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2012 Hillsdale grad killed in crash, remembered as loving father, friend By | Julie Havlak Collegian Reporter After taking off at 8:30 p.m., a helicopter crashed Sunday in Kenya, killing Kyle
Forti, a 2012 graduate of Hillsdale College, and three other Americans. Forti and the others were flying to the Lobolo tented camp, but they did not make
Kyle Forti, a 2012 Hillsdale graduate, was killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya on Sunday. He is survived by his wife Hope, who is pregnant, his son Max, and seven siblings. Facebook
it far before losing contact. A search-and-rescue mission identified the wreckage hours before dawn, according to the Associated Press. The cause of the crash remains unknown. Forti was a foster parent and a Colorado political strategist who cofounded D/CO Consulting, a campaign consulting digital advertising company, with Caleb Bonham. “At 9:10 p.m. last night, my phone rang...It was my mom. Little did I know, my life was about to be completely rocked, and I was about to feel every emotion and nothing at all - all at the same time,” Josh Forti, Forti’s brother, wrote in a Facebook post. “She screamed, ‘Kyle’s dead! He’s dead! Kyle is dead! He was killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya!!! Your brother is dead.’ Nothing can prepare you for that call. Nothing.” Friends remember Forti as a dedicated family man, a rising star, and an explorer with unquenchable curiosity. “I never remember him
not smiling, not having something positive to say,” said Sean Duffy, a political consultant in Colorado and a friend of Forti’s. “He wasn’t one of those cats who complain — and in politics, everyone is down about something — but Kyle was a pleasant, enthusiastic, positive guy who wanted to get all he could out of life. Not a lot of people are jumping on helicopters in Kenya at night.” Forti also made Red Alert Politics “30 under 30” list in 2014 for founding Peak Political Solutions, and he ran one of the largest public relations firms in Colorado, D/CO Consulting, with Bonham. “Kyle brought a humanity to politics that you rarely see. There is a hardness — an impersonality — in politics, and Kyle refused to let that be him,” Colorado state Sen. Owen Hill said. “Instead, he took that unstoppable energy and brought a real humanity to politics. People across the spectrum were important and fascinating to Kyle simply because they were people.” Forti is survived by his pregnant wife, Hope Forti, his son Max, See Forti A2
Radio Free Hillsdale wins station of the year By | Nicole Ault & Sutton Dunwoodie Editor-in-chief & Collegian Reporter The Michigan Association of Broadcasters named Hillsdale College’s radio station, Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM, the 2019 College Radio Station of the Year on Wednesday. “It’s really satisfying to be recognized among a pool of very talented schools,” said Scot Bertram, general manager of the station. “The students who work here want to be good, so that certainly shows up in the final product.” Bertram and the students received the award at the Michigan Student Broadcast Awards ceremony in Lansing — the second radio awards ceremony members of the station attended in five days. On Saturday, five WRFH participants attended the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Media Awards in New York City, where junior Ben Dietderich won first place for best news interview for an interview with then-United Nations ambassador John
Bolton. Seven other Hillsdale students were finalists for various awards from IBS, meaning they finished in the top three to five percent of all submissions, depending on the category. Colleges competed nation- The Michigan Association of Broadcasters has named ally for Radio Free Hillsdale the College Radio Station of the the IBS Year. Scot Bertram, the staton’s general manager, awards. holds up their award. Scot Bertram | Courtesy “These WRFH’s third year of operawards are open to any ation. college radio station in the At the Lansing ceremony country,” Bertram said. on Wednesday, MAB also “There are a large number of honored students for indivery well run, very successvidual awards they’d been ful college radio programs notified of previously — among the finalists.” This is including three first-place
awards for Hillsdale students. WRFH placed in each of the five categories it entered (out of eight categories total), Bertram said. Last year, the station entered fewer submissions and received five awards total from MAB. Individual awards included first-place recognition for sophomore Stefan Kleinhenz’s “The Hillsdale Interview: Ajit Pai” in the current events program category, 2018 alumnae Chandler Lasch and Sarah Schutte’s “What, What Happened?” in the on-air personality team category, and seniors Ben Dietderich and Jenna Suchyta’s “American View” in the talk show category. Dietderich also received a second-place award in the current events category for an interview with former U.S. senatorial candidate John James, and Suchyta won second place in the daily newscast/news feature category. Senior Ryan Kelly Murphy took third place for a newscast, and senior Cole McNeely and junior Martin Petersen took third for sportscasting.
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Q&A: Ken Starr, former solicitor general By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor Ken Starr is an attorney best known for his role as independent counsel in the Whitewater Investigation from 1994-1998. Starr, along with former President Clinton, was named Time’s Man of the Year in 1998. He served as dean of Pepperdine Law School from 2006-2010 and president of Baylor University from 20102016. Most students are too young to remember the Clinton Investigation. What was your role in the investigation? I was serving as independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation and then other investigations that were added to my portfolio. So it started with Whitewater and then snowballed from there? I wouldn’t use the term snowballed. Attorney General Janet Reno asked me to Follow @HDaleCollegian
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take on additional matters for investigation, and I acceded to each one of her requests. Those included the travel office firings and the FBI files scandal.
Investigating a sitting president, I would assume, comes with a fair amount of pressure and scrutiny. How did you handle it? Faith, family, and friends. I always tried to conduct myself professionally, but the going frequently got rough. I relied heavily on those three pillars. According to various media outlets, you’ve expressed regret that you ever asked the DOJ to allow you to head the investigation. Do you regret it and why? I think there’s been a misinI think there’s been a misinterpretation. I’ve said that I regretted that the Attorney General didn’t have another readily available alternative, another individual to appoint as independent council. There were a number of reasons underlying that sentiment. First and foremost, I was eager to complete my duties and become Dean of Pepperdine Law School in Malibu.
The second was the investigation enjoyed great successes including 14 criminal convictions, but it became increasingly controversial. What advice do you have for students that are looking to go into your line of work? Study extremely hard, but always follow your conscience. Make a prayerful decision about right and wrong. Then, hold tenaciously to what you believe is right. Is there anything you want to tell Hillsdale students? Give thanks that you’re at Hillsdale, and keep supporting Hillsdale when you enter the ranks of alumni. Private liberal education is always facing many challenges, and Hillsdale is showing such remarkable strength and endurance. One of the reasons it does is because of its countless friends and many thousands of alumni. Be a grateful alumnus or alumna.
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Red Wings legend was Hillsdale hockey coach Players remember Ted Lindsay, who died this week at age 93 By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor Ted Lindsay’s legendary hockey career with the Detroit Red Wings earned him the nicknames “Terrible Ted” and “Old Scarface.” Despite his fierce reputation, Lindsay built a tradition of respect and integrity within the hockey program at Hillsdale College, where he coached for four years. Hillsdale College Athletic Director Don Brubacher said Lindsay was held in the highest regard as a player and representative for the Red Wings’ program. “He was also held in that high regard as head coach here at Hillsdale College,” Brubacher said. Lindsay died Monday, March 4, at his suburban home in Detroit at age 93. He is survived by his three children, one stepdaughter, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Two of his children, Blake Lindsay and Lynn Lindsay LaPaugh, attended Hillsdale College. His legacy as head coach of the Hillsdale College hockey team from 1974 to 1977 lives on through the lessons he taught his players. Bob Barss ’77 said he met Lindsay when he was eight years old attending Lindsay and Marty Pavelich’s hockey school in Port Huron, Michigan. “That’s how I got to know Mr. Lindsay,” Barss said. “And he became extremely close friends with my mother and father.”
When former Hillsdale College hockey coach Jim Drawbridge announced he was leaving, Barss said Blake Lindsay had a solution. “The team is looking around, and Blake called his dad, and said, ‘Hey, can you come fill in for a couple of weeks while we look for a new coach,’” Barss said. When Lindsay showed up, Barss said he gave the team a new set of rules. “Lindsay told us, ‘You represent the school, you represent me, and you represent yourselves. Every game now, I want people to wear a coat and tie to games, and I want everyone to get a haircut,’” Barss said. “Back then everyone wore their hair a little long.” Barss said the team was hesitant to cut their hair, but Lindsay made his point clear. “Lindsay goes, ‘You don’t have to cut your hair, only if you want to play for me,’” Barss said. “Then he turned around and walked back out.” The next day, Barss said everyone came back with a clean haircut. “Everybody wanted to play for Mr. Lindsay,” Barss said. Steve Veno ’77 played for Lindsay as a right wing and said Lindsay’s playing style did not come through in his coaching style. “He was much more of a gentler and kinder person than the reputation he had when he played,” Veno said. Steve Maggs ’76 played under Lindsay as a center for Hillsdale’s hockey
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Students travel to CPAC, Spalding speaks at panel on faith and politics By | Alex Nester D.C. Correspondent About 30 students from Hillsdale attended the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by the American Conservative Union at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Hillsdale’s chapter of College Republicans, led by junior President Patrick Farrell, brought a busload of students to the nation’s capital for this year’s CPAC, which featured nearly 100 conservative speakers from Feb. 27 through March 2. Various right-leaning groups like The Heartland Institute,
The Heritage Foundation, and the National Rifle Association hosted booths at the CPAC Hub, giving away swag and literature. Many media outlets, including Hillsdale’s own Radio Free Hillsdale, set up radio booths outside of the main auditorium with the hopes of snagging an interview from the speakers. “I’ve heard from a lot of the people who went that they really enjoyed themselves,” Farrell said. “For myself, I always think it’s cool to be in a place where the news is being made and to have the chance to meet some really awe-
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gathered at the Club’s film festival on March 5 to watch the films that had been created during the contest. A panel of three faculty members – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address Ethan Stoneman, Distinguished Associate Professor of History D.G. Hart, and Associate Professor of Politics Kevin Slack – judged the films on a 50 point scale, where each team could earn a possible 150 points. “The Wendigo” earned 122 points from the judges and a $50 gift card prize. Sophomore Tom Southwell directed and wrote “The Wendigo,” while Grifferty contributed to the writing, and sophomore Ethan Lehman edited the film. The goal of the film, Grifferty said, was to get at the core of what the Wendigo
“The Wendigo” short film took first place in the Hillsdale College Film and Production Club’s 48-hour film contest. Sophomore Dan Grifferty said “The Wendigo” was inspired by a Native American myth about cannibalism. “It’s kind of like a Native American vampire,” Grifferty said. “We decided to do something a little thematically unique.” The Hillsdale College Film and Production Club held a 48-hour film contest on March 1, in which five teams had 48 hours to record and edit a short film. Each film had to be between one and seven minutes and had to be about mythology. More than 20 students
myth is about. “It’s this idea of what food looks like when it’s perverted and what the sin of gluttony looks like,” Grifferty said. The film concludes with the Wendigo, played by Grifferty, chomping away at raw meat. Southwell said the goal of the final scene was to get a reaction from the audience. “Some reaction was better than no reaction,” Southwell said. “We didn’t want to make something mediocre. We thought, ‘Let’s just get a closeup shot of a dude eating raw meat.’” Even with its shocking conclusion, Stoneman said he liked the genre and technicality of “The Wendigo.” “I like things that are horror or comedy,” Stoneman. “But technically, it was put together really well. The cin-
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ematography, the sound, the acting, and the plotting.” Stoneman said he awarded the second place winner, “Echo,” the same number of points. The second place winner was decided by an audience vote, but it happened to correlate with the judge’s voting. Directed by sophomore Gabe Listro, “Echo” earned a total score of 119 points from the judges and a $15 gift card prize. Senior Shiloh Carozza, an actress in the film, said she and Listro originally had the idea of making the film about Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus. “As our thought process developed, it became more about Echo,” Carozza said. “Echo falls in love with Narcissus, but she is cursed so she can’t speak, and she’s never
By | Nicole Ault Editor-in-chief Within the 22 years since he graduated from Hillsdale College in 1997, Tom Morrison has been a journalist and a fifth-grade teacher, run a disaster clean-up business, and served as a state representative. He attributes much of his political success to his well-rounded career. Speaking via livestream video to about 20 students at an event hosted by the Hillsdale College Young America’s Foundation chapter Tuesday night, Morrison — who serves as a Republican state representative for Illinois’ 54th district since 2011 — offered wisdom on family and politics as he shared highlights from his career post-Hillsdale. Morrison didn’t always have politics on his mind: He majored in history and wanted to go into radio while at Hillsdale. But Steve Casai — a former greeter at the college dining hall who was fondly known as “Saga Steve” — helped connect him with the Hillsdale County Right to Life organization, Morrison said. “It opened a door for me
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some people, as well as attend career building events.” In addition to the students who attended CPAC through College Republicans, three more Hillsdale students conducted 58 interviews over the course of two days at CPAC’s Radio Row. The students interviewed conservatives like Glenn Beck of The Blaze, Brexit leader Nigel Farage, Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton, and members of Congress, including Mike Gallagher (R-AL) and Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA), among others. Scot Bertram, general manager of WRFH 101.7 FM in Hillsdale, set up the equipment, recorded interviews, and guided student interviewers. Matthew Spalding, associate vice president and dean of educational programs for Hillsdale’s Alan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in
to get involved in politics via the right-to-life movement,” Morrison said. Morrison moved back to the Chicago area, worked in broadcasting full time, and taught at a Christian school for a few years. Then he and his brother opened a disaster cleaning business before he ran for office. “Hillsdale taught me to be flexible and curious,” Morrison said. “And it taught me some economics.” On certain economic issues, Morrison has taken a strong stand. He said he refused to give Sears a tax break (“Everyone should have equal treatment under the law,” he said) and worked hard to stall a bill vying for special deals for energy companies. He is also the first Illinois legislator to opt out of the state’s pension systems. Morrison said Hillsdale College Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram’s political economy class was the most helpful for what he’s doing today. But he also credits his history major — and other classes — for giving him an understanding of the world. “Take it all in; always be learning,” he said. “I never Washington, D.C., spoke at CPAC Thursday morning in a panel on faith and politics. “It was meant to go after those questions about whether conservatives — especially more libertarian conservatives — should see religious liberty and faith as the underpinnings of liberty,” Spalding said. Spalding began going to CPAC during his time as a graduate student and has spoken at CPAC multiple times. He said he is a “pinch hitter” for his friend, Matt Schlapp, who is chairman of the American Conservative Union and runs CPAC. Spalding said he has witnessed CPAC grow from smaller venues to the Gaylord Hotel, which boasts a huge auditorium with professional lighting and music. “The objective here, which of course Hillsdale’s mission feeds right into, is activism, and CPAC has many activists. But what Schlapp is trying to do here too is bring in an educational component,” Spalding
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feel like I’ve made it. I read as much as I can.” Sophomore Carl Miller, president of Hillsdale’s YAF chapter, said the club asked Morrison to speak because of his compatibility with the group: Many of the YAF members are from the Chicago suburbs and interested in running for office, and as a Hillsdale alumnus, Morrison had a connection with everyone there as well. Miller said he was most impressed with Morrison’s work-family balance and prioritization of family, something Morrison emphasized during his talk (he said he devotes almost all of his Sundays to family and tries to go “all in” when he’s with them). Freshman Benjamin Wilson, who attended the talk, hails from Morrison’s district and has volunteered for his campaigns for six years, he said. He agreed that Morrison’s values were most impressive. “His faith is most important to him and to me,” Wilson said, adding that Morrison got him interested in Hillsdale. “That’s why I’m here,” he said. said. “It’s not doctrinal as much as it’s about ideas that come out of the older western tradition and the American founding, which is, of course, what we teach about.” Sophomores Kate Ford and Sam Roon attended their first CPAC this year through Hillsdale’s College Republicans group. “I am really interested in the world of conservative politics right now, and CPAC is a great opportunity to see the people that you watch on TV or see on Twitter,” Ford said. “It’s a surreal experience to be sitting a few feet away from them.” Both Ford and Roon said it was great to see and connect with so many people in the conservative movement. “It’s great to see these people and have common ground with so many conservative college students and older people,” Roon said.
Lydia Reyes said she was most impressed with the originality of each of the films and thought the contest went well. “This is going to bring a lot of attention to the club,” Reyes said. “I’m really excited about it.” Reyes added that the club is hoping to collaborate with different clubs and organizations on campus to organize more events. On March 21, Reyes said the Film and Production Club is partnering with the Dow Journalism Program to hold on a viewing of “Moynihan,” a biopic about Patrick Moynihan in Lane 125 at 6 p.m. There will be a lecture and Q&A with Joseph Dorman, the writer, director, and producer of “Moynihan.”
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Tom Morrison talks Hillsdale, family, politics for YAF event
able to communicate verbally her love.” Stoneman said he didn’t expect to be as entertained as he was with the films. “I thought they were all really professionally done,” Stoneman said. “The cinematography in all of them was great. The plotting with a lot of them was pretty impressive, and they were all entertaining.” “The Edge of the World,” directed by sophomore Maggie Ryland, earned 115 points. “Asphodel,” produced by senior Jordyn Pair, earned 105 points. “The Labyrinth,” produced by junior Samuel Musser and sophomores Collin Lehmann, Michael Whitman, and Jack Hall earned 102 points. Vice President of the Film and Production Club senior
Two members of the Hillsdale Debate Team traveled to California on a scouting trip of sorts with hopes of returning with information on the differences between Midwest and West Coast Lincoln Douglas debate. Between the Midwest and the West Coast, there are not many Lincoln Douglas debate programs. The teams that Hillsdale College usually sees at competition hail from the Midwest and Eastern seaboard. This spring, however, the National Forensics Tournament is located in Los Angeles, CA. Coach Matthew Doggett and team members sophomore Jadon Buzzard and sophomore T.J. Wilson traveled to the Horton Cup Debate Tournament in Sacramento, CA. Both Buzzard and Wilson broke into the open rounds; Wilson made it to quarterfinals and Buzzard to semifinals. “This tournament definitely lived up to Hillsdale students
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rejoice in the challenge,” Doggett said. “They had to get up early to catch a plane. We had a problem with the car tires. Then we flew out there — and there’s a three-hour difference — debated all day Saturday, and then flew back on Sunday. They got back at about 12 a.m. and hadn’t had any sleep since the previous morning.” The trio found that Midwest Lincoln Douglas debate is much more policy-based. “It’s more based upon the technicalities of policy and the impacts of the policy,” Buzzard said. “The West Coast is more based on the assumptions you’re making when you run your policy in the round. So you’re assuming some kind of bad mindset, and we should talk about that first.” Doggett, Buzzard, and Wilson had some idea of the differences they would encounter on the West Coast. They tailored their research for the tournament so they might be better prepared to combat those arguments. “We had some idea that they cared more about the mindsets of your policymak-
ing,” Wilson said. “A lot of research went into trying to understand what they might be doing in that regard instead of trying to figure out all the different policy issues.” While most Lincoln Douglas teams on the West Coast are concentrated in California, more teams are popping up in Oregon, Washington, and surrounding states. The teams are switching over from parliamentary debate. “Parliamentary debate on the West Coast is super fast, and the argumentation is very shallow because there’s not a lot of evidence that’s used because it’s not policy,” Buzzard said. “Teams are thinking that the type of debate is not as educational as Lincoln Douglas policy since you get a while to prepare and can actually read evidence in a round.” The first weekend of spring break, a handful of members will travel to John Carroll University for a tournament. After the break, the team will head to New York City for the Pi Kappa Delta national tournament.
