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Recruitment process demands high standards By | S. Nathaniel Grime & Elizabeth Bachmann Sports Editor & Collegian Reporter

“Our coaches all emphasize that if you come to Hillsdale College you’ll have to buckle down and work harder than you ever thought was reasonable or necessary to succeed academically,” Director of Athletics Don Brubacher said. “It’s incredibly hard. If you’re not up to that challenge, and not willing to work every bit as hard academically as you are in your athletic endeavors, don’t come. You don’t belong here.” The athletic recruiting process at any college requires long hours, years of searching, and a careful adherence to NCAA rules. At Hillsdale, recruiters must also grapple with the school’s rigorous academic standards and honor code, which can be both attractants and deterrents to prospective athletes. “I’m not sure anyone understands the extent of the recruitment process,” Brubacher said. “It’s an extraordinarily time-consuming and high-pressure process. Nothing is locked down, even when an athlete shows up in the fall. It’s still not locked down until they have been with you for a week or two or three and have decided ‘Yes,

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this is where I want to be.’” Brubacher said that Hillsdale’s recruiting process begins much like that of any college. Recruiters start looking into students as early as their freshman year of high school but cannot make any formal contact with them until July before their junior year. Freshman Anna LoMonaco plays on the women’s basketball team at Hillsdale and said before the formal recruiting process began for her, she visited the school as a sophomore in high school. “I just came for an camp because my brother had actually visited Hillsdale,” LoMonaco said. “It was the first school I visited for basketball and I really liked it. I visited other schools, but nothing really compared to Hillsdale.” Within each sport, recruitment strategies differ due to style and approach. Some coaches favor face-toface meetings that give them the opportunities to get to know prospective athletes at a personal level early in the process, while others prefer telephone and email contact until the they become more sure of the athlete’s ability and interest. Ultimately, though, Hillsdale’s academic and moral standards play a significant part in both the recruitment and acceptance process for both athletes and coaches.

“The general approach is to find athletes who can compete in this level, but our coaches are immediately conscious of the academic standard of each recruit,” Brubacher said. “So a very high percent of the prospects are not pursued because they don’t meet academic standards.” Hillsdale’s high behavioral standard also plays a role in recruitment and acceptance. However the quality of a character is harder to judge than the quality of a GPA, so Brubacher and the coaches developed a strategy to find prospectives who will fit in at Hillsdale. “Our coaches all talk about the character of Hillsdale students along with community,” Brubacher said. “We hope that students who don’t like it will figure out that they don’t like it after a few of these types of conversations, and will discontinue recruitment.” These principles which can be deterrents to some students choosing Hillsdale can be strong attractants to others. “The first thing always is you will receive an education here that cannot be duplicated at any other college or university in the country,” Brubacher said. “It’s an extraordinary, unusual education that will be of immense value to you in your life. That is the primary pitch.”

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A “culture of silence” exacerbates the consequences of sexual assault, according to Hillsdale law enforcement in a meeting with Hillsdale College students and administrators last Friday — and the college administration intends to change that on campus by providing more preemptive education for students regarding sexual assault. As suggested by students at the meeting, the college will include training on sexual assault prevention and reporting in its orientation and programs throughout the year, said Dean of Women Diane Philipp in an email. The administration also intends to continue to meet with the group of students who gathered with them on Friday for

advice on how to share such ident Larry Arnn said the information and to increase college takes sexual assault face-to-face informative seriously and reacts with interactions on campus “severe steps” toward perpebetween students and law trators. “That has included enforcement officials. several times dismissal from “There are always opporthe college. Even in cases tunities to improve, and we where a young man has disare exploring ways to better respected a woman verbally educate students about their we speak to him about it and options for reporting sexual have imposed discipline. In assault as well as how the all cases of assault we offer college responds to such help to the victim in going reports,” Philipp said. “We to the police,” he said in an aim for clarity regarding email. the relevant policies and At Friday’s meeting, procedures, and both as a which the deans had preventative and in response planned for months in to any problems, we empha- response to conversations size responsibility, honesty, with students, about 10 male and respect.” and female students shared Besides improving educoncerns and suggestions cation and communication, with the college deans, Chief she said, the college does Administrative Officer Rich not plan to make significant Péwé, heads of college secualterations to its policies and rity, and local law enforceprocedures regarding cases ment officials, including the of sexual assault. Hillsdale County undersherHillsdale College PresSee Sexual Assault A3

‘He may have lost his sight, but he has not lost his vision’ Sajak, Arnn, Higley honor retiring Chairman Brodbeck By | Rachel Kookogey Collegian Freelancer “When the history of this school is finally written, these will be the golden years. And we have President Arnn and Chairman Brodbeck to thank for that,” said Pat Sajak, Vice Chairman of the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees. Last Friday, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and his wife, Penny Arnn, honored the retiring Chairman William J. Brodbeck ’66 with a program of a brief video and remarks from Arnn, board member Stephen Higley ’66, and future chairman Patrick Sajak. Guests — including faculty and students — mingled and ate hors d’oeuvres before the program and later danced to a performance from Brodbeck’s favorite band, The Diamonds. “Bill is not going anywhere. He will serve as Chairman

Chairman William J. Brodbeck ’66 will retire after years of service to the college. External Affairs

Emeritus and as a member of the board,” said Arnn in a letter to faculty and staff. “So we will not grieve, but party.” In his remarks, Arnn said Brodbeck has “done every-

thing right.” He emphasized Brodbeck’s decades of service to the college — from graduating with the nickname

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Dan Knoch retires after 43 years at Hillsdale By | Alexis Daniels Assistant Editor After 43 years at Hillsdale College, Mossey Library Director Dan Knoch will retire at the end of this semester. Knoch came to Hillsdale College in 1976, after graduating from Western Michigan University in 1975 through its American Library Association accredited program, and since then, he has progressed from librarian to director. As a director, he was responsible for everything that goes on in the library, including budget, personnel assessments, chairing meetings, and working with the faculty library committee. Now, he said he would like to focus being with his family as a grandfather. “I’m going to be more involved with my grandchildren. I’m going to babysit my boys, my grandsons, two days a week,” Knoch said. “They live in Hudsonville, near Grand Rapids. Mondays and Tuesdays after they’re done with school, I’m going to go up there and sit with them because their mom works Follow @HDaleCollegian

Hillsdale College Library Director Dan Knoch will retire from his position after 43 years working at the college. Collegian Archives

those days.” He also has a granddaughter in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he said, who he said he intends to help out with. “I often say after my first grandson was born, I’ve seen bumper stickers after the fact that said, ‘If I would’ve known my grandchildren would be

so much fun, I would’ve had them first,’” Knoch said. In his time at the college, Knoch has witnessed many changes at the library in the past 43 years, the most noticeable and difficult ones being technological. “The biggest thing with the

library by far is the computerization of the world,” Knoch said. “I mean, when I came here, it was card catalog, the college had a mainframe computer that they used for administrative stuff, and it was based before the personal computer.” The library initially had a card catalog system, where it recorded its stock on index cards; by the 1990s, it had an online catalog and progressed to a fully integrated library system. In 1994, Knoch said they added the section in the back of the first floor and the Heritage Room – the first additions since 1971. In 1995, the library added an internet system. “I said ‘The following summer, I’m going to take the summer off,’” Knoch said with a laugh. “It was very rewarding work, though.” The library has changed so much over the years that Knoch said he never felt like he was working in the same place. “Maybe that’s an excuse for staying here as long as I did,” Knoch said. “But the work was

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rewarding and impactful, and I enjoyed it.” Knoch said as a director, he looks back on past attitudes and actions and thinks there were times he could have been less strict, but the familiarity and the pace of the job has helped. With the staff, he said he is there not so much to direct, but instead to guide and support. Though he said he gets a lot of credit as director, much of the work is done by the librarians. “I always kid them about that, like, ‘Yeah you know the library director, he always gets the positive stuff,’” Knoch said. “I’ve always felt if you hired good people, that’s the best management you could possibly have. If you hire good people, you don’t have to worry about whether quality work gets done.” Public Service Librarian Linda Moore has been Knoch’s co-worker since their first day in 1976, and she said their relationship as co-workers and friends has grown from just the day-to-day interaction. “I’ll stop in his office, we’ll just chit-chat about what

happened last night or the weekend, any news that we have, how his family’s doing, his kids,” Moore said. “It’s been a nice relationship.” Moore said she will be retiring next year, but she knows that having Knoch in the library will be missed. “It’s the familiarity,” Moore said. “He’s been library director for almost 20 years, and he was a colleague for 24 years before that.” Junior Josiah Leinbach has worked at the library since he was a freshman, and he said his favorite memory with Knoch was that he remembered his name within two days of him being hired. “Dan takes a personal interest in his employees. He takes time to get to know them,” Leinbach said in an email. “He asks questions like, ‘How is your semester going?’ or ‘What did you do over break?’ and he actually wants to know.” An open house to celebrate Knoch will be held in the Heritage Room from 2 to 4 p.m. on May 10.

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‘Our sacred duty to honor On second review, Pi Beta America’s heroes’ Phi wins the scholarship cup Sen. Tom Cotton speaks about new book on By | Nolan Ryan News Editor

Arlington Cemetery

Pi Beta Phi won this semester’s scholarship cup with a GPA of 3.523, contrary to the announcement at last week’s convocation. Sigma Chi also won with a GPA of 3.257, contrary to the announcement. The problem arose from a miscommunication between administrative offices, said Registrar Douglas McArthur. At convocation, administrators announced Kappa Kappa Gamma was the winning house because of the error, as well as the wrong GPA for Sigma Chi. According to Registrar Douglas McArthur, his office received a call from the provost’s office for the GPAs of Hillsdale’s fraternities and sororities. McAr-

By | Alex Nester D.C. Correspondent “After a while my hand began to hurt from pushing in the pointed gold tips of the flags into the hard ground,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said to a crowd of more than 100 people at the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. on April 9. “They asked if I was using a bottle cap, and I said, ‘No.’ Apparently, missing a bottle cap is like missing your rifle or night vision goggles in combat in Iraq.” Cotton, a senator since 2015, spoke about his new book, “Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour of Arlington National Cemetery.” A veteran of the United States Army, Cotton was deployed in Iraq and later Afghanistan. Cotton is a Bronze Star Medal recipient. Between his deployments, Cotton also served in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, the oldest regiment in the United States. The Old Guard is tasked with performing military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. “Funerals always come first for the old guard. Funerals are just a no-fail, zero defect mission,” Cotton said. The Old Guard considers funerals at Arlington Cemetery to be just as important as active combat missions, Cotton said. “As much as we do those funerals — and we do hundreds — the desire to achieve perfection for those families never relented,” he said. According to Cotton, even as American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11—spewing debris across Arlington Cemetery—the funerals continued throughout the day. “There is pressure to perform our sacred duty to honor America’s heroes,” Cotton said. After Cotton graduated from Harvard, where he attended both undergradu-

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas spoke to more than 100 people at the Kirby Center on April 9. Cotton, a veteran of the U.S. Army, spoke on his new book “Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour of Arlington National Cemetery.” Alex Nester | Collegian

ate and law school, he began working for McKinsey & Company before entering the United States Army. Junior Sam Ziolkowski, who is interning for Cotton while on the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, said Cotton strives to serve his constituents in all he does. “Cotton epitomizes what every GOP senator ought to strive for in higher politics. He prioritizes his constituents’ concerns, and I think that’s evidenced by his strong strong stance on national security,” Ziolkowski said. “His book is especially compelling in that it’s an apolitical telling of the sacrifices and history of the Old Guard. Senator Cotton is the ideal man to illustrate their distinctions.” Cotton recounted the history of the land which is now Arlington National Cemetery. George Washington Parke Custis, step-grandson of George Washington, inherited the land after his father’s death. Custis willed the land to his daughter,

Mary, who married Robert E. Lee. The Lee family left the land during the Civil War, which the Union Army occupied and used to bury fallen Union soldiers. George Washington Custis Lee, the son of Mary and Robert, sued the United States for the land he rightfully inherited. He won at the Supreme Court but accepted $150,000 from the United States in exchange for the land. None other than Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, accepted the deed for Arlington. Thus, Arlington became the National Cemetery. “It was truly a wonderful experience. It is always an honor to have a sitting US senator come and join the Hillsdale College family,” Josh Orlaski ’18 said. “It was really a touching experience to hear him share stories about how he was able to honor our brave men and women who served our country and paid the ultimate price.”

thur said his office does not account for students who might have dropped from a particular Greek organization, and their list of Greek GPAs would not account for that. But because he did not personally receive the call for GPAs, he and the deans did not reconcile their lists of students involved in Greek life. “The numbers were 100 percent correct,” he said, “but they were the right numbers at the wrong time.” Junior Tess Skehan, president of Pi Beta Phi, said she was confused and disappointed when the incorrect information was announced at convocation. But she said Dean of Men Aaron Petersen and Associate Dean of Women Rebekah Dell were helpful in addressing the

problem, and they let the women of Pi Beta Phi take pictures with the cup after convocation. “Both the deans and the Kappas were very helpful and understanding,” Skehan said in a message. “While we were disappointed that our house was not publicly recognized for the award at convocation, I am overwhelmingly proud of the intelligence, work ethic, and scholarship of my sisters.” Skehan noted that this was Pi Beta Phi’s 99th scholarship cup. “We exceeded the all-women’s average and are focused on continuing this legacy in future semesters,” she said.

Plaster Auditorium to be completed by September By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor Construction of the new Plaster Auditorium is projected to finish Sept. 1, 2019, just days before the first CCA. Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the construction has been mostly free of setbacks. The projected completion date has not changed since the college broke ground on the new construction in August 2018. “We haven’t planned anything in there for September 1,” Péwé said. “But it should be done. Of course, there are always setbacks and issues, but nothing that we haven’t be able to deal with.” Péwé said Markel Auditorium and Howard Music Hall have both been heavily used for events during the auditorium’s reconstruction. “This will allow us to take some of the pressure off of Markel,” Péwé said. “When we have jazz events, we can

put them in Plaster. That way, theater will have more opportunity. We won’t have to do one or the other.” The Dow Hotel has seen an increase in reservations for the Searle Center since the beginning of construction on Plaster. During 2017, Plaster, formerly known as Phillips Auditorium, was used 150 different times for everything ranging from sorority recruitment events to athletic team presentations. Director of Hospitality Operations for the Dow Hotel Aaron Tracey said not having Phillips Auditorium available has increased the workload for the hotel staff. “Phillips was very helpful and convenient because it was already set up for a lecture presentation,” Tracey said. “Now, we don’t have an auditorium where people can sit down and listen. What we have to do is set up chairs for that presentation; we have to set up a projector for that presentation.” The completion of Plaster

Auditorium will give the hotel some breathing room when they schedule events. “We are definitely looking forward to having Plaster Auditorium completed so that CCAs and large lectures for the college can be done without any of our setup,” Tracey said. Executive Director of Administrative Affairs Tim Wells said Tracey and his staff have handled the additional workload quite well and said he looks forward to the completion of the project. “With the completion of this project, we’re anticipating many more requests for the space,” Wells said in an email. “Searle may not have been able to accommodate all of the needs that Phillips Auditorium formerly met; however, we are all excited for this project’s completion and are already anticipating how it can best be used in supporting the College and its mission.”

Arboretum offers summer programs for community By | Julia Mullins Assistant Editor This summer, the Slayton Arboretum will provide a variety of summer programs for children and families in the community. Horticulturist and Program Coordinator at Slayton Arboretum Laurie Rosenberg said the arboretum has provided programs open to the community during all seasons. “We have a variety of summer events, and they’re all open to the community,” Rosenberg said. “We’ve been doing them for decades.” When Rosenberg began working at Hillsdale in 2013, she started the day camp in the summer for kids, and each day has activities based on a different theme.

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“Joe College” to heading the search committee that asked Arnn to become president of the college. Arnn also included anecdotes about how Brodbeck would keep him in shape by writing “long lists of things I was supposed to do,” reminding Arnn of things he should mention during board meetings and making Arnn watch Fox News. Arnn concluded his

Associate Professor of Chemistry Christopher Hamilton said all three of his children have attended the summer camp in previous years. “My daughter Keira has really loved the camps. She’s done them every year that she can,” Hamilton said. “She really appreciates the time that Laurie spends on those.” Hamilton said the programs are great for children, and he encourages people in the community to take their children to the day camps. “It’s a great opportunity for kids to get out of the house and do something different,” Hamilton said. “It’s educational but also fun.” For the first time, Rosenberg said the arboretum will put on a “Campfire Series” beginning in June on Father’s Day.

“It’s going to be a dad’s joke-a-thon and barbeque,” Rosenberg said. Rosenberg said the series will extend with events in July, September, and October. July will feature a cabaret-themed evening with performers from a local theatre, September will be coffeehouse-themed and open to college students, and October is going to share scary folktales. In addition to the day camps and campfires, the arboretum will continue its “Stories in the Garden Program” into the summer months. The program takes place on the first Tuesday of every month except for January, February, and March due to weather. Rosenberg said this program is for preschool-age kids and their parents.

