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Class of 2022 sets new records

By | Brooke Conrad Features Editor Hillsdale College 2018 applicants faced the lowest admittance rate in the college’s admissions records, according to preliminary data. At 37 percent, this year’s enrollment rate is the lowest it has ever been, down from 41 percent last year and continuing a 4-year downward trend. The school’s Admissions Office usually aims for a class size ranging from 350 to 380 students, and this year it enrolled 357 students, down from 391 last year. Additionally, the class is 55 percent men and 45 percent women, a greater gender difference compared with last year’s 50-50 enrollment and the previous year’s 48 percent male and 52 percent female

enrollment. “We’re getting really good — and I think we’ve always been good — on the yield side,” Senior Director of Admissions Zach Miller ’11 said, referring to the admissions department’s ability to recruit applicants. “And the fact that Hillsdale is becoming a little more popular as an institution across the country — that helps us get the students we’re looking for.” Miller said this year’s male-to-female ratio is unusual, especially given the national trends. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, females were expected to make up the majority of the nation’s college and university students in fall 2018, with 11.2 million total female enrollees and 8.7 million male enrollees.

“Usually the classes are larger for women, and that’s generally the way it’s been at Hillsdale the past couple years,” Miller said. “That’s not something we aim to do. It’s the way the applications kind of fleshed out at the end of the day.” All the data is only preliminary and will not be officially confirmed until mid-September, but according to Miller, the preliminary data tends to be “on target” with the official records. Additionally, the college drew only 25 percent of its students from Michigan, the smallest percentage in the college’s records to date. Records from the past seven years show the percentage of Michigan students in the low 30s. Miller attributed the

declining percentage of Michigan-native students to Hillsdale’s growing national reputation and to the fact that this is the second year the admissions department has had four regional admissions counselors who reside in their respective areas of recruitment: one in California, one in Texas, and two in Washington, D.C. Freshman Jaime Boerema said having an admissions counselor was helpful during her transition to Hillsdale. “I knew I wanted to be here, but certainly having support in admissions and having contact with people at the college makes me feel like I’m having an easier transition,” Boerema said. “I think having a good rapport with your admissions counselor is definitely an important part of

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going to the school you want to go to.” Boerema is from Michigan and was put on the admissions waitlist after applying to Hillsdale. “I know it was really hard to get in this past year, and I feel really blessed to have made it off the waitlist,” Boerema said. “I think that is encouragement and incentive for me to work that much harder.” The class of 2022 also had a slightly lower average on the ACT,scoring 30.16 out of 36,down from 30.26 in 2017. But the freshman class did average slightly higher on high school GPAs with a 3.89 average, up from last year’s 3.87. Miller said the scores speak for a “very strong” academic class and that it is the goal of admissions to bring in the

“best students in the country.” “It’s an honor really to know I came out of that pool,” freshman Jack Coker said, “which is good because I only applied to Hillsdale and didn’t apply anywhere else. I put all the eggs in one basket.” Miller added that the admissions department is excited about this year’s freshman class, because bringing the students to campus is the result of over a year of hard work. “Orientation Sunday is always like our Christmas,” he said, “because we get to welcome these kids that we’ve talked to and worked with, and we get to see their excitement of starting their journey at Hillsdale.”

‘Consistent and kind’: Remembering Radio Free Hillsdale nominated former English chair Gene Templeton for college radio awards By | Nicole Ault Editor-in-Chief Remembered for his commitment to students, high standards, and wry sense of humor, Richard Eugene “Gene” Templeton, former chairman of the Hillsdale College English department, died at his home on Aug. 29 at the age of 81. Born in Tennessee be-

to school full time,” Brent Templeton said. “That was a good indication of his character and tenacity and perseverance.” That tenacity carried into the workplace, where Templeton’s colleagues remember his devotion to his work and students. He’d often be in his office with the door wide open, recalled Christopher Busch, professor of English,

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fore moving to Michigan as a child, Templeton served as a professor of English at Hillsdale from 1967 until his retirement in 1997, chairing the department for five years. He married Ellen Justice-Templeton, former chair of the French department at Hillsdale College, in 1981. After a memorial service Tuesday, he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. Templeton was the first in his family to receive a college education, said Brent Templeton ’86, Gene Templeton’s youngest son. “As a young man, he worked 40 hours a week, had four kids, and was also going Follow @HDaleCollegian

who worked with Templeton after coming to Hillsdale in 1991. Templeton was a tough grader with high standards, students said. Brent recalled that once, his peers were discussing what a tough professor Templeton was — and Brent told them that was why he chose a math major. “I remember him being a stickler for details,” said Nicole Coonradt, visiting assistant professor of English. A December 1988 Hillsdale graduate, she took one or two classes with Templeton and had him as a reader for her thesis defense. “He was very meticulous,

and I got good feedback from him; he was the one challenging me,” she said. Professor of English John Somerville, who also worked with Templeton for the last several years of Templeton’s time at Hillsdale, said Templeton encouraged him to hold high standards for students’ work. For all his toughness as a grader, though, Templeton had a wry sense of humor and a kind heart. Noting that Templeton’s class was “always interesting,” Coonradt recalled that Templeton once brought a pickle dish into class to illustrate a climactic moment in Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome.” A “peacemaker” and a “moderator” who listened to all perspectives at meetings, Templeton encouraged the professors who worked for him and tried to create departmental unity, Busch said. Templeton held a departmental retreat, invited professors over for dinner, and initiated a lecture series for English professors to each talk about something they studied. As a father, Templeton was “consistent and kind” and encouraged his four children to be independent thinkers, Brent said. Kids laughed a lot in his home, recalled Angie Berry, trade book coordinator at the Hillsdale College bookstore, who grew up as a playmate of Templeton’s children. It

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By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Freelancer Seniors Ryan Kelly Murphy and Genevieve Suchyta jockey against other finalists to win first place for radio submissions to College Broadcasters, Incorporated. They were the first Hillsdale students to submit radio pieces to and be nominated as finalists in the CBI, for the Audio Newscast and Public Affairs Documentary categories respectively. In October, Murphy and Suchyta will travel to a convention in Seattle, where CBI will announce a winner from among the four finalists in each category. Murphy became involved with Radio Free Hillsdale during her freshman year, when the program was first starting up. She now spends most of her time on the airwaves as one of Radio Free Hillsdale’s news anchors, broadcasting national, local, and state news, as well as sports and weather. She decided to submit a recording of one of her casts at the request of Radio Station Manager Scot Bertram. “Newscasting is great because you can get your hands in so many areas of radio. You put together the script, record it, edit and produce it to be ready to air,” Murphy said. “What I focus on is speaking clearly, enunciating, and using my tone to bring the story to life and help the audience to recognize its biggest takeaway.” Murphy said she was shocked and proud to be chosen as a finalist. “It is not just my award or my achievement; it is because of this station as a whole, and the people who are involved are so invested, and we are learning alongside each other,” she said. “I am excited to see what the station does in the future, and I am hoping this is the first of many awards.” Suchyta has also been involved with Radio Free Hills-

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dale since its inception. Over the years, her interests have shifted from straight news pieces to investigative pieces. She submitted “A Problem of Pain,” her documentary on the opioid epidemic. She investigated the issue thoroughly by interviewing a local

crime, and the legislative perspective of trying to preserve communities,” Suchyta said. “The complexity really makes it interesting in creating it, as well as in listening to it.” Throughout the documentary, Suchyta explores the realities of addiction, “pill

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anesthesiologist, the Hillsdale County Sheriff, State Sen. Mike Shirkey, and College Director of Health and Wellness Brock Lutz, before she began her creative process. “I tried and get as many possible perspectives on this issue: the medical perspective of treating pain, the psychological perspective of treating addiction, the law-and-order perspective of controlling

mills,” the responsibility of pharmaceutical companies, and possible solutions to this problem. Whether or not Suchyta and Murphy are selected as winners among the finalists at the CBI convention in Seattle, Bertram expressed his pride that their young program produced such successful stu-

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Student Fed swears in two new student reps

By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor Hillsdale College’s Student Federation swore in two new representatives at their first meeting for this school year on Aug. 30. Senior graduate student William Turston is the new representative for Hillsdale’s graduate school and has been added to the campus improvement committee. Senior Garrison Grisedale now represents his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, and has been added to the budget committee. Both representatives will also be involved in the finance committee. Senior Kolbe Conger, vice president of the board, shared one of his main goals for the federation this fall. “One of the things we really want to push this semester now is getting more clubs to come to finance committee so that they can get funding for their things,”

he said. “Without them coming, we don’t have anything to spend the money on.” The graduate school has always had a representative, he said, though they were not as involved previously. “It’s a really great opportunity for me to represent the graduate school in Student Federation, and perhaps bring a little bit of a different perspective to some of the issues that Student Federation deals with,” Turston said. As an ATO, Grisedale said he wants to represent his fraternity’s interests to the Federation. “I want to make sure that we’re able to make our voices heard,” he said. “We don’t want the Student Fed becoming a detached process. We want it much more organic. We want it directly talking to different student groups made up of members. That’s my goal.”

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A ‘student-facing’ ministry: Chaplain moves office to union to improve access to students By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor Hillsdale College Chaplain Adam Rick moved to a new office space due to renovations in the Knorr Student Center and the need to be closer to students. Rick’s office has been relocated to the former conference room behind AJ’s Cafe in the Grewcock Student Union after his previous office, located in Knorr across from the computer lab, was torn down this summer in the reconstruction of Phillips Auditorium. When asked where his office was formerly, Father Adam Rick said “the fact that you’re asking is why I’m here.” Rick described his job as encouraging and providing opportunities for spiritual life on campus. This includes keeping tabs on various faith groups and providing prayer, mentoring, and institutional support if necessary. He also speaks at any faith-based gatherings around campus, not only for Christian organizations. “He is always trying to make people feel loved and safe,” said junior Katie Dimmer, a member of Catholic Society. “That might mean talking about classes or football and might not be about the Lord. That’s why so many people appreciate him—he respects everyone regardless

Chaplain Adam Rick’s office has moved to the Grewcock Student Union. Allison Schuster | Collegian

of their denomination.” He also councils students for anxiety, depression, and answers any spiritual questions they may have, which prompted the idea of bringing his office closer to the heart of student activity: the Grewcock Student Union. “My ministry is student-facing, so it made sense to be here, where the students are,” Rick said. With his office being as far from the union as it was, Rick would often go to AJ’s Cafe and “set up camp” for the day to meet with students, according to Rick. This poses a problem, as AJ’s is often busy and students can’t discuss matters privately. Bishop Beckwith ’96, the former chaplain, also used Rick’s old office in Phillips. “When I first started at Hillsdale, my office was very

isolated, and now with the quad being ripped up, even fewer people are able to visit me,” Rick said. Construction for Christ Chapel began in the spring of 2017, blocking a large portion of the quad. This summer, with the additional construction to Phillips Auditorium, Rick’s office became less and less accessible. Consideration regarding the Chaplain’s relocation began toward the end of the fall 2017 semester. According to Rick, there was no obvious choice for where it should be. One space that was considered was the back of the new chapel. However, it wasn’t in the original blueprints and it would be a difficult spot to get to, as it would be far back at the end of the chapel, separate from where students typically spend their time.

The process began last semester with the goal of protecting student’s study areas. Rick had the idea of using the conference room last year and mentioned it to Ashlyn Landherr, director of Student Activities, who is in charge of reserving the room for different groups. “We kept an eye on it, and it seemed it was used as almost the backup to the backup space,” Landherr said. Spiritual groups are still able to use Rick’s office for meetings. However, if non-religious clubs want to schedule time in that space, they will be redirected to other available rooms. Dimmer said she remembers the Catholic Society using his office several times last semester for events and daily prayer during Lent. She understands the change may affect how these events are run, but she is hopeful that it will be a positive adjustment. “I think going forward we will just have to be better about communicating alternative spaces,” Dimmer said. Dean Philipp gave the final stamp of approval this past spring but wanted to wait until construction began this summer. Everything was moved in by June. “I’m here for you guys, so come find me,” Rick said. “Even if the door is closed, knock and say hello.”

Hillsdale townhouses open for business By | Carmel Kookogey Assistant Editor The new townhomes on College and West street only have four residents, but according to Hillsdale College Park Townhomes manager Trevor Duke, ’08, they are already securing deposits for next year. Construction on College Park Townhouses was completed in the middle of the summer and is now currently housing four residents. The duplex-style townhomes offer 1-unit, 5-unit and 8-unit options, and a wide range of amenities, from air-conditioning to dishwashers, and private bathrooms for each bedroom. “We really did try to go heavy on the amenities, we’re paying a pretty penny to be able to say we have the fastest internet on campus,” Duke said. But because construction was completed in midsummer, the homes have seen smaller numbers than they would have liked. “We finished at exactly the wrong time. In the middle of summer, things were starting to look pretty, the drywall was up, the paint was on, but by then everyone had already made their arrangements for this semester,” Duke said. The homes, which Duke said have been in the works for about five years, are geared towards students, with single-unit options

College Park Townhouses feature private bedrooms. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian

ideal for trustees and visiting professors. The land is college-owned, but the homes are completely separate from the college. “This is not college housing,” and is meant to be a higher-end living alternative, he said. “I was a student at Hillsdale from 2004-2008,” Duke said, “and we saw that there was not a lot of great student housing . . . There is a trend across the company with really high-end amenities-focused places, and there’s no reason Hillsdale shouldn’t have an offering like that.” Chief Administrative

Officer Rich Péwé confirmed this. “At one point in time there were quite a few homes that needed a lot of upkeep and care. And one thought was, if you could do something that would enhance the approach to the campus and benefit the operations of the campus, maybe it would be student housing, or providing housing for people to be near the college at certain times during the year, than that would be a good thing to look into,” Péwé said. He explained that in order to get the best return on investment, the College waited

the delay, Péwé said, is the weather. Last winter, sub-zero temperatures froze the mortar being used for construction.

structure. Péwé was quick to acknowledge the construction workers’ great efforts.

for a third party to conduct making a bunch of noise and Duke did say that plans the experiment. being obnoxious, you’re on are in the works to add five “One of the trustees was your own,” she said. more townhome units down willing to take that risk, and Despite some scepticism the row on West street, but build the first six units,” he from students over the price they are waiting to see how said. of the townhomes, Péwé College Park does before Senior Sabrina Barlow, pointed out that the project proceeding. who lives in the townhomes, greatly benefits the local “This is our first time testpointed to personal freedom economy. ing the waters with the stuas one of the key reasons she “Depending on what they dent housing demand here, chose a townhome over a appraise at, and they were and this is a very different dormitory. expensive for the trustee to product,” he said. “We didn’t “I think it’s important at build . . . it does provide a lot expect it to be fully occupied Hillsdale College, we’re supmore taxable value than the on day one, we could have posed to be kind of self-gov- row of houses that were there timed the construction a erning, and as a senior it was before,” he said. “I think it re- little better, and we are eager important for me definitely mains to be seen how they’re to have students in here, but to go out and make sure that I could be self-governing and capable . . . I’m generally a fairly independent person, so to have my own space to relax and decompress after classes is really nice,” she College Park Townhouses feature modern kitchens. Carmel Kookogey | Collegian. said. She added that she likes having greater facility to going to work financially we’re not desperate. We’re entertain her friends now. for the students, but after a not going to do a fire sale, or “You do your own thing, semester we’ll know about anything like that.” and as long as you’re not that.”

Chapel construction faces delays By | Abraham Sullivan Collegian Freelancer The complexity of the stonework and last winter’s cold weather delayed progress on Christ Chapel, according to Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé. Now, problems with the exterior masonry have slowed progress even further. In the past, skilled masons were more common than they are today, Péwé explained. For such a detailed building as Christ Chapel, masons need to be able to carve each piece of molding by hand. In fact, only one company in the United States—Bybee Stone of Bloomington, Indiana— has the ability to make stone with the precision needed for such a large project as Christ Chapel. The second reason for

concrete the floor. They added the roof and shingles, put up drywall, and completed the interior stonework. The workers also completed lot of metal work for ceiling support, and the outside brickwork is well under way. So much care and precision has to go into the chapel Weather, among other issues, has delayed construction on Christ’s Chapel. Abraham Sullivan | Collegian because it is designed to be “tranWind complicated the issue “It’s not because they’re not completed underground duct scendent,” said Larry Arnn, for those working on the scaf- working very hard—they are,” work, including plumbing and president of Hillsdale College, folding toward the top of the Péwé said. “They’re working electrical lines, and poured in an email.

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Chaplain Adam Rick agrees. “Even the architecture cries out, ‘Look heavenward!’” Rick said. Rick hopes the chapel’s programming will serve the same purpose. Times will be scheduled for the chapel to open for meditation and prayer. Plans are underway for a choral Evensong service as well. Despite the delays, the college hopes to complete the chapel in time for graduation in May, Péwé said. Dedication will occur the following October. The chapel will be used for what Arnn said are the primary motivations of the donors: “love of the college, of its purposes, and of the Lord.”

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‘Mr. Mehan’s Mythical Mammals’ visit Kirby Center By | Ben Dietderich D.C. Correspondant WASHINGTON, D.C. At first glance, “Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals”, known for short as “M5,” looks like the type of book you would find in an elementary school library. Yet author Matthew Mehan claims it’s a book for the whole family. On the evening of Sept. 5, Mehan sat down with Hillsdale journalism professor John Miller to discuss his new book. The discussion took place at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship in Washington, D.C., where Mehan serves as a lecturer of English. More than 75 Hillsdale College students, alumni, and friends attended. Mehan is also a teacher at The Heights School, an independent day school for boys located in Washington, D.C. “M5,” which was released on Aug. 15, uses Mehan’s poetry and illustrator John Folley’s colorful oil paintings to tell the tale of two mythical creatures, “Dally and the Blug,” as they travel in search of a solution for sadness. On their journey, they encounter 26 other mythical mammals,

one for each letter of the alphabet. Mehan’s book has already been praised by several literary critics, including New York Times best-selling novelist Keith Donohue. Donohue is quoted on Amazon saying,

discussion, Mehan explained the roots of his desire to write a book for the whole family. “In our time, there is a robbing of the family and its time together,” Mehan said. “I wanted a book where adults could read to children and every member of the family would get something out of the book. That’s opposed to today where everything is divided and just things like television are a shared activity.” “Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals” by MeMatthew Mehan. Nicole Ault | Collegian han added “Mr. Mehan’s Mammals will that he hopes writers and knock your socks off, parent rhetors can learn from the or child, and teach you PDQ book as well. how to dream again.” “Part of the poetic arts and During the Kirby Center the rhetorical arts that would

be great to recapture for free society, free government, and the republican self-government of the United States would be the habit of knowing how to talk to a variety of levels at one time,” Mehan said in his discussion. “I wanted to lead by example and try to do that. Kids are going to get fun, amusing, nonsense poems, adolescents are going to see that there’s wordplay, structure, and an interesting craft going on. Then a little older than that, high school students and above, are going to see serious themes of psychology, politics, and truth.” Hillsdale alumna, Margaret Smith, ’15, attended the event. “I came out because I’ve always had a fascination with poetry and poetics,” Smith said. “Seeing how he was able to blend poetics with illustration and bring it all back to Western heritage was fascinating.” John Abbey, a D.C. resident and local businessmen said he was glad he finally accepted one of Hillsdale’s invitations to attend an event at the Kirby Center. “I come from a science, engineering, and business background,” Abbey said. “Sometimes there’s just so

Matthew Mehan discusses his book at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship. Ben Dietderich | Collegian

much happening in the world. After tonight, I wish I knew

with a reception following at Rough Draft.