Ann Forti, Kyle’s mother, posted on Facebook. “It is everything Kyle would and seven siblings. want! (Well, he would want “Kyle first and foremost the mess picked up and loved being with his family. organized at some point.)... His wife, Hope, and his son, Keeping the legacy alive.” Max, were his world,” BonDuring his time at Hillsham said. “Kyle loved navidale, Forti joined the Sigma gating this crazy little thing Chi fraternity, served as a called life with everyone student ambassathat entered. dor, and douHe challenged ble-majored in each of us to love political science our neighbors and Christian and asked if our studies. focus should “He’s always shift from being been the kind perceived as a of person peo‘good person’ to ple want to be being better at around: relentbeing a person.” lessly positive, full As a foster of energy,” Taylor parent, Forti Gage, ’10, said. was passionate “People gravitated about improving towards him beColorado’s foster cause of his outcare system. look on life, his “For him, I desire to pursue think it came out the truth, and his of the calling of love for exploring their faith,” Vice not just ideas but President of Pubalso places.” lic Policy at ColProfessor of orado Christian History Brad University Jeff Birzer and LecHunt said. “And turer of History Kyle was strongly Dedra Birzer motivated to be a remember Forti good dad. I think for his sense of it was one of his adventure and for key passions in his commitment life if you looked to his family. at the way he “He was an abtreated his son Kyle Forti, ’12, majored in political science and Chrissolute mainstay in tian studies while at Hillsdale and was part of Sigma Max. He loved Colorado, a force his son deeply; Chi. Facebook of nature. Everyhe took him on adventures. I noticed Kyle ‘seeing’ our body knew him,” Brad think the love for improving Birzer said. “He was always the foster system came out of children. He paid beautiful attention to other people.” on fire. He’s not the kind of that deep love as a father.” After the crash, past guy who would have faded Hope and Kyle Forti out of life. I don’t mean to founded the nonprofit Foster foster children came to visit the Fortis. sound insensitive — it’s horTogether Colorado to help “The house is filled with rible — but I think his death foster children and foster past foster kids and other had to have been as dramatic parents. He worked to grow children pressing out the as his life was. Everything he his business so that he could play dough on the table, touched, he changed.” afford to spend half of his LEGOs all over the floor, and time at home with his son. kids running through the He joked about competing house in every direction,”
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Moreno offers weekly seminar on history of abortion in America By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Paul Moreno, professor of history and dean of social sciences, is teaching a seminar on the history of abortion this semester. With about 30 students enrolled, Moreno has lectures twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays, and students have the option to choose which section to attend on any given week. “The chief thing I wanted to do in this course is to give the students an accurate history of the abortion issue,” Moreno said. “That history is grossly distorted by law professors like Cyril Means and historians like James Mohr. Hundreds of professional historians prostituted themselves, signing briefs in Supreme Court cases that attested to this distorted history.” Moreno requires no books and provides handouts for the course but asks students to stay informed about the current events and stories around the abortion issue. He asks them to scan media sources throughout the semester, particularly regarding their home state, and three times throughout the semester, the students are to send him the link or photocopy of the story and evaluate how the writer addresses and uses the history of the issue in the story. “Both sides have distorted the history, though the pro-abortion side has done so wholesale and the pro-life side
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retail,” Moreno said. Moreno cautions students to “believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.” Senior Andres Torres, who plans on going into medicine, said he wants to understand the medical side of the debate. “I want to understand why the practice of abortion has been endorsed by the medical community,” Torres said. “As I am going to enter the medical field, I believe that I need to know about the practices that I know that I will refuse to practice on a moral basis.” For junior Megan Kerr, who is also in the seminar, the abortion issue is also extremely important and hits close to home since since she has a special needs brother. “When I first heard about abortions targeting babies who are at risk of having special needs and developmental disabilities, I was outraged,” Kerr said. “I feel like it is my job to fight for them and for all the preborn because the sanctity of life ought to be celebrated at any and all stages.” Kerr wanted to take the seminar to learn more about the seminal cases that have surrounded the issue. “I recognized that this seminar was going to be a great way to be educated on the evolution of the abortion debate, and I wanted to learn more about what I was fighting for,” she said. Sophomore Bryna Destefani is also taking the course and the whole issue of aborCraig Connor ’77 played as a left wing for Lindsay at Hillsdale College and said Lindsay was a patient and modest man despite his credentials. “He was very fair and knew the game,” Connor said. “He was a very tough-minded and determined person.” Standing just 5 feet and 8 inches, Lindsay wasn’t physically intimidating, but his five older brothers and
tion is particularly important at this time in her life. “My husband, who is also a sophomore here at Hillsdale, and I are expecting our first child this summer. As a new mother, I am reminded that so many young women are told that abortion is their best, and almost only, option for an unplanned pregnancy,” Destefani said. As Destefani experiences pregnancy, she said she wants to be more educated on the history of an issue that has been constantly developing with new laws and understand how the history and debates have brought the country to this point. “Learning about abortion practices during my pregnancy is both a challenging and powerfully real experience. As we talk about laws concerning weeks and viability, I am experiencing these milestones of pregnancy firsthand,” Destefani said. “It is such cruelty to young women to tell them that the best way to support them is to ‘terminate’ their child’s life, rather than supporting them through their pregnancy.” Moreno has regularly taught U.S. history after World War II. In one of his classes when he discussed Roe v. Wade, a student asked Moreno if he could teach a one-credit course just focusing on abortion history. “And now it’s in the news every day, so it’s very timely,” Moreno said.
Olympia, Maggs said Lindsay always made the team sweep the seats. team and was team captain “There really wasn’t his final two seasons. anything there to sweep,” He said Lindsay always Maggs said. “We had to pay demanded professionalsomething for that ice.” ism and respect for one Even when Lindsay was another. running an automotive “Integrity was incredibly business out of the Detroit important to him,” Maggs area, Maggs said he would said. still drive into Jackson for Maggs added that Lindpractices twice a week. say had an incredible work “He still had a full-time ethic, which earned him job, ” Maggs said. “It was a four Stanley Cup titles in quite a commitment for him, and that always stood out in my mind, just that incredible work ethic. And I think that stuck with a lot of us.” Maggs said Lindsay always showed up to the Hillsdale alumni games even after the program had ended. “Ted always participated, or he was there on the bench,” Maggs said. “Even our last one, in September 2016, he was 90. But he was there opening the door for one of the teams.” Both Connor and Maggs said Lindsay was very committed to the Hillsdale hockey program. “It was an honor to play for him, and he was a good coach,” Connor said. “I learned quite a bit from him, not only about hockey, but Ted Lindsay earned four Stanley Cup titles in his 14 seasons with about life.” the Red Wings and was named to the All Star Team 11 times. Barss said he and Hillsdale College Archives Lindsay shared lunch in 1995, and Lindsay dishis 14 seasons with the Red three older sisters taught him how to play tough. cussed his successful efforts Wings. He was named to “He wasn’t a big guy,” to form the NHL Players’ the All Star Team 11 times. Connor said. “But he Association in 1967. Lindsay was inducted played with a lot of heart “He told me, ‘It was the into the Hockey Hall of and a lot of grit and deterhardest thing in the world Fame in 1966, but Maggs mination.” to do because we had to said Lindsay declined to Both Connor and Maggs keep this away from the attend the banquet because said they enjoyed when owners. The other thing, it was an all-male event. Lindsay would get the that was just as hard, was I “He didn’t attend Hillsdale hockey team exhad to go talk to all of the because women weren’t tra practice at Olympia, the key players on other teams, allowed in the ceremony,” and they all hated me, Maggs said. “That just goes Red Wings’ former arena. “We would practice they all hung up the phone to show his character.” there with some of the whenever I called them,’” Lindsay played in 1,068 former Red Wings he had Barss said. regular season games with played with,” Connor said. After a celebrated the Red Wings and the “Sometimes he’ d get into career, Barss said Lindsay Chicago Blackhawks. He games with them, and that considered forming the scored 379 goals, 412 aswas a lot of fun for me and NHL Players’ Association sists, and 851 points, adda lot of the other guys.” as being one of the most ing 47 goals for 96 points Maggs said the games important things he could in 133 playoff games. were supposed to be have done for the game of Maggs said it was a “non-checking,” but Lindhockey. great honor to play under say still played rough at “I can count the peoLindsay. times. ple who have been great “We knew that he was a “He was still hitting mentors in my life on one hall-of-famer,” Maggs said. hand,” Barss said. “And Mr. “We all realized that having pretty hard just to make a point to us that we may Lindsay is one of them.” such a special person take an interest in our team was be younger, but he’s still tough,” Maggs said. really something special.” After practicing at
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Ken Starr, former U.S. solicitor general, analyzed the current Mueller investigation in light of his involvement with the investigation that impeached former President Bill Clinton. Victoria Marshall | Collegian
Former solicitor general weighs in on Mueller investigation of Trump By | Victoria Marshall Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale students will be studying the case law that emerges from the aftermath of the Mueller investigation, Ken Starr said in a lecture on Thursday. The former Solicitor General gave a lecture titled “Investigating the President: From Ulysses S. Grant to Robert Mueller,” where he drew from his own experience to give context to the Mueller investigation. The talk was hosted by the Federalist Society on Feb. 28. Starr is best known as the head lawyer of the independent counsel that directed the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He was most recently the president of Baylor University in Texas. After recounting the story of the Saturday Night Massacre, which occurred during the throes of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, Starr brought up the Ethics and Government Act, which was passed by Congress in 1978 in reaction to the Nixon administration’s conduct. “Part of the Ethics and Government Act was the creation of what became known as the independent counsel provision, and I stand before you as someone who was a veteran of having served under that statute,” Starr said. Part of the act requires the attorney general of the U.S. to investigate allegations against the executive branch by appointing a special prosecutor. “The appointment of an officer to carry out very important functions: That’s the job of the president of the United States and those who report to him,” Starr said. “And so, not surprisingly, there was a constitutional challenge to the special prosecutor/independent counsel statute.” The statute was upheld in a 7-1 decision, with Justice Anthony Kennedy recusing himself. Justice Antonin Scalia was the only dissenting vote. Starr mentioned that one of the things Scalia had issue with was the part of the statute that required the independent counsel to report to
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“As a young program — it’s been here less time than I’ve been here —to see us go from zero to best in Michigan state in three years is a testament to not only Scot’s expertise and direction but also something special about Hillsdale students,” said Shadrach Strehle, program director of WRFH. Bertram and Strehle agreed that WRFH’s focus on talk shows and newscasts helped it succeed; most other college stations focus on music, they said. “We just have so much more mic time,” Bertram said. “It’s like sports — the more reps you get, the better you are. The more time you spend in front of a mic and the more time you spend putting shows
Congress. “One of the things that he said in his opinion that directly relates to what we are experiencing right now in eager anticipation of the Mueller Report is that this statute is ‘acrid with the smell of impeachment,’” Starr said. “Let that sink in. What this tool is, this independent counsel statute, supposedly an instrument of reform, is actually a mighty weapon that Congress is wielding against the presidency.” That very statute that Scalia condemned made Starr’s name synonymous with the Lewinsky scandal. “You know there was this thing called the Starr Report — that was the report sent out to the House of Representatives — because there was a specific statutory command to all independent counsels,” Starr said. “So it fell to our lot in the office to prepare this much-criticized report, not for its factual inaccuracies— its factual accuracy has stood the test of time. It was just ugly and unpleasant and salacious. People didn’t like that, and I didn’t like that either. You think it’s unpleasant to read; imagine what it was like to have to write the nonsense, but it was truthful.” Fast-forwarding to 1999, Starr mentioned a set of new regulations made under former Attorney General Janet Reno that curtailed the power of the independent counsel. Under these regulations, the special counsel had to seek and accept the Justice Department’s guidance on any investigation. “These regulations are still in place. And it’s under them that Rod Rosenstein appointed Bob Mueller to the special counsel,” Starr said. “When you read the regulations, the regulations say Bob Mueller is to provide a confidential report to the attorney general of the United States. Then the attorney general, under the regulations, is not to send that report to Congress. He’s supposed to notify Congress, but it is not provided in the regulations that he send a fulsome report to Congress.” Starr then mentioned that Adam Schiff, chair of the together, the better you are going to get.” Dietderich has been a part of the program since its first year and credited much of its success to Bertram and the effort of students. “I think we have a lot more shows than we did when we first started, and the experience of people running the shows has obviously improved,” Dietderich said. “A lot of people have taken Scot Bertram’s radio courses,which I think are really helpful if you want a career in journalism. We’ve also come a long way in our news programming.” Strehle said Bertram’s focus on quality and students’ daily hard work has allowed the station to develop in such a short time. “At the end of the day, the awards were points-
House Intelligence Committee, in direct violation of the Reno regulations, said just two weeks ago that if Congress is not granted information from the Attorney General regarding the Mueller Investigation, they will use their subpoena power and litigate if need be. “I guess you can say, ‘Well, Congress has that power,’ but there are privileges enjoyed by the executive branch in dealing with the Congress,” Starr said. “My dear friends, by the time you’re in law school, you’ll be studying the litigation and the case law that emerges out of this.” Starr finished his talk by saying he wanted students to think of these events not in terms of news breaking, but in how they will be handled under our constitutional structure, which was created to prevent the aggregation of too much power in a single branch. “Stay tuned. We’re told that the Mueller report may be available next week, so fasten your seatbelts,” Starr said. Students who attended the talk responded favorably to Starr and his message. “You hear a lot of people talking about the investigation, and they all have their own opinion, but you don’t often have someone as qualified as him, having been the actual person who’s done it before— he’s got a unique perspective,” said freshman Joseph Hoppe. Sophomore Emma Eisenman said she liked that Starr implied that corruption in government is fueled by the exploitation and perversion of constitutional principles. “I thought it was very important not just how he outlined the corruption within so many presidential terms, but how he linked it back to our constitutional structure, and how our government has fought that constitutional structure throughout history.” Eisenman said. “The constitution lays out the fundamental principles of our country, and we haven’t always followed the rules. These are things we should think about especially moving forward because they will determine where this country is going.” based, and we had to put out good content,” Strehle said. “Quality comes down to the good individuals putting in the work.” Dietderich said he hopes to attract professional guests from all over the nation and reach a wider audience. With that in mind, he recently changed the motto of his talk show to “Where Hillsdale Meets the Nation.” “Professional guests out there are really willing to talk to Hillsdale students,” he said. Bertram said he expects the station to continue to grow and set the bar even higher. “The hope is that we keep getting better and take home even more awards next year,” Bertram said.
Correction from Feb. 28 issue An article from the Feb. 28 issue of The Collegian (“College reorganizes administrative offices”) incorrectly
identified Bill Gray as the Vice President of National Donor Outreach. His correct title is Associate Vice
President of National Donor Outreach.
