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Mayoral candidates promise to help police fight drug epidemic By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor As drug overdoses haunt Michigan and the City of Hillsdale, both mayoral candidates promised to empower the police force to address the opioid epidemic. In Michigan, drug-related deaths rose 18 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Over the past couple years, at least four heroin-related deaths occurred in Hillsdale County, and patients frequent the Hillsdale Hospital seeking

treatment for drug-related problems. “On a daily basis, we see patients who are affected either by methamphetamine or opioid-related issues,” said Shirley Curtis, emergency department manager at the Hillsdale Hospital. Both mayoral candidates, Mayor Scott Sessions and City Councilman Adam Stockford, said they would address the problem by ensuring that the city police force has the resources and the funding to address drug-related issues. As mayor, Sessions appointed Police Chief Scott

Hephner, who he said has done an excellent job leading the force. Sessions said he plans to continue to put key personnel in place and to make sure the police force has proper training and equipment. Sessions said it’s important to pass the city budget “to make sure the funding is in place and available so Police Chief Hephner has enough staff to be able to protect the city and make sure that it stays safe for all of our citizens.” Stockford said the first item on his platform is economic mobility, and the second is

combatting the drug problem. “As the poverty in Hillsdale gets worse, the drug problem will get worse,” he said. “When I say economic development is my number one issue, it’s because all the issues in the community are tied to the economy.” Stockford said the police force needs more training and resources to approach situations in which overdoses occur to save lives, their first priority. The hospital already collaborates with the police department, offering training to the police See Drugs A7

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Mugs go missing By | Nicole Ault Assistant Editor For students desperate for a cup of coffee before dashing off to class, an empty mug rack beneath the coffee carafes in the cafeteria is a sorry sight — but all too common in recent weeks. Dining hall patrons have taken or thrown out around 450 plastic white mugs since the start of the semester. Bon Appétit Management Company bought 600 plastic mugs at the beginning of the year to replace an old set of ceramic mugs, said Bon Appétit General Manager David Apthorpe in an email, but by the end of September, no more than 80 were circulating. Only about 70 mugs had been taken from use by Bon Appétit because they were stained or broken, he said, which means the rest have been taken or thrown out by patrons. Bon Appétit Marketing Manager William Persson said they’ve found mugs around campus and in garbage cans within the dining hall. Mugs cost $4.60 each, Apthorpe said. That’s more than a $2,000 loss for Bon Appétit in the first month of school. “I am surprised at the speed which the mugs have vanished,” Apthorpe said. “It affects our ability to maintain our service standards.” Patrons aren’t just taking mugs, though. Silverware and dishes are often found around campus and in dorms, too, he said. “Students’ attitudes can be, ‘There’s thousands of forks, and I already pay so much,’” Apthorpe said, adding that people have a different attitude toward taking books from a library. The net effect of taking the mugs diminishes service for everyone, Apthorpe said, noting that replacing the disposable cups has allowed Bon Appétit to offer better food and customer service. “If we can save money on cups, glasses, waste, we can have a more robust program,” he said, estimating that Bon Appétit spent $8,000 on

disposable cups in previous years. Students may be taking out the cups in reaction to Bon Appétit’s decision to replace disposable to-go cups with reusable travel mugs for each student, according to Persson. Students have commented that they want the disposable cups back, he said, but that doesn’t excuse them for taking out the plastic mugs. “It is technically stealing,” he said. Junior Erik Halvorson said students shouldn’t take the white mugs, but the lack of disposable to-go cups encourages them to do so. “It seems like [the travel mugs] are not the best use of resources, because people forget them, they lose them,” Halvorson said. “It inevitably leads to people taking the white ones.” Students are allowed to take a piece of fruit, a cookie, a cone or cup of ice cream, or a beverage in a travel mug from the dining hall, Apthorpe said. Whether they’re inconvenienced by the lack of disposable cups, students who intentionally throw away or take mugs out of the dining hall break the college’s honor code, said Associate Dean of Men Jeffrey Rogers. “Of course it’s a violation of the honor code,” Rogers said. “It says something about us.” Rogers said some students might just be forgetful, but the fact that so many mugs have disappeared so quickly is “a problem.” “Is it serious?” he added. “It’s the little things that turn into the serious things.” Apthorpe said he is waiting on a shipment of 250 more mugs to replace some of the missing ones. “We hope that educational efforts and the challenges created by a mug shortage will shape guest behavior,” he said, noting that if the mug theft continues, Bon Appétit will have to institute stricter door monitoring. For now, Rogers has a strict warning for students who steal: “I pity the fool that I catch outside of the dining hall with a cup he threw away.”

Farewell to Angell: Director of Theater retiring at end of season By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor After a black walnut tree fell in his yard, Director of Theater George Angell carved the lumber into a dining room table and gave it to Professor of Spanish Carmen Wyatt-Hayes. “It has been one of my great joys,” Wyatt-Hayes said. “It’s my favorite piece of furniture.” Professor of Philosophy James Stephens has one, too, as does the lobby of the Sage Center for the Arts, where Angell taught, created, and directed for 33 years. This week, the Tower Players perform “All’s Well That Ends Well,” the last of nearly 70 plays he’s directed at Hillsdale. At the end of the school year, Angell will retire, leaving behind a growing theater department and a host of young actors who benefitted from his experience. Angell encourages students to study the performing arts. In fact, he recommends all students become theater majors. The discipline he spent his life studying encompasses all others, he said. “There is not a single subject, single moment that you study that doesn’t cross the stage at some point,” Angell said. “There are either plays about it or plays that incorporate that knowledge.” In addition to directing, Follow @HDaleCollegian

Angell acts, designs sound for shows, writes plays, and teaches courses on acting and directing to playwriting and film. Theater department chairman James Brandon said Angell gathered many responsibilities over the years. He has influenced every aspect of the department in some way, so much so that Brandon said he expects not to realize everything Angell does for some time. A few years down the road, he said, he’ll wonder who used to take charge of a particular task in the department. “And the answer will inevitably be George,” Brandon said. When Angell arrived at Hillsdale in 1984, the department was in danger of dissolution. Instead, the college hired one tenured professor and two part-time adjuncts. After Angell joined the department as an adjunct, he put his experience to work. Angell ran the theater department for 20 years, from 1996 to 2016. Besides promoting the performing arts at Hillsdale, he also introduced his students to the broader theater community. Angell took a student production of “Macbeth” to compete at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in 1999. Four times over the last 10 years, he has

brought students to the United Kingdom for Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest theater festival. During the 2001 trip, he performed in a student-written one-act play, “Billy Bob’s Garage.” Another trip became an annual

rected “The Man of Destiny” last year. After she offered detailed instruction to each of the actors, she said Angell offered her his own instruction: “Let the actors act.” Giving artists freedom was one of the most valuable

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tradition—every year since 1990, he’s brought a group of theater students to see professional shows at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. The theater department now offers one dance performance and four plays annually, one of which is student directed. Senior Elena Creed di-

lessons he has taught her, she said. “You as a director aren’t supposed to control everything,” Creed said. “You’re supposed to be there to work alongside people and to shape the play into the vision that you have.” When he directs, even when he doesn’t like how

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someone is portraying a character, Creed said, Angell often trusts that the actors will see for themselves what works — and what doesn’t. Senior Nikolai Dignoti also said he appreciates Angell’s hands-off approach, which allows actors to explore characters themselves. “You always do feel like it is your character,” Dignoti said. “And he’s very good at getting you there.” An unwritten part of his job also is to assuage anxious parents fretting over their potentially jobless theater major children. He once had to do the same with his father. During high school, Angell got a part in a local play in a town next to his. His mom had to drive him to rehearsal every day for six weeks. Near the end of rehearsals, his dad became angry that he was wasting his mother’s time. Then, he saw the show. “Afterward, he said to me, ‘I don’t care where you have to go. We’ll get you there,’” Angell said. Before Hillsdale, Angell directed the first stage production of The Who’s rock-opera, “Tommy.” After he arrived, he wrote and directed a musical about the Chinese annexation of Tibet, “Iron Bird,” which premiered at the Markel Auditorium in 1996. Angell also has traveled. He’s visited almost every

country in Europe, he said, as well as many in Asia, Africa, and Central America. He also spent several years growing up in Turkey. He can get by speaking Turkish, but he’s fluent in German. For his sabbatical in 2008, Angell spent two months in Bali, studying mask-making with an artist. He spent half his time on the island enjoying the culture and learning to speak Indonesian, and the other half sitting in the corner of a shop creating a theater mask, dark-colored with bright blue eyes, that sits now in a corner in his office. Near the end of his stay, his wife, Megan, and his son, Gwydion, joined to see what they thought of the country. He would be interested in going back, he said. Both of Angell’s children, Rhiannon ’07 and Gwydion ’15, attended Hillsdale, but only Rhiannon majored in theater. She knew her father would be tougher on her than other students. In addition to mask-making and carpentry, Angell has a host of other talents. “I’m a — I don’t know whether to say terrific or terrible — hobbyist,” he said. He enjoys boat building, fly fishing, stained-glass making, beer brewing, and cooking, from grilling at theater picnics to producing gourmet meals. See Angell A2 Look for The Hillsdale Collegian

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Student Fed dissolves American Individualists By | Emma Cummins Collegian Freelancer Student Federation voted to disband a club for the first time in more than four years at its Oct. 5 meeting. The federation members said they unanimously agreed to dissolve the American Individualists of Hillsdale because they felt the group violated the mission of Hillsdale College. As a result, the group is ineligible to post flyers on campus or receive funds from Student Fed. “Its aims are expressly contrary to those of Hillsdale College,” said senior Thomas Ryskamp, head of the federation’s club oversight committee. “The college’s aim is to pursue truth, while this organization seeks to provoke discussion purely for discussion’s sake. They reject what every campus club shares: accountability to an end goal.” Club leaders, however, said they plan to appeal for reinstatement. “It’s supposed to provide a forum for people to discuss things: That’s the point of free speech,” American Individualists President junior Quinn Reichard said. The American Individualists club was previously on probationary status as part of a new process for approving clubs. Although officially recognized as a campus club in February, it was not eligible to receive funding until fully approved. The federation could have approved the club fully on Thursday but instead voted to disband it. “I saw it potentially as a vehicle to be taken over by peo-

ple who could hurt the college in the future and as a group which could host absurd discussions under the guise of having no official platform, which would also have the potential to cause issues,” said sophomore Matthew Montgomery, a member of the club oversight committee. Until last week, the club met weekly to discuss and debate current events and issues. Its leaders said the point of its

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meetings are to leave people with more questions than before, as they discuss political philosophy and investigate assumptions, including the existence of truth. Reichard, who started American Individualists at his high school in Virginia and formed a second chapter at Hillsdale, said during the Student Fed meeting that the club lacks a platform like other political clubs on campus, and that he was not certain the group’s purpose was to

seek truth. Later, however, Reichard said in hindsight, he would have defended his club before the federation differently. “I probably shouldn’t have said what I said in front of the Student Federation,” Reichard told The Collegian. “What we do in our meetings would we be described by anyone who believes in truth as pursuing truth.” In fact, the group’s bylaws said its purpose is to do just that. “American Individualists of Hillsdale exists to seek truth, ask why, and act on what is right,” the bylaws read. “In an effort to advance the cause of liberty, we provide students a venue to discuss political ideas in addition to coordinating activism opportunities for our membership.” Reichard said he will be better able to explain what American Individualists do in its meetings in the future. “I think the best way to accomplish our mission is to have as many diverse opinions as possible,” he said. “And I have found that questioning the existence of truth itself brings in the sort of people that provide exactly that sort of intellectual diversity.” Ryskamp said the club has the opportunity to reevaluate, clarify its purpose, and return to the federation for approval. “If and when American Individualists changes the purpose of their organization to comport with the college’s aims,” Ryskamp said, “they can return to Student Federation through the new club process.”

Students for Life wrote messages in chalk around campus to advocate against abortion. Matthew Kendrick | Collegian

New construction projects on campus By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor Students, professors, and staff aren’t the only busy people around campus this time of year. Construction at Hillsdale College is in full force, with Christ Chapel and the townhouses on their way up. One recent construction project was just completed. The driveway connecting Hillsdale St. to the southern end of campus was repaved, along with a crosswalk connecting campus to the Howard music building parking lot. Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the Chapel’s construction

prompted the need for a new firetruck-accessible driveway on campus. “The grade was too steep for a firetruck to make it up the original service drive,” Péwé said in an email. “The construction of the Chapel cuts off our entry to central campus from the north.” The townhouses are expected to be completed by June 2018, and the chapel by May 2019. Another project on the horizon is the renovation of Galloway Residence. “We plan to go out for bids in December for the Galloway renovation,” Péwé said. “The plan is to start renovation after commencement. Galloway will be re-occupied

SAB auction raises thousands for hurricane relief By | Owen Macaulay Collegian Freelancer A silent auction on campus last week raised $4,046 for hurricane relief efforts through bids on gift baskets, apparel, memorabilia, and other items. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors bid on items donated by members of the college and the local community. All proceeds went directly toward benefitting families and communities hit by the hurricanes around the Gulf Coast. The Student Activities Office put the silent auction together. Director of Student Activities Ashlyn Landherr said she believed the auction to be a success. She said it was an incredible opportunity for the community of Hillsdale to come together to help provide to support for communities around the country going through hardships. “Once we got the word

out about the philanthropy, donations started flooding

The top three items by price were a frozen meats package, an autographed Detroit Red Wings memorabilia package, and an authentic dinosaur bone. They sold for $200, $125, and $125, respectively. Another high profile item was the “Men’s basketball coach for a day” item, donated by the basketball team. It sold for $110. “I think it’s an important thing Katherine Scheu | Collegian for Hillsdale College to help and support in from staff, faculty, and the people in our country who student groups, as well as local are in need” said John Tharp, businesses and some alumni,” head coach of the men’s basLandherr said in an email. ketball team. “It was a great showing of Assistant Director of how powerful and selfless our Student Activities Hank Prim also said the event went well. community can be.”

“The strong outpouring of support from our college and local community, coupled with the large amount of relief aid generated made this event a success,” said Prim in an email. “Ashlyn and I were extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to coordinate this event on behalf of the college, and we’ve been surely impressed by the sheer generosity of our awesome college and wonderful community.” The money raised will be donated to the American Red Cross and designated for hurricane relief efforts. The American Red Cross will use these funds to purchase aid supplies and provide support to communities devastated by hurricanes. “We know that there’s a lot of rebuilding that needs to be done around the Gulf,” said Landherr. “Our hope is that these funds will go to helping in any way possible.”

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ART holding Drink and Draw event on Wednesday

By | Theresea Smith Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale’s art honorary, Alpha Rho Tau, is holding its first Drink and Draw event at Rough Draft on Wednesday starting at 8 p.m. Alpha Rho Tau is selling $10 tickets in the Grewcock Student Union and at Rough Draft up until the event. The ticket covers one drink, alcoholic or nonalcoholic for those under 21, and art supplies. They will provide bracelets at the door.

Senior Rachael Reynolds, the president of Alpha Rho Tau, said the honorary will provide everything, including drawing paper, charcoal, graphite, erasers, markers, crayons, colored pencils, and even coloring sheets. “We wanted to make it some sort of artistic event, but not make it for people who don’t necessarily have art skills that are unable to come because of that,” Reynolds said. “So basically we’ve made it inclusive in that way.”

The honorary will also provide still-life and real-life models for people to draw. “Professor Bushey is Modeling and so are four of our members,” Reynolds said. “I’m so excited about that.” Barbara Bushey, professor of art, said she thinks modeling will be fun. “It’s my role. I’m the head of the department, right?” Bushey said, laughing. “It’s just part of my job.” Bushey said she appreciates the sense of community own-

er Carlyn Hubbard is creating at Rough Draft. “Anything that convinces people to draw is a good thing,” said Bushey. “I think it’s fun that we can get together and have a coffee or a beer and draw.” The honorary took pictures of their models and created coloring pages for people to fill in, according to Reynolds. “I’m excited about it because this is just a really transformative year for the honorary,” Reynolds said.

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beyond performing arts, but they also return to it time after time. Everything from hobbies to intellectual concepts converge on the stage. “You spend all kinds of time in the world of ideas and theoretical knowledge, and in the theater you get to see it all play out across historical time,” Angell said. “It is a unifier of all the rest of the knowledge that you get here.” Angell often chose to situate plays in times and settings, such as “All’s Well That Ends

Well,” a Shakespeare play which takes place in 1960s France. This highlights the universality of theater, “to clarify the author’s intentions for a contemporary audience,” Angell said. During the first production performed at the Markel Auditorium, “Romeo and Juliet,” Angell spoke to the performers —students and professors — backstage before the curtain rose. As Stephens recalls, he told them the play would not be the best adapta-

tion ever performed, but that it was their thanks to Shakespeare and their participation in the Western tradition. “And at least as I remember it, all of us grew about six inches,” Stephens said. “When we walked out onto the stage, we were more than we had been when we came in the theater that evening to get into costume. I think all of us did, but I know I did, learn something about what it means to be at Hillsdale in that experience.”

He’s gone fly fishing with Stephens, and Wyatt-Hayes and her family have benefitted from his culinary talent. “When my mother was dying of cancer — and this shows who George is — he would buy groceries for us,” Wyatt-Hayes said. “And my mother, as is so often the case with people with pancreatic cancer, lost her appetite, but not for the soups that George would make specially for her.” Angell’s interests extend

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in the Fall of 2019.” Péwé said the college would also like to renovate Phillips Auditorium. “The College is working hard to fully fund the auditorium renovation expansion as part of the Searle Center renovations,” he said. “Timeline is completely dependent on funding.” Chief Staff Officer Mike Harner said that despite rumors of an addition to Hillsdale’s statue walk, nothing yet is in the works. “Right now, there are no active statue projects,” he said in an email. “A statue of Madison has been suggested but no decision has been made regarding its completion.” Former student Josh Hamilton scares students who dared to walk through Simpson Residence’s haunted asylum in 2015. Joe Pappalardo | Courtesy

Simpson Asylum to scare students Friday the 13th

By | Abigail Liebing Collegian Reporter Simpson will hold its “asylum” this Friday, Oct. 13, for the fourth year in a row. In celebration of the upcoming Halloween season and because of Friday the 13, Simpson decided to have the asylum a earlier this year. There is an entrance fee of $2, with all proceeds going to the Salvation Army Christmas Drive. “It will be scary, but we scare because we care,” sophomore Dietrich Balsbaugh said. “That’s the motto of Simpson Asylum.” Senior Joe Pappalardo, who headed up the asylum for the past few years, said he loves the spontaneity and themes of the event. “It’s actually best to show up 9:30 to 11p.m., when the guys have hit their stride and started getting creative with their characters,” Pappalardo said. Stephen Richmann, a sophomore in Simpson, said

he is looking forward to the surprise and scaring students. “There’s usually one person who freaks out just a little too much,” Richmann said. “I’m looking forward to finding out who that is this year.” Junior Josh Bailey, a Simpson RA, said he loves the creative way that the guys come up with to frighten people. “My favorite part is coming up with crazy and fun ideas to scare people,” Bailey said. “The reactions are priceless. I am especially excited for this year because we have a ton of energetic and involved residents.” The preparation for the event can be pretty intense, according to Richmann and Balsbaugh. “The miraculous thing about Simpson is how fast a bunch of like-minded guys can pull off something as logistically intense as Asylum,” Richmann said. “There’ll be a blitzkrieg of prep work late this week as everyone kicks into high gear together.”