Oil painting by John Folley, illustrator of “Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals” by Matthew Mehan. Ben Dietderich | Collegian

more about poetry and philosophy.” Mehan will be promoting his book on a tour across the United States later this month. He is expected to stop in Hillsdale to deliver a lecture at the college’s central campus in Michigan on September 13 at 4 p.m. in Kendall Hall,

“Hearing a creative describe how he used the liberal arts in this way was exciting,” said another Hillsdale Alumna Grace DeSandro, ’17, in attendance. “It’s something you rarely see in publishing and I’m excited to see others follow in his footsteps.”

Admissions to Dow: Tracey continues to spread the Hillsdale College mission By | Alexis Nester Assistant Editor

The Collegiate Scholars Program holds an annual retreat before the fall semester at Camp Michindoh. Alexis Daniels | Collegian

Collegiate Scholars students bond at Camp Michindoh

By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor On August 23, 50 students from the Collegiate Scholars Program toted heavy blankets and duffel bags to their cabins to kick off an annual tradition of the program: a retreat at Michindoh Conference Center. CSP students have been coming to Michindoh for seminars, card games, and water activities long before Associate Professor of Classics and CSP Director Eric Hutchinson took over three years ago. “That’s really the first event that all of the new sophomores come to,” Hutchinson said. “It’s community building.” Hutchinson used his welcome lecture to introduce this year’s theme: Fate and the Individual. Over the course of the next three days, a movie, lectures, and seminars highlighted the theme.

The retreat hosted four lectures given by Hillsdale College professors. Classics professor David Jones gave a lecture on Lucan’s “Civil War”; Assistant Professor of English Benedict Whalen spoke on Andrew Marvell’s poetry; Assistant Professor of Music Derek Stauff talked aboutAuden and opera; and Assistant Professor of German Stephen Naumann discussed the invisibility of monuments. Afterward, students split into groups to discuss the lectures. Sophomore Bryna Destefani said the lectures and discussions were her favorite part of the retreat. She said she was surprised it wasn’t completely academic, as she had expected the retreat to be more like a conference. “They were more personal,” she said. “There was more interaction between the speaker and the group and lots of

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different challenges as a professor,” Brent said, noting that Templeton was the men’s tennis coach at Hillsdale for a few seasons and also started a communication arts program at the college. Hillsdale faculty regarded Templeton well and benefited from his efforts in the English department, Busch said. “He was just one of those really steady people who tried to do right by the college and the people he worked with,” he said.

A1 was hard to get Templeton to laugh, she said, “but when did laugh, he laughed joyously.” Templeton had “lots of passions,” with a soft spot for animals and the humane society, Brent said. He loved tennis and camping and would take camping trips almost every weekend in the summer. “He took on a lot of

conversations in and amongst ourselves. It was a lot more relational. There was a lot more time of us getting to know the other people in CSP.” The students have several traditions they repeat each year, including various improv games, a waterslide tournament, and singing bonfire songs. The student heads of the program, junior Junior Caitlin Weighner and senior Gill West, said these activities build community amongst the students. “There’s definitely a tradition of playing board games between lectures, like Bananagrams and Dutch Blitz,” Weighner said. “You’re just having fun but you can also kind of let the things you learned that night trickle in the conversation.” Weighner and West plan all of the events for CSP, and it takes the entire summer to coordinate preparations for

the retreat. “We have to coordinate a lot of things with the new sophomores to get all the information, getting them into the Facebook page, figuring out how we’re going to introduce them, get people to do improv,” West said. “Cait and I would talk once a week all summer about the next thing we needed to do.” Destefani says the community of students felt very close-knit, even though she didn’t know everyone. “I knew a lot of people in CSP, and they’re all people I really admire,” she said. “I thought, ‘Well, OK, if this is what CSP is like — having conversations with these people and learning from them and learning together with them — that’s definitely something that I want to be a part of.”

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students in that little club with the station being so new is quite the accomplishment,” Bertram said. “People outside looking at those lists don’t even know Hillsdale had a radio station. We do and we are new, but I think we are already pretty good.”

dents. He said he has high hopes for Radio Free Hillsdale’s growth in the future. “When I see the other winners, I know that they are the top college radio stations in the country, so to have our

Aaron Tracey ’14 has dedicated himself and his work to Hillsdale’s mission — first as a student, then as an admissions counselor, and now as director of hospitality operations for the Dow Hotel and Rockwell Lake Lodge. Tracey accepted a job in the admissions office soon after graduation, and for the past four years, recruited students for the college. During that time, he expanded the number of students who attended Hillsdale’s Summer Study Abroad programs for high school students. In May, he began working for the Dow Hotel, where he strives to provide a welcoming and hospitable environment for those visiting the college. Working at the Dow Hotel is another way for Tracey to be an ambassador of Hillsdale’s mission. “By serving individuals, we give example of the college’s Christian tradition. We create a culture to have those conversations — to tell people about the college and teach its principles,” Tracey said. “I did that in admissions, and I do it here through conversation and through acts of service.” Senior Director of Admissions Zach Miller ’11 said Tracey’s energy and personality were a “winning combination” for working in admissions. “Everyone brings different strengths as counselors,” Miller said. “But his voice was uniquely his own in finding the right-fit students. His work ethic, above everything, was incredible.” Senior Adam Lauth worked in the Dow Center Hotel during his freshman and sophomore years. He set up events like the CCA and Praxis, and he currently he works as a student ambassador for the admissions department. “It’s good that Hillsdale has Aaron being the face on the

public side — the first face that visiting speakers meet going through Dow,” Lauth said. “It’s good to know that he is there and that they will have a good experience.” As a manager, Tracey works to ensure that visitors are accommodated well and events run smoothly. He meets with Bon Appetit and campus groups that use space in Searle, Phillips Auditorium, and the Old Snack Bar. He also helps coordinate trips to Rockwell lodge for the biology research and sports teams’ retreats. “He is the kind of guy who is easily available, so he’s a good fit for the Dow Hotel,” Lauth said. “If he is interacting with groups of people or speakers, he will be a great fit for that.” Tracey encourages all students and student groups to make the trip to Rockwell Lake Lodge, located an hour and a half north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tracey said he hopes to work in Dow long-term, and though he is currently busy working on day-to-day tasks, Tracey said he eventually will work with staff to improve operations. When not up the hill, Tracey enjoys spending time with his wife, Zoe (Hopkins) Tracey ’16, assistant swim coach and assistant sports information director, and their dog Sampson. He also coaches men’s soccer for Hillsdale High School. Tracey said that he misses working closely with other admissions counselors. But he still has opportunities to do what he enjoys — sharing Hillsdale’s mission with others. “It’s not just a place to go to work everyday. Every person who works at Hillsdale knows the purpose of its mission,” Tracey said. “Hillsdale is a great place to work because of the great people and the opportunity to be an advocate of its mission. I want to be a doer in that.”

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Free trade isn’t a principle, it’s a policy By | Garrison E. Grisedale Columnist For decades, the Capital Beltway offered America an unflinching bipartisan consensus: Free trade, and all of its consequences, is an unmitigated good. Any deficiencies that might arise as are ultimately for the best. But the American people weren’t buying what Washington, D.C., was selling. President Donald Trump’s simple idea on trade is that we live in a world of nations competing for power, strength, and prestige. Thus, the political concerns associated with international trade ought to take precedence over economic considerations. The nation does not serve the economy; the economy serves the nation. Free trade, therefore, is not a principle but a policy. It can be good or bad depending on the situation. It must be subject to the national interest. Consider China: Our biggest competitor and economic counterpart places enormous tariffs on U.S. goods and the U.S. ran a trade deficit of $375 billion in the last year alone. And many of the American dollars that China receives as a result of this deficit are used to purchase U.S. debt and U.S. assets. China also engages in mass-scale intellectual property theft (both outright and through coercive government regulation), copyright infringement, dumping, and currency manipulation. China is the largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world and Chinese vegetable protein imports were so laden with toxic chemicals that the Food and Drug Administration issued a recall in 2007. China also uses the U.S.’s flexible free trade policies to flood our nation with drugs. Fentanyl, an opioid roughly 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, is the deadliest drug in the U.S. and killed nearly 30,000 Americans in 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. A 2017 congressional report identified China as the primary source of origin for fentanyl in the U.S. Chinese fentanyl makes its way into the U.S. in three primary ways: China ships the drug into the U.S. directly, smuggles it in through Canada and Mexico, or sends the raw chemicals (and sometimes lab infrastructure) to Mexican drug cartels to then disperse. A yearly $800 billion trade deficit in goods worldwide has hollowed out the manufacturing base which once catapulted the United States to the the status of a world power. Is this what free trade looks like? The men who transformed

America into an industrial superpower didn’t think so. The American founders saw the need for the protection of domestic industry, and the second bill ever passed by Congress, the tariff of 1789, stated that its explicit goal was the “encouragement and protection of manufactures.” America’s greatest statesmen drew upon the founders’ wisdom. Henry Clay imagined his “American System” of tariffs, domestic commerce, and internal improvements to ensure domestic vitality. Honest Abe warned in an aside conversation that “abandonment of the protective policy by the American government [will] produce want and ruin among our people.” And William McKinley, a man from whom the president draws great inspiration, invoked the first law of nature in his defense of protectionist measures: the law of self-preservation. Protectionism has long been a part of the great Republican tradition. With domestic protection in mind, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge ushered the United States into the “Roaring 20’s.” Even Ronald Reagan turned to tariffs to save the U.S. auto industry from Japanese competition. But when NAFTA went into effect in 1994 the U.S. lost is economic advantage. Since then, the U.S. has bought $1.1 trillion more in goods from Mexico than it has sold, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the U.S. became vulnerable. America bought $4.4 trillion more in goods from China than it has sold, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. American politicians are hollowing out the heartland, wasting away our country’s domestic industry, undermining our industrial base, and lowering American wages. All for cheaper foreign trinkets. It’s reminiscent of Voltaire’s “Candide,” in which the main character’s mentor, Dr. Pangloss, maintains an illogical optimism, telling Candide not to worry despite his many misfortunes. Regardless of what might happen, Pangloss says, and as bad as it might seem, this is the best possible scenario in the best of all possible worlds. What Voltaire proposed mockingly, through Pangloss, the free traders say with a straight face. But the American people aren’t buying what they’re selling.

Garrison E. Grisedale is a senior studying politics.

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The shock of first-day-ofclass syllabi is wearing off into the day-to-day grind. As the rubber hits the road — or, more literally, the backside of a pencil hits the math homework — it’s tempting to take the blows of tests and bad grades with an “I was told I’d be average, what can I do?” attitude. There is something more

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You probably won’t prove your intelligence in office hours. Your thesis statement will wither, your analysis of Aristotle’s “Ethics” will flounder before the philosophers of Delp Hall. But you will show your character. An office hours visit takes humility, and it shows you care. You’re willing to sacrifice your own time to learn

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The Love that Made Her: How Catholics should respond to church corruption By | Jordan Wales Professor of Theology “If one member suffers, all suffer together.” Thus writes St. Paul to the church at Corinth (1 Cor. 12:26). What does this mean when a thousand members have suffered in ways unimaginable to me? The recent Pennsylvania grand jury report has again unmasked clerical sexual abuse of minors, failed attempts to treat priests with therapy without involving the police, ecclesiastical incompetence, and — most egregious — duplicitous cover-ups by bishops who acted with greater care for the church’s public image than for the safety of her members, shepherding with greater concern their own careers than the flocks committed to their charge. Moved quietly from parish to parish, many predators continued to abuse others; in a few cases, they grotesquely combined this abuse with ritualistic parodies of the Church’s worship and sacraments. One archbishop even preyed upon young men who themselves were preparing for the priesthood. Some even accuse the Pope of knowing but of having done nothing. Can I take the measure of all this suffering? What am I and my fellow Catholics to do now? Before all else we must grieve for the victims, must seek to understand in some degree their pain, which cannot fully be known by any, except those who suffer it. Yet, that it escapes our experience does not absolve us. We must not shield ourselves from the details of their suffering. We would be inhuman, we would recapitulate in a little way the sins of their abusers and their failed protectors if we allowed anything to displace our first concern, for the victims. Christ himself healed by taking on human infirmities (Mt. 8:16–17), made our sufferings His own, saying “whatever you do to the least of these . . . you have done to me” (Mt. 25:40, 45). And we must likewise be compassionate, for “by this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and [so if anyone] . . . . sees his brother in need, yet closes his compassion against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (1 Jn. 3:16–17). I did not commit these sins,

but as a member of Christ’s body, I am united mysteriously to those victims by the life of the Holy Spirit. I did not commit these sins, but I must share in their suffering. Compassion, Gregory the Great tells us, is what it feels like for a human being to live from the complete gift that is the triune life of God, communicated to us in baptism. It is necessary; it is not impossible, for “it is God at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). Second, compassion renders all the more plain how gravely the actions and inactions of these priests and bishops mock and contradict everything that the church stands for — everything to which they have pledged their lives. Their acts stand condemned like those of the hypocrites whom Christ called “white-washed sepulchers,” beauteous without but “with dead men’s bones inside” (Mt. 23:27). Because humans can turn away from God even as He infuses them with new life, the church’s members can also fall. Judas betrayed the Lord. Peter denied Him and fled. The first generation after the Apostles was no better. But the Lord’s warnings are not forgotten even when they are unheeded by many. Sins must come and the church knows scandal well. Thus the 13th century bishop of Paris, William of Auvergne, spoke fiercely against those among his fellows whose leadership made the church of his time seem “more like Pharaoh’s chariot than God’s! It hurtles down into the abyss of wealth and sensuality, even into sin. . . . Is there anyone who would not regard this dreadful perversion as Babylon rather than the Church of Christ?” It is understandable that some might “call the Church ‘whore’ and ‘Babylon’ because of the appalling scandal of [her being] overrun by the degenerate and carnal” such that her “other members are hidden and cannot be seen.” Third, it is indeed fitting to ask: Have today’s monstrous evils finally discredited the Catholic Church as a corrupt institution? Is it time to leave the church? A Catholic may wish to protest: When rabbis in New York or evangelical Christian pastors were accused of sexual

abuse, nobody really claimed that their religions were discredited. No number of convicted public school-teachers has led to the abandonment of public education. And yet, unlike these others, the Catholic Church does not see itself (and is not seen) as simply a group of believers practicing a particular ideal. Rather, the Catholic Church is a trans-national institution that claims to be the visible earthly form of that community, spanning heaven and earth, which is Christ’s “spotless bride,” united to his life as closely as the members are united to a body. It is fair then to ask: Can this claim remain plausible? Or is it time to leave? Much as we may wish it otherwise, the church’s credit was never founded on the exemplary conduct of its members. The church claims to be “holy” in that through her comes the life of the Holy Spirit, sanctifying the church’s members in prayer, in love, and in the sacraments. In fifth century North Africa, followers of a certain bishop Donatus claimed that sinful bishops could not baptize Christians into this life, since these bishops lacked the very spiritual life that baptism communicates. St. Augustine of Hippo replied that the sacraments do not mediate the bishops who celebrate them, but Christ. The church is not called holy because its members are holy; rather, the church’s members can be holy because Christ is active in the church. And sinful ministers cannot stop Christ. This makes bishops’ sins all the more offensive, but it also means that Catholics ought to cling now more than ever to the sacraments, to prayer, and yes, to the holiness of the church. On Aug. 15, the day after the grand jury report was released, Catholics celebrated the feast of the Assumption of Mary into heaven, commemorating the belief that Christ, in consequence of his victory over death, took his own mother, body and soul, into heaven, anticipating the general resurrection of the dead at the end of time. A dear friend of mine was at Mass on that day, despondent. And yet, he told me, here is this beautiful celebration, the full glory of Christ’s love and generosity exhibited for one

of us, his own mother. Despite the corruption of the Church’s ministers, this has been passed down, this beautiful truth. It is still here. Sinning cardinals and predatory priests, he told himself, “cannot ruin this objectively. And you’re not going to ruin it for me.” We must stare evil in the face and call it what it is. But like the legendary dragons of old, evil wishes to hold our gaze until it persuades us that it is reality, that evil is the essence of these things. But it is not. It is a corruption. And even in great suffering, it is in light of the beautiful things that evil corruption can be known and condemned. Old sins were covered up. Great injustices, sacrileges, and harms were hidden. Much was taken away from the tortured and ignored victims of these sins. But can this destroy the beautiful realities of the church? No. They were not made by our virtues and they will not be destroyed by our vices. And so we are still here. We are still in the church. Catholics must together take responsibility for fighting — by prayer, by holiness, by protest, and by action — to facilitate purging and reform where it must take place. We must look to our own holiness, our own repentance. Yes, we too by our love and compassion must share in the burden of victims’ pain and in the penance that their victimizers ought to take on. We cannot repent in place of them; our suffering cannot take away the suffering of victims. But we can share these burdens in love, living in small measure the life lived by Christ. This is the life that He gives the church. This is the beauty of the saints. The Lord followed Israel into exile. His love will not abandon the church even now. For this is the love that made her.

The editors invite faculty members to contribute to Office Hours, a weekly column dedicated to promoting relationships between staff and students through the giving of advice and stories. Send submissions to the Opinions Editor at kmcghee@hillsdale.edu.

Cowardly Republicans renege on campaign promises By | Erik Halvorson Columnist After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, many conservatives were understandably skeptical of what a Trump presidency would bring. The past two years has been a mixed bag of demeanor, rhetoric, and public policy, but, oddly enough, the president has been remarkably strong in his commitment to pro-life issues. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the GOP-controlled Congress. Since Trump’s inauguration, congressional Republicans have passed spending bills including funding for Planned Parenthood three times. Their latest anti-life transgression occurred two weeks ago when Senate Republicans blocked Sen. Rand Paul’s, R-Ky., amendment to the Senate appropriations package for Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, which would have completely blocked all federal funding to any entity

that provides abortions. Rather than staying true to their pro-life campaign promises, Senate Republicans torpedoed Paul’s amendment calling it a “poison pill” that would lead Senate Democrats to filibuster the entire budget proposal. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine along with supposedly pro-life Democrats Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voted against the amendment, ultimately leading to it not being included in the final bill. But this cowardly attitude is nothing new for a Republican Party that seems better suited as an opposition party rather than one in power. With the 2018 midterms looming, Republican candidates across the country proudly tout pro-life messages, while at the same time voting to fund an organization that ends a life through abortion once every 98 seconds in the United States. Planned Parenthood re-

ceives 40 percent of its annual budget, or $543 million a year from federal funds. And although Planned Parenthood and its supporters proudly claim that no federal funding goes directly towards abortions, anyone with a shred of common sense understands that subsidization of the abortion giant allows for far more abortions to occur than would otherwise be possible without taxpayer money. Aside from the systematic extermination of the unborn, Planned Parenthood is also an active political donor. Last year alone, they spent $75.6 million on “movement building” along with another $128.3 million on an assortment of political activities. This alone should worry people on all sides of the aisle, but alas, those that shout the loudest about money in politics are silent when it comes to organizations and causes with which they agree. It’s sad, but the cowardice of Republicans is not surprising. For years, they have

campaigned on the necessity of voting them into office to protect the unborn, but now that they’re in, their sense of urgency seems to have been lost somewhere between the collection of their taxpayer funded salaries and life-long pensions. Dedicated conservatives have spent the past decade campaigning, donating, and voting for these politicians who claimed to share the goals of the pro-life movement. These elected officials claimed to care about the innocent, but under their watch 881 of the most vulnerable among us die every day because of their selfishness and cowardice. If an elected official cannot muster the courage to stop directly funding an organization as vile as Planned Parenthood, they have no business bastardizing the pro-life movement by considering themselves within our ranks.

