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Chargers football team ranked nationally for first time since 2012 By | S. Nathaniel Grime Sports Editor The Hillsdale College Chargers football team won its sixth consecutive game on Saturday, 28-9 against Walsh University. With the win, the team improved to 7-1 this season and 6-0 in the G-MAC. The win also propelled the team into the national NCAA Division II rankings for the first time, at No. 25. The national ranking is the first time the Chargers have been ranked since late October in 2012. With three games remaining this season, the Chargers have a chance to win 10 games for the first time since 2009. The Chargers also come in ranked seventh in their region this week, which has implications for the team’s playoff chances. The top seven teams from each of the four regions make the NCAA Division II playoffs at the end of the regular season. Hillsdale’s last playoff appearance was in 2010. Head Coach Keith Otterbein said the team’s chemistry has contributed to this year’s success. “Every year here, we’ve

been close. We do some player evaluations and get some feedback from our players

season ranked third in their conference. They’ve since defeated the conference’s two

both at home, where the team is 3-0. The Chargers have been close to cracking the top 25 rankings as the season has progressed, and Otterbein said the team was slightly surprised they didn’t receive the recognition after the win against Ohio Dominican. Nevertheless, senior quarterback Chance Stewart said the ranking is unrelated to the team’s ultimate goal. The Hillsdale College Chargers football team has been placed in the national “In the grand NCAA Division II rankings at No. 25. Ryan Goff | Collegian scheme of things it doesn’t mean a and their responses have favored teams, then-No. 12 whole lot,” Stewart said. “Our always been that this is a very Ohio Dominican University goal is a conference champiclose-knit football team,” Oton Sept. 15 and the University onship and that is what we’re terbein said. “But this particof Findlay on Oct. 6. working towards.” ular group I think is especially Both wins came on the Stewart is one of many close. There’s a very unselfish road, where the Chargers are seniors on the team who have attitude about this group.” 4-1 this season. Hillsdale’s never been on a Hillsdale The Chargers entered the last two conference games are team that has entered the

College considers adding classical education master’s program By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Hillsdale College is considering starting a classical education master’s program, but the idea is still in the brainstorming stages with no fixed plan, according to Hillsdale College Provost David Whalen and Associate Professor and Chairman of Education Dan Coupland. “Hillsdale doesn’t do anything unless it is pretty confident that it is going to do it well and it’s going to be an excellent program,” Coupland said. “So that is what we are talking about working on now. We don’t have a timeline. We hope it will be part of Hillsdale’s future.” The only concrete step that has been taken thus far was to see who, if anyone, would be interested in a classical education graduate program. “That has been extremely positive,” Whalen said. “And by positive I mean there appears to be a sizeable and enthusiastic group of people who would love it if Hillsdale got into this and are interested in residential and distance kinds of opportunities to pursue graduate degrees while they work.” But everything regarding a classical school master’s

program at Hillsdale thus far has remained at the theoretical level. “It would be unwise to talk of it as if it were a plan. It is not a plan; it is a conjecture,” Whalen said. Such a master’s program would not be Hillsdale’s first involvement in classical education. The school offers a minor in that field. “Hillsdale has been training teachers for schools for as long as it’s been open. And it has produced teachers that have gone into public, private schools. And we continue to do that,” Coupland said. “Around 2007 or so we realized that many of our students were coming from schools that shared the mission of Hillsdale College. We also realized that our undergraduates here were graduating and going to work in those schools as well.” Over time, as Hillsdale started the Barney Charter School Initiative and began hosting the Classical School Job Fair on campus every year, the college began to establish its name in the growing classical education movement. Within the classical education movement, though, there is a growing need for administration and leadership.

“One of the hardest things to find in the context of a classical K-12 school is to find administrators and leaders in general,” Coupland said. “Headmasters, assistant headmasters, and also dean of students department heads, lower school heads, those kinds of things.” Before Hillsdale had any sort of graduate-level program, people asked how Hillsdale was going to contribute to the growing classical education movement, said Coupland. The Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship has shown that Hillsdale can do graduate level education, and do it well, he added. Now that there is evidence of interest from the marketing analysis, the college might be able to take another step towards launching the program. For current students in Hillsdale’s classical education program, the prospect of a master’s program is exciting. Junior Zach Palmer, who is minoring in classical education, said he has a strong interest in this kind of program. “I have heard the rumors and would be very excited if it’s actually a thing,” Palmer said.

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Students, faculty weigh in on Michigan midterms By | Nic Rowan Columnist Midterms elections are less than two weeks away — and the Michigan governorship is up for grabs. Because incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Snyder cannot run for a third term, his seat will either fall to current Republican Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette or his opponent, former Democratic state legislator Gretchen Whitmer. At the same time, incumbent senator Democrat Debbie Stabenow faces Republican nominee John James, who is backed by President Donald Trump, in a much-hyped race that will help determine whether the Republicans will maintain their slim Senate majority. Meanwhile, all 14 of MichFollow @HDaleCollegian

igan’s congressional districts are looking at the prospect of upheaval. Following Trump’s surprising victory in the typically blue Michigan in the 2016 presidential election, the state has become a battleground, and many are looking to it as a test marker for how lasting the Republican surge really was. Professor of Politics Adam Carrington said the governor’s race is particularly tight, but he believes that Whitmer has the edge over Schuette. Right now, Whitmer leads Schuette by about nine points, according to a RealClearPolitics poll. “One thing Whitmer has done well is appeal to union voters, and she has tried to intentionally cultivate them, whereas the national Democratic platform has ignored that voting block,” Carrington said. “In a state like Michigan,

that’s important for success.” Carrington added that he believes it is unlikely that James will beat Stabenow, even with the Trump administration’s fervent support of him, and his military-turned-businessman background. According to a RealClear Politics poll, Stabenow leads James by a little more than 17 points. “In some ways, James is a very old-style Republican,” Carrington said. And that may be part of it: He hasn’t been able to excite the Trump voters who would have gone for Obama. And Stabenow, she’s just a decent and capable politician.” This particular Senate race could have been crazy, Carrington said. “I have always wondered

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national rankings or made the playoffs. Sophomore wide receiver K.J. Maloney said it is rewarding for the team’s veterans to be recognized in their senior seasons. “Me and a bunch of the other guys were definitely pretty excited about that,” Maloney said. “Some of the older guys, being able to see that ranking, it’s cool to see all of the hard work they’ve put in during the years and the hard work we put in during the offseason starting to pay off.” Otterbein’s message to the team this year after each win has been “this win makes the next one bigger.” The Chargers play Kentucky Wesleyan College at home on Saturday. “This win would make the next one huge,” Otterbein said.” The team’s final conference game of the season is the following week, against Tiffin University. Hillsdale and Tiffin are the G-MAC’s two undefeated teams against conference opponents, meaning the matchup could decide the conference championship. While the team has used a combination of an explosive offense and stalwart defense to beat opponents this season,

Stewart says the Chargers have yet to play their best football. “We’re really starting to hit a stride at the right time. We won some games early on that some people might say we lucked into,” Stewart said. “Right now, our team is clicking. This weekend is a great step going forward. If we start getting hot at the right time, we’re a dangerous team.” Otterbein said the team has been focused on the week to week process instead of looking ahead to what could come. “Hopefully we can concentrate on the task at hand and focus, and this is the kind of team that’s not going to look ahead,” Otterbein said. “They’re going to put together the game plan and play hard and get a win.” Hillsdale’s next opportunity is this Saturday. The Chargers defeated Kentucky Wesleyan last season, 56-0. Their final two opponents, Tiffin and the University of Indianapolis, are both nationally ranked. But now, so are the Chargers.

Hillsdale College’s Mock Trial team won their first tournament of the year at Michigan State University. Andrew Simpson | Courtesy

Mock Trial beats Penn State, takes first at tournament By | Alex Nester Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College Mock Trial team swept their competitors with grace and class at their first tournament of the season. Two HCMT teams competed at Michigan State University’s Sixth Annual Red Cedar Invitational, facing giants like Pennsylvania State University and Case Western University. Team 1126, lead by Coach Jon Church ’11 and junior Captain Mason Aberle, won the tournament with a maximum score of eight ballots, winning each of the two judges’ ballots per round. Team 1127, lead by Coach Lindsey Church ’11 and sophomore mock trial team captain Sophia Klomparens finished the tournament winning four of the eight possible ballots. Jon Church said this team is “one of the most talented groups” he has seen. Team 1126 beat Michigan State University’s B team and Case Western Reserve’s B team in the first and second rounds, respectively. They took both ballots from each round, establishing a solid 4-0 lead in the tournament. Jon Church and Aberle commended the new members, including freshmen brothers Mattis and Jean-Luc Belloncle and sophomore Emma Eisenman. “The Belloncle twins are really something, they’re really sharp kids.” Aberle said. “And overall, it’s a really talented group of kids.”

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Eisenman performed as a witness during the trials. In the third round of the tournament, when team 1126 competed against Penn State, she played the compelling role as the wife of a murdered man. “She gets on the stand against Penn State, and as she’s talking about her dead husband, she literally starts crying,” Aberle said. “Full tears and everything. It was insane.” Hillsdale took both ballots in the round against Penn State, raising their score to 6-0. Since joining the team this semester, Eisenman said she has picked up on the closeknit nature of Hillsdale’s Mock Trial program. “It’s a team sport. It’s the people that make it,” Eisenman said. “There are so many inside jokes and the people are so good to each other. It’s very much a family.” Eisenman said the team’s composure during the tournament made a good impression on her. “When other teams were up, talking, and messing around before a round, we were all reading over things and preparing,” Eisenman said. “We were calm and cool and collected. And we were very classy.” HCMT team 1126 beat Case Western Reserve’s A team to win the tournament, winning both ballots in the round and sweeping their competition. Team 1127 took both ballots against Ohio Northern

University in the first round but lost to Penn State’s team in the second round. Lindsey Church said sophomores Conner Daniels and Jacob Hooper, who performed as attorneys, did well given the strength of their opponents. “It was their first time, and it was intimidating,” Lindsey Church said. “But they held their ground against quality opposition.” Team 1127 beat the University of Pittsburgh in the third round but fell to Case Western in the final rounding, ending their tournament 4-4. Jon Church said he was pleased with the team’s first performance. “A lot of times it takes a long time to develop the skills of a good competitor, but I was impressed by freshman,” Church said. “I was surprised by the amount of composure we had from new people.” According to Aberle, the mock trial program is a testament to the college’s ethos and the leadership of the coaches. “They don’t sugar coat things or let their kids off the hook, they are driving them to be better than they otherwise would be,” Aberle said. “Correcting with a gentle hand while still correcting is a hard thing to master, and they’ve got it down pat.” Hillsdale’s Mock Trial team will compete at the Case Western Spartan Throwdown October 27-28.

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Former congressman discusses principled politics Cafe Fresco attracts by a third party, who has not only do the things which a the upcoming midterms,” By | Carmel Kookogey personally spent the money man cannot do better himWheeler said. Collegian Reporter large lunch crowds, and will not personally have self,” he said. Junior Clayton Vanderlaan, “Whenever you see someto deal with the quality of the McEwan said that these who attended the event, said thing fouled up, rest assured, product, is the reason govern- two competing economic and that focusing the talk on ecoaccepts Liberty Bucks it’s gonna be government,” ment spending always fails, political viewpoints come nomics was a fresh approach. said former congressman Bob McEwan in a speech at Hillsdale College. McEwan, who represented Ohio’s sixth district from 1981 to 1993, and was a member of the Intelligence and Rules committees during the Reagan administration, spoke to a crowd of students on the economic effects of socialism on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at an event hosted by College Republicans. “There are people going around saying that they are in favor of socialism,” McEwan said. “Now, that’s an interesting statement to make, because socialism has been around for a long time, and has never been successful anyplace, ever, once. So how do you sell something like that?” McEwan explained that the majority of millennials say they prefer socialism to freedom, but cannot define either. He said that politics comes down to only two principles, integrity and economics. “Politics is a simple matter of adjusting those two, and because of what you know already, I can make you president of Nicaragua, and you can make it one of the richest countries in the world,” McEwan said. “Or you can take one of the richest countries in Latin America, Venezuela 10 years ago, and make it the second poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Socialism can do that.” McEwan interspersed examples from history to illustrate his argument, talking with the speed of an auctioneer. “Thomas Jefferson said freedom is having choices,” McEwan said. “The more money I take away from you, the less freedom you have. Now, that’s common sense, but if we were at the New York Times, that would be a profundity.” The usage of this money

McEwan said. “Now, those of you who take lessons in public speaking, they’ll tell you that when you’re about to say something

down to worldview. “There has to be a starting point, because where you start determines where you go next. There are only two

“I thought it was going to be more about his time in office, but I really liked how he centered everything around economics, it was an interesting way to view elections and politics in general,” Vanderlaan said. He added that he thinks we could use more men like McEwan in office today. In the question and answer segment following the speech, one student asked how to approach discussions about these issues with people who would largely disagree with McEwan’s arguments. McEwan advised the students to just “keep asking questions.” “Just ask questions, Former Reagan-era Congressman Bob McEwan and College Republicans Vice because what President Aidan Wheeler. Therese Ens | Courtesy they say doesn’t follow through,” he said. “Truth profound, you’re supposed worldviews: either you believe does not have to fear error. to pause for emphasis. So I that man created God, or you Error is one whale of a burden am now going to pause for believe that God created man. to sell, that’s why you’ve got to emphasis. Because what I’m End of discussion,” he said. “If scream and yell up and down about to say is not Democrat, you believe that man created the halls of the capitol.” Republican, Socialist, Labor, God, then you believe that McEwan added that arguChristian, whatever, it’s the man is his own standard.” ments are not always logical. facts, Jack: all government Sophomore and Hillsdale “You cannot logic a person purchases are third party College Republicans Vice out of an emotional decision,” purchases, made with money President Aidan Wheeler said he said. “Sense that early on, that’s not theirs for things they he felt the event went over and don’t ruin friendships are not personally going to well. over people who are not consume. That’s why Lincoln “I think it was a good topic, logical.” said the government should a good choice especially with

By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Reporter Café Fresco, Hillsdale’s “grab and go” lunch destination, started simply as a means to alleviate the noon traffic in the Knorr Family Dining Room, but is fast becoming the on-campus food favorite. Offering a to-go lunch option in exchange for one meal swipe, Café Fresco has lightened the lunch rush in the Dining Room by 250 to 300 students per day, according to General Manager of Bon Appetit Dave Apthorpe. With the addition of Liberty Bucks as a payment option last week, it has the potential to become even more popular. Café Fresco is structured to be a Grab option that facilitates a quick and portable lunch option for students and faculty. Students grab a brown paper bag from the beginning of the line, and can fill it with they have the option to choose one entree, one side, and one dessert or snack, along with a water bottle. The entrees include an assortment of sandwiches, salads, and wraps, along with the new addition of snack boxes, filled with veggies, hummus, peanut butter, cheese, and other small bite options. Sides range from fruit cups to parfaits to quinoa salads. For snacks, there is a rotating cycle of fruit, granola bars, chips, and fruit snacks. Junior Tim Polelle frequents Café Fresco most days because he said he likes the food better. “I think the food here is better than Saga,” Polelle said. “There’s less quantity, but typically on average its just better quality food. I find that Passport and Com-

forts tend to experiment a little too much for my taste. I get the sense it’s more reliably normal food at Café Fresco.” Marketing Coordinator and William Persson ’17 said the café plans to introduce an Asian inspired Bento Box to the menu later this semester. “It originated in Japan. It is a little box with five to seven different compartments with different little bites,” Persson said. “Typically, they would be more an Asian inspired, like maybe a deconstructed sushi roll or a tofu type dish. We spend a lot of time deciding what is going to go into the new items. Though it now accepts Liberty Bucks, Bon Appetit is not considering making the jump to cash or card. “We wouldn’t consider that because we think the proximity of AJ’s to that location Café Fresco is close enough,” Apthorpe said. “We have that option available, the 300 yards is not unrealistic to travel.” Despite requests from faculty, the café is also unlikely to break up items for individual purchase, for fear that it would slow down the line and create congestion in the already crowded space. “The objective of Café Fresco is to be a really quick-swipe option,” Apthorpe said. “Breaking up the basket will slow everything down. So we are not considering selling items à la carte.”

Hillsdale College for Life begins new campus prayer ministry Biweekly prayer ministry looks to unify religious pro-life students on campus By | Jade Juniper Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale College for Life has started a biweekly prayer ministry to bring awareness to the issue of abortion. Senior HCFL Presidet Kathleen Russo explained the addition to the club’s portfolio of activities as “a necessary part of HCFL’s work to promote the value of life.” By formally recognizing the faith-based aspect of the club in this way, HCFL can more accurately and honestly meet its goal to “unify” the student body through advocating for the sanctity of human life. The meetings will happen twice a month on Sundays at 1:15 p.m. in the formal lounge. Sophomore Bryce Asberg, a club board member, echoed the need for spiritual guid-

ance. “Our efforts to promote the sanctity of life are not going to succeed apart from God, so it seemed like a good idea to set aside time to pray over these issues,” he said. The HCFL’s leaders said the perceived change isn’t so much of a shift in ideals as a formality. Russo addressed concerns that the club may become too “cliquey” or exclusive, and said a primary goal of the club is to “reach out to all the various campus faith groups,” and encourage political involvement and activism. “Prayer has always been an element of what we do. Whether it is with 40 Days for Life or sidewalk counseling, there has always been a large Christian presence in the movement,” Russo said.

According to their mission statement, 40 Days for Life is a pro-life campaign with “a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion.” Sidewalk counseling is a less formal way to spread awareness through outreach and abortion education, where volunteers stand outside of abortion centers to speak with women and passersby. HCFL also aims to fortify student’s pro-life opinions through exposure to secular and scientific support for the issue. Russo said she believes, when it comes to arguing against abortion, the scientific support for life beginning in the womb outweighs biblical evidence. “Students should never be satisfied with justifying their

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SAB to host Lumber Games event By | John Arnold Collegian Freelancer

With hatchet tossing, pumpkin launching, and flannel galore, the Student Activities Board is hosting the Lumber Games in Hayden Park this Friday, Oct. 26. “The Lumber Games is something to cater to a different crowd on Hillsdale’s campus that doesn’t normally participate in SAB events,” said Assistant Director of Student Activities Alex Whitford ’18. The Lumber Games are lumberjack-inspired carnival

pro-life convictions purely based on their religious beliefs, and it is the goal of the HCFL board to arm them with all the knowledge necessary to be able to intelligently defend the science behind it,” she said. Russo hopes the ministry will cause students to both question and justify their beliefs, as well as fortify them with multifaceted arguments. She said she believes HCFL represents a movement in the right direction that can serve as a model for other schools and organizations in the future. “I don’t expect mountains to move, but I do hope that the issue of abortion moves a little closer to the forefront of our campus’ mind,” Russo said. Russo said she isn’t afraid

games designed to kindle a competitive spirit in anyone who wants to participate in feats of strength, as well as supplying fun arcade games for anyone who just wants to have fun. According to Whitford, some of the more competitive events include a log toss, hatchet throwing, pumpkin catapulting. Ashlyn Landherr ’16, director of SAB, described the Lumber Games as a SAB event “designed for the competitive to be competitive.” Students will have the opportunity to compete for a grand prize by completing a checklist of events, and

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Whitford and Landherr hope to fostering good-natured competition among Hillsdale students. Dorms will have the opportunity to share in the Lumber Games in a dormwide tug-of-war. Along with the competitions, Whitford and Landherr said corndogs, beer, and either hot chocolate or hot cider will be provided throughout the event. The SAB office said they are very excited to host the Lumber Games and invite everyone to come out in their favorite flannel and beanies and enjoy the fall festivities.

from A1 As a part of Hillsdale’s classical education program, Palmer has been impressed with the classes and how Hillsdale has taken many of the ideas that the school is focused around and put them into a minor. “The subject material is so vast and it’s probably the most self-improving of the degrees that you could get here. The problem is that it’s only a minor,” Palmer said, noting that the classical education minor allows students to “actually go into depth about how a human being actually learns something.” Right now, there are only a handful of schools, such as University of Dallas, Eastern University, and Houston Baptist University, that have been developing graduate-level programs in classical education, according to Coupland. As a result, current students

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to dream big in terms of what HCFL can accomplish in the future. “My dream is the chapel packed full of students once a month praying for the sanctity of life — and I don’t think that is too absurd to wish for if we truly take our faith seriously,” she said. The prayer group currently has 10-15 people and is growing. Both HCFL club leaders and members hope prayer meetings can be a place of “connection, unity, and understanding,” rather than conflict. Manocchio said the ministry has a “very flexible format,” including an opening passage of scripture, an intercessory prayer, and a closing prayer. The rest of the meeting is determined by what group members want to pray for that

day. One feature of the club Manocchio finds especially valuable is the diversity of prayer during meetings, indicating the variety of issues within the pro-life movement. “We pray for everything from the unborn and pregnant mothers, to pro-life politicians and blessings for the organizations that spend each day fighting abortion,” Manocchio stated. A detailed list of prayer requests describing local and national pro-life issues is available for students who aren’t as familiar with the pro-life movement, Asberg said. After choosing an issue, students are encouraged to pray aloud or silently. “It’s whatever they’re comfortable with,” he said.

like Palmer feels limited in options for graduate school. Whalen explained, however, that starting any graduate program takes a lot of work and time. The school would have to define what the program would look like, and then the college would have to go to the Higher Learning Commission to get permission and accreditation to offer the degree. The college would also have to find funding, scholarships, and more faculty. For a program like classical education, there would certainly need to be good scholarships available for students. “We haven’t even figured out what kinds of scholarships. All I know is that the students are going to need a lot of help,” Whalen said. “If people are coming here in the summer for course work, very often, they are young, they don’t have a lot of mon-

ey. It might be very important that we help them, that there be some kind of stipend or tuition waiver, or things of that sort that we assist them in obtaining their master’s degree.” And only after all these things are figured out would the college even be able to open a program. “In a way we can be really specific about what we don’t know,” Whalen said. “We don’t know what kind of budget would be necessary yet, we don’t know exactly how many additional faculty, we don’t have a target number of students that you want to open for your initial cohort. We don’t know a timeline.” Whalen said thinking about the program is the first step. “In a sense you do all the thinking first and then when you’ve thought it all out you set it loose,” he said.

