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Vol. 142 Issue 9 - November 1, 2018

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Michigan to vote on legalization of

Kara Vyletel leaps for a kill on Tuesday’s win against Findlay. S. Nathaniel Grime | Collegian

recreational marijuana Tuesday

Hillsdale beats Findlay to clinch G-MAC regular season championship By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor “We don’t need to go any further than they’re Findlay, and we’re Hillsdale,” head coach Chris Gravel said before Tuesday night’s game against the Oilers. Charger volleyball now reigns supreme over its conference foes with a victory against Findlay Tuesday night. Hillsdale secured the G-MAC regular season championship for the second year in a row. The victory didn’t come easily for the Chargers with Findlay finding every chance to rally. “Overall, the match wasn’t at our peak performance, but there were a lot of great rallies last night,” senior outside hitter Kara Vyletel said. “Findlay had some good plays, but that’s just how volleyball goes. Overall we were more consistent and performed when we need to.” Freshman outside hitter Karoline Shelton said the team dipped in the middle of the

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game but was able to pull it together in the end. “We came out really strong, but we got comfortable and complacent,” Shelton said. “It really came out well and we played together as a team.” Head coach Chris Gravel said his team was able to capitalize on Findlay’s errors. Hillsdale also secured the number one seed in the tournament. “We’re excited to be hosting, but ready for our matches this weekend,” Vyletel said. “That is our priority as of now.” Gravel said that he’s proud of his team but is focused on the games ahead. “A G-MAC championship is just one of our goals,” Gravel said. “We need to have a good weekend heading into next week’s conference tournament.” The team completed regular season travel last weekend and will be on their home court for their last few games.

“We’re really happy not to be on the road,” Gravel said. “It’s been a long month. It’s a tough stretch being on the road and playing that level of competition.” The Chargers will take on Ohio Dominican University on Friday. “Ohio Dominican had a lot of issues in the beginning but they’re starting to play well. Their entire year will be worth it if they can beat us. They’re going to come with their game.” After ODU, Hillsdale plays Walsh University Saturday night. “Walsh is the no. 1 team in the other division and has a win over the no. 3 ranked team in the region,” Gravel said. “If we can beat them, that’ll help solidify our regular season conference championship. It puts us in a better spot for being selected to move on to the NCAAs.”

By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter Michigan voters will decide next week whether the Great Lakes State will become the tenth state in the union to legalize recreational marijuana. Proposal 1 comes a decade after Michigan legalized medical marijuana, which will remain legal regardless of the election’s outcome. “Our goal is to end marijuana prohibition because we feel that prohibition has been more of a problem than the substance it’s trying to protect us from,” Josh Hovey, communications director of the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, told The Collegian. “We believe marijuana should be legalized, regulated, and taxed similarly to alcohol and that adults 21 and over should have the personal liberty to choose what they put into their bodies for themselves.” Besides ensuring individual freedom, legalization would make possible regulation that is vital for public safety, particularly among youth, Hovey said.

“It’s true that marijuana content is much stronger today than it was in the 1960s,” he said. “That’s why we should have it regulated. The state will require very clear packaging and child-proof containers. They would very strictly ban marijuana in edibles that would be appealing to children and that could be confused with non-marijuana infused candy.” Laurie Brandes, coordinator for the Hillsdale County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition, however, said she believes the consequences to society, especially for children, would be too great. While technically only adults ages 21 and over would be able to purchase marijuana, she’s confident this won’t stop youth from getting their hands on weed. “For me, it’s all about our young people,” she said. “The teenage brain is not finished maturing until the age of 24 or 25, and marijuana has a very significant impact on brain development. The longer I’ve spent in the social service department, the more I think the government needs to

play some role in protecting children, even if that means keeping it illegal.” Proponents of recreational marijuana claim that legalization would deliver economic benefits, such as additional government revenue from taxing marijuana sales. They argue that the new businesses would crop up with the spread of dispensaries across the state and that the market for marijuana paraphernalia would broaden. The need for a method for law enforcement to test those driving under the influence of marijuana would also offer a significant economic incentive. But Brandes said she fears that the proposal could actually hurt businesses and the economy. She shared the example of a local business that posted a job opening. Of the 40 people who applied, only four could pass a drug test. “I’m very concerned that if this passes, it will limit the growth of industry because there just won’t be enough employable folks,” she said. Brandes said she’s

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‘We’re hanging in limbo’: Soybean tariffs spell uncertainty for Hillsdale County farmers By | Nicole Ault Editor-in-Chief Scott Welden checks grain prices on his phone the way some people check Instagram. “As a U.S. farmer, I watch the commodity trading like stockbrokers watch the market on Wall Street,” said Welden, who farms primarily soybeans, wheat, and corn in Jonesville, Michigan. “I keep looking at that app, and I’m like, I gotta stop looking at it.” These days, the prices have caused more concern than usual for Welden and other U.S. farmers: They’ve tanked since last spring as trade tensions heightened between the United States and China, culminating in China imposing 25-percent tariffs on corn, soybeans, dairy, and other agricultural products in July. Tariffs hit grains especially hard: Since May, the price of soybeans dropped from about $10 per bushel to just over $8, and the price of corn has fallen by nearly 15 percent, about 60 cents per bushel. Tariffs aren’t the only factor responsible for the price drops, but they’re a significant one. Soybeans are an especially large export product in the U.S. — in 2016-17, it exported 50 percent of its soybeans, of which more than 60 percent went to China — and tariffs have choked up the export market, driving down prices as demand wanes for the already-abundant commodity. Welden said that the value of his family farm’s harvest has dropped by nearly a quarter. “Most businesses, if they lost Follow @HDaleCollegian

20-24 percent of their revenue, could not survive,” he said. In Hillsdale County, corn and soybeans are staples of the economy. The county produced 9.6 million bushels of corn and 3.6 million bushels

omy. Though other agricultural products have been slapped by tariffs from China and Mexico and Canada as well — including pork and dairy, another significant sector of Hillsdale’s agricultural economy — soy-

Mark Kies (right) and his son Patrick stand in front of a combine at their farm in Hillsdale County. Nicole Ault | Collegian

of soybeans in 2017, and Welden estimated that grain farming constitutes 25 percent of the Hillsdale County econ-

beans suffered one of the most direct hits and largest price drops. Now in the heart of harvest season, grain farmers

face prices below the cost of production — and must decide whether to sell or store their crops while the future of tariffs and prices remains uncertain. Watching soybeans from his 3,500-acre farm in northwest Hillsdale County shoot through a bright-red auger machine into a grain silo this month, Mark Kies, who’s been farming for more than 40 years, said times are “as difficult as I’ve ever seen it.” “We’re kind of hanging in limbo right now,” Kies said. Tariffs impact decision making Right now, as farmers bring in the harvest and make decisions about what they’ll plant next year, the tariffs have a “very direct impact on what we’re doing,” said Terry Finegan, board president of the Hillsdale County Farm Bureau. The tariff blow isn’t catastrophic this year for farmers who forward-contracted their sales, which many do, said Jay Williams, who farms about 1,350 acres of corn, wheat, soybeans, and alfalfa in Hillsdale and Lenawee counties. Forward-contracting allows farmers to lock in a price for their products before they harvest; farmers who contract their soybeans when prices were $10 can avoid the $2 price drop when selling their beans this fall. “This year, we’ll be okay income-wise,” Finegan said, referring to farmers who locked in contracts and have

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storage space. Next year, if soybean prices haven’t gone back up to $9 or $10, they’ll be in trouble, he said. Those who didn’t forward-contract — or those who did, but not for all their grains — have a tough choice: Sell for lower prices, or store their grains, if they have the space, in hopes that prices will rise before long. “What are you going to do with all that grain that you thought you were going to export?” said Heidi Schweizer, assistant professor and extension specialist at North Carolina State University’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. “If you haven’t already contracted you need to figure out if you’re going to market your grain and soybeans right now, or are you going to wait for a better price. That’s a really difficult decision, and it depends on whether you have storage facilities and whether you expect prices to rise.” Finegan said he plans to take advantage of storage this year for the grains he didn’t contract out. “This year I’m set pretty good,” Finegan said. “Next year I’m trying to decide what to do, what I want to plant, guess which way the prices are going to go, plant more corn or more soybeans, which way to balance my rotation.” Farmers tend to rotate corn and soybean crops on the same land, allowing them to change their ratios year to year based on expected pricing. Welden said he’s looking

at where he can cut costs, first, and then at his crop rotation. Since he can rotate corn and soybeans on the same land year to year, he can change his ratio based on expected pricing. “I don’t think there’s one simple change. It’s going to be lots of little incremental changes. We have to look at all aspects of our business,” Welden said. Kies said the tariffs are affecting purchasing decisions, adding that he hopes prices for inputs such as equipment and fertilizer will fall. “We’re treading water,” Kies said. “We haven’t bought any of the inputs that we normally have bought at this point because cash is tighter to come by.” The tariffs have made it harder to forward-contract as well, Welden said. Usually, he’d be selling some 2020 crops at this point in the season, but “those opportunities have been pretty minor” since the trade war began. Farmers do have an option to ease the tariffs’ financial blow: A Market Facilitation Program provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers farmers payments equal to their 2018 production times 50 percent of a set rate. Of all grains, soybeans have the highest rate of $1.65 per bushel (in contrast with corn’s $0.01/bushel rate); a farmer who harvests 100,000 bushels of soybeans could receive $82,500.

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Student Fed grants club status, votes on amendment to its constitution By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor The Student Federation approved the establishment of three new clubs and made an amendment to its constitution regarding election qualifications at last week’s meeting. Liberty Battalion, the Physical Therapy Club, and the Formal Logic Club were all given initial club status due to growing interest and faculty support. At the end of the meeting, Student Fed members voted on a proposed amendment to their constitution to clarify ambiguous phrasing, opening opportunities for qualified sophomores to be elected for president or treasurer, and accommodating for the mismatched election seasons for representatives from fraternities. “The main things this amendment does are that it makes officer races more competitive, it accommodates irregular terms on the Federation, and it allows more students to become Federation officers,” senior and Student Fed Secretary Thomas Ryskamp said in an email. “More competition will ensure that the Federation has competent officers, and students from all the Greek houses can become officers no matter how their terms line up.” The section regarding Greek members on the original proposal sought to establish a proxy measurement for a complete semester, and the Federation discussed its consequences at length. The Rules Committee had provided an alternative provision that

proposed students currently serving on the Federation in the fall semester be allowed to run for an officer position in November. Senior and Student Fed Vice President Kolbe Conger moved to replace the recommended section with the alternative, arguing that these representatives should have the opportunity to become officers. Ryskamp then moved to amend Conger’s amendment to include both measurements, stating that “not including the four-months provision creates a different anomaly of the same kind.” Ryskamp’s amendment to Conger’s amendment passed without dissent. Ryskamp argued against Conger’s amendment, which eventually passed with a 10-5 vote. They then discussed the original amendment, now modified by Conger’s and Ryskamp’s amendments. The change to their constitution was passed by an 8-6 vote. Ryskamp explained that the change will allow for more competition. “There will probably be more students running for officer positions and fewer uncontested races, so students will have more influence with their votes,” Ryskamp said. “It makes it easier for Greek students to become Federation officers, even if their term as representative doesn’t completely line up with that of the independents.” Before the amendment can be finalized, it must be receive a vote from two-thirds of the

student body and be approved by college President Larry Arnn. The amendment will not take effect until next fall. The first half of the meeting was dedicated to granting club status. Senior Adam Buchmann represented Liberty Battalion. He said in an email that the club was formed to help provide resources to students pursuing military careers after graduation. “There was a lack of military education and instruction here at Hillsdale,” Buchmann said. “Liberty Battalion aims to fill that void of war-fighting instruction by educating and familiarizing the student body so that those Hillsdale College graduates, who honorably aspire to serve their country, will be better equipped to successfully protect and defend the goodness, truth, and beauty that the United States and Hillsdale College embody.” Senior Kyle Huitt, representing the Formal Logic Club, said that the new club will stand to benefit students interested in philosophy, math, and rhetoric and logic. “We can’t really wait for future years for the department to create a course, so instead we decided to make our training in formal logic extracurricular,” Huitt said in an email. “All nerds in general are welcome to come and learn about the valuable ways in which formal logic can discipline your mind to process things and argue clearly.”

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Public Notice: Student Federation Amendment

Student Federation amendment proposes new member criteria The Student Federation has passed the following amendment to its Constitution, which students may vote on during the week of November 12–16, 2018.

mesters at Hillsdale College, have served as a representative on the Federation for at least one complete semester, and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75.

The amendment will replace III.B.1 and III.B.2 with the following:

c. Candidates for independent representative shall be full-time students at Hillsdale College.

B. Qualifications 1. The following requirements shall apply at the time of declaring candidacy or nomination for an election, and at the time a vacancy appears that is to be filled by appointment: a. Candidates for president and for treasurer shall be full-time students with at least three complete semesters at Hillsdale College, have served as a representative on the Federation for at least one complete semester, and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0. i. If there are fewer than two qualified candidates for president or treasurer, candidates with two completed semesters at Hillsdale College and one completed semester on the Federation shall also be considered quali fied for that position.

d. A candidate shall be considered to have served a complete semester on the Federation if any of the following apply: i. the candidate has served on the Federation for the entirety of an academ ic semester. ii. prior to the meeting at which the candidate is nominated or declares candidacy, the candidate has served on the Feder ation for an uninterrupted term of service in at least four different months in which meetings were held. iii. the candidate has served for the entirety of the current semester in progress. This shall not be a valid qualification in the case of an appointment to fill a vacancy or if the member has been absent from more than one meeting.

b. Candidates for vice-president and for secretary shall be full-time students with at least two se-

2. If there is no qualified candidate for an officer position, even if the requirements of III.B.1.a.i. are applied, a

new candidate shall be considered eligible either by a simple majority of the entire membership of the Federation with the approval of the president, or by a two-thirds majority of the entire membership of the Federation.” The amendment will do the following: Clarify that the semesters spent at Hillsdale College are already completed before candidacy Establish an intermediate eligibility threshold for president and treasurer to prevent uncontested races Establish an equivalent measure for a semester served on the Federation, to accommodate members with irregular terms Allow members who join the Federation in the fall semester and have good attendance to run for officer positions for the next year. Editor’s note: Amendments must be printed in The Collegian for two consecutive weeks, according to the Student Federation Constitution IV.A.2. The amendment must receive the approval of President Larry Arnn and also requires votes in favor of the amendment from two-thirds of the student body.

Bon Appetit renovates food stations, brings new menu items By | Allison Schuster Assistant Editor Since fall break, students may have noticed a black curtain covering some of the food stations in the Knorr Dining

electrical issues. The renovations came after Bon Appetit noticed deterioration in the countertops and decided to make other needed changes, including additions to the menu.

be able to get their food more quickly. According to Apthorpe, the original goal was to complete renovations before summer ended, but there were other projects that took

The Passport food station in the Knorr Family Dining Room was recently renovated to update the space and accomodate new food items. Allison Schuster | Collegian

Room due to renovations. Renovations were completed on the Passport and Forno stations of the Knorr Dining Room on Thursday, Oct. 24. The construction began over fall break and was carried into the following week, due to unexpected plumbing and

“What we wanted to do is add an additional hot and cold well to both sides of Passport, to provide two streams of traffic with the same experience,” said Bon Appetit General Manager David Apthorpe, adding that students will now

priority, so Bon Appetit aimed for fall break. After beginning renovations on Wednesday, Oct. 17, the last day of school before fall break, Bon Appetit ran into some unexpected delays due to repurposing some of the older equipment, in addition to plumbing and electrical challenges.

The renovations took their toll on what students and faculty alike already perceived to be a heavily congested area. “It’s a little congested at the other end,” sophomore Virginia Aabram said. “It’s a little confusing.” Instead of evenly spreading out traffic across all sections of the cafeteria, all students were packed on one side. “It’s clustered and then you throw everyone in the grill line,” said Cafe Manager Shane Powers. “There’s 300 people getting food in a half-hour period in a 50 square foot space, so things are a lot In addition to Passport, the Forno food station in the Knorr Family Dining Room was renovated over fall break. slower.” However, Powers did Allison Schuster | Collegian sion in the menu made posthe salad bar is always packed say things are hopefully sible by the renovations. He with people. going much faster now that hopes to have stir fry, a pho The college funded all renovations are complete; station with different noodles, renovations after Bon Appethere is also now a greater vavegetables and miso broth, tit recognized the need for riety of food being produced. and maybe sushi in the distant renovations and brought it to “We put in two new pasta future. He said Bon Appethe administration’s attention, cookers, whereas before we tit tries to cater to student’s Apthorpe said. only had one,” Apthorpe said. Although planning began “The thought is that this could evolving tastes and today that includes providing healthier before he came to Hillsdale, really be a good spot for a options. Powers said he has already obnoodle station to do maybe a “We have a lot of meat and served that Bon Appetit and ramen station. That’s why we vegetables eaters here,” he the college work well together had the black and red bowls: said. “It’s a relatively healthy in his short time here. They’re part of that thought.” “Bon Appetit is always just Apthorpe said Bon Appetit campus.” According to Powers, good at renovating and changwill gauge popularity of the french fries is the only fried ing things up in order to meet pasta, and it could possibly become a weekly item, similar item on the menu. He said the demand,” Powers said. market area, which Bon Appeto Taco Tuesday. tit expanded with gluten-free Powers also mentioned and vegan options, is very there is talk of future expanpopular among students, and

Grad student radio show to bring prudence back to politics By | Matt Fisher Collegian Freelancer Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM’s new show, Citizen Talk, has made the word “prudence” its motto by going below the surface of mere hot button issues, to explore the deeper meaning of the contentious topics of the day. Two Hillsdale College graduate students, Juan Davalos and Lynette Grundvig, have hit the airwaves of Radio Free Hillsdale on 101.7 FM with their new program, Citizen Talk. Airing every Thursday at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.,

the show features Davalos, Grundvig, and an invited guest for an hour-long discussion on current events and the major issues of the week. Davalos, a Winston Churchill fellow, earned his bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies at Moody Bible Institute and his master’s degree in philosophy from Biola University. Grundvig is working on her doctorate in politics at Hillsdale, having already earned her master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Denver. Until Citizen Talk kicked off, radio programming on

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WRFH was conducted by either undergraduate students or local residents. Radio Free Hillsdale General Manager Scot Bertram expressed excitement about changing this. “This show is the first long-term radio show established by graduate students at the station,” Bertram said. “It is already unique for being the first show not put on by undergraduates.” According to its mission statement on SoundCloud, Citizen Talk is dedicated to restoring wise leadership and counsel in public discussion. “Statesmanship is lost in

today’s polarized political culture,” the statement says. “This necessary art in a self-governing republic must take into account three main elements: principles, human nature, and circumstances. We want to practice this lost art with our listeners by looking at one of the main political stories dominating the news cycle of the week and analyzing it through the eyes of a Statesman.” Davalos and Grundvig said they began the program to encourage more fruitful and conscientious dialogue on current events.

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“One of the things we’ve noticed is people don’t think about political issues prudentially,” Davalos said. “Especially in the Christian and conservative culture, we tend to look at politics through the lens of theory. We need to look at the circumstances and then figure out the best way for theory to fit accordingly.” So far, Citizen Talk has prioritized inviting faculty as guests, and has already hosted Distinguished Visiting Professor of History Victor Davis Hanson, Assistant Professor of Politics Adam Carrington, and Professor of

Politics Thomas West. Davalos emphasized that each guest has helped contribute wisdom to their discussion. The pair also hinted at plans to invite local politicians to discuss issues, and potentially even national figures, as time goes on. “We will continue taking important topics that are dominating the news cycle.” Davalos said, “and try to break them down into their different elements.”