Erik Halvorson is a senior studying economics.

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examination is daunting, not only refusing to meet By | Madeline Hedrick with Garland, but declaring Special to the Collegian but it is the responsibility of every member of the Senate, that the Republican domiwhether they be Democrats nated Senate would not hold The merits of Brett Kaor Republicans, to ensure that hearings for him at all, on the vanaugh as a Republican Judge Kavanaugh is the right principle that “the American nominee are clear, as are the man for the job. people [should] decide” who reasons why Democrats fear This particular seat is vital would fill the seat. Ignoring his confirmation. As a conbecause it could shift the ideo- the fact that the American servative judge in the mold logical tenor of the Supreme people had, in fact, decided of the late Antoni that Barack Scalia, he would Obama should likely undermine be the man union power, Civil responsible for Rights era voting choosing Suprotections, and preme Court Roe v. Wade. nominees Kavanaugh’s when they background as elected him a White House in 2012, this lawyer has been is still blatant the source of hypocrisy. It much contention, is once again as Democrats of an election all stripes have adyear: if Mitch vocated for the re- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sits before the Senate McConnell lease of hundreds this week during his confirmation hearings. | Wikimedia was genuof thousands of inely concerned documents relating about the voice of to that moment in his career. Court for years to come. the American people being Republicans have denounced With the addition of Justice expressed in this process, why this as a delaying tactic, and Gorsuch in 2017, the court is is he going forward with these I won’t contest that it is just on the verge of becoming the hearings? that. Democrats are fighting most conservative it’s been in Kavanaugh is a candidate what is almost certain to be a generations. Senate Majority worth consideration, but losing battle and they’re using Leader Mitch McConnell has partisanship is preventing the any tool they can reach to give fervently defended KavanaAmerican people from receivthemselves a fighting chance. ugh, admonishing Democrats ing a fair account of his past Despite the partisan to “put partisanship aside actions, present thoughts, and origins of the outcry, these and consider his legal qualifuture rulings. This in-depth documents are vital to the fications with all the fairness, review is imperative if Senate public interest. In elections, respect, and seriousness that Democrats are to vote in favor every part of a candidate’s his- a Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh’s confirmation. tory is put on public display, ought to command.” And though it may be a losing picked over, and examined by This fairness and respect battle, it’s one Democrats voters and the press; it follows were sorely lacking, howevshouldn’t stop fighting. that a higher level of scrutiny er, when Obama nominated is in order for an appointMerrick Garland to the seat ment that, rather than lasting that Justice Gorsuch now fills. Madeline Hedrick is a two, four, or eight years, After Garland’s nomination, senior studying English and the lasts a lifetime. The amount McConnell revealed his true president of College Demoof documents needing close nature as a rank partisan, crats.

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If confirmed, Kavanaugh could help restore an impartial judiciary voice heard through the legisBy | Patrick Farrell Special to the Collegian lature and the election of the president, and the courts are Over the past two days, supposed to remain apolitical the U.S. Senate has debated and impartial. whether to confirm Supreme The politicization of the Court nominee Brett Kavana- courts is already a problem ugh amongst the shouts and that threatens to undermine displays of unruly protestors the central tenets of federand senators alike. This noise is indicative of a problem I believe Judge Kavanaugh can help fix. Rather than allowing the politics and confusion of the moment to determine the outcome of a court case, the courts should rely on the written word of the law. Judge Kavanaugh said this quite clearly in the Harvard Law Review: “The text of the law is the law.” In the case Fourstar v. Garden City Group Inc., Kavanaugh wrote, “It is not a judge’s job to add or otherwise re-mold statutory text to try to meet a statute’s perceived policy objectives. Instead, we must apply the statute as written.” If only our elected officials could apply alism and the separation this same principle to Kavanaof powers. For instance, the ugh’s hearing. 9th Circuit declared President Americans ought to evalDonald Trump’s immigration uate Supreme Court nomienforcement measures unconnees, and all judges, on their commitment to upholding the stitutional — a decision later overturned by the Supreme Constitution and statutes of Court. As the Court’s majority this nation. The courts, and the judges that fill them, must stated, enforcement of America’s laws is clearly within the remain apolitical and imparscope of the executive’s constitial, and if Kavanaugh can do tutional powers and responthis, he should be confirmed sibilities. The 9th Circuit’s without question. decision was seen widely as a An independent judiciary political decision rather than and the separation of powactual legal interpretation. ers are both central tenets of This is the danger of a politiAmerican federalism. People are supposed to have their cized judiciary: Decisions are

“The courts, and the judges that fill them, must remain apolitical and impartial, and if Kavanaugh can do this, he should be confirmed without question.”

based on whatever is politically fashionable rather than what the Constitution says. If it continues, this politicization would render the concept of “equal justice under law”a farce. Many of Kavanaugh’s vocal critics claim he will not uphold the separation of powers and that he will Trump’s pawn. An article written by Thomas Jipping for the Heritage Foundation, however, cites Kavanaugh’s own writings to prove these fears are unfounded. The article states that in a 1998 law journal, Kavanaugh sided against the Nixon administration, calling U.S. v. Nixon one of the “most significant cases in which the judiciary stood up to the president.” Instead of staging trivial protests and encouraging political grandstanding during the confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh’s political adversaries should realize they would be better served by originalist judges like Kavanaugh — if the partisan tide turns, Kavanaugh would be one of the first to protect them from the whims of a fickle judiciary. An originalist judge like Kavanaugh understands that legal matters are not determined by who shouts the loudest. The Senate should, therefore, confirm Judge Kavanaugh to end an era of judicial “super-legislators.” Patrick Farrell is a senior studying politics and the president of College Republicans.

The Catholic Church’s ongoing scandal could change society tering for many Catholics. By | Tess Ens Special to the Collegian Some seek to rectify the church’s sins through 40-Day The Catholic Church is not fasts while others throw in the towel and leave the Church immune to the secular world completely. In fact, one year and its accompanying evils, after the Boston scandal, and the recent sexual abuse Catholic Church attendance scandal within the church’s was down 14 percent. And Pennsylvania Diocese proves it’s easy to see why — placing this. But rather than turn away from the church, faithful your faith in men will only result in heartache, doubt, Christians should consider and anger. Man is flawed, and this trial a blessing. anyone who says differently Over the past few weeks, should look no further than a grand jury’s investigation the church and its pitfalls. revealed that more than But, oddly enough, this 300 priests abused innocent heartbreaking scandal could children, or helped cover the be a blessing to society. After abuse up. This is an embarthe Boston scandal, Catholics rassment that mirrors the experienced a strengthening 2002 Boston sexual misconof conviction, despite lowduct disgrace. One scandal, er church attendance. The let alone two, is mortifying, gruesome display of sexual inconceivable, and faith-shatdeviancy helped de-normal-

ize the Sexual Revolution, reverting its ever present influence at that time. The Sexual Revolution, which began in the 1970s, threatened the church in perhaps a much greater way than corrupt, perverted priests ever could — it questioned the very doctrines on which the church stands. If left to itself, this tidal wave of “acceptance” and “free thinking” could have led to the open approval of every form of sexual orientation, including pedophilia and pederasty. In 1993, relationships between grown men and young boys were on the rise. The North American Man/Boy Love Association gained such momentum at this time that prominent poet and philosopher Allen Ginsberg did more than just vocally support the

group — he joined it. And in 1998, scientist Bruce Rind released a study attempting to prove that child sexual abuse did not have lasting, harmful effects on the children. After Boston, the media, reveling in the opportune moment to discredit the Catholic Church, came out in full force. But by attacking the church for its grossly unacceptable relationships between priests and children, the media was forced to condemn pederasty and pedophilia. It was a beautiful conundrum that helped discredit the philosophy of “acceptance.” Now, 16 years later, the church is once again wrestling with the horrendous crimes of our priests: The abuse of power and sexuality. And once again, society is falling

Saudi Arabia must choose: reform or suppression By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Saudi Arabia isn’t exactly a comedic place and its government just solidified that reality. There’s no longer room in the Middle Eastern country for jokes — literally. Saudi Arabia just declared that online satire is a punishable offense. The country’s public prosecutor said in a tweet on Tuesday, “Producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media ... will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three million riyals ($800,000).” Newsweek reported afterwards: “Saudi leaders are treading a fine line between societal reform and political repression.” They have been treading that line for quite some time now, but outlawing online satire just landed them on the side of political repression. Considering it’s a tyrannical monarchy, Saudi Arabia’s outlaw of online and social media satire shouldn’t be surprising, but somehow the Saudis consistently one-up themselves. To enforce their new law, authorities repurposed a 2016 app that allowed

citizens to report things like traffic violations and burglaries, and turned it into something Saudis can use to report on each other. That’s right. The Saudi government is asking its citizens to watch each other and turn the transgressors in. For the past 100 years, Saudi Arabia has been an ultra-conservative country. It’s one of places the strictest strains of Islam — notorious for their rigidity — were founded. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has aggravated the existing problems, instituting changes that are both confusing and alarming. As of late, Saudi Arabia’s policies have been touchy, to say the least. After finally allowing women to drive and restricting the religious police, the kingdom turned around a few months later and arrested several women’s-rights activists. Then, when Canada urged the government to release the women on Twitter, Saudi Arabia reacted by kicking the Canadian ambassador out of the country, freezing trade and investments with Canada, stopping all flights from the kingdom to Toronto, and selling its Canadian assets. This is just one example of Saudi Arabia’s confusing, infantile actions. And its new satire ban is another: What started out as a reform is quickly turning

into the trap of tolerance by making way for all forms of sexual orientation. In fact, the acceptance of sexual deviations isn’t just encouraged, it’s celebrated. A Pedantic-romanticising movie “Call Me By Your Name” is a frontrunner among Oscar nominations. A recent TedX Talk given by Mirjam Heine claimed pedophilia is an “unchangeable sexual orientation” and should be accepted as such. And normally reliable sources like the Harvard Mental Health Letter attempted to make the same claim in 2010. Catholics should hope and pray the media once again sets out to destroy Catholicism’s image, because in doing so, they will denounce the ongoing acceptance of pederasty and pedophilia, just as they

into tyranny. Though he hasn’t made comments recently, MBS is behind most of the kingdom’s hopscotching from reform to suppression. As the heir to the throne of an absolute monarchy and the man behind almost every government agency, his whims are now dictating law. Outlawing online satire violates what should be the inherent right of all humans to the freedom of speech, so human rights groups should be concerned about it. But as twisted as it may be, Saudi Arabia is a sovereign state and its form of government allows

for this type of law-making. It would be a mistake for the U.S. or any other western power to try reprimand the kingdom or change the law. Canada illustrates the infutility of such an attempt. But it wouldn’t be unreasonable to ask Saudi Arabia for a little consistency. If the kingdom could just decide which side it of the suppression-reform line to sit on, it would be a lot easier for the rest of the world to react.

Abby Liebing is a junior studying history.

Tess Ens is a sophomore studying economics.

To Make a House a Home By | Haley Hauprich Columnist

Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, outlawed all online and social media satire. | Wikimedia

did after the Boston scandal. And as difficult as it might be to see the Catholic faith dragged through the mud, let it be a reminder to faithful Catholics: If we put our faith in the faulty foundation of men — be it priests, bishops, or the Pope — we will consistently be let down. And if Catholics can remember that, then scandals like this will serve as a beautiful oxymoron that can strengthen our faith. We must look past the faults of man to see the hand of God in this, and in every, situation.

I guess it’s fitting that now, as I prepare to pack up and leave Hillsdale behind in just nine short months, I’ve started thinking about what it means to make a home. And I don’t mean the kind of “homemaking” where all of your furniture matches and the kitchen smells like cookies all the time. I mean that something odd happens when we make a place something more than a place, simply by calling it “home.” This thought came about shortly after my roommates and I had moved into a white Victorian house on Fayette Street for our senior year. It’s beautiful and quirky, but most of all, it’s old; I was shocked to find on a real estate site that it actually had been built around 1890. Maybe that doesn’t seem all that remarkable, but to a girl like me from Arizona, where hardly anything stands from before 1970, it’s an incredibly humanizing thing. We are 21-year-olds inhabiting a place that has lived six times the life we have lived, and has seen so many people come and go through its red front door. Dinner was served here,

laughter was shared here, and children grew up here. Signs that others have made this place a home in the exact same way that we are now can be found in the chips in the paint and worn spots in the carpet. Old homes bear their humanness in every corner. And in that way, that makes my house a whole lot like Hillsdale. We move in our freshman year, confused and intimidated by the newness of it all, but we come to realize that it is only really new to us. Abolitionists, Civil War heroes, influential conservative thinkers, and just ordinary good people have helped create the place that was handed to us when we stepped onto campus for the first time. So whenever it becomes our turn to say goodbye to Hillsdale, we can know that we’re a part of the group of people who have never stopped making Hillsdale a home, even after they left. And we can feel comfortable leaving the door open on the way out — somebody good is always moving in.

Haley Hauprich is a senior studying English.

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Plans for the historic Keefer House to become a high-end hotel are well on their way. Collegian | Julia Mullins

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By | Julia Mullins Collegian Reporter On the corner of Howell and North Streets in downtown Hillsdale, the 133-yearold historic Keefer House sits empty. But not for long. By the end of 2021, the Keefer House will be transformed into a boutique hotel. The Keefer House is one piece of downtown Hillsdale’s historic renovations. The house was purchased by Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Finance Authority in October 2016 and then sold to C.L. Real Estate in April 2017, a building developer based out of Peru, Illinois. Mary Wolfram, who was hired by Hillsdale’s TIFA as a consultant to work with C.L. Real Estate, said the mission of TIFA is to get empty buildings rehabbed, redeveloped, and active to increase economic activity. “Looking at what buildings are most important to reactivate, the Keefer House

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is the big white elephant in the room,” Wolfram said. “It’s empty, it’s right there in the middle of a key intersection. It’s kind of the biggest, most obvious thing to do.” The Keefer House became a hotel in 1885. In recent years, the Keefer was owned by Jeffrey and Marcy Horton before the purchase by TIFA. The goal of both the original owner and TIFA was always to restore the Keefer back into a luxurious hotel. “The original owners, had a vision, and his vision was always to make it a boutique hotel and a tourists’ attraction and turn Hillsdale more into a positive tourists’ attraction kind of place,” Wolfram said. In addition to this vision, Wolfram said there is a great need for an upscale hotel due to the many events hosted by Hillsdale College, such as CCAs. “We know there’s a ready-market for hotel rooms, there’s a demand,” Wolfram said.

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Brant Cohen ‘18 is an associate for C.L. Real Estate. He will be managing the project and is the face of C.L. Real Estate, as this is their first expansion into Michigan. Cohen said that when he was a student at Hillsdale College he remembered walking by the building and hoping that one day it would be renovated and reopened. “All of the members of Hillsdale’s community have hopes and dreams to see the Keefer open again. Many of them remember working there, many of them remember visiting there, eating at the restaurant, and it’s been closed for so long,” Cohen said. “It was built at the peak of Hillsdale’s growth, around the 1890s, and it symbolizes a really active time in the community, and to see it empty, just sitting empty in the community is kind of sad.” Nathan Watson, the general manager of real estate development for C.L Real Estate said they will begin construc-

Early Pregnancy Loss Association receives grant By | Anna Timmis Culture Editor The Early Pregnancy Loss Association continues to grow as it aids local healthcare providers in caring for women who have miscarried. Recently granted $7,200 from the Hillsdale County Community Foundation, the association is able to fund the distribution of informational folders, a miscarriage kit program, an updated website, as well as administration and marketing. Describing the grant as a startup fund, EPLA founder Emily Carrington said, “We’re really getting into a huge place of growth and stabilizing. It’s been a lot of ideas and planning up to this point, and with this grant, we will be able to take these ideas and plans, and start to implement them.” Susan Stout, who works for the foundation, said that the grants must serve Hillsdale County residents. EPLA seeks not only to aid, but to also help residents heal. Carrington founded the association in 2014 after her second miscarriage. Paying medical bills in the wake of the experience, she said that she wished women in her position never had to do the same, according to a past Collegian article. The idea for EPLA then began to form. “We started with a couple meetings of 10 to 15 women gathered talking about their experiences, with many voices jumping in,” she said. Since then, nearly 100 people have contributed in some

way to the organization. They began by creating informational folders so women were not in the dark about miscarriage. Maria Servold, who serves on the executive committee, said the folders include a “facts and myths” page. This helps women not to experience guilt because of mistaken beliefs such as, wearing

“We’re really getting into a huge place of growth and stabilizing.” pants that are too tight can cause miscarriage. Now the EPLA has launched a drive for care kits, which will include basic care items such as feminine hygiene products — things that someone suffering a miscarriage wouldn’t want to have to make a Walgreens trip for, Servold explained. The kits will also include a small box so that families can bury the baby, which is often delivered even in early stages, and tiny 6-inch-by-6-inch crocheted blankets to include with the boxes. Those who wish to donate can access an Amazon wish list, with all items sent to Carrington to then be put into the kits.

Next year, a memorial garden will blossom with purple tulips, a flower that symbolizes hope for Carrington and is featured on EPLA’s logo. “After I lost my first little one to miscarriage, I started buying a purple rose on due dates to take time to remember and honor my little one,” she said. “As we were developing a logo, we liked the imagery of the flower and the vase. Purple is a color that combines pink and blue, as often the gender is unknown. It’s symbolism of hope and spring and new life after a long winter, not necessarily hope for another child, but hope in something — weathering through a rough time.” The tulip bulb fundraiser will end Sept. 28. Seven varieties of purple tulips are offered and will be sold 10 bulbs for $10. Buyers may also choose to donate their purchased tulips to be planted in the memorial garden. While Carrington and the board members do not get to see EPLA’s impact first hand, nurses have told them that their resources are being used. Carrington said, “It’s our hope they receive our information and heal and grow and move on. A lot of our volunteers have expressed thankfulness that this is happening, giving an opportunity and outlet to heal from their past grief.”