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Hillsdale students canvass North Dakota for pro-life candidate By | Sofia Krusmark Collegian Reporter Over fall break, the Susan B. Anthony List, a nonprofit pro-life organization, sent 22 Hillsdale students to North Dakota to canvass for the prolife movement. The students divided into

Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s “extremist” abortion views. The team focused on rallying support for Kevin Cramer, her Republican opponent. “She voted in favor of taxpayer funding for lateterm abortion and against the ban of late-term abortion in the fifth month of pregnancy,

Sophomore Megan Kerr and freshman Gracyn Howard plan their walking routes in a North Dakota neighborhood. Mallory Quigley | Courtesy

four teams and visited 12,651 houses in three days. The teams spread throughout North Dakota, canvassing in Fargo, Grand Forks, and along the Canadian border. Sophomore Bryce Asberg, policy director for Hillsdale College for Life, said the team’s primary focus was informing voters on North

where the child can feel pain,” Asberg said. “That makes her more extreme than 70 percent of the country on the issue of abortion. North Dakota is a pro-life state, and they are not being represented by a prolife senator.” The Susan B. Anthony List, which is the nation’s largest pro-life political organization, works to elect candidates into

federal office that will enact pro-life policies. In this year alone, SBA volunteers have knocked on over 2 million doors. Mallory Quigley, vice president of communications for SBA, said the state of North Dakota is crucial for having a pro-life majority in the Senate. “We’ve known some really excellent Hillsdale College students who were past interns,” Quigley said. “We knew that they could rally a team of students who would be interested in heading out to one of our target states during their fall break.” Heitkamp has served in the Senate for the last six years. According to Asberg, Heitkamp has done a good job of protecting her status as a moderate. Freshman David Hunter said that many of the voters were unaware of her extreme stance on abortion. “There was one gentleman I talked to who was a Heitkamp voter. He didn’t even know that Heitkamp supported taxpayer-funded abortion,” Hunter said. “Before I left, I asked him if he still was going to vote for senator Heitkamp. He said he wasn’t sure anymore.” Quigley said the reason for employing college-aged students is because younger faces typically have the most impact on voters. “We’ve found that our young canvassers have some of the greatest success,” Quigley said. “People are more inclined to open the door to a younger person.” Freshman Penny Heipel agreed. “It’s really easy to get a pamphlet in the mail and throw it away, but when you

Twenty-six Hillsdale students traveled to Sleeping Bear Dunes over fall break with the Outdoor Adventures Club. Danae Sollie | Courtesy

Outdoor Adventures Club spends fall break at Lake Michigan By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter

With a gloomy forecast projected for the weekend, a clear, star-filled sky came as a joyous surprise to the Outdoor Adventures Club who went camping over fall break. The annual Sleeping Bear camping trip hosted by the Outdoor Adventures Club took 26 Hillsdale students to Lake Michigan at the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Most of the campers spent the entirety of their fall break on the trip. “That night while we were making dinner the sky just cleared and the moon became really bright,” junior Danae Sollie said. “We thought it was going to be rainy all night but then it was the most beautiful night.” Freshman Sonya Wirkus said the evening was the best moment on the trip for her. “You’re laughing with your friends but then you become quiet and you’re just looking at the stars,” Wirkus said. Students were at liberty to do as they pleased during the trip, whether hiking or exploring the nearby Traverse City. “It was really nice to not have a schedule,” Wirkus said. “You can do what you want and put aside school-related things.” This freedom lent itself to community bonding on the trip. Days usually began with

one individual telling the rest of the campers their plan to go on a hike or scenic drive, and an impromptu group forming. Cooking by the campfire also proved to be a way of bonding. “Not everyone knew each other but by the end there was definite community,” Sollie said. “There’s something about making food over a campfire that is really bonding.” Time around the campfire was spent experimenting with a Dutch Oven, making apple crisp, cooking chili, and

“It was nice to get away and be in nature,” Williams said. “We watched a lot of stars and sunsets.” Sollie said the motivation behind the trip was to give relaxation and rest for the students, as well as an adventure.” “It’s kind of cool because people are from so many different areas of the country,” Sollie said. “For a lot of people, it was the first time seeing Lake Michigan or a Great Lake.” For some, adventure was the opportunity to live independently.

actually talk to someone you’re hearing their words and taking it in from them personally,” Heipel said. “It probably made them think a little harder.” Students walked an average of 15 miles each day. Sopho-

telling stories. “We were just trying to figure things out,” Sollie said. “It was an adventure just to make dinner.” For junior Ella Williams, the trip provided a chance for a break but also a different way of living.

“Nothing is ready for you in camping,” Williams said. “You have to do everything yourself. It was a different way to live.”

edge, in addition to helping the cause. “I hope they that they walk away with the profound understanding of the hard work it takes to get someone elected,” Quigley said. “Politics is very personal, and it really

The Susan B. Anthony List took 22 Hillsdale students to North Dakota for pro-life canvassing ahead of the November election. Mallory Quigley | Courtesy

makes a difference to go house to house, voter to voter. It’s a lot of work but it’s very effective.” Asberg said that he finds the least glamorous tasks are the most worth doing. “How we treat the most vulnerable says a lot about who we are as people, and right now our record isn’t very good,” he said.

more Megan Kerr, previous canvassing intern for SBA in Indiana, said that these walks allow for moments of reflection. “It is so important when you are out there to be praying not just for you, but for these voters to be receptive to the truth,” Kerr said. “It is God working through students and anyone involved in canvassing to go out and

“Canvassing is a tough thing, but it can be a really rewarding. There’s time for great conversation from serious to frivolous things and great team building happens there,” Asberg said. “A lot of people walked away from this trip encouraged and ready to do more in the future for the cause.” Quigley said she hopes students left with new knowl-

By | Elizabeth Bachmann Collegian Reporter The federal government causes people to engage in criminal activity, said Clark Neily, vice president for criminal justice with Cato Institute, in a Federalist Society speech on Wednesday. Neily’s speech highlighted the decreasing clearance rates for crimes in the U.S., the high incarceration rate, and the estrangement of the current criminal justice system from the one which the Founding Fathers envisioned. “The government is probably the single most criminogenic element of our society,” Neily said, “because it has chosen to criminalize conduct that is not morally wrong, that morally upstanding people will continue to engage in and will have to turn to a black market to supply.” Neily said that the criminal justice system in the United States specifically looks for ways to increase incarceration rates by ensuring that it has a steady supply of people who can be charged for crimes that are easy to prosecute. The government does this by prohibiting something which people are dependent on, such as the use of drugs or alcohol which do not provoke a visceral reaction from the average citizen. “When you prohibit something, a black market arises along with organized crime, with no peaceful means to resolve business disputes,” Neily said. “They resolve them with violence, which leads to cycle of vengeance, and the supply of criminals the government is looking for.” Neily then explained that this cycle necessarily leads to low clearance rates for violent crimes, where the police close

a case with the belief that Because prosecutors’ full-time they have caught the crimijob is to incarcerate criminal. Because prosecutors can nals, they are incentivized to reach their quotas more easily fulfill a quota rather than seek by prosecuting drug offendjustice, Neily said. Although ers, they are not pursuing the the number of people arrested more difficult and dangerous per year has not increased, the criminals. number of prosecutions has “Police devote enormous increased dramatically. attention to marijuana posNeily offered a solution to session while ignoring violent this incentive problem. crimes,” Nielly said. “This “The cost of incarcerating screams bad a person is incentives. paid by the Law enstate, not forcement the proseis getting cutor’s ofless effective fice,” Neily at solving said. “But the violent what if we crimes that allowed make civil prosecutors society ima certain possible.” number of Freshman spaces in Victoria prison? If Marshall, a they want member of to use them the Federalall up on ist Society, low-level said that drug dealshe found ers, good Neily’s luck when Clark Neily of the Cato Institute speech thought spoke Wednesday on the United you catch a provoking and States’ criminal justice system. murderer. engaging. ProsecuElizabeth Bachmann | Collegian “You can see tors have to that most peodecide who ple who are incarcerated are really needs to be in prison there for drug crimes, specifand prioritize those people.” ically marijuana. I think that Senior Anna Perry, presiis a huge issue,” Marshall said. dent of the Federalist Society,“Sure, prosecute drug crimes said she thought the speech where there is a lot of violence was a success. involved, but we need to ask “The Federalist Society ourselves, are some of these likes to bring in speakers who things really criminal? Should can speak to both the philothe police be wasting their sophical and practical aspects time on them?” of law and policy,” she said. Neily argued the reason “Neily brought a practical the criminal justice system perspective about an issue has strayed so far from the that is critical for our country Founding Fathers’ vision and something that Hillsdale of public participation and students should care about.” transparency comes down to the full-time prosecutors that inhabit most jurisdictions.

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do this work for him and his creation, and ultimately, to glorify him.” Though the students were exhausted by the end of the trip, Asberg said that their friendships were strengthened.

what a Kid Rock candidacy would have looked like,” he said, referencing the rumors in 2017 that the rap-rock legend would be running for Stabenow’s seat — a marketing trick which briefly put Kid Rock in the national spotlight. But in general, Carrington said, typically Democratic districts that went for Trump in 2016 will likely roll back closer to their original Democratic voting habits. “And this will likely happen in the other typically Democrat states Trump won in 2016,” he said.

Student groups have been actively campaigning on both sides of the aisle this season. College Democrats will host a phone banking party for Whitmer on Oct. 26, and the group will also be canvassing for her on Nov. 3. “Our club hosts a variety of opinions, but speaking for myself, the blue wave is by no means an inevitability,” College Democrats President Madeline Hedrick said of the Democrat hopes this year. “It requires the vote and the work of everyone who cares about correcting the moral and literal corruption of the federal government.” College Republicans have also been hosting phone

banks, as well as canvassing for many Republicans throughout the state. The club recently sent members to knock on doors, supporting James’s senate bid and representative Tim Walberg’s congressional reelection campaign. “We are incredibly optimistic about the midterms despite the political climate of the day,” College Republicans president Aiden Wheeler said. “We are proud to say that we played a part in the 2018 grassroots campaign to get Michigan voters out for the GOP.”

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This week, two international incidents dragged Americans’ attention away from the midterm election cycle and Washington, D.C. politics: the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, and a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way up from Central America. Clearly intersecting with American politics, these issues remind us that consequential

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How important is this election, really? By | Kaylee McGhee Opinions Editor The elections of 2018 are the most important in our lives. At least, that’s what former Vice President Joe Biden thinks (so it must be true, right?): “This is the most important election any of us have voted in so far,” he said last week. He’s not alone. Last week, Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen said the November midterm elections “might be the most important in our lifetime.” And Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough have each declared 2018 “the most important election of our lifetime.” This worn-out phrase makes an appearance every two years, and though some attempt to nuance it by throwing in a variation, such as “in our lifetimes” or “in this generation,” it’s rarely, if ever, true. Young voters might be tempted to take this claim seriously if 2016 hadn’t also been the most important election of our lifetimes, and 2012 before that. It seems the 2014 midterms were only of vital importance to Dennis Prager, the radio talk show host, who also declared the 2012 presidential election the most important, “possibly since America’s founding.” Of course, there was at least one person who disagreed with this assessment: Dennis Prager, from two years before. The 2010 midterm elections were “not simply the most important of my lifetime,” Prager said, but “the most important since the Civil War.” Isn’t this fun? Let’s go back even further. In the 1990s, Republican strategist Ralph Reed argued that the need to stop Bill Clinton in 1996 put America “on the brink of the most important election of our lifetime.” In 1984, Ronald Reagan said Americans were facing “the most important election in this nation in 50 years.” Wouldn’t it be nice, one of these cycles, to have an unimportant election? Of course, elections have

consequences. Each election leaves a mark on the American political landscape, preparing the country for its next “most important election.” The upcoming 2018 midterms certainly matter. Republicans could lose the majority in one or both congressional chambers and Democrats could make big gains in state capitals. But is an election — any election — able to unhinge the American republic as we know it? Michael Anton thought so in 2016, arguing the country was doomed if Republicans didn’t vote against Hillary Clinton. “We are headed off a cliff,” Anton wrote in his essay “The Flight 93 Election,” in which he compared Republicans voting for Trump in 2016 to the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives to storm the cockpit of a hijacked plane during 9/11. Again, Anton’s rhetoric isn’t original. The U.S. has driven itself off several cliffs depending on whom you ask. And though the very fate of the country apparently rests on each and every election, the U.S. continues to march on, regardless of who wins and who loses. This “most important” rhetoric isn’t just tiresome; it’s deceitful. Too often, pundits exaggerate the import of an election to boost voter turnout for the candidate they favor. And sure enough, it’s working. A new poll conducted by Fortune magazine found that more than 60 percent of Americans believe the 2018 midterm elections are more important than any other in their lifetime. And of those polled, 67 percent said they are “absolutely certain to vote.” We’ll probably be stuck voting in the most important election of our lifetimes for, well, the rest of our lives. (Alas, re-occurring crises are boring.) This begs the question: What qualifies an election as “the most important?” And who gets to make the final call? The voters? God? Dennis Prager? But who knows? Perhaps the 2018 midterms really will be the most important election ever. That is, until 2020.

“This ‘most important’ rhetoric isn’t just tiresome; it’s deceitful. Too often, pundits exaggerate the import of an election to boost voter turnout for the candidate they favor. And sure enough, it’s working.”

Kaylee McGhee is a senior studying politics.

The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff events happen outside American borders — and that paying attention to international news is essential to keeping a healthy perspective on what happens within them. As we run the treadmill of the 24-hour news cycle and President Trump’s tweet-alerts, lives and nations are changing around the world. Hurricane Willa wrought destruction on Mexico’s Pacific coast this week. Dozens of people have

died amidst unrest in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections. The European Commission is arguing with Italy over the country’s budget. It’s not all bad news, though: A team of surgeons repaired the spines of unborn babies for the first time in Britain, and the oldest intact shipwreck was just discovered off the coast of Bulgaria. As Khashoggi’s death and the migrant caravan demon-

strate, what happens around the world is meaningful back home. Don’t wait for international news to touch American citizens or politics to pay attention to it. Understanding the rise and fall of another country’s politics and the trials and triumphs they go through will help us understand our own — and recognize that they are not as all-encompassing as we might think.

Office Hours Cast your ballot: Voting is a declaration for peace over battle By | Adam Carrington Professor of Politics I voted for the first time during a midterm election. We experienced it while living under two distinct shadows. It was the first federal election after 9/11. A world made new, in ways we then could hardly fathom, had changed our lives and our politics more than anything I had yet seen. It was also the first after the 2000 election. A campaign worker painstakingly showed me how to punch my ballot, the specter of “hanging chads” on everyone’s minds. (When I turned my card back in, the same worker carefully inspected it, thankfully finding it satisfactory). Standing in the voting booth, ballot before me, elicited two responses. I first felt the weightiness of the act. Self-government takes many forms in a citizen’s life. We do not merely vote. We examine,

discuss, petition, and much more. But we do vote. And in many respects, that act stands as a culmination of the others. That act declares in the most definitive way how we understand the Constitution, how we seek to realize justice. For a moment, I reconsidered my intentions. Not because I had changed my mind on who I supported or why. I did so because the consequences of the choices before me seemed real in a way I had not known. Second, I felt peace. In the previous months, I had parsed candidate’s platforms. I had been barraged by countless (mostly attack) ads. I spent Friday and Saturday nights debating with my friends over coffee, Pepsi, and greasy breakfast food at an old diner not far from our homes. I found those experiences exhilarating. But the constant din of punditry, the persistent tension while checking poll numbers placed this moment

in stark relief. I stood alone in that booth, the rest of the world reduced to a background hum. That peace pointed my mind to a broader, deeper one in our politics. Our campaigns have only grown more intense, fueled by our deepened differences and vituperative discourse. We despise as much as we disagree. But while we speak of elections in the language of war, we thankfully do so thus far as metaphor. For casting your ballot is a declaration for peace over battle. In the early moments of a real war — the Civil War — Abraham Lincoln declared that “ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.” Much of human history shows human beings making decisions by the tip of a spear or the whistle of a bomb. Voting rejects that means, positing an alternative, one shorn of carnage. It shows that men may rise above the

mire of accident and force to operate from deliberation and choice. Doing so is not a given for humanity. It isn’t even common. But it is part of true self-government. On November 6, many of you will vote for the first time. I hope you, too, have engaged with other citizens regarding the issues at stake. I hope you, too, will experience the weight and the peace those moments in the voting booth still give me. Most of all, I simply ask you to vote, to choose ballots now and ever so as to reject bullets forever.

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Pope Francis and the saints next door By | Nic Rowan Columnist

“The more power one has, the more one must be willing to serve,” Pope Francis says early on in “God Is Young,” a book-length interview published in Italian by the Vatican this past March. The English version of the book became available on Oct. 2, in conjunction with the Catholic bishops’ “Synod on Young People.” Francis agreed to the interview so that he could provide an open and guiding spirit to the topics he believes the synod should cover, and remind bishops how they should think about caring for their flocks — especially the very young and the very old — in 2018 and beyond. It’s no surprise then that Francis would focus on power and how the powerful should treat the weak, who are often also young. Francis has preached humility ever since he took office in 2013, and “God Is Young” is no exception. But here, more so than in other parts of his papacy, Francis focuses on spiritual purity as the concept that unites young and old in resisting — and with the help of God, defeating — the abuses

committed by those in power. The pope begins by laying out 15 spiritual diseases that those in power are most susceptible to, and points out how they hurt both one’s relationship with others and with God. Francis says he originally wrote them out for members of the Curia, but believes they apply just as well to secular leaders. Francis calls one of these diseases “spiritual Alzheimer’s,” meaning that one forgets that the path to salvation is through a “personal romance” with the Lord, not through a desire to possess and control lower goods. “It happens in particular to those who live hedonistically, to those who are slaves to their passions, their whims, their manias, their phobias, their instincts, at times the lowest and most squalid,” he says. A little further in, Francis identifies a disease he calls “existential schizophrenia.” It afflicts those who — often administrators — look after the affairs of large groups of people, but live a double lives à la Dorian Gray. “It is the disease of those who lose touch with reality, with actual people, and become simple administrators of

bureaucratic matters,” Francis says. “These people create their own parallel world where they set aside everything they sternly teach others and begin to live a hidden and often dissolute life.” All of the diseases, Francis concludes, stem from the root desire to transform service into power. It feeds power into more power — until the individual has glutted himself and lost ability to serve. It is the disease of insatiable desire, and it most often attacks those in public service, for whom service is their access to power over the ones the look after. This disease, Francis says, is nurtured by an individual’s vanity, making it the hardest to unravel. Drawing on an example from the Desert Fathers, Francis compares vanity’s effect on the soul to an onion: layer after after layer of deceit only reveals another layer of deceit. And even when it’s all gone, the sharp odor remains. Through this constant enfolding, vanity in a leader can corrupt the whole institution. It is essentially duplicitous, and therefore hard to pin down: “Vanity is a soap bubble,” Francis says. “Being vain is hiding behind a mask.” But the abuses of the

powerful should not deter young people from wanting better, Francis encourages his audience. Corruption is a middle-aged illness, contracted by people who have become jaded by the past failings of the institution they serve. Francis sees this self-perpetuating problem, and warns young people not to fall victim: “Young people must not accept corruption as if it were any other sin, they must never grow used to corruption, because what we let slide by today will reoccur tomorrow, until we adapt to it and become an indispensable cog in its wheel.” It’s no wonder the Curia have so far failed to follow it Francis’ advice. They have grown old, because they have accepted generation after generation of corruption. Think what you will about Francis, but in “God Is Young,” he’s right about youth: Only those who refuse to accept living in sin as the norm can uproot this corruption. Nic Rowan is a senior studying history.

Move Michigan forward: Elect Bill Schuette convicted sexual predator Larry By | Connor Kaeb Special to the Collegian Nassar; to bringing corrupt In less than two weeks, Michigan faces an important decision. The state can either continue to move forward and grow, or it can fall back on the failed policies of the past —policies that will hinder the state’s growth and slash opportunity for its citizens. Bill Schuette will take Michigan in the right direction, Gretchen Whitmer will hold it back. As Attorney General, Schuette has fought consistently for the people of Michigan. From taking the Environmental Protection Agency to task over job-killing regulations; to leading the effort to prosecute

public officials to justice, Schuette’s record speaks for itself. He is now seeking to use that experience to serve Michigan as governor. Schuette has laid out a bold vision for Michigan, which he has named the “Paycheck Agenda.” A key component of Schuette’s plan is a repeal of the 2007 tax increase, championed by Gretchen Whitmer. Other top priorities in the “Paycheck Agenda” include bringing down auto insurance rates for Michiganders, improving infrastructure, and bolstering Michigan’s education system. Schuette Se has vowed to prioritize repairs for roads and bridges in the

state budget, and improve the third grade literacy rate in public schools while expanding career training programs. Gretchen Whitmer, on the other hand, has gotten into bed with the farthest left factions of her party. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a well-known socialist, recently came to Michigan and campaigned on her behalf. Whitmer supports the kind of tax-and-spend policies and excessive regulations that lead to job losses in a time when Michigan needs them more than ever. Ironically, Whitmer’s economic agenda attempts to latch on to the strong national economic headwinds brought about by President Donald

Trump’s policies. Trump was an early supporter of Schuette, and he continues to make his support of him known. Michigan faces a choice on Nov. 6. Either it can embrace the pro-growth policies of Bill Schuette that will lead to more money in the pockets of Michigan families and more jobs and opportunities for everyone, or it can veer off towards the hardleft policies that have failed us in the past. For the future of Michigan, the choice is clear. Bill Schuette is the governor this great state deserves. Connor Kaeb is a sophomore studying politics.

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To win Michigan, John James should embrace Trump John James has what it takes, but can he secure the Republican vote by distancing himself from the GOP? By | Garrison Grisedale Columnist John James shouldn’t be afraid to align himself with Trump and the Republican Party. A potential up and coming Republican star, John James has almost all the tools to win Michigan’s Senate seat. The Republican candidate is a young, articulate, black conservative running against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow. James has the dynamic profile Stabenow lacks: He’s a veteran and an accomplished businessman. All he lacks are poll numbers and a killer instinct. Real Clear Politics polling shows Stabenow enjoying an average 16-point lead over James in the Michigan race.