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By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter When he described what he did, he would say “business development.” When he spoke, he might use Farsi or Arabic. After Thomas Burke ’04 died at the age of 35 in 2017, his family and friends began fundraising to establish the Thomas Peter Burke Endowed Memorial Scholarship in honor of the 10-year CIA veteran. They have raised roughly $32,000 toward their goal of $50,000 to establish the scholarship. “He wanted to protect us on the front lines of the most dangerous environments,” his college roomate and longtime friend Sean Lanigan ’04 said. “He impacted millions of people who will never know him, never know what he did.” His friends remember him as a “classic Hillsdale” guy, with a great smile, a competitive streak, and a sense of mischief, said Joe Wloszek ’03. For one prank, his friends filled his sheets with nickels, thinking his allergy to nickel would spark a rash. What they didn’t know was that nickels are mostly made of copper. “He got home and cheap ol’ Burkey thought it was like Christmas, that he had gotten all this money for free,” Wloszek said. “The joke was on us, not on him.” He coached the Hillsdale High School boys’ soccer team with Lanigan. They made the boys run three miles every morning, stopping outside each sorority house to make the boys drop and do pushups. “All the sorority girls would

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come to the windows, the front yard, and watch these boys,” Lanigan said. “The boys loved it — they would get up and flex and be all proud of themselves.” “They taught those boys integrity,” his mother Cindy Burke said. Before the Twin Towers fell, Burke’s friends jokingly called him “the politician.” But after 9/11, Burke changed. He focused on academics, began taking notes on the news, and became fixated on national security. When he gave a commencement speech as class president in 2004, he spoke about how 9/11 had changed the world. “Freedom — it does not come easily; it does not come cheaply,” Burke said in the speech. “Many lives have been sacrificed on its altar, and I am sorry to say that I know many more will be required.” To his friends, his speech now seems prophetic. “If you listen to the subtext of his speech, he is talking about himself,” Wloszek said. “He is talking about his journey, what he intended to do with his life.” After he graduated, Burke joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and then worked for the CIA for 10 years. He was deployed into Pakistan, Jordan, Europe, and South Asia, often in combat zones. While the details of his service remain highly classified, his family speculates that he was involved in the Stuxnet computer virus that dealt damage to Iran’s nuclear program. Burke told everyone he worked in business develop-

Oh, deer!

Buck breaks into Knorr Student Center Wednesday morning By | Jordyn Pair Associate Editor

When Scot Bertram, the general manager of Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM, came into work on Wednesday morning, he was greeted by three men dragging something heavy out of the doors of Dow Hotel and Conference Center. He spotted limbs on what he originally thought was a large piece of luggage, and as he parked his car a deer, wrapped in a red curtain moments before, bounded into the woods. As he entered the building, Bertram saw the trail of blood leading down the hall. On the window was a smear of red. The window next to it was shattered. Bertram compared the scene, with its construction plastic and spattered blood, to a scene from “American Psycho.” “Saying it’s all over the place is a bit of an overstatement,” Bertram said. “But it was in a lot of places.” Shortly before 8 a.m. four members of Pi Beta Phi were cutting through the Dow Hotel to get to class when they saw a four-point buck crash through a window and into the under-construction area of Dow formerly known as the Weigand Computer Lab. This is not the first time a

deer has broken into a campus building. In 2012, a deer broke through a groundfloor window in Niedfeldt Residence, which was a women’s dorm at the time. “He looked really disoriented,” said senior Faith Witkowski. “I was freaked out, just because it was so powerful. If a deer charges you, what are you going to do? You can’t punch a deer.” Members of campus security and maintenance were able to wrap the buck in a red curtain and use it to calm it down and remove it from the building. “Our speculation is that because it’s mating season, it saw its reflection [and attacked it],” said Bill Whorley, director of campus security. The three men were able to drag the deer by its antlers and release it. Although it sustained some injuries, it ran off into the woods, Whorley said. “Thankfully, there were no guests around,” said Aaron Tracey, director of hospitality operations at the Dow Hotel. “I think it’s quite funny that it happened on Halloween.” Tracey said the broken window had already been replaced and the blood cleaned up. “It was pretty short and sweet,” Whorley said.

ment in Eurasia, but some of his more perceptive friends suspected all was not as it seemed. Burke spoke multiple languages, including Farsi; he

different hotspots across the world, said Jordan Gehrke, Burke’s childhood friend. His mother said she knows that he was nearly killed at

Family and friends of Thomas Burke ’04 have startd a memorial fund toward a scholarship in his honor. Jordan Gehrke | Courtesy

had weapons training; and when he would call to check the Detroit Lions’ score, his calls invariably came from

least three times; his friends heard fragments of various escapades and “hairy stuff.” Much of it Burke kept vague.

In one of his stories, he described walking down a road toward a checkpoint manned by a guard carrying an AK47. When the guard began shouting at him, he bolted. “Burke was a runner. He played soccer for Hillsdale, and the kid still had the ability to book it if he needed to,” Wloszek said. “He said it was one of those circumstances — it was not the first, it was not the last — where they were legitimately in harm’s way, in a place they should not have been in.” His service was not without sacrifices. “It was intense. He ended up with post-traumatic stress by the time the dust settled,” Lanigan said. “He would have episodes of night terrors about it. It was a cross he had to carry after being immersed for so long. You could see it in his face, especially the last couple years, that he was wearing a lot of stress and sleepless nights.” When Burke left the CIA, he no longer dreamed of running for office; he wanted a quiet life with his girlfriend Sarah Ganslein. But in the late fall of last year, less than a year after he left the CIA, he died

unexpectedly of complications related to a fall, according to his friends and family. “I miss him. It was: ‘Ok, you’re off to D.C. and I’m giving you to the world.’ And oh, I didn’t realize the impact of it,” Cindy Burke said. “I would have liked to have him living down the street, getting married, having kids, but that was not Thomas. He was about changing the world.” Several FBI agents attended his graveside service, where they gave Burke’s parents a plaque recognizing his service, a gesture his family and friends interpret as a sign that Burke’s accomplishments were worthy of respect. Burke’s name will live on in Lanigan’s son, who bears Thomas’s name and shares his electric blue eyes. “I wanted to honor Burkey,” said Lanigan. “I was trying to keep his legacy close to my heart. I think he means something different to everyone, and this was an opportunity for me to have a reminder in my life everyday.” Reminding others about Thomas has not been easy. Those that knew him believe he helped protect millions, and they know that most of those millions will never even hear his name. They cannot tell his story, but the Burkes hope to honor Thomas by giving another student like him the opportunity to study at Hillsdale College. “We’re trying like the devil,” said Jim Wells ’70. “I think the students at Hillsdale should be very proud of Tom Burke. He epitomizes what Hillsdale is all about: honor, doing right, and doing right by others.”

Senior presents museum studies project By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor Admissions requirements to Hillsdale College in the late 19th century included an understanding of Greek and Latin equal to that of current upper-level classics students. It’s just one of the fascinating facts Katie Hillery found while researching her senior project. Hillery, who is a double major in classics and history, presented her project in the main floor of the library on Monday afternoon. While a senior project is not required for the major, Hillery decided to do a museum studies display case. Professor of History Dave Stewart advised Hillery over the last few months as she worked on the project. “I’m doing this separate from either of my majors,” Hillery said. “It’s an interdisciplinary senior project. There is no track in museum studies offered here at Hillsdale. Dr. Stewart does a lot of work with individual students.” Hillery’s work differed from a senior thesis. “A thesis implies that it’s a written project,” Stewart said. “We don’t use the word thesis because she’s not making an argument. It’s not a 20, 30, 40 page paper. This project automatically conjures up a different image in most people’s minds.” Hillery created a museum exhibit detailing the evolution of the classics department at

Hillsdale and the utility of an education in the classics. “It seems like it’d be pretty easy, just throw objects in a case,” Hillery said. “It’s actually really hard because you

significance. Hillery titled her project, “Classics Beyond the Classroom: Assessing the Modern Relevance of Studying the Ancient World.” Senior Christos Giannakopoulos said he found Hillery’s explanation of the relevance of the classics particularly interesting. “I was impressed with how people with classics degrees do completely different things,” Giannakopoulos said, citing a point in the presentation where Hillery discussed Senior Katie Hillery presented her senior famous people project in history at Mossey Library with classics deMonday afternoon. grees. (Sigmund Regan Meyer | Collegian Freud and Vince see in 3D but think in 2D. It’s Lombardi were among the hard to figure out how to fill crew) “It helped me realize up the spaces.” that good writing, thinking Standing before her outside the box, and logic display, she discussed in development are things clasdetail each artifact and its sics teach through Greek and

Latin. The way these classes are taught are really essential.” Hillery said she wanted to explain her reasoning behind her major of choice. ` “When I tell people I’m a classics major, the two questions I get are ‘What is that?’ and ‘Why?’” Hillery said. “People don’t really understand it. I decided I would put together a senior project and answer all the questions people have for me.” Hillery has always been interested in the ancient world. When she was a kid, she would check out either “Magic Treehouse” books or “Eyewitness” picture books from the library. “I was just very fascinated with the mystery of these people’s lives that were so different,” Hillery said. “I’m a classics major in a nutshell because I’m just very interested in these people who lived in such an advanced way considering that it was so many thousands of years ago.” After graduating, Hillery plans to pursue a career in museum studies. “I would love to work with a museum that has an antiquities department and do exhibit design,” Hillery said. “I’m also open to maybe working with a graduate classics library and working with their special collections. Ideally, I would like to do something like this where I can work hands on with classics.”

Hillsdale students place in national college radio competition By | Nolan Ryan News Editor

Only three years old, Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM is already winning national recognition. Seniors Ryan Kelly Murphy and Jenna Suchyta both placed in the annual College Broadcasters Inc. National Student Production Awards. Murphy took third place for Best Audio Newscast, and Suchyta took fourth in Best Audio Documentary for her production “A Problem of Pain” on the opioid epidemic. They were able to attend the awards ceremony, as well as conference sessions, this weekend in Seattle, Washington. This was the first year Hillsdale’s radio program was eligible to be nominated for CBI awards, according to Scot Bertram, general manager of

the radio station. “I’m so proud of our station as a whole, that so early in we’ve sharpened our skills to a point where we can be truly competitive against bigger schools and radio programs that have been around longer. That shows the greatness of Hillsdale,” Murphy said. Suchyta also was excited to see what these awards mean for the radio broadcasting program on campus. “We’re still a very young program; the station only started in my sophomore year,” she said in an email. “To see the successes that we are already seeing from all the students that are involved is more than I really imagined when I went to that first meeting.” The fact that Hillsdale is placing alongside larger schools with well-known

Seniors Ryan Kelly Murphy and Jenna Suchyta both placed in the annual College Broadcasters Inc. Natonal Student Production Awards. Scot Bertram | Courtesy

radio programs, Bertram said, says something about the students here. “It’s a reflection of the seriousness and commitment to every part of their activities on campus,” he said. “Everybody is giving everything they have to all of those organizations, and that’s been reflected here since the start.” Murphy said she expects the trend of growth in audience and outreach is going to continue. “It shows that we are a

radio force to be reckoned with in the college arena, and beyond,” Murphy said. “So many students are training to become broadcasters. It’s an exciting place to be right now.” Beyond the award ceremony, Murphy and Suchyta both were glad to have the opportunity to attend the conference itself. Suchyta emphasized that the trip to Seattle was about learning from the conference even more than winning awards. “It wasn’t just an awards ceremony,” Murphy said. “The conference featured so many areas for radio we can work on or improve on — news copy, expanding your reach. Even if we hadn’t walked away with awards, it would have been beneficial because we would have walked away with skills we can apply here.”

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Halloween is about ingenuity, not witchcraft By | Kaylee McGhee Opinions Editor When I was nine years old, my friend asked if I worshipped Satan. It was the day before Halloween and I was telling her about the costume my mom had made me. It wasn’t anything exciting. In fact, I’m pretty sure I dressed up as a lamp that year, but her reaction was enough to make me believe my soul was in danger. As the daughter of a pastor, I was no stranger to this reaction from families who opposed Halloween. I had several friends whose parents believed Halloween truly was Satan’s holiday. They forbade costumes and trick-or-treating and refused to even think about setting Jack-O-Lanterns on their porches. And I mean, come on, Halloween is obviously satanic. It has to be — why else would thousands of girls wearing abnormally large, blonde braids run around screaming the words to “Let it Go” over and over again? That devilish scene has frequented neighborhood streets since Frozen was released in 2013 — and will probably continue to do so until the Lord has deemed fit to end this trial. The negative connotations surrounding Halloween, however, are not rooted in PTSD flashbacks to horrific Disney cinema. They stem from myths about the holiday’s origin. The false belief that it must have begun with witches dancing around a boiling pot, singing praises to Lucifer is just not true. Somewhere in the halls of history, Halloween, originally known as All Hallows Eve, was reimagined. Halloween began as a day to prepare for All Saints’ Day — a festival honoring all the saints who died — and had nothing to do with pagan beliefs, candy bags, or costumes. It had a religious focus — its name is even rooted in the term “hallowed,” defined as “sacred” or “holy.” This Christian celebration became confused with Samhain, a pagan festival in which the Celtic druids believed a lord of death attacked humans by assuming disguises. These pagan connections cause many Christians to opt out of the holiday, despite its Christian heritage. This seems a bit dramatic, considering both Christmas and Easter are also Christian holidays with pagan connections. The Christmas tree and the timing of Easter,

which falls after the spring solstice, both have pagan roots. Christians wary of Halloween also argue that its pagan connections open the door to the occult. In their book “Halloween and Satanism,” evangelists Phil Phillips and Joan Hake Robie write that many Christians believe if children are scared by a haunted house or witch costume, their “natural curiosity will soon lead them to read books and watch movies about the things that scared them.” This, according to Phillips and Robic, sets children on the path to Satanism. This claim is more outlandish than the families handing out carrots during trick-or-treating. Just because children are spooked by a pointy-nosed, green-skinned witch costume doesn’t mean they will be drawn toward witchcraft, much less become a witch. Unlike adults, children tend to take things at face value. They are more concerned with stuffing their pillowcases with candy than thinking about whether the spider webs on the bushes are an invitation to Satan. Of course, there is an unquestionable connection between Halloween and horror. Many people love to scare and be scared, and Halloween presents the perfect opportunity to do both. Although the desire to get your wits scared out of you is admittedly strange, it’s a stretch to claim it’s connected with sorcery or Satanism. By condemning Halloween, Christians are missing out on an opportunity to celebrate imagination. Children are able to dress up as anything they want — future professions, fictional and biblical characters, terrifying creatures, even a lamp — and are then rewarded for their creativity. The costumes put all children, dreams and nightmares alike, on equal footing as they run from door to door in search of the largest candy bar. Instead of reading sinister and evil meanings into Halloween, Christians should take full advantage of it. As a community, let’s encourage ingenuity, originality, and the once-a-year glorification of gluttony instead of seeing Satan behind every set of cat ears and Elsa braid. After all, everyone should take full advantage of free candy while they can.

“By condemning Halloween, Christians are missing out on an opportunity to celebrate imagination.”

Kaylee McGhee is a senior studying Politics and Journalism.

We again find ourselves in the midst of election season and tensions are high as Republicans seek to maintain control and Democrats push for a “blue wave.” Political loyalties easily spill into our daily life and can affect how we perceive or treat other people, but this isn’t the way things should be. Hillsdale College students

pride themselves on learning to order the soul and exercise reason, yet far too often, we act as if people with different political opponents are the morally corrupt enemies of the United States. While having discussions and debates on policies and social issues are important and beneficial, demonizing those who disagree with us does nothing to further

America’s welfare or our own beliefs. It only leads to viewing others as evil. In this election cycle, let’s focus more on what brings us together as Americans, while still having balanced discussions about our differences. Part of what has always made our nation great is our ability to hold diverse opinions, and the simple fact that we’re

allowed to do so. Who or what we vote for is not nearly as important as the kind of people we are. The best thing you can do this November is not to get out and vote; the best thing you can do — especially when confronted by a different way of seeing things — is to be a kind and gracious person.

Office Hours From theory to practice: Winning the battle of ideas in politics Republican Policy staff. This By | Gary Wolfram Professor of Economics entailed providing analysis I had the opportunity to learn directly how legislation is made when a former student of mine contacted me in 1983 about taking a leave from my position at the University of Michigan-Dearborn to become the economist for the Michigan Senate Republicans. Of course, I had heard the old quote from Otto von Bismarck, “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made,” and as I was teaching Public Choice (which I teach here now), a course using economic theory to examine the political process, I was intrigued. John Engler was the minority leader in the Senate and was forming a policy team that would be made up of experts in different fields rather than by political operatives. I went to Lansing and interviewed with Sen. Engler and was impressed with the idea that legislation would be put forth and analyzed by people who were able to examine the unintended consequences of legislation as well as the intended ones. For my Economics 105 students, it was a chance to follow the advice of Bastiat and Mises and examine the seen and the unforeseen. So, starting in February on the days I was not teaching, and beginning full-time once school was over, I became the economist for the Senate

for the senators of bills, and eventually I was relied upon to draft legislation. My main job was to work with the Senate Finance Committee and advise the senators on legislation before the committee. At the time the Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and governorship, so we did not have much influence on what bills actually passed. But less than a year after I arrived, there was a recall election in which two Democratic senators were recalled and replaced by Republicans. This meant Republicans became the majority and took over chairmanship of all the committees as well as making up the majority of all committees. Until going to Lansing, I was not aware of the fact that if a party gains a majority in the House or Senate, it controls all the legislation. For the next nearly six years I was able to use my expertise in the courses I had been teaching, public finance and public choice, and, in particular the Austrian school analysis of how markets work, to advise both the Republicans and the Democrats on legislation. Sen. Engler was an excellent leader in that he had a philosophy of limited government and an understanding of how markets work, and surrounded himself with advisors with similar philosophy and relied upon their expertise to form policy.

Sen. (later Governor) Engler separated the policy staff from the political staff. This created a separation between those who were in Lansing to ensure that the senators got reelected and those who were forming a policy consistent with a philosophy of limited government and reliance on markets. Generally these things were not in conflict, but occasionally they were. One of these times that has stuck with me for decades was when a bill was before the legislature that would have benefited one group that generally supported Republicans over another group. I found that the bill would put government into a position of what Bastiat would have called legalized plunder (for my Economics 105 students) and argued against the legislation in a closed door caucus of the senators. One of the senators pointed out that we would be going against a group that generally supported Republicans and that there was a special election coming up. Sen. Dick Posthumous (later to become Lieutenant Governor) stood up and said the senators should vote the way that was best for Michigan and he would personally raise the money if needed to make up for any loss of contributions from the special interest group. That experience was gratifying in that it showed that legislation would not be dominated by whoever did the most to elect the senators.

I found that advising on policy and testifying to committees was a lot like teaching a class. If you made the argument clear enough that the senators would be comfortable explaining it to their constituents, then your position would prevail. I make this point to my students. One day they may be an elected representative themselves, or staff to elected officials, and will be able to affect policy if they are clear in their explanations. All in all, my time in the Senate was interesting, exciting, and fun. It lead to my taking a leave of absence from Hillsdale to become Deputy State Treasurer under Governor Engler, doing much the same thing as I was doing, only this time from the executive branch. It was made up of winning the battle of ideas as Mises might say. In fact, I brought up Mises frequently enough in testimony that the chief of staff to Governor Engler used to quote me as saying “I love Mises to pieces.”