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tion in the mid-portion of 2019. While the overall layout of the building is still in its preliminary stages, he plans on having 34 total rooms. The rooms will consist of six suites, two extended-stay units, and the remaining rooms will be a combination of double and queen beds. The boutique hotel will also contain a full-service restaurant open to both the public and hotel guests. “We haven’t determined the process for the restaurant, we’re hoping for it to be very upscale, but we can’t guarantee that,” Watson said. In addition to the restaurant, Watson said that the Keefer House LLC will lease storefronts to local businesses who offer very interesting and high-quality products. Cohen is responsible for finding tenants. “I’m looking for liable tenants who will provide a quality business that will both address the upscale style of the boutique hotel experi-

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ence, while providing kind of a unique experience for the shoppers here within in the city,” Cohen said. “We want to increase visitors, to entice them to come to Hillsdale, not only to shop in our stores, but to walk around town.” Looking ahead, Cohen hopes that this renovation will send a positive message throughout the community that Hillsdale is on it’s upturn. “For me, getting that building open is bringing a lot of happiness to a lot of people, filling a market need, and also doing something wonderful,” Cohen said. “I’m excited to see all of that impact on the community and hope that it leads to further growth for Hillsdale down the road. I’m hoping for more visitors, more opportunities for all of the businesses in town to continue to grow by keeping the guests here and providing a quality experience to everyone within the city.” Just down the street from the Keefer House, TIFA will also be renovating the Dawn

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Theater so long as it receives a grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. TIFA will continue to own the Dawn, and Keefer House LLC will be responsible for managing the theater and is hoping to attract hotel guests by hosting events in the theater. “The Dawn Theater will be what we call a multi-use facility. It will mostly be hosting events like wedding receptions, banquets, business conferences, the typical thing you would find in any rental or banquet hall,” Wolfram said. TIFA is also writing into the management agreement the requirement that the Dawn is available for community events on a weekly basis. Community events could include classic film showings, small theater shows, and small theater events.

Street preservation shuts down water along Garden Street By | Jordyn Pair Associate Editor Due to updates in the water system as part of the street preservation project, the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities issued a boil water advisory on Tuesday for the area of Garden Street between Mead Street and Hillsdale Street, according to the department’s Facebook page. A boil water advisory is put into place when the pressure in the drinking water system drops below 20 pounds per square inch, which may allow something to enter the system, according to Bill Briggs, the Hillsdale BPU water and wastewater superintendent. “The advisory lasts at least

48 hours from the time the first water sample for testing is taken,” Briggs said. Testing mandates two consecutive samples be taken 24 hours apart. If coliform bacteria is found, more testing may be required, Briggs said. The BPU also shut off the water in the same area for 48 hours on Aug. 30 because of a water main tie in a construction project. The water shut-off affected some local businesses, like Handmade, at 78 Hillsdale St. which was unable to prepare food due to unsafe water. The sandwich shop reopened on Sept. 1. Derek Spiteri, the owner of Handmade, expressed frustration at the short notice the

shop was given. He was told less than 24 hours in advance of the boil notice, which forced him to close his shop for the next three days. “I’m not trying to badmouth anyone, but there was zero communication,” Spiteri said. “I was pretty blindsided.” Although the water is safe to use for showering and washing clothes, it should be boiled before drinking or cooking with it, Briggs said. More boil notices are also on the way. “Water connections are yet to be be made at the intersection of Oak and Mead Streets and on Union Street at Mead and Garden,” Briggs said. “These will likely require advisories.”

Construction as part of the street preservation project has turned off water mains and forced the BPU to put up boil advisories this past week. Collegian | Jordyn Pair

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Jennings to remain on ballot despite council’s concerns By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor Despite the Hillsdale City Council’s determination that Peter Jennings, associate professor of management at Hillsdale College and Hillsdale Ward 1 resident, is ineligible to run for a seat on the council due to a residency restriction, his name will appear on the November ballot, local election officials decided last week. Jennings entered the race for Ward 1 councilmember this spring, but city officials realized in July that Jennings had only lived in Hillsdale for two years, thus violating city rules about residency requirements for candidates. Discussion over the Hillsdale City charter’s durational residency restriction and whether or not it would stand in court led to different conclusions between the city and the county’s election commissions. The city charter states that persons running for office “shall have been a resident of the city for at least three years immediately prior to the date of the election at which he is a candidate for office.” It further clarifies that councilmembers should live in the respective ward in which they are running for at least six months prior to the election. That fact, however, did not prevent City Clerk Steve French from placing Jennings’

name on the ballot when Jennings submitted his paperwork earlier this spring. French confirmed that he accepted Jennings’ paperwork and placed his name on the ballot for the Aug. 7 primary, despite the fact that Jennings has only lived in city limits for two years. “The issue came to light at the end of July when one of the councilmembers brought it up,” French said. The City Council held a special meeting on Aug. 1 to discuss Jennings’ eligibility, which ended in a 5-2 vote to uphold the charter and declare Jennings ineligible to run for office. Matthew Bell, Ward 4 member of City Council and director of programs for external affairs at Hillsdale College, voted in favor of upholding the charter. “I have been vocal about sticking to the City Charter since I was elected,” he said in an email. “This decision was in line with that.” Bell added that the charter as it stands currently can only be changed by the people of Hillsdale. “It would take another vote of the people to change it,” he said. “I am open to any proposal that changes the requirement, though I would not seek to make the change myself.” Greg Stuchell, current Ward 1 representative, voted to waive the residency requirements for Jennings. He

said the city manager, the city clerk, and the city attorney said Jennings is eligible to run for office. “That’s why I made my decision,” he said. Stuchell said that election laws are both crucial and critical. “Before the voter sees the ballot, it has been validated and confirmed,” he said. After the council found him ineligible, Jennings submitted a letter to French, requesting his name to be removed from the general election ballot in November, as ballots for the Aug. 7 primary were already printed. Jennings won the primary election with 68 votes, beating opponents Dennis Wainscott and Ted Jansen, who received 45 and 42 votes, respectively. “After the council decided I was ineligible, I tried to remove myself from the process so as to not cause more confusion,” Jennings said. The city’s election commission met Aug. 30 to determine the city’s standpoint regarding whose names would appear on the November ballot. The commission concluded that Jennings’ name should be removed. Marney Kast, the Hillsdale county clerk and a member of the County Election Commission, said that in preparation for the county’s election meeting on Aug. 31, she conferred with the Board of Commissioners chairman and sought

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ried, we’ve just sort of taken it over.” Though many sell produce, vendors bring an eclectic mix of wares to the farmers’ market. Horticulturalist and vendor Molly Covert said she started her stand four years ago, because she “enjoys her plants and and sharing them with others.” “Everything is grown in my own gardens, and I find the containers at different garage sales and thrift stores, antique stores,” Covert said. “I just enjoy the repurposing and finding something new out of something old.” Covert explained how she crossbreeds some of her own plants to “produce new varieties.” “I have a pretty good following,” she said, “and every year a few of them in particular come and look for new varieties ...The people that are horticulturalists come and enjoy seeing what’s new.” Covert, who brings her flowers from Hudson, Michigan, added that vendors are “always glad when the students come back,” though she also has several regular local customers. Some of the market regulars include Hillsdale College faculty and their families. Associate Professor of Psychology Collin Barnes and his family have been visiting the farmers’ market for three years. Though Barnes pointed out that his wife attends more frequently than he, the market holds appeal for the whole family. Barnes’ daughter Paige and son Drew called the cake pop and pie stands their favorites. “They have miniature pies that I like to look at, that are

really yummy,” Drew Barnes said. Collin Barnes said he has been eying a certain chess set for a while. “There’s actually a woodworker, who is not here today, but he has this chess set that he makes, they’re rather large pieces. I’ve always wanted it, but it’s also very expensive. So, I look with longing,” he said. Senior Grace Houghton, exploring the market for the first time Saturday, said she “liked it a lot.” “They have a variety of food, home decor, homemade preserves: it’s cool,” Houghton said, adding that she would “definitely be back.” A common draw to the market are the health benefits of eating local produce and using simply-made products, a sentiment which Houghton echoed. “I bought a shampoo bar, from the Lady Bee stall, and it’s an avocado conditioning shampoo bar. I like that I know all the ingredients: I feel very hippie and very healthy,” she said. But most people come to the market because of the “community spirit.” “It’s a great group of people, between little kids that come, and older folks that come at 8:00 in the morning to get their produce,” Covert said. “It’s a really nice, eclectic mix.” Cindy Magda echoed her sentiment. “We love it, it’s fun, coming back and seeing people you haven’t seen in a year,” she said. “It’s like a homecoming, almost, every year.”

A ten-year tradition: Hillsdale farmers share their passions and produce For local farmers, residents, and college students, the Saturday morning farmers’ market in downtown Hillsdale is a beloved tradition. The Hillsdale farmers’ market, which began in 2008, brings a variety of vendors from the surrounding townships to set up shop every Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Hillsdale County Courthouse Square. Vendors sell anything from produce, to flowers, to homemade preserves and handspun yarn. “We’ve been doing the farmer’s market since it started, so this is our tenth year,” Magda’s Produce co-owner Cindy Magda said. “We always try something new every year, so we have a new variety of melon, or new variety of pumpkins, there’s always something new we try every year. Everything’s grown on our farm, seven miles north of Jonesville.” In addition to vegetables, Magda’s Produce also sells fruit from a cousin’s farm. Magda and her husband, Kevin, are the second-generation of produce vendors, with their friend, Kristin, helping them maintain the stand during market season. The husband-and-wife team explained that they inherited the produce business from Kevin Magda’s parents, who were also Hillsdale farmers. “Kevin parents have grown vegetables and produce and sold them for like 40 years, before we started this,” Cindy Magda said. “They always sold at the fairgrounds, there used to be a big farmers’ market there. Since Kevin and I mar-

The Hillsdale County Farmers Market held on Saturday mornings from May to October is celebrating its 10th year. Collegian | Carmel Kookogey

legal counsel, which decided that Jennings could appear on the ballot, contrary to what the City Election Commission decided just the day before. Kast said during Friday’s meeting, French urged the county to uphold the city’s decision to remove Jennings from the election. “We could not concur with that decision,” Kast said. Both Kast and Hon. Michelle Bianchi, probate court judge and member of County Election Commission, voted in favor of keeping Jennings on the ballot in November. Kast said she had to do what her legal counsel advised her. In November, if Jennings were to receive the greatest number of votes, the council could uphold its decision that he was ineligible to run in the first place, Kast said. “It would create a vacancy and then at the next open election, the spot could be filled,” she said. Jennings said when the duration of his residency came into question in mid-July, he sought informal advice from colleagues who are attorneys. They confirmed that, at the municipal level, durational residency requirements beyond one year are unreasonable and usually not enforced by the courts when challenged, he said. Mayor Adam Stockford said the issue has negatively impacted the community. “I hope it doesn’t destroy

people’s faith in the electoral process,” he said. “Dr. Jennings is ineligible. I don’t have the authority to override what the charter states.” As far as if the council would reverse its decision regarding Jennings’ ineligibility, Stockford said he is not likely to change his vote. “I’ve never changed a course of vote,” he said. An issue like this has not come up in Hillsdale before, French said. “To prevent something like this from happening again, and without a vote of the people to change the charter, we just need to make sure that elected officials and city employees know the charter and stick to it — that would have prevented this problem from arising,” Bell said. The mayor said that it’s hard to tell what will happen in November. “The best thing to happen would be for one of the candidates to challenge it in court,” Stockford said. Wainscott, who is running for city council for the third time, is in favor of following the charter because that is what the people have voted, he said. “We need to follow what the charter says,” Wainscott said. “It’s all in the hands of the voters.” “There’s going to be a winner and a loser, and I’m going to be one of them,” he said. Wainscott suggested that

this issue should be given to a committee made up of city residents to investigate and reach a conclusion. Jansen, the Ward 1 candidate who got the least amount of votes in the primary election, said the city has made a mistake. He is also running for the third time. “It’s up to the city and attorney to do due diligence to correct the situation, which means they’d have to sue the county,” he said. If Jennings were to win the election in November, the council would need to reverse its decision regarding his eligibility before he could take the seat. “I would like the opportunity to fulfill the commitment I made to my Ward 1 neighbors to serve,” Jennings said. “But I respect the council’s decision and if they stand by their decision and refuse to seat me, then I won’t contest the issue.” He added that Hillsdale is “a small town, but this is our piece of America, and there are a lot of good people doing their best to make our town great. I want to support and be part of those efforts.” Jennings said that he hopes the city can move past this issue. “We’re all in the same boat,” he said. “We have more pressing issues to focus on.”

Antonia Busch joins Catholic Charities staff as a Catholic counselor based at St. Anthony’s. Collegian |Elizabeth Bianchi

Catholic Charities brings counselor to St. Anthony’s By | Elizabeth Bianchi Collegian Freelancer While Hillsdale County residents have already been using Catholic Charities’ forensic interviewing services for children who have been sexually or physically abused in Jackson and Lenawee County, now residents can have a local Catholic Charities option for therapy. Beginning this August, Antonia Busch ‘16 joined the full-time staff of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Hillsdale as a professional counselor through Catholic Charities. Busch studied psychology at Hillsdale College and then went on to attend Franciscan University, where she earned her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. She said she “fell in love with psychology at Hillsdale” where her professors led her “to see the beauty of psychology.” This encouraged her, she said, to pursue a degree in counseling at Franciscan. “I fell in love with the way hearts can be transformed and I want to help people find that freedom,” Busch said. According to Sue Lewis, executive director of Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale Counties, Busch is the first counselor that Catholic Charities has placed locally in Hillsdale. “We knew that one service area that was lacking in Hillsdale County was in mental health counseling,” Lewis said.“We struggled with trying to find a therapist to cover that site.”

She also added that Catholic Charities has been trying to grow their services in Hillsdale over the past few years, primarily in the areas of foster care, adoption, and with their substance abuse counseling contract with the Michigan Department of Corrections. Because of this, when Father David Reamsnyder, parochial administrator of St. Anthony’s, contacted Lewis with news that he had a therapist that was interested in working for his parish, Lewis was eager to discuss the possibility of sharing the therapist so that Catholic Charities could have a stronger presence in Hillsdale County. “We have a substantial number of children from Hillsdale County in our foster care program, and having a therapist in Hillsdale who could see those children in therapy was a definite win for us,” Lewis said. So with St. Anthony’s and Catholic Charities splitting the cost of Busch’s salary, the two agreed to employ Busch in Hillsdale in a space owned by the parish. Reamsnyder also gave permission for the foster care program to use two rooms in the old school building for supervised visitation and specialized play therapy services for children. “Antonia is an employee of Catholic Charities, which is beneficial for her as a limited license therapist,” Lewis said. “We are able to provide the supervision and necessary training she needs to move forward in her career as a

therapist. It is a win-win-win for all three parties: St. Anthony’s Parish, Catholic Charities, and Antonia.” The parish of St. Anthony’s has been supportive throughout the process, with personal donations adding to that put forth from Catholic Charities toward the transformation of the church space for the project. Reamsnyder has reiterated his support for the endeavor from the front of the church, pulpit, in open parish meetings, and to the Parish Council as well. Although Reamsnyder has generally focused on the new counselor benefitting St. Anthony’s parishioners, he has informed the congregation that “Catholic Charities services everyone,” so this will also benefit the community at large. Busch added that her door is “open to anyone in the community,” but so far she has been primarily seeing parishioners and referrals through Catholic Charities. “Counseling is not from a specifically Catholic point of view,” she said. “I let them know that I am Catholic but I am not qualified to give spiritual direction. I am here to focus on mental health.” Busch added that most of the counselors Catholic Charities employs are not Catholic. In fact, there are just two Catholic beliefs that they are explicitly required to uphold in their counseling: their counsel must be pro-life and they can only promote traditional marriage.

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Football, baseball, and softball facilities get summer makeover By | Cal Abbo Assistant Editor A brand-new field awaited the Hillsdale football team when it returned to campus for training camp this summer. Along with the new turf at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium this year, the baseball team will have new dugouts, and the softball team will have improved protective netting. The improvements are the result of Hillsdale College’s commitment to revamp its athletic facilities, and replacing the 12-year-old turf at “Muddy” Waters Stadium was

at the top of the list since it had reached the end of its life span, according to Director of Athletics Don Brubacher. “We were in a position where it had to be replaced. It didn’t meet certification standards by the end of last season,” he said. “We did go through a very extensive process researching lots and lots of different companies that provide the turf.” Brubacher said the turf industry — not the NCAA — sets the standards for adequate playing surfaces, standards that are widely

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accepted among colleges and universities. Eventually, the athletic department at Hillsdale settled on Maumee Bay Turf, a company based outside of Toledo, Ohio. Brubacher said the school had been tracking the state of the field and knew three years ago they would need to replace it during summer 2018. The track around the outside of the field was not renovated, but Brubacher hinted it will happen soon. But the bleachers behind the north end zone of the field were removed to create more turf practice space for the team inside the track In addition to the changes at the football field, the softball field received an inground irrigation system for the first time. The college will also replace the field’s current backstop. “The old backstop has disappeared, but the new backstop is not there yet,” Brubacher said. “We’re working on that project to replace the backstop.” The old softball backstop inhibited the view of the new bleachers that were added

FOOTBALL september 1 1 2 3 4 final Mercyhurst 3 0 0 6 9 Hillsdale 7 0 7 0 14 passing c/a yds td int long Chance Stewart 20/29 205 1 0 46 rushing att yds td avg long David Graham 18 68 0 3.8 18 Christian Shepler 4 5 1 1.3 4 receiving rec yds td avg long Alexander Giampietro 6 88 1 14.7 46 K.J. Maloney 5 56 0 11.2 23 David Graham 4 44 0 11.0 25 defense tkl tfl sack int ff/fr Wyatt Batdorff 16 0.5 0 0 0/0 Waine Clarke 6 1 0 0 0/0 Zach VanValkenburg 6 1 1 0 1/0 Dan Shanley 2 0 0 1 0/0

VOLLEYBALL august 30 1 2 3 final Ohio Valley 12 16 12 0 Hillsdale 25 25 25 3 k k% a d bs/ba Kara Vyletel 14 .636 0 2 0/2 Paige VanderWall 9 .571 1 3 0/0 Lindsey Mertz 1 .500 26 3 0/0

august 31 (at findlay) 1 2 3 4 final Ashland 14 25 25 25 3 Hillsdale 25 22 22 23 1 k k% a d bs/ba Paige VanderWall 20 .562 2 8 0/1 Allyssa Van Wienen 13 .250 1 7 2/0 Kara Vyletel 12 .206 0 6 0/0

september 1 (at findlay) 1 2 3 final Missouri-St. Louis 20 13 15 0 Hillsdale 25 25 25 3 k k% a d bs/ba Paige VanderWall 16 .452 3 7 0/1 Kara Vyletel 15 .419 0 4 1/0 Hannah Gates 7 .636 0 1 0/3

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY august 31 | drenth inv. score august 31 | drenth inv. score 1. Central Michigan 25 1. Michigan State 29 2. Michigan State 40 2. Hillsdale* 42 3. Hillsdale* 67 3. Central Michigan 59 4. Alma 116 4. Alma 141 5. Muskegon CC 146 5. Muskegon CC 143 6. Cleary 169 6. Cleary 148 *Joey Humes finished 1st with a time of *Arena Lewis finished 6th with a time of 15:13.44, a G-MAC 5k record. 18:14.52. Sophia Maeda finished 9th in 18:19.07.