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Spring break is almost here — “finally” — and whether your plans include travel to the nearest warm spot or just crashing at home for several days, the first thing on your mind is probably to get rest. We’re Hillsdale students, we talk a lot about how busy we are. During the school year it seems the only difference between you and the person next to you having a mental breakdown in the library is that you are the strong one. The overcommitted and un-
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Conservatives need to take ‘crazy’ policies seriously By | Erik Halvorson Columnist One of the most memorable classrooms experiences of my life was during my sophomore year in History of Economic Thought, when Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele — no enemy of the free market, mind you — marched to the front of the class, dropped a copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” on the table, and proclaimed: “I’m going to make you all Marxists by the end of the week!” We all chuckled. This is the Hillsdale Economics department, we just don’t believe things like that. But throughout our discussion Marxism and Soviet communism, not once did Steele describe these ideas as ridiculous, preposterous, or silly. I don’t think any of us left as Marxists that week, but we did leave Steele’s classroom with a deeper understanding of these ideas and a reinvigorated appreciation for our own beliefs. Only through understanding the other side could we ever begin to truly form our own justifications for economic freedom. While this story is very much the norm at Hillsdale College, it is, unfortunately, unrequited in many young conservative circles. At Fox News, Tucker Carlson has infuriated many a college socialist and Democratic operative through his dismissive smirks. He has turned the split-screen deadpan into a work of art. This phenomenon continues on the interwebs with the ever-popular “Interviewing College Liberals” or “Ben Shapiro Destroys” videos that rack up tens of thousands of views on YouTube. But while such low-hanging fruit provides entertainment for young conservatives (myself included), this trend of flippantly dismissing arguments with which we disagree is destructive. It is very easy to dismiss ideas like the Green New Deal, universally-paid for college, or just about all of Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) platform as lunacy, but these proposals are supported by wide swaths of the population. While young conservatives laugh at the notion of America ever becoming a socialist country, our leftist peers actively work to make it so. The conservative argument might make sense to us, but that doesn’t mean it will come to pass. One of the cliches of debate is that you must know your opponent’s argument better than he does. Unfortunately, this mentality is an anomaly in the young conservative movement. Rather than seeking to understand the left’s ideology in depth, we try to learn just enough to offer what we see
as a scathing rebuttal. Rarely do we ask ourselves: why do so many people my age openly embrace socialism? Rather, we resort to the easy mischaracterization of all these budding Marxists as spoiled and entitled products of helicopter parents. For those young Charles Krauthammers out there, have you ever considered why the debunked doctrine of socialism is so popular with your seemingly intelligent peers, or what the academic or philosophical underpinnings of such an idea are? These may be important things to consider before rushing to laugh at the insanity of “that loon bag Bernie Sanders” staging his bid for the presidency. According to a recent Reason-Rupe poll, 58 percent of college-aged Americans view socialism favorably. Are these tens of thousands of people chomping at the bit to become the next Vladamir Lenin or Nicholas Maduro? Are they hell bent on enslaving the masses so they can live in luxury at the expense of others? The obvious answer is no. Perhaps, like most people our age, they see problems in the world and crave to fix them. Perhaps they see a broken healthcare system that leaves many with inadequate insurance. Perhaps they see problems that are not being addressed by those in power. That does not mean their solutions are right, but unless we do our best to understand their perspective, we will do nothing but throw stones from behind our ideologically fortified bunkers. Many like to say that American conservatism has a marketing problem. Our message is obviously correct (it’s the promotions of eternal truths, for Kirk’s sake!), so we just need to figure out how to present it to the latest generation. This mentality may be agreeable, but it leads to an anemic understanding of our core values. The “dunking on leftist” approach favored by your average college-aged conservative, and promoted by groups like Turning Point USA, may be delicious to those already in agreement, but it does very little to change the minds of the many fence-sitters. Tucker Carlson’s smirking approach to politics, while enjoyable, is toxic. Rather than laughing at your political opponents, try to understand them, if for nothing more than to fortify your own positions. Without the humility to question one’s own ideas, a person can never grow and learn. You never know, maybe in your crusade to rid the world of those Dummycrats, your mind might change once or twice along the way. Erik Halvorson is a senior studying Economics.
prepared, over-caffeinated and under-rested lifestyle hasn’t pulled you under … yet. We, the champions of economic freedom and personal responsibility, are living the psychological equivalent of paycheck-to-paycheck, just trying to make it to the next break. We schedule everything down to 15-minute intervals, but we forget to schedule rest. “I’ll sleep on break,” you tell yourself.The reality is, this kind of lifestyle is hugely detrimental not only to our physical
health, but also to our mental health. Burnout can happen, and it’s not just for second-semester seniors. When we’re running at full capacity 24/7, eventually we run out of gas, and sometimes it’s before we get to break. Even if you do make it to break, it’s not uncommon to get sick once you crash. Your lifestyle catches up to your body at some point, and by the time you’re well again, it’s time to come back and do it all over again. What’s good, true, or
beautiful about that? There’s a great line from the 2000s TV show “Gilmore Girls,” that goes like this: “Saturday is the day of pre-rest. Then by the time you get to Sunday you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest.” And there’s merit in that. Instead of cramming every last activity in before you go on break, instead of staying up all night because you can sleep in tomorrow, get some pre-rest. You might find you have a better #SB2K19 because of it.
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Remembering Kyle Forti and the life he built on Hillsdale’s ideals He was By | Weston Boardman Special to the Collegian always that
way…full of life.” In the fall of 2008, Kyle Kyle’s Forti was just like any other pledge Hillsdale freshman: eager and brother, Mike jubilant, and not fully aware Morrison ’12 of the impact he would have said he was on each person with which he obsessed with interacted. Like us, he attended classes “the virtues of a noble such as Western Heritage and man.” Constitution 101, in which he Kyle, was an “active participant” Mike, and with a great deal of “personalfellow Sigma ity and energy,” according to Chi Dean Professor of History Thomas Fletcher ’11 Conner. He participated in drove toGreek life as a member of the gether to the Hillsdale Sigma Chi Fraterniannual Conty and was actively involved servative Poin Hillsdale’s Young Amerilitical Action cans for Freedom. As many Conference Hillsdale students aspire to — back bedo, he went into politics after graduating, starting a consult- fore College Republicans ing firm in Colorado. rented buses. But on March 3, 2019, a They arrived helicopter crash near Kenya in the middle stole him from us, along with three of his childhood friends, of the night in Washington, bringing all of this to an D.C. Unable abrupt end. to reach the His passing leaves us with person they sorrow, tears, and questions. intended to But in my discussions with Kyle Forti and his wife, Hope, with their adopted son, Maximus. Facebook those who knew him, I believe stay with, they slept in the Kyle would have wanted us the woman he would one day a relationship for him on the car in a Dunkin to reflect and remember the marry. way to a Greek Intervarsity Donuts parking lot the night moments in which he inspired Despite professional sucConference. That relationship before the convention opened. others and helped them live cess, Kyle lived for his family. then turned into a marriage. During CPAC, Kyle met good lives, not the tragedy Lecturer of History Dedra Nichols said he holds “Kyle with professionals — some that took him. Birzer, a close friend of the responsible for my marriage 30 years his senior — and These are the experiences and my beautiful 2-year-old, shared words of virtue, policy, Forti family, tells a story that in which Kyle’s memory will took place one month before Alex. Without Kyle’s relentand society with them — as endure, through his friends Kyle and Hope’s wedding, less passion for others and his comfortably as though he was and family who strive to live when Kyle’s little sister sudcommitment to his friends, shooting the breeze on Sigma up to his ideals. As Hillsdale denly experienced unexplainmy life would look much Chi’s side-porch in Hillsdale. students, we should take his able seizures. Understanding differently.” Max expressed His passion for others to lead example of how to live a good his sister would be unable to Kyle’s drive to live “every day good and moral lives was life to heart and chart our travel, Kyle and Hope moved to its utmost” and actualize ever-present. course according to the foottheir wedding date up and his oft-repeated tag line: “To Kyle also had a deep sense prints he left us: opted for his family farm in literally rage against the dying of devotion. John Papciak ’13 While navigating the Indiana rather than a site in of that passion and light.” another Sigma Chi Hillsdale tumultuous world of politics, California so his sister could From his tireless efforts, alumnus, distinctly rememKyle put people first. His motattend. All the work, time, and Kyle gained the admiration of bers a small moment from a to was, “Always be willing to money they invested into the political allies and the respect put people before policy. After decade prior that highlights wedding and reception were of political adversaries, both this. When his high school all, they’re the whole point of of no significance to Kyle if his of whom speak highly of his sweetheart and future wife, the policy in the first place.” sister could not be there. character as a high-minded Hope, was visiting Kyle, they Kyle’s heart of gold and The care and love he man and a gentleman. His is were relaxing with the others grace allowed him to hanpossessed only multiplied an example worth rememon the balcony of the Sigma dle struggles and genuinely after his marriage. He grew bering and following. We, the Chi House. Kyle’s brothers connect with anyone he his business as “a means-tostudents of Hillsdale College, were teasing him, giving him met. Hillsdale alumnus and an-end,” as Hope put it, so he owe it to Kyle Forti to stoke a hard time as brothers do, fraternity brother John Quint could spend at least 50 percent the fire and keep his light alive but he laughed it off, saying, ’09, who works as Hillsdale’s of each week with his adopted by following his example of “You guys are just jealous.” Assistant Director of Cason Maximus and eventualgrace and kindness toward his Papciak said that now, looking ly foster children full-time. reer Services, described his family and others. Let his legback, he believes that those interactions with him: “I was Before he traveled to Africa, acy live on in us that we may always greeted with a smile, a present were truly jealous and Hope and Kyle decided to be remembered by the love laugh, and wide-open arms. fully aware of his devotion to re-open we show and the memories their home we create. We are not known to full-time for the cars we drive, nor foster care the money we earn, nor the with a focus clothes we wear, and Kyle was on teen and no exception. Everyone who young adult encountered him, even for a parents and brief moment in time, speaks their chilof his virtues. The love and dren. Kyle virtue expressed in a eulogy, ought to be not accolades in a resume, are known as what we will leave behind, just the “Coloas Kyle does now. rado foster By his life, Kyle can stand dad” rather before God and say as Paul than the said in Second Timothy, “I “Colorado have fought the good fight, I political have finished the race, I have strategist,” kept the faith.” Hope said. Let us honor his name and He was a do the same. good family man for his relatives, and also for his friends. Weston Boardman is a Max Nichols George Washington Fellow and ’12 credits a junior studying Economics. Kyle with Hillsdale alumni Max Nichols, Andrew Haines, Kyle Forti, and Lee Hopper (Left to reconciling Right). Courtesy | Max Nichols
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Trump right to walk away from Hanoi Summit, but disappointing results not surprising is unlikely to agree to unilatBy |Nathanael Cheng Special to the Collegian eral disarmament by giving up its nuclear weapons, which it sees as critical to regime Last week, the much-hyped survival. North Korea’s acute second summit between sensitivity to the linkage President Donald Trump between nuclear weapons and and leader of North Korea its survival was on display last Kim Jong-un came to an year when it reacted poorly anticlimactic end as both to National Security Adviser sides walked away without an John Bolton comparing North agreement. Korea to Gaddafi’s Libya. The North Korean side Gaddafi agreed to give up his had demanded the complete nuclear weapons program in repeal of economic sanctions 2003. Eight years after disarin exchange for dismantling mament, U.S.-backed rebels the Yongbyon nuclear facilioverthrew and murdered ties. The United States wanted Gaddafi. the freeze of all plutonium As Victor Cha, Korea Chair and uranium enrichment, at the Center for Strategic and including those in undeclared International Studies, notes, facilities. the North Korean nuclear President Trump was program is “a half-century right not to agree to lifting effort that is deeply ingrained sanctions in exchange for the in the state-building and largely meaningless closing national narrative of this down of the Yongbyon nuclear country.” According to declasfacilities. sified CIA documents, North North Korea has repeatedKorea started planning for its ly pledged to shut down the nuclear program even before aging Yongbyon complex in China’s first “Project 596” the past, including during the nuclear weapons test. 2005 Six Party Talks and 1994 The United States also Agreed Framework. Shutting has a historical tendency to down Yongbyon would be a underestimate North Korean largely meaningless gesture as negotiators, regarding the North Korea has been enrich- mysterious North as crazy or ing uranium at other undeirrational. But the North has clared sites. over the past several decades Nevertheless, the lack of repeatedly executed a preresults is not surprising. dictable playbook of provocaIn the first place, the North
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people and the longer I was By | Christian Yiu Special to the Collegian by myself, the longer the train rides seemed and the harder the maneuvering around cities One of my first memories appeared. But whether it was is my parents reading me the losing my wallet in the middle stories of “Peter Pan” and “Robin Hood.” And even now, of Switzerland, catching a 4 a.m. train in Padua, Italy, or I strive to keep those stories wandering through the streets of courage, adventure, and of Paris with a dead phone, I endless possibilities alive in look back and laugh at how my own life. silly it all was. But these moSo with almost no planments of chaos also brought a ning nor prior experience, I prolonged senses of quiet and traveled the world in 80 days, peace in the Austrian plains, thanks to the generosity of the mountains of the Swiss this school, my parents, and alps, or the stuccohomes of the summers spent slaving the Italian countryside. These away in the Texas sun. In were the moments I learned the span of a few months, to reexamine and ask myself, I traveled to Jerusalem to Washington D.C. to New York what is wonder, or culture, and beauty? City to Iceland to Oxford As Hillsdale College stuUniversity to Edinburgh to Munich to Vienna to Florence dents, we are called to learn deeply and grow together. But to Paris — you get the idea — almost completely on my own. it wasn’t until I left Hillsdale’s campus that I discovered that Though I travelled in groups my education was full actualduring a few of my trips, I ized when I applied it to the mostly trotted across the world beyond Central Hall. globe by myself, with just my Studying abroad or travelling camera, credit card, and a list alone isn’t for everyone, but of things to see. And I would it’s important to remember do it all again: there’s somethat there’s a world we have thing special and invaluable no idea about and stories and about discovering the world cultures we have never heard on your own. of. Through my own journey, There’s a particularly I learned that we cannot be unique experience in Rome fully human if we don’t try to that comes to mind: I stayed see the world and the beauty at this adorable tiny hostel on that lies before us. Whether the outskirts of the city. My it’s in your small Midwestern humble host, a sweet 40-year town, the streets of Washingold lady named Roberta, ton D.C., or even in the halls made me feel welcome in the of the Oxford colleges, never sprawling streets of Italy’s take your journey for granted largest city. Not only did she and learn to see the world as offer helpful tips to local food it is. joints and grocery markets, As human beings, we are but she also cooked an amazing meal for her guests and we all storytellers, eager to share our experiences with others. sang songs around the living Don George from National room table till 2 a.m. This Geographic puts it perfectly memory, along with countwhen he says, “In order to less others, offered a special write deeply, you have to live enlightenment: every place and every person is filled with deeply. This means that your primary mission as a storytelldifferent stories, and life is er is to see keenly, taste keenly, filled with lessons to learn. As fun as traveling for days hear keenly, smell keenly, feel keenly.” This doesn’t just apply on ends sounds, I shared my forms of struggles. For me, it’s to writing. To live well, we must experience the world not easy being independent, and traversing the world alone around us. And the best way to do that is to get out go do it. was challenging. Although I pride myself on being sponChristian Yiu is a George taneous and adventurous, I Washington Fellow and a do enjoy spending time with senior studying Politics.
Passers-by in Oxford, England. Courtesy | Christian Yiu
tion, engagement, and delay, stretching out negotiations to buy time to continue developing its nuclear program. Lee Sung-Yoon, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, notes this strategy started in the 70s when Kim Il-sung embarked on a charm offensive, receiving Western journalists and giving interviews to the Washington Post. Later, Kim Jong-il wined and dined Madeleine Albright. Despite promising signs, however, negotiations would peter out, as happened with the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework of 1994 or the Six Party Talks. While no deal is better than a deal with needless concessions, extended negotiations work in North Korea’s favor. After the summit, news broke that North Korea had began the reconstruction of a missile launch site. As talks continue, North Korea can continue fissile material and warhead production, adding to its current estimated 30 to 60 warheads. According to CSIS, North Korea has approximately twenty undeclared missile operating sites. On the bright side, however, both sides came away from the talks without bad blood,
having had a “constructive and candid exchange of opinion,” leaving the path open for future talks. The North has honored its commitment to halt missile launches and warhead tests, and President Trump is hoping to lure the North with promises of “robust economic development.” Engagement is better than war, and no outcome is inevitable. In September 2018, Pres- President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un at the North Korean summit in Vietnam. ident Trump Wikimedia told the American people that Kim relationship turns out to be, as the title of the song Nathanael Cheng is a he and Kim “fell in love” after by South Korean boy group George Washington Fellow and the first Singapore summit. Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) a senior studying Politics. Time will tell if the Trumpgoes, “fake love.”
Hillsdale should wait to implement the senior capstone By | Isabella Redjai Assistant Editor Earlier this month, after a faculty vote, students were reminded they will need to complete a senior capstone course by the end of their senior year in order to earn a degree from Hillsdale College. The school decided to immediately implement the new curriculum in the fall 2019 without allowing students any sort of grace period or trial. Many students entered into their college course planning with high expectations of double majoring, earning a minor(s), or even having the opportunity to study remotely, but due to the hefty liberal arts core curriculum, many students feel they have had to sacrifice their academic goals. Transfer student Victoria Marshall said, “I transferred in as a junior, and even though I came in with 60 credits, I will not be able to graduate in two years. Because the core curriculum is so big I have to be at Hillsdale for at least three. I was planning on going on WHIP, but at this point it will be super hard to manage.” Another transfer student, Caroline Hennekes, says that although an Art-English double major would have been possible a year ago, with the increasing requirements, she does not find it possible to accomplish this, even with summer classes and study abroad. Other students respond to the core curriculum with disappointment of not being able to minor in journalism or art due to the heavy core requirements, although they already have credits for courses in those areas and are highly involved in extracurricular activities associated with the studies.
With these already heavy requirements, the faculty has decided it will now implement yet another one-credit course, which could make it even harder for students to accomplish some of their goals at Hillsdale. Furthermore, the senior capstone has yet to be tested with any graduating class. Though the course was listed in students’ course catalogs starting in the 2016-17 school year, the course is being implemented with little prior disclosure to students of what it would entail. Without any previous experience offering this style of lecture or class, the administration, by implementing it within the next year, is putting graduating students’ GPAs and academic records at risk. Implementing a core requirement without testing its curriculum is a mistake. The newer core classes are proof of this: As a first-semester freshman, I took Logic and Rhetoric while the textbook we used for the semester was still being written — we even received extra credit for finding any errors in the textbook while reading. It is hasty and unprofessional for the administration to implement new teaching material without first providing a grace period or trial-and-error process. If the administration wishes to implement the new curriculum so quickly, the class should initially be graded on an attendance and participation basis. Students should complete the course on a pass/no-pass grading system. Considering the existence of comprehensive exams for every major, the written exams should be obsolete for at least for a year or two, or however long it may take the departments to find mastery. Professors should be given time to
ensure that new courses, like the senior capstone, are up to par with classroom and teaching standards, and that students’ GPAs are not negatively influenced due to a lack of experience. After this trial period, the administration could then deem the one-credit course worthy of a letter grade. With the passing of this senior capstone, the administration illustrated that it does not believe an additional one-credit course will significantly impact students’ course loads. A recent Collegian article on the new senior capstone quoted Arnn saying that “a one-credit course seems to be what faculty and students can manage with their schedules.” But let’s say, theoretically, this one-credit class pushes a student over the edge of his full-time student status and causes him to pay extra for a course he didn’t plan on taking. Messing with students’ financial planning and scholarships is not something that should be taken lightly, simply because an additional class is “only” one-credit. In the journalism program, students are encouraged to take part in the once-per-semester Pulliam Fellow one-credit course, where a guest journalist teaches a week-and-halflong class on a modern aspect of journalism. More than once I have witnessed students trying to enroll in the one-credit course only to find themselves pushing over the course limit for their full-time student status, and being faced with an additional $800 class if they choose to enroll. If this occurs with extracurricular courses students are not required to take, then it must be even more likely for it to occur with a required seminar. Many would argue that a one-credit course only re-
quires an hour or two of time per week, but more likely than not, one-credit classes require a longer time commitment. Students will be required to attend five classwide lectures from President Larry Arnn and five departmental lectures in a student’s own major, according to the proposal crafted by the provost’s office and the academic deans. The course will be concluded with two 1.5-hour essay tests. Looking at its proposed schedule, the Senior Capstone will require more than an hour or two of students’ time per week, in addition to their regular academic schedule. Not only do students not have the time to commit and make this class work, but professors, on top of their usual course loads and comprehensive exams, will have to add this to their list of to-do’s toward the end of a school year. Professor of Economics Gary Wolfram says that during the spring he typically has around 80 to 90 students, which means that at the end of the semester he grades this same number of final exams. This step to make an additional senior capstone course a suddenly noted requirement for both next year’s and proceeding seniors, after several years of uncertainty of what it would look like, is unmindful and even negligent. Upperclassmen and professors are rightly hesitant — so why is the administration pushing this course so soon? Reliable and representative education requires a concern for the academic wellbeing of each student and professor, especially when introducing a course students’ degrees will depend on. Isabella Redjai is a George Washington Fellow and a sophomore studying Politics.