But that lead has been dwindling: Mitchell Research’s mid-September poll had Stabenow leading by 13 points. Its mid-October poll has Stabenow up by only nine. On Monday, the Tarrance Group released a new poll showing James down by seven. And in the last fundraising cycle, James outraised Stabenow by a 2-to-1 ratio. James has a compelling biography, having graduated from West Point and going on to become a Ranger-qualified aviation officer. He served in the Iraq War, earning a Combat Action Badge and two Air Medals while logging more than 750 flight hours in theater, leading two Apache platoons. After his service James returned to his family business, James Group International, a

supply-chain logistics company in Detroit. As president, James has led the company from $35 million to $137 million in revenue, creating more than 100 jobs in Michigan since 2012. James has also earned advanced business degrees from Penn State University and the University of Michigan. His qualifications are pristine. And he has President Trump’s ringing endorsement: James “is SPECTACULAR!” Trump tweeted last summer. “Rarely have I seen a candidate with such great potential.” Trump’s endorsement should go a long way in Michigan, whose voters favored Trump in 2016, marking the first time since 1988 Michigan went red. Yet, in an Oct. 14 debate

with Stabenow, James sought to distance himself from the president. And this will cost him. Throughout the debate, James kept emphasizing that his agenda does not match Trump’s or the Republican Party’s. “Vote person, not party,” James said. “Don’t judge me by the ‘R’ next to my name.” How should an energized GOP base understand this statement? The Republican Party today has embraced lower taxes, pro-life values, border security, “America-first” foreign engagements, fair and reciprocal trade, conservative judges, law and order, the presumption of innocence, regulatory reform, and more. Republican voters support Republican candidates because they assume

that the candidates will hold to these principles. James ought to embrace this agenda, not move away from it. And he ought to leave no doubt in voters’ minds that he has no sympathy for the mob-rule tactics of today’s Democratic Party. “I’ll work with the president when it benefits Michigan and against him when it goes against Michigan,” James said. Who expects to hear anything else from their elected representative? Trump was the first Republican to win Michigan in nearly 30 years. Why would James want to distance himself from the base that delivered a historic Republican upset a mere two years ago? James, like many others in the conservative movement,

seems to have “learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” And it goes to show that if the GOP establishment had to go back to 2016, they’d lose to Trump all over again. James is a solid conservative candidate and a good voice to represent the state of Michigan. But he must reject the role of “gracious loser” allotted to him by the Democrats, dig in his heels, and fight for his party and its platform. As he points out, Stabenow has been in public office for 43 years. James is looking for his first shot at public office. It’s time for a change, and Michigan voters ought to choose James come election day. But first he must help himself. Garrison Grisedale is a senior studying politics.

Keep the pro- Clocks don’t belong in baseball life momentum going By | S. Nathan Grime Sports Editor

By | Nolan Ryan News Editor When I knocked on a door in Fargo, North Dakota, the elderly man who answered told me he was a one-issue voter. That issue turned out to be abortion. As it happened, several voters told me they were one-issue voters that day, and I confidently guessed that issue to be abortion. Usually, I was right. It’s important for pro-life citizens to get out and vote on Nov. 6 to continue driving the current pro-life momentum in America. Over fall break, I joined a team of fellow Hillsdale College students in a four-day trip to North Dakota to canvas the state’s largest cities. Working with the Susan B. Anthony List — a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending abortion by supporting pro-life candidates — our mission was to promote Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who is running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for the Senate. We knocked on more than 12,600 doors and walked more than 10 miles a day. Some of the voters I spoke with had their doubts about Cramer, but they planned to vote for him nonetheless because he is pro-life. “I don’t care for Cramer all that much,” one Fargo voter told me. “But he’s pro-life, and he’ll have my vote.” These voters know that one of the best ways to defend the sanctity of human life is to put pro-life candidates in office. Since the 2016 election, pro-lifers have made crucial political gains. President Donald Trump has plenty of flaws and shortcomings, but his administration is arguably the most actively pro-life since Ronald Reagan. He has successfully nominated two pro-life Supreme Court justices: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Trump also signed a bill that allows states to stop funding Planned Parenthood through Title X funding, and he reinstated Reagan’s Mexico City Policy, which cuts funding to foreign abortion providers. But Trump can go only so far without a pro-life Congress backing him. This is why elections like the North Dakota Senate race are so important. A candidate can easily claim a pro-life agenda, but words are meaningless unless

supported by action. The same goes for pro-life voters. Not everyone can travel to another state to canvas. Not everyone can make the trek to Washington, D.C for the annual March for Life. But every registered voter who supports the right to life of the unborn can go out and vote for pro-life candidates. We need to push for incumbent pro-life Senators, as well as new Republican candidates like Michigan’s John James and Wisconsin’s Leah Vukmir. This isn’t a partisan fight. The pro-life movement has allies on the left, particularly among the Democrats for Life. Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia, congressional candidate Dawn Barlow of Tennessee, and Dan Lipinski, a congressman from Illinois, have all been endorsed by Democrats for Life. They deserve the consideration of pro-lifers just as much as Republicans, especially for left-wing voters. The nation is split on the issue of abortion. A majority of citizens support abortion at least in some cases, but according to a 2018 Gallup poll, 48 percent of Americans also believe it is a moral evil. Now, more than ever, we have the means change the law to reflect the scientific fact that abortion is the taking of a human life. “This generation hasn’t just seen ultrasound images of unborn children, they’ve seen advancements in technology allowing younger and younger babies to survive — and thrive — after a premature birth,” March for Life’s Jeanne Mancini wrote in RealClear Politics. Pro-life voters, young and old alike, have a responsibility to drive the momentum for the movement. Races in competitive states like North Dakota require pro-life voters to inform themselves and take action for the movement. The pro-life policies of Trump and Congress won’t mean anything unless citizens do something by voting for politicians who will defend the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution.

“Pro-life voters, young and old, have a responsiblity to drive the momentum for the movement. Races in competitive states like North Dakota require pro-life voters to inform themselves and take action for the movement.”

Nolan Ryan is a junior studying English.

It’s the World Series. Game 7. Tie game. Bases loaded. Bottom of the ninth. Full count. Two outs. The pitcher reads over the signs from his catcher. He takes a deep breath. He glances at the baserunners in his periphery. He exhales. He sets. Timeout. The bright red digital numbers behind home plate read “:00.” The umpire awards the batter first base and signals for each baserunner to advance 90 feet. The runner from third base trots down the line and crosses home plate. The game is over. The World Series is over, all because of a clock. Clocks have no place in baseball. Major League Baseball has no idea how to get what it wants. In 2014, for the first time, the average nine-inning game took more than three hours. Four of the past five seasons have yielded the same or greater averages. Major League Baseball acknowledged the faction of fans who say games take too long and are too slow-paced. In response, it installed timers between innings and while pitchers warm

up, attempting to eliminate down time and speed up pace of play. Pitch clocks could follow. If they do, a pitcher unable to deliver his next pitch before the clock on the backstop reads zero ends up with a ball added to the count. If it happens in a three-ball count, the pitcher will have walked a batter without throwing a pitch. If it happens with a three-ball count and the bases loaded, he will have allowed a run to score without even throwing a pitch. That’s a lot of anti-climactic inaction for a sport that wants to pack more action into less time. Nothing replaces the drama of a close game during the late innings on a crisp October night. A clock would dampen the suspense, strategy, and timelessness of the moment. The crowd holds its breath at every move, as the pitcher stands alone in the center of the diamond, elevated on the dirt mound. In that moment, absolutely no one in the world is thinking of counting down the seconds until the pitcher delivers the pitch. All eyes are on the ball, delivered from the mound to home, and all ears are fixed upon the sound of bat meeting

baseball, the umpire’s call, or the crowd’s roar. The great moments in baseball history transcend time — they are passed down from generation to generation by baseball lovers through the decades. Time has nothing on baseball. In addition to Major League Baseball’s initiative to speed up the pace of play, it has suggested the need to boost offensive production by expanding the strike zone and introducing the designated hitter to the National League. More offense would only slow down the pace of play. Innings would take longer, and teams would make more pitching changes. It’s like driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake. Baseball should just let baseball be baseball. It doesn’t need a clock. Time doesn’t belong. Even if a team is up by 10 runs in the ninth inning, there’s no “running out the clock.” The batter still has to stand in the batters’ box, and the pitcher has to throw the ball over the plate and give the hitter a fair shot. “In baseball, you can’t kill the clock,” Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver said. “You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why

this is the greatest game.” Time doesn’t pick winners and losers in baseball. It never has, and it never should. Baseball is a game of managing adversity. You can’t wait for time to run out and face the big moment down the road. You must take it on now. You can’t call timeout. If the game is tied after nine innings, you don’t go “over” time, instead, you get to play “extra.” If Major League Baseball adds clocks, it will still have a loyal fan base. But, it will gradually become a different game. Older generations lament the decaying virtue of patience. Baseball steels itself against the erosion of patience. In baseball, you may have to wait. You may have to wait for the big inning. You may have to wait for the winning season. You may have to wait for a lifetime. But the clock never runs out. There will always be more time.

S. Nathaniel Grime is a junior studying rhetoric and pulbic address and journalism.

Letter: Commencement is more than a political statement Dear Editor, In the Oct. 11 edition of The Collegian, Ms. Krystina Skurk argued that Hillsdale should invite newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to speak at the 2019 commencement ceremony. This proposition would do a great disservice to the students and mission of Hillsdale College. To begin, the intention of this response is not to rehash the debacle surrounding Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation. While I am disheartened and disturbed by the timing and nature of the allegations levied against Justice Kavanaugh, I am personally happy that he was confirmed since there was little corroborating evidence to disqualify him from ascending to the Supreme Court. With that said, inviting him as our 2019 commencement speaker would not be a good decision. In the opening of her piece, Ms. Skurk writes “Brett Kavanaugh will be President Donald Trump’s greatest legacy. For the first time in generations, the Supreme Court has a conservative majority. To celebrate this new era of American politics, Hillsdale should invite Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to speak at its 2019 Commencement.” This raises the essential question: What is the point of a commencement speaker in the first place? Is it simply a way to fill the June edition of Imprimis and cater to the friends of Hillsdale College, or does it stand for something more? It should be obvious, but commencement itself and the speakers

invited to address it exist to celebrate the graduating class, their parents, and the Hillsdale faculty that have worked tirelessly to educate these students for the past four years. Commencement is not a time to celebrate a new era of conservative politics, but rather a time to celebrate a crop of young people who have received a liberal education, hopefully preparing them for the challenges they are sure to face. While politics and citizenship are an important part of life, a classical education from Hillsdale teaches us that there is much more to it than what goes on in Washington D.C. A Hillsdale education teaches its students the importance of living as good people, good spouses, good children, and good parents along with living as good citizens. Emphasising the latter over the former mischaracterizes the mission of a classical liberal education. In defense of her proposition, Ms. Skurk continues: “Just like Hillsdale, Kavanaugh is a bulwark against progressive liberalism.” Once again, this caricature of Hillsdale is misleading. And ironically, it’s typically adopted by those that oppose Hillsdale rather than those who support it. While it is true that Hillsdale in many ways stands firmly against modern day progressive politics, it is far more important to note that Hillsdale stands for much more. Characterizing us by our achievements in Washington hollows out the core of Hillsdale College and the eternal principles it stewards. Hillsdale was founded on principles that precede the American

Progressive movement and, God-willing, will outlast it as well. Ms. Skurk writes, “Kavanaugh embodies much of what Hillsdale as an institution stands for. As a textualist, Kavanaugh cares about the correct interpretation of the Constitution and he understands that government exists to protect individual liberties.” She also lays out the case that Kavanaugh is by all accounts a good, God-fearing man who is a pillar for his family and community. I do not disagree with her assertions, but it does raise another important question: Would Brett Kavanaugh even be on the short list of commencement speakers if not for the recent political scandal surrounding him? If he was never nominated by President Trump and was still a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals, would Ms. Skurk still be touting him as the ideal 2019 commencement speaker? I hazard to say that Kavanaugh’s appeal rests more squarely on the conservative political clout his invitation would gain the college and the statement it would make rather than the substance of his words to the graduates or the respectable background he may possess. Finally, Ms. Skurk touts Kavanaugh’s agenda as “an advocate for social change. As he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, ‘A majority of my 48 law clerks over the last 12 years have been women.’ Kavanaugh has sent more female law clerks to the Supreme Court than any other judge in the country.” Obviously there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Kavanaugh’s actions,

but why are they inherently worthy of praise? Since 1844, Hillsdale has sought to “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education.” Why should we flaunt how well we adhere to progressive standards of identity politics that Ms. Skurk proudly proclaims we stand so firmly against? Hillsdale sees people as individuals and we should celebrate Kavanaugh’s clerks for their attributes and abilities, not simply because they are women. Hillsdale College refuses federal funds so that it does not have to count its students by arbitrary characteristics — we should not all of the sudden celebrate these characteristics simply because doing so may be expedient in the present. As stated before, this is by no means a referendum on Brett Kavanaugh. If during his time on the Supreme Court he continues to promote the values of the Western and American traditions and stand up for the same eternal principles of Hillsdale College, than I would be honored to have him speak at a commencement ceremony, just as Justice Clarence Thomas did three years ago. But those should be the merits on which we invite Justice Kavanaugh, not simply because he can teach our students to have “audacity,” as Ms. Skurk suggests, or because it makes a bold political statement to the country.

Erik Halvorson is a senior studying economics and a columnist for the Collegian.

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Unregistered committee sends mailers in support of vote for Jennings

Smith’s Flowers was decorated with a fall theme for the Awesome Autumn event. Collegian | Calli Townsend

Awesome Autumn celebrates fall in Hillsdale By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor Kids in costumes, babies bundled in strollers, and people of all ages with checklists in hand roamed the sidewalks of downtown Hillsdale on Tuesday evening for Hillsdale Business Association’s Awesome Autumn event. “We have five kids, and they’re all doing the scavenger hunts,” Joanna Young, Hillsdale Resident and mother of five, said. “It’s a nice fall outing.” Awesome Autumn is not only an opportunity for families and friends to gather together and explore the town, but for the businesses to showcase what they have to offer the community as well. Twenty-nine local stores, restaurants, salons and more stayed open after hours to participate in this annual event. Participating businesses had an orange paper pumpkin

taped to their doors to indicate that people could come in and find the orange pumpkin hidden in the building. Once the pumpkin was found, that business could be checked off the scavenger hunt list. If a purple paper pumpkin was on the door, that meant there were snacks as well. Gelzer Furniture gave out cookies and other candies, along with an elaborate picture taking station. Smith’s Flowers had soup available, and a special gift of a rose to the first 50 women to walk into the store. Marcy Alaniz is a former employee of several years of the Gezler Furniture shop. She said she comes back every year to help with this event. She says the store is like a home to her. “I think Awesome Autumn is fun,” she said. “It gets people downtown and is a great community event.” Once participants com-

pleted the scavenger hunt, they turned in their checklists to be entered in a drawing for prizes. Winners will be announced on the Hillsdale Business Association’s Facebook page, along with being notified by telephone. “The prizes are from a few of the businesses,” Jonna Macy, owner of Toasted Mud said. “Some are $50 gift certificates to the store. We are giving away an after hours party.” Rebecca Reinbolt, manager of Toasted Mud, said the Awesome Autumn event is a great way for people to see what the art studio is really like. “Some people think we’re a coffee shop,” Reinbolt said. “So it’s good to have people see what we actually do.” Hillsdale Alumnae Alexandra Whitford ’18, Ashlyn Landherr ’16, and Gwendolyn Buchhop ’11 were out and about in the town enjoying the fall activities.

“We love local businesses and activities, and this is a great combination of them,” Landherr, director of student activities and Grewcock Student Union said. Buchhop, the community relations coordinator for athletics, said she wanted to show her support for the town. “They come to our events so we like to come to theirs,” Buchhop said. “I grew up here and I didn’t even know some of these stores were like this.” The Hillsdale Public Library was hosting a special night for kids as well. Kids could came dressed in costume to meet Spiderman and princesses, along with pumpkin painting, snacks and a movie. “The kids enjoy getting a pumpkin,” Young said. “It’s a tradition for our family and it’s a nice opportunity to be in the downtown.”

By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor Postcards encouraging people to “Vote for Peter Jennings” were sent to Ward 1 residents last week. These mailers were delivered despite Hillsdale City Council’s decision in a special meeting on Aug. 1 that Peter Jennings, Ward 1 resident and assistant professor of management at Hillsdale College, is ineligible for office due to durational residency restrictions. Jennings made a public statement at that same meeting saying he would respect the council’s decision, step aside and no longer campaign. Jennings did not sponsor the mailers, nor did he have any knowledge of them until he received messages about Ward 1 residents finding them in their mailboxes. “As far as I’m concerned, I am out of the election,” Jennings said. The postcards were paid for by the Committee to Elect Quality Candidates in Ward 1, according to the postcard itself. However, County Clerk Marney Kast confirmed that this committee is not on file as required by campaign finance laws. “A lot of people are not aware that if you receive money or spend money for a campaign, you have 10 days to file as a committee,” Kast said. She said if anyone were to approach her with a person of contact for the named committee, she could reach out to them and contact the campaign finance division under the bureau of elections. Jennings’ name will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot because of proper voting procedures which require the top two candidates on the primary ballot to advance to the general election. At the time the council decided that Jennings was ineligible for the primary vote, primary ballots had already been printed and Jennings’s name could not be removed. In a Facebook post commenting on the “Vote for Peter Jennings” mailers, Mayor Adam Stockford said, “The state bureau of elections and the county election committee do not make determinations on qualifications for local office. The state Constitution gives those powers to each

city individually…The only thing those bodies have ruled is that Dr. Jennings cannot be removed from the ballot because a vote has already been held.” The Council’s decision to name Jennings ineligible for office upholds the City of Hillsdale’s charter, which states that those running for office “shall have been a resident of the city for at least three years immediately prior to the date of the election at which he is a candidate for office.” Jennings has lived in Hillsdale since August of 2016, not meeting the durational residency requirement stated in the Hillsdale City charter. “The mistake started with me,” Jennings said. “I was not aware of the three-year residency requirement. The paperwork I filed for candidacy did not specify any durational residency requirement. I assumed Hillsdale complied with the standard one-year residency for municipal offices that the courts long upheld as reasonable. ” If Jennings does get the most votes in the Nov. 6 election, he will not be able to take the seat, and a special election will be held in August 2019. A special election is already being held to fill the seat of former Ward 2 Councilman Tim Dixon, who resigned earlier this month. “We are already holding a special election to fill Dixon’s seat so it wouldn’t even cost the city extra money,” Stockford said in an email. Jennings said that even if he does win the seat, he will not take it. “Even if I am the popular vote winner, I don’t have the option of taking the seat because city council determined that I am not eligible,” Jennings said. “But even if Council was to reverse their decision, I still wouldn’t accept the seat because of the controversy.” Since finding himself ineligible for office, Jennings has joined the Hillsdale Rotary Club and is committed to serving the community in that capacity. “Another councilmember has since resigned, so another election has to be held anyway,” Jennings said. “I think that’s the best course of action at this point.”

Local college fair encourages high school students to apply for college Hillsdale College football coach Nate Shreffler and players teach fourth grade boys at Gier Elementary School with the club, “Guys with Ties.” Facebook | Hillsdale Community Schools

‘Guys with Ties’ teaches character By | Anna Timmis Culture Editor Members of the Hillsdale College Football team are used to volunteering for the community. But this year, they’re doing it differently. Together, they’re encouraging young men in fourth grade at Gier Elementary School to “look good, feel good, do good.” Called “Guys with Ties,” the club, which started in September, gives young boys an opportunity to learn life skills from older role models. Every three weeks during the lunch hour, the 4th graders and the football players dress in shirts and ties. The very first thing the fourth graders learned: tying a tie. Offensive Coordinator Nate Shreffler explained that looking good catches the attention of others, and it’s important to know how to use that attention for good.

“Part of my goal is to help the kids understand they have control over their environment and can impact the kids around them,” Shreffler said. “It’s positive for everyone.” As members of the club, the boys will learn practical skills, such as ways to conduct themselves, to look people in the eye, and to give a good handshake. Shreffler said that they will learn good dining etiquette, and will talk about goal-setting. But Shreffler also wants to teach them kindly and with integrity. “Doing the right thing when no one’s looking, showing gratitude towards others,” he said. During one of the first meetings, the fourth graders and volunteers, dressed in their ties, stood by the front doors of Gier, greeting each person. Being part of the welcoming group showed the boys that even the small things make a big difference.

“I think the kids saw how many smiles they generated,” Shreffler said. Senior Chance Stewart said that spending time at Gier makes an impact on the boys in the club. “For them it’s a big deal,” he said. “They don’t want us to leave, and they have big smiles.” About 14 to 16 members of the football team are involved, Shreffler said. Senior Drew Callahan said that he hopes the kids in the club have fun, but also learn from the college students to have someone to look up to. “Something that’s not taught in school is how to become men of character,” Callahan said. “It’s special, a group of guys learning from other guys.” The club started to become reality about a year ago, when Shreffler’s wife, who is a teacher at Gier, learned about a similar club at the school that

Shreffler’s brother sends his children in Canton, Ohio. While he’s the self-proclaimed “nuts and bolts” person, “she’s the one that really got it off the ground,” he said. Callahan said that he thinks aiming the club at 4th graders was intentional. “During their teenage years they learn to be independent, and middle school can be tough trying to fit in,” he said. “We want to teach them to be their own person now, and they can fall back on that in middle school.” The club is a great opportunity for the football team to volunteer, and expose the kids to rockstar players who are also upstanding people, he said. “We’ve had a ton of fun — all the guys really enjoy it,” Callahan said.