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Civic duty is about more than voting By | Nicole Ault Editor-in-Chief

A tweet from Elle magazine two weeks ago lured followers to a voter-registration site by promoting a fake-news headline: “Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up.” The magazine apologized in the wake of backlash, “Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry.” But plenty of tweeters gushed over the trap for getting more people on the voting rolls. Elle isn’t alone in a misguided passion for voter registration. Every election year, “just vote” mantras more meaningless than campaign slogans crowd social media and TV ads, advocate voter participation on the premise that the mere act of voting fulfills a civic duty, regardless of what boxes you check on the ballot. But civic duty doesn’t require your vote — it requires virtue. A good citizen is charged with the task of seeking the best for his community, and that means knowing when to stay back from the voting booth. Rather than voting for its own sake, citizens should seek to educate themselves and others so that informed concern, not ignorant conformity, drives election participation. Voter ignorance is widespread and well documented: More than a third of Americans can’t name any of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, and only 26 percent of Americans can name the three branches of government, according to a 2017 study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center. More than half of those surveyed think illegal immigrants do not have any rights under the U.S. Constitution. Ignorant voters aren’t neces-

sarily stupid. Sometimes, acting in rational ignorance, citizens choose not to research the options on their ballots because they know their votes won’t make much of a difference. More often, straight-ticket voters check off the boxes next to a certain political party without taking the time to understand what the candidates stand for and why they’re running. Such ignorance has real consequences. For example, a voter who doesn’t know the breakdown of the federal budget may think it’s wise to boost entitlement spending, noted George Mason law professor Ilya Somin in a 2016 Forbes interview. Or a voter may attribute economic trends to politicians who aren’t responsible for them. “[There] are a host of issues where governments routinely pursue harmful and misguided policies that appeal to relatively ignorant voters, even though policy experts across the political spectrum recognize their flaws,” Somin said. But voter ignorance goes beyond the cure of a highschool civics class. It’s inherent to being human. The most ardent political junkie or learned economics professor will never know with certainty just what a candidate will do for society, or how a policy will manifest ten years down the road. Some citizens will sense that ignorance so deeply — as many did during the 2016 presidential election — that voting is to them a violation of conscience. Citizens who vote in ignorance or violate their own consciences to conform to a misconceived ideal of patriotic duty do fellow citizens, and themselves, more harm than good. Abstaining from a vote can be an act of sheer humility and prudence. It won’t make

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or break an election — and for that matter, despite doomsday predictions and Flight 93 analogies, no election will make or break the world. A decision not to vote may be a recognition of providence, or at least of matters beyond our control. Of course, elections matter, and a citizen who doesn’t care about her society is no more noble than an ignorant voter. To the extent that voter abstention reflects apathy, it’s wrong. But for many voters, casting a vote is a careless guess or an act of conformity — and that’s far from virtuous. Rather than pushing voter registration, concerned citizens should advocate and embrace education. We should inform ourselves and others about the society we live in and the principles we ought to live by so

that we do care enough to vote — not caught by clickbait, but motivated by concern. “Join the conversation by talking to friends, family, and neighbors about the importance of their voice and their vote,” urges When We All Vote, the website Elle pushed readers to for registration. “We can change the world.” A voice and a vote are indeed important rights and privileges of American citizens. But that’s all the more reason to exercise them sparingly. Sometimes, choosing not to vote is the most respectful thing to do and the best way to care.

Nicole Ault is a senior studying Economics.

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The Republican Party must value humanity over policy By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assitant Editor During the Trump era, Republicans have struggled to exhibit compassion. The GOP touts its principles, but without compassion those principles are worthless. President Trump ordered 5,000 soldiers to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to defend the country from a migrant caravan of women and children. In 1957, President Eisenhower gave similar orders, but he sent the Arkansas National Guard to protect and defend nine African American students and their rights to attend school with white kids. A time will come (and it may already be here) when the populace, regardless of policies and values, will look to public leaders to embody compassion. The Democrats have mastered the game of

emotions and, whether they are sincere or not, people are drawn to leaders that at least appear to possess the basic human qualities of love. People are drawn to leaders that care. The GOP must prioritize humanity over policy, and if it can’t, Republicans risk being voted out. In a number of humanitarian issues, Republicans hurt themselves.When it comes to gun violence, Republicans tend to spend very little time, if any, on the human impact of the tragedy. They immediately jump to the defense of the Second Amendment instead. With health care policy, Republicans allow themselves to be painted as leaders who don’t care if certain Americans won’t be able to afford treatment because it’s more important to have a smaller government. And with immi-

Slow your roll: Michigan should vote no on Proposal 1 It isn’t, they say, as addictive, By | Joshua Pradko Special to the Collegian destructive, or dangerous as the prudish naysayers might have the public believe. It’s If the polling proves achardly a compelling argucurate, Michigan voters will ment — is weed even “that soon approve a recreational good?” Positive evidence is marijuana ballot proposusually necessary to adal. Marijuana support has just the status quo, and the become not only socially acceptable, but in vogue, uniting science on marijuana is still embryonic. Slower legislative conservatives, liberals, and change and the preservation libertarians; hip politicians of community control over and stoned citizenry. Indeed, despite federal and state bans, the drug would allow citizens to examine more carefully fans of the drug are ubiquiwhat they want and don’t want tous — even pious Hillsdale College is home to quite a few from marijuana legalization. Few voters want their kids consumers, and even more to have easier access to a full advocates. slate of recreational marijuaSlow your roll. Ballot na products; few wish that Proposal 1 isn’t about weed, their own parents had been it’s about commercial sales recreating with weed while — widely marketed and child rearing. Kids, with their disseminated weed. The amgrowing brains and developply-funded marijuana lobby convinced most Michiganders ing intelligence, shouldn’t partake in mind-altering drugs and Americans to support recreational legalization, even — nor should they be given the opportunity to do so. The though less than a quarter of science must be heard and the American adults have used kids must be protected. the drug in the last year. Far Yet the potential benemore citizens agree that mefits and innocuous uses of dicinal marijuana merits legal marijuana and its derivatives status. But this ballot proposal are undeniable. Medicinal takes it too far: It’s an all-in marijuana is already available bet on the beneficence of in Michigan to citizens with weed; it’s THC gummy bears certain conditions — 11 new in a shop on the corner, and the introduction of something conditions became eligible into society that will never re- in July. The countless testimonies of people stricken moved. Michiganders should with problems ranging from vote no. Voting no isn’t an endorse- arthritis to ulcers, whose ment of full and eternal prohi- chronic pains were alleviated by marijuana, are powerful bition. The privately-smoking and persuasive. Marijuana deadult and the medicinal user rivatives, like the increasingly have been unmolested for some time, and won’t go away. popular cannabinoid CBD, are also both non-intoxicating Society needs to inch toward a better legal relationship with and apparently remedial or weed, rather than plunge fully therapeutic. Michiganders are right in looking forward and irreversibly forward. to these benefits. But there is Backers of Proposal 1 tout no reason why Michiganders the change as a victory of must accept the ballot promoderate sensibility against posal instead of seeking more the “devastation wrought by nuanced legislation. It might the war on drugs.” A few pot be reasonable for Michigan to shops, the reasoning goes, are legalize low-potency medicipreferable to powerful Mexinal marijuana and non-intoxcan cartels or the destruction icating derivative products, to urban communities caused while combating problems by overcriminalization. But like harsh sentencing in other the caprices and excesses ways. Despite millennia of of the war on drugs are no abuse, alcoholic drink remains reason to support Proposal legal because of its moderate 1. Harsh sentencing and the uses. In a similar way, legiscommunity problems it can lative action should seek to create may be mended without making recreational weed promote the moderate uses of marijuana while fighting more common. Talk of the selfishly indulgent, reckless, or war on drugs in this context places emphasis on the wrong dangerous uses. By charting a different victim. On Proposal 1, voters course, Michigan could set a should primarily consider not national standard for a meathose who wallow in prison sured approach to marijuana for a bit of bud, but those legalization. The Supreme whose lives would be affected Court has maintained that, by legalized recreational use. pursuant to the Commerce As for cartel revenue streams, Clause, the federal governthe permissions and interment has the power to regdictions of our laws should ulate local marijuana usage. not be determined primarily But if the states demonstrated by the flow of dark money. a more cautious approach, Blocking illegal profits might be a benefit of legalization, but perhaps Congress could be convinced to remove marijuathe tradeoff is less abstract: na’s Schedule I classification Far more Americans know and allow it interact beneficalpeople who’ve been harmed ly with society. by weed than people killed by MS-13. Joshua Pradko is a senior Weed supporters commonstudying American Studies. ly insist that “it’s not that bad.”

gration, Republicans show no compassion for the families seeking a better life for their children, reverting instead to the talking point that the immigrants are illegal aliens and lawbreakers. Republicans are on the wrong side of the game. They take the stance that the law is the highest essence of human life, but that’s not a platform that resonates with the people, and it most certainly is not a quality people will vote for. The GOP has principles and values, but when the party finds itself on the wrong side of human emotions, Republicans are playing with no hope of winning. In the words of Maya Angelou: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” If Republicans want to be

successful; if Republicans want to do what they believe is right, they should either rediscover the teachings of Christ, whom they claim to follow, or stop pretending to uphold his teachings. The law of Christ is simple: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” When a caravan of people is making the trek of a lifetime to knock on our door and ask for a better life, we might not be able to welcome them in, but we can at least treat them as fellow humans and greet them them with love, not with a throng of soldiers. The GOP is treating them like animals trying to infest our nation. Has the GOP forgotten the words of one of its founders, Abraham Lincoln? “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances,” Lincoln said. Republicans used to be the party that put themselves in

the shoes of the mistreated and despised; Republicans used to be the party that freed the slaves and fought for human rights. How can Republicans demand respect in their fight for the rights of the unborn if they aren’t willing to show compassion to grown men, women, and children? Republicans used to send the military to protect the rights of its citizens, now they send the military to fight those who want nothing more than to have those rights as citizens. President Eisenhower said: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” As our troops prepare to wage war on the caravan of immigrants, Eisenhower reminds Americans that by deploying the

military, the Republican Party has already waged war on the hungry, the thirsty, and the strangers. The Republican Party must reconnect with the spirit in which it was founded, unless it wants to continue on the path that labels them the enemy of the people. Regardless of the political objectives Republicans think they are accomplishing, as long as they appear to not care about the common struggles of man, and as long as they disregard the human desire for love, Republicans will find themselves on the path of destruction.

Stefan Kleinhenz is a sophomore studying Rhetoric and Public Address.

Musicians in auditioned ensembles should be exempt from the fine arts core requirement By | S. Nathan Grime Sports Editor After playing piano for 16 years, trombone for four years, and the organ for one year; after singing in choirs for 11 years, competitively-auditioned choirs for four years, and private voice lessons for three years, I can humbly say that I understand music. At the very least, I understand music more than can be learned in an entry-level, three-credit, one-semester course. If a student brings a wealth of musical experience to college and furthers it via membership in an auditioned musical ensemble at Hillsdale, he understands music enough to be exempted t from the core’s fine-arts requirement. That course is Understanding Music, and irrespective of a Hillsdale College student’s musical proficiency, it’s one of the required courses for students to take to complete the fine-arts section of the core curriculum. It’s understandable that fine arts is a core requirement for a liberal-arts education. Music is one of the seven liberal arts and the fine arts cultivate some of the highest forms of beauty. Alternative courses for the

fine-arts requirement are Understanding Theatre and Art History, but for students who enjoy and understand music enough to want to be in a musical ensemble, they shouldn’t have to take a redundant music course. Hillsdale College’s core curriculum is extensive no matter what students study. There are some differences in the core depending on what an individual student plans to major in. Students pursuing a bachelor of arts degree are not required to major or minor in a science, whereas students pursuing a bachelor of science are. Students pursuing a bachelor of science degree are not required to take any language courses on campus. Allowing members of auditioned musical ensembles to be exempt from the core curriculum’s fine-arts requirement is another reasonable adjustment. A science student doesn’t need to overload on language courses, a humanities student doesn’t need to overload on science courses — and an active musician shouldn’t have to take an entry-level music course. For students who enjoy music enough to participate in an ensemble on campus, and especially for those with

the talent to audition successfully for an elite ensemble, the Understanding Music course may at first appeal as the best selection to fulfill the fine-arts requirement. But with pages of writing assignments, ultra-specific listening quizzes, menial introductory music theory, and dull music history, musically literate students will find that they come to understand music more by way of participating in their auditioned ensemble rather than sitting through a lecture-heavy core class. Understanding Music is a three-credit course. Students receive one credit for performing in a musical ensemble, and members of auditioned ensembles often take private lessons for their primary instrument in addition to being in the general ensemble. The inclass time commitment of two choirs and private voice study is greater than meeting for Understanding Music lecture each week. Chamber choir rehearses two hours each week, and college choir rehearses three hours each week. Private voice study lasts either 30 minutes or one hour each week. That means a member of the chamber choir spends five-and-a-half

to six hours each week for three credits of upper-level music practice and study, while Understanding Music spends less than three hours in class each week studying theory and history for the same three credits. If students in auditioned ensembles were exempted from the fine-arts core requirement, they could choose to take more focused music classes, whether they’re receiving a music degree or not. If nothing else, they could use the three spare credit hours to save money or choose a different course that more closely aligns with their interests. Ultimately, a seasoned musician studying entry-level fine arts undermines the principle of liberal education. A perfectly capable musician should not be required to re-study aspects of music he learned before he attended college. By participating in an elite auditioned ensemble, he takes the subject matter taught in Understanding Music and elevates it in practice rather than pure theory. The best way to understand music is to make music. S. Nathan Grime is a junior studying Rhetoric and Public Address.

Remember the men who serve deep south. By | Jacob Damec Special to the Collegian The most noticeable traits we all Every early November, shared was America finds itself under our mutual a constant barrage of retail love for Cosales, promos, and offers penhagen of free meals for American long-cut, veterans. But Veteran’s Day cheap beer, has absolutely nothing to and an undo with a discount or a free quenchable entree from desire for Applebee’s. excelAs a soldier, lence. Veteran’s But Day has past everything those to do with lips filled the men with I served Copenwith and hagen, why I’m bodies thankful covered everyday by tatthat God toos, and granted me stern gazthe vocaes, was a tion of solfamily. A dier. In this famivocation, ly not God blessed related me with the by blood, opportunity but by to serve and Soldiers in Jacob Damek’s unit during a live fire. | Jacob Damek mutual fight alongaffection unbreakable camaraderie like every other day, I’ll give side the and devotion to one anestablished a shared confithanks to God for the four best men other. We held ourselves to dence in each other which years of soldiering he blessed America high standards — in our could be relied upon without me with and the lessons I can prophysical abilities, tactical question. learned from the best men duce. prowess, and devotion to Everyday I’m thankful for America can produce. To the duty, expecting each man each one of these men who outsider to hold himself to the same. taught me about courage, looking in, there wasn’t a While we constantly comduty, self-sacrifice, and true whole lot in common in patriotism. They taught Jacob Damec is a junior outward appearance between peted against one another to see who was the best, this me priceless lessons, from studying History and previmy comrades and I. Some of competition wasn’t driven descending by parachute ously served in the United us hailed from the farmunder the cover of night to States Army. towns of the Midwest, others by personal ambition, but by our devotion to give 100 giving their last full meafrom rough inner cities ridpercent and then some, sure of devotion in battle. dled with gang warfare, and So this November 11th, just some from the swamps of the to the man beside us. This

“We held ourselves to high standards — in our physical abilities, tactical prowess, and devotion to duty.”

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Keefer House purchase finalized as plans for building begin By | Julia Mullins Collegian Reporter

Construction on the historic Keefer House is now underway to transform the iconic building into a 32-room boutique hotel, featuring three storefronts and a restaurant. C.L. Real Estate LLC, a building developer based out of Peru, Illinois, purchased the Historic Keefer House from Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Finance Authority Oct. 25. TIFA Chair Christopher Sumnar said he and many others have been working very hard to prepare for this day. “We couldn’t be more excited. It really has been a lot of work up to this point. It’s nice to have this day today,” Sumnar said. Sumnar credited TIFA board members Jeffrey and Marcy Horton, local business owners, city officials, and C.L. Real Estate with helping to prepare for the sale. Brant Cohen ’18 is an associate for C.L. Real Estate LLC and said he is very grateful for the Hillsdale community. “It’s the outpouring of community support that I’ve found in Hillsdale to be unbelievable, and that’s what today was,” Cohen said. “These members and these officials have all been in the community for most their lives, or at least have been transplants who have fallen in love with it, and being a student at the college for four years, I have that same kind of passion.” Peter Limberger, principle owner of C.L. Real Estate

LLC, said up until this point, there have been many discussions about the project, but now, he is looking forward to starting the construction process. “Today is the starting point, now the clock starts to click to get this done within about 1.5 years or so,” Limberger said. “We really want to open in 2020, so today, the clock starts; we have to work, and we are moving.” Limberger said C.L. Real Estate believes in small Midwest towns and has the goal of focusing on great historical aspects of buildings to make them greater in the future. “Let’s find the big things in small towns and bring things back in small towns that were fabulous 100 years ago,” Limberger said. Aaron Holverson, project architect from Gary W. Anderson Architects, said his primary goal will be to maintain the historical aspects of the building but make accommodations to turn the Keefer into a modern hotel. The main floor will feature a lounge, dining hall, reception area, and an outdoor event space. The second and third floors will each have 16 guest rooms and identical floor plans. Holverson said the exterior of the building will be preserved, but people can expect to see minimal changes on the main, second and third floors. “There are elements of the second and third floor that will be maintained, but as it’s arranged now, it’s not arranged or room-sized and

City grants DowDuPont Tax Exemption to facilitate expansion By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter Hillsdale’s City Council voted unanimously on Oct. 1 to grant DowDuPont Inc. a tax exemption that will enable it to expand its Hillsdale Dow Automotive plant. Located in the Hillsdale Industrial Park, the Hillsdale Dow Automotive plant manufactures glass bonding and structural adhesives used in the automotive industry. Established more than 40 years ago, it currently employs nearly 80 workers. Increased demand for the adhesives it produces and the recent demolition of an outdated DowDuPont facility at the same location created the need for the chemical giant to add on to its Hillsdale facilities. “We are happy that the region is doing well and we’re proud to be part of that success,” said Rob Shier, Site Manager at the Hillsdale plant. DowDuPont determined it would need to expand its current facilities by 6,255 square feet and construct a small pole barn storage building on the premises in order to enable its operations to reach targeted capacity. The construction project will cost an estimated $694,970. Michigan’s Industrial Facilities Exemption encourages companies to improve their existing facilities and construct new ones by exempting them from the full increase in ad valorem tax that their expanded or new facilities would cost for up to 12 years. It applies only to facilities in zoned industrial areas. Upon assessing the economic ramifications of DowDuPont’s plan for expansion, the Economic Development Corporation Business Review Committee determined that granting DowDuPont the exemption would impact the city positively. Hillsdale City Assessor Kimberly Thomas said that the committee endorsed the exemption based on DowDuPont’s excellent track record of service and commitment to the community, its consistency in paying taxes and utility bills on time, its utilization of local contractors and labor pools, and its favorable pro-

jection of job creation. Thomas also explained that granting DowDuPont the Industrial Facilities Exemption will not decrease the city’s net tax revenue. “The ‘exemption’ is actually an agreement by City Council to levy a specific tax calculated at only half the ad valorem rate for up to 12 years against the value of the new construction,” she said. Had DowDuPont assumed the full ad valorem tax the expansion of its facilities will cost, it would have been assessed a total of $50,000 over the next 12 years, but the exemption will relieve it of half that. So while the city forfeits $25,000 in granting the exemption, it will also receive $25,000 that it would not have gained absent the DowDuPont expansion. Thomas also explained that because the Dow Automotive Plant is situated in an industrial park, it already has the infrastructure it needs, and the expansion project is therefore not anticipated to be at any additional cost to the city. Furthermore, increased production at the plant will generate higher utility fees to be paid to the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities. Thomas and Hillsdale Mayor Adam Stockford agree that DowDuPont’s tax exemption and resultant expansion will be benefit the Hillsdale’s economy and residents significantly. The DowDuPont expansion is projected to add 16 jobs to the Hillsdale economy within two years, and will increase traffic and to other local businesses. “The company and its employees will spend money in the community for things like housing, food, gas, and other supplies,” Thomas said. According to Stockford, DowDuPont’s expansion is also an indication of Hillsdale’s industry-centric and business-friendly attitude, and will likely encourage other corporations to consider Hillsdale a desirable location to operate. “DowDuPont is one of the biggest chemical companies in the world,” Stockford said. “For a corporation like that to take stock in our town is big.”

laid out to accommodate what people would expect in a modern hotel,” Holverson said, “There will be quite a few changes upstairs to accommodate modern hotel conveniences.” Matt Robinson, project manager from C.L. Real Estate LLC, echoed Holverson and said he hopes to preserve the historic feel of the building while also transforming the space into a fully functioning hotel. “The vision in the space is to elevate the space to a contemporary feel but still feel elegant,” Robinson said. Limberger said he truly wants to make this building a destination site for both the local and regional population to enjoy. TIFA board member Mike Parney said his mother was a waitress at the Keefer in the 1940s. He said she told him stories about the train porters who carried in passenger luggage and would stop in for a meal. Parney said he is excited to see the Keefer’s doors open again. “This will be an attraction, some place for people to come for no other reason other than to stay here,” Parney said. “It’s just a good thing for everybody.” Sumnar said he is excited to see how the Keefer impacts downtown Hillsdale. “You can talk about this as a catalyst for downtown, and it is, but it’s one that strengthens an already vibrant downtown,” Sumnar said. “I don’t want that to detract from the business owners who have al-

Principle owner of C.L. Real Estate LLC Peter Limburger, TIFA Chair Christopher Sumnar, and City Attorney Jack Lovinger at the finalization of the Keefer House purchase . Collegian | Julia Mullins

ready been committed to really make this an incredible and lively downtown compared to a lot of other communities in our size-range.” Cohen said he walked by the Keefer when he was a

student at Hillsdale College and hoped one day it would be restored. Now, the wait is finally over. “I’m not the only one excited,” Cohen said. “Having 30 or 40 people here in this lobby

was amazing, and to see that, really gets me more excited for what we’re gonna be able to do with in the future, here with the Keefer.”

