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Cost of Hillsdale College hits eight-year high By | Ben Dietderich Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College’s price tag jumped to an all-time high this fall, with costs increasing more than they have in the last eight years. The total cost including fees, room and board for the 20172018 academic year increased by 4.56 percent to $37,352. While Hillsdale’s costs remain lower than the average private four-year institution, they are increasing at a faster pace. Since 2012, Hillsdale’s costs have increased by 16.7 percent. According to the College Board, the average private four-year institution has increased only 9.5 percent over the same period. “Hillsdale tuition is $25,540 — low compared to similar institutions,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said in an email. “This means even a 2.5 percent increase at another similar institution, with much higher tuition, is much more money.” A portion of that comes from a 41 percent increase in student fees, which rose from $852 to $1,202. Patrick Flannery, treasurer and vice president of finance, said the in-

crease in student fees was due to a new maintenance fee to cover the costs of Whitley Residence’s renovations and new flooring in the Suites. Flannery said the fee helps with maintenance of the college’s facilities. It also appears as a separate line item on students’ online bill statement. “One of the good things is that it makes things transparent,” Flannery said. “It lets student know how much of their money goes towards these types of things.” Flannery added that the new fee was not being used toward construction of Christ Chapel. According to the college’s website, student fees go toward Student Federation dues, athletic events admission, health service, a student ID, and graduation cap and gown. The increase in cost will also affect students receiving merit-based scholarships. Financial Aid Director Richard Moeggenberg said the college decided two years ago to no longer award gifts covering a percentage of tuition. Insead, the college is granting awards for fixed dollar amounts. “There’s a finite amount of scholarships,” he said. “To keep that in control, we made

the decision to not tie merit awards to a percentage. If a student has a $15,000 merit award, when tuition goes up by 3.5 percent, essentially the value of their scholarship goes down.” While returning students may face aid packages with lesser value, Moeggenberg said incoming freshmen are receiving more merit awards than ever before. “We’re receiving students with strong academic backgrounds, and we’re awarding more and more merit monies,” he said. “The average financial package for this year’s freshmen and last year’s freshmen exceeded what we had given in the past.” According to Péwé, the college budgeted to increase financial aid funds for five years at an annual rate of 9 percent.

Still, for students such as sophomore James Millius, the fixed system increases the financial burden of attending the college. “Many others and I rely on financial aid to go here,” he

Calvert returning to Hillsdale full-time

By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor When Associate Professor of History Kenneth Calvert was asked to temporarily take on the role of headmaster of Hillsdale Academy, he had no idea that he would be there for more than 15 years. “I was a full-time professor,” said Calvert, who has taught ancient history at Hillsdale College for 21 years. “Then, Dr. [Larry] Arnn asked me to serve as the interim headmaster. It’s been a 16-year interim position.” After the 2017-2018 school year, Calvert will step down as the headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and focus his attention on the college. Calvert said although he has loved much about being headmaster, he always intended to return to being a full-time professor. He said that after a “tumul-

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tuous” first few years following its founding in 1990, the academy has settled down. He said this will be the first smooth transfer of authority the K-12 private school has experienced. The college is just beginning a search for the next headmaster. Along with Calvert and the president’s and provost’s offices, the group dedicated to finding a replacement will consist of members including Daniel Coupland, dean of faculty; Phil Kilgore, director of the Barney Charter School Initiative; and Michael Roberts, assistant headmaster. Calvert praised academy students’ high SAT and ACT scores, as well as its athletics program, in which 97 percent of students participate. “More than anything, we have turned our school in a classical direction, affecting

the hearts, minds, and souls of young people,” he said. “We serve as a model for hundreds of schools across the country.” He said he has enjoyed getting to know friends and donors of the academy and appreciates the “many people across the country who love our little school.” Roberts ’98 met Calvert when he was a student in Calvert’s Ancient World course in 1996. He began serving as assistant headmaster the same year Calvert became headmaster. “Working with him as been a great joy,” Roberts said. “He’s been a great boss and partner all these years. He’s simply one of the best men that I know.” Roberts praised the work Calvert has done at the academy. “He has made huge contributions,” Roberts said. “There have been very positive changes in the academy in every imaginable way, such as student enrollment, the quality of teachers, and financial growth. Dr. Calvert loves the Lord, the academy, and the college and its mission. That’s why he’s had such a great impact in serving as headmaster.” Roberts said he thinks Calvert is an outstanding teacher and that he looks forward to working with Calvert in new ways going forward. Calvert said that leaving the academy is bittersweet. “There’s a sad feeling to it, because I have put so much energy into our great little school and worked so hard to make it worthy of the Hillsdale name,” Calvert said. “It’s particularly sad to leave behind

the kids. But there is a rather large measure of relief to hand the reins of the institution over to someone new. I feel like it’s time to pass that on.” Calvert’s son Ian is a junior at Hillsdale Academy. His two older children also attended the academy and went on to attend Hillsdale: Joel Calvert graduated in 2017, and Claire Calvert is currently a sophomore. “That has been a huge joy and big part of my life,” Calvert said. “Every day is ‘Take Your Kids to Work’ day.” Claire Calvert said she admires the work her father has done and is excited to see him return to working full time for the college. “My father being the headmaster at the academy is all I have ever known,” she said. “It never seemed out of place, and as I got older, I began to notice how well he kept the school running. I was never ashamed of being at the academy with him, because I loved him and I knew how hard he worked to make the academy a great place of learning.” Calvert, who used to be a stand-up comedian, said one of his lessons from comedy also applies to stepping down from the academy. “The rule is always to leave the stage when they’re laughing and clapping,” he said.

Townhouses to be completed by June By | Nic Rowan Assistant Editor Off campus college students can look forward to more upscale housing availabilities starting next year. As a part of the College Park housing initiative, Hillsdale College trustee and Michigan builder Thomas Duke has taken it upon himself to build and fund a townhouse complex on the corner of West and College streets. Duke said he wants to provide more modern off-camFollow @HDaleCollegian

pus housing for students and friends of the college. “I was disappointed with the housing on the south side of campus,” he said. “Students deserve better based on the recent trend of upscale housing in college towns across the country. I want to build something walkable and with an upscale experience.” According to Duke, there will be six townhouses in the new complex. Four will fit eight students and two will fit five students. Every bedroom will be furnished. Additionally,

each bedroom will have private bathrooms. Apartments will also include large kitchens and living areas. “It will be everything a student would want,” Duke said. “You can move in, get to work, get to class quick and have privacy and a really nice environment.” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said although the school is involved in promoting the building project, the houses will be considered off campus. “The college will give no

guarantees about filling any beds, but I suspect there will be great interest because of the location and quality,” he said. Péwé added that the townhouses are an experiment, and if successful for the owners and the college, more will be built. This development could eventually benefit the city. “Owners will pay Hillsdale City property taxes based on the value of the individual units,” Péwé said. “If they own it as their primary residence, the owner could qualify for the same tax See Park A2

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said. “When costs go up without an increase in financial aid, it affects a lot of us.” Péwé added that when the school raises its price, it creates additional challenges for the college, as well.

“Every tuition increase is actually a burden, not just revenue, because we have to supply proportionately more financial aid to meet the additional costs — a financial blessing and a curse,” he said.

Reusable thermoses replaces paper cups By | Kaylee McGhee City News Editor Paper to-go cups are now a no-go in the Knorr Dining Room. Instead, Bon Appétit Management Company, the college’s food service, is providing 1,600 reusable thermoses to students, faculty, and staff as a replacement to reduce waste, said David Apthorpe, Bon Appétit’s Hillsdale manager. Discarding the paper cups aligned with the food service company’s sustainability goals, he said. “More than 80,000 cups and sleeves and lids hit the trash each year,” Apthorpe said. “That’s just not manageable.” Bon Appétit decided the solution was to provide each student with a to-go thermos, so patrons can still take coffee, tea, and other drinks after leaving the cafeteria. Bon Appétit, however, has not decided if it will provide thermoses in the future. “We didn’t want to pull the rug out and not give people another option,” he said. “So even though we’re taking away part of a service, we’re also providing a gift.” Bon Appétit Director of Operations Anna Harutunian said the to-go tumblers allow the company to maintain an equilibrium between two of the food service’s main goals: reducing waste and maintaining convenience. “This is a win-win situation for the college and our environment,” Harutunian said in an email. Harutunian said those who weren’t directly given a thermos can pick one up at the front desk of the Grewcock Student Union, and faculty interested in receiving their free thermos can do so at the front desk in the dining hall. Harutunian said Bon Appétit plans on providing incoming freshmen with a thermos each year, and extra tumblers will be available to those who lose theirs. Bon Appétit’s decision received pushback from students, however. Several said it is an inconvenience, especially upperclassmen who were accustomed to Bon Appétit’s previous system.

“It seems as if Bon Appétit spent a significant amount of money purchasing to-go containers which students are going to bring back only on occasion, if at all,” senior Katie Mersereau said. “There is no question that a small 8-ounce beverage to go at every single meal is absolutely justified for the price of the meal plan they’re paying for.” Apthorpe said Bon Appétit expected the complaints, saying it happens each time the cafeteria makes a significant change. “Every time you’re changing a behavior or expectation, there’s going to be pushback,” he said. “As people get used to it, it will be fine.” Apthorpe said he expects Bon Appétit to continue receiving feedback cards demanding the disposable cups back. The cafeteria stands by its decision, however, because part of Bon Appétit’s mission is to provide a food service sustainable for the future. “If we can eliminate 80,000 paper cups going to the trash, we see that as a good thing,” Apthorpe said. Junior Andrea Wallace, president of the Conservation Club, said she agreed with Bon Appétit’s decision because being environmentally conscious is essential in day-to-day life — even at college. “Studies have shown that if one consumes and disposes of one paper cup of coffee a day, they will generate 23 pounds of waste each year,” Wallace said in an email. “Let’s say an average of 500 students consume a to-go beverage from the cafeteria daily — that would result in 11,500 pounds of waste.” A consequence of Bon Appétit’s switch is the increasing number of ceramic mugs disappearing from the cafeteria. Students forget their thermoses and leave with the sit-in mugs available to them, Apthorpe said. He said this is a reality Bon Appétit is willing to face. Apthorpe said the desire to reduce the amount of food being taken from the cafeteria also went into the decision.

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Students find community in Harvey’s wake By | Abby Liebing Collegian Reporter Two current students and one alumnus saw both the devastation and the resilient spirit of community as hurricane victims in Houston came together to clean up and rebuild. Sweeping through Houston and southeast Texas and dumping 52 inches of rain, Hurricane Harvey forced 34,000 people from their homes, caused damage in 130,000 homes, and led to the death of 31 people, according to the Washington Post. Freshmen Corrie Patrick and Lily Erickson moved to campus from Houston just days before Hurricane Harvey hit. The hurricane did not damage Erickson’s or Patrick’s homes, but they watched from Hillsdale as the hurricane damaged many homes in their communities. “Watching this all unfold from Hillsdale has been crazy,” Erickson said. Even students safe in Hillsdale felt the effects of the dangers facing Houston. “I just got worried because in like 22 hours it went from a depression to a Category 1, then 2, 3, and when it finally made landfall it was Category 4 hurricane,” Patrick said. One friend of Patrick’s was

trapped in his car in the midst of the flooding. “He was driving and suddenly there was eight feet of water in front of him, so he turned into a stranger’s driveway,” Patrick said. He was trapped in his car for almost eight hours. The rains were so terrible that he stayed with the stranger for a few days. “I was so thankful that he met such nice people to welcome him into their home,” Patrick said. Both Erickson and Patrick are grateful their families and friends were kept safe throughout the floods and evacuations. “My family was really lucky in that we didn’t have any damage from the hurricane,” Erickson said. While Erickson and Patrick watched the storm from Hillsdale, Shannon Baldwin, a 2014 graduate from Houston, experienced the hurricane firsthand and saw the extreme destruction and loss in Houston. Her family was safe, but they were anxious as they watched neighborhoods flood and homes suffer extreme damage. “Each morning and evening we would listen to the news about which areas were facing flooding, and chances are we would know at least one family in that area,” Baldwin said. Since the end of the storm,

Heritage Room namesake passes

By | Jack McPherson Collegian Reporter Robert Richardson, a Hillsdale College Trustee Emeritus and Indiana Businessman, passed away on Monday, July 17 at the age of 90 years old. Rich Péwé, Hillsdale College’s Chief Administrative Officer, remarked on Richardson’s reputation as an “energetic and determined force for the good of this institution” in a press release sent out by the college earlier this summer. Richardson, known affectionately as ‘Bob’ to family and friends, remained loyal to Hillsdale in every moment of his 25-year career on the Board of Trustees. He built two successful Indiana business-

es—Timberbrock, Inc. and the Richardson Homes Corporation—and served as director of the Midwest Commerce Corporation and Midwest Commerce Banking Company. Students see the evidence of Richardson’s faithfulness and commitment to Hillsdale in the use of the Richardson Heritage Room and the Richardson Commons in the Grewcock Student Union. Many students received an education from Richardson’s direct donations via the Tradition Award, Dow Journalism Scholarship, and the Beverly Richardson Aid fund. “I can’t ever go in either of those two places without thinking about Bob’s personal-

Baldwin has volunteered in her community and said she has been amazed by how much was ruined by the rains and how much people have lost “No one could have anticipated 50 inches in two days,” Baldwin said. “It is mind-boggling to walk down the streets of neighborhoods that completely flooded and see the piles of furniture and discarded flooring. It takes about 20 people an entire day or so to clean out a flooded home. It is grueling and smelly and very hot.” But despite the damage and the terrible loss, communities have been coming together to rescue and rebuild after the storm. Baldwin saw neighbors rescuing neighbors as her friends took their trucks and kayaks out to rescue people out of their own homes. “A couple of my guy friends got in their trucks and took their boats, sometimes kayaks, to search and rescue people out of their neighborhoods,” Baldwin said. “Who would have ever imagined having to be boated out of a two-story home?” But despite the damage, Baldwin, Patrick, and Erickson have all seen overwhelming numbers of people volunteering to clean up. “I feel like it’s really the

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Houston population, like the Texans, that have huge Texas pride and are helping out,” Patrick said. Erickson was encouraged watching the community come together to help. “The coolest thing, I think, that has come out of this hurricane is how everyone has forgotten all the divisions between them and decided to take care of the community,” Erickson said. “No one sees differences in skin color, wealth, religion, ethnicity, they just see Housto-

ardson’s honor was held on July 22 in Elkhart, Indiana. The Hillsdale Collegian sends its prayers and deepest condolences to the Richardson family and all those affected by this loss.

Handshake app gets a facelift By | Tess Skehan Collegian Reporter

Handshake has released a new app to replace its current one. While the old app merely took students to the company’s website, the new app is tailored to individual students. Sophia Donohoe, assistant director of Hillsdale College’s career services office, said the new app has a “change in philosophy.” Handshake, a media company that partners with Hillsdale to connect students and employers, released the new app “Handshake Jobs and Careers” on Aug. 24. In the old app, students were required to scroll through a long list of generic applications, hoping they would find a job that interested them. “Handshake was helpful when I was looking for a job,

but I often found myself confused by its organization,” sophomore Callaghan Huntington said of the old app. The new app allows students to provide their interests, and then in turn, the app suggests internships or jobs to which they are likely to apply. Students who completed and returned the preferences form sent with financial aid information this summer have already had this data entered into their Handshake account. “Generally, instead of students searching for jobs, they wanted Handshake to be more like Spotify or Netflix, where you tell them what your interests are, and it pushes things to you based on those interests,” Donohoe said. The app will not only connect students with jobs, but

will suggest careers in cities that match one’s interests. Jobs can be organized into collections such as “Artsy Cities” or “Foodie Cities.” “Whether it’s getting a job, getting an internship, going to graduate school, or what cities you are interested in working in, it pushes all to you,” Donohoe said. In addition to using the app to find a job, there will also be a place where students sign up for time slots for both the writing center and career services. “After doing some research this summer about how our peer institutions are having students sign up for the writing center, we are moving to an entirely online sign-up system,” said Christina Maier, who works in both career services and the writing center, in a

“It’s a rare piece of Marvel,” Stith said. “I’ve wanted more people to see it once it went off the air. Agent Carter is 100 times cooler in her own show.” Following the life of Agent Peggy Carter, the series picks up where “Captain America: The First Avenger” left off. With World War II over, Agent Carter sees her job as a prolific federal agent fade. Instead of fighting Hydra and saving the world, Carter is stuck behind a desk in an office working more as a secretary than a secret agent. “[The Strategic Scientific Reserve] underestimates her

as a woman and she uses that to get [things] done,” explains Stith. “People who like James Bond for the right reason, this is your type of thing.” Sophomore Isaiah Scheur agrees with Stith and believes “Agent Carter” can create positive dialogue on and around campus. “‘Agent Carter’ is a show in which strong female characters work in tandem with strong male characters,” Scheur said. “I believe ‘Agent Carter’ provides a phenomenal example of strong men and women working together and using their own strengths

per $1,000.” With regard to the housing project on Manning St., Péwé said the College is selling two more lots soon and hoping homes will go up within the next six months. The school is currently renting 201 Manning

St., colloquially known as The Boardwalk, to Weigand Construction, which is building the new chapel. After that project is complete, the house will be knocked down to make way for the Manning St. project. For now, Duke said he is ex-

phone interview. This new system will prevent scheduling errors easily made with the old system of signing up on a clipboard, as well as minimize the number of times students would have to travel to the writing center to register for a time slot. Despite this new system, walk-ins are still welcome, Maier said. Senior Victoria Watson is a student affairs mentor in the career services office. She spoke to the ease of the new app, which is available now on Apple devices, and will be available to Android devices by February. “I think it is very easy to interface with,” Watson said. “It is a great tool for students just starting out in the job or internship search.”

New Agent Carter Club on campus

By | Regan Meyer Collegian Freelancer The Agent Carter Club came to campus this fall semester with loads of posters, an energetic founder, and plenty of high-stakes action. Created by sophomore Mayim Stith, the Agent Carter Club meets once a week to watch and discuss the Marvel TV series, “Agent Carter.” Stith started the Agent Carter Club as a way to not only introduce students to the show, but to also start a dialogue surrounding the show and the historical context from which it stems.

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tions and volunteers. So despite the devastation many Texans have witnessed and experienced, there is a resilience in the community as many come together to rebuild and recover from the damage. Rain, not even 52 inches, can douse the spirit of Houston. “The hope in all of this is our faith in God and in the love that people are showing for one another,” Baldwin said.

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ity, the friendships we shared, his boundless energy, and his interest in supporting high learning and the cultivation of beauty,” Péwé said. Richardson is survived by his wife, Sandy. The funeral service in Rich-

nians.” Baldwin also encountered the resilience of the community firsthand as she and many others came in full force to clean up and rebuild. “This mass effort truly shows the compassion and servant hearts that have emerged through the storm,” Baldwin said. In fact, when Baldwin and her family could safely get out to volunteer, they were actually turned away by two shelters because they already had overwhelming numbers of dona-

as individuals to overcome adversity.” Club member and sophomore Jenna Witta looks forward to just watching and enjoying the series. “Life at Hillsdale can be busy sometimes, and I am looking forward to pausing my week and filling that space with good friends and new Marvel content,” Witta said. “I’m excited to dig into some Marvel history and see plot points filled in and expanded upon.” For those interested in the Agent Carter Club, text @agentc to 81010. cited to provide students with more comfortable off campus living arrangements. “It’ll be a whole new experience that you really don’t have on or off campus right now,” he said.