By | Alex Nester Assistant Editor Hillsdale County Community Foundation is doing all it can to encourage high school kids to go to college. The HCCF hosted over 70 colleges from Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio at their 12th annual college fair in Hillsdale College’s Searle Center. Over 300 students from across Hillsdale County attended, and the HCCF also had a booth with information about the scholarships the organization offers. “A lot of our students do not have the opportunity to visit colleges, so their knowledge is very limited,” said HCCF President Sharon Bisher. “We are grateful for the support of the schools and Hillsdale College for this great community event, where a lot of people come together for the benefit of our young people.” According to Bisher, 60 percent of Hillsdale County high school seniors will attend college after graduation. Only 50 percent, however, stay after the first year, and only 15 percent will earn a certification after four years. “But those numbers are rising,” Bisher said. “We are

really trying to focus on the trades and certifications, as well as two- and four-year degrees.” Bisher said Hillsdale County is in need of skilled trade workers. Hillsdale high school seniors Ella Lewas and Hunter Sharp attended the college fair. Both expressed interested in attending college. Lewas said she is looking for schools with ultrasound technician programs, and Sharp is deciding between pre-law and pre-medicine. “This event helps me to narrow down which colleges have what I’m looking for,” Sharp said. “And I can see what the schools have to offer with my own eyes instead of just a computer screen.” Last year, the HCCF awarded over 100 different scholarships worth $200,000 to the county’s youth. All Hillsdale County seniors are eligible to apply for scholarships from HCCF. The criteria for each scholarship are outlined by their respective donors, and the applications are due March 1.

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County’s Historical Society recognizes restored and preserved homes in area

Dolores Sanger (left) talks to Chloe Tritchka-Stuchell, Hannah Cote, and Gretchen Birzer as they sign her copy of the book they wrote. Collegian | Nicole Ault

Students sign Winona book project

By | Julia Mullins Collegian Reporter Nearly 30 people gathered in the historic Will Carleton Poorhouse Oct. 22 to celebrate the restoration and preservation of homes and barns in the surrounding area. Mary Foulke, who has been a board member of the Hillsdale County Historical Society for about 15 years, is responsible for finding the buildings and presented each of the awards. “I love when it all comes together tonight and you hear all of the stories, it makes me wish I could have seen these things in person,” Foulke said. Waldron Grain and Fuel received the first award of the night. Joel Rufenacht said the original building was a depot and stop on the railroad. Rufenacht said the depot began a passenger train service around 1887. “The original depot, as far as I know, was built sometime between 1887 and 1910, and we believe the original one burnt down in July of 1910, so this one should date sometime after July 1910.” Rufenacht said his grandfather purchased the building sometime around 1950 or 1951; he does not have the deed stating the exact year. In addition to the building, Rufenacht said his family purchased the whole rightof-way for one mile out of bankruptcy. Now, the building is used to store seed, but Rufenacht said there was a time when the biggest business was the coaling yard. Rufenacht said the coaling yard was on both sides of the grain elevator. “I remember when I was younger, we would get in loads of coal right up until about 1975, but nothing like what they used to,” Rufenacht said. “I mean they used to get in 50 or 60 cars a year and it was a lot of effort to unload them by hand.” The Walworth Home, owned by Tom Walworth in Hillsdale, also received an award. Walworth said the home was originally built in 1858, and he purchased it in 1985 for his family. Walworth said he began restoration in 1990. However, a decade later Walworth said the the old boiler failed and he had to restart the restoration process. “I came home from Christ-

mas shopping, and the whole house looked like a giant greenhouse,” Walworth said. “There was wallpaper peeling off, water running out of the chandeliers, so that necessitated the entire house to be renovated at once, and that was finished about 2005.” Two years later, Walworth said he had to overcome another obstacle in the restoration process. “We had lightning strike the house in 2006, and the house caught on fire,” Walworth said. “Fortunately, it didn’t do a lot of damage, just burned a hole through the roof, and the fire department was able to get it under control with some assistance from the local citizens.” After the lightning strike, Walworth said he redid and repainted all of the ceilings. “It’s been a lot of fun, a lot of work, but like any old house, it never really ends,” Walworth said.

By | Nicole Ault Editor-In-Chief Seated along a table in the back room of Rough Draft coffeehouse on Sunday, seven local students laughed and chatted as they signed the product of four months of their work: A color-illustrated, 36-page book about Winona, the daughter of Hillsdale’s Algonquin Chief Baw Beese. “It’s cool seeing now how it’s affecting a lot of people,” said Chloe Tritchka-Stuchell, 17, who helped write and illustrate the book. “Now that it’s printed and there’s all these people excited about it, it seems like we did something really cool.” Tritchka-Stuchell, Sam Beach, Gretchen Birzer, and Hannah and Jack Cote — all high schoolers and members of the Hillsdale Heritage Association Youth Advisory Board — helped plot and write “Legends of Winona: A Special Gift” under the direction of Heather Tritchka, an executive board member

of the Heritage Association. Angela Alvarez, 12, and Riley Coupland, 11, also signing books on Sunday, modeled the book’s two main characters — Coupland as Betsy and Alvarez as Winona. For $10 each, the Heritage Association sold 122 of about 130 copies available on Sunday, but Tritchka said the group plans to sell 500 in the coming weeks. Proceeds from the sales will help fund Tritchka’s bear sculpture project, which she plans to unveil next spring at Baw Beese Lake. The association still needs to raise about $19,000 for the bear project, and the book project might cover about a third of that amount, said Connie Sexton, the executive board chair and cofounder of the Heritage Association. As they took turns signing books for the customers who walked in on Sunday, students said seeing the finished product for the first time was rewarding and exciting. “I was kind of blown away,” Jack Cote, 15, said. “I had seen

it all in pieces, and to see it all together was really cool.” Beach, 16, said the project helped him learn to “trust in the process.” “We slowly chipped away, and an hour ago I saw the final product, and it was awesome,” he said. He said his favorite customer response so far was his mother telling him she’d sent the book to his young nephew. Delores Sanger, a member of the Litchfield Historical Society, donated several of the costumes the models used for the book’s illustrations and warmly engaged the students as they signed her copy of the book. The book is “really cool,” Sanger said, noting that the costumes she donated were handmade by herself or others in her family — and some date back to 1957. “I had no idea what they were going to do with it,” she said. “I knew they’d been working on it. It’s a nice opportunity for kids to do new and different things.”

By | Liam Bredberg Collegian Reporter In a meeting that was expected to be focused on the legalization of recreational marijuana, the Hillsdale City Council took a different turn. In their Oct. 15 meeting, council members collectively decided to remove the issue from the schedule. “Our city council doesn’t take municipal positions on state items or federal items,” Mayor Adam Stockford said. “Especially not social issues.” “I think that anybody who has been paying attention to the news is aware of this council’s disposition on marijuana and the legalization thereof,” said Ward 4 Councilman Matthew Bell. “I think that it is up to us to make resolutions, not to be given them and told to vote, especially when it concerns something of a political nature like this.” After the council passed the motion to remove marijuana and discussion of its legalization from the agenda, it focused on issues within the city.

Ted Jansen, a local resident, approached the podium with two large branches from bushes in his yard. He gave a speech about his treatment with the City of Hillsdale. He described a tree that the city forced him to remove and a metal roll-fence that the city forced him to remove, which was similar to one at a recent condo development that the city did not remove. Jansen accepted that these might be fair citations by the city, but when he turned in a FOIA request, he found that, “from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018, one citation was issued for the removal of weeds. This was at a vacant house.” Jansen said he feels the city has singled him out. In the past year, he said, he has been ordered to remove part of a tree, two bushes, a metal fence, and flowers planted on the terrace in front of his house. According to Jansen, the Hillsdale Department of Public Services took the matter into its own hands and removed the flowers from

Jansen’s front terrace, sparking his outrage. Jake Hammel, director of Hillsdale’s public services, said Jansen’s FOIA search did not bring up any results because of the willingness of other homeowners to work with the department. Because the homeowners allowed the DPS to work on the property, there was no need to write the reports that would have shown up in a FOIA search. The debate between the two sides continued throughout most of the meeting. During the closing council comment, the issues between DPS and Jansen came up again. Councilman Bruce Sharp called the situation a “dog and pony show.” Councilman Bell said, “Mr. Jansen probably let his plants grow too big. But at the same time, why couldn’t we just work with him to get him to cut them to where they were acceptable?” Bell said, “If we want to be a great city, we need to have great customer service.”

By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter Clear, blue skies and vividly hued leaves served as the backdrop for Hillsdale Hospital Birthing Center’s 13th annual Walk of Remembrance held at Owens Park on Oct. 14. This year’s lakeside event, put on by volunteers from Hillsdale Hospital’s OB-GYN unit, included a memorial service, rose ceremony, remembrance walk, and balloon release. Designated in 1988 by Ronald Reagan as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, October is punctuated by events held across the country to honor the memory of children lost due to miscarriages and pre- and postnatal complications. Amy Zoll, a certified nurse and midwife who works at Hillsdale Hospital, headed up the organization for this year’s event. She recalled that the need to foster community among the many women who lose their children inspired medical personnel to host the first walk in 2005. “One in four women suffer miscarriages,” Zoll said. “Not a lot of people were talking about it, and we realized we needed more support for moms. We started thinking, as a collective unit, what can we do?”

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to the wedding,” Bill Hayward said. “I ended up escorting her down the aisle as her father.” In addition to the these awards, the Grosvenor House Museum in Jonesville received an award last year, but was not able to attend to the ceremony. Members of the Grosvenor House Museum Association attended this year’s ceremony to talk about the history of the Grosvenor House Museum. Ann Johnson, a member of the Grosvenor House Museum said Ebeneezer Oliver Grover hired Elijah E. Myers to built the five bedroom mansion for him and his wife, Sally Ann, between 1872 and 1874. “The house is an Italianette irregular, meaning it does not have a cupola on top,” Johnson said. “It was years ahead of its time with central heating, indoor plumbing and flushed toilets. Carbide gas provided light in the wall lamps and chandeliers.” In addition to these unique features, Johnson said the house has 12 foot ceilings and eight hand-carved, marble fireplaces. Johnson said the house cost $37,500 to build and the workers were paid 8 cents an hour and worked 12 hour days. “The home was in the Grosvenor family until the 1850s and it went through a series of owners, and was used as an apartment house, and then again as a private residence,” Johnson said. The house became a museum in 1976 and now offers private tours, special events, and open houses throughout the year. Another historical home, the Harper House in Somerset, earned Craig and Deborah Bos an award. Although the Bos could not attend the award ceremony, Foulke provided information about the house. According to Foulke, the Harper House was built in 1883 and then sold to Bos in 2009. Foulke said the house sat empty for 20 years prior to 2009. While all of the original woodwork was still intact, Foulke said the Bos had to rewire the electrical system and redo the plumbing. “Being a teacher, I think history gets pushed to the side, and it’s just so important to realize where you come from to where you’re going,” Foulke said.

“Being a teacher, I think history gets pushed to the side, and it’s just so important to realize where you come from to where you’re going,” Foulke said.

In addition to celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary, Bill and Elsie Hayward received an award for their centennial Hayward Farm. Bill Hayward said the farm has been in constant work from the 1870s to the present day. Although the farm has had beef cattle and hogs in the past, Bill Hayward said it is currently a grain farm. Bill Hayward originally planned to pass down the farm to his son. Unfortunately, his son died when he was just 17 years old in a farming accident. Now, Bill Hayward plans on passing down the farm to his daughter. The Haywards welcome many young people from all over the world to help with the work on their farm. “We’ve had multiple young people work for us over the years, and there not just our employees, they’re our family,” Elsie Hayward said. One summer, the Haywards hosted a young woman from Brazil. “The woman from Brazil got married here, three or four years ago, and invited us

Hillsdale Hospital’s Walk of Remembrance honors miscarriage victims Attendees next participated in the half-mile remembrance walk to Sandy Beach. Holding red balloons, they shared candid conversations as they strolled, bonding over common experiences. The walk culminated with the release of the rosy balloons into the cerulean October sky, after which participants returned to Owens Park for refreshments and mingling. Kelly Stalhood, who found out about the Remembrance Walk through the hospital when she lost her baby, appreciates the effort to acknowledge the plight of mothers who have miscarried. “It’s a really good support group for the community that we don’t see a lot of in Hillsdale County,” she said. “It helps us know our babies are remembered.” Zoll believes the best therapy for those who have lost their children either during pregnancy or after their birth is talking about their ordeal. The Walk of Remembrance encourages and facilitates connections between parents and families mourning the losses of infants. “Our message is simple,” Zoll said. “We do not want moms to think baby loss at any time is not significant.”

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october 20 Hillsdale Walsh passing Chance Stewart rushing Chance Stewart David Graham K.J. Maloney receiving K.J. Maloney Trey Brock defense Matt Harding Dan Shanley Nate Chambers Jason McDonough

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2 7 6 yds 297 yds 58 51 10 yds 125 94 tfl 1 0 1 0 2 25 22 k% .393 .323 .158 2 25 7 k% .483 .571 .417 2 14 25 k% .438 .168 .450 .476 .192

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WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY october 20 sru pre-national 6k 1. Colorado Mines 2. Walsh 3. Hillsdale 4. Roberts Wesleyan 5. Queens (NC) 6. Tampa 9. Maryssa Depies 17. Christina Sawyer 22. Ally Eads 37. Lauren Peterson 48. Kate Vanderstelt

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By | Regan Meyer web content editor It may have been fall break for the rest of campus, but the Hillsdale Chargers worked overtime this past weekend. The team took a road trip through Ohio, rolling past three G-MAC foes to remain undefeated in the conference. “We were still a little tired from the weekend before,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “Having these two weekends on the road and three matches on the weekend, it made it more difficult. But we were able to push through it so that’s good.” Two weeks ago, the team went 0-3 against ranked Division II teams at the Midwest Region Crossover in Indianapolis. They were then back

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on the road within a few days. The Chargers started off the weekend at Tiffin University. “We went into the game with the attitude that from here on out every game means something, every game matters,” sophomore middle hitter Allyssa Van Wienen said. “Our coach really emphasizes that the game of the day is the most important game of the season because it’s happening today. We just had that attitude throughout the whole game.” This is the second time the Chargers saw the Dragons this season. And the team adjusted to shut down the hitters that gave them a hard time before. “One of their players got their 1000th kill,” Gravel said. “They stopped the match for it, recognized her and stuff.

She didn’t get too many kills after that.” Hillsdale swept the Dragons 25-23, 25-22, and 25-17. They then traveled to Ursuline College. “We came out really slow thinking we just had to show up,” Gravel said. “We were making a lot of errors to begin with. We were able to fight back and win that set.” Gravel then put in a few of his more seasoned players. “Dani Jones came in and put a sense of calmness out there,” Gravel said. “We were able to get to work and play more like ourselves.” They ultimately defeated Ursuline in three sets, 25-17, 25-7, and 25-15. For the final match of the weekend, the Chargers traveled to Lake Erie College. The team came out strong but eased up a bit

Chargers fall to Albion after dropping dual meet By | Liam Bredberg collegan reporter The Hillsdale Chargers fell to Albion in a road meet on Saturday with a score of 119-86. Senior Anika Ellingson placed first in both the 100 individual medley with a time of 1 minute, 4.13 seconds, and the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:28.20. Sophomore Katherine Heeres and Senior Suzanne DeTar had a first place win each. Heeres took first in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:00.50 while DeTar took first in the 50 freestyle coming in at 25.78. “We just need to keep plugging along and working hard until it comes time for some rest,” said Heeres, “I think the same goes for me personally. I have a lot of big goals for this season and I need to remember not to get too wrapped up in those and just stay in the moment and in the training.” Junior Catherine Voisin set a personal record in the 1000 freestyle at 11:25.87, which earned her second place in the race. “It was great to swim a best time in an off event this early in the season,” said Voisin. “The 1000 isn’t a particularly enjoyable event, but doing well and knowing that I helped the team makes it worth it.” Junior Bailey Bickerstaff also earned a second place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:13.57. This time was only a half-second shorter than her own personal record.

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University, and Walsh University. The fast start was a preplanned strategy to help the team develop, and assistant coach R.P. White said he was pleased with how the team handled the strategy. “We went out aggressive, maybe a little too aggressive, but I think for the overall development of the guys it was good,” White said. “We showed them we can run with anybody and if we just dial it back a little to give the guys a little more strength to put in the middle and end of the race, we can be right in the mix when conference

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Hillsdale vs. Notre Dame College and Ursuline Senior Grace Houghton added another second place finish in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:30.36, as well as a third place finish in the 200 butterfly in which she finished with a time of 2:13.86. “I think the challenge for the team will be keeping our eyes set on the long term goal even when we're disappointed with losses,” Houghton said. “At Chicago, we're really going to be set up for some best times, especially with the freshman class, and seeing those numbers on the board and the smiles on the girls' faces will make us forget these in-season losses.” Freshmen Madeline Breay added two third place finishes and Stefanie Walker added another. Breay finished the 1000 freestyle in 11:28.83 and the 200 backstroke in 2:36.71, while Walker finished the 500 freestyle in 5:35.06. Heeres

took third in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:14.13. The 200 medley relay A-team (Bickerstaff, Ellingson, Freshman Anna Clark, and Junior Victoria Addis) took second with a time of 1:53.51. The Chargers A-team in the 200 free relay (sophomore Mary Vita, sophomore Emma Rao, Addis and DeTar) also took second with a time of 1:42.54. “We have been struggling with injury having several of our top individual swimmers either restricted or out completely,” head coach Kurt Kirner said. “We did not match up well with Albion as we were coming off a tough week of practice and another meet the night before. We are certainly gearing our efforts towards the mid season invites and GMAC Championships which are still several months away.”

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2018 G-MAC Championships rolls around.” Another reason for the fast start was to try to get ahead of congestion on a course that narrows quickly after the starting line, Humes said.

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in the second set and lost 25-14. “We got killed in set two,” Gravel said. “When you’re down 14-2, that’s hard to come back from.” Hillsdale bounced back and ended up winning the match. “They had good defense, but we were determined to fight through,” senior outside hitter Kara Vyletel. “Our defense was on point. We were able to stay in system and execute at a higher level on our side of the net.” The Chargers are nearing the end of their season with just five games left in the regular season. They travel to Kentucky Wesleyan College and Trevecca Nazarene University this weekend.

FOOTBALL, from a10 netting 297 yards per game. He was the Chargers’ leading rusher on Saturday, carrying the ball 15 times for 58 yards. His 17 touchdown passes this season are tied for the conference lead. Aside from leading in many of the G-MAC’s quarterbacking statistical categories, Stewart, in his last season, is making a run at Hillsdale’s all-time passing records. His 62 career touchdowns are five short of Troy Weatherhead’s Hillsdale record of 67. “People outside might want to make a big deal of that, but my full focus right now is the opportunity we have this week,” Stewart said. “If we take care of our business as a team, that kind of stuff will fall into its place.” Stewart is also just 846 passing yards shy of Weatherhead’s school record of 9,544 yards. Stewart needs to average 282 passing yards per game in the season’s final three games to tie the record. That is, if the Chargers have just three games remaining this season. Hillsdale’s six-game win streak is the longest the team has had since 2009. With two G-MAC games left this year, a playoff appearance is a real possibility for the Chargers. But Stewart said the team isn’t taking anything for granted. “Right now, the team is really hungry,” Stewart said. “No one on this team has ever won a championship. That fire is lit in everybody.” Hillsdale hosts Kentucky Wesleyan College on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Chargers defeated the Panthers 56-0 last season. Otterbein’s message to the team is that each win makes the next game more important. He said his team has responded well. “They’re finishing each practice, each game,” Otterbein said. “Now it’s getting down to the point where it’s time to finish this season.” said. “The lead pack spaces out faster and then you have more room to make moves.” While the Chargers did not place first in their conference, senior Eli Poth said the team showed they can compete for first place in the conference. “We didn’t get the result we wanted, because we finished fourth in our conference and we want to finish first. We need to beat those guys, but we showed we can compete alongside them,” Poth said. “We didn’t have our best day and we were still within 40 points of the best team, so that’s pretty competitive.”

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First there were two, now there are Chargers open three: Continuing the Kalthoff legacy with exhibition “It’s been really great to have an older brother on the team. There have been less unknowns and I’m already In the left hand corner of familiar with the program and his office, behind an accent what’s going on,” Peter said. “I chair, there’s a framed photo also have dad and other older of Dr. Kalthoff shooting a siblings who have gone here, basketball in the Final Four so I’m doubly familiar with as a freshman player for the program.” Hillsdale College in 1981. His With three older sisters two sons, Peter and Noah, sit and a mother as Hillsdale across from each other while graduates, the Kalthoffs have a lounging in his office, all three strong legacy with the college. basketball players — one Mark Kalthoff and his wife retired, one junior, and one were both collegiate athletes, freshman — together in one Mrs. Kalthoff was a two-sport room. athlete in track and volleyball, Mark Kalthoff, professor and met as undergrads. They and chairman of history, both returned to Hillsdale attended Hillsdale Colafter Mrs. Kalthoff was hired lege as an undergrad from to be the director of admis1979-1984. He played on an sions and gave birth to their outstanding basketball team at first child during Dr. Fairmont East High Kalthoff ’s doctoral School his senior studies. year, which helped “I needed to get him get recruited a job because she by many different couldn’t be director colleges. West Point of admissions and wanted him, a have a new baby. So couple of Division she quit and I startI schools talked to ed teaching here the him, and other colday my daughter, leges came to watch their oldest sister, him at basketball was born.” said Dr. summer camp. Kalthoff. “Their “I was playing whole life has been in high school with part of the Hillsdale people who later family.” played for the ChiNoah values the cago Bulls,” Mark college community Kalthoff said. “I was he created separate very fortunate to from the town he have that kind of grew up in because exposure.” he believes the two But Bill Morse, communities are the head basketball very distinct from coach for Hillsdale Peter Kalthoff (left) and Noah Kalthoff (right) are brothers and teammates on the men's College at the time, basketball team. Their father, Mark Kalthoff (center), played basketball for Hillsdale each other. But now, the college called Mark Kalthoff and is professor and chairman of History. Mark Kalthoff | courtesy community that and mentioned he’s formed over the large amount of scholarNoah said. “From a very little University of Michigan for its the past three and a half years ships they provided and even age, it was the highlight of violin program. is shared with his father, offered him a paid visit. The my week where I could go to He always had an interest brother, and the rest of his team needed a big man and in music growing up, and family, making it all the more Morse wanted to see how well the 8 o’clock tip-off basketball games for the college.” spends plenty of time studying cherishable. Kalthoff could play. Growing up cheering on violin with a music teacher at “It’s cool to have those two “I love Michigan. We used to go to Michigan for vacation his favorite players every year, Michigan. Yet, he chose Hills- communities,” Noah said. Noah has fond memories of dale because of the communi- “Now the best two communiand had family friends up Hillsdale basketball, and it ty and to maintain his passion ties in my life are overlapping: there,” Mark Kalthoff said. “So was a dream of his to play at for violin as a hobby instead my family and school.” my dad and I drove up. I had the same school where his of committing to a career in The Kalthoffs hold a strong to play one-on-one against father and his favorite players violin. relationship with Hillsdale, a senior starting center and did. “I knew that I would enjoy and the connection is familial. played a lot of full court.” “My dad played there, playing basketball, and I like Choosing the college seemed Within a week, he received someday I’m going to play keeping myself in shape. It natural and familiar for Noah a scholarship offer. In the here. ” Noah said of his gave me a couple of chances and Peter, and they look formeantime, he received a tour thought process. “It’s fun to play with my brother and ward to the years they will be of campus and met faculty when the opportunity preto be part of that basketball playing basketball together. who offered to sit down with sented itself my senior year. I family at Hillsdale, ” Peter said. After their parents and sishim in their office — prohad a conversation with [head “We’ve only had one practice, ters, Peter and Noah continue viding him great personal coach] John Tharp, and it beand so far, there have been no their family's legacy on camattention. With all these faccame areality that I was going fights.” pus and on the court — suptors, Mark Kalthoff signed the to be on the team — very fun Peter and Noah don’t actu- porting each other as brothletter of intent and came to and very exciting.” ally fight at all, but Peter said ers, students, and teammates. Hillsdale. He joined the basNoah considered smaller, he’s grateful to share some of ketball team in 1981, which Division III schools before his basketball years with his was the best team the college settling on Hillsdale, but he older brother.

