsdale County limits. In 1902, Flem Daily, a local farmer, discovered the remains of a human girl during a renovation of his farm and reported it to a doctor. “They just dumped all the pieces of the body, plus artifacts, into a burlap sack, and hauled it into town,” Bisher said. Considering the age, body type, the location of the burial, means of death, and the silver cross draped around the victim’s neck, the facts led the doctor to believe the body was Winona. government building, but due to body, Winona’s remains were put on display in local Paul Revere School. For reasons unknown, the school’s janitor discarded the remains out to the back of the school, piled them up, and watched the bones burn for their second time. Eventually the Paul Revere School converted to the Fayette ing place of Chief Baw Beese’s daughter on Hillsdale College property. “Not only did we kick Chief Baw Besse’s tribe out of the coun-

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the herd back up.” The largest bison the ranch had, Max, was put down a few months ago. He weighed 4,000 pounds, was 7 feet tall at his hump, and measured 35 inches between the horns. His son, Big Daddy, who fought for dominance of the herd and won, then pushed him out of the herd. Max wasn’t receiving proper nutrition and had to be laid down. The Buffalo Ranch sells Max’s meat, which is expected to last for a year’s supply. “Buffalo are aggressive by na-

From B4 with the delicacy. “I won a race in the state of Washington, and if you won, you got so much buffalo meat. I got a bunch of buffalo meat. It was just a little 10K race, put on by a buffalo restaurant,” Wolfram said. Daniels decided to purchase the ranch when he found out Childs planned to close the ranch. “My kids came here before I bought it. My wife Dana and I, we talked it over and thought, ‘there aren’t too many places left like this,’” Daniels said. “We kept it running for my kids and other peoples’ kids.” Daniels said the biggest change his family made to the property was making it more family friendly. The family redid the barns and fencing, and is currently in the process of renovating more fencing. They added

ty, but we desecrated his daughter’s grave and threw her in the trash,” Bisher said. The Fayette Building is now a storage building for the Hillsdale College. Baw Beese’s other daughter, Waunetta, met a similar end. She was madly in love with a Frenchman who lived in the area, and after a long courtship, they decided to wed. The Frenchman was a Christian, and he convinced his Indian love to solicit a priest for the wedding. est priest, the Frenchman was attacked by a bear and killed. Waunetta sunk into a deep depression. Waunetta walked to what is now Winona Lake and did what many other Indian girls who lost their loves were known to do — she tied rocks to her arms, legs, and hands, and leapt off a boat into the center of the lake. The memory of Winona, Wautrate Hillsdale County in the form of roads, lakes, and even Hillsdale College publications and events, including the Winona yearbook for College students. “I think there should be some sort of memorial for Winona at the Fayette Building,” Roche added. “Even a snow angel in the winter would do, just something to remember her by.”

19 horses to the property, increasing the number from 22 to 41 for horseback riding. “Horseback riding is our main source of income. They are the ones that support the ranch,” he said. When the Daniels family took over the herd, there were 27 buffalo. “We went to a smaller herd

so we could stay in business. It costs a lot to get hay. The price almost tripled in price. We decided it would easier on us to afford a smaller herd, rather than lose it all,” Daniels said. “For the last couple of years the price of hay went from $20 a bail to almost $100 at one time. We are making provisions and adding fencing in different areas and we will bring

and push each other back and forth.” Daniels bought the Buffalo Ranch without any prior bisonraising experience, and said it is very hard to own and control the animals. “They’re not like a cow. They are still a wild animal,” Daniels said. Only a few weeks remain to discover the Buffalo Ranch this season, before it closes in early November. It will reopen in March.

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any interest,” Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Pauken said. “Unless you go back to the horse

success to what he learned after transferring to Hillsdale. “The economic and business education, even the politics side, gave me the ability to analyze economies, trends,

there had never been any college students on the department [before Prince].” Prince’s interest in the Fire Department was initially met -

makes people upset, and what

as a “snot-nosed college kid,” he said. “I learned to be a leader by

said. The college’s celebration of free-market principles appealed to Prince, culminating in an economics major and political science minor. He enjoyed reading the Austrians and their passion for limited government intervention. Prince took the Foundations of the American Government course, similar to the Constitution 101 course the college currently offers. “He knew a lot about politics coming in,” said Professor of Politics Mickey Craig who had Prince in his student. “Erik had a good sense of humor, but a serious purpose in life.” Former Hillsdale professor Aleksandras Shtromas inspired Prince. A Lithuanian, Shtromas was imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania and then became a Soviet critic and was exiled during the Cold War. Shtromas went to law school with Mikhail Gorbachev. He died in 1999. “Hearing Shtromas talk about the politics of the Soviet Union, the inner circle, and the Politburo, knowing many of the people that were there was a phenomenal insight into that major part of world history,” Prince said. His love of world history inspired travel. Today Prince lives in the Middle East, conducts business in Africa, and, between his career as a Navy SEAL and Blackwater CEO, has visited seemingly every corner of the world. While a Hillsdale student, Prince served as a volunteer Fire Department and a rescue diver for the Sheriff’s Department.