“It’s a program that emphasizes reading because we have a children’s library,” Rosenberg said. “Each month has a different theme based on the book that we read. We’ll sing songs, read poems, or do a craft activity. There’s usually a snack and activities out on the trails in the arboretum.” On May 11, the arboretum will have a plant sale, and all of the proceeds will go toward the summer children’s programs to reduce costs for participants. Horticulturist Angie Girdham began growing the plants for the sale in Hillsdale’s greenhouse during the middle of December. “Every single crop has very specific requirements to grow, so that they will all be in bloom for the sale,” Girdham said.

remarks by speaking about when Brodbeck had called Arnn to ask him to be the president of the college. “I don’t think I would have accepted it if anyone else had called,” Arnn said. Arnn said he accepted the position because of Brodbeck’s leadership at the college. “At a good college with a beautiful idea behind it, being the president is unique,” Arnn said. “And it would not be so except for the service of Bill Brodbeck.” Higley expressed similar

sentiment in his remarks. “Together, Larry and Bill have transformed this college from a good, small school to a tremendous institution that is nationally known,” Higley said. The Brodbeck family has been connected with Hillsdale for decades. William Brodbeck met his wife, Jan Brodbeck, at Hillsdale when he was a sophomore and she was a freshman. Their three daughters also attended Hillsdale. Event attendee and Hillsdale College Professor

of Chemistry Lee Ann Baron has known the Brodbeck family since the Brodbeck daughters came to Hillsdale in the 1990s. “I lived next door to the daughters, so I met Jan Brodbeck when our dogs were playing in their backyard,” Baron said. “They are just the nicest people.” Another event attendee, senior Nick DeCleene, met the Brodbecks his freshman year when they had just moved back to Hillsdale and Dean of Men Aaron Petersen asked DeCleene to help

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Each year, Girdham said she grows around 80 varieties of plants. “My biggest challenge is keeping track of all the different plants and all of their needs and being able to make sure that I’m giving each plant the attention it needs,” Girdham said. Girdham said she enjoys her job and looks forward to the Mother’s Day sale. “It’s nice to interact with the community,” Girdham said. Rosenberg said the arboretum will also put on its first-ever Mother’s Day tea party on May 12. The afternoon tea costs $10 per person and will take place from 2:30 to 4 p.m. “It will include tea at the stone lab, which is at the entrance of the arboretum,” Rosenberg said. “And there

the couple with any household needs. DeCleene said Brodbeck was always friendly with him. “The first time I got there, I addressed him as Dr. Brodbeck,” DeCleene said. “But he said, ‘Nick, it’s Bill. Can we work with that?’” DeCleene said his relationship with the Brodbecks has been one of his favorite aspects of his time at college. “Throughout the years, it has turned into such a dear friendship,” DeCleene said. “They are one of the most selfless couples I have

will be refreshments and a wildflower walk.” During the wildflower walk on Mother’s Day, Rosenberg said she expects to see Virginia bluebells, mayflowers, spring beauty, bloodroot, and trout lily flowers all in bloom. Rosenberg also said the arboretum is full of crabapple shrubs and viburnum, along with the flowering trees of dogwood and redbud. Later in the summer, Rosenberg said the arboretum will have a peony display. “We have a lot of peonies,” Rosenberg said. “But they usually don’t start blooming until June.”

ever met, and they have, in a sense, become my parents here.” At the event, Brodbeck was presented with two gifts: the Freedom Leadership Award and a painting of the couple, made by Professor Emeritus of Art Samuel Knecht. Brodbeck was then given time for remarks of his own. Brodbeck said he has hope for the future of the college. “I know that this college will only go forward and upward,” Brodbeck said.

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Tocco encourages students to discover ‘God-given talents’ By | Isabella Redjai Assistant Editor In order to motivate students and give them some useful steps to discover their “God-given talents,” businessman and founder of D.L. Tocco & Associates, Inc., Donald “Don” Tocco spoke at Hillsdale College on Thursday, April 11. “Many persons do not discover what those talents are until later in life by virtue of some accident or external happenstance,” Tocco said. “Our ultimate purpose and our God-given talents are inextricably linked together and the sooner we know what they are, the sooner we can accelerate our productivity in life and service to others.” Tocco is greatly recognized across campus as a generous donor for campus activities and groups. Visiting sororities, playing baseball with the college’s team, and speaking with other students involved across a spectrum of interests, Tocco believes extracurricular activities contribute to the college’s liberal arts tradition. “The purpose of my donating money to Hillsdale College is to support not only the great mission of the school but also the specific activities of your leadership groups, including funding for sports programs at different times over these many years,” Tocco said. “You may find after graduation that your involvement in extracurricular activities beyond academics was every bit as valuable as your core curriculum, philosophy, and great books read and studied. These are the reasons I offer monetary support.” Tocco has previously donated funds depending on the number of members of campus clubs who attend his annual lecture, but this year, he tried a different means to

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Freshman Lauren Daffenberg enjoyed a successful rookie year on the women’s basketball team this winter. She said although she was unfamiliar with Hillsdale as a high school student, the standards and culture of the college attracted her. “I had never heard of Hillsdale before I started getting recruited,” Daffenberg said. “Then you look into it; you look into the academics, you look into the atmosphere, and then that’s how I found Hillsdale and committed.” Hillsdale’s even more unique conservative, Christian stance is an additional

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iff and the City of Hillsdale chief of police. Students listed areas in which the college handles security well and areas in which it could improve. Overall, the students agreed that Hillsdale is generally a safe campus that provides access to security measures for students and quick responses from security and police. But students need more communication and information regarding the safety measures available to them and what to do in cases of sexual assault, they said. A student-created online petition calling for the college to implement education on sexual assault in freshman orientation gathered more than 1,000 signatures in the past week. “The thing most needed is education,” said junior Emily Heubaum, president of the Citizens for Self Governance club, who attended the meeting. “We are very blessed to live in a place where we are generally safe, but we kind of take that for granted. We can’t escape the reality of sexual assault.” While emphasizing that the college administration maintains strong and consistent communication with law enforcement, law enforce-

understand campus groups’ core values and objectives. He asked each campus group in attendance to write a letter of intent explaining what their group stands for, what it accomplishes, and for what purposes they would use additional funding. “I added this requirement so I could better understand what the many different groups on campus are trying to accomplish while en route to their undergraduate degree,” Tocco said in an email. Senior Kyle Huitt, who introduced Tocco at the lecture, has experienced the generosity of Tocco and developed a personal as well as working relationship with the businessman by managing Tocco’s personal website. “I think people often miss how he takes ideas originally articulated by some of the greatest thinkers we study at Hillsdale — the notion of a best self, the idea of virtues, a focus on a contemplative life, etc. — and communicates them in a radically accessible way for people who might not quite be used to reading Aristotle and ethical philosophy for themselves,” Huitt said. “As a philosophy nerd, I’ve respected that and benefited from it. Mr. Tocco shows that the higher things can be made very practical and are necessary for a good life.” Tocco believes these ideas to be important in communicating to his younger audience. These include memorable phrases that students repeated with Tocco to reinforce his message, including “burning desire,” “D-etermination,” and “action, action, action!” Tocco’s speeches always address three specific ideas he believes are fundamental “principles necessary for a productive and extraordinary life.” These ideas include the Greek word “arête,” referring draw for some student-athletes. “In my observation, since I’ve been here, an ever increasing percentage of our athletes understand the Christian and conservative nature of Hillsdale, and those were pivotal elements in their decision making process. That is becoming increasingly the case,” Brubacher said. “But I would expect that we do have somewhat higher percent athletes that make their college choice based on academics and athletics without the other two factors as a major consideration.” Brubacher said that most of Hillsdale’s teams have players who play at a caliber ment officials affirmed that more education for students on sexual assault and the reporting process is important for encouraging students to speak out — particularly to the police — when a crisis happens. Otherwise, the silence that often surrounds the situation can lead to more harm than good. City of Hillsdale Chief of Police Scott Hephner said the number of college-related sexual assault cases his office has investigated has remained fairly consistent over several years and is nowhere near a level that he would consider a “huge problem.” But he’s noticed an increasing awareness among women that they can talk to the police “if they feel anything at all is nonconsensual.” When a sexual assault complaint is brought to them, the deans present students with their options and encourage them to report the occurrence to law enforcement, Philipp said. But not all students choose to report to law enforcement. Sometimes students or their parents don’t want to report an assault because they fear they’ll lose control of the situation, Hephner said. But the process is much more confidential than they may realize. “We don’t force anyone to do anything,” he said, noting that anything a victim re-

to excellence in character, being involved in government as young politically-mindful individuals, and finding mentors who will cultivate good qualities in themselves. Students appreciate Tocco’s annual speeches and his generous contribution to the well-being of the student body and activities across campus, while being so passionate about the college and its mission. “We always hear from professors and faculty that our Hillsdale education will serve us well in the ‘real world,’ but it is always very special to have someone outside of Hillsdale recognize the work that we do here and explain how we will be able to apply our Hillsdale education to our futures,” sophomore Kate Ford said. “Mr. Tocco is a generous, personable man. His earnestness and resilience are inspiring qualities, and I truly enjoy talking to him when he comes to campus.” Tocco said he cares about the student body and is hoping to frequent campus more often as he becomes involved in a new business development in Litchfield County, near the college’s campus. As students discover and master what he calls, “the art of arête” and continue to pursue both learning and scholarship at Hillsdale, Tocco hopes students hold on to the truths he shares during his visits. “As a Hillsdale College student, if you can manage to leave that great institution having accomplished academic excellence, build upon the force of your character; know your purpose,” Tocco said, “Express your burning desire; write down your goals and objectives; demonstrate persistence, determination, and conviction; and act in a bold and confident manner — there is nothing you cannot achieve.” above Division II. “I can’t say that in every case, but with confidence in nearly every case when we have an athlete who is on a level higher than a typical Division II athlete that they choose Hillsdale College because of the unique characteristics including the Christian and conservative nature,” Brubacher said. That caliber, along with Hillsdale’s thorough recruiting, has led to plenty of success for the school’s athletic programs. Since moving to the G-MAC conference in 2017, Hillsdale athletics have already captured 10 G-MAC championships, between regular season and tournament play.

ports is immediately an open case and therefore hidden from the public, even under a Freedom of Information Act attempt to disclose it. Law enforcement officers first make sure victims are safe and feel safe, Hephner said. From there, victims choose what happens next. Often law enforcement will have a conversation with them — offering a female officer if preferred — and document details to keep an official record. The information could be used for an investigation, though Hephner said sometimes victims have offered information then said they don’t want to proceed. “We’re here working for the victim,” he said. “If the victim truly only wants us to be aware that something happened and absolutely would not do anything else, we respect that. We do not force a victim. You can re-victimize someone or make it worse from an emotional perspective.” But immediate response from law enforcement is important for several reasons, Hephner said. Nonverbal cues from victims in initial conversations are critical in investigations, and evidence of a crime might disappear by the time police can investigate if they’re notified too late. Furthermore, he said, a victim’s story can be manipulated, sometimes unintentionally, by the people he or

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McConnell presented with honorary degree By | Stefan Kleinhenz Assistant Editor “I’ve always wanted to be a graduate of Hillsdale,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said as he received an honorary degree from Hillsdale College. On April 15, President of Hillsdale College Larry P. Arnn and Provost David Whalen presented McConnell with an honorary doctorate degree in public service. Before the degree was presented to him, McConnell addressed Hillsdale faculty, students, and friends of the college in a speech titled “How the Legislative Branch Can Restore the Constitution.” He began his speech with high praise for the college and Arnn’s “enormous contributions to Hillsdale and to the nation.” This was McConnell’s first visit to the college. He said Hillsdale faculty and alumni are on the front lines of public service, and institutions like Hillsdale are built on good ideas can reshape human history for the better. “I didn’t have the benefit of a Hillsdale education myself,” McConnell said. “And back when I was a young senate staffer, there was no Kirby Center on Massachusetts Avenue making everyone smarter.” In his address, McConnell emphasised the values and principles he shares with the college and his efforts to put those values to work in D.C. “Policy matters, nominations matter, but more than anything else throughout my career, I’ve tried to preserve the deeper inheritance our framers left us in the Constitution,” McConnell said. “I’m grateful to share some of that work with all of you today.” McConnell’s visit to the college brought the college community together, including Cheri Brauer and her husband, who are contributors to the college and live in she talks to about the issue, and police want to hear the story before that happens. Students at the meeting agreed that this information from law enforcement was eye-opening and that all students on campus would benefit from hearing it, preferably from law-enforcement officers themselves. “It was refreshing to hear that they want to help us even if we don’t press charges,” Heubaum said. Realizing that students’ misunderstanding of law-enforcement processes can perpetuate the culture of silence was the most meaningful part of the meeting, said senior Andie Chandler, former president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She and others at the meeting agreed that having law enforcement officers come to campus themselves to educate student groups on the reporting process — or even simply to have face-toface interactions — would be beneficial. In light of these suggestions, Philipp said the college plans to make such interactions happen on campus. Hephner said he sees the value of those interactions and thinks the college started off well with the meeting last week, which he called an “eye opener.” Additionally, he said he thinks the college and local law enforcement can work to build a more “unified

town. Brauer said the speech was very effective and well-organized, and she enjoyed hearing McConnell talk about how he sets the agenda for the Senate and “how seriously he seems to care about our country,” Brauer said. “It means a lot to us that Hillsdale continues to be a center of conservative thought and influence.” McConnell discussed the great importance of the federal courts to both the agenda he sets as senate majority leader and to the lasting future of the nation. He said on election night 2016, when it was clear Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, he asked himself: “What’s the thing that we can do to have the longest positive impact on the country?” McConnell concluded that lifetime appointments of judges who follow the law as it’s written are “the single most important thing we can do for the long-term future of our country.” In Trump’s first two years in office, the Senate, under McConnell’s leadership, confirmed a record 30 circuit judges and now have a total of 37 total confirmations. “We’re going to keep on doing that,” McConnell said in regards to the court appointments. “And there will be no vacancies left behind at the end of this Congress, I can tell you that.” McConnell also noted the appointment and approval of two Supreme Court justices. “As long as we have a White House sending up the kind of judges the American people deserve, we will continue confirming them,” McConnell said. “With every one, I hope we step closer to a judiciary our framers would actually recognize.” Isaac Kirshner, a sophomore studying American Studies, said he was impressed with McConnell’s speech. “I think Mitch McConnell front” in response to crises, and said he will continue to stay have conversations with the deans’ office about this. “They do what they do very well, we do what we do very well. We just have to work together,” he said. Sexual assault, said Arnn, “has in common with all physical assaults that it is an attack upon the being or center of a person. In a college, sexual assaults, and also disrespectful behavior well short of that, erodes the connection of friendship in learning that is fundamental to success.” Chandler said student leaders can also make an effort to create awareness and conversations about sexual assault that help to break the culture of silence. It’s also important for students to recognize that they don’t know everything the deans are doing and that the deans only know as much as students tell them, she said. Along the same lines, Heubaum said students shouldn’t be afraid of the deans or simply see them as a punishing force: They truly want to help, and students shouldn’t shy from going to them in a crisis. Junior Mayim Stith said she feels encouraged that the college plans to implement training at orientation but hopes to see specific content — including definitions of sexual assault and publishing

is a statesman who commands a real, Hillsdalian understanding of the founding principles on which this Republic was founded — one of the few in Congress,” Kirshner said. McConnell also spoke on his lifelong work defending the First Amendment and free speech in America, calling himself a “First Amendment purist.” “I see political speech as the mother of all of our freedoms,” McConnell said. “Cracking down on some speech will just unfairly privilege other speech.” He also said the ability to exchange ideas is how self-government works and said Washington, D.C. cannot be in the business of micromanaging what conversations Americans are allowed to have about D.C. He said protecting free speech can’t just be the work of those in government; it is a national responsibility. “The First Amendment, my friends, needs constant vigilance,” McConnell said. “Every American should discipline themselves to remember the difference between subtle disagreement and permanent outrage, and avoid being part of the problem.” Arnn said McConnell gave a thoughtful and excellent speech, as is his way. “We’ve been working on this honor for about a decade now,” Arnn said. “And we were finally able to find the time.” McConnell concluded his address in the very place he began it: the core values of our nation. He noted that the soul of our republic is not the content of our debates or our policy differences, but it is the broader consensus in which all of it takes place. “Beneath all else, America is built on good ideas, the declaration distills them, the constitution and its limits allow them to flourish,” McConnell said. “And as long as these things endure, so shall we.” reporting and disciplinary procedures — in the programming. Péwé said the college is looking to implement some of students’ practical suggestions, such as rolling out a phone app that allows them to quickly connect with security or local police. “With the deans we have already started to research options,” he said in an email. “The hope is to roll something out for students and employees in the fall.” Both Philipp and Hephner said they care deeply about students’ safety and are available as first resources in a case of sexual assault. Hephner said communication about sexual assault and other safety concerns is crucial. “The more information and communication out there, the better this is for everyone involved,” he said. Philipp expressed the same: “The first step out of a crisis is to talk to someone,” she said. A student who believes he or she is a victim of sexual assault can contact the Hillsdale City Police by calling 911 or campus security 24/7 at 6072535 or 517-398-1522. The deans and Director of Health Services Brock Lutz can also be reached at personal phone numbers, available in student planners, in an emergency at any time.

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Our days are vessels: Fill them with memories, both good and bad to a lot of girls about a lot of By | Sofia Krusmark Special to the Collegian things. But I listened, too. I expect too much from my days. We all have had those unforgettable moments. I’ll always remember the day that I went to Disneyland for the first time, as all of the fanatic Mickey-obsessed kids probably do. My parents will always remember the day they said ‘I do,’ and made the lifelong promise to live and love. And then there’s the day that my grandma died — deaths have their way of engraving their dates on our heart. Or, the day my dad came home and said he lost his job. I was 8-years-old then, and I’m 19-years-old now — I still remember. When we wake up each morning, our days are void. Nothing has happened — good or bad. Each day is a vessel. Filling them is inevitable, and an empty day is impossible. But too often, we complain about what fills them. At the end of the day, we crawl into bed and sift through the day’s happenings, recounting all the memories we’ll quickly forget, all the things that have necessarily — or unnecessarily filled our vessel. Maybe we remember the moment when we sat in the library for four hours and only typed one page of our 10 page paper assignment. Or the time we stood in the middle of the crowded cafeteria for 10 minutes looking like lost kids when in reality, we were just annoyed that people were sitting in a two person booth by themselves. Then comes the long-awaited declaration: “Today was a good day.” Or, God forbid, “Today was rough.” Our conceptions of our days are far too shallow. We pine over these aggravating moments throughout out the day — up until the end when we secretly hope that tomorrow will be better. But then we live the next day the exact same way: remembering the moments when things didn’t go the way we wanted them to, and forgetting the times when they did. These kinks in our days — the often-insignificant irritants — trample over the sweet moments we nonchalantly expect to fill our days. I suppose we like a hearty routine. Last summer, I traveled as a camp counselor and talked

I don’t think I’ll ever forget Nina. Her brother had died from cancer seven months prior, but as she told me this, she smiled through the tears that cloaked her eyes. “Sofia, the day he died, that wasn’t a bad day,” Nina said. “I guess I don’t believe in bad days, because every day that I’ve lived, even on a day like that, I’ve seen at least one good thing that’s happened in it.” I’m certain the day Nina’s brother died was nothing short of an overflowing vessel. A day filled with inexplicable sorrow; a day where all their cherished memories together suddenly clashed with the reality that there wouldn’t be any more. But Nina embraced this vessel. I doubt she woke up expecting it to be the adventure of a lifetime, or a day in which everything would go as planned. But when there was a 30 second opportunity to laugh or a chance to eat a homecooked meal made by dear family friends, she grasped onto these rarities — and gave thanks for them too. Our days are vessels, yes — but they carry memories, gifts, and moments that we’re fools to think we deserve. We will never be fully satisfied with the lives we live — that’s the reality of a day that’s filled with good and the bad. Sure, we could continue to live each hour for the next best thing; we might get somewhere, someday. But as for me, I want to remember the time I walked outside after class and was invited into a frisbee game with people that I didn’t know, but who wanted to know me. I don’t want to forget the unexpected hug that my friend gave me when she saw my tired and tearful eyes, or the moment when I walked into my professor’s office expecting to have a percussion lesson, only to sit and laugh while listening to our favorite songs. These days — these mundane Mondays and Tuesdays and Fridays — they’re worth remembering. Keep them in your heart — they go by quickly.