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Smuggled from her home and into hiding in a Switzerland church, Juliana Taimoorazy followed her father as he led his family to Germany in 1989. Just one year later, the Taimoorazy family came to America as refugees after turning themselves in to the German police. Twenty-seven years later, Taimoorazy is sharing her story around the world. She came to Hillsdale on Oct. 4th to speak at an event hosted by Students of Hillsdale Advocating Learning and Observing the Middle East, or SHALOM, where the club screened “Faithkeepers,” a film that is not yet widely released and portrays the personal stories of oppression and abuse affecting people of faith in the Middle East. “When I was harassed and displaced, I did not know why all of that was happening to me,” Taimoorazy said. “I was being prepared to be worthy of this work.” The club organized the event after the Philos Project, a Christian organization that promotes positive engagement in the Middle East, reached out to the club’s president, senior Emily Rinaldi. Taimoorazy is a senior fellow with the Philos Project, and also serves as founder and president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, where she helps Christians who are experiencing persecution. She said she never had to ask herself why she advocates. “It’s my identity; I’ve grown up with the persecution story,” Taimoorazy said. She is the grandchild of a survivor who fled his homeland, traveling hundreds of miles on foot to the Iranian/ Russian border. By the end of the journey, his feet were penetrated by the cloth covering them.

“He was 12,” Taimoorazy said. As the film began, she told the students to think about this stripping of identity, the genocide, the economic loss, and the post-traumatic stress disorder left in the minds of millions. Statistics flashed onto the screen periodically — “Globally 100 million Christians face religious persecution...In 1915, Christians made up 20 percent of the Middle East... Since 1975, 3.5 million have fled...Up to 700,000 fled Syria in the past 5 years...In August 2014, 7,000 Yezidi men were killed.” The film explained the Islamic State also persecutes Muslim minorities, like the Yezidis. Taimoorazy said that, despite the persecution, everyone’s resilience in three things stands out—their faith, their future, and themselves. “They lost everything through their faith in Jesus Christ, so we are commanded by St. Paul to stand with them,” she said. Taimoorazy said educating others and encouraging them to donate, even in small amounts, to organizations like the Iraqi-Christian Relief Council, can change thousands of people’s lives. “A priest picked my mom out of a crowd and paid for her education,” she said. “She instilled the love of education in me. He helped thousands through one person—my mom. The effect is incredible.” Taimoorazy said the U.S. government neglects Iraqi Christians because they are not strategically valuable, possessing a fighting force of only roughly 500 people. She said the people of America need to put pressure on their lawmakers. “American Christians have not become one to take us more seriously,” Taimoorazy said. “What people need is aid right now.”

Over the past couple years, several Hillsdale students have taken trips to Israel through a Christian program called Passages, which aims to educate college students about biblical and modern Israel. Both Rinaldi and Vice President of SHALOM Rachel Reynolds had the opportunity to experience Israel last December. “We went to the Gaza Strip, and it was heart-wrenching,” Rinaldi said. “They are in danger everyday of missiles landing in their homes. A woman gave us clay disks to write what we wanted and place on the Gaza wall. Despite the turmoil, you still can have love for your country amidst a sad situation.” Rinaldi said SHALOM provides students the opportunity to learn from speakers on campus year round. “Learning about Israel [and the Middle East] is a huge step into advocating for it,” Rinaldi said. “There are so many complex issues that I feel like people think ‘wow this is too complex; I don’t want to deal with it’ so I feel like it’s my job to help them.” Lydia Reyes, a junior at Hillsdale who is going on the Passages trip in December, said she wants to bring Taimoorazy back to speak to parishioners at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Hillsdale. “My abuelo was sent to Castro’s gulags in Cuba,” Reyes said. “I grew up hearing these stories, so I feel like I can identify.” Taimoorazy reminded the students of the history showing religious persecution in the Middle East has been occurring for 14 centuries. She said it is only now that the severity is being exposed to the rest of the world. “At the beginning of the film, you said that you wanted us to be heart-broken,” junior Katie Kish said. “My heart could not be broken more.”

By | Alexis Nester Collegian Reporter Professor of History David Stewart, who assisted in creating the Western and American Heritage readers, is creating another book of primary sources for a new class on the military history of the American Revolution. The upper-level elective history class, which Stewart plans to teach next semester, will focus specifically on campaigns and battles, foreign involvement in the war, and supplying goods to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy during the revolution.

“We often see the American Revolution in too unique of a context, rather than placing it in this broader European context that we lose sight of,” Stewart said. A preliminary edition of the reader and the class will be ready for next semester, although it will need tinkering, according to Stewart. The reader will be comparable to the current Logic and Rhetoric reader in length and style. Over time, it will develop into a reader similar to the ones available for Western and American Heritage. “I thought it would be fun to offer something different,

a class that students don’t always get a chance to take,” Stewart said. Senior Kara Schmidt and junior Garrison Grisedale are helping Stewart with the research. According to Grisedale, their job is finding primary sources, including diaries and letters, from various battles and campaigns. Grisedale and Schmidt compile these sources into PDF documents for Stewart to read. They will also assist with editing the manuscript prior to publishing. Both students are politics majors and accepted this paid position as part of the George

Washington Fellowship, the chief component of Hillsdale’s undergraduate education programs in Washington, D.C. “Really any primary source account is where you get an inside look at the battles, at people breaking it down and saying what they saw, like people recounting the bullets flying by them,” Grisedale said. Schmidt, who said she has always been fascinated with the history of the Revolution, is currently researching the Quebec campaign. She will also research the role Loyalists, or Tories played in the Revolution.

Schmidt said she believes this course will be interesting, as the information about the battles will be based on firsthand accounts and primary sources. She and Grisedale are about a third of the way done with their research. Although professors typically gear these specialized classes toward upper-level history majors, Schmidt encourages people of all majors to consider taking the class. “I would not just limit the class to history people,” Schmidt said. “Everybody should know history, and it affects all of us as Americans.”

congressmen by name. He argued for the conventional Republican stances on Although libertarians and immigration sponsored by Republicans can agree on the Heritage Founmeasures to make governdation, including ment smaller, the debate bemaking English the tween seniors Razi Lane and official American Brendan Noble on immigralanguage, abolishtion showed that in terms of ment of sanctuary immigration policy, the two cities, reforming the groups stand opposed. legal immigration More than 100 students system, enhanced packed into Lane 124 to hear used of I-9 forms Lane and Noble debate the and E-Verify, and conservative and libertarian bolstering border positions on immigration on Brendan Noble and Razi Lane debated on security. Monday night. immigration. Brendan Noble | Courtesy “These are holistic The hour-long debate, reforms not just ecomoderated by sophomore Ian nomic ones,” Lane said. cated they often spar about English, was relatively tame. Noble, who extolled the Before the debate, sophomore current issues. economic benefits of easy Lane, clad in a white shirt, Mary Kate Boyle, a member immigration, had only a of the Fairfield Society, polled black blazer, and red tie a la few typed sheets of paper to Trump, spoke in the manner the audience members on reference but a stern criticism of a seasoned speech and their political ideologies. The of Lane’s position. debate student, rattling off poll showed Noble had some statistics and flashed stapled Noble supported natuconvincing to do, since the sheets of paper while he refralization of immigrants Republicans hands doubled erenced specific studies and the libertarians’. through a simpler process of

naturalization and extolled the benefits of the additional tax revenue such measures would bring. “We have to actually fix the problem,” Noble said. “Razi has not shown anything to fix the problem. His is a patchwork of little ideas that don’t actually solve the illegal immigration crisis or help the economy in the long run.” Noble and Lane both supported cutting illegal immigrants from welfare benefits, although Noble defended immigrants from Africa and South America and their ability to assimilate well into American society, claiming these groups have similar traditional Christian values. This sparked the largest point of discontent: concern over Lane’s position that the police should use their forces to break up and deport gangs in problem areas. Noble found Lane’s po-

sition unfounded. He referenced a study by the Cato Institute, which compared incarceration rates by migratory status, ethnicity and gender. “All immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than natives relative to their shares of the population,” the study said. “Police forces are already way too militarized in our countries,” Noble said. “What was the phrase Razi used? ‘We want to purge communities before crime takes place.’ Last time I checked, that sounds like Nazi Germany, not America.” Lane was not impressed with Noble’s unwillingness to acknowledge that breaking up gangs through police force would help protect the nation. “This demonstrates the utter callousness of libertarianism as a philosophy,” Lane said. “Brendan is a good man playing with a vile philoso-

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By | Megan Kerr Collegian Freelancer The debate team took top honors this weekend. Mary Blendermann | Courtesy

Debate wins top team at Lafayette By | Rowan Macwan Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College debate team won first place debate sweepstakes this weekend at a tournament at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The eight debaters competed in the Lincoln-Douglas debate style, finishing on top through it was the first competition of the season for seven of the members. Freshman Lucy Meckler and senior Alexandra Negrich won second place in the open division and novice division, respectively. Meckler also won first place debate speaker in the open division. Meckler said the whole team worked together to research the topic: police misconduct. Three debaters competed in speech events. Freshman Patrick Mitchell, who was competing for the first time, won first place in the persuasion category, and senior Mary Blendermann won second place in the impromptu category. Debate coach Matthew Doggett said he was really proud of the team, since the worst anyone did was to break even on wins and losses. In the final debate round in

the open division, Meckler’s opponent argued the federal government should increase regulations on police’s ability to confiscate materials from people. Doggett described Meckler’s arguments: “The federal government [would] require states to use their funds in certain ways…it is unconstitutional. Police, because regulations are unclear, are hamstrung—they just don’t act, [so] crime increases.” Meckler and Negrich both lost on 2-1 decisions. The tournament was the first one for freshman Justin Politzer, who went 3-3. “It was a trial by fire. I came in knowing basically nothing,” Politzer said. “I came out knowing basically how to debate.” Sophomore Kathleen Hancock said she enjoyed this tournament more than previous ones. “I feel more comfortable as a second-year debater, knowing people on the circuit and some of the coaches,” she said. Meckler said the 10-hour drive was miserable, but good for team bonding. “I’m really proud,” Meckler said. “It was definitely a team effort from start to finish.”

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Autumn is barely here, but Sigma Alpha Iota is ushering in winter at their annual Charity Ball. The women’s music fraternity is hosting their yearly philanthropy event in a 1903 Romanov Winter Ball theme. The formal gala will fall on Saturday, Oct. 14 from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Howard Music Hall. The donations will go to the Reading Community Schools’ music department. “We raise money for a certain area high school’s music program, and this year, we are raising money for Reading Schools because they are starting a competitive winter drumline,” Sigma Alpha Iota President senior Giannina Imperial said. “We chose them because they seemed very excited.” The event has a formal dress code, according to Charity Ball coordinator senior Emily Blatter, and features a raffle, dancing, and live performances by bands and the ladies of SAI. SAI started planning early, choosing a charity to fund and gathering donations for raffle prizes and decorations this summer. “I absolutely could not do this without my sisters,” Blatter said. There has been an effort to raise more awareness about the event. “We asked Dr. Arnn if he would be willing to involve himself this year, and he’s been sending letters to all the faculty, telling them about Charity Ball,” Imperial said. “With all the extra publicity going out this year and the faculty response, we’re expecting a large turnout.” College President Larry Arnn is involved in other ways as well. “In the earlier days of the ball, there would be a cocktail hour at Broadlawn for the faculty and the SAI seniors with Dr. Arnn,” Blatter said. “He was generous enough to bring that back this year for us.” Tickets can be purchased during lunch and dinner for $15 per individual, $25 per couple, and $50 per group of five people. “It is really great to give back to the community, especially music-wise,” Imperial said. “A lot of high schools don’t have a lot of funding for their music program, so we want to help out.”

Seniors spar over American immigration policy By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor

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Wildfires sweep California

Pence leaves NFL Game

At least 15 have died due to wildfires in Northern California on Tuesday. The fires began Sunday night and have spread across eight counties, damaging wineries and homes. Over 20,000 evacuated their homes.

Vice President Mike Pence left the Indiana Colts game on Sunday after players from the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the national anthem. Pence tweeted his departure saying, “…I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.”

Twitter blocks Blackburn’s pro-life message The pro-life movement is fired up after Twitter blocked Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s video Monday announcing her Senate bid. Twitter found her video, sharing her pro life views, “inflammatory” and potentially evoking a “strong negative reaction.”

phy.” Noble tried to explain the economic value of immigrants and their willingness to do jobs Americans would not do. In response, Lane focused on the humanity of each immigrant. “They are people, it is more than hiring just a pair of hands,” Lane said. “What they are hiring is a person with their own predilections and idiosyncrasies. This dehumanizing philosophy takes people and sells them as mere products.” Many students expressed they thought Lane defended his position well. “I think Mr. Lane won honestly,” freshman Spencer Rothfuss said. “He had sources and things to back him. He had both Heritage, which is super conservative, and Cato, which is super libertarian, to back him up.”

Much of Puerto Rico is still without electricity

U.S. team misses qualifier for World Cup

Puerto Rico is still struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. As of Tuesday, only 16 percent of the country has electricity and 40 percent still does not have running water. The New York Times reported that the death count has risen to 43.

For the first time in three decades, the U.S. men’s national soccer team will not participate in the World Cup finals. In a 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, the team failed to qualify for the first time since 1986.

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By | Madeline Fry Culture Editor The world’s highest humanitarian honor, the Nobel Peace Prize, went Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Considering what we’ve seen in the news about North Korea, that sounds like a good choice. There’s just one problem: The organization hasn’t done anything, and there’s a more deserving candidate. ICAN is a Geneva-based coalition of hundreds of non-governmental organizations whose contribution to the safety and security of the world consists of promoting a United Nations treaty against nuclear weapons. A piece of paper combatting nuclear warfare feels flimsy enough as is, but there’s another hiccup: None of the world’s nine nuclear powers — including the United States, China, Russia, and North Korea — have signed it. The Nobel Peace Prize committee could have instead taken the opportunity to celebrate a group that, rather than promoting an impractical ideal of world peace, has saved thousands of lives in a country ravaged by civil war. The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize should’ve gone to the White Helmets. The organization, also called the Syrian Civil Defense, sends emergency first-responders into dangerous territory to save innocents trapped between belligerents in Syria’s civil war. Hundreds of bombs barrage Syria each day, while President Bashar al-Assad and his government combat opposition forces. ISIS, which quickly joined the rebellion, now controls much of Eastern and Central Syria. This war has stretched on for six years and has resulted in almost 500,000 deaths. It generated the refugee crisis that has engulfed the region and spilled into Europe. It has also raised questions in the United States about how many refugees the government should accept. During that time, the White Helmets have rescued 90,000 souls. Launching unarmed into rebel-held areas, the rescuers save the injured

and unaided. They are not soldiers, but civilians. Some 3,000 White Helmets paramedics served the country and the White Helmets was the only rescue group still entering Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, according to a Wall Street Journal report last year. If that name sounds familiar, you may remember when Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson infamously asked an MSNBC reporter last fall, “What’s Aleppo?” The answer, according to the reporter, was “the epicenter of the refugee crisis.” “The White Helmets,” a film on the group, won Best Short Documentary in the Oscars this year. One scene reveals a rescuer pulling a wailing infant from fallen blocks of cement. He raises the child to the camera as voices around him cheer. For two years the White Helmets have received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s a shame that a group that sends rescuers into perilous situations and provides peace to thousands of victims of war lost to a committee of bureaucrats. The Syrian refugee crisis may not sound as dire as nuclear warfare. But the Nobel Peace Prize bears the most power when it’s connected to a people and a place. More than 150 White Helmets have died saving thousands of lives. Let’s honor heroes who have put in action, rather than words. With North Korea on the warpath, we want to hear talk about getting rid of nuclear weapons. But let’s stop giving awards to people who say the right things and get involved in the right issues. Save those awards for success. We cheapen peace by pretending it can be bought with a treaty. Real peace requires sacrifice. The White Helmets know it well. “In the White Helmets we have a motto,” says one volunteer in the trailer for the documentary. “To save a life is to save all of humanity.” Madeline Fry is a senior studying French.

Students looking to make the most of the last few weeks of nice weather should look no further than the front desk attendant of the Grewcock Student Union. A quick conversation can get students access to mountain bikes to use on Hayden Park’s trails and, come spring, paddleboards or kayaks to take on Baw Beese Lake. Students manning the desk can also direct students to Hayden Park’s new frisbee golf course and complementary driving range. Although the Student Activities Office offers many answers to the complaint

that “there’s nothing to do in Hillsdale,” many recreational resources are underused, Assistant Director of Student Activities Hank Prim said. “I think the disconnect starts with the fact that we are a very relational campus,” Prim said. “We can put as many posters up as we want, send out as many campus-wide emails, and put it all over social media, but at the end of the day, if the majority of people don’t know about something, they’re not going to spread the word.” Few people understand the struggle of small-town boredom — and its many

possible solutions — better than the alumni who direct the student activities office. They’re always available, and they can connect students to campus opportunities through the Student Activities Board, campus clubs, dorm residence life, or the GOAL Program. Hillsdale’s Chamber of Commerce also publishes a complete guide of all the things to do in Hillsdale, and students can pick up a copy at the SAB office. Prim said the Source, though students write it off as a freshmen-only event, is often used to alert students to new developments, such as

the frisbee golf course. SAB also has a Snapchat and Instagram (@hillsdale_ sab for both) and following its social media is a way to keep up to date on the activities offered to students, including weekday SAB events. All these resources are accessible simply by talking to the desk attendant in the union. “Before coming to Hillsdale, I think people are used to a lot of barriers before they can get things,” Prim said. “Our office’s goal is to chop down as many of those barriers to make things as accessible as possible.”

Congress needs to act on gun control, not whine about ‘politicization’ Conservatives and progressives are using the Las Vegas shooting to politicize the gun control debate. And that’s a good thing. While people on both ends of the political spectrum debate how to prevent mass shootings in the future, some have claimed the conversations are unnecessary politicizations of the tragedy. Most who decry politicization view it as an unjust exploitation of a tragedy’s victims to further a political ideology. Pro-second amendment politicians and pundits have derided their opponents in response to their statements: Their calls for stricter gun laws, defamation of the National Rifle Association, and emotional appeals to families who have been affected by gun violence. Those accused of politicization are portrayed as self-centered and heartless. People claim the politicizers only have policy proposals because they want to take away the rights of ordinary citizens

who will never commit acts of gun violence. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, came under proverbial fire from the right after tweeting out calls for stricter gun regulations and casting blame on the NRA. Though I may disagree with Clinton and Warren politically, I’m not cynical enough to doubt that they were genuinely disturbed by the shooting in Las Vegas. No, they weren’t calling for gun control measures because they despise the American founding and the philosophy of natural rights. And who gets to dictate a set period of mourning before discussions about gun violence may resume? We can simultaneously grieve with those in agony while ensuring that others don’t have to go through what too many have already experienced. The best way to grieve with and respect those who are mourning is by negotiating solutions that will prevent senseless acts of gun violence in the future. This is not an argument for or against gun restrictions. It

is an argument for the importance of this debate. Gun lobbyists shouldn’t automatically dismiss the debate as impractical or unconstitutional. Because what is the goal of debate? Action. Well-meaning Americans on both sides of the political spectrum don’t ever want to see a madman firing an automatic weapon into a crowd of tens of thousands. Clinton and Warren are right. It’s not enough to only send thoughts and prayers to Las Vegas. It’s also not enough to just engage in debate. Solutions are attainable and they must be enacted. But if ideologues shut down the debate before it begins, change can never happen. In 2012, President Obama took heat from his opponents because of his emotional press briefing after the senseless massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, Fox radio commentator Todd Starnes, and conservative columnist Ben Shapiro were among those who mocked Obama’s tearful response to the carnage. He

only wept, they said, because he wanted to win hearts over to his political ideology. But after the massacre of innocent children, what other way should the president of the United States respond? On 9/11, a collective nation looked to President Bush for words of strength and resolve in the face of terror. There were no cries against Bush’s politicization of the incident. Terrorism infiltrated America that day, just as it did in Nevada last week. Many disagreed with Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, just as many disagree with the left’s proposals to restrict gun access. Nevertheless, proposing ideas to thwart terrorism and gun violence in the future shouldn’t be met with contempt, but welcomed. Even since the tragedy in Las Vegas, more Americans have died because of gun violence. There is no time to wait. Disdain for politicization must not be a justification for inaction.