Letter to the Editor: College Park Townhouses provide choice Dear Editor, In the Feb. 21 edition of the Collegian, Mr. Erik Halvorson wrote both a timely and interesting article about the College Park Townhouses. He argued Hillsdale needs more cost-effective housing, like the 42 Union apartment buildings. But Mr. Halvorson missed a few important points that readers should consider. First, the College Park Townhouses are privately owned with no financial risk to the college. They were built by friends and alumni, and thus, several are owned by friends and alumni. Three of the six townhouse units have private first floor accommodations. Tyler Horning ’06 and myself ’86 use these for personal use.
We also share these with our friends and former classmates as well as college staff visiting from the Washington D.C. campus. It is a great gathering place for homecoming and parents’ weekend, etc. The 42 Union building was a renovation that used government subsidies. The townhouses, on the other hand, were a new construction built with private capital. This makes a difference in terms of cost. Mr. Halvorson claimed that few students expressed interest in the College Park Townhouses because of the price tag. But the townhouses haven’t been marketed yet. In fact, this spring is the first time they’ll be marketed, since the deadline for off-campus housing approval
passed before they were available for rent last school year. Therefore, the popularity of the townhouses is yet to be known. Choice is a good thing and the College Park Townhouses provide just that. They offer students an upscale living alternative with private bedrooms, bathrooms, really cool kitchens, and great hang out spaces, with urban loft furnishings. This kind of housing is hugely popular across the country, and it makes a great addition to Hillsdale’s community. With that said, Hillsdale College has done a fabulous job updating the dorms and providing students with nice, cost-effective housing. This is an important investment and the townhouses are merely
an extension of this trend. With the above considered, I would recommend the students decide for themselves and schedule a tour at www.hillsdalecollegepark. com. Last, the determination for more of this kind of investment in Hillsdale College student living is directly dependent upon how students embrace College Park Townhouses. Private investment vs. subsidization, upscale vs. cheap, aesthetically beautiful vs. ordinary. The good news is in the free market, the student decides, not the newspaper.
Mr. Cleves Delp is the chairman and CEO of TDC Companies.
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Judge denies election challenge
Former Ward 1 candidate files application for complaint
By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter After the controversial Ward 1 Hillsdale City Council election last year, Dennis Wainscott, the candidate who received the second-highest amount of votes, filed a quo warranto application for a complaint, challenging the validity of the election. His application was denied by Judge Archie Brown of the First Circuit on Monday. Quo warranto is a type of legal action that challenges whether or not a person has the legal right to hold the public office they occupy, according to Cornell University’s legal dictionary. Controversy arose when Peter Jennings, a Ward 1 city council candidate at the time, was found to have failed to meet the city’s residency requirement for holding a public office. The residency requirement stipulates that only people who have lived within city limits for three years are eligible to run for city council. Jennings’ election win was confirmed by a recount requested by Wainscott in December. On Dec. 17, city council voided Jennings’ claim to his seat and scheduled a special election for Aug. 6, 2019 in order to fill the empty seat. Brown determined the council’s action was consistent with the Hillsdale City Charter, and determined there was no legal basis for Wainscott’s request for the runner-up to be awarded the seat. “I was surprised by what was brought forth in the paperwork and some of what was said because it was not true,” Wainscott said. “I didn’t even have a chance to talk to
the judge.” Wainscott challenged Jennings’ placement on the primary ballot Aug. 1, 2018 six days before the primary election on Aug. 7. His challenge was withdrawn the next day. The court decided that Wainscott’s application to change the ballot prejudiced officials and voters because ballots are available to absentee voters 45 days before the election. The court decided that Wainscott had plenty of time to challenge Jennings’ placement on the primary ballot without prejudicing voters. “I took the steps that were available to me and they never said I had to do it in a certain time frame,” Wainscott said. “I did it as quick as it would have been reasonable to do.” Wainscott said he did not know whether or not he would appeal the decision. Legally, he has 21 days from the judge’s decision to file an appeal. At Monday’s city council meeting, Mayor Adam Stockford thanked Attorneys Thomas Thompson and John Lovinger for defending the council in court. “I think it says something that the Judge’s opinion pretty much mirrored what your opinion was, so great job guys,” Stockford said. “Thank you for protecting the city.” Wainscott said he would not run for the vacant seat in the special election because of the expense of running another campaign. “I’m far from being rich,” Wainscott said. “I’m one of the poor ones. I just care about the community because I’ve lived my whole life here.”
Katy Price was sworn in as city clerk at Monday’s Hillsdale City Council meeting. COLLEGIAN | SUTTON DUNWOODIE
Price sworn in as city clerk By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor
Katy Price was sworn in as the new city clerk at the Hillsdale City Council Meeting on Monday after appointment to the position by Mayor Adam Stockford and the council. Price has been working for the City as interim city clerk since November, when former City Clerk Stephen French resigned. “I’m looking forward to just doing the job to the best of my ability,” Price said in an interview with The Collegian. Since the position was vacant in November, 160 applications were received for the position. Candidates were narrowed down by Stockford and City Manager David Mackie and the top two candidates were interviewed in a public meeting Feb. 26. After the interviews, Stockford met with council members individually to discuss who they would like to select for the position.
They met a consensus with Price. Ward 3 Council member Bruce Sharp said at the council meeting that both candidates were very qualified. “It came down to who we were comfortable with, and that was it, because they were both very qualified,” he said. “It was a hard choice at times, but I’m comfortable with the one we have, right at this time.” A lifelong resident of Hillsdale, Price started working for the City about seven years ago in the clerk’s office as an assistant. After five years, she moved into the assessing office, where she worked to receive her Michigan Certificate of Assessing Technicians certification. With elections coming up this year, Price said that ensuring elections are conducted to the best of her ability is a top priority. “My main focus will be doing due diligence and making sure that elections are run-
Revised project plans for Dawn Theater draw bids within budget
By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor After reassessing project plans for the rehabilitation of the Dawn Theater, Hillsdale’s Tax Increment Finance Authority has received two construction bids closer to the City’s allotted budget. TIFA’s Consultant Mary Wolfram said TIFA has also changed architect companies and is currently looking into using Gary W. Anderson Architects, who is working with C.L. Real Estate on the Keefer Hotel. Brant Cohen ’18 is an associate for C.L. Real Estate LLC and said Gary W. Anderson Architects is quite useful and quite good at what they do. “C.L. Real Estate has had a working relationship with Gary W. Anderson Architects,” Cohen said. “We trust them, we like them, and they do good work.” Cohen said C.L. Real Estate worked with the City to see what could be changed in the project plans. “We helped them change more creatively,” Cohen said. “We definitely had a hand in helping them get to a much more reasonable price.” According to Wolfram the cost of the project has been reduced in three major areas: the lobby configuration, placement of the HVAC, and restoring the doors and windows in place. “The new plan takes out the commercial kitchen,” Wolfram said. “And by removing that attempt to get a commercial kitchen in that lobby space, we basically reduced the scope of work by all of the demolition that had to happen.” Wolfram said changes still need to be made to the
lobby, including making it handicap accessible. The new plans include a small lift be put in place for people to use to go from the entrance of the theater to the lobby. “Almost everything we’re doing is kind of keeping what’s there and fixing it in place instead of changing
quired a great deal of cement work and increased the cost significantly. The original plans also included putting all of the duct work in the roof of the building. “What we’re thinking about doing now is bringing the ductwork in the base and
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everything,” Wolfram said. “In some ways, I really feel like what we’re doing with the lobby is better because people remember it the way it is now, and they have a heart for it.” The original architect company proposed moving the HVAC system from the south side of the building to the north side, which would re-
running it underneath the building,” Wolfram said. Initially, Wolfram said all of the windows and doors of the building were going to be removed, restored, and then reinstalled. Now, the doors and windows are going to just be restored in place, which will reduce the cost. Wolfram said she is also
hoping the construction firm that TIFA uses will help to reduce costs. “Once we get approval to move forward with this low bid contractor, they will have good ideas,” Wolfram said. According to Wolfram, Foulke Construction submitted the low bid for the revised project plans. “They’re very reputable firm,” Wolfram said. “They’ve done a lot of building for the college and everybody uses Foulke construction, so I’m very comfortable with that.” Wolfram said TIFA will have to wait for its new project plans to be approved by Michigan Economic Development Corporation before it can officially move forward in making construction plans with Foulke Construction. The City of Hillsdale’s Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker said TIFA will most likely go before the Michigan Strategic Fund – a board within MEDC – at the board’s April meeting to get the revised project plans approved. “We probably won’t hear anything back from them until I’m thinking the beginning of May at the earliest,” Beeker said. Beeker said if everything goes according to plan, he would expect construction to start at the end of May, beginning of June. The project, Beeker said, is expected to take 12 months to complete. Cohen said he is confident that TIFA and C.L. Real Estate are moving in the right direction with the project at the Dawn Theater. “This past week has been very promising,” Cohen said. “We expect that we can keep on this track of success so far.”
ning smoothly and without hiccups,” she said. In addition, Price said the implementation of Proposition 3, a new series of voting laws which passed in the State of Michigan this past November, will be a main focus. Stockford said that Price’s appointment differs from years past due to the fact that it is “essentially a promotion in the form of an appointment,” he said. “Katy’s been a part of the City of Hillsdale team for as long as I’ve been part of the elected government,” Stockford said in an email. “She’s a familiar face in the front office for residents and she’s certified in elections, so she can step into the position with very little transition. We’re confident she’s going to be a good addition to the city’s leadership.” At Monday’s meeting, council discussed how news of Price’s appointment was leaked via her personal Facebook page prior to the mayor’s announcement, which
eventually found itself on the radio. Stockford said that this was a breach of the city’s social media policy. “A huge aspect of the job now is going to be public in the way that it wasn’t before and it’s going to be political in a way it wasn’t before,” he said. Price apologized publicly for breaking the policy. Ward 4 Council Member Matthew Bell congratulated Price on her appointment at Monday’s meeting. “Just remember you don’t work for the city manager, you don’t work for the city council, you work for the people,” he said. “You are answerable to people and representatives, as we found out with our last city clerk. In remembering the responsibility that you have, it’s pretty important. People are giving up their tax dollars in order to pay salaries and pay us to come to these meetings and so, it’s a pretty important position and as there is a lot of trust that goes into that.”
‘It’s the People’ sign could come down By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor
Permit restrictions could force the “Hillsdale, It’s the People” sign on M-99 to come down, unless the City of Hillsdale decides to adopt the sign. At Monday’s city council meeting, resident Ted Jansen, who headed the project last summer to reinstall a sign in the city with the slogan, “Hillsdale, It’s the People,” addressed the council with his request that the city adopt the sign. “Without your assistance, the sign will have to come down,” Jansen said. Jansen said the Frank Beck Chevrolet, which houses the sign on its private property, received notice in mid-January from MDOT that the sign did not have the correct permit. Because the sign is visible from the highway, a billboard permit is required for the sign through the highway advertising act. When Jansen contacted MDOT last summer, however, he was told that the sign would not need a permit because of the capacity in which it was being used, he said. “MDOT noted that basically if the sign is not commercial, has no sponsorship, and no solicitation information displayed on the sign, and it is within city limits, on private property, you don’t need a permit,” Jansen said. With this confirmation last summer, Jansen was able to apply for a permit with the City, giving him permission to erect the sign on private property. Since then, Jansen said he has contacted with MDOT, which says it was initially mistaken. A billboard permit is needed, “unless the sign was owned and maintained by the City,” according to Jansen.
Several council members expressed concern over the City adopting the sign, and whose responsibility the sign would become. Greg Stuchell, Ward 1 council member, said because the sign is on private property, there could be potential issues down the road. “It’s not our property, and if we accept the sign, my concern is if they want to move it, it’s on their property,” Stuchell said. Ward 3 Council Member Bruce Sharp said that because the sign was put together by a resident privately, the city should not get involved. When someone takes on something privately, he said, they accept the responsibility. “If we adopt this sign, then we’re changing precedence, and I don’t want to do that,” Sharp said. “You took this on yourself, you took the responsibility, and that is where the responsibility should end. I am not in favor of this. I do not want the City to step in.” Because all the proper information was not prepared, the council did not vote at Monday’s meeting. Discussion may continue at upcoming meetings. Mayor Adam Stockford said that he was impressed with Jansen’s initiative to get the sign put up. “We did encourage this, we did say that if someone wants to put a sign up they should take their own initiative to do it — and I was really impressed when you did it,” Stockford said. “I thought it was a really cool thing. It is awesome to see people get together and work together and get something done.” Stockford said he will get involved and search potential options for the sign. “I do want the sign to be saved,” he said.
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Planting trees provides city with more than just beauty
Juniors Curtis Joseph and Kaitlynn Schenk, sophomore Ellie Fishlock, and freshman Reagan Linde received flowers from a downtown flower shop as part of “Insider’s Guide to Hillsdale” . FACEBOOK | STUDENT ACTIVITIES BOARD
‘Insider’s Guide’ brings students from campus into downtown By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor Guided by an SAB pamphlet with clues about local Hillsdale businesses, Hillsdale College students walked the streets downtown Friday with souvenirs and cards from shops they had visited. “I have never really been in any of the shops downtown but I always kind of drive by and walk by and see them and think, ‘Oh what a cool looking place,’” junior Nate Gipe said. “So this is kind of just an excuse to go in and not necessarily have to buy anything but just go in there and see it.” The Insider’s Guide to Hillsdale, an event facilitated by SAB on March 1, was based on a similar event in sophomore and event organizer Claire Lupini’s town called “Tourist in Your Own Town.” Lupini said students would get a brochure that got them free entry into museums and discounts at restaurants. “At SAB, we thought it would be cool if we could connect campus with the community and the businesses downtown,” Lupini said. “There’s just a lot of really cool businesses and places down here that people should know about, and we thought we’d
want to highlight that to help the students.” At Insider’s Guide, students received a “passport” with a list of clues and a list of businesses, which students could match to the clues to direct them on their search. At each business, students received an activity card, did the activity, and were awarded a cookie if they turned in four cards. If they completed all the activities on the scavenger hunt, they entered a raffle to win a basket with an assortment of goods from some of the stores. “Our goal in attendance was about 50 people, and we hit our goal, so I would say it has been very successful,” Lupini said. Healthies of Hillsdale employee Rick Kast said SAB approached Healthies to participate, and they “just wanted to help out in any way we could.” “I’m hoping it brings people in the door that have never been in before so we can have a satisfied customer,” Kast said. “Our goal is for them to come in and have a good experience, have a healthy shake, and enjoy the product.” Tammy Immel from the Blossom Shop said it is “nice to have the young people
come downtown.” “I like to see them smile,” Immel said. “As far as I know, many of the students have never been downtown before, and they were excited about coming downtown…for the business, hopefully they come down more often and get some flowers or something just to brighten their room, brighten their days.” Jilly Beans Coffee House employee Lilly Marcavage said the SAB event has worked well for the business and for students. “We hear a lot about the college students, and we just want to make it a good community for them and contribute to the community to the best of our ability,” Marcavage said. “I think this will help bring the students in and show the students that this is a happy environment. They’re more than welcome to try new things, and we are always happy to help them.” Gipe said there were a lot of interesting things downtown and he was glad he went. “I hope that it increases their business,” Gipe said. “I know a lot of these shops piqued my interest so yeah, I just hope it kind of strengthens the bonds of the students and the community.”