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By | Nolan Ryan Collegian Reporter This summer, two professors took new dean positions. As of July, Daniel Coupland, chair of the education department, is now serving as dean of faculty, succeeding chair of the English department Stephen Smith. In addition, Smith replaced professor of religion and philosophy Tom Burke as dean of humanities. Both Coupland and Smith have taught at Hillsdale for over 10 years. The dean of faculty’s responsibilities include running the monthly faculty meetings, overseeing various committees on education, and helping in the consideration of new professors. Coupland said the position typically lasts two years. The responsibilities for the dean of humanities is comprised of overseeing the humanities departments at the college. The dean is responsible for helping the professors and chairs within the humanities to thrive. “Both deans were recommended by faculty for their respective positions,” Provost David Whalen said in an email. “Moreover, both President [Larry] Arnn and I knew them to be colleagues of impeccable integrity, goodwill, and keen imagination. They are a joy to work alongside. And, like so many colleagues, what they seek is the good of the college—its students, faculty, and staf—not their own status. They will bring their good minds and character to their positions and help the college accomplish marvels in an environment increasingly troubled.” Coupland began teaching at Hillsdale College in the fall semester of 2006, after teaching at Saginaw Valley State University. As a professor of education, he has most recently been serving as the chair of the education department. “The provost of the college explained the position to me and then he invited me to consider taking it,” Coupland said. “Of course I was flattered by the offer, but I decided to pause, think it through, and talk to my lovely wife before

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deciding.” After accepting the position, Coupland began consulting previous professors who had held his role. “The previous dean of faculty was Dr. Stephen Smith, who is now the dean of humanities,” Coupland said. “He was a person that I spent a lot of time talking with to get a sense of what the position is and the ebb and flow of the time commitment.” The other role filled during the summer was the dean of humanities. In 2001, Smith started his career of teaching at Hillsdale. The past two years, he served as the dean of faculty and the chair of the English department, and he continues to serve as the English chair. “I thought it was a great opportunity to work with my colleagues across the humanities, to mentor new faculty, and especially to help the department chairs in whatever way I can,” Smith said. Because of the nature of the position, there is a limit on the classes a dean teaches, according to Smith. The current dean arrangement requires that he teach one class. “One unexpected thing has been that my love of Shakespeare, Milton, and Dante has somehow intensified now that I’ve been reduced to one class,” he said. “I intend to teach those classes at the highest level and with as much joy as possible.” Although Smith is limited to one class now, he said he was excited about the prospects of serving as dean of humanities. “Honestly, there was a difficult choice because of my love of teaching,” he said. “I miss especially knowing a large number of students and sharing the love of literature with them. That said, I am happy and excited to serve in this new way. I see it as another way of helping students and another way of getting to know my great colleagues better.” He added jokingly, “The ‘H’ in Hillsdale stands for ‘humanities.’”

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Pro-life group petitions to remove Sanger Students for Life want Planned Parenthood founder taken from National Portrait Gallery By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Freelancer This fall, Hillsdale’s Students for Life joined the growing campaign to remove the bust of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, from the “Struggle for Justice” exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. through petitionary action. The petition enumerates the club’s grievances with Sanger, which include her use of birth control and abortion as population suppressants in African-American communities. They feel that this an insult to the integrity of the exhibit, which was created to feature individuals who fought for the rights of society’s marginalized, especially since Sanger was also involved in the eugenics move-

ment, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Nazi Party. “[Sanger’s] life’s work was to eliminate those who she deemed “lesser”, mostly through the atrocity of abortion,” said Erik Halvorson, Secretary of Students for Life. “ As of now, she sits among great figures such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in the ‘Struggle for Justice’ exhibit. This is a disgrace seeing as her ideology is the complete antithesis of theirs.” So far, 266 students, faculty, and community members have signed the petition since President of Students for Life Kathleen Russo set it in motion this summer. “I actually had the idea while was reading a book this summer, ‘Merchants of Despair,’” Russo said. “It talks about Sanger’s involvement in

eugenics and how the rise of Planned Parenthood was part of a repackaging of eugenics into population control and how that was marketed to the country and the world in the 1950s and 1960s.” Hillsdale’s Students for Life is not the first to attempt to remove Sanger’s bust from the exhibit. In 2014, a group of African-American pastors called ForAmerica undertook a similar quest, but their efforts were rebuffed by Kim Sajet, director of the gallery. Sajet wrote a letter to the president of the group explaining that the “Struggle for Justice” exhibit was intended to highlight figures who have championed the civil rights of marginalized groups, and that Margaret Sanger fits into that category, regardless of her history with eugenics. “There is no ‘moral test’ for

people to be accepted into the National Portrait Gallery,” Sajet said in a letter according to CNSNews. While Students for Life’s ultimate goal is to persuade the National Portrait Gallery to remove the bust from the gallery, it recognizes that this may not be possible. Therefore they are focusing their campaign not only on filing the petition, but also on spreading awareness about the issue. “The problem with Margaret Sanger is that she is so celebrated when there is such blatant evidence that she was National Portrait Gallery | actually racist,” Russo said. “If Courtesy we can just shed some light, and maybe change the tide of back together.” The National Portrait Galthis movement, that would be awesome. There is just a huge lery did not respond to a rediscrepancy between the real- quest for comment. ity and the messaging. We are trying to bring these two things

Updates coming to Hayden Park Recreation fields, driving range, and frisbee golf among the new features coming to Hayden park this year, Campus Rec says By | Bridget Breckler of the park, explained that the that the rugby team, which peThis year’s updates are only Collegian Freelancer plot for the fields has already tered out a couple of years ago, a continuation of the improveOnly a cross-country and been raised three feet in the will revive now that there is ment of Hayden Park. Odell, whose older siblings attended mountain bike resource five levelling process. He hopes more field space. “As someone dedicated to Hillsdale, mentioned that they years ago, Hayden Park now that the fields can be used for did not hosts activities from volleygo to the ball to disc golf, and more are park. on the way. “There’s This year, new additions definitegreet students, whether they ly been are seeking an adventure changes,” or a catharsis from study. she said. Hayden’s golf driving range “For the now self-dispenses golf balls. size of our Brad Kocher, the director of school, the recreational sports and athamenities letic facilities, said the golf we have machine should dispense are topballs with the swipe of a stunotch, or dent ID. For now, however, becoming players can exchange their top-notch.” IDs at the front desk in the Emma student union and receive M c Cortokens. One token equals 42 mick, a juneon balls. nior who Another change is the disc started the golf, a game which shares its Outdoor basics with golf, but is played Advenwith a disc. The course was tures club, designed by Hillsdale 2012 stated likealumnus Mike Blanchard and wise: “The for those interested, a disc longer I’ve golf tournament will be held been at Sept. 23. The only require- Two students try out the new driving range in Hayden park. Bridget Breckler | Collegian Hillsdale, ment is signing up in the club sports, a wish seconded getting kids out and active, I the more I’ve come to realize Grewcock Student Union. Two 100-yard grass fields by the director of Campus Rec, think Hayden Park will help and appreciate the opportunitangibly with that,” Odell stat- ties Hayden Park has to offer.” and a smaller practice field Margaret Odell. Odell explained that the ed. According to her, the park are being installed to the east of Hayden Park’s clubhouse. fields will serve the intramural has helped Campus Rec grow Coach Bill Lundberg, the teams, such as flag football and into a larger presence on the Hayden Park fitness director soccer. There is even the hope Hillsdale campus.

‘Wonder Woman’ showing this Thursday By | Breana Noble Editor-in-chief

Wonder Woman is lassoing her way to Hillsdale College at 8 p.m. on Thursday for the Student Activities Office’s first-ever Movie on the Quad event. The screen-on-the-green cinematic experience of the summer blockbuster, which is not available on DVD until Sept. 19, is putting student activities’ new blow-up projector screen to use. “We like that it is flexible and can be used to show movies and tailgates,” Student Activities Director Ashlynn Landherr said. “We do a lot of weekday stuff in the spring, so we wanted to do more of that this semester.” The office put the screen to use for the first time on Aug. 26 when it showed the mixed martial arts fight between world champion Floyd Mayweather and United Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor. The student activities office purchased the licensing to show the film. Landherr said she chose “Wonder Woman” because she thought a superhero movie with a female lead would interest both men and women. Landherr encouraged students to grab a blanket and a friend and come to the Quad to enjoy the movie and free popcorn and candy.

Professors weigh in on statue debate

By | Theresa Smith Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College professors from various academic fields voiced their opinion on the removal of Confederate soldiers statues across America in the aftermath of the violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12. “I think it’s lamentable that they’re removing those statues,” Michael Jordan, professor of English, said. “Every hero has got some kind of flaw or every hero has embraced something that is not ideal and perfect and pure. Where would it stop, is another thing.” A native of North Carolina, Jordan gave an example from his “neck of the woods,” as he put it. “There’s now discussion about removing the monument to Zebulon B. Vance simply because he was the governor in North Carolina during the Civil War,” he said. Kevin Slack, associate professor of politics, said whether these monuments are inspiring. “Do they truly give us roots—a continuity with our

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past, not just mindless collecting?” he said in an email. “Or do we need to raze them as hostile to living?” Slack said as a person who has taught American history, he enjoys visiting monuments to the Confederacy but has little personal identity in them. “Ultimately, history is for the living, not the dead, and this is largely a battle for Southerners, whose votes will determine the monuments’ fate,” said Slack. Adam Carrington, associate professor of politics, also weighed in. “I would say that I understand the question of the degree to which we should celebrate the Confederacy because of the history of slavery, because of the history of succession, if you believe that it’s in tension with, if not in contradiction to, the american founding,” Carrington said. He thought most of the critique of the Confederate monuments today “is a lot deeper and wider” than just the history of slavery and secession. “They’re critiquing America itself and basically using this as a statement of rejecting who we are and who we’ve been,” said

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Carrington. “And I think that’s being taken down because we a much broader critique that is want to also reject Washington, much, much harder to be sym- Lincoln?” pathetic to, especially to those He thought that Hillsdale’s The statue of General Lee at the heart of the Charlottesville riots. Wikimedia

ti-slavery sentiment.” However, Carrington said their objection would be based on America’s founding values. “I think a lot of people [removing Confederate monuments] today would reject that and claim that even Hillsdale, and what they were doing, was a part of a broad, evil, despicable claim,” said Carrington. Slack also said that if these monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders are going to be taken down, the appropriate method to do so is through the municipal, county, state, and federal laws, “and not out of intimidation from groups advocating for either side.” “Indeed, until they are removed, these statues are the property of their respective communities, and they ought to be protected,” Slack said.

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who are conservative.” Carrington also wondered: “Are those statues being taken down because of something that isn’t in accord with our founding principles? Or is it

founders and those to whom the college’s Union soldier statue is dedicated might have had “a serious problem with statues to Jefferson Davis” because Hillsdale was “a hotbed of an-

Trump to end DACA

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President Donald Trump said in an executive order on Wednesday he will end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which has granted legal status to 800,000 immigrants over the past five years. Congress has six months to find a replacement for the program.

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“It’s definitely an added benefit,” he said. “But the thermoses obviously don’t prohibit it from happening altogether. But when things leave the cafe, it diminishes the value for everyone else who comes in.” Harutunian said Bon Appétit is willing to adjust and adapt to their customer’s needs. North Korea conducts bomb test North Korea said it conducted a “perfect” underground test of a hydrogen bomb Sunday, the most powerful test of all its nuclear tests over the past 11 years. The U.S. urged other members of the United Nations Security Council to cut off oil and other fuels to the country.

No more massages By | Allison Schuster Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale College Health and Wellness Center is searching for someone new to fill the role of their former massage therapist. Rebecca Metroff ‘17, former massage therapist of three years left the health center in early August. She is now doing medical billing and coding in downtown Hillsdale. According to Carol Drews, nurse, massage therapy helps with benefits such as muscle relaxation, increase in blood flow, and, most commonly, stress relief. Drews said both students and faculty would come to see Metroff. Some students have already contacted the health center, inquiring about the lack of massage services. Drews has referred them to a chiropractor with a massage therapist in Hillsdale for the time being. “As someone with chronic iliotibial band syndrome, I looked forward to having a licensed massage therapist available on campus,” freshman Julia Powell said. “It affects the mental well-being of both myself and all other students on campus.” Although no on campus massage services will likely be available this semester, Director of Health Services Brock Lutz said he will be contacting a few people in the next couple of weeks to see if they are interested in a position as the new massage therapist. Lutz said finding a new massage therapist isn’t considered a priority at the moment. “Just looking back on the last couple of years, it’s not a service that students and staff have used as much as we thought they would,” Lutz said. “So we’re thinking about taking a step back this semester.”

Advice panel for freshmen By | Abigail Leali Collegian Freelancer Academic Services will host a sophomore panel for freshmen to hear reflections from four sophomores on their own first year expereinces at Hillsdale on Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Heritage room of Mossey Library. The panel discussions will include topics such as academics, religion, personal life, and misconceptions about the college itself. Sophomores Karissa McCarthy and Nathan Williams will share what they have learned since freshman year, what they wish they had done differently, and how they will change in the future. McCarthy said she plans to discuss her academic career and spiritual life, while Williams said he will share how his self-perception has changed and what he has learned about relationships since coming to Hillsdale. Freshmen will hopefully walk away with a deeper understanding of the school they are just beginning to know, and they will hear stories from the triumphs and mistakes of those who came before. These speakers will discuss the joys and trials of college life with those still largely unfamiliar with them. “If a more efficient or unique way of servicing our customers and eliminating waste becomes available we may go that route,” she said in an email. “We are not doing this as a gimmick. We truly appreciate our customers and our environment. Students matter, the college matters, and our environment matters.”

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Parking fees discourage car registration By | Alexis Nester Collegian Reporter

Starting this fall, all students must pay $50 to register vehicles on campus. Additionally, the fine for parking unregistered vehicles on college property has increased from $35 to $75. As of Tuesday, Hillsdale does not have statistics for the number of students who have paid the fee and registered their cars this semester. Dean of Men Aaron Petersen said he believes this number will either stay the same — “about 700 to 800 students per year” — or increase, because of the new way in which students must register. “They have to go online and click yes or no," Petersen said. “It brings to bear the question: ‘Are you bringing a car on campus or are you not?’ And we just think students will be honest.” By clicking yes, students will be automatically charges the registration fee. If the same amount of students register their cars this year, the registration fee alone will bring in an additional $35,000-$40,000 to the college. This, of course, does not include the fines from parking violations. The fee will cover not only the college’s costs for the space — a valuable resource on our campus — but it also provides the college with revenue that will go toward “the ongoing cost of maintenance.” The construction projects that are now consuming both the Dow Leadership Center and Benzing Residence parking lots have dramatically decreased parking availability on campus, causing students to scramble to find spots both in the designated parking lots and in other areas. Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram commented on the role that supply and demand play in the registration fee. “Demand for parking spaces is exceeding supply, resulting in the raise in price. They are simply trying to allocate spots, and revenue is the byproduct. Whoever values the parking spot the most will pay the price.” This is basic economics, but the availability of spots even for those who register their cars is in question. “I pay a lot of money to live in school-owned housing,” Sophomore Lauren Adams said. “Not only do I now have to pay to park, but also some dorms like Benzing have no parking lot. I’m paying to have a car here and I’m not even guaranteed a space.” Additionally, many students living either on or off campus may choose to find alternative parking solutions rather than pay the fee and still risk not finding a place to park. Some may be willing to park their vehicle along Hillsdale Street or near the Sports Complex if it means they could save money. An anonymous senior states: “I will not register my car this year. As an off-campus student, I’ll never park on campus, I’ll just park on the street. This really only affects people who live on campus.” “All a fee does is create a disincentive for students to register their cars,” senior Josh Orlaski said. But the college has ignored his advice. Hillsdale College owns these parking lots, and it has every right to charge parking fees, but the question remains: Will students register their cars and pay the fee? Students who want to avoid a fine might, but many students may be disincentivized to register their cars and instead find cheaper or riskier alternatives for parking their vehicles. Alexis Nester is a sophomore studying the liberal arts.

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Walk in, flop down, and open notes for another day of Western Heritage. Or Intro to Philosophy. Or that last science class that somehow got put off until senior year. Some days it feels like a chore, and one strategy for making chores bearable is to complain about them. It feels good and other students are doing it. Misery loves company, right? Maybe not. The semester is still new, which means it’s as good a time as any to make sure we take a positive

approach to all of our classes, even the ones that we are less than enthused to take. When the enthusiasm tank is running on empty, it’s easy to treat the core as a series of hoops to jump through, but this is Hillsdale, not the circus, and our education is our own, not the college’s. Sometimes we forget it, but the core exists for us. In every class, you can find a social benefit behind the obvious practical one, and those benefits will change as you advance through your education.

Freshmen, Western Heritage is not just where you learn how to write and ease your transition to college-level writing in Great Books. It introduces you to the greater conversation the classes have with each other. It’s also where you’ll make unexpected friends and form lasting intellectual communities that can help you to realize what you want to study later. Upperclassmen, those classes you postponed until just now may be where you reconnect with old friends

or have a second to resurface while swimming in term papers and upper level classes. We hear it all the time — we’re only here for four years. If you slog through the core without cherishing it, you may miss the chance to learn from a professor about whom everybody raves or the little lessons these subjects impart along the way. The core may be huge, but that’s why we’re here.

Remove Margaret Sanger's bust from Smithsonian By | Kathleen Russo Special to The Collegian In the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit Struggle for Justice, there stands a bust honoring Sanger for her work in sex education and for the establishment of the American Birth Control League. A surface look at her history shows Sanger worked to advance both racist and eugenic beliefs, and was deeply involved with both the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi party. The evidence of such involvement is extensive, pervasive, and ought to disqualify her from being honored among those who struggled for the oppressed. Sanger’s bust ought to be removed from the exhibit. Sanger is most often celebrated for her creation of the American Birth Control League, an organization that operated under Nazi-practiced eugenic principles but was created to sterilize genetically inferior races and populations. Founding board members included Lothrop Stoddard, a Ku Klux Klan member. Sanger herself later accepted an “invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake,” as she would recall in her autobiography. Sanger is also credited with the creation of the Negro Project, which aimed to introduce birth control into African-American communities in an attempt to quell a population that would, as Sanger put it, “still breed carelessly and disastrously.” Claims that Sanger only intended to help a struggling and impoverished population are simply not consistent with her well-documented and emphatic eugenic beliefs in the superiority of certain white races. Sanger’s bust in the Struggle

for Justice exhibit sits in close proximity to MLK and Rosa Parks, which is not only absurd, but perverse. Sanger was no champion of justice, but rather an active oppressor of the poor and disenfranchised. If Sanger can be considered a purveyor

campaign of the last century. The placement of her bust in the exhibit contributes to this mischaracterization. In 2015, a group of black pastors petitioned the Gallery to remove the bust. Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait

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of justice, it would only be for certain classes of white females who she believed to be superior and worthy of reproduction. The mainstream, modern characterization of Margaret Sanger as the savior of the oppressed is perhaps the most well-executed marketing

Gallery, conceded Sanger’s involvement in the eugenics movement. The signage included with the bust itself sites her involvement. Sajet claims that “there is no ‘moral test’ for people to be accepted into the National Portrait Gallery”.