By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor For Americans, Spain is synonymous with Madrid, Barcelona, soccer, orange blossoms, paella, and Antoni Gaudí’s architecture. We are slow to think of Catalonia, a little autonomous region with a long history that overflows with national pride and cultural power that has spilled into many of our associations, including Barcelona, paella, and Gaudí. After the Oct. 1 Catalan referendum for independence from Spain, however, images of Catalan grandmothers with bleeding heads, pelted with rubber bullets by Spanish National Police for voting replaced these serene scenes. 1-O, as it’s come to be known, and its overwhelming “yes” turnout, is grabbing headlines and turning international heads toward the autonomous region of Spain. In the following denouement, Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders signed a largely symbolic declaration of independence while still leaving room for negotiations with the Spanish government, housed in Madrid. Stateside, however, it’s hard to get the full picture because we lack knowledge of the region’s complicated historical background. Engagement with Castellano-Catalan history alongside the current events, coupled with a consideration of our American historical paradigm, would mitigate the American tendency to oversimplify and reflexively take the underdog’s side. Non-Spanish media coverage of the recent events is frustratingly simplistic,

according to professor of history David Stewart, who has studied Catalan history extensively. He said it portrays two sides — the Catalans clamoring for independence now and the Spanish government wholly against it — when he says there are at least four factions. While most Catalans would consider themselves nationalist in the sense that they are proud of their region, their nationalism does not necessarily bear on when or whether they want independence, he says. There are the nationalists who want independence now, those who want independence later, and those who don’t want independence but still are nationalist. This is a crucial distinction. Reducing a conflict to two sides makes it easier to understand on the surface level, but opens up room for bad arguments when it comes to thinking about which side to support. That we privilege English, German, and French history over Spanish history for its relevance to our own only compounds the problem. An American paradigm, however, may actually help us begin to evaluate the circumstances, if we consider the striking similarities with two clinching moments in our history — the American Revolution and the Civil War. This interpretation, however, needs two important clarifications: Catalans have a longer memory than Americans and a shorter concept of distance. Ask any Catalan the most important date in the region’s fight, and she wouldn’t say 1-O, or even 2010, when Spain struck down a statute Catalonia proposed in 2006

for independence. She’d point to 1714, the year of The War of Spanish Succession. Prior to the war, Catalonia enjoyed the autonomy possible in a region divided into kingdoms. Then, the King of Spain stormed Barcelona, imposed unity with strict laws, and stripped Catalans of their administrative freedom. This state of affairs, Catalans argue, persists today, with Madrid depending financially on Barcelona to support the country with money Catalans hold should stay in Catalonia. In this light, perhaps Americans can better understand the Catalan position. We too can point to economic and political oppression from England that built up into a breaking point in 1776, with our Declaration of Independence. At this point, though, 1776 is a historical fact, not a debate. But for Castellanos, 1714 is contentious and for Catalans, alive. This tension, arguably, elongates the collective Catalan memory. The next important date is 1978. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who attempted to systematically destroy Catalan culture through harsh restrictions on language, had died four years ago, and Spain has just drafted a constitution declaring the state indissoluble. When Cata-

lonia drafted its own regional constitution for Spain to review, it tried to declare itself autonomous. Spain struck down the document and forced revisions. This is the heart of the back-and-forth: Catalan tries to declare autonomy, claim nationhood, and call for a vote, and Spain says, “No, these are all unconstitutional.” If we consider the Civil War, the South’s attempts at emancipation and Abraham Lincoln’s refusal, we find another way of interpreting the conflict. Is it really the case Catalans are invoking their God-given rights because of a long train of abuses? Or is their request to leave unjust and reactionary? These questions can help guide our considerations of the issue, but we can only begin to pose them once we’ve studied the events in Castellano-Catalan history that have led to this moment. To immediately compare this to America’s struggle for independence, call it sufficient, and let it limit our observations rejects the nuance of the situation and disservices the complex history in that corner of the Iberian Peninsula.

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MLB teams must extend safety netting to protect fans, players By | Stevan Bennett Jr. Assistant Editor As we enter the second week of the MLB postseason, broadcasters and commentators have given ample airtime to issues such as pace of play, the designated hitter, and the proper place for unwritten rules. They have not, however, given sufficient discussion to the most important issue in baseball: fan safety. On Sept. 20, a young girl was hit in the face by a 105 mph line drive off the bat of New York Yankees third baseman Todd Frazier. Play stopped for about four minutes as players and fans took a knee to pray for the toddler whose face was soaked in blood. Frazier crouched near the ondeck circle, distraught. Brian Dozier, second baseman for the Minnesota Twins, spoke to reporters about the incident after the game.

“I still have a knot in my stomach,” he said. “I never look. For some reason I did. Right in the face. Little kid.” Tom Barton, A fan sitting a few rows behind the girl, spoke to the New York Times after the game. “That was a screaming line drive,” he told the Times. “I just wanted to cry for this little kid. There was so much blood.” The young girl is doing “much better,” according to the family, but she has a long recovery in front of her. While the situation is awful, we should be thankful. This young girl is lucky to have escaped with her life; a true tragedy was narrowly avoided. Baseball has a history of waiting for tragedy to strike before taking comprehensive action. Notably, as USA Today writer Bob Nightengale pointed out, MLB didn’t force base coaches to wear helmets until

a foul ball killed Colorado Rockies minor-league coach Mike Coolbaugh on July 22, 2007. MLB owes it to its fans and its players to require all 30 teams to extend safety netting past the dugouts, before a fullblown tragedy strikes. After the incident, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred encouraged teams to extend their safety nets, and some teams obliged, announcing that the change will take effect for the 2018 season. Several, however, haven’t, often citing fan experience and opinion as reasons for allowing 30-40 100 MPH projectiles to be launched into crowds every game. These concerns are insufficient and unfounded. Watching a game through the type of netting that teams would place in front of dugouts doesn’t take away from the fan experience. In fact, the fans who buy the most expen-

sive seats often choose to sit directly behind home plate, watching the game through protective nets. This summer, a colleague of mine attended a minor-league game, where he sat a few rows behind a dugout with a protective screen above it. He said he barely noticed the netting.. I’m sure if a 116 MPH foul ball — such as the one off of the bat of Yankee outfield Aaron Judge last week — had come screaming for him, however, he would have noticed the net, and would have been thankful for its placement. Even if netting did disrupt the fan experience, that would not justify avoiding its extension. We must drop the macho idea that we can look out for ourselves at baseball games. There is simply too much at stake to trust a parent with a beer in one hand and a hot

dog in the other to protect kids from lethal projectiles. Attending baseball games should be pleasurable and settling in the behind the safety net allows it to be just that. Even at our own Simpson Field the Hillsdale College baseball team installed further netting, a step head coach Eric Theisen said was imperative to safety of our hometown fans. “I’m in the third base coach’s box and I’m worried about people dying during our game, when I should be worried about our game,” he said. “...When I go to a major league game, and sit in those seats behind the dugout, I’m on constant alert. And there is no way you will ever see me try to catch a foul ball.” After the incident on Sept. 20, Frazier choked his way through a locker-room interview. “At third base, I watch every foul ball that’s hit very

hard,” he said. “Some of them don’t hit anybody. It’s just really unlucky. It’s tough. I thought of my kids. I have two kids under three years old. I just hope she’s alright.” As fans, we have a duty in this regard. Contact your favorite team and the office of the commissioner. Write a letter or make a call — the vessel for the message is unimportant. Let the owners and the commissioner know that you’re in favor of extended safety netting. There is no reason to wait until a family has to deal with the tragic loss of a loved one and some poor player is forced to live with the reality that the death blow came from his bat. Stevan Bennett Jr. is a senior studying economics.

This time of year is always special. The weather cools. The colors change: Everything seems to turn orange and smell like pumpkin spice. The leaves on the trees also change color, and the campus starts to look so lovely, especially the west side of campus with its amphitheatre and its new rock-studded sidewalk. But you can’t really see any of that driving down Hillsdale Street because of the line of rusty 10 to 15-year-old cars driven by off-campus students, most of whom probably haven’t registered their cars with security and therefore can’t risk parking in the designated lots. Which I totally understand. It’s more convenient than Hillsdale College’s parking lots, and you don’t have to pay anything to park there. It just makes sense economically: save time and money. For the record: I am certainly not speaking from experience, nor can I suggest not registering your car because students are required to register their cars. Back when I was a freshman, there were parking spots on campus. Now that I live off campus and need to drive up the hill, there are none. Maybe I’m just now realizing the problem exists, or maybe it’s due to the fact that the college decided to build a Tolkien-esque tower and a new women’s dorm at the same time. Either way, there are very few spots to park and fewer that are actually convenient for students to use.

“Well,” some of the less sympathetic among you will condescend, “What’s wrong with parking over by the Simpson parking lot?” “What’s wrong” is how inconvenient parking is. I drive my car because it’s convenient. I use paper towels because they’re convenient. How about you use a flip phone? Or take the stairs every time? Why don’t you wear your clothes backward so that you can’t put your hands in your pockets when your fingers get cold? There’s nothing wrong with wanting convenience, and if we’re going to pay $50 for a place to park, is it too much to ask that it be within a few miles of where we need to be every day? Let me put it this way: Do you know how many burritos you can buy from Taco Bell with $50? Forty-seven Beefy Fritos Burritos (you gotta save $3 for tax). If we’re spending that many burritos on registering our cars, it would be nice to get to class a few minutes after parking (if it’s not too much to ask for). Right now, the most convenient places to park are actually owned by the

city: Manning Street is good, Hillsdale Street is usually crowded, but very convenient, and Summit Street also works in a pinch. Parking there also means you don’t actually need to register (again, not an action that I condone). But, I’ve never seen anyone get a ticket for parking on Hillsdale Street, even in front of fire hydrants and too close to the corner. Plus, Hillsdale’s new parking policy means that students who don’t register their cars will be fined $75 plus the infraction fine, so it might just be worth taking your chances with the cops. If security wanted more students to register their cars, they should have something to offer them instead of long walks through historic Hillsdale just to get to class. Maybe students could receive vouchers for ice cream from A.J.’s Café or other incentives. But as it is, the students aren’t getting enough parking spaces to make it worth all 47 burritos.

mosexuality aren’t his only controversial views. He has shared articles on Facebook indicating support for a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. This type of ban, unlike Trump’s travel bans, would ban immigrants based exclusively on religion. It may be naïve to suggest that should Moore be elected, his views toward criminalizing homosexuality or banning Muslims would be at the forefront of his own legislative goals. One senator’s views would not necessarily define the entire Republican Party’s agenda. Nevertheless, supporters of a candidate with such extreme ideas deserve a cautionary note: In America, we don’t choose the policies, we choose the representatives. As a member of the Republican Party, Moore’s disturbing stances suddenly call into question not just his immediate supporters’ views, but all Republicans that fail to condemn him. Former White House strategist Karl Rove raised this point: “Republicans will be asked, ‘Do you agree homosexuality should be punished by death, do you believe 9/11 was a result of God’s anger?’ He’ll say outrageous things, the media will play it up, and every Republican will be asked, ‘Do you agree with

that?’” Contrary to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s suggestion, a vote for Moore is not a vote for Donald Trump. Unlike Trump, Moore is a man who believes he is on a moral crusade to

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, One of the more light-hearted parts of homecoming week at Hillsdale College is the annual wing-eating competition. Of all of the things that twenty-first century Americans could be offended about, you’d think this would be the last. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Last week, senior Rose Schweizer wrote to The Collegian complaining about the wing-eating during Homecoming, saying “Eating contests do not promote school spirit but rather the spirit of gluttony. Hillsdale College purports to follow the tradition of Aristotle, who recommends moderation in all things. Where is the mediation as you devour 12 wings

in three minutes?” At Hillsdale, we worship the classics. What would Aristotle say about eating as many wings as you can in three minutes? What layer of Dante’s hell would participating in a wing-eating competition send you to? Such moral posturing is comical. Rather than running every imaginable human activity through the Aristotle/ Hillsdale litmus test, why not simply enjoy something that happens only once a year and gets plenty of people pumped up with pride and spirit for their dorm, fraternity, or sorority? And if that’s not your thing, then no problem. No one is forcing anybody to attend. Plus, 12 wings in three minutes? Come on. I took care of 18 wings in less time

than that. It was great having guys from Galloway Residence behind me, cheering me on as I used the best wing-eating techniques I unearthed from YouTube videos earlier that day. For wings with two bones, you grip the end of both bones tightly in one hand and pull off all the meat in one bite. For wings with just one bone, you grip both ends of the bone with both hands, dig your teeth into the wing, and rotate it, chewing off all the meat in a matter of seconds. Call me gluttonous. I call it fun and tasty. S. Nathaniel Grime is a sophomore studying Rhetoric and Public Address.

Roy Moore’s policies threaten the Republican Party By | Ben Dietderich Collegian Reporter Homosexuality is a criminal offense punishable by death in 13 countries — all are Muslim majority. In 74 countries, all of which are in South America, Asia, and Africa, homosexual acts are considered a criminal offense. If Christian Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore, who was a chief justice on the Alabama Supreme Court, had his way, he would outlaw homosexual acts in the United States, too. CNN reported in 2005 that when Moore was asked by a reporter whether he thought homosexual acts should be illegal in the U.S., he said: “homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes.” Moore has appeared on “Generation Radio,” hosted by pastor Kevin Swanson. Swanson is well known for being a strong promoter of the death penalty as punishment for homosexual acts. Moore appeared on the show at least five times, as recently as February. Three years ago, Moore condemned the the City Council of Huntsville, Alabama, for “allowing” citizens to exercise their First Amendment rights in a pride parade. Moore’s views on ho-

CNN reported that when Moore explained why he believed beastility and homosexuality should be illegal in the U.S., he cited the American Founding. “It is a moral precept upon which this country was found-

Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is running for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Facebook

purge America of immorality. “I want to see virtue and morality returned to this country,” Moore said.

ed,” Moore said. Moore has also called Islam a “false religion” on several occasions, suggesting that it

deserves no protection under the First Amendment. Condemning Moore is not a condemnation of Christian values. It is a staunch defense of their preservation. It is one thing to believe homosexuality is a sin or to believe solely in traditional marriage. It is entirely different to believe gays should be treated as criminals and deprived of their First Amendment rights. Justice comes in different forms. The government does not judge every aspect of our life. Conservatives should rejoice over this point. In the end, God is the ultimate judge of morality, not Roy Moore or the United States government. Our nation has always been one where, in the interest of preserving individual liberty, not all acts of immorality constitute criminality. If we did legislate morality, then the Constitution would be a lot longer. When debate surfaces over when criminality comes into play, Moore’s views resonate so negatively that they harm the conversation, rather than help it. When Moore threatens to jail homosexuals, he not only turns middle-minded Americans away from the Republican Party, he turns them away from believing religious motivations should have a role in politics. Moore does not help Christian conservatives fight

the culture wars, he harms their cause. Moore is not the only person of concern. Bannon is so engaged with his “global revolution” to restore sovereignty and bring about “economic nationalism,” he does not care about means of getting there. This is reckless and dangerous. It is not enough to simply vote for people who declare that they will restore the Constitution and traditional values. Words matter, the details matter, and in this case, the details suggest Moore misunderstands the Constitution, which threatens its preservation. Moore might help Republicans. He could be a team player and give the extra vote needed to pass Republican legislation. But Republicans should beware. The bombastic rhetoric of Moore may be a breath of fresh air from the swamp, but no freshness changes Moore’s perverted vision of America. His vision, and perhaps Bannon’s, are both unconstitutional and at odds with the Republican Party of the last 150 years. They cannot coexist. Ben Dietderich is a sophomore studying political economy and Rhetoric and Public Address.

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Here’s to You Pub & Grub now offers Eggs Benedict and biscuits and gravy on its brunch menu. Mark Naida | Collegian

Here’s to You Pub & Grub introduces brunch menu By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor

On the back wall of Here’s to You Pub & Grub there hangs a framed flour sack from F. W. Stock & Sons labeled “Stock’s Brand Wheat.” It reminds patrons of a time when Hillsdale residents woke early and bustled about their kitchens cooking their own hearty food. Now, their favorite bar is carrying on that tradition of hearty, homemade breakfast food. “We are just another breakfast option, but we are the only place that serves breakfast and a drink on Saturdays,” owner Kevin Conant said.

Two weeks ago, Pub & Grub added a brunch menu served on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8 a.m. until noon. Breakfast beers are included only on Saturday mornings, since restaurants cannot serve beer and wine until noon — and liquor can’t be sold at all — on Sundays in Hillsdale County. Owner Kevin Conant and his staff began to look into new menu items two months ago, and after much tweaking and experimentation, they opened the menu to the public. And it isn’t just bacon and eggs cooked to order. Pub & Grub’s menu features classic fare like corn beef hash, quiche, and French toast

Meijer seeks to open new store on M-99 By | Kaylee McGhee City News Editor Meijer confirmed this week it is looking to open its first location in Hillsdale County. The privately owned corporation based in Grand Rapids is working to purchase a plot of land — nearly 50 acres and located in Fayette Township — on West Carleton Road, located between Frank Beck Chevrolet and Beck Road, according to Fayette Township Supervisor John Kalusniak. Kalusniak said discussion between Meijer and the property owner has taken place over the past six months and plans are now beginning to take shape. Fayette Township approved a zoning change in township board meeting on Oct. 2, changing the property’s status from agricultural to industrial, contingent on the property’s purchase. Kalusniak said this was the first step in finalizing negotiations with Meijer. “The next step is to see if Meijer will purchase the property,” he said in a phone interview. “Everything is contingent on that next step.” A media representative from Meijer confirmed the potential expansion and said although there are no official plans, the company has signed a preliminary purchase agreement with the property owner. Kalusniak said Fayette

Township and the City of Hillsdale will have to reach a 425 agreement — a contract that will allow both cities to benefit from tax revenues resulting from the expanded development — because Fayette Township would be unable to provide water and sewer for the new business. Kalusniak said residents have voiced concerns about the impending expansion, citing concerns over traffic flow, lighting, and property taxes. Fayette Township will have to review its traffic light placements in the nearby area, if the purchase is finalized, he said. Kalusniak said he does not think small business will suffer if Meijer moves to Hillsdale County. The new company will bring competition, he said, but more so to Walmart than to local shops. “Meijer will also bring jobs to Hillsdale County,” Kalusniak said. “There will be construction jobs and store ones. We need that.” Despite concerns, Kalusniak said overall, Meijer would be a good addition to the community. “It would be a big improvement to the area and the county,” he said. “We’ve been trying to develop that area between Hillsdale and Jonesville for a while, so the more businesses we can get in there, the better.”

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alongside delicate dishes of Eggs Benedict and hearty platefuls of biscuits and gravy. The best thing about it? It’s all homemade. “The menu has more home-cooked, non-processed

Grub has always made food quality a priority, Ray said. “We have always had a high-end menu,” he said. The pub serves a regular dinner menu with craft burgers. It smokes its own

“We are the only place that serves breakfast and a drink on Saturdays.” food. With the hash browns, I come in a peel potatoes. I grind the sausage every morning before the shift,” manager Robb Ray said. Unlike many bars, Pub &

meats and has also featured Kobe beef burgers and their chili cheese fries were ranked among the best in the state by MLive. Carly Hubbard ’16 said she

has been eating at Pub & Grub for seven years. “Some of their specials are crazy with great cuts of meats with homemade sauces. The reuben is so so good,” she said. “They have the sauce down to a science.” Hubbard said she is excited about the new brunch menu. For dinner at the pub, she usually orders the Jessica Burger, a beef patty topped with bacon, cheddar cheese, and an over-easy egg. “It is so messy, that if you aren’t walking out with a stain on your shirt you are doing it wrong,” she said. The staff of Pub & Grub does not serves the entrees alone either. Four of the six breakfast platters are served

with a side of crispy, golden hash browns that seem like a regal delicacy compared to the hash browns that are more commonly mashed than hashed. “Most places use commercial hashbrowns which already have a coating on them. Ours are fresh and fried in butter,” Conant said. Breakfast platters range from $6 to $10 and a small breakfast from the a la carte menu is less than $5. There are many options for a conventional breakfast in Hillsdale County, but Pub & Grub offers unique fare and, if you are up for it, a drink to start the day.

