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Vol. 139 Issue 6 - 8 Oct. 2015

Remembering Michael Bozic, college trustee

Faculty and staff celebrate the

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dedication of the Searle Center Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé, Dean of Women Diane Philipp, College President Larry Arnn, and honored guests cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Searle Center on Monday, Oct. 5. Brendan Miller | Collegian

College President Larry Arnn publishes new book Rep. Tim By |Breana Noble Arnn said. to mitigate Walberg talks He picked up “The World and control Assistant Editor Hillsdale College President Crisis, 1911-1914 Vol. I,” and the power of Larry Arnn wears the memo- after two weeks, Arnn’s hand statesmanEducation ry of Winston Churchill on his had healed — except for a small ship through white scar that remains visible constitutionsleeve — literally. and and House As an undergraduate student, on his wrist to this day — and alism Arnn would not have predicted he had completed all six vol- through the he’d write a dissertation on the umes of the collection as well as practice of elections twice elected prime minister of part of “Marlborough: His Life justice, which and Times.” includes the By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor

Congressman Tim Walberg represents Michigan’s 7th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Walberg came to campus last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hillsdale Academy. How does Hillsdale Academy stand out from other schools as a model for classical education? It is based on a higher principle that the academics and morality and spirituality must work to achieve. You go back to the Northwest Ordinance and Article VIII, Section 1 of our state constitution, and it says religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. From what I can tell in my involvement around this school, they truly believe that religion and knowledge have to combine. And that faith aspect, the character aspect, the integrity, builds the opportunity for education to take root and expand into something valuable. I think that’s probably the uniqueness about a classical education: that it builds present reality on timeless truths. The American education system is often described as broken and dysfunctional — a failure to America’s youth. What’s your plan to make the education system work again? No. 1, the Department of Education ought to be abolished. The U.S. Department of Education has no purpose — has no place in our Constitution. The federal government has no responsibility constitutionally for education: That comes down to the states and the local communities. Our state constitution says that we have the responsibility. So doing away with the Department of Education would be a great start.

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the United Kingdom, let alone an entire book on him — Arnn’s latest, “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government,” is scheduled for release Tuesday, Oct. 13. During one summer in the midst of graduate school, Arnn’s “warrior” boxer got into a fight with another dog. As Arnn tried to break up the altercation, the other dog bit him on the wrist. His hand swelled to the extent that Arnn became bedridden while house-sitting for a friend, who had written a doctoral thesis on Churchill. “What was lying near my bed were lots of Churchill books, and I had studied a little in two graduate classes, but now here was all these books, and they were the ones I could reach,”

“I just loved it,” Arnn said. “I was a young, ambitious man, interested in politics, interested in saving the country, interested in understanding the country. Here is this very powerful explanation.” Now, 41 years later, after reading the very of Churchill and working underneath his official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, Arnn is publishing his own book on the decisions Churchill made after spending the past two years writing it. “Churchill’s Trial” looks at what it means to be a modern statesman: the principles to display, the ways in which to deal with crisis, and how to look at new developments. “Churchill was an assertive statesman, but he sought

protection of human freedom,” Arnn said. While researching Churchill, Arnn said he learned more about practical ideas of how to get things done Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn holds his new as well as the book “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the purpose of Salvation of Free Government,” slated for release politics and this month. Brendan Miller | Collegian life. “The reapretty quick,” Arnn said. son it took so long to write the While the book is heavily book is, in my opinion, it takes influenced by what he learned so long to learn about those from Gilbert, Arnn’s work stands subjects, unless you’re someone alone. like him who seems to pick it up “I do See Arnn A3

Robert Hardy on Lewis, Tolkien, and World War II

British actor Robert Hardy addresses the Center for Constructive Alternatives on Monday, Oct. 5. Carsten Stann | Collegian

By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Robert Hardy is one of England’s most successful character actors. He has played Sir Winston Churchill many times in television, film, and theater productions. Best known for his role as Siegfried Farnon in BBC’s “All Creatures Great and Small” series, he also played Cornelius Fudge in the “Harry Potter” films among many others. Hardy spoke at this week’s Center for

Constructive Alternatives seminar. Every generation has their defining moment — for my generation it’s the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York. Do you have any specific recollections of the day Adolf Hitler invaded Poland? Yes. Vivid. I was born in 1925. I remember every detail of that whole business. I suppose it’s really itemized in the broadcast that Neville Chamberlain, who was our prime

minister, made on the radio. He said, “We are at war with Germany. We have received no response to my cable saying that if by 11 o’clock we had not heard from Mr. Hitler that it would be a state of war. We have heard no word from the leader of Germany, the leader of the Nazis, and therefore we are at a state of war.” And then he went on to my shock to say, “You can imagine what a great disappointment this personally is to me.” And I thought, — I was not very advanced, but enough to think very quickly — “That’s a mean personal response to an epic situation, which may see Britain attacked, Britain destroyed, America attacked — who could foresee what this mania was going to do?” I remember thinking that at the time. Quite soon afterwards, placards began appearing all over London — nobody to this day knows who financed it — great big, simply printed placards saying, “What price, Winston?” “How about Churchill?” — things like that. “Now for Churchill.” Things like that printed up on giant street plac-

ards. So all of that time, one was at some kind of mixture of excitement and dread. Excitement because I was at the right age to be excited, obviously. War: thrill. Airplanes. I was trained as a pilot. When you came back from training, what was it like to transition back to wartime England? Well it wasn’t over yet when we got back. When we got back, you dropped the bombs. So our choice, of the group that trained at that date, was either to sign on to train for five years and be sent out to the Far East, or to hang around and be offered another job in the Royal Air Force. And I wasn’t going to do that — no thank you. I was in a hurry, you know. So one hung around mostly in London. So I spent most of my time — and all of my money — going to the theaters. I went every night. I understand you were at Oxford at the same time as C.S. Lewis? He was my tutor. It was wonderful because I had formed an opinion See Hardy A2

Oxford Professor Michael Ward returns to Hillsdale By |Ramona Tausz Arts Editor C.S. Lewis organized his classic children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia” around the pre-Copernican medieval concept of a universe with seven heavens, according to Michael Ward, a senior research fellow at Oxford University and author of “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.” “Lewis’s best-known works, the seven Chronicles of Narnia, are, I believe, structured according to the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos,” Ward, best-remembered at Hillsdale as the 2015 commencement Follow @HDaleCollegian

speaker, told a packed Phillips Auditorium during a lecture hosted by the history department on Thursday, Oct. 1. Ward’s lecture, based on his dissertation, was entitled “Great Balls of Fire: C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and Medieval Cosmology.” “I have to admit, it is a very large claim that I’m making,” Ward said. “Lewis had a deliberate and intentional design behind the Narnian Chronicles which he told nobody about and which nobody spotted for 50 or 60 years until I came along.” The theory that would become Ward’s dissertation first popped into his head while he

was completing his doctoral studies at Oxford. According to Ward, the question of how the Chronicles of Narnia are organized—why they’re written the they are—has long posed an “imaginative conundrum” to Lewis scholars. Is the series a hodgepodge of disparate elements, or does it have a central governing organization? “Lewis was not at all a characteristically random or slapdash thinker,” Ward said. “He was a very rigorous and consistent thinker who loved intricacy and complexity of all kinds.” Such a thinker, according to Ward, must have given the Chronicles an underlying thematic structure.

His thesis is that each of the Narnian books can be examined through the lens of one of the seven heavens of the old pre-Copernican, geocentric cosmos espoused by medievals such as Dante and Chaucer. Each medieval heaven had its own planet: the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” for instance, includes references to Jupiter, king of the gods, throughout. “Kingliness is Jupiter’s main quality,” Ward said. And indeed, the book is pervaded with themes of kingship. “The story is really a clash of kingship between Peter and Edmund, and

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Aslan demonstrates true kingship in his role for Edmund’s sake.” “Prince Caspian,” on the other hand, contains the imagery of Mars, the god of war. “It’s the civil war book of Narnia, a very martial book,” Ward said. “The word martial itself appears a couple of times.” But after tracing similar threads through brief readings of each of the seven books,Ward was sure to point out why Lewis chose to structure the Chronicles this way—not merely as an interesting schematic organization, but because each book, each planet, each god reflects something true about Christ and how See Ward A2

He was a Harley rider. He loved boats. President Larry Arnn valued him as a friend of the college. Michael Bozic was a 16-year Hillsdale College Trustee who died unexpectedly at the age of 74 while working near his boat in Maryland on Sept. 30. “He had the gifts of emphatic language that you would expect from such a person,” Arnn said in an email. “He loved the freedom that he, a little boy from Pittsburgh, had enjoyed to build and to serve.” According to Arnn, Bozic loved his family — his wife, Stephanie, and their two children — and he loved the freedom to follow his conscience. “Every night, we had dinner together. Every morning, he kissed his children goodbye. Every night, he read them bedtime stories. He was a good father,” said Stephanie Bozic, his wife of 47 years, in Bozic’s TribLive obituary. “His career never came home with him. When he wasn’t at work, he was just Dad,” said his daughter, Amanda Pyper of Chatham, New Jersey, in the obituary. For a man so focused on family, Bozic had many accomplishments. He began his career at Sears Roebuck and Company where he climbed from a management trainee to various leadership roles including CEO of Sears Merchandise Group. After 28 years with Sears, Bozic took over and transformed a then-bankrupt Hills Store Company into an award-winning regional discounter. In 1995, he worked as Chairman and CEO of Levitz Furniture Corporation and in 1998, became the Vice Chairman of Kmart Corp. Most recently, Bozic was a director and trustee of Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds and part-owner of Orlando Harley Davidson. “Mike worked for the biggest companies in the most senior positions,” Arnn said. “He operated upon a massive scale, not millions but billions, not in regions but nations, not in the rich or the poor or the middle but in every home.” This expertise made him an excellent chair of Hillsdale’s marketing and outreach committee, Arnn said. “Mike Bozic was an important part of the board and will be missed by all of us he has left behind,” Chairman of the Board Bill Brodbeck said in an email. “Mike was a quiet, warm, caring individual who had a depth of experience in business and industry.” Arnn emphasized that Bozic was also a great adviser and encourager. “Mike knew everything. He was a superb guide, and I can recall no conversation with him when he did not offer me some thoughtful encouragement, some word of praise that he had considered and delivered as an act of charity,” Arnn said. Arnn described Bozic as “a man’s man,” who was principled and did not like the people who he, and Arnn, were sure are leading America astray. “He was fully a man, and being so he was an inspiration to know,” Arnn said. His memorial service was Tuesday at 11 a.m. Instead of flowers, his family asked donations to be made to Hillsdale College or the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Bozic is survived by his wife, Stephanie, daughter Amanda, son Peter, and two grandchildren, Ellie and Lucy Pyper, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Look for The Hillsdale Collegian

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In brief: Senators silent on Scorecard

By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Despite charges from Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) that Hillsdale College’s absence from the Department of Education’s new College Scorecard may suggest a threat to the school’s accreditation, the agency refused to back away from its previous statements about the college, including the incorrect claim that Hillsdale does not offer bachelor’s degrees. “Our previous comment stands,” said Alberto Betancourt, a press officer for the DoE, on Tuesday. Shortly after the Sept. 12 release of the Scorecard — called “comprehensive” by President Barack Obama — an assistant press secretary at the DoE said that Hillsdale College “does not offer bachelor’s degrees.” Michigan’s senators, Democrats Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow, failed to respond to multiple requests for comment on Hillsdale’s absence from the Scorecard or the department’s claim that the college does not grant bachelor’s degrees, despite repeated requests from the Collegian. The Scorecard excluded not just Hillsdale but also several other colleges that refuse to accept federal funding, such as Grove City College in Pennsylvania. The DoE eventually explained that only schools that accept Title IV federal loans were included in the database. Walberg said the omission of Hillsdale could be “a tremendous problem” for the college and said he hopes that the next presidential administration will rescind the Scorecard.

Paintball this Saturday By | Hannah Niemeier Collegian Reporter Parents and students, prepare to get shot — with paintballs. Campus Recreation is sponsoring a free paintball event Friday, Oct. 9 from 3-7 p.m. at Hayden Park. “It’s just a free-for-all paintball day. Come when you want to, and paintball it up,” said senior Rachael Hille, co-director of Campus Health and Recreation. The event is new to campus, aimed at giving students and parents a chance to showcase their skills with brightly colored projectiles. “You’re going to be shot at with paintballs, so dress accordingly,” Hille said. The organization will provide all other equipment. Competitors can also enjoy cocoa and cider in a Campus Rec tent between contests. “One of Campus Rec’s goals is to have something fun for people to do every weekend,” Hille said.

Buffalo Ranch By |Stacey Egger Collegian Reporter Student Recreation is subsidizing costs for a student trip on Sunday, Oct. 11 from 2-4 p.m. to Buffalo Riding Ranch. The ranch, located in Hanover, Michigan, will feature an hour of horseback trail rides and an hour of wagon rides. The cost is only $10 for students. “I think that if anyone wants to experience something different and have fun with recreation in a unique type of way, then this an experience for you,” Student Activities Director Anthony Manno said. Manno said he hopes students will take advantage of this new event and that student response will help Student Activities Office determine whether they should continue events like this. Contact rhille@hillsdale. edu for registration details.

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Minnie Churchill reflects on time with the prime minister By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Minnie Churchill is the granddaughter-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill and the Director of Churchill Heritage. She has spent the last six years locating the approximately 500 paintings Sir Winston made. She spoke on campus this week at the Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar. Could you describe the day you first met Sir Winston Churchill? I went to have lunch with

him in 1963, and it was just Sir Winston, Winston Jr., — his grandson whom I later married — and myself. I wasn’t sure what we would be talking about, but before lunch, my Winston talked about a trip he’d made ‘round Africa in a single-engine airplane. And then Sir Winston talked about his experiences in Africa in the Boer War. And at the end of lunch, he rang the bell for the butler and asked the butler to bring back the cream jug. He poured the cream onto the table, and

Minnie Churchill, granddaughter-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, speaks in the Biermann Center on Sunday. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

Hardy from A1 of an El Grecco face of great severity and terrifying logic. And when I arrived to greet him for the first time at Magdalen College, I turned up, and they told me at the college lodge exactly how to get to Lewis’ apartment. I think he was Professor Lewis, but to me it was “Mr.” or nothing. So I went through the wonderful cloisters, and then you go through a dark tunnel, and suddenly the world was alive with light. There was a great stretch of two or three acres of mown, lawn grass. Coming across it was somebody who was looking like a farmer. I thought he was a gardener. Then I noticed he’d got a tie on. So I thought he must be head gardener. So as we passed, I said, “Good morning,” and he said, “Good morning,” and passed me. The moment he was passed, the voice behind me said, “You must be Hardy.” I said, “Yes, I am.” And he said, “I’m Lewis.” That was Lewis. And we always got on famously and happily together and were able to argue — which is half

the battle of tutor and undergraduate, isn’t it? Then I learnt that my Anglo Saxon and Middle English tutor was going to be J.R.R. Tolkien. And we got on famously. I had the greatest admiration for him. He was such fun, and so brilliant — I mean, a sort of magician. We did one tutorial, and then he said, “Next Wednesday, we’ll meet at the Bird and Baby” — which is a pub called the Eagle and Child. And he said, “We’ll sit at the table at the window, and when you arrive, you’ll find I’ve set you up a pint each, and then we’ll carry out a little experiment.” So this is what happened: He sat with his back to the window and we were arranged in front of him like a horseshoe. Then he said, “I want you all to change places, tell me when you’re seated and ready, so long as I don’t know who is where.” And when we were ready, he said, “Starting at the left, speak and just go on talking until I say, ‘Thank you.’” So we went ‘round the six. And at the end of that he said, “Right, now you were No. 1. Now let me tell you where you

then his cat jumped onto his lap, jumped onto the table, and lapped up the cream. I thought, “My goodness, what would Lady Churchill think?” But I couldn’t say anything — I was the guest. Many years later, I saw a picture at Chartwell, which was a drawing of tea at Chartwell by Nicholson, and in it, it has Sir Winston and Lady Churchill having tea ‘round the table at Chartwell. And on the table is the cat lapping up the cream. When did you first get the ideas to track down all of Winston Churchill’s paintings? We went down to Chartwell while he was still alive. And we saw in the dining room all these pictures in pallets on the floor. Winston and I were given some as a wedding present by Sir Winston and Lady Churchill — we were given four paintings. But it was some 20 years later that Peregrine Churchill, who was the son of Sir Winston’s brother Jack, was running Churchill Heritage. He came down one day saying, “Minnie, I need to see you.” He arrived with a lot of come from.” And he analyzed what exactly made our speech sound like it did. And he went ‘round the six, and six jaws dropped. And when he got to me, he said, “Ah, interesting. A bit of border Welsh lilith there, but sadly overlayed by smart London.” And I said, “You’re absolutely on target in every degree.” And he said at the end, “You’ll wonder, perhaps, what all that was about. What that was about was to breed faith in you, to make you understand that I know how Anglo Saxons sound. I know how Chaucer sounds. So have faith. Because I’ve demonstrated that I understand how sound gives me knowledge.” And we were all absolutely aghast. But by the end of our first term with him, one could speak Anglo Saxon and sound Anglo Saxon.