High voter turnout expected for election next week, clerk says By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assistant Editor Voter turnout for the Nov. 6 midterm elections is expected to be higher than usual in Hillsdale. Hillsdale City Clerk Stephen French said he has already received double the amount of absentee ballots than he typically would in a midterm election year. He also noted that a lot of people have come into his office to drop of their ballots and shared they have never voted before. “With all of the issues on the ballot, and the overall political climate, I think there will be a large voter turnout,” French said. He said he expects about a 40 percent voter turnout, compared to the usual 20 percent. Michele Plant, a new resident to Hillsdale, said she votes in every election, but this one is different. “This election is very important,” Plant said. “There is a lot at stake.” Pro-life issues and the hope that Republicans keep their seats are motivating Plant to

the polls this election. Mayor Adam Stockford noted that the last two November elections have seen high voter turnout and he suspects this election will be no different. “Something changed in people,” Stockford said. “Maybe it’s just a sign of the times at the national level.”

Stockford said that he thinks there are two reasons for the increase in voter turnout. The first of which is that after the 2016 election, people, especially in Michigan, realized that their single vote mattered. Secondly, Stockford said, “politically and ideo-

turnout over the last few years, and the hope for a large turnout Nov. 6, some Hillsdale residents still don’t see the need to vote. Randy Omo and John Fisher have never voted and don’t see this election as any reason to start. “Politicians do what they

By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter The 13th annual ArtWorks Youth Music Performance Competition will take place Nov. 4., when students ages 11-18 will have the opportunity to showcase their musical talents. ArtWorks of Hillsdale, the county’s arts and culture council, is hosting this annual musical competition. Students compete for cash prizes in vocal, string, keyboard, brass and wind, and ensemble categories. “The purpose of the event is to give students a chance to practice their performance skills and get coaching from judges who are very skilled in their respective categories,” Connie Sexton, president of ArtWorks, said. Each participant is allotted approximately eight minutes on stage. Judges offer critiques in real time, not just a final judgement, with the hope that the event will be an instruc-

tive learning opportunity for young musicians. Performers will vie for awards of up to $100 for high schoolers and $50 for middle schoolers. Students under the age of 11 are also invited to perform for the judges and receive a critique of their performance, although they are ineligible for awards. Prizes are funded by local businesses and individuals. “We sent out sponsorship letters to supporters and told them we had an exciting year planned,” Sexton said. “We had a great response.” In addition to sponsoring the prizes, donations help offset the cost of transportation and accommodations for the judges, whom the council invites from outside the county. This year’s panel includes vocalist and Hillsdale College alumna Giles Simmer, Hillsdale College music faculty member Jacqueline Hanson, and pianist Nikie Oechsle of the Jackson Symphony

Orchestra. Approximately 25 students are expected to participate in the competition, a decrease of about 50 percent from previous years. David Peshlakai, vice president of ArtWorks, attributes the drop to the fact that the event is being held two months earlier than normal. Nonetheless, he said he hopes it will pay off. “The goal in moving it earlier was to give kids a head-start in preparing for the bigger statewide and national competitions that are also coming up in a few weeks,” Peshlakai said. “We wanted to give students the chance to do a dry-run and get feedback.” Heather Tritchka said her daughter Chloe has participated in the ArtWorks competition since seventh grade, taking first place in keyboard three times and winning the senior vocal division twice. Now a senior at Hillsdale Academy, Chloe hopes to continue pursuing music at

logically speaking, we are at war with one another,” and the bookends of the political spectrum have grown farther apart. “Even the so-called moderates don’t recognize pieces of themselves in the opposing party’s moderates,” Stockford said. Despite the spike in voter

“Something changed in people,” Stockford said. “Maybe it’s just a sign of the times at the national level.”

want, they don’t listen to the people,” Omo said. “I haven’t found a politician that I think is worth voting for.” “We can celebrate high voter turnout as a sign that people are more involved if we like,” Stockford said. “But I feel like it’s more of a pervasive view that we see all elections as do or die.” The City Clerk’s office will be open to issue absentee ballots on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. French encourages residents who are uncertain about their voter registration status to call the City Clerk’s office. The Midterm election is Nov. 6, 2018. All registered city residents can vote at the Hillsdale Community Library located at 11 E. Bacon St. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. “I’d encourage people, as always, to get out and vote,” Stockford said.

ArtWorks to hold 13th annual youth music performance competition

Hillsdale College. Her mother credits the competition’s low-pressure, educational atmosphere with fostering her daughter’s love for music. “Artworks was a gentle way for my child to get some experience performing and competing,” Tritchka said. “Going to that first ArtWorks competition was a good way to get over the fear of the word ‘competition,’ which is a real concern for a lot of kids. But the judges were so kind and helpful and encouraging and she really appreciated it.” Peshlakai said he hopes the 2018 competition will be no different. “We’re really looking forward to creating a positive experience for the students competing at this year’s event.” The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at Hillsdale First Presbyterian Church. The contest is open to the public.

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Haunting history in the Grosvenor House By | Isabella Redjai Assistant Editor On the corner of Maumee Street in Jonesville sits the dimly-lit and doily-dressed Grosvenor House, where members of the community gathered this past Saturday evening, on Oct. 27 to hear local history and spooky tales from the Civil War era. Paul Hosmer, professor of physics at Hillsdale College and board member of the Grosvenor House Museum, hosted the “Haunting Halloween Readings and Local Lore” event by introducing and inviting guest speakers, who shared either a story, poem, or historical fact related to the local history of Jonesville or the Civil War. The significance of the event’s theme finds itself in the very history of the Grosvenor House. “The house was originally built by E.O. Grosvenor, and the reason he is important locally, in politics and business, is that he owned the bank, Grosvenor Savings Bank, and in terms of state government, he achieved the rank of lieutenant governor,” Hosmer said. “During the Civil War, he had a commission to work for Austin Blair, the wartime governor, and at that time, Grosvenor was in the state legislature, and was given the assignment of overseeing the supplying of all the Michigan regiments that fought in the Civil War. He came back after the Civil War and built that house.” As visitors and guests entered the door, donations were requested and admission charged to help fund the house’s museum, closely associated with an organization that used to be known as the Jonesville Historical Society, but now is simply recognized as the independent Grosvenor House Museum.

“We’re not just a house what he wanted me to read, of Hillsdale County Fair from as dispelling local historical museum,” Hosmer said, “but, because he designed the prolocal Hillsdale historian Cinda myths, Walton confirmed the we are trying to preserve and gram, so he knew how all the Walton. fair was not the first fair in the present the history of Jonespieces would fit together.” Serving an overview of the state but that it was actually ville. I personally think local Serving to fulfill the Civil early years of the Hillsdale the fourteenth, and that the history is really first Hillsdale Counimportant.” ty Fair lasted only In the eerie two days long from spirit of the festiviOct. 15 to Oct. 16, ties, the evening 1851. began with the The evening suggestion that concluded with there stood a cofHosmer’s reading of fin and corpse of a a Civil War era story Civil War soldier set at the Hillsdale in the neighboring County Fair. He said room, followed by during his introan explanation of duction that he had Victorian mourn“found the story in ing practices, the dusty Jonesville which were disarchives.” The story played throughout detailed a “warm the venue. For autumn day” at example, glasses the 1858 Hillsdale and mirrors were County Fair, where a to be covered after gypsy and local men the death of an of Hillsdale witness individual, so the a strange turn of deceased image events. would not remain “I was listening in within the mirror awe,” Conner said. or glass. At the “This story he wrote Grosvenor House, was a piece of art. every mirror was When he introduced covered by a black the piece, he pretarp to illustrate tended he had found this superstition. it in the dusty old arFollowing the chives, but the more historical aneche read, it dawned dotes, the first on me, ‘Gosh, he guest to present a wrote this!’ It could story during the not have fit so well evening was Prointo the program, if fessor of History he had not written Tom Conner, who it.” read Ambrose Although not iniBierce’s “An Octially stated, Hosmer currence at Owl did admit to writing Creek Bridge,” the piece, along originally pubwith other stories in lished in the San recent years at the Francisco ExamGrosvenor House The Grosvenor House hosted an evening called “Haunting Halloween readings and iner in 1890. events. Local Lore.” Collegian | Isabella Redjai “Dr. Hosmer “That was a story picked the story,” I wrote,” Hosmer Conner said. said. “Every year I’ve “When I told him that I would War era history the event County Fair and its shifting written a ghost story, and so be willing to do the reading, I focused on, Conner’s reading location from Hillsdale to the idea there is what we call frankly asked him to choose was followed by a brief history Jonesville and back, as well it, which is ‘Haunted Hallow-

een Readings and Local Lore,’ and because we’re a historical museum, we’re looking at Jonesville history. I thought it would be fun to bring in some made-up local ghost stories, and every year I’ve tried to write it to a specific theme.” Hosmer said after looking at the history of Grosvenor House it felt most appropriate to make a connection with the Civil War, and found that during the Civil War era, it was particularly interesting that Jonesville actually hosted Hillsdale County Fair. Tying these elements together, he created his own story, complemented by dramatic expressions and sudden screams during his reading. Hosmer felt that ghost stories still serve a significant audience, begging the question of why ghost stories continue to interest listeners. “I think there’s something about the mystery and unknown; everyone has that curiosity,” Hosmer said. “As for me, that curiosity comes out in terms of science and the natural world, but overall there’s a deeper human curiosity for the unexplainable, and I think that really attracts people.” Students who attended the event did experience curiosity, but not necessarily in the ghost stories themselves. Many found the event to be an introduction to local history, and encouragement for future support of the local museum. “I have driven past this house multiple times and never knew what it was,” sophomore Samantha Roon said. “Unfortunately, the stories weren’t as spooky as I was expecting, but I did learn more about the history of Hillsdale which I find interesting. I definitely want to go back and see the house decorated for Christmas.”

State Sen. Mike Shirkey hosts town hall to discuss MI ballot proposals

By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter State Sen. Mike Shirkey hosted a public town hall Oct. 25 at Hillsdale County Senior Services to inform attendees about the content of the three ballot proposals and discuss them with the crowd. Despite the complexity of the proposals, Shirkey said that citizens have to know about them. Shirkey began the town hall by defining the three proposals. Proposal 1, which intends to legalize recreational marijuana for people who are 21 and over, could be a statute, he said, meaning a citizen initiated law. If it were to become law, any desired changes would require three-fourths votes from both the senate

and the house. Even if it’s nearly perfect, it will require amendments, he said. He referred to Michigan’s legalization of medical marijuana in 2008 to emphasize the length of the amendment process. “I harken you back to 2008, when we, citizens of Michigan, passed legalizing medical marijuana,” Shirkey said. “It was flawed, but it passed. It took us nine years to fix most of the flaws because it took that long to get three-fourths vote in both chambers to do so.” Shirkey explained Proposals 2 and 3 as citizen-initiated constitutional amendments which, according to his opinion, require a higher level of scrutiny. He said all three proposals had supporters paying for signature collec-

Jonesville and Hillsdale choose Modern Waste switch will also save the City By | Jordyn Pair Associate Editor Both the cities of Jonesville and Hillsdale will be switching their waste management services from Republic Waste Management to Modern Waste in the coming year. City council members approved the change at each city’s most recent council meeting. “It was prompted based largely on price,” said Mayor of Hillsdale Adam Stockford in an email. “It’s our job at the city to re-evaluate our contracted services every so often to get the best bargain and service for our residents, and our public services committee and city staff in public services determined it was time to make a switch.” Both Republic and Modern Waste gave bids to the city. “Long and short of it, the city has been running on a month-to-month contract for a while and we were hoping to find a better deal with a longterm (five year) contract so we put it out to bid,” said Hillsdale City Councilman Matt Bell in an email. “Republic and Modern Waste provided bids, and Modern came out on top.” The switch will save Hillsdale residents $4 a month if they opt into both recycling and trash pickup, according to Jake Hammel, director of Hillsdale Public Services. The

of Hillsdale around $17,000 by having Modern Waste handle downtown trash pick up, instead of department of public service staff do it. “They will also be paying the city higher rent on the waste transfer station—which is city owned—and higher royalties on each ton of trash which comes through the station,” said Bill Zeiser, Hillsdale city councilman. Jonesville residents will be saving 67 cents a month if they opt into both recycling and trash, although Republic’s bid for the new contract was over $7 more expensive per month than the current price. Modern Waste will also provide 96-gallon carts for trash and recycling, Zeiser said. The carts will be provided for both Hillsdale and Jonesville. “We had a very positive, long-standing relationship with Republic, so this was a difficult decision,” said Jeff Gray, City Manager for Jonesville. Jonesville’s contract with Republic lasted five years. Both cities anticipate completing the switch to Modern Waste by early 2019. “Republic has been good in helping us begin to make the switch,” Bell said. “It was a simple business decision, and we look forward to working with Modern.”

tors and majority of the three proposals’ funding in collecting signatures were done by people with money, outside of Michigan. State Rep. Eric Leutheuser shared a few remarks as well. “This is his attempt to provide factual information in a non-partisan way as your senator, not as a candidate,” Leutheuser said. “Tonight, we’re here as officials to try to provide information.” Leutheuser said out of all three proposals, he is mostly interested in the third one. Victoria Powell, a member of the League of Women Voters in Ann Arbor, volunteered to speak on behalf of her organization’s support of Proposal 3, which provides several means of automatic registration for voters as well as other

new voting guidelines. “It came about because we are tied, with Mississippi, to be the worst state in the union to make it for people to vote in the state,” Powell said. Leutheuser emphasized one of the most important properties of Proposal 3 is that it changes the state constitution. In order to make further changes to this proposal, another similar proposal is required to make through both chambers of state legislature. “This isn’t just a law, it’s a change to the Constitution which is a difficult change in the future,” Leutheuser said. “I did want to point out it’s fairly complicated.” After answering some questions, Shirkey spoke about Proposal 2 and how it’s commission will be of voters,

not politicians. As proposed, the law requires a redrawing of district lines each year and supports anti-gerrymandering by forming a committee which would conduct the redistricting. “The most important thing here is there will be numerous town meetings. No decision will ever be reached unless the public is aware and can give input,” Powell said. “So the point is, it is transparent and it is fair.” Shirkey stated some of the benefits from passing this law could include tax revenues, paying for public infrastructure, decrease the black market for marijuana, and lower criminal activity. “The reason for the modest tax is if you raise the tax too high and make it legal, then

it’ll become a black market,” Shirkey said. He later mentioned his dislike for this proposal because passing it could increase children’s access to the drug. “Our kids don’t need more ways to destroy their lives,” Shirkey said. “They don’t need more distractions, don’t need needs more things that take away their focus form the things they need to focus on.” Overall, Shirkey said he was pleased with the turnout and encouraged attendees to vote in the upcoming election. “We’re the United States, we have to have a vote,” he said.

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matters” for these exported products, Schweizer said. “There’s a really strong dollar right now, and another big exporter of corn and soybeans is Brazil, and they have a weak currency right now,” Schweizer said. “So if you’re in China, that exchange rate makes a big difference in terms of who you choose to buy from.” Tariffs hurt more than farmers Though farmers feel the immediate impact of the tariffs, the fall-out doesn’t stop with them. “Who else does it affect? Virtually everyone,” Welden said. “If the farmers don’t have profits they can’t buy equipment. Local mechanics, local equipment dealers, all of those folks are impacted. So the revenue stream that goes through the industry affects dozens and dozens and dozens of people.” Williams agreed, noting that the tariffs affect land rent as well. “If this is long term, it affects ag lenders who are financing those operations,” Williams said. Scott Brown, manager of Nutrien Ag Solutions in Reading, which sells fertilizer to farmers, said he hasn’t seen an impact on sales yet, but “it’ll probably trickle down.” “There is concern,” he said. Equipment dealers are also grappling with more direct tariffs on steel, which has raised the price of some John Deere equipment as much as

5 percent, said Ryan Beckwith, who works in sales for DG Equipment in Williamston, Michigan. That price gets passed on to the farmers purchasing the equipment, Beckwith said — and they don’t have a lot of money to spend. Beckwith said he thinks there’s been a slight decline in sales since the tariffs went into effect. “Next year could be even worse,” he said. Looking ahead Kies said he thought if tariffs went away in the next couple weeks, there might be a 10 percent gain in the market. But that can’t be counted on, and in the midst of uncertainty, farmers have to make decisions for next year. Farmers are starting to decide what to plant for next planting season, which usually starts around April, Finegan said. Because corn and beans can rotate on the same land, some might plant more corn if prices are higher. If the situation doesn’t change, though, farmers will turn to long-run solutions, Welden said — and that’s something they can do. “As the U.S. farmer on the front line, I’m getting beat up right now,” he said, comparing himself to a lineman protecting a quarterback. “But if I look at the big picture, if I realize what I’m helping in my backyard, long term it may come around. It think that it’s important that we don’t look

so short sighted.” The market is evolving, Welden said: For example, a new soybean processing plant is opening in Ithaca, Michigan, that will allow millions of bushels of soybeans to be processed locally instead of out-of-state. Plus, “grain is fluid. You can reroute it and move it,” Welden said. Soybeans can take many different forms and used in different ways — in meal form, it can be used as food; as an oil, it can be refined to be used in cooking oil, diesel fuel, and other products. And the tariffs are just on the soybean, not products that are made with it, meaning the soybean market might shift to export more end-use products, Welden said. “I’m all for free trade. I hope the tariffs go away,” Welden said. “But I think some good things can come from it. We just have to be willing to recognize that.” For now, Finegan said farmers are hoping for a deal between the U.S. and China. “That’s the optimism we have, is that a deal can get done and we can look forward to more stability in the markets,” he said. “How long that is, who knows?”