We as a country should most certainly employ a moral test on those that we chose to celebrate in our national, citizen funded museums — especially an exhibit showcasing Americans’ efforts towards justice. While we recognize that “human imperfection and infallibility” should not be blotted out from the pages of our country’s history, the placement of Sanger’s bust in the Struggle for Justice exhibit is hardly an appropriate lens through which to view her sordid past. Her work with eugenics and racism were not footnotes to her work, but rather the motivation for it. Sajet claims that her work in eugenics and her work in birth control merely make her a figure of “controversy.” But, the two are inseparable, not contradictory. Sanger advanced birth control and sex education as a means to further forced sterilization: the extermination of blacks, the feeble minded, and other so-called less desirable people. She perpetuated the ideas and values that led to the Holocaust. We must not confuse our sympathies toward modern birth control with Margaret Sanger’s aims. To refer to Sanger as simply “less than perfect,” is a disturbing and insulting understatement. Part of “setting a path towards a better future,” as Sajet hopes to do, is to also denounce those who perpetuate evil in and against the citizens of our country and against common human dignity. The bust of Margaret Sanger must be removed from the ‘Struggle for Justice’ exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery. Kathleen Russo is a junior majoring in American studies.

Americans less safe with more troops in Afghanistan question, present remarkably By | Cal Abbo Special to the Collegian low levels of danger. It’s been nearly 16 years since al-Qaida allegedly attacked the U.S. and “The American people are the Taliban has never threatened weary of war without victory. the American homeland. The Nowhere is this more evident two parties also have vastly than the war in Afghanistan. different goals and objectives. The longest war in American Al-Qaida is a militant group history: 17 years,” President that has dedicated itself to Donald Trump said in a speech opposing the United States on Aug. 21, piquing the interest in any way possible. On the of anti-war Americans across other hand, the Taliban is a the political spectrum. party of conservative Islamic Trump continued, however, fundamentalists vying for openly admitting to flip- control of their home country. flopping on the issue of foreign “I think the ultimate goal intervention and promising should be… regime change to increase troop count in the [of the Taliban],” Moreno said. contentious nation. When He also suggests “installing a examining the historical record, government that is at least not a it’s clear to most Americans the threat to the United States.” This outdated policy of added force is idea represents an enduring and not the appropriate solution to pervasive misunderstanding Afghanistan and the terrorism among many Americans. problem. The Taliban has never made On campus, though, the a legitimate threat to this difference of opinion is stark. country and even condemned “At this point, I’m going to the 9/11 attacks the day after trust the administration. They they occurred. The only know more than I do,” social indictment leveled against sciences dean Paul Moreno said the Taliban is that they were regarding Trump’s decision to “harboring terrorists” — an broaden the war effort. accusation that’s applicable to As a professor of U.S. plenty of countries. The only constitutional history, Moreno violence against the United said he also believes there States committed by the Taliban are no legal issues with the came after its aggression in the administration’s decision, Taliban’s own sovereign nation. describing the power of a postTrump also attributed 9/11 president to respond to an a big part of the strategy attack upon the United States overhaul to “a shift from a as “unquestioned” and “not time-based approach to one requiring a declaration of war.” based on conditions.” He While this is true, al-Qaida and gave vague descriptions of the Taliban, the two factions in those conditions, articulating

their “clear definition” as “attacking our enemies” along with “crushing al-Qaida” and “preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan.” A policy this ambiguous has dangerous implications. The lack of a clear goal can cause the U.S. to overstay even more than it already has, exacerbating the terrorism dilemma. Another fundamental aspect of this issue is understanding the nature of terrorism. Why do terrorists hate the United States? The answer is not as obscure as one might think. In 2004, former President George Bush commissioned his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to produce an analysis of the issue. Rumsfeld reported on his findings: “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies.” “American direct intervention in the Muslim world has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some Arab societies.” He further explains how U.S. support for tyrannies in the region like Saudi Arabia and the general failure of war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have also contributed to the systemic hatred. Americans simply need to listen to the Muslim community’s message. When alQaida declared war on the west, Osama bin-Laden outlined three key grievances against the United States: its perpetual

occupation of the lands of Islam, the consequential deaths of many Muslims civilians, and our unquestioned support of Israel regardless of the atrocities they commit. In a 2004 speech to the American people, bin-Laden spoke of “bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.” He’s been fairly successful, too. Estimates have put 21st century war efforts in the Middle East upwards of $10 trillion, factoring in troop healthcare expenses, veteran aid, and interest on war loans. These wars have caused America’s deficit expansion and national debt crisis. In the same speech, binLaden makes a powerful statement, offering advice that the U.S. would be wise to heed. “Your security is in your own hands. Every state that doesn’t play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own.” Additional troops are not the answer to Afghanistan. If the United States is looking to defeat Islamic extremism, it only needs to pay attention to the glaring evidence: our intervention and violence moves peaceful Muslims towards radicalism. If the U.S. continues to escalate wars in the middle east, it will be greeted with still greater opposition. Cal Abbo is a freshman studying the liberal arts.

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Hillsdale should commemorate 1966 UFO sighting in Arb By | Nic Rowan Assistant editor

Hardly anyone on campus remembers that Hillsdale College once had its own close encounter with a UFO — and that’s why the college should put up a plaque to commemorate this extraterrestrial event. On March 21, 1966, several women living in McIntyre Residence noticed unusually bright lights floating over Slayton Arboretum around 10:30 p.m. In an account written three days later for The Collegian, Gidget Kohn ’69 described the event as a UFO encounter. “I ran to my window, and there it was, radiating intense silver-white light and heading directly for the dorm,” she said. “A brief flash of lightning illuminated it for just a second and in that second I saw what appeared to be a squashed football or basketball.” The women in McIntyre were not the only ones to report UFOs over the Arb that night. Harold Hess, then a Hillsdale police officer, was parked in a lot on West Carleton Road with his partner, Jerry Wise. At some point in the night, the two noticed an almost-blinding light hovering somewhere over the college. When Hess and Wise drove around campus to

investigate, they discovered the same shining disc-like object that had excited the women in McIntyre hanging over the Arb. In an interview with The Collegian in 2015, Hess described his experience as an encounter with unearthly technology. “It wasn’t a chopper. There was no humming,” he said. “I took my weapon out. Jerry told me to put it back. ‘Whatever it is, I don’t think it’ll be bothered one bit at what you’ve got at your side,’ Jerry told me.” Then, Hess said, the light split into two, and went in opposite directions. This action damaged the equipment in the patrol car so that when the two turned the radio on, they only got static. “It’s one of those things that runs your hair up on the back of your head just thinking about it,” Hess said. All told, 87 people in the Hillsdale area reported a UFO in the sky that night. In the days following, more people reported seeing objects in the sky in nearby towns such as Ann Arbor, Dexter, and Battle Creek, making the incident the center ring of a national news circus. The UFO sightings became a subject of controversy when the Air Force sent J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist at Northwestern

University, to make an official report several days later. After interviewing the college women and Hillsdale citizens, Hynek dismissed the incident as “swamp gas” — a phrase he coined — which has since become a popular explanation for many UFO sightings. Hynek’s “swamp gas” explanation prompted then Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford to take an interest in the event. After receiving numerous letters from residents who claimed to have seen the UFOs, Ford looked into the matter himself and decided this deserved the federal government's attention. “These are incidents which many reliable good citizens felt were sufficient to justify some action by our government — and not the kind of flippant answer that was given by the Air Force when they passed it off as swamp gas,” he said. Ford petitioned Congress to commission the Air Force to officially investigate the Michigan UFOs. The Air Force then delegated the investigation to the University of Colorado, which after several years of study, came up with negative results, making it possible for the Air Force to close down Project Blue Book, its own UFO research project. Half a century later, Ford’s questions, along

with many other uncertainties about the UFO sightings in southern Michigan still occasionally appear in pop culture. My favorite is Christopher Buckley’s 1999 political satire “Little Green Men,” which makes reference to Hynek’s Michigan research. Director Whit Stillman was slated to turn the project into a film in 2006, but sadly, nothing came of it. More recently, however — actually, this week — Stephen Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was re-released in theaters across the country. When it originally came out in 1977, Hynek, by then a UFO believer, had served as the film’s technical advisor, making the aliens seem as real as possible. None of that could have happened if it weren’t for the Hillsdale incident. Something inexplicable happened here, and the college should memorialize it. All we need is a little plaque in the Arb. Maybe it should read, “Welcome to Hillsdale: It’s the UFOs.” Nic Rowan is a junior studying history.

Students can't complain about losing the to-go cups Get involved with local churches By | Katherine Scheu Associate editor

peers, I nabbed little tubs of Skippy and scooped fresh fruit into to-go cups many times — as soon as I glanced around to make sure no one was looking. So I won’t quote the Honor Code at you, and I certainly won’t smack the Ten Commandments in front of your face. Not only would that be too dramatic for even my taste, but I also would rather not think about how dishonest my own actions may have been. But I will point out that the lack of cups can serve as a reality check for a lot of us. We try not to emulate those in our age group who spend time whining about being offended or violently protesting someone’s contrary opinion. So let’s make sure we follow through on that effort and keep our attitudes under control as we remind ourselves to stick a mug or water bottle in our backpack every morning. Katherine Scheu is a senior studying French.

Dr. Arnn reads 2017 Convocation speech By | Nic Rowan

Once Hillsdale College realized Bon Appétit Management Company removed its towers of disposable cups, most of our students succumbed to the crybaby culture we usually love to hate. Bon Appétit General Manager David Apthorpe told The Collegian in an email that it wasn’t just Bon Appetit’s move to reduce waste that motivated the new cup policy, though that certainly influenced the decision. The catering service also wanted to downsize the amount of food taken from the cafeteria, Apthorpe said. “I don't have a hard number as to how many pounds of goldfish, salads, trail mix, cereal, fries, pasta, etc. were leaving the dining room, but that number is significant,” Apthorpe said. “It seemed hypocritical to say that only beverages, fruit, and ice cream cones were available to leave the building but provide the perfect means for taking everything else.”

So the gripes of tumbler-toting scholars signify more than a bad attitude festering like your least favorite meal molded over. Inconveniently for us, the takeaway of the takeaways is that Hillsdalians, who are usually down with upstanding behavior, have been forced to recognize that we weren’t following the rules we were supposed to follow. And now we have to pay the consequences. Apthorpe extends us a kindness when he recognizes the temptation to-go cups create for hungry, broke students. But the bottom line is that our food-hoarding tendency shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place. But we let our conviction slip as we walked into the cafeteria with gurgling stomachs and watering mouths. We saw our food service as an opportunity for freeloading to the point that our cups had to be taken away because we simply wouldn’t follow directions. I don’t want to come off as overly earnest or irritatingly strict. Like my

Trump was right to pardon Arpaio By | Sean Hyaduck Special to The Collegian “I’ll make a prediction: I think he’s going to be just fine,” President Trump announced to a room of his supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, indicating his intention to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio of a recently acquired criminal contempt conviction. Arpaio, 85, was found guilty of violating a 2011 court order from a federal judge to cease profiling and detaining suspected illegal immigrants, essentially prohibiting him from enforcing federal immigration laws in Maricopa County. Unsurprisingly, the president’s decision caused outrage from congressional Democrats, perceiving this as another setback to progress. “As millions of people in TX and LA are prepping for the Hurricane, the President is using the cover of the storm to pardon a man who violated a court's order to stop discriminating against Latinos,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, tweeted. Regardless, Trump’s decision was not an abuse of power. In Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, it states that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” Contention surrounds President Trump’s failure to consult the Justice Department’s Office of Pardon Attorney, an executive provider of clemency guidelines. According to Carrie Johnson of NPR, the Office states one should not “apply for clemency until five years after their conviction or sentencing.” The lengthy process, let alone the consultation, is not a constitutionally required provision. It can be surpassed by presidents to facilitate a pardon. Neither is it applicable to Arpaio’s case: a misdemeanor offence with

a sentence of 6-months for which the former sheriff made no clemency request. There are also several issues with the court’s handling of this case. Most significantly, Arpaio’s request for a jury was denied to him by Judge Snow, justified by a 1970 supreme court decision, Baldwin v. New York, which arrived at an exception for crimes without potential for sentencing greater than 6 months. Nevertheless, according to Robert Robb of The Republic, its ruling was decided by “three of eight justices,” informing the current standard with an abnormally derived verdict. Another arises in the implications of his conviction. While some argue the President’s pardon of Arpaio sets a precedent for executive authority to subvert the rule of law, the precedent set by tolerance of certain crimes through denying law enforcement the authority to respond to them is a significant concern. The judiciary’s role is to interpret the law. Nevertheless, when the judiciary interprets the law in a fashion that inhibits its enforcement, the president should be able to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” by ensuring those who enforce them aren’t prosecuted. Arpaio took uncommon initiative by enforcing immigration laws that the federal government failed to uphold. Rather than accepting the order to compromise his duty, he risked his welfare and reputation at large for the safety of his county. Citizens trust immigration laws will be enforced. When law enforcement is prohibited from delivering on that promise, these laws are reduced to mere suggestions. Sean Hyaduck is a sophomore studying the liberal arts.

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College is an awkward transition between leaving home and entering the “real world” of careers, grocery bills, and mortgage payments. And you might not want to hear it, but we have it easy in college. It’s easy to find free food, and life is safe here in Hillsdale. It is not uncommon to find yourself in an unusually small bubble throughout your college years, but it is important to find an outlet for staying in touch with reality. This can be done by continuing to cultivate your spiritual life, which will shape your collegiate growth. One of the most influential factors of your childhood was your family life. Growing up with your parents and siblings shaped much of your character. Your family may have introduced you to a faith community, where you shared beliefs and values. So, get involved: Go to Church, meet families within your congregation and get to know them. They will offer you a glimpse of the life for which we are preparing. Because Hillsdale College does not have a specific church of its own, students are led to local parishes in the surrounding communities. This opportunity to engage with local faith communities allows for a glimpse into familial congregational life, something that college students do not have on their own. Being able to observe and worship with families of the same faith background gives students yet another image, outside of their own families, of people living out the Gospel. Senior Meghan Perks helped establish an adopt-a-student program at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church after hearing about a friend’s experience with a similar program at College Baptist. She

says that the program, which allows students to participate in activities with a family from the parish, is a great way to get off campus and “realize that there is life outside the library and Lane and Kendall.” Most importantly, however, Perks said the program is a reminder that as students, we are still part of the Body of Christ. “Our school life is part of living a life of Christ and walking with him,” Perks said. On campus, different religious groups gather for worship, bible studies, and prayer throughout each week, but attending weekly services off campus allows a deepening of relationships outside the college. Keith Porter, pastor of Hillsdale Free Methodist Church, said faith never really becomes real to us unless through action, which ultimately makes scripture more alive. “Having exposure to another congregation outside that of your childhood broadens your scope of the Kingdom of God,” Porter said. His congregation offers students a variety of volunteer outlets, allowing for students to engage in their community, primarily through working with young children. People change a lot during college. You will grow significantly in maturity, in wisdom, and in your understanding of The Truth. So engage with those in your church communities, because they possess a treasure chest of wisdom that will keep you grounded in reality, as part of a larger preparation for the future. Josephine von Dohlen is a junior majoring in American studies.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, On April 27, 2017, The Collegian published an opinion piece that encouraged Hillsdale to secularize. The article entitled “The Importance of Identity: Why Hillsdale College Should Consider Secularization” explained the reasons to secularize if Hillsdale wishes to continue its pursuit of truth. Secularizing Hillsdale would be a mistake. Free Will Baptists founded Hillsdale. The college's founders were Christians and put their beliefs and values into its creation. The college is a result of the Christians who struggled to build this school and the values they instilled into its founding. If we secularize Hillsdale after nearly 175 years of Christian influence, we are wholeheartedly rejecting the Christian values on which this school was founded. If Hillsdale secularized, it would change the institution on a fundamental level. No longer would Hillsdale tie itself to timeless spiritual truths but would open the door for many dangerous teachings to enter. Other schools have gone this disastrous direction and Yale is a prime example. William F. Buckley Jr. describes the shift away from free speech that followed with Yale’s increasing secularization and Nathan

Harden speaks of the various forms of promiscuity that have invaded Yale's halls since the school has turned away from its founding. There might be arguments that Yale is an exception and that we would not fall into similar straits, but I see no evidence for this assertion. Secularization also would make the statement that Hillsdale views Christianity and its values to be false. Hillsdale claims Christian values are a part of the intellectual and spiritual foundation on which it stands. When I initially visited the school, one of the admissions counselors said the JudeoChristian tradition of morals is as fundamental to Hillsdale as the Greco-Roman tradition of government. With Hillsdale so closely tied to the Judeo-Christian tradition, secularization would mean that we are declaring this tradition to be false. One argument in favor of Hillsdale secularizing is that our college is missing out on potential students that would find Hillsdale's Christian atmosphere uninviting. If Hillsdale is willing to sell one of its core values for the sake of attracting a few potential students, we may as well disavow other core values that might discourage potential students. Should our economics department

begin teaching communism? Should our philosophy department begin teaching moral relativism so as to encourage potential students of these mindsets to attend? If we are unwilling to abandon other core values, then we cannot consider setting aside our religious values simply because potential students might dislike them. Another argument for secularization is that Hillsdale is choosing to sell their values to wealthy Christian donors by not secularizing. Buckley has also noted that for private colleges, alumni and donors hold an incredible amount of influence over the ideology of the college since it is their generosity that allows the school to operate. Some might argue Hillsdale is selling itself out to donors in this way, but it is the donors that allow Hillsdale to exist and fund the scholarships and financial aid the vast majority of our students receive. I am unaware of a vast wave of individuals who are waiting to replace the funding that would be lost from Christian donors. Even if there existed such a group, we simply changed one master for another, one that abandons our founding principles. Andrew Simpson is a sophomore studying the liberal arts.

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Locals and students sing from hymn books handed out at Beer & Hymns in Rough Draft. Haley Talkington | Courtesy

Beer & Hymns at Rough Draft brings community together By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor On a trip down to Nashville to visit her sister, Carly Hubbard ’16, owner of Rough Draft Coffee and Cocktails, heard about a group that tucks into the backrooms of local bars to raise their voices together in worship. The idea of a “pub sing” really appealed to Hubbard. “I have always been amazed at how, in Irish pubs, they can easily transition from drinking songs to hymns,” Hubbard said. The Nashville group has been gathering since 2013, and Hubbard said she thought the idea would fit in perfectly with her vision of what Rough Draft can offer the Hillsdale com-

munity. “Rough Draft has all Michigan craft beer and all the employees love to sing hymns. We thought that people in the community would love to put them together with us,” Hubbard’s business partner, Haley Talkington, said. The first two Beer & Hymn nights took place on July 27 and Aug. 23, filling the back room of Rough Draft with more than 30 eager singers who enjoyed a dollar off a pint of craft beer during the event. Sophomore Timothy Green was called upon at the last minute to accompany the singers on piano for the event in August. “The atmosphere was easy to play with because everyone was excited and we were all able to get caught in the spirit,”

Green said. Talkington and Hubbard pass out song booklets with the lyrics of their favorite hymns which include classics like “Take my Hands and Let Them be,” “How Great Thou Art,” and “ C o m e Thou Font.” Talkington and Hubbard want the event to bring Christians together through singing. “Beer & Hymns is not a bible study; we are just offering a space to gather in a very ecu-

menical way to enjoy worship,” Hubbard said. Not wanting the event to become terribly “churchy,” Talkington said that they chose not to have any preaching so that those who identify with different denominations are not discouraged from coming and enjoying the event. Though Hubbard was initially concerned with self-conscious singers, she said the earnest singing at the events has allayed her fears.