Storm leaves minimal damage By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor Saturday evening’s storm left fallen trees and damaged property in its wake. The student residents of 10 E. Fayette Street watched as a tree crashed into their house. “My housemates heard a whoosh sound followed by a really loud crash that seemed to shake the house. One of the guys was wearing noise cancelling headphones and still heard it,” senior John Speer, a resident of the house, said in an email. The tree cracked down the middle, half of it landing on their roof at about 10 p.m., senior Hans Noyes said. “The wind starts to pick up more and more,” Noyes said. “We left a side window open, which is where the tree is — right by the door. The moment we hit the window down, there was a simultaneous noise, and then there was a big flash of white — it turns

out it hit all the power cords, The first story porch and the live wires were sparking.” second story window were Noyes said he and a friend covered in branches of a tree made sure his fellow housethat Noyes said was 30 or 40 mates feet tall. were safe Within before 10 minreturning utes, the to the fire dewindow partment to see arrived, what had who left hap“most of pened. the tree “All on the of the house,” sudden until the wincutting dow was down the crowded rest on with Sunday branchmorning. es and Sgt. leaves,” Steve he said. Pratt “We of the didn’t Hillsdale realize The storm caused a tree to fall on a Fayette City that the Street house. John Speer | Courtesy Police tree had Departfallen, we just thought it was ment said that the old trees in lightning.” Hillsdale cause a risk during

storms. Old trees pose a legitimate threat during heavy storms, Pratt said, since Hillsdale works to conserve them throughout the city. “One of the beautiful things about the City of Hillsdale is we have all these nice mature trees, but that’s also one of hazards of living in Hillsdale,” he said. While he said he could not see much damage at the student house, he said the trees can “be a constant issue for us.” “The tree was a very, very old maple tree,” he said. “During storm season we have trees and limbs come down often. The city has a forester on staff who basically goes around and checks the condition and health of our trees, and just the care of Hillsdale’s trees.” Noyes said that for such a big tree, the damage was minimal. “We were really fortunate and blessed to not get hurt,” Noyes said.

Jilly Beans’ College Night offers discounts, later hours By | Chandler Lasch Web Editor Jilly Beans expanded its hours with the hope that college students will visit the coffee shop to study and enjoy special perks. Every Tuesday, Jilly Beans is now open until 10 p.m., specifically to accommodate students. Additionally, the coffee shop is now open on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Customers will have a chance to receive extra punches on punch cards or free items such as coffee and cookies on Tuesday nights. “We will be doing something special each of those days,” said owner Mary Ellen Sattler, who purchased the coffeehouse last March. “We’d like some feedback on what the students would like to see.” Jilly Beans will continue to offer soups, chili, and paninis into the evenings, in order to keep up what Sattler de-

scribed as “more of a homey feel.” She also encouraged customers to visit the secret garden, a patio and garden behind the coffee shop. “The secret garden is beautiful in the evenings,” Sattler said. “We have the twinkle lights up and it is truly enchanting! And the wifi works out there!” Katie Crowley is an employee of Jilly Beans and a junior at Jackson College. She came up with the idea of staying open late one night a week to attract college students. “As a college student, I thought of places people could go to get away from school and the library and all that and still be able to succeed in their studies,” Crowley said. “I love the environment of Jilly Beans. I thought the late night would be a great way to study with friends, have coffee, and have a sense of a home away from home.” Both Sattler and Crowley said that some college students have been visiting on

Tuesday nights, as have local residents, but many people do not know about the extended hours. “It’s amazing how many stop in and are surprised to know that we are open later on certain days as well as Sunday,” Sattler said. She said that she hopes to see more college students come by. Senior Duncan Voyles said that he visits Jilly Beans twice a week, and is usually there on Tuesday nights. “I like that Jilly Beans puts life at school in perspective by reminding me of life outside it,” Voyles said. “Whether it’s listening to a group of men who’ve gathered to shoot the breeze over their morning coffee or watching kids eagerly pick from the menu when their mother brings them in after school, classes and responsibilities seem less all-consuming when these little things remind me of life beyond completing the next assignment.”

He added that Jilly Beans is one of his favorite places to study, whether that means working hard in an atmosphere that’s not too distracting, or having a good time reading with friends. Crowley said that the extra perks offered on Tuesdays are good incentives for students, and that more ideas are planned. For instance, students may be able to suggest drinks they would like to have, and become the namesake if the drink is chosen. “Sometimes the first drink is on the house to get them in,” Crowley said. “We want to show students we appreciate them coming.” Voyles said that these extra treats help make college night even better. “As an economics major, I can get behind incentives,” he said. “Between the punch card triple punches and first-time free drinks, Jilly Beans is slaying the incentives game.”

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St. Anthony’s raises $13,000 in parking fundraiser By | Regan Meyer Collegian Freelancer The St. Anthony’s fair parking fundraiser raked in nearly $13,000 for various church causes, making it the biggest fundraiser of the year. Charging $3 per car, church volunteers directed cars into open parking spots at the Catholic cemetery next to the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds. The fundraiser has been around for years, beginning in 1967. “St. Anthony began supervised parking in the unused portion of our cemetery facing M-99 around 1967. Prior to the supervised parking, some fairgoers were parking in the cemetery, sometimes parking on graves and often causing damage to the grounds,” a statement from St. Anthony’s said. Closing the cemetery gates did not eliminate the problem as there were other gates to this private cemetery. According to the statement, the St. Anthony Men’s club experimented with supervised parking about 1967. They parked several hundred vehicles that year. Fair parking has continued in one form or another since the church began. Tom Osbourne, co-chairman of the Fair Parking Fundraiser and treasurer of the cemetery, has been involved with the fundraiser for upward of 35 years. The $12,845.75 brought in this year will be distributed much like it has in previous years, he said. “Last year, it was 50 percent to the Men’s Club, 20 percent to St. Anthony’s, 30 percent

to the cemetery,” Osbourne said. “In the last two years, we’ve put in about 300-feet of wrought iron fence in the cemetery.” This year, the cemetery is keeping 75 percent of it and the Men’s Club is getting 25 percent. Just so we have some money to build some more wrought iron fence,” Osbourne said. Osbourne said he can remember a time when the church had nearly 160 volunteers signed up to help with fair parking. It has dropped significantly in the past few years, with an estimated 100 to 120 volunteers. About 20 percent of those volunteers are Hillsdale students, he said. “We did two official nights of fair parking. I’d say we had a total of 15 students participate,” said junior and Catholic Society President, Sammy Roberts. “However, several students signed up for a block of their own accord. I know for a fact that Friday, several students just went at their own initiative and took a block when the parish needed some extra hands.” Besides being a service to the parish, Roberts said that it’s a great way to get involved at St. Anthony’s. “It’s a nice way to get to know the parishioners. One of the things I’m trying to emphasize this year is recognizing that St. Anthony’s is our home parish. Students know you’re here nine out of the 12 months of the year, so this is more of your home parish than the one in your home state,” Roberts said. “So get involved. Do stuff like this.”

“This is more of your home parish than the one in your home state. So get involved. Do stuff like this.”

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force so officers can administer Narcan Nasal Spray, an opioid-blocker, in emergency situations. But Stockford said he would like to see Hillsdale obtain a Drug Enforcement Administration-licensed doctor, who can prescribe

controlled substances such as morphine, codeine, and diazepam. He said there are some in Coldwater and Jackson, but the government limits each physician to 30 patients. He also suggested forming a K-9 unit for sniffing out drugs. If Hillsdale develops a reputation for how it deals with illegal drug use, it will

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Tucked away on a dirt road in Osseo, Michigan, ProEdge Arena is a picture-perfect farm. Bulls low in their pens, just steps away from both the arena and the home of owners Cari and Earl Proctor. Their 10-year-old son, Strand, darts around with the dogs, stopping only to sell home-made creations to a visiting family friend. While it might be a snapshot throughout the week, Saturday nights at ProEdge Arena are wild. ProEdge Arena hosts bull-riding, the second season of which is set to open Saturday. The arena hosts 24 events over the season, which pack the wooden stadium seats with upward of 300 people. An audience member will see between 40 and 45 bull-rides each Saturday, of both advanced and novice riders. The riders — between 30 and 45 compete each week — square off for prize money, as well as points that count toward a national standing. “It’s non-stop, in-your-face,

energetic — there’s really no downtime,” said Cari Proctor. The arena makes the event a family affair, even sporting a sandbox in the corner. Some families come practically every weekend, according to Cari Proctor. ProEdge Arena doesn’t bring just bulls to the ring. Owners Cari and Earl Proctor also use the sport as a ministry. “We wanted to reach the cowboys — and the community, of course — with the gospel,” Cari Procter said. And this outreach is more than a simple pre-ride prayer. The whole arena is steeped in Christianity, from the Christian music they play during the event to the tile cross embedded into the arena entrance. The couple prays over which song to play at the beginning of the night. They also host a gospel message and prayer before Saturday’s event. Cari Proctor noted it isn’t a full church service, but, rather, “a little bit of study beforehand.” Earl Proctor, who rode bulls professionally for 16 years, said he knows of some

Civil War reenactors stand beside the new historical marker in Lewis Emery Park. Anna Timmins | Collegian

For those who fought Lewis Emery Park dedicated to the Civil War heroes who trained there By | Anna Timmis Assistant Editor Lewis Emery Park is now recognized as a historic site, dedicated to the 1,062 Union soldiers of the 18th Michigan Infantry Regiment, which included seven Hillsdale College students. Reenactors of the 18th Regiment attended a dedication ceremony on Saturday, along with residents and members of the Michigan Historical Commission. The sound of a bullet volley ricocheted across the water at the ceremony’s close, reminding onlookers of a time when deadly conflict darkened our nation, reaching even Hills-

dale. In 1861, men from Hillsdale and surrounding towns gathered to form the 18th Michigan Regiment, training at Camp Woodbury — now Lewis Emery Park — on top of a hill on State Street near Lewis Emery’s house. A subdivision now sits where the men once trained. Training in park’s ponds allowed the men to navigate through the swampy landscape of Alabama. Bill Smith, president of the 18th Michigan’s reenactors group, headed the charge to make the park a historical site after a rigorous research process and long wait for the Commission’s approval. Linda

deter future users, he said. “I want dealers to know if you get caught dealing hard drugs in the City of Hillsdale, the book will get thrown at you,” he said. He said the police officers have employed their resources to face the drug problem, but the city government has done less than it could have.

Sessions and Stockford both voted against permitting medical marijuana dispensaries or growing facilities in Hillsdale at a city council meeting last month. Sessions emphasized that he didn’t want to bring any more drugs into Hillsdale. “We don’t need any more drugs in the community,” he

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people that have committed themselves to the faith because of the work they do. One such person is Cody Walden, 24, who works on the farm. The Proctors invited him to church and although he was skeptical at first, Walden soon committed himself to the faith. Being a Christian has made him work harder at bull-riding, Walden said. “I feel like God’s given me more strength in my heart and head,” he said. The Proctors also plan on hosting full Sunday church services in the future, and their son is working on a kid’s message for the Saturday events. “It’s a creative way to reach the lost,” Earl Proctor said. “We decided if we weren’t doing something to glorify God, then what’s the point?” ProEdge Arena is located at 2325 Blackridge Rd., Osseo, Michigan. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for 13 and older, $5 for ages 6 to 12, and free for children under 5. The first event of the season is Saturday.

Moore, Hillsdale College’s public service librarian, and Mitchell Resource Center volunteers helped him discover and confirm the historical significance of the unassuming spot. “We got a notice back in June, I think it was, that it was approved, and what we had to go through was a lot of red tape,” Smith said. “We sent two packets in and it was about a pound a piece. You have to have documents of everything that goes on, what was there, documents that Emery owned the land, and then documents that showed that he let the army use the land to train on, and we did a lot of research, a lot of said. “I don’t want to see it brought in any more than it already is.” Drug users in Hillsdale County who are looking for help with addictions can contact the Hillsdale County Sheriff ’s Office, Sheriff Timothy Parker said. The Michigan State Police Angel Program offers qualified individuals

research.” Thomas Truscott of Lansing is on the Michigan Historical Commission, and attended Hillsdale College. He has been involved in approving the placement of historical sites around Michigan. “I’ve had the honor of doing probably close to a hundred markers,” he said. As a student at Hillsdale, he was a history major, and recalls studying Hillsdale soldiers’ Civil War sacrifices. He attended Saturday’s dedication ceremony of the little-known heroes of Hillsdale, saying that coming back to Hillsdale feels like coming home. the chance to go through rehab without facing jail time. “If somebody comes in and indicates they want to be part of that program, staff can see if they could be a candidate,” Parker said.

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Depleted women’s cross country team takes fifth at Conference Crossover By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor Hillsdale women’s cross country finished fifth at the Conference Crossover at Lewis University in suburban Chicago on Saturday, dropping to third in the region behind Walsh University and tenth in the nation according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. “We lost to Walsh by only four points,” assistant coach Samantha Kearney said. “The girls are using that as motivation. They know it’s not going to be given, not just a walk in the park, but they know we’ve got the talent and ability.” Cal Baptist won the meet, upsetting the Midwest’s topranked team Grand Valley State. Alaska Anchorage came in third and Walsh in fourth. Kearney said Cal Baptist will be a tough team going forward. Northern Michigan came in sixth, and

between Walsh, Hillsdale, and Northern Michigan, it was a close battle. Senior Hannah McIntyre was the Chargers’ top runner at the 6K course, finishing with a time of 21:54.7, and seventh overall in the race. “It was a fun meet, it felt more low key, it felt like a high school meet,” McIntyre said, describing the course’s bare-bones atmosphere that lowered the pressure of the meet. “I wish I ran faster, and I think that’s the case for the whole team.” The course seemed chill, she said, until she reached a big hill about 200 meters after the starting line that the runners had to haul up. It was also a mental course, she said, for making decisions and choosing not to fall back. But she said having a team that is real and open pushed her to keep pushing herself. Behind McIntyre were a pair of freshmen: Maryssa Depies, 33rd overall with a

time of 22:34.8, and Christina Sawyer, who was 39th overall with a time of 22:41.5. Depies said she kept in front of the pack and constantly passed runners. “Personally, I was really happy with the race, I’d been struggling with health issues,” Depies said. “It felt so good, I felt my legs for the first time in a long time.” She said her legs felt like bricks when she ran and would go numb to the point where she couldn’t notice them beneath her. “There’s more in my tank, I can do more,” Depies said. “I’m not satisfied with my time.” As for the two runners senior Maddie Richards and freshman Megan Poole, who raced in Lansing this weekend, Kearney said Poole finished No. 1 for Hillsdale, 20 seconds off her personal record, and is adjusting to collegiate running after racing more frequently in high

school. She said Richards has been out for about two years due to injuries that kept her from competing. “This is her first year competing since sophomore year here,” Kearney said. “It’s about getting back to the level she wants to be at, having a racing mindset. That’s a really good thing to see from someone who has had her path here.” The team won’t run until the G-MAC championships, the first championship meet of the season, on Oct. 21 in Nashville, Tennessee. Kearney said the girls are looking to go head-to-head at Walsh and Cedarville. The remaining two meets will be regionals and nationals. “This season has been a blast,” McIntyre said. “We’re all on the same page. We’re working on being real and open with each other. We really want to make it real.”

Senior Hannah McIntyre led the Chargers this weekend, running the 6K race in 21:54.7, finishing seventh overall. Evan Carter | Courtesy

Chargers in the community: Hilldale athletics give back By | Nicole Ault Assistant Editor When junior offensive lineman Tyler Scholl visits fourth-graders at Gier Elementary every week, they ask him when he’ll be back. And they’re disappointed when he reminds them they have to wait another week — even though he’s been doing this for two years.

Scholl is one of 14 Hillsdale College football players who read to Gier Elementary students and help them with math and reading skills for about an hour every week, according to Jill Shreffler, a 4thgrade teacher at the school. Shreffler helped start the volunteer program about 12 years ago at Mauck Elementary with her husband, assistant football coach Nate Shreffler. They moved the program to

Senior football player Jordon Harlamert reads with Gier Elementary fourth grader Matthew Dunning. Jill Shreffler | Courtesy

Gier when Mauck closed in 2010, Jill Shreffler said. No one requires the football players to go, but Nate Shreffler said he’s seen an eagerness to help; about a dozen players sign up every semester. “Our guys genuinely have a desire to give back,” Nate Shreffler said. “I don’t push it on them or anything, and we always have a lot of guys that jump on it.” The volunteer work is rewarding, Scholl said, noting that many of the 4th-graders know him well since he helped the 3rd-grade class last year. Most days, he’ll listen to 4th-graders read to 1st-graders, then sit with students as they read and write letters to pen pals, answering their questions about spelling and how to decipher cursive. Last week, he helped out with a science experiment, too. “The highlight of the time would be just how excited the kids get when you show up,” he said. He arrives early, just as the kids’ recess is ending, so he can say “hi.” The boys ask him all about football and the girls chatter to him about things he doesn’t understand, he said, but he nods and engages when he can. He enjoys the funny moments: Once, a kid came up to him in the hall and said, “You’re really big. Are you a 5th-grader?” “They think you know everything,” he said. Ever since the students learned he’s in a Spanish class, he said, they ask

him to translate everything into Spanish. “It’s cool how much they appreciate you taking an hour out of your week,” Scholl said. “The Chargers are excellent role models for our students,” Jill Shreffler said in an email. “We’ve been fortunate to have Chargers football players volunteer for many years and all of the feedback I’ve received from teachers, students, parents and players has been extremely positive. It is also a great connection between the college and the community.” For head football coach Keith Otterbein, this volunteer work is a big part of the team’s character. “Every opportunity that we have to pay back for those less fortunate than us, we try to take advantage of,” he said. “When I was in elementary school, if a college football player came in, that would just be the coolest thing ever,” he added. “Those kids just look in awe at our players. It’s a great reminder to our players … not to let those kids down.”’ Otterbein said the team does other volunteer work, such as a youth camp in the spring, a Make-A-Wish event this week, and a Victory Day program to help people with special needs at the Michigan Tech game last month. They’ve also talked about doing a community leaf clean-up this fall, he said. Volunteer work is important for Charger athletes across all teams — and is encour-

aged by the G-MAC, said head women’s tennis Coach Nicole Walbright, who is the faculty adviser for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. The G-MAC doesn’t require volunteer work, but it does ask teams to log volunteer hours, something the previous conference didn’t do, Walbright said. “Just being a Hillsdale College student, that’s what we try to promote,” Walbright said, pointing out that because so much of athletes’ support comes from the community, it’s especially important for them to give back. Most Charger teams delve into some kind of volunteer work. For example, the men’s and women’s tennis teams will host a community tennis event on Saturday, allowing anyone to come play with the team for a couple hours, Walbright said. Members of the softball team helped out with a softball camp for younger kids a few weeks ago, said junior outfielder Katie Kish. And the women’s basketball team’s volunteer activities this semester include helping out at Salvation Army, providing a meal for a family at Thanksgiving, and donating toys and clothes for children at Christmas, head coach Matt Fritsche said. The track team tackles a volunteer project every year, senior Rachael Tolsma said: last year, they cleaned a local cemetery, and this year, they’ll be setting up a table in the Grewcock Student Union to

collect cards for adopted and foster children, then send the notes with blankets. For the past three years, the entire men’s basketball team has helped out at the Hillsdale invitational cross-country meet — even though it’s on the first day of classes for the college, MaryMargaret Peter said, head coach of the cross-country team at Hillsdale High and Middle schools. The basketball players help set up the meet, direct traffic, collect tags at the finish line, and clean up. “It’s cool to see them out in the community,” Peter said. “It’s been a really great example of giving back. It especially registers with high schoolers, and they are more willing to help with middle schoolers in return.” Otterbein commented on the eagerness of Hillsdale students to throw their efforts into helping the community. “They’re good kids. The character, integrity, and work ethic of our kids across the board is mind-boggling,” he said. “When those opportunities come up, they take them.” Although the G-MAC requirement for tracking volunteer hours is new, Otterbein said it won’t change anything for Charger athletes, who already prioritize volunteering. When it comes to helping the community, “it’s business as usual,” he said.