By | Calli Townsend Assistant Editor Since 2010, roughly 25 trees have been planted through the City of Hillsdale’s public-sponsored tree planting program. But according to City Forester Gary Stachowicz, that’s still not nearly enough. “The idea was if we have so many trees come down and only so much money to replace them, we would allow people or businesses that were interested to buy them for the city,” Stachowicz said. People interested in buying a tree for the city can order any tree from a number of species from one of four local nurseries. Donating money and letting the city pick out the tree is another option. The Hillsdale Garden Club has donated enough money in the past to plant 13 trees. The cost of the tree is a one-time payment, as the cost of maintenance and possible future removal of the trees is covered by the city. “We try to do 25 to 40 trees a year,” Stachowicz said. “I don’t have a very big budget. The same money I plant trees with is the same money I hire contractors to do tree removal and tree trimming. About one or two trees a year come from the public tree planting program.” Despite trying to preserve as many trees as possible and plant new ones, some have to be removed, which increases the need for even more trees. Stachowicz said trees are removed if they’re “dead, dying, diseased, rotting, or over trimmed if they’re under power lines.” But one major reason there is such a great demand for
adoption,” Adams said. “A lot of these babies have mental health issues, and they just get dumped off by their parents. We’ll be working with Amani to do service projects at their place, and we’ll be loving on the babies.” Carie Proctor emphasized that the team will function as a support and refresher for the staff at Amani. “We’ll be with the babies, and we’re also going to minister to the workers there,” Carie Proctor said. “We’re going to be praying for them.” The third organization, Sole Hope, provides medical care to the people of Uganda by removing “jiggers” — a kind of parasitic flea — from their feet. Because many Ugandans go barefoot, Hassell said, jiggers bite at exposed skin, burrow into the feet, and lay eggs, creating painful lumps on the bottom of a person’s foot. Beyond cleaning infected feet, according to Adams, Sole Hope provides makeshift shoes for the Ugandan people. “People donate blue jeans and milk jugs, and Sole Hope make shoes out of them,” Adams said. “There’s a pattern you can cut out, and it creates work for the people there in Uganda.” The trip’s participants say the biggest reason they are setting aside time to go overseas is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and show the love of God to people less fortunate than themselves. “The Great Commission in Matthew tells us to make
to trees when you get the fall colors and the green in the spring.” These trees aren’t just aesthetically pleasing. They serve a greater purpose by increasing the cost-efficiency in homes and businesses as well. “Picture being out in the county somewhere where you have a farmhouse that might have three or four rows of conifer trees planted in a 90 degree angle to break wind,” Stachowicz said. “It helps the house with heating costs. And the shade helps with cooling costs in the summer.” Similar to houses along the county roads, city streets lined with trees provide the same benefits to houses and businesses. This isn’t just a Michigan
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Local church prepares for summer mission trip should ask about joining.” Adams said his wife, Nickie, discovered Go Be Love, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting international mission trips. Go Be Love has helped Team Uganda plan their trip. “They have the same heart that we do to love people like Jesus does,” Adams said. In addition to Go Be Love, the mission team will be working with three independent organizations while in Uganda: Heal Ministries, Amani Baby Cottage, and Sole Hope. With Heal Ministries, the group will spend time with women and their children who have been abandoned. According to Carie Proctor, one of the team members, they will focus their efforts on being an encouragement to the women and children, including through Bible programs similar to Sunday school ministries. “Their husbands or significant others have left them,” Adams said. “We’re going to teach the women how to take care of themselves and their babies.” The Amani Baby Cottage, meanwhile, is an orphanage which rescues and cares for children left by their parents. The organization’s goal is to place each child with an adopting Christian family. “A lot of times, babies get dropped at dumpsters and bus stops. Amani takes babies in — anywhere from infants to 5 years old — and they try to connect with people for
problem and the effects of the emerald ash borer have yet to be erased. “This is still one of the front lines in the fight against an insect that has laid waste to more than 100 million ash trees from Massachusetts to Colorado and has another 8 billion or so waiting for it,” according to the Lansing State Journal. Because this is national problem, national programs have gotten involved, but their assistance since then has diminished. “The federal government spent $2.2 billion in 2012 to combat invasive species and to prevent new entries. The USDA spent $26.8 million that year to fight the emerald ash borer,” the Lansing State Journal said. “In 2013, it spent just $10.7 million.” It’s estimated that this pest costs the United States $1 billion each year, according the the Lansing State Journal. This is why cities need help from their communities. The cost of trees depends on their size, which is measured by its caliper -- the radius of its trunk six inches from the ground. Stachowicz requires a minimum of a twoinch caliper for trees, which typically start out at $250 he said. It can go up from, sometimes costing $600. Stachowicz said he would like to plant at least 25 trees this spring, especially by Ripon Ave, which lost 33 trees due to construction this past year. “I can’t imagine every street looking like Rippon Avenue,” he said. “It just looks like a barren desert.”
“I can’t imagine city streets not being lined with trees,” he said. “It’s just a different way of life when you’re used to trees when you get the fall colors and the green in the spring.”
Members of New Hope Church in Camden, Michigan are headed on a mission trip to Uganda. COURTESY | SHELBY HASSELL
By | Nolan Ryan News Editor In preparation for a mission trip to Uganda this summer, a team of members from New Hope Church of Camden are in the midst of fundraising through the local community to support the trip. Team Uganda has raised about half of the approximately $49,000 needed to fully fund the trip, which will take place in June. The cost for each of the 14 people going is about $3,500, according to Wayne Adams, one of the trip’s leaders. Most recently, they partnered with Toasted Mud pottery studio to host a fundraiser at the Elks Lodge last Friday. The team is continuing to brainstorm ideas for fundraising, said Shelby Hassell, a member of the team and a teenager whose family has been attending New Hope last January. Adams said he and his wife felt called to do mission work, and they went to Nicaragua with a team a couple years ago, which gave them a continued desire for missions. He and his wife had talked and prayed with each other about potentially doing short-term missions in Africa. “We had been praying, and we mentioned our idea to a couple of friends at church. We said, ‘Can we meet sometime for lunch?’ We talked, and they felt called, too. The next Sunday, at church, the pastor announced that there was a team going to Africa and that anyone interested
trees dates back to the 1990s and early 2000s: the emerald ash borer. In 2014, the Lansing State Journal published an article about this deadly beetle, saying that “the ash borer has wiped out virtually every ash tree in southeast Michigan. In much of the rest of the state’s lower peninsula, there are few trees left to fight for.” And fighting is just what Stachowicz is doing with this public-sponsored tree planting program. “I can’t imagine city streets not being lined with trees,” he said. “It’s just a different way of life when you’re used
disciples,” said Earl Proctor, Carie’s husband. “That should be our number one goal in life; it is our first and foremost calling.” Adams says he feels God has had a hand in preparing their team for the mission trip, especially in the specific people from New Hope who are going to Uganda. “It’s neat how God brought our team together: A lot of people going have foster kids and really love kids,” he said. “In today’s world, my wife and I feel like people need the love of Jesus, no matter your background or situation. Jesus loves us just the way we are, and we want to share that with the Ugandan people; Even though we’re from different countries, Jesus loves us. People feel like you have to get yourself cleaned up before Jesus loves you, but that’s just not true.” Hassell said mission trips like this are some of the best ways of showing the love of God to others and serving God in that. “The number one thing is to spread the love of God to people who may not always see it,” she said. “It’s not always a trip where you’re preaching the Word; sometimes you just show God’s light by what you do. For me, mission trips are showing the light of God and helping however you can.” Team Uganda is still taking donations toward their summer trip, and they plan to continue hosting fundraising events throughout the spring.
By | Joel Meng Collegian Reporter The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public information session to discuss the proposed siting of a drinking water well by Artesian of Pioneer near the village of Fayette, Ohio. The information session will be at 6 p.m. on March 12 at the Fayette Local School, 400 E. Gamble Rd, Fayette, Ohio. The proposed water well would tap into the Michindoh aquifer, which provides drinking water for nine counties across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, including Hillsdale County. Ohio EPA staff will attend the meeting to answer questions about Artesian of Pioneer and the process of public water systems and establishing a new public water system, according to a news statement. The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome
to attend. “Anytime there’s a proposed well that would serve a larger water system, Ohio EPA evaluates the location,” Dina Pierce, media coordinator for the Ohio EPA, said. “We memorialize that we met and whether the site meets the criteria in a letter.” The proposed water well would tap into the Michindoh aquifer, which provides drinking water for nine counties across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, including Hillsdale County. Those interested in submitting questions for the meeting can email Heather Lauer at heather.lauer@epa.ohio.gov. Written comments concerning the potential Artesian of Pioneer well can be sent to Ohio EPA, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, Attn. Craig Smith, P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049. The deadline is March 15.
By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor Early Pregnancy Loss Association will host its first community lecture titled “Hope Blooms: A Miscarriage education event” featuring Nancy Kingma, a licensed nurse and therapist at 7 p.m. March 7 at the Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church. “Nancy Kingma will be talking about miscarriage, grief, and the effects it has on parents — both experiencing loss and grieving,” said Emily Carrington, president of EPLA. As a nurse and counselor, Kingma will bring her knowledge and experience to best guide families going through loss, but also provide resources for those who walk with those who might be directly affected. “The event is for everyone, if they’ve experienced loss or not,” Carrington said. Carrington said that early
pregnancy loss is common among women, and that in recent years, the conversation has opened up for fixing the social conversation surrounding loss. “It’s very likely that a woman has had a loss or will have a loss,” she said. “It is important that everyone has an understanding of what this loss might entail. Many feel unequipped.” After starting with educational resource folders to bring awareness about early pregnancy loss in 2016, EPLA has been working to expand their outreach programs — from care kits and now with community lectures. “We see this meeting a lot of needs in the community,” Carrington said. “It provides education and resources following loss, and also raises awareness by talking about this in a serious way.” Carrington said the event is open to the public and she encourages all to attend.
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Big innings hurt Chargers in pair of losses to Bellarmine By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer The Hillsdale College Chargers entered last weekend’s series against the Bellarmine University Knights with momentum. After a tough, two-game series, however, the Chargers return home looking for answers in all areas of the game. The two teams were originally scheduled to play four games at Knights Field. After Hillsdale lost Saturday’s games 12-2 and 16-6 to drop their record to 3-4, snow began to fall, and the two games originally scheduled for Sunday were cancelled. Junior Andrew Verbrugge took the hill for the Chargers in game one, but struggled to SATURDAY, MARCH 2 game 1
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find his groove early. Verbrugge allowed five runs on eight hits in just a little over three innings as Bellarmine jumped
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third inning and singled in a run in the fifth. Game two started on a stronger note, with Ring and senior Dylan Lottinville sparking Hillsdale’s offense for an early 2-0 lead. Sophomore David Toth got the start for the Chargers but struggled to find the strike zone, allowing nine walks and four hits in five innings pitched. Even so, Hillsdale managed to stay in the game. After Bellarmine scored three in the bottom of the first, Hoover tripled in a run in the top of the second to tie the game at three. The Knights retook the lead in the bottom of the second, but after a pair of RBI doubles from sophomore James Krick and junior Dante Toppi, the Chargers held a 5-4 lead. After Toth allowed two more runs in the fifth, senior Colin Boerst, back from
out to an early lead. Through FINDLAY three starts, 1:00 P.M. Verbrugge has 3:30 P.M. yet to record a win, holding a 0-2 record with a 8.79 earned run average. Hillsdale’s pitching staff struggled to tame the Knights’ offensive firepower all day. Junior Kolton Rominski also had troubles on the mound, giving up six runs and three home runs in just one inning. As a team, the Chargers allowed 17 hits in the first game, including six home runs. Hillsdale was also stagnant offensively. The top of the lineup, which usually hits consistently well, failed to produce a run. Junior Jake Hoover and senior Steven Ring both failed to record a hit. Most of the Chargers offense came from junior Jacob DePillo, who homered in the
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injury, singled in a run to tie the game at six going into the bottom of the sixth. That’s when the wheels fell off for Hillsdale. Bellarmine took advantage of hit batters, a timely error, and two home runs to put ten runs across the plate, making the score 16-6 and putting the game out of reach. After the Chargers failed to score in the top of the seventh, the game was called. Hillsdale has two series remaining before they begin G-MAC play against the University of Findlay in two weeks. The Chargers look to rebound this weekend with a four-game series against Davenport University in Sauget, Illinois. Hillsdale will play doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, with games at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. both days. On Tuesday, the Chargers play a doubleheader at Oakland City University.
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Chargers to return to Florida for fourteen games in ten days By | Julia Mullins assistant editor The Hillsdale College Chargers will continue their regular season tomorrow in Clermont, Florida, as they begin a stretch of 14 games in 10 days. The team will face several teams who were previously in the GLIAC. “That’ll be a challenge,” head coach Kyle Gross said. “And also something to look forward to.” Junior infielder Sam Catron said the team will be heading to Clermont with the same mindset as its first trip to Florida, where they went 2-3 last month. “We’re looking to win,” Catron said. “Ultimately, we’re just looking to play as hard as we can and really working as a team, not focusing on individual at-bats, but the game as a whole.” Although the Chargers haven’t played games for more than a month, Gross said he’s impressed by the team’s level of performance in practice. “It's tough to focus and just practice indoors for that solid month,” Gross said. “I honestly feel we’re ready to go.” Junior infielder Madison
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working hard on executing their pitches and developing a “pitcher mindset” for how the team will use the staff. “They’ve been working more execution, still been the staple of our pitching,” Gross said. “And also kind of a pitcher mindset, and how we're going to use our staff.” Gross said the team created a live pitching drill that allows the pitchers to back each other up. “They can only pitch to three batters,” Gross said. “And if they don't get the third out then the next pitcher has to come in and finish the job.” Gross said with the amount of games the team will play, he’s going to use everyone on the pitching staff, even junior utility player Erin Gordon. Catron said there is not
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february 28 1 2 final Trevecca Nazarene 18 34 52 Hillsdale 31 47 78 pts fgm-a 3pm-a reb ast Dylan Lowry 15 6-7 3-4 3 2 Gordon Behr 12 4-4 1-1 3 3 Davis Larson 11 4-9 1-4 1 1 march 2 1 2 final Kentucky Wesleyan 31 45 76 Hillsdale 29 32 61 pts fgm-a 3pm-a reb ast Dylan Lowry 18 7-15 4-9 4 1 Davis Larson 14 5-10 1-3 5 3 Nate Neveau 13 4-6 1-3 6 3 g-mac tournament quarterfinal march 5 1 2 final Lake Erie 25 34 59 Hillsdale 32 28 60 pts fgm-a 3pm-a reb ast Dylan Lowry 16 7-12 2-4 3 0 Davis Larson 14 6-8 2-2 2 2 Nick Czarnowski 13 6-10 0-0 4 2 Austen Yarian 7 2-10 0-4 7 3 Harrison Niego 7 3-7 1-4 3 0
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march 1 singles doubles score Illinois Springfield 3 2 4 Hillsdale 3 2 3 singles competition scores 3. John Ciraci def. Logan Burgess Hayes 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 4. Michael Szabo def. Alex Chan 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 6-2 5. Brian Hackman def. Oscar Toro 6-4, 6-1 doubles competition score 2. Ciraci/Hackman def. Burgess Hayes/Lapsley 6-3 march 3 singles doubles score Hillsdale 1 1 1 Wayne State 5 1 6 singles competition scores 3. John Ciraci def. Taylor Vane 5-7, 6-3, 10-8 doubles competition score 1. Adams/Hyman def. Vane/Mertz 6-2
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Natalie Walters cirlces the bases after hitting a home run during the Chargers' road trip to Florida in February. carly gouge | courtesy
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Chargers remain unbeaten with two home wins By | Ryan Goff assistant editor
Madeline Bissett delivers a serve in a game earlier this season. ryan goff | collegian
OVERTIME, from a10 University, the top seed in the conference, awaits for a 5:30 p.m. game on Friday. The Chargers split the regular season series against Findlay, winning by more than 20 in Hillsdale but losing by a narrow margin on the road. Tuesday’s game in Findlay was as narrow as it could get. After the Oilers tied the game at 69 with four seconds left in regulation, on Hillsdale’s first possession of overtime senior forward Brittany Gray hit a three-pointer. Hillsdale scored three more points at the free throw line, the last coming from senior guard Allie Dewire to break a 74-74 tie, was enough to give the Chargers the edge. “Being able to close out an important game in a high stress situation shows how much we’ve grown over the season,” senior forward Makenna Ott said. “We’ve spent all year preparing for this type of game and situation and I’m proud of our defense and our ability to dig deep at the end.” Dewire led the Chargers with 26 points, shooting 10 for 16 from the floor and five for nine from the free throw line. She also grabbed eight rebounds. A free throw was ultimately what made the difference in the final score, but Hillsdale went just two
for five from the free throw line in the fourth quarter, allowing Findlay a chance to force overtime. “The coach in me tends to remember the negative and thinks if we made free throws we wouldn’t have had to play in overtime,” head coach Matt Fritsche said. “But right after the game I thought ‘Holy cow, our kids fought their tails off.’ After they made the shot to tie it, it would have been easy for our kids to think it wasn’t going our way. But our kids just dug in and guarded and they gutted it out.” Gray scored 17 points, and made three three-pointers. Her 83 three-pointers this season are a new single-season record for Hillsdale. “I’m not ready to be done with my career at Hillsdale. I have a mission to win the G-MAC tournament and make a run in the NCAA tournament,” Gray said. “I don’t want to end my season with any regrets. I love my team and they deserve nothing but the best, so that’s what I’ll try to give them.” Ott recorded a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds, and also had a team-high four assists. The combination of Dewire, Gray, and Ott scored 57 of Hillsdale’s 75 points and took 43 of the Chargers’ 60 shots from the floor. All three are in the top 10 in the G-MAC in points per game, and are the only team with more than two players that
The Hillsdale College Chargers swept their two matches over Parents’ Weekend in a pair of wins over the University of Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars and the Purdue University Northwest Pride. The two wins keep the Chargers unbeaten at 5-0 this season. Friday, the Chargers pulled out a 5-2 victory through a series of long, tight matches. Delayed by a long men’s match, the Chargers played late into the night. They began with a sweep of the doubles matches to earn the first point, but not after a tiebreak on the no. 1 court of sophomore Hannah Cimpeanu and freshman Sarah Hackman, who won the match 7-6 (7-1). The singles matches stayed close, featuring two more tiebreaks from Cimpeanu on court 1 and junior Katie Bell on court 3. Bell came back from an 0-3 start in her first set to force a tiebreak, which she won 7-4 on her way to a straight set victory. “Honestly, I just kind of went into it,” Bell said. “I just took a deep breath and tried to control the point. She made a lot more errors in the tiebreak and got a bit tight, so I was thinking ‘keep getting it back.’” Bell said her adjustment average at least 13 points per game. “At this time of year, having seniors that don’t want their season to be over is super important,” Fritsche said. “Allie and Makenna and Brittany have all been huge pieces. They’ve left a neat mark here at Hillsdale and I know they want to play a few more games. Those three took their focus and their effort to another level and it’s been pretty dang good all year.” The Chargers shot 50 percent overall, their second time in three games making at least half their shots. “The way we work offensively, we take what the other team is giving us,” Fritsche said. “Our kids were patient and found really good looks almost every time down.” As the fifth seed in the G-MAC tournament, Hillsdale’s win over fourth-seeded Findlay was the only game in the quarterfinal round of the tournament in which the lower seed defeated the higher seed. The top three teams remain, and the Chargers will travel to Walsh University to play Walsh on Friday. The semifinal round and championship game will both be hosted by Walsh, the top overall seed in the tournament. Second-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan College will play third-seeded Cedarville University on Friday as well, and the winner of that game will play the winner of Hillsdale and Walsh in the champion-
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away from an aggressive style is what helped her get out of that 0-3 hole in the first set. “Everyone there was feeding off of her because they could tell she was really working hard and setting the tone,” coach Nikki Walbright said. “She definitely had a crazy match.” Cimpeanu, who missed the Sunday match due to illness, fought long into her three-setter. But after splitting sets, she lost the deciding-set tiebreak 1-7 about three and a half hours after walking onto the court. Senior Halle Hyman also played a close three-setter, but was able to stay above her opponent after a series of adjustments. “Hyman was up and down the whole match. It went back and forth, but she never really quit,” Walbright said. “She had to keep adapting, and I credit her for getting through it.” ship on Saturday. The Chargers played Walsh just once during the regular season, and lost on Dec. 8, 83-56. Hillsdale is a combined 1-4 against the three teams remaining in the tournament, with its only win coming against Cedarville on Feb. 2. The Chargers also lost to Cedarville once, and to Kentucky Wesleyan twice. “They’re way different than they were so we probably won’t pay much attention to our game against them in December,” Fritsche said of Walsh. “We’re absolutely not the same team and you’d have to think they’ve changed somewhat too.” Last season, the Chargers ran the table in the G-MAC tournament as the no. 5 seed, upsetting three higher-ranked teams en route to a tournament championship win. This year, they’ve already knocked off no. 4 Findlay. This weekend will tell if they’ll write the same tale for a second consecutive year. “We went from being a team that was mediocre to the team that people are scared to play,” Gray said. “I’m proud of how far this team has come. We were in the same position last year, and I feel confident in our ability to recreate that success. This team has always been special, and now it’s finally our turn to peak.”