“Beer & Hymns is not a bible study; we are just offering a space to gather in a very ecumenical way to enjoy worship.”

“At first I wanted to make a rule that everyone had to drink a pint before we started singing, but that seemed a little forceful,” Hubbard said. The events have been popular with members of the Hillsdale community. “People ask to do it more frequently, with something like Beer & Hymns, however, we need to limit the number of times we do it,” Talkington said. “You don’t want to ruin the uniqueness of the event.” Inclusion is of primary importance with the event. “We want to facilitate the community of Hillsdale, not just the Christians. We want to be sure that we don’t limit the parts of the community that come and enjoy Rough Draft,” Talkington said. Through the event, Talking-

Medical marijuana stirs community debate

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‘Becoming a restaurant’

Handmade Sandwiches and Beverages grows in popularity, variety By | Hannah Neimeier Senior Writer Hillsdale’s newest sandwich shop has a liquor license, but owner Derek Spiteri isn’t sure he’s ready to use it. Spiteri obtained a liquor license this spring, but as it approaches its first birthday, Handmade has developed along the sandwich line, being voted No. 10 on MLive’s list of the best sub shops in Michigan. Now, Spiteri said, he looks to improve speed of service in a restaurant that bills itself as both a quick lunch stop and a high-quality community eatery. “‘Becoming a restaurant’ is kind of the story of what’s happened here. I’m buying pieces of restaurant equipment that improve our efficiency. But it’s taken a full year to settle down,” Spiteri said. “Handmade is evolving into a shape that it didn’t have nine months ago.” With Spiteri’s background at Checker Records, he said he envisioned the shop as a stop for sandwiches and drinks, with a menu that would include an array of craft beers, including a coffee-flavored brew that he had planned as his signature. But expanding the menu to include alcohol is about more than signing a piece of paper: Spiteri needs someone to sell him the beverages, customers who are willing to buy it, and

a business model that will accommodate it. “The liquor license is all set to go, but now I’m looking for a distributor,” Spiteri said. Larger distributors are asking him to buy 500 units a week, and he doesn’t have that much room in the cooler. He doesn’t have time in his schedule, either. Spiteri is busy making sandwiches, catering events, and buying new equipment that will make the serving process faster after a promising summer that cemented the shop’s place in the community. “I was painfully aware that when the students left, we’d be less busy,” Spiteri said. “But there was less drop off than I anticipated.” Handmade’s quality and variety are selling points for Angie Pytel, a visiting professor of chemistry. Pytel claimed that she’s designed the perfect Handmade sandwich: It’s an Italian dip on warmed French bread. Sometimes, she chases it down with nitro-brew cold coffee. This semester, she plans to switch up her office hours by holding meetings with students at Handmade and Rough Draft, the coffee shop across the street. The fact that she can’t buy a beer at Handmade doesn’t ruin any of those plans, Pytel said. “Honestly, when I go there, I don’t miss it,” said Pytel, who has been at Hillsdale since 2003 and remembers when

ton and Hubbard want to show a different side of Christian culture. “A lot of people think Christians can’t drink beer and have a good time,” Talkington said. But Rough Draft asserts in their social media promotions for the event that Beer & Hymns is “good for both the body and the soul.” The next Beer & Hymns event will take place on Sept. 28 at 8pm and Hubbard urges singers of all talents and ages to come and sing. “The point isn’t to sound good. Just bring to the table whatever you have and come enjoy the experience of worshiping through song,” she said.

Oakley, the previous name of the property Handmade now occupies, used to sell a variety of beers. “Handmade has become more of a lunch place. People get their sandwiches and then go back to work. And the beer isn’t going to make the sandwich taste any better.” Handmade’s growing popularity both for drop-ins and catering orders is a blessing and a curse; wait times can stretch past 20 minutes on weekdays. To alleviate that issue, Pytel developed a strategy: she avoids the rushed lunch hour completely, showing up around 2 p.m. so she can have a quiet meal and get some work done to the tune of Handmade’s home-curated music playlist. “The only thing holding them back is the capacity to put out sandwiches faster without losing their quality,” Pytel said. Spiteri said he is working on improving speed of service by hiring more employees for the fall and purchasing more efficient equipment for the sandwich line in order to accommodate people with tight schedules. Dylan Lottinville, a junior economics major, has established himself as a regular at Handmade — he ate there almost every day before the campus cafeteria opened. When something went wrong with his order two days in a row, Spiteri gave him his next sandwich on the house. “A couple times the wait was

really long, and he apologized the next time,” Lottinville said. “It’s nice when someone knows you, cares about you, and recognizes you.” And the possibility of having a beer with his Santa Fe sub with spinach and jalapenos? “I was just talking to my friends about this the other day,” Lottinville said. “I think it would be kinda cool. I’m not sure if it’s a huge draw, but it would be cool and unique. But it would change their image, since they’ve become more of a lunch place and a family place.” The appearance of new businesses in town has helped Spiteri to discover and develop this niche. When Rough Draft opened, Spiteri said he began focusing more on researching creative flavors and combinations, such as pistachio lattes and espresso on ice cream. The variety of unexpected flavors is part of what keeps people coming back, Spiteri said. “It’s a nice mix of the college and town communities coming together,” Pytel said. “Derek is so passionate about his sandwiches. He can be as busy as he can be, and if someone comes in there and they look like they’re new, he’ll explain the menu and how it works … It’s just very sweet.”

More than 40 Hillsdale residents voiced their opinions about the possibility of medical marijuana dispensaries coming to the City of Hillsdale during a public hearing at a city council meeting on Tuesday. According to the meeting’s running tally, about 76 percent spoke against the proposal while 24 percent spoke in favor. Although medicinal marijuana has been legal in Michigan since 2008, the city has restricted its availability from storefronts. After the state provided an educational meeting in March intended to teach city employees on how to approach the issue, rumors began spreading that the city would allow pot shops to open in downtown Hillsdale. The city council will soon vote on whether to institute state allowances regarding medical marijuana in the city. Community opinion on the issue was divided from the start. Those in favor argue that storefront availability of medical marijuana will bring much-needed business to Hillsdale. Among those are city council candidates Dennis Wainscott and Penny Swan, both of whom spoke at the public hearing. “We need the business, so let’s step outside of our comfort zone and go for it,” Swan said. The business side of the marijuana question, however, has put local entrepreneur Thomas Defer in a precarious position. Earlier this year, Defer bought a building on Industrial Drive in anticipation of the city allowing for a grow facility in conjunction with the opening of medical marijuana shops. Speaking at the hearing, Defer said he hopes the initiatives pass so that he can provide business to the town. Defer appealed to those in opposition, saying he’s interested in making money by selling his product elsewhere in the state. “We’re not looking to provide medical marijuana as a

storefront society,” he said. “We’re looking to grow marijuana for Lansing and let Lansing decide where it gets shipped to.” Local resident Jon Smith said this position does not follow logically. “If we’ve already decided that this is not good for our community, then why would you put it on another community?” he said. Others in favor cited medical needs, saying the healing power CBD and the high from THC — the two major chemical compounds in marijuana — have helped them with a battery of medical problems in ways that prescription pills like Oxycotin could not. “Medical marijuana really did save my life,” local resident Kelly Cook said. “Before it, I missed my son’s eighth grade graduation because I was hallucinating coming off of Symbalta. And I had only been on Symbalta for a week.” Those opposed to medical marijuana stores cited several reasons for the drug to be kept out of Hillsdale. Quoting the “Journal of Clinical and Psychological Science,” Kelly Scott Franklin, Hillsdale resident and professor of English, said people who use medical marijuana tend to experience “downward socioeconomic mobility, more financial difficulties, workplace problems, and relationship conflict in early mid life.” “I think the idea that this would be economically sound in a place that already suffers from poverty is quite problematic,” he said. Other residents cited worries that the city would only make storefront marijuana available because it appeared to be a quick fix to the city’s ongoing economic problem. “If making money is the sole purpose, that’s wrong,” local resident Berna Bailey said. “If it’s to help people out, then that’s another issue.” In keeping with its opening resolution, the council did not make a decision on the matter. According to Bell, the council will discuss storefront medical marijuana at its next meeting on Sept. 18.

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Residents enjoy tea at a birthday party hosted at Jilly Beans. Mary Ellen Sattler | Courtesy

Jilly Beans introduces its new look By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter

(Top to bottom) Jilly Beans shows off its new decorations; The outdoor garden was completely renovated this summer; Residents dress up for a tea party hosted by Jilly Beans. Julie Havlak | Collegian

Craft store brings color downtown By | Callie Shinkle Collegian Freelancer

When Hudson resident Shelley Mangus posted on Facebook asking Hillsdale residents if they would be interested in a craft supply store, she expected to get some feedback. She never expected her post to generate 28,000 comments, prompting her to open Hillsdale Craft Supplies. Located next to the Sud-Z Coin Wash on Lewis Street, Hillsdale Craft Supplies is the perfect place to make a craft in between running errands. Open Wednesday through Sunday, the store sells a variety of beading, scrapbooking, and art-making equipment and offers craft-making classes taught by locals. The store has generated positive social media feedback, following its grand opening on June 28. “The store is very nicely laid out and spacious…it is an awesome asset to Hillsdale!” Hillsdale resident Kellie Hendershot said on Facebook. Mangus started crafting as a young child when her family began making Christmas ornaments together, and she never stopped. “I have been married 34 years, and since then, there has not been a single week in my life when I didn’t make at least one thing,” she said. Mangus began selling craft supplies online in 1995. Her

business expanded until it overtook three bedrooms in her house. When her granddaughters came to visit, Mangus’ husband, Ken, realized that they had no rooms in which to stay, so he suggested opening a store. Three years later, that vision became a reality. Mangus said she believes the shop is special because anyone can come in whenever the store is open and make a craft for five dollars. She keeps tools available for crafters and anything else needed that can be bought in store. “It’s a win-win situation,” she said. “They can come in and craft all day long and I can learn from watching them.” Magnus added that her life experience has allowed her to run her own store. “I am a total craft addict,” she said “As a cancer survivor I have a different perspective on life than most. I work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. but I don’t go home feeling tired. I go home feeling satisfied. I feel like I’m 17 all the time!” Mangus said she hopes to expand her store to include a wood shop, ceramic shop and glass-blowing furnace. In addition, she hopes to host at least four classes a week and to hold art shows in the parking lot outside the store. Additionally, she said she would like to sell crafts made by local artisans.

The interior of Hillsdale Craft Supply, which opened this summer. Callie Shinkle | Collegian

The new owner of Jilly Beans has given the coffee shop a new identity, adding new hours, new foods, and a new look. Jilly Beans will now stay open on Sundays until 7 p.m. and on Tuesday until 10 p.m. — later hours to accommodate college students. “From my perspective as a college student, I know what it’s like in the semester, and how stressful it can be,” said Katie Crowley, a Jilly Beans employee who helped brainstorm the new hours. “I just thought what I would like a coffee shop where you can get some drinks, some food, where

you can decompress and work in a place close to school, but not your library or your room.” Mary Ellen Sattler, who purchased the coffee shop in May, added chicken quesadillas, a dark roast coffee, and a new quiche to the menu. She said she is considering introducing pumpkin bread and apple cider for Halloween and Christmas cookies for December. “I thought we could have some special things we can do at the holidays, when it is probably hard for students to be away from home for the first time,” manager Julie Crowley said. “Jilly Beans is not the dorm room. It’s kind of a homey place where they can get something to eat and feel like they are a home away

from home.” The shop has also been redesigned. The walls are freshly painted and decorated with photographs taken by Sattler’s sister. A blue moose hangs beneath the clock. The secret garden has been reimagined as a whimsical fairy garden. Sattler planted new flowers, bought new furniture, and, after a five-yearold girl confronted her about homeless fairies, she added fairy houses to the garden. “She was just so determined, like, ‘That fairy needs a house,’” Sattler said. “These kids’ imagination is really what pushed the garden over the top. We were talking about getting a little bridge and putting trolls underneath it for the boys. Why not have some

fun? If they can have an imagination and an adult can share that with them, that’s great.” The secret garden has also become a event space for weddings, bridal showers, and birthday tea parties. Sattler has hosted two weddings already, and hopes to bring live music into the shop. Customers say Sattler has kept the old atmosphere of Jilly Beans alive. “The atmosphere has continued. With new owners, you can’t always say that,” Hillsdale resident Jan Perry said. “I was sad. Jill was great, and I miss her. But as soon as I saw Mary Ellen, it was ok. It felt right. You see Mary Ellen, and she’s smiling and happy all the time.”

When worlds collide

Game and comic store unite to create new kingdom

Allison McDowell (left) poses with comics from her side of the store with Ty Stiger (right) and his favorite board game, Magic the Gathering. Emma Cummins | Collegian

By | Emma Cummins Collegian Freelancer Kingdom Geekdom combines two local businesses, Battle Ground, owned by Ty Stiger, and Hero’s Best, by Allison McDowell. After throwing around the idea for months, Stiger and McDowell decided in May to move forward with the partnership, believing it would be mutually beneficial to their interests. “We focus on very much the same clientele, so we were constantly sending people in each other’s direction, telling them to go across the street,” Stiger said. “At one point we just decided, you know what we can split overhead and not have to keep sending people right down the road. It just made perfect sense for us to share one location.” Both Stiger and McDowell have merchandise that caters to specific niche markets. Stiger specializes in gaming, such as

trading cards and boardgames, while McDowell sells comics, manga, toys, and accessories at the Howell Street store. However, they both share a love for what they do. “Who doesn’t love games? When it came down to it, Magic the Gathering, which is kind of our bread and butter, is one of the few games that my wife and I were able to play together,” Stiger said. “When she got pregnant with her second child, I wanted to be able to spend more time at home and be with the kids and she wanted to spend more time away from the kids working. So it made sense to share what we loved and make a business out of it.” McDowell said she began to love comics when she was just a child. “My dad loves DC Comics and my mom loves Marvel Comics, so they had huge collections, and I would sneak upstairs and read them all the time,” McDowell said. “Comics were always something I

remembered — loving the stories and seeing them have all these superpowers and overcome things.” The two owners said they wish to share that love, especially with Hillsdale students. Their vision for the store is ambitious, but something that they both are excited about. “We have a lot to offer the college on the gaming side of things, just as a place to hang out and meet new people. We have a lot of stuff that you can just rent to play,” Stiger said. “So for college, when you’re on a budget, who wouldn’t be willing to spend one dollar to have several hours of fun here? And you can effectively do that with a lot of the board games that we have here to rent.” The store hopes to expand in the future and reach a larger group in the town and college. “All the joint events that we do are called the Kingdom Geekdom,” McDowell said. “We are really hoping to grow that into something bigger. We can do more games, bigger

tournaments, more events for all the different ages.” The store is host to a small group of Hillsdalians who love all things geek. “We have a core group that are here a lot. We just did the source, which was a lot of fun,” McDowell said. “It is hard to get visibility on campus because there is that separation between the town and the campus but that’s something that we’re really working on.” Sophomore Avery Helms said he is excited that he gets to enjoy everything he loves in one place. “It’s pretty cool that the Kingdom Geekdom is opening up in Hillsdale,” Helms said. “We’re a small town, there’s not much going on, so it’s nice to have business owners innovating and opening stuff like that. It’s nice to have card games and video games and comics consolidated in one location.”

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Men’s tennis eyes familiar competition after move to G-MAC By | Scott McClallen Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College men’s tennis team is returning for its third year of play, bringing a full returning roster and promising new talent for its first season in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The G-MAC has five teams, including Cedarville, Davis & Elkins, and two former GLIAC rivals. “We will play Cedarville, who we beat 9-0 last year, and then the other team is Davis & Elkins, and apparently their coach just left and took some of his players with him to his new school, so they are going to be very down, as well,” head men’s tennis coach Keith Turner said. “Our main competition is definitely going to be with Walsh and Findlay.”

Walsh and Findlay switched conferences along with Hillsdale. The Chargers beat the Cavaliers 5-4 and the Oilers 6-3 last year to finish fourth in the GLIAC. Junior Justin Hyman said that the Chargers competed well in their last GLIAC competition, and has high hopes for this season. “We beat Wayne State, a very good regional team, in the first round,” Hyman said. “We surprised a lot of people by the way we performed, and I think we should dominate the G-MAC.” Turner said although he had not heard of a preseason coaches’ poll, he assumes that Hillsdale will be ranked either first or second in the conference. Although the Chargers switched conferences, their schedule isn’t significantly dif-

ferent from last year. “Our team has gotten quite strong, and now that we are a regionally ranked team, we are competing for an NCAA bid,” Turner said. “We moved to a weaker conference, so therefore I’ve had to put together a very tough nonconference schedule, which basically means we are playing all the good teams in the GLIAC still, so our schedule doesn’t look a whole lot different.” The Chargers signed two new players this season. Sophomore Nico de Enrique Schmidt is from Spain, where he ranked in the top five singles players in the Balearic Islands from 2013-16. He transferred from Southern Utah University where he played Division I tennis. Freshman Gabe Katz is from South Burlington, Vermont, where he led his high

school team to four consecutive state championships. Katz holds a career record of 83-6 in the top three singles flights and was ranked in the top 30 New England players in the 18-and-under division. “Both guys will be fighting for positions in the lineup, and definitely make our team a lot deeper in the lineup,” Turner said. The new players push the Charger’s roster to 10, a first for the third-year team. “This is the first year that I’ve been here that we’ve had a team where I don’t have to worry too much about people getting hurt because we have players who can pop in and play for them,” Turner said. The new players will join a team that finished 10th in the Midwest region last year, according to the Oracle/ITA final rankings, which has even

higher goals for this season. “Our goal is going to be to win the G-MAC and to get an NCAA bid,” Turner said. “Since there are only five teams in the G-MAC, we don’t get an automatic bid. So we really need to win our conference and then beat a couple of the top GLIAC teams we are playing out of conference… We need to at least get into the top eight in the region to get a bid.” The young team won’t have to wait long for an opportunity to chase its season goals. Hyman said the new players will play singles matches in this weekend’s tournament to find their place on the team. Hyman ranked as the No. 8 doubles team in the region with sophomore Charlie Adams last season, but is sitting out of this weekend’s tournament because of a broken ankle suffered in July. Hyman

said he will return at full health for the regular season. The Chargers will compete in the West Liberty Invitational on Sept. 8. “There are eight teams there, all right around our level: Tiffin, who beat us 5-4, Fairmont State, who we beat 5-4, West Liberty, who beat us 5-4, and Bluefield State, who is a low, nasty-ranked team,” Turner said. “There are going to be a lot of good teams there, and it’s going to be a great tournament for us to get some match play in and get us ready for the big ITA tournament the following weekend.” The Chargers will kick off nonconference play Oct. 3, and start conference play March 17 against Walsh on the road.