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ESPN3 to broadcast Saturday’s football game against Findlay By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor Hillsdale College football will play for a national audience this weekend. On Saturday, ESPN3 will broadcast online the Chargers’ home game against the University of Findlay. This will be the first time in school history an ESPN station covers a Hillsdale College football game. Kickoff on Saturday is at 1 p.m. The NCAA selected the matchup this weekend as one of 22 games to be featured for the Division II football show-

case. Two D-II games each week during the regular season are broadcast on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app. Sports Information Director Brad Monastiere said during the summer, the NCAA sent an email to D-II programs requesting nominations for the showcase. “I thought our home game against Findlay would be a strong candidate,” Monastiere said. “I wrote up a couple of paragraphs stating my case that ESPN pick our game, and a few weeks later, I got an email showing our game as part of the showcase sched-

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and more experienced guys a chance to start to make some runs at some roles,” Theisen said. “Some guys did a really good job, and some guys were a little inconsistent, were really good one day and maybe a little poor the next, and some guys struggled a little bit, and we know we have to get those guys more opportunities.” Last season, Hillsdale proved itself capable of coming from behind to win games. Last weekend, Hillsdale failed to score first in any of their games. Theisen said one of the biggest motifs of the fall season has been starting games on a stronger foot. “It has become too normal to start slow and then come from behind,” he said. “It’s almost like we don’t play our best until our backs are against the wall. One of the good things about finding that out the last couple of years is that we play really, really well with our backs against the wall...instead of folding. That has become a major strength of ours, but the next step is to

ule.” Monastiere said the NCAA chose Hillsdale as a destination for a number of reasons. “The reasons stated for our game getting picked was that it was a game featuring two high-scoring offenses, two top-tier quarterbacks, and that we have a high-quality facility,” Monastiere said. “It’s nice to know that Hillsdale is known at a national level for those things.” Findlay (5-1), is tied for first place in the G-MAC, with a 2-0 conference record. Hillsdale (3-3), is 1-1 in the G-MAC. The Chargers fell to

conference co-leader Ohio Dominican University last weekend. As a result, Saturday’s game against Findlay becomes crucial for the Chargers in their quest to win the conference. “We go into the game every time with the same mentality, but now it’s kind of a must win,” junior wide receiver Trey Brock said. “If we want a shot at winning the conference and going to the playoffs, we’ve got to win out. We’re bringing the same mentality we always bring. It’ll be a fun game.” “It’s cool for our kids,” head

coach Keith Otterbein said. “It’s always cool to be on TV, especially ESPN.” Otterbein said preparation for the game will be the same as always, but acknowledges the excitement the team and its fans has because of the national attention. “There’s a lot of talk about it throughout the week, a lot of buzz about it,” sophomore defensive back Jason McDonough said. “We’re excited to go on national TV and show what we can do. Playing with a lot of enthusiasm and effort is something we always rally around, and this will be

just another chance to show that on a bigger stage.” Monastiere said the selection speaks to Hillsdale’s strong reputation. “I feel it’s an awesome opportunity not just for our football team, but for the college, to have a spotlight like this on us for a game during this season,” Monastiere said. “We have a program and facility worthy of an ESPN showcase game, and I’m thrilled to host ESPN here this weekend.”

player of the week.” Junior Chris Ackerman sent two balls of his own out of the ballpark. With the exhibitions behind them, the Chargers now turn their attention to their two major fall competitions: The Fall Classic and The Prairie Challenge. The Fall Classic will take place on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The seniors on the team will split up and draft two teams, which will compete head-to-head in a threegame series. “Guys will get in uniform, we’ve got umpires coming out, and for all intents and purposes it is a three nine-inning game series, and those guys have bragging rights,” Theisen said. Runs scored in the series will go towards The Prairie Challenge, the second major event of the coming week, where the same teams will face-off in a series of mentally and physically demanding challenges. “The Prairie Challenge

really brings the guys together,” Kruse said. “It puts a really tough cap on the ball, but also a really good cap.” For the newest members of the team, the coming weekend brings both anticipation and uncertainty. “I am really excited, but I don’t know exactly what to expect yet,” freshman Chris Iazzetta said. “They haven’t told everything that will be a part of it, but I know it’s another opportunity to prove my position.” This season, strong fall preparation is especially important, as the Chargers prepare for an tough nonconference schedule, which Theisen said the team put together on purpose, as they seek a place in the NCAA tournament. “This year is full of challenges,” Theisen said. “In order to get to that level, we have to beat those teams. And guess what, for those teams to get to that level, they’re going to have to beat us, and that isn’t going to be easy.”

Fall prepares baseball for tough nonconference schedule As the Hillsdale College baseball teams continues to improve year by year, offseason scrimmages and workouts have become an important part of the team’s success. After facing Albion and Kalamazoo colleges in exhibition doubleheaders last weekend, the Chargers are preparing for their annual Fall Classic and Prairie Challenge. Head coach Eric Theisen said fall exhibition games are about getting players reps and mixing guys into game-like situation, rather than final results, since so many of the substitution rules are relaxed. “They are good opportunities to find out what we have depth-wise,” he said. “It also gives us an opportunity to let our older guys step back and do a little teaching.” Several Chargers sat out of the weekend’s friendlies, either due to injury, or to give younger players more innings. “It gives younger guys

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third down unit in the conference, limiting opponents to a 26 percent conversion rate through five games. The Panthers, however, converted seven of 13 third down attempts against Hillsdale. “We put a lot of emphasis on third downs. We’re always working on that,” Otterbein said. “That becomes critical on both sides of the ball. We’ve got to be really good on both sides on third down.” Hillsdale’s defense struggled to get into the Ohio Dominican backfield, recording only one tackle for loss and no sacks. “We just couldn’t make the right play at the right time,” Otterbein said. “I’ll give them credit, they’re a good football team. They protected their quarterback pretty well. Pressuring the quarterback helps your pass defense. You can’t allow the quarterback to stand back there in the pocket forever.” McDonough had a career day, notching 14 total tackles. He also broke up a pass in the secondary. He said knowing his role and staying focused on the next play has allowed him to make an impact in his first year as a starter. “It’s just about focusing on each rep in practice and in games,” McDonough said. “I’m just trying to be one-eleventh of our defense and do my job. We came up short on Saturday and a couple other times this year, but we’re still growing and I’m still growing as a player also.” Junior defensive back Wyatt Batdorff added nine tackles, pushing his team-leading total to 49 this season. Things don’t get any easier for the Chargers’ defense moving forward. The University of Findlay visits Hillsdale this Saturday, Oct. 14. The Oilers boast the G-MAC’s top scoring offense, averaging

46.8 points per game. Findlay (5-1), along with Ohio Dominican, is unbeaten in the conference. Last season, the Oilers defeated Hillsdale 46-28. On the defensive side, only Findlay has allowed fewer points and yards than the Chargers this season. Hillsdale’s rush defense is the conference’s best, limiting opponents to 111.5 yards on the ground per game. That will be put to the test, as Findlay nets nearly 300 rushing yards per game. ESPN3 will be at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium to broadcast the matchup online, the first time an ESPN station will cover a Chargers

Junior Dylan Lottinville hit six homeruns last season on his way to a .425 slugging percentage. Sarah Klopher | Courtesy

not get our backs on the wall.” Senior pitcher Will Kruse, the ace of the staff last year, said this comes down to a team-wide mindset. “As a team, it’s just understanding the importance of every at bat, every pitch, and every game,” he said. There were some notable football game in school history. Kickoff on Saturday is at 1:00 p.m. “We can definitely show everyone that our losses were flukes,” Graham said. “We could have won every single game. I think we’ll show everyone what we’re made of.” Stewart called the game this weekend the most important of the year so far. “Biggest game of the season,” Stewart said. “Everyone knows it. Everything we set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year is still attainable. We just have to take care of business this week.”

performances on the weekend. Sophomore Jacob DePillo racked up a double-digit hit total in the four games, including a home run. “That guy went off,” Theisen said. “I think he only swung and missed at two balls out of the zone all weekend … he was definitely our offensive

Women’s tennis finds success at Northwestern Ohio Invitational By | Breana Noble Editor-In-Chief University of Northwestern Ohio’s tennis tournament last weekend brought unexpected changes in schedule and unexpected results. In its final fall competition, the Chargers women’s tennis team picked up 14 victories in doubles and singles matches at the invitational against the home Racers as well as the University of Findlay and Walsh University, which the women will face again in spring conference play. “We definitely did well,” coach Nikki Walbright said. “There were several individual records met. Findlay and Walsh are two of the better schools in our conference, so it was good to see that we had nice wins on these teams.” Sophomore Katie Bell starred, going 4-1 in the tournament and being chosen by G-MAC officials as the Women’s Tennis Player of Week. Walbright said the invite took a weird loop because of

rainy weather, altering the tournament schedule and rules. Doubles played indoors on Friday with abbreviated matches to more quickly rotate the players with fewer courts available. The team didn’t finish until 10 p.m., and Saturday’s singles play began at 8 a.m. The rain by then was gone, but the wind added an extra challenge. “We did what we needed to do. We showed up and played tennis,” Walbright said. “We did well, and it showed we could adapt to special circumstances.” On Friday, Bell and junior Corinne Prost went 2-1, beating Walsh 6-0 and Findlay 6-2. Sophomore Kamryn Matthews and junior Madeline Bissett won 6-3 over Walsh and also posted a victory over Findlay. Junior Halle Hyman teamed with freshman Hannah Cimpeanu to take down Findlay as well. The following day, the Chargers nearly swept singles, going 11-1 and 6-0 against the Racers. Bell went 4-1, beating Findlay 6-2, 6-0 and Walsh

6-1, 6-3. Cimpeanu, Prost, and Bissett all won their first matches in the singles flights as well as freshman Casey Kibler, who made her college tennis debut. “Our entire team came ready to leave a mark, and it showed in our results,” Prost said in an email. “We had consistent and solid wins. I couldn’t be prouder of my team.” Without matches until February, the tennis team will now focus on particulars, Walbright said. This includes conditioning and weightlifting as well as match play and hitting. The team will also work on its communication and unity. “I think we supported one another very well this weekend,” Prost said. “No matter how many girls were on court, there were always several teammates cheering them on.I’ve learned thus far that in order to improve your own game, you must first build up your teammates.”

tance he hasn’t seen prior to this year,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “I’ve been really happy with him, and think the future’s very bright for him.” Jones earned 63rd place with a time of 26:02.4, and junior Nick Fiene finished 96nd overall with a time of 26:28.0. Towne said the team continues to learn from each race, but the strain of racing back-to-back weekends showed in the team’s performance. “We started out well, but didn’t finish very well. We continue to have some injury and sickness issues,” Towne said. “We didn’t get quite the result we wanted, but you can tell they’re doing a really good job of paying attention to themselves and what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong, and trying to make that better each week.”

Three team members also traveled to the Lansing Community College Invitational on Friday to compete, where freshman Jack Shelley’s time of 27:36.0 earned him 51st place in the meet. Shelley, junior Santiago Quintana, and freshman Alex Oquist all ran season-best times in Lansing. “I was really happy with those guys,” assistant coach R.P. White said. In two weeks, the team will travel to Nashville, Tennessee to compete in the G-MAC championship on Oct. 21. “We should be ready to go for championships,” White said. “My mantra for the team this season has been to learn from experience, so whatever the outcome happens to be, as long as we see improvement, we’re going to be happy. However the points stack out, it’s going to be a great experience for the guys.”

Men’s cross country competes at final meet before G-MAC championships By | Madeleine Jepsen Science & Tech Editor

Sophomore David Graham rushed for 109 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday against Ohio Dominican. Todd Lancaster | Courtesy

The men’s cross country team finished 19th overall Saturday at the Conference Crossover in Romeoville, Illinois, but senior captain Nathan Jones said the competition and experience still helped the team prepare for championship season. “We didn’t quite get what we wanted out of it,” Jones said. “Going back-to-back weekends, I think that hurt us a little bit, but it was a really good chance to see where we stack up against some of the teams that will be at regionals. Just to see some of that competition there and get some more experience for our guys was good.” Freshman Mark Miller ran a season-best time of 25:48.1, placing 40th overall. “Mark is a very talented freshman, and he’s adjusted well week-to-week to a dis-

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GOLF TAKES FIFTH AT MIDWEST REGIONAL Team will finish fall season this weekend at the Motor City Invite in Dearborn By | Joshua Paladino Opinions Editor

The Hillsdale College golf team led after the first round of the Midwest Regional, but it slid from first place after a poor second round. The Chargers ultimately placed fifth, falling 11 strokes behind the tournament winner, McKendree University. The University of Missouri-St. Louis hosted the event at Fox Run Golf Club in Eureka, Missouri, on Monday and Tuesday. Hillsdale’s two-day team score was 600. The team came into the

clubhouse after the first round with a 295, leading the field by one stroke. Junior Liam Purslowe said the team’s first place position didn’t affect their mindset. “I wouldn’t say we felt pressured to perform. We all went into the day with a really positive mindset, unfortunately we didn’t play well enough,” he said. “It’s a little frustrating being in a position to win and giving that up, but it’s the first time we’ve done so, and you can’t expect to win with poor scores in the final round.” Hillsdale’s golfers lagged in the second round. They added

10 strokes to their first round and shot 305. Only senior Logan Kauffman finished with a lower score the second day. He shot 75 on Monday and 72 on Tuesday. He said the team has prepared for high pressure situations, even though they weren’t able to come through this time. “There were various reasons we didn’t close the deal. Conditions were a little harder the second day, because it was really wet from the overnight rain. The pace was slow, the pins were in tough locations,

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Redshirt freshman Joe Philipp leads the G-MAC with six field goals on the season. Ryan Kelly Murphy | Courtesy

to a 36-yard field goal from redshirt freshman kicker Joe Philipp. “That two-minute drive, we’ve been pretty good at it,” Otterbein said. “I was really pleased with that, to get it to a tie score at half.” Philipp made both of his field goal attempts and all three extra points. He has made six of his eight field goal tries this season and 23 of 24 extra points. His six field goals lead all G-MAC kickers. Philipp said his success is partly due to the chemistry among the special teams unit. “I have a great long snapper in [senior] Danny Drummond and a great holder in [senior] Timmy Mills,” Philipp said. “With those guys, it’s been going pretty smooth so far.” The Chargers tied the Panthers at 20 in the third quarter and 27 in the fourth quarter, but never had the lead. Sophomore running back David Graham enjoyed perhaps the best game of his collegiate career, rushing for three touchdowns while carrying the ball 20 times for 109 yards. He also caught three passes out of the backfield for 58 yards. “We did very well setting ourselves up to score,” Graham said. “I just hap-

pened to be the one that scored on those plays. The offense got us down to the 10 most of the time, and I just had to weave my way through to the end zone.” Graham is tied for the G-MAC lead with 10 touchdown rushes this season. Through six contests, he’s used a combination of strength and finesse to average 5.7 yards per carry, 88.5 rushing yards per game, and 124 all-purpose yards per game. “You can’t try to be too much of one thing,” Graham said. “I try to balance myself. I still have a lot to work on, but I think I’ve got a little power and a little patience as a runner.” Stewart completed 22 of 36 passes for 296 yards with one interception. For the first time this season, he did not throw or run for a touchdown. Junior wide receiver Trey Brock tied a career-high with 13 receptions. He piled up 175 yards receiving, and is now averaging 127.8 receiving yards per game, the best in the G-MAC among wide receivers. Brock has a simple approach that has led to his continued success this year. “They call the play, I run the route, Chance throws me the ball, and I try to make plays after the catch,” he said. Brock said finishing off drives is something the offense can improve. “We should have capitalized on opportunities down on the goal line,” he said. “We need to score touchdowns instead of field goals.” The Chargers’ defense began the day as the best

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“I think the best thing for me going into next weekend would be to put my clubs up for sale on Ebay,” he said. “I lost my game at the most critical of times.” Sophomore Andy Grayson followed his team’s lead. He shot 77 the first round and 82 the second. Purslowe added a few strokes during his second round, as well. He shot 74 and 76. “I played terrible both days in terms of ball striking, which was disappointing from an individual standpoint,” he said.

But he has the same optimism as Roberts. “I’m sure we can bounce back this weekend in Detroit,” he said. The team’s last tournament this fall is the Motor City Invite, which will be held on Oct. 15-16 in Dearborn, Michigan. Kauffman said the team will move on from last weekend’s mistakes. “This is a big learning experience for us and definitely something to push us to work harder,” he said.

Volleyball continues G-MAC dominance, prepares for the Midwest Regional Crossover By | Michael Lucchese Senior Writer

By | S. Nathaniel Grime Assistant Editor In a clash between G-MAC heavyweight on Saturday, the Ohio Dominican Panthers took advantage of Hillsdale’s miscues to edge the Chargers, 41-27. The Panthers (3-3) improved to 3-0 in the G-MAC and dropped the Chargers (33) to 1-1 in the conference. Hillsdale and Ohio Dominican matched up evenly in terms of offensive production, but the Panthers turned two Chargers’ turnovers into 14 points, the final margin between the two teams. “As an offensive unit we must do a better job at protecting the ball,” junior quarterback Chance Stewart said. “That falls on all of us, from fumbles to interceptions. It’s a priority for us and we’ll get it fixed. The defense has been doing a great job keeping us in games.” Ohio Dominican didn’t turn the ball over, and Hillsdale’s turnover differential is now minus-four this season. In six games, the Chargers have scored just 10 points off the five turnovers they’ve created and have allowed 42 points as a result of their nine turnovers. “It’s something we work on, it just hasn’t been going our way,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “If you look at the minus-four turnover ratio with the tight games we’ve been in, that’s why we’re 3-3 and not better.” “Our defense has been really close in a lot of games,” sophomore defensive back Jason McDonough said. “We’ve been really close to making that turnover play and finishing the job. The next few weeks we’re really trying to turn the corner and make those plays.” With the wind swirling all afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, the Panthers and Chargers went back-and-forth until Ohio Dominican put the game out of reach with a touchdown in the final minute of the fourth quarter. “There was never a time where we put pressure on Ohio Dominican,” Otterbein said. “We were always chasing them. We didn’t come up with the drive where we could have gone ahead and put pressure on them.” Hillsdale tied the game at 13 just before halftime thanks

and the pressure was on. But that’s all part of golf,” Kauffman said. “In the position we were in you can’t make as many mistakes as we did.” Junior Joel Pietila and Kauffman both shot 147 overall, tying them for sixth place as individuals and recording the lowest scores for Hillsdale. Sophomore George Roberts said the team’s spirit has deflated slightly after the tough loss, but he’s optimistic about the last tournament of the fall season this weekend. Roberts shot a three-overpar 75 on Monday. He finished with an 81 on Tuesday.