This summer, Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium got a brand new turf playing surface (above) and more practice space behind the north end zone with the removal of bleachers (above), as well as new landscaping next to the home tunnel (below). Brad Monastiere | Courtesy

more than two years ago. “We had a significant number of foul balls that came back over the backstop and ended up on the track,” Brubacher said. “There’s some risk with that when people are actually competing on the track.” The baseball dugouts at Simpson Field also received special attention this summer. The new dugouts will be significantly more spacious for

the Chargers baseball team. “They are a little bit more than twice the size of the previous dugouts,” Brubacher said. Previously, players had to stand outside the dugout because of its small capacity, which presented problems in terms of both comfort and safety. The new dugouts will allow the entire teams, both home and guest, to relax with more space.

Head baseball coach Eric Theisen thought it may help improve player morale. “It certainly helps the ingame comfort level, as well as brings us up to par in the recruiting game.” After successful seasons for both baseball, softball, and football, the facility renovations will provide comfort for the players and fans who dedicate so much to the teams who play there.

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Shotgun team expected to bring ‘the big guns’ on Sunday By | Austin Gergens Collegian Freelancer One might wonder how the members of the Hillsdale College shotgun team have and maintain such big guns. The secret lies in the team’s intensive shooting practices paired with a strict bi-weekly weightlifting routine geared toward maintaining physical wellness. Last year, the team won the Nationals shooting competition in the Division III category for the fifth consecutive season. “Nationals is on par with NCAA,” according to junior Lucas Pieraccini. This Sunday, the team has its first official competition of the semester in Mason, Michigan. The team placed second in the event last year. Leading the charge are senior Emanuel Boyer, junior Matt Grunzweig, and Pieraccini. Freshman Anthony Lamacchia and sophomore Barrett Moore will make their debut at the tournament in Mason. While the entire team of eight will set out and compete, only the five-man team will contribute to the team score. Assistant coach Jordan Hintz

`18, a former shooter for Hillsdale, is eager to see just how good this year’s team is. “I’m interested in seeing how the team will develop,” Hinz said. “We have definite strengths and weaknesses, so we’ve just got to keep working at them and see how good we will actually be.” Boyer expects the competition this weekend to be impressive. “They’ve got 500,000 more targets on you since they’ve been doing it for years more than you have,” he said. “The caliber is as good or better than collegiate events.” The qualifications for Division I-III are determined by the size of the team, not necessarily the skill level. Division I teams have 20 or more shooters, Division II has 10 to 20 shooters per team, and Division III teams have 10 or fewer. Consistently, Hillsdale’s Division III squad has conquered Division I teams who have more shooters to rotate in and out of the strenuous tournaments. By requiring incoming team members to hit at least 95 out of 100 targets in skeet and trap, the Chargers’ shooting team can maintain its

dominance in tournaments. The two most common types of shooting styles are American trap and American skeet. Trap shooting has bunkers 15 meters in front of the baseline and fires disc targets at various angles away from the trap shooter, with 45 degrees being the most severe shot. Skeet shooting differs in that the targets are shot from elevated towers positioned to the left and right of the shooter. Targets are shot from one side to the other and not away from the shooter. Both events present unique challenges and targets that shooters must rise to meet. The team prides itself in its passion and ability for competitive shooting. Pieraccini said the team’s prowess reflects the school’s values. “People who know Hillsdale are generally conservative and pro-second amendment,” Pieraccini said. “Having a strong shotgun team shows we do support the second amendment. The team shows that guns aren’t just killing machines but that they are part of a sport with a purpose.” -S. Nathaniel Grime contributed to this report.

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1,238 MILES DOWN AND A LIFETIME TO GO Humes sets conference By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter

One hundred and fifteen miles is a considerable distance. In the United States, 115 miles means 202,400 yards. For nearly everybody else in the world, 115 miles means 185,074 meters. For Hillsdale cross country senior Eli Poth, running 115 miles meant a standard week of summer training. Running 115 miles is not quite as physically impossible as it seems, even if it means more than 16 miles a day. The entire men’s cross country team trains with high intensity during the summer, and the lightest load was about 45 miles a week. Cross country standout junior Joey Humes averaged between 90-100 miles a week. But no one ran more than Poth. Poth has been running competitively since he was in sixth grade. He began his collegiate career at Saginaw Valley State University, but has spent the majority of his career at Hillsdale, running for both the men’s cross country and track teams. Assistant cross country coach R.P. White said one of the things that sets Poth apart is his love of running. “Eli is probably the most passionate person about running that I have ever been able to coach,” White said. “He’s had his ups and downs, but I think the words that define Eli are resilient and persistent. He hasn’t quit on himself, and I know he’s never going to quit on himself just because he loves it so darn much.” Poth said his love of running stems from the opportunities it provides for him to test himself.

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better than I expected. I wasn’t feeling the greatest going into the race, so I went out a little conservatively and I think that made a huge difference.” Maeda said. “The team has been so awesome and has kept the stress so low that it hasn’t really been too much different [from high school]. The intensity is higher, but they’re all so supportive that racing was just another day of running with my friends. It’s definitely more nerve-racking than high school, but it’s nice to have the first race under our belts.” Sophomore Christina Sawyer finished in 11th overall

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the nation. It’s not just playing great volleyball. It’s playing winning volleyball.” Those basics, with enough practice, figure to aid the team both defensively and offensively. “We’re working a lot on defense and blocking,” Shelton said. “I think that’s really helping us overcome those difficulties. A lot of those issues can be cured by pressing over on the block.” Gravel also plans to utilize the experience and expertise of his veteran players. “The seniors are the ones that should be able to carry a load, especially on the mental side of things. They’re

“Running just gives you something to struggle for. Though struggling, you find meaning. You constantly put yourself in adverse conditions every day,” Poth said. “Not even just the running — you have to be running in the rain, running in the snow, running on some random road in the middle of nowhere when it’s getting dark. That’s stuff people don’t go through.” While having a passion for running helps him to maintain motivation, Poth said the key to running long

much Poth was running. “In high school, I was the high-mileage dog,” Humes said. “I would always run by myself. With Eli, it’s nice to know someone else is out there running, same as I am.” “It’s easy to feel like you aren’t running that much when someone is running more than you,” junior Eric Poth, Eli’s brother and teammate, said. “I was running 90 miles a week, which is more than I’d ever ran, but it didn’t feel like that much because I knew Eli was still out there running

“He’s had his ups and downs, but I think the words that define Eli are resilient and persistent. He hasn’t quit on himself, and I know he’s never going to quit on himself just because he loves it so darn much.” distances in the volume he did this summer is finding ways to break up the distance into chunks. “Running is really weird. When you run a lot, your brain creates mental pathways that lets you justify what you’re doing,” Poth said. “You get so good at playing games with yourself, you don’t even realize you are doing it anymore, so when you get tired on mile five of 20, you don’t even think ‘Wow, I have 15 miles to go.’” Poth’s intense mileage has a psychological impact on his teammates, several of whom said training was easier because they knew just how with a time of 18:28.04, and Junior Allysen Eads finished 16th in 18:50.07. Sophomore Maryssa Depies, who is coming back after an injury, finished right behind Eads in 17th, with a time of 18:52.15. Assistant coach R.P. White was pleased with his team’s performance. “The girls had a very solid opener,” he said. “I was proud of their effort and it was constructive to evaluate fitness levels and identify things we can improve upon.” The Chargers will be on the road again on Friday, Sept. 14 when they travel to East Lansing, Michigan, for the Spartan Invitational, hosted by Michigan State.

three or four more miles a day.” Eli Poth did have one advantage that many runners don’t have during training: a dedicated training partner in his younger brother Eric. Both worked on their father’s farm over the summer and ran most of their miles together. White said he believes the brotherly bond will help both Eli and Eric succeed during the season. “They have such a unique dynamic. They’re not always friendly all the time. They’re brothers on the same team — they get in little fights — but you can also tell that there’s just something differ-

ent about the bond between them,” White said. “I think when they’re able to line up together, they’re both going to get confidence from that, and they’re both going to have some special runs this year.” The Poth brothers have never competed in a Hillsdale cross country meet together. Eric Poth redshirted in his freshman season and an injury kept him from competing at a meet last year as a sophomore. Once he finally gets to run alongside his brother in a race, Eric said it will be an advantage because they know each other’s pace so well. “One of our best strengths is that we gauge off of each other pretty well. If I’m with him in a race, he knows he’s having a bad day,” Eric Poth joked. “It’s gonna be fun. It’s his last year. We are finally racing together like we planned two years ago.” Their first meet together will be the Spartan Invitational on Sept. 14, where Eli Poth will be making his season debut for the last time as a Charger. But Eli is not planning on easing up on running once he graduates. He said he plans to race in marathons after his time at Hillsdale is through. “For Eli, there is little separation between this, his lifestyle now and how he is going to live for always,” White said. “He loves to do it and he’s going to do it after he graduates. He’s going to do it until he can’t do it anymore.” Eli Poth won’t stop after his next 115 miles. He believes he has a lot more in the tank. “I can’t fathom not running, because it’s who I am,” he said. “It’s given me everything I have.”

Eli Poth competes during the track season in addition to running for the cross country team. Olivia Llewelyn | Courtesy

absolutely vital to the success of this team,” he said. “Every team every year goes through some growing pains. You hope with an older team you can skip that step. We weren’t able to skip that step, but hopefully we’ve learned more quickly than last year.” The Chargers travel to Malone University on Friday, then return home to take on Cedarville University on Tuesday. “Malone can play at an extremely high level, but maintaining that high level hasn’t always been their strength,” Gravel said. “We’re not going to walk into any gym and win just by walking in. We have to bring the game in, both physically and mentally.”

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By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale Chargers opened their season on Friday at the Jeff Drenth Memorial in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where the team placed third overall and junior Joey Humes set a new conference record as he led the pack of 44 runners. The meet included Division I programs Michigan State University and Central Michigan University. Humes’ time of 15 minutes, 13.44 seconds was fast enough to win the 5k race. Humes said his rigorous summer training regimen was the key to his success. “The meet was a good confidence booster. I was doing 90-100 miles a week in the summer and I wasn’t sure how it would play out, if I would feel like trash or not,” he said. “Running that race and feeling as good as I did, I can say the training is definitely working for me.” Humes had never won a collegiate cross country meet, but his teammate, Eric Poth, said the team knew Humes had the talent to compete with

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fense. “I was reading the quarterback’s eyes and could tell that he was kind of in a panic,” Shanley said. “He didn’t really have any open receivers. I saw him look back toward their fullback who was right in my zone. I got to my spot and just made a play on the ball.” The Chargers nearly turned the interception into points, but sophomore kicker Joe Philipp narrowly missed a 35yard field goal on the ensuing drive. Both defenses settled in for the rest of the quarter, and allowed only 21 yards combined on the final five drives of the first half, compared to 244 yards from scrimmage in the game’s first four series. “After those first couple of drives, we settled in,” Shanley said of Hillsdale’s defensive unit. “The first couple of drives we had a tough time getting off on third down, but once we settled down, we figured out what they were going to do, and battled their game plan and what they were throwing at us.” After the Chargers extended their lead to two scores to begin the second half, both teams were held scoreless until the first first play of the fourth quarter, when the Lakers trimmed Hillsdale’s lead to 14-9 on a 16-yard touchdown

runners from bigger schools. “We know he has it in him to win, and he knows he has it in him. There was no doubt,” Poth said. “He has the talent to go to those schools without paying a dime.” Freshman Adam Wier made his collegiate debut in the meet and placed sixth on the team with a time of 16:54.58. Assistant coach R.P. White said he was pleased with Wier’s performance and said he could be a contributor during the longer races at the end of the season. “By just watching Wier in practice and watching him in the race, you can tell he’s going to be a long distance guy,” he said. “Eventually, by the end of the season when he’s acclimated to school and training, I think he can help us out over 10,000 meters.” The other new addition to the team, freshman James McClure, did not race due to a foot injury. The next meet the Chargers will compete in is the Spartan Invitational in East Lansing, Michigan, on Sept. 14. pass. The Chargers forced two punts and a turnover on downs in Mercyhurst’s final three possessions of the game to seal the victory. Hillsdale’s defensive grit in the fourth quarter was just the conclusion of a pivotal performance all night long. The longest play from scrimmage the Chargers allowed was the 16-yard touchdown, and Mercyhurst converted only four of 14 third down attempts and one of three fourth down attempts. The Lakers managed just nine points despite having the ball inside Hillsdale’s 10 yard line three times. The Chargers didn’t display as much firepower on offense as they believe they are capable of, but in the end, they weathered the storm in more ways than one to come out on top. “It was opening week. When it comes down to it, my job is to get us into the best play possible and to get us into the best situation possible to win the football game,” Stewart said. “At the end of the day, there are a lot of things I need to work on, but we’re 1-0.” The Chargers face a challenging task this weekend when they travel to the Upper Peninsula to play Michigan Tech University. Hillsdale defeated Tech at home last season, 31-27. Kickoff on Saturday is at 1 p.m.

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Paige VanderWall is a senior from kentwood, michigan, studying marketing at hillsdale. She is a right side hitter on the chargers volleyball team.

Q: How did it feel to win the g-mac player of the year award last season?

Q: What are some funny stories or facts about Coach Gravel?

Q: Tell me about your injury in 2015 and how you bounced back from it.

PV: It was certainly unexpected. Six of my teammates were also honored, so I definitely come from a very talented team of people. I felt so lucky, especially since so many others could have won it.

PV: In the five meals before a game, we are not allowed to eat cream or dressings, no red meat, no sugar cereals, no pizza. Coach is the exact opposite. His wife is a nutritionist for us, but he will only eat cheeseburgers, chicken tenders, Coke, and fries.

PV: I tore my ACL, meniscus, and dented my femur. Now that I look back on it, it definitely was a blessing from God. I learned a lot about letting people help you, and learned a lot about myself and how to be a better teammate. It made me the player I am today.

Q: Do you have a certain verse or mantra for inspiration?

Q: What are you going to miss most about Hillsdale next year?

PV: Overall, “To God be the PV: It goes back to “It’s the glory,” which is the state- people.” I’m going to miss ment for our team. my teammates and my football and basketball friends. There’s a really special sense of community at Hillsdale.

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Chance Stewart threw for 205 yards and one touchdown in Saturday’s win. Ryan Goff | Collegian

WORTH THE WAIT By | S. Nathaniel Grime Sports Editor

Despite waiting through a halftime that took longer than the game itself, the Hillsdale College Chargers defeated the Mercyhurst University Lakers in a gritty, 14-9 victory on Saturday at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium. The win is the Chargers’ eighth in a row against Mercyhurst, extending a head-to-head winning streak that began in 2002. This also marks the second consecutive year Hillsdale has bested the Lakers in week one of the season to begin the year 1-0. The Chargers headed into the tunnel after the first half with a 7-3 lead, but lightning and tornado warnings kept them in the locker room for two-and-a-half hours before they returned to the field to begin the second half.

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Saturday, September 8 1:00 p.m. Hillsdale (1-0, 0-0) at Michigan Tech (1-0. 0-0) “The kids did a nice job of relaxing. They took their pads off, took their shoes off, but didn’t lose focus,” head coach Keith Otterbein said of the unorthodox halftime. “The fact those two football teams went in and spent two-anda-half hours doing nothing and then came back out and played at a level that they did is a testament to both teams and the focus that they had.” The Chargers began the

third quarter strong indeed, with a nine-play, 81-yard scoring drive completed by a 6-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Chance Stewart to sophomore wide receiver Alexander Giampietro. The extra point extended Hillsdale’s lead to 14-3. Stewart finished the game an efficient 20-for-29 with 205 yards passing. Giampietro led the receiving unit with a career-high six catches and

88 yards. Sophomore wide receiver K.J. Maloney followed with five receptions for 55 yards. Giampietro and Maloney’s performances were even bigger in light of senior Trey Brock’s early exit from the game. Brock caught one pass on the Chargers’ first drive of the game, but spent the rest of the night on the sidelines after experiencing discomfort in his side. “When it comes to K.J. or Alex, or [senior wide receiver] Austin Sandusky, guys like that really have to step up, and they did,” Stewart said. “It was a really big contribution from everybody. Without Trey, we needed a lot of people to come together.” The Chargers’ first and only other touchdown came

on their first offensive series of the night. Stewart guided the offense 48 yards to the end zone in 11 plays, converting three third downs during the series. After a 12-yard completion to Maloney on third down set up 1st-and-goal for Hillsdale from the two yard line, junior running back Christian Shepler rushed for a 2-yard touchdown on the next play to give the Chargers a lead they would not relinquish. Mercyhurst had jumped out to an early 3-0 lead thanks to a field goal on its first drive of the game. Holding the Lakers to three points was a victory for the Chargers’ defense, however, since the Lakers had 1st-and-goal from the four yard line earlier in

the drive. After Hillsdale took a 7-3 lead, the Lakers again entered the red zone on their next possession and threatened to regain the lead. Hillsdale’s defense made another stand, allowing only five yards on three straight rushing attempts to set up 4th-and-goal from the one yard line. Instead of running the ball for a fourth consecutive play, the Lakers elected to pass. The play broke down, and an ill-advised throw ended up in the hands of junior linebacker Dan Shanley, who intercepted the pass in the end zone, ending the scoring threat and turning the ball back over to the Chargers’ of-

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Chargers dominate in home opener By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor In front of a large crowd of excited fans last Thursday, the Hillsdale College Chargers delivered in their home opener, beating the Ohio Valley University Fighting Scots in three sets. The Chargers kept the Fighting Scots under 20 points each game. All four freshmen—Karoline Shelton, Maggie DePorre, Samantha Malcolm, and Emma Noskey—made an appearance for Hillsdale. “I thought it went well,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “Everybody came in and did their job. It was a good team effort in that way.” While the Chargers controlled each set against the Fighting Scots, Ohio Valley was able to knock Hillsdale back on its heels with offensive attacks. Senior Paige VanderWall, named G-MAC West Division Player of the Week, said the team is working to

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said. “Probably our biggest focus is to cut down on errors, which will largely be done in practice by coming mentally prepared to make the most of every contact.” Gravel agreed with VanderWall’s assessment.