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After losing a close first set 5-7, Hyman found herself in a deep hole in the second set. Down 1-5, she faced triple-set point. But she came back from that to win five straight games and take the set 7-5, and then win the third 6-3 in a threeand-a-half hour match. “It was tough because we were neck-and-neck and then I trailed late in the first set. I was really tired and it was hard to get through that,” Hyman said. “But to see especially Cimpeanu’s match kept me going.” With those long matches completed, junior Kamryn Matthews and senior Corinne Prost finished up the match quickly on the 5 and 6 courts, according to Walbright. “Matthews and Prost were so dominant. They were completely flawless,” she said. “They didn’t miss a ball and didn’t give the other team a chance.”
Sunday’s match featured a slight change in lineup and a much shorter match time. Finishing up in around two hours, the Chargers swept by the Pride 7-0. With Cimpeanu and Bell out of singles with illnesses, senior Madeline Bissett and freshman Sophia Spinazze went into the lineup and won their matches in straight sets, as did the rest of the team. Again, the Chargers won each doubles match. “Everyone else went out there all just went out and dominated their matches,” Walbright said. “It shows how dedicated we are to what we do. They stayed focused and confident and positive. We were able to showcase what we do best.” Now, the Chargers will head to West Palm Beach for a series of matches over spring break. They will play the no. 2 ranked Lynn University Fighting Knights, along with Palm Beach Atlantic and Broward College. The Knights recently beat their first NCAA Division I opponent of the season, Georgetown University, 7-0. “Lynn will be a really challenging match, but it’s really good for us because we played them last year and it was eye-opening to see that the margin between them and us is not that much different,” Walbright said. “We can hang with them for sure, but it’s really good to get the exposure of playing with them.”
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Chargers drop two in a row for first time this season By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor
The Hillsdale College Chargers ran into some superior competition over the weekend, dropping games to the University of Illinois-Springfield on Friday and Wayne State University on Saturday. The two losses drop Hillsdale's record to 7-3 this season. On Friday, the Chargers hosted Illinois-Springfield and nearly came away with a win, but lost 4-3 after dropping two of three doubles matches. Senior John Ciraci and Freshman Brian Hackman won at no. 2 doubles, 6-3.
Hillsdale and Illinois-Springfield both won three singles matches. Ciraci won no. 3 singles, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1, junior Michael Szabo won at no. 4, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2, and Hackman won at no. 5, 6-4, 6-1. On Sunday, the Chargers fell to Wayne State, 6-1, their largest margin of loss this season. Ciraci represented Hillsdale's only singles win at no. 3, winning in three sets 5-7, 6-3, 10-8. Junior Charlie Adams and senior Justin Hyman won no. 1 doubles, 6-2. The Chargers travel to Florida for three games during Spring Break.
charger chatter: Michael Szabo
Michael Szabo is a junior from Midland, Michigan. He is a member of the men's tennis team at Hillsdale.
Q: What's the most memorable match you've ever played?
Q: Who's been your biggest support throughout your tennis career?
Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Q: Who is your greatest tennis role model?
MS: I think it was probably in my freshman year of high school when I went to the state finals. I’ve never gotten super nervous during matches, but I felt the most nervous for this one. Once I got onto the court it went away and it felt natural again. Eventually I went on to win state.
MS: My biggest support has definitely been my parents. All sports, but especially tennis, you’re with the people you travel with for a long time. I’m so appreciative for all the time and money that they have invested in me, especially because tennis isn’t a cheap sport.
MS: Hopefully I have a good job and still am able to play tennis recreationally once in while. Tennis is one of the few sports you can play at any age. It’s always been a competitive thing for me, but it could be fun not having so much on the line every time you play.
MS: Roger Federer. I think he’s the best player of all time. Always composed when on and off the court, and when he does show emotion it’s positive. Tennis is a very mental sport and it’s tough because you’re alone a lot. He’s always smooth throughout matches, and it serves him well.
Q: What lesosns have you learned in your first two years here?
MS: I think the team comes first, but tennis is an individual sport. We’re naturally focused on own results but they affect team overall. We win with the team and lose with the team, so it’s important to focus on that truth.
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Nick Czarnowski shoots a layup during the second half against Lake Erie on Tuesday. Czarnowski scored 13 points and blocked a shot at the buzzer in Hillsdale's G-MAC touranment quarterfinal win. s. nathaniel grime | collegian
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Late heroics seal first-round win By | Calli Townsend assistant editor
The Hillsdale College Chargers waited for the very last second to put away the Lake Erie College Storm on Tuesday night in a one-point victory in the first round of the G-MAC tournament. With four lead changes in the game’s final three minutes, the Chargers battled to win 60-59 in their last home game of the season. Hillsdale led by 11 with nine minutes remaining, but a 17-4 run by the Storm caused trouble for the Chargers. As the clock showed 2:53, the Storm made its second consecutive three to take the lead, 55-53. Then junior guard Dylan Lowry made a jumper. Lake Erie responded with a jump shot of its own, but Lowry proved to be greater as he
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Czarnowski said. “Luckily Nate [Neveau] was there to get the rebound and get the ball out of there. It was kind of a block the shot or season-ending kinda time right there.” Lowry led the Chargers in scoring with 16 after he scored Hillsdale’s last seven points of the game. “He’s a fearless kid. He wants the ball in his hands in a late game situation,” head coach John Tharp said. “It’s a privilege and you’ve gotta make the right play. He’s done that for us.” Sophomore forward Davis
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Larson put up 14 points, two assists, and two rebounds, and Czarnowski totaled 13 points and four rebounds. Senior guard Harrison Niego came off the bench to add seven points, two steals, and three rebounds. Despite not scoring in his 29 minutes on the floor, Neveau’s presence was crucial. He snagged four rebounds, dished out five assists, and had three steals. His focus for the night was defending Lake Erie’s Gabe Kynard. “Nate is our best defensive player around the perimeter,” Tharp said. “He gives us a lot of toughness and energy and [Kynard] did have 20 points, it was a hard 20 points.” As a team, Hillsdale played aggressive, diving for every loose ball, leaping for every rebound, snagging nine steals, and scoring 16 points off turnovers. After a “gut wrenching” loss on Saturday to Kentucky Wesleyan University, Tharp said Tuesday’s game would be a test of his team’s character. “If you would’ve talked to us on Saturday after the game, we would’ve said, ‘What was that?’” Tharp said. “We didn’t think we played very inspired. It was one of our worst performances. Tharp had a question for his team going into the game: “Is our character going to
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As Lake Erie went up for layup Czarnowski came down to block the shot. The buzzer blared, and the Chargers had advanced to the semi-final round of the G-MAC tournament on Friday. “I was looking at the ball and I was hoping I got high enough — I think I barely got high enough to tip it,”
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drained a deep three. It was 58-57 with just over a minute to go. “I wanted to be as aggressive as possible without trying to force things,” Lowry said. With 13 seconds left, the storm scored a layup off of a Hillsdale turnover. Trailing by one, the Chargers hustled down the court and Lowry made another jumper with six seconds left. It was 60-59 and the Storm had just enough time for one last shot. That’s when senior center Nick Czarnowski stepped in to save the game.
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appear, and what is our character?” The Chargers proved their toughness of character, and will have another chance to do so as they move deeper into the G-MAC Tournament. In Friday’s semifinal round they will take on Walsh University for the first time since Dec. 8 when the Chargers lost 63-59. Tip-off is at 8 p.m. Walsh is currently ranked no. 2 in the G-MAC, while Hillsdale remains third. The University of Findlay and Cedarville University also play on Friday, and if the Chargers can defeat Walsh, they will take on either Findlay or Cedarville in Saturday’s championship game. “It feels like we didn’t even play them this year,” Lowry said. “It’s been four months since we played them. Both teams are so different since this point in the year. It’s going to be two completely different teams.” Last time Hillsdale played Walsh, neither Yarian nor Neveau were active, and Czarnowski was coming off of an injury. “We’ve been doing a lot of work since [Tuesday] to get back acquainted with them to figure out a game-plan,” Tharp said. “This time of year when you’re fighting and clawing, everything in the past is thrown out the window.”
After winning the 100 breastroke at last month’s G-MAC championships, senior Anika Ellingson will compete in the NCAA Division II Championships for the third time in her career. Ellingson will swim in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 13. The meet will represent the end of her 13-year swimming career, making this competition bittersweet, Ellingson said. “I feel like it’s going to be my best year, but it’s also my last year,” Ellingson said. “There’s no next year for me, and it’s really weird.” Ellingson’s qualification was pretty much expected, head coach Kurt Kirner said. “I don’t fully believe in this thing called ‘talent,’ but she has it,” Kirner said. “She can take bad performances and use them to fuel her next ones in a positive way — that’s a true competitor.” With her natural talent and unmatched speed, Ellingson is very prepared. However, Kirner said, the biggest hurdle in the way of a top-16 finish to become All-American is competing in the morning. Ellingson swims her prime during the evenings, but with championship prelims starting at 10 a.m., she needs to swim especially well in the morning. Her prelim times determine whether she’ll swim in the finals, which happen in the evening. She’s been practicing four times a week in the morning and evening to help her body adjust to the racing schedule. “She went in as the 13th fastest breastroker,” Kirner said. “But at nationals, everyone is at that level. She has to be one level above.” The physical aspect isn’t challenging for Ellingson — it’s competing alone that affects her mentality. Occasionally, Ellingson’s
teammates join her while she practices, swimming in the next lane as motivation. “Swimming in a pool for over an hour by yourself with no one to really talk to is tough,” Ellingson said. “When your coaches are on deck or just having another body in the water next to me is really nice. It shows me that I’m not alone.” Ellingson said this meet will end her swimming career on a high note. With her whole family attending the event and their strong family history in the sport, swimming is a uniting factor between them. “This ending just signifies that this is a good thing. It’s the NCAA and there are very few things higher than this,” Ellingson said. “I’m good at my event. I’m good enough to be here, so I’m going to make the most out of it and have fun while at it because it’s the last meet of my life.” Ellingson’s confidence has grown a lot since her first competition which has assisted her academic pursuits and other commitments outside of swimming, Kirner said. “I think that swimming and being involved with the biology programs at Hillsdale has taught her a lot, and they just manifested into her growth,” Kirner said. “She’s been at national meets before, she had to push herself to do a thesis project, but she took these opportunities and embraced them as challenges.” The entire swimming season itself was a long one, but her qualification is a reward from its extensive process. With her swim career ending, Ellingson said this meet will be the cherry on top to her year. “You just focus and stay in your lane, because no one is going to get in your lane and bug you,” Ellingson said. “It’s just you, the water, and the wall. And those are the three things that will never change when you’re racing.”
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Chargers advance after overtime thriller By | S. Nathaniel Grime sports editor Each of the Hillsdale College Chargers’ first 28 games this season ended after 40 minutes. Four quarters. But March is a time for madness, and in the postseason, one comes to expect the unexpected. For the first time this season, the Chargers went to overtime on Tuesday against the University of Findlay, and
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Left to right: Mango Cream Ale, Anniversary Ale, Dark Roots Blonde Ale, and Poorhouse Porter. Collegian | Julia Mullins
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‘Dark roots blonde’: Tasting Hillsdale Brewing Co.’s seasonal beers By | Cole McNeely Collegian Freelancer Mango Cream. Anniversary Ale. Dark Roots Blonde Ale. Poorhouse Porter. For a small-town beer stop, Hillsdale Brewing Company boasts a variety of unique flavors. The Hillsdale Brewing Company traditionally has had at least one fruit-based beer on tap. In the past, these beers had the fruit itself as the primary flavor that carries the brew. But this is not necessarily the case with their most recent creation: Mango Cream. This ale goes down easy by not emphasizing the mango more than it ought to. The result is a more nuanced, sweet flavor that dances on your tongue. Many are turned off by fruit beers because their sweetness is often over-thetop. The Mango Cream Ale
is far from this, however, and would be the perfect choice for a cream ale fan who wants just more than a hint of fruit. Roy Finch, the owner of Hillsdale Brewing Company and the man behind all their brews, has been brewing beer for about five years now. “We thought mango would be good,” Finch said. “I just wish we would have used more of it.” Finch said he had hoped the ale would have been a bit stronger, but figuring out how much fresh fruit to include is the most difficult part of brewing fruit-based beers. In honor of its one year anniversary in January, the Hillsdale Brewing Company put out their Anniversary Ale. Although it made its debut in the middle of Michigan’s brutal winter, the crisp citrus flavor and amber colors of the
Anniversary Brew will place you in the middle of summer. The brew goes down smooth and its floral flavors leave a bit of an aftertaste. The Amarillo hops and Michigan Chinook hops are the driving
Finch said the Anniversary Ale celebrates more than just hitting the one-year mark with their business. It is also called “Grallo,” a combination of the first two letters of the names of each of his children,
“The crisp citrus flavor and amber colors of the Anniversary Brew will place you in the middle of summer.” factor behind the flavoring and aroma of the Anniversary Ale, making it the ideal choice to help Hillsdalians get through this rough winter and remind them that warmer days are coming.
who often make cameo appearances at the Brewery. Finch prioritized the flavor as much as the sentimental aspect. “We like Armarillo hops so I thought another pale ale
would be good,” Finch said. “I was right.” The Dark Roots Blonde Ale’s sharp floral taste is reminiscent of Michigan winters: it’s an acquired taste. The sharp floral flavor hits your tongue almost immediately, most likely due to the late addition of Mt. Hood hops during the brewing process. The flavor hangs around well beyond the initial touch of the tongue. “I like blonde ales, but a lot are too fruity in my opinion,” Finch said. “So I went for a simple straight up blonde.” The multitude of flavors commingling is a perfect choice for those who appreciate hops and have a palate that is willing to explore. To those who prefer ales or lagers, the Poorhouse Porter, named after the Will Carleton Poorhouse, will seem heavy.
Though it is not as heavy as a stout, the brew is very filling. And it should be: it’s filled with a combination of chocolate and roasted malts, complimented by Northern Brewer and Fuggle hops, an amalgamation that will sit on your tongue and demand you acknowledge its existence. As the party continues on your palate, the Poorhouse Porter goes down incredibly smooth, leaving hints of coffee and chocolate. The flavor of the Poorhouse Porter is better than most porters found in stores and is a perfect beer to enjoy on a cold day near a warm fire. “In a market crammed full of IPAs you should always have some dark options,” Finch said. “There is a great presence of chocolate and roasted barley. I’m really happy how this turned out.”
‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ boasts musical numbers, murder, and audience participation
Chairwoman of Art Barbara Bushey’s textile exhibit is on display until March 27. Collegian | Brooke Conrad
By | Matt Fisher Collegian Freelancer “Let us all be as vulgar as legally possible,” declared junior Ian Brown at the beginning of the theatre department’s adaption of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” And the cast delivered. Rupert Holmes’ murder-mystery musical “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is based on the unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. The musical opened on Broadway in November 1985 and closed in December 1987, with 608 total perfor-
the commentary of character William Cartwright, chairman of the theatre company, played by Brown. The role of Drood himself was played by a female actress in the play — “England’s finest male impersonator” — sophomore and theatre major Abigail Bohrer. Drood is murdered but his body is missing, and each character launches into his own investigation to solve the mystery of Drood’s death. Each actor displayed impressive range, switching multiple times between the Dickensian characters and the entirely different set of actors.
and to decide who murdered Drood, and again and the end to determine whether or not Drood is actually dead. At one point prior to the voting, the actress playing Drood storms offstage, and does not return until after the final round, further complicating the question. Despite the varying outcomes, one left the theater feeling content and assured they would still be satisfied had another character been assigned the blame of murder. “It was very well done,” sophomore Braden Van Dyke said after the Wednesday
‘You’ve got to know yourself’: Bushey sews quilts to self-examine, find inspiration By | Brooke Conrad Features Editor For Chairwoman of Art Barbara Bushey, a daily outfit can be a work of art. “The fall of 2017 was a bad semester, and I wasn’t able to get much art done,” she said. “The only creative thing I could do was get dressed in the morning.” So she decided to take pictures of her outfits and turn them into quilts. Decked out in festive combinations of colorful cardigans, skirts, dresses, tights, and patterned scarves, Bushey staged a series of buoyant poses, combined the photographs into her “Key” collage, and composed a quilt corresponding to each outfit. The outfit quilts are currently displayed in the Fine Arts Building exhibition room along with several of her other textile creations, and will be on display until March 27. As one who always enjoyed working with a needle and thread, Bushey said her familiarity with textiles was the reason she chose it as her primary art medium. She enjoys taking a piece of cloth through the physical process of stitching, tying, dying, untying, and re-stitching into particular patterns. One of her mantras is that art doesn’t come from waiting for inspiration; it comes from jumping in and getting your fingers moving. “I always think work begets work,” she said. “Only amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. It either works or it won’t; either fix it or start over.” One of Bushey’s lon-
ger-term projects, entitled “We are mostly water but we cannot swim,” is meant to communicate the unexplored depths of the human soul. She created the project after the Jordan River Arts Center in East Jordan, Michigan, invited her to join a show called “Uncharted Spaces.” “I had to answer the question, ‘What’s the most uncharted space?’ And I thought, it’s our own selves. You’ve got to know yourself. And this quilt is about how the unexamined life is not worth living,” Bushey said. She began by dying commercial fabric for a background and then arranging rocks she had collected from the Great Lakes, sewing over them with a sheer silk layer of organza. Displayed next to the work is the poem of a friend, David A. Walker, whose wandering lines encapsulate the nature of the drifting rock heap stitched at the bottom of Bushey’s quilted lake: “We are mostly water but we cannot swim Nevertheless we drift to the bottom back to the shore over and over again without understanding the ways of water we are mostly water but we cannot swim,” Walker’s poem reads. Bushey captured another local scene in her series, “Off Jonesville Road.” She said she loved the particular arrangement of the road-side vines and wanted to re-create it in her artwork. To the right of a large, wintry roadside landscape hang several smaller
color variations of the project, Bushey’s own process of free-spirited and imaginative experimentation. “She plays with color just for the sake of it,” said Patrick Lucas ’18, who currently teaches art at Will Carleton Academy. “It might not be a super intellectual sort of project, but the way she plays with color makes you aware of it. It’s casual, and she’s just experimenting.” Lucas added that his favorite variation is the composition directly adjacent to the original snowy quilt — a warm, earthy combination of reds, oranges, and browns. One of the most technically extraordinary pieces in the show, “Robin’s Yard, August,” employs complex stitching patterns that create texture in the fence and lawn, and also uses shade variation and lighter threading to portray shadow and distance in the background trees. Senior Dylan Strehle said he appreciated the way the piece exhibits the multi-layered capabilities of textile art. “Every time you put the needle in, you add texture, you add a layer, whereas when you paint a new layer, you paint over the previous one,” he said. “It makes a very cool 3D canvas that pops off the wall.” Sophomore Caroline Hennekes said Bushey’s use of rhythm, composition, and color in her pieces gave her a greater appreciation for abstract art than ever before. As an art major, Hennekes said
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mances. The Hillsdale College Tower Players gave five performances of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” in Markel Auditorium Feb. 27 to March 3. The play’s key feature is audience participation: Holmes leaves audience members to vote between alternative endings each night, instead of concluding where Dickens’ work leaves off. Upon entering the auditorium, the viewer could sense a unique ambiance: instead of hunkering down backstage rehearsing lines, the actors mingled in-character and interacted with the audience as they found their seats. The musical is a play within a play: the characters are actors in a 19th century Victorian theatre company which stages Dickens’ murder mystery. Actors switch between the two stories according to
Junior Nicolas Uram gave a remarkable performance as Drood’s uncle John Jasper, a dark individual with psychotic tendencies and a suspect in Drood’s murder, while sophomore John Szczotka tackled the emotional swings of character Neville Landless, an impetuous young man who competes with Drood for the affections of Rosa Bud, played by sophomore Julia Salloum. The second act of “Edwin Drood” contains numerous twists. Rev. Mr. Crisparkle, a slick minister played by freshman Jon Biscaro, manages to stay under the radar and non-suspect throughout the first act before emerging as a pivotal character in the plot to kill Drood. Audience members voted twice during the second act of the play, first to determine the role of Detective Dick Datchery after he enters the story,
night showing. “It struck a good balance between comedy and suspense throughout the play.” Chairman and Professor of Theatre and Dance James Brandon described the play as having a blue-collar, lower class Victorian theme with a “metatheatrical environment.” “You’re walking into a place where people are cognisant of who they are,” Brandon said. In the end, what stood out most about “Edwin Drood” was the unflappable chemistry of the cast. Whether it was Szczotka and Bohrer’s backand-forth over the dinner table as Neville Landless and Edwin Drood, or the conflict between Uram and Salloum as Jasper and Rosa Bud, the audience took in a kind of performance that is only possible with a cast that fully embraces the unpredictability of the production.
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Netflix and Fyre Festival
New documentary goes behind the scenes of the fiasco By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter Marketed as the greatest festival the world has never seen, Fyre Music Festival was sold to be a luxurious experience where attendees would dance to top musical performances, rave with famous socialites, and sleep in high-end villas, all on a private island in the Bahamas. Yet it all failed because of its creator, Billy McFarland. Netflix’s new documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” covers this fraud behind the scenes and its aftermath. Director Chris Smith captured a wide range of perspectives in the documentary. Employees, festival goers, and Bahamian locals all shared how they were personally affected during the process of creating this event and how its repercussions still affect them today. A local Bahamian woman even shared how she still has not been paid for her labor, which has hurt her financially and emotionally. The background research into McFarland’s past projects also provided understanding for why Fyre Festival failed miserably. To better understand why McFarland scammed so many people, Smith took his audience back to when McFarland owned Magnises, selling “elite” credit cards that rewarded users with reduced concert ticket prices and invites to exclusive parties. No one actually received the benefits, and consequently, McFarland accrued a staggering amount of debt from this enterprise and was unable
to pay it off. Knowing this was essential to realizing McFarland’s disconnect with reality. Now to Fyre Festival. McFarland still owes payments for the Magnises scandal and he’s undertaking a new endeavor. Knowing what happened with Magnesis, the festival’s outcome shouldn’t be shocking. The festival’s main purpose was to promote Fyre, a music booking app that made Netflix released a documentary on the talent-booking easier failed festival. | Wikimedia Commons for consumers. It even interviews with McFarland; received endorsement from the only footage showing late ’90s rapper Ja Rule, addthe business entrepreneur ing to its legitimacy. are shots taken during the However, the list of perks making and the aftermath of the festival promised were just Fyre Festival. This absence can too nice to be real. Gourmet cause watchers to either feel dining and $1,000 villas were intrigued or frustrated. Interincluded all within a twoviewing McFarland would’ve week “transformative” experi- provided a greater scope of ence. Ticket costs ranged from understanding, yet with all around $500 to $1,500, exthe other sources, his voice cluding VIP packages, airfare, probably wouldn’t have helped and accommodations. The him gain much sympathy. line-up had top chart artists, Despite the absurd benefits like Tyga, Desiigner, Migos, Fyre Festival claimed to grant, and Lil Yachty, and was adthese “promises” detrimenvertised by a commercial of tally affected anyone involved celebrity models partying on with the festival. Netflix does the Bahamas. a great job at exploring the Unsurprisingly, the revenue background of the festival couldn’t cover the costs of the and its effects. The wide festival, and the event turned range of sources and behindinto utter chaos. People fought the-scenes footages strongly for tents, mattresses and contextualized the festival’s pillows, stealing supplies from consequences. Though they one another in a concerning didn’t interview him, the docLord of the Flies-esque turn of umentary still provides signifevents. icant coverage on McFarland The main perspective and explains with enough Netflix lacked was from Mcdepth why Fyre Festival never Farland himself. There are no happened.
Church co-edits new book on philosophy of luck By | Joel Meng Collegian Reporter Luck is one of the words that people use without thinking. Whether in regard to grades, gambling, or even driving, many people ascribe the results to luck. But luck as a concept is difficult to define, despite its importance to our understanding knowledge and morality. Ian Church, assistant professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, and Robert J. Hartman, postdoctoral research fellow at Stockholm University recently edited “The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck.” The book contains a collection of essays from various philosophers, psychologists, and theologians and serves as a guide to those who wish to know the various ways luck has been understood and its connection to the human experience. “Ian and I edited the book because we noticed a growing interest in luck,” Hartman said in an email. “There are bodies of literature in philosophy— epistemology, ethics, political philosophy—and psychology that do not often interact. Our handbook will be a great aid for interaction in these fields.” Church uses various examples to why our concept of luck matters. “Imagine two drunk drivers. One gets in a car and drives it home,” Church said. “The other, in a perfectly identical situation, gets in a car and drives home, but they crash on the way and kill someone.” Church says the situations are identical except the first driver was lucky and the second was not. Philosophers disagree on whether the drivers bear equal moral responsibility or to what extent, and why, the driver who killed someone bears more blame. In the introduction to the book, Hartman writes, “The
killer driver deserves more blame than the merely reckless driver.” As Carolyn McLeod and Jody Tomchishen argue in a chapter of the book, luck shapes how we ascribe blame in society. But it also shapes our understanding of knowledge. Senior and philosophy major Kyle Huitt said the classical definition of knowledge is justified true belief. Church raised the role luck plays in the concept of knowledge by raising the Gettier Problem, named after 20th century philosopher Edmund Gettier. “Say I’m staying at a bedand-breakfast in Scotland, and I look out my window and I think, ‘Oh, look, there’s a sheep in that field.’ But what I was seeing was a sheepshaped rock,” Church said.
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it’s easy to put textiles in a box, limiting them to upholstery, quilts, or fashion. “When you use them the way she did, as a canvas, you put them in a different frame than something that could be felt or worn,” she said. And for Bushey, while textile art sometimes does come in the form of a polka-dot scarf or a bright green cardigan, it can also operate
she enjoys the way Bushey communicates artistic ideas in class in a way that’s both captivating and applicable. “She can appreciate very majestic, large things in art but also treasure the little things that make you laugh,” Hennekes said. Hennekes also noted that
“Luck shapes how we ascribe blame in society. But it also shapes our understanding of knowledge.” “But it just so happens that there is a sheep somewhere else in that field. My belief that there is a sheep in that field turns out to be true, and seems like I’ve got some justification for it. But nevertheless, I don’t know it. Despite my justification, it is a matter of luck that my belief turns out to be true.” Church said philosophers would not consider the aforementioned belief to be knowledge that “there is a sheep in that field,” because the justification for the belief
is disconnected from what makes it true. In their introduction, Hartman and Church reiterate the common claim that knowledge is incompatible with luck. With luck, people are left with lucky guesses, not justified true beliefs. Some philosophers, like Wayne Riggs, tie the concept of luck to control. If an event occurs outside of an individual’s control, then the event is lucky. He also addresses counterpoints like the rising of the sun not being considered a lucky occurrence. “Whether the sun rose this morning wasn’t in our control,” Church said. “But that doesn’t seem terribly lucky.” Some essays in the book, like Duncan Pritchard’s, turn to a modal conception of luck: how likely the event would have been to occur in similar worlds. “Suppose I was walking through the forest and I bent down to tie my shoe laces and a branch swoops right over my head such that if I were standing, I would have been blinded,” Church said. “And then I come through a clearing, and I see a turtle. There’s an element of luck that I can see the turtle and form beliefs based on that perception.” Church said that the world wouldn’t have to be very different for the person to be blinded by the branch. Perhaps they bend down a second later, and because they narrowly avoided the negative outcome, they were lucky. Hartman and Church’s book aims to help a person understand the concept of luck in a broad variety of circumstances. “The average person desires to understand the concepts that they use,” Hartman said. “Although reading our handbook won’t help them put dinner on the table, it will help them to understand their relation to the world anew and in a deeper way.” as a tool of more fundamental artistic communication. “I just pay attention to the world around me and respond to it,” Bushey said. “The poet Mary Oliver once wrote, ‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it?’”
‘From Michigan With Love’
Quinn XCII’s new album asks psychological questions
were trained on fast-paced, By | Cal Abbo distraction-laden social meAssistant Editor dia: ADHD. Quinn XCII’s sophomore One person affected by album built on his previous ADHD described it like this: work to perfect what he does “My mind is in a fog that best. “From Michigan With I can’t clear. A thousand Love” flaunts Quinn’s most thoughts race through my essential elements: creative head all at once.” electro-pop beats and smooth, Despite setbacks like this, lighthearted vocals. Quinn is determined that Quinn writes his beats with “Life Must Go On,” which is obsessive creativity — these the title of the next song. Even are not songs you skip halfway though his “world’s burning through. Each phrase taunts the listener to guess Quinn XCII’s new where he’ll go next. And you’ll never get it album “From Michiright because Quinn is gan with Love” was surprising and elusive. released at the end of Beyond the impres- February. | Flikr sive synth instrumentals, which shouldn’t be overlooked, Quinn’s lyrics show rare depth for an artist so early in his career. “From Michigan With Love,” is much more than a love album. Quinn reveals mental health issues and feelings of inadequacy as the album progresses, tying them into an overarchdown,” Quinn recognizes the ing theme of a challenging but importance of perseverance in ultimately rewarding relation- the follow-up track. ship. Fun fact about Quinn: his The second song on the real name is Mike. In college, album, “Autopilot,” introduces one of his professors used mental obstacles that lend the motto, “Quit unless your to Quinn’s difficult love life. instincts are never neglectHe feels subject to the whims ed,” which Quinn described of his aggressively dynamic as “pursuing anything you lifestyle and racing thoughts. love when you have nothing “So baby, just hold me/‘til inside telling you to stop it.” I turn back to the old me/ He shaped the motto into an there’s some demons I need to acronym for a stage name, cleanse,” he sings. adding the Roman numerals This song’s title comes XCII to represent his birth from his perceived mental year, 1992. state — unable to think about With the eighth song on his emotions in a meaningful the album, “When I Die,” way, Quinn feels like he can’t Quinn counters the mencontrol his thoughts. Quinn tal fuzziness of “Autopilot” may be speaking to an inby describing how he feels creasingly common condition when he’s next to his fiancee. in young adults whose brains “’Cause we’re both here, keep-
ing our breath under control... When I die, it’s this I’ll remember.” In contrast to “Autopilot,” Quinn now is anchored to the moment; his mind is no longer racing, reaching for some sort of meaning. He has all the meaning he could ever ask for. In “Sad Still,” Quinn is the only person in the room. He’s not alone though: he has his “cabinet full of orange vials.” He challenges the viability of treating anxiety and depression with medication: “We take this red pill, green pill, black pill/ I know deep down, we’re sad still,” he sings. The beat accelerates and intensifies. He’s back on autopilot. Throughout the album, Quinn feels inadequate compared with his fiancee. This, along with racing thoughts, anxiety, and substance use, seem to virtually ruin him. Only her gentle reassurance can bring him back. Often, Quinn’s lyricism feels too hasty for the subject matter. Some of these songs would sound wonderful in a bluesballad style. With Quinn’s expert instrumental skills, this shouldn’t be difficult. Quinn also seems to try his hand at rapping — or something close to it. Particularly in a portion of “When I Die,” Quinn develops a creative rhyme scheme and a quick lyrical tempo. Developing this experiment into a full song rather than an interlude would broaden his versatility as an artist. Quinn spent a year and a half on “From Michigan With Love” and called it his “most challenging body of work.” His dedication shows — for the sake of his music, let’s hope he lives up to his name.
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Students partner with Alpha Omega to teach sexual responsibility By | Emma Cummins Assistant Editor The REALL team from the Alpha Omega Care Center hopes to bring its message of respecting the dignity of the individual to local youth, according to Team Director Nancy DeBacker. “I love the name, ‘Respect everything about Life and Love,’ because it focuses on the dignity of the individual,” DeBacker said. “There’s so much going on now, with #MeToo and abuse and bullying and negative, unhealthy relationships, so we really want to focus on healthy relationships.” The team aims to recruit college students who are “committed to upholding the value and dignity of human life, promoting sexual integrity and purity, and empowering young people to make informed decisions about the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of their sexuality,” according to their promotional flyer. Students will work with the center to introduce their sexual risk avoidance curriculum to Hillsdale Intermediate School District and local church youth groups. With regard to schools, the curriculum must be approved by the sex education board of the school county. According to DeBacker, the process has begun but is still currently
pending. interests and personal stories Berryhill said. “A lot of people in the middle that you need to Even if the school board I had heard in my high school don’t get the reasons. We’re fill in.” doesn’t accept the curriculum, youth group,” Berryhill said. trying to speak into how [sex Director of Health Ser“Willing to Wait,” the team “I’m seeing this as a way I can before marriage] can hurt you vices Brock Lutz spoke to this will continue forward with hopefully share, in light of my emotionally and physically missing element in the current church youth groups and interests and the stories from and spiritually and how all of conversation. parent education nights. It has people close to me, how to those things are interconnect“Our culture is in a crisis in recently been implemented in navigate [sexuality] as a young ed spiritually.” this area and certainly someKent ISD. one needs to speak The care center to these topics,” Lutz has worked with wrote in an email. “I Hillsdale students find that many Chrisin the past to protian, conservative mote an abstinence families are actually program, which had hesitant to talk to some success in the their kids openly early 1990s and then about sex or don’t in the mid-2000s. exactly know how to After the program do that and thus the fizzled out, DeBacker culture is coming in decided to bring it and inserting its own back. beliefs.” “It’s a wonderful Lutz went on to opportunity for stusay that the conversadents to have an option needs to include portunity for impact: the “why” behind to be inspirations, waiting until marrole models, and riage. The Alpha Omega Care Center is planning to partner with college students to teach to challenge middle local youth “Willing to Wait” curriculum. | Facebook “There needs to be a school and high school voice that [says] waiting youth to the higher until marriage is the ground by respecting themperson.” While the current sexual best choice that young people selves, their own dignity, and Since the curriculum will education fails to fill in all the can make sexually and that the dignity of individuals,” involve college-aged students gaps, the new curriculum will every young person is actually DeBacker said. and contain more biological tie these elements together, capable of that or can make Freshman Sophia Berryhill explanation than the typical Berryhill said. different choices once they is the team student contact abstinence curriculum, Berry“There’s something lacking have started down that road,” who will be responsible for hill hopes this strategy will be in how people talk about con- Lutz said. connecting students to the more effective. traception and birth control,” According to Lutz, young center. According to Berryhill, “While this curriculum Berryhill said. “The hormonal people need to hear a clearer the program represented a is still promoting waiting to effects and the mental health message than the one they harmony of certain interests have sex until marriage, the effects that birth control has hear from the current culture. and pursuits she has. way that we’re going about proved to have on women “I do believe we are suffer“It was kind of a natuthat is different and that will is not really talked about ing from many mixed messagral funneling for me in my better people a lot more,” enough. There’s a lot of stuff es about this culturally and so
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the message needs to be very clear and a very positive message that this is the best way to navigate through premarital life and the best choices in order to set up the healthiest marriage in the future,” Lutz said. DeBacker said the “Willing to Wait” curriculum and REALL Team presentations will educate young people “based on factual and solid information.” “It’s more than just saying no,” DeBacker said. “This generation of young people wants to know why. We want to treat people with respect and them asking why is valid. We want to give people all of the tools, the who, what, when, where, and why for them to become the best version of themselves.” DeBacker’s experience with previous abstinence programs in Hillsdale has shown that the involvement of college students is invaluable. For many young people, choosing to not be sexually active was simply never an option presented to them, Debacker said. “So many times over the years, we’ve had students say, ‘No one ever told me I had the choice to say, ‘No, I’m not going to fall in that behavior,’” DeBacker said. “That was stunning to me. That’s why I love to see the REALL team, the young men and women, give that message because it resonates with the students.”