Hillsdale College volleyball ran its winning streak to eight matches with victories over Ursuline and Lake Erie last weekend. “We’re keeping up the momentum by making every practice count and just keep getting a little bit better everyday as the season continues on,” sophomore libero Taylor Wiese said. Friday’s match against the Ursuline Arrows was the first time the programs met on the court. Hillsdale won the match in three sets, thanks in large part to 10 service aces throughout the match — three of which were made by freshman middle hitter Allyssa Van Wienen. Junior outside hitter Paige VanderWall and senior outside hitter Jackie Langer both had seven kills and no hitting errors against Ursuline. The team’s overall hitting percentage was .400, while the Chargers’ defense kept Ursuline to a .111 through the match. “We are always looking to improve our defense,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “The first line of defense for us is blocking, which we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on over the last couple of weeks.” That practice paid off against Ursuline — the Chargers generated double the blocks the Arrows did. Wiese led the team’s defense against Ursuline with 11 digs, and freshman setter Lindsey Mertz contributed seven digs and 34 assists. “Our away schedule is pretty daunting, but our team is used to traveling and we’ve done a fairly good job at coming off the bus ready to play,” junior rightside hitter Kara Vyletel said. “As long as we keep our mental strength and determination it shouldn’t be a huge factor in our play.” The Chargers maintained their winning streak against Lake Erie the next day, beating the Storm in a 3-1 match. Vyletel led Hillsdale’s offense with 17 kills throughout the match. Langer also significantly contributed to the team’s overall 54 kills with her personal season high of 14 kills and 17 digs. VanderWall had nine kills and 12 digs. Hillsdale’s defense also performed well, keeping Lake Erie to an overall .138 hitting percentage. Van Wienen had three solo blocks, and Wiese had 27 blocks. The Chargers only play Lake Erie once this season, so their victory on Saturday gave Hillsdale an advantage over the Storm if conference tournament seedings require tie-breaking. Looking ahead to this weekend, the Chargers will compete in the tenth annual Midwest Region Crossover

tournament against teams in several other midwest conferences — including former Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rivals. Results from this tournament will help determine seeding for the NCAA Regional Tournament later this season. “The GLIAC pushed our team. We also had established rivals and knew more about the teams in the GLIAC,” Vyletel said. “The G-MAC has challenged us in a new way with unknown teams and playing schemes.” Up first on Friday is former GLIAC opponent Ferris State, also on a eight match winning streak. The Bulldogs are the reigning GLIAC champions for the third year in a row. “It’s hard to predict anything about this weekend,” Wiese said. “We play three really competitive teams, and we will just try to play our best volleyball and hopefully come out with some wins.” The Chargers are on the road through the entire month of October. To compensate for the tiring

schedule, members of the team have focused on honing the offensive skills they need to win explosively at tournaments like this weekend’s. “One goal for this weekend is to work on a consistent and aggressive serve,” Langer said. Hillsdale will also face another GLIAC team, Tiffin University, on Friday. Until a 3-1 loss last season, the Chargers won 15 matches in a row against the Dragons. “The Crossover has some huge teams. This weekend will be big, but when it comes down to it we’re just trying to make three more steps this weekend,” Vyletel said. “No matter what the outcome, our team is more than excited to face these teams.” Hillsdale will wrap up their trip to the Midwest Region Crossover with a match against the Bellarmine University Knights, currently ranked third in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. “We’re going to keep winning,” Gravel said. “We’re taking it one step at a time.”

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‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ shines with young cast By | Mark Naida Assistant Editor Director of Theater George Angell’s last play on a Hillsdale stage has challenged him with a green cast — mostly freshmen — and an unwieldy Shakespeare script. But his young actors have responded with only one thing: excitement. The Tower Players opened Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well” Wednesday evening, and performances continue Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with an additional Saturday performance at 2 p.m. After 33 years at Hillsdale College, Angell is directing his last show on the Markel Auditorium stage. He said he chose the play primarily because of its title but also because he wanted to understand it more fully, as it is

one of Shakespeare’s winding problem plays. “My previous encounter directing the play back in 1989 left me feeling that there was more in the script to wrestle with than I had previously been able to pin down,” Angell wrote in the Director’s Note. Angell decided to update the play for a modern audience by setting it in France during the 1960’s at the height of the Algerian War of Independence. The action is split between France and Africa, and remixes of the top hits from ’60s France play between scenes as the setting invites the audience to step back into the not-too-distant past. “A lot of this play is about the hand-off from the older generation to the younger generation, at least from the King’s point of view. He is on his way out and he knows it,” said senior James Young,

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who plays the ailing King of France. “George picked it because of that reason. He is passing the mantle off to someone else too.” “All’s Well That End’s Well” is one of Shakespeare’s less popular plays. Though it was published in the First Folio of 1623, the first recorded performance was in 1741. The play centers on Helena (senior Glynis Gilio), the daughter of a physician who wants to marry Bertram (freshman Johannes Olson), the Count of Roussillon. Bertram rejects her advances and flees to fight in the war where he meets an Algerian woman named Diana and falls in love with her. Through scheming and trickery, however, Helena decides her own fate and, in the end, she marries Bertram. Though the play is long, it has several plot reversals, sexual intrigue, and comedic

scenes that pull the audience through a grand story. It is Shakespeare using all of his best plot devices: sex, love triangles, unconsummated marriages, and kidnapping. Shakespeare also shocks audiences by giving a female character the traditional chivalric role. Gilio flourishes in the role of Helena as she turns strict blank verse into conversational and comprehensible dialogue. And like a true Italian actor, she explains the often-enigmatic Shakespearian verse through her expressive face and hands with both coyness and fragility. “Helena is really psychological,” Gilio said. “It is really fun for an actor to work in all the different levels that Shakespeare offers.” Gilio’s imposing presence and her ability to convey a

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A portrait of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, most of us could hum along as the scratchy voice sung folk lyrics. If not, we pulled up Spotify, searched the laureate’s name, and familiarized ourselves with Dylan’s poetry in quick, four-minute hits. Novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro earned the prize this year, and I’m guessing plenty of students didn’t recognize his name — much less attach it to one of his novels — when the Swedish Academy announced it had smiled upon another genius. I’ve never read Ishiguro, but I have bumped his bestknown books high on my reading list, scheduling them for fall break or sooner — you should, too. Here’s why: Unlike many Nobel Prize winners, Ishiguro earned this award by writing good books, not by championing a political statement. The New York Times of all places offered this explanation of his selection: The academy chose Ishiguro because his work deserved the honor, not because his work offered any kind of political agenda. We live in a nation whose people have made political statements of football games, music, movies, social media, tragedies. But here we have a man and his stories, free of agenda. Hallelujah. Ishiguro has written seven novels, all of which have demanded the attention of critics and pleasure readers alike. His stories hop places and eras, touring Japan (his birthplace) and England (his home) as he weaves different narratives through pre- and post-World War II before plummeting into Medieval England. Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described his style

in a way that would have any Hillsdale book worm scribbling Ishiguro’s books on their Christmas lists. “If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka then you have Kazuo Ishiguro in a nutshell, but you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix,” Danius told the Times. As for his books, Ishiguro enjoys exploring time and memory. “I’ve always liked the texture of memory. I like it that a scene pulled from the narrator’s memory is blurred at the edges, layered with all sorts of emotions, and open to manipulation,” Ishiguro told the Readers Read blog. “I love all these subtle things you can do when you tell a story through someone’s memories.” Ishiguro’s favorite novelist is Charlotte Brontë, although she has only recently surpassed his love for Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He longs for another Jane Austen novel that would explore love beyond the wedding day. He obsesses over new translations of the “Odyssey” and the “Iliad.” He has anthologies of Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCuller stacked next to his nightstand. And, most endearingly, he adores Joni Mitchell, the Canadian singer-songwriter who graced the 70’s. Ishiguro enthralls me because we have a lot in common (except for his sheer genius and award-winning craft). We like music, we like books, and we like Joni Mitchell. But I want to read his literature because he has sold me on his soft, humorous voice. I don’t feel pressured to read his books so I can be the best version of whatever political identity I’ve assumed. I don’t feel assaulted by an agenda. I just want to read his books. I hope you do, too.

By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Freelancer After playing the leading lady in the Shakespeare Society’s production of “Taming of the Shrew” in the spring, junior Molly Kate Andrews swooped into a leadership position in the club. As president this year, Andrews has big plans to revamp the club by adding new events that appeal to a broader audience. The Shakespeare Society has gathered Hillsdale’s Shakespeare lovers for more than 20 years. In the past, however, its sole event was a student-directed production of one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Andrews said she hopes to transform the club into a larger and more influential presence on campus. To achieve this, she incorporated

different Shakespeare-related events into the calendar. She’s kicking off the year by organizing a viewing of The Tower Players production of “All’s Well That Ends Well,” followed by a discussion panel concerning the play’s characters, themes, plot, and acting and directing choices. She also wants to organize Shakespeare appreciation events throughout the year featuring various speakers, as well as events in which society members come together to read Shakespeare’s works aloud. “I want to make the club more accessible to students interested in Shakespeare who don’t want to commit to rehearsal four times a week. I also wanted to appeal to students who have not been exposed to Shakespeare much,” Andrews said. “I want

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to create a low-impact, unpretentious environment where we can talk about Shakespeare without flicking intellectual ashes.” Assistant Professor of English Benedict Whalen, who has been the faculty advisor for the Shakespeare Society for three years, said he is thrilled that Andrews is trying to bring Shakespeare’s works to Hillsdale’s student body. “Shakespeare is really something relevant for us to study because he will move our imaginations with wonder and inspire in us the desire to know,” Whalen said. For its first event of the semester Sept. 28, Whalen spoke to the society about Shakespeare’s historical background and why his work is invaluable even after 400 years. Despite expanding the

boundaries of the Shakespeare society, Andrews will still focus primarily on the production of the “Merchant of Venice” this spring. As always, the performance will take place in the Slayton Arboretum at the end of April, and auditions will be open to the whole student body. Andrews will co-direct “The Merchant of Venice” along with sophomore Mitchell Biggs, vice president of the club. “We chose ‘The Merchant of Venice’ because it is a good mix of exciting and philosophical,” Biggs said. “Right now, we are still establishing a shared conception of what the play truly means, and how we can best communicate that meaning.”

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What about Shakespeare interests you? Benedict Whalen, assistant professor of English: “Seeing the difficulty of coming to a clear view — and how rich these plays were in teaching you about virtue and being a good king and right rule — it was one class I took where I knew I didn’t just want to go to graduate school in English. I want to do it in Renaissance literature.” Senior Rachael Reynolds participated in ArtPrize, the annual competition in Grand Rapids. Rachael Reynolds | Courtesy

How did people react to your art?

Rachael Reynolds, senior: “The piece is called ‘Textured Soul: Recluse, Rumination and Resolve.’ I used the language of the tattoo on my model to tie the first and third prints together. It tells a story through the texture. At some point, you have to start putting yourself out there and this was my first shot at that. It was a great experience to move past the terrifying part and onto the exciting, the ‘I can actually do this’ feeling.” See more on B2

Elyssa Warren, sophomore: “I really hated it at first because it was a lot of work, but once I got past the ‘Oh, this is Elizabethan English and we use a lot of different words now,’ I realized there were also the themes and symbolism and fantastic English nerd stuff.”

What carries his work through time?

Whalen: “In teaching, I’ve found that the number of questions that are excellent and proper and just — the questions that the plays necessarily provoke — are manifold. It has this richness that is humbling, so you’re always a student of Shakespeare.”

Warren: “The comedies are really funny, and you care about the characters, and the tragedies are moving and beautiful, but you’re not left with just a story or a set of themes. You get both together.”

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New assistant professor of art Julio Suarez teaches rules so art students can break them By | Katarzyna Ignatik Collegian Reporter

Julio Suarez walked into his blank-walled office and took off his large black painter’s smock. As he sat down, he spread out a few art pieces on his desk. “Those were done by my students,” he said. They were collages made from magazine clippings, modeled after famous works like Johannes Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid.” “They did very well,” Suarez said and smiled as he stacked the art papers. Julio Suarez is a new assistant professor of art. He started working at Hillsdale this semester, filling a space left by Sam Knecht, who retired last year after 38 years of teaching. “The college had skills and traditions that were important to me that aren’t important in many other places,” Suarez said of his decision to apply for a job at Hillsdale. “For example, the idea that good drawing is the basis for most art, whether painting or sculpture. Also the idea that there is a craft to painting that can be taught.” Suarez said it’s also important to learn the rules of art. “There is a place in art for teaching students observational skills,” he said. “Art is not just about self-expression without a fundamental base. You must learn before you can self-express, like in English. There’s grammar; there are rules you must know. Later you can break the rules, but you must know the rules to break them.” Chairwoman of Art Barbara Busheyparticipated in Suarez’s hiring process. She said there were three main qualities a new professor had to have. “I wanted someone passionate about painting,” Bushey said. “I wanted somebody who would want to be part of an academic environment…Also, it had to be somebody who would fit in at Hillsdale and support the mission of the college and the art department.” Suarez started painting

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when he was 21. Before that, he said he was slightly interested in drawing. “It was something I could do, but it wasn’t a serious thing,” Suarez said. After getting his associate’s degree at community college, Suarez decided he wanted to go to art school to be a comic book illustrator. Once he did more drawing and painting, however, he said that he “fell in love” with that aspect of art. Suarez finished his degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in illustration, but he began focusing less on commercial work and more on portraits and figures. He’s now been doing this kind of artwork for 25 years. Suarez received his masters of painting from Indiana University in Bloomington this past year. “He has that level of maturity because he didn’t go straight to grad school from his undergrad,” Bushey said. “Also, being a student really helps being a teacher. Just being out of grad school, he

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knows what it’s like on the other side.” Suarez has won several awards for his art, including best in show at the 2017 Greater Michigan Art Exhibition in Midland, Michigan. He has also won several accolades at the Paint Me Miami Competition, including first place in 2013. This first place painting, an underpass of highways, turned out to have a personal meaning to Suarez. Suarez emigrated to the U.S. from Cuba as a child in 1980. That highway underpass that he painted was the same place where 100,000 Cubans landed in America through the Mariel boatlift and set up a tent city in 1980. “My paintings are not usually about story or meaning, but that place was the very spot they landed,” Suarez said. “I didn’t realize that till afterwards.” Senior Elise Clines, a Spanish and art major, is taking Suarez’s beginner oil painting class this semester. Clines said she has been learning a lot from Suarez. “He gives good constructive criticism,” she said. “He does want us to learn, even if it means he has to give us some tough love and tell us to scrape off a whole part of our painting.” Suarez stressed that genius comes from hard work. “Art is no different from any other profession in that it’s all about hard work and dedication, not as much about talent or inspiration,” he said. “You can’t just work when you feel like it. You paint first. Inspiration shows up later.” Suarez has already been painting and working on art projects since coming to the college, which Bushey said makes her very happy. “In this department, we want everybody to be a working artist,” she said. Suarez said he’s been enjoying the college and the town. “Everybody’s been very welcoming,” Suarez said. “The students and my colleagues are fantastic. I’m happy to be here.”

What made your experience this year better than the last? Sara Pezella ’17: “My venue this year was a lot more central than the venue I had last year. Even though last year was a great experience, I was really pleased when I visited this year, because there was a lot more foot traffic at the corner of Monroe Center and Division (MoDiv) compared to the venue I was in last year. I have a lot of love in my heart for ArtPrize, and I felt that this year I was able to build upon the experience I gained last year doing ArtPrize and other shows.”

Yorker cover. And yet, “Blade Runner 2049” is bombing at the box “A thought experiment, office. Maybe the nearly with beautiful visuals.” three-hour run scares people That’s what the friend next away. Maybe not enough peoto me in the theater said as ple have seen the first movie the final credits rolled over to really understand the Blade Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner universe. Maybe that Runner 2049.” The guy sitting Tom Cruise movie just looks on the end of the row gave more interesting. the film a Platonic reading on But I think the real probthe car ride home. Another lem lies more in the movie person I ran into at the radio itself. The beauty of “Blade station the next day compared Runner 2049” cracks because the plot to John Keats’ “Ode of a bunch of little things, on a Grecian Urn,” a those distracting poem that whirls in literary references. a series of complex not as bad as this “‘Blade Runner’ is a movie about It’s images until whipping summer’s “Alien: into clarity in the last Covenant,” where the assassination of God.” two lines. Michael Fassbender -Paul Rahe, professor of history recited Percy Shel“Blade Runner 2049” fits all of these ley’s “Ozymandius” interpretations. The and pranced along to film is a puzzle, a feast for the the police station after field Wagner’s “Entry of the Gods eyes, meant to be discussed exercises. He’s a good worker into Valhalla” for the sake and disputed as much as its bee; his boss (Robin Wright) of The Symbolism. But in predecessor, Ridley Scott’s tells him he’s doing just fine “2049,” the writers bombard 1982 “Blade Runner,” was without a soul. us with Kafka and Stevenson after its release. But when K finds a box references. It doesn’t sink the In the first movie, we met full of bones buried beneath a movie, but it makes it seem Rick Deckard (Harrison tree, he stumbles on a whole like it’s trying too hard to be Ford), a cop who lives in a world beyond the sexy billmeaningful. dystopian Los Angeles where boards and flying cars of the It’s a shame that an otherhe has to “retire” human city. I won’t spoil any of the wise great movie gets weighed replicants made by the mysbig plot points, but I will say down with these intellectual terious Tyrell Corporation. every bit of it is beautiful. flourishes. Villeneuve is capaIt’s a tightly wound neo-noir Villeneuve seems to have ble of making a great movie thriller, similar to Roman really mastered his craft with without a pedantry; “Arrival” Polanski’s “Chinatown” or this one. His establishing and his 2014 film, “Prisoners” Robert Altman’s “The Long shots are always ariel and stand as examples. Both were Goodbye,” both in its pesexpansive. And as with last tightly wound and completely simism and interest in the year’s “Arrival” — which comprehensible without any limits of human cruelty. really should have won best esoteric knowledge. But on first watch, “Blade picture at the Oscars — the But maybe it’s fitting Runner” appears to be just way he uses unnatural white that “Blade Runner 2049” a film about a guy who has light elicits a sense of wonder sometimes seems like such a to kill four people. It’s only at the otherworldly. Oh, and pretentious riddle. We may upon repeated viewings that the scene where K wanders love it now, but after years of it reveals much larger quesinto a nuketown Las Vegas: discussion and analysis, who tions about humanity and our perfect. You couldn’t find a knows? Like everything else, parricidal relationship with more earthy orange scale, not it will be lost in time. You the Creator. even on an autumnal New know...like tears in rain.

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Sara Pezella ’17 submitted three photographs to ArtPrize, which she also participated in last year. Sara Pezella | Courtesy

What did you enter in the show? Pezella: “My entry was called ‘Near//Far’ and was on display at MoDiv. It was a series of three photos printed on aluminum.”