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has had, with a record of 28-7. “We won the GLIAC, went to the national tournament, and made it to the Final Four in the country.” Mark Kalthoff said. “So back-to-back, I was on the best team for my highschool and the best team for my college.” Noah Kalthoff, junior at Hillsdale College and the eldest son of Mark Kalthoff, shares a strong background in basketball like his father. Similar to his father’s decision, Noah chose Hillsdale because it had the best academics and basketball out of all his potential choices. “The combination of those and it being local with my family made it the right option and decision at the time,”

decided that if he were to continue with basketball, Hillsdale was his only option. “I came from a small school, the [Hillsdale] Academy. I had a lot to learn in basketball because I only played a couple of years — get bigger, get stronger. Learn how to play at a level where I wasn’t the biggest guy on the court,” Noah said. “That’s what the first year is aimed at. The second, third year, and so on you have that chance to step and catch up.” For Peter Kalthoff, a freshman at Hillsdale College and the youngest son of Mark Kalthoff, Hillsdale was always a known option for him. However, he was torn between choosing Hillsdale or the

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Hillsdale at Toledo (exhibition) By | Calli Townsend assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers are ranked second in the G-MAC preseason coaches poll, behind only last year’s regular season champion, the University of Findlay. However, sophomore Matt Fisher says he doesn’t think the team should settle for second. “While I’m sure the team is honored to be recognized as high as second, our goal is to be number one,” Fisher said. The team opened its season in an exhibition game against Division I Oakland University on Wednesday, falling 67-61 in a competitive contest. They will take on the University of Toledo Rockets in an exhibition in Toledo, Ohio on Nov. 3. Hillsdale begins its regular season on Nov. 9, and its conference schedule on Nov. 29. Head coach John Tharp is says he is looking forward to his 12th season with the Chargers. “It’s always like Christmas morning,” Tharp said. “There’s the excitement of a new season, and you get really excited as a coach, and as a player too, I hope.” With three new freshmen and two key players lost to graduation, Hillsdale will feature some changes in its lineup. “We lost two of our best scorers,” Tharp said. “We’ve got to try to figure out how to replace, those guys. We lost Ryan Badowski and Stedman Lowry, our starting two and three, who were both 1000-point scorers.” Freshman Jack Gohlke is coming into his first season as a guard. Patrick Cartier and Peter Kaltoff are the new freshmen forwards. “We think we still have some really capable young guys,” Tharp said. “It’s their turn, that’s the mentality they’re going to have to have. Guys’ roles are changing.” Tharp says he’s confident in looking to some of his more experienced players to step up to fill these key roles. Some of these players are seniors Harrison Niego and Jonathan Wilkinson, junior Mike Travlos, and sophomore Davis

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Larson. “It’s cool because I have a lot of experience, with it being my senior year,” Niego said. “I’ll be able to lead by example and teach the younger guys what I’ve learned during my three years here and one at Indiana.” Niego shares Tharp’s excitement for the season as well. “This is my senior year, so it’s the last go-around,” Niego said. “We’ve got a bunch of guys with experience and some younger guys with talent. The experience and youth together should make for a special season.” The Chargers began their season on Wednesday, which came rather quickly after their first day of official practice on Oct. 15. As for the quick turnaround from the season beginning to the season-opener game, Tharp says the team has just been focusing on the fundamentals. “We want to be as fundamentally sound as we can,” he said. “We can’t cover everything, and we’re not going to be ready for every situation. If Oakland throws something goofy at us, we’ll just have to go with it on the fly.” In order to prepare for this, Tharp says the team is trying a new way of practicing. “We’ll just find out what our strengths and weaknesses are,” Tharp said. “We’re trying to play more five-on-five early instead of everything being a breakdown.” The season-opener will be a great way for the team to implement some of what they’ve been working on it practice, according to Niego. “We’ve been practicing a ton over the past week, so now we have the opportunity to play against a different school, not just our own team,” Niego said. “We’ll be able to put the st stuff we’ve been practicing to use.” The Chargers will play seven games before competing against fellow G-MAC teams. Fisher says that doesn’t change how Hillsdale will prepare. “Our mindset going into every game is to win, and the expectation doesn’t change regardless of the team we play,” Fisher said.

Dodgers in seven

Boston back on top

This year, the Dodgers won the National League pennant for a second consecutive year after winning the National League West, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series, and taking down the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers’ star pitcher and perennial Cy Young Award candidate Clayton Kershaw closed out Game 7 of the NLCS with a scoreless ninth inning. He was rested for most of the NLCS and now aims to bounce back after his rough start in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday. Kershaw is only one of multiple pitchers on the Dodgers’ deep and powerful pitching staff. Walker Buehler, the young and promising right-handed rookie, made his MLB postseason debut in Game 3 of the NLCS, proving to be an effective threat. His pitching will be a challenge for the Sox to overcome in Game 2. His high-octane fastball and nasty breaking ball have confounded hitters all season long. The Dodgers look as healthy in October as they have been at any point this season. Most of their star players such as Yasiel Puig,

a season set in 1912. Then, the Sox dominated the league with 105 wins; now, 106 years later, they dominated with 108. This team — and this era of the franchise —calls back to the dominance it once had and surpasses in some cases the excellence fans from the later 20th century had only heard about. They’ve won the AL East, widely considered the best division in baseball, the past three years. Since their last pennant in 2013, they’ve experienced disappointment come October, but the winning ways of this team and its history provide confidence for a successful World Series. The Sox have won every pennant they’ve played for since 2004. Since shedding the curse, they have converted every time they’ve gotten to the big stage. There’s no reason to think they are incapable of doing it now, after beating the best two teams (besides themselves) in baseball in the 100-win Yankees and 103-win Houston Astros and having home field advantage at the most unique stadium in baseball. This October, the Sox fought back every time it seemed like they were trending down. After falling in Game 2 to the Yankees and only narrowly winning Game 1, they

By | Liam Bredberg collegian reporter Los Angeles has been in a drought for quite some time, and it’s not just due to their lack of water. Angelinos seem to be more passionate about the upcoming opportunity for the Los Angeles Dodgers to claim a World Series trophy, breaking the team’s drought for the first time since 1988. Standing in between the Dodgers and the Commissioner’s Trophy are the Boston Red Sox, the most powerful competitor Los Angeles has faced this season. But the Dodgers arguably have the best offense in the league. Their defense features skill players who can make clutch plays when it matters most. Perhaps most importantly, they have an axe to grind after their seven-game loss to the Houston Astros in the 2017 World Series.

Cody Bellinger, Kershaw, and others, are in prime playing condition and are eager to redeem themselves after last year’s Game 7 loss to the Astros. Although All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was lost to a season ending Tommy John elbow surgery, Manny Machado, a late season addition from the Baltimore Orioles, has filled his shoes down the stretch as a superstar talent. Machado will also serve as a much-needed right-handed hitter against the Sox’s two lefties: Chris Sale and David Price, both of whom are considered by some to be two of the best left handed pitchers in the American League. Machado also brings experience to Dodgers as he played against Boston nine times during the 2018 regular season when he was playing for the Orioles. Prior to this season, Machado played Boston 19 times every year since the Orioles and Red Sox are both in the American League East. The Sox and the Dodgers are both remarkable teams that truly earned their respective spots in the series, and the World Series promises to be wild from start to finish. Being from LA and a day one Dodger fan, I have to stick with my boys. Dodgers in seven.

By | Ryan Goff assistant editor With the American League won, the Boston Red Sox are in position to win the World Series for the fourth time since 2004. As anyone who grew up hearing the stories that make up the Boston myth, the story of the Red Sox extends much further back. At the beginning of the American League in 1900, the Red Sox were the dominant team in the new league, winning the first ever World Series in 1903 and then taking four pennants in six years between 1912 and 1918. At the start, it has been said, they were the New York Yankees, the team with 27 pennants in its illustrious history. This part of Red Sox lore is relevant today in 2018. This year’s team broke the franchise record for wins in

responded with an explosive 16 – 1 Game 3 with every starter recording a hit, and didn’t let off the gas a night later when they clinched the ALDS. Playing the reigning World Series champions and the team that eliminated them last October, things got shaky when they dropped the first game to the Astros at home. Bouncing right back, the Sox showed their grit and didn’t lose another game, sealing the ALCS in five games. Successfully knocking out two very good teams already this postseason, the Red Sox will be able to handle the 92win Los Angeles Dodgers this World Series. They’ve already shown they can hit great pitchers like Astros ace Justin Verlander. Now, in the bitter cold of a fall in Boston, they will have to hit another great pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, who has never faced the Red Sox. Mirroring this season their historical greatness of the past, the Red Sox hope to beat the Dodgers in their first matchup in 102 years. Much has changed since 1916. The Dodgers aren’t in New York and the Red Sox don’t have Babe Ruth. The Sox still play at Fenway, but this time they have Mookie Betts.

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Chargers finish third at Pre-National meet Walsh, which finished second overall with 91 points. Malone took eighth, Findlay was next in 23rd, and Davis & Elkins The Hillsdale Chargers experienced tough competition, came in 26th. This meet gave the Chartwo new personal bests, and a gers one last opportunity to third-place finish on Saturday compete against rival schools at the 2018 Pre-Nationals before their next meet: the Meet in Pittsburgh, PennsylG-MAC championship on vania. Nov. 3. Head Coach Andrew Thirty teams and 293 Towne said he felt the team runners competed in this had a solid performance and meet, including four other executed well. G-MAC schools: the Univer“I thought it was a good sity of Findlay, Davis & Elkins College, Walsh University and experience for them to be on the same course that NCAAs Malone University. Hillsdale will be on,” Towne said. scored 128 points, behind Sophomores Maryssa Depies and Christina Sawyer led the way for the Chargers, taking ninth and 17th, respectively. Depies finished the race in 22 minutes and 56 seconds, and Sawyer ran 23:07. Right behind the pair of sophomores was junior Ally Eads, From left to right, Lauren Peterson, Addison Rauch, who took and Kate Vanderstelt run in the SRU Pre-National 22nd overall

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2018 G-MAC Championships and finished in 23:15. Next to cross the finish line was sophomore Lauren Peterson who has continued to improve all fall. Her time of 23:49 replaces her previous best of 24:23.9, which earned her a 37th-place finish. “It’s fun,” Peterson said of setting new personal records. “I PR’d in the 6k at Michigan State, and again this past weekend. I feel like I have an opportunity to add something to our team this year.” Junior Kate Vanderstelt has also continued to improve this fall, as she finished 48th overall and fifth for Hillsdale. Previously her best time was 24:01.6 from October 2016, but she finished Saturday’s race in 24:00, earning a new personal best. Despite finishing third as

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a team, the Chargers weren’t quite at their full potential, according to Towne. “I don’t think we were a full team,” Towne said. “We had a couple situations where someone wasn’t racing or a couple kids that were racing for their first time in a while in a quality meet.” Junior Arena Lewis was out of town and unable to run, and freshman Sophia Maeda was just coming back from an injury, so this was her first ever 6k race. Maeda said she thought it was good to have the experience of racing a 6k before the G-MAC conference championship. The Chargers will continue to improve their times and fitness levels as they prepare for the approaching championship season.

The Hillsdale College Chargers remain undefeated in the G-MAC with a 28-9 victory against the Walsh University Cavaliers on Saturday. After the win, the Chargers came in at #25 in the NCAA Division II AFCA national rankings. The team is also ranked seventh in the region. Saturday’s win is the Chargers’ sixth straight overall with three games remaining on the schedule. Hillsdale (71, 6-0 G-MAC) has already matched its win total from last season, when the team went 7-4. Despite a wet and rainy evening in Canton, Ohio, senior quarterback Chance Stewart threw for 297 yards and two touchdowns against the G-MAC’s top-ranked pass defense entering play. Before Saturday, the Cavaliers had allowed just 164 passing yards per game. Both teams went scoreless in the first quarter as hail, wind, and sideways rain inhibited either offense from denting the scoreboard. “In that element, throwing the ball down the field wasn’t going to be very successful,” Stewart said. “For the most part, we were able to move the ball. We didn’t score, but we were able to move the ball and keep them deep in their territory.” Head coach Keith Otterbein said the Chargers ran the option play more due to the elements, although it was a key part of the game plan entering the contest. As a result, Stewart carried the ball 15 times for a team-leading 58 yards. Hillsdale held Walsh to just 65 yards rushing and 222 total yards from scrimmage. “We’re getting pressure on the quarterback and he’s having to hurry his decisions or we’re getting sacks,” Otterbein said. “I think in the secondary our guys are doing a great job of breaking on the ball, being aggressive and we’re knocking balls out. That comes with confidence, being aggressive, flying downhill, and finishing plays.” As the first half progressed, the precipitation began to clear and the

Chargers began to turn yards into points. Midway through the second quarter, Stewart connected with senior tight end John Brennan for a 44-yard completion on a 3rd and 11 to keep a drive alive. Two plays later, sophomore wide receiver K.J. Maloney’s 8-yard touchdown run on an end-around play got Hillsdale on the board. The Cavaliers responded with a touchdown on their next possession, but a missed extra point ensured the Chargers would never relinquish their lead. Hillsdale led 7-6 at halftime. The Chargers received the ball to begin the second half, and a quick strike from Stewart to senior wide receiver Trey Brock extended Hillsdale’s lead. Brock beat his defender on a deep route for a 61-yard touchdown reception, his seventh of the season. Brock finished the game with four receptions for 94 yards. His 98 receiving yards per game are best in the G-MAC. Junior running back David Graham carried the ball 18 times for 51 yards and a touchdown. His 10 touchdown rushes this season are the most in the conference. Graham’s 3-yard touchdown run extended the Chargers’ lead to 21-6, and Maloney caught a 32-yard touchdown pass from Stewart to make the score 28-9 in the fourth quarter. Maloney had a career game, catching eight passes for 125 yards while scoring two total touchdowns. His 45 receptions this season are third-most in the conference, and he and Brock combine to make the best statistical wide receiver combination in the G-MAC. Maloney credits his success this season in part to his quarterback. “Chance is a great quarterback. He’s been amazing,” Maloney said. “He knows where I should be and is so good at reading the defense and finding the open man. It makes our job as receivers so much easier when he’s putting the ball right where it needs to be.” Stewart leads the conference in passing per game, averaging 278 yards per contest. He also leads the G-MAC in total offense,

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Men take seventh at SRU meet By | Sutton Dunwoodie collegian reporter

The Hillsdale Chargers took seventh place out of 29 teams at the Division II Pre-National meet at Slippery Rock University on Saturday. The team was led by junior Joey Humes, who finished fourth overall and won his third G-MAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week award, the most of any Hillsdale athlete this year. Also scoring for the Chargers were sophomore Mark Miller and senior Eli Poth, who finished 26th and 42nd respectively. Rounding out the top five for the Chargers were sophomores Jack Shelley and Morgan Morrison, who finished 68th and 74th respectively. Saturday’s Pre-National meet was held at the site of the

Division II National Championships, and top teams from all over the country came to compete and get a preview of the course. Among the competition was third-ranked Colorado School of Mines, seventh-ranked Queens University of Charlotte, and the ninth-ranked University of Mount Olive. ““We went just to check out the course and compete against some high level competition,” Humes said. “We know how nationals looks now, even if that's a 10k instead of an 8k.” The Chargers were the fastest team in the conference for the first two and a half miles of the race, but were bested down the stretch by their three conference rivals: Cedarville University, Malone

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Culture Michigan autumn offers beauty and abundant feasts By | Molly Kate Andrews Collegian Freelancer For the past three years, I have cultivated the tradition of staying on campus for fall break, taking advantage of the quiet to catch up on reading and get ahead on papers. I love the way the school drains of students, and the places that usually bustle with humpback-packed bodies assume a strange stillness. In the past, it has been one of the most productive weekends of my semester. This year though, I gave it all up for the chance to eat my way through Northern Michigan. I went home with a friend to see her family’s new farmhouse on Lake Leelanau. She hadn’t seen the place yet, and though we both had tons to do, the chance to get out of town (and the promise of her family’s well-stocked kitchen) lured us north. We packed up our books and baskets of undone laundry, and nosed our way toward Leland, Michigan. Now the only time I had seen Northern Michigan was last April, when for spring break some friends and I stayed in a cabin near Sleeping Bear Dunes. It snowed the whole week. Though we had a glorious time playing board games and drinking coffee and cocoa indoors, we saw very little of the local beauty.

So this was my first real experience in Northern Michigan, and this time, I witnessed Michigan at her finest. The glorious October landscape, the hospitality of the people, and most especially, the quality of the hearty cuisine left me seriously considering abandoning my West Coast loyalty to settle permanently in Michigan farmlands. The feasting started right away. We stopped for lunch on the road at Mr. Foisie’s Pasties, a tiny bakery in Cadillac that serves a flakey, buttery conglomeration of carbohydrates and sour cream that initially had me stumped. My first response when my friend told me what a pasty was and why we had to get one, I thought, “Why are you handing me a hot-pocket and expecting me to be impressed?” Assured that this was all a part of the Northern Michigan experience, I cut into the pie’s steaming center. At first bite, I was underwhelmed. But I couldn’t seem to stop at one bite. Perplexed, I found myself devouring the whole thing, complete inhalation inhibited only by heat. It was sweet and savory and simple, served with sour cream and ketchup for a surprisingly satisfying combination of heat and coolness, texture and cream. We left warmed from

the inside out and oh, so full. We hadn’t even had time to regret the quiet we were missing out on at school when we made it to our final destination around 6 p.m. We drove through an apple orchard and emerged on a little farm at the base of a sloping hillside spotted with fiery maples and golden brush. There were more little outbuildings to explore than we could count, three apple trees, and a sky so wide you couldn’t see it all at once but had to take it in chunks. The nearest neighbor was fields away. We couldn’t have chosen a more peaceful setting if we had been the only ones left on Hillsdale campus. Once we had settled into our little rooms inside the farmhouse, we congregated in the kitchen. Because I guess the pasties weren’t starch enough, for dinner we planned a blended root vegetable soup with potatoes, carrots, leeks and onions, topped with cut parsley and flavored with bouillon. For a side, we sliced golden potatoes into medallions and baked them with onions, olive oil, and garlic. (I have never had so many potatoes at one time, nor eaten them with such pleasure.) We sopped up the soup in our bowls with crusty french bread and washed it all down with cold cider. We

Conserving the Classics: Yuri Norstein’s ‘Tale of Tales’ By | Nic Rowan Columnist Yuri Norstein’s animated short “Tale of Tales” is only a half-hour long, and available on YouTube. Check it out; it’s well worth the watch. The short film is based on an old Russian lullaby, sung at the beginning of the movie as a baby suckles at his mother’s breast. Here’s an English translation: Baby, baby, rock-a-bye On the edge you mustn’t lie Or the little grey wolf will come And will nip you on the tum, Tug you off into the wood Underneath the willow-root. A series of parallel narratives follow, tied together through the little gray wolf, who watches the horror of war and the tranquility of domestic life unfold equally before his eyes. There is an adorably disconsolate jump-roping

bull. Men and women dance. Soldiers die. And the little gray wolf does steal the baby. It cries and cries, and as he tries to rock it to sleep, it only cries harder. The movie ends shrouded in uncertainty. Norstein attempted to make a movie that would unfold the way memories appear in the mind as they are remembered. He comes close, closer than anyone in the free world. “Tale of Tales” is a movie well studied in the special Russian sort of suffering — foreign to Americans — but that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said gave his people a “spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive.” And “Tale of Tales” is alien to Western cartoons. Many film scholars consider it the best animated film in existence. And it may very well be — unless matched against the

director’s other major achievement, “Hedgehog in the Fog.” This monumentally successful animated short so captured the Russian imagination when it came out in 1975 that Kiev erected a monument to the hedgehog in 2011 and both films received a shoutout at the 2014 Winter Olympics, alongside other Russian greats like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Norstein is still alive, but he hasn’t made a movie since “Tale of Tales.” He’s too busy attempting to animate Nikolai Gogol’s short story, “The Overcoat,” which he believes is fundamental to the Russian understanding of art. He’s been working on it for nearly forty years, and has freely admitted to curious interviewers that he is nowhere near finished — and may never finish. But the Russian aptitude for suffering keeps spurring him to try.

didn’t touch a textbook that evening, but snuggled under piles of quilts and fell asleep listening to the wind. We lived the next three days planning our lives around what we would eat and how it should be prepared. As we worked fitfully on our various projects for school, we revelled in a shared love for butter and salt and starch. Everything we ate was fresh and seasonal. We took advantage of what was around us and catered our menus to what we found in our day trips to orchards and markets and health-nutty organic grocery stores. On the second evening, after a long day of hunting down Wi-Fi in coffee shops to send emails and write papers, we came home to cook Moroccan chicken with apricot curry sauce. While we cooked, we snacked on apple slices and crackers toasted from the leftover french bread, spread with a ripe brie cheese we bought from the Village Cheese Shanty in Fishtown, Leland. We weren’t really hungry by the time the chicken was ready, but we heaped it over mounds of white rice and cilantro anyway. We ate our dinner in little mouthfuls, slowed down by a combination of our fullness and its heat. I don’t know how I have

Village Cheese Shanty in Fishtown, MI. Emilia Heider | Courtesy

lived three falls here and am only now discovering the glories of true Michigan feasting. It wasn’t just the flavors of the seasonal spices and the freshness of the produce that charmed me. The embarrassment of generosity I found in my hosts matched the overwhelming bounty of the land and gave the whole weekend a strong sense of vacation, celebration, and rest. Although this break we were not so productive, and will be scaling a mountain of catch-up for the next

few weeks, we came back refreshed. Not only am I still full of potatoes and apples and who knows what else, I also return with a head full of images of family and domesticity and feasting. I can live off of that plenty forever. My school is right where I left it. (And so is the gym, thank God.) But, I am changed. Along with being at least 10 pounds heavier than when I left, I have now experienced Northern Michigan in October. And after four years, I would say it’s about time.