“We will never be fully satisfied with the lives we live — that’s the reality of a day that’s filled with good and bad.”

Sofia Krusmark is a sophomore sophomore studying Philosophy and Religion.

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After decades of faithfully serving on the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees as both a member and its chairman, Bill Brodbeck ’66 is stepping down to retire. His wisdom and guidance led the college through tumultuous events and years of success, and his influential work will never be forgotten. Mr. Brodbeck has helped shape the character of the college, but he has also impacted the individual lives of students. Many of us know him from classes he and his wife, Janet, audited, and we learned from

his helpful insight. Senior Emma McCormick lives across the street from the Brodbecks, and was often a dinner guest in their home. Mr. Brodbeck is “incredibly kind, thoughtful, and intelligent,” eager to serve those around him and learn from others, despite his many years of education and experience. “Mr. Brodbeck truly loves Hillsdale College, and learning about all he has done for the school — even before many students were born — is an encouraging reminder that there are a few exceptional,

quality people in this world, and we are privileged to be able to studying a place where many of them together,” she said. As an alumnus, he sets an example for Hillsdale College graduates with his commitment to the college and its values, his industriousness, and his humility. His kindness and dedication to truth mirror the principles Hillsdale was built on. The college’s first chairman of the board, Edmund Fairfield, prayed on July 4, 1853 that “the walls reared upon this foundation stand for ages to come,

sacred as well to freedom, humanity, philanthropy, and true patriotism, as to sound science, pure morality, and true religion.” Thanks to Mr. Brodbeck, Fairfield’s prayer remains answered. Hillsdale’s walls stand tall and its students remain committed to the pursuit of noble things. Mr. Brodbeck leaves a legacy that will not be easily matched, and we will miss him. Thank you, Mr. Brodbeck.

Notre Dame teaches us to grieve in the face of providence By | Shadrach Strehle Special to the Collegian When Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on Monday, my life entered slow-motion. I sat in the television viewing room of Grewcock with a small group of students and professors watching CNN replay a clip of the cathedral’s spire falling. “Have you ever been there?,” said one of the professors. “Yeah, last spring break,” I responded. “Well, you’re one of the lucky ones.” I didn’t feel lucky. I felt mad. For Christians, it can be easy to recognize God’s sovereignty when things work in accordance with our desires. When God’s plan lines up with our own, we find it much easier to attribute significant events to providence. The opposite is true for inexplicable tragedy. The Book of Job is a great example of this struggle. Throughout his tribulations, Job sees God’s actions as arbitrary, which God manifests by levying countless tragedies for reasons that Job can’t understand. When Job demands an explanation, God refuses to justify his actions and instead focuses on his divine wisdom in comparison to Job’s human ignorance: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” I sat in Grewcock with that same ignorance. Everyone watched the seemingly insatiable flames in silence, and as they burned every second felt like an eternity. Questions began to swim in my head: Did the tabernacle survive? What about the Crown of Thorns? Was anybody hurt? Why is it taking so long to put out a fire in the middle of one of the most developed cities in the world? Was this an accident, or arson? I wanted it to be arson. I

wanted more than anything for there to be someone to blame, someone I could hate. It didn’t matter who it was. If only I could heap my emotions on something more concrete than mere chance or stupidity. So far, no such luck. Visiting Notre Dame changed my worldview. In one afternoon, I was confronted with a tangible sign of the Christian imagination brought to bear on the world. I saw the combined effort of several generations of craftsmen over more than a century. Men The altar stood standing after the devastating fire in the Notre Dame catheand women were dral. Wikimedia born, worked on Catholic. It did not happen all We could go to sleep knowing the cathedral their entire lives, at once and Notre Dame was that someone would pay for and then died without seeing it far from the only reason. But destroying something beautiful completed. witnessing this testament to and that justice would preLike Mary washing Jesus’ the power of organized faith vail. But for justice to prevail, feet with a bottle of priceless planted a signpost pointed toa crime must be committed. perfume, a story from John 12 wards Christ. It made me take While the investigation into that happened to be a part of my faith more seriously, and by the origin of the fire is ongoing, Monday’s daily Mass reading, extension set me on the path to we need to prepare ourselves Paris poured resources beyond my Confirmation, which will for the possibility that it could practicality into glorifying God occur this Easter Sunday. have been an accident. If it was, through stone. Ultimately, they The unfairness of this loss then we find ourselves in the built a monument whose beau- seems personal, like an attack same position as Job: aimless ty captivated the world. The on my own spiritual journey. in our grief, angry at God. It nuances of the cathedral’s conNotre Dame helped me become might be a hard truth to accept, struction still elude architects the man I am today. It began but we have no right to be and aestheticists alike, with my movement towards the very angry. We need to learn how the Rose Window spawning savior who preached a message to grieve in the face of proviboth doctoral dissertations and of love that I so desperately dence. conversions. And as I walked want to deny for the sake of Where were you when the between those sacred walls the self-serving revenge. foundations of the earth were idea of Christian tradition, of a To give this tragedy a laid? tangible and beautiful history perpetrator would ground and of the Church, began to form explain it. We expect humans Shadrach is a Senior Studying in the back of my mind. to be sinful and destructive. History and Journalism And so, I decided to become

Calling our Lady to rest: Beauty from ashes By | Isaac Kirshner Special to the Collegian We, Christians, almost lost an old friend this week. In the waning hours of a cool April Monday, a fire started in the attic of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. The fire quickly spread, ravaging the scaffolding and consuming most of the oak roof and dragging the church’s lone spire down with it. For the last millennium, Parisians daily beheld that great brooch of Christendom and marveled as they passed her. Most of us, however, might have been fortunate enough to see her basking in a humid summer holiday abroad. Whether we were deeply intimate with her or only loving spectators, the West weeps for Our Lady of Paris. While leaving a lecture Monday afternoon, friends broke the news to me. “Notre Dame is burning,” they said. I opened my phone and to my great dismay, it was true. Our Lady of Paris was live, aflame on my screen. I then saw that great spire fall and was overcome. As I watched it drop, I was met with tears — the same tears that welled in my eyes when I first read Hawthorne’s “Earth’s Holocaust.” But these flames were visible and depleting. The fire at Notre Dame was

not a work of fiction. It was all terribly real. Photos and videos of the wreckage circulated over social media, breaking the hearts of all good people who saw them. These images still haunt our memories. Yet, we may be consoled that the heroic firefighters of Paris managed to salvage the cathedral’s main structure, saving her relics, bell towers, flying buttresses, organ, and stained glass. May God bless the priest who, too, preserved the Blessed Sacrament. Only a small piece of the interior stone roof collapsed. Notre-Dame is scarred, not lost. Still, as the flames subsided, we were left with a blackened shell. What hope do we then have in these ashes? In a way, the fire at Notre Dame reminds us of the Church’s reflection to “memento mori” in the closing days of this Lenten season. Only six weeks ago, Christians around the world received ashen crosses on their foreheads. “Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return,” we were told. The ash we don chastens our faith as we are drawn to reflection, penitence, and prayer. Since then, we have reminded ourselves to daily dwell on Christ’s Passion and our coming death. Tomorrow is Good Friday, marking the

Crucifixion of our Lord. For three days we reflect on His death. Then, on Easter Sunday, the Church celebrates His glorious Resurrection and the The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Wikimedia redemption mourning and a time for gathof death and ash. ering stones back together. Let It is no small significance us mourn now for our Lady of that Notre Dame caught fire Paris, but only for a time. Easter at the beginning of this Holy Sunday is fast approaching, and Week. And it is no great secret with it, hope and renewal for that there has been a considParis’s great jewel. erable decline in the Christian At the close of Holy Week, faith in France and in Europe and in anticipation for the as of late. Perhaps the burning Resurrection of our Lord, let of Notre Dame offers some enus remember that immortal couragement for the Church. first verse of Grundtvig’s hymn The spire and oak roof became ash, but Christians under- for the Church: “Built on the Rock the Church doth stand, stand that beauty is born from even when steeples are falling. ashes. We understand through Crumbled have spires in every Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy land; Bells are still chiming and Week, Good Friday, and Easter calling. Calling the young and that ashes can be redeemed and old to rest.” used to chasten faith. In the For now, may our Lady of meantime, the Church ought Paris rest in peace until her bells to reflect on our own ashes and chime again. pray that our faith be strengthened and renewed. Isaac Kirshner is a sophomore In Ecclesiastes, Solomon restudying American Studies. minds us that there is a time for

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Europe is wrong to reject Kushner’s Middle East plan for two-state solution By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor On April 14, The Guardian published a letter from former high ranking government officials all over Europe that urged the European Union to reject any Middle Eastern peace plan from the U.S. that would exclude Palestine. For the past several months, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been in charge of creating this Middle Eastern peace plan. He has been meeting with Middle Eastern leaders in pursuance of what some call the “deal of the century.” Though there has been no official documents or reports about what exactly the plan would entail, The Washington Post talked to “people familiar with the main elements” who indicated this peace plan may not include plans for Palestinian sovereignty. And per usual, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and their accompanying tensions, are at

the center of the controversy. But instead of rightfully pointing to the Palestinian Authority’s abuse, angry individuals and leaders banded together in opposition, not against the PA, but against Israel. The letter opposing Kushner’s possible peace plan was signed by 37 former European leaders, including former prime ministers and foreign secretaries from the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Germany, and several other European countries. Of course, Kushner’s plan would not fix the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians have refused to even consider cooperating with the U.S. because they said the Trump administration would be a biased broker for peace. It’s more than likely Kushner’s plan would favor Israel. Trump has revitalized the U.S.-Israeli alliance, recognizing the Golan Heights as legitimate Israeli territory and Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, and not even batting an eye when Ben-

jamin Netanyahu announced he wants to annex parts of the West Bank. The Europeans can’t fix the Israeli-Palestinian problem either. In their letter of opposition they wrote, “European governments should further commit to scale up efforts to protect the viability of a future two-state outcome.” And there’s the problem: They still believe that a two-state outcome is a viable option, and it’s not. At least, the traditional idea of a two-state settlement is not viable. The Palestinians and Israelis have shown the world for the past century that the simplistic, western idea of a two-state

solution cannot work. Their grievances are too deeply rooted in history, which has led to numerous factions and fighting that have paralyzed any progress in resolving their issues. The ongoing conflict has created so many factions, both Israeli and Palestinian, that it is hopeless to find a solution that will appease everyone. There are 21 Palestinian political parties and none of them want the same thing. The PLO wants a Palestinian state. But Hamas wants to liberate Palestine, and while they’re at it, create an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Not to mention

“The European leaders are stuck in an unrealistic Western mentality.”

that each party has sub-parties with their own ideas of how to get a Palestinian state. Should they negotiate with the Israelis? Should they blow the Israelis up and then negotiate? Should they just have a massive war to get rid of the Israelis? The Israelis aren’t much better. There are 17 parties with seats in the Knesset — Israel’s legislature — this term and another 33 political parties without Knesset seats. Every party has its own ideas and agendas. There are Zionists who believe in the establishment of a Jewish nation in their ancient homeland. There are anti-Zionists. There are Islamists who want to be part of the state of Israel, but not a Jewish state. There are Communists. Some parties want to annex the West Bank, while others are concerned with irrelevant issues like Arab nationalism. The European leaders are stuck in an unrealistic Western mentality. There are simply too many factions in Israel and Palestine, and too much history

and hatred to reconcile them with a two-state solution. Diana Buttu was a former advisor to the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and described impossibility of negotiations well: “If it had just been about drawing a line and a border, then the border would have been drawn a long, long time ago. But the negotiations very much touched upon many of these ideological issues. Israel was never prepared to address its history,” she told Husna Rizvi of the New Internationalist. “I came to the conclusion, in January of 2001, that negotiations were a waste of time.” The Europeans need to come to Buttu’s conclusion as well before they dismiss Kushner’s plan on the whim that a two-state solution is feasible. Kushner’s “deal of the century” might not work out, but it has a better chance than a two-state solution. Abby Liebing is a junior studying History.

Smart guys speak Tiger Woods proved he’s still one of the greats last: Impulsive opinions harm the truth By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor Last spring, before Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the 2019 Commencement, students everywhere debated his attendance heatedly. Responses ranged from “Dude, I wish I got to have the VP at my Commencement!” to “I’m skipping graduation in protest.” It seemed like everyone everywhere had a scrupulous opinion about what was ultimately — with all due respect to the Vice President — a rather vanilla performance. But it raised a question: Why does everyone have an opinion about everything? The moment I wake up, I’m scrolling through Twitter, reading the news, and reading about the latest controversy. Something happened on the other side of the world 20 seconds ago, and 40 journalists have already tweeted their condemnation for it. The Notre Dame Cathedral in France began to burn on Monday, and tweeters in Texas immediately debated what should be done about it. Some things are just not partisan, but when President Donald Trump says just about anything, everyone compulsively takes sides. In a day and age when everything is accessible to us, we’re expected to have thoughts about everything. We’re expected to have an opinion, whether we know about the issue or not. This provokes some of us to study more, so that we can have educated opinions. But it’s impossible to know everything about every controversy that erupts. The bold assumption that we should all be experts contributes to an environment that actually discourages our eagerness to learn. “‘What is the Tiger’s Woods?’ - a 6th grader in my math class who apparently pays as much attention to the news as he does to fractions,” one sanctimonious Hillsdale student tweeted recently. The message is clear across all platforms: Be informed maybe, but have the right opinions always. Those who don’t are thrown into the lions’ den — or the “Tiger’s Woods,” as it were — of social media doxxing. We see it on a smaller scale, too, in our everyday conversations. “How have you never seen this meme?” someone asked me recently. I tried to tell her politely that I waste my time on “more important things,” but it was useless. There was some internet discussion about the meme, and she wanted to know which side I was taking. Never mind the fact that I’d only just learned about it.

By | Sutton Dunwoodie golfers are Special to the Collegian household names now. Rory McIlWhen Tiger Woods rolled roy, Brooks into his final putt on SunKoepka, Justin day to win his fifth Masters Thomas and title and 15th major chamDustin Johnpionship, he answered the son fit the question that hung over the mold of the golf world for a long time: “after-Tiger How does Tiger compare Era” profesto the current generation of sional golfer. great golfers? Powerful, It was Woods’ own greatness that gave rise to the gen- athletic, and treated like eration of golfers he had to defeat to win his first Masters rockstars, they have nine maChampionship since 2005. jor championWhen Woods won his ships between first major title at Augusta them. National in 1997, PulitFacing zer-Prize winning sportsTiger Woods after winning the 2019 Masters. this crowd of writer Dave Anderson of major championships in a talented chalthe New York Times proway not seen since Tiger did lengers was Woods — now posed dividing golf history in the early 2000’s. 43-years and four back into two eras: before-Tiger Coming into the Masters, surgeries old. Before last and after-Tiger. Anderson Koepka had won three of his fall, he hadn’t won in five foresaw that Tiger’s athletyears. Many doubted, myself last six major championship icism and suave demeanor, starts, and coming down the included, whether Woods combined with his ability to stretch this past Sunday, it would be able to compete bring non-white golfers to was Koepka that Woods had the game, would create a new with the new generation in to beat. his state of disrepair. golfing landscape. Anderson Woods did beat Koepka, Sunday’s win proves predicted this even before and proved he deserves to be beyond a doubt that Tiger Tiger won the “Tiger Slam” recognized as one of the best can still compete and win and held all four major titles golfers in the world. at the highest level with the at the same time — wideWoods silenced the current generation of top ly considered the greatest ever-present doubters. These golfers, talented as they are. golfing achievement of the Some could argue we already naysayers contended that modern era. knew that. After all, last year Woods wouldn’t have been Tiger himself predicted that his example would breed Woods led the British Open, as dominant in his youth if players like Koepka or McIlfinished second in the PGA a new generation of golfers. roy had been around when Championship, and won the “I think more young Woods was winning major Tour Championship. people will start to play the championships in bunches. But until Sunday, I wasn’t game,” Woods said. “I think If Woods can go beat the convinced. Woods played that barrier, where young best players of this generapeople haven’t normally pur- his best golf since 2012 in tion in his current condition, last year’s PGA Championsued golf, I think that now there is no way any of them ship, shooting an impressive kids will think golf is cool, could have slowed him down 14 under-par, but he still really. And I think they will in his prime when his back couldn’t beat Brooks Koepstart playing it.’’ actually worked and he ka, who has dominated the That new generation of

Even our senses of humor are measured by a secular world that is surprisingly Puritanical in exacting its sense of justice. But nothing is worse than the person who says nothing, because there are no words on which to pounce. The speed at which we respond is also troubling. There’s no time to become educated about the specifics of a Paris cathedral burning; the hottest takes are the first ones thrown on Twitter. You better hope your diplomatic thumbs are poised for the moment disaster strikes, lest your 30 followers be disappointed by not seeing your take on it. The antidote to this is, of course, education: what we’re here to do. When I asked for his advice to an aspiring journalist last week, a wise man told me I should focus on learning first. “Worry about opinions later,” novelist and political commentator Andrew Klavan said. Initially, I took this to mean in my writing as a journalist, but really, it’s universal: the impetus to speak, and speak now, has got us spewing so many knee-jerk opinions, it’s a wonder we haven’t gotten arthritis yet. Social media has us all feeling the need for speed, and in an effort to deliver our word first, we’ve dumped knowledge at the roadside. Opinions are important. Nineteenth century British poet Charles Mackay emphasized this in his poem “No Enemies,” in which he smartly By | Gill West pops the bubble of those who Special to the Collegian claim to have no foes. “He who has mingled in An obelisk stands about the fray of duty that the brave 25-feet tall in the corner left of endure must have made foes,” the entrance of Hillsdale’s Oak Mackay wrote. “If you have Grove Cemetery next to the none, small is the work that street. It towers over the other you have done.” graves, bursting through the But there’s a difference branches of a neighboring tree between cowardice and huthat was probably just a sapling mility. Cowardice keeps silent when it was built. Next to these out of fear; humility keeps other more modest graves, silent when he cannot say the obelisk seems overdone, anything useful. I can think ornate, and gaudy. Twenty-one of few things less useful than headstones surround it as if the first thought that comes Stonehenge were encircling to my mind when something the Eiffel Tower. Two belong to inflames me. wives of the deceased, nine to Our modern lexicon is full children, three to his children’s of useless and uneducated wives, and the rest to grandopinions, and just plain bad children and their spouses. ones, too. Instead of adding Six headstones bear only first to the noise — instead of names, which suggests early spewing thoughts with conchildhood death. The gravesite viction about an issue we don’t belongs to John P. Cook. understand, as though our Few from Hillsdale have intellectual worth depended even heard of this man, not on it — we should take the to mention the rest of the time to learn about the topic country or the world. Curious at stake. law students at the University Break the knee-jerk habit of Michigan might discover of having to have an opinion him during an investigation about everything. Your joints into the origin of a particular will thank you. dorm’s name (named after Cook by his son), but few other monuments dedicated to John Carmel Kookogey is a soph- P. Cook exist. This stands in omore studying Politics and sharp contrast to someone like Journalism. George Washington, whose

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played more than just the occasional event. This is not to demean the new generation of golfers, some of whom will undoubtedly be considered the topten golfers of all time. Woods is simply on another level. It’s exactly as Tiger’s frequent competitor and “frenemy,” Phil Mickelson, once said in an interview with Golf Magazine: “There is nobody in the game that I have seen that is remotely close to the level of performance Tiger was in his prime,” Mickelson said. “Mentally, short game, or ball striking, I don’t think anybody matches him in any of those areas. And Tiger put them all together in one to create a career that is mind-boggling in the game of golf.” Sutton Dunwoodie is a junior studying Political Economy.

