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‘Saga’ Steve Casai recovering By |Macaela J. Bennett Editor-in-Chief His long-term prognosis remains uncertain, but “Saga” Steve Casai’s health is improving. “Steve is doing much better,” Casai’s longtime friend Bud Vear said. “I have been encouraged by the dramatic improvement in his alertness over the past two weeks.” Four-decade college employee Casai was hospitalized in September after falling in his house, where his landlord found him unresponsive. An ambulance transported him to the University of Michigan Medical Center. There, doctors removed a partial brain tumor and mended skin lesions. Since he returned to Hillsdale, doctors are treating him at the Hillsdale Community Health Center. Last Thursday, he received surgery to clean out a deep wound on his hip. Though he shows positive signs of recovery, Vear said it’s uncertain when or if Casai will be able to return to work. Casai’s pain has lessened in the past couple weeks, but his slow-healing hip wound and paralyzed leg still bother him, Vear said. “I miss walking around the beautiful campus,” Casai said Tuesday after a routine therapy session to help him stand and walk. “Things will never be the same. I will never stand the same way again.” Casai now lies covered in a patchwork blanket with notes and prayers from Hillsdale College students and staff scrawled across the squares. “I am so grateful for everyone,” Casai said, surveying the mounds of cards piled on a table and window ledge and taped to the walls of his room. “It’s unbelieveable.” Casai said he does not know when he will be able to return home, but he is finding comfort in reading his Bible and a biblical commentary, fixtures on his bedside table. Specifically, Casai describes the hope Psalm 3 provides him with the Lord’s promise of deliverance from suffering. Vear advises visitors to come see Casai in the early afternoon or evening when Casai is most alert. College food provider Bon Appétit also accepts notes and gifts that it will coordinate sending to Casai. “He has received many wonderful cards from students and alums with very touching messages, and we read these to him when he is awake,” Vear said. “Steve has impacted many in very meaningful ways by his smile and his cheerful manner...I am constantly reminded of the impact Steve has had through the years.”

By |Sarah Chavey Collegian Reporter While dozens of Hillsdale College students gather around the 90-inch TV in Grewcock Student Union to watch the presidential debates, three alumni are playing major roles in the action. Raz Schafer ’09 leads a Super PAC for presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Brittany Baldwin ’12 is the policy coordinator for Cruz’s presidential campaign, and Nathan Brand ’15 works for the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). “I’ve been trying to get involved with a campaign since I was able to talk,” Brand said. While dressed as a cowboy, Brand first interacted with President George W. Bush a week before the 2000 election. Follow @HDaleCollegian

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Kirby Center celebrates five years with Boyle Radio Studio dedication Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen.Tom Cotton featured in inaugural broadcast

By | Emma Vinton Assistant Editor Nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt featured Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) along with Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn for the inaugural broadcast of the Boyle Radio Studio in the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Nov. 2. “Whenever I’m in town, this is where I’m going to be broadcasting from,” Hewitt said. “I’m very grateful to be a partner with Hillsdale College.” Hewitt recorded and broadcasted his three-hour show from the studio. He also

“Whenever I’m in town, this is where I’m going to be broadcasting from.” featured Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes and Roll Call Contributing Editor Morton Kondracke as guests. “Hillsdale’s great,” Ryan said as he left the show. “They’re doing a fantastic job of teaching young Americans about our constitution and our founding principles.” The Boyle Studio was dedicated in conjunction with the Kirby Center’s fiveyear anniversary celebration, which included lectures by Kirby Center Associate Vice

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was a guest on the Hugh Hewitt show, which broadcasted from the Boyle Radio Studio on Nov. 2.

Nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt hosted his threehour show on the inaugural broadcast from the Boyle Radio Studio on Nov. 2.

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President Matthew Spalding and Director of the Dow Journalism Program John Miller, a dinner, and tours of the Kirby Center and the nearby Newseum. Spalding said Hewitt has been a “strong encouragement” to Hillsdale in building the studio. Vince Benedetto, Hillsdale College supporter and president and CEO of Bold Gold Broadcast and Media Foundation, helped the college set up its studio as well as the station on the main campus in Michigan, FM 101.7, Radio Free Hillsdale. Though the project is still in its infancy, the Dow Journalism Program will soon incorporate broadcasting and the radio station into its program. Benedetto said the Kirby studio has three main functions: recording and editing for faculty, staff, and stu-

Bold Gold Broadcast and Media Foundation CEO Vince Benedetto speaks Monday at the dedication ceremony of the Boyle Radio Studio at the Kirby Center. Aaron Sandford | Courtesy

dents; remote broadcasting for visiting radio hosts, such as Hewitt; and connecting with the studio in Michigan so students in the broadcast program will be able to continue studies in Washington, D.C. “Radio is an art form, just like a good album or a good book. It takes a lot of practice; you have to be an expert,” Benedetto said. “That’s why it’s hard to get young people into it.” According to Spalding, the new studio is one of the many ways in which Hillsdale is expanding its teaching mission. Broadcasters can interview members of Congress, radio hosts from across the country can remotely broadcast their

shows, and students can use the studio during journalism internships in Washington, D.C. In theory, the Kirby studio can run Hillsdale’s radio station during the summers. “It’s a piece of this dynamic picture we’re trying to create, and the radio fits into that picture of expanding the presence of Hillsdale in the nation’s capital,” Spalding said. Miller said he hopes for wide student participation with radio shows anywhere from talk news to music. He said the Kirby Center studio’s ability to pair with the station on the main campus is a helpful feature. “It can be a great resource for the college that we can do recording from there,” he said. “It’ll help the college spread its message and accomplish its mission from there.” The new radio program, main station, and the Boyle Studio enable the college to spread its values more broadly and efficiently.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was a guest on the Hugh Hewitt show Monday, which broadcasted from the Boyle Radio Studio. Aaron Sandford | Courtesy

“One of the reasons I got involved in supporting their efforts to get into the radio education business is to help prepare the next generation of talk radio hosts,” Benedetto said. “That’s something we need more young people to get into.” And though he thinks students will not be able to participate in the program for months, Benedetto said he has high hopes for how the program will influence students and the nation. “Someone who will graduate from this program will go on to be this generation’s next Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh,” he said.

The road to 2016: Hillsdale alumni work for presidential candidates Raz Schafer ‘09 now leads a Super PAC for presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Raz Schafer | Courtesy

The local news featured Brand and his sister for attending the rally in their Halloween costumes. “There’s never a dull moment,” Brand said. “Here we were talking about the 2016 elections the day after the 2012 election. There’s always something going on, and so much good could come of it too.” Schafer was only a few years older than Brand when he began working in politics at the age of 12. After working on a political campaign that lost by 12 points, he realized he hadn’t put forth his best effort and was devastated. More than a decade later, Shafer said he is giving it his all this time.

“I don’t want to get to Election Day and realize if I had just worked a little harder, we could have gotten Ted elected,” Shafer said. “I want to be able to know I gave everything I could and did every bit of work I could.” When he arrived at Hillsdale, Schafer studied politics and participated in the Washington Hillsdale Internship Program. When he graduated, he established three goals for his political reputation: honesty, integrity, and loyalty. “I think those are often times absent in politics, especially to have all three of them,” Schafer said. “I want people to know that I’m hard working...but also that I have an overarching integrity be-

yond ‘I’m not going to lie.’” In contrast, Baldwin didn’t anticipate a political career until she met Cruz a year after graduation. Working as the Student Program Coordinator for the WHIP program, Baldwin gave Cruz a campus tour before his commencement speech in the spring of 2013. She left an impression, and he invited her to interview for a job. Baldwin spent a month and a half as a staff assistant at his front desk before becoming his deputy speechwriter for more than a year. Now as his policy coordinator, Baldwin still assists with policy-related speeches, but she also contributes to researching policy. Though she didn’t make the decision to pursue politics until Cruz presented her with the job offer, his character

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persuaded her to join his staff. “The thing I really like about Sen. Cruz is that he’s very thoughtful in the way that he acts and the positions he takes,” Baldwin said. “It’s really a privilege to work with someone when they are so grounded in their understanding of ordered liberty.” Schafer concurred, describing Cruz as an honest, strong Christian who cares about his family. “He’s the Hillsdale type,” Schafer said. While Schafer’s work in the Super PAC is entirely separate from the political campaign, he still aims to help elect Cruz to the presidency. By fundraising and advertising Cruz as the next U.S. president, he hopes to keep Cruz competitive in the race. More than that, he considers Cruz to be

a friend. “He’s a pretty funny guy…a total nerd,” Schafer said. “He’s the kind of guy that sits in the dorm room playing Mario Kart with his debate friends. His favorite movie is ‘The Princess Bride.’” While Schafer, Baldwin, and Brand all worked to create an admirable reputation and resume, they insist procuring a job in politics relies much more on networking. “My little sister did gymnastics with this girl back in Seattle and our family became good friends with their family,” Brand said. “We kind of grew up together.” When Brand’s parents mentioned he was going to D.C. to find a job, the family friends offered their assistance and through a connection, Brand

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In brief: Hillsdale’s history lives on in graveyard By | Kate Patrick City News Editor Sometimes dead people tell better stories than the living, and few do it better than those buried in Hillsdale’s Oak Grove Cemetery. Richmond Melendy’s tomb is modest, but he started a company of volunteers for the Union army during the Civil War. Lorenzo Dow is buried on the other side of the graveyard — he died with crippled hands because he played so much baseball with his bare hands when he was young, before the invention of the baseball glove. College Archivist Linda Moore provided more anecdotes about the buried students and friends of Hillsdale College during her cold, windy Oak Grove Cemetery tours Friday and Saturday. The cemetery, established in 1859, is home to Hillsdale College alumni and faculty as well as notable city representatives. Moore takes students, faculty, and Hillsdale residents on Halloween tours whenever someone asks. This year, the library staff requested she do the tours. For Moore, it’s a chance to showcase her vast knowledge of the college and the city. The tour, far from morbid, is an interactive history demonstration offering another look into the rich history of Hillsdale. Pointing to the grave of Daniel Beebe, a Hillsdale resident and land agent, Moore described the man as a great influence on the decision to move Hillsdale College from Spring Arbor to Hillsdale. “Hillsdale had been a bustling place in the 1840s because the railroad ended here,” Moore said. “Once the railroad moved further west, Hillsdale was just a stop on the railroad.” Beebe wanted to make the city of Hillsdale more attractive to entrepreneurs and settlers and believed bringing the college to Hillsdale would help market the city. He met with Ransom Dunn, a representative from the college whom Moore said is considered “the grand old man of Hillsdale College,” and convinced him to only consider Hillsdale as the new location for the college. Dunn also rests in the cemetery. “Ransom Dunn got up on a stump and said, ‘Ah, this is the place for the college,’” Moore said. Other notable graves include President of Hillsdale College Joseph William Mauck (who died in 1937), Eli Van Valkenburgh (who built the Ambler House, which is now the Health Center and the oldest building on campus), and George Gardner. Gardner’s headstone isn’t that ornate, but the 19th century Hillsdale College art instructor painted a large canvas of West Street, which hangs in the Detroit Institute of Art. Moore also mentioned Civil War-era embalming methods, which involved arsenic. This became a problem very quickly, Moore said, because arsenic leached into the ground and poisoned the water supply, resulting in fatal consequences. “Arsenic poisoning: one of the lasting legacies of the Civil War,” Moore said. Senior Anna Talcott, who took the tour for the first time this year, said she was expecting good stories when she bundled up for the chilly walk with Moore. “We have such a rich heritage,” Talcott said. “I was not expecting to find the graves of so many familiar names associated with the college like Barber, Slayton, Koon, Mauck, and Galloway. This was my first time, I think hearing everything again would certainly help me remember more of the details.” The way Moore sees it, cemetery tours are a way of breathing new life into those who have passed on. “You’re never really dead and gone as long as someone remembers your name,” she said.

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Hillsdale alumna helps reverse Columbia med school decision By | Lillian Quinones Collegian Reporter It took less than 36 hours for a highly ranked New York City hospital to fire and rehire 30 primary care physicians. Danielle Simpson ’13, a third-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, joined the student outcry when the school’s affiliated hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian, decided that they were closing their Family Medicine Residency Program and effectively firing 30 primary care physicians. Immediately mobilizing when they heard the news, over 300 medical students packed a town hall to show how much the whole student body valued primary care, even though only a few students from every class typically specialize in family medicine, Simpson said. On Oct. 13, a day after the announcement, the hospital and medical school reversed their decision in an announcement on Twitter. “All of us were very upset that our school was going to let go family care doctors who are very active in community outreach and our are beloved mentors,” Simpson said. “From the student perspective, family care is the most complete and efficient model of primary care, and it’s the best to learn

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from because of all the opportunities available.” By 2020, it is expected that America will experience an extreme shortage of family care physicians. The Health Resources and Services Administration projects this number to be 20,400 unfilled positions. “We, as a country, are really bad at doing preventive healthcare and dealing with chronic illness,” Simpson said. “For that reason, primary care is one of the most efficient and meaningful directions for future doctors to consider.” Family medicine residency staff free clinics in underserved areas of New York City, care that would have ended if students had not organized so swiftly. Simpson said one possible reason for Columbia to end their primary care residency program was a strategic move to be highly ranked in all areas of research and training. Historically, family medicine has been one of Columbia’s weakest fields. Although Columbia Medical School and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital reversed their decision, Simpson said students are working with faculty administration and affiliated hospitals to ensure family medicine remains a foundation of the school. Dr. Leslie Bennet, a seasoned family practice physi-

cian at Hillsdale Community Health Center, said she sees the upheaval at Columbia as particular to the institution and not an American trend. “In general, primary care is a difficult field to practice in,” Bennet said. “Right now, with the different government swings in healthcare, hospitals are trying to value preventive care with the mindset of keeping people out of the hospital to save money.” Like Simpson, Bennet defended family care as a cornerstone of medical education. “When you are looking for

frequently send their regards to college President Larry Arnn or other professors after encountering a Hillsdale student or graduate. Baldwin said the time at Hillsdale can be just as important, citing her American Studies major under the guidance of former English Professor Daniel Sundahl and Arnn’s class on Aristotle as the two aspects that most prepared her for the

future. While Baldwin does not yet know what she will do when the campaign is over, she said she is making the most of her time now. “The opportunity to work in this election will never come again, so it provides a particular opportunity to help set the narrative,” Baldwin said. “I’m fully embracing the present and enjoying this venture

overall health, that’s where family practice physicians are very valuable,” Bennet said. “There is this tug and pull because as a family physician, I am the one who refers people to big-expenditure procedures.” After shadowing his own family doctor, junior Stevan Ludkin felt called to enter medical school for family medicine with the dream of running his own practice someday. Ludkin said he liked that family care physicians are “the patient’s first line of defense” and combine and compare

patient results from other specialists. “By watching my family doctor, I saw how important it is to be a good listener, not only to develop a good relationship with the patient, but to make a correct diagnosis.” Ludkin said. Columbia medical students identify their efforts to strengthen primary care with #growfamilymedicine, which can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Hillsdale alumna Danielle Simpson ‘13 teamed up with fellow medical students at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to fight the school’s decision to abolish its specialization in family medicine program. Danielle Simpson | Courtesy

of campaign life and trying to learn as much as possible, and after this is done, I would like to pursue continuing to work in the realm of writing and public policy.”