“We can play at an extremely high level, a higher level than we played at last year,” he said. “Doing that from start to finish has been something that we’ve struggled with so far this season.” The Chargers struggled with consistency last weekend at the Findlay Classic in Findlay, Ohio. “It was pretty up and down, and we uncovered a lot of things we need to work on,” VanderWall said. “I’m not totally satisfied with our performance, and I think that’s a mutual feeling across the team. We need to be mentally tougher and execute more effectively.” The team will be working on basic skills in practice to help improve some of its weaknesses. “We’re going back to some of the basics to help with inconsistencies,” Gravel said. “We know we can play at as high of a level as anyone in

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Hillsdale finishes second only to Michigan State By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale Chargers traveled to Mount Pleasant, Michigan last Friday, and proved to be very competitive with all schools, ranging from large Division I programs to smaller community colleges. With a strong start and impressive depth, the Chargers captured second place with 42 points, behind first-place Michigan State University with 29. This race signaled a much earlier start to the season compared to previous years, but the team adjusted well. The Chargers viewed it as a opportunity to evaluate where they are at in their fitness and training before getting into the heart of the season. Junior Arena Lewis led Hillsdale and was the sixth runner overall to cross the finish line at 18 minutes and 14.52 seconds. Freshman

Sophia Maeda also finished in the top ten, placing ninth in 18:19.07. Despite her strong showing, Lewis felt she still had more to give. “Personally I don’t think I did super well. I started off too aggressively and died later in the race,” Lewis said. Lewis credits her team for its second-place finish. “The team is looking amazing. We have such great depth. The freshmen fit in so well and each one stepped up to fill important spots on the team,” she said. “Sophia did amazing and I can’t wait to see what she does later in the season. This meet was a great opener for us and based on how we did, I think this season will go well.” Maeda said she went into the race not knowing what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised. “The race went much

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LDS students pursue truth, faith through community By | Nolan Ryan News Editor A group of students from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has started a local chapter of the LDS Student Association, hoping to foster community and service among their members. The club sprung from students who spent time together but wanted to start an official organization. Hillsdale’s LDSSA has unofficially started activities and hosted scripture studies since last semester, so this year is not radically different to what the LDS students have been doing. Last year, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Lansing reached out to junior Hannah Schaff, president of the club, about organizing the group into a sponsored club. As part of the group’s mission, the students will focus on fellowship, service, and growth, Schaff said. The role of club president, according to Schaff, is actually a calling from the

Church, like any other forms of spiritual leadership. “The students from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have tried to do things together the whole time that I’ve been here,” Schaff said. “But last year, the leadership of the Church... said, ‘You guys should start a club.’ I hadn’t thought of that before because we are such a small group.” With official club status, Assistant Professor of Spanish Todd Mack, the group’s faculty advisor, said a benefit is that they will be listed on the college website. This will allow LDS students interested in Hillsdale to know there is a community ready to greet them on campus, perhaps inciting more interest in the school. “We thought it would be nice to have something official,” said Todd Mack, assistant professor of Spanish and LDSSA faculty advisor. “We are interested in doing things on campus, doing service on campus.”

LDSSA is a nationwide organization dedicated to supporting LDS college students in their faith in Jesus Christ, according to the website for the Harvard Business School chapter’s website. Like many other campus religious clubs, it provides a community in which like-minded members can encourage and support each other. Schaff said the goal for this semester is to host a variety of events open to Hillsdale students of any tradition of faith, including regular scripture studies which will explore the topics of the person Jesus Christ and the idea of everlasting gospel. “We’re trying to do something fun every Saturday. We’ve got some board game and movie nights, some outdoors stuff — like soccer and frisbee — and then we’ve got a couple of different service projects, helping people around the community,” she said. “We have a scripture study, and that’s been consistent. We have it once a week.

‘Christopher Robin’ simply delights By |Regan Meyer Web Content Editor “Doing nothing often leads to the very best something.”Winnie the Pooh By doing the cinematic equivalent of “nothing,” Disney creates a movie that is the very best of “somethings.” In their new film “Christopher Robin,” Disney rejects the complex formula of its live-action remakes for a simple, nostalgic film that is every bit as beautiful as it is poignant. “Christopher Robin” follows its titular character through time from the playful boy in the Hundred Acre Wood to the work-obsessed World War II veteran. Christopher, played by the ever-dashing Ewan McGregor, finds himself back from the war and caught between obligations to work and to his family. Enter the adorable Pooh Bear. Pooh, voiced by Jim Cummings, sets out to find Christopher in London when

he cannot find the rest of his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. What ensues is an enjoyable adventure, one that is less silly than joyful. Up to the point where Pooh finds him once again, Christopher is a sullen and serious man, burdened with adult life and responsibilities. The appearance of Pooh marks a shift. We see Christopher begin to open up and become increasingly childlike as the film progresses. Pooh’s simplicity and his ability to see the joy in everyday life causes Christopher to let down his guard. Soon, he’s frolicking through the woods as if he was a child once again. The film recaptures the magic of the classic Hundred Acre Wood. There’s the bridge where Pooh and Christopher race sticks, and the houses of Piglet, Owl, and Rabbit. The characters stay true to A.A. Milne’s concepts: Tigger sings his introductory song, Piglet is scared of everything, Eeyore is constantly sad. Disney does not try to reinvent A.A.

Milne’s beloved characters, but instead leaves them as they were, albeit with a bit of spiffing up courtesy of CGI. It’s not just the nostalgia that makes “Christopher Robin” work. It’s the lack of opulence and over-the-top sets, costumes, and side plots that draw the viewer in. Using a muted color palette and gentle score, the film is simple much like Winnie the Pooh himself. No shot of the film sees harsh lighting. Rather the scenes are bathed in sunrises and sunsets while others are wrapped in layers of clouds and fog suitable for the English countryside in which it is set. “Christopher Robin” is never ridiculous. It is just about a boy who needs reminding of what matters in life, and a silly old bear who shows Christopher that the secret to life is finding the joy of simple things in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. Christopher said that the secret to life is finding the joy of simple things in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives.

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It’s led by a teacher called from the church, so it’s not a student-led thing.” Freshman club member Benjamin Burnett said the scripture study, called Institute, is important for students to grow in their understanding of Christ and what he has done for the Church. The first study, he said, explored the concept of Jesus Christ as a creator. Another one of Hillsdale LDSSA’s more religiously-oriented activities is visiting the Detroit Michigan Temple together. While this is not open to students from other religions, Schaff said the fivehour trip is a lot of fun and strengthens their community. It’s a priority, she said, for the club to go there a few times a semester. Schaff said there are unique benefits and challenges to being LDS on campus. The small size of the LDS club, Burnett said, can actually be a benefit. “Sometimes when there are a lot of members for anything, people become complacent.

That’s probably the same even in Hillsdale with all the people seeking truth. Some people might become complacent,” Burnett said. “One thing I knew would be good here in some ways, and also a challenge, is knowing that I would have to be strong in truth and that there would be people to help me follow along.” According to Schaff, there is a lot of misunderstanding and negative views on what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints actually is, but she hopes the club will clear up perception of their faith. “I think having this club helps us grow a little bit stronger and feel a little bit more secure,” she said. “We show up a little more, and people are able to see that we are normal people. We do believe in Jesus Christ; we do good things; we’re happy people.” Mack pointed out that Hillsdale’s pursuit of truth is an LDS way of approaching life. This pursuit, he said, is achieved when students

from different faith traditions discuss their beliefs and walk away with an appreciation of different ways of looking at spiritual concepts. “There’s so much that joins us at Hillsdale. The missions of the college are built into who we are as a Church,” Mack said. “Some of the greatest things I’ve read about pursuing truth are from church leaders. Our job is to find truth. We’re at home here.” Regardless of whether a student is Catholic, Protestant, or LDS, Mack said he believes we are all working together to discover truth. He cautioned, however, that the pursuit of truth isn’t about relativism. Instead, it’s about examining different beliefs on concepts like agency and redemption to come to conclusions about what the truth is. “We look at some things, and see things differently,” Mack said. “We’re engaging in important conversations. That causes us to think about what we believe, what others believe.”

A&W: A juicy journey to the heart of the American burger

By | Nic Rown Columnist NEW YORK CITY, New York — We were somewhere around the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the edge of Brooklyn when the sickness began to take hold. I remember my brother Sean saying something like “I need maybe seven Benadryl ...” And I pulled over to the side of the road and found enough drugs to eradicate the hives spreading down his legs. Sean had bolted two $2 slices at Solo Pizza, a place that also served Asian food several hours before in Union Square. This is common in New York. And dangerous. Those little bodegas jammed between big buildings — serving thousands of people every day, underpaying workers, attempting to prepare cuisine originating from opposite sides of the Earth — there’s bound to be a slip-up. And if you’re the sort of person who goes all John Bonham at even the scent of shellfish (and Sean’s no stranger to the allergic contractions of the throat), then Peking pizza is not for you. But this is why we fled New York. The limitless possibilities of the city — a system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells — rip the mind into 200 shredded copies of Jacobin whirling down Atlantic Avenue. Here is no love. The never-ending blare of ambulance sirens deafen dreams and remind the young American that this is the land of the dead. Sean and I lurched across 66th Street after an early Mass, passing the Upper East Siders drinking their morning coffee and smoking big cigars. A young man stepped out in front of my car reading that new Barack Obama/Joe Biden buddy cop novel, “Hope Never Dies.” He was on a Sunday stroll, probably after an early night in with a bottle Kahlua and stale clips of “Kimmy

Schmidt.” But those of us who had been out all night were in no mood for fan fiction. We were in need of greasy food. And what better place, Sean and I learned in our coming trek through the rust belt, than A&W, the only fast food chain that claims the title “All-American” — embracing the used-up soul of this greying land. MONTREAL, Canada — Trouble on the border. The Canooks won’t let Sean through without his passport, so we are forced to take a picture of a picture of the document and present it as the genuine article. A great strategy to get into the country … but will the Americans see through the ruse on the way out? Yes! The American border guard rages at us for 20 minutes on our return, citing diplomatic tensions with Canada, referencing 9/11 and all of its bitter security implications — but in the end, he lets us through without molestation. But none of that mattered when we were seated in our first-ever A&W. It is by no means ironic that our first real taste of all-American food should come in a foreign land, and in one that insists on being more French than the French. Really. These Quebecois are insistent about the purity of their language: they post every sign in French, even at bastions of American culture like this roadside fast food joint. Sean was sitting across from me holding a frosty mug of root beer and staring down at a pile of brown soup ladled over squeaky cheese curds and a pile of damp fries. The Canadians call it poutine; we call it crap. And the langue de poulet — that’s what these faux Frenchmen are calling our chicken tenders — taste almost as bad as the mistranslation: translated directly from the French, langue de poulet

reads “chicken tongues.” CORTLAND, New York — Our inauspicious start in Montreal led to drop inordinate amounts of Canadian loons on the slots at a casino bordering Thousand Island Park, New York. It was there that we decided that America must make up for Canada’s sins. A&W is a revered institution — even if Yum! Brands spun it off in 2011 as A Great American Brand LLC — and we would redeem it through our patronage. Such were our thoughts as we pulled into the drivein just outside of Cortland. It had everything: outdoor tables, an A&W-themed mini-golf course, and an ATM for those who forgot this is a cash-only affair. Sean and I had just blown through all of Ludacris’ charting singles (and his charting features), so we needed a break. And what a break this was. Do you remember that scene in Barcelona when Ted Boynton tells the American-cuisine-hating Spaniards that he craves “the ideal burger of memory?” Well, we found it, right there in Cortland, New York. If you’re ever passing through the between Binghamton and Syracuse, make a stop. Get the Bacon Crunch Burger. SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Strange nights on the turnpike. Yum! Brands jammed this A&W inside a Long John Silver’s (another restaurant chain the fast food conglomerate has since spun off since the Great Recession). The menu lacked and the loudspeakers in the restroom blared Scorpions’ “No One Like You.” BRYAN, Ohio — It is a sad thing to leave a brother behind — and it’s even sadder to visit an A&W (parked inside of a KFC) without him. By now the scourge of the Yum Brands era has become clear to me. Now, as a Yum! Brands stockholder — who plans to use his earnings to buy an en-

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Faculty recitals to show diversity of talent By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter

Matsos debuts as theater professor By | Carly Fisher Collegian Freelancer The son of a professional singer in New York City, Chris Matsos spent his childhood attending Broadway plays with his father and perfecting his impersonations of celebrated actor Gary Oldman. Occasionally, young Matsos would take the stage himself in his mother’s productions. Today, newly hired Professor Matsos of the Hillsdale College Department of Theatre and Dance is starting his first semester here on campus alongside his wife Tory, lecturer in theatre and dance. He will be teaching Understanding Theatre, Theatre History II, and Acting I. His talents are not limited to the classroom, however. After studying theater and religion at The College of Wooster in Ohio, he earned his Master of Fine Arts in acting at the University of Florida. He then worked professionally for a few years, acting, directing and playwriting. He has worked at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the British Shakespeare Company, and Sight and Sound Theatre, where he met his wife Tory, a 2002 Hillsdale graduate. Additionally, Matsos worked as an extra on the set of ‘Batman Begins,’ witnessing Christian Bale’s final jump from the top of a building at the end of the movie. One of Matsos’ most recent roles was “Black ’Stache” in Farmer’s Alley Theater’s production of “Peter Pan and the Starcatcher.” Over the course of the play, his character loses his hand and becomes the infamous “Captain Hook” from the beloved children’s story. One of the audience members at the production was none other than James Brandon, chair of the department of theater and dance at Hillsdale College. “The role [of Black ’Stache] itself is a scene stealer but then the way [Matsos] played it just transcended … He is a very genuine person and very open and you feel like you know him right away and then to see him play Captain Hook on the stage,” Brandon said. “He’s unrecognizable and that, of course, is what good acting is supposed to be.” When he witnessed Matsos’ performance, Brandon said, “It cemented everything in terms of his talents.” Even while he enjoyed success as an actor, Matsos said he missed teaching.

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“I realized one day that I had everything that a professional working actor needs or wants, which is a steady income and friends and a rewarding experience with the audience, but I desperately missed teaching,” Matsos said. “And I realized it was actually the engagement with students that was my source of energy and helps me to define my work as a theater person.” Consequently, Matsos earned his doctorate at Ohio State University in theater history, literature, and criticism. He taught at a variety of institutions until the fall of 2016, when Hillsdale was looking for someone to fill in for George Angell, now-retired lecturer in theatre and dance, while he was on sabbatical. Brandon said he immediately thought of Matsos. “I was thinking, ‘Man! It would be great to have him at Hillsdale, but at that time there wasn’t a job,’” he said. With Angell on sabbatical, Matsos was hired. Within a short time, he made quite an impression.

“I realized it was the engagement with students that was my source of energy.” Junior Michelle Reid took his class in 2016 and said Matsos may have been the “most wonderful” professor she’s ever had. “The pieces of art we beheld in that class still stick to my bones, and it never felt oppressive,” she said. “I think it’s difficult to truly receive much from art in an environment that is too demanding, particularly if it’s not your primary passion. Matsos gave us students enough freedom coupled with enough structure to truly appreciate theater.” The admiration was mutual. Matsos also expressed a love for the community here at Hillsdale. “I have never taught anywhere like it,” he said. Before coming to Hillsdale, Matsos said he was “losing faith” in higher education, but the love of learning so apparent in Hillsdalians rekindled his hope. When it became apparent that Angell was about to retire “All-American” branches housed within the same buildings as Yum! Brands were left scrounging off the floors. I’m sure you’ve seen this: a full-blooded KFC sharing a kitchen with the parody of an A&W. They might as well only sell the root beer. DEXTER, Michigan — It was here that I recaptured the glory of Cortland. There was no mini-golf, but this A&W didn’t need it. It had the Bacon Crunch Burger. It had

after serving the Hillsdale student body for more than 30 years, Matsos was the obvious candidate. “It was just a matter of hoping no one would snatch him up before we had a chance to interview him…We were very blessed and very lucky,” Brandon said. Matsos’ triple talent in acting, directing, and teaching theater history was, according to Brandon, “a very rare combination,” fitting the theater department’s needs. Brandon describes his teaching style as very open. “The best classes are classes where you feel there is a spirit of inquiry with the professor. He is learning along with you. He knows the stuff already, but it feels like you all are going on a journey together,” Brandon said. “It just really feels like you’re part of something. It is easy to get motivated to come to class for something like that. You’re part of a discussion.” Reid said his classes were engaging and inclusive. “His classes definitely had more discussion than lecture, but he always provided a powerful perspective as a result of his extensive personal involvement in the theater industry,” she said. Matsos said he hopes students have a sense of the profound ways in which live theater has shaped Western culture. “You cannot understand the history of Western culture without knowing how dramatic literature and performance has impacted it,” he said. At a practical level, Matsos, who continues to act professionally, plans on using his professional connections to assist students in finding jobs in the performing arts. He said he anticipates having colleagues teach workshops in the future. His directorial debut on campus will be this November in the heartwarming play “Harvey.” From a young child practicing his impersonations of Gary Oldman to an accomplished professor and actor, Chris Matsos’ love of the performing arts has been a driving force in his life. “Acting is not putting on artifice to become something you’re not,” Matsos said. “It’s about taking away the masks that we already wear in our daily lives and finding the vulnerable heart of who we are as individuals. That is something I try to instill in my students.”

the frosty mugs. It was closing time, and my car’s radio was blasting “Watermelon in Easter Hay.” As I pulled in under that warm neon glow, I felt like the prodigal son had come home. And as the waitress handed me my fries, those words — perhaps the most beautiful ever written — came to mind: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.

The Hillsdale College Department of Music will host two faculty recitals Sept. 7 and Sept. 9. The first recital will feature Professor of Music Melissa Knecht on the viola, Lecturer in Music Amy Ley on the harp, Lecturer in Music Jaimie Wagner on the flute, and Adjunct Professor of Music Katherine Rick on the piano. The second recital will be a solo recital, featuring Daniel Tacke, associate professor of music, on the harpsichord. The theme of the first recital is “Submerged.” Knecht chose this title due to the combination of instruments and choice of music. “It’s music that is very atmospheric,” Knecht said. “You’ll find an interesting combination that a lot of composers like by using the combination of the darker sound of viola and the [lighter sound of the] flute and then the harp. It’s a great color combination.” Rick will be playing a solo piece, as well as a duo with Wagner. Rick has played the piano since she was six and, motivated by sibling rival-

ry, began playing the piano. Since then, she has stuck with music. Now at Hillsdale, she expresses her love for what she does. “I love my job here at Hillsdale and being able to work with awesome students,” Rick said. “Accompanying both faculty and students for all kinds of recitals, being on stage constantly, it’s a lot of fun.” Tacke will be taking a different route for his solo recital. Rather than choose an instrument that most people are familiar with, Tacke will play two pieces for the harpsichord. Tacke has selected pieces specifically written for the harpsichord by JeanPhilippe Rameau and Johann Sebastian Bach. “They are very similar in terms of their chronology but also very different,” Tacke said. “One thing I attribute to them is they will showcase the instruments in really different ways.” Growing up, Tacke had played keyboard instruments, but picked up the harpsichord in graduate school. Since then, it has been his primary instrument. Tacke hopes to showcase the idiosyncrasies of the

instrument, in comparison with the piano. Tacke even mentioned the two pieces will contrast the different elements of the instrument. “The instrument has its own unique beauty, all kinds of unique problems that come with beauty,” Tacke said. “The potential for expression that the instrument offers is very different. I try and choose repertoire that are going to draw out those distinctions.” Tacke said he endeavors to make the harpsichord accessible to his audience. “One of the interesting things is learning to navigate the idiosyncrasies,” Tacke said. “Learning to make the thing sing and be expressive despite some things about it that are kind of bristly.” According to Knecht, music contributes to Hillsdale’s pursuit of beauty in a special way. “It’s like a nonverbal understanding of the beauty of God in a different way,” Knecht said. The first performance will be at 8 p.m. in the Markel Auditorium followed by the second performance at 3 p.m. in Conrad Recital Hall.

The first faculty recitals of the school year are this weekend. Courtesy | Hillsdale College Music Department.