Visit the ordinary tombs, too name flashes across statues, schools, and hospitals nationwide. People like Washington are historical superstars; everyone wants to see their tombs. While paying your respects at these tombs is important, you should also do so at the graves of normal people like Cook. From the gravesite, we learn that Cook was blessed with wealth and family. But the epitaph tells us more: “A man whose judgment, steady purpose, and strong convictions, with his integrity, high principles, unassuming manners, and charitableness toward all men, constituted a harmonious nature, formed the characters of his children, and builded a wide influence for good. His home was the center of his thoughts and hopes. The world is better for his having lived.” We can’t help but stumble over the archaic “builded,” yet such praise is so effusive that we almost expect to see a name like Washington’s above it. Instead, we don’t recognize “John P. Cook” because the name is emphatically ordinary. He made the world better by being good, honest, and charitable towards all men, especially his family. We have to wonder what else he did to be worthy of such a reputation. The Hillsdale County Historical Society tells us his

story. Growing up in Cato, N.Y., Cook moved to Jonesville in 1834 with his friend Chauncey Washington Ferris and they started a convenience store. Soon after, Cook became the first postmaster of the city of Hillsdale. By 1846, both he and Ferris owned stock in the Michigan Southern Railroad. He owned the Delta Sigma Phi house, which was built in 1863 — though he probably didn’t play football. According to Margaret A. Leary’s biography on his son, William Cook, published by the University of Michigan Law School, Cook served on the constitutional convention for the city of Hillsdale in 1850, thereby becoming one of the founders of the city. Through trading, investment, and service, Cook accrued an estate worth $7 million. Dan Bisher’s “History of Hillsdale County: Pioneer Period” adds that Cook served on the board of trustees at Hillsdale College for 20 years after it moved from Spring Arbor in 1853. Despite Cook’s success in Hillsdale, he was no George Washington. He founded a tiny city in rural Michigan. He wasn’t a statesman; he wasn’t a war hero. But his family wrote of him that “the world is better for his having lived,” which echoes those words we want to hear from God at our deaths:

“Well done, my good and faithful servant.” Cook didn’t father a nation as Washington did, but he nonetheless improved the world by loving his neighbor as himself — by loving those nearest to him. He’s as worthy as any of a grave that stands out because he should stand out among us as an example. We should visit cemeteries to pay respects to those who lived as Cook did. Few of us will ever be a Washington, but we will be fathers, mothers, priests, and teachers. Regular people like Cook deserve honor nearly as much as Washington does, for good fathers, mothers, priests, and teachers are primarily why you and I are as well off as we are, even if we don’t always know their names. The end of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” emphasizes this point: “For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully in a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” John P. Cook rests in such a tomb. Visit his and others. Gill West is a senior studying Philosophy and Mathematics.

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Residents to vote May 7 on fire department millage proposal

Maggie Anne’s in downtown Hillsdale submitted a watermelon chair painted by Patti and Megan Bailey to the Heritage Association’s Hillsdale Chair Affair. Courtesy | Facebook

Heritage Association’s Chair Affair returns for second year By | Madeline Peltzer Collegian Reporter Local stores of all stripes are partnering with the Heritage Association of Hillsdale in honor of the organization’s annual “Chair Affair” fundraiser. Participating businesses decorate chairs for customers to bid on during a silent auction that spans over a few weeks. All proceeds go toward funding the association’s latest project, a sculpture of a mama bear and her two cubs, which will be placed on the Baw Beese Trail. The nonprofit aims to raise the remaining $3,000 to cover the costs of casting the statue. “Our organization was trying to come up with a way to put the ‘fun’ in fundraiser,” said Connie Sexton, executive board director and cofounder of the Heritage Association. “We wanted to do something to bring the community together.” Sexton explained that the bear sculpture was inspired

by the association’s goal of preserving local history, including recognizing the species that are indigenous to the region. “We’re trying to educate the public with beautiful visual reminders of our heritage,” she said. “We want to make people curious and want to learn more. Next to the sculpture there’ll be a plaque that gives a little history about the bears that once lived in this area.” The bears were sculpted by Heather Tritchka ’98, cofounder of the Heritage Association. The project has been in the works for almost fifteen years. “I got the idea when I would take my daughter on stroller walks down the trail,” she said. “I thought it’d be neat to have something along the trail to get out and look at. And then I thought it’d be nice if they were statues of indigenous animals that you could talk to your child about. My daughter is 17 now, so it’s been a long time coming.” Patty Bailey is the owner

of Maggie Anne’s, a local clothing boutique, and is participating in the Chair Affair. Her business’s contribution is a rocking chair she and her daughter painted to look like a watermelon. “It’s a great cause,” Bailey said. “I love to walk the Baw Beese trails and so do a lot of others in Hillsdale. This is a great way for people to get out and about and recognize the artistic abilities of people from the community. It creates a lot energy and excitement, which is great to see in the downtown area.” The fundraiser will conclude with an auction during the Heritage Association’s Art Around Town event on May 4th. Until then, students, faculty, and locals are invited to check out the chairs and place bids. “People have the chance to support a project the whole community can enjoy,” Tritchka said. “Plus, you get a really cool chair that has a great story behind it. It’s a conversation piece.”

By | Nolan Ryan News Editor The City of Hillsdale will hold a special election May 7 to vote on a millage proposal that would provide funds for equipment and trucks that need repair for the City’s fire department. Over the next 10 years, the fire department will need to purchase or repair equipment for the sake of efficiency and safety, according to Fire and Police Chief Scott Hephner. Some of the major issues are expiring air tanks, old fire engines, and the station’s commercial washing machine. Hephner has put together a chart of what items the station needs to purchase and when within the next 10 years. The total costs over that period will come to just under one and a half million. According to Hephner, however, even the funds proposed for the initial proposal will fall short by about $250,000. With nowhere else to turn, he said the department is turning to a millage. “We did not just say, ‘We need a bunch of money; let’s get the public to pay for it,’” he said. “We’ve taken all the other steps. We’ve cut our fleet down from five to four, and we’ve come up with a working business model.” As far as the millage itself, Hephner and and Sharp both emphasized that the ballot language will limit the collected funds to the equipment that needs to be replaced. “The millage says exactly what it’s for. It’s not for ‘enhancements,’” Sharp said. “It is for this equipment only. It cannot go anywhere else.” When it comes to the millage’s effect on taxpayers, Hephner said $1 million for the city will come to about $127,000 a year. “People ask what that’s going to cost them,” Hephner said. “If your home value is $100,000 and your tax value is 50,000, this $1 million would cost $50 more each year.” When he took over as chief at the fire department, Hephner said he slowly discovered just how many things needed to be replaced and updated. One of the truck’s pumps, for instance, was not safe to use, he said. The year after he took over, the station’s 34-year-old ladder truck failed inspection due to some major issues, and those cost at least $1 million,

according to Hephner. In the last couple of years, according to City Manager David Mackie, had to replace two expensive firetrucks unexpectedly. To cover that, he said in an email, money had to be taken from another city fund for one truck, while the city had to use money intended for road repairs on the other truck. “Having been creative on these last two fire truck purchases, the City Council asked the Public Safety Committee to look at options to properly plan for these type of purchases in the future,” he said. The committee, Mackie said, decided it would be best to have Hillsdale residents vote on the best solution. Councilman Bruce Sharp said the Public Safety Committee has considered every other means for funding. “I don’t like asking for a

in samples, and the other two times, a company comes in to test the equipment. “The air in the tank has to be high quality breathing air,” Hephner said. “The company tells us we need to replace that equipment. It’s on borrowed time. We can’t let that go into catastrophic failure.” Beyond the tanks — which cost around $6,000, Hephner said — even the washing and drying machines are breaking down. When going into a burning building, Hephner and Sharp both said firefighters often get carcinogens on their clothing, but nothing can be washed in a public laundromat or a private home; the station requires a commercial washing machine. “Ours was built in 1984,” Hephner said. “There’s as much suds and water on the floor as in the machine.” When it comes to drying, not having a commercial machine for that purpose is also hurting the station’s efficiency, he said. Currently, firefighters are having to hang dry their equipment, which takes three to four days to dry, he said, whereas a professional-level rack and blower system could do it in three to four hours, while also avoiding mildew and bacteria build up. As far as the millage itself, Hephner and and Sharp both emphasized that the ballot language will limit the collected funds to the equipment that needs to be replaced. Mayor Adam Stockford, who is not serving on the Public Safety Committee, said in an email that “if anyone in the city deserves a millage increase, it’s the fire department.” “Their current situation is unsustainable,” he said. “No matter what happens, the fire department needs our support and they have it. While I didn’t vote for this at the council table I’m committed to finding the money however we have to.” Sharp hopes voters will understand this millage is a last-resort option for the city’s safety. “To keep the station up to speed, this is what we need to do,” he said. “We’re not doing this lightly.”

“From a business standpoint, waiting until your major equipment goes into catastrophic failure before replacing it is not a good business model,” Hephner said. “A lot of equipment has expiration dates, and you aren’t legally allowed to use it after that.” millage, but I want to make sure we have an adequate and good fire department,” Sharp said. “Public safety is the no. 1 thing in Hillsdale, along with the roads. We want to take care of both.” Sharp said everything Hephner wants to replace over the next 10 years are all needs, not wants. “That’s why we’re coming to the taxpayers,” Sharp said. “We’ve got to find a way to fund the department.” Looking for a sustainable way to keep funding the station is a primary concern for Hephner as chief. “From a business standpoint, waiting until your major equipment goes into catastrophic failure before replacing it is not a good business model,” he said. “A lot of equipment has expiration dates, and you aren’t legally allowed to use it after that.” Such is the case with the air tanks for the firefighters. According to Hephner, all of the station’s air tanks were purchased on the same day, and thus will expire on the same day. The tanks must be tested four times a year, he said. Twice a year, they send

Council approves of tax break for Central Coast Designs By | Sutton Dunwoodie Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve a ten year industrial tax abatement for Central Coast Design’s new factory in Hillsdale at 245 Mechanic Road. The abatement will save Central Coast Design over $12,000 over a period of ten years. Mayor Adam Stockford said Monday that the new facility brings Hillsdale Industrial Park to full capacity with the exception of the unused greenspace. Central Coast Design is owned by Hillsdale County native Alan Russell and the company specializes in making decorative metal signs for homes. Russell moved the business from Jonesville to Hillsdale in December of 2018. The Collegian reported

April 11 on the rapid expansion of the business, which grew from Russell and three employees in 2017 to a 28 person company by 2018. Central Coast Design’s signs have recently started selling outside of the United States. Central Coast Design has

and the jobs he is bringing to Hillsdale, the county we grew up in,” said Ward 4 Councilman Ray Briner, who, like Russell, went to North Adams-Jerome high school. “It is a prime example of the ‘American Dream’ and he is achieving it. I’m happy for him and hope he has nothing but success.” Several council members praised Russell’s decision to move to Hillsdale for different reasons. Ward 3 Councilman Bruce Sharp said he was glad to see jobs coming to Hillsdale. “I don’t care if its one job or twenty jobs or one hundred jobs, it means somebody is back to work and making an income,” Sharp said. According to Economic Development Coordinator Kelly LoPresto, Central Coast Design’s new facility is in a building that was once consid-

“It is a prime example of the ‘American Dream’ and he is achieving it. I’m happy for him and hope he has nothing but success,” Briner said. already invested over $98,000 dollars in the new facility, which is 36,000 square feet. The application for an industrial facility tax abatement said the factory may add as many as 30 new jobs within the next two years. “I’m pleased to see Russell expanding in Hillsdale because of the success story

Central Coast Designs, also known as Precision Metal, received an industrial tax abatement for its new factory in Hillsdale’s Industrial Park . Courtesy Photo

ered for a medical marijuana growing business. Lopresto said in an email that the council took a stand against that business. “I’m glad to see someone wants to develop in Hillsdale,

there was an empty building,” Sharp said. “The previous thing we were not in favor of, and it’s good to see a business move in there that we are in favor of. Ward 4 Councilman Mat-

thew Bell praised the measure because it reduced the amount of taxes paid by a local business. “We’re letting people keep more of their own money. That’s a thumbs up,” Bell said.

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City Council seeks solution for new leaf collection plan By | Josephine von Dohlen City News Editor With Modern Waste’s leaf bag collection just a few days away on Saturday, Hillsdale City Council members are committed to finding a solution for changes in leaf collection later this fall. The council announced March 4 that they were transferring leaf collection services from city-run pickup to Modern Waste, the new trash pickup service that the city began using this past year. This switch for leaf pickup would ultimately save the city about $50,000. The change, however, would require residents to place their leaves into bags, rather than just bring them to the curb as they had in previous years. Many residents reached out with concerns regarding bagging: the expense of the bags, the labor for the elderly and disabled, and the time it takes to put the leaves in the bags. Mayor Adam Stockford said Monday that he was actively pursuing options to address concerns of residents. “My biggest concern is the elderly and the disabled

residents we have because of the added labor of bagging the leaves,” Stockford said. “I have been soliciting various non profits and different charitable organizations like A Few Good Men.” Stockford said he was able to confirm some volunteers at the Early Middle College, and that he is still in contact with A Few Good Men to try and arrange a system for leaf bagging in the community. “The best idea I can come up with to soften the blow at this point is to try to solicit some people to help donate their time and help the elderly bag their leaves,” Stockford said. Ward 4 Councilman Matt Bell, who bagged the leaves in his yard this past weekend, noted that the new process of bagging takes a lot more time than bringing the leaves to the curb. “If we do have a process that takes people more time, rather than blowing the leaves to the curb, they have put it in their bags, we have to give them more time,” Bell said. “So for the fall we have to keep that in mind.” Bell said that he has had

more concerned residents approach him regarding this issue than he has had residents express problems with the roads in the city. “It’s nuts,” he said. “We need at this point to find some way to have one curb pickup in the fall, somehow.” Hillsdale’s compost site at Waterworks Avenue is no longer able to collect leaves and such yard waste because of requirements from Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality that would cost the city to build a new compost facility. This forced the city to find another means of dumping the collecting leaves. By outsourcing the leaf collection to Modern Waste, they eliminated the need to build the new compost facility. Bell said that bagging is not the best solution and that council should continue seeking other options. “Personally, I think I made a mistake voting for that and I don’t know what the options are because obviously we can’t run the compost facility anymore, but there’s got to be another way,” Bell said. “We’ve got to figure it out. We have to have at least one curb pickup

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— there’s too many leaves.” City Manager David Mackie said that the $50,000 being saved by switching to Modern Waste for leaf pickup is being put toward the roads. “I want to be real clear that the savings from this are ac-

The Hillsdale Justice Project moved into new headquarters last month, which they renovated themselves. Courtesy | Facebook

Hillsdale Justice Project educates residents about Constitution, justice system By | Jordyn Pair Associate Editor Dressed in metal-tipped boots and a blue shirt, Jon Rutan bustles around the space, setting up a projector. A pistol sits on his right hip. Five rows of four chairs fill up most of the blue and white room, which is empty save for a few people. Rutan is the education director for the Hillsdale Justice Project, an organization dedicated to educating local residents about the justice system and U.S. Constitution. HJP recently held a fundraiser that raised more than $400 to put the finishing touches on their new headquarters, which they moved into in March. HJP was started in 2012 and currently has around 10

core members, according to Rutan. The kitchenette coffee maker hums as Rutan leads everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance and then a moment of silence. He puts in a disc of a 40-minute lecture from the 2013 Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention, interjecting in a few places, but saving most of his discussion prompts for the end of the lecture. As he walks his students through answering these questions, he reminds them the origin of certain amendments or quotes, often citing the Federalist Papers. “Rutan has a good way of reciting these and bringing out what the people who wrote them were thinking at the time,” said James Cramer,

a student of HJP for around 3 months. “They’ve helped me solidify my feelings for what the nation was meant to be and what it is no longer.” This is a typical class at HJP. Although the project does coach people through what may be unfair rulings in the criminal justice system, its members also meet to teach people about the meaning of the Constitution — and what it means for them. “That’s what we do,” said Dennis Wainscott, one of several directors of the project. “Try to help people get to the place where they can help themselves.” Wainscott compared the project to his previous experience as a minister. Just like a minister preaches to help his congregation understand, the

project teaches people so they can understand the justice system. HJP helps 10 to 15 people a year walk through the justice system, although those numbers can sometimes reach between 40 and 50, according to Rutan. Although the project does help people who are wrongfully charged, Rutan stresses that the project’s mission is about justice as a whole. A lot of people think justice means walking free, Rutan said, but he considers it to be more than that. “If you’re guilty of something small, you shouldn’t serve 20 years,” Rutan said.

tually allowing us to put more into the roads,” Mackie said. These funds will now allow the city to address road and storm sewer concerns as they prepare for next winter, he said. “When we talk about sav-

ings, there is savings, but also we’re not really truly seeing savings, it is just being better utilized in a high priority that the city has identified as the roads,” Mackie said.

Third annual Beer and Wine festival to raise funds for fairgrounds maintenance

By | Rachel Kookogey Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale County Fair and County National Bank will host the third annual Beer and Wine Festival as a fundraiser for the Hillsdale County Fair. The event will be held at the fairgrounds on Saturday, May 4, from 3-8 p.m. and is open to everyone 21 or older. There will be about 75 brands of craft beer and 3 different types of wine to sample or purchase at the non-profit event. Food will also be available for purchase at the festival. One of the event sponsors, Hillsdale Market House, will be providing derby-style hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Randy’s Barbeque and Tiki Sam’s Mobile Wood Fired Pizza will also be catering food. Because the festival will take place on the same day as the Kentucky Derby, the race will be displayed on largescreen TVs and ‘Pick the Race Winner’ games in addition to door prizes, drawings, and giveaways.