Zeiger From B3 commitment to his studies. “Amidst many distractions brought before him by his active nature, he disciplined himself to his studies,” Arnn said. “Hans was energetic and ambitious.” As an American Studies major, Zeiger spent much of his time at Hillsdale studying politics, history and economics. One of his history professors, Burt Folsom remembers Zeiger for being a student the class valued highly. “I liked having him in class—he was a very good essay writer,” Folsom said. Along with writing books and articles, workserving as a residence assistant, a small group leader, and senior class president, Zeiger was recognized as “Outstanding Senior Man” by the college faculty and his peers. Having achieved about as many honors and recognitions possible for a Hillsdale student, he culminated it all by speaking at graduation, where he shared a stage with Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2007 commencement speaker. The following fall, he pursued his masters degree in public policy from Pepperdine University. From there he started his doctorate at Claremont Graduate University. He pointed to sors had at Hillsdale on the next generation” as the reason for wanting to pursue a Ph.D. Part way through his time at Claremont, Zeiger continued his education from his hometown through an independent study so he could run for the Washington House of Representatives. At only 25 years old, he won a hotly-contested race to be one of the youngest

Prince said. “To convince them department, I had to earn their last one rolling up hoses while the other volunteers would sit back and crack open a drink after a call. I learned to relate to those guys better, which helped me to better relate to enlisted guys going through BUDS [Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL training] and the SEAL teams.” “You have to love what you’re going to try,” Prince said. “It’s going to consume your time and your mind and your passions. Doing it out of college is a good idea, because you’re generally single, unattached. And if it works, great! If not, there’s always the couch at your mom and dad’s house or at your buddy’s house you could sleep on. So there’s not that far you can crash.” Prince said the best thing Hillsdale can do is “pluck kids out of their suburbia experience when they come to Hillsdale.” “If they can send them abroad for a semester or a year, I would highly encourage that,” he said. “You just see how another society operates. What well, what doesn’t work well. It makes you appreciate certain parts of America and gives you an idea of what works and doesn’t work in societies.” Although Prince has proved successful in the business world, he continues to pursue education, a passion he encourages to students maintain. “Focus on learning, reading, and devouring information,” Prince said.

legislators in Washington state history in 2010. Following a thorough recount, he won by a narrow margin of 29 votes out of more than 52,000 cast to unseat the Democrat incumbent. In the midst of the recount, Zeiger, Heimlich, and William Clark, Zeiger’s campaign manager and a Hillsdale graduate from the class of 2010, drove from Washington state to Hillsdale for homecoming weekend. “Hans would be ahead by 40 one day and down by 20 the next,” Heimlich said. “We spent the weekend at and then for two weeks they recounting ballots until Zeiger ultimately won by 29 votes. During the weekend in Hillsdale Hans was perfectly stoic.” Also at this time, Zeiger suspended his Ph.D. work to focus on being a legislator. “Now I realize you can of different ways,” Zeiger I have still been able to go into classrooms and speak with high school and college students.” Zeiger’s involvement in local and state politics is an example he hopes to set for other Hillsdale students looking to pursue politics. “Students should think about going back into their home communities and getting involved in public service and community service,” Zeiger said. And he is not even 30 years old. As Zeiger has written two books, secured public degrees, and climbed to the top of Central Hall eight times, it is hard to disagree with Arnn when he says man, distinguishing himself, and surprising no one who understands him.”

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Grosvenor House tightens reins to avoid closing its doors

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The Grosvenor House, constructed by Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state capitol architect Elijah Myer, is the former home of Hillsdale College trustee and business mogul Ebenezer O. Grosvenor, who started Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first public school system and once served as a page for Abraham Lincoln. (Macaela Bennett/Collegian)

The house features many artifacts dating back to the mid-nineteenth century including the first 50-star flag to fly over the United States Capitol. (Macaela Bennett/Collegian)

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