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Science & Tech Student spends summer break researching Parkinson’s-related protein

By | Alexis Daniels ASSISTANT EDITOR Over the summer, senior Natalie Meckel was admitted to a research program, spending the summer crystallizing proteins for neutron diffraction experiments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take part in the 10week Redox Biology Center Summer Research (REU) Program. “I’d planned on doing research ever since I was a freshman as part of my biochemistry major,” Meckel said. “There were a ton of possibilities in the Redox Biology Center.” Her research focused on structural biology regarding human DJ-1, a protein that plays a significant role in Parkinson’s Disease. Meckel explained that “familial Parkinson’s disease is caused by mutations in the human genome, a collection of which destabilize human DJ-1 and impair its function.” According to Meckel, this is what makes human DJ-1 of interest in factors leading to the neurodegenerative disease. Although it is known

Senior Natalie Meckel performed research in a lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln this summer. Natalie Meckel | Courtesy

what causes this in familial Parkinson’s disease, it is unknown what the cause is of sporadic Parkinson’s disease. “In order for us to understand exactly how DJ-1 plays

a role in sporadic Parkinson’s Disease, we need to understand what other factors might lead it to be deactivated besides mutation,” Meckel said.

She said understanding the “structural nuances of DJ-1 will help us determine what environmental factors cause it to be destabilized,” and that is why the hydrogen bonds in the protein are key components to study. Meckel’s research concentrated on developing a crystallization procedure for the protein. If the crystals are large enough, they can be used for neutron diffraction experiments to locate the hydrogen bonds. These experiments are only possible with a nuclear reactor. “You actually shoot neutrons at it, and the neutrons bounce off of molecules based on their nuclei,” Meckel said. “Hydrogens are really sensitive to this type of experiment.” In the experiment, it is important to localize hydrogen bonds because “current models predict several key hydrogen bonds” surrounding an amino acid called Cysteine 106, she explained. Cysteine 106 is critical to DJ-1’s activity, and “factors that might affect its reactivity, such as nearby hydrogen bonds, likely have a role in

the cause of Parkinson’s.” “That’s why the whole goal of my procedure was making crystals that would enable us to localize hydrogen bonds,” Meckel said. “If we were able to totally understand what causes DJ-1 to be disabled or inactivated in people with Parkinson’s, we could work on constructing a pharmaceutical that would possibly prevent that from happening.” Meckel’s crystallization procedure that would allow researchers to perform the experiment and locate the hydrogen bonds was simple but delicate. She expressed the protein in E. coli bacteria and purified the protein for crystallization experiments. After the protein was concentrated, she placed a tiny drop of oil in a well of a plastic tray, and on the bed of the oil, she put tiny drops of polyethylene glycol, a solution known to cause a protein to precipitate into a solid. Using a cat whisker, she put miniscule amounts of crushed up protein crystal on each drop. “By varying the type of oil and the concentrations of protein, polyethylene glycol,

and crushed crystals called microseeds, I optimized the procedure to produce large tetragonal crystals,” Meckel said. Dean of the Natural Sciences Christopher VanOrman, Meckel’s junior research adviser who reviewed her junior thesis on the role of DJ-1 in Parkinson’s, said Meckel had been interested in the DJ-1 protein the year before, and she was well prepared to do this type of biochemistry research. “Natalie excels in critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, scientific inquiry, and her written communication,” VanOrman said. “She is one of our best and brightest students.” Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Meckel’s academic adviser Courtney Meyet agreed, saying that Natalie has been a teaching assistant for her this year and last year. “Natalie is approachable and has a positive attitude,” Meyet said. “It is no doubt these attributes served her well during research.”

Box software replaces T drive on campus for them, as well as to set up the permissions. “With Box, you just do it yourself,” Janowiak said. Associate Professor of Economics Michael Clark also identified problems with the T drive that the new Box system corrects. “I did in the past have issues with off-campus access to T drives. There was a way to remotely access the T drive, but students would run into issues. I would then have to send them to ITS,” Clark said. Clark observed that accessibility was a large appeal of Box, given that accessing class information from a smartphone is especially important to students. “With the Box system, theoretically, you have an app on your phone, which you can get to from any computer. You don’t have to be remote to access it because it’s an online system and not a Hillsdale college network system,” Clark said. Box unifies professor to student communication on a one-to-one platform. Janowiak said prior to finding Box, departments at the college

By | Frederick Heegan COLLEGIAN FREELANCER After a nine month, multi-departmental trial run, Hillsdale Information Technology Services (ITS) has officially integrated Box as a campus-wide software solution. “Box is essentially a cloud content service provider just like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive,” ITS Systems Administrator Mark Janowiak said. “It enables a lot more features as far as collaboration across the college and collaboration among faculty, staff, and students.” Box is a replacement for the T drive file management and sharing tool. The IT department decided to phase out the T drive in time for the school year. As Janowiak noted, the T drive ran into problems whenever someone wanted to share information between faculty and students or employees and students. He explained the user would have to contact ITS to set up a folder on the T drive

had been trying to find ways to purchase their own solutions. “We’re really trying to provide a platform for the college to have together. Box is the idea of having a common platform,” Janowiak said. Janowiak said feedback from professors has been positive, so far. The response from students was also favorable. Senior Kolbe Conger noticed that sharing files with fellow Student Federation members became much easier with Box. “You can access your club files easily. There’s no headaches—something the T drive couldn’t always do reliably,” Conger said. This year Box is poised to be one of the most important applications used at the college. It’s user-friendly interface, multitude of collaboration features, and remote accessibility make it essential to academic and administrative efforts this school year. To explore the Box system, you can visit box.hillsdale. edu.

Weekly ADHD group encourages peer support By | Jordyn Pair ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jordan Nied was at college for almost a full year before he realized he had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. “I always felt like I was not living up to my full potential,” Nied said. “It often felt like no matter how well I was doing in school, I wasn’t doing as well as I could do.” Characterized by an inability to focus, fidgeting, and a lack of impulse control, students with ADHD can often struggle in classrooms and with homework. Roughly 5 percent of children between the ages

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of 2 and 17 have ADHD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now a junior, Nied runs a peer support group for those with ADHD through the Ambler Health and Wellness Center. The group meets each week to share information about the disorder and to build a community. Nied said although ADHD comes with struggles, it also has its benefits — like creativity and increased empathy. “My brain won’t turn off,” Nied said, “but I’m always generating ideas.” Although there are resources for students with

Groups investigate mysterious turtle deaths According to National Geographic, more than 300 olive ridley sea turtles were found dead off the coast of Mexico, presumably the effect of “bycatch,” or unintentional victimizing by fishing nets. Mexico News Daily reported the Mexican Turtle Center found the deaths were caused by illegal fishing activity, specifically targeting the turtles.

learning disabilities offered through the dean’s office, Nied said he wished there was more awareness of ADHD on campus. He said he hopes this group will be able to break down some of the stigmas surrounding the disorder. “I want people who are struggling with it to realize there’s a bunch of other people on campus,” Nied said. “I don’t want people to think they’re broken.” The group meets on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Lane 235 B. For more information, contact Jordan Nied at jnied@hillsdale.edu

Trump appoints critic of climate change as advisor Reported by CNN, William Happer will join the White House staff as Trump’s senior director of emerging technologies. According to ScienceMag, Happer, a physicist, said to The Scientist that climate change is “tremendously exaggerated.” Regardless, he told E&E News that he would advise the president “based on sound science and technology.”

New Professor of Biology Sang-Chul Nam settles in to his office in Hillsdale’s Dow Science building. Jade Juniper | Collegian

New biology professor emphasizes real-world applications By | Jade Juniper COLLEGIAN FREELANCER With the retirement of Hillsdale’s Professor of Biology Bob Miller this past spring, Sang-Chul Nam has been hired as new associate professor of biology, teaching Biology 101 and Developmental Biology this semester. After a process involving the weighing of many candidates, Professor of Biology David Houghton said that Nam is “one of the most qualified people ever hired” in Hillsdale’s science department. Nam’s qualifications include his prior teaching experience, where he spent the last 12 years between working as an associate professor for seven years at Baylor University and five years at Texas A&M University. Before coming to America, Nam grew up and studied in South Korea. He studied agricultural chemistry for four years at Seoul National University, then pursued biology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Both universities were large research-based institutions, with between 10,000 and 30,000 students. Nam was prompted to leave his background at larger universities because he wanted the opportunity to connect with students on

a deeper level, made possible by Hillsdale’s small liberal-arts environment. One key factor in the search was finding a professor who could enrich the biology department with a strong background in research. With a list of skills and expertise including experience using immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence techniques, Nam has taken on some very unique research projects. His current project examines how genetics play a role in fruit-fly eye development. He described his research as an integration of two kinds of genetic mixtures, which he then tested on flies to observe the changes in eye development. Genetic manipulation has “incredible potential for the future,” Nam said. The practical implications and possibilities of this type of research are seemingly endless. Nam said his end goal is to uncover more information on organ development, which could unlock many doors to the study of genetics in animals. Though it’s early in the academic year, students taking Nam’s Biology 101 class already commend his teaching style and gentle personality. Freshman Anayia Veremis said her first impression of Nam was that he is “very serious about his studies in biology and cares a lot about

the content of his class.” She noted he has mentioned his research on fruit flies in class, planning to dive deeper into the subject once an understanding of basic terms is established among the students. Students taking Nam’s biology courses can expect to learn applicable information in his lectures. For instance, students who are interested in medical or research professions may gain insight into what scientific research and experimentation entail, instead of simply learning facts and memorizing diagrams. Nam said he tends to integrate his research into these lectures so he can provide real-world examples for his students. While he tries to follow a more textbook-based curriculum, he also likes to keep students engaged and thinking ahead. Nam also said he is still constantly learning new ways to approach course material. Nam takes time to reflect on and adjust his own actions, learning from his mistakes and triumphs every year. “My primary goal is always to continue improving myself and the experience of my students. I want to become a better teacher, researcher, and scholar every year,” Nam said.

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German professor shares tea and office hours with students

A T. Rex is one of last vestiges of a dilapidated Jurassic-themed amusement park.

Pulp Michigan: A land before time in the Irish Hills in 1963 — alongside a still-opBy | Nic Rowan Columnist It’s an old routine—ripped from that part in Jurassic Park when the Brontosaurus first appears on screen in glorious CGI—and I recite it every time I visit the Prehistoric Forest, an abandoned amusement park just off the side of US-12 in the Irish Hills. “You’ve said you’ve got a T. Rex?” “Uh-huh.” “Say again?” “We have a T. Rex.” They do have T. Rex, just not the sort that will try to kill Jeff Goldblum. Closed since 1999, the park is a mess of half-destroyed fiberglass dinosaurs, a decaying volcano, and a long shed, which once served as the territory of a vandal who goes by the name Taxi Kabs. “I remember coming here as a kid. I wanted to be a dinosaur,” he scrawled on the inside of the volcano along with his tag: TAXI KABS :). It’s the only message in the entire park with any substance. There are no FOR SALE signs or phone numbers posted anywhere to indicate ownership. Vines are creeping up the walls of the old snack bar, located in the parking lot. It wasn’t always this way. The Prehistoric Forest opened

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erational old west town and now-demolished go-kart and waterslide park — to accommodate Detroiters vacationing in the nearby lakes. The park housed 15 dinosaurs, a caveman, and a woolly mammoth at its peak. A 35-foot waterfall and a smoking volcano as well as mock-up dig sites stocked full of fake fossils added to the park’s allure. A waterslide (now beyond disrepair) overlooked the whole park. The dinosaurs (which by my count are hard to discern … there’s definitely half a Velociraptor still kicking around there) are the work of James Q. Sidwell, a former dinosaur expert at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural history. Sidwell also designed an accompanying Prehistoric Forest in Marblehead, Ohio, and Dinosaur Land in White Post, Virginia. The Ohio park was the most interactive of the three: attendants issued visitors toy M 16s and encouraged them to “shoot” at the fiberglass models as a Jeep drove them through the attraction. But the dino-park craze couldn’t last. The 1980s gutted tourism in the Irish Hills, and the park suffered repeated attacks from vandals. In the worst case, Saline High School students stole the caveman

statue, along with three other dinosaurs, in 1985 and set them up on the front lawn of the school. Authorities returned the statues to the park. Local students repeated the prank in 2010, this time dropping the caveman on top of a school in Onsted. School administrators called in construction vehicles to remove the mock-up, according to local reports. After the 2010 incident, vandalism increased. The worst occured in Nov. 2012, when 13 high school students (along with two of their fathers) broke into the park while staying in the area for an annual weekend track meet. The marauders beheaded and dismembered the majority of the statues — many of which are still laid low. Police were able to track the students down because security cameras on the trails photographed some of the students wearing varsity track jackets. Everyone involved was charged with trespassing and vandalism. (Nota Bene to the curious trespasser: The cameras have since been destroyed or removed. The only thing keeping you from the Prehistoric Forest is a fence surrounding the parking lot.) Right now, the future is uncertain for the Prehistoric Forest. But hey, Jurassic Park

for a couple of years before history and culture, and the By | Brooke Conrad joining the Hillsdale College migration and changing maps Features editor faculty. Since high school, he during the postwar era. He You can tell a lot about pro- has toured much of Central also helps select films for fessors by the things displayed and Eastern Europe, and he the German film series and in their offices. Professor of applies a lot of his experiencco-runs the Slavic film series German Stephen Naumann es in foreign countries to his with Professor of Theater displays maps. The walls of teaching at Hillsdale. James Brandon. In addition to his basement office in Delp Junior Phil Berntson said attending the German “StamHall are covered in maps — of his current class with Naumtisch” table in Bon Appétit Poland before and between mann about the post-World each Friday, Naumann also the two world wars, of GerWar II history of Berlin is plays on the college’s intramumany, of Prussia. He even has probably the best he’s ever ral soccer team and holds an a “metro map” of all the major taken at Hillsdale. Oktoberfest — a traditional European cities, making the “You can talk about ranGerman celebration held in continent of Europe look like dom things in history and the month of October at his one giant metropolis. he’ll just know what you’re house for the entire depart“I’ve been fascinated with talking about and he’ll have so ment. If you visit him at his maps since I was little,” Naumuch stuff to bring into the office, he will offer you tea mann said. “You could give discussion,” Berntson said. and a German or Polish treat me a map of any state in the “Going into office hours with he acquired from a European United States while we were in Dr. Naumann is like the best store in Kentucky. the car driving on vacation or ever. You do five minutes of “Everyone who’s ever taken something and I would stare German work and then you him loves him to death,” Bernat it for hours.” go in and just talk for like an ston said. “He’s just an actually Born in Minnesota, hour about whatever. He’s so kind person.” Naumann arrived at Hillsapproachable.” Earlier this summer, Naudale College in 2013. Some Senior Katarina Bradford, mann married his Polish fianstudents believe he’d be one of who will participate in the cé, Agata, whom he met while the most popular professors German study abroad prostudying at a language school on campus if he taught in one gram this year, said a disin her hometown of Poznan, of the bigger departments, cussion in office hours with Poland. On one particular day, but he nevertheless won over Naumann was the reason she he was looking for someone to students who study German, decided to major in German. translate a presentation he was who appreciate his devotion “In class we learned about going to give from English to to teaching as well as his disthe Kaiser Wilhelm GedächtPolish, since he didn’t want to tinctly European habits. niskirche in Berlin, and that write it in Polish. Naumann Naumann himself is said a mutual friend seven-eighths Gerintroduced them, and man and one-eighth “the rest is history.” Czech, but his early Agata taught two interest in maps was years of French as partly what led him to a graduate student a love for other lanat the University of guages and cultures — Kentucky and is now particularly those of in Hillsdale working Germany and Poland. on her dissertation for “There was a moher doctoral degree in ment when I realized hispanic studies. that every map is reNaumann’s favorite ally either a false repGerman word is resentation, or just a “fernweh,” which has snapshot of a moment no direct English in time,” he said. “I counterpart and became interested in denotes a desire to be what happens to those abroad, or a pining places and those cities Stephen and Agata Naumann visited Würzburg, Ger- away for no place in many together in July of 2017. when they all the particular. The exsudden have different happens to be the church istence of the word in the Gernames and different people where my Grandfather was man language makes sense, that live there and different christened in 1925,” Bradford as Germans travel more per farmers farming the land and said. “So in office hours I capita than any other country. different people populating brought that up, and he said, Naumann recognized this the city. I wanted to know how ‘Wow, that’s so wonderful — from a young age, rememberpeople engage with a previous we should investigate your ing with fondness the “Wanhistory of that space.” grandfather’s heritage,’ and he derman” (hiker) decoration Naumann speaks both looked up pictures in the Kai- hanging up in his living room. German and Polish fluently, ser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche “He was a little painted figknows a little Spanish, and records, and that was one of ure,” Naumann said. “He’s got also learned some ancient the things that sealed the deal a sort of a cap on and his hair Greek, biblical Hebrew, and for me wanting to actually is kind of coming out all sides, Latin while studying at a major in German. You can and he’s got a knapsack on his pre-seminary school. He then just see his love for people and back and he’s sort of in stride, decided to pursue graduate their cultures,” Bradford said. he’s got his walking stick — studies in German literature Besides German, Naumann he’s just loving it I guess. He’s and went on to teach Geralso teaches seminars for the just enjoying the adventures man and religion at a high Collegiate Scholars program of travel.” school in the Twin Cities on topics such as Polish

Bailey and Buchmann: Simpson leaders soon to join the Marines

Josh Bailey (right) will commission in the U.S. Marine Corps this May. Josh Bailey | Courtesy.

By | Abby Liebing Assistant editor Some RAs at Hillsdale may think that their weeklong training to get ready for the school year is a burden, but it could be worse. Simpson RAs Josh Bailey and Adam Buchmann would know. They have been through Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps. Senior Josh Bailey finished Officer Candidate School this summer and now just has to wait until graduation before he commissions. He finished OCS in two separate, six-week phases, one the summer after freshman year, and the second just this past summer. “One of the big differences between the first section of OCS and the second six weeks is that the first is an exposure to the Marine Corps. It’s like they are just roughing you up and seeing how you do,” Bailey said. “The hardest part was adapting to my environment because I had never been in an environment like that. And learning to succeed when you are running on barely any sleep and you are trying to memorize information and you are trying to lead your peers. I had never been in that intense of a situation, so I

didn’t know how to deal with it that well. So it was a learning curve.” After being exposed to the Marine Corps in the first sixweek training session, Bailey felt better about the second session. “The second time I went, I felt a lot more prepared to deal with it and I feel like I performed well while I was there. And the thing that was most difficult was keeping a good attitude about it. Because the second time you go back you feel like ‘I’m just sitting here getting screamed at, like why the heck did I come back to this?’ So keeping a positive mental attitude was difficult there,” Bailey said. “It’s basically an evaluation course where they are testing your ability to lead marines in combat, essentially. So there’s three grading criteria. One is academic, one is physical, one is leadership. There’s 25 percent for academic, 25 percent for physical, and 50 percent is leadership.” This summer they tested his leadership abilities by putting him in different positions and scenarios where he was in charge of his peers. One scenario OCS puts its trainees through is a reaction course. “So it’s like here’s a broken

bridge and you have to get over this water. You have this rope and you have to carry these two boxes of ammunition over and you can’t touch this, this, and this. And you have 5 to 10 minutes and you have to brief your team. You have to write out an order and give it to them and then lead them through that order and try to complete that mission. Most of the time you fail. Almost all the time you fail. But they want to see how you deal with it,” Bailey said. In addition to these challenges Bailey was also in classes that teach tactics, weapons training, military etiquette, and ethics. Of course there was also the physical training and challenges that OCS is famous for. “You have PT every morning. And you have to go out at five in the morning to go workout. You have to do that every morning and on top of that you are getting hazed throughout the day,” Bailey said. Bailey admits that right after finishing OCS he was ready to move on and wasn’t necessarily excited to come back to being a student. “After OCS this summer I was just like, let’s go, let’s get through Hillsdale. But as the summer progressed, I got back into the Hillsdale mindset. Like, I’m still a college student, and I’m happy to be here for another year. And it will be difficult to leave Hillsdale because I’ve got lots of friends here. But it does help to know what I’m doing and I’m excited,” he said. Junior Adam Buchmann is also going to be a marine and completed the first part of OCS last summer.