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‘Wild Sweet Love’ combines classical and modern ballet By | Nolan Ryan News Editor “Ballet is not one thing; it’s many things,” said Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Hobbs. This is important to remember as audiences attend the next performance of Hillsdale College’s Professional Artist Series. The Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional ballet company, will be performing their 2018-2019 season opener at the Fine Arts Building on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. They will be presenting “Wild Sweet Love,” a repertory show “filled with variety and comprised of unrelated, standalone pieces of approximately 15 minutes each packaged into one singular performance,” according to an event press release from the ballet. The performance will feature four separate dance works and a mix of classical and contemporary ballet. Hobbs, director of the Tower Dancers, said that classical ballet is “important and relevant to the art of dance,” but audiences need to understand that classical ballet is only one facet of the art. “When we think about classical ballet, we’re referencing the story ballets from Imperial Russia: the ballets we know and love like ‘The Nutcracker’ or ‘Swan Lake,’” Hobbs said. “Dance has taken on an entirely different direction and has been influenced by different styles of dance, like modern dance. There’s

a merging of disciplines that has happened, so ballet today looks very different than ballet in Imperial Russia in 1890. I think it’s important for audiences to come with an open mind, to understand that ballet exists in several forms.” Contemporary ballet usually has sharper arm and body movements and is sometimes more expressive than classical ballet, according to sophomore Liana Guidone, a member of the Tower Dancers. “Their music is going to be a lot different than you would expect from ballet, like the very elegant, lyrical music,” she said. Hobbs says the art also has value for the liberal arts tradition. “Students arrive on campus with much more knowledge about music or theatre or visual arts than they do dance,” she said, “However, dance has many things to teach us about collaboration and communication, which are important characteristics in liberal arts. Also, creative problem-solving is integral to liberal-arts study. Applying real-world experiences is another way dance prepares an individual to meet the challenges in all walks of life.” Hobbs says students don’t criticize modern plays for not being similar to Shakespeare’s works, so the same treatment should be given to dance. Audiences need to respect the work for itself and in its own context. Classical and contemporary ballet, while different,

are both true to the art itself, she says. “Classical ballet is highly codified. It’s very precise; it’s rooted in harmony and symmetry,” Hobbs said. “Contemporary ballet has more freedom in terms of use of the body. There’s more asymmetry than symmetry. The use of the torso is more integrated. The costumes are more streamlined. The content is different: choreographers are making dances about a variety of topics, and we’re no longer tied to telling a fairy tale.” Guidone says she will be taking a Tower Dancers’ masterclass with the Grand Rapids Ballet instructor, James Sofranko. Sofranko was a dancer for the last 18 years at the San Francisco Ballet, according to the press release. He also received an Isadora Duncan award for Best Performance in 2011 and was part of the Broadway touring company of the musical “Movin’ Out.” Guidone and nine other Tower Dancers will also observe the professional company’s dress rehearsal and dance in Friday’s performance. “How often do you get a professional ballet company to come to our school and put on a performance like this?” Guidone said. “Watching it would give people a better appreciation for ballet. A lot of time, you think ballet is tutus and skirts, but in reality, it’s a lot of hard work, it’s an art, it’s a lot more than just what you first think of.”

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In defense of candy The monster mash-up: watch these corn: hearkening to old and new movies this Halloween America's beginnings By | Nic Rowan

By | Grace Houghton Collegian Reporter If you’re going to publicly declare your affection for a food that has the odor and texture of a tacky Walmart candle, a decent respect of oneself requires a statement of the causes impelling one to that preference. Since I was old enough to scowl for family pictures, I fled with my family every few months from the crowded suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia to a mountain house an hour-and-a-half north. The brown carpets held an unrelenting smell of must, a swivelling leather footrest with metal buttons was literally dizzyingly exciting, and outside the windows, if you woke up early enough, you could see the soft ovals pressed in the fallen autumn leaves by sleeping deer. I survived the grueling (to me) one-mile trails around the house on preciselytimed installments of gummy Life Savers from my grandmother’s pockets, and around Thanksgiving, candy corn regularly and mysteriously appeared in glass bowls on the dining room table. Oreos grow stale and lose their delicate crumbles. Snickers and Skittles get smashed in the bottom of backpacks and under the floormats of vans. But candy corn remains unchanged. Its strength lies not only in its honey-flavored, waxen nature, impervious to musty mountain house air, but in its ready availability to serve as decoration.

What’s better than a Thanksgiving candle? Edible, fall-colored, sweet treats you can rattle into bowls and gain credit for snack and decoration in one. Plus, there’s no fire hazard. Candy corn roots us in the traditions of low-maintenance decoration dear to the hearts of all Americans (have you counted how many wooden pallets are transfigured under spray paint and stencils into yard art?), and hearkens back to our Pilgrim forbearers. These lusty folk probably had to eat wax, at some point, and then the Indians helped them grow corn and they had Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, like the Pilgrims, I was raised in a religious tradition that preferred to set aside a holiday for Martin Luther than for vaguely demonic spirit worship, so my candy consumption was restricted to hiking rations and furtive cabin snacks. My paganism has waxed strong since leaving my parents’ household for the cornfields of southern Michigan, so this year, in support of my declaration on behalf of candy corn, and with a firm reliance on Walmart’s candy supply, I heartily resolve to stock my cupboards with the infamous tri-colored vegetable imitation and shove handfuls of my waxen bounty into the candy buckets of professors' children. To this consumption of sugar I pledge a set of plastic vampire teeth, their enamel components, and my sacred sense of fun.

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FX has the movies. I just have this humble Halloween film junkie listicle. It’s not exhaustive, but it’s what’s free (with a monthly subscription to Amazon Prime or Netflix, of course). But before we begin, hey, wait, I’ve got a new complaint: David Gordon Green’s reboot of “Halloween” (2018) isn’t scary at all — and that’s not even what makes it such a bad movie. The film lacks spirit, the drive to be anything except an advertisement for itself. It fetishizes a collection of horror movie tropes, delivering a decidedly middlebrow film that refuses to shoot for high psychological terrors while exempting itself from the gory lows of a B-grade film. The only thrilling moment in “Halloween” was the part when the nice couple down the row offered me a gulp of their Wild Turkey. It sure made serial knife-murderer Michael Myers’ latest trudge through Illinois go down more easily. Oh, and I scored half a bag of abandoned popcorn, too. But enough of that. The following films have spirit — and you should binge watch them this Halloween. “The Shining” (1979) Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a family trapped in a possessed (?) hotel has baffled fans since it came out in 1979. Is it about the murder of Native Americans? The faked lunar landing? The horrors of the Holocaust? It doesn’t matter: “The Shining” is a superb study in madness. Interpret it

as you will. Or alternatively, watch The Simpsons’ interpretation in “Treehouse of Horror V.” It is one of the few instances where the quality of the spoof exceeds that of the original. Available on Netflix. “It Follows” (2014) It’s like “Gran Torino” got hooked on French Symbolism. Set in a burnt out neighborhood in Detroit, David Robert Mitchell’s independent suspense film follows (yes,

“Along with

Willa Cather’s ‘My Antonia,’ ‘Children of the Corn’ is one of the best pieces of art made about Nebraska.” it does) a group of teenagers pursued by an evil spirit whose hauntings are passed on via illicit sex in the back of a car. The movie recalls the good old days when horror was about shame for sin and the fear of hell. Also, Detroit’s decay is a visual delicacy — ever more beautiful in blue light. Available on Netflix. “The VVitch” (2015) “Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?” Not after you read this. Robert Eggers’ directorial debut, a Puritan coming-of-age tale, corners

the market on despair. It’s about a family cast out into the wilderness where they are hunted by none other than Satan himself. The less you know, the better. But seriously, don’t watch it; that might be sinful. Available on Netflix. “American Psycho” (2000) A sickening example of late 90s decadence. But that scene where Christian Bale tries to feed a cat to an ATM — priceless. It's hip to be square! Available on Amazon Prime. “Children of the Corn” (1984) A great example of a horror film that shoots low — and stays there. On a road trip through Nebraska, Linda Hamilton and her less-than-memorable boyfriend run into a small town where all the adults are dead, and the children now worship a corn-loving demon. Along with Willa Cather’s “My Antonia,” “Children of the Corn” is one of the best pieces of art made about Nebraska. Oh, and fun fact: The film production crew used a real-live corn demon for the movie, on loan from the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Available on Netflix. “Paranormal Activity” (2007) The apex of the found footage craze. Something about a day trader and his crazy wife. Watch this one with Rifftrax; it’s a rewarding experience. Available on Amazon Prime. “The Conjuring” (2013) The most overrated of recent horror films, but enough people like “The Conjuring”

that I can’t leave it out. This movie is basically about the power of warm fuzzy feelings over the devil, which come in the form of a lay exorcism. But that’s not the worst part. “The Conjuring” is boring on the second watch. After the thrill of the jump scares wears off, the film has nothing left to offer. Hence the need for all the equally boring sequels. Available on Netflix. “Hellraiser” (1987) Not a great film by any means (the plot is in the title), but a must-watch if you want to understand Mystery Science Theater 3000’s masterful episode, “Soultaker.” Available on Netflix. “Ghostbusters” (1984) Also not a great film, but Bill Murray makes one hilarious joke that The Collegian won’t let me print. A rough approximation: “Yes, it is true. This man has no dog.” Available on Amazon Prime. “What We Do In The Shadows” (2014) A mockumentary from the guys behind The Flight of the Conchords, this movie appeals to the sarcastic sort of people who think Monty Python is clever and that “Blazing Saddles” is a hoot n’ half. If that’s not you — or if you hate New Zealand — well, sorry. Perhaps you would fare better with Johnny Depp’s “Dark Shadows,” a vampire comedy in earnest. Available on Amazon Prime. That's all folks! [Loony Tunes theme song.]

‘Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,’ and so was this movie ‘A Simple Favor’ not simple enough By | Molly Kate Andrews Collegian Freelancer

I’m always down for a body- positivity movie. When Friday night rolls around, and I cozy up in socks and sweats to munch popcorn and chill, I don’t want an art film. I don’t want a movie to make me think too hard or feel obliged to appreciate the perfect combination of reality and pain. I want a mildly funny script and a dependably heart-warming plot. So when I came across Netflix’s newest high school Rom-Com, “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,” it screamed Friday night perfection. Fat chick gets the guy with her sparkling wit and crazy-confidence? Bring it on. You go girl. The first quarter of the film seems to be the typical teenage drama. When the mean, pretty girl, Veronica, gives the hot quarterback, Jamey, Sierra’s phone number as a prank, Sierra finds herself in a text-relationship with a boy who thinks she looks like the hottest girl at school. Afraid to lose McHandsome’s interest, Sierra gets Veronica to exchange pictures and Facetime calls for tutoring lessons, thereby keeping up the ruse that Jamey is texting both the mind of a genius and the face of an angel. Sierra gets to keep up appearances for her love interest, while Veronica gets to impress the college boys she so desperately wants to please. As Sierra and Veronica work together and learn more about one another’s backgrounds, their animosity melts away. Sierra sees Veronica’s more humanizing sides and Veronica learns to appreciate Sierra’s intelligence and courage. Hope for true, John Hughes-worthy friendship blossoms in the viewer’s heart. Here is where my Breakfast Club visions of character growth and broken status-quo relationships rose to heights unattainable. Sierra begins to see into Veronica’s world and discovers humanizing

pain. Perfectly beautiful Veronica lives in squalor in the bad part of town with a bitter mom and two out-ofcontrol little sisters. With no male figure in the home, Veronica desperately looks for security and identity in relationships with older boys at college parties. Sierra goes to one such party with her and gets an eye-full of the kinds of pressures Veronica faces. Sierra hears Veronica’s ex-boyfriend tell his pal about his plan to verbally abuse Veronica so she will feel demoralized and eager to prove herself sexually. Now I imagined this episode would end with the confident Sierra taking Veronica home and telling her encouraging things about her real value — Sierra, after all, comes from a loving family who encourage her to think of herself as more than an outward appearance. Instead, Sierra gets held upside down drinking beer from a keg straw, and Veronica ends up in the parking lot with her mean exboyfriend, getting borderline assaulted. At this point in the film, we have tapped into a whole new bundle of issues. What once was a body-positivity movie has moved into the dark and choppy waters of abuse. The movie gets too real and then opts out of saying something deep. Where the film opened the door for some real character growth and healing, it reintroduces the boyfriend drama and we spend the rest of the film propping up Sierra’s body-consciousness. At the climactic moment of the film, Sierra gets jealous about Veronica’s obvious attraction to Jamey. In a cruel act of jealousy, Sierra broadcasts pictures of Veronica slutting it up with her college boyfriend — pictures Veronica had told Sierra about in a moment of vulnerability and trust. Veronica is horrified that something so demoralizing and abusive would be

publicized and that the new friend she confided in would turn on her so cruelly. It’s the typical set up: geek gets back at cool kid, but realizes that revenge is really not that sweet once you know your enemy’s human side. At this point, my popcorn is long gone, but I keep watching because there’s still the chance that Sierra is going to apologize and make things right. Wrong. Sierra has just completely failed as a friend. Here is where we need penitence, character growth, and heart-warming forgiveness. We need Sierra to get over the aesthetic differences between herself and Veronica, recognizing their mutual need for tenderness as well as her greater ability to offer it as she comes from a healthy home. If the movie had succeeded in this, it would have offered a simplistic message of the value of friendship. But the film failed to deliver even true friendship, adhering instead to the “love yourself” message of every modern pop song ever. After ruining Veronica’s public image, Sierra goes home crying and writes a song out of the deep creative well of self-pity inside herself. The refrain of the song goes: Rose girls in glass vases Perfect bodies, perfect faces They all belong in magazines Those girls the boys are chasing Winning all the games they're playing They're always in a different league Stretching toward the sky like I don't care Wishing you could see me standing there But I'm a sunflower, a little funny If I were a rose, maybe you'd want me. Sierra’s artistic breakthrough just proves to us that she hasn’t made any progress at all. She’s as self-absorbed as ever. Instead

of writing the “I’m sorry I ruined your life because I’m so selfish” song, Sierra sends Veronica this trash, and Veronica accepts it like it’s a perfect excuse and forgives her. While the film pushes the “love yourself” line, we end up with a character who uses her weight as a good excuse to be a horrible friend without suffering consequences. By the end of the song, I wanted to shriek: Who cares what variety of flower you are if you can’t see the needs of the people around you? We are supposed to celebrate Sierra in all her chunky glory, but how am I supposed to feel when Sierra Burgess, who is actually not as unattractive as she makes herself out to be, completely lacks the selfawareness to have compassion on her suffering friend? How am I supposed to empathize with a protagonist who is too fixated on aesthetics to reach out to her friend suffering abuse and neglect? I no longer feel validated and affirmed by Sierra’s body positivity. I now feel kind of icky that I am supposed to be in her corner when she is such a terrible friend. Overall, I thought the movie was sad, and based on the happy music, tearful hugs, and hand-holding, I don’t think that’s what I was supposed to take away from the film. Sierra Burgess is a loser, and not because she’s even mildly ugly. (She has perfect skin and beautiful hair and I don’t really see the problem with her young self except that, like most 18-year-olds, she’s selfish and ungrateful.) Sierra Burgess only has eyes for herself. She uses the pretty chick shamelessly, and the viewer is expected to pity her, laud her courage, and boost her ego, cheering when she lands McDreamy. This movie was not the corn I wanted, but neither was it capable of executing real-talks it tried to bring up throughout the film.

By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor While at first glance “A Simple Favor” appears to be in the same vein as a “Gone Girl” mystery, it takes an unexpected turn, as director Paul Feig attempts a neo-noir film, thriller, and comedy all at once. After the film’s release on Sept. 14, “The New Republic” rightly labeled it “a mash-up of ‘Mean Girls’ and an episode of ‘Law and Order.’” While the combination is chaotic, Blake Lively’s stellar wardrobe, Anna Kendrick’s bouncy cuteness, and Henry Golding’s sophisticated British accent — with plot twists to grab the audience’s attention — make for an intriguing film that nonetheless falls short of good. When their sons bring together vlogging, helicopter mom Stephanie (Kendrick), and the sophisticated and mysterious Emily (Lively), the two quickly become friends, but not in the traditional sense. While their sons play together, they enjoy cocktails and trade dark secrets about their scandalous sexual history. Emily begins relying on Stephanie for small favors, like picking up her son from school. And then, Emily disappears. Troubled by her “best” friend’s disappearance and death, Stephanie begins doing her own investigating, while also beginning an affair with Emily’s attractive husband (Golding). Cute, bouncy Stephanie, following the advice and confident example of Emily, transforms into a mysterious and sneaking sleuth to uncover Emily’s own secrets. The movie tried to be noir, a film genre that originated in French films in the 1930s, developing from movies like Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” into what is now called neo-

noir. A noir film is characterized by crime and violence, cynical protagonists, femme fatale characters, eroticism and sexuality, and betrayal. While “A Simple Favor” did not use the traditional filming techniques of the genre, it was created around a list of noir themes, checking off as many boxes as it could in a twohour run time. All this was combined with comedy and thriller, which brought confusion to the movie. It could not seem to determine what it wanted to accomplish. However, the Blake Lively / Anna Kendrick duo intrigued the audience. With her Tom Wolfe-ish suits, martinis, perfect husband, and sophisticated lifestyle, Lively’s Emily had a sexy mystery about her. Her tall, blond, and daring performance perfectly contrasted Kendrick’s character, Stephanie, with her constant smiles, colorful clothes, and anxious-mom energy. The vastly different characters of Emily and Stephanie were a delightful duo whose contrast added a touch of comedy to a dark story. But this comedic side — meant to bring some lightness to the story — actually gave the film a more distorted flavor. With the noir themes of dark histories, murder, and revenge as the driving themes of the story, the comedy forced a giggle out of viewers in the midst of watching twisted characters carry out debauchery, which felt like an inappropriate response. The mysterious flare of “A Simple Favor” will keep you not on the edge, but maybe firmly planted in the middle, of your seat. Combine that with great costumes, good acting, and some mysterious twists and turns, and “A Simple Favor” turns out to be a mediocre movie with some disturbing characters.

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Science & Tech Student spends summer in St. Louis, researches optic nerve tumors in children By | Austin Gergens COLLEGIAN FREELANCER This past summer, senior biology major Marina Bostelman conducted neurology research about neurofibromatosis during a ten-week research program for the Amgen Scholars Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Bostelman and her lab group’s summer research project focused on a tumor called optic pathway glioma, which develops in children with neurofibromatosis. It appears in only 15-20 percent of those affected by neurofibromatosis and has the potential to lead to visual decline. “Right now we don’t have a way of predicting which patients will experience visual decline,” Bostelman said. “One thing that has been observed clinically, is for some reason girls are much more likely if they develop this tumor to experience visual decline.” Roughly halfway through

Bostelman stands in front of her research poster during the poster session at the end of the Amgen Scholars Program at Washington University. Marina Bostelman | Courtesy

the Washington Amgen program, all of the students were taken to a symposium at University of California Los Angeles. Once there, her program met with Amgen scholars from schools across the U.S. and listened to faculty lectures about graduate school and careers in research. On the second day of the conference, the students traveled to Amgen research

Midwest professors visit Hillsdale conference By | Nic Rowan COLUMNIST Chemistry’s place in the liberal arts took center stage when Hillsdale hosted the 66th annual Midwestern Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges conference over fall break. This was the first time Hillsdale hosted the conference. Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Young said the topic fit well with Hillsdale’s mission. “In the development of our chemistry core course, we’ve given a lot of thought to making the course rich in historical context and making it about important, big ideas rather than just consumer chemistry,” he said. “We wanted to share

some of that with colleagues at other institutions.” The conference featured keynote lectures from professor of chemistry at Westmont College Nivaldo Tro and from director of chemical sciences at University of Michigan Brian Coppola, both focusing on how to teach ethics in the hard sciences. Hillsdale chemistry professors also spoke, sharing their experience with other college chemistry departments. The event concluded with a presentation from Professor of Chemistry Chris Hamilton on the science of brewing beer. “Thanks to the hard work of everyone on the chemistry faculty, the conference was a great success,” Young said.

facilities in Thousand Oaks, California, where they had opportunities to network with professors and students from other universities. Bostelman said the lessons that she had learned through Hillsdale’s biology department benefited her during her time at Washington University. “Besides lab techniques, the critical thinking aspect was huge for starting work in

the lab,” Bostelman said. “My mentor for the program pretty much gave mini critical thinking tests.” Bostelman’s housemates commended her for knowledge and skills in the lab. “Marina was very passionate and knowledgeable about her project,” said Adriana Baker, a senior at the University of Nevada. “I often asked her to explain to me certain

techniques I was not familiar with, and she did so gladly.” “She was the first person from the program that I met,” said Llona Kavege, a senior biology major at Barry University. “She is very kind and compassionate and remarkably intelligent.” Bostelman’s preparation for her summer research began in the spring of her freshman year. Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey VanZant has been Bostelman’s adviser for two years and has worked with her to prepare for her post-graduate plans. All the students that have gone through his lab and have undertaken post-graduate education later tell him that they have skills that their peers do not, he said. “They are highly sought after because they are more prepared than their peers not just with the skills they have in the lab, but also the rigor of our curriculum here at Hillsdale College,” VanZant said. VanZant commented that

Hillsdale students have the opportunity to learn skills such as DNA isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing — expensive processes that most other undergraduates don’t get to do as often as they can at Hillsdale. Bostelman said students interested in research should gain as much on-campus research experience as possible. Thinking ahead and trying to determine what they are interested in studying longterm is also helpful. She said establishing good relationships with professors can help with letters of recommendation because they have a good grasp of your strengths and weaknesses. While she only had a few weeks of research with other students, Baker said they saw great potential in her. “I truly believe she will be a successful scientist, “ Baker said, “She has the passion for discovery as well as the patience and perseverance that a successful scientist needs.”