Lori Hull at the fairgrounds office said the festival will be shaped around the spirit of the horse race. “Everyone can come as they are, but we encourage ladies to wear their kentucky derby-style hats,” Hull said. In fact, there will be a “Best Hat” competition with a grand prize of $100. Hillsdale Market House owner Brett Boyd said, “we are encouraging folks to dress up. At the Kentucky Derby, ladies wear big crazy hats and fascinators, and that’s what we’d like people to do for this festival.” Boyd also said the festival would be good for “a date night.” “Bring your date out, try some great beer and wine, and have a little fun with the Kentucky Derby,” Boyd said. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 the day of the event, and are available at the Fairground office, Market House, or startickets.com. All proceeds will go towards the maintenance of the Hillsdale County Fair.

Field of Dreams expands with new storage building By | Scott Lowery and Stefan Kleinhenz Collegian Freelancer and Assistant Editor As summer approaches, excitement for a new season of sports in Hillsdale is growing. The City of Hillsdale is ramping up for a busy summer at the local park Fields of Dreams by building a new storage building. Since it opened in 1998, Fields of Dreams has been a key part of the Hillsdale community. “We always refer to it as our summer home,” Michelle Loren, the recreation director for the city of Hillsdale, said. “There’s baseball and soccer going on down there all summer long.” Loren also said that they have divisions for ages 3 to 14 and also have four tournaments every year, which brings people from all over. The facility, located on Hillsdale Road just north of campus, is home to three baseball fields, two soccer fields, and a playground. The

city uses many of the fields for electrical equipment is along project to build a dedicated der senior Caroline Andrews, its summer recreational sports with an open well,” Loren said. storage unit for use at the the current GOAL director for leagues. Fields of Dreams is “Having people go in and out Fields of Dreams. ConstrucCommunity Sports Outreach. also the home soccer field of that room became a big tion began two weeks ago. Batting said the new shed will for the Hillsdale High School safety issue.” Sophomore Julianna Battig be really helpful, especially for Hornets and the Hillsdale soccer season because Soccer Club. those teams are usually As summer approachcoached by parents. es, however, the city “This will be really realized that the facilities helpful for parent at Fields of Dreams were coaches and kids ill-equipped to handle the coming to practice, coming activity. because now they don’t “The building that have to carry the nets Hillsdale High School and the balls, and all was using for storage was the other equipment,” removed from the premBattig said. “It will be a ises,” Loren said. “No safe spot where things one had a place to store won’t get stolen and if everything.” a coach can’t make it to Without a dedicated practice, you’ll know storage unit, everyone the equipment will still who used Fields of be there.” Dreams was in a tight The city will use spot. All of the equipthe largest unit in ment needed for various the building to house baseball and soccer equipment for their leagues needed somerecreational sports where to go. In lieu of leagues. Hillsdale proper storage, the orga- A new storage building at the Field of Dreams will house recreational supplies. High School and the nizers had to resort to anyCourtesy | Facebook Hillsdale Soccer Club open space they could find. With the support of a Hills- will be the GOAL director for will also have their own unit. “We had to use the medale Community Foundation Community Sports Outreach, The building will have two chanical room where all our grant, Loran spearheaded a and is currently training unadditional units that the city

will rent out to anyone who needs it. “Everyone’s been waiting because they want to have their own building down there,” Loren said. “We decided to build the unit because we wanted some uniformity and continuity.” Do-Rite Masonry, a company in Hillsdale, recently finished laying the brick for the building, following the same design used for the dugouts along the baseball fields. The roof and the doors are expected to be installed by the end of next week. Battig said they have bins of cleats and extra equipment for kids who don’t have their own, and now they’ll be able to keep that in the shed. “Hopefully we can get more equipment to keep in the shed so kids can still play regardless of what they have,” Battig said. “This will be great for the community, and it’s a big step in building the program up.”

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Once in their shoes, Colleen Fritsche provides support for women's basketball team By | Josephine von Dohlen city news editor When the Hillsdale Chargers women’s basketball team travels for away games, about half the time they are accompanied by head coach Matt Fritsche’s wife, Colleen Fritsche, and their two children, Kellan and Kinley. Bringing the whole family along on travel weekends brings Colleen and the kids closer to the team, which has made their move to Hillsdale two years ago much easier. “I love the team,” Colleen said. “They are really, really good with the kids. We go on half of the road trips with them, and they are so good to my kids.” Traveling with the team is just one of the ways Colleen has gotten close to the players. She also has hosted team dinners in her home, which she said Kellan, 7, and Kinley, 4, love. “If it was up to my kids, they’d come over for dinner every weekend,” Colleen said. Before moving to Hillsdale, Colleen spent her whole life in Omaha, Nebraska, where sports and

Colleen Fritsche, her husband Matt, their son Kellan, and daughter Kinley, moved to Hillsdale when Matt was hired to be head coach of the women's basketball team in 2017. matt fritsche | facebook

uated,” Colleen said. Colleen attended the College of St. Mary in Omaha, where she was a student-ath-

"Being a student-athlete is probably one of the best things someone could experience in their life — and it's hard." family were a big part of her life. “I played basketball up through high school, so from about age 10 to when I grad-

lete, playing volleyball and tennis. She studied business and math. “Overall, being a student-athlete is probably one

of the best things someone could experience in their life — and it’s hard,” Colleen said. Being a collegiate student-athlete helps Colleen know what the basketball team is experiencing. “When they’re not at practice, they’re studying,” Colleen said. “We’re blessed to be able to both go to college and be an athlete. Hopefully these girls know that.” Sports have also always been part of Matt and Colleen’s lives. The two met while Matt was coaching at a high school with Colleen’s brother-in-law.

Moving to Hillsdale was big for the both of them, especially as they moved from Nebraska for the first time. Matt took the job as head coach at Hillsdale in 2017 after coaching at Creighton University. Matt said Colleen’s willingness to move their family meant a lot to him. “She was willing to move our family 10 hours to let me pursue a dream as a coach,” Matt said. “It’s crazy to think of the things she has to deal with during the season, and then even the offseason with recruiting.” Colleen admitted that having her husband travel

isn’t easy. “Being a coach’s wife is really hard,” Colleen said. “Especially with kids.”

Meister as one of her best friends helps a lot. “She doesn’t get enough credit,” Colleen said. Meister said that Colleen has been extremely welcoming to her, even during the busiest times of the season. She often finds herself at the Fritsches’ home for meals. The two said that moving to Hillsdale around the same time has brought them closer together. Colleen’s own experience as a coach also gives her the opportunity to support both Matt and Meister. “She’s almost always right,” Matt said. “I run decisions by her, especially when it comes to team chemistry. She understands what teams need because she has played and coached.” Meister agreed, saying that she goes to Colleen for advice frequently. “With her knowing so much about the team, she’s a good person to ask for advice,” Meister said. On top of what she does to support the team and care for her family, Colleen also works full-time as a travel nurse recruiter for Atlas MedStaff.

"I love that my kids, my team gets to see the example of someone who is a mother, a wife, and a professional." But traveling as a family keeps them together as much as possible. Colleen also said that having assistant coach Katie

“I love that my kids, my team gets to see the example of someone who is a mother, a wife, and a professional,” Matt said.

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Before pair of losses, Chargers dominate Spring Arbor and Kentucky Wesleyan By | Cal Abbo assistant editor After winning three straight at the beginning of April, the Hillsdale College Chargers dropped both matches over the weekend on the road against Tiffin University and the University of Findlay. The Chargers are now 13-7, 3-2 in G-MAC play. On April 6, the Chargers faced off against Spring Arbor University. After winning each doubles match to clinch the first point, the Chargers went on to win five of six singles matches,

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ending the match 6-1. Though the Chargers won by a large margin, five of the six singles matches were close calls. Senior Jerry Hewitt did particularly well at no. 5 singles, winning in two quick sets, 6-1, 6-0. The following day, the

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Q: What was your proudest moment as an athlete?

Q: What are you looking forward to most this season?

SSJ: The obvious is our conference championship last spring. It was amazing and so much fun to be a part of that and experience that win. That’s from a team standpoint. Personally, my proudest achievement as an athlete is being able to play a sport competitively without having to identify as a softball player. My identity is not defined as a softball player but as a person and a Christian. It’s a lot easier to deal with the negatives that will inevitably come when you’re really only playing in front of one person: God.

SSJ: I’m looking forward to seeing the freshman grow. I was comparing how they play and act to how I was playing and acting when I was a freshman. When I was a freshman, I was quivering in the box, but these freshmen are confident taking big ole’ hacks at the ball. I’m very excited to see how they develop and grow as leaders. I’m also excited to win the conference championship again this year.

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Chargers blanked Kentucky Wesleyan, 7-0. Hillsdale recorded 6-0 sets in every match versus Kentucky Wesleyan. Senior John Ciraci, freshman Brian Hackman, and Hewitt won all of their matches without dropping a game.

out the entire match. Hackman said it gave the team confidence looking forward to two important conference matches against Tiffin University and the University of Findlay. Hackman added that the team has been struggling with doubles play lately. He

Q: What’s challenged you the most at Hillsdale?

Q: How has your perception of college changed from when you were getting recruited as a high-schooler to now?

SSJ: The most challenging part for me was last semester. I was sick and I missed every single day of class after the first two weeks. Dealing with that and constantly copying notes from people—plus the course-load—was very challenging. Time management has also been very challenging. You almost have to pick two of three things: good grades, social life, or being good at sports. It’s hard juggling them all.

stressed the importance of winning doubles. “It gives us a sense of momentum going into singles,” he said. But that momentum didn’t hold this weekend, which featured strong winds and tougher competition. The Chargers were blanked by Tiffin, though each match was decided by a close margin.

The next day, the Chargers were unable to bounce back in a 1-4 loss to Findlay. Szabo edged out his opponent on the no. 4 court to come out on top 6-4, 7-5 for the Chargers’ only point of the match. Senior John Ciraci played a close match in his three-set loss on the no. 3 court. After taking the opening set 6-4, he dropped the second set at the very end and couldn’t get back on top in the third. Before the postseason, the Chargers have home matches on Friday and Saturday against Northwood and Cedarville Universities.

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SSJ: In high school school, I kept wishing the time away, trying to get to the next thing. In college I want it to slow down. The next big thing is the real world and that seems very real. I also didn’t think college was a place where I could grow spiritually, but here I have grown and it’s easy to be a Christian. Everyone is comfortable expressing their faith and we all share similar viewpoints, which is why the real world is a bit frightening, because I am not challenged that way here.

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Jake Hoover: 3-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBI Colin Boerst: 2-3, 2 RBI Christian Rodino: 2-3, 2B, 3 RBI Dante Toppi: 2-4, 2 HR, 8 RBI pitchers

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By | Julia Mullins assistant editor Even after picking up 54 hits, the Hillsdale College Chargers lost five of six games in the last week. Three of the losses were one-run games, all of which were walk-off wins for their opponents. The Chargers are now 16-21 overall and 10-6 in the G-MAC. Both games scheduled against Alderson Broaddus University on Monday were cancelled due to poor field conditions. Junior shortstop Sam Catron led the Chargers on offense, going 10 for 19 with one home run and six runs batted in. Catron said she does everything she can to help her teammates when she steps into the box. “We’ve been hitting the ball extremely well, and I’m very proud of our team,” Catron said. “To improve we need to get those runs in during pressure situations and not tighten up.” In the circle, junior pitcher Dana Weidinger earned the only win of the week, with a victory over Davis & Elkins College. Head coach Kyle Gross said he hopes the team plays with more consistency in its upcoming games. “We need to play our best ball when it matters most,” Gross said. Friday, April 12 (Game 1): Saginaw Valley 12, Hillsdale 3 The Chargers picked up seven hits in their first game against the Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals. Catron gave the Chargers’

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offense momentum, going 2 for 3 at the plate. Weidinger took her eighth loss of the season on the mound, allowing three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings. Junior utility Erin Gordon, who typically plays first base, came in to pitch during the top of the sixth inning and gave up nine runs on six hits. Friday, April 12 (Game 2): Saginaw Valley 8, Hillsdale 6 Sophomore outfielder Sarah Wojcik helped get the Chargers’ offense going, as she went 3 for 3 at the plate with her first career home run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Wojcik said she felt great after hitting the home run. “I hadn’t been hitting well,” Wojcik said. “I’m glad I finally did good.” The Chargers scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning with singles from freshman infielder Kasidy Carson, sophomore

pitcher Natalie Walters, and freshman outfielder Renee Bielawa. Freshman pitcher Julia Sayles earned her third loss of the season after allowing one run on three hits in two innings. Walters came in for relief and faced 29 batters in five innings, allowing seven runs on 10 hits. Saturday, April 13 (Game 1): Tiffin 7, Hillsdale 6 (10 innings) After giving up a six-run lead, the Chargers fell to Tiffin in extra innings. Catron led the Chargers on offense going three for four with three singles, a walk, and one groundout. Senior outfielder Katie Kish, sophomore catcher Madison Stoner, and Walters all had one RBI, while senior second baseman Amanda Marra picked up two RBI during the game. Freshman pitcher Camryn Olson started in the circle for the Chargers and gave up six runs, five of which were unearned, on eight hits. Walters pitched 1 1/3 innings

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after Olson, and Sayles came in for 1 1/3 innings to finish the game. Sayles picked up her fourth loss of the season after loading the bases in the bottom of the 10th inning and walking in the winning run for Tiffin. Saturday, April 13 (Game 2): Tiffin 4, Hillsdale 3 In another one-run game with Tiffin, the Chargers fell short in the bottom of the seventh. Senior third baseman Jessica Taylor and Catron both had one double and went two for three at the plate. Catron and Taylor combined for all of the Chargers RBIs. Taylor picked up two RBIs, while Catron picked up one RBI. Taylor said she focused on driving the outside pitch to the left side of the field. “I disciplined myself from swinging at any inside pitches,” Taylor said. “Refusing to hit into their defense.” Walters earned her sixth loss of the season. She faced 28 batters in 6.1 innings and allowed four runs on eight hits. Tuesday, April 16 (Game 1): Hillsdale 11, Davis & Elkins 0 (5 innings) Kish and freshman outfielder Anna Dixon led the team on offense. Kish went three for four with two runs and two RBI, while Dixon went three for three with three runs. Catron, Stoner, and junior outfielder Victoria Addis each hit one home run. Weidinger pitched a shutout from the circle, allowing three hits in 20 batters faced. Tuesday, April 16 (Game 2): Davis & Elkins 4, Hillsdale 3 Weidinger continued pitching for the Chargers in game two and allowed one run on three hits in two innings. Olson came in to pitch during the bottom of the third inning and gave up three runs on four hits. The Chargers were down by two runs going into the top of the seventh, but a double from Dixon cut the deficit in half. An error later in the inning allowed Dixon to score and tie the game. During the bottom of the seventh, Olson loaded the bases and Davis and Elkins scored on an error by Dixon in centerfield. Taylor was the only Charger to have a multi-hit game, going two for three at the plate with a double.

april 13 singles doubles score Hillsdale 3 3 4 Tiffin 3 0 3 singles competition scores 1. Hannah Cimpeanu def. Abbie-Jade Riley 6-1, 6-3 5. Kamryn Matthews def. Milah Ryland 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 6. Corinne Prost def. Shea Foster 6-2, 6-4 doubles competition score 1. Hyman/Bell def. Sirgant/Prince 6-2 2. Hackman/Cimpeanu def. Riley/Sim 6-3 3. Matthews/Bissett def. Ryland/Foster 6-4 april 14 singles doubles score Hillsdale 4 2 5 Findlay 2 1 2 singles competition scores 3. Halle Hyman def. Eliza Kirov 6-1, 6-2 4. Katie Bell def. Laura Brito 6-2, 6-4 5. Kamryn Matthews def. Mikaela Hidenlang 6-1, 6-3 6. Corinne Prost def. Cristina Nieto Soto 6-3, 4-1 doubles competition score 2. Cimpeanu/Hackman def. Kirov/Brito 6-1 3. Matthews/Bissett def. Nieto Soto/Sanders 6-4

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Up Next The Chargers will take on Lake Erie College tomorrow at home in a doubleheader with games at 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, the Chargers will celebrate senior day at home in two games with Ursuline at 1:00 and 3:30 p.m. In a non-conference series, the Chargers will play Lawrence Tech at home on April 23 at 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. With the games this weekend, Catron said the team will need to prepare just like previous games. “The past weekend is over,” Catron said. “We can move on and focus on our next opponent.” Gross said he’s looking forward to being at home this weekend. “We’ll be at home to celebrate our tremendous senior class,” Gross said. As a senior, Taylor said she's excited for her final weekend of home games. “As a team, we're antsy to improve our record and clinch our spot in the G-MAC tournament,” Taylor said. “This weekend is critical in achieving that goal.”

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Friday, April 12 (Game 1): Hillsdale 8, Ohio Valley 6 In the only close contest of the series, the Chargers built a 6-1 lead by the end

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of the fifth inning, but Ohio Valley crept back in with a three-run sixth inning and another run in the top of the seventh to cut the deficit to 6-5. But in the bottom of the seventh, junior right fielder Dante Toppi swatted a two-run home run to extend Hillsdale’s lead, and Hoover added a solo shot in the next inning for good measure. Sophomore pitcher David Toth recorded the final five outs for Hillsdale to earn his second save of the year. Senior pitcher Jonathan Lapshan earned the win, pitching 7 1/3 strong innings. He allowed five runs, four of which were earned, and struck out a season-high nine batters. Although the Chargers scored eight runs and collected 13 hits, their lineup struck out 12 times in the narrow win.

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Friday, April 12 (Game 2): Hillsdale 17, Ohio Valley 5 (7 innings) The Chargers got out to a quick start in game two, scoring six runs in the bottom of the first inning to open up a lead that would only become larger. Hoover and sophomore designated hitter James Krick hit home runs in the first inning. Krick finished the game 4 for 4 with a pair of home runs (his second came in the second inning) and three RBI. Hillsdale scored in each of the first five innings, and hung a seven-spot on the scoreboard in the fifth inning. Senior second baseman Kevin Monson’s grand slam punctuated the inning, and the contest ended after seven frames. Senior first baseman Steven Ring and senior third baseman Colin Boerst also

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The Hillsdale College Chargers swept Ohio Valley University in four games over the weekend, outscoring the Fighting Scots 67-21 in the four contests. The Chargers put 21 runs on the board in both games of Saturday’s doubleheader, a new single-game season high. With the four wins, Hillsdale moves above .500 in the G-MAC, and is now 11-9 against conference opponents. The Chargers’ overall record still sits below .500 at 16-19. Hillsdale has now won six in a row and is 8-2 at home this season. Junior shortstop Jake Hoover was named the G-MAC Player of the Week for his performance in the series. He collected three hits in all four games, and went 12 for 18 at the plate (a .667 batting average) with four doubles, three home runs, and seven runs batted in from the leadoff spot.