Kies and Williams said they plan to take advantage of the program to stay competitive, though they said it won’t cover the entire loss. Welden said he’s not sure he’ll do the same. “It’s definitely something we’re looking at,” Welden said. “My own personal views, I’m not always looking at the first handout. I don’t always enjoy being dependent on our government.” Tariffs aren’t the only problem The tariffs are compounding already-existing problems for grain farmers, Kies said. Estimating that tariffs constitute only a quarter of the problems farmers are facing right now, he said a larger crop than usual has further glutted supply this year. And higher interest rates make it harder for farmers to pay back loans. “Not all of the current market situation is based on the tariff situation,” Williams said, noting the large crops in 2017 and 2018. “We would have had some depression in prices regardless of the trade issue because of the sheer volume of supply of most grains that are out there. It’s not accurate to hang all of the market decline on the trade dispute.” Welden noted that the strong U.S. dollar has also lowered prices. The dollar value “really

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Chargers to begin season with exhibition at Michigan State By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor

The Hillsdale College Chargers will begin their season with an exhibition game tonight against the Michigan State University Spartans at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. The Chargers won the G-MAC tournament last season under first-year head coach Matt Fritsche. Hillsdale is co-favorites with the University of Findlay to repeat as conference champions in the G-MAC preseason coaches’ poll. Fritsche, now in his second season, said he’s been pushing his team harder in preseason practices than he did last year. “I think we understand the strengths of our players a little bit better than we did a year ago at this time,” Fritsche said. “We understand how hard we can push them. We’re starting off with a better focus than we did a year ago.” Scrimmaging Michigan State will be a big push for

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the team to begin the season. It doesn’t count toward the team’s record, and it will offer an opportunity to compete against one of the best Division I teams in the country on a big stage. “We want to make some threes, make them call a couple of timeouts,” Fritsche said. “We’d like to see our own team improve throughout the course of the night and get used to the atmosphere and the physicality and the defensive pressure that they’re going to be able to apply to us that no one else will. Our ultimate goal is growth.” Last year, the Chargers came on in the second twothirds of the season, as the team went 5-5 in their first 10 games of the season but finished 14-6 in their last 20. “I wish we would have spent more time teaching fundamentals of our offense last year at the beginning of the year and been more demanding of those things,” Fritsche

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said. “We weren’t really good until January last year. That was my fault and I’m appreciative of our kids for staying with us when we weren’t necessarily doing a great job.” Nevertheless, Fritsche said the team would rather get hot near the end of the season again than at the beginning. “Our expectations are to get better every day. It takes a while to become on the same page and play together like we can,” Fritsche said. “We want to happen in March and not in November. We’re going to be patient with our process.” The Chargers return three starters this season, all seniors: point guard Allie Dewire and forwards Brittany Gray and Makenna Ott. Ott led the team in scoring last season, while Gray led the team in three-point shooting. All three averaged more than 12 points per game last year. Dewire, who runs the offense from the point position, said dictating the pace of the

game against Michigan State will be critical. “Our focus is playing smarter than them. Statistically, we are outnumbered in some respects,” Dewire said. “We can definitely slow the ball down, make smart passes. We want to win the ‘brain game’ and play smarter than them and take advantage of our strengths.” Gray, a native of Birmingham, Michigan, said she is looking forward to the opportunity to play at the Breslin Center to begin her final season at Hillsdale. “It’s going to be a challenge but it’s also gonna be fun. How many times do you get to say you’ve played a Big 10 team when you’re in Division II?” Gray said. “We’re going to play our hardest and hopefully it works out for us. We’ve just gotta face that adversity headstrong.” After tonight’s exhibition, the Chargers have more than a week to prepare for their regular season opener on Nov. 10, when Hillsdale hosts the University of Indianapolis.

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Hillsdale finishes Men's Basketball second overall at Chargers drop season-opening SCTP Nationals

exhibition against Oakland By | Calli Townsend assistant editor Basketball season is officially underway. The Hillsdale Chargers traveled to Division I Oakland University to take on the Golden Grizzlies in an exhibition game. Although Hillsdale trailed by only two with less than a minute left, the Grizzlies still overcame with a 67-61 victory. The Chargers had 11 steals, contributing to Oakland’s 25 turnovers, but had 18 turnovers of their own. “We did a nice job of turning them over,” head coach John Tharp said. “We felt like we turned the ball over too much ourselves. Our goal is to limit ourselves to 10 turnovers per game. It was both team’s first time in competition against someone else with officials, and there were times during the game you could tell we’d only had seven days of practice.” Senior guard Harrison Niego said the Chargers had great chemistry.

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“We have a unique group of guys that enjoy being around each other on and off the court,” Niego said. “We had pretty good defense against Oakland.” Sophomore forward Davis Larson had two steals and hit a three-pointer of the game, providing the Chargers with a 3-0 lead. “It felt awesome to be back on the court with the team competing against an opponent like Oakland,” Larson said. “Our team is full of players returning from the previous year, so our chemistry is already off to a good start.” Junior guard Dylan Lowry and senior center Nick Czarnowski led the Chargers in scoring with 16 points each. By the end of the first half, the Chargers trailed 30-25. “We were really pleased with Dylan Lowry and Connor Hill who came off the bench,” Tharp said. “They both gave us good minutes.

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The second half started off slow with several turnovers and missed shots on both ends of the court. About a minute and a half later, senior guard Nate Neveau got the steal and the Chargers converted it into two points in a team effort of Larson and Czarnowski. This play cut the Grizzlies’ lead to three. Back to back layups brought the Chargers within two points, 39-37 with 13:06 left in the game. But the Grizzlies answered with a 3-pointer, a free throw and a layup, extending their lead back to eight. “I thought we really competed. Our guys competed for the entire 40 minutes,” Tharp said. “We were down seven or nine with six or seven minutes left to go. It was one of those points where I thought we’d either break or we’d run back at ‘em.” The Chargers chose the latter.

As the game clock wound down to five minutes, Hillsdale began chipping away at the deficit. First with a layup by sophomore forward Trenton Richardson, followed by a steal by senior forward Gordon Behr, passing to Larson for two points. Larson drew the foul, sank the free throw, the score now 57-53 with 3:34 remaining. Two more free throws by Czarnowski, a Grizzly layup, and a jumper by Larson left the clock with 1:34 remaining and a score of 59-57. However, the Chargers were unable to close the gap completely. Oakland went on a 8-4 run to close the game, resulting in a 67-61 loss for Hillsdale. The Chargers will travel to Ohio for another exhibition game against the Toledo Rockets on Nov. 3. Tip-off is at 2:30 p.m. “Team improvements is one of my personal goals,” Niego said. “We want to give up less points and have less turnovers.”

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Chargers finish fall Chargers look to season at Trump get back on track Doral Golf Club in Friday's tri-meet By | Ryan Goff assistant editor

Last week, the Hillsdale Chargers enjoyed the sunny weather in Miami, Florida, while playing in the Miami Intercollegiate at Trump National Doral Golf Club. They finished sixth out of 10 teams with an aggregate 20 over par. Coming off of their last tournament at TPC Michigan in Dearborn, Miami provided a change in competition just as much as the change in weather for the Chargers’ last tournament of the fall season. “Going from Detroit last week where it was cold and windy to Florida this week was a huge change,” Ryan Zetwick said, “and it made it much easier to play well.” The team hosting the tournament, Nova Southeastern University, came out on top at the end of day two. For senior Liam Purslowe, the different conditions were more familiar, unlike the rest of the team. After playing

well the first day, Purslowe said the tournament started to slip away the next two rounds. “The putter just went cold on day two and I couldn’t get anything to drop,” he said. “The course was demanding and I just made some mistakes where you couldn’t afford to make them which ended in double bogeys and put me out of the mix a little.” Overall, the tournament was a mixed bag. After a successful season they went up against bigger golf programs and finished in the middle of the pack. Ending the season like this provided enough positive moments to encourage the team over the offseason, according to coach Nathan Gilchrist. “The guys played solid at times but not consistent enough to contend to win,” Gilchrist said. “They are ready to work hard this offseason and get ready to compete at a high level this spring.”

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“The meet should go very well for us,” Hopkins-Tracey said. “These are smaller teams, The Hillsdale Chargers will so it gives our team the chance face off against Notre Dame to score more points and realCollege and Ursuline College ly set the pace for the meet.” in South Euclid, Ohio, on The Chargers are looking at Friday. the upcoming meets as more Hillsdale, coming off of of a practice in preparation for three tough tough losses to a bigger invitational later this Calvin College, Grand Valley month. State University, and Albion “We are training for the College, hopes to bounce back University of Chicago Inafter a week of rest. vite starting Nov. 16,” Hop“In terms of training, we kins-Tracey said. “Until then, are still in one of the most we are still training at some of intense parts of the seaour highest levels.” son,” sophomore Katherine Turner said despite the Heeres said. “I think we are Chargers’ slow start in dual all looking forward to a bit of meets, he expects the team’s a shorter weekend as well as performance to improve. some rest.” “We certainly think we are Assistant coach Zoe Hopoff to a quality start,” head kins-Tracey said she hopes coach Kurt Kirner said. “Even the Chargers will improve though our dual meet record their performances from has suffered, we should know past meets. She also said she much more within a couple understands there will still weeks when they are rested be competition, yet hopes to and have established good score better than in previous qualifying times for the chammeets. pionships.” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | south euclid, oh 6:00 P.M. Hillsdale vs. Notre Dame College and Ursuline

By | Austin Gergens collegian reporter The SCTP Collegiate Nationals in Columbus, Ohio last weekend was the most important competition of the season for the Hillsdale College shooting team. The Chargers competed against 22 other colleges in the rain and cold. While Hillsdale placed fifth in the high overall category in Division II last season, this year they scored second in the high overall category in Division III. The change in division has to do with the smaller team size, not lack of talent. Coming from their win in the ACUI Midwest Regionals two weekends ago, the Chargers had expected to perform on par with their scores at that event. The event provided the team with ample challenges and lessons as they prepare for their biggest shoot, the ACUI, in the spring. “It was the most shooting we’ve ever done in that short amount of time,” assistant coach Jordan Hintz said. The team endured some

of the harshest weather for a competition this season. Adding layers in the cold makes it more difficult for team members to properly mount their guns. They tend to wear more layers to avoid the bulkiness of larger coats. In addition, they have to devote more time to check their guns before hand, making sure they’re clean and dry. Senior Amanda Klug said this competition was sentimental for her. “I realized that it was my last time I could go to this event and it reminded me of the seniors last year,” Klug said. “I was happy to see my improvement from last year’s SCTP competition.” Freshman Anthony LaMacchia recognized some areas that he could improve for the next competition. “I need to go back to basics because I’m losing track of them,” LaMacchia said. “Refocusing on fundamentals such as how I used to hold my gun differently in trap and sporting clays.” He recognized the support that the upperclassmen provided for him and his fellow first-year teammates.

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Allyssa Van Wienen Kara Vyletel october 27 Hillsdale Kentucky Wesleyan Paige VanderWall Karoline Shelton Kara Vyletel Allyssa Van Wienen october 30 Findlay Hillsdale Paige VanderWall Kara Vyletel Allyssa Van Wienen

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2 0 7 yds 250 yds 73 yds 116 52 39 tfl 1 0 2 2 26 24 k% .273 .364 2 25 8 k% .438 .346 .389 .250 2 20 25 k% .613 .097 .267

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score 3 0 d bs/ba 0 0/2 4 0/4 score 3 0 d bs/ba 13 0/2 6 0/1 3 0/1 1 0/1 score 0 3 d bs/ba 13 0/1 2 0/1 3 2/1

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Chargers to run in G-MAC Championships

The Hillsdale women's cross country team runs at the Slippery Rock University Pre-National meet earlier this season. Slippery Rock University | courtesy

The Hillsdale men's cross country team runs at the Slippery Rock University Pre-National meet earlier this season. Slippery Rock University | courtesy

Women are defending G-MAC champions Men looking to improve on 4th place finish By | Calli Townsend assistant editor Last year the Hillsdale College Chargers were the G-MAC cross country champions, beating Walsh University 32-51. Malone University finished third with 71 points. This year, the same three teams are in the running for the victory, while Walsh is favored to win. “I’ve never been one to put much stock in rankings,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “I think Walsh is a quality team and I’m looking forward to the G-MAC championships and beyond.” The Chargers will be traveling to Canton, Ohio to compete in the 2018 G-MAC cross country Championships on Saturday. Walsh beat Hillsdale at the Pre-National meet Oct. 20, but the Chargers didn’t have junior Arena Lewis, and junior Addison Rauch and

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2018 G-MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS freshman Sophia Maeda were running for the first time in a while due to injuries. “I feel really confident that with Arena back and the energy we have right now,” sophomore Lauren Peterson said.”I feel like a lot of really cool things are going to happen.” Both Walsh and Hillsdale have lost key runners this season, so the winning team will be the one with the greatest depth. “We lost our Hannah [McIntyre] and they lost their Sarah Berger,” Peterson said. “Both teams have the responsibility of making up for losing their All-American. It’s more of a competition between our whole teams and not just our best girls.” The lone senior, Ally Eads, is looking forward to Saturday with confidence.

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“We’ve had some really good workouts,” she said. “The team in general has been really strong, physically and mentally.” Eads says the conclusion of her cross country career hasn’t fully hit her yet, as she still has two seasons of track to compete in. “It’s been a good four years,” she said. “I’ll miss the team aspect of cross and racing is always fun when you’re all in the same race at the same time.” The regional meet will be next for the Chargers on Nov. 17, but for now they will just focus on the task at hand: defending their conference championship. “It will be very interesting to see,” Peterson said. “It’s definitely us and Walsh that are butting heads.”

By | Sutton Dunwoodie collegian reporter The Hillsdale College Chargers will compete at the G-MAC Championship meet on Saturday in Canton, Ohio. This will be the Chargers’ first meet of the championship season, and senior Eli Poth said he is excited about the increase in intensity the postseason brings. “It's exciting to run the championship meets because there are no more excuses and it's what we trained for the whole time,” Poth said. “At the end of the day all that matters is the championship.” While the Chargers came in fourth in the G-MAC at the pre-national meet at Slippery Rock University earlier in the season, junior Joey Humes said he knows the Chargers can compete with the best teams in the conference and can beat them if they catch a

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small break. “I really hope everyone shows up ready to race, and maybe one of the other teams falters on something or slacks off a little bit,” Humes said. “That’ll give us a chance to win a conference championship.” The meet will be hosted by Walsh University on a course that no Charger has ever run before. Despite the unfamiliarity, the sophomore Mark Miller said the Chargers hope to improve on last year’s fourth-place finish at the G-MAC championships. “We have Joey back, which is huge because he’s our low guy, and Eli is back for his last year and he’s really strong,” Miller said. “As a team I think winning is a good goal, and I think if everyone races well I think we can do it.”

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The amount of training miles the team runs each week has decreased throughout the season, assistant coach R.P. White said. This allows the team to be rested for more important meets and helps the team peak during the postseason. Miller said he thought the team would have its breakout race two weeks ago at the pre-national, but said he still thinks the team’s best is yet to come. “I think this race is the race where everyone is going to start to do well. I think we are all going to have a good performance and turn some heads,” Miller said. “Then we are going to go into regionals and it'll be like we came out of nowhere because we are a small team and nobody is paying attention to us.”

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Q: Why did you choose Hillsdale?

Q: Why did you choose basketball at Hillsdale?

Q: What’s it like to be a senior on the team?

Q: How has it been leading the freshmen?

Q: Did you look up to any upperclassmen while playing here?

AD: I was more sold on Hillsdale more for the athletics. When I came and visited though, I really liked it and saw good stuff here that I can see potential for. But now as a senior looking back, if I could make the same decision with the knowledge I have now, it would be a no-brainer. That’s the way I justify my decision now. It’s really cool to learn what the liberal arts really stand for, because before I had an idea of it. Throughout my career, I developed my appreciation for it. I started with just basic understanding of the liberal arts. But as I’ve taken Western Heritage, American Heritage, and Constitution, the core classes have given me a greater respect and I think it’s really cool learning what we do. My sister goes to Toledo and she'll tell me stuff that she learns but it’s not like the core founding principles we learn here at Hillsdale. It’s really cool to see it applied in my other classes, like Spanish and my other classes.

AD: Basketball more so chose me. I wasn’t going to college to play a sport. I wasn’t going to go to Hillsdale. I was going to go to Ohio State and just be a student there and maybe ball out in the intramural leagues. But the end of my senior year in high school one of my basketball teammates from school asked me to play on her Amateur Athletic Union team for a weekend tournament. The old coach here saw me and said, “Hey, you should come to Hillsdale.” I told him “I’m good, I’m going to go to Ohio State”. He was very persistent and I told him I would visit, hang out with my mom for a day. He showed me campus and I really liked it, which I did not expect to because I planned on going to a big school. I love the Ohio State Buckeyes and I was so bought in on that. He kept asking me to come play basketball and offered me a spot on the team and thought “I’ll try it, why not.”

AD: It definitely feels like you’ve worked for this moment to build up for this year — you’ve done so much. The past three years of playing and now it hits you, it becomes more of a prevalent idea that this is your last year, so you just want to make the most out of it. You want to leave everything on the court, which is usually your mentality, but now it’s more intention about truly leaving everything on the court. It’s kind of cool too because I have a lot of experiences, some really good some not so good, so I feel like I can be a good leader and relate to my teammates when they’re going through their ups and downs. I feel like I’ve experienced enough where I can kind of be a guide for them and help them out, so that’s really cool. I feel helpful and that I can help my team.

AD: Honestly, they’ve been doing great. Our team is amazing; we have such a close family and the freshmen have been quick learning. They ask us every now and then and I’ll offer my help, and they’ll reach out when they need it. They’re very smart and have everything together. It’s very special to be on this team. I’ve been on a lot of teams from all those sports in high school. I don’t know if it’s my affinity to basketball, but something about my basketball team — in college and in high school — those have been the best teams I’ve been a part of. My college basketball team is by far greater than my high school experience. Maybe because I know more or maybe it’s because I’ve experienced more, but they’re so great and I just love my team.

AD: Becca Scherting. She was a junior while I was a freshman and she also played point guard. Becca is very spunky and such a character. I was drawn to her right away. I just thought she was so cool and extremely good at basketball. I would always watch her play in basketball and try to emulate her every move. She definitely added a lot to my game. Just watching her and seeing the confidence she has, she’s kind of who I strive to be like as a senior now for the underclassmen. She was always open to help out, always open if you wanted to ask her a question, and it didn’t feel silly. You just felt very comfortable, so I try to make others feel the way she made me feel when I was a freshman.