ALUMNUS JOINS FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF

Nick Galvan ‘14 joined the Hillsdale College football coaching staff this fall as the safeties coach. Brad Monastiere | Courtesy

By | Sydney Anderson Collegian Freelancer Often, an injury marks the end of an athlete’s career. For the new Hillsdale football safeties coach, however, it was a beginning of sorts. Nick Galvin ’14 first joined the Chargers in 2009, starting at defensive back for a Hillsdale team that qualified for the NCAA Division II playoffs and advanced to the regional semifinals. His career in blue and white was successful, but two ACL tears cut it short. After battling these injuries his junior year, Galvan spent his last two years at Hillsdale on the sidelines as a student-coach. “Getting injured was when I really got started coaching,” Galvan said. “I found out that it was what I wanted to do, so from that point on I was able to work with the staff and

learn from them what goes on behind the scenes.” Galvan joined the coaching staff this March. Since Galvan is a Hillsdale graduate, head coach Keith Otterbein said he knew his transition to coaching the Chargers would be seamless. “We knew he would fit right in from a personality and philosophy standpoint, because he went to Hillsdale College,” Otterbein said. “He knows how unique it is and what it stands for, so it was just a natural fit for him and for us.” Not only has Galvan been a natural fit to the ideals of Hillsdale College, but he has also fit in well with the players of Team 125, partly due to his youth. “It’s kind of nice being the young coach on staff, because I can relate pretty well

with the players,” Galvin said. “It’s not hard to understand what they’re thinking or what they’re going through, because I was there once.” Because he graduated in 2014, Galvan actually played with some of the current Charger football players. Senior defensive back Spencer Nehls is one of the players who had Galvan as a teammate, coach, and mentor. “With him only being a few years older than some of us, I think he does a great job of walking the line between being a friend and also a coach that I have a lot of respect for,” Nehls said. “He is very knowledgeable about the sport of football, but his energy and passion for the game and his players is what sets him apart. I think he has a bright future in coaching.”

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By | Joshua J. Paladino Opinions Editor As the Hillsdale College golf team transitions to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, the players’ focus has been on earning a spot in this weekend’s tournament. Junior Joel Pietila, who made history last season with the team’s first-ever individual victory in the GLIAC Championship, battled a shoulder injury this offseason, but he said it hasn’t changed his mindset from putting up low scores at the team’s first tournament. “The injury has been on and off since Christmas break. I had to do some makeshift therapy to keep me going throughout last season, then it started to get worse about late May, early June,” Pietila said. “I didn’t play much for about two months. I kind of chipped and putted around a little bit, but even that was a little bothersome.” After visiting the doctor and receiving an MRI and physical therapy during the summer, Pietila has decided to keep playing this season. “MRIs came back, nothing major in terms of tears or anything, but there were definitely some areas of weakness and stress in some parts of my shoulder that need to be

strengthened to keep it stable,” he said. “I’m gonna have to play through some pain.” Junior Liam Purslowe is fighting injuries going into this season, too. He has back pain that has hampered his play. Pietila said he and Purslowe have used pushcarts because carrying golf bags causes them too much pain. The golf team played its qualifying rounds this week to determine which golfers will play in this weekend’s tournament. Pietila qualified, despite playing only a few full rounds of golf all summer. Purslowe qualified, too. “The swing isn’t where it was at the end of spring when I was playing really well, but the putting is still there and that’s been my biggest improvement throughout the last 18 months,” Pietila said. “So, that’s all good news, and hopefully I can keep that up.” The team added freshman Luke Girodat to its lineup this season. Girodat comes from Jackson, Michigan, where he attended Lumen Christi Catholic High School. He played high school golf with junior Henry Hitt, who is his teammate once again. “We recruited Luke because he is a great player, a very strong student with high test

scores, and overall he is a great fit for Hillsdale College,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist said. Girodat said he was attracted to Hillsdale’s relentless academics and talented golf program. “I knew I would be challenged in both aspects, and nothing is more satisfying than succeeding in a tough situation.” he said. “The one thing that I couldn’t have been prepared for was all the reading and writing that we are assigned regularly.” He said his transition to collegiate golf has already taught him a lesson. “Most people who come to play golf not only at Hillsdale, but at most Division II and Division I schools, are probably coming from a high school team where they were the best player,” he said. “That’s an interesting dynamic that a dozen or more kids who are used to being the best player on their respective teams have to become accustomed to whatever position they fall into on their new team.” The team retains a young, yet strong, lineup going into its first tournament, as it didn’t graduate any seniors last year. “We do have a young team in age and class, but they are experienced on the golf

course. The underclassmen have played in a lot of tournaments during their time here at Hillsdale,” Gilchrist said. “That, along with the seniors, provides a lot of tournament experience for most of the players on the the team.” Gilchrist said the switch to the G-MAC won’t change anything for team. “We still play in the same tournaments and against the same competition that we have in the past,” he said. “The only change is the conference championship is against some new teams and is formatted different than the GLIAC’s.” Gilchrist has decided to send Pietila, Purslowe, sophomores George Roberts and Ryan Zetwick, and senior Joe Torres to the team’s first tournament this weekend. They will play in the Al Waltrous Memorial Invite at Saginaw Valley State on Sept. 9-10. Pietila said the team can put together a winning season if they get mentally tougher and make better decisions around the putting green. “Talent-wise, we’re no different than Grand Valley,” Pietila said. “We have the talent, we need to believe we can win, and when we see it happen things will start falling into place.”

Galvan spent the 2014-16 seasons with the Olivet College Comets as a secondary coach, where he helped lead the team to two conference titles and an NAIA playoff appearance. This experience, paired with his successful playing career, is likely to serve Galvan well as a coach, according to Otterbein. “He was a very smart and talented player, and sometimes really good players don’t have the ability to coach what they’re doing. They just naturally do it,” Otterbein said. “But Nick has the ability to voice what he sees on the field, as well as pick up the little things as he observes them and coach them.” With this passion to always strive for perfection, Galvan focuses on not only how the player is on the field, but how the player is off the field, as

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yard line, turning the ball back over to the Hillsdale offense. The Chargers return to town this weekend for their home opener on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 1:00 p.m. They’ll host Michigan Tech University, which is also 1-0 on the season. “They’ve always been a physical, tough, hard-nosed football team,” Otterbein said of Michigan Tech. “They’ll want to establish the run,

well. “I was molded a lot by my coaches growing up and so I always want to be that role model for my players as well,” he said, “I want to guide them on the right path and mold them into good young men, which means doing what I can do to help them with their struggles, as well as being there for them in positive times, too.” With the season in full swing and one win already under the team’s belt, Galvan said he is excited to be a part of the Chargers family again. “I think it’s a great opportunity for me to coach where I went to school and I’m very happy to be back. I like where I’m at right now and I don’t see myself leaving anytime soon,” Galvan said. “I love this school. I love what it stands for. I love Hillsdale Football.” they’re good at play-action, and they’re really good at picking plays to take shots and go deep and challenge you that way.” The Huskies are a familiar opponent, as they are former conference rivals with the Chargers when both schools were part of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Last September, Hillsdale defeated Michigan Tech, 51-24.

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HILLSDALE ATHLETICS SEND AID TO HURRICANE HARVEY VICTIMS By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Sports Editor Social media seems to draw us apart too often. In the middle of Hurricane Harvey, however, University of Houston’s men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson took to Twitter to request aid for the city. More than 1,300 institutions answered his plea. Hillsdale College was one of these programs. Both Charger basketball teams and the football team combined to send multiple boxes full of new sweatshirts, shirts, and shoes to the University of Houston basketball team, which distributed them to those in need in the Houston area. “It’s hard to think about what that kind of flooding is like and what people have lost,” assistant men’s basketball coach Brandon Pritzl ’14 said. “We wanted to represent who we are and what we are about.” Pritzl, who spearheaded the effort for the men’s basketball program, found out about the opportunity after Sampson tweeted a challenge on Aug. 28, as Harvey began its fourth day of assault on the Houston area. Sampson challenged

coaches from high schools and “every level of college” to send 20 T-shirts and 10 pairs of shoes to the team for distribution to those left with only the clothes on their backs. Pritzl took the challenge to heart and gathered the requested supplies and more. Although Pritzl said he didn’t originally mention anything to other Hillsdale coaches, they were on the same page, as assistant football coach Pat Hornak and assistant women’s basketball coach Matt Hilkens took up the flame for their own programs. “It’s one of those things where you get an email or see the tweet… and you just think, ‘That’s really cool. As a program, we should do something,’” Hornak said. For Hilkens and the rest of Hillsdale athletics, this was an opportunity to show what kind of positive impact sports can have. “At the end of the day, it’s one of those instances where nothing else matters,” Hilkens said. “This is people’s lives and you just want to be able to help in whatever way you can.” Hornak added that this was a chance to share a part of the mission of Hillsdale Athletics.

“If you look at what college is, it’s to do the best for everybody,” he said. “I think we, as people, should just help others. That’s what we do here on campus. When you need help, somebody is there to pick you up.” Each program did its best to send a wide-variety of sizes and goods, aiming to fill needs across the board. This included brand new gear that teams had planned on distributing for the season. Other schools, individuals, businesses, and athletic programs from all across the nation also responded in force, and Sampson’s Twitter feed soon filled with pictures of boxes full of gear, destined for Houston. Just three days after Sampson sent the tweet, he sent another, thanking the over 1,300 programs that had already participated. He added that his program had reached its capacity to effectively distribute all of the donations it had received at that time, but he encouraged programs to make monetary donations to the American Red Cross. “At a time when so many people are struggling, it is comforting to see the love and feel the support that mankind

Assistant basketball coach Brandon Pritzl, senior guard Ryan Badowski, and assistant football coach Pat Hornak pose with five of the boxes of goods that they sent to Houston. Gwendolyn Buchhop | Courtesy

so often displays in times of crisis,” Sampson added in the tweet. Other prominent figures in sports have also taken to social media to help bring aid to the Houston area. Most notably, Houston Texans star J.J. Watt started a campaign which has

raised nearly $20 million. “Social media is amazing,” Hilkens said. “This is so much bigger than sports, and it’s incredible to see the impact celebrities and athletes can have when they use their resources to reach out.” For Pritzl, seeing so many

different groups in the athletic community coming alongside one another was powerful in and of itself. “Just thinking of people getting together for the same mission, that’s pretty cool,” Pritzl said. “We may compete, but we’re all in it together.”

Women’s tennis to use fall matches to prep for new spring season By | Breana Noble Editor-in-Chief Although Hillsdale College moved from the GLIAC to the G-MAC in July, women’s tennis is starting the year matched against its former opponents. Facing the largest adjustment of Hillsdale’s 14 varsity programs, women’s tennis will compete in conference play in the spring instead of the fall, due to Great Midwest Athletic Conference’s schedule. The team, however, is looking to take advantage of the five extra months it has before competing in season by participating in nonconference competitions.

“The whole purpose of our fall season is to get a lot of match play in and figure out what we need to work on for the spring season,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. “It’s been a really big disadvantage in years past that we come back and had to just immediately go into some really high-pressure, competitive match plays, because our matches at the beginning of the year really affected us for our conference season. Now we’ll be able to get some matches under our belt, figure out things we need to work on, and build our confidence and tolerance for match play.” That starts at home on Sat-

urday when the Chargers play the Michigan Tech Huskies at 10 a.m., and it continues on Sunday against the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals at noon. Last conference season, Hillsdale, which finished at No. 7 of eight in the GLIAC tournament, went 1-1 against Michigan Tech and 2-0 against Saginaw Valley in close matches. “They’re really tight with us,” Walbright said. “I think they’re the same level as us, so it can honestly go either way.” The two GLIAC teams, however, are competing in the midst of their conference season. Unable to start practices until Labor Day because of

the move to the spring season, Hillsdale had its first practice of the academic year on Monday. “It is kind of like a get in, and hit, and do your best kind of situation,” Walbright said. Athletes, however, said they are using their three practices before the matches to the max, and they described Monday’s workout as the hardest they have ever had. “The goal for the season is that we are going to not give away easy points, we are going to fix our serves, and we are going to be in better condition and better shape than every single other team in the G-MAC,” freshman Casey

Top three places to camp in lower Michigan By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor

After settling into campus for the school year, students may want to run for the hills as professors assign the first round of papers and projects. And for the last couple weekends of summer, they should. Here are the three best spots for outdoor adventure and camping in Michigan’s lower peninsula. Pinckney State Recreation Area

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Pinckney State Recreation Area is 11,000 acres of forests and lakes northwest of Ann Arbor, only an hour drive from Hillsdale. The park has 40 miles of forested multi-use trail, including some of the greatest mountain biking in the lower peninsula. Though Pinkney has modern campgrounds with RV hookups and modern bathrooms, visitors should consider the rustic camping at the Crooked Lake Campground. Though homely, there is a charm to pumping water by hand and cooking dinner right on the coals of the fire. This small campground is set more than a mile off of the road and offers silence and birdsong along with tranquil lake views and great fishing. Silver Lake is only a mile hike from Crooked Lake and boasts an excellent beach area complete with a concessions stand and beach volleyball courts. If campers need a break from all the solace and relaxation, the charming town of Chelsea is close by.

Muskegon State Park Located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, Muskegon State Park lies on more than 1,000 acres of forested dunes that connect the Great Lake shoreline to Muskegon Lake. The vast beaches with pure Great Lakes sand make the park one of the top parks in Michigan. A road runs along the lake between the park’s campgrounds and near dusk cars line the shoulder to watch the sun drop into Lake Michigan in a beautiful unobstructed sunset. The twelve miles of hiking trails that cross over sand dunes and through hardwood forest make for strenuous exercise but at the end of the hike, the cool waters of Lake Michigan can always refresh the weary. The park may be more remarkable in the winter because it is the home of the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex, which has one of the four luge runs in America. The public is welcome to come and have a lesson with a professional luger before sliding down the turns at over 30 miles per hour. This park has something for outdoor enthusiasts in all seasons.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is the jewel of the lower peninsula. Located in the northwest corner of the lower peninsula, the park encompasses a 35-mile stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline. During the last Ice Age, sand collected atop the glacial moraines to form the stunning 400-foot bluffs for which the park is famous. Because of these bluffs and the pristine waters of Lake Michigan, Sleeping Bear was named the most beautiful place in America by Good Morning America in 2011. Visitors to the park can enjoy 100 miles of trails over dunes, around lakes, and through wildflower fields. The most famous of these trails is the Dune Trail which begins at the Dune Climb, a 450-foot wall of sand that is as strenuous to clamber up as it is exhilarating to run down. From there, a two mile hike over sand dunes leads to the shore of Lake Michigan where breaking waves make for a great body-surfing session halfway through the journey. Hardier campers may want to drive up to the park in autumn to see the stunning array of hues as the leaves change color.

In only a month or two, midterms will drive students into the library and snow will begin to blanket the ground, but for now, take a minute to drive around Michigan and see some of the natural beauty it offers.

Kibler said. “If we’re in better shape than everyone else, it doesn’t matter skill-wise, because we can outlast them.” The women also are using the time to bond as a team. In addition to holding their own group hits, they have met for meals and hung out together, especially with their freshman teammates: Hannah Cimpeanu, Elli Formentin, and Kibler. “I think the freshmen still know us as much as previous freshmen do, because we’ve reached out to them and made those efforts,” junior Corinne Prost said. “Feeling like you’re going to have girls who understand you, who know your strengths and weaknesses on

and off the court, is very important. I think girls thrive in that kind of environment.” On the court, Walbright said the freshmen add depth to the young team’s lineup and are new challenges against whom the older athletes can compete, something women’s tennis will do frequently come spring. “I think we’ll do even better this year, because we have that whole semester to get to know each other and practice,” Prost said.

SOPHOMORES BRING TENNIS CLUB BACK TO CAMPUS By | Philip J. Berntson Collegian Freelancer Two Hillsdale students are serving up a new opportunity for their classmates. Sophomores Jillian Riegle and Zane Mabry are leading the revived Hillsdale College Tennis Club after a successful recruiting session at The Source, collecting more than 20 sign ups from students who are interested in continuing to play competitive tennis in college. “We both played in high school, but when we got here, the varsity teams weren’t really an option, but we wanted to keep playing.” said Mabry, the club’s president. The club has existed in the past but was discontinued a few years ago. After asking about it at The Source his freshman year, Mabry was encouraged by Director of Recreational Sports Brad Kocher to bring club tennis back to campus. In the initial meeting with Kocher, Mabry learned that Riegle, who is serving as vice president, was also looking into restarting club tennis. Fortunately for Mabry and Riegle, there was already an account set aside for funding the club. “The framework is already there, we just have to start it back up again,” Mabry said. Kocher will serve as the club’s advisor and will continue to help Mabry and Riegle get the club up and running. Riegle said she has high hopes for the club. She added that she would eventually like to see the team play competitive matches against clubs from other schools. “This year, we might be playing a mix of both other teams and having matches between people on our own team,” Riegle said. “I think if we could get to a point where we could hold our own against other schools, that would be awesome.” For students with a passion for the game, this is an outstanding opportunity.

“My goal is to get in some competitive tennis and forge friendships,” sophomore Quinn Crago said. “I started out playing tennis with my dad and going to tennis camps when I was 4, and I continued on until high school.” The club will give students the opportunity to compete in singles and doubles matches, and will meet every Tuesday and Thursday from 7-8 p.m. at the Mary Jane Delp Tennis Courts. In the future, matches with other schools will be organized by Mabry and Riegle. For now, members of the club simply look forward to playing the game that they love. “I love playing competitive tennis and improving my skills on the court when it matters,” Crago said. Anybody that wishes to get involved with the club should contact Mabry at zmabry@ hillsdale.edu or Riegle at jriegle@hillsdale.edu for more information.

Sophomores Zane Mabry and Jillian Riegle will serve as the president and vice president of the Hillsdale College Tennis Club, respectively. Philip J. Berntson | Collegian

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CHARGER FOOTBALL AND VOLLEYBALL COMBINE FOR PERFECT WEEKEND Volleyball goes 4-0 en route to tournament victory By | Michael Lucchese Senior Writer The Hillsdale College women’s volleyball team exploded into the 2017 season last weekend, going undefeated in its home-opening tournament at the Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena. The Chargers lost two sets in their opening match against Michigan Tech on Thursday, but they quickly rallied and won the match. For the remainder of the weekend, they dispatched foe after foe without losing a single set to Indianapolis, Saginaw Valley, or Glenville State. “This weekend shows we have depth,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “Everyone on the bench is a possible contributor on game day.” Junior outside hitter Kara Vyletel was one of the biggest contributors to the team’s victories this weekend. She was awarded tournament MVP for her 50 total kills and .262 hitting percentage. Vyletel echoed Gravel’s praise for the team’s strong overall performance this weekend, noting especially the cohesion of the newest players on the team.