Buchmann knew before he came to college that he wanted to go into the military. In high school he applied to the Naval Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, and Hillsdale. He was accepted to all three, but later disqualified from the military academies becuase of an ankle injury that required reconstructive surgery. So he came to Hillsdale, but still knowing that he wanted to pursue the military. During freshman year, he went to Ann Arbor to talk to a selection officer about what he wanted to do in the marines. “And the marine corps is the only branch that, prior to commissioning, can offer you a flight contract. I’ve always wanted to fly, so I signed up on a six year flight contract, if I’m able to earn and then accept my commission,” Buchmann said. He finished his application, got accepted in February of his freshman year, and visited Quantico, Virginia for OCS in the summer. Buchmann went into the training process with some familiarity after watching his older brother, a marine, go through it. “It was the best and worst time of my life. They put you under constant duress. They always make sure that you are always tired, just a little bit hungry, and you’re always a little bit frustrated,” he said. “The first three weeks are insane and you have no prior military experience whatsoever. And you just get hit with the marine corps culture and the marine corps ethos and what it means to be a marine. So that hits you super super hard those first couple of weeks. Then you finally get

used to it.” The training is constant and you are constantly under evaluation, Buchmann said. Even though it’s extremely intense, he had a few good stories. “There was another candidate in my platoon who was 6’8”. He was taller than every single one of the sergeant instructors. One time he accidentally misranked the company gunnery sergeant and called him the company staff sergeant and within half a second he was surrounded by the company gunnery sergeant and 4 or 5 other sergeant instructors. And when they are screaming at you you can’t make eye contact with them, you just have to stand at the position of attention and look straight forward. It was so humorous because it was like five angry yelling marines, looking up at this kid. And he’s just standing there with

this straight face and they are standing there with their heads at his shoulders. And they are just all looking up and screaming. And he has this face like an ostrich, it was so funny,” Buchmann said. Buchmann will finish his second six weeks of OCS this summer. Bailey will commission this May when he graduates, and Buchmann will commission next spring. Needless to say, after weeks of training to be leaders in the Marine Corps, Bailey and Buchmann were ready to be leaders in Simpson as well. Their fellow RA, Junior Stephen Richmann, can attest to this. “Josh and Adam were fantastic leaders even before they went to OSC,” he said. “That kind of training helped them become even more confident in their skills, and they’re doing a great job running Simpson.”

Adam Buchmann (right) will commission in the U.S. Marine Corps next spring. Adam Buchmann | Courtesy.

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Chloe and Hannah Stewart write magazine stories for Hillsdale residents. Courtesy | Chloe and Hannah Stewart.

Hillsdale businesses feature sisters’ magazine By | Cal Abbo Assistant editor Since they were young, Hannah and Chloe Stewart had a knack for writing. “We’ve always written some kind of newspaper or other,” Chloe said. They hand wrote their first newspaper, which consisted solely of news at their house, when Hannah was 7 and Chloe was 4. They titled the family newspaper The Stewart Gazette. “We would just write out by hand whatever was going on at our house,” said Hannah. Now, 11 years later, Hannah and Chloe publish a semimonthly magazine, Bramblecreek, that they fill with poems, drawings, short stories, and local advertisements. The Stewarts mail out seven issues to subscribers that prepay for the magazine. In total, they print 45-50 copies, the majority of which they distribute at local businesses like Jilly Beans Coffee House and Hillsdale Craft Supply. Readers can purchase Bramblecreek for a quarter in local stores or mail a check to receive a six-month or year subscription and can also view the latest issue at bramblecreekmag.weebly.com. The Stewarts moved to Hillsdale just two years ago, after moving around a lot as kids, but said they hope they can settle down here. Handling Bramblecreek’s distribution all by themselves, the Stewarts have befriended many of Hillsdale’s small business owners. “She just came in with this box one day and asked if she could leave her magazine here,” Julie Crowley, the manager at Jilly Beans, said. “I check the box once in a while, and sure enough, people are buying Bramblecreek.” Since then, Crowley has come to know the Stewarts and said she is impressed by their entrepreneurship and maturity. “Hannah really impressed me. She had an idea and just ran with it.” As homeschooled girls,

Hannah said they learned to read when they were very young. “From there, we just started writing our own stories,” she said. “We wrote poems, short stories, and news, and started to send it to our grandma.” From the time they were young, Hannah and Chloe’s education revolved around their ability to read and write. In Chloe’s words, it was “very, very informal homeschooling. [Our parents] gave us the books and said, ‘learn this.’” Bramblecreek’s origins can be traced back three years to the All-Week, a magazine which Hannah and Chloe first produced on a typewriter. Since then, the two sisters used computer programs to design Bramblecreek, and published their 135th issue last month. Neither of the Stewarts seemed interested in college.

Bramblecreek’s only contributors, with occasional columns from their grandma. Now, they get tens of submissions for each issue, consisting of short stories, poetry, and artwork. In July, they announced the winners of Bramblecreek’s second annual poetry contest. Chloe also writes a satirical advice column called “Ask Cho.” In Bramblecreek’s Aug. 1 issue, an anonymous reader wrote to Cho under the pseudonym “Unsure,” asking about the best way to tell her friend that she hates her. In response, Chloe wrote, “There is no need to be nice about it! If you hate her, then just tell her that. If she takes offence then that is her problem, not yours.” Hannah often writes articles about local events like the Hillsdale Open Air Market or other things that intrigue her. “I wrote an article that’ll be coming up in the next issue or two about some interesting lore I found out about Baw

“She had an idea and just ran with it.”

Bramblecreek’s front cover features Chloe’s artwork. | bramblecreekmag.weebly

“I’ve already got a full time job, at Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses,” Hannah said. “I really like my job there.” At first, the Stewarts were

Beese Lake. It’s super secret,” she smiled. Bramblecreek grew so large that, last year, they began receiving submissions from

people they had never even met. “We also annoy our friends until they send us things,” Chloe added. Both Hannah and Chloe said that a large part of their fascination with writing comes from reading fantasy books. They had a long list of favorites, too. “Tolkien, for sure,” Chloe said. “I guess Nancy Drew—does that count? The Hardy Boys are hilarious. They’re just so stupid.” Chloe likes reading Robert Frost and J.R.R. Tolkien’s poetry as well. Hannah finds it boring. “I’m not a big poetry fan. I only like Chloe’s poetry,” she said. Chloe thanked her. The magazine also features Chloe’s drawings. “I’ve always loved drawing,” she said. “My dad draws… I don’t know how I got into it. It just happened really.” “And I don’t draw,” Hannah laughed. Chloe hopes that her experience with artistic publishing via Bramblecreek can expand into an art career. She paints murals, mostly on walls at her house, but believes she can paint for the surrounding community. “I’m hoping that eventually I won’t have any walls left. If there are no walls left, I’ll have to paint on the floor,” she grinned. Hannah felt that Bramblecreek should serve as an outlet for younger writers, like the Stewarts, who have ideas and aspirations, but might feel uncomfortable starting out on their own. “We’re not just looking for anyone to write. We’re looking for kids to write. Anybody who’s interested.” Hannah and Chloe want to continue publishing Bramblecreek as long as they can. “I think just bit by bit we’d like to add more pages to it,” Hannah said. “Maybe eventually we’ll be something bigger,” Chloe added.

By | Callie Shinkle Columnist “Gossip Girl”: a show that reached countless viewers, grossed millions of dollars, earned endless praise. Too bad the drama of Gossip Girl couldn’t hold a candle to the HOT tea spilt in the Collegian, circa 1938. I’m talking about “Campus Capers”: a column so juicy, so scurrilous, that even 80 years later the reader can still feel the burn of the author’s scathing tone. “What East Hall brunette found out to her wide-eyed dismay, that the fire escape was locked one dark night (after 10 o’clock)?” the Campus Capers asked in September of 1936 in a random, mid-column interlude. That East Hall brunette knows exactly who she was. Finding her identity for the rest of us may be more important to me than finishing this article right now. You want names? Don’t you worry. Campus Capers provides first, middle and last. Sometimes even Confirmation names graced the page of this hallowed gossip column. Running from September 1936 to February 1939, the anonymously authored Campus Capers seemed to know the details of every party, every date, and even the lunchroom chatter. “Cassanova McGaffigan is on the loose again. He was seen at the Little Theatre with a fair young thing and later at the tavern with M.G. Stone,” the Caper reported in December of 1936. Classic McGaffigan, thinking he could get away with cheating on Stone. Little did he know the Campus Capers was recording his

every move. Even faculty were not safe from the Campus Caper’s unstoppable scathe. In February 1937, the author wrote, “Prof. Davidson was given a box of cigars. Thursday night he decided to get rid of them at the Delta Sig house. When he left the boys were found lying in the hall.” That’s no way to get tenure, Mr. Davidson. But accusations don’t stop there. “Bobby Simpson again crashed through with an almost arrest. How many times is it, Bobby,” the Caper commented in March of ’38. The scandal, the smear, the slander. All from a bitter Hillsdalean sitting at his typewriter wearing a three-piece suit. And Campus Capers didn’t just spread gossip. This talk of the town was also a poet. In March of 1938, the Caper composed this treasured piece: “Roses are red,/violets are blue,/sugar is sweet,/and that’s why I like salt on my potatoes.” This was poetry bookended by one-liners that ruined reputations. Even Robert Frost wasn’t capable of this literary domination. And just when you thought Campus Capers couldn’t get any better, the newspaper pulled the plug on it. The column ended in a breath-taking fashion.The last four lines of the February 1939 issue read: “Now I sit me down to cram/ to study for this darn exam,/ And if I cannot learn this junk,/I pray the Lord I still won’t flunk.” Gold.

“The anonymously authored Campus Capers seemed to know the details of every party, every date, and even the lunchroom chatter.”

McGaffigan’s DSP pledge class | Collegian.

Sunnycrest: college president’s house turned ATO residence

The ATO house used to belong to the president of the college. | Collegian

By | Allison Schuster Assistant editor Although fraternity houses and presidential residences typically don’t have much in common, Sunnycrest is an exception. Currently home to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Sunnycrest was formerly the residence of College President Joseph Mauck in the early 20th century. When 1875 Hillsdale alumnus Joseph Mauck returned to the college to serve as president in 1903, he and his wife bought the house sitting at the corner of Hillsdale and Fayette, known as Windsor Castle, and renamed it Sunny-

crest. Mauck purchased the house from Former College President John Windsor who had lived in the house for more than 40 years after building it himself. Until Broadlawn was built to serve as college-owned housing for the current president, each president was responsible for purchasing their own home, according to Public Services Librarian Linda Moore. Despite the financial struggles of the Great Depression, the Maucks used Sunnycrest for entertaining, which included hosting annual senior breakfasts. Members of the Mauck

family continued to live in Sunnycrest, including four of Mauck’s daughters. Wilfred O. Mauck ‘21, son of Joseph Mauck, moved into Sunnycrest in 1933 as president of the college, before moving into Broadlawn upon its completion in 1936. In September of 1939, defective wiring in Sunnycrest caused a fire which damaged most of the house, garage, and parked cars. Plans for repair were arranged and completed soon after. “Approximately seventy-five percent of the house and furnishings were either completely demolished or partially damaged,” according to the Collegian. A few years later, World War II began and changed the student makeup of the college. Many national fraternities promised not to revoke charters for war-caused man shortages. Prior to the draft that took many Hillsdale men off campus, fraternities were already planning post-war reconstruction, the Collegian reported in February of 1943. ATO was one of the fraternities to follow through with these plans. ATO alumni first purchased Sunnycrest in the summer of 1950, five years after the war ended, fulfilling a longtime dream of the fraternity to own a house. Prior to life at Sunnycrest, ATO actives had lived in the Griffith House on the corner

of Union Street and East Fayette Street, beginning in 1915. ATO left the Griffith House to live in Herron Hall which was later demolished and replaced with Koon Hall. As of August 1, 1950, wives of ATO alumni began furnishing Sunnycrest and preparing for that fall when it would go on to house 30 men, making it the largest fraternity on campus. The third floor contained a ballroom, which, The Collegian reported, alumni remember as the location of many college functions put on by the Maucks. The summer preparation included converting this ballroom into a large dormitory, equipped with 15 bunked beds. The house had no major renovations, including any structural changes. “We very much appreciate the history of our house,” Pradko said. “Because the house was formerly a very nice residential place, it looks beautiful from the outside; on the inside, a lot of the original beautiful aspects, particularly the woodwork, remain.” Sunnycrest remained untouched until 2000, when alumni decided it was time to take action in improving the house. At homecoming of that year, alumni Paul Schlatter ‘72 and Kim Beck ‘75 saw the need for major changes. The ATO Alumni Board met in January 2001 and decided to completely renovate the

house. A group of alumni showed up that summer to begin renovations. “We had 30 or 40 alumni there, getting it down to its bare bones,” Tony Gwilt ‘90 told the Collegian in 2014. According to The Collegian in 2001, the renovations included a new roof, new hardwood floors, new mattresses, porch rails, wallpapering, carpeting, reconstruction of staircase railing and balconies, new furniture, landscaping, and fresh interior and exterior paint. The fraternity also built an annex in downtown Hillsdale for the fraternity to use for social functions to ease use of the house. With these $400,000 worth of changes came restrictions, such as the strict implementation of a no drinking in the house policy. Alumni assisted with recent Sunnycrest improvements, including redoing the siding in addition to redoing the bathroom this past summer. “Part of the reason the house looks so good is that our alumni have invested a lot over the years in maintenance and improvements,” Pradko said. The house is currently used as a sanctuary for members of ATO to eat together, hold chapter meetings, and hang out, according to senior and ATO President Josh Pradko.

They used to have a cook who put their kitchen and dining room to good use; however they don’t have a cook this year and are currently looking for one to start a house meal plan again in the future. This fall, twelve active fraternity members live in Sunnycrest. Sophomore and ATO member Owen Macauley said he appreciates Sunnycrest’s fraternal and presidential history. “There’s something cool about living with all your best buddies in the same house where men with the same principles as you lived 50 years ago,” Macauley said.

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Pickleball: One of the nation’s fastest-growing sports comes to Hillsdale By | Brooke Conrad Features editor

Balls are bouncing again at the old tennis courts by Academy Lane. But instead of tennis rackets, players are sporting Wiffle balls and wooden ping-pong paddles. The game is called pickleball. It has 2.8 million players nationwide, according to the United States of America Pickleball Association (USAPA), and was labeled the “fastest growing sport” in the United States in 2015 by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. In central Florida, the game has become so popular that fans have labeled it the “pickleball capital of the world.” A pickleball court is a third the size of a tennis court with a 34-inch net, 2 inches shorter than a tennis net. Paddles are generally made of wood, graphite, or some composite material, and the perforated plastic balls are made of a thicker plastic than a regular Wiffle ball. The rules are also similar to tennis. Drew Wathey, director of media relations for USAPA, said the game is most popular among states with large retirement populations, like California, Florida, Arizo-

na, Texas, and Georgia. He added that Michigan is also a “hotbed” for the sport, as he noticed while visiting Detroit for a pickleball junior olympics. “When I was up there last year it seemed like there was a lot of new growth as far as transforming tennis courts into pickleball courts, or new pickleball courts being built,” he said. Ken Cole, secretary treasurer for the Hillsdale College Independence Foundation, and his wife Brenda, initiated the $8,000 renovation process for the college’s two new pickleball courts, which were completed by the end of June. He and his wife personally funded 15 percent of the project, while the Exchange Club, a local service club that focuses on preventing child abuse and funds various organizations in the Hillsdale area, of which Cole is a member, funded the other 85 percent. The club holds a pickleball clinic every Monday night at 6 p.m., open to all ages, and the Roche Sports Complex also provides wooden paddles and balls that are available for students or community members to use with their student IDs or membership cards.

According to the USAPA website, the game was founded in the summer of 1965 when Joel Pritchard, a Washington state congressman, along with businessman Bill Bell, and another friend, Barney McCallum, were looking for badminton equipment at

over where the sport got its name. According to the USAPA website, McCallum said it was named after the Pritchards’ cocker spaniel, “Pickles,” which is the widely-circulated account, but Pritchard’s wife, Joan, said she started calling it pickleball

players from the other boats. Cole and his wife first encountered the game while spending time at a retirement resort in Okeechobee, Florida. He said that over the course of eight years, the resort’s tennis courts were eventually all converted to pickleball courts.

Exchange club organizes Monday night clinics for community members to play pickleball. | Facebook.

Pritchard’s home and decided to improvise with ping-pong paddles and a Wiffle ball. Pickleball fans disagree

because the combination of sports in the game reminded her of how the “pickle boat” in crew always takes the leftover

Cole said he expects the game will become more popular, and wants to expose pickleball more to the com-

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munity. “It’s just a lot of fun,” Cole said. “It’s just easier than playing on a tennis court.” The college may eventually replace the pickleball courts with a turf building, or some other enterprise, according to Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé. Although Péwé approved the pickleball courts, he said the college built the newer tennis courts next to the Biermann Athletic Center with the intention of building something in place of the older courts. Mike Venturini, former Exchange Club president and current member, said the new courts are the first outdoor pickleball courts in Hillsdale County, and he said he thinks the county will problem form a pickleball league in the next year or so. “You can play for half hour and work up a good sweat whether you know what you’re doing or not,” he said. Venturini said for the time being he wants to get more of the community and college students involved. “I’ve been to the clinics twice, and it’s just plain fun.”

| compiled by Rowan Macwan

What is your sense of style? As a nanny last year, I focused on clothes I was comfortable in and could run around in, but are still feminine. What was your style like pre-nannying? I think I would just either find myself wearing jeans and a t-shirt and not really trying, or maybe I’d find myself wearing clothes that seemed to be more like what other people were wearing that I wasn’t comfortable in. Do you draw inspiration from others anymore? Actually from the women at St. Anthony’s and from my sister. I know my sister is not a fashion icon for me, so could you tell me about your sister? She was 10 years older than I am, and I remember growing up how ladylike she dressed, and when I got to middle-school/high-school and she’d tell me just whether or not what I was wearing expressed who I am as a person. What do you think Hillsdale’s style expresses about itself? For women, I really like seeing how, within gender norms or expectations or whatnot--I like to see the individuality of the women here. They tend to dress pretty classy here, but there’s a lot of room for women to express themselves in it. I haven’t really thought about men’s style here. Can you explain that? There doesn’t seem to be room for guys to express themselves because it’s usually just khakis and a button-down if you want to dress nicely, but I appreciate when men wear different patterned socks. Senior Olivia Brady. Rowan Macwan | Collegian.