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THIRD DOWN CONVERSTION RATE Nate Canterbury (50) celebrates after recovering a fumble on Saturday. The Chargers' defense forced three turnovers in the win. Cal Abbo | collegian

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“Just solid. He takes care of the ball, gets yards after contact, and has been really good in pass protection,” Otterbein said. “He’s had a really, really solid year to back up what was a really solid year last year.” In his second year as the Chargers’ starting running back, Graham said consistency and familiarity has been key to his performance as the season has progressed. “Later in the season, we’re starting to get a feel of where the blocks are and what the schemes are like,” Graham said. “Our passing game also helps open up the run a lot. We’re doing a good job with a really well-balanced attack right now.” Stewart completed 15 of 26 passes for 250 yards in the win.

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to be locked in with laser focus and have a really good week of preparation. I know the guys will.” Stewart eventually settled in, and distributed the ball to nine different receivers, led by Brock. Brock’s first touchdown grab opened the scoring, an 11-yard pass he caught at the goal line and reached the ball into the end zone for the score. His second touchdown catch came on a 67-yard bomb from Stewart. “The times we were able to push the ball down the field, it worked great,” Stewart said. “We’ve been doing that all year; that’s one of our strengths.” The performance was Brock’s fourth 100-yard-plus receiving game this season. After catching just one pass for six yards between the season’s first two games, Brock is averaging 113 receiving yards per game in his last seven games, all against conference opponents. “Really happy for him. His teammates are happy for him. He’s a heck of a player,” Otterbein said. “He’s had a solid career, but he’s turned it up this year and really worked hard. He’s practicing hard and trying to work on all aspects of his game.” Both teams’ first offensive possessions of the game ended in interceptions. Hillsdale got the ball to begin the game, but Stewart underthrew a deep ball intended for Brock that was intercepted. The Chargers got the ball back, however, when sophomore defensive back Alex Anschutz intercepted a pass to set up Hillsdale’s first scoring drive. The interception was Anschutz’s fourth of the year to lead the team. Junior running back David Graham ran for a pair of touchdowns to extend the Chargers’ lead to 21-0, and junior linebacker Nate Jones’s interception in the end zone in the closing seconds of the first half ensured the Panthers would be kept scoreless at halftime. Graham’s two rushing touchdowns give him 12 on the season, tied for the most in the G-MAC. He carried the ball 17 times for 73 yards in the game, and has found the end zone in eight consecutive games.

With two regular season games remaining, he is now just 596 yards shy of Troy Weatherhead’s record for most passing yards in program history. The Chargers (8-1, 7-0 G-MAC) remain at home this Saturday as they take on the Tiffin University Dragons (90, 6-0). Since both teams are undefeated against G-MAC opponents, the winner will earn the regular season conference championship. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. as the team will also celebrate Senior Day during the final home game of the year. “It’s championship week. You can’t ask for a better ending to play for a championship on Senior Day,” Stewart said. “The story is there, we just have to go out there and execute and do our job. The guys will be really focused this week and locked in. It will be a really fun time.”

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The Hillsdale College Chargers extended their winning streak to seven games on Saturday in a commanding 34-0 win against the Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers. After shutting out opponents three separate times last season, the shutout against the Panthers this season is the Chargers’ first. In the game, senior wide receiver Trey Brock became Hillsdale’s all-time leader in receptions, catching five passes for 116 yards and two touchdowns. Brock has caught 222 passes in his four-year career at Hillsdale, and already set records for most receiving yards and most touchdown receptions in a career earlier this season. “I try not to pay too much attention to it. When I came here, I wanted to do those things because I knew how much I was willing to work,” Brock said. “I didn’t have any specific goals, I just wanted to come and work as hard as I could and be the best player I could, and I knew if I did that, I could break some records. Those were my expectations. It’s definitely an honor to have those accolades.” Hillsdale’s defense entered the game leading the G-MAC in fewest points allowed per game, and the win lowers the Chargers’ points allowed per game average to just 16.7. Despite the offense throwing four interceptions, Hillsdale’s defense intercepted two passes, forced and recovered a fumble, and forced a turnover on downs. “It was critical that we were getting it back. Just didn’t make some great decisions,” head coach Keith Otterbein said of the turnover-heavy game. “I think we were trying to force things early. Trying to get ahead of ourselves instead of letting the game come to us, but we’ve got to do a great job of taking care of the ball and we didn’t make the greatest decisions on some of those throws.” Senior quarterback Chance Stewart threw two interceptions, freshman wide receiver Alec Foos threw an interception on a trick play, and backup sophomore quarterback Ty Cox threw an interception. The four interceptions were the most thrown by the Chargers in a game this season. “We’ve got to improve a lot from this past week. We were sloppy with the football. I missed out on a few deeper throws,” Stewart said. “We just need to clean things up, we were able to get away with it against Kentucky Wesleyan, but this week we really need

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Chargers to host Tiffin to determine G-MAC champion By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor

Senior quarterback Chance Stewart calls it “the biggest football game I’ve ever played in.” On Saturday, the Hillsdale College Chargers will have a shot to win a regular-season conference championship for the first time since 2011. Standing between Hillsdale and a G-MAC regular-season championship are the Tiffin University Dragons, undefeated for the season and ranked No. 15 nationally. Hillsdale enters the weekend ranked No. 25. The Chargers’ only loss this season came in a non-conference game against Michigan Tech University on Sept. 8. Hillsdale, like Tiffin, is undefeated in the G-MAC. The nearest teams to Tiffin and Hillsdale in the conference standings are the University of Findlay and Ohio Dominican University. Both teams are two games behind the Chargers and Dragons, so whoever emerges victorious on Saturday will clinch the regular season conference championship. Hillsdale last played Tiffin in 2016, when both teams were in the GLIAC. The Dragons won, 37-20. The last time Tiffin played on the Chargers’ turf, Hillsdale won 38-24 on Oct. 24, 2015. That win was the first of Stewart’s career at Hillsdale. Tiffin and Hillsdale have seemingly been on a collision course toward Saturday’s game all season long. The teams rank first or second in the conference, or second and first, in numerous statistical categories. The Chargers’ defense ranks first in the conference in

points allowed per game, interceptions, and pass defense efficiency, while the Dragons are second in each of those categories. Tiffin controls time of possession and converts fourth downs on offense better than any other team in the G-MAC. But senior wide receiver Trey Brock, who leads Hillsdale and the G-MAC in receiving yards per game, said he and the Chargers have no doubt who will be the superior team on Saturday. “We have a lot of confidence. When we beat them, it’s not going to be an upset,” Brock said. “I believe we’re the better team. I don’t think they want it more than we do. Everybody is on board.” Head coach Keith Otterbein’s one-game-at-a-time focus is ever-important as the Chargers prepare for their biggest game of the season to date. Should they win on Saturday, the Chargers could be playing for a berth in the NCAA playoffs the next week against the University of Indianapolis. But Hillsdale’s current focus is on Tiffin, and Tiffin only. “You go and do all that work all spring, all summer, and all fall, and right now, what you do is you take all that in perspective,” Otterbein said. “You go through the same process, get ready in the same way, and let the game come to you.” Stewart may consider this Saturday the biggest game of his life, but he also displayed that perspective. “It’s week 10,” Stewart said. “This is just another G-MAC game.” He’s right about that. It also happens to be the G-MAC’s game of the year.

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Chartreuse String Trio to perform professor’s music

By |Julie Havlak Senior Writer The Chartreuse String Trio will perform a composition written by Associate Professor of Music Daniel Tacke at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night in Conrad Recital Hall. The Hillsdale College Professional Artist Series is bringing in violinist Myra Hinrichs, violist Carrie Frey, and cellist Helen Newby to perform unorthodox pieces, including one written by Tacke. “It takes the standard string instruments of viola, violin, and cello, and removes them from their long history of established practice and treats them in a more experimental fashion,” Tacke said. “There’s an immense, expressive sound world that grows out of this. But in a sense it is very difficult. The sounds are very unstable. It’s fascinating but intentionally problematic.” More radical modern composers have created such unstable sounds by running the bow across the wood body of a string instrument instead of its strings. “I’m not interested in something that extreme, but I am interested in some of the gray spaces between that and more normal sound,” Tacke said. “[In my piece] you still draw the bow across the string, but instead of using the hair of the bow, you flip it over and use the wooden part. You still get a violin-like sound, but one with some grit in it, a kind of wooden quality.” They will also perform other modern pieces and three fantasias written in the 1600s. “There is this tremendous variety on the program, but the unifying theme in the pieces is that they approach the instruments in an unusual or experimental way,” Tacke said. “This is also a bit off the beaten path because all the composers are still alive. Well,

except for Henry, but we let him in even though he’s dead.” This is not the first unusual group that the music department has hosted. Recently, Hillsdale brought a female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, and, in the past, a string quartet that collaborated with a Native American flute player, said Professor of Music James Holleman. Tacke has worked with individual artists from the group before, but this is the first time he has written for the group as a whole. “It becomes much more complicated and interesting because you are not only dealing with the details of each instrument, but also the ways in which they relate to one another acoustically and politically,” Tacke said. “There is much more opportunity for a critical stance on the norm.” Tacke said he is used to performing on stage, and that watching them perform his piece from the audience will be a newer experience. “When it comes time for the performance, I can do nothing but sit in the audience,” Tacke said. “They’ll do a great job, I know they will, they have got my full confidence, but there are always the inescapable butterflies. Except you can’t do anything about the butterflies because you are in the audience.” The recital can seat up to 80 people per performance, and Holleman encourages people to reserve tickets in advance. “I think the students will get a new appreciation for their professor when they hear his piece performed by a professional group,” Holleman said. “They are going to have their minds jolted open to the nontraditional ways this group is approaching music, and championing modern composers.”

How books come and go

Mossey Library tailors new book selections for individual readers By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter When a faculty member or a student needs a book, they go to Michael Alex Mossey Library, a Hillsdale institution since 1971. But the Hillsdale College community doesn’t have to stop with the books already on the shelves. Students and professors alike get a say in what new books are ordered. When the library doesn’t carry a book a student or professor needs, they can recommend that the library purchase it, and often, that book soon ends up on the shelves of the library, available for checkout. The steady recommendation of new books is one of the ways in which the library collection changes to support the changing curriculum, Public Service Librarian Linda Moore said. Mossey Library adds almost 5,000 new books each year to its more than 266,000 strong book collection. One of the advantages of acquiring books based off of faculty recommendation is that faculty are better able to judge an academic book’s content than librarians, Technical Service Librarian Maurine McCourry said. “Librarians, we read review literature quite a bit and I read a lot of newspapers to find reviews on new books, but I’m not a Ph.D. in politics. A Ph.D. in politics knows more about politics than I do,” McCourry said. “We try to get recommendations from faculty because they know what is really important in their respective disciplines.” Faculty members can recommend books for a variety of reasons, said the Harris

The library carries books specifically requested by the Hillsdale academic community. Christian Yiu| Collegian

Chair of Military History and Professor of History, Tom Conner. Conner said the ability to order new books helps the faculty improve their ability to teach a course effectively, and it also allows them to further their own research interests. “There’s a number of different factors to take into account for a recommendation: General interest, your own interest, and what could possibly further your own effectiveness in a course,” Conner said. “I think faculty will sometimes order a book selfishly, and not think first of the larger community, if they see a book that is right down their alley in terms of their own research interest.” In addition to faculty members and librarians, students can also make recommendations for library acquisitions, and the process isn’t that hard. Students can submit a rec-

ommendation by sending an email to McCourry. McCourry said she thinks students use this privilege infrequently because not all of them even know they can request that the library purchase a book. When students do recommend books, McCourry said they tend to be just as academic in nature as books recommended by faculty. “Students have actually been really good about recommending things that support their studies, not just a fun novel they want to read,” McCourry said. While the preferences of the faculty and students can change the content of the library, new programs and technology also change the library experience. The adoption of MeLCat, the Michigan interlibrary loan program, gives students access to more than 47 million works and changed the type of books the

library acquires for its shelves. “We used to add more popular titles, and we still do some,” Moore said. “We tend to do less of that now because of MeLCat. We don’t feel we need to support the leisure reading of students as much as we used to because you can get that stuff on MeLCat. There’s perhaps a better use of our funds.” With the faculty and the students playing such a large role in the addition of new books to the library’s collection, the books recommended definitely have a pattern. Moore said that conservative thought is well-represented in the library’s collection, but the library does not try to promote a certain ideology over another. “We want more than one side of an issue represented, that way people can make up their own mind,” Moore said. “That’s what our goal is.”

and dynamics that develop between the hostages and their captives. Though the premise is gripping and the trailer advertises an action-packed story (more along the lines of “Argo”) the development of the story and characters is boring. The one hour and 42-minute runtime dragged and there is only real action for about five minutes of the whole movie. The movie focused on the human element of the story by digging deep into the relationships. It could have been an interesting theme if Weitz had not made every relationship cliché, portraying the relational dynamics of the characters as unrealistic and sappy. The real crisis in Peru did drag on for months, so of course not every moment was action packed. But the movie was hardly engaging, even as it tried to develop unusual relationships between the hostages and between hostages and their captors. There

is the love story between Hosokawa and Coss which could be touching but fell into clichés. One moment Coss is an obnoxious diva and views Hosokawa as just another fan. Then a few days later she is falling in love with him as he teaches her chess. There is the misunderstood bad guy who decided to invade and take everyone hostage in order to negotiate the freedom of prisoners, one of whom is his wife. Instead of being a high-stress prison atmosphere, the mansion turns into a little commune where the hostages play games and music, and love blossoms. By the end, when the government forces swoop in and kill the captors to set the captives free, the captives are weeping over the deaths of their abusers and screaming for them. Perhaps there were some friendships between the hostages and guerillas since the real life crisis dragged on for months. But the end of the

movie shows the hostages acting almost regretful to leave the mansion and the buddies they made there. They are playing soccer in the garden with each other and laughing and enjoying the sunshine like they are in some sort of utopia and not in captivity. Perhaps the real-life hostages did have pleasant moments and a genuine affection grew between captives and captors, but the movie paints an unrealistically optimistic picture of captivity. For such a renowned actress as Julianne Moore, who has won dozens of awards and created masterpieces like “Still Alice,” this movie was certainly a step down for her. Her performance is fine, but not remarkable. Her acting was good enough to make the storyline a little more engaging but not enough to make it a good movie. The same applies to Ken Watanabe’s performance. For these two typically stellar actors, their performances were uninspired and certainly not memorable. “Bel Canto” underwhelms. The trailer was more interesting and engaging than the film and would probably score higher on the “Tomatometer.”

‘Bel Canto’ highlights relationships, not action

By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Bel Canto may mean “beautiful singing,” but it sure as heck doesn’t mean “beautiful movie.” On Rotten Tomatoes, “Bel Canto,” directed by Paul Weitz and released in September, scored a 60 percent, which tells you exactly what kind of movie it is: mediocre. The only thing that saved it from total disaster was the okay acting from a few great actors. The movie is based on the book by Ann Patchett inspired by the true story of the 1996 Japanese hostage crisis in Lima, Peru. In the movie, Katsumi Hosokawa (played by Ken Watanabe) is a Japanese businessman visiting an unspecified South American country and attending a party where his opera idol, American Roxanne Coss (Julianne Moore), is performing. The party, set in the mansion of the vice president, is made up of high profile dignitaries and becomes the target of guerillas on a mission to kidnap the president and convince him to set free political prisoners. While the real life crisis lasted 126 days, the movie does not show how long the hostages were held. Instead, it focuses on the relationships

“Instead of being a high-stress prison atmosphere, hostages play games and music, and love blossoms.”

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Greta Van Fleet keeps things fun

By | Phil Berntson Collegian Freelancer Blue Check Twitter and Co. has struck again, this time with a scathing review by Pitchfork, a music journal, of rock-revivalist Greta Van Fleet’s recent major label debut “Anthem of the Peaceful Army.” Then came the hive mind of self-entitled “patrician” music-lovers who remain secretly glad that a large, mainstream media outlet actually vindicated their lack of understanding of the greater musical world. As a generation lost in the streaming age, musical discovery can be a tricky world to navigate. Anything highly marketed appears inauthentic. As the Pitchfork generation comes of age, and sees a losing battle fought against GenZ-ers and their affinity for antic-based hip-hop, those who considered themselves avant-garde for listening to Passion Pit in 2011 begin to feel a little disillusioned. Innovation in music is dominated now by self-marketing antics and absurdism, such as Kanye West’s Twitter shenanigans, or artists like Lil “As You Like It,” performed by The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, will play only once at the Sauk Theatre. | Facebook Pump who have dominated rap and hip-hop through intelligent self-branding. Artists with initial mainstream success seem suspect, as marketing firms and advertisers use algorithms and streaming sites to push what they think users want to hear. These problems have spawned a generation of entitled music critics desperately intent on appearing unique in their taste but eventually all sounding the same. By | Elizabeth Bachmann Greta Van Fleet makes rock Shakespeare stories to life all “There is the patina of culthat his works are genuinely ’n’ roll for people who like across Michigan in traditional ture that comes from knowing timeless,” Estruth said. “I am Collegian Reporter rock ’n’ roll. They have not Elizabethan style. Shakespeare,” Brandon said. excited to see what this proThe Sauk Theater in Jones“As You Like It” is a come“Shakespeare told stories to duction will do, how they will presented themselves as anyville is hosting The Pigeon thing more or anything less. dy that narrates the escapades multiple audiences, he was a cast the show, whether it will Creek Shakespeare CompaThey are not self-entitled revof cross-dressing Rosalind crowd pleaser, and his plays be in a contemporary setting ny’s performance of “As You and her sweet cousin Celia as worked. This is a good fun or an old-fashioned time. And olutionaries. They are not who Like It” this Friday at 8 p.m. they face banishment from play too. It’s one of those com- personally, I love ‘As You Like Pitchfork senior editors want a Tickets can be purchased at their home, discover true love, edies that you should know.” It,’ It is always fun to see those young, successful band to be. the door for $10. But their music can be polarand are reunited with lost Sophomore Jolene Estruth characters come alive.” The Pigeon Creek Shakeizing for those who previously family members. plans to see the “As You Like speare Company is Michigan’s believed they understood Professor of Theatre and It” tomorrow. only professional, year-round, Dance James Brandon will the greater musical world. “I think Shakespeare is a touring Shakespeare comSuddenly, bursting uninvitattend the show with some of great author but his uniquepany. Its mission is to bring ed into their echo-chamber his theatre students. ness comes from the fact comes an anomaly: a young band with a rabid following,

‘As You Like It’ will run for just one evening at the Sauk

‘Nina Cried Power’ is rock musician Hozier’s tribute to civil rights voices By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter “Nina Cried Power,” the new four-song EP from Hozier (whose full name is Andrew Hozier-Byrne), is a much-needed collection of new music from one of modern rock’s most original artists. To be released next year, the EP is the precursor to a full-length album, Hozier’s first since 2014. Hozier’s only full-length album released to date, the self-titled “Hozier,” was an eclectic mix of indie, blues and soul influences that was a critical and commercial success, as the lead single earned him a Grammy nomination and the album went on to sell more than 1 million copies worldwide. With the exception of a really bad song written for “The Legend of Tarzan” soundtrack, the four songs on “Nina Cried Power,” are the first new music released from the Irishman since “Hozier.” While the EP is not Hozier’s best work by any means, “Nina Cried Power” is a welcome break from the bland pop-rock of Imagine Dragons and Panic! at the Disco that is currently dominating the charts. The title track of the EP, which features legendary singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples, is a tribute to Nina Simone and the many other artists who used their

musical gifts to promote the civil rights cause. The track’s clear politics are mild for Hozier, whose most popular song, “Take Me to Church,” is a ripping condemnation of homophobia in religious organizations. As a song, “Nina Cried Power” is a soulful rock number that gives Hozier a chance to use his