“The freshmen have been amazing,” she said. “I am so excited they are here and can’t wait to see what else they bring to the team. Each of them brings something unique, and I see so much potential in all of them.” Sophomore libero Taylor Wiese was named libero of the tournament, with 77 digs over the weekend. She also praised the freshmen on the team, particularly the selflessness and resilience they have displayed early in the season. “I think that all the freshmen are good additions to the team, and they all fit in really well,” she said. “We tried a lot of new things this weekend and they all did great and are super fun to play next to.” Freshman middle hitter Alyssa Van Wienen made an impressive debut for Hillsdale with 36 kills throughout the tournament. Her .392 hitting percentage currently leads the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, a feat which helped her earn G-MAC Player of the Week. “Being G-MAC Player of the Week is very humbling,” Van Wienen said. “Volleyball is a team sport, through and through, and it reflects so well

Freshman Allyssa Van Wienen collected 36 kills this weekend on her way to winning G-MAC Player of the Week honors. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

on my team to be chosen for this award. I would not have been able to play as well as I did without the sets I was given from my setter, or the pass-

es my setter was given.” Van Wienen said she chose to play for Hillsdale College because of the team’s close-knit relationships and devotion to

athletic excellence — both of which she said paid dividends at this weekend’s tournament. “All of us are dedicated to making the person next to us the best version of themselves that they can be,” she said. “The freshmen are trying to ask the question, ‘How can I help make my teammates better?’ as much as everyone else on the team has.” Van Wienen commented that the team’s goal this season is simply to win as many matches as possible, and that each match and each practice is an opportunity to improve on the last one. “Each time we step on the court, we are getting better,” she said. “Basically we’ve adopted this mindset where if we are not getting better, we are getting worse… Between the players, it’s truly a family, one that accepts and embraces people for who they are.” Ultimately, Van Wienen credited her team for pushing her to do her absolute best during this tournament and setting her up for success both on and off the court. “G-MAC Player of the Week is as much an award for me as it is for the rest of my team and coaches,” she said. “I

would never have come near to receiving it had it not been for all of them.” Other players with strong performances included junior right side hitter Paige VanderWall, who had a .250 hitting percentage, and sophomores Dani Jones and Veronica O’Connor, who set career highs for kills in a single match — seven and five respectively, against Glenville State. Another sophomore, outside hitter Emily Lachmann, served four aces and tallied 14 kills over the course of the tournament. “Our team chemistry is so strong right now. We all get along well, show our passion, and play for each other. We have a strong group of girls,” Vyletel said. “Right now we’re still working out some kinks, but once we continue to strengthen our connections with each other and get more comfortable running more complex plays, the season will only get better.” This weekend, the Chargers will play four matches in Erie, Pennsylvania against St. Michael’s and Gannon on Friday, and Glenville State and Mercyhurst on Saturday.

CHARGER FOOTBALL WINS SEASON OPENER AGAINST MERCYHURST By | Nathan Grime Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College football team began its first season in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference with a 19-11 win in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. In the first meeting between the two teams in nearly 10 years, the Chargers defeated Mercyhurst University, improving their all-time record to 8-3 against the Lakers. In what could be described as a defensive struggle, neither team’s offense was able to find enough consistency to swing the advantage clearly to one side or another. The Chargers gained 17 first downs to the Lakers’ 16. Hillsdale netted 368 total yards of offense, which was just 20 more than Mercyhurst’s 348. Hillsdale also edged the Lakers in time of possession by a slim margin, controlling the ball for just over 31 of the 60 minutes. Neither team was particularly efficient on third downs — Hillsdale converted five of

14 third-down opportunities, while Mercyhurst converted just two of 12. “We blitzed a lot on third downs. Going into the game, we knew they would try to pass a lot on third downs,” sophomore cornerback Merrick Canada said. “Credit goes to the defensive line for getting pressure on the quarterback and also to the the defensive backs for batting passes down and having good coverage.” Halfway through the fourth quarter, the Chargers led 1911, but the statistics were nearly split down the middle. In the end, a defensive stand at the goal line made the difference. With less than five minutes left in the game, the Lakers drove the ball more than 60 yards to set up 1st-and-goal with a chance to tie the game. As it had all game, Hillsdale’s defense came up big. On 3rd-and-goal, senior defensive lineman Matthew Schrzan sacked Mercyhurst quarterback Doug Altavilla to set up 4th-and-goal from the 12-yard line. The sack was

Schrzan’s second of the game. On 4th-and-goal with the game on the line, sophomore cornerback Jason McDonough intercepted Altavilla’s pass with less than a minute left on the clock. The Chargers’ offense only had to kneel the ball twice to put the finishing touches on the season-opening victory. “I give all the credit in the world to the defense,” junior quarterback Chance Stewart said. “They kept us in the game the whole day. It was an ugly win, but the defense came up big for us. Winning on the road in college football is hard, so anytime we can get a win, we’ll take it.” The Lakers got the ball to begin the game, taking a 3-0 lead after a 10-play, 72-yard opening drive. The Chargers responded with three points of their own on their second drive of the afternoon. The field goal was redshirt freshman Joe Phillip’s first career collegiate points. Early in the second quarter, the Lakers set up for a 24-yard field goal that would have giv-

en them a 6-3 lead. Instead, senior defensive back Spencer Nehls blocked the kick, keeping the game square. Head coach Keith Otterbein said the blocked field goal was an “absolute momentum changer.” The momentum seemed to shift in Hillsdale’s favor indeed, as the game’s first touchdown came toward the end of the first half, when Stewart connected with junior wide receiver Trey Brock for a fiveyard score, putting the Chargers ahead 9-3. Stewart’s first touchdown pass of the season completed Hillsdale’s longest drive of the afternoon, a 12-play, 79-yard sequence. The quarterback finished the game with 198 passing yards, completing 17 of 33 attempts, along with one touchdown and one interception. Despite the final score, he was underwhelmed with the offense’s performance as a whole. “We never really got into a rhythm,” Stewart said of the offense. “When I picture our offense, I picture more than 19

points a game.” Phillip added another field goal seconds before halftime to put the Chargers ahead 123. The Hillsdale native finished the day 2-for-2 on field goals and 1-for-2 on extra-point attempts. On the Chargers’ second drive of the second half, running back David Graham, making his first collegiate start, scored from two yards out for his first collegiate touchdown. Graham finished the day with 84 yards on 18 rushing attempts and caught two passes for 36 yards. Otterbein was pleased with the sophomore’s performance. “There’s certain guys that get the game and understand the game, and Graham is a natural football player,” he said. Otterbein went on to say Graham would still have a role in the offense when 2016 honorable mention all-GLIAC junior running back Joe Reverman returns from injury later this season. Graham’s touchdown increased the Chargers’ lead to 19-3.

The scoring drive was highlighted by a 52-yard completion from Stewart to Brock on a 3rd-and-6, which brought Hillsdale’s offense into the Lakers’ red zone. “He really helps to stretch the field,” Stewart said of Brock. “Teams have to keep an eye on him at all times, so it allows guys like Timmy Mills and Austin Sandusky to also get open.” The 2016 honorable mention All-American wide receiver picked up where he left off last season, hauling in nine passes for a total of 124 yards, along with his second-quarter touchdown. Mercyhurst then responded with a touchdown drive of their own. Altavilla connected with Lakers’ wide receiver Brad Nowak for a 32-yard strike and a two-point conversion to trim Hillsdale’s lead to 19-11. Neither team scored in the final quarter. Two drives before McDonough’s game-sealing interception, the Lakers failed to convert a 4th-and-1 attempt at the Chargers’ 35-

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Wombstock: The birth of a student music festival and an afternoon of sun By | Hannah Niemeier Senior Writer

Joan Baez played “We Shall Overcome” as an encore to end the first day of Woodstock in August 1969. On Saturday, Catherine Coffey ’16 gave the song its Hillsdale debut, opening for an event with a similar name but its own distinctive vibe: Wombstock. “Hey, Wombstock, we’re not doing nearly enough drugs for verisimilitude here,” Coffey said. “We could change that, but let’s not. We’re already on shaky enough ground as it is.” Wombstock, Hillsdale’s very own music festival, was named after the off-campus house of its founders, a group of men who have for years called their home the Womb. Featuring six hours of music from six local and regional bands, it was the first musical event of its kind in Hillsdale, and its musicians, supporters, and more than a hundred attendees hope it won’t be its last. The event was the brainchild of members of the Womb, many of whom

are active in bands on campus and back home: junior Nic Rowan and seniors Dean Sinclair, Mark Naida, and Noah Weinrich. Bands came together from across the Midwest through their various connections to Hillsdale. Three performers are past or present Hillsdale students, two bands are from

to reimburse the bands’ travel expenses, posted promotional videos on the event’s Facebook page, and sought permission from the city to erect a stage in the Womb’s backyard — and to make a whole lot of noise all afternoon long. A forward-thinking someone painted a sign, red block letters on white posterboard: WOMBSTOCK 2017. Optimistic, it assumes the festival will live to see another year. The optimism appeared well founded, because the scene couldn’t have turned out sunnier: temperatures in the 70s, not a cloud in the sky, wannabe flower children weaving flower crowns in the grass. The audience lounged in blankets on the lawn, slipped off their shoes and wandered barefoot in the unkempt yard, and luxuriated in sunwarmed couches lugged outdoors. It was a hipster’s dream of 1969 reincarnated and cleaned up to obey Hillsdale’s local ordinances. It was Woodstock on a vintage Snapchat filter. A healthy sense of irony tempered Wombstock’s picturesque aura: Multiple members of the Womb attested to the event’s legitimacy by pointing out

It was a hipster’s dream of 1969 reincarnated and cleaned up to obey Hillsdale’s local ordinances. It was Woodstock on a vintage Snapchat filter. Chicago, and singer Adam Jensen is from the far reaches of Ames, Iowa. “You don’t usually expect acts at DIY shows like these to be this good,” said Joe Padilla, lead singer of headlining band August Hotel. “I was really impressed by their talent.” Preparation for the arrival of an event like Wombstock is no small feat: Junior Nic Rowan, who lives in the Womb, started a GoFundMe account

Jazz faculty adds new vocal, trombone professors

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By | Owen Macaulay at least once a week. Collegian Freelancer Daneman started playing With 40 students now participating in its jazz program, the music department hired a new trombone professor and vocal instructor this semester. “The program continues to grow and get better,” Director of Jazz Ensembles Chris McCourry said. The music department is allocating more time and resources to the jazz program. McCourry said he is confident this growth will continue with the help of Rob Killips, who was hired after the previous trombone professor retired, and Ashley Daneman, who is expanding the vocal jazz field. McCourry said he is eager to bring in Daneman, who has performed in various genres from opera to jazz to musical theatre. Daneman will train voice students in jazz and contemporary singing. “I’m very interested in helping students to discover their own potential and uncover musical strengths they have,” Daneman said. Last year, the jazz department brought an outside teacher three times a semester to work with students. Now, Daneman will teach students

piano at age 6 and singing at age 10. After studying classical music and opera at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, she decided to pick up jazz for fun. Although much of her early experience in jazz was self-taught, she attended the Manhattan School of Music, where she had the opportunity to perform throughout New York City. This motivated her to become a songwriter, and she recently began a Kickstarter project for her new album, which was featured in Downbeat Magazine. Killips, on the other hand, will be teaching trombone lessons in addition to leading trombone choir and a jazz combo. McCourry, who has performed with Killips a couple of times, said he is excited to have him teaching because of his diverse experience on the trombone, both in education and performance. Joining the faculty jazz band the Hillcats this spring, Killips will expand the group from a quintet to a sextet. Killips completed a master’s degree in jazz trombone at Central Michigan University, where he leads one of

the big band jazz groups. At Hillsdale, even though many students are not music majors, Killips said he sees an excitement for studying music. “I find it extremely positive that there is such an interest in music for its own sake,” Killips said. “I am very impressed with the number of students at Hillsdale that are involved in music, simply because they see the value of it, even if it is not the career path they choose.” When he was in his twenties, Killips worked as a musical director on a cruise ship. Later, he toured the world playing in a salsa band. He spent eight years in London performing live and recording for TV and radio in many genres including jazz, rock, Latin, and classical. Killips has also toured with various big-name acts such as Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, and Arturo Sandoval. “I am really looking forward to starting work with all of my students,” Killips said. “I am sure it will be a good learning experience for everyone, including myself.”

the real, honest-to-God port-a-potty. And when student band The Wineboxes performed the Beastie Boys’ “Break Stuff,” considerate Wombstock planners brought out empty cardboard boxes so audience members could break stuff. The music had a distinctly 2017 flavor — a mix of indie pop, rock, some acoustics — it spoke more to Michigan in the present than New York’s Woodstock in the ’60s. “Ember Oceans played a great set, which captured the essence of summer and presented Hillsdale with a perfectly carefree afternoon under

the lofty green Michigan trees and clear blue Midwestern sky,” senior English major Jessica De Gree said. The music was about more than the passing of summer; it was about the entrance of new acts into Hillsdale’s musical milieu, including an electronic dance music set by freshman Declan Williamson (whose stage name is Declan James). “When I heard that there was going to be an EDM artist at Wombstock, I immediately pictured the typical mainSee Wombstock B2

Alumna Catherine Coffey ’16 performs at Wombstock music festival. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

Taylor Swift might have changed her voice, be she’s here to stay By | Nic Rowan Assistant Editor

You may be through with Taylor Swift, but she isn’t through with you. Or so say the charts. When Swift dropped “Look What You Made Me Do” on Aug. 24, fans played the aggressive new single over eight million times on Spotify, a streaming splurge surpassing any other song’s success on the day of its release. The subsequent music video broke YouTube’s one-day streaming record with 28 million views, beating out Adele’s “Hello.” And the official lyric video received 19 million views on its first day, more than double that of the previous record-holder, “Something Like This” by The Chainsmokers and Coldplay. Taylor’s Sept. 3 single, “...Ready For It” is also stirring a buzz. So Swift has the country’s attention. No surprises there. Like most successful pop artists, she wields the ability to tap into her listeners’ emotions by writing songs just specific enough to seem personal, but just vague enough to fit many disparate

moments all at once. Listening to or talking about her music with large groups of people reminds me of that scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 movie “Magnolia” when all the main characters start singing along to Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up” in unison, even

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though they find themselves facing wildly different situations in varied modes of life. All they really have in common is their humanity with its constant

desires and misgivings. Provide the right song, and they express divergent emotions with the same words. Taylor produces a similar effect in her listeners, even if she isn’t as great as P.T.A. or Aimee Mann. Looking back on my own life — short as it is — I’ve noticed her music manipulating my course. I first heard Taylor Swift on a car ride home from school in third grade. That day, I went swimming in a sewer pit during lunch and ruined my tie. In the afternoon, my teacher taught the class that wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run wisdom will certainly have the laugh on her side. I think he was onto something; I never swam in my dress clothes again and always laughed at those who did. The year “Fearless” came out, I played a satyr in a school adaption of The Tempest. The director thought “Nothing But Flowers” by Talking Heads worked well as background music for the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. The audience’s frowns on opening night seemed to disagree. In an effort See Taylor B2 Compiled by Anna Timmis

CULTURE CORNER See how Hillsdalians keep up with the culture

Did you grow up listening to Taylor Swift?

Kylie Diehl, senior: “I wanted to learn how to play guitar because Taylor Swift learned how to play guitar. I liked all of her stuff up through 1989. I don’t like her new single, but we’ll see. I’m open to seeing what she does with the rest of the album.”

What do you think of her new music?

“Every dating relationship has a Taylor Swift song that is applicable

Anna Timmis | Collegian because that’s how universal yet realistic her songs are, and this is not

like that. This is just any other repetitive pop song.”

Why did you go to Wombstock?

Colleen Prince, junior: “A lot of people from different social circles actually came, which I think is sort of in the spirit of Woodstock itself. What I also adored was seeing, for example, Coffey and Declan back-to-back. They were so different, and yet everyone had an equally good time with both.”

What stood out about Declan’s set?

“It’s very obvious that he’s in love with what he does. And I think it’s very great for us to see a successful musician do that and yet still come to Hillsdale. Even though his career is music he is still taking the time out of his life to study the liberal arts in little Hillsdale Michigan.”

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Meet Declan James, freshman international EDM artist By | Kayla Stetzel

Collegian Reporter Since freshman Declan Williamson turned 15, he has been signed to three independent music labels — navigating the music world by himself without management, legal, or any kind of representation. Everything about Williamson — with his modernist haircut and minimalist, Asian-influenced wardrobe — suggests he is an electronic dance music artist but not the first-pumping, “everybody put your hands in the air,” Coachella-esque artist. He’s more subtle, more nuanced, and a bit darker than conventional, mainstream EDM artists. He has the lowkey personality of a rock ’n’ roll bassist and could easily be mistaken for a pop-punk musician, but his forward-looking, internet-obsessed edge sets him apart from the pack. He said he draws his style from a number of influences — Asian trance, metal bands, progressive rock groups such as Yes!, and new wave acts like the Cocteau Twins. His music is melodic, hypnotic, experimental, and surprisingly catchy. “As soon I started listening to EDM, I would watch these guys perform on the internet, and I knew I wanted to be a part of that environment,” Williamson said. Wi l liams on, who goes by the stage name “Declan James,” is articulate and sensible when describing his music, possessing a self-awareness and wisdom about his own work. That “beyond-his-years” intuition has served him well. It is baffling how anyone of any age could manage themselves on their own, without any representation. But for Williamson, it’s apparently not too difficult. He’s signed deals and negotiated with SiriusXM and Spotify. He spent part of his summer touring clubs in Asia, making stops in Singapore, Tokyo, and Bangkok, to name a few spots. He got involved with EDM around the age of 12, after having a “mind-shattering” experience hearing the dubstep artist Skrillex for the first time. Formerly a metal-head, Williamson said the exposure to darker elements of EDM offered a more natural transition into the electronic music arena. “My mom would always blast EDM in the car, and I absolutely detested it up until I was about 12 years old,” he said. “I was in seventh grade, sitting in English class and someone played ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’ by Skrillex. That completely just changed everything...I was addicted to EDM after that.” “There is this weird energy at EDM shows that’s not like anything else, other than maybe metal concerts,” Williamson said. “When you go to these

dance music concerts, it’s all about the crowd and going for the experience.” Williamson began DJing around the age of 13. Realizing he needed to produce his own music in order to truly express himself, he said he decided to take a class with trance music producer Jason Ross, the man responsible for a number of house and trance hits. “I was the youngest person there,” Williamson said. “I actually lied about my age to get into the class.” The course, in addition to refining his technical skills, gave him access to a number of other

Utah backgrounds, they decided to record music together. Lycii, who was signed to the London-based, independent label Enhanced Music, brought Declan onto the label with him. Lycii, whose real name is Dakota Bradford, described his music as “appalling and euphoric.” He worked with Declan on the song “Deminsions” — the track that led to Williamson getting signed. It’s one of their most popular singles to date respectively, with more than 285,000 plays across all platforms, second only to Williamson’s single, “Orion,” which has 500,000 plays. “Working with Declan, whenever we work together, there are two things I notice,” Lycii said. “It’s always organic. We made ‘Dimensions’ in about three or four hours. It was spontaneous, but it came together in such a natural way. Second, is that where I struggle in the process, he excels - and vice versa. We work so well together we’ve actually spoken about becoming a duo.” After releasing a few EPs and well-received songs like “Lady” and “Sapphire” with Enhanced music, Williamson just signed with Monstercat, a larger independent label out of Toronto responsible for acts such as Marshmallow, NERVO, and Krewella. According to Williamson, it’s one of the most recognizable labels in the genre. Moving forward, aside from touring, his ultimate goal with music is to Facebook score films, something he already has experience with Despite his budding music career, Williamson decided to attend Hillsdale College this fall. “I’ve always leaned somewhat towards the right politically, but I’ve never necessarily considered myself a traditional Republican,” he said. “I’ve always been independent in thought, and I saw how universities as a whole are moving so far left. I wanted to go somewhere where I could still speak out and stand up for what I thought.” After stumbling upon Hillsdale through an email and deciding to interview with the school “for the sake of the experience,” Williamson said he quickly knew he wanted to attend the college. Williamson said he has had a positive experience at Hillsdale thus far and even performed at Wombstock his first weekend on campus. “Ultimately, I want to make pretty things,” Williamson said. “The duality — balancing more classical elements that are shrouded by synthetic sounds — the contrast — that’s what I am interested in.” Williamson is scheduled to release a new single with artist Notetaker in the next few weeks. It will be available on SirusXM and Spotify.