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breadth of emotions makes her the perfect actress to portray such a powerful leading lady. Though veteran actors lead the cast, more than half of the cast consists of freshmen new to the Tower Players. “This time there has been a lot of emphasis on teaching because there are mostly freshmen and sophomores in the cast. George has spent a lot of time working on that process,” Young said. Junior Amber Crump, in her first performance with the Tower Players, shines as Diana through her vivacious acting, clear dictive voice, and expressive eyebrows. She sets the tone for the second act in a scene with Helena and the Algerian women that brimmed with energy and movement. Freshman Jake McKie is another bright point as Lavatch, the pot-bellied fool. Though McKie is a young actor, Bryan Simmons’ costuming ages him considerably and helped him clown around with great comedic timing and physical humor. New actors like Crump and McKie show that a young cast has its advantages. “One of the nice things about being with a lot of freshmen is that there is still that youthful enthusiasm for theater,” Young said. Guest artist and member

“Blade Runner 2049” has a similar conceit, but in Villeneuve’s L.A., God is actually dead, and his assassins have taken control. We meet Josef K (Ryan Reynolds), a cop who holds the same job Deckard once did. K is a replicant, no question about it. He lives an empty existence, pretending to make love with a hologram and passionlessly reciting lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (“cells interlinked within cells interlinked”) when he goes into

of the Actor’s Equity Association Jennifer Weil keeps a spark in the show through her portrayal of the Duchess. By maintaining attentive eyes and projecting her voice in a way only a seasoned performer could, she sets an example that young actors should emulate. She conveys the moral development of the Duchess with grace and poise through clear actions and emotions. The professional leadership of Angell and Weil and the influence of Tower Player veterans like Gilio and Young

help the young actors like Olson and Crump perform with a confidence well beyond their experience. Though the complicated plot spins to a wild close, in the end, all is well: Bertram becomes the gentleman that France needs, and the mantle can be passed on to him with the crafty Helena bearing his son, the heir to France. The King’s words snap the play to a fitting close: “All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, / The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

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Hillsdale contributes to Nobel Prize-winning project By | Brooke Conrad Assistant Editor

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded researchers the Nobel Prize in Physics last week for the first detection of gravitational waves, thus confirming one of Albert Einstein’s century-old predictions. “It’s kind of surreal to me that it actually happened,” said Ryan Lang, assistant professor of physics with academic ties to the award-winning researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. “Logically I wasn’t surprised, but it’s still amazing to see it actually happen: people that you’ve met and interacted with becoming Nobel laureates.” According to Lang, LIGO’s gravitational wave detections are one of the most groundbreaking discoveries in physics of this century. Both he and a Hillsdale alumnus contributed to the LIGO collaboration. Although LIGO’s first detection occurred in 2015, the organization just announced a fourth detection last week. This detection was the first time LIGO observed a black hole merger from three separate angles, providing more detailed information for both LIGO collaborators and astronomers. Gravitational waves come from merging black holes from a billion light years

away, according to Lang. When these gravitational waves travel to Earth, they slightly squeeze and stretch everything on the Earth. To detect these waves, LIGO has two detectors in Washington and Louisiana that contain free-hanging mirrors with lasers bouncing back and forth between them. If a gravitational wave passes through, it will move the mirrors slightly — roughly a billionth of an atom’s diameter relative to each other — and the bouncing laser will signal any movement that occurs. LIGO’s most recent detection was the first time the Virgo interferometer in Italy detected a gravitational wave in collaboration with LIGO’s two detectors. According to Lang, detecting a gravitational wave from three separate instruments helps astronomers to narrow down the location of the wave’s source. “Wave detectors are more like ears than like eyes; you don’t point them,” Lang said. “With ears, we hear things from all around, and gravitational wave detectors work the same way: They get signals from all over, and it’s kind of hard to tell exactly where they come from…When you have a third detector like the one in Italy, it brings it down to a much more manageable size region.” Lang said the third detector is also significant, because it helps scientists determine ex-

Joshua Ramette ’17 developed a mathematical model describing the temperature of the mirrors used in LIGO detector in Louisiana. Joshua Ramette | Courtesy

“I actually got to stop by and see him give his impromptu Nobel Prize talk here on campus... He was super humble.” actly how a gravitational wave stretches a detector. This was a test LIGO could not perform with only two detectors. One of Lang’s former Senior Abigail Engel studied cow proteins for her research. Abigail Engel | Courtesy

Wisconsin native studies heat-shock proteins in dairy cows By | Katarzyna Ignatik Collegian Reporter When senior Abigail Engel designed her thesis project for her biology major, the inspiration for her research originated close to home — Wisconsin. “My research is about quantifying heat-shock proteins in dairy cattle,” Engel said. “I was interested in how much of a role genetics plays in how well cattle deal with heat-shock.” Engel, who said she is interested in veterinary science, said dairy cows produce more milk in cold temperatures, and milk production declines in the summer. By studying the amount of heat-shock proteins in the samples, Engel was able to determine whether the genes for these proteins are more active in the summer than in the winter. The research results could help indicate how big of a role temperature plays in a cow’s milk production. “My goal was to correlate the production of heat-shock proteins with the production of milk in the summer,” Engel said. Engel’s research adviser, Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey VanZant, said he believes the project could have a practical significance for dairy

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farmers. “This research will help consider questions like, ‘Is it worth it to install an air conditioner? Will the increase in milk production help keep costs lower?’” VanZant said. Heat-shock proteins are always present in cow blood but more so in the summer heat. “Proteins have to fold a certain way to have a certain function,” Engel said. “If they are folded into an incorrect shape, they malfunction. The folding is highly dependent on the temperature. So if the temperature rises, the proteins misfold. Heat-shock proteins attach to misfolded proteins and refold them in the correct way.” Although the presence of heat-shock proteins is beneficial because they fix malfunctioned proteins, the presence of more heat-shock proteins means the cow is under more heat stress, which is ultimately harmful. At the beginning of the project, Engel took blood samples from Wisconsin dairy cows in January. She then took samples from the same cows in July and compared the amount of heat-shock proteins present in the samples in the winter versus the summer. Engel then isolated RNA from the blood samples and used an instrument called a

qPCR cycler to quantify the RNA and by extension, the amount of heat-shock proteins in the blood samples. Frank Steiner, Hillsdale’s biology department chairman, described qPCR as a modern molecular technique in which the instrument can pick out a specific gene, quantify it, and amplify it exponentially. For her project, Engel isolated the specific RNA that codes for the heat-shock protein. This shows how active the specific heat-shock protein gene is. Engel is still working on her research, but so far, she said the results look promising: There is a greater number of heat-shock proteins in the summer blood samples. “The amount of success we’ve had with the instrument is very surprising,” Engel said. VanZant said the project was completely Engel’s own design. “Abigail is really motivated,” VanZant said. “I just facilitate the process and make sure she has what she needs.” After graduation, Engel plans to go on to veterinary school, possibly to pursue zoo medicine. “I knew I wanted to do a project applicable to caring for animals,” she said.

students, Joshua Ramette ’17, worked for LIGO in the summer of 2015, specifically assisting with a device called a ring heater on the Louisi-

ana detector’s mirrors. The ring heater helps to keep the temperature consistent across the entire mirror. Without the ring-heater, the laser will heat the middle of the mirror more than the edges and thereby disturb the instrument’s results. Ramette said this is not a large problem when the lasers are on low power, but in order to use the instrument at its full capacity, LIGO would eventually need a mathematical model to explicitly show how heating the mirror with the ring-heater would affect the temperature of the mirror. Ramette developed this model for the collaboration and published a paper about it. Hillsdale also has ties to one of the Nobel Prize winners, Kip Thorne, who is the former doctorate adviser of Lang’s former doctorate adviser at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or Lang’s “academic grandfather.” “He’s pretty famous for a lot of stuff about black holes and popular books and things like that,” Lang said. “He’s sort of the theorist of the group.” Ramette, who now is currently pursuing his doctorate at MIT, said he got to participate in the festivities for Nobel Prize winner Rainer Weiss, an emeritus professor of physics at MIT and one of LIGO’s founders. “There was a big party that was thrown for Rai here,” Ramette said. “I actually got

to stop by and see him give his impromptu Nobel Prize talk here on campus...What was really great was that he was super humble in that he acknowledged that LIGO’s discovery was the work of over a thousand people working for many decades.” Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch also studies gravitational waves that are emitted from black holes that are much earlier in the process of merging and also have a much larger mass than the ones LIGO studies. Dolch said the Nobel Prize award was a victory for the whole field of gravitational-wave study. “The first thing I did in the morning was check my phone to see if they got it,” Dolch said. “It was really good news obviously for LIGO but then for our whole field, too. One of the reasons this is so significant is that this is a whole new way of doing astronomy, and LIGO is one of the instruments that is helping open up the gravitational wave sky.” Lang also said the award is significant to everyone in the LIGO community. “It was a good week for everybody,” Lang said. “I mean, only three people won, but it was the work of a lot of people that got them here, and the whole community’s excited because it’s what we’ve been hoping for for decades.”

Kraft joins psychology department By | Sydney Anderson Collegian Reporter Visiting Instructor of Psychology Caroline Kraft only minored in psychology as an undergraduate student at the University of Kansas, but after a developmental psychology class piqued her interest in the field, Kraft earned a doctorate in psychology and joined the Hillsdale College psychology department this fall. Her senior year of college, Kraft said a developmental psychology class she took completely opened her mind to a future in psychology. She said her interest in the psychology class inspired her to work in her developmental psychology professor’s lab, where she studied topics like aggression and bullying, and worked on a project to develop a new anti-bullying program called KiVa. KiVa is a research-based program designed to prevent bullying through online games and student lessons. It is now widespread in schools across the nation, according to its website. “As soon as I got into the lab, I started wanting to apply to grad school for psychology, which is not something I originally saw myself doing, so it was kind of a major shift,” Kraft said. “My initial dream was to make it to New York City and work on some magazine or something, but it completely changed because I became so fascinated by developmental psychology, so I just went for it. No regrets at all.” After changing her academic focus, she attended graduate school back home at the University of Oklahoma,

where she received her doctorate in experimental psychology. She then put herself on the job market, applying to Michigan schools. “When this Hillsdale opportunity came up, I went for it,” Kraft said. “Being from Oklahoma, I actually hadn’t heard of Hillsdale before this because it’s considered a tiny college.”

Visiting Instructor of Psychology Caroline Kraft is teaching Cognitive Psychology and Child Psychology classes this fall. Caroline Kraft | Courtesy

This semester, Kraft is teaching two classes: Cognitive Psychology and Child Psychology. Next semester, she will teach Developmental Psychology and Research Design. Senior Elyse Hutcheson, a student in Kraft’s Cognitive Psychology class, said she enjoys Kraft’s engaging teaching style. “Dr. Kraft is such a fun, down-to-earth, and relat-

able person, and because she recently graduated from her PhD program, she really understands students,” Hutcheson said. “I really like that she emphasizes discussion in her classes and that she gives us the opportunity to engage with the material she’s teaching.” Kraft’s undergraduate lab work and her recent work on friendships, aggression, and how social status plays a role in those things helps make the material she teaches as engaging as possible, according to Hutcheson. Psychology department chairwoman Kari McArthur said Kraft’s prior psychology experience made her a great candidate for this position. “Dr. Kraft’s education in Experimental Psychology will be put to great use as she teaches two sections of Research Design next semester along with a course in Lifespan Developmental Psychology,” McArthur said. “I encourage students who have not yet met Dr. Kraft to seek her out.” Kraft said she cannot wait to share with her students what she has learned through her experiences in the field of psychology. “My favorite part of teaching is connecting with the students and hearing their ideas,” Kraft said. “I love it when students ask questions because I find that learning is a collaborative process; it doesn’t just stop when they’re done with the class. I want the information they learn in the class to be something they can carry with them past the semester.”

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New cancer treatment reduces side effects

Researchers have developed a new type of nanoparticle called quantum dots to help weaken the defenses of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. The quantum dots are made of the semiconductor cadmium telluride. When illuminated with a certain wavelength of green light, electrons from the quantum dots attach to oxygen molecules in the bacterial cell and weaken the bacterial defenses against antibiotics. The study found lower doses of antibiotics were needed to curb bacterial growth when the antibiotics were mixed with quantum dots. Though the nanoparticles can only be used for surface infections right now, the researchers said they are developing a nanoparticle that will respond to infrared light and will help treat deeper infections.

A new atomic clock roughly six times more precise than its predecessor has been developed by a group of researchers. The molecules’ oscillations in the atomic clock are used as a standard for measurement of time. The new clock’s grid-like structure prevents the individual atoms from frequently bumping into one another, whereas the previous model had less rigidity, affecting the model’s overall precision. The researchers ran the clock for an hour, and found each second to be within 10 quadrillionth of a second. The more precise clock will help scientists detect small differences in time caused by phenomena such as gravitational waves and will improve the definition of standard units of measurement.

Scientists have developed the first compound able to cause cancer cells to self-destruct while leaving noncancerous cells unharmed, according to a new study published in Cancer Cell. The compound was tested on Acute Myeloid Leukemia, but researchers said it could potentially be used to treat other types of cancer as well. The compound, BTSA1, activates a protein called BAX, which causes cell death by damaging the cell’s mitochondria. Often, cancerous cells develop defenses against the BAX protein, but the new compound overcomes the cancer’s defenses and activates BAX to cause the cell’s death. Unlike many forms of chemotherapy, this treatment leaves healthy cells free from damage.

Features Off-campus jobs build relationships, bridge town-gown divide

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By | Breana Noble Editor-In-Chief On senior Susena Finnegan’s last day working at Jilly Beans café before traveling to Kansas for the summer, a regular customer came through the door. Often, she came with gifts. Once, it was a doll, another time, an espresso glass. “She brought me a watermelon,” Finegan said with a chuckle. “She said, ‘I knew you were leaving, so I thought of you and brought you this watermelon.’ That was the funniest thing that had happened to me, but those types of interactions happen all the time.” About 40 percent of students at Hillsdale College have found part-time employment with the school or Bon Appétit Management Company. A number, however, have ventured off the campus block to work at local businesses. As a result, they said they have grown closer with Hillsdale residents and have helped to bridge the apparent divide between the community and the college. A Hillsdale native herself, Finegan said working at Jilly Beans has kept her connect-

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“It’s the ability to balance understanding in the importance of relationships and how crucial they are to get anything done, but also prioritizing fidelity to the gospel message,” Horn said. Horn spent six months becoming fluent in the Papua New Guinean dialect, Tok Pisin, and as a high school senior, strived to fulfill his voca-

ed to the local community — something she wishes her classmates would experience more. “I know in my heart townies are not what college students perceive them to be,” Finegan said. “They’re genuine people, and you can make those relationships by working downtown or getting involved. You see them from a different angle.” Forming such relationships with customers at Rosalie’s restaurant in Jonesville has been the highlight of junior Beth Stalter’s experience working off-campus, she said. It also introduced her to issues in the community and residents’ views of the college. “When you go to Hillsdale, you get kind of stuck in that college bubble,” Stalter said. “I figured that Hillsdale was the main employer of the town, so to hear people were unhappy with it was kind of surprising to me. I didn’t realize how much politics were involved and how much we as college students can improve our relationship with the town by getting involved in the community.” Stalter began waitressing at Rosalie’s during the summer after her sophomore year. A tion as a son and student. He said he tried to help in whatever ways he could, carpentry projects, remodeling the seminary workshop and a kitchen, and painting one of the missionary homes. “When you’re there for years at a time, it’s more about living together, eating together, and going to church together. It’s not about the projects that you write home about in your missions reports

year and a half later, Stalter said she still enjoys working at the restaurant, which pays more than many of the jobs available on school grounds. Rosalie’s has strengthened Stalter’s connections with the college, too. After serving Career Services Director Joanna Wiseley’s table at Rosalie’s, Stalter is now working with her to find internships. A runin with college Chief of Staff Mike Harner on the job led Stalter to an opportunity to give the invocation at a recent luncheon for the Women’s Commissioners. Stalter said she has taken what she has learned about the community with her. Her interactions with its members have lead her to volunteer at the Community Action Agency, working with preschoolers from low-income households. The conversations that arise from Checker Records coffee are the highlight of working there as a barista, junior Isabelle Parell said. Whether those conversations are with her bosses, coworkers, or the patrons at the coffeeshop or when she runs into them at the grocery store, Parell said the relationships she has built make starting her shifts at 6 a.m. worth— that’s short term missions — long-term missions is about being with each other relationally,” Horn said. Horn met senior John James before coming to Hillsdale through high school Lutheran retreats. James spent five months in India and then three months in Sri Lanka immediately prior to his freshman year. Also a son of a Lutheran pastor serving at a seminary

while. “I feel like when I come back after graduation, it won’t just be for the college,” she said. “It’ll be for the town, too.” Some of Parell’s first memories of Hillsdale were at Checker Records from when she visited her older sister at college — “the coffee is almost in my blood,” she said. After moving to college herself, she submitted three applications to the coffee shop, called numerous times, and then secured a job by directly asking the owner for a barista position. Working at Checker Records has given her an escape from the academics on campus but also more responsibility, she said. It has taught her how to work with her boss when it comes to scheduling shifts as well as how to better manage time. Her 21st birthday was an early night because she had to work in the morning. “I knew I had to be careful, because it felt like they relied on me more,” Parell said. “I feel like I am an integral part of Checker Records.” Finegan and Stalter agreed that working off campus takes an extra dose of responsibility.

They both work at least 12 hours per week, and there typically is not time to do homework while on the clock. “It has to be a commitment,” Stalter said. “Working off campus, it’s a little bit more like working in the real world, I think. I can’t not go. It takes a lot of time managing. It’s helped me Beth Stalter has worked at Rosalie’s in Jonesville adult up.” for a year and a half. Beth Stalter | Courtesy Plus, as a student, Parell said she becomes a face tionships they have built help for the college in the commu- with that. “I encourage my friends nity, which carries some extra to get involved and go into consideration, too. Being town, ” Stalter said. “I think present, however, is the way to it’s important for Hillsdale bridge the college-community College students to represent divide, she said. themselves in the community Finegan, Parell, and Stalter — otherwise that relationship all agreed they feel the relajust isn’t going to grow.”

abroad, James found an avenue to build relationships through music. A cellist and mandolin player, James would accompany his father’s congregation alongside his brother who played the violin and banjo. “The best part of my experience was seeing the catholicity of Christianity and worshipping with the communion of saints overseas. I also found that Indian people are super friendly,” James said.

One day James found himself sitting in the back of a car with one such friendly Indian while driving to a distant church with his father. Finding that James was well-learned in Lutheran hymns, the Indian sang a series of hymns as a game to see how many James knew. “When he found that I recognized one of their foreign hymns, he just kept singing at me,” James said. Like Horn, James experi-

enced the tension of building relationships without compromising the gospel message to adapt to the particular culture. “I was constantly trying to soak in the culture and mark differences and similarities,” James said. “The liturgy resonated with us and the Christians there in a very natural way. It is not a Western thing to return constantly to God’s promises in his word and sacraments.”