“Nina Cried Power” is a solid addition to Hozier’s catalog. By far the weakest song of the album is “NFWMB,” an acronym that conceals the song’s explicit title. It is an atmospheric pop song with some incredibly twisted lyrics. Hozier sings, “If I was born as a blackthorn tree / I’d wanna be felled by you / held by you /

Hozier recently released an EP showcasing his skill as a musician. Flickr

powerful voice. Staples’ raspy cries complement Hozier’s deep voice fairly well, and her inclusion provides a clear connection to the subject of the song — protest songs and their influence in the civil rights movement. Though it grows repetitive by the end,

fuel the pyre of your enemies.” It’s a song unlike any other Hozier song, and he deserves credit for experimenting with his sound. However, the spooky sonics and lyrics make for a song I’d only play on Halloween. The strongest song on

the EP is “Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue),” a bluesy stomp that showcases the best of Hozier. While the lyrics are characteristically dark and inaccessible, he cuts loose with his huge voice on the chorus, and the guitar work throughout the song is superb. The mix of blues and soul that fans of his first album have come to expect is certainly alive in “Moment’s Silence.” While it might not attain the popularity of “Nina Cried Power,” it is certainly my favorite song on the album. The final song on the EP, “Shrike,” is an acoustic ballad in the vein of the enormously popular “Cherry Wine” off of Hozier’s last album. The song gets its title from a species of bird that eats meat and is known for pinning carcasses of its prey on thorns. While the song is beautiful and Hozier’s voice sounds gorgeous over the acoustic guitar, the lyrics are about as comprehensible as “Moby Dick” written in Latin. Despite that, the song is the second most popular of the new songs on Spotify, second only to “Nina Cried Power.” Despite the new EP not being of the same quality as “Hozier,” it certainly showed Hozier back in full force after too long of an absence. Fans of Hozier and good rock should be excited about his new full-length album due to arrive next year.

initial billboard success, and a sound that maintains limited originality and yet branches off from conventional hiphop, pop-rock, or avant-garde alternative. The people who find their music boring are completely right: their music is boring, or at least, boring to those who unadmittedly have never listened to classic rock past “Stairway to Heaven” and perhaps “Sweet Child o’ Mine” in their lifetime. The generation who remembers Kanye’s “Yeezus” scoring an unprecedented 9.5 on Pitchfork has something to say about innovation and evolution. We watched as Taylor Swift went from cutesie country girl to full-blown popstar. This transformation has since been celebrated, as Swift developed her sound while retaining her quality. We have watched countless artists assume this trajectory to the point where if we don’t see it, we write the artist off as “boring” or “unoriginal.” These attacks were once aimed at Mumford & Sons, a folksy rock band that has also done poorly on past Pitchfork reviews, including a 2.6 out of 10 on their debut effort. But Mumford & Sons has gone on to sell out show after show and record two more No. 1 albums. They did this by using a simple formula: making music that is both suitable and enjoyable to their demographic. Greta Van Fleet also makes music suitable to their demographic, be that baby-boomers who grew up with Zeppelin, or young kids who are looking for something new to play in the car. Either way, Greta Van Fleet will do just fine. The hive-mind attacks, vindicated by the official-opinionbrought-to-you-by-pitchfork. com will subside, and Greta Van Fleet, a young band with many years of success ahead of them, will keep writing music for the people who like their music for its own sake. Those who want to fetishize Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco can continue to do so. The rest of us will keep having fun.

Conserving the Classics: Roman Polanski’s ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ By | Nic Rowan Columnist The story here starts simply, but its creeping normalcy ratchets “Rosemary’s Baby,” written and directed by Roman Polanski, (1968) into a lasting terror. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), move to an old apartment building on the Upper East Side in New York. She wants children. He wants to be a successful stage actor. They soon befriend a quirky old couple next door. But there’s something wrong with the neighbors, and Rosemary starts to notice it closing in on her newlywed bliss. Her husband becomes distant, preferring the neighbors’ company. She hears weird flute noises next door and smells incense burning in the night. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, she experiences a graphic dream where a horde of elderly people and then Satan himself rape her in the apartment building basement. Finally, a disastrous pregnancy. For those who don’t know the end already, I won’t spoil it outright. But it’s a visual approximation of W. B. Yeats’ apocalyptic phrase, “vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.” “Rosemary’s Baby” wields outsize influence among filmmakers. Stanley Kubrick often listed it as one of his favorites. And the influence is clear. There’s a great similarity in tone between the rape scene

in “Rosemary’s Baby” and the orgy sequence in Kubrick’s own New York movie, “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999). Both are depictions of degradation that unmask the diabolical implications of sexual obsession. But Hillsdale students may be more familiar with the film’s other great disciple, Wes Anderson. Anderson also frequently ranks Rosemary’s Baby as his favorite film, saying, “It’s always been a big influence on me, or a source of ideas.” But unlike Kubrick, Anderson delights in subjecting his characters to hopeless and totalizing sexual abuse. In the same way Polanski slowly winds the noose around Rosemary, Anderson loves to spin stories such as “Rushmore” (1998), where a teenager becomes hopelessly enmeshed in lust for his teacher or “Moonrise Kingdom” (2009), where two teenage outcasts redefine love on a moral heath. For Anderson, the perverse is beautiful — and doomed entrapment is its peak. It’s no wonder he revels in imitating “Rosemary’s Baby” down to the pink baroque font in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), ripped straight from Polanski’s opening credits. Perhaps the greatest fan of the film, however, was Charles Manson. After seeing it in theaters, he ordered members of his “family” to kill Sharon Tate, Polanksi’s then-pregnant wife. Joan Didion happened to be in the neighborhood that day, and as she recalled, “No one was surprised.”

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Science & Tech American Chemical Society celebrates ‘Mole Day,’ holds Chemistry Week By | Abby Liebing ASSISTANT EDITOR At 6:02 p.m. on Oct. 23, several Hillsdale students and members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) celebrated “Mole Day.” A mole is unit often used in chemistry that is 6.02 x 10^23—hence v specific date and time for the celebrations. ACS is a chemistry club on Hillsdale’s campus that is part of an international organization and its job is to provide social outlets, like Mole Day celebrations, for students interested in Chemistry. According to Hillsdale College’s information page about the college’s ACS chapter, “The College’s chapter of the American Chemical Society is a student-run organization dedicated to increasing the appreciation for chemistry held by students in all disciplines, as well as members of the local community. The group serves as a social and

intellectual outlet for all those interested in the chemical sciences.” Eliza Lewis holds the social chair for Hillsdale’s ACS chapter and this is her second year celebrating Mole Day. She made little cookies shaped like moles (the animal kind) and some chips and guacamole. She said this is because 6.02 x 10^23 is also called Avogadro’s number, which sounds like avocado. Although the Mole Day celebration was small, Hillsdale’s chapter to ACS is large and this past year received an “Outstanding” ranking. Almost all U.S. colleges have an ACS chapter, but only 20 to 30 receive the ranking of “Outstanding,” ACS treasurer Mairead Cooper said. “We have more members in the Hillsdale ACS than Michigan State has in their’s. And I’m pretty sure we are one of the largest clubs on campus,” Lewis said. ACS also has very minimal

fees and you don’t have to be a chemistry major to join. “It’s $15 if you just want to be a local member. And then you pay $5 to a local chapter so we can do things like this and have pizzas at our meeting and that kind of thing,” Lewis said. Sophie Reynolds, the historian for Hillsdale’s ACS chapter said she enjoys being a part of the club. “I wanted to celebrate ACS and support science with my ACS buddies,” she said. “Plus you get to know Dr. Hamilton a little better and if you need recommendations for nursing school or future medical things, he handles a lot of that.” Mole Day is just one of the events that ACS holds. Since last week was chemistry week, they also set up scientific demonstrations in the Grewcock Student Union every day. One day last week, members of the society held a table where they froze flowers with

LIGO member gives talk, explores opportunities for interstellar travel

Teviet Creightpn, a member of LIGO, spoke to students and faculty in a public talk on Oct. 22. Alexis Daniels | COLLEGIAN

By | Alexis Daniels ASSISTANT EDITOR There is a lot of curiosity about interstellar travel and planet colonization, but according to member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration Teviet Creighton, humans are better off staying on Earth. Creighton, director of the facility Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Gigahertz Astrophysical Transient Emission (STARGATE), is part of a team from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is working on the all-sky monitor. On Oct. 22, he came to Hillsdale’s campus to discuss the plausibility of interstellar travel based on an article he published soon after the release of the movie “Interstellar.” “With STARGATE, we were getting into the field of commercial space technology, and they were asking whether this was a plausible scenario,” Creighton said. “The premise of this is interstellar travel.” Interstellar travel is glamorized in entertainment, said Creighton, and movies portray it with strange worlds, daring crews and spaceships, and surreal encounters with new civilizations. However, there is one simple question that stands in the way of its plausibility: how would we actually explore the universe? “As they put it in the movie ‘Interstellar,’ to get somewhere, you have to leave something behind,” said Creighton. “How do you get a spaceship to move forward? You throw stuff out the back, and by throwing stuff out the back, you move the ship forward.” The thing that Creighton said you must throw out is fuel to add impulse, but it becomes a diminishing return

because you need to have fuel to take fuel. One idea is to use more efficient fuel, but even this is a remote possibility. For even an optimal thermonuclear rocket, one would need 9 x 103 kilograms of fuel per kilogram of payload to arrive to the nearest star outside of the solar system in a decade. One could expect to spend a lifetime on board. There is also the idea of faster-than-light travel such as wormholes; however, though this is theoretically allowed, “theoretically and practically are very different things,” said Creighton. Any form of faster-than-light travel requires some sort of exotic matter like contramatter, which has negative energy density. “Maybe it would require a ship that was the size of a solar system or a galaxy,” Creighton said. “And we don’t know because we don’t know what the properties of this contramatter actually are. It’s kind of making a narrative assumption for dramatic purposes to think that such a thing would happen to exist and happen to have the properties we need to fulfill our space exploration fantasies.” One of the fascinations with interstellar travel lies in the possibility of colonizing new planets. According to Creighton, there are many different types of stars and “terrestrials” beyond our solar system, among them ice giants, sulfur terrestrials, and tholin terrestrials such as Saturn’s moon Titan. Water terrestrials are very sought after in interstellar travel. “We are water chauvinists,” Creighton said. “We like water; it seems to be special to us.” But even with the possibility of water terrestrials, there is a remote possibility that humans could inhabit any other planet because

the chances of finding one with enough water and a breathable atmosphere are slim. Earth’s atmosphere is a product of its ecosystem, and to replicate that on any other planet, Creighton said there are two options: engineer the atmosphere and biosphere of a barren planet from scratch or already have life on the planet. “If it happens to be an inhabited world with its own life forms and its own ecosystems, then you have Option B,” Creighton said. “You first eradicate what’s there because it’s not the atmosphere that you want, and then see A.” If man does move off the earth, he said, it would be much more efficient to move to space habitats instead. We are more likely to utilize space for mercantilist purposes, to have another way to generate wealth. As for the earth’s environment, Creighton posits that any environmental problems can be addressed by exploiting resources in the universe nearby; there is no need to go to distant stars to get it. Students found Creighton’s points on interstellar space travel informative. “I thought it was really satisfying to see someone actually do the math and present it intelligibly to non-scientists,” senior Tim Polelle said. “I thought his suggestion about the practicality of artificial space habitats was insightful.” They also found his comments on the plausibility of space travel to be straightforward and honest. “I appreciated the acknowledgment that fixing Earth is easier than moving the stars,” sophomore Sara Gasey said. “I feel that sometimes we view the potential of space as an excuse not to deal with the problems of Earth.”

Members of the American Chemical Society at Hillsdale College held a Mole Day celebration inside of Strosacker Science Center last Tuesday. Abby Liebing | Collegian

liquid nitrogen. After putting on gloves, the chemists dipped flowers into bins of liquid nitrogen, causing them to become brittle and able to

be smashed. Since ACS is not just limited to chemistry students, anyone can join in the club’s events and celebrations, like

Mole Day, or chemistry week. And like Reynolds said, “We have pizza at our meetings which is fun.”

Reading inside and outside the laboratory: Chemistry professors discuss their favorite books Meyet takes pleasure in readMeyet said. “Larson’s books By | Danielle Lee are some of the best history COLLEGIAN REPORTER ing John Steinbeck novels, especially since her all-time books I’ve ever read.” A common misconception favorite book is “The Grapes Christopher Hamilton, asabout professors is that they of Wrath”. sociate professor of chemistry, only read books regarding “As a Californian, they enjoys reading science-fiction their field of study. It makes really capture the feel of Calnovels and was influenced sense because they teach ifornia coast-line, the central from watching television as a it— at least it does to most. valley, the central coastal area child. Currently, he is reading Revealing some truth into this of California,” Meyet said. more of the “Ender’s Game” shared misunderstanding, a The novel’s alternating series by Orson Scott Card, few chemistry professors talk- chapters and descriptive scene and he is intrigued with the ed about their favorite genres setters are what really drew diverse perspectives it writes and books, which might her into appreciating the for each book. shock some students by how book. She believes Steinbeck “Some of the books go similar the professor’s’ taste captures the true essence of back to ‘Ender’s Game’ and are with their own. follow Bean telling his Dean of Natural story. Then there some Sciences Christopher that follow right after VanOrman said he is ‘Ender’s Game’ or have a currently reading “The different timeline, which Language of God: A Sciis kind of cool,” Hamilentist Presents Evidence ton said. for Belief ” by Francis S. Similar to his interCollins. The novel talks est in varying character about the relationship perspectives, Hamilton between Christianity and used to read a lot of alEvolution. ternative history books. “It has to do with Bio Alternative history is a Logos, which is derived fiction genre consisting by Francis Collins. It’s a of historical events hapgroup of people who have pening differently. He a very strong Christian mentions that the most background and believe prolific author in this in God, but also believe genre is Harry Turtlein science— both at the dove and has read one of same time,” VanOrman the novels from Turtlesaid. dove’s Southern Victory A couple weeks ago, series, also known as VanOrman met and talk- “The Disappearing Spoon” is Dean of the the fan-given name ed with Collins and said Natural Sciences Christopher Van Orman’s Timeline-191. The series he’ll be coming sometime favorite book. Wikicommons | Courtesy started with Turtledove’s this year and talk about first novel, “How Few his perspective on creation California through his writing Remain”, and continued for and evolution. But if he had style— convincing the readers more than a decade containto choose a favorite book, it into feeling as if they were in ing three sub-series within it, would be “The DisappearCalifornia themselves. accumulating to a total of 11 ing Spoon” by Sam Kean. It “When you read these novels. contains multiple short stories chapters, you feel hot, you feel “There’s a trilogy of books about the periodic table yourself in the dust bowl, you that describes what happened elements, and he uses these can taste the dust, you almost afterwards, leading into stories often in his General feel gritty,” Meyet said. “He WWI. And now in WWI, you Chemistry class. has such a way with writing, have the U.S. and the Confed“When I first started it’s almost a sensory perceperate states at war with each teaching, I read it when it first tion as you’re reading through other,” Hamilton said. “It’s came out in 2011,” VanOrthat chapter.” crazy, but alternative history man said. “It’s just about the Related to her historical is fun. It has you think what’s elements and how they came fiction interest, Meyet also the same, what’s different, and about, like the history of the enjoys “In the Garden of how realistic can it be.” periodic table. It’s a really cool Beasts” and “Devil in the It’s a common assumption book with some really cool White City” by Erik Larson. that professors only read stories.” She briefly summarizes that books related to their jobs, Though she does receive “In the Garden of Beasts” is but they also have varying some recommendations from about a family whose head interests and this is reflected VanOrman, Assistant Profesof the household serves as in their choices in reading. sor of Chemistry Courtney an ambassador in pre-WWII While they still read books Meyet enjoys reading what Germany and witnesses the pertaining to their careers, interests her, and it’s usually rise of the Nazis. Though he they also appreciate different historical fiction. writes historical novels, Meyet styles of writings and mean“I love things that are mentions how Larson’s writings out of pure preference. about the history of this ing style is similar to that of “I don’t just read things country. I’m definitely partial fiction novels, making it more strictly for work,” Meyet said. of that,” Meyet said. “Feeling digestible and pleasurable “Usually if I’m reading it, it’s connections to my ancestry compared to reading a history because I’m interested and I and pasts interest me.” book. think most of us are that way.” Since she’s from California, “It’s a sobering book,”

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Tower of History, a sign of the times

Sophomore Connor Hill with his parents and Hillsdale alumni Kevin and Cheryl Hill. Connor Hill | Courtesy

College allocates 52 legacy scholarships By | Matt Fisher Collegian Freelancer Fifty-two fully-enrolled Hillsdale College students, or 3.6 percent of the student body, receive financial aid through the college’s legacy scholarships. Children and grandchildren of Hillsdale alumni are eligible for a $1,000 annual scholarship under the college’s current policy. Director of Financial Aid Richard Moeggenberg explained almost all eligible candidates are offered the scholarship upon submitting their applications and proving they meet the academic standards. While Hillsdale College’s official policy on legacy admissions states applicants must meet the same academic standards as first-generation students, there are numerous exceptions made each year. Several students are admitted to Hillsdale College despite failing to reach academic standards, including an estimated 5 to 10 legacy students per year, according to Jennifer Brewer, director of field recruitment for the admissions department. These select students must then begin with a lighter load of courses for their first few semesters.

“There are a variety of factors in an admissions decision,” she said. “Administration does its best to balance the needs of the college with the demands of the course work here. We want to admit students who can succeed.” Using legacy scholarships to override admissions rules is controversial, but not unprecedented. For instance, in 1935, John F. Kennedy was accepted into Harvard University despite finishing with subpar

the student body at the University of Pennsylvania was comprised of legacy students. An estimated 29 percent of Harvard’s class of 2021 is also receiving legacy scholarships. However, unlike other major institutions and universities, Hillsdale’s legacy program reaches an extremely narrow portion of the student body overall. “From my impression,” Brewer said, “I’ve seen just as many children of alumni declined as accepted.” Sophomore and student athlete Connor Hill receives financial aid on the basis of his father’s alumni status. Hill also received scholarships for his academic excellence and athletic performance in high school and said he appreciates both the legacy that preceded him and the one he is forming. “It’s a great honor. My family is very proud to be from Hillsdale,” Hill said. “My father played football and basketball here and my mother was a cheerleader and ran track. It’s great to not only be a student at their alma mater but be an athlete like both of them as well. Hillsdale gave them the background they needed to have very successful lives and I know it will do the same for me.”