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added home runs in the victory. The Chargers’ lineup collected 22 hits, and all 17 runs were driven in by RBI. Junior pitcher Chris Stewart held Ohio Valley to three runs on five hits in six innings, earning his first win of the year. He struck out eight. Saturday, April 13 (Game 1): Hillsdale 21, Ohio Valley 6 (7 innings) After scoring two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take another early lead, the Chargers faced a brief 3-2 deficit entering the bottom of the third inning. But Hillsdale scored eight runs in the frame, thanks to a solo shot hit by Krick, and a pair of three-run blasts hit by senior first baseman Jacob DePillo and Ring. The Chargers added three runs in the fourth, six in the

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Schipper, Newell earn conference honors after Hillsdale Invitational By | Scott Lowery collegian freelancer

The Hillsdale College Chargers competed last Saturday at the Hillsdale Invitational. In the first home outdoor meet of the season, Hillsdale dominated in all phases of competition as the team continues to improve. Senior Dana Newell led the way for the Chargers in the hammer throw. Newell set the tone, throwing a distance of 54.01 meters to take first place. This distance is good enough to meet the NCAA Division II provisional standard, a good start as Newell looks to return to the Division II national meet. With her performance on Saturday, Newell also claims the best distance in the G-MAC this season. In light of her performance, Newell was awarded the G-MAC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week for the first time in her career. Newell is the second from Hillsdale to win a weekly award. Hillsdale also saw a strong performance from freshman thrower Nikita Maines. After a strong indoor season, Maines set a provisional mark in the shot put with a throw of 14.13 meters and finished second at the meet. Freshman Michaela Burkhauser set two new personal records in the shot put and discus throws as well. She won discus with a mark of 44.76 meters, and took fourth in shot put, throwing for 12.99 meters. Burkhauser has improved in shot put in the past three weeks, with a

previous outdoor record of 11.43 meters. On the track, the Chargers performed well in the sprint events. In the 400 meter dash, freshman Alanna O’Leary tied her personal best of 58.64 seconds to finish in second, while freshman Melanie Boehm finished just behind her in fourth with a time of 59.97 seconds. “It’s promising for the rest of the season,” O’Leary said. “My indoor season wasn’t the greatest, so it’s definitely given me a lot more confidence and motivation to keep on doing what I’ve been doing. In the 400 meter hurdles, sophomore Calli Townsend finished in 1:05.47 to take first in the meet, finishing ahead of the next closest runner by over five seconds. In the distance events, junior Kate Vanderstelt separated herself from the competition in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Vanderstelt finished in 11:50.96. And in the 1,500 meter run, the Chargers took fifth through eighth place, led by freshmen Claire McNally and Sophia Maeda. This was McNally’s first time competing in the event. She finished in 4:50.80, just ahead of Maeda who finished in 4:51.92. The Chargers will split up this weekend as some head to California to compete at Azusa Pacific University and Mt. San Antonio College, and others will travel to Ashland, Ohio, for the Ashland Alumni Open. Competitions for both meets begin on Friday and continue Saturday.

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The Hillsdale College Chargers showed their dominance on their home track for the first time this outdoor season on Saturday. Senior pole vaulter Jared Schipper shattered his own school record from 2015 and now stands alone in the no. 1 spot in NCAA Division II rankings. His mark of 5.40 meters defeats his previous personal best of 5.27 meters. “It felt good to PR again. I feel like it was a long time coming,” Schipper said. “I actually feel really confident going into the rest of the season. I made a high bar and now I know I can do it again.” Freshman Ben Raffin took second in pole vault as he cleared 4.73 meters. Freshman forward Peter Kalthoff traded his basketball shoes for track spikes to compete in high jump for the Chargers. He took sixth place overall, clearing 1.89 meters. Chargers achieved three personal bests in the javelin throw as well. Freshman John Baldwin, sophomore Ryan Thomsen, and senior David Chase took third, fifth, and ninth, respectively. Baldwin threw 44.20 meters, and Thomsen threw 42.13. Chase’s throw of 38.33 meters was the farthest he’s thrown in two years, with a previous best of 37.72. After recovering from a car accident several weeks ago, freshman Chris Huffman was back in the throwing circle as he competed

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in the hammer throw. He picked up where he left off, throwing a near-personal best of 46.94 meters to take sixth. Baldwin and Thomsen joined junior Ian Brown in taking the top three spots in the 110 meter hurdles. Baldwin won in 14.59 seconds, and Brown took second with another personal record of 14.72. Thomsen took third in 15.37. “My indoor season wasn’t really good,” Brown said. “So I just started doing all the little things better that Coach Towne told me to and have a better attitude.” In the 200 meter dash, senior Nathan Pando finished in 22.05 to take second place. He was followed by freshman Jacob Schmidt in sixth place in 23.01. “I think there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done,” Pando said, “but this is probably the first year that I’ve walked in at this point in the year not worried about the next three weeks.” Pando, Schmidt, Baldwin, and senior Levi Wyse ran the 4-by-100 meter relay. Wyse said he was pleased with their performance as the Chargers ran a season-best of 41.99 seconds. The distance runners had a strong showing as they dominated six of the top seven places in the 5,000 meter run. Sophomore Mark Miller won the race in 15:08.25, and sophomore Jack Shelley finished in third with a time of 15:20.48. Junior Alex Oquist came in close behind in 15:21.18.

fifth, and two in the sixth. After six innings, Hillsdale’s lineup had collected 17 hits, scored 21 runs, and drawn 12 walks. The game ended after seven innings. Freshman pitcher Cody Kanclerz earned the win in relief, pitching the final 3 2/3 innings for Hillsdale. He allowed just one run. Saturday, April 13 (Game 2): Hillsdale 21, Ohio Valley 4 In the final game of the series, the Chargers’ unforgiving lineup put together its most impressive inning yet, ambushing Ohio Valley for 14 runs in the bottom of the first inning. Hillsdale sent 17 batters to the plate in the frame, and after Hoover hit his second leadoff home run of the series, Toppi stole the show. He hit a pair of three-run

home runs in the inning, and already was already 2 for 2 with six RBI by the time the Fighting Scots recorded their second out of the game. The Chargers hung crooked numbers in the fourth, sixth, and seventh innings, and for the second game in a row, scored 21 runs, this time in a full nine-inning affair. Freshman pitcher Marc Bergeron earned the win in relief, hurling five innings of scoreless, one-hit ball. He struck out six while earning his first collegiate victory. Up Next The Chargers travel to Canton, Ohio this weekend for a four-game series against Walsh University. Hillsdale (16-19, 11-9 G-MAC) will play doubleheaders on Thursday and Saturday in the first meeting with the Cavaliers (18-16, 11-7) this season. After the series, 10 games remain on the Chargers’ regular-season schedule before the G-MAC Tournament. The tournament will be in Mason, Ohio, from May 8-11. Hillsdale won the 2018 G-MAC Tournament, but currently sits in sixth place in the G-MAC standings.

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Chargers remain on top of G-MAC after pair of wins By | Ryan Goff assistant editor In dramatic fashion, the Hillsdale College Chargers remain undefeated in the G-MAC conference in a match that came down to the last point. Battling through a windy weekend, the Chargers swept another pair of conference matches in wins against Tiffin University and the University of Findlay. The wins advance the Chargers to 6-0 in G-MAC and 13-2 overall. The toughest test the Chargers faced over the weekend Saturday against Tiffin, when the wind blew at its strongest. After sweeping the doubles matches and securing the first point of the match, the Chargers fell in three of the first four singles matches. Sophomore Hannah Cimpeanu was the only player to win her match in the first four matches, which included a long threeset loss on the no. 4 court from junior Katie Bell and a close two-set loss on the no. 2 court from freshman Sarah Hackman. The tricky wind meant Hackman’s match was full of long games and long rallies, as neither player was able to stay true to her game plan but rather had to contend with wind as well. “It wasn’t a slug-fest like Hackman usually has,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. Then, the Chargers were down 2-3, and after junior Kam Matthews won her match in three sets at no. 5, the score was tied 3-3 and the last match on the court was senior Corinne Prost at no. 6. For one and a half sets, Prost was the only one on the court. With the match win up to her and everyone watching, she stayed mentally tough and outplayed her opponent. “She was very focused, definitely the clutch player for the day, and did an awesome job,” Walbright said.

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As the wind started to pick up more and it got cold, Prost felt confident in herself. And when the pressure mounted, it showed. “It was a really good win, especially because I knew going into the match that I was fully capable of pulling it off mentally,” Prost said. “As long as I kept my positive energy up, I knew there was no way that she could overcome and beat me.” The games weren’t as close on Sunday when the Chargers played indoors against Findlay, but they still faced difficult challenges. At no. 1 singles, Cimpeanu was trailing in her third set at the time the match was clinched, and on the no. 2 court Hackman dropped her match in two sets. “Everyone was playing someone new that day, so we were always trying to adapt and get better,” Walbright said. “It was a tough day, for sure, but a lot of fun to get the wins.” Despite the challenges, Bell and senior Halle Hyman were able to bounce back from their Saturday losses with convincing wins to help the Chargers reach their 4-1 match win. With two pressure matches behind them, the Chargers have one more match this weekend at home against Cedarville University before the G-MAC Championship next weekend. “I think the team feels excited and positive for the last match,” Bell said. “It's also Senior Day which will be pretty emotional. Appreciating [the four seniors] will be really special and make the match a great one.”

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CHP Showdown leaves students ‘deafened by sublime noise’ By | Carmel Kookogey Culture Editor Punk music and Bruno Mars were blaring in equal measures from Grange Hall at the Hillsdale County fairgrounds on Friday night. One student played guitar hard enough that her hand bled onto her instrument. “It’s the most punk rock thing I’ve ever done,” freshman Jane O’Connor said. At CHP showdown last weekend, eight student bands battled it out to see who would get the coveted spot to open for the headline band at Centralhallapalooza, the Student Activities Board’s last event of the year. Flat Moon Theory, Gulf, Great White North, The Village Idiots, The 72, Penny and the Mandimes, Gin Henry and the Tonic Hammers, and Bad Liturgy — all student bands — rocked the old barn at the fairgrounds from 8-12 p.m., playing a mixture of

pop, rap, classic rock, and punk. Students voted for their favorite set by putting a guitar pick in the vase of their favorite bands, which were counted at the end of the night and announced the following evening on the Student Activities Board Instagram. The Village Idiots, Gin Henry and the Tonic Hammers, and Penny and the Mandimes were the top three bands students chose to play at CHP on April 27. Bad Liturgy, who call themselves “Hillsdale’s only Australian Neo-Intellectual Catholic punk band,” is composed of freshman Jane O’Connor, junior Gabriel Listro, and seniors Shadrach Strehle and Spencer Bohlinger. The band diverged from the standard pop-rock mix by playing an all-punk set. “You may not know all of these songs, but the thing about punk is it’s universal,” Listro told the crowd. “Say

your prayers, love your mom, and God bless America!” Listro, Bad Liturgy’s lead singer, explained that the selection of music they played was both a tribute to the past and a nod to the present. “Specifically, it was like Australia mixed with D.C. punk. D.C. definitely dominated 80s and 90s punk, and Australia right now really has a lot of punk going for it,” Listro said. “We like to think we encompass our parents’ punk and our punk.” Sophomore Maggie Ryland said Bad Liturgy was her favorite band that performed. “My ears are absolutely deafened by the sublime noise of Gabe Listro’s voice,” Ryland said. Though no floors were broken at last weekend’s musical staging, several of the same student bands performed at CHP Showdown as at Battle of the Bands a few months earlier, including Penny and the Mandimes, The 72, and Gin

International Club Culture Fair serves international food Students shared cultural heritage, mementos who come from immigrant parents. Junior Genesis Arreola said attaching a friendly face to each culture helps invite students to learn more about a culture they don’t know about, especially when it’s one of their classmates. “This event helps make the international students feel comfortable sharing their culture with students here,” Arreola said. Ben Hmieida represented her home country, Libya, and provided handouts regarding Libya’s history and culture, and samplings of dates and olives, ingredients that are commonly used in Libyan dishes, and also eaten by themselves. “We use them a lot in Libya in different dishes, but I didn’t have time to make the actual dishes, so I thought I would bring parts of it to share,” Ben Hmieida said. Taking pride in her ancestry, Arreola represented Mexico by wearing a traditional Mexican dress and displaying commonly-used Mexican kitchen tools that most Americans are not familiar with, such as molcajete — a stone bowl used to make salsa with a matching stone grind-

Zane Mabry, both members of Penny and the Mandimes, said they had confidence going into the competition, though “it definitely wasn’t in the bag.” “We knew we’d have to work at it, regardless. We always do,” Mabry said. Penny and the Mandimes, who also performed at CHP last spring, tied with Gin Henry and the Tonic Hammers for second place, with 68 votes. The Village Idiots received 69 votes. Calvert explained that because of this, the order in which the three bands will play at CHP is still to be determined. “We got third place, but that might not necessarily be where we are in the lineup for CHP,” Calvert explained. “Especially since we did tie in terms of votes with one of the other bands, they’re still trying to decide what we’re going to do.” Mabry and Calvert said they were very impressed with

the other talent on the Grange Hall stage, and said the close numbers of votes were not surprising. “I was there from nine to midnight, and every band I saw I really enjoyed,” Mabry said. “I thought the overall level of competition was really high this year, it was really impressive. Apparently a lot of people thought that way too, as the votes show.” Though bands went all out for their performances, at the end of the night they encouraged students not to take the competition of CHP showdown too seriously. “We came out here to have a good time,” Strehle said, a sentiment which Listro, Mabry, and Calvert also emphasized. “We also want to entertain the people who are watching,” Calvert said. “And I think that works in our favor most of the time.”

Chamber Choir: A concert of firsts and lasts

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By | Danielle Lee Collegian Reporter From the food they served to the clothing they wore, each member of the International Club proudly represented a country at the Cultural Fair last Sunday. The event welcomed students who wanted to learn more about another country’s heritage and those who simply wanted to have fun. “I think it’s really helpful to have people addressing their culture and talk about why they’re at Hillsdale,” freshman Sebrena Geier said. Senior Nour Ben Hmieida said this fair brought together all the international students and the diverse cultures they came from, as a way to share their backgrounds with the student body. The fair was last held in 2016, but with the increased amount of financial support and members, the club was able to pull this event off, Ben Hmieida said. “We’ve been trying to build the international community again and this event helps with that,” she said. Each table represented two countries and each country was managed by either international students or students

Henry and Tonic Hammers. “We were one of the three bands who broke the floor at Elk’s Lodge,” Sophomore Nick Macaluso said proudly. Macaluso’s band, The 72, performed an eclectic mix of music, from Huey Lewis and the News’ “The Power of Love,” to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ classic rap jam, “Downtown.” At one point, Macaluso sang a falsetto solo which was met with roars of approval from the crowd. “I practiced for about a week and a half leading up to this,” he said. “We knew we wanted to do the song, but we didn’t have someone to sing it, so I just gave it a try.” Though The 72 did not place in the top three bands who will play at CHP, audience members were certainly impressed. “The last guy who was singing was amazing,” senior Maddie McAfee said after their set was over. Juniors Claire Calvert and

er — and a tortilla press. She also served gelatin-based desserts and rectangular coconut candies, both dyed to represent Mexico’s flag. “A lot of our desserts are gelatin-based while most of our candies are very bright and fruit-flavored. I also have aguas fresca, which are very popular drinks in the summer, they’re similar to juices but a little more water-based. And I also have horchata, which is the iconic rice water,” she said. Arreola said a lot of students don’t realize how diverse Hillsdale is. Many students come from varying backgrounds, and this event raises that awareness, while helping the international students feel more comfortable talking about their heritage as well. “I come from a really diverse background, so coming to Hillsdale was a bit of a culture shock. But the International Club really helped me because I could share my culture and people were very interested in it, and I could learn about all these different cultures as well,” Arreola said. “The club is very much a family.”

By | Anna Timmis Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College Chamber Choir performed the world premiere of “Three Sunsets” by Steven Lebetkin, a choral work based on Lewis Carroll’s poetry, at the Annual Spring Concert at College Baptist on April 13. The concert featured poignant numbers written in the 20th and 21st centuries. Fitting for Lenten Season, the repertoire included “Agnus Dei” by composer Samuel Barber, “The Dark Night of the Soul” and the “Luminous Night of the Soul” by contemporary composer Ola Gjeilo, as well as other songs of faith. James Holleman, music director, said that much of contemporary choir repertoire is composed uniquely for college-age singers, whose voices blend well at their age. “I’ve spoken often of the nature of music being written for choirs, so many of the top choral composers are living today and writing for these instruments,” he said gesturing toward the students.

Lebetkin met Holleman during a music convention, and according to the both of them, became fast friends. Lebetkin wrote “Three Sunsets” for Hillsdale’s chamber choir, giving the piece of work to them as a gift. He attended Saturday’s concert, and praised the students’ work on the piece. He said that Carroll’s poem is a poem of love and loss, and represents the three stages of a man’s life of love and loss, punctuated by sunsets. Performing Barber’s “Agnus Dei,” the voices of the chamber choir blended in tight yet gentle harmonies to convey the solemnity of the plea for mercy to “Christ as the Lamb of God.” They also sang “Brazilian Psalm,” an upbeat praise song with folk influences, and sophomore Gabriel Kramer provided a powerful tenor performance. The folk theme continued with “I’m Gonna Sing ‘Til The Spirit Moves In My Heart,” a spiritual written by Moses Hogan. Gjeilo’s “Dark Night of the Soul” and “Luminous Night of the Soul” has far more

urgency, conveyed by a quick energetic piano accompaniment, provided by Debbi Wyse. He wrote his music set to St. John of the Cross’s poem written during the Renaissance. The full college choir sang the two songs, adding a depth of sound fitting to the cinematic quality of the contemporary pieces. Junior Christa LaVoie and sophomore Michaela Stiles soloed. Members of the choir junior Dominic Bulger and sophomore Zsanna Bodor accompanied on cello and violin respectively, joined by senior Keely Rendle on the violin, and sophomore Anne Ziegler on the viola. While the concert was a performance of firsts with Lebetkin’s work, it was also a performance of lasts. The choirs will no longer perform at College Baptist Church, where they have performed for decades. The next concert will be held at Christ Chapel on campus. Expect to hear a reprise of “Agnus Dei” in Christ Chapel soon.