Junior Tavia Vitkauskas spent five weeks interning with Adhunik Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. in Nepal. Tavia Vitkauskas | Courtesy

Farmers and finance: Student interns in rural Nepal By | Kasia Ignatik Collegian Writer Where junior Tavia Vitkauskas worked over the summer, local kids would call her “the white one.” For some, she was the first white person they had ever seen. Vitkauskas interned in the South Asian country of Nepal for five weeks. She worked with a company called Adhunik Agricultural Cooperative Ltd., which assists small local farms. When Vitkauskas started her internship, she could say “hello,” “thank you,” and “My name is Tavia,” in Nepali. To complicate communication further, the only English-speaking employee was not there for the week. After much confusion, Vitkauskas figured out that she was supposed to write a profile for the company in English. She finished it in a couple of days and turned it in. “They were so surprised,” Vitkauskas said. “They had thought it would take me the whole five weeks… Now the question was, what else was there for me to do?” Vitkauskas took initiative and proposed research as to how the member farmers were benefiting from the cooperative. Her project was approved, and Vitkauskas toured farms with a translator to give surveys to the farmers. “The culture is so different,” Vitkauskas said. “The people are Hindus, and they worship animals. My host family owned a cow, which is the most holy animal. It had its own shed… I wasn’t allowed to touch the cow because I’m

not Hindu.” Vitkauskas added that the family she lived with also worshipped crows. “No one was allowed to eat till the crows ate,” she said. Vitkauskas found the internship through the international volunteer organization Cross Continental while searching the internet for opportunities. “I am addicted to traveling, so I knew I wanted to be abroad for the summer,” Vitkauskas said. Though she initially wavered between Nepal and South America, she decided to come to Nepal because she knew next to nothing about the country and its culture. While Vitkauskas’ parents John and Marjorie said they were a little shocked when their daughter said she was going to Nepal, they were also proud of her. “I thought it was a great opportunity for her to see some of the parts of the world she’d had no exposure to,” John Vitkauskas said. Vitkauskas’ parents agreed that traveling overseas to intern in Nepal was an idea very much in keeping with their daughter’s character. “She’s very self-reliant, very interested in doing different things,” John Vitkauskas said. Tavia Vitkauskas focused on microfinance, “an approach to alleviating extreme poverty by providing small loans or other financial services to individuals,” according to associate professor of economics Michael Clark. Such loans are important to the rural farmers in Nepal. “For a poor farmer, $100 can be the difference between you pulling the plow or a don-

key pulling the plow,” Vitkauskas said. The cooperative also offers other benefits to members, Vitkauskas explained. Members can buy and sell directly, rather than through a middleman, allowing farmers to sell at higher prices and buyers to purchase at lower prices. After her survey, Vitkauskas wrote up an eight-page report on the company, with two main suggestions for improvement. Vitkauskas’ first suggestion was to host educational seminars for the farmers who were members of the cooperative. She said a lot of problems could be fixed if farmers could work more efficiently, such as by growing different types of crops instead of just one. Vitkauskas’ second suggestion was investing in a truck and door-to-door service. “I would travel sometimes two hours to see a farmer,” Vitkauskas said. “It was inconvenient.” Both of Vitkauskas’ suggestions were seriously considered. Vitkauskas said that the company has already started having educational seminars, and they are saving up money to invest in a truck. “It’s amazing that I, a 20-year-old college girl, could do this for the company,” Vitkauskas said. Despite differences, Vitkauskas said the Nepali people were welcoming and helpful. But one thing she does not miss about Nepal is the food. “Every day they had dal bhat, which is rice, curry, and potatoes,” Vitkauskas said. “We ate it all the time. It was good…but hard for three meals a day!”

Features Picture this: biology professor renews passion for photography

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By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor

As senior Emily Rinaldi dissects cadavers in the anatomy lab, her biology professor, Dan York, will often pause at her side and say, “‘Hey, Em, what is the homework for this Thursday?’” It’s a genuine question of York’s, not a pop quiz to test Rinaldi’s knowledge of the Anatomy II Syllabus. In another lab, across campus in the Sage Center for the Arts, Rinaldi and York are classmates in Photography II, which York is auditing this semester to sharpen his skills in a medium that has long enamored him. “Pictures are incredibly powerful, and I think pictures can have a strong impact on people’s feelings and thoughts about something. I find that really fascinating,” York said. Alongside his four classmates, York has set out to capture Hillsdale through the lens of his Leica, a camera designed for street photography. He has already become more competent with the powerful medium, even after just a third of a semester. But his improvement behind the viewfinder has challenged him to grow as a person, too. York likes to work with faces, eyes, souls. Firing off his shutter outside of class, he focuses his camera on people amid their daily lives, exploring a style known as street photography. “I find people very, very fascinating. A lot of the older, great photographers were essentially street photographers,” York said. “There is something about people and people photography. You can capture so much — the mood and what’s going on — in a photograph, particularly with people in it.” At Hillsdale’s annual fair, kids crunched on caramel popcorn, ride attendants slumped until shift’s end, and teens screeched as rides spun them into the air. Twirling his

lens to catch each moment in perfect focus, York clicked and clicked as he navigated the twisting roads of the fair grounds. His favorite shot? A man wearing a mane of grey hair leaned against a sign that read “World’s Strangest People” as he smoked a cigarette outside the freak show tent. Click. The photo’s composition, lighting, and tone tell a story about one of many characters at the fair, York said. The potential to create a narrative in a photograph has always attracted York to photography, and it fuels his desire to improve, explore, and create even more. One day, he said, he’d like to return to Africa, where he has taken many of his students, and photograph the boy soldiers. “It’s one thing to see the written word. It’s another thing to see a truck going down a dusty road with a bunch of boy soldiers in the back carrying AK-47s,” York said. York’s fascination with photography, and especially his passion for photographing people, has bolstered his work, said Photography Professor Doug Coon, who hadn’t taught a fellow professor before this semester. “He’s very into it. That’s the most fun part, I’ve found, within the context of non-traditional students. They do tend to be pretty excited about photography,” Coon said. “They tend to be more motivated, in getting out and actually shooting.” Photography excites traditional students, too, Coon said, but their time with the camera competes with commitments non-tradition-

al students juggle with more ease. York has dedicated many hours to his camera, setting up shots, adjusting the exposure, and making bold but pleasing choices in the field and in his editing. The practice has paid off. “It’s super interesting to see Dr. York’s beginning photos, what he focused on or what his interest was, and how it changed. Compositionally, he can finagle things, and now he has a goal for photography instead of shooting for what he thought was interesting,” Rinaldi said. While York once snapped photos of anything that caught his eye, he now intentionally organizes his subjects in a shot to convey an idea. “He’s paying attention to more detail, which I think is really interesting, and really awesome to see him grow in that way,” Rinaldi said. The transition might have came more quickly to York, a biologist, than another new student of photography. “When you look at things biologically, it’s very systematic. It’s about how things work. When you come to art class, it’s similar in a way in which you have to think in a way things work to get the picture you want. You have to dissect the world around you in order to create more art,” Rinaldi said. “That’s pretty much what art is. You’re looking at the world around you and you’re dissecting it. Art forces you to dissect things and understand them for what they really are.” Rinaldi said she feels confident in sharing her critiques as well as her affirmations with York in photography class, even though he grades her anatomy tests. The five students share their work

University. Cole has attended these lectures — bringing students with him — since the academic year of 2011-2012. “There’s a sense in which this particular event in a very specific way brings together these generations of students of Aquinas,” Cole said. “I’d been introduced to the thought of Aquinas from Dr. Waddell, in my life that’s the person to whom I owe a debt of responsibility. I continue to communicate these fruits to my students — there’s a fittingness in that sense. They’re being introduced to Aquinas through me, indirectly through him, I like to think of Aquinas as a teacher with many many students, we are benefiting centuries and centuries later from his pedagogy and insights.” Waddell and Cole’s academic exchange has survived nine years, from Villanova to Notre Dame to now. When Waddell moved from Villanova to St. Mary’s before Cole finished his dissertation, the two worked to find Cole a fellowship so he could move his family to South Bend and continue studying under Waddell.

“I think that friendship is a very important part of the intellectual life, and one of the most important forms of friendship is between teacher and students,” Waddell said. “One of the things I appreciated about Lee was that he had this tremendous capacity to develop friendships with people. It led to our ability to develop a friendship. That has only continued to grow even after he ceased being my student.” Waddell has enjoyed getting to know the Hillsdale students who have attended his lecture series over the years. “Getting to know those students, it became easy to see why Lee had a high estimation of Hillsdale,” he said. “Each student you met was brighter than the last, it was an extraordinary thing, you could see how they supported each other through their friendship.” While Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture’s Fall Conference, another popular annual philosophical tradition, attracts dozens of students for a full weekend of lectures, the Aquinas chair lecture series, provides Cole

“You can capture so much, the mood and what’s going on, in a photograph, particularly with people in it.”

with each other and Coon every week, and both Rinaldi and York said the discourse teaches them better than a lecture-style course could, and the discussion motivates them to pursue new ideas and better techniques each week. “York’s being in class, it just feels like another student in the class. It’s not abnormal, and I don’t find it weird at all. I find it actually refreshing because I get to experience both sides of Dr. York,” Rinaldi said. York said he has experienced a new side of himself, too. In front of his biology classes, York performs like an actor on a stage, ready to impart his knowledge to an eager audience. But his personality outside of the classroom takes on a quieter, more introverted quality, he said. When he steps into the field, camera in hand, he summons the confidence to approach people and ask to take their picture. His camera, which he has only equipped with non-zooming prime lenses, heightens this task: after York spots a subject he wants to capture, he must position himself quite close to them before he snaps the photo. “That is not my personality at all, to get right in somebody’s face to take a picture without them punching you out or thinking you’re a total creep. Talking to strangers — I’m just not that comfortable with it,” York said. “But now, with my camera, I see something I really want to take a picture of and I’m actually developing the nerve.” York said he jokes that he would take Photography III next, if only the course existed. He may audit a design class to quench his curiosity about aesthetics, instead. Mostly, the photography junkie just wants to continue his improvement for his renewed passion: “I love it because I can really see that I’m furthering myself quite a bit.”

When professors audit, in addition to teach By | Katherine Scheu Associate Editor Provost David Whalen said he encourages professors to audit their colleagues’ classes, just as Biology Professor Dan York has done this semester in taking Photography II from Photography Professor Doug Coon. His encouragement has worked — a handful of professors add extra hours in a classroom building to their schedules every semester, but they spend the time behind the desks rather than the lecterns. “There are many reasons to encourage this, but perhaps most important is the need to cultivate a faculty instead of a pleasant but haphazard collection of isolated experts who occasionally bump into each other in a hallway,” Whalen said in an email. “By ‘a faculty,’ I mean a body of excellent teachers (and) scholars who have a largely common vision of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual good of undergraduate education and who are intellectually alert and interested in things beyond than their own expertise.” This semester, Art Professor Barbara Bushey is taking Calculus, and she said she plans to take Calculus II next semester. Assistant Professor of Classics Laury Ward registered for Beginning French I with French Professor Anne Theobald. “It has been delightful to refresh my conversational French through (Theobald’s)

class, but the experience has also enriched my teaching through my observations of Dr. Theobald’s wonderful classroom presentations and my reflections on my own time as a student,” Ward said in an email. Theobald herself has taken six classes since coming to Hillsdale in the fall of 2015: Western Heritage with History Professor Lucy Moye, France Since 1815 with History Professor Tom Conner, and four ballet classes with Holly Hobbs. Like York’s return to photography, Theobald signed up for her ballet classes because she wanted to return to dance. While Theobald took France Since 1815 to sharpen her knowledge of French history (her specialty is in 17th-century French literature) and audited Western Heritage to experience a core class at Hillsdale, she wanted to observe both Moye’s and Conner’s teaching skills to improve her own. “It was really valuable to observe Dr. Moye’s lectures as well as her interactions with students. Since I teach in French, it’s a different kind of exchange,” Theobald said in an email. “I wanted to take a class with Dr. Conner, to benefit both from his knowledge about French history and his teaching wisdom. He thought it would be the last time he would teach his class on France, so I jumped at the chance. That was a great experience, too.”

Aquinas invites generations of students into the intellectual life By | Jo Kroeker Features Editor

After piling into a white van with nine other professors and students, Professor of History Matthew Gaetano turned around and said, “I have a chauffeur’s license. Let that sink in.” It was Thursday after classes, and seven students, Professor of Philosophy Lee Cole, Professor of English Dwight Lindley, and Gaetano were embarking on a fourhour pilgrimage to St. Mary’s College at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana for a one-hour lecture on St. Thomas Aquinas. Professor David O’Connor delivered the lecture “Love More Than You Know: The Tao of Thomas Aquinas” about learning from Aquinas to love God more than can be comprehended, and to see Aquinas’ theology as a spiritual exercise rather than just doctrine. The annual McMahon Aquinas Lecture is organized by Michael Waddell, an associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s who advised Cole’s dissertation at Villanova

with a chance to support his director, expose students to formal lectures from prominent scholars, and get off-campus and spend time with students. “I honestly enjoy the car ride out there, having an excuse to talk with a group of students,” Cole said. “We can’t go anywhere — We’re stuck in a car for an hour and 45 minutes, and it’s nice to spend time with students in that way and the lecture often provides a topic of conversation on the ride back home. If you’re looking at a cost-benefit analysis one could critique the investment of time, but I always find it fun and refreshing.” Gaetano became acquainted with Waddell while he studied at Pennsylvania State University. “In the beginning it was a way of seeing him, seeing old friends, supporting that effort,” Gaetano said. “There is a careful choice being made by a major Thomist like Michael Waddell to think about where Thomist philosophy is in the present and to ask other philosophers in the Thomist tradition, some less firmly so, to reflect on the role of

Aquinas’ thought in modern philosophical discourse.” Gaetano said this lecture offers students more than just the chance to hear ideas from other communities shaping the conversation. “In some ways, going to this lecture series is not a way of moving beyond Hillsdale community, but going out and bringing something back to Hillsdale that speaks in a very direct way to some of the conversations already happening at Hillsdale,” Gaetano said. He added that it might be helpful for students to see Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions enter the contemporary philosophical discussion in a number of other institutional contexts. “Notre Dame is the best space for the discussion of the intersection of faith and reason of Catholic thought and conventional academic scientific reflection,” Gaetano said. “That conversation is happening in a deeper way there. That’s a conversation I want to be a part of.” Philosophy major junior Gill West said since he was introduced to Aquinas and Aristotle once he arrived on campus, he’s become sym-

pathetic to the Thomistic tradition. “I find them brilliant, compelling, very difficult to understand,” West said of the philosophers. “This lecture is nice because you get to go hear from people who have been studying Aquinas their whole lives and see how they take Aquinas’ whole enterprise, whereas I’ve been studying Aquinas for two years and not even for all of those two years, really two semesters.” In addition to hearing what people have to say about Aquinas, West said the lecture is a chance to hang out with professors outside the school atmosphere. “I think something that’s really cool about Hillsdale is that because it’s so small, we’re often able to see professors outside that more formal ‘We’re in school, we’re in office hours,’ it’s great to be able to talk to them and just hang out,” West said. For Cole, that kind of friendship allows learning to happen in the most proper way. “Friendship is the lifeblood of learning.”

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Sweet like honey, crisp like fall By | Morgan Channels Collegian Reporter Nan Jasinowski, one of the owners of Sweet Seasons Orchard in Concord, Michigan, watches the fresh donuts fry

Apple Cider from Sweet Seasons Orchard. Morgan Channels | Collegian

and then roll out on a conveyer belt. She wipes her hands on her yellow apron. The smell of freshly baked apple donuts meets customers at the front door of the orchard store. Meanwhile, her husband Ed Jasinowski mans the cash register. “No cards,” he said, apologizing to a customer who pulled a credit card from a wallet. In keeping with its name, the 35-year-old business is only open for the season — from September through Thanksgiving. Like other Michigan orchards, Sweet Seasons is bustling: Even in October, after the harvest is over, families flock to pumpkin patches and country stores for fresh cider. Apple cider from Sweet Seasons, Jasinowski explains, is made from six varieties of apples. Jasinowski also claims their cider boasts a “tart-i-ness” unique to this

orchard. “If the cider is too sweet, then people won’t want to keep drinking it,” Jasinowski says with a knowing smile. It takes the Jasinowskis just a half-hour to press 30-35 bushels of apples into a batch of cider and then another two hours to clean up and sanitize it all. For those over 21 years of age, another family fall attraction in this corner of Michigan, Meckley’s Flavor Fruit Farm in Somerset Center, offers a selection of award-winning, home-brewed hard ciders. For the children, Meckley’s apple cider is sweeter and alcohol-free. Chubby toddlers clutching tiny pumpkins follow their parents to the coolers as they grab a gallon or two. Fall is the peak season for Glei’s Orchard in Hillsdale, too, said Tricia Bills, who works in Glei’s greenhouse. On Saturday, the orchard will host a customer appreciation day with orchard tours, store

specials, and family activities, Bills said. Honey-crisp apples and cider are the most popular products right now, Bills said. Sheri Rose, professor of French, and her family joined the families flocking to orchards for the weekend, a family activity that brought back childhood memories for Rose, particularly getting lost in corn mazes. “My dad had to get me,” she said, laughing. Rose is raising her daughter, Melanie, in this Michigan tradition. Rose said that bringing 2-year-old Melanie on a wagon ride to a pumpkin patch allows her to relive her own childhood memories. Sitting with her daughter in an apple tree-lined pumpkin patch makes her nostalgic about her own autumn family experiences, Rose said. While some orchards like Meckley’s offer a wide variety of autumnal festivities, each little orchard in Southern Michigan seems to hold a

children in 1995, Brannagan mentored Ethiopian pastors as the academic dean at Tale Hewot Seminary. Brannagan discovered that the Western classroom educational model failed to resonate with his students and instead found that his most effective teaching moments came through storytelling and discussions over tea. Brannagan and his family moved back to Hillsdale, Michigan, where his two children graduated from Hillsdale College in 2007 and 2010 respectively, but his mission work continues: He now shares a story-centric approach to spreading the gospel as the Director of Story-centric Strategies for Evangelical Free Church of America, a national church organization with nearly 550 international missionaries. Research demonstrates that

more than 80 percent of the world prefers to learn through narrative, Brannagan said. He illustrated the narrative approach by telling the story of a public official in Nigeria who was running for reelection and accused of laundering public funds to his family and friends by an opposing candidate. Responding to the accusation, the public official said, “You’re right. I keep the money for myself, friends, and clan, and now I’m ready to serve you. If you elect this other candidate, he’ll do the same thing I did.” Brannagan said that the people re-elected the current official. “In Africa there is a strong group mentality that predominates individual justice. By displaying the injustice of nepotism within the context of a story, there is a greater chance that the student’s

response is, “I don’t want to be that person. How can I be sure that I won’t turn out that way?’” Brannagan said. Although they landed in different continents than Brannagan, two current Hillsdale students also experienced the importance of understanding the cultural narrative to build relationships and spread the gospel. The son of a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor, senior Christopher Horn moved to Khiy, Papua New Guinea in 2012 where his father served as an administrator at a Lutheran seminary for two years. By observing his father step into a leadership role as a pastor at the local Lutheran seminary, Horn saw the challenges for the missionary in a culture based on mutual favors.

certain spot in the hearts of Michiganders. “To me all this feels very American, more specifically, Midwestern,” Rose said. “People get their Halloween decorations out at the end of September. The crisper weather draws people out as well.” Rose said visiting orchards is a way to get outside and enjoy seasonal changes, particularly because Americans tend to be out-ofA pile of mini-pumpkins at Sweet touch with the seaSeasons Orchard. Morgan Channels | sons and walled-off Collegian from from the outside world. al,” she said. “You go pick out Rose said the fall festivities the pumpkin, you have your have gotten her family outside cider and donuts.” to appreciate the natural beauty of the area and to become more familiar with the smallJo Kroeker and Nicole Ault town culture around them. contributed to this report. “It’s almost like a fall ritu-

From Ethiopia, India, Papua New Guinea with faith By | Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter “Five ducks are sitting on a pier, and one of the ducks jumps off into the water. How many ducks are left?” For Christian missionary Tim Brannagan, the correct answer isn’t “four.” “An Ethopian would say zero, because if one of the ducks jumped off, the rest would follow,” Brannagan said. Brannagan and his wife, Nancy, shared stories from nearly 10 years spent abroad in Ethiopia as Christian missionaries. They found that spreading the gospel hinges on embracing the country’s cultural narrative to form relationships. Moving to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, with Nancy and their three young

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Professor of Biology Dan York audits Photography II, boosts his Instagram game @yorkporch. Dan York | Courtesy

Juliette Asbell By | Madeline Fry

How do you describe your style?

What is your favorite piece of clothing? I have this fantastic, vintage-inspired dress covered in dogs of different shapes and sizes. Whose style do you most admire? My younger sister has great taste. I always end up stealing her style ideas (and often her clothes). Anything else? As an art minor, I view fashion through the lens of art. Fashion is a great way to explore different facets of my personality.

Eclectic. I draw style inspiration from my favorite music and art and my love of vintage fashion. Although the items in my wardrobe vary in style, I always gravitate towards fun patterns and textures and statement pieces.

What upsets you about Hillsdale fashion? Or what is your fashion pet peeve?

I think people at Hillsdale need to take more style risks. Despite how creative the student body is, Hillsdale fashion is particularly bland. Madeline Fry | Collegian

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