“Hillsdale gave them the background they needed to have very successful lives and I know it will do the same for me.” grades during high school. The eventual 35th president never averaged higher than 81 percent in any of his high school classes and finished with a “D” letter grade six times. Yet thanks to his father, a wealthy alumnus, Kennedy was accepted into Harvard. But one does not have to be born into wealth and power to benefit from legacy scholarships. In 2008, 41 percent of

reflects his long-standing monumental cost. Continual By | Nic Rowan association with the Liturgical changes in design — each one Columnist Movement, a faction within stripping away more artifice Sault Sainte-Marie isn’t the Church which gained — skyrocketed the cost of the exactly a tourist destination prominence in the mid-20th tower from $50,000 to over $1 this time of year. The Saint century. It placed emphasis on million. Mary’s river is inhospitable to the importance of a vernacuBut Monroe didn’t worry. tourism (for the season) and lar mass and nonrepresentaIn fact, he spared no expense the Kmart is closed (forever). tional architecture in sacred in the tower’s construction. To make matters worse, it buildings — with the end After all, since the early 1960s, gets late early out there: The goal of turning worshipers tourism to Sault Ste. Marie Upper Peninsula’s pitch-black away from distractions (like had steadily increased — and industrial decay is not worth a stained glass windows and besides, the Diocese of Marsix-hour drive from Hillsdale. painted saints) and refocusing quette agreed to help defray Unless you visit the Tower the faithful on the Word, and the costs of the remaining of History. A 210-foot strucbuildings in the projture overlooking the ect. The parish would Soo Locks and Canada, charge $1 to all visitors; it looms in the darkthe tower would pay ness like a lone Soviet itself off in a few years. guard tower. Inside, It didn’t. it features a museum Monroe’s plan with exhibitions dedicouldn’t have predicted cated to local pre-Cothe oil crisis that would lumbian societies as sink Great Lakes’ econwell as to the Jesuit omy in the 1970s and missionaries who forever after. The loss brought Christianity to of shipping and mining the Great Lakes region. killed the economic Up top, an enclosed viability of the entire observation deck offers Upper Peninsula, and a 360-view of Canada it consigned the Shrine to the north, the UP to of Missionaries project the south, and the Soo to permanent incomLocks directly below. pletion. The Roman CathUnable to afford the olic Church built the upkeep of the Tower tower in 1968 next of History — let alone to the Holy Name of its still-unpaid conMary proto-cathedral, struction cost — the the oldest parish in diocese sold it to the Michigan, founded by city in 1980. Since it Father Jacques Mar- The Tower of History museum was originally was converted into a intended to function as a parish belltower. Nic quette in 1668. The museum, its exhibitions Rowan | Collegian. tower stands on have not been the site of Marchanged or updatquette’s first log ed. A portion of the cabin and chapel. proceeds, however, The parish origistill benefits the evnally intended it er-dwindling parish as the belltower in population. a vast new church Looking back on complex, Shrine of the affair in 1984, the Missionaries, Sault Ste. Marie’s dibuilt in Marrector of historical quette’s honor. sites Thomas Manse The parish’s told the Detroit pastor, Father Free Press the tower Robert Monroe, represents tragic envisioned the lack of foresight in a new church as an community whose opportunity to leaders didn’t know draw more tourists how to take care of up north, much their people. like the recently “Some people completed Saint have described the Joseph’s Oratory in tower as nothing Montreal, Canada. more than a white So he hired the elephant,” he said. faddish church “But it hurts me to starchitect Frank hear people talk Kacmarcik to A graphic of the museum on a coffee mug. Nic Rowan | that way because oversee the project’s Collegian. the people who built art direction. Eager it had good intento interpret “the signs of the more importantly, the Word tions.” times,” — as the 1965 Vatican made flesh in the Eucharist. Good intentions, for sure. II pastoral declaration “GaudiA noble endeavor, but at a But the Tower of History um et Spes” had instructed great cost. Like many of the of wasn’t a total failure. It suc— Kacmarcik proposed a concrete ‘n’ steel behemoths cessfully interpreted the signs belltower that would serve as of the late ’60s, the completof the times: poor guidance in a paean to the fruits of Vatican ed Tower of History fit the Church leaders. II. stark trends of the day, but its Kacmarcik’s final product brutal concrete exterior hid a

Christ Chapel: Hillsdale’s fifth chapel since the mid-1800s attendance and for official sembled brickwork. Wary of By | Nick Schaffield events which required a large future fires, the administraCollegian Freelancer amount of space, most notably tion decided to spread the Christ Chapel is not HillsFrederick Douglass’ 1863 new campus among several dale College’s first chapel. It’s “Truth and Error” speech. No smaller buildings rather than the fifth. pictures exist of the chapel’s rebuild a single all-encomThe school’s first chapel interior, but a scale model of passing one. Central Hall, the stood in the current most distinccampus’ original tive of the college building, the newly-consecond occupied structed Central Hall, the buildings, third was College would hold Baptist Church, the the new fourth stands in the chapel. Knorr Student CenWhen ter, and the fifth — completed, Christ Chapel — will the Central sit directly behind Hall chapel Central Hall. was capable According to “The of seating First Hundred Years several hunof Hillsdale College,” dred people. the College moved Four rows of from its original chairs covlocation in Spring ered the floor, Arbor to Hillsdale and two short The Central Hall chapel following the 1905 restoration. | in 1855. After the flights of stairs Hillsdale College archives move, it had only provided easy one building, which providthe building sits on display in access to the dais and podium. ed space for the school’s first the Heritage Room. A single piano sat at the front chapel, along with its dorms The original chapel stood of the room surrounded by and classrooms. The chapel for 21 years until, on March white walls. The chapel would had a capacity of 800 people, 6, 1874, a fire ravaged the old undergo several renovations according to college archivist college building, wiping out over the years, first getting Linda Moore, and it served as all but the east wing, which steam-heat in 1893, then new a place for mandatory chapel was saved by some hastily-aslighting, ceiling, and paint in

1905. The college’s motto “Vir- 1965, were removed entirely. Christ Chapel, which is curtus Tentamine Gaudet” was This relieved the college of rently under construction on hung in gold lettering behind the need for an on-campus Hillsdale’s campus. the altar. worship-space able to accomAccording to the college’s The college’s official place modate a large number of Rev. Adam Rick, Christ of worship was moved in 1922 students, hence the relatively Chapel will contain a smaller to College Baptist Church, small chapel currently found “day chapel” which clubs and which had originally been in the Knorr Center. In a school religious groups can founded by schedule for four associates use, much like of Hillsdale the the chapel College and in the Knorr four Hillsdale Student Cenresidents. The ter today. The church had chapel proper convened in will be able to the Hillsdale seat the entire College chapel student body, for the first 10 making it an years of its exideal location istence, before for Baccalauremoving to the ate services as current church well as campus building on convocations. Manning The college has Street. The no intention Central Hall Students attending College Baptist. | Hillsdale College archives of hosting chapel had services there been “long regarded as inadvideo posted to the College’s on Sunday mornings. equate and unsafe,” and was website, college president “It is just as well,” said renovated to serve as a small Larry Arnn discusses how he Rick. “We aren’t a church; theatre after the transfer. had long desired a place for we’re a college — we don’t Over the years, rules for “the whole campus commudo the work of the church on mandatory chapel attendance nity to get together,” but the Sunday.” loosened substantially, and, Knorr Center arrangement by the time the Knorr Stustood until Jack and Jo Babbitt dent Center was completed in donated $12 million to build

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By | Emma Cummins Collegian Reporter It’s 1:30 a.m. in the morning. You’re drowning in pages-long finals reviews. You promised you wouldn’t drink any more coffee, but your biochemistry midterm is tomorrow, and your eyes glaze over every time you look at the page. You reach over and press the brew button on your coffee maker. The U.S. Army and Department of Defense has developed an algorithm, the Wall Street Journal reported last month, which calculates the amount of caffeine a person would need to have the same level of alertness as if he had slept more than seven hours, the minimum number generally considered to be a healthy amount. The algorithm prescribes 200 milligrams of caffeine when one wakes up, followed by another 200 milligrams after four hours. For someone who plans to go several days without sleep, the guidelines suggest consuming 200 milligrams at midnight, 4 a.m., and 8 a.m. At Hillsdale College, students are not immune to the caffeine trends. Students and faculty may use coffee solely for the caffeine boost, for taste, or both. Junior Tim Runstadler Jr. began drinking coffee when he was in middle school, at a Boy Scout camp. Since then, he has been a faithful coffee drinker, but primarily for the taste. Holding a mug with six shots of espresso, Runstadler tried to recall the last day he hadn’t drunk coffee. “I can’t remember a day I haven’t drank coffee in a very long time,” Runstadler said. “It sounds like a very crappy day.” When asked about the algorithm, Runstadler, a potential candidate for the Marine program on campus, said, “it seems healthier to eat more and get energy from that.” Sophomore Rebecca Joyce started drinking caffeine in Pepsi at age 2, due to an undeveloped central nervous system which created a sort of wired effect whenever she had a temper tantrum or burst of emotion, normal at that age. Since then, she has needed to take caffeine in large amounts to remain calm. “I am known to drink four shots of espresso,” Joyce said. “But we’ve all been there thinking that taking that shot of caffeine will help you write that paper when it actually just sets your heart racing.” Sophomore Kirby Thigpen said that the idea of creating

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an algorithm is “not a longterm solution for getting little sleep for soldiers.” She doesn’t experience the same positive effects when drinking coffee on only a few hours of sleep. “When I have less sleep and drink coffee, at first I feel OK but I do start to get really jittery and shaky after a while, and then I can’t get anything done,” she said. “Whenever I have more sleep, I tend to get more done when I drink coffee.” The Army is not the only one to take advantage of the utilitarian aspect of caffeine. Professor of English Justin Jackson considers himself to be more of a “coffee as fuel guy than coffee as taste guy.” If he had to estimate how much he drinks on a daily basis, he

Sophomore Henry Eising stays caffeinated during a study session. Tim Runstadler | Courtesy.

would say around 500 to 700 mg of caffeine. This may be why he takes a caffeine-fueled nap every so often to boost his energy on days he finds it takes three to four times longer than usual to read something. According to studies conducted by researchers at Loughborough University in the UK and in Japan, taking a cup of coffee and then a 20-minute nap directly after can be much more effective than just taking a nap or drinking coffee. After taking the cup of coffee, sleeping for 20 minutes allows the brain to clear itself of adenosine and also allows the caffeine to take its full effect. Jackson highly recommends this practice to his students, especially those who take his afternoon classes, since drowsiness seems to set in after lunchtime. “If students are feeling tired after lunch, why are you poring over a passage for an hour, not getting it, when you plant family. Yet it doesn’t contain THC, the chemical that induces the feeling of being high, and is used purely for medicinal and health purposes. Darlene Webb, co-owner of Hillsdale’s J.R. Smoke Shop, said she supports Proposal 1 because of the additional sales opportunities it would make

could just refresh your brain in 20 minutes and then you’ll get through that passage in 20 minutes?” Jackson said. Jackson normally drinks a cup of coffee in the early afternoon, around 1 p.m. “It seems to me you have three options: one, drink coffee, it will help you become alert. Two, go take a nap, it will reset your brain. Three, go drink coffee and take a nap,” Jackson said. “I prefer the third.” Assistant Professor of Politics Adam Carrington started drinking coffee just a month ago, due to the arrival of his new infant daughter. “I had a pretty good run. I got through undergrad, graduate school, and my first four years here, and then my daughter happened,” Carrington said. “Since she likes to get up at 5 a.m., she’s the biggest reason. I’m a slave to her and so now I’m a slave to coffee. They are twin masters.” But Carrington felt that caffeine should be used sparingly and only under special circumstances. “It can be a way of bridging through difficult times like Hell Week, finals week, midterms. It can be a little bit of a boost here and there,” Carrington said. “But if it’s running your life, especially at 18 to 20, that’s a problem, and I would say from our end, as faculty and staff, we should be encouraging you all to take care of yourselves.” However, pulling all-nighters and practically living on coffee prevents students from fully participating in what Hillsdale aims to do, according to Carrington. “If you end up doing that all the time, I think it’s going to hurt your health,” said Carrington. “In the end it’s going to hurt your education and what we are trying to do here. We want you all to be healthy, knowledgeable, good, functioning citizens and human beings. If you have to be hooked up to an IV, how healthy are you being?” Professor of biology Silas Johnson noted the military’s history of experimenting with substances, including amphetamines. Johnson said most drug use, including caffeine, is not necessary for normal adults. “I think for most normal healthy adults it’s not a necessity to consume any stimulants or depressant compounds,” Johnson said. “But it is very human to do so.”

the books in any state, even Colorado. It allows for the greatest quantity of marijuana and the most amount of people to use it.” If the proposal passes, it will be difficult to change, requiring a two-thirds majority vote by both houses of the legislature to pass. It took 10 years to fix flaws in Michi-

also skeptical whether the passage of the proposal would eliminate the black market, which proponents present as one of legalization’s biggest selling points. “The black market won’t go away because there will still be a demand for cheaper, untaxed marijuana,” she said. If Michigan approves the initiative, Brandes said HCSAPC will be forced to double down on its efforts to educate youth “R is for Recovery.” Hillsdale County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition | Facebook on the dangers of marijuana. possible. gan’s medical marijuana laws, “I think the legalization of “If recreational marijuana which Lisznyai said included recreational marijuana sends is legalized, then hemp will be weaknesses similar to those in the message that it’s not harm- legalized and we can sell that Proposal 1. ful,” she said. “If it passes, in our shop,” she said. “That Lisznyai has a more perwe’ll have to do some really, would help our business.” sonal basis for her opposition really good prevention work. Judge Sara Lisznyai serves as well. But we’re asking kids to make on the local District Drug “My other reason has to adult decisions for themselves Court and opposes legaldo with the kind of cases I’ve when they’re not developization for two reasons. Her seen in my work over the mentally there yet. Legalizing first concern stems from the years,” she said. “I’ve done something we then tell them poor wording of the proposal, some research and what I’m not to do makes prevention which she says lacks specifics finding is that a third of the work very difficult.” and leaves much in question. people who come before me In addition to legalizing “I don’t think the way the with serious drug charges are marijuana, the ballot initiative statute is written would apply people I’ve seen for marijuana would allow for the cultivamuch regulation at all,” she charges on an earlier occasion. tion of hemp. Like marijuana, said. “It would be the most That’s probably more than hemp is part of the cannabis lenient marijuana statute on anything the reason why I

or another executive board Hawersaat added that, By | Nathaniel Birzer member, directly or through for him, the dating ring has Collegian Freelancer anyone else participating. already done its job, and he Several Hillsdale students “This is not an exclusive would probably only attend have recombined forces to group of people, but very one more time. combat what they see as an much a way for people to “I don’t think it would increasingly pervasive part have fun and make new personally help me anymore,” of Hillsdale student culture: friends,” she said. “We know he said. “Maybe for someone Hillsdating. of everybody. Some people else, more than one blind The goal of the new are even here who did it last date might be needed to Underground Dating Ring, time. It’s good that there’s loosen up. Looking at it from which is a continuation of no one friend group. It helps a friendship-making angle, a group founded two years people expand and underas a fun time to get to know ago by Haley Talkington stand their dating pool.” people, that would push me ’17 and Carly Hubbard ’16, She continued by saying to do it again, but not from is to combat Hillsdating by “dating is like a skill you have the view of improving dating helping people to feel more to practice,” and the dating more.” comfortable going on casual ring is intended to help preSophomore and dating dates and to focus on participant Josh building friendships. Goeltz also emphaHelen Potter, junior sized that the dating and member of the ring helps cultivate group’s executive friendships. board, along with “I saw it as an junior Nina Hufford, opportunity to get to junior Avery Lacey, know someone new and senior Natalie and spend time with Taylor, set up blind them,” Goeltz said. dates for the group, “And they just happen followed by a small to be of the opposite get-together for sex.” all the participants Goeltz explained afterward.The group that Hillsdating culhopes their events ture makes it difficult will eventually have for men and women an influence on Hillsto casually spend time dale’s overall dating together alone. culture. “It’s a real shame “We sometimes men and women can’t take dating too really spend time seriously,” Potter said. together alone and “[Our goal] is to get be cool with it. Even people more comguys and girls who fortable with dating, are friends are kind of not to set up relationnervous.” Goeltz conships, but to make tinued. “The culture’s friendships.” so formal and based She added that she on men and womwants to make casual dating pare its participants for their en being distinct, there’s no “more of a thing” on campus own private dates. overlap, except for in dating. in general. Unlike its predecessor, the I want to be able to sit alone “The hope is that it will new dating ring plans to stick with a female friend, without help get more people to go on around until it is no longer other people giving me or her their own casual dates,” Potter needed. crap.” said. “We are not trying to But like the first dating Goeltz added that the make a club within which ring, the group adheres to positive aspect of Hillsdale’s you date. If you like someone, the idea that it will spiral out, dating culture is that “it’s very you’ll have to do that on your according to Potter. concerned for the person that own.” “Although the dating individuals are interested in, The executive board ring’s the same, they planned and very respectful of memmatched up the 28 people in to run themselves out — inbers of the opposite sex.” He the group for blind dates over tentionally,” she said. “Being said the problem is that this Parents’ Weekend, providing a club would go against what respect can make interactions each of the matches with an it’s supposed to be, in a way.” between men and women too end time and a location for Peter Hawersaat, sophformal. their date, as well as a unique omore and participant of “We have this thing where ice-breaker question. The rest the blind date event, said he guys aren’t asking girls out for was up to the dates. Once appreciated the overall atmo- fear of super serious dating, the end time was reached, sphere the group provides. and girls say no for fear of a all the couples reconvened at “The group just felt like it super serious relationship,” Graceland for a small get-towas opening people up to ca- Goeltz said. gether. The process for setting sual dating, and to not be so Potter said she personally up dates is mostly random, afraid, because the culture of had enjoyed the benefit of with the goal of figuring out Hillsdating pervades everygetting to know new people who might get along well thing, and it’s kind of stifling. through the dating ring. with each other. It’s nice to just have a date to “It’s good because you The executive board didn’t get to know someone. I feel think you know all the good personally know everyone like if I wanted to ask somepeople on campus, and you in attendance, according to one on a date it would be find out that you don’t,” he Potter. She added that anyone much easier now. I wouldn’t said. interested in joining only feel like it’s such a big deal.” needed to contact herself oppose it.” this is an industry that for the spiritual state of our culture The debate over legalizing benefit of society needs to be when we need some kind of recreational marijuana has legalized.” escape from reality because also divided Hillsdale stuJacky Eubanks, a junior we can’t handle our first-world dents. politics major and economics problems.” Junior Montie Montgomminor, disagrees. Eubanks Michigan voters will conery, secretary for Hillsdale said she lost an entire friend tinue to discuss and debate College Young Americans group after they discovered the pros and cons of legalizafor Liberty, said he supports she opposed the use and tion. If the proposal passes, the initiative as a matter of legalization of recreational however, it will be history in principle. marijuana. Since then, the isthe making. “It’s just the idea of govern- sue has become very personal “The states were intended ment telling you what you can for her. She said the push for to be laboratories of democraand can’t put into your body legalization reflects the moral cy and all big changes like this that’s sort of annoying,” he decay in society. happen at the state level first,” said. “It’s like an overbearing “We’re becoming incredibly Hovey said. “This is a change mom at that point. You don’t hedonistic,” she said. “The that’s happening right before want government to be in sole reason to smoke mariour eyes.” your living room when you’re juana is because you enjoy having a party enjoying a the feeling of being high. It’s joint.” He added that the passage of Proposal 1 would be a boon for Michigan. “I’m riled up about it because I feel like marijuana is a stupid thing to be illegal,” he said. “You have people The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is supporting Michigan’s 2018 ballot getting arrested initiative to legalize marijuana. | Wikimedia Commons and put in jail for pot usage and you stifle not to be creative or smarter. an industry that could provide And if you want to feel high, a really positive economic you have to ask yourself if it’s good for downtrodden and to escape reality. I think that urban communities. I think says a lot about the moral and

“We sometimes take dating too seriously. Our goal is to get people more comfortable with dating, not to set up relationships, but to make friendships.”

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