“I was the youngest person there. I actually lied about my age to get into the class.”

talented musicians, who acted as a support group for him as he developed his sound. “Very quickly, after that course, within about a year or two, I was signed with my first label,” Williamson said. Having played piano since he was 3 and guitar since he was 6, Williamson has always been drawn to music. Both of his parents are musicians, and he feels as if he has inherited some of their talents. His mother is a classically trained violist. His father played in a series of metal bands as a teen and young adult. Their influence and vast musical tastes gave him a pool of inspiration from which to draw, he said. “As a parent, you want nothing more than to see your child succeed at doing something they are passionate about,” his mother Mehgan Williamson said. “Declan is extremely young to have accomplished so much in the EDM world. It does make his dad and I a little nervous sometimes with him being successful at such a young age, but Declan is a great young man and has proven over the years to be very responsible and mature for his age.” He has collaborated with other artists such as Lycii, one of Williamson’s contemporaries, whom he met through Soundcloud. Reaching out to the artist online and developing a kinship from their mutual

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Singer Adam Jensen from Ames, Iowa, performs at Wombstock. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

stream EDM festival goers — the frat boys in tanks with snapbacks and annoying fist-bump presence,” De Gree said. “I was pleasantly surprised with Declan’s set, because it demonstrated his ability to make happy and summery sounds while at the same time drop some groovy bangers.” By the end of six hours of music, the audience still wasn’t done: A cheer accompanied the first bars of the final song, August Hotel’s best-loved single. “I think the entirety [of the show] was pretty great,” Padilla said, “but ‘Valentine’ would be a highlight. Having the whole audience jump up and down to a song you wrote is pretty cool.” And with any luck, this year’s headlining band will have some august company: Wombstock organizers mentioned a potential spring festival featuring indie band You Won’t. “Oh, Hillsdale,” said Ryan Lammers, August Hotel’s bassist. “It’s always so good when we play here. We’ve been here, what? Five times now?” The band played at Broadstreet last year, Padilla said, but the atmosphere here was different. Like Baez’s show the opening night of Woodstock, the crowd wanted more. And they got it with an encore of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 ballad “Born to Run:”

“We’re gonna get to that place/ Where we really wanna go/ And we’ll walk in the sun/ But till then tramps like us/ Baby we were born to run.” The classic tune bridged the gap between musical generations: Wombstock’s attendees weren’t around to “Overcome” with Baez, and they missed the chance to chase Springsteen’s American dream, but Saturday, they got the chance to sing along and make some music of their own.

Alumna Catherine Coffey performs at Wombstock music festival. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

Freshman Declan Williamson performs at Wombstock music festival. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

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Freshman Declan Williamson performs at Wombstock music festival. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

to save the play, the guy playing Ferdinand suggested replacing David Byrne’s apocalyptic vision of daisy-covered Pizza Huts with Taylor’s “Love Story.” A noble effort, but unfortunately the wrong Shakespeare play. My eighth grade ancient history teacher claimed to have dated Taylor while he was an undergrad at Notre Dame. The story seemed plausible. After all, Taylor’s brother was studying there at the same time as him. So when “Red” came out in 2013, my class bought our teacher the deluxe edition and

hosted a listening party for him during a study hall. It was then that we learned that his past romance had been a pious fib — an ill-conceived attempt to earn pubescent respect. I have no significant memories of “1989” except that I bought the CD (complete with fake polaroids) for my younger sister as a consolation for her having to be homeschooled in seventh grade. She subscribed to Apple Music and most likely never popped the album in the ol’ Discman. Until last week, I thought I could finally say goodbye to

Taylor. I mean, she’s just a pop singer, right? But I know her new work will eventually squirrel its way into the miscellaneous rooms of my mind palace. I haven’t blown through enough Lucky Strikes to know how yet. Ten years from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw eight random people on the metro singing along to “Look What you Made Me Do.” Taylor is speaking to them as a group and as individuals. This is something that happens. That’s just the nature of a catchy pop song.

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Science & Tech Putting cancer on the defense: Hillsdale students research leukemia By | Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter An aggressive type of blood cancer came under the scrutiny of two Hillsdale students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this summer. Sophomore Bella VanAken donned safety glasses and latex gloves to study acute myeloid leukemia in the lab, while senior Andrea Lee sifted through hundreds of patient charts within the confines of an office cubicle for statistical analysis. A cancer of the immune system, acute myeloid leukemia occurs through multiple mutations in a type of white blood cell called myeloid cells. Most common in young and old populations, the specific kind of AML studied by Lee and VanAken gives patients a 26 percent survival rate at five years since being diagnosed. Within these five years, there is a 50 percent chance that patients will experience stretches of remission as physicians battle to control a cancer that becomes chemoresistant. VanAken dove into the biological mechanism of AML by studying the dormant AML stem cells responsible for taking the patient from remission,

typically seen after five years of being cancer-free. The problem with leukemia stem cells is paradoxical: Because they do not proliferate like normal cancer cells, these cancerous cells remain untouched by chemotherapy drugs at the initial time of treatment and become chemoresistant, VanAken said. After seven weeks of learning experimental techniques and running different tests on AML stem cells in the lab, VanAken said her last three weeks flew by after she discovered a notable increase in the ability of a frontline chemotherapy drug known as doxorubicin for killing AML stem cells if the cells had been treated with a certain molecule. This molecule prevented a specific protein, IL1RL1, from performing its normal role in cell signaling. Pointing out this result to her supervisor, VanAken received the go-ahead to investigate the relationship between IL1RL1 and the cell’s overall rate of reproduction. Chemotherapy drugs target all rapidly proliferating cells, but the dormant AML cells escape drugs like doxorubicin and are responsible for eventually taking patients from remission, which is why researchers are particu-

Senior Andrea Lee (left) and sophomore Bella VanAken (right) worked on leukemia research this summer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Andrea Lee | Courtesy

larly interested in learning how to identify the dormant cells, VanAken said. By blocking a molecule from interacting with the IL1RL1 protein, the AML stem cells were forced to come out of dormancy and proliferate, rendering the leukemia vulnerable to doxorubicin, VanAken said. “Bella was so awesome to work with this summer,” said Kate Hyde, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UNMC and VanAken’s research supervisor. “What makes her results exciting is that there are drugs already in early clinical trials that target IL-33, a molecule that’s typically associated with allergies. Because these drugs are already being tested, that’s one more step that we wouldn’t have to do.” Hyde said her research team will continue Bella’s research on IL1R1 using lab mice and hopes to continue this same line of testing using human tissue in the near future. Lee worked under Vijaya Bhatt, an assistant professor of internal medicine at UNMC and a practicing hematologyoncology doctor who has contributed to more than 125 articles on hematology-oncology. Bhatt asked Lee to pioneer

a data-based study on patients diagnosed and treated for AML at the university’s medical center. The results of her data collection can serve the UNMC medical community as a reference for which chemotherapy treatment plans resulted in the best patient prognosis, Lee said. “It was hard work but, in the end, very rewarding,” Lee said. Over the course of her 10 weeks at the UNMC, Lee searched through the medical charts of 248 patients, comparing physiological factors to the intensity of chemotherapy treatment that each patient was receiving. She found that whether a patient received high or low-intensity chemotherapy was primarily dependent on their age. The effect of the patient’s preference or physician’s judgment on the level of chemotherapy prescribed was outside the scope of her study, Lee said. “Andrea is one of the most dedicated students I have worked with,” Bhatt said. “The large dataset that she created will be used for internal quality improvement projects as well as future publications. She did phenomenal work on a very complex topic.”

Chemistry gains Students start Science Olympiad club new professor By | Crystal Schupbach Assistant Editor

When Visiting Professor of Chemistry Mardi Billman first came to Hillsdale College, she said it was the atmosphere of the liberal arts that appealed to her the most. “It’s education for the sake of knowing things,” Billman said. “Not to say that the goal isn’t to find something to do after college, but there is something valuable in just knowing. Hillsdale felt like the place I not only wanted to be but I needed to be.” Billman said the chemistry department at Hillsdale College

earning her doctorate at Colorado State University in August 2016. Prior to that, she attended the College of St. Benedict, an all-women’s liberal arts college in Minnesota. Billman taught her first classes at Hillsdale Aug 30. “It was crazy but so exciting,” Billman said. “I love it.” Sophomore Charlie Adams, a student in Billman’s General Chemistry course, said that he particularly enjoyed a chemistry demonstration that she did on the first day of class. Billman’s graduate research involved figuring out why halogens, a nonmetal group of ele-

“What really stands out about Dr. Billman is her enthusiasm for chemistry. She brings so much energy to the classroom.” is undergoing a shift in administrative duties this school year, so she was hired to help teach while others in the department took on larger administrative roles. She will teach both sections of General Chemistry, the class that covers the fundamental laws and theories of scientific field. “It’s a very important course because it sets the tone for the rest of the department,” said Matthew Young, chemistry department chairman. “We’re putting a lot of confidence in her. What really stands out about Dr. Billman is her enthusiasm for chemistry. She brings so much energy to the classroom.” Billman took a position teaching general chemistry at Simpson College in Iowa, after

ments on the right side of the periodic table, participate in halogen bonding chemistry. Billman said halogen bonding is counterintuitive because halogens, which are electron-rich, should not be able to attract other electron-rich elements such as oxygen, but they do. Scientists have used this information in biology to synthesize drugs since the halogen bonding allows them to manipulate the molecule, Billman said. “Her research is computational chemistry, not based on traditional experiments, so that is not something anyone else in our department does,” Young said. “It’s a good complement to the research areas we already have.”

Hurricane Irma heads toward Florida

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Every March, hundreds of middle school students across the country wait in suspense to see how much weight a tower they designed and built can hold. The event is a part of Science Olympiad, a competition for middle-school and highschool students involving a variety of science-related tasks. “Weeks of work for moments of panic,” senior Randi Block said of the event at the Science Olympiad regional competition. This year, Hillsdale students will have an opportunity to participate as Science Olympiad coaches through a new campus club dedicated to coaching Science Olympiad participants at Hudson Middle School. Block and senior Lauren Barlass, who have both coached Hudson students for the past two years, will carpool to Hudson, Michigan, to coach the 15-student Science Olympiad team for two hours each week. They will prepare the students for Science Olympiad competitions, including the regional tournament, which was held at Hillsdale College the last few years and will be held in Adrian College this spring. Last year, the Hudson Middle School team missed a slot in the state Science Olympiad competition by just one point, Block said. Barlass said Science Olympiad gives students a chance to explore science outside the classroom. “It empowers the kids to do science because a lot of them have a misconception that they aren’t smart enough for it,” Bar-

lass said. Block competed in Science Olympiad for two years during high school. She said her time competing and coaching has been worth it, despite her busy schedule. “There is something for everyone…a lot of it is not as ‘scientific’ as you would think,” Block said. The 23 different events

the cause and solution for outbreaks in various scenarios. In the Hovercraft event, students build a self-propelled, airlevitated vehicle to be the fastest and heaviest it can be within a weight limit. In Crime Busters, students must solve a crime by analyzing hair, fingerprints, fibers, tire treads, shoeprints, and other forensic evidence. Barlass and Block coach

Seniors Lauren Barlass (left) and Randi Block (right) started a Science Olympiad club this year for Hillsdale College students interested in volunteering as coaches. Lauren Barlass | Courtesy

of Science Olympiad offer a wide variety of topics for participants. In the Towers event, students compete to see which team can build the strongest but lightest wooden tower. In Experimental Design, students design, conduct, and write a report on an experiment using materials provided at the event. Students learn about how to identify different foodborne illnesses in the Disease Detectives event, which Barlass coaches. This year, students are asked

Disease Detectives and Anatomy and Physiology respectively and Microbe Mission together. Barlass and Block said they loved coaching the middle schoolers. Barlass said she loved coaching Disease Detectives so much that she will pursue a career in public health after graduation. Above all, the Science Olympiad club exists to give back to the community, Block said. “It’s very rewarding to see the personal growth in the stu-

dents,” Block said. “I’m very proud of my kids.” Block said her notion of what it meant to be a Science Olympiad coach changed over time. “I thought I had to prepare lectures…but so much of what I’ve learned is that it is giving kids material to study on their own,” Block said. “It’s equipping them to learn on their own…very similar to how Hillsdale wants to teach.” Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey Van Zant, the club’s faculty adviser, said it gives students opportunities to get excited about science by giving them hands-on experience. Van Zant said he developed his love for science at an early age by exploring in the woods. When he helped run the Invasive Species event, which tested students’ knowledge of local and national invasive species at Science Olympiad Regionals, he tried to get many real specimens for the students to identify. He said handson, competitive science helps younger students delve into science outside of the classroom. “They will take a subject further,” Van Zant said. “You don’t get to build a lot in class.” Van Zant said he wants to encourage students at Hillsdale to join the club because of the value of science.Two of his children competed in Science Olympiad last year. “We cannot have a truly informed citizenry if they do not have a working knowledge of science,” Van Zant said.

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

Hurricane Irma, the second-strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, is projected to make U.S. landfall this weekend or early next week, according to the Washington Post. Irma has sustained Category 5 winds of 185 miles per hour, and is projected to remain Category 4 or 5 in the next two days. This will be the first time the U.S. has been hit by two Category 4 hurricanes in a single season since 1915, according to the article.

New diagnostic tool for Scientists manufacture tiny Parkinson’s disease develped quantum storage device

FDA approves new leukemia treatment

A research team at RMIT University developed a new method for the early detection of Parkinson’s disease. The method uses a new software program which analyzes a patient’s hand motion in real time as they draw. Parkinson’s disease affects the way people draw and write, but previous efforts to use the changes in hand motion as a diagnostic tool failed, according to the researchers. Their software demonstrated a 93 percent accuracy in its diagnoses, and may help with diagnosing the disease before irriversible brain damage occurs in patients.

The Food and Drug Administration approved a gene therapy used for a rare type of leukemia — the first genetherapy approach approved for use in the U.S., according to Science News. The therapy uses engineered T cells from the immune system to seek out and destroy cancer cells. The patient’s T cells are collected, modified with a new gene directing the cells to attack cancer cells, and then reinjected into the patient, according to the article.

A new crystal device more than a million times smaller than its predecessors marks a step toward the development of quantum computers, according to Science News. Researchers said the crystal’s shape resembles a Toblerone chocolate bar and the tiny notches along the top of the device contribute to its large storage capacity.

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Students see D.C. as second home By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer: They filled the Hillsdale House to maximum capacity — 17 students bunking together — and between 35 and 45 students flocked to Capitol Hill. More than 100 Hillsdale students and local alumni attended two barbecues hosted by the college’s Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Consitutional Studies and Citizenship. “I’d come back to my apartment at night and say, ‘I ran into another Hillsdale student, I ran into another Hillsdale student!’ and my Heritage intern roommate would just laugh at me,” said junior Chloe Kookogey, who interned in external relations for the Heritage Foundation. “She was like, ‘They’re everywhere. You literally can’t walk out the door without running into someone from Hillsdale.’” Hillsdale interactions range from organic bump-ins at Union Station to formal events such as those at the Kirby Center. The Kirby Center has become a rallying point for students, alumni, staff and anyone else connected with the college — a unique asset for a college the size of Hillsdale, said Bert Hasler ’15, who manages undergraduate programs at the Kirby Center. More amorphous than a physical

structure, D.C. also has an extended web of connections the college’s Career Services uses to match students and graduates with future internship and job opportunities in the nation’s capital. In fact, students are an integral part of building employer relations, said Ken Koopmans, executive director of Career Services, noting that interns connect his team with their supervisors so Career Services can follow up with supervisors and post job descriptions on Handshake, a job-searching database. “We ask the students if this is an opportunity they think future students would benefit from,” Koopmans said. “Last year, we were able to get more connections with top companies based on student connections, which was great.” Hasler confirmed even Capitol Hill workers outside the Hillsdale bubble have noticed the college’s presence in the city. Hasler quoted a running joke from an acquaintance on the Hill: “How do you know if someone went to Hillsdale? Because they’ll tell you.” “But they say that in jest because they recognize how good our students are at doing what they do,” he said. Though Hillsdale students enter D.C. in force, their presence is spread across just a few organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation, the National Journalism Center, and the Charles Koch Institute. “Depending on who you are, you might say this could be concerning,” Hasler said. “We seem to send more students to the same organizations instead of branching out and finding new offices to do that.” Hasler said he would like to see

Students and alumni gather at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship this summer. Chloe Kookoogey | Courtesy

more students opting to work at lesser-known committees as well, which happens more frequently during Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program semesters, because it stipulates who can work in what office. Besides offering students career opportunities, the summer swell creates a “home away from home” community that inspires confidence in students, especially those unused to the city, Kookogey said. The homey atmosphere welcomed junior Rachel Fredrick, a government affairs intern with the Family Research Council, who conducted bill analysis at the state and local levels with a focus on religious liberty. “I ran into people at Union Station or on the metro,” Fredrick said. “It was funny because it was such a big city, but you’re running into all these

Junior Rachel Fredrick posing with fellow Family Research Council interns. Rachel Fredrick | Courtesy

Hillsdale people.” Both women said the presence of Hillsdale students in D.C. was refreshing, but each cited distinct reasons. Kookogey noticed that the influx of summer interns brings students with intense but imbalanced career-driven focuses. Her Hillsdale peers, she said, seemed more grounded. “Hillsdale students are driven, but at the same time, they have a perception of the fullness of life and they understand that the good life is not just how much money you’re making, how famous or popular you are in whatever field you want to go into,” she said. Fredrick said she knew people from other colleges who felt alone for lack of friends who wouldn’t enter the college scene interns bring with them

during the summer. “I was nervous going in,” Fredrick said. “It’s a lot of young people, a lot of partying, and the connotations with that. In D.C. in general, (but) interns specifically.” For her, having a “good network of grounded friends” from Hillsdale was “a huge plus.” When a member of Hillsdale’s tight knit community moves to D.C., the city shrinks a little, reminding temporary interns a little of the small town they now call home.