Student Fed: two clubs, a big band, and bacon By | JoAnna Kroeker Collegian Reporter Amid one-liners, laughter, and oft-repeated points of order, Student Federation approved funding requests totalling $2,400 and the official status of two new clubs last week. The amount approved at the Oct. 29 meeting amounts to 4 percent of the remaining budget after the previous meeting: $54,448.99. This sum will fund four inclusive events: cover costs for a big band, lodging expenses for a conference at Notre Dame, supplies for a fundraiser breakfast, and food and supplies for a social math event. “We’re actually happy to spend this money for the benefit of the student body at large, because this is the students’ money that we’ve been given with the sole purpose of giving it back,” junior Jacob Thackston, treasurer of the Student Fed, said in an email. The federation granted official status to Republic’s Finest Hour, a club dedicated to discussing methods of preserving the republican government and the Music Entrepreneurship Club, a group that aims to educate musicians on the professional music world. Four club members, including president junior Keith Vrotsos, represented Republic’s Finest Hour at the meeting. “We discuss things pertaining to leadership, and we focus on the preservation of our republican government,” Vrotsos said. In order to advertise

campus-wide events with the school email, the club needed official status, Vrotsos said. Expeditious approval of Republic’s Finest Hour followed Vrotsos’ comment that the club would not need to seek funding from Student Fed because the Winston Churchill impersonator who visited Hillsdale in April, Randy Otto, sponsored the club. The president of the Music Entrepreneurship Club, sophomore Nathan Steinmeyer, said the club will fill the need for a music business major through monthly speakers and events, equipping musicians for the music industry. “The general idea is to provide a way for students who are interested in music business to come and learn more about it,” Steinmeyer said. The Hepcats Swing Club asked for $1,250 to foot half the bill for a nine-piece big band to play at its February big band event. Friends of the college donated the other half. Last year, the donors provided the full amount for the January event, and more than 100 people attended. Junior Taylor Kemmeter, officer of events for the swing dance club, promised to pay back the federation extra money made from ticket sales. “I don’t want to take more than we need,” Kemmeter said. The finance committee originally suggested $750, which would mean the club would have to rely on alternative re-

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sources, but granted the full amount after hearing Kemmeter’s promise. “I believe the expectation that they will return what they make over is more than fine.

“Everybody loves bacon. We ran out of bacon last year.” This will enable them to pay for the event up front,” said senior Sam Holdeman, independent representative and finance committee member. Sophomore Noah Weinrich — treasurer of the Symposium, Hillsdale’s Intercollegiate Studies Institute society — proposed $600 to cover 50 percent of lodging costs at the Holiday Inn to encourage students to attend Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference from Nov 19-21. Following Student Fed’s approval, the first 20 students will only pay $30, plus travel expenses, to hear speeches from premier philosophers and theologians. The finance committee initially recommended no funding because it would not im-

pact student life as a whole. “I think we should take into account the opportunity that these 20 students would have,” junior Paul Mittermeier, Delta Tau Delta representative, said. “I don’t see necessarily that small sort of outreach is something that should bar us from funding that.” A proposed compromise of $300, which would raise the individual conference cost by $45 per person, divided more than it united. “I think it’s an arbitrary place for us to decide what is expensive and what is not. It just seems like this ‘eh’ kind of gesture that does very little for the Symposium,” junior Joe Spica, Sigma Chi representative, said. “There’s this dilemma of subsidizing nonessential costs for some students and not for others.” The finance committee amended its recommendation to the original funds proposal, which Student Fed approved. Members readily approved two other proposals due to a long finance committee meeting Oct. 26, according to senior Marie Wathen, president of Student Fed. Junior Tom Novelly, treasurer of Students For Life, requested $400 to purchase pancake supplies for the club’s annual pancake fundraiser. The money raised subsidizes outside speakers and student transportation for the Jan. 22 March for Life event in Washington, D.C. The price tag, $50 more than

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last year, was the first question from Ryan Jelalian, senior representative and finance committee member. “Bacon,” Novelly said in response. “Everybody loves bacon. We ran out of bacon last year.” After a four-minute questioning period over whether it is conscionable for a prolife organization to serve bacon — a known cancer-causing agent — the Student Fed unanimously approved the funding. Senior Michael Tripepi — president of Kappa Mu Epsilon, Hillsdale’s mathematics honorary — requested $150 for food and supplies for a social math event on Nov. 18. Students will solve chessboard-style math problems and discuss shapes. About 50 people attended the honorary’s first recreational math event, which focused on the folds in origami, held two years ago. The success rate contributed to the federation’s quick agreement to fund the initiative. “Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of Student Federation members want to spend this excess money that we have, but we feel as if we don’t often get well-crafted proposals to approve,” Thackston said. “Our spending, with the exception of capital improvements, is completely dependent on student proposals.”

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‘Two very similar dudes and whoever they can drag in front of a mic’ By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor Freshmen Dylan and Shadrach Strehle’s introduction to their podcast, “Twinovation,” sets the entertaining mood immediately. “Welcome to ‘Twinovation,’ the show starring two very similar dudes and whoever they can drag in front of a mic,” Shadrach Strehle began the podcasts. These fraternal twins from Snohomish, Washington started broadcasting just over a year and a half ago and brought their project with them to Hillsdale College. Dylan and Shadrach Strehle ask their friends to come onto the show for discussion of a particular, light-hearted topic such as beatboxing, being a twin, and college life. “We always thought, I mean, it might be arrogant to say, that we were funny people,” Dylan Strehle said. He added that, as big fans of radio, having a podcast was a way to share their talent. The Strehles have published 12 episodes – one has two parts – of just over 30 minutes of content on their channel. Two so far are broadcasted from Hillsdale. While the brothers uploaded podcasts infrequently in the past, they said they hope to post on a regular basis while at school, doing so once or twice a month. Their goal is to have fun with the podcast. “We do this more for us,” Dylan Strehle said. “We do

this for our enjoyment first and foremost.” The brothers said they hope others will appreciate it as well. “It’s something they can listen to and enjoy, forget about their woes,” Dylan Strehle said. “We’re there to make your day better.” They try to keep the production of the show simple. Shadrach Strehle writes up an outline of the show with bullet points, though the program is unscripted. Dylan Strehle typically does the editing, the most difficult and time-consuming part of the process, he said. While they broadcast from their shared room in Simpson Dormitory, the brothers maintain an air of professionalism. They have a microphone with a sound buffer to record clearly — though it doesn’t stop their dorm neighbors from knocking on their door while recording, as they experienced in a recent episode. The mic plugs into a computer, and they use free sound-editing software to get podcasts ready for the public. The Strehles said it would be a dream come true to broadcast after college. “If we could get into radio and be successful, that would be amazing,” Shadrach Strehle said. Dylan Strehle added: “We’ve always dreamed of doing entertainment for a living.” Until then, they said they are excited about the college’s new radio station. The

brothers have already developed an idea for a show with sophomore Brant Cohen. “We’re thinking it would be great to do live radio,” Dylan Strehle said. Shadrach Strehle shared similar excitement for the college’s initiative: “It would be the best day of my life.” As for “Twinovation,” the Strehles dragged freshmen Sam Cassels Freshmen twin brothers Shadrach (left) and Dylan (right) Strehle co-host a podcast, “Twinovation.” Breana Noble | Collegian and Josh matic. improvisation in their shows, While they’ve been side by Hoover on the air for their “Basically someone who especially in on-the-air games side all their lives, the twins first podcast at Hillsdale. they do with their guests. didn’t intentionally choose “They’re very succinct with can make a coherent sentence over and over again, ” Beyond podcasts, the the same college to attend, but each other,” Hoover said. “The Shadrach Strehle said. Strehles dabble into music. they both found Hillsdale to way they play off each other Prior to getting into With the help of a friend from be special, Dylan Strehle said. when interacting with other broadcasting, the brothers Washington state, award-winThey even chose to room people is so funny.” performed improv. They said ning tenor Garrett Hall, and together, which is convenient Cassels agreed. they hope to get involved in input from Hoover, they for producing their podcasts. “I think it catches them off Hillsdae’s Ad-Liberty Improv wrote and recorded a parody “It’s great to put yourself guard when they disagree,” Club while on campus as well. rap song called “Tombstone.” into something,” Shadrach Cassels said. “It’s super funny Beyond the stage, the Partially inspired by the movie Strehle said. “It’s good to to watch that.” “Twinovation” Sound Cloud “Straight Outta Compton,” know you can use your talents When selecting guests, the account includes an improthe song pokes fun at hip hop. for something positive.” brothers look for those who vised sound-only movie called They said they hope to do are well-spoken and charis“A Sealed Deal.” They also use more raps in the future.

The Mockingjay way: Cruz campaign ‘catches fire’ in Hillsdale County By | Breana Noble Assistant Editor Only 17 percent of those registered to vote in Hillsdale County participated in the 2012 presidential primary election. The county’s Ted Cruz for President 2016 organization aims to increase that by 500 votes, approximately 2 percent. The “Cruz Crew” held a meeting in Lane Hall the evening of Oct. 27 to discuss future campaign plans in support of the 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). County Chair senior David Roberts introduced six crew members and prospective volunteers to the Michigan campaign’s new grassroots strategy called Operation Catching Fire. It aims to encourage more people to participate in the March 8 primary and vote for Cruz. “We’re doing old-fashioned retail politicking: neighbor to neighbor, over the back fence, speaking to your friends and family and

letting them know what Ted Cruz is about,” the Cruz campaign’s Michigan State Director Wendy Day said in a telephone conversation. Operation Catching Fire relies on already-established social networks to spread the word about Cruz’s record and ideas. Supporters ask their families, friends, colleagues, and fellow parishioners who did not participate in the 2012 primary presidential election to pledge their vote for Cruz. Solicitors send reminders to vote and, if needed, drive an individual to the polling center. “That’s really going to be the obstacle, making sure we turn out those votes,” Day said. “If people have wondered, ‘Does my vote count?’ I guarantee it does.” She added that the 2012 primary results in two Michigan counties verged on a single ballot. Day said many people place Cruz in their top three. Roberts suggested when speaking to such people, compliment their candidate.

“Sen. Cruz has set a great example of staying positive, talking about the issues,” Day said. “We’re really just following his example.” Day said arguing with people rarely works. Instead, finding common ground may lead them to support Cruz if their No. 1 drops from the race. “It focuses... on making friends within the conservative movement,” Day said. Operation Catching Fire’s tactic differs from typical grassroots efforts. Michigan’s winters make it difficult to canvass neighbors. “It is far easier to speak to the people you know rather than to door-knock or cold call,” Roberts said. As Feb. 1 — the date the county releases absentee ballots — nears, however, volunteers will begin make phone calls on behalf of Cruz, Day said. Operation Catching Fire shares its name with the second book in the “Hunger Games” young adult trilogy. Day, a fan of the series, said

the book’s theme of fighting against oppressive government lines up well with Cruz’s message. “Sen. Cruz does remind me of that Mockingjay symbol,” Day said. “Cruz supporters really do care about

“That’s really going to be the obstacle, making sure we turn out those votes.” liberty, self-determination, and personal sustainability.” Although the initiative is the campaign’s “stealth” measure, Roberts said, Hillsdale County’s crew will reach out

to nursing homes by singing carols and delivering cookies, find places to put up Cruz signs off busy roads, and poll sit on Election Day to garner last-minute support. “Cruz has been thinking about running for years now, and he’s got a game plan,” Hillsdale resident Rachel Kiehnau said. “It’s great to see it executed.” Roberts also recommended supporters make an account on CruzCrowd, a social crowd-funding platform. People can donate through the website and invite friends to do so as well. “As you give money, as they give money, it all bundles to your account,” Roberts said. The more funds raised by supporters and those they recruit, the more Cruz swag they earn. Attendees at the meeting brainstormed project ideas at the end, suggesting renting a billboard or putting an announcement on the radio. “I feel like he’s the only candidate in the field who

is going to do what he says he is going to do,” sophomore Gabe Prieur said. “He’s honest.” Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele agreed. “There’s a number of good candidates running, but Cruz probably has the clearest set of principles,” Steele said. “People are the masters, not the government. I don’t think anyone has a clearer vision of that than he does.” In national polls, Cruz averages fifth for the GOP nomination. Roberts said this could be advantageous. “You don’t want to be in the front because the front guy gets the arrows,” Roberts said. “Whoever is in the lead is going to get attacked by his competitors and the media.” According to Day, in Michigan, the campaign is off to a great start. “We want to win Michigan for Sen. Ted Cruz, and we think we can,” Day said. “We have the best ground game in the state.”

MeLCat to lose one of its nine lives next week By | David Flemming Collegian Freelancer Don’t procrastinate on research for term papers because starting next week, the Michigan eLibrary Loan System will shut down temporarily. Mossey Library patrons will be unable to request books from other in-state libraries through the statewide system starting Nov. 17. MeLCat will go offline due to a server migration and remain inaccessible until Dec. 12. In the meantime, students may use Interlibrary Loan forms to obtain books from other institutions. The Library of Michigan will perform the server migration on Dec. 2. It transfers the entire catalogue of MeLCat books available from Michigan libraries to a new set of servers. “Once the server migra-

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tion has taken place, patrons are likely to see the time between their request and the book’s arrival shorten,”

MeLCat System Administrator Jackie Licalzi said. Though students can’t use MeLCat toward the end of

the semester, the decision on timing came from review of recommendations from various sources. “The timing was based on input from libraries and an analysis of MeLCat requests placed last year,” Licalzi said. “In general, this period of time sees fewer MeLCat requests.” The migration will not take an entire month to complete. For much of the period, the transportation and delivery service will continue. “The time between Nov. 18 and Nov. 30 will act as a kind of buffer so that materials will get to their patrons,” said Brenna Wade, technical librarian at Mossey Library. Those who check out books around this time can renew MeLCat items through Dec. 1 and return items at any time during the migration. The librarians, however,

Ben Carson leads in recent polls

U.S. says ISIS may have bombed Russian jet

Five people stabbed at California college

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has the support of 29 percent of the population, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal survey. Donald Trump came in second with 23 percent support. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio took 11 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz 10 percent.

U.S. officials report evidence that the Russian jet that went down over the Sinai Peninsula last week may have been bombed. Investigators are targeting individuals connected with the Islamic State as suspects for the take down of the jet.

A man brandishing a nineinch knife stabbed five people at the University of California’s Merced campus. The police fatally shot the suspect 20 minutes after the first stabbing, and though two victims were airlifted to the hospital, as of yet neither has died.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE MELCAT OUTAGE: 1) Go to http://Lib.Hillsdale.edu. 2) Select “Research Help.” 3) Click “MeLCat and ILL.” 4) Complete the proper page under “Can’t find it on MeLCat?” Requests may also be made with Interlibrary Loan forms, which patrons can find at the circulation desk.

will only check in them when the servers are online again. Patrons cannot submit requests while MeLCat is offline, though they can search its database from Nov. 18 to Dec. 11. While discussing how to execute the shutdown, MeLCat employees received input from libraries across the state. “The primary question we considered was: Is there a way to do this this gradually?” Licalzi said. “We decided the answer was no. It was better to just rip off the Band-Aid.” The organization decided it wanted to finish the project in one week rather than the alternate piecemeal six-week project. “Moving servers from one location to another is like moving from house to house,” Licalzi said. “It is a time-consuming process.”

MeLCat is a project of the Library of Michigan and the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. Since 2005, it has allowed those living in Michigan to order books and other materials from other participating libraries in the state for delivery to their local library. “I think it’s inconvenient,” senior Matt Sauer said. “But at least they’re telling us months in advance. I’m hopeful it won’t complicate end of the year research projects too much.” While the switch may make this semester a little more difficult for students, the librarians said hope to minimize inconvenience during the switch. “We will work hard to ensure the students are able to have the materials they need for the research they are doing,” Wade said.