1983-84 influenza blasts campus and track team By | Callie Shinkle Columnist As flu season continues, many Hillsdale students lament their poor physical conditions and having to skip class (as devastating as that is). However, we can be lucky that we didn’t go to Hillsdale in the winters of 1983 and 1984. On February 23, 1984, The Collegian reported, “there have been three times the normal number of student visits to the Health Center. The most common diagnosis is the influenza.” Former Dean of Men Robert Hendee commented on the sickness on campus, saying, “Health is always most important. You can die and then what does it matter if you got a good grade in your class.” That is a slightly morbid take for a simple flu outbreak, but I see no falsehoods in his statement. According to The Collegian, the high amount of sick students led to an increase in classes missed and a poor attendance at the 1984 President’s Ball. In addition, the increased sickness affected Hillsdale’s athletic department. Starting with the football team, Collegian reporter Kevin Shinkle reported on November 3, 1983 that reserves had to take the place of several starters in a game against Kentucky State due to an outbreak of flu on the team. (It’s a shame this news was given by such a shoddy reporter). However, the track team seemed to suffer the most from sickness during the 1983-1984 school year. On September 29, 1983, The Collegian reported “Senior Co-Captain Mike Michno coasted to 44th place despite a bout with the flu, caused most definitely by bad grapes and overextension in his aerobics dance class.” Who knew that dance would have such disastrous consequenc-
es? The Collegian also reported sickness on the women’s track team, writing, “Tandy Champion, though suffering from the flu which plagued many on the team, ran two respectable races in the mile run and 880 yd. dash.” Well her last name is Champion, so obviously she would power through anything. On September 27, 1984, The Collegian wrote, “Hillsdale ran well despite a flu bug which has plagued the team for much of the week. But the lads recovered well enough to compete amid some fair competition.” The illness apparently shocked not only the college but also the town, which was formerly referred to as “Healthydale” in the February 17, 1983 issue of The Collegian. Ellen Landers, the reporter that conned this term, seemed to have some interesting opinions about sickness on campus. On February 17,1983 she wrote, “But what could be more irritating than talking to someone who has a stuffedup nose or taking a test behind someone who has faucet sniffles? The only way to overcome such annoyances is to incur a respiratory fare-up of your very own.” That is a hot, hot take. For those already sick, she made this recommendation: “Go for the strong stuff. There is no cure for the common cold, you have to mask your feelings.” That is simultaneously the most and least healthy approach: take lots of medicine so that you feel nothing. In terms of sickness, it’s not awful advice. In terms of life, there is a chance that could go horribly wrong. Despite getting sick often, we can be grateful that we did not have to be on campus during this minor flu outbreak.
“Michno coasted to 44th place despite a bout with the flu, caused most definitely by bad grapes and overextension in his aerobics dance class.”
Susie, JoAnn, and Molly Arendt visit Dunguaire Castle. JoAnn Arendt | Courtesy
Checking off the bucket list: Mrs. A goes to Ireland By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor “Being Irish isn’t something you do. It’s something you are.” This is the beginning of a poem titled “What it means to be Irish” that JoAnn Arendt, lovingly known as “Mrs. A” to most on campus, has hanging in her house. Her grandfather came to the states from Ireland, and for her whole life, Arendt has wanted to visit the country. This past January, she finally got the chance to see Ireland. Though it was a lifelong dream to go to Ireland, Arendt was simply too occupied for many years. She was busy raising her kids and working in the Quincy schools, and now she has served as dorm mom at Hillsdale for four years. “I call myself a senior since this is my fourth year,” she said. Originally she lived in Galloway, but with renovations and construction, she moved to Niedfeldt this year and also takes care of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Arendt actually started cooking for Chi Omega sorority before she became a housemom. But, after her husband passed away in 2014 and her
youngest child, Molly, went to Grove City College for school, the college offered Arendt the position in Galloway. “I was going to stay home and get organized and I thought of something my husband said: ‘It’s always good to stay busy,’” Arendt said. “And my thought is, if you don’t try something you’ll regret it.” So she moved into Galloway and has loved the past four years of being around Hillsdale and taking care of students. “It’s a great place to be,” she said. “And the students are good. And it’s just showing them that you care. It’s good to cheer them on.” But she still wanted to see Ireland. This past January, she was finally able to go. Arendt’s daughters, Molly and Susie, surprised her by buying plane tickets for her birthday. “She has always said that was a life goal of hers,” Susie said. “But, we know she is pretty selfless and wouldn’t spend time and money on herself to go there, so that’s where the surprise came in.” So Arendt and her daughters Susie and Molly made their way over to Ireland over Christmas break. “It was the trip of a lifetime,” Arendt said. “I would
want to go back, but that was like my dream trip. It was everything I wanted it to be.” They visited the Cliffs of Moher, Blarney Castle, Temple Bar, and Trinity College’s library, and also kissed the Blarney Stone. “My favorite part was seeing my mom’s face glow the entire time. To be able to be a part of anyone’s happiness just instantly gets you in a better mood,” Susie said. Arendt loved the whole trip and enjoyed so many aspects of the Irish culture and her heritage. Seeing Ireland helped Arendt understand her family history better and the suffering of the Irish. “It made you appreciate all the suffering. Because if you were Catholic you could not own property. So my family came over probably because they could not own property,” she said. But she and her daughters were also overwhelmed by the joy of the Irish people. “All of the people there were so nice,” Molly said. “Every cab driver gave us tips on where to visit during our trip.” Arendt said she loved seeing how happy the people were. “We were on the bus trip and the guy was singing and then he honked the horn. And
he didn’t have the best voice, but he was just singing and it was pretty cool,” Arendt said. Along with exploring, eating, and experiencing the culture and music of Ireland, Arendt and her daughters got some good laughs and memories out of the trip. At the Cliffs of Moher, they saw a giant sheep get spooked and start running and jumping around all the visitors. “It was quite the scene watching the big security guys running, dodging, almost falling, and not being able to catch this sheep,” Susie said. “Everyone was laughing, and I’m sure the sheep had a good laugh too.” They even ran into the giant French rugby players of Stade Toulousain in their hotel and when Arendt asked a manager who they were and what sport they played he answered, “Cards.” “We all started laughing when he said this because they were just these massive dudes and we knew that the manager didn’t want us to know who they were,” Molly said. Arendt is back to normal life in Hillsdale, but she’ll always cherish her lifelong bucket-list trip. “The trip was just phenomenal,” she said.
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Giving voice to the soul Alumna musician assists children in vocal therapy fellowship, she returned to making the elephant noise By | Madeleine Miller Valparaiso, Indiana, where because of my French horn Collegian Reporter her parents live, to work background.” When the chemicals used for the State of Indiana’s Schoon strives to conduct in the re-lacquering of her First Steps program, which bagless therapy sessions, in French horn irritated her provides early intervention which she does not rely on throat and voice box during resources and services to any resources outside paher junior year at Hillsdale infants and toddlers with tients’ homes, thus enabling College, impeding her ability disabilities and developmenthem to practice their skills to practice music and sing, tal delays. throughout the week without Rebecca Schoon ’13 was Schoon now works for investing in costly equipment prompted to reconsider purthe Jacob’s Ladder Center, or toys. One of her fondest suing a career in music. a speech therapy clinic that memories is of a session in Although discouraged, she partners with First Steps. She which she engaged her young did not wallow in self-pity. works 10 to 12 hour days, patient with nothing but a Instead, sock. she Schoon gleaned serves Indipurpose ana’s Lake and inCounty, which spiration includes the from her city of Gary. misforBecause of tune and the adverse decided socioeconomic to devote condition of her the county, few talents to therapists are helping willing to work people there, leading overcome to Schoon’s vocal high caseload. disorders. “If it’s not Schoon me, it’s no now one,” she said. empowers “So I feel a rechildren sponsibility,.” through Laura Coher valhen, Clinical iant work Coordinator of in speech Jacob’s Ladder patholoCenter, considgy. ers Schoon a Raised “wonderful in a musiaddition” to cal family, her team. Schoon “Rebecca began serves lower taking income areas voice and and deals with French a lot of diffihorn les- Rebecca Schoon ’13 works in speech pathology for the Jacob’s Lad- cult kids and sons in high der Center in Lake County, Indiana. Rebecca Schoon | Courtesy parents,” Cohen school. She said. “She does continued with both studies leaving the house around 7:30 a wonderful job connecting at Hillsdale, playing in the a.m. and seeing between six with them and their parents, orchestra and singing for the and eight patients daily. She and helping them achieve college and chamber choirs. conducts in-home therapy breakthroughs.” As a Hillsdale student, session, working with 0- to Cohen also said she is imSchoon honed her musical 3-year-old patients, and train- pressed by Schoon’s ingenuity. skills. Her professors agree ing parents to work with and “She once did an entire her dedication was formidaassist their children. therapy session with a fly ble. “Helping parents apprein the room, talking about “Becky was a very serious ciate a child’s strengths and where it landed and where and engaged student who was work through weaknesses it was flying,” she said. “Her always prepared and anxious to become a happy family, strengths are thinking outside to learn,” said Artist-Teacher or seeing a mom get excited the box and using what is of Music Melissa Osmond, to hear her child say ‘Mama’ available to her.” who was Schoon’s vocal infor the first time makes me Though therapy sessions structor. “She is smart, affable feel like all the skills I have are usually joyful, Schoon’s and lovely to be around.” worked to develop are being work is not untouched by Professor of Music James used as an investment in the tragedy. Human suffering, Holleman worked with community,” she said. pain, and misfortune, are inSchoon to develop her musiDuring therapy sessions, trinsic to any therapeutic cacal talent during her time as Schoon engages her patients reer, she explained, citing the a student at Hillsdale College. in constructive play to help deaths of past patients who He, too, was impressed by them make connections. They suffered additional ailments Schoon’s resolve. learn to express themselves as devastating. She credits “She was very self-critical, by imitating her expressions Hillsdale College with equipwhich led to major strides as and verbalizations. Schoon ping her with the wisdom and both a vocalist and French uses a variety of activities– strength to grapple with the horn player,” he said. including sign language, word challenges presented her. Schoon was a member of modeling, and playing with “The things I learned at the Sigma Alpha Iota Interna- bubbles and toys– but has Hillsdale about love and tional Music Fraternity, and found singing to be the most responsibility have helped me recalls spending process sufferthe bulk of her ing and realize time outside of what my role classes rehearsing. is in making it After graduatbetter without ing with majors in getting burned music and ecoout or jaded by nomics, Schoon the challenges studied speech pathat are there,” thology at Vandershe said. “Love is bilt University. She sacrifice. You will credits Hillsdale not be unscathed with instilling in by it.” her the tenacity But Schoon and inquiry skills said the gratificathat propelled her tion she finds in through Vanhelping children derbilt’s rigorous find their voices program. far outweighs “Hillsdale the obstacles prepared me for presented by her Vanderbilt in that work. I wasn’t afraid of “The soul’s new topics or avepresence is often nues of research,” demonstrated in she said. our skills,” she While studysaid. “Where ing at Vanderbilt, does that soul Schoon discovered reside when she worked well with chilrelatable, flexible, and accesour skills have been damdren. When her niece was sible tool. aged? Whether the skills are born with a speech impair“I find that singing is so fully regained or not, the soul ment, she decided to pursue universal in terms of what remains immovable, but my pediatric vocal therapy. children are ready to do,” work helps people have a Upon completing her she said. “It’s not my college voice to defend their human graduate studies and clinical repertoire. I’m really good at dignity.”
“Where does that soul reside when our skills have been damaged? Whether the skills are fully regained or not, the soul remains immovable, but my works help people have a voice to defend their human dignity.”
Dean of Women Diane Philipp (top right) formerly coached women’s track and field. | 1992 Yearboook
Diane Philipp: former track coach for Hillsdale and USA
the Olympic Festival Team in 1989, the women’s Ekiden Distance team in 1990, the 1995 women’s World Cross The Hillsdale College Country team, and the womwomen’s track and field en’s track and field team at the team was off to a strong start World Junior Championships shortly after its founding in in 1998. 1977, taking second place at “It was awesome, so much the 1981outdoor track GLIAC fun,” she said of the World Championship meet. A year Cross Country Championlater, however, the program ships. “I got to meet these was taken over by a 22-year incredibly elite athletes. It was old with no athletic experikind of a whole new world for ence at the college level, other me. It was really just a bigger than her routine workouts in scale and there were a lot of the sports complex. unknowns. I wasn’t nervous, Nevertheless, the Chargers’ but I was excited.” momentum kept on rolling When Philipp arrived in after the coaching transition. Durham, England, with her In fact, they went on to win 16 team, their transportation to consecutive regional chamthe course was delayed. They pionships and 17 conference finally arrived to find a course championships. This new gated off and guarded by coach with no experience security. quickly earned the respect “I’m totally a rookie but we of her competitors, so much need to get on this course,” so that she won the GLIAC Philipp said. “I decided we’re Coach of the Year award 20 going to ask for forgiveness times between the cross couninstead of permission. We’re try, and indoor and outdoor just going to go.” track seasons. Beyond the And so her team jumped conference, she was recogthe fences so they could pracnized at the national level. She tice and preview the course coached professional teams before their upcoming race. for the United States and was “We just kinda acted like even inducted into the NAIA we knew what we were doing. Coaches’ Hall of Fame. It was a little bit of a risk, but I This award-winning coach had to let them on the course,” was Diane Philipp, Hillsdale she said. “But they did really College’s current dean of really well.” women. Her team went She was working on to finish fifth out as she normally out of 30 internadid during her setional teams. nior year at HillsPhilipp was dale College when inducted into the she was provided NAIA Coaches’ with an unexpected Hall of Fame in opportunity. 1996 before retir“The athletic diing in 1999. She rector, Jack McAvoy, was the first female came up to me and to be inducted, as asked if I would be well as the younginterested in coachest hall-of-famer at ing,” she said. “I ran that time. in high school, but I The Hillsdale didn’t know hardly College president anything. The first at the time, George year I was coaching Roche, wrote in my peers. Some of a letter to Philipp them were even my published in the friends.” 1996 Hillsdale After graduating Alumni Magazine. in 1982, Philipp “The honor you began her career as received speaks the new head coach volumes to your of Hillsdale’s track career as a coach, a and cross country Philipp pictured shortly before coaching the 1995 teacher, a recruiter team. and dedicated alumna “It was still fairly U.S.A. team. | 1994 Alumni Magazine of the school. Your in its infant stages, students, their parso we had nowhere nothing to do with it,” Carents, your colleagues and all of to go but up in a sense,” she said. “We had a team of talent- leton said. “When girl number college athletics are learning three decided to go, I thought a great deal from you about ed runners. We just kind of ‘It’s about time I go down to the rewards of self-discipline, grew.” Hillsdale.’” the meaning of leadership, The key to growth was Carleton liked what he and how genuine love of great recruiting. Despite being athletics is an invaluable part a young coach of a young pro- saw when he first visited the college. He got on board with of a broad foundation for life. gram, she didn’t back down Philipp’s coaching and wanted I have no doubt your talents from recruiting the best. will continue to transform “I wasn’t shy about recruit- to help her team, so he would talk to the girls he coached many lives.” ing elite athletes,” she said. “I about going to Hillsdale. Roche’s faith in Philipp went after anybody who won “I just loved the school, it wasn’t misplaced. After her state championships. When was just a great school,” he retirement, she went to the we had kids choosing us over said. “I helped Diane recruit Hillsdale Academy to help Big 10 schools, we could keep for the years she was involved. with the foundation of its the momentum going.” athletic programs. A year One year, Philipp recruited I thought she was a good and a half later, President the Michigan state champions coach and she did well. She of the 100m hurdles in all four had a knack with the girls and of Hillsdale College, Larry Arnn invited her to assume divisions of high school track. a knack for recruiting.” The two became friends the Dean of Women position, “We beat U of M with who still get together each where her lessons as a coach those four girls in the shutspring at the Hillsdale Gina translate to her new position tle hurdle relay,” she said. “It Relays. as she continues to impact the made you feel confident that “Coach C helped me a ton,” lives of her students. there was a lot of potential to Philipp said. “Any kids in the “This job is very similar. It’s do a lot of things.” Detroit area, he’d give me a just that we’re not in a locker Her secret to recruiting? call. We’d have fun trying to room, it’s an office instead,” “I just loved the school find freshmen that had poten- she said. “Working one on one and told the story,” she said. tial, the two of us together.” with students, keeping them “There’s a small part of me With great success in her focused, motivated, inspired, that thought ‘I’m going to years of college coaching, healthy, and happy so they change their life a little bit can do well in school and the because they’re going to come Philipp was asked to coach at the national level for the athletic field.” to Hillsdale College.’” United States. She coached Philipp’s goal in recruiting
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wasn’t only to get the best athletes, but also the most. She wanted a team with depth so when it came time for conference championships, she would have options. “My strategy was to fill all the events,” she said. “Sometimes two or three couldn’t score, but they were there, feeling it, watching it, and competing, and it gave them desire to get to the conference championship.” One of Philipp’s favorite memories comes from a girl who had that desire to compete. “Debby had walked on, and it was her senior year,” Philipp said. “I needed someone in the 10k. Darned if she didn’t score. She got sixth. She scored a point and the whole team just erupted. She was the sweetest, greatest girl. That gave us momentum to do well for the whole meet.” Philipp’s talent for recruiting wasn’t unnoticed. Ed Carleton -- or “Coach C” as his many athletes called him during his 44 years of coaching high school track and cross country in Michigan -met Philipp when he decided to visit Hillsdale. “When I met Diane, I had two girls two years in a row go to Hillsdale, and I had