University of Michigan chemistry professor gives insight at MACTLAC conference By | Nicole Ault editor-in-chief Science professors must equip their students to make ethical decisions and think about ethics in the context of their scientific research, said Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, in a lecture on Saturday. Speaking to about 70 chemistry professors who gathered for the Midwestern Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges conference — hosted at Hillsdale for the first time this year — Coppola pointed out that students must be consistent within their ethical framework in their scientific studies. “You’re interested in the business of defensibility,”

Coppola said. Poor ethical decisions — everything from plagiarism and data falsification to flouting regulations and mistreating a human or animal subject — have far-reaching consequences, Coppola pointed out. “There’s the person who’s doing the wrong thing, and there’s the effect on the people around them,” Coppola said. Coppola said professors should look for “places one can plug these [ethics-teaching tools] into the program rather than a one-shot deal.” Methods should be sustained and incremental, he said, recommending role playing and case studies as an effective way to teach students about ethical decision making. “Putting undergrads in the

role of having to be teachers tends to stick a little more,” he said, “because you have to take on that responsibility.” Coppola’s speech contributed to the purpose of the conference, which was “to take a larger view of how chemistry connects with and affects other disciplines,” said Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Young, who helped organize the conference. “If all we focus on is content, then this wouldn’t be a part of chemistry education,” Young said, noting that Hillsdale’s liberal-arts emphasis lends itself well to focusing on ethics within scientific study. Hillsdale’s chemistry department includes lectures on ethics as part of a required one-credit course for seniors,

said Assistant Professor of Chemistry Courtney Meyet, adding that she wishes there were time to teach a whole course on ethics. Noting that Coppola’s talk gave her “a lot of ideas,” Meyet said she might incorporate a case study into her classes, as Coppola suggested. Young said one of the benefits of a liberal arts education is that it gives students context for understanding scientific content and broader ethical questions. “We want our students to be connecting what they do in chemistry to the things they’ve studied about ethics, both in how they conduct their own research but also in ways our society wants to utilize the knowledge,” Young said.

Lighthouse, Psi Chi offer depression screening, information By | Elizabeth Bachmann COLLEGIAN FREELANCER Hillsdale’s Lighthouse Club, a mental health awareness organization, partnered with the psychology honorary Psi Chi to organize a depression screening booth in the Grewcock Student Union for National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 11. The two organizations sought to spread awareness about depression and provide those who suffer from it with resources and support. Members of Lighthouse and Psi Chi manned the booth throughout the day, informing passing students about a free online screening survey designed to identify depression and about the resources available on campus to deal with diagnosed and undiagnosed depression. Resources available to students include the Health and Wellness Center, which provides free counseling for all students. The students working at the booth also provided Director of Health and Wellness Brock Lutz’s phone number and email, and the contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. Psi Chi President and senior Lucile Townley said the event challenged the social stigma around depression. “There wasn’t as big of a turnout at the table as we hoped for, but that is partly because there is still such a stigma about coming to talk about it,” Townley said. “Hopefully just by being

Members of Pi Chi and Lighthous offered resources on National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 11 in Grewcock Student Union. Lucile Townley | Courtesy

there, we not only got the idea out, but destigmatized it and showed people that were afraid to come talk to us that there is support for them on campus.” Senior Marina Bostelman, president of the Lighthouse club, emphasized the importance of providing students with both the survey and the resources. “The survey is not intended to replace a diagnosis of depression but to give students the opportunity to self-evaluate and see if they could use some additional help,” she said. “That’s where the sheet comes in with the resources the college has for mental health and a reminder that they are free. We defi-

nitely don’t want to provide a screening tool like this without also reminding people about the resources that are available to them.” Chairwoman of Psychology and adviser to Psi Chi Kari McArthur cited a World Health Organization study that confirmed the increase in moderate and severe depression on college campuses as well as the ambiguous nature of its symptoms. WHO found one in three college freshman cite some mental health condition, most commonly depression, the symptoms of which range from changes in appetite, sleep, and mood to sadness, irritability, and feelings of worthlessness.

“It just affects so many aspects of a person’s life,” McArthur said. “It even affects you

cognitively, in the thinking process. And if you think about the function of a college student trying to operate with lower cognitive ability because of the depression they are dealing with, it makes life much more difficult.” Bostelman said she does not believe Hillsdale’s campus has avoided this increase. “I think that Hillsdale can be a very stressful, pressure-filled environment,” Bostelman said. “And when you are in a situation where you’re pushing yourself to do well and everyone else around you is also working extremely hard, it can be very easy to start developing some symptoms of depression.” Far from finished in its battle against depression, Psi Chi plans to host an event later in the semester in which students will have the opportunity to play computer games with software specifically designed to relieve stress and decrease anxiety.

McArthur said it is extremely important to understand the signs of depression and look for them in friends on campus. “There is a difference between talking to a mental health professional and a friend. I would encourage friends to help get their friends into counseling if they need it,” McArthur said. “It doesn’t have to be anything extreme. You can encourage your friends to call Mr. Lutz, offer to make an appointment, offer to walk them there and wait in the lobby — those kinds of gestures are important.”

Hillsdale College Health and Wellness Center Phone : (517) 607-4368 Brock Lutz, Hillsdale College Director of Health and Wellness, Clinical Counselor Phone: (517) 607-2561 Email: blutz@hillsdale.edu National Suicide Prevention Phone: 1-800-273-8255 Online chat (with counselors): https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/ Free online depression screening information can be found through this QR code. The contact information above can be used as resources for anyone struggling with their mental health. Kari McArthur | Courtresy

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Beer, brats, and Bavaria: German campus culture flourishes

By | Carmel Kookogey Assistant Editor Over the 33 years since German Department Chair Eberhard Geyer began instructing at Hillsdale College, the department and the students studying the language have more than tripled in size. But what most students have found makes studying the language so appealing are the ways in which the students, professors, and honorary bring German culture to life on campus. “There are students here on campus whom I have never spoken English to,” Associate Professor of German Fred Yaniga said. “Sometimes I’ll meet students and they’ll be with a significant other, or family member who doesn’t speak German and we’ll speak English, and we’ll stop and look at each other in the middle of the conversation and say, ‘This is the first time we’ve ever spoken English together. How strange.’” Assistant Professor of German Stephen Naumann said though sometimes it’s necessary to break into English, he always gives students, even those just beginning to study the language, a chance to use German first. This persistence of professors to bring out the best in students lends to the department its vibrant legacy. Geyer, who has taught German at the college since 1985, described how the program, particularly the number of students majoring or minoring in the language, has expanded over the years. “When I came here there were some 30 students taking German [for a major or minor], and I was the only instructor, and now we have over 100 enrolled, and we have three German professors,” Geyer said. He attribut-

ed this growth to “dedicated take students every year to the to move up to the German this program, compared to teaching, viable in-house Christkindlmarket, or Christ- 102 class. Though Partoll other programs in America, overseas programs, and vimas market, in Chicago. decided not to advance until very affordable.” brant extracurricular activi“Most of all, it’s the spirit after the first semester, he was But for many German ties,” as well as the generosity of what the Germans call able to skip the intermediate students at Hillsdale, it’s the of the college. Gemütlichkeit, a super long class, and is now majoring in weekly “Stammtisch” lunches Though some students are German word which just German. in the dining hall that are the more involved than others, means ‘coziness,’” Yaniga “At the time I was a little real staple. Every Friday, from between large weekly 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., profesGerman lunches in the sors from all across campus dining hall, a new film dine with 20-25 students of series each semester varying levels of ability, all hosted by the professpeaking German. sors, and festivals and “Today we were making food-centered gatherings plans for an April 1 joke put on by the Delta Phi that we want to plan, and Alpha German honorary, talking about movies that the department boasts a we saw over the course lively and active memof the week,” Yaniga said, bership. smiling. “It can be very Last month, Naucasual, sometimes it can be mann, Yaniga, and Geyer academic. But we were also hosted a swath of 50 talking about politics at the students for their yearly table, with the elections Oktoberfest cookout in coming up in Bavaria. And Naumann’s backyard. we’re doing all that in Ger“Yaniga gets some man. It’s not always perfect homemade brats from German, sometimes we’re the local butcher, we filling in a lot of vocabulary, roast them and we cook sometimes we’re speaking a them Wisconsin-style in little bit of pigeon language, beer and onions on the but because we have a lot of stove, and then we have very good native speakers red cabbage and some and near native speakers, other nice delicacies,” we always have a lot of Naumann said. “We get From left to right: Professor Fred Yaniga, Peter Partoll, Sienna Clement, Emma people who can guide the pretzels from our bakery, Eisenman, Professor Stephen Naumann. and Professor Eberhard Geyer. Fred students in conversation.” and some beverages, and Yaniga | Courtesy. Naumann said joining just kind of enjoy a few hours explained. “Germans tend to nervous, but now I’m very the table “takes some courof conversation. Who doesn’t need a party to create that, grateful that both Naumann age,” but he always pushes love to be outside for a couple and they’re experts at creating and Yaniga made me take that first year students to go at the hours on a Sunday afternoon that Gemütlichkeit atmoplacement test,” Partoll said. end of their first week, and in October?” sphere with festivals.” Geyer said his “baby,” introduce themselves to three Oktoberfest, which NauIt’s this feeling of the Würzburg study abroad people. mann has hosted since he Gemütlichkeit, among other program which he initiated in “It’s a challenge, but it’s also began teaching at the college things, that has endeared so 1986, has become a very popfun, and it’s something they in 2012, also involves an inimany students to the departular feature of the department, can see themselves improving tiation ceremony for the new ment. Partoll, who took his in addition to the Saarland in as the weeks go by, and members of the German hon- first German class at Hillsdale University exchange program, we’re doing this together. And orary. The honorary organizes his freshman year, is now a which was started in 1996. then, there you are at Stamseveral other cultural activities German major, in addition to “The good thing about mtisch, discussing contempoeach semester, including an leading the honorary. either program is we don’t rary politics,” he said. “It gives annual cookout at Baw Beese Partoll explained that he outsource,” he explained. “We students a chance to own the Lake, called “Grillen Abend,” was not planning on studyhave our own in-house overlanguage that they’re working or “evening grill,” according ing German in college until seas programs, both for the so hard to learn.” to Delta Phi Alpha President he visited Hillsdale. A few summer and for the semester. The Friday lunches, which Peter Partoll, a junior. Proweeks into his freshman year, If you have a scholarship, that are attended by approximately fessors also host students at while taking an intro class, applies for the semester in 20-25 students and faculty their houses for meals, and Naumann encouraged Partoll Germany, which again, makes each week, have attracted Ger-

By | Abraham Sullivan Collegian Freelancer Autumn, so new only a few weeks ago, is slipping quickly away. What students might not notice, however, is the fading of the flowers around campus, covered in a last attempt to preserve them a few more weeks from the greedy reaches of the frost. For Angie Girdham, the campus horticulturalist, the end of the botanical year is fast approaching. December marks the beginning of her preparations for a new year. Girdham is busy year-round, planting flowers, planning beds, watering, weeding, and pruning from January to December. She works in the greenhouse and does vocational teaching and plant research. “I’m in there working all winter with the flowers that you see now,” she said. “I try to do a different color scheme every year.” Her job is complex. She personally designs every flower bed on campus, considering things such as pests, soil quality, and amount of sunlight. This requires her to grow 5,000 plants every year by hand in the greenhouse at Hayden Park. That represents 150 different species. Girdham said her previous work has prepared her well. “I really think this job has been a beautiful combination of all my past work,” she said. She grew up near Hillsdale, although never had any connection with the college prior to working here. Her local high school had an excellent vocational program in horticulture, and Girdham quickly got involved and enjoyed it. She studied horticulture in college, and went on to make it her career. Previous horticulture jobs include working in a greenhouse in Litchfield, vocational teaching, and plant research. Seed companies need to know how new seeds will work around the country. They give new seed varieties to various test gardens around the country, which conduct tests for two or three years before the companies release the seeds. “We would get all of the new varieties that the seed companies or the vegetative

producers were looking at releasing to the public,” she said. “We would take notes on bloom quality, what temperatures it survived at, how many weeks it took us to finish, and give that back to the main companies.” Fourteen years ago, Girdham took her job at Hillsdale College. She is glad she was able to find a job close to home. “Typically for a very good horticulture job you need to go to Florida or California, so I feel very blessed that I was able to get in here,” she said. Girdham continues to take on new challenges. Recently, she began a plant therapy program at the college. The plant therapy program meets monthly. Each activity is meant to help students destress and engage in a meaningful and purposeful activity that will leave them with something tangible. Last month, students planted a symbolic herb garden, while an upcoming session on Oct. 25 will feature arrangements of cut flowers. Girdham is also excited about the extension of the greenhouse. The extension will add 48 feet to the length of the greenhouse and is scheduled to be finished sometime this week. The extension will enable Girdham to grow flowers for the graduation ceremony, which previously had to be outsourced due to a lack of space. She also recently received training in arboriculture, the care of trees. She will now be better able to conduct tree risk and hazard assessments, so she can identify when limbs or whole trees need to be removed. Girdham is in charge of all the tree-planting on campus. This year, she said, she has worked with planting trees on central campus as well as in an area near Galloway that was disturbed by construction. She keeps careful track of when each tree was planted, as well as if there is a story behind the tree, as many trees are planted in memory of donors or former students. A hobby of hers has been to find out the history of some of the older trees on campus. Among the oldest trees on campus are an oak near How-

Girdham works around the year to make campus beautiful

ard, and the sycamore by the old snack bar. She has researched articles that reference tree plantings to find out the ages of many of the trees around campus, and has talked with the college historian as well. Unfortunately, it is hard to find much information. This has inspired Girdham to be meticulous in her own record keeping. Fortunately, Girdham doesn’t have to work alone. A team of four students join her, putting in a collective 24 hours each week. Many of those students work with Girdham all four years, and in exchange, she will often provide free flowers for their weddings. Among those students is junior Arena Lewis. “It’s so fun,” she said, speaking of working with Girdham. “It’s like an older sister and a mom all in one.” Lewis appreciates how much care Girdham takes to teach her horticultural techniques, especially after Lewis expressed interest in a horticultural career. “She’s not afraid to let us try things and set us off on our own,” Lewis said. “She just trusts us.” While many students might not notice the flowers around campus, the work is important, Lewis said. “We always say, ‘People don’t notice the things we do to make the campus pretty, but they would notice if we stopped doing it.’” That’s not a problem, though, Lewis said. “I kind of like that it’s an unnoticed job,” she said. “You just do it for your own joy.” Another of Girdham’s student helpers is junior Adrianne Fogg, who said she enjoys working with Girdham. “She’s such a patient, understanding person,” Fogg said. “Her passion is to do horticulture therapy, and she wants to reach people through plants. She just has such a caring heart for the plants and the people together, it’s just a really beautiful thing.”

man speakers from all across campus, including English, music, and history professors who know the language. Timo Blasius, who is visiting campus for the semester from Saarland, Germany as a part of the exchange program, said he attends Stammtisch every Friday. “It’s good to speak German once a week,” Blasius said. “It’s a good experience for them to hear a real German, without an accent maybe, because even though Dr. Yaniga and Dr. Naumann speak very very very well, they still have an accent. You hear it as a native speaker, since it’s not their first language. I think it’s good for students to here a real German speaking.” Blasius said the students do a good job with the language, though many prefer to simply listen to his German. “Mostly it’s that when I’m coming, everyone wants to hear me speaking German,” Blasius said, laughing. “In most cases I just talk to Dr. Yaniga and Dr. Naumann, but sometimes to other students as well.” Though at the end of the day the German students are still American, Blasius expressed affection for the college’s efforts to bring a real taste of German culture to campus. “It would be the same if we play American football in Germany, which is copying it, but it is nice to have,” Blasius said. “I enjoy it, being around people who like the same things as I do.” Yaniga called this marriage of culture and classroom essential to the learning process. “Learning happens in community, learning doesn’t happen in isolation,” Yaniga said. “But sometimes the classroom isn’t the only place to build community, so we try to extend that.”

Coney Island Diner in Mansfield, Ohio. | Wikimedia Commons.

Pulp Michigan:

Jackson’s hearty doggystyle By | Nic Rowan Columnist Most people know Jackson, Michigan (if they know it at all) as the birthplace of the Republican Party. But equally important — and tragically overlooked outside of local lore — is the town’s culinary claim to fame: home of the original coney dog. Okay, yes, yes, you know all about coneys. About the famous rivalry between Lafayette Coney Island and American Coney Island. About the Food Network specials. About how last summer, that stunt writer Charlie LeDuff cleaned the greasers and played The Last Good Man of Detroit in the pages of The Weekly Standard. But Detroit coneys are for tourists. The Jackson coney is a different — altogether more subtle — tube of meat sloshed in sauce. First conceived by the Macedonian immigrant George Todoroff in 1914, the coney was intended to be a snack for passengers and workers hanging out at the Jackson railway station. Todoroff named his creation after similar-looking hotdogs he had seen while passing through Coney Island in New York, except these new treats also included a now-famous combination ground beef sauce, diced onions, and a strip of mustard — all served on a steamed bun. Todoroff kept his stand open 24 hours a day, and coneys soon became

popular throughout the local area. Meanwhile, the lamps were going out all over Europe — forcing many Greek and Macedonians to flee the Balkan Wars out to the Midwest. Many of these immigrants passed through Coney Island and independently conceived the idea for the coney dog in places as disparate as Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Duluth, Minnesota, where they serve coneys con queso (classic). The industry chugged along swimmingly until World War II-era rations imposed beef shortages on the home front. The shortages caused many coney stands to cut back on ground beef sauce servings. In Detroit and Toledo, Ohio, some stands turned to serving fried frog legs. But in Jackson, Todoroff innovated, switching to ground beef heart in his sauce instead of the typical ground meat, now reserved for those in the armed forces. And it was here, through the austerity of World War II, that the Jackson coney — as it exists today — was born. No other city in Michigan (or any other place where people eat coneys) serves the snack with a beef heart sauce. In fact, the anomaly may make Jackson the top consumer of beef heart consumed per capita in the nation — with more than 2,000 pounds sold in coney stands every week, according to a 2014 MLive story on the phenomenon.

So why isn’t the Jackson coney more well known? Probably because Todoroff retired in 1945. After 31 years of business and more than 17 million coneys sold, the inventor of a Michigan emblem passed the family business on to his sons, who, although restaurateurs themselves, did not preserve the original stand outside the train station. The Todoroff family does, however, still sell its special “Jackson-style” coney sauce in local grocery stores — much in the same way Grotto Pizza sells its tomato sauce in Delaware supermarkets or how Steak n’ Shake leaves its special seasoning out for a savvy customer to slip into his blazer pocket in South Bend, Indiana. And of course, the other coney stands in Jackson carry on the storied legacy. There are two still located near the train station, Virginia Coney Island and Jackson Coney Island, both of which serve coneys with a recipe similar to the one Todoroff used. They’re quiet places — good first dates — often bypassed by travellers on I-94. And even though the men’s restroom in Virginia Coney does not lock, and the faucet water sprays all over your pants — that’s just the way it should be: The Jackson coney is all heart.

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Historic Hysteria: Campus Scene By | Callie Shinkle Columnist In the late 1960s, The Collegian premiered Campus Scene as a forum to spread social news. Separated into “Men’s News” and “Women’s News,” the column offered interesting tidbits from a variety of social groups at Hillsdale. This innocent information often included lists of new Greek pledges and advertised all-campus events. But, as Robert Frost once said, “Nothing gold can stay,” and Campus Scene quickly derailed. Instead of presenting wholesome facts, the column began spreading ruthless, dare I say, life-ruining gossip. Campus Scene soon evolved into a space with the sole purpose of trashing fellow students — a 20th century Yikyak some might say, either in paragraph form or a simple “Shut up Janelle!” Yes, that was an actual line printed in the April 22, 1971 issue of The Collegian, sandwiched between this assortment of inquiries: “Who is it this week Linda?” “Is J.H. still shaking up with J.W.?” Two years later, the one-liners just kept coming. The Oct. 11, 1973 issue read, “L.S. congratulations go out to you this issue for making it home before 9:00 a.m. last weekend!” That is classic Campus Scene, only printing initials and first names, as if everyone from sea to shining sea didn’t know exactly who L.S. was. Some of my personal favorite quotes can be found in the

Sept. 20, 1973 issue. “Girls in Olds, please wear clothes.” A lesson for the younger readers: That is what we call a pre-twitter subtweet. “Does anyone know a good hang-over cure? Or how to re-fill a fire extinguisher?” What a weekend that must have been. The column didn’t just cover gossip though. No, the Nov. 15, 1973 issue truly asked the hard-hitting questions: “Who boogies at 5:00 a.m.?” That is just intellectual curiosity at work. Campus Scene also taught facts that even Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn could not educate you about. The Oct. 28, 1971 issue reads, “Last weekend was the weekend.” The author wasn’t wrong about that. On top of its journalism and philosophy, Campus Scene managed to crack a few jokes. On March 14, 1974, the Campus Scene said, “If there was an award for streaking, the ATOs would win it — PANTS DOWN!” If someone mixed the brains of Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, and Chevy Chase, they still would not be able to come up with a quote as original and jocular as this. I’m sure current readers are reading these Campus Scene quotes and shaking their heads at the debauchery. However, this Hillsdale student prefers to fondly tip her cap to the boisterous column authors for having the courage to spill the tea.