Junior Chloe Kookogey at Heritage Foundation’s Welcome to Washington networking event. Facebook

The Jet Skis are broken by Labor Day, anyway Commuters find

A history of classes on fall semester’s first holiday, college administration busts student theories By | Abby Liebing Collegian Reporter Once again, Hillsdale College students labored away on Labor Day as the school continued its longstanding tradition of neglecting the holiday. Throughout its history, the school has waffled about closing on Labor Day. After staying open on the holiday for years, the college decided to cancel classes and close administration offices in 2000. In 2002, classes resumed while the administration offices closed. In 2008, the whole college recognized the holiday, but for the past nine years, both classes and offices have continued to operate on Labor Day. The decision to continue

operations makes it easy for Hillsdale students to forget that Labor Day isn’t just another Monday. “If my professor hadn’t said anything, I would have completely forgotten about Labor Day,” senior Danny Drummond said. Those who remember they’re missing a holiday sometimes entertain the theories swirling around campus. Students said there’s a rumor that the school feared retention problems: If freshmen were allowed to go home for a long weekend this early in the semester, they might never come back. Others blame refusal to accept federal funding or lack of unionized workers.

For the administration, the reason is more simple than that. “Hillsdale does not take Labor Day off for the simple reason that, by this point in the summer, everyone’s jetskis are broken anyway, and so there would be no point,” Provost David Whalen said in an email, joking. College President Larry Arnn agreed. The decision not to observe the holiday without classes, according to an email from Arnn, “stems from the sacred principle, if you just had three months off, [it is] not time for vacation.” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé also noted that taking the day off would be an untimely vacation.

Unlike most schools, Hillsdale College was on session on Labor Day Monday. Wikimedia Commons

“Students had a long weekend upon arrival and nothing productive to do,” he said. “Better for them to stay in the groove of classes.” It’s unclear whether Hillsdale will ever take Labor Day off, but for Arnn, that’s projecting too far. “Ever is a long time,” Arnn said. “Not so long as the eye can see.”

community on campus By | Jordyn Pair News Editor

While the newly minted class of 2021 gathered for the first time in their dorms on the day of convocation, a smaller group of students gathered in Slayton Arboretum: commuter students. Although most students live on campus, 17 students commute in from the surrounding area, according to the dean’s office. Not living in the dorm, the students said, presents plenty of challenges, making it hard to form friendships during meal times and on-campus events. “Freshman year is hard for everybody,” junior Morgan Channels said, “but then you add the challenge of being a commuter.” So Channels, who commutes from Hudson, Michigan, decided to do something about it: She held an orientation just for commuters in the arboretum. Channels came up with the idea during her internship this summer with the Kendall Contact Center, which required her to do a presentation about what change she wants to see at the college. Channels said she was inspired by her own orientation experience, where she noticed that when the freshmen go to dorm activities, commuters just go home. Around 10 students attended the orientation, which was the first of its kind. Consisting of commuters from all grad-

uating classes, the group exchanged numbers and parking tips. Channels also made sure the new students got their welcome bags — a gift normally left for incoming students in their dorm. Sophomore Victor Beeker, who also commutes from Hudson, Michigan, said he would have appreciated something similar when he was a freshman. Not having a dorm made it difficult to form friendships, he said. “Especially in men’s groups, they have a loyalty to their dorms,” Beeker said. “In general, the campus is inviting. They aren’t intentionally excluding you, but there is a barrier there.” Angela Lashaway ’95, project manager for the college’s business improvements department, attended Channels’ presentation. As a student, Lashaway commuted from Cambria, Michigan, and she said she often felt disconnected from campus. “You just always felt a little bit separated,” she said. Lashaway said she hopes the school keeps doing the orientation. “Channels is obviously passionate about it,” Lashaway said. “Commuters are often overlooked as a segment of the population.” Channels said she just wants the orientation to be a resource and understands the challenges for commuters will still be there. “I consider it a gift to be at home,” she said, “but that translates to having to work harder.”

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Features A Q&A with new international students

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Kilian Trapp is from Germany and will stay for one year. He said he’s excited to be in the U.S. for the first time. He’s in his third year, majoring in English and minoring in Art History. Why Hillsdale? I chose Hillsdale because my home university has an exchange program with Hillsdale (organised by Prof. Geyer from the German Department) and I applied for it. What are your interests? I’m interested in a lot of things, but especially in American Literature, so I’m looking forward to taking those classes. And I’m a really huge soccer fan.

What are you most excited about? At the moment I’m excited about almost everything because everything is so new and thrilling to me. When it comes to my studies here, I’m especially excited about the American Literature Class I’m going to take. What will you miss most about Germany? The one (and so far only) thing (besides family and friends obviously) I miss is some real bread. What’s a fun fact about you that wouldn’t necessarily come up in conversation? I used to work as a psychiatric nurse before I went to college.

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Carmen Botha was born and raised in South Africa. She will be attending Hillsdale for four years and competing in hurdles during that time. This is her second time in the U.S., after visiting a friend in Texas when she was 11. Why Hillsdale? I chose Hillsdale because it was the best option after all the research my parents and I had done. What are your interests? My interests are staying fit. I love and enjoy hunting with hounds back home; I am a great rifle shot and I love my sports. I absolutely love cooking — it’s one of my greatest passions. Do you know what you’d like to study? “I will be doing pre-med at Hillsdale. I want to be a sports injuries doctor one day.”

Kwamboka Onchonga is from Kenya and will be a student here for four years. It’s her first time in America. What are your interests? Fashion trends, politics, food. What do you want to study? Financial management and economics What are you excited about? Experiencing a whole new different culture

What are you most excited about? “I’m most excited about living in a dorm and starting mycourses. I look forward to the fantastic training I will receive at Hillsdale for my future athletic career. What will you miss most about South Africa? The food and culture and most of all my family — I love them all very dearly and we are very close. What’s a fun fact about you that wouldn’t necessarily come up in conversation? My name is pronounced differently than its spelled but I just tell everyone the easy way so they won’t get confused. How do you pronounce your name? “C-U-R-M-E-E-N”: the “u” sound would be the same as in umbrella/up and the “ee” the same as in been.

What will you miss about Kenya? The madness, the noise, political drama, and brotherhood. What’s a fun fact about you that wouldn’t necessarily come out in conversation? I am allergic to pizza and I am scared of all animals.

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Yannis Petrzak is from Austria and plans on attending Hillsdale for four years. It’s his second time visiting the U.S.: Last fall, he visited New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on a vacation. Why Hillsdale? I heard about Hillsdale College for the first time while looking for a place to study Economics from an “Austrian” viewpoint. Through a surprising act of providence, a friend of mine from Vienna, Eugen Maria Schulak, was at the same time invited to give a CCA talk about the history of the Austrian School. Naturally, I decided to fo llow him to Hillsdale to have a first-person look at what appeared to be a very unique institution. I was not disappointed. The education offered at Hillsdale College, rooted in the long and rich cultural and intellectual western heritage, the deeply ingrained appreciation for the christian faith, as well as the small-town charm of Hillsdale itself, sealed the deal for me. Thanks to the generous financial assistance offered by the College and its donors, I am now able to attend this

wonderful institution. I feel very blessed and my gratitude can hardly be expressed in words. What are your interests? I would like to connect my passion for realistic economics with a broad and fundamental understanding of knowledge and learning itself, to grasp more fully how all the different disciplines of scientific inquiry are connected, and how each can help me live a more purposeful, humane life. I believe that Hillsdale is the place where I can do just that and much, much more. What are you most excited about? To be quite frank, I am most excited about leaving Europe. This continent and its moral relativism and suicidal political culture can only be obstructive to any human flourishing. Compared to Europe, the U.S., with all its problems, still appears to be the “promised land.” And it definitely is the last best hope for faith and freedom, and thus civilization itself. What will you miss most about Austria? Very few things, besides friends and family, of course.

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Squawks and murmurs: Two eagles fly to Union

By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor Hillsdale College boasted in a tweet last year that there are more than 40 statues of eagles on campus, 27 of them lurking in the dim light of the Heritage Room. And it looks as if two more have come to roost in the Grewcock Student Union on the mantle above the fireplace. Two new statues depicting eagle heads preparing for a ferocious caw now flank the fireplace chimney. “They had been sitting in the Bon Appétit office for four years, and they really wanted to get rid of them,” said Hank Prim, assistant director of the Student Activities Office and

director of residence life. “Junior Kelsey Lantis placed them on the mantle. They look really nice.” Each tour given to prospective students at the college inevitably leads to the Heritage Room, where the menacing birds peer down from the shadowy corners. “It is somewhat egregious how many eagles are in the Heritage Room, but it is one quirk that makes Hillsdale what it is,” junior Hannah Socolofsky said. Other students believe that the bird can be seen as a symbol for the college. “I have been told that Hillsdale is the most patriotic school in America and the eagles match that idea,” freshman Spencer Rothfuss said. “As a decoration they represent the college well.”

Two eagle busts are glued to the mantle of the fireplace in the Grewcock Student Union. Jo Kroeker | Collegian

Internship metamorphosis Politics major Jackson Ventrella spends summer working with butterflies By | Nathan Grime Collegian Reporter

When the summer began, senior politics major Jackson Ventrella wasn’t looking for an internship with butterflies. Nevertheless, the opportunity arose from happenstance. This summer, Ventrella landed an internship at Entomology Solutions in Louisville, Kentucky. A far cry from the political arena, the company he worked for partners with Idlewild Butterfly Farm, the Louisville Zoo, and other companies to raise butterflies and conduct research on bugs and insects. “I had just come out of the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, so I went to Louisville and worked at an impact investing firm,” he said. “Some of the other guys at my job this summer were going to do photography for Entomology Solutions, and the owner said she needed two people for the summer.” He took advantage of the opportunity and ended up working at both the investing firm and Entomology Solutions from June to August. Although he doesn’t plan on pursuing a career in entomology, Ventrella said the experience with butterflies at Idlewild was valuable nonetheless. “As a non-science major, I

helped run the store,” he said. “I worked the cash register, did upkeep in the yard for the plants and the butterflies, harvested eggs, and supervised tours.” Blair Leano-Helvey, an entomologist and owner of

sectarium. “Because we are USDA certified, we can bring in exotic insects from all over the globe,” Leano-Helvey said. “The tarantulas and stick bugs are a huge attraction to our visitors.” Idlewild offers numerous

“It’s more common than students think to work in an industry outside of their major. Organizations have jobs available where they need an outside perspective.” Idlewild, said the company’s interns don’t need to come with knowledge about bugs. “Our interns learn on the job,” she said. “All they need is interest in what we do.” On a typical tour, Ventrella would take visitors to a rearing lab, where larvae are studied and collected, an insectarium, and a live butterfly flight house. “The monarch butterflies usually attracted the most guests, in part due to it being the most well-known butterfly,” Ventrella said. Visitors can study more than just butterflies at the in-

services for its guests besides tours. The store sells butterfly chrysalides and butterfly attractant plants. The farm organizes live butterfly releases and butterfly displays for special events such as weddings and memorials, among other ceremonies. In addition to learning about and working with entomology first hand, Ventrella said the internship offered beneficial real-world experience. “You get to meet and learn about people from all sorts of different backgrounds,” he

said. “It helps you to learn new skills. I’ve never done this type of work before, so the work in general was new to me.” Sophia Carr Donohoe ’13, an assistant director of career services, said that students who work in a field not related to their major aren’t as rare as one may think. “It’s more common than students think to work in an industry outside of their major,” Donohoe said. “A lot of times organizations have jobs available where they need an outside perspective.” She went on to describe how a liberal arts education is especially valuable for students who may study one field and end up working in another. “A Hillsdale education is unique because we have a lot of students that might major in history and minor in business or biology,” Donohoe said. “When you are diverse in the liberal arts and you’ve taken classes from many different disciplines, you are going to be able to take jobs like Jackson’s.” Besides expanding his skill set, Ventrella said, the internship offered an aesthetic appeal. “One of the best things about the butterfly farm was in the simple beauty of the creatures themselves,” he said. “They’re so fragile and delicate and each one is unique.”

Men of Koon say ‘dawgs’ are back on the block By | Joe Pappalardo Senior Writer

men through seniors, have bonded quite well. “Everybody already knows each other,” freshThe first shot hit senior man Paul Esposito said. Tara Ung in the stomach. A women’s residence The next one came from since 2014, Koon became a the Nerf pistol placed in men’s dorm again this year her hand, while Austin to accommodate a greater Coe, the freshman assailnumber of freshmen men, ant, braced himself for said senior Reuben Blake, retaliation. Plastic lightsaKoon’s head resident asbers materialized from ansistant. Blake and his RA other corner of the room, team are already forming and suddenly the students a close-knit culture among in the Koon Residence the men, who affectionatelobby found themselves atly refer to themselves as tacked by a flurry of foam “dawgs.” “My phone now autocorrects ‘dogs’ to ‘D-A-W-G-S,’” Blake said. Blake kicked off the year for his residents with a night of games and a surprise trip to the Dutch Uncle in Coldwater for A term of endearment for the men of Koon, doughnuts. but campus has yet to catch on. “We didn’t Joe Pappalardo | Collegian tell them where we were going,” weaponry. Within minBlake said. “We were like, utes, the whole men’s dor‘Everybody jump in the mitory erupted in flailing car, we’re leaving, and we’ll lightsabers, foam swords, be back in an hour.’” and flying projectiles. The night was more than By all signs, Koon is no just a doughnut run — it longer a women’s dorm — contributed to the resiand its 24 residents, fresh-

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dents’ close-knit community, Blake said. The next day, he woke up to a horrible cold and residents’ social media posts praising the dorm ‘s RAs for their efforts to welcome the freshmen. “I had guys text me and come to me personally and shake my hand and say, ‘Thank you for all the planning you put into this, because it really showed and we can tell that you as an RA team love us,’” Blake said.

Luke Woltanski, as well as his roommate, senior Mark Harrison. Though not an official RA, Harrison plays a major role in leading the freshmen, organizing a Bible study and “manly movie nights.” The freshmen are contributing to the dorm’s culture, too: freshman Noel Schroeder coined the terms “Top Dawgs” and “Under Dawgs” for the respective halls, and Esposito brought a poker set to campus, assisting Blake in

The men of Koon hit Dutch Uncle for doughnuts and dorm-bonding. Reuben Blake | Courtesy

“We know that we want it to be a place that people enjoy and want to be proud of,” Harrison said. The speed of Koon’s growth as a community impressed Woltanski, who lives downstairs with the Under Dawgs. “All the freshmen are really close, and with the sophomores, too,” he said. “Everyone melded together pretty well.” For older students like Harrison and Woltanski, living in Koon is quite a change from life in larger dorms like Simpson or Galloway. Unlike the recently renovated dorms, Koon has community bathrooms and no formal kitchen. “We don’t really have a kitchen, and our lobby

“I had guys say, ‘Thank you for all the planning you put into this, because it really showed and we can tell that you as an RA team love us.’” Ung, a frequent visitor to the dorm, noted a strong sense of comradery among the residents. “Reuben was very focused on creating a community that was its own thing,” she said. “He had a lot of traditions in mind that he wanted to do with the guys.” Blake is assisted by sophomore RAs Nick Uram and

“masculinizing” the dorm with board games and mock weaponry. Esposito said their newest addition was the foosball table a pair of Koon Dawgs picked up off the curb for free. In the lobby, a drawing of a pipe-smoking pup, captioned “Koon Dawgs,” replaced a picture of a “Think Spring” bunny on a whiteboard.

is very small,” Blake explained. “We have a sink and a microwave. And a toaster.” The dorm’s halls aren’t closed off by doors, allowing residents to move more freely throughout the two floors, which Harrison noted has assisted in building community. “We try to put together events, even if it’s just going out to eat to get together with each other,” Schroeder said. “We’re all looking out for each other.”

Marchese signs on as social media coordinator By | Emma Cummins Collegian Freelancer A scroll through Hillsdale College’s Facebook feed opens a window into the school’s culture, pulling up photos of this year’s welcome party and convocation, articles about Hillsdale alumni, and the latest publication from College President Larry Arnn. Hillsdale’s appeal is the same as always, but a new force is driving the college’s social media front: 2017 alumna Gianna Marchese. After graduating from Hillsdale last spring with a degree in marketing, Marchese decided to return the favor to her alma mater and fill the shoes of 2014 alumna Hannah Strickland Rozsa — who married and moved to Chicago this summer — as the college’s social media marketing coordinator. In this position, Marchese runs five main social media accounts: Hillsdale’s main page, Online Courses, Imprimis, Alumni Association, and The Kirby Center. For all these, she manages some combination of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google Plus —

an “overwhelming amount of passwords,” she said. Marchese expressed a vision for what social media can accomplish for Hillsdale: “My main goal for the whole department is to educate people about what Hillsdale is and what we’re doing,” she said, noting that Hillsdale’s online courses in particular reach out to people of all ages. The task is a challenge, Marchese said, because it’s different than managing personal social media. “I think the main difference is that you can’t use your own voice, you have to use the college’s voice,” Marchese said. “You’re speaking on behalf of the college, and you’re the public face of the college.” Director of Digital Marketing Jon Lewis, Marchese’s supervisor, said Marchese’s familiarity with the college made her a good candidate for the job. “Being a graduate of the college, she understands the mission really well, she loves it, she loves being here,” Lewis said. “She also appreciates taking what’s special about this place and reaching the masses with it, which is unique and really fun.”

Hillsdale can use the ubiquity of social media to its advantage, Marchese emphasized. “We’re everywhere on social media, and with that kind of presence, how many people can we possibly affect?” Marchese said. “I know my life was changed because I knew about Hillsdale and because I came here and I learned the things I learned at Hillsdale. How many others can we change in the same way?” With her goals in mind, Marchese starts her day off with a cup of coffee from Rough Draft and scrolls through comments on her posts. Dealing with blowback can be a tough task, she said. “We get a lot of haters, and it’s hard to deal with someone bashing on the things you love, even though they might not be correct,” Marchese said. She approaches conflict in a “Hillsdale way,” she said: “Kill rudeness with kindness.” Marchese spends the rest of her day helping any campus body that might need social media assistance, whether adjusting the library’s Twitter account or directing someone’s online question to the right people.

Lewis said he knew that Marchese’s strengths would be well suited to the job. “One of her personality-test strengths is ‘Maximizer,’ which means she takes something that is already there, and she’s always thinking about how she can improve it, make it better,” Lewis said. Marchese has filled her position well and enhanced the work environment, said senior Joshua Liebhauser, the head of Marchese’s student intern team. “It’s nice that she’s a very recent student, so it’s informal, and yet it’s still a very professional environment and we still get a lot done,” Liebhauser said. “That skill comes through in her meetings with staffers and faculty members and students — being able to handle all that and being adept at social interactions. She’s pretty good at that.” Marchese said she will continue to rise to the challenge with zest. “It’s just a blast everyday,” Marchese said. “There are new challenges every day, which is good for a Hillsdale student, because strength rejoices in the challenge.”

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Jimmy McGrath, junior

Joel Calvert, ’16

Tell us what’s rad about this groovy get-up.

We agree. Women do rule. But who do we credit with the sweet sweatshirt?

“I got this at the Allen Antique Barn about four hours ago.”

“It’s a band shirt. It’s a group called The Overcoats and they’re really great.”

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Glynis Gilio, senior

Way to get the memo on the flowy florals, man. Where’d you find this shirt? “Primark. It’s a store in London.” What’s about stock?

sweet Womb-

“My favorite thing about Woombstock is Catherine Coffey.”