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Aslan represents Christ in the series. “The most serious reason why I think Lewis might have done this is the theological rea-

boxes, and he said “I would like you to take over the running of Churchill Heritage.” Churchill Heritage owned the copyright to his pictures. It was a good 10 years later, I realized that a lot of his pictures were being sold. When things go through the sale room, nobody can tell you who buys them, so they were disappearing. I thought I’d had such an interesting life thanks to Sir Winston, that I’d like to do something to say thank you to him. So I found a publisher, and we got the paintings photographed, and for six years, I wrote to people all over the world seeing if they had any in their collections. We photographed as many as we could, and we published the book. The best thing for me was that we were able to go up to Churchill College, Cambridge, and give for his archives the disks with all his paintings on. They didn’t have that before, so it was wonderful to be able to add that to the archive. Do you have any favorite stories from when you were hunting down the paintings?

There was one picture that he’d given to his secretary, Grace Hamblin, which was of the Béguinage at Bruges. And she had sold it to buy a house, and it disappeared. All we knew is that it had been bought by Arthur Murray of the school of dance. I contacted them on their website for tango lessons and asked how we could get in touch with one of the Murray sisters. They sent an email, and she said that, yes, indeed she had a Churchill picture. She said that her sister had got the Pissaro, but she had got the Churchill. And the next thing she asked was if it would be possible to see any paintings when they next came to England. I said that I would take them to Chartwell — Winston Churchill’s old house which is now a museum. She said, “I’m bringing my driver.” So we went down to Chartwell to meet them there. When we got there, this very handsome man stood up, and he turned out to be Dr. Henry Heimlich — of the Heimlich Maneuver. It was a huge privilege to meet him and his wife, Jane, who owned the Churchill.

Dr. Michael Ward, professor at Oxford University, addresses students at Phillips Auditorium on Oct. 1. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

son,” Ward said. “The whole Narnia series is about Christ, Lewis said. By taking these seven spiritual symbols, Lewis is able to depict Christ under seven different veils — a technique of transferred classicism — where God can be depicted as the true Jupiter, the king; the true Mars, the commander; the true Sol, the light of the world; and son on, seven times.” Ward’s speech was peppered with the characteristic wit that endeared him to Hillsdale students at the 2015 Commence-

ment. “The BBC got interested in my dissertation for the book ‘Planet Narnia’ and commissioned a television documentary called ‘The Narnia Code,’” Ward joked. “Please excuse the title, it’s got nothing to do with the DaVinci Code — this is serious scholarship.” And with a typically British-sounding conclusion, Ward wrapped up his speech by telling the audience: “So that’s my theory, and I rather hope you like it.”

Lou Petro honored for excellence in teaching By | On Yu Lee Collegian Freelancer The Michigan Association of Certified Publis Accountants awarded Adjunct Professor of Accounting Lou Petro as its most outstanding accounting professor of the year on Sept. 30. Petro recieved the Accounting Teaching Excellence Award. “It was very funny at the awards banquet,” Petro said. “Almost every one of them was my old student.” Petro started teaching accounting in 1969 and has taught at 11 different colleges. Hundreds of students became accounting pro-

fessors like him, and at the banquet, they were pleased to speak well of him, how he was their best accounting teacher ever. Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney was also influenced by Petro. Sweeney met Petro during his senior year at Aquinas College while he was a teaching assisstant at University of Detroit Mercy. “I have known Lou for over thirty-five years; as a teacher, as a boss, as a colleague, as a mentor and as a friend,” Sweeney said. “He remains one of the brightest people I know, not only current in his many areas of

expertise but also well-read in a variety of different fields outside of his academic and professional pursuits.” Sweeney explained that he could not think of anyone more deserving of the MICPA Accounting Teaching Excellence Award than Petro since he was able to hone his teaching skills based on Petro’s example. So he wrote the letter of recommendations to the Awards Committee for him. Petro also showed thanks to Sweeney. “I decided to teach at Hillsdale because of Mike. I would have not had the award if he did not nominate

me,” he said. Petro, who is also a professor at Lawrence Technological University, started teaching at Hillsdale in 2003. He thinks the Hillsdale experience helped to be awarded. “It is easy to care about students’ learning if the students are committed to it. I want to teach at the place where students have interests,” he said. “And Hillsdale is that place.” “His primary focus is always the students; making decisions that are in their best interests,” Sweeney added. “He likes our students and enjoys interacting with them.”

Petro opened his Fraud Accounting class at Hillsdale in 2009, offering it in every spring term. He teaches how to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, which are the preparations to become a Certified Fraud Examiner. “I love Hillsdale a lot. Students are very capable and doing the job,” he said. Petro thinks the award was not by his credit, but it was by his students. “Better the students are, the better you are going to be as a teacher,” he said.

ATO ‘Clips for Cancer’ breaks campus fundraising record By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Freelancer Clips for Cancer, a fundraising effort by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, shattered the record for funds raised by a student-run philanthropy event last week, raising more than $5,600 for Students Against Cancer. On Friday, Oct. 2 the event ended on the quad with 26 shaved ATOs and one shaved dean of men. “I was moved by the personal testimony of a cancer survivor followed by the symbolic lap around the quad by the survivors and those who put on the event,” Hillsdale College Dean of Men Aaron Peterson said. Clips for Cancer, a part of Relay for Life, drew a sizable crowd to watch the ATOs and Peterson shave their heads. Some donors even helped cut participants’ hair. “I wanted to get someone

who everyone would know, so I went up to Dean Pete’s office and asked him and with no hesitation he said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it,’” said senior Tyler Warman, the philanthropy chair of ATO. The ATOs kicked off their fundraising campaign with a phone-a-thon three weeks ago, in which they contacted their families, ATO alumni, and faculty. Everyone seemed very impressed with what they were doing which prompted them to be very generous. “I believe that the Clips for Cancer campaign was a very well-organized and supported event that connected students and alumni with an opportunity to give back to the people who have been affected by cancer of any kind,” said junior Luke Bennett, an ATO who shaved his head. “We shaved our heads as a representation of our support for those with cancer.” In addition to the phone-

a-thon, the ATOs collected money during lunches in the Grewcock Student Union from behind a table throughout the week and encouraged online donations through their GoFundMe campaign. Donor participation for the campaign was high: the vast majority of donations totaling $5,600 were $125 and under. According to Warman, the biggest donation was $500, given by an anonymous donor who greatly appreciated what the ATOs were doing. Approximately $2,000 was raised in the last three days of the fundraiser alone. GoFundMe will send a check to the chapter once all of the donations are in this week, and then ATO will send it to Students Against Cancer. Besides the 8 percent GoFundMe removes from all money raised through its website, all of the proceeds will go to benefit those battling cancer.

ATO president Jeremy Filar, senior, said although some brothers were unhappy about shaving their heads at first, everyone supported it eventually. During their last Clips for Cancer in 2013, the ATOs raised $3,500, and Warman

ATO brothers junior Carrick Conway and sophomore Joe Kutil get their heads shaved Friday at the fraternity’s fundraiser “Clips for Cancer.” ATO broke the record for fundraising by any student group on campus, raising $5,600 total. Laura Williamson | collegian

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Physics students celebrate Einstein at Northwestern University By | Joe Pappalardo and Scott McClallen Assistant Editor and Collegian Freelancer Four students and Assistant Professor of Physics Tim Dolch celebrated the General Theory of Relativity’s 100th anniversary at Northwestern University Oct. 1. The Midwest Relativity Meeting commemorated the benchmark of Albert Einstein’s theory through presentations from authors and professors familiar with the subject. Junior Michael Tripepi said his favorite lecture was the keynote address, which “presented all the physical considerations that Einstein had to incorporate into his theory.” Trepepi, a physics major, said he enjoyed the background info the talk provided. Junior Daniel Halmrast said he enjoyed hearing the modern application of the

Physics students senior Cody Jessup, junior Joshua Ramette, junior Daniel Halmrast, and junior Michael Tripepi attended the General Theory of Relativity’s 100th anniversary at Norhwestern University on Oct 1. Tim Dolch | Courtesy

University of Pittsburgh, lectured about Einstein’s handwritten notes, going through them step by step to understand his thought process, even to the point of decrypting his doodles. Dolch chose to attend this meeting so that the four students would be exposed to the quickly approaching reality of attending graduate school and researching current topics of science. “Hillsdale doesn’t offer much exposure to modern research, so I capitalized on the chance to experience up-to-date statistics and to learn what a career in gravity research means,” Halmrast said. Dolch’s group conversed with many graduate students about the application process for graduate school. They made important face-to-face social connections that could lead to potential internships. “Hillsdale’s student to faculty ratio allows for much personal interaction with

theory. “I enjoyed listening to the lectures of recent research on the relation of black holes and neutron stars and the steps taken to validate that research,” Halmrast said. The Hillsdale physics and mathematics majors were the only undergraduate students

in attendance among graduate scholars and postdoctoral researchers. “This trip provided them the opportunity to network with young individuals in their field and learn more about graduate school,” Dolch said. John D. Norton, from the

By | Evan Carter Web Editor Alumnus Andrew Koehlinger ’12 graduated from Hillsdale less than three years ago, but was recently named project manager of VoteSpotter, an app used by 55,000 people to get updates on key votes occurring in Congress as well as state legislatures. VoteSpotter, supported by the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, makes getting updates on state and federal legislation easy by providing curated updates on issues in which users indicate interest. Legislative analyses are then divided according to which of your legislators voted on them. Users don’t even have to open the app to stay up to date—the app sends a notification every time an important vote occurs. Legislative analyses are available for all congressional

districts but currently include only state-level data in 13 states, though VoteSpotter plans to add more states in the future. Since coming to the Mackinac Center in February, Koehlinger has increased the app’s reach by over 10 times, from 5,000 users across Android and iOS to over 55,000. The app has also grown from solely covering the Michigan legislature, to also covering twelve additional state legislatures as well as Congress. Now as director of VoteSpotter, Koehlinger is trying to get other people, especially millennials, involved in public policy as well. “The problem we were trying to solve when we designed this, especially with millennials, is that people aren’t engaged,” Koehlinger said. “That’s not how the political system is supposed to work and when it works best.” Senior politics major

Emily Runge loves how the VoteSpotter app takes information that is typically available on a website and makes it available through an app. “I like how simple it is to use,” she said. “The summaries of bills are nice and concise.” Runge said she plans to use the app in the future and hopes that in a future update to the app, each bill summary will include access to a more detailed amount of information like a bill’s full roll-call vote. While at Hillsdale, Koehlinger majored in economics and was a member of the cross country team. His greatest influences were his economics courses on public choice and public policy as well as Career Services’ suggestion that he start in sales. Gary Wolfram, chair of the economics department, remembers Koehlinger as a “great student” and said he could see Koehlinger’s interest

in public policy while he was in college. “I think Andrew will be the right person for this,” Wolfram said. The app is beginning to gain a foothold within Michigan. Although the app isn’t partisan, Koehlinger recently promoted it in a booth during this year’s Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. “The who’s who of Republican leadership was on the island,” Koehlinger said. “So I was making the rounds.” Koehlinger said the feedback he received from political activists and politicians on the island was positive. The Mackinac Center has offered legislative analysis in Michigan through their website michiganvotes.org since 2001, and in 2014 they created the VoteSpotter app as another avenue to engage people with the Mackinac Center’s analysize.

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fare state,” Arnn said. “What was that about? I didn’t like that part when I first got started.” As Arnn wrestled with the topic, he came to the understanding that this issue was important to Churchill. It centers on the idea that although he changed parties twice and found himself on the left and the right at different times, Churchill said he was more consistent than anyone he ever knew, Arnn said. “I tried to put together a story of why this makes sense,” Arnn said. “You have to set out to do that because that’s harder.” Senior Elizabeth Green took Arnn’s class on Churchill last semester. The discussion on this particular issue resonated with her. “Churchill never wanted to take struggles away from them. He knew humans become humans through the sufferings and trials of life. To take that away would take away that humanity,” Green said. “That really has stuck with me.” Even though Arnn struggled with Churchill’s views of this topic, he maintains a passion for

learning and sharing Churchill’s story. “Dr. Arnn loves Churchill,” junior Josh Shaw, who also took his class, said. “‘I’m going to study this the rest of my life.’ It’s amazing for someone to say that when they’re 20 and still be doing that with so much passion when they’re 60. Makes you think, ‘What bearing does Churchill have on me, on my life, as a potential leader?’”

needs of your community and build it into a system that relates itself to the real world like the jobs, the economy, etc. But again, I come back to what sets us apart. It’s based upon truth. It’s not your truth or my truth. It’s truth. And when a student learns in a context of there is truth and there is falsehood — we’re going to teach you truth so you understand that anything else is not to be considered something worthy of your life. I think that’s a great approach. Do you know yet who you’ll support in elections for Speaker of the House on Oct. 8? I’ll listen to all of them. What do you think are the qualities most required in House leadership, specifically in the Speaker’s position? Certainly a leadership ability that is willing to listen to the members of our conference but also has the ability to stand and ultimately say, having listened, this is the direction we need to go. The question is whether our conference the way it’s made up right now is leadable. I’m not sure our conference at this time

professors both inside and outside of the classroom. The recommendation letters we write, for example, show that we really get to know our students,” Dolch said. Junior Joshua Ramette studied gravitational waves last summer through a Research Experience for Undergraduates with the National Science Foundation at Louisiana State University, working under Gaby Gonzalez, professor at LSU and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration spokeswoman. “I did research in optics at LIGO in Livingston, LA, one of the two four-kilometer facilities existing within the United States that uses lasers to detect gravitational waves,” Ramette said. “LIGO hopes to document the first discovery of gravitational waves within a few years.”

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not pretend the book is the sort he would write,” Arnn said. “Why would one do that, his being so good? But if my book is good, it has much to do with him.” He also said Claremont Graduate University Professor Harry Jaffa influenced many of the ideas in the book. Arnn said readers will get an understanding of who Churchill was, what a statesman is, and how Churchill went about being one. “I also think Churchill gave a profound account of the nature of our times, the problems and the opportunities the times present,” Arnn said. “I think he gave clearest explanation than anybody I’ve read about that and hope they learn what that looks that.” For Arnn, the book was not easy to write, especially the section on Churchill’s views of social reform that he knew Martin would “frown about” had he ignored it. “He hoped to invent the wel-

Walberg from A1 But in lieu of that, I think we ought to be doing what we’ve been attempting to do on the House Education Committee, and that’s restore responsibility to the states and the local districts to decide how they will evaluate student progress — having consulted with parents, the teachers, the school board members, the local administrators, and the state Department of Education. What do we want to do for Michigan? I think Michigan would do well in the state or local districts to fit your academics to the

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is willing to be led. I say that because, to a great degree, we’re broken and lack a commitment to unifying for the greater good of leading this country. The reality is that we have right now of the president who doesn’t understand America in the way the Founders understood it, and a Senate, democrat leadership that’s unwilling to work together toward even a suitable compromise. I think our House Republican conference needs to decide, “Are we going to be a team that continues to move the right direction with the right agenda and with the right principles, but not expecting 100 percent?” And on the basis of that, McCarthy or Webster or Chaffetz will be a failure or a success. The problem wasn’t so much John Boehner, it was us. So we’ll see. We’ll see if in two months from now, people are hollering about Kevin McCarthy because of an inability to proceed and do what the talking heads on Fox or “Morning Joe” or whoever else say they should do.

In brief: ‘Hammocking’ no longer permitted By | Madeline Fry Collegian Freelancer Sweeping across college campuses nationwide — including Hillsdale — “hammocking” is a favorite activity among students and nature-enthusiasts alike. But it’s not good for the trees. Slinging portable hammocks between trees can damage the bark, leaving the trees prone to infection, Slayton Arboretum Director Ranessa Cooper said. She and campus Horticulturalist Angie Girdham ask that students refrain from using hammocks on campus or in the arb. “We want to do our best to protect and maintain healthy trees on campus,” Cooper said. Hammocks found in use on campus might be confiscated or simply returned with a warning, and the offender could be asked to make an appointment with the deans, Director of Campus Security Bill Whorley said. A hammock’s straps, weighed down by the occupants, can tear at a tree’s cambium layer, the tissue between the bark and the heartwood that conducts nutrients from the roots to the leaves, Girdham said. Damaging this nutritional pipeline can cause it to dry out, leaving it susceptible to decay, insects, and disease. Hammocking has exploded in popularity over the last few years because hammocks are now portable, lightweight, and — although somewhat pricey — worth the investment, according to many proponents. “Hammocking is like Christmas,” junior Savannah Falter said. “Imagine it. Swaying above the ground. The stars are so crazy beautiful, all bright and freckly. You’re with all your friends, and you’re too excited to sleep. It’s like Christmas Eve; that’s the best way I can describe it.” Some campuses applaud hammocking as an opportunity for students to commune and enjoy nature. Many universities — including Michigan State —have hammock clubs. In a viral video from last spring, students at Kansas State University crammed themselves into a stack of 14 hammocks stretching 30 feet high. Hillsdale is not alone in cracking down on the trend. According to The Wall Street Journal, MSU and other colleges across the United States have banned hammocking. Concerns include tree damage as well as personal safety risks. At least one university is pursuing alternative hammocking options. The University of Central Arkansas bypassed the hammock debate altogether by erecting clusters of wooden poles that can hold up to nine hammocks at a time. Senior Ben Strickland said, despite the ban, hammocking at Hillsdale will never die. “We will still hammock between the library colonnades,” he said. “I also hammocked inside the library.”

Eastern Club holds Mid-Autumn Festival for inaugural event By | David Flemming Collegian Freelancer The newly-formed Eastern Club held its first event, the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday evening in the Heritage Room. “The Mid-Autumn Festival is about the harvest, family reunion, and good fortune for the next year,” said sophomore Andrea Lee, historian of the Eastern Club. “The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the day of a harvest full moon.” A dozen students listened to Lee explain the ancient history of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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“The Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival dates back over 3,000 years to moon worshiping by Chinese emperors,” she said. The festival is connected to the circular moon. When pronounced in Chinese, round sounds similar to reunion, President of the Eastern Club sophomore Eva Tang said. “Eating mooncakes, which are round, reminds us of the importance of visiting with our family,” Tang said. Following her presentation, Lee began cutting the mooncakes she received from her

parents to share with attendees. Mooncakes are commonly packaged in ornate boxes for gift giving and come in many varieties. Those offered as samples contained lotus paste and salted-duck egg yolks. “If the Mid-Autumn Festival is the rough equivalent to an American Thanksgiving,” Tang said, “then eating moon cakes is like eating turkey.” According to Tang, a famous legend accompanies moon cakes. “In the late Yuan Dynasty, over 1,000 years ago, people in many parts of the country could not bear the cruel rule

of the government and rose in revolt,” Tang said. Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of Ming Dynasty, coordinated the resistance forces by hiding secret messages in mooncakes. Zhu was so pleased that he awarded his subjects with moon cakes on the following Mid-Autumn Festival. “Since then, eating moon cakes has been a custom on Mid-Autumn Festival,” Tang said. After the storytelling, students began playing a form of Chinese chess called “Go.” “Players use black and white stones to capture ‘terri-

tory’ on the board in order to win,” junior Josh Lee said. The idea for an Eastern Club began circulating when alumnus Jay Lee participated in an event discussing North and South Korea last March. While Lee has since moved back to South Korea, he encouraged Lee and Tang to start a club that will give Hillsdale students the chance to experience Eastern culture. “The old Eastern Club at Hillsdale College had a broader focus on Asian countries in general and disbanded in 2009 when the members graduated,” Tang said. “We are

focusing on Japan, Korea, and China because all of us are from those three countries. China, Korea, and Japan are all well represented in the student body.” The Eastern Club is already planning events for the rest of the year. “Dr. Arnn had an interest in comparing Confucius to Aristotle,” Tang said. “Dr. Somerville is working on inviting someone from the University of Michigan to talk about Confucius and someone from Hillsdale to talk about Aristotle.”

Obama apologizes for bombing hospital

Moldovian nuclear black market uncovered

Flooding continues in South Carolina

House votes to investigate Planned Parenthood

Medical marijuana regulations pass in Michigan

President Obama called the Doctors Without Borders chief on Wednesday to apologize for the accidental U.S. airstrike on a field hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan this weekend, promising to investigate the incident. The airstrike killed 19 people, including 3 children, and injured 37 others.

The Associated Press just discovered that authorities working with the FBI have intercepted four attempts in Moldova to sell radioactive material to Middle East extremists in the last five years. In February 2015, a smuggler sought out an Islamic State buyer for cesium.

Moisture from hurricane Joaquin caused severe flooding in North and South Carolina, already killing 19 people. The flooding is expected to worsen or return in South Carolina because the over-filled rivers are running toward the Atlantic Ocean and will likely flood the areas close to the coast.

In a 242 to 184 congressional vote, the House decided to create a committee to investigate Planned Parenthood. The committee will consist of 13 members, but no members nor a chair have been chosen at this time.

The Michigan House of Representatives passed three bills by large margins on Wednesday which would regulate both smoking and non-smoking medical marijuana. Marijuana would be subject to a 3 percent excise tax and 6 percent sales tax, and the government would track the plants from seed to sale.

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Kevin McCarthy is the man for the job By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Today, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have a preliminary vote to determine their candidate for Speaker. They will choose Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — as well they should. His ability to make connections in the House makes him the best candidate. Today’s vote is a preliminary conference vote to determine the candidate Republicans will field in the crucial floor vote for Speaker on Oct. 29. “That resignation of the Speaker is a stark indication of the disarray of the House Republicans,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference last Friday morning. Failures to trust and compromise on policy have created clashing factions of a majority party that now refuse to work together. McCarthy’s ability to unite a thoroughly divided Republican party will determine his success as Speaker. Since January, Republicans have held majorities in both houses of Congress. Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is almost the only key legislation to pass both houses in 2015. McCarthy’s ability to listen and unite is badly needed in the Speaker’s chair. “The roots of Boehner’s downfall were in the lack of trust that developed between him and a number of members of his own conference,” Igor Birman, chief-ofstaff for Rep. Tom McClintock, told the Collegian while he was on campus last week. The duty of the Speaker is not just to represent his own party — especially not only one sector of his party — but to act on behalf of the entire chamber. It’s a position that should bring caucuses together. “We have to sell a vision and win an argument before squabbling about particular policies,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) tweeted on Sunday evening, in a stream of comments about the role of the Speaker and party unity in Congress. McCarthy faces two challengers: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) for the Speaker’s gavel, but neither pose a serious threat: Webster garnered only 12 votes when he ran against Boehner last spring; Chaffetz, a long-shot candidate who announced his run just four days before the conference vote, is the far-right’s lame attempt to shut down perceived lukewarm conservatism without offering a better alternative. Boehner’s resignation was necessary because he failed to listen to members of his party — many of whom now back Chaffetz. But listening is McCarthy’s greatest strength. “He called me once just to say hi and I didn’t call him back because I thought he was too busy to take the call,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) told the New York Times last week. “He saw me later in the hallway and asked why I didn’t call him back. He’s just great at building coalitions.” Many conservative Republicans wanted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) run for the Speaker’s seat, but Ryan declined to run, instead endorsing McCarthy instead. “Kevin is exceptionally good at bringing people together,” Ryan wrote in a recent endorsement of McCarthy. “He doesn’t shy away from the important fights, and he knows how to win — with respect and civility that is often lacking in today’s politics... He’s also the best listener I know.” Politics is the art of compromise. If House Republicans hope to stay in office, they’re going to have to start making some. McCarthy’s been facilitating compromises in the House since 2011, when he became Majority Whip. He spent the weekend after Boehner’s resignation calling all 247 Republicans in the caucus to ask about their concerns, goals, and what they need going forward. Members of the House exist to represent their constituents, not shut down the government when they don’t get their way. It’s time for the die-hards in Congress to get a grip. McCarthy’s their man. Vivian is a senior studying politics.

This weekend, professors and faculty will reveal your grades and academic performance to the most immediately potent sovereign bodies you acknowledge: your parents. The College invites our parents to participate in the project of higher education. It was with our parents that our lives began and it is in their steps we will follow, so it is fitting that they should be a part of this, the most crucial stage of our development. By law, colleges and universities that accept federal

funding cannot discuss their students’ academic information with parents unless the student gives their consent. Hillsdale rejects the funding and embraces the discussion. Another characteristic privilege of our institution (and tribulation to its students) is the Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture series. The lectures wrench us out of the standard pace of our already-full weekdays, prevent us from attending office hours, and force us to shift work schedules around. We consume caffeine until

we can see sound, hear color, and at long last produce the final page of that annotated bibliography due… now. But at these lectures, students can listen to notable speakers from across the nation and world. Among the speakers for this week’s Winston Churchill CCA series are Robert Hardy (better known to some as Cornelius Fudge), a student of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein, well-acquainted with Churchill’s life and legacy; and Minnie Churchill, Winston’s former wife. We have the

opportunity to learn from — and, in some cases, even meet — people who have lived and made history. Deadlines press all ’round. But we came to Hillsdale because it offered us an education we could find nowhere else. The accountability of Parents Weekend, like the chaos of every CCA week, is a burden we can celebrate. So gird your loins and set a coffee mug at your right hand. Just make sure to self-govern your way into a bed at the end of it all.

Weed: fight for your rights, or party? Two Washington natives take a look at marijuana legalization By | Kara Schmidt Special to the Collegian Voters in states including Michigan and Ohio will be voting in the next couple elections whether to legalize marijuana in their states. This issue is sweeping the nation right now, beginning in 2012 with the states of Washington and Colorado. I am from Washington, and I have also had the experience of volunteering as an attorney with the Four Cities Youth Peer Court. About half the cases we heard were possession of marijuana charges for youth ages 11-17. All but two of the students charged with possession had used the drug multiple times, and I’ve seen first-hand the pain marijuana use brings to youth and to their families. Most proponents of the new legalization movement argue that youth will remain uneffected because it will still be illegal for anyone younger than 21. True, but that doesn’t mean it won’t have effects on the children. And the whole society is worse for it. To begin, some statistics on how the Colorado marijuana laws have affected the state: traffic fatalities involving marijuana have increased 100 percent, even while overall traffic fatalities have decreased. The majority of DUI arrests involve marijuana and crime in Denver has increased by 6 percent since marijuana was legalized. In Washington, about 10 percent of youth (ages 12-17) were using the drug in 2012, compared to the national rate of roughly 7 percent. Marijuanarelated exposures for children 0-5 years have increased by a full 268 percent. It hasn’t been that long since

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Colorado passed their law. Some of this data includes years when the only legal marijuana was medical marijuana. Making it a legal recreational drug has only made things worse. One of the more popular forms of recreational marijuana is edibles — unfortunately, the hardest to regulate. Marijuana cookies label the serving size as one-sixth of the cookie. But children and pets who find the cookie are not likely to eat just a sixth. (Of course not. Who eats a sixth of a cookie?) But more than this, what is the message we are sending the youth? Here at Hillsdale we often have discussions as to whether certain laws are just and how we determine what justice is. But to most people, if it is legal, it is moral. After all, the state just wouldn’t legalize something bad. We continue to tell the youth that it is bad for them to smoke marijuana. After all, it has bad effects on their brains, and it’s not good for kids to use drugs. But then they see that the culture thinks marijuana is fine — after all, it’s legal. This conflicting message is causing more and more youth to use marijuana, leading many to do more (and often more illegal) drugs. It’s time we did something about this. Drugs are harmful, no matter who uses them. And all of society is affected for the worse when marijuana becomes legal. So take a stand against this dangerous trend in our society, and vote against marijuana legalization. Kara is a sophomore studying politics.

By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor Michigan voters will have to decide next November whether they want to become the fifth state to legalize the drug. They ought to say yes. But don’t resort to ideological arguments for or against the recreational marijuana. Look at the facts. If you do, you’ll see passing such a measure would have a positive impact on your state and its economy. The recreational use of marijuana has been lawful in the state of Washington for nearly three years, and the retail sale of marijuana has been legal for just over a year. As a native of Washington, I can tell you “The Evergreen State” is certainly seeing more green. Since July of 2014, the sale of marijuana has generated over $80 million in tax revenues. Further, Washington has saved millions of dollars because law enforcement officials no longer have to arrest and prosecute low-level marijuana offenses by anyone over the age of 21. Recreational marijuana also has had no negative impact on crime in my state. The violent crime rate in Washington has actually declined in each year since the recreational use of marijuana was legalized, and is now at a 40-year low, according to FBI data. Between 2011 and 2014, Washington has also seen decreases in the murder rate and burglaries while property crime rates have remained stable. This correlation does not prove causation, but these facts seem to show that legalizing the recreational use of marijuana does not lead to a spike in crime.

According to the Washington State Healthy Youth survey, no significant trends in marijuana use by youths in the state of Washington have occurred since it was legalized. Additionally, more than 77 percent of Washingtonians believe that the marijuana law has had either a positive impact or no effect on their lives, according to Public Policy Polling. You can count me among those 77 percent. While admitting that legalizing the recreational use of marijuana can have some benefits, an opponent to recreational marijuana might still bring up the negative impact cannabis or any drug can often have on a user’s life. Yes, smoking marijuana is bad for a person’s health, but denying individual freedoms is bad for a society’s health. The positive impact legal recreational marijuana has brought to Washington is not an irregularity. Legal marijuana has brought similar economic and societal benefits to Colorado. Michigan, you have an important decision to make next fall. The choice is this: deny personal freedom by keeping marijuana illegal and spend needless dollars on filling low-level marijuana offenses, or support individual liberty by legalizing marijuana and enjoy the financial benefits it will have on your economy. Legalize recreational marijuana. Do it for fweedom. Nathanael is a junior studying mathematics.

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Voters should be wary of Carson’s lack of political experience By | Emma Vinton Assistant Editor Straw polls conducted on the Hillsdale College campus after the second Republican primary debate on Sept. 16 showed that students favor not the expected politicians, but a candidate with different experience: Ben Carson, retired pediatric neurosurgeon. Twenty-three percent of students said they would vote for Carson the next day. Rubio and Carly Fiorina followed with 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively. National polls show a similar trend. A recent NBC poll shows Carson trailing Donald Trump by only one point. But voters should be wary of Carson. He has neither the skills valued in a presidential candidate nor are his stances on issues clear. His gaping lack of political experience should concern them. Ironically, many Americans support Carson because, like Trump, he is an “outsider” and not a career politician. Many consider him personable with realistic visions rather than rehearsed stump speeches, and his practicality contrasts with the aloofness of stereotyped politicians. But voters who distrust Trump should scrutinize

Carson as well. The two are too alike. The loud one is blunt and brash, but the silent one could be just as dangerous, and his meekness now could cover for ignorance on vital issues later. Many voters became further disillusioned with Carson after hearing his perplexing stance on abortion. Though he stated that he is “unequivocally, completely, positively opposed to abortion,” he has referred women to clinics for abortions in cases of severe medical problems and performed tests on tissues of aborted babies in 1992 (although he did not have a role in procuring the tissues). In a Fox News interview, he said that he believes life begins when the heart starts beating, but reiterated later that life begins at conception. Carson has, however, supported bans on abortions and has urged legislators to back the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. Carson’s pro-life stance is now clear after growth and clarification, but the initial inconsistency and inability to vocalize views coherently is too hazy for comfort and a mark of inexperience. Carson certainly has a captivating life story, though. Raised in a poor, single-parent

home in Detroit, Carson attended Yale University, then worked as a school-bus driver and a crane operator before his acceptance to the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He began a successful career as director of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children Center, which he did for 29 years. He served on President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. He successfully separated conjoined twins, as well as revived the performance of a rare kind of brain surgery in children. The event that seemingly launched Carson’s “political” career was his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2013, where he spoke for 27 minutes on the failures of Obamacare and the current administration. Since then, support for his presidential nomination has only grown. During the first GOP debate in August, Carson responded to criticism of his political inexperience: “Experience comes from a large number of different arenas,” he said. “America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians... but with people who understood the value of personal responsibility

and hard work.” Though just a few months earlier he was unfamiliar with major political parties in Israel and suggested the Baltic States are not members of NATO, he boasted in the same debate that he was the only one on stage who had separated siamese twins. But does this qualify him for president of the United States, or is he just in the right place at the right time? If Carson can run, can anyone with varied experience, fame, and some interest in politics run? Carson told ABC News Sunday that he would give hip-hop star Kanye West, who announced intentions for a presidential run in 2020, a chance as president. “I was extremely impressed with his business acumen,” he said. For Carson, it seems this is presidential qualification. No one seriously doubts Carson’s expertise as a doctor or his competency to head a major medical division, but Americans should suspect his ability to lead a nation. He might know his way around the brain, but voters should worry that, with his nonexistent political record, he won’t know his way around the White House.

Portrait of Nicole Stenger, a pioneering artist in the field of virtual reality films. Wikimedia Commons

‘Virtual reality’ is the future of storytelling By | Tara Ung Special to the Collegian

Virtual Reality was a technology poised to transform the gaming industry. Financial analysts predicted it would be a $30 billion market within five years, dominated overwhelmingly by the gaming industry. However, it soon emerged into popular awareness as an ideal technique of all types of storytelling, including journalism. Virtual Reality, commonly Emma is a senior studying abbreviated VR, is the method of narration that brings the English. audience to meet the story halfway, allowing individuals to transition from an “audience” to “users” and the media from “scenery” to an “experience.” In journalism, it requires 360-degree spherical cameras and surround sound audio so that, when the college sophomore holding an iPad in the seclusion of her dorm room turns a half-circle because she heard something “behind” her, she sees a group of Syrian refugees — mostly children — flocked at her feet. Presumably, the kids have gathered to inspect the strange contraption housing multiple cameras and microphones that has been systematically filming their makeshift home. But to the user in her dorm room, it seems as though they’ve come to see her, just as she sees them. That particular scene comes from a short VR film entitled Clouds over Sidra, which narrates the story of Sidra, a 12-year-old girl forced from her home in the recent Syrian refugee crisis. Created by

Remember Guevara’s real legacy Tomorrow marks the day there was no more Che: Oct. 9 is the 48th anniversary of Guevara’s execution in Bolivia. In an upper-level Spanish class in my high school, we spent three class periods watching “Motorcycle Diaries,” a movie based on a young Ernesto Guevara’s trip through South America with a friend. While the movie showed his compassion for people in impoverished conditions, it didn’t show who he became afterward: Che Guevara. Found on T-shirts and even posters at the recent poster sale, Guevara’s “rockstar” facade and rebel image appeal to young people today, Humberto Fontova, author of “The Real Che Guevara,” told the Collegian. His nickname, given by Fidel and Raul Castro, is the equivalent of “bro” or “dude” in Argentina. Fontova frequently speaks at colleges and universities. “In the course of these speeches, I noticed that no one really knows that much about him, especially the people who are wearing him on a T-shirt,” Fontova said. “Some people think he’s a rockstar, and other people say, ‘Well, he’s a revolutionary.’” Guevara was actually the chief executioner and jailer for Fidel Castro’s communist regime.

“‘Some people think he’s a rockstar,’ Fontova said. But Guevara was the chief executioner and jailer for Castro’s regime.”

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“They jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s regime during the Great Terror in Russia,” Fontova said. “They murdered more political prisoners in their first three years in power than Hitler’s regime murdered in his first six years.” Guevara and the Castro regime took 1,600 lives by firing squad from men and boys during the ’60s and ’70s, Fontova said. “Guevara would take special delight in murdering political prisoners himself,” Fontova said, adding that he had a special window in his office to watch executions. “Often, he would walk out into the field and apply the coup de grâce, the final shot to the dead victims. Some of them were as young as 16 years old.” Yet, this information is being ignored while teachers have their students act out scenes from a movie that makes him out to be a hero. “It’s politically incorrect,” Fontova said. “There’s an aura of the Cuban Revolution that makes leaders appear saintly, that the Cuban Revolution was somehow different than the Russian or the Chinese. In fact, it was more repressed.”

Students hold him up as a role model, despite the fact that they would have been sent to the Military Units to Aid Production, labor camps that welcomed people with the slogan, “work will make men out of you.” “Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates,” Guevara said in 1961. “Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work, and military service. Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think of individuals. Individualism must disappear from Cuba.” While alive, Guevara’s image was associated with Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors. “They think he’s a musician, not knowing that in his regime, rock and roll fans, wanderers were jailed in mass by the 10,000s for the crimes of trying to listen to rock and roll music,” Fontova said. Che Guevara was not a hero, and when he is discussed, especially in the classroom, his atrocities need to be shared. Breana is a sophomore majoring in American Studies.

Chris Milk, in collaboration with the United Nations, the film educates the user about the Syrian refugee crisis by reporting Sidra’s story while allowing the user to explore selected scenes within the camp. The striking part of the experience is how much the user misses. While watching two boys wrestling on a mat, you — the user — cannot see the line of boys observing the match directly behind you. But you can hear them. However, to turn and look at those boys means that you have to actively turn away from the wrestling match. The element of choice is the real key to the poignancy of VR journalism. Agency lends a level of control to the user that simple visual forms of media do not allow. Despite no more control over the story itself than any other medium would give its audience, virtual reality technology requires the users to take ownership over what they see, and what they do not. VR films are still difficult to produce because of the editing challenges that shooting 360-degree footage presents. However, as the technologies become more user-friendly and the platforms broaden, VR could easily become the storyteller’s method of choice. Virtual Reality provides a personal platform to present inaccessible information. Especially when educating an audience about the more incomprehensible conflicts of the world, VR is a powerful tool. Tara is a sophomore studying politics.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, In last week’s Collegian, freshman Kolbe Conger’s letter to the editor accused our student population of using homophobic and racist slurs against members of the black and LGBT communities. Since he appealed to the Honor Code, I, as a Hillsdale College student, will be “honorable in conduct” and dutifully defend my fellow classmates against these hollow allegations. Beginning in early June, my family was barraged by the LGBT crowd with hate mail and death threats over a “sexual discrimination” accusation against my father. I stood on the front lines of the War of Acceptance and saw a movement terrorize my family for political gain. I watched as the bullies of the LGBT crowd mutilated my father’s name and character over a single newspaper article. The allegations against my father were unfounded. So, too, are Conger’s against my classmates. I know the damage of accusations, and I will not suffer the false charges of a freshman against

a student body I know well. To bolster his argument, Conger said Catholic and Protestant students “are able to effectively communicate without using slurs.” I agree they are able to effectively communicate, but he immediately reveals that he hasn’t been on campus long enough to understand it, since he hasn’t heard our most popular Christian slur: “fundie.” It describes homeschooled students who adhere to a fundamentalist Christianity. Unlike our use of racist and homosexual smears, “fundie” is a slur frequently and openly used to describe individuals on campus. Is this language — used to demean a large portion of campus — antithetical to our Honor Code? If it is, can we not also say designations like “stupid” or “public-schooled” are also antithetical to our Honor Code? If yes, then where do we stop? Conger’s accusations invite dangerous forces into the walls of our college. Such forces are powerful and may threaten the very existence of a school such as ours.

After a summer of dealing with these forces, I know the damning effects of such accusations. Show me the man who has seriously used a racial slur, and we’ll bind him in the public stocks of sensitivity, pelt him with rotten fruits of microaggressions, and blacklist him most damningly on every accessible social media outlet. But I contend that you shall find no such a man studying among you today. Our Hillsdale body will not tolerate such coarse conversation. Such actions are not our nature. Speaking as a senior, I have never encountered a racist slur nor a serious homosexual smear cast against the members of those communities. You’re attracting dangerous forces to attack an exemplary student population innocent of your charges. Remember: you signed the honor code, too, young freshman. Now grow up. Alex Buchmann, senior.

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City endorses downtown senior home project Cleveland real-estate investor plans to tear down Smokers Club and build new retirement community By | Kate Patrick City News Editor Cleveland real-estate investor Peter Jobson wants to turn Smokers Club Beer & Wine into a retirement home, and the city of Hillsdale is enabling his project to move forward by lowering the tax rate on the property and changing the property’s zoning variance. Jobson, president and CEO of Excel Realty Investors, LLC, applied for a Michigan State Housing Development Authority grant on Oct. 1 to redevelop 8 Manning Street into a low-income senior retirement home, which will be called “Center City.” If Jobson obtains the grant, current property owner Casey Suwaiz will sell it to him, and Joe Tomina, who operates the Smokers Club Beer & Wine on the property, will need to find a new location for his business by next October. The Hillsdale City Council approved a payment in lieu of taxes for the Center City project at its Sept. 28 meeting. The PILOT ordinance lowers the tax rate on the property to make Jobson’s construc-

tion project more feasible, and when the apartment complex is completed it will keep the rent at an affordable price. “The city has to commit to lowering the taxes to make the project feasible, so the tax abatement is lowered to 10 percent,” Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie told the Collegian. “Their rents are restricted to be deemed affordable. Hillsdale

town units are not allowed to have residential units on the ground floor, so the variance will allow for that,” Hillsdale Zoning Administrator Alan Beeker said. Beeker said the variance makes sense because the property is on the edge of a residential zone, and it fits with the city’s master plan. Jobson first approached

Road screen door factory — all of which are vacant — but failed to obtain purchase agreements from the owners. “They were large enough to possibly house the project but none of them were interested,” Beeker said. Suwaiz, who has been trying to sell his building for a while, arranged to sell the property after Tomina introduced him

to live in..” Jobson believes senior communities downtown will encourage seniors to stay in Hillsdale and invest in the city. Some Hillsdale residents don’t want Smokers Club to move, and fear what will happen to the business if it is no longer downtown. Hillsdale resident Natasha Crall fears losing one of her her primary

“Senior housing is something every community needs now. This offers us a first-class building for seniors to live in.” High Rise Apartments, Hilltop Apartments, and Greenwood Village Apartments are rent-restricted as well.” In order for Jobson to build Center City on the property, it must be re-zoned to “residential use only.” Because the property is currently in a different district, the Hillsdale Zoning Board of Appeals approved a zoning variance at its Sept. 30 meeting to allow Jobson to build Center City on the property. “The issue is that the down-

City of Hillsdale Director of Economic Development Mary Wolfram in April 2014 about redeveloping a vacant property in Hillsdale into a retirement home. “He mainly asked, how would Hillsdale look at this? Would they support it?” Wolfram said. “The PILOT was one of the things the city had to approve in order for the project to move forward.” Jobson considered the Midtown Building, the Keefer House, and the old Carleton

to Jobson. Jobson plans to tear down the current building at 8 Manning Street and build a two-building retirement home, because he believes senior homes are a growing need for urban communities, and senior homes in the downtown area will foster urban growth and development. “Senior housing is something every community needs now,” Jobson said. “They don’t want the upkeep. This offers a first-class building for seniors

sources for groceries if Jobson’s Center City project moves forward. “Smokers Club saves us trips to Kroger and Market House,” Crall said. “As a family, we try to be very green. Losing one more place offering convenience items is a detriment to the community. We want to keep it here in the city where it belongs.” Hillsdale resident Sandy Marshall, who lives next to the property, fears the project will diminish accessibility to her

home, especially since her husband is bedridden and sometimes requires an ambulance to take him to the hospital. “My husband is completely bedridden so when we have to go to the hospital we have to have a fire truck come and it takes up the whole street,” Marshall told the zoning board at its Sept. 30 meeting. As the Center City project continues to move forward, Jobson said he is willing to work with the community and address residents’ concerns about the project. “We can make accommodations to help her and be good neighbors,” Jobson told the zoning board. “We’d be more than happy to do that.” The Center City project will cost around $5 million, Jobson said, and is slated to begin August 2016 with a projected end date of August 2017. “Hillsdale has a unique and historic downtown, and there’s going to be a need for senior communities,” Jobson said. “It’s a great addition to downtown, and then seniors don’t move to Florida.”

College Night replaces Jazz from the Underground

Hillsdale Mixed Martial Arts center relocates

Broad Street tunes out live jazz to offer greater variety

MMA downsizes, moves across the street

By | Madeline Fry Collegian Freelancer Once a weekly venue for various student jazz combos, the Underground is dropping its Thursday night jazz in favor of a more diverse program. In place of Jazz from the Underground, the bar beneath Broad Street Downtown Market is hosting College Night, a Thursday evening program including a DJ, live bands, trivia, karaoke, and comedy. Because attendance to jazz nights had dwindled to just a handful of people last spring, the Underground is seeking more variety, general manager Kevin Kirwin said. The College Night program, which kicked off Sept. 17, will run from 7-11 p.m. on Thursday nights. Kirwin is trying to recruit student bands of all genres now that student jazz bands are no longer performing weekly, he said. During the ’14-’15 school year, the Underground’s Thurs-

day jazz nights included performances from Spencer Amaral ’14, student bands, and the McQ5. Composed of Amaral, Director of Jazz Studies Chris McCourry, junior Gianna Marchese, Sandra Pooley, and Sam Nead, the McQ5 was paid for its weekly performances. Because the Underground also lines up bands for Friday and Saturday nights, it could not continue to book the McQ5 each week, Kirwin said. However, the Underground would not be opposed to having them perform in the future. “I would listen to them any time,” Kirwin said. “They are a fantastic group.” McCourry declined to comment on the situation. Junior Danielle Adams, who performed regularly at the Underground, said the opportunity to play jazz in an informal setting offers a degree of freedom and creativity that a recital hall does not. “Jazz really blossoms with a highly engaged and involved

audience,” she said. “It was a great place for students to grow as musicians in a live and casual setting where they felt more comfortable taking risks.” Jazz from the Underground was so unique that professors at other Michigan schools had heard about it, she said. “The student aspect of the program was known statewide for its innovation and the fact that it offered so much opportunity to give real world experience to students.” Nevertheless, the Underground’s customers were interested in more variety, Kirwin said. This summer, the Underground featured DJs and local bands and hosted a multi-week Battle of the Bands. College Nights have maintained variety with a performance from student band The St. Joe Trio on Sept. 24 and a lip sync battle the following week. The entry cost for those 18 or older is $2, but students 21 and up can attend College Nights for free.

By | Jessica Hurley Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale Fitness and MMA Center downtown moved from 54 N. Howell St. across the street to 63 N. Howell St. after owner Steven Gossett decided the original location was too large. The 54 N. Howell St. location was “just a temporary solution,” Gossett said. “We were looking when we first started for a small building,” Gossett said. “We really didn’t want a huge building to begin with, and the location we were in just seemed a little too big for us.” The Mixed Martial Arts center is not a normal gym with a weight room, but also hosts self-defense classes and provides a space for MMA fighters

to train. “We were getting our gym confused with an actual workout facility,” Gossett said. “Now

when you walk in you see the MMA mats and all the MMA gear. That’s what we wanted to begin with.”

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Mackie wants city to be ‘more progressive’ City Manager David Mackie discusses his plans and goals for the city of Hillsdale By | Evan Carter Web Editor Three months into his contract, Hillsdale City Manager David Mackie is bringing an attitude shift to Hillsdale’s city government. Mackie is already building a closer relationship between his office and Hillsdale College as well as making important updates to the city’s municipal airport. “You will see an attitude shift during my tenure: being progressive, but maintaining Hillsdale’s history,” Mackie said. Mackie was introduced to Hillsdale’s Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé before he was even hired as city manager. Now that he’s hired, Mackie

wants to work closely with the college to accomplish projects. “Just to have somebody there full time who knows how to do things is

by replacing the road signs leading to the college with signs that not only highlight historic Hillsdale, but also Hillsdale College. Péwé said he likes

he’s interested in the college being a part of that.” Another area of focus for Mackie the airport. As part of an effort to take the airport in a new direction,

seven years it has invested almost $8 million — which includes federal and state funds — into the airport. These funds paid for things like land expansion, runway

“You will see an attitude shift during my tenure: being more progressive, but maintaining Hillsdale’s history.” great,” said Hillsdale City Councilman Brian Watkins. “As the college does well, the city does well,” Mackie said. “I suspect that Rich Péwé and I will be working together very closely in years to come.” One of the ways Mackie hopes to bridge the community and college is

working with someone who “won’t leave the college out of the picture.” “He comes from a development background so he really gets that you need to have standard when it comes to things like parking lots,” Pewe said. “Mackie seems like someone interested in community development,

he recently decided to let go airport manager James Scheibner and his company, Hillsdale Aero. Mackie wants the airport to accommodate larger and more sophisticated aircraft. Mackie said the city invests about $100,000 to $150,000 a year into the airport and over the last

improvements, taxiways, and entrances. Péwé supports the changes at the airport because they will benefit the college. “Obviously it’s a benefit to use to have a small airport for trustees to fly in and out, and for us to bring donors in,” Péwé said. “We do have some people that want to live

here: they fly recreationally, they fly for business.” With a fresh perspective and his experience, Mackie believes he can help Hillsdale become more attractive for homeowners as well as businesses. “I have a philosophy to go by for communities,” Mackie said. “You either demonstrate that you’re open for business and willing to work with developers and local business owners to grow or expand or come to your community. Or, you make things difficult and they go some place else.”

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Local pilots: letting airport manager go was a ‘big mistake’ By |Thomas Novelly Assistant Editor Pilots and administrators in Hillsdale’s aviation community flocked to the Hillsdale City Council meeting Monday to share their opposition to its recent decision to fire Hillsdale Municipal Airport Manager James Scheibner. Despite Scheibner’s contract expiring more than a year ago, he continued serving as airport manager and receiving his salary until council voted to terminate him Sept. 30. Scheibner has been involved with the airport for more than 45 years — 20 of which were spent under contract as the airport manager. Thomas Heerlyn, a Delta Airlines pilot and Scheibner’s longtime friend, traveled

from Jackson to Hillsdale on Monday to attest to Scheibner’s work ethic. “I’m here on my own accord, he didn’t ask me to be here,” Heerlyn told the council. “He performed well in a time that has been considered one of the worst times in aviation history. He’s been successful at keeping the airport afloat when the city struggled to fill a pothole. What we see out of James is someone who has always been dependable for 20 years, there’s never been a problem that he hasn’t already stopped first.” The outpouring of support during the meeting’s public comment brought Scheibner to tears, and he publicly thanked those who had helped him at the airport. “It’s been a privilege

and an honor to serve this community, after Tuesday the outpouring of support from family and friends has been truly humbling,” Scheibner said. “I put my heart and soul into that airport. I think

the council and City Manager David Mackie discussed the issue at length before deciding to terminate him. “James, that airport out there will always be your legacy,” Stockford said. “I know it is

“We don’t know both sides of the story. They’re afraid to bring the facts forward.” history will show, when the dust settles, my track record of success a little differently than what has been said.” Councilman Adam Stockford thanked Scheibner for his commitment to the community, but he said that

traumatic and disappointing when a long-term employee is let go, especially when they are a good and kind man like you are. But I want the public to know that this was not a spurof-the-moment firing, this was a long, drawn-out, deliberate

process. It was the city manager’s responsibility, and we need to support him. He didn’t come to this conclusion by the flip of a coin, he lost sleep over it.” Thomas Spratt, a frequent recreational pilot at the airport, said he was upset how the city handled Scheibner’s termination. “James Scheibner is the man who taught me how to fly, and I’ve been flying for 22 years now,” Spratt said. “I think the city has done a very wrong injustice.” Councilman Bruce Sharp said the council and Mackie considered all aspects of the issue before deciding to terminate Scheibner. “It wasn’t an ambush; we were informed,” Sharp said. “There are two sides to every

story, and we know both sides of the story. We aren’t here to discuss it, I don’t like seeing anybody lose their job. We hired the city manager to clean up messes and move forward, I put my faith in the city manager because I helped hire him.” Mackie will oversee the operations at the airport until an interim manager is hired. Heerlyn said the council should have provided a reason for its decision to let Scheibner go. “We don’t know both sides of the story,” Heerlyn said. “They’re afraid to bring the facts forward. No one wants to publicly state the reason because they know it won’t hold water. They made a big mistake letting James go.”

City lacks candidates for upcoming council elections By |Vivian Hughbanks News Editor

The map shows a breakdown of the four wards in the city of Hillsdale. No candidates from Ward II are currently registered to run for Hillsdale City Council. City of Hillsdale | Courtesy

Hillsdale City Council elections are fast approaching and an Oct. 23 registration deadline looming, no candidates are registered to represent Ward II. Barring a change in the city charter, and unless a resident of Ward II decides to run, the district will be unrepresented on the council beginning in November. “With the vacancy that sits now, Ward II is already underrepresented,” Hillsdale City Clerk Michelle Loren told the Collegian. Since Councilman Tim Wells moved out of Ward II and resigned his office in May, Ward II has had one vacant seat on the council. The city attempted to fill the seat, but without success. “We were going to have a special election, but we couldn’t get anyone to run — no one showed any interest in being a candidate,” said Mayor Scott Sessions. Councilwoman Sally Kinney, who has represented Ward II since 2007, is not permitted to run for re-election due to term limits imposed by the city charter, although she said she would be willing to run again. “It’s pretty much up in the air depending on who runs as a write-in candidate,” Ses-

sions said. “Sally Kinney can’t run because this is her second term.” As of yet, the council hasn’t discussed altering the charter to allow Kinney to run again. “Going forward, if someone wanted to put it on the agenda, the council would have to discuss,” Sessions said. “There would have to be a charter change, and a charter change

“We’ve never had this problem before. We only have one name on four ballots. It’s pretty sad.” always requires a vote from the city.” Five seats will be open in the upcoming election: Sally Kinney, councilwoman from Ward II, and Mary Beth Bail, councilwoman for Ward IV, are term limited out of office; Councilman Brian Watkins of Ward I has chosen not to run for re-election, and one Ward II seat on the council is already vacant. Councilman Bruce Sharp of Ward III has already filed for reelection. “We don’t have huge attendance at council meetings,”

Loren said. “The community seems to be aware of the problem, but so far no one has stepped up to serve.” Though five seats are available, only one name will appear on the ballots. Councilman Bruce Sharp, running for re-election to Ward III, was the only candidate for city council to register before the ballot deadline. Others have since registered with the clerk’s office to be write-in candidates, but Ward II still lacks even a write-in candidate. “I do hope someone represents Ward ll,” Councilwoman Sally Kinney told the Collegian. The city has not had a problem filling council seats until this year. “We’ve never had this problem before,” Loren said. “We only have one name on four ballots. It’s pretty sad.” Councilmembers Adam Stockford, Emily Davis, Patrick Flannery will remain on as Council members, since their terms don’t end until 2017. “You’ve just got seven councilmember votes,” Loren said, pointing out that the Mayor’s vote is usually a tie-breaker when all four wards are fully represented. “It’s a detriment.”

Hillsdale: one of Michigan’s ‘safest cities’ By | Anna Timmis Collegian Freelancer Hillsdale is one of Michigan’s safest cities, according to a recent Munetrix study. This is based on data collected by the municipal metrics firm for a 2014 study determining Michigan’s 15 Safest Cities. It rated Michigan cities by “crime per capita,” including Part I and Part II crimes. Hillsdale was not included in the study. Munetrix only rated cities with a population of over 50,000, the safest being Rochester Hills, with a 2.47 percent crime rate The least safe, Clinton, with 6.47 percent. According to the same system Hillsdale ranks at 3.34 percent, putting Hillsdale with the top five safest cities. “Usually crime statistics are discussed in the context of Part I crimes: murders and rapes. Munetrix wanted to see what all crime statistics reflected when measured on a per-capita basis,” Munetrix

President Bob Kittle said in a Sept. 4 press release. “Any discussion on crime is sensitive to communities. The new Munetrix list offers an alternative way for citizens and municipal leaders to use data in prioritizing their public safety goal and budgets.” Part II crimes include ag-

“One of the big problems we’re seeing in Hillsdale is an increase in drug crime.” gravated assault, public disorder, and drug and alcohol offenses. While Hillsdale is statistically safe, Hillsdale County Sheriff Stan Burchardt said there is a rise in drug crime.

“One of the big problems we’re seeing is an increase in big drugs,” Burchardt said. “It seems like meth and marijuana are making their way into Hillsdale, that and identity theft.” Officer Ryan Tracy, who served in Benton Harbor, Michigan, before joining the City of Hillsdale Police Department, said that Hillsdale, a smaller close-knit community, has less violent crime. “Hillsdale is a safer city. The structures of the departments are different, and when I say structure, I mean the way you do your work,” Tracy said. “Hillsdale is a community-based department. In Benton harbor you see more murders, drugs, armed robberies. In both cities you still show compassion, build relationships and trust. But we’re a tight-knit community here, it’s different from a bigger industrial city. Community policing involves building trust and being neighbors.”

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South Division 1. Ashland 2. Tiffin 3. Ohio Dominican 4. Findlay 5. Lake Erie 6. Malone Walsh

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5-Emily Oren-17:07.03

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21-Kristina Galat-17:20.84

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Greater Louisville Classic 62-Hannah McIntrye-17:49.12 vs. Michigan Intercollegiates Gold Division 83-Molly Oren-18:00.06 9th of 30 overall

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SatURDay, oct. 3 Hillsdale-7 at Lake Superior St.-2 SUnDay, oct. 4 Hillsdale-9 Michigan Tech-0

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Equestrian team performs well at first show of the year All nine team members place at two-day show in Chelsea By | Emma Vinton Assistant Editor Michigan autumn days are perfect for horseback riding. “We leave early in the morning and get to the stable when it is still crisp. We see the horses in the pasture. It gives you a whole nother dimension to your life at college that is privileged,” said junior Lillian Quinones, president of the Hillsdale College Equestrian Club. The Equestrian Club participated in its first two-day show in Chelsea, Michigan last weekend. The team competes against regional schools such as Albion and Adrian Colleges, Ferris State, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and others. Despite the colder weather,

Members of Hillsdale’s equestrian team pose for a photo after the team’s show last weekend in Chelsea, Michigan. Lillian Quinones | Courtesy

rain, and wind, team secretary junior Gianna Marchese was pleased with how the team performed. Nine team members competed, and each one placed. “One rider brought back a blue ribbon and there were a few thirds and fourths as well,” she said. Marchese earned the blue ribbon and “pointed up” to the next level, Beginning Walk Trot Canter.

The team practices at their head coach Danielle Cole’s barn, the Premier Equestrian Center LLC in Hudson, Michigan. Seven new members, five of whom are freshmen, joined the team this year. Most are English-style riders, but two ride Western. The team shows in both events at varying levels from beginning to advanced. They will compete in their

next show on Oct. 11. Quinones, who rides English style, described the challenges that come at the show. Before the round, the rider will pull a horse’s name out of a bucket, and that is the horse that the rider must use. “It can be a horse’s name on a popsicle stick, or even on a rubber ducky,” she said. Co-president junior Danielle Ciarelli said that riding

Golf places 8th at Kyle Ryman Memorial Chargers endure difficult weather on Saturday By | Christy Allen Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale College golf team spent the weekend playing in the Kyle Ryman Memorial tournament, hosted by Tiffin University on Oct. 3-4. Freshman Andy Grayson led the team through the weather on day one, carding an 80, and on day two, sophomore John Burke went low for the team with a career-best round of 75. Freshman Andrew Berryhill scored a 166, and sophomore team captains Steve Sartores and Joe Torres both shot tournament scores of 164. Sophomores Ben Meola and John Duffy shot 162 and 167, respectively. Senior Patrick Nalepa finished with a 176. Meola, Duffy and Nalepa represented the Chargers as individual players in the tournament.

The Chargers placed 8th overall with a team score of 641, just one shot behind Saginaw Valley State. Posting a sub-600 score of 595, Tiffin University won the tournament. The Chargers battled against difficult weather throughout Saturday’s round. “It was about 50 degrees and windy and rainy,” head coach Nathan Gilchrist said. “But we have to be mentally tougher, because everyone’s weather was the same.” Grayson explained how the rain affects play. “The ball wasn’t going as far as you’re used to, so you had to adjust and hit it solid,” he said. Grayson found the wind to be worse than the rain, however. “On a 200-yard par three, I had to hit a 230-yard shot to get it to the green,” he said. Conditions on the second day were perfect to play the park course. “The course had small and fast greens, so short game was definitely important,” Burke said. “That helped me because my strength is putting.”

Charger golfers walk the fairway during a practice round two weeks ago. John Quint | Courtesy

The Chargers have a twoweek break before they head to Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 25 for the Trevecca Nazarene tournament, their last tournament of the season. “Over the next two weeks we will have some qualifying rounds to establish the lineup for the next tournament and get back to practicing the fundamentals. That will help us to be more consistent on the golf course in terms of performance,” Gilchrist said. Grayson said he will be spending that time focusing

on his wedges. “That’s where the team needs to get better,” he said. “We struggled a bit in this tournament,” Gilchrist said. “But all of our players are getting better and we’ve established a competitive culture, which helps everyone.” Grayson finds this to be true of collegiate golf in general. “Everyone you play with is going to be good. It is challenging, but that motivates you to pick up your game.”

on an unknown horse allows judges to evaluate on the position and skill of the rider alone. “You don’t get to practice on them, you don’t get to do anything,” she said. “You are not even allowed to adjust anything, your teammates have to.” Quinones said that the rider may only touch the reins when they enter the arena. “That can be stressful, because you can’t totally deny that there is a living being under you, and that the horse is a better or worse partner in the ring,” she said. The goal of each rider is to place in the events and to “point up:” riders earn 1-6 points for each ride, and can point up, or advance to the next skill level, after 36 points. Quinones said that, to point up during the season and qualify for regionals, riders need to place high in nearly every ride. “It’s hard to point out during the season,” she said. The challenges of the semester include finances and acclimating the new riders.

The Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, which is the body of college riders, charges an extra fee if the rider does not provide their own horse. Other fees include the annual club fee, travel and hotel expenses, as well as gear. “Its very exciting that we have all these fresh riders, we want that,” Quinones said. “But it is expected that it will take some time to adjust.” Marchese said that they are also working toward both team and individual rider growth this season. “As a team, the goal is to encourage your teammates to make the best of their ride no matter what and to always rejoice in their ride regardless of the ribbon they get,” she said. Quinones said she hopes to point up and advance to the next level individually, and that her team members might advance to regionals. Ciarelli said that since last year, even the beginner riders have advanced. “Everyone helps each other,” she said. “It’s a small enough team that it is not competitive within the team.”

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tween high school and college baseball. “I was nervous at first until I got into the game, and had my first at bat. Then it was back to playing baseball,” Monson said. “The biggest difference is the speed of play. Everyone is bigger, faster, stronger, and it is all about learning to transition into that type of baseball.” The last event of note for the Chargers this fall is their annual Halloween game, during which the team will scrimmage while in full costume. The game will be played on Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. at Simpson Field. After the game, the Chargers will shift into offseason mode, during which they will focus on strength and conditioning. “Lifting will be a main focus for all of us in the winter,” Monson said. “We all want to get our bodies in the best shape they can be in to compete come spring.”

Baseball wraps up fall season

The unmistakable sounds of a baseball game came from Simpson field for the first time since spring this past weekend. The Chargers wrapped up their fall season on Saturday, which consisted of exhibitions against Siena and Albion. While the games lasted upwards of 15 innings, and no official statistics were kept, head coach Eric Theisen stressed the importance of these games, especially for the freshmen on the squad. “Right now we are just trying to get some of our younger guys experience,” Thiesen said. “We have had intrasquad games, but when you get somebody in a different uniform on the field, the nerves start to flow. These games helped to shake some of those of those things out.” Freshman infielder Kevin Monson noted these nerves and also the difference be-

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Mistakes halt Chargers in second consecutive blowout loss Chargers fall to Grand Valley 46-14 in GLIAC play By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor For the second straight week, the Hillsdale College football team saw a close game at the half turn into a blowout. Behind 25 unanswered points in the second half, the Grand Valley State Lakers routed the Hillsdale Chargers 46-14 in front of 12,552 fans at Lubbers Stadium on Grand Valley’s homecoming night. With 42 seconds remaining in the first half and the Chargers down 21-7, sophomore defensive back Spencer Nehls returned an interception 55 yards to the Grand Valley 1-yard line, and senior quarterback CJ Mifsud took it in himself on the next play to cut Hillsdale’s deficit to just a touchdown entering the break. But the Lakers found the end zone on a long touchdown drive to begin the third quarter, and then recorded a safety after a long snap sailed over the head of junior Steven Mette who was on to punt with 8:25 remaining in the third quarter. The Chargers couldn’t recover. “We were doing some re-

Senior quarterback CJ Mifsud surveys the defense before going under center in a game on Sept. 26. Mifsud recorded a touchdown through the air and on the ground on Saturday night at Grand Valley. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

ally good things in the first half, grinding it out. The interception was a big momentum swing,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “But then you have the halftime break so you’ve got to come out and recapture that energy, and it didn’t work out.” The loss drops the Chargers to 1-4 on the season and 1-3 in the GLIAC. With the sea-

son nearing the half-way point and his team mired in a threegame losing streak, Otterbein implied that he is considering some personnel changes. “We’re working on things,” Otterbein said. “We’ve got to schematically put together the best plan we can and find the best players to execute that plan.” Two Chargers made their

collegiate debuts on Saturday. Freshman Austin Sandusky started at cornerback, while redshirt freshman quarterback Chance Stewart came into the contest at the end of the third quarter and finished the game for Hillsdale. Stewart completed two of his seven passes for 16 yards, and had a 7-yard rush. “It felt great to take my first

steps as a collegiate athlete,” Stewart said. “I’m still a far ways away from where I want to be as a quarterback, but it was an okay first step.” “He handled it really well and he had some really nice throws,” senior left guard Justice Karmie said. “He did a really great job and whatever the situation is going into next week, whether it’s Chance get-

ting some playing time or CJ, we are completely confident in both of those guys so we’ll feel good about whoever is in there.” Hillsdale’s toughest stretch of the season continues this Saturday at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium at 2:30 p.m against the Ohio Dominican Panthers, who are 3-2 this season and made the playoffs last year. “They’re very disciplined, but they absolutely fly around as much as anybody we play,” Otterbein said. “Pick your poison, they’re good across the board.” With another big opponent looming, the Chargers are looking inward. “The last two opponents we’ve had are both playoff-caliber football teams. We’ve got another playoff-caliber football team this week, so it’s a big challenge but we’ve got to worry about ourselves,” Otterbein said. “The focus in practice is working on the fundamentals that will allow us to play at a higher level.” Karmie said the Chargers “embrace” the underdog role. “We need to do a better job of competing from that role but we’re excited. We love the opportunity to go play against a team that’s supposed to wipe the floor with us,” Karmie said. “It’s a huge opportunity for us to go prove ourselves which we haven’t done to this point in the season.”

Experienced swim team ready to dive into season Chargers look to improve on last season’s sixthplace finish By | Kat Torres Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College swim team geared up for its first scrimmage at Jack McAvoy Natatorium on Saturday to prepare for the start of the 2015-2016 season. The Blue and White scrimmage was a chance for the team to put themselves in a competitive atmosphere to get an indication of where they are before their first dual meet against Albion College on Oct. 9. “It’s a chance to get people in the pool and see what point we are at in our training, and then also see what the freshmen’s times are,” head coach

Kurt Kirner said. “The Blue and White scrimmage is an atmosphere where we can have some fun and give the girls opportunities to compete against each other without having to worry about beating someone from another team. I think it takes the pressure and edge off.” Kirner was encouraged by the results of the scrimmage. “I think we are ahead of last year. Overall, it seems every year we break records. I think this year we will definitely have the opportunity to do that again,” Kirner said. The seven-deep senior class is expected to carry the team through the long season ahead, which finishes in March at the NCAA Division II National Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana. “The senior class really focuses on creating an encouraging and fun atmosphere. I think that the scrimmage showed how positive our team is and how we can use that

positivity to take us to the next level this year,” senior captain Zoe Hopkins said. The Blue and White meet enabled the team to get into the ‘meet mindset’, and with the seniors’ experience behind them, the Chargers are able to see the progress they have made and where the freshman class can take the team this year. “I really feel that this freshman class is strong and I’m excited to see how our team will improve over the year,” senior Alissa Jones said. As a result of the graduation of All-American Rachel Kurtz, the team has gaps to fill in different events. The relays that require short distance swimmers will feel the loss of Kurtz the most, but the freshmen have promising futures. “The five freshman that we brought in are actually from all over the globe. We have one from Iceland, Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, and Georgia. All of them certainly could be

on that record board,” Kirner said. Last year, the Chargers finished sixth in the GLIAC, but dominated in dual meet competition, finishing with a record of 10-4. This year, hard work in and out of the pool is the sole factor that Kirner believes will create improvement that will ultimately lead to a successful record at the end of the season. “I’m looking for a winning record. I’d like to move up from sixth place,” Kirner said, “But we aren’t thinking about that — we are thinking about what we can control. And that’s making the team better and breaking team records. That means that there is improvement,” The Chargers’ first meet of the season is at home tomorrow against Albion College at 5 p.m. Senior captain Zoe Hopkins backstrokes in the Blue and White scrimmage on Saturday. Kat Torres | Collegian

Women’s tennis clinches spot in GLIAC tournament Chargers sweep weekend, Hyman named Player of the Week By | Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter The Hillsdale College women’s tennis team won two crucial road matches this weekend, putting their season record at 5-3 and securing their spot in the fast approaching GLIAC tournament. “These matches were really important for us to gain confidence for the rest of our season,” head coach Nikki Walbright said. On Friday afternoon, the team drove five hours north to Lake Superior State University in order to prepare for their match on Saturday. Sweeping the doubles courts and making a strong showing in singles, the women finished the day with a 7-2 win over the Lakers. Senior Sydney Delp and freshman Julia Formentin teamed up for a close 9-7 win at No. 1 doubles. Senior Lindsay Peirce and freshman Halle Hyman cruised to an 8-2 victory at No. 2 doubles, and at No. 3 doubles freshman Corinne Prost and junior Dana Grace Buck captured an 8-5 win. Delp, Hyman, Formentin, and freshman Madeline Bissett each contributed a win in singles. After driving yet another

Freshman Halle Hyman was named GLIAC Player of the Week after her 4-0 weekend, including two wins at No. 1 singles. Brendan Miller | Collegian

five hours, the Chargers arrived in Houghton, Michigan to face Michigan Tech on Sunday. After hard-fought matches, the Chargers rose victorious, sweeping both singles and

doubles to rout the Huskies 9-0. Doubles dominated the courts on Sunday. At No. 1 doubles, Delp and Formentin partnered again to win their second match of the weekend

8-3. At No. 2 doubles, Hyman and Peirce also remained a pair and won again 8-5. The last pair, Buck and junior Corinne Prost, defeated their opponents 8-3, to make a clean doubles sweep.

The success continued on the singles courts. In all six singles matches played, every Charger finished her match in straight sets. In addition, Hyman was named GLIAC Player of the

Week after her 4-0 performance over the weekend. Sunday marked Hillsdale’s first 9-0 win in conference play since October 12, 2013. “They were two really competitive matches. We had good results, but all the girls had to work really hard,” Walbright said. “They weren’t just easy wins… but the girls came to play, and I was very proud of them.” Overall, the team spent nearly 20 hours on the road this past weekend. “We were travelling so it added another tough element, but the girls stayed really focused,” Walbright said. “It was just a great opportunity for all of them to play their best tennis, and they did.” While dedicating entire weekends to tennis can be tough academically, physically, and mentally, Hyman said she enjoyed spending time with the team. “It was a really long trip, but I think it was a really good team bonding,” Hyman said. “We had fun and a really good time.” With three remaining conference matches, the team now looks to continue winning matches in order to improve their seed heading into the GLIAC tournament. “We are focusing on doing our best to get the best seed we can in the GLIAC tournament,” Peirce said. “We know we have a great opportunity to beat these teams and we want to take advantage of it.” The team now looks forward to facing Northwood University and Saginaw Valley this coming weekend on the road.

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Men’s and women’s cross-country make strides in Louisville Women keep No. 1 ranking in Division II with weekend performance By | Evan Carter Web Editor Things are continuing to look up for the women’s cross-country team as the Chargers retained their No. 1 ranking in this week’s NCAA Division II National Coaches’ poll. The team had another solid performance at the Greater Louisville Classic, battling through sickness to place ninth in the gold race and first among Division II teams. Senior Emily Oren led the women with a commanding performance placing fifth in the 5K race, while senior Kristina Galat came in 21st. Oren was named the USTFCCCA National Runner of the Week for her efforts. “Kristina and Emily ran really, really well up front in a race loaded with All-Americans as well as NCAA and USA Championship qualifiers,” head distance coach Joe Lynn said. Galat was happy with her race in which she set a personal record and placed well, but she knows that she has more to offer. Lynn also said he was

pleased with the performances of the ladies completing his top five. He highlighted sophomore Hannah McIntyre and freshman Allysen Eads for having big performances. While the Chargers’ topfive runners had strong races, a number of women had to fight through sickness and colds. Lynn called the race a “mixed bag,” but didn’t make any excuses for the girls who were sick. “Given the circumstances of any given race, we need to be ready to go,” Lynn said. “There’s no do-overs. We need to be ready mentally and physically to handle whatever is thrown our way because chances are, not everything will be perfect in each of our last three races.” After overcoming numerous challenges at the meet, the women still managed to shrink the gap between their No. 1 and No. 7 finishers by over 10 seconds. “Overall, I think everyone raced really tough, and things aren’t going to be like that at the end of the season,” Galat said referring to the team’s illnesses. The men also made strides at the meet with junior Joe Newcomb grabbing 12th place in the 8K race and sophomore Tony Wondaal finishing in 26th. The men’s team placed third overall in the blue race. Junior Luke Daigneault had his best race of the sea-

son going from last on the team at the Spartan Invitational to fourth on the team at Louisville. “Our strength and aggressiveness across the board was much improved from Spartan Invite,” Lynn said. He also called the race a “mental breakthrough” for Newcomb and Wondaal. Newcomb ran his personal best 8K time while Wondaal was just off his best. Newcomb was happy with the strides he made at the meet. Lynn said that the whole team has been “getting better each day and each race.” Newcomb noticed his teammates’ progress as well. “Overall as a team it was 10 times better than Spartan,” he said. The men’s team cut the gap between their No. 1 and No. 7 finishers by over 20 seconds from the Spartan invite. Freshman Miles Garn, who improved his 8K time by over a minute from his race at the Spartan, was happy with how he has been adjusting to the longer racing distance. “I think I can work on getting out quick in the beginning of the race,” he said. “For the most part I just felt more prepared.” This Friday the teams will run their final meets of the regular season at Hayden Park starting at 4 p.m.

Senior Emily Oren (left) was named USTFCCCA National Runner of the Week on Monday after her 5thplace finish at the Greater Louisville Classic. Senior Kristina Galat (right) finished 21st. Dawn Oren | Courtesy

Volleyball wins first two home matches of the season, remains in first place Chargers have won 10 of last 11 matches, now 12-2 on the season By | Jessie Fox Assistant Editor The Hillsdale College volleyball team re-energized its game in the Dawn Tibbetts Potter Arena as the Chargers won their first two home matches of the season this weekend. On Friday, the Chargers defeated the Northern Michigan Wildcats 3-1 then capped off their perfect weekend with a 3-0 victory over the Michigan Tech Huskies on Saturday. The winning weekend elevates the Chargers to a 6-1 GLIAC record and a 12-2 record overall. After four consecutive weeks on the road, the Chargers were more than happy to be welcomed home. “There’s a comfort level at home that you don’t get anywhere else,” head coach Chris Gravel said. “We have so many upperclassmen so it was nearly a seamless transition.” Senior middle hitter Emily Wolfert said that the team’s energy was at a new high as the Chargers took the court on Friday. “We had a lot of good energy which definitely helped us,” Wolfert said. “We maybe let it get the best of us when we dropped a set, but I think we came out with a lot of good energy and I personally love that because it keeps me focused and gets me fired up. I think a lot of people were feeling that.” The Chargers’ widespread enthusiasm was reflected by the number of players who succeeded offensively on Friday night. Four Chargers recorded at least nine kills against the Wildcats. Wolfert and fellow middle hitter junior Erin Holsinger each smashed 10 kills while

Senior Jordan Denmark digs as senior Emily Wolfert (left) and junior Kyra Rodi (middle) prepare to hit and senior Jenalle Beaman looks on. Carsten Stann | Collegian

freshman outside hitters Paige VanderWall and Kara Vyletel each had nine kills. Wolfert also slammed seven blocks. “I thought our middle play was outstanding,” Gravel said. “Both Emily and Erin have really been applying what we’ve been working on in practice, and it really showed this weekend. That’s something we’re looking forward to continuing and improving upon, because no one was perfect this weekend for sure, but I thought our middle play was pretty tough.” The Chargers grabbed a 25-18 win over the Wildcats in the first set, but fell behind in both the second and third sets. Faced with a 15-20 deficit in set two, the Chargers embarked on a 10-3 run to grab the win. In set three, Hillsdale fell into a similar hole but was unable to come back and finish the match in straight sets. Gravel said that the tendency to fall behind comes when his team feels too comfortable. “It is natural to feel com-

fortable if you’ve done a lot of the work, but there’s just no room for that,” he said. “The instinct to relax a little bit has to be overcome and it’s not easy to do, it’s easy to say, but it’s not easy to do. So we continue to work on that.” On Saturday, the Chargers buckled down to sweep the Michigan Tech Huskies in straight sets. “This weekend we finally were able to get a pretty good team in three sets and that was big for us,” senior co-captain setter Marissa Owen said. “I think that definitely shows big improvement in our mental game, even if we had a come-from-behind victory in the third set it showed that we were tough, and that we decided that we wanted it in three, that we weren’t going to go to four.” Again, Hillsdale’s offense was a team effort as three Chargers spiked 10 or more kills. VanderWall led the offensive effort with 11 kills and Holsinger and Vyletel each recorded 10.

Wolfert said her favorite part of the weekend was seeing different teammates step up throughout the matches as so many players wanted to hit the ball. “It’s funny being in the front row because there’s one rotation where Haylee and I stand next to each other and Haylee turns to Marissa and says, ‘Set me the ball,’ and then I turn to Marissa and say, ‘Set me the ball,’” Wolfert

said. “It’s cool because we’re all demanding the ball, and maybe that’s a little hard for the setter, but I also think it makes her job easier.” Owen said she loves feeling like her hitters want to put the ball down every play. “We talk about having to make the play versus wanting to make the play,” Owen said. “We want to make that difference really clear in our heads. It’s such a big difference in

your physiology too. It’s cool to know that your hitters are there mentally and want that.” This weekend the Chargers will stay home again to host Wayne State (3-4) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saginaw Valley (5-2) on Saturday at 12 p.m. Saginaw Valley was ranked 25th in the most recent National Volleyball Coaches Association poll. “They’re both supposed to be good this year,” Owen said. “They’re always pretty consistent with their talent. Saginaw is a tall team, and Wayne State is very powerful with a lot of big girls who can hit the ball hard.” Gravel said he saw improvements from Tuesday to Friday after the team’s first dropped matched against Findlay. He said he wants those improvements to continue growing this week. “A big focus after Findlay was serve and pass, that sounds the most basic but it really is going to be an area of focus,” Gravel said. “We’ll try to evolve into a couple other things offensively, but the primary focus is going to be the serve and pass.” Wolfert said she is excited to prepare for and play these challenging matches. “They’re going to put up a really good fight for us, as they have in the past. We’re not expecting anything less,” she said. “But we’re excited because we love really good games like that. We like those tough competitive matches that really test our limits.”

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Tower Players Produce ‘TwelfTh NighT’

The Tower Players perform Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” set in 18th-century Bermuda, from Wednesday to Sunday this week. Elena Creed | Collegian

By | Sarah Chavey

Collegian Reporter Thunder cracks through the darkened Markel Auditorium as a ship looms across the stage, marking the beginning of the Tower Players’ production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” which opened last night in the Sage Center for the Arts. The play’s opening scene is a shipwreck off the coast of 18th-century Bermuda. As the storm subsides onstage, the play’s heroine Viola, played by junior Grace Link, finds herself lost in a strange land, believing her twin brother Sebastian, played by sophomore Quentin Herman, has perished in the wreck. But despite its sinister beginning, Shakespeare’s beloved play is a comedy. Viola soon dresses as a man and goes to work for Orsino, a man infatuated with a woman named Olivia. While dressed as a man, Viola unwittingly causes Olivia to fall in love with her, and the three are left in a hopeless — and hilarious — love triangle.

Director Professor of Theatre George Angell chose to set the play in Bermuda, noting that it made a good location for a play that begins with a shipwreck. According to the actors, his laid-back directing style has allowed the actors plenty of freedom to improvise, an attribute that many of them said they appreciate. “At this point, they really own the characters,” Angell said. “They’re coming up with ideas all the time and continuing to try them out. Coffey comes up with things every night, which is good. Sometimes I have to say ‘that doesn’t work,’ and other times I can say ‘that was great, keep that.’” “I love George. I love his attitude, he’s so chill,” junior Elly Guensche, who plays Antonia, said. “He’s a really smart director but he gives actors a lot of freedom at the same time, which I think is really nice.” The downside of this approach are the dud attempts — the times when the actors improvise without success and Angell has to mention these instances to actors in their

notes. The reward, however, is an energetic, lively, thoughtful cast that always considers ways to improve. Link said she was intimidated when she first started practicing for the role. “I’m pretty intimidated because it’s a big role,” she said. “I’ve never had a huge role while in college.” But Link’s natural performance is sure to dazzle. Her facial expressions create a stage presence which draws all eyes to her. As she assures Olivia she cannot love “another woman,” she backs away and alters her voice convincingly. In a different tone, but also with stellar performances, the most comedic characters — Feste the jester, played by senior Catherine Coffey; Uncle Toby, played by sophomore Nikolai Dignoti; and Toby’s friend Andrew, played by junior Andrew Egger — communicate on stage with the ease of experienced actors. “They had wonderful chemistry in the comedic scenes. Their interactions were hilarious!” junior Hailey Morgan commented after

watching the performance. Meanwhile, senior Micah Meadowcroft compellingly portrays head servant Malvolio as a character worth pitying. Meadowcroft shows how the hilariously strict and self-obsessed character must exist in order to allow the other characters to fool around. Guensche auditioned for the play while reminiscing on her high school Shakespeare performances, and was thrilled when she received the part of Antonia, who saves the life of Sebastian. Since Antonia is part of a fight scene, Guensche learned from the skilled stunt choreographer. The duels add excitement and movement across stage, keeping the plot interesting. “It’s been a really interesting and different thing to be doing this semester. I never knew how fun the theatre department was!” Guensche said. “It’s a big time commitment, but it’s definitely rewarding and I’m really excited for everyone to come see it.” Every element of the performance contributes to the unified

aesthetic and success of the play. The play’s music, written by Coffey, befits the setting and time period, while the scenery — consisting primarily of two ships and an ocean background — adds color and ease of understanding to the performance. Angell pointed out that Olivia’s ship is much more feminine than Orsino’s; it even has “hips.” The whole cast doesn’t appear on stage together until the final witty scene, which culminates in one reunion, two impulsive marriages, and a happily ever after. The Tower Players’ production of “Twelfth Night” opened last night and continues with performances at 8 p.m. tonight, Friday, and Saturday, with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Reservations are required.

Towerlight celebrates 60th anniversary Homecoming weekend to feature visits by first Tower Light editor-in-chief and alumna author By | Amanda Tindall

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After more than a half-century of publishing Hillsdale students’ creative writing, the Tower Light is celebrat-

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ing its 60th anniversary with a reunion during homecoming weekend. Amid the return of many other students and alumni, both the founder of the Tower Light, Rich Hill, and Kjerstin Kauffman ’09, who has her master’s degree in poetry from Johns Hopkins University, will be giving talks during homecoming weekend. Kauffman will be here with the Visiting Writers Program of the department of English, giving lectures and a reading of her own work. Tower Light Editor-in-Chief Forester McClatchey has been a part of the literary publication’s production for five semesters, and said that the board is currently emphasizing graphic design and size standardization in an attempt to move toward a more respected position on campus. “I hope the perception of

the Tower Light is constantly improving,” McClatchey said. “I would hope that seeing it as a fixture, a publication with the same logo and a standardized size, would make it seem legitimate and not something to be trifled with.” Professor of English John Somerville noted that with the absence of a creative writing course in the regular curriculum at Hillsdale, the Tower Light offers students an outlet for serious creative writing. “It’s a great venue on this campus in which students can publish their work,” Somerville said. “There really is no other place on campus for this. It seems like every issue is its own thing. I’m always interested, even before I begin to read the poems and see the photography, just to note the way it’s been designed. It seems to me that almost every se-

mester, there’s some sort of surprise in the design, and I really like that.” Faculty Adviser to the Tower Light Maria Servold came up with the idea to sell subscriptions to those outside the campus, so that graduates, parents, and friends can still enjoy the work of students. “It’s good to have an income source beyond that of just our print costs,” Servold said. “Alumni, parents, and donors read the Collegian, so many might be interested in reading the student work in the Tower Light as well. People pay for both the yearbook and the Collegian, so it makes sense for people to pay for the Tower Light as well.” Subscriptions are $20 and guarantee both issues of the Tower Light during the year. The first-ever cover of the Tower Light, from January 1955. This year marks the Tower Light’s 60th Anniversary Amanda Tindall | Collegian

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Sauk Theatre produces ‘The Mousetrap’ Agatha Christie’s classic runs Oct. 15-25 By | Stacey Egger

Collegian Reporter Rehearsals are underway at the Sauk Theatre in Jonesville for the longest-running play in modern theater, Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” which opens on Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. According to the show’s director, Kristin Hood, the Sauk puts on a mystery or thriller every fall, and Agatha Christie immediately came to her mind for this year. She said she chose “The Mousetrap” because it spoke to her the most. “It kind of hits all the marks,” Hood said. “It’s really fun to direct and act in, and the audience will love it.” Ken Washburn, who has been in theater for more than 30 years and will play the role of Christopher Wren for the second time in his career, said that everything has come together in recent rehearsals. “It’s been a wonderful chemistry between everybody, and when we’re on, it’s beautiful,” he said. “Of course it’s rehearsals, we have our rough patches, but when everybody is on and it’s going, it feels amazing.” Gracie Wilson, who plays the character of Mollie Ralston, said that memorizing lines written in Christie’s British tone and unique style is challenging. “Agatha Christie doesn’t like to let you say the same thing over,” she said. “For example, I say ‘chicken wire’

three different ways. It’s been a challenge trying to keep those straight, but other than that, it’s a lot of fun.” Because it is a murder mystery, the plot of “The Mousetrap” is top secret. In fact, audiences are traditionally asked to sign a waiver saying that they will not reveal the ending. Regardless, Hood is comfortable giving away the setting: eight people snowed into a country manor in London; and, of course, a murder. In Agatha Christie fashion, the play’s dark material does not subdue its sharp wit. “Even though it’s supposed to be this serious murder mystery, there’s a lot of humor in it. A lot of it’s the dry, British humor,” Washburn said. “It’s the seriousness that there’s been a murder, and you have to figure out who did it — but wait, that was kinda funny.” “The Mousetrap” first opened in London in 1952, and the Sauk’s performance will share a special connection with that first performance. David Griffith, who designed, directed, and taught theater at Hillsdale College for 40 years until his retirement last year, created the set as an exact replica of the set which appeared on the London stage at the play’s debut. Wilson said that these details and the mystery driving the play will engage audiences, making them feel involved in the story as it unfolds.

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Hillsdale voice instructor performs in Guangzhou By | Hannah Niemeier

Collegian Reporter

Giving a style of music its debut is no small task. But if the dozens of roses onstage after the performance are any indication, Melissa Osmond’s performance was a success. Melissa Osmond, teacher of music at Hillsdale College, traveled to Guangzhou, China, this June to perform a soprano opera concert. The concert was, according to many audience members, the city’s first exposure to that style of Western music. “They treated us like rock stars,” Osmond said. “There was a huge poster that said ‘World Famous Opera Singer!’” Osmond and her husband Stephen, the music director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, were guests of the Chinese government during a weeklong trip arranged by Stephen Osmond’s friend, Xie Min, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster. Stephen Osmond said many people congratulated the Osmonds for being the first Western conductor and opera soprano to perform in Guangzhou, the third-largest city in China. Xie spent two years planning the trip, arranging for the Chinese government to cover the cost. This included a dinner with the Minister of Culture, sightseeing tours to Xi’an and Beijing, and showers of gifts wherever the Osmonds went. “Every time we got to a hotel, it was like a scene from ‘Downton Abbey,’” Stephen Osmond said. “The car would pull up and there would be 10 people lined up to greet us and make sure everything was alright. We were treated like royalty. We’ll never have that kind of reception again.” In their performance at South China Institute of

Technology, Melissa Osmond was featured as opera soprano, Stephen Osmond as conductor, and Xie as violinist, along with other soloists and the university student orchestra. The concert included a lot of Broadway music, as well as opera in the Western tradition, which was new for citizens of a country that has long been closed to Western influence. Melissa Osmond also taught master classes to 16 opera students, only a few of whom spoke English. Osmond described the experience of teaching music through a translator to Music Department Chair James Holleman. “It’s often impossible to use the same metaphors to describe musical concepts in another language,” Holleman said. “She said that the music really transcended that barrier, though.” Melissa Osmond said that music students and teachers alike thanked her for her expertise. “The students sing with a Chinese style. It’s very forward.” But as Melissa Osmond

worked with the students, they opened up. She remembered her students saying, “‘Oh, that makes so much sense! That’s so much better!’” Holleman said he was not surprised at the success of Melissa Osmond’s master classes. “She’s great at helping students find their correct voice,” he said. “As a performer teaching performing, she’s a great leader of our vocal area here at Hillsdale.” Just as students learned from Melissa Osmond’s expertise in Western opera, Melissa Osmond’s experiences with Chinese opera were informative, as well. She visited a traditional Chinese opera, which includes acrobats, intricate costumes, and a style of music very distinct from Western music. Both Stephen and Melissa Osmond appreciated the chance to learn about a new culture. “They treated us with real warmth,” Stephen Osmond said. “It’s not that we’re superstars, but it’s just a very welcoming, civilized culture and society.”

Arts News Oct. 7-11 Tower Players present “Twelfth Night” 8 p.m. Sunday Matinee, 2 p.m. Markel Auditorium Sage Center for the Arts Reservations Required

Oct. 9-Nov. 20 “Sparkle with Repose”: Pastel Paintings by W. Truman Hosner Oct. 9 1-4:30 p.m. Artist Reception 2:30 p.m. Artist Lecture Daughtrey Gallery Sage Center for the Arts

Oct. 9 Faculty Recital features Stacey Jones, marimba: “The Rhapsodic Beauty of the Marimba” 8 p.m. Conrad Recital Hall Howard Music Building

Oct. 9 Coffee House 7-10:30 p.m. A.J.’s Cafe

Oct. 15-25 Sauk Theatre presents “The Mousetrap” Sauk Theatre Jonesville Hillsdale voice instructor Melissa Osmond stands before a poster advertising her performance in Guanzhou, China, this past summer. Melissa Osmond | Courtesy

Hillsdale students, professors visit ArtPrize Grand Rapids hosts annual art show until Oct. 11

Ross Bonjernoor, Jessica Hayes, and Ken Washburn rehearse for the Sauk Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” which runs Oct. 15-25. Stacey Egger | Collegian

In revIew: ‘AncIent wInds’

Pongracic’s band releases new album

open water as The Madeira Collegian Freelancer steers a course for an aquatic showdown with “Leviathan” In its latest album, “An- in track 12. cient Winds,” The Madeira “Instrumental surf rock is takes listeners on a journey like classical music or a symaround the Mediterranean phony. Obviously, they are and shows that surf rock not the same, but each exappeals to more than beach pects you to use your imagibums. nation. Listeners have to fill With plenty of reverb in the gaps in the story after the the guitars and dynamic music and song titles set the contrasts by the drums, “An- stage,” Pongracic said. cient Winds” is an excellent The nature of an instruexample of contemporary mental album written as surf rock. a coherent whole largely The Madeira released its precludes the selection of fourth studio album, “An- singles. For instance, when cient Winds,” on Sept. 1. Stu- “Ancient Winds” plays on dents may be familiar with shuffle, the larger narrative the band because Hillsdale’s of the album is lost. Songs own Professor of Economics like “Coral Island” no lonIvan Pongracic serves as the ger sound like a pit stop for band’s lead guitarist. supplies on a Greek island, Like much of contem- but like a campy track from porary surf rock, “Ancient a dollar store “Christmas on Winds” is an instrumental the Beach” CD. album. Each of its 13 tracks One of the most interestbuild on one another to tell ing places The Madeira exthe story of an epic naval ad- pects listeners to “fill in the venture in just 44 minutes. gaps” is the final song, “Into “The theme of sailing the Deep.” Following the inthe Mediterranean is loose tense and up-tempo battle in the background with the in “Leviathan,” the decreideas of forward motion and scendo and sounds of waves groove driving the album,” in “Into the Deep” trigger a Pongracic said. sinking feeling. The Madeira immediately “The slain monster sinkcaptures the sounds of set- ing or the defeated sailors ting sail with the quick-tem- say more about the listener po opener “Journey to the than us,” Pongracic said. Center of the Surf.” The reRegardless of which side verb of the guitars and the lost the battle, “Into the steady drumbeat invoke the Deep” is one of the stronimage of a ship venturing gest songs on the album. forth in high spirits. The The guitars’ darker sounds song captures the optimism and the slower tempo set and vigor present at the out- up a stark contrast with the set of an exciting endeavor. cheery beginning, and highEven without lyrics, the lights The Madeira’s talent images evoked by the combi- for producing diversity in a nation of the song titles and genre where songs are not music are enough to carry differentiated by lyrics. the listener from shore to

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By | Lillian Quinones

Collegian Reporter Every year, thousands of artists attempt to define art in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, at ArtPrize, a 19day art show from Sept. 2 to Oct. 11. This year Professor of Art Barbara Bushey is joining those ranks of artists by showing three of her quilts at the ArtPrize venue Processing Fiber. Last year, Lecturer of Art Doug Coon entered three prints of photographs he had taken of the caves on the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. In 2014, ArtPrize attracted nearly half a million people and displayed more than 1,500 pieces of art. To gain entry into the show, artists upload images of their work online and venues pick the artists. Artists earn publicity and a chance to win one of two $200,000 grand prize and the venues, typically privately owned businesses like coffee shops or restaurants, hope to expand their customer base by showing the artwork. Bushey and Coon drove to ArtPrize on Sept. 26 and spent the day looking at the art on display. “There was not a single great ‘kaboom’ this year, but a lot of great smaller pieces,” Bushey said. “The experience is not like going to a museum, where, after a little while, your feet hurt, you’re tired, and though you feel like your eyeballs are going to start popping out of your head, you stay because you paid $20 to get in.” Coon recalls downtown Grand Rapids before the phenomenon of ArtPrize — now in its seventh year — saying it’s aided the city’s growth. “There was nothing in Grand Rapids; once 5 p.m. hit, the downtown was emp-

ty. But they’ve made such a transformation, and part of it is due to ArtPrize I think,” Coon said. Dan Seaver, general manager of McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon in downtown Grand Rapids, agrees with Coon that ArtPrize has changed the energy of downtown Grand Rapids. McFadden’s has been a participating venue in ArtPrize since its beginning. “For us, ArtPrize allows people who otherwise wouldn’t step through our doors see how we would host events or just to come enjoy our night-life atmosphere,” Seaver said. McFadden’s has nine pieces of artwork on display this year. Pieces include a pointillism portrait of Lil’ Wayne and an action-set of miniature hybrid animals in a retelling of an ancient love story. This wide variety of art is one of the reasons why so many people return to ArtPrize every year, and observing these crowds is a favorite part of the experience for Coon and Bushey. “Sometimes it takes all that I have to control my professorial self from yank-

Hillsdale students visited ArtPrize in Grand Rapids last week. Hannah Talkington | Courtesy

ing a person by the neck and saying, ‘Clearly, you don’t understand anything about this,’” Bushey said. Coon and Bushey said they hope more Hillsdale students will submit art to the event in the future. “ArtPrize is a perfect opportunity for students to show their artwork,” Coon said. “The online process to

Three of Professor of Art Barbara Bushey’s quilts are currently featured at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids. Janet Jepsen | Courtesy

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Surgeries and souls:

Senior Zoe Norr works at Haitian mission By | Nicole Ault Collegian Freelancer

The playground at the park at Baw Beese Lake, one of the many parks in Hillsdale. Timothy Pearce | Collegian

FROM WALK B4 Mrs. Stock’s Park and Hillsdale’s Garden Club have been the recipients of several awards from the national Garden Clubs office for restoring a historic sight and excellent garden design. Miller, who is in charge of garden design, says the community has enjoyed and benefitted from the using the park in a variety of ways from walking dogs to taking prom pictures. Miller has “made it a practice to be at the park on Thursday’s for anybody that wants to work in the park.” She has seen involvement from many groups such as the Boy Scouts and A Few Good Men.

FROM OPEN SPACES B4 so when you leave, within four years there’s not a student left on campus who remembers who you are,” Public Services Librarian Linda Moore said. “So for faculty and staff, it’s kind of nice to be able to leave a permanent remembrance of them on the alumni walk. I think it’s important, at least to the alumni and for other individuals, people who have worked here a long time.” Deer helped spearhead the project and still maintains the walk today. “I’ve continued to take care of it,” she said. “Today we put in 12 bricks, and I will go home tomorrow and put them on the map so that the Alumni Office has a record of where all the bricks are.” Although she did not choose at first to work on the walk, the project has become close to her heart. “My involvement with the brick walk has been a dedication of love for the college,” Deer said. “It’s just going to be there to be a testament to the people who bought a brick, who cared about the College, and wanted to be remembered in some way as having attended Hillsdale College.”

Senior Zoe Norr spoke passionately about her summer internship with Charis Ministries in Haiti, where she worked for two months. She needed that passion to tackle the challenges of medical and mission work in remote Haitian villages. The ministry was founded by her extended family members Malcolm and Joy Henderson. “It was really cool to be able to learn from them what missions work looks like,” Norr said. “They really try to reach the unreached places.” Norr and her group would regularly hike 10 miles up a mountain — crossing seven rivers — to perform surgeries in villages that couldn’t be reached by vehicles. “Sicknesses that would usually be taken care of here — like the flu — could really kill them because they don’t have good medical services,” said Norr. Tumors posed one of the biggest medical problems. But Norr believes spiritual issues are really at the heart of Haiti’s poverty. The ministry provides medical attention, but Senior Zoe Norr and two of the children at at village she it also focuses on less tangible problems, visited in Haiti. Zoe Norr | Courtesy such as Vodou. ferent man, “always smiling and hugging “Vodou is very big — it’s part of the culpeople,” she said. A woman who became ture,” Norr said, noting that Vodou in Haiti paralyzed after suffering a stroke healed is a different form of the “Voodoo” most over a few weeks as the group prayed for her people think of. — something Norr calls “a huge miracle.” Vodou priests make a living by healing Norr said the trip changed her life too. people through demonic powers and de“It really showed me how important it manding that the demons be paid back. Norr is to show Christ’s love and tell people the said this perpetuates the poverty — both gospel,” she said. She also pointed out how physical and spiritual — in Haiti. distracted our culture is from truly imporAs part of their mission work, the interns tant, spiritual matters that are more obvious went into Vodou camps and lead Bible stud- in Haiti. ies with Vodou priests, which Norr deShe’s interested in the medical field, but scribed as “awesome and nerve-wracking.” she didn’t come back from Haiti with a spe“We’d give them the gospel and they’d say, cific career goal. ‘We’ll come to Jesus after we pay back the “I understand a lot better now about demons,’” Norr said. The missionaries would trusting in God,” Norr said. She also said she then explain that, though there is suffering would love to go back to Haiti, although she in this life, life on earth is short compared doesn’t know when. to the eternal life offered by Christ for those And she doesn’t hesitate when asked if who believe. she would recommend such a trip to other Their ministry often effected visible students. change. “Oh, yeah. I would definitely say to “It was neat to see the change in people pursue it,” she said. “It just strengthened my [we ministered to],” Norr said. One Vodou faith so much.” priest became a Christian and a totally dif-

Hillsdale dropout becomes ‘Father of the American roller coaster’ By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor A bus full of Hillsdale College students traveled to Cedar Point Saturday, partly because of the work done by a former Hillsdale student. LaMarcus A. Thompson, known as the “father of the American roller coaster” and the “father of gravity,” attended Hillsdale College in the winter of 1866 for a single semester. He was the first to popularize the roller coaster and was most wellknown for his scenic railways. “He was basically the first one that was successful at marketing a roller coaster,” American Coaster Enthusiasts Historian Dave Hahner said. “Other people did animation before Walt Disney, but he learned how to make money off it, same with Thompson.” According to the 1866-67 college registry, Thompson enrolled to study as a member of the English preparatory department at Hillsdale. Though he attended the college for a short period of time, his 1919 obituary in the Collegian reported he remembered the college, attending the second Eastern Alumni Association meeting, and its influence upon his life. Linda Moore, public service librarian and college archivist, said it was up to him, however, to pay for his education. Unable to afford it, Thompson left for Elkhart, Indiana when he was 19 to start a bakery, grocery store, and later, Eagle Knitting Company mills, where he made a fortune. Born in Jersey, Ohio, Thompson moved with his parents and five siblings to a farm in Hillsdale County’s Ransom Township at the age of three. There, Thompson built a butter rotary churn the first in the country — and an ox cart for his father by the time he turned 13 years old. By 17, he had mastered carpentry. Thompson’s creativity lasted long throughout his life. He had over 30 patents to his name and built at least 120 roller coasters in North America in addition to several in Europe and South America. According to American Coaster Enthusiasts Founder Richard Munch, historians have found that, because of newspaper archives placed online within the past decade, Thompson did not actually invent the roller coaster, as was commonly believed. National Amusement Park Historical Association Historian Jim Futrell agreed. “He was most responsible for popularizing it,” Futrell said. “He was really an innovator. He turned that into a career.” Thompson’s debut with the Switchback Railway occurred June 16, 1844 at Coney Island in New York City, America’s most well-known resort at the time. “It was the center of the amusement industry,” Futrell said. “You know the old saying, the old song, ‘New York, New York, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere’? I think it applied to people in the amusement industry too.” For a nickel, visitors would climb up the

platform on either side of two parallel wooden tracks. Riders sat on benches facing sideway in the roller coaster’s carts, which were unattached to the rails. As gravity drew them downward, they traveled at a riveting six miles per hour over hills of not more than 10 feet. At the end, two men would lift the cart from one track to the other, and it

location of Coney Island that brought hundreds to its beach and boardwalk that already featured a carousel and other stand-alone amusements. Roller coaster legend tells of how Thompson, a Sunday school teacher and devout Christian, built the railways in response to the debauchery also found at Coney Island, in-

would be sent cludback. ing “By togambling, A ticket to the scenic railway, created by day’s standards drinking, and LaMarcus Thompson. it was very gentle, going to brothels. Richard Munch | Courtesy but back in 1884, it was “They claimed it pretty thrilling,” Hohner said. was because he wanted to The 600-foot-long ride that save the sinners,” Hohner said. cost just over $2,000 to build made Thompson “He also had his thoughts that he could save the hundreds everyday. The L.A. Thompson Railway world and offer a wholesome form of entertainCompany was born as Thompson turned an inment.” vention into a career in which he made millions. After the success of the switchback, ThompWhile Thompson traveled throughout the son created another style of roller coaster with country, he gained inspiration in New Orleans, another designer James A. Griffiths: the scenic where he saw a circular gravity device at a fair or railway, his most popular. carnival and began developing the idea for his More similar to the modern-day roller coastswitchback, according to Munch. ers Walt Disney would later build, the railway In Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Thompson also featured dioramas and paintings related to the rode the Mauch Chunk Railway, an old mine ride’s particular themes: the Wild West, a coal track turned tourist attraction that took riders mine, the Orient, or European villages. on an hour-long trip down the mine’s hill. Some “At the time, movies were just getting started,” reports indicated the ride had more visitors at Futell said. “There was no TV. There was really one point than Niagara Falls. no mass entertainment, and travel was very Thompson wondered if he could create a difficult. It was a way to take people to different smaller version of it, so he chose the popular lands and give them experiences they couldn’t

otherwise encounter.” Even more attractive was the scenic railways’ uses of electrical lighting to highlight the images around the passengers as they road. “Back then, most people didn’t have lights in their house,” Futell said. “Any use of electrical lighting was a novelty.” His 1910 masterpiece in Venice, California featured fake mountains and Egyptian temples. While the rides still lacked the speed and heights today’s roller coaster fans find as the norm, it did have a cable that would return the cart to the top at the end of the ride. Though successful, the railways had their challenges. “Any time you rode a thrill ride, it was ride at your own risk,” Hohner said. Carts tipped over, they crashed into one another, and there wasn’t anything to keep passengers in their seats. “He got sued quite a bit,” Munch said. Nonetheless, Thompson’s company was a major success until he retired four years before his death on his birthday, March 8, 1919 at the age of 71. His business had expanded to have offices not only in New York City, but also London, England; Chicago, Illinois; and eventually out West. Many of those who would improve roller coaster designs later had their start at the L.A. Thompson Railway Company, such as John Miller, the “father of the modern roller coaster,” who invented the contraption that attached the roller coaster cart to the rails. Thompson, however, made himself into a celebrity as, wherever he traveled, newspapers would cover his visits and people would come to meet him. “A lot of people consider him one of the most celebrated roller coaster designers of all time,” Munch said. Yet, Thompson was known for being a well-respected employer and genuine man. The Collegian reported he remembered his friends in Hillsdale County even after he left. “People say he was a very nice man, a very religious man,” Munch said. “He lived a straight life, treated people very nicely.” Even though he did not complete college, Thompson never stopped learning. In fact, he reportedly built a new library near his last home in Glen Cove, New York. He also added an entire room onto his house for the purpose of using his three-and-a-half-inch disc telescope that he made himself and avidly read about math and science in his own library. The Willow Grove Park near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania demolished his last roller coaster, the Alps, in 1978. Nonetheless, Thompson’s work lives on in the screams and scenes of today’s amusement parks. “We now have 400 feet roller coasters,” Hohner said, “but it all started out with Thompson’s simple design.”

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A walk along the path of history

Parks, picnics, and open spaces By | Jordyn Pair Collegian Freelancer

At a school that emphasizes history in its academics, it only makes sense that Hillsdale considers its own history too. The Alumni Brick Walk, which was dedicated in October 1994, does just that. While originally started to raise money for the college, the Brick Walk has turned into a path of history. It runs from the corner of Hillsdale and East College streets to the front of Delp Hall. Many of the bricks in the walk are engraved, bearing names, quotes, or inside jokes from students, faculty, and donors. “Going through, you see people’s names you went to school with and that you know,” Mossey Library public service librarian and alumna Brenna Wade ’08 said. “It’s interesting to find people’s bricks and to remember and to think about everything that went on.” The idea for the brick walk began in 1989 during a fundraising campaign. “Originally the funds for it were to go to the renovation to the fine arts building, but because it actually cost more to renovate than to build a new building, they tore it down,” said

Ronda Deer, historian for the Alumni Executive Board and chairwoman of the Alumni Walk. “So now our funds go to our Alumni Legacy Scholarship, which goes to students who have parents, sisters, brothers who attended Hillsdale.” There are more than 3,000 engraved bricks on the walk, and each one costs $150. Although the majority of them were purchased by individuals, the beginning of the walk features past presidents of the Alumni Association. Money for the fund not only comes from brick purchases, but also from the direct donations to the fund. So far, more than $1 million has been raised. Although donations are consistent, brick purchases have slowed. “For this year for spring and fall, we only had about 30 orders, but there have been years when we’ve had 300,” Deer said. For some, the walk plays an important role in the history of the college. “College life is very transient,

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By | Timothy Pearce Collegian Reporter Whether for a fall picnic or a crisp walk, Hillsdale city parks offer a beautiful space to get away from fluorescent-lighted study rooms on campus. The Fields of Dreams is the hub for the sports enthusiast. It boasts several large, grass fields equipped with soccer goals and a baseball diamond. From pee-wee football to high school soccer games, the Fields of Dreams is a great place to catch a local game or even hold your own. The Fields of Dreams has undergone renovation in recent years. “We spent a lot of community effort to build it to the point it is now,” Hillsdale’s Director of Recreation, Michelle Loren said. What used to be aluminum benches and a grassy field has been renovated with stands, a concessions building, and dugouts. With plenty of parking and open space, Fields of Dreams is the ideal location for community sporting events. Waterworks Avenue on the north side of Baw Beese lake runs past three parks: Waterworks Park, Owen’s Park and Sandy

Beach Park. “It’s beautiful through there,” Loren said. “Each park has something different that it offers.” The playground in Waterwork’s Park, the gazebo and the picnic tables of Owen’s Park and the sandy beach of Sandy Beach Park give a range of options for anyone wanting to enjoy the outdoors. With a view overlooking Baw Beese, each park is ideal for tranquil studying, too. “You can put your feet in the water and just relax, read and study,” junior Doug Phillips said. He also said that the parks are a great place to go fishing and enjoy nature. Mrs. Stock’s Park on Bacon Street will appeal to the seeker of the beauty of nature. It is decorated with shrubs, flowers, and trees accompanying a large pavilion which has been the location of numerous weddings, Dianne Miller, an advanced master gardener and member of the Hillsdale Garden Club said. The Garden Club has been in charge of beautifying Mrs. Stock’s park for years, and their hard work shows.

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The Tutors : Students’ rock in the midst of writer’s block Minte Irmer

By | Ramona Tauz Arts Editor Personal Blunder of Paper Writing: I talk a lot, so I almost always say too much. It’s tempting to keep adding cool details and extra information to a paper rather than staying concise. Usually I let it all out in the first few drafts, but I’m vicious with my red pen later and end up eliminating words, sentences, or even entire paragraphs.

Aaron Shreck

Main Tutoring Advice: Drafts don’t have to be pretty. Just power through the writer’s block and get something, anything, out on the page. It’s much easier to improve a bad sentence than to improve a sentence you’ve never written. (Of course, your final draft should be pretty. But don’t let that scare you away from the first try.)

Main Tutoring Advice: I spend most of my time at the Writing Center talking about the relationship between a thesis and its topic sentences. The former should be a pithy distillation of the paper’s overall purpose (what is this paper trying to do?), and each of the latter should move us a step closer to agreeing with that thesis.

Best Class Taken at Hillsdale: I loved my Austen and the Bronte Sisters class with [Assistant Professor of English Lorraine] Eadie. We examined discursive and figural reasoning in the texts, and our conversations about it were really beautiful. Also, it was over the summer, so we had a really small class and a lot of healthy discussion.

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Favorite Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — It is so choice.

Personal Blunder of Paper Writing: Deep down, I think almost all of my troubles with essay writing, be they organization, syntax, or even writer’s block, stem from failures of understanding. If I can’t take an overarching idea, state it clearly in the form of a thesis, and divide it into a series of explanatory paragraphs, then I really don’t know what I’m talking about. So I try and think better, usually by drafting the paper multiple times, each time getting closer to saying what’s really going on. Every paper I’ve deeply invested myself in perfecting has paid me back many times over in a clear understanding of the issue at hand. As George Saunders says, writing shows us what we really think.

Best Class Taken at Hillsdale: That’s probably a tie between [Provost David] Whalen’s Victorian and Modern and [Profesor of English Justin] Jackson’s Anglo-Saxon. Madeline Fry | Collegian

Favorite Movie: Tree of Life.

Jared Eckert

By | Laura Williamson

How would you describe your style? Pentecostal Autumn: everything you love about the charismatic gifts and fall fashion, but without any of the snake handling. Would you say that your fashion has evolved? Absolutely. I actually got rid of a bunch of my clothing freshman year and increased my wardrobe significantly from thrifting and hand-me-downs.

What are your fashion staples? Button-ups, anything plaid, Joggers, jeans and Toms. Where do you like to shop? When I can go, Ann Arbor Salvation Army is my first choice, followed by T.J. Maxx and ASOS.com clearance. Favorite fashion piece? My blue, geometricprint, white hoodie that I got from my cousin on Easter Sunday. Laura Williamson | Collegian

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