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‘Measure for Measure’ boasts themes of morality By | Rachel Stanford Collegian Freelancer Isabella stands before a tyrant dressed in blood-red clothes. Her feet are pressed into the ground as she looks him in the eye: An Antigone in modern dress. “Sir, believe this,” she says to him with her chin upraised, “I had rather give my body than my soul.” This is Isabella, the epic heroine of William Shakespeare’s dark comedy “Measure for Measure,” this year’s Shakespeare in the Arb production, directed by senior Andrew Kennedy, working in close conjunction with the Shakespeare Society. “Measure for Measure” is a gritty play dealing with themes of vice, hypocrisy, political corruption, and the difference between the law of the state and the laws of morality. The play’s protago-

nist, Isabella, played by junior Elizabeth Bachmann, is training to become a nun when she is abruptly thrust into a world of vice, political intrigue, and murderous violence. It all begins when Duke Vicentio, played by senior Alexander Frigerio, briefly steps down from his position as duke of Vienna so that he might travel to Poland. His cousin Angelo substitutes for him while he is away. Angelo, a violent and lecherous man who, as leader of Vienna, is described as “taking the law by the nose,” condemns to death those people whom he deems sexually immoral. Two of these victims are Isabella’s brother, Claudio, and his pregnant lover Juliet, whom he intends to marry. Encouraged by her friend Lucio, Isabella begs Angelo to set Claudio free. Angelo offers her an ultimatum: to sleep

with him and free her brother, or remain a virgin and watch Claudio’s execution. Given the dramatic nature of the play, “Measure for Measure” is classified as a “problem play.” The British Library says “it sits uneasily between tragedy and comedy,” and thus is rarely staged. As a result, most problem plays are not as well-known as Shakespeare’s more straightforward genre plays, such as “Macbeth.” This is not the first time Shakespeare in the Arb has tackled one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. Last year, the racially-charged comedy “The Merchant of Venice” was directed by senior English major Molly-Kate Andrews. Senior Stephen Tanquist, who played Lucio in the production, offered some insight into why Shakespeare in the Arb See Arb B2 selects

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Visiting Writers Program: Somerville passes torch By | Grace Houghton Collegian Reporter When Professor of English John Somerville took over the English department’s Visiting Writers Program in the 1990s, he took on a job he never would have anticipated. Twenty-five years later, however, he called the job “a surprise and a joy.” Beginning in the fall of 2019, Associate Professor of English Dutton Kearney will take over as the new head of the program. Since its establishment in the late 1980s by Daniel Sundahl, former professor of English at Hillsdale College, the Visiting Writers Program has brought nationally-renowned novelists, professors, and poets to campus. A typical visit involves a public reading by the author of his or her work, as well as a public lecture. Some writers have taught small workshops, met with students one-on-one, or even passed an evening visiting with students at off-campus houses. Dennis Covington and Linda Gregerson, who visited campus in February and March of 2019, respectively, were the last two writers Somerville brought to campus as head of the Visiting Writers Program. The program brings the past into a dynamic conversation with the present by exposing students to writers both steeped in the classic literary tradition and actively ‘

contributing to the contemporary conversation. “We invite these writers to show students that you can engage with the contemporary world with the education that you’ve received and elevate the cultural conversation,” Kearney said. “We give students the past so they can propel themselves into the future.” Students’ personal experiences with visiting writers have often convinced them to pursue their interest in writing literature beyond Hillsdale’s campus and the four years of their undergraduate experience. Hillsdale alum Forester McClatchey ’16 applied to the University of Florida’s masters program armed with a letter of recommendation from Pulitzer-nominated American poet Andrew Hudgins, a graduate from the esteemed Iowa Writers Workshop in 1983. Hudgins had visited Hillsdale College with the Visiting Writers Program in 2014, and McClatchey, who was a staff cartoonist for the Collegian at the time and the 2016 winner of the Hillsdale College Barnes Award for Metered Poetry, made his acquaintance. While Hudgins never taught McClatchey in a class, “he saw Forester’s poetry here and that was enough,” Somerville said. McClatchey went on to pursue a master’s of fine arts in poetry at the University of Florida.

“It’s clear the writers who were here had an effect,” Somerville said. These opportunities for mentorship sometimes blossomed into personal friendship between the writers and students of the college. Kearney remembers that two Hillsdale students, Aaron Schepps ’14 and Joshua Andrew ’14, traveled to Notre Dame University to hear a lecture from journalist John Jeremiah Sullivan, who had previously visited Hillsdale’s campus. Sullivan, who specializes in journalism, writes for The New York Times Magazine and also edits Harper’s Magazine, is especially known for his collection of essays, “Pulphead”, which cover everything from thoroughbred racing to Axl Rose and the Tea Party Movement. While on stage preparing for his scheduled talk before a massive auditorium packed with Notre Dame University students, Sullivan caught sight of the two Hillsdale students in the front row and stepped off stage to hug them. Only afterward did he climb back on stage and deliver his lecture. Because of the encouragement she received from visiting writer Dennis Covington, junior Mary Kate Boyle said she plans to pursue a master’s in creative writing. Somerville offered Boyle the chance to participate in a workshop with Covington during his most recent visit to Hillsdale’s campus, giving Boyle the chance

to “talk to a master in a craft that I want to pursue.” “I really enjoy writing but I don’t think I had taken myself seriously as a writer until talking to Dennis Covington. He was incredibly encouraging,” Boyle said. After taking a gap year and teaching in France, Boyle plans to apply to graduate programs in creative writing. Kearney explained that engaging with contemporary poets, essayists, journalists, and fiction writers educates and encourages students to apply their knowledge of tradition to current issues, and mine excellence from the contemporary literary world. “We read the past and know the past not so we can stay in the past, but so we can move into the future,” Kearney said. Kearney said one poet he would like to bring to campus as new director for the program is Jorie Graham, a poet and professor at Harvard who replaced poet Seamus Heaney as the school’s Boylston Professor. Kearney’s interest in Graham’s work reflects a secondary aim of the program: to explore what’s American about American poetry. Graham writes in the meditative tradition, one that Kearney said used to be “quintessentially American.” In his 25 years heading the Visiting Writers Program, Somerville’s own investment in contemporary literature has

‘A Fiery Gospel’: Gamble’s new book By | Madeleine Miller Collegian Reporter From Abraham Lincoln to Elvis Presley, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been championed by a vast array of Americans in the nearly 157 years since its composition. Featured prominently at America’s definitive battles, funerals, rallies, and consecrations, it has been used to prompt, justify, and glorify all manners of American thought and action. The Battle Hymn has made undeniable the American integration of nation and religion, and inspired scrutiny of the virtue thereof. In his fourth book, “A Fiery Gospel,” set to be released May 15, Professor of History Richard Gamble tracks the emblematic song through time and across borders as it has become cemented in the American identity. The book is the first in a threepart “Religion and American Public Life” series published by Cornell University Press. “It is for Christians and non-Christians, conservatives and non-conservatives alike: for anyone interested in questions of religion, politics, or war,” Gamble said of his book. Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1862 after observing a skirmish between Union and Confederate troops just outside Washington, D.C. A recognizable Boston intellectual, abolitionist, and author, she presented her work to her editor, and it was published in The Atlantic and in the New York Tribune. Set to the melody of a well-known marching song, it enjoyed instant success, and was popularized as a stirring exaltation of the Union cause.

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these seldom-produced plays. “I think often times the directors are inclined to choose plays that people haven’t seen before, because then that gives them the opportunity to surprise the audience,” Tanquist said. “One of the plays that was tossed around for this year was ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ which was almost immediately shot down, because everyone knows ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and there’ll be no surprise for the audience. With plays that people don’t know, there’s more freedom to interpret and to put your own reading of the show in, whereas with more popular and well-known

“As memories dulled, as the rough edges wore off the Civil War, and as Howe became a generic figure of Americanism suitable for postage stamps, the Battle Hymn became easier and easier to sing, moving freely across denominational, theological, and sectional boundaries,” Gamble writes. The Battle Hymn did not fade with the memory of the Civil War, but instead has been reiterated vigorously and inventively for political, religious, and cultural purposes. Rife with biblical allusions, Howe’s poem evokes violent and apocalyptic language from the Old and New Testaments, referencing the books of Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, and Revelation. Gamble argues Americans’ ready embrace of the song as a patriotic anthem demonstrates a propensity to religious nationalism, and the application of the song to sundry causes since betrays their ignorance of its origin and implications. In “A Fiery Gospel,” Gamble demonstrates Americans’ heedlessness of the Battle Hymn’s meaning by chronicling its many and varied and uses since its creation. He writes that Americans have used the battle song during every war they’ve fought in since the Civil War. Deployed by American imperialists, it justified aggressive foreign policy by sanctifying the United States’ mission. The Battle Hymn rallied troops and civilians alike during WWI and WWII , steeling their resolve and assuring them of the righteousness of their cause. During the Cold War, it was broadcasted to Russia on an American radio station.

Gamble also recounts the song’s various religious applications. Since the 1860s, religious leaders of all sects have presented the Battle Hymn in sermons, often relying on its lyrics to to reconcile Christian and patriotic duties. Notable evangelist Billy Graham incorporated it into his radio and television programs and revival meetings. He also describes the

Choir have made popular their various renditions of the song. The apparent versatility of the Battle Hymn of the Republic extends to tragedy, Gamble writes, as the song was played at the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, and at the national memorial service held a few days after 9/11. From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr., leaders have used the song to promote freedom and civil rights for a century and a half. In “A Fiery Gospel,” Gamble expounds the multiplicity of renditions of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” presenting a detailed analysis of its stake in American history and identity. He is critical of Americans’ ignorance of the Battle Hymn’s distinguished writer and its roots in religious na‘A Fiery Gospel’ was released on May 15, 2019. tionalism, and Courtesy | Richard Gamble of Americans’ Battle Hymn’s role in Ameridisregard for their nation’s can popular culture. Excerpts history at large, but offers a of the Battle Hymn have fine remedy in his accessible, appeared in the works of engaging, and above all inforEzra Pound, e. e. cummings, mative volume. and its themes are echoed “I want people to underthroughout John Steinbeck’s stand Julia Ward Howe, and novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” I want readers to think about Performers as diverse as the words they are singing,” Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Gamble said. and the Mormon Tabernacle

shows, everyone thinks they know what it’s about.” The talented, powerful cast did not fail to surprise and astound the audience. One audience member, sophomore Isabella Biernat, said she had never seen or read “Measure for Measure” before attending Shakespeare in the Arb last weekend. “I really liked the play as a whole. It was a wild ride from start to finish and I was engaged the whole time,” Biernat said. Although Tanquist and the Shakespeare Society’s faculty supervisor Professor of English Benedict Whalen both indicated how talented the cast was. They truly embraced Shakespeare’s language with a

loving, informed imagination, while still allowing the original text to shine. No comedic opportunity was lost, nor was the play’s taut dramatic intensity loosened. Shakespeare in the Arb presented both the audience and the cast with an opportunity for educational advancement. “I think Shakespeare has a tendency to deal with complex, difficult subjects in intricate ways,” Tanquist said. “Hopefully ‘Measure for Measure’ will confront them with things they haven’t thought before, confront them with ideas like justice and mercy, and startle them. Force them to come to terms with scenarios and ideas in ways that are

alien to our experience here at Hillsdale.” Whalen also encouraged students to seek out the moral and thematic meanings of “Measure for Measure.” “There is much that we might learn from ‘Measure for Measure.’ Some of the more prominent themes in the play are hypocrisy and deceit in rulers, the relationship between the public and the private, between law and morality, between justice and mercy. It is a play that swings between the comic and the tragic, and it has a remarkable, apocalyptic ending,” he said.

overflowed to his students. He sees it as a gift, getting to share the writers he admires so much with his students and fellow faculty. “I grew up in South Korea, and since I was a boy have had the experience of traveling halfway around the world and seeing different cultures. Professor of English John Somerville is stepping Maybe down from the Visiting Writers Program. Archives | that’s part Collegian of it, part “We spend so little time enof where I get my curiosity,” gaging with modern authors Somerville reflected. that it’s easy to think that the Senior Lydia Hall said that only authors that matter are the Visiting Writers Program the ones we’ve known about is important to Hillsdale befor centuries,” Hall said. cause it reminds us that not all authors of import are ancient.

Hillsdale Academy shows ‘The Tempest’ By | Austin Gergens Collegian Reporter Under the tutelage of Hillsdale Academy Director of Dramatic Theater Kathryn Wales, students from the Hillsdale Academy performed a slightly modernized rendition of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” for their spring show on Friday April 12 and Saturday April 13. In 2017, the Academy performed “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which was the first time the school had performed a Shakespeare production in 27 years. This year, Wales believed that the seniors could perform a play that was a little more challenging. “The senior students could manage the play because of their experience with poetry memorization and their appreciation for Shakespeare — because of their classical education,” Wales said. “I think they really pulled it off.” The first act of the romantic comedy opens in the middle of a tempest, with the King of Naples ship desperate to stay afloat. The second scene takes place on the mainland, and the audience is introduced to the sorceress, Prospera, and her daughter Miranda, both of whom were mutinied on the island because Prospera’s brother Antonio betrayed her and stole her claim to be Duchess of Milan. Throughout the play, Prospera enlists the help of a sprite named Ariel to perform magical feats to bring the King and his men –– Antonio included –– to her lair. One of her earliest feats was luring the King’s son Ferdinand to Prospera’s home. The sorceress coerced a ghastly slave creature named Caliban to make her island life easier. Her harsh treatment of both beings reflected her inner struggle to treat others with compassion, after being so wronged by her brother. The tension to treat others humanely was a theme that manifested itself throughout the play, and was resolved at its completion. The only major change which the Academy made to the play was to make the originally male main character, Prospero, a female, Prospera. In the original “Tempest,” the audience is told how Prospero is deeply steeped in the liberal arts tradition, and well read. To represent Prospera’s education, a copy of Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” lays upon Prospera’s podium in her study overlooking the stage. The book, which popularized the philosophical concept of an ever-moving “wheel of fortune,” with happiness and sorrow always temporary, pairs well with the various movements from “Carmina

Burana,” the cantata that plays throughout the production, Wales explained. The cantata begins with the song “O Fortuna,” and has elements of the song in other songs. By linking these ideas, she said when Prospera is seduced by Fortuna, she is therefore trapped on the wheel of vice, which is demonstrated by her cruel treatment of other characters and her desire for vengeance against those who wronged her. The music drastically influenced other characters besides Prospera. Nearly every movement from “Carmina Burana” was used, and according to Wales, this pairing has never been done before. Academy music teacher Ross Bonjernoor helped with the music for both Shakespeare productions. “Mr. Bonjernoor borrowed the melody that underlies the lyrics of number three ‘Veris Leta Facies’ and fit it to the text of Ariel’s song,” Wales said. “It was perfect.” Bonjernoor added to the depth of Ariel’s ethereal nature, simply by making her sing rather speak. Immediately before Prospera’s epilogue, the penultimate song from “Carmina Burana,” “Ave Formosissima,” plays. “Those who know the music expect a reprise of ‘O Fortuna’ which is a bleak, despairing resolution since it goes right back where it all started like any vicious cycle,” Wales said, “But instead, our Prospera hangs on the final note of ‘generosa’ and then launches into her epilogue.” The nine months of preparation that went into the unabridged 2423-line production, really showed in the high school cast’s clear delivery and emotion. In the final scene, Prospera makes amends with King Alonso by returning the prince. She forgives Antonio for his treachery, and has her title of Duchess restored. In the epilogue, she reveals that without the audience’s help, she cannot be permitted to leave the enchanted island. “There she implores the audience to set her free: from the wheel, from the island, and from her sins. Our applause does so, not returning to ‘O Fortuna’ but instead embracing Philosophia and her fruits –– forgiveness, friendship, love,” she said. Wales said she hopes student actors will remember the play’s lines in their bones, and fall back on its ideas when they experience tempests in their own life — especially when tempted to hold a grudge — to recall that the only remedy is forgiveness.

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Alien sightings, mail from Ronald Reagan, and run-ins with the FBI

Alumni recount campus shenanigans from the ’50s and ’60s By | Regan Meyer Web Content Editor Senior Rebecca Carlson (front) played the role of Linda Loman in a Tower Players performance of “Death of a Salesman.” | Facebook

‘More than real life’: student actress presents alternative to Plato’s philosophy of theatre By | Cal Abbo Assistant Editor “Why did you do it? I search and search and I search, and I can’t understand it,” Linda asked, beginning to sob. “I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home.” In that moment of “Death of a Salesman” by playwright Arthur Miller, senior Rebecca Carlson recalls playing the role of wife and mother, Linda Loman, who had finally paid off the family’s mortgage, but only with funds from her husband’s life insurance, secured because of his suicide. At that moment, Carlson said she felt like her husband committed suicide in real life. “I know more about what marriage is and what it’s like to be married,” she said, commenting on how the role affected her personal life. “I know something about what it means to be married that I couldn’t get by reading about it.” Drama first intrigued Carlson when she was three years old, after watching “Beauty and the Beast,” though she said she felt discouraged when her teacher cast her as narrator in her first performance. “I ended up enjoying it. Narrating is acting,” she said. Carlson, a philosophy major and theatre minor, said her performance as Linda is part of what inspired a Collegiate Scholars thesis focused on metaphysics and theater. The thesis counters Plato’s age-old critique of theater — that it was a lesser form of art because it relied on “imitation.” “I’m arguing that, in an important sense, good theater can be more real than real life,” Carlson explained. “I know, it sounds paradoxical, so I have to equivocate somewhat.”

Bauman from B4

“I’ve always loved to learn, and it’s hard to learn broadly when you work in a specific job. When I was working, I learned a lot about finance and about how the specific industry works, but I didn’t learn about philosophy, or even German,” Bauman said. “When you work for 10 hours a day, you may not have the mental energy to study something you like, and Hillsdale offered the chance to be intentional about education in a community that’s aimed at a specific purpose.” So, with all that he had come to learn about gold and its place in the financial sphere, Bauman became interested in Hillsdale. “That’s a huge reason I came to Hillsdale,” Bauman said. “After learning about financial economics, I wanted to learn economics at Hillsdale.” In fact, the owner of the gold brokerage, Peter Schiff, is known among the economics department. “When I visited Hillsdale, I talked to Dr. Steele and Dr. Pongracic and they knew who Peter Schiff was,” Bauman said. His stance in financial markets make him well suited to be known by libertarian-minded economists, according to Bauman. “He gives recommendations on where the market is going to go. One of his biggest things he called was the 2007 financial crisis, where he put $10 to 20 million on a trade that shorted hous-

Plato conceives of an ideal form for every object, Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Matsos explained. “The ideal form is superior, and anything we create that’s a material representation of that object or idea is inferior,” Matsos said. He explained that Plato considered theater even further inferior to the material, or “an imitation of an imitation.” While Plato scorned theater’s imitative qualities, Carlson said she believes drama can actually approach the essence of something. “Sometimes you can look at a person and they’ll be staring off into space or have this weird expression on their face and you’ll think, ‘That doesn’t look like him at all,’” Carlson said. “You’re comparing this person sitting next to you to a standard that the person can somehow behave in a way that’s not like himself. Clearly, this person just did that thing.” Carlson said her thesis posits something similar to, though not quite the same as, the Platonic form of a person. Expected behavior and language compose an image of a person, and theater reveals that image in a dramatic form. “Acting can be more like the person than this guy who is actually that person walking around and talking to you,” she said. In this way, according to Carlson, an actor absorbs the consciousness of the desired character and spits it out in a dramatic presentation. Any way the actor can occupy a character’s mind will lend to a more accurate performance. Actors employ a wide range of tactics when they try to “get into character.” Matsos described one show he performed in which every actor created a Twitter account from the perspective of their

character. “It worked wonders,” he said. Carlson said she likes to journal as her character. “I noticed afterward I had gotten so into this person that my handwriting changes,” she said. “It’s a really cool experience.” Matsos described theater as “one of the ultimate consciousness technologies” for contributing to human experience. “It’s about getting the truth of human experience, so even when the story is artificial, the truth of what’s being expressed is real,” he said. “Even if it’s not happening to the actors on the stage at the moment, it has happened and is happening and will happen.” Matsos said he tries to teach his students not to pretend, but rather to be “truthful in imaginary circumstances.” Carlson pointed to a quote from author and performance coach Donna Soto-Morettini: “The ideal actor ‘pretends he is not pretending and forgets that he is not forgetting.’” Carlson characterized portraying a character as empathy. “Sympathy is, ‘I know what you’re feeling.’ Empathy is, ‘I feel what you’re feeling with you,’” she said. “It’s helped me understand some other real-life people better because I have empathized so thoroughly with somebody like Linda. Carlson plans to attend University of Southern California to continue studying philosophy, particularly ethics. She confirmed that she would like to continue acting as well. “To me theater is like a vehicle for exploring the human experience,” Matsos said. “The overall purpose is that we’re trying to explore what makes us human.”

ing,” Bauman said. “Since then, he’s become a famous contrarian.” Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele, who is libertarian-minded, became aware of Schiff because of the financial crisis. “He has a good understanding of economics,” Steele said. “He was spoton in predicting the 2007 recession and 2008 financial crisis, when others, such as economist Arthur Laffer, got it completely wrong and were caught entirely off guard.” He said while there’s no specific libertarian stance on gold, many libertarians like the idea of gold because it exists outside governments. “Libertarianism holds individual liberty as the highest political principle, so of course libertarians are quite wary of giving governments much power. Many of us don’t believe the government should be given the power to control the money supply,” Steele said. “Hence there’s often libertarian support for commodity money, such as gold.” While somewhat reverse, Bauman’s path actually follows a logical track toward where he’s at now. Gold trading is naturally a contrarian-style asset, according to Bauman, meaning that it’s a hedge against the financial markets. Because gold brings with it a libertarian approach to economics, many people in the field are likely to believe in that strain of economics, which Hillsdale’s economics department teaches so well. For example, Hillsdale’s

patron economist Ludwig von Mises ended up on this side of the argument surrounding monetary control. “Mises argued the relevant question isn’t what will be money, it’s whether market participants or government decide what is to be money,” Steele said. Though the economic angle is what excited Bauman about the college, he said his passion for learning took him away from economics and toward the study of German. While on campus, the skills he learned at Schiff translated well into his ability to connect with his peers, as junior Jackson Frerichs recalls. Frerichs, who served as president of the Hillsdale College Investments Club, spent an evening in August talking to Bauman about gold in the context of personal investing. “What I distinctly remember besides him being personable and fun to hang out with were his reasons for buying gold instead of bitcoin as a capital preservation as opposed to seeking a high return on investment,” Frerichs said. From Tallahassee, to New York, to Hillsdale, and, for the spring/summer term, to Saarbrucken, Germany, Bauman said he’s happy with where the journey took him. “FSU is nothing like Hillsdale,” he said. “It’s much more my dream school than what FSU could have been.”

Graduates of the classes of 1959 and 1969 converged on campus for their sixtieth and fiftieth reunions this week. The alumni spent their time touring campus, reuniting with old friends, and reminiscing about a simpler time when McIntyre was called New Dorm and women couldn’t wear pants on campus.

Gifts from the Gipper When she worked as a student guide, Sandi Thompson ’69 led many people around campus. There’s one that she’ll never forget. One morning during her four years at Hillsdale, Thompson was assigned to give a tour to a speaker on campus. After attending the speech, she took the speaker and a woman who she thought was his daughter around campus and had lunch with them. When she went back to the dorm, Thompson’s friends asked who she guided around campus. “I said it was the Governor of California and his daughter,” she said. “They said, ‘Sandy that’s not his daughter. That was his wife.’ I said, ‘Are you kidding? She doesn’t even come up to my armpit. She looks so much younger than him.’ I had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that that was his wife.” The Governor of California and his young-looking wife turned out to be Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Not long after his visit to campus, Reagan penned a letter to the college. “He said that if I was the example of a Hillsdale student, he had every hope for the future of America,” Thompson said. “Here I was considering myself Canadian. I lived in Canada all my life.” Years later, Thompson was in Toronto supervising media relations for the G7 Summit. While working, she ran into Ronald Reagan. After their meeting, Thompson received an official White House envelope with a signed picture of Reagan made out to her. The envelope also contained different photos taken of the president and a presidential pin that was engraved with his signature on the back. “What a small world,” she said. “That’s what I wanted to tell any student guide. You never know who you’re going to meet.”

Aliens in the arboretum “The government covered it up,” Scotty English ’69 said.

“That wasn’t swamp gas.” “And we weren’t drunk either,” Sally Gober ’69 added. On March 21, 1966, Hillsdale College students claimed to see a UFO floating behind McIntyre dorm in the arboretum. The UFO was shaped like a rounded triangle and hovered in the field just behind the residence. It didn’t make any noise and didn’t have any flashing lights, according to Don McQuigge ’69. “It was there long enough for the Michigan State Troopers to arrive,” McQuigge said. “The local police arrived, the Dean of Men arrived, the Detroit Free Press made it from Detroit. The FBI turned up for it. Everyone was saying it’s a bunch of drunk college kids and it’s swamp gas. It’s not swamp gas in the arboretum. You don’t have that many witnesses that can keep a story consistent.” McQuigge said tons of people took pictures of the UFO, but not one turned out. “If you took two steps toward it, it moved back two steps,” he said. “When it left, it went straight up so fast that you couldn’t snap your head back that fast to follow it.” Ask any student who attended Hillsdale during the UFO sighting, and they’ll tell you it’s real. “There was an eerie feeling, something in the air,” Gober said. “It wasn’t a weather balloon or anything like that.”

Forging Fakes

In the late 1960s, America was in the throes of the Vietnam War. The draft lottery targeted American men born between 1944 and 1950. According to Thompson, the Americans were scared stiff of being drafted into the Vietnam War. “The Canadian guys were all going around and saying, ‘Ha, ha, ha, we can’t get drafted. You’re gonna go up the river and end up in Nam. They can’t touch us’ and on and on and on,” Thompson said. “As a fellow Canuck, I thought, ‘That’s pretty arrogant. We gotta bring these guys down a peg.’” Thompson concocted a plan with her roomate to send the Canadian guys fake draft notices. The letters said to report for a pre-induction medical. Thompson said she wanted to make sure the language sounded legitimate and official. The letter even put reporting times in military time. “It was before M*A*S*H*, so we couldn’t copy the lingo,” she said. Thompson and her

roomate targeted Canadians who held jobs on campus. If a foreign national held employment in the United States, there was a chance they could be drafted. “They were just working part-time and it probably didn’t make any difference,” Thompson said. “But we knew we could scare the bejesus out of them.” Thompson and her roomate followed up the letters with a call. They made the background noise sound like an office with chatter and slamming drawers. Thompson went up to the student union to see how her friends were doing. “The guys were petrified,” she said. “The blood was just draining from their faces.” A few days later, however, Thompson heard the FBI was on campus investigating fake draft notices. “That door swung both ways, and we were petrified,” Thompson said. “We decided we wouldn’t say a word to anybody. Nothing. Zip. We didn’t tell a soul it was us.” Doug Musgrave ’69, who traveled around Europe with Thompson after they graduated, received a fake draft notice. Thompson is the godmother to his son and great-godmother to his grandkids. He found out that Thompson had sent his draft notice for the first time ever at the reunions last week. He said he was shocked and panicked when he received the fake notice. “We all planned that we’d just head straight to the border and be out of here in five minutes,” Musgrave said.

Advice for the ages When asked what advice she had for students, Gober said to stick to your dreams. “Be open to opportunities,” Gober said. “Maybe that dream that you dream is not the dream. Maybe something else will come along and you’ll recognize it, so follow that.” Thompson said that students should always pay attention to the people you meet on campus and the opportunities they can give you, “Keep your ears open and value all of them,” Thompson said. “Because life takes so many unexpected twists and turns over the years, and you never know who you’re going to be seeing on TV, who’s going to be famous, and who can help you with your jobs or anything. Be very nice to the people you meet on the way up, because you meet the same people on the way back down.”

1960s view of campus. | Hillsdale College ARchives

Campus at night from B4

Jermeay described being startled at about 3 a.m. one morning by a student who fell asleep on her desk and woke up in the empty building after-hours, asking to be let out of the building. Both Jermeay and Chen have worked in the custodial service long enough to also remember students sneaking into the library through the tunnel system after-hours. The tunnel entrance bears witness to these latenight shenanigans, with pairs of names wrapped in hearts, written in years past by the finger of some rebel Romeo on dusty ductwork. Both Jermeay and Chen also made subtle reference to chairs moving on their own, but these reports remain unconfirmed. If a late-night explorer continues wandering past Mossey, they would meet Colleen Taite, who has cleaned

the Grewcock overnight for almost a year now, between 11:30 p.m. and 8 a.m.. She says she appreciates the quiet, which allows her extra productivity. With all the woodwork in the union, she noted especially “lots of detailing, lots of dusting.” Taite readily expresses her love for the students she meets late at night in the union, and one of her favorite things is bringing zucchini bread made from her garden to students around holiday time. Students, she said, sometimes need a break from cafeteria food. “These students are so good to me, and when it’s homemade, I like doing it,” she said. Hillsdale street contains a surprising number of commuters in the hours preceding 5 a.m., though human activity of any other kind is limited. The first visible college activity is a black sedan arriving at the sports complex precisely at 5 a.m., and the occupant calls on the security patrol to

get inside. The award for earliest-riser-hardest-worker for the morning of April 8th goes to senior Dan Maisonville, found walking up to campus at 5:30 a.m.. He said he arrives at that time to study in the peace and quiet of an empty Grewcock: today for a biochemistry exam. His strategy of buying an AJ’s coffee the night before and then chugging it cold the next morning seems brutal, but effective. He said most other students he sees don’t arrive to study until closer to 6:30. The first large-scale activity did not pick up until 5:45, with the arrival of various stocky individuals in tank tops at the Roche Sports Complex. A spring night on Hillsdale’s campus is a beautiful thing. There are also many kind people who take care of the buildings while we all sleep. Hillsdale at night is a very different world, but definitely one worth a visit.

B4 April 18, 2019

Several Hillsdale students visited Iceland in recent years. Kayla Mykeloff | Courtesy

WOW air bankruptcy cancels Icelandic trips, brings student nostalgia By | Abby Liebing Assistant Editor Iceland had 2.3 million visitors in 2018, according to the Rejkjavik Grapevine, a prevalent Icelandic tourist magazine. With about 338,000 people living in Iceland, the number of tourists makes up nearly seven times the country’s population. But after Iceland’s ultra lowcost airline, WOW air, went bankrupt at the end of March, many predict Icelandic tourism will be on the decline. Several Hillsdale students, including a Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program group from last year, have taken advantage of the cheap airline tickets over the years. Now some say they will have to cancel their travel plans. Not only did WOW air provide cheap flights to Iceland, but it also offered cheap flights from the U.S. to Europe by stopping in Iceland. Senior Emma McCormick used WOW air on her first trip to Iceland and was planning on using it again for her trip to Europe this summer. “That’s how I flew to Ice-

land and had bought a ticket with them round trip Detroit to Paris for May 27 through June 14,” she said. “I had a minor moment of panic and disbelief at how a company can do that. Thankfully my credit card company reimbursed me for the flight.” WOW air had the advantage of not only being cheap, but also making stops less complicated for flights to Europe. Cheap flights to Europe can still be found, but they can be more complicated even if they do save money, as McCormick can attest to. “I bought another ticket from Windsor, Ontario to Paris and back to Toronto. From there I’ll fly United to Bozeman, Montana,” McCormick said. “The end destination of that trip is Budapest and Croatia. Thankfully the flights didn’t interrupt our plans too much. That routing including the Bozeman leg actually worked out to be about $100 less!” Iceland has many natural wonders. The 39,769 square miles of land contain hot springs, black sand beaches, glaciers, mountains, waterfalls, and volcanoes. Accord-

ing to some travel blogs, Iceland is one of the most naturally beautiful places on earth. In 2010, volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted and made international headlines since the airspace over Iceland was closed thanks to the ash in the air. Because of the eruption, Iceland’s economy fell on hard times, and an online campaign began in which people could post their positive stories about visiting Iceland. The campaign spread across social media, and soon Iceland became a trend. The next summer after the campaign started was Iceland’s busiest tourist season yet. With the new draw in tourism, Iceland’s government began an intense, threeyear marketing campaign to grow the island’s reputation as an untouched, largely uninhabited environment for tourists to roam. On top of all the travel publicity, Iceland has also become a popular filming spot. Movies such as “Batman Begins,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and “Thor: the Dark World” all filmed parts in Iceland. And most popu-

larly, the HBO series “Game of Thrones” has done much of its filming in Iceland. There are now tours in Iceland totally dedicated to seeing the “Game of Thrones” sights. Since WOW air was founded in 2011 as a low-cost carrier, it had been trying to compete with bigger, established airlines that regularly offer nonstop flights to Europe. They tried to follow the model of short-haul operations like Southwest Airlines and Ryanair Holdings, but trying to do it with long-haul operations and it was not sustainable. Now, dirt cheap flights to Iceland and Europe might be harder to find. McCormick and senior Kayla Mykeloff went to Iceland at the end of the 2018 spring semester, before WOW air’s bankruptcy, and said they loved it. Travel costs were cheap. Altogether, Mykeloff estimated that she spent less than $800 on the trip. They traveled throughout the southern part of the country, famous for its numerous waterfalls and glaciers. They got to hike, see geysers and waterfall, glaciers, and see

the famous black sand beach known as “Diamond Beach” for its large chunks of glaciers ice that have washed up and look like giant diamonds on the sand. McCormick especially loved Diamond Beach and said the ice, in all its shapes, sizes, and colors, was stunning. “But it is hard to pick a favorite, because most places we went and things we saw were truly unique and beautiful,” McCormick said. Mykeloff said Iceland was like nothing she had ever seen and there was no place she could even compare it to. “That country is so diverse in terms of land. So every day we saw something new and different. Its like you are on a completely different planet,” she said. McCormick said one of the most surprising things about Iceland was the constant and drastic diversity in the scenery. “You’d drive for less than 30 minutes and the view out the window completely changed. We’d be in farmland, then ocean coast, then Mars, then mountains, then

a whiteout blizzard,” McCormick said. It is this wild and distinctive scenery that makes Iceland such an attraction. But, McCormick did point out that it is obvious that Iceland is extremely popular for tourists right now and it shows on the landscape, which saddened her a little. “The beauty of Iceland is in its fragile ecosystems. With so much foot traffic the landscape never gets a break. People are always walking on hiking paths, or not on paths, even in the off seasons with the land should be recuperating,” McCormick said. “It was a weird complex — feeling bad for contributing to the traffic, but also selfishly glad I went when I did and didn’t wait.” Both Mykeloff and McCormick would love to go back and see more of the island and other spots they didn’t have time to visit. “I definitely would like to go back and have more money to spend to do things like glacier hiking, ice cave spelunking, and go to the Blue Lagoon,” Mykeloff said. “I want to go back so badly.”

Campus at the witching hour Between 3 and 6 a.m., while most are sleeping, custodians, early-risers, and tunnel-dashers inhabit campus haunts By | Joe Toates Collegian Freelancer It is almost impossible to imagine what someone might do on campus in the predawn hours on a weekday. Most dutiful Hillsdalians traffic the same few buildings and walk across the same sidewalks to the same desks in the library almost every day of the week, and then turn back to go home by 2 a.m., at the latest, when the Grewcock Student Union closes. Jonathan Bauman worked for Schiff Gold in New York City. Jonathan Bauman | Courtesy

Before Hillsdale, student worked as New York City gold broker By | Ryan Goff Assistant Editor While many Hillsdale students may dream of living and working in New York, few New Yorkers would consider leaving their office on Madison Avenue to go to school in south-central Michigan. But that’s just what sophomore Jonathan Bauman did after his second year working in New York as a junior broker. In the summer of 2015, Bauman had just graduated high school and was ready to enroll at Florida State University in the fall when his brother asked him about working with him at Schiff Gold, a gold broker in New York City. “My brother was doing very well, and the company was growing and wanted to

hire on more junior brokers,” Bauman said. With the reference of his brother, Schiff hired Bauman and he started in August to train for a year, making close to 200 calls a day. Bauman found success in his position as a gold broker and was promoted. For seven months longer he worked at Schiff, which he said helped him develop many valuable skills. “I learned discipline,” Bauman said. “Those outbound calls build grit. When you call 20 people in a row and 19 say no, it makes you tougher.” On top of that, Bauman said, he learned about the industry. “I learned a lot about gold and finance, because gold, while not a financial asset,

is always discussed in the context of investments. The reason why someone would want gold is a question of financial economics.” But the daily routine eventually got to him, he said, and soon he started to look for something more. “You wake up in the morning, bolt to the subway, and the whole time you’re not cognizant of anyone around you. You put in your time and you do your job, and then you’re too tired to do anything beside just go home, put on Arrested Development, and call it a night,” Bauman said. Living in New York, while a great experience, eventually became a limiting force to his aspirations.

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But on April 8th, even between 3 and 6 a.m., darting rabbits and singing birds aren’t the only signs of life on Hillsdale’s campus. Any student who finds himself wandering campus at this time may very well encounter a wonderful man named Keen Chen, who cleans the library between 11:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. every day. Keen and his coworker, Elaine Jermeay, ensure that the library returns to tiptop shape after a full day of

student abuse. The two, when asked to describe their late work, spoke in near unison saying the library late at night would be best described as “spooky.” The ducts make creaking noises which, without the hum-drum of students, sound particularly ominous, and the emptiness of the large building, they said, can be unnerving.

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