Houston voters deny “bathroom ordinance”

Michigan city elects majority Muslim city council

Sixty-one percent of voters in Houston, Texas voted against an ordinance, which would have prevented employment and housing discrimination against gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The law would have prohibited labeling restrooms “male” or “female.”

The city of Hamtramck, Michigan elected the United State’s first majority Muslim city council this week. Four of the six council members profess Islam. Two of the councilmembers said despite their faith, they want to represent all constituents equally.

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‘Netflix and chill’ is killing us By | Hannah Niemeier Special to the Collegian Many cultural whistle-blowers have diagnosed the evils of modern society, decrying our lack of principle and conviction. They prescribe a return to morality, exhorting us to clean up our act and play nice. But seldom do they tell us why, or how. One of the few authors who attempts to overcome the emptiness of the age is David Foster Wallace in his novel “Infinite Jest.” Wallace’s treatment is effective, though painful. “Infinite Jest” is an encyclopedia of the ills of a technology-saturated society, centered on the alienating effects of a culture that values personal pleasure over meaningful human connection. Echoing Postman, he warns that we are in danger of entertaining ourselves to death. “Infinite Jest” takes the reader into homeless shelters, broken homes, drug-infested sports academies, and back alleys. As he writes in the voices of bums, bikers, and drug dealers, honesty supersedes propriety, because if the truth is painful, then the language that expresses it must be, as well. However, his use of offensive language and content prohibits some from appreciating his moral vision. But Wallace’s passionate message is important not in spite of its raw language, but because of the intensity in which it challenges our passivity. After all, Wallace isn’t saying anything we don’t already know. We have all sat alone on the couch on a Friday night, feeling ever emptier as we “connect” with our friends through social media. Technology alienates us. We starve for meaningful connection. We know it. We admit it. We resolve to do better. So why don’t we listen to ourselves? In a culture steeped in the white noise of coercive advertising, dishonest Facebook personas, and vapid self-help blogs, there’s a possibility that we’re just not convincing enough. “Infinite Jest” grabs our attention. It wakes us up, forcing us to grapple with the question: What does it mean to be human? If our culture as a whole is ignoring this question as we lapse into silence before our various technologies, we could very well be entertaining ourselves out of our humanity. The real battle lies not along the lines of censorship, but of conviction. Our true struggle is to believe, to act, to love, or at least to put down the TV remote and make the attempt. If it takes a few four-letter words to kick us off the couch, then so be it. That’s exactly what Wallace does. He makes our emptiness ache, reawakening hands and hearts long numb to real human experience. But in order to recover from our addiction to entertainment, we may have to swallow some harsh truths. After all, after we entertain ourselves to death, it will make no difference whether our mouths are clean.

Forester McClatchey

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Hannah is a sophomore studying English.

epithets or ad hominem attacks, but with scrupulous, spirited reasoning and rhetoric. But this is a newspaper. And it’s not only a newspaper — it’s the editorial page of a newspaper. Just as we withhold endorsement, we refuse to censor without good cause. Writing for print should be undertaken with the understanding that your arguments will be taken out of your hands and into the public sphere. People are deeply motivated by belief. Public challenges to these beliefs can incite strong reaction. As Hillsdale students,

we will be confronted upon graduation with a culture that is hostile to much that we hold dear. We cannot expect to be met with consensus or even good manners. It is not only our task to pursue truth and cultivate beauty, but to defend it and make evident to others — with rhetoric, prose, or example — the good found therein. What good is a liberal education if you can’t communicate? Write for the Opinions page. Get your hands dirty. Wrangle with opposing beliefs. Jot down your thoughts. We look forward to putting them in print.

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is regulated. Censoring campus is decidedly illiberal. “Public discourse” is not the practice of heaving banal, broadly-accepted theses into the public sphere and hoping that heads will nod in affirmation. Discourse is made vital by the real and lively exchange of authors’ convictions and reasoning. The hope is not that heads will nod, but that heads will roll. We have faith in our authors’ ability to write persuasively. We trust they can counteract, if necessary, arguments made against them. And this is precisely the place to argue. Not with

‘Glamour’ magazine honors the new womanhood By | Madeline Fry Special to the Collegian “Glamour” magazine announced the honorees of its 25th Women of the Year awards last week. Alongside Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon, entrepreneur and scientist Elizabeth Holmes, ballerina Misty Copeland, and exemplars of grace and forgiveness like the women of Charleston, “Glamour” honored two public figures who are not only unfit for the title, but also harmful to the very idea of female accomplishment. “Glamour” is not just another women’s gossip magazine. With a print audience of 12.2 million and an online audience of 8.5 million in the U.S. alone, “Glamour” is encountered by 1 in 8 American women. This doesn’t even take into account the magazine’s readership in 12 other countries, from Greece to South Africa. “Glamour” magazine’s Woman of the Year is a hefty title, one that millions of women and men across the U.S. are watching, reading about, and weighing against their own ideas of what it means to be a woman. It is a nationallyrecognized exhibition of feminine creativity and fortitude, a lineup of what the website calls “trailblazers and newsmakers.” With that in mind, let’s look at some of the honorees.

“Caitlyn Jenner might have spent a lifetime wrestling a delusion, but she will never face the trials of authentic femininity.” Caitlyn Jenner has sparked outcry over her inclusion in the list. Last year, Laverne Cox became the first transgendered person to receive the distinction, but Jenner’s recent, high-profile transition seems to have ignited greater controversy. The magazine’s website justifies Jenner’s inclusion with a quote from LGBT activist Alex Schmider: “She made the decision to transition publicly — so that in the future kids don’t have to wait until they’re 65 years old to discover who they are.” Bruce Jenner won the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year award in 1976 and publicly transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner in June. Through the months following Jenner’s coming out on the cover of “Vanity Fair,” it has become evident that choosing to identify as a female is enough to earn public acclaim. No matter that Jenner is a biological male who will never experience the pain of menstrual cramps or childbirth. She will never fear the threat of rape or encounter institutional sexism like women do. Other Women of the Year

have championed women’s rights in the Middle East and pioneered arenas typically inhabited by men. Jenner posed for a sexedup photoshoot and raved to a “Vanity Fair” reporter about how she can finally paint her nails without shame. If only womanhood were that easy. Critics point out that Jenner has not even been a woman for a year, to which supporters respond that she has spent a lifetime as a woman in a man’s body. Jenner might have spent a lifetime wrestling a psychological delusion, but she has not and never will face the trials and triumphs of authentic femininity. Amid the controversy over Jenner, the presence of another polarizing public figure has been all but ignored. Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood, was lauded by “Glamour” as a champion of women’s rights. To legitimize the choice, the website quotes actress Lena Dunham, who gushes over Richards’ bravery: “She is fighting for each and every one of us.” This “champion” of women’s rights has also

backed the slaughter of over a million unborn girls since she became CEO in 2006. She has repeatedly misrepresented her company by claiming that Planned Parenthood offers mammogram services, although it merely provides referrals. She admitted as much when she testified before Congress in September. Richards’ “grand achievement” is fighting for the women’s healthcare organization that provides necessary medical resources to women and earns over three-quarters of its nonfederal funding from the murder of unborn human beings. A champion of womens’ rights, indeed. “Glamour” claims that its Women of the Year recipients “each summoned up the will to do something extraordinary.” If appropriating womanhood or abusing a position of influence to profit from the massacre of children is extraordinary, then our heroines have fallen very far indeed. Madeline is a sophomore studying English.

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PTSD is not a disease — it’s a symptom By | Nathan Seither Special to the Collegian I was in D.C. a year ago when I received a phone call from Justin, my closest friend through five wonderful years in the Marine Corps that included our tour to Afghanistan in 2008. Justin had called me to tell me that one of our close comrades had recently taken his own life: Joseph Gellings, a mortarman in our battalion. Gellings was the 11th of 13 to do so. That call has never left me. To military psychologists, Gellings was just another victim of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. That diagnosis seemed too generic for a human soul, too careless, yet no one had another solution. Although PTSD is the standard diagnosis for most veteran-related problems, I believe we must instead examine the culture with which veterans are confronted. I firmly believe that the unprecedented number of veteran suicides is an understandable response to our sick world. Just as a symptom is evidence of an illness, the struggles of veterans today are symptomatic of a great sickness within our culture: the absence of objective truth.

“When veterans are thrust into a society without values, it is immensely lonely.” C.S. Lewis’ analysis in “The Abolition of Man” describes the the cultural implications of rejecting objective truth and offers a profound insight to veteran suicide. For Lewis, objective truth (“the Tao,” as he calls it) is a necessary element of society and the last bastion of civilized humanity. Outside the Tao, Lewis warns, our only options are the bestial pursuit of pleasure — or suicide. Reading Lewis’ defense of objective truth resolved my frustration with PTSD diagnoses as the general solution to veterans’ issues. In our scientific and progressive era, the truth is held in contempt, scrutinized until it is dismissed. Lewis aptly names these “men without chests.” Out of a military society built by men of principle, men with chests, centered on objective truth, veterans emerge into a culture that has “stepped out of truth and into the void.” Months after Justin’s call, I was notified of an article in the New York Times that highlighted the battalion. To my astonishment, the

article wasn’t about our accomplishments, valor, or the two marines who received the Navy Cross (an award second only to the Medal of Honor). It wasn’t about our fierceness or bravery in battle. It was the record number of suicides within the my battalion. The veteran understands what is evil and what is good by the nature of his training. If the veteran has any uncertainty of objective truth walking into combat, it is quickly swept away with the snap of the round overhead, the soul-chilling whistle of the rocket, or the eyes of the enemy. There exists in those moments the visceral and violent confrontation with objective truth. In those moments the veteran feels the presence of the divine, of something higher and worth recognizing as true. You cannot escape it. During my time with the platoon I could see the superstitions that were a result of this feeling: the archangel placed on all corners of the Humvee, a bible that had survived the beaches

On Veterans Day, remember why our heroes fought By | Morgan Brownfield Special to the Collegian On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, beginning the process of ending World War I. The day was memorialized as Armistice Day, and many Americans still observe a few moments of silence for the tens of millions killed and wounded in “the war to end all wars” on Nov. 11. To remember all veterans, not just those who fought in WWI, the holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. If we have never lost a loved one to war, we may imagine these men as distant, fighting in wars far away. We fail to recognize that “most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived,” as Ronald Reagan said in his 1995 Veterans Day address. A few years ago, my family visited the Punchbowl Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, and came across a grave marker that moved us to tears. As we walked among the gravestones of veterans from four wars, we

“All those who fought for our country were and are, in some sense, victims of a failed peace process.” noticed an unopened can of Budweiser next to one of the tombstones. Someone wanted to have one last drink with their buddy from war — a drink that they would never get to have. Instances like these remind us that “when they died,” as Reagan continues, “they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember.” But honor is more than mere remembrance. In order to properly remember those who have died, we must consider the conditions that led to the wars in which they gave their last full measure of devotion. Although Veterans Day is perceived as a day to honor our warriors, we must consider that it is, more broadly, a day to honor what they were fighting for: peace.

All those who fought for our country were, in some sense, victims of a failed peace process. In order to properly honor them, we ought to examine our choices, where we succeeded and where we can more effectively ensure peace and uphold principle. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not arguing for pacifism. Rather, I argue for this: We must continue the conversation concerning the practices that best uphold our principles, ensuring that fewer men must join the ranks of those who gave their all. In this dialogue of remembrance, we must aim to do what is right by those who have fought, who are fighting, and who will fight. Veterans Day provides an opportunity to consider our debt that we can never repay and carry on the conversation. Morgan is a sophomore studying politics.

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor,

Natalie McKee’s letter to the editor last week in response to my piece “Our currency is no place for a woman” claimed my argument was “completely uncalled for” and an abuse of the privilege of attending a school were some “un-PC thought” is allowed. My argument was simple. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wants to put a woman on the $10 bill. I say we shouldn’t because being on a dollar bill should be a result of merit and no woman has yet met the incredibly high standard of greatness required for that honor. Apparently, that argument was so beyond the pale that McKee thought it never should have been published.

Really? I didn’t advocate for violence against women. I used no obscenities. I made no threats. I made a forceful and direct argument about a public policy issue. That’s it. McKee is welcome to disagree, reasonably or unreasonably, but to call for the censorship of my opinion because she doesn’t like it is a different matter entirely. Hillsdale is a liberal arts college, not a Sunday school. The point of our education is not to learn the catechism or to repeat holy dogmas. It is to think critically and to confront reality honestly. In our era of trigger warnings and safe spaces cries of racism, homophobia, and misogyny

too easily shut down reasonable argument. Perhaps McKee didn’t like my tone, or thought my title (which I did not write, by the way) were too mean or over the top. Fine. But to call those abuses of the privilege of public discourse is utterly inimical to liberal education. I take issue with the rest of McKee’s response to my argument. I think she misunderstood what I actually said. But that’s irrelevant to the more important point: liberal learning is incompatible with a culture of political correctness that brooks no dissent. By all means, feel free to disagree with my argument, but don’t censor it. Josiah Lippincott, senior.

of Normandy stowed under a seat. The armed forces are truly a value-laden society because of their continued interaction with death and destruction. When the veteran is thrust back into a society without values, it can be overwhelming and immensely lonely. While others have stepped outside of the Tao, the veteran inches closer to the void. He is considered an outsider, and he very much is. His aloofness is psychoanalyzed away as PTSD. In a world of men without chests, the veteran truly feels alone. This is not the rhetoric used to describe my unit in the New York Times nor anywhere else in the professional environment. We are told that PTSD is real, that scores of veterans have experienced it for millennia unnoticed. Not once does anyone venture a guess that a veteran is reacting against the culture, not from a symptom of his own, but a sickness within society itself, the absence of objective truth. It is astounding to me that

Temporary grave of a U.S. Marine. Wikimedia Commons

veterans have a desire to fight and die for this country, but when they return to their homes and their community, they return to a community they fought for but cannot live in. Perhaps what we fight for is truth, for a society that believes in something that is true, good, and divine. For the veteran, everything is lost and we have spent our lives living a lie, for a truth that doesn’t exist, killed without a purpose and now must deliberate an existence living in the void, or suicide. Gellings felt it. He left behind a little daughter. My hope is that my

brothers will find solitude in a community of order and truth. A value-laden education can assist in the plight of the veteran. The Freedom Scholarship at Hillsdale accomplishes more than I believe its founders could possibly anticipate. For that I will be forever grateful. A college is a community and it is community that can solve this issue. Even if that community is small, it may be enough to save a life or even a family. Nathan is a senior studying political economy.

Fix Web Advisor

By | Natalie McKee Senior Reporter

I thought my final time registering for classes would go much more smoothly than it did Monday morning. Like every year, I woke up early, watched until the second hand hit 7:00 a.m., clicked “Submit,” and prayed WebAdvisor would work. Unlike most years, I wasn’t overly stressed because I wasn’t trying to get into Dr. Smith’s Shakespeare class (R.I.P. last semester’s dream). But lo and behold, the one and only class I needed to complete my major filled up between when WebAdvisor crashed and when I got back on. I couldn’t graduate. After a mini panic attack, I realized everything would be okay. The college isn’t in the habit of trying to keep us here an extra semester because a class filled up. And thankfully, the gracious and understanding English department had the whole situation worked out for me by 1 p.m. on Tuesday. I can graduate in May 2016, but I can’t help but think we need a better system. It’s not uncommon for classes to fill up with either non-majors fulfilling core requirements (when there are often three or four other options of classes they could take) or underclassmen

Dear Editor, If Josiah Lippincott is a misogynist, his article regarding Alexander Hamilton’s place on the ten-dollar bill is not valid evidence. As reading beyond the first two sentences of the article makes abundantly clear, female contributions to American history are not the political question at hand. Yes, American women have valiantly defended liberty since the republic’s early days. So have innumerable men who do not appear on our currency. The current political impetus to show this particular honor to a woman springs not from recognition of any woman’s contribution to national finance, but rather, the bureaucracy decrees that they will replace Hamilton

registering as seniors who still have time to take the class. For a senior in a particular major who cannot graduate without that specific class, such a situation proves frustrating. Therefore, I suggest two changes: First, students who are graduating in the fall or spring of any given school year should get first dibs on all classes, and majors should get preference over non-majors. I spoke to the registrar, Douglas McArthur, who kindly explained that the rubric required to make my dream a reality would be extremely complicated and that he doesn’t know how to fashion one to solve this problem. And, admittedly, neither do I. However, perhaps the college could hire someone with the technical prowess I don’t have to develop a system like this. First, we’d have to redefine “seniors” as “those who plan to graduate in the fall or spring of any given year.” Example: Sally, who came to Hillsdale with 500 AP credits and plans to graduate in 2017 cannot register before Tom who is graduating in 2016. Students would need to inform the registrar when they plan to graduate, so that students graduating a year early would get the same preference as seniors. Thus, a student’s extra AP credits

would help him register earlier as a grade-year freshman and sophomore, but not necessarily when he is a junior (unless he decides to graduate early). Next, students would need to declare their majors in order to get preference in classes within their majors. Registration would still work via seniority, but we would have two weeks of registration. The first week, seniors, juniors, and sophomores would register for only classes in their major (seniors on Monday, juniors on Wednesday, etc.). The second week, everyone would register for classes outside of their major. Even though Hillsdale is a liberal arts college and encourages taking classes outside of one’s major, students still need to graduate with a major. Thus, a system like this would alleviate some registration stress if the college could develop a the necessary computer system. McArthur said that besides our current use of computers (which definitely improved the process), the registration system today is the same as it’s been for decades – and he was open to new ideas if anyone had something that would work better.

with a token female to show that they’re inclusive. That is condescending, sexist, and truly misogynistic, as were the attempts to include women in currency with the obnoxiously impractical dollar coins featuring Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea. The number of historical figures worthy of honor, both men and women, is staggering. We have a limited number of bills and coins on which to feature them. How ought we narrow the field? It is eminently reasonable to feature individuals who contributed specifically to the financial character of the United States by their writings and actions in public office. Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin all fit the bill. If there was a woman in American history whose contribution matched these men’s in both

kind and magnitude, put her face on the money; but none comes immediately to mind. What women might have done under less restrictive social circumstances is utterly irrelevant: to quote T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton,” “What might have been is an abstraction / Remaining a perpetual possibility / Only in a world of speculation.” And speculation is a risky word in finance. The substance of the argument that Lippincott presented in his article in no way denigrated women. I don’t agree with everything he said; I think it’s a grave error to equate political geniuses with “the greatest of the great.” But was it too much to ask that readers look past an attention-catching and laughable headline, to see what he meant?

Natalie is a senior studying English.

Emily Peterson, senior.

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HCHC reflects on 100 years of service Hillsdale Community Health Center committed to patients as it adjusts to the effects of the Affordable Care Act By | Katherine Scheu Collegian Freelancer When Jeremy Hodshire walks through the halls of the Hillsdale Community Health Center, he greets every doctor, nurse, and staff member by name, with a smile on his face. As the Director of Organizational Development and HCHC board member, Hodshire’s close relationship with his fellow employees is exemplary of the commitment the hospital has made to its patients and the broader Hillsdale community — a commitment that will keep the hospital open and ready to serve, even in face of changes President Barack Obama’s new health care laws have made to the operation of rural hospitals. “Our main priority is to ensure that we have local healthcare for Hillsdale County,” Hodshire said. For the past 100 years, HCHC has been able to do just that. However, the Affordable Care Act has put rural, inde-

pendent hospitals like Hillsdale’s in a difficult position. As a result of this new legislation, 3,000 lives in Hillsdale County alone are now insured by Medicare or Medicaid, government-funded health insurance. “We are challenged as a small, rural hospital because of Medicaid and Medicare. The government pays us less than

ed at random to take a survey and review their experience at HCHC. Should these results reflect poorly upon the hospital, the government is able to withhold up to 30 percent of their projected reimbursement. The hospital is currently leading the country with its scores in quality care, and is in the 90th percentile for employ-

The employees’ work isn’t only within the hospital, however. Employees are also reaching out to the Hillsdale community. “We realized that at the hospital we’re dependent on a robust economy,” said Duke Anderson, CEO. “We participate as an organization which is in a relationship with the private

relationships with businesses, the Economic Department Partnership, and South Central Michigan. Of course, while their efforts extend outside of the hospital, they’re primarily focused on making sure their facility is of quality and is up-to-date. “We’re always looking at ways to reinvent ourselves,”

“We pursue the three C’s: caring for patients and their families, commitment to them, and community.” commercial insurances do, so we have to watch our bottom line very close,” Hodshire said. In fact, with the expansion of government insurance, nearly 68 percent of the hospital’s insurance reimbursement now comes from the government. Reimbursement for those using Medicare and Medicaid must be qualified by positive patient feedback. Upon leaving the hospital, patients are select-

ee satisfaction. Hodshire explained that all employees at HCHC are taking measures to keep quality scores high. Doctors and nurses are taking classes in bedside manner and participating in other programs that teach them the skills of customer relations, because the hospital is committed to achieving the scores it needs to keep its budget intact and its doors open.

sector.” While Hillsdale County used to be home to manufacturing companies tied to the automotive industry, the recent economic crisis has led to the closing of factories. Because of this, workers who used to be insured by Blue Cross Blue Shield or other commercial insurances are now covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Conscious of this, HCHC is fighting to build

Hodshire said. HCHC is a 100-bed hospital, but it’s also home to a 40-bed nursing home, a brand-new obstetrics unit, and four operating room suites. In one year, the hospital will perform 140,000 outpatient services, which include X-rays and blood draws. HCHC is also a teaching hospital, and is partnered with Michigan State University, providing a place for young doctors

to train for their future careers. They also offer a volunteer program for students at Hillsdale College on the pre-medical track. Students earn their certification as a Nursing Assistant free of charge, and provide help to the hospital’s emergency room, learning valuable experiences as they watch doctors and nurses at work and assist in logistical tasks. “If you really want to be a doctor, this gets you used to it so the first time you’re in an environment you’re comfortable,” said Hillsdale College sophomore Emma Carville. Between training the next generation of doctors and reinventing itself to meet the new government standards, HCHC is intent upon remaining available for Hillsdale County. “At the hospital, we pursue the three Cs,” Hodshire said. “Caring for patients and their families, commitment to them, and community. We need their partnership to make sure this hospital stays open another 100 years.”

Celebrating costumes and comics Local comic book store participates in nationwide Halloween event By | Madeleine Jepsen Assistant Editor Zombies, princesses, and superheroes gathered downtown for the first Halloween ComicFest, which featured free comic books and a costume contest with cash prizes, hosted by Alternaprint Screen Printing & Comic Book Shop on Oct. 31. Owners Andrew and Catie Gibbs held the nationwide event at their store for the first time this year. As participants, they handed out free, special edition comic books to attendees, took pictures for the costume competition, and gave candy to trick-ortreaters. This year’s selection of free comic books included special editions of popular titles such as “Harley Quinn,” “Batman Adventures,” “Sabrina,” and “Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers.” Afterward, the store showed the movie “Trick ‘R Treat.” Halloween Comicfest, which began in 2012, seeks to connect people with their local comic book stores. According to the event’s website, it “celebrates the independent comic book specialty shops, thousands of which exist in North America alone. Each one is

unique in its community, with a style and personality all its own.” Some attendees stopped by the shop for a free comic book, while others entered the costume competition, which featured five categories and cash prizes totalling to more than $2,000. Ashley May, one of the participants, was able to get the special edition of one of her favorite childhood comic books at the event. “The only comics I could get as a kid were the Archie comics, so I was really excited when they did a Halloween edition of ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch,’” she said. “I definitely picked that up, and it is great.” Andrew Gibbs hopes to create an ambience that will encourage people to hang out in the store. He chose to hold events like Halloween ComicFest to create a fun, welcoming environment. “When we opened up the store, we wanted to do a bunch of different events like this for the community,” he said. “So we figured this would be a nice thing to do. Plus, I like Halloween.” The Gibbses opened Alternaprint in October 2014 after moving from Chicago to Hillsdale. In April, they moved the

business to a downtown venue, expanding their screen-printing business in the back of the store while converting the front of the store into a comic book shop. Since its opening, Alternaprint has participated in local events such as Summer in the City and Awesome Autumn, as well as national events such as Halloween ComicFest and Free Comic Book Day, which is held on the first Saturday of May each year. The owners also hold independent film screenings on the last Saturday of every month at the store. “The big expansion we did was the movie stuff,” Andrew Gibbs said. “We’ve been showing and screening indie films here now. That’s been awesome. We get around 30 people showing up to watch films.” Despite the uncertainties of moving the business from a big city to a small town, Gibbs stated that the transition has been successful so far. “We didn’t know how well the comic book thing would go, we didn’t really know how well the screen printing thing would go, but it ended up being awesome,” he said.

Andrew and Catie Gibbs (center) pose with attendees of the Alternaprint ComicFest on Oct. 31 at the Alternaprint Comic Book Store, 14 N. Howell St. Madeleine Jepsen | Collegian

Alternaprint Comic Book Store covered its front window display with cobwebs for Halloween.

Madeleine Jepsen | Collegian

Grosvenor House Halloween night presents profs and Poe Historic house haunts guests with chilling poems and prose By | Nicholas Rowan Collegian Freelancer Students and local residents celebrated a new Halloween tradition by assembling at Jonesville’s historic Grosvenor House for its first annual night of Halloween-themed readings. “We want to expand the number of events we hold in the house,” Hillsdale College Professor of Physics and Grosvenor House board member Paul Hosmer said. “Victorian Christmas is currently our main event, but the Grosvenor House has potential for many

more local events. Julia Kilgore, who was a former Hillsdale student, came up with this idea last year, and we hope to continue doing it.” Hosmer read his original tale of a fictional Indian haunting, including many of the classic horror story tropes — vengeful ghosts, eerie knocking, creepy dolls — all set against the backdrop of the Grosvenor House itself. When Hosmer imitated a terrified woman’s scream, several people in the audience were startled. Afterward, he explained his story had blended historical facts about the house with details from his own imagina-

tion. “My story gives reasons for some of the unsolved peculiarities of the Grosvenor House,” he said. The night concluded when Professor of English Kelly Franklin stood before the audience and read Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” which Hosmer called “Poe’s classic tale of murder and madness.” Franklin believes the story shows Poe’s keen perception into the working of the human mind. “People often demean Poe as a simply madman and a drunk,” Franklin said. “We often forget that he was an innovative writer.”

After the dramatic readings, Hillsdale College senior Amanda Hatch and Grosvenor House board member Bonnie Drake shared a general history of Halloween and local history of the greater Jonesville area. The Grosvenor House board hopes events like the Halloween-themed reading will make local history accessible to the community in a palatable way. Drake said the house’s architect, Elijah Meyers, also designed the Michigan state capitol building in Lansing, and the original owner of the house, Ebenezer Grosvenor, invested much of his later life into furthering the quality of

American education. “The Grosvenor House board’s mission is to share the history of Jonesville, because it connects a lot with the history of Michigan, and by extension, the greater United States,” Hatch said. “We thought, ‘what better way to celebrate Halloween than to get together in an historic mansion with professors reading Edgar Allan Poe and sharing some of the history of the Halloween tradition?’ This is basically a fun way to get people involved in the town’s past.” The Grosvenor House is open for tours year-round, and every year, on the first week-

end of December, it holds its signature “Victorian Christmas” weekend. This is the first year the house has hosted a Halloween event. Board members hope the Halloween reading, as well as the house’s other events, emphasize the value of the Grosvenor House. “Ebenezer Grosvenor was a Hillsdale College trustee for many years and helped pay for many students’ education,” Drake said. “It’s a real blessing in return to see so many Hillsdale students come out to events like these.”

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Council cancels surprise city clerk appointment Council members vote against mayor’s proposal to bypass resume reviews By |Thomas Novelly Assistant Editor Hillsdale City Council members were caught off guard by an unplanned appointment for the vacant city clerk position proposed by Mayor Scott Sessions at the council’s Monday meeting. In last week’s meeting the council decided to review the six resumes submitted for the position, but at the Monday meeting Sessions said the candidates were underqualified and proposed to appoint the current interim City Clerk and Director of Recreation, Michelle Loren, instead. The council voted against Sessions’ city clerk appointment 5-2. “At the last city council

meeting I requested the names of your top two applicants for the city clerk’s position,” Sessions said. “However, after spending a considerable amount of time reviewing the resumes, I believe none of the candidates possess the necessary municipal skills

the council’s opinion wasn’t consulted regarding the vacant position and that the mayor’s decision derailed the original agenda. “This has been a complete change of how the position was described to us and what we agreed upon,” Flannery

appointment and that advertising it as a full-time position would garner more fair results. “I believe if we would’ve advertised this out as a fulltime position we would have gotten more applicants than we had,” Sharp said. “We need

taking resumes for another 30 days. Councilwoman Mary Beth Bail and Sally Kinney both voted to appoint Loren as city clerk. Councilwoman Kinney, whose last night in office was during the meeting, said she voted against the motion to

“I’m also disappointed, Mr. Mayor, that you’re apparently not going to listen to the council’s input on who we think should be clerk.” and experience to perform the position. At the Nov. 9 special meeting I will be appointing Michelle Loren, with council approval, as full-time city clerk.” Councilman Patrick Flannery was concerned that

said. “I’m also disappointed, Mr. Mayor, that you’re apparently not going to listen to the council’s input on who we think should be clerk.” Councilman Bruce Sharp said the scope of the position changed with Sessions’

to make sure we do this fairly and give everybody a chance. We want to make sure we do this right, and not just appoint somebody.” The council voted to repost the advertisement as a fulltime position and continue

support of Loren’s hard work and experience as interim clerk. “Michelle has stepped up to the plate numerous times to fill in, and she has run six elections now,” Kinney said. “She’s done an awesome job.

I really think we need to look inside first. She knows the job, and I really support her.” During public comment, Hillsdale resident Penny Swan spoke against Mayor Sessions’ decision to appoint Loren as city clerk. Swan said she was shocked by the decision, but thankful the council chose to repeal the appointment. “With the city clerk meeting, I was blown away,” Swan said. “You were going to discuss it, there were six applicants, and then boom! You try to appoint somebody tonight. That’s strange to me, I thought, ‘Something’s not right here.’ Thank you guys for having calmer heads, that speaks a lot to open, honest government here.”

Low voter turnout brings single-digit victory Seven percent of registered voters participated in the polls, favoring Matthew Bell by four votes in Ward 4 By | Vivian Hughbanks News Editor Only seven percent of the 4,868 registered voters in the city of Hillsdale participated in Tuesday’s city council elections, drastically less than the nearly 50 percent voter turnout in the 2012 presidential election. “We’re a very complaining community,” said interim City Clerk Michelle Loren. “But not many people go and do something about it.” On Tuesday, voters chose two new Hillsdale city councilmembers, Matthew Bell and Timothy Dixon. Voters also re-elected council incumbents Bruce Sharp and Brian Watkins. Only five percent of voters from Wards 2 and 3 cast their ballots. “I think what threw a lot of people off was, with the exception of Bruce Sharp in Ward 3, all of the candidates were write-ins,” said interim City Clerk Michelle Loren. Ward 1 saw the highest turnout, with 15 percent voter participation, and Ward 4 turned out nine percent. The most dramatic competition for City Council occurred for the seat vacated by Mary Beth Bail in Ward 4. Councilman-elect Matthew Bell beat out Richard D. Smith and Michael Mitchell. “Once we discovered that more than 120 people had voted, I was nervous. Had any four of the people who voted for me decided to stay home, I would’ve lost,” Bell,

Hillsdale College’s director of programs for external affairs, told the Collegian in an email. Bell took 39 votes to Smith’s 36 votes, and Mitchell’s 35. “A dear professor of mine dubbed me ‘Landslide Lyndon’ this morning,” Bell quipped. “Let it be recorded

“We’re a very complaining community. But not many people go and do something about it.” that the only political similarity between LBJ and myself is that of squeaking out an election victory.” Ward 1 incumbent Brian Watkins comfortably defeated challengers Dennis Wainscott and Ted Janson, taking 51 percent of that ward’s votes. Ward 3 incumbent Bruce Sharp — the only candidate whose name was printed on the ballot — ran unchallenged, and he retained his seat with 69 votes. In Ward 2, writein candidate Timothy Dixon ran unchallenged, and took the seat with 37 votes. Ward 2 will

continue underrepresented on the Council, as Dixon will replace term-limited Councilwoman Sally Kinney and the remaining Ward 2 seat remains vacant. “I’ve had multiple people ask me over the years to consider running for council,” Dixon said. He added that he decided to run after reading in the Oct. 1 edition of the Collegian that Ward 2’s residents would not be represented since Kinney could not run again. “Because no one was running, I thought it would be better to represent the people of Ward 2,” Dixon said. He said he hopes to contribute to Hillsdale’s economy and functionality as councilman. “Roads are a major problem,” he said. “Maybe a fresh set of eyes would be able to help resolve that issue.” Bell also said he plans to begin the process of fixing the roads, and that he will advocate against any raise in taxes. “I hope to work with fellow council members and community leaders to find ways to simplify government and to ensure that the people of Hillsdale are in charge of their government,” Bell said. “I seek to represent my ward responsibly and to exercise prudence in office. I’ll consider my term a great success if I do that.”

Winning Candidates

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356 Voters

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City to update generators for $1.2 million Hillsdale BPU to spend more than a million dollars on Baw Beese generators to meet EPA standards By | Jordyn Pair Collegian Freelancer The Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities plans to spend $1.2 million to update the generators at Baw Beese Lake and replace the town sewage treatment plant in order to have reliable emergency power. “The engines at Baw Beese Lake haven’t been operated for two years,” Michael Barber, interim Director for the Board of Public Utilities said. “So we have to go through and make them mechanically operational and meet the new Environmental Protection Agency standards for emissions control.” The new standards are driven mostly by the National Emission Standard for Haz-

ardous Air Pollutants ruling and Clean Water Act. Updates to the Baw Beese Lake generators will ensure they comply with these new standards. “Instead of using of the lake

dale. “They allow us to provide some power to the city in case we were to lose all power so that we can maintain the hospital, sewage treatment plant,

mated to cost around $1.2 million, funded by the BPU. “We’ve identified the mechanical issues with the engines, so it won’t be problematic. It will just be time

ing them. “We looked at the cost of replacing our fuel oil [and] natural gas units with just straight natural gas units, and to put new units in it’s about $1.2

“There’s just so much to take care of. That’s why the project is so monetarily involved. To put new units in it’s about $1.2 million per megawatt.” for cooling, I’ll have to put in cooling towers,” Barber said. “I’ll have to put in emission control catalysts with monitoring devices on the exhausts.” The two generators at Baw Beese Lake are used as sources of emergency power for Hills-

water facility, police, and fire rescue,” Barber said. If needed, the generators can power about half the city, according to City Manager David Mackie. The three-year project to update the generators is esti-

consuming getting the parts off and getting them replaced or repaired,” Barber said. “There’s just so much to take care of. That’s why the project is so monetarily involved.” However, repairing the generators costs less than replac-

million per megawatt,” Barber said. “The two engines I’m fixing will output 11 megawatts. So, simple math will tell you it’s really not cost-effective to build new units.” In addition to repairing the generators at the Baw Beese

Lake facility, the BPU also plans to replace the emergency generators for the sewage treatment plant, to prevent more sewage overflows like the one into St. Joseph River due to a power outage in July. This overflow released nearly 70,000 gallons of sewage into the river, according to Hillsdale Daily News. “The generators at the sewage treatment plant are specifically designed for if the power feeding the lines to the sewage treatment plant goes out,” Mackie said. “We would have the generators on site that could be powered up so the sewer treatment plant could continue serving the city without overflow into the river and the environmental issues involved with that.”

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Volleyball

Football Upcoming

SATURDAY, OCT. 31

Hillsdale

StatS Chance Stewart Joe Reverman Jack Wiseman John Haley Defense

GLIAC Standings North Division 1. Ferris St. 2. Grand Valley St. Michigan Tech 4. Northern Mich. Wayne St. Northwood 7. Hillsdale 8. Saginaw Valley

Saginaw Valley

Saturday, Nov. 7 at northwood 1:00 pm

Conf. Overall 8-0 8-0 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-2 4-4 5-4 4-4 5-4 4-4 4-5 3-5 3-6 1-7 1-8

South Division 1. Ashland 2. Ohio Dominican 3. Tiffin 4. Findlay 5. Lake Erie 6. Walsh 7. Malone

Conf. 9-0 5-3 4-4 3-5 2-6 2-7 0-8

SATURDAY, OCT. 31 Tiffin

03 00

Women’s Cross-Country

TUESDAY, NOV. 3

Friday, Nov. 6 at maLonE 7:00 pm Saturday, Nov. 7 at waLSh 2:00 pm

03 02 Hillsdale

Overall 9-0 6-3 5-5 4-5 2-7 2-7 0-8

Upcoming

FRIDAY, OCT. 30 Ohio Hillsdale Dominican

Hillsdale

Findlay

03 01

SEaSon LEadErS Kills Digs Aces Assists Blocks

GLIAC Standings Conf. North Division 13-1 1. Ferris St. 10-4 2. Saginaw Valley 10-4 Grand Valley St. 8-6 4. Michigan Tech 7-7 5. Northern Mich. 7-7 Northwood 6-8 7. Wayne St. 8. Lake Superior St. 0-14

Overall 24-2 20-5 16-9 17-9 18-8 11-14 11-15 0-21

South Division 1. Ashland Findlay 3. Hillsdale 4. Ohio Dominican 5. Tiffin 6. Walsh Malone 8. Lake Erie

Conf. 11-3 11-3 10-4 6-8 5-9 3-11 3-11 2-12

Overall 18-7 18-7 18-6 13-13 10-15 10-16 10-19 7-17

Men’s Basketball

Upcoming

SatUrday, nov. 7

NCAA Midwest Regional

At Toledo

at Evansville, Ind.

Exhibition

11:30 AM

2:30 PM

Men’s Cross-Country

Women’s Swimming

Upcoming

SatUrday, nov. 7

NCAA Midwest Regional

vs. Tiffin, Olivet

at Evansville, Ind.

at Tiffin, Ohio

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

Stevan Bennett:

Let ‘em play, refs

For most of my life, my Sunday after-church tradition has been set: change clothes, eat lunch, and then plant myself on the couch for a day full of NFL action. Recently, however, the NFL has started to become unwatchable, as yellow handkerchiefs litter the field at obnoxious rates, all while the league is continuously forced to admit blown calls by their officials. After only one week of play in the 2015 season, the NFL admitted two key missed calls in the New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys game. One was an unwarranted pass interference call late in the game that changed a key thirddown stop by the Giants into a first-and-goal situation for the Cowboys, resulting in the eventual game-winning touchdown. This is not, however, an isolated incident. This season there has been an average of almost 18 penalties accepted per game, which is up from 14.8 in 2013. That’s three more times referees stop the game, gather together, deliberate, and then make a potentially game-changing call. Unfortunately, even when these officials do come together to deliberate, they often still get it wrong. Detroit Lions fans know this all too well. The Lions’ week-four game against the Seattle Seahawks was followed by an apology, as the league admitted that the officials missed an illegal batting call, as Seahawk K.J. Wright knocked a Calvin Johnson fumble out of the back of the endzone. This kind of batting, which is prohibited by rule 12.8.1, should have given the ball back to the Lions with inches to goal. Instead, the Seahawks were given a touchback, and they finished the game in victory formation. This marked yet another game which could have yielded a different victor had the rules been correctly enforced. As a Chicago Bears fan, I was appalled by the week-six game between the Bears and Lions, which seemed to have three teams on the field: One

in white, one in orange, and one in stripes. The team in stripes called a total of 19 penalties, which resulted in 174 yards, almost as many yards as were compiled by either offense. It was impossible to watch more than a few minutes without seeing the bright yellow “flag” icon light up the screen. The NFL seems to have forgotten that football is a physical sport, especially when it comes to star quarterbacks. Defensive players have become so afraid of the exorbitant penalties and heavy-handed fines — 13 of which were greater than $17,000 in 2014 — that the NFL might as well give quarterbacks red jerseys and put flags on their waists. Of course, the league should be making an effort to reduce the number of injuries, especially to the head, but they have taken it too far, and largely in the wrong direction. We should see these penalties when there is a legitimate dirty hit, not anytime that feet get tangled up on a pass. This past Sunday we saw a number of star players sustain injuries, including Steve Smith, Le’Veon Bell, Matt Forte, and Reggie Bush. None of these injuries came on the type of plays that the NFL is cracking down on, such as helmet-to-helmet contact or pass interference. Rather, they came on legal football plays that happened to end in a knee or ankle turning the wrong way. Even the play on which Seattle Seahawk Ricardo Lockette was leveled and knocked unconscious, resulting in a concussion and season-ending surgery, did not yield a penalty, much to the credit of the officiating crew. The block was clean, but it had a scary result. This is, unfortunately, a fact of a contact sport like football. I would love to continue spending my Sundays in front of a TV watching the NFL for years to come, but if the officials continue to dominate the sport I will be forced to change the channel. These are grown men, playing a man’s sport. Let them play it.

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The culture of cross-country By | Evan Carter Web Editor

This Saturday, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams will compete at the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Meet at Angel Mounds State Historic Park in Evansville, Indiana. Between waking up at 6:30 a.m. for Sunday morning practices, making long drives to meets in crowded vans, and pushing one another in workouts, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams spend a lot of time together. In the midst of all the miles run and the hours spent together, a unique team culture has emerged that is not only distinct from other teams at Hillsdale, but even varies from previous year’s cross-country teams. This culture is hard working and helps drive the team’s success, but the team never forgets to have fun. “I think the thing that made it most manageable is that we’re doing it together,” senior captain Kate Royer said. “Getting up for 6:30 practice is easier when we’re getting up to hang out with our friends.” The team’s collective drive to succeed is necessary in order to maintain the motivation needed to work hard every day, as training starts in late

May and the national meet isn’t until six months later on Nov. 21. During the season, the athletes rarely take time off. They spend every day either running or cross-training by some sort of aerobic physical activity. Some of the runners on the men’s team run up to 100 miles in a single week. They wake up early to run, and they run after class. Some runs are relaxed, some are allout, and others long. And the team’s definition of relaxed, all-out, and long is different from that of a regular student. One of the men may jog a 6:40 mile easy, sprint a 4:30 mile hard, and run a 16mile long run. Equally impressive, a woman may jog a 7:10 mile easy, sprint a 5:10 mile hard, and run an 11-mile long run. If team members are injured and can’t run, they don’t just sit around and wait for their injury to heal. Instead, they crosstrain for longer than they would normally be running, unless their injury prevents them from cross-training too. This hard-working attitude is in part demanded by the coaches. “They do a tremendous amount of work, but in some

ways what they do requires a lot of work,” head coach Andrew Towne said. The athletes encourage this attitude of hard work as well. This attitude is not only modeled by individuals, but is contagious throughout the whole group. “I expect people to work hard,” Royer said. “People need to hold themselves responsible.” In order to be able to keep their bodies able to perform throughout the season, the team makes sacrifices to get to bed while many students are still awake doing homework or hanging out with friends. Senior captain Emily Oren said that the team brags about how early they can get to bed. “We like going to bed on time,” she said. But in the midst of the daily grind, the team always loves to have fun. “Sometime it’s hard to separate it because we just want to have fun,” Oren said. In their free time, the men enjoy watching movies together (especially Nacho Libre), going on squirrel hunting expeditions, and throwing their old shoes on the “shoe tree” on Halfmoon Lake road. Freshman Santiago Quin-

tana explained the team’s love of Nacho Libre. “The use of stretchy pants we admire. And because it shows what it takes to be an elite athlete,” Quintana said. “We’re a team, we do everything together — including eating squirrels.” When not in bed before 10 p.m., the women’s team enjoys watching “Parks and Recreation” together. Additionally, they organize special “theme Thursdays,” when they coordinate their clothing colors for their runs. In the past, themes have included ninja day, America day, and rainbow day. “We’re a pretty chill group of girls,” Royer said. The men’s and women’s teams often hang out together, eating their meals together in the Knorr Family Dining Room and hosting co-ed events. On Halloween, the team dressed up in costumes, broke up into teams of five and participated in a scavenger hunt. For Royer, events like the scavenger hunt are crucial for team bonding. “I think it’s important because it builds our friendships and relationships outside of running,” she said.

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Halle Hyman aces her first collegiate tennis season By | Amanda Tindall Features Editor

GLIAC Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-GLIAC honoree Halle Hyman had been on the radar of Hillsdale College’s tennis team since her junior year of high school as one of the top junior tennis players in Michigan. “I had been following her record,” women’s tennis coach Nikki Walbright said. “I’d seen her play in a tournament before, so she was someone who I was keeping an eye out for. She showed a mutual interest in Hillsdale, so we contacted her right away.” Walbright said that through their communication, they seemed to click very well. “She brings a very competitive level to the team,” Walbright said. “She’s picked up on everything as well.” Team co-captain Sydney Delp said she was looking forward to Hyman joining the team for a while. “Coach had been recruiting Halle since her junior year, so

we’ve been hearing about her for awhile, and she came on her visit and hit in with us in practice, and she just hits the ball so much harder than anyone else on the team, so knowing that she was coming in was really exciting.” Hyman’s experience in tennis started when she was eight years old, and she began playing in tournaments at age 10. Her twin brother, Justin, who plays on the men’s tennis team, also started with her. “My family didn’t play,” Hyman said. “But they put me and my twin in because they really loved the sport. Now, both of my younger siblings play tennis as well.” By high school, Hyman played in the United States Tennis Association — where the competition was intense and individual. “As I got more and more serious about it,” Hyman said. “I always played USTA tournaments, and I would stress out about playing in college. Coming here made competing a lot more fun again by having

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Kirner inducted into Lawrence Hall of Fame By | Kat Torres Collegian Reporter

When Hillsdale College swim team head coach Kurt Kirner arrived at Lawrence University in 1991 to earn some money while he finished his dissertation for his Ph.D., he didn’t realize that he would find a different calling. Kirner went on to spend 16 seasons at D-III Lawrence as a swim coach and became one of six inductees into Lawrence University’s Hall of Fame on Oct. 24. Lawrence honored Kirner’s time at the school and the success he brought to the swim program. In his time at Lawrence, 187 swimmers were named Midwest Conference champions, and he is responsible for establishing the team as one of Wisconsin’s top D-III swimming programs. “I like motivating people to be the best they can be and that is what drives me to be a coach and teacher,” Kirner said. “I feel that my time there was rewarded with many great friendships that inspired a championship atmosphere that is still admired today.” Kirner left Lawrence in 2007 when he was offered a

job at Hillsdale College as a teacher and the head coach of the women’s swim team. Although Kirner is no longer at Lawrence, his achievements there are still recognized. “It characterizes the fact that I have positively affected many lives. Once I found out about the honor, I asked my former LU athletes to write me a paragraph of what the program meant to them as to where they are today,” Kirner said, “From that request I received just short of 100 responses with some really positive, life-altering experiences and memories. What greater honor than to be at the hub in such neat experiences.” This honor is one that Kirner hopes to work towards here at Hillsdale—building a quality program from both an academic and athletic perspective is his priority going forward. “My priority now is to earn my reputation here and continue to build the Charger women’s swim program. Lawrence University is a wonderful chapter in my life but my focus is the current athletes that I now have the pleasure of coaching.”

a team. In USTA it was all individual ranking, always me versus someone else — so all the pressure fell on me. Now, having a team to support me has made it a lot better.” This team spirit has not gone unnoticed by her coach and teammates. “She’s really a sweetheart,” Walbright said. “All four freshmen have really good personalities, and Halle adds to that. She really cares about her teammates and cheers them on if she’s not on the court. She’s not selfish at all and really cares about the team.” Hyman said that because of the team, the atmosphere of competition has changed entirely. “I’ve learned that I do well under pressure,” she said. “I feel as if I’m not only playing for myself. It’s affecting the entire team. I’ve learned to enjoy practicing and conditioning. Before it was work and not necessarily something I wanted to do. Now it’s a part of my routine and I find more joy in it.”

Delp echoed Hyman’s sentiment about working under pressure, describing Hyman as a highly-competitive person who wants to win. “She likes to get fired up, and that just motivates her,” Delp said. “The more pressure she’s under, the more she answers. She’s so competitive at that number one spot. By having someone who’s so strong at number one, we all get to move down, so that we have more of an advantageous matchup.” The transition into college sports hasn’t all been easy, although Walbright said Hyman has adapted to college tennis very well. In high school, tennis was always her primary focus, but in college, Hyman said, academics come first. “I think being able to have a stressful morning of classes, and then having to put all that aside, leave it off the court, and just focus on tennis has been difficult, but has definitely helped me balance my emotions and things like that,” Hyman said.

Although her teammates and coach said they greatly appreciated her time as an athlete, they also said her personality brought joy to the team. “She just has a huge heart

and cares about everyone on the team. She wants to be our friend,” Delp said. “Her overall presence and energy on campus is a blessing.”

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cheering for their team even before the game started. The women’s championship started first, with many spectators crowding the sideline. It was back and forth in regulation, but friends and fans of KKG empowered the team in overtime. Sophomore English Hinton, the captain of the KKG team, talked about the extra competition in the playoffs. “We played hard all season,” Hinton said, “but the regular season was just not nearly as exciting as the playoffs,” Hinton explained the keys to her team’s success. “We have some girls who are really fast,” Hinton said. “And nobody was injured. That

is a blessing.” She also noted her team’s pre-game ritual. “We prayed together before every game,” Hinton said. “I think that helped.” The men’s final, which started immediately following the women’s, proved to be higher scoring. The game, which was competetive throughout, ended with an overtime victory for MLK Dream Team. After their victory, dawning shirts that read “I am a champion”, members of MLK rose the championship trophy together. Senior Matt Hastreiter, the captain of MLK Dream Team, expressed his excitement about the win.

“Many of us played together as a team for four years,” Hastreiter said. “And this is the first year we were the champs.” Hastreiter explained their game plan, and expressed great pride in his team. “We had to run a bunch of quick pass plays because of their good pass defense.” Hastreiter said. “We have a good team chemistry, so we got buckets.” Both Hinton and Hastreiter, though excited by their victories, regret having to see the season come to an end. “I am sad that it is over,” Hastreiter said. “Fall semester is a ton of fun if it’s spent with flag football.”

Freshman Halle Hyman was named GLIAC Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-GLIAC this season. Brendan Miller | Collegian

KKG and MLK Dream Team win IM flag football championships

After two dramatic overtimes, Kappa Kappa Gamma and MLK Dream Team raised their championship flags in the intramural flag football finals on Tuesday night at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium. KKG beat Vicious and Delicious in double overtime 26-20, and MLK Dream Team defeated Galloway in overtime 32-26. In both games, the lead went back and forth. Long runs and touchdowns came in bunches, and lots of flags were pulled. Even the cheerleading was intense, as fans began

MLK Dream Team huddles up before a play in the men’s flag football championship game on Tuesday night. MLK Dream Team defeated Galloway 32-26 in overtime. On Yu Lee | Collegian

Charger Chatter: Kara Vyletel Kara Vyletel is a freshman on the volleyball team from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kara currently starts as an outside hitter for the Chargers, and she has 207 kills and 24 aces so far this season. Kara plans to major in biochemistry. How do you like your teammates? What’s the dynamic like? They’re by far my closest friends and I feel like with all the freshmen, we are all really close and we study together. The upperclassmen are always willing to help us and are really encouraging, on the court too. There are some times obviously where you’re gonna get on each other’s back but it’s

the fact that we’re comfortable with each other and can do that and still be good friends outside the court and on the court. It’s great having such a close group of friends. Originally, I had never seen myself going to a small school. When I first visited, I said, “There’s no way I’m going here,” but it was honestly the team and just the people here that got me here. I know everyone says that, but it’s so true.

Is practice here a lot more intense here than in high school? Definitely. In high school it wasn’t very intense, and then I also had club and my last year wasn’t the best year of club that I could have had. Practices are more intense but I feel that they’re way more beneficial and I’m learning so much more than I did in multiple years of school and club. Just in these couple of months that I’ve been here I feel like I’ve progressed so much and I come to practice every day excited. It’s intense but our coach makes it fun.

How did you get into volleyball? It was my sister, because originally, I played soccer. I was a tiny, tiny child, and my mom said, “You’re too small,” but I said, “I really like it,” I didn’t like volleyball that much at first but my sister would force me to pepper with her in the backyard. I’d say I don’t really want to, and she’d say, “Kara, come on,” because she wanted to get better. And then I started to like it and she taught me a lot. I only started volleyball in highschool, as a freshman. I started really late compared to most people, who start in 6th grade or 5th grade even. She gave me that extra boost though, because she taught me so much in our backyard and then I started playing in school and club. I got really involved with it. What do you love the most about volleyball? I love the fact that it keeps me in shape, and the team aspect, because you have to get along with the people you play with and you’re always close with

each other because you have to be. You have to have that dynamic on the court and it’s always so intense. There’s never a dull moment. There’s always a play that’s happening, if someone gets a great dig then we yell, we’re always cheering for each other at the end of a point, always come in and lift each other up.

Are there moments for you that are really frustrating? How do you work through those? My defense is something I’ve really been working on, and my coach has been helping me out with it. There have been so many times when I get close, I get a touch on it, but it’s not good and those are really frustrating for me because I feel like I’m so close to it, I should have been able to get it up and we should have been able to keep playing. I think I get frustrated but motivated at the same time, so the frustration just motivates me to get the next ball. When I do, then it’s great and you get all pumped again.

Is the team helpful for dispelling frustration? There are times when it gets really intense and I like the fact that we can trust each other. So if someone is not doing well, you don’t feel the need to comfort them and you’re not worried about them, but you know you can say, “Come on, you got this,” and they’ll respond to that—they got you and they’ll get the next one. You can rely on your team: they believe in you and they know you’re not weak and that you can get it. They’re tough on you but it’s great, it makes you feel better about yourself. They don’t think that I need this baby talk, they know that I can get it. How are your classes going? They’re good. I’m enjoying Chemistry and Calculus, and I’m going into biochemistry as of now so that makes sense. I have Understanding Music and Western Heritage as my other two classes, and they’re a lot more challenging than I expected, but I’m getting through them. It could be a lit-

tle better though.

How is it balancing classes and practice? It’s definitely a lot different from high school. I would go home after school and be able to get my homework done because I only had an hour or two of homework a day usually, and then I would go to practice and come home and have a relaxing night. Here it’s the complete opposite: I go straight to class, straight to the gym to work out and then to practice. It’s a lot more intense, but I like it and I’m able to get my stuff done. I just have to manage my time a lot better, but I love it and I definitely think it’s worth it. I like the break. Classes all day and then I can just relax and focus on volleyball and let out any frustrations and get with a group of girls. I love everyone on the team. They’re amazing.

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Volleyball completes perfect weekend with big 3-1 win over Findlay on Tuesday By | Jessie Fox Assistant Editor

The Hillsdale College volleyball team’s five-match victory over the Ohio Dominican Panthers on Friday evening was dramatic — not only because of the tight score, but because it marked head coach Chris Gravel’s 400th career win. “Generally a win total just shows that you’re old,” Gravel said with a smile. “I saw how much it meant to so many people — players present and past, and families present and past — and that meant a lot to me. It was just a feeling that I am a part of something.” Freshman outside hitter Paige VanderWall credits Gravel for creating a legacy. “It’s a win that generations of Hillsdale volleyball players have all contributed to and worked for,” VanderWall said. “It is owed to coach because he has brought everyone onto this team, coached them, and made them successful.” Gravel found wins 401 and

402 in the next few days. The Chargers defeated the Tiffin Dragons 3-0 on Saturday then got some revenge against the Findlay Oilers in a 3-1 triumph on Tuesday night. The 3-0 weekend boosted the Chargers to 10-4 in the GLIAC and 18-6 overall. Gravel said his team worked hard in practice last week to bounce back from the previous 0-2 weekend in West Michigan. “We had that rough weekend a couple weeks ago and that was kind of foreseeable because of how we’d been going about practice,” Gravel said. “We were working hard, but weren’t working hard and smart and we were taking a lot of things for granted. So everything that we should have achieved two weekends ago, we’ve worked really hard the last two weeks, to reach that level.” Junior middle hitter Erin Holsinger said her team’s practice mentality has improved since the losing weekend. “We practiced really hard the week before coming off

the losses from the weekend before,” Holsinger said. “We wanted to play against Findlay like we had been practicing and I think we would all agree we did. We want to bring the same mentality we bring to practice when we play each other to our games. All out every time.” The win over Findlay put the Chargers just one win away from first place in the South Division. Findlay and Ashland are currently tied for that top rank with matching 11-3 conference records. After losing to the Oilers on the road earlier this season, the Chargers were looking for revenge. But the Oilers came out strong and found a 25-23 victory in set one. After that, however, the Chargers took control. “There was no big change,” Gravel said. “We got a little more consistent the next three sets and then with that first loss we didn’t let it devastate us. We really had that set in hand and let it slip away but then we kept looking forward.” The Chargers powered to

three straight wins — 25-22, 25-23, 25-20 — to seal the match. Gravel said Tuesday’s stats showed his team’s well-balanced offense. Senior setter Marissa Owen and freshman setter Taylor Bennett spread out the sets allowing five Chargers to record at least eight kills during the match. Senior outside hitter Emily Wolfert dominated with 11 kills and nine blocks. VanderWall slammed 10 kills, while senior outside hitter Jordan Denmark matched those 10 kills in what Gravel called “a breakout match.” Senior right side hitter Haylee Booms had a noteworthy nine kills and an errorless match. Sophomore defensive specialist Brittany Jandasek had 20 digs and contributed two important service aces in set four. “You can see that Brittany is back and comfortable again after a few weeks out. She’s been playing really well,” Gravel said. The Chargers brought a similarly spread-out offensive

effort to Friday night’s game against Ohio Dominican, as nine Chargers recorded double-digit kills. VanderWall led her team with 15 kills, and had superb accuracy in the second set with eight kills in just nine attempts. VanderWall also had six digs and four block assists. Freshman outside hitter Kara Vyletel slammed 12 kills, served three aces and had 12 digs. Wolfert had another sweet performance with 11 kills and 11 digs. The Chargers allowed the Panthers to grab a win in set one, then fought back for set two. In back-and-forth fashion, the Panthers went on to win set three. In set four, the Chargers finally found some solid momentum which carried them into the fifth set 15-9 victory. Booms played a crucial role in the fifth set, scoring two of her 10 kills. Gravel said his team was still working to fix some issues during Friday’s match. “We had some communication problems,” Gravel said. “We had to deal with them

through that match under duress, which is exactly what you want to do. We did get it worked out and played better the next day and then even better into Tuesday.” On Saturday, the Chargers swept the Dragons in a 3-0 match through aggressive serving and good ball control. “We were in control most of the match, there was some back and forth play,” Gravel said. “The trick against Tiffin is to serve them aggressively and not give them any easy balls. So we kept pressure on them which allowed us to score at a pretty good rate.” After cruising through the first two sets, the Chargers came out flat in set three, allowing the Dragons to snatch a 5-0 lead. After a Hillsdale timeout, the Chargers sprinted for a 24-9 run to finish the match. This weekend Hillsdale will hit the road to play Malone (3-11) at 7 p.m. on Friday and Walsh (3-11) at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

his body size,” Otterbein said. “He’s just a good instinctive football player. I don’t think there’s many guys rushing for 200 yards that also run down the field as a gunner on the punt team or run down the field as a bullet on the kickoff coverage team.” Because Reverman’s offensive role has increased, Otterbein is trying to lessen Reverman’s other duties. “He has been very special when he’s been touching the ball, so we’re trying to keep a balance with that, but also trying to play our best players and make us the best team we can be any snap.” Reverman did not expect to see this many snaps in his first year. “I don’t mind getting this many touches, but I definitely didn’t expect it coming into the year for sure,” Reverman said. “This experience will definitely help me for next year. I think I’ll be more prepared and we have a lot of other guys coming back too so it’ll be big.” The Chargers will hit the road again this weekend to face the Northwood Timberwolves on Saturday at 1 p.m. Northwood is the only team Hillsdale plays this year that has a grass field — a majority of teams play on turf — so the Chargers have been practicing on the IM fields since Tuesday

to prepare for the different surface. “Grass is different so our guys have got to get used to grass,” Otterbein said. “It is different, but we’re going to pretty much say, ‘We’re on grass and it’s not going to be an issue.’ The field conditions cannot enter our mind.” The Chargers are trying to make the playing surface a non-factor, but Northwood boasts arguably one of the best home-field advantages in the GLIAC. The Timberwolves are 4-4 in the GLIAC this season, but are 4-0 at home. “They’ve played some good teams really tough so we certainly have our hands full,” Otterbein said. “They’re a good home team, they play really hard, and they’ve got athletes.” The Timberwolves run an option offense and have some tall athletic receivers, so unlike Saturday, the Chargers will have to keep both the running game and the passing game in check. “There’s a lot that goes into making sure we have all phases of the option defended, so there will be a little bit more preparation in that aspect,” Rose said. “We’ve just got to keep building off what we’ve been doing the past couple weeks and we should be good if we do that.”

Football fights through rain for second straight win Chargers run past Saginaw Valley in 26-0 shutout win By |Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor The rain was coming down in sheets and the wind was relentless on Saturday at Wickes Stadium in University Center, Michigan, but the weather played right to the Hillsdale College football team’s strengths. Hillsdale’s offense stuck to the running game and the defense committed itself to stopping the run, as the Chargers blanked the Saginaw Valley Cardinals 26-0 for their first road shutout in four years. The Chargers have now won two games in a row to improve to 3-5 in the GLIAC and 3-6 overall. “The weather was a huge factor. I can’t remember in 37 years of coaching where neither team absolutely could not throw it. It was like the ball was greased up,” head coach Keith Otterbein said. “There were some different looking passes, so you eliminate that part of it for both sides. I think probably as a football team in total — offense, defense, and special

Redshirt freshman tailback Joe Reverman has rushed for a combined 500 yards and four touchdowns in his last two games. The Chargers have gone 2-0 in that span. Anders Kiledal | Collegian

teams — we probably executed our plan to the best level that we have all year and I think we did a nice job of adapting to the weather.” With both teams running the ball a majority of the time due to the weather, Hillsdale’s focus on stopping the run paid off. The Chargers held the Cardinals to just 105 total yards of offense and six first downs. “The weather helped us out a lot, because it’s almost impossible to throw in weather like that,” said sophomore linebacker Jay Rose, who recovered a fumble in the second quarter. “We knew if we could

just stop Saginaw’s run then we’d win and we did that.” Redshirt freshman quarterback Chance Stewart and a pair of Cardinals quarterbacks combined to complete just 10 passes for 83 yards. “On a dry day we would have mixed in a little bit more play-action pass, spread out, boot, that kind of stuff,” Otterbein said. “We had hoped that we could take a couple shots down field and the weather wasn’t letting us do that.” Redshirt freshman Joe Reverman tallied his second consecutive 200-yard rushing performance with 224 yards

and two touchdowns on 36 carries. Reverman has gained 500 yards in his last two games alone. “It was so rainy, no team could complete a pass, so we were forced to run, which we like,” Reverman said. “Our offensive line has just been playing really well the last few games so I think that’s the biggest thing.” Reverman, who has been thrust into the starting role due to injuries, has impressed Otterbein with his style of play. “He’s a really hard worker, really knowledgeable, and very good in pass protection for

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Students face the camera Western Michigan University professor comes to campus to teach course in acting for film and television By | Laura Williamson

Collegian Reporter “Be connected in the moment and make magic happen.” This was actress Dwandra Lampkin’s advice to the students in her Acting for the Camera class before they began their exercises. Lampkin brings her experience with film and television to the Acting for the Camera class for the first time this semester. Lampkin, associate professor of theatre at Western Michigan University, was asked by Professor of Theatre George Angell if she would be willing to teach a class here. He had met Lampkin while she was adjudicating Hillsdale’s performance of “Almost Maine” for The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Senior Catherine Coffey, an English and theatre double major, didn’t really have an idea of what acting for film and television meant before taking this class. Hillsdale’s theatre department classes typically center around acting for the stage. Coffey soon realized the difference between stage acting and camera acting. “A lot of people, like me, had very generalized, preconceived notions about what acting for the camera is and what television and film is like for an actor,” Coffey said. “I learned very quickly in this class that the differences are bigger than I thought. So basically this class is bridging that gap. We’re all theater actors here and acting

for the camera is a very different technique. How you angle yourself for the camera, how you speak, how you move, where you look. Even that’s important. I did a scene once in class and my eyes were all over the place and I didn’t think that was a problem because it’s not a problem on stage. But the second you sit down to watch it, it looks terrible. It’s very particular and it takes a lot of practice, but it’s been fun.” Sophomore Elena Creed noted that the face and the eyes play a more crucial role when performing for the camera. “It’s taught me a lot about how to show your emotions and how to be in control of your face,” Creed said. “In theater, your audience is far away. They’re seeing your whole body, so your facial expressions aren’t really important. Often they need to be overdone so people in the back can see you. But when the camera’s so close up on your face, you have to be really, really focused on everything that you want to do.” Acting for the Camera is also different from other acting classes at Hillsdale in the way it’s run. During class, students film scenes assigned from previous class periods, watch them, and analyze them. “In acting classes, you just kind of do it and do it a million times over,” Coffey said. “Whereas in film class, you do it and then you watch it and have to pick apart every little thing — which has been really helpful for me.”

Lampkin offers students personal acting experience — she knows what it means to be a stage and camera actress. Before becoming a professor, Lampkin pursued both stage and screen acting in New York City, gaining credits on “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU” among many others. “I was living in New York City doing my acting thing and I got a phone call from a good friend of mine who had taught at Ball State University in Indiana,” Lampkin said. “They were looking for someone to fill in for one of their colleagues who was going on sabbatical, just for nine months.” According to Lampkin, nine months turned into eight years. After a while, though, Lampkin felt the itch to get back into professional acting. She then found the professional theaters around Indiana. While teaching and acting, she discovered something. “I realized that all the work that I was doing as a professional actress was only serving me,” Lampkin said. “I was getting the roles and I was getting paid the money to play the role. What teaching did for me was make me realize that everything that I am immersing myself in as a professional actress I get to actually pass on to young students who are trying to do the same thing. So that’s just a wealth of knowledge being in the business everyday. I got to share it with other people and it became rewarding to me.”

Western Michigan University Associate Professor of Theatre Dwandra Lampkin instructs sophomore Devin Ward during an Acting for the Camera class. Laura Williamson | Collegian

Music faculty to perform Broadway classics Instructors Matson, Schmidt, and Wyse team up for musical theater extravaganza By |Stevan Bennett Jr.

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Hillsdale students are often given the opportunity to hear musical recitals from their peers. But this weekend, they will have the opportunity to hear the musical stylings of those responsible for teaching their peers. At 8 p.m. on Saturday in McNamara Rehearsal Hall, Lecturers in Music Kristi Matson and Karl Schmidt will be joined on piano by Teacher of Music Debra Wyse for a faculty voice recital.

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The recital will feature songs from various Broadway musicals that have their roots in literary classics, including “West Side Story,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Les Miserables,” and many more. “We took note of the fact that a lot of the best musicals come from classic literature,” Schmidt said. “At Hillsdale College the classics are so important, and we want to help people make these sorts of connections.” For Schmidt, the recital is an opportunity for students to understand the importance of respect for various genres of music. “Plenty of famous artists have tried to

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cross into another kind of music and failed because they didn’t learn how to sing it authentically,” he said. “What we’re going to do is sing each genre authentically, with good vocal technique, and in the correct style.” The basis for the faculty recital comes from shows the music department puts on for Road Scholars at the Michindoh Conference Center in Hillsdale. “Karl and Kristi are both very into the concerts at Michindoh, and I have been able to be a part of some of them,” Wyse said. “So we took some of the things we do there and added in some group numbers for this recital.”

For the group numbers, students will join the faculty to perform songs from both old and new plays. According to Schmidt, this is a great opportunity for other students to see their peers perform in a way they don’t often have the chance to enjoy.

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Jessie Lee Cates: country singer tops international charts Collegian scores exclusive interview with up-and-coming artist By |Hannah Niemeier

Collegian Reporter Her stepdad keeps her CD in his truck. She’s chasing her dreams in the big city, but when he hears her voice, he knows she’s singing of home. It’s a story straight out of a country song, and Jessie Lee Cates’ roots and musical talent make it ring true. Indie country music artist Jessie Lee Cates is creating a worldwide name for herself by writing and performing music inspired and supported by her rural Tennessee roots. “I sound country, but I sing about life,” Cates told the Collegian. “I sing about everything. I just want people to feel like they’re getting to know me whenever they hear my music.” Early in her career, Cates opened for country music singer Jason Aldean after winning a karaoke contest. “It was one of those times when I said, ‘Holy moly. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life,’” she said. Her most recent single, the lighthearted anthem “Chick Night,” has been a surprise success for an artist who aims to create an eclectic country sound. So far, Cates’ music has aired in 32 countries as fans discover her music through radio shows and Internet outlets like iTunes and ReverbNation. Her single “Scotland,” the only modern country song to feature

bagpipes, reached the top five in Europe’s country music charts. A later single, “Behind your Back,” a twist on a classic country waltz, hit No. 1 on the Joyce Ramgatie International Country Music Chart in February. In addition to her taking over the radio waves, Cates is also a huge hit as a performer. Last month, she made it to the top six out of 1400 groups competing in the Battle of the Bands in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. But Cates didn’t start out making so much noise with her music. Before moving to Nashville, Cates worked 12-hour shifts at a factory in Morristown, Tennessee, writing songs in her head while making power pumps on the assembly line. As she looked at her future, she remembers thinking, “‘I’m really going to wish I just took the plunge and did it.’ And so that’s what I did.” Cates arrived in Nashville, Tennessee, with dreams of instant success. “At first, I kind of had tunnel vision,” Cates said. “I had stars in my eyes. I thought I would get a huge record deal and rule the charts.” However, Cates soon learned the difficulty of finding an “in” in an industry that depends largely on connections. She described walking 7 miles after her car broke down en route to a meeting one December day, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather jacket.

As Cates met with more people, she discovered that Nashville wasn’t going to allow her to make her own kind of music. “I remember going into one co-write thinking, ‘I already wrote this song,’” Cates said. Then at a later co-writing session, Cates met agent and songwriter Vincent Bonvissuto, who was impressed with her talent. Bonvissuto’s daughter, Angela, is a junior at Hillsdale. “The first thing to do when meeting a new ‘singer-songwriter’ is to determine how much is ‘singer’ and how much is ‘songwriter,’” Bonvissuto said in an email. “Those two talents rarely exist in equal parts, but I was impressed that a singer of Jessie Lee’s abilities could write as well as she did.” Bonvissuto became Cates’ manager. Instead of signing with a major label, they decided to release Cates’ first album independently. For Cates and Bonvissuto, making music is more than finding a catchy hook. “We create well-crafted music that enriches listeners instead of degrading them,” Bonvissuto said. “We appreciate and thank the people most responsible for Jessie Lee’s success — her amazing fans.” Without a major label, Cates must build her fan base personally, talking to fans at shows and connecting through social media. She described the spread of independent music as a spiderweb effect

since unique, independent music is shared through performance and word of mouth. “If Nashville would open their minds a little more, and explore different sounds, then there would be all kinds of different music on the radio, and people would love it,” Cates said. As an independent artist, Cates said she has freedom to write for and about the hardworking people around her. One of Cates’ inspirations is her stepfather, Danny Carrier, a manufacturing worker. “When questions come up about her career, I try to put her on the right track,” Carrier told the Collegian. “I encourage her to do what she needs to do.” As she pursues her music career, Cates continues to draw on the support of people from her hometown. “I’ve always wanted to write a song about the people I stood beside at that factory,” Cates said. “It’s those type of people who keep the world going. I know I walked away from it to chase a dream, but there’s an appreciation that comes from that.” As Cates makes plans to tour in Texas, her stepfather remembers what makes Jessie’s music meaningful and keeps her fan base growing. “Her music is original Jessie,” Carrier said. “Anyone can sound like someone else, but she always had her own sound and her own voice. I love listening to her songs, because it’s her.”

Jessie Lee Cates is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter whose manager, Vincent Bonvissuto, is the father of Hillsdale College junior Angela Bonvissuto. Jessie Lee Cates | Courtesy

James Sewell is no ballet master Contemporary dance shouldn’t be billed as ‘ballet’ By | Vivian Hughbanks

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Real ballerinas glide and twirl across stages in pink satin pointe shoes. James Sewell’s employees clunk around a black platform in ski boots. Ballet is an art form. A classical dancer’s form flows through aesthetically glorious lines and silhouettes, connected by graceful motions to communicate love and fear, joy and sadness. The James Sewell Ballet claims by its very name to share in this art form. It shares the same title as world-class companies such as the Royal Ballet in London and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, evoking the same level of artistic genius. Ballet is a strong word, and Sewell’s company — which performed his contemporary dance creations last weekend — doesn’t deserve it. King Louis XIV of France invented classical ballet in the 17th century. Refined and perfected over 100 years, ballet hit its golden age when French choreographer Marius Petipa — the father of classical ballet — paired with composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg to create the greatest classical balletic masterworks of all time. Done well, the great classical ballets are feats of beauty, strength, and drama that utterly edify the beholder. When in “Swan Lake” a bewitched Prince Siegfried falls for the seductive Princess Odile, who can help but feel devastated at the triumph of evil? And when the two lovers Basilio and Kitri dance their wedding pas de deux in the third act of Petipa’s “Don Quixote,” who can resist partaking in the joy? Ballet doesn’t just celebrate the beauty of the human form, but

also its strength. In Petipa’s choreography, the ballerinas dancing the roles both of Odile and Kitri must perform a series of 32 turns on one toe — one of the most difficult feats of choreography a ballerina must master. British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography for the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” is a challenge of both strength and endurance, incorporating intense battle sequences with classical ballet choreography in one of the longest classical ballets. As an art form, classical ballet is vastly underappreciated and underperformed in today’s culture. When Sewell’s advertisements promised ballet, I anticipated greatness a la Bolshoi. But the company performed almost exclusively contemporary dance — original pieces choreographed by Sewell which were devoid of any semblance of beauty. While the performance was a helpful exhibition of the contemporary dance style, it was not in accordance with the company name. Instead of the beautiful lines and graceful silhouettes of classical ballet, Sewell’s works featured series of gymnastic movements fused with mime and set to angsty piano music. Such is the genre of contemporary dance. Sewell takes pride in creating “relevant, modern-day ballets.” The company’s website boasts that Sewell’s groundbreaking works “explore contemporary issues like male and female psyches, immigration, and other difficult topics unusual in the world of ballet.” Contemporary dance is a legitimate art form to understand, but it is not correct to refer to it as ballet. It’s experimental. It’s often not meant to be beautiful. Its purpose, like all forms of contemporary art,

is expression at any cost. Sewell’s company performed contemporary choreography — not ballet — on campus last Friday. The choreography featured dancers disjointedly imitating the actions of children playing, and speed skaters zipping across ice. It may have been an attempt at art, but it distinctly lacked beauty. At best, Sewell’s contemporary works are experiments in aerobic motion without plot. At worst, they are scenes of awkward shufflings around the stage that rely on zombie costumes for any meaning whatsoever. Only one act of the performance lived up to the title that the James Sewell Ballet claims. To open the concert, dancers Laurie Nielsen and Jordan Lefton performed the pas de deux from “Le Corsaire” — a classical ballet masterwork based on its namesake poem by Lord Byron. Nielsen and Lefton performed Petipa’s original choreography. Nielsen’s summers of training with the Bolshoi Ballet flickered through in her performance as Medora. While the execution was somewhat stiff, the act brought the glory of a professional classical ballet performance to Hillsdale’s stage for the first time in at least four years. The pas de deux did its best to redeem the performance and the company’s name — and only just barely succeeded Classical ballet is an art form, and deserves to be seen and appreciated. With its nearly-exclusive performance of contemporary dance, the James Sewell Ballet company is misleading viewers as to the identity of classical ballet. The company should either live up to its name or change it.

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Prepping for graduate school By | Micah Meadowcroft Associate Editor

Before: Sara Pezzella preparing to get her head shaved to raise money for cancer research. Sara Pezzella | Courtesy

As the semester flies by, seniors who are just not satisfied with four years of college are frantically finishing up applications for more. Juniors of like mind should begin reflecting on the prospect of further study and planning ahead. Here is a rough outline of the graduate school application process, and advice for juniors looking at it, from professors who have done it all before and seniors in the middle. Spring semester junior year, students need to ask themselves seriously whether graduate studies are for them. This is not just the time to ask if grad school is required, or an obvious first step, for their intended careers. Juniors need to know that if the plan falls through, that they will not regret spending their twenties studying and specialAfter: Pezzella raised $550 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which aims to izing more precisely. What do you want to study? end pediatric cancer. Sara Pezzella | Courtesy “Don’t go into grad school because you’re not certain of what else to do,” Assistant Professor of Theology Jordan Wales said. “Grad school is not to be thought of as a holding pattern, it’s an investment, it’s a commitment.” Or, as senior Mattie Vander Bleek puts it: “What I wish I knew as a junior is what I want to do with my life.” Vander Bleek echoes professors when she distinguishes between a desire to be an academic and a desire to continue scholarly pursuits. The former demands graduate studies, while the latter may not and students need to ask themselves which applies to them. “I wish I would have been more aware that academics could be something to do with the rest of my life so I could decide more quickly proved. between that or letting it be preparation for private intellectual life,” Pezzella’s originally only aimed to reach $300, but when Vander Bleek said. she told her former professor Butters of her plan, he immediOnce students know what they want to study, the next question is, ately offered his assistance. of course, where to study. “I became aware that she was trying to promote and to Talk to Hillsdale professors who have followed a track similar to raise money, so I did some promotion for her and donated to the one your project yourself upon. Find at least one who can help it,” Butters said. “She was just a former student doing someshepherd you along. Look for professors you would like to study with thing fun. If you stumble across something worth supportand programs that you know can teach you. ing, why not?” Professor of Chemistry Chris VanOrman said that science students Pezzella knew from her time in his class that Butters was should consider a larger school. very open to helping students, but was still surprised by his “The Big 10 schools are great,” he said. “They’ll each have their own dedication to helping her cause. area of expertise.” “He ended up being a massive supporter,” Pezzella said. VanOrman pointed out that science graduate students are cheap “I’d run into him on campus and he’d be talking to someone labor for departments and are paid to do research for advisers. There is and he’d stop ask them to donate money.” no out-of-pocket cost to further study for them. Students should look When he discovered she didn’t yet have anyone to shave for professors who are doing research they want to work on and have her head, he volunteered to do that as well. Though he’d enough funding. never shaved a girl’s head before, Butters said it didn’t differ In the humanities, however, state budget cuts makes funding at Big much from any other head he’d shaved. 10 schools and other state programs harder to find. But good proThe day she shaved it all off in the Grewcock Student grams still fully fund their candidates. Union, Pezzella’s friends asked students and professors to Wales said students need to be willing to learn from a whole offer a last minute change donation as they watched. The department, not just the professor they like at the school they are change collected that day totaled $100. considering. Pezzella claimed the weirdest aspect was feeling her hair “If one has a program in mind, take seriously the fit between fall, but not knowing what it looked like. yourself and the program, especially if you’re applying to a doctoral “There was a decent crowd watching, and all my friends program,” he said. “Don’t go to a grad school because there is one were commenting on my head,” she said. “It was encouraging professor that you think would be great and all the other professors because I had no idea what I looked like. There were people would be horrible.” watching I didn’t even know. It was a little weird, but I was Of course, throughout all this research and consideration, there’s really excited to do it.” the GRE to take the summer before your senior year. Don’t make Since then, she’s been adjusting to seeing herself in the yourself have to study for it and classes at the same time. mirror, frequent double takes of students, and the feeling of VanOrman said science students need to figure out if the schools wind against her head. they are applying to require GRE Subject Tests. They are particularly Anyone interested in donating can visit her St. Baldrick’s difficult, he said, because of how many foreign students who already participants page, https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/ have Master’s degrees take them. A 50th percentile is a great score, he mypage/806028/2015. said. Wales doesn’t think students should let the GRE intimidate them too much. “I’ve met a lot of people who are nervous about the GRE,” he said. “It’s just better to take it. Download the practice test see how you do, and do it.” Never cancel your scores, he said, because with the way the test increases in difficulty, it can feel worst when you are doing best. In the fall, if you have taken the GRE and know where you are applying and what you want to study, that leaves statements of purpose, letters of recommendation, and actual applications. It might be a lot, but should be manageable. “I wish someone would have advised me to treat the application process as another class,” VanderBleek said. Wales said that grad school, as difficult as it may be, makes applying for grad school worth it. “Don’t be afraid of the requirements for applying to grad school,” important things.” Wales said. “Because if you enjoy the academic life, you enjoy what Additionally, due to their previously earned Laureates grad school entails, then your enthusiasm for that and your thirst for scholarship — an award given to students to help fund their that will enable you and help you to rise to the challenge of getting in.” research projects — both students were required to submit reports earlier that week. “The report was on the same topic, so that was helpful,” Talcott said. “All the work that I was doing for that was preparing me for my presentation, but it was definitely some Richter, who graduated from Hillsdale last spring, is considering moving to California to work with Karmie. scrunched time and late nights.” “I’m taking into account many factors as to whether to Despite the challenges presented to the students, Cooper move out there or not,” Richter said. “It would be awesome said their presentations went well and both students received to work with one of my best friends, and on top of that, he’s a positive feedback. great human being. He will be a great fit for this job because “I was a proud Botany momma,” Cooper said. he has a strong work ethic and his family has given him a Since Durrington and Talcott plan on pursuing a higher level degree after graduation, they both said the opportunity solid foundation.” Karmie said he hopes Richter joins him in Los Angeles. helped prepare them for graduate school and work in the “It’s a dream situation for me,” Karmie said. “I get to help botanical field. “The conference is a really realistic setting. It’s a time for run a business with my brother-in-law and possibly one of people to become acquainted with your project and ask ques- my best friends from here. It almost seems surreal at times.” Due to the drought in California, artificial grass is in high tions,” Durrington said. “ Most scientist will publish their demand in Los Angeles. data, but as undergraduates that sometimes doesn’t happen. “With the business we want to have, we’re hoping to be doSo presenting gives us good, professional experience.” The students see their opportunity to present at MiCOB as ing 20,000 square feet a month within the next year,” Karmie beneficial in preparing them for higher education and their said. “To put that in perspective, typical cost is about $10 a square foot, so 20,000 square feet a month is a pretty good future careers. chunk of change.” “For Benjamin and Anna, who want to go on to graduKarmie is from Uniontown, Ohio, which has a population ate school, presenting their findings is a large part of that,” VanZant said. So now that they have already done that, both of around 3,000, and has never lived in a big city. “Being from a small town and going to college in a small hope to present their research findings as well. That’s all part town, I’m very comfortable and I like that setting a lot,” of the things you are expected to do as graduate students. So Karmie said. “It’ll be an interesting transition. From what I they get lots of early experience doing those things now.” hear, the worst part about it is the traffic so that’s probably Cooper said their success as students has a lot to do not the part I’m least looking forward to.” only with their experiences, but their work ethic. Karmie said when he’s older and has a family, living in a “The hard work and the determination they are showcity like Los Angeles is not ideal, but he’s looking forward to ing now is really a good indicator of how well they’ll do in a living there now. graduate program,” Cooper said. “If there’s a time in my life where I’m going to try living But for the students their continued fascination with their in a city, it’s when I’m 22 years old right out of college and I major and their desire to learn really drives them toward don’t have any real attachments,” Karmie said. “I don’t know their goals. how I’m going to feel about it immediately, but if there’s a “The more there is to know, the more excited I am to time to do it, a time to take a chance, a time to grow a little know more,” Talcott said. bit, it’s right now.”

Junior goes bald for St. Baldrick’s Foundation cancer research By | Sarah Chavey Collegian Reporter “Sara has a very nice head,” Keyona Shabazz said. “It’s very round, not oddly shaped.” Junior Sara Pezzella has donated her hair five times. But completely shaving her head for pediatric cancer research was both a new thrill and a sacrifice. With the support of her friends and the assistance of economics professor Roger Butters, Pezzella raised $550 for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a foundation working towards ending pediatric cancer. Although Pezzella has never personally been affected by pediatric cancer, she was touched to hear of others who had and who supported her decision. On the day she shaved her head, one girl came up to Pezzella to thank her. “She told me about how she personally knew several people who had pediatric cancer and was talking about how much it meant to her,” Pezzella said. “I haven’t been personally affected, but here’s someone who has.” Pezzella first donated her hair to Locks of Love when she was six years old. “I think my older sister was doing that and I copied her in a lot of things,” Pezzella said. “After that, I always looked at every haircut as an opportunity to do something good. It’s hair, it will grow back.” She claimed she has never been particularly attached to her hair, but shaving her head was a new challenge. When she began discussing the idea with her friends and family, Pezzella said they were somewhat surprised but considered it in character and showed incredible support. Shabazz said she responded to the news, “that’s gonna make you look really punk.” Shabazz and other friends also joked about how Pezzella’s head would look. “They were making jokes about how I would look bald,” Pezella said. “There was lots of joking, but in a very supportive way. I couldn’t have done it if they weren’t so enthusiastic about it.” After seeing and rubbing the shaved head, Shabazz ap-

Budding botanists present plant projects at regional conference By | Hannah Leitner Collegian Reporter Hillsdale College seniors Benjamin Durrington and Anna Talcott presented their projects at the sixth annual Michigan Consortium of Botanists held at Eastern Michigan University on Oct. 24. At least 30 students and faculty met to discuss and present research on botany at the regional conference. This year’s topic covered facilitating communication about invasive plants between academics and agencies. Biology professor Ranessa Cooper and Associate professor of biology Jeffrey VanZant also attended the conference, but did not present research. In order to present at MiCOB, Durrington and Talcott were required to submitted abstracts of their presentations. Of the presentations given at MiCOB, Durrington and Talcott were the only undergraduate students to present at the conference. “It was a little intimidating,” Talcott said. “But it was also fun to learn what else was going on in the botany community of Michigan and to be a part of it.” In collaboration with faculty from the University of Michigan, Durrington’s presentation dealt with the significance and genetic coat structure of Zingiberales and Commelinales. Durrington said he hopes the research will show an evolutionary relationship between the two plant species. Adding information on a previously started study, Talcott presented new material on the genetic structure and the cloning abilities of Hill’s Thistle, a plant native to Michigan. Despite taking months to research, compile, and analyze data on their chosen topics, Durrington and Talcott were asked to sum up their collected information into a cohesive minute presentation. “Basically you have to pick and choose what you’re going to present, you have to give a sort of overview,” Durrington said. “The details I found for each theses are going to be more important for continuing this research later, but for a general presentation I am able to express only the most

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How would you describe your style? Undisheveled academic. What are your fashion staples? Navy blazer, repp ties, burgundy loafers, or whatever a tall, pale person of Nothern European descent could pull off without embarrassing himself. Who or what inspires your style? Simply “appropriateness,” as dictated by the context in which the clothes are to be worn. My mother is most responsible for teaching me how to dress well. Where do you like to shop? I very much don’t, but — if I must — at the Somerset Mall in Metro Detroit, near where I was raised. What is your favorite piece of clothing? I don’t know... perhaps my navy moleskin cardigan, but largely because it was a very generous gift from my brother. Has your style evolved? According to family photographs, when I was a little boy I wore saddle shoes. and sometimes suspenders and bow ties. I haven’t worn any of these in decades.

How would you describe your style? “Easy like Sunday morning.” What are your fashion staples? Dress shirt with sleeves rolled up. It’s a must do. Who or what inspires your style? One part Hillsdale College history professor. One part Elvis Costello (circa “My Aim is True”). One part Joshua Homme. Where do you like to shop? Wilsons Leather. What is your favorite piece of clothing? Pants. Has your style evolved? In high school, I buttoned all my shirts up to the very top. I’ve relaxed since then.

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How would you describe your style? Pre-1960s grown-up. What are your fashion staples? Tweed and corduroy. Something colorful — tie or socks — for pop. Who or what inspires your style? Mostly dead people, and people who never existed in the first place. Bertie Wooster. Dickens. Daniel Deronda. Where do you like to shop? My wife often shops for me. Not sure where. Not a big shopper. What is your favorite piece of clothing? Gray herringbone jacket, a hand-me-down from my dad. Has your style evolved? Yes. I was rather slovenly in college: old T-shirts, cut-off pants, pigtails, that sort of thing. By the end of undergrad, I was realizing that if I dressed like a grown-up, both I and others took me more seriously, and I began to like that.

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How would you describe your style? I’d describe it as rustic preppy. I’m from a small city, Salisbury, in the North Carolina Piedmont, so I hope I’m a blend of earthy Appalachia and the vibrant colors of the Atlantic Sounds. What are your fashion staples? A blazer, Khaki pants, an oxford, and loafers or boaties (what Northern folk call boat shoes). Basic Carolina preppy foundations. Who or what inspires your style? I guess my father, grandfather, and the old Southern lawyers, businessmen, and doctors I grew up with. I lived beside a judge, an attorney, and a physician growing up, and they all seemed to maintain this sort of simple elegance that I admired. Where do you like to shop? My favorite clothing store of all time is The Squire Shop, in Fort Worth where I went to grad school. Dumas in Charleston where I went to College is a close second. What is your favorite piece of clothing? Vineyard Vine Khakis, without a doubt. Has your style evolved? Not really. Always pretty preppy. I went to private school and we had uniforms, so it just became habit.

How would you describe your style? An early 1960s take on Edwardian, I suppose — imitating Schubert’s play within a tradition rather than Schoenberg’s invention of one. It seems fitting for the liberal arts. What are your fashion staples? Tweed, bowties, and — according to my students — the color orange. Brown suede bucks. Who or what inspires your style? To me, tweed signifies closeness to the natural world, a striving for learning, and a humility concerning one’s place. At least I hope that it will remind me of this. Where do you like to shop? Ebay, as well as the clearance sections of Lands’ End, Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, and Nordstrom. Shoes from Allen Edmonds, via Ebay. What is your favorite piece of clothing? A checked tweed jacket with elbow patches and orange felt under the collar. My son likes to think that I hunt bears. Has your style evolved? As a college freshman, I wore jean shorts and over-sized white T-shirts. My Russian roommate said I looked like a slob, so I eventually began to dress like Peter Pevensie from Michael Hague’s illustrations of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”

Justice Karmie on the field and making the field By | Nathanael Meadowcroft Sports Editor As Hillsdale’s seniors scramble to find jobs before graduation next semester, one senior will already be co-managing a business in sunny California. Justice Karmie, a fifth-year senior who plays left guard on the Hillsdale College football team, plans to move to Los Angeles in January to help run an LLC of ForeverLawn, a company which sells artificial grass products, with his brother-in-law Corey Adkins. “It’s crazy to think that in two months, I’ve gone from not knowing what I’m going to do after school to knowing I’m going to be running a business out in Southern California,” Karmie said, whose uncles started ForeverLawn in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2004. “I’ve never even been to California, let alone Los Angeles, so to move out there and run a business is going to be crazy but it’ll be really fun at the same time.” Adkins said he is looking forward to having Karmie join him in Los Angeles. “Justice has had the privilege of being raised in a family that is led by men of char-

acter,” Adkins said. “He has worked hard to grow into a man that embodies those same principles, and I am excited to work with him to take ForeverLawn pacific coast to the top by becoming the No. 1 producing dealership.” Right now, Adkins is running every aspect of the business, and Karmie will join him in doing various jobs until they hire more employees. Once they have a more established presence, Karmie’s role will evolve. “When I get out there we’re going to be doing a little bit of everything, but as we bring on more pieces and more people get involved, eventually I’m going to be more sales and corporate contracting with a little bit of marketing,” Karmie said. Karmie thinks hiring the right people will be a hard process. “The best way for us to do it is to find skilled people that are available that we can also trust,” Karmie said. “When you’re new you have to have a lot of faith with the people you’re working with.” Karmie might have already found one person to work with him whom he trusts. Jacob

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