But as Robert Frost once said, “Nothing gold can stay,” and Campus Scene quickly derailed.

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October 25, 2018

Legacy of Honor Code, Freshman Pledge: College is a commitment, not a commodity

stock said in an email. “He emphasis. to the faculty,” said Moore, By | Victoria Marshall and I discussed the idea at “The Pledge focuses more “students would come to the Collegian Freelancer some length. Dr. Whalen, who on the relationship between college and not know what The Freshman Pledge and wields an artful pen, crafted the college and the students, was expected of them, and it the Honor Code are wellthe language.” while the Honor Code was kind of like, ‘Well, I didn’t known rites of a Hillsdale Following the Freshman emphasizes the relationship know,’ and so I understand student — but twenty years Pledge’s institution in the Fall that the students and the [the Freshman Pledge] was ago, Hillsdale students did of 2004, drafting of the Honor college have to the challenge a way to have the students not have to sign the understand right Honor Code or recite at the start what the Freshman Pledge was expected of upon entering the them.” college. Sophomore Both are fairly Transfer Grarecent developments cen Aldaya felt that arrived soon intimidated by after Larry Arnn all the standards became president of and expectations Hillsdale College. she agreed to Each came about at a when reading the time when students Freshman Pledge lacked their own perat the beginning sonal commitment to of this year. Hillsdale, and faculty “I felt like I wanted to fix that. was making a “Dr. Arnn was promise and I quick to pick up on wanted to be the fact that stuable to keep that dents weren’t fully promise. But the cognizant that they whole diligent were entering into study and patient a relationship with reflection — I the institution, that was a little bit they weren’t just sort The Class of 2021 and their parents read the Freshman Pledge together. | Facebook. nervous about of buying a prodthat,” Aldaya said. uct,” Professor of Code began during the 2004of self-government,” Dean of But Aldaya definitely felt English and College Provost 2005 academic year. Women Diane Phillip said in the emotional moment BlackDavid Whalen said. “What Although a “Hillsdale Code a statement provided to The stock aimed to commemorate we decided we needed to do of Conduct” existed in the Collegian. when reciting the Freshman was simply articulate for the college catalog at the time, Although both of these Pledge at convocation. benefit of the students, that students gave it little to no agreements are new traditions “[When] you just read it this is not just a transaction. attention. of Hillsdale College, students by yourself in your room, it Something is under way here “The previous code of con- 200 years ago signed a pact doesn’t make as big of an imthat is very noble, something duct was lengthy, complicated, similar to that of the Freshpact. But when you’re saying very high, something that ugly. It was a list of rules. man Pledge. An agreement it with a huge group of people calls them to the better angels ‘Here are all the rules and signed in 1855 reads: “We — your fellow students — it’s of their nature.” regs — you may not scratch whose names are here insertmore impressionable and it The Freshman Pledge, your right big toe on Tuesday ed do hereby pledge ourselves makes it seem more importalso known as the Matricunights and if you do you have in becoming connected as a ant,” she said. lation Ceremony Pledge, was a $25 fine,’” Whalen said. student with Hillsdale college Once both the Freshman introduced in 2004 and is a “There was no rhyme nor rea- faithfully to observe all the Pledge and Honor Code were commitment by incoming son, it had the character of a laws and regulations of the put into effect, Whalen said he freshman to diligent study thing that was the product of college and to maintain to the did notice a difference in the and personal integrity in the years of accumulated ad hoc best of our ability the good student body. presence of friends, family, responses. What we thought order of the institution during “It wasn’t the stupid suand Hillsdale College faculty. is, let’s start from scratch, and our connection therewith.” perficial, ‘Everyone used to The Honor Code, implement- let’s simplify things.” Hillsdale later abandoned be naughty and now they’re ed in 2005, is a mutual pact Instead of providing a this tradition. Faculty librargood,’” Whalen said. “It did by both the students and the list of do-nots, the college ian Linda Moore, who has however change their percepcollege to strive for self-gover- administration wanted to been at Hillsdale College for tion of what was underway nance. They each highlight the craft a code that simply asked 43 years, remembers that — they had ownership. So reasons students are here and students to behave in an honthere was no Freshman Pledge a dorm wasn’t just a place, what their commitment to the orable way. when she came to the school wasn’t just a fairly ugly hotel college entails. “It was an attempt to in the ’70s. where you happened to flop. It Professor of Law Robert reduce the code to its princi“There was no pledge at was yours, it belonged to you, Blackstock, who was provost ples,” Whalen said. “How do that point, as far as I know. and in a very serious sense at the time of the Freshman you want students to behave? So as I say, probably maybe you were responsible for that Pledge’s implementation, ‘Well I don’t want them not through much of the 20th dorm. And if that dorm was thought it was also necesgetting in the dorms past 10.’ century, but certainly [in] the disgraced or damaged in some sary to commemorate the Can’t we just say behave hon19th century, the students did way, you were wounded by emotional goodbye students orably? Behave in the way we sign a pledge,” Moore said. that. You didn’t think of the shared with their parents at know we should behave?” The lack of purpose caused college as being wounded — the Convocation ceremony Although both the Honor by this gap in tradition was you are the college. It changed as they crossed into the next Code and Freshman Pledge why the Freshman Pledge, and the idea from the college chapter in their lives. are commitments to behaving the Honor Code thereafter, being something you go to, to “President Arnn bought with honor and striving for were implemented. college being something you into the idea quickly,” Blackintegrity, they are different in “As I heard it explained become part of.”

100 years later, Russell Kirk admirers reflect on his legacy By | Lauren Blunt Collegian Freelancer On a recent trip to Hillsdale, Annette Kirk, the wife of famed historian and author Russell Kirk, mentioned what she deemed “a Kirk revival” on campus. She said she saw many students who didn’t know about Kirk are starting to learn about who he was. And they’re becoming excited. Oct. 19, 2018, marked the 100th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s birth — and in recognition, his family, professors, and students at Hillsdale College warmly remember the legacy of a man who loved Hillsdale College and greatly altered and defined 20th-century conservatism, earning the name “The Father of Modern Conservatism.” Kirk’s daughter, Cecilia Kirk Nelson, said Kirk was a very kind father, who played with his daughters often and loved to take walks with them, plant trees with them, and tell them stories before bed. “He wasn’t a hands-on dad, but he was very good with kids,” she said. “He was very kind.” Nelson went on to describe how her father’s life and his work were intertwined. “One thing I really want people to know is that he was an integrated man,” she said. “Dedication and faithfulness to his family were a part of his philosophy. He was a very consistent man, and it is important that people know that about him.” Having Kirk as a father, however, altered her youth. “We had lots of people visiting all of the time. There were lots of seminars with students. Many Hillsdale students visit-

ed even before the Kirk Center was founded. It’s always just been there, even since I was young.” As for Mecosta’s various visitors, Nelson says there have been many throughout the years. She remembers one particular Croatian professor who came to Mecosta as a refugee when she was a child. Kirk let him stay at the house and study with him, offering him a place to stay and to raise his family. The professor stayed with them for some time, and his son, Ivan Pongracic, would later go on to teach economics at Hillsdale College. Pongracic, currently a professor of economics at Hillsdale, remembers the time well. He said that his father had spent most of his life in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) dreaming of moving to the United States, and Pongracic shared that dream. It wasn’t until Pongracic’s father attended a conference at Grove City College that he finally met Kirk. Prior to travelling to Pennsylvania for the conference, Pongracic’s father had discovered Kirk’s books and articles, which made a profound impact on his thinking and person. Pongracic said that when his father spoke to Kirk, an invitation to stay for a week turned into an offer for Pongracic’s father to study at Mecosta, leading to the family’s move to the United States. Pongracic called it the most profound and impactful moment of his life. And although he wasn’t old enough to appreciate Kirk as well as he wished he would, he says he doesn’t remember ever being intimidated by Kirk.

“He was a funny and somewhat mischievous man, taking any opportunity to come up with a clever joke in response to what someone said, followed by a big smile or a laugh with a twinkle in his eye,” Pongracic said. “Dr. Kirk made it possible for my family

For Dr. Kirk, conservatism was not an ideology, but an inclination, a turn of mind and disposition. Piety Hill itself was an organic expression of Dr. Kirk and his vision of what conservatism should be.” For students who don’t know of Kirk’s legacy, the

Collegiate Scholars visit the Russell Kirk Center in fall 2017. Annette Kirk is seated on the far right. | Facebook

to become Americans, and for that he will always have my deepest gratitude. I will always remember him as a supremely kind and generous man. He was one in a million.” It is because of this lovely and almost mystical character of Kirk that Mecosta, sometimes referred to as “Piety Hill,” is so magical. Alan Cornett, a historian and former assistant to Russell Kirk, said, “Entering Piety Hill has been well described as walking through the wardrobe into Narnia.” Cornett went on to say, “Russell Kirk was not only America’s foremost expositor of conservatism, he was the very living embodiment of it.

Dogwood Society, led by senior Kaitlin Makuski and sophomore Isaac Kirshner, is raising awareness of is raising awareness of Kirk on campus. Lecture series, articles, and word-of-mouth has spread news of Kirk around campus like subtle wildfire. Isaac Kirshner, Vice President of the Dogwood Society, spoke about the recent resurrection. “The Dogwood Society has been here at Hillsdale for 26 years now, and what we’re seeing now is a reanimation and elevation of the American Studies major that has otherwise been dormant for a while now,” Kirshner said. The Collegiate Scholars

Program travels to Kirk’s home in Mecosta each fall. Started by Professor of History Richard Gamble, who is friends with Russell Kirk’s wife, Annette, the Mecosta trip has been an ongoing part of the Collegiate Scholars Program for a long time. Associate Professor of Classics Eric Hutchinson, the director of the program, has continued the tradition in his three years as the director thus far. “The trip is one of the real perks of being in the program,” Hutchinson said. “I look forward to it every semester. It’s great.” For four days, students attend a total of six seminars over the course of two days. Although the lectures do not center around Kirk, Hutchinson says that they try to incorporate some of Kirk’s works into the series. The real fun of Kirk in Mecosta, Hutchinson says, is the time the students get to spend with Annette Kirk. “They get connected with her and get to hear a lot of stories about his work,” Hutchinson said. “They love it.” Isaac Kirshner, vice president of the Dogwood Society and a student who is traveling to Mecosta, said he loves Piety Hill and the Kirk family. “The Kirks’ home of Piety Hill is the closest place to Rivendell that I can think of. There, students can spend ample time learning and meditating on the great ideas of the West and their gracious champion, Russell Kirk,” Kirshner said. Centered around a central theme which governs conversation, the seminars are an hour and a half each and require no paper or exam to

follow them. This is something Hutchinson loves and thinks is really important about the program. “It makes the lectures fun because people are doing the work simply because they want to,” Hutchinson said. “There is nothing else to get out of it other than what it can give you.” Hutchinson says that the program is about more than just becoming better students. Rather, it is the pursuit of becoming self-educators and gaining knowledge that pushes the individual towards virtue. As Kirk says in the “The Imaginative Conservative,” the purpose of a liberal education should be to cultivate the individual’s intellect and imagination for the sake of the person. Hutchinson agreed. “One of the things a good education will do is help the student who has experienced it learn how to learn. That’s what’s really important. If the student can learn how to do that, the world is their oyster.” As for the lasting impression and continued education that Kirk and his ideas leave on students, Michael Lucchese ‘18 was deeply affected by Kirk as a student. Lucchese said he now attempts to live his life in accordance with Kirk’s principles. “In this period of late modernity, everyone seems to be living rootless lives,” Lucchese said. “Russell Kirk is important for young people now more than ever because he can teach us how to lay down lasting roots, both in his scholarship and through the example of his life.”

B6 October 25, 2018 A 1970s photograph of students studying together in what is now the Old Snack Bar. | Hillsdale College archives.

10 years later, the Grewcock has changed campus culture known among students as the is, our students are really realBy | Brooke Conrad “EAR,” short for Ethan Allen ly spoiled now,” Cole said. Features Editor Room. Lindley noted that the Many of Hillsdale Col“I remember walking in space was overall much smalllege’s alumni came to school one day saying, ‘Wow, this er than the Grewcock Student when the student union was looks like an Ethan Allen furUnion and gave the environbasically an airport. A few niture show room,’ and before ment a different feel. rows of metal chairs and a long, people just started call“You couldn’t be anonymodest-sized mous in TV lined the the old hallway that student now contains union the computer couch lab, next to a area,” smoke-filled Lindley snack bar. A said. renovation Bein the 1980s sides the earned the stuEAR, dent center’s the glorified hallKnorr way status as also the “Ethan Alfeatured len Room,” but a snack the improvebar, now ments paled referred in comparison to as the with the col“Old lege’s massive A photograph of the old Ethan Allen Room, or “EAR,” which was later Snack 2008 upgrade: replaced by a computer lab. | Hilsdale College archives Bar,” the Grewcock where Student Union. students “Going into the new stuing it the Ethan Allen Room,” could purchase treats like dent union was like getting Kalthoff said. burgers and fries or a milkinto a new car when your In order to build the shake. It wasn’t frequented parents have been driving a Grewcock Student Union, the nearly as often A.J.’s, accord20-year-old, beat-up jalopy,” college tore down the Carr ing to Cole, and often it was Professor of English Dwight Library, which had been built seen as more of a special treat, Lindley ’04 said. “I mean, I in 1951 and was replaced by whereas people now use A.J.’s didn’t know any better when Mossey Library, which was frequently. Some students also we were in the old union, but constructed in 1971. Professor took advantage of the allowin contrast with Grewcock, it of Philosophy Lee Cole said it ance to smoke in the snack was just pretty 70s, and a little took him a while to get used bar area. stale.” to the changes, including the “It was kind of dank and The Grewcock Student chairs, video games, etc. when nicotine was always in the air,” Union was dedicated 10 he came back to campus to Cole said. “Honestly people years ago, in January of teach. who spent the most time in 2008, thanks to the generous “When I came back to the snack bar were philosophy donation of Nebraska natives Bill and Berniece Grewcock. It replaced the Knorr Student Center as a place for students to congregate, eat meals, play ping-pong, study, or chat. While the old student union certainly had a character some might remember with nostalgia, the Grewcock is, to many alumni, a luxurious upgrade. Professor of History Mark Kalthoff ’84 attended the college in the Knorr student center’s earlier “greyhound bus depot” stage. He returned after the late 80s renovation to teach at the college, when grewcock center first timemajors and psychology majors the old furniture was replaced frankly second time, third and sociology majors, and you with some nice sofas and time, I expressed the sentinormally didn’t spend long wing-like chairs, and Kalthoff ment that I’m pretty sure was periods of time there unless may be part of the reason why universally held by all my you were a smoker. I was less the place eventually became peers from hillsdale and that hipster than some philosophy

majors.” Rebekah Dell, who directed center dining hall in 1995 and Professor of English the Student Activities Board is currently employed by Bon Christopher Busch rememfrom the summer of 2006 to Appétit, said she still remembers buying many chocolate the summer of 2010, said SAB bers what it was like watching milkshakes at the snack bar. has seen “dramatic growth” the Grewcock center being He also noted that there was since its move to the Grewbuilt. a cigarette vending machine cock from a couple of small “It was like watching the located outside the door and offices in the Knorr Center. chapel being built now. You little ash trays lining the walls Not only has the student and can just imagine it. It just of the classroom buildings. adult staff doubled, but SAB looks huge,” she said. “One “I had come from Californow hosts a wide variety of day they brought us down on nia where smoking was kind events throughout the year, in the tour, and it was just overof not encouraged even at contrast with the seven major whelming. It just looked so that time, so that was kind of events it used to do. huge, and the kitchen was just surprising, because even from Lindley likened the dining beautiful. It took a little bit my childhood smoking was hall in the old student union for us to get used to it. It’s just more prevalent than later on,” to a 70s-style country club, great to have all the space and he said. with its large glass floor-toequipment that is up to date.” The Fairfield Society was also “very much a staple” at the time, according to Cole. The group would hold weekly meetings in one of the Knorr Center rooms next to the snack bar. Usually the presentations were on religious or Students eat in the Curtiss Dining Hall, which was later replaced by the Searle Center. | theologi- Hillsdale College archives cal topics, which were delivered by either ceiling sheet windows. The A lot of college campuses a student or professor, and old dining hall was generally began updating their student usually attracted around 15 to more crowded at meal times unions, according to Kalthoff 40 students. Members would than the one in the Grewcock after the Baby Boomer generaoften bring their trays from is, which meant students tion, of which he was a part, the dining hall to eat during would often have to sit with had graduated. The smaller the 90-minute presentation. people they didn’t necessarily class sizes in subsequent gen“You were allowed to have know, and professors were erations caused more comtrays-- that’s the only way the more likely to sit together petition for students and led college was better then,” Cole with students instead of sepato a lot of improved campus said. rated at their own table. amenities. Lindley also noted that it “The only option for “Students at 17 or 18 years was a lot easier for students seating was really large round old, as smart and good as to sneak out food items from tables, and you didn’t have they are, often make decision, the dining hall, sometimes booths,” Cole said. “Nowadays sometimes life decisions, packing their entire dinner so you can go to the Grewcock based on things that are other they wouldn’t have to come at 12 and it may be hard find than, say, just the curricuback later that day. An additable, but it’s never hard find lum. They come up and see a tional perk for some students seat. When I was student, we cool campus, or a fun stuwas the bowling alley that was could go to the cafeteria and dent union, and they’re often later replaced in the basement it was just hard to find a seat. attracted to a college because of the Knorr Center. It’s a funny way in which it ac- they like it aesthetically. So The Collegian and Student tually contributed to a greater lots of colleges try to capitalize Activities Board also got new sense of community.” on that.” offices with the transition. Jill Smith, who started Assistant Dean of Women working in the old student

By | Alex Nester Assistant Editor After beating Simpson in Mock Rock but falling short of ending its 7-year homecoming reign, off-campus house residents continue to “make spaces into places,” per their homecoming coalition motto. The men of Bjornheim — juniors Dietrich Balsbaugh and Joshua Pautz, and sophomores Marcus Lotti and Dominic Bulger — began planning their homecoming group over the summer, speaking with each other weekly about plans for the banner and video. Over 13 houses joined for the Off-Campus Coalition’s first meeting, including The Halfway House, Bjornheim, The Jungle, Brooklyn, The Igloo, The Womb, and The Love Shack. Though homecoming is long gone, the OCC lives on through group study sessions, meals, and weekend gatherings. Senior Sammy Roberts, who lives in Wessex, said that OCC’s impact has been greater after homecoming than during. “It’s not so much what we’ve done, but how much we’ve continued to develop friendships after homecoming

Balsbaugh said. The OCC highlighted the off-campus community that has been around for a long time, according to Balsbaugh. “One of the cool things about the homecoming video is that a lot of alumni loved it,” Balsbaugh said. “They remembered their houses, and we wanted to show campus that it’s been around for a long long time.” Senior Nick DeCleene said he had experienced a greater connection with other students who live off campus than ever before after joining the OCC. “The OCC gave us a more intentional way to reach out to other people off campus,” DeCleene said. “It’s what I thought off-campus would be, but it hasn’t been until this year. It has been a really fulfilling community.” DeCleene expressed the difficulty of moving off campus — specifically, the lack of fellowship that Hillsdale’s dorm culture provides. But he said that changed when he joined the OCC. “It is really hard living off campus sometimes, but we are a community and that’s something worth cherishing,” DeCleene said. “You know all

“Going into the new student union was like getting into a new car when your parents have been driving a 20-year-old, beat-up jalopy.”

Off-Campus Coalition after Mock Rock victory: ‘Our doors are open’ week,” Roberts said. “It allows individual people to make friendships with others that they wouldn’t have known otherwise. It serves its purpose when it’s not an end in and of itself, but when it leads people to the proper end, which is the friendships.”

got a lot of questions of how to join the OCC, and how to be on a team for homecoming, but the point of the week was to show that we are something as a community.” Now, over a month after homecoming weekend, the Off-Campus Coalition contin-

Dietrich Balsbaugh, one of the OCC leaders, attends an off-campus party. Emilia Heider | Courtesy.

Balsbaugh, who coordinated the OCC’s efforts, said that the group quickly became a label — the opposite of its original purpose. “I was caught completely off guard by how fast everybody attempted to institutionalize the OCC, but it is not an institution,” Balsbaugh said. “I

ues to grow as a community. Berntson and Balsbaugh said they text daily about going to dinner and studying together, and the group remains close with a group chat, which now has almost 50 members. “It ended up as an odd conglomeration of people, but at the same time, it’s awesome,”

these people, you smile and say hello. The OCC brought a bunch of different people from cool and unique backgrounds together.” The OCC’s post-homecoming gatherings have included parties at Boondocks and Graceland before walking

and it’s a little easier to have people over because we have shared a bond,” she said. Balsbaugh emphasized that the OCC is not an institution or a club, and that all are welcome participate in their community. “The biggest thing post

OCC got first place in Hillsdale’s 2018 Homecoming Mock Rock competition. Emilia Heider | Courtesy.

together to Garden Party, brunches, and Poetry Saturday at The Halfway House, as well as more random get-togethers, dinners, and study breaks. Recently, Senior Emilia Heider went to Bjornheim to make bread for a housewarming party. “It’s all about hospitality,

homecoming that I want people to know is that our doors are open,” Balsbaugh said, “not just our houses but all of off campus, and I want people